MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reissbaker | 2026-01-30 22:40:07+00:00
Yes yes I'm familiar with the tweet. Nonetheless they drop frames all the time and flicker frequently. The tweet itself is ridiculous when counterpoints like Vim exist, which is much higher performance with much greater complexity. They don't even write much of what the tweet is claiming. They just use Ink, which is an open-source rendering lib on top of Yoga, which is an open-source Flexbox implementation from Meta.
by appsoftware | 2026-01-30 22:40:52+00:00
I like obsidian, but use Logseq day-to-day. I find it pretty easy to dump information without too much work due to the block / indenting structure. Retrieval isn't too bad, because you navigate to the wikilink you need, and everything is under it (I do sometimes swear I used a specific wiki link and then find I used something else, and have to dig for information).

Something that did work well recently, was creating a node script to gather all text under a given wiki link and copy to a doc with some formatting modifications, and then feed the document to an LLM for consolidation and a summary of everything I have recorded for a given subject.
by joveian | 2026-01-30 22:41:30+00:00
Here is a case study and discussion from a parathyroid surgeon:

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...

"There are people out there doing just fine on 5000 units of Vitamin D daily. I only see the ones who develop high calcium levels. But I see enough of them to know that this is not an exceptionally rare occurrence. I have been to lectures in which physicians have claimed that Vitamin D toxicity almost never occurs. In my experience, this is false. I have seen many cases of Vitamin D toxicity in people who were taking the recommended dose from an over-the-counter bottle.

Unfortunately, none of those patients were warned about the potential for Vitamin D to cause high calcium. They all believed that they were taking a supplement to improve health and that there was very little risk. Supplements don’t require prescriptions, and most do not have the warning labels that accompany medications. For Vitamin D, a steroid hormone, that may need to change."
by esperent | 2026-01-30 22:42:09+00:00
Well we did put down roots after a few years, or at least we have for for a while (me and my partner). We'll probably get the travel bug again.

We don't have or want children but I do know people who do this with families. There's an amazing community called world schooling where people travel and arrange a month in some beautiful place around the world with other families. They'll organize teachers and activities for children and make friends with the other parents.

I've met quite a few of them - the immediate assumption people will jump to is that they must be rich. But that's not the case, they're just normal people who love to travel and have jobs that can facilitate that. And the children I've met seem happy and well adjusted.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-30 22:43:06+00:00
This is an oversimplification IMO. There are higher order effects on the price of gold that makes it not directly related to the value of the dollar.

I'm pointing this out because I have seen a lot of sentiment recently about how the dollar is crashing, just look at the price of gold. Yes, the dollar is decreasing in value faster than usual, but it also isn't crashing in the way that gold is spiking.

This sentiment I think drives speculative gold demand, from standard speculative investing FOMO as well as from emotionally driven inflation fear well beyond what is realistic. The same thing happens to the stock market.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-30 22:44:23+00:00
Steve is quite clear in his posts on Gas Town how seriously he expects you to take it, how much he thinks it represents the real world we live in.

This post is trying to talk to the real world.

I see a ton of truth & reality in this post. This post does what I love from Yegge, it points to calibrate by. I think it incredibly insightfully ascertains a very real shift in sellable software value that is underway, now that far more people suddenly can talk to computers.
by blueprint | 2026-01-30 22:44:56+00:00
no, you missed some of my sentences. you have to take the whole picture together.
and I was not making an argument to you to prove the existence of the truth. You are clearly bent on arguing against its existence, which tells me enough about you.
We were talking about agents that operate in good faith that know that they are safe.
When you're ready to have a discussion in good faith rather than attempting to find counterarguments, then you will find that what I said is verifiable. The question is not whether you think you can come up with a way to make an argument that sounds like it contradicts what I said.

The question is not whether an AGI knows that it is an AGI. The question is whether it knows that it is not one.
And you're missing the fact that there's no such thing as it here.

If you go around acting hostile to good people that's still not very intelligent.
In fact, I would question if you have any concept of why you're doing it at all.
chances are you're doing it to run from yourself not because you know what you're doing.

Anyway, you're just speculating and the fact of the matter is that you don't have to speculate.
If you actually wanted to verify what I said, it would be very easy to do so.
it's not a surprise that someone who doesn't want to know something will have deaf ears.
so I'm not going to pretend that I stand a chance of convincing you when I already know that my argument is accurate.

don't be so sure that you meet the criteria for AGI.
Show HN: TabChop a truly painless way to split a tab
by mishang | 2026-01-30 22:45:09+00:00
We built TabChop because splitting a bill still feels weirdly painful. Someone downloads an app, the receipt scan is off, the UI is clunky, and half the table gives up.

After one too many dinners where the “solution” turned into unresolved requests and Venmo chaos, we wanted something that simply worked.

TabChop starts with the receipt. Take a picture, share a short code, and everyone claims what they ordered. You can watch the receipt update live as people grab their items in real time, so there’s no “who got what?” confusion.

We also store each person’s Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle info, so when the split is done it’s one click to pay. No awkward questions about who to pay or how much.

The goal is simple. No friction, no math, no awkwardness. Just a painless way to split a tab.
by tadfisher | 2026-01-30 22:45:14+00:00
Paradox-of-choice issues are overblown. Every Linux distro is a repackaging of the same core components and same software. The PC is standardized for the most part, there is not much commodity hardware that lacks support, and the popular hardware that needs particular support (Nvidia drivers) is catered to by any popular distro out there.

Users are mostly afraid of wasting time trying Linux (any Linux) and having to go back to Windows for reason X, Y, or Z that they didn't even know about. For my partner who doesn't game, reason Z is one particular feature of Microsoft Word (the shrinkwrap application, not 365 Copilot App or whatever) that isn't emulated by LibreOffice or Google Docs. For competitive PC gamers, it's kernel anti-cheat. The Linux desktop story in general has been to slowly whittle down these reasons until there really is no good excuse for users not to switch and for vendors not to support the OS, even through compatibility layers.
by smeej | 2026-01-30 22:45:32+00:00
Do you ever use them cross-generationally? I had a friend a dozen years my junior stop talking to me because I used a winking face when I wanted to make it clear I was kidding and he thought I was flirting with him. Never mind that we'd been friends for years and there had never, ever been a hint of interest between us. He insisted I should have known that's what it "always" means, never mind that I was using emoticons in AIM when he was in diapers.
by its_ethan | 2026-01-30 22:46:01+00:00
Well it's more like a currency than any other object because it has been used historically to either a) be the currency, or b) back the currency. Sure that's not true today in the United States, but like, it's obviously different than frozen concentrated orange juice... can we not at least agree on that pretty tame assumption? Or is this just some semantics race to non-meaning?

Iron ore is similar physically, but it's really just a raw input material/ingredient used for heavy industrial manufacturing and production, it's never been intended to be an appreciating asset/hedge against inflation.

I'm unfamiliar with whatever tax is being referred to in this specific comment thread, but I'd be curious how something like $SIVR is handled, considering it's backed by actual silver in vaults. That could lead to some unintended consequences if the investment plans of a lot of money suddenly changes how it's being allocated.
by vel0city | 2026-01-30 22:46:15+00:00
I have many times in my less than 40 years of life. Often things that had batteries left in then and forgotten about for a few years, and often with the cheap batteries something came with. Often with kids toys, TV remotes and rarely used flashlights. If you're the kind of person that takes batteries out when you put things away or you change the batteries somewhat soon after they die you likely never had any leak.

I have a Canon AE-1 that takes a 4LR44 to operate the light meter. When I got it the battery had deteriorated significantly, causing a lot of damage to the battery area. I had to remake the battery contacts cutting and soldering in new springs and pads as the corrosion had practically completely eaten the old ones. That was probably the most notable leak I've encountered. But the previous owners didn't even know there was a battery in it, so it likely had that battery in there for a decade or more.
by jkhdigital | 2026-01-30 22:46:27+00:00
People choose to hold non-yield-bearing assets when they believe the returns offered by current investment opportunities are not sufficient to justify the risks.

It is the miracle of modern capital markets that enables almost anyone to quickly and easily invest their savings in productive assets, but of course capital markets aren’t perfect. The availability of “none of the above” options (like gold) that remove savings from the pool of active investment capital is the essential feedback loop that balances risk and return.
by terribleperson | 2026-01-30 22:46:35+00:00
A real, actual doctor told my brother, who has a chronic headache disorder, to just keep taking OTC painkillers.

You very specifically should not do that; you'll develop a medication overuse headache and be worse off than you were.

It gets worse, though. I was able to ask them a few questions about their symptoms, compare them to entries in the International Classification of Headache Disorders, and narrow it down to, iirc, two likely possibilities.

One of them was treatable. The treatment works. They still have pain, but can do stuff.

An AI that makes stuff up and gets stuff wrong isn't any different from the doctors we already have, except you can afford to get a second opinion, and you have the time available to push back and ask questions.

Edit: to expound on quality of the doctor - diagnosis and proposing a treatment was the work of several hours for me, a layman. A doctor should have known the ICHD existed. They should have been able to, in several minutes, ask questions about symptoms, reference the ICHD to narrow down likely diagnoses, and then propose a treatment with a "come back if that doesn't help".
by repeekad | 2026-01-30 22:46:48+00:00
The primary differentiator for me is that bsky does not have a central algorithm, you only see content from people you follow or explicitly go looking for. Yes the "top today" overall feed is very left biased, but the default is an empty feed that you have to populate yourself.

You can't complain about content on bluesky because unlike every other platform you must choose which feeds you use.
by octorian | 2026-01-30 22:46:54+00:00
Do I hoard notes/links? Yes.

Do I struggle to turn them into actions? No.

Do I struggle to keep them organized for later reference? All the time.

Do I use Obsidian? No.

I actually use Joplin, which I switched to after deciding I needed to dump Evernote. And before then (and somewhat simultaneously with), I used a pile of disorganized text files (sometimes shared via DropBox).
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-30 22:46:57+00:00
I don't agree. The benefits of a business environment governed by due process and the rule of law far outweigh the benefits of individual government actors having arbitrary discretion to fill the gaps. As we've seen clearly on the federal level this past year, once you create that discretion, the common way for corporate executives to "prove" that they're nice and generous and deserve favorable treatment is not good behavior but open bribery of public officials.
by brailsafe | 2026-01-30 22:47:13+00:00
> microsoft teams, jira, servicenow, salesforce

Nobody wants to use those products either; they just exist because their default at a certain scale, or they're effectively free because they're included in your existing MS license.

For GIMP the comparison would be either Adobe stuff or what used to be Affinity products. Libreoffice is now competing maybe with MS Word but probably more often Google Docs or Markdown editors.

Old blender used to have a very technical UI; a cacophony of dropdowns and small text that functioned but was quite overwhelming. Meanwhile things like SketchUp became popular because they weren't as powerful necessarily, but were very welcoming, and that's hard to do with a complex offering.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-30 22:47:45+00:00
I've seen sites that use unexpected HTTP response codes, I think to try to defeat bots. The front page would return a 503 Service Unavailable, but the body was just normal content that would load a bot detection script and then redirect you to the actual content.

I successfully wrote a bot that would bypass it all, but it was weird, and became a slight challenge since I couldn't rely on response codes to determine if I succeeded. When I solved the challenge, it would return a 400 Bad Request while serving me the content I was looking for.
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-30 22:47:45+00:00
This is my take as well.

He spends a lot of words talking about how saving cognition is equivalent to saving resources, but seems to gloss over that saving money is also saving resources.

Given the token/$ exchange rates is likely only going to get better for actual money over time...

If his predictions come true it seems clear that if your software isn't free, it won't get used. Nothing introduces friction like having to open up a wallet and pay. It's somewhat telling that all of his examples of things that will survive don't cost money - although I don't think it's the argument he meant to be making given the "hope-ium" style argument he's pushing.

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Arguably, this is good long term. I personally think SaaS style recurring subscriptions are out of control, and most times a bad deal. But I also think it leaves a spot where I'm not sure what sort of career will exist in this space.
by 6stringmerc | 2026-01-30 22:47:55+00:00
“But I also handle client credentials, access sensitive platforms, and can’t afford to be the next case study in a security blog.”

No vibe coded product would pass reasonable product liability insurance evaluation in the current state of tech and this makes me laugh. Stellar article! Very impressed with the comparison of leaky great idea versus superior knock off. Evolution via mimicry!
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-30 22:48:43+00:00
I think we still have the same blocker as we had back when WebTorrent first appeared; browsers cannot be real torrent clients and open connections without some initial routing for the discovery, and they cannot open bi-directional unordered connections between two browsers.

If we could say do peer discovery via Bluetooth, and open sockets directly from a browser page, we could in theory have local-first websites running in the browser, that does P2P connections straight between browsers and computers.
by kajecounterhack | 2026-01-30 22:49:02+00:00
It has utility though: unlike the dollars in your mattress, it can't be printed into oblivion by your central bank. It is relatively portable, and people have flocked to it as a store of value especially during periods of socioeconomic instability when assets are going down and gov't spending is going up. It's tradeable for fiat in any country, so it allows you to bring value along if you relocate.

Its price reflects that utility and like any modern asset, a lot of speculation. You can speculate on whether it's more or less useful given current events -- nothing wrong with speculating that it is only going to be increasingly useful.
by chaosharmonic | 2026-01-30 22:49:14+00:00
I'd say it's more that when I hoard links, a small slice of them end up becoming useful reference knowledge long-term.

Though I don't really have a system for storing them effectively as of yet, and as someone with a strong preference for open source on my critical workflows, I never got on the Obsidian train myself. Current experiment is Silverbullet.md, because I do very much like raw Markdown and file-based notes, but that's different from having a meaningfully fleshed-out setup haha
by iainctduncan | 2026-01-30 22:49:20+00:00
"If you believe the AI researchers–who have been spot-on accurate for literally"

I do not understand what has happened to him here... there was an entire "AI winter" in the 90's to 2000's because of how wrong researchers were. Has he gone completely delusional? My PhD supervisor has been in AI for 30 years and talks about how it was impossible to get any grant money then because of catastrophically wrong predictions had been.

Like, honest question. I know he's super smart, but this reads like the kind of ramblings you get from religious zealots or scientologists, just complete revisions of known, documented history, and bizarre beliefs in the inevitably of their vision.

It really makes me wonder what such heavy LLM coding use does to one's brain. Is this going to be like the 90's crack wave?
by ai-christianson | 2026-01-30 22:49:25+00:00
We went down the WASM sandboxing rabbit hole at Gobii when building our agent infra. The pitch is appealing until you realize the tradeoff: you either accept a limited environment with reimplemented tools, or you emulate your way back to a full Linux system (like agentvm does at 173MB) and wonder why you didn't just start with gvisor or Firecracker.

We landed on gvisor in k8s. Our agents run headless Chromium for browser automation, ffmpeg for media processing, yt-dlp, ripgrep, fzf - real tools that would be a nightmare to port or reimplement. Actual Linux with the full ecosystem, solid isolation, no emulation overhead.

Interesting project though - the capability-based tool validation layer seems useful regardless of what's running underneath.
by SLWW | 2026-01-30 22:49:27+00:00
Just a suggestion lukev, maybe you've been isolated for too long if you think a userbase of a site reflects the same opinions and thoughts of the owner.

I know it's cool to be mentally ill in [current year] and people who share your sentiments are totally righteous, without blemish or stain, but the rest of us who don't watch FOX or CNN all day live on a different planet then you.

BlueSky is full of the most degenerate, insane, hateful (not that it matters all that much) people I think I've ever found on a social media platform. What is extremist on X is the norm on BS, just in the opposite direction.

This isn't even to defend Elon's platform, I only use it for memes, but you all really need to relax with the rhetoric and all this "othering" going on. It's the sickness of the soul on full display.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-30 22:49:35+00:00
It shouldn't be an out of pocket cost unless the fire department isn't publicly funded.

This is what taxes are for. You pay your locality tax, you get service from the fire department. If some plot of land within city limits doesn't have infrastructure for firefighting, that's the city's problem. If a plot of land can't be serviced by firefighters, it shouldn't be zoned and permitted for residential construction.
by crote | 2026-01-30 22:49:35+00:00
Some complexity is of course an inherent part of the domain, and you can never truly get around it. At best you can stick to sensible defaults for the basic user and initially hide the most complicated parts until they are needed.

On the other hand: there is no reason whatsoever something as trivial as drawing a circle has to be as complicated as launching a rocket in GIMP. It certainly doesn't lack the technological scaffolding, and UX-wise people would already be ecstatic if they just cloned how 30-year-old version of Microsoft Paint did it. So why doesn't it have a Circle Tool yet, despite the massive amount of requests for it? The only possible explanation left seems to be an active disdain towards basic non-technical people: the UI is hard to use because they want it to be hard to use.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-30 22:50:01+00:00
"Incoherent" is a convenient label for "I lack the interdisciplinary bandwidth to synthesize Differential Geometry with Computational Complexity."

Let's be precise about what you are calling incoherent:

1. The Formal Verification:
I didn't just write a paper; I formalized the proof in Lean 4. The repo is linked. The Lean kernel is not a literary critic; it is a logic gate. If the code compiles (which it does), the logic is consistent. Are you arguing with me, or are you arguing with the Theorem Prover?

2. The Wolfram Comparison (The Red Team):
Since you are here for Wolfram, let's Red Team the difference:

Wolfram's Approach (Ruliology): He brute-forced an enumeration of Turing Machines and found "Isolates" (machines that act weird). He observed complexity. He admits he has no formal proof.

My Approach (Spectral Geometry): I derived the Causality of those isolates.

Wolfram sees a "slow machine."

I prove that the machine is slow because the Spectral Gap of the Witten-Laplacian collapses exponentially ($Gap \sim e^{-n}$) due to a Homological Obstruction in the solution manifold.

The Verdict:
Wolfram found the "Fossil." I found the "Meteor."

If you cannot see the bridge between Topology (The Shape) and Complexity (The Cost), that is not a failure of coherence in the work. It is a failure of resolution in your reading.

lake build the repo before you comment on coherence.
by SJMG | 2026-01-30 22:50:03+00:00
The conclusion of the paper doesn't say that "most sucked using AI". It's says the mean quiz score was both significantly and sizably lower in the intervention group vs the control. No significant difference detected on speed.

The qualitative breakdown says how you use AI matters for understanding. It doesn't say some learned more than the control group and even if it did, it's not powered to show a statistical difference which is one of the only things keeping a study from not being another anecdote on the internet.

For the sake of argument let's say there is an individual in the treatment arm who scored higher than the highest control participant. What some want that to mean is, "Some engineers perform better using AI". It does not say that. That could be an objective fact(!), it doesn't matter. This study will not support it; it's an RCT. What if that programmer is just naturally gifted or lucky(!). This is the point of statistics.

The best you can do with outliers is say "AI usage didn't hinder some from attaining a high score" (again maybe it would have been higher w/o you just can't reason about individuals in a study like this).

I hope this helps.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-30 22:50:21+00:00
I understand the different domains quite well. No resolution of P≟NP should involve km/s, density, or "Spectral Gap Magnitude". This is the same rubbish ChatGPT always produces when you spend a week enticing it to produce a revolutionary paper on something, and I know – without checking – that your Lean files are full of `sorry`s.