MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by latexr | 2026-01-27 02:34:39+00:00
— Why are you launching nukes? No one asked you to obliterate humanity.

— You’re absolutely right. I should not have done that. Would you like me to help undo the launch?

— Yes! Quickly! Do it!

— <completely made up crap which does not work>

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
by fukuandfuku2 | 2026-01-27 02:34:39+00:00
I was sure this was going to say that they were going to force travelers to get Truth Social accounts.

Somehow I was surprised beyond my wildest guess what they would be asking people to do.

I want people to visit the U.S., but if they require that they submit all of this data, I expect that they all protest by not visiting or even coming here for work.

There are just so many terrible ideas that come from this administration that I think that they should try to harness the power all of those bad ideas in a infinite idiocy power plant to power the world for all generations to come.
by greazy | 2026-01-27 02:34:56+00:00
My very good colleague who was absolutely brilliant statistician shared his wisdom: Max the now, min the future.

He focused on the present but hated work, it was utterly boring to him, even if objectively the work benefited humanity. One day he quit and never came back. He spent his time learning to dance salsa. He was in his mid to late twenties.

Of course he was an extreme case. But his zen is important to take and balance together with future planning.

I think you can do both, aim for fuck off money but put aside a little bit for the future.

Edit: if youre wondering what happend to him - he's studying electrical engineering because I suspect he's aiming to not be behind a desk.
by rohansood15 | 2026-01-27 02:35:24+00:00
> Would you trust a Cursor review of Claude-written code more, less, or the same as a Cursor review of Cursor-written code?

You're assuming models/prompts insist on a previous iteration of their work being right. They don't. Models try to follow instructions, so if you ask them to find issues, they will. 'Trust' is a human problem, not a model/harness problem.

> Our view is that code validation will be completely autonomous in the medium term.

If reviews are going to be autonomous, they'd be part of the coding agent. Nobody would see it as an independent activity, you mentioned above.

> Our first step towards making this easier is a native Claude Code plugin.

Claude can review code based on a specific set of instructions/context in an MD file. An additional plugin is unnecessary.

My view is that to operate in this space, you gotta build a coding agent or get acquired by one. The writing was on the wall a year ago.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-27 02:35:28+00:00
Recycled plastics actually produce microplastics more than virgin plastics do. Some studies on recycled polyester garments found that they dump an additional 50% more or so into the environment than non-recycled polyester fabrics. And those non-recycled fabrics already release enormous quantities over their lifespan into the water supply and open air (via your dryer exhaust) already.

Dumb example for the sake of discussion, you could understand why recycled plutonium would not be a healthy thing to weave a sweater out of. It's less about the recycling and more about the material itself.
by ensemblehq | 2026-01-27 02:36:15+00:00
There could be many factors at play here so it’s not clear what the main issue is. However, from experience, US VC funds typically come from other US institutions and so it’s an easier sell when the corporation is US-based. Rules and regulations are more well understood and less complex for funds. The article states the requirement is to flip the structure to have the parent company based in one of the 3 countries mentioned. Presumably, better business/returns/policies
by jdub | 2026-01-27 02:36:16+00:00
Why do people even begin to believe that a large language model can usefully understand and interpret health data?

Sure, LLM companies and proponents bear responsibility for the positioning of LLM tools, and particularly their presentation as chat bots.

But from a systems point of view, it's hard to ignore the inequity and inconvenience of the US health system driving people to unrealistic alternatives.

(I wonder if anyone's gathering comparable stats on "Doctor LLM" interactions in different countries... there were some interesting ones that showed how "Doctor Google" was more of a problem in the US than elsewhere.)
by bartread | 2026-01-27 02:37:28+00:00
I ran a 5S that I bought in December 2013 as my primary phone all the way up to around March 2020, just as the pandemic was really winding up.

The battery, after ailing for a little while, had eventually just given up. I'd gone skiing a couple of times, with the last trip being just before lockdown, and I think it was the cold exposure of the second trip that dealt the mortal blow, and it died shortly after I returned.

I liked that phone a lot. It did, at the time, everything I needed, and it was a really nice size, but that period in 2020 was a bad time to try to get a phone repaired. I did attempt to replace the battery myself using the guide on iFixit but, sadly, that did not go well due to some contradictory/out of order instructions, and all I succeeded in doing was damaging the phone, I think, beyond repair.

Really good to see that Apple are still supporting them though.
by srcreigh | 2026-01-27 02:37:56+00:00
I don't really want to learn how to use the borrow checker, LLM help or not, and I don't really want to use a language that doesn't have a reputation for very fast compile/dev workflow, LLM help or not.

Re; Go, I don't want to use a language that is slower than C, LLM help or not.

Zig is the real next Javascript, not Rust or Go. It's as fast or faster than C, it compiles very fast, it has fast safe release modes. It has incredible meta programming, easier to use even than Lisp.
by saidinesh5 | 2026-01-27 02:39:18+00:00
After a decade or so at startup/smaller companies, I moved to a big company in 2024 for the first time.

It amazes me how much low hanging fruit there is to grab to work on. At least things I felt would have had a truly positive impact on the customer and my own organisation.

The only way you get to work on it is if you don't ask for permission, but directly show some progress.

Now I'm switching to a different team within the same organisation that "wants to move like a start up". Let's see how things will move...
by nemo1618 | 2026-01-27 02:40:15+00:00
Here's one attempt: https://x.com/sigilante/status/2013743578950873105

My take: Any gains from an "LLM-oriented language" will be swamped by the massive training set advantage held by existing mainstream languages. In order to compete, you would need to very rapidly build up a massive corpus of code examples in your new language, and the only way to do that is with... LLMs. Maybe it's feasible, but I suspect that it simply won't be worth the effort; existing languages are already good enough for LLMs to recursively self-improve.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-01-27 02:40:23+00:00
> Our provinces have fewer rights, powers and responsibilities than US states.

It's complicated. In theory, US states have more rights and powers ("The powers not delegated to the United States [...] are reserved to the States" [0]), but in practice, the Commerce Clause lets the Federal government do essentially anything that it wants. Canada's provinces are only given control over a specific set of topics [1], but their powers are almost absolute in these areas, since the courts almost never let the Federal government interfere.

So for labour code specifically, US companies need to adhere to both Federal and state labour codes, while Canadian companies only need to follow a single provincial labour code. (There is a Canadian Federal labour code, but that only applies to Federally-regulated companies, and those companies don't need to follow the provincial labour codes)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Act,_1867#Part_VI...
by sreekanth850 | 2026-01-27 02:40:33+00:00
Never really saw the appeal of low-code. We use ABP framework on the backend, and it take care of 80% of the boring work out of the box with battle tested codebase like multi-tenancy, user management, permissions, OIDC auth, auditing, background jobs, etc. With that handled, you mostly focus on core business logic. Combined with AI for speeding up, shipping a production ready system in months is very realistic.
by bensheed | 2026-01-27 02:40:39+00:00
Not sure if anyone saw the drama on twitter today around Xilly (@x1lly, xilly.net). He's known for paid optimization sessions and content on boosting FPS/reducing input lag. He released a closed-source "GameMode" utility (essentially a game booster) that he previously shared on GitHub. That repo got mass-reported and taken down amid accusations of malware. Xilly went live showing VirusTotal scans, explaining that Windows Defender flags anything touching the registry heavily (common for these tweaks), and said even malware researcher vx-underground debunked the claims as baseless. Still, the crowd kept pushing the narrative, and GitHub pulled it. Now it's only available to his paying clients via bookings, and he's expressed disappointment in the "programmer" community for not seeing through the drama.

Whatever.

I slopcoded an opensource version - https://github.com/bensheed/OpenGameBoost

Whether these kinds of tweaks meaningfully move the needle on modern hardware is debatable. It feels like snake oil but part of me does think Windows (Win11 Especially) is bloated.

Happy to take PRs if folks want to improve/clean it up. There is definitely stuff Xilly preaches that I didn't add.
by merelysounds | 2026-01-27 02:41:15+00:00
Note, SW rendering. Still great to have that.

> Yes [SW rendering], should have clarified in the original post sorry! Hopefully GPU to come soon, still investigating that. I believed they changed the ISA so we have to modify our compiler, and I love compilers, so it should be fun! :)

source: https://bsky.app/profile/integralpilot.bsky.social/post/3mde...
by epolanski | 2026-01-27 02:42:10+00:00
Gossiping about politicians isn't a crime.

Spreading fake news (especially imagery) or insults fall in defamation cases, politicians or not.

Germany is indeed a bit harsh on that.

But in any case you're really cherry picking very very rare examples, if you want to feel the US is "way way way more free" and you're convinced about that good for you.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-27 02:42:46+00:00
Ironically, it's worse. I just wrote another comment about this. Recycled plastics carry more toxic load and shed more (and more fragmented) microplastics into the environment. Recycled plastics only win out on carbon emissions.

Moral of the story: plastic is just not good. Avoid buying things made out of ANY kind plastic if you are going to regularly wash and mechanically agitate them. You won't eliminate 100% of washed plastic in your life, but it's surprisingly easy to get rid of 80% of it without sacrificing quality of life.
by cj | 2026-01-27 02:43:15+00:00
Same here. It does incredibly well with almost all of the health and fitness related prompts I throw at it. It's great at taking a ton of context (bloodwork, medical history, metrics from Apple Health) and finding interesting trends, insights, or recommendations to optimize or improve things. Also useful in finding correlations and hypothesizing why things are the way they are based on the context.

Edit: For example, I had weakness in my tricep after straining a tendon. My shoulder also hurt. And my 2 fingers were numb. ChatGPT connected the dots between the 3 injuries and hypothesized that it was all caused by the same nerve issue. This made a lot of sense given the other symptoms, I just never connected the dots (and neither did the doctor I saw prior to that, or the physical therapist I was seeing weekly). ChatGPT gave timelines for recovery (which ended up being accurate - I'm nearly healed now). And it gave recommendations for how to accelerate recovery, how to modify my training at the gym, what exercises to swap around to avoid further injuries. Incredibly useful and immediately actionable advice that is difficult to get from anywhere else.
by drzaiusx11 | 2026-01-27 02:43:15+00:00
I recently worked on a 2008 ej25 and it was definitely a cast manifold. Possible we're mixing up terms? Maybe you meant the ejs are cast steel instead of cast iron? When I read "welded steel manifold" I think of perfectly cylindrical tubes welded to steel plate for the mounts. Likely we're saying the same thing and manifolds are just cast parts that are welded together

Note that the one I worked on was in a US Forester so definitely not stock parts (j is for Japan)

EDIT: link to example 2005 manifold listing on eBay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/157306917967
by atonse | 2026-01-27 02:43:21+00:00
> LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building.

I’ve always said I’m a builder even though I’ve also enjoyed programming (but for an outcome, never for the sake of the code)

This perfectly sums up what I’ve been observing between people like me (builders) who are ecstatic about this new world and programmers who talk about the craft of programming, sometimes butting heads.

One viewpoint isn’t necessarily more valid, just a difference of wiring.
by ack_complete | 2026-01-27 02:43:29+00:00
A major culprit is background processes that scan the drive in the background, like CompatTelRunner.exe. Works fine if you're on an SSD, but grinds an HDD to a halt. They also forgot about their own I/O prioritization API from Vista, so it also spammed I/O at Normal instead of Background priority in the early versions. Not to mention the periodic Defender scans, the Malware Removal Tool scan that runs before each major update, etc.

Similarly, Windows Update used to consume ungodly amounts of CPU time because the update system would write a multi-hundred megabyte text log and then spend forever compressing it for upload. Then they remembered their own ETL system and switched to much more efficient binary logs.

Firefox also has problems on HDD, I remember it locking up for minutes at a time doing cache maintenance until I switched permanently to SSDs.
by fooker | 2026-01-27 02:43:30+00:00
I disagree, most code is not worth improving.

I would rather make N bad prototypes to understand the feasibility of solving N problems than trying to write beautiful code for one misguided problem which may turn out to be a dead end.

There are a few orders of magnitude more problems worth solving than you can write good code for. Your time is your most important resource, writing needlessly robust code, checking for situations that your prototype will never encounter, just wastes time when it gets thrown away.

A good analogy for this is how we built bridges in the Roman empire, versus how we do it now.
by invalidname | 2026-01-27 02:43:38+00:00
Predicting the future is futile, but I would guess this would be exactly the opposite. LLMs make it remarkably easy to generate a lot of code so they can easily generate a lot of Rust code that looks good. It probably wouldn't be, and for us it would be unreadable when something goes wrong. We would end up in LLM debugging hell.

The solution is to use a higher level safer, strict language (e.g. Java) that would be easy for us to debug and deeply familiar to all LLMs. Yes, we will generate more code, but if you spend the LLM time focusing on nitpicking performance rather than productivity you would end up in the same problem you have with humans. LLMs also have capacity limits and the engineers that operate them have capacity limits, neither one is going away.
by akomtu | 2026-01-27 02:43:43+00:00
The type of art you like or dislike is a reflection of your mental state. In this sense, taste is subjective. However some of those mental states are good and some are evil, which is objective. If I suddenly find myself liking aggressive chaotic art, I'll be worried that something's changed in me in a bad way.

But you're right that I'm very confident in my measure of what's beautiful and what's not, and a few people aren't going to sway me. Even if every last human on the earth fell for this demonic art, I wouldn't budge.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-27 02:44:42+00:00
Well that's a rather political answer in that you're saying a lot, but avoiding the question, unless I'm expected to read into what you're saying, which can be interpreted in either way. I won't push it beyond to emphasize that I'm not picking particularly fringe arguments, as per your examples, I'm picking completely mainstream and normal rhetoric that you would hear from effectively 100% of politicians of a certain leaning.

As for 'genuine views' - contemporary politics is full of endless issues that if each person, absent any awareness of where we ended up, were to rank the importance - would end up nowhere remotely near the top. An obvious example is transsexual stuff. It's also comparably full of gaslighting on issues that may benefit the country, but hurt the people.

For instance low skill immigration reduces wages of low-skill workers, while simultaneously 'growing the economy.' This is something which has been studied and confirmed endlessly, yet politicians and the media will do things like misrepresent studies or cite localized studies from 46 years ago to try to implicitly, sometimes explicitly, argue that it increases wages. It's complete gaslighting.

I view populism as stepping away from these sort of deceptions. Indeed I think nearly every great president of the US in the past would certainly be derogatively framed as a populist now a days. JFK telling people we can go to the Moon, that America's resources can be spent better than trying to meddle in every single country around the world, and that a great country can only stay great if both the country works for the people but the people also work for the country? The gall of some people!
by retrac | 2026-01-27 02:44:54+00:00
On 24 January 1926, the British ship SS Antinoe was damaged by a hurricane and was at risk of sinking. The American ship SS President Roosevelt assisted in rescue and docked in Plymouth, England. A photograph of the rescue was published in both London and New York the next day. The quickness with which this photo reached New York apparently caused such a sensation that Science and Invention magazine published the linked infographic on how it was accomplished; briefly: the image was sent as a digital bitmap by transatlantic telegraph cable.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-27 02:44:57+00:00
I think some things could make your work far easier than mine, but in my case there are a lot of hoops to jump through. I initially wanted to bootstrap myself in my garage, but discovered over time that this is essentially illegal and I'm required to operate out of a business address. This is also virtually forced on me because there are a variety of compounds I can't order without a registered business and accompanying business address, which is manually verified. Fine, I totally get regulations around hazardous chemicals, though in my case it seems excessive. But, if I were to summarize the things that have been most frustrating:

- Rents in industrial spaces are absurd in my area, and I suspect they are for most of Canada in any HCOL area. If you can't wing it out of your garage, your burn rate just exploded
- Getting permits has been exorbitantly slow and complex
- WorkSafeBC cooperation and inspections are a major time sink (gets better after the first stretch)
- Getting certficates to export plants is—in my opinion—unnecessarily complex and slow, such that I don't think I'll even bother at this rate
- Inter-provincial regulations and standards can be hard as hell to nail down. Asking random people on forums can yield better results than extensive google or LLM querying
- Keeping track of things like write offs and deductions can span years for single costs. I understand why, but I don't like it
- Admin and oversight often feels like half the job. I need to be on top of so many things that aren't 'the work', and it takes a lot away from focusing on making a better product
- Shipping things is expensive as hell, and I anticipate this problem will worsen over time. Not a big deal if you don't ship anything
- Depending on the type of business you've registered, the admin overhead at different times of the year can be significant

It probably sounds like I don't understand what regulations are for and I hate red tape, but that's not the case at all. I think small businesses are disproportionately slammed by some of the requirements they create, though. I also wonder if there are blanket policies which cause some people to be pressed much harder than necessary. It makes you wonder if any of it is worth it at all.

Again though, if you just go around repairing things or you provide software services, your life will be orders of magnitude simpler. I used to have a sole proprietorship here in BC providing software consulting services, and it was fine. I had one tax hiccup in something like 10 years, and it wasn't a big deal. I rarely had to think about it.

I do wonder if this friction could be part of why Canada arguably has a lack of interest and innovation when it comes to producing material goods. It's genuinely a pain in the ass to be allowed to do it by the books, and to continue operating accordingly.

Caveat: I could be lazy and stupid
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-27 02:45:26+00:00
A lot of the "successful" or "partially successful" examples of AI replies on the above-mentioned site are like that actually, especially for the more outlandish and trollish questions. It's very much a thing, even when the wording is not exactly the same.

(Sometimes their auto-AI judgment even strangely mislabels a successful-answer-with-caveats-tacked-on as a complete refusal, because it fixates on the easily grokked caveats and not the other text in the answer.)

It'd be a fun exercise to thoroughly unpack all the ludicrously bad arguments that the model allowed for itself in any given reply.
by daversa | 2026-01-27 02:45:49+00:00
You’re not wrong at all. Automated discovery breaks down fast in big global cities because raw tags don’t capture “iconic” very well.

I actually just pushed an update that heavily retunes the scoring, boosting national and royal parks and penalizing tiny or generic parcels, which knocks out a lot of the “Drivers Triangle”–type noise. It’s meaningfully better now, but Sydney and London are good examples of where the limits show.

Treating Hyde Park differently from some obscure patch of trees using only OSM-style data is a genuinely hard problem, and at a certain point manual curation just wins. I’m likely going to add curated overrides for major hubs so the obvious, culturally important parks always surface first.

Appreciate the concrete examples. This is exactly the kind of feedback that helps tighten things up.
by ethin | 2026-01-27 02:46:00+00:00
I seriously wonder if everyone in the Windows development team(s) are just vibe-coding everything now. I feel like all of these are rookie mistakes from the POV of working on an operating system. This is also the consequence of eliminating all QA and testing and forcing your users to do that for you. Admittedly there are some things that are hard to test (or impossible to) in an automated way, but that's what the old Windows hardware lab test machines were for.