MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by philipkglass | 2026-01-26 21:36:42+00:00
The massive build-up they have is mostly renewables. Surely, you see the problems with that, right? Georgia is a red state, so it's political suicide to even hint at proposing that.

Large scale solar power generation has more than doubled in Georgia since 2020:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=1...

Georgia is ranked 7th in the US for solar power capacity:

https://seia.org/solar-state-by-state/

Texas is number 2, behind only California. Solar power is popular in sunny states even if they're "red," though the most heated political rhetoric doesn't reflect that.
by erxam | 2026-01-26 21:36:51+00:00
But what's the point of it being long-term? I want fuck-off money right now. What's the point of having a bit of money when I'm old, can barely leave the house and everyone and everything I cared about is long gone?

Why do I want to have a million in the bank by age 70 if I'm going to kill myself by age 30-35?
by ttoinou | 2026-01-26 21:37:03+00:00
Non-french might not realize that we have a huge free software community of france, made up in large part of communist state-funded scientists / researchers. They do a lot of cool stuff, you can see a few projects for example on Framasoft who has the explicit goal of un-Googling yourself : https://framasoft.org/en/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/

That said, having technical solutions isn't enough to replace USA / private solutions. The answer has to take into account the economical, social and political situation
by reducesuffering | 2026-01-26 21:37:08+00:00
It's because few realize how downstream most of this AI industry is of Thiel, Eliezer Yudkowsky and LessWrong.com.

Early "rationalist" community was concerned with AI in this way 20 years ago. Eliezer inspired and introduced the founders of Google DeepMind to Peter Thiel to get their funding. Altman acknowledged how influential Eliezer was by saying how he is most deserving of a Nobel Peace prize when AGI goes well (by lesswrong / "rationalist" discussion prompting OpenAI). Anthropic was a more X-risk concerned fork of OpenAI. Paul Christiano inventor of RLHF was big lesswrong member. AI 2027 is an ex-OpenAI lesswrong contributor and Scott Alexander, a centerpiece of lesswrong / "rationalism". Dario, Anthropic CEO, sister is married to Holden Karnofsky, a centerpiece of effective altruism, itself a branch of lesswrong / "rationalism". The origin of all this was directionally correct, but there was enough power, $, and "it's inevitable" to temporarily blind smart people for long enough.
by dang | 2026-01-26 21:37:19+00:00
I went through and looked at all the accounts that flagged the current thread, which took a long time since there were many of them. I found a handful (about half a dozen) who looked to be flagging for exclusively political reasons. That's a small fraction of the total.

In other words, the situation on this story turns out to be exactly the same as the general case that I described a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818):

The accounts that flag these stories are almost always established accounts, so I'm not too worried about them being sockpuppets or paid influencers.

From everything we've seen, flags on political stories are a coalition between (1) users who don't want to see (most) political stories on HN, and (2) users who don't like the politics of a particular story they are flagging. In other words, users who care about the quality of the site, and users who care about a political struggle. This dynamic shows up on all the main political topics.

There are some accounts that abuse flags in the following sense: they only ever flag political stories, and their flags are always aligned with the same political position. When we see accounts doing that, we usually take away their flagging rights.

This, so far, seems sufficient to me. If we start to see indications that it's not sufficient, we'll take more action.

To make the point clearer, I went through all the other accounts that flagged the OP and found examples of other stories they had flagged. I'll put that list in a reply to the current post since it's so long. I think anyone who browses that list will see what I mean when I say that most of these accounts are not flagging for purely political reasons.

I don't know if that assuages your concerns—probably not, because it's in the nature of the internet that people feel this way and explanations, data, etc., don't address those feelings—but we can at least try.
by tibbydudeza | 2026-01-26 21:38:01+00:00
Watching Dallas on a Tuesday evening with the entire family gathered in our parents' bedroom with me and brother and sister at the end of the bed on the floor watching the latest schemes of JR Ewing and poor hapless brother Bobby.

We never had the TV set in the lounge - it was meant for special occasions like tea and cake for family gatherings.

We still have a TV but it hardly used - everybody has iPads in the house.
by kaibee | 2026-01-26 21:38:11+00:00
The problem with this example is scale. A person is rational, but systems of people, sharing essentially gossip, at scale, is... complicated. You might also consider what happened in China during the last time there was a leader who riled up all of the youth, right? I think all systems have a 'who watches the watchmen' problem. And more broadly, the problem with censorship isn't the censorship, its that it can be wielded by bad actors against the common good, and it has a bit of ratcheting effect, where once something is censored, you can't discuss whether it should be censored.
by testdelacc1 | 2026-01-26 21:38:26+00:00
The fact that the codebase is meaningless drivel has already been established, you don’t need to defend them. It’s just pure slop, and they’re trying to get people to believe that it’s a working browser. At the time he bragged about that `cargo build` didn’t even run! It was completely broken going back a hundred commits. So it was a complete lie to claim that it “kind of works”.

You have a reputation. You don’t need to carry water for people who are misleading people to raise VC money. What’s the point of you language lawyering about the precise meaning of what he said?

“No no, you don’t get it guys. I’m technically right if you look at the precise wording” is the kind of silly thing I do all the time. It’s not that important to be technically right. Let this one go.
by saidinesh5 | 2026-01-26 21:38:37+00:00
Only because of the enormous efforts put in by debian package maintainers and it's infrastructure.

If you're a an indie developer wanting your application to run on various debian based distros but the debian maintainers won't package your application, that's when you'd see why it's called DLL hell, how horribly fragmented the Linux packaging is and why even steam ships their whole run time.
by kbelder | 2026-01-26 21:39:48+00:00
"Mozilla Pioneers invites creative technologists and product builders to collaborate with Mozilla in shaping the next era of mission-aligned products for Mozilla."

Topics of interest:

* Trusted AI Experiences

* Firefox Adjacent Products

* Open Source AI tools for Developers

* AI’s Impact on the Content/Information/Media Ecosystem

* Future of Communities

$19k a month.

My personal commentary: Sadly, nothing about actual browser development.
by storystarling | 2026-01-26 21:39:52+00:00
I'm trying to wrap my head around the inference latency trade-offs here. If you're replacing the standard softmax output with a diffusion-based generative head, aren't you effectively swapping a cheap matrix operation for an iterative denoising process at every single step? It seems like the compute cost per second of generated audio/video would be massive compared to standard discrete tokenization.
by fooker | 2026-01-26 21:40:00+00:00
> the specification of the language

Guess what language the specification is written in (if it exists at all) ?

It's usually natural language, and even then, compilers deviate from the specification all the time, and the specification has bugs.

Formal specifications are a thing, but the science is nowhere mature enough to dictate what compilers do.

> unless it has a bug

Compilers are not magic, the way it follows specifications is up to the interpretation of compiler developers like yours truly. And there are tens of thousands of compiler bugs. There was a notorious LLVM pass that had more bugs than lines of code ;)

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues?q=is%3Aissue

This is a list for just the last few years after LLVM switched to the using github for tracking issues.
by westurner | 2026-01-26 21:40:12+00:00
Task: play tetris

Task: write and optimize a tetris bot

Task: write and safely online optimize a tetris bot with consideration for cost to converge

openai/baselines (7 years ago) was leading on RL and then AlphaZero and Self-Attention Transformer networks.

LLMs are trained with RL, but aren't general purpose game theoretic RL agents?
by parpfish | 2026-01-26 21:40:39+00:00
i hate the single season dumping at once for a big binge. it always feel like i'm plugging into the content trough and gorging myself to pass the hours.

you can't talk about a show with somebody until they're also done binging, so there's no fun discussion/speculation (the conversation is either "did you watch that? yeah. <conversation over>" or "you should watch this. <conversation over>".
by skeletal88 | 2026-01-26 21:41:18+00:00
What was different between countries?

For electronic products, it should be enough to get the CE mark on your product, and it can be sold in any country. That is the point of the EU, that any company can sell it's products or services in the whole union, there are regulations, but they are union wide, not specific for each country.

Unless you were making something very special, that each country wants to and is allowed to regulate separately.

Taxes can be different, the VAT % is different in each country. But so is it also in each county or town in the US, and your people claim that this is the reason why you can't include taxes on prices in grocery shops, which is difficult to believe here for our people. So dealing with different tax rates shouldn't be big news for you? I mean... there are lots of online shops that know about different tax rates, it's not difficult. Or you could let someone else handle it for you.
by avazhi | 2026-01-26 21:41:30+00:00
The Russian government isn’t reasonable (nor is it particularly competent), but neither is blaming the Russians for every bad thing that happens in the world. Sometimes trains derail. A track buckling due to shit maintenance is the Occam’s Razor most likely answer here.

You can call out the Russians for being pieces of shit without making them the boogeyman for literally everything. Doing the latter just makes you seem like a conspiracy theorist.
by spockz | 2026-01-26 21:41:39+00:00
The thing is that the cat is out of the bag now. EU alternatives are popping up. Governmental services are moving to national or regional (EU) services/providers.

There is a difference between a nation (USA) and its president having the theoretical power to shut down whole parts of your infrastructure which everyone agrees “that would never happen” versus it having happened multiple times already. Then the setting up of separate boards, basically retreating from NATO/NAVO, the military threat against Greenland. It doesn’t inspire confidence. He has been breaking with “things that you just don’t do” for a while now.
by simonw | 2026-01-26 21:41:57+00:00
Was that a while ago? Minesweeper's pretty easy.

Claude Opus 4.5: "Build minesweeper as an artifact, don't use react"

(Then "Fix it to work on mobile where right click isn’t a thing")

Play it here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/minesweeper

Transcript here: https://claude.ai/share/2d351b62-a829-4d81-b65d-8f3b987fba23
by dhosek | 2026-01-26 21:42:40+00:00
I remember that SGI was superfast. I did some on-site work for a company that had an SGI workstation and I had installed TeX on it for a typesetting system I’d developed with them. When I ran the TeX process, it was so fast that the screen did not scroll as it ran, instead it just refreshed with the whole multi-line output. At first I thought something had gone wrong because I was used to waiting a few seconds for the code to run on my PC, but it turned out, no, their machines really were that fast.
by Hamuko | 2026-01-26 21:43:01+00:00
Hopefully they have something better prepared because "we can't be held liable for the black box we made" doesn't sound like a recipe for success. In Canada, they've already ruled that a website operator is liable for information that their LLM chatbot gives out.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...
by fsckboy | 2026-01-26 21:43:10+00:00
everything you are saying rings perfectly true to me but there's an additional problem I encounter. (i'm going to make up my example because i'm lazy to check but you'll get the idea) say you want to look up "Alexander the Great"...

...God help you if Brad Pitt and or the Jonas Brothers ever played a role with exactly that name-match. The web and search (and the culture?) have become super biased toward video especially commercial offerings, and the sorting ranked by popularity means pages and pages of virtually identical content about that which you are not interested in.
by cortesoft | 2026-01-26 21:43:27+00:00
The WD-40 website says that is a myth, and it is a lubricant

https://www.wd40.com/myths-legends-fun-facts/

Myth: WD-40 Multi-Use Product is not really a lubricant.

Fact: While the “W-D” in WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, WD-40 Multi-Use Product is a unique, special blend of lubricants. The product’s formulation also contains anti-corrosion agents and ingredients for penetration, water displacement and soil removal.
by rtp4me | 2026-01-26 21:44:03+00:00
I wonder if this is really true or just an off-the-cuff comment (no disrespect). I have worked for a number of major tech companies and have never seen this in practice. Some managers were older, some were younger, some the same age. In most/all cases, people were hired based on their technical skills not because they fell into some magical age gap.
Show HN: First autonomous ML and AI engineering Agent
by svij137 | 2026-01-26 21:44:25+00:00
Founder here. I built NEO, an AI agent designed specifically for AI and ML engineering workflows, after repeatedly hitting the same wall with existing tools: they work for short, linear tasks, but fall apart once workflows become long-running, stateful, and feedback-driven. In real ML work, you don’t just generate code and move on. You explore data, train models, evaluate results, adjust assumptions, rerun experiments, compare metrics, generate artifacts, and iterate; often over hours or days.
Most modern coding agents already go beyond single prompts. They can plan steps, write files, run commands, and react to errors. Where things still break down is when ML workflows become long-running and feedback-heavy. Training jobs, evaluations, retries, metric comparisons, and partial failures are still treated as ephemeral side effects rather than durable state.
Once a workflow spans hours, multiple experiments, or iterative evaluation, you either babysit the agent or restart large parts of the process. Feedback exists, but it is not something the system can reliably resume from.
NEO tries to model ML work the way it actually happens.
It is an AI agent that executes end-to-end ML workflows, not just code generation. Work is broken into explicit execution steps with state, checkpoints, and intermediate results. Feedback from metrics, evaluations, or failures feeds directly into the next step instead of forcing a full restart. You can pause a run, inspect what happened, tweak assumptions, and resume from where it left off.
Here's an example as well for your reference: You might ask NEO to explore a dataset, train a few baseline models, compare their performance, and generate plots and a short report. NEO will load the data, run EDA, train models, evaluate them, notice if something underperforms or fails, adjust, and continue. If training takes an hour and one model crashes at 45 minutes, you do not start over. Neo inspects the failure, fixes it, and resumes.
Docs for the extension: https://docs.heyneo.so/#/vscode
Happy to answer questions about Neo.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 21:44:34+00:00
I love golang man! And I use it for the same thing too!!

I mean people mention rust and everything and how AI can write proper rust code with linter and some other thing but man trust me that AI can write some pretty good golang code.

I mean though, I don't want everyone to write golang code with AI of all of a sudden because I have been doing it for over an year and its something that I vibe with and its my personal style. I would lose some points of uniqueness if everyone starts doing the same haha!

Man my love for golang runs deep. Its simple, cross platform (usually) and compiles super fast. I "vibe code" but feel faith that I can always manage the code back.

(self promotion? sorry about that: but created golang single main.go file project with a timer/pomodoro with websockets using gorilla (single dep) https://spocklet-pomodo.hf.space/)

So Shhh let's keep it a secret between us shall we! ;)

(Oh yeah! Recently created a WHMCS alternative written in golang to hook up to any podman/gvisor instance to build your own mini vps with my own tmate server, lots of glue code but it actually generated it in first try! It's surprisingly good, I will try to release it as open source & thinking of charging just once if people want everything set up or something custom

Though one minor nitpick is that the complexity almost rises many folds between a single file project and anything which requires database in golang from what I feel usually but golang's pretty simple and I just LOVE golang.)

Also AI's pretty good at niche languages too I tried to vibe code a fzf alternative from golang to v-lang and I found the results to be really promising too!
by redox99 | 2026-01-26 21:44:54+00:00
People thinking this does not matter just because the code is awful, it used dependencies, or whatever, are missing the point.

6 months ago with previous models this was absolutely impossible. One of the biggest limitations of LLMs is their difficulty with long tasks. This has been steadily improving and this experiment was just another milestone. It will be interesting a year from now to test how much better new models fare at this task.
by experi | 2026-01-26 21:45:00+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a solo founder and recently built Experi, a lightweight invoicing platform for freelancers and small businesses.

The idea came from repeatedly watching freelancers (and honestly, myself) lose time to admin just to get paid. Most tools I tried felt like full accounting suites when all I really wanted was:
• create an invoice quickly
• send it
• see what’s paid / overdue
• and automatically chase unpaid ones

So I built Experi to focus only on that.

It currently supports:
• fast invoice creation
• client and project management
• scheduled and recurring invoices
• automatic chasing of overdue invoices
• clear tracking of paid vs outstanding

The goal is not to replace accounting software, but to be the “background invoicing engine” for people running small operations.

It’s very early, and I’m actively shaping it around feedback.

I’d genuinely love input on:
• what you find most painful about invoicing
• features you feel are missing from existing tools
• and whether this feels useful or redundant in a crowded space
by Glawen | 2026-01-26 21:45:39+00:00
Impossible n'est pas français !

And you seriously are saying Teams is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Ok I concede the videoconferencing works, but it's quite a feat to make a text chat window so slow and buggy. Sometimes when I type, it is spelling stuff backwards!
Message texting is a solved problem since IRC or ICQ
by zzless | 2026-01-26 21:46:20+00:00
I am not sure why you are being downvoted but you are absolutely right: it is even in the name (WD stands for 'Water Displacement'). My reaction to this article was a huge: 'why?'. WD-40 is at best mediocre at everything it is used for. Wurth makes much more capable compounds for the came purposes. Their penetrating oil is unmatched. I guess as part of the popular culture, WD-40 has its value but I am not sure its chemical properties are all that unique.
by dhosek | 2026-01-26 21:46:22+00:00
My local theater does “mystery movies” on select Monday nights where for $6 I can see a before first run movie with the catch that I don’t know what it is before it starts. The last JP movie was one of these last summer and I was so glad I didn’t pay regular price for it. I had hoped it could be good but it turned out to just be a lot of nonsense to the point where I was hoping the dinosaurs would eat all the people.
by nu11ptr | 2026-01-26 21:46:24+00:00
Exactly what I was thinking. I mean how can you produce something, esp. in bulk, when the exact ingredients and quantities aren't known? Assuming it is made in a typical factory, the machines would have to be programmed and that would typically mean someone has to know. I wonder if they split the knowledge over several different groups so a group only knows a single piece? Hmm....
by loosescrews | 2026-01-26 21:46:34+00:00
To some extent. There are limitations on the technique, including, but not limited to, not determining the relative concentrations and not detecting all components. The WSJ article actually links to an older Wired article about doing gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy on WD-40 and the results: https://www.wired.com/2009/04/st-whatsinside-6/
by 9x39 | 2026-01-26 21:46:49+00:00
It's possible for some of that to continue, but we really don't know what would happen if we directly connect payrolls and finances of the healthcare industry to the federal government in the US. It's a fair question how such a big connection would suffer when the government is punitively closed in a faustian bargain as part of a political struggle, as seems to be common recently.

There might be a few top-down emergency provisions to ensure checks go out to keep the system from toppling, but I wouldn't work if my pay is frozen and neither would my plumber, electrician, lawyer, etc. The last few shutdowns have run over a month - that can easily exceed the cash reserves of most businesses (that would be providers) and large businesses would shutter or have layoffs before burning that much cash.

We can't be so confident in how a $5T/year system would react if its primary cash flow valve is turned off, is all. Handwaving away the scope and complexity doesn't help anything.
by chatmasta | 2026-01-26 21:47:00+00:00
Yeah, although the smaller providers, the sketchier they are. I'd rather use a VPN in a pool of thousands/millions of users. As a data point, I can signup for Proton VPN by downloading it to my iPhone and providing any email address. Without any payment, I can connect to VPN servers and browse anonymously ("anonymously"). This is certainly easier than provisioning a new VPS, not least because I need to pay for it.
by seniorThrowaway | 2026-01-26 21:47:17+00:00
>Private entities might have their own policies, but government censorship is fairly small.

It's a distinction without a difference when these "private" entities in the West are the actual power centers. Most regular people spend their waking days at work having to follow the rules of these entities, and these entities provide the basic necessities of life. What would happen if you got banned from all the grocery stores? Put on an unemployable list for having controversial outspoken opinions?