MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by globular-toast | 2026-01-15 13:35:37+00:00
Oh, what a weak argument: "you've just fallen for the propaganda".

You might notice comments simply arguing for less energy usage are buried at the bottom too. Have you considered whether you may have fallen for the "green" propaganda? It's so predictable after all.

Two wrongs don't make a right. We look back and curse our ancestors for their unbridled use of fossil fuels. Who is to say future generations won't look back and curse us for destroying all wilderness?
by lambdaone | 2026-01-15 13:35:48+00:00
Power is quite literally power, in both the physical and political senses. The Chinese know this, and Europe is catching up fast. American private enterprise knows it too.

Battery storage isn't quite where it needs to be, yet, so there's still some need for fossil and nuclear power, but when it is, decommissioning the remaining fossil power system is a no-brainer, and those with the biggest existing solar and wind estates will benefit most, and fastest.
by Balgair | 2026-01-15 13:35:53+00:00
Finished "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway

Wow, so powerful. So real. I can see why it won the accolades at the time and why it stays. The ending. You could see it a mile away, but it was so hurtful still.

Would love to see another adaptation made of it, especially nowadays. Maybe a really long movie, 2 parts?
by sgarland | 2026-01-15 13:35:57+00:00
Manufacturers are selling what their market wants. It sucks.

Ironically, the Honda Ridgeline - long lambasted as “not a real truck” - can fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood, at least width-wise. You’ll have to either prop it up on the tailgate, or drop it and strap it down (which honestly you should do either way), but it will fit between the wheels.

I love my Ridgelines; had a Gen1 RTL, and now a Gen2 BE. A neighbor I used to have traded his F-150 for an F-350. The most I ever saw him haul was a very small trailer with some furniture. I’ve had a cubic yard of mulch dumped into mine repeatedly (a Gen1 Ridgeline will hold and haul this, but it’s heaped, and depending on moisture content it’s slightly over max rating, so maybe don’t bring a passenger).
by wkjagt | 2026-01-15 13:36:28+00:00
I went through the exact same process, but with the 6502 (Ben Eater's videos, and then another SBC of my own design after). It's helped me become a better programmer too. Example: pointers in C now feel very natural instead of some abstract idea of "memory addresses, whatever those are".

And yep, I now also own many 6502 based computers :-)
by latexr | 2026-01-15 13:36:44+00:00
Right. But the question is why redo the exact same joke? Why not come up with another twist (like the URL lengthener) or do no twist but be useful?

I’m not criticising the author or anyone who came before. I’m trying to understand the impetus between redoing a joke that isn’t yours. You don’t learn anything new by redoing the exact same gag that you wouldn’t learn by being even slightly original or making the project truly useful.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. You could make e.g. a Fonzie URL shortener (different lengths of “ayyyyy”), or an interstellar one (each is the name of a space object), or a binary one (all ones and zeroes)… Each of those would take about the same effort and teach you the same, but they’re also different enough they would make some people remember them, maybe even look at the author and their other projects, instead of just “oh, another one of these, close”.
by latexr | 2026-01-15 13:37:21+00:00
> A fun project doesn't need to be original, IMO.

I agree. But a URL shortener with a twist isn’t just fun, it’s funny. The joke—as opposed to the usefulness—is what’s interesting about it. But when the same joke is overdone, it’s no longer funny.

> building this project is a great way to have some experience / understanding of it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632329
by stared | 2026-01-15 13:37:58+00:00
I read a strong libertarian bias here. To be consistent, should we prohibit cocaine and heroin for children? Historically, these were not banned. Should we ban cigarettes and alcohol for kids even though they are legal for adults?

I don't have a good answer regarding where to draw the line or how to actually enforce such restrictions. This is especially difficult because limiting digital access for kids is a great backdoor for surveillance and general information control.

However, I am near certain that in a few decades, people will view social media addiction much like substance abuse. It used to be the norm for writers and musicians to be drunk more often than not, but that is less accepted now. Currently, it is accepted that people spend hours a day on social media, and I am guilty as charged.
by eb0la | 2026-01-15 13:38:09+00:00
We started with PGVector just because we already knew Postgres and it was easy to hand over to the operations people.

After some time we noticed a semi-structured field in the prompt had a 100% match with the content needed to process the prompt.

Turns out operators started puting tags both in the input and the documents that needed to match on every use case (not much, about 50 docs).

Now we look for the field first and put the corresponding file in the prompt, then we look for matches in the database using the embedding.

85% of the time we don't need the vectordb.
by Zufriedenheit | 2026-01-15 13:38:31+00:00
The german energy policy has really been an economic failure on an epic scale.
They destroyed 30+ fully functional nuclear power plants because of fear of radiation. In the last 20 year spend >500billion € to remodel the energy grid. Now subsidizing electricity with ~30billion € per year.
And the result: Carbon intensity of energy production on the same level as US and 3x the electricity price!
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2026-01-15 13:38:32+00:00
LOL. I know you're serious, but that's just funny.

Using my wife's fairly recent (2024 model year) pickup truck as an example, every horizontal surface is covered in papers, clipboards, horse tack and medications (she trains horses and operates a horse rescue). The floors and kick panels are probably muddy at this time of year, but I'm so used to it that I don't notice. The surfaces that aren't covered by papers or something else have a nice thick layer of dust (the truck spends a lot of time on gravel roads).

It might actually be vacuumed out a few times a year, but that's far from a priority. Generally, the cleanup only happens if one of us has to wear "nice" clothes to go somewhere.

But bear in mind that the areas that your body touches tend to clean themselves simply because you're moving around. So, the floors, dashboard, etc., might be muddy or dusty but the seats will generally be clean.

The basic "spartan" trucks tend to be for uses where you don't have to travel very far. If you're driving a hundred miles or so on an average day, you'll want to be as comfortable as possible or it gets old really fast.
by final_aeon | 2026-01-15 13:38:33+00:00
The screenshots of internal documents show positive results:

"[...] resulted in 6 stash houses being identified"

"[resulted in the] identification of 135 stash houses"

"692 apprehensions"

Collab with FBI, USBP...

etc., etc.

I don't see how this is supposed to look bad for ICE. It actually makes them look good.
by nerdjon | 2026-01-15 13:38:35+00:00
As someone who daily drives Safari as primary browser on Mac, iPhone, and iPad figured I would comment on each of those:

> translation

Safari has Translation built in

> favicon bookmarks

Yeah to my knowledge this is not possible (someone correct me if I am wrong), but I also fail to see the value given how large screens are today and favicons are kinda terrible.

> Google Lens

That alone is a reason for me not to use chrome.

> better autofill/autologin

I have never had any major issue with autofill or login on Safari. It pulls in my contact information when filling out a form, it pulls in my credit card information, and it pulls in one time codes from mail and messages when those happen. The only real issue I have here is that I use both Apple Passwords and 1Password and the popups for both interfere, but I doubt that is really a safari unique issue.

> better performance for web apps generally

Do we have data to back that up? Websites perform just fine for me.

> Another very useful property is being able to sync your Chrome profile on any computer, which comes in very handy when you need to do stuff on computers you do not own. Doing the same with Safari is possible but a hassle.

Not sure if syncing with a computer you don't own is really a feature that we should be encouraging? That seems really bad advice.

Regardless, outside of Windows (which I just don't care or have any desire to have my main computing sync too) Safari syncs just fine between my devices I care for it to sync too.

> Apple should go back to releasing a cross-platform version

I disagree with the "Seriously" part but I agree in spirit. I would love to have Safari on Windows again so I can never use Chrome or Firefox again. As far as other apps being on Windows, I care less but I would love to see icloud.com improved when needed in a pinch.
by juanre | 2026-01-15 13:38:59+00:00
I built https://github.com/juanre/llmemory and I use it both locally and as part of company apps. Quite happy with the performance.

It uses PostgreSQL with pgvector, hybrid BM25, multi-query expansion, and reranking.

(It's the first time I share it publicly, so I am sure there'll be quirks.)
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-15 13:39:10+00:00
> And what have you done before giving up?

I was a member of a political party (socialist). And I would go into discussions with the extreme-right fascists in my country (which currently have about 30% of votes). But there is no point. They don't care about facts or reason, it's more like a religion. They get themselves all worked up about internet memes about things that don't even happen and it's impossible to convince them of reality. I think they just enjoy being rabiately angry. In any case, I don't need that negativity in my life anymore.

> It is the opium for nerdy people. You are not important, and this is the only thing that shields you. Your custom ROMs will mean nothing if they decide to come for you.

I know the $10 hammer thing. But right now the government isn't the biggest threat here, surveillance capitalism is. Google and Meta don't come after us with hammers. The government threat is emerging (chatcontrol etc). I think for that opsec is much more important anyway.
by raincole | 2026-01-15 13:39:15+00:00
Not only that, but Chian actually also built quite a lot of coal capacity in the past five years [0]: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/chinas... while the US has been retiring coal.

But no one talks about it because it doesn't provoke the only important narrative: "It's a shame that the US isn't doing that!"
by BoxFour | 2026-01-15 13:39:50+00:00
Or things like cigarettes, guns, driver’s licenses, junk food, etc.

Even for those though, opinions are all over the place: Everything from "no rules" to "kids should be allowed to own drink alcohol under the supervision of their parents" to “it’s fine for adults to drink, but not kids” to “alcohol should obviously be banned for everyone."

For most of these we settled into a happy medium that generally everyone feels is acceptable, but we still change our opinions semi-frequently: Cigarettes being a great example in our lifetime.

I get the argument that social media is probably closer to junk food than to firearms, but:

a) Plenty of people argue that junk food should be banned for kids too! Or at least tightly regulated.

b) It’s definitely not consensus opinion that social media is more like junk food than, say, cigarettes. People will vehemently argue either side of that.
by sotix | 2026-01-15 13:39:59+00:00
> I’ll take a moment to lament the demise of the light duty pickup that provided a bit of extra utility while still fitting in a normal parking space.

Remind me of my favorite article title:
In the land of the free, why can’t we have mini-pickup trucks like the Taliban and ISIS?[0]

[0]: https://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dion-lefler...
by kiba | 2026-01-15 13:40:33+00:00
Good point. Reality is more nuanced than simple overbuilding and underbuilding. Still, we aren't really still building enough housing and mass transit infrastructure.

That may hamper us more than anything else. If AI proves to be as beneficial as its proponents hyped, the economic gains will just mostly get soaked up by landowners. Even UBI won't save us, because it will just get absorbed by landowners. Ditto for renewable energy.
by xipho | 2026-01-15 13:40:46+00:00
Ok, I'll bite. What if solar panels turn into breeding grounds with perfect environmental temperatures to create viruses that kill us all? Who is to say the sun won't blow up tomorrow? Why not enumerate all the things that might happen to distract? There is a nice quote going around re a weather scientists who gets asked annually what's it going to be like this year? He's tired, and notes "this year, and every year for the rest of your life is going to be the hottest ever." That's in large part to oil, full stop.
by voodoo_canyon | 2026-01-15 13:40:47+00:00
Very cool, I do something similar! except I don't rename the image, but I have the LLM create a matching text file in a separate folder with a description of everything in the image and a guess of the possible reasons why I took a screenshot.

I use screenshot on my phone to remember stuff, so this way it's super easy to search those text files if I'm trying to find something that I only vaguely remember.

Remembering specific words is hard for me, but I can get neighboring words and get in the ballpark, and simple text search or claude code gets me the rest of the way.

The screenshot gets uploaded from my phone to Dropbox, then on my desktop at home a script just periodically checks if there's any new screenshots. It's been running since Jan of last year, so coming up on a year now.
by windexh8er | 2026-01-15 13:40:59+00:00
I think this is a miss on what the Pi is: an experiment. Sure, it stood on the shoulders of other SFF boards that came before it - but it broke into the general computing landscape targeting makers and builders. If the AI hat doesn't work out, so be it. The use cases for this type of hat may yet to be seen. On one hand it may feel shortsighted to bringing hardware to market with no explicit use case, but that's part of the Pi brand.

As someone else mentioned: if the hat could efficiently be leveraged with the YOLO models on Frigate for a low volume camera setup that could be a nice niche use case for it.

Either way I hope the RPi org keeps dropping things like this and letting the users sort out the use cases with their dollars.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-15 13:41:40+00:00
> kids are just going to find places to hang out online that are less moderated and less regulated and less safe. How is that not worse?

I actually disagree with you. This was the internet when I was a kid, and part of the point was you had more agency. This may seem counter-intuitive, but I might prefer my kid hang out on 4chan than tik tok all day long, because at least the former feels like they’re making an intentional choice, and there’s not a multi billion dollar algorithm getting them addicted.

This is part of the point. Kids need more unregulated spaces. Your youthTM brought to you by Mark Zuckerberg is dystopian.
by atijke | 2026-01-15 13:41:40+00:00
Hi! I’m curious what tools or other approaches you use to practice pitching. Not long ago, when I was pitching one of my side projects, I realized I was doing it pretty weakly, I was dropping the ball on some key points, and there were questions I couldn’t answer simply because I hadn’t even thought about them.

Because of that, over the past couple of months my partner and I built a tool for ourselves where you can practice and get insights, and we decided to try launching it to a wider audience, maybe it can help others too. That’s how this came to life.

I’d really appreciate any feedback and general thoughts on it, and I’d also love to hear how you practice your pitches.
by jorvi | 2026-01-15 13:41:54+00:00
Seems you have memory holed how pro Russia the US was too. You guys had joint military exercises. Why single out the EU as being bad?

What you also seem to also have memory holed was that up until Crimea, the prevailing idea for Russia was that the more we trade with them, the more wealthy and informed the populace becomes and the more entwined the economy becomes globally and thus losing that access would become too painful to them. The exact same playbook was used for China up till 2016.
by groovy2shoes | 2026-01-15 13:42:18+00:00
as a writer, i have found AI editing tools to be woefully unhelpful. they tend to focus on specific usage guidelines (think Strunk & White) and have little to offer for other, far more important aspects of writing.

i wrote a 5 page essay in November. the AI editor had sixty-something recommendations, and i accepted exactly one of them. it was a suggestion to hyphenate the adjectival phrase "25-year-old". i doubt that it had any measurable impact on the effectiveness of the essay.

thing is, i know all the elements of style. i know proper grammar and accepted orthographic conventions. i have read and followed many different style guides. i could best any English teacher at that game. when i violate the principles (and i do it often), i do so deliberately and intentionally. i spent a lot of time going through suggestions that would only genericize my writing. it was a huge waste of my time.

i asked a friend to read it and got some very excellent suggestions: remove a digressive paragraph, rephrase a few things for persuasive effect, and clarify a sentence. i took all of these suggestions, and the essay was markedly improved. i'm skeptical that an LLM will ever have such a grasp of the emotional and persuasive strength of a text to make recommendations like that.
by bradfa | 2026-01-15 13:42:21+00:00
I would like to. I haven't yet found a solution that works well.

The problems with datasheets is tables which span multiple pages, embedded images for diagrams and plots, they're generally PDFs, and only sometimes are they 2-column layout.

Converting from PDF to markdown while retaining tables correctly seems to work well for me with Mistral's latest OCR model, but this isn't an open model. Using docling with different models has produced much worse results.
by damnitbuilds | 2026-01-15 13:42:24+00:00
The crucial missing thing is in-space refueling.
Spacex will start testing on the ground within weeks.

I think it is reasonable to believe that - if there are no blockers uncovered, just steady development and testing - they could be testing it in space by mid-year and have it working by year-end.

Then - as long as fuel storage in space works - I do not know of any other major impediments to launching an unmanned Starship mission to Mars.

Sticking the reentry and landing will be hard, but Starships seem to handle tough reentries well, and Starships have already landed on legs on Earth.

I am a pessimist on a manned Starship landing on the Moon within three years, let alone on Mars.
by victorymakes | 2026-01-15 13:43:09+00:00
I’m building LaunchSaaS (https://launchsaas.org/
) — a toolkit to help solo founders ship SaaS with fewer repeated decisions.

Recently shipped some small improvements (cache layer, email i18n), but the hardest part so far has been SEO.

This is my first time taking SEO seriously, and it’s been humbling — DR is still ~12 and trending down.

One thing I’ve found useful: comparing backlinks from Ahrefs’ free checker and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Still early, but shipping and learning steadily.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-15 13:43:13+00:00
There was some pushback from your average liberal because they thought that it was too extreme, that we needed some folks to protect us and enforce the laws. But with what's going on with ICE, I'm seeing even some of the staunchest whitest liberals finally realize that law enforcement simply cannot be trusted ever, and for good reason. The only people still arguing otherwise are either the old, wealthy democrats sitting on their asses as people get beaten in the streets or the would-be fascists barely keeping the mask on.
by c64d81744074dfa | 2026-01-15 13:43:45+00:00
sigh Mom and Dad are fighting...

But seriously, this illustrates to me that Codes of Conduct are mostly suspect. This is obviously a private feud (nobody looks to be in the right here and I don't care who started what), so to pull "they violated the CoC" is pure theatre and bullshit. I'm a Sparkfun customer and I find that really disappointing.
by CCB-TK | 2026-01-15 13:43:54+00:00
We published a short article on a practical 6D pose estimation pipeline designed for high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, where robots must reliably handle many part variants under clutter, occlusion, and variation.

Instead of relying on a single end-to-end model, the pipeline combines classical 3D point-cloud processing and learning-based segmentation to produce stable object clusters for downstream pose estimation. The key insight is that naive clustering often fails in real manufacturing scenes, but integrating RGB segmentation makes the pipeline much more robust.

The article explains why each step matters in practice and why building with modular, composable blocks is more reliable than monolithic models. It also links to our early SDK for reusable perception and physical AI Skills and invites feedback from anyone tackling similar problems.
by watwut | 2026-01-15 13:43:55+00:00
It is the "they are terror group kind of like Gestapo" part. It is the "murder and then celebrate murder" part. The "kidnap people, beat them, throw them out" part. It is the "run out of the car, kidnap citizen" part. It is the "throw flashbang and teargas on law obeying people" part. It is the "blind a legal protester". With honorable mention of beating a female woman for going to doctor.

It is also the "their violence is staggering" and "they operations have no respect to law" and "they actually intentionally terrorize citizens too" parts.

All mentioned in article and well documented at this point.
by estearum | 2026-01-15 13:43:56+00:00
Ah sorry, I was anchoring "beginning of first term" and misplaced that as 2020. Fuck how time flies!

The "vague reference" is Epstein himself seeming to suggest he was having dinner with Trump. But you're right that there isn't direct corroborating evidence beyond Epstein saying so and their travel schedules aligning in South Florida over Thanksgiving.
by rasmus-kirk | 2026-01-15 13:43:58+00:00
I completely agree, I found it very funny that I have been transitioning from an "LLM sceptic" to a "LLM advocate", without changing my viewpoint. I have long said that LLM's won't be replacing swathes of the workforce any time soon and that LLM's are of course useful for specific tasks, especially prototyping and drafting.

I have gone from being challenged on the first point, to the second. The hype is not what it has been.
by peterspath | 2026-01-15 13:44:05+00:00
Playing around with Dictionary Services[1] (an api in iOS and macOS).

Figuring out how to create my own dictionary with Dictionary Development Kit to create a dictionary where people can find definitions of terms.

Also let the system learn names of products and services, so the system can do better autocorrect.

1. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/dicti...
by Esophagus4 | 2026-01-15 13:44:41+00:00
I don’t think (could be wrong) the argument is don’t ban social media for children because we don’t ban it for adults… I think the argument is it is easier politically to regulate behavior of a population that doesn’t vote and is not us.

English societies have a long history of regulating the behavior of others - see English Poor Laws.

It’s an interesting perspective at least, I hadn’t thought of the social media ban in that way.

I happen to think we should still ban bad things (smoking, drinking, gambling, and probably social media) for kids. But I appreciate the argument.