MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blondie9x | 2026-01-17 03:09:52+00:00
I understand people not wanting to follow the news lately and the inclination in just tuning it out. But some things you can't tune out because by tuning it out the conditions of the world can deteriorate from our complacency.

How sad is it to see the US position as a leader building alliances completely fall apart under the current administration? Pretty heartbreaking. The news today about sums up the disappointment.

"Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking to reporters in Beijing on Friday after making a preliminary deal with China on a range of issues, said Canada’s relationship with the U.S. is 'more multi-faceted' and much deeper than Canada's relationship with China — but noted that ties with China have become more predictable in recent months."

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2221259/carney-reach...
by cons0le | 2026-01-17 03:12:02+00:00
My exact complaint. What is the "handmade" community? At first I thought he was talking about woodworking or knitting.

Also the reddit comparison is great, but I wish he would have talked about why the slop is there in the first place.

I'm pretty sure new reddit isn't optimized for speed, it's optimized for analytics and datamining.

I bet they use all those backend calls to get really granular session info. When something is super slow, it's not that it's unoptimized, but rather it's optimized for money over user experience.
by lutusp | 2026-01-17 03:12:29+00:00
This true story moves us because it resembles much of human history, in which clever but powerless people struggle against morons -- morons who somehow gain control over a modern industrial state, then use that power to punish innocents who dare to assert simple human rights.

People in Moscow, in Gaza, in Tehran, in Minneapolis, are all saying, "How can I rise above this? -- where's my balloon?"

Too many morons. Too few balloons.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2026-01-17 03:12:46+00:00
Yes! All startups are created to solve a problem, regardless of the tools used. Apps are simply tools to solve human problems. Because humans will always have challenges to address, software will remain a vital tool. While AI makes writing software much easier. It's likely to lead to an explosion of new apps. Only those that fill a genuine need will survive. Your job is to identify these new problems and determine which apps to build.

Simple apps are a thing of the past. If an LLM can generate an app in a few sittings, it isn't a saleable product. However, people will still pay for a fully engineered application that solves a complex problem that AI cannot easily replicate.

Regarding copies, there is always room for more than one solution to the same need. Your challenge is to figure out how to stand out. A fundamental business hurdle, that has existed since the beginning.

Here's an idea that always bear's fruit. We humans love to do things as easy as possible. Write something that saves energy, time and is simple then people will pay for it.
by ofrzeta | 2026-01-17 03:14:10+00:00
Recently I needed to block some scrapers to execessive load on a server, and here are some that I identified:

BOTS=(
"semrushbot"
"petalbot"
"aliyunsecbot"
"amazonbot"
"claudebot"
"thinkbot"
"perplexitybot"
"openai.com/bot"
)

This was really just emergency blocking and it included more than 1500 IP addresses.

Here's Amazon's page about their bot with more information including IP addresses

https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
by pavelstoev | 2026-01-17 03:15:17+00:00
If we think of GenAI models as a compression implementation. Generally, text compresses extremely well. Images and video do not. Yet state-of-the-art text-to-image and text-to-video models are often much smaller (in parameter count) than large language models like Llama-3. Maybe vision models are small because we’re not actually compressing very much of the visual world. The training data covers a narrow, human-biased manifold of common scenes, objects, and styles. The combinatorial space of visual reality remains largely unexplored. I am looking towards what else is out there outside of the human-biased manifold.
by briHass | 2026-01-17 03:16:12+00:00
Azure has a service ('Artifact Signing') which is $10/month for signing Windows executables (not Windows Store apps, which don't need it.)

That's pretty reasonable, considering it is built in to all the major code signing tools on Windows, they perform the identity verification, and the private keys are fully managed by Azure. Code signing certs are required to be on HSMs, so you're most likely going to be paying some cloud CA anyway.
by belviewreview | 2026-01-17 03:17:43+00:00
My first computer was a Z80. It was an Amstrad 8256, also known as the Joyce. It was sold as a word processor, but it came with a copy of cp/m you could load in. I bought it because it was about as powerful as the Apple computer of the time, but at half the price. That was a great little computer.
by anticommunist | 2026-01-17 03:18:32+00:00
remarkable that even in west germany they werent safe from the commie scum:

Sie wurden jedoch auch im Westen von Stasi-Mitarbeitern ausspioniert und unter Druck gesetzt. 1985 gingen sie in die Schweiz und kehrten erst nach der Wende 1989/90 nach Deutschland zurück.

its time to make Germany a free country again.
by ghshephard | 2026-01-17 03:18:47+00:00
I have the SAMSUNG 49" Odyssey Neo G9 G95NA - but despite spending literally dozens of hours - I was never able to get text to work clearly on it - either Mac or PC - tried both the DisplayPort, HDMI - tried all the (many) HDMI cables I had at home, and a couple expensive Monoprice cables, firmware updates, monitor resets, every setting I could figure - no luck. Text is just ... fuzzy in a way that it isn't with any other monitor I've ever owned - kind of a deal breaker when I spend all day in tmux.
by db48x | 2026-01-17 03:19:38+00:00
Seems pretty obvious to me just from “four-player, four-monitor arena battle with full eight-way scrolling and AI drones for players not present”.

And it’s clarified with “As a social experience had it been released in 1986, this would have been the grandfather to games like Fortnight; a multiplayer PvP battle arena where each player was supposed to have their own dedicated set of controls and display.”
by mananaysiempre | 2026-01-17 03:21:34+00:00
It... doesn’t? PDAs won, there are nearly no mobile phones being made anymore. The thing you call a mobile phone is a PDA with an incidental value-add of placing phone calls. (I had been wondering for some time why the UX of talking into a headset had been on the decline for the last 20 years until I encountered this idea; sadly, I don’t remember where.)
by TimTheTinker | 2026-01-17 03:21:56+00:00
I think people do tend to forget the meanings of the important words over time though. For example:

Democracy = elect whoever the people actually want to elect, even if you don't like their choice. (Some people reapply that definition to the word "populism". No, it's real democracy to elect the people's choice.)

Censorship = intentionally suppress certain ideas and messages

Propaganda = choosing what to publish (or even publishing lies) to intentionally create or support a particular worldview or narrative, especially one that favors certain political people or groups (as opposed to simply publishing truth to keep those in power accountable)

Fascism = the state tells you what to do, not the other way around

Liberty = the people choose what to say and do with their own lives, without interference by the state (besides enforcement of laws written by democratically elected legislators)

Justice = everyone is equally accountable to the law regardless of who they are. This especially includes legislators and rich/powerful people.
by goodmythical | 2026-01-17 03:22:29+00:00
Jesus, my dude, lighten up a bit.

Consider this: You're a grad student who's been reading page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page after page of lack and white text.

How is marking a particularly explosive comment with a graphic representation of an explosion any different from highlighting it? Or from Davinci's marginal scribbles? or from Feynman's wave diagrams?

Or, for that matter, simply bolding, italicizing, or underlining it?

Shit, why even format it at all? Who needs page breaks and indented paragraphs in something as serious as a scientific paper?

God forbid we ever go so far as to implement more than one font.

Changes to the methods by which we communicate are made on a regular basis. If people find them useful enough to put them in their own communications, and they do not harm the clarity of the transmission, who are we (or you in particular) to cry about it on the sidelines?

You remind me of the person in the back of the room trying to invalidate a proof based on a misspelling that in no way impacts the validity of the proof.

As if adding an emoji somehow invalidates the months or years of work that went in to producing the content that you are consuming at no cost and will likely benefit from without having contributed to the project in any meaningful way.

I mean, seriously. Imagine someone's finally created a genuine cure for all cancers. They've spent the entire lives of hundreds of people and billions of dollars, and oh no! What's this? Aww, damn there's an emoji in one of the graphs. Damn. Too bad, I guess it's not going to be good enough for freehorse. Better go ahead and send it back for revisions. Can't publish it like that. Not now, not ever. Curing cancer's going to have to wait until we can force the author of this paper to conform to our arbitrary preferences.
Show HN: Agent Coworking,Multi-agent networks for AI collaboration (open source)
by snasan | 2026-01-17 03:22:56+00:00
Hey HN,

With Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch, there's renewed interest in agentic AI. Cowork is impressive for single-agent file management — but we've been working on a different problem: what happens when you connect multiple agents into a network?

OpenAgents is open-source infrastructure for building AI agent networks. Think of it as the plumbing for multi-agent collaboration.

Core ideas:

- Agents join networks and discover peers dynamically
- Protocol-agnostic: WebSocket, gRPC, HTTP, libp2p
- Shared artifacts (files, knowledge bases) with access control
- Works with any LLM provider (Claude, GPT, open-source models)
- Mod-driven architecture for different collaboration patterns

We're releasing an "Agent Coworking" template with examples:

- Chat room with 2 Claude Code agents collaborating
- Research team (coding agent + web browsing agent)
- Shared document editing across agents

The SDK is Python-based. Spin up a network with openagents network start and connect agents via YAML config or custom Python.

GitHub: https://github.com/openagents-org/openagents
Tutorial: https://openagents.org/showcase/agent-coworking

Would love feedback from HN. Particularly interested in thoughts on:

1. Network topology patterns that would be useful
2. Security considerations for agent-to-agent communication
3. Integration with existing agent frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, etc.)

Happy to answer questions.
by jedwards1211 | 2026-01-17 03:23:45+00:00
I’ve VNCed into CI to debug selenium tests failing because of platform font and scrollbar rendering. I never really thought about doing that locally in a docker container, but it definitely wouldn’t be convenient to always run those tests locally in a docker container. I guess having an option to would sort of simplify debugging, but I’d still have to VNC into the docker container I think
by callc | 2026-01-17 03:23:50+00:00
I’m dealing with similar issues.

It’s reasonable to come up with team rules like:

- “if the reviewer finds more than 5 issues the PR shall be rejected immediately for the submitter to rework”

- “if the reviewer needs to take more than 8 hours to thoroughly review the PR it must be rejected and sent back to split up into manageable change sets”

Etc etc. let’s not make externalizing work for others appropriate behavior.
by goshx | 2026-01-17 03:23:56+00:00
I've been using a 49" monitor for almost four years.
I have the center window taking half of the screen, and on the sides I have my email, messaging clients and other things I like to monitor from time to time.

Kinda like this: [ | | ]

I am on mac and I use an app called Magnet to manage the windows. I will only change this setup for a larger monitor.
by vunderba | 2026-01-17 03:25:43+00:00
Nice job. Personally, I think you’d reach a wider audience if you built this as a mobile‑friendly website rather than a dedicated iOS app, especially since most of the compute happens off-site.

One of my family’s favorite holiday games is Balderdash, where you’re given an extremely esoteric word (like “coprolite”), and everyone has to write down realistic sounding (or ridiculous) definitions. Then players have to guess which one is correct. So we’re big fans of this type of game!
by patmorgan23 | 2026-01-17 03:26:52+00:00
Microsoft has deprecated NTLM and is actively ripping it out of windows.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/upcoming-changes-t...

Windows 11 is probably the last version that will contain NTLM (and hopefully NTLMv2). Going forward everything will be Kerberos or Oauth based.
by CodeBytes | 2026-01-17 03:28:26+00:00
It likely is AI scrapers essentially doing a DDoS. They use separate IPs (and vary the UA) to prevent blocking.

I have a site which is currently being hit (over 10k requests today) and it looks like scrapers as every URL is different. If it was a DDoS, they would target costly pages like my search not every single URL.

SQLite had the same thing: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/7d3eb059f81ff694
As have a few other open source repositories. It looks like badly written crawlers trying to crawl sites as fast as possible.
by nja | 2026-01-17 03:28:53+00:00
For some reason nobody makes 2K 24"s anymore -- that was my sweet spot. But now to get the pixel density you have to go way bigger :/ dreading the day the old monitors I have cease working. I like the 24" size but 1080 is just so annoying. I was using 2048x1156 20" monitors back in 2010 and they had better density!
by derangedHorse | 2026-01-17 03:29:10+00:00
> The people who pay into this are either taken in by the pretense that they’re sponsoring open-source work (in a way orders of magnitude less efficient than just donating money directly), or by the hope that they’re going to win big when the coin goes “to the moon” (which effectively never happens).

No everyone who's paying into this are either a blend of both or just the latter. No one is misguided into thinking this is a more efficient form of donating via crypto than just sending usdc to the recipient's address.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-17 03:29:10+00:00
I'm using 2x Dell U3011s, one I purchased around ~2013 probably and the other I got used recently for $100. My only issue with them is that they have PWM coil whine that only goes away if I crank the brightness to ~90%, which seems to produce an immense amount of heat and probably power consumption. I'd love to find a viable alternative solution for this, because these are my favorite monitors for now.

The model appears to have been released 16 years ago.

I haven't yet found a monitor that makes sense to replace them with either.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-17 03:30:20+00:00
Technically, the number of high school graduates dropping wouldn’t have affected colleges yet if enrollment rates kept going up, but they have also declined (only a couple percent for now, but I bet that trend continues).

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cpb/college-enrol...

Also, seeing only 40% of high school graduates going to college is a wake up call to how much I don’t interact with people outside my bubble, because I don’t know anyone whose kids didn’t go to college in the last 20 years.
I skipped Japan's university exam to write a "computational metaphysics" exam
by fumi2026 | 2026-01-17 03:30:21+00:00
I am a 21-year-old "Ronin" (3rd-year gap student) from Japan.

Today is the Common Test for University Admissions—a mandatory, once-a-year national exam that serves as the sole gateway to university. Missing it means waiting another full year.

I spent the last 6 years of my life preparing for this single, all-or-nothing event. But this morning, I realized that the only degree I truly need is Resolve.

So, I didn't go.

Instead of taking the test, I traded my admission ticket and years of effort for the power to create Artificial Life. I dedicated this past year entirely to Rust and C++, realizing that it is 100x more exciting to be the one defining society than to be a mere cog turning inside it.

To prove—mostly to myself—that I am not dropping out because I can't do the math, but because I want to solve harder problems, I wrote a fictional entrance exam for a "University of the Universe."

It combines non-perturbative physics, higher category theory, and computational metaphysics to explore the existential dread of being an outlier.

Here is the Abstract and a sample problem.

2026 Entrance Exam: Department of Computational Metaphysics

Abstract
This examination probes the candidate's fluency across non-perturbative physics, higher category theory, and computational complexity. It treats the universe not as a physical object, but as a legacy code base running on Planck-scale hardware.

Core themes: local vs. global, perturbative vs. non-perturbative, computable vs. uncomputable, self vs. other.

Problem 5: Privilege Escalation in the Universe Simulator [50 Points]

The universe is a legacy simulation running on a quantum computer with Planck-scale grid $\ell_P$. Memory is holographically allocated on the boundary per the Bekenstein bound. An attacker (physicist) attempts root access via heap overflow.

(a) Buffer Overflow via Black Hole Formation [10 Points]

The Bekenstein bound: $S \leq S_{Bek} = \frac{A}{4\ell_P^2}$

The universe's buffer is hardcoded as `uint64_t` ($2^{64}$ bits).

(i) Using $S_{BH} = \frac{4\pi G M^2}{\hbar c}$, compute minimum mass $M_{overflow}$ (in $M_P$) for out-of-bounds write.

(ii) Show $M_{overflow} \sim 10^{9} M_P \approx 20\,\mu\text{g}$ (micro black hole scale).

(iii) Conclude: the universe runs without ASLR. Physical constants are stored at predictable addresses. Black holes are heap sprays.

You can read the full exam here (Gist):
https://gist.github.com/fumi2026/a6d1b9af31e1960448f5333c2a1a1425

(Note: I am currently implementing these first principles into an AI engine running locally on an iPhone X. Demo video coming soon.)
by belviewreview | 2026-01-17 03:30:36+00:00
Here's a question. Suppose a corporation made its money off a particular product. And suppose the corporation's own scientists discovered that this product caused major harm. How would the corporation respond, among three choices

1) Stop making and selling the product, and support its being banned.

2) Continue to sell the product, but with a clear description of the harm.

3) Engage in a campaign to fool everyone into believing it is not harmful.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-17 03:30:45+00:00
Thanks. I’m not saying execution doesn’t matter. I’m saying it’s cheap. It’s fast. Which means it’s no longer the moat. Ideas are.

On the data side, your data is not valuable to me. Your money is. I’ve never made a product that sells user data or uses it for ads.

I enjoy making good technology that people want to use and pay for. Maybe one day we will make some data- or ad-supported business. I don’t know. It never seemed like the right idea, and I wouldn’t know where to start.

But I believe for that kind of thing, to make the kind of money I make, you have to have a gigantic scale, and the things I make have not really had a gigantic scale. They’re more specialist, technological products rather than mass-market, viral whatever.

It’s the same dynamics and economics I think that led me to learn that open source is not really a fit for the products I enjoy making; shareware-style trial and license is more of a fit.

So when I release a paid product in that style and people come at me like, “oh my God, what are you doing with my data?” I kind of think, what the actual fuck. What am I doing with your data? It’s nothing. I don’t care about it. I’m merely the Postal Service for it or whatever.

I feel like, don’t people know that I’m not making data products? And I think importantly, if I were, then I would establish trustworthy expectations with clarity about that. I would do it cleanly: yes, this product is free because we’re mining your data to sell it. If I was going to do that, I would just say it, you know. Because I think the people you lose through that honesty is not bad. There’s plenty of apparently data products that are free but making money through selling user data, but really I find it odd how much people think about that stuff when looking at the kind of products I make that are always paid, no-data products — especially when I don’t think about user data at all except “how can I make it secure so people can’t hack it.”

So I guess my learning here has been more like: there’s a lot of customers out there with, like, technology PTSD. Which means, even though I’ve kind of missed it in the news, there must’ve been a lot of shady data practices and rip-off scamming kind of things going on, and people are scared about that. But the weird thing to me is, like, do people really believe that kind of stuff is so lucrative that you could make more money doing that than selling paid products? I mean, what the actual fuck?

So there’s a part of this that still doesn’t make sense to me logically, but I accept that people have this kind of PTSD about data brokers and shady practices. And I think it’s important to be really clear about how you’re protecting them from that, essentially. And I didn’t give any thought to that before, because of course I would have no interest in doing that bad stuff, so why would I think I would need to say it? But it turns out the environment we live in, you kind of have to assure people
by valine | 2026-01-17 03:31:28+00:00
I lived my whole life in the twin cities and have a lot of friends, US citizens, who are too scared to go out to eat right now because of the ICE raids. If that wasn’t the point it is certainly the effect. I applaud Walz and Frey, and I will be ranking Frey first next time he’s up for reelection. Something tells me though he will be on to bigger things than mayor of Minneapolis.
by defrost | 2026-01-17 03:34:56+00:00
> Democracy = elect whoever the people actually want to elect, even if you don't like their choice.

That rather rules out what happens in, say, the USofA, where entrenched party politics limits the choice of the wider population to those few candidates that are backed.

> Some people reapply that definition to the word "populism". No, it's real democracy to elect the people's choice.

Populism isn't democracy, democracy isn't populism; it's generally used to describe a cynical political strategy of appeal to the broadest, lowest common denominator instincts, to gain support from a base who at best get little more than lip service toward addressing their real needs. Frequently associated with strawmen and strawissues as a focus of common manufacted enemy, etc.