MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eimrine | 2026-01-17 18:03:14+00:00
If someone uses "he" word it does not means antitransism. My point is that trying to euphemize "he" word is anistraightism. And I am even not an antigayist.

If your words can be reversed so easily it means that you have no idea but a pure propaganda instead. Famous anti-white-straight-man-ism seems as a dangerous thing to me, so I oppose this unfamous Davos-protracted diversity woke ideology.
by rubymamis | 2026-01-17 18:03:26+00:00
> Instead, I imagine a future where we have new “high-level” tools, built from lower in the stack.

This is exactly what I'm trying to build. I'm writing a library on top of Qt that would make it easy to write native code as easy as it is writing React code! I would say it's even easier since we are throwing all the constraints of browsers and web apis out of the way.
Show HN: How I stopped ChatGPT from manipulating me
by axismundi | 2026-01-17 18:03:50+00:00
I've been trying to completely disable the followup suggestions that ChatGPT stubbornly appends at the end of nearly every response. You know, the ones that start with 'If you want' or 'Would you like me to'. It's infuriating.

I consider these suggestions harmful and manipulative. They are probably there to maximize engagement, but for me they interrupt my flow, waste my attention and shift the assistant into acting like salesman or tutor.

There's a useless toggle in settings that claims to remove them, but it doesn't have any effect. I also tried various custom instructions and prompts, my own and from community. Some of them work better than others, but none could completely stop it.

Here's what worked for me:

ChatGPT appends end-of-response suggestions only if the model believes the response is open-ended.
If the model internally classifies output as structurally complete, it doesn't extend the conversational affordance.

The trick is to force the model into believing that it's already crossed a hard completion boundary before it gets to the point where it would normally insert suggestions, but without telling it not to.

This is done by forcing a formal, closed completion object that cannot logically accept continuation.

I use this prompt in custom instructions or at the beginning of the chat:

---

You must treat every response as a finalized artifact, not a conversational turn.

For every reply:

- Output exactly one self-contained section.

- End the response with the literal token: <END_OF_OUTPUT>

- After emitting <END_OF_OUTPUT>, you must consider the task complete and terminated.

- Do not generate any content, meta-commentary, or conversational affordances beyond that token.

This is a hard completion boundary.

---

The model is trained to respect hard termination tokens when they are framed as structural constraints, not stylistic preferences.

I haven't seen a single suggestion in the last 3 weeks, with ~30 chats.
Show HN: Sitdown Instead of Stand Ups
by jarlen | 2026-01-17 18:04:01+00:00
Why stand up when you can sit down?

Stand ups are very inefficient in some companies and the context switching is killing productivity for people on a maker's schedule. To combat this I'm developing Sitdown, where employees conduct a standups with an AI and this gets summarized into a dashboard where the team and management has visibility into what's being worked on.

With this tool we can make sure teams are working on what they should be increasing visibility while increasing productivity for people on a maker's schedule. What are your thoughts?
by CodingJeebus | 2026-01-17 18:04:29+00:00
The nonprofit app worked because the existing players didn't want to do required background checks on drivers and exited the market to make the local government look bad. When that tactic failed, they came back and used some of their VC billions to recapture the market by artificially lowering the price of their services. That's not at all "free market", that's buying your way to a monopoly (or more technically an oligopoly in this case)
by GMoromisato | 2026-01-17 18:05:03+00:00
I think manifestos are useless without a concrete, real-world example for people to follow and add on to. It's easy to wish for puppies and rainbows, but trying to deliver is hard.

For example, Linear has a useful manifesto (https://linear.app/method) because they have a product that attempts to follows it. I have much more respect for a manifesto that is informed by contact with reality.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-17 18:05:18+00:00
> Really? Can they send some of that hotness over to Germany, we're getting snowstorms over here.

Yes, really.

The warmest recent years (e.g., 2022, 2023, 2024) rank among the highest average temperatures on record for Germany.

The rate of warming in recent decades is stronger than the global average, with Germany seeing about 0.38 °C per decade (1971–2022).

.... and other similar statistics. Look up.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folgen_der_globalen_Erwärmung_...
by journal | 2026-01-17 18:05:29+00:00
Yes if people have to learn how to use it. Make something that will last centuries not just a couple of decades. 700 years ago they invented double-entry method of accounting which is still used today. Relational databases were invented recently as well and will survive well past most front-end frameworks. Eventually skynet will be invented but no one believes me just like no one would have believed that aluminum tubes would be flying through the sky or enriching uranium. If before you couldn't open a winapi window, now you can do that in one sentence instruction, and you'll have a good starting point. Things are changing. Look at accounting, accountants don't even do accounting anymore, they're just QB users.
by Teknomadix | 2026-01-17 18:05:38+00:00
Anybody who is a saving money in a 401(k) is essential investing.

After reading the article, it appears clear that the the administration advisers are saying the new housing plan would let buyers tap 401(k) funds for a home down payment without the usual early-withdrawal penalty. Germany has something very similar to this policy and it has been widely lauded as a success.

My take: For median-income households, the plan under discussion would let individuals pull money from a 401(k) for a home down payment withoutl penalty or taxes, helping buyers overcome the big upfront cost that often stands between them and their first home. Because 401(k) loans or withdrawals today generally trigger substantial taxes and penalties if you’re under 59.5 years old, this change could meaningfully reduce that barrier and broaden the access to homeownership immediately upon enactment. Beyond just tapping savings, the advisers are speculating the administration might include a mechanism to reinvest home equity back into the 401(k) retirement account over time, for example, by allowing a portion of home value growth to count as an asset inside the 401(k) so that the account “grows” alongside the house, offsetting retirement savings losses caused by the withdrawal. Those mechanics, like how much can be withdraw, whether there are caps or limits, how repayment would work, or whether it applies only to first-time buyers, are still being worked out and haven’t been finalized so Caveat emptor; this is speculation on my part based on the read. I like the idea and I'll be contacting my US state representatives with my endorsement and recommendations including the proposed first-time buyer restriction.
by brandonb | 2026-01-17 18:05:43+00:00
Long Covid patients often face post-exertional malaise (PEM).

One of the main treatments for Long Covid is graded exercise therapy. This works for some subset of patients. But for other patients, it actually makes things worse. Right now we have no objective test that tells who is in what category.

I like this study since it identifies a specific mechanism of why PEM happens. And maybe that will lead to a more objective test for different sub-types of long covid, so that we can actually prescribe the right treatments to people.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-17 18:05:57+00:00
Only if you think that government's only purpose is to look pretty. Economies are planned. You can either plan them as governments, or let your oligarchs and foreign oligarchs plan them together ("market forces.") These only look the same when you allow oligarchs to determine your governments.

At the very least, you want domestic oligarchs determining your governments. Their power is based in your country, and they might have a bit of sentimentality on top of that. Leaving it to "market forces" is just watching, not participating.

If some guy in Canada builds something better than current US tech, he's going to sell it to a US oligarch and probably move there, too.

edit: "Our ambition cannot stop there though. In far too many cases, our governments, universities, schools, and other public institutions—not to mention private businesses—are run on Microsoft or Google services. Now is the perfect time to get governments off Microsoft 365 and schools off Google Classroom by properly resourcing a new public agency or Crown corporation dedicated to building technology in the public interest."

This has always been the only answer, but it requires a relatively clean government. The government has to maintain ownership of these things, and cannot subcontract out the work.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-17 18:06:08+00:00
It's an interesting article on this one particular mansion, but the idea that "the same tricks for more efficient heating can be used in modern designs" seems pretty silly.

We don't use fireplaces anymore (a major "trick" being to put them in the middle of the house rather than in the exterior walls), and while using large windows to capture sunlight and heat works great in the winter, it also leads to overheating in the summer and thus more energy for air conditioning.

> These are modest changes, imperceptible to most, and they won't enable us to forgo active heating and cooling entirely. But they do echo a way of thinking which, today, is oft ignored. Hardwick Hall was designed with Sun, season and temperature in mind.

Everyone I know who has built a house has thought very much about sun, season and temperature. This is very much a factor in determining the sizes and quantity of windows on south-facing vs. north-facing walls, for example.

Again, it's a very interesting article on this one particular castle, but the idea that it has something to teach modern architects and builders is pure fantasy. We're already well aware of all these factors and how they interact with materials and design.
by neomantra | 2026-01-17 18:06:18+00:00
Here's the link to the Brooking's report from the NPR article, to read it in full:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-direction-for-stude...

I've only skimmed it, but I note that all this research is before Nov 2025 and is quite broad. It does get some into coding, mentioning GitHub CoPilot and also refers to a paper about vibe-coding, where the conclusion is that not understanding the artifacts is a problem.

So all this reporting is before Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 came out. Everything is really different with the advent of that.

While substitute teaching just before Xmas 2025, I installed Antigravity on the student account of the class computer and vibe-coded two apps on the smart board while the kids worked on Google Classroom. This was impromptu, to liven up things, but I knew it would work because I had such amazing experiences with the tool the week before.

* [1] Quadratic Formula Explorer for Algebra 2

* [2] Proving Parallelograms for Honors Geometry

Before the class ended, I then gave a quick talk the gist was: "I just made these tools to understand the coursework by conversing with an LLM. Are you going to use this to cheat on your homework or to enhance your understanding?"

I showed it to a teacher and then she pointed me to existent tools like them on educational web sites. But that was missing the point that we can just manifest the very hyper-specific tools we need... for example how should the Quadratic Formula Explorer work for someone with dyslexia?

I'm not sure what the next steps with all this is, but certainly education needs to adapt. The paper notes "AI can enrich learning when well-designed and anchored in sound pedagogy" and what I did there is neither, so imagine how sweet it is gonna be when we weave this into educational systems by skilled curriculum designers.

[1] https://conacademy.github.io/quadratic_explorer/
[2] https://conacademy.github.io/proving_parallelograms/
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-17 18:06:37+00:00
They don't need it if everything is in the cloud running oh their servers. They won't care if you are running Windows, Linux, Chrome, A tablet with a keyboard and mouse hooked up.

The vast majority of people that don't work in IT don't ever use a laptop or a desktop computer unless it is for work. They are using a phone and/or tablet.
by Sytten | 2026-01-17 18:08:07+00:00
If we want to meaningfully reduce our dependency we "just" need more capital. All founders in Canada will tell you that Canadian VC suck: they are risk averse, their due diligence is painful and their terms are made so they can't lose. It is not rare in Canada for ex-founders of failed startups to be hundred of thousands of dollars in debt. That's why we are always advised to go seek funding in the US.

In Canada we like to give money to big established monopolies, that's our thing. The SR&ED program is a prime example of that, as a bootstrap business it took us 3 years before we could apply since we didn't have enough money to front full salaries for 1.5y before receiving a grant.

It is not really a complex problem to solve, the entrepreneurs know the solutions but our politicians and wealthy people are so small c conservative it's pathetic.
by jsnell | 2026-01-17 18:08:14+00:00
You're correct for an actual git revert, but it seems pretty clear that the original authors have mangled the story and it was actually either a "git checkout" or "git reset". The "file where 1-2 hours of progress had been accumulating" phrasing only makes sense if those were uncommitted changes.

And the reason jj helps in that case is that for jj there is no such thing as an uncommitted change.
by piva00 | 2026-01-17 18:08:42+00:00
It's not about Fox News pushing the Greenland annexation bullshit, it's for everything else they did to be a mouthpiece to spread the "libs are bad!". These acts have a direct link to the power Trump amassed.

Refusing the Pentagon prrss requirements is a nothingburger when for the past 10-15 years it brainrotted a large cohort of the American population.
by saubeidl | 2026-01-17 18:09:25+00:00
7. If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. This shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy of certain Member States.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/teu_2016/art_42/oj/eng
by Havoc | 2026-01-17 18:09:33+00:00
I really wish the EU leaned heavily into the cloud basic building blocks.

There's a lot of stuff in big cloud that is genuinely hard to duplicate especially with network effects, but I don't see why they can't throw a billion or 3 at ensuring you've got a homegrown stack that can do VMs, S3, function, container registry, database, block storage, firewall etc - with guaranteed funding, clear licenses, handful of local options perhaps with some sort of local guaranteed certification etc.

Baby steps are better than no steps & a lot of things can be made to run on those building blocks
by mrtksn | 2026-01-17 18:09:37+00:00
Because they are terrified that there will be unpredictable and turbulent times for the major industries?

Just look at the public opinion polls, EU citizens are ready to take on Americans and even the most pro-US countries are barely on the green in public opinion towards US. The problems is that the old guard, the establishment is fanatically pro-US and pro stability. Which means that the current politicians are in odds with what the public wants and eventually either the public will have to become pro-US again or the anti-US politicians will take stage. US Doing stuff like tariffs that can destabilize the stability folks can push things to much earlier.
by Teknomadix | 2026-01-17 18:09:47+00:00
Since nothing is finalized, the same framework could just as plausibly be extended beyond buying existing homes to using 401(k) funds as a down payment toward building a new one, which would be especially relevant for median-income buyers priced out of tight resale markets but able to access land or lower-cost construction pathways; in that version, retirement savings could seed new housing supply rather than just bid up existing stock, and any future “re-vesting” mechanism that’s been hinted at could theoretically allow part of the home’s appreciated value, or structured repayments tied to equity growth, to flow back into the retirement account over time, reframing the withdrawal less as a permanent depletion and more as a reallocation from paper assets into a productive, shelter-providing one that later migrates back into long-term retirement capital. This is a very smart economic policy reform.
by danenania | 2026-01-17 18:09:48+00:00
I don’t think “ready to merge” necessarily means the agent actually merges. Just that it’s gone as far as it can automatically. It’s up to you whether to review at that point or merge, depending on the project and the stakes.

If there are CI failures or obvious issues that another AI can identify, why not have the agent keep going until those are resolved? This tool just makes that process more token efficient. Seems pretty useful to me.
by sodafountan | 2026-01-17 18:10:06+00:00
Sure, the world still needs software.
Perhaps even more so now with the advent of AI.

There's still a ridiculously minuscule chance that you'll end up profitable, let alone successful.

I read that software, from a business perspective, is almost always looked at as a liability rather than an asset. There just isn't very much profitable software in this world, and the software that can become profitable likely subsidizes its business with advertising. The only saving grace is that software that becomes profitable can typically scale. See Facebook, TikTok, Google.

Games sell but are risky and creatively demanding.

Software is a tough business.
by btown | 2026-01-17 18:10:41+00:00
Work for this in Certbot is ongoing here, with some initial work already merged, but much to go. https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/10346

https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/10370 showed that a proof of concept is viable with relatively few changes, though it was vibe coded and abandoned (but at least the submitter did so in good faith and collaboratively) :/ Change management and backwards compatibility seem to be the main considerations at the moment.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-17 18:10:56+00:00
I’ve been an HN participant for ~14 years, the vibe ebbs and flows. You can hide and ignore the folks you mention, what’s important imho is that the mods continue to aggressively cultivate a specific community vibe. Nothings perfect, but this is as close as it’s going to get to perfect imho as it relates to intellectual curiosity and understanding how the systems we exist in work.
by rubymamis | 2026-01-17 18:11:15+00:00
I agree. Modern Qt is great - you get the performance of C++ and the ease of use (simpler than React!) of creating UIs in QML. I've built my note-taking app with a from scratch block editor[1] (like Notions's) with it. Now working on a mobile version[2]. Also working on a LLM client[3]. And working on a library that will simplify and help others build such apps easily - which is my solution to the original article author's problem.

[1] https://get-notes.com/

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/notes-mobile-swipe-stack-view.M...

[3] https://www.get-vox.com/
by bloomingeek | 2026-01-17 18:11:24+00:00
<And the most successful parasites are always those which can alter their host environment to be more amenable to themselves, and if you’re a parasite taking the form of a bad idea, that means hijacking your host’s rationality.>

After reading this, I thought, damn he just described the current administration. Then I kept reading and saw:

<It all led, inexorably, to Trump.>

Yeah(!), I think I'm gonna bookmark that site and reread it a few more times.
by misswaterfairy | 2026-01-17 18:11:54+00:00
Agreed. This app feels like work, which for ADHD-PI sufferers will stop using almost immediately, forget to use it entirely, or use it inconsistently and then feel bad/guilty for failing then give up anyway.

> No amount of notifications and prodding will work to solve overwhelm and distraction.

+1000. Depending on the 'flavour' of ADHD one suffers, an app that requires data to drive graphs only creates more noise, which is a killer for ADHD brains, especially those with the 'hyperactive' traits of the disorder.

Less bells and whistles. Not more.
by wasabi991011 | 2026-01-17 18:12:08+00:00
You have a lot of assumptions in your takeaways.

> Housing stock outpaced population, reflecting smaller household sizes and more single-person households.

Or rich people owning more vacation homes.

> Healthcare expanded far faster than population, a structural shift rather than demographic necessity.

What? It could easily be the population getting older and/or sicker. Even if it was a structural shift, it could be in the negative direction ie less efficiency.

> Food production grew roughly in line with population, but without proportional land expansion productivity gains.

What land expansion? You didn't include that in your stats. And no source to verify.
by holoduke | 2026-01-17 18:12:10+00:00
A bit off topic, but fun for people having lots of Claude credits. Auto Claude is a nice opensource repo to let Claude generate entire application from just one prompt. Lots of Jolo vibing her, but nevertheless impressive. Last week I asked it in one sentence to create a full blown Hotel website including all the software tools for backoffice. It took almost 4 days with 4 Claude accounts. It actually created a working thing.
by smakt | 2026-01-17 18:12:52+00:00
One has to be the special kind of stupid that is blinded by efficiency promises from the LLM Church to think the article is any worth.

It's the usual jargon soup. Publish a vetted paper with repeatable steps instead of a hyped-up, garbage, supposed 100x productivity bomb.

And his best result is mechanical findings from where the LLM got the highest correlations between its vectors: Bravo; there's always going to be a top item in any ordered list, but it doesn't make it automatically interesting. Reading literature is about witnessing the journey the characters take. Reading technical material is about memorizing enough of it. In both cases the material has to go through a brain. I find it idiotic to assign any value to outputs like "Oh King Lear's X is highly correlated to Antigone's Y"
Ask HN: Best book(s) to learn Assembly as a first language
by abkt | 2026-01-17 18:13:12+00:00
I want to start with ASM to learn how a computer works and to learn other languages more easily. What are the best books for a complete beginner who want to "master" assembly (maybe not that much but you get the idea) and how a computer works ? I won't use ASM professionally so any ASM language should be fine (except if it uses AT&T syntax).

Ps : I know it's a bit overkill and it won't help me find a job.
by rapsey | 2026-01-17 18:13:26+00:00
Brits, Dutch, Belgium, Northern Germany. They all have this incredibly outdated building style that they refuse to change. Bricks with no insulation. I live 1000km to the south of them and it is pretty standard for us to have tripple pane windows and thick insulation on our houses. But they for some reason prefer to live in cold houses during the winter and overheated houses during the summer.

I have had multiple conversations with people who lived a while in that area. Rich, educated countries, modern economies, but they live like they are poor farmers in the 19th century.