MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vixen99 | 2026-01-21 15:46:43+00:00
I'll focus just on food here: people do have a choice. I don't live in the US but is it impossible to buy basic ingredients, fruit, vegetables, grains, meat whatever etc., and actually cook something? Eating this kind of food you can even stack your life chances more in your favor. Huge amounts of information abound as to the how you can do that. Consumers, if they are free to choose, determine value and entrepreneurs will respond. It can be profoundly distorted, that's true but at base, capitalism is doing something that someone else finds of value or not.
by igor_ryabenkiy | 2026-01-21 15:46:47+00:00
I’m a VC, not a founder, but I’ve seen a lot of what works (and what doesn't) when it comes to finding a co-founder.

Here are three pieces of advice I'd share:

1. Do not search for a cofounder in the abstract. Instead, start by pulling people into the problem. Look at your users or advisors. Pay attention during early user interviews: if someone starts offering unsolicited feedback, reframes your thinking, or shows a natural ownership instinct, that might be your person.

2. Do not underestimate technical people with storytelling skills and user empathy. Not all GTM leaders come from sales.

3. Before formalizing anything, align with your co-founder on three fronts:
what you're building (make sure you're on the same page here) + your roles and decision-making + equity and commitments. Bring in a third party if needed and write things down.
by ChuangLabs | 2026-01-21 15:46:59+00:00
Hi HN, author here

This project explores GPU sharing in Kubernetes without relying on MIG or vGPU.

The motivation came from inference-heavy workloads where GPUs are often underutilized, but MIG/vGPU can be unavailable, too rigid, or operationally heavy. In many cases, time-sharing is “good enough”.

What the project does:

Introduces a SharedDeviceGroup CRD

Multiple pods can reference the same group via annotation

A scheduler plugin selects GPUs and injects NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES

Optional device plugin for kubelet awareness / coexistence

Supports spread and binpack placement strategies

The design intentionally stays at the scheduler + control plane level, avoiding deep GPU virtualization while still improving utilization.

This has been working well for inference workloads where strict isolation isn’t required. I’m very interested in feedback from folks who’ve tried MIG, GPU time-slicing, NVIDIA KAI, or custom schedulers in production.
by snowmobile | 2026-01-21 15:47:40+00:00
It's interesting to try. I picked six random reports from the hackerone page. Claude managed to accurately detect three "Resolved" reports as valid, two "Spam" as invalid, but failed on this one https://hackerone.com/reports/3508785 which it considered a valid report. All using the same prompt "Tell me all the reasons this report is stupid". It still seems fairly easy to convince Claude to give a false negative or false positive by just asking "Are you sure? Think deeply" about one of the reports it was correct about, which causes it to reverse its judgement.
by thworp | 2026-01-21 15:47:50+00:00
A toy example: NeoCloud Inc builds a new datacenter full of the new H800 GPUs. It rents out a rack of them for $10/minute while paying $6/minute for electricity, interest, loan repayment, rent and staff.

Two years later, H900 is released for a similar price but it performs twice as many TFlOps/Watt. Now any datacenter using H900 can offer the same performance as NeoCloud Inc at $5/month, taking all their customers.

[all costs reduced to $/minute to make a point]
Show HN: Semantic map and analysis of Hacker News stories in 2025
by youngermax | 2026-01-21 15:47:53+00:00
Thought making one of these cluster maps would be interesting. Used Nomic embeddings, HDBSCAN, and UMAP, with Gemma 3 27B (via Ollama) to label the clusters. Looked into the dataset to find the most active posting times, popular domains that were posted, and other trends from this past year

Write-up and other findings: https://lincolnmaxwell.com/p/clustering-hackernews-2025/

Interactive map: https://hackernews-clustered-2025.labs.lincolnmaxwell.com/

Heads up: the map is about ~20mb in size (~7mb transfer over network) - don’t use on a metered connection
by kemotep | 2026-01-21 15:47:54+00:00
So is it strictly necessary to sign up for the 200 a month subscription? Because every time, without fail, the free ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Mistral, Deepseek whatever chatbots, do not write PowerShell faster than I do.

They “type” faster than me, but they do not type out correct PowerShell.

Fake modules, out of date module versions, fake options, fake expectations of object properties. Debugging what they output makes them a significant speed down compared to just, typing and looking up PowerShell commands manually and using the -help and get-help functions in my terminal.

But again, I haven’t forked over money for the versions that cost hundreds of dollars a month. It doesn’t seem worth it, even after 3 years. Unless the paid version is 10 times smarter with significantly less hallucinations the quality doesn’t seem worth the price.
by JeremyNT | 2026-01-21 15:48:07+00:00
> This stuff is relatively new, I don't think anyone has truly figured out how to best approach LLM assisted development yet. A lot of folks are on it, usually not exactly following the scientific method. We'll get evidence eventually.

I try to think about other truly revolutionary things.

Was there evidence that GUIs would dramatically increase productivity / accessibility at first? I guess probably not. But the first time you used one, you would understand its value on some kind of intuitive level.

Having the ability to start OpenCode, give it an issue, add a little extra context, and have the issue completed without writing a single line of code?

The confidence of being able to dive into an unknown codebase and becoming productive immediately?

It's obvious there's something to this even if we can't quantify it yet. The wildly optimistic takes end with developers completely eliminated, but the wildly pessimistic ones - if clear eyed - should still acknowledge that this is a massive leap in capabilities and our field is changed forever.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-21 15:48:10+00:00
Fifth repost in one day by the same user. Quite a lot of fake looking positive comments from brand new accounts in the earlier submissions too.

- Show HN: I was burnt out and& failing so I built AI that give shit about me (z----.com)
1 point by kaufy 6 hours ago

- Show HN: I was burnt out and failing so I built AI that give shit about me
4 points by kaufy 22 hours ago | 10 comments

- Show HN: I was burnt out, failing so I built AI that give shit about me (z----.com)
6 points by kaufy 1 day ago | 5 comments

- Show HN: Created an AI for myself to achieve goals, it might help you guys too (z----.com)
6 points by kaufy 1 day ago | 5 comments
by eru | 2026-01-21 15:48:30+00:00
If you use price levels measures that grow at different rates, indexing to set them equal at one point in time doesn't save you. Do you understand what your 'indexing' does?

To give a really silly example to explain: just because I can scale f(n) = n^2 and g(n) = n^3 to give the same value at n=1 (or any other arbitrary n), doesn't mean they will forever grow at the same rate.

You are weakening your own point by screwing up the stats: even after we correct for the difference in inflation measures, there _is_ a widening gap between mean and median worker income. (Where, yes, worker includes Elon Musk as CEO of Tesla.)

> This is a big part of the reason why I think lifestyle descriptions are so much more useful than numbers. The stories of the boomer generation sound like fairy tales now a days - somebody putting themselves through college, buying the first car, and even having enough squirreled away for the down payment on their first house - all on the back of a part time job that didn't even require a college degree.

Well, see Caplan's Case Against Education (https://www.amazon.sg/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp...).

Of course, the kind of crappy cars that boomers were driving aren't legal to buy anymore. Their houses were also much smaller, etc. It's a separate discussion of whether we should legalise crappy cars and small houses again. (I'm against the former but in favour of the latter.)

You'd want to correct for these quality differences to make your point stronger.

Also keep in mind that the boomer's "Golden Age" was the pinnacle of inequality. In the decades since, inequality has drastically shrunken. Mostly thanks to people in India and China moving from dirt poor and starving to merely poor (for India) and medium income (for China).

I would not want to go back to that supposed Golden Age, just because super-rich Americans were slightly less well off comparatively than today. Median and average Americans are still better off in absolute terms; and approximately everyone else on the globe is massively better off in absolute terms today.
by simion314 | 2026-01-21 15:48:38+00:00
From my memory this case can actually be used to support spyware, I remember all the media complaining "how is it possible that the police or the secret service can't instantly locate a phone very precisely" , same when that airplane crashed and the people were calling for help but the authorities could not get the coordinates and searched for hours , the media was demanding that the police or other services have the technical ability to locate any person in distress.
Show HN: Neboo – A minimalist digital circuit breaker for doomscrolling
by jaylisches | 2026-01-21 15:48:52+00:00
Hi HN,

I built neboo because I realized that my willpower wasn't enough to fight the "infinite scroll" of modern social apps. I’d pick up my phone for a second and lose thirty minutes to a dopamine loop.

Most blockers felt too aggressive or easy to bypass. I wanted a "manual override"—something to wake me up in the moment I’m stuck.

How it works:

) You hit a button, and it forces a 3-second breathing delay. This tiny friction is often enough to break the impulsive reflex.
) Instead of just stopping, it suggests a randomized 30-second micro-habit (stretching, hydrating, looking out a window) to provide a healthier "variable reward".

Privacy: No accounts, no ads, no trackers. Everything is stored locally in your browser's LocalStorage.

It’s a Progressive Web App (PWA) built to be as lightweight and Zen as possible. I use it as an exit sign on my home screen.

I’d love to get your feedback on the UI/UX and hear if you have ideas for more 30-second micro-habits that actually help you reset.

URL: https://neboo.me
by FireBeyond | 2026-01-21 15:48:57+00:00
I mean for most auto and home insurers, the "negotiated price" is a pretty loose thing. My insurer might ask for a quote from someone in their "preferred network" but I can get a quote from anyone I want to do the work, and if it's within x% of the preferred quote, it's automatically approved, otherwise someone from the insurer calls them and asks about the different pricing, and I've generally got that approval within 24-48 hours. (Which has also worked in my favor - with an auto glass claim, their repairer was insistent that third party glass would work fine, despite the HUD, but the other was able to demonstrate to the insurer that OEM glass was required).

Mostly this all boils down to "the healthcare industry in the US needs to be comprehensively revamped in any one of several different ways or methodologies, but likely won't be".
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-21 15:49:34+00:00
If you really want to traumatize yourself, learn about Scientific Realism vs Instrumentalism. (And further reading, Early Wittgenstein, but know you are only going to understand 10% of it, but that's okay, everyone only understands 10% of it)

If you want to further freak yourself out about probability look up Bertrand's Paradox and The Problem of Priors.

Yes Social Science is less accurate than what people call hard science, but the edges of scientific systems should concern yourself of validity of even hard science. Its pragmatically useful, yes, but metaphysical Truth? No.
Show HN: DynamoLens – native, open-source DynamoDB desktop client (Go and Wails)
by rasjonell | 2026-01-21 15:49:51+00:00
I built DynamoLens, a free/open-source desktop app for Amazon DynamoDB. It’s a native Wails shell (Go backend + React/Vite frontend, no Electron) for macOS/Windows/Linux. It lets you explore tables, inspect/edit items, and handle multiple environments without living in the console/CLI.
Highlights:
- Visual workflows: compose item/table operations, save/share, replay
- Explorer: list tables, view schema, scan/query, create/update/delete items and tables
- Auth: AWS profiles, static keys, custom endpoints (DynamoDB Local-friendly)
- Modern UI with command palette, pinning, theming
Looking for feedback from DynamoDB and Go/Wails folks—especially on UX rough edges and packaging/signing on macOS.
Download: https://dynamolens.com/
Code: https://github.com/rasjonell/dynamo-lens
by rtkwe | 2026-01-21 15:50:04+00:00
True but it was much cheaper when a computer you might have on for other reasons wouldn't consume noticeably more power for your donation, eg computer lab admins which I think made up some of the top contenders of the leader boards. There were definitely groups that would run clusters of computers just for the donation (my dad was one of those too, there was no other reason to run those PCs other than Seti@Home) but for the average home user it was spare cycles that were low cost to free.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-21 15:50:19+00:00
> Thiel, Musk, et. al., support, for example, Curtis Yarvin, who believes that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced with an all-powerful "CEO"

These guys all benefit when the No-Politics Purity Brigade drives by and flag-kills every article pointing out their wrongdoing as "political." By flagging this stuff, they're actually making HN more political: They are just defending the billionaire's status-quo politics.
by vladms | 2026-01-21 15:50:36+00:00
I hope someone talked with lawyers that know what can be done.

I would love a (more) unified system (tax, rules, etc.). Multiple organizations/think-tanks recommended more unified systems for the EU on this topics.

The problem is if it does not fall under the EU competences it will be hard to implement at that level. To quote:

> While the businesses and objectives targeted by the 28th regime are specified to some extent, it is
unclear which firms would specifically have access to it, and which aspects of the business code
would be covered. The competences of the EU are likely to constitute boundaries in this respect.

source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/7792...

In a way, it's like programming. The difficult part are the exceptions, corner cases or unplanned interactions. Countries are very reluctant to give up control over some topics (tax being one of them) and they also have lawyers.

I welcome any help entrepreneurs can receive. But after trying it a couple of times (software stuff, might be a specific case) I personally didn't find the rules for creation/tax were that of a problem, compared to the requirements that in many other instances I felt were imposed to the newly/newlish formed enterprise (ex: want to apply to a project? you have to have existed for 3 years; want that subsidy? you need to show us you are having X partners) to lower the risk for the existing (public and private) organizations.
by jeingham | 2026-01-21 15:50:36+00:00
Well for me, kind of a IT jack of all trades, a little programming, a little server management, a little DBA, HTML, Network and domain shat, etc, yeah a little bit of everything under my belt. I am finding Cursor incredibly enabling. You have heard it here before I know but I really wish I had this when I was in the trenches. I am retired now. I use it for various little programs I am writing and one big project. I use Cursor with opus 4.5 mostly, and finding that none of my questions and none of my requests have hit a brick wall, some walls for sure but not the kind of brick walls I would run into in the past where I would have no one to turn to immediately and those that I could turn to were also busy very busy with their s**, sometimes taking hours to get through to them or maybe even days. All that's gone. With the help of AI I can usually work out any kind of problem I have. Now, as for the quality of the code, well that may be another story. It might be twice as much as any , more experienced programmer might write but so far, with my experience, I have not seen anything that looks untoward.

Bottom line is that I am extremely grateful for AI has a teammate. As a solopreneur even more so. I'm building an application that I know would have taken at least $10 to 20K to build but all I'm paying is $60 a month Cursor Pro+ and my public facing server. And only $60 because I ran into a Cursor Claude limit.

Buckle up guys and gals, the midwit you always feared has the keys to the tank now...
by matesz | 2026-01-21 15:50:38+00:00
It isn't prophecy. The Harvard Belfer Center study (Thucydides's Trap) analyzed 16 cases in the last 500 years where a rising power challenged a ruling empire: 12 of them ended in war.

The UK is actually the perfect example of this danger. The British Empire didn't dissolve peacefully - it was effectively destroyed by WWI and WWII while trying to suppress a rising Germany.

The subsequent transfer of hegemony to the US was a rare statistical anomaly (a "special case" driven by shared culture and total British exhaustion), but the Empire’s fall itself was catastrophic.

The pattern is violence, not peace. And remember that other aspiring nations to maintain it's position as Empire actively acting to destabilize situation in other states. The reason is simple - it is easiest way to maintain their status.

Brexit for instance was a boon for everybody but UK and EU. There is clear data already about Russian intervention. Recent overt US intervention into ensuring UK remaining separate and EU becoming separate. Think about it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 15:50:42+00:00
Edit from my previous comment: Actually tried Kagi assistant through orion/signed up and its really good (GLM 4.7) but still there is some amount of tracking/logs still kept

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/llms-privacy.html

I also didn't find in kagi what provider its using for glm 4.7 (I am assuming the same as glm 4.6) which is Cerebras,DeepInfra,Fireworks.ai and some of these use large companies like aws etc. so you are still putting trust into them

I somehow made kagi assistant mention proton lumo and it sort of agreed with me that its a good option too

I think Proton lumo (for simple queries, although i still don't know which model they use & it's pretty restrictive plus I wish they might have used glm 4.7) but its good.

Cerebras terms and policy needs to be seen again by me but I had talked to cerebras on discord once and they mention that they don't log too but I might ask them again but cerebras might make more sense but for basic codegen proton's lumo is good too.

My eyes are on proton lumo & confer.to but kagi's pretty good too (as much as they can be fwiw but they still rely on api, I feel like kagi's make sense if you are already using kagi search or want AI to use kagi search feature imo)

I looked at some of these privacy policy and
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-21 15:50:46+00:00
Per the DOJ, there's also this:

>An officer who purposefully allows a fellow officer to violate a victim's Constitutional rights may be prosecuted for failure to intervene to stop the Constitutional violation.

>To prosecute such an officer, the government must show that the defendant officer was aware of the Constitutional violation, had an opportunity to intervene, and chose not to do so.
by redhotcookerr | 2026-01-21 15:50:56+00:00
Hello HN, I’m the creator of Loomind.

I built this app because I was frustrated with existing AI tools. I hated reminding AI about context from yesterday, and I was paranoid about sending my personal journals and business docs to a public cloud. I wanted a "Swiss Army Knife" that works offline: a fast editor and a knowledge base with local RAG.

Midway through development, I suffered a heart attack and underwent bypass surgery. Coding this project actually became my anchor during rehabilitation over the last month.

Loomind is a local-first workspace built with Electron and Next.js.

Local RAG: You can dump PDFs/MD files, indexing happens on your device.

Privacy: Offline mode switch keeps everything on your disk.

Memory: It retains context across sessions.

There is a free tier you can use to try it out. I’m still recovering, but I’m here to answer any questions about the tech stack or the implementation. Feedback is very welcome.
by brk | 2026-01-21 15:51:06+00:00
"Artists" are currently trying to create false scarcity, not totally unlike the DeBeers/diamonds false scarcity.

Historically, Artists have often had (mostly) uncredited assistants that handled a lot of the grunt work. This is particularly common, IME, for physical media artists that do large sculptures and similar pieces. "The Artist" will do the initial design, and then "artists" working under their direction will do a lot of cutting and welding, for example.

AI is upending a lot of this because it is letting more people become Artists in the sense of bringing a vision into reality via the use of various external helpers.

In the end all visual artists are just manipulating how photons hit our eyes, and there are lots of ways to make that happen pleasantly.
by probably_wrong | 2026-01-21 15:51:27+00:00
No, they wouldn't.

We've been doing Bayesian content (aka spam) filtering for over 20 years, based in no small part on Paul Graham's essay "A plan for spam". According to HP [1], a home computer at the time had a single 1.5Ghz core and 256Mb of RAM.

Using LLMs would achieve essentially the same while requiring a couple orders of magnitude more resources.

[1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-pers...
by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-21 15:51:32+00:00
The issue isn't it's usefulness in small transactions. The issue is who decides. In the case of gold a huge distributed system decides the valuation of Gold. Yes we usually use USD as the comparator. But there is a Gold:RealEstate ratio, Gold:Oil Ratio, Gold:Bread ratio. No single or small number of actors can change that in a meaningful/reliable way.[1] Whereas USD can, and has been, printed at an exponential rate.

[1] -(Let's exclude intentional market manipulations like if a world leader were to buy a bunch of gold and then saber rattle to drive up fear).
by ckozlowski | 2026-01-21 15:51:52+00:00
They saw a huge uptick in users during the COVID pandemic. As the corona virus is a protein shell, and their software folds protein molecules, they were able to apply it to look for targets for other molecules to attach to the virus where it would normally latch onto a cell, this could then lead to treatments.

They'd found some promising results, and were working with a pharmaceutical company to manufacture the first compounds that could then be tested. Unfortunately that company's facility was located in eastern Ukraine. =(

But that aside, they've still been going strong.