MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulryanrogers | 2026-01-11 14:27:40+00:00
> ...so far nobody has figured out to socially engineer that outcome

Isn't forced busing a counter example? When I was younger it increased my exposure to different races and expanded my friend groups. By the 90s my family had moved a few times and the bussing had ended nearly everywhere. Things were far more 'naturally' segregated without some forcing function.

Coworkers with similar bussing experiences said their friend groups were also more diverse than peers or younger generations who didn't have it.

Civil rights legislation (and enforcement) also ended phenomenon like whites-only businesses and bathrooms. Changing some centuries old racism may just take longer than we expect.
by localhost | 2026-01-11 14:27:41+00:00
First thank you for coming up with this idea. Love it. In the spirit of "tools for thought" I think this scratches an important itch.

Someone called the output "egregious, obviously referential LLM dog". And someone else called this trail an example of that: https://trails.pieterma.es/trail/tempo-gradient/

What struck me when reading it was that I parachuted into that trail with zero context. So I asked an LLM to generate some surrounding context for me: this is the verbatim prompt that I just gave gpt-5.2/medium running in my own agentic harness:

> read this: https://trails.pieterma.es/trail/tempo-gradient/. then i want you to write a short essay that shows the relationship between the different quotes making sure to use each quote in the process. the narrative should help me understand the links between the different quotes in each book in context. feel free to use your own knowledge of the books and your general knowledge to make this an approachable thing. what another llm did here is cool - it found relationships between this set of quotes. now i want you to materialize them into a compelling essay that invites curiosity and teaches me something. write the essay to tempo-gradient.md and respond in chat with how you thought about the problem and whether you thought these relationships were meaningful.

This was my agent's response:

Wrote the essay to tempo-gradient.md.

How I thought about it: I treated “tempo gradient” as the shared mechanism behind all eight excerpts—mismatch in loop speed (notice →
interpret → decide → act) caused by attention, infrastructure latency, organizational rigidity, system delays, stealthy manipulation, or
runaway acceleration. Then I ordered the quotes from “inner time” (tennis/attention) → engineered milliseconds (HFT) → explicit doctrine
(OODA) → industrial schedules (mobilization) → structural delays (Beer Game/economy) → slow covert tempo (cyber) → extreme fast tempo
(AI takeoff), so each quote sets up the next.

Whether the relationships felt meaningful: yes, mostly. They’re not “the same idea” so much as the same shape appearing in different
contexts—feedback delay and decision cadence determining who gets to set the terms of reality for everyone else. The only relationship
that feels a bit more interpretive than direct is tennis ↔ geopolitics, but even there the bridge (“how many nows” as a controllable
input to decision tempo) is surprisingly sturdy.

And this is the output: https://gist.github.com/jflam/49753b7da64a74f07e35f6e2465f1a...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-11 14:28:01+00:00
I wouldn't say issues like this are dues to irreducible complexity, but more symptomatic of long-lived languages that continually get extended but don't give up on backwards compatibility. It's basically the 2nd law of thermodynamics applied to programming languages that they will eventually die due to increased entropy.

Maybe if move semantics, and noexcept, had been designed into C++ from the beginning then the designers might ave chosen to insist that move constructors be noexcept, but since these were added later there is code out there with move constructors that do throw exceptions...

Note by the say that the issue being described isn't strictly about std::move or move semantics in general, but more about the STL and containers like std::vector that have chosen to define behavior that makes noexcept move constructors necessary to be used when reallocating.
by westurner | 2026-01-11 14:28:37+00:00
Remember when the Russians / Trump PACs smeared spammy crap all over social media to run this bitch agenda?

Then, PAC and foreign interference in US elections cost those firms a lot of money; they were asked to become a better censorship apparatus; to fight spam for billions of dollars, Eric

(Edit: this is the tone of the communication; from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_Fried_Chicken )
by cbruns | 2026-01-11 14:29:19+00:00
Haha, exact same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. You probably had the same issue as me. The driver dropped support for older cards and you had to switch to a legacy AUR package. I fixed it with some frantic googling while my friends waited a half hour. Not sure how you would know this without subscribing to some arch news feed or something. Not ideal.
by daikikadowaki | 2026-01-11 14:29:37+00:00
That is the ultimate JTP question, and you’ve caught me in the middle of the 'Ontological Deception' I’m warning against.

To be brutally honest: It wasn't. Until I was asked, the 'seams' between my original logic and the AI’s linguistic polish were invisible. This is exactly the 'Silent Delegation' my paper describes. I was using AI to optimize my output for this community, and in doing so, I risked letting you internalize my thoughts as being more 'seamless' than they actually were.

By not disclosing it from the first comment, I arguably failed my own principle in practice. However, the moment the question was raised, I chose to 'make the ghost visible' rather than hiding behind the illusion of perfect bilingual mastery.

This interaction itself is a live experiment. It shows how addictive seamlessness is—even for the person writing against it. My goal now is to stop being a 'black box' and start showing the friction. Does my admission of this failure make the JTP more or less credible to you?
by haunter | 2026-01-11 14:30:21+00:00
Easy karma on HN. We have these posts every couple of days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770
by koiueo | 2026-01-11 14:30:46+00:00
My impression was that Obsidian is more than an editor: personal wiki, todo tracker, database, etc..

The currently offered feature list in Ferrite — code blocks, mermaid — suggests you are targeting developers or tech people here, hence, not really iA Writer... Typora — never heard of it, can't comment.

Anyway, thanks for seeing this as skepticism, and not criticism.
With my comment, I tried to subtly suggest that there should be more to it, than an editor.

Regardless, good luck!
by Thorrez | 2026-01-11 14:31:18+00:00
I'm not saying we should say the company is overall good. Just that the decision to backtrack was good.

Similarly, we wouldn't say that Anon is overall upstanding, just that the decision to not rob that bank was good.

My point is that we should treat the company better if it backtracks. And similarly we should treat Anon better if he doesn't rob the bank. It doesn't make sense to give Anon the exact same punishment whether he robs the bank or not. If we do that, he has no incentive not to rob the bank. "If I'm going to jail either way, I might as well actually rob the bank."
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-11 14:32:01+00:00
> While Max Payne was cutting-edge, a lot of what made the visuals appear impressive was due to hand-tweaking by a team of highly skilled artists and designers, who were probably using ridiculously primitive tooling

And let's not forget what while the game was released in summer of 2001 - it was in a development for the almost five years, with the first demos at '98 E3. There is a lot of things what were not even available in 1997 (Voodoo just released) and in 2001 there was already GeForce 3.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-11 14:32:04+00:00
I wouldn't consider it funny though when you realize the gravitas of the situation though but yea.

I just wanted to point out that it felt rude to call it funny but I understand what you mean and what intention but please be more sincere about such issues.

> Seems they finally figured out a way. Seems like yet again, you shouldn't shout hello until you've crossed the stream.

Someone mentions that there is a huge packet loss but its still possible. Other mentions that its possible to do this in rural villages and there are many nuances. I genuinely dont know the technological reasons or know how of what it is or what the ground state of reality is and what's actually happening but I hope that starlink still works or can have a work-around for the activists. We will see in sometime what really happens in the ground state as I must admit I still don't know if its 100% censored or what the reality is.
by 0x073 | 2026-01-11 14:32:42+00:00
Most of the apps where developed for php 5.2-5.3 , as many things that you wrote where already bad code in this time.
Spl autoloader, MySQLi, __construct was already available.

The apps are internal legacy apps so I can't share the codebase.

Because of this there was no big rewrite like types etc.
by DivingForGold | 2026-01-11 14:33:46+00:00
I have owned and driven 4 Nissan 4 cyl. Frontier PU trucks in succession over 15 years for my small business, the most reliable PU I ever experienced. Drove each one 180K to 200K miles. before selling. As a younger man, I drove Chevy's, they were often needing work, some were "fix and repair daily" models.

My 1st Nissan PU was a manual stick, hard to find, but ultra reliable since no automatic trannie to fail. Had to replace clutch every ~80K.

All I ever did on the other 3 PU's with auto trannies was install an extra trannie cooler (after market), change tires, change oil every 5K with Mobil One synthetic, filters, change power steering and brake fluid every 2 years, change auto trannie fluid at 85K to 100K. None of the 4 were ever in the shop for any other repairs. Proper seat belt retraction was always a nuisance issue, Nissan has never solved it to my knowledge.

Bought all of the Nissans used, with low mileage, except last one, none were available in my area from private sellers around Covid. Recently added a victory red 2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP turbo convertible to the mix, I found it with only 22K miles on it for $11,500.

My best friend for >50 years used to sell cars at a dealership, he told me dealerships don't make hardly any money off selling cars for cash, most of their money is made off selling cars on finance and extra "options" on new cars - - - and selling service. I found ~30 years ago when I drove my Chevy into the Houston dealership for service I was lucky to survive with no less than a $400 bill, they always found items they claim need replacing. Cox Automotive, parent company of Kelly blue book says in 2026 the typical cost today for servicing your vehicle is $838 each time you take it in.
by dkdcio | 2026-01-11 14:34:05+00:00
not the same person but in the flow of doing things those little pauses (tens of milliseconds) do matter. I open/close nvim (and less-so tmux) a ton, and run lots of commands per day. I don’t want to wait

and once you get used to things being that fast, it’s hard to go back (analogous to what people say about high-refresh screens/monitors)

all that said the speed of the default mac terminal (and other emulators I tried) was always fine for me, performance was not why I switched to Ghostty
by MarkusAllen | 2026-01-11 14:34:14+00:00
Private equity's destruction goes FAR beyond hospitals, nursing homes and vets:

Healthcare

- Nursing homes / skilled nursing facilities
- Hospitals (especially rural)
- Physician practices (emergency medicine, anesthesiology, radiology, dermatology, ophthalmology)
- Dental practices (DSOs - Dental Service Organizations)
- Veterinary clinics
- Hospice care
- Addiction treatment centers
- Behavioral health facilities
- Physical therapy clinics
- Urgent care centers
- Home health agencies
- Air ambulance services
- Ambulance companies
- Medical staffing agencies
- Dialysis centers

Retail

- Toys R Us
- Sears / Kmart
- Payless ShoeSource
- Shopko
- Sports Authority
- Gymboree
- Charlotte Russe
- Brookstone
- Grocery chains (Albertsons, Safeway, etc.)
- Pet stores (Petco, PetSmart)

Housing & Real Estate

- Single-family rental homes
- Apartment buildings
- Mobile home parks
- Student housing
- Senior living facilities

Food & Restaurants

- Casual dining chains (Red Lobster, Olive Garden era)
- Fast food franchises
- Local restaurant roll-ups
- Food distribution (Sysco model)

Media & Entertainment

- Local newspapers
- Radio stations (iHeartMedia/Clear Channel)
- Movie theaters
- Music venues

Essential Services

- Water utilities
- Waste management
- Ambulance services
- Funeral homes
- Cemeteries

Home Services

- HVAC companies
- Plumbing services
- Pest control
- Security systems
- Moving companies

Financial Services

- Payday lenders
- Check cashing stores
- Debt collection agencies
- Insurance agencies

Education

- For-profit colleges
- Childcare centers
- Test prep companies
- Tutoring centers

Transportation

- Auto dealerships
- Car washes
- Parking garages
- Toll roads

Technology & Software

- Enterprise software (forced subscriptions)
- SaaS companies (acquisition then price increases)

Prisons & Justice

- Private prisons
- Probation services
- Electronic monitoring

Veterinary & Pet Care

- Veterinary hospitals
- Pet boarding facilities
- Pet grooming chains

Common Pattern: Take essential service → Load with debt → Cut staff/quality → Raise prices → Extract fees → Bankruptcy or sell before
collapse → Taxpayers/communities absorb the damage

The playbook: Buy with 10% equity, 90% debt → Fire workers → Sell real estate, lease it back → Cut quality → Raise prices → Pay
themselves "management fees" → Company collapses with debt → PE walks away with 3-5x returns
by broochcoach | 2026-01-11 14:34:20+00:00
You looked up the facts, albeit from an openly biased source, and yet you learned nothing in the process. 100 people at least tangentially related in 11 years? Sheesh! The Israelis could really learn a thing or two about how to conduct a proper genocide, huh? So Jewish zionists (the victims) murder more people in a day than all the nazis (evil incarnate) murder in 10 years? I really hope you can someday see the value in updating your priors. Turn off the TV.
by simonw | 2026-01-11 14:34:28+00:00
An interesting trend over the past year is that LLMs have learned how to prompt each other.

Back in ~2024 a lot of people were excited about having "LLMs write the prompt!" but I found the results to be really disappointing - they were full of things like "You are the world's best expert in marketing" which was superstitious junk.

As of 2025 I'm finding they actually do know how to prompt, which makes sense because there's a ton more information about good prompting approaches in the training data as opposed to a couple of years ago. This has unlocked some very interesting patterns, such as Claude Code prompting sub-agents to help it explore codebases without polluting the top level token window.

But learning to prompt is not the key skill in getting good results out of LLMs. The thing that matters most is having a robust model of what they can and cannot do. Asking an LLM "can you do X" is still the kind of thing I wouldn't trust them to answer in a useful way, because they're always constrained by training data that was only aware of their predecessors.
by Geee | 2026-01-11 14:34:33+00:00
Starlink uses beamforming with directional antenna arrays, so it should be rather difficult to jam compared to omnidirectional antennas. It's basically a dish pointed at the satellite, so the jammer should be in between to work.

Antenna arrays aren't perfect so it still picks up some energy omnidirectionally, but it should be possible to shield it with some metal plates in a way that only sky is visible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array
by daikikadowaki | 2026-01-11 14:35:22+00:00
Thank you so much for the encouraging words and for sharing your project. I’ve just explored superego, and I’m genuinely impressed by how you’ve implemented a pragmatic 'Supervisor' layer to handle model drift.

Your question—'who watches the watchers'—is the exact focal point of the JTP framework. In many current systems, the feedback loop between the Supervisor and the Base model is 'silent' and internal. My concern is that even when the Supervisor works perfectly, the human user remains in the dark about where the system corrected itself.

Instead of the Supervisor's feedback being a background process, it could be surfaced to the user as a 'trace' or a 'seam'—allowing the user to actually perceive the internal deliberation. This turns the human from a passive recipient into the final, informed 'watcher.'

I’d be honored to discuss how these JTP principles might serve as a transparency layer for your work. I’ll be keeping a close eye on your repository!
by never_inline | 2026-01-11 14:35:29+00:00
> A great poem is “about” a specific person or moment embedded in a particular culture, composed in such a way that it reaches across time and distance to resonate with readers outside that culture.

Why is this a criteria?

The following piece of metrical poetry from the Rig Veda, is of high importance to me, a bunch of vedic revivalists and connoisseurs scattered across the descendant cultures, perhaps to Indo-europeanists and comparative mythologists who study this in academic manner, even when translated into English. But I don't think most people outside this culture would ever relate to this.

Now, verily, will I declare the exploits
mighty and true, of him the True and Mighty.
In the Trikadrukas he drank the Soma
then in its rapture Indra slew the Dragon.

Now perhaps the LLMs can produce something which sounds lot like this, probably even in old Indic if they're trained enough on it.

But it will never have the allure of the old indic hymns, because there's no riddle to solve, no real riddle that the machine has hidden in the words. When reading the above hymn, whether in sanskrit or English, whether it's me or an indologist like Jamison or Watkins (who wrote "How to Kill a Dragon" on Indo-European poetics), we are trying to imagine the same thing the original writer had imagined.

In case of LLM, it's just a sequence of words that sounds cool. It may have no meaning.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-11 14:36:12+00:00
Pardon me but can you please provide me more context regarding it. I am genuinely confused about the ground state of reality in Iran right now regarding Internet access at all

can you please take a look at cloudflare radar and see what the current ipv4 connectivity means? Even Ipv4 was blocked for sometime but then it got back to normal in the graph shown in cloudflare radar

Can you please tell me what you mean by plug for all peering? Like complete internet blackout?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-11 14:36:35+00:00
Well, no, because CAN take isn't the same as WILL take.

Changing something to an rvalue means it'll now match a move constructor, but there is no guarantee a move constructor will be used, even if defined, because you've got classes like std::vector that are picky and are explicitly looking for a noexcept move constructor.
by dzonga | 2026-01-11 14:36:56+00:00
one of the linked articles - that most people will only have 1 good idea for the rest of their lives - and yeah we should learn that lesson.

I remember Jason fried - 37Signals - saying the same thing - that Basecamp was such a home run for them that all their other ventures will not match it.

something for all of us to learn for sure
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-11 14:37:06+00:00
It is highly relevant because what should had been done in the firmware of the hardware instead was done in a very overcomplicated shitshow of a program what:

a) should be run constantly to rewrite the keypresses

b) can't be run if the certificate lapses

If Logitech goes out of business they would never renew the certificate and the hardware you bought for the options (and for Logi+ Options lol) would became just a regular mouse with a prebaked function keys what you can't do anything with - despite you probably overpaid for this mouse exactly because it was advertised what you can.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-01-11 14:37:25+00:00
100%. As an EA you always examine and explain the trade-offs to the business. In many cases that trade-off will remain and buy vs build leans towards buying.

My point is the decision point has moved. Where five years ago there’d be zero discussion of building internally, those discussions are going to be very different.

I believe many tech oriented companies will pull SaaS capabilities inside and as GenAI developer tools improve, the line will keep moving.

And we don’t need SaaS professional services anymore. Claude Code replaces that entire business model.
by shinycode | 2026-01-11 14:37:41+00:00
I also like to hack things but you understand that what drive Mac sales are not people who’d like to hack the system but regular people on a massive scale. Linux does not have this problem because there isn’t the same kind of economics involved in year-round salaries. So I won’t consider trash an OS who’s main target by far is not hackers, even though there is still some margin for some customization.
Your point still stands that for you the OS is garbage. But you’re probably not the main user they have in mind when they develop the OS
by robot-wrangler | 2026-01-11 14:38:02+00:00
AI Engineer to Software Engineer: Humans writing code is a waste of time, you can only hope to add value by designing agentic workflows

Prompt Engineer to AI Engineer: Designing agentic workflows is a waste of time, just pre/postfix whatever input you'd normally give to the agentic system with the request to "build or simulate an appropriate agentic workflow for this problem"
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-11 14:38:34+00:00
Ohh this makes sense now. Firecracker is good for compute related workflows but gvisor is more good for GPU related workflows, gotcha.

For my use cases usually, its Firecracker but I can now see why company like Modal would use gvisor because they focus a lot (and I mean a lot) on providing gpu access. I think that its one of their largest selling points or one of them, for them compute is secondary customer and gvisor's compute performance hit is a well worth trade off for them

Thanks for trying to explain the situation!
by paganel | 2026-01-11 14:38:55+00:00
Good for them, as they’re under external attack. For example a US ghoul like Mike Pompeo had this to say recently [1]:

> Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them

so under those circumstances anything goes to defeat the likes of Mossad and associated foreign entities doing their thing on Iranian soil.

[1] https://xcancel.com/mikepompeo/status/2007180411638620659
Show HN: A WebSite Space – A collection of 100 fun and weird links
by AliGalip1545 | 2026-01-11 14:38:57+00:00
Hi everyone,

I'm working on a website catalog called "A WebSite Space". I've created something like a huge "Link Community" from over 100 links I've found, and I've categorized them as "Fun, Weird, and Functional".

I created this because I enjoy finding interesting things on the web that aren't just ads or social media. If you don't trust me, okay, actually my goal might just be to get some visibility. I'd be very happy if you could take a look and tell me what you think, or suggest new websites through the "Add the Site" section.

Link: https://www.awebsite.space

Thanks!

(If you doubt the perfection of the writing, it might be a bit exaggeratedly perfect when translated by Google Translate.)