MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alistairSH | 2026-01-06 18:45:04+00:00
FWIW, Olympus spun-off/sold their consumer camera division. It's now operating as OM System (1) and has released a few new cameras over the past few years. As the article mentioned, the latest is the OM-3, which is sort of similar form factor, but not exactly compact. They also have the smaller Pen EP-7, but it's not available in the US (though they're readily available on Ebay or via KEH etc). I bought an EP-7 for an earlier Xmas gift to myself, but haven't had much change to use it (previously had an EP-5 and E-M5ii).

1 - https://explore.omsystem.com/us/en/
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-06 18:45:14+00:00
Silicon Valley and other so-called "tech" commpanies, along with "tech journalists" and other online commentators (prognosticators) who presumably work for such companies, are a never-ending source of "predictions" (promises) that never hold true

One longstanding example is "vapourware", but the deception carried out today goes even further, IMHO

What if these these commentators making predictions that promote Silicon Valley-styled "futurism", had some skin in the game. What if the non-believers and realists had "prediction markets", in addition to short selling, to bet against them

This may already exist to some degree. A recent story I recall discussed bets on LLM release timelines
by dangus | 2026-01-06 18:45:18+00:00
I’m quite aware that better options exist. I’ve dined at multiple or different 2 Michelin star restaurants, not to brag or anything.

But sometimes this “corporate bad” mentality is just vapid snobbery. I’m better than you because I don’t support big bad corporate.

Of course, companies aren’t created equal, regardless of size or status of being public or private. Some are run very well and ethically and some are not.

I am sure we can find many mom and pop businesses that do shady things that no public corporation would be caught dead doing.

Did you know, small landlords are exempt from equal housing laws? Mrs. Murphy exemption.

If I go to an Olive Garden I know I’m getting the exact same experience everywhere, I know exactly what amenities and facilities they’ll have, and I know what price I’m going to pay.

Even though Cheesecake Factory is a public company they’re doing more real kitchen prep work and in-restaurant cooking than my local bar and grille that’s reheating premade Sysco food.
by minimaxir | 2026-01-06 18:45:25+00:00
You are attempting to move the goalposts. There are two different points in this debate:

1) Modern LLMs are an inflection point for coding.

2) The current LLM ecosystem is unsustainable.

This submission discussion is only about #1, which #2 does not invalidate. Even if the ecosystem crashes, then open-source LLMs that leverage the same tricks Opus 4.5 does will just be used instead.
by echelon | 2026-01-06 18:45:38+00:00
> I, personally, am drowning in "content".

Until the content is utterly captivating and speaks to your soul in a way even your closest friends and partners can't, we haven't hit peak content.

You know that one movie you see every decade or so that you can't get out of your head? The one that left you flabbergasted, that you've watched at least half a dozen times, and that you frequently and fondly remember? It touched your mind and soul and fit your tastes like a glove.

THAT is peak content, and until we are swimming in it, we're not there yet. Most of what we have today is utterly disposable and ephemeral - transient dopamine activation instead of philosophically world shattering indelible experiences.

We have a long way to go.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-06 18:45:40+00:00
> I like using Opus to drive codex sessions and checking its output.

Why not the other way around? Have the quick brown fox churn out code, and have codex review it, guide changes, and loop?

I've actually gone one step further down the delegation. I use opus/gemini3 for plan, review, edit plan for a few steps. Then write it out to .md files. Then have GLM implement it (I got a cheap plan for like 28$ for a year on Christmas). Then have the code this produced reviewed and fixed if needed by opus. Final review by codex (for some reason it's very good at review, esp if you have solid checkboxes for it to check during review). Seems to work so far.
by goku12 | 2026-01-06 18:45:40+00:00
The only reasonable way to solve that problem is to design a standard ABI that supports expression of all features in modern compiled languages like Rust, Go, Zig, Haskell, Ada, etc. It doesn't make any sense to design stable ABIs for each language separately, because then you'll end up with a system directory full of dynamic libraries of several distinct ABIs.
by culebron21 | 2026-01-06 18:45:49+00:00
Oh, nice. Yeah, Python got gazillion new versions, incompatible, in million folders in sys.path, and sys.path different in different places, and recently they started to menace you to shutdown old versions (I get such warning, that 3.9 will stop working in October 2026). So, since you can't rely on system Python anymore, they made essentially a docker container. Sigh.
by plqbfbv | 2026-01-06 18:46:04+00:00
I know I'd be one of them.

A big and higher definition screen provides a ton more context from the navigation's map with wider sidebars that can contain more information, while also providing more contrast and better legibility.

Usual Android auto screen sizes and resolutions feel to me like the difference between looking at a 32" monitor and an early 4.5" LED mobile screen. Too small for context, low definition, and not enough space to display additional useful information (so you don't have to touch the display every 5 seconds).
Show HN: Breakrs – Natural Language CLI Timer with MCP Server for AI Integration
by sqrew | 2026-01-06 18:46:14+00:00
breakrs is a simple CLI timer that accepts natural language durations:

breakrs 5m coffee break
breakrs 1h30m meeting reminder
No cron syntax, just plain English. Runs a daemon, sends desktop notifications.

I also built rmcp-breakrs, an MCP server wrapper, so Claude Code can schedule reminders:

"remind me in 30 minutes to check the build"
→ actually works, notification fires later
Most scheduler MCP servers need cron expressions. This just takes "30m check the build."

Both tools are Rust, single binary install via cargo. Local-only, no cloud.

- breakrs (CLI): https://github.com/sqrew/breakrs
- rmcp-breakrs (MCP): https://github.com/sqrew/rmcp-breakrs
by elashri | 2026-01-06 18:46:43+00:00
I hate ads with all my heart. And I go out of my way to religiously block them. I employ DNS blocking (through my own adguard home server) on my whole network (I use this DNS server connected to unbound to act as recursive DNS on all devices even when I am outside home). I use ublock origin on Firefox browser (one of the forks that guts Firefox ads and privacy settings by default) and on my iPhone I use wipr + uBlock Origin lite. I have several userscripts to block ads one some websites (i.e I block HN jobs posts).

I have a mental view that gets disrupted by ads and sometimes even angry. In the rare moments which I use a computer or phone of a friend or family without those, I really can't tolerate the suffering they go through. My single best advice to people about using ublock origin and Firefox resonated with everyone of them. I use it on my parents devices as the best security measure that could be used.

Am I overreacting, maybe but I find my level of tolerance for ads is zero no matter how much I agree that some of them are good or not. Maybe this is the result of decades of self imposing dark patterns and intrusive ads do to some people. I really feel sorry for majority of internet users that do not use adblockers.
by enum | 2026-01-06 18:46:56+00:00
I teach at a university, and spend plenty of time programming for research and for fun. Like many others, I spent some time on the holidays trying to push the current generation of Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex as far as I could. (They're all very good.)

I had an idea for something that I wanted, and in five scattered hours, I got it good enough to use. I'm thinking about it in a few different ways:

1. I estimate I could have done it without AI with 2 weeks full-time effort. (Full-time defined as >> 40 hours / week.)

2. I have too many other things to do that are purportedly more important that programming. I really can't dedicate to two weeks full-time to a "nice to have" project. So, without AI, I wouldn't have done it at all.

3. I could hire someone to do it for me. At the university, those are students. From experience with lots of advising, a top-tier undergraduate student could have achieved the same thing, had they worked full tilt for a semester (before LLMs). This of course assumes that I'm meeting them every week.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-06 18:47:16+00:00
And this is why I run an ad blocker in my browser on top of a pihole for my home. The whole situation sucks, and I'm often willing to pay for an ad-free experience.

I still would never buy an X10 camera or any other of their products given how they abused pop-over/under ads. Same for Sony for other reasons... I can carry a product grudge for decades.
by gtowey | 2026-01-06 18:47:27+00:00
This is why instead of specific legislation that winds up being a cat-and-mouse game with companies, the practice of creating specialized agencies with a general charter and delegating the specifics to them is often employed.

But it's also why this administration is dismantling those agencies as fast as it can -- without them the legislature will always be hopelessly behind on proper regulation.
by bakul | 2026-01-06 18:47:37+00:00
Poul, have you looked at the Mill Architecture? It doesn't provide capabilities but provides "turfs". A turf is a set of [base..limit) regions in a single address space. Threads within a turf can only see what the turf allows them to see. Regions can be shared between turfs if so desired (& how one may communicate large amounts of data). When a thread makes a "portal call" it is in another turf and can only see what is in that turf (+ call args, passed on the "belt"). Not clear if this will go anywhere & might get forgotten but it is an interesting architecture worth exploring.
by nancyminusone | 2026-01-06 18:47:56+00:00
For that matter, why the optocoupler at all? You only need it if the systems are at different electrical potentials, and even then they are galvanically isolated on the Pis by the magnetics in the Ethernet.

But I guess it's not the same as being asked "where's the air gap" pointing at the optocoupler, and saying "there it is"
by 112233 | 2026-01-06 18:47:56+00:00
I'm confused. What is a matter of skill? You linked 6 hour livestream where person is working on translating AVR assembly to 6502. What was your point, that translating assembly or executables to another architecture takes a lot of skill? Yes, it does!

Because I could not, by scrubbing that video, find anything where immense skill is used to deal with the enormous overhead that standard C++ forces on every program that uses it.
by barnabee | 2026-01-06 18:47:58+00:00
It's mostly about the UI. Browsing a network share is pretty ugly (generic icons, filenames, etc.) and can be unintuitive. Basic things like quickly finding the latest file you've added can be quite difficult.

Ultimately if you just want to browse a filesystem, network shares are fine, but if you want a nice looking front end for that with logos/artwork, descriptions or reviews from the internet, or features that require the files and metadata to be indexed in a DB of some kind, then these UIs come in handy.

Plus they look nice are generally easier for other less tech. savvy members of the househould to use.
by kotaKat | 2026-01-06 18:48:05+00:00
Sounds more like “vehicle recovery” for the repossession market first and foremost.

A repo investigator for the bank locates the target vehicle via owner’s social media, takes photo of the car, shoots it into GeoSpy, then ganks the car based on given locations in the owner’s photos. Pair it up with ALPR hits across a city from national ALPR networks (to help correlate home/business/work patterns) and… wellp, there you go!
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-06 18:48:06+00:00
I am glad to see https://stm.dk/media/qo2dyzxy/erklaering-gl.pdf

Perhaps I am just paranoid, but I would not rule out a DJT/VVP version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact#:~:tex...
by Terr_ | 2026-01-06 18:48:13+00:00
True, but it does constrain what justification OpenAI may (credibly) put forward as it navigates in the paired realms of legality and public-relations. AFAIK there's still a lot of temporizing "we are reviewing this" from the company, but that probably can't last forever.

In other words, it makes a difference for OpenAI in deciding between choices such as "we'd love to help but legally can't" or "we could but we won't because we don't want to."
by rstuart4133 | 2026-01-06 18:48:14+00:00
That's your story. Here's mine. My daughter moved out of an apartment in Hamburg. The fridges, washing machines, beds or whatever I can understand. They are designed to be installed after the building is complete.

What blew me away was being forced to remove the ceiling lights, and leaving the live wires dangling down. Don't underestimate the difficulty of doing this for someone who has to do it after working hours. You switch off the power of course, which leaves you in total darkness. Naturally I had not thought of that little complication beforehand.
by TheCondor | 2026-01-06 18:48:38+00:00
Are they that terrible, or is it the market and those of us with our own media are becoming more of the minority? I do question, at times, the amount of effort I put in to curating and backing up and maintaining our media.

I too have a lifetime subscription, I don't mind a lot of what they do, but it feels like our media has become less centric, they want to stream pluto.tv channels and stuff like that.

The biggest thing I dislike was how I had a single app to all my media and then they blew that up and I need multiple apps. It's not that big of a hassle; I just wish I had more heads up to when it was going to happen. And while I'm not aware of them having any music-streaming media, the music app ever only streams my own media and feels like it might be on life support. Maybe music streaming is "done" but it feels kind of neglected.
by vel0city | 2026-01-06 18:48:49+00:00
I can see how it's contradictory on its face, but the reality is pretty nuanced.

Large brands continue to run ads to enforce brand loyalty and keep their image fresh. For a lot of companies, dropping advertising will lead to reduced sales.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cmo/2024/12/18/why-cutting-adve...

However, as a new entrant to a consumer facing market, how is one supposed to drive new customers to try their product? Just being a bit better or a little cheaper isn't necessarily going to win over a lot of people if they never bother trying it due to existing brand loyalties. So you've got to do some amount of advertising to build some kind of awareness to the product and get people to try it.

That doesn't necessarily mean unskippable video advertisements or whatever, but one should try and do some kind of marketing push to get awareness of your product up other than hoping presence on some store shelves will result in enough sales fast enough to keep your company alive.
by cozzyd | 2026-01-06 18:48:58+00:00
C++ has reasonable dynamic linking (there are ABI breaks, but I only remember only one really bad one with std::basic_string and C++11), obviously excluding a lot of metaprogramming features, but a lot of C++ dynamic libraries exist that are widely used. Supposedly Swift does a better job, though I'm not familiar. Yes, Rust can dynamically link with a C ABI (as can any language) but it loses a lot of the expressiveness (I imagine, I'm not a rust developer) to have to use the C ABI.

Dynamic languages of course support dynamic linking.
by cheschire | 2026-01-06 18:49:12+00:00
Ehhh, it’s a backup if, you know, the internet dies right when I need some routing. Seems to only be once every year or two. It’s not a good primary tool though.

There are a few approaches to tile generation, and the routing engine I used offers 2 alternate routes.

Claude Code whipped up a new front end for me that switches between various tile sets and provides a turn by turn instruction overlay.

It’s a tool worth having for me at least.
by randycupertino | 2026-01-06 18:49:15+00:00
This is a big deal. Reflects broader industry challenges with many companies failing to execute on cell therapy clinical development. Also Galapagos was "all in" on cell therapy being very central to their strategy - 7 of the 10 indications in their central pipeline were cell therapy related. The writing was on the wall when they consolidated a lot of their CAR-T and other modalities into one standalone unit in 2025. They still have about 3 billion cash for runway so will be interesting to see what they do next.

Cell therapy continues to be extremely challenging for any company to scale and commercialize.
by bombcar | 2026-01-06 18:49:33+00:00
There is such a huge market of ways to improve flights that are between "what we have now" and "high price supersonic" that aren't currently being done; indicating that there's not a terribly large market for it.

Those who could easily afford supersonic can already afford other luxuries; the only one it gives is time; but if time is of the essence you can save it elsewhere by chartering your own jet.
by nluken | 2026-01-06 18:50:16+00:00
> Concorde burned 52% of its fuel just taxiing and taking off

and later in the article:

> Remember, Concorde burned 52% of its fuel just taxiing down the runway.

Setting aside that these are completely different claims, the author does not cite this claim at all and it fails my personal gut check. Where is this information coming from?
by flumpcakes | 2026-01-06 18:50:16+00:00
I mean this kindly - but Americans need to ditch their current administration fast. I don't understand how a Democrat can be a lame duck for four years but the current president can literally threaten NATO members with invasion and nothing happens. If the US goes too far, it won't be coming back. There are no more Obama years of stability. No more soft power. No more tacit agreement from the rest of the democratic world with whatever hair brained scheme US wants to do.

The US is great at making money from monopolies. It has thousands of billionaires and it has more money than sense. It is not a technological supremacy. It is at a stark risk of turning away 450m highly educated people, who traditionally would align with the US as 'shared democracies'. Imagine those same people aligning with China, not out of shared principle, but out of necessity. That would end the US hegemony in a single day.

I don't think the average US person realises what their government is doing. All empires end eventually, but your America is running towards the finish line chasing some dream of 'greatness' and imperial ambition. Meanwhile the average schmoe doesn't even have universal healthcare.
by kibwen | 2026-01-06 18:50:39+00:00
There's a powerful and outspoken modern cult that worships technological progress, but only for values of "progress" that meet a certain wow-factor/"shininess" threshold.

The idea that such progress could ever falter is anathema to such a cohort (which, in their defense, have lived their whole lives in the most technologically anomalous period of the entirety of human history), making them susceptible to scams like Boom.

Instead, I'd implore people to consider that true progress is the ability to do more with less, and not merely the ability to do more with more.
by nelop | 2026-01-06 18:50:48+00:00
The problems was all my fault :-) I was trying to use a port that was not designed for serial data. When data was sent across it was getting mashed.
I think it's because both ports were not uart, therefore when the binary data was sent if they were not perfectly in sync it would get mashed, I might have been able to solve it by sending a clock as well. But the easier option was to just change everything to the uart ports and it magically worked.
by goku12 | 2026-01-06 18:52:18+00:00
> Ruby and Python are written mostly in C underneath.
>
> Many try to replace C. All failed.

What do you mean by all failed? Rust supports CPython modules using PyO3 [1]. Even the popular polars dataframe library [2] uses it.

[1] https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3

[2] https://github.com/pola-rs/polars
by xienze | 2026-01-06 18:52:24+00:00
Well, I didn't know that at the time, and I was so annoyed by it I just moved to Jellyfin. And based on another comment in this thread:

> https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-fo...

They certainly try to scare people away from changing this setting, which is not a good look IMO.
by wseqyrku | 2026-01-06 18:52:48+00:00
> But, like any tool, LLMs should be used wisely.

While it's difficult to define, wisely can turn 'LLMs are useless' to 'ten X productivity boost'. However, at the end, of course, it all comes down to products. Before LLMs stole the show, we had built beautiful system software over the course of decades, linux, git, k8s and rust and yet the products that we use everyday are mostly (mostly) user-hostile and incorporate dark patterns, offer a suboptimal UX, and (in my opinion) sometimes involve outright inhuman marketing practices. That being said, even if you get AGI I don't think it will lead to any breakthroughs if we continue to do 'software engineering' like this year after year.