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by robrain | 2026-01-06 00:53:03+00:00
Hey, let's see if I can get downvoted a bit more for being downbeat about this.

Here's BD's latest promo: https://youtu.be/sd8ivhpjI6g?si=HoTDWpPxXFc3H7xc, issued two hours ago.

Nobody else getting "scene-setting advert from dystopian movie" vibes about this whole thing? You know "nobody could have imagined, in 2026, that the Atlases would take over the world. We'd let them look after our children, service our cars and teach us foreign languages. But then the hallucinations started, the profit margins weren't wide enough so the remaining controls were removed and slowly word of the 'accidents' emerged."

Just me?
by gwern | 2026-01-06 00:53:16+00:00
Could you explain why you think that? I'm looking at the lottery ticket section and it seems like he doesn't disown it; the reason he gives, via Abhinav, for not pursuing it at his commercial job is just that that kind of sparsity is not hardware friendly (except with Cerebras). "It doesn't provide a speedup for normal commercial workloads on normal commercial GPUs and that's why I'm not following it up at my commercial job" seems pretty far from "disowning the lottery ticket hypothesis [as wrong or false]".
by cjblomqvist | 2026-01-06 00:53:31+00:00
A good leader/manager will most likely leave the decision up to the team. A bad team will make the wrong decision and probably blame the leader/manager. The main problem here is the performance of the team - but maybe more importantly the lack of ownership of the team (blaming the boss).

A bad manager/boss pressuring the team to make the wrong decisions - yes, in that scenario the main problem is the boss.

Unfortunately, in my experience, there's often talk about one situation without the other (at least portrayed as the only one). Many times it feels like it's too divert blame and guilt, and to defend what is really the opposite situation. Really makes discussing this topic more toxic and a lot less valuable - much more interesting to discuss the nuances!
by xrd | 2026-01-06 00:53:48+00:00
Why can't you use an issue tracker that is built into the git control, like forgejo? It feels like it would be easy to use this with an API key, out or direct database access (I'm doing both with agents). If you self host, you've got a very standard and reliable issue tracker. Why does beads need to exist? What can't an agent do with that setup I've described above?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-06 00:53:52+00:00
> Let's say Trump decides it's fuck-around-with-Islamabad-o'clock. He fucks around. Pakistan nukes at India. How many of those Senate seats flip as a result? I'm going to guess none.

If America does something to pakistan, then pakistan wouldn't bomb India but rather America

In your scenario India did literally nothing. I know the rivalry but even then India has its own nukes and if India wasn't part of the plan then case would be on America

A much more likely scenario is that Pakistan's military would take over (Pakistan has never been really stable after its independence) and their ties with china would grow and China would feel threatened as well and if things go the same as venezuela that is that Trump says that they would control pakistan for time being (similar to venezuela) then China would be genuinely pissed and a WW3 conflict can arise considering China could send their military there and the possibility of nuke could be a choice if the war really happens between America/China but the possibility of it is really really slim and depends on how the war goes.
by tim333 | 2026-01-06 00:53:56+00:00
It was from Altman's blog:

> We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it. We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies...

"materially change the output of companies" seems fairly defined and didn't happen in most cases. I guess some kicked out more slop but I don't think that's what he meant.
by trhway | 2026-01-06 00:54:31+00:00
i don't see them mentioning of price and C-rating. Suppose their C-rating is sufficient. Current widely available cheap batteries are almost 300Wh/kg. So, on a 3 kg drone with up to 3 kg payload (say RPG-7 single shaped charge warhead) with say 30 min flight time the new battery will give you 10 min additional flight time. At what price? If the price results in having only one 40 min drone instead of 2 30 min drones, then in the current war, only say 10% drones would need to be with new batteries, while it would be most effective to have the rest with the old batteries as the current war seems to be about horizontal scaling.

Overall - their page sounds like a revolution in battery industry as they hit all the points - durability, capacity/weight, etc. It is like Mask should just close his GigaFactory. I mean, i would like such a revolutionary development as in particular it would mean we'll soon get personal VTOLs ...
by cebert | 2026-01-06 00:54:48+00:00
> At the end of the day, the best option is to use an attorney who would at least run the risk of professional consequences for submitting false claims.

What if folks signed their work with a private PGP key and published their public key? If you wanted to submit a DMCA request, simply sign a message to prove you’re the content owner. It seems like that could work.
by lubujackson | 2026-01-06 00:54:55+00:00
There is a demographic element to this. Right about now we are at peak enrollment/competitiveness for colleges based on the number of total students in the country. That number will steadily decline from here, which will combined with the declining sentiment of students and the job market will likely result in some major shakeups (colleges failing) over the next decade or so.

Everyone wants to look at sentiment and enrollment numbers alone, but the demographic outlook is a huge factor in all of this.
by hboon | 2026-01-06 00:54:56+00:00
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by NikolaNovak | 2026-01-06 00:55:09+00:00
Can you elaborate?

My thoughts:

* Typically, payment issues like this are at small scales - not a massive enterprise website for a multinational corporation, but a small businesses that need web presence.

* In such cases, scope management is key. Client typically underestimates the work required, so education and clear expectations are both a must and an uphill battle

* Anything that expands the scope without clear requirements tracing, risks derailing. Adding "tokens" and crypto, not just as a smart contract between web developer and business users, but with all the customers and users, seems like a huge expansion of scope, and likely orthogonal to the limited "web presence / small eCommerce" requirements

* Meanwhile, the traditional/boring commerce and law have this covered - a little bit of work ahead of time by the web developer to draft and sign appropriate contract / payment terms (which can and should be standardized once for all clients), can provide appropriate safety guardrails; in particular, far less overhead than building a whole new (possibly unbilled?) crypto/token facilities.

What are your thoughts on A/B comparison here?

Thanks for your time!
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-06 00:55:18+00:00
Very, if only because you'd have said I'm not sure how impressed I should be about saving 4.5 MB these days not all that long ago. Remember when emacs was backronymised to 'eight megabytes and constantly swapping'? That was also not all that long ago. Now 8 megabytes is what some pissant JS library takes as part of some miserable npm package used to bellyflop an ad into your browser window.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-06 00:55:22+00:00
"Kinda sucks" is putting it lightly.

It hugely sucks because things like fridges and stoves often need to fit the dedicated space in a kitchen exactly. The chances that your previous apartment and new apartment fit the same size appliances is virtually nil.

This is why it makes sense for them to just be part of the apartment.

I don't know what you mean by "mistreatment" -- anything in an apartment can be mistreated I suppose, it's not specific to appliances. If you damage anything, that comes out of your deposit. But I'm not really sure what there is specifically to damage about fridges and stoves? They get dirty and you can clean them. They don't generally require any super-special treatment.
by TheDong | 2026-01-06 00:55:25+00:00
Rust crates run arbitrary code more often at build/install time than npm packages do.

Some people use 'pnpm', which only runs installScripts for a whitelisted subset of packages, so an appreciable fraction of the npm ecosystem (those that don't use npm or yarn, but pnpm) do not run scripts by default.

Cargo compiles and runs `build.rs` for all dependencies, and there's no real alternative which doesn't.
by lil-kernel | 2026-01-06 00:57:22+00:00
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by emmelaich | 2026-01-06 00:57:23+00:00
I see a future where some humanoid robot mows the lawn, picks up trash, puts the bins outside weekly, vacuums the house, loads the dishwasher, does the clothes washing. While not actively doing those things, it will plug itself in and be passive security.

They will need help doing the finer control things, and they won't do everything. But definitely useful enough, especially for older folk.
by christophilus | 2026-01-06 00:57:43+00:00
Simple Made Easy is one of my favorites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4&pp=ygUQc2ltcGxlIG1...

The Normalization of Deviance is another: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o&pp=ygUZbm9ybWFsaXp...
by gdown | 2026-01-06 00:57:45+00:00
While the original announcement just said ipx8, the chart at https://repebble.com/watch says the target for both watches will be 30 meters (search for "30m"). (note: even though the duo is rated for 20m, they've said specifically not to dive with them: https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-2-duo-is-in-mass-production)
by delichon | 2026-01-06 00:57:49+00:00
The high end of the range of death estimates by the two atomic bombs is around 246,000. The estimated range of US military deaths from an invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall) was 250,000 to 1,000,000, and another 5 to 10 million Japanese. Dropping nukes was both barbaric and the more civilized option.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-06 00:57:50+00:00
> However, shipping these devices with ADB turned on creates a security nightmare because in this state they constantly listen for and accept unauthenticated connection requests.

I'm confused. I intentionally use ADB over the network sometimes, and I have to explicitly interactively allow each adb client by its key. Are they shipping boxes with adb configured to just allow any connection without any verification?
by tracker1 | 2026-01-06 00:59:23+00:00
This was already the direction for studios though... Improvements to CGI and vault filming have cut costs dramatically relying on tech.

The clip mentioned likely took a few green screen segments, a lot of training data and many tries to get the clips needed for that sohrt story. B it's a lot more work at current state of the tech than just entering a single prompt.
by peteforde | 2026-01-06 00:59:31+00:00
It's freaking wild that the folks suggesting web development has gotten simpler are also talking about baking React "into the stack" with a straight face.

I don't know what planet y'all are living on, but React is most emblematic of the layers upon layers of BS that people have to deal with today that simply were not an issue 20 years ago.
by tyg13 | 2026-01-06 00:59:39+00:00
Eh, I got a cheap degree from a public school (URI), albeit in Mathematics and not Comp Sci and it hasn't stopped me getting good tech jobs over the last decade or so. I'm currently working at a FAANG. Maybe I'm just extra hard-working, smart, or lucky? Or maybe your pedigree isn't as big a deal as it once was? Hard to say from my N=1 data point.
by actionfromafar | 2026-01-06 01:00:00+00:00
A limitation with character terminals is you need the remote end to be real-responsive at all times and that latency is a real killer.

With a 3270 if the mainframe takes a second to give you the next form, that's not a UX problem. If your character terminal takes a second per keypress, that's very painful and l a g g y.
by SnowingXIV | 2026-01-06 01:00:22+00:00
Have you tried using vim? Or rather nvim? If tinkering is your thing, feel free to completely do your own setup but out of the box lazyvim is pretty sane and you may not need much to get it to your liking.

But it’s very nice to easily able to extend or modify to fit your workflow. I’m just curious what people are getting out of zed that seems like vim has available.
by defrost | 2026-01-06 01:00:23+00:00
More accurately;

Because the Bible is not a single book but a complex arrangement of at least 66 books (Roman Catholic Bibles include another seven books that Protestants do not recognize) written over many years by multiple authors, the question concerning versions can be complicated.

One major division is stems from Old Testament versions; Roman Catholic Bibles are all derived from the Septuagint version (3rd Century BC translation of original Hebrew scriptures into Koine Greek) of the Old Testament, whereas Protestant Bibles returned to the original Hebrew texts.

There are over 450 known versions of the Bible in English alone.

While there are estimates of several thousand distinct christian dennominations, the *major* categories are Catholic (50.1%), Protestant (36.7%), Orthodox, including Eastern and Oriental communions (11.9%), Other (1.30%).

One Christian blog walks through "just" 46 Christian denominations while throwing out an estimate of some 45,000 distinct variations: https://www.bartehrman.com/christian-denominations/

I don't mean to nitpick, I grew up in one of the last "remote areas" of the planet and we were inundated with missionaries (when listed (now not) we had at least a hundred different types of christian mission here) that all had beliefs that only superficially appeared similar.

One wing of my larger extended family is fractured by a run of Christian brothers and sisters all raised catholic, all with military service, and all progressing to different barely compatible denominations and scarcely talking since.

> No such work exists for "secularists".

Secularists also have at least 66 books to draw on for morals, ethics, and common human values. It's debatable whether a book is even required to act with cooperation and respect with most others.
by sjy | 2026-01-06 01:01:10+00:00
No counterparts worldwide? Here in Australia, all significant case law has been published on AustLII, which is freely accessible and searchable, since about 2000. I think CanLII and NZLII are equally comprehensive. Government law publishers provide free and authoritative access to all statutes. Lexis and Westlaw still make money by publishing commentary and summaries, but paywalled primary sources are an American problem.
by JohnMakin | 2026-01-06 01:01:19+00:00
> People need to be told when their ideas are wrong, if they like it or not.

This is one of those societal type of problems rather than a technological one. I waffle on the degree of responsibility technology should have (especially privately owned ones) in trying to correct societal wrongs. There is definitely a line somewhere, I just don’t pretend to know where it is. You can definitely go too far one way or another - look at social media for an example
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-01-06 01:01:38+00:00
What is absolutely shocking isn't that we have a weird drug that finally makes you stop consuming too many calories. What isn't shocking isn't that you eventually lose weight by eating much less. What is absolutely shocking is that people are using it correctly; existing with heavy obesity can finally return to being a somewhat obscene life choice and not a cruel fate of luck.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-06 01:01:45+00:00
They're becoming much more common -- most new apartment buildings since the mid-2010's stack a washer and dryer vertically in a dedicated closet. Less to do with "higher end" and more to do just with designing for it (e.g. washer water hookup, dryer gas and ventilation hookup, and dedicated closet).

In many buildings, the cheaper in-unit machines don't wind up being any more expensive to the landlord than the much more expensive heavy-duty machines in a dedicated area over the long run.
by steele | 2026-01-06 01:01:51+00:00
Seems like you had some valid gripes then closed the door behind you complaining that no one else has a perspective. Notwithstanding, the good news is that there wasn't successful deplatforming of the video (no idea if there was a takedown request). There's room to discuss Mark Kelly's service bonafides, whether or not there was precedent, potential copycat petty tyrants, the attention management away from other outstanding scandals, and that this is yet another international embarrassment published by state media of an ally. But it's not a web framework clone nor a dusty, naval gazing essay by pre-cryptofascism pg so off to oblivion goes this post.
by nahsiz | 2026-01-06 01:02:46+00:00
claude code can now call you on the phone

/call "let's talk through the architecture"

phone rings. claude already knows:
• what you were just working on
• your git status & recent commits
• files you've been touching
• your todos

mid-call it can read files and search your code

every call saved as a transcript, built it as a claude code skill and open sourced
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-06 01:03:09+00:00
wait whose a16z. Can you provide me more context about it?

Also what was written in that comment if you can tell and why it died?

Another quick question but is there no storage of flag/died posts on hackernews? Seems like its possible with things like https://hn.live/ or I saw some other website like this as well. Perhaps, something like this can store flag/dead posts but I am not really sure if it has any use case but I am just curious what was written in that post.
by moomoo11 | 2026-01-06 01:03:45+00:00
I'm just giving my opinion from what I see. In no way did I "slur" and my point isn't about YC but the founders..

you raise a valid point about survivorship bias I guess, but as of the last few years it seems a lot of rage bait and do anything to get signal instead of the positive optimism that I felt a lot of the companies offered those years ago. i guess what i'm trying to say is that it has become the final version of itself as a venture firm, whereas before it was quirky (again, I am outsider!! so this is my POV) and backed companies that made products/services that I think made my life objectively better.

end of the day, I really like YC and think they do a good thing overall. but I think people/founders have realized how to game it, if that makes sense.
by nkrisc | 2026-01-06 01:07:40+00:00
Theoretically couldn’t you send each client its data after performing occlusion culling based on each one’s camera?

Don’t some competitive games more or less already do this? Not sending player A’s position to player B if the server determines player A is occluded from player B?

I seem to recall a blog post about Apex Legenda dealing with the issue of “leaker’s advantage” due to this type of culling, unless I’m just totally misremembering the subject.

Regardless, seems like it would work just fine even in 3D for the types of games where everyone has the same view more or less.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-06 01:07:52+00:00
I really struggle to believe that remote desktop is expensive to implement/run. And no, this isn't an improvement: It used to be that everyone used Xorg, so all desktops had largely the same features. There was, for example, a way to set keyboard layout that always worked (setxkbmap), and it always worked. Now there are endless different compositors, and they all have different features. Do you want to try a new option? Good luck finding out if it actually does everything you need! Do you need a particular feature? Well, I sure hope you like one of the specific desktops that supports it, because it's a toss-up which support what.
by stephen_g | 2026-01-06 01:08:46+00:00
You can see them by category on the dashboard here - https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&ali...

It's hard to tell exactly, but if you look at the numbers you can see that, for example, Firefox and Safari don't support WebUSB or APIs for accessing things like the accelerometer or ambient light sensor of the device the browser is running on the device the browser is running on (this is by choice I believe) or things like Scalable Video Coding for WebRTC (rtc-svc).
by userbinator | 2026-01-06 01:09:01+00:00
Fortunately it wasn't a SaaS that shut down.

I would first search keygen/crack archives to see if some famous scene group had already done the needful long ago, although for software as obscure as this, it's less likely. Then again, I've seen some very obscure software ("there's an app for that!?") when browsing those before.
by monocasa | 2026-01-06 01:09:27+00:00
> Not quite.

Actually, exactly. We're specifically talking about the arsenal of the 43rd Rocket Army of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. A force not reorganized until much later to be under the Russian Federation, and the relevant 1990 Budapest Memorandum occurred before the 1991 creation of the CIS.

Rather than a vague "not quite", would you care to elaborate?

> Oh, so there were some wedding contract what stated what in case the parties.. part - there would be the transfer and division of assets? When why Belorussia didn't received their part of the navy? Kazakhstan? Georgia? Baltics, because they surely "were parts of USSR"?

I think a divorce settlement is actually a pretty good model actually. Those other states rankly didn't have the means to keep them, but should have been otherwise compensated for that loss. However, as I described above, Ukraine literally designed and built large portions of these systems as was capable of keeping them.

> That weren't originally what? I know you degraded to just throwing words with your blanket knowledge but again you can find out the fate of the ships the Ukraine used totally legit means to obtain from Russian Federation with a quite short trip to Wikipedia.

I'm dyslexic and accidentally a word while editing. Are you incapable of telling what was meant by context, or where you just looking for a reason not to address the point made?
by mayop100 | 2026-01-06 01:09:48+00:00
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