MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-29 21:42:39+00:00
There are two, rather fundamentally distinct categories of games that we call "puzzle" games. There's the ones that are simply a series of puzzles based on a similar set of mechanics (Baba is You, Bombe, anything Zachtronics every did), and then there's games where the entire world is a puzzle, where you explore to find clues to solve puzzles that unlock more world and more puzzles, like Myst. Outer Wilds is solidly in the latter category.
by Etheryte | 2026-01-29 21:42:42+00:00
That's one possible way to look at it. The other, perhaps more positive way to look at it, is that similar to autocomplete, AI-assisted tools have made the boring parts less boring and left more space for the interesting bits. I use them every now and then for chores and such which I would put off otherwise, but there is certainly no shortage of interesting problems that they can't tackle. Now I just have more time to focus on those.
by tacostakohashi | 2026-01-29 21:43:15+00:00
The basic pattern is...

1) just shut up and listen and do everything their way for the first 3-6 months, bite your tongue questions about _why_ it's like that, or improvements, just learn _how_ they do it now first. then, after that, suggest your improvements once you have built up some credibility/rapport.

2) chesterton's fence - understand why things are done wrong first, then you will be able to make positive improvements. if you skip that stage, you're likely to just run into the same problems that lead to the original "wrong" choices (again).
by theshrike79 | 2026-01-29 21:43:17+00:00
The competition was this:

Tesla had a very good computer, they were learning how to put a car around it.

Traditional manufacturers (German mostly) had good or very good cars, but they sucked at the computer stuff.

---

And unknown to all, the Chinese learned how to make good cars with good computers built in as those two were trying to achiever their respective goals.
by moktonar | 2026-01-29 21:43:23+00:00
The Waymo driver tech is impressive. That said an experienced driver might have recognized the pattern where a stopped big vehicle occludes a part of the road leading to such situation, and might have stopped or slowed down almost to a halt before passing. The Waymo driver reacts faster but is not able to predict such scenarios by filling the gaps, simulating the world to inform decisions. Chapeau to Waymo anyways
by pxc | 2026-01-29 21:43:42+00:00
I dunno. Tbf that subreddit has a combination of

- a large number of incredibly fragile users
- extremely "protective" mods
- a regular stream of drive-by posts that regulars there see as derogatory or insulting
- a fair amount of internal diversity and disagreement

I think discussion on forums larger than it, like HN or popular subreddits, is likely to drive traffic that will ultimately fuel a backfiring effect for the members. It's inevitable, and it's already happening, but I'm not sure it needs to increase.

I do think the phenomenon is a matter of legitimate public concern, but idk how that can best be addressed. Maybe high-quality, long form journalism? But probably not just cross-posting the sub in larger fora.
by ganzman | 2026-01-29 21:43:44+00:00
I've owned the SII, Note 4 (and a few Pixels in between) and now the S24. The S24 is by far the worst Android phone I've used. Massive battery drain on stand-by, even with AOD off. It has about half the battery live of a Pixel 5. Many accidental touches when in your pocket which will screw up all sorts of settings. Annoying push for their AI. Sub-par fingerprint sensor. The only reason I bought this phone was because it is one of the last compact phones around.
by tptacek | 2026-01-29 21:43:45+00:00
This isn't a felony case. In fact, I'm not sure it ever was? It's not clear from their amended complaint, but they were ultimately charged with simple trespassing, a misdemeanor. Those trespassing charges were themselves dismissed a few months later.

What we're talking about today is the resolution of what looks to me (not a lawyer) mostly like a defamation case. Were they defamed? Absolutely. The problem is, to get anything useful out of a defamation case, you need to demonstrate damages. They were accused of a crime --- per se defamation --- but the point of the suit is to recover damages.

I don't want to be glib, and I'm very prepared to be wrong, but the Dallas County Courthouse Incident is likely one of the top 3 world events to have happened to both these pentesters. They've been cause celebres in the field for years and years. It might be pretty tricky to actually demonstrate damages.
by joshka | 2026-01-29 21:43:59+00:00
I made the "Aardvark Blue" a while back[1] to solve some of the problems that most color schemes have. The goal of this theme is that:

- colors are fairly natural

- background and black are distinct

- grays are naturally ordered avoiding full black

- light and dark colors are distinct from each other

- all colors look good on background, black, dark gray, gray, white

We use this for all the screenshots on https://ratatui.rs and https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui

It's available from the usual places https://iterm2colorschemes.com/, https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/?theme=Aardvark%20Blue, built in to ghostty, extension for vscode etc.

[1]: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/417
by viktorcode | 2026-01-29 21:44:17+00:00
I'm replying to the statement that 30% was always a bad deal, by providing an example that shows that it was a clear improvement on the market of mobile development (as others did the same in this comments section).

In your cavemen logic the closest example would be that nobody killed the first guy; he was forced out of business because a new cave opened nearby and they were selling rocks much cheaper.
by johndough | 2026-01-29 21:44:29+00:00
> (it doesn't hallucinate on this)

But how do we know that you did not hallucinate the claim that ChatGPT does not hallucinate its version number?

We could try to exfiltrate the system prompt which probably contains the model name, but all extraction attempts could of course be hallucinations as well.

(I think there was an interview where Sam Altman or someone else at OpenAI where it was mentioned that they hardcoded the model name in the prompt because people did not understand that models don't work like that, so they made it work. I might be hallucinating though.)
by 15155 | 2026-01-29 21:44:37+00:00
I am not talking about your rights: this is a strawman argument. Nobody is talking about you, an adult citizen - was the context difficult to follow?

Maybe English isn't your first language: when people are talking about "children" - they don't mean typically "adult child."

The children (see: not adults) of illegal immigrants who are deported don't have "less rights" in this case than a citizen child.

Let's follow the thread:

> US citizens were extradited? Who? To where?

>> Invariably someone will shoot back with "citizen children of illegal immigrants."

>>> Do the children of immigrants have fewer rights than other citizens?

How exactly does your "my rights!!!" diatribe make sense in context here? Why would "adult children" be the implication in this sentence?

In case you weren't aware: there has been much recent controversy about families being deported together despite their children being citizens - this is what I was referring to. As an adult citizen, you would not be subject to deportation as you do not need a guardian. Find something else to be outraged about.
by matthewdgreen | 2026-01-29 21:44:48+00:00
In October 2024 I would not have guessed that we'd ever see masked agents killing people on the streets of major US cities, or the US administration immediately accusing the victims of being armed terrorists. Things can change rapidly. By allowing things to get this bad, we have unfortunately forfeited our right to pretend things can't change rapidly. Let's plug in; fix this situation; and then folks can go back to ignoring the news.
by scannyai | 2026-01-29 21:45:05+00:00
I run a small manufacturing distributor and this hit way too close to home. We hired an experienced accountant last year expecting financial analysis and strategy. Instead, she spends 16 hours a week literally typing invoice numbers into QuickBooks.

The math in the article is depressing but accurate - we're paying ~$28k/year for what's essentially clerical work. And the error rate thing is real. Last quarter we paid a vendor $15,000 instead of $1,500 because someone transposed two digits. Took three weeks to sort out.

We finally bit the bullet and set up document automation (using one of those AI OCR tools). Went from 25 minutes per invoice to about 1 minute of review time. Processing 800 invoices/month means we got back roughly 320 hours.

Now she actually does the job we hired her for - cash flow forecasting, vendor negotiations, spotting problems before they become crises. Productivity didn't just improve, it completely transformed.

I'm curious if other folks here have experienced this. Are your finance people actually doing finance, or are they stuck doing data entry that could be automated?
by bombcar | 2026-01-29 21:45:07+00:00
I can think of one company that could launch a phone with some success, if they wanted to. Nintendo.

Nintendo Switchphone2 - it is a Switch that can make phone calls.

Microsoft could do it if they wanted to, and didn't bungle it like the last three times. (lol)

The key in my mind is to NOT compete for the high-end, but as a feature phone.
by jjav | 2026-01-29 21:45:18+00:00
There aren't infinitely many scenarios to consider, but even if that's a figure of speech, there aren't thousands or even hundreds.

If there's ten kids nearby, that's basically ten path scenarios, and that might be reduced if you have great visibility into some of them.

> My brain might be able to quickly assess a handful, but certainly not all.

What would you do if you can't assess all of them? Just keep driving same speed?

If the situation is too overwhelming you'll almost certainly back off, I know I would. If I'm approaching that school block and there's like 50 small kids running around in all directions, I have no idea what's going on and who is going where, so I'm going to just stop entirely until I can make some sense of it.
by ninth_ant | 2026-01-29 21:45:37+00:00
Yup it’s confirmed to be a milk-v pioneer on the link from the embedded video page https://box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released/

Definitely not the latest and greatest RISC-V, interestingly a new Milk-V board was announced quite recently which will use the new spacemit K3 chip.
by Maxatar | 2026-01-29 21:45:40+00:00
This is untrue. The MS Office team is using a non-standard MSVC compiler flag that turns standard #include into header units, which treats those header files in a way similar to precompiled header files. This requires no changes to source code, except for some corner cases they mention in that very blog post to work around some compiler quirks.

That is not the same as using modules, which they have not done.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-01-29 21:45:53+00:00
But the Model S and X are luxury competitors and if Tesla wants to be Toyota/Honda instead of BMW/Mercedes, perhaps they no longer fit in their plans. The issue is they don’t have any other mainstream models besides the 3 and Y. Perhaps they really need bigger CUVs and SUVs that cost less than the X and a higher end Model 3 (like Corolla/Camry or Civic/Accord) to replace them.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-01-29 21:46:01+00:00
In fact I would call that “superhuman” behavior across the board.

The vast vast vast majority of human drivers would not have been able to accomplish that braking procedure that quickly, and then would not have been able to manage the follow up so quickly.

I have watched other parent drivers in the car pick up line at public schools for the last 16 years and people are absolutely trash at navigating that whole process and parents drive so poorly it’s absurd. At least half parents I see on their phones while literally feet away from hitting some kid.
by foobarian | 2026-01-29 21:46:04+00:00
There could be some compelling reasons for one.

- Services like maids or cleaners are usually scheduled, maybe you have to wait and open the door etc. Maybe they can't make it that day because of snow storm etc.

- Services are normally limited to certain hours. With a remote operator, the robot could do laundry all night ran by someone in a different time zone.

- If needed could be operated in shifts.

- Other new use cases could arise, e.g. wellness check on elderly, help if fallen or locked out etc.
by clueless | 2026-01-29 21:46:36+00:00
Could Q.ai be commercializing the AlterEgo tech coming out of MIT Lab?
i.e. "detects faint neuromuscular signals in the face and throat when a person internally verbalizes words"

Yep, looks like that is it. Recent patent from one of the founders: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
by gruturo | 2026-01-29 21:46:55+00:00
> Samsung has no vision.

I entirely agree with you, and profoundly dislike them, but it's clearly working for them if their financials don't lie. While most other manufacturers bleed money, Samsung had healthy profits on smartphones last time I checked. It still puzzles me that anyone would buy them at all, but I've long accepted that I'm not a representative sample.

So given that, I don't see why they would bother coming up with a vision after all this time.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-01-29 21:46:58+00:00
>We brought GPT‑4o back after hearing clear feedback from a subset of Plus and Pro users, who told us they needed more time to transition key use cases, like creative ideation, and that they preferred GPT‑4o’s conversational style and warmth.

This does verify the idea that OpenAI does not make model sycophantic due to attempted subversion by buttering up users so that that they use the product more, its because people actually want AI to talk to them like that. To me, that's insane, but they have to play the market I guess
by matthewbauer | 2026-01-29 21:47:00+00:00
There's also https://github.com/manzaltu/claude-code-ide.el if you're just using claude code.

I like that agent-shell just uses comint instead of a full vterm, but I find myself missing a deeper integration with claude that claude-code-ide has. Like with claude-code-ide you can define custom MCP tools that run Emacs commands.
by mikestew | 2026-01-29 21:47:07+00:00
It's a problem Apple could easily fix: put out another small phone. I'm in the "cold dead hands" camp with our 13 Minis: when the battery dies, get a new one and hope Apple comes to their senses in four years.

OTOH, maybe the iPhone Fold will turn out to not be two giant slabs of glass that still won't fit in your pocket. Maybe it'll be a reasonable size folded up, and big when unfolded. A person can dream...
by stickfigure | 2026-01-29 21:47:21+00:00
> Bipedal robots are an easy drop-in replacement for humans.

Robots that merely walk around are just as useless as humans who merely walk around.

A robot that folds laundry would be useful even if it was built into the washing machine.

The legs are not important. The arms are important. Show me the arms doing something useful, if you can.
by nostrademons | 2026-01-29 21:47:23+00:00
I'd really like to see the video of the incident.

I have a similar school drop-off, and can confirm that the cars are typically going around 17-20mph around the school when they're moving. Also that yes, human drivers usually do stay much closer to the centerline.

However, Waymo was recently cleared to operate in my city, and I actually saw one in the drop-off line about a week ago. I pulled out right in front of it after dropping my kid off. And it was following the line of cars near the centerline of the road. Honestly its behavior was basically indistinguishable from a human other than being slightly more polite and letting me pull out after I put my blinker on.
by pdntspa | 2026-01-29 21:47:39+00:00
It's almost always marketing and some stupid idea someone there had. I don't know why non-technical people try and claim so much ownership over versioning. You nearly always end up with these ridiculous outcomes.

"I know! Let's restart the version numbering for no good reason!" becomes DOOM (2016), Mortal Kombat 1 (2025), Battlefield 1 (2016), Xbox One (not to be confused with the original Xbox 1)

As another example, look at how much of a trainwreck USB 3 has become

Or how Nvidia restarted Geforce card numbering
by QDanteX | 2026-01-29 21:48:04+00:00
I built an experimental runtime that separates concerns instead of bundling everything into a single engine.

Java is used for UI and tooling, Python for orchestration and control, and Rust for the high-performance graphics core (DX12/Vulkan/wgpu).

The goal is fast iteration, minimal legacy, and instant startup — closer to a systems approach than a traditional game engine.

This is a working prototype, not a finished product. Feedback welcome.

"https://x.com/Salazar_INT_Dev/status/2016269949367398892"
by tiahura | 2026-01-29 21:48:26+00:00
All of that is true, but it only means that it should have taken a few hours to sort out instead of 15 minutes. It became a pissing match between the courts and the county and these guy got squeezed. As a lawyer, I can't believe that there wasn't a lawyer for the county telling them that night that this was going to cost them.
by jlhawn | 2026-01-29 21:48:32+00:00
Now I can't stop thinking about _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. It theorizes that this is how humans navigate and experience the real world: Our brains generate what we think the world around is like and our senses don't so much directly process visual information but instead act like a kind of loss function for our internal simulations. Then we use that error to update our internal model of the world.

In this view, we are essentially living inside a high-fidelity generative model. Our brains are constantly 'hallucinating' a predicted reality based on past experience and current goals. The data from our senses isn't the source of the image; it's the error signal used to calibrate that internal model. Much like Genie 3 uses latent actions and frames to predict the next state of a world, our brains use 'Active Inference' to minimize the gap between what we expect and what we experience.

It suggests that our sense of 'reality' isn't a direct recording of the world, but a highly optimized, interactive simulation that is continuously 'regularized' by the photons hitting our retinas.
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-01-29 21:48:50+00:00
all these thing are.. directions. Stuff that has emerged with practicing, empirical, not a stone-cut rules. Each may apply in 99% of cases but not at all in the other 1%.. different 1% for each one. Like, you hold a knife by the handle, not by the blade. But If the handle of a knife breaks-off, you can work with the blade alone - except very-very carefully AND you better know what you're doing.

And rules depend on values anyway. So be ware (become aware) of what the values are, in the specific spot of time and space (and organisation). And learn how to make rules out of them. (universe does not obey "laws" of physics. "laws" of physics describe universe)

Software is knowledge medium. (kind-a self-) executable one. fast-changeable.
So far it needs people to (self-)change. So it is also a communication medium.. between people in space/time.. with all the trickery it entails.
And ever since it existed, progressively more levels of it are generated by machines. But it's people who cause anything.

you think this all sound too philosophical? you're right, because it is. Philosophy is the most base science there is..

yeah, and beware of the possible mild shizophreny when trying to be n concepts /persons at the same time. Might be difficult to explain to others.

but do not be afraid.
and. last but not least :).. have fun

p.s. see me site for more on these topics
by bombcar | 2026-01-29 21:49:38+00:00
Honestly the biggest thing I notice is the 5x zoom camera, everything else is a "wow that's nice" when I do a direct comparison, but I promptly forget about it (similar to looking at 4K HD vs 480i and then promptly forgetting about it when actually watching the movie; so many times I've realized it was using the older smaller file).

Battery life, I guess, if I had to pick something else.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-29 21:50:09+00:00
I have no experience working in the UK, my impression is entirely based on what people there have told me. I've also looked at job postings there. In the US you'll see "or equivalent experience" tacked on, but not in UK, Canada, EU job posts I've seen so far. But I'm very glad to hear you say it's different.
by Thorrez | 2026-01-29 21:50:36+00:00
Why do you think someone intended to kill the baby?

>But the forensic-toxicology laboratory’s measurements showed that his acetaminophen concentration was in the range of what you’d expect to find in a baby’s bloodstream soon after he’d been administered a standard dose.

>“I am familiar with patients whose babies have died after a caregiver gave the opiate directly.”

Maybe the person thought the tylenol-3 would help the baby.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-01-29 21:50:36+00:00
In the US, there is no civilian privilege to physically interfere with an arrest, even if the arrest is later found to be unlawful. Legality is and must be adjudicated after the fact; real-time obstruction is in and of itself a very serious criminal offense.

What may be common at protests is irrelevant, other than perhaps raising the question of why riotous behavior has become an accepted norm among certain demographics. Such behavior as Pretti demonstrated is not — and has never been — constitutionally protected.

Physically inserting oneself between officers and another person constitutes illegal interference, not protected protest, and predictably escalates the risk of serious injury or death — especially in a volatile crowd, when the interference is violent, and especially when the individual is carrying a loaded firearm.

There’s simply no legal right to obstruct law enforcement. Doing so is a serious crime, and, as clearly demonstrated by the ultimate outcome of his consistent pattern of behavior, extremely dangerous.

Which is precisely why the conduct is illegal in the first place, why engaging in it was unjustifiable, and why characterizing it as “protest” is politically motivated sleight of hand.
by VladShumov | 2026-01-29 21:51:35+00:00
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by bluGill | 2026-01-29 21:51:58+00:00
Yes, but in practice that isn't a problem. People do write self modifying code, and jump to random places today. However it is much less common today than in the past. IT is safe to say that most games are developed and run on the developers PC and then ported to the target system. If they know the target system they will make sure it works on the system from day one, but most developers are going to prefer to run their latest changes on their current system over sending it to the target system. If you really need to take advantage of the hardware you can't do this, but most games don't.

Many games are written in a high level language (like C...) which doesn't give you easy access to self modifying code. (even higher level languages like python do, but they are not compiled and so not part of this discussion). Likewise, jumping to arbitrary code is limited to function calls for most programmers.

Many games just run on a game engine, and the game engine is something we can port or rewrite to other systems and then enable running the game.

Be careful of the above: most games don't become popular. It is likely the "big ticket games" people are most interested in emulating had the development budget and need to take advantage of the hardware in the hard ways. That is the small minority of exceptions are the ones we care about the most.