MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2026-01-20 02:19:11+00:00
The choice of Braille is very clever. I once failed a typography class for using Braille in a final design project that was supposed to create a sequence of images representing a visual story out of pure typography. This followed a 30 minute long argument with the professor during critique in which he asserted that Braille was not type. I countered that it was. It's charming to see it employed in this way.
by sdwr | 2026-01-20 02:19:36+00:00
Great article! It does a good job of outlining the mechanics and implications of LLM prediction. It gets lost in the sauce in the alignment section though, where it suggests the Anthropic paper is about LLMs "pretending" to be future AIs. It's clear from the quoted text that the paper is about aligning the (then-)current, relatively capable model through training, as preparation for more capable models in the future.
by 9JollyOtter | 2026-01-20 02:20:10+00:00
This is true for quite a number of brands of vehicles. Also I don't understand what a modern Porsche is. Porsche to me was always a Rear Engined, (normally) RWD sports car i.e. the 911. I am personally on the look for a 944 (believe it or not they are cheaper than JDM cars of a similar vintage).

When I see a Porsche SUV, to me that isn't a Porsche. It looks like any other SUV on the road with Porsche badge on it. It akin to someone putting a Apple Sticker over Dell Logo on their laptop.

The same happens when you see a Bentley or Rolls Royce SUV.

> They put their marque behind EV and Hybrid. It worked. Their brand sold well.

They are losing money. Sales are down and they are planning to move back to ICE and are postponing or cancelling EV projects.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/porsche-loses-1-1-billion-220...
by kulahan | 2026-01-20 02:20:42+00:00
In terms of features I see on high end cars… (no clue if these are available in Chinese cars, just to help you get an idea of what exists)

1. Backup camera with lines that move as you turn the wheel

2. Camera setup that lets you see how close you are to curbs, other cars, etc. from a plethora of unexpected angles (you can get a top-down view of your car! Pretty cool.)

3. Automatic parking when parallel parking

4. “Reverse actions” feature, where you press a button after very carefully getting into a spot, and the car replays it in reverse to get you out of said spot

5. Lots of remote features tied to an app. The ability to look through cameras, auto-record videos when people get close, lock and unlock and view status of the car. Remote tracking via GPS in case it’s stolen.

6. Turn on your turn signal, your dash changes to a live video feed of that side of the car

7. Chairs with heating and cooling, massaging, and auto-inertia-damping features

8. Bluetooth and Apple CarPlay plus Android auto

9. Road-scanning cameras which adjust suspension live based on upcoming road conditions

10. Crash preparation features like Benz’s Pink Noise or auto-recording a minute of video to assist with crash investigations

There are probably may I’m forgetting.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-20 02:20:56+00:00
I’d agree that the engineering was brilliant (but 68882 gang represent!). Its ISA was so un-x86-like, though, as it was basically an RPN calculator. X86 had devs manipulating registers. X87 had them pushing operands and running ops that implicitly popped them and pushed the result back on the stack.

That’s not better or worse, just different. However, I can imagine devs of the days saying hey, uh, Intel, can we do math the same way we do everything else? (Which TBH is how you’d end up with an opcode for a hardware-accelerated bubble sort or something, because Intel sure does love them some baroque ISAs.)
by xtiansimon | 2026-01-20 02:21:16+00:00
Maths I’ve never heard of. Possible. Probable. And what you’re saying is the words “room” and “landscape” are _over coded_ to such an extent the natural logic of 3-d rooms and 2-d landscapes are easily overcome by scaffolds of mathematical instruction—such that the latter could be imagined as having *higher* dimensionality than the former, for example? Or whatever other idea orbiting those words counter to their nature. That’s very interesting.
by rayiner | 2026-01-20 02:22:15+00:00
It’s not at all clear the costs of running the empire were outweighed by the benefits: https://iea.org.uk/media/empire-and-slavery-did-not-make-bri...

“The book highlights that most of Britain’s economic growth in the imperial period did not come from its colonies. Trade only accounted for about a quarter of economic output, and most of that trade was with Western Europe and North America — not the Empire. For that reason alone, the Empire cannot have been the decisive factor explaining domestic investment and later wealth.”
by e12e | 2026-01-20 02:22:21+00:00
Oh, wow. I thought the control flow from the readme was a little annoying with the prefix -notation for bigger/smaller than;

# Control flow
if (> x 0) {
(println "positive")
} else {
(println "negative or zero")
}

But that's nothing compared to the scream for a case/switch-statement in the Mandelbrot example...

# Gradient: " .:-=+*#%@"
let gradient: string = " .:-=+*#%@"
let gradient_len: int = 10
let idx: int = (/ (* iter gradient_len) max_iter)
if (>= idx gradient_len) {
return "@"
} else {
if (== idx 0) {
return " "
} else {
if (== idx 1) {
return "."
} else {
if (== idx 2) {
return ":"
} else {
if (== idx 3) {
return "-"
} else {
if (== idx 4) {
return "="
} else {
if (== idx 5) {
return "+"
} else {
if (== idx 6) {
return "*"
} else {
if (== idx 7) {
return "#"
} else {
if (== idx 8) {
return "%"
} else {
return "@"
}
}
by adventured | 2026-01-20 02:23:00+00:00
How about if China buys Greenland or otherwise acquires a massive port on Greenland. Maybe China builds one of the world's largest military bases on Greenland with a century deal.

China is going to end up being every bit as powerful as the US ever was, both economically and militarily. Nothing will be off the table in what's coming. Russia has never had a true global projection navy, China will have a navy that is plausibly going to be both larger and more powerful than the US navy with full global reach. That global reach will include the entire North and South American region.

If you're the US you look to lock down Greenland and Panama, for starters.
by antonymoose | 2026-01-20 02:23:34+00:00
If these candidates had some type of meaningful reach-out I would at least give them the time of day - but if you send me and 15 colleagues a generic, templates email in just comes off as lazy and a waste of our time. Considering our head of HR has to draft a memo on how to handle such candidates it truly morphed into a non-trivial situation for the firm.
by makingstuffs | 2026-01-20 02:23:46+00:00
That and the fact that money and media presence is essentially what wins elections. The only way we can really have democracy is with a truly informed populace and the only way people can make a truly informed vote without all the noise is to have anonymous voting. By which I mean you do not know which politician/party you are voting for, you just know the policies they have promised to enforce.

Further to that, there needs to be accountability. Right now, in the UK at least, governments are not held to account, at all. They get into office with grand promises of flying elephants and golden egg laying geese but obviously never follow through with said promises. The populace, ultimately, just shrugs it off with ‘politicians lie’ and continue complaining about it within their social circles.

Our political systems are fundamentally broken. We shouldn’t care if policies are from party A or party B. All that should matter is the content of the policy and whether it is ever actually materialised.

Right now we have a situation where people are manipulated left, right and centre into believing a given party’s absolute BS manifesto which they write under the full knowledge that not delivering will have very little impact on them as they’ve just had a substantial amount of time getting paid lucrative salaries to essentially argue with a bunch of other liars in a shouting match on tele.

Remove the football-esque fandom which applies to political parties by removing any ability to publicly affiliate any given person with said party and I’d bet we see different results across the bar. Remove all this absolute nonsense of politicians promoting their ideologies on TV/Twotter etc and you will remove a lot of the brainwashing which happens. Remove the most corrupt situation of all: private firms and individuals being able to fund political parties and you level the playing field.

Obviously this is a hard pill for many to swallow as no one likes to be told they’ve essentially been brainwashed into their thoughts and ego is everything in modern society.
by qingcharles | 2026-01-20 02:24:14+00:00
Reddit subs sometimes don't match the content you'd expect from their name (some are very hard to decode for outsiders, e.g. femcelgrippysockjail, gangstalking etc). Perhaps pics was once just pretty landscape photography, but what happens with Reddit is that a sub will start to focus on one type of content that the hivemind wants and then the sub will fracture. You have to go find r/lovelylandscapes if that is what you want. It'll be there somewhere. You landed in the wrong sub.
by jrs235 | 2026-01-20 02:24:33+00:00
Been saying this for almost two decades. State governments no longer have a direct seat and representation at the table. Federal mandates (coercion) like enforce this or don't get funds would never, or at least rarely, happen. It's also the only nonviolent way to dissolve the union, intentionally or through strangulation (state legislatures refusing to elect and seat senators, if a majority of them do this then a quorum can't be reached and funding dies).
by Vetch | 2026-01-20 02:24:40+00:00
I'm not sure that's the fully right mental model to use. They're not searching randomly with unbounded compute nor selecting from arbitrary strategies in this example. They are both using LLMs and likely the same ones, so will likely uncover overlapping possible solutions. Avoiding that depends on exploring more of the tail of the highly correlated to possibly identical distributions.

It's a subtle difference from what you said in that it's not like everything has to go right in a sequence for the defensive side, defenders just have to hope they committed enough into searching such that the offensive side has a significantly lowered chance of finding solutions they did not. Both the attackers and defenders are attacking a target program and sampling the same distribution for attacks, it's just that the defender is also iterating on patching any found exploits until their budget is exhausted.
by thesmtsolver2 | 2026-01-20 02:25:07+00:00
The comment I responded to didn't have any data. You don't have any data, not for the US and not for any imaginary country that is better than the US at holding police accountable.

> police commit crimes at a rate of 0.0001 per capita. That's absurd

Once again, Care to share comparative data with other countries? I will.

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?para...

There is no utopia, all developed countries are more-or-less the same here.

> elucidate your opinion in the future please, if it wasn't your intent, well, next time just please don't post

Thanks for the high-brow discussion and critical thinking that HN is famous for lol.

You posted a comment without critical thinking or data and ended with a personal. Great job on the privileged angry thinking!
by mothballed | 2026-01-20 02:25:44+00:00
He wasn't removed to a third country. He was removed to his home country, illegally, as he had a court order for deportation but per his own request he left open only deportation to a third country because he was granted his petition to bar deportation to El Salvador after his asylum claim failed.

Had he had been shoved out of a C-130 and parachuted into South Sudan, we'd never even be hearing of the guy because that would have been allowed and been in compliance with the deportation order as well as the order blocking deportation to the one country they deported him to.
by moomoo11 | 2026-01-20 02:25:54+00:00
I used to really be into cars up to a few years ago.

These days, I think it is just far better to do without a car. I like being very local, and if I really need to go somewhere outside my city (SF) I'll just not lol.

I'll take a flight to visit my parents or my closest friends. Everyone else, we can just meet online.

I have no friends in SF, so I'm just sorta dissolved into the neighborhood. When I did have a car, I'd go on long drives but looking back that was just a waste of time. Maybe I'll drive again when I've "made it" but until then, gimme some Brooks lol.
by galleywest200 | 2026-01-20 02:28:20+00:00
My rule for 2026 is to limit short-form media. No Twitter/X, no Bluesky, no Mastodon, no Instagram, no TikTok. If it is designed to be short-form (limited characters, quick videos) then it is not for me in 2026.

I had already avoided short-form video but I added short-form text this year.
by spankalee | 2026-01-20 02:28:21+00:00
You still get minimal DOM updates crossing shadow boundaries. This is true fact.

React's vdom without shadow DOM passes props to components, which all return one big vdom tree, and then there's one big reconciliation. React used with shadow DOM evaluates smaller vdom trees per shadow root, and does more, but smaller reconciliations. It's the same O(n) work.

But in reality it's often much _better_ with shadow roots because the common WC base classes like Lit's ReactiveElement all do change detection on a per-property basis. So you only regenerate vdom trees for components with changed props, and with slots that doesn't include children. So if children of a component change, but props don't, the component doesn't need to re-render. You can do something similar by hand with memo, but that doesn't handle children separately. The compiler will, of course, fix everything.

Every other reactivity system works fine across shadow boundaries. Even the super-fine grained ones like Solid. The only issue with signals-based libraries like Solid is that they pass signals around instead of values, so to get true no-re-rendering behavior with web components you have to do that to, which means picking a signals library, which means less interoperability. The TC39 signals proposal points to a future where you can do that interoperably too.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 02:28:24+00:00
I don't mind paying more for a European product, and as for the 'poor long term reliability': we don't know what the long term reliability of Chinese vehicles is yet.

Not that it really matters, my car is 27 years old this year and I won't be getting another one but that has to do with wanting a car that is doing what I want it to do rather than what it wants to do.
by phs318u | 2026-01-20 02:28:44+00:00
You're thinking too narrowly. It's not just about mutual trade. It's the fact that US companies have firmly planted the flag almost everywhere on earth - a feat only possible through the Pax Americana. If you want to see what the world will look like for the USA when it can rely on no allies to support its military misadventures, when it can rely on no favourable treatment from allies for its corporations, when it sees its former allies forming deals with former enemies, and when the cost of losing the US dollar's primacy as the reserve currency for world trade hits your country in its ability to raise (and service) debt - just wait. That world is slowly coming.
by xp84 | 2026-01-20 02:29:41+00:00
https://x.com/scottbuscemi/status/2013397238568099843?s=20

last item here seems to indicate that the OP tweet is a (bad faith?) overly broad reading. The "in accordance with our privacy policy" link part is showing right there in that original tweet, and doesn't seem to have been checked.

I know a lot of people think Musk is simply a mustachio-twirling comic book villain so there's not a lot of critical thinking ever applied to this sort of story, but even still, he'd have to be an order of magnitude dumber than buying Twitter, to think they could just train on all browsing data and that people would be chill about it.
by defrost | 2026-01-20 02:29:53+00:00
There are many systems, the Australian Federation of independent States adopted a "Washminster" system based on both the UK Westminster system and the USofA Washington system.

Popular election of senators in the senate / upper house hasn't been a disaster there.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate

Australia also has political weightings wrt various regions populations.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-20 02:29:53+00:00
That won't cause implementations to be fixed. The implementations in question are in devices that are old (DNS is over 40 years old) and will never be upgraded. Affected users will just choose a different DNS resolver. Pretty soon word will get around that "if you don't want a broken device, don't use CloudFlare for DNS". It's less hassle for CloudFlare to just maintain the existing de-facto standard.
by brianwawok | 2026-01-20 02:30:40+00:00
Kind of, but also it’s complicated. For example, Chicago is blue blue blue. 500 miles in every direction outside the city is red. 90% of the area of Illinois is red. But Chicago is so much more massive that Illinois votes blue in the end. So what the heck region is Chicago in, and the red part of IL?

I don’t know CA well but I know it’s blue with very deep red pockets.
by thesmtsolver2 | 2026-01-20 02:30:47+00:00
Suddenly most of the world doesn't care about human rights?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Brazil_working_conditions_...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/10/human-rights-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v5n7w55kpo
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 02:31:31+00:00
The (potential, no experience) quality issues are to me far outweighed by the enabling of yet another country to become a superpower which will then sooner or later result in yet another confrontation. Russia should have taught at least Europe that this sort of trade can only backfire in the longer term. Yes, I realize, China is the world's factory now, but there is no reason that can not change. I'm trying really hard to buy European made products and to use European services where possible. There are still a couple of hard nuts to crack but I'll get there.
by loeg | 2026-01-20 02:32:46+00:00
About 2/3 of these are BEVs and the other 1/3 are PHEVs:

> In 2025, 34.4 per cent of Porsche cars delivered worldwide were electrified (+7.4 percentage points), with 22.2 per cent being fully electric and 12.1 per cent being plug-in hybrids.
by geoka9 | 2026-01-20 02:33:44+00:00
> If the U.S. obtained such a special benefit, it should have grown faster than western europe from 1950 to 1990

Not necessarily; the US could have extracted that benefit by staying ahead of the rest of the world in terms of its citizens' wealth, with all the benefits this entails.

We can't know the "what-if" (would the US have become even richer by being an isolationist MAGA dreamland), but we know for a fact that the world order was created and maintained by the US, so it must have had its benefits all this time.
by bashook | 2026-01-20 02:34:17+00:00
I was even more surprised to see that the RFC draft had original text from the author dating back to 2015.
https://github.com/ableyjoe/draft-jabley-dnsop-ordered-answe...

We used to say at work that the best way to get promoted was to be the programmer that introduced the bug into production and then fix it. Crazy if true here...
by qiqitori | 2026-01-20 02:34:39+00:00
Watched it! I know it's from a US perspective, but where I live (Japan), $42000 is quite a lot! Definitely premium car territory. (E.g., Lexus RX base model)

IMO the car has a lot of bells and whistles that many drivers (probably!) don't really care about. But I guess car fans like this kind of stuff. The active noise cancelling feature might be nice, but wouldn't be surprised if we see regulation on that matter at some point. You kind of need to be alert of your surroundings, etc.
by atarvaneitor | 2026-01-20 02:35:08+00:00
It was impossible to do this through the app (a website opened from the app XD) or the website.

When creating the ticket,a chat opens and a warning appeared: "By continuing, you agree that your data will be used to train AI models. See the Privacy Policy for how to opt out."

Does this mean it's impossible to get support if I don't want AI?

After disgustingly evading Grok's support AI, was it possible to open the ticket to disable data sharing for AI training and therefore cancel future support? XD
by antonymoose | 2026-01-20 02:35:14+00:00
Good friend and former colleague has 100% disability and coarsely brags about it.

He has no combat deployments. He has a home gym, rolls BJJ 6 days a week. Has a government (tax payer) paid Bachelor’s and Master’s in Comp. Sci. and makes 6-figures working as a civilian DOD employee.

So I’m not sure in what meaningful sense of the term he’s “100% disabled” but he’s enjoying his salary so good for him?
by jacquesm | 2026-01-20 02:35:52+00:00
After the Israeli attack using pagers I think this is no longer paranoid at all.

The same goes for Chinese built cloud connected hardware, especially if it is grid connected, contains heater elements or batteries. Inverters, solar panels, vehicles, 3D printers, the list is endless and all of these are either potential fire starters or ways to destabilize the grid. Used maliciously the potential for misery is pretty large. All this crap that wants to connect to the cloud from a country where your average citizen has very limited access to the internet should give you pause: if the Chinese government thinks these connections are A-ok then they must see some advantage, especially if all the services are supposedly free of charge.
by sieep | 2026-01-20 02:36:06+00:00
Honestly, it was fun ride HN but the never ending AI blog spam & advertising is 'gumming the works'.

The writing is on the wall that AI will continue to dominate discussion on here for the forseeable future (yawn...)

Its time for me to move to a space where the AI bros are not, wherever that may be. I hope to see some of you there!
by wat10000 | 2026-01-20 02:36:08+00:00
LLMs produce good output and bad output. The trick is figuring out which is which. They excel at tasks where good output is easily distinguished. For example, I've had a lot of success with making small reproducers for bugs. I see weird behavior A coming from giant pile of code B, figure out how to trigger A in a small example. It can often do so, and when it gets it wrong it's easy to detect because its example doesn't actually do A. The people sending useless bug reports aren't checking for good output.
by noduerme | 2026-01-20 02:36:30+00:00
I didn't realize that, haven't thought about ASCII/ANSI art since the 90s, but the concept of using it for subcharacter animation is clever. Cheers.

[edit] Odd question. I have relatives in the Bay Area who I think spelled their name Wolfe. Their patriarch was named Eliot and survived Auschwitz. Any relation?
by makilan | 2026-01-20 02:36:51+00:00
Hi HN! I built NATS Console, an open-source web-based management UI for NATS JetStream. It lets you manage streams and consumers, browse messages, view real-time metrics, and monitor multiple clusters from a single dashboard.

Feedback and contributions welcome!

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by FrostKiwi | 2026-01-20 02:37:09+00:00
XUASTC was just released, allowing for all ASTC Block sizes to be used on the web, once support lands in the big web 3D libraries like Three.js [1].

To me, this is huge. Relying on pre-calculated lighting when building stuff like [2], I constantly fight for VRAM, as older iPhones have very strict limits. XUASTC brings the all the remaining modern GPU compression schemes to the web in a standardized manner.

[1] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js
[2] https://mymachine.dmgmori.com/