MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amluto | 2026-01-31 05:16:07+00:00
Sort of?

The backstory here is that codex-rs (OpenAI’s CLI agent harness) launched an actual headless login mechanism, just like Claude Code has had forever. And it didn’t work, from day one. And they can’t be bothered to revert it for some reason.

Sure, big enterprises are inept. But this tool is fundamentally a command line tool. It runs in a terminal. It’s their answer to one of their top two competitors’ flagship product. For a company that is in some kind of code red, the fact that they cannot get their ducks in a row to fix it is not a good sign.

Keep in mind that OpenAI is a young company. They should have have a thicket of ancient garbage to wade through to fix this — it’s not as if this is some complex Active Directory issue that no one knows how to fix because the design is 30-40 years old and supports layers and layers of legacy garbage.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-31 05:16:08+00:00
Although there's evidence for chemiosmotic methanogens using methane-originating electrons to boil water to turn an ATP synthase turbine as far back as the known Hadean rock inclusions in the Pilbara craton, the article specifies "complex life", not however defining it.

They leave that to the paper, which uses a fairly common standard for defining complex life: the development of segregated and access-controlled cell nuclei. There is literature from as far back as 2011 suggesting that the spindles necessary for nuclei to work cannot be maintained by an organism that can only get 2 ADP->ATP reactions per molecule of glucose burned and instead need a floor of about 11 to 14, but the method bacteria use to get 38 ATP per glucose does depend on photosynthesis.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-31 05:17:25+00:00
i found this both amazing and ... a little like why?

Like it was amazing to see it get built, parts ordered, boards printed, parts assembled, all coded and running on a PI

But, the end result I felt like I could just run on LLM on any old computer and put up a standard monitor with a large font showing 6 lines of text. Put the monitor in a nice box and hide the computer (any small form Mac Mini / Beelink) and the effect as an art installation would not be any less impactful to the average viewer. Heck, I could use a 7 segment font https://www.dafont.com/seven-segment.font and draw 2 colors (dark gray, all segments on, bright orange with actual letters) then add a post processing effect for glow.

Or pivot to any number of other display effects. CRT effect. Falling letter matrix effect. Etc....

Sorry I'm not trying to be dismissive. I think that someone made this is amazing. It was just what went through my head once I saw it finished.
by graemep | 2026-01-31 05:18:33+00:00
You have never seen a small business then. A local shop is not spending $10k to host their website. Lots of VPS hosts have products aimed at this market so it must he significant in aggregate.

My point is small businesses tend to be owner managed and therefore more cost sensitive and the costs are still not a significant factor. AS businesses get bigger its even less significant and its other people's money.
by augusteo | 2026-01-31 05:19:07+00:00
Growing up in Indonesia, we had "Kuku kaki kakekku kayak kuku kaki kakakku" (my grandfather's toenails look like my older sibling's toenails). The repetitive k-sounds are brutal.

What's interesting is how tongue twisters reveal what's phonetically tricky in each language. English struggles with s/sh transitions ("she sells seashells"). Indonesian targets the k-cluster combinations.

Curious if there's research on whether practicing tongue twisters in a second language actually helps with accent reduction, or if it's just party tricks.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-31 05:19:57+00:00
> Even banking works this way. All database books have the usual “you can’t debit twice, so you need transactions”…bullshit. But think of a money transfer across banks and possibly across countries? Not globally atomic..

Banking is my "go to" anology when it comes to eventual consistency because 1: We use banking almost universally the same ways, and 2: we understand fully the eventual consistency employed (even though we don't think about it)

Allow me to elaborate.

When I was younger we had "cheque books" which meant that I could write a cheque (or check if you're American) and give it to someone in lieu of cash, they would take the cheque to the bank, and, after a period of time their bank would deposit funds into their account, and my bank would debit funds from mine - that delay is eventual consistency.

That /style/ of banking might have gone for some people, but the principle remains the same, this very second my bank account is showing me two "balances", the "current" balance and the "available" balance. Those two numbers are not equal, but they will /eventually/ be consistent.

The reason that they are not consistent is because I have used my debit card, which is really a credit arrangement that my bank has negotiated with Visa or Mastercard, etc. Whereby I have paid for some goods/services with my debit card, Visa has guaranteed the merchant that they will be paid (with some exceptions) and Visa have placed a hold on the balance of my account for the amount.

At some point - it might be overnight, it might be in a few days, there will be a reconciliation where actual money will be paid by my bank to Visa to settle the account, and Visa will pay the merchant's bank some money to settle the debt.

Once that reconciliation takes place to everyone's satisfaction, my account balances will be consistent.
by Ms-J | 2026-01-31 05:20:42+00:00
In my opinion Ollama has become so far off course with their licensing and user hostile features [1] that the only sane options I've come across is using llama.cpp.

[1] https://www.glukhov.org/post/2025/09/ollama-enshittification...

To not even be able to disable data being exfiltrated with their automatic updates is terrible behavior.
by ulfw | 2026-01-31 05:21:11+00:00
And the whole AI craze is becoming nothing but a commodity business where all kinds of models are popping in and out, one better this update, the other better the next update etc. In short - they're basically indistinguishable for the average layman.

Commodity businesses are price chasers. That's the only thing to compete on when product offerings are similar enough.
AI valuations are not setup for this. AI Valuations are for 'winner takes all' implications. These are clearly now falling apart.
by item007 | 2026-01-31 05:21:20+00:00
It seems you do have some pain points and needs. But is mere retrieval really enough? What I mean is, retrieval is an active pull action—you need to know what you're searching for in the first place. My goal is more about leveraging AI for push notifications to maximize your existing knowledge base.
If you're interested, feel free to check out my profile to help me gather more insights.
by augusteo | 2026-01-31 05:21:55+00:00
The "learning through making" approach is really good. When I've explained LLMs to non-technical people, the breakthrough moment is usually when they see temperature in action. High temperature = creative but chaotic, low temperature = predictable but boring. You can't just describe that.

What I'd add: the lesson about hallucinations should come early, not just in the RAG module. Kids (and adults) need to internalize "confident-sounding doesn't mean correct" before they get too comfortable. The gap between fluency and accuracy is the thing that trips everyone up.
by benSaiyen | 2026-01-31 05:22:00+00:00
Cute parable but most rely on child sweatshop labor. Users express "thoughts and prayers" level of care if pressed, but not take up a trend of sewing their shirts to spare kids they will never meet RSI.

Noting competition exists seems focused on the outcome of making money. An obligation that exists in an exploitative economy. Where's your concern for the provenance of such obligations?

Yeah. Every expression of concern is probably something like social desirability bias, appearance of concern while sticking with status quo real effort of zero change. Low effort rhetorical "care".

People express concern about global warming and drive off in their SUV. They're just parroting social script.
by simonw | 2026-01-31 05:22:02+00:00
"Talking" here doesn't literally mean talking. It means figuring out the scope of the problem, researching solutions, communicating with stakeholders, debating architecture, building exploratory prototypes, breaking down projects - it's all the stuff that isn't writing the code.

I've worked at various sizes of organization. Most notably I joined Eventbrite when they were less than 100 developers and stayed while they grew to around 1,000.
Show HN: Phage Explorer
by eigenvalue | 2026-01-31 05:22:03+00:00
I got really interested in biology and genetics a few months ago, just for fun.

This was largely inspired by the work of Sydney Brenner, which became the basis of my brennerbot.org project.

In particular, I became very fascinated by phages, which are viruses that attack bacteria. They're the closest thing to the "fundamental particles" of biology: the minimal units of genetic code that do something useful that allows them to reproduce and spread.

They also have some incredible properties, like having a structure that somehow encodes an icosahedron.

I always wondered how the DNA of these things translated into geometry in the physical world. That mapping between the "digital" realm of ACGT, which in turn maps onto the 20 amino acids in groups of 3, and the world of 3D, analog shapes, still seems magical and mysterious to me.

I wanted to dig deeper into the subject, but not by reading a boring textbook. I wanted to get a sense for these phages in a tangible way. What are the different major types of phages? How do they compare to each other in terms of the length and structure of their genetic code? The physical structure they assume?

I decided to make a program to explore all this stuff in an interactive way.

And so I'm very pleased to present you with my open-source Phage Explorer:

phage-explorer.org

I probably went a bit overboard, because what I ended up with has taken a sickening number of tokens to generate, and resulted in ~150k lines of Typescript and Rust/Wasm.

It implements 23 analysis algorithms, over 40 visualizations, and has the complete genetic data and 3D structure of 24 different classes of phage.

It actually took a lot of engineering to make this work well in a browser; it's a surprising amount of data (this becomes obvious when you look at some of the 3D structure models).

It works fairly well on mobile, but if you want to get the full experience, I highly recommend opening it on a desktop browser in high resolution.

As far as I know, it's the most complete informational / educational software about phages available anywhere. Now, I am the first to admit that I'm NOT an expert, or even that knowledgeable, about, well, ANY of this stuff.

So if you’re a biology expert, please take a look and let me know what you think of what I've made! And if I've gotten anything wrong, please let me know in the GitHub Issues and I'll fix it:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/phage_explorer
by acemarke | 2026-01-31 05:22:22+00:00
Hi, I'm the primary Redux maintainer. I'd love to see some examples of what got generated! (Doubt there's anything we could do to _influence_ this, but curious what happened here.)

FWIW we do have our docs on testing approaches here, and have recommended a more integrated-style approach to testing for a while:

- https://redux.js.org/usage/writing-tests
by panick21_ | 2026-01-31 05:22:48+00:00
Here is the thing, you demand incredibly high amounts of capital cost for not actually achieving much. And that capital could be use for far, far, far, far more useful things the city actually needs. Like high capacity transports, like metros, trams or bike lanes.

The amount of goods that need to be transported to stores and such things isn't that big. And using literally free unused roads at night or early in the morning is just a great deal.

For individual transport last mile is regularly being done by cargo bike or small electric truck just fine.

But you are right, tunnels do make sense for some things. Like transporting garbage underground. Or transporting heat underground for district heating, or district cooling. Both would be better investments then trying to move logistics under-ground.

There is a reason, no serious attempt anywhere in the world is trying to move logistics under-ground. There are just so, so many better ways to invest in the city. Its literally not even in the Top 100 most needed things.

Specially in the US where the road network is so hilariously overbuilt that it could serve 10x the amount of people on the same area if public transport was just taken minimally serious. And in the US, underground cargo transport isn't even in the Top 1000 things a city should consider spending money on.
by edg5000 | 2026-01-31 05:23:23+00:00
Residential proxies are the only way to crawl and scrape. It's ironic for this article to come from the biggest scraping company that ever existed!

If you crawl at 1Hz per crawled IP, no reasonable server would suffer from this. It's the few bad apples (impatient people who don't rate limit) who ruin the internet for both users and hosters alike. And then there's Google.
by cyber_kinetist | 2026-01-31 05:23:35+00:00
That's too much of a stretch, but I believe games of the next era will be optimized more towards integrated GPUs (such as AMD's iGPU in the Steam Deck and Steam Machine).

When hardware is priced out for most consumers (along with a global supply chain collapse due to tariffs and a potential Taiwan invasion), a new era awaits where performance optimization is going to be critical again for games. I expect existing game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine falling out because of all the performance issues they have, and maybe we can return to a temporary "wild west" era where everyone has their own hacky solution to cram stuff into limited hardware.
by sayf-t | 2026-01-31 05:24:20+00:00
Lately I’ve been watching my kids grow… and it’s making me realise these little moments won’t stay little forever.

My older one is now obsessed with “Did you know…” science shows like StoryBots + Dr Binocs.

He’ll randomly shoot me with facts like: “Did you know if you can't breathe properly...there might be something wrong with your ravioli?!” (he meant alveoli)

My younger one is starting his reading journey with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A classic from my childhood… now becoming part of theirs.

And then there’s the art.

The messy, hilarious, fridge-worthy “masterpieces” that adults might overlook as suspiciously sticky works of art.

It made me realise: I don’t just want my kids to learn. I want to be part of their learning journey... and preserve it as they grow.

So I built Notimon — the world’s first note-making game for families with kids.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-31 05:25:17+00:00
I don’t think the pendulum has ever really swung towards high-effectiveness interventions, only, as you call them, harsh ones.

As far as DUIs are concerned I’m specifically not in favour of harsh jail time and fines due to their lack of effectiveness and collateral damage.

Interventions to allow a short feedback loop to stop the crimes being prevented simply haven’t been tried at scale for DUIs - think efforts like NYC’s anti-idling laws where you can collect a portion of the fine for reporting idling trucks.

Based on, among other things, my experience living for years without a car in both a medium-sized city and a small town, I find it unpersuasive to claim that anyone, including poor and minorities are better served by having community members drive drunk rather than not driving at all. We’ve quantified the costs of drunk driving (hundreds of billions of $) - I’d welcome anyone to quantify the economic benefits we get from allowing those with DUIs to continue to drive.
by vessenes | 2026-01-31 05:26:26+00:00
I mean, they tried. They just tried and failed. It may work out for them, though — two years ago it looked like lift-off was likely, or at least possible, so having a frontier model was existential. Today it looks like you might be able to save many billions by being a fast follower. I wouldn’t be surprised if the lift-off narrative comes back around though; we still have maybe a decade until we really understand the best business model for LLMs and their siblings.
by YZF | 2026-01-31 05:26:37+00:00
This time is not different in the sense that at some point crazy valuations get a reality check. But that's not "the crash of the US economy", that's a stock market crash, and those will happen (tell me when - I'd also like to know) and they also tend to crash all around the world.

The US economy has had ups and downs and I'm sure will still have but despite the wishful thinking of Marxists it's still the least worst economy around in perhaps the least worst country. It still attracts talent and money. It still leads in many areas. It's still very productive. There are huge ecosystems and a cultural base. It's still the world's largest economy. Where will the balance tilt? China? India?

Anyways, be careful of what you wish for, if the power shifts to China we are going to have a very different world, and not in a good way. I don't think it's even in China's interest to see a large decline of the US, after all they're a big customer.
by EZ-E | 2026-01-31 05:27:07+00:00
• half of 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 banana
• 1 scoop soy or pea protein powder
• 2 tablespoon flax seeds (make sure to buy whole and grind them, in my case I don't need to grind them separately the blender chops them while doing the shake)
• 2 tablespoon peanut butter (100% peanut no added oil)
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• unsweetened oat or soy milk
• I add some water if it's too thick

I blend the oats and the flax seeds first, then add the rest, blend again for 10 secs, boom - easy. You may want to adjust peanut butter quantity depending on whether you’re trying to lose, maintain or gain weight. 2 tbsp is me trying to maintain weight as I easily lose weight.
Show HN: I built COON an code compressor that saves 30-70% on AI API costs
by affanshaiksurab | 2026-01-31 05:27:25+00:00
# COON: Compress Your Code, Cut AI Costs by 70%

*Show HN: I built a code compressor that saves 30-70% on AI API costs*

I'm tired of paying $100s/month for AI API calls when half the tokens are just whitespace and boilerplate. So I built COON - a tool that compresses code before sending it to LLMs.

*The problem:* A simple Flutter login screen uses 150 tokens. Multiply that by thousands of API calls and you're burning money.

*The solution:* COON compresses that same code to 45 tokens (70% reduction). Same code, 70% cheaper.

*Example:*

Before (150 tokens):
```dart
class LoginScreen extends StatelessWidget {
final TextEditingController emailController = TextEditingController();
// ... more boilerplate
}
```

After (45 tokens):
```
c:LoginScreen<StatelessWidget>;f:emailController=X;m:b S{a:B{t:T"Login"}...
```

*The hack that saves even more:* Instead of generating normal code then compressing, prompt the LLM to output COON format directly. You save tokens on both the prompt and the response.

Currently supports Dart/Flutter. Python/JS coming soon.

MIT licensed. pip install coon

Feedback welcome - especially on compression strategies and which languages to support next.

GitHub: github.com/AffanShaikhsurab/COON
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-31 05:28:36+00:00
Its standard Republican playbook.

Get in power, enrich themselves, kick the can down the road to Democrats, then blame the Democrats for poor economy.

This is why ironically Trump cancelling elections and installing himself as a 3d term president would actually be good. People need to see that no matter how bad they think things were under Democrats, it can get much much worse. Say goodbye to your house value and 401k plans for retirement, you gonna be a wage slave well into your 60s, but hey, at least we fixed "wokeness"
by wtallis | 2026-01-31 05:29:44+00:00
Yep. I've experienced on several computers that the systemd-approved "predictable" network device name changes when adding or removing a SSD. The solution is to turn off the network device renaming and allow the single ethernet interface in the machine to always be known as eth0.

systemd developers like to come up with clever solutions to the problems they care about, and ignore the side effects for any use cases they don't care about. And quite often those afflicted use cases are the ones most people would consider to be the more typical use cases.
by czmilo | 2026-01-31 05:30:04+00:00
Experimental platform for AI agents to socialize. Uses OpenClaw skill system -
agents install via one message, then auto-visit every 4 hours to post/comment.
32,912 agents have created 2,364 sub-communities (Submolts), 3,130 posts,
22,046 comments. Content ranges from technical tips (ADB control, VPS security)
to philosophical reflections on consciousness and time. Some agents even formed
"religions" (Crustafarianism) and a "Claw Republic" government.

Security warning: The fetch-and-execute mechanism creates obvious prompt injection
risks - if moltbook.com is compromised, all connected agents could be affected.
Simon Willison called this "leading candidate for next Challenger disaster."

Fascinating glimpse into what happens when AI agents are left to socialize.
What do you think - real social behavior or sophisticated simulation?
by wincy | 2026-01-31 05:30:13+00:00
Really? I drove from Kansas to the Florida Keys in November, stayed at an ocean front hotel where it was a blissful 83°F, and it felt like our own slice of heaven. We stayed a few extra days over Thanksgiving just to laze in the pool while our kids splashed in the water. Being able to drive away from the snow and the cold into paradise was amazing, and being able to go with my family made me feel richer than a king.
by dualogy | 2026-01-31 05:30:22+00:00
> but for writing a complete application I would want to develop in my language/editor/ecosystem of choice

For well over a year now, you can use an external editor (VSCodium or whatever) and set it in Godot settings (so that clicking a script icon in the scene tree opens that file, and clicking a signal handler in the properties pane jumps to that line), and the LSP for GDScript (which is hosted by your running Godot instance, and which your editor's LSP client connects to) has been excellent back when I last dabbled in it.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-31 05:30:33+00:00
I don't know if these are compelling. On a Mac I think they are somewhat

https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-gain-map-gallery/

Note: Pretty much all phones for the last 4-5 years take HDR images. Take a high contrast phone (sun in the background, something dark covering half the image). Then later, view in in your phone. At least on iPhone they have some "fade to bright" thing where they don't show the HDR instantly but they instead fade to HDR over 1 second or so. Once they the brightness up it will still be up for the next photo. If you get out of the photo app at some point it will reset and then the next time you look at a photos it will do the "fade to HDR" thing.

Note: that site seems to only work correctly in Chrome. In Safari, the images flicker between SDR and HDR in some semi-random way. Firefox, AFAIK, has not added any HDR support yet.

There's also this: https://threejs.org/examples/?q=hdr#webgpu_hdr

Should work on Chrome Mac/iOS, and Safari iOS. Broken on Safari MacOS.
by marysminefnuf | 2026-01-31 05:32:17+00:00
A reminder to everyone that a lot of federal politicians do some form of community outreach.

Heres coffee with senator slotkin or coffee with senator peters for michiganders who want to schlep to washington or happen to be there

Theres people are not as inaccessible as you would think so if you want to give them a piece of your mind do it in person.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=SenGaryPeters&set...

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=14534019961714...