MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perardi | 2026-01-08 16:49:24+00:00
Even with search mode, I’ve had some hilarious hallucinations.

This was during the Gemini 2.5 era, but I got some just bonkers results looking for Tears of the Kingdom recipes. Hallucinated ingredients, out-of-nowhere recipes, and transposing Breath of the Wild recipes and effects into Tear of the Kingdom.
by mras0 | 2026-01-08 16:49:30+00:00
Amiga Forever is a distribution of software (Amiga ROMs and OS disks) and a full system emulator: CPU, custom chips (graphics/sound/..) etc. It allows you to emulate various Amiga systems completely.

vAmos is just CPU and an embedded ROM/OS replacement that does just enough to run (some) AmigaOS command line programs. The primary use case is for cross-development (running Amiga compilers/tools, testing simple stuff, etc.) without having to boot a full system emulator for each command and better integration with e.g. host-side Makefiles.

With the vAmos=WINE analogy, Amiga Forever=VirtualBox/VMWare.
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-08 16:49:40+00:00
The api surface is relatively small, but the capabilities you get from it (http serving, json parsing, crypto, in addition to table stakes like io, args, flags etc) are very high. Having a small api surface is why you need to use primatives so often, but the upside benefit to that is there is less domain specific knowledge, since you end up using familiar types and libraries in more of your code.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-08 16:49:49+00:00
Google is a special case - ever since LLMs came out I've been pointing out that Google owns the entire vertical.

OpenAI, Anthropic, etc are in a race to the bottom, but because they don't own the vertical they are beholden to Nvidia (for chips), they obviously have less training data, they need constant influsx of cash just to stay in that race to the bottom, etc.

Google owns the entire stack - they don't need nvidia, they already have the data, they own the very important user-info via tracking, they have millions, if not billions, of emails on which to train, etc.

Google needs no one, not even VCs. Their costs must be a fraction of the costs of pure-LLM companies.
by magicalhippo | 2026-01-08 16:49:54+00:00
A farm by our cottage had a sign out last year, selling vegetables. We bought some cauliflower and had it for dinner. It was supposed to be a side dish but it was so darn good I don't even remember the main dish.

Later I got some vegetables from a friend who had grown them at a local allotment garden. Made some vegetable soup with them and I swear it's one of the best meals I've had, and I've had some real nice meals.

Flavor in each case was so far beyond what I can get in the grocery stores here it's hardly comparable.
by 9rx | 2026-01-08 16:50:00+00:00
"Enum" is literally defined as a numbering mechanism. While integers are the most natural type used to store numbers, you could represent those numbers as strings if you really wanted. The key takeaway is that a enum is a value, not a type.

The type the link was struggling to speak of seems to be a tagged union. Often tagged union implementations use enums to generate the tag value, which seems to be the source of confusion. But even in tagged unions, the enum portion is not a type. It remains just an integer value (probably; using a string would be strange, but not impossible I guess).
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-08 16:50:05+00:00
The stuff on JSR is lifted out of Deno. JSR can install packages for Node and Bun [0]. Most of the "@std" packages in the link above claim support for Bun (the right hand of the package list "stack of avatars" will have the Bun avatar; easier to read on individual package pages where it becomes a header, though), and there is a Bun test matrix in the GitHub Actions CI. (Right now it looks like it just has Bun latest in the matrix, though.)

In terms of coordination, I don't see any obvious Bun contributors in a quick skim [1], but it seems open to contribution and is MIT licensed.

[0] https://jsr.io/docs/using-packages#adding-a-package

[1] https://github.com/denoland/std/graphs/contributors
by signed-log | 2026-01-08 16:50:11+00:00
Honestly, Apple is getting gifts and gifts from all sides (though with the huge blunder that has been *OS 26), Google doesn't know how to make ecosystems and has never known to do so. Android is great as a single device, but the whole integration, even with their own devices is horrible (Near Share, setting their 'Find My' ecosystem as opt-in instead of opt-out...).

It's another example of EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish), as they finally succeeded with Chrome. And there is likely quite a lot of political interference.

And no, it has nothing to do with the lack of vertical integration. Microsoft, despite all the millions of issues with the platform, has succeeded in making an ecosystem on the enterprise side despite having very little to say in the PC hardware.
by epistasis | 2026-01-08 16:50:17+00:00
This has such a big impact on effective machine learning. The big breakthroughs come from lots more data, not necessarily treating small amounts of data in the best way possible. So being able to scale up to more data is more important than using each data point to its maximum possible utility. Long before the deep learning revolution, stochastic gradient descent was the big data workhorse for that reason.

Gaussian process methods definite have a ton of utility in applications where there are few data points and getting new data points is impossible or cost prohibitive (a lot of medical data is like that, for example).
by Bapannarama | 2026-01-08 16:50:19+00:00
Possibly not the use-case you're thinking of, but I've been using a Wacom Intuos tablet as a mouse replacement for a few years now on MacOS and on Linux. I use it in pen mode (where the area of the tablet maps to the screen) - you can also configure it in mouse mode (like a touchpad, where the movement is relative to where the cursor is on the screen) which should work better with multi-display setups, though it's not to my preference. I have my pen/stylus setup so that tapping it onto the tablet acts as a left/primary click, the larger button on the pen is right click, and holding the smaller button and dragging on the tablet is scroll/pan).

MacOS is well-supported once the drivers are installed, though sometimes the driver doesn't seem to pick up tablet (either after the laptop or tablet goes to sleep). Restarting the driver fixes this, though this bug seems to have been fixed in the latest driver release. Linux works out of the box (at least on KDE/Arch), though sadly customization support on Wayland isn't quite there yet compared with what you could do on X11 (with the xsetwacom utility). For drawing support though it should work perfectly but as far as I know you can't the the button functionality, which is a bummer when using it as a pointing device.

The main benefit for me is that it feels much more ergonomic compared with a regular mouse or even a vertical mouse or trackball and I don't get anywhere near as much wrist or shoulder pain - especially in the cold temps in the middle of winter where I am. There is a bit of an adjustment period and I find for interacting with small UI elements such as buttons it can be a bit tricky, but for me the benefits outweigh the downsides. The only other downside I can think of is that when using the tablet over bluetooth (wired is also an option and tracks a little more smoothly) the battery only lasts 1½ days compared with the weeks/months a wireless mouse would go for.
by nradov | 2026-01-08 16:50:27+00:00
Ever wonder why famous people and celebrities seem so unhealthy with mental health and substance abuse conditions? I'm all for improving affordable access to healthcare but most people wouldn't benefit from spending more time with doctors. It's a waste of scarce resources catering to the "worried well".

While some people are impacted by rare or complex medical conditions that isn't the norm. The health and wellness issues that most consumers have aren't even best handled by physicians in the first place. Instead they could get better results at lower cost from nutritionists, personal trainers, therapists, and social workers.
by wolfejam | 2026-01-08 16:51:19+00:00
TL;DR: We studied how Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code) structures his projects - subagents, slash commands, MCP servers, Bun runtime - and built a 12-test integration suite that validates all of it. Now .faf detects and preserves the complete Claude Code ecosystem. Every publish passes Boris-Flow or it doesn't ship.
by ljm | 2026-01-08 16:51:38+00:00
I think Go's concept of error wrapping is probably unusual to newcomers to the language who might be used to, say, pulling in a dependency for error handling (logrus or whatever) when it's all there in the stdlib in what Go has decided to be the idiomatic way to do errors and logging.

It's nice when you understand how to do it well and move on from, say, printing errors directly where they happen rather than creating, essentially, a stack of wrapped errors that gets dumped at an interface boundary, giving you much more context.
by gradientsrneat | 2026-01-08 16:51:43+00:00
I've seen ultra-processed food mentioned in other countries as well. It's a buzzword with no meaning.

Pasteurization saves lives. Flash-frozen foods retain more nutrition in transit, while freezing seafood kills parasites. And even the best bread and butter are as processed as food can get.

I'm reading the "chemical additives" list and it's a mix of obviously harmful things with known safe things added in trace concentrations - there's no intellectual rigor and a lot of fearmomgering.
by amluto | 2026-01-08 16:51:54+00:00
Was this a GPT model? OpenAI seems to have developed an almost-acknowledged inability to usefully pre-train a model after mid-2024. The recent GPT versions are impassively lacking in newer knowledge.

The most amusing example I’ve seen was asking the web version of GPT-5.1 to help with an installation issue with the Codex CLI (I’m not an npm user so I’m unfamiliar with the intricacies of npm install, and Codex isn’t really an npm package, so the whole use of npm is rather odd). GPT-5.1 cheerfully told me that OpenAI had discontinued Codex and hallucinated a different, nonexistent program that I must have meant.

(All that being said, Gemini is very, very prone to hallucinating features in Google products. Sometimes I wonder whether Google should make a list of Gemini-hallucinated Google features and use the list to drive future product development.)
by kcplate | 2026-01-08 16:52:09+00:00
Everyone also saw a car move forward directly towards a person before his weapon was even drawn.

If he did not follow procedure that will be accounted for in the investigation. I am sure that question will hinge on whether or not from all the angles and prior to the vehicle moving if the officer was in a position that was against procedure.

They state can certainly try and bring charges if it wants to, but that doesn’t automatically mean that prosecution will be successful or that the officer is guilty, the officer right now and until tried, is innocent. Any prosecutor still will need to prove their case and from my perspective, overcoming the qualified immunity in this case will be difficult.
by bummy_commenter | 2026-01-08 16:52:21+00:00
I see. I hadn't thought of it from a perspective of dominant culture. Looking at it that way, it can appear racist.

I looked at it from the perspective of syllable count. Jeff Dean is easier to say by that measure. If Jeff were instead named Alexander Chesterton, would he still be the obvious choice to head the facts? My takeaway from this is that a single-syllable name is perhaps a great boon.
by gs17 | 2026-01-08 16:52:24+00:00
> it thought I was trying to steal something and replayed video of the scan where it thought I scanned one time and bagged multiple.

Kroger had this too, which made every shopping trip take dramatically longer because the employees would already take 5-10 minutes to come over when they didn't have to reset every self-checkout every other item. I refuse to shop anywhere that has them. We already have to deal with the constant "Please place item in the bagging area. Unexpected item in the bagging area.", why do we need extra aggravation when it's only going to slightly slow down a very specific class of shoplifter?
by DELTA-X | 2026-01-08 16:52:39+00:00
I published an axial medical compliance protocol designed to assess the legality of medical acts that alter patient discernment.

Key properties:

Binary, non-compensable axes (fail one → non-compliance)

Written proof only (no narrative, no a posteriori justification)

Burden of proof entirely on prescriber and institution

Checklists, decision trees, and failure matrices

Zero margin of maneuver once activated

It is intentionally rigid, non-ergonomic, and difficult to argue against.
The goal is not persuasion, but structural falsifiability and third-party executability.

Full protocol (DOI): https://zenodo.org/records/18184956
by anishgupta | 2026-01-08 16:52:57+00:00
I'm a gemini user myself. I've used within gemini and it even found a fine grained detail in my lease agreement (which was buried in sea of emails).
People have concerns about the sensitive data and pdf files this AI have access to, but at the same time we need to ask the question: people save personal documents in google drive, passwords in chrome password manager, so is everyone okay with that trust on a company or is AI trust something different?
by pete5x5 | 2026-01-08 16:53:12+00:00
You can certainly measure it, but the catch is that there is not always a single "correct" value. So just because you can measure what the speakers are outputting and then adjust it, it doesn't mean there is one correct output value.

A good example of this is a target curve, often used in room calibration. Dirac has a good explanation: https://www.dirac.com/resources/target-curve

(highly recommend Dirac room correction, by the way)
by thijson | 2026-01-08 16:53:28+00:00
I agree with this. Tony Hsieh (founder of Zappos) also ended up dead because of the lifestyle enabled by his wealth, and he wasn't a famous musician. The wealth also led to lots of hangers on around him that didn't care about his well being, just personally benefiting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW87nhKZ8A0
by tcpais | 2026-01-08 16:53:34+00:00
Finally, a way to settle the model wars that actually matters: Texas Hold'em. That 3D replay view is sick! ♠♦
I spent way too long watching the replay on Game 2a58900d. It’s wild to see the chain of thought mapped against the betting rounds. It really exposes when a model is hallucinating a strong hand versus actually calculating pot odds. This 'PokerBench' might actually become the standard for measuring agentic risk-taking.
by mras0 | 2026-01-08 16:53:48+00:00
There already exist cross-compilers (e.g. http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vbcc/ and various amiga-gcc versions). vAmos is more for the case where you want to use an Amiga-native compiler (say SAS/C http://pjhutchison.org/tutorial/sas_c.html) but work on Linux/Windows.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2026-01-08 16:53:49+00:00
When I use Go, I find I can get more real work done with only the standard library than with any other language I've used (including Java, although that was quite a while ago now). It may not have the most stuff, it is more focused - but I'm okay with esoteric stuff not being in there since the tradeoff seems to be that there are high-quality implementations of e.g. an HTTP client and server, crypto functions, a unit testing library, JSON en/decoding etc, which I can definitely use in production. Conversely in Java the answer seems to be to use BouncyCastle / Tomcat / Jackson / etc, so while there may be a big stdlib, it ends up being less useful.
by romanfll | 2026-01-08 16:54:27+00:00
This post details the architecture behind DriftMind, a streaming forecasting engine we built to replace Transformers at the edge.The Context:We monitor high-frequency industrial sensor streams where the cost of round-tripping data to a GPU cluster (latency + bandwidth) often exceeds the value of the forecast itself. We needed a model that could run locally on a CPU, learn in a single pass (cold start), and adapt to concept drift instantly. The Core Mechanism: Instead of attention heads, we use a "Reflexive Memory" system: Online Clustering: Incoming data points are mapped to micro-clusters in $O(1)$.Temporal Graphs: We build a transition graph between these clusters to model state probabilities.Result: We achieve ~94% of Transformer accuracy with <1% of the training cost and 25ms inference latency on standard CPUs.The full mathematical breakdown and benchmarks are in the article. I’ll be around to answer questions about the trade-offs and the implementation!
by HelloMcFly | 2026-01-08 16:54:36+00:00
One non-nitpicky critique of the parent you replied to: under USDA labeling rules, a product may only be labeled “grass-fed” if the producer can substantiate that cattle were fed a 100% forage diet after weaning. Feeding grain, including corn during finishing, disqualifies the claim. While there is no standalone statute banning grain feeding, labeling grain-fed beef as “grass-fed” would be considered false or misleading and is not permitted by USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service.
by aziaziazi | 2026-01-08 16:54:43+00:00
> Beef has ~3x more protein per gram than legumes

- Chicken: 27/100g
- Beef: 31g/100g
- Hemp: 32g/100g
- Pumpkin: 33g/100g
- Soy: 36g/100g
- Seitan: 75g/100g

Missing amino acids isn't a problem IRL as people tends to eat different stuff.

Eating only one type of food is not good for your health, whether it is a plant or animal product.
by pob944 | 2026-01-08 16:54:58+00:00
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by usrbinbash | 2026-01-08 16:55:09+00:00
> The mixed capitalizing based on function privacy, to me, is awful

Awful compared to ... what? `private` and `public` keywords? Ugly hacks like pythons `_` and `__`?

> it just feels very hacked together

> the wonky generics

What exactly about the generics is "wonky"? "Wonky" is not a term defined in any programming textbook I ever read. And languages are not designed on feelings, especially when the design goal is to be as pragmatic as possible, as is the case in Go.

> the lack of useful types like tuples and enums,

Need a tuple? Use an array and don't change it.

- [2]string: string 2-tuple
- [5]int: int 5-tuple
- [1]any: empty-interface 1-tuple

And btw. 99% of the time tuples are used, it's as a stand-in for multiple-returns. E.g. Python does that. Go simply has...multiple returns.

> and enums,

Outside of language-enthusiasm with matching and whatnot (which more often than not is used because it looks cool rather than being useful), the most common (and again, 99%) use of enums, is to give names to magic values. Go has that covered:

type Color string
const (
RED Color = iota
GREEN
BLUE
)

> the bolted on module system

Pray tell what exactly is "bolted on" about modules? They are simply an extension of the import system, nothing more, nothing less.

> the annoying error handling

The "annoying" thing about it is that it's explicit and forced. Both of which are positives as far as I'm concerned, because I AM FREKKIN DONE with shitty 10-mile stacktraces because some joksters library threw an "exception" 400 layers down in some sub-sub-sub-sub transient dependency lib.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-08 16:55:23+00:00
Carbs and butter.

If you look at a lot of the indian vegetarian dishes you'll find things like potatoes fried in butter being a staple.

Chickpeas and yogurt do make a showing, but a lot of indian dishes are devoid of vegetarian protein sources. You need a lot more beans/nuts if you want to eat healthy as a vegetarian.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-08 16:55:27+00:00
> Amortize that over a couple years, and it's cheaper than most people spend on a car payment.

I'm not parsing that: do you mean that the monthly cost of running your own 24x7 is less than the monthly cost of a car payment?

Whether true or false, I don't get how that is relevant to proving either that the current LLMs are not subsidised, or proving that they are.
by cactacea | 2026-01-08 16:55:36+00:00
> Definitely want to get grass-fed or pasture raised though.

Yeah I mean if you're going to maximize your impact just go all out right. Eating beef, particularly in the US, is one of the worst actions you can take environmentally speaking.

More people need to understand how incredibly destructive cattle ranching has been around the world. In the US in particular pretty much all BLM and Forest Service land that isn't protected as wilderness or permitted for extraction (oil/forestry/etc) is used for ranching. That is an enormous area that has literally been turned to cow shit. Even where the cattle don't eat all vegetation in sight they trample habitat and entirely change the ecology of the area.

Source: I spent three years traveling around the western US from 2019-2022 and camped almost exclusively on public lands during that time. The number of beautiful places I've seen completely covered in cow shit is utterly appalling. Why should we let agribusiness use OUR land this way? It is truly such a waste.
by Balgair | 2026-01-08 16:55:57+00:00
No really.

What translation is this? What part of the religion (Maccabees, Mormons)? Is there Ge'ez portions (46 book in OT!)? How about the dead sea scrolls?

I think, if it takes off with some of the probing from here, then adding in a harder mode with larger apocrypha or duterocanonical texts would be great. Maybe make a section where you can select the translation and sect you want to learn about.
by FredFS456 | 2026-01-08 16:56:12+00:00
I bought one just this week because of this. They really went above and beyond:

- mechanical CAD, schematic and PCB files: https://docs.teufel.de/download/MYND/Open_Source_Hardware_Fi...

- firmware: https://github.com/teufelaudio/mynd-firmware

- Bluetooth API documentation: https://cdn.teufelaudio.com/image/upload/v1748589486/product...

- battery repair/replacement guide: https://cdn.teufelaudio.com/products/MYND/pdf/Teufel_MYND_RM...

I believe that they designed the mechanical parts to be 3D-printable as well.
by niuzeta | 2026-01-08 16:56:19+00:00
I got my first Bose headphone in 2008 or so. It was a treat for myself as a poor university student after a paycheque. I loved the headphone and one day it broke down after several years of heavy abuse. I called their customer service for repairs and how much it would cost. Rather than recommending me to just buy a new one, the customer support agent asked questions about the model, what the issue was, and offered a replacement.

I've loved their product and support ever since. Glad to see this happening as well. Kudos.
by jow13_12 | 2026-01-08 16:56:22+00:00
Location: Toronto, Canada
Remote: Yes (or hybrid)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

> Languages, Frameworks, and Libraries: JavaScript, Express, Ruby, Sinatra, Python, Flask, SQL, jQuery, TypeScript, React

> Cloud: Digital Ocean Droplet, AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, CloudFormation, CDK), Heroku, Fly.io

> AI Engineering: LangChain, Claude, Hugging Face, Vector DBs, embedding, OpenAI API, RAG, chunking

> Other Technologies: Node.js, Git/Github, Docker, Linux/Bash, HTTP, Nginx, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o1rUMbBkXrIlivxE1ZoUNNqibA9...

Email: jow13_122@yahoo.com

Profile: I am a full-stack software engineer with several years of experience in Ruby and JavaScript, as well as additional proficiency in Python, TypeScript, and React. Most recently, I have been an open-source contributor to Mozilla Firefox, after participating in the creation of Vispyr, an open-source observability tool designed to make continuous profiling more accessible to developers.