MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2026-01-05 06:21:10+00:00
Correct. 'Segments' are the Proper Unit to think about a bag of bits doing a computation; pages sitting under segments is how VM systems worked to only load the active parts of segments; that's kind of what defined Demand Paging. We have got to get back to the garden here, we need to start valuing security and safety at least as much as raw speed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics?useskin=vector Tagged memory, Capabilities (highly granular), and, yes, segments. Probably needs a marketing refresh (renaming) so as to not be immediately discarded.
by lazylizard | 2026-01-05 06:21:28+00:00
how about 3d printing backup boat propellers?

i dont own a boat.

i imagine real propellers are somewhat expensive. and people often dont buy 2 to keep a spare on board. and on occasion they do fail.

why not a 3d printed backup propeller then? it only needs to last 1/2 a trip..only the way back...
by zdragnar | 2026-01-05 06:21:48+00:00
It isn't the highest paying path in life, but this is what I chose as well. Working for small companies with good people is infinitely better than working at massive companies with decent people. No matter how many good intentions there are, the politicking is utterly exhausting and unfulfilling.

Then again, I'm the kind of person who moved to the countryside to get away from the city life, so YMMV.
by cal_dent | 2026-01-05 06:22:25+00:00
shelter and food is not freely provided for the majority and a non-insignificant proportion of people are managing I'd say.

Yes, it's hyperbole, it literally will not get rid of all the problems but the ethos of the view is being conscious of your needs and your actions and you only truly get that by having the space to think. As opposed to just go go go and not taking a step back and implicitly treating your mind as a hostile place you need distraction from.

I'll throw in another quote that sits nicely with the Pascal quote, from Ursula Le Guin:

> Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary,
what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

just discrimination can only come from being comfortable to be with your thoughts, which can, but is not limited to, happen in a quiet room
by cperciva | 2026-01-05 06:22:49+00:00
I can't help wondering to what extent the length of sentences used by English speakers has been influenced by the limitations of the technology which they used and grew accustomed to in their formative years; indeed, with both text messages and Twitter enforcing succinctness -- at least originally, although now text messages can be aggregated and Twitter allows for much longer posts than the original 140 characters -- it became impossible to write a sentence even as straightforward as this one.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-05 06:23:45+00:00
The blanket statement "right level of abstraction" betrays a pretty narrow minded view. Right abstraction for what?

The big thing to me is, Wayland servers have way way less responsibility than X. X had a huge Herculean task, of doing everything the video card needed. It was a big honking display server because it took up a huge chunk of the stack to run a desktop.

Wayland servers all use kernel mode setting kernel buffers, so much more. So much of the job is done. There is a huge shared code base that Wayland has that X never had, good Kernel's with actual drivers for GPUs.

If we wanted one stable platform that we could not innovate on, that was what it was and we all had to deal with it... We'd all just use Mac. punchyHamster is saying The Cathedral is the right model and The Bazaar is the bad model, of the famous Cathedral vs Bazaar.

But the model really does not enable fast iteration & broader exploration of problem spaces. The ask doesn't even make sense: there are incredibly good libraries for making Wayland servers (wlroots, smithay, more). And they're not always even huge, but do all the core protocols. Some people really want professional industrial direct software that they never have to think about that only works one way and will only evolve slowly and deliberately. I'm thankful as fuck Wayland developers aren't catering to these people, and I think that's the wrong abstraction for open source and the wrong excitement to allow timeless systems to be built grown and evolved. We should avoid critical core dependencies, so that we can send into the future, without being tied to particular code-bases. That seems obvious and proposing otherwise to consign ourselves to small limp fates.
by Ozzie_osman | 2026-01-05 06:25:26+00:00
Fifteen years ago, I was pretty burnt out at work. On the weekend, I'd take my dog and drive down to a beach town for a couple of days alone. Basic smartphone but no internet. Sip tea, sit on the beach. Walk.

I think back about that time, and compare to now, where if I don't have my smartphone on me to check the news, social media, or work, I go bored in 10 minutes.

I'd love to get back into my former state.
by ranger207 | 2026-01-05 06:26:02+00:00
I play a wargame (Battletech) where the rulebook says "use a bottlecap if you want to as long as you can tell which way it's facing" and even there 3D printed minis are uncommon. For Battletech there's two official sources of minis, plastic from CGL and metal from IWM[0]. IWM has a model for almost every unit published in the last 40 years, but some of them are... very hard to look at. CGL's plastic ones look much and cover the most common units so you can usually get by with just them (although, I did just order a couple minis for an upcoming tournament). If I ever see a printed mini, it's either a) one of the ones where the IWM model looks terrible, or b) a model ripped from the Mechwarrior video games that the person thinks looks better aesthetically.

Where 3D printing has been revolutionary for Battletech though has been terrain. Battletech's played on a hex grid, and ever hex has an elevation printed on it to form hills, buildings, and rivers. There's one company (Thunderhead Studios) that makes STLs of the elevation of the official maps that's very popular. Popular enough that they've actually started mass manufacturing them and selling prepainted terrain retail. That shows up in every event I've been to, even official events where 3D minis are banned. But it's a decidedly ancillary part of the experience for Battletech.

[0] Catalyst Game Labs and Iron Wind Metals
by iambateman | 2026-01-05 06:29:42+00:00
I spent probably 150-200 hours coding a money management tool in 2022.

This evening, I worked with Claude to make an AI-assisted money manager that is better than the 2022 version I so carefully crafted.

I had nothing at all this morning and now I have a full database with all my transactions and really strong reporting.

The word “developer” is about to get a lot more expansive and I think that’s cool.
Itanium
by topspin | 2026-01-05 06:29:53+00:00
With the end of 2025, the last remaining commercial support contracts for Itanium-based systems have expired. Launched in 2001 as Intel and HP's joint 64-bit architecture, Itanium was a key rationale for the abandonment of several proprietary RISC designs, including HP's PA-RISC and Compaq (formerly DEC) Alpha. The final iteration of Itanium, 32 nm Kittson, was last shipped in 2021, when Intel ceased fulfilling orders for Itanium CPUs. With the expiration of HPE's Integrity server support on December 31, 2025, the Itanium platform is finally, officially, dead.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-05 06:29:58+00:00
That tech already exists.

https://www.mimakieurope.com/products/3d/

It is mostly a price point thing but I would expect this tech to come down in price at the same rate that other 3D printing technologies have over the coming years. We're in the 'Stratasys' era of full color high res 3D printing right now.
by abhisgup | 2026-01-05 06:31:11+00:00
Location: India. Currently working remotely from Kolkata.

Remote: Yes — global remote OK. Full overlap with EU timezones; ~4–5 hours overlap with US ET.

Willing to relocate: Bangalore / Hyderabad only (open to hybrid or in-office).

Experience: Currently Principal Engineer at GoDaddy (~10 yrs total experience). Previously at Atlassian and Adobe. Worked in-office for ~4 years then remote for ~6 years. Worked across platform teams and customer-facing product teams, building large-scale backend and infra systems.

Technologies: Go, Java, Ruby, Python, C++, JavaScript; Multithreading; AWS cloud services, DevOps practices - CI/CD, Infra as Code, Docker; Microservices, Event-driven architecture - Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, SNS; Observability 2.0, Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch. Resume has more details.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_n7h8rfksYGGD3jI3G1Plce60r_...

Email: abhishek.gupta.sd@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishekguptasd/

Annual Compensation Expectation: 170K+ USD, equivalent to 1.5 crore+ in Indian currency (fixed + bonus + listed equity). Not counting unlisted equity unless regular buyback exists.
by bionsystem | 2026-01-05 06:31:29+00:00
I remember airport hostesses when they used it to get your boarding pass from the mainframe, it took them 5 seconds and a few key-strokes like 3 letter of my name to get the job done. When they switched to web-uis some year, I vividly remember seeing them, 4 at a time on the same screen, trying to figure out what was going on. Took them 15 minutes and a phone call to get the boarding pass ready. I feel sad when I think about this.
by kelthuzad | 2026-01-05 06:33:26+00:00
Well, take your own advice otterley. You’re in violation of the HN guidelines. Sock puppets and coordinated false-flagging aren't allowed here.

You and your third party Apple PR colleagues also need to make your coordinated manipulation efforts less obvious (timing, style, rhetoric, mass false-flagging).

https://gizmodo.com/apple-lobby-app-developers-1849554671

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by myself248 | 2026-01-05 06:34:31+00:00
Absolutely. The $100's are for getting a hotel room or something. The $20's are likely the largest other merchants will break.

My emergency cash stash has a couple $100's and a ton of $5's because I'm not super limited on space, and when everyone else has $20's and needs them broken, a bunch of $5's makes everything easy, and beats carrying a whole bucket of $1's. Learned that at flea-markets.
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by Gabiro_Arnauld | 2026-01-05 06:34:53+00:00
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by neilv | 2026-01-05 06:35:47+00:00
IIUC, if that company had just let him be remote, and not demanded exclusivity, they could've gotten the same output, delivered at the same time, for less than 1/10th the cost.

One of the 'mistakes' (conscious at the time) I made when doing technical consulting remotely was only billing for productive, focused hours when I'd be actively typing and mousing on the problem.

Someone suggested that, if I wanted to go for a walk to think about a problem (which is something I did), I should bill that. I decided that was a slippery slope.

Had I been working on-site, which consumed all my time without flexibility, then I'd bill for every hour on-site, and maybe for travel time.

But since we were doing remote (this was before Covid), with hours that I set -- and my clients were serious people, working on serious stuff -- I wanted to be serious too.
by parineum | 2026-01-05 06:36:09+00:00
I think the critical point that op made, though undersold, was that they don't form opinions _through logic_. They express opinions because that's what people do over text. The problem is that why people hold opinions isn't in that data.

Someone might retort that people don't always use logic to form opinions either and I agree but it's the point of an LLM to create an irrational actor?

I think the impression that people first had with LLMs, the wow factor, was that the computer seemed to have inner thoughts. You can read into the text like you would another human and understand something about them as a person. The magic wears off though when you see that you can't do that.
by FreakLegion | 2026-01-05 06:36:54+00:00
Fitzgerald's style is a pretty linear development out of early Joyce, say Dubliners and the first episodes of Ulysses. It compares to Woolf and McCarthy just fine.

Your list reminds me of a joke from Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise:

So
Walter Arensberg,
Alfred Kreymborg,
Carl Sandburg,
Louis Untermeyer,
Eunice Tietjens,
Clara Shanafelt,
James Oppenheim,
Maxwell Bodenheim,
Richard Glaenzer,
Scharmel Iris,
Conrad Aiken,
I place your names here
So that you may live
If only as names,
Sinuous, mauve-colored names,
In the Juvenalia
Of my collected editions.
by therealpygon | 2026-01-05 06:37:03+00:00
Corporations get their software into businesses through the exactly same way software gets replaced in those same companies… usually through IT and/or users using things personally who become their champions.

So which paragraph do you think was more relevant to the future stock price…the one where they already have most of the customers they will ever have, or the one where people are increasingly moving away from them in their daily lives?
by soulchild77 | 2026-01-05 06:37:59+00:00
I felt the same and I asked Claude about it. The answer made me chuckle:

> There’s definitely a tendency to dress up fairly straightforward concepts in academic-sounding language. “Agentic” is basically “it runs in a loop and decides what to do next.” Sliding window is just “we only look at the last N tokens.” RAG is “we search for stuff and paste it into the prompt.” [...] When you’re trying to differentiate your startup or justify your research budget, “agentic orchestration layer” lands differently than “a script that calls Claude in a loop.“
by firefoxd | 2026-01-05 06:38:04+00:00
I have a tab on sublimetext that has been opened since the pandemic and I think it's safe to share my idea since I'm not gonna do it.

*4KB webpage files*

So a website where each page does not exceed 4KB. This includes whatever styling and navigation needed. Surprisingly you can share a lot of information even with such constraints. Bare bone html is surprisingly compact and the browser already does a whole lot of the heavy lifting.

Why 4KB? Because that used to be the default page size in x86 hardware. So you can grab the whole thing in one chunk.

This whole comment is not 1KB.
by green_wheel | 2026-01-05 06:39:07+00:00
Having kids allows you to somewhat similarly step out of your usual behavior patterns. Obviously not in the "I'll spend two hours watching someone move porcelain cups around" sense, but today I spent an hour standing barefoot ankle-deep in a muddy puddle holding an umbrella over my kid as they played with a Lego figurine and a plastic cup. I got soaked, but it wasn't too cold and if standing outside feeling the rain on your face, watching the clouds pass, and listening to the birds doesn't make you feel alive I dunno what does.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-05 06:39:49+00:00
That's always what's missing from these threads. Wayland is boring actually. It just works. KDE, Sway, Niri, whatever, are all good.

I don't know what to do. The outpouring of negative energies are so severe. But I think it's so incredibly un-representative, is so misleading. The silent majority problem is so real. Come to the better place.
by rglullis | 2026-01-05 06:39:57+00:00
Then you'd have to explain why every reputable newspaper is putting up paywalls and all the quality sites that used to cover specific niches went out of business in the last 20 years.

Saying "revenue goes up with content quality" only makes sense if you compare one poor site with another, but when you put in terms of ROI, you will see it is a lot easier to set up hundreds of different content farms than to keep a sustainable source of well written, reputably sourced reports.
by indigodaddy | 2026-01-05 06:41:54+00:00
Check out the Google One AI Pro plan ($20/mo) in combination with Antigravity (Google's VS Code thingy) which has access to Opus 4.5. this combo (AG/AI Pro plan/Opus 5.5) is all the rage on Reddit with users reporting incredibly generous limits (which most users say they never meet even with high usage) that resets every 5 hours.
by walaa_volidis | 2026-01-05 06:42:34+00:00
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by otterley | 2026-01-05 06:42:44+00:00
What customer pain point are you trying to solve? It’s not super clear to me. Agentic memory, just like a mmap region, isn’t ephemeral unless you want it to be.

In my head, I substitute the word “storage” for “agentic memory”, because that’s really what the latter is, once you strip away all the embellishment. So what kind of new storage innovation is this?
by tomhow | 2026-01-05 06:45:52+00:00
> I'm not sure how damaged your brain has to be

What the hell? This is a completely unacceptable comment on HN. This is a discussion about Apple and browser engines. We've had to ask you before to observe the guidelines, and we have to ban accounts that continue to post abusive comments. HN is only a place where people want to participate because others make the effort to raise the standards rather than dragging them down. Please start acting like you want this to continue to be a place for worthwhile discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by goku12 | 2026-01-05 06:45:58+00:00
Let's be honest here. Venezuela's people are not going to see any benefit from the investment that US is planning over there, besides some token development to show the international media. Any sort of investment is going to be for pillaging their economy and resources even further. If Trump and his cronies haven't made that clear by now, the history of US involvement in that country in the past is evidence enough. This is neocolonialism - the unholy amalgamation of colonialism and capitalist exploitation. Pretending that this is for the benefit of Venezuelans is just dishonest, to put it mildly.
by throw-12-16 | 2026-01-05 06:45:59+00:00
You can absolutely 3D print warhammer.

“The bottleneck isn't acquiring plastic. The bottleneck is everything else.”

Getting models is certainly a bottleneck if you dont have $1000 to spend on minis.

In my city you can resin print the same army for $100 at one of dozens of 3D printing shops.

Same goes for high end mtg proxies.

If you are interested in a great game with an open license that encourages printing and hacking together your own models check out Trench Crusade.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-05 06:47:05+00:00
I think where we are not seeing eye-to-eye is our interpretation of his words. I don't take them to be hyperbole, given that he died practicing what he preached. He was an extreme ascetic who overcame his biological desires, including the very desire to survive. In one sense, that kind of mastery is an impressive feat. But I don't think that kind of mastery is beneficial to humanity or that people should strive to achieve the suppression of all their desires, including their will to survive.

The second quote does not comport with Pascal, because Pascal was not advocating for a path that led to internal happiness, but rather the abandonment of the desire for happiness altogether. He believed that suffering on Earth was the purpose of being Christian and would lead to salvation through God.
by mahirsaid | 2026-01-05 06:47:06+00:00
I often do this too clear some air or to take a break from the tech world of today. We all should have something similar in our lives. Not everything is meant to be searched and read about tirelessly, sometimes it's nice to just walk in a park and look at what the animals have going on around you.

This reminds me of a experience that I encountered in my own life that i wish more people felt when explaining. I am not the best at telling stories but i will try to keep it short.

There was a time i lived in Florida for a few years and it was joyous i must say. I love nature and Florida sure does have that to offer, ignoring the politics and the obstacles that take the joy out of Florida. I visited many national parks, exploring animals That i have never seen before that are native to that region, i cant put into words how wonderful it is to see some of these animals living in their habitat going about their business. One thing that stuck out was when i was walking a trail and came across a small box turtle crossing a trail and i picked up to see it not thinking of why it might be crossing away from water, first i thought doesn't thing need to be around water shortly after i realized that it does not " it is a box turtle". I returned the turtle a little further away from where i originally picked it up and sat on a near by bench to watch it continue it's journey. As i sat down the turtle continued to stare at me at disgust as to how dare i touch it and move it from its original location. From there i see the turtle continue walking and returned to the same exact path it was already going before it's interruption from the degenerate up right ape evolved clothed creature , myself.
i think about that everyday because despite all of it's interruptions it ignored all of that and continued the slow path towards its goal. At times I think we really don't understand the world nor the reality that is around us, some more than others, some due to the influx of societies pressure that are at times blinders for a horse to on one path.
by minimaxir | 2026-01-05 06:47:18+00:00
> When I upgraded to Sonnet 4.5, it became less often that it gave phantom answers. But it still sometimes wasn’t able to handle some complex problems. We’d go back and forth and I’d try to give it hints. But with Opus 4.5, that happens much less often now.

The real annoying thing about Opus 4.5 is that it's impossible to tell most people "Opus 4.5 is an order of magnitude better than coding LLMs released just months before it" without sounding like a AI hype booster clickbaiting, but it's the counterintuitive truth. To my continual personal frustration.
by cryptonector | 2026-01-05 06:48:23+00:00
Is each branch-free run of instructions an object (which in general will be smaller than "function" or "method" objects) that can be abstracted? How does one manage locality ("these objects are the text of this function")?

Maybe one compromises and treats the text of a function as linear address space with small relative offsets. Of course, other issues will crop up. You can't treat code as an array, unless it's an array of the smallest word (bytes, say) even if the instructions are variable length. How do you construct all the pointer+capability values for the program's text statically? The linker would have to be able to do that...