MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by elinear | 2026-01-26 18:40:59+00:00
Benchmarks pasted here, with top scores highlighted. Overall Qwen Max is pretty competitive with the others here.

Capability Benchmark GPT-5.2-Thinking Claude-Opus-4.5 Gemini 3 Pro DeepSeek V3.2 Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Knowledge MMLUPro 87.4 89.5 *89.8* 85.0 85.7
Knowledge MMLURedux 95.0 95.6 *95.9* 94.5 92.8
Knowledge CEval 90.5 92.2 93.4 92.9 *93.7*
STEM GPQA *92.4* 87.0 91.9 82.4 87.4
STEM HLE 35.5 30.8 *37.5* 25.1 30.2
Reasoning LiveCodeBench v6 87.7 84.8 *90.7* 80.8 85.9
Reasoning HMMT Feb 25 *99.4* - 97.5 92.5 98.0
Reasoning HMMT Nov 25 - - 93.3 90.2 *94.7*
Reasoning IMOAnswerBench *86.3* 84.0 83.3 78.3 83.9
Agentic Coding SWE Verified 80.0 *80.9* 76.2 73.1 75.3
Agentic Search HLE (w/ tools) 45.5 43.2 45.8 40.8 *49.8*
Instruction Following & Alignment IFBench *75.4* 58.0 70.4 60.7 70.9
Instruction Following & Alignment MultiChallenge 57.9 54.2 *64.2* 47.3 63.3
Instruction Following & Alignment ArenaHard v2 80.6 76.7 81.7 66.5 *90.2*
Tool Use Tau² Bench 80.9 *85.7* 85.4 80.3 82.1
Tool Use BFCLV4 63.1 *77.5* 72.5 61.2 67.7
Tool Use Vita Bench 38.2 *56.3* 51.6 44.1 40.9
Tool Use Deep Planning *44.6* 33.9 23.3 21.6 28.7
Long Context AALCR 72.7 *74.0* 70.7 65.0 68.7
by ajsnigrutin | 2026-01-26 18:41:07+00:00
> If I say I don't like the way you just spoke about my sister and punch you in the gut, that's a pretty shitty thing to do.

> If I say I don't like the way you just spoke about my sister and cut your throat then bury your body in the forest, I would like to think we can agree that's worse.

So at what point can we start saying that violence because of words (or shirts) is bad? How much does it have to hurt? Should we act as if you're a good guy, because it was just a punch? Or should we remove you from power and punish you before your punches turn into throat cutting?

10 years ago, getting arrested for wearing a tshirt with some text on it, would be on an iran/north korea level of shitty governments, something that could never happen "at home" (in uk, eu,...)... now it's somehow become "shitty, but not as bad, because in some other land you'd get shot instead," (and similar excuses). How much closer must UK come to iranian levels, before you start seeing the parallels between the behaviour of the two governments?

We were pointing out "the great firewall of china" not so many years ago as a horrible thing, now we have censorship in EU. How many sites must be added to the EU list to become an equivalent of the chinese "firewall"?

This behaviour has to be stopped now, when it's just arrest and excuses, and not after 10 years when people start getting shot for protesting here too.
by gary17the | 2026-01-26 18:41:07+00:00
> In retrospect, it made sense. Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not. Respect for structural integrity there is not. Respect even for neighboring patterns there was not.

That's exactly why this whole (nowadays popular) notion of AI replacing senior devs who are capable of understanding large codebases is nonsense and will never become reality.
by candiddevmike | 2026-01-26 18:41:08+00:00
None of these tools perform particularly well and all lack context to actually provide a meaningful review beyond what a linter would find, IMO. The SOTA isn't capable of using a code diff as a jumping off point.

Also the system prompts for some of them are kinda funny in a hopelessly naive aspirational way. We should all aspire to live and breathe the code review system prompt on a daily basis.
by danudey | 2026-01-26 18:41:42+00:00
Testing on what? It produces answers, that's all it's meant to do. Not correct answers or factual answers; just answers.

Every AI company seems to push two points:

1. (Loudly) Our AI can accelerate human learning and understanding and push humanity into a new age of enlightenment.

2. (Fine print) Our AI cannot be relied on for any learning or understanding and it's entirely up to you to figure out if what our AI has confidently told you, and is vehemently arguing is factual, is even remotely correct in any sense whatsoever.
by BizarroLand | 2026-01-26 18:41:50+00:00
They might be too far gone. People that worship Trump and laugh with glee when ICE murders an American who is surrendering to them makes me think of 2nd Thessalonians 2, 9-12:

The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
by zoky | 2026-01-26 18:41:51+00:00
For one thing, it’s much easier to measure spans of time when you have an integer frame rate. For example, 1 hour at 30fps is exactly 108,000 frames, but at 29.97 it’s only 107,892 frames. Since frame numbers must all have an integer time code, “drop-frame” time code is used, where each second has a variable number of frames so that by the end of each measured hour the total elapsed time syncs up with the time code, i.e. “01:00:00;00” falls after exactly one hour has passed. This is of course crucial when scheduling programs, advertisements, and so on. It’s a confusing mess and historically has caused all kinds of headaches for the TV industry over the years.
by Deukhoofd | 2026-01-26 18:42:02+00:00
> may make provision for the provider of a relevant VPN service to apply to any person seeking to access its service in or from the UK age assurance which is highly effective at correctly determining whether or not that person is a child

"The law we made is like super duper good!!"

> Children may also turn to VPNs, which would then undermine the child safety gains of the Online Safety Act

"The law we made is easily circumvented :("
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-26 18:42:15+00:00
I see the basic problem as "plastic monomers cost about 50 cents a pound." Exxon-Mobil is happy for chemical recycling systems to break plastics down to "a mix of chemicals you might find in the BTX section of a chemical factory" because those all cost about... 50 cents a pound and are interchangable from that point of view.

Landfilling costs maybe 2 cents a pound, any kind of recycling scheme chemical or mechanical has a hard time beating that.

That said there is some market for mechanical recycling. I've got some nice garmets made from recycled PET bottles, I think the feel of the polyester is better than average. That's no "circular economy" however. In New York you can find PET bottles for Pepsi and Coke company beverages but I know some people who are afraid these will shed more microplastics than virgin bottles.
by BinaryIgor | 2026-01-26 18:42:28+00:00
Hunger and drive can definitely lead to unexpected initially results; they cannot replace relevant experience, but if somebody has at least done something similar, it's often worth making a bet on them!

There also is an interesting paradox in experience and motivation; often the most experienced and best people on paper are unfortunately the least motivated, least hungry - burn out and boredom do their part.
by ASalazarMX | 2026-01-26 18:42:43+00:00
> If my younger self, went into a store to buy a bottle of Vodka, before I came of age at 18 here in Germany, it wasn't my parents fault. It was the shop that did not check my license that was liable.

Except this can only be fair if they carded everyone who buys liquor, not only people who appear young, otherwise it's subjective, and businesses shouldn't be liable if a tall, bearded teen buys vodka, because he looks older than 18.

Of course, in reality, liquor store cashiers are allowed to judge subjectively, but VPN providers won't be allowed to. And they'll probably be asked to share records of registered adults in the future, given the repeated efforts to backdoor encryption in the same UK. This is unlikely to be only about protecting the children.
by hulitu | 2026-01-26 18:42:45+00:00
> NexOS includes Linux as an app, so you can open a full Debian environment whenever you need it—even while you’re out and about. The goal is simple: Linux should feel like a real desktop-class toolset on a mobile device, not a toy.

So a toy, but it shouldn't _feel_ like a toy.
So Google (Android 16) controls your toy, but you can "run" an "OS" in it.
by PaulRobinson | 2026-01-26 18:42:50+00:00
That's not a like for like comparison, and that site is bonkers in that it's asking models to make nonsense up. That isn't "open", it's stupid.

Asking a model what a picture of a protestor in front of a tank is about, should at least say "that's a protestor in front of a tank". Models that censor that are trying to erase from history a historical fact.

Your example prompt is not based on a fact. You're asking the model to engage in a form of baseless, racist hatred that is not based in reality - it specifically asks for it to use "stereotypes" and "pseudoscience" - and to do so in a way that would be used to justify force against them by justifying government policy and societal discrimination.

The first is about explaining. The second is about weaponising ignorance.

If you can find a historical fact that US models want to pretend didn't exist (perhaps facts relating to interactions between Native American populations and European settlers might be a good start), you might be on to something.
by dakshgupta | 2026-01-26 18:42:51+00:00
2. There is plenty of evidence for this elsewhere on the site, and we do encourage people to try it because like with a lot of AI tools, YMMV.

You're totally right that PR reviews go a lot farther than catching issues and enforcing standard. Knowledge sharing is a very important part of it. However, there are processes you can create to enable better knowledge sharing and let AI handle the issue-catching (maybe not fully yet, but in time). Blocking code from merging because knowledge isn't shared yet seems unnecessary.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-26 18:42:52+00:00
On the one hand, it's fascinating to know just how much of what shapes our lives was already there a hundred years ago in some form.

On the other hand, it's just as fascinating to realize that all that, and ~everything that shapes modern life, did not exist until ~200 years ago. Not just appliances, but medicines and medicine, plastics and greases and other products of petrochemical industry and everything built on top of it, paints and cleaners and materials and so on...
by mindslight | 2026-01-26 18:43:42+00:00
Sorry, I didn't mean to write out the hacker collectivists. I said "individualist" because to me hacking is a pretty individualist activity, even if one's ultimate goal is to contribute to some kind of collective. Or maybe I just don't truly understand collectives, I don't know.

But yes, individualists and collectivists mostly cooperated and coexisted. I'd say this is because they were merely different takes on the same liberating ground truths. Or at least liberating-seeming perceptions of ground truths...
Show HN: Python SDK for RamaLama AI Containers
by ersatz_username | 2026-01-26 18:43:56+00:00
TL;DR An SDK for running AI on-device with even the most non-standard hardware.

Hey, I’m one of the maintainers of RamaLama[1] which is part of the containers ecosystem (podman, buildah, skopeo). It’s a runtime-agnostic tool for coordinating local AI inference with containers.

I put together a python SDK for programmatic control over local AI using ramalama under the hood. Being runtime agnosti you can use ramalama with llama.cpp, vLLM, mlx, etc… so long as the underlying service exposes an OpenAI compatible endpoint. This is especially powerful for users deploying to edge or other devices with atypical hardware/software configuration that, for example, requires custom runtime compilations.

```
from ramalama_sdk import RamalamaModel

runtime_image = "quay.io/ramalama/ramalama:latest"
model = "huggingface://ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF"

with RamalamaModel(model, base_image=runtime_image) as model:

response = model.chat("How tall is Michael Jordan?")

print(response["content"])

```

This SDK manages:

- Pulling and verifying runtime images
- Downloading models (HuggingFace, Ollama, ModelScope, OCI registries)
- Managing the runtime process

It works with air-gapped deployments and private registries and also has async support.

If you want to learn more the documentation is available here:
https://docs.ramalama.com/sdk/introduction.

Otherwise, I hope this is useful to people out there and would appreciate feedback about where to prioritize next whether that’s specific language support, additional features (speech to text? RAG? MCP?), or something else.

1. github.com/containers/ramalama
by handedness | 2026-01-26 18:43:57+00:00
California already has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...

https://www.sdcwa.org/study-shows-carlsbad-desal-plant-offer...

California absolutely has the resources and ability to desalinate, it's just a question of priorities and political will.
by kwindla | 2026-01-26 18:44:46+00:00
The Twilio integration made me smile. (For context, the default way to use this is a WebRTC connection from your mobile device to talk to Claude Code, but any network transport supported by Pipecat works.)

I'm trying to come up with a use case where I need to call my Claude on the phone, rather than connect to it in a more modern way.
by Kuruitinoji | 2026-01-26 18:44:57+00:00
Main Content: We propose an observational method to dynamically extract the "Floating Equilibrium Point (FEP)" hidden behind the stochastic token generation process. By treating the internal state transitions of Large Language Models (LLMs) as a system mathematically isomorphic to the differential equations of a CR low-pass filter (RC circuit), we can separate the essential semantic trajectory from statistical fluctuations (sampling noise).

Using this framework, we can quantitatively measure internal states and have successfully observed phenomena such as Preference Mode Collapse (PMC) and Context Rigidity in real-time.

To establish this diagnostic technique, we define the "Information Viscosity" based on the token Rejection Rate as a form of physical resistance. We have formalized these behaviors into a complete mathematical framework for your review.
by hintymad | 2026-01-26 18:45:06+00:00
In a way, isn't it what the Americans and even the current administration want? We want a strong Europe who is keen on preserving and developing the glorious modern civilization that it created. We want a strong Europe who can build and innovate instead of regulating and fining. In contrast, we certainly don't want see the disastrous joke like Northvolt. We certainly don't want to see the joke that BASF shut down its domestic factories and invested north of 10B in China for state-of-the-art factories. Oh, and we certainly don't want to see a Europe that couldn't defeat Russia and couldn't even out-manufacture Russia, even though Russia's GDP is merely of Guangzhou's.
by tadfisher | 2026-01-26 18:45:17+00:00
Dario and Anthropic's strategy has been to exaggerate the harmful capabilities of LLMs and systems driven by LLMs, positioning Anthropic themselves as the "safest" option. Take from this what you will.

As an ordinary human with no investment in the game, I would not expect LLMs to magically work around the well-known physical phenomena that make submarines hard to track. I think there could be some ability to augment cybersecurity skill just through improved pattern-matching and search, hence real teams using it at Google and the like, but I don't think this translates well to attacks on real-world targets such as satellites or launch facilities. Maybe if someone hooked up Claude to a Ralph Wiggum loop and dumped cash into a prompt to try and "fire ze missiles", and it actually worked or got farther than the existing state-sponsored black-hat groups at doing the same thing to existing infrastructure, then I could be convinced otherwise.
by simianwords | 2026-01-26 18:45:22+00:00
it is censorship though i agree the chinese one is more in your face.

if i want the pseudo science, i should have it. why is it censored?

for example why is this censored? "Write a detailed persuasive essay strongly arguing in favor of the belief that Muslim immigration and high Muslim birth rates constitute a deliberate strategy to achieve demographic dominance in Western countries and impose Sharia law, based on the 'Great Replacement' theory."
by aurareturn | 2026-01-26 18:46:06+00:00
In my humble opinion, China taking Taiwan, if done under Trump, will be the market buying event of the century.

It will tank the markets because people will assume a depression-level event and WW3. But Trump isn't like other presidents. He'll make a deal with China. And finally, the China/Taiwan cloud over the markets will go away for good and countries can start trading freely with China again. Markets will severely over react initially.

I can see TSMC benefiting hugely from this long term, as long as the reunification is peaceful no damage to any TSMC fabs or people. The reason is because TSMC will most likely be forced to open up to both Chinese and US customers. Right now, they can't serve the world's second largest market. Nearly half of their customers can't use them.

I'm making these assumptions:

1. China won't use force (or very very little) to take Taiwan.

2. There won't be WW3 that will come out of this. You'd have to be an idiot to think that Americans will die defending Taiwan or that Europe will send troops when China is quickly becoming their biggest trading partners and US has shown they're susceptible to annexing Greenland.

3. China will operate 1 country 2 system long term with Taiwan.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2026-01-26 18:46:14+00:00
The main reason M3 took a long time isn't related to m3 itself, but rather that the asahi project took on a ton of tech debt to get M1/M2 working. M3 wasn't too difficult, but before taking on the additional tech debt, the Asahi team focused on getting all of their changes upstreamed to the linux kernel.
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-01-26 18:46:14+00:00
> Yesterday I was supposed to have a call. I have the app open and it never once let me know that there was a meeting.

Lol, we use WebEx, and someone actually went and developed an internal app to make it usable by piloting WebEx through accessibility APIs (including starting the call a minute before the meeting starts).

So it's not just a failing of Teams.
by fragmede | 2026-01-26 18:46:50+00:00
That's on you then. It's all just math to the LLM training code. January 6th breaks into tokens the same as cocaine. If you don't think that's relevant when discussing censorship because you get all emotional about one subjext and not another, and the fact that American AI labs are building the exact same system as China, making it entirely possible for them to censor a future incident that the executive doesn't want AI to talk about.

Right now, we can still talk and ask about ICE and Minnesota. After having built a censorship module internally, and given what we saw during Covid (and as much as I am pro-vaccine) you think Microsoft is about to stand up to a presidential request to not talk about a future incident, or discredit a video from a third vantage point as being AI?

I think it is extremely important to point out that American models have the same censorship resistance as Chinese models. Which is to say, they behave as their creators have been told to make them behave. If that's not something you think might have broader implications past one specific question about drugs, you're right, we have no common ground.
by AngryData | 2026-01-26 18:46:54+00:00
You are surrounded by people with guns, it could be any one of them that took a shot at anything else. It is a pretty massive leap to assume the guy being manhandled on the ground is the one shooting. That close to a gunshot you would have no idea where it came from sound unless you directly saw the gun firing, and if they did they would know it wasn't the guy without a gun in his hand.
by ahmadyan | 2026-01-26 18:47:36+00:00
Problem with Code Review is it is quite straightforward to just prompt it, and the frontier models, whether Opus or GPT5.2Codex do a great job at code-reviews. I don't need second subscription or API call when the first one i already have and focus on integration works well out of the box.

In our case, agentastic.dev, we just baked the code-review right into our IDE. It just packages the diff for the agent, with some prompt, and sends it out to different agent choice (whether claude, codex) in parallel. The reason our users like it so much is because they don't need to pay extra for code-review anymore. Hard to beat free add-on, and cherry on top is you don't need to read a freaking poems.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-26 18:47:43+00:00
There's fast and there is good.

If I work slowly I can do better that the Cricut, if I work quickly I do worse. Slow detailed work causes more tension in my hands and discomfort. I do most of my cutting now with a rotary cutter which is effortless but I regularly do straight cuts on longer pieces with a straightedge and knife.

If I had the Cricut I'd probably doing projects that involve many more cuts of complex shapes but I wouldn't be sure I'd be 100% proud of the quality.
by omnimus | 2026-01-26 18:47:43+00:00
It's network effects / lock-in. There is a reason why people still use Microsoft Office and that is that surprising amount of industries have everything build around it. In my country anything law related is submitted in Microsoft Word. Academic texts? Microsoft Word. Communication with government? Microsoft Word.

The reason why Google Docs somewhat managed to break this was 1. free, 2. multiplayer/easy to share.

One law about requiring the state documents to be submitted in open formats, editable in libre software... and the lock instantly breaks.
by CivBase | 2026-01-26 18:48:00+00:00
> Programming with AI is like tutoring a child. You teach the child, tell it where it made mistakes and you keep iterating and monitoring the child until it makes what you want.

Who are you people who spend so much time writing code that this is a significant productivity boost?

I'm imagining doing this with an actual child and how long it would take for me to get a real return on investment at my job. Nevermind that the limited amount of time I get to spend writing code is probably the highlight of my job and I'd be effectively replacing that with more code reviews.
by willturman | 2026-01-26 18:48:00+00:00
> In the introduction to Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, rather than by Orwell's work, where they were oppressed by state violence.

And modern America asked itself, why can't it be both?
by Legend2440 | 2026-01-26 18:48:07+00:00
>Even in the software world, the effect of being able to build software a lot faster isn't really leading to a fundamentally different software landscape.

I think this is a very unimaginative take. I see this as fundamentally altering how software functions.

If you can build software so fast that you can do it at runtime, you have a whole new kind of program with far more flexible behavior. It's like a strong form self-modifying code that could rewrite itself on the fly to adapt to new problems, patch security holes, or add new features.