MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phippsytech | 2026-01-31 08:14:39+00:00
I hoard information that I find interesting but cannot act on right now, mostly because engaging with it immediately would derail me. The problem is that I almost never come back to what I have saved.

A simple example is YouTube. I save videos to watch later because I am not in the right headspace at the time. Then I avoid them completely. I think part of the resistance is that I know watching them properly will demand attention and probably lead to follow-up work, and I am rarely in a mode where I want that interruption.

I have thought about the whole “second brain” idea, but I worry it would just become a dumping ground. Nothing would really resurface when it actually matters. I would mostly be relying on myself to remember that I once made a note about something when I happen to be working on a related problem.

Lately I have been thinking about the idea of a passive, radio style feed that summarises the information I have collected and plays it back to me, so I can at least consume each item once.

You see those TV shows about people who hoard. They cannot throw things away because they might be important one day. This feels uncomfortably similar.

Maybe the real problem is not how we store information. Maybe it is that we aren't filtering hard enough on what is actually worth keeping in the first place.
by savolai | 2026-01-31 08:14:56+00:00
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by item007 | 2026-01-31 08:15:08+00:00
That makes a lot of sense. Social accountability is a surprisingly powerful “noise filter” — once other people will see the mess, you naturally promote only what’s legible and useful.

And your cofounder’s setup is interesting because it’s not “PKM for PKM’s sake”, it’s context injection tied to an actual delivery surface (daily notes). That feels like the right wedge: the system earns its keep only if it helps someone ship something this week, not just accumulate.

Curious: what’s the single best signal that his context surfacing is “working”? Fewer missed follow-ups, faster re-entry into threads, or just less time spent searching across Gmail/CRM/transcripts?
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-31 08:16:13+00:00
> If alternate techstack/payment systems pops up and reach tipping point, country A can just say to country B who only wants USD (due to alignment or whatever), I don't have enough USD, here's RMB & cips/Brics+ & mbridge basket of equivalent value.

Alternate payment systems aren't even required for this. If other countries are trying to divest US dollars and country B is owed "US dollars" and country A wants to pay in something else, country B would want to accept the something else of equivalent value because it's trying to reduce its US dollar holdings and would just be immediately turning around to resell them anyway.

Conversely, if country B is insisting on US dollars for alignment reasons while other countries don't want them then that's only providing country A with the opportunity to divest its US dollars by using them to pay the debt. Then country B ends up with them, but now what is it supposed to do with them?

The real reason those sorts of debts result in stability is that all the countries owed a lot of US dollars are going to do what they can to prevent the US dollar's value from declining.
by chii | 2026-01-31 08:16:25+00:00
> Is this a re-invention of tor

in a way, yes - the weakness of tor is realistically the lack of widespreadness. Tor traffic is identifiable and blockable due to the relatively rare number of exit nodes (which also makes it dangerous to run exit nodes, as you become "liable").

Engraining the ideas of tor into regular users' internet usage is what would prevent the internet from being controlled and blockable by any actor (except perhaps draconian gov't over reach, which while can happen, is harder in the west).
by Xafnor | 2026-01-31 08:17:11+00:00
I may be biased, but recently online 'OSINT' or 'investigation-like' tool trend seems to have shift toward mass-scraping.
I have released a tool recently that lets you search by keywords and operators (OR/NOT/AND/NEAR) through 8.3 billions comments, 2 billion videos (descriptions, transcripts etc) 1 billion users (descriptions, username etc)

In addition it also lets you define filter, for example filter by POI country, date, video category.

No data is inferred, the video location/transcript/category are the ones Tiktok returns. The bot is still scrapping data, this was only 1 month worth of scrapping.

I thought it might be interesting to talk about it, that big scrapping projects can be made by anyone. I always thought fascinating that a single person nowadays can simply decide to scrape everything and build huge libraries like this.

It's a paid tool, so this is a promotion I know it kills the mood for some, but it helps me make even more projects like this (Did one for youtube with 45B comments and 2B users), servers get expensive :)
by mentalgear | 2026-01-31 08:18:13+00:00
Research into phages is paramount, as they represent one of our best hopes for combating the rapidly increasing problem of antibiotic resistance (largely driven by the overuse of antibiotics, even including last-resort antibiotics, in industrial animal agriculture so industrial farms can place more animals per sq/m without them dying from lack of space and cut-off body parts so they take even less space).
by kukkeliskuu | 2026-01-31 08:18:24+00:00
I wasn't criticizing you, just making the point that when people talk about toy example bank transactions, they usually want to just introduce the basic understanding. And I think it ok, but I would prefer that they would also mention that REALLY the operations are complex.

I modified my comment above that by multiple types of accounts I meant that banks have various accounts for settlements with the other banks etc. even in the common payment case.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-01-31 08:18:46+00:00
The reason why Chinese people have difficulty pronouncing Indo-European languages is that Chinese has a very limited set of syllables, and they always follow the pattern (consonant) + vowel + (nasal/rhotic consonant), with possibly one of the consonants being dropped.

Chinese does not have clusters of consonants like "rst" in "first." The closest thing in Chinese phonology to "first" would be something like "fi-re-se-te." If you grow up never pronouncing consonant clusters, they are incredibly difficult to learn.

This is all related to the existence of tones, but tones are not the direct reason why Chinese people have difficulty pronouncing words like "first." Tone provides one additional way of differentiating syllables, so Chinese can get away with having far fewer syllables than non-tonal languages. You essentially get 4-5 different versions of every syllable.
by raincole | 2026-01-31 08:19:07+00:00
> The looming US debt is also a great question - a lot of economists have argued that since most US debt is good. It's mostly in forms of treasuries purchased in USD that pay in USD - this means the indebtedness creates a huge amount of dollars abroad that foreigners have to then spend on US services, driving demand.

You got it wrong (I'm sure most economists don't get it wrong and you just misread/misquote). USD is the default reserve and settlement medium for many countries. They buy US treasuries mainly to satisfy the demand of USD itself, not to buy goods and services from the US. That's why the US has such a huge trade deficit. The US doesn't point a gunpoint at other countries to force them buy treasuries[0]. It can lend so much money because the other countries want treasuries.

[0]: Ironically the US tends to do the opposite - forcing other countries to buy US goods and close trade gap.
by strogonoff | 2026-01-31 08:19:47+00:00
“The meaning of words and concepts is derived entirely from relationships between concepts” would be a pretty outrageous statement to me.

The meaning of words is derived from our experience of reality.

Words is how the experiencing self classifies experienced reality into a lossy shared map for the purposes of communication with other similarly experiencing selves, and without that shared experience words are meaningless, no matter what graph you put them in.
by nl | 2026-01-31 08:20:05+00:00
> Much of these gains can be attributed to better tooling and harnesses around the models.

This isn't the case.

Take Claude Code and use it with Haiku, Sonnet and Opus. There's a huge difference in the capabilities of the models.

> And sure enough, I’m seeing the same old flaws as always: frontier models fabricating info not present in the context, having blindness to what is present, getting into loops, failing to follow simple instructions…

I don't know what frontier models you are using but Opus and Codex 5.2 don't ever do these things for me.
by toofy | 2026-01-31 08:20:59+00:00
right, but as the post above says:

> “Protesting isn’t a listed or ‘valid’ reason for having Global Entry revoked, but being arrested at a protest is… And being investigated is.”

its no secret they're declaring everything a protest. they are actively and seemingly randomly roaming, demanding ids, and then declaring everything from that moment forward a protest. this isnt imaginary, its happening regularly.

it’s no secret how many people they have arrested and released an hour or two later once they’re "investigated."

it’s also no secret that they’re simply arresting people, who arent at a protest, but who happen to be in the same street they’ve roamed to.

if they roam into my neighborhood, and if i were to be outside walking my dog, they demand my id which i probably wouldnt have because im just walking my dog. so they arrest me. hours later let me go because they’ve "investigated" and oops, just a neighbor out walking his dog..

if they've declared it a protest, this would mean i would have just been arrested and investigated at what they call a protest.

so now in this situation i would barred from global entry because they’ve declared everyone in their eyeline worthy of arrest and then wrongly arrested and investigated me?

what a cluster fuck. we need to get due process back, this is insanity.

not to mention that protesting, just like legally carrying a firearm is absolutely protected by the constitution and not at all a criminal offense. getting arrested at a protest because they dont like protesters is absolutely not a reliable indicator of any kind of illegality.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-31 08:21:46+00:00
You are going so deep with abstract terms that your text becomes a special shorthand you think is clear but is anything but clear.

Stop talking about “exclusion” and “pressure” etc and use direct words about what is happening in the model.

Otherwise, even your attempts at explaining what you have said need more explanation.

And as the sibling comment points out, start by stating what you are actually doing, in concrete not “the math is the same so I assume you can guess how it applies if you happen to know the same math and the same models” terms. Which is asking everyone else, most anyone, to read your mind, not your text.

There is a tremendous difference between connections you see that help you understand, vs. assuming others can somehow infer connections and knowledge they don’t already have. The difference between an explanation and incoherence.
by lencastre | 2026-01-31 08:22:18+00:00
so, from a PT-PT perspective, I guess I can understand, the clanker begins in PT-BR. After I instruct it to switch to PT-PT, it starts mixing formal and informal phrase constructions (think like the German Du and Sie forms) which is odd but then becomes really jarring with the accent/tone which is sounds mechanical and robotic unlike the uncanny valley of gemini or openAI models. Anyways, I like the app and can imagine interesting use cases while abroad!
by mindslight | 2026-01-31 08:22:33+00:00
I've used the same 3M 6011 (organic vapor) filter for years, for tasks like cleaning with ammonia where I'm not really worried about hazardous exposure just nuisance [0]. And it's lasted just fine (extremely off-label use, of course). So with something like tear gas where you're not worried about actual toxicity per se, I'd think that subjective experience would be fine for knowing when it needs to be changed. If you want to be paranoid, it seems like you could also carry a backup fresh set still in the sealed foil.

With the prices for respirators going up (/me gestures at federal "government" attacking our own cities), if I wanted to save money I'd get a knock-off full face respirator from Amazon (or Ali if you're comfortable transiting the import blockade with this specific item), and then genuine cartridges (NOT from Amazon obviously, lol).

[0] for most things I do, I use the 2097 filters which are primarily particulate with just a small amount of activated charcoal for "nuisance vapors". This is all generally with half-face 7500 bodies.
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2026-01-31 08:22:42+00:00
> The idea that money is not an effective incentive to drive behavior is wishful thinking

It is obviously an incentive. But I think it's not an effective one and has many morally bad side effects.

I highly recommend taking a look at the work of Daniel Pink related to money as an incentive. See The Puzzle Of Motivation (~20min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
by eriam | 2026-01-31 08:24:50+00:00
Not exactly, there is a risk that instead of being collectively able to re skill the workforce we end up with massive layoffs and unemployment of young professionnals, what is currently happening.

So I wonder could decisions be taken by officials to block layoffs in a kind of economic lockdown (similar to covid) to give time to adapt. Like "everybody freeze" we need people working no matter how fast things can move with AI because we fail to adapt as fast as the efficiency gains. Thats science fiction.

And also what about, from a worker's pov, all these efficiency gains. More time for myself or for the company, if companies fails to harvest these workforce pools its both a failure for the company and the worker.
by trhway | 2026-01-31 08:25:39+00:00
> America should be first

America had been first all the time since at least 1945 while driving the globalizaton. What can be more "first" than extracting all possible kinds of value - cheap labor, educated immigrants, mineral resources, transaction fee from whatever goes through the financial networks, profit from the global trade flow, etc. - from the rest of the world?

>But maybe that is because I benefited and they didn't.

"didn't"? Having one of the best retirements in the world immediately comes to mind.

MAGA is about mythically great 50s or 60s i guess. Back then the technological complexity of the time allowed to have "in-house" all the technologies needed to build even most complex products. Today the house of 340 million is too small to contain all the tech needed for even moderately complex modern products. The tech pyramid became much higher and has much wider foundation. As a result, tariffs hit most strongly the domestic manufacturing which needs all those imported components/materials.
by bawolff | 2026-01-31 08:26:59+00:00
> The Neapolitans did not reject modern analysis simply because they considered it French.

And yet after reading the article, it sounds like that is exactly what happened. They took some minor philosophical dispute in math and blew it up for cultural reasons to stick it to the invader. It doesn't sound like it ever really was about the math for most people in that context.
by WilcoKruijer | 2026-01-31 08:27:59+00:00
I’ve recently started using a similar process to what you’re describing. It basically involves writing/speaking to AI in an unstructured manner, and having it extract entries for my knowledge base based on a certain schema. I built a tool to validate the entries to the schema, giving the AI a feedback loop so it can automatically fix/improve the entries. It also supports linking. I use agentic search in both entering and finding knowledge. Links, categories and metadata help the AI tremendously in finding relevant snippets. I go into more detail in this blog post [0].

[0] https://thalo.rejot.dev/blog/plain-text-knowledge-management
by contingencies | 2026-01-31 08:28:29+00:00
For old Irish names I would have thought Gallic-Druidic cultural associations might have some sort of currency or influence. Maybe try looking for research with those conceptual frames of reference. Here's an example query to place with your favourite LLM: "make a list of the top 30 plants associated with traditional herbal lore in pre-modern ireland. seek gallic/druidic associations through etymology, lore and written record (if feasible). table format."
by item007 | 2026-01-31 08:29:53+00:00
Quick clarification as OP:
A lot of comments anchored on Obsidian/PKM (which makes sense), but I’m not trying to build an Obsidian-only tool.

When I say “notes/links/docs”, I mean scattered personal inputs in general: emails, chats, bookmarks, posts, documents, repos, meeting notes, etc. The problem I’m validating is re-entry: surfacing the right context when something becomes relevant, without forcing everything to be rewritten as “notes” or adding another inbox.

If you’ve dealt with this, which source is the worst “graveyard” for you (email/chat/bookmarks/posts/docs/repos...), and do you prefer better recall/search, a pull-based digest, or a review ritual that extracts 1–3 concrete next actions?
by scbrg | 2026-01-31 08:31:02+00:00
> Even just among devs, even just among devs who truly love programming, most would be doing very different work, and working for different organizations (or none at all) if money weren't the driver.

Somehow I can imagine that a world where a the brightest minds of a generation didn't spend their prime optimizing ad clicking wouldn't necessarily be a complete disaster.
by pmontra | 2026-01-31 08:31:12+00:00
The very last words of the article are

> Time is something the universe continuously writes into itself.

So the next question is "how?"

We can generate interactions by bringing stuff close together, but the definition of closeness is not the naive one because entangled particles are close even if they are millions of miles away.

Knowing the how could spare us the hassle of generating gravity by bringing stuff together and maybe even creating antigravity by unwriting those recorded interactions.

But first, experiments experiments and experiments.
by item007 | 2026-01-31 08:31:28+00:00
I read the post — the plain-text accounting analogy is a great fit. The “unit test for knowledge” idea (a checker like bean-check, but for schema + links) feels like the missing feedback loop for most AI-assisted note workflows, and using git/history as the trust layer makes it much more auditable.

I also like the idempotency/provenance angle (unique IDs/links, checkpointing) and the “commit processing” workflow — that’s a concrete example of turning ongoing work into structured, queryable knowledge without a ton of manual ceremony.

Curious: in practice, what improved your quality the most — schema validation catching broken links/types, or constraining the entity set so the agent can’t invent structure? Also, do you find yourself actually using the query language day-to-day, or is it mostly agent-driven retrieval?

I’m exploring a similar closed-loop (context → retrieval → suggestion → human review → write-back) and summarized my angle in my HN profile/bio if you want to compare approaches.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-31 08:32:27+00:00
>It's hard to tell if this is just great clickbait, or if it's actually the start of an agent revolution.

They will stochastic-parrot their way to a real agent revolution. That's my prediction.

Nothing but hallucinations. But we'll be begging for the hallucinations to stop.
by item007 | 2026-01-31 08:32:36+00:00
This resonates a lot. “Save now so I don’t derail myself” is rational in the moment, but it creates a pile that later feels like a commitment (attention + follow-up work), so you avoid it.

I think you’re pointing at two separate problems that get tangled:

1. Re-entry: how to resurface the right item when you’re actually in the right mode

2. Filtering: deciding what’s worth keeping so the backlog doesn’t become guilt

The “radio-style passive feed” is interesting because it changes the contract: you’re not promising yourself you’ll do deep work, you’re just letting the system replay what you captured at a low cognitive cost. If it worked, it could also become a filter: only the stuff that still feels valuable on playback deserves a second pass.

One question: if you had a “listen/read later” mode, would you prefer it to be time-based (10 minutes a day) or context-based (only when you mark yourself as in a “curious/exploration” headspace)?

Details in my HN profile/bio if you want to compare this to the “active projects + pull-based resurfacing” angle I’m validating.
by jjmarr | 2026-01-31 08:33:08+00:00
Improved EHRs would improve medicine by making doctors more productive. Increases the amount of time they can spend billing instead of on administrative overhead. More billing is more money.

I don't think this is bureaucratic maliciousness to kill innovative EHRs. My guess is it's a really hard and boring problem to solve due to the integration work which makes it hard to break the network effects.
by georgeecollins | 2026-01-31 08:33:53+00:00
I think we agree! My point was that America was first, but you only saw that if you were doing business at a corporate level, particularly in things like tech or finance. If you lived in a small town, you saw your manufacturing shut down. If you lived in a big city you knew people who were doing business all over the world with great success.

And also I agree that the whole country benefited economically. But its hard to see that when your region is doing badly.
by raffa667 | 2026-01-31 08:34:24+00:00
Totally get the concern, and I actually agree on the “Instagram-ification” problem.

What ProntoPic does is basically what a professional real estate photographer already does in Lightroom: fix lighting, white balance, perspective, and sharpness.
No adding pools, no changing furniture, no fake sunsets, no staging things that aren’t there. My girlfriend is an interior designer, so I see firsthand how much effort goes into making spaces look 100% accurate but well presented.

The goal isn’t to misrepresent reality, just to make photos look like they were taken properly.

In practice this mostly helps small hosts and agents who don’t have the budget or time for professional shoots. Right now they’re uploading dark, crooked, yellowish photos that actively hurt bookings (like the ones in the hp, real examples).

I guess I need to make it clearer in the site. Thank you for the feedback!
by dwoldrich | 2026-01-31 08:34:32+00:00
I dislike the saying "the devil's in the details". It is the inverse of where the devil actually thrives - in the clever abstractions.

The beasts who rule this world are the banksters and their vast bureaucratic thrall. Their failing is these rulers have huffed their own degenerate anti-human messages for the past 75 years, have become deranged themselves, and now they've lost their attractiveness and persuasive power.

See what's gone almost completely by the wayside in their green agenda and lgbtqia+4g message as they struggle to cope and maintain their grip. Public, centralized AI is their great hope for control, but it won't survive the lawsuits and consumer protections that are coming. The banksters are 100% parasitical and headed for ruination.

The rules-based liberal order (liberal democracy) is quite real and has replaced any meaningful investments with speculative bubbles and rugpulls, put human life itself up for sale, and waged endless wars, psychological and kinetic. That's the brutal facts rather than beautiful abstractions.

All's well that ends.