MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacobedawson | 2026-01-27 20:38:39+00:00
FWIW the creator of Clawd (now Molt) is staunchly anti-crypto and has been from the start.

Accusing him of a pump & dump or being in on the scam is really unfair imo, he's been working very hard (and publicly) on Clawd, and has visibly had to deal with a massive influx of attention / hype and a wave of crypto grifters trying to force unofficial tokens down his throat. It must be hugely stressful.

The Ralph & Gastown devs embraced (but did not create) associated crypto projects (Yegge later distanced himself after criticism). They made their software, it gained in popularity and crypto bros latched on of their own accord. It would be interesting to see how many highly principled hners here would turn down mid six figures being offered to them for a tweet or a post acknowledging a token..

As an aside: meme tokens are an attention economy mmog - you may not like the game, but I can assure you those who play it know the rules.
by WinstonSmith84 | 2026-01-27 20:38:42+00:00
I certainly believe you, but you're missing the point of the
current administration goals. Trump wont be around in 10 years
when the consequences of their actions become clear. In fact, he is gone in 3 years, and the admin is only concerned
within that timeframe. Their strategy is quite
clear: please their base while simultaneously positioning the
family for influence on a global scale.
by cheschire | 2026-01-27 20:38:47+00:00
Whenever I think it might be worth it to finally go watch an NFL game live, and I start looking at those ticket prices, I start to question if it's worth it or not. Then I get to the seat view simulator and instantly close the tab because holy hell are the "affordable" NFL seats absolutely terrible to watch a game from. Can you even see the player numbers let alone the names? I guess you need to be a big enough fan to know all the players by number on offense, defense, special teams, and the full depth chart for every position in case there are injuries.

Nah. A one time purchase of a 77" TV with surround sound was absolutely the better option.
by missingcolours | 2026-01-27 20:38:55+00:00
People were also charged for coordinating and supporting J6 without being there, e.g. Enrique Tarrio of the "Proud Boys" was charged with seditious conspiracy based on activity in messaging apps. If people in these Signal chats were aware that people were using force to inhibit federal law enforcement, which some of the leaked training materials suggest is most likely true and easy to prove, and there are messages showing their support or coordination of those actions, I assume they could face the same charges.
by alecco | 2026-01-27 20:39:30+00:00
The agreement also includes "mobility". The EU has plenty of STEM talent. And since many industries are downsizing due to energy and other issues, there's no point to bring more from India, of all places.

[0] "India, EU seal landmark mobility pact; Indian professionals, students set to benefit" 27 Jan 2026 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/study/india-eu-seal...
by retired | 2026-01-27 20:39:53+00:00
I future-proofed myself by moving to a region with a €3M exception. So that I have a long way to go before paying wealth tax.

CGT is progressive and around 20%, compared to other European countries that is fairly average. Some Eastern European countries are at 15%, Belgian is going to 10%, Switzerland differs per canton.

Also, no CGT for fresh immigrants if you are able to use the Beckham law.
by ainiriand | 2026-01-27 20:39:57+00:00
My experience. I have it running on my desktop with voice to text with an API token from groq, so I communicate with it in WhatsApp audios. I Have app codes for my Fastmail and because it has file access can optimize my Obsidian notes. I have it send me a morning brief with my notes, appointments and latest emails. And of course I have it speaking like I am some middle age Castillian Lord.
by legitster | 2026-01-27 20:39:57+00:00
We watched some games last year on the all-22 (because it was the only way we could watch it on ESPN+).

You definitely lose a lot by not having the close-ups, the slow motion replay, etc. That said, you actually get to see many more of the little things that are kind of cool - what teams do to set up for a play, what coaches are doing between plays, how players and officials interact, etc.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-27 20:39:58+00:00
>if federation was clearly superior, it would've won.

no because we don't live in the best of all worlds. it starts to win pretty rapidly when centralized abuses of power become apparent. Bitchat (p2p mesh network messaging app) has been becoming quite popular in Uganda and Iran.

Decentralization is the basic guarantor for most of the freedoms we take for granted in democratic systems. Just because the average user doesn't exercise them, just like people who only start going on the treadmill when their chest starts to hurt at age 50, doesn't mean it isn't the answer.
by pixelready | 2026-01-27 20:40:04+00:00
Oh, very cool. Just watched the YouTube on some of the porting challenges. Love the idea of a full fledged game dev environment the kids can graduate to from scratch Jr. and the like.

Combine this with an Apple Pencil, Pixelmator pro and Blender and you’ve got yourself a great little hyper portable game kit. Don’t think I’d do too much hardcore coding in this form factor, but if I had an existing prototype that I just wanted to tweak a bit and play around with, it seems legit.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-27 20:40:14+00:00
Codex, no idea about tokens, I'll upload the session data probably tomorrow so you could see exactly what was done. I pay ~200 EUR/month for the ChatGPT Pro plan, prorating days I guess it'll be ~19 EUR for three days. Model used for everything was gpt-5.2 with reasoning effort set to xhigh.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-27 20:40:24+00:00
I feel like I have talked to Embedding-shape on Hackernews quite a lot that I recognize him. So it was a proud like moment when I saw his hackernews & github comments on a youtube video [0]about the recent cursor thing

It's great to see him make this. I didn't know that he had a blog but looks good to me. Bookmarked now.

I feel like although Cursor burned 5 million$, we saw that and now Embedding shapes takeaway

If one person with one agent can produce equal or better results than "hundreds of agents for weeks", then the answer to the question: "Can we scale autonomous coding by throwing more agents at a problem?", probably has a more pessimistic answer than some expected.

Effectively to me this feels like answering the query which was being what if we have thousands of AI agents who can build a complex project autonomously with no Human. That idea seems dead now. Humans being in the loop will have a much higher productivity and end result.

I feel like the lure behind the Cursor project was to find if its able to replace humans completely in a extremely large project and the answer's right now no (and I have a feeling [bias?] that the answer's gonna stay that way)

Emsh I have a question tho, can you tell me about your background if possible? Have you been involved in browser development or any related endeavours or was this a first new one for you? From what I can feel/have talked with you, I do feel like the answer's yes that you have worked in browser space but I am still curious to know the answer.

A question which is coming to my mind is how much would be the difference between 1 expert human 1 agent and 1 (non expert) say Junior dev human 1 agent and 1 completely non expert say a normal person/less techie person 1 agent go?

What are your guys prediction on it?

How would the economics of becoming an "expert" or becoming a jack of all trades (junior dev) in a field fare with this new technology/toy that we got.

how much productivity gains could be from 1 non expert -> junior dev and the same question for junior -> senior dev in this particular context

[0] Cursor Is Lying To Developers… : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s_CaI93Mo
by thehamkercat | 2026-01-27 20:40:43+00:00
Hype created by bots on twitter for marketing $CLAWD token, which is probably a pump and dump

This was on HN front page:

https://tautvilas.medium.com/software-pump-and-dump-c8a9a73d...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780065
by walkerbrown | 2026-01-27 20:40:52+00:00
Some very recently published research (Dec 2025) claims evidence of fire starting among homo neanderthalensis. This would push back fire starting know-how (not only control) from 50k to 400k years ago. Cool stuff!

[1] https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/groundbrea...
by hyperman1 | 2026-01-27 20:41:33+00:00
In my experience, it's a superior approach for code you wrote yourself in a repeatable crash. You have the whole programming language at your disposal for building a condition corresponding to your bug, and any kind of data dumping.

I fall back on debuggers when the environment is hostile: Half understood code from someone else, unreliable hardware (like embedded), or debugging memory dumps.

But before both, the initial approach is thinking deep and hard, and reviewing all available evidence like logs. If this is not enough, I try to add better troubleshooting abilities for the future.
by josephg | 2026-01-27 20:42:28+00:00
At least amongst my circles, that seems so obvious. I don’t know what things are actually like on the ground. But from here in Australia, the subtext of all the ICE news is that foreigners are no longer welcome in the US. And that America is becoming an authoritarian, fascist state.

Of course I don’t want to visit the US. There’s no way I’d want to move there right now.

I know of multiple US run conferences which are taking place in Europe this year. Too many attendees wouldn’t come if they were hosted in the US.
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-01-27 20:42:45+00:00
Well, a common theme here is don't rely on third parties for services.

So, maybe, if it ever happens to you, have a backup in case of such emergencies.

I guess, next will be; but what if...and that's for you to fugure out.

Heck, a meteor might hit, and you won't be able to blame the government for your lack of backup.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-27 20:42:55+00:00
The relationship between those two things isn't necessarily clear.

> Testable hypotheses about the relationship between stock prices and consumer confidence seem to appear in the business press whenever new consumer survey data is released. Headlines like “Rise in Consumer Sentiment Sends Share Prices Higher” 1 and “Stocks Tumble, Spurred by Dive in Consumer Confidence” 2 suggest that stock prices respond directly to measures of consumer confidence. Previous research into the matter, however, suggests that the headline writers have it backwards – that the direction of influence runs only one way, from stock prices to consumer confidence, and that any stock price response to new information about consumer confidence is ephemeral.

https://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bremmer/professional/consumer_c...
by kfreds | 2026-01-27 20:43:03+00:00
I just want more trustworthy systems. This particular concept of combining reproducible builds, remote attestation and transparency logs is something I came up with in 2018. My colleagues and I started working on it, took a detour into hardware (tillitis.se) and kind of got stuck on the transparency part (sigsum.org, transparency.dev, witness-network.org).

Then we discovered snapshot.debian.org wasn't feeling well, so that was another (important) detour.

Part of me wish we had focused more on getting System Transparency in its entirety in production at Mullvad. On the other hand I certainly don't regret us creating Tillitis TKey, Sigsum, taking care of Debian Snapshot service, and several other things.

Now, six years later, systemd and other projects have gotten a long way to building several of the things we need for ST. It doesn't make sense to do double work, so I want to seize the moment and make sure we coordinate.
by narmiouh | 2026-01-27 20:43:08+00:00
That's a good one.

Seasoned developers who would not make such a mistake could also be lead to think the llm is writing safe code if they don't ever read it line by line.

Vibe coders who are not seasoned developers, not sure if they would even know that this isn't safe code even if they read it line by line.
by philipwhiuk | 2026-01-27 20:43:27+00:00
> It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later.

The bits left unsaid:

1. Burning tokens, which we charge you for

2. My CPU does this when I tell it to do bogosort on a million 32-bit integers, it doesn't mean it's a good thing
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-27 20:43:47+00:00
I appreciate and sympathize with this take. I'll just note that, in general, journal publications have gone considerably downhill over the last decade, even before the advent of AI. Frequency has gone up, quality has gone down, and the ability to actually check if everything in the article is actually valid is quite challenging as frequency goes up.

This is a space that probably needs substantial reform, much like grad school models in general (IMO).
by Kennel5527 | 2026-01-27 20:44:01+00:00
Unsure of your background here. Though the way you refer to the Iranian diaspora hints at gaps I would fill before contributing further to a discussion pointing back the finger at those who are victims in this case, most of the time still with people back in Iran, and who risk even just going to a protest as they could easily be profiled and effectively ban themselves from ever returning back home, if not altogether risking the lives of people back home.

The level of bravery of the Iranians inside the country is off scale, that of those among the Diaspora participating in protests is still huge given the risk. Those not participating too much (very rare!) still millions of times more justifiable than that of people who have nothing to fear from manifesting freely and safely.

The calculated cost/benefit calculation that some leftists (me one of them generally - but not in this case) are doing, is just using the wrong calibration weights, “hate for a specific faction/team” rather than just “love for humanity and justice” (which I assume people won’t argue is a leftist pillar).
Ask HN: Other titles that Prime search won't find by name anymore?
by stopbulying | 2026-01-27 20:44:04+00:00
Trying to find the film "The Current War" on Amazon Prime but neither "current war" or "the current war" (without quotes) finds the film.

(I purchased this film; it is in my Video Library but can't be found by searching for it by name)

Are there other titles missing from or now-unsearchable on Prime?

Is there a technical explanation for this apparent censorship?
by retired | 2026-01-27 20:44:07+00:00
Correct. If you go over €38.478 in savings, you immediately lose your renters benefit. No taper, just a hard drop-off. You can lose up to €5.000 in renters benefit a year.

A legal tax avoidance is to just buy a €1000 TV if you are near the limit. Yes that is as crazy as it sounds but people do it.
by jorvi | 2026-01-27 20:44:08+00:00
One thing I'm really envious of as European is Costco. Costco is absolute king of finding pareto stuff (20% of the investment nets 80% of the quality) and offering that. I know their whiskys are good, their tires are good, their medicines are good, their chicken is good. And all for a relatively reasonable price. It really seems like a last bastion haha.
by mikewarot | 2026-01-27 20:44:12+00:00
The Wikipedia page about tool use by non humans started me down a rabbit hole that lead to this delightful video of Stoffel the Honey Badger who clearly understands tool use.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_non-humans

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c36UNSoJenI
by rafabulsing | 2026-01-27 20:44:20+00:00
Yeah, it can be pretty difficult at times. I'm quite proud of my 75% solve rate with Connections, which I'm slowly but surely improving (though the last week or so has been a bit of a regression).

I'm almost tempted to include that stat in my next CV as evidence of my grasp of the language :p

I always find it interesting to take a look at the Connections Bot, which gives the puzzles a difficulty rating based on how many people solve it or fail. It's not rare that I nail one rated 5/5 difficulty, just to completely fail the next day on a 1 or 2 out of 5. The gaps in general knowledge that you can have as a non native can be pretty funny at times! The groups relating to sports team names always get me.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-27 20:44:30+00:00
I can code in monospace (of course) but I just can't write in monospace markup. I need something approaching WYSIWIG. It's just how my brain works -- I need the italics to look like italics, I need the footnote text to not interrupt the middle of the paragraph.

The visual editor in Overleaf isn't true WYSIWIG, but it's close enough. It feels like working in a word processor, not in a code editor. And the interface overall feels simple and modern.

(And that's just for solo usage -- it's really the collaborative stuff that turns into a game-changer.)
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-27 20:44:33+00:00
If the claim is that you can fight it in court then I want to know how you'd do that. Because from where I sit there are mountains of procedural barriers to actually doing this. A lot of people assume that you can just get some remedy in court, but this is often not true.

When an ICE agent shot and killed a kid their Bivens claim was still denied.

"Just go to court to solve it is not serious.
by goblin89 | 2026-01-27 20:44:41+00:00
The marketing move of offering an unlimited plan reveals that storage and traffic are not that expensive and someone made a choice that light users will subsidize heavy users. With that, hiding your data from you and subsequently deleting it, at least without first encouraging you to download it within some post-downgrade grace period, would be a choice, not necessity, and is user-hostile.

If some service chose to market an unlimited plan to attract more users, and then realized they are losing money on storage and traffic so much that they would burn bridges with existing users who showed themselves as willing to pay (who maybe needed to downgrade temporarily for whatever reason) with the above move, and yet their strategy is apparently to keep offering that plan in hopes to turn things around with hopefully more light users joining, that seems to be on the service. They could at least apologize and offer per-case way out instead of holding data hostage.
by gretch | 2026-01-27 20:44:56+00:00
No evidence or supporting material, just continued insistence that the author is correct.

“I can’t crawl inside your skull and prove you wrong. But this is how it works for most people, including most who insist it does not.“

Consider this direct excerpt of 2 back to back sentences and how 1 contradicts the other.

You can’t crawl inside my skull, but you can crawl inside everyone else’s?
by simonw | 2026-01-27 20:45:24+00:00
I don't think the Cursor thing was about replacing humans entirely.

(If it was that's bad news for them as a company that sells tools to human developers!)

It was about scaling coding agents up to much larger projects by coordinating and running them in parallel. They chose a web browser for that not because they wanted to build a web browser, but because it seemed like the ideal example of a well specified but enormous (million line+) project which multiple parallel agents could take on where a single agent wouldn't be able to make progress.

embedding-shape's project here disproves that last bit - that you need parallel agents to build a competent web renderer - by achieving a more impressive result with just one Codex agent in a few days.
by pickleballcourt | 2026-01-27 20:45:32+00:00
One thing I've learnt from movie production is actually what separates professional from amateur quality is in the audio itself. Have you thought about implementing personaplex from NVDIA or other voice models that can both talk and listen at the same time?

Currently the conversation still feels too STT-LLM-TTS that I think a lot of the voice agents suffer from (Seems like only Sesame and NVDIA so far have nailed the natural conversation flow). Still, crazy good work train your own diffusion models, I remember taking a look at the latest literature on diffusion and was mind blown by the advances in last years or so since u-net architecture days.

EDIT: I see that the primary focus is on video generation not audio.
by Scipio_Afri | 2026-01-27 20:45:42+00:00
I hear you. Title is an exact quote from him. A couple of other accurate direct quotes from him in there. Overall a very neutral take on him.

I'd imagine it's possible bots that have taken root on this site lately - approximately the last year possibly year and a half - seemingly to suppress what could be considered, by sentiment analysis, "negative" news of anything or anyone conservative.

Or those who feel more emboldened to downvote than in previous times on this site; possibly to its growth reaching new demographics. However it feels fairly automated though given how quickly it occurs and the frequency, and how it seemed also to coincide with this last election cycle.
by digiown | 2026-01-27 20:45:56+00:00
I am quite conflicted here. On one hand I understand the need for it (offsite colo servers is the best example). Basic level of evil maid resistance is also a nice to have on personal machines. On the other hand we have all the things you listed.

I personally don't think this product matters all that much for now. These types of tech is not oppressive by itself, only when it is being demanded by an adversary. The ability of the adversary to demand it is a function of how widespread the capability is, and there aren't going to be enough Linux clients for this to start infringing on the rights of the general public just yet.

A bigger concern is all the efforts aimed at imposing integrity checks on platforms like the Web. That will eventually force users to make a choice between being denied essential services and accepting these demands.

I also think AI would substantially curtail the effect of many of these anti-user efforts. For example a bot can be programmed to automate using a secure phone and controlled from a user-controlled device, cheat in games, etc.
by southerntofu | 2026-01-27 20:46:16+00:00
Disclaimer: i'm far from an anti-vaxxer and i have a scientific background (though not in biology).

It's often hard to establish scientific consensus. When it's not hard, it can take a long time. Cases such as climate change are as easy as it gets: models are always a flawed approximation for reality, but denying climate change on a scientific basis is almost impossible nowadays because we have too much data and too many converging studies.

About a century ago, the "scientific" consensus in the western world was that there were different human races with very different characteristics, and phrenology was considered a science.

The question of who establishes the ground truth, and who checks the checkers still stands. Science advances by asking sometimes inconvenient, sometimes outright weird questions. And sometimes the answers provided are plain wrong (but not for obvious reasons or malice), which is why reproducibility is so important.

I don't think any entity should have the power to prevent people from questioning the status quo. Especially since censorship feeds into the mindset of the conspiracy theorists and their real truth that "THEY" don't want you to see.