MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by infecto | 2026-01-26 19:48:44+00:00
I think the point may have flown over your head. I am suggesting you are being dismissive with a distinct lack of thought on your reply. Like said I don’t think state of the art is the right way to describe it but I think trendy is equally wrong from the other side of the spectrum. Models that can deal with vision have some really interesting use cases and ones that can be valuable, in a lot of ways I would say state of the art could describe it but I know to folks that are hopelessly negative, it’s a hard reach so I was trying to balance it for you. Hope that makes sense.
by ratorx | 2026-01-26 19:48:47+00:00
I guess this is also a matter of organisational policy and how much power individual teams/organisational units have.

I would imagine mature organisations without serious short/medium term existential risk due to product features may build some push back mechanisms to defend against the inherent cost of maintaining existing business (ie prioritising tech debt to avoid outages etc).

In general, it is a probably a mix of the two - even if there is a mandate from up high, things are typically arranged so that it can only occupy X% of a team’s capacity in normal operation etc, with at least some amount “protected” for things the team thinks are important. Of course, this is not the case everywhere and a specific demand might require “all hands on deck”, but to me that seems like a short-sighted decision without an extremely good reason.
by UncleEntity | 2026-01-26 19:48:50+00:00
You know, for all my flaws I've always tried my hardest to be on the right side of history.

One can both believe that immigration policy is broken and also that the current way it's being enforced is immoral and unlawful. I took the same oath to the constitution when I joined the military as they did when they went into federal service and can see when when things are going off the rails.

My eulogy should be: "U.S. Paratrooper, Decorated Combat Veteran, Crazy Far Left Agitator"
by hintymad | 2026-01-26 19:49:20+00:00
I think they should (in practice there could be something in the middle). Yes, they may have more bickering with the US, but that's just part of the messy diplomatic process. At the end of the day, we want to see strong allies that share a compatible value system with us. I'm actually more optimistic too: a stronger Europe will earn more respect because of their strength. And that respect will lead to more negotiation instead of more bickering.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-26 19:49:36+00:00
The term was created by Karpathy, meaning one thing, but nowadays many people use the term to refer to any time they are asking AI to write code.

You don't need a "fully agentic" tool like Claude Code to write code. Any of the AI chatbots can write code too, obviously doing so better since the advent of "thinking" models, and RL post-training for coding. They also all have had built-in "code interpreter" functionality for about 2 years where they can not only write code but also run and test it in a sandbox, at least for Python.

Recently at least, the quality of code generation (at least if you are asking for something smallish) is good enough that cut and pasting chatbot output (e.g. C++, not Python) to compile and run yourself is still a productivity boost, although this was always an option.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-01-26 19:50:09+00:00
I don't really think that's fair.

Mastodon started as an alternative software stack for GNU/Social (and Laconica before it) years before ActivityPub even existed. It was created in an already almost decade old community/ecosystem and was competing against a PHP tech stack that was showing its age (which is why Mastodon was created).

Comparatively Bluesky/ATproto was a greenfield project with no pre-existing protocol or community to integrate with. And architecture-wise atproto within like 6 months of their 1.0 release federated/decentralised really really well. Bluesky less so (as it's mainly the appview that is limiting).

Even then though bluesky still works pretty well in a decentralised/federated context if you compare the scale it's operating at relative to mastodon and co back when they were of similar project age. Like the appview architecture at a high level works well but it breaks down once you are at a scale of tens of millions of users. And it'll only take relatively minor tweaks to the internal architecture of the bluesky appview to remove this scaling limitation.

Sorry for the rant but point being the ATproto is doing pretty well decentralisation wise for being ~3 years old and accommodating the sudden explosion of non-technical users on the platform so early in its life.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-26 19:50:17+00:00
I think this is not a "Show HN:" https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com so dang/tomhow can give some advice.

How do you handle water? Can you wash the dish it? Swimming pool? Cooking bread (flour is nasty)? Oil? Direct sunlight for 4 hours?

> We went through multiple prototypes dealing with ball size, raceway depth, and surface finishing before getting consistent 20s spins.

So you have some photos or data collected during these attempts? They may be an interesting technical post. (My lab notebook was a disaster, so I don't expect a very systematic report.)

What are the materials? For some small device we had to use bronce "nuts" over aluminum threads, because apparently aluminium over aluminium get stuck too easily.)
by rglynn | 2026-01-26 19:50:35+00:00
I think of it this way:

Is your goal for the software you write to need constant intervention, or would you say you'd aim for it to run smoothly with few bugs?

The team is akin to a piece of software architecture, only much more complex and comprised (partially) of humans.

You want someone to build that team and then have the team up and running, delivering value. When it breaks, or you want it to do new/different things, you need someone to step in to fix it or change it.
by CodeWriter23 | 2026-01-26 19:50:41+00:00
My high school computer lab instructor would tell me when I was frustrated that my code was misbehaving, "It's doing exactly what you're telling it to do".

Once I mastered the finite number of operations and behaviors, I knew how to tell "it" what to do and it would work. The only thing different about vibe coding is the scale of operations and behaviors. It is doing exactly what you're telling it to do. And also expectations need to be aligned. Don't think you can hand over architecture and design to the LLM; that's still your job. The gain is, the LLM will deal with the proper syntax, api calls, etc. and work as a reserach tool on steroids if you also (from another mentor later in life) ask good questions.
by johnfn | 2026-01-26 19:50:42+00:00
I find one-off anecdotal examples like this to be a bit like discourse around global warming - "Look at that ridiculous polar vortex we had this week! Global warming can't possibly be a thing!" Of course, a trend line comprises many points, and not every point falls perfectly in the center of the line! I'm not necessarily saying you are right or wrong, but your argument should address the line (and ideally give some reason why it might falter) rather than just a single point on that line.
by codyb | 2026-01-26 19:51:02+00:00
This is why Hackernews and all other social media are blocked on my phone which I now leave across the room all day long when at home, and at home when I go out a lot of times.

Now, I read the New Yorker which I had a pile of half read issues. There's one at the table where I eat, one in the loo, one on the couch, and when my brain gets tired of staring at the wall... I pick up a copy when I don't want to do anything particularly creative.

Finishing a good New Yorker article, or a book laying by my bed often expands my worldview, my vocabulary, and my understanding of current events. Reading a ton of comments online has never really produced that same experience even in a place like HackerNews which has (IMO) much higher quality comments than many places.

So you can get back into it! And it seems to be like riding a bike, very easy to get back into. And the more I read, the more I'm happy I'm reading.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-26 19:51:49+00:00
Okay so you didn’t really argue against it being on-topic, just that it bothers you / puts you in a bad mood.

IMO it sounds like you’d be better off reading Linux mailing lists and open source READMEs if you want to avoid politics. Just so happens that right now politics is uncomfortable, but it wasn’t 10 years ago when the interest rate was effectively 0% and the US gov and SV had still some semblance of separation.
by pibaker | 2026-01-26 19:52:03+00:00
Every HN thread on social media or porn inevitably gets overrun with "but think of the children" comments calling for banning kids from social media, or the internet, or from having a phone at all.

And then every time a country actually tries to ban children from the internet, they cry "but my privacy!!!" As if having to hand your id to the state to use the internet isn't exactly what you asked for. As if the regimes most interested in "protecting the kid" aren't exactly the ones who puts you in jail for a meme too spicy.

You reap what you sow. Congrats on making the internet worse.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 19:52:16+00:00
India.

Today India invited President of EU commission on its republic day & I feel like there are discussions on signing free trade agreement.

I was in my car watching it live when I recognized the President of EU commissioner and I was like hey!!

I feel like friendly relations of EU and India are definitely on the rise & I have said this previously as well and talked to my other cousins/family who works in Coding and most agree that a deeper India-EU ties are possible.

One thing we were discussing is if EU could directly invest funds in Indian companies instead of going through 10 layers of councils/commissioning companies but to people who want to either build private solutions (Preferably open source?)

I do feel like that's inevitable too. EU's financing is something which I have heard is tricky within EU itself but there are some recent initiatives to stream line it and perhaps India can even integrate into it if its actually net positive for India.

Overall I feel like I am pretty optimistic about India EU relations (though I feel like I have bias but what do people from EU think respectfully?,I'd be more than happy to answer as I talked to my developer cousin about it for almost 2 days on how EU India integration especially in tech feels so good and inevitable haha :>)
by Sharlin | 2026-01-26 19:52:22+00:00
TBH that sounds like TeamScale just has too verbose default settings. On the other hand, people generally find almost all of the lints in Clippy's [1] default set useful, but if you enable "pedantic" lints, the signal-to-noise ratio starts getting worse – those generally require a more fine-grained setup, disabling and enabling individual lints to suit your needs.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/clippy/
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-01-26 19:52:25+00:00
Funny, the last interview I watched with Karpathy he highlighted the way the AI/LLM was unable to think in a way that aligned with his codebase. He described vibe-coding a transition from Python to Rust but specifically called out that he hand-coded all of the python code due to weaknesses in LLM's ability to handle performant code. I'm pretty sure this was the last Dwarkesh interview with "LLMs as ghosts".
by hamandcheese | 2026-01-26 19:52:26+00:00
No idea what the fairydust kernel is.

For more context, I gooled around and found this Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-EOY-2025-CCC

> On the display side, Asahi Linux developers have been working on the DisplayPort connectivity. For that there are now experimental DisplayPort patches for Asahi Linux via their "fairydust" tree.

That's great news!
by tonymet | 2026-01-26 19:52:27+00:00
I’ve worked at a couple monster corporations who spent a lot of time and money to move off of Google and Amazon, because they were paranoid about espionage, only to return a couple years later at even greater expense.

I doubt the French government will fare any better. They will end up spending hundreds of millions of Euros , maybe a couple billion, and have to return in a couple years. Especially with AI moats being built. AI is far too competitive. Every company will need to employ AI as a Goon ( see David Graber) to defend against all of the AI Goons going after them.
by c0m47053 | 2026-01-26 19:52:41+00:00
The thing is, it's not really children who lose access to this sort of content, it's the user who doesn't want to give Reddit or Twitter or whoever else a copy of their driving licence. Without age verification, they don't see the truth of something like Gaza, because it's ages restricted. They can however view the other, sanitised version of the story.
by amalcon | 2026-01-26 19:52:47+00:00
Others responding to my speech by exercising their own rights to free speech and free association as individuals does not violate my right to free speech. One can make an argument that corporations doing those things (e.g. your Play Store example) is sufficiently different in kind to individuals doing it -- and a lot of people would even agree with that argument! It does, however, run afoul of current first amendment jurisprudence.

Either way, this is categorically different from China's policies on e.g. Tibet, which is a centrally driven censorship decision whose goal is to suppress factual information.
by maxverse | 2026-01-26 19:52:49+00:00
Maybe I'm buying into the cool-aid, but I actually really liked the self-aware tone of this post.

> Based on our benchmarks, we are uniquely good at catching bugs. However, if all company blogs are to be trusted, this is something we have in common with every other AI code review product. One just has to try a few, and pick the one that feels the best.
by MrGilbert | 2026-01-26 19:52:49+00:00
I love the quote from Gregory Terzian, of one of the servo maintainers:

> "So I agree this isn't just wiring up of dependencies, and neither is it copied from existing implementations: it's a uniquely bad design that could never support anything resembling a real-world web engine."

It hurts, that it wasn't framed as an "Experiment" or "Look, we wanted to see how far AI can go - kinda failed the bar." Like it is, it pours water on the mills of all CEOs out there, that have no clue about coding, but wonder why their people are so expensive when: "AI can do it! D'oh!"
by ISL | 2026-01-26 19:53:13+00:00
Scientists use pairs of satellites to map the small variations in Earth's gravitational field. It is possible to see groundwater depletion and changes in distribution of glacial ice, among many things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRACE_and_GRACE-FO

The primary challenge in determining the mass of Earth is actually measuring the gravitational constant, G, itself. Everything else involved is known at much higher precision. The product of G and Earth's mass is known to two parts in a billion, but the uncertainty in G is ~22 parts per million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant

LISA is primarily sensitive to time-varying gravitational gradients on timescales of a fraction of a minute to a few hours and won't be terribly useful for determining the orbits of objects in our solar system. (but it is very, very cool).
by linuxftw | 2026-01-26 19:53:17+00:00
It's too broad of a brush to say 'agriculture.' Clearly, some withdrawals have a greater impact than others. Withdrawing from aquifers in arid areas has a greater long-term impact than water from rivers in wet areas.

Wisconsin produces lots of cheese. Are they using water faster than it's being replaced?

Ocean seafood I have to imagine uses near-zero fresh water.
by santadays | 2026-01-26 19:53:24+00:00
This is entirely too charitable. Basically all this proves is that the agent could run in a loop for a week or so, did anyone doubt that?

They marketed as if we were really close to having agents that could build a browser on their own. They rightly deserve the blowback.

This is an issue that is very important because of how much money is being thrown at it, and that effects everyone, not just the "stakeholders". At some point if it does become true that you can ask an agent to build a browser and it actually does, that is very significant.

At this point in time I personally can't predict whether that will happen or not, but the consequences of it happening seem pretty drastic.
by thesz | 2026-01-26 19:53:30+00:00
Bulgarian Method does not have rest days: https://www.mashelite.com/the-bulgarian-method-is-worth-a-lo...

Alexander Zass (Iron Samsom) also trained each day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zass

"He was taken as a prisoner of war four times, but managed to escape each time. As a prisoner, he pushed and pulled his cell bars as part of strength training, which was cited as an example of the effectiveness of isometrics. At least one of his escapes involved him 'breaking chains and bending bars'."

Rest days are overrated. ;)
by storystarling | 2026-01-26 19:53:44+00:00
The main trade-off I found is the RAM footprint on your backend workers. If you run the model locally, every Celery worker needs to load it into memory, so you end up needing much larger instances just to handle the overhead.

With Ada your workers stay lightweight. For a bootstrapped project, I found it easier to pay the small API cost than to manage the infrastructure complexity of fat worker nodes.
by anonym29 | 2026-01-26 19:53:48+00:00
Hilarious that they think they can prevent motivated people from accessing information using technical measures. China has been working on this for decades. It's a lost battle. Shadowsocks, V2Ray, xray; protocols like vmess, vless, trojan, etc.

The British government, for all their effort (London has a higher density of CCTV than Shanghai) is wasting their time competing for the gold medal at International Totalitarianism Olympics, even the the world's current undisputed loser is losing the internet censorship battle, and always has.

Central planning doesn't work and it never has. That includes central planning of what your citizens are allowed to see, hear, think, and feel.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-26 19:53:52+00:00
Chess960 would also be better if both sides were asymmetrical and there were novel positions for both players in every game.

I go to a chess event 2-3 times a month in the city where I live, and there are a few of us that are big into variants and play a lot of Bughouse, Crazyhouse, Racing Kings, etc. 960 is a bunch of fun but asymmetrical 960 is a blast, and asymmetrical Bughouse 960 / Crazyhouse 960 is the most fun and hard version of chess I've ever played. There is no theory, just pure tactics and reaction.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-26 19:54:08+00:00
Both of those are heavily astroturfed / propagandized. Historically they often did reflect the views of supporters, because the subreddits mirror the talking points presented across all other conservative media - and most conservatives adopt their beliefs from those media sources. Thus, even though the voices you read on the subreddits are mostly "bots", they typically mirror the sentiment you'll hear from the actual people.

However, this is not guaranteed to always be the case - and regardless, the voices on r/conservative and r/asktrumpsupporters are not necessarily actual real people's voices, even if they usually say similar things as real people.

Yes, I recognize this has echoes of the "no true scotsman" fallacy, but it's just an accurate description of the system.
by toss1 | 2026-01-26 19:54:08+00:00
Very interesting, and I suspect somewhat related to the phenomenon in high-performance sports and music where the player or athlete feels they have become one with the instrument or equipment. It happens after a certain level of expertise, and when everything is tuned just right, and often with the flow state.

The perception goes beyond feeling fine sensations in the interface to the instrument/equipment, but literally feeling like it is a part of your body. I've gotten it in both alpine ski racing and sportscar racing. When it is ON, moving a ski or wheel to a particular spot feels the same as when I'd put my foot on a particular rock where running in rough terrain, and often even more part of me than when kicking a soccer ball with my real foot. Both the sensitivity of the feel (feedback) and the precision with which I could execute was just an entire other level, and it is still weird to think of how it was often better feedback & precision than my own foot in a less-skilled situation.
by archagon | 2026-01-26 19:54:19+00:00
I get the sense that many programmers resent writing tests and see them as a checkbox item or even boilerplate, not a core part of their codebase. Writing great tests takes a lot of thought about the myriad of bizarre and interesting ways your code will run. I can’t imagine that prompting an LLM to “write tests for this code” will result in anything but the most trivial of smoke test suites.

I wonder if anyone has used LLMs to generate complex test scenarios described in prose, e.g. “write a test where thread 1 calls foo, then before hitting block X, thread 2 calls bar, then foo returns, then bar returns.”
by zer0zzz | 2026-01-26 19:54:22+00:00
1) Intel and AMD help to implement support in Linux before their chips even ship. Actually a sanitized version of the Intel graphics ISA bspec is actually available to the OSS community too.

Apple on the other hand provides no support. The one nice thing they did do is allow their bootloader to boot non-apple signed OSes. They do not do this on iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Watches, or homepods btw.

2) The GPU ISA changes drastically and often. Its not entirely uncommon for the entire instruction set to change entirely within one generation. Every change to the ISA would require an entire round of new reverse engineering (I suspect, ive never reversed).
by firasd | 2026-01-26 19:54:24+00:00
Ah but I'm not arguing about the rate of change in the trend. I'm saying the signals are decoupled. That is to say an LLM can be as good as a programmer as Linus Torvalds without having even basic knowledge-generalization abilities we assume the median human with no specialized skills would have (when given the same knowledge an LLM has)
by at-fates-hands | 2026-01-26 19:54:37+00:00
The most well known writers (this is their term, few if any graffiti writers I know refer to themselves as artists) are actually the ones who paint trains, not in metro areas. Yes, writers do paint all over metro areas, but that gets buffed out so quickly that the real holy grail is to get up on trains that go all over the country.

Train graffiti allows your art to roam and writers from other cities see it and recognize it. Your creativity proceeds you when you go to other cities to write and expand where you're known.

I live in a large metro and see very little if any gang graffiti. Also, most of the really good stuff? You never know its there because its under bridges, in aqua ducts and other areas few, if any people know about or venture to.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 19:54:39+00:00
I do feel as why demands reason and I am not sure if you can reason with the unreasonable which is what the Canadian speech was about in Davos and then POTUS threatened 100% tariffs again.

Kind of proved the point of America being an un-reliable partner which is what I inferred from Canadian PM's speech & his call for middle economies to connect with each other and strengthen together to have more leverage overall.
by jihadjihad | 2026-01-26 19:55:08+00:00
It really is insane. I really thought we had made progress stamping out the idea that more LOC == better software, and this just flies in the face of that.

I was in a meeting recently where a director lauded Claude for writing "tens of thousands of lines of code in a day", as if that metric in and of itself was worth something. And don't even get me started on "What percentage of your code is written by AI?"