MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arter45 | 2026-01-21 17:10:20+00:00
Thanks, I'll look into it.
My current setup for this kind of use cases is pretty simple. You essentially keep an additional field (or key if you're non relational) describing state. Every time you change state, you add a new row/document with a new timestamp and new values of state. Because I'm not introducing a new technology for this use case, I can easily mix mutable and non-mutable use cases in the same databases (arguably even in the same table/collection, although it probably makes little sense at least to me).
by visarga | 2026-01-21 17:10:40+00:00
Thank you for posting the project, I was actively looking for a solution, even vibe coded a throw away one. One question - how do you pass the credentials for agents inside the cage? I would be interested in a way to use not just claude code, but also codex cli and other coding agents inside. Considering the many subscription types and storage locations credentials can have (like Claude), it can be complicated.

Of course the question comes because we always lack tokens and have to dance around many providers.
by rpdillon | 2026-01-21 17:10:45+00:00
It is inaccurate though. Those employees never used the system, and incorrectly cited what it is used for. I did some legwork before I drew my conclusions.

EDIT: citing some resources here for those that are curious.

Original article cited by the paper: https://www.engadget.com/ai/fda-employees-say-the-agencys-el...

Actual CNN article the Engadget article is based on: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/fda-ai-elsa-drug-reg...

Neither present a serious take about what's going on with Elsa at the FDA. They both glom onto a handful of anonymous sources without looking deeper.

A far more serious take about Elsa's use at the FDA in a journal that prides itself on scientific rigor and ethical behavior: https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/elsa-llm-at-the-fda-a-...
by nZac | 2026-01-21 17:11:19+00:00
What I'm looking to achieve are three identical proxmox host boxes. As soon as you finish the install you now have three snowflakes no matter how hard you try.

In the case of smartOS (which I've never used) it would seem like that is achieved in the design because the USB isn't changing. Reboot and you are back to a clean slate.

Isn't this how game arcades boot machines? They all netboot from a single image for the game you have selected? That is what it seems smartOS is doing but maybe I'm missing the point.
by an0malous | 2026-01-21 17:11:32+00:00
I think western governments want these tools just to maintain order, they used to rely a lot on their ability to manufacture consent among their populous but the Internet allows people to discover inconvenient truths that threaten the old order. Everyone used to be pretty happy with the appearance of freedom and democracy in the western world because they didn't know any better and mainstream media was tightly controlled so they couldn't find out either, now they're learning they're neither free nor have any say in their governance from alternative media so here come the crackdowns on free speech and any form of protest or dissent.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-21 17:12:00+00:00
> Or at least be able to make a single "Linux" binary.

Isn't this what Flatpak/Snap/AppImage try to solve?

Though lately they may not even be necessary. There's a lot less difference between distros now than there used to be in the past. All the majors seemed to have coalesced around the same userland stack, largely thanks to SystemD. If you ship something for Ubuntu LTS, there's a really good chance it'll also work on Fedora, Debian, Arch out of the box.
by solaris2007 | 2026-01-21 17:12:09+00:00
Think of the gravity that Instagram/Facebook has today, or maybe things are different today, so had for millennials. Try to take away a young adult's phone today, you'll risk being eliminated. We had some neat handhelds with PCMCIA slots that OpenBSD ran on in those days but it was only the kids in "rich" neighborhoods that also had them and I was a year behind in getting those. The critical mass of the network effect at that time was on desktops and iBooks.

> super hot girls

Yeah a San Francisco 7 was like an 8 in Los Angeles and easily a 10 in most towns (in those days).

They were prowling MySpace just as much as anyone else. You know what they're up to.
by quesera | 2026-01-21 17:12:20+00:00
The US Metric Board was cancelled in 1982 by one Ronald Wilson Reagan (anagram: Insane Anglo Warlord).

RWR and the charismatic traditionalism he espoused have caused a great deal of harm to society.

Metrication is not at the top of that list, but it is one silly example that we live with.
by nearbuy | 2026-01-21 17:12:33+00:00
I think you're saying that where you live, the weather is usually between 0 and 100°F. Aside from the fact that outdoor temperatures aren't in this range everywhere, we don't only use temperature for weather.

100°F is warm to the touch, not smoking hot. 100°C is boiling hot. You sip tea at 60°C, and brew it at 80° to 100°C depending on the type. You cook chicken to an internal 74°C. A hair dryer blows air around 50°C. All of these are outside of 0-100°F.

> I generally just prefer the Imperial system because of its practicality in everyday life

Funny, most of us much prefer metric mainly for its practicality in everyday life.

Edit: I'll add that aesthetically, 0°C is a really nice zero point for weather. Above 0° is the temperature that the snow starts melting, below is when the streets and ground starts freezing. Which side of 0°C you're on is the biggest pivot point for what it's like outside of any temperature.
by rodolphoarruda | 2026-01-21 17:13:14+00:00
Sounds more like a lobby thing. Once a government finds a new "recipe" to be worked out with global vendors, meaning, a new way to allocate budget with a strong social justification (e.g. protect children, fight terrorism etc.), governments from other nations jump into the matter and literally copy/paste it locally. In short, whoever comes up with a creative idea to allocate public budget will serve as the basis for others to copy.
by rhines | 2026-01-21 17:13:20+00:00
How are you using it? I'm curious if you hit the limit so quickly because you're running it with Claude Code and so it's loading your whole project into its context, making tons of iterations, etc., or if you're using the chat and just asking focused questions and having it build out small functions or validate code quality of a file, and still hitting the limit with that.

Not because I think either way is better, just because personally I work well with AI in the latter capacity and have been considering subscribing to Claude, but don't know how limiting the usage limits are.
by petterroea | 2026-01-21 17:13:31+00:00
I want a complimentary opposite badge to warn of ai slop. Vibe coded code is bad and unmaintainable when large, and I think it's downright disrespectful to expose people to it without giving a fair warning that it's vibe coded. If I vibe coded an utility I want to give me peers a fair warning not to give it too much thought.
by throwaway0123_5 | 2026-01-21 17:13:47+00:00
> Claude Opus 4.5 in a casual Claude Code session, approximately matching the best human performance in 2 hours

Is this saying that Claude matched the best human performance, where the human had two hours? I think that is the correct reading, but I'm not certain they don't mean that Claude had two hours, and matched the best human performance where the human had an arbitrary amount of time. The former is impressive but the later would be even more so.
by nine_k | 2026-01-21 17:14:07+00:00
This is a kind of task that's best solved by possibly spending more than the allocated 2 hours on it, once any obvious low-hanging fruit is picked. An optimization task is what a machine does best. So the real problem would be to construct a machine that would be able to run the optimization. A right optimization framework that results from the effort could also efficiently solve many more similar problems in the future.

I understand that this test is intended to somehow test the raw brianpower, the ability to tackle an unfamiliar and complicated domain, and to work under stress. But I hope it's not representative of the actual working conditions at Anthropic. It's like asking a candidate to play a Quake deathmatch when hiring to a special forces assault squad.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-21 17:14:10+00:00
Elon Musk acquired Twitter and fired %80 of the employees and it was just fine.

I bet there's so many more people that can be let go from all tech industry. It's mature and product discovery is mostly locked behind advertisement so what's left is exploitation.

If you think about it, as long as you don't mingle much with the product that works it keeps working indefinitely. It's no different than running Excel or WhatsApp, especially when the servers are managed by 3rd party providers these days.
by nickff | 2026-01-21 17:14:29+00:00
I agree that paperwork requirements exist on a spectrum, and I am only familiar with the requirements in a few different jurisdictions (though I've read a few comparisons with a wider variety).

The USA's success is definitely not entirely due to a lack of paperwork requirements, though I believe the paperwork requirements are something of a microcosm of other issues in each jurisdiction.
by mindslight | 2026-01-21 17:14:42+00:00
I keep trying to make myself think in terms of 32nds. For example think of a 9/16 wrench as "18", the 1/2 wrench is just "16", and so on. It's a slow process. I want to standardize on some color code for easy cross-brand identification of wrench sizes too, but I haven't come up with a compelling scheme.

The worst is the hardware. I inherited a full assortment of #2-#10 stainless SAE UNC hardware from a business move (already in nice parts drawers, too). It was pretty awesome for just having whatever I needed on hand to build things. But now as I maintain more and more things that are metric native, I've been building up the assortment of metric threads as well.

I suspect this is one of the real pain points of fabricators (plus taps/dies). Another being still Imperial native due to existing tooling, making the conversions not clean (it's easy to convert 1/2 inch to 12.7mm and measure that, but it's not straightforward to convert 10mm to 0.3937 inches (25.2/64ths) and measure that.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-21 17:14:48+00:00
I don't want to be an entrepreneur. And it doesn't have to be riskless. Just to have a good business (plan).

But this is the status quo in Europe. Companies are forced to take failure into account before they dive in deep, because it will cost them. Provide benefits for their employees, etc. This is good. Companies exist to provide jobs. Not only to make money for the owner and externalise all the negative effects on society.

I just don't understand the desire to turn the EU into the US. If you like how business in the US works, just start your business there, not here. Meanwhile I as a worker would never consider moving there. This way we can both get what we want.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2026-01-21 17:15:09+00:00
>no doubt buoyed by having put astronauts on the Moon

NASA did this using customary units

>I've been missing it my entire life since

Surely you've learned by now that you're missing childhood, not an actual thing about the US? I'm asking this as someone who does think this era was peak Americana, but for totally different reasons than you present, and having not been alive then myself.
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-21 17:15:12+00:00
This is my take on it as well. You can only know what it’s like to be yourself and communicating the qualia of being you is impossible to do with words. You can only ever know what it’s like to be you, so aphantasia cannot be confirmed or denied.

People that think they have aphantasia like talking about it because we like applying labels to ourselves and it makes them feel distinct. I’m sure this is not a popular opinion, but given the inability of knowing what it’s like to be someone else, it’s the only rational belief about aphantasia.
by AznHisoka | 2026-01-21 17:15:18+00:00
This is just my personal opinion, but if they didnt change the price of Evernote and never made any changes, I probably would remain a customer for a very very long time. There is a high switching cost for me to use any app to move all my docs, and notes.

I dont know if the same can be said for Vimeo, though
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-21 17:15:53+00:00
Sixth repost in one day by from a fresh user account that uses the same text as the other ones.

- Show HN: Burnt out and failing, I built an AI that gives a shit
2 points by kaufy 1 hour ago | 3 comments

- Show HN: I was burnt out and& failing so I built AI that give shit about me (z----.com)
1 point by kaufy 7 hours ago

- Show HN: I was burnt out and failing so I built AI that give shit about me
4 points by kaufy 23 hours ago | 10 comments

- Show HN: I was burnt out, failing so I built AI that give shit about me (z----.com)
6 points by kaufy 1 day ago | 5 comments

- Show HN: Created an AI for myself to achieve goals, it might help you guys too (z----.com)
6 points by kaufy 1 day ago | 5 comments
by sbuttgereit | 2026-01-21 17:16:03+00:00
That the current US administration is behaving today not terribly unlike the UK regime of the late 18th century is not a convincing argument for the UK reasserting its historic imperial ambitions in North America or elsewhere.

Furthermore, the native populations of those western territories would probably like to have a word over UK & European rights to assert such privileges in the first place.
by JeremyNT | 2026-01-21 17:16:43+00:00
Cards on the table: this stuff saps the joy from something I loved doing, and turns me into a manager of robots.

I feel like it's narrowly really bad for me. I won't get rich and my field is becoming something far from what I signed up for. My skills long developed are being devalued by the second.

I hate that using these tools increases wealth inequality and concentrates power with massive corporations.

I wish it didn't exist. But it does. And these capabilities will be used to build software with far less labor.

Is that trade-off worth the negatives to society and the art of programming? Hard to say really. But I don't get to put this genie back in the bottle.
by neuronexmachina | 2026-01-21 17:16:51+00:00
I'm reminded of an obscure Gamecube game called Odama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odama) which was kind of a bizarre blend between pinball + RTS, where you commanded feudal Japanese troops using the Gamecube Microphone. Of course, this was 2006, so it only accepted a short list of vocal commands like "Company halt!" and "Charge!"
by rawgabbit | 2026-01-21 17:17:10+00:00
In the US, once you are in an elder care facility and you run out of money, the facility will try to keep you in. At that time they will apply to Medicaid in your name. After you die, Medicaid will try to claw back funds by putting a lien against your house. There are extremely complicated rules about exemptions etc.

https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-estate-recovery-nursing-...
by borenstein | 2026-01-21 17:17:11+00:00
The credential have been a PITA. I was working on a PR this morning before work; I should have it tonight. You have to be careful because if you look like you're spoofing the client, you can get banned.

For Claude specifically, there are two places where it tracks state:

~/.claude.json -- contains a bunch of identity stuff and something about oauth

~/claude/ -- also contains something about oauth, plus conversation history, etc

If they're not _both_ present and well-formed, then it forces you back through the auth flow. On an ordinary desktop setup, that's transparent. But if you want to sandbox each thread, then sharing just the token requires a level of involvement that feels icky, even if the purpose is TOS-compliant.
by webnrrd2k | 2026-01-21 17:17:17+00:00
Speaking of mixed units, don't forget the alwys fun distinction of avoirdupois pound vs troy pound...

People sometimes ask "what's heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?", the implication is that you're stupid for for asking a dumb question. The technically correct answer is that the pound of feathers is heavier. The expected answer is usually that they're the same weight, because there is no difference in weight between the two things that both weigh a pound. The problem is that, in the USA, a pound of feathers is measured with the avoirdupois pound, while a pound of gold is measured in troy pounds. The troy pound is lighter than the avoirdupois pound, so the answer is that a pound of feathers is heavier.

While a troy ounce is heavier than the avoirdupois ounce, and the grain unit is equal in both. So, depending on whether you ask for a pound/ounce/grain, the answer can change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight
by zigzag312 | 2026-01-21 17:17:33+00:00
I can't say I agree with your logic here. We are not talking about any specific backup or anything like that. We are talking about the design of a file format that is going to be used globally.

Business running a lottery has to calculate the odds of anyone winning, not just the odds of a single person winning. Same, a designer of a file format has to consider chances for all users. What percent of users will be affected by any design decision.

For example, what if you would offer a guarantee that 32 bit hash will protect you from corruption, and compensate generously anyone who would get this type of corruption; how would you calculate probability then?
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-21 17:17:55+00:00
This isn't "reverse engineering" it's merely "being able to read fairly simple code you didn't write". A much simpler version of the kernel is provided at the end of problem.py as reference_kernel2.

If you can't make sense of such a small codebase or don't immediately recognize the algorithm that's being used (I'm guilty of the latter) then you presumably aren't someone that they want to hire.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 17:18:13+00:00
There was a recent article on Hackernews which has since got flagged but it was a petition where california gets to be part of denmark, because why not?

more than 200_000 people signed it & some in the hackernews comments even appreciated it with things like saying about healthcare etc.

so I can see it as a real possibility but this would invoke force given that US states cannot unilaterally secede from the union.

Edit: Forgot to write to be, my bad. Thanks to dragonwriter for seeing the edit as I agree that without the to be, the whole context completely changes
by jjice | 2026-01-21 17:18:27+00:00
Yeah this is what I think Bending Spoons does, mostly based on the Evernote situation.

Product has paying users and it's in a "complete" state. Cut costs to optimize profit for a bit and hope not everyone leaves.

In the case of Evernote, it's probably really hard to get 10 year users off of it at this point, so they can double subscriptions and they're locked in. My assumption is that there's a serious amount of people that go "eh" and just deal with the cost increase and stagnated features.
by re-lre-l | 2026-01-21 17:18:42+00:00
I am a huge fan of SmartOS. Back in the 2010s (around 2012), I was advocating its use in production at a small startup I worked. The SunOS kernel, ZFS, zero install, immutable core, convenient way to manage containers and VMs together - all of this looked great on paper, especially containers.

In reality, I ended up running almost everything in VMs. The only thing worked well natively was nginx. MongoDB, Mysql, even our php backend (some libraries) had issues, unfortunately.

A year ago, I considered SmartOS again as a home lab driver, and no success again, Linux just has better support: drivers, pci passthrough, etc... and now with containers+vm through Proxmox or anything else. You can even run a k8s+kubevirt with zfs practically out of the box as a complete overkill though.
by tharmas | 2026-01-21 17:18:51+00:00
They were not offered NATO membership. Putin hinted to Clinton he would like it. Clinton didn't respond. Came back later (after consulting with his staff) and declined the offer.

Putin is smart enough to know that Russia is in no position to be an imperialist power.

The goal of keeping Russia and Europe (Germany) apart is not a secret. Please see Zbigniew Brzezinski.

And I'd like to point out that the Soviets kept Germany divided for a justifiable reason: 27 million Russians died at the hands of Germany's imperial ambitions.

And while we are on the subject of "bullshit", the war in Ukraine did NOT start in Feb 2022. It started long before that.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-21 17:19:41+00:00
I think it's mainly especially in California because people are not able to get insurance when the climate risk is too high, so it is actually impacting sales.

Here's an example of a house in Carmel Valley that's a fire risk, and sat on the market for a long time, had a bunch of price reductions and listing pulled and relisted, finally sold underpriced because buyers were realizing they can't get insurance:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/50-La-Rancheria-Carmel-Va...

Lack of insurance coverage pays a pretty big role in the market right now, I have some friends who are paying $30,000 annually for insurance in the La Honda Hills.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-21 17:19:53+00:00
> Decades of prioritising welfare over warfare and economic growth have left Europe

This omnipresent talking point is ridiculous. You know what the EU prioritized over out economic growth? Budget stability. That's why the US has 50% more debt as share of GDP than the EU does. (And that's arguably a mistake given the low growth in the EU since the financial crisis because of that policy, but it has nothing to do with Welfare vs Warfare. Quite this opposite actually, the US would even be a much richer country if it had spent all the GWOT money on Welfare instead).
by nullocator | 2026-01-21 17:19:59+00:00
You must keep in mind that a good portion of U.S. citizens can't even read, and have similar deficiencies around critical thinking. Couple this with a purpose built media landscape and social media slop that are actively trying to convince you that Trump is the savior of the republic, a man who shits gold, the perfect physical specimen 100% of the time; and it should not be too surprising that he managed to get elected, especially against weak or ill-timed candidates.

The right wing propaganda machine works very very well, look how well they've absolutely ingratiated things like trans issues into the political zeitgeist in just a hand full of years, and strongly coupled them with the Democratic brand. The Democrats have a huge problem in that they are effectively as or more unpopular than Trump. They've also lacked real leadership for 10 years.
by jesse__ | 2026-01-21 17:20:27+00:00
I mean, if it's working for you, great.

The observation I was trying to make is that at the scope of one week, there's very little you actually get done, and it's likely mostly mechanical work. Given that, I suppose I'm unsurprised LLMs are proving useful. Seems like that's the type of thing they're excelling at.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-21 17:21:08+00:00
Home stuff was the last holdout for me, but even that has been replaced by Proxmox these days. I used SmartOS for a solid 7-8 years, though, and like it for most of that time.

I couldn't point to any one single major reason that prompted the switch - just lots of small annoyances stemming from the world expecting you to be running Linux instead of Solaris, and once you move away from zones, you lose one of the most compelling reasons for being on SmartOS
by VladVladikoff | 2026-01-21 17:21:21+00:00
Our business uses Vimeo because we get a discounted rate on acami CDN via their bulk purchasing power. YouTube is free but that comes with a lot of headaches. For example not being able to hide the recommended videos at the end of a video, which annoyed our clients in the past when we did use YouTube. YouTube also needs to be public to be embeddable, which also created issues for us.
However this announcement has me terrified and literally scrambling for a backup plan.