MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ethanrutherford | 2026-01-27 22:18:35+00:00
The article presents its thesis ad nauseum, the idea that "everyone is always mentally reframing the game into the TV view, even if they think they aren't", but never makes any effort to prove the thesis or provide supporting evidence. I'm not convinced he even defines what "reframing it in my mind" even means. Throughout the entire article, the question in my mind is "in what way? What does 'reframing' it look like? What exactly are you claiming I'm doing?", and at no point is that question answered.

A hypothetical is set up where a woman gets to see one great play close up, but the rest of the game happens nowhere near her seat. If your thesis was that "football is better on TV because you get all these unique angles and instant replays that you can't get from the one seat's position", this would be a solid argument. But the thesis is that "we all imagine the TVs camera angle in our heads", and at the end of this hypothetical, you simply assert that this is what she's doing the rest of the game. "It must be true because it must be true", this is just a circular argument.

There is a bit about how every game in modern day is being recorded on cell phones, which is truly irrelevant. That games are being recorded by audience members is a. true of all sports and b. unrelated to what each person is thinking about in their heads in the moment, whether they are or are not the ones doing the recording. That recording, after all, is only from the perspective of the one seat, their present view of the game is unaltered by the presence of cameras in the audience.

There's another point, perhaps meant to follow from the previous irrelevant point, about memories of a party vs a video recording of a party. The idea is that if you watch the recording for a month, that recording will be the only thing you remember, but it's extremely unclear in what way this is meant to relate to the thesis. What you supposedly imagine in your head in the perceptual present has nothing to do with what you remember a month later, and it's not remotely surprising that reinforcing the memory of a recording over the course of a month will cause it to be more easily recalled than memories from the event itself. It's common knowledge that the human brain does not commit every detail and every moment to memory, and it's trivial to demonstrate that this is true: simply attempt to remember what color shirt you wore last Wednesday. There is interesting psychology here, but its simply not related to the premise in any way.

Then there's the throwaway comment about it being "fascism", where you seem to reduce the definition to just "mild behavioral conditioning". This is both based on your premise, which you have not provided proof for, and goes nowhere. It doesn't lead to any further point or conclusion, it's just an aside, "by the way I think that means it's fascism because I think that word means mind control". Even if we assume your premise is true, its more than a little bit of a stretch to say that counts as "mind control". All you've done is dilute the meaning of the word to the point of banality.
by bhadass | 2026-01-27 22:18:46+00:00
i'd say the crypto angle is only one factor. as is usual in the real world, effects are multifactorial.

clawdbot also rode the wave of claude-code being popular (perhaps due to underlying models getting better making agents more useful). a lot of "personal agents" were made in 2024 and early 2025 which seem to be before the underlying models/ecosystems were as mature.

no doubt we're still very early in this wave. i'm sure google and apple will release their offerings. they are the 800lb gorillas in all this.
by cyode | 2026-01-27 22:18:56+00:00
This quote stuck out to me as well, for a slightly different reason.

The “tenacity” referenced here has been, in my opinion, the key ingredient in the secret sauce of a successful career in tech, at least in these past 20 years. Every industry job has its intricacies, but for every engineer who earned their pay with novel work on a new protocol, framework, or paradigm, there were 10 or more providing value by putting the myriad pieces together, muddling through the ever-waxing complexity, and crucially never saying die.

We all saw others weeded out along the way for lacking the tenacity. Think the boot camp dropouts or undergrads who changed majors when first grappling with recursion (or emacs). The sole trait of stubbornness to “keep going” outweighs analytical ability, leetcode prowess, soft skills like corporate political tact, and everything else.

I can’t tell what this means for the job market. Tenacity may not be enough on its own. But it’s the most valuable quality in an employee in my mind, and Claude has it.
by DavidPiper | 2026-01-27 22:20:09+00:00
You're getting some mild heat in sibling comments here. Jonathan Haidt's book The Anxious Generation goes into a lot of detail on this exact point about parental responsibility.

There are others that touch on personal vs. societal responsibility too and the difficulties with parental/personal moderation and change (Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke off the top of my head).

There is an enormous amount of nuance that goes into answering your questions and addressing your assumptions that HN is probably not a great medium for, if you're serious about understanding the answers.
by wswope | 2026-01-27 22:20:36+00:00
Just throwing these out there for people looking for options: Check out Piefed for a Reddit-like, and lobste.rs for an HN-like.

The fediverse might not be booming with activity to the same degree as the big names, but there’s plenty out there and it has a pleasant small-forum vibe that went extinct on the bigger sites a long time ago.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-27 22:20:47+00:00
I am sure you do. Czechs aren't particularly honest people on average (why should I pretend otherwise? Mine is a medium-trust society at best, no Denmark or Iceland), and without the necessary cultural knowledge you will struggle to spot the red flags that the locals can spot easily.

Maybe the whole idea of just easily cherrypicking talent from very distant nations with very different cultures is less workable than naive people think?

Edit: you edited your response, I will add something to mine.

In capitalism, jobs are commodity. Business really only cares about efficiency, not nationalist sensitivities. For every "American" job taken, there is an "American" boss who gives it away, but that is the point: the boss does not feel any patriotic duty to keep jobs onshore. He is beholden to the bottom line of his business.

Edit 2: (this will be a long war of edits). Where did I "rail" against anything? Are you having some stereotype in your head and simply decided that I am a good fit?

I literally wrote that fishing for actual talent in India from the outside is hard. Not desirable or undesirable, but hard. That is the result of actual experiences of people around me. I didn't say even a single word about whether it should be done or not.
by adev_ | 2026-01-27 22:20:49+00:00
The damage is done.

Scientific collaborations are built on trust, not on an election mandate. And the trust is undeniably damaged.

Which funding agency will accept to bring money to the table if the other partner is likely to run home and abandoned everything on the next election 2y later ?

This was already a problem with long term collaboration with NASA and the back and forth of Congress funding, Trump just extended the same issue to all other STEMs fields.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-27 22:21:01+00:00
> And yet, at the very same time we are seeing time and time again that ICE/DHS agents are finding the wrong people, seemingly going to any house indescriminently, and generally profiling people instead of using any intelligence whatsoever.

If the end goal is that the broad, general public are intimidated, then they're not necessarily "finding the wrong people." With the current "semi random" enforcement with many false positives, nobody feels safe, regardless of their legal status. This looks to be the goal: Intimidate everyone.

If they had a 100% true positive rate and a 0% false positive rate, the general population would not feel terrorized.
by gruez | 2026-01-27 22:22:01+00:00
Not sure what the point of the service is. Given that it's more expensive than other MVNOs, and isn't even more private. You can still buy prepaid SIMs in store with cash, so it's harder to get more private than that. Not to mention this company asks for your zip+4 code (which identifies down to a specific street), and information for E-911. It's basically like Trump Mobile but for people who care about "privacy".
by ncruces | 2026-01-27 22:22:03+00:00
Edited again at 11:45 to remove that as well. Now reads:

> I have been experimenting with the implementation and am excited for any contributions from others interested in this kind of service.

A few of the versions of the blog are available at:
https://archive.ph/https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-ma...
by IshKebab | 2026-01-27 22:22:35+00:00
The pull request is to delete the project and open SOLIDWORKS or FreeCAD.

But don't actually delete it. It looks like a nice alternative to OpenSCAD. But like OpenSCAD it's really a niche thing for designs that are highly parametric like fasteners, gears, 3D printed boxes, etc.

Like OpenSCAD using it for normal "irregular" CAD is going to be extremely frustrating. Like editing an SVG in notepad instead of Inkscape.

I still feel like there's a unexplored space where you combine the benefits of both somehow though. Like a code-based CAD but it also has a GUI editor that stays in sync and avoids the need to type in coordinates by hand. That would be extremely difficult though.
by ddtaylor | 2026-01-27 22:22:41+00:00
I would think being able to subpoena records for all active signal users would be a cause for concern.

Ironically enough Reddit seems to have a pretty good take on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qogc2g/comment/o21aeh...

I was genuinely surprised when I went to Reddit and saw that as the most voted comment on the story.
by babypuncher | 2026-01-27 22:22:45+00:00
I think donating that amount of money to a political candidate is unethical no matter who that candidate is.

I reject the premise that whatever this guy wants from Trump is a moral good greater than the harm that is being wrought. It is almost certainly not about pushing the common good, but ensuring that his wealth continues to grow unabated by government interference.

I find this motivation especially despicable, because he has "donates $25m to political campaigns" level wealth already. He could quit Open AI today and live out an early retirement in unparalleled luxury. But that isn't enough for him. He has to keep pouring gasoline on the dumpster fire that is American politics, leaving the rest of us to suffer, because he doesn't think hundreds of millions of dollars is enough for one person.
by Insanity | 2026-01-27 22:22:58+00:00
US is regressing on trans rights, abortion, etc. Free speech is under threat with the president “attacking” media institutions. You have daylight murder by federal agents followed by propaganda campaigns to blame the victims themselves or on the Democratic Party to create more political friction.

No one is saying China is perfect in these threads, we’re just saying the US isn’t necessarily better. Two countries can be shitty simultaneously.
by stirlo | 2026-01-27 22:23:02+00:00
Tiny airport, on island with tiny population, thats not a major tourist destination, thats subject to competing territorial claims, that had a major war fought over it in living memory, has extra security requirements and a poor terminal...

I'm flabbergasted, this is absolutely shocking and outrageous!!!

I would much rather see the penguins in the maldives!!!
by southerntofu | 2026-01-27 22:23:05+00:00
The dynamic doesn't look very different here, at least from reading the news. I don't know about the US (though i suspect <1% murder out of all police killings is a gross under-estimation), just for anyone's curiosity, in France police killing of a threatening person is the outlier. [1]

We don't have guns circulating freely around here (though some people have them such as for hunting). Many police murders take place in police custody (such as El Hacen Diarra just this month). According to the most comprehensive stats i could find [2], out of 489 deaths by police shootings (1977-2022), 275 victims were entirely unarmed.

[1] Not very scientific method: any case of police being assaulted and using "self-defense" is widely spread in the media, and those few cases per year don't account for the dozens of deaths every year.

[2] https://bastamag.net/webdocs/police/
by einpoklum | 2026-01-27 22:23:24+00:00
I'm not a big fan of LLMs, but this is quite a nice matchup... here is a fragment of my chat log:

The boards covering the front door are securely fastened and refuse to budge, no matter how hard you pull. It seems you'll need to find another way inside the white house.

> run for president to get into the white house

* You daydream about launching a presidential campaign to earn a rightful place inside the White House, but no crowd assembles and no ballots appear. This house awaits a different sort of entry—one available to the clever and bold adventurer before its door.*

* You imagine what it would be like to run for the highest office in the land and stroll triumphantly into the White House—but this place operates by different rules. No one here recognizes the word "president," and the only way forward is through wit and exploration.*
by spaceman_2020 | 2026-01-27 22:23:42+00:00
Plain Claude Code doesn’t have enough scaffolding to handle large projects

At a base level, people are “upgrading” their Claude Code with custom skills and subagents - all text files saved in .claude/agents|skills.

You can also use their new tasks primitive to basically run a Ralph-like loop

But at the edges, people are using multiple instances, each handling different aspects in parallel - stuff like Gas Town

Tbf you can still get a lot of mileage out of vanilla Claude Code. But I’ve found that even adding a simple frontend design skill improves the output substantially
by blibble | 2026-01-27 22:23:53+00:00
yeah, many options that are complicated beyond the understanding of the distro maintainers, and yet still don't allow expression of common semantics required to support network services reliably

like "at least one real IP address is available" or "time has been synced"

and it's not esoteric, even ListenAddress with sshd doesn't even work reliably

the ONLY piece of systemd I've not had problems with is systemd-boot, and then it turned out they didn't write that
by fabrice_d | 2026-01-27 22:24:22+00:00
This is a cool project, and to render Simon's blog will likely become the #1 goal of AI produced "web browsers".

But we're very far from a browser here, so that's not that impressive.
Writing a basic renderer is really not that hard, and matches the effort and low LoC from that experiment. This is similar to countless graphical toolkits that have been written since the 70s.

I know Servo has a "no AI contribution" policy, but I still would be more impressed by a Servo fork that gets missing APIs implemented by an AI, with WPT tests passing etc. It's a lot less marketable I guess. Go add something like WebTransport for instance, it's a recent API so the spec should be properly written and there's a good test suite.
by Animats | 2026-01-27 22:24:31+00:00
It's using a constructive solid geometry system. You can add and subtract volumes. Making a hole is subtracting a volume. This has classically been numeric roundoff hell, where points that should coincide and surfaces which should touch don't get handled properly due to numerical error.
The geometry engine is Manifold, which guarantees watertight meshes from boolean operations.

Ah. That's what's doing the constructive solid geometry. Here's the 2009 PhD thesis behind the object merge and difference algorithms inside Manifold. Nice. At last, soundness.
This is a long-standing problem. And now there's an open source implementation. Manifold itself is in C++, not Rust, though.

None of this is parametric. That's a different problem. That's where you put in constraints such as A is perpendicular to B, B is 100mm from C, etc., and the constraint solver tries to satisfy all the constraints. Change a dimension and everything adjusts to preserve the constraints. Parametric CAD is all about constraint solving and expressing conflicts to the user. Autodesk Inventor, Fusion, etc. have good constraint solvers.

[1] https://github.com/elalish/manifold/blob/master/docs/RobustB...
by dzhiurgis | 2026-01-27 22:24:55+00:00
As a listener I'd pay (a reasonable amount like <$5 per month) to only listen to mixes, especially if it can be filtered by bitrate.

Their best feature is social feed - I only see reposts from people I follow. But for branching out / discovery might be cool to see what their feed looks like, so something like "show followees feed".
by MrBruh | 2026-01-27 22:24:57+00:00
Out of the top 1.5 Million Android apps on the Play Store, 11,126 were insecure and exposed users’ PII. In total these 11 thousand apps exposed 1.43 Billion user records. This includes 5 apps with 100 Million downloads and 10 apps with 50 Million downloads.
by smusamashah | 2026-01-27 22:25:11+00:00
The code base I work on at $dayjob$ is legacy, has few files with 20k lines each and a few more with around 10k lines each. It's hard to find things and connect dots in the code base. Dont think LLMs able to navigate and understand code bases of that size yet. But have seen lots of seemingly large projects shown here lately that involve thousands of files and millions of lines of code.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-27 22:25:39+00:00
This idea looks very similar to journals! Each journal has a reputation, if they publish too much crap, the crap is not cited and the impact factors decrease. Also, they have an informal reputation, because impact index also has problems.

Anyway, how will universities check the papers? Somone must read the preprints, like the current reviewers. Someone must check the incoming preprints, find reviewers and make the final decition, like the current editors. ...
by SchemaLoad | 2026-01-27 22:26:00+00:00
GenAI largely seems like a DDoS on free resources. The effort to review this stuff is now massively more than the effort to "create" it, so really what is the point of even submitting it, the reviewer could have generated it themself. Seeing it in software development where coworkers are submitting massive PRs they generated but hardly read or tested. Shifting the real work to the PR review.

I'm not sure what the final state would be here but it seems we are going to find it increasingly difficult to find any real factual information on the internet going forward. Particularly as AI starts ingesting it's own generated fake content.
by palata | 2026-01-27 22:26:01+00:00
> You wrote,

And you don't seem to understand how the conversation went. I was obviously talking about my first comment, to which they answered.

> Which comments do you see doing that? Exactly?

Interestingly, those that made me write my first message were removed. Not that it was because of my message obviously, which mostly got me downvotes :-).

But the next best one would be:

"public shaming is the next best thing. I sincerely hope links to this incident will haunt him every time someone googles his name forevermore"

(after implying that ideally they should lose their job for this)
by dangus | 2026-01-27 22:26:16+00:00
Simple in theory, snobby in practice.

Making food from scratch is a time luxury. It often benefits from good/expensive kitchen equipment unless you want to spend even more time and labor.

Let’s take bread as an example. I can buy it from the store for a dollar or two pre-sliced with preservatives and processing, or I can make it myself, which doesn’t really save any money.

The fresh kind from the grocery store bakery with no preservatives costs more and goes bad faster.

I work two part time hourly jobs and my only way to keep up on bills is to pull extra hours.

When am I getting extra time to bake bread?

How am I getting extra money to buy a $300 stand mixer to make baking bread less painful?

Who is educating me to do all this when the industry has lobbied to keep ingredient disclosures confined to tiny fine print with no industry requirement to prominently display negative health aspects? It’s not like my grade school taught me this because I grew up in the wrong zip code.

For example, the sugar cereal has fun characters and colors at eye level of children and it has a bunch of advertising copy on it that makes nearly-false claims of its health benefits. But you’re saying “just don’t buy those foods” when trusted institutions are telling us the opposite.

We can also talk organic reduced pesticide vegetables, which cost more. Want to buy eggs from chickens that weren’t abused? Costs twice as much. Milk from cows that are farmed responsibly? Costs twice as much.
by simoncion | 2026-01-27 22:26:21+00:00
> The flat-rate subscription is really the only thing making it accessible right now.

So this paragraph from the "Welcome To Gas Town" article [0] suggests to me that real, sustained users of a Gas Town instance are paying far, far more than -say- 600USD per month:

Gas Town is also expensive as hell. You won’t like Gas Town if you ever have to think, even for a moment, about where money comes from. I had to get my second Claude Code account, finally; they don’t let you siphon unlimited dollars from a single account, so you need multiple emails and siphons, it’s all very silly. My calculations show that now that Gas Town has finally achieved liftoff, I will need a third Claude Code account by the end of next week. It is a cash guzzler.

200 USD per month is something that I -as a working programmer- wouldn't think twice about spending for a fantastically useful tool (even if I had to spend it from my own pocket). If I had to pay 600 USD/month out-of-pocket, it would have me thinking for a bit to see if it was really worth it, but if the company was footing the bill, I'd expense it without a second thought.

Compared to USian programmer pay (especially Yeggie-level pay), 600 USD/month absolutely does not qualify as "a cash guzzler". Hell, that's less than the cost of the sort of health insurance you usually get at nice software companies.

I suppose that there's an alternative interpretation where Yeggie is concerned about the actual cost to the LLM company for the queries that Gas Town makes... but that seems unlikely to me. First, why would he care? Second, why would he say "You won’t like Gas Town if you ever have to think, even for a moment, about where money comes from."? I would give zero shits about where my LLM company's money comes from... that's not my problem.

[0] <https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...>
by ddtaylor | 2026-01-27 22:26:38+00:00
Briar has multiple modes of operation. The Bluetooth mode is not the default mode of operation and is there for circumstances where Internet has been shut down entirely.

For users who configure Briar to connect exclusively over Tor using the normal startup (e.g., for internet-based syncing) and disable Bluetooth, there is no Bluetooth involvement at all, so your Bluetooth MAC address is not exposed.