MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nephihaha | 2026-01-23 03:47:38+00:00
It already did a few years ago and issued contradictory advice based on its Event 201 tabletop exercise in October 2019, which was implemented six months later. (Such as suggesting international commercial flights continue during a pandemic, while saying time outdoors should be limited.)

It has spent the entire 2020s trying to push through a global treaty allowing them to declare situations independently of national governments. The backlash has been huge, especially since this can have consequences going beyond healthcare.
by Shank | 2026-01-23 03:47:38+00:00
> You buy SaaS and you have to then login, share credit card info, and have your data stored in the cloud somewhere with godknows what security practices

I'm speaking more about fake SaaS "we have an app and we charge monthly for it and license it." Obviously, a tool with cloud-based storage and sharing will be a different beast.

But do you trust a vibe coded app to do cloud-based storage and sharing better than a company or an indie developer? If you need these functions (like sharing a todo list between two users), you have a lot more concerns than "does it boot".
by pinnochio | 2026-01-23 03:47:46+00:00
I'm enjoying the discussion of Charlie Brown, but while Peanuts is indeed an American pop cultural institution, I never really thought of CB as a 'hero', or even really a protagonist.

While there were cartoons where he's the protagonist (I recently watched A Charlie Brown Christmas), his main medium is the comic strips, and Peanuts generally didn't tell a continuous story (if at all), unlike, say, the superhero comic strips. Instead, they're little vignettes of life, and like most serial comic strips, you're meant to relate to them, get a nugget of wisdom or insight, or a chuckle. We mostly read them as kids who were bored and wanted something like a cartoon until Saturday came around (I realize adults read them, too, but today that seems rare, almost unimaginable to me now). So I'm not sure Charlie Brown really counts as a counterexample, here.

Even the cartoons are not so beloved that they're widely rewatched by adults for their storytelling. People have nostalgia for them because they're something they watched as children. This is the main reason I watched A Charlie Brown Christmas recently, and it's kind of a mostly sad story with a weird resolution. Thanksgiving was practically unwatchable. The Garfield cartoons also do not hold up, imo.
by dfxm12 | 2026-01-23 03:48:12+00:00
I don't think it's bad that our elected officials tell us what they're doing. Yeah, it sucks when they're doing heinous shit like Trump, but it's awesome that Zohran Mamdani is doing what he can to tell New Yorkers about all the great stuff he's doing, whether it's fixing bike routes, funding universal child care, or undoing the corruption of the previous admin.

It's bad that Biden was silent. This enabled the mainstream media, which is captured by conservative oligarchs, to define Biden's presidency. There's going to be an onslaught of news either way, and it's already an uphill battle for anyone who isn't right wing to get a fair shake. So, you shouldn't let others make the news for you. Biden expanded overtime pay and oversaw a number of worker and consumer protections. It's bad that he wasn't tooting his own horn about this stuff!

Additionally, for America to ever return to being the shining example of democracy it claims to be, the next administration needs to very publicly make an example of the current administration. Americans, and the world, need to know that authoritarians have no place in America.
by misir | 2026-01-23 03:49:54+00:00
JerBrains does something similar (after paying for a year I get perpetual license for the version released that year). I’m pretty happy and feel under control. I have been paying them for years now and in case they screw up I will stop my subscription and still can download and use old version. Sure I will be missing on some bug fixes but I have used the software for a year already, I can live with those annoyances. It’s not like the new version will be all bug free either.
by _kb | 2026-01-23 03:50:10+00:00
> It is possible to use the language server for syntax highlighting. I am not aware of any particularly strong reasons why one would want to (or not want to) do this.

This is an area where TS excels. It also supports nesting of different languages so a query can inject other languages [0] and compose different parsers.

As an example, this can be a straight forward as a simple comment parser [1], jsdoc [2], regex [3] etc. Or in more complex cases various DSLs. Each of these can then define their own injections too. When working with CI pipelines in particular it transforms an opaque wall of YAML into slightly more manageable CST which is incredible useful for both humans (syntax highlighting) and any machine parsing you may want to do.

[0]: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/3-syntax-highlight...

[1]: https://github.com/stsewd/tree-sitter-comment

[2]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-jsdoc

[3]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-regex
by ncr100 | 2026-01-23 03:50:32+00:00
YES Typing is a horror show (perhaps only for me as I don't daily-drive and iphone but only have an ipad for home usage which may "under-train" me to The Way).

Text selection is cute, with the magnifying lens. It seems like this should work. Though the rest of the process is unpredictable and The Bad Kind Of Magic: Nick turns self into toad, poof!

REFERENCE - from the site:

* "iOS Text Selection is Pure Chaos"

* You just wanted to move the cursor. Now everything is selected.

* You want to position the cursor at the end of a line. You tap. It selects the last word. You try to grab the handle — it doesn't respond and deselects. You tap again, now it selects the whole sentence. You tap blank space to deselect — nothing. You tap five more times. On the fifth, it selects all. You switch apps hoping the selection disappears. You tap and hold — sometimes text selects, sometimes a menu appears, sometimes nothing. Got a Magic Keyboard? Good luck — trackpad selection just doesn't work half the time, but touching the screen does. Eventually you select all, delete everything, and retype from scratch. Apple has had 17 years to figure out touch text selection. This is where they landed.
by arjunbajaj | 2026-01-23 03:50:37+00:00
What I understood from this is that LinkedIn and Email outreach are quite effective for leads. 1-on-1 conversations and the obsessive focus on solving problems different customers face do feel the right way to go about sales.

We just launched Fostrom [1], an IoT Cloud Platform designed for developers. I was wondering what else have others found effective in this space to do sales and outreach?

[1] https://fostrom.io
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-23 03:50:46+00:00
1. What does nationalism and authoritarianism have to do with anything? By gratuitously sticking these words into your argument you undermine your credibility as a neutral commentator.

2. Even if they didn't push it, the west has been stealing ("appropriating" in liberal speak) Ayurvedic remedies for years. Take turmeric for example. The GoI had to sue to keep turmeric patent free.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-23 03:51:01+00:00
I suspect they might be using voice lines from Chinese gacha games in addition to what clearly sound like VTubers, YouTubers, and Chinese TV documentary narrations. Those games all come with clean monaural CN/JP/EN files consistent in contents across language for all regions, for, an obvious[1] reason.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/ZenlessZoneZero/comments/1gqmtl1/th...
by retsibsi | 2026-01-23 03:51:22+00:00
> "Value" here is obviously subjective relative to the beholder

Agreed, but the confusing part is that you don't seem to be saying "to me, those services only provide X amount of value, and I'd rather have $Y than that" -- you seem to be saying that if 1password and Fastmail were more expensive, you might be willing to pay the asking price for some of those services you currently consider bad value.
by sxyuan | 2026-01-23 03:51:31+00:00
Not downvoting, but boy is this off the mark. America was the only country to invoke Article 5 of NATO. America has benefited greatly from brain drain, what you call "funding the world's research". Pharma is something like the 7th or 8th largest export for the US.

Military misadventures in the Middle East, trickle up economics, prioritizing corporate profits over things like low cost healthcare, good jobs, or a solid industrial base... These are all products of American culture and politics, not imposed by any other country.
by doodlesdev | 2026-01-23 03:52:24+00:00
SQLite is public-domain software and one of the best well-maintained pieces of software around today. You absolutely have to be very careful before saying things like these, as they bring lots of implications. I wouldn't call it offensive _per se_, but I'd say it's in bad faith at least. I'd just remove that if I were the devs, because everything else there makes me find the project at least interesting.
by jama211 | 2026-01-23 03:54:07+00:00
Yup, and no matter how flimsy an anti-ai article is, it will skyrocket to the top of HN because of it. It makes sense though, HN users are the most likely to feel threatened by LLMs, and therefore are more likely to be anxious about them.

I don’t love ai either, but that’s the truth.
by malshe | 2026-01-23 03:54:18+00:00
I am facing this issue right now. I need to create a separate developer account because I am risk averse. Do I need a new phone number for this? Online some people say yes, others say no. I tried creating the account several times but it just doesn't work. At this point I am planning to just get a prepaid SIM card from US Mobile for the phone number.
by hibikir | 2026-01-23 03:55:17+00:00
A very big percentage of credit card expenses in the US come from cards with rewards programs, so you get money/gift cards/travel discounts in exchange for using the credit card instead of the debit card. A lot of this is funded from much higher interchange fees: It's ultimately the merchant you buy from funding most of the rewards. Since those very high fees are nowadays illegal in the EU, European credit cards cannot have this kind of generosity, and incentives are very different.
by fulafel | 2026-01-23 03:56:47+00:00
I think those all have reasonable counterarguments:

(1) This sounds brittle. Are you really going to have a good mental model about what's secret when using ssh and refrain from typing those things? Seems to kinda defeat the idea of securing the channel.

(2) There isn't a reason to think this is a difficult attack that only a powerful adversary could mount. Seems like a college lab level thing to me. And very amenable to AI help as well.

(3) Saving 100x bandwidth on single keystrokes on an internet dominated by video traffic just because it's 100x doesn't make sense. And you should try to cultivate a mindset that steers you away from making compromises against security in this kind of context.
by jahsome | 2026-01-23 03:57:56+00:00
I get your point, but that just doesn't work for me.

When I'm not being conscious, I tend to be pretty negative or sarcastic and even trend towards passive aggressive. I've found it to be rather damaging for a number of reasons.

I find when I choose kindness, not only is it more effective at accomplishing my goals, but I am happier and I set a better example for those around me. I find the kinder I respond ESPECIALLY in situations where it feels undeserved, the more positive impact it has.

To put it in more cliche terms, I want the world to be a kinder place, and I am trying to be the change I seek.

So yeah, personally I think it's a bad thing.
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by Saurabh_Kumar_ | 2026-01-23 03:58:07+00:00
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by deaux | 2026-01-23 03:58:31+00:00
Didn't have a good experience with them. One day we suddenly started to experience severe latency spikes, lasting for more than a day, causing timeouts. Unrelated to our DB which was small, even happened on trivial queries - a networking thing on their side. Google showed this to have happened before with certain regions of theirs. If you can't offer a certain region in a stable manner as a DB vendor, don't offer it. The whole point of outsourcing DB mangement is to take care of these things.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-01-23 03:58:32+00:00
I feel as though this analysis only makes sense in hindsight; in the past, when people used to say using books as a way to store knowledge outside your brain would make a similar argument, but would add a fourth pillar of memorization. Even now, a lot of people in different professions (such as law, and medicine) still absolutely drill memorization as the first step in building a strong knowledge base before getting into more practical, day-to-day used information. When people are forced to memorize a large amount of things in a cohesive subject, it forces your brain to make connections between ideas out of necessity to keep the information in your head. This definitely has an effect on metacognition and practice. So I wouldn't argree with you that the analogy with books=brain rot isn't valid.
I accidentally made probabilistic programming 30-200x faster
by Aeowulf | 2026-01-23 03:58:59+00:00
I'm a web dev contractor who stumbled onto GPU-native probabilistic programming while working on an unrelated hobby project.

By "GPU-native" I mean the entire inference algorithm runs inside GPU kernels with no CPU coordination - no Python overhead, no kernel launch latency between steps.

I benchmarked against NumPyro, JAX, and GPyTorch on 15 different inference algorithms. I don't have a statistics background, but I tried my best to track the quality metrics that experts care about.

My R-hat values are 0.9999-1.0003 (should be ~1.0), and ESS/second is up to 600x better on HMC. Some quality metrics favor the baseline implementations - I'm not claiming this beats everything on every dimension, just that it's significantly faster with comparable quality.

Tested on an RTX 4060 Laptop GPU.
Full benchmark results:
https://github.com/Aeowulf/nativeppl-results

Not sharing implementation details yet as I'm still figuring out what to make of this discovery. But I'd appreciate feedback on:

- Are these benchmarks meaningful/fair?

- What other algorithms or problem sizes should I test?

- Is there a market for faster probabilistic inference?
by vl | 2026-01-23 03:59:42+00:00
Yes, on some credit cards it's actual 2% cash - Apple Credit Card, Fidelity.

Amazon gives you 5% back for using their credit card, it's criminal not to use it.

If you buy a lot of equipment or expensive equipment - B&H credit card covers sales tax! I.e. 10% for my area! (I don't use it since I don't buy that much, but still it's an option)
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-23 03:59:59+00:00
Maybe I'm confused at what you mean, but I don't think there's a huge difference. Loading code is a dangerous action. VS Code is doing exactly what the video is talking about: it gives you a big popup window before doing a dangerous action (that could violate your privacy, that could be malware, that could do things you don't expect).

We want to load code in Turing complete languages. We want complex build tools and test harnesses to load "just so", and those too are generally Turing complete and configured and written in Turing complete languages. Parsing code in a Turing complete language takes another Turing complete language, generally. (Most languages are self-hosted so parsing the code is an action in that same language.)

One of the most dangerous actions we know of is an ancient and inescapable "bug" in all Turing complete work: the Halting Problem. We cannot mathematically prove any program will complete nor when it will complete, without running it and waiting for it to complete, if it completes. Infinite loops are both the power granted to us by our tools and the potential downfall of them all, our responsibility to deal with them is in our hands and math can't help us enough.

Loading code is a dangerous action. VS Code is doing the right thing in how it is handling it. It's not the best user experience and clearly not enough users understand the dangers inherent in "do you really want to run all your extensions in this folder?" in precisely the same way that people better understand "Do you want this application to have access to your precise location?" is a threat (that apps do take advantage; in both cases).
by user3939382 | 2026-01-23 04:00:55+00:00
> IPv6 is not an implementation by itself.

I’m not sure what you mean by this. In other words, there is code that is specifically written for ipv6 handling which in some cases isn’t tested as thoroughly as ipv4. Less of an issue as ipv6 adoption grows but it’s non zero. I don’t like the address format, I prefer NAT by default, routing by prefix, like everything ipv6 offers I don’t feel comfortable with even without that. But it’s the most technical reason I don’t like it, the rest is a personal/vibes thing.
by InMice | 2026-01-23 04:01:54+00:00
i accidently logged in from my browser that is set to use a socks proxy instead of chrome which i dont set to a proxy and was otherwise using claude code with. they quickly banned me and refunded my subscription. i dont know if its worth it to try to appeal. does a human even read those appeals? figured i could just use cursor and gemini models with api pricing. but im sad to not be able to try claude code i had just signed up.
by throwerxyz | 2026-01-23 04:02:00+00:00
It's annoying because you are used to bad UX.

Pressing the card should use that card and start the payment. The change payment method should let you choose a different card. This is the objective logical UX.

The fact that it doesn't pay with that card and instead you have to magically click an invisible button is the worst part about that UX. The way you want it is just as bad if not worse.
by Dagger2 | 2026-01-23 04:02:32+00:00
Well no, it's purely a property of the fact that the packet is addressed to the router.

If the packet is addressed to a machine on the LAN, neither RPF or NAT will protect you from it. "The Internet won't route to private IPs" only protects you if you have private IPs on the LAN, and even then it only protects you from people who can't get access to the network on your WAN interface.

Any way you dice it, NAT isn't providing any protection.
by mindslight | 2026-01-23 04:03:27+00:00
lol. I'm well aware of those legal details - lookback period, intestate succession, etc. The situation is so far from properly planned, but I've made my peace with it. I've at least got a signed healthcare proxy though!

One piece of advice of my own that I will throw out is to act quickly after someone's spouse dies to get them to sign the appropriate papers and get those details in order. Otherwise as the depression settles in they tend to "clam up" shortly thereafter and become extremely negative on doing anything like that. If you're an honest person you might feel bad doing this, like you're picking the bones of the dead, but just get over it and do what's best for everyone - dishonest people will have no such reservations.

(thank you for throwing out the advice in case I didn't know, though!)
by keepamovin | 2026-01-23 04:04:52+00:00
Totally this. But the corp labs have incentives to keep researching per investors and staffing load, so they have to show work.

I guess a nice advantage of backwardness here is that economic opportunities exist for those who can solve pain points in the use of existing intel. Older models often do almost as well at agentic tasks in reality, can probably go further.

Still, AGI should remove a lot of this making it redundant, and it will then be more about the intel than the tooling. But an opportunity exists now. We may not have widespread AGI until 8 - 10 years later, so plenty of money to be made in the meantime.
by ezimedia | 2026-01-23 04:04:52+00:00
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by keepamovin | 2026-01-23 04:06:33+00:00
hunter that's why your licensing is super important. If you don't lock it down you are doing free R&D for giant firms who have the money to make you, but will just rip you off if they can. I speak from extensive OSS experience. The feelgood of giving away wears off, make the right choices with regard to IP and you can capture the value you are creating for people who use it.
by literallywho | 2026-01-23 04:07:03+00:00
Pretty sure it's been over 20 years. I actually wonder what makes Ubisoft so committed to the project. Even Michel Ancel himself left in 2020. I'd love to see those original 2008 builds of the game, they had to have made TONS of content over the years that just remains locked away on some file server forever.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-23 04:07:09+00:00
It has been fascinating watching the cargo cult fall progressively deeper into AI psychosis. The amount of fanfare and marketing around different ways of writing text files is impressive. Still no amazing real-world software that anybody actually uses made by vibe coding, but boy are there options for writing .md files. Just a couple of years ago, I never could've imagined how far .md-writing technology would've advanced. The future is now.
by rajkumar14 | 2026-01-23 04:07:13+00:00
Upon further research I found OpenHTF (https://github.com/google/openhtf) which is opensource. And, if you don't want to spin up your own dashboard, there's tofupilot (https://www.tofupilot.com/) but this is paid and not affiliated with google. Note, tofupilot maintains the documentation for OpenHTF (https://www.openhtf.org/)
by falkensmaize | 2026-01-23 04:08:09+00:00
“Anti-AI extremism”? Seriously?

Where does this bizarre impulse to dogmatically defend LLM output come from? I don’t understand it.

If AI is a reliable and quality tool, that will become evident without the need to defend it - it’s got billions (trillions?) of dollars backstopping it. The skeptical pushback is WAY more important right now than the optimistic embrace.
by bsder | 2026-01-23 04:08:29+00:00
> from sports i know (hockey), generally the next generational player is identified when they're like 12-13 years old (earlier for Gretzky).

Yeah, I'm really unconvinced by the paper.

1) Adult chess GMs all come from super advanced kids, now. Period. GM Ben Finegold talks about this at length.

2) We know that, for example, hockey success is correlated with birth month. This means that juniors who happen to be slightly larger and promising get more attention and coaching and so wind up being the world class adults, too.

I could be more convinced by academics and music that you need multi-disciplinary education to be world class, but I'd need to see a lot more evidence.

Nevertheless, the single thing I extract from my anecdata is that being top ten in a world class field requires a dedication bordering on psychotic mania. You have to be willing to not just go the extra mile but the mile beyond that and beyond that and ...

Most people are completely put out by the minimal amount of effort to get to the top 1% so they would be stunned by the amount of work you have to put in to get to top 10.