MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-27 17:54:11+00:00
Unfortunately Intel also isn't interested in making Panther Lake:

> "We can’t completely vacate the client market," said Zinsner, but Intel is "shifting as much as we can over to data center to meet the high demand."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/core-ultra-series-3-...

So many smart best things going on on PL. Xe3 GPU looks amazing, especially the 12 core one. I love the extra low power core on the soc chiplet, allowing the main CPU chiplet to post down. Intel's EIMB is great, such an advanced interconnect for low power multi-chip. 18a and backside power. Excellent stuff!

Hard to blame them though for abandoning consumer market, like is happening with the entire rest of the computing market. Why make cores if the rest of the computer is too ghastly expensive to afford?
by gcanyon | 2026-01-27 17:54:36+00:00
I'm not seeing this. I uploaded a video earlier today comparing sending in Tom Homan to replace Greg Bongino to sending in Ghostface to replace Jason Voorhees -- both still murderers. Unless they're lying to me about the view count and fabricating comments, something like 400 people have seen it and a dozen have commented -- most calling me an idiot, but whatever.
by superkuh | 2026-01-27 17:55:14+00:00
Tracking the murderers who executed citizens in the street and then fled the scene of the crime and any sort of trial or investigation? That ICE and Immigration and Border Patrol? I wonder why. And since when is tracking public officials operating in public in the capacity of their government jobs illegal?

These federal goons need to be tracked and observed to record their crimes. That much is indisputable.
by netsharc | 2026-01-27 17:55:15+00:00
An Indians can?

When India "shut down" for Covid, day labourers suddenly had no income, and no government support - they had to walk all the way to their home province (can't remember if the trains were even running).

But oh well, Uberizing employment means the run-of-the-mill American worker can also live like that in the future... progress!
Show HN: LemonSlice – Give your voice agents a face
by lcolucci | 2026-01-27 17:55:15+00:00
Hey HN, we're the co-founders of LemonSlice (https://lemonslice.com). We train interactive avatar video models. Our API lets you upload a photo and immediately jump into a FaceTime-style call with that character. Here's a demo: https://www.loom.com/share/941577113141418e80d2834c83a5a0a9

Chatbots are everywhere. Voice AI has recently taken off. But we believe video avatars will be the most common form factor for conversational AI. Most people would rather watch something than read it. The problem is that generating video in real-time is hard, and overcoming the uncanny valley is even harder.

We haven’t broken the uncanny valley yet. Nobody has. But we’re getting close and our photorealistic avatars are currently best-in-class (judge for yourself: https://lemonslice.com/try/taylor). Plus, we're the only avatar model that can do animals and heavily stylized cartoons. Try it: https://lemonslice.com/try/alien. Warning! Talking to this little guy may improve your mood.

Today we're releasing our new model* - Lemon Slice 2, a 20B-parameter diffusion transformer that generates infinite-length video at 20fps on a single GPU - and opening up our API.

How did we get a video diffusion model to run in real-time? There was no single trick, just a lot of them stacked together. The first big change was making our model causal. Standard video diffusion models are bidirectional (they look at frames both before and after the current one), which means you can't stream.

From there it was about fitting everything on one GPU. We switched from full to sliding window attention, which killed our memory bottleneck. We distilled from 40 denoising steps down to just a few - quality degraded less than we feared, especially after using GAN-based distillation (though tuning that adversarial loss to avoid mode collapse was its own adventure).

And the rest was inference work: modifying RoPE from complex to real (this one was cool!), precision tuning, fusing kernels, a special rolling KV cache, lots of other caching, and more. We kept shaving off milliseconds wherever we could and eventually got to real-time.

We set up a guest playground for HN so you can create and talk to characters without logging in: www.lemonslice.com/hn. For those who want to build with our API (we have a new LiveKit integration that we’re pumped about!), grab a coupon code in the HN playground for your first Pro month free ($100 value). See the docs: https://lemonslice.com/docs. Pricing is usage-based at $0.12-0.20/min for video generation.

Looking forward to your feedback! And we’d love to see any cool characters you make - please share their links in the comments

*We did a Show HN last year for our V1 model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785044. It was technically impressive but so bad compared to what we have today.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-27 17:55:22+00:00
If you want to bring facts into this, I have bad news about metaphysical truth.

>The Problem of Priors ruins basically all of science

>Particulars vs Universals

>Your senses are organic chemical reactions that lose reality, then you use different chemical reactions that turn it into logical thought, further simplifying and allowing mistakes.

>Deflationary Theory of Truth is probably the correct one.

I don't need to know about gravity to know the sun will rise tomorrow, I can use my intuition. However, my intuition also says the earth is flat. So take what you will.
by nabbed | 2026-01-27 17:55:24+00:00
The "required login" pattern is particularly a problem. I seem to have namesakes around the US and UK that use my email address as their own when signing up for various services (mobile phone services, Shopify, Uber, various banks and investment firms, landscaper services, real estate services, home and car insurance, car repair shops, even Silver Daddies!!).

I can't open an issue (to ask the service to remove my email) without logging in to an account I don't have control over.

I don't want to use "forgot my password", because I don't want my IP address to be associated with a login to the account, because in some cases (particularly Shopify), the services were obviously used for fraud.
by candiddevmike | 2026-01-27 17:55:48+00:00
So... nothing. Glad we're in agreement here. If AI can do all the things people hope/dream it can, there won't be any value in doing it on behalf of folks. I would argue that even some "AI provider" (if that could even be a thing given a sophisticated enough agent) would see diminishing returns as the tech inevitably distills into everyone having bespoke agents running locally and handling/organizing/managing everything (of whatever needs managing, who knows).

Basically I don't see how you can be an AI maximalist and a capitalist at the same time. They're contradictory, IMO.
by YZF | 2026-01-27 17:55:51+00:00
This has never been about (western) morals which is why the masked violent crowds don't care about Russia, or China, or Saudia Arabia or Iran. This is about taking down the west because the west is evil. They also don't care about crimes against humanity perpetrated by Palestinians:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/0282/2025/en/

This crowd is also not calling for "peace in Palestine". That would be something everyone would obviously get behind and could lead to a constructive discussion about how we get there. They are supporting violence against Israeli civilians and calling for the destruction of Israel and the murder of its populace.

It also has nothing to do with "US aid to Israel" since we see the exact same behavior in other western countries that do not aid Israel at all. For Americans to question how their aid money is used (e.g. why is it going to Egypt) or who the US does business with (e.g. why with Saudi Arabia or Qatar) is perfectly legit but it's obviously not what's going on here.
by kushagarwal2907 | 2026-01-27 17:55:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a 1st-year CS undergrad from India. I built AnalysisXYZ because I wanted a way to quickly audit and visualize CSV/Excel files without uploading them to cloud tools (like ChatGPT) due to privacy concerns.

The Tech: It’s a browser-based tool. The analysis engine runs entirely on the client side (your data never hits my server).

Features:

.)Instant Executive Summaries for CSV/XLSX/PDF.

.)Privacy-first architecture (zero data retention).

.)This is my first real SaaS project deployed to production. I’d love feedback on the parsing speed with larger datasets and any critiques on the UI.

(P.S. Be honest—if the UI breaks, tell me!)
by btmiller | 2026-01-27 17:55:55+00:00
Really? I have bookmarked:

- 758 posts on home construction and interior design
- 487 posts on cooking
- 58 posts on relationship health
- 605 posts on leadership
- 58 posts on fitness
- 19 posts on woodworking

, and countless others on travel and dining.

Would you like to restate your claim with more nuance? I have collected a vast amounts of knowledge through TikTok. Their algorithm is insanely good at capturing whatever it is you’re after. It’s a challenge to put the app down and I think any person that can’t impose their own healthy limits or can’t modulate their topical interests is going to have an even harder time. Let’s remember that amidst the real negative aspects, there is a really great system for learning buried in there.
by chfritz | 2026-01-27 17:56:05+00:00
Awesome, congrats on the launch! Can you say more about the software stack? Is it open-source? I see you are using ROS on the robot, but what about the full-stack (robot + cloud + web)? Did you build all that yourself? At Transitive Robotics we are developing the Transitive open-source framework for full-stack robotics (complementing ROS, not replacing it). On top of Transitive it is easy to build capabilities and we already offer many such modules, e.g., for webrtc video-streaming, teleop, mission dispatch, etc. This means you don't need to build all that yourself and once Transitive is installed on a robot, your end-users can install more capabilities now or in the future. Do you think this could be of interest to your users?

https://transitiverobotics.com/docs/learn/intro/
by nimonian | 2026-01-27 17:56:15+00:00
From Hacker News guidelines:

> That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

There is a long history of major world events like this being discussed on Hacker News and it is accepted as on topic. There is also a long history of people who haven't read the guidelines asking what they have to do with tech.
by devsda | 2026-01-27 17:56:42+00:00
> with modern technology, and a ruthless enough autocracy, there is possibly no way out from under it. Technological progress only makes this problem worse.

US may not have autocrats, but it does have ruthless enforcers of "law and order" with access to advanced weapons. Its probably safe to say thst whatever the stated reason is for the 2nd amendment, it is going to be difficult or impossible to meet its objective if needed.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-27 17:56:43+00:00
It's using information to influence public opinion in a calculated manner. Said information can include facts. It can even be entirely factual.

Manipulating the feed of a social media website for the purpose of swaying the viewer's opinion is a cut and dry example of propaganda. Doesn't matter who does it or whether the information displayed is factual or not. Those things make zero difference.
by dentemple | 2026-01-27 17:56:58+00:00
As someone who, indeed, went in unprepared to just to see what happens, I was also left wanting in knowing what exactly I was looking at. It all just looked arbitrarily random to me.

As I've heard it said regarding art, part of the appreciation comes from knowing _how_ it was made (and why), not merely from what was made. We don't appreciate Warhol's soup cans because they're soup cans -- it's everything else about them that makes it art.

So, my recommendation is, make the narrator a default panel on the opening screen. Give folks a narrative description of the events occurring up front, and then invite them to explore the work from there.
by chunky1994 | 2026-01-27 17:56:58+00:00
> The dark side of this same coin is when teams try to rely on the AI to write the real code, too, and then blame the AI when something goes wrong. You have to draw a very clear line between AI-driven prototyping and developer-driven code that developers must own. I think this article misses the mark on that by framing everything as a decision to DIY or delegate to AI. The real AI-assisted successes I see have developers driving with AI as an assistant on the side, not the other way around. I could see how an MBA class could come to believe that AI is going to do the jobs instead of developers, though, as it's easy to look at these rapid LLM prototypes and think that production ready code is just a few prompts away.

This is what's missing in most teams. There's a bright line between throwaway almost fully vibe-coded, cursorily architected features on a product and designing a scalable production-ready product and building it. I don't need a mental model of how to build a prototype, I absolutely need one for something I'm putting in production that is expected to scale, and where failures are acceptable but failure modes need to be known.

Almost everyone misses this in going the whole AI hog, or in going the no-AI hog.

Once I build a good mental model of how my service should work and design it properly, all the scaffolding is much easier to outsource, and that's a speed up but I still own the code because I know what everything does and my changes to the product are well thought out. For throw-away prototypes its 5x this output because the hard part of actually thinking the problem through doesn't really matter its just about getting everyone to agree on one direction of output.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-27 17:57:00+00:00
The difference is that if you are honest and pragmatic and someone asked you how you added two numbers, you would only say you did long addition if that's what you actually did. If you had no idea what you actually did, you would probably say something like "the answer came to me naturally".

LLMs work differently. Like a human, 14+17=31 may come naturally, but when asked about their though process, LLMs will not self-reflect on their condition, instead they will treat it like "in your training data, when someone is asked how he added number, what follows?", and usually, it is long addition, so that is the answer you will get.

It is the same idea as to why LLMs hallucinate. They will imitate what their dataset has to say, and their dataset doesn't have a lot of "I don't know" answers, and a LLM that learns to answer "I don't know" to every question wouldn't be very useful anyways.
by lukev | 2026-01-27 17:57:04+00:00
> The skills that matter are the same ones that make someone a good manager of people.

I disagree. Part of being a good manager of (junior) people is teaching them soft skills in addition to technical skills -- how to ask for help and do their own research, and how to build their own skills autonomously, how to think about requirements creatively, etc.

Clear specifications and validating output is only a part of good people management, but is 100% of good agent management.
by gcanyon | 2026-01-27 17:57:09+00:00
The problem I was listening to a historian discuss the other day is that we're stuck in a cycle of:

1. Republican breaks norms/laws
2. Democrat cleans up after, but by *not* breaking norms, doesn't go far enough to actually undo all the damage
3. We end up with a more broken governmental configuration, and head back to (1)

They said this pattern goes back to Nixon.
by drakythe | 2026-01-27 17:57:30+00:00
I was homeschooled in a particular conservative area. Much of what I have been taught was... woefully inadequate, we'll say. Lots of my learning has come in university and afterwards, so what I've picked up is pretty obviously incomplete and leaves me with many unknown unknowns in this area. Today has begun filling in many of those gaps so they get to be known unknowns now!
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-27 17:57:38+00:00
> Tools predate homo sapiens (which emerged about 300 kYA)

I’m going to use a charged word because Jane Goodall used it.

Goodall asserted that humans and chimpanzees (and wolves) are unique among animals in that we have a genocidal tendency [1]. When a group attacks us (or has “land and resources” we want) we don’t just chase them off. We exterminate them. We will expend great resources to track them down and ensure they cannot threaten us.

One reading of hominid history is that we had a number of hominids that were fine sharing the world, and humans, who were not. (I’ve seen the uncanny valley explained as a human fear response to non-human hominids.)

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/06/does-...
by johnmaguire | 2026-01-27 17:58:21+00:00
> The people who disliked the Islamization of the country and had the financial means to do so left while the people who were fine with it stayed.

You say it yourself, the ones who "had the financial means to do so left" - so it's very disingenuous to then state "the people who were fine with it stayed." What about those who couldn't afford to leave?
by jgbuddy | 2026-01-27 17:58:26+00:00
The general force behind this is the expansion of sub-same-day delivery which they have been pushing hard for the last year. Amazon fresh was a more traditional model which didn't fit in well with amazon's strengths (fulfillment, automation) because they tried to enter a market they were directly competing with (in-person shopping) and charged users for delivery in addition to their existing membership.

It's a welcome change IMO, amazon groceries are super cheap online and now delivery is free. They have been removing the fresh name from products for a few months now and replacing with amazon grocery. Certainly less confusion for consumers, at least

Related:
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-same-day-fres...
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-same-day-fres...
by ryandrake | 2026-01-27 17:59:05+00:00
Most places I've worked, the "slow execution speed" wasn't because it took a long time to physically write the code, but it took a long time to get those other things you mentioned: consensus among multiple ImportantPeople who all were expected to demonstrate "impact", agonizing over risks (perceived and real), begging VPs/leadership for their "buy-in", informing and receiving feedback from other vague "stakeholders" and so on. The software writing itself was never the bottleneck, and could be prototyped in 1/10th to 1/100th of the time it took to actually make the decision to write it.
by stuffn | 2026-01-27 17:59:11+00:00
> Tracking the murderers who executed citizens in the street and then fled the scene of the crime and any sort of trial or investigation?

Citation needed.

https://covertaccessteam.substack.com/p/signalgate-independe...

You should probably read the original source before taking the opinion of your favorite pundit. The FBI is right to investigate what appears to be an organized insurgency.
by pksebben | 2026-01-27 17:59:44+00:00
I've been saying it this whole time; it's not the engineers who need to be concerned with being replaced - it's anyone involved in the busywork cycle. This includes those who do busywork (grinding through tedium) and those who create it (MBAs, without apologies to the author).

Here's the thing - that feedback loop isn't a magic lamp. Actually understanding why an agent is failing (when it does) takes knowledge of the problem space. Actually guiding that feedback loop so it optimally handles tasks - segmenting work and composing agentic cores to focus on the right things with the right priority of decision making - that's something you need to be curious about the internals for. Engineering, basically.

One thing I've seen in using these models to create code is that they're myopic and shortsighted - they do whatever it takes to fix the problem right in front of them when asked. This causes a cascading failure mode where the code is a patchwork of one-off fixes and hardcoded solutions for problems that not only recur, they get exponentially worse as they compound. You'd only know this if you could spot it when the model says something like "I see the problem, this server configuration is blocking port 80 and that's blocking my test probes. Let me open that port in the firewall".
by Timon3 | 2026-01-27 17:59:54+00:00
> I said "If they only deleted comments from comments on the left, I think the sub would still be representative, maybe less so, but still so."

Exactly, do you not see the logical contradiction? As we both agree, they currently delete comments from both "the left" and dissenting conservatives. The only change in your proposed scenario is that they stop deleting comments from dissenting conservatives. How can the sub be less representative in that scenario?

> Now, a third time, let me ask you again: Do you think any subs are representative of conservatives?

I have no idea! I haven't spent any time looking at other conservative subs than the two you mentioned. How should I know?

> Do you think all the numerous people defending the murder of Renee Good and defending ICE were bots?

No?

> What about X, or Gab, where it's easy to find mass opinions mirroring those subs?

No?

> Where is the conservative home on the internet where everyone is against what is happening?

I have no idea, why are you asking me like I should know?

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I get the very strong impression that you think I'm trying to make some bigger argument about the opinions present in the current conservative movement in the US. I am not. All I'm saying is: the community you're pointing at is objectively not representative of the opinions of its users because it's heavily moderated and propagandized.

By arguing that it still is representative, you're legitimizing this propaganda.
by vikingerik | 2026-01-27 18:00:10+00:00
Self checkout is fine, if the happy path works. If everything scans once and doesn't accidentally scan a second time, if everything scans at the price you thought it was posted for, if you don't have any controlled substances requiring approval, if the weight sensor doesn't freak out incorrectly or from putting your bags on it, if it accepts any coupons you have, if it accepts and processes your payment method correctly.

If everything goes fine, self checkout is fine. But the exception handling process for any of those is thoroughly aggravating, as you wait and try to get the attention of the one overworked attendant dealing with a dozen of these machines constantly throwing exceptions, as the computer screams at you for whatever it thought you were doing wrong.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-27 18:00:24+00:00
> or did you think I was talking to you personally?

You wrote,

> May I kindly ask you to calm the fuck down?

So yes, a reasonable person would conclude that you were talking to them.

> I just see a lot of comments from people who just seem happy to see that they can contribute to ruining someone else's day (or more).

Which comments do you see doing that? Exactly?
by tastyface | 2026-01-27 18:00:46+00:00
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/01/26/ice...

"The despondent faces and screaming, wailing and pleading from these men, women and children in cells will forever haunt me. But perhaps more haunting still was the sound of agents nearby laughing."

Yes, very not Nazi. And the press is not the reason people in Minneapolis are livid and putting their lives on the line, out in the freezing cold. Instead of getting angrier and angrier as these "useful idiots" continue to do so all across the country and in ever greater numbers, maybe take the chance to revisit your priors and pull yourself out of whatever dark propaganda pit you're in.