MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aik | 2026-01-06 04:29:08+00:00
When did hacker news become laggard-adopter/consumer-news.

Cal is a consumer of AI - interesting article for this community, but not this community. I thought hacker news was for builders and innovators - people who see the potential of a technology for solving problems big and small and go and tinker and build and explore with it, and sometimes eventually change the world (hopefully for the better). Instead of sitting on the sidelines grumbling about that some particular tech that hasn’t yet changed the world / met some particular hype (yet).

Incredibly naive to think AI isn’t making real difference already (even without/before replacing labor en masse.)

Actually try to explore the impact a bit. It’s not AGI, but doesn’t have to be to transform. It’s everywhere and will do nothing but accelerate. Even better, be part of proving Cal wrong for 2026.
by otterley | 2026-01-06 04:29:17+00:00
It was a settlement, not a “loss” in any legal sense. It sets no legal precedent, and no future plaintiff can cite it.

> The settlement, announced Tuesday, does not act as an admission of guilt and Meta maintains no wrongdoing.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/30/texas-meta-facebook-...

While you are correct that some states do regulate facial recognition, all they can do is regulate their own law enforcement and private entities doing business there. They cannot regulate the federal government (ICE and CBP are federal agencies).
by thw09j9m | 2026-01-06 04:29:18+00:00
I'm a staff level SWE at a company that you've all heard of (not a flex, just providing context).

If my manager said to me tomorrow: "I have to either get rid of one of your coworkers or your use of AI tools, which is it?"

I would, without any hesitation, ask that he fire one of my coworkers. Gemini / Claude is way more useful to me than any particular coworker.

And now I'm preparing for my post-software career because that coworker is going to be me in a few years.

Obviously I hope that I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-06 04:30:04+00:00
I didn't like switching between cloud web dashes and terminal to just print some boxes, so I made a TUI tool to wrap the process and let me stay in terminal.

This is a initial release of a TUI tool that will forever be scoped to boxes only.

Why not more than VPS?

Clouds provide differentiated but similar managed offerings atop boxes. For me, boxes have always been fundamental in deployment, but supporting a clean abstraction over the differentiated managed offerings (like DBs, load balancers, etc), is too complex to be valuable I think. I'm more aligned with Unix philosophy of small, focused composable tools. CloudMaster is supposed to be that for VPS price checking and rental.

The architecture is simple: TUI wrapper over provider CLI tools. It's not "necessary" (you can just use the CLI, or the web dashboards), but for me, it saves me time, and I like the ability to spin up a box, drop into SSH from CloudMasters to test something, then drop back out and nuke the box, without ever switching out of terminal.

Future releases will fix bugs, improve stability, aim for more accurate pricing, add support for custom disk sizes and resizing, and add more clouds as appropriate, etc.
by eru | 2026-01-06 04:31:35+00:00
Moore's law really help you with throughput, but latency still requires good engineering.

And you are right, that we got good UI latency even back in the 1980s. You just have make sure that you do the absolute minimum amount of work possible in the UI 'thread' and do gradual enhancement as more time passes.

As an example, the Geos word processor on the C64 does nice line breaks at the end of words only. But if you type really fast, it just wraps lines when you hit exactly x letters, and later when it has some time to catch up, it cleans up the line breaks.

That way it can give you a snappy user experience even on a comically underpowered system. But you can also see that the logic is much more complicated, than just implementing a single business logic for where line breaks should be. Complication means more bugs, more time spent writing and debugging and documenting etc.
by kamaal | 2026-01-06 04:32:42+00:00
>>Taking on extra responsibility is all well and good until someone figures out that they can just get you to do more work for the same amount of money.

Wait a minute. Why are you accepting more work, responsibility without increase in compensation? Promotion de facto means getting paid more.

Otherwise its just some one updating a row in the employee database with fancy text. How does it matter what designation you are called with?

I had a similar situation few years before COVID where a company offered a fancy designation albeit for 50% lesser the pay. All said and done, when I did all the calculations, even with me rapidly changing companies with newly acquired designation, and building from there. It would take more than a decade to merely arrive to the salary I was then. And that would still mean more than a decade of wasted raises, bonuses and RSU vesting at the then current job. By the time that fork got profitable, I'd be due for retirement.

Promotion == Pay/Compensation Raise.
by alach11 | 2026-01-06 04:34:15+00:00
I have to imagine governments are closely monitoring prediction markets as part of their intelligence apparatus. But then you just add another layer of subterfuge. Imagine a D-Day prediction market... "Will the Allies Land in Normandy, Pas-de-Calais, or somewhere else?" The US might buy a major position on Pas-de-Calais the night before as a decoy!
by sayamqazi | 2026-01-06 04:34:44+00:00
If you are from US I want to let you know about a scam. Here in asian countries people with good enlgish accents are recruited to pretend to be US citizens and claim benifits that are unused by the real people. There is a whole proper process of how this works. The recruit is given full identity information and a software to make the call appear from the US. The officials on the US side are in on this and get a share for each successfull claim.
Show HN: Habi – Vibe Coded Habit Tracker
by a-sabry | 2026-01-06 04:35:12+00:00
hey everyone, i built this habit tracker because my daughter kept forgetting things before basketball practice like her water bottle or sports eyewear.

most habit trackers live separately from calendars, so i built one where habits are driven by calendar events. you can attach checklists to events so calendar events become habits.

this is my first vibe-coded app, built with my wife and daughter. would love any feedback and happy to answer questions.
by mindslight | 2026-01-06 04:35:43+00:00
As long as the wealth class can continue tricking half the population into directing their lust for violence towards scapegoats like illegal immigrants, there's very little reason for them to change course. The remaining half of the population then gets most of their energy used up defending against "culture war" bullshit, with many even going on the aggressive there because it's one of the few types of allowable wins in the very narrow Overton window.
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-06 04:36:29+00:00
AI collapses the cost of “good enough” content in every medium.

Disagree a little - there are media where "good enough" is great. Advertising, propaganda, scams, are all arenas where "good enough" is maybe even better than what we have now, from the advertiser, the Temu Goebbels and the scammers point of view.

I think there are areas where "good enough" (chabuduo, anyone?) won't really clear the bar. Anything were safety or accuracy are required, slop just won't do.
by nl | 2026-01-06 04:38:34+00:00
> We’re still living in the heavily-corporate-subsidized AI world

There's little evidence this is true. Even OpenAI who is spending more than anyone is only losing money because of the free version of ChatGPT. Anthropic says they will be profitable next year.

> Plus, and maybe it’s just my personal cynicism showing, but when did tech ever reduce pricing while maintaining quality on a provided service in the long run? In an industry laser focused on profit, I just don’t see how something so many believe to be a revolutionary force in the market will be given away for less than it is today.

Really?

I mean I guess I'm showing my age but the idea I can get a VM for a couple of dollars a month and expect it to be reliable make me love the world I live in. But I guess when I started working there was no cloud and to get root on a server meant investing thousands of dollars.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-06 04:39:26+00:00
Isn’t this a classic fool’s money game. The betting markets have a strong incentive to pretend it isn’t an insider’s game.

Honestly, of all the vices, I think I pity gamblers a lot. It’s just so visible and understandable to see the harm. Something like being too into porn or drink, those are less visible harm. Where running out of money is comprehensible to even a child.
by rationalist | 2026-01-06 04:39:52+00:00
It's been a long time since I used my Pebble Time Steel, but I remember the alarm feature to wake you up when you were in a light phase of sleep worked very well. I didn't do any sleep tracking personally, but the watch seemed to be able to tell.

From an old Kickstarter:

"Pebble Health tracks when you fall asleep, wake up, and how much deep sleep you’re getting (that’s the really good stuff). Smart Alarms determine your optimal wake-up time based on your sleep cycle, so you’re less groggy and more energized to tackle the day."
by Johan_Solo | 2026-01-06 04:40:03+00:00
We built FactCheckr.io to make fact-checking faster, more transparent, and more social.

The idea came from how difficult it is to verify claims in short-form content like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X, where misinformation spreads quickly and context is often missing.

FactCheckr lets users fact-check claims from news articles, social posts, videos, screenshots, and links, then share public fact-checks with sources, verdicts, and discussion. Users can follow other fact-checkers, build collections, earn badges, and explore trending or verified claims.

This is an early but active product, and I’m especially interested in feedback from people who care about media literacy, OSINT, or combating misinformation online.

Happy to answer questions or hear what you think could be improved.
by jdross | 2026-01-06 04:40:36+00:00
I work in insurance - regulated, human capital heavy, etc.

Three examples for you:
- our policy agent extracts all coverage limits and policy details into a data ontology. This saves 10-20 mins per policy. It is more accurate and consistent than our humans
- our email drafting agent will pull all relevant context on an account whenever an email comes in. It will draft a reply or an email to someone else based on context and workflow. Over half of our emails are now sent without meaningfully modifying the draft, up from 20% two months ago. Hundreds of hours saved per week, now spent on more valuable work for clients.
- our certificates agent will note when a certificate of insurance is requested over email and automatically handle the necessary checks and follow up options or resolution. Will likely save us around $500k this year.

We also now increasingly share prototypes as a way to discuss ideas. Because the cost to vibe code something illustrative is very low, an it’s often much higher fidelity to have the conversation with something visual than a written document
by derangedHorse | 2026-01-06 04:40:54+00:00
> Sometimes I wonder, in the ease of critique, what it’s like for the anonymous person on the other end

Here's a better look at how the "anonymous person on the other end" sees things [1]:

> “i’m always polite to chat gpt so it remembers me later ” you are going to die from water-poison-related typhoid in the Great American Megadesert after a particularly nasty heat surge evaporates the rest of the drinkable rations. you will be buried in the sand.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/strange.website/post/3m33mnmcyys2t
by sr-white | 2026-01-06 04:41:03+00:00
Good question! Currently FLATTEN does a simple translation to DuckDB's UNNEST, which works for basic array expansion but won't give you the full Snowflake output columns (SEQ, KEY, PATH, INDEX, VALUE, THIS) or the named parameter syntax (input => ...). That said, a more complete implementation is definitely doable — DuckDB has the primitives (unnest, generate_subscripts, json_each) to build this properly. If this is something you'd find useful, feel free to open an issue with your use case. Happy to prioritize it if there's demand!
by episteme | 2026-01-06 04:41:23+00:00
Is that a useful thought experiment? Claude benefits you as an individual more than a coworker, but I find I hard to believe your use of Claude is more of a value add to the business than an additional coworker. Especially since that coworker will also have access to Claude.

In the past we also just raised the floor on productivity, do you think this will be different?
by conditionnumber | 2026-01-06 04:41:48+00:00
For some reason the article made me think about this quote from one of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship videos, "I think there are some mathematicians who are kind of like the hiker who choose this massive peak they want to scale and they do everything they can to make it up the mountain. I'm more like the kind of hiker who wanders through the forest and stops to look at a pretty stone or flower and reflect on whether it's similar to a stone or flower that I've seen before."
by ineedasername | 2026-01-06 04:41:59+00:00
It pretty much did join the work force. Listen to the fed chair, listen to related analysis, the unexpected overperformance of GDP isn’t directly attributed AI but it is very much in the “how did that happen?” conversation. And there’s plenty of softer, more anecdotal evidence in addition to that to respond to the headline with “It did.” The fact that it has been gradual and subtle as the very first agent tools reach production readiness, gain awareness in the public, start being used…? That really doesn’t seem at all unexpected as the path than “joining” would follow.
by keyle | 2026-01-06 04:43:40+00:00
I went from intellij to emacs, to zed / vscode to vim... Even neovim was getting on my nerves.

For some reason I'm happy in vim. I feel I understand most of what's happening. Not sure what It is.

I still use vscode for debugging (breakpoints etc.) as it's just the easiest. Maybe there is a workflow with lldb that I could use to debug within vim...
by charcircuit | 2026-01-06 04:44:37+00:00
Non insiders would be if they think the odds are in their favor or that they predict that the market's opinion will shift.

>But if someone knows the actual weight, no one would play.

Now what if someone in the audience knew the weight of an average elephant, giving them an advantage. Would people still bet. I would guess yes, but they wouldn't bet as much as the person who did because they have less information.

While having better information may make it more likely for you to win, it is not surefire. Things can change last minute.
by pkphilip | 2026-01-06 04:46:05+00:00
So are you claiming that Manusmriti is not valid? Manusmriti explains the rules of how castes interact. I have already given specific quotes from the Bhagwad Gita about Dharma being tied to caste.. you call it varna but even the sankaracharya from Govardhan Mutt says there is really not much of a difference between varna and jati.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2ckFp9yPk&t=9s

Just saying that I am saying this in "bad faith" doesn't make it so.
by __float | 2026-01-06 04:46:15+00:00
> That turned into about 10 hours of conversation with Claude to pull it all together.

Did the author write an actual parser, or does this mean they spent 10 hours coaxing Claude into writing this blog post?

There's not a lot of depth here, and this doesn't really feel like it says much.

The blog post mostly compares Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server... and then flips between comparisons to BigQuery occasionally, and Snowflake other times. Is that intentional (and is it accurate?), or did the LLM get confused?
by greatgib | 2026-01-06 04:47:06+00:00
This is so much a total joke, because one of the first purpose of this agreement, was for European countries to be sure that big US companies like Google and Apple would not evade the European countries high corporate tax rates by evading profits.

Now, it is like the stupid "flight ticket tax to fund buying condom in Africa" created by France, we will be the only ones having worse conditions when the rest of the world enjoy better corporate profit conditions...
by Heidaradar | 2026-01-06 04:48:22+00:00
To be honest, I'm surprised that people say Claude Code performs THAT much better than Cursor, I found them to be very similar in ability considering that I'm only on Claude Opus 4.5. I prefer cursor because it's easier to go back to previous chats/previous "states".

Also, you CAN choose the same model now in Cursor (as said, I always leave it on Opus 4.5).
by Terr_ | 2026-01-06 04:49:24+00:00
Employee has a few bullet-points of updates, they feed it through an LLM to fluff it out into an email to their manager, and then the manager puts the received email through an LLM to summarize it down to a few bullet points... Probably making some mistakes.

There are all these things in writing we used as signals for intelligence, attention to detail, engagement, willingness to accept feedback, etc... but they're now easy to counterfeit at scale.

Hopefully everyone realizes what's going on and cuts out the middleman.
by eliasdejong | 2026-01-06 04:49:49+00:00
The primary motivations were performance requirements and frustration with schema formats.

The ability to mutate serialized data allows for 2 things:

1) Services exchanging messages and making small changes each time e.g. adding a timestamp without full reserialization overhead.

2) A message producer can keep a message 'template' ready and only change the necessary fields each time before sending. As a result, serializing becomes practically free from a performance perspective.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-06 04:49:59+00:00
Which may go a long way to explain why Americans live such a lower quality of life compared to people in countries with much lower per capita incomes.

The insularity and the constant rah rah telling Americans that they live in the greatest country in the world is why they think it’s completely normal for massive numbers of Americans to live homeless and die in huge number of deaths of despair relative to their economic peers.
by RestartKernel | 2026-01-06 04:50:00+00:00
Exactly. I've bought custom keyboards off individuals under such limited expectations, but everything makes this watch otherwise look like a proper product release.

Just to spare people reading this a few clicks (from their FAQ):

> Yes, we warrant against manufacturing defects for 30 days after you receive your order. Ship us the defective watch, and after we receive it back, we will ship (no charge) you a replacement.

Full warranty as of now: https://archive.is/HxXvL
by enjeyw | 2026-01-06 04:50:02+00:00
It absolutely has been!

In general prediction markets can’t be “correct” or “incorrect” - for instance if a prediction market says there’s a 60% chance of an event occurring, and it doesn’t occur, was the market right or wrong? Well it’s hard to say - certainly the market said the event was more likely to occur than not, but only just, and who knows? Maybe the event _only just_ occurred, and very nearly didn’t!

So generally we say a prediction market is “correct” if it is “well calibrated”, which is to say that if we took all the events that the market said had a 60% chance of occurring, then approximately 60% percent of these events occurred (with the same holding true for all other percentages).

On this note, an interesting phenomenon that used to occur was “favorite-longshot bias”, where markets would consistently overestimate the likelihood of longshot events occurring - so events that the market predicted would occur 10% of the time would only occur 5% of the time. What’s fascinating is that once people realized that this bias exited, they began to exploit it by making bets against longshots, which had the effect of moving the market and removing the biases, making the markets well calibrated. It’s a pretty neat example of the efficient market hypothesis in action!
by defranme | 2026-01-06 04:50:15+00:00
> "You want to get promoted? Try to take my position."

When I was a junior, mid, and starting senior level developer, I was so focused on getting ahead, and I would’ve listened intently to this.

The reality is though that most managers and principal or higher devs are great with you taking on responsibility if you’re ready for it, and making mistakes and learning is often fine, but when you stop respecting those with more experience and start working around them, they’re not going to be happy.

My advice: take on responsibilities and do the work, but always respect others. You will never regret giving someone enough respect. If you have a heart or a brain, you will almost certainly regret not treating someone with respect; it will haunt you, even if you one day apologize to them.
by fallingfrog | 2026-01-06 04:50:40+00:00
The thermostats in my house date to 1920 when the house was new, and they work just fine. Doesn't sound like the ones in this house will last that long.

(Of course mine each have little glass bulb half full of mercury in them, but that's a separate issue).

Edit: now that I look at them they might not be quite that old, but several decades anyway.
by schoen | 2026-01-06 04:50:53+00:00
Well, it's confusing because you have markets on questions with very different characteristics in terms of whether they are exogenous or not (and whether they are exogenous from the perspective of particular groups), or just with different degrees of asymmetry regardless of whether there are literal "insiders".

Like, prediction markets have questions ranging from what the weather will be in a certain year, to who will win elections, to what stock prices or exchange rates will be, to whether companies will announce specific products, to whether particular people will start dating, to whether a specific person will say a specific word during a conference (some of the Manifold "prop bets" for Manifest).

These are not the same kinds of questions in terms of whether there are insiders at all or who the insiders are. Maybe we can't expect prediction markets to have the same dynamics in all of these cases.

Depending on what you want out of a prediction market, there's probably a sweet spot in terms of whom you should expect (or want) to be trading in it.

In the most exogenous events, those that are most outside of the control of individuals or groups, I think Robin Hanson hoped (in proposing "idea futures") that people would be incentivized to invest in research in order to gain a statistical edge in the market, but also assumed that there wasn't anyone who was inherently drastically better positioned to get information about the question than anyone else. E.g. "I will spend $X to get a better estimate of this probability (hopefully by otherwise ethical means?), and that will make my expected return from buying $Y worth of prediction contracts greater than $(X+Y)". Indeed not something retail investors or gamblers should probably participate in.

It's also true that in some cases where there are true insiders it can give the insiders a financial incentive to reveal confidential information. From the point of view of trying to get the most accurate possible estimate of the likelihood of future events, that would indeed also be a success, even if the process was "unfair" to non-insiders.