MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-10 00:17:51+00:00
2026 should be interesting. This stuff is not magic, and progress is always going to be gradual with solutions to less interesting or "easier" problems first, but I think we're going to see more milestones like this with AI able to chip away around the edges of unsolved mathematics. Of course, that will require a lot of human expertise too: even this one was only "solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt)".

People are still going to be moving the goalposts on this and claiming it's not all that impressive or that the solution must have been in the training data or something, but at this point that's kind of dubiously close to arguing that Terence Tao doesn't know what he's talking about, which to say the least is a rather perilous position.

At this point, I think I'm making a belated New Years resolution to stop arguing with people who are still staying that LLMs are stochastic parrots that just remix their training data and can never come up with anything novel. I think that discussion is now dead. There are lots of fascinating issues to work out with how we can best apply LLMs to interesting problems (or get them to write good code), but to even start solving those issues you have to at least accept that they are at least somewhat capable of doing novel things.

In 2023 I would have bet hard against us getting to this point ("there's no way chatbots can actually reason their way through novel math!"), but here we are are three years later. I wonder what comes next?
by catapart | 2026-01-10 00:18:18+00:00
Sweet! Thanks for the follow up. I hope it's a straightforward fix!

Aside from that, nice work on the app! Looking forward to giving it another try.

ETA: a shameless plug, but since you may have an interest in this kind of thing - I built and published a free, online midi piano (and drum kit) available for anyone to use. It's pretty bare-bones and doesn't really explain itself, but in case you ever want to use it, check out https://midi-speaker.com/

works with midi input as well as keyboard and touch/mouse input. it only has the two sampled instruments, but it's great for a groove in a pinch!
by jjulius | 2026-01-10 00:18:59+00:00
So I made my original post knowing full well that my situation is my own and YMMV, but to speak to those concerns wrt my schedule/life...

>You fall asleep instantly every night...

Actually, yes! Two points there. First, when I'm out of my routine, not working out, drinking lots of coffee and eating like garbage, I sleep like ass. When I'm in my routine, eating well, and only having a cup of coffee with breakfast, I'm incredibly energized throughout the day and end up suddenly feeling tremendously tired right around 8:45/9:00.

The second part is that my father's side of the family is notorious for falling asleep anywhere, anytime. There's a litany of photos of us passed out on couches in the middle of packed parties.

> Meltdowns

They happen, but they don't really rock the schedule in my experience. Bedtime somehow always ends up being bedtime. Might shift by ~15 or so occasionally, but never in a way that nukes my bedtime or anything.

>One of the kids wakes up at 3am.

This is entirely YMMV, but we sleep trained. For whatever absolutely fucking weird reason, neither kid has ever got themselves out of bed in the morning, they always wake up and wait for us to come get them. Earliest I hear one of them is occasionally 6 on the weekends, usually closer to 7. I feel tremendously lucky here, and recognize how not normal this is.

>Forgot dinner ingredient and load kids up...

Nah. I do my best to buy ingredients on the weekend for the week. Definitely isn't foolproof, but usually we just pivot to a meal I'd planned for another night, or we always have easy to make shit like mac and cheese or grilled cheese and tomato soup lying around to fall back on. Life doesn't need to be perfect and I'm cool with pivoting and not sticking to plans.

>Friends coming over

For our own sanity wrt my wife and I's schedules, we hang with friends on the weekend. Weekends are a lot more freeform for us.

>Household maintenance

Naturally, whoever isn't playing with the kids just falls into keeping the laundry moving and cleaning the kitchen. I'll take the kiddos to the grocery store on Saturday. Dishes happen quickly, we all help there.
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How do you forecast with tiny datasets (2–15M ARR)
by Gransberry | 2026-01-10 00:19:31+00:00
I’m trying to learn how founders and sales leaders forecast revenue at $2M–$15M ARR when the dataset is small and the process is still forming.

Stage-weighted pipeline and confidence scoring seem to produce consistent failure modes: Late-quarter surprises, optimistic sales "Commits", inactive pipeline that inflates coverage, that sort of thing.

If you have a forecasting approach that has worked at this stage, I’d love details like:
- What inputs you trust (buyer actions, MAPs, next-step dates, meetings, security review started, etc.)
- How you define stages so they mean something
- How you audit pipeline for the truth without getting into storytelling sessions
- What you stopped doing that made the biggest difference

I’m building a system in this space, so I’m biased, but I’m here to learn what actually works in the wild.

If it’s useful, I can share a 1-page rubric and a simple weekly pipeline review checklist. Email in my profile.
by Guvante | 2026-01-10 00:20:48+00:00
The government gets a percentage of your income, this is the agreement that everyone makes.

For simplicity we only do this when a sale of an asset is made.

Claiming that adjusting this timing is theft is ridiculous, Larry Page has a debt that hasn't come due for his profits is all. Adjusting the timing on the payments of that debt isn't theft.

Per capita the rich get the best deal BTW as billionaires don't exist by a few orders of magnitude without the benefits of society. Sure they pay more taxes but they also benefit massively in comparison to most people in absolute terms of benefit.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-10 00:20:56+00:00
Your comment jumping to my personal upbringing is uncalled for and not in keeping with hacker news standing and shows you are the morally/intellectually weak one when it comes to this discussion, but you are a moron if you think you can infer where someone grew up or what they have been through because they don't think LAW ENFORCEMENT should behave with PERSONAL MALICE when killing someone.
by MyFirstSass | 2026-01-10 00:21:51+00:00
Based on Tao’s description of how the proof came about - a human is taking results backwards and forwards between two separate AI tools and using an AI tool to fill in gaps the human found?

I don’t think it can really be said to have occurred autonomously then?

Looks more like a 50/50 partnership with a super expert human one the one side which makes this way more vague in my opinion - and in line with my own AI tests, ie. they are pretty stupid even OPUS 4.5 or whatever unless you're already an expert and is doing boilerplate.

EDIT: I can see the title has been fixed now from solved to "more or less solved" which is still think is a big stretch.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-10 00:22:06+00:00
> for obvious reasons

I will never understand two things:

1. Why Musk made such a hard-right turn politically, alienating most of his customers. People on the left were always far more likely to buy an EV than those on the right.

2. Why traders continue to buy Tesla stock even as sales nose-dive. Because of the promise of Robotaxis? Tesla's P/E is so high that the Tesla Robotaxi would have to sell more rides than Uber, Lyft, and traditional taxi services combined in order to get anywhere NEAR justifying it.

What really saddens me is the side effects of Tesla beginning to fail. EVs are so synonymous with "Tesla" that I would sometimes see people criticize EVs in general when they mean to criticize just Tesla. And with Tesla sales falling, some people are interpreting that to mean "Nobody wants to buy an EV" rather than "Nobody wants to buy a Tesla" and other car makes are slowing down or cancelling EV developments.

I'm bummed that Chevy has effectively cancelled the Corvette EV.
by stonogo | 2026-01-10 00:22:17+00:00
No, it isn't. They call out ExIt as an inspiration as well as AlphaZero, and the implementation of these things (available in many of their authors' papers) is almost indistinguishable from LLMs. The architecture isn't novel, which is why this paper is about the pipeline instead of about any of the actual processing tools. Getting prickly about meaningless terminology differences is definitely your right, but for anyone who isn't trying to define a policy algorithm for a transformer network, the difference is immaterial to understanding the computation involved.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-10 00:22:19+00:00
> I don't believe that's what's happening in this specific example (and am probably wrong), but this is where a lot of Tao's enthusiasm lies.

It absolutely is. With the twist that ChatGPT 5.2 can now also "explain" an AI-generated Lean proof in human-readable terms. This is a game changer, because "refactoring" can now become end-to-end: if the human explanation of a Lean proof is hard to grok and could be improved, you can test changes directly on the formal text and check that the proof still goes through for the original statement.
by singpolyma3 | 2026-01-10 00:22:26+00:00
One thing that worked well for me is I switched my transportation to almost exclusively bicycle. Do I always want to exercise? Do I always want to get on my bike when it's below zero in active weather? No, not always. But if I want to get where I'm going that's my option and I get the exercise in the process (and save a buttload of money too)
by tombert | 2026-01-10 00:22:37+00:00
I actually know about this a bit since it was part of what I was studying with my incomplete PhD.

Isabelle has had the "Sledgehammer" tool for quite awhile [1]. It uses solvers like z3 to search and apply a catalog of proof strategies and then try and construct a proof for your main proof or any remaining subtasks that you have to complete. It's not perfect but it's remarkably useful (even if it does sometimes give you proofs that import like ten different libraries and are hard to read).

I think Coq has Coqhammer but I haven't played with that one yet.

[1] https://isabelle.in.tum.de/dist/doc/sledgehammer.pdf
by StellarScience | 2026-01-10 00:22:39+00:00
git clone --branch v6.10.1 https://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git .

No login required.

They do require a login to download precompiled binaries, but what self-respecting Hacker News reader wants those?!

Ok, I'll admit, I've done it. And yes, I received Qt marketing at that email alias for a while, but they've stopped.

And remember, Qt has an LPGL license too, not just Commercial and GPL.

EDIT: Ah, ranger_danger pointed out that https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/6.10/ hosts binaries with no login required as well!
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-10 00:22:45+00:00
You could use both. Photogrammetry requires you to have a lot of additional information, and/or to make a lot of assumptions (e.g. about camera, specific lens properties, medium properties, material composition and properties, etc. - and what are reasonable range for values in context), if you want it to work well for general cases, as otherwise the problem you're solving is underspecified. In practice, even enumerating those assumptions is a huge task, much less defending them. That's why photogrammetry applications tend to be used for solving very specific problems in select domains.

ML models, on the other hand, are in a big way, intuitive assumption machines. Through training, they learn what's likely and what's not, given both the input measurements and the state of the world. They bake in knowledge for what kind of cameras exist, what kind of measurements are being made, what results make sense in the real world.

In the past I'd say that for best results, we should combine the two approaches - have AI supply assumptions and estimates for otherwise explicitly formal, photogrammetric approach. Today, I'm no longer convinced it's the case - because relative to the fuzzy world modeling part, the actual math seems trivial and well within capabilities of ML models to do correctly. The last few years demonstrated that ML models are capable of internally modeling calculations and executing them, so I now feel it's more likely that a sufficiently trained model will just do photogrammetry calculations internally. See also: the Bitter Lesson.
by semi-extrinsic | 2026-01-10 00:23:08+00:00
This idea is just ridiculous to anyone who's worked in academia. The theory is nice, but academic publishing is currently in the late stages of a huge death spiral.

In any given scientific niche, there is a huge amount of tribal knowledge that never gets written down anywhere, just passed on from one grad student to the rest of the group, and from there spreads by percolation in the tiny niche. And papers are never honest about the performance of the results and what does not work, there is always cherry picking of benchmarks/comparisons etc.

There is absolutely no way you can get these kinds of insights beyond human context capacity that you speak of. The information necessary does not exist in any dataset available to the LLM.
by tguvot | 2026-01-10 00:23:13+00:00
I wonder why would you drop the middle out of the quote where he talks about finding for them employment in other countries ?

"We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country"

and what happened in reality, is that with arrival of Zionists area got economically developed and it resulted in migration of 100k-400k of arabs into mandatory territory in search of employment.

in your opinion, are they also not natives and should leave now ?
by wryoak | 2026-01-10 00:23:51+00:00
Okay, let’s talk about that first command: sort all files in this directory by relevance. Relevance to what? Is this a permanent sort (what does it do to the file names?) or just a reordered ls output? What button in what OS is this superseding? Is this really an huge improvement over the smart search functionality in most OSes (besides requiring an open terminal and additional keystrokes for the abstractions)?

Some of these are slick despite not really being examples of the obsolescence of UX idioms. But that first one is a very strange example to lead with.
by karel-3d | 2026-01-10 00:24:28+00:00
I am not sure what you are saying with respect to red lines.

Vietnamese government will not arrest a tourist foreigner for talking bad about the party or about Ho Chi Minh, it would decimate their tourist bottom line. If you don't deal with drugs or actively don't organise against the party, you will be fine.

There is a growing surveillance (which you cited well) but mostly for locals.

edit: oh I misread, you are Viet Kieu, not a western tourist. OK yeah that makes some sense.
by mothballed | 2026-01-10 00:25:21+00:00
Yes you and your sister comment are claiming it is only a venue change. A couple points

(1) Per my response to your sister comment[] the inapplicability of federal pardons to cases removed federal courts hasn't actually been decided by the courts. Some scholars seem you are right, although so far I've done the favors for both of you by pulling up the most readily available citation I could find since you furnished none of your own.

(2) Even if you are correct, you are merely moving my goal post of my OG comment claim, which was that there could be jurisdiction removal, to one where you are suggesting it doesn't matter and the goal post is now whether a pardon applies in the case of jurisdiction removal. I find this a doubtful position, as there is a reason why the feds are often desperate to get their cases pulled into federal court, it can't be for nothing.

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561006
by _mig5 | 2026-01-10 00:25:22+00:00
Hi everyone! I'm pleased to report I'm releasing Enroll 0.4.0 today. It has some cool new features:

--ignore-package-versions for 'enroll diff' ,so you don't get alerted to just standard software updates of existing packages

--exclude-path for 'enroll diff', in case you need to ignore noisy drift but can't ignore the path from the harvest itself

'enroll manifest' will now add 'tags' in the playbook so you can use --tags with ansible to selectively apply specific roles from the playbook instead of everything.

And get ready for the big one....

--enforce for 'enroll diff'! Here's a video of it https://asciinema.org/a/766934

If a diff exists and `ansible-playbook` is available, Enroll will:
1) generate a manifest from the *old* harvest into a temporary directory

2) run `ansible-playbook -i localhost, -c local <tmp>/playbook.yml` (often with `--tags role_<...>` to limit how much has to run in the play)

3) record in the diff report that the old harvest was enforced

Enforcement is intentionally “safe”:

- reinstalls packages that were removed (`state: present`), but does *not* attempt downgrades/pinning

- restores users, files (contents + permissions/ownership), and service enable/start state

If `ansible-playbook` is not on `PATH`, Enroll returns an error and does not enforce.

Basically, 'enroll diff [...] --enforce' is akin to Puppet agents checking in with Puppetmaster and re-applying the declared state.

The new release also has some other smaller features also in place, such as 'enroll validate' which will check that a harvest is not corrupted or containing any orphaned artifacts.

Enjoy! And thanks for all the fish^Wlove.
by dang | 2026-01-10 00:27:22+00:00
This deserves a HN thread in its own right! Do you want to submit it and email hn@ycombinator.com so we can put it in the SCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)?

Edit: I just realized from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46296801 that you're the CEO! - in that case maybe you, or whoever you think most appropriate from your organization, could submit it along with a text description of what it is, and what is the easiest and/or most fun way to try it out?
by razingeden | 2026-01-10 00:28:00+00:00
This aggregator grabs HN submissions and they remain on the landing page even if HN supernukes them with great prejudice (probably because they’re getting the RSS feed as pointed out in another comment)

https://brutalist.report/source/hn

Most of the time that’s warranted but I do find some pretty curious stuff in there. It has other uses (it’s how I went back to find/comment on one from yesterday just to be like “hey this things apparently a crypto miner.” Because it had been taken down from the front page in about as much time as it took me to research it… but I wanted to get a comment logged in case they spam that thing again.)
by reactordev | 2026-01-10 00:28:37+00:00
lol, agreed. Today, Glide feels like a predecessor to OpenGL. At the time it was awesome but as soon as DirectX came around along with OpenGL it was over. 1999 was the beginning of the NVidia train.

Thanks for the laugh about your disappointment with your dad. I had a similar thing happen with mine when I asked for Doom and him being a Mac guy, he came back with Bungie’s Marathon. I was upset until I played Marathon… I then realized how wise my father was.
by IggleSniggle | 2026-01-10 00:28:56+00:00
Totally agree on js, but it doesn't have the same easy same-language comparison that you get from compiled Lua vs LuaJIT. Although I suppose you could pre-compile JavaScript to a binary with eg QuickJS but I don't think this is as apples-to-apples comparison as compiled Lua to LuaJIT.
by bcrl | 2026-01-10 00:29:39+00:00
Security for maps is basically impossible. Maps tend to have to be widely shared within government and engineering, and if you know what you're looking for, it's remarkably straightforward to find ways to access layers you would normally have to pay for. It's a consequence of the need to share data widely for a variety of purposes -- everything from zoning debates within a local county to maps for broadband funding across an entire country create a public need to share mapping information. Keys don't get revoked once projects end as that would result in all the previously published links becoming stale, which makes life harder for everyone doing research and planning new projects.

Moreover, university students in programs like architecture are given access to many map layers as part of the school's agreements with the organizations publishing the data. Without that access, students wouldn't be able to pick up the skills needed to do the work they will eventually be hired for. And if students can get data, then it's pretty much public.

Privacy is becoming (or already is) nearly impossible in the 21st century.
by ben_w | 2026-01-10 00:29:57+00:00
The "G" in "AGI" stands for "General".

While quickly I noticed that my pre-ChatGPT-3.5 use of the term was satisfied by ChatGPT-3.5, this turned out to be completely useless for 99% of discussions, as everyone turned out to have different boolean cut-offs for not only the generality, but also the artificiality and the intelligence, and also what counts as "intelligence" in the first place.

That everyone can pick a different boolean cut-off for each initial, means they're not really booleans.

Therefore, consider that this can't drive a car, so it's not fully general. And even those AI which can drive a car, can't do so in genuinely all conditions expected of a human, just most of them. Stuff like that.
by muwtyhg | 2026-01-10 00:30:27+00:00
> a fleeing violent felon

Was she fleeing, or trying to use her car as a weapon?

> In any case you can watch a solid dozen video sources that show her reversing and targeting this office and hitting him.

I don't think that is true. I've watched a lot of the footage. I even watched enough to know how many bullets were fired! That seems like more knowledge than you possess of the situation.

Last question: Do you believe this woman is a domestic terrorist?
by jasonfarnon | 2026-01-10 00:32:01+00:00
"I don't yet know how I can get these tools to do better."

I have wondered if he has access to a better model than I, the way some people get promotional merchandise. A year or two ago he was saying the models were as good as an average math grad student when to me they were like a bad undergrad. In the current models I don't get solutions to new problems. I guess we could do some debugging and try prompting our models with this Erdos problem and see how far we get. (edit: Or maybe not; I guess LLMs search the web now.)
Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
by dimden | 2026-01-10 00:32:10+00:00
There is a large grid of 250x250 tiles, on which you are be able to create a tiny website, contained into the tile.
You can basically consider the tile as a mini version of your website, showcasing what your full site has (but it can be anything). You are able to link to your full site, and use any HTML/CSS/JS inside. The purpose is to create beautiful and interesting tiles, that could be used for exploring the indie-web in an easy and interesting way.