MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-15 17:50:47+00:00
I never played Thief, so I can't compare two. I was really impressed w/ System Shock 2.

re: the graphics - I don't remember being particularly underwhelmed by the graphics, but I didn't play many contemporary titles to compare it to. I was drawn-in by the System Shock franchise, but otherwise didn't really game.

For me the horror element came from the voice acting on the audio journals, the voices of "the many", and those goddamned cyborg assassins.
by simonw | 2026-01-15 17:51:00+00:00
It turns out the Cursor one is stitching together a ton of open source components already.

That said, I don't really find the critique that models have browser source code in their training data particularly interesting.

If they spat out a full, working implementation in response to a single prompt then sure, I'd be suspicious they were just regurgitating their training data.

But if you watch the transcripts for these kinds of projects you'll see them make thousands of independent changes, reacting to test failures and iterating towards an implementation that matches the overall goals of the project.

The fact that Firefox and Chrome and WebKit are likely buried in the training data somewhere might help them a bit, but it still looks to me more like an independent implementation that's influenced by those and many other sources.
by stackghost | 2026-01-15 17:51:07+00:00
>Most of us don't work at those places.

Right, but we should be able to shame, ostracize, and criticize the people that do work at those places because if we don't then it's a tacit approval of what they do.

You know that saying about how if you have three people sharing a bench with a Nazi, you actually have four Nazis? Tech has social and political ramifications, the discussion of which is artificially suppressed on HN.

Most of the time you can't do that here. Try saying something negative about Sam Altman, for example. dang has certain topics he just won't permit and then hides behind the excuse of "if everyone is upset with you, you must be doing something right".

>If you work at big tech you're not allowed to particpate in tech forum as a hobby?

I don't understand what you mean, can you please clarify?
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 17:51:08+00:00
If “fraud, human smuggling and unlawful employment practices” - the subject of the door-to-door operation - is a way of life, that’s a sad state of affairs. Is the argument that Minnesota isn’t emblematic of those issues or that those issues can’t be investigated because a “non white” community is involved with it?

As for citizens being detained, interfering with and obstructing a law enforcement operation will get you detained, whether it’s ICE, FBI, or your local cop on a traffic stop.
by just6979 | 2026-01-15 17:51:35+00:00
I think you got it backwards. The only way is guessing, it's all random.

It's the internal inconsistencies that get me. Like, OK, I understand that there might be some quirks, maybe due to some weird backwards compatibility or technical limitation, but there are multiple incompatible quirks _inside_ this single interface! It's terrible, and things like this are a huge part of the reason JS was long considered (and sometimes still is) a Not So Good language.
by willmarch | 2026-01-15 17:52:16+00:00
You should read more of the thoughts of America’s founding fathers. Government authority ends when its actions violate the Constitution (especially when checks and balances have failed) and the people are the final arbiters of what the government can and cannot do. Your analysis is completely antithetical to the values and ideals the United States was founded to protect.

If the government repeatedly uses violence outside of the bounds of the Constitution and checks and balances have failed to correct that behavior then that is a real crossing of a redline based on the principles outlined in our founding documents.
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-15 17:52:26+00:00
If you apply antioxidant paste, torque the terminations to the correct value, and use wiring devices rated for Cu and Al conductors, there are zero problems.

Most homeowners know none of the requirements of aluminum wire installation so I don’t recommend using it, oxidation is bad and can cause fires. Just pay for copper NM cable, it’s dirt cheap anyways.

FWIW I sell and run electrical work for a living. I assume crote and amluto work in the electrical industry, since they’re the only other posters in this discussion who know what they’re talking about.
by mmooss | 2026-01-15 17:52:45+00:00
Is there a paper somewhere?

Statement from the Viking Museum:

https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/about-us/news-and-press...

Documentary referenced in the statement (I think):

https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/gaaden-i-dybet_-fra-ukendt-ha...
by anthk | 2026-01-15 17:52:45+00:00
I played Spanish IF games too from the ZX, but emulated, with PAWS (the adv system) adapted into Spanish. As the English grammar it's simpler than the Spanish one and the words are shorter, you could put tons of in game content and potential actions and effects; that's why The Hobbit shines. Altough further Spanish games were much better, such as Aventura Espacial.
by xyzelement | 2026-01-15 17:52:46+00:00
I would bet that's true just on a statistical level - but my point is that plenty of people still feel that way, or at least have felt that way recently enough about the underlying problem that won't cause them to riot.

There's an interesting other angle that I heard about "terrorizing a city" type thing -- there are many million illegal immigrants in the US who entered in just the last few years, when the prior admin did not attempt to limit. The size of the problem basically leaves no "nice" solutions that are perfectly palatable to everyone. Maybe like "nobody wants to hear about an amputation" but unfortunately some situations are bad enough that you have to.
by phkahler | 2026-01-15 17:52:47+00:00
By "cube" coordinates i mean a coordinate system centered on the whole cube. By "piece" coordinates i mean with the origin centered on one of the smaller pieces of the puzzle.

In graphics programming you'd use world coordinates and object coordinates in a similar way. Each piece is geometrically the same (except color) in object coordinates. To rotate you normally rotate in object coordinates and then move (translate) in world coordinates. Im saying just define each piece in world coordinates and rotate them in world coordinates. They'll orbit the center of the whole cube that way and you'll only be changing their orientation.

Another way to say it might be: use quaternions to describe the orientation of a piece where (1,0,0,0) is the piece in "solved" position. After applying several rotations to a piece you still have orientation in a single quaternion, which can also be applied to the original position vector to find out where it is now. Location and orientation are not independent.

Another way to say it is that if you have any given piece and know its orientation, there is only one place it can be on the puzzle.
by MrOrelliOReilly | 2026-01-15 17:53:15+00:00
I appreciate the Fly.io team’s enthusiasm and am optimistic this will mature into a product I’d pay for, but my initial impression was of a lack of polish.

Documentation is sparse, or not even available? The API docs don’t tell you much about the service itself, and a Google search for docs returns an inaccessible website as the first result (https://docs.sprites.dev). Blog posts and forum threads and Claude skills shouldn’t be a substitute.

The snappiness of the sprites is very cool and I can definitely see it integrating into future Claude Code workflows. But the lack of a base container images means you’re still doing setup work on the sprite before you can begin development. I understand the philosophy is that sandboxes should be persistent, but Claude Code sessions also work better when isolated from each other, so it’d be nice to have some precepts to get a workspace setup quickly (given agentic coding is clearly a target).

I also found the CLI unintuitive but maybe that was just me!

So very cool idea but left with the impression that the Fly.io team’s should have spent a couple weeks on polish before shipping.
by dang | 2026-01-15 17:53:30+00:00
The answer could be: (1) users flagged it; (2) mods downweighted it; and/or (3) it set off the flamewar detector, a,k.a. the overheated discussion detector.

In this case it was #3.

That's one of the ways the system autocorrects. A sensational/indignant post attracts upvotes because that's how upvotes work (this is a weakness of the upvoting system), and this triggers an overheated discussion, which trips the flamewar detector which penalizes the post. It's about as simple a feedback mechanism as a thermostat.

That's why it's not uncommon for something to be at #1 and have tons of upvotes and comments, and then suddenly plummet. We do review all the threads that get that particular penalty but sometimes it takes a while.

Edit: ok, I've reviewed it. In this case, the thread is actually pretty good. I'm not sold on the article*, but a good thread is enough to turn off the flamewar penalty in this case, and I've done so.

(* not a judgment about article quality in general, only about how good a fit it is or isn't for HN)
by apawloski | 2026-01-15 17:53:38+00:00
Your obsession with Anglicans is so baffling, because most Americans aren't Anglican and that's been true for most of America's history. I really don't agree with your suggestion that Italians, or Germans, or ____, make worse Americans. You'd then have to argue that you and I are worse Americans as well, which I don't think you believe.
by BuckRogers | 2026-01-15 17:54:26+00:00
No, I believed the video showed Renee being handled appropriately by my nation's federal law enforcement.

Laughable for you to suggest that I'm the one with the ideological bent. A guy on Bluesky can't come up with a response to counter what I said, so your first instinct to search through my post history.

You can drink the KoolAid all you want, but the fact is that 50% of this country cried about a woman that tried to murder and ICE agent with her car. Not caring about the facts at all. Then we learn the agent, who we thank for his service to his nation, is recovering from internal bleeding in his chest. We'll never back down from you.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 17:55:23+00:00
Thank you a lot for taking the time to share what you see here, I really appreciate it. All we can hope for is that it gets better, and that there are genuine people out there who care about others in their community, who all help each other when needed. It's really sad to hear about the realization of how quickly it could spiral but considering the situation, it's real and make sense. Thank you and good luck!
by tptacek | 2026-01-15 17:55:25+00:00
The documentation actually had a hallucinated link to an Anthropic dependency in it when we shipped. Right now the attitude is mostly "if we have to document it extensively, we're doing something wrong". It's been in the works for awhile, with a small team, and we're just getting it out there right now.

I've been needling Kurt for several months now that if we wait until it's polished enough that we don't see comments like this, we're doing it wrong.
by boothby | 2026-01-15 17:55:40+00:00
I live in vancouver and cannot install such apps on my phone. While you may have found the machine's UI unusual, I use them quite often and I suspect that people like me would invalidate your claim... if it went to court. But parking lots aren't the purview of the courts -- enforcement of private parking happens privately, so your sorrows would likely fall on the hardened ears of a privately owned impound lot operator.

My partner and I frequently "race" at the parking game and I win at the "slow" machine nearly every time because the apps are so unresponsive and badly designed.
by quesera | 2026-01-15 17:56:03+00:00
My best guess would be the size of the GPU market, before the AI crush.

I don't track that market (not a gamer), but it seemed substantial enough that I was aware of it. I do travel in geeky circles though.

Also, plasma TVs were big for a decade or so, and they run hotter than the CRTs that preceded them, or the LCDs/etc of today.
by gs17 | 2026-01-15 17:56:20+00:00
"meant to survive rain storms" doesn't really mean the same as "meant to survive flooding", especially not "meant to survive flooding with salt water". For example, a car survives outdoor weather year-round, but you probably wouldn't want to buy one that was submerged in a flood zone. This plant seems to be floating, though, so they stay above water regardless.
by panath | 2026-01-15 17:57:03+00:00
> It is tedious because you must edit with facts, not ideology.

Not just because you must edit with facts. If your opposition outnumbers you and/or they have more energy to spend than you, they can grind you down with bad-faith arguments and questions for clarification.

The way this goes is that they edit an article to insert their POV. You edit/revert it. They open a talk page discussion about the subject. Suppose their edit is "marine animals are generally considered cute throughout the world" with a reference to a paper by an organization in favor of seals. You revert it by saying this is NPOV. They open a talk page question asking where the organization has been declared to be partisan. Suppose you do research and find some such third-party statement that "the Foundation for Animal Aesthetics is organized by proponents of marine animals". Then they ask how this third party is accurate, or whether "organized by proponents" necessarily implies that they're biased.

This can go on more or less forever until someone gives up. The attack even has a name on Wikipedia itself: "civil POV pushing". It works because few Wikipedia admins are subject matter experts, so they police behavior (conduct) more than they police subject accuracy.

Civil POV pushers can thus, much like sealions, keep their surface conduct unobjectionable while waiting for the one they are actioning against to either give up or to get angry enough to make a heated moment's conduct violation.

In short, a thousand "but is really two plus two equal to four?" overcome a single "You bastard, it is four and you're deliberately trolling me", because the latter is a personal insult.
by shuntress | 2026-01-15 17:57:07+00:00
His nine theses are basically a how-to guide for replacing democratic consensus with culture war bullshit. He clearly wants to bend the process to match his perception of the world rather than update his understanding of the world to match the facts.

The process Wikipedia uses to produce articles that present facts with without editorializing has clearly worked fairly well. Obviously we have a more difficult time reaching consensus on contentious topics but in general the system works quite well.
by bitwize | 2026-01-15 17:57:10+00:00
Software engineering concerns itself with the industrial production of software, at scale. Much like chemical engineering for chemicals. Artisanal handcrafted software is kind of outside the scope of the discipline of software engineering.

AI generation and assistance is such an accelerant to industrial software production that it is now a must for serious software engineering. If you need to evolve your mental model of the code base, ask your LLM. It's at least as good an accelerant of understanding existing code as it is of writing new code—maybe better.
by dahart | 2026-01-15 17:57:19+00:00
You might be confusing consumer purchasing choices with the national energy policy and infrastructure we were talking about. Going green personally is only more expensive to consumers in places where our country isn’t building and offering green power by default. EVs are a bit of a different topic. But what difference does it make when fossil fuels run out? Left unchecked, sooner or later market forces will make oil much more expensive as it becomes scarce, and eventually there is no choice. Yes we might be decades or even hundreds of years away from that, but in the big picture that’s not far away, and it doesn’t matter because the eventuality is obvious. Eventually there will be no such thing as non-renewable energy. Might as well start now.
by codingdave | 2026-01-15 17:57:23+00:00
> ... that I would not be great at teaching...

First, don't limit your child's education to what you are good at. That is doing them a massive disservice. You don't have to be good at teaching something for your child to learn it. You just need to find and provide resources and help them self-navigate the topic.

Secondly, who cares if AI can do something better? That doesn't mean to avoid learning. People play chess even though grandmasters exist who will always be better than them. People learn to write even though there are professional novelists and poets. Not only is it OK to learn something even if others are better at it, that is kind of the entire point of education.
by TomasBM | 2026-01-15 17:57:38+00:00
Although I agree with your overall point, there is a middle ground here: (commercially) non-free but open source software.

I believe that's where the biggest disagreement ITT lies. There are currently good ways to do FOSS, proprietary closed-source and free closed-source software development. But if the OSS is worth charging for (commercial) use, devs are left with asking for donations, SaaS or "pay me to work on this issue/feature".

There arguably should be better mechanisms to reward OSS development, even if the largest part of an OSSndev's motivation is intrinsic.
by programjames | 2026-01-15 17:57:50+00:00
> There was a long entrenched culture that in the US you could turn your intelligence into positive change and get rich doing it.

Yes, this is still true, and why immigration to America maintained its previous momentum. It was often easier to get a student visa than a different immigration visa, so for the past 30 years or so that has been the primary route, and in turn has raised the prestige of American universities.

However, if you look at the American-born population, their students are not impressive. Quite the opposite, for how much funding their education gets. And—by federal interest—only ~10% of the undergraduate student body can be foreigners. Professors at American universities routinely complain about their students' low standards. Things are not the same as they were ten years ago, let alone thirty or fifty years ago.

I think international sentiment has not shifted to the point that this is common knowledge—that if people want to go international, they better attend a school in China or Switzerland—but it would have happened in a few years with or without Trump, and the decline would be as apparent as the primary and secondary school decline has been.
by acdha | 2026-01-15 17:57:54+00:00
GamerGate was about journalism in the same way that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was to protect the rights of ethnic Russian minorities in that country. The GamerGate people used ethics as an excuse because that sounds a lot more reasonable than “hate mob riled up by a bitter ex”, but it fell apart as soon as you looked at the evidence (e.g. they were most focused on attacking a developer over a relationship with someone who never reviewed her games), where they went for support (right-wing agitators with low journalistic ethics), and all of the real issues they ignored between huge gaming companies and the major media outlets.

The excuse was as believable as someone saying they were super concerned about ethics in tech journalism, but then never said a word about a huge tech company and spent all of their time badgering the Temple OS guy for sharing a meal with an OS News writer.
by huss97 | 2026-01-15 17:58:00+00:00
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by stefan_ | 2026-01-15 17:58:10+00:00
> The maximum legal speed of the vehicle would be limited to only 15 miles per hour (24 km/h); it could not weigh any more than 60 kilograms (130 lb), including the battery; and its motor could not be rated at any more than 250 watts.

It's interesting that these are still essentially the regulations for e-bikes in the EU today, I guess slightly relaxed (25km/h, 250W average only but can peak higher).
by kibwen | 2026-01-15 17:58:10+00:00
The irony is that I feel like everyone here is just copping off of WolframAlpha, which for the past 15 years has featured the ability to display references of similar magnitude for any query you give. And in fact, typing in "500,000 tons" into WolframAlpha tells you specifically that this is 1.4x the mass of the Empire State Building (and also 0.8x to 1.4x the mass of an Ultra Large Crude Carrier oil supertanker, and also 0.11x the mass converted to energy by the sun in one second).

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=500%2C000+tons
by BuckRogers | 2026-01-15 17:58:28+00:00
> brown jewish dude in Palestine

Yet you still call us racist. Hilarious stuff honestly. And you say it like it's an insult at that. If He incarnated as a brown man, is that supposed to be an insult? Shame on you, honestly.

But no, you spoke that like someone that knows nothing about Christianity. If you want to see the face of Jesus, it's not from someone's imagination, you can see it on the Shroud. And He would have looked like the Jews of Iraq today, to be clear. There aren't many left there, but that's the closest modern equivalent.

Given that Christianity is indeed true, you'll answer for your words lying about people being pedophiles. Remember, before Maduro was captured, Trump was beholden to Russia. Remember, pee tape. Putin's puppet. You guys have a new lie to fall for every single day. Credibility at zero. You're not about truth, you're about comfort.