MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikestorrent | 2026-01-06 22:53:35+00:00
> How is it useful to you that these companies are so valuation hungry that they are moving money into this technology in such a way that people are fearful it could cripple the entire global economy?

The creation of entire new classes of profession has always been the result of technological breakthroughs. The automobile did not cripple the economy, even as it ended the buggy-whip barons.

> How is it useful to you that this tech is so power hungry that environmental externalities are being further accelerated while regular people's utility costs are raising to cover the increased demand(whether they use the tech to "code" or "manifest art")?

There will be advantages to lower-power computing, and lower-cost electricity. Implement carbon taxes and AI companies will follow the market incentive to install their datacentres in places where sustainable power is available for cheap. We'll see China soaring to new heights with their massive solar investment, and America will eventually figure out they have to catch up and cannot do so with coal and gas.

> How is it useful to you that this tech is so compute hungry that they are seemingly ending the industry of personal compute to feed this tech's demand?

Temporary problem, the demand for personal computing is not going to die in five years, and meanwhile the lucrative markets for producing this equipment will result in many new factories, increasing capacity and eventually lowering prices again. In the meantime, many pundits are suggesting that this may thankfully begin the end of the Electron App Era where a fuckin' chat client thinks it deserves 1GB of RAM.

Consider this: why are we using Electron and needing 32GB of RAM on a desktop? Because web developers only knew how to use Javascript and couldn't write a proper desktop app. With AI, desktop frameworks can have a resurgence; why shouldn't I use Go or Rust and write a native app on all platforms now that the cost of doing so is decreasing and the number of people empowered to work with it is increasing? I wrote a nice multithreaded fractal renderer in Rust the other day; I don't know how to multithread, write Rust, and probably can't iterate complex numbers correctly on paper anymore....

> How is it useful to you that this tech is so water hungry that it is emptying drinking water acquifers?

This is only a problem in places that have poor water policy, e.g. California (who can all thank the gods that their reservoirs are all now very full from the recent rain). This problem predates datacenters and needs to be solved - for instance, by federalizing and closing down the so-called Wonderful Company and anyone else who uses underhanded tactics to buy up water rights to grow crops that shouldn't be grown there.

Come and run your datacenters up in the cold North, you won't even need evaporative cooling for them, just blow a ton of fresh air in....

> How is it useful to you that this tech is being used to manufacture consent?

Now you've actually got an argument, and I am on your side on this one.
by al_borland | 2026-01-06 22:53:49+00:00
Autoplay keeps turning itself back on. I’ve probably turned it off a dozen times now.

The other autoplay, where it starts playing stuff while browsing. I’ve tuned this off many times too.

The massive thumbnails so I can only see 2 thumbnails on the screen, I’m not sure what the advantage is here other than better tracking what you linger on. They also get bigger on the active row, so if I see a video I might want on the 2nd cut off row, then make it my active row, the thumbnails get bigger and I can’t see it anymore. I lose context due to this all the time and it drives me nuts.

Shorts, yes, but not just Shorts in the Recommendations, but Shorts dominating search results, where it almost doesn’t show traditional videos anymore. In the browser you can filter search results for videos vs shorts, but not on the AppleTV.

It keeps showing big banners with a demo video next to it for features Premium users can get… it’s an ad for something I’ve already signed up for. I report these as spam.

The games. I’ve never once played one, yet they are prominently displayed in my recommendations.

I think as a Premium user I should be able to choose what screen the app opens into, or what is on my home page. I’d like my watch later list, for example. Instead, it just randomly mixes some of those into the recommendations and it may or may not make it clear which ones those are.

I know there is more, and some big ones I’m missing, but those are some of the things they come to mind.
by tzs | 2026-01-06 22:55:12+00:00
> Miller-Rabin primality test (40 rounds, ~10^-24 false positive rate)

It's way better than that. You are using the simplest upper bound for the false positive rate, which is 1/t^4 where t is the number of rounds. More sophisticated analysis can give better bounds.

See the paper "Average Case Error Estimates for the Strong Probable Prime Test" by Ivan Damgård, Peter Landrock and Carl Pomerance, in Mathematics of Computation
Vol. 61, No. 203, Special Issue Dedicated to Derrick Henry Lehmer (Jul., 1993), pp. 177-194. Here's a PDF: https://math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/PDF/paper88.pdf

Here are the bounds given there for t rounds testing a candidate of k bits. I'll give them as Mathematica function definitions because I happen to have them in a Mathematica notebook.

1. This one is valid for k >= 2.

p1[k_, t_] := k^2 4^(2 - Sqrt[k])

Note this one does not depend on t, and for small k does not give a very useful bound. For 160 the bound is 0.00992742. For large k the story is different. Testing an 8192 bit number this gives a bound of 3.45661 x 10^-46. That's good enough for almost all applications so in most cases if you want an 8192 bit prime one round is good enough.

2. This one is for t = 2, k >= 88 or 3 <= t <= k/9, k >= 21.

p2[k_, t_] := k^(3/2) 2^t t^(-1/2) 4^(2 - Sqrt[t k])

For k = 160 this is valid for 2 <= t <= 17. For t = 17 it gives 4.1 x 10^-23.

3. This one is for t >= k/9, k >= 21.

p3[k_, t_] :=
7/20 2^(-5 t) + 1/7 k^(15/4) 2^(-k/2 - 2 t) + 12 k 2^(-k/4 - 3 t)

For k = 160 this is valid for t >= 18. At 18 it gives 9.75 x 10^-26. At 40 it gives 1.80 x 10^-41.

4. This one is for t >= k/4, k >= 21.

p4[k_, t_] := 1/7 k^(15/4) 2^(-k/2 - 2 t)

For k = 160 this is valid for k >= 40. At 40 it gives the same bound as p3.

So bottom line is that with your current 40 rounds your false positive rate is under 1.80 x 10^-41, considerably better than 10^-24.

If 10^-24 is an acceptable rate for this application, 18 rounds is sufficient giving a rate under 9.7 x 10^-25.

BTW, the larger the k the lower the rate. I've often seen people looking for 1024+ bit primes doing 64 or more rounds. The simplest 1/4^t bound gives 2.9 x 10^-39. OpenSSL for example does 64 for k up to 2048, and 128 for larger k.

For k = 1024 a mere 6 rounds beats that with a bound of 8.8 x 10^-41.

For k = 2048 it only takes 3 rounds to get 4.4 x 10^-41.

For k = 4096 a mere 2 sounds gives 3.8 x 10^-48.

If we had a population of 1 trillion people, each using 1000 things that needed a 4096 bit prime, and that frequently rekeyed so they needed 1000 new primes per second, and every star in the observable universe also had such a civilization consuming 4096 bit primes at that rate, and they were all using 2 rounds of Miller-Rabin, there would be around 24 false positives a year across the whole universe.

If everyone upped it to 3 rounds there would, across the whole universe, be a false positive approximately every 44 billion years.
by ck2 | 2026-01-06 22:55:17+00:00
the supplement industry is ridiculously sketchy and virtually unregulated wild-west

and probiotics are the absolute worst of the industry with endless lies in claims and products that often test with nothing of the claim in them

if you want to try probiotics

1. start with a single strain probiotic, multi-strain are often lies

2. try an extremely well known/proven probiotic

want to know something is happening? try lp299v Lactobacillus Plantarum

it's cheap, it's been studied for 30+ years so lots of trials and proven claims

it won't colonize, no oral probiotic will colonize, so you have to keep taking it or it's gone in a few days from your GI
by dangus | 2026-01-06 22:55:22+00:00
I’m surprised so few comments have pointed out how this doesn’t matter at all to anybody. The “apps are too bloated” debate is a dessicated horse.

1. You don’t even have to use the Gmail app to use Gmail. Pick whatever flavor of client you want, they all support Gmail. Apple Mail, Outlook, or something else entirely.

2. If you buy the shittiest available new iPhone it has 128GB of storage. Used iPhone 15 on Swappa with 512GB is <$500. How many of you need hundreds of apps installed on your phone?

3. Nobody’s forcing you to use Gmail. Email is an open federated standard. Use something else.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-06 22:55:42+00:00
It's uncomplicated. I have coal rolling enthusiasts in my extended family. They're flag waving 'patriots' who have legitimately drank all the Kool-aid and believe that everyone to their left hates the country and is trying to destroy it in any way possible. And since the left-leaning folks often support green energy and efforts to reduce damage from the impending climate disaster, that hatred manifests as doing whatever they think is the polar opposite of what their left-leaning friends and family would like. It is precisely the same motivation that underlies embracing the 'deplorables' moniker (I think none of them actually read the whole remark) by intentionally acting like an asshole.

It's not issues based at all, they really are playing hard core identity politics and they consider anyone who disagrees with them to be morally contemptible and inhuman.
by nirolo | 2026-01-06 22:56:05+00:00
I used it with gemini 3 in tandem to build an app to simulate thermal bridges because I want to insulate a house. I explored this in various directions and there are some functionalities not completed or sound, but the main part is good and tested against ISO/DIN test cases for this kind of problem.
You can try it here, although the numeric simulations take quite a while in the cloud app

https://thermal-bridge.streamlit.app/

Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer or software engineer. I have a background in physics and understand some scripting in python and basic git. The code is messy at the moment because I explored/am still exploring to port it to another framework/language
by jackhelpcareai | 2026-01-06 22:56:21+00:00
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We are looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to be a foundational member of our small, ambitious team. You will have significant ownership working across the stack to build and scale the core of our AI agent platform. We are looking for builders with 5+ years of experience, preferably with an early-stage startup background (Pre-seed to Series A).
by BeetleB | 2026-01-06 22:56:21+00:00
> Root your damn phone!

I did for many years, and finally gave up. With recent Androids, life in the rooted world is much more difficult:

Netflix automatically drops to a lower quality tier.

Many apps now just refuse to work on a rooted phone.

But the worst thing: If I want to update the ROM to get the latest security benefits, I have to wipe my data.

Surprised you didn't mention something like PiHole.
by enum | 2026-01-06 22:56:29+00:00
I'm trying to determine what programming tasks are not in this list. :) I think it is trying to exclude adding new features and fixing bugs in existing code. I've done enough of that with LLMs, though not in large codebases.

I should say I'm hardly ever vibe-coding, unlike the original article. If I think I want code that will last, I'll steer the models in ways that lean on years of non-LLM experience. E.g., I'll reject results that might work if they violate my taste in code.

It also helps that I can read code very fast. I estimate I can read code 100x faster than most students. I'm not sure there is any way to teach that other than the old-fashioned way, which involves reading (and writing) a lot of code.
by lovich | 2026-01-06 22:57:05+00:00
I’ve got much better education reading and researching myself than I did from most of my classes in undergrad where an underpaid TA or professor who was just there for their mandatory minimum teaching time before returning to their research, just reading out loud portions of the textbook and then even doing shit as dumb as giving us physics labs that had a fill in the blank sheet with an answer bank on the paper as the homework.

There are good schools where you can get an actual education you couldn’t on your own but a lot of universities are similarly only interested in getting your money in exchange for a qualification.

Like, all the advertising I saw from schools was about job placement rates after graduation, not praising the education itself
by wowczarek | 2026-01-06 22:57:05+00:00
Love the game, it just ramps up pretty slowly.

Looking at the comments and people trying to verify what the real maximum score is. I wrote a (Cartesian) snake for fun once, that was Pascal and an obscure 8-bit platform, but most fun was the pure mechanics of it; the rest was just boring, completionist details. As dopamine plateaued, I barely just worked out a formula for a curve to spread the maximum snake length across a set number of levels so that it ends at 100% of gameplay area and remains winnable. But maximum score? No idea, I couldn't be arsed to work it out. But I finished the project! https://github.com/wowczarek/dlp-misc/tree/main/spacew0rm
by itopaloglu83 | 2026-01-06 22:57:19+00:00
That’s a lot, a lot, of compiled code and text, especially when you consider some of it is likely compressed.

Also, afaik, it is possible to ship an iOS app in a way certain modules can be downloaded as needed.

It would be nice if Google paid some respect to user devices, or at least go back to “don’t be evil”
by biammer | 2026-01-06 22:57:56+00:00
I appreciate you taking the time to write up your thoughts on something other than exclusively these tools 'usefulness' at writing code.

> The capacity for AI to oppress you is in direct relation to its economic value.

I think this assumes a level of rationality in these systems, corporate interests and global markets, that I would push back on as being largely absent.

> The power hunger is in direct proportion to the demand.

Do you think this is entirely the case? I mean, I understand what you are saying, but I would draw stark lines between "company" demand versus "user" demand. I have found many times the 'AI' tools are being thrust into nearly everything regardless of user demand. Spinning its wheels to only ultimately cause frustration. [0]

> Is it what's emptying drinking water aquifers?

It appears this is a problem, and will only continue to be such. [1]

> The combined water usage of all data centers in Arizona. All of them. Together. Which is over 100 DCs. All of them combined use about double what Tesla was expecting from just the Brandenburg Gigafactory to use before Musk decided to burn his reputation with EV consumers and Europeans for political point scoring.

I am unsure if I am getting what your statements here are trying to say. Would you be able to restate this to be more explicit in what you are trying to communicate.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493506

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-ac...
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-06 22:58:13+00:00
Must be a user thing. I have an "older" Subaru (2020) and looking at the linked pictures that's pretty much what my steering wheel looks like. My 2011 did as well.

It's awesome. I've never had a better cruise control button setup than in my Subarus. They're usually slightly different by model/year but we're consistently good and easy to use without looking.

I have never accidentally while driving found any settings menu getting in the way there. Yes there buttons there that do that. But only in the same way as my 25 year ago cars did: basic settings you set once and never again and that are in those menus probably for historic reasons as they were there pre-screen being standard in the car and they just left them.
by roadside_picnic | 2026-01-06 22:58:42+00:00
I feel similar, I'm not against the idea that maybe LLMs have gotten so much better... but I've been told this probably 10 times in the last few years working with AI daily.

The funny part about rapidly changing industries is that, despite the fomo, there's honestly not any reward to keeping up unless you want to be a consultant. Otherwise, wait and see what sticks. If this summer people are still citing the Opus 4.5 was a game changing moment and have solid, repeatable workflows, then I'll happily change up my workflow.

Someone could walk into the LLM space today and wouldn't be significantly at a loss for not having paid attention to anything that had happened in the last 4 years other than learning what has stuck since then.
by troupo | 2026-01-06 22:58:43+00:00
Lol. In a few years when the world is awash in AI-generated slop [1] my "past skills" will not only be relevant, they will be actively sought after.

[1] Like the recent "Gas Town" and "Beads" that people keep mentioning in the comments that require extensive scripts/human intervention to purge from the system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510121
by mrtksn | 2026-01-06 22:58:48+00:00
Right, IMHO there will be significant boycott targeting anything US or anyone advocation for US. Those who love their iPhones may stay with the iPhones but they will vote in people who will get rid of iPhones and get forced to switch to Korean or Chinese brand without being too upset about it.

Trump and anything he stands for is just too repulsive for anyone in Europe already.
by n5NOJwkc7kRC | 2026-01-06 22:59:11+00:00
The moderation was a lot of the problem, but not the whole problem. Honestly these days a larger part is that old, low-quality answers are usually stuck as the top answer on old questions, despite the fact that the situation has changed massively in the past decade and there are newer answers further down that give the new answer. Or better yet: when the top answer is a decade old and says "that doesn't even make sense, why would you want to do that, it's impossible, but you can look at the Handbook to see what you can do" (with a link to the frontpage of the FreeBSD Handbook) and you have to scroll down nearly to the bottom to find the one answer that actually answers the question (how to add an on-link route on FreeBSD)...
by landl0rd | 2026-01-06 22:59:45+00:00
Uh huh "everything is securities fraud"

Your personal motivations for pursuing a particular commercial enterprise are not the same. One is the purpose of the company, the other is your purpose in working for or founding it.

You'd have a very hard time arguing the materiality of Lonsdale's personal political beliefs and anti-communist stance for the investors of Palantir. Even a good attorney would have a hard time arguing this. He'd have an impossible time arguing it against another very able attorney. He'd also have an impossible time proving actual damages, which means you couldn't win a securities fraud civil case. Or common law fraud.

Oh also any investor who sued someone who made him boatloads of money over his political beliefs would have a very tough time finding someone to take his dollars and give him board seats in the future.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-06 23:00:34+00:00
UX is okay but the search functionality, which is definitely part of the UX, sucks fat balls on Qobuz.

But Qobuz is still king. I gladly pay their monthly subscription even though their programmers can't even be bothered to code a proper search functionality (that is: unless you enter precisely, with every single character being correct, the name of what you're looking for, Qobuz won't find it... And then weird, just plain weird non-matching matches do show up).

But I don't despair: I take it that at some point they'll find the time to figure out how to implement a better song/artist/track search functionality.
by Yodel0914 | 2026-01-06 23:00:53+00:00
That probably depends on how you listen to music. I still have a qobuz family subscription but barely use it. Mostly I listen to new albums on Bandcamp, and if I like them enough, I buy them.

I bought ~20 albums last year, which I guess would have been about the same price as my qobuz subscription.

One caveat is that I do have ~300 CDs from the pre-streaming era, which I’ve ripped. If you were starting from zero I can see it’d be a bigger issue, but TBH I mostly listen to new albums anyway.
by kinds_02_barrel | 2026-01-06 23:01:06+00:00
Really nice paper.

The practical guidelines are useful. Basically “first prove I/O is actually your bottleneck, then change the architecture to use async/batching, and only then reach for features like fixed buffers / zero-copy / passthrough / polling.”

I'm curious, how sensitive are the results to kernel version & deployment environments?
Some folks run LTS kernels and/or containers where io_uring may be restricted by default.
by landl0rd | 2026-01-06 23:01:16+00:00
Yes, there is some (if not conclusive) evidence that speedy trial and persistent execution of the worst, most violent offenders reduces violence in the next generation: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10480901/ It turns out killing the worst per cent of a generation's males provides a powerful selection effect. It's by no means the only cause or conclusive but worth considering.
by hecanjog | 2026-01-06 23:02:20+00:00
> if you do like to discover new music, self-hosting just isn't an option

Sure it is. Music discovery via algorithmic services is not the only way. There's radio, talking to people who have similar interests, reading interviews with musicians who talk about other music they like, browsing selections at the library, reading books about music or musicians, even just reading the liner notes for an album, noticing some players you like and finding other things they've worked on, and on and on and on. It doesn't have to be high effort, it's not instant, but it works great.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-06 23:02:22+00:00
I recently discovered narrow banking (https://www.narrowbanking.org/) which basically states the idea of narrow banking which can only make it so that the bank doesn't have the issues with fractional reserve banking if you are worried about it

Stablecoins feel the most practical way I suppose for narrow banking although there is this UK bank and this Danish bank as well which are the two examples of narrow banking.

Honestly I am sort of interested in gold pegged currencies right now because US Dollar (let's be honest) feels really shaky right now and even America's debt itself is fueled by it being de-facto currency and I am feeling like previously it helped but I feel like debating that even America itself would benefit from if less foreign nations held US treasury bonds.

There already are some gold pegged stablecoins and theoretically with things like revolut or some instant way to sell crypto without too much hassle/losses and transfering it easily, its rather possible to do such.