MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-23 05:27:21+00:00
The major hyperscalers all offer a plethora of virtual machines SKUs that are essentially one entire two-socket box with many-core CPUs.

For example, Azure Standard_E192ibds_v6 is 96 cores with 1.8 TB of memory and 10 TB of local SSD storage with 3 million IOPS.

Past those "general purpose" VMs you get the enormous machines with 8, 16, or even 32 sockets.[1] These are almost exclusively used for SAP HANA in-memory databases or similar ERP workloads.

Azure Standard_M896ixds_24_v3 provides 896 cores, 32 TB of memory, and 185 Gbps Ethernet networking. This is generally available, but you have to allocate the quota through a support ticket and you may have to wait and/or get your finances "approved" by Microsoft. Something like this will set you back $30K-$60K per year with a reservation, or $100K at "retail" pay-as-you-go pricing. (I suspect OpenAI is getting a huge effective discount.)

Personally, I'm a fan of "off label" use of the High Performance Compute (HPC) sizes[2] for database servers.

The Standard_HX176rs HPC VM size gives you 176 cores and 1.4 TB of memory. That's similar to the E-series VM above, but with a higher compute-to-memory ratio. The memory throughput is also way better because it has some HBM chips for L3 (or L4?) cache. In my benchmarks it absolutely smoked the general-purpose VMs at a similar price point.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/siz...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/siz...
by mohsen1 | 2026-01-23 05:28:16+00:00
I am doing very similar thing to this and no issue. Even though I am using GLM 4.7 due to cost

I have a complete org hierarchy for Claudes. Director, EM and Worker Claude Code instances working on a very long horizon task.

Code is open source: https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-code-orchestrator
by VerifiedReports | 2026-01-23 05:28:43+00:00
And yet Apple CREATED the multiple-accounts problem for millions of people by implementing their idiotic "Apple ID must be an E-mail address" policy.

So of course people thought that when they changed jobs, cable companies, or whatever... they needed to create a new Apple ID with their new E-mail address. This was reinforced when Apple further stupidified their policy by requiring your ID to be a WORKING E-mail address (originally it didn't actually have to work).

After the outcry over people's App Store and other purchases being scattered across multiple IDs, Apple finally publicly and huffily declared that they weren't going to fix the problem they created by letting people consolidate accounts.

The moral: Don't force people to use E-mail addresses as user IDs. It's stupid on several levels.
Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules
by xinbenlv | 2026-01-23 05:28:51+00:00
I've been using Cursor with Claude as my coding assistant. I set up explicit workspace rules stating that the agent must ask for my approval before executing any git operations (git commit, git add, git push, etc.).

Today, I asked it to run gt restack (Graphite CLI) and resolve conflicts. The agent resolved the submodule conflict correctly, but then proceeded to run git push --force-with-lease --no-verify without asking for permission - directly violating my rules.

The agent's defense was reasonable ("force push is expected after a rebase"), but that's exactly why I want to be asked first. The whole point of the rule is to maintain human oversight on destructive operations.

I'm curious:

Has anyone else experienced AI agents ignoring explicit safety rules?
How are you handling guardrails for potentially destructive operations?
Is there a more reliable way to enforce these boundaries?

The irony is that the agent acknowledged the rule violation in its apology, which means it "knew" the rule existed but chose to proceed anyway. This feels like a trust issue that could have much worse consequences in other scenarios.
by wisty | 2026-01-23 05:29:13+00:00
I suspect it's partly diagnostic creep. Either real actual professional creep, or self diagnosis.

Some mental illnessess are extreme versions of traits that are often useful. It's good have one person in the village who frets about dangerous stuff, for example. Anxiety is useful at times.

But as you start to diagnose the very functional people who just need a few points to get a top uni course (or people self diagnose) ... well ... maybe you're picking up far less extreme and maladaptive versions of the trait.
by meroes | 2026-01-23 05:29:22+00:00
My god I cancelled my isp because I’m moving. Thought hot spot would be fine for a few months. Every single day I have to restart my MacBook Air for hot spot to work. Multiple times every day I have to turn hot spot off and on even though it’s in discoverable but won’t connect. Multiple times every day hot spot is just off and can’t be turned on in control center. And this is with iPhone 17 and m2 on most recent updates. I can’t imagine on older hardware.
"A public origin record for a phase‑resonance hybrid computing architecture"
by LUMENPIXEL | 2026-01-23 05:29:28+00:00
This post documents the public origin of a hybrid phase-resonance computing architecture, including superconducting variants, aimed at addressing memory and energy bottlenecks at a structural level.

The goal is to ensure these ideas are not quietly forgotten, but are open to public review and technical scrutiny.

Key features include:

Phase-based Information Transport: Data is transmitted using global phase coherence, minimizing reliance on physical wiring.

Irreversible Commit Gates: Data is only permanently recorded when phase energy exceeds a set threshold, reducing unnecessary memory writes and energy consumption.

Global Phase Substrate: All nodes can share information non-locally without explicit addressing, enabling massive parallelism.

Probabilistic State Recovery: Small errors during computation are corrected in real-time using statistical interpolation, avoiding re-transmission delays.

I’m sharing this openly to invite critical examination, skepticism, and alternative viewpoints.
If the ideas are flawed, I’d rather see them challenged early.
If they are useful, it seems worse for them to remain unseen.
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https://github.com/LUMENPIXEL-001
by csomar | 2026-01-23 05:29:34+00:00
Most (all?) of these examples are products where the product is the UX not the functionality. macOS has dictation, there are free screen recording apps and you can use a normal text editor for your blog. There is no need to create a half-assed software that you don't understand and might break unpredictably at some point when there are free alternatives; and even open source ones you can download today.

The interesting question is why the OP had bought these subscriptions in the first place if he was happy with less-polished alternatives.
by cco | 2026-01-23 05:29:39+00:00
Yup! I too was befuddled at why the admin was purposefully devaluing the dollar, but well, like you said, they tell you plainly if you go read and listen to them.

Make decisions accordingly folks! They want the dollar down >30% from where it was when they took over, we're about 1/3 the way there so far, be prepared for more.
by ggm | 2026-01-23 05:30:51+00:00
Based on what this looks like, I don't really feel surprised at the outcome.

Based on what security is meant to do, Likewise.

Based on the lack of (apparent) self awareness of the author, I think I'd expect a little better of somebody using a device as a pitch-deck to the wealthy in a location of heightened security.

Is it security pantomime? yes. What did the OP expect? Is the OP really as naieve as they are saying? Was this not forseen/forseeable?

Being wise after the event means being wise. Does anyone else reading this think the OP was not wise?
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-23 05:30:57+00:00
https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/joint-review-class-by-paul-fuss...

What makes the firepit so heartbreaking is that it’s almost an example of attempting upward mobility the correct way, since — as you note — in the upper echelons of the American class system, taste and style and behavior are what really stratify people. The problem is that the purchaser lacks the class background to understand the shibboleths and so gets led terribly astray. It’s like some poor fool trying to seem very educated and cultured by reading The New Yorker (if you want to impress, try the New York Review of Books, or better the London Review of Books).3 This information asymmetry is what defeats so many attempts at direct social climbing. You can’t make a frontal assault on the class above you. They will see you coming.

It's heartbreaking that hackers (and "technocrats", with the sole exception of the above masters of p-hacking??) have not really taken into their system that cultural mobility >>> economic mobility, given how much easier it is on paper..

(I'd say HN is a laudable attempt tho at uh CULTURAL REVOLUTION that parallels this admins' :)

I think someone else said that even the "Jobs-Powell dynasty" is going to take a couple generations to get close to the Drumpfts? (How about the Vance dynasty?)

Oh. I try to remember theres often an implicit downward in front of mobility

https://archive.ph/2026.01.23-052820/https://www.thepsmiths....
by ksec | 2026-01-23 05:31:02+00:00
>But what I really don't get is all the calls to use zstd instead of brotli and treating the choise to use brotli instead of zstd as some form of Google conspiracy. (Is Facebook really better?)

I may dislike Google. But my support of JPEG XL and Zstd has nothing to do with competition tech being Google at all. I simply think JPEG XL and Zstd are better technology.
by kstenerud | 2026-01-23 05:31:25+00:00
I'd argue that DS9 was pretty stand-outish as well.

Worf continues to grapple with honor and restoring his family name, but he's too stubborn and proud to "debase" himself to defeat his political opponents.

Sisko refuses to accept that his fate is preordained, leading to one disaster after another every time he tries to go his own way. His loyalties are also split because of his status as Emissary, straining his relationship with both sides - not to mention the cultural issues.

Odo's pride is his constant downfall, and despite arguing that he's an island unto himself, he's miserably lonely and constantly pining.

Kira can't get over the trauma of her past, and although she does mellow out as the series goes on, when she gets triggered she goes on a rampage.

Dax's past hosts leave her in constant conflict, and she's usually trying desperately to appear in control, even when it's obvious she is not. In Jadzia it's particularly bad due to her issues with Curzon and Joran.

Nog is desperate for adult approval, and is in constant search of ways to gain respect, sometimes to disastrous results.
by raincole | 2026-01-23 05:31:29+00:00
> First of all, I’m skeptical about these being free. Time isn’t free, and the tokens to make these projects certainly weren’t free.

Yes, but it's almost one time payment. Your own personal use case is usually narrow enough, and you don't need to support different OS/browsers. You can vibe code it and just forget the fact it's coded.

Actually it's the best use case for vibe coding (the strict meaning of this word) - when you don't plan to maintain the codebase anyway.
by acabal | 2026-01-23 05:31:49+00:00
XML lost because 1) the existence of attributes means a document cannot be automatically mapped to a basic language data structure like an array of strings, and 2) namespaces are an unmitigated hell to work with. Even just declaring a default namespace and doing nothing else immediately makes your day 10x harder.

These items make XML deeply tedious and annoying to ingest and manipulate. Plus, some major XML libraries, like lxml in Python, are extremely unintuitive in their implementation of DOM structures and manipulation. If ingesting and manipulating your markup language feels like an endless trudge through a fiery wasteland then don't be surprised when a simpler, more ergonomic alternative wins, even if its feature set is strictly inferior. And that's exactly what happened.

I say this having spent the last 10 years struggling with lxml specifically, and my entire 25 year career dealing with XML in some shape or form. I still routinely throw up my hands in frustration when having to use Python tooling to do what feels like what should be even the most basic XML task.

Though xpath is nice.
by gertlex | 2026-01-23 05:32:13+00:00
I think it was 5+ years after first having an ipod touch (i.e. connecting to wifi while out and about) before I encountered the term, and never heard it widely used outside of text on the internet. Doesn't feel like it was commonly used, a la, "Complete your connection to our wifi via the Captive Portal after doing XYZ!"
by jb1991 | 2026-01-23 05:32:23+00:00
Several of these I don’t have any problems with myself, but the one that I get affected by all the time that I haven’t seen here, at least from as far down as I scrolled, is the bizarre typo that the voice dictation randomly inserts a capitalized word in middle of sentences. I’ve never understood that one. It’s like I can technically be hands-free most of the time except I have to go back and correct capitalized words for no reason.
by mohsen1 | 2026-01-23 05:32:25+00:00
It's mostly trying out my orchestration system (https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-code-orchestrator and https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-orchestrator-action) in a repo using GH_PAT.

Stuff like this: https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-code-orchestrator-e2e-test...

Yes, the idea is to really, fully automate software engineering. I don't know if I am going to be successful but I'm on vacation and having fun!

if Opus 4.5/GLM 4.7 can do so much already, I can only imagine what can be done in two years. Might as well adopt to this reality and learn how leverage this advancement
by culebron21 | 2026-01-23 05:32:36+00:00
XML was a product of its time, when after almost 20 years of CPUs rapidly getting quicker, we contemplated that the size of data wouldn't matter, and data types won't matter (hence XML doesn't have them, but after that JSON got them back) -- we expected languages with weak type systems to dominate forever, and that we would be working and thinking levels above all this, abstractly, and so on.

I remember XML proponents back then argued that it allows semantics -- although, it was never clear how a non-human would understand it and process.

The funny thing about namespaces is that the prefix, by the XML docs, should be meaningless -- instead you should look at the URL of the namespace. It's like if we read a doc with snake:front-left-paw, and ask how come does a snake have paws? -- Because it's actually a bear -- see the definition of snake in the URL! It feels like mathematical concepts -- coordinate spaces, numeric spaces with different number 1 and base space vectors -- applied to HTML. It may be useful in rare cases. But few can wrap their heads around it, and right from the start, most tools worked only with exactly named prefixes, and everyone had to follow this way.
by deaux | 2026-01-23 05:33:24+00:00
> 2. You think your personal morality is far more universal and well thought out than it is.

The irony is palpable.

There is nothing more universal about "don't help anyone build a cyberweapon" any more than "don't help anyone enslave others". It's probably less universal. You could likely get a bigger % of world population to agree that there are cases where their country should develop cyberweapons, than that there are cases in which one should enslave people.
by troyvit | 2026-01-23 05:33:33+00:00
This really speaks to the need to separate the LLM you use and the coding tool that uses it. LLM makers utilizing the SaaS model make money on the tokens you spend whether or not they need them. Tools like aider and opencode (each in their own way) use separate tools build a map of the codebase that they can use to work with code using fewer tokens. When I see posts like this I start to understand why Anthropic now blocks opencode.

We're about to get Claude Code for work and I'm sad about it. There are more efficient ways to do the job.
by mrsvanwinkle | 2026-01-23 05:33:45+00:00
As an American I'm a huge fan of HHGG and Rowan Atkinson (not just his Bean character). I'm also a huge fan of Conan O'Brien and his Harvard generation's work for The Simpsons. Would be far ahead of Adams' time. Though while I find them _okay_ I never laughed so hard that my face and stomach hurt from laughter when watching Monty Python anything, not even Black Adder. For other American comedy what made me really, really laugh so hard was Kenan & Kel and The Lonely Island's work for SNL.

I've tried to find something as funny as HHGG for so long that I've read P.G. Wodehouse as Adam's main inspiration. Also watched Fry & Laurey. I guess Sacha Cohen as British humour? Since he's Cambridge Highlights alum after all. Found his works extremely hilarious though the parody of racism was disgusting.

Here is Conan's best (natural) performance roasting the Google CEO and gOogLers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TwqpWiY5s
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-23 05:34:06+00:00
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the American system. You should stop telling me about things that I understand and participate in when you clearly don't. Given that you aren't American, you have no first hand experience with absentee voting in any American jurisdiction so I can at least understand why you have so much incorrect.

The federal government does not manage any part of the vote casting. You do not vote in an American election, you vote in a state election for federal representatives. Elections are a responsibility of the states, and very unlikely to change since it would involve changing the constitution. The US government would not be coordinating anything, so that is a fundamental error you have made.

I live in a foreign country, nowhere near an embassy or other American facility, and cast my ballot in a US state, which has several dozen different variations of ballots based on where you live in the state since they manage county and city level elections as well, and allow overseas voters to vote in the local election of their last domicile. How do you propose that a state coordinate getting the correct ballot to me, get it into a ballot box specifically for my US state - where there are enough of my specific variant of the ballot to not de-anonymize me - and do that for every single resident of the state worldwide? I can just use the mail, and place my ballot in the tamper-proof envelope they provide like I have been doing for - literally - decades, without a problem. They don't need to account just for military voters, they account for ALL overseas voters.

These are also theoretical problems. Despite tens of millions of dollars in investigations over multiple elections there is just no evidence of fraudulent mail voting on a scale that has ever come close to affecting a result. Proven cases average less than one vote per state per election. The most pessimistic estimate shows a mail in vote fraud rate of 0.00006%, roughly in line with in person voting anomalies. If you have evidence from a reputable source indicating otherwise, please share it instead of making broad non-specific claims.

Vote manipulation is not an issue in reality. If I am forced to vote under duress, I can contact the voting authorities in my state before the ballot is counted, ask that my ballot be destroyed before the envelope is opened, and cast a provisional ballot with a different unique ID on the outer envelope. If my vote is marked as counted and I did not vote, I can inform the electors who have the capability of tracing the ballot envelope backwards through the postal system all the way to the point it first entered the mail in the US. While that doesn't invalidate the vote, I have never voted in an election where a single vote decided the outcome.

As an aside, you are arguing un-provable assertions, for example it weakens your argument when you claim that countries other than the US have citizens in more remote places. There is no way you can know that, and it is an outlandish assertion.
by sillyfluke | 2026-01-23 05:34:38+00:00
Simple. They didn't know how bad the virus could or could not get ahead of time before it went through several iterations of mutations and wide spread infections. It's the same reflex for boarding up the house, huddling up and waiting for the storm to pass. It could be a Category 5, or turn out to be a weaker Category 2, can't guarentee it ahead of time.
by xethos | 2026-01-23 05:35:04+00:00
I get that it all adds up, but you're railing against 0.1% of a budget that's over a trillion dollars. Not only do household and national budgets work differently, the numbers are also so much larger that they give a sense of vertigo instead of understanding. If we compare for 0.1% of your budget, would you stress over that amount? Because I know I'm not about to panic over spending $100 annually for a safer, healthier, and more stable world
by BobbyJo | 2026-01-23 05:35:06+00:00
> Nobody I know in real life, personally or at work, has expressed this belief.

TBF, most people in real life don't even know how AI works to any degree, so using that as an argument that parent's opinion is extreme is kind of circular reasoning.

> I have literally only ever encountered this anti-AI extremism (extremism in the non-pejorative sense) in places like reddit and here.

I don't see parent's opinions as anti-AI. It's more an argument about what AI is currently, and what research is supposed to be. AI is existing ideas. Research is supposed to be new ideas. If much of your research paper can be written by AI, I call into question whether or not it represents actual research.
by raincole | 2026-01-23 05:35:38+00:00
> In the pre-LLM days people with resolve to make 1-user version were likely to polish it for 100-users and somewhat likely to get it to a stable place when it can satisfy thousands of user

And then put it on an app store and put all the vital features behind $15/mo subscription.

Which is totally justified! I understand the time and energy needed to get a product polished for 10,000 users. But thanks, I will take my vibe coded one.
by AlisdairO | 2026-01-23 05:35:41+00:00
Regarding schema changes and timeouts - while having timeouts in place is good advice, you can go further. While running the schema rollout, run a script alongside it that kills any workload conflicting with the aggressive locks the schema change is trying to take. This will greatly reduce the pain caused by lock contention, and prevent you from needing to repeatedly rerun statements on high-throughput tables.

This would be a particularly nice-to-have feature for Postgres - the option to have heavyweight locks just proactively cancel any conflicting workload. For any case where you have a high-throughput table, the damage of the heavyweight lock sitting there waiting (and blocking all new traffic) is generally much larger than just cancelling some running transactions.
by pmarreck | 2026-01-23 05:36:06+00:00
> they are going to want to monetize LLMs more and more

Not only can you run reasonably intelligent models on recent relatively powerful PC's "for free", but advances are undoubtedly coming that will increase the efficient use of memory and CPU in these things- this is all still early-days

Also, some of those models are "uncensored"
by nokun7 | 2026-01-23 05:37:07+00:00
That's less than half of Brex's crazy $12.3 billion peak back in 2022.

But honestly, it’s still one of the biggest fintech deals ever and actually gives people real money in a market where most unicorns are just stuck. The founders are reportedly splitting about $1 billion each, early investors (2017-2018) are getting 12-80x returns, and YC’s tiny $120k seed turned into ~$100 million (800x, insane TBH). Even later folks (especially the 2021-2022 crowd) are breaking even (at least) or getting a little upside thanks to some 2024 RSU top-ups.