MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Phil_BoaM | 2026-01-16 17:00:21+00:00
OP here. I’ve got a background in physics, so while I don’t know your specific Hypertoken schema, I speak the language of signal-to-noise and entropy.

The "Dueling Pianos" metaphor is killer. It captures exactly what I’m trying to induce via the prompt.

You’re attacking the problem with Structural Parity—injecting coordinate systems (GPS) directly into the token stream to force convergence. I’m attempting Semantic Parity—forcing the model to run a "constructive interference" loop on its own narrative logic before outputting.

Your point about the latent space being spherical (rotations) vs. the rectangular output (matrices) is the crux of it. We are both trying to smooth that geometry. You’re doing it with error-correcting codes; I’m doing it by forcing the model to simulate a "Self" that acts as a local observer to collapse the wave function of the next token more deliberately.

Whatever you're building with those hypertokens sounds robust. If you have a write-up on the "Tower of Tables" concept, I’d love to take a look.
by bflesch | 2026-01-16 17:00:39+00:00
I only remember that if one US state loses power the other states laugh about it because obviously it is because the current governor is a black female democrat. It'd be great progress to actually detect what caused it in a timely manner and then do a proper cyber attribution.

Generally I think you are using a lot of big words to compensate for the fact that the US ignored the Minsk agreement.

The russian government has been publicly joking about Trump, broadcasting nude pictures of the first lady and boasting about possessing the Epstein tapes. Before that was the hack of Hillary's mail server and fake news campaigns. No kinetic repercussions, even red carpet for putin's visit in Alaska.

Apart from all this a modern drone war would be a big problem for the US, and countries like Ukraine, russia and china are much better prepared for such a scenario.
by blindriver | 2026-01-16 17:00:41+00:00
I've worked in enterprise software development with the full lifecycle for over 30 years.

I have found QA to be mostly unnecessary friction throughout my career, and I've never been more productive than when QA and writing tests became my responsibility.

This is usually what has happened during a release cycle.

1) Devs come up with a list of features and a timeline.

2) QA will go through the list and about 1/2 of the features will get cut because they claim they don't have time to test everything based on their timeline.

3) The cycle begins and devs will start adding features into the codebase and it's radio silence from the QA.

4) Throughout the release QA will force more features to get dropped. By the end of the release cycle, another 1/4 of the original number of features get dropped leaving about 1/4 of the original features that were planned. "It will get done in a dot release."

5) Near the end of the release, everything gets tested and a mountain of bugs come in near the deadline and everyone is forced to scramble. The deadline gets pushed back and QA pushes the blame onto the devs.

6) After everything gets resolved, the next release cycle begins.

This is at quite a few enterprise software companies that most people in Silicon Valley have heard of if you've been working for more than 10 years.
by nearbuy | 2026-01-16 17:00:44+00:00
This rings untrue. Hacker News is about the most "social media" type of site I use, and I still feel the shift towards isolation others described.

Also, the naive view is to place all the blame for a broad cultural shift on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/TikTok and pretend people can't choose to limit their use. Someone pretending there can only be a single factor to blame for a problem is usually a biased person with a bone to pick. The rhetoric supports your cause, but the US is not going to ban social media for adults any time soon and telling people they're helpless until the government bans social media is unhelpful at best.
by christalwang | 2026-01-16 17:01:21+00:00
A few main differences: 1) it moves you towards things that matter to you. E.g. not open prompts but helping you break down each week and day to move you closer to your future events you envision; 2) it uses science-back methods (like COM-B) to help you solve challenges in your life; 3) it remembers when things worked / haven't worked for you so that when you bring them up in the future it can support you with personalized solutions rather than just answering what's the "best solution". We're also working on the next phase of agents which include energy accounting, values-discovery, strengths-discovery, habit building, and more.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-16 17:01:39+00:00
I think this would allow that, yes.

However, I personally would just do it in userspace, especially for that simple of a use. I'm doing the opposite; I have a webapp that somehow doesn't handle IPv6, so to access it over a pure-v6 network I just run this on the same host:

socat TCP6-LISTEN:8002,fork TCP4:127.0.0.1:8000

I believe you could trivially reverse this;

socat TCP4-LISTEN:8002,fork TCP6:[::1]:8000

should serve [::1]:8000 as 0.0.0.0:8002 (I don't remember if changing ports was strictly required; that may be a quirk of my exact setup).
by nmaleki | 2026-01-16 17:02:00+00:00
Minecraft $26.95. Thousands of hours of gameplay.
Ear Fun Free Pro 3 $50 wireless earbuds. Great sound, quick pairing, good noise cancelling, in-app equalizer, great price. Probably buy direct from them, bought from Woot! Amazon once and didn't get a very good model.
Web Video Caster $5. I stream tons of content and this lets me connect to just about anything. You can use it for free with ads.
Cloudflare domain ~$10/year. Cheapest domain prices and cloudflare works great for everything for me.
Harmonica $5. I just keep it in my bag and use it whenever I'm outside alone, keeps me off the phone.
Fidget spinner $1. The lighter the better imo.
Also my mouse, battery pack, and I love those lazy cell phone holders ~$10 you can put around your neck.
by mrtimo | 2026-01-16 17:02:41+00:00
What I love about duckdb:

-- Support for .parquet, .json, .csv (note: Spotify listening history comes in a multiple .json files, something fun to play with).

-- Support for glob reading, like: select * from 'tsa20*.csv' - so you can read hundreds of files (any type of file!) as if they were one file.

-- if the files don't have the same schema, union_by_name is amazing.

-- The .csv parser is amazing. Auto assigns types well.

-- It's small! The Web Assembly version is 2mb! The CLI is 16mb.

-- Because it is small you can add duckdb directly to your product, like Malloy has done: https://www.malloydata.dev/ - I think of Malloy as a technical persons alternative to PowerBI and Tableau, but it uses a semantic model that helps AI write amazing queries on your data. Edit: Malloy makes SQL 10x easier to write because of its semantic nature. Malloy transpiles to SQL, like Typescript transpiles to Javascript.
by lentil_soup | 2026-01-16 17:02:43+00:00
It also fits squarely with corruption in Venezuela, specially regarding energy. Venezuela has been rationing electricity across the country since 2009 and has been involved in countless corruption scandals involving Odebrecht, PDVSA, Derwick Associates.

I understand the US's foreign policy is a global threat, but let's not let that be an excuse for the atrocities and corruption of tyrants in Venezuela and other places.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odebrecht_case#Venezuela

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwick_Associates
by kalleboo | 2026-01-16 17:02:52+00:00
> Does Apple spend R&D on iPhone screens like they do Apple Silicon

yes

> What's that got to do with what we're talking about regarding iPhone's core IP

The iPhone's core IP is iOS.

Collaboration on display and camera development leak major future milestones. Far more consumers care about cameras and displays than the CPU. Just like the camera and display the CPU IP is also protected by patents.
by officehero | 2026-01-16 17:02:59+00:00
I'm surprised at how few parents understand what it takes to create a great artist. You need to start when they're 5 (or preferably younger), put them in a workshop with great artists/pedagogues etc. (costly!) where they work full time (forget school), evaluate potential and there is a tiny chance they themselves will become great. Annoyed by parents talking about their 5 year olds as "too young" or when they recommend their teenager to 'pursue their dream' when they don't provide a fraction of above. It's still possible but odds go down dramatically.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-16 17:03:13+00:00
> and could get past antitrust by arguing military security

Antitrust would certainly block Apple specifically for this reason. Apple is not a credible supplier of DoD hardware and acquiring IFS would complicate their status as a Trusted Foundry.

If Apple had more time to reform their image and invest in MIL-STD processes then maybe it would work. As-is, I'd be shocked if the US let Intel become the victim of a hostile takeover. Even for a company as important as Apple.
Ask HN: How have you or your firm made money with LLMs?
by bwestergard | 2026-01-16 17:03:36+00:00
In many currently active threads, members of the community are alluding to major productivity gains with more recent LLM models. I think it would be illuminating for all of us to hear what sorts of problem domains and lines of business these successes have occurred in.

A good example would be: "My team used Claude Code Opus 4.5 to build and ship an iOS fitness app that now has 10k paying users." This shows that the results of your process found paying customers.

Less helpful example would be: "My team is closing tickets faster than ever" or "I finally finished the novel I have been working on and my friends say it's great!" These are less interesting because they do not give us any insight into the market response.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-16 17:04:07+00:00
Do you think, hypothetically, it's possible to have misgivings about Trump, and at the same time have misgivings about how the news is reported? Somebody mentioned Trump moving the Overton window with such 'jokes'. When a supposedly respectable newspaper like Time publishes out-of-context sentence fragments, even if the context wouldn't have change anything, that also moves the Overton window - it moves how much we'll accept the news being mangled, until "Oh I'm sure the stuff they cut out wouldn't have changed anything" becomes a habit.

If you're okay with that, then just outsource your right to vote to Time, or some other newspaper, because you've basically already done so.
by milkytron | 2026-01-16 17:04:11+00:00
> So the voters are wrong? You know what's "better" for them, right? Whether they want it or not, right?

It doesn't really matter what I think when 5% of the population are controlling policy that impacts 100% of the population.

> Because they are more in line with what you think?

No, because they will be impacted for a longer period of time, and are less engaged locally.
by paulus_magnus2 | 2026-01-16 17:04:21+00:00
The blog[0] is worded rather conservatively but on Twitter [2] the claim is pretty obvious and the hype effect is achieved [2]

CEO stated "We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor"

instead of

"by dividing agents into planners and workers we managed to get them busy for weeks creating thousands of commits to the main branch, resolving merge conflicts along the way. The repo is 1M+ lines of code but the code does not work (yet)"

[0] https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents

[1] https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2011776630440558799

[2] https://x.com/mntruell/status/2011562190286045552

[3]https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1qd541a/ceo_of...
by christalwang | 2026-01-16 17:04:24+00:00
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by pona-a | 2026-01-16 17:04:29+00:00
Collecting the email doesn't inspire much confidence. An account-number model like Mullvad's would seem preferable, or you could go all-in on syncable passkeys as the only user identifier.

The web app itself feels poorly made—almost vibe-coded in places: nonsensical gradients, UI elements rendering in flashes of white, and subtly off margins and padding.

The model itself is unknown, but speaks with the cadence reminiscent of GPT-4o.

I'm no expert, but calling this "end-to-end encrypted" is only accurate if one end is your client and the other is a very much interposable GPU (assuming vendor’s TEE actually works—something that, in light of tee.fail, feels rather optimistic).
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-16 17:04:31+00:00
> IP addresses also are assigned by registrars (ARIN in the US and Canada, for instance).

To be pedantic for a moment, ARIN etc. are registries.

The registrar is your ISP, cloud provider etc.

You can get a PI (Provider Independent) allocation for yourself, usually with the assistance of a sponsoring registrar. Which is a nice compromise way of cutting out the middleman without becoming a registrar yourself.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-16 17:04:31+00:00
In many respects "Datalog" doesn't refer to a single language or implementation or standard. It really just refers to a set of approaches for querying relational datasets using something like Prolog's unification.

By which I mean there are Datalogs that look like Prolog a bit, and others that don't. And things that are "Datalogs" that don't even have their own PL but instead more of an API. And no standard at all.
by reconnecting | 2026-01-16 17:05:06+00:00
tirreno (1) guy here.

What you're seeing is normal bot behaviour, they constantly scan every website for different purposes. 100–500 requests per IP is nothing you should worry about or take any action against.

tirreno works on the backend, so sometimes we use it to analyze bot behaviour when they start doing something really suspicious, like massive requests (hundreds of thousands a day) or scanning all possible files/folder structures, which could easily result in half a million requests in short period of time.

1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
by cptskippy | 2026-01-16 17:05:28+00:00
> Wikipedia is not a company. It’s not even the name of the foundation. It’s a product.

I'm inclined to agree with you but there are plenty of examples of founders of products: Matt Mullenweg, Dries Buytaert

> Which isn’t however relevant to the title “founder”.

I think it establishes credence for the claim. If Sanger's contributions warrant being called Co-Founder, then so too do Jimmy Wales.

The core arguments are "you shouldn't claim to be founder of a product" and "claiming to be founder implies sole founder". This is why I say it breaks down to mincing words.
by sublinear | 2026-01-16 17:05:36+00:00
I think there's a ton of innovation left to be done regarding steering and light switches.

You're right that it's not going to be better designs, but paradigm shifts.

We still don't know what it means to provide input to a mostly self-driving car. It hasn't been solved and people continue to complain about attention fatigue and anxiety. Is the driving position really optimal for that? Are accident fatalities reduced if the driver is sitting somewhere else? Even lane assist still sucks on traditionally designed cars. Is having to fight a motorized wheel to override steering really all that safe?

Light switches may be reliable and never go away, but we have many well-established everyday examples of automatic lights: door switches, motion sensing, proximity sensing, etc. You never think about it and that's the point.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-16 17:06:21+00:00
Trump seized 500 million dollars worth of oil, and deposited the cash from it's sale in the country that gave him personally a free jumbo jet. You seem to be missing that perspective has changed greatly. What is OK for a President has changed to an INSANE degree.

He has asked our NATO allies to help take over a NATO country's territory. This is what the American President does now. His delegation left the territory's administration in tears, and the US delegation stated afterwards that the US will take the territory.

He ordered federal officers to terrorize American cities, and a 37 year old white mom was shot 3 times in the face by one of them after she dropped her kid off at school. This is America. You seem to be missing perspective. What line has to be crossed for you?

The President stealing 500 million dollars and stashing it in his illegal bribers banks in the middle east, not enough. Actively working to take allies territory, with his people making their administration break down in tears after meeting with the US? Not enough. Extra-judicial murder of Americans after they drop their kids at school, not enough. DOGE. Refusing to release the Epstein files as REQUIRED by law. Forcing numerous law firms to bend the knee to him. Demanding a criminal investigation into the Fed chair. And on, and on, and on. In les than one year.
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by publicdebates | 2026-01-16 17:06:42+00:00
I've felt this way for a while, that the give/take in my relationships is imbalanced, and that I'm not receiving what I need.

But then I tried to imagine receiving what I thought I wanted, and whether it would truly make me happy. The answer is almost always no.

The few times the answer was yes, I traced down why within myself, and found that, honestly, I just wanted people to care about me.

Then I realized that they have already shown ways that they care about me, just not the ways I was wanting or expecting, or found as meaningful.

Or I realized that I was not believing that they cared about me, and that it was merely a performance, but that I had no good reason for doubting it, and was just being overly demanding of a sign. (Not always, though. With some people, there were clear signs they were faking it.)

Or I realized that there was no context in which those things could come up, so the genuine love from the other person might actually be present, it's just that there's no opportunity for them to express it, until a scenario is created where it makes sense for them to do so in some way.

And other similar thought experiments within myself. This has led to me (a) realizing that a good number of people do actually care about me to a significant and meaningful degree, and (b) I need to take the initiative more often to create situations where they can express it, even if it's something as simple as asking them to have coffee with me.
by beloch | 2026-01-16 17:06:49+00:00
"As a young boy, Michelangelo was sent to the city of Florence to study grammar under the Humanist Francesco da Urbino.[13][16][d] Michelangelo showed no interest in his schooling, preferring to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of other painters."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo#Early_life_and_ca...

It seems like this painting would be from his time at Urbino's grammar school. His first apprenticeship started when he was 13. You might expect a renaissance artist to do a lot of work on their master's paintings (detail work, etc.) before ever putting their own name to a canvas, but this is, apparently, Michelangelo doing his own thing before ever being apprenticed.

So, while he likely did paint things before this that didn't survive, it's pretty amazing that this is the work of a kid who has yet to be apprenticed and is just pursuing it on his own with nothing more than the advice of people he was hanging out with.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-16 17:06:51+00:00
Locks are not security.

They keep honest people honest and give a few moments more work to those that are dishonest. It's a promise to society that you'll act decent. Needless to say they mean nothing to those that break promises.

In almost all cases, with a lock or not, by the time you figure out the lock is broken (10 minutes or 10 days) your shit is long gone and you better have your security onion setup with multiple layers if you want the foggiest idea what happened.

If you have an above average risk of having your shit stole or becoming under attack you better have a whole shit load more layers in your defense or you're screwed.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-01-16 17:07:12+00:00
The first presupposition behind this painting is that Man is fallen. That means we have a predisposition to sin, that is to say, to voluntarily choose to do what we should not - in short, sin is an abuse of free will, which can only be licitly used to choose the good. A person might feel the temptation to do something he should not. We are enticed. It seems to promise happiness. "I could have X, if I only did this evil thing Y." Do we give in? Do we indulge? When we do, we have sinned. We have lost the spiritual battle. Ultimately, the smoke evaporates, the mirrors crumble, and we are left with empty hands and the damage done, above all to ourselves.

Then, there is the fallenness of some angels, the demons, immaterial beings of various species of superior intellect and power who - while on a short leash - are still able to act on fallen men in malicious ways to lead them toward self-destruction. This "short leash" should be expanded. If God did not constrain the power of the demons, it is anyone's guess the devastation of the universe they could wreak. But since God is master of all creation, even the demons are pressed into the service of the good, but instrumentally. Even evil is made to further the divine plan. Thus, God permits the demonic assaults on St. Anthony as a kind of spiritual training for him, part of which involves developing a greater surrender of self to God.

Now, someone who doesn't believe in demons won't find demonic activity and role in human sin compelling. I suspect that is the motivation behind your question. Someone who doesn't can at least recognize the struggle with various temptations and the struggle of the moral life. In that sense, if these are the sorts of things you struggle with, then you may find the image you have in mind helpful. But, of course, to know how one should act and choose, one should also know where one is going. St. Anthony knew his destination, and this destination is not arbitrary. That's what he suffered for and a large part of the reason how he came to know how to move in that direction and why he was able to bear it all.