MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by indigodaddy | 2026-01-27 23:03:56+00:00
Awesome man, it's great to get some positive feedback, appreciate it a lot. I'm actively working on it. Got rid of openhands in favor of Shelley, stuff like that. Stuff that's not tested is like actually taking snapshots thru the TUI, that's there, but didn't actually test/do it yet. Cloudflare API is good but the Desec API feature is there but haven't tested it yet. So I'm sure stuff will come up as more people and I actually start attempting more functionality. The admin.code web UI is neat though where you can start and toggle/choose which coding tool webui is running/listening on 9999 in the container. And also update the AI coding tools thru that webui.
by krupan | 2026-01-27 23:04:04+00:00
I've been thinking along these lines. LLMs seem to have arrived right when we were all getting addicted to reels/tic tocks/whatever. For some reason we love to swipe, swipe, swipe, until we get something funny/interesting/shocking, that gives us a short-lasting dopamine hit (or whatever chemicals it is) that feels good for about 1 second, and we want MORE, so we keep swiping.

Using an LLM is almost exactly the same. You get the occasional, "wow! I've never seen it do that before!" moments (whether that thing it just did was even useful or not), get a short hit of feel goods, and then we keep using it trying to get another hit. It keeps providing them at just the right intervals for people to keep them going just like they do with tick tock
by elicash | 2026-01-27 23:04:06+00:00
For all the complaints about the previous DOJ, one thing nobody ever argued was that they weren't intending to get convictions. They only brought cases they thought they could win.

To see DOJ use its power the way we've seen (and I know the original story here is only with FBI at this point), it makes me think there should be some equivalent of anti-SLAPP laws but aimed at federal prosecutions. Some way to fast track baseless charges that will obviously never result in anything and that are just meant to either (a) punish someone into paying a ton of lawyer fees, (b) to intimidate others, or (c) grab some short-term headlines.
by musictubes | 2026-01-27 23:04:13+00:00
JRiver is an advanced media player that works cross platform including Linux. It isn’t the prettiest thing around and understanding everything that it can do can be frustrating but it will do just about anything you’d like a media player to do.

I rarely interact with it directly. I usually use JRemote on my iPad or iPhone to control it. There is also an incredibly fast web front end you can use in whatever device you want.

Does the old Logitech music server (or whatever it is called these days) work on Linux? There have been a bunch of front end programs to use those servers.
by boelboel | 2026-01-27 23:04:28+00:00
These short 'dopamine hits' are anywhere. As a kid I really loved reading encyclopedias, even read dictionaries for 'enjoyment'. Wikipedia was awful for me.

Nobody ever saw it as a bad thing though, many people even encouraged me. Looking back at it 90% what I read was absolutely useless besides some novelty and being useful for quizzes.

Wonder what I could've done with all the time I lost, probably changed my behaviour in general. Can't imagine how much tiktok changes these kids.
by nunez | 2026-01-27 23:04:38+00:00
The difference between social media and cheeseburgers here is that I don't NEED to physically go to McDonald's to find out if a business is closed or learn more about their work. (The number of businesses that only post operational updates, specials or samples of their work on Instagram is staggering. Google Maps isn't trustworthy; websites DEFINITELY aren't trustworthy either.)
by aaronblohowiak | 2026-01-27 23:04:41+00:00
>I still feel like there's an unexplored space where you combine the benefits of both somehow though. Like a code-based CAD but it also has a GUI editor that stays in sync and avoids the need to type in coordinates by hand. That would be extremely difficult though.

I think you can do this if the data representation of operations and values is human readable. The simplest implementation would restrict the language/data format to operations representable in the gui.

Unlike trying to solve the "visual programming" problems, we don't need or desire Turing completeness.

Very interesting indeed!
by 8note | 2026-01-27 23:05:03+00:00
> because it's just pitting people against law enforcement who have no idea what they're up against.

i think people know exactly what theyre up against: a lawless executive, many members of which have never had to work in places where they are held accountable to the constitution before.

its more important for the government to follow the constitution than for citizens to follow the law. if the government isnt following the law, there is no law
by SturgeonsLaw | 2026-01-27 23:05:09+00:00
>Pfizer representatives in front of the EU parliament would not testify that their vaccines actually worked.

It's typical for people in science and related fields to use carefully chosen wording, to hedge, and to speak in terms of probabilities instead of certainties.

For a general public who is used to the unashamed and unearned confidence of the usual people who get in front of a camera (politicians, celebrities, pundits) this can make it appear as though the scientific position is one with a less solid foundation, when it's usually the opposite case.

Scientific communication has been focused on insiders for so long that many communicators don't realise how it sounds to the outside world. Even the fundamental terminology is affected - a scientific theory is an overarching explanation that combines multiple pieces of evidence and creates the best synthesis we can on a topic, but to a layperson the word theory means "vague idea".
by watwut | 2026-01-27 23:05:16+00:00
> The only thing keeping them in check is the courts, and that practically operates in geologic timeframes compared to the rate they are breaking laws.

There are years of precedent and common practice that makes police and police like entities basically unreachable by law. Between qualified immunity, presumption of regularity and generally all the roadblock and convoluted technical rules supreme court placed between possible judgement and police ... courts can do only so much.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-27 23:05:22+00:00
Go find a picture of the truck.

The entire business is branded like Eggo waffles. The colors used, the font and stylistic “E” are the same, the white outlining of red letters on a yellow field is copied. It isn’t just the name and phrase, the entire brand is copied over.

I’m not making a judgment on the morality of the law. But under the law itself, I can completely understand how Kellog’s has a strong claim here
by llbbdd | 2026-01-27 23:05:46+00:00
There's probably some fuzziness here. I have notes upon notes going back ugh, 20 years (idk how old I am anymore?) that I could count as planning. At some point I need a kick in the ass to do it. Mike Tyson said everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. Sometimes getting to prod feels like that.
by fishywang | 2026-01-27 23:05:54+00:00
I was flying out of LHR yesterday (Monday). I read the news before so asked the agent at security check "I don't need to empty my water bottle now right?" and she was like "nah that's only for up to 2 litres in a clear/plastic bottle, not a metal flask bottle" or something along those lines. I was using a Stanley metal water bottle. So I still had to empty my bottle.
by _carbyau_ | 2026-01-27 23:06:52+00:00
Yeah, I agree with your "unless" statement. Something has to change for the conversion rate to increase significantly.

"Gaming is good on linux now.(except for kernel anticheats)" isn't it. In the gaming sense, that only puts it close to with Windows and with the extra hassles otherwise Linux is still behind.

You have to recognise and value privacy to look to Linux.
by ncallaway | 2026-01-27 23:06:59+00:00
Yes, but I’m not going to unlock my phone with a passcode, and unlike biometric unlock they have no way to force me to unlock my phone.

The district courts will eventually back me up on this. Our country has fallen a long way, but the district courts have remained good, and my case is unlikely to be one that goes up to appellate courts, where things get much worse.

There’s an important distinction: the government doesn’t care about what it is allowed to do, but it is still limited by what it is not capable of doing. It’s important to understand that they still do have many constraints they operate under, and that we need to find and exploit those constraints as much as possible while we fight them
by jll29 | 2026-01-27 23:07:45+00:00
You have some good ideas there, it's all about incentives and about public reputation.

But it should also fair. I once caught a team at a small Indian branch of a very large three letter US corporation violating the "no double submission" rule of two conferences: they submitted the same paper to two conferences, both naturally landed in my reviewer inbox, for a topic I am one of the experts in.

But all the other employees should not be penalized by the violations of 3 researchers.
by syntex | 2026-01-27 23:08:19+00:00
The Post-LLM World: Fighting Digital Garbage https://archive.org/details/paper_20260127/mode/2up

Mini paper: that future isn’t the AI replacing humans. its about humans drowning in cheap artifacts.
New unit of measurement proposed: verification debt.
Also introduces: Recursive Garbage → model collapse

a little joke on Prism)
by siliconc0w | 2026-01-27 23:09:11+00:00
Not sure how he is measuring, I'm still closer to about a 60% success rate. It's more like 20% is an acceptable one-shot, this goes to 60% acceptable with some iteration, but 40% either needs manual intervention to succeed or such significant iteration that manual is likely faster.

I can supervise maybe three agents in parallel before a task requiring significant hand-holding means I'm likely blocking an agent.

And the time an agent is 'restlessly working' on something in usually inversely correlated with the likelihood to succeed. Usually if it's going down a rabbit hole, the correct thing to do is to intervene and reorient it.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-27 23:09:19+00:00
> Yeah you're right, I'm gonna be a big problem for you because I'm going to keep voting for Republicans no matter how much I hate some of the stuff they do.

You obviously don't hate it that much lol, you clearly want white people to keep the unfair advantages they have had for most of modern history.

They wrote a book about people with you views: 'White Fragility' - you should check it out.

> And the more cruelty towards progressives the better because I have nothing but contempt and malice for the people who want to institute racism against.

Giving oppressed people equal opportunities isn't racism. We'll get rid of the EC eventually, and the votes of people like you simply won't matter.
by dfgg2 | 2026-01-27 23:09:35+00:00
Man its really sad to see that this place seems to embrace LLMs with open arms and seems to have no care for the implicit costs and side costs of it.

I have no interest in SWE - I focus on other fields. But, LLMs are a complete disaster of a product, as the more you use them the less you are engaging your own brain to tap into the knowledge you have to get shit done and move fast. LLMs are a mirage and the fatal flaw of a human is laziness.

This lack of brain engagement is deadly. People dont realise how tough it is to get back once you've started to lose it. Its akin to the gym and muscles.
by mrandish | 2026-01-27 23:09:47+00:00
> football as a televised spectator sport? trending down.

AFAIC, NFL football is almost always the top 99 out of 100 most viewed television programs in the US every year. The Oscars usually manage to claw onto the list and in election years a couple presidential debates make it, displacing a few regular season games. Since your claim conflicts with my current understanding, I just had AI do a quick search of recent credible sources. Here's the summary:

> "The claim that football (American football/NFL) as a televised spectator sport is trending down is not true based on recent data.

>Regular season NFL viewership saw a minor dip of about 2.2% in 2024 (averaging 17.5 million per game), but rebounded strongly in 2025 with significant gains—averaging around 18.7 million viewers per game (up 10% from the prior season in some reports, marking the highest in 36 years or second-highest on record when including updated measurement methods like Nielsen's Big Data + out-of-home viewing). Networks like CBS, Fox, NBC, and Amazon all reported year-over-year increases, with streaming platforms showing particularly strong growth.

> Super Bowl audiences continue setting records: Super Bowl LIX (2025) averaged 127.7 million viewers (up 3% from the previous year), marking consecutive record highs. Playoff games, including wild-card and divisional rounds, also showed double-digit increases in multiple cases. While some earlier seasons had slight declines (often tied to factors like election years or measurement changes), the overall trend since 2024-2025 has been upward, reinforcing the NFL's position as the dominant U.S. televised sport."

Your impression may arise from shifting measurement platform data due to increasing out-of-home, mobile, streaming, DVR, etc viewership. Just comparing traditional old-school Nielsen in-home diary data alone hasn't been accurate for over a decade. Even if we discount recent cross-platform measurement data, the overwhelming dominance of NFL football is also well supported by the audited financial reports of what broadcasters and streamers pay the NFL and further by what advertisers pay for slots. The sheer money being paid dwarfs all other sports and types of television programming (news, drama, comedy, etc). The recent dramatic growth of legalized sports gambling in the US will likely push NFL viewership across all platforms and formats even higher.
by Brian_K_White | 2026-01-27 23:09:51+00:00
Meshes are an output, not a source, and not a good internal representation.

Meshes are only a lossy approximation of the actual geometry, and the errors accumulate as features reference off of earlier features.

A simple example is a line tangent to an arc. The line will only be the correct distance from the center of the arc at one point (one angle) per segment.

In openscad you don't notice the problem because since it's code and you have variables and programming ways of expressing relationships, you would usually not try to derive one thing from another by geometry, instead both things would reference a common ancestor variable. But that's a technical implimentation detail that works around the problem by just not doing a thing that doesn't work. The problem is still there that a valid geometry constraint would produce invalid results.
by cratermoon | 2026-01-27 23:10:48+00:00
I'm sure it's fine. There couldn't have been any Einsteins, Hugo Grotrians, Ingrid Francks, Wilhelm Westphals, James Francks, Otto von Bayers, Lise Meitners, Peter Pringsheims, Fritz Habers, Gustav Hertzs, and Otto Hahns, Hans Bethes, Max Borns, Eugene Wigners, Leo Szilards, Edward Tellers, or John von Neumanns among them.

/s
by storystarling | 2026-01-27 23:10:57+00:00
I run a small print-on-demand platform and this is exactly what we're seeing. The submissions used to be easy to filter with basic heuristics or cheap classifiers, but now the grammar and structure are technically perfect. The problem is that running a stronger model to detect the semantic drift or hallucinations costs more than the potential margin on the book. We're pretty much back to manual review which destroys the unit economics.
by anthk | 2026-01-27 23:11:19+00:00
LLM's are not predictable. The ZMachine plus any interpreter is. Also there are tons of libre licensed IF games out there, such as All Things Devour, Spiritwrak and a bunch more.

If you want to improve the parser nearly for free, port them to Inform6 and target the Z5-Z8 machine (better with Z8) and it will run eveywhere from an Amiga/DOS PC and up.

Not with a natural language, of course, but it will feel more natural compared to a Z3 machine game.
by segmondy | 2026-01-27 23:11:31+00:00
I run KimiK2 at home, Most of it on system ram with a few layers offloaded to old 3090s. This is a cheap budget build.

Kimi-K2-Thinking-UD-Q3_K_XL-00001-of-00010.gguf
Generation - 5,231 tokens 604.63s 8.65 tokens/s
by redox99 | 2026-01-27 23:11:35+00:00
What do you even mean by "ChatGPT"? Copy pasting code into chatgpt.com?

AI assisted coding has never been like that, which would be atrocious. The typical workflow was using Cursor with some model of your choice (almost always an Anthropic model like sonnet before opus 4.5 released). Nowadays (in addition to IDEs) it's often a CLI tool like Claude Code with Opus or Codex CLI with GPT Codex 5.2 high/xhigh.
by SoleilAbsolu | 2026-01-27 23:11:54+00:00
I'm sure piracy has an impact, but they are already targeting hobby musicians with all the soundpacks that can run on Kontakt Player or Reaktor Player and lite versions of Traktor.

I think it's more due to things like - the brilliant founders are no longer there...folks like Stephan Schmitt used Reaktor (node-based audio DSP environment) to prototype so many products over the years, hard to find a bigger product evangelist than founder/COO/CTO types who eat their own dogfood.

When they released Massive X it was way too early, clearly a cash grab and IDK if they ever added back basic UI features like "navigate menus with arrow keys" that worked in all previous versions. Then there are clearly decades of technical debt that still need to be addressed - I stopped using Reaktor and Kontakt several years ago because the tiny anti-aliased fonts still used in various key places are literally too painful to look at.
by hung | 2026-01-27 23:12:09+00:00
lol are you me? There was also a loophole with the coupons where it only used the total before discounts to validate the limit was met, so you could buy something that was $10 or 2 for $15, but the 2 would count as $20 towards your $40 limit.

I moved away from Seattle a while back so I'm not sure if they ever closed that one. I really miss getting all those cheap groceries!
by Herring | 2026-01-27 23:12:23+00:00
Any sources on that debunking? I can't say I've seen anything, but I'm open to read about it. Intuitively any societal problems like cost of living will feed into the far-right recruitment narrative that the elites are incompetent. All kinds of incumbents lost ground worldwide after Covid. And last I read the consensus is housing is a big contributor to the far-right issues in Denmark and the Netherlands.

But sure, if you want to add "break up big tech" and "regulate social media" to the shopping cart I'm absolutely up for it.
by linkregister | 2026-01-27 23:12:43+00:00
> This has been proven wrong again and again

[does not offer evidence]

> Yet, I can assure you ... they were much more satisfied with life than the vast majority of working class and unhoused americans today

How do you know this? How is this convincing to this audience?

> no amount of material wealth can compensate for severe mental illness

Are you asserting that mental illness occurred at lower rates in the past?

> I am certain you will be shocked at their extreme poverty and general hopefulness

There is no shortage of writing from the Great Depression expressing great hopelessness. The generation was popularly called the Lost Generation for decades by writers of the time.

We cannot conclusively know the overall happiness level of humanity at any time before the Industrial Revolution. But we can use general proxies, such as starvation rates, violent deaths, and child mortality. Those metrics have, by all knowable measures, improved by an order of magnitude after the Industrial Revolution when compared to all previous history.
by nxobject | 2026-01-27 23:13:06+00:00
What they mean by "academic" is fairly limited here, if LaTeX is the main writing platform. What are their plans for expanding past that, and working with, say Jane Biomedical Researcher with a GSuite or Microsoft org, that has to use Word/Docs and a redlining-based collaboration workflow? I can certainly see why they're making it free at this point.

FWIW, Google Scholar has a fairly compelling natural-language search tool, too.
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-27 23:13:14+00:00
$600,000 net worth is nothing these days, I’m worth about that much after saving for 7 years and can’t even afford the mortgage for a $300,000 house, even if I put 20% down.

Investments are so much better at earning money than working for wages, in my case the amount of retirement savings I have after 7 years is larger than my cumulative earnings during the same period, and I’ve been saving about 40% of my gross income. Part of my net worth is ESOP equity that I can’t monetize in any way so that’s part of the reason why my net worth is higher than my earnings over the same period.
by nemothekid | 2026-01-27 23:13:21+00:00
I think I should write more about but I have been feeling very similar. I've been recently exploring using claude code/codex recently as the "default", so I've decided to implement a side project.

My gripe with AI tools in the past is that the kind of work I do is large and complex and with previous models it just wasn't efficient to either provide enough context or deal with context rot when working on a large application - especially when that application doesn't have a million examples online.

I've been trying to implement a multiplayer game with server authoritative networking in Rust with Bevy. I specifically chose Bevy as the latest version was after Claude's cut off, it had a number of breaking changes, and there aren't a lot of deep examples online.

Overall it's going well, but one downside is that I don't really understand the code "in my bones". If you told me tomorrow that I had optimize latency or if there was a 1 in 100 edge case, not only would I not know where to look, I don't think I could tell you how the game engine works.

In the past, I could not have ever gotten this far without really understanding my tools. Today, I have a semi functional game and, truth be told, I don't even know what an ECS is and what advantages it provides. I really consider this a huge problem: if I had to maintain this in production, if there was a SEV0 bug, am I confident enough I could fix it? Or am I confident the model could figure it out? Or is the model good enough that it could scan the entire code base and intuit a solution? One of these three questions have to be answered or else brain atrophy is a real risk.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-27 23:14:14+00:00
The US couldn't win a war in the middle east with trillions of dollars, thousands of soldiers dead, and tens of thousands substantially wounded. Hasn't won a war since WW2. Is everything going swimmingly? Certainly not. There are 340M Americans, ~20k-30k ICE folks, and ~1M soldiers on US soil. These odds don't keep me up at night. 77% of US 18-24 cohort don't qualify for military service without some form of waiver (due to obesity, drug use, or mental health issues).

I admit, US propaganda is very good at projecting an image of strength. I strongly doubt it is prepared for a civil ground war, based on all available evidence. It cannot even keep other nation states out of critical systems. See fragile systems for what they are.