MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxfurman | 2026-01-27 18:41:49+00:00
Wow, they just opened a brand new one in Philly less than two months ago. I've yet to shop there and I guess now I never will. It must have cost millions to clear that site and build a whole new building there. Just to abandon it. I wish I had money to waste like that.

Edit: it actually opened in August, so it was around for about six months instead of two.
by ph4te | 2026-01-27 18:41:59+00:00
I don't know how big sufficiently large codebase is, but we have a 1mil loc Java application, that is ~10years old, and runs POS systems, and Claude Code has no issues with it. We have done full analyses with output details each module, and also used it to pinpoint specific issues when described. Vibe coding is not used here, just analysis.
by econ | 2026-01-27 18:42:11+00:00
I have a special way of playing vs computers where every trade and every constraint is considered bad. The point is to keep enough paths open that it becomes a game of intuition and gambling. I never win of course but did have some games where it went in full retreat or spend 3-4 moves on putting pieces in their previous position or gradually changed its evaluation from a sizable advantage to disadvantage after thinking for a while.

I do the same with players who are to good to beat at a normal game.
by Rendello | 2026-01-27 18:42:38+00:00
It's how I learned lower level programming. TempleOS is a lot of fun but the community around it is very 4chan/kiwifarms. I never jived with that.

During the pandemic I was showing my buddies the game I'd made in TempleOS on Discord, and after a bit the conversation moved on and I was just playing idly, and my character died. The screen went black and error text showed up. My buddy interrupted the conversation with "wait, does the game just segfault when you die!?".

"Of course not. The game didn't segfault, the operating system did." The bug lasted for months and would just kill the entire OS every time you died. It was a lot of fun.
by abetusk | 2026-01-27 18:43:03+00:00
I'm no expert but, from what I understand, the idea is that they found two 3D shapes (maybe 2D skins in 3D space?) that have the same mean curvature and metric but are topologically different (and aren't mirror images of each other). This is the first (non-trivial) pair of finite (compact) shapes that have been found.

In other words, if you're an ant on one of these surfaces and are using mean curvature and the metric to determine what the shape is, you won't be able to differentiate between them.

The paper has some more pictures of the surfaces [0]. Wikipedia's been updated even though the result is from Oct 2025 [1].

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10240-025-00159-z

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet_theorem
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-27 18:43:07+00:00
Yes it is a big problem. StS devs cannot write normal C# code, you have to really work around the C# integration to avoid lag spikes. See my other comment GitHub thread. There's also things like this https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/86926 and that the underlying types aren't compatible (Godot collections) that make it clear they aren't serious with the C# support.

The other huge problem is the terrible external editor support, it does not work well at all. This means your vim, jetbrains, whatever muscle memory from a lifetime of professional dev work becomes useless, and you have to use a gimped text editor worse than notepad++. You can use an external editor, but then lots of things don't work very well, scenes get randomly corrupted, hot reloading doesn't work, etc. It's many issues like this that prove Godot's only priority is attracting and entertaining people who have never written code before, instead of making an engine viable for shipping games.

I gave Godot a real chance for years, but at the end of the day it's a toy. There's a good reason that there are barely any games using it, and they're all extremely technically simple; surprisingly, that reason is not an unsophisticated underlying engine, but rather a million DX papercuts that a good ambitious developer would just never accept.
by keerthiko | 2026-01-27 18:43:10+00:00
Almost always, notes like these are going to be about greenfield projects.

Trying to incorporate it in existing codebases (esp when the end user is a support interaction or more away) is still folly, except for closely reviewed and/or non-business-logic modifications.

That said, it is quite impressive to set up a simple architecture, or just list the filenames, and tell some agents to go crazy to implement what you want the application to do. But once it crosses a certain complexity, I find you need to prompt closer and closer to the weeds to see real results. I imagine a non-technical prompter cannot proceed past a certain prototype fidelity threshold, let alone make meaningful contributions to a mature codebase via LLM without a human engineer to guide and review.
by lukesandberg | 2026-01-27 18:43:14+00:00
`fs` dependencies like that have caused issues before. the solution is typically something like

```
turbopack: {
resolveAlias: {
fs: { browser: './empty-module.js' },
},
},
```

so different configuration but similar to what you would do in webpack.

i am unsure about the other wasm issue you mentioned... is there an issue describing it?

As for webpack, we will keep supporting it until we know there are no compatibility issues blocking people from migrating.
by sagarm | 2026-01-27 18:43:45+00:00
I, too, felt you were being intentionally dense in this thread. We've just been talking past each other.

I don't see a meaningful distinction between a screen on a DIN unit and an integrated screen.

With Android Auto or the ios equivalent -- a hard requirement for most car buyers today -- a touchscreen is basically required.

Other "smart" features aren't required but I'm not surprised car companies want to try and extract value from in-car tech. It's got nothing to do with providing value to consumers.
by kjs3 | 2026-01-27 18:43:54+00:00
Honestly, what universe are you living in?

The one where I actually read what I'm replying to.

I never one single time said RISC-V wasn't successful. Not even implied it. What I did say, should you ever climb of your apparently thinking-averse, pre-conceived notions is that its license isn't the overriding reason it's successful, because the world is full of open source ISAs that never gained any traction. Something you might be aware of if you took a brief break from furiously jerking off over RISC-V and paid attention.
by Bukhmanizer | 2026-01-27 18:44:42+00:00
When thinking about automation people overindex on their current class biases. For 20 years we heard that robots were going to take over the “burger flipper” jobs. Why was it so easy to think that robots could replace fast food workers? Because they were the lowest rung on the career ladder, so it felt natural that they would be the first ones to get replaced.

Similarly, it’s easy to think that the lowly peons in the engineering world are going to get replaced and we’ll all be doing the job of directors and CEOs in the future, but that doesn’t really make sense to me.

Being able to whip your army of AI employees 3% better than your competitor doesn’t (usually) give any lasting advantage.

What does give an advantage is: specialized deep knowledge, building relationships and trust with users and customers, and having a good sense of design/ux/etc.

Like maybe that’s some of the job of a manager/director/CEO, but not anyone that I’ve worked with.
by einrealist | 2026-01-27 18:44:42+00:00
> It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later.

Somewhere, there are GPUs/NPUs running hot. You send all the necessary data, including information that you would never otherwise share. And you most likely do not pay the actual costs. It might become cheaper or it might not, because reasoning is a sticking plaster on the accuracy problem. You and your business become dependent on this major gatekeeper. It may seem like a good trade-off today. However, the personal, professional, political and societal issues will become increasingly difficult to overlook.
by SilverBirch | 2026-01-27 18:44:50+00:00
Well isn't it interesting that at the same time that these social media platforms were getting off the ground, the VC class decided founder control was super important and now essentially all of the biggest companies in the world are in the sole control of men who do questionable activies on islands in the Caribbean.

Now you wonder what these companies are doing to shape events, and the answer is that Tim Cook is attending a private showing of a PR project for the wife of the president premiering on a competing streaming network whilst people hold vigils for the people that the regime has murdered.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-27 18:44:59+00:00
America's history is basically one long story of internal divisions, briefly overcome primarily during economic booms. The last economic boom, the computing/internet boom, was particularly long lived and helped create the longest window of internal stability we've had. That boom's coming to an end, and the era of stability it brought probably isn't that far behind. And this is before you even stop to consider things like social media which helps amp up and accelerate divisions by orders of magnitude.
by vidarh | 2026-01-27 18:45:02+00:00
This is a fairly new change - the new scanners are being rolled out "everywhere", but not everyone has them again, and there were some snafu's last summer that caused them all to be decertified within the EU, and at least for a while only scanners from one company had been recertified.

It'll probably be chaos for the next couple of years while this sorts itself out.
by vmbm | 2026-01-27 18:45:25+00:00
I have been assigning issues to copilot in Github. It will then create a pull request and work on and report back on the issue in the PR. I will pull the code and make small changes locally using VSCode when needed.

But what I like about this setup is that I have almost all the context I need to review the work in a single PR. And I can go back and revisit the PR if I ever run into issues down the line. Plus you can run sessions in parallel if needed, although I don't do that too much.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-27 18:45:29+00:00
Importantly, 20% of the total userbase it seems:

> In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users. The impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user’s country.

That's from the haveibeenpwned email which I received because of course I'm part of that 20%.

Remember to have unique passwords for each website kids, ideally with a password manager.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-27 18:45:30+00:00
A former paying user is not a customer. If you don't pay, why should you receive service? I buy a pizza at this pizza shop every week, but I still don't get free ones.

SoundCloud is European, so most of the dark patterns used by American companies to offer "free" service are not available to them, and they are required by law to actually delete data instead of pretending to delete it.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-27 18:45:47+00:00
Sometimes, just sometimes there are evil people out there that you don't want to associate with. Other times, if evil isn't an issue for you, that said evil entity represents a business continuity risk by using their services.

It's up to you to decide those risks, but it seems rather 'anti-free speech' to say that I can't recommend that you think about those risks in the first place. By use of this service you are not purging anyone. You are enlightening your current position and using that information to make next steps.
by tptacek | 2026-01-27 18:45:57+00:00
Corporate/enterprise networks have nightmarish setups for centralizing access to LLMs. This seems like an extremely natural direction for Tailscale; it is to LLM interfaces what Tailscale itself was to VPNs, a drastically simplified system that, by making policy legible, actually allows security teams to do the access control that was mostly aspirational under the status quo ante.

Seems straightforward?

I think if you don't have friends working at e.g. big banks or whatever, you might not grok just how nutty it is to try to run simple agent workflows.
by elektronika | 2026-01-27 18:46:00+00:00
> This. It is somewhat disheartening to hear the whole interop-with-C with Rust being an insurmountable problem.

I have done it and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Once you're doing interop with C you're just writing C with Rust syntax topped off with a big "unsafe" dunce cap to shame you for being a naughty, lazy programmer. It's unergonomic and you lose the differentiating features of Rust. Writing safe bindings is painful, and using community written ones tends to pull in dozens of dependencies. If you're interfacing a C library and want some extra features there are many languages that care far more about the developer experience than Rust.
by Meegul | 2026-01-27 18:46:15+00:00
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by mkozlows | 2026-01-27 18:47:07+00:00
I think he's really getting at something there. I've been thinking about this a lot (in the context of trying to understand the persistent-on-HN skepticism about LLMs), and the framing I came up with[1] is top-down vs. bottom-up dev styles, aka architecting code and then filling in implementations, vs. writing code and having architecture evolve.

[1] https://www.klio.org/theory-of-llm-dev-skepticism/
by southerntofu | 2026-01-27 18:47:59+00:00
> those who are committing this massacre are MUSLIMS and support PALESTINE so this is a moral dilemma for the left lovers

I'm not sure if you're making this argument in good faith, but just in case. The iranian government has no love for socialists/anarchists many of whom have been executed (especially in the years after the islamic revolution) or live in exile.

From what politically active iranian comrades told me (in exile), the social movement in Iran is very much alive and there is an underground left-wing scene (for example an anarchist/punk scene). Likewise, the Jin Jiyan Azadi movement following the execution of Mahsa Amini is very much on the left wing, inspired by Rojava's democratic confederalism.

From a western european perspective (eg. me), the dilemma is not the one you presented. Sure some fringe groups have campist [1] tendencies, but that's far from representing the Left as a whole (which has historical links with the anti-islamist left-wing in Iran). The dilemma would be: how to support a people's revolution without supporting our own western empires making the situation even worse? The most moderate/imperialist liberals have learnt the lessons from the Taliban's comeback in Afghanistan and the return of black slavery in Libya: we can do better than bomb a foreign people.

Still, the demonstrations here in France supporting the uprising in Iran (at least those who are not organized by the fascists trying to bring the Shah's son to the throne) pretty much have the same crowd as the pro-palestinian demonstrations. I'd be curious, apart from obvious propaganda, where you'd find the idea that left-wingers wouldn't support overthrowing a tyrannical government.

(cue history course about the history of secularism and why opposing islamophobia is not incompatible with opposing islamism or any theological tyranny)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campism
by spaceman_2020 | 2026-01-27 18:48:41+00:00
I think the senior devs will be fine. They're like lawyers at this point - everyone is too scared they'll screw up and will keep them around

The juniors though will radically have to upskill. The standard junior dev portfolio can be replicated by claude code in like three prompts

The game has changed and I don't think all the players are ready to handle it
by lostlogin | 2026-01-27 18:48:54+00:00
> Do you believe God was listening to the prayers and influencing the people at the abortion clinic?

No, the woman was there tying to influence other women’s healthcare, something she had no right to get involved in.

Edit: The police did screw this up - the clinic was closed. She also received a payout.

Framing this as ‘thought police’ is wrong, the issue was her presence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gze361j7xo
by xnan | 2026-01-27 18:49:07+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’ve recently been digging into the PyTorch FSDP implementation. It’s powerful and highly optimized, which naturally means the codebase is extensive and isn't always straightforward to navigate. In the process, I decided to write a minimal implementation based on my findings, mainly to emphasize and show the different states and pre/post forward/backward of FSDP, all in a single place!

Hope this helps others!
by dang | 2026-01-27 18:49:08+00:00
You both have been breaking the site guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again.

Also, please don't use HN for nationalistic/ideological/religious flamewar (or any flamewar). It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-27 18:49:12+00:00
Distance is fairly variable, minimum is 4 miles, a busy day can be 50 miles. When we get extended bitter cold I tend to start running errands before work since I can break up the distances and stop and warm up instead of the shorter straight shot, that will be about 10 miles a day.

It is not as bad as most people think as long as you get out there everyday and avoid getting in the habit of not doing stuff because it is too cold. That first -10 day is brutal but that -10 is not so bad after a -20 day and feels almost warm after -30. So I convince myself that a beer would taste really good and bike to the bar in -30 just to get out there because the longer you go without riding in that sort of cold the harder it is to get back out there, do it daily and it is easy to remember that it is just a minor discomfort until you get the blood flowing.
by dang | 2026-01-27 18:49:12+00:00
You both have been breaking the site guidelines badly. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again.

Also, please don't use HN for nationalistic/ideological/religious flamewar (or any flamewar). It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by c420 | 2026-01-27 18:49:42+00:00
Would the incompetence include deleting messages that used the word "Epstein"?

https://i.redd.it/2stz13v1bsfg1.jpeg

There are quite a few reports on Reddit of users having any dm using that word being deleted.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1qnxxgi/were_being_...
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-27 18:49:44+00:00
I really want to know which directions data is flowing. How much of an island is Elli-Tok? Do videos from the US appear internationally? International to US? ByteDance famously isn't giving up the algorithm, but what user data does Elli-Tok get and what do they send, or does Elli-Tok have to totally rebuild the algorithm from scratch using only US viewers?

This whole thing is such a shit show. The US government right now looks like a total ass of all asses on the world stage, but this TikTok business of the US demanding our country get to take over a social network preceeds this era of major fuckery by a good tick. And is just so stupid, so not what governments should do. Even if we hadn't had Trump just hand it over to his preferred "buyers" the Ellison's, it's just a grade a fuckup, absolute bedlam to do this, completely delegitmizes the US.

TikTok v. Garland and the First Amendment Anticanon paper by Evelyn Douek just came out, talking to what a first class First Amendment fuck up the unanimous Supreme Court decision was. Excellent read. Just could not have done a worst job, unbelievable nonsense that let this madness just persist & amplify. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6118706
by lukesandberg | 2026-01-27 18:49:54+00:00
We have invested a lot in webpack loaders which unblocked manmy ecosystem plugins. We don't particularly plan on creating a rust plugin API, when we do provide one it will be JS oriented. (well some people are interested in a wasm plugin layer, but we would always support JS first).

I'm not sure i understand your second comment? what got positioned as 'something good'?
by Cornbilly | 2026-01-27 18:50:09+00:00
That's great but they could have been honest up-front and said "The plan is that this is eventually fully-automated but we estimate that it needs supervised training for X amount of time in order to handle Y% of transactions automatically".

But this is tech and you just lie because hardly anyone in the investor class knows enough to call you out on it or they are just going with the lie to make a buck off of other rubes.
by mancerayder | 2026-01-27 18:50:29+00:00
That really, really depends what neighborhood you live in. Bakeries and especially butchers don't exist everywhere, and sometimes they (bakeries) suck. It's not Paris or Rome. And the prices are high in the expensive neighborhoods (and that's driven by proximity to offices in Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn).
Some neighborhoods are both densely populated and a desert for quality, leaving only bodegas and overpriced artisanal boutiques.

I'm with the original poster here about Wegmans. In London you have Waitrose, which is 10,000 times better than Trader Joe's/Whole Foods and has fresh bread, alcohol, a butcher, etc etc and way more all in one place.

NYC is gar-bage when it comes to groceries.

If you spend a few minutes in the suburbs, even a rural exoburb outside of NYC, you'll drive to the supermarket and take a deep calming breath. You're not supposed to say driving could ever be better than a walkable city, but if time is precious to you and you value not hauling bags back and forth across multiple stores, you'll be way way happier.
by krick | 2026-01-27 18:50:35+00:00
That's super curious. No offense, the noise didn't make it sound more amateurish to me personally, so I wouldn't go as far as to immediately conclude that this was intentional by TikTok, let alone that it is because it didn't like the lyrics, but I'm very curious what is it anyway.

Reminds me of how someone lately was going crazy about weird video-artifacts on Youtube. It was fixed (for his videos) after contacting somebody on the technical side of Youtube, but there was never an explanation AFAIK of what actually went wrong, so I was left pondering if that could be a result of some more ambitious ML-experiments in attempt to improve compression rates or something, but never found out conclusively.