MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hahahacorn | 2026-01-30 21:00:16+00:00
Posting this article in this format reminds me of truly good story writing. Would've been a top 3 pieces of writing all time for me without all of the anecdotes in between. All of the information you need to know is already written without all of the in-your-faceness of the bridge paragraphs between reviews.

Still an amazing story, props to the Verge. But could've been an all time great.
by bluGill | 2026-01-30 21:00:46+00:00
That depends. Sometimes because they have encryption. It isn't hard to have shared keys of some sort. If there is no internet connection on the link (which is possible - I've never seen where both systems connect to wifi, but if they do worry!), and so you don't have to worry about malicious hackers and in turn the encryption is good enough even if done somewhat wrong.

Sometimes they are just send a radio signal and hope nobody else in range is using that frequency.

So again, there are too many different ways this is done to guess. Unfortunately they probably don't put this in the manual.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-30 21:00:49+00:00
Yep, Northern Virginia gets you close to the BosWash megalopolis and pretty close to better than half of the US population. It also gives you access to a highly educated workforce and pretty much no natural disasters of note.

There's also network (pun intended) effects. Northern Virginia has been a major internet hub for a long time, with the first non-government peering point and a bunch of telecom companies, including AOL.

The data center land isn't that expensive anyway. Northern Virginia can be tremendously expensive, but the data centers are built out in the relative sticks. I'm sure the land would be cheaper in Wyoming, but it's cheap enough.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-01-30 21:01:14+00:00
Renouncing your US citizenship is hard, expensive, and has been getting harder and more expensive all the darn time.

If they make losing your US citizenship easy/automatic as part of passing this new law (as many other countries do,) the US is going to lose a lot of citizens, including quite a lot of HNW people who have Caribbean passports. It's the "US Citizens are taxed globally" thing, mostly.
by 0x1ch | 2026-01-30 21:01:31+00:00
The core of bazzite has nothing to do with being from a big company or not. The complaint doesn't make much sense given the foundation Bazzite is actually built on is sponsored and developed by Fedora/RHEL.

Maybe I'm downplaying what the Bazzite team is actually doing, but from afar it is Fedora Silverblue with gaming related tweaks out of the box, probably targeting handhelds and common gaming hardware in testing.

The actual issue of adopting a new operating system is already rearing its head on this thread. "What's Bazzite? What's Silverblue? SteamOS, is that linux? Is that different from this other linux?".

There's too many options for someone that wants to sit down and play a game. Unless a major OEM decides to push Linux on their systems, SteamOS is generally the only real competitor in this space due to reputation and control of the PC gaming market. Time in the market, versus timing the market is what comes to mind here.
by RNanoware | 2026-01-30 21:01:40+00:00
I haven't been particularly active on any social media for a while. It wasn't an intentional decision on my part as much as finding my social community using those tools less and less.

But I remember the early days of MySpace and Facebook with a certain nostalgia, and I'm pained to see the current state of all these tools. Such a thorough report as this gives me a little hope that perhaps an acceptable middle ground can be found for Internet communities at large scales.

I don't think I'll be hopping back in any time soon, but perhaps the research and positive advancements in social media aren't over yet.
by dasil003 | 2026-01-30 21:01:42+00:00
This seems like a purely cynical lacking any substantive analysis.

Despite whatever nasty business practices and shitty UX Windows has foisted on the world, there is no denying the tremendous value that it has brought, including impressive backwards compatibility that rivals some of the best platforms in computing history.

AI shovelware pump-n-dump is an entirely different short term game that will never get anywhere near Microsoft levels of success. It's more like the fly-by-nights in the dotcom bubble that crashed and burned without having achieved anything except a large investment.
by thinking_cactus | 2026-01-30 21:01:46+00:00
> They literally only understand text

I don't see why only understanding text is completely associated with 'schastic-parrot'-ness. There are blind-deaf people around (mostly interacting through reading braille I think) which are definitely not stochastic parrots.

Moreover, they do have a little bit of Reinforcement Learning on top of reproducing their training corpus.

I believe there has to be some even if very primitive form of thinking (and something like creativity even) even to do the usual (non-RL, supervised) LLMs job of text continuation.

The most problematic thing is humans tend to abhor middle grounds. Either it thinks or it doesn't. Either it's an unthinking dead machine, a s.p., or human-like AGI. The reality is probably in between (maybe still more on the side of s.p. s, definitely with some genuine intelligence, but with some unknown, probably small, sentience as of yet). Reminder that sentience and not intelligence is what should give it rights.
by mindslight | 2026-01-30 21:01:50+00:00
Wut? You do realize that being in the presence of law enforcement officers is much different than the situation of being actively assaulted by them, right?

For example, the other day I interacted with a few police officers in person by virtue of being tangentially-involved with a car crash. I laughed and joked with them, then went about my business. But if they had instead been surrounding me in my car with guns drawn, it would have taken me the rest of the day to come down from that.
by w10-1 | 2026-01-30 21:02:29+00:00
fun fact: insider trading in stocks is illegal, but insider trading in real estate is not.

So if someone is even considering buying a big block of land, anyone who knows about it can buy first in the area. That drives confidentiality agreements (which increase the value of being an insider).

Similarly, for large players to make large stock transactions, proceeding through the public markets led to traders seeing the bid/ask volume and act first, making it more costly. That lead to dark pools and off-exchange trading, which has become the majority (in dollar volume) since roughly 2024. So the "public" markets are now just tracking private ones.
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-01-30 21:02:31+00:00
4 AA NiMh would get you 5V, the same coming from the slow charger. Let's say each AA battery holds 2000 mah. To reach 5000 mAH you would need 2.5 AA. Now multiply 2.5 x 4 = 10

The dumb AI read a good estimation.

Carrying 10 AA batteries strapped to your cellphone is not sexy. On the other hand, falling phones would land with the screen up - batteries down.
by stockresearcher | 2026-01-30 21:02:58+00:00
Crap, I was wrong. Bill Ackman is trying to convince Bessent to do it. So while it may happen, it isn’t coming from inside the admin.

One argument is that it could allow for lower rates, BTW. (This is true, it very well could).

And also, if it happened it would be for newly issued mortgages. Existing mortgages have language in the contract that you couldn’t just unilaterally change
by jkillick | 2026-01-30 21:03:03+00:00
F1 fans: now you can get a fully interactive 3D map of all the F1 tracks on the 2026 schedule as well as all the team factories — together with tons of interesting facts about each track and team. Visit maphappenings.com/f1 .

The map was built using the mapping platform Elemap (elemap.com) which provides a super easy way to publish interactive maps and data. It’s kind of like Squarespace, only for interactive maps.
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-30 21:03:12+00:00
> 3M does not provide product information on which filters are best for government repression

That would be the 3M™ Organic Vapor/Acid Gas Cartridge/Filter 60923 [0]. Replace after each exposure or 30 days after opening the sealed packaging for best results. A clean shave is important for a good air seal.

The absolute best protection would be a PAPR (powered air-purifying respirator) with a TR-6530N filter [1] installed. Something like the 3M Versaflo M-407SG[2] would fit the filter and provide impact resistance. It can be fitted with a Speedglas 9100XXi [3] (or 9100X/V) auto-darkening filter for protection against flashbangs.

This is an equivalent PAPR [3] with a better form factor which also includes ANSI Z87.1 rated impact-protection (helpful against projectiles) and auto-darkening lenses (helpful against flashbangs/pyrotechnics). It also still works fine even if you keep a beard. I believe this is part of the Optrel Helix product line, which advertises 14-hour battery life. However, the listing I linked does not come with organic vapor / acid-gas filtration. That requires a different form factor for the filter, the Optrel ABE1P Combination Filter [4] offers A1B1E1P certification (Protects against organic gases/vapors, inorganic gases, acid gases, and particulates)

As 'closewith added, "CBRN" masks are also a good option - they are rated for chemical/biological/radiation/nuclear contamination and are available as riot gear with good impact-resistance.

0: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/dc/v000075263/

1: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/cartridges/manufacturer-mo...

2: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1892506O/3m-versaflo-m-4...

3: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/speedglas-welding-helmets-us/spe...

3: https://www.mcmaster.com/9258n17/

4: https://optrel.us/product/upgradekit-combifilter-swiss-air-5...
by exmadscientist | 2026-01-30 21:03:18+00:00
> 3M does not provide product information on which filters are best for government repression

Just get the one that everyone else does: NIOSH TC-84A-0510 with protection against "Solid Particles, Organic Vapors, Acid Gases, Ammonia, Formaldehyde, Methylamine". Every lab buys this filter, or its manufacturer equivalent, for dealing with god-knows-what, because this one will handle just about anything.
by bahmboo | 2026-01-30 21:03:29+00:00
That would be bad. The reality is that government can't micromanage technology. We could be in an alternate universe stuck with NiCad battery packs and 6v lantern batteries because the laws weren't kept up to date - particularly because the NiCad manufacturers and lantern battery manufacturers dumped money on politicians to cement their position.

I think the most I could get on board with was the mandating of USB C by the EU. You can have whatever connectors you like so long as you have the USB C. And then of course we can get lost in what "USB C" actually is.
by WCSTombs | 2026-01-30 21:04:04+00:00
I briefly had that in the past, but it went away within a day or so. I may have also reset my YouTube/Google cookies. I think sometimes the site cookies get into a weird state, but I believe it can also be that your IP address was flagged for some reason. In the former case, switching browser profiles or deleting cookies should fix the problem, but in the latter case, you'd probably need a VPN or something, and unfortunately some VPNs could also just be blocked outright. You could try Tor as well, but it also won't reliably get you through without logging in, although sometimes just rerolling the dice with the Tor circuit can work.

There could also be other workarounds like VPSes, but TBH I don't know how reliably they can access the site, if at all.
by schiem | 2026-01-30 21:04:19+00:00
It depends on the AA battery, but you'd need 6 - 8 to get equivalent performance.

The Google Pixel 9 has a 4700 mAh battery at 3.9 volts. The total energy is around 18.3 watt hours.

A high capacity rechargeable AA battery is 2500 mAh at 1.2 volts, or around 3 watt hours. If you wired 3 AA batteries in series, and then 2 of those series in parallel (for a total of 6 batteries), that would give you 3.6v at 5000 mAh. 3.6 volts falls within a normal discharge curve for a lithium ion battery, so you probably wouldn't need a boost converter.
by michaelt | 2026-01-30 21:06:06+00:00
According to Wikipedia's article on The Verge [1] "up to nine of Engadget's writers, editors, and product developers, including editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, left AOL, the company behind that website, to start a new gadget site."

So apparently they were once a 'gadget site'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Verge
by retsl | 2026-01-30 21:06:23+00:00
This is true but there's automatic restart which will automatically restart the phone to get it back into BFU state:

> Automatic Restart is a security mechanism in iOS 18.1 iPadOS 18.1 and or later that leverages the Secure Enclave to monitor device unlock events. If a device remains locked for a prolonged period, it automatically restarts, transitioning from an After First Unlock state to a Before First Unlock state. During the restart, the device purges sensitive security keys and transient data from memory.

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...

> [...] inactivity reboot triggers exactly after 3 days (72 hours). [...]

https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/reverse-engineering-i...

GrapheneOS also has this (https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot) with a default of 18 hours.

Maybe one could try to force restart (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph8903c3ee6/io...) to quickly get to BFU. But I could imagine that it'd be hard to remember and then execute the right steps in a stressful situation.
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2026-01-30 21:06:38+00:00
A 5B market cap would imply a P/E ratio of 1.3 and a P/FCF ratio of 0.8, which essentially would be saying “this business is only worth approximately what it made last year”. The corresponding multiples for other auto makers are typically in the high single digits. Even if you believed Tesla’s whole business would collapse tomorrow (i.e. revenue goes to zero) book value is ~83B and net cash is ~29B.
by pdntspa | 2026-01-30 21:07:11+00:00
This is on the pro ($100/mo) plan?

I go through multiple sessions like this per day and it barely makes a dent. And I just keep it in Opus the whole time.

How is it possible that our experiences are so different with essentially the same task?

For reference, my current squeeze is about 30k sloc in Python, half being tests.
by skeam | 2026-01-30 21:07:40+00:00
Flattening makes the vertical path faster even if the company has already optimized there, for instance, if 5% of someone work requires approval, and this person produces 50% more in a day, the 5% to be approved is suddenly way larger, this is one of the over-efficiency side effect that caught my attention.

But it does not remove the horizontal coordination that high-stakes changes require (legal, finance, security, etc), so in a sense I agree, it doesn't totally cure decision making DDoS, but it helps.

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The COVID analogy is interesting, so your assumption is that companies will struggle to make profit because they'll operate changes to handle over-efficiency and these would lead to high financial losses?
by redanddead | 2026-01-30 21:08:11+00:00
The math should've mathed. Better data === lower losses right? They probably weren't able to get it to work quite right on the tech side and were eating fat losses during an already bad time in the market.

It'll come back.

Hey Lemonade or Tesla if you find this, let's collab, i'm a founder in sunnyvale, insurtech vertical at pnp
by krapp | 2026-01-30 21:08:25+00:00
10 years? I promise you there are already people worshiping AI today.

People who believe humans are essentially automatons and only LLMs have true consciousness and agency.

People whose primary emotional relationships are with AI.

People who don't even identify as human because they believe AI is an extension of their very being.

People who use AI as a primary source of truth.

Even shit like the Zizians killing people out of fear of being punished by Roko's Basilisk is old news now. People are being driven to psychosis by AI every day, and it's just something we have to deal with because along with hallucinations and prompt hacking and every other downside to AI, it's too big to fail.

To paraphrase William Gibson: the dystopia is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.
by torginus | 2026-01-30 21:08:51+00:00
Great website, not going to downplay the problem, but you can check out other countries, and see that a lot of places - particularly in the West - are f*cked. That China is too, is not much of an upside, Honestly its kinda shocking how bad things are going to get, and Im not sure what can be done if anything at this point.
by agtestdvn | 2026-01-30 21:09:02+00:00
I work at Windsurf and would love to discuss product-agnostically any ideas/thoughts people have around how we as a community can evaluate models better. I feel like benchmarks like SWEbench are all saturated and gamed/trained on. I also feel like online arenas are mostly used by vibecoders. And our arena mode def isn't the final form factor either!
by 46493168 | 2026-01-30 21:09:04+00:00
If you work for L3Harris, TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV), Clearview AI, Paragon Solutions, AE Industrial, RedLattice, Magnet Forensics, Grayshift, Penlink, Flock Safety, Ring, LexisNexis, or Palantir, you are a fascist.
by bluGill | 2026-01-30 21:09:23+00:00
Alkaline. Rayovac spent a lot of money making alkaline that wouldn't leak (after several years of research one guy's wife asked "why don't you encase them in steel" - turns out that works, or at least that is how I heard the story). They never has the capacity of the more expensive competitors, but for my camping stuff I'll take that trade off. (all too often the last trip of the year I'm throwing everything in a box in the rain, and then it gets stored until next season when I'll just put new batteries in if needed)
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-30 21:09:28+00:00
Perhaps the poster's curiosity is "Why is the Dallas Morning News hiring a faith reporter?"

I follow Ryan Burge and his https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/ Substack to track the decline of religion in the US, so I am very curious about this reporting position, for example; he was also the subject of the piece submitted as Scholar of religion's decline faces his own church's closure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021872 - July 2024 (2 comments)

(his book "The Vanishing Church" is also very good, highly recommend: https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781587436697_the-...)
by swyx | 2026-01-30 21:10:11+00:00
(team member) my comparison matrix of why Product Arenas differ from Global Arenas here: https://x.com/swyx/status/2017342647963431363

the trick is to get it to be usable within context. what started out as a simple evals concept quickly became a lot of debating over how to properly present worktrees in an IDE. hope to hear your feedback.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-30 21:10:22+00:00
> I must admit my appetite in learning new technologies has lessened dramatically in the past decade;

I felt like that for a while, but I seem to be finding new challenges again. Lately I've been deep-diving on data pipelines and embedded systems. Sometimes I find problems that are easy enough to solve by brute force, but elegant solutions are not obvious at all. It's a lot of fun.

It could be that you're way ahead of me and I'll wind up feeling like that again.
by mpyne | 2026-01-30 21:10:42+00:00
Yeah I don't even agree with the conceit that public investment is causing companies to make bad games. You don't make 'good returns' as a video game company with bad video games, I don't care how fancy your financial engineering is. And private investors care about returns just as much as public investors do.

If anything a lot of this is on gamers for continuing to buy shitty games that they complained even at the time were shitty games.

If they'd stopped buying games the lousy companies would have folded, their investors would have eaten a loss, and the game companies that remained would care more about the investors who'd shown more of a long-term focus.
by tzs | 2026-01-30 21:11:03+00:00
> The parking sensors basically don't work at all due to being vision only - and apparently can't be made to work properly

What's stupid about this is that it is hard to come up with a good reason for it. The no LIDAR thing is at least understandable because at the time LIDAR was very expensive. Ultrasonic parking sensors are cheap.

Same for automatic windshield wipers, which have been a significant source of complaints from Tesla owners. Pretty much everyone else uses a dedicated sensor that is simple and inexpensive and works well. Technology Connections has a good video on how it works [1]. Tesla uses vision.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLm7Q92xMjQ
by voldemolt | 2026-01-30 21:11:30+00:00
Holy fuck is this guy blowing smoke up his own ass.

He needs an editor, I’m sure he can afford one.

I look forward to him confronting his existence as he gets to be as old as his neighbor. It will be a fun spectacle. He can tell us all about how he was right all along as to the meaning of life. For decades, no less.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-01-30 21:11:35+00:00
I'm frankly exhausted from AI takes from both pessimists and optimists--people are applying a vast variety of mental models to predict the future during what could be a paradigm shift. A lot of the content I see on here is often only marginally more insightful than the slop on LinkedIn. Unfortunately the most intelligent people are most susceptible to projecting their intelligence on these LLMs and not seeing it: LLMs mirror back a person's strengths and flaws.

I've used these tools on-and-off an awful lot, and I decided last month to entirely stop using LLMs for programming (my one exception is if I'm stuck on a problem longer than 2-3 hours). I think there is little cost to not getting acquainted with these tools, but there is a heavy cognitive cost to offloading critical thinking work that I'm not willing to pay yet. Writing a design document is usually just a small part of the work. I tend to prototype and work within the code as a living document, and LLMs separate me from incurring the cost of incorrect decisions fully.

I will continue to use LLMs for my weird interests. I still use them to engage on spiritual questions since they just act as mirrors on my own thinking and there is no right answer (my side project this past year was looking through the Christian Gospels and some of the Nag Hammadi collection from a mystical / non-dual lens).
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-30 21:12:22+00:00
The key issue in conflicts over scrum is trust. When trust is there it does not really matter what process you use, things go pretty smoothly. People look to process when trust isn't there, but no process can really create or restore trust.

If there is something positive about agile in low-trust situations it is, without agile, people can kick the can down the road a long way (six months!) before there is a confrontation that reveals the low trust problem. With agile it leads to meeting after nerve-wracking meeting... which of course can wear you out.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-01-30 21:12:33+00:00
Believe it or not, in some cities that have near grid-lock rush-hour traffic - there's between 50-100%+ as many people traveling by bus as by car.

If all of those people switch to cars, you end up with it taking an hour to travel 1 mile by car.

It's almost as if they have busses for a reason.
by TheTxT | 2026-01-30 21:12:45+00:00
I actually posted this before watching it completely through… I was just reminded of recent discussions of EV vs ICE cars I have read here and Alec managed to put my thoughts much better into words than I could myself.
After watching it through completely I just feel sad that what he needed to say out loud actually needs to be said at all as it should be obvious (coming from someone watching from the other side of the pond)