MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by s_dev | 2026-01-23 13:03:52+00:00
Same submission from a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627097

What's insightful to me is how fast the list of alternatives are growing.

The list is much better now than 2021 and we still have a long way to go.

Also Constantin Graf needs to add a new Category: "LLM Clients" or "AI Tooling"
by jonway | 2026-01-23 13:03:53+00:00
Sure, he could have done a Trump and ruled by executive fiat? Biden Admin had some pretty good wins, like CHIPs act is a standout. But man lucky we didn't backrupt the Country by forgiving some student loans amirite?

Biden removed troops from Foreign Wars, Donald Trump does the opposite and instead pretends he stopped 8 wars or something.

This is just poor memory. Us Americans are notorious for this, unfortunately.
by Tyriar | 2026-01-23 13:05:03+00:00
We're planning on switching the default in 1.109 with https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/287073

My main hesitation here was that really it's just a false sense of security though. Tasks is just one of the things this enables, and in the core codebase we are unable to determine what exactly it enables as extensions could do all sorts of things. At a certain point, it's really on the user to not dismiss the giant modal security warning that describes the core risk in the first sentence and say they trust things they don't actually trust.

I've also created these follow ups based on this thread:

- Revise workspace trust wording "Browse" https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/289898
- Don't ask to enable workspace trust in system folders and temp directories https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/289899
by Pooge | 2026-01-23 13:05:15+00:00
> Pretty sure that's wrong. The way it works is: we have this equation. It predicts where we expect such stuff to be in X seconds. In X seconds, we check it's indeed there. It's there: actual confirmation, not confirmation bias.

Exactly. My point is that since Einstein's theory, we know that Newton's Law is incomplete. Therefore proving that it was confirmation bias (i.e. that our equations just confirmed what we observed). Since we observed black holes, we knew that Newton's was incomplete as it couldn't fully explain their behaviors.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-23 13:05:25+00:00
The current code doesn't appear very optimized. Running on CPU-only it only uses four threads for example, nowhere close to saturating all my cores.

As a result it's dog slow on CPU only, like 3-4 minutes to produce a 3 second clip, and still significantly less than real-time on my 5090 using only 30% of the GPU.
by skywhopper | 2026-01-23 13:05:25+00:00
It is entirely related, because AI marketing is an amped up version of traditional dark-pattern marketing. And since every tech company is on the AI hype train, then they all fall into the same willingness to justify the worst behavior because of their desperate need to get on the forefront of what they’ve convinced themselves is the only path to growth. But as consumers, since we are confronted with all tech companies all following the same dark patterns, we feel the impact suddenly much stronger than with past one-at-a-time panicky company over-marketing efforts.
by nicbou | 2026-01-23 13:05:38+00:00
I was glad to boil it down to "it probably doesn't concern you, and if it does, you probably have an expert on call already". The entire topic of taxation is a tarpit.

One important note: this 13.75x valuation is a worse case scenario if you fail to supply your own. There are many ways to reduce or avoid this tax.

It's awfully convenient that someone else went through it and started a website just for that topic. Funnily enough, his website was inspired by mine, and this guide was inspired by his post on exit taxation.

It's a far better resource on the topic: https://wegzugsteuer.info/
by tialaramex | 2026-01-23 13:05:43+00:00
True, system thermal efficiency for the UK's CCGT generation is about 50%. Obviously that's with a varying throttle (the UK goes from say 5GW of CCGT to 25GW of CCGT in an hour if the wind drops just as everybody wakes up) and you'd do better than 50% if you were baseload running 24/7 at peak performance - but that's not a realistic place for CCGT to be when nuclear fuel is basically free and the two new big sources (solar and wind) aren't even running on actual fuel anyway.
by huhkerrf | 2026-01-23 13:06:36+00:00
This is just so absolutely stupid. This group of people have somehow got it in their heads that their primary job is owning the libs, and not governing.

Independent of your views on immigration, or law and order, or anything. Juvenile shit like this does absolutely nothing to advance any policy goals.

Even worse, why should you average normie trust any image that comes out from the White House? If there's a serious national security issue, why are we going to trust a group of people who are willing to doctor a photo for such stupid ends?
by indigodaddy | 2026-01-23 13:06:41+00:00
I used Opus 4.5 for 99.9% of this project. Take that as you will.

https://github.com/jgbrwn/vibebin

vibebin is an Incus/LXC-based platform for self-hosting persistent AI coding agent sandboxes with Caddy reverse proxy and direct SSH routing to containers (suitable for VS Code remote ssh). Create and host your vibe-coded apps on a single VPS/server.

If anyone wants to test or provide some feedback that would be great. Core functionality works but there's likely to be bugs.

My intent for the project was for the tinkerer/hobbyist or even not super technical person to put this on a VPS and start just doing their own thing/experimenting/tinkering/learning etc.

I had so much fun working on this project, completely reinvigorated by it tbh.

I am just a Linux sysadmin and not a programmer at all (~just~ smart enough to figure stuff out though:) ) and I have to say the excitement and energy that was brought into me working on this project was nothing like I've ever experienced before. It makes me so optimistic about this future that we are either embracing or fending off (depending on your mindset).
Show HN: Playful orbit trap fractal explorer (desktop)
by thereallex | 2026-01-23 13:07:05+00:00
Hey HN! I've been working on a new render engine for our company for a while now, and I wanted to see if I can create an easy to use, playful interface for exploring orbit trap fractals.

There are a lot of things happening under the hood: I wrote a runtime type system in TS that generates both shader code and a UI, allowing me to quickly iterate on new features and experiment easily. The renderer is based on regl (https://regl-project.github.io/). I've adapted regl to support WebGL2. I tried to use a functional, declarative approach, where input data is transformed into draw calls. I'm using my own custom cache system that smartly tries to cache assets (like images and geometry data) between draw calls.

I'm curious what you think of it! Let me know in the comments if you have ideas for more features, fractals, etc. I'd also love to know if you encounter any bugs!

Here is a blog post that I made, describing the features and underlaying math in layman terms: https://blog.repper.app/introducing-repper-labs/

Oh, and no vibe coding in this project! All code was artisanally crafted.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-23 13:07:06+00:00
> Coordinating technical matters like healthcare through the UN does seem a bit unwise given that everyone is posturing up for some sort of Cold-war or potential WWIII style scenario.

On the contrary, the fact that we have to coordinate technical matters like healthcare through the UN is a large part of the reason why the Cold War remained cold and we had WW2 within 20 years of WW1 but no WW3 in the 80 years since.

Until the US decided to re-elect a literal madman, the necessity of coordinating on technical matters was obvious to all, which meant these countries weee constantly talking, building relationships and communicating with each other which helped prevent minor conflagrations from escalating.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-23 13:07:11+00:00
> at what point does a business become so large that it’s not allowed to decide who gets to use it?

It's not about size, it's about justification to fight the ban. You should be able to check if the business has violated your legal rights, or if they even broke their own rules, because failure happens.

> There was a famous case here in the UK of a cake shop that banned a customer for wanting a cake made for a gay wedding because it was contra the owners’ religious beliefs. That was taken all the way up to the Supreme Court IIRC.

I guess it was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_v_Ashers_Baking_Company_Lt...

There was a similar case in USA too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
by Tor3 | 2026-01-23 13:07:39+00:00
The "Johnny and the Dead" series by Terry Pratchett included a school mate of Johnny who liked to make computer games.. and he created a realistic game about flying your spaceship to some nearby star or somewhere. Everything was realistic.. you would stare at the black night of space for thousands of years (literally) while going there. For some reason people didn't flock to that game.
by cachius | 2026-01-23 13:07:44+00:00
Glooming bottom line:

So what's the way forward for blind screen reader users? Sadly, I don't know.

Modern text to speech research has little overlap with our requirements. Using Eloquence [32-bit voice last compiled in 2003], the system that many blind people find best, is becoming increasingly untenable. ESpeak uses an odd architecture originally designed for computers in 1995, and has few maintainers. Blastbay Studios [...] is a closed-source product with a single maintainer, that also suffers from a lack of pronunciation accuracy.

In an ideal world, someone would re-implement Eloquence as a set of open source libraries. However, doing so would require expertise in linguistics, digital signal processing, and audiology, as well as excellent programming abilities. My suspicion is that modernizing the text to speech stack that is preferred by blind power-users is an effort that would require several million dollars of funding at minimum.

Instead, we'll probably wind up having to settle for text to speech voices that are "good enough", while being nowhere near as fast and efficient [800 to 900 words per minute] as what we have currently.
by latexr | 2026-01-23 13:08:07+00:00
I haven’t seen Broadchurch, but I have seen Slow Horses and it doesn’t seem like the description applies. Sure, they are “exiled” MI5 officers, but they also save the day every season, and not through luck. They’re not completely incompetent. Take River: he was sent to the Slough House due to a mistake someone else made. Ho was sent there due to character flaws, despite being the most skilled at his job.
Show HN: n8n community node for Plaud AI voice recorders (unofficial API)
by monsieurleon | 2026-01-23 13:08:14+00:00
I built an n8n community node that lets you integrate Plaud voice recorder data into your workflows.

What it does:
- List and download recordings
- Access AI-generated transcripts, notes, and suggested questions
- Get share links for recordings
- Organize by folders/tags

Why I made this:
Plaud has a Zapier integration but no public API. I wanted to automatically sync my meeting recordings to my knowledge base and trigger follow-up workflows. So I reverse-engineered their API from the web app.

The legal angle:
I was careful here. The README cites EU Directive 2009/24/EC (Software Directive) which permits reverse engineering for interoperability.
Plaud already accepts automation use cases via Zapier, so extending this to n8n seems reasonable.

Caveats:
- Unofficial API - may break anytime
- Auth requires manually grabbing a bearer token from browser DevTools
- Token expiration behavior is unknown

GitHub: https://github.com/leonardsellem/n8n-nodes-plaud-unofficial
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-plaud-unofficial

Happy to answer questions about the reverse engineering process or n8n node development.
by edanm | 2026-01-23 13:08:19+00:00
> I wonder if they have measured their results?

This is a notoriously difficult thing to measure in a study. More relevantly though, IMO, it's not a small effect that might be difficult to notice - it's a huge, huge speedup.

How many developers have measured whether they are faster when programming in Python vs assembly? I doubt many have. And I doubt many have chosen Python over assembly because of any study that backs it up. But it's also not exactly a subtle difference - I'm fairly 99% of people will say that, in practice, it's obvious that Python is faster for programming than assembly.

I talked literally yesterday to a colleague who's a great senior dev, and he made a demo in an hour and a half that he says would've taken him two weeks to do without AI. This isn't a subtle, hard to measure difference. Of course this is in an area where AI coding shines (a new codebase for demo purposes) - but can we at least agree that in some things AI is clearly an order of magnitude speedup?
by w4yai | 2026-01-23 13:09:20+00:00
> we automate stuff we don't value doing, and the people automating all their code-gen have made a very clear statement about what they want to be doing - they want _results_ and don't actually care about the code (which includes ideas like testing, maintainability, consistent structure, etc)

Not necessarily. I sometimes have a very clear vision of what I want to build, all the architecture, design choices, etc. It's simply easier to formalize a detailed design/spec document + code review if everthing follow what I had in mind, than typing everything myself.

It's like the "bucket" tool in Paint. You don't always need to click pixel by pixel if you already know what you want to fill.
by locallost | 2026-01-23 13:10:23+00:00
The problems of the chemical companies are related to natural gas prices, not electricity. This is because gas is used in the production. It even says so in one of the links you posted:

“Our industry continues to face difficult market dynamics and challenging energy costs, with European gas prices around three times higher than the US,” Arnaud Valenduc, business director for Ineos Inovyn, the Ineos business that makes chloromethane, says in the press release
by pjmlp | 2026-01-23 13:10:44+00:00
I am full in line with the sentiment expressed on the post, and can't wait for the whole must use AI bubble to implode.

Also the whole I am more productive vibe, well management will happilly reduce team size, it has always been do more with less, and now the robots are here.

Each day one step closer to have software development reach the factory level.

Yes some will be left around to maintain the robots, or do the little things they aren't still yet able to perform (until they do), and a couple of managers.

All the rest, I guess there are other domains where robots haven't yet taken over.

I for one am happier to be closer to retirement, than hunting for junior jobs straight out of a degree, it is going to get though out there.
by wishfish | 2026-01-23 13:10:51+00:00
Medieval Dynasty attempts to do that. Despite having the word "dynasty" in its title, it's peasant centered. Early game is about building a house and trying to survive. Later game is building a village, recruiting people, assigning jobs to them, and essentially being the mayor. In many respects, it's a first-person village builder.

The "Dynasty" part comes from being able to have children and pass the village along to them if you play long enough. But everyone in game is a peasant of some sort. Nobility is mentioned but never directly visible.

I wouldn't call the game accurate exactly. But it is fun. I especially enjoyed having a ground-level view instead of the birds-eye view of most city builders.
by echelon_musk | 2026-01-23 13:11:15+00:00
The White House said "The memes will continue". Dodging the direct question while at the same time admitting it is a doctored image as it qualifies as a 'meme'. Obviously it masquerades as truth and this is terrifying deception.

What should I expect from the same administration that also altered the (tiny fraction of) Epstein files before releasing them.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-23 13:11:24+00:00
> So let's say average subscription time is 2 years, they can make $400 onetime or $20/month to get the same revenue.

Does the software stop working after the 2 years? If so, I’d go subscription (or find another product that doesn’t explode). If it doesn’t, I’d pay the $400 assuming I want to use it for more than 2 years.
by the_af | 2026-01-23 13:11:35+00:00
I get what you're saying but I think it's wrong (I also think it's wrong when people say "well, people used to complain about calculators...").

An LLM chatbot is not like querying a database. Postgres doesn't have a human-like interface. Querying SQL is highly technical, when you get nonsensical results out of it (which is most often than not) you immediately suspect the JOIN you wrote or whatever. There's no "confident vibe" in results spat out by the DB engine.

Interacting with a chat bot is highly non-technical. The chat bot seems to many people like a highly competent person-like robot that knows everything, and it knows it with a high degree of confidence too.

So it makes sense to talk about "hallucinations", even though it's a flawed analogy.

I think the mistake people make when interacting with LLMs is similar to what they do when they read/watch the news: "well, they said so on the news, so it must be true."
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-01-23 13:11:44+00:00
> What are you talking about?

The (now twice dissolved) Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party

> How can the government be opposed to it, while also providing rebates to rooftop solar?

I'm pretty sure one government put the incentives in place, whilst another didn't roll them back, but also significantly talked down anything renewable, whilst pulling stunts like bringing a lump of coal into parliament. (from memory, not entirely sure of facts).

> Rooftop solar is a scam.

I beg to differ. I beg to differ even further when rooftop solar is coupled with a battery.

Where I may agree with you, is that solar should have been a much earlier priority for any Australian government due to Australia's abundance of space and sunshine and (confusingly, since we have so much coal) our globally quite high-priced electricity. A better strategy should have been in place for Australia's overall electrification.

I think rooftop solar is great because it's saved me a lot of money in electricity that would have otherwise been sourced from an expensive grid.

I think rooftop solar overall could be considered a scam because it advantages those who already have enough money to afford it and the ownership of their dwelling to be allowed to install it, and disadvantages those who are not in the overlap between those two venn diagrams.

Self Fact check: Australia is around the global average for electricity costs, not as expensive as I thought.
by dredmorbius | 2026-01-23 13:11:50+00:00
Though I'd think that you'd want to weight unaffiliated sites' anchor text to a given URL much higher than an affiliated site.

"Affiliation" is a tricky term itself. Content farms were popular in the aughts (though they seem to have largely subsided), firms such as Claria and Gator. There are chumboxes (Outbrain, Taboola), and of course affiliate links (e.g., to Amazon or other shopping sites). SEO manipulation is its own whole universe.

(I'm sure you know far more about this than I do, I'm mostly talking at other readers, and maybe hoping to glean some more wisdom from you ;-)
by KronisLV | 2026-01-23 13:11:56+00:00
> You must state the tool you used (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Amp)

Interesting requirement! Feels a bit like asking someone what IDE they used.

There shouldn't be that meaningful of a difference between the different tools/providers unless you'd consistently see a few underperform and would choose to ban those or something.

The other rules feel like they might discourage AI use due to more boilerplate needed (though I assume the people using AI might make the AI fill out some of it), though I can understand why a project might want to have those sorts of disclosures and control. That said, the rules themselves feel quite reasonable!
by ck2 | 2026-01-23 13:11:59+00:00
It's the non-stop openly lying to judges in court that should be the worldwide newspaper headline

That's some post-constitutional anti-democracy bullsh*t right there that should have zero tolerance because that means everything else is likely a lie.

It's like a virus since he came down the golden escalator, first every single thing he said was a lie or wild exaggeration, and then he recruited exclusively only people around him to do the same.

There's good reason the highest power positions in the government are HIS PERSONAL LAWYERS with legal obligation first to him beyond anything else.
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-23 13:12:02+00:00
I've seen cases in my career where people knowing the low level things is actually a hindrance.

They start to fight the system, trying to optimise things by hand for an extra 2% of performance while adding 100% of extra maintenance cost because nobody understands their hand-crafted assembler or C code.

There will always be a place for people who do that, but in the modern world in most cases it's cheaper to just throw more money at hardware instead of spending time optimising - if you control the hardware.

If things run on customer's devices, then you need the low level gurus again.
by Tor3 | 2026-01-23 13:12:29+00:00
Games and articles and anime all include "lords", as far as I can tell. But feudalism wasn't universal, there were lot of (what we today would call) countries without feudalism. There could still be (fairly local) kings, but farmers owned their lands and nobility didn't necessarily exist at all, in some places. But games (including anime) tend to focus 100% on the feudal system.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-23 13:13:18+00:00
Genuinely: What profits!?! The only company profiting from AI has been nVidia. Every indicator we've received for this entire alleged industry is companies buying hundreds of millions of dollars in graphics cards that then either sit in warehouses depreciating in value or, worse, are plugged in and immediately start losing money.

The tech industry has coasted on it's hypergrowth story for decades, a story laden with as many bubbles as actual industries that sprang up. All the good ideas are done now. All the products anyone actually needs exist, are enshittified, and are selling user data to anyone who will pay, including products that exist solely to remove your data from everyone who bought it and probably then sell it to some other people.

This shit is stupid at this point. All Silicon Valley has to do is to grow up into a mature industry with sensible business practices and sustainable models of generating revenue that in most other industries would be fantastic, and they're absolutely apoplectic about this. They are so addicted to the easy, cheap services that upended entire other industries and made them rich beyond imagining that they will literally say, out loud, with their human mouths, that it is a bad, undesirable thing to simply have a business that makes some money.

The people at the top of this industry are literally fucking deranged and should be interred at a psychiatric facility for awhile for their and everyone else's good.
by ollien | 2026-01-23 13:14:00+00:00
Not sure how I feel about transcripts. Ultimately I do my best to make any contributions I make high quality, and that means taking time to polish things. Exposing the tangled mess of my thought process leading up to that either means I have to "polish" that too (whatever that ends up looking like), or put myself in a vulnerable position of showing my tangled process to get to the end result.