MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by profsummergig | 2026-01-27 16:28:18+00:00
It's insane to me that BBC now has a paywall.

Way to fall-off from being the one source of news everyone in "Anglo" countries in the Third-World used to turn to (and love and respect... however biased the news may have been).

Edit: am trying to access from US, I see a paywall. Good to hear from comments that other countries don't see a paywall.
by jlokier | 2026-01-27 16:28:23+00:00
Some recent HN comments about CRT implosions people have experienced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355765

"I still have a piece of glass in back of the palm of my right hand. Threw a rock at an old CRT and it exploded, after a couple of hours I noticed a little blood coming out of that part of hand. Many, many years later was doing xray for a broken finger and doctor asked what is that object doing there? I shrugged, doc said, well it looks like it's doing just fine, so might as well stay there. How lucky I am to have both eyes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354919

"2. Throwing a big big stone to an abandoned next to the trashcan CRT TV while I had it placed normally because it didn’t break when I threw it facing up and the next thing I remember after opening my eyes which I closed from the bang was my friends who were further down the road looking at me as it I were a ghost since big big chunks for the CRT glass flew just right next to me.

CRTs were dangerous in many aspects!"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356432

"I'll never forget the feeling of the whoosh when I was working as a furniture mover in the early 2000s and felt the implosion when a cardboard box collapsed and dumped a large CRT TV face-down on the driveway, blowing our hair back. When the boss asked what happened to the TV, I said it fell, and our lead man (who had set it on the box) later thanked me for putting it so diplomatically."
by simonw | 2026-01-27 16:28:46+00:00
The version that was live on GitHub the day they published their blog post was missing compilation instructions, didn't cleanly compile and didn't pass GitHub Actions CI.

The project itself did compile most of the time it was being developed - the coding agents had been compiling it the whole time they were running on it.

Shortly after the blog post they updated the GitHub repo with compilation instructions and it worked. I took this screenshot with it: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cursor-simonwil...

The "it didn't even compile" criticism is valid in pointing out that they messed up the initial release, but if you think "it never compiled" you have an incorrect mental model.
by 0x1ch | 2026-01-27 16:29:10+00:00
I've been on and off linux desktops since the advent of Wayland. Unsure of the actual issues people run into at this point outside of very niche workflows or applications, to which, there are X11 fallbacks for.

Also, by "commercial linux vendors", you do realize Wayland is directly supported (afaik, correct me if wrong) by the largest commercial linux contributors, Red Hat, Canoncial. They're not simply 'vendors'.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-27 16:29:12+00:00
> I guess it's called "universality" for a reason.

> I'm hoping some brilliant minds out there can dissect musical tastes

There has to be some reason there are "Top 10" listings for video games, music, art, tv, movies, anime, vacation destinations, toys, interior designs, historical buildings in NYC, et. al.

Certainly there is a great deal of variance in the order and membership of these lists, but you do find a lot in common. Without some underlying pattern or bias, I don't think we'd see this in so many places so consistently.

I am fairly convinced there is something to do with biological efficiency around information theory that drives our aesthetic preferences.
by infecto | 2026-01-27 16:29:15+00:00
> There are polarizing events getting more coverage right now, by far, than anything else in the USA, and HN user infecto is subscribing to the idea that the algorithm isn't going to try to check if these important ongoing events interest them.

No conspiracy theory here. Long time user of TikTok. The sometimes part is that I am not hooked on it but I do use its regularly. I started using it after being a user on Douyin.

Like I already said I have no input on the censorship but just anecdotally to me something’s dis change that was out of the norm for my usage that I never experienced before. If you want to say that’s normal ok but I am suggesting it was out of the norm as a long long time user.

Not sure why you are lumping me with a conspiracy theory just sharing a datapoint that something did change weather on purpose or not.

Sorry to offend you but please don’t misread and lump me into a conspiracy! I explicitly said I had no opinion or datapoint on the censorship but there was a massive change in the feed. Wild how many hoops you are jumping through here. You continue to call out my own experience as wrong and now pump me into a conspiracy theorist. Nutty.
by coldtea | 2026-01-27 16:29:27+00:00
Yes, humans have found that you don't need officially stamped statistics (and in many cases they're unreliable or "doctored" anyway), and that they can make general observations on their own, through something they call experience.

And a near universal experience with doctors for anybody paying attention is that.

One can reject it or accept it and improve upon it after checking its predictive power, or they can pause their thinking and wait for some authority to give them the official numbers on that.
by ndkap | 2026-01-27 16:29:52+00:00
TikTok easily bends over backwards authoritarian government. In Nepal, during the GenZ protest, TikTok disabled the search for "NepoBabies" which is the term people used for the affluent lifestyle of leaders' children and which was why the GenZ protest happened. Every other social media was banned but not TikTok because they happily censor whatever the government tells them to
by aprentic | 2026-01-27 16:30:25+00:00
How so?

My experience in China was that the police were a bit on the bureaucratic side but otherwise far less obtrusive than in the US.

They divide their police forces into civil police and armed police. The civil police tend to be bored looking middle aged guys lounging around in guard booths at museums. They don't have weapons. The only armed police I saw stood at attention at the airport except when they had a changing of the guard ceremony.

As near as I can tell, China only allows immigration if they think that will benefit China. They've been pushing hard on academic scholarships and, in recent years, they've managed to shift net visits from the US to China.

They also seem to be pushing really hard on increasing the number of visiting African scholars. That's likely straight out of the US playbook; they see China as a rising power and want to make sure that their emerging leaders were educated in China and have ties to China.
by nsingh2 | 2026-01-27 16:30:39+00:00
In my own testing these models sill have a different flavor to them

- Opus 4.5 for software development. Works faster, and tends to write cleaner code.

- GPT 5.2 xHigh for mathematical analysis, and analysis in general (e.g. code review, planning, double checks), it's very meticulous.

- Gemini 3.0 Pro for image understanding, though this one I haven't played around with much.
by throwawayffffas | 2026-01-27 16:30:46+00:00
> A user noticed that their email signature formatting was off in Cora, our AI-powered email assistant. I asked Claude Code to investigate and fix it. By morning, the fix had touched 27 files, and more than 1,000 lines of code had changed. I didn’t write any of them.

Email signature formatting, 27 files, more than 1000 lines of code changes? I would not read that code either, that's automatically rejected. I can't possibly imagine a problem that would result in a subtle formatting bug that would require that level of change.

> migration that moved email_signature from one database table to another

Migration? For a formatting bug? Are you sure?

Stop self-snitching people, this kind of behavior is beyond unprofessional, its negligent. Anyway have fun with your unreadable spaghetti code base.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-27 16:30:51+00:00
Sibling comments have no clue what they're talking about. I actually engineer these things.

The short answer is cost and heat. What you're describing is a linear constant current driver, which are the gold standard for flicker-free operation. Drawback is a much more complex circuit and a transistor burning off a ton of waste heat.

A constant current driver requires sensing the current across the LED, which involves sensitive analog circuitry. A PWM drive requires essentially nothing more than a FET tied directly to your microcontroller.

There are switch-mode constant current drivers, best of both worlds. Essentially a buck-boost converter in current mode instead of voltage mode. These are slightly more expensive, so they don't appear in consumer lighting products.

All that aside, the reality is that if your PWM frequency is high enough, it doesn't matter. Above several KHz it's imperceptible. The reason that this still isn't done universally is that it's a third of a cent more expensive to use a controller that can switch above 1KHz. All hail the glorious race to the capitalistic bottom.

At work I just finished up a constant current driver circuit. At home I'm building a custom lighting system with bespoke driver circuits. Despite having a CC driver I can pull off the shelf, I still chose 10KHz PWM. It's easier and more efficient, and neither you or I could tell the difference in the quality of the output light.
by xp84 | 2026-01-27 16:31:00+00:00
No, it seriously was not that. We didn't refuse to vote for Harris because of the idiotic cats nonsense. It was in large part her and the whole DNC's explicit embrace of DEI (note: "i don't like DEI" isn't anti-minority. Plenty of minorities also want to get jobs and admitted to schools because they qualify for and earn those things and not as a free handout because of their skin).

Not 20 years ago, like 90% of Americans would have agreed that it's insane to use racial quotas and different standards of qualification for different groups. Today, the 20% or so who disagree with me on that have dragged the DNC into this unpopular position, abandoning a lot of their previous voters. This has consequences.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-27 16:31:31+00:00
> A production-grade Matrix homeserver implementation

It's getting outright frustrating to deal with this.

Fine, random hype-men gets hyped about stuff and tweets about it, doesn't mind me too much.

Huge companies who used to have a lot of good will putting out stuff like this, seemingly with absolutely zero reviews before hitting publish? What are they doing? Have everyone decided to just give up and give in to the slop? We need "engineering" to make a comeback.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-01-27 16:31:38+00:00
The reviewed MSI looks like a great 2-in-1, but a laptop is also more than its CPU and RAM. The MBP's screen has substantially higher resolution and brightness and refresh rate, for instance. I'm not saying the MSI isn't a good deal, just that it's not reasonable to compare the prices of two laptops like that.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-01-27 16:31:41+00:00
Even today there's plenty of non humans (and non-primate) tool use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_use_by_non-humans.

In terms of tools by homonins, there is a roughly ~3million year history of stone tool use by various species, and the main thing preventing that date from being pushed further back is the difficulty in discerning between stones that have been shaped intentionally and those shaped by natural forces.
by dewey | 2026-01-27 16:31:46+00:00
> US-based visitors to BBC.com will now have to pay $49.99 (£36) a year or $8.99 (£6.50) a month for access to most BBC News stories and features, and to stream the BBC News channel.

Only the US traffic has a paywall, there's none if you visit it from somewhere else. Understandable to charge people who don't pay for it with their taxes in my opinion, especially if you delivery videos and other expensive content for free without ads.
by cmiles8 | 2026-01-27 16:32:17+00:00
I think the idea could work well but the execution in the field was consistently very poor. There were a few of these at airports with just an intimidating gate and generally non-engaging human standing there.

It was as if they expected everyone to know what to do, but when I’d watch 99% of people just sort of looked at the store, saw the odd gate things, and then just shrugged and walked off. The stores were almost always completely empty amidst a busy concourse.

Even if the tech worked (reports say it didn’t work well) they completely missed the boat on creating a clear customer experience that navigated the new tech.
by proee | 2026-01-27 16:32:30+00:00
Has anyone used their go stores? I'm curious how the experience felt from a consumer standpoint. Do you feel welcomed or more like a thief?

I remember WAY back in the day when Arby's implemented touch screen ordering (on CRTs!) and it was a very quirky process. An Arby's employee would sit behind the counter and stare at you while you spent 5 minutes poking a CRT display. Very slow and very impersonal. They discontinued them in a short period of time.
by antonvs | 2026-01-27 16:33:07+00:00
Ignoring your last line, which is poorly defined, this view contradicts observable reality. It can’t explain an LLM’s ability to diagnose bugs in code it hasn’t seen before, exhibit a functional understanding of code it hasn’t seen before, explain what it’s seeing and doing to a human user, etc.

Functionally, on many suitably scoped tasks in areas like coding and mathematics, LLMs are already superintelligent relative to most humans - which may be part of why you’re having difficulty recognizing that.
by palmotea | 2026-01-27 16:33:08+00:00
> That’s not what Romney said. His - and the wider establishment’s - concern is that unsanctioned content is allowed to be treated the same as any other content.

The axios article you linked was not actually very clear about what Romney said, and the actual quotes are consistent with my points.

> Anyone knows that TikTok simply tailors your feed to your interests & interactions.

You'd have to be pretty naive to think that's all that it does or all that it will ever do. Think about it: the most effective kind of influence and manipulation would also be "[tailored] to your interests & interactions," and subtle enough that you don't perceive it as manipulation.

> And if they had undeniable proof that TikTok was boosting/manipulating such content, why haven’t they revealed it now that TikTok US is under US control?

They don't need undeniable proof, just like I don't need undeniable proof that I've been hacked to lock down my router. Are you saying I should enable remote admin and leave a weak password until I have undeniable proof I've been compromised? Because that's the standard you seem to be setting for mitigating vulnerabilities.
by stackskipton | 2026-01-27 16:33:21+00:00
>I also don't really get their current obsession with porting every piece of software on Earth to Workers recently...

Because their CDN/DNS is excellent software but it's not massive moat. Workers on other hand is.

It's like difference between running something on Kubernetes vs Lambdas. One you can somewhat pivot with between vendors vs other one requires massive rewrites to software that means most executives won't transition away from it due to high potential for failure.
by ryan_j_naughton | 2026-01-27 16:33:21+00:00
The first identified tools were 3.3 million years ago, which is before the homo genus emerges. Thus, those were either by Australopithecus afarensis or by a yet unidentified hominid species -- they were still very likely our ancestors (but technically TBD).

Then around 2-2.5 million years ago you get the first homo species in the genus homo such as Homo habilis and they created the Oldowan tool culture.

Both Australopithecus afarensis and Homo habilis are our ancestors -- however they are also the ancestors of other homo lines that diverged from us that we are not descendents of (which are now extinct).

People often forget how widespread and varied the Homo genus was before all our cousin species went extinct (likely in part due to us).[1] Homo erectus colonized the entire old world very effectively 1.5 million years ago!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo#/media/File:The_hominin_f...
by _fat_santa | 2026-01-27 16:33:34+00:00
I don't live around any Amazon Fresh stores so I never saw them though I did see the technology in use at several airports (though I've never personally used it). IMO I think places like airports are the best place for something like this, people are usually in a rush so not having to wait in line to checkout is nice and you don't have to worry about security as much because everyone there is a ticketed passenger (only saw them post-security) and even if someone did try stealing they wouldn't get very far.
by chilmers | 2026-01-27 16:33:42+00:00
Yeah, we had one near us, close to the metro exit, and it was genuinely great when you needed to grab something for dinner on the way home. Once you knew where things were, you could be in and out in 20 seconds. That said, it never seemed busy compared to other grocery shops in the area, so I think a lot of people were put off by it feeling "weird" to shop without checking-out.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-27 16:34:02+00:00
It instantly destroys all credibility. Any serious theory would present itself on its own merits rather than going for the victimhood angle. When you title your book in such a way as to push the perceived victimhood to the forefront, it indicates that there is no convincing evidence and therefore the only option left to you is to play at the conspiracy angle, cursing the shadowy figures who are suppressing the "forbidden truth".
by unicorn_cowboy | 2026-01-27 16:34:13+00:00
Key Points:

• Meta lost $73B proving that infrastructure without purpose creates ghost towns.

• Hardware friction is a myth: History shows users tolerate massive friction (early smartphones) if the value is clear.

• Beat Saber & VRChat succeeded not because of tech, but because they solved for "embodied meaning" rather than simulation.

• It's time to stop porting 2D concepts to 3D and start building for presence.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-27 16:34:53+00:00
I don't understand. Why is that amazing?

Sloppy analogy time: Imagine you came in and said your vacuum cleaner broke and someone said "Yeah, that brand loses suction after six months, it's obnoxious." They're telling you it's normal for that type of vacuum, but they're not calling you wrong, they're trying to agree with you. If your problem is different, go ahead and correct them, but they're not denying your lived experience!

(And don't say they should have inferred you knew about that behavior and known you meant this was different. That's too close to expecting someone to read your mind. Especially when your original post didn't mention you were a long time user with enough dedication to notice that.)
by augusteo | 2026-01-27 16:34:58+00:00
bm3719's observation about Stoicism as a defense mechanism resonates with me. I've found it genuinely useful, not as self-help packaged for tech bros, but as practical mental infrastructure.

The core idea is simple. You separate what you can control from what you can't. Then you stop burning energy on the second category. Easier said than done, but the framework helps.

I keep coming back to "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor" as a practical companion to the original texts. It's Marcus Aurelius filtered through modern psychology, with concrete exercises instead of just principles.

The danger is treating Stoicism as emotional suppression. It's not. It's about choosing where to direct your attention and energy. That's genuinely useful when you're surrounded by systems designed to capture both.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-27 16:35:01+00:00
Hmm Amazon fresh was useless anyway. It was this weird niche of grocery delivery but for small urgent orders. I just don't have that need like ever, if I need a bottle of shampoo or a head of lettuce urgently I'll just go to the corner shop.

Edit: oh oops I see this is about physical fresh stores, we never had those in the first place. Here in Europe Amazon fresh is a weird service for quick small grocery orders. For the bigger ones they partner with a local supermarket ("dia" here in Spain). But I never do grocery delivery because I never make any plans, I just make my life up as I go along :)

But Amazon fresh here is expensive and still slow (2hrs) so really not good for anything.

Amazon go I'm not even sure what that is.
by accounting2026 | 2026-01-27 16:35:01+00:00
Yes agreed! And while it is not quantized as such there is an element of semi-digital protocol to it. The concept of "scanline" is quantized and there's "protocols" for indicating when a line ends, and a picture ends etc. that the receiver/send needs to agree on... and "colorbursts packets" for line, delay lines and all kinds of clever technique etc. so it is extremely complicated. Many things were necessary to overcome distortion and also to ensure backwards compatibility - first, how do you fit in the color so a monochrome TV can still show it? Later, how do you make it 16:9 and it can still show on a 4:3 TV (which it could!).
by fork-bomber | 2026-01-27 16:35:05+00:00
This. It is somewhat disheartening to hear the whole interop-with-C with Rust being an insurmountable problem. Keeping the whole “it’s funded by the Government/Google etc” nonsense aside: I personally wish that at least a feeble attempt would be made to actually use the FFI capabilities that Rust and its ecosystem has before folks form an opinion. Personally - and I’m not ashamed to state that I’m an early adopter of the language - it’s very good. Please consider that the Linux kernel project, Google, Microsoft etc went down the Rust path not on a whim but after careful analysis of the pros and cons. The pros won out.
by skulk | 2026-01-27 16:35:34+00:00
People cannot live without money. A huge swath of illegal immigrants work for money. Wouldn't it make sense to target the individuals who are _hiring_ them rather than the actual laborers themselves? This logic seems to work perfectly fine when cracking down on drug use, but seems completely ignored when it comes to immigration. (Yes, I'm aware ICE cracks down on some employers, but it's obvious this isn't their primary strategy.)

Seriously, think about it. If _you_ were tasked with cracking down on the immigration situation, what would you do in good faith? Send masked goons to check every single individual's papers and rough up people who can't show them? Or just send men in suits to every labor operation and ask for their I-9s, at 100x less cost? It's absolutely mind-boggling to me that people even assume a shred of good faith from the current administration here. This is terrorism, not law enforcement.
by mvyshnyvetska | 2026-01-27 16:35:52+00:00
Fair points :). The naming is 'evolutionary' — started as 'semantic diff' because it analyzes meaning not just lines, but 'commit review' is more accurate for what it does now.
You're right about the redundancy — same issue appearing in 3 sections is noise. Adding output config (sections to include, verbosity level) is on the list.
The 'why was this deleted' questions — yeah, the tool can't answer, but surfacing the question for the reviewer has value. At least you know to ask the author.
Good callout on dependabot. Worth reconsidering.
Thanks for actually trying it and giving specific feedback.