MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keiferski | 2026-01-26 15:15:05+00:00
One of the reasons modern sci-fi films (e.g., Blade Runner 2049) seem so flat to me is because of the costumes. They're always too minimal and too forgettable. There's really nothing special about the fashion in that movie.

Compare that to the hyper-maximalist 80s movie outfits. The original Blade Runner has more creativity in one outfit than pretty much the entirety of the sequel.

I wonder why that is. My guess is that it's just a symptom of the same thing that causes everyone to stop buying colorful cars, and instead default to a grayscale one: fear that being too outlandish or creative will turn off potential customers/viewers.
by nutjob2 | 2026-01-26 15:15:07+00:00
ICE are just Trump's goons used to rough up blue states.

Their tools are fear, teargas, capsicum spray, false arrest, kidnap and murder.

The fact that the feds won't allow access to evidence and actively destroy it and ICE refuse to allow people to help those shot is tantamount to a confession on the spectrum of guilty behavior.
by ndarray | 2026-01-26 15:15:51+00:00
> participants had a robotic arm tap the index finger of their real and fake hands, either at the exact same time or with a delay of up to 500 milliseconds between each tap. (...) Those with faster alpha waves appeared to rule out fake hands even with a tiny gap in taps, while those with slower waves were more likely to feel the fake hand as their own, even if the taps were farther apart.

That's the limit of "you"? Sounds more like a sampling rate/processing speed of the sense of touch.
by blacklion | 2026-01-26 15:16:20+00:00
It was known among MTB riders who ride at night sometimes: typical XM-L T6 Chinese headlights were unusable in the forest when you move fast. Good diodes (like Nichia 219B) worked. And XM-L was dominant even in very expensive «brandnamed» lights for many years (you could buy Aliexpress headlight for $20, you could bu "Italian" lamp for $250, result is the same)

I'm not in this scene anymore for many years, but when I was, I built my one lamp from custom light engine (essentially round PCB with DC-DC current limiting schematics an LEDs) with 3x219B, Chinese body and CARCLO TIR Optics...

Good times.
by ed_blackburn | 2026-01-26 15:16:41+00:00
I think the creeping invasion of privacy argument is backwards here. What we have today isn’t privacy, it’s abdication. Platforms are externalising risk onto parents and pretending the internet is exempt from the safeguards we accept everywhere else.

Either the tech industry solves this, or governments will. That’s not ideology, it’s capitalism. If we don’t build workable, privacy-preserving primitives, regulation will arrive in the most blunt form possible.

There’s a reasonable middle ground. Identity can be a first-class citizen without being leaked to every website. I don’t need to hand over my name, address, or documents to prove I’m over 18. I need a yes/no assertion.

Imagine the browser exposing a capability like:

> “This site requires age verification. Are you over 18?”

The browser checks via a trusted third party credential and returns a boolean. No DOB. No tracking. No persistent identifier. Just a capability check, much closer to how physical ID works than today’s data-harvesting mess.

As a parent, I already police my kids as best I can, and it’s imperfect. But the offline world has friction and gates: bars check ID, cinemas enforce ratings, shops refuse sales. Those mitigations don’t make parents redundant; they support them.

Online, we’ve chosen to pretend none of that is possible. That’s not a principled privacy stance.

If we don’t design these primitives ourselves, we will get crude, insecure age databases, mandatory uploads of passports, or blanket bans instead. This is the least bad option, not a slippery slope. Collectively we have solved far harder problems.
by Bigpet | 2026-01-26 15:16:45+00:00
Shouldn't most comodity GPS receivers also be GLONASS compatible (I get that Galileo is more niche and might not be included).

Does the Sensor Apple uses not use GLONASS in Russia? Or is it cheapo Android Phones picking up the tag and then sending GPS coords into cloud?

edit: Nvm, I might be dumb, I guess unless your jamming includes all commodity GNSS it's pretty useless.
by pitched | 2026-01-26 15:16:57+00:00
I think we very often confuse engineers with scientists in this field. Think of the old joke: “anyone can build a bridge, it takes an Engineer to build one that barely stands”. Business value and the goal of engineering is to make a bridge that is fast to build, cheap to make, and stays standing exactly as long as it needs to. This is very different from the goals of science which are to test the absolute limits of known performance.

What I read from GP is that they’re looking for engineering innovation, not new science. I don’t see it as contradictory at all.
by reedf1 | 2026-01-26 15:16:59+00:00
Karpathy coined the term vibecoding 11 months ago (https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383). It caused quite a stir - because not only was it was a radically new concept, but fully agentic coding had only become recently possible. You've been vibe coding for two years??
by nicoburns | 2026-01-26 15:17:07+00:00
> Holy hell HN, downvoted to -4 in record time. Y'all don't like what's happening, but it's really happening.
>
> I'm not lying about this.
>
> I provided my background so you'd understand the context of my claims. I have a solid background in tech.

There are lots of people claiming this. Many of whom have a solid background. Every now and then I check out someone's claim (checking the code they've generated). I've yet to find an AI-generated codebase that passed that check so far.

Perhaps yours is the one that does, but as we can't see the code for ourselves, there's no way for us to really know. And it's hard to take your word for it when there are so many people falsely making the same claims.

I expect a lot of HNers have had this experience.
by koakuma-chan | 2026-01-26 15:17:16+00:00
> Holy hell HN, downvoted to -4 in record time. Y'all don't like what's happening, but it's really happening.

I gave you an upvote FWIW, after all, I mean, my job's codebase is already a buggy mess, so it doesn't hurt to throw AI on it, which is what I do.

> You might not need your employer anymore. If you can do sales and wear many hats, you'll do exceedingly well.

Wasn't this the case before AI as well?
by cbondurant | 2026-01-26 15:17:21+00:00
I was in the market for a vinyl cutter/knife plotter a while back, and the fact I use linux on everything was my main reason for avoiding Cricut. Ended up finding out theres an open source inkscape plugin that interfaces with the silhouette brand of knife plotters.

Not having to use the proprietary jank software is so nice, its a value-add over the cricut just to not have to use their software.
by avaer | 2026-01-26 15:18:42+00:00
Gemini 3 is the only model I've found that can reason spatially. The results here are accurate to my experiments with putting LLM NPCs in simulated worlds.

I was surprised that most VLLMs cannot reliably tell if a character is facing left or right, they will confidently lie no matter what you do (even gemini 3 cannot do it reliably). I guess it's just not in the training data.

That said Qwen3VL models are smaller/faster and better "spatially grounded" in pixel space, because pixel coordinates are encoded in the tokens. So you can use them for detecting things in the scene, and where they are (which you can project to 3d space if you are running a sim). But they are not good reasoning models so don't ask them to think.

That means the best pipeline I've found at the moment is to tack a dumb detection prepass on before your action reasoning. This basically turns 3d sims into 1d text sims operating on labels -- which is something that LLMs are good at.
by eurotechie | 2026-01-26 15:18:43+00:00
"With its updated internal design, the new AirTag is 50 percent louder than the previous generation, enabling users to hear their AirTag from up to 2x farther than before."

Curious about getting 2x the distance from 1.5x the "loudness", I would have thought the inverse? Maybe there is nuance to this though.
by ipaddr | 2026-01-26 15:18:46+00:00
Photographers use cameras so increasing cameras makes more photographers.

CNC saws use to take pencil draws as input and now they can handle files. People always made handmade furniture while CNCs existed.

Open source projects around a need will continue. Things like youtube downloader fills a need. But many projects were showing off what you as a developer can write to impress a community. Those are dead. Projects that showcased new coding styles or ways to do things are dead.

Faang open source employment was never a thing. Faang filtered by leetcode, referrals, clout and h1 visas.
by vel0city | 2026-01-26 15:18:51+00:00
That's 9 million (and probably many more unless Tesla disappears tomorrow) far cleaner cars on the road, offsetting what would have probably been ICE sales.

I'm no Tesla-stan but spending $40B over a decade to inject massive amounts of change in an entrenched industry to move forward in efficiency and emissions sounds like a pretty good investment to me.
by readyplayeremma | 2026-01-26 15:19:02+00:00
MapLibre's globe mode is both fantastic and performant. Also, it's literally just the one option to change it, and your tile formats/CRS don't need to change either.

It's the easiest way to escape from web mercator projections with no real downsides that I have discovered yet. Also, there is a built-in control if you want to offer a button to toggle between web mercator view, and globe view, since it's all just rendering changes.
by sebstefan | 2026-01-26 15:19:14+00:00
>I've tried asking Claude to optimize it further, it created a plan that looks reasonable (I've never interacted with Rust in my life) and it spent a day building many of these optimizations but at the end of the day, none of them actually improved the runtime and some even made it way worse.

This is the kind of thing where if this was a real developer tweaking a codebase they're familiar with, it could get done, but with AI there's a glass ceiling
by pftburger | 2026-01-26 15:19:19+00:00
The fundamental issue preventing keyring aperture integration stems from the AirTag’s reliance on inverse-phase magnetic reluctance in the structural substrate.
You see, the enclosure maintains a precisely calibrated coefficient offramular expansion. Introducing a penetrative void would destabilize the sinusoidal depleneration required for proper UWB phase conjugation. The resulting spurving bearing misalignment could induce up to 40 millidarkness of signal attenuation.
Apple’s engineers attempted to compensate using prefabulated amulite in the magneto-reluctance housing, but this only exacerbated the side-fumbling in the hyperboloid waveform generators. Early prototypes with keyring holes exhibited catastrophic unilateral dingle-arm failure within mere minutes of deployment.
Until we develop lotus-o-delta-type bearings capable of withstanding the differential girdle spring modulation, I’m afraid keyring integration remains firmly in the realm of theoretical engineering—right up there with perpetual motion machines and TypeScript projects that compile without any // @ts-ignore comments.
The technology simply isn’t there yet.
by nomilk | 2026-01-26 15:19:24+00:00
Interesting yc vid on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqwSb2hO1jE

tl;dr it argues when there's a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of production of a good or service, its per-unit cost goes down so much that demand skyrockets, leading to greater demand for employees in that sector. The examples it gives are radiologists (after neural nets were predicted to be able to perform their jobs essentially for free), and dock workers

If this happens in the case of SWEs, it would mean a 'unit' of software will be able to be produced much more cheaply, but the demand for and price (i.e. salaries) of SWEs might stay the same or increase.
by hyperpape | 2026-01-26 15:19:46+00:00
How seriously do you mean the analogy?

I think forklifts probably carry more weight over longer distances than people do (though I could be wrong, 8 billion humans carrying small weights might add up).

Certainly forklifts have more weight * distance when you restrict to objects that are over 100 pounds, and that seems like a good decision.
by coffeefirst | 2026-01-26 15:20:32+00:00
When I was that age I read a lot of science fiction series. I had friends reading what they called “trashy romance”—they knew it was in no way realistic. This was also during peak Harry Potter, which is literary street food, and I say that as a compliment. Most of us read other stuff too, but realistically, dense English lit was confined to English class.

So this isn’t new and I don’t see the problem.

As for the “views,” by this standard kids shouldn’t read A Tale of Two Cities because it encourages beheadings.
by leni536 | 2026-01-26 15:20:32+00:00
Do I get this right that this effectively dlopens glibc (indirectly) into an executable that is statically linked to musl? How can the two runtimes coexist? What about malloc/free? AFAIK both libc's allocators take ownership of brk, that can't be good. What about malloc/free across the dynamic library interface? There are certainly libraries that hand out allocated objects and expect the user to free them, but that's probably uncommon in graphics.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-26 15:20:47+00:00
>then you have less reason to collaborate and depend on each other vs asking your own LLM to build your own bubble

What's interesting in reading comments like this is reading the same type of message across a bunch of different fields and aspects of life.

"When continents move, not only the weather changes"

If GenAI keeps increasing it's abilities and doesn't bankrupt a number of companies first, I think it's going to make a lot of people bubbles that encompass their entire lives. It's not difficult to imagine little pockets of hyperreality were some peoples lives are only feed by generated content and their existence starts to behave more like a video game than having any grounding in the physical. It's going to be interesting what the fractured remains of society look like in that future.
by onion2k | 2026-01-26 15:20:49+00:00
I understand the logistics very well. I'm not suggesting we move the food and water to the people. I'm suggesting we move the people to the food and water. Cities like New York have a population density of 50k/mile^2. We can build lots more cities at that scale much closer to where resources are easily available.

I'm choosing to ignore a lot of the problems with people from disparate backgrounds living together, people not actually wanting to leave where they live, people not wanting to share freely available resources, etc. Those are very hard to solve problems.

I'm only saying that over-population is not the cause of resource problems. If we can solve the other problems then a lack of resources stops being a problem, which proves population size is not the root cause.
by dragontamer | 2026-01-26 15:21:03+00:00
On the contrary.

We've been moving cities and municipalities since the dawn of civilization. That's just how life worked.

Yes water works continue to improve but the age old solution is simply to stop city growth at its sustainable level and start moving people to other, newer, better areas to live.

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Alternatively, you can boom bust with feast and famine economics and have tons of people die due to poor planning. That's also part of the age old deal and it's evidence is written in the many mismanaged cities across history.
by morserer | 2026-01-26 15:21:05+00:00
People don't flag comments because of tone, they flag (and downvote) comments that violate the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I skimmed your comment history and a ton of your recent comments violate a number of these guidelines.

Follow them and you should be able to comment without further issue. Hope this helps.
by retired | 2026-01-26 15:21:06+00:00
Makes sense. Would be pretty cool if Apple could find a way to correct GPS jamming using accelerometers and some logic. If your GPS location jump 50 kilometers in 2 minutes, ignore GPS and use cell tower + accelerometer. Maybe create some sort of mesh network, using other phones and nearby SSIDs to get a makeshift location positioning.

That does come with the risk of Tim Cook falling out of a window.
by Krutonium | 2026-01-26 15:21:12+00:00
On any modern phone, your phones user partition is encrypted with a key that is itself encrypted by a key stored in the CPU. When you factory reset, what's happening is basically the key in the CPU is deleted, then re-created. At that point the data on your partition is random noise, so a new encryption key is derived and used to format the partition.

Even better, modern Android then encrypted your personal data with yet another layer based on your password/key/pattern you use to unlock your device. Many layers.

Retrieving that data would be incredibly hard even for a nation state unless the encryption used was deliberately backdoored, and even then once the device TRIM's the space (which it likely does prior to formatting) that data is gone on a hardware level.

(TL;DR Can't move the memory chip to a new device, and even if you backdoor the OS you still need the users password)
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-26 15:21:25+00:00
I haven’t found that to be the case in practice. There is a limit on how big the code can be so it can do it like this, and it still can’t reliably subdivide problems on its own (yet?), but give it a module that is small enough it can write the code and the tests for it.

You should never let the LLM look at code when writing tests, so you need to have it figure out the interface ahead of time. Ideally, you wouldn’t let it look at tests when it was writing code, but it needs to tell which one was wrong. I haven’t been able to add an investigator into my workflow yet, so I’m just letting the code writer run and evaluate test correctness (but adding an investigator to do this instead would avoid confirmation bias, what you call it finding a loophole).
by helloguillecl | 2026-01-26 15:22:01+00:00
Airtag is the reason of why I stil have my favourite hand luggage.

I had just sat down on the train from Zurich to Basel. Suddenly, someone sat down in front of me. He looked suspicious, but I didn't pay much attention. Just before the train departed, he picked up what I thought were his belongings and left.

Twenty minutes later, already on the way to Basel, I looked toward where I had left my suitcase. It was gone. That was when I realized that the person who had sat in front of me was a thief.

However, he hadn't counted on the fact that I have an AirTag in every backpack and suitcase.

So I was able to see where the thief was and where he was moving. I considered going to retrieve my suitcase myself, but while traveling back to Zurich, I called the Zurich Police and, as the thief kept moving, I told them where he was.

Twenty minutes later I received a call from the police informing me that they had found my suitcase with my belongings, matching the description I had given.

But also the thief and his accomplice.
by causal | 2026-01-26 15:22:08+00:00
I like this way of framing the problem, and it might even be a good way to self-evaluate your use of AI: Try vibe-writing a novel and see how coherent it is.

I suspect part of the reason we see such a wide range of testimonies about vibe-coding is some people are actually better at it, and it would be useful to have some way of measuring that effectiveness.
by gramie | 2026-01-26 15:22:10+00:00
I'm sorry, but this comes across to me (obviously, from my first two words, also a Canadian) as saying, "I don't want the inconvenience of doing anything, but I'll pay some money to assuage my guilt".

You may not be able to vote, but as a resident you can write (on paper!) to your representatives to express your concerns.

You can get in touch with grassroots movements that are doing things (not just protesting!) to resist the rise of fascism.

You can look at ways to harness your clearly exceptional business/technical talents. Improve communications privacy for the public? Crowdsource information about ICE/CBP movements and activities? Expose people or corporations who are collaborating with undemocratic practices?

From your vantage point, you would have a much better idea what options are available.

Yes, there are personal risks and costs, but you have chosen to live in a society that has been creeping slowly but visibly towards authoritarianism. You have benefitted handsomely from your position, maybe it's time to pay back the people who clean your offices and pick your produce for (often less than) minimum wage.
by jv22222 | 2026-01-26 15:22:12+00:00
Very good point. Also, What the OP describes is something I went through in the first few months of coding with AI. I pushed passed “the code looks good but it’s crap” phase and now it’s working great. I’ve found the fix is to work with it during research/planning phase and get it to layout all its proposed changes and push back on the shit. Once you have a research doc that looks good end to end then hit “go”.
by yourapostasy | 2026-01-26 15:22:13+00:00
In the enterprise deployments of GitHub Copilot I've seen at my clients that authenticate over SSO (typically OIDC with OAuth 2.0), connecting Copilot to anything outside of what Microsoft has integrated means reverse engineering the closed authentication interface. I've yet to run across someone's enterprise Github Copilot where the management and administrators have enabled the integration (the sites have enabled access to Anthropic models within the Copilot interface, but not authorized the integration to Claude Code, Opencode, or similar LLM coding orchestration tooling with that closed authentication interface).

While this is likely feasible, I imagine it is also an instant fireable offense at these sites if not already explicitly directed by management. Also not sure how Microsoft would react upon finding out (never seen the enterprise licensing agreement paperwork for these setups). Someone's account driving Claude Code via Github Copilot will also become a far outlier of token consumption by an order(s) of magnitude, making them easy to spot, compared to their coworkers who are limited to the conventional chat and code completion interfaces.

If someone has gotten the enterprise Github Copilot integration to work with something like Claude Code though (simply to gain access to the models Copilot makes available under the enterprise agreement, in a blessed golden path by the enterprise), then I'd really like to know how that was done on both the non-technical and technical angles, because when I briefly looked into it all I saw were very thorny, time-consuming issues to untangle.

Outside those environments, there are lots of options to consume Claude Code via Github Copilot like with Visual Studio Code extensions. So much smaller companies and individuals seem to be at the forefront of adoption for now. I'm sure this picture will improve, but the rapid rate of change in the field means those whose work environment is like those enterprise constrained ones I described but also who don't experiment on their own will be quite behind the industry leading edge by the time it is all sorted out in the enterprise context.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-26 15:22:18+00:00
> Did you carry proof of citizenship as a child? Do you carry it today? I don't, as my license is not a "real id" yet.

Where I'm from, I am legally required to have proof of ID with me all the time. So basically used to never leaving home without it.

No, going back to what you're saying: why is it wrong to deport somebody that came to the US illegally? Just because they were good citizens is it OK to be forgiven for crossing the border illegally? How does that make any sense?

And speaking about TPS, you know what the T stands for, right?