MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by menaerus | 2026-01-06 08:14:06+00:00
Wouldn't Oracle need those 80%+ devs if they wanted to shift their efforts into Heatwave? That percentage sounds too huge to me and if true I believe they won't be making any larger investments into Heatwave neither. There's several core teams in MySQL and if you let those people go ... I don't know, I am not sure what to make out of it but that Oracle is completely moving away from MySQL as a strategic component of their business.
by KeplerBoy | 2026-01-06 08:14:20+00:00
We don't ask that question. In reality everything is done in the cloud. Maybe they package some camera app that applies snapchat-like filters with NPUs, but that's about the extent of it.

Jokes aside: they really seem to do some things like live captions and translations. Pretty sure you could also do these things on the iGPU or CPU at a higher power draw.

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/18/releasi...
by ben_w | 2026-01-06 08:14:28+00:00
> because in the USA you have some very strong constitutional rights that are really hard to bypass.

It exists, but it is being selectively ignored by those in charge. Don't assume it will automatically defend you, especially not pre-emptively:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jail...

https://www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit-fire-challenges-unconst...
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-06 08:15:43+00:00
> Given that inside information makes prediction markets more accurate, why do you believe it doesn't make stock markets more accurate?

He didn't say that it doesn't. It obviously does make stock markets more accurate.

But it tends to drive down the total amount of money available to be invested in stocks, which is compatible with the claim that it makes the market worse at funding productive enterprises.
by defrost | 2026-01-06 08:15:53+00:00
> Isn’t this illegal and a wrong thing to do. (?)

The pseudonymous hacker [...] deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.

As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline.

Root, Hoffmann, and Fuchs claim to have identified the real identity of the websites’ administrator as a woman from Germany.

There's likely a hacking crime of some nature here, but it's reasonably certain a German website administrator could face charges for running a Nazi aligned and themed website in Germany.

> I’d think if the sites are based in the US and the owners decided to take action, they could force this activist to be extradited and face punishment.

US based content owners have had mixed success forcing hackers to be extradited and face punishment in the US.

Many ransomware gangs are still operating, Anna's Archive is still up, ThePirateBay continues to defy Hollywood.

Sure, some hackers are caught and dragged through courts. Many are not. Enough to make your statement questionable.
by scoofy | 2026-01-06 08:17:21+00:00
>Why should we want prediction markets to be fair? I want them to reveal facts about the world.

I do not think this is a reasonable position. The problem is that predicting "real facts about the world" creates a situation where you could take out an place a sizable bet on your neighbors house burning down. Allowing prediction markets is, thusly, inherently problematic. Allowing them to be anonymized with insider information, and you've a recipe for disastrous externalities.
by ytch | 2026-01-06 08:17:48+00:00
https://x.com/Kurnalsalts/status/1962173515815424003

Logic Density (may be inaccurate, also it's not the only metric for performance ): Raipidus 2nm ≈ TSMC N2 > TSMC N3B > TSMC N3E/P > Intel 18A ≈ Samaung 3GAP

But 18A/20A already has PowerVia, while TSMC has Backside Power Delivery in A16 (next generation of N2)
by ggomma | 2026-01-06 08:18:05+00:00
There's something to this, not all resistance is dysfunction.
Sometimes your brain is correctly telling you "this isn't worth it." But I'd push back a little.

The problem isn't always the writing. I've bounced off genuinely excellent long-form pieces—articles I later finished and found deeply valuable, simply because the environment triggered my escape reflex before the content had a chance.

It's like trying to enjoy a good meal in a casino. The food might be great, but everything around you is designed to pull your attention elsewhere. At some point, you stop blaming the chef.

That said, you're right that Parsely won't make bad writing good. If an article is hollow clickbait, reading it one paragraph at a time just reveals the emptiness more slowly. The tool helps me get to the content, what I do with bad content is still "close the tab."

Maybe the real answer is both [better filters for what deserves attention, and better environments for when something does].
by wltr | 2026-01-06 08:18:05+00:00
Google is invested into you having WiFi all the time.

Weirdly, my very old Nexus 6P with the WiFi off, could lie untouched for weeks, with almost no battery depletion. Yet if I turn the WiFi on with near stock Android (meaning no messengers, tens of email accounts, etc, to constantly ping _something_), it just eats the battery within 24 hours tops. Perhaps that’s just the module itself, but I remember flashing LineageOS and having better savings. I have no real numbers to support that right now, although I still have the phone lying around somewhere and could test this some day.
by undeveloper | 2026-01-06 08:18:21+00:00
> "No spinners" gets super annoying when devices go to sleep or internet is spotty. Am I looking at the latest data? Is it safe to turn off my phone / exit the app, or is still uploading? I dunno, let's give it a minute just in case...

This is easily solvable with any sort of sync button. Granted, you may in fact have to at least in name break "no spinners" (but to my understanding not in practice), and shove one in the top right corner of your app when syncing / uploading / downloading is occuring, but obviously it's better than just sitting there and waiting.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-06 08:19:15+00:00
Except the only way to do x*5 work is by your team hiring extra 5 people for you to manage... or, somewhat uniquely to our industry, through automating your own work.

Also, everyone else hears the same memes about "being a force multiplier" too. When everyone is trying to be a multiplier for the team by helping everyone else on it, the result isn't exponential productivity growth - it's drowning in exponential noise.

Like some other commenters correctly observed, the most significant factor is actually whether the company you're in is stable headcount-wise, or growing fast. In a stable company, promos are a contested resource, which makes the requirements arbitrary - you're graded on an ordinal scale, not a nominal one. In a fast-growing company, promos will happen to you, through no effort on your own - you can coast upwards on seniority alone.

In neither situation, consistently performing at the level above you is a differentiating factor.
by btasker | 2026-01-06 08:20:22+00:00
> We have small claims courts in every jurisdiction in the US. It costs $50 to file, and you do not need an attorney.

This particular example is in the UK though.

It's even easier here!

You can issue a Statutory Demand (https://www.gov.uk/statutory-demands) which gives the receiver 21 days to either pay or reach an agreement to pay. Failing to do that can lead to them being wound up.

If, for some reason, you wanted to go the small claims route instead, there's an (ageing) online service (https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome).

Unlike the US, the fee isn't a flat fee, and is tiered depending on the amount being claimed (still cheap though).

I've had to use both in the past.

The developer in this case really has no excuse for airing dirty laundry in public. If they're hosting and not being paid, by all means suspend the site, but don't deface it so there's a message about not being paid carrying the customer's branding.
by bopoku579 | 2026-01-06 08:21:58+00:00
I agree. The infrastructure side is much harder than it looks from the outside, and Gumroad deserves credit for making that boring stuff invisible. What surprised me was how often alternatives focus on surface-level features while assuming payments, refunds, taxes, and trust are “solved” just because Stripe exists. In practice, those details are where a lot of user pain shows up. I’m curious which parts of that stack you’ve seen trip people up the most.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-06 08:22:00+00:00
Xe3 GPU could be super super super great. Xe2 is already very strong, and this could really be an incredible breakout moment.

The CPU are also probably also fine!

Intel is so far ahead with consumer multi-chip. AMD has done amazing with having an IOD+CCD (io / core complex dies) chiplet split up (basically having a northbridge on package), but is just trying to figure out how in 2027's Medusa Point they're going to make a decent mainline APU multi-chip, can't keep pushing monolithic APU dies like they have (but they've been excellent FWIW). Like Intel's been doing with sweet EIMB, breaking the work up already, and hopefully is reaping the reward here. Stashing some tiny / very low power cores on the "northbridge" die is a genius move that saves incredible power for light use, a big+little+tiny design that let's the whole CCD shut down while work happens. Some very nice high core configs. Panther Lake could be super exciting.

18A with backside power delivery / "PowerVia" could really be a great leap for Intel! Nice big solid power delivery wins, that could potentially really help. My fingers are so very crossed. Really hope the excitement for this future arriving pans out, at least somewhat!

Their end of year Nova Lake with b(ig)LLC and an even bigger newer NPU6 (any new features beyond TOps?) is also exciting. I hope that also includes the incredible Thunderbolt/USB4 connectivity Intel has typically included on mobile chips but not holding my breath. Every single mobile part is capable of 4X Thunderbolt 5. That is sick. I really hope AMD realizes the ball is in it's court on interconnects at some point!! 20 Lane PCIe configs are also very nice to have for mobile.

Lunar Lake was quite good for what it was, very amazing well integrated chip, with great characteristics. As a 2+4 big/little it wasnt enough for developers. But great consumer chip. I think Intel's really going to have a great total system design with Panther Lake. Yes!

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-double...
by webdevver | 2026-01-06 08:22:50+00:00
>Isn't it a bit exaggerating to say that users cannot use Snapdragon laptops except for running LLMs?

I think maybe what OP meant was that the memory occupied by the model meant you couldn't do anything alongside inferecing, e.g. have a compile job or whatever running (unless you unload the model once you've done asking it questions.)

to be honest, we could really do with RAM abundance. Imagine if 128GB ram became like 8GB ram is today - now that would normalize local LLM inferencing (or atleast, make a decent attempt.)

ofcourse youd need the bandwidth too...
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-06 08:22:51+00:00
AI fatigue is real. I would guess about 50% of digital technical content in my YouTube feed is now NotebookLM slop.

Don't mistake me for an AI hater. I love using AI in my dev and research work. But having the same scripted low effort content being churned out en mass on every media platform is making curation such a nescessary high maintainance chore.
by bredren | 2026-01-06 08:23:14+00:00
I have been looking at this problem space, including beads recently.

I wasn't able to find something AI-native that supported subissues, and worked across projects. I require git worktrees on my programming work now, and I want it to be able to handle integration with systems like Linear or even GH issues (which was my preferred ticketing system before CLIs emerged)

The idea is in part, ~I have 15 minutes right now, what is the most important thing to put attention to? Be routed to the project and go immediately to work with a CLI.

I'm using Claude Code and codex for programming and administrative chores now. For example, managing the process of finding and selecting an arborist.

My main personal project, focuses on making Claude Code and Codex conversations useful (https://Contextify.sh). I use uses pure markdown (TODOS.md) for issue management and it is at its limit.

I'm less concerned about the DB's storage location. I don't think it needs to be stored with each project, but each project does need to be able to access it.

I suspect that I'll ultimately want to host it.
by corv | 2026-01-06 08:23:41+00:00
The gist dismisses sandbox-2 as “might as well use Docker or VMs” but IMO that misses what makes it interesting.

The PyPy sandbox isn’t just isolation, it’s syscall interception with a controller in the loop.

I’ve been building on that foundation: script runs in sandbox, all commands and file writes get captured, human-in-the-loop reviews the diff before anything executes.

It’s not adversarial (block/contain) but collaborative (show intent, ask permission).

Different tradeoff than WASM or containers: lighter than VMs, cross-platform, and the user sees exactly what the agent wants before approving.

WIP, currently porting to PyPy 3.8 to unlock MacOS arm64 support: https://github.com/corv89/shannot
by Numerlor | 2026-01-06 08:23:51+00:00
Lost faith from what? On x86 mobile Lunar lake chips are the clear best for battery life at the moment, and mobile arrowlake is competitive with amd's offerings. Only thing they're missing is a Strix halo equivalent but AMD messed that one up and there's like 2 laptops with it.

The new intel node seems to be kinda weaker than tsmc's going by the frequency numbers of the CPUs, but what'll matter the most in a laptop is real battery life anyway
by dust42 | 2026-01-06 08:24:09+00:00
Sounds too good to be true. Seriously, if the CEO had any proof, he wouldn't need to hang out on CES. He would be showered with billions of $$$ and investors would fly in from all over the world. Instead he is selling motor cycles? Hard to believe. Why not have at least two different top universities having tested them?At least some insights into their production to verify the claims? And the motorcycle has a 33kWh battery for 600km? At what speed, 40kph?
Good luck to them anyway...
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-06 08:24:42+00:00
> for instance if a prediction market says there’s a 60% chance of an event occurring, and it doesn’t occur, was the market right or wrong? Well it’s hard to say - certainly the market said the event was more likely to occur than not, but only just, and who knows? Maybe the event _only just_ occurred, and very nearly didn’t!

For most events like this, you'd want to see the market spike to 0% or 100% as the deadline approached. And in particular for an event that happens, you want to see the spike to 100% before it happens. Remaining at 60% until after the fact is wrong because the occurrence of the event becomes more certain as it gets closer.

Being "well-calibrated" as you describe is a very bad quality metric in the sense that two sets of predictions can achieve the same calibration profile while differing markedly in quality. The farther the predictions are from 50%, the better they are, but your calibration metric doesn't take this into account.
by dr_dshiv | 2026-01-06 08:24:48+00:00
Some parts of science can be automated and scaled immensely. Like, look at the science that went into building modern large language models. Massive numbers of theory driven empirical experiments. Ironically, not many papers being written about much of it.

In many domains, human ego is the bottleneck— or maybe organizational incentives. Most scientists work largely alone—a lot more could be done with the right leadership.
by Barathkanna | 2026-01-06 08:25:09+00:00
What’s interesting here is Nvidia leaning into end-to-end “reasoning” models for driving instead of ever more brittle rule stacks. If this actually fuses perception, prediction, and planning into a single learned system, it could reduce a lot of hand-tuned logic. That said, the hard part isn’t demos, it’s proving long-tail safety, debuggability, and regulatory trust when the decision-making is largely opaque. The gap between a great model and a deployable driver is still enormous.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-06 08:26:11+00:00
It can be many things, like large car companies staying away from unproven tech or them demanding production capacities too large to gamble with brand new tech.

This niche motorcycle brand has already established business relationships with Donut Lab, they were using Donut Lab's electric motors. Probably the Donut people easily worked out a release pipeline together in a bar or something, which would have taken years with VW.
by ben_w | 2026-01-06 08:26:31+00:00
Microsoft, yes and that would be catastrophic.

For security quality reasons, I hope Apple have made that suggestion impossible, but for law enforcement reasons I doubt it and anticipate a backdoor exists.

Google wouldn't block enough of Android to matter: Core is open source, EU forks/alternatives are likely already under development, and even if not a complete rupture with the US also likely means rapidly getting comfortable with China despite everything, and China already have Android forks.

However, Google docs/sheets/etc are a common business alternative to Microsoft, and therefore such a transatlantic rupture also cuts that. FWIW, I've never encountered a business using LibreOffice etc.
by ehnto | 2026-01-06 08:26:55+00:00
I think a practical measure still useful right now, which does capture a lot of the "non-performance" capabilities of an employee, is as follows:

"Why has my job not been outsourced yet, since it is far cheaper?" Those are probably the same reasons why AI won't take your job this year.

Raw coding metrics are a very small part of being a cog in a company, which is not me saying it will never happen. Just me saying that thos focus on coding performance kind of misses the forest for the trees.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-06 08:27:18+00:00
Apparently it’s been a thing for a while:

What is an AI PC? ('Look, Ma! No Cloud!')

An AI PC has a CPU, a GPU and an NPU, each with specific AI acceleration capabilities. An NPU, or neural processing unit, is a specialized accelerator that handles artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tasks right on your PC instead of sending data to be processed in the cloud.
https://newsroom.intel.com/artificial-intelligence/what-is-a...
by TheDong | 2026-01-06 08:27:22+00:00
> good for America and other shorter-warranty countries, who get to free-ride on any enhanced reliability that this results in.

The EU mandates that in the EU you can change your default navigation app from Apple Maps to Google Maps.

The US isn't getting to free-ride on that, that only works if you move to an EU country.

Why wouldn't apple do the same for US vs EU, if EU has a longer required warranty period, apple can bin processors so the US gets more likely to fail processors and the EU gets more stable chips.

It would be the sort of vindictive malicious compliance apple has been doing with everything else, so I wouldn't put it past them.
by dennemark | 2026-01-06 08:29:22+00:00
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by culi | 2026-01-06 08:30:59+00:00
I don't see this button either (desktop) but searching the HTML gives a <script> that says

window.__LEVEL__ = null; window.__DAILY_MODE__ = true; window.__DAILY_LEVELS__ = [{"id":"FswXDo","date":"2026-01-06","dayNumber":8,"optimalScore":86},{"id":"6UV4Yw","date":"2026-01-05","dayNumber":7,"optimalScore":95},{"id":"VfWi_1","date":"2026-01-04","dayNumber":6,"optimalScore":77},{"id":"CNtGPI","date":"2026-01-03","dayNumber":5,"optimalScore":116},{"id":"tnLvlG","date":"2026-01-02","dayNumber":4,"optimalScore":51},{"id":"Qn9vLs","date":"2026-01-01","dayNumber":3,"optimalScore":74},{"id":"Kj7mXp","date":"2025-12-31","dayNumber":2,"optimalScore":90},{"id":"E03KkY","date":"2025-12-30","dayNumber":1,"optimalScore":68}];

EDIT: the view optimal button appears after submission
by raxxorraxor | 2026-01-06 08:31:34+00:00
Partially true, but it also happened because companies wanted to reduce cost and logistics are cheap. Sometimes this was a necessity to stay competitive. You either prohibit some trade with taxes or it is a race to the bottom to concentrate all production into countries with the lowest possible wages.

Ecological factors from logistics are missed technological development opportunity from not having local production are not factored in here as well.
by Barathkanna | 2026-01-06 08:31:39+00:00
I’ve been using Tailscale to connect remote edge devices into a single network, and one thing that’s always missing is good visibility into what’s actually happening on the tailnet.I hope Tailsnitch will fit that gap nicely if it makes traffic patterns explicit without turning into a heavyweight security product. For setups with distributed devices, this kind of local, understandable observability is really valuable, especially when you want to debug or sanity-check access instead of just trusting that everything is fine.
by lemming | 2026-01-06 08:31:50+00:00
I'm curious, and in the spirit of a true MVP - does this need type, assignee, links or the parent relationship? Do you see the agent using them in practice? It seems like a minimal implementation could do without all of those, and I wonder if they're useful to the agent, or are just documentation for humans.

Since these seem more lightweight/ephemeral, it seems like it would be useful to search upwards for the nearest enclosing .tickets directory, so that subsystems could have separate issues.
by nazgul17 | 2026-01-06 08:35:18+00:00
All abstractions drop some details. If you're unlucky, you removed details that actually matter in some context. You can only make educated guesses.

Another aspect is that some abstractions are too... abstract. The concept they represent is not immediately obvious. Maybe it's a useful concept, but if it's new, it takes time to be internalized by someone for the first time.
by notarobot123 | 2026-01-06 08:35:39+00:00
I think we have crossed the chasm and the pragmatists have adopted these tools because they are actually useful now. They've thrown out a lot of their previously held principles and norms to do so and I doubt the more conservative crowd will be so quick to compromise.

2 years sounds more likely than 2 months since the established norms and practices need to mature a lot more than this to be worthy of the serious consideration of the considerably serious.