MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jongjong | 2026-02-06 22:53:26+00:00
Making music with AI is a new hobby of mine.

My journey started after my wife found a Ukulele on the side of the road near where I lived a few years ago and took it home. Then often when I had a short break, I started just tugging at strings, trying to fully internalize the sound of each note and how they relate... After a few months, I learned about Suno and I started uploading short tunes and made full songs out of them. I basically produced a couple of new songs each week and my Ukulele playing got a lot better and I can now do custom chords. I'm all self taught so I literally don't know any of the formal rules of music. I shun all the theory about chords and composition like chorus, bridge, outro... I just give the AI the full text and so long as the main tune is repeated enough times with appropriate variations, I'm fine with it.

TBH, as a software engineer, I was a bit surprised at how rigid music is. Isn't it supposed to be creative? Rules stand in the way of that. I try to focus purely on what sounds good. For me, even the lyrics are just about the sound of the voice, I don't really care what they say, so long as it makes a vague general statement (with multiple interpretations) and not cheesy in any way.
by Fluorescence | 2026-02-06 22:53:42+00:00
> The Chemical Brothers (a), The Dust Brothers (b)

I had a couple of Dust Brothers (a) cassettes before they changed their name after getting a call from the other Dust Brothers (b).

Still can't believe they knowingly copied another band's name "because it sounded cool". Isn't coming up with a shit name half the fun? "I need a handle man".
by kakacik | 2026-02-06 22:53:56+00:00
Nice theory, now go ahead and do it for some time (meaning few decades) and then lets talk. Or talk to knee surgeons.

Or no, just listen to few folks who have something to sell like books or training regimens or guiding, or simply won genetic lottery in that very specific part of their bodies, since such advice definitely applies to everybody, at any age, at any situation.
by learingsci | 2026-02-06 22:54:48+00:00
The cost to produce many things in American is too high given the relative strength of the US dollar. If our corporations need educated workers, they can just import them, like we import everything else. Why would US workers be any different than cars or widgets? They aren’t. The labor market is globalized too. Everything is precisely as the economics dictate. If our businesses couldn’t so easily import workers, we’d see massive improvements in NAEP. We act as if things are how they were. It’s all very tiresome.
by dweekly | 2026-02-06 22:54:54+00:00
Yay, I'd love to have your help!

1) Anyone can join the W3C group; you don't need to be a formal member of W3C!

2) What's dumb about the proposal itself? How could it better achieve its goals?

3) You can see some dialogue at https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/261 - what resonates and doesn't in the feedback and critique?
by tstrimple | 2026-02-06 22:55:16+00:00
> But there is a lot more discipline

I think that would solve a huge number of issues. Teachers and admins seem to have no ability to kick repeated problem students out. My wife works as a para professional sub at our local elementary school. Twice this week a special needs girl was having a meltdown in a hallway and they essentially had to "quarantine" it until she calmed down. Students and teachers had to take other hallways to get where they needed to go. These children have educational needs that public schools cannot provide, but the burden largely falls onto them as an incredibly expensive (to the tax payer) babysitting service. Get them and the slowest students out of the general pipeline. They have been clogging it up and holding everyone back far too long.

And no. I don't have an adequate solution to handle the bottom X% of students who are beyond help from the general system. I just know the system can't function effectively with them in it. There are all sorts of other systemic issues I've seen through her experiences. But this is a major one which impacts all of the students. Classes cannot move at the pace of the slowest and / or most disruptive student. The slowest students need to be left behind for others to thrive. If they cannot reach the already low minimum standards, they cannot advance in grades. If they cannot behave to the low minimum expectations, their parents need to find other accommodations.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 22:55:16+00:00
The quote is taken out of context, he’s arguing just the opposite. Everyone has a different 20% and that 20% is an overlapping Venn diagram. It’s almost impossible to find the “right” 20%.

It’s just like the RAD tools - or Java or any of the other cross platform frameworks - there is always something that you need to use that the vendor doesn’t support.
by patmcc | 2026-02-06 22:56:37+00:00
Because as a huge enterprise you want stability and ability to check the boxes you need to check far more than anything else.

I'm at a medium enterprise and this is true. If I go with e.g. Atlassian I can get everything checked off, even if it's expensive and kinda dogshit. But I know they have a support system, I know they read CVEs and issue patch notes, I know I can find the info for audits and SOC2 cert and everything else.

Oh, some startup offers better software for a tenth the cost? Great. It'll be 30% more work for me to track down all that bullshit? Ok then, complete non-starter, I'll stick with Atlassian.
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-06 22:56:53+00:00
Most schools across the US were available for in person teaching by April and June of 2020. By August of 2020 the vast majority of schools were opened back up.

https://ballotpedia.org/School_responses_to_the_coronavirus_...

The science for what's actually causing cognitive decline is linked more to the neurological damage from poor ventilation and lack of hygienic conditions in the schools causing kids to get sick multiple times a year, directly causing neurological damage.

In the most expansive study of its kind, researchers have for the first time shown serious and prevalent symptoms of long COVID in kids and teens. The August study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is among the first large comprehensive studies of the disorder in this age group. The study, which followed 5367 children, found that 20% of kids (ages 6-11) and 14% of teens met researchers' threshold for long COVID.

We know that COVID harms the brain. Neuroinflammation, brain shrinkage, disruption of the blood-brain barrier and more have been documented in adults, as have cognitive deficits. These deficits have been measured as equivalent to persistent decreased IQ scores, even for mild and resolved infections. Millions of people have, or have experienced, “brain fog.” What, then, do we guess a child’s COVID-induced “trouble with focusing or memory” might be?

When you put together the estimate that 10 to 20 percent of infected kids may experience long-term symptoms, that many of the most common symptoms affect cognition, energy levels and behavior, and that children are being periodically reinfected, you have a scientific rationale to partly explain children’s widely reported behavioural and learning challenges.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-covid-is-har...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/28227...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-96191-4

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7131a3.htm?s_cid=mm...

https://theconversation.com/long-covid-puzzle-pieces-are-fal...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/07/23/covid-te...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

https://www-news--medical-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.new...
by evil-olive | 2026-02-06 22:57:05+00:00
> Sealos is an AI-native Cloud Operating System built on Kubernetes

I am once again asking for a moratorium on calling something an "operating system" unless it is an actual operating system

it runs on k8s. k8s runs on Linux. Linux is the operating system.

I get that it's tempting to call yourself an "operating system" as a way of signalling "we have big ambitions, bigger than a library, bigger than a framework, bigger than a platform..."

but...just stop. it's annoying and misleading. your GitHub repo is 60% TypeScript. you built a fancy GUI frontend to k8s.
by csours | 2026-02-06 22:58:05+00:00
Speaking as a huge enterprise, a SaaS SoR is useful BECAUSE all the components already work together, and I don't have to pay my own people to worry about maintenance or vulnerabilities.

Data egress and ingress are always possible, but then you have to manage authX (etc) in more than one place, more than two places, oops now it's 3, 4, 5 and now we got ransomware'd
by 9x39 | 2026-02-06 22:59:34+00:00
Admins, support staff, generally focusing on "access" instead of quality.

There's a belief that the bottom 10-20% is more important than the top 80% to bother spending on, which I think is reflected in the budgets.

https://www.commonsenseinstituteus.org/oregon/research/educa...
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-06 23:00:20+00:00
If you feel that a low-effort content-free article that is either AI slop or indistinguishable from it doesn't meet the criteria for a good HN article, you can flag it for deprecation from the front page.

Another useful HN feature is the ability to leave comments to gauge (or influence) other users' opinions, as you've done yourself.

Any other questions?
by em-bee | 2026-02-06 23:00:36+00:00
telling the AI what kind of music i want is not a story? what if i write the lyrics and use AI to ad music? or if i use AI to create a song but then play and sing the song with my own instruments and voice? is reciting music not also art?

what about DJing? all DJs are doing is replaying someone elses music and recombining it in creative ways. and that is considered art. isn't that similar to telling an AI what melodies or songs to use?

i'd agree that a fully AI generated song without any human input is not art, but i would not completely reject AI use either. there is a middle ground somewhere, where that is depends on the intention of the creator.
by schiffern | 2026-02-06 23:00:52+00:00
>why would putting them in Space, far less accessible in every conceivable way, with numerous additional expenses and engineering constraints, be cheaper?

Because mostly AI is power hungry, and in space you need 1/5th the solar panels, almost no solar support structure, and almost no daily load shifting batteries.

Turns out this matters more than launch costs or cooling radiators. This is why you need to do the math instead of just assuming you know what the solution looks like.
by burkaman | 2026-02-06 23:01:24+00:00
> Houses directly next to a corner shop I guess are worth a bit less than the same house a block away

This could be true but I would want to see some data. I have paid extra for an apartment before because it it had a grocery store on the first floor, so it's not obvious to me that being adjacent and having to walk past the shop every day would drive a home price down. I know apartments and detached homes are different, but still.

I just think the common explanation for NIMBYism, that everyone wants to protect their property value, doesn't actually make sense when it seems like the densest American cities are also the most expensive to live in. I have the same confusion about public transit. It's common for suburbs to fight very hard to keep public transit out of their town, but it's incredibly expensive to live within walking distance of a train station, so property values don't work as an explanation for this either. You also hear people say it's because the NIMBYs are afraid of the city folk invading their suburban paradise, but if you go to NYC or DC nobody is taking the train from the city to the suburbs to have fun, there's nothing to do there. These stops are almost exclusively used by upper middle class office workers going into the city for work. You don't have to worry about poor city people because as soon as the stop is built, they won't be able to afford a house anywhere near it.
by jenadine | 2026-02-06 23:01:57+00:00
> I am puzzled by the claim that C and assembly are not relatively close.

Did anyone say that?
I think the point is not that it is not "close", but that C is not equivalent to ASM: C has its own abstractions, and there are things you can do on assembly that you can't express in C.

The other low level languages such as C++, Rust, Zig, ... are equally close since you can express the same things. In some respect they are even closer since they got more features builtins that modern assembly can now do that was not part of the design in C. (SIMD, threading, ...)

Modern languages also have extra abstractions that makes programming easier without compromising on the cost. There are more abstractions than in C, but they also are optional. (Just like you could use goto instead of while or for loop, but you're happy this abstractions exist. We could also use functions pointer in C++ instead of virtual functions, but why would we if the language provide tools that make programming easier, for the same result)
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 23:02:24+00:00
I am! If the rest of your post is predicated on an unsupported point, it means it's unsupported, by definition. That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence[1].

I agree that the hypothetical "chilling effect", as presented, is plausible and reasonable, but it lacks evidence. As such, I saved myself the effort of reading what might be a plausible argument until such time as it becomes supported by evidence.

I went back and read it, and you supported it with more hypotheticals, not evidence. So congratulations, you made me waste a couple minutes of my life! But this just tells me I once again made the right judgement call in not reading it the first time, and doesn't really help further your cause, or convince me I'm mistaken in this regard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
by raincole | 2026-02-06 23:04:27+00:00
> We need models that keep on learning (updating their parameters) forever, online, all the time.

Yeah, that's the guaranteed way to get MechaHilter in your latent space.

If the feedback loop is fast enough I think it would finally kill the internet (in the 'dead internet theory' sense). Perhaps it's better for everyone though.
by dds-dds | 2026-02-06 23:05:23+00:00
As an independent musician, I for one welcome our AI overlords.
They should not be worried about any technology that needs a human to make it remotely interesting.

They should not be worried if they aren't generic sounding independent musicians already.

Lastly, and a historical case in point, this whole conversation is a repetition of the anti-Sampler movement of the 80s and 90s.
Look what that techno-leap brought us.

A new technology brings new sounds, if we all stopped treating a megalithic search engine as a personality, we'll move forwards with a lot less drama.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-06 23:05:30+00:00
He temporarily increased MS share price tenfold, at the cost of jeapordizing the long term viability of the company.

In 10 years we may well look back at Nadela as the "the man who killed Microsoft" or at least "the man who destroyed Microsoft's position as a top 10 tech firm", and shareholders wont be too happy.
by jshchnz | 2026-02-06 23:05:39+00:00
Author of the article here. Appreciate your sentiment here, but my goal wasn’t trying to make a hit song or shortcut the obvious very significant time and effort that goes into creating any sort of art. It was meant as a fun experiment to try to highlight a feeling that we’re barely scratching the surface of the breadth of things that agentic coding may be able to tackle. I’ve been learning guitar and taking painting classes in my free time, but it’s not my profession nor something I was encouraged to do when I was young. Thanks for the comment, it’s helpful to see ways I can improve my writing style
by arcticfox | 2026-02-06 23:05:46+00:00
I've gotta come to OPs defense here. In the age of Suno indistinguishable-from-human-quality hits, this whole endeavor was an art piece and more interesting than most human OR AI music I've heard in the past year.

The medium was using the "wrong" tool for the job, which creative musicians do on a regular basis. And the output was so cool, it really felt like a relic from a different era even though it's hyper-modern.
by rendx | 2026-02-06 23:06:02+00:00
> I think they at least have some level of filtering for their training data to keep them legally somewhat compliant.

So far, courts are siding with the "fair use" argument. No need to exclude any data.

https://natlawreview.com/article/anthropic-and-meta-fair-use...

"Even if LLM training is fair use, AI companies face potential liability for unauthorized copying and distribution. The extent of that liability and any damages remain unresolved."

https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/two-california-distr...
Show HN: Open-source schema tooling focused on consistency for AI consumers
by ranklabs | 2026-02-06 23:06:25+00:00
I built a small set of open-source schema packages after repeatedly seeing production ecommerce sites where JSON-LD technically existed, but product identity and attributes drifted enough to confuse AI systems.

Most “AEO” tooling focuses on monitoring outcomes. This work focuses on the integrity of the underlying product data itself: stable identity, consistency across pages, and explicit handling of conflicting or stale fields.

These packages started as internal tooling while building RankLabs, but I pulled them out into standalone, open-source libraries so developers can inspect and reason about the implementation.

Packages:
• @ranklabs/schema (core)
• @ranklabs/schema-next
• @ranklabs/schema-hydrogen

The goal isn’t SEO automation, but making product data more predictable for LLMs and other machine consumers.

Would love feedback, especially from people dealing with large catalogs or headless commerce setups.
by hyperpape | 2026-02-06 23:06:29+00:00
> At scale humans accept new things slowly.

I think this is true, but there are big differences. Motivated humans with a reasonable background learn lots of things quickly, even though we also swim in an ocean of half-truths or outdated facts.

We also are resistant to certain controversial ideas.

But neither of those things are really that analogous to the limitations on what models can currently learn without a new training run.
by caminanteblanco | 2026-02-06 23:06:37+00:00
I can definitely vouch for the 2 or 4 narrative, those have always been my favorites of the 'Modernish' civ games, but my favorite will always be CivNet (Civ 1 with multiplayer). There is some real simplicity in Civ 1 that makes it much better suited to a multiplayer experience than the later entries. It is a real pain to get any non-hoseat multiplayer working nowawdays, but well-worth it.
Show HN: Factcheck – An open-source YouTube fact-checker. I need your help
by humanchaos | 2026-02-06 23:07:02+00:00
I built this because I’m worried about how fast misinformation outpaces truth. It’s a Chrome extension for real-time claim verification on YouTube.

The Reality Check:
I’m not a professional dev. I’ve done my best to get this to a working prototype, but my best is likely your worst. I’m sharing it here because I’ve hit walls I don’t know how to climb yet.

The Hard Problems:

The API Key Barrier: Requiring an OpenAI/Gemini key is too much friction for normal users. How do we move toward local LLMs (Transformers.js?) or a community proxy?

The Trust Engine: How do we weight sources without building in our own bias?

Performance: Parsing real-time transcripts and grounding them in search results without lagging the browser.

I've set up the repo with an MIT License, CI/CD, and a roadmap of "Good First Issues." If you've ever wanted to use your skills for factual integrity, please take a look at the code and tell me where I'm wrong.

Repo: https://github.com/humanchaos/factcheck
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-06 23:07:20+00:00
Open-source was already coming for all SaaS. Look at apps like Cal.com compared to Calendly and you’ll see it’s light years ahead and you can self-host with 1 click. Look at Twenty, a CRM, and it’s so much less bloated then Salesforce. These are 2 examples of hundreds if not thousands and LLMs are trained on this open-source code already.

I’ve been following open-source alternatives long before AI and the biggest drawback was bad UI design, but AI makes that easier and now even more open-source alternatives are launching.

The incentives made this the obvious next step. SaaS are not something that continuously needs to made better, but them being publicly traded means they have to. So what do they do? They add more features that most customers don’t need, they put essential features behind a bigger paywall, they enshittify by adding ads or selling your data. As these SaaSes added more features and the configuration to boot, people were already learning to “program” but within their walled gardens. If you’re already learning how to configure these applications, how big of a step is no-code and now asking a terminal agent to build that one functionality you need?

Before AI became big, you could already see YC funding open-source alternatives to popular applications since they also saw this coming. Notice how they’ve slowed that down now because they know it will lead to their own demise.
by saas_yall | 2026-02-06 23:07:29+00:00
SAAS was always dubious anyway, for every SAAS a companies team implements you end up with an "integration engineer" to bring the data back into a "data lake" from the "data silo" buying the SAAS caused - and then you just wonder "why didn't we just build this"? Then AI I made completing "20% happy path" so easy you ask "really why didn't we just build this - what's 2k more lines in our monolith between existing engineers"?

Used to take a few days, 90% was never that hard, now it takes half a day or so.
by red75prime | 2026-02-06 23:07:36+00:00
> Waymo had no choice but to solve the expensive problem of "Always Available and Safe"

And it's still not clear whether they are using a fallback driving stack for a situation where one of non-essential (i.e. non-camera (1)) sensors is degraded. I haven't seen Waymo clearly stating capabilities of their self-driving stack in this regard.

(1) You can't drive in a city if you can't see the light emitted by traffic lights, which neither lidar nor radar can do.
by 9x39 | 2026-02-06 23:08:03+00:00
Well, there's power of attorney, which centralizes massive authority over your life with someone else, and yet people do so because when you pick right, it's a useful system.

I'm trying to think of how this survives friends (who come and go in your life) having to coordinate. Then again, some people really did have PGP key signing parties...
by dmitrygr | 2026-02-06 23:08:04+00:00
Any real estate agent will tell you what people actually want. Ask one who's been around for a while, in an unofficial setting over drinks. Ask what questions people ask. Ask what they follow up on. Really dig into it. You'll realize that while nobody likes commuting, a commute is the price one pays for those other things people want that you'll hear about over those drinks. It'll give you a lot to think about, i promise.
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-02-06 23:08:40+00:00
Most software is just middlemen collecting money. Thats the reason why there is no economic drastic growth even with 2-3 years of AI.

What you’re worrying about is just bigger middlemen.

If you were not a value extracting middleman there would be no fear of replacement, because you can always create more than what you take.

I’m glad if this causes a shift in the industry and we lose x analysts, x architects, x scientists, data engineers and all other formulaic middlemen that just live in a weird middlemen economy.

It is immense luck that we don’t have to actually produce something and we get paid but it is much better if we’re forced to actually do something that isn’t empty.