MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drtgh | 2026-01-23 09:40:18+00:00
The output of the prompts always needs peer review, scrutiny. The longer is the context, the longer it will deviate, like if a magnet were put nearer and nearer to a navigation compass.

This is not new, as LLMs root are statistics, data compression with losses, It is statistically indexed data with text interface.

The problem is someones are selling to people this as the artificial intelligence they watched at movies, and they are doing it deliberately, calling hallucinations to errors, calling thinking to keywords, and so on.

There is a price to pay by the society for those fast queries when people do not verify such outputs/responses, and, unfortunately, people is not doing it.

I mean, it is difficult to say. When I hear some governments are thinking in to use LLMs within the administrations I get really concerned, as I know those outputs/responses/actions will nor be revised nor questioned.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-23 09:41:54+00:00
> It will be interesting to see if Apple/Android provide a platform for vibe-apps.

They could have done a low-code/no-code platform ages ago, but they didn't. They don't want their users creating their own apps instead of buying, because that would cannibalise their income from hopeful app devs selling 5 units at a 30% cut.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-23 09:42:02+00:00
You also get problems with overwarning causing warning fatigue. Home Assistant uses VS Code as its editor (or at least the thing you use to replace the built-in equivalent of Windows Notepad) and every single time I want to edit a YAML config file I first have to swat away two or three warnings about how dangerous it is to edit the file that I created that's stored on the local filesystem. So my automatic reaction to the warnings is "Go away [click] Go away [click] Go away [click], fecking Microsoft".
by skerit | 2026-01-23 09:42:04+00:00
I didn't know Oxen.ai. I took a look at your docs on how to fine-tune LLMs:

> Oxen.ai supports datasets in a variety of file formats. The only requirement is that you have a column where each row is a list of messages. Each message is an dictionary with a role and content key. The role can be “system”, “user”, or “assistant”. The content is the message content.

Oh, so you're forced to use the ChatML multi-turn conversation format.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-23 09:42:11+00:00
Churchill's description of centre-left trolling centre-right and vice versa is his description of politics as being a collision sport where it's important to both be going in the same direction when you make contact, just pushing each other sideways to attempt to achieve an advantage for your side (the common goal should be the primary component; factional goals are secondary)?

lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcJ9QDN_-cw
by attila-lendvai | 2026-01-23 09:42:12+00:00
but sometimes that is not worth it... IOW, it optimizes only to a couple of variables.

it's important not to lose sight of the ultimate goal: to get the machine to do what we want with the least amount of total human attention throughout the entire lifetime of the software.

it's a typical trap for good/idealist programmers to spend too much time on code that should already have been re-written, or not even written to begin with (because faster iteration can help refining the model/understanding, which in turn may lead to abandoning bad paths whose implementation should never have been refined to a better quality implementation).

i think it's a more important principle to always mark kludges and punts in the code and the design.

IOW sloppiness is allowed, but only when it's explicitly marked formally in code, and when not possible, then informally in comments and docs.

but then this entire discussion highly depends on the problem domain (e.g. on the cost of the various failures, etc).
by lambdaone | 2026-01-23 09:42:23+00:00
Syngas makes a lot more sense than hydrogen, in the short term. But what really makes sense in the longer term is massively scaled Carnot batteries. Slightly less efficient than batteries, but really cheap to build (it's a combination of resistive heating and old-fashioned thermal power station technology) overbuilding renewables is cheap, and you can charge your Carnot battery [almost] all year long.
by AngryData | 2026-01-23 09:42:28+00:00
Those kind of shooters do exist though, Arma being the prime example. Players often joke that it is a walking simulator despite being somewhat constrained in favor of a fun game over 100% realism. But you can easily spend 30 minutes hiking to the next objective just for a chance to take a shot at somebody or get shot in an ambush. It isn't conducive towards a quick 15 minute game, but it is very much a different style of game with people sneaking and hiding and being bastards peaking out through leaves in the bushes 1000m away to shoot you, versus a traditional FPS where you can shoot and battle people like a coked up machinegun toting gorilla multiple times within just a few minutes.
by FrostViper8 | 2026-01-23 09:43:10+00:00
In One Punch man the gag is that while everyone is fighting for their lives, Saitama is usually distracted by other priorities that are often trivial (such as getting some bug spray, or saving some money down the local convenience shop as they have a sale on noodles), he also rarely gets the recognised for saving the day once he does bother so show up.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-01-23 09:43:29+00:00
For me the liberty question you raised there isn't so much about whether the business has become large, as whether it's become "infrastructure". Being denied service by a cake shop may very well be distressing and hurtful, but being suddenly denied service by your bank, your mobile phone provider, or even (especially?) by gmail can turn your entire life upside down.
by pseudony | 2026-01-23 09:44:45+00:00
While I still object to them having a say in that matter (next thing is; we don’t serve darkies) - that is different. There are hundreds of shops to get that cake from.

But Anthropic and “Open”AI especially are firing on all bullshit cylinders to convince the world that they are responsible, trustable, but also that they alone can do frontier-level AI, and they don’t like sharing anything.

You don’t get to both insert yourself as an indispensable base-layer tool for knowledge-work AND to arbitrarily deny access based on your beliefs (or that of the mentally crippled administration of your host country).

You can try, but this is having your cake and eating it too territory, it will backfire.
by qcnguy | 2026-01-23 09:45:55+00:00
Stop slandering Musk. At no point has he ever been OK with that nor has Grok done it. Your bubble has deliberately garbled a story in which someone discovered Grok was willing to take pictures of women and put them in bikinis, which every other AI is also willing to do (because women in bikinis isn't porn and isn't illegal). You can also legally do that with Photoshop or a paintbrush. The UK government decided to use this as a pretext to ban all of X, a platform they hate because it doesn't censor their political opponents like they want it to.

None of this has anything to do with children or porn or illegal activity, and people who refuse to use Grok because of Elon Musk are revealing themselves to be completely disconnected from reality every time they try to explain this choice.
by lambdaone | 2026-01-23 09:46:08+00:00
H2 economics don't work at all, and H2 is largely a fig-leaf for the fossil fuel industry.

If you were to have an environment in which H2 would actually make economic sense, non-H2 storage and distribution systems would be even cheaper, and they can be added incrementally rather than needing a big bang, preventing investing in H2 from taking off in the first place.
by jbstack | 2026-01-23 09:46:24+00:00
> This reminds me of the people who think they can build docsend in a weekend.

The author is very clear that that's not what they are trying to achieve:

"Now, don’t get me wrong, Jabber is not “production quality.” I would never sell it as a product or even recommend it to other people, but it does what I needed from Wispr Flow, and it does exactly the way I want it to."
by kergonath | 2026-01-23 09:47:10+00:00
> it's so famous and moving because the agency of everyday Englishmen saved the war effort

The day was more saved by lots of French soldiers who fought heroically, quite a few of them to end up stranded and then utterly forgotten in the British collective memory. Had they not held the Germans for so long, there would not have been that many British to send across the channel. The standard British vision of Dunkirk is highly misleading.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-01-23 09:48:19+00:00
>There's huge benefit for software developers that do find themselves using many of these apps with active subscriptions to make their own, tailored for themselves, and cut down their spending.

I guess if you're unemployed or in an area with spectacularly low wages, and don't have any ideas of your own that seem monetizable.

>Most people will continue spending $1.00/month here, and $2.99/month there.

If I make 100 dollars an hour as a consultant, and I spend 1 hour to make a local version that never needs any updating on my part to replicate a portion of that functionality I get for $1.00/month, it will take me 101 months to see any profit on my investment of time.

Cut my pay in half and I still need 51 months to see any profit. It would be idiotic for me to waste 1 hour on that.

And let's face it, code when made is a cost center, you will have to keep it up to date (so as to not introduce security hazards etc.) you will never break even much less earn anything for your time.
by tsylba | 2026-01-23 09:48:21+00:00
This make me think of the GitHub spamming issue.

See, my GitHub email is not my main address, and when I got some it's either from a user of one of my repository or from a marketing team that extracted thousand of address from starred repositories to fake genuine email with my name and all.

The things is, it's always a less than stellar product. It started with NFTs, calm down for a bit and now came back with a vengeance with AI startups.

I guess it's a number game for them but I can't comprehend their lack of value, same for those peoples that subscribes to everyone just to gain a sub back (and judging by the number, a lot of people sub back without thinking about it, so it works).

Damn I despise that marketing-bussiness hellscape that the internet slowly morphed into along the years. We can't have nice things because there will always be a prominent proportion of us that would exploit it for personal gain and we would do collectively nothing against it, for the name of liberal economic or something. And forward the enshitification goes.
by jltsiren | 2026-01-23 09:49:16+00:00
Frodo is determined and reasonably competent, but he ultimately fails his quest. In the end, Frodo is not strong enough to let the Ring go, but he instead claims it as his own. Middle-earth is only saved, because Frodo decided to spare Gollum earlier. Gollum proves treacherous yet again, fights for the Ring, wins, and falls to his doom.

When the hobbits return home, Merry and Pippin (and to lesser extent Sam) are the ones leading the liberation of Shire. Frodo has been traumatized by his experiences and no longer wants to see any violence, no matter the cause. But he cannot adjust to civilian life either. He is invited to live in Valinor. Not as much as an honor, but because his involvement with the One Ring has made him a relic of the past, like the elves. Middle-earth is no longer a place for him.
by mnw21cam | 2026-01-23 09:49:52+00:00
They're checking to see whether any of the links they put in the emails are being fetched from their servers. It's stupid, but it works for most people.

I had a similar situation with SMS messages that were being sent to me with links informing me of status updates. These texts were useful, and I would go over to my real computer to check the web site. Then after a few days the text messages said "It looks like these messages aren't getting through to you, so we'll stop sending them." Which is also stupid, but it works for most people that load the web site on their phone from the SMS link. God help you if you have a dumb-phone.
by matwood | 2026-01-23 09:49:55+00:00
Maybe it once was like what you're thinking, but not anymore.

There are fee free cards that give cash back as statement credits (AMEX Blue iirc). No limitations on what you can spend it on. The Apple Card does 2% cash back which you can just transfer to your bank account.

The Amazon card requires a Prime membership, but gives 5% back on anything bought at Amazon. I bought my last TV using the 5% back I had received.

Then there are top tier cards like the Chase Sapphire or Cap One Venture X that have yearly fees. But, if you take 1+ trips/year they immediately pay for themselves and more (credit for global entry, yearly statement credit for travel that almost equals the yearly fee, lounge entry, etc...). I routinely use points from the Venture X to cover travel expenses like tickets, rentals, hotels, eating out, etc...
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-23 09:50:05+00:00
Cool project. I was going to say, the end resulting light should be a pretty saturated spectrum, given that many RF sources just keep pumping out waves, and the those waves propagating and bouncing around.

I think one fun application would be a light which represents your wi-fi strength around the house. Obviously in a smaller apartment that's really not a problem, but in larger houses it would be fun to see.

Another application would be to find hidden RF sources / leaks. I have a home recording studio, and for the life I could not find some RF source that kept adding noise / interference. I could roughly detect the frequency of the noise, but not its origin. I guess if I had a couple of RF sensors I could try to triangulate my way to it.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-23 09:50:28+00:00
That is surely the target for Apple platforms, whatever happens outside is more a nice to have kind of thing.

As proven by the track record of all languages that want to be simple, created as kind of anti-trends, they always tend to evolve into complexity as their userbase grows, as it turns out other programming language didn't got complex just for fun.

Then since they were initially created as kind of anti-complexity movement, the added on features always have warts due to not wanting to break compatibility, and are only half way there.

C23 versus PL/I, ALGOL variants, Scheme R7RS (full report) vs Lisp evolution, Java 26 vs Modula-3/Eiffel, Go 1.26 versus everyone, ...
by mturmon | 2026-01-23 09:51:16+00:00
I meant this more as a rueful acknowledgment of an academic truism - not all citations are read by those citing. But I have touched a nerve, so let me explain at least part of the nuance I see here.

In mathematics/applied math consider cited papers claimed to establish a certain result, but where that was not quite what was shown. Or, there is in effect no earthly way to verify that it does.

Or even: the community agrees it was shown there, but perhaps has lost intimate contact with the details — I’m thinking about things like Laplace’s CLT (published in French), or the original form of the Glivenko-Cantelli theorem (published in Italian). These citations happen a lot, and we should not pretend otherwise.

Here’s the example that crystallized that for me. “VC dimension” is a much-cited combinatorial concept/lemma. It’s typical for a very hard paper of Saharon Shelah (https://projecteuclid.org/journalArticle/Download?urlId=pjm%...) to be cited, along with an easier paper of Norbert Sauer. There are currently 800 citations of Shelah’s paper.

I read a monograph by noted mathematician David Pollard covering this work. Pollard, no stranger to doing the hard work, wrote (probably in an endnote) that Shelah’s paper was often cited, but he could not verify that it established the result at all. I was charmed by the candor.

This was the first acknowledgement I had seen that something was fishy with all those citations.

By this time, I had probably seen Shelah’s paper cited 50 times. Let’s just say that there is no way all 50 of those citing authors (now grown to 800) were working their way through a dense paper on transfinite cardinals to verify this had anything to do with VC dimension.

Of course, people were wanting to give credit. So their intentions were perhaps generous. But in no meaningful sense had they “read” this paper.

So I guess the short answer to your question is, citations serve more uses than telling readers to literally read the cited work, and by extension, should not always taken to mean that the cited work was indeed read.
by 4700 | 2026-01-23 09:52:21+00:00
The AI gold rush is slowing.
For the last few years, the conversation was about:
Bigger models
Faster tools
Automating everything
Most companies adopted AI to avoid falling behind—not because they had clarity on trust, ownership, or risk.
That’s changing.
By 2026, companies won’t ask:
“Can AI do this?”
They’ll ask:
“Can AI explain this—and can we trust it?”
From experimentation to accountability
Early AI adoption was forgiving. Errors were framed as “learning experiences.”
That tolerance is disappearing.
With 58%+ of U.S. small businesses already using generative AI, AI outputs now directly impact customers, revenue, and brand trust. A hallucinated response or biased recommendation is no longer a model issue—it’s a business liability.
Uncontrolled AI doesn’t just fail. It scales failure.
Accountability is becoming a core AI skill
By 2026, AI-mature teams will expect:
Explainable outputs
Transparent decision logic
Ethical safeguards
Human-in-the-loop oversight
Clear ownership of outcomes
This isn’t just an engineering problem:
Leaders must know when AI should assist vs. decide
Managers must challenge AI outputs
Engineers must build auditable, governed systems
Where AI education needs to evolve
This is why programs like Eduonix’s “Top Multimodal AI Tools for 2026” are interesting.
Instead of focusing only on tools or prompts, the course is designed around AI accountability and real-world usage, with:
Ethics and explainability treated as core skills
AI positioned as decision support, not decision replacement
A dual-track structure so responsibility doesn’t fall through gaps
For those interested in structured, workflow-centric AI learning, Eduonix’s Top Multimodal AI Tools for 2026 is an example of a two-track approach worth reviewing.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-23 09:52:24+00:00
"Circle with the satellites" is not how orbits work. Do a Google image search for satellite ground tracks, and observe how those tracks repeatedly cross each other. In LEO, a 90 degree orbital crossing represents a relative velocity of >10km/s. (Normally, collisions do not happen because the satellites are under control, and everyone is making ongoing efforts to avoid collision. Kinda like how cars & trucks normally don't hit pedestrians.)

BB's - https://www.amazon.com/bulk-bbs/s?k=bulk+bbs - run roughly 3,000 to the kg. And are far too small to individually track in orbit - https://clasp.engin.umich.edu/2023/12/06/tracking-undetectab...

Bottom line - a "3 tons to LEO" satellite launch vehicle could put ~10,000,000 untrackable little metal objects into orbit, crossing satellite orbits at lethal velocities. Trivial methods, such as dispersing the BB's with small explosive charges, could randomize their individual orbits.

The satellite operators have very good reason to be concerned about such "low tech" anti-satellite weapons.
by lambdaone | 2026-01-23 09:52:36+00:00
I think the image of 12 year old boys as GW's customer base is probably outdated. I know a woman who is _massively_ into Warhammer, and spends a lot of money and time on it. An N=1 anecdote is not data, but it would certainly be interesting to look in more detail at GW's demographic.
by auguzanellato | 2026-01-23 09:52:57+00:00
Even with the alleged education discount a Logic8 will still set you back around 250$ and it only has 8 channels @ 100MS/s, the LA used by the article author is 69$ and does 200MS/s on 16 channels, going up to 800MS/s if you're using just 4ch.

The new Saleae Logic MSO looks like a fantastic piece of kit, but their pricing isn't justifiable for an hobbist IMHO.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-23 09:53:03+00:00
That's actually how a number of OSS projects work, we'll give you what we want for free but if you want us to do what you want you'll need to pay us. Having to implement a compatibility mechanism for some company's buggy train wreck from 20 years ago is a lot easier when you know you'll get paid at the end of it. A number of OSS dual licenses have been created to accommodate this.
by its_down_again | 2026-01-23 09:54:58+00:00
In my experience, knowing you have glaring UX problems, or that product does not have an easy intuitive user flow is rarely the bottleneck for developing new & useful user facing AI applications.

There’s usually a very real and very hard to describe data related impracticality that voids the usefulness of a design that appears well thought out and complete.

Additionally enterprise AI products are built on custom integrations, and complexity of maintenance overwhelms the engineering team and leaves very little time to build out new things.

The simplest changes that come from knowing insider customer experience have significant impacts. If the default range for a duration filter is 5-30min, and it turns out the most interesting data is really on 1.5hr+ rows. Or adding search across legacy platforms that bury uniform information under deeply nested modals, which people spend 20+ a week clicking through to collect a usable sample set based on existence of a few keywords. But building a system that returns good search results is the hard part.

I do like the “build on top” pieces in your gallery. If it’s fast and reliable enough to collab during a discovery meeting, or a customer success meeting, that would be genius.
by dgroshev | 2026-01-23 09:55:26+00:00
There are different kinds of carbon fibres. It'd be great if it wasn't just Prusa disclosing which type they are using or offering studies on their impact, but in the meantime we can just use CF Prusament to be sure: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/s/nQ5zUwnrWZ
by Nevermark | 2026-01-23 09:55:28+00:00
> A government-backed, ad-free, intermediary-free, taxpayer-funded search service providing baseline, non-discriminatory access to information. Imagine search.org.

There is no way the government provides a search engine that doesn’t become a political football or weapon.

Maybe in a different age.

I completely agree that monopoly remedies, such as fair open paid licensing, are needed. I prefer that to breakups, when this kind of cooperative/competitive leveling works.
by epolanski | 2026-01-23 09:56:25+00:00
Spotlight opens the wrong application so many times with some odd heuristic favoring a random vscode.ts file (labeled as an mpeg-2 stream?) when typing "code".

But the best one is typing "ghos" and pressing enter as it highlight "Ghostty", but as your finger presses the key, spotlight swaps ghostty for some other random application (generally mail).
by jasonkester | 2026-01-23 09:56:54+00:00
What about the "Sign in to iCloud" one?

Phone: I know you probably opened your phone for a reason, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [OK] [Maybe Later]

Me: Maybe Later.

Phone: Ok, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [OK] [Maybe Later]

Me: Maybe Later.

Phone: Ok, but would you mind signing in to iCloud? [OK] [Maybe Later]

... repeat infintely until...

Me: Ok. [Then find the little arrow in the top left corner to get back to phoning].

Extra points for immediately locking my AppleID every time I finally break down and type my password in, forcing an email => browser "unlock your appleID" journey.

Some days I go through this whole experience four times in a row before it finally settles down. Then I make the classic blunder of opening one of my iPads and the whole thing starts again on both devices.

I assume it's just their form of blackmail to force me to upgrade to their 2FA thing so that they can finally lock me out of my old devices for good.