MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-25 02:16:50+00:00
I am still not sure why you keep going on about press. I did not refer to press in my comment and I make no opinion on it here.

I am referring to the fact that back in the day communication used to be mediated by domestic, neutral carriers who got paid to carry communication neutrally regardless of source or content.

Nowadays, communication is primarily mediated by a handful of foreign companies that prioritize advertising revenue at all costs and will choose which media to carry and promote based on expected ad revenue. They are effectively acting as pseudo-press without the checks & balances and oversight that actual press is subject to.

> Please give an example of something social media gets away with that any other media would be punished for.

When’s the last time you saw an obvious scam advertised in a conventional print newspaper or magazine? Now check Facebook or YouTube ads. If such an ad made it through any reputable magazine heads will be rolling and they’d expose themselves to lawsuits, but social media keeps getting a pass.

Now, let’s say you’re a foreign threat actor and want to sway public opinion. You can’t just get in touch with the NYT/etc and ask them nicely. You’d need to buy and cultivate such influence over time and do so covertly because their people would get in trouble if there’s an obvious paper/money trail.

With Facebook? Create a page, make your propaganda video “engaging”, boost it with bot farms for the initial push and then Facebook will happily keep hosting and promoting your propaganda as long as its advertising revenue outweighs the costs of hosting it. That’s orders of magnitude cheaper than buying influence with traditional media.
by mcphage | 2026-01-25 02:17:59+00:00
> I think about what we are trying to implement, and if this iteration brings us closer to it.

> Where things go, how pieces fit, reusable patterns - this is more question of subjective taste and big-picture thinking.

I do that, too, only I call it coding, and it doesn’t require me to rewrite a bunch of badly written slop first.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-25 02:18:19+00:00
From the way you state it, it sounds like you have sole control and discretion over the deployments. Which is kind of exactly the point.

Suppose there was another person also with top level responsibilty telling you not to do that? It might be fine for your code, but they don't want their code doing that. My guess is 5 minutes later you'd have started a project to carve your code out from theirs so you could deploy it independently.
by vortico | 2026-01-25 02:18:20+00:00
I built a site to browse which songs include samples of others. It's common in hip hop, electronic, pop, etc to reuse drum breaks, melodies, or vocal snippets of other tracks. SampleBrainz includes 220,000+ of these connections.

All metadata is in the public domain (CC0), and anyone can contribute by adding sample relationships on MusicBrainz.

Source code at https://github.com/AndrewBelt/SampleBrainz
by card_zero | 2026-01-25 02:18:32+00:00
But reading all those old threads, I got three interpretations of "on topic":

1. Trivial intellectual trinkets,

2. Important topics that happen to overlap with intellectual interest,

3. Important topics that we somehow manage to have a thoughtful discussion about.

Is "off-topic" really about the standard of discussion and not about the topic?

There's a lot of mysterious influences in the dynamics between topic type, community culture, and standard of discussion. I mean to say that allowing thoughtful discussions of controversial topics is not a pipe dream, but it only happens occasionally and we're not really capable of sustained flight, so to speak. It seems like the interesting (worthy, important) adventures into inflammatory topics are parasitic on the comfortable trivial intellectual fluff, which keeps the forum-wide inflammation level down.
by Exes8217 | 2026-01-25 02:21:44+00:00
I've got the Hiby R1 and have been pretty pleased with it. The R1 doesn't actually run android but just straight linux. It boots up in about 6-8 seconds and returns to the place you previously were. As for physical controls it's got easy to identify buttons for volume, pause (double click for previous track) and
next track that are pretty easy to find in a pocket.

No experience with the R4 but seems to have good reviews with the hifi crowd.
by IncreasePosts | 2026-01-25 02:21:51+00:00
Yes, the live vaccine would prevent people from going abroad and coming home as a silent carrier, but the live vaccine leaves open the possibility of VAPP, meaning of the tens of millions of Americans who would need the live vaccine, some of them would develop VAPP and perhaps spread it to their community, which now generally has no immunity to polio if we aren't getting any polio vaccinations.
by andrekandre | 2026-01-25 02:22:03+00:00
> Do you understand how your code gets translated down to C, assembly, machine code?

yes, actually, and thats why i can debug and fix shit most people cant (and why i get paid what i get paid)

> How all that becomes electrical signals on a PCB? How the material properties work at the physical level and how its manufactured?

this is a non-sequitur imo, but you should def be aware of material properties and limitations (for example cpu throttling and bottlenecks caused by manufacturing process/cpu bandwidth or battery limitations help inform what is going on at a high level many times)

> "If I have seen further than others, it is only because I was standing on the shoulders of giants," Isaac Newton

by standing, he means understanding and building upon what others discovered
by defrost | 2026-01-25 02:22:11+00:00
Benjamin Franklin literally stated it was "good enough for now" (where "now" == hundreds of years past) despite lacking sufficient checks and balances, and would need constant attendance and amending over time until the likes of the Federalists found themselves a Trump to white ant the US from the inside out.

I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.

~ https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a7s3.html
by zzo38computer | 2026-01-25 02:25:59+00:00
I would want to use separate programs for displaying videos, whether or not the operating system includes them. Being able to play, pause, seek, set caption styles (including size, colour, and opacity), record it on a DVD, etc, would be helpful, but that can be whatever program you decide to use that has the features you wanted; whoever made the video or wants to send it to you should not need to care which of these features you are using (although they will need to include captions if you want them).
by myleshenderson | 2026-01-25 02:27:53+00:00
Given the infancy of all of these tools, it makes sense to experiment. So trying out everything that is not gas town is reasonable.

I haven't yet tried gas town (or any of the mentioned tools) as I don't need so many agents that I need something like that plus the cost concerns. I've been rolling my own very light orchestrator (mostly just worktrees/branches/instructions) and relying on claude itself to manage the sub agents as necessary.

I was a bit surprised by the "ripping out beads" sentence from all of the article, as beads does seem to serve a purpose independent of the orchestration tools. Giving agents a ticketing system independent of what us humans use makes a lot of sense to me.

I've experimented with using Jira/Linear to handle the "current work todos" and using beads just seems so much better. No mcps and remote api calls is pretty great.

I'll be curious to see how the other orchestration tools are handling this, because it seems like they will have to handle it.
by topherhaddad | 2026-01-25 02:27:54+00:00
TDI (time delay integration)

A little more detail that we didn't get into in the post. The 3-CMG control mode we first uploaded was v1. We had plans to improve the agility with later versions. In v1, we didn't have quite enough rate to match earth's, even with max TDI. We called it Banana Scanning. Kind of like slipping over the earth.

Net - the CMG imagery we captured had a few pixels of along-track smear in it. Which would have been removed in post-processing if we had made it through focus cal.
by jason_oster | 2026-01-25 02:28:16+00:00
> I wouldn’t have the ideas I have today if I didn’t spend years of my life in my editor.

You are confusing abstraction with implementation.

Abstraction is the tool that allows you to build bigger and better architectures. Implementation is just putting knowledge into practice. And that can be automated away. Compilers, code generators, DSLs, interpreters, and template languages are all examples of automating practical implementation details.

I would wager most people learn about computing top-down (start with a high level language like Python before exploring C or C++, or getting into kernel or embedded systems firmware development) rather than bottom-up (learning Maxwell's equations, Boolean algebra, logic gates, digital circuit design, CPU architectures, machine language, operating systems, C++, Python, ...)

Exploring the levels of abstraction is great for an inquisitive mind. But it isn't for everybody. Knowing all of the great designs for digital circuits doesn't give you any great ideas for software design. No one has to know anything about operating systems or memory models to build an OpenAPI client or server interface. That's the power of abstraction.

> I could defer to Claude code for all my work, and I’d be frozen in time, never to progress again, losing everything that makes my work my work.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What makes you believe you would never be curious enough to explore a new knowledge domain with Claude?

You're telling me that whatever motivated you to spend years in your editor would strangely evaporate the moment you begin using a new tool? Why? Are you just confident you that you _want_ to give up on being interested in new things? I'm really having trouble rationalizing the claim. It would have to be self-sabotage.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-25 02:28:24+00:00
> I just hope "dumb" EV's become a thing soon

What business case is there for a "dumb" EV?

By using touchscreens and software for most functionality, you dramatically reduce your supply chain overhead and better enhance margins (instead of managing the supply chain for dozens of extruded buttons, now you manage the supply chain of a single LCD touchscreen).

This was a major optimization that Chinese automotive manufacturers (ICE and EV) found and took advantage of all the way back in 2019 [0] - treat cars as consumer electronics instead of as "cars".

Edit: Any answer that does not take COGS or Magins into account is moot.

[0] - https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/automot...
by apatheticonion | 2026-01-25 02:29:12+00:00
Having spent a significant amount of time in Bangkok - the city center (and many urban hubs) is an amazing walkable place with pedestrian walkways suspended above major roads, lots of frequent public transit (metro, skytrain) that honestly makes my home city of Sydney feel like a developing country.

The only downside is that traffic creates a lot of pollution, and the engine noise (not honking, there's very little of that) is so bad that you need to yell to a person standing next to you to have a conversation.

As a visitor, I can't claim to know how to fix the problems facing locals, however I can't help but feel that urban centers would be 1000x better with mass adoption of EVs (bikes, cars). I have seen a spike in the number of Chinese EVs across the city - however I'm aware that economic pressures prevent mass adoption by the majority of the road-users
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-25 02:30:54+00:00
Yeah, you are missing a lot of somethings.

Alex Pretti was a good man, who cared about our nation's veterans, who was murdered for defending a woman while exercising his lawful rights as an American (the Second Amendment and First Amendment). I didn't want to leave your statement slandering the murdered man un-contested as to the situation.

Alex was doing what we are taught being an American means, and he was killed by masked government thugs because of it. And bootlickers now justify murdering people because they dared exercise their first and second amendment rights and challenged masked government agents. Bootlickers that want us to live in fear of our own government. We have the right to exercise our Constitutional rights free of risk from our own government's masked thugs.
Show HN: I built a quote search engine via "vibe coding" as a junior dev
by mosbyllc | 2026-01-25 02:32:43+00:00
Programming has always felt like a high wall to me. In my day job, I am the "junior" engineer—the one who gets stuck on syntax while others ship features. I often doubted if I was cut out for this.

But recently, I experimented with "vibe coding"—where I focus on the logic and flow, and let AI handle the implementation details. The result is AIMovieQuotes (https://www.aimoviequotes.com).

It is a simple but useful engine: you search for iconic lines from movies, TV, and songs by mood, theme, or keyword.

The process was a revelation. In the past, I would have abandoned this project when the CSS broke or the database queries got complex. This time, I acted as the architect. I described the outcome, and the AI paved the road.

For the first time, I felt the pure joy of creation rather than the frustration of debugging.

I am sharing this not just to show off the tool, but to share a realization: The gap between "having an idea" and "shipping a product" is vanishing. Even for a "weak" coder like me, building a complete product is now possible.

I hope you find the quotes you need, but more importantly, I hope this encourages other juniors to stop worrying about syntax and start shipping.
by ktpsns | 2026-01-25 02:32:44+00:00
Documentation and APIs can be both machine and human readable at the same time. For my impression, MCP is compating symptoms. In a well constructed system, there would be no need to write dedicated documentation or APIs for LLMs.

By the way, I am new to GraphQL and was amazed how it reduced the boilerplate I had to write for REST in my (classical ORM) project. In a single-person team, this allows me to rapidly write frontends. With libraries such as https://gqty.dev/ I basically write no more glue code. These are probably not the needs you have as an enterprise.
by dogmatism | 2026-01-25 02:33:25+00:00
Even more of a relic: those militias weren't just bands of yeoman farmers. They were veterans of the recent French-and-Indian war. Often who had served with the commanders of the British forces arrayed against them. George Howe brother of William who ultimately became CiC of British forces in America died in the arms of Israel Putnam, one of the continental army's first generals at the battle of Ticonderoga. They thought so highly of him, the Massachusetts assembly allocated funds for a memorial to Howe at Westminster. George Howe (unlike ICE, lol) often had a hard time bringing ultimate force to bear as he didn't really see the colonials as "enemy".

I'd submit it's a violation of the 2A to allow the Nat Guard (essentially the continuation of those militias) to be forcibly nationalized (it took quite a bit of negotiating to get them all to join the fledgling continental army)

Anyhoo, tl;dr, for sure, 2A is an anachronism
by crazygringo | 2026-01-25 02:36:58+00:00
> 2-12d conveys a very different story than 6-8d.

In agile, 6-8d is considered totally reasonable variance, while 2-12d simply isn't permitted. If that's the level of uncertainty -- i.e. people simply can't decide on points -- you break it up into a small investigation story for this sprint, then decide for the next sprint whether it's worth doing once you have a more accurate estimate. You would never just blindly decide to do it or not if you had no idea if it could be 2 or 12 days. That's a big benefit of the approach, to de-risk that kind of variance up front.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-25 02:39:23+00:00
I want the car to be able to contact emergency services, but not to otherwise be able to use the cellular network. Is there a good way to sabotage the eSIM, without otherwise breaking the modem? (This would still allow the car to be tracked via IMEI, but I'm not too worried about that: anyone capable of that is also capable of tracking my actual phone, and anyone buying that data will already know what car I own.)
by bsoles | 2026-01-25 02:39:55+00:00
The reliability of all AI tools with potentially severe consequences for people needs to be tested using adversarial patterns. This is nothing new, yet the mentioned article fails to do that. They test the happy paths and find the results to be satisfactory for themselves.

It is very common in academic investigations to achieve results with more than 95% accuracy, let alone 90%, when in the real world the same AI tools fail miserably.

So, yes, this is the nightmare scenario that I am afraid of where a simplistic "investigation" will be used to justify the use of unproven AI tools with real life consequences to people.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-25 02:41:14+00:00
> Tesla's EV trucks need to deal the same hard kick to diesel trucks that they did to cars

That won't happen until they design a normal truck. The Lightning sold more than the CT and it still ended up getting canceled(ish). It isn't going to be Tesla that does it, it will probably be someone else, and the driving factor is battery capacity. We've got a ways to go yet. It would help to have 400+ kWh batteries and megawatt chargers.
by Intralexical | 2026-01-25 02:42:44+00:00
> They should sit down with corporate leaders at Spotify, Ericsson, ASML, etc. and talk though what reforms are necessary for Europe to start minting unicorns as rapidly as the Americans can.

The EU should ask established incumbents how to best create lots of new upstarts, some of which will no doubt end up competing with them or disrupting their business models?
by refulgentis | 2026-01-25 02:42:52+00:00
I don't intend to be dismissive by sharing a bunch, I ate a bunch of downvotes so I should share something. But, there's no singular, like, Wikipedia article for "tech layoffs spiked significantly in 2022 and have stayed elevated" - so this is a mix of informal and formal and academic and business news that treats that knowledge as implicit while discussing it.

(I am deeply curious what valhalla you are at that skipped this so much that it was a foreign idea! N or A, it must be one of those two)

https://www.nerdwallet.com/finance/learn/tech-layoffs

https://www.reddit.com/r/Layoffs/comments/1ljvpr4/where_all_...

https://progresschamber.org/insights/tech-has-shed-nearly-20...

https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/05/14/tech-industry-lay...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/tech-layoffs-2022.html
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-25 02:42:56+00:00
When you fly at an airport, TSA are enforcing a subsection of travel laws (just like ICE enforces a subsection of immigration and customs law), but they are not 'law enforcement' as shown here:

https://jobs.tsa.gov/law-enforcement

Actual law enforcement is a seperate arm, the Federal Air Marshal Service.

ICE training has been reduced from 5 months to eight weeks. Law enforcement training was 16 weeks on it's own previously. There is zero possibility they are receiving law enforcement training in 8 weeks. There are now rumors training has been reduced to six weeks (ICE fails to update what their current training program is). I would note that training does not mean they are law enforcement (many Prosecutors and others attend Law Enforcement training) that type of training just means that they understand the system. You would not be able to cut ACTUAL law enforcement training in half (or more in this case) if someone is an ACTUAL law enforcement officer. Complete Law Enforcement training would be a REQUIREMENT of an ACTUAL Law Enforcement job.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/new-ice-recruit...

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/ice-more-doubled-i...
by apatheticonion | 2026-01-25 02:43:37+00:00
Try walking around Newtown in Sydney haha. "Charming" multi-million dollar "victorian-style" shanties with public transit that are a 30 minute walk away and break down every few days.

I think tier 1 Chinese cities are in a league of their own though. It's a shame it's so difficult to stay there for a prolonged period of time as a foreigner.

Thailand strikes a good balance of accessibility and development - that said I certainly agree that there are noticeable signs of it being a developing country. Still better than Sydney on balance though.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-25 02:45:02+00:00
If only this had made HN

(473 points, 10 hours ago, 565 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745047

(174 points, 8 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745944

(82 points, 7 hours ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746673

Your post 9 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750138
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-25 02:48:04+00:00
To be fair, this story is basically an ad, but a pretty good one, and many featured HN stories are really marketing. Personally, I don’t mind marketing stuff, if it’s interesting and relevant (like this).

But the fact that most comms cables, these days, have integrated chips, makes for a dangerous trust landscape. That’s something that we’ve known for quite some time.

BTW: I “got it right,” but not because of the checklist. I just knew that a single chip is likely a lot cheaper than a board with many components, and most counterfeits are about selling cheap shit, for premium prices.

But if it were a spy cable, it would probably look almost identical (and likely would have a considerably higher BOM).
by MBCook | 2026-01-25 02:48:18+00:00
The number of ICE cars I get stuck behind from time to time that just REEK is amazing. I’m in a decently well off area too.

Some putting off soot clouds, white smoke, nothing visible but clearly not doing complete combustion. Sometimes I wonder if half the cylinders are even working.

I’ve heard one car like that is the equivalent of a surprisingly large number of modern ICE cars is in good shape.

I love EVs. I’ve had one for 5 years now, and I’m glad they help. But I think the “are new EVs worse than new ICE” discussions so often miss a fact.

The pollution from ICE isn’t just from very modern well tuned vehicles, things vary wildly. But all EVs use the same power supply (assuming local grid only), so no individual vehicles put off 10x the pollution per kWh.
by purplepatrick | 2026-01-25 02:49:05+00:00
I’ve found that task isolation, rather than preserving your current session’s context budget, is where subagents shine.

In other words, when I have a task that specifically should not have project context, then subagents are great. Claude will also summon these “swarms” for the same reason. For example, you can ask it to analyze a specific issue from multiple relevant POVs, and it will create multiple specialized agents.

However, without fail, I’ve found that creating a subagent for a task that requires project context will result in worse outcomes than using “main CC”, because the sub simply doesn’t receive enough context.