2026-09-23
42 signals reviewed · 1 high-signal · 1 themes
Themes
Bulk Physical Media Acquisition for AI Training Data
21 ★ new
AI companies are spending massively on logistics to physically acquire and ship non-English books for training data, indicating a gap for high-quality, digitized, multilingual datasets.
1 signals · 1 voices · max 21
"a group company of this major Japanese book distributor exported more than 50 tons of "JAPANESE BOOKS" to the US since last year."
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All Signals (42)
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| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | a group company of this major Japanese book distributor exported more than 50 tons of "JAPANESE BOOKS" to the US since last year. | 21 | Bulk Physical Media Acquisition for AI Training Data |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | I literally had to write a script to boot people... | 10 | — |
| (comment) | hackernews | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | we even built new tools to allow an AI agent to analyze memory usage in more depth, and instructions on how to benchmark in cloud environments | 10 | — |
| I made a social media site | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | i did cobble together a social media site using lovable and claude | 9 | — |
| Ask HN: What job boards are good these days? | hackernews | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | what job sites are up and coming? | 8 | — |
| Blocklist Whitelist Anything on YouTube or YT Kids | hackernews | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | One parent asked me if I can do something as a programmer as his kid is kept crying and he said he is helpless | 7 | — |
| Ask HN: Declarative vs. Imperative | hackernews | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | I would from time to time create one if it made the solution at hand more robust. | 7 | — |
| Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp? | hackernews | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | I sometimes foolishly try to debug errors or implement a feature myself. | 6 | — |
| Ask HN: Will software still matter when AI write all our programs? | hackernews | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | if you let something like Astra 6 or Fable run with $10 million worth of tokens, how close could we get | 6 | — |
| Reflections on object oriented design patterns (2026) | hackernews | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | I decided to pull out my hardcopy of Design Patterns which my mentor had me learn back in the day. | 6 | — |
| Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately? | hackernews | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | You'll need showdead turned on in your settings to see the examples. | 5 | — |
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| Accident: JSX E145 Houston 2024, gear collapse and runway excursion on landing | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | — |
| Not reading the code cannot become the new norm | hackernews | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | 3 | — |
| Ask HN: Why is there so much hype around Jev ? | hackernews | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | — |
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| Ask HN: What do people do with Android phones once security updates end? | hackernews | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | — |