MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2026-01-24 00:57:58+00:00
If anyone criticizing it was one of the people in histrionics over ChInEse MInD cOnTRoL then those are the people I'm mocking.

Because even if it was true that TikTok was a "CCP weapon of war" - which I have yet to see actual evidence of - that's still less of a threat than the USG and existing Western social media platforms, all of which are definitely full of foreign and domestic psychological operations.

And when that same lot (it's mostly the same people) gets Section 230 repealed and has the US internet regulated by the FCC and all online speech within the Western world gets censored and monitored for wrongthink UK style, I'll mock them again from behind my nine illegal proxies.
by jumploops | 2026-01-24 00:58:15+00:00
I think the delta may be an overloaded use of "turn"? The Responses API does preserve reasoning across multiple "agent turns", but doesn't appear to across multiple "user turns" (as of November, at least).

In either case, the lack of clarity on the Responses API inner-workings isn't great. As a developer, I send all the encrypted reasoning items with the Responses API, and expect them to still matter, not get silently discarded[0]:

> you can choose to include reasoning 1 + 2 + 3 in this request for ease, but we will ignore them and these tokens will not be sent to the model.

[0]https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/openai-cookbook/mai...
by camillomiller | 2026-01-24 00:58:19+00:00
The current Zeitgeist shows that the forces of evil, of greed, of terror and fear, along with populists and fascists, do not need to hide behind a shroud of credibility and social acceptance anymore. They can say the truth out loud, no filters needed.

In this sense, this new home page is perfect. We don’t need to know anything about the successful ideas that ycombinator founded. The top stories-like slider only focuses on how much money where they able to make, and help their investors friends make.

It was always about the absolute God of money of course, innovation is just the best socially-acceptable vessel. And yet now they can just be more brazen and say the quiet part out loud: come join a system where we can use you and your idea to multiply our fortunes. “Your role as useful idiots and lending your face as a force of disruption with zero consideration for the social consequences will be handsomely compensated, if things go well”.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-01-24 00:59:09+00:00
The compiler's job is to program the turing machine for us. It should help as much as possible. For example, I really like using enums because compilers have extensive support for checking that all values have been handled in switch statements.

I don't like it when compilers start getting in the way though. We use C because we want to do raw things like point a structure at some memory area in order to access the data stored there in a structured manner. The compiler's job is to generate the expected code without screwing it up by "optimizing" it beyond recognition because of strict aliasing or some other nonsense.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-24 00:59:11+00:00
I've heard/seen that as well. I've also seen more experienced first-time founders also go straight to angels who have a very strong track record in a specific segment (eg. Elad Gil) because they can provide better terms and mentoring.

A trend that has become worrisome to me (especially with the past few classes) is the "MBA"fication of YC - a large portion of YC founders chose to do YC as a checkbox on their resume. Best case they make the next Pylon or Hightouch. Worse case, they exit and then go to HBS or GSB and become a VC.

There are still plenty of good startups being incubated at YC, and YC's alumni network is formidable, but I do understand the need to burn dry powder.
by daxfohl | 2026-01-24 00:59:16+00:00
I like it but wonder why it seems so slow compared to the chatgpt web interface. I still find myself more productive copying and pasting from chat much of the time. You get virtually instant feedback, and it feels far more natural when you're tossing around ideas, seeing what different approaches look like, trying to understand the details, etc. Going back to codex feels like you're waiting a lot longer for it to do the wrong thing anyway, so the feedback cycle is way slower and more frustrating. Specifically I hate when I ask a question, and it goes and starts editing code, which is pretty frequent. That said, it's great when it works. I just hope that someday it'll be as easy and snappy to chat with as the web interface, but still able to perform local tasks.
by bsza | 2026-01-24 01:00:43+00:00
I think the distinction between "directly" and "indirectly" affecting the world is meaningless. Say you're an Uber driver. What does the actual work? The car. You don't take people from A to B, your car does. You don't burn a thousand calories per mile, your car does.

Yet you get credited for all that work, because a car's ability to move people isn't special compared to your ability to operate it without running people over. Similarly, your ability to buy things from a store isn't special compared to an AI's ability to design a hydroponics farm or fusion reactor or whatever out of those things. Yes, you can do things the AI can't, but on the other hand, your car can do things you can't.

All this talk about "doing things in the physical world" is just another goalpost moving, and a really dumb one at that.
by DauntingPear7 | 2026-01-24 01:01:34+00:00
There is definitely something to be said about bike theft. People see cars as a private space with serious social repercussions for violating. Bikes on the other hand are treated like normal belongings. This may have something to do with car-centric bike hatred and possibly the reflexive/reactionary tendency to completely dismiss the utility of bikes for transit. We have laws dedicated to the theft of cars, largely due to the fact the theft removes people’s mode of transport. Why not have the same for theft of other modes of transportation?

Additionally, I personally would have less issue with people driving due to a lack of physical fitness if they didn’t tend to 1. Drive recklessly and fast (35 on a 25 is not okay) and 2. Drive tank-like SUVs and Trucks
by 20k | 2026-01-24 01:02:08+00:00
char8_t also isn't guaranteed to be 8-bits, because sizeof(char) == 1 and sizeof(char8_t) >= 1. On a platform where char is 16 bits, char8_t will be 16 bits as well

The cpp standard explicitly says that it has the same size, typed, signedness and alignment as unsigned char, but its a distinct type. So its pretty useless, and badly named
by whackernews | 2026-01-24 01:02:14+00:00
> Ugh, back to nationalism.

That’s a bit of a negative way to think about things. We’ve tried globalism, I don’t think it works. It’s utopian.

Small and distributed, this is the way. Not large and centralised. Stop over complicating things. If people just looked after themselves, their family, and their neighbours (in that order) the rest would figure itself out. This is how love works, it’s personal and intimate. I wish people would just stop trying to meddle with the world and let people be.
by padolsey | 2026-01-24 01:02:25+00:00
Yeh I don't think there's much value in a credo if it celebrates Altman. He's a terrible idol to have. He compared Trump to Hitler in 2016, then donated $1M to his inauguration and tweeted about being in an "NPC trap" when he criticized him. Took about six weeks after the election to flip. Testified to Congress that AI regulation is "essential," then lobbied against California's safety bill when it actually showed up. His own board fired him for lying to them for years. His safety team leads quit in protest saying safety took a backseat to shiny products. Multiple former colleagues, including the people who left to start Anthropic, describe psychological abuse and manipulation. Claims a $65k salary while sitting on a billion-dollar fortune built through conflicts of interest. He's not a good guy. He's a guy who says whatever serves him in the moment and has left a trail of people warning us about exactly that.
by Lammy | 2026-01-24 01:02:35+00:00
> The next version ran on the Macintosh computer as a "desktop accessory". It was called NekoDA

Article neglects to notice/mention the pun; It's simultaneously “Neko DA” as in desk accessory† and “nekoだ” as in ‘to be’‡, like “it's a cat” lol

† a specific type of application that could run alongside ‘real’ applications before the Mac had any multitasking: https://spinsidemacintosh.neocities.org/im202#im018

‡ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%A0#Verb
by salawat | 2026-01-24 01:04:10+00:00
>This is absurd, because it's basically a generic argument about any sort of feature that vaguely reduces privacy. Sorry guys, we can't have automated backups in windows (even opt in!), because if the feature exists, a random bitflip can cause everything to be uploaded to microsoft against the user's will.

This is a dismissal of an objection to a software system implemented such that it performs in a discrete manner by default(no info leaves until I explicitly tell it to; this would be a nice thing, if you hadn't noticed). You repudiate the challenge on the basis of "we want to implement $system that escrows keys by default; a bad thing, but great for the company and host government in which said thing is widely adopted).

You may not have used the exact words; but the constellation of factors is still there. We can't have nice things (machines that don't narc, do what we tell them, etc.) because there are other forces at work in our society making these things an impossibility.

It is regrettable you do not see the pattern, but then again, that may be for the better for you. I wouldn't wish the experience of seeing things the way I do on anyone else. Definitely not a fun time. But it is certainly there.
by BenjaminBarwo | 2026-01-24 01:04:24+00:00
Jack London’s experience is a useful analogy most people chased quick wins, underestimated operational friction like logistics, environment, capital constraints, and failed due to poor preparation. Jack didn’t extract value from mining but he converted field experience into durable intellectual capital like stories, brand, and differentiation. I think of how startups and other business endeavors rarely win by blindly copying obvious opportunities they win by capturing firsthand market pain, execution scars, and unique insights into defensible products. My personal takeaway is asset isn't always going to be the "rush" it's what you learn while surviving it.
by nunez | 2026-01-24 01:05:04+00:00
I love FSD, but this is awful. Given that this is almost certainly being done to juice the FSD subscriber count so that Elon hits his 10M sub target, I'd even go as far as to say that this is legally questionable.

Also, this move is beyond stupid IMO. Autopilot is Tesla's ONLY moat now that their Supercharger network is open to everyone. Gating that behind a $99/mo sub is guaranteed to make buyers shop elsewhere, especially now that the EV tax credit is no longer and the OEMs (and our O&G friendly admin) are rallying around EREVs.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-24 01:05:15+00:00
The lobbyists probably said something like "it is good for drug companies to make profits so they can innovate new drugs for global benefit".

Same way the defense companies probably said something like "it is good to deter Russia so that Europe can remain free and democratic".

Hilarious, isn't it?

Anyways shouldn't you get back to work so you can afford all the new weapons you're going to have to buy?

"American Politicians are really famous worldwide for being selfless, defending other nations interests to the detriment of their own nation." Well yes, we did that for you guys for 80 years after WW2, a very peaceful and prosperous period for Europe by historical standards. We got nothing but hate and laughter for it. Now we're done.
by flir | 2026-01-24 01:05:46+00:00
Changed "make a thing" to "describe a tool" and got a raft of text back that I couldn't be bothered to think about, because it's not my space. This jumped out though:

"## Existing things that almost do this (but don’t go far enough)

* Radicle – closest philosophically
[...]"

So it seems to me that you succinctly described Radicle - at least well enough for an LLM to recognize it.
by BobbyJo | 2026-01-24 01:07:19+00:00
I am not an academic, so correct me if I am wrong, but in your example, the actual writing would probably only represent a small fraction of the time spent. Is it even worth using AI for anything other than spelling and grammar correction at that point? I think using an LLM to generate a paper from high level points wouldn't save much, if any, time if it was then reviewed the way that would require.

My brother in law is a professor, and he has a pretty bad opinion of colleagues that use LLMs to write papers, as his field (economics) doesn't involve much experimentation, and instead relies on data analysis, simulation, and reasoning. It seemed to me like the LLM assisted papers that he's seen have mostly been pretty low impact filler papers.
by Refreeze5224 | 2026-01-24 01:07:56+00:00
What is the solution? You imply that it is just to quit using it, but then you mention how super-addictive social media and especially TikTok is. Which it is, by design, by very smart people who very intentionally exploit every aspect of human psychology they can, for profit. I don't blame the victims of social media, I blame the architects of it. To me it's clear that social media does more harm than good, and is only useful to generate ad revenue, which to me is also clearly more harm than good, and should all be nuked from orbit.
by at1as | 2026-01-24 01:09:33+00:00
> there's a strong unspoken signaling of "look at how cool I am"

I think tech should feel cool to the person using it, but it won't make a person cool either way. And it's an odd thing to fixate on.

> You're saying "my tech choices signal discernment."

I'm saying I have choices (at least, relative to earlier). I can use a Mac (or not) and that can tell you much less about the type of phone I have than a would have a few years ago.

> Bambu Labs is the new 3d printer monoculture. Meta is the AR monoculture

Then it's not really monoculture? It's narrow rather than cross-all-domains. I'm fine is there's a "toaster brand" everyone buys, or everyone likes Dyson vacuums, as long as it's not Apple producing it.

From what I see there appear to plenty of alternatives to Bambu. Instead of smugly calling people amoral because they bought a popular 3D printer, why not explain what's wrong with Bambu? I still genuinely don't know the criticism. Is it proprietary formats? Banning IP infringing content on their store? DRM? Industry lobbying for something nefarious? Lawfare? What is it that are they doing...?

> To me this article reads as soft elitism

Wouldn't the Apple bro archetype signal this more strongly? I think you may have seen a Leica in the list and way over-indexed on that, while it's actually at quite old D-LUX Typ-109 (not much newer than the Canon it replaces).

And I think the smug condescension throughout the response is closer to a kind of elitism, no?

> side of mid-life crisis

Hopefully I'm not at mid-life quite yet, and definitely not in crisis. That aside, I’m not sure it's useful to frame a critique of an article that way.
by kitplummer | 2026-01-24 01:10:50+00:00
I had a few different issues getting the CI broker working the way I wanted to (don't even remember what the issues were, but it had to do with catching patches) so wired up my own way but simply polling via Git - using a thing I built a while back called goa (gitops agent) for another project.

The tricky part was getting the output from what ever do with the code, back into the Radicle patch. But it works.

https://revolveteam.com/blog/goa-radicle-ci/

There are some caveats - mostly security related - given this is potentially executing commands on a host node.
by Ancapistani | 2026-01-24 01:11:05+00:00
It is misleading, but not for the reasons you state.

There are private tanks in the US with functional weapons, including both mounted MGs and the cannon. In fact, there’s a place in Uvalde, TX that will let you come drive and shoot theirs for a couple grand.

> none of those tanks would be more than symbolic

Correct, but that’s not why. A tank would be worse than useless in an insurgency.

> The whole idea that a Second-Amendment rebellion in the U.S., absent the military joining on the side of the rebellion, is just a fantasy.

No one is seriously suggesting going up against the US military with an irregular force in the US. The point is that an armed citizenry cannot be subjugated without destroying everything worth having. It’s a suicide pact between the People and the state.
by nikkwong | 2026-01-24 01:11:16+00:00
...Highly disagree. China can (and has) manipulate the hearts and minds of the American public—skewing their biases in a way that creates internal chaos and dissent, disrupting institutional order, and sewing distrust of thy neighbor. They've been doing this for at least a decade now, and have played a silent hand in reshaping American politics. If (when) a conflict arises, trust that they will use this tool to manipulate the electorate in a way that benefits them in a zero sum way.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-24 01:11:22+00:00
My Japanese coworker's Japanese car consistently insists my coworker is asleep.

I think it's hilarious because presumably someone in an office somewhere in Japan was told it wasn't working on white people and said "you want it to work on white people, fine I'll crank it to 11." But I also didn't spend $50k on it so that probably makes it easier.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-24 01:11:40+00:00
> Journalists love the "Microsoft gave" framing because it makes Microsoft sound like they're handing these out because they like the cops, but that's not how it works.

Companies know that putting themselves in a position where they can betray their users, means they will be forced to do so. Famously demonstrated when Apple had to ban the Hong Kong protest app [1]. Yet they continue to do it, don't inform their users, and in the rare occasion that they offer an alternative, it is made unclear and complicated and easy to get wrong [2].

They deserve every ounce of blame.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49919459

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736345
by alephnerd | 2026-01-24 01:11:47+00:00
Potentially. It will look different from the previous generation though, and probably have to be a premium experience in it's initial iterations, but so was the iPhone when it created the keyboardless smartphone category.

We'll probably see a new Naomi Wu in the next 3-5 years as well except it will probably be a brown person walking around Nehru Place in NCR instead of in Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen. My wife wishes it could be Nhat Tao in Saigon, but most of the locals are getting priced out by Chinese overproduction.
by __david__ | 2026-01-24 01:11:58+00:00
Sometimes when you’re close to something it’s very hard to describe it because you’ve been looking at it from all angles for so long that when someone else approaches it from a different direction it’s hard to see what blind spots they might have. It’s not crazy to ask people for input and it’s not crazy to say “we’re open to patches if you just want to do it yourself”.

For me personally I was (and still am a bit) unclear on what being “based on git” means. Can I just rebase with abandon? Is there a concept of force push? Can I safely use lazy-git, tig, commit-patch, and other git utilities? Or is it more integrated and i have to use the rad cli to avoid corrupting the git repo? What about the issues? If I write some software and publish it with radicle, is there a way for plain git client to clone the repo without installing radicle (and without keeping a plain git mirror somewhere)?
by rconti | 2026-01-24 01:12:24+00:00
I do find it funny that Brits colloquially describe "Europe" as being foreign, as in, "in Britain" vs "in Europe", or "in Europe" vs "on the continent. Of course, I guess the "the continent" is a loaded term, too.

I'm not saying it doesn't make sense to me, I get it, and it's easier to refer to Europe as "the other" rather than having to use a longer phrase to describe traveling from the British isles to the mainland of continental Europe.

But still, it amuses me.
by Defelo | 2026-01-24 01:13:26+00:00
Yes, there is: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.xyz/rad:z4V1sjrXq...
This is the full web app powering https://app.radicle.xyz/ including radicle-httpd which simply serves an http api used by the radicle-explorer frontend and which can also be used as a (readonly) git remote.
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-24 01:13:28+00:00
> Also, can someone explain to me why NOTHING of this is challenged in court or prosecuted? Where the hell is your judicial system?

IMO Trump has exposed fatal flaw in democracy that everyone kinda knew about but nobody wanted to admit because it's never been exploited in a well-established, highly-functioning, independent democracy before - turns out, majority of voters are dumb fucks. Once you accept this as truth, lots of pieces fall into place.

Assuming that most people DO support Trump and his politics, in a democratic system the judges have no basis to be the adults in the room and actually tell voters what they're allowed to do and what they aren't.
by jameslars | 2026-01-24 01:13:35+00:00
I think Java has plenty of features that end up implicitly banned at least. e.g. you will really never see a `java.util.Vector` in any modern code base. No one `implements Serializable` anymore in practice. `Objects.equals()` and `Objects.hashCode()` get you through 99% of equals/hash code implementations. The list goes on.

I guess the difference is it's rarely "dangerous" or "hard to reason about" using the old features unlike what I see in the C++ list. Java replaces things with better things and momentum shifts behind them kind of naturally because the better things are objectively better.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 01:13:54+00:00
It seems like a moot point --

If you are driving off-road, or completely on private property, you're not really driving the vehicle to "go somewhere" or commute or transport people/goods.

It isn't really feasible to use a vehicle for actual transportation without using public roads, at least in these United States.

So what possible cause or reason would any law enforcement have, for going into a vehicle like that and searching it? I mean, compared to someone driving on a public road and "going somewhere" while "carrying stuff" in there? Nearly none, right?
by wileydragonfly | 2026-01-24 01:14:04+00:00
I played with TikTok for a week or so. Every time I opened it, it was suggesting feeds featuring clearly mentally impaired people with large audiences throwing money at them for saying their name. It felt like a very concerted effort to dumb down the American population. You wouldn’t listen to these people for 10 seconds out in public. The fetal alcohol syndrome phenotype was widespread. The entire experience was disturbing, to be honest.
by conductr | 2026-01-24 01:14:16+00:00
> I strongly dislike passive people that blame others for their poor communications.

Same. I struggle with the construct specifically because I think I am both an asker and a guesser. I do agree it exists however I can’t bucket myself into either side. The approach I choose to utilize at any given time is a contextual calculation. Do I have a strong opinion? Do I have a sufficient status to assert myself? Do I not care and just want to appease the other person? Do I intentionally want to stroke their ego?

But, choose an approach and use it as a tool. Miscalculations occur leading to outcomes I may not predict or prefer sometimes but that’s just a learning experience for me. I might adjust my internal algorithm for making that calculation in the future. I might decide I just don’t like interacting with that person, and that’s fine too. But I don’t blame anyone or expect them to change for me.