MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daxfohl | 2026-01-14 03:10:33+00:00
Oh I've thought this for years. As an L7, basically my primary role is to serve as someone to bounce ideas off of, and to make recommendations based on experience. A chatbot, with its virtually infinite supply of experience, could ostensibly replace my role way sooner than it could a solid junior/mid-level coder. The main thing it needs is a consistent vision and direction that aligns with the needs of nearby teams, which frankly sounds not all that hard to write in code (I've been considering doing this).

Probably the biggest gap would be the ability to ignite, drive, and launch new initiatives. How does an AI agent "lead" an engineering team? That's not something you can code up in an agent runtime. It'd require a whole culture change that I have a hard time seeing in reality. But of course if there comes a point where AI takes all the junior and mid-level coding jobs, then at that point there's no culture to change, so staff/principal jobs would be just as at risk.
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-01-14 03:10:36+00:00
Even though I really like irc because I can get answers really quickly from helpful people but it's a net negative I have felt if you linger on and listen to people conversing. IRC is good for short help needs but if you spend lot of time then it's net negative. I feel for the helpful ppl on various irc channels who are there to help out of their own goodness. They must be having a lot of net negative
by cdavid | 2026-01-14 03:11:09+00:00
My rule of thumb is that management complexity is given by #direct reports x #project, where project is defined as a set of stakeholders (be it PM, etc. depending on business).

Concretely, managing 12 ICs on a well defined platform team w/ a single PM is much easier than managing 6 people working across 6 businesses, as is more common when managing a team of data scientists.
by yellowapple | 2026-01-14 03:12:02+00:00
> but generative AI didn’t catch on by "imitating instruments."

My bad. As the first part of my comment suggested, what I meant to say here was "imitating instruments and the performers thereof".

> which streaming platforms and record labels then repackage and outsell you with

But that's the thing: it doesn't seem very likely that they'd ever succeed at actually outselling very many actual musicians, for the same reason those cheap keyboards that can play pop songs at the press of a button don't actually replace any actual musicians: not just because the quality sucks compared to even amateur performers, but because even if the quality didn't suck, the end result is about as interesting to the audience as a karaoke backing track or musak playing in an elevator. If anyone can press a button to make some statistical average of popular music, then that's gonna get real boring real quick, while the actual musicians will be making actual, novel music. It's just like what happened to the “vaporwave” and “nightcore” genres: they got flooded with “new songs” that are just slowed down / sped up (respectively) versions of existing songs, and nobody bothered seeking out those songs unless they were really into vaporwave/nightcore for their own sake or they were trying to put together one of the umpteen bajillion “anime girl studying while listening to lo-fi beats” playlists out there.

That is:

> false analogy.

Then here's another “false” analogy for you: just like with synthesizers, just like with vaporwave/nightcore, just like with all sorts of other musical phenomena where all of a sudden people with no skill could very easily and cheaply make musical slop, this new AI-driven wave of slop will, too, consume itself until it's yet another layer of background noise against which the actual musicians distinguish themselves and push the boundaries of music. It's a wildfire burning away yet another underbrush of mediocrity and creative stagnation, and while it's absolutely terrifying and dangerous in the present, it paves the way for a healthier regrowth in the aftermath.
by treetalker | 2026-01-14 03:12:07+00:00
Graham isn't an immunity case and specifically takes subjective motivation (including malice) out of the analysis. The issue is one of reasonableness of the bodily seizure.

Was it objectively reasonable under the circumstances for the ICE officer to shoot the driver in the head? Not in my view — and apparently not in the views of the other officers on the scene — based on their actions, anyway. It seems to me that excessive force was used, violating the driver's constitutional right to be free of unreasonable bodily seizure, which resulted, tragically, in her death.

Of note, too, are today's resignations of several DOJ attorneys in the Minnesota office over the refusal to advance the investigation of the ICE officer and the push to instead investigate the victim's widow, of all people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/doj-attorney...
by jmspring | 2026-01-14 03:14:30+00:00
All five of the 4 legged a-holes I have here, plus the one my wife has with her (we split / travel between houses) are completely spoiled. He's my primary - my wife brought a couple of cats to the relationship while I had my old ginger. During covid my ginger passed and the other cats were sorta hers - the two sisters she adopted from a homeless person, the boy who hitched a ride on her gas tank (special, but great cat), and then the cat she adopted form a homeless woman after covid.

My ginger passed and I adopted a cat who was named "Tank" because he was a little box of a pre 4week cat. Got him at 5-6 weeks, his name is Tiny Jerk because even at a young age - tooth brush, toilet paper, socks got carried off.

It was a bond. So while primary and secondary are not the best terms "my cat" and the others isn't either.

He is a great cat, he's also dealing with moving from the place he was raised to a new home (mover ~1yr ago, but moved him up - and the rest - 6mo ago). He gets all the attention he demands, but it's hard with the typing.
by zuoning | 2026-01-14 03:15:07+00:00
Just type your idea in plain language. Kutt.AI understands natural descriptions and transforms them into polished video content, automatically generating cohesive scenes with matching visuals, appropriate pacing, and seamless transitions. It even handles the audio, selecting background music that fits your content's mood. Or want dreamy slow-motion or punchy fast cuts? Just say the word.
by gyomu | 2026-01-14 03:15:26+00:00
> Once upon a time, you could enjoy the works of a creative person at face value; mainly because you didn't know much of anything about their personal life.

This is a strawman and absolutely not backed by historical evidence.

Look into the lives of Caravaggio, Milton, Voltaire, Wilde, Verlaine, Goya, Balzac, Courbet, Rimbaud, Schubert, Manet, Wagner, Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy... and see how their personal lives and/or political views/positions negatively affected their standing despite the huge recognition their creative work had.
by neom | 2026-01-14 03:17:15+00:00
QuakeNet in the 90s, I don't know what to say, thank you? It was high school for me, like, I got through high school, got into computers in high school, have great memories of that time: because of QuakeNet in the 90s. hackernews community is the closest things I've felt to that since then, but it's pretty hard to beat QuakenNet in the 90s.
by AGDNoob | 2026-01-14 03:17:25+00:00
Yeah, that’s fair. Conceptually it’s not that hard if you’re willing to do a proper preprocess pass and generate INDENT and DEDENT tokens. For this first version I mostly optimized for not shooting myself in the foot, braces gave me very explicit block boundaries, simpler error handling, and a much easier time while bringing up the compiler and codegen. Significant whitespace is definitely interesting long term, but for a v0 learning project I wanted something boring and robust first. Once the core stabilizes, revisiting indentation based blocks would make a lot more sense
by anon373839 | 2026-01-14 03:18:02+00:00
I think these debates ultimately come down to what you’re making with these tools: is it documents or application interfaces? If it’s documents, then plain HTML, CSS and a touch of JS sprinkles on top works very well, as they were designed for this. If you’re making software, though, at some point you’re going to need some additional tooling to make it feasible.
by yosemitey | 2026-01-14 03:18:17+00:00
I wouldn’t suggest amphetamines. It’s what some/most doctors prescribe for ADHD, but unlike drugs that are generally ok like caffeine and statins, amphetamines can have long-term negative effects. In-general, avoid controlled substances.

I tried some of the Dr. Amen supplements, but they wired me up too much like I was on amphetimines, so I had to stop.

I just take Ginseng now, and it works well.

Eating carrots, eggs, and spinach are also good. Fasting a little helps me focus. I have an MTHFR mutation, so if I eat things with too much folic acid, I get brain fog; breads, cereals, etc. contain it- anything with enriched flour. I tried 5-methylfolate for a while, but it didn’t help.

Managing ADHD this way for me is a lot safer. When I was taking meds, I was either taking 50% levoamphetamine and was intolerant, always right, over-the-top on top of things (when I was best at chess!) and no one wanted to work with me or was taking (dextro)amphetamine and focused but on the wrong things.

You don’t have to be perfect. If you have ADHD, you have to be ok with that. There is no pill that will make everything right forever. And maybe 20% of people are right there with you.

Still, try your best to not be a burden. Even when you feel like all is lost, and you’re tired of everything, you’ll have more to give, and life is going to throw something at you to prove it. Life may not be reasonable, but so what?
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-14 03:20:54+00:00
- my opinion is going to sound very controversial here

- this also extends to software

- when it has been 25 yrs since a game has released, you are no longer making money from your game big time

- companies should be forced to open source their games at this point in time

- so that we can revive games that companies like ubisoft keep shutting down and removing from steam libraries completely
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-14 03:20:58+00:00
You missed what I said in my first paragraph. Occupy was after the capital class but they did not express it well. Looking back, a common criticism was that the movement was leaderless and thus unorganized. It was the early days of a new generation (Millennials) getting a first taste of the coming disaster their lives were going to be.

The last time there was really a movement like that was the 1999 WTO protests...more than a decade separated from Occupy and it being a pivotal moment for Gen X to realize the same lessons millennials learned in Occupy.

Since Occupy, a movement consisting of many of the same people who were disorganized in 2011 started to learn the ropes and become organized, first in the realignment of Labor (SEIU starting a "Fight for 15$" in 2012/2013), then the emergence of BLM in 2013(Yes they started back in 2013) as a result of death of Eric Garner and the Ferguson rallies among other events, to finally Sanders running in 2015 and the emergence of a semi organized movement combining various progressives groups (economic & social progressives).

This led to the whole saga in 2016 which there is plenty of youtube documentaries about to the wave election in 2018 (of which there is an amazing netflix movie about) to the showdown in 2020 between Bernie and Biden, to winding up wandering the political woods for years after Biden managed to hold on to now finally electing Mamdani as a Democratic Socialist in the largest city and the financial capital where Occupy started. From 2011 starting as a completely unorganized group to running the finance capital of America in just 15 years. Amazing!
by Krei-se | 2026-01-14 03:21:34+00:00
i took the time to review your python wasm project and restate the fact that you seem to have 0 idea about how a compiler works.

Its simple and rigid rules an AI can pick up easily. If you lack this knowledge people that have it will simply stop the conversation when you resort to shouting louder and more often.

This does not make your point more valid. If you notice people not engaging with you - that's the reason. You simply don't learn, you just look around who shares your opinion with no backed results.

Why not show benchmarks or sth ;)
by undeveloper | 2026-01-14 03:21:36+00:00
> still one of the most common symptom, and the one everyone use to self diagnose...

I, and pretty much everyone I talked to who was diagnosed with adhd in late teenage years on, actually primarily used executive dysfunction to self diagnose and then persued official treatment. you pulled that straight outta your asshole, shove it back up there

> doctors don't seem to view this as a root cause

how the hell would doctors know? bring this to any psych and they'd immediately tell you to knock that shit off, but what the hell else are they supposed to do?

> I never said adhd doesn't exist or shouldn't be treated btw

your opinions seems to boil down to "lmao just try harder", which seems less useful than throwing pills at the problem. you have the mental model of a cat

> proooojecting

the words of someone who can't articulate their position
by BobbyTables2 | 2026-01-14 03:21:42+00:00
Too impatient to go through the whole video but the title matches my thoughts exactly.

My personal conclusion - most of us are really just not as intelligent as we think.

AI isn’t smart. We’re just dumb.

The LLMs seem smart because they were trained on the intellectual content generated by smart people.

An LLM trained only on 4chan would be very different…
by Jeremy1026 | 2026-01-14 03:21:56+00:00
This article is 95% about chokeholds, and is titled as such, but OP chose to pick out one sentence at the end to editorialize the post title with. None of the content of the article is rosy and it should be shared far and wide, but I was under the impressions post titles should match the headlines or at least the general topic of the linked item?
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-01-14 03:22:34+00:00
> are there any strategies I ought to try to help focus on work without getting sidetracked? And ways to help remember things?

How do you tend to spend your time?

What percentage of your time is spent on activities that benefit from rapid context-switching and short periods of concentration? (Examples might include watching short-form content, browsing/commenting on online forums, most video games, navigating most cities, and working in certain environments).

How much time do you spend on activities that benefit from the opposite? Sustained concentration and attention with minimal interruptions. (Examples might include watching movies, reading novels, some video games, navigating countryside, and working in certain environments).

Our bodies and minds adapt to the demands we place on them. If you're sedentary all day you'll lose muscle mass, cardio endurance, etc.

Late 20s/early 30s is when I started to notice the costs associated with my lifestyle becoming more apparent. The prophylactic effects of youth start to wear off and you realise that you are what you eat, in a multitude of ways.
by joshcsimmons | 2026-01-14 03:22:44+00:00
Yet another “genuinely nobody cares” take from yet another service or product I’ve never heard of before this post.

I’m not sure what the authors are looking for, a pat on the back? Good boy points? Reddit updoots? To feel like a real 1337 h4xx0r dev?

Nobody cares about this stance and I feel like I see it daily now. People do care about the quality and usefulness of your product and what you’re doing to continue to improve it.

It has the same energy as when a dude orders “black coffee” despite hating the taste to look more badass.
by amrocha | 2026-01-14 03:22:46+00:00
I don’t even disagree with you about class, but to deal with that we need to deal with capitalism itself, which I’ve given up on at this point.

So if this is the system we’re stuck with, and it’s an unfair system, then let’s at least make sure it’s equitably unfair.

The goal is not to make sure the most qualified person gets the job. I actually think evaluating others fairly is impossible so that’s an impossible goal.

Sorry if you feel that you got the short end of the stick. I got it too. Someone has to.
by SchemaLoad | 2026-01-14 03:23:23+00:00
No one is upset about being able to generate stuff for personal use. They are upset by the industrial scale of dumping AI slop on platforms like Spotify that make it increasingly difficult to discover anything good anymore.

There is lots of good music still being created these days, but you'll never find it by just hitting next on streaming sites because 99% of the content had about 5 minutes of effort put in before being uploaded.
by rvdginste | 2026-01-14 03:24:13+00:00
I recently created a static site with technical documentation using Antora. Antora uses asciidoc source that it pulls from git repositories. It has a lunr extension for search.
It took some time to get familiar with the setup, but I find it very nice to work with. I use it for the documentation of a set of code libraries, and it is a really good fit for that.
by reffee2000 | 2026-01-14 03:24:31+00:00
The Y2K aesthetic revival made me wonder: can AI actually understand period-specific styling conventions, or just apply superficial filters?

Built this to test the idea. It's trained on authentic 2000s photos and attempts to recreate millennium hairstyles with technical accuracy - proper highlight placement, realistic texture, period-appropriate color palettes.

Interesting technical challenges:
- Training data curation (what counts as "authentic" Y2K?)
- Balancing period accuracy with modern photo quality
- Handling diverse hair types and face shapes
- Processing speed vs. quality tradeoffs

Currently 45+ styles, 30-60s generation time, web-based (no downloads).

Curious what HN thinks about:
1. AI's ability to capture era-specific aesthetics
2. Privacy considerations for face-processing tools
3. Nostalgia as a market (is it sustainable?)

Free trial available if you want to test the accuracy.
by mrkiouak | 2026-01-14 03:25:14+00:00
A site I put together while volunteering for my Vermont town, made heavy, heavy use of Claude Code (and occasional Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries & highlights).

Really pleased with how much time LLMs saved me. Followed a typical "Comparative Budget info is usually between page 14-40, please parse budget info out into this JSON structure", I eyeball review, tweak where issues, repeat to get raw data.

Then site was super, super quick to get setup and live (deployed via Cloud Run) (literally less than an hour). Then a couple hours over a few days to add content, restructure etc.

Still more of a rough draft, but this is absolutely 100% not something I'd have been able to do or remotely have considered doing without LLMs + past 1.5 years of improvements.

N.B. Vermont State Statutes have unique rules about how municipalities pass budgets, theres an annual town hall day. See e.g. https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-02-28/vermont-... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_meeting#Vermont
by theamk | 2026-01-14 03:25:15+00:00
"GitHub should charge every org..."? As in, large open source projects and commercial plans only? The commercial plans are already paying quite a lot, so it would be mostly open source projects seeing this extra charge...

But the much bigger plan is how to make sure we distribute it "fairly". Javascript has this big problem that it's ecosystem is messed up using thousands of tiny packages - the "left-pad" is gone, but there are many other very short packages which should not exist. If Github starts paying for each package name, things will get 100x worse - now every package will be split into hundreds of "micro-packages", as this will be an easy way to start printing money. This will make all the audits much harder, and future supply chain attacks easier.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-14 03:26:00+00:00
> Yes, you just break the book down by chapters or whatever conveniently fits in the context window to produce summaries such that all of the chapter summaries can fit in one context window.

I've done that a few month ago and in fact doing just this will miss cross-chapter informations (say something is said in chapter 1, that doesn't appears to be important but reveals itself crucial later on, like "Chekhov's gun").

Maybe doing that iteratively several time would solve the problem, I run out of time and didn't try but the straightforward workflow you're describing doesn't work so I think it's fair to say this challenge isn't solve. (It works better with non-fiction though, because the prose is usually drier and straight to the point).
by mannykannot | 2026-01-14 03:26:03+00:00
You are describing hiking in the mountains, which doesn’t generalize to mountaineering and rock-climbing when it gets difficult, and the difficulties this view is abstracting away are real.

Your second and third paragraphs are entirely consistent with the original point I was trying to make, which was not that it took Einstein specifically to come up with relativity, but that it took someone with uncommon skills, as evidenced by the fact that it blindsided even a good many of the people who were qualified to be contenders for being the one to figure it out first. It does not amount to proof, but one does not expect people who are closing in on the solution to be blindsided by it.

I am well aware of the problems with “great man” hagiography, but dismissing individual contributions, which is what the person I was replying to seemed to be doing, is a distortion in its own way.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-14 03:26:11+00:00
I don't think "looks difficult" has been driving wages. FAANG etc leadership knows what's difficult and what's not. It's just marginal ROI. If you have a trillion-dollar market and some feature could increase that by 0.0001%, you hire some engineers to give it a try. If other companies are also competing for the same engineers for the same reasons, salaries skyrocket.
by cameronh90 | 2026-01-14 03:26:16+00:00
I'm now putting more queries into LLMs than I am into Google Search.

I'm not sure how much of that is because Google Search has worsened versus LLMs having improved, but it's still a substantial shift in my day-to-day life.

Something like finding the most appropriate sensor ICs to use for a particular use case requires so much less effort than it used to. I might have spent an entire day digging through data sheets before, and now I'll find what I need in a few minutes. It feels at least as revolutionary as when search replaced manually paging through web directories.
by greggman65 | 2026-01-14 03:26:32+00:00
maybe there is more going on here but it's relatively easy to make a text post processing shader and apply it to anything, 3d scene, a video, etc...

https://post-processing.tresjs.org/guide/pmndrs/ascii

https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ascii-shader-using-glsl-postpr...

https://threejs.org/examples/?q=ascii#webgl_effects_ascii

https://fwdapps.net/l/asci/

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/ascii-postprocessing-n628p8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeRcnLr0ko
by jethro_tell | 2026-01-14 03:26:44+00:00
I’ve never heard the bring one or three, I’ve always just heard three. I think that exact saying implies that if you have two and one isn’t working out you’ll go crazy but if you have one you’ll be oblivious until it’s too late.

A well serviced rolex in 2026 with laser cut gears drifts +/- 15sec per day.

One with hand filed gears is going to be +/- a minute on a good day, and that’s what early navigation was using. I have watches with hand filed gears and they can be a bit rough.

Prior to that, it was dead reckoning, dragging a string every now and again to calculate speed and heading and the current and then guesstimating your location on a twice daily basis.

Those two wildly inaccurate systems mapped most of the world for us.