MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kryptoncalm | 2026-01-02 00:08:58+00:00
While I agree it’s a good resource, please note there’s quite a few controversies[1] with the site, e.g. “The excessive monetization model of user-generated content has been criticized by several newspaper outlets, such as the British newspaper The Guardian”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom_(website)
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-02 00:10:21+00:00
re: the attack surface, I will say that I see such a tiny fraction of probe attempts and common exploit scripts hitting V6 spaces that I open some services on V6 only.

At my house I've had SSH open to the V6 internet for 8 years and have the logger set up to email me for any connections, and I have never once seen an attempt that wasn't me. For popular sites with well known DNS names that's obviously different, but I keep DNS current and can SSH by name to that V6 listener from anywhere so it's not my ISP trying to save me from myself either. And that's not even a host with the normal automatic temporary addresses, it's been a fixed interface id portion with an effectively static V6 prefix for years.

For a while I had several other services open as well, at one point we even played around with using NFS and iSCSI over IPv6 on the internet just for giggles, no actual important data. I can imagine some sysadmin's face twisting in horror just reading that knowing the carnage that would have ensued doing that with V4, where we commonly drop entire geo-blocks just to curtail the log spam of all the various automatic admin portal and VPN login scans.

There are of course techniques to gather live V6 addresses but between the vast space and temporary addresses on most end-user devices it really has been a night and day difference.
by eduction | 2026-01-02 00:10:40+00:00
you act like he violated some high moral commandment by badmouthing a customer. Wasn’t Reuters a sun customer you badmouthed? Wasn’t oracle a sun customer?

Wasn’t this guy you are badmouthing, asking you questions about Oxide tech, also arguably a customer, looked at more soberly?

I just don’t get the high horse. You’re going to defend llnl and Sandia and the nnsa no matter what, since they’re customers? Not badmouthing a customer is the eleventh commandment? It’s something folksy and nice scott McNealy said. It starts losing its charm when you bash people over the head with it in public humiliation rituals like you’re in the red guard or Khmer Rouge.
by bitanarch | 2026-01-02 00:10:41+00:00
I'm on Wayland and the cable is HDMI 2.1 ultra high speed, which means 8k. Xorg is already gone on Ubuntu 25.10.

The GPU and monitor combination has full 10-bit HDR in Windows. But in Linux it's stuck at 8bpp due to nVidia driver not having 10-bit RGB output.
by sendes | 2026-01-02 00:10:57+00:00
As an avid coffee-lover, I am sympathetic to the efforts to make coffee-brewing more of a science than an art. After all, it seems that doing so improves science just as much! https://today.ucsd.edu/story/coffee-and-turbulence

That said, I am less sympathetic to the concept of a "perfect cup", which seems to make coffee an exclusively competitive endeavour. I mean, why not enjoy coffee-brewing as one might enjoy thinkering?
by mmooss | 2026-01-02 00:10:58+00:00
lol. Just address the issues, if you can. I've done nothing more.

I don't even see something negative in what I posted - it's pretty positive to me. I didn't say, 'we're all going to die' or say something fatalistic (like the comment I originally responded to).

Unless you mean 'negative' is 'disagrees', which of course badly is miscontrued in open intellectual debate, especially on HN.

> nobody's worrying about you, rest assured.

That seems pretty negative! :)
by andrepd | 2026-01-02 00:11:16+00:00
Hard disagree. How many paragraphs of fawning over the unique culture of the Bay Area must I endure before he arrives at the point?

Such gems as

> I like SF house parties, where people take off their shoes at the entrance and enter a space in which speech can be heard over music, which feels so much more civilized than descending into a loud bar in New York. It’s easy to fall into a nerdy conversation almost immediately with someone young and earnest.
by dingnuts | 2026-01-02 00:12:10+00:00
particularly ironic comment from an HN/lobsters celebrity account lol

this website isn't turning into Reddit, this website has been a pretentious orange subreddit for well over a decade if not right from the get go and a link to this site's Reddiquette page (just as ignored as on any subreddit!) is evidence TO that effect, and not against it!

the fact that the link petuously denies reality notwithstanding!
by jumploops | 2026-01-02 00:12:31+00:00
> why can't there be an LLM that would always give the exact same output for the exact same input

LLMs are inherently deterministic, but LLM providers add randomness through “temperature” and random seeds.

Without the random seed and variable randomness (temperature setting), LLMs will always produce the same output for the same input.

Of course, the context you pass to the LLM also affects the determinism in a production system.

Theoretically, with a detailed enough spec, the LLM would produce the same output, regardless of temp/seed.

Side note: A neat trick to force more “random” output for prompts (when temperature isn’t variable enough), is to add some “noise” data to the input (i.e. off-topic data that the LLM “ignores” in it’s response).
by Blackthorn | 2026-01-02 00:12:44+00:00
Nobody said "if only by using steroids", everyone knows those people featured had all of steroids, hard work, and genetics. But to stick our heads in the sand about 1/3 of that does no one any favors. I'm not sure if the current climate of more acceptability around discussing it is a great endpoint, given how many young people are taking some pretty nasty steroids before even turning 20, but let's not pretend a reality doesn't exist.

Bodybuilding as a sport now is in probably the worst place it's ever been. You now have "who can take the most drugs" as part of the contest and you're competing with people who aren't afraid to die at 30.
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-01-02 00:13:14+00:00
CIWS is big but this has nothing to do with it -- it's actually easier to make a small turret, and small arms precision has been well understood for a long time. Put a 6.5mm Creedmoor on a computer controlled turret -- 6.5mm Creedmoor is generally accepted to be usable to 1km or more.

Range is limited in urban environments because of obstructions -- even the range of CIWS is far too great to be useful.

There hasn't been a real possibility for a long time, I don't think -- it's just not an easy use case.

Are you a male older than 13? You are a combatant and will be killed once you are in sight.

This is exactly the kind of thing that is unworkable.

(A) You don't want to shoot all those people. It's rare if ever the case that even 10% of those males are actually combatants. Even in Germany at the end of the WW2, I doubt it was that high.

(B) What if your own people make a breakthrough and take control of an area, and have all these machines with wildly nonspecific rules shooting at them?
by extra88 | 2026-01-02 00:13:28+00:00
Safari is my default browser. I don't know what "Dufus" means, I don't recall any A.I. references. On Amazon, it's all first-party stuff, what browser blocks that natively? It seems like you're comparing using Safari without an ad blocker to a different browser with an ad blocker.

I know the most popular ad blocking extensions don't make a Safari version but there are ad blockers for Safari.
by gmd63 | 2026-01-02 00:13:55+00:00
You've convinced me, I'm going to stop complaining about corporate slop and the connection between big tech / VCs and the awful political situation in the most advanced country in the world. I will try to glaze Liquid Glass from here on out, say some nice things about the richest man on earth who kept quiet about the fact that he pays people to grind video games for him, and make sure to give David Sacks and Jason Calacanis the benefit of the doubt next time they are whining like babies online for a Silicon Valley Bank bailout.

I think the OP website is pretty cool by the way.
by evil-olive | 2026-01-02 00:14:07+00:00
> It stores all password entries (including names) in a single encrypted file (vault).

> a simple custom vault format.

I understand what you're saying about password-store's directory structure exposing website names as plain text filenames...but, the upside of that design is that it tends to be very resilient.

imagine that you're updating an entry in your vault, and right as you save it you lose power, resulting in file corruption.

with password-store's design, the blast radius of the corruption is limited to that one single entry.

with your design, the potential blast radius of corruption could be my entire password vault.

in particular, looking at your file-management code [0, 1] it looks like it does a complete rewrite of the vault file on every save, without doing "rewrite to temp file then atomically rename" or any similar tricks meant to handle partial file writes.

if you haven't seen it before, I'd suggest reading "SQLite As An Application File Format" [2] and consider using SQLite as the storage backend.

0: https://codeberg.org/jlucas/pacc/src/branch/master/src/db.c

1: https://codeberg.org/jlucas/pacc/src/branch/master/src/vault...

2: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
by Retric | 2026-01-02 00:14:18+00:00
Tariffs are quite different than a sales tax because they can select winners and losers in a market. Cane sugar vs sugar beets etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beet

However, they don’t have to be high enough to change who wins, even small ones adjust how much foreign subsidies manipulate the market. Foreign governments should consider how much US corn syrup impacts domestic consumption for example as a separate issue from how it impacts domestic sugar production.

China’s currency manipulation has second order effects that benefits Americans. We don’t necessarily want China to stop, instead the goal should be to minimize the harm while extracting maximum benefits. A small tariff that caused them to double down on currency manipulation would be a massive win.
by alexashka | 2026-01-02 00:14:18+00:00
It all falls into place if you contemplate the possibility that there is no US.

There's stock market bros, kill people bros, government welfare bros and some mega business bros.

None of them want to know anything beyond my kids go to private school, get nepo baby job.

This is what humans are capable of - not just in USA, as a species. USA's 'plan' or rather inevitability is to fall apart. China will be the next power and it'll also fall apart, like USSR fell apart and USA is falling apart for the world to see.

Maybe in another few thousand years it'll be different, I doubt it. Read Plato's Republic you're above 140 IQ - it spells it all out so nicely that one you grok it, you need not know much of anything else regarding politics.
by int_19h | 2026-01-02 00:14:22+00:00
I think the idea is solid, but the specifics are more involved than just making sure that it maps nicely to tokens.

One thing in particular that I've noticed is that many of language features that enable concise code - such as e.g. type inference - are counter-productive for LLMs because they are essentially implicit context, and LLMs much prefer such things to be explicit. I suspect that e.g. forcing the model to spell out the type of every non-trivial expression in full would have an effect similar to explicit chain-of-thought.

Similarly I think that the ability to write deeply recursive expressions is not necessarily a good thing, and an LLM-centric language should deliberately limit that and require explicit variables to bind intermediate results to.

The single biggest factor though seems to be the ability to ground the model through tooling. Static typing helps a lot there, as do explicit purity annotations for code, and so does automated testing, but one area that I would particularly like to explore for LLM use is design-by-contract.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-02 00:14:36+00:00
Bravo, I will play with it. I haven't played with ansible till now but I know that its related to automation.

If something can make ansible easier for me to try out like this tool while being pragmatic, I will give this a try someday thank you!

How accurate does this tool end up becoming though? Like can I just run some bunch of commands to setup a server and then use this with ansible?

Would this end up being a good use for it or would I just re-invent something similar to cloud-init on wrong abstraction. (On all fairness, one thing troubling me about cloud-init is that I would need to probably have a list of all commands that I want to run and all changes which sometimes if history command might have some issues or you do end up writing files etc. ends up being a little messy)

I haven't played that much with both cloud-init and ansible either but I am super interested to know more about enroll and others as well as I found it really cool!
by stephen_g | 2026-01-02 00:14:44+00:00
They've suddenly all appeared in Australia too - we had BYD for quite a while and brands like Volvo and Polestar (owned by China's Geeley), but suddenly we have Leapmotor, Deepal, Omoda Jaecoo and Geeley themselves (just the ones I can think of, probably others) having all appeared on our market in literally something like six months...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-02 00:14:48+00:00
> we're continually about 2 days away from kessler if we lost maneuvering control on a constellation like starlink

To be clear, we’d be at risk of losing those specific orbits for a few years. Nothing would block all orbits much less access to space. And nothing above those orbits would be any more statistically likely to suffer an impact afterwards.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-02 00:15:47+00:00
I don't think they're terrible, but there are two main issues: (i) lack of flagship-level hardware, (ii) app compatibility. Issue (ii) is largely mitigated by Waydroid. For the time time, Graphene on a modern Pixel is still the best compromise of freedom and usability (>99% Android app compatibility, fully degoogled).
by barnabee | 2026-01-02 00:15:49+00:00
It’s absolutely not the case that people are good enough in general at optimising their time and lives that the things they spend the most time on are the “best” they could have done.

Most people will readily admit to this, especially when it comes to the internet, and it’s well documented that many people are not happy with how much time they spend on the internet or how it impacts their lives.
by netsharc | 2026-01-02 00:15:53+00:00
Continental USA: 8 million square kilometer.

Germany: 0.35 million square kilometer.

On the point of the upkeep, locals know German trains are now legendary for unpunctuality and cancellations, so maybe it's not working. But the answer is obviously (trigger warning for the libertarians...) taxes.

The ticket came about because energy prices went crazy after their energy dealer Putin went crazy and warry, I think it was an attempt to motivate people to take public transport rather than have them moan about fuel prices going way way up...
by oblio | 2026-01-02 00:15:56+00:00
> You could argue that uv has a better default behavior than pip, but that's not an engineering advantage: it's just a different choice of default setting. If you turned off eager bytecode compilation in pip you'd get the same result.

Until pip does make the change, this is an engineering advantage for uv. Engineers working on code are part of the product. If I build a car with square wheels and don't change them when I notice the issue, my car still has a bumpy ride, that's a fact.
by nis0s | 2026-01-02 00:16:01+00:00
The problem here is that a GenAI model isn’t exactly governed by randomness as there is distinct information you can pull out in a knowledge graph (not saying there’s a literal knowledge graph here, just referring to what’s encoded in the weights) by composing the appropriate set of prompts, and as such some information will always be more closely linked versus other unrelated or dissimilar sources. So, this operation is unlike the operation of a slot machine, where you pull a lever and you are bound to find some answer within a set of permutations.

I think GenAI models do have some deterministic properties depending on their training data, but it depends on the model settings, prompts, and how you yourself impose your editorial decisions on the outcomes. In that sense, I don’t think it’s fair to say that the writing and code produced with help from GenAI models aren’t the property of the composer because the writing and code wouldn’t exist in the form that they do if they weren’t prompted and processed by the composer (provided that this material isn’t plagiarized).

The instruction-driven process of producing acts from a GenAI model make it more involved than what this writer is describing as the model itself has no thought, purpose, or intention. So it’s not a service, necessarily, where I’d expect a service to take more off my plate, but in the case of GenAI the composition, editorial, and review process take a lot of time and effort. As such, I feel comfortable referring to GenAI as a tool because there is both a deterministic quality to its output, and the tool wielder exercises considerable control over the output.
by AdrianB1 | 2026-01-02 00:16:06+00:00
15 years ago I started cycling, by going to amateur XC races. I did that for almost 10 years and it was fun, I got some friends doing it and it worked great for a while. A combination of cycling injury and many people leaving the country ended that endeavor, but it is an example of some simple and practical approach. I was not even looking to socialize, but improve my sedentary life, I found others with similar interests.

I have a childhood friend that is cycling, but he lives in the Netherlands. There people who are cycling more than daily drivers are interested in athletic performance or activism and it kind of sucks, but he got friends skiing and scuba diving, as long as there are common interests you will find some decent people to socialize with.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-02 00:16:17+00:00
Original paper: "Trends Over Time in the Prevalence of Autism by Adaptive and Intellectual Functioning Levels" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.70167

Abstract: "The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends."
by tialaramex | 2026-01-02 00:16:18+00:00
Nope. Anything which wouldn't pass the borrowck is actually nonsense. This fantasy that magically it will just lose thread safety or have race conditions is just that, a fantasy.

The optimiser knows that Rust's mutable references have no aliases, so it needn't safeguard mutation, but without borrow checking this optimisation is incorrect and arbitrary undefined behaviour results.
by mccoyb | 2026-01-02 00:16:25+00:00
I've tried most of the agentic "let it rip" tools. Quickly I realized that GPT 5~ was significantly better at reasoning and more exhaustive than Claude Code (Opus, RL finetuned for Claude Code).

"What if Opus wrote the code, and GPT 5~ reviewed it?" I started evaluating this question, and started to get higher quality results and better control of complexity.

I could also trust this process to a greater degree than my previous process of trying to drive Opus, look at the code myself, try and drive Opus again, etc. Codex was catching bugs I would not catch with the same amount of time, including bugs in hard math, etc -- so I started having a great degree of trust in its reasoning capabilities.

I've codified this workflow into a plugin which I've started developing recently: https://github.com/evil-mind-evil-sword/idle

It's a Claude Code plugin -- it combines the "don't let Claude stop until condition" (Stop hook) with a few CLI tools to induce (what the article calls) review gates: Claude will work indefinitely until the reviewer is satisfied.

In this case, the reviewer is a fresh Opus subagent which can invoke and discuss with Codex and Gemini.

One perspective I have which relates to this article is that the thing one wants to optimize for is minimizing the error per unit of work. If you have a dynamic programming style orchestration pattern for agents, you want the thing that solves the small unit of work (a task) to have as low error as possible, or else I suspect the error compounds quickly with these stochastic systems.

I'm trying this stuff for fairly advanced work (in a PhD), so I'm dogfooding ideas (like the ones presented in this article) in complex settings. I think there is still a lot of room to learn here.
by bitanarch | 2026-01-02 00:16:40+00:00
Try it with different monitors you have. The current nVidia Linux drivers only has BGR output for 10bpp, which works on TVs and OLEDs but not most LCDs monitors.

My monitors (InnoCN 27M2V and Cooler Master GP27U) require RGB input, which means it's limited to 8bpp even with HDR enabled on Wayland. There's another commentator below who uses a Dell monitor and manages to get BGR input working and full HDR in nVidia/Linux.