MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jakewindle47 | 2026-01-19 16:33:27+00:00
Many reasons

Everyone else is using LLMs to assist their development, which makes it a lot harder to work without them, especially in just building enterprise apps. It doesn't feel like I'm creating something anymore. Rather, it feels like a fuzzy amalgamation of all developers in the training data are. Working with LLMs sometimes feels like information overload. When I see so much code scrolling past as the agent makes its changes, this can be exhausting. Reading this massive volume of code is exhausting. I don't like that the new "power tools" of software engineering mean that my career, our career, is now monetizable. I liked feeling like a craftsman, and that is lost.
by the_gipsy | 2026-01-19 16:33:28+00:00
That's the neat part, you don't.

Neat as in fantastic - it literally can't get any better - for the oligarchs. Tax the poor, and tell them we're collecting money for them, from the foreigners.

Raise and lower the rates willy-nilly, no need to really justify why you're squeezing who.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-19 16:33:31+00:00
Ladies & Gentlemen, the President of the United States of Amerca:

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel
Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an
obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be
predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the
United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia
or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are
no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of
years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for
NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do
something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have
Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

Given that, should it be any surprise at all that Trump has been gaslighting America on who pays for his tariffs?

And guess what mechanism he's brought to bear on the countries that do not see things his way when it comes to Greenland?
by soraminazuki | 2026-01-19 16:33:32+00:00
Parts of the kernel can be made more resilient against failures, but that won't make it a microkernel. It'll still run in a shared address space without hardware isolation. It's just not possible to get the benefits of microkernels without actually making it one.

Also Linux being OSS can't be dismissed because it means it'll have features that Microsoft isn't interested in for Windows.
by darhodester | 2026-01-19 16:33:34+00:00
Thank you!

There are many ways to relight Gaussian splats. However, the highest quality results are currently coming from raytracing/path tracing render engines (such as Octane and VRay), with 2D diffusion models in second place. Relighting with GSOPs nodes does not yield as high quality, but can be baked into the model and exported elsewhere. This is the only approach that stores the relit information in the original splat scene.

That said, you are correct that in order to relight more accurately, we need material properties encoded in the splats as well. I believe this will come sooner than later with inverse rendering and material decomposition, or technology like Beeble Switchlight (https://beeble.ai). This data can ultimately be predicted from multiple views and trained into the splats.

"Also, environment radiosity doesnt seem to translate to the splats, am I right?"

Splats do not have their own radiosity in that sense, but if you have a virtual environment, its radiosity can be translated to the splats.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-19 16:33:42+00:00
I guess one explanation of the delusion would be "surely if exporter product is more expensive they will have to lower price to compete with locally made product, and if they do not the local equivalent will just sell better".

Doesn't really work when main reason for product existence on market is either "no equivalent" or "this particular subgroup is only imported" (say given specifically tasting cheese).
by mindslight | 2026-01-19 16:34:02+00:00
I used to be like you. But overall the return culture changed drastically - "no fault" returns where stores have zero care to hear about how their items are defective. And then Amazon's constant games with pricing has pushed me into "buying" (ie caching) something if it's a good deal, and then making the actual purchase decision of whether I want it sometime later. Much better than "I'll think about this tonight", and then going to buy it and the price has jumped 30%, making me feel like a sucker.

If I've already got pending Amazon returns to do, adding something to the queue costs me very little. If the queue is empty, then I'm a little more deliberate. But this time of year Nov-Jan is great for this, as the return dates are further out and all on the same day Jan 31 so it doesn't catch me by surprise.

The slow spiteful shipping also pushes me into this behavior when I'm in the middle of a project. Order a few different types of a thing, decide exactly what I need when I'm in the middle of doing, and then when I'm done with the project, return the pile of leftovers.

It's felt like something enabling this dynamic has been waiting to break for years now, but so far it hasn't. The only time I've gotten pushback from Amazon is a nastygram interstitial for a while after I returned a motherboard that I opened and tested (the manufacturer could have avoided this return by documenting the IOMMU groups, but once again... return culture). I have no idea if the problem there was the opening (seemed to be fine under their published policies), or whether something else happened to the item after I handed it to their return agent and they blamed me.
by boarsofcanada | 2026-01-19 16:34:12+00:00
Yeah I am not sure where I read the article recently, but there was a nice write-up about how all politics everywhere is turning into tribalism with little or no actual consideration for policy beyond ideology.

Not that it’s necessarily as bad everywhere, but time and time again I talk to people from various countries who say the current leader never could have been elected back when they were living there.

A lot of this, as in the case of Trump, seems like legitimate dissatisfaction that voters have which is funneled into finding alternatives to the people that are currently representing them, without deep thought about the outcomes of the policies the replacement is pushing for. In the case of Trump voters in particular people seem to very frequently be willing to overlook statements they would otherwise disagree with just because there are other statements that align with their thinking, or that seem like “change” that they are willing to support to see where it leads.
by EPWN3D | 2026-01-19 16:34:17+00:00
If you can be tied to a chair and beaten with a rubber hose until you produce the token, it's just a password, albeit one that rotates.

TOTP works because you have to possess the secure device at the time you're authenticating. If you don't have the device, then no amount of time with the rubber hose can make you cough up the required token.
by csp_dev | 2026-01-19 16:34:23+00:00
Congrats on the launch. Open-source ASM is desperately needed.

Looking at this, I'm thinking about the evolution of the external attack surface. It's not just about finding assets anymore, but understanding their security posture in depth with minimal intrusion.

This connects to work I'm doing on "zero-knowledge" security protocols. Imagine your platform discovers a web app, and a next-generation, privacy-aware scanner could then check for credential exposure (using a protocol that doesn't expose the creds) or misconfigurations without collecting sensitive payloads.

A technical question/thought: For asset discovery and fingerprinting at scale, how do you handle the privacy/data minimization aspect? For instance, when your scanner encounters a login page, is there a consideration for what signals are collected and stored? As we build more autonomous security scanners (and later, AI agents), baking in privacy-by-design from the start seems critical.

Tools like Open-ASM that map the territory will be the foundation for a new wave of respectful, efficient security testing. Excited to see this.
by amluto | 2026-01-19 16:34:27+00:00
It could be interesting to try to apply Fil-C techniques to Rust. After all, while safe Rust is fully memory safe and has many other forms of bug-resistance that Fil-C lacks, Fil-C is far safer than unsafe Rust. Maybe one could achieve both.

And there are probably a lot of optimizations available by skipping safety checks in safe Rust where the compiler could prove that the check was already done.
by jakewindle47 | 2026-01-19 16:35:24+00:00
Honestly? I'm not sure. I've looked at a few different paths.

I'm lucky to live in the Research Triangle area of the United States, so I've got really good options for schooling around me. My sister graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, and I've always been interested in space. Thinking about hardware as a possible path as well.

But in a complete twist, I've also always wanted to be an educator. A high school math or computer science teacher would fit me well. I remember a lot of my male teachers very fondly in terms of the impact they had on my life, and I'd love to give that back.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-19 16:35:39+00:00
I'm specifically criticising the claim that GDPR was among the most burdensome requirements. Very little of GDPR is additional to what you need to do anyway, apart from DSARs (which aren't burdensome: you may charge a fee if someone's abusing the process), appointing a DPO (optional for most organisations), and the third-country restrictions (which are partly necessary, and article 45 reduces the burden). I don't dispute that regulations can be silly and a waste of time (e.g. PCI compliance requiring the removal of effective security measures, as directed by incompetent auditors, because the legal requirement is "passes an audit"), but I do dispute the use of GDPR as an example.

I'll note that of the three regulatory acronyms you gave, two of them (HIPPA and FDA approvals) are American.
by maxglute | 2026-01-19 16:36:01+00:00
Some PRC manufacturers uniquely exposed to US market probably ate/split tariffs, but US like 5% of PRC exports, so it only matters so much. And after initial shock, most figured out to tranship/reroute and arbitrate lower tariff rates elsewhere and preserve margins.

Otherwise "broad" producer price index down primarily due to coal prices getting creamed by renewables, also cheap RU gas. When fossil/input prices drop, PRC PPI always drops. Industrial profit index for manufacturing sectors up 5-10%. Note broad industrial profit index down because it heavily weights state owned / SEO fossil sectors (aforementioned coal+oil dropped by 20-40%). Decompose industrial profits and story is PRC manufactures getting cheap energy and cheap inputs while growing profits more than they lower prices, aka why PRC winning trade game in the first place.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-01-19 16:36:04+00:00
“people who disagree with me must do it because they are stupid and/or manipulated”

It’s true on its surface - most people don’t know about economics, across all political spectrums, and so rely on leaders (which I thought is what liberalism advocates for?).

It’s not a helpful model if you want to understand what’s going on. So then the interesting parts to explore are the reasons they want to believe it, and the reasons given by the educated economists who also support the position
by jacquesm | 2026-01-19 16:36:08+00:00
Is there a way to stay up to date with what you are doing?

It very much aligns with how I've approached hardware since I was 15 and had a massive stack of functional blocks of electronics circuitry that I would combine in all kinds of ways. I've lost the 3x5's, but I still work that way, build a simple block, test it, build another block, test that, hook the one to the other etc.
by stevenwoo | 2026-01-19 16:36:22+00:00
This is incredibly wrong and untrue. He promised a $2000 check to every American as a payoff from tariffs during election year and balance the budget at the same time. His chief economic advisor wrote a book on using tariffs to wage war on China and bring manufacturing to USA. He has talked about using tariffs as tool for decades. He just promises so many things, even contradictory things, that it might be hard to keep track of.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209x48ndjpo
by AdrianB1 | 2026-01-19 16:36:45+00:00
I don't think career plans matter. Workload does. If you have a work plan and taking any free days puts it in jeopardy, you will not take any extra free days. And if not meeting the full work plan results in no salary updates, which is technically not a punishment and it is allowed by law in most of Europe, with some inflation (over 10% in my country) it is practically a pay cut, so you can't afford that.
by mikeayles | 2026-01-19 16:36:45+00:00
Sorry, could have been more clear, LLM's are great at architecting high level design decisions, but terrible at the nitty gritty - without better tooling (with the right tooling, such as https://flux.ai, they are capable!).

I even had Gemini hallucinate a QFN version of the TPS2596 last night, it was so confident that the *RGER variant existed. In an automated pipeline, this would break things, but giving it a list of parts to use, it becomes a lot more useful!
by HumanOstrich | 2026-01-19 16:36:45+00:00
I tried Cerebras with GLM-4.7 (not Flash) yesterday using paid API credits ($10). They have rate limits per-minute and it will get eaten up in the first few seconds - then you have to wait the rest of the minute. Every minute, until your task is done. So they're "fast" at 1000 tok/sec - but not really for practical usage. You effectively get about 17 tok/sec with rate limits.

They also charge for cached tokens, so I burned through $4 for 1 relatively simple coding task - would've cost <$1 using GPT-5.2-Codex or any other model besides Opus and maybe Sonnet that supports caching. And it would've been much faster.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-19 16:36:45+00:00
Like you observed, no one with a grasp of economics thought exporters would absorb the cost of these tariffs. That includes myself, a person who supports tariffs. I don't think it should be necessary to explain why tariffs might be desirable, because they were not invented by idiots, but I will explain briefly.

Tariffs make foreign imports more expensive. This dissuades people from buying them. Some of those people will instead buy equivalent American made products, now that the price difference has lessened. I consider that a good thing. There will be pain while local manufacturing ramps up (or forever, if it never does) for products that have no domestic equivalent. That sucks, but sometimes things need to suck before they improve. Paying off the national debt, for example, is something I support, even if we have to slash a lot of useful spending for awhile. I think most rational Republicans are voting for these sorts of things despite knowing they will make things temporarily worse, in the hopes of an eventual better. The left tends to never do this, for they are very attuned to the immediate suffering their plans cause. The right tends to be less sensitive to the short term suffering their plans cause; the right thinks that the alternative, a slow decline, is worth the pain to avoid. Trump has bungled the implementation of the tariffs, but I still support their use in general.

Fundamentally it makes no sense to me to support a minimum wage for your countrymen, but also support them importing massive amounts of slave made goods. You are creating rules on the supply side that the demand side does not have to follow, which only harms your own domestic businesses. Your own country's businesses have to compete against slave labor while paying living wages; for most manufacturing this is just not possible. You are incentivizing off shoring, which harms your working class, who have to compete with subminimum wage workers. Workers rights must be paired with tariffs, or every additional worker right is a demerit on his hireability against foreign workers without those rights! If you want your country to produce anything, and to have a strong working class, you either remove minimum wage, or you implement tariffs. We cannot simultaneously support strong domestic workers rights and mass importation of sweatshop goods that were made without them. It hollows out the country.
by tetha | 2026-01-19 16:36:53+00:00
This has been my understanding for e.g. European chips as well:

First you subsidize and support the creation of currently not commercially viable chip fabs on-shore. Literally handing companies money under some obligation into the future.

Eventually the on-shore chips are produced, but they have higher total cost of ownership for the users: Logistics may be cheaper due to less distance, or more expensive because they are not well-trodden paths yet. Production costs like labor, water, energy could be higher. And the chips could just have higher failure rate, because problems in the new processes need to be kinked out.

But to get local consumers to switch to these switches, one applies tariffs to other sources of chips so the on-shore chips become more competitive artificially, until they become actually cheaper and competitive.

The way it is threatened here isn't in the use case of tariffs at all from my limited understanding.
by mothballed | 2026-01-19 16:37:05+00:00
Well when we look at rational economic policies take a look at top ~10 in terms of GDP, purchase parity adjusted, per capita:

monaco, liechtenstein, singapore, luxembourg, ireland, macau, qatar, bermuda, norway, switzerland

Monarchy: monaco, liechtenstein, qatar

One party state w/ elections: singapore, macau

direct democracy: switzerland

represented democracy: Norway, Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg

Multi-party representative democracy is less than half. And none of the top 3. An interesting, but uncomfortable, fact. The people are not good at picking economically rational leaders in adversarial elections.
by nutjob2 | 2026-01-19 16:37:36+00:00
I bought a mini PC today. On the US website, it goes for $460, on the German website it goes for 360 euros or $420. But that price includes 20% tax so its actually $335.

Prices for the same product are about 37.5% higher in the US. It's nuts and the reverse of how it used to be not long ago.
by MonkeyClub | 2026-01-19 16:37:46+00:00
> but I also have to say... to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function.

Exactly: tariffs are taxes in another guise. They only serve to create an (artificial) price advantage of local over imported goods for as long as they're levied.

> What were you thinking? What was going through your heads? I'm genuinely curious.

I also can't fathom why the crowd (not just a HN subset) that was clamoring for tariffs thought it'd be anyone other than them shouldering the increase. Perhaps their influencers didn't spell it out for them?

Now everyone gets to pay more - and not just in the US.
by jakewindle47 | 2026-01-19 16:38:08+00:00
For me, it was the craft that was fun, less the building. It was nice to have a really good result that customers were happy about, that other engineers were happy about, but it was also nice to have such intimate knowledge of a codebase because I and my team built it.

I miss that level of mastery. I feel that in the LLM-assisted coding age, that's now gone. You can read every section of code that an LLM generates, but there's no comparison to writing it by hand to me in terms of really internalizing and mastering a codebase.
by blurbleblurble | 2026-01-19 16:38:22+00:00
Every time I've tried to actually use gpt-oss 20b it's just gotten stuck in weird feedback loops reminiscent of the time when HAL got shut down back in the year 2001. And these are very simple tests e.g. I try and get it to check today's date from the time tool to get more recent search results from the arxiv tool.
by roody15 | 2026-01-19 16:38:36+00:00
What exactly is international law these days? For example the ICC is ignored by the US, by Russia, by Israel, by China... among others. The UN does not seem to function quite like it did originally post WW2. In regards to Rule based order.. not sure exactly what this even means as well. Power in the world appears to be shifting or reshuffling and not sure these institutions and concepts apply like they once did.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-19 16:38:38+00:00
In both case there are enforcement mechanism that deliver the will of the enforcers collectively which sometimes correlates with justice or at least a reasonable reading of the letter of the law; in both cases there are a wide set of failure modes from the perspective of law and even moreso justice, because law enforcement (and, in the case of concern for justice, also law making) rely on institutions ultimately composed of people, and the interests of those people is often not in the law or justice.

If you see the difference as being “in the national case, justice is expected”, you either have an extremely naive view of national law, or at a minimum of an extremely narrow and privileged one.
by pydry | 2026-01-19 16:39:04+00:00
They were banned because during a match in Amsterdam they shouted racist abuse, sang racist songs, did plenty of vandalism, threw an innocent member of the public into a river and assaulted Muslim taxi drivers.

Moreover, most of them have military training which makes the racist abuse, vandalism and assault that much more terrifying.

If an antisemitic football team was half that bad they'd be hauled off to prison never mind banned from football matches.
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-19 16:39:09+00:00
I don't buy this - Harris had a big bump in the polls as soon as she entered the race and I think she could have won if she had offered voters anything. This bullshit that American's won't vote for a woman is just an excuse not to run women and to deflect blame towards a culture war issue and away from the fact that the democrats don't actually have popular policies.

I voted for Harris, I even canvased for her, but I think its a sexist oversimplification to suggest she lost because she is a woman. She lost because her campaign was lame.
by kryogen1c | 2026-01-19 16:39:15+00:00
Almost all the comments acting like this is some truth bombshell, like people in trumpistan all thought raising tariffs magically made the us economy better. This is a straw man, no?

Tariffs are a mid-long term strategy to encourage onshoring business, for reasons including military, national security, and political influence on foreign powers.

This is a complicated topic involving the global economy and evolving intercountry landscape. All these slam dunk takes are incomplete to the point of being wrong - and inflammatory.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-19 16:39:50+00:00
It is, but there has been lots of resistance to this understanding. Part of why is repeated lies. Bessent just the other day was going on about how tariffs are the “signature” economic policy of the administration. This is a person who was highly trusted on economic topics, now supporting anything Trump does blindly. Trump keeps saying things like “tariffs brings us trillions”, which is obviously false but a lot of his base accepts it as the truth. One reason why this works is the base has been told that news media lies to them and that only a few people in social media can be trusted.