MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by efilife | 2026-01-16 22:28:08+00:00
It's very simple to use. I tried a few static site generators and Astro gave me the most freedom and was the most approachable, pretty much no learning curve. You can use it with MULTIPLE web frameworks at the same time so it's pretty damn great. It gives you many options to do one thing so you can do things your way which is a delight for tinkerers
by sandworm101 | 2026-01-16 22:28:10+00:00
I would rather setup a "shadow" site designed only for LLMs. I would stuff it with ao much insanity that Grok would not be able to leave. How about a billion blog post where every use of "American" is replaced with "Canadian". By the time im done, grok will be spouting conspiracy theories about the decline of the strategic bacon reserve.
by mindslight | 2026-01-16 22:28:14+00:00
> It's funny when people resort to name

It's not name calling. It's a basic stylistic choice to avoid saying "Republicans" over and over, similar to how "conservative" was used back before that label came to more appropriately describe Democrats. If you don't like the label "fascist", then start using one of your own. Moldbug proposed "reactionary", but it didn't seem to stick.

Federal laws are applied by federal law enforcement. "Sanctuary city" has zilch to do with this. What was being communicated was encouragement for residents of these cities to make themselves legible to city government for the purposes of city governance, regardless of their federal status. For instance, to prevent US citizen children from being kept out of school based on their parents' fear that enrollment lists would be turned over to federal law enforcement, disrupting all of their lives. But facts never got in the way of a good soundbite.

I'm a libertarian. Fuck Hillary. But if you look at Trump's policies and don't see that they're overwhelmingly destructive for America, both domestically and internationally, then you need to seriously escape your filter bubble - either with some independent analysis, or at the very least read some opposition media with an open mind.

Of course this doesn't establish that Trump's agenda is a definitively a hybrid warfare attack deliberately orchestrated by a foreign power - it could simply be his own dementia and our business elites having lost the plot as well - but the model is a good stand-in for whatever attacker it might be, because it directly cuts through the "Trump is tough on China" kayfabe.
by mothballed | 2026-01-16 22:28:18+00:00
Depends on the form of authoritarian. The two of the richest countries on a GDP PPP basis are Lichtenstein and Singapore, also some of the most free economically, yet they could probably be described as benevolent authoritarian systems. Dubai further behind, although some similar points.

It seems authoritarians that know how to use their authority to force the populace to accept (some forms of) freedom can perform better than democracies. To the point the reigning monarch of Lichtenstein is basically a straight up fuedal prince, although one that has a sort of half libertarian/ancap flavor to how he wields power. Yet very few people describe Lichtenstein as a dystopia, it just kind of quietly gets ignored as an example of authoritarian success in both wealth and freedom.
by indrora | 2026-01-16 22:28:20+00:00
A friend of mine works AV at shows that have rotating DJs and one of the things she has on her mixer board is "The Suck Button."

It causes a mic at the other end of the room to get cut into the DJ's live feed monitor with a semitone shift down and some reverb. This causes all sorts of inner-ear chaos and usually clears a DJ off the stage when they're over time within a few minutes at most -- usually under 30 seconds. One time they were trying to figure out why it wasn't working and discovered that the DJ had muted their monitor feed, which explained why they were not only peaking the meters but over time: They hadn't heard the FOUR warnings from the back of house that it was time to wrap up.
by giardini | 2026-01-16 22:28:57+00:00
Thank you, this is all very useful!

Yes, I didn't know WTF was there but over the years it had grown beyond annoying , becoming so painful I couldn't tolerate it. I thought perhaps something (a splinter, piece of glass or steel, etc.) had become embedded in my foot. I was determined to dig it out. I'm tall and not flexible so I cannot easily see all of the bottom of my foot. But I can reach it.

The callus was surprisingly small (~1/2") and came out in one piece after about 10 minutes of work. Nothing embedded. No bleeding, just a lot of knife-wiggling. The bottom of the foot is really tough!
by franga2000 | 2026-01-16 22:29:19+00:00
There are so many types of headphones that don't isolate much, including the cheapest crappy on-ears from the walkman era, there's really no excuse.

And on the few occasions where I've had no other option, it made so much more sense to set my phone to low volume and bring it close to my ear instead of holding it iut and maxing the volume.

And if I need to talk as well, many people don't know this, but there's a second smaller speaker on the opposite end of the phone, approximately one mouth-ear distance away from the microphone.
by solarexplorer | 2026-01-16 22:30:00+00:00
> Propane gas tanks became registered products

I still remember the two gentlemen in their black, faux leather jackets who rang our doorbell and demanded to see our dinghy. (dinghies where registered products too) We showed them our dinghy, they said thank you and left.

Probably someone fled over the Baltic sea to Denmark in a dinghy. So the secret police went from door to door until they found someone who could no longer show it to them...

This was in the late 80s.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-16 22:30:03+00:00
I train coding models with RLVR because that's what works. There's ~0.000x good signal in mailing lists that isn't in old mailing lists. (and, since I can't reply to the other person, I mean old as in established, it is in no way a dig to lwn).

You seem to be missing my point. There is 0 incentives for AI training companies to behave like this. All that data is already in the common crawls that every lab uses. This is likely from other sources. Yet they always blame big bad AI...
by cxr | 2026-01-16 22:30:22+00:00
I'm a big advocate of going the other way: HTML that looks and feels like plain text, both in your text editor and in your browser, but in the latter case also comes with extra affordances (via <script>) to make the "plain text" interactive and provide special-purpose behaviors.

Consider if most projects replaced their READMEs with README.txt.htm that had build instructions like, "If you want to build this project, just drag and drop the project folder/repo right here onto the page; the build script will run automatically".
by roba6 | 2026-01-16 22:31:21+00:00
I don't think it is just big companies. I worked for startups and small companies; when there are a number of managers/VP's involved there is trouble. Bad ideas persist because managers/leaders do not throw stones at each other. As an engineer I tend to just do what makes sense then justify it afterwards; I have trouble with managers who are just administrators with no relevant technical background.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-16 22:32:13+00:00
It's not just cost / media, though. Automated handling is a big advantage, too. At the scale where tape makes sense (north of 400TB in retention) I think the inconvenience of handling disks with similar aggregate capacity would be significant.

I guess slotting disks into a storage shelf is similar to loading a tape changer robot. I can't imagine the backplane slots on a disk array being rated at a significant lifetime number of insertions / removals.
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-16 22:32:18+00:00
I think noticing other bugs that aren't related to the ticket at hand is actually a good thing. That's how you notice them, by "being in the area" anyway.

What many QAs can't do / for me separates the good and the not so good ones, is that they actually understand when they're not related and just report them as separate bugs to be tackled independently instead of starting long discussions on the current ticket at hand.
by Sharlin | 2026-01-16 22:33:17+00:00
I don't think so. Because LLMs aren't legal persons (yet?!), they can neither have copyright to anything nor violate someone else's copyright. IANAL but the most reasonable legal interpretation is likely that any IP violations are actually committed by whoever it was who asked an LLM to "rewrite" something in a way that obviously counts as a derived work rather than a cleanroom implementation.
by mynameisvlad | 2026-01-16 22:33:18+00:00
Yes it is. All of the providers support “Static”, which literally means uploading /dist to your provider of choice.

They also have three pages worth of deployment adapters for one line deployment on many platforms, including many built by the community. https://astro.build/integrations/?search=&categories%5B%5D=a...

Did you even bother to look at their site or even better the guides I posted upthread or just decide to pull that out of your ass?
by observationist | 2026-01-16 22:33:26+00:00
>Ballonfahrt in die Freiheit

Gotta love the way German sounds to English ears. Always good for a chuckle.

This guy is a hacker hero - do the engineering needed, get the proof of concept built, move fast, break things, start over and go big, then scores a victory over the commies and saves his family.
by godelski | 2026-01-16 22:33:43+00:00
> we have to focus on outcomes

I think there's some nuance here...

There is an important question that needs to be asked: why is someone watching content?

There's a big difference between watching something because they are interested and engaged in the topic vs watching because they're doom scrolling. I'd argue this is an important business question as if it's the latter you're very open to disruption.

I think the problem is that many companies have cornered the market and have shifted strategy to wealth extraction. Resting on their laurels. It makes sense from that perspective to trade quality for revenue, as there's no competition, but by doing so you also lower the barrier to entry for competitors while driving demand/motivation for competitors. Striking a balance between aggressive profit maximization and maintaining a cornered market is difficult. The only long term strategy is to play against an imaginary adversary but the short term profit maximization is incredibly tempting. Not to mention highly profitable for those that are at the top before it collapses. Are those people more dedicated to filling their pockets or to the long term survival of the company? It's clearly the former if they do not even consider that the company could lose its dominance.

You're right, we should focus on outcomes, but I don't think outcomes are very easy to measure. What outcomes? Over what time frame?
"Freedom of Speech" Exists – But "Freedom of Reach" Is a Black Box
by Ayanonymous | 2026-01-16 22:33:54+00:00
I posted a link to a long-form article on X (Twitter). Impressions: single digits.
Nothing was deleted. No warning. No ban.
It simply didn’t reach anyone.

At first glance this is easy to dismiss as “algorithm roulette.”
But the same invisibility patterns show up across platforms:

- YouTube political content gets quietly demonetized / de-ranked
- External links on social feeds often underperform (sometimes dramatically)
- LLMs (ChatGPT/Claude/etc.) tend to sanitize or avoid politically sharp topics
- Search results for some queries feel oddly thin, stale, or SEO-flooded

This makes me wonder if we’re drifting into a new mode of discourse control:
not classic “state censorship,” but incentive-driven soft suppression.

Habermas called the democratic discourse space the “public sphere.”
A hidden assumption in that model was simple:
if you publish, people can actually see it.
That assumption may be breaking.

A rough model (feel free to tear this apart):

1) Visibility layer (feeds / ranking / UI)
- downranking, link suppression, shadow ranking
-> speech is “allowed” but socially non-existent

2) Generation layer (LLMs)
- safe-neutral framing becomes default
-> controversial topics become culturally “unspeakable”

3) Discovery layer (search)
- SEO + degraded results
-> “can’t be found” becomes “doesn’t exist”

Stacked together:

[You post, but reach collapses]
↓
[You ask AI, but it avoids the core]
↓
[You search, but sources are buried]
↓
People learn: “speaking changes nothing”
↓
Self-censorship becomes the stable equilibrium

I’m not claiming a single actor is “censoring the internet.”
It might just be:
- ad-driven engagement optimization
- brand safety / moderation incentives
- regulatory risk management
- black-box ranking artifacts

But the end result can look similar: public discourse shrinks without any explicit ban.

Questions for HN:

1) Is “freedom of reach” now a separate political variable from “freedom of speech”?
2) If you think this is real, what would be a convincing experiment / metric to measure it?
(A/B tests on link posts? cross-platform comparisons? time-series reach tracking?)
3) Have you personally observed external-link downranking or “shadow ranking” behavior?
4) For LLMs: how would you measure “topic avoidance / neutralization” systematically?

I’m open to being wrong — I mostly care about what would falsify it.
by lovich | 2026-01-16 22:33:58+00:00
I don't find the conclusions plausible. It's completely ignoring that AI is a machine and not in our social hierarchy, while humans are, and we have a large section of wetware devoted to constantly judging the social hierarchy and rules.

At least personally this was obvious to me years before AI was around. Whenever we had clear data that came to an obvious conclusion, I found that it didn't matter if _I_ said the conclusion, regardless of if the data was included. I got a lot more leeway by simply presenting the data to represent my conclusion and let my boss come to it.

In the first situation the conclusion was now _my_ opinion and everyone's feelings got involved. In the second the magic conch(usually a spreadsheet) said the opinion so no feelings were triggered.
by gunnarmorling | 2026-01-16 22:34:06+00:00
Nice one, great to see this addition to the Rust ecosystem!

Reading through the README, this piqued my curiosity:

> Small or fast transactions may share the same WAL position.

I don't think that's true; each data change and each commit (whether explicit or not) has its own dedicated LSN.

> LSNs should be treated as monotonic but not dense.

That's not correct; commit LSNs are monotonically increasing, and within a transaction, event LSNs are monotonically increasing. I.e. the tuple commit-LSN/event-LSN is monotonically increasing, but not LSNs per se. You can run multiple concurrent transactions to observe this.
by codeguro | 2026-01-16 22:35:11+00:00
I appreciate the effort. I'll give you my honest two cents. If you don't have thick skin, stop reading here. I'm going to be critical, and I'm going to be blunt. You can take it or leave it.

The landing page sucks. In my first impression my eyes immediately darted to the animated graphics/webms. The text reads like it was written by AI with the sentences in triplets everywhere. Immediately my trust for this site (which was finicky at first) has already gone down. If you can't sustain my attention in the banner, what makes me think you can sustain my attention for the app? Be direct - show me what your app does at a glance. My attention is very scarce and very expensive, don't waste it on vague niceties or depend on me to trust you on what you say other people are saying about your app. I feel like you're trying to cheat me out of own autonomy when you're selling me something (even if it's free, my time = money) that I have no idea what it does until I get to the FAQ. My 2c - put the FAQ in the very top, with the questions "Is this just another AI chatbot?" and "How does Indy fit with ADHD coaching or other support?" in order with minimized distractions. This tells me what your product is and what it isn't at face value.
by leptons | 2026-01-16 22:35:21+00:00
No QA is better than bad QA. I've had great QA teams and just awful QA teams. Most of them are somewhere in the middle. I'll take no QA over bad QA every time. Filing bugs that aren't bugs, not understanding the most basic things like what a Jpeg file is for a product centered around images, etc. QA for the sake of QA doesn't always yield results, and can cause a lot of distraction for a competent dev team.
by rurp | 2026-01-16 22:35:33+00:00
They aren't going to do this right now, but they almost certainly will in the medium term. It would be legitimately shocking if they didn't continue to follow the same path as Google, Facebook, and pretty much every other big tech comp. In OpenAI's case they have even more incentive to abuse their users since they collect so much detailed personable data and have ways to make ads unblockable by including them in outputs and skewing model weights. I've seen absolutely nothing from the company, it's CEO, or investors that make me think they won't do the normal thing of gradually making the product worse in order to wring more value out of their users.
by teemur | 2026-01-16 22:35:49+00:00
> The two-party system is fine.

Is it? Many western countries are having more or less prominent populist right wing movements, and the two countries I can think of where that movement has gotten its hand in power on really significant issues during the last decade or so are UK and US. Both strongly two party systems at the time of the "interesting" developments. And I do not think a two party system is typical, I am sure there are some countries happily trodding along with their two political parties, but they are not the rule.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-16 22:36:16+00:00
I'm not sure your logic connects. With respect to "OpenAI being boxed out from [Siri]", advertisement revenue comes neither too late nor too early. Whether or not OpenAI had advertising would not have substantially affected Apple's decision to go with Google's LLM at this time.

If you meant it in a different context, you didn't explain any of the actual context you had in mind.
by calmbonsai | 2026-01-16 22:36:31+00:00
That's what "bear bells" are for...in bear country.

Mountain lions are avoidant at all times unless it's a mother with cubs and even then they'll let you know well in advance.

Otherwise, just normal conversation, your smell with even a light breeze, and the vibrations on-trail will alert all animals to your presence.

In other words, the "trail music" theory is bullshit. They just want to listen to their music.
by theshackleford | 2026-01-16 22:36:44+00:00
> The only thing that reliably works is co-working with another human.

I found this didnt really do anything for me.

> ADHD cannot be "app-ed" out.

I have found significant success with Kanban. To the point where at times, I can even go unmedicated and still somewhat progress. With medication I might as well be superhuman.

Something about the WIP limit, the way I structure it so that I can see the timeframes (Next month, next week, today etc) and the moving of tasks from left to right really clicked with my brain.

It's been the most successful intervention in terms of my treatment in the entirety of my existence.
by zahlman | 2026-01-16 22:37:19+00:00
> I'm a very small-scale content creator (4 digit follower count) that has never monetized or really tried to monetize

To my understanding, that's about the size where platforms will typically consider allowing you to monetize through their system (as opposed to rattling a cup at Patreon, Ko-Fi etc.), and no mean feat (while everyone that people can think of listening to might be at least that size, very few people who try to develop and grow a presence succeed to that extent).

Congrats.
by mothballed | 2026-01-16 22:37:34+00:00
If that's the case the theocratic monarchy in UAE takes the cake, I think, although maybe there are similar amounts elsewhere.

Pretty much all the highest % immigration countries are monarchy that I can think of, since in those country another tax payer is an easy win and immigrants that cause problem can be instantly booted so there is very little downside to taking anybody with $1 or a job who cares to come.

Top Countries by Percentage of Immigrants (approximate recent figures):
Qatar: Around 77% (or 76.7%).
United Arab Emirates (UAE): Around 74-88% (some sources show higher figures for earlier years).
Kuwait: Around 69-73%.
Bahrain: Around 55%.

Singapore not far behind (~40% from memory), a one party state but with voting, sometimes described as essentially an elected recallable monarchy. Also note most of those countries have relatively low emigration rates of native citizens.
by piva00 | 2026-01-16 22:37:48+00:00
They can listen to it, it's just not being considered to be in the charts. You are again implying something that isn't there, people do listen to this crap but the chart producers created a rule for their system where it won't show there.

No one is stopping people from listening at all, it's just someone's rule for their thing, nothing else.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-16 22:38:06+00:00
Spending 24h/day to build nothing isn't impressive - it's really, really bad. That's worse than spending 8h/day to build nothing.

If the piece of shit can't even compile, it's equivalent to 0 lines of code.

> Don’t look at where the tech is. Look where it’s going.

Given that the people making the tech seem incapable of not lying, that doesn't give me hope for where it's going!

Look, I think AI and LLMs in particular are important. But the people actively developing them do not give me any confidence. And, neither do comments like these. If I wanted to believe that all of this is in vain, I would just talk to people like you.
by UncleEntity | 2026-01-16 22:38:27+00:00
>> ...or a shitty context

This is my guess, sometimes it churns through things without a care in the world and other times is seem to be intentionally annoying to eat up the token quota without doing anything productive.

Kind of have to see which mode it's in before turning it loose unsupervised and keep an eye on it just in case it decides to get stupid and/or lazy.
by 6stringmerc | 2026-01-16 22:38:36+00:00
It certainly offers strong motivation, in my experience, to revisit or commit to analog based hobbies. Recently I did a sewing class at a library. I’ve got a watercolor painting kit for about $30 all in and - as this article indicates - seeking info by surfing the web to use the web as a benefit, well I do recommend it.

There still is plenty of information superhighway infrastructure online - more than ever! It’s a matter of disengaging from the AI “slop trough” as I like to call it. Good article framing the discussion.
by tosti | 2026-01-16 22:38:57+00:00
> run a CA

> easier than remembering IP addresses

idk, the 192.168.0 part has been around since forever. The rest is just a matter of .12 for my laptop, .13 for the one behind the telly, .14 for the pi, etc.

Every time I try to "run a CA", I start splitting hairs.