MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by directevolve | 2026-01-08 16:29:28+00:00
You can now see a very clear picture of exactly where that cop was standing with respect to the car as he drew his gun on the front page of the New York Times. He was not in the path of the car. And there was no reason for him to walk up and shoot her. The safe thing to do in that situation would have been to let her drive off. If they had wanted to arrest her, they could have used her license plate to find her later.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-08 16:29:47+00:00
I noticed yesterday that there were 5K+ issues filed against Claude Code on github (but down to 4.8K today!), so it may well be that this is what Cherny is churning through.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

If you read though a few pages of these issues, it doesn't seem to reflect too well on the quality of the code (self-written by Claude Code), so it seems the furious pace of development/bug fixing maybe shouldn't necessarily be taken as being the pace of generating production quality code. Claude Code is of course very useful, so people are very forgiving about issues, but I can't imagine most corporate software being very well regarded if the quality was such that it had 5K issues reported against it!
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-08 16:29:54+00:00
> The distinction between "can't do" and "can't get paid for" seems to get lost a lot with medical providers. I'm not saying this is necessarily what's happening with your wife, but I've had it happen to me where someone says, "I can't do this test. Your insurance won't pay for it," and then I ask what it costs and it's a few hundred or a couple thousand dollars and I say, "That's OK. I'll just pay for the test myself," and something short-circuits and they still can't understand that they can do it.

Tell me you've never lived in poverty without telling me.

An unexpected expense of several hundred to a couple thousand dollars, for most of my lived life both as a child and a young adult, would've ruined me. If it was crucial, it would've been done, and I would've been hounded by medical billing and/or gone a few weeks without something else I need.

This is inhumanity, plain as.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-01-08 16:30:04+00:00
There are over a million licensed physicians in the US. If we assume that each one interacts with five patients per weekday, then in the six months since you had this experience, that would conservatively be six-hundred-million patient interactions in that time.

Now, obviously none of this math would actually hold up to any scrutiny, and there's a bevy of reasons that the quality of those interactions would not be random. But just as a sense of scale, and bearing in mind that a lot of people will easily remember a single egregious interaction for the rest of their life, and (very reasonably!) be eager to share their experience with others, it would require a frankly statistically impossibly low error rate to not be able to fill threads like these with anecdotes of the most heinous, unpleasant, ignorant, and incompetent anecdotes anyone could ever imagine.

And this is just looking at the sheer scale of medical care, completely ignoring the long hours and stressful situations many doctors work in, patients' imperfect memories and one-sided recollections (that doctors can never correct), and the fundamental truth that medicine is always, always a mixture of probabilistic and intuitive judgement calls that can easily, routinely be wrong, because it's almost never possible to know for sure what's happening in s given body, let alone what will happen.

That E.N.T. wasn't up to date on the latest research on allergies. They also weren't an allergy specialist. They also were the one with the knowledge, skills, and insight to consider and test for allergies in the first place.

Imagine if we held literally any other field to the standard we hold doctors. It's, on the one hand, fair, because they do something so important and dangerous and get compensated comparitively well. But on the other hand, they're humans with incomplete, flawed information, channeling an absurdly broad and deep well of still insufficient education that they're responsible for keeping up-to-date while looking at a unique system in unique circumstances and trying to figure out what, if anything, is going wrong. It's frankly impressive that they do as well as they do.
by santadays | 2026-01-08 16:30:09+00:00
I've seen the following quote.

"The energy consumed per text prompt for Gemini Apps has been reduced by 33x over the past 12 months."

My thinking is that if Google can give away LLM usage (which is obviously subsidized) it can't be astronomically expensive, in the realm of what we are paying for ChatGPT. Google has their own TPUs and company culture oriented towards optimizing the energy usage/hardware costs.

I tend to agree with the grandparent on this, LLMs will get cheaper for what we have now level intelligence, and will get more expensive for SOTA models.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-08 16:30:34+00:00
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mgmt/la...

ICE is explicitly not allowed to use deadly force to prevent someone from fleeing or because they might receive a minor injury. It's also not allowed to use it for revenge, which would be the case here if he was swiped - the shots happen after he is to the side and continue even as she is past them.

It is strictly to be used as a preventative measure to protect others. That is obviously not what happened here.

Trying to justify the murder of someone by an ICE agent that has gone far outside of policy and far outside of policing standards just because the victim might have also done something far far far more minor wrong is insane.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-08 16:31:06+00:00
And yet we find that the foods that most people can intuitively label as "processed" come with lower satiety per calorie, unfavorable effects on blood sugar, and lower micro nutrient density per calorie. There are definitely outliers, but obvious ones are Wonderbread vs Whole grain high fiber breads (like Daves 21 grain or ezekiel bread), American cheese vs Sliced medium cheddar, even things like Sweetened apple sauce vs an Apple, White rice versus brown or "wild rice"
by snophey | 2026-01-08 16:31:10+00:00
From your tone and the fact that you're quoting things nobody in this thread has said, I'm not sure that you are actually interested in hearing any scientific argument. You certainly aren't trying to make one. But I'll try:

The quality of a protein is measured using PDCAAS (Protein digestibility corrected amino acid score). It's a score between 0 and 1 that measures the quality of a protein as a function of digestibility and how well it meets the human amino acid requirements.

It is indeed correct that both lentils and chickpeas (which the original comment you replied to was talking about) have a much lower PDCAAS value of around 0.70. Data on beef varies, but it is generally considered to be a complete protein with a PDCAAS score above 0.90.

Instead of accusing "people who insist on eating animals" of lacking scientific knowledge, it would have been much more helpful to point out that the highest quality proteins on the PDCAAS scale are almost universally vegetarian or vegan: eggs, milk, soy, and mycoprotein all have higher scores than beef, chicken, or pork.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-08 16:31:10+00:00
Every healthcare system has problems, yes. However the spectre of medical debt and bankruptcy is a uniquely American one, so, IMHO, even if we moved to single-payer healthcare and every other problem stayed the same, but we no longer shoved people into the capitalist fuck-barrel for things completely outside their control, I think that's an unmitigated, massive improvement.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-08 16:31:16+00:00
One thing nobody is touching on: since it's not actually open source, when this thing is found to have dozens of security holes (or any bugs), they are not going to be patched.

( Their announcement: https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life The API doc: https://assets.bosecreative.com/m/496577402d128874/original/... )
by rbartelme | 2026-01-08 16:31:34+00:00
It's somewhat interesting, but the authors' conclusions are a bit odd given their data.

They acknowledge that fame is potentially confounding:
Risk factors (impulsivity, substance use, etc.) -> Fame achievement |
Risk factors -> Early mortality

The authors also appear to conclude that fame is semi-causal of the mortality risk. If, taking a causal statistical approach, the authors conditioned on the collider:

Risk factors (substance use, personality traits, mental health vulnerabilities) -> Becoming/staying a professional singer <- Talent/drive toward fame

I do applaud them for preregistering the study, but I think this paper needed a little more rigor in peer review.
by woodruffw | 2026-01-08 16:31:38+00:00
Each OIDC provider has its own claim formats, which Trusted Publishing needs to be aware of to accurately determine which set makes up a sufficient "identity" for publishing purposes. That's not easily generalizable across providers, at least not until someone puts the sweat and tears into writing some kind of standard claim profile for OIDC IdPs that provide CI/CD machine identities.

(This is also only half the problem: the Relying Party also needs to be confident that the IdP they're relying on is actually competent, i.e. can be trusted to maintain a private key, operationalize its rotation, etc. That's not something that can easily be automated.)
by testdelacc1 | 2026-01-08 16:32:03+00:00
A benchmark of adding numbers doesn’t tell you how it performs on real world websites and codebases. I wouldn’t be surprised if JavaScript was still very competitive, simply because of how good V8 is, but I don’t think we can conclude anything from your benchmark.

Of course it is always possible to write highly optimised code. But that’s not what people actually do, because of time, skill and maintenance constraints. Here’s a case study: in 2018 Mozilla ported some code from JS to Rust + WASM and got a 6x speed up [1]. An expert in V8 responded to this with highly optimised JavaScript, saying Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS [2]. Both articles are worth reading! But it is worth remembering that it’s a lot quicker and easier to write the code in #1 than #2 and it is easier to maintain as well.

[1] - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with...

[2] - https://mrale.ph/blog/2018/02/03/maybe-you-dont-need-rust-to...
by Xunjin | 2026-01-08 16:32:23+00:00
I agree that they do control information, but we also face the paradox that laws in the West do very little to regulate social media, and even the current US administration threatens to impose tariffs to EU [0].

Even Google and other big techs did a gigantic lobby against it in Brazil[1].

The appointed lawyer by Twitter, in 2023, even said in a meeting with the Brazil Minister of Justice: “That the Brazilian laws did not follow their Terms of Use”[2]. In the previous week there was a massacre at childcare which killed 4 children[3].

What the government asked at that time was to delete/suspend related accounts that promoted this type of crime.

0. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-tariffs-big-techs-new...

1. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/09/us-tec...

2. https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/05/nao-estou-...

3. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_de_Blumenau
by bombcar | 2026-01-08 16:32:23+00:00
You have to completely satiate the demand for luxury housing before it becomes "desirable" to build new standard housing. In years past the "starter home" market has completely been reselling past housing, even what was lux at the time of building.

Why would you spend your time and effort building a house that earns you $50k when for the same time and effort you could build a house that earns you $150k?

You'd only do the first if the second wasn't available.
by skyriser | 2026-01-08 16:32:31+00:00
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by Xeoncross | 2026-01-08 16:32:46+00:00
Yeah, I've never seen an all-in-one language like Go before. Not just a huge stdlib where you don't have to vet the authors on github to see if you'll be okay using their package, but also a huge amount of utility built in like benchmarking, testing, multiple platforms, profiling, formatting, and race-detection to name a few. I'm sad they still allow null, but they got a lot right when it comes to the tools.

Everything is literally built-in. It's the perfect scripting language replacement with the fast compile time and tiny language spec (Java 900 pages vs Go 130 pages) making it easy to fully train C-family devs into it within a couple weeks.
by dangus | 2026-01-08 16:33:04+00:00
Here's the problem: the Republican government is against almost everything that is proven to improve health outcomes.

They are against transit funding, urbanism, bike lanes, etc, and are pro-automobile and pro-car-dependency. Remember when Republicans literally killed high speed rail in Ohio?

They are essentially anti-city almost as a base concept. See all their political jabs at cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. One of the healthiest states in terms of obesity rates, California, is the party's punching bag.

The party is trying to end ACA subsidies and is against universal healthcare and access to preventative care. How will Americans access dieticians and nutritionists if they can't afford private health insurance?

How will Americans eat real food if Republicans decide to hold food stamps hostage every time there is a budget dispute?

Trump himself is known to be anti-exercise on a personal level. [1]

[1] https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/us-news/president-trump-explai...
by mock-possum | 2026-01-08 16:33:10+00:00
I vaguely remember another instance of this around a guy in the army - I forgot if it was at boot camp or what the rank was, but it was something along the lines of “things I’m no longer allowed to do” and just had a bunch of silly military joke/prank type things… man I wonder if I could dig that up again, I think it might have been late 90s internet.
by bartread | 2026-01-08 16:33:42+00:00
Exactly this.

"Bose blows" is a popular comment amongst the audiophile community but, to me, it seems like they don't blow at all[0]. In fact quite the opposite: this is a fantastic example for other companies to follow. Top marks, Bose!

[0] What is actually true is that they are opinionated about sound reproduction in ways that a bunch of people don't agree with but which in the right context are often effective and enjoyable to listen to.
LLM agent architectures fail silently as they grow
by yatarousan | 2026-01-08 16:33:51+00:00
I've been working with LLM-based agent systems (LangGraph-style, multi-node, long-running)
and noticed a recurring failure mode that doesn't show up in early prototypes.

As agent graphs grow:
- state becomes implicitly shared
- routing decisions become opaque
- responsibilities blur across nodes

The system still "works", but no one can explain why a certain path was taken
or what invariant is supposed to hold.

In practice, this becomes a serious problem when:
- multiple engineers touch the same agent
- the agent runs for weeks/months
- auditability or reproducibility is required

What surprised me is that most agent frameworks optimize for flexibility and velocity,
but offer very little guidance on what should be constrained to avoid silent failure.

I've been exploring a contract-driven approach:
explicit node I/O, declared dependencies, supervisor-level routing constraints,
and observability as a first-class concern.

I'm curious:
- Have others run into similar "it works, but we don't know why" situations?
- How do you reason about correctness or debuggability in agent systems?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-08 16:33:54+00:00
They're discontinuing support for SoundTouch Speakers. The SoundTouch App controls SoundTouch Speakers. Put two and two together...

From their announcement:

What will no longer work:
• Presets (preset buttons on the product and in the app)
• Browsing or playing music services directly from the SoundTouch app

Important note: Your system will no longer receive security and software updates.
Please make sure to always use your system on a secure, private network.
by SomaticPirate | 2026-01-08 16:33:59+00:00
I had a friend who has now gotten several out of pocket MRIs essentially against medical advice because she believes her persistent headaches are from brain cancer.

Even after the first MRI essentially ruled this out, she fed the MRI to chatGPT which basically hallucinated that a small artifact of the scan was actually a missed tumor and that she needed another scan. Thousands wasted on pointless medical expenses.

Having friend's in healthcare, they have mentioned how common this is now. Someone coming in and demanding a set of tests based on chatGPT.
They have explained that A, tests with false positives can actually be worse for you (triggers even more invasive tests) B, insurance won't cover any of your chatGPT requests.

Again, being involved in your care is important but disregarding the medical professional in front of you is a great way to set yourself up for substandard care.
by BertramsL | 2026-01-08 16:34:03+00:00
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by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-08 16:34:16+00:00
Not even a napkin calculation on the power levels and Tesla required to have an effect. Come back with this. Until then, quack quack.

Oh and the 49ers injury problems in Part 1 can be explained with the artificial turf at their Santa Clara practice facility. They recently ripped and replaced it with natural grass due to the increase in injuries.
by scrapheap | 2026-01-08 16:34:18+00:00
As a team we use Kanban, so everything being worked on gets a ticket and we walk the Kanban board every morning. So if a task is waiting for someone to review it, then it gets highlighted to the whole team each morning. If a task is blocked until something else happens then it gets highlighted to the whole team.

Walking the board feels a bit awkward and slow at first, but after a few weeks you find that it takes very little time. It certainly works well for us.
by PEACEBINFLOW | 2026-01-08 16:34:32+00:00
Reversible Binary Explainer: Proving Directive-Locked AI Explanations with MindsEye
Part of the MindsEye Series — Auditable, Reversible Intelligence Systems

Modern AI explainers are good at talking about concepts.
They are far less good at proving correctness, enforcing structure, or maintaining reversibility.

This post introduces Reversible Binary Explainer, a directive-locked explainer system designed to enforce deterministic structure, reversible logic, and verifiable execution across binary operations, encoding schemes, memory layouts, algorithm traces, and mathematical transformations — all within the MindsEye ecosystem.

What makes this system different is simple but strict:

The explainer is not allowed to “explain” unless it can prove the explanation can be reversed.

Why Reversible Binary Explainer Exists

Most technical explanations fail silently in three ways:

They mix structure and prose unpredictably

They claim reversibility without validating it

They cannot be audited after the fact

Reversible Binary Explainer addresses this by operating in DIRECTIVE MODE v2.0, where:

Every explanation must use a locked template

Every transformation must show forward and inverse logic

Every step must include MindsEye temporal, ledger, and network context

Any deviation is rejected by the system itself

This turns explanations into verifiable artifacts, not just text.

The Template System (A–E)

The system operates on five directive-locked templates:

Template A — Binary Operations Explainer
Bitwise operations with mandatory inverse reconstruction

Template B — Encoding Scheme Breakdown
Encoding and decoding paths with strict round-trip verification

Template C — Memory Layout Visualization
Pack/unpack guarantees with alignment, endianness, and byte-level recovery

Template D — Algorithm Execution Trace
Step-indexed execution with stored artifacts for backward reconstruction

Template E — Mathematical Operation Breakdown
Explicit forward and inverse math, numeric representation, edge cases, and code

Each template starts LOCKED.
Structure cannot be altered unless explicitly unlocked by command.

Directive Commands and Enforcement

The explainer only responds to deterministic commands:

SHOW TEMPLATES

USE TEMPLATE [A–E]

UNLOCK TEMPLATE [A–E]

SHOW DEPENDENCIES

VERIFY REVERSIBILITY

GENERATE SNAPSHOT

FREEZE ALL

If:

no template is selected

structure edits are attempted while locked

reversibility cannot be verified

the system rejects the request.

This makes the explainer self-policing.

MindsEye Integration

Every explanation is automatically wired into three MindsEye layers:

Temporal Layer

Each step is time-labeled, enabling ordered replay and causal tracing.

Ledger Layer

Every transformation emits a content-addressed provenance record:

operation ID

previous hash

step hash

reversibility flag

Network Layer (LAW-N)

Payload descriptors declare:

content type

bit width

endianness

schema ID

reversibility guarantees

This allows explanations to be routed, validated, and stored as first-class system events.
by bluegatty | 2026-01-08 16:34:44+00:00
I don't believe anything he says.

But his statements are the position of the US government aka the most 'truthful' representation of US policy.

I'm responding to the notion that because he lies and misrepresents, his statements don't count as representative.

If he says 'military force is on the table' for acquiring Greenland, we should assume he means to invade if wants.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-08 16:35:03+00:00
really non-scientifically speaking, the kind of "processed" that seems to be less healthy comes closer to "pre-chewed/digested" and "concentrated" (ground very fine, broken down into constituent parts. Eg: refined flours over whole grains. corn syrup over corn on the cob (or even just frozen whole corn), Fruit juice over sliced fresh/frozen fruit.

A big challenge is how do you make rules/terms for that uneducated (on the topic) folks, disinterested folks, and lower IQ folks (MeanIQ - 1SD) can readily understand and apply in their busy + stressful lives?
by SecretDreams | 2026-01-08 16:35:09+00:00
I do not disagree they will get cheaper, but I pointing out that none of this is being reflected in hardware pricing. You state LLMs are becoming more optimized (less expensive). I agree. This should have a knockon effect on hardware prices, but it is not. Where is the disconnect? Are hardware prices a lagging indicator? Is Nvidia still a 5 trillion dollar company if we see another 33x improvement in "energy consumed per text prompt"?