MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjevans | 2026-01-16 02:46:48+00:00
It shouldn't be one thing, or 'only eco thing'.

It should be _every_ thing that isn't a bad idea.

Solar

Wind

Geothermal

Tidal power?

Got a way of using that tasty oil cleanly? Maybe we want to reserve those complex hydrocarbons for some other use like growing crops, making solid rocket fuel, or some other national priority.

Nuclear - Yes, craft regulations that make sense and squeeze all the damned energy possible out of that 'waste'. No, I don't mean burn the fuel the easy way only - I mean send it back to military run reprocessing centers to concentrate the power and make the (effective) half life of the waste decades rather than civilizations of time (yes, concentrating it, there will also be some super mild things that decay slowly enough to be useful in other applications rather than waste).

We want to maximize energy in the long, medium and short term. Try Everything.
by Privavault | 2026-01-16 02:48:20+00:00
This is a depressing reminder that institutional trust is fragile, even in privacy-forward institutions. The irony of a privacy watchdog potentially being compromised speaks to a more profound problem: we're placing too much trust in centralized authorities to protect our data.

This is partly why I am developing end-to-end encrypted solutions that are designed so that even we, as operators, cannot access the data. When mathematical principles replace institutional trust, individuals become less vulnerable to human corruption. Zero-knowledge systems aren't just theoretical elegance; they're practical insurance against exactly this scenario.
by cxa | 2026-01-16 02:48:29+00:00
https://christopheradams.io/ is my personal website of writing, projects, and photographs. A simple static site published with Emacs, Jekyll, and Bootstrap. I even host my own newsletter with listmonk.

One early post that charted my path:

https://christopheradams.io/posts/2016/11/25/what-happens-wh...
by loloquwowndueo | 2026-01-16 02:48:37+00:00
Get a console in your sprite. Run “screen”. Run a loop in there : while date; do sleep 1; done. Detach screen and exit the session. Wait a few minutes and go back into the sprite. Reattach screen. You’ll see a gap in the timestamps.

They do suspend even when they say they are “running”.
by deeg | 2026-01-16 02:48:55+00:00
> but I’ll defer to the courts on it

Just because it's happened before we don't have to put up with it. The door to door searches must stop. It is clearly a constitutional violation.

Since you like to defer to the courts, I assume you believe it wrong that the government shipped people like Kilmar Garcia to an El Salvador prison without any court being involved?

> Naturalization:

Sorry, I got threads mixed up. In Boston, ICE canceled a ceremony minutes before immigrants were to be sworn in as US citizens. You don't have a problem with this?

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/12/08/unspeakabl...
by jason_oster | 2026-01-16 02:49:07+00:00
> Did You ever considered emerging technologies, like new languages or frameworks that may be a much better suited for You area but they are new, thus there is no codebase for LLM to draw from?

Try it. The pattern matching these things do is unlike anything seen before.

I'm writing a compiler for a language I designed, and LLMs have no trouble writing examples and tests. This is a language with syntax and semantics that does not exist in any training set because I made it up. And here it is, a machine is reading and writing code in this language with little difficulty.

Caveat emptor: it is far from perfect. But so are humans, which is where the training set originated.

> I'm starting to think about a risk of technological stagnation in many areas.

That just does not follow for me. We're in an era where advancements in technology continues to be roughly quadratic [1]. The implication you're giving is that the advancements are a step function that will soon (or has already) hit its final step.

This suggests that you are unfamiliar or unappreciative of how anything progresses, in any domain. Creativity is a function of taking what existed before and making it your own. "Standing on the shoulders of giants", "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps", and all that. None of that is changing just because some parts of it can now be automated.

Stagnation is the very last thing I would bet on. In part because it means a "full reset" and loss of everything, like most apocalyptic story lines. And in part because I choose to remain cautiously optimistic.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/technology-long-run
by zmgsabst | 2026-01-16 02:49:33+00:00
Italy’s demand was completely unreasonable and CloudFlare threatened to end business in Italy, including informing impacted partners.

People talking about EU sovereignty and US hegemony then crying Italy isn’t allowed to dictate terms globally are showing they’re not people with principles — they’re just losers who would be every bit as hegemonic as the US, they just lack the power to be and are publicly crying about it.
by travisb | 2026-01-16 02:49:57+00:00
I think both Slate and Telos will be failures. They will be too expensive to make economic sense for people, as opposed to businesses, to buy over a more conventional full-size half ton pickup.

In some ways the massive online interest is proof, because most people outside of pickup truck forums who would talk it up have neither experience nor use for pickups. They are simply never going to buy any pickup truck-shaped vehicle and so are irrelevant to commercial success.
by primitivesuave | 2026-01-16 02:51:40+00:00
I wouldn't call CareQuality a "data broker" as much as it is an interoperability framework. It's essentially a big distributed system of participants who agree to instantly share patient records - CareQuality maintains a central list of participants and the URLs where they can be reached. Since the technical requirements to actually participate in this network are fairly complex (far more than a hospital IT can or should manage), there are companies like Health Gorilla which serve as QHINs (Qualified Health Information Networks) which query the network on behalf of their customers (i.e. doctors engaging in some form of care).

There are many gray areas to this - for example, a value-based care program or ACO can pull records en masse, for the purpose of "care coordination" (i.e. checking if a particular patient requires intervention). However, what Health Gorilla has done is certainly no gray area as some articles on this matter suggest - if the allegations are true, then they have engaged in outright criminal behavior along with their co-conspirators (RavillaMed, LlamaLab, and others). Thankfully, this situation has completely eroded all trust in Health Gorilla and prompted a massive customer exodus.
by rramadass | 2026-01-16 02:52:55+00:00
This is the correct base from which all plans for "retirement" should start from.

1) Eliminate/Simplify/Lower all your "wants". You will be surprised as to how much you can save.

2) Focus only on your "needs" for existence i.e. what you actually need to live when you are 70.

3) Modify your lifestyle immediately; specifically Diet and Health in the light of the above two goals viz. proper work/life balance, proper diet, proper sleep, proper exercise. Health _is_ Wealth when it comes to old age since much of your retirement money will go to healthcare when you are older. Control/Plan-for/Manage this now.

4) Get your entire family to understand and buy-into the above.

Everything else is gravy.
by randall | 2026-01-16 02:53:21+00:00
So I look at something like Mastra (or LangChain) as agent orchestration, where you do computing tasks to line up things for an LLM to execute against.

I look at Gambit as more of an "agent harness", meaning you're building agents that can decide what to do more than you're orchestrating pipelines.

Basically, if we're successful, you should be able to chain agents together to accomplish things extremely simply (using markdown). Mastra, as far as I'm aware, is focused on helping people use programming languages (typescript) to build pipelines and workflows.

So yes it's an alternative, but more like an alternative approach rather than a direct competitor if that makes sense.
by deaux | 2026-01-16 02:53:24+00:00
No, Claude does it too, or at least has done so up until at least 4. Haven't checked 4.5.

Even with GPT models, it's only with 5 that instruction following has become strong enough that your instructions can override this tendency. During the whole 4 (and o) series, it wasn't something you could just override through a system prompt.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-16 02:54:11+00:00
> Your ability to be convinced by arguments, or refusal thereof, is not an objective measure of the likelihood of future events.

Okay but that just makes both of us crazy speculators.

> If anyone had described to you the timeline of this administration from 2024 to now

I would have said it was a plausible but terrible misuse of the executive branch's authority that I hoped not to see. After the first administration, I definitely would not call it ridiculous. Basically everything he has done so far is exercising power we've been delegating to the executive branch.

> declare martial law

That's easier said than done. And even using actual law, in the form of the insurrection act, would not give him the power to undermine elections. This country had elections during the civil war, and we are not quite there yet.

> But if you think everyone is just engaging in "online rhetoric" then I think you're naive.

I am trying to be charitable. A lot of the rhetoric is over-the-top spinning everything for maximum doom. What is really happening is bad enough without trashing our credibility through easily disprovable statements.

And sure, maybe I'm just naive. We should chat about it again in late January 2029.
by noobernetes | 2026-01-16 02:54:27+00:00
OCI-compliant container registry that stores blobs in IPFS. Pull nginx:latest → fetched from Docker Hub, stored in IPFS. Next pull (by you or anyone) comes from IPFS P2P instead of upstream. - Bypasses Docker Hub rate limits - Reduces egress in multi-node clusters - Works offline after caching - Content-addressed = trustless sharing Weekend PoC, vibe coded, not production-ready. Written in Go, includes Helm chart.
by corndoge | 2026-01-16 02:54:53+00:00
There are many cases in which I already understand the code before it is written. In these cases AI writing the code is pure gain. I do not need to spend 30 minutes learning how to hold the bazel rule. I do not need to spend 30 minutes to write client boilerplate. List goes on. All broad claims about AI's effects on productivity have counterexamples. It is situational. I think most competent engineers quietly using AI understand this.
by wglb | 2026-01-16 02:55:16+00:00
Dr. Eamonn O'Keeffe found what he believes to be the only surviving copy of Shadrach Byfield's "History and Conversion of a British Soldier." The autobiography was published in London, England, in 1851, but the only copy known to survive turned up 3,700 miles away in the Western Reserve Historical Society's library in Cleveland, Ohio.
by pella | 2026-01-16 02:56:33+00:00
Check Ghostty "CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-assistance-notice"

"The Ghostty project allows AI-assisted code contributions, which must be properly disclosed in the pull request."

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/CONTRIBUTIN...

Mitchell Hashimoto (2025-12-30):
"Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of bug reports, but man, AI code analysis is getting really good. There are users out there reporting bugs that don't know ANYTHING about our stack, but are great AI drivers and producing some high quality issue reports.

This person (linked below) was experiencing Ghostty crashes and took it upon themselves to use AI to write a python script that can decode our crash files, match them up with our dsym files, and analyze the codebase for attempting to find the root cause, and extracted that into an Agent Skill.

They then came into Discord, warned us they don't know Zig at all, don't know macOS dev at all, don't know terminals at all, and that they used AI, but that they thought critically about the issues and believed they were real and asked if we'd accept them. I took a look at one, was impressed, and said send them all.

This fixed 4 real crashing cases that I was able to manually verify and write a fix for from someone who -- on paper -- had no fucking clue what they were talking about. And yet, they drove an AI with expert skill.

I want to call out that in addition to driving AI with expert skill, they navigated the terrain with expert skill as well. They didn't just toss slop up on our repo. They came to Discord as a human, reached out as a human, and talked to other humans about what they've done. They were careful and thoughtful about the process.

People like this give me hope for what is possible. But it really, really depends on high quality people like this. Most today -- to continue the analogy -- are unfortunately driving like a teenager who has only driven toy go-karts.
Examples: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions?discussio...
"
( https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2006114026191769924 )
by sibit | 2026-01-16 02:57:02+00:00
For me it's the people.

I've been at my current company for ~4 years. Every January the upper management folks kick off the same project and every year it dies in the planning/discussion phase. Maybe one or two other "big" projects or initiatives will "start," but it's always the same: lots of meetings between the managers without the engineers or designers, lots of hype about the "big project," meetings start to get delayed, roadmaps and plans never materialize, then people stop talking about the project altogether. Sometimes I buy into the hype because I believe in the projects, other times I try to point out issues/risks. Either way the engineering team as a whole is always ignored.

What keeps me motivated is doing what I can for the people who _actually appreciate_ what I do. I work in manufacturing and spend a lot of time talking to the people on the factory floor. There's nothing better than hearing about their struggles and then a few days or weeks later coming back to them with "Hey, I heard you saying you're having an issue with X, so I made Y. Want to try it out and see if it makes things easier?" And then when they stop by my desk to say "Hey sibit Y is awesome!". That makes the job just tolerable enough to not leave.
by theandrewbailey | 2026-01-16 02:57:25+00:00
Simpler is better. Ideally, it should be a static site, and hostable on any domain.

Failing that, choose technologies that have been around for a while. PHP, Ruby, and Java have been around for 20+ years, and are still going strong. There is no hope that anything touching Node or npm will run in a year.
Show HN: Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO
by JimsonYang | 2026-01-16 02:57:37+00:00
Hi HN, we built Aventos- a cheap way to track company mentions in LLMs.

Aventos is an experiment we're doing after spending ~6 weeks working on various projects in the AI search / GEO / AEO space.

One thing that surprised us is how most tools in this category work. Traditionally, they simulate ChatGPT or Perplexity queries by attempting to reverse engineer the search process. Over the past year, many have shifted to scraping live ChatGPT results instead, since those are signficantly cheaper and reflect more real outputs.

Building and maintaining scrapers is tedious and fragile, so recently a number of SaaS products have emerged that effectively wrap a small number of third-party ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AIO/etc scraping APIs. What felt odd to us is that many of these still tools charge $70–$200+ per month, despite largely being wrappers around the same underlying data providers.

So we wanted to test a simple idea: if the core cost is just API usage and commodity infrastructure and software costs are lower because of AI, can we be a successful startup if we price near our costs?

What we have so far:

1. Analytics similar to other tools (tracking AI citations, AI search results, and competitor mentions)

2. Content creation features (early and still being improved)

We’d love feedback- especially from a non-marketing perspective on:

* bugs

* confusing terminology or tabs

* anything that feels hand-wavy or misleading

There’s a demo account available if you want to poke around:

username: divit.endal4@gmail.com
password: password

Happy to answer questions about what other things we've built in the space, how these tools work, etc.
by mmsimanga | 2026-01-16 02:58:12+00:00
Another nuance I would like to add, being an immigrant myself, not in the US. There should be more discussion about fixing the source of the migrants, the countries people are running away from. What is it that makes people leave their families behind and how can it be fixed. I know it isn't up to the US to fix other countries but it should be a point of nuanced discussion. We cannot all end up in the US.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-01-16 02:59:31+00:00
Over 100%, in that I'm sure multiple independent groups are working on it all the time. The spooks regularly place actual agents in foreign governments (the Germans found a big nest of them and nothing much happened in the end). There's no way it would be challenging for them to find an employee willing to cash a giant cheque in exchange for quietly granting their own government access.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-16 02:59:57+00:00
- indian here, i am going to take that a bit offensively.

- millions of indians go outside daily and are doing just fine.

- social media algorithms are rigged against india for reasons i do not understand or comprehend.

- you can easily review this by comparing the amount of engagement on youtube to positive stuff about india vs negative stuff.

- while our country is most certainly not perfect and has problems of its own, problems are not the only thing our country has
by siavosh | 2026-01-16 03:00:20+00:00
Thankfully we’re all individuals so we can make decisions. At the societal level however this trend has been happening for decades, and not just in the west. It’s a global trend correlated with the degree of integration into the “global machine.” This machine commodifies and extracts. It extracts more money if you’re lonely. If you’re isolated. If community is replaced with cold market exchange. If all your needs and wants are solved with a purchase or an “influence.” Again we can all make choices for ourselves and our communities. That’s the only way out.
by prvt | 2026-01-16 03:00:54+00:00
Thanks for reading and for the kind words!

Re: Blurry canvases: You are spotting the classic HTML5 Canvas high-DPI issue. It happens because the canvas backing store pixels don't map 1:1 to CSS pixels on high-density displays (like Retina screens). I likely need to scale the canvas drawing context by window.devicePixelRatio to fix that sharpness. Good catch.

Re: Performance: That is an interesting thought. Since the calculation only triggers when you visit (or resize) the video player, there is definitely a CPU spike. My guess is they chose this approach to have a "plug and play" rendering logic that adapts perfectly to the client's specific device width and pixel density, rather than generating thousands of static image variations on the server.

Re: Gangnam Style: Ah, Google+! That explains why I couldn't find the original source. Thanks for the correction; I will add an EDIT note below the image in the article to clarify.
Show HN: Vibe Coded Text Categorizer
by tadasv | 2026-01-16 03:01:08+00:00
Used gemini-cli with gemini 3 pro preview to vibe code this thing. Share your vibe coded projects or discuss the feature of software engineering lol.
│
│ Wall Time: 1h 50m 45s │
│ Agent Active: 35m 34s │
│ » API Time: 19m 57s (56.1%) │
│ » Tool Time: 15m 36s (43.9%) │
│ │
│ │
│ Model Usage Reqs Input Tokens Cache Reads Output Tokens │
│ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│ gemini-2.5-flash-lite 40 73,035 0 7,131 │
│ gemini-3-pro-preview 105 668,945 5,509,166 33,723 │
│ gemini-2.5-flash 15 53,544 2,782 8,580 │
│ gemini-3-flash-preview 70 451,003 2,988,500 24,096
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-16 03:01:28+00:00
The problem is, even if all that is true, it says very little about the distribution of AI-generated pull requests to GitHub projects. So far, from what I’ve seen, those are overwhelmingly not done by competent engineers, but by randos who just submit a massive pile of crap and expect you to hurry up and merge it already. It might be rational to auto-close all PRs on GitHub even if tons of engineers are quietly using AI to deliver value.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-16 03:02:37+00:00
If Apple cares about their Softbank investment, the best possible outcome is that Intel copies their IP wholesale. Arm's white whale is Intel buying an architectural license, which they have zero incentive to do unless someone gives them an off-the-shelf core design that doesn't suck.

The modern Cortex and Infiniverse designs are so pathetic that RISC-V might mature by the time ARM is the industry standard. And the smaller ARM IP hasn't been profitable since China mass-produced the clones. Courting Intel into buying an architectural license with a free IP bonus is a legitimately smart move for ARM's longevity, from Apple's POV.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-16 03:03:12+00:00
1. Defend against format obsolescence. Prefer plain-text formats, or at least ones that can be mostly-understood by humans, like markdown or semantic XML. (And not, say, PDFs.) For audio-visual stuff, prefer the simplest kinds of highly standardized and common formats.

2. If you need a website, prefer a static site generator. If you need a dynamic site, periodically export a static version.

3. Don't count entirely on the hosting service, store offline copies (as a standard zip file) alongside other content of interest to heirs, such as a will. Distribute redundant copies to relatives.
by NiloCK | 2026-01-16 03:03:38+00:00
Data has historically been a moat, but I think now more than ever it's a moat of bounded size / utility.

The biggest data hoarders now compress their data into oracles whose job is to say whatever to whoever - leaking an ever-improving approximation of the data back out.

DeepSeek was a big early example of adversarial distillation, but it seems inevitable to me that frontier models can and will always be siphoned off in order to produce reasonably strong fast-follow grey market competition.
by rramadass | 2026-01-16 03:03:40+00:00
Philosophy - To understand oneself in the grand scheme of things. Models/Frameworks and not dogma.

Psychology - Mind _is_ Everything. Psychology is just applied philosophy and teaches one to understand/modulate our mind according to a worldview.

Logic/Maths/Science/Engineering/Technology - To understand the objective world and earn a livelihood.

Humanities/Art - What makes us Human. May/May-not earn a livelihood.

Worldly Wisdom - How to adjust to people/society to get what you want.

AI/Programming/etc. - Tools to be used in aid of the above but not an end in themselves.
by kevinsync | 2026-01-16 03:03:42+00:00
It's interesting about text versus video -- I never ever look for video instruction for code, probably because I just came up on thick-ass books from the library and actual text on the computer in the 90's.

THAT SAID, a while back I stumbled across some Three.js video tutorials on YouTube by Wael Yasmina [0] that were so informative and crystal clear that it completely changed my opinion about learn-code-through-video. I guess it just depends on the subject matter and presentation. I'm way more open to it now, and find some odd videos on there that cover topics that never seem to come up in blog posts and searches. YMMV

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIm_RXfYBM (example)