MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-28 23:53:59+00:00
The point of Java was write-once, run everywhere, and that is perfectly viable these days. I don't want to live in a world where everyone is a Java programmer, and I don't think there is really any reason to suppose that unifying on a single programming language would be desirable for developers. IMO, Javascript already shows the dangers of over-unification; you get an ecosystem so full of packages that a significant portion of the language's developers are only capable of developing by stacking 1000 packages on top of each other, with no ability to write their own code and accordingly no ability to optimize or secure their programs according to the bespoke needs of the project rather than using general purpose off-the-shelf libraries.
Show HN: Slidekick – business-grade slides generation
by yersultan17 | 2026-01-28 23:54:21+00:00
Hey HN!

We started Perceptis a little over a year ago to bring the tide of generative AI into the consulting industry. At first, we focused solely on one use case: delivering professional-grade business proposals. The interaction was pretty simple: write a simple, email-like prompt about the proposal you want to request + attach any supplemental documents, and in <24 hours, you will get a polished, beautiful, 20-30 page (depending on request) deck according to the best consulting practices (also checked by our team for hallucinations and any other issues).

However, we kept hearing that our customers wanted to create slides instantly and go beyond proposals: presentations for the board of directors, team showcase, quick investor updates, QBRs, technical diagrams, etc. These presentations also need to follow their corporate branding, be fully editable, support PPTX-native charts, etc.

Recently, we launched Slidekick: our self-serve slide generation tool. You can describe your request in a single prompt and get a premium-grade slide in around 3 mins.

We want to provide slides that are truly professional and don't look like websites :) Slides you can truly share with your colleague in a real work scenario. Give it a try: https://app.perceptis.ai.

Would be happy to hear any feedback & thoughts! There is more to come and more to build!

-- Yers, Perceptis co-founder
by heliumtera | 2026-01-28 23:54:32+00:00
I think a fair comparison would be against a whitepaper? Clearly this is an exploratory venture and not production grade software.

You managed to clone the repo an run your test by yourself, whatever the outcome is this is a plus against the standard model for scientific research.

Also, a breath of fresh air among every other show HN thread using hundreds of adjectives to describe the "behavior" of a fully vibed system. I think this is a good model for presenting engineering projects.
by weebull | 2026-01-28 23:54:48+00:00
My biggest complaint is there's no way to name a signal because a wire isn't a thing. You instance gates and give those names, but wires are anonymous connections between gate pins.

I think this is backwards. Knowing that a signal is the clock, reset, data valid, adder result is far more important than the gate that drove it. The gates barely need names. Sadly, I think starting with that concept leads to a rather different language.
by andy_ppp | 2026-01-28 23:55:07+00:00
The UK government want to write a cheque with our money for "Digital ID" whatever nebulous Tax + Services + Tracking that is... they can't even control costs on a tiny website, what is the cost of an everything site? Infinite pounds? Imagine what even a basic v1 spec for that looks like, it would probably never even be released.

A reminder the UKs Track and Trace apparently cost £29.3 billion of the £37bn allocated. Disgusting waste of money.

But at least Keir and the government will have cushy jobs to go to after they leave government.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-28 23:55:10+00:00
I believe they're talking about 4Chan. There's a timeline linked in the article, but tldr this Ofcom (isp I guess?) has been trying to force 4chan to use age verification on all visitors in compliance with UK law, even though 4chan is based in the US.

> 12/4/2025: Ofcom writes to 4chan again, claiming it is “expanding its investigation” into the site for not age-verifying its users. Ofcom explains that although it is “a UK-based regulator… that does not mean the rules do not apply to sites based abroad.”
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 23:56:02+00:00
> If Windows 11 struggles this badly on a brand new laptop that I'm certain would retail for $4000+, I can only imagine how miserable it is for everyone else.

I purchased a Surface Pro at one point, with the intention of using it for sketches and using Windows on it, thinking it'll be better because the hardware and OS is from the same organization. Nope! Slow out of the box, horrible thermal management and software bugs galore. Installed Arch with Gnome on it, ran better in most aspects. However, pen usage and touchscreen even after I tried my best to adjust it was worse than Windows, I guess they won there.

I didn't use to hate Windows, because at least it wasn't utterly broken, just stupid, but they're really in a deep decline lately. Maybe it's time for one of those "stop the press" type of moments where they have to stop, take a serious look and fix what they have as it currently feels impossible to use reliably.
by lbreakjai | 2026-01-28 23:56:15+00:00
Food only takes you so far. The housing stock is simply terrible. Extremely small, damp, badly insulated ... I lived in four boroughs, from poor Southwark to rich Richmond. Had a couple of friends sharing a luxury flat by the Emirates stadium, you could hear the neighbours two doors down.

It was alright in my twenties. Built a career, made a ton of money before the IR35 reform, but you sort of felt like everyone had an expiration date, was there to build a career and then move away. It's not that interesting outside of zone 1, it's the same high street full of Prêts/Nerro/Itsu (If you're lucky) or Paddy Power/Chicken shop/charity shop, and rows of small, drafty and moldy terraced houses.

I wouldn't live there, but Paris is infinitely more charming, and keep getting more pleasant as they remove the cars from the city. It's a place that feels lived in, that encourages and rewards you for wandering.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-28 23:56:29+00:00
>Why would you want to give the government such power?

Because the government is the only body equipped to create and enforce consumer rights laws. Do you think we'd have refund policies if the government didn't regulate them?

>then they are surprised when a new government gets to power and uses this new regulation/capability against you.

Okay. How is the act of forbidding platforms from banning alternative payment processors going to backfire?
by knome | 2026-01-28 23:56:35+00:00
>Ironically, being anti-science is pro-science. Skepticism of institutions and consensus is the scientific method

skepticism is necessary, but not sufficient.

if they merely nay-say institutions and then go with their gut, it's certainly not.

only when someone attempts to rationally disprove a position, offering alternate testable theories and actually performing those tests is science done.

if you suspect an institution is wrong, that's fine, but it's just a hunch until someone does a test.
by lazyeye | 2026-01-28 23:56:36+00:00
Bill Clinton - 12 million deportations

Barack Obama - 3 million deportations

The violence and chaos is only happening in blue states.

He's what the Democrats (and their media arm - CNN, NBC etc) need to do:-

- Massively reduce the inflammatory rhetoric and incitement to violence. Stop using labels like "gestapo" etc to describe law enforcement officers simply doing their job

- Tell the protestors to do so from a distance and not to engage/obstruct armed law enforcement officers doing their job. Clearly it is not a safe environment.

- Allow local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE (used to be the norm) and share intelligence on the location of criminals so ICE can be much more targeted and efficient. ICE only needs to check 1 house instead of 5 to locate people etc.

- Allow local law enforcement to perform a protection role they would normally do when protestors obstruct ICE from doing their job (used to be the norm)

- Release criminals from jail directly to ICE (used to be the norm) instead of releasing them to the streets.

All the chaos that is happening is intentional, well-funded and highly planned.

https://x.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540

The reality is the Dems are creating the chaos but the govt gets the blame.

This is the political calculus for the Dems....yes there will be the inevitable tragedies but the political gains are too significant to ignore.
by shimman | 2026-01-28 23:57:30+00:00
Because this country needs a third funding, and I find your arguments incredibly moronic.

Political power is absolutely critical to help workers over the interests of the elites, deciding to actively cede this power is stupid because we do know who fills the vacuum and it's mostly evil people that want to continue to do evil things.

Please remember that every right we the people have was never given to us. It was forcibly taken by violence and force from those that abuse authority.

Advocacy is by far the worse way to enact real change. Organizing, literally expanding the base of political power, is the only way to change society.

People have forgotten how much power they hold and can yield, luckily there are those that do realize this and frankly I'm glad I spend my limited time on earth with those people than with your lot (those that complain but never do).
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-01-28 23:57:37+00:00
i am in this software making cauldron for 35years already. Seen/been lots of things. Still..

For the last 3 months, i have applied to ~150+ euro-places, and 20 non-euro. At various levels between senior-engineer and cto. 15-20% replied with no. Only 1% - yes, two leads - were interested but had very-very low budget for what they wanted - and started with that. The rest did not bother to reply (yet? some manage to reply in 2-3 days, other in 2 weeks -or- months, but most - never).

i don't know if it's the AI-hype-blinding, or ageism, or pump-our-numbers, or we-want-super-hero-for-free, or afraid-to-commit-to-any-$$$decisions, or what. But definitely i cannot find a job.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-28 23:57:54+00:00
It seems fairly easy to find figures on how many cars Tesla has produced each quarter but, surprisingly (at least to me), it's harder to find compiled information on (for each quarter):

- Average Selling Price;

- Cars produced vs cars sold;

- How many unsold cars are in inventory. I did find this [1];

- A model breakdown of the above 2.

The reason I'm interested in this because my theory is that:

1. Sales have been shifting from the Model S/X to the Model 3/Y, which reduces average selling price and overall profit. Stopping production is really about the inventory glut;

2. Unsold inventory is going up, particularly for the Cybertruck; and

3. Tesla marketshare is collapsing in many markets due to a combination of brand collapse among the most likely EV buyers and competition from lower-priced alternatives, particularly Chinese EVs in developing markets.

So what exactly is propping up this company at an above $1T market cap?

[1]: https://electrek.co/2025/06/17/tesla-tsla-inventory-overflow...
by aprilthird2021 | 2026-01-28 23:57:55+00:00
The US economy is struggling heavily. Population shrank for the first time in a long time that will reduce economic demand. The USD has gotten a lot weaker in the past few years. The regulatory environment is unpredictable and so risk being priced in is high. Every company is chasing scarcer and scarcer energy and chip resources. And then add on top irrational and constantly changing tariffs.

This causes companies to constantly review costs and look for ways to trim, which they're doing.
by phatskat | 2026-01-28 23:58:18+00:00
If this were true we would have a lot more violence from the left on our hands, but time and again the more violent acts seem to come from the right - see the sibling comment for references.

The left surely is not without violence, however it’s often (from what I’ve seen) reactionary or in self-defense. It’s rare to see left-leaning actors committing large-scale violence like school shootings, theater shootings, family massacres, plotting to kidnap elected officials, attempting to overturn elections, etc.

The only thing remotely similar from the left I can think of, in America, was the Weather Underground and they tried to ensure the buildings they bombed weren’t occupied, though iirc a night security guard they didn’t account for died in one (and from what I’ve heard from one of the leaders was that he was incredibly remorseful).
by eaglelamp | 2026-01-28 23:58:21+00:00
You're misinterpreting the quote. Socrates is saying that being able to find a written quotation will replace fully understanding a concept. It's the difference between being able to quote the pythagorean theorem and understanding it well enough to prove it. That's why Socrates says that those who rely on reading will be "hard to get along with" - they will be pedantic without being able to discuss concepts freely.
by algorithmsRcool | 2026-01-28 23:58:33+00:00
I get excited every time I see a paper from Bradish. I've learned so much about high performance software from studying systems that he has worked on. (not to diminish his many co-authors and contributors)

Some of his other projects:

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/Trill
by FEELmyAGI | 2026-01-28 23:59:08+00:00
My current dark factory stack is using a Cyber Elon [0] at CEO with a dev team consisting of Gilfoyle, 2x Mr Robots, and Pickle Rick, with Alan Turing as dev manager, easily 5x'd my output in raw performance metrics with this, and considering I had already easily achieved a 10x over baseline dev performance using vanilla agents and other mainstream AI techniques. Whenever people say AI is just glorified auto complete I know they haven't been using the latest model versions.

[0] Basically an immortal version of ELon musk with his mind fused cybernetically with Grok AI
by Aeglaecia | 2026-01-28 23:59:21+00:00
obviously the scientific method is perfect , but i think i remember reading that the majority of studies are non reproducible, so things clearly arent perfect in practice. if one truly believes in the fallibility of humans, they also believe in the fallibility of the applying the scientific method - how could the output of of a fallible process ever be non fallible? confounding variables, hidden variables, incomplete sample spaces, etc ... these cannot ever be accounted for with certainty , thus i trust the scientific method as much as any human lol
by avadodin | 2026-01-28 23:59:31+00:00
Windows does allow you to enter Chinese characters when you say your language is Chinese.

I have moved to Bazzite at home but it is ridiculous that you can't just use your language right away. A normal person would just bail out.

If you choose Chinese, all of the content is localized but you have to enable an input method and that doesn't even actually allow you to input Chinese characters!

It shows you a scrolling(!) pop-up that tells you you have to enable a different option in order to type in the language that you chose at the very beginning. Hope you didn't choose the wrong one out of ibus, fctix and fctix(wayland experimental) – whatever happened to scim, and xim, I miss editing environment variables.

Even the cheapest Android gadget can do this out of the box.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-28 23:59:41+00:00
It'd be a bit odd if people were recommending the older version which scores worse, even if it's marginal. The particular benchmark in the example is fungible, but you have to pick something to make a representative example and no matter which you pick someone always has a reason "oh, it's not THAT benchmark you should look at". The benchmarks from the charts in the post exhibit the same as described above.
by jmspring | 2026-01-29 00:00:09+00:00
There is a lot of middle management. I would include PMs in this. Salesforce does planning from Benioff down. Goals -> each report goals, etc. Planning based off goals - much horse trading. Planning from the lead/pm level - weekly - more horse trading. Reality was urgent stuff got taken care of. Literally over a two year period, outside fancy wording, the technical component of the initial goals maybe completed 30%.

There are a lot of inefficiencies I can see what this manager at AWS was trying to optimize for.
by egorfine | 2026-01-29 00:00:19+00:00
> I actually think this could be useful

Yeah it could be. Could. But it also could be used for limiting freedoms with general purpose computing. Guess what is it going to be?

> hostile to the idea of boot verification, because this is a process that is really low level

Not because of that.

Because it's only me who gets to decide what runs on my computer, not someone else. I don't need LP's permission to run binaries.
by contingencies | 2026-01-29 00:00:23+00:00
While you can often get bad versions of things if you go out of your way, many foods are hamstrung by supply chain, which is to say without a critical mass the labor intensive elements do not make sense or the specific crops are unavailable. Ask any migrant (eg. your next Uber driver) which foods they miss from their hometown or childhood and whether locally available versions are up to par. You'd be surprised at the details that emerge.
by dizzy9 | 2026-01-29 00:01:11+00:00
In the past, expensive contracts like this were handed out as rewards to Tory donors. Help fund the party's re-election, and your company will receive a cushy reward. See also the Cash-for-Honours scandal, where the Labour party were also found giving preference to donors in the selection for lordships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-Honours_scandal
by t43562 | 2026-01-29 00:01:57+00:00
e.g. Starting something in the background and having to stick sleep statements into the script to wait till it is ready to receive requests on whatever port it uses. The sleeps are fine on one machine and on another they aren't enough.

Stashing the PID somewhere and writing code to use the PID to work out if the process is still running and hasn't crashed so you can report a status on it. It's just a waste of one's own time doing this repeatedly and there are ways to do it badly. Every initscript repeated the work.

You could probably do something quite good with bash if you provided a library of functions and demanded that scripts be written to use them.
by bwestergard | 2026-01-29 00:02:00+00:00
I am a birder who checks eBird for sightings of rare birds in my area. Let's see how useful this agent is in finding easily googled information.

https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN36086

This is the first google result for "rare birds pg county" and many similar queries.

I prompted Kairos by text message: "What rare birds have been reported on eBird in Maryland's Prince George's County today?"

On the page above, I can see that a Vesper Sparrow was sighted (and confirmed) and a Common Yellowthroat was reported (but remains unconfirmed). I expect the Vesper Sparrow to be reported, as you ca

I'll anthropomorphize for brevity's sake.

Kairos fired up a chrome session. I can watch as it generates notes like:

- "Accessed eBird.org to search for Prince George's County, Maryland sightings",
- "Need to navigate to county-specific recent observations for today's date",
- "Will identify rare, unusual, or out-of-season species reported today"

This plan doesn't seem super promising, as there will be hundreds or thousands of bird reports in the county, and the rarities may or may not be on the most recent list. It seems to run into difficulty and generates a new prompt:

"Go to eBird.org and access the recent sightings for Prince George's County, Maryland for January 28, 2026.\n\nTry this approach:\n1. Navigate to https://ebird.org/explore\n2. Use the search or navigation to find \"Prince George's County, Maryland\" or \"Prince George's, US-MD-033\"\n3. Look for a \"Recent Visits\" or \"Recent Observations\" section\n4. Make sure the date filter is set to today (January 28, 2026)\n5. Extract ALL species reported today with their locations\n\nReturn the complete list of species observed today in Prince George's County with:\n- Species name\n- Location/hotspot name\n- Number of individuals (if available)\n- Observer name (if available)\n\nI need the full list to identify which ones are rare or unusual.""

Despite the training data almost certainly including discussions of the eBird rare bird alert feature, which is very popular, it seems to be reinventing the wheel.

Eight minutes in and it is now searching for today's lists from one specific birding hotspots in the county.

It's final text back to me had no rare birds reported today. It correctly reports that a LeConte's Sparrow was seen in Maryland, but it doesn't specify where. Ten seconds of googling shows it was reported on the other side of the state. More than a week ago.

It doesn't mention the Vesper Sparrow or Common Yellowthroat.
by alexashka | 2026-01-29 00:02:07+00:00
> Making up jobs to keep people employed isn't a viable solution to me. Supporting them in some way (re-training, UBI, service work, ...) seems like the only way forward

Everyone works 20 hours/week.

The 'problem' isn't what you think it is. The people in power are worried that lifting the boot off of the neck of the working class may result in loss of power for them.

They are right. Hence the stalemate.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-29 00:02:08+00:00
Indeed. I should rephrase that I think it would be feasible to use propaganda/marketing to redefine what a "flat tax" is, and make the most popular definition one where the basic living wage is exempt and the "flat tax" only applies to the amount over that.

Through that confusion of language, it might then manage to be popular with both libertarians and progressives.
by phatskat | 2026-01-29 00:02:40+00:00
It’s illegal to interfere with ICE when conducting actual ICE business, but time and again they’ve been shown to be looking for people with no reason to be under investigation let alone arrest. In Pretti’s murder, they were looking for a “violent criminal” who had um….traffic violations, from years prior, and was ummm here legally? And that’s just the most high profile case. If they can’t get their shit together and actually do their job without resorting to executions of citizens and deporting children to counties they’ve never been to, then it is very much our civic duty to stand up to them.
by trhway | 2026-01-29 00:03:17+00:00
fish rots from the head. Violence, lies and grift. The very head is convicted grifter who is openly using his position for personal enrichment. Right next - Noem - trigger happy dog shooter, and why suddenly so many DHS ads with her ? :

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campai...

"Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign."

and that cherry on top:

"DHS, White House shared white nationalist song in ICE recruitment posts"

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/white-national...
by deaux | 2026-01-29 00:03:26+00:00
No, I didn't imply that anywhere. Not sure how you read that. They knew she was a very poor pick in terms of "good for the whole populace" and "maximizing the chances of winning", yet chose her despite that, not because of it. The theater is the pretending that they have the best for the populace in mind, which directly contradicts this.