MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dfacto | 2026-01-05 23:13:40+00:00
I didn't have time to read all the comments but here is Claude's summary for those interested:

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1. "Good AI work exists when humans stay involved"

Quality AI videos exist but require human editing, scripting, acting - not letting AI do 99% of the work. Examples: NeuralViz, Igorrr's music videos.

2. "AI removes creativity, doesn't enable it"

AI handles creative decisions (color grading, cuts, tone) that were previously human craft. This strips creativity from the process rather than democratizing it.

3. "Execution is the creativity"

Ideas are worthless - execution is what matters. AI removes the execution process, which is where real creative work happens. "Using AI is like using an aimbot for music."

4. "AI enables creative expression for those locked out"

Counter-position: High-concept filmmaking was previously only for the privileged. AI lets people with vision but without technical skills/money/connections realize their ideas.

5. "Race to the bottom / slop flood"

AI's main "strength" is cranking out content at scale, flooding platforms with low-quality material faster than humans can filter. The internet is being overrun with unlabeled AI garbage.

6. "Trust erosion is the real harm"

Even "harmless" AI videos contribute to a world where nothing visual can be trusted. This affects everyone regardless of whether they consume AI content directly.

7. "Theft at scale"

Models exist only because of mass ingestion of creative work without consent. Using AI tools participates in this regardless of output quality.

8. "Platforms will adapt / people will learn"

Optimistic view: Recommendation algorithms will filter slop, people will recognize AI aesthetic as they did MS Paint edits, and good content will surface.

```

Personal take: all these points are true/valid/correct/accurate.

Controversial take: regardless, cat's outta the bag now and there's little we can do to stop it.
by tedk-42 | 2026-01-05 23:13:46+00:00
I'm very skeptical of any company that just 'pops up' and makes a bunch of claims that will shake up the industry.

I doubt they'd sell to endusers, but not having any partnerships with established brands with sales figures is a big red flag.

No mention of manufacturing capabilities either so I think it's just hype (or worse a rug pull for early investors)
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-05 23:13:51+00:00
They don't outnumber anyone. There's always a minority of hardcore supporters for any side... plus enough undecided people in the middle who mostly vote their pocketbook.

What to do about it is to point out to those people in the middle how badly things are being fucked up, preferably with how those mistakes link back to their pocketbook.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-05 23:14:01+00:00
Introducing bills (and voting on most things, though non-recorded voice votes do occur) in legislative bodies in the US is already public, what is being called for here has no bearing on that, it is about tracking edits leading up to those already-accountable events by staffers working on the bill before it is introduced (or doing thr same for an amendment that changes the text of a bill.)
by antisthenes | 2026-01-05 23:14:07+00:00
None of that invalidates what I said as a general rule for health insurance company behaviors that are also very well documented in media, so I'm not sure what you're trying to clarify for me here.

> That premise must be invalid because if true, no one would buy insurance from for profit insurance companies.

What premise? That companies balloon costs or aim to provide less care if they can get away with it? It's a complete non-sequitur if you think so.
by handoflixue | 2026-01-05 23:14:39+00:00
I think regardless of source, sharing such pictures on public social media is probably crossing the line? And everything generated by this model is de-facto posted publicly on social media (some commenters are even saying it's difficult to erase unwanted / unintended images?)

I'd also argue commercialization affects this - X is marketing this as a product and making money off subscriptions, whereas I generally think of an open model as something you run locally for free. There's a big difference between "Porn Producer" and "Photoshop"
by bicepjai | 2026-01-05 23:14:41+00:00
Your point makes sense, but for law-abiding citizens, it’s hard to justify: people are expected to understand and comply with the law, yet the practical record of how it’s enforced (dockets/filings) is paywalled. If the goal is to fund the system or deter abuse, that’s what general taxation and targeted anti-scraping limits are for, metering “public” records mostly punishes ordinary users and small competitors, not heavy institutional users.
by benjiro | 2026-01-05 23:14:47+00:00
Given that the nukes topic came up ... Will the US/Trump be so aggressive if Denmark has a few nukes that can hit the US? Or at minimum sink a invading fleet?

These actions by Trump are only reinforcing that we will see even more of a push for everybody to get their own nukes, even in Europe.

People do not need to yell "bad trump", to have his actions result in decisions being pushed forward like this.

Theodore: "speak softly and carry a big stick"... and nuke(s) is a BIG stick.
by riku_iki | 2026-01-05 23:14:51+00:00
> isn't jogging more impactful to the knees than cycling? I've seen this over and over.

my brief reading of studies shows there is no proven negative impact on knees from running. Some studies suggest there is positive impact: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11320545/

I can speculate that running is very natural to human, and body evolved for running through the evolution, and cycling is not natural movement.
by Yizahi | 2026-01-05 23:15:03+00:00
> Spreadsheet AI

If you don't mind, could you please write a few examples of what LLMs do in Spreadsheets? Because that's probably the last place where I would allow LLMs, since they tend to generate random data and spreadsheets being notoriously hard to debug due all the hidden formulas and complex dependencies.

Say you have an accounting workbook with 50 or so sheets with tables depending on each other and they contain very important info like inventory and finances. Just a typical small to medium business setup (big corporations also do it). Now what? Do you allow LLMs to edit files like that directly? Do you verify changes afterwards and how?
by skobux | 2026-01-05 23:15:19+00:00
> He’s merely conflating an adoption curve with capabilities.

Sure, programmers would still adopt LLMs faster than the rest of the work-force whether or not the LLMs were good at writing code. But you have to at credit at least some of that adoption rate to the fact that LLMs are significantly better at text (e.g. code) generation than they are at most other white-collar tasks (e.g. using a web browser)
by jofzar | 2026-01-05 23:15:29+00:00
> Somehow the idea of going to work and not trying your best because “you’re not getting paid … for that” just feels so cynical and divorced from how I’ve seen successful people grow and make big bucks in tech

The question is always how long you are "working" at the higher level.

I have worked at jobs where I was working 2 levels higher then I was for close to 3 years before my new manager came in and fixed that shit (got two promotions in 2 years).

As an individual contributor you are diluting your IC's value of the same people level if you are working at a higher level for free, the expectations is then that everyone else at your level does it and then it becomes the new normal, it's the "A rising tide lifts all boats" but in a negative connotation.
by gyomu | 2026-01-05 23:15:45+00:00
> Apple has spent literal decades working on and refining their Human Interface Guidelines for different devices

Things like “human interface guidelines” get written by nerds who dive deep into user studies to make graphs about how target size correlates to error rate when clicking an item on screen.

Things like Liquid Glass get designed by people who salivate over a button rendering a shader backed gradient while muttering to themselves “did I cook bro???”

They’re just two very orthogonal cultures. The latter is what passes for interface design in software these days.
by apparent | 2026-01-05 23:15:52+00:00
Not belting your kids when you put them in the car is unsafe and is illegal. However, not getting your 9 year old a vaccine for STDs is not unsafe if that kid is not sexually active, and therefore not at risk for contracting the STD. As the kid gets older, the calculus changes because they are more independent. But pretty much any responsible parent has a very accurate sense of whether their 9 year old is having sex.

And the parents who have a sexually active 9 year old that they do not realize is sexually active are probably not taking them in for their regular doctor appts and vaccines.
by Closi | 2026-01-05 23:16:04+00:00
Let's see! I'm actually working on a node-based programming LLM paradigm for an app I'm building.

The idea is that you can write the 'nodes' in plain english rather than pre-written blocks, and then the arrows indicate the flow but don't need to absolutely encode everything (closer to a flow chart). The process of writing the flow chart helps define and document the business logic, and the flows are totally clear because everything is encoded into a state machine.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-05 23:16:20+00:00
This premise:

>because there are also for-profit health insurance companies (that deny coverage) and not-for-profit ones (that balloon costs)

The claim that for profit health insurance companies deny coverage to save money and non profit health insurance companies balloon costs to maximize healthcare expenses is obviously wrong (as demonstrated in previous comment).

The claim that health insurance companies in general both deny coverage to reduce healthcare expenses and maximize healthcare expenses to increase profit is obviously wrong, because it's inherently contradictory.

>behaviors that are also very well documented in media

I don't see any documentation of this behavior. The documentation that does exist is the whole business limps along on a knife's edge, lagging SP500, while have no power to set their prices (the government has to approve their prices). They certainly do engage in outsourcing and underemployment, perhaps to intentionally delay and deny care, but probably leading to just as many incorrect approvals as incorrect denials (obviously you won't hear about the former in the media).
by SpecialistK | 2026-01-05 23:16:31+00:00
I've been around the vaporwave scene (of which these other nostalgic aesthetics are adjacent) for years and let me tell you... for an art movement which seems to celebrate the consumerist childhood of millennials exploring shopping malls, the early(ish) HTML web, cable TV and 8 to 32 bit video gaming, there are a lot of vocal leftists who seem to abhor all of the things which made the aesthetic what it is.
by neumann | 2026-01-05 23:16:39+00:00
This is definitely something to be aware of - especially with larger companies that aren't growing fast and this culture begins to be baked in. You see so many colleagues going the extra mile past their role requirements to earn that rare promotion, essentially jockeying to be in the running. All hands are about 'calling out' great performers and thanking them. Thank them by paying them more please.

As soon as they get the promotion, the work piles on even more, and they won't be given the amount they would if they switched companies.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-05 23:18:07+00:00
There's a book that describes what Christians believe about the life of Jesus Christ, and is used by most Christian priests to illustrate and reinforce their homilies and lessons to their lay folk. The same book is widely read by many denominations of Christians as a source of insight into the religious intent of Jesus Christ, even if the conclusions they draw from it may vary.

There are also other books written by both lay authors and those with theological credentials that seek to describe what a "good" Christian should believe and do, though to be fair, none of them are universal across the Christian faith (*).

No such work exists for "secularists".

(*) though fair enough, even "The Bible" doesn't entirely meet that standard given disagreements between both the high level denominations (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant) and the subdivisions within each.
by 2026sucks | 2026-01-05 23:18:14+00:00
Justice? The Venezuelan people, the country and it's resources (the largest proven oil reserves in the world) wanted to take back it's oil resources a couple decades ago from large multinational corporations.

It was a messy process and their reward was decades of economic sabotage, sanctions, unable to freely trade/sell its resources or even if a container ship of rice was to arrive in Venezuela - this ship becomes sanctioned.

I guess it's all Venezuela's fault? This is what happens when you don't want to be apart of the global central banking system/cartel and they don't own/control your country/economy. They destroy your country, economy, blame your leaders, sabotage you and your people blame you. Sad and an effective strategy.

Freedom isn't gorgeous and most people want to eat Oreo cookies. In return for Oreos you get to be a slave to global elitist who despise you, feed you ultra processed poisoned food owned by one of 4 brands that have 1000000 different sub brands.

They hate you. They will rob you. Steal from you. Enslave you. Sanction you. Put you in prison. Make you comply.

And then you can thank them for your prosperity and Oreo cookies. Those Oreos come from the supermarket (good slave) or don't worry they also sell Oreos in prison commissary (bad slave)!

Enjoy.

P.S. - Personally, they can shove the Oreos up their fucking asses. They probably like that anyway? No thanks.
by subw00f | 2026-01-05 23:18:38+00:00
Why set aside expense? You do it anyway by whatever means necessary, like the DRPK. And if you’re a “western democracy” (also known as capitalist dictatorship) and you’re part of the ruling class, you still have the incentive to protect your assets, things you exploit in your country, land, natural resources, etc, that the US won’t be sharing or that they want to decrease supply when they take over through puppets or multinationals, and you can always force the public to pay for such a project, like all the times western peoples had to bail out or spend their taxes to benefit private corporations, but now it would look like it’s to protect sovereignty, which is a bonus of course, it would be to protect the local ruling class’s interests, but anyway. It’s clear the Americans will stop at nothing to acquire whatever it is they want, including indirectly violent means like ordering their financial institutions and tech giants to destroy whoever is on the way. The monster was always there since the Cold War and just now it dropped any pretenses.
by gaigalas | 2026-01-05 23:18:44+00:00
> maybe you have examples of historical breakthroughs in AI Alignment

OpenAI confessions is a good example of largely non-mathematical insight:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093

I don't know, I think it's good stuff. Would you agree?

> I think it's possible that some people are talking to ChatGPT on a buzzword level

I never said this is not happening. This definitely happens.

What I said is very different. I'm saying that you don't need to be a mathematician to have good insights into novel ways of improving AI alignment.

You definitely need good epistemic intuition though.
by brendoelfrendo | 2026-01-05 23:18:50+00:00
Of course they didn't. While I can't imagine Russia is exactly happy that it lost an ally in the Western Hemisphere, this kind of action is very much aligned with Putin's multi-polar worldview where the great powers leave each other to play empire in their respective spheres of influence. It helps justify things like invading Ukraine. I can imagine some in the Chinese military are over the moon right now, taking notes on how to force regime change in Taiwan.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-05 23:19:30+00:00
Ahh yes could be. And people taking notes on tablets with pens perhaps. I hate that because I have the fine motor skills of a 2 year old. My handwriting is still a mess and very slow. Despite this being the only way to get through school in my time.

I always hate when OneNote opens random text boxes when I click somewhere. But yeah some people could like that too.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-05 23:19:49+00:00
SO had an opportunity to branch out into a thriving community of people helping each other, I can't state with any authority if that would have been a better end goal as they had a nice exit, but maybe if it did then it could have better maintained its energy in the wake of AI.

You say I should have stuck to newsgroups but SO sucked all the energy out of those spaces. I have 25k rep on the site so its not like I wasn't activately engaged and helped a lot of people on there, I just wish it had been more than what it was.
by stevenwoo | 2026-01-05 23:20:23+00:00
Your only point is to defend Elon Musk and never addressed the key point instead which is IVF can be used in the USA for eugenics as the other poster suggested abortions hypothetically would be in their horror scenario. Not every clinic but it's available and is not explicitly outlawed - it's only ethically and professionally dubious for certain scenarios. It's also much more practical that trying to use abortions for the same usage in terms of the mother's health.
by advisedwang | 2026-01-05 23:21:17+00:00
The parent comment specifically referenced Claude Code, which launched in Feb 2025 [1] and went GA May 2025 [2]. Codex also launched May 2025 [3].

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

[3] https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/
by monocasa | 2026-01-05 23:22:31+00:00
There's still a lot of information coming out, a lot of it conflicting, so that's hard to say.

And frankly, the Venezuelan military is absolutely tiny and has been facing the same economic issues as the rest of the country. They have 24 F-16s, but rumor is none of them work anymore, maybe some SU-30s, but those would be shot down pretty much as soon as they were scrambled. There was pretty heavy bombing before hand to knock out AA. And they bombed Chavez's tomb, which is quite a dick move of there wasn't any AA there; blowing up a graveyard for shits and giggles on an op is some shit even cartels have a little bit more respect than to do.

IDK, the whole thing seems like equally could have been mostly what it says on the tin, with no more than the normal intelligence HUMINT/SIGINT/*INT cloak and dagger crap to have the right intelligence.
by vessenes | 2026-01-05 23:22:34+00:00
I put in 15 hours or so with gas town this weekend, from just around the 0.1 release.

Think of as an extended bipolar-optimism-fueled glimpse into the future. Steve's MO is laid out in the medium post - but basically, it's okay to lose things, rewrite whole subsystems, whatever, this is the future. It's really fun and interesting to watch the speed of development.

I've made a few multi agent coding setups in the last year, and I think gas town has the team side about right: big boss (mayor), operations boss (deacon), relatively linear keeper of truth (witness), single point for merges (refiner), lots of coders with their code held lightly.

I love the idea of formulas - a lot of what makes gas town work and informs how well it ultimately will work is the formulas. They're close conceptually to skills.

I don't love the mad max branding, but meh, whatever, it's fun, and a perk of the brave new world where you can make stuff like for a few hundred bucks a month sent to anthropic - software can have personality again, yay.

Conceptually I think there is a product team element to this still missing - deploy engineers, product managers, visual testing. Everything is sort of out there, janky in parts, but workable to glue together right now, and will only improve. That said, the mad max town analogy is going to get overstretched at some point; we already have pretty good names for all the parts that are needed, and as coordination improves, we're going to want to add more stuff into the coordination. So, I'd like to see a version of this with normal names and expanded.

Upshot - worth a look - if beads is any indication, give it a month or two or four to settle down unless you like living on the bleeding bleeding edge.
by StableAlkyne | 2026-01-05 23:23:22+00:00
There's also the communications aspect:

SO was/is a great site for getting information if (and only if) you properly phrase your question. Oftentimes, if you had an X/Y problem, you would quickly get corrected.

God help you if you had an X/Y Problem Problem. Or if English wasn't your first language.

I suspect the popularity is also boosted by the last two; it will happily tell you the best way to do whatever cursed thing you're trying to do, while still not judging over English skills.
by browningstreet | 2026-01-05 23:23:31+00:00
What happened with Microsoft marketing?

The people who really live and die by these changes are the license (renewal) managers, and their legal counterparts, at big orgs. The users can’t keep up. The MS admins at each big org struggle to explain these iterations.

My own experience is that I mostly use the features I can find across each iteration and can barely use the newest frontier features exclusive to the latest version. Maybe new generations of those younger professionals entering the workforce see a different slice of things, but in my experience the graybeards still know how to use Microsoft Office better than the fresh entrants.

I actually like the Copilot interface in Office and Teams and the new start page. It serves my needs, but it’s a gateway to Office (or OneDrive and Sharepoint), not a replacement for Office (yet).

Office and E5 licensing are their moneymakers and they keep messing with it in a way where nobody could reasonably explain what the changes and brand names have been in the last 5 years.

They talk about Windows being an interface to agentic desktop computing, so it seems like they’re leaning towards sunsetting both the Windows brand and the Office brands for Copilot, which is a core technology they don’t build or own (in reality, or exclusively).
by luqtas | 2026-01-05 23:23:58+00:00
after reading the very first thing i thought was: would be comical if the OP's blog were about AI

i was wrong but i could find on the 1° page this [0]... which seem a pretty hypocrite act to consider a technology that violates copyright at its core. "you eat what you plant"

[0] https://perishablepress.com/diving-into-ai/
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-05 23:24:03+00:00
I love the bells and whistles watches and I'm not an athlete. I love it in case I forget my phone, I still get all the notifications. I can pay with it. I can watch my home security. Something like the pebble wouldn't work for me anymore. Despite being a first day Kickstarter backer. The charging doesn't bother me because for me a watch is mainly for when I'm not home.
by mattnewport | 2026-01-05 23:24:05+00:00
Good article, thanks!

Minor correction though, I think this is not quite correct:

> The compiler computes the required size at compile time by summing the sizes of all locals (accounting for alignment).

In optimized C++ builds, compilers can reuse stack storage for locals whose live ranges don’t overlap, so the required stack frame size is not necessarily the sum of all locals. Some locals may never have stack storage at all (e.g. living entirely in registers or being optimized away).

For objects with non-trivial destructors, storage reuse is constrained by object lifetime and destruction semantics, but the same stack slot may still be reused after the destructor has run.