MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw10920 | 2026-01-18 15:16:04+00:00
I appreciate your reasoned comment and think that it's thoughtful, but I respectfully disagree with some of your claims.

> In your link I don’t see Hasan white knights protecting their master from bad publicity

Yes, because it's not overt. Nobody says that when they're doing it. What's happening is claiming that the story is not notable so it can be removed because it's bad publicity for him:

> This is a nothing story and not encyclopedic.

> it seems to be "drama" amongst the terminally online

Then it turns out that it's notable because some sources are reporting it, but the editors make every effort to discount all of those sources:

> The Australian is noted as a center-right newssheet. I think there has been no rfc on it, but it seems an opinionated source.

> WP:NEWSWEEK has been noted to have had some quality decline according to RSP.

> WP:DEXERTO states not to use it for BLP and that its very tabloidy.

> WP:DAILYDOT also states its highly biased and opinionated. It seems rather tabloidy as well.

> See WP:TIMESOFINDIA but its not reliable enough for this

...and this is used as a reason to not even put a single-paragraph summary at the end of his article, despite the fact that the event is extremely notable as part of his career, and is exactly the information that someone reading the Wikipedia page would want to know.

> I see Hasan haters trying to bludgeon the change into the article by ignoring any objection and just reverting edits.

Yes, I see some of those people too. But, in response, the editors are reverting the changes and locking out the topic. An impartial editor concerned about the truth and curating a useful encyclopedia would not do that - they'd create new changes to remove specifically only the offending unsourced material and rewrite sourced material to be neutral.

> if this was so important then why hasn’t any major news outlet written about it

Along with the other sources listed in the talk page that the editors did their best to discount, The Guardian wrote about it - that certainly counts as a "major news outlet".

Nobody wants a ton of drama on Wikipedia, but this clearly surpasses the threshold of "drama" given that (1) it's still being discussed months afterwards (2) it has transcended the cultural circles around Hasan (which is the main metric for "drama") and (3) it's received reporting from many news outlets, including large and reliable ones like The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/i-love-when-...
by earsayapp | 2026-01-18 15:16:11+00:00
I have listened to podcasts for over 20 years now and COVID ruined them. Ads became unbearable and media corporations flooded the zone with repacked TV and radio programs. These companies dint know that podcasting is a different thing.

My contribution to help fix this is earsay.fm. It’s an iOS podcast client with 100% in device ad detection and skipping.
by MontyCarloHall | 2026-01-18 15:16:12+00:00
Ding ding ding. Look at all the brands mentioned in just this thread. From a cursory look, I see:

* WSJ

* Bloomberg

* Financial Times

* Cartier

* Kagi

* Protonmail

* Coca-Cola

* HBO

* Windex

* Netflix

* Azure

* AWS

We are all ourselves advertisers, we just don't realize it. It is inevitable that chatbots will be RLHF-trained in our footsteps.
by CrulesAll | 2026-01-18 15:16:12+00:00
"If you can't write well, communicate well, plan and organize"
Straw man. Pretty sure, this is the dilbert equivalent of "I can problem solve". If you are an engineer, we are making boatloads being brought in to fix the incompetence of this level of thinking. INFOSEC alone is having a field day.

Would you like to buy a bridge? Coded by Claude. One previous owner. An owner who used said bridge to go to church once a week, and vibe code in Starbucks afterwoods.
Show HN: VelinScript 2.5 – A modern language for AI‑API development
by SkyliteDesign | 2026-01-18 15:17:21+00:00
VelinScript (Velisch) 2.5 is the next generation of a programming language designed specifically for AI‑API development. The goal is to combine the simplicity of modern high‑level languages with the performance and predictability of Rust, while providing a complete toolchain for building production‑grade APIs.

What’s new in 2.5:

A redesigned compiler pipeline

Built‑in support for AI‑centric workflows

Flow‑based execution model with automatic rollback

Auto‑documentation and auto‑testing decorators

A growing standard library for API and data tasks

Improved REPL and developer tooling

Cross‑platform installers (Windows, Linux, macOS)

VelinScript focuses on developer experience: fast iteration, clear syntax, and strong tooling for real‑world backend and AI workloads.

If you're interested in new languages, API design, or AI‑driven development, feedback is very welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/SkyliteDesign/velinscript
Docs: https://velinscript.birdapi.de/docs
by jrmg | 2026-01-18 15:18:00+00:00
I wonder where LLMs got this style from, since, while you did see something like it, it wasn’t nearly as widespread before the rise of ChatGPT, so not the most statistically likely form for these to be generated in.

Was it trained into them in the supervised or reinforcement phases?

Has it emerged from prompts extorting them to be friendly, somehow sneaking in from text message training as a result?

Is it now in a self-reinforcing feedback loop as training data grows to include modern Readmes?
by acaciabengo | 2026-01-18 15:18:02+00:00
I have been working on CensorX, a multimodal content moderation set of models. It is from a personal project where I built content moderation in a Discord Bot.

I have open-sourced the fine-tuned models on Hugging Face and am looking for feedback on false positives/negatives in real-world scenarios.

The main exploration has been ablations based on freezing certain layers of the transformers. More work could be explored by tuning other parameters and expanding the datasets.

The Models:
• Image (ViT-B/16): Fine-tuned Vision Transformer achieving 91.9% Accuracy and 0.99 AUC.
o Link: https://huggingface.co/acaciabengo/nsfw_image_detection
• Text (DistilBERT): Binary classifier trained on ~200k samples.
o Focus: Optimized for low-latency inference (<100ms) to fit into real-time chat streams.
o Link: https://huggingface.co/acaciabengo/nsfw_text_detection
How to try it:
1. Self-Host (Free): You can pull the weights directly from Hugging Face and run them in your own container.
2. Managed API (Freemium): I have deployed these exact models as a high-availability API on RapidAPI. There is a free tier for testing. RapidAPI
I am very interested in feedback on:
• Performance
• Access to larger datasets
• Shared experience from people who have handled similar tasks
Thank You
by chuckadams | 2026-01-18 15:18:14+00:00
Pipes are parallelized when you have unidirectional data flow between stages. They really kind of suck for fan-out and joining though. I do love a good long pipeline of do-one-thing-well utilities, but that design still has major limits. To me, the main advantage of pipelines is not so much the parallelism, but being streams that process "lazily".

On the other hand, unix sockets combined with socat can perform some real wizardry, but I never quite got the hang of that style.
by delegate | 2026-01-18 15:19:14+00:00
Not really. This db allows traversing the (deeply nested) data structures without loading them into memory. Eg. In Clojure you can do
```
(get-in db [:people "john" :address :city])
```

Where `:people` is a key in a huge (larger than memory) map. This database will only touch the referenced nodes when traversing, without loading the whole thing into memory.

So the 'query language' is actually your programming language. To the programmer this database looks like an in-memory data structure, when in fact it's efficiently reading data from the disk. Plus immutability of course (meaning you can go back in history).
by cogman10 | 2026-01-18 15:20:01+00:00
The payoff period for an EV is anywhere from 15,000 to 25,000mi. The moment any EV crosses that threshold, it becomes better for the environment than the ICE vehicle that you'd otherwise buy.

If your used ICE vehicle has 15 to 25,000mi in it, then yeah, replacing it with an EV today is the better choice. It's more a matter of when it will be the better choice.

This is only not true if you have very low yearly milages or a particularly efficient ICE. Which, maybe you do.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/dec/06/carbon-dioxid...
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-01-18 15:20:42+00:00
Doctorow's "civil war over general computing" comes to mind..

https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

unless the general population somehow freaks into privacy and anonymity and independency, it seems slowly losing (i don't hold my breath, seen enough "freebies" that later turn into highly-paid and noone bothering). Or said in another way, it seems like.. irrelevant?

But you never know. May be garage-made ESP64-meshes will appear, in a parallel "universe". Or whatever. When things get hot..
by jrm4 | 2026-01-18 15:20:54+00:00
YUP. Old timer here. I remember like having e.g. my Apple II, and somewhat later Stallman saying, e.g. "they're going to be able to reach into your device and burn your ebooks."

And I distinctly remember thinking how absolutely out of his mind PARANOID this man was. Because, you know, books and all are just files. And in what possible universe could you and would you build in the possibility of some other remote person having the ability to hack into the device that's IN YOUR HANDS and do something crazy like that?

oh.
by CrulesAll | 2026-01-18 15:21:03+00:00
Not fair on you. I did not mean to have a dig. I get where you are coming from, and should have elaborated. I've worked with those one or two engineers who were rude by default. Who had an extraordinary knack of vaguely describing the problem set, and then having a full on meltdown, always in front of other people, when the solutions did not match the problem in their head.*

*Goldman Sachs(sorry for invoking that name here) did a report on their high turnover, and the above framing was why many quit.
by webdevver | 2026-01-18 15:21:08+00:00
riscv is going to start having brand issues with these hardware offerings (if it doesn't already.)

sure, prototypes are good. but maybe it shouldn't be sold as a general product, because it implies that the sellers deem it a good product (when it obviously isn't.)

maybe it should be a closed offering, e.g. we're only making 1000, and we're only sending them to select few specialists/reviewers.
by acomjean | 2026-01-18 15:21:58+00:00
I worked as a intern for the government many years ago. They were doing a study on "ice dams" in Maine. Ice flows down river gets stuck and causes flooding an property damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_jam

they had about 5 options for mitigating with technical solutions (structures in the rivers), a price analysis for each. The last option was to buy the very rurual land that were flooding. It was deemed cheaper. I'm not sure what they ended up doing.
by sanderjd | 2026-01-18 15:22:35+00:00
Why wouldn't we find new things to do with all that new productivity?

Anecdotally, this is what I see happening in the small in my own work - we say yes to more ideas, more projects, because we know we can unblock things more quickly now - and I don't see why that wouldn't extend.

I do expect to see smaller teams - maybe a lot more one-person "teams" - and perhaps smaller companies. But I expect to see more work being done, not less, or the same.
by alexfoo | 2026-01-18 15:23:06+00:00
London tends to get that because it has never really been planned. It just grew over the course of 1600 years and absorbed other areas as it went. There are plenty of areas where a row of £20m+ homes are opposite blocks of 3-bed flats that go for a hundredth of that price.

Hundreds of years ago, before the rail or underground network, you still needed plenty of working class to live near where the rich people lived as the rich people still needed shops, servants, etc.

Having the city split into individual boroughs means that each borough had to provide for the full economic spectrum. The really expensive boroughs still have plenty of social housing and arbitrary divisions of land mean that things but up against each other from different boroughs.

However, new developments don't always get it right, when big green-field or brown-field sites are converted to residential they often struggle to get the correct right, and you end up with bigger areas that only cater for a subset.

National planning laws are also circumvented or gamed. If a new site requires a certain percent of "affordable housing" the developers will often agree (with the local borouhgh/council) to roll that over with another couple of projects and then build most of the "affordable housing" all in one place, and the diversity of individual areas is diminished.

As you say, there are plenty of other places in the world where this is the case, most of them in countries/cities that have existed for hundreds or thousands of years.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-18 15:23:23+00:00
What objective evidence do we have that Musk is smart?

Basically: he's extremely rich

Working hard and being very good at negotiating compensation packages and picking the right companies/products to be involved with (and a bit of luck) are all sufficient for exorbitant wealth though.

E.g. there are plenty of people just as smart as Bezos who didn't hitch their wagon to the "sell something easy on the web" idea at the right time
by Freak_NL | 2026-01-18 15:23:43+00:00
No kidding. Most of our knifes are the same IKEA ones we bought fifteen years ago. Honing steel, whetstone and the occasional coat of oil for the wood part of the handle and they just last. I can understand the brand might dilute the resale value because IKEA tends to have a broad range of quality/cost in the line-up.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-18 15:24:22+00:00
I thought this article was going to be about something else ...

It is really about prompting and writing specs - the "soft" skill of giving detailed specs to an LLM so it does what you want.

I think the more important, truly soft, skill in the age of AI is going to be communicating with humans and demonstrating your value in communicating both vertically up and down and horizontally within your team. LLMs are becoming quite capable at the "autistic" skill of coding, but they are still horrible communicators, and don't communicate at all unless spoken to. This is where humans are currently, and maybe for a long time, irreplaceable - using our soft skills to interact with other humans and as always translate and refine fuzzy business requirements into the unforgiving language of the machine, whether than is carefully engineered LLM contexts, or machine code.

As far as communication goes, I have to say that Gemini 3.0, great as it is, is starting to grate on me with it's sycophantic style and failure to just respond as requested rather than to blabber on about "next steps" that it is constantly trying to second guess from it's history. You can tell it to focus and just answer the question, but that only lasts for one or two conversational turns.

One of Gemini's most annoying traits is to cheerfully and authoritatively give design advice, then when questioned admit (or rather tell, as if it were it's own insight) that this advice is catastrophically bad and will lead to a bad outcome, and without pause then tell you what you really should do, as if this is going to be any better.

"You're absolutely right! You've just realized the inevitable hard truth that all designers come to! If you do [what I just told you to do], program performance will be terrible! Here is how you avoid that ... (gives more advice pulled out of ass, without any analysis of consequences)"

It's getting old.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-18 15:24:50+00:00
Another point is that Firstly Github shouldn't take a harder stance but considering its microsoft and even if One might argue that Github does take in this case and it actually does.

This would really end up doing not much because buying a domain name and such hosting should be easy.

There are some service providers who will only comply in things if you provide if and only a legal complaint which is genuine and valid (like a court order) and I think no Court can order for something like this because I feel like there is / must be a legal backing for genuinely writing "this tool is for educational/research purposes" and its actually so, so I don't really understand if github's stance would even matter in the end because if you need to get court order to remove it in the end, then github will comply it with it as well (even more so than those providers even)

I don't understand what the OP wants, like should this be obscure in some tor .onion forum for hackers or should this be on github so that people can read about this and learn abotu this vector and patch up in their servers where they may have thought it was safe but they didn't know about this issue exists in the first place! (because a hacker might still use obscure persons but a sysadmin might not comparatively)
by CrulesAll | 2026-01-18 15:24:58+00:00
"I'm already 40+, and it looks like my company doesn't go away in a few years and we are so short-handed"
FANG employee for over a decade quit her job, opened a consultancy, and sold back what she was doing to former clients of her company(and their clients). She sold back what she was having to do to make up for this short-handedness, and the incompetence of many of her former colleagues.

She did it at 3-400 times the markup she was being paid while employed :) because they were time critical.
by bonesss | 2026-01-18 15:25:03+00:00
I think having mixed economic interests is great when an advertising company is asking you, you execs, your engineers, and consultants to dump whole copies of project planning, business practices, and internal dynamics on their servers…

If I’m looking at ads for your shizz a) why can’t we just pay as a business expense, inline ads and B2B are an odd combo, and b) if this isn’t fully local tech I think there is a real challenge trusting MS or OpenAI to respect their contracts.

We’re not too far past these same dudes running around, violating NDAs, and launching product clones to eat partner businesses. Now ads? … trust? … scorpions and frogs, scorpions and frogs.
Show HN: A terminal for research and trading in prediction markets
by mkelias | 2026-01-18 15:25:17+00:00
Over the past few months, I’ve been building Panther, a trading and research terminal for prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. While there are existing aggregators in the space, Panther aims to focus on deeper market analysis, side-by-side comparisons across markets and exchanges, and tools designed for people who actively think about probabilities and mispricing.

The terminal is currently in early access, and I’m slowly letting users in from the waitlist as I iterate. I’d love feedback from the HN community - especially around workflows, missing features, or anything that feels unintuitive. If this sounds interesting, feel free to check it out and join the waitlist!
by ljm | 2026-01-18 15:25:17+00:00
I alluded to it in a separate comment but the problem I have here is that it is really hard to get through to them on this too.

Upskilling a junior dev required you spend time in the code and sharing knowledge, doing pairing and such like. LLMs have abstracted a good part of that away and in doing so broken a line of communication, and while there are still many other topics that can be tackled as a mentor, the one most relevant to an upstart junior is effective programming and they will more likely disappear into Claude Code for extended lengths of time than reach out for help now.

This is difficult to work with because you’ll need to do more frequent check-ins, akin to managing. And coaching someone through a prompt and a fancy MCP setup isn’t the same as walking through a codebase, giving context, advising on idiomatic language use and such like.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-18 15:26:04+00:00
LLMs operate on text. They can take in text, and they can produce text. Yes, some LLMs can also read and even produce images, but at least as of today, they are clearly much better at using text[1].

So cat, ripgrep, etc are the right tools for them. They need a command line, not a GUI.

1: Maybe you'd argue that Nano Banana is pretty good. But would you say its prompt adherence is good enough to produce, say, a working Scratch program?
by iamnothere | 2026-01-18 15:26:07+00:00
The ads may not be announced. If ads can be subtly inserted “organically” through crafted weights then AI companies may try to claim that it isn’t advertising, if it’s even possible to catch them doing this. For instance, advertisers could pay to have their product embedded as the “best” in a category during training. If this is done as a fine-tuning step then it could be re-run later as advertisers and base models change.
by dham | 2026-01-18 15:26:58+00:00
People are so worried about the 1% of driving. 99% of the driving is in town, and in that case, it's super convenient. Yeah, you might have to stop an extra time on a road trip, so what? The car is also driving itself 99% of the trip. Plus, the kids have to pee.

If you have to drive 250 miles every day for work, or you don't have kids and can do 3 hour legs on trips without stopping, then get a gas car.
by robin_reala | 2026-01-18 15:27:40+00:00
The worst output of Apple’s iconography attempts recently has been Pixelmator’s revised icon. Compare and contrast the original:

https://www.pixelmator.com/cdn-web-assets/app-icons/ico_pixe...

versus Apple’s new Creator Studio version:

https://www.apple.com/v/pixelmator-pro/a/images/overview/wel...

I have basically no idea what it’s meant to represent, apart from a very vague indication of the concept of “layers”.
by wiether | 2026-01-18 15:28:13+00:00
It depends on what you are talking about exactly.

Does soybean production as a whole, in SA, is worse than beef production as a whole in SA?

Maybe.

Does soybean production for direct human consumption is worse than beef production for direct human consumption?

Not. Even. Close.

https://www.wri.org/insights/truth-about-low-emissions-beef

Basically you're average meat-eater is indirectly eating more soy than someone having scrambled tofu everyday
by Freak_NL | 2026-01-18 15:28:26+00:00
He reuses (or rather, rehomes) too by finding buyers for cleaned and sharpened knifes of good quality. That's a plus from an environmental viewpoint.

I dislike scalping where no real value is added to the service provided beyond getting there first, but this guy uses his skills to pick out good knifes, does quality assurance and presumably sharpening, and sells them with the ability to inform buyers about the type of knife and its intended use.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-18 15:29:33+00:00
This post seems to be weirdly censored by HN. It got immediate traction, when it briefly hit the frontpage, yesterday.

Since then, I reliably cannot find it coming from the frontpage (or 15 pages in). It's not flagged/dead, got quite a lot of upvotes, obviously, the topic is popular and highly relevant across industries as major inflection point for US-EU relations. Never noticed anything like that on HN.

However, the weird thing is, I somehow still observe new human participants finding their way in (through votes and comments).

So, HN is presumably heavily interfering with traffic and visibility on this one.
by currydove | 2026-01-18 15:30:31+00:00
Agreed! I have had an IKEA Slitbar Santoku since 2014, it's been abused (even tossed in the dishwasher a couple of time because I didn't value it at the time) and it has outlasted most of my other knives. Not to mention, it's my preferred knife when I pull out my drawer.

So much so, that I went out of my way to get the longer chef knife/gyuto version of it off eBay last year! It's freaking fantastic! They're both well maintained now, honed often and my two go-to knives over a wusthof and bunch of Misen knives