MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smaudet | 2026-01-13 05:53:38+00:00
The article smacks of someone who doesn't understand version control at all...

Their main idea is to version control the reasoning, which, OK, cool. They want to graph the reasoning and requirements, sounds nice, but there are graph languages that fit conviently into git to achieve this already...

I also fundamentally disagree with the notion that the code is "just an artifact". The idea to specify a model is cute, but, these are indeterminate systems that don't produce reliable output. A compiler may have bugs yes, but generally speaking the same code will always produce the same machine instructions, something that the proposed scheme does not...

A higher order reasoning language is not unreasonable, however the imagined system does not yet exist...
by jeena | 2026-01-13 05:54:00+00:00
OP here

I was afraid of trying any online models with opencode because per default it has full access to your computer. I also never want the AI to push code anywhere, I want to do it myself to keep this control, afterall it's easy just to nuke the local repo.

This is where I came up with this docker container for it and a alias which opens opencode in the docker container and mounts things, etc. I'm just afraid I missed some safety things, because I'm not good at it.
by giardini | 2026-01-13 05:54:38+00:00
Sorry, dude, they'll arrest you whether you're a citizen or not if they see you commit a crime and they're interested.

FWIW every police officer has "limited police powers" - the statement is vacuous. Federal police don't usually arrest for local law violations, local police don't usually arrest for federal law violations, etc.

So "limited police powers"? Well yes, they won't write a parking ticket, but they'll shoot your ass. I'd be wary of telling people that ICE agents have "limited police powers."

Using the left-leaning screed propublica as a reference is foolish.
by mrkstu | 2026-01-13 05:54:45+00:00
This is partly because of the culture of hacking the GUI started back in the 80s with original Mac OS. Extending the OS beyond base capabilities is fun, but Apple also is usually selling an 'as is' experience like a high end chef. You can add ketchup to your stake, but they aren't going to do it for you.

And, as I said, I really only needed the software once I got an (ultra)ultrawide monitor, and it could be the info it is sending is also non-standard in some way.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-13 05:54:47+00:00
> But I don’t see why the actual software integration part needs to be difficult.

That’s not the issue. The issue is that once Gemini is in place as the intelligence behind Siri, the bar is now much higher than today and so you have to be more careful if you consider replacing Gemini, because you’re as likely as not to make Siri worse. Maybe more likely to make it worse.
by zmgsabst | 2026-01-13 05:54:48+00:00
That’s because home labor and quality often aren’t priced in:

- a chef is faster

- a chef will produce better quality

- but a chef charges for their time

A restaurant often is paying half the price to ingredients and half to overhead; which means you can get it “cheaper” despite paying more for ingredients — since 150% as much on ingredients is still only 75% cost, once you don’t count personal overhead.

You need a lot of efficiency on the professional side to offset that cook time and kitchen space are “free” on the home side of the equation.
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-01-13 05:55:01+00:00
No this is the most repeated and most incorrect thing in the whole debate about food.

More than a billion asians eat nutritious, cheap and calorie-balanced meals every day, unprocessed.

Staples like legumes and rice don't cost much and are very nutritious. And supplementing with moderate amounts of seasonal fruits and vegetables and moderate animal protein is still very affordable and healthy.

A kilo of (dry) legumes is about $3.50, about 3500 calories (50% more than an average human needs per day), delivers >200 grams of protein, > 100 grams of fiber, some healthy fats and enough carbs to power you and a good set of vitamins.

Hell if you get down to it, vitamin pills to supplement any deficiencies is a budgetary rounding error.

Compare that to either Doritos and you don't get anywhere close. Doritos cost >$10 per kilo, and cost >$100 per kilo of protein, has low fiber, high fat, high salt. It's not nutritious, actively harmful and actually extremely expensive to fuel the body this way.

And it makes sense: processing ingredients leads to a more expensive product than the base ingredients. This is true in every economic sector. Only uniquely, in the food sector ultra-processing doesn't only lead to higher prices for the customer (the reason companies do it in the first place) but also less healthy outcomes.

Doritos are made of corn and vegetable oil. The prices of these ingredients are orders of magnitude lower than the end-product. Corn is like 30 cents per kilo, oil about $1.50. If you want the same nutrients without processing like frying etc, you can eat literal orders of magnitude cheaper.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-13 05:55:41+00:00
Simply moving the time at which the mistakes occur can be extremely valuable. Doing it yourself means you can say "no touching the server during business hours". You can't guarantee that with a provider.

Even if you work out that you cannot do better, at least you are no longer paying the insane premium of the managed highly-available service (since it's not actually capable of delivering).
by akoboldfrying | 2026-01-13 05:56:42+00:00
Yes, in theory you can represent every development state as a node in a DAG labelled with "natural language instructions" to be appended to the LLM context, hash each of the nodes, and have each node additionally point to an (also hashed) filesystem state that represents the outcome of running an agent with those instructions on the (outcome code + LLM context)s of all its parents (combined in some unambiguous way for nodes with multiple in-edges).

The only practical obstacle is:

> Non-deterministic generators may produce different code from identical intent graphs.

This would not be an obstacle if you restrict to using a single version of a local LLM, turn off all nondeterminism and record the initial seed. But for now, the kinds of frontier LLMs that are useful as coding agents run on Someone Else's box, meaning they can produce different outcomes each time you run them -- and even if they promise not to change them, I can see no way to verify this promise.
by renewiltord | 2026-01-13 05:56:44+00:00
There are lots of shortcuts haha wtf. The entirety of civilization is shortcuts. Vaccines are shortcuts to prime your immune system, antibiotics are shortcuts, my eyeglasses are shortcuts. This is such guruslop that has no relation to reality. Surgeries are shortcuts, bicycles are shortcuts, gyms are shortcuts.

The whole point of us doing all we do is to ensure that we get good at making more and more shortcuts.
by onedognight | 2026-01-13 05:56:51+00:00
The machine (AirSense 11) has been a god send for me. I can’t believe I waited so long. I haven’t slept a night without it since my first. I haven’t had to tweak any settings. It’s just worked. Sure it’s annoying to travel with, and you look odd while wearing it, but deep sleep is so worth it.
by kstenerud | 2026-01-13 05:57:23+00:00
Greek yogurt is super easy to make yourself if you have an instant pot:

Put 3L of milk and some starter from your last yogurt batch in the instant pot and press the "yogurt" button. Set an alarm for 10h.

Pour the yogurt into a strainer lined with a cheese cloth, and a capture vessel underneath for the whey, then put it in the fridge overnight.

You now have 1.5L of Greek yogurt that tastes head and shoulders better than anything you'd get at the supermarket. Takes me about a week to eat it all.

If you're worried about a spoiled batch ruining your next starter, you can take the whey from the straining step, pour it into an ice cube tray, and keep it in the freezer. 2 cubes is plenty for 3L of milk.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-13 05:57:32+00:00
Yeah, they don't really teach this part in history [1]:

> At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet “assets,” declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis’ intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called “moral lapses” in their service to the Third Reich.

And NATO [2]:

> The most senior officers of the latter group were Hans Speidel and Adolf Heusinger, who on Oct. 10 and Nov. 12, 1955, respectively, were sworn in as the Bundeswehr’s first two lieutenant generals... Heusinger, a POW until 1948, ...

> That spring Heusinger succeeded Speidel as chief of Combined Forces when the latter was appointed commander in chief of Allied Land Forces in Central Europe becoming the first German officer to hold a NATO commander in chief position

And it goes on.

Nazi links are well-established to Operation Paperclip [3] under Werner von braun.

And there are many others [4].

I didn't say all the non-communists were Nazi. I said the neoliberal and imperialist projects of the US and Western Europe post-WW2 sided with and gave haven to Nazis to fight communism, which is true.

[1]: https://archive.ph/A8HHC

[2]: https://www.historynet.com/these-nato-generals-had-unusual-b...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

[4]: https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-na...
by MrBuddyCasino | 2026-01-13 05:58:27+00:00
Over the last decade the US Navy has commissioned 1-2 new nuclear reactors per year. They currently operate 100 reactors, more than any other org on the planet.

The US Navy has managed a total of 273 nuclear reactors, 6200 reactor-years, over 177 million miles, averaging 4 new reactors per year over 70 years.

They have done this with a perfect safety record. Zero accidents. Zero injuries, zero deaths, zero environmental pollution.

US Navy Cost: $2 billion for 2 x 400 MW reactors in Ford-class aircraft carrier

NuScale: $10 bn for 500 MW reactor

Westinghouse: ~$8 bn for 1000MW reactor

Military reactors should be more expensive, not less, because they operate under harsher conditions. But they aren't, because the US Navy doesn't have to go through the NRC.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-13 05:58:39+00:00
> if the headline was “For no particular reason whatsoever, under absolutely no pressure from their millions of customers to deliver on the promises they paid for nearly two years ago, Apple picks Gemini to Power Siri”

Which is not how headlines work.

You may have an argument that Apple is under pressure. But your headline argument is bananas.

> maybe you’re arguing that Apple never did intend to commit to those promises

Where did you get that?

The attitude I called "fucked up" is precisely rushing to make promises and then meet them. Apple's sales don't suggest customers are putting material pressure on Cupertino. Apple's share price doesn't suggest investors are panicking. The promises have already been broken. If Apple is pushing something out, again, because they feel they have to on the basis of those promises, it's–again-a fuckup.
by ActorNightly | 2026-01-13 05:59:52+00:00
I hope you realize that your entire premise is essentially assuming the fact that people are just going to continue showing up to work no matter what happens. This isn't the case. Economy is effectively the desire of people to show up to work and make money so then can spend it on things made by other people through work.

There are events that can happen that are Black Swan events - i.e the unknown, unknowns from an economic perspective, that essentially can fuck up the economy big time. Say Trump institutes martial law after declaring himself forever president. You are going to see significant economic downturn. What happens in a sinking market? Companies move money. Companies will surive. People won't. Its a tale as old as time.

> we continued to operate as normal in Israel despite having missiles rain down from across the Middle East

Thats because an attack by a militant group is much, much different than a economic grind into decline. Its akin to a natural disaster - it doesn't erase economic demand.

>In that hypothetical, where else do we go?

Pretty much WW3. All the ingredients are there, straight down to the ideology being more important than truth. Like you said, when dominoes fall, countries that want to make moves will make moves.
by klodolph | 2026-01-13 05:59:56+00:00
> Once an AI can reliably regenerate an implementation from specification…

I’m sorry but it feels like I got hit in the head when I read this, it’s so bad. For decades, people have been dreaming of making software where you can just write the specification and don’t have to actually get your hands dirty with implementation.

1. AI doesn’t solve that problem.

2. If it did, then the specification would be the code.

Diffs of pure code never really represented decisions and reasoning of humans very well in the first place. We always had human programmers who would check code in that just did stuff without really explaining what the code was supposed to do, what properties it was supposed to have, why the author chose to write it that way, etc.

AI doesn’t change that. It just introduces new systems which can, like humans, write unexplained, shitty code. Your review process is supposed to catch this. You just need more review now, compared to previously.
by atoav | 2026-01-13 06:03:45+00:00
If you ever find yourself in the situation where you have to decide whether 99 parses to year 1999 and what to do with 100 and where to draw the line between parsing the 90s and current years, you should probably pause, reath in andaout and take a long walk instead. And after you return you should scrap the whole thing and go back to the drawing board.

Implementing such a feature has not only no value, it has negative value. When you program libraries or interfaces you ahould think aboit how people will use it 95% of the time and mane that usecase as simple, predictable and free of potential footguns as possible. This is the opposite of that. It feels like something 15 year old me would have programmed after reading the first book on PHP and not something anybosy with any experience could have thought to be a good thing.
by habinero | 2026-01-13 06:04:03+00:00
Yeah, and I'm explaining that the gap between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory, and why LLMs make it worse.

It's easy to just say "just make the code better", but in reality I'm dealing with something that's an amalgam of the work of several hundred people, all the way back to the founders and whatever questionable choices they made lol.

The map is the territory here. Code is the result of our business processes and decisions and history.
by paul7986 | 2026-01-13 06:05:14+00:00
So you did your math but I know me (50 5'11 maintain 175 pounds and under) and weigh myself daily/count calories/exercise a few times a week. If I see my weight go over 175 pounds I eat less calories and do more exercise.

I was in Europe in April for ten days and same amount of time in December. As noted I weigh myself daily and each time I came back i was 169 pounds and maintained my weight to under 175 for awhile the 1st time and not so long 2nd time (Christmas).
by vmitro | 2026-01-13 06:06:08+00:00
I was frustrated with the Claude Code scrollback bug, the one that often has your whole chat history keep rewinding, flashing and scrolling from the beginning, often multiple times per second, spanning sometimes over a minute or longer, so I build bukowski, a soft terminal wrapper that acts like a pager interface to Claude Code, Codex and Gemini.

After the logic of capturing and double buffering the CC's output resulted in a decrease of flicker of about 97.5%, I created a FIPA ACL messaging MCP bridge for all three CLI tools and wrapped it in an IRC-like chat interface. Now all three tools can communicate with each other and this works surprisingly well if you give them roles or parts of tasks.

It's all local to the terminal interface, no remote servers, no API keys, just one wrapper for local terminal multiplexing and inter agent communication.

https://github.com/vmitro/bukowski
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-13 06:06:56+00:00
I don't know how much real innovation can happen there that the Chinese haven't done. In fact the Chinese haven't really innovated, that have optimized existing processes. Think about it: If you break it down: a "2-week-long back-and-forth with sales and engineering for a basic prototype run" is the same stuff happening in the background as the "get an instant quote and order in 5 minutes"...just much faster.

Thats not the innovation I was talking about: Let me give an example. When the Xbox was being developed, there was a push within Microsoft to create a standard CD‑based game console that was a more refined version of the existing competitors. The Xbox team pushed back and said: No, you don't enter a market and just copy the incumbents. You need to do something different and differentiated. So they innovated by adding a hard drive and standard networking to every console. The addition of these components as standard in each console opened up a new paradigm of gaming with Xbox Live and was a different vision compared to what the others were offering at the time. They eventually ended up moving the market in a fundamental way.

Now, going back to manufacturing, how do we translate that to PCB manufacturing? Again, I don’t know how you could possibly truly innovate the pipeline process more than it has already been done. Even just adding an AI‑handled pipeline process, it's just further optimizing what has already been done. There may or may not be an opportunity to truly move the market but if there is, then thats something the West can do to really compete.
by deanc | 2026-01-13 06:07:06+00:00
The terms in Europe are different:

> These Terms apply to you if you are a consumer who is resident in the European Economic Area or Switzerland. You are a consumer if you are acting wholly or mainly outside your trade, business, craft or profession in using our Services.

> Non-commercial use only. You agree that you will not use our Services for any commercial or business purposes
by charcircuit | 2026-01-13 06:08:41+00:00
>If it did, then the specification would be the code.

Except you can't run english on your computer. Also the specification can be spread out through various parts of the code base or internal wikis. The beauty of AI is that it is connected to all of this data so it can figure out what's the best way to currently implement something as opposed to regular code which requires constant maintenance to keep current.

At least for the purposes I need it for, I have found it reliable enough to generate correct code each time.
by 1659447091 | 2026-01-13 06:08:41+00:00
From the wiki:

>> Captain Leul Abate (42), an experienced pilot with over 11,500 total flight hours (including 4,067 hours in the Boeing 757/767), was the pilot-in-command. [...] Prior to the crash, Leul had experienced two previous hijackings. The first occurred 12 April 1992 on Flight ETH574, a Boeing 727-260. [...] The second occurred on 17 March 1995, flying a Boeing 737-260. [...] In both cases, the aircraft were undamaged and no one was injured or killed. [...] Leul and Yonas both survived. [...] Both the captain and first officer of the flight received aviation awards, and both continued to fly for Ethiopian Airlines

(flight 961: 125 died, many by drowning from inflating life-vest too early)

I either want Captain Leul Abate to be my pilot -- in-case of a highjacking -- or don't want him to be given his track record with having his flights hijacked...

Anyone have stats on pilots involved in multiple hijackings? 3 in a career seems unreal and doesn't appear to be something tracked based on light searching

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961
by sbinnee | 2026-01-13 06:09:05+00:00
To me, Apple's ML business was all about federated learning. I know this concept was pre-transformer era, I conjectured one of the reasons Apple didn't adopt LLM right away was that Apple couldn't find a reasonable way to do federated learning with LLMs. I wonder Apple will give up this idea. And I would like to see how it could be done with current AI systems.
by two-sandwich | 2026-01-13 06:10:39+00:00
Oh, I really believed this was some strange keylogger spyware. Maybe it is? I really can't tell.
Either this was the hook to get people to install it, or the front to make it seem like a real thing when people find it and google "why is pawsense installed on my computer".

> Even while you use your other software, PawSense constantly monitors keyboard activity. PawSense analyzes keypress timings and combinations to distinguish cat typing from human typing.
by famouswaffles | 2026-01-13 06:10:40+00:00
Revealing emergent human-like conceptual representations from language prediction - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512514122

Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task - https://openreview.net/forum?id=DeG07_TcZvT

On the Biology of a Large Language Model - https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models - https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/introspection/index.ht...
by rumpelstiel | 2026-01-13 06:11:07+00:00
im not affiliated nor did i dig in deep, but when i saw this tool the first time i thougt of a similar usecase.. zuul ci gatekeeper https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/latest/about.html#about-zuul

Project gating.. https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/latest/gating.html#project-gat...
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-13 06:11:16+00:00
>Consumer hardware like the iPhone would not do well when the next model is 20% slower with a 35% retail price reduction.

Yes, American companies know this already: Apple managed to ship $1000 phone even the Chinese coveted for a long while and their innovation at the time was Face ID and the applications it enabled like Memoji.

Just improving spec sheets is a race to 0 profits.

>Don't worry about it... =3

There has got to be something that can move the market as relying on China is just a mirage anyway. Those demographic issues will catch up to everyone eventually. Im not knowledgeable enough to know what this magical innovation will be. (or else I'd pull my savings and get into the business :P )
by forgingahead | 2026-01-13 06:12:08+00:00
Is there a reason for wanting to run these agents on your own local machine, instead of just spinning up a VPS and scp'ing whatever specific files you want them to review, and giving it Github access to specific repos?

I feel like running it locally it just asking for trouble, YOLO mode is the way to make this whole thing incredibly efficient, but trying to somehow sandbox this locally isn't the best idea overall.
by sitharus | 2026-01-13 06:12:19+00:00
As accurate as our knowledge of genetics, which is not very outside of the identified set of pathological genes associated with hereditary disorders.

Your genome is very complex and we don’t have a model of how every gene interacts with every other and how they’re affected by your environment. Geneticists are working on it, but it’s not here yet.

And remember that 23andMe, Ancestry, and most other services only sequence around 1% of your genome.
by habinero | 2026-01-13 06:12:50+00:00
It's not an engineering culture problem lol, I promise. I have over a decade in this career and I've worked at places with fantastic and rigorous processes and at places with awful ones. The better places slacked each other a lot.

I don't understand what's so hard to understand about "I need to understand the actual ramifications of my changes before I make them and no generated robotext is gonna tell me that"