MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 00:51:59+00:00
When using their web UI with Firefox and ublock origin it regularly freezes the tab when the answer is written out. Someone at Anthropic had to create a letter-by-letter typing animation with GIF image and sentry callbacks every five seconds, which ends up in an infinite loop.

I've seen reports about this bug affecting Firefox users since Q3 2025. They were reported over various channels.

Not a fan of them prioritizing the combat against opencode instead of fixing issues that affect paying users.
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-15 00:52:18+00:00
It occur to me that the shape of that Laffer-like curve is important to all this, and without numbers (which aren't present in concocting that curve, only in Table 1, which doen't allow you to reconstruct the curve), you can't say that adding regulation, or decreasing regulation will cost or save lives. As drawn, the curve looks parabolic to my eye, but maybe once you work out the numbers, it's quite a flat parabola. Adding more regulation might not change thing much. Removing regulation might not, either. If it's not a parabola, or bell curve of some kind, what shape is it? which side of the curve are we on?

That is to say, upon reflection, this article is dumber than I thought. It's pure propaganda.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-15 00:52:25+00:00
Important addition: physical reality has only one channel. Any control/data separation is an abstraction, a perspective of people describing a system; to enforce it in any form, you have to design it into a system - creating an abstraction layer. Done right, the separation will hold above this layer, but it still doesn't exist below it - and you also pay a price for it, as such abstraction layer is constraining the system, making it less general.

SQL injection is a great example. It's impossible as long as you operate in terms of abstraction that is SQL grammar. This can be enforced by tools like query builder APIs. The problem exists if you operate on the layer below, gluing strings together that something else will then interpret as SQL langauge. Same is the case for all other classical injection vulnerabilities.

But a simpler example will serve, too. Take `const`. In most programming languages, a `const` variable cannot have its value changed after first definition/assignment. But that only holds as long as you play by restricted rules. There's nothing in the universe that prevents someone with direct memory access to overwrite the actual bits storing the seemingly `const` value. In fact, with direct write access to memory, all digital separations and guarantees fly out of the window. And, whatever's left, it all goes away if you can control arbitrary voltages in the hardware. And so on.
by belviewreview | 2026-01-15 00:52:26+00:00
If string theorists are now unemployable, and they have to rebrand themselves as doing ML, then it seems to me that string theory is disappearing on its own, even if there are still some with tenure who continue to publicly promote it, but will eventually die off. So maybe when a child who was born this year becomes old enough in the future to develop an interest in physics, they won't even hear about it, except as a footnote.
by alexjplant | 2026-01-15 00:52:28+00:00
> That's a funny example because it shows you know just as much about watches as you do about trucks, which is to say nothing.

Nice ad hominem. No diver is buying a Submariner specifically as a backup for their dive computer for the exact reasons that you went on to outline in your post. It's a textbook Veblen good. The Chinese can build a mechanical Sub clone that keeps the same time as a real one for $100. Swatch (via Omega) builds a more technically-impressive dive watch at a fraction of the price. Oris makes one with an analog depth gauge for even less than the SMP. All of them are more inaccurate and less reliable than anything quartz or digital.

Rolexes stopped being tool watches a few years into their post-Quartz crisis recovery. My GC buddy drives a Tundra. Fleets of white collar workers drive Crew Cab F-150s with wheels more expensive than the worthless Regular Cab I had years ago. No need to get twisted up about it.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-15 00:52:54+00:00
> every single month we use it, versus paying a little extra for the few times we go over

I'm interpreting "every single month we use it" as every month you use starlink. In that case, you're incorrect. You can change plans when you hit the limit and then change back for the next month.

So instead of paying $1/GB extra every time you go above 50GB, you pay $115 extra every time you go above 100GB.

For most usage patterns, the second option is cheaper. And it sounds like your usage pattern is one of those.

(If I interpreted you wrong, and "every single month we use it" is supposed to mean the months you go over 100GB, then "every single month we use it" and "the few times we go over" mean exactly the same thing. Why word it with such different implications each time?)
by lvl155 | 2026-01-15 00:53:34+00:00
Please stop spreading this nonsense. Anthropic is not blocking Opencode. You can use all their models within Opencode using API. Anthropic simply let Dax and team use unlimited plans for the past year or so. I don’t even know if it was official. I find this a bit comical and immature. You want to use the models, just pay for it. Why are people trying to nickel and dime on tools that they use day in day out?
by eggplantiny | 2026-01-15 00:53:41+00:00
I see Engram less as a memory efficiency trick and more as an architectural attempt to address *context drift*, which feels like a fundamental issue in current LLMs.

As context grows, models are forced to continuously re-derive what should be stable state (entities, facts, local invariants) from attention alone. Over long horizons, this implicit reconstruction inevitably drifts. From that angle, Engram’s value isn’t just O(1) lookup

it’s that state is externalized, managed outside the core reasoning path, and injected only when relevant.

That separation feels important. Instead of hoping attention can both reason and maintain coherence indefinitely, the model gets a way to re-anchor itself to stable references. In that sense, this looks less like “better recall” and more like a step toward explicit state management for LLMs.

I suspect architectures that treat memory as an external, selectively injected primitive will matter more for long-running agents than further scaling context windows.
by fenwick67 | 2026-01-15 00:53:52+00:00
Adafruit in particular is very good at providing step by step tutorials on how to use their products, most of them that are nontrivial have a little example project to go with them.

It's also been a good one-stop shop, if you want a little character display to go with your esp32 project they will have one, along with addressable LEDs, battery circuitry, etc.

It's a bummer both sites are melting down
by dsfiof | 2026-01-15 00:54:17+00:00
Unable to fully parse what you are trying to express.

> the total state is significantly reduced.

The minimal "state space" of a rubiks cube is a constant value. Any "reduction" would imply the model being reduced was inefficient.

On the topic of cool "alternative" views of rubiks I recently saw this and thought it was novel.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/z3okyv/the_only_way_t...
Show HN: Free observability tool to track your REST and LLM calls
by felipe-pathwave | 2026-01-15 00:55:01+00:00
I needed a tool to track all the LLM and REST calls between microservices in my system.

Since most current options seemed a bit overkill for what I needed - and I wanted to have fun - I decided to vibecode this.

Here are the docs with screenshots, explanations and guide (INTEGRATION_GUIDE.md) for your LLM to do the implementation for you: https://github.com/felipe-tonon/path_tracker/tree/main/docs

I'm hosting it at https://tracker.pathwave.io and you can use it for free as long as there's no abuse and you don't burn all my Google Cloud credits.

You just need to create an account, generate an API Key and voilà.

As always, feedback and contributions to the repo are more than welcome

Thanks
by handoflixue | 2026-01-15 00:55:18+00:00
I think it's pretty insulting to posit that artists are some special "dignified" profession and that, by implication, there is "no dignity" or no meaning to be found in being an Uber Driver. I know plenty of people who love the opportunity to be useful, socialize, and get to know a broad slice of the local populace.

Plenty of people miss taking care of their horses, but we still drive cars.

The vast majority of humans do not, in fact, think making art is "the most profoundly human" thing. They are about socializing, they care about their family, they want to go on fun vacations and have fun experiences. Most people do not spend their free time painting.
by nl | 2026-01-15 00:55:28+00:00
> The hikikomori[1] or NEETs ought to be a hotbed of creative works if your hypothesis is true.

This seems a non-sequitur. People whose motivation is isolation are unlikely to try to generate anything for other people.

But your general idea is correct - is there group where motivated people don't need to worry about money?

Well yes - we see this in artist colonies and indeed in entrepreneurial retreats like https://www.recurse.com/
Show HN: Beni AI – video call with your AI companion
by chaeeunlee9611 | 2026-01-15 00:56:33+00:00
Beni AI is a real-time AI companion for natural 1:1 conversations.
Unlike typical text-based character chat, Beni focuses on face-to-face interaction, consistent personality, and long-term memory that adapts to you over time.

We’re building Beni for users who want an AI that feels like a real presence rather than a scripted chatbot.
Try it here: >> https://thebeni.ai/
by yowayb | 2026-01-15 00:57:02+00:00
In my 40s now, I can recall dozens of "we should..." statements from myself and others. Typically, these statements were driven by some personal mishap, and the statement is basically forgotten (because it was never a big deal to begin with). But occasionally, some well-read/educated (often with a philosophical bias) will allow a small complaint to consume them, forcing them to write extensively about it, while the world continues to change at increasing speed.

But there's a huge market for this kind of writing: it's all the other people that have similar thoughts but not the time to actually write it.
by ajross | 2026-01-15 00:57:08+00:00
Well, they are paying. Just not for the product Anthropic wants to sell. Really at root this is a marketing failure. They really, really want to push Claude CLI as a loss leader, and are having to engage in this disaster of a anti-PR campaign to plug all the leaks from people sneaking around.

The root cause is and remains their pricing: the delta between their token billing and their flat fee is just screaming to be exploited by a gray market.
by idopmstuff | 2026-01-15 00:57:44+00:00
I'll start by saying that in my past life I was a PM, and from that angle I can very much see how people writing code for large-scale, production systems take real issue with the quality of what LLMs produce.

But these days I run a one-man business, and LLMs (currently Claude Code, previously GPT) have written me a ton of great code. To be clear, when I say "great" I don't mean up to your standards of code quality; rather, I mean that it does what I need it to do and saves me a bunch of time.

I've got a great internal dashboard that pulls in data from a few places, and right now CC is adding some functionality to a script that does my end of month financial spreadsheet update. I have a script that filters inbound leads (I buy e-commerce brands, generally from marketplaces that send me an inordinate amount of emails that I previously had to wade through myself in order to find the rare gem). On the non-code front, I have a very long prompt that basically does the first pass of analysis of prospective acquisitions, and I use Shortcut.ai to clean up some of the P&Ls I get (I buy small e-commerce brands, so the finances are frequently bad).

So while I can't speak to using LLMs to write code if you're working in any sort of real SaaS business, I can definitely say that there's real, valid code to be had from these things for other uses.
by jameskilton | 2026-01-15 00:57:50+00:00
This is the only statement that matters. We knew exactly who Trump is and exactly what he would do if voted in again. The "opposition" did nothing during Trump's first term, and now they are completely powerless do do anything.

America voted for this, we failed miserably to prevent this from happening for the past 30 years, and we will pay the price for this for generations.
by layer8 | 2026-01-15 00:57:53+00:00
People valuing something is not at all the same as people spending money for it. For one, there is always competition with an abundance of freely available material. At the very least, you’d have to compare with a situation where nothing of the sort whatsoever would be freely available, and that’s very hard to do.

That being said, I’m skeptical of UBI being workable as well.
by wilkystyle | 2026-01-15 00:58:46+00:00
I got excited at the headline of this post because I love the idea of community maintained personal site directories. Was disappointed to get into the description and linked Git repository and learn that it's only for sites that have gotten some traction on hacker news before. Was hoping it would be a way to stumble upon potentially underrepresented content from folks in the hacker news community who don't normally get attention.

This is probably a "me" problem for assuming otherwise (you even have HN in your URL), but it's not what I expected from a post asking people to share their personal websites.
by defrost | 2026-01-15 00:59:07+00:00
In related comparisons:

Trump Clarifies Stance on Civilians Being Shot by Military: “Minnesota OK, Iran Not OK”

~ https://theshovel.com.au/2026/01/15/trump-stance-on-civilian...

this, and the post you submitted, are still lightning fodder for unresolvable entrenched arguments and run counter to the HN guidelines.
by aw1621107 | 2026-01-15 00:59:20+00:00
> If you want a stupid fast interpreter in C, you do computed goto, write a comment explaining why its not, in fact, cursed, and you're done.

Bit of an aside, but these days it might be worth experimenting with tail call interpreters coupled with `musttail` annotations. CPython saw performance improvements over their computed goto interpreters with this method, for example [0].

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/1010905/
by indecisive_user | 2026-01-15 00:59:48+00:00
The report itself is interesting [0] and I recommend reading it for good context.

Here's my own summary:

- Measuring net migration is difficult. The report from TFA estimates a net migration between –295,000 and -10,000 for 2025. Some reports estimate much lower numbers, and some reports actually estimated a positive net migration for 2025. In any case, it's certainly trending downward.

- While there *has* been a decrease in the number of green cards and work visas (H1B's), it seems that the majority of the drop off has been from refusing to take refugees (from ~100k in 2024 to ~10k in 2025), basically eliminating asylum petitions at the border (from ~1.4M in 2024 to ~70k in 2025), and reduction in "Entries without inspection", aka illegal crossings that do not encounter law enforcement (~270,000k in 2024 to ~30k in 2025)

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/macroeconomic-implication...
by woodruffw | 2026-01-15 01:00:14+00:00
> It is extremely common that a correct implementation also has excellent performance.

I think that's true in general, but in the case of X.509 path validation it's not a given: the path construction algorithm is non-trivial, and requires quadratic searches (e.g. of name constraints against subjects/SANs). An incorrect implementation could be faster by just not doing those things, which is often fine (for example, nothing really explodes if an EE doesn't have a SAN[1]). I think one of the things that's interesting in the PyCA case is that it commits to doing a lot of cross-checking/policy work that is "extra" on paper but stills comes out on top of OpenSSL.

[1]: https://x509-limbo.com/testcases/webpki/#webpkisanno-san
by nospice | 2026-01-15 01:00:25+00:00
I think there's basically one 4x4 van on the market in the US right now. So you're making a pretty bad generalization here. In the Bay Area, this is probably true. If you live in a place with snow and unpaved residential roads, pickups are far more practical for hauling stuff (and can also be used for plowing, etc).
by czmilo | 2026-01-15 01:00:48+00:00
RizzCharts is a production-ready sample demonstrating how to build interactive ecommerce dashboards using A2UI (Agent to UI) protocol. The tutorial covers creating custom component catalogs that extend beyond standard UI elements—specifically Chart and GoogleMap components—enabling AI agents to generate native, cross-platform visualizations.
The architecture uses Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) for agent orchestration, A2A Protocol for communication, and implements a three-message pattern (beginRendering, surfaceUpdate, dataModelUpdate) for rendering rich UIs. Key concepts include data binding for reactive updates, schema validation for type-safe agent outputs, and fallback support for graceful degradation.
The sample is open source and includes complete implementation code, JSON schemas for custom components, and step-by-step instructions for integrating with LiteLLM (supporting Gemini, OpenAI, etc.). Unlike HTML/iframe approaches, A2UI uses declarative data structures that clients render as native widgets, ensuring security, native UX, and cross-platform support.
by john-h-k | 2026-01-15 01:00:50+00:00
> There are many many creative, caring people that are motivated to create things or care for each other for the sake of it

Very true. In a UBU world I have no doubt we’d have many exciting libraries, lots of pottery, and many books.

But I’ve never met anyone passionate about collecting bins, development of accounting tooling, or pricing of phone insurance. You need rewards to allocate people effectively, because “passion” is random and not related to what people actually need
by lovich | 2026-01-15 01:01:29+00:00
Well, when they claim that X million illegal immigrants entered the country despite them supposedly not being in the system and thus not countable, and the numbers line up with asylum seeker numbers, and they do things like cancel asylum seekers status[1] or releases criminals to go after asylum seekers[2] its hard not to come to that inference.

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ice-asylum-cases-deportat...

[2]https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-released-criminals-so-he-cou...
by gnabgib | 2026-01-15 01:01:58+00:00
As a Show HN 5 days ago (2 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548958

Although seems to be subject to random submissions with a different title each time (4 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542991
by paxys | 2026-01-15 01:03:10+00:00
While the subscription is definitely subsidized (technically cross-subsidized, because the subsidy is coming from users who pay but barely use it), Claude Code also does a ton of prompt caching that reduces LLM dependency. I have done many hours-long coding sessions and built entire websites using the latest Opus and the final tally came to like $4, whereas without caching it would have been $25-30.
by dwaite | 2026-01-15 01:03:14+00:00
2001 Wrangler owner, I do some towing (particularly like the flexibility of UBox for borrowing a box on a trailer for a few days to store items at my house or leisurely pack up for storage).

The 2 door model unfortunately has a pretty weak tow rating of 1 ton, and I'm fairly certain I have gone well over that a few times. IIRC the four door models a few years later took that up to 5000 lbs because of the extra length.
by xp84 | 2026-01-15 01:03:28+00:00
I'm immediately amazed at how many neat 'small web' sites, seemingly made with love by nice human people, have claimed tiles already. Browsing around the tiles that look interesting feels like peeking through a time portal at 2001, in the very best way.

In this way it really beats milliondollarhomepage since most of that was just ads for the moneymakers of the day.
by austinjp | 2026-01-15 01:03:51+00:00
I mean... I don't disagree that there is an onus on any website to make it clear who it's audience is. But .com hasn't been exclusively US centric for literally decades. Even during peak 90s domain name territorialism .com meant "commercial".

People outside the USA, i.e. the majority of the world, often experience the opposite to what you've described: the tiresome implicit assumption that everything on the internet is US-related by default. It's not.
by kylecazar | 2026-01-15 01:03:55+00:00
Its not intended as praise, but a reality-check on the status quo.

Our leadership in science and tech has always been linked inextricably with sourcing talent from everywhere. You can look at immigrant Nobels, patents, enrollment in doctoral programs, representation in executive teams in tech companies, % of American unicorns founded by immigrants -- it will point to the same conclusion.

Whether or not we should be self-sufficient is another matter, but we aren't even close, not in the highest echelons of STEM.

I'm curious though, what country would serve as evidence that sourcing talent domestically alone can propel a nation to global leadership in these fields?
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-01-15 01:04:02+00:00
I keep hoping the EU comes out with a "No Means No" legislation to end this "Ask Again Later" nonsense.

Tricky to thread the needle on what would/not be allowed, but the pattern has been abused long enough. Maybe even saying it cannot re-ask for 30 days would be a significant improvement.
by owenversteeg | 2026-01-15 01:04:40+00:00
The IRA wasn't a cure-all and Trump/the OBBBA didn't exactly kill it dead, either. 84% of IRA clean energy grants, or $96.7B, was protected from clawback by Trump [0.] The tax credits are largely intact. Many of the projects were already completed and fully funded.

Go through a list of IRA projects, though, and you'll see two things: 1) they weren't generally killed by Trump, and 2) the IRA still did not get the US competitive with China. Let's take the largest one, the Toyota plant in NC, which is operational, and impressive in that it makes the batteries from raw materials BUT it has an eye-watering cost for the capacity ($~14B for 30 GWh/yr vs. $>4B for 30GWh/yr at Hyundai's plant.) Compare that to a Chinese plant at $50-100M/GWh and you can see that despite huge subsidies at several levels - including a $35/kWh subsidy for domestic cell production - the US is far behind here.

Look at the others and you'll see similar stories. Ford-SK On just split up because the F-150 is too expensive, demand is soft, and SK On wants to do energy storage. If we could make the F-150 competitively, demand would be higher, but it's incredibly expensive relative to a Chinese EV.

The more promising story is in solar (panel manufacturing and installs) but again, not a cure-all under Biden or a catastrophe under Trump. The US solar industry just had its third largest quarter on record, and we can now make every part of a solar panel in the US in volume. Module production capacity is at 60 GW, up 37% from Dec 2024, and cell production is at 3.2 GW, up from 1.2 GW a year ago [1.] That's a much prettier picture (regarding manufacturing) than in the EU, where manufacturing capacity is far lower and not growing nearly as quickly, although the EU has a larger installed base of (mostly Chinese) panels.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/biden-...

[1] https://seia.org/news/third-largest-quarter-on-record/

Good explainer of PV panel production process: https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supply-chains/ex...