MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sergiotapia | 2026-01-26 21:54:43+00:00
I can only speak for my work. We tried for a few months to use Retool and N8n but the calculus just wasn't there when I could spin up internal dashboard tools in less time with better functionality and less work. It was truly a win/win/win all around.

Things I built for internal use pretty quickly:

- Patient matcher
- Great UX crud for some tables
- Fax tool
- Referral tool
- Interactive suite of tools to use with Ashby API

I don't think these nocode tools have much of a future. Even using the nocode tool's version of "AI" was just the AI trying to finagle the nocode's featureset to get where I needed it to be. Failing most of the time.

Much easier to just have a Claude Code build it all out for real.
by gyanchawdhary | 2026-01-26 21:54:46+00:00
Checkout https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/02/google-acquires-synergyse-... ..

Google acquired these guys back in 2016 to help users learn how to use Google cloud products via interactive tutorials using a step by step guidance / walkthrough (the user had to install a chrome extension)

One of the best use cases would be edtech … think of interactive labs where your product can guide learners / students to complete a task and hand hold them ..
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 21:54:47+00:00
Huh...

If people are getting this for free or even as an offering with chatgpt consideirng it becomes subsidized too. Lowend providers are a little in threat with their 7$/year deals if Chatgpt provides 56 cores for free. this doesn't seem right to provide so many cores for (free??)

Are you running this in your free account as you mention in blog post simon or in your paid account?
by nurettin | 2026-01-26 21:54:52+00:00
I mean, maybe they should have started simple and slowly iterated.

project 1: build a text based browser using ratatui and quickjs.

project 2: base it on project 1. convert to gui, pages should render pure html.

project 3: acid1 compliance. Use constraint based programming to output final render, no animation support.

etc etc.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-26 21:54:52+00:00
Okay, so barring deliberate stupidity, then.

You cannot burst an automotive propane tank, no matter how you might try. You could probably drill a hole in it with a decent drill bit (it's thick steel) or cut it open with an angle grinder, or even gas axe your way in.

But, as I say, deliberate stupidity aside, it's not just going to burst on you.
by retired | 2026-01-26 21:54:56+00:00
Around 3% of the population does not have access to drinkable tap water?

As a European that has to filter all his water, and with family in Europa that has to cook water every day, that is a statistic to be proud of! I don’t know the numbers over here but I bet it is a lot more than 3%.

In Amsterdam it’s around 13% of households that have lead pipes.
by akurilin | 2026-01-26 21:55:03+00:00
So hard to say an abstract without knowing more. I always wonder if this is something you can fix through process and habits, or if this is something you just need to feel intensely first, and only then will the right behaviors will emerge.

For example, if you're feeling comfortable and handsomely compensated at your current job, and you have the sense of security that you'll keep being hired forever, why would you burn the midnight oil and go the extra mile? Is your lifestyle going to change at all if you get to that next level? You might work longer hours, experience more anxiety and stress, and get barely any upside in return.

My hunch is that the human brain is efficient. It won't make you work any harder than you need to if you have obtained the thing you already want.

Maybe the real question here is whether you truly desire to be this aspirational high-performer, or if that's an idea you're romanticizing, something you feel you should aspire to, but you don't genuinely crave it. You end up fighting between the idealized you and the practical you. Which may explain why you're burning out and losing steam eventually, you can only force yourself to do something you don't feel like doing for so long before the body rebels.
by vineyardmike | 2026-01-26 21:55:06+00:00
The costs of Netflix and Spotify are licensing. Offering the subscription at half price to additional users is non-cannibalizing and a way to get more revenue from the same content.

The cost of LLMs are the infrastructure. Unless someone can buy/power/run compute cheaper (Google w/ TPUs, locales with cheap electricity, etc), there won't be a meaningful difference in costs.
by tristor | 2026-01-26 21:56:21+00:00
This is the most accurate comment in response to this article. I pretty much have discovered exactly the same thing over a more than 20 year career across multiple startups that had successful exits. The absolutely most important traits are accountability, honesty, and willingness to learn, if you have these three traits you will be one of the best people on your team regardless of what you do. I have these traits, and it's been why I've been successful in /many/ different kinds of roles over the years, because I am willing to be honest about what I don't know, listen and learn, and hold myself accountable for both successes and failures, and when I commit to do something I actually do it.

Unfortunately, as you said, this is pretty rare.
by godelski | 2026-01-26 21:56:25+00:00
I think that's the advice I take from this article and other similar ones.

In most jobs there's going to be some learning that needs to happen on the job. You want the people who will go out and make this happen. It's hard to tell that from credentials because you can't differentiate those who just did what someone else told them from someone who was able to find the underlying challenges and address them themselves.

I think you're right that hunger is the biggest indicator. People that are willing to go into the unknown. People who can identify problems. People who have drive.

I also think it means one of the most important roles of an effective manager is to help maintain the team's drive. If they're just doing it for the paycheck then you'll get exactly that. The work will probably be fine but you won't hire the best. If your whole team is burnt out then it's a systematic failure. It's easy to get caught in the push but a hungry manager needs to make their team hungry, rather than just push them to the finish line. People with their heads in the weeds will find things you never could when you have to look at the entire field.
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-01-26 21:57:00+00:00
> Windows dlls are forward compatible in that sense.

If you want to go to such level, ELF is also forward compatible in that sense.

This is completely irrelevant, because what the developer is going to see is the binaries he builts in XP SP3 no longer work in XP SP2 because of a link error: the _statically linked_ runtime is going to call symbols that are not in XP SP2 DLLs.

> If you use the Linux kernel directly, it is forward compatible in that sense.

Actually not, because ELF has a minimum kernel version required, which is going to be set to the recent version even if you do not use any newer feature. (unless you play with the toolchain) (PE has similar field too).

> And, of course, there is no issue at all with statically linked code.

Statically linked code is precisely the root of all these problems.
by davidpolberger | 2026-01-26 21:58:01+00:00
I'm the co-founder of Calcapp, an app builder for formula-driven apps, and I recently received an email from a customer ending their subscription. They said they appreciated being able to kick the tires with Calcapp, but had now fully moved to an AI-based platform. So we're seeing this reality play out in real time.

The next generation of Calcapp probably won't ship with a built-in LLM agent. Instead, it will expose all functionality via MCP (or whatever protocol replaces it in a few years). My bet is that users will bring their own agents -- agents that already have visibility into all their services and apps.

I hope Calcapp has a bright future. At the same time, we're hedging by turning its formula engine into a developer-focused library and SaaS. I'm now working full-time on this new product and will do a Show HN once we're further along. It's been refreshing to work on something different after many years on an end-user-focused product.

I do think there will still be a place for no-code and low-code tools. As others have noted, guardrails aren't necessarily a bad thing -- they can constrain LLMs in useful ways. I also suspect many "citizen developers" won't be comfortable with LLMs generating code they don't understand. With no-code and low-code, you can usually see and reason about everything the system is doing, and tweak it yourself. At least for now, that's a real advantage.
by segmondy | 2026-01-26 21:58:09+00:00
If you give LLM a hammer everything looks like a nail, you give it a saw everything looks like wood. You ask LLM to find issues, it will find "issues" At the end of the day, you will have to fix those issues, if you decide to have another LLM fix those issues, by the time you are done with that cycle, you are going to end up with code that will be thoroughly over engineered.
by supern0va | 2026-01-26 21:58:09+00:00
It's possible to separate out these tasks such that no single person or group has every needed piece of the puzzle.

The Carthusian monks who produce Chartreuse (a collection of herbal liqueurs popular for use in cocktails) have been producing it and protecting the secret 130 ingredient recipe for over 400 years successfully. At any given time no more than three of the monks hold the entire recipe, and yet they have a company they have formed to execute most of the production without the secret being leaked.

The designated monks coordinate production and are involved in QC, as well as developing new blends for special releases, but much production is done by paid employees who do not know the complete recipe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur)
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-26 21:58:10+00:00
> Check out a fundamentalist Christian textbook sometime

I was raised by a hyper abusive boxer-turned-Catholic deacon and forced to be involved in the Church. I've read the Bible front to back, we don't even need to get into Fundamentalists to find insane cult behavior. I was kicked out and left on the street, homeless, because I refused to undergo Catholic confirmation at age 15. It has affected my entire life.
by tick_tock_tick | 2026-01-26 21:58:23+00:00
The whole point is the USA has been complaining that the EU was/is reducing itself to a vassal. No matter what the USA said or did before they didn't seem to care that they had no power anymore because the USA was there to take care of them.

The EU can't realign itself with China because that would destroy the last fragile bits of the EU economy that are left. They are already having issues with the excess supply lands on their shores even since the USA started tariffs with China. They can't deal with this long term.
by santadays | 2026-01-26 21:58:35+00:00
That is a good point. It is impressive. Llms from two years ago were impressive, llms a year ago were impressive, and from a month ago even more impressive.

Still, getting "something" to compile after a week of work is very different from getting the thing you wanted.

What is being sold, and invested in, is the promise that LLMs can accomplish "large things" unaided.

But they can't, as of yet, they cannot, unless something is happening in one of the SOTA labs that we don't know about.

They can however accomplish small things unaided. However there is an upper bound, at least functionally.

I just wish everyone was on the same page about their abilities and their limitations.

To me they understand conext well (e.g. the task, build a browser doesn't need some huge specification because specifications already exist).

They can write code competently (this is my experience anyway)

They can accomplish small tasks (my experience again, "small" is a really loose definition I know)

They cannot understand context that doesn't exist (they can't magically know what you mean, but they can bring to bear considerable knowledge of pre-existing work and conventions that helps them make good assumptions and the agentic loop prompts them to ask for clarification when needed)

They cannot accomplish large tasks (again my experience)

It seems to me there is something akin to the context window into which a task can fit. They have this compact feature which I suspect is where this limitation lies. Ie a person can't hold an entire browser codebase in their head, but they can create a general top level mapping of the whole thing so they can know where to reach, where areas of improvement are necessary, how things fit together and what has been and what hasn't been implemented. I suspect this compaction doesn't work super well for agents because it is a best effort tacked on feature.

I say all this speculatively, and I am genuinely interested in whether this next level of capability is possible. To me it could go either way.
by Muromec | 2026-01-26 21:58:40+00:00
>Obviously we don't have that. But what stops an open firmware (or even open hardware) GSM modem being built?

The same thing that stops you from living on a sea platform as a sovereign citizen or paying for your groceries with bitcoin. Technically you can, but practically you don't.

If you want to sell it commercially, you can opensource all you want, but the debug interface and bootloader integrity would have to be closed shut for production batch.

At best, you can do what the other comment refers to -- instead of using the baseband as a source of root of trust, make it work like wifi modules. This of course comes at a cost of having a separate SoC. Early motorola smartphones (EZX series) did that -- Linux part talked to the gsm part literally over usb. It came with all kinds of fun, including sound being khmm... complicated. I don't remember whether they shared the RAM zo. You don't want to share you RAM with a funny blob without reading fine print about who sets up the mappings, right?

Figuring out all of that costs money and money have to come from somewhere, which means you also have to resist the pressure to not become part of the problem. And then the product that comes out is 5 years too late for the spec and 1.5 times too expensive for the vague promise of "trust me bro, I will only blow the e-fuse to fix actual CVEs".
by nitwit005 | 2026-01-26 21:58:42+00:00
> Everyone needs to care about the Product

> A few times in my career as a developer, I wondered, “Who is this feature even for? Who will use it?” No one on my team knew. We were doing it because we were told to. Morale was low. We felt we were working on things that didn’t matter - and we were. Eventually, our team disbanded, and engineers scattered across other projects.

There's no way they had no idea what it was for. They thought the idea was dumb, and they wanted off a sinking ship.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 21:59:38+00:00
We are gonna have YOLO agents who will deploy directly to website (technically exe.dev already does that for me when I ask it to generate golang projects lol)

Honestly I felt like it really bores me or (overwhelms?) me because now I feel like okay now I will do this, then that and then that & drastically expand the scope of the project but that comes with its own fatigue and the limits of free tokens or context with exe.dev so I end up publishing it on git provider, git ingest it paste it in web browser gemini ask it for updates (it has 1 million context) and then paste it with Opencode with an openrouter devstral key.

I used this workflow to drastically improve the UI of a project but like I would consider that aside from some tinkering, I felt like the "fun" of a project definitely got reduced.

It was always fun for me to use LLM's as I was in loop (Didn't use agents, copy paste workflow from web) but now agents kind of replicated that too & have gotten (I must admit) pretty good at it.

I don't know man, any thoughts on how to make such things fun again? When LLM's first came or even before using agents like this with just creating single scripts, It was fun to use them but creating whole projects with huge scope feels very fun sucking imo.
by atombender | 2026-01-26 22:00:11+00:00
It's a myth that Coca-Cola is a closely held secret, though. Any food flavoring specialist can reconstruct the flavor of Coke almost exactly.

A few years ago I (not a specialist!) made lots of batches of OpenCola, which is based partly on the original Pemberton recipe, and it comes so close that nobody could realistically tell the difference. If anything, it tastes better, because I imagine Coke doesn't use fresh, expensive essential oils (like neroli) for everything.

The tricky piece that nobody else can do is the caffeine derived from coca leaves. Only Coke has the license to do this, and from what I gather, a tiny, tiny bit of the flavour does come from that.
by mrDmrTmrJ | 2026-01-26 22:00:29+00:00
The UV light source that ASML uses for its lithography machine is technology that was acquired in the 2013 acquisition of San Diego-based Cymber. The tech stack for the advanced light source dates back to the "EUV LLC Initiative," led by DARPA in the mid-1990s.

US origins of the key technology here give the US a veto here regardless of ASML's Dutch headquarters.
by RyanHamilton | 2026-01-26 22:00:42+00:00
Very correct! Why internal dashboards keep getting rebuild:
https://www.timestored.com/pulse/why-internal-dashboards-get...
It took me a few years to home in on the exact idea you've captured and I work in this exact area. There's a middle layer between UI team and notebook experiments that isn't worth companies building themselves.
by storystarling | 2026-01-26 22:01:05+00:00
I'm curious if the 16ms budget is actually driven by the token stream here. Even with the fastest providers right now, you are looking at maybe 100-150 tokens per second. That is orders of magnitude below the 30MB/s terminal parsing limit mentioned in the article.

Unless I am missing something about how they handle the diffs, the bottleneck is surely the inference latency and not the render loop. It seems like a lot of architectural complexity for a data stream that is inherently slow.
by gunalx | 2026-01-26 22:01:12+00:00
This is the Max series models with unreleased weights, so probably larger than the largest released one. Also when refering to models, use huggingface or modelscope (wherever it is published) ollama is a really poor source on model info. they have some some bad naming (like confusing people on the deepseek R1 models), renaming, and more on model names, and they default to q4 quants, witch is a good sweet-spot but really degrades performance compared to the raw weigths.
Show HN: AI Native Reading Companion
by GunnhildurF24 | 2026-01-26 22:01:21+00:00
What would reading look like if it were designed around how people actually learn?

I got tired of all the AI study tools that actually just take the cognitive work of studying or reading away from you, instead of building up your own brain. Reading today is also just not the best experience as you forget so much of what you read.

I built Mimir, (readmimir.com), an interactive immersive reader that let's you upload any book/text, read in immersive reading with TTS, active recall, in-margin notes, ask-ai tutor, and automatically creates spaced repetition notes from your notes and answers.

Mimir is currently free, I would love your feedback!!

(more importantly, we're designing some social features - like sharing your margin notes with friends or followers, allowing "community notes" to posted essays, doing reading groups with friends etc!, and if you have ideas for that, i'd love to hear!!)
by promptfluid | 2026-01-26 22:01:32+00:00
For anyone curious about what I mean by “substrate” in this context - this isn’t an agent framework or wrapper around a single LLM.

CMPSBL is operating more like a cognitive OS: it provides persistence (memory), observability, defense, multi-model routing, and a self-improvement cycle for AI systems.

The goal isn’t clever chat output; it’s continuity, coordination, and the ability for a system to reflect on its own performance and update itself over time.

The v5.5.0 drop includes the full technical docs + module specs + validation methodology + runtime evidence.

If you want to audit how the substrate works or decide if this class of architecture makes sense, that’s the best place to start.

Main intended use cases today are:

– research labs
– cognitive infrastructure work
– autonomous systems R&D
– embedded AI runtime projects
– multi-model coordination
– memory-centric applications

Open to licensing discussions with research groups and R&D labs.
by mindslight | 2026-01-26 22:01:33+00:00
> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Yes, this is exactly what my framing was doing - it is more substantive, positing a starting point for people who earnestly want to solve this problem. How the heck do we save, or at least triage, our country when we've got a hostile federal executive trying to start a civil war (among many other types of overt damage) ?

This conversation is open to people of all political persuasions except Trumpists/fascists (or whatever you want to call yourself). I myself am coming from more of a libertarian / Austrian economics background. I can have some wildly different takes on constructive solutions than someone who is a lifelong Democrat, or a conservative who has been pushed out of the Republican party.

The thing you seem to keep missing is that you were not invited to this conversation - or more accurately you've self-selected out. You could choose to join the conversation at any time, but to do this you need to stop throwing out these disruptive upside-down framings that are basically just promulgating the rogue regime's unapologetic litany of bullshit that's trotted out every time they kill another American.
by nhinck2 | 2026-01-26 22:01:55+00:00
> We are primarily seeking individuals with the strong drive and leadership qualities necessary to take a product from its nascent stage (“zero to one”) to a successful market entry.

> Individuals who enjoy vibe coding to bring their ideas to life.

... Good luck to them. And well done to anyone to manages to score 19k a month to vibe code some garbage.
by epolanski | 2026-01-26 22:02:27+00:00
To me the reasoning part seems very...sensible?

It tries to stay factual, neutral and grounded to the facts.

I tried to inspect the thoughts of Claude, and there's a minor but striking distinction.

Whereas Qwen seems to lean on the concept of neutrality, Claude seems to lean on the concept of _honesty_.

Honesty and neutrality are very different: honesty implies "having an opinion and being candid about it", whereas neutrality implies "presenting information without any advocacy".

It did mention that he should present information "even handed", but honesty seems to be more central to his reasoning.
by ashf023 | 2026-01-26 22:02:56+00:00
100%. I've always used youtube on desktop (connected to the TV usually), and it seems to me they're just making all versions of youtube into a mobile app optimized for shorts type content. Recommendations are hugely influenced by what you watched very recently. What used to be related videos in the side panel of the player is now just the home page again, but vertical. Even just generating a recommendation from "Whatever (part 2)" to "Whatever (part 3)" is hit or miss now. Some of the recommendations are actually quite good, but at least for the way I like to watch, it's only getting worse over time. The category labels on the home page are also pretty telling - horrible labels (e.g. I watch some cooking/recipe videos and the label will be "Baking sheets" or something like that), plus it emphasizes the recency bias when it shows 5 categories that are basically just the same content with different labels and forgets what I've always liked watching.