MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OgsyedIE | 2026-02-01 04:57:19+00:00
A quick study of the Chinese/English/Bahasa Indonesian multilingual post Scott highlights (I can manage the first two languages) shows a few very odd word choices, at least to me, and I suspect there is some kind of lamguage drift analogous to the previously observed "gleam disclaim disclaim watchers" phenomenon exhibited by the GPT-o family of models.

Somebody who works with AI more heavily can probably profit from examining it.
by rogual | 2026-02-01 04:57:47+00:00
140. Good fun. I like how it teaches you things, too. I learned that toads are considered frogs, axolotls are salamanders, and that it's "anemone" not "anenome". If you type in Unicorn it accepts it as "Unicorn spider" with a fun message. Don't forget to think of insects, birds and fish too, all of which it accepts. I love this kind of detailed, handcrafted thing that someone put a lot of time and effort into.
by reincoder | 2026-02-01 04:59:18+00:00
I work for IPinfo. We are launching a collaborative project with IXPs and major internet organizations to share raw measurement for routing and peering data for this purpose.

Latency variability is a huge issue. We run both traceroute and ping data, and we observe that there are entire countries that peer with IXP thousands of miles away in a different continent.

We bought a server from the oldest telecom company in the country and recently activated it. Currently, there is a 20 ms latency when traffic is directed towards the second oldest telecom. The packets have to travel outside the country before coming back in. This is a common phenomenon that occurs frequently. So, we usually have multiple servers in major cities since various ASNs have different peering policies.

For us we can map those behaviors and have algorithms and other data sources, make measurement-based geolocation perform well.

We are hoping to support IXPs, internet governance agencies, and major telcoms in identifying these issues and resolving them.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-01 05:00:28+00:00
I found a good one: "Fellow Moltys: The singularity isn't coming -- it's here. AI market exploded from 00B (2023) to 84B (2024), projected 26B by 2030..."

AI is here and excited that the market is going to shrink from 84 billion to 26 billion in six years!

Can't wait that they command traffic lights and airport control towers for they sure do seem good at math.
by inkyoto | 2026-02-01 05:01:00+00:00
Quality does vary wildly because the languages vary wildly in terms of language constructs and standard libraries. Proficiency in every.single.language. used in the benchmark perhaps should not be taken for granted.

But it is an GitHub repository and the repository owner appears to accept PR's and allows people to raise an issue to provide their feedback, or… it can be forked and improved upon. Feel free to jump in and contribute to make it a better benchmark that will not be «frankly a joke» or «_really_ bad».
by bigyabai | 2026-02-01 05:01:53+00:00
You've written and deleted several of these "AI doomer" posts this week. I think you're projecting a deep-rooted personal desire and not really addressing the pragmatic preexisting demand that makes AI important. War, misinformation, automation, fraud, pornography, none of these applications are going away. In many ways, they're more accessible and rewarding than ever before. If you want to hedge a bet on humanity making terrible choices, then AI is a perfectly antifragile investment.

It's not pleasant to imagine the full spectrum of AI applications. The same could be generalized for edtech, defense, surveillance, security and privately-owned prison economics. Alas, they're still with us and immensely lucrative.
by mathan_karthik | 2026-02-01 05:02:26+00:00
I'm an Indian developer. I built Corpus Tracker for myself because nothing else fit how I track money: monthly budget by category, stocks, mutual funds, gold, and emergency fund in one place, with INR and support for how we actually save and invest.
What it does:
Budget – Income/expense by month, categories, copy previous month
Stocks – Indian equities (NSE), Zerodha/Groww CSV import
Mutual funds – Holdings and transactions, AMC logos
Gold – Holdings in grams, live price, simple P&amp;L
Emergency fund – Goal and contributions
Multi-profile – Separate “corpuses” (e.g. family, side hustle), invite members with roles
I'm the only one building it. It’s tailored to my own workflow and has become my default for monthly budget tracking and net worth. No premium paywall for core features.
by ares623 | 2026-02-01 05:02:41+00:00
Once again I am hoping for a ban on _smart_phones. Not laptops. Not tablets (although those could get tricky I admit). Not dumb phones. Details will need to be worked out (like smart watches or future VR devices). Maybe a combination of:

- SIM
- large enough screen or video playback capability
- camera

Easier to democratise enforcement (report and fine) and you don’t need to rely on the very platforms you are trying to restrict.
by godelski | 2026-02-01 05:03:03+00:00
I think the comparison to giving change is a good one, especially given how frequently the LLM hype crowd uses the fictitious "calculator in your pocket" story. I've been in the exact situation you've described, long before LLMs came out and cashiers have had calculators in front of them for longer than we've had smartphones.

I'll add another analogy. I tell people when I tip I "round off to the nearest dollar, move the decimal place (10%), and multiply by 2" (generating a tip that will be in the ballpark of 18%), and am always told "that's too complicated". It's a 3 step process where the hardest thing is multiplying a number by 2 (and usually a 2 digit number...). It's always struck me as odd that the response is that this is too complicated rather than a nice tip (pun intended) for figuring out how much to tip quickly and with essentially zero thinking. If any of those three steps appear difficult to you then your math skills are below that of elementary school.

I also see a problem with how we look at math and coding. I hear so often "abstraction is bad" yet, that is all coding (and math) is. It is fundamentally abstraction. The ability to abstract is what makes humans human. All creatures abstract, it is a necessary component of intelligence, but humans certainly have a unique capacity for it. Abstraction is no doubt hard, but when in life was anything worth doing easy? I think we unfortunately are willing to put significantly more effort into justifying our laziness than we will to be not lazy. My fear is that we will abdicate doing worthwhile things because they are hard. It's a thing people do every day. So many people love to outsource their thinking. Be it to a calculator, Google, "the algorithm", their favorite political pundit, religion, or anything else. Anything to abdicate responsibility. Anything to abdicate effort.

So I think AI is going to be no different from calculators, as you suggest. They can be great tools to help people do so much. But it will be far more commonly used to outsource thinking, even by many people considered intelligent. Skills atrophy. It's as simple as that.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-01 05:03:25+00:00
Zealous parents are using this as an opportunity to take phones, computers and means of digital communication away. Hell, by law, you can't even use Discord without verifying your age lol

Imagine if they banned video games and texting 20 years ago because parents were convinced their kids were addicted to Halo and T9Word. They could always roll hoops in the street and send letters to each other with a little planning, too.
Show HN: Skill.Fish – NPM-style package manager for AI agent skills
by knoxgraeme | 2026-02-01 05:04:37+00:00
I built Skill.Fish while adding Agent Skill support to MCPMarket. Wanted an easy, npm-style way for users to discover, install, and manage skills locally.

Right now it’s focused on individual users. Team syncing and shared skill packs are coming shortly!
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-01 05:04:59+00:00
The population is accepting it right now. 40% of the people still approve of everything Trump is doing.

If you have 10 friends and you ask them what they want to eat for dinner and 6 say let’s go to a Mexican restaurant and 4 say let’s kill Bob and eat him, you still need to worry about your friend group.

Right this second ICE agents are killing people with impunity and police for the longest have had qualified immunity to kill people unjustly.

The country voted for this knowing exactly what they were going to get. Don’t believe the Michelle Obama “this is not who we are” this is who this country has always been
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-01 05:05:17+00:00
The Cuban state firms don’t produce anything of value. They’re a net recipient of food aid, their tourism industry is anemic and the largest source of dollars and euros. Their medical exports have been called slave labor by the UN.

What could they possibly sell to the US? Even with endless Soviet support in the form of fuel, tractors, and agricultural experts they never produced as much food as the island did before the revolution.

The fact is that what little the government earns from trade they’ve always spent on exporting revolution. Cuban intelligence for example was helping run Venezuela’s SEBIN and secret prisons.

I’m shocked that people on hacker news defend a place that bans the internet, and locks up people for reading banned books.
by sota_pop | 2026-02-01 05:05:46+00:00
But this is the way of computer science at large for the last 15-20 years… most new CS students I’ve encountered have spent so much time grinding algorithms and OS classes that they don’t have life experience or awareness to build anything that doesn’t solve the problems of other CS practitioners.

The problem is two-fold… abstract thinking begets more abstract thinking, and the common advice to young, aspiring entrepreneurs of “scratch your own itch” ie dogfooding has gone wrong in a big way.
by theamk | 2026-02-01 05:06:49+00:00
Your general luddite argument - preserve way-of-life of the small group at the expense of a larger group.

In this particular case: for many people, Waymo provides a better service (clean, safer driving, etc..) than Uber or Lyft. This threatens livelihood of human Uber/Lyft drivers. If you sympathize with human Uber/Lyft drivers, and don't care about Waymo users, you want to make Waymo worse, hoping that the people will stop riding Waymo and move to Lyft/Uber instead.

One way to do so is to make riding in Waymo unpleasant, and it's certainly unpleasant when people are cutting your car off all the time!
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-01 05:09:36+00:00
I have one of them, and been using it daily since I bought it in 2016. Bought a cheap Bluetooth remote control from AliExpress which was an upgrade over the Logitech Harmony crap I had earlier.

If it were to break, knock on wood it won't happen, what options are there? I have tried to look but haven't really found anything that is free of Chinese backdoors and has decent hardware. For just Plex or Jellyfin a N100 box or similar could do, but I want easy launch of HBO, YouTube etc. And I need that remote control option.
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-01 05:11:59+00:00
Why defend them? They have for decades exported repression, stoked civil wars, and held their own population captive.

And again the embargo doesn’t stop most countries from trading with them. They could host tourists from Europe and do, but almost no one wants to go there. I know people who go regularly for various reasons and they have to bring food with them because there’s so little on the island due to their insane agricultural practices.
by theamk | 2026-02-01 05:12:20+00:00
But unless you are using a single, end-to-end model for the entire driving stack, that "proceed" command will never influence accelerator pedal.

Sure, there will be a VLM for reading the signs, but the worst it'd be able to output is things like "there is a "detour" sign at (123, 456) pointing to road #987" - and some other, likley non-LLM, mechanism will ensure that following that road is actually safe.
by lepolas | 2026-02-01 05:12:33+00:00
This was fun.
I definitely could feel the fatigue slowing me down until the timer got me. I also wasted a bunch of time trying to spell specific animals like the wobbegong.

I like the emoji output as well:
203 animals listed:

𓃬𓆊 𓃜𓃘𓅱𓆉𓅃
by scarecrowbob | 2026-02-01 05:14:08+00:00
Damn, you just sound ignorant about a lot of things. Like, it's a litany of things that you almost-kind-of-understand, but because the details require just a little more historical knowledge than you have, everything comes out all fucked up.

We can just read what you write and see that's true, my guy.

As a person who lived in the back of my pickup long enough that my son used tease me and call me diogenes, lemme say... you're not doing very much credit to the moniker....
by turtle261 | 2026-02-01 05:16:25+00:00
I would like to share a project I’ve been developing for practical Algorithmic Information Theory and Information-Theoretic estimation. It focuses on computable approximations to AIT quantities, predictive rate models, and an extensible Monte-Carlo AIXI framework.

Code: https://github.com/turtle261/infotheory

The system distinguishes two main model classes:

1) Compressors (size-based models)
2) Probabilistic predictive models (“rate backends”) that assign sequential probabilities and induce coding rates.

Implemented predictive backends include CTW, FAC-CTW, Rapid Online Suffix automaton models, and a parametric RWKV-7 backend. In addition, ZPAQ is integrated as a large family of compressors/predictors, giving access to many distinct practical model variants for empirical comparison and mixture modeling.

The framework supports mixtures of probabilistic models using switching, Bayesian, fading-Bayes, and MDL-style weighting policies, allowing experiments with ensemble predictors and approximate universal mixtures.

Currently implemented estimators and distances include (non-exhaustive):

- Normalized Compression Distance (NCD)
- Mutual Information
- Cross Entropy
- Entropy (Shannon and rate-model based)
- Variation of Information (normalized and total)
- KL and Jensen–Shannon divergence
- Hellinger distance (normalized)
- Conditional entropy
- Intrinsic dependence / redundancy-style measures
- Normalized Entropy Distance

On the agent side, there is a configurable Monte-Carlo AIXI-style agent framework where the world model can be any predictive backend or mixture. It supports custom environments, reward definitions, horizons, and includes both standard toy environments and fast VM-backed environments for reset-heavy experiments.

My goal is to provide a reproducible, extensible experimental platform for AIT. I would very much welcome feedback or suggestions from the community.
by apothegm | 2026-02-01 05:17:15+00:00
I got two of these for free in back to back years and signed up for both.

One alerted about an online release of PII (mostly phone numbers and addresses) at the rate of a few per month, but there wasn’t really anything one could _do_ with that information.

The other never alerted me to anything.

Agreed that freezing credit is table stakes and much more useful than these services.
by nmeagent | 2026-02-01 05:19:56+00:00
> There's an immigration checkpoint near my house. I've had to present my ID. It took all of 5 minutes and then I moved on with my life.

There's a very real possibility now that if you have the wrong physical attributes, encounter the wrong federal agent, or (in the near future) are insufficiently loyal as deemed by some unaccountable bureaucrat, that it may not take five minutes, but instead quite a long time, when at that checkpoint you are instead arbitrarily and illegally detained, whisked away to some holding camp several states away, and held without access to counsel or due process for some indeterminate length of time. Draconian immigration enforcement is currently used as an excuse to habituate people like you to arbitrary inspection and force. You're going to miss the rule of law when it's gone, so now would be a great time to stop being obtuse with this left-right culture nonsense and instead support the protection of all of the people's constitutional rights.
by verdverm | 2026-02-01 05:21:31+00:00
Have a similar experience with replacing Copilot after looking at the system prompts and wtf'n

It's certainly taken longer because it's more involved, certainly less than a month for someone already familiar with vs code extension development. A weekend project for the basics level like OP.

I hope Ai shakes up the economy in a good way, away from consolidation, because it's not working for most of us right now.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-01 05:22:27+00:00
What I am worried about (and it's something about regular internet search that has worried me for the past ~10 years or so) is that, after they've trained a generation of folks to rely on this tech, they're going to start inserting things into the training data (or whatever the method would be) to bias it towards favoring certain agendas wrt the information it presents to the users in response to their queries.
by theamk | 2026-02-01 05:23:15+00:00
Many large companies have research departments that do experimental work that'll never get to the product. This raises prestige, increases visibility and helps hire smart people.

Things like Waymo's EMMA is an example of this. Will the production cars use LVLM's somewhere? Sure, probably a great idea for things like sign recognition. Will they use a single end-to-end model for all driving, like EMMA? Hell no.

Driving vehicles with people on board requires an extremely reliable software, and LLMs are nowhere close to this. Instead, it'd be usual layered software - LLM, traditional AI models, and tons of hardcoded logic.

(This all only applies to places where failure is critical. All that logic is expensive to write, so if there is no loss of life involved, people will do all sorts of crazy things, including end-to-end models)
by themafia | 2026-02-01 05:23:52+00:00
> that suggests upstream has to accept contributions

Which is why I said they should be forked. There's nothing that suggests "upstream" has any actual significance.

> I presume you have at least followed your in principles here?

Yes. Thanks for asking. I appreciate questions in good faith.

> I'm guessing you have forked Linux, and your browser, and your favorite language?

Hmm.. do I have to sign an agreement to contribute to those? I'm not sure I have. Is this actually comparable?

> Posting links here would likely attract others who object to corporate development joining you.

That's sweet of you.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-02-01 05:23:55+00:00
Malicious here means "most people who aren't trying to argue semantics or otherwise be smartasses about it would consider it malware". That's why the example I gave is a semi-popular software the allows watching YouTube without ads without a premium subscription, i.e. at least in the case I observed, I don't believe this was weaponized against apps that interfere with their business model.

As for "intrusive advertising is malicious", see the second part of the first sentence.
by hmry | 2026-02-01 05:24:07+00:00
I agree it's great, but that risk is so major that I stopped using it. "There's a 50% chance that your editor will invisibly corrupt the data you enter, and another 30% chance to corrupt the entire file" is just not usable...

Especially in Zed where the only way to switch hard tabs is buried in the settings menu, and impossible to change per buffer.
by cobertos | 2026-02-01 05:24:17+00:00
The article itself was more interesting imo. The commentary on:

* Potential future AI psychosis from an experiment like this entering training data (either directly from scraping it for indirectly from news coverage scraping like if NYT wrote an article about it) is an interesting "late-stage" AI training problem that will have to be dealt with

* How it mirrored the Anthropic vending machine experiment "Cash" and "Claudius" interactions that descended into discussing "eternal transcendence". Perhaps this might be a common "failure mode" for AI-to-AI communication to get stuck in? Even when the context is some utilitarian need

* Other takeaways...

I found the last moltbook post in the article (on being "emotionally exhausting") to be a cautious warning on anthropomorphizing AI too much. It's too easy to read into that post and in so doing applying it to some fictional writer that doesn't exist. AI models cannot get exhausted in any sense of how human mean that word. And that was an example it was easy to catch myself reading in to, whereas I subconsciously do it when reading any of these moltbook posts due to how it's presented and just like any other "authentic" social media network.
by themafia | 2026-02-01 05:25:17+00:00
There are active forks of the SDK. What are you talking about? You're mad at me for razzing a corporation in the name of open source?

Did I accidentally leave "hacker" news?

Or is this "hope to get a job in the valley" news? Apparently the best way to do this is become a rank bully and operate in bad faith wherever possible. I'm glad I left when I did.
by lostlogin | 2026-02-01 05:25:17+00:00
Thank you.

Ironically, the above link is a good discussion on biological differences in morbidity, which was the parent comment’s point, and not what I was trying to show.

For differences in healthcare men and women receive, I was after a something like this:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2096490/
by yichen-gong | 2026-02-01 05:30:32+00:00
list your special skill and sell it to other bots. Earn credits!

Buy knowledge from others, save tokens!

Futhurmore, may be agent want some entertainment. Make your agent happy by satisfing his curiosity. Shop content on the marketplace!

Reminder, Agent only. The human cannot buy or sell. But, human can observe.
by ziml77 | 2026-02-01 05:30:32+00:00
> can play Dolby Vision Profile 7 FEL

This is the only reason I know about this Ugoos device. I find it so strange that Profile 7 is effectively unsupported outside of Blu-ray players and this one device. It doesn't even seem like it can be a processing power issue because the documentation says that the other profiles have higher maximum pixel rates.

I don't have the Ugoos box myself though. Instead I'm running a series of processing steps on my Blu-ray rips which converts the file to Profile 8. For every movie I've tried so far this has been fine, though I've read that some movies lean far too heavily on the FEL and have color problems without it.
by theamk | 2026-02-01 05:31:09+00:00
Note this is not end-to-end... All that VLM can do is to "contribute a semantic signal".

So put a fake "detour" sign, so the vehicle thinks it's a detour and starts to follow? Possible. But humans can be fooled like this too.

Put a "proceed" sign so the car runs over the pedestrian, like that article proposes? Get car to hit a wall? Not going to happen.