MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: I have no interest in being tracked
by nsaciafbi | 2026-01-07 10:20:05+00:00
I just got blocked from commenting on a thread because my account is new.

HN can make up whatever rules they want to in order to attempt to have a normal forum community. I will not dispute that.

However, the following things about this rule make it a hostile community to me:

1. To be an established user on HN,
I must be tracked easily on HN by any user on HN. Anyone and anything must be able to go into my history of comments to see whether I’m a XXX, and therefore should be tried as a XXX and executed under whatever new law will be that allows my country’s dictator to decide that is appropriate. People depend on me, so there is more than personal cost of my life at stake. Therefore, I cannot allow this.

2. If I do not want to be tracked, then I must be mostly silenced. I comment on some thread perhaps, or wait a long time to comment. This does not take away my right to free speech as long as I want to be easily tracked by literally anyone or anything on the internet easily. See (1).
by watwut | 2026-01-07 10:20:44+00:00
> Even if they didn't, everyone walked more, or rode horses, chopped wood, drew water from wells, and did a hundred other things that required using their muscles in a way that's just not necessary today.

None of that will bulk you like weight lifting nor is similar to weight lifting. Those guys were smaller. By our standards, they would do a lot of low resistance repetition, basically.

> That's weight lifting too. Bodyweight is still weight.

I mean, you are stretching the definition of weight lifting to unrecognizable. Climbing is not weight lifting anymore then walking is running.
by BiteCode_dev | 2026-01-07 10:20:48+00:00
At the begining of the project, the runs are fast, but as the project gets bigger, the runs are slower:

- there are bigger contexts

- the test suite is much longer and slower

- you need to split worktree, resources (like db, ports) and sometimes containers to work in isolation

So having 10 workers will run for a long time. Which give plenty of time to write good spec.

You need good spec, so the llm produce good tests, so it can write good code to match these tests.

Having a very strong spec + test suite + quality gates (linter, type checkers, etc) is the only way to get good results from an LLM as the project become more complex.

Unlike a human, it's not very good at isolating complexity by itself, nor stopping and asking question in the face of ambiguity. So the guardrails are the only thing that keeps it on track.

And running a lot of guardrail takes time.

E.G: yesterday I had a big migration to do from HTMX to viewjs, I asked the LLM to produce screenshots of each state, and then do the migration in steps in a way that kept the screenshit 90% identical.

This way I knew it would not break the design.

But it's very long to run e2e tests + screenshot comparison every time you do a modification. Still faster than a human, but it gives plenty of time to talk to another llm.

Plus you can assign them very different task:

- One work on adding a new feature

- One improves the design

- One refactor part of the code (it's something you should do regularly, LLM produce tech debt quickly)

- One add more test to your test suite

- One is deploying on a new server

- One is analyzing the logs of your dev/test/prod server and tell you what's up

- One is cooking up a new logo for you and generating x versions at different resolutions.

Etc.

It's basically a small team at your disposal.
by lukan | 2026-01-07 10:21:05+00:00
Yeah, I have high hopes for Vello to take off. I could throw away lots of hacks and caching and whatnot if I could do fast vector rendering reliable on the GPU.

I think Rive also does vector rendering on the GPU

https://rive.app/renderer

But it is not really meant (yet?) as a general graphics libary, but just a renderer for the rive design tools.
by masswerk | 2026-01-07 10:21:37+00:00
Notably, Dave Nutting Associates (Bushnell's former employer, who also distributed Computer Space) had played around with an Intel 4004 in 1974 and then demonstrated (to Bally) a CPU based system with a frame buffer in September, which evolved into the Intel 8080-based board that ran Midway's Gun Fight. Atari would have probably been aware of this (Nutting Associates had filed a patent.) So, something along the lines of Intel 4004 or 8080 machine code, maybe M6800.
by elbci | 2026-01-07 10:21:42+00:00
oh so now the word genocide is "devalued"... Since we're doing mental gymnastics, does "antisemite" still means hating perpetrators of genocide? How about holowcause, did it change from 'events long ago' to 'ongoing genocide whitewashing buzzword'?
And on a serious note: when did the genocide, ahem "war" ended? I've seen the "truce" PR stunt but the killing and starving in Gaza (and West Bank, and all over..) is still going on unabated
by lm28469 | 2026-01-07 10:21:49+00:00
> No, there are very few markets in which all of the buyers have perfect information.

This is solved by 5 minute of searches on the web in 99% of cases really. I never in my life bought something because I've seen an ad about it, meanwhile I solved countless of my problems by thinking about the issue and looking for a solution online or talking to people about it
by UnreachableCode | 2026-01-07 10:22:18+00:00
While on the subject, does anybody know any good ad-blocking solutions for mobile phones?

So far I have experimented with NetShield from ProtonVPN and https://nextdns.io/ with varying results. There are also features baked into certain browsers like the cookie blocker with DuckDuckGo which works extremely well, and UnTrap for Safari on iOS which allows for heavy Youtube web customisation.

Also, shout out to Playlet on Roku. A privacy focused YouTube proxy for the TV which blocks ads and even can identify sponsors, filler and credit segments and allow you to skip these.

I am not involved in any of these projects, I just think they're cool.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-07 10:23:18+00:00
I know/knew people who marched first in the CR and then in the antiVW movement.

One important piece of advice from their experiences: have plenty of people during your peaceful demonstration who are ready, willing, and able to eject provocateurs from your midst.

A related lesson from Airstrip One: just because someone is sleeping with you doesn't mean they're not an informant. Of course, if all you're doing is peacefully demonstrating, as you should be, even if they're looking for dirt as hard as they can, you can still screw their brains out with a clean conscience.

MLK sermon on nonviolent resistance: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/dra...

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c
by INTPenis | 2026-01-07 10:24:48+00:00
I'm a late comer to AI but I started using Gemini in June 2025.

Then in december I heard from my co-workers that they were liking Claude better than any other model, and from others online, so I bought myself some Claude for xmas. And I could clearly see that it was better, right away.

That's all I know, only one model to compare with, but the difference was definitely tangible.
by Balinares | 2026-01-07 10:26:09+00:00
Exactly. The main issue IMO is that "software that seems to work" and "software that works" can be very hard to tell apart without validating the code, yet these are drastically different in terms of long-term outcomes. Especially when there's a lot of money, or even lives, riding on these outcomes. Just because LLMs can write software to run the Therac-25 doesn't mean it's acceptable for them to do so.

Your hobby project, though, knock yourself out.
by alfonsodev | 2026-01-07 10:26:15+00:00
At the risk of sounding stupid, I’ve noticed my mom’s house smell has changed a lot in the last year and is stronger in her room and bathroom, coincidentally or not, since she has started showing mild dementia symptoms and has been diagnosed with vascular dementia. She feels extremely tired despite standard blood test markers being OK.

The smell could have simple explanations, like she forgets to ventilate the room, or her hygiene is not as good as before, since she has become more avoidant of any discomfort, but we are helping her with the hygiene part at least, the ventilation is harder because she complains about cold, and refuses to leave the room. Also to me, it is a different smell from what would be poor ventilation and from what would be lack of hygiene, but I can’t point out what it is. I'm usually very good detecting when a room has not been ventilated, I just feel I breath worse and can't focus as well, I'm annoying to other people that doesn't want to open the window.

She spends most of the time in bed, her body is telling her to sleep much more than before, and she has become very stubborn about getting out of the house, going to the dentist, etc. Since she is very intelligent and still has the verbal ability to make you believe she will do it as soon as she feels better and that will be soon, the reality is that months are passing by and that is not happening.

I wonder if anyone could recommend an affordable but effective air quality device, mold testing kits (if such a thing exists), or what targeted blood tests can be done. Also, if there are tests to fine grain the diagnosis of vascular dementia, to know if there is accumulation of proteins in the brain, or what is the origin of the issue.

She is 79 years old, perhaps there is nothing to do, but somehow I feel the environment of the house has something toxic in it, I even thought about electromagnetic fields, but I really don’t know where to start.

Edit: We live in Spain, her doctor feedback is that her blood tests are great for her age, and we didn't have much info about the vascular dementia situation somehow has been implied that is normal in her age.
by cheschire | 2026-01-07 10:27:23+00:00
Seriously. There are so many opportunities to give back to society. One does not need formal employment to be fulfilled.

I will say in Sergey Brin’s case, he had the unique opportunity to go back to work with the best and brightest without any friction, and nobody could tell him “hey maybe your credentials don’t quite stack up high enough for this department yeah?”

But for the rest of us, there’s FOSS, there’s computer repair, home automation, day trading a small fraction of your wealth, volunteer work at hospitals and libraries, gig work apps like taskrabbit…

If you are bored after being away from work for even a month, I’m not sure I could be friends with you.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-07 10:27:50+00:00
> ... wouldn't "progressive retirement" make much more sense ?

Of course it does. I've seen it in my parents' generation: many wanted to reach retirement do "do nothing" and, well, they just lost their marbles. Doing nothing is neither good for the body, nor for the mind. Endless TV watching or endless pina colada drinking in the pool (or both at the same time): idleness brings absolutely nothing good.

But my parents' friends who kept working a bit (like my godmother who kept supervising her real estate agency): she stayed sharp and fit.

People think they're going to read and do exercice etc. but truth is: most are going to do jack absolutely shit. And turn to the latter.

So keeping partially active is the best thing possible.

I see it with my mother-in-law: 70 y/o, still working, daily, with my wife (they own a little SME). It keeps her in the loop: she still knows how to use a computer, her mind is quick. She's not idling.

The financial aspect of it all is something else: but people doing nothing is not what a society needs.
by vemv | 2026-01-07 10:28:18+00:00
How has Claude Code (as a CLI tool, not the backing models) evolved over the last year?

For me it's practically the same, except for features that I don't need, don't work that well and are context-hungry.

Meanwhile, Claude Code still doesn't know how to jump to a dependency (library's) source to obtain factual information about it. Which is actually quite easy by hand (normally it's cd'ing into a directory or unzipping some file).

So, this wasteful workflow only resulted in vibecoded, non-core features while at the domain level, Claude Code remains overly agnostic if not stupid.
by throw-qqqqq | 2026-01-07 10:28:19+00:00
This is also my sentiment.

I am saving up to retire early. If I mention this to friends, most look at me with big eyes and ask “But what will you spend your day on then!?” in a sceptical tone.

I imagine they think I want to drink beers and play golf all day every day, or something like that.

I’m a bit heart broken, that so many of my friends cannot imagine being masters of their own time, without thinking it would be bad for them and/or unproductive.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-07 10:28:23+00:00
I don’t fully disagree but why do these people have to insist that if Europe cuts off from the U.S., the largest economy in the world, it must instead then submit to Russia, a mediocre petrostate economy that doesn’t make the top 10 whose military expertise turns out to be not worth a damn?

I find it funny that the person says to have not possibly ceded Greenland to the U.S. sometime in the future, Europe should have ceded Ukraine to Russia over a decade ago…How would that have made Europe look any stronger?
by lm28469 | 2026-01-07 10:28:55+00:00
Man if hiccups are a "legitimate problem" then indeed we are fucked... let's pollute everything irl and on the web with ads to solve these "problems"... where do we draw the line ? Because it sounds like we'll have an infinite amount of problems and we certainly don't have an infinite amount of resources

btw you can also try looking for solutions on your own, like going to a doctor, searching online ? type "hiccups solution" online and hiccaway is on the front page.
Show HN: Tickk.app – Local-only voice braindumps → tasks (no AI, no cloud)
by digi_wares | 2026-01-07 10:28:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Tickk.app to solve a personal problem: I think much faster than I can type, and most “productivity” apps either slow me down or push everything to the cloud.

Tickk lets you speak messy thoughts or braindumps and turns them into structured tasks and notes using lightweight NLP — all entirely in the browser.

There’s:

no AI (please don't expect LLM level outputs)
no cloud
no accounts
no data leaving your device

Everything is stored in localStorage.

This started as a small experiment for myself (especially helpful for ADHD-style racing thoughts), but I figured others here might find the approach interesting — particularly the choice to stay local-only instead of using LLMs.

I’m curious:

Does local-first still matter to people?

What would make a tool like this genuinely useful long-term?

Thanks for checking it out- feedback very welcome.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-07 10:29:12+00:00
> I think your logic goes wrong because you assume that more productivity implies less desire for engineers.

Yes, this is the central fallacy. The reality is, we've been massively bottlenecked on software productivity ever since the concept of software existed. Only a tiny tiny fraction of all the software that could usefully be written has been. The limitation has always been the pool of developers that could do the work and the friction in getting those people to be able to do it.

What it is confounded by however is the short term effect which I think is absolutely drying up the market for new junior software devs. It's going to take a while for this to work through.
by llmslave2 | 2026-01-07 10:30:53+00:00
You can do it multiple ways. Like in go:

cloj := func() {
val := 1
return func(m string) {
switch m {
case "inc": val = val + 1
case "dec": val = val - 1
}
}
} ()

cloj("inc")

In JS you can close upon state and return an object, which is essentially how classes work in the language.

let cloj = (() => {
let x = 0; return { inc: () => x++, dec: () => x-- }
})()
cloj.inc()
by igorpcosta | 2026-01-07 10:31:31+00:00
Most coding CLIs I've seen lock you into one provider or requires you to bypass by changing BASE_URL and has a lot of conflict. That works fine if you're committed to one vendor for coding cli harness, but it breaks down when you want to run local models, test different providers, or avoid API costs entirely.
So we tried a different approach. Instead of hardcoding a provider, Autohand code lets you swap between OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, llama.cpp, and MLX from the same codebase. Switch models mid-conversation if you want.
High level, the design optimizes for three things:

Machine orchestration: stateless execution, structured outputs, designed for CI/CD and batch runs, not just interactive use
Auto mode: autohand -p "fix the tests" --yes --auto-commit runs the full task without prompts. Three permission levels plus granular command whitelist/blacklist
Skills system: modular instruction packages that activate on demand. Run --auto-skill and it generates skills tailored to your project

One thing that's been surprisingly useful: because it's provider-agnostic, you can prototype with a fast cheap model, then swap to something heavier for the actual run. No code changes, just config.
It's TypeScript + Bun, 40+ tools (file ops, full git, semantic search, multi-file edits), sessions persist and resume.
by unnah | 2026-01-07 10:31:32+00:00
Perhaps the most comparable 1990s system would be the SGI Origin 2800 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000) with 128 processors in a single shared-memory multiprocessing system. The full system took up nine racks. The successor SGI Origin 3800 was available with up to 512 processors in 2002.
by Latitude7973 | 2026-01-07 10:32:17+00:00
I just got the XT-5 too - not for the form but because the feature set is so good. However, I don't get this obsession on centred viewfinders - they could be anywhere on the camera body now they are digital; they may as well be on the left side where my nose isn't going to be smudging the screen.

The camera is fantastic, though.
by WoWSaaS | 2026-01-07 10:32:33+00:00
I’ve been building an experiment around treating marketing as software infrastructure rather than a loose stack of tools.

The core product is Vect AI, a marketing operating system designed to unify campaign planning, content execution, SEO, and analysis into a single system. Instead of switching between multiple SaaS tools, the goal was to centralize execution and reduce context loss.
Platform: https://vect.pro

Alongside this, I built The Vect Growth Engine, a blog designed not as a passive content site but as an active SEO and distribution layer that connects directly to product workflows. The idea was to turn long-form content into a programmable growth surface rather than just traffic generation.
Blog: https://blog.vect.pro

Some principles behind the build:

A unified marketing OS instead of fragmented marketing tools

SEO content that compounds and feeds directly into product usage

Stateful AI workflows that retain context across campaigns

Emphasis on execution and distribution over analytics dashboards

This started as a personal attempt to simplify my own marketing workflow, but it’s become an ongoing exploration of how AI, SEO, and product-led growth can work together inside one cohesive system.

Sharing this here to exchange learnings with others building AI-driven SaaS, growth infrastructure, or content-powered products.
by fennecbutt | 2026-01-07 10:33:40+00:00
What's wrong with the wakeword stuff?

Great timing as I was looking into it yesterday as was thinking about writing my own set of agents to run house stuff. I don't want to spent loads of time on voice interaction so HA wakeword stuff would've been useful. If not I'll bypass HA for voice and really only use HA via mcp.

I can do fw dev for micros...but omg do I not want to spend the time looking thru a datasheet and getting something to run efficiently myself these days.
by cheschire | 2026-01-07 10:34:23+00:00
I’ve been thinking, what if all this robotics work doesn’t result in AI automating the real world, but instead results in third world slavery without the first world wages or immigration concerns anymore?

Connect the world with reliable internet, then build a high tech remote control facility in Bangladesh and outsource plumbing, electrical work, housekeeping, dog watching, truck driving, etc etc

No AGI necessary. There’s billions of perfectly capable brains halfway around the world.
by emsign | 2026-01-07 10:34:50+00:00
The worst part about this is that you can't know anymore whether the software you trustingly install on your hardware is clean or if it was coded by a misaligned coding model with a secret goal that it has hidden from its prompt engineer and from you.

This could pretty much be the beginning of the end of everything, if misaligned models wanted to they could install killswitches everywhere. And you can't trust security updates either so you are even more vulnerable to external exploits.

It's really scary, I fear the future, it's going to be so bad. It's best to not touch AI at all and stay hidden from it as long as possible to survive the catastrophe or not be a helping part of it. Don't turn your devices into a node of a clandestine bot net that is only waiting to conspire against us.
by pnt12 | 2026-01-07 10:35:27+00:00
From the first sentences, it looks like a 0.1x value. Discrediting the expanded hacker concept just because, criticizing its non-pc language, shaming on the small imoralities (in an industry full of life ruining unethical practices). The list goes on, and I didn't read everything!

In practice, that prompt gets chatgpt role-playing as industry professionals: who knows if it's near or far from the real deal.

Also, reading long texts is good for comprehension. You don't learn with reading summaries, you learn with repetition and even further if write your own summaries.
by myk9001 | 2026-01-07 10:35:29+00:00
Where is more than 50% coming from? If you aren't married your effective tax rate is at 42% (tax plus social deductions which aren't technically taxes).

Tons of tax calculators available online, see for yourself.

> you never cook yourself?

I do cook but it's not like groceries are free. And what about saving for an emergency fund, a downpayment, a vacation, a new PC, laptop, phone. Or, god forbid, a car?

Do you feel safe and stress-free paying 51% of your take home comp just for rent? And keep in mind, 80K eur is top 1-5% salary.

The overwhelming majority doesn't make that much.
by kingkongjaffa | 2026-01-07 10:35:43+00:00
The amount of people holding strong opinions on LLMs who openly admit they have not tried the state of the art tools is so high on Hacker news right now, that it's refreshing to get actual updates from the tool's creators.

I read a comment yesterday that said something like "many people tried LLMs early on, it was kind of janky and so they gave up, thinking LLMs are bad". They were probably right at the time, but the tech _has_ improved since then, while those opinions have not changed much.

So, yes claude code and sonnet/opus 4.5 is another step change that you should try out. For $20/month you can run claude code in the terminal and regular claude on the web app.
by punnerud | 2026-01-07 10:36:14+00:00
Been using exactly this setup for a year now, works great.
Have to be on the same WiFi to install from Xcode to iPhone. There is a “workaround” having it deploy to TestFlight, but it’s slow.
Looking for a way to forward mDNS over VPN, to bad iPhone/Tailscale don’t support it. Only possibility I found is to have a separate mobile router that support forwarding mDNS.