MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-03 00:59:34+00:00
Doesn’t sound like you really seem to be interested in any sort of rational dialogue, metrics were “objectively” not better? What are you talking about of course they were have you even looked at benchmark progression for every benchmark we have?

You don’t understand what an exponential is or apparently what the benchmark numbers even are or possibly even how we actually measure model performance and the very real challenges and nuances involved but yet I’m “spitting some revisionist BS”. You have cited zero sources and are calling measured numbers “revisionist”.

You are also citing reception to models as some sort of indication of their performance, which is yet another confusing part of your reasoning.

I do agree that “metrics were were very clear” it just seems you don’t happen to understand what they are or what they mean.
by Linux-Fan | 2026-01-03 01:00:14+00:00
> precise time syncing with PTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt-zRIG5co

I am not so much into videos but due to some extended interest in the matter I decided to watch the recording of that talk and I do not regret it. Much recommended to everyone who is interested in the state of the art of precision time synchronization over network. Also, in my opinion this talk is presented masterfully with most of the time actually spent on a convincing live demo.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excuse-me-what-precise-time-is-i...
by tzs | 2026-01-03 01:00:38+00:00
Yes, slightly edging out the Toyota RAV4. But Toyota also has the Corolla which is also not too far behind the Tesla Model Y. The Camry also does well, typically around #7 or 8 in the top 10 list, whereas the Model Y is the only Tesla in the top 10.

Across all models Tesla sold around 1.8 million in 2024, with 1.2 million of those being Model Ys.

Toyota across all models sold 10.8 million in 2024. Toyota sold more cars just in the US in 2024 (2.3 million) than Tesla sold in the whole world.
Show HN: Share Claude Code and Codex CLI Transcripts
by nicoritschel | 2026-01-03 01:01:19+00:00
I built this service + client because there's not a reasonable way to share Claude Code + Codex CLI transcripts.

All data is e2e encrypted before it leaves your device, the share url contains the decryption key.

Self-host on Cloudflare workers if you prefer
by debo_ | 2026-01-03 01:02:31+00:00
People loudly declaring they are switching to Linux feel to me like people loudly declaring they are leaving Twitter. That's nice? I've had my home machines on Linux since forever and it's fun. I like trying new distros about once a year to see what people are up to. It's been possible to run a basic setup for normies for a solid decade now, it's unfortunate that it took Microsoft waging UX war for some techies to notice.
by jbeninger | 2026-01-03 01:02:33+00:00
I'm in the JS ecosystem pretty regularly and "restrictive with no benefit" is the right description. I use JSON5 now when I have to, which greatly reduces the restrictions. I already have a build step so throwing in a JSON5 -> JSON converter is negligible.

As for FracturedJson, it looks great. The basic problem statement of "either minified and unreadable or prettified and verbose" isn't one I had put my finger on before, but now that it's been said I can't unsee it.
by WaxProlix | 2026-01-03 01:03:09+00:00
As the other poster imagines, I didn't. I could write a blog post about the 3 days I spent with Claude trying everything, different wine variants, patched WebView2.exes, container types, x11 vs wayland, logging in on a vm and copying credentials, intercepting calls to and from the fucking web view, GPU pass through for dedicated vms using iommu and virtio, what a mess. I don't want windows on a hard drive but it's that or use my work MacBook which is kind of a non starter for obvious reasons at this point.

Funny thing is it worked on my old popos install and I backed it up... But a lot of the home dir wine prefix stuff was symlinks to var or opt or something which of course my dumb ass didn't backup. Monthly 60gb homedir backups without the one thing I wanted smh
by throw0101a | 2026-01-03 01:03:50+00:00
> I said it's different from IPv4. At the IP layer.

In what way? Longer addresses? In what way is it "so different" that people are unable to handle whatever differences you are referring to?

We used to have IPv4, NetBEUI, AppleTalk, IPX all in regular use in the past: and that's just on Ethernet (of various flavours), never mind different Layer 2s. Have network folks become so dim over the last few years that they can't handle a different protocol now?
by altairprime | 2026-01-03 01:03:53+00:00
For those trying to use these examples on a Mac and having issues:

env FAVA_PORT=5050 \
PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/bison/bin:$PATH" \
./scripts/quickstart.sh [args]

will resolve the weirdness that occurs when trying to access localhost vs 127.0.0.1 (as there is an OS-native *:5000 listener that the fava :5000 binding overlaps) and fix the bison build errors (once you've brew install'd bison).
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-03 01:04:19+00:00
> React has had tremendous success in the web world, so why not try and get those developers more comfortable producing apps for your platform?

Because web stuff utterly sucks for making UIs on the desktop. Microsoft either doesn't know this (bad sign), or is choosing to use the trendy thing even though it'll make their software worse for customers (a worse sign). Either way it's a very bad look from MS.
by neilv | 2026-01-03 01:04:25+00:00
For a personal site, I'd probably just do that. (My friends are generally savvy and principled enough not to do most social media, so no need for me to endorse it by syndicating there.)

But for a commercial marketing site that must be on the awful social media, I'm wondering about quietly supporting RSS/Atom without compromising the experience for the masses.
by MarkSweep | 2026-01-03 01:04:39+00:00
I made the switch as well. For many years I dual-booted Ubuntu and Windows, hanging on to my familiarity with Windows and love for Visual Studio. Finally October 2025 some update made games laggy on Windows while they still worked fine on Ubuntu. I attempted to fix this by reinstalling Windows 11 and found I could not figure out how to remove advertisements from the start menu. So I finally transferred all my files from ReFS to ZFS and committed to 100% Linux.

Something has gone wrong in Microsoft in the product management organization where they are more concerned with chasing advertising dollars and upselling OneDruge than building a good product. It is depressing because all the Microsoft engineers I’ve interacted with in open source work have been excellent.
by lunaru | 2026-01-03 01:05:54+00:00
I think people understand the odds are small. However, perhaps they perceive their chances of meaningfully turn around their life in other ways have even smaller odds. i.e. improbable vs actually impossible. At least the lottery doesn't care about your current circumstance and everyone has an equal (equally small) chance.

Secondly, because everyone realizes the chances are small, the real product being sold is Hope. Even the advertisements for the lotteries address this. The thing you're buying is 30 seconds of daydreaming so you can comfortably tackle the rest of the day.
by temp0826 | 2026-01-03 01:06:06+00:00
This is the biggest pickle for me. Mx Macbook Airs are pretty amazing, but Asahi is just not there, and I don't think it will ever be without Apple playing ball a little bit unfortunately. (I'm currently on a t2/intel macbook and it's got more quirks that I care to deal with...but it was free so gotta do what I gotta do)
by RiverCrochet | 2026-01-03 01:06:08+00:00
Isn't this true?

- 44.1ksamples/sec can only represent arbitrary waveforms at some point lower than 44.1kHz/2.

- Example: The only 22.05kHz waveform you can encode at 44.1ksamples/sec is a square wave (for 16 bit samples: -32767, 32768, -32767, 32768, etc.)

Going down to 44,099 samples/sec you could only do an extremely crude "steppy" approximation of a sine wave, sort of like the NES's triangle channel.
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by somerandomqaguy | 2026-01-03 01:07:21+00:00
Eh, I've been thus far unimpressed.

Part of it being that a lot of ISP's don't have static prefixes, they do get rotated pretty often and have no guarantee of CIDR size that you're going to get. By default my ISP will only give a single /64. You have to go out of your way to request more subnets and there's no guarantee that the ISP will honor that request.

It's really problematic to try and base a non trivial network setup, when you have no guarantee of how many subnets you can run. Today I've got 256. Tomorrow it might be 16. Or 2. Maybe just 1 again. ISP's can be weird when they smell monetization dollars in the water.

So I have to run a ULA in parallel to the publicly accessible networks specifically for internal routing, and then use a DNS server to try and correct it. Which works great! ...except when you run into this little niche operating system called Android. Which by default doesn't obey a network provided DNS server if you've got privacy DNS enabled. So if I've got guests over and I want them on a network in my place to access some sort of internal resource, then I've got to walk them through disabling privacy DNS.

Either that or I need to go out and buy a domain... for my internal network...and then get a TLS certification for my private internal domain.

I get how IPv6 can be great. But a lot of the advantages are also overhead I don't want to deal with.

Short hand is a good example; I've lost count at the number of times I've typo'd short hand addresses because my eyes skip over a colon. At this point I've gotten into the habit of just writing out the whole address, leading 0's included because the time saved from not making a mistake reading the address often faster overall then making mistakes with shorthand.
by gjsman-1000 | 2026-01-03 01:07:27+00:00
At this point, I find it interesting that for never mentioning what religion I follow, and for merely suggesting that prayer may be beneficial; your reaction is stronger than if I had simply blamed speaking to crystals at 2 AM after 5 glasses of wine in an attempt to manifest a job. If I had even suggested going to a My Little Pony Convention in an attempt to do networking, you would’ve scoffed less, which hardly implies good faith even with yourself.

Also, your arguments are hardly original. They are 2,300 years old, originating with Epicurus, older than both Christianity and Islam. Regurgitation of them with such certainty is Reddit 2013-era levels of uninspired; as though both religions did not address these arguments from their foundation. I also find it astoundingly arrogant, because it implies that religious people have never witnessed or endured intense suffering, lest it be self-evident.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-03 01:08:08+00:00
HTTP->HTTPS was this kind of scale, and it was smooth because they changed as little as possible while also being very careful about default behaviors.

3 billion people sorta use ipv6, but not really, cause almost all of those also rely on ipv4 and no host can really go ipv6-only. Meanwhile, many sites are HTTPS-only.
Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin
by johnwheeler | 2026-01-03 01:08:35+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

This is definitely out of my comfort zone. I've never programmed DSP before. But I was able to use Claude code and have it help me build this using CMajor.

I just wanted to show you guys because I'm super proud of it. It's a 100% faithful recreation based off of the schematics, patents, and ROMs that were found online.

So please watch the video and tell me what you think

https://youtu.be/auOlZXI1VxA

The reason why I think this is relevant is because I've been a programmer for 25 years and AI scares the shit out of me.

I'm not a programmer anymore. I'm something else now. I don't know what it is but it's multi-disciplinary, and it doesn't involve writing code myself--for better or worse!

Thanks!
by z3t4 | 2026-01-03 01:09:05+00:00
This is also a reason why I have 4 separate stations now, if I have to upgrade hardware only one station is down at a time. And while you can get a 3 GPU system at budget, a 4 GPU system will get expensive, at least last time I checked. It would be interesting to look into using old used ai servers for multi seat purposes.
by dspillett | 2026-01-03 01:09:09+00:00
> to see if they are in red alert to get users back

I don't think they much care, long gone are the days of consumer Windows being a cash-cow. And if you buy a machine with Windows on and put Linux over the top, they still have that little bit of money from you via the manufacturer. Adverts on the start menu and such, is not an action that would be taken by a company with any real pride in their OS.
by rapidfl | 2026-01-03 01:10:29+00:00
my thinking is that NW does not have to be tracked in a way that the double entries zero out. Every six months, I just open the 3-4 brokerages and banks and make an entry in a spreadsheet for cash/stock/bonds/crypto/others. Where the stocks are mostly ETFs and crypto is less than 5%.

And create a pivot table for totals and %s. And rebalance as needed. This may be too crude for some. But I am only starting to get organized, so this works, esp as you said for directional. Actually this is one of the reasons I have dropped hledger in general.

I just leave notes and comments in the spreadsheet as needed.
by sam_corgi | 2026-01-03 01:11:03+00:00
We don't make people punch in and punch out. We give people the flexibility they need to do what they need to do. If we are not taking care of personal errands etc, we're working on something fun. We do get out and do things as a team etc & take breaks when needed lol.

Edit: To answer your question I work at least probably 14 hours, but there are times when it's less and times when it's more, depends how hard I can push given the constraints. It varies.
by Eisenstein | 2026-01-03 01:11:18+00:00
A technological solution to a human problem is the appeal we have fallen for too many times these last few decades.

Humans are incredibly good at solving problems, but while one person is solving 'how do we prevent students from cheating' a student is thinking 'how I bypass this limitation preventing me from cheating'. And when these problems are digital and scalable, it only takes one student to solve that problem for every other student to have access to the solution.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-03 01:11:38+00:00
The biggest difference is often overlooked because it's not part of the packet format or anything: IPv4 /32s were not carried over to IPv6. If you owned 1.1.1.1 on ipv4, and you switch to ipv6, you get an entirely different address instead of 1.1.1.1::. Maaybe you get an ipv6-mapped-ipv4 ::ffff:1.1.1.1, but that's temporary and isn't divisible into like 1.1.1.1.2.

And then all the defaults about how basically everything works are different. Home router in v6 mode means no DHCP, no NAT, and hopefully yes firewall. In theory you can make it work a lot like v4, but by default it's not.
by sho_hn | 2026-01-03 01:12:25+00:00
Yeah, it's the principle that gets me. "By the time it run out of power, there will be a new version" does nothing to make it better, either. That's like Planned Obsolescence 2.0.

I just don't think we should make stuff like this, and I definitely don't want to signal support for it on my wrist.
by beaker52 | 2026-01-03 01:12:53+00:00
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by davidhariri | 2026-01-03 01:13:12+00:00
I bought and tried to use the MP02 as a daily driver. Quite different from where Punkt is heading now. The industrial design is gorgeous, but the software was pretty bad (laggy, unintuitive navigation - Android on such a low powered chip was a bad choice). I can guess why, but it baffles me they didn't jump on the growing demand for dumbphones. If they had just released an MP03 with identical form factor but improved battery life, latency and screen improvements, I would have bought one in a heartbeat.
by liuliu | 2026-01-03 01:13:19+00:00
This is a common misunderstanding from industry observers (not industry practitioners). Each generation of (NVIDIA) GPU is an ASIC with different ISA etc. Bitcoin mining simply was not important enough (last year, only $23B Bitcoin mined in total (at $100,000 per)). There is amped incentive to implement every possible instructions useful into GPU (without worrying about backward compatibility, thanks to PTX).

ASIC transformers won't happen (defined as a chip with single instruction to do sdpa from anything that is not broadly marketed as GPU, and won't have annualized sale more than $3B). Mark my word. I am happy to take a bet on longbets.org with anyone on this for $1000 and my part will go to PSF.
by esrauch | 2026-01-03 01:13:58+00:00
My example was a three character string where the second one is \u0000, which is the NUL character in the middle of the string.

The spec on the GitHub says that it is banned to include NUL under a security stance, that someone that after parse someone might do strlen and accidentally truncate to a shorter string in C.

Which I think has some premise, but its a valid string contents in JSON (and in Utf8), so it is deliberately breaking 1:1 parity with JSON parity in the name of a security hypothetical.
by felipelalli | 2026-01-03 01:14:41+00:00
Even though I read so many posts criticizing PGP, it's still difficult for me to find an alternative. He states in the article that being a "Swiss Army Knife" is bad. I understand the argument, but this is precisely what makes GPG so powerful. The scheme of public keys, private keys, revoke, embedded WOT, files, texts, everything. They urgently need to make a "modern version" of GPG. He needs a replacement, otherwise he'll just be whining.
by tormeh | 2026-01-03 01:14:51+00:00
I have to use Windows sometimes at work, and of all indignities, this is surely a small one, but it is an indignity. Everyone complains about ads, which is a real issue, but to me the biggest issue is how blatantly suboptimal everything is. Nobody has put any effort into making Windows good for a very very long time. The terminal and/or powershell is incredibly slow - ls should not take perceptible time to execute. The settings menus are made with 3 to 5 different layers of UI frameworks and design guidelines. Forced OneDrive. The pestering about copilot... I even like LLMs, but my user experience is so clearly subordinate to some KPI that it annoys me anyway. I'm sure I could come up with more if I had touched it recently, but I thankfully haven't.
by CjHuber | 2026-01-03 01:16:28+00:00
AFAIK the Start Menu itself is still C++ and XAML however only the Recommended section is build with React Native [1].
Funnily or rather sadly, they seem to be quite proud of using it as seen in the video.

1: https://youtu.be/kMJNEFHj8b8?t=4m47s
by amelius | 2026-01-03 01:16:35+00:00
Flatpak breaks certain expectations. For example that if it runs on my office PC, I can run it over VNC on my home computer. This is not the case and I get strange errors like:

Note that the directories

'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'
'/home/amelius/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'

are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, so applications installed by Flatpak may not appear on your desktop until the session is restarted.

This is totally unexpected since I can run programs like xterm and xeyes just fine, both locally and over VNC.