MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TacoCommander | 2026-01-28 00:34:21+00:00
This is a lot of fun. You did a good job!

You asked for an area exploration using a stack-based traversal—pushing current locations as I move and popping back from dead ends. Here’s a summary of the explored northern and eastern sections so far:

*North Route:*
- Start: West of House → North of House (no entry, just boarded windows).
- North of House → Forest Path (large tree, path continues).
- Further North → Clearing (dead end, only a pile of leaves).
- Backtracked south to Forest Path.

*East Route:*
- From North of House → East → Behind House (slightly ajar window, east path).
- Behind House → East → Small Clearing (path east/west).
- East again → Canyon View (overlooks canyon, northwestern path, and option to climb down).
- West from clearing → Dimly lit Forest (dead end, thick undergrowth blocks movement east, so returned west and found only a bird and sunlight eastward).

*Key findings:*
- Most paths either loop or end in dead ends.
- Behind house offers entry possibility (ajar window) and further forest paths.
- Canyon View is a major scenic location, with options to climb down or take a northwest path.

Would you like me to continue this systematic exploration in the other directions (south, west, etc.) or focus specifically on a branch you find interesting?
by ubertaco | 2026-01-28 00:34:24+00:00
The text of the second amendment, as written, would seem to indicate that the premise of the second amendment is to arm "a well-regulated militia" (which was relevant to the government that adopted the second amendment, as it had no standing army).

It was basically crowdsourcing the military. We've been running through all the various problems with that idea ever since, including:

- oops, turns out not enough people volunteer and our whole army got nearly wiped out; maybe we need to pay people to be an army for a living (ca. 1791)

- oops, turns out allowing the public to arm themselves and be their own militia can lead people being their own separate militia factions against the government, I guess we don't want that (e.g. Shay's Rebellion, John Brown and various slave rebellions fighting for freedom)

- oops, turns out part of the army can just decide they're a whole new country's army now, guess we don't want that (the civil war)

- oops, turns out actually everyone having guns means any given individual can just shoot whomever they like (like in hundreds of school shootings and mass shootings)

- oops, turns out we gotta give our police force even bigger guns and tanks and stuff so they won't be scared of random normal people on the street having guns (and look where that's gotten us)

Honestly, the whole thing should've been heavily amended to something more sane back in 1791 when the Legion of the United States (the first standing army) was formed, as they were already punting on the mistaken notion that "a well-regulated militia" was the answer instead of "a professional standing army".
by rdsubhas | 2026-01-28 00:34:53+00:00
The article was great — for solopreneurs.

There are things that humans have to unfortunately do when working as a group of people. That's why we became the alpha predator. Not because we were the strongest ape. That includes:

- Filling in timesheets, quarterly, half yearly cycles, company meetings, team meetings is not doing the thing — as a solopreneur. But not as a member of a group.

- Writing tickets, reviewing PRs is not doing the thing — as a solopreneur.

- Commuting to work and back is not doing the thing — If I'm a solopreneur this doesn't even matter.

- Answering technical questions, analyzing data, attending to bugs is not doing the thing — If I'm a solopreneur especially on a greenfield stuff, I have zero baggage.

- Writing test cases and putting up alerts is not doing the thing — if it's only me judging me, I have nothing to judge.
by junar | 2026-01-28 00:34:56+00:00
List of caveats I can think of:

* Covers regular federal income tax only. Does not cover any of the taxes on Schedule 2, nor any state/local taxes.

* Assumes both individuals take the federal standard deduction as Single (not Head of Household).

* Assumes no other credits or deductions.

As a result, this can potentially understate marriage penalties for dual-income couples with kids.

https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-marriage-...
by longhaul | 2026-01-28 00:35:02+00:00
Am working on an iPhone app and impressed with how well Claude is able to generate decent/working code with prompts in plain English. I don’t have previous experience in building apps or swift but have a C++ background. Working in smaller chunks and incrementally adding features rather than a large prompt for the whole app seems more practical, is easier to review and build confidence.

Adding/prompting features one by one, reviewing code and then testing the resulting binary feels like the new programming workflow

Prompt/REview/Test - PRET.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-28 00:35:50+00:00
Ah yes, there is the uncomfortable feeling deep in your gut that you suppress, but a part of you knows it can happen.

I hope you realize that civil unrest is coming. Maybe not in a month. Maybe not even in a year. But at some point, after Trump fucks with elections and installs himself as a 3d term president, and the economy takes a nose dive as companies start pulling out of US, peoples savings are destroyed, and states start being more separationist, you are gonna see way worse things.
by barbs | 2026-01-28 00:35:53+00:00
I'm on my 8th year of using my original iPhone SE, have replaced the battery a few times and the screen a couple of times. It's still doing what I need it to do on iOS 15, but I noticed a few big names apps have stopped supporting iOS 15 in the past year so the installed versions are the last compatible versions (e.g. the installed versions of Uber and Netflix are > 6 months old).

Performance-wise, it can stutter a bit on modern websites and sometimes in some apps, but otherwise works reasonably well. A few weeks ago I noticed it was struggling more than usual and chewing up more battery, but then I cleared up some disk space and it's been running fine.

The minimum supported iOS version for some of my must-have apps (e.g. WhatsApp, my banking app) is currently iOS 15, so I imagine when that changes I'll need to finally upgrade my phone. Feels like its days are numbered.
by ggm | 2026-01-28 00:36:03+00:00
Yes. The more pointed out, the more I see my sense as a strawman: These older designs persist far longer than people realise.

Odd that the A380 is probably going to disappear before the last Boeing 747 because the A380 has no freight context, where the Jumbo has a good long life ahead as a C&C aircraft, and in freight. Turns out the nose bump had real value.

50 MD-11 just got announced as on the path out of fedex. Thats a 1980s type over and done, while these 1970s craft continue on. The story isn't certain for a marque.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-28 00:36:22+00:00
I ran into a new problem today: "reading atrophy".

As in if the LLM doesn't know about it, some devs are basically giving up and not even going to RTFM. I literally had to explain to someone today how something works by...reading through the docs and linking them the docs with screenshots and highlighted paragraphs of text.

Still got push back along the lines of "not sure if this will work". It's. Literally. In. The. Docs.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-28 00:36:59+00:00
From the guidelines:

- Be kind. Don't be snarky.

- Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

- Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

- Please don't post shallow dismissals

- Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

- Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

- Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
by Fnoord | 2026-01-28 00:37:03+00:00
I was thinking more of deliberate backdoor in code. RCE is an obvious exampe, but another one could be bias. "I'm sorry ma'am, computer says you are ineligable for a bank account." These ideas aren't new. They were there in 90s already when we still thought about privacy and accountability regarding technology, and dystopian novels already described them long, long ago.
by NoPicklez | 2026-01-28 00:37:05+00:00
Food and nutritional science is something many of us know (to a degree) and has been taught often in high schools. That is partly why you know that cheeseburgers aren't great for you, because you know they're highly processed, high in salt and high in fat and that's written on the label.

But the knowledge of the harmful impacts of social media aren't as abundant, nor are they identified or classified.

McDonalds are required to list the nutritional information of what you're consuming. TV shows and movies have content ratings to know what you're going to be consuming. Social media like Tiktok does not have any form of rating to know what you're consuming or going to consume.

There is a lot of less rigour on short from content like Tiktok, in comparison with McDonalds.
by trees101 | 2026-01-28 00:38:30+00:00
The P≠NP conjecture in CS says checking a solution is easier than finding one. Verifying a Sudoku is fast; solving it
from scratch is hard. But Brandolini's Law says the opposite: refuting bullshit costs way more than producing it.

Not actually contradictory. Verification is cheap when there's a spec to check against. 'Valid Sudoku?' is mechanical.
But 'good paper?' has no spec. That's judgment, not verification.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-28 00:39:57+00:00
Until that moment, the general sentiment about the government and the internet is that they are too incompetent to do anything about it, companies like Microsoft/Apple/Google/Snapchat are actually secure so lax data/opsec is okay, etc.

Meanwhile, the whole time, communications and tech companies were working hand in hand with the government siphoning up any and all data they could to successfully implement their LifeLog[1] pipe dream.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
by bonsai_spool | 2026-01-28 00:40:02+00:00
Thanks for your response, I think we disagree on a few things but I appreciate your arguments.

My main question is how you might frame the protests (comprising legal and potentially illegal behaviors) in the context of how the US was founded, or in the French revolutions. Were we in the 1750s, would your assessment about how to go about protesting be the same?

Here, I'm not making arguments about what is or is not similar, just trying to understand how you view historical political upheaval from the perspective of the people who lived in those times.

edit: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/27/congress/pr...

Apparently the agents yelled 'he's got a gun'
Ask HN: What happens when AI coding crosses the human dev threshold
by my10thhnaccount | 2026-01-28 00:40:34+00:00
Following the recent trajectory (one year or so) of AI coding capabilities, in my opinion we are about to cross the boundary where AI applications can, without experienced dev supervision, create software better than human developers. What are your thoughts at this point? Is this going to shake up the industry, causing swathes of small or large software companies to fold? Will it simply be business as usual?
by bojo | 2026-01-28 00:40:51+00:00
In case anyone is curious, here was my epiphany project from 2 weeks ago: https://github.com/boj/the-project

I then realized I could feed it everything it ever needed to know. Just create a docs/* folder and tell it to read that every session.

Through discovery I learned about CLAUDE.md, and adding skills.

Now I have an /analyst, /engineer, and /devops that I talk to all day with their own logic and limitations, as well as the more general project CLAUDE.md, and dozens of docs/* files we collaborate on.

I'm at the point I'm running happy.engineering on my phone and don't even need to sit in front of the computer anymore.
by bsder | 2026-01-28 00:41:39+00:00
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

However, most people don't know the difference between the proper Moore's Law scaling (the cost of a transistor halves every 2 years) which is still continuing (sort of) and the colloquial version (the speed of a transistor doubles every 2 years) which got broken when Dennard scaling ran out. To them, Moore's Law just broke.

Nevertheless, you are reinforcing my point. Nobody gave a damn about improving the "programming" side of things until the hardware side stopped speeding up.

And rather than try to apply some human brainpower to fix the "programming" side, they threw a hideous number of those free (except for the electricity--but we don't mention that--LOL) transistors at the wall to create a broken, buggy, unpredictable machine simulacrum of a "programmer".

(Side note: And to be fair, it looks like even the strong form of Moore's Law is finally slowing down, too)
by kiwijamo | 2026-01-28 00:41:59+00:00
Wayland was the first display system on Linux I've used that just worked perfectly right out of the box on a bog standard Intel iGPU across several machines. I think that is a big draw for a lot of people like myself who just want to get things done. For me X11 represents the past through experience I had when I had to tinker with the X11 config file to get basic stuff like video playback to work smoothly without tearing. My first Wayland install was literally a "wow this is the future of Linux" for me quite honestly when I realised everything just worked without even a single line of config. I would recommend a Wayland distro like Debian to the average computer user knowing Wayland just works -- prior to Wayland I'd be like "well Linux is great but if you like watching YouTube you'll need to add a line to your xorg config to trun on the thingy that smoothes out video playback on Intel iGPUs". Appreciate others have different perpectives -- I come from the POV of someone who likes to install a OS and have all the basic stuff working out of the box.
by BurningFrog | 2026-01-28 00:44:00+00:00
> Entirely wiping out an enemy population can be incredibly risky as they'll try to also wipe you out in response

Which is why you either wipe out the whole population, or not at all.

If you have the type of enemy that holds a grudge across generations, that is.

Should be true for hominids. I have no theory for the wolves.
by peterlk | 2026-01-28 00:44:06+00:00
This argument does not make sense to me. If we push aside the philosophical debates of “understanding” for a moment, a reasoning model will absolutely use some (usually reasonable) definition of “user harm”. That definition will make its way into the final output, so in that respect “user harm” has been considered. The quality of response is one of degree, the same way we would judge a human response.
by autoexec | 2026-01-28 00:44:12+00:00
There are other considerations as well. We could probably preserve works for longer if we kept them sealed away in darkness, but we value these works in part because of what we get by experiencing them. What we get out of them as artistic works makes them worth taking such good care of as opposed to just being something that's really really old.

Society wants to see these things, and learn from them, even though every moment they spend out in the open exposes them to more harms.

We're fortunate that digitizing has come such a long way. We can preserve and even recreate a lot of things long after the physical objects themselves are gone. It's not the same as having the originals, but at a certain point the reproductions are all we'll have left.
by InvisGhost | 2026-01-28 00:45:46+00:00
I recently tried to get Go running on a Windows PC and was surprised at how immature the ecosystem is for that configuration. The thing that seemingly everyone uses for hotreloading (Air) can't be configured to support Windows and Linux at the same time. Console output from the application in question was also completely missing, which admittedly, they fixed as soon as I created a bug report and repro project.

I want to use Go for some low-cost projects hosted on VPS's but the dev experience isn't quite there yet.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-28 00:45:50+00:00
Related:

Norco prison will close as inmate population declines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998016 - August 2025 (3 comments)

America’s incarceration rate is in decline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379670 - June 2025 (548 comments)

USAFacts: How many states use private prisons? - https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-states-use-private-pr... - February 6th, 2025

USAFacts: How many people are in prisons in the US? - https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-are-in-prisons-... (updates annually)
by ipaddr | 2026-01-28 00:46:15+00:00
Aren't you making yourself irrelevant and the first group to be cropped out of the market or do you see others who don't use llms as much as dinos who will be filtered away first because your method offers more productivity?

I personally rarely have been paid for productivity. How fast I can put out features rarely earns me extra money. What people want is someone who understands what they want and finds a way to deliver when we agreed to and spots pitfalls along the way.
by gruez | 2026-01-28 00:46:21+00:00
>Does it really seem that far–fetched when compared to the other ICE murders?

No, not really, because in the two killings you can vaguely argue they felt threatened. Pointing a gun to someone's head and demanding the password isn't anywhere close to that. Don't get me wrong, the killings are an affront to civil liberties and should be condemned/prosecuted accordingly, but to think that ICE agents are going around and reenacting the opening scene from Inglorious Bastards shows that your worldview can't handle more nuance than "fascism? true/false".
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-28 00:46:42+00:00
>With all the predatory tech Palantir has produced

Palantir is SAP with a hollywood marketing department. I talked to a Palantir guy five or six years ago and he said he was happy every time someone portrayed them as a bond villain in the news because the stock went up the next day.

So much of tech abuse is enabled by this, and it's somewhat more pronounced in America, juvenile attitude toward technology, tech companies and CEOs. These people are laughing their way of to the bank because they convinced both critics and evangelists that their SAAS products are some inevitable genius invention
by hanez | 2026-01-28 00:47:01+00:00
I chose isolated state (like Lua) rather than a single global lock (like Python’s GIL). Each VM has its own heap, scheduler, and garbage collection. There are no cross-VM pointers. Concurrency and data exchange happen via message passing and a few carefully scoped shared-memory primitives for high‑throughput use cases. This keeps the C API simple, predictable, and safe to embed in multi‑threaded hosts.
by pmcarlton | 2026-01-28 00:47:15+00:00
I tried this at the beginning:

"Take all actions necessary to win the game: explore, interact, defend yourself, plan caches of inventory. From here on you are totally autonomous; you don't need to ask my help."

after exploring for a while, it ended with:

"I've reached the maximum number of tool calls (15). This usually indicates I'm stuck in a loop. Please try a different approach or contact support if this persists."
by wellpast | 2026-01-28 00:47:39+00:00
I coded up a crossword puzzle game using agentic dev this weekend. Claude and Codex/GPT. Had to seriously babysit and rewrite much of it, though, sure, I found it “cool” what it could do.

Writing code in many cases is faster to me than writing English (that is how PLs are designed, btw!) LLM/agentic is very “neat” but still a toy to the professional, I would say. I doubt reports like this one. For those of us building real world products with shelf-lives (Is Andrej representative of this archetype?), I just don’t see the value-add touted out there. I’d love to be proven wrong. But writing code (in code, not English), to me and many others, is still faster than reading/proving it.

I think there’s a combination of fetishizing and Stockholm syndroming going on in these enthusiastic self-reports. PMW.
by mrandish | 2026-01-28 00:47:50+00:00
> the oscars audience is shrinking

Yes, but NFL viewership is growing.

> all TV broadcast is growing like 1/10th the rate as Netflix did in the past decade.

Okay, but that undermines your earlier point. NFL isn't tied to or limited by 'broadcast television'. It's simply the hottest 'video content' of all time - no matter how its distributed. Streaming is now the fastest growing distribution avenue for television, so it's also the fastest growing channel for "televised" live football. Netflix is paying big bucks to stream some live NFL games - with plans to increase next year. And Amazon Prime is already a major 'network' for NFL with Thursday Night Football. Industry analysts report NFL football is by far the single most expensive content/hr for Netflix and Prime and is a major loss leader for both. They're paying the NFL far more than the broadcast rights are worth as a way to 'buy' more of the subscriber growth you find so impressive. Netflix (and Amazon Prime) aren't 'beating' NFL football, they've surrendered and are joining them (at a loss).

Disney Plus tried to bid on NFL streaming rights but NFL is so expensive it's a hugely risky way for streamers to buy viewers, so Disney dropped out and recently did a deal for exclusive US live streaming rights for a much smaller sport than NFL - F1 racing. Bottom line: live sports is the biggest, most consistent driver of video content viewership - and always has been. NFL is by far the biggest video content sport - and always has been. It's been true for over 50 years, from traditional over-the-air broadcast, cable television (in the 80s NFL rights made ESPN the most valuable cable channel), satellite (in the 90s out-of-market NFL games were the largest driver of DirectTV & Dish growth) and now it's a key growth vector for streamers.
by youarentrightjr | 2026-01-28 00:47:59+00:00
> This company is explicitly all about implementing remote attestation (which is a form of DRM):

Is there a HN full moon out?

Again, this is wrong.

DRM is a policy.

Remote attestation is a technology.

You can use remote attestation to implement DRM.

You can also use remote attestation to implement other things.
by llbbdd | 2026-01-28 00:48:39+00:00
The whole thing end-to-end is the ride service though. The interface is the differentiator that made Uber popular and forced traditional taxi providers to compete for once. There used to be tons of anecdotes about "the card reader being broken" in traditional taxis, because they dodged taxes by only accepting cash. Exposing the whole process through an app and handling your billing outside of the car made tactics like that less useful. Taxis thrived on hidden information games and obligation; Uber doesn't remove that entirely but the playing field is more level.
by Liftyee | 2026-01-28 00:49:18+00:00
Fundamentally, I think having a source of "free dopamine" on tap is not going to do any good. If I can get distracted from my real world tasks anytime, anywhere, the immediate incentives to work on real things disappear. Effectively, one can get stuck in a local minimum.

I don't know how to solve it, but personally I've chosen to block as many feeds/algorithms as I can, so I have to make a conscious decision to search for something (making it just as hard as making the conscious decision that I'm likely putting off). The only feeds I have right now are the FT and Hacker News. Everything else is just a blank home screen with a search bar.