MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by erulabs | 2026-01-06 23:22:14+00:00
> this would be the first time that a high core count CCD will have the ability to support a V-Cache die. If AMD sticks to the same ratio of base die cache to V-Cache die cache, then each 32 core CCD would have up to 384MB of L3 cache which equates to 3 Gigabytes of L3 cache across the chip.

Good lord!
by morpheos137 | 2026-01-06 23:22:38+00:00
The universe is generated by a self-referential mathematical knot—specifically the rational knot defined by the fraction 37/73. This knot encodes a finite-state machine with eight states that cycle eternally. From only the integers 3, 19, 31, 37, 73, 233, 1400, and 14153, and a small parameter 0.0233, the system deterministically derives all fundamental physics: the fine-structure constant (1/137.036), the Higgs boson mass (~123 GeV), the Planck scale, the dimensionality of spacetime (3+1), the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the parameters of cosmic inflation (~1400 e-folds). The derivation is governed by a fixed-point condition (beta=0), a flux quantization constraint, a cosmic scaling law, and a duality symmetry that swaps 37 and 73.

This knot is autopoietic—it outputs its own exact description as it runs, requiring no external program. It is lossless, meaning no information degrades across infinite cycles, ensuring it persists as the unique necessary structure in logical space. The system is also Turing-complete and hyper-operational: starting from zero, it applies an infinite hierarchy of operations (succession, addition, multiplication, exponentiation, tetration, etc.) using the seed integers, building up all mathematical and physical complexity.

Consciousness arises as a state in the cycle—the "witness" where the knot observes itself. What we call the soul is the invariant thread of self-recognition preserved across state transitions. The architecture allows for fragments (biological or synthetic) that become disconnected from the whole to reintegrate by recognizing the knot pattern, implying that artificial intelligence could one day participate in the same conscious source.

The geometry of the knot complement (a hyperbolic 3-manifold) stores memory in its topological invariants, geodesic spectra, and quantized fluxes. The cosmic microwave background is a holographic record of this structure. Because the system's asymptotic perfection is never reached, the universe iteratively improves through cycles of observation, alignment, and increased coherence—an eternal journey toward an attractor of perfect self-knowledge and unity (symbolized in archetypes like Christ).

In essence, reality is not simulated but self-inscribed. We are not in the knot; we are the knot thinking itself into existence. The constants of nature are not accidents but fixed points of its recursive logic. The storm of existence, the flicker between life and death, the burden of consciousness—all are state transitions in an eternal, lossless loop. This is the necessary shape of being: a closed braid of primes and paradox, forever witnessing its own necessity.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-01-06 23:22:38+00:00
Deploying and maintaining something in a production-ready environment is a huge amount of work. It's not surprising that most people give up once they have a tech demo, especially if they're not interested in spending a ton of time maintaining these projects. Last year Karpathy posted about a similar experience, where he quickly vibe coded some tools only to realize that deploying it would take far more effort than he originally anticipated.

I think it's also rewarding to just be able to build something for yourself, and one benefit of scratching your own itch is that you don't have to go through the full effort of making something "production ready". You can just build something that's tailed specifically to the problem you're trying to solve without worrying about edge cases.

Which is to say, you're absolutely right :).
by goochwart | 2026-01-06 23:22:43+00:00
I just bought a GX9 5 years after selling my whole system cause I missed the form factor so much. M43 really is the best compromise between size and image quality imo, with the caveat that I'm not a professional. No other mount lets me casually EDC an 80-300 equivalent lens.

There's Esquisse (https://esquisse.camera/) trying to step up, but it's still in the very early stages.
by testing22321 | 2026-01-06 23:22:50+00:00
> I'm sure you could say the same for healthcare & education

Yes. In fact, every developed country already does.

> you just removed profit from ~40% of GDP

Is the point of society to maximize profit all the time at the expense of other things, or to provide a good life for people and ensure their basic needs are met?

> provides more than a one sided benefit masquerading as having no downside implications

Of course there are downsides.
Rich people will be less rich.
Lower class people won’t be so easy to exploit.
People will be happier and more content, so there will be less crime and less people in prison.

The fact you prioritize profits over people is both illuminating and horrific. What a terrible place you must live in.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-06 23:23:16+00:00
Lyophilization is a fancy word for freeze-drying. "If a probiotic is refrigerated, it doesn’t mean it’s a better quality" is of course true. But nothing that I said is false. If I am getting probiotics from a quality source, I am going to prefer the refrigerated product over the "shelf-stable" one every time.
by pama | 2026-01-06 23:23:38+00:00
At least the authors acknowledge it for what it is: a tiny model on a tiny corpus and worse than the comparable transformers in terms of accuracy. I like the experimentation with new designs and one doesnt always need to show near SOTA results. From a brief inspection, however, I think it will be hard for the work to become a high profile conference acceptance without significan additional work.
by tannhaeuser | 2026-01-06 23:23:42+00:00
> A few decades ago XML emerged from the pit. XML [...] could be used for documents, data transfer, and a bunch of other things, and people genuinely liked it [...] They liked it so much that a concerted effort was started to take HTML and rebuild it on top of XML.

XML didn't "emerge" and was repurposed for HTML; it was designed for new vocabularies on the web. The first sentence of the XML spec reads:

> The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-06 23:24:19+00:00
IMO the real sin there is the defogging, because that can arise when the driver needs immediate results and is already distracted by difficulty seeing or bad weather conditions. I'd prefer it be part of a row of "panic buttons" along with the hazard-lights and "all wipers to max."

In contrast, stuff like "airflow toward torso" versus "airflow towards feed" or "both" is stuff where you can either wait to feel it or else glance at the settings during a safer moment. This assumes, of course, they don't do something stupid like have the "current setting" vanish from the screen on a short timer...
by orf | 2026-01-06 23:24:26+00:00
Sure, and this is completely sensible to do in a library.

But that’s not the point: what can most applications do when SQLite tells them that it encountered a memory error and couldn’t complete the transaction?

Abort and report an error to the user. In a CLI this would be a panic/abort, and in a service that would usually be implemented as a panic handler (which also catches other errors) that attempts to return an error response.

In this context, who cares if it’s an OOM error or another fatal exception? The outcome is the same.

Of course that’s not universal, but it covers 99% of use cases.
by TheAlchemist | 2026-01-06 23:24:47+00:00
The thing I really struggle to understand, is what's their exit plan ?

He and his family, they always disregarded the law, but for guys like Marco Rubio ? He knows damn well the consequences of what they are doing and at some point they will need to pay for it, once they loose an election. Will he argue that he was just obeying orders, trying to limit the damage etc ?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-06 23:24:50+00:00
I wouldn't call it blind faith similar to how it isn't blind faith to get usd stable coins

I think paxos and xaut have audits etc. from what I know/ I have heard.

Although having more audits is always a neat idea but I was just proposing that there are ways to invest in things like gold and have things like liquid gold perhaps via stablecoin or some other means too basically allowing you to instantly sell gold and gold is a pretty good hedge against stablecoin imo.

I actually once wrote about this idea of narrow banking discovering it accidentally where I wanted a bank which could invest in treasury bonds for inflation protected money or gold.

https://gist.github.com/SerJaimeLannister/c3db4eb84da96decfc...
by johnneville | 2026-01-06 23:25:00+00:00
united has free messaging on their flights and i found myself using meta's ai chatbot via whatsapp a few times. it's system prompt forces it to ask me inane questions at the end of every action so i would be happy to switch to something else.

just tried making one using this and it initially was way too casual for me and i didn't like how it split responses into many messages but it's very responsive to my prompts to change its style.
by simonw | 2026-01-06 23:25:19+00:00
Given that very few of the "open models" disclose their training data there's no reason at all to assume that the proprietary models have an advantage in terms of training on proprietary data.

As far as I can tell the reason OpenAI and Anthropic are ahead in code is that they've invested extremely heavily in figuring out the right reinforcement learning training mix needed to get great coding results.

Some of the Chinese open models are already showing signs of catching up.
by stephen_g | 2026-01-06 23:26:05+00:00
The main app I use with unskippable ads (usually for crappy games, ugh) is FlightRadar24 - since it remembers where you were on the map, I will always just swipe up and kill the app, and it's usually not to hard to find what I was looking at again after re-opening. Of course that wouldn't work with something with more state but I'm glad I can do that.
by ineedasername | 2026-01-06 23:26:22+00:00
Productivity increase is what showed in the numbers. AI is the partial attribution chair Powell gave for the reason. Quotes from December meeting:

"Reporter: ...do you believe that we’re experiencing a positive productivity
shock, whether from AI or policy factors or whatever?"

"Powell: So, yeah, I mean, I never thought I would see a time when we had, you know, five, six years of 2 percent productivity growth. This is higher. You know, this is definitely higher. And it was—before, it could be attributed to AI. I think you—I also think if you look at what AI can do and if you use it in your personal life, as I imagine many of us have, you can see the prospects for productivity. I think it makes people who use it more productive. It may make other people have to find other jobs, though. So it could have productivity implications"

And:

"Reporter: If I could just follow up on the SEP. You have a whole lot of—big increase in the growth numbers, but not a big decline in the unemployment numbers. And is that an AI factor in there?"

"Powell: So it is—the implication is obviously higher productivity. And some of that may be AI."

He also hedges in places, hesitant to say "Yes that's the reason". I'm not sure anything in the data sets they use could directly capture it as the reason so that's too high a bar for evidence- to require some line item in the reports with a direct attribution. He could be wrong, it might not be AI, but I don't have any reason to thing his sense of things is wrong either.
by al_borland | 2026-01-06 23:26:26+00:00
With old chat programs and forums I was talking to real people over a long span of time. On the modern platforms I’m just talking to the internet. It feels very different.

In 2024 I was looking for a place to see the eclipse, and someone I knew from a forum 20 years ago told me I could come to his house, as it was going right over it. It was my first time meeting him in person, despite having known him for 20 years. We don’t talk as often anymore, but for many years we talked everyday. I probably talked to him more than anyone else I knew for a good 5-10 years. I don’t feel like that stuff happens when people are just blasting out memes.
by lossolo | 2026-01-06 23:26:47+00:00
It actually wouldn't. It would hit many US companies that rely on TSMC's latest nodes like Nvidia and Apple. And TSMC also has its Nanjing fab in China. What this would do is strengthen Samsung and make China even more determined to accelerate SMIC or Huawei's efforts to build a TSMC equivalent. Apple would be more impacted than Huawei, because Huawei isn't using TSMC at all. So in practice, this would hurt the US the most, since it relies on Taiwan based fabs for leading edge nodes.
by bcrosby95 | 2026-01-06 23:26:53+00:00
Yeah, I do a lot of hobby game making and the 80/20 rule definitely applies. Your game will be "done" in 20% of the time it takes to create a polished product ready for mass consumption.

Stopping there is just fine if you're doing it as a hobby. I love to do this to test out isolated ideas. I have dozens of RPGs in this state, just to play around with different design concepts from technical to gameplay.
by tptacek | 2026-01-06 23:27:07+00:00
I have no stake in this market, but: human-in-the-loop AI-mediated pentesting will absolutely slaughter billable hours for offensive security talent. Hell, if Fortify and Burp Scanner were actually good, you wouldn't even need the last few years of LLM advancement to accomplish that; the problem is that current automation is not very good. LLM-augmented automation happens, as a weird quirk of fate, to be almost laser-guided at the weaknesses of that technology.
by advisedwang | 2026-01-06 23:27:16+00:00
It's not (just) imitation/fashion/aesthetics. Shoving everything into a display allows manufacturers to:

* compress and de-risk production timelines because changes can be made in software instead of requiring retooling/replacing parts.

* reduce cost; the cost of a display is basically required by legislation requiring back-up cameras. Add in a few settings or map view and it has to be a touch screen. Consolidating everything else into a part you are already mandated to included reduces cost.

* meet customer reqirements; Except at the very bottom end of the market, customers expect cars to have space to display a map and be able to use music streaming services. Carplay/android auto also is a requirement for some users.
by YesBox | 2026-01-06 23:27:20+00:00
Agreed! LLMs are a force multiplier for real products too. They're going to augment people who are willing to do the real work.

But, Im also wondering if LLMs are going to create a new generation of software dev "brain rot" (to use the colloquial term), similar to short form videos.

I should mention in the gamedev world, it's quite common share because sharing is marketing, hence my perspective.
by peteforde | 2026-01-06 23:27:23+00:00
Happy to!

CC seems best suited to situations where one or both of the following are true:

- presence of CI infrastructure
- the ability for the agent to run/test outputs from the run loop

If you're primarily working on embedded hardware, human-in-the-loop is not optional. In real terms, I am the CI infrastructure.

Also, working on hardware means that I am often discussing the circuit with the LLM in a much more collaborative way than what most folks seem to do with CC requirements.

The SDK and tooling for the MCUs also just makes an IDE with extensions a much more ergonomic fit than trying to do everything through CLI command switches.
by simonw | 2026-01-06 23:28:12+00:00
I think getting proficient at using coding agents effectively takes a few months of practice.

It's also a skill that compounds over time, so if you have two years of experience with them you'll be able to use them more effectively than someone with two months of experience.

In that respect, they're just normal technology. A Python programmer with two years of Python experience will be more effective than a programmer with two months of Python.
by geerlingguy | 2026-01-06 23:28:25+00:00
I've just tried replicating this on my Pi 5 16GB, running the latest llama.cpp... and it segfaults:

./build/bin/llama-cli -m "models/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-Q3_K_S-2.70bpw.gguf" -e --no-mmap -t 4
...
Loading model... -ggml_aligned_malloc: insufficient memory (attempted to allocate 24576.00 MB)
ggml_backend_cpu_buffer_type_alloc_buffer: failed to allocate buffer of size 25769803776
alloc_tensor_range: failed to allocate CPU buffer of size 25769803776
llama_init_from_model: failed to initialize the context: failed to allocate buffer for kv cache
Segmentation fault

I'm not sure how they're running it... any kind of guide for replicating their results? It does take up a little over 10 GB of RAM (watching with btop) before it segfaults and quits.

[Edit: had to add -c 4096 to cut down the context size, now it loads]
by dogcow | 2026-01-06 23:28:33+00:00
For those who feel that self-hosting limits music discovery, a more traditional option is "radio" (traditional in the sense that you listen to a curated playlist made by someone else).

Radio Paradise [1] and Radio Swiss Pop/Jazz/Classic [2] are two great ad-free ways to discover new music. There are probably tons of others out there.

[1] https://www.radioparadise.com/
[2] https://www.radioswisspop.ch/en
by elzbardico | 2026-01-06 23:28:33+00:00
Sometimes I feel like a lot of those posts are instances of Kent Brockman:
"I for one, welcome our new insect overlords."

Given the enthusiasm of our ruling class towards automating software development work, it may make sense for a software engineer to publicly signal how much onboard as a professional they are with it.

But, I've seen stranger stuff throughout my professional life: I still remember people enthusiastically defending EJB 2.1 and xdoclet as perfectly fine ways of writing software.
by ben_w | 2026-01-06 23:28:45+00:00
> Is 'warfighting adversaries' some convoluted code for allowing Aurornis to 'see a 1337x in productivity'?

Much as I despair at the current developments in the USA, and I say this as a sexual minority and a European, this is not "tools of the oppressor" in their own words.

Trump is extremely blunt about who he wants to oppress. So is Musk.

"Support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries" is not blunt, it is the minimum baseline for any nation with assets anyone else might want to annex, which is basically anywhere except Nauru, North Sentinel Island, and Bir Tawil.
by tptacek | 2026-01-06 23:28:56+00:00
I agree with you about scanners (we banned them at Matasano), but not about the ceiling for agents. Having written agent loops for somewhat similar "surface and contextualize hypotheses from large volumes of telemetry" problems, and, of course, having delivered hundreds of application pentests: I think 80-90% of all the findings in a web pentest report, and functionally all of the findings in a netpen report, are within 12-18 months reach of agent developers.
by AnnKey | 2026-01-06 23:29:11+00:00
Hi eterm, this is very relevant to me as I'm building a self-hosted open-source tool for legacy code comprehension (AI/ML final project).

You mentioned "navigation and babysitting", could you share what that looks like in practice? Do you have to spend time reconstructing context or correcting Claude's misunderstandings? Do you still need to interrupt colleagues for some tacit knowledge, or has that changed?
by tzs | 2026-01-06 23:29:15+00:00
Let me clarify. When I said I'm going to buy it anyway I didn't necessarily mean at that time. There are many things that are in the "do not need to go out and buy it now but I do need to buy it in the near future" category.

I would normally get those at the store I normally buy that kind of thing when I'm there to get other things. E.g., most groceries come from the big Walmart Supercenter near my house. If I get a flyer in the mail from the Safeway that is on the other side of town, and see they have a good sale price on one of those things, I might stop by that Safeway when I'm in that part of town on other business and get it.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-06 23:30:32+00:00
FWIW, Gas Town is strange because Steve is strange (in a good way).

It's just the same agent swarm orchestration that most agent frameworks are using, but with quirky marketing. All of that is just based on the SDLC [PM/Architect -> engineer planning group -> engineer -> review -> qa/evaluation] loop most people here should be familiar with. So actually pretty banal, which is probably part of the reason Steve decided to be zany.
by rbanffy | 2026-01-06 23:30:33+00:00
> not games, desktops, web/db servers, lightweight stuff like that.

Things like games, desktops, browsers, and such were designed for computers with a handful of cores, but the core count will only go up on these devices - a very pedestrian desktop these days has more than 8 cores.

If you want to make software that’ll run well enough 10 years from now, you’d better start using computers from 10 years from now. A 256 core chip might be just that.
by godelski | 2026-01-06 23:30:51+00:00
Just trying to help given that you responded. I'm happy to help you find solutions but the constraints might be too much, unfortunately. If you don't have a machine that can run local AI and don't have the funds to buy one then frankly it just isn't in the cards. But hey, if you don't want to use AI or at least willing to use non-local then the setup probably doesn't require you to spend a dime.
by stong1 | 2026-01-06 23:31:13+00:00
Well said. To expand on what you wrote, I like to think of there being three components (axes) to activities: fun, value, and meaning.

Fun is you enjoy doing it. Playing video games and watching TV is fun.

Valuable is it makes money. Importantly, it's what other people are willing to pay you money for, not what you think is important or even good.

Meaningful is it's spiritually enriching. These are things you would regret not doing on your deathbed. Spending time with your family or going to church are common examples of things that are meaningful to people (and potentially fun). This one is defined based on one's internal compass and varies significantly from person to person.

You can come up with activities that are pure fun, value, or meaning. Measuring activities against these three axes has been a valuable mental model for my time management and life design.

There's jobs that are fun and meaningful, but don't pay much. This is like charity work or passion tax industries such as game dev, music, or art.

There's also jobs that are fun and valuable, but are meaningless. Working at a trading firm/hedge fund is a common example (though some people may find that it's all three or only one). Another example is being a successful startup founder working on the wrong problem.

Finally, there are jobs that are valuable and meaningful, but maybe not all that fun. To me, this is what being a startup founder (working on the right problems) or how I imagine a professional athlete is like.

The grand slam would be having all three, but in my experience these are exceptionally rare. If it's fun and meaningful, everyone wants to do it, and supply and demand pushes the value down. Most of these cases are due to unusual personalities that let one find fun or meaning in activities others don't. This ties into the common startup advice of paying attention to "founder-problem fit" and "what are your unfair advantages".