MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-01-08 22:05:22+00:00
Here's the bigger question. Why would you?

Claude code feels like the first commodity agent. In theory its simple but in practice you'll have to maintain a ton of random crap you get no value in maintaining.

My guess is eventually all "agents" will be wipped out by claude code or something equivalent.

Maybe not the companies will die but that all those startups will just be hooking up a generic agent wrapper and let it do its thing directly. My bet is that that the company that would win this is the one with the most training data to tune their agent to use their harness correctly.
by nateb2022 | 2026-01-08 22:05:23+00:00
Agreed. Also if they had really been trying to drive ARR, they would have made Tailwind UI a subscription/yearly licensing thing instead of a one-time purchase.

There's a reason companies like Adobe/Microsoft switched away from one-time purchase software, and that reason is that it is exhausting and eventually impossible to sustain a business where you have to hunt for brand new customers every single month just to keep the lights on.
by dmitrygr | 2026-01-08 22:05:36+00:00
> As mentioned in the article, TSO is not exclusive to Apple's ARM implementation.

I thought I had been quite clear. I guess I'll try again even more clearly.

"TSO" is three letters. It is not a spec. "We all do TSO" is as meaningful as "we all want world peace". Everyone has their own meaning for those words, and the meanings may differ significantly. Each is a memory model, and each can be called "TSO". But just like not every "John Smith" is the same person, nor is everything called "TSO" the same. Does NVIDIA's TSO order ALL reads with respect to ALL writes? Does Apple's? What does x86 do in that case? What does a Fujitsu CPU do? "TSO" does not mean the same thing to everyone just like "world peace" does not. If, for example, NVIDIA came out and said "our TSO mode complies 100% with x86 memory model and will always continue to", then Fujitsu did the same, and then (LOL) Apple also publicly promised that, then and only then would your comment make sense. As it stands, four entities use the same acronym to each mean their own thing, and you are assuming absolute equality because the three letters match.

Fun story: I know FOR A FACT the answer to my above question about ordering of all reads vs all writes is not the same for x86, Apple's TSO, NVIDIA's TSO, and Fujitsu's TSO. Do you? Do you know how? Do you know how the answers might change with time and hardware revisions, given that at least Apple made no promises as to how their undocumented TSO mode works today or will work tomorrow? Exactly...

One cannot build a stable f{ea,u}ture on undocumented un[der]specified hardware features.
by lurk2 | 2026-01-08 22:05:59+00:00
I’ve always found this semantic argument somewhat silly as being blind or deaf is an obvious disadvantage in natural contexts, but one of the more compelling ideas here is that the fitness boundary isn’t fixed. It would probably be a fitness advantage if I could sense electromagnetic fields, but no one would describe me as disabled for not being able to sense these fields—unless, perhaps, everyone else could.

So what we consider to be a disability does seem to be a function of what we consider to be normal.
by klez | 2026-01-08 22:06:04+00:00
More details (in Italian): https://www.wired.it/article/agcom-multa-cloudflare-oltre-14...

TL;DR: since 2013 in Italy we've had a controversial regulation that compels internet providers to block access to certain IP addresses when the communication authority flags them. The problem, of course, is that if a copyright infringing websites shares it's IP address with legitimate sites, those sites become collateral damage.
by shaftway | 2026-01-08 22:06:39+00:00
Maybe. I haven't really heard many of the people in my circles describing an experience like that ("opening up" to an LLM). I can't imagine *anyone* telling a general-purpose LLM about memories they cherish.

Do people want an LLM to "know them"? I literally shuddered at the thought. That sounds like a dystopian hell to me.

But I think Google has, or can infer, a lot more of that data than people realize. If you're on Android you're probably opted into Google Photos, and they can mine a ton of context about you out of there. Certainly infer information about who is important to you, even if you don't realize it yourself. And let's face it, people aren't that unique. It doesn't take much pattern matching to come up with text that looks insightful and deep, but is actually superficial. Look at cold-reading psychics for examples of how trivial it is.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-01-08 22:06:58+00:00
I hope things work out for Tailwind. I think it is very decent of Google to do this. Obviously Google takes some heat for their business model but when I was invited to work at Google in 2013 I thought the company had a definite vibe of trying to do the right thing in several dimensions (e.g., renewable energy for data centers).
by kccqzy | 2026-01-08 22:07:33+00:00
I think you are getting downvoted because your claim that “without Linux, Java and webkit it wouldn't exist” doesn’t pass the smell test. If Linux didn’t exist, maybe Google will just use one of the BSDs. If Java didn’t exist perhaps Google would just write more code in C++ instead; I’m pretty sure it still has more lines of C++ than Java. Or maybe Go would get invented a few years earlier. And if WebKit didn’t exist maybe Google would just fork KHTML themselves rather than forking a fork of KHTML. A lot of open source software appeared at the right time to be dominant, but without them other different open source software might dominate. But your argument isn’t about what if the entire OSS movement didn’t exist. It’s about what if specific OSS didn’t exist.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-01-08 22:08:06+00:00
Agreed, much of the angst towards "meat" or "red meat" really ought to be stated as carcinogenic nitrosamines . When you cook nitrate rich red meat at high temperatures you get nitrosamines (less when you use herbs like rosemary) ...

Meat has it's own internal ranking: Fish, boneless skinless chicken, low fat red meat cuts, high fat red meat, processed/preserved red meats (like sausage, bacon, sandwich meat etc) ... We should shift left in our meat consumption.
by nateb2022 | 2026-01-08 22:08:25+00:00
I'd agree with medicine, school/nursery, real estate, and finance but mostly because in those industries the ability to connect with clients at a human level is often more valuable than sheer talent.

With farming/livestock, pretty much all of that can become automated. And even in the previous human-centric sectors, there are definitely roles that will be replaced by AI, even if the sector as a whole continues to employ a lot of people.

Take law, for instance. Due to the prevalence of bar associations (which will likely prevent AI from doing lawyers' jobs), AI will never be a lawyer. However, many lawyers have and continue to replace paralegals with AI.
by anishgupta | 2026-01-08 22:08:32+00:00
feedback loop is my favorite!
Also it helps to create an md file to add all the verification and failures which may happen otherwise. AI has a tendency to happy ship features and while looking at verification (which is created by its own) it keeps a check.
For example: "Change the login button blue in color and also update the verification.md file with possible failures which may not get this job done or get the job done incorrectly. Review those verifications and then only finish the user request"
by bombcar | 2026-01-08 22:08:41+00:00
I should have mentioned a bit more - residential real estate (e.g., your house) is valued on comps for the purposes of a mortgage backed by that property alone - commercial real estate is valued by the local rent multiplier and mortgages are against bundles of it, or the entire company.

So (simplified) an "empty building, but it rents at $2k a month" is valued at 200k say; if you drop the rent to $1500 and now are getting rent paid, the building is valued at $150k.

They're not stupid, they're watching the vacancies and cash flow also, but it's over a bunch of properties, not just one. A single-family landlord who owns one property will start to feel the pain quite quickly of an empty building (and even they should plan for 20% vacancy, one year out of five).
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-08 22:09:43+00:00
Agree, the RLVR tasks are probably long series of tool calls at this point doing complex tasks in some simulated dev environment.

That said, I think it's hard to say how much of a difference it really makes in terms of making Claude Code specifically better than other coding agents using the same LLM (versus just making the LLM better for all coding agents using roughly similar tools). There is probably some difference, but you'd need to run a lot of benchmarks to find out.
by _puk | 2026-01-08 22:10:06+00:00
I think that keeping tailwind alive means that Gemini Studio:

* Likely gets preferential access to new features and changes in tailwind, keeping it cutting edge

* Keeps a framework alive that Gemini is already good at

If a new framework becomes popular then the amount of training material / material already trained into the model essentially starts from 0.

The mature Frameworks that had plenty of openly available data to train on before everything became locked away are the ones we'll be running with for the next few years. It makes sense to keep it alive.
by throwforfeds | 2026-01-08 22:10:43+00:00
> You’re unlikely to see a buddhist missionary asking if you’ve heard to truth about emptiness on a street corner ;)

That made me lol, because yes I've never experienced that. But then I remembered that SGI had a lot of controversy due to their aggressive proselytizing in Japan in the 20th century. [1]

Also, we do have to bear witness to Theravadin monks in Myanmar advocating for (and participating in) genocide against the Rohingya due to their religious beliefs. Similarly in Sri Lanka against Tamils and Muslim populations there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dsei_Toda#Aggressive_pro...
Show HN: Freenet alpha, a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web
by sanity | 2026-01-08 22:11:30+00:00
We’ve been working on a new version of Freenet for the last couple of years. The original Freenet dates back to the early 2000s; this is a ground-up rewrite in Rust and is intended as a general-purpose platform for building decentralized systems.

The alpha has been running since shortly before Christmas and has been gradually stabilized over the last few weeks, though it is still definitely alpha quality.

Freenet is a decentralized key-value store where keys are WebAssembly contracts. These contracts define what values can be associated with a key and how those values are updated. Web applications can be distributed over Freenet and use it as a decentralized back end.

The main application at the moment is a decentralized group chat app called River, which serves as a concrete example of this model. It runs fully peer-to-peer, with no servers or federation, and is usable for real conversations between multiple peers.

The alpha also reports live network telemetry, which is exposed via a public dashboard. It shows peers joining, message traffic, and other network activity in real time.

Getting started should be fairly quick. There’s a one-page quickstart that installs a local peer as a service on Mac or Linux and lets you join the network in a few minutes.

Links:
Quickstart: https://freenet.org/quickstart/

Live telemetry dashboard: http://nova.locut.us:3133/

General info: https://freenet.org/

FAQ: https://freenet.org/faq/
by mrandish | 2026-01-08 22:11:30+00:00
> They are so intertwined propping up the same bubble they are absolutely going to share quotes instantly.

Reading this line, I had a funny image form of some NVidia PR newbie reflexively reaching out to Lisa Su for a supporting quote and Lisa actually considering it for a few seconds. The AI bubble really has reached a level of "We must all hang together or we'll surely hang separately".
by impendia | 2026-01-08 22:11:41+00:00
If the government's guidance isn't to be at least mostly trusted, then I'm not sure the government should be offering guidance at all. (Which is perhaps a sensible position in itself.)

In other words, if I learn enough about nutrition to be able to critically evaluate the government's guidance, then is that guidance adding any additional signal? At that point, I should just rely on my sources about nutrition.

I've never been one to rely on official guidance blindly. For example I don't show up to the airport two hours early, and cheerfully laugh at advice that I should. But I'd like to believe that this guidance is better than total nonsense.
by usrbinbash | 2026-01-08 22:12:16+00:00
> I definitely prefer public private over case defined visibility.

And I think `public` and `private` keywords are a verbose mess that adds nothing to a language.

> You can't use an array for different types.

Yes I can. I even provided an example for exactly that: `[4]any` can hold references to any type.

> Matching _is_ useful

A lot of things are useful, doesn't mean they are used for that useful case most of the time.

> You can have explicit forced AND exhaustive error handling without exceptions

Go has wrapped and typed errors, covering exactly that.
by wewtyflakes | 2026-01-08 22:12:50+00:00
How was this flamebait? It is an example of how bad programming choices/assumptions/guardrails costs lives, a counterargument to the statement of 'And yet, it never does'. Splitting hairs if the language is C or assembly is missing the spirit of the argument, as both those languages share the linguistic footguns that made this horrible situation happen (but hey, it _was_ the 80s and choices of languages was limited!). Though, even allowing the "well ackuacally" cop-out argument, it is trivial to find examples of code in C causing failures due to out-of-bounds usage of memory; these bugs are found constantly (and reported here, on HN!). Now, you would need to argue, "well _none_ of those programs are used in life-saving tech" or "well _none_ of those failures would, could, or did cause injury", to which I call shenanigans. The link drop was meant to do just that.
by timbit42 | 2026-01-08 22:12:54+00:00
It was not for no reason. When adding a screw hole in the motherboard so it could be mounted in the case, they accidentally removed the high speed wire, dooming the C64 to the same slow data speed of the VIC-20 with it's faulty VIA.

The C64 data speed actually ended up being even slower than the VIC-20. You can read the full detailed here: https://imrannazar.com/articles/commodore-1541
by nateb2022 | 2026-01-08 22:13:01+00:00
> Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a problem setup in deep learning where, at test time, a learner observes samples from classes which were not observed during training, and needs to predict the class that they belong to. The name is a play on words based on the earlier concept of one-shot learning, in which classification can be learned from only one, or a few, examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-shot_learning
by yoavm | 2026-01-08 22:13:33+00:00
After my last Sonos, I gave up on smart speakers. Recently I discovered Squeezelite-ESP32 / piCorePlayer and I'm not going back. I'm free to choose my own speakers (and people sell great 2nd hand dumb speakers for nothing!), I can stream, sync, etc - and they integrate great with Home Assistant. No more proprietary protocol for me, thank you...
by martinald | 2026-01-08 22:14:06+00:00
Yes I said that in my comment. Yes they might be useful for that - but when you start getting to prompts that are long enough to have any significant compute time you are going to need far more RAM than these devices have.

Obviously in the future this might change. But as we stand now dedicated silicon for _just_ LLM prefill doesn't make a lot of sense imo.
by bawolff | 2026-01-08 22:14:10+00:00
There wasn't really any sort of plausible protest movement going on at the time, and the strikes did result in an upswell of regime support in the short term.

It was advantagous for them to strike when they did, so they did. Its much less advantageous in this moment, so it seems less likely they will now. Or at least not overtly.

> But now they are playing it cool like a cucumber?

Well yes. Countries tend to do things they think will make them more powerful. Sometimes that means blowing shit up, but that is not always the right play.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-08 22:14:11+00:00
My go to example for this is Saint Cyril.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_Alexandria

He is a canonized saint of Catholicism and revered as a virtuous defender of Christianity. More evidence based history instead indicates he was a narcissist primarily motivated to elevate himself politically in Alexandria which included wide spread murder and the destruction of the greatest intellectual institution the world had ever seen.
by krapp | 2026-01-08 22:14:29+00:00
Why would Disney fear you, though?

They'll still own all of the money-making IP that your models are trained on. You won't actually be able to get away with "X in the style of Disney or Y in the style of Pixar." And they'll have their own in-house models, far more expensive and powerful (likely through regulation) than you'll be able to afford.

You aren't talking about competition, you're talking about emulation. Putting an inferior version of existing properties on the market like The Asylum does.

I watched all of the links you provided. The "live action rotoscoped film" didn't need AI. They could have rented a knight costume or did that in AE, it wouldn't have even been that expensive. It wasn't even a good example of what rotoscoping could do - and I can actually accept rotoscoping and motion capture as a legitimate use of LLMs.

The concept for the Predator sketch was lame and it's ripping off the style of an Joel Haver, an animator with actual comedy talent. That legitimately kind of makes me mad. That's exactly the sort of thing that makes people hate AI. You aren't even ripping off a corporation here, which I could at least respect in abstract.

The Superman parody was generic and derivative, but it looked competent. Didn't really look like Robot Chicken though. The way they did the mouths was weird. And the whole plot revolved around a problem that was never actually a problem in the franchise.

The Grinch "anime" didn't look like a good anime. It looked like the kind of thing people criticize when an anime studio cuts costs for a second season. Still frames and very little animation. Inconsistent and generic style.

The horror movie posted below? The "blood" looked awful a lot of the time. The cinematography, as such, didn't carry the story at all. It isn't shot or cut the way an actual movie would be. The actors weren't compelling, the script was tepid.

Understand, I'm really trying not to just shit on this because it's AI, I'm trying to approach it as art because that's what it purports to be. And I can concede that the technical capability of AI has advanced dramatically in this field. They did a Robot Chicken and they did a Joel Haver and I saw a 90s cartoon but... it's bad art. I see no sense of actual unique creative vision anywhere. No sense of an actual artist trying to express something. Nothing that tells me "this could only have been done by AI, and would have been impossible beforehand."

It's like AI people think all you need is the aesthetic, and that the aesthetic they're imitating is a suitable replacement for the actual talent that went into it, but it isn't.
by efilife | 2026-01-08 22:14:50+00:00
or had this info injected into its system prompt and was doing everything not to reval it. ChatGPT gets fed your IP address* and approximate location in its system prompt but won't ever admit it and will come up with excuses. Just ask it "search the web to find where im at". It will tell you the country you are in, sometimes down to the city. If you follow up with "how did you know my approximate location?" it will ALWAYS tell you it guessed it. Based on past conversations (that never happened), based on the way you talk, it can even hallucinate that you told it in this exact conversation.

*not entirely sure. I t seems to frequently hallucinate the address
by nestorD | 2026-01-08 22:14:57+00:00
On alternative ways to measure LLM intelligence, we had good success with this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23510

In short: start with a dataset of question and answer pairs, where each question has been answered by two different LLMs. Ask the model you want to evaluate to choose the better answer for each pair. Then measure how consistently it selects winners. Does it reliably favor some models over the questions, or does it behave close to randomly? This consistency is a strong proxy for the model’s intelligence.

It is not subject to dataset leaks, lets you measure intelligence in many fields where you might not have golden answers, and converges pretty fast making it really cheap to measure.
by the_af | 2026-01-08 22:15:35+00:00
> Nope. I prefer to read not so close and just reply anyway.

It shows. Maybe you should read closer so as to debate the actual statements and not something you imagined.

I had typed a longer answer but then realized it's pointless. You seem intent on setting some kind of trap or gotcha, which is pointless. It's also against the HN guidelines, but you already know this.

You've already decided I fit a "common pattern" and that I'm anti-American and anti-Western (that's hilarious, I was born and live in Trump's very own Western hemisphere. Plus good luck arguing that anti nuclear weapons Americans are anti-American), so stay with that opinion. I have nothing to gain by telling a bad faith troll my country, and you haven't justified why you need this information.

I hope you can overcome your anger.
by kentonv | 2026-01-08 22:15:43+00:00
Yes, I actually do think if Sanjay Ghemawat were instead Wojciech Przemysław Kościuszko-Wiśniewski, white European but otherwise an equal engineer, and I chose to elevate Jeff Dean over him, I would later feel equally bad about it.

(Which again to be clear I'm am not riven with guilt here, I just think maybe given another chance I would have made it about both of them.)
by sublinear | 2026-01-08 22:16:21+00:00
Your body doesn't care about the weight of the food nor the quantity of items in the package.

You eat calories and process nutrients. You can make a lot more meals and a wider variety of recipes with a whole chicken than a pack of hot dogs.

Anyone who shops like you described is not being efficient with their money as long as they have their own kitchen. Poverty is a lot of possible scenarios. I'm not saying they're dumb or anything.

Nutrition is hard to think about when tempted by the modern convenient grocery store with limited money. Unit price has a way of messing with your head. I also get the practicality of having packaged and shelf stable food when you lack access to a freezer and can't stay somewhere for too long. It is what it is.
by hug | 2026-01-08 22:16:40+00:00
> I'd like to see this statement plotted against current trends in hardware prices ISO performance.

Prices for who? The prices that are being paid by the big movers in the AI space, for hardware, aren't sticker price and never were.

The example you use in your comment, RAM, won't work: It's not 3x the price for OpenAI, since they already bought it all.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-08 22:17:10+00:00
'One guy doing one bespoke task is more expensive than mass produced plastic of the same dimension'. Congratulations, you just discovered efficiency of scale and assembly lines.

Capitalism REQUIRES functional and ACTIVE regulation oversite by it's very design and as professed by it's greatest thinkers. Anti-regulation is anti-capitalism. Why are you against healthy, as designed capital markets?