MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by windexh8er | 2026-01-01 15:41:33+00:00
You seem to be pretty far down the rabbit hole. How about this... You task an LLM to create a photon torpedo. If it can truly think then it should be able to provide you with something tangible. When you've got that in hand let us all know.

Back to the land of reality... Describing something in fiction doesn’t magically make it "not an invention". Fiction can anticipate an idea, but invention is about producing a working, testable implementation and usually involves novel technical methods. "Star Trek did it" is at most prior art for the concept, not a blueprint for the mechanism. If you can't understand that differential then maybe go ask an LLM.
by gazpacho | 2026-01-01 15:42:54+00:00
Having only read the abstract... the conclusion makes sense to me. I've operated under the assumption that volume is the most important factor for muscle growth as long as you're lifting something like 1/3 or more of your 1RM. So 12 reps with higher load or 25 reps with lower load are going to be similar volumes (or at least similar enough given the other factors that the two protocols give the same outcome).
by ndiddy | 2026-01-01 15:43:07+00:00
KDE started doing a similar thing in 2024. They pop up a notification asking for donations once yearly. Whether you click "Donate" or "No Thanks" on the pop-up, it will go away until the next year. I don't mind them doing this, as it clearly works (see https://pointieststick.com/2024/12/02/i-think-the-donation-n... and https://pointieststick.com/2025/12/28/highlights-from-2025/ ). Historically, contributions to KDE mainly came from companies/government agencies funding work on specific technologies/parts of the desktop, and volunteers working on their special interests. This meant there was a giant blind spot for work on areas that weren't relevant for corporations/governments and weren't fun to work on in someone's free time. All the small individual donations make it possible for KDE to act independently of these large companies/government bodies and hire its own developers to work on tasks that may not be commercially relevant or fun, but are important to the project.
by teiferer | 2026-01-01 15:43:20+00:00
> If I were doing rock climbing, I still wouldn't enjoy talking about rock climbing the entire day with my rock climbing friends

Um, have you actually tried? I have a "rock climbing" friends group, and it's rare that we talk rock climbing outside an actual climbing outing. Some of them are at the climbing gym 2-3x a week, some of them 1x a week, some join only once every 1-2 months. But what we do a lot is hang out just for dinner, for some hike on the weekend, going to a concert, whatnot. Climbing was really just the initial excuse to meet, by now it's only a detail we all more or less do now and then.

Maybe you are overthinking this.
by DrBazza | 2026-01-01 15:44:01+00:00
The unstated implicit difference between online and real world interactions is that you talk to people in real time, can't scroll by, block a person, or be rude to them. Well, you can, but, good old fashioned discourse, and friends telling you to stop being a weird idiot was/is human societal interactions for all of history until the creation of the internet. Facial and physical cues are also part of the lost tapestry that social media cannot replace.

I feel sorry for the young 'uns that have grown up with the internet, that have been able to isolate themselves and their opinions from the real world simply by choosing to not interact physically, and block those whose opinions differ.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-01 15:44:16+00:00
I know this is not in the spirit of HN, but I feel it's my ethical duty to say something about this topic because of the impact the topic has on the psychology of young men. This study is incorrect, bullshit, and false. I do not know what the flaw in their methodology is, but I know it is false, regardless of how many peers may have reviewed it. Please do not start lifting 20-25RM to gain hypertrophy, because it will not work well, and you will not achieve your goals.

No one in the history of lifting has ever achieved an impressive physique via light weights. It simply does not work. The literature, to the extent it exists, is wrong on this and on many other related topics. The traditional view, taken in general, is correct: lift big to get big. Strongmen and powerlifters are very hypertrophied below their fat. They do 3-5RMs. Bodybuilders may do up to 12RMs. No one successful, even moderately, does or ever has done 25RMs because that weight is too low to drive adaptation in the stress-recovery-adaptation cycle.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-01 15:44:19+00:00
>1. Amazon reports 250bn$+ revenue for entire EU in 2025. (of course, revenue != profit) while all 250bn$+ evaporates to somewhere. Their own page [1] reports 225k employees across EU, meaning that each employee returns whopping 1 million plus dollars! While being compensated less than 10% of their value!

An employee's "value" is not revenue / number of employees. There are many businesses where employees are reduced, but revenue does not decrease in direct proportion.

An employee's compensation is only related to what the employer thinks they can pay someone else and what the employee thinks another employer will pay them. Just like how the price of an apple is related to what the grocery store thinks a customer will pay for it and what the customer thinks a different grocery store will sell it for. (Obviously bounded on both sides by the minimum cost to produce and transport the apple, and by the maximum price a customer is able and willing to pay).
by ezekg | 2026-01-01 15:45:01+00:00
I recently unpacked this idea a bit and wrote about it, so it's fresh on my mind. I definitely think that success in business can be a game that is a combination of luck and of skill, and most people will say that you need the former more than the latter. Without a little bit of luck, your skill means nothing, because you will perpetually put it to use in a way that never results in success. But I think that's not the full picture, and success can also be a game of skill and determination.

Personally, I've been very unlucky in business. If you asked me if there was a catapult for my success, I would say there was none, though I tried to build multiple, and still do. They all failed, because like I said, I'm perpetually unlucky. But I've been very determined -- hardheaded, even -- and after nearly 10 years, I'm quite successful. Not quite above 7 figures yet, but that's really just a function of time -- and determination, of course.

Sometimes you may even feel unskilled simply because you feel unlucky, but time has usually shown that to be a false assumption. Waiting on luck would've made me give up a long time ago, while skill with relentlessness determination has paid off for me.

However, a hunger is not enough. You do need some skill, or at least some luck.
by acdha | 2026-01-01 15:45:02+00:00
They invented almost all of that a century earlier. Amazon improved their warehouse management and, later, delivery times but that happened later. If Sears management had been earning their pay in the 90s that would have been much harder because Sears had a huge inventory and unmatched local presence for returns, support, etc. if they hadn’t been AWOL moving the catalog online. Amazon was shipping at regular postal speeds then, too, so Sears could even have beat them if they shipped from their warehouses.

This wasn’t uncommon back then: we had several clients in the 90s who just couldn’t wrap their heads around how quickly many of their customers would switch to email or online forms when it saved them a few days on the transaction.
by huhkerrf | 2026-01-01 15:45:23+00:00
> I honestly wish social clubs were a thing, and you would get introduced to people from all walks of life

They are. Elks, Knights of Columbus, etc. Not as popular with the younger crowd, but nothing is stopping you from joining or starting your own.

As for the point around feeling like you have to talk about rock climbing all day: you don't. Rock climbing is just the entry point, which allows for a shared conversation topic before you branch into other things.
by spectralista | 2026-01-01 15:46:10+00:00
I have read enough on Munger and Buffet that I don't think it was quite theater. I think they really believe/believed their own bullshit.

Like the way Munger would promote reading but Andrew Carnegie built 2500 libraries. They would view building libraries as an opportunity cost and waste of capital.

"Ah shucks, I wish people like me would pay a lot more in taxes" but of course these guys didn't spend a dime on actual lobbying to make that happen. Again, that would be seen as a giant opportunity cost and waste of capital. They wouldn't want to go outside their "circle of competence" into something like politics or policy. How convenient.

I think the only way to have this image of a saintly grandpa when actually an absolute cut throat , money obsessed, richest person of all time is to believe your own bullshit.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-01 15:46:18+00:00
The real advantage of laser weapons in this role is a very low consumables cost per shot. A few cents of electricity as opposed to an interceptor missile that could be $50k-$1M. Even shooting down missiles with bullets as in

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

can cost about $10k a shot because that thing shoots $30 bullets. That kind of laser can even shoot down artillery shells!

The disadvantage is that the beam is disrupted by poor atmospheric conditions such as clouds and turbulence. If the enemy knows you are using it they will attack when conditions are unfavorable for it. It ought to be backed up by something like "Iron Dome".

An airborne laser can fly above the clouds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1

that one was not so practical because it was powered by mixing two kinds of bleach, which is bad enough when you do it on the ground, worse in the air. The targeting system worked great and I think the assumption was that it would come back when fiber lasers got good enough that it could be electrically powered.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-01 15:47:45+00:00
This isn’t an argument, it’s just an outburst.

Even if your goal is terror, cost effectiveness means you can commit more terror.

The pager attack was incredibly cost effective. It would have cost orders of magnitude more to achieve the same thing by dropping bombs.

Cost isn’t a number subtracted from a bank account. Cost is, how much of this can you actually do?

That’s the whole reason this system exists. Their other systems work fine for shooting stuff down. But they cost too much. That is to say, they can’t shoot enough stuff down. This system can shoot more stuff down.
by simoom22 | 2026-01-01 15:48:01+00:00
Your version is plenty uncut and soggy as well. A significant amount of land buys involved evictions of peasants. There was plenty of violence in the arab revolts against British rule, when Jewish militia acted as British auxiliaries. Pogroms were very rare in pre-modern Arab lands, and usually related to factional politics, since jews often had significant political rights and power. The British suck. Most MENA Jews migrated voluntarily, and there's clear evidence that mossad had projects to heighten tensions in those countries, including even planning the bombing of synagogues.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-01 15:48:14+00:00
I do care about it; kind of my duty as a co-founder. Which is why I'm spending double digit percentages of my time doing this stuff. But I absolutely could use some tools to cut down on a lot of the drudgery that is involved with this. And me reading through 40 pages of dense legal German isn't one of my strengths since I 1) do not speak German 2) am not a lawyer and 3) am not necessarily deeply familiar with all the bureaucracy, laws, etc.

But I can ask intelligent questions about that contract from an LLM (in English) and shoot back and forth a few things, come up with some kind of action plan, and then run it by our laywers and other advisors.

That's not some kind of hypothetical thing. That's something that happened multiple times in our company in the last few months. LLMs are very empowering for dealing with this sort of thing. You still need experts for some stuff. But you can do a lot more yourself now. And as we've found out, some of the "experts" that we relied on in the past actually did a pretty shoddy job. A lot of this stuff was about picking apart the mess they made and fixing it.

As soon as you start drafting contracts, it gets a lot harder. I just went through a process like that as well. It involves a lot of manual work that is basically about formatting documents, drafting text, running pdfs and text snippets through chat gpt for feedback, sparring, criticism, etc. and iterating on that. This is not about vibe coding some contract but making sure every letter of a contract is right. That ultimately involves lawyers and negotiating with other stakeholders but it helps if you come prepared with a more or less ready to sign off on document.

It's not about handing stuff off but about making LLMs work for you. Just like with coding tools. I care about code quality as well. But I still use the tools to save me a lot of time.
by metadope | 2026-01-01 15:48:19+00:00
Yes, that was very much my point, and thank you for making it clearer than I did. I confess to having attempted to couch the term (in single quotes) in order to lessen its potential to trigger reactionary righteousness.

By "socially backwards" I meant to allude to a reversal of social evolution. If you start with the premise that we evolve as a society (and as individuals, cells in our grand aggregate organism), then you might see an increased tax burden on the poor as moving backwards, de-evolving, regressing.

I apologise for obscuring my meaning, stepping so lightly through (what I perceive to be) the minefield of HN's perpetual potential political polarization (and for here, now, my abuse of alliteration) that I danced over the point I was trying to make.

A blanket tariff policy is effectively a national sales tax which is regressive (and bad, taxation without representation is bad, bass ackwards orange man bad).
by centamiv | 2026-01-01 15:48:31+00:00
OP here.
I wrote this implementation to deeply understand the mechanics behind HNSW (layers, entry points, neighbor selection) without relying on external libraries.
While PHP isn't the typical choice for vector search engines, I found it surprisingly capable for this use case, especially with JIT enabled on PHP 8.x. It serves as a drop-in solution for PHP monoliths that need semantic search features without adding the complexity of a separate service like Qdrant or Pinecone.
If you want to jump straight to the code, the open-source repo is here: https://github.com/centamiv/vektor
Happy to answer any questions about the implementation details!
by kami23 | 2026-01-01 15:48:45+00:00
This is what I keep coming back to when I am building a little tui manager for my coding assistants + terminal + git worktree manager.

I keep telling myself that if everyone just used tmux or a good emulator they could manage the tabs and layouts, but then I tell myself I just want this to be a tiling window manager as an distraction free OS for development, give me nothing but a terminal and an assistant.

Thanks for the write up OP, I've been going back and forth on whether or not I want to build something just for myself or spend time doing it for potentially other use cases. I keep coming back to that I need to dog food the shit out of this before I show it to anyone.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-01 15:48:47+00:00
Jesus. Why do people that clearly don't understand this field insist on writing on the subject?

> DeepSeek kicks off 2026 with paper signalling push to train bigger models for less

> DeepSeek has published a technical paper co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng proposing a rethink of its core deep learning architecture

Both the title and the first paragraph are completely and unambiguously wrong.

While the method improves stability (preventing training collapse), it technically increases the computational cost per step rather than reducing it. The benefit is reliability, not raw cost reduction. (page 4 > "mHC supports training at scale and introduces only a 6.7% additional time overhead")

Secondly the proposed mHC is an extention of HC, and while cool, it's nowhere near a "rethink of its core architecture". If proven beyond the small models they tried (27B models), this method fixes some instability issues, but the "core" architecture stays the same.
by acdha | 2026-01-01 15:49:36+00:00
It wasn’t perfect but we had plenty of successful sites where most users used dialup. You’re talking small, heavily compressed JPEGs but it was manageable and especially important to remember that people didn’t expect it to be super fast. For browsing, it was slower than paging through a full catalog but still days faster than mailing an order and less stressful for a surprising number of people than calling an order phone line, especially if they weren’t certain about what they wanted. Web pages had room for a lot more text than a printed catalog, too.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-01 15:49:49+00:00
> At least as long as a substantial percentage of total charge can come from the integrated solar

Yes, but that's highly doubtful. It doesn't work for EVs with panels on the car's roof - you don't get significant charge from it. It's far more practical to put the panels on a larger, fixed structure where the vehicles charges daily.

Sources e.g.

https://octopusev.com/ev-hub/why-dont-electric-cars-have-sol...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billroberson/2022/11/30/why-doe...

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/ykwd89/w...
by wtcactus | 2026-01-01 15:49:54+00:00
> The crime was committed in the USA.

What? No, you are completely wrong. The crime was committed in many places. In the USA, but also in several EU countries (Germany included).

In fact, the numbers were more than 10x higher in the EU (since we use a lot more diesel cars) than what they were in the USA.

600 000 vehicles were affected in the USA, while 8.5 million vehicles were affected in the EU.

USA courts, effectively, issued a fine more than 200x higher per vehicle affected, than what we did in the EU.

No one that actually followed the news (and isn't German and therefore completely biased) will say with a straight face that EU justice system didn't favor VW due to established interests. The German government obviously manipulated the judicial system all over Europe to let the case go away.

It also says a lot, that it had to be the Americans bringing the case to light. A lot of people probably knew, but the control that the Germans had (and still have) over European economy and judicial systems didn't allow anyone inside the EU to speak up.

No justice was made over here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
by Aurornis | 2026-01-01 15:50:30+00:00
Having online friends can be great, but you’re right that it doesn’t replace in person friend groups.

One big problem with having mostly or only online friends is that you spend all day at work in front of a computer, then if you want to spend time with your online friends you spend more time in front of a computer. It can turn into all day every day screen time.
by sidkshatriya | 2026-01-01 15:50:47+00:00
Thanks for your reply.

> It's a hard language design question and people focusing on this specific case have not really considered how it effects anything else. Sadly, language features and constructs are rarely isolated from other things, even the architecture of the code the programmer writes

And my suggestion is that Rust has got the balance right when it comes to pointers. I can use the traditional unsafe nullable pointer *SomeStruct when it can be null and use &SomeStruct when it cannot be NULL in Rust. Initialization can be a bit painful in Rust but the wins are worth it. Yes, initialization can be less efficient in Rust but then most of the time spent is spend in algorithms when they run, not during initialization of the data structure.

Rust has needless complexity when it comes to asynchronous programming. The complexity is off the charts and the language just becomes unusable. But the non-async subset of Rust feels consistent and well engineered from a programming theory perspective.

In summary, Rust has not compromised itself by using non-null references as the default pointer type and neither will Odin, if it takes a different approach towards references. Take the example of OCaml - it also takes a very principled approach towards NULL. OTOH Java suffers from NULL problems as every object could be null in disguise.

Nevertheless Odin is a remarkably clean and powerful language and I'm following its progress closely ! Thanks for building it !
by weakfish | 2026-01-01 15:51:06+00:00
I think you’re perhaps too narrowly defining what a lot of groups are for. Take climbing for example, as you did - I met tons of folks while climbing, but we talked about all sorts of things. In between attempting routes it’s mostly just shooting the shit.

My point being that a lot of clubs or groups, especially in fitness, don’t have a rule against talking about other stuff. In fact, most are incredibly conducive to it.
by gnerd00 | 2026-01-01 15:51:11+00:00
> like more mature resource extraction industries

bad news - a large enough collection of resource extraction industries have already denuded vast areas.. combine with poisonous petrochemical products over time and industrial lighting and roads.. we are in a fast-paced extinction event.. "we" means a lot of economies..

It is "successful" in the short term to be greedy. Many companies today are successful.
by fsmunoz | 2026-01-01 15:51:22+00:00
This is my attempted at something that makes using Common Lisp with Datastar easier. To test the SDK I made this demo that shows the simulation of the Cassini-Huygens mission using the NASA SPICE toolkit and JPL Horizons API: https://dataspice.interlaye.red/

The Datastar API itself is very simple, 3 functions or so, I ended up wasting a lot more time on stuff like leeping the SSE stream open, compression support (zstd only atm), and trying to use CLOS in a way that would fit both Hunchentoot and Clack (not always easy).
by Keyframe | 2026-01-01 15:51:40+00:00
Turns out Pixar _was_ a software company which also did hardware when it was sold. There was another part of ILM that stayed with Lucas which was an VFX shop where most of creatives were. ILM also got rights to use (full source) PRMan/Renderman from it. With Pixar you also got a creative demo team with Lasseter which produced demo shorts that turned into a studio. Lasseter is mostly the story there, no matter the software Pixar did, imo.
by deadbabe | 2026-01-01 15:51:53+00:00
This sounds exhausting, once the thrill of seeing code rapidly generated wears off, I wonder if it's even worth it. If someone was going to use code they didn't write, why not just pull down some open source implementation from somewhere and build on top of it? It's basically gets you the same thing but without the LLM hassles, and you can start building on a more sane foundation.