MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by btown | 2026-01-12 21:51:45+00:00
For those worried about irrevocable changes, sometimes a good plan is all the output.

Claude Code is very good at `doc = f(doc, incremental_input)` where doc is a code file. It's no different if doc is a _prompt file_ designed to encapsulate best practices.

Hand it a set of unstructured SOP documents, give it access to an MCP for your email, and have it gradually grow a set of skills that you can then bring together as a knowledge base auto-responder instruction-set.

Then, unlike many opaque "knowledge-base AI" products, you can inspect exactly how over-fitted those instructions are, and ask it to iterate.

What I haven't tried is whether Cowork will auto-compact as it goes through that data set, and/or take max-context-sized chunks and give them to a sub-agent who clears its memory between each chunk. Assuming it does, it could be immensely powerful for many use cases.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-01-12 21:51:51+00:00
You cannot avoid it either way then, I guess. Either you let the system do it for you, or you take matters into your own hands. But why do you feel it necessary to take matters into your own hands? I think that's the actual question that begs answering. Are you unsatisfied with how the system does the resampling? Does it result in a worse quality than your own implementation of resampling? Or is there another reason?
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-12 21:52:08+00:00
> I've never run into a bug with my 50K+ photos library.

Have you tried dragging & dropping a photo from the Photos app to your desktop to export it as a file?

I just tried it and while the Photos app UI didn't freeze (I guess either my memory is bad and the spinner behavior was on imports, or they fixed it since 2 years ago), but it takes ~3 seconds for a single photo to appear as a file on my desktop (with no UI or any indicator that something is happening), and dragging & dropping 45 photos took over a minute (again with no progress indicator).

Granted, it turns out I didn't have "download originals" on (not sure if it was always like that or got reset during an update) so hopefully for Apple it's that - but I still think at the very least a progress indicator on what seems like a network IO operation is in order (and I wonder what happens if I interrupted my network connection during its operation - does it just silently never complete and my files never appear, actually show an UI, or just crash?).

Edit: well nevermind, despite all the files apparently exporting just fine, ~5 minutes later after initiating the operation I just got a hideous popup that some files failed to export: https://imgur.com/a/SFXZB5N

It's progress, at least it's the first indication in the UI that something was actually happening. You will notice that the error text is truncated, the only way to read it all is to resize the window (no hover text) and for some reason the horizontal scroll in this UI element does not follow your touchpad - you have to scroll, lift your fingers, and ~1 second later the UI suddenly applies your scroll operation.

Also, it turns out that resizing the window finally readjusted the table control and now the table actually matches the size of its container and isn't scrollable anymore. Which might be a good thing as it at least alleviates the bug mentioned previously, but then why did the control initialize oversized to begin with?

Again this is the kind of jank I'd expect from Linux, and nowadays maybe Windows. But not Mac.

> copy the "Originals" folder from the library package

My bad, I wasn't aware of said folder; I treated the "package" as an internal implementation detail equivalent to a proprietary format and wasn't going through it. I don't think it's a fair expectation to have (potentially non-technical) people to right click "Show package contents" while the usual double-click on the file just opens the library in the Photos app.
by AnthonyCalandra | 2026-01-12 21:52:42+00:00
Based on your comment history it seems like you're making an assumption about my intentions here, but I'll bite anyway.

When you build a table, you use a tool as a means to an end, i.e. you use the tool to cut and shape, but you are fully in control and engaged in the process. When you prompt an LLM, you tell it what to do and it does something for you. How is that not the same as telling someone else to build the table for you? You don't say "I built the table", you say "I got someone else to build the table for me."

I think it's great that simonw responded with some information on his process, that definitely helps provide perspective on how he engaged with Claude to make these projects.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-12 21:52:47+00:00
Ideally you have a layer before the LLM that filters out stuff the phone can do without an LLM. The LLM probably shouldn't even have the power to call 911, that should be a layer lower. And probably you don't want to send simple queries like "call XYZ" to the cloud, best to just do it locally.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-12 21:52:49+00:00
My point is that we know very little about the sort of "thought" that we are capable of either. I agree that LLMs cannot do what we typical refer to as "thought", but I thnk it is possible that we do a LOT less of that than we think when we are "thinking" (or more precisely, having the experience of thinking).
by asadotzler | 2026-01-12 21:52:58+00:00
Web search is a core part of browsing and Apple is Google's biggest competitor in browsers. Google is paying Apple about 25x for integrating Google Search in Safari as Apple will be paying Google to integrate Google's LLMs into Siri. If you think depending on your competitor is a problem, you should really look into web search where all the real money is today.
by lefra | 2026-01-12 21:53:43+00:00
I double checked because these were not the prices I had in mind.

After looking through the options, I think that's because the designs I did quotations for had 0.2mm holes. This is standard for Eurocircuits, but high precision for JLCPCB.

Note that to get the price you quoted, you'll get lead in your PCB, and vias that are not plated, but plugged with conductive epoxy. Changing that gets you to $14 for 5 boards, which is still way cheaper than Eurocircuits.

I'll keep that in mind for the next PCB I design: keep holes bigger than 0.3mm if possible.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-12 21:53:56+00:00
Because the internet blackout is being used to hide lethal force against protestors while the regime attempts to regain control.

Iran acknowledges mass protest deaths, but claims situation under control as Trump mulls response - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protests-us-trump-death-to... - January 12th, 2026

> The Washington D.C.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said that, as of Sunday, the 15th day of protests, at least 544 people had been killed, including 483 protesters and 47 members of the security forces. HRANA said the unrest had manifested in 186 cities across all of Iran's 31 provinces.

> The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), which is also based in the U.S., said over the weekend that it had "eyewitness accounts and credible reports indicating that hundreds of protesters have been killed across Iran during the current internet shutdown," accusing the regime of carrying out "a massacre."

> The Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization, based in Norway, said Saturday that it had confirmed at least 192 protesters were killed, but that the number could be over 2,000.

> "Unverified reports indicate that at least several hundreds, and according to some sources, more than 2,000 people may have been killed," IHR said in a statement, adding that according to its estimate, more than 2,600 protesters had been arrested.

(with that said, the US government is likely not impacted and has the intelligence they need for coordinating air strikes, if they elect to proceed with them)
by Johnny555 | 2026-01-12 21:53:59+00:00
The last-mile delivery truck typically covers a very short distance to deliver since deliveries in a neighborhood are batched, so the truck might only drive down one extra 20 foot driveway to make the delivery.

I live in a high rise building, so the delivery cost is even less since Amazon trucks are here every day whether I order or not.

Some items on Amazon are marked "Shorter distance delivery - This item typically ships from a warehouse that is closer than average to you. On average, the shipping of an item from a closer warehouse emits less carbon compared to items shipped from farther away." So the consumer could seek out short-trip deliveries.

But still Amazon has to stock it in a warehouse and maybe ship it from a far away warehouse if it's not in stock at my local warehouse, so there are environmental costs beyond just the delivery truck.
by 8note | 2026-01-12 21:54:06+00:00
i think the review cycles weve been doing for the past decade or two are going to change to match the output of the LLMs and how the LLMs prefer to make whole big changes.

i immediately see that the most important thing to have understand a change is future LLMs more than people. we still need to understand whats going on, but if my LLM and my coworkers LLM are better aligned, chances are my coworker will have a better time working with the code that i publish than if i got them to understand it well but without their LLM understanding it.

with humans as the architects of LLM systems that build and maintain a code based system, i think the constraints are different, and that we dont ahve a great idea on what the actual requirements are yet.

it certainly mismatches with how we've been doing things in publishing small change requests that only do a part of a whole
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-12 21:54:52+00:00
The storage and grid upgrades have essentially removed all power outages in California? Again you operate on old information.

On the other hand California do have an absolutely massive air conditioning load in the summer.

> And that isn't going to be any better with all petrol consumption switching to electric.

Electrifying transportation is expected to add 15-25% extra load. A load that is extremely flexible in when it runs and thus perfectly match renewable intermittency.

In 2025 alone China added 168 GWh of storage.

I think you don’t realize how much even 50 GWh of storage causes the entire Californian grid to transform.

Have a read:

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-solar-storage-spring-2025/
by ripe | 2026-01-12 21:55:12+00:00
It was naked looting. Not just in India by individuals working for the company, but as official acts of the East India Company itself back home in England. A quote:

"In 1767 the company bought off parliamentary opposition by donating £400,000 to the Crown in return for its continued right to govern Bengal. But the anger against it finally reached ignition point on 13 February 1788, at the impeachment, for looting and corruption, of Clive’s successor as governor of Bengal, Warren Hastings. It was the nearest the British ever got to putting the EIC on trial, and they did so with one of their greatest orators at the helm – Edmund Burke.

"Burke, leading the prosecution, railed against the way the returned company “nabobs” (or “nobs”, both corruptions of the Urdu word “Nawab”) were buying parliamentary influence, not just by bribing MPs to vote for their interests, but by corruptly using their Indian plunder to bribe their way into parliamentary office: “To-day the Commons of Great Britain prosecutes the delinquents of India,” thundered Burke, referring to the returned nabobs. “Tomorrow these delinquents of India may be the Commons of Great Britain.”

The revolving door between government and the corporations it was supposed to regulate, was also spinning:

"Lord Cornwallis, the man who oversaw the loss of the American colonies to Washington, was recruited by the EIC to oversee its Indian territories."

The above quotes are from "The Anarchy" by William Dalrymple.
by CRConrad | 2026-01-12 21:55:35+00:00
Yup. Which was why some (probably Nietzsche, but AFAICR several people before him too) called Christianity "a religion for slaves": It's very very useful for elites throughout the ages, from Roman patricians to current techbroligarks, to fob the plebs off with "Your reward will come in the afterlife!"... So they don't make a ruckus about getting any reward for their toil in the present. Or, as Marx (no, not Groucho) put it: "Religion is an opium for the masses"; means the same thing.
by almosthere | 2026-01-12 21:55:46+00:00
Where is this language coming from - White American Though Control is an Evil in the world. I want 10million references for that. That's an insane thing to believe.

The only significant thing the "west" does is build out infrastructure so people can live a good life. That may have in the past depended on labor that was not great, but that was 200 years ago. The current party that wants cheap imported labor is the left. Perhaps the racist leftists should be held accountable to your White American Though Control that's currently on MS-13 Now channel.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-12 21:55:48+00:00
What would you consider a tight sandboxed without exfiltration vectors? Agents are used to run arbitrary compute. Even a simple write to disk can be part of an exfiltration method.
Instructions, bash scripts, programs written by agents can be evaluated outside the sandbox and cause harm. Is this a concern?
Or, alternatively, your concern is what type of information can leak outside of that particular tight sandbox? In this case I think you would have to disallow any internet communication besides the LLM provider itself, including the underlying host of the sandbox.

You brought this up a couple of times now, would appreciate clarification.
by Edmond | 2026-01-12 21:56:30+00:00
Age verification could indeed be implemented in other ways. The approach outlined above is for information verify and trust projection in general, meaning you can put just about any verified information on a certificate and it can be used online.

Here is a concrete example of how trustworthy certificates can be used online, this is my personal profile on bluesky with verification that is independent of the Blue sky service:
https://bsky.app/profile/bitlooter.bsky.social

If you click on the profile image you can enter that code into https://certisfy.com/app to verify the identity of the profile. That sticker could be on any online profile to prove high quality authenticity, it could for instance be on an e-commerce site to prove that the site isn't a scam.
by zahlman | 2026-01-12 21:56:44+00:00
> Can I hear more about the frozen meat? I usually go for chicken thighs or pork (almost always one is on sale), it's about 8-9cad/kg. What's your cuts of frozen meat, and price point?

I wouldn't get anything with the bones in if I can avoid it. Even fresh boneless skinless chicken breast is often under 11 cad/kg.

No Frills carries pre-cooked (I still fry them a bit to give flavour and heat them up) meatballs in 1.5 (used to be 1.8) kg bags for $10. If you check labels and do the math they're a pretty good deal. Ground chicken and turkey can be found a few places at $11 (or at least not much more) for 4 lb (beef has gone up quite a bit though). It's not the most pleasant looking stuff, but it works fine for things like chili.

Pork tenderloin often goes on sale in the cryovac 2-packs for $6.60/kg. Sometimes it's even Canadian produce.

Every now and then I might treat myself to some T-bone steak. It's harder to find on sale now, though, and when it is available it's often "cut from ungraded Mexican beef" which I find rather a turn-off. It's probably been a couple years now, actually.

> Also, no frozen nor canned veggies in your budget?

Frozen vegetables are probably still fine but I got annoyed seeing them go from $4 pre-COVID for a 2kg bag to at least $6.50 now. (I can still remember getting them at $2.79.) Canned have, overall, always been more or less a rip-off in my estimation, but I do still get canned tomatoes on sale. Again, chili is a great way to stretch out meat and get lots of healthy veggies and fiber.

(If you really just can't have pasta without a tomato sauce, 2 parts of crushed tomato to 1 part of a basic cream sauce — one of the many uses for that skim milk powder — should get you fairly close for less money. At least based on my reading the labels and doing some napkin math. I haven't actually tried it.)

> You say it's "what you'd expect"

I meant that things like rice and legumes make up a fair bit of it. (As another side dish, I also buy flour in large bags and make dumplings. Pasta is definitely more expensive than it used to be, but it's really going to be meat that drives expense when you cook for yourself.) I don't really eat on a typical schedule; I tend to cram most of my daily intake into a single meal and snack (and drink tea) the rest of the time.

Best of luck out there.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-12 21:56:56+00:00
I think NaN itself is a bit of an error object, especially in how it's passed through subsequent math functions, which is a different choice than throwing up.

But besides that I think you're right, Invalid Date is pretty weird and I somehow never ran into it.

One consequence is you can still call Date methods on the invalid date object and then you get NaN from the numeric results.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-12 21:57:09+00:00
C++ features exist for a reason but it may not be a reason that is applicable to their use case. For example, C++ has a lot of features/complexity that are there primarily to support low-level I/O intensive code even though almost no one writes I/O intensive code.

I don't see why C++ would be materially better than Zig for this particular use case.
Ask HN: How do you find well-moderated communities
by pllbnk | 2026-01-12 21:58:12+00:00
I started using internet many years ago and it felt vast, with unlimited amount of novel ideas to discover. Now it feels like 90% (speculative number) of online discourse happens on relatively few platforms like Facebook, a site formerly known as Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, and Discord. Most platforms have become slop stores. Reddit is still half-decent but increasingly overrun by bot traffic. Discord communities have no real discovery mechanism and it is concentrated only on present and forces users to follow what's the hot topic right now.

The bot problem is huge because they shape opinions and often are very good at staying undetected by non-expert users.

HN remains one of the few places where, despite its size, moderation has kept the high bar of quality. I can respect a contrary opinion here because I trust an actual person wrote it after genuine thought.

A few years ago I predicted that as bots flood open platforms, people would retreat into smaller, closed communities sized by their capacity to moderate effectively. Although back then it was based on nothing else but a gut feeling, today I already see for myself that it seems to be happening. But this creates a discovery problem: how do you find these places? And there is a tension that healthy communities need fresh members and perspectives but growth makes moderation harder.

How do you find communities with HN-level discourse quality? I am not asking about niche specialist communities but this balanced discussion on a wide variety of topics, not only tech. Also please share your thoughts regarding my prediction about "walled-garden" communities and do you think my prediction is correct?
by Wyverald | 2026-01-12 21:58:19+00:00
Why put it above the _keyboard_, though? what you described sounds just like the macOS menu bar, but perhaps a bit more customizable. Why not just do that (make the menu bar more customizable)?

As a user of the touch bar, I _hated_ having to look down from the screen, and move my hands away from the keyboard home row / touchpad area, _all the way up_ to the touchbar area to finally use it. It completely breaks the flow every single time. I don't think just inserting physical Fn keys beneath it would have won me over at all.

I'm not familiar with the stream deck, haven't even heard of it until just now.
by bpt3 | 2026-01-12 21:58:38+00:00
My intuition is not wrong, and I am absolutely not wrong about GW Bush's approval ratings right after 9/11 (a peak of 99% approval among Republicans) and his approval ratings afterwards through the rest of his first term: https://news.gallup.com/poll/116500/presidential-approval-ra...

Concerning Reagan, I was looking at his 93% approval rating when he left office, and comparing it to Trump's approval rating at the end of his first term, but I am aware there are metrics where Trump would be seen as more popular than Reagan among Republicans, such as minimum approval rating): https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/ronald-reaga...

Trump's militant support among Republicans is irritating to say the least, but there's no need to rewrite history or double down on incorrect statements on your part.
by murph-almighty | 2026-01-12 21:58:41+00:00
>We have standardized tests, already, nationwide.

And voting is legislated by individual states, that would theoretically implement their own standards though this may be intervened upon by the federal government). Heck, even standardized testing for students is done at a state level. The SATs/ACTs are privately administered. What example of a nationwide standardized test for literacy do you have?
by bpt3 | 2026-01-12 21:59:05+00:00
Let's step through these one by one:

> Western governments do not want democracy in Iran.

This is purely speculation, and is not generally true based on statements from Western governments. What I would say is that Western governments want stability in Iran, just like virtually every other nation. If the current leaders in Iran were not sponsoring terrorists across the world, weren't actively pursuing the most dangerous military weapon in existence, and hadn't run their country into the ground, I don't think Western governments would spend much time thinking about Iran or its form of government.

> They want the son of Shah back in Iran, the Shah whose father tortured and exploited Iranians, and that led to the revolution and the rise of the mullahs.

The second part of this is true (the Shah was a poor ruler), but the first does not appear to be true.

> The US and Israel want regime change so Israel can dominate the ME.

I suspect your definition of "dominate the ME" is not very mainstream if you accept this at face value. Iran (along with some other ME nations) has a stated goal of wiping Israel off the map, which Israel strongly disagrees with.

> Just like they replaced Assad in Syria by Jolani, a wanted Al Qaeda terrorist who does not oppose Israel in any way but slaughter kurds and alavites because they are moderate muslims.

How did Western governments replace Assad with Jolani? Do you want the leader of Syria to oppose Israel, or should they attempt to normalize relations with a neighbor? Have you considered that he realizes that he can't win that fight and is attempting to cling to the power he seized during their civil war?

> The revolts in Iran are backed by US/Israel.

Any evidence of this?

> They openly brag about it on every channel.

Any evidence of this?

> They don’t care about Iranian‘s freedoms.

Any evidence of this?

> They are the same who support every dictator in the region if and only if that dictator accepts Israel‘s dominance.

Any evidence of this? Again, Western governments are really looking for stability first, and will accept it if a dictator can provide it based on past behavior.

In short, these are a bunch of highly biased and polarizing statements of opinion, some of which might be backed by a shred of truth but then warped to fit a very specific viewpoint.