MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2026-01-16 00:00:53+00:00
I disagree with this for the most part. Nvidia's SOC designs have been industry-leading for almost a decade now, dGPUs are not their lifeline or their one-trick pony. They have a diverse base of customers that will schedule meetings with Jensen to re-allocate that fab capacity long before it gets cancelled. Apple doesn't, but Nvidia does.

That's a real difference with the weight that Nvidia brings to the table, versus other customers. Not just the difference in capital, but the demand and diversity at play. There is Nvidia hardware in crop dusters and cruise missiles, datacenters and deep-sea SONAR. Apple kicked out their partners and doesn't even consider paying market-price when TSMC asks them to. They have the money to buy iPhone silicon at-cost, but the iPhone doesn't make enough money to compete with Raytheon's margins. Apple is smaller than you think, and all it takes is a team player to prove it.

The performance side still won't add up in the favor of SOCs anyways. Distributed machines with high-speed interconnect run circles around the fastest Macs that an equivalent budget can buy. Benchmarks all show Nvidia being more power-efficient at raster and compute despite having the more complicated architecture. Nobody is ripping up their dGPU racks to install an SOC cluster right now, datacenters aren't putting their Nvidia cards on Ebay to buy more Ryzen blades. The opposite is happening really; SOCs are being fast-tracked into obsolescence to better handle heterogeneous workloads that homogenous SOCs can't do efficiently.

Your initial claim ("they haven't made economic sense for a while") baffles me. SOCs would be cleaning up shop in the HPC niche, if they were any good at it.
by aforwardslash | 2026-01-16 00:01:08+00:00
> Sovereign-by-design but still runs a software stack that is largely written and maintained by a US staff...

Id argue that very few software components are written (let alone maintained) by US staff. This is basically another major player (there are other sovereign clouds) reading the writing on the wall and doing what is necessary to avoid losing business or being irradiated from the market.

CloudFlare CEO, take notice. Look how the big boys do business and maybe learn a thing or two.
by stared | 2026-01-16 00:01:10+00:00
Communities, in-real-life communities.

Dancing, knitting, cooking, sports, gardening, board games. Which activity is secondary, what is crucial is that people can come (no matter if they feel great or not), can bring friends, with low pressure (so they can sit and talk, no need to actually dance, cook or so).

Regularity is crucial - weekly are the best.
by evanmoran | 2026-01-16 00:01:17+00:00
From what I've seen a ton of people are using Claude Code or Cursor daily. I wouldn't be surprised if most startups are at 100% use right now. The big tech companies are a bit slower, but have started rolling out almost unlimited token use so I wouldn't be surprised if they are above 50% adoption by the end of the year.

Start with Claude Code if you haven't tried it yet as it can edit your files directly and has some pretty fantastic skills/plugins that are quite interesting. (Copilot is quite a bit far behind unfortunately.)
by grvbck | 2026-01-16 00:01:51+00:00
> I encourage you to search (you can use LLMs) to figure out how to print the SSID you're connected to from the CLI.

Yeah, the official Apple support forums are and have always been embarrassingly bad.

I don't use the CLI on my Macs all that often, so there might be a better way to do it, but this works on Tahoe:

networksetup -listpreferredwirelessnetworks en0 | grep -v '^Preferred networks on' | head -1 | xargs

There's also get-ssid:
https://github.com/fjh658/get-ssid
by DimmieMan | 2026-01-16 00:02:24+00:00
Hasn't stopped certain parties from doing the same thing as Italy though, the CSIRO being credible really hurt their efforts though, Murdoch press tried & failed to discredit them with ferocity.

Worst part is, even if price comes down I think they poisoned the idea of nuclear in Australia because their plan was brazenly to keep the coal & gas plants running in the meantime rather than spend money on wind/solar. They didn't even make an effort for their timelines and costs to be remotely believable.
by cardanome | 2026-01-16 00:03:45+00:00
The paycheck?

The vast majority of software projects fail. Honestly, I can't remember ever in my career working on a project I really believed in.

Sometimes I do enjoy the challenge of doing the impossible. Turning a doomed project around or at least minimizing damage. I had some where I thought "this worked out but if anyone but me had been in charge, yeah this would have been a disaster". That feeds my ego. Though I never ever get any thanks from management or any praise. Though this is more of a German culture thing.

There is a reason why burn out is so high in software dev. You are set up to constantly fail. If you succeed against all odds you get more and harder work until you fail.

You got to focus on yourself and find joy in the little challenges. Don't fret over things that you can't change.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-01-16 00:04:35+00:00
Perhaps because the level of respect that Windows has for its users has dropped with each successive version?

Not to mention bloat: I have a keyboard with a dedicated calculator button. On a machine with Core i5 something or other and SSD it takes about 2 seconds for the calculator to appear the first time I push that button. On the Core 2 Duo machine that preceded it, running XP from spinning rust, the calculator would appear instantly - certainly before I can release the button.

But also WinXP was the OS a lot of people used during their formative years - don't underestimate the power of nostalgia.

Also, for some people the very fact that Microsoft don't want you to would be reason enough!

Personally if I were into preserving old Windows versions I'd be putting my effort into Win2k SP4, since it's the last version that doesn't need activating.
(I did have to activate a Vista install recently - just a VM used to keep alive some legacy software whose own activation servers are but a distant memory. It's still possible, but you can't do it over the phone any more, and I couldn't find any way to do it without registering a Microsoft account.)
by mr_toad | 2026-01-16 00:05:23+00:00
If Samsung (or any other fab) were to make Apple chips they wouldn’t learn anything that a good microscope couldn’t already tell them.

Samsung still makes the displays and the cameras for most iPhones. They continued to do business even while engaged in legal action. That they are still competitors wont stop them doing business when it suits them. Business doesn’t care about pride or loyalty; only money.
by ghm2199 | 2026-01-16 00:05:45+00:00
Litestream.io is amazing. Using sqlite as a DB in a typical relational data model where objects are related mean most read then write transactions would have to one node, but if the using it for blobs as first class objects(e.g. video uploads or sensor data) which are independent probably means you can shard and scale your set up the wazoo right?
by lovich | 2026-01-16 00:05:51+00:00
Bruh, with some very rare exceptions like valve, every company is run as a dictatorship or oligarchy. That goes beyond tech, hell big tech at least gives some agency to their engineers.

The only way you don’t need to be versed in compliance or group think at a US firm as an employee is to either be

1) independently wealthy, so your job is a hobby you can walk away from

2) have some leverage on a currently in demand skill, but the second that leverage evaporates they will demand the compliance

Also I realized I undersold it, they aren’t just run as dictatorships/oligarchies, they are usually run as command economies as well.

The whole capitalist competition style behavior only happens with inter firm interactions, not internal ones
by adrian_b | 2026-01-16 00:06:47+00:00
Presumably one would want to use Ed448 in order to achieve for session key establishment or for digital signing a level of security comparable to using for encryption AES with a 256-bit key.

ED25519 has a level of security only comparable with AES with an 128-bit key.

Nowadays many prefer to use for encryption AES or similar ciphers with a 256-bit key, to guard against possible future advances, like the development of quantum computers. In such cases, ED25519 remains the component with the lowest resistance against brute force, but it is less common to use something better than it because of the increase in computational cost for session establishment.
by gchallen | 2026-01-16 00:06:49+00:00
I've built several bespoke "apps" that are essentially Claude Code + a folder with files in it. For example, I have Claude Coach, which designs ultimate frisbee workouts for me. We started with a few Markdown files—one with my goals, one with information about my schedule, another with information about the equipment and facilities I have access to, and so on. It would access those files and use them to create my weekly workout plans, which were also saved as files under the same folder.

Over time this has become more sophisticated. I've created custom commands to incorporate training tips from YouTube videos (via YT-DLP and WhisperX) and PDFs of exercise plans or books that I've purchased. I've used or created MCP servers to give it access to data from my smart watch and smart scale. It has a few database-like YAML files for scoring things like exercise weight ranges and historical fitness metrics. At some point we'll probably start publishing the workouts online somewhere where I can view and complete them electronically, although I'm not feeling a big rush on that. I can work on this at my own pace and it's never been anything but fun.

I think there's a whole category of personal apps that are essentially AI + a folder with files in it. They are designed and maintained by you, can be exactly what you want (or at least can prompt), and don't need to be published or shared with anyone else. But to create them you needed to be comfortable at the command line. I actually had a chat with Claude about this, asking if there was a similar workflow for non-CLI types. Claude Cowork seems like it. I'll be curious to see what kinds of things non-technical users get up to with it, at least once it's more widely available.
by qudat | 2026-01-16 00:07:22+00:00
This is a very cool idea and I like the simplicity of the business model! SSH has a ton of great features and its ergonomics are excellent for terminal enthusiasts. Most of us want to ssh into our cloud compute anyway. As a founder of an ssh platform (https://pico.sh) I just wanted to say welcome and good luck!

Also If you ever want to chat about ssh feel free to reach out!
by krunkworx | 2026-01-16 00:07:28+00:00
I'll walk you through what I did:

1. Codex setup the skeleton xcode project
2. I prompted it to add a sound for every keystroke and leave placeholder names for the audio
3. I recorded the audio of keystrokes and added to the folder codex told me to add to.
4. I then asked it to review the xcode project from the perspective of apple's app store policies. And then asked it to rectify them all.
5. I ensured there's no API calls or logging of keystrokes (this is arguable the main value add I had during the build)
6. Submitted to the app store. Passed review.
7. Codex for landing page and asked for placeholder images.
8. Submit to HN and have a beer giving a toast to the career I once had
by array_key_first | 2026-01-16 00:07:28+00:00
Yes, but they do constitute an accurate one.

The point here is that the people currently in charge hold 100% of the power, and they're misusing it. You don't have any power, nor do I, nor do the poor American citizens who may or may not be executed.

They, the people in power, do not require your good will or help. They're already maxed out. They are already 100% legitimate and in control. While it might be nuanced to argue ICE as an institution is one which should exist, it's also just doing more harm.
by larodi | 2026-01-16 00:07:40+00:00
Yeah, and oscillators ringing together in an FFT choir based on notes from a diffused image is absolutely, totally not an AI, just algorithms. Really, why be so rude, given you understand the math behind it? Obtuse is not a nice word, not something I would say to people at random. Because, you see, back in the day generative grammars were called AI, so were so many other discreet structures which are employed in music generation, sorry production, on an everyday basis.

Algorithmic progression generation IS IN USE for years, sorry you didn't mention, or perhaps you don't listen that much to everyday radio. Markov chains, constraint solvers, and rule-based harmony live in many VSTs... the fact there are so many "experimentors" out dare winding knobs to match a pleasurable pattern, does not change the fact they be 100% ignorant about the 'deux ex machina'.

I'm surrounded by producers having absolutely no clue about the vast amount of actual AI and actual probabilistic algorithms that make their "unique" sounds possible. And all of them are 100% ignorant of what AI means when they say it, because they don't mean a specific thing.

How is this not AI? Or one needs an transformer-based model to call it AI? This whole story did not start an year or two ago, you may be late for history class though. The fact there's been this moving marketing concept of what "AI" actually is, does not change the reality of most modern music (including acoustic) at some point of the production process getting artificially enhanced by honestly super-complex systems that are intelligent enough to do what otherwise would take 20x more effort to get right.
by duxup | 2026-01-16 00:08:12+00:00
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”

-Hannah Arendt

I think people in power who work with other powerful friends to do each other favors and such are attracted to the efficiency and ease totalitarianism promises. If getting things done like "Hey I don't really have to follow THESE laws because we're buddies right?" works, they like that idea...
by minimaltom | 2026-01-16 00:08:18+00:00
Fascinating! So each GPU is partnered with disk and NICs such that theres no oversubscription for bandwidth within its 'slice'? (idk what the word is) And each of these 8 slices wire up to NVLink back to the host?

Feels like theres some amount of (software) orchestration for making data sit on the right drives or traverse the right NICs, guess I never really thought about the complexity of this kind of scale.

I googled GB200, its cool that Nvidia sells you a unit rather than expecting you to DIY PC yourself.
by 6r17 | 2026-01-16 00:08:29+00:00
Yeah.... no thx. Hard voice against it and anything that comes from the US. There is tons of stuff that is genuinely cool, we got tons of stuff it would be barbaric to spit in the soup.

However I'm pretty sure at this point that even the GAFAM are tired of this situation and that they don't care if giants their size show up in Europe. I'm genuinely thinking that what is also happening with AI (eg : free knowledge drop) is some kind of mechanism to allow those new giants to emerge in other places than US.

Being the bright star that takes all the broken stuff on the head is not always the smartest move - at some point if you are blocking everything from showing up just because you exist, you are just slowly creating conflict against you - which i'm pretty sure the GAFAM are not interested in.

I'm pretty sure there is a lot of power dynamic shift happening just now, AI bubble is just a tool that permit it -- the amount of startups that are allowed to launch on the simplest product are crazy --

tldr : creating incumbents then beating them is a display of power ; not caring is a display of power, having too much money is a display of power, being blocked due to political and social movement is weakening the velocity of these entities - i'm pretty sure atp that creating new giants in Europe would help them more than to continue in what appears like a colonialist endeavor - which they probably don't like either (they just want to market and win)

Idk I might be extrapolating like a mad man
by lazarus01 | 2026-01-16 00:08:35+00:00
Your ideas are quite weak and you ask for overwhelming proof, but not willing to read any research. That’s just intellectually lazy.

Perhaps if you took some time to learn from the experts, those who create these systems and really understand what’s happening you would realize these limitations in AI are widely known.

Take a look around the 5 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/PqVbypvxDto?si=gZq-2yEuE4sTeQZe

Just understand you are dead wrong in your assumptions.
by aforwardslash | 2026-01-16 00:09:04+00:00
> I doubt it. You should ask her. If she is 10 years or older, she certainly has some favourites. If she has social media, ask her who she follows. I am sure there are a bunch of actors & actresses in her list

16 and nope, she doesnt really care about actors/actresses as she doesnt really follow tv/cinema/streaming; she consumes mostly youtube,f1 and korean stuff. From what I've seen, this is not uncommon.
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-16 00:09:13+00:00
> really is a strong tell

AFAIK that's the style of ChatGPT specifically. I haven't noticed that particular turn of phrase turn up in Gemini output, for example. Even if using GPT, via the Open AI playground you can easily control the system prompt and adjust the style and tone to your taste.

So if you see the default ChatGPT style, that's not "just" AI slop, it's low effort AI slop.

What annoys me personally is that both ChatGPT and Gemini like to output bullet point lists with the first key phrase highlighted in bold for each item. I do that! I've been doing that for years! Now many of my customers will likely start assuming my writing is mere AI slop.

I've become tempted to leave typos in my writing on purpose as a shibboleth indicating its human origins.
by richardfeynman | 2026-01-16 00:09:42+00:00
This whole affair should get much more attention. If one topic on Wikipedia can be so manipulated, any topic on Wikipedia can, and it's no longer a reliable source of knowledge.

I hope The Wikimedia Foundation can get its act together, and I admire the courage of Jimmy Wales for speaking up about this, but I've also stopped donating. I want no part of this.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-16 00:09:58+00:00
Yes, that's certainly true. I guess what I was alluding to is that I think ethics should inform all decision-making, including business. A bad idea isn't necessarily unethical, although the execution of it (or even a good idea) can be. Unless the idea harms unconsenting others.

Generally, it's not what you sing, it's how you sing it.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-16 00:10:03+00:00
> the M5 in the iPad Pro outperforms every chip made by EVERYONE else in the world

No, it does not. The core inside the M5 is faster than every other core design in single-threaded burst performance. That is common for small machines with a low core count and no hyperthreading.

The chip itself does not outperform every other chip in the world, nor is it 10x more efficient than the 9950X3D. That's not even napkin math at that point, you're making up numbers with no relation to relevant magnitude.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-16 00:10:04+00:00
TSMC holds the real power. Apple’s stability and Nvidia’s cash both matter but AI demand is distorting the entire semiconductor ecosystem. There are no easy exits. Building fabs, switching suppliers or waiting out the cycle all carry massive risk.

In the long run, competition (where via Intel, Samsung or geopolitical diversification) is the only path that benefits anyone other than TSMC
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-16 00:10:08+00:00
People, including the subject of this post, are more powerful in life on the basis of their literacy, numeracy, confidence, wide familiarity with a broad range of topics and social skills, notably their command of speech acts and attuning to/clicking with others.

The biggest educational determinator of life outcomes is literacy and the biggest determinator of career outcomes not already set at birth is social fluency.

Some suggested reading for the OP that other commenters haven't already touched on:

Tears (2014) - by Kevin Simler, ex-product manager for Palantir Technologies, Inc.: https://meltingasphalt.com/tears/

How Stanford teaches AI-powered creativity (2025) - by Jeremy Utley, director of executive education at the Hasso Plattner school of design: https://youtu.be/wv779vmyPVY

A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language (2016) - by David Moser, former Dean of the Yancheng school at Peking University: https://archive.org/details/billionvoiceschi0000mose

Pre-ASI: The case for an enlightened mind, capital and AI literacy in maximising the good life (2025) - by Hock (pseudonym): https://alitheiablog.substack.com/p/pre-asi-the-case-for-an-...

The Resourceful Life (2023) - by Venkatesh Rao, ex-Xerox consultant and author: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2023/07/06/the-resourceful-life/
by paradox460 | 2026-01-16 00:10:30+00:00
Not always. I had to learn early in my career that sometimes when the founder says they want your honest opinion on something, your expertise, they're lying and just what you to affirm their ideas. You don't, they get mad, and eventually they have to do a layoff or fire you, simply for disagreeing

Everyone likes to pretend it doesn't happen. But ask around and you'll find many people have experienced it
by saghm | 2026-01-16 00:10:32+00:00
I don't really see how it's possible to be transparent about decisions for something this large without it being somewhat complex to follow the paper trail. If enough stuff from a discussion is written down, it's going to be complex. If the discussions aren't recorded in a publicly accessible way, that's clearly even less transparent. And if the scope of the discussions for something as large as Wikipedia haven't scaled with proportion to the amount of content being discussed, most of the decisions would probably not have been discussed at all, either due to individuals making them on their own (which is not particularly transparent, since there's no visibility into how they reached those decisions), or it was automated in some way (which is at most only as transparent as it would be to have the human who implemented the automation directly in charge of making the decisions, but in practice often is the least transparent option of all because most of the time automated moderation is almost always relying on ML or something similar).
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-16 00:10:33+00:00
New York Magazine, not a technical publication by any means, also had an article about Claude Code/Cowork yesterday: [0]. Kinda punches a hole in the argument you sometimes see around here that "ChatGPT is the only brand consumers know, so OpenAI will definitely win."

[0]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-claude-code-cowo...
by Teknoman117 | 2026-01-16 00:10:52+00:00
Maybe it’s ironic that I’m saying this because right now I’m scrolling HN while waiting for my flight to board rather than trying to strike up conversations with people … but when I was riding the bus home a few days ago, I got fed up with the algorithmic feed (too many “you’re single because you don’t follow a dating coach that will tell you to gaslight people” ads in a row). I put my phone away and just decided to take in the scene around me.

Every other person was on their phone. Started wondering what these people did with their day, what new restaurants they discovered, what quirky thing they may have seen in the city. Conversations that might have been had if people weren’t afraid to strike up conversations with strangers. (something I definitely struggle with myself too)

Anyways, random thoughts as usual.