MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by susam | 2026-01-27 05:06:06+00:00
[EDIT: This was meant to be a reply to another comment in this thread but I posted it under the top-level comment by mistake. I am leaving this comment intact anyway, in case someone finds it useful.]

The web browsers don't highlight the feed URL information embedded in the HTML anymore, quite unfortunately. But if you go to a YouTube video, say, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM> and then view or inspect the HTML source, you can find the LINK tag for the feed:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TNs2ohrc6hnRQ5Sn2w">

So the feed URL in this case is: <https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TN...>.
by furyofantares | 2026-01-27 05:06:41+00:00
> WD-40 works great for its intended purpose.

When I was a kid some family friends used WD40 on their joints - arthritic knees and such. Church friends, actually, which I mention only because stuff like that probably helped me reject the religion as readily as I did.

A web search for "WD40 arthritis" shows that there are still people doing this.
by anticodon | 2026-01-27 05:07:39+00:00
Had the same problem with my moto (key not turning the lock). Fortunately, there was a car nearby and owner had a spare jug of oil. I put some oil on the key, put it in the ignition lock, waited for 5 minutes, and it started to turn again.

Although I must admin WD-40 helped me in the past opening an old door lock.
by Negitivefrags | 2026-01-27 05:08:08+00:00
As a manager, this is 100% the answer. The people who do this are incredibly valuable.

At every performance review I tell all the people who don't do this that they need to do it more. None of them ever do.

For all I can tell, it's an immutable characteristic that 90% of people will never bring something up unless you ask them.
by aunty_helen | 2026-01-27 05:08:53+00:00
I agree with you in part, you can’t expect to learn something like coding without the doing.

The brave new world is that you no longer have to do “coding” in our sense of the word. The doing, and what exercises you should learn with have both changed.

Now students should build whole systems, not worry about simple Boolean logic and program flow. The last programmer to ever need to write an if statement may already be in studies.
Show HN: An Internationalization GitHub Action to Replace Crowdin with LLMs
by cport1 | 2026-01-27 05:09:03+00:00
I built an open-source GitHub Action that translates i18n files using LLMs, designed as a drop-in replacement for Lokalise, Phrase, and Crowdin.

The problem: TMS platforms charge per-word and per-seat, and their machine translation lacks product context. A typical SaaS with 500 strings across 9 languages costs $200-500/month.

How it works:
- Extracts strings from your codebase (XLIFF, JSON, PO, YAML)
- Diffs against previous translations (only translates what changed)
- Sends to any LLM (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, Ollama) with your product context, glossary, and style guide
- Commits translations back to your branch

Key technical bits:
- Structured generation for ICU message format (CLDR plural rules handled correctly - Russian 4-form, Arabic 6-form, etc.)
- Hash-based caching to avoid re-translating unchanged strings
- Provider-agnostic interface - swap LLMs without config changes

GitHub: https://github.com/webdecoy/ai-i18n

Happy to answer questions about the ICU handling, prompt design, or anything else.
by tayo42 | 2026-01-27 05:11:17+00:00
You mention the tools you can use to make it happen.

I think we're at the point where you need concrete examples to talk about whether it's worth it or not. If you have functions that can't be called twice, then you have no other option to test details in the implementation like that.

Yeah there's a tradeoff between torturing your code to make everything about it testable and enforce certain behavior or keeping it simpler.

I have worked in multiple code bases where every function call had asserts on how many times it was called and what the args were.
by mrandish | 2026-01-27 05:11:25+00:00
> I'd say that they were a snake oil salesman.

I don't know if "snake oil" is quite demonstrable yet, but you're not wrong to question this. There are phrases in the article which are so grandiose, they're on my list of "no serious CEO should ever actually say this about their own company's products/industry" (even if they might suspect or hope it). For example:

> "I believe we are entering a rite of passage, both turbulent and inevitable, which will test who we are as a species. Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power"

LLMs can certainly be very useful and I think that utility will grow but Dario's making a lot of 'foom-ish' assumptions about things which have not happened and may not happen anytime soon. And even if/when they do happen, the world may have changed and adapted enough that the expected impacts, both positive and negative, are less disruptive than either the accelerationists hope or the doomers fear. Another Sagan quote that's relevant here is "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
by gixco | 2026-01-27 05:11:48+00:00
Why is the go-to always "you must not have used it" in lieu of the much more likely experience of having already seen and rejected first-hand the slop that it churns out? Synthetic benchmarks can rise all they want; Opus 4.5 is still completely useless at all but the most trivial F# code and, in more mainstream affairs, continues to choke even on basic ASP.NET Core configuration.
by renehsz | 2026-01-27 05:12:12+00:00
> maybe today you can still build a win10 binary with a win11 toolchain, but you cannot build a win98 binary with it for sure.

In my experience, that's not quite accurate. I'm working on a GUI program that targets Windows NT 4.0, built using a Win11 toolchain. With a few tweaks here and there, it works flawlessly. Microsoft goes to great lengths to keep system DLLs and the CRT forward- and backward-compatible. It's even possible to get libc++ working: https://building.enlyze.com/posts/targeting-25-years-of-wind...
by beloch | 2026-01-27 05:12:21+00:00
His family farmed a few things, including trees. Carter was on the record as a fan of soft-wood lumber tariffs, even though his term had come and gone by the time the softwood lumber dispute arose.

There are democratic presidents who have done worse things to Canada than Carter. I singled out Carter because, today, he seems to be viewed as left-leaning (for a POTUS) and un-Trump-like.
by perihelions | 2026-01-27 05:12:40+00:00
"aimed to stop protesters from "organizing reunions and protests"" is a direct quote from one of their top politicians. I'm not going to pretend I didn't read it.

There's foreign bad-actor misinformation in every country (Iran too!)—it's cynical, and specious, to say that excuses governments who take away their citizens' internet access. New Caledonia admitted specific intent to target "organizing protests". That's exactly the reason why they shouldn't have the power to cut off their internet (though really, no one should). They shouldn't be in that position of power over the protesting faction, because their disagreements are so strong that they can't help but abuse that power. They've delegimitized the protestors; by censoring them, they're not "protecting" them from foreign actors in some well-meaning paternalistic way (their rationalization), they are rather continuing their political battle by other methods.

It's an anti-pattern, all over the world right now, that groups of people who start off with irreconcilable political differences, devalue the legitimacy of the other group's speech and their right to speak it. One group calling another "mislead by propaganda" is an aspect of that delegimitization. This pattern needs to be called out and pushed back against, when it's used to rationalize silencing dissent.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-27 05:13:19+00:00
>Basically, as an employer it simply isn't fun to be forced to be in the "providing access to healthcare" business when that's not your core business.

It is for most large employers as it helps depress salaries and reduce competition from startups. Employees will want to work for a large employer that lets them pay for health insurance with pre-tax dollars, among other tax advantaged benefits that having a well funded HR department can provide. And employees cannot easily compare compensation at other employers so they are more likely to stick around than shop around, reducing the need to increase pay to keep up with the market.

Employers can also tweak compensation by modifying deductibles/out of pocket maximums/healthcare provider networks, and most people's eyes will glaze over before they can figure out if they got an increase or decrease in their total compensation.
by cowpig | 2026-01-27 05:13:51+00:00
YCombinator is 20 years old.

The current administration has been talking about a 51st state and Mark Carney made a speech at Davos about a rupture in the World Order and the "Middle Powers" standing up for themselves.

Suddenly YCombinator no longer invests in Canadian startups.

Maybe it is "just corporate governance," maybe not.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-27 05:15:34+00:00
100%

The reason there is no unringing this bell is not just that we have a capricious, vainglorious president, it's that all of checks and balances that are supposed to restrain the executive have proven worthless so far. Republicans in Congress have completely declared their impotence, having fully relinquished their duties that the Constitution specifically delegates to the legislative branch, like tariff power, war powers, etc.
by anticodon | 2026-01-27 05:16:27+00:00
EU is a colony of USA. If it would be necessary, US can simply force EU to buy US technology.

If you check the EU politics, they never do or say anything that can be interpreted negatively by US or damage US interests.

In 2025, EU and US signed an agreement that obliges EU to buy energy resources from US at ridiculously high prices, despite that EU is already struggling with the high price of energy.
by bleepblap | 2026-01-27 05:16:28+00:00
there is actually a science change that happened, and it's not (entirely) just politicians changing their mind.

The big thing going from X-ray (2d) to CT (spin an X-ray machine around and take a ton of pictures to recreate a 3d image) did a lot to let security people see inside of a bag, but the hitch is that if you see a blob of gray is that water, shampoo or something else?

The recent advance that is letting this happen is machines who will send multiple wavelengths of X-ray through the material: since different materials absorb light differently, your machine can distinguish between materials, which lets you be more sure that that 2litre is (mostly) water, and then they can discriminate
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-27 05:16:41+00:00
There’s alot to imaging. When my wife was battling cancer she was getting alot of MRIs and was in a trial for computerized radiology. We got to talk to the radiologist, who showed us the difference between what he found vs the machine. The machine spotted some stuff that he didn’t, but wasn’t as good at classification.

You also need context to appropriately interpret what you see.
by contingencies | 2026-01-27 05:16:52+00:00
Ahh, the naïvety of the scientific mind! The security theater is intended to prevent government beaurocrats' mates from having to get real jobs and keep them happily sponging off public money. Also, set themselves up for post-career high paid gigs with those same private sector beneficiaries, so they can't be done for corruption during their career. Yes, really. Ask an AI about mid to late career public sector transitions to private sector and cross-examine 100 top examples across markets perceived as 'low corruption index'.
by cortesoft | 2026-01-27 05:17:14+00:00
This still doesn’t make any sense. If they are worried a dumbass employee would generate CP using the tool, wouldn’t that same employee also download it from the web? Or use a web based tool to generate it?

Any employee that is going to use a corporate AI tool to generate CP is going to use other corporate tools to do worse things. There is no point in worrying about it.
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-27 05:17:24+00:00
This is the opposite of my experience. AirPods refusing to connect, randomly disconnecting, pressing "pause" on my phone only to have "play" instead invoke Apple Music on my Mac, and so forth. There are tons of "smart" features built into these that make the experience worse than I've had on normal, bluetooth headphones.

When it works, they at least connect with little friction. That's nice. The real value is in the very good noise-cancellation and battery life.
by minimaltom | 2026-01-27 05:18:35+00:00
Some of what OP is saying generalizes to the concept of being "too early" - if you are early, your engineering / innovation spend is used to discover that at-the-time reasonable ideas don't work, or don't work with the current appetite, whereas later entrants can skip this exploration and start with a simple copycat.

My (business-school) partner reminds me that first movers are seldom winners.
by throw10920 | 2026-01-27 05:18:51+00:00
> The brave new world is that you no longer have to do “coding” in our sense of the word.

Notice how I also talked about coding being a way that you learn how computers work.

If you don't code, you have a very hard time understanding how computers work.

And while there's some evidence that programmers may not need write all of their code by hand, there's zero evidence that either they don't need to learn how to code at all (as you're claiming), or that they don't need to even know how computers work (which is a step further).

There's tons of anecdotes from senior software engineers on Hacker News (and elsewhere) about coding agents writing bad code that they need to debug and fix by hand. I've literally never seen a single story about how a coding agent built a nontrivial program by itself without the prompter looking at the code.
by edm0nd | 2026-01-27 05:19:32+00:00
Correct. In the US, the TSA is just a government jobs program for the lowly skilled or unskilled. It's all security theater.

TSA Chief Out After Agents Fail 95 Percent of Airport Breach Tests

"In one case, an alarm sounded, but even during a pat-down, the screening officer failed to detect a fake plastic explosive taped to an undercover agent's back. In all, so-called "Red Teams" of Homeland Security agents posing as passengers were able get weapons past TSA agents in 67 out of 70 tests — a 95 percent failure rate, according to agency officials."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...
by w10-1 | 2026-01-27 05:21:18+00:00
It's nice, and a lot of work, to gather this from the city. Many thanks!

But because it's just a stream, the only interaction is to browse, which can be mind-numbing.

It would be interesting to sort by image vector, to find tags from the same person, to locate them on a map, to mark and share favorites, etc.

Graffiti raises a host of social issues; features that concretize that could be helpful.
by corneater33 | 2026-01-27 05:21:29+00:00
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by indolering | 2026-01-27 05:22:39+00:00
This is exactly what TSMC does and they have taken money customers placed in escrow. NVIDIA's investment in Intel is a hedge against TSMC. The hyper-scalers are free to invest in a second source if they want.

I do wish Intel an Samsung would cooperate on open source EDA (etc) software to make switching to other fabs less risky and capital intensive.
by businessmate | 2026-01-27 05:24:41+00:00
Regulatory scrutiny of artificial intelligence is often discussed as a future event. Something that will happen once lawmakers catch up, enforcement ramps, or a major failure forces action.

That framing is misleading.

Scrutiny does not emerge because regulators decide to “look harder.” It emerges when ordinary supervisory processes encounter questions they can no longer answer.

This article explains why, under current conditions, that moment is becoming unavoidable.
by gwern | 2026-01-27 05:24:44+00:00
Well, whichever one checked first, the point still holds. Checking is not a free operation and you should expect it to have consequences and it to affect Uber's demand forecasts etc., and affect other price quotes. You do not have independence here and so the comparison is not as meaningful as it seems. As the Roman wit said, "when two people do the same thing, it's not the same thing."

(The right way to do this is to randomize multiple independent occasions - wait until one of you was about to call an Uber, immediately flip a coin to decide who does, each time checking you or your wife's Uber, and never both, and compare the long-run average.)

> with an apologetic confirmation dialog, possibly only after some holding period has timed out

Right. I've seen the same thing myself. They would prefer not to apologize to the customer because they changed the price, because it is in fact annoying and a bad customer experience. So the prices are surely carefully set in many ways with an eye towards not changing as much as possible.

> This enables people to construct a plausible story to explain any price.

Indeed. So you should mention one of the most plausible stories if you're going to list a bunch of them.
by throwaway150 | 2026-01-27 05:25:04+00:00
> An arbitrary limit like 100ml is pointless

Do you know that the 100 ml liquids gets scanned in the Heathrow airport? Many times they used to do a secondary scan too after the primary scan. I recall this very well because many times I was made to wait longer after my carry on arrived because they wanted to put the liquids through a secondary scan.
by gwern | 2026-01-27 05:28:03+00:00
Hm... I think I would predict that it would depend on speed because querying prices reveals information, but not accepting also reveals information, so I would expect that it would go up initially due to an expected shortage, but then when it becomes clear that no one is accepting, it reverts to normal or lower, because that suggests low urgency or willingness-to-pay compared to what the models had forecast for that exact location & time, so they have to be offered lower prices to accept at all.

(This is the flipside of personalized pricing: it's also lower prices, as noted in some of the anecdotes, although he mostly emphasizes the potential for higher prices.)
by joe_the_user | 2026-01-27 05:29:02+00:00
Microsoft has a cultural problem; it went from an "engineers" company to an MBA directed one

Every simplistic analysis of failing company X uses a hackneyed cliche like this. But in the case of MS, this is completely ridiculous. MS has been renowned for shitty software, since day one. Bill Gates won the 90s software battle based on monopoly, connections and "first feature to market" tactics.

If anything, the heyday of MS quality was the mid 2000s, where it was occasionally lauded for producing good things. But it was never an engineers company (that's Boeing or whoever).
by colechristensen | 2026-01-27 05:30:43+00:00
>I'd go so far to say this is probably the case for most people. Your average person is in really poor fitness-shape but just fine health-shape.

Modern medicine has failed to move into the era of subtlety and small problems and many people suffer as a result. Fitness nerds and general non-scientists fill the gap poorly so we get a ton of guessing and anecdotal evidence and likely a whole lot of bad advice.

Doctors won't say there's a problem until you're SICK and usually pretty late in the process when there's not a lot of room to make improvements.

At the same time, doctors won't do anything if you're 5% off optimal, but they'll happily give you a medicine that improves one symptom that's 50% off optimal that comes along with 10 side effects. Although unless you're dying or have something really straightforward wrong with you, doctors don't do much at all besides giving you a sedative and or a stimulant.

Doctors don't know what to do with small problems because they're barely studied and the people who DO try to do something don't do it scientifically.
Show HN: An OpenAI API compatible server that uses GitHub Copilot SDK for LLMs
by ashtadmir | 2026-01-27 05:31:17+00:00
I've been playing around with the new official GitHub Copilot SDK and realized it's a goldmine for building programmatic bridges to their models.

I built this server in Go to act as a OpenAI-compatible proxy. It essentially lets you treat your GitHub Copilot subscription as a standard OpenAI backend for any tool that supports it. I have tested it against OpenWebUI and Langchain.

Key Highlights:

- Official SDK: Built using the new Github Copilot SDK. It’s much more robust than the reverse-engineered solutions floating around and does not use unpublished APIs.

- Tool Calling Support: It maps OpenAI function definitions to Copilot's agentic tools. You can use your own tools/functions through the Copilot without copilot needing access to the said tools just the definitions is enough.

The goal was to create a reliable "bridge" so I can use my subscription models in my preferred interfaces.
by keepamovin | 2026-01-27 05:31:20+00:00
This is one of the things I love about these kind of posts. Some other people have said this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328667

I actually feel it's really sweet and touching that that's an impact, but also think that it's a really important thing. Also, yep GP3 is great at jokes!
by NetViper | 2026-01-27 05:31:46+00:00
Built this after years watching post-production studios pay $10k+/year for Aspera/Signiant to move large files.
Keryx supports S3, P2P (with NAT traversal), and relay transfers. ML model picks the best strategy based on network conditions, RTT, and file type in real-time.
Recent test: 66.8GB Athens→LA in 11 minutes (102.82 MB/s sustained). Production files - BRAW, EXR, MOV sequences.
Built in Rust. Free CLI available at https://netviper.gr/keryx/download/
Technical bits: adaptive chunking, STUN/TURN for NAT hole punching, concurrent stream management, strategy selection without overfitting.
Happy to discuss the architecture or answer questions.
Free CLI: https://netviper.gr/keryx/download/
by FilosofumRex | 2026-01-27 05:32:30+00:00
"Iran International", isn't registered anywhere in the US or traceable to any reputable source, it has no reporters in Iran but claims to have access to "classified" documents of IRGC. This wreaks of desperation at a failed coup

IRGC is not involved in internal affairs, it's Iran's special forces and focuses on strategic defense forces.