MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyanydeez | 2026-01-26 23:05:32+00:00
So I'm curious, whats the actual quality control.

Like, do these guys actually dog food real user experience, or are they all admins with the fast lane to the real model while everyone outside the org has to go through the 10 layers of model sheding, caching and other means and methods of saving money.

We all know these models are expensive as fuck to run and these companies are degrading service, A+B testing, and the rest. Do they actually ponder these things directly?

Just always seems like people are on drugs when they talk about the capabilities, and like, the drugs could be pure shit (good) or ditch weed, and we call just act like the pipeline for drugs is a consistent thing but it's really not, not at this stage where they're all burning cash through infrastructure. Definitely, like drug dealers, you know they're cutting the good stuff with low cost cached gibberish.
by bsimpson | 2026-01-26 23:06:01+00:00
Thanks. I've also seen a derivative called Toshy. They both appear to be surprisingly invasive.

I want something like Sublime Text's keybindings, where I can just iterate over all of KDE's system defaults and ask Gemini to convert them to their Mac equivalents. Can deal with individual applications separately, but since basically the only things I use are Chrome, Ghostty, Sublime, and the KDE shell, it seems like it ought to be pretty straightforward.
by avadodin | 2026-01-26 23:06:08+00:00
What is going on here?

Is one of the implementations wrong(as in not following the IEEE-specified result)? Both?

I mean, ideally, floating point algorithms would have ranges they tolerate but if they are going to expect bit-perfect results, I think the specs should have them covered assuming the implementation is compliant.

I see the GitHub mentions sin(x). I have never dug so deep. Are trigonometric functions left as an exercise to the reader?
by legitster | 2026-01-26 23:06:21+00:00
Yes, it's more correctly labelled as a solvent. Part of their marketing secret is that their product is inherently "addictive" in a way - it can loosen up things quickly but also make them seize more quickly. Which gives users a sense that they constantly need to re-apply WD-40 when most of what you are doing is cleaning up the mess of the previous application.
by qnleigh | 2026-01-26 23:06:30+00:00
To force the tech giants to actually compete with each other for customers, we have to be willing to switch platforms. If you think of yourselfs as Mac or PC (or iOS/Android) person, then these companies can treat you like a reliable asset they can extract value from, rather than a customer they have to please in order to keep.

Personally, I've worked pretty hard over the last few years to make sure that I can easily switch to a different OS. This means avoiding relying on Mac and Windows apps as much as possible, and most importantly having all of my data in portable formats that do not tie me to any specific software.
by ajayvk | 2026-01-26 23:07:03+00:00
Authentication and authorization are important requirements for internal tools. Low-code platforms support authn/authz for app access. Building internal tools with code is much easier now with GenAI, but ensuring proper RBAC access controls remains a challenge.

I have been building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun to try and solve internal tooling deployment challenges. OpenRun provides a declarative deployment platform which supports RBAC access controls and auditing. OpenRun integrates with OIDC and SAML, giving your code based apps authn/authz features like low-code platforms.
by jackdawipper | 2026-01-26 23:07:17+00:00
I still really dont see how solar or wind power the future needs at all. surely nuclear is the only solution longer time. obviously it has to be made safe but why are wasting so much time and money on solar and wind that are demonstably not good for the environments they go into. at scale that is going to be felt because no, actually deserts are not "just empty spaces doing nothing" they have a huge knock on effect when changed either life within them, or how they feed the surrounding non-desert environments. Why is nuclear still the bogeyman when the sun is a nuclear event. cut out the middle man. surely.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2026-01-26 23:07:28+00:00
yeah, this is kind of a definitional example of pedantry. you probably understand what people are trying to say when they talk about "chemicals" but instead of engaging with the actual conversation, you spin off a metanarrative to pick apart the word choice as if that's directly relevant to the point they're trying to discuss.

not trying to pick on you specifically, because sure everything's a chemical, and i don't really care to fight about that, but you asked :)
by jansper39 | 2026-01-26 23:07:30+00:00
> US: "We will invade greenland" EU: "omg we need to invest in greenland and increase its military support, we will send more troops immediately!"

> US: "we will pull out of nato" EU: "omg we hate US we need to massively increase military spending and industry"

It's in both the EU and the US's interest to ensure NATO is the strongest partnership possible and the US's actions over the last few weeks have undermined it almost perfectly.
by tyre | 2026-01-26 23:07:36+00:00
Sorry, just to be clear, the defense that they pulled something out of their ass is that they linked to something that outed them? So they couldn't have actually have been overstating it?

If anything, that proves the point that they weren't rigorous! They claimed a thing. The thing didn't accomplish what they said. I'm not saying that they hid it but that they misrepresented the thing that they built. My comment to you is that the interview didn't directly firmly pressure them on this.

Generating a million lines of code in parallel isn't impressive. Burning a mountain of resources in parallel isn't noteworthy (see: the weekly post of someone with an out of control EC2 instance racking up $100k of charges.)

It would have been remarkable if they'd built a browser from scratch, which they said they did, except they didn't. It was a 50 million token hackathon project that didn't work, dressed up as a groundbreaking example of their product.

As feedback, I hope in the future you'll push back firmly on these types of claims when given the opportunity, even if it makes the interviewee uncomfy. Incredible claims require incredible evidence. They didn't have it.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-26 23:08:17+00:00
>You may not think the reader should be interested or should care at all?

You can but that does not mean you should. If you write under such assumptions your writing will likely not be of much interest to people who don't share your interest, you will be preaching to a choir and much of the choir may be interested in a different aspect or care about it in a very different way than you do. Writing under such assumptions means your writing depends on those assumptions. No idea why you think this is writing-as-bookselling and marketing, preaching to the choir is almost always better for sales than trying to win over people who don't care and are uninterested.
by FpUser | 2026-01-26 23:08:26+00:00
>"I agree though that a strong EU is needed, in part to defend against the US, as well as Russia (until the Russian economy reaches failure)."

So after Russia fails "a strong EU" is no longer needed? Also waiting for Russian economy to fail may prove to be forever and not even desirable. Changing the system of government to one that treats people like it should is much better goal
by smileybarry | 2026-01-26 23:08:50+00:00
If you haven't already, you can ask Google for a refund on that (the second, recent) in-app purchase:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/15574897?hl=en

The policies are "up to 48 hrs after purchase" but I'm sure "purchase does not work at all" is an exception. (It is on iOS)
by toast0 | 2026-01-26 23:08:54+00:00
> If anything, it tastes better, because I imagine Coke doesn't use fresh, expensive essential oils (like neroli) for everything.

I've not participated in Cola tasting, but assuming fresher tastes better isn't really a safe assumption. Lots of ingredients taste better or are better suited for recipies when they're aged. I've got pet chickens and their eggs are great, but you have to let them sit for many days if you want to hard boil them, and I'd guess baking with them may be tricky for sensitive recipies.

Anyway, even if it does taste better for whatever that means, that's not meeting the goal of tasting consistently the same as Coke, in whichever form. If you can't tell me if it's supposed to taste like Coke from a can, glass bottle, plastic bottle, or fountain, then you've told me all I need to know about how close you've replicated it.
by zahlman | 2026-01-26 23:09:14+00:00
> The main reason to avoid flamewars is to protect the atmosphere on HN but you can't make the case that if the world is on fire we can just sit here and pretend it isn't happening

There are three possibilities: you can accept that reasonable people can look at the same evidence and conclude in good faith that the world is not in fact on fire (or that the flames work fundamentally differently from how you think they work); you can forbid one side of the argument from posting; or you can have a flamewar.

The first is my preference, but it clearly isn't happening. The second is antithetical to intellectual curiousity and completely misses the point of why any political discussion is tolerated. The third is of course explicitly against commenting guidelines.

I don't think it's reasonable that I get called a fascist (which is insulting and a serious accusation, by the way) simply because I disagree that something else is fascism. I don't think it's reasonable that I make long, researched comments with citations that take considerable effort on my part, and explain clearly why I see things the way I do, and point out my grievances, and get flagged for it, and also accused of various awful things in the responses. I don't think it's reasonable that I get flagged when I make short comments that simply assert basic objective truths, with the citations that prove them true, for no apparent reason other than that they serve to defend groups and actions that the people throwing the word "fascist" around have already deemed indefensible. I don't think it's reasonable that my submissions get flagged when they point at even-handed legal analyses by people who are presenting them in good faith and without calling anyone names or otherwise being unkind to those who disagree, again with only that apparent reason. I don't think it's reasonable that I get flagged in comments whose purpose is to point out that the above things are happening.

But I have had to deal with all of those things in just the last few days.
by Fwirt | 2026-01-26 23:09:18+00:00
WD-40 works great for its intended purpose. The problem is that they've marketed it the way that the dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding raves about Windex. It's not a good lubricant, as many people have noted, as it evaporates and concentrates contaminants. It's not a good protective coating because again, it evaporates. What it is good at is drying off metal parts, and as a mediocre and cheap rust remover.

If I accidentally leave some pliers or my socket set out in the rain, I soak them with WD-40, scrub off the rust with a wire brush, and wipe off the excess with a towel. It does a decent job of preventing further damage. If I have some rusty parts sometimes I'll throw them in a glass jar, soak 'em with WD-40, shake them around, let them sit for a day or so, and then scrub them with a wire brush. Gets most of the rust off.

If you want a lubricant, just buy the correct one for the job. Silicone oil, lithium grease, graphite, all will do a better job in the long run than WD-40 if you use them in their intended role. My goto "universal lube" personally is "Super Lube", a PTFE-based lubricant which is NSF rated for incidental contact with food and dielectric.
by aucisson_masque | 2026-01-26 23:09:22+00:00
Honestly the greatest thing trump did is help us, French, and maybe Europeans, to get back our sovereignty.

I’m fed up of having to use Americans tech for everything and people getting along with it.

Chinese managed to separate almost completely from the American tech market, eu can do it too.

Maybe get stronger relations with China too, this 70 year old consensus where we must follow the USA whatever the case is finally ending.

For instance, i bet there would a be lot to win if we diplomatically supported China annexion of Taiwan. Cheaper microprocessors, unrestricted access to newly annexed Taiwanese factories.
by wbakst | 2026-01-26 23:09:39+00:00
Hi! I'm William Bakst, one of the co-authors of Mirascope. We're really excited about what we've built in this v2 release. Any and all feedback is welcome with open arms :)

Some useful links:

- [LLM Docs](https://mirascope.com/docs/learn/llm)

- [Why Mirascope](https://mirascope.com/docs/why)

- [Mirascope Quickstart](https://mirascope.com/docs/quickstart)
by monkeydreams | 2026-01-26 23:09:44+00:00
I was doing tech support through the Windows 95/98/ME period and it was hell. Everything either crashed the OS or required a restart if you touched it.

When Windows 2000 rolled around and I saw how stable it was, I went out and bought it to put on my gaming PC. Another friend from work laughed at me and told me how terrible "Windows NT" was for running games until he saw how smooth Starcraft ran on it.

Yeah, Windows 95/98/ME were terrible.
by Esophagus4 | 2026-01-26 23:09:52+00:00
> aggressive, negotiation style born out of his NYC real estate developer days

This is what someone would say if they only know Donald Trump from TV.

Everyone who knows Trump from his NYC real estate days knows that he's (and this is possibly the worst insult any New Yorker can hurl at someone) "a bum." There's a reason NYC would never vote for him.

He doesn't pay his contractors, reneges on legal agreements he himself created, and uses legal threats and fights to screw over anyone he pleases, especially if they can't afford the legal fight. It's a lie-cheat-steal mentality, and might makes right.

It's not like, some hard-nosed NYC negotiating strategy. He's a crook. There's really not much more than that.
by simonw | 2026-01-26 23:10:09+00:00
My goal in the interview was to get to as accurate a version of what they actually built and how they built it as possible.

I don't think directly accusing them of being misleading about what they had done would have supported that goal, so I didn't do it.

Instead I made sure to dig into things like what QuickJS was doing in there and why it used Taffy as part of the conversation.
by scotty79 | 2026-01-26 23:10:16+00:00
It must be anthropomorphization that's hard to shake off.

If you understand how this all works it's really no surprise that reasoning post-factum is exactly as hallucinated as the answer itself and might have very little to do with it and it always has nothing to do with how the answer actually came to be.

The value of "thinking" before giving an answer is reserving a scratchpad for the model to write some intermediate information down. There isn't any actual reasoning even there. The model might use information that it writes there in completely obscure way (that has nothing to do what's verbally there) while generating the actual answer.
by suriya-ganesh | 2026-01-26 23:10:23+00:00
call me a cynic. but I am pretty sure this is a mostly AI written repo.

> Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort... - karpathy[1]

And this honestly is low effort. all commits only have hours in between them

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1756380066580455557?lang=en
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-26 23:10:33+00:00
I think that your outlook on US politics and future leadership is naively optimistic (though I very much hope to be wrong).

First and most importantly, I don't think it should be considered a given at this point that there will be a democraticly elected successor to Trump. It's clear from past attempts and current declarations and actions that the Trump regime will try to maintain power instead of ceding it at future elections - whether they will succeed or not will depend a lot on American institutions and the power of the people.

Secondly, your assertion that only Trump and Jon Bolton agree with the current policies seems deeply wrong. First of all, the VP (with a real chance to be President, given Trump's age and apparent health), seems very much on board. Secondly, much of Trump's policies are based on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 document, including at least some of the foreign policy decisions. Thirdly, a desire to re-orient US foreign policy away from Europe (and thus NATO) and towards China exists in a large part of the traditional foreign policy establishment. Fourth, the leaders of the Democratic Party seem to have learned entirely the wrong lessons from the last election, looking more at which of Trump's policies they should adopt rather than what alternative solutions they can promise to the American people.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-26 23:10:54+00:00
frankly I think much less than people assume. Obviously nuclear weapons need to be taken seriously but we should have taken a much more muscular posture ages ago.

There's this mental cold war image of these people grinding it out to the Armageddon but in reality the entire Russian leadership has their children living in the cities they're threatening. Putin has a daughter that manages an art gallery in Paris. Bullies back down when you punch back and that's the much better framing of modern day rogue actors.
by tgittos | 2026-01-26 23:11:09+00:00
You should, it’s fun.

I have a devcontainer running the Cosmopolitan toolchain and stuck the cosmocc README.md in a file referenced from my AGENTS.md.

Claude does a decent job. You have to stay on top of it when it’s writing C, easy to turn to spaghetti.

Also the fat binary concept trips up agents - just have it read the actual cosmocc file itself to figure any issues out.
by tshaddox | 2026-01-26 23:11:41+00:00
Yeah, I picked them up along with some AA lithium (non-rechargeable) batteries. I also didn't know those batteries existed until recently. I knew there were rechargeable lithium AAs with a charge plug and charging circuitry built into each little cylinder, but I've heard mostly bad reviews of those.

These non-rechargeable ones have pretty good reviews though, and apparently last much longer than normal AAs (both in terms of capacity and storage). I'll probably start putting them in the handful of things I've got that still take AAs.
by keithnz | 2026-01-26 23:12:05+00:00
what's that evidence of? it's also an estimate of all PCs that can upgrade, of 1.5 billion, 500 million still haven't upgraded. Certainly not evidence that people hate it. Many reasons why IT departments may not have upgraded things or why people haven't. In fact, the ones who haven't upgraded kind of are the people who are least likely to know about what windows 11 is like.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-26 23:12:19+00:00
::sigh:: Windows is an AI slop hellhole, and MacOS is way more interested in being flashy than being good. It should be Linux's time to shine as a general-audience desktop OS... but the usability just isn't there.

As everyone points out when talking about Linux usability, it's fine for your grampa who just uses the email client and browser, but those users are switching to tablets, en masse, anyway. It's obviously fine for technically savvy users who are willing to deal with the periodic breakage or other hassle.

Importantly, It's just a bad experience for users who require hardware, software or something else that tablets don't facilitate, but aren't interested in looking through stack overflow posts and reddit threads to see why the 6 year old tutorial for getting their video editing software to work doesn't apply to the distro they just installed because they couldn't figure out how to install their video card drivers on the other distro. And why does that program they used to use to control their firewall not change anything anymore (which to them just looks like the firewall doesn't work, so they can never research their way out of the problem?) And how do I [insert the bazillion other problems that are non-issues for people with the background knowledge, but for everyone else, frustrating, time-wasting brick walls that probably cost them more in lost billable time than multiple copies of Windows 11 Pro.]

I've been using Linux since the 90s but I still don't use it for a lot of my media work. It's just too much of a PITA when I just need to satisfy my use case, which has nothing to do with the OS.

Even the commercial distros like RHEL are just, comparatively... janky. I really wish it was easier to integrate more interface design expertise into FOSS development. The workflows are just super different. This is why commercial products have product managers that can objectively balance and coordinate the efforts between design and development. I think we've gotten to a point where more of the FOSS crowd sees the benefit of competent expert UI designers, but making that practically useful is a tough nut to crack.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-26 23:12:49+00:00
LLMs have been a godsend for throwaway software. I wouldn't want to count the number of hours I've spent hand rolling an application that exists for one purpose for about two weeks and then to the digital graveyard.

Now that LLMs can do it while I make coffee, I can do more useful things with my time like writing business code and posting on HN.

Beyond that, meh.
by krapp | 2026-01-26 23:13:04+00:00
One can see flagged stories and the vast majority including the flagged aren't political in nature. Yet people like yourself single out the minority that are, regardless of how civil the discussion is, and flag them anyway.

So the visibility of these stories isn't the issue, and the quality of discussion isn't the issue, since neither matter.

I wonder what is it that people actually object to?
by mxuribe | 2026-01-26 23:13:25+00:00
I think XP to a degree was indeed peak Microsoft...in that while yes, XP felt bloated at first, then they streamlined it, and it got better....plus its look and feel felt like such a departure from previous Windows....or maybe because it was so vibrantly colored that i was hypnotized. But, i did enjoy XP....but then my favorite Windows version was version 7....because it felt to me like a grown up, optimized version of XP...Running Win7 made me feel like XP was the fisher price/toy version of a windows operating system, and Win7 was the adult version...of course, "thanks" to Windows Vista, by the time Win7 came out, i had already started using linux distros as my daily drivers...and never looked back since then. So, i guess i have Windows vista to thank for going all in on linux....and maybe Win11 will be that for others? :-)
by syphia | 2026-01-26 23:13:28+00:00
Agreed. I think the divide is between code-as-thinking and code-as-implementation. Trivial assignments and toy projects and geeking out over implementation details are necessary to learn what code is, and what can be done with it. Otherwise your ideas are too vague to guide AI to an implementation.

Without the clarity that comes from thinking with code, a programmer using AI is the blind leading the blind.

The social aspect of a dialogue is relaxing, but very little improvement is happening. It's like a study group where one (relatively) incompetent student tries to advise another, and then test day comes and they're outperformed by the weirdo that worked alone.