MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andrepd | 2026-01-10 11:59:02+00:00
A 100% rate LVT would not solve, but would certainly massively improve, this situation. The free market is ill-suited for many things and has tremendous problems, but even in its theoretical ideal it simply does not work if a limited commons such as land is not properly accounted for, and instead intermediaries and speculators can extract "rent" (in the economic sense, as rentiers) without providing a service.
by metalman | 2026-01-10 11:59:05+00:00
moto g15 in hand, deguggled as much as possible right out of the box, no guggle accounts or big tech apps, bank through a browser, but there is defintly a lot of outright fraud as to bieng able to turn off google apps, it is an arcane procedure to turn off notifications, insisting that nothing will work without "play store" installed, though it is clear that going to a linux phone will become the only way to avoid adversurvielance security and tracking from taking over my device completly.
keep in mind that our techno facist elite did provide the "intel" that led to ICE bieng sent to a particular area code in minaipolis, where they executed a mild mannered chearfull poet, who's last words, somehow knowing, were, "i dont hate you".
"tech" is central to whatever comes next

https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted
by leothetechguy | 2026-01-10 11:59:36+00:00
Step 1 in this situatoon is to try and see if this is a known mathematically unsolved problem, and if it is, giving up.

Isn't this just trying to find a hamiltonian cycle, isn't this NP hard? That's when I would give up, especially because you put so many constraints in it to make it human walkable.

Edit: Of course you don't have to give up, but it's good to know what you get yourself into
by mathisd | 2026-01-10 11:59:44+00:00
Author doesn't mention it but he should try to use BetterDisplay.
MacOS interface scaling works well for screens around 200 PPI (2K 13inch, 4K 24inch, 5K 27inch). 4K 32inch is 138 PPI, which likely means he is not using default interface scaling which causes some distortion and out of grid pixel rendering.
BetterDisplay fixes this by using an integer multiple of intended GUI scaling resolution before projecting it (3X -> 1.5X).
by throwup238 | 2026-01-10 12:00:04+00:00
> Anecdotally, we use Opus 4.5 constantly on Zed's code base, which is almost a million lines of Rust code and has over 150K active users, and we use it for basically every task you can think of - new features, bug fixes, refactors, prototypes, you name it. The code base is a complex native GUI with no Web tech anywhere in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522437

Zed is open source so you can look at their PRs and commit history.
by Remo12 | 2026-01-10 12:01:25+00:00
Quantum computers are often described as machines that will outperform classical computers at everything.
In reality, today’s quantum devices have very specific limits that are important to understand.

First, quantum computers do not replace classical computers. They are not general-purpose machines and are only useful for a narrow class of problems. For most everyday tasks, classical computers are still faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

Second, quantum computers cannot run traditional software. They do not execute operating systems, web applications, databases, or common programming workloads. Quantum programs are highly specialized and must be designed specifically for quantum hardware.

Another major limitation is noise and instability. Current quantum devices are extremely sensitive to environmental interference, which introduces errors during computation. As a result, quantum calculations often require statistical interpretation rather than deterministic results.

Despite common claims, quantum computers cannot currently break modern cryptography. While algorithms such as Shor’s algorithm exist in theory, today’s hardware is far from the scale and reliability required to apply them in practice.

Finally, quantum computers do not solve poorly defined problems. They can accelerate well-formulated algorithms, but they do not compensate for unclear models or incorrect assumptions.

Understanding what quantum computers cannot yet do is not a criticism of the field. On the contrary, it helps set realistic expectations and highlights where genuine progress is still needed.
by kleptomaniacs | 2026-01-10 12:01:59+00:00
At this point they have enough experience in dealing with Oligarchy and kleptocracy of Westerners. If OIL and Natural Resources are not there 99.9% of Westerners/Americans Cannot even Find Iran in a map.

This is a engineered Colored revolution for regime change operation. Standard template of Americans to plunder loot natural resources of countries. Recent one is in Venezuela. They will censor this comment, too. LOL!!!
by jacquesm | 2026-01-10 12:02:05+00:00
The problem is stated clearly enough that humans that we ask the question of will sooner or later see that there is an optimum and that that optimum relies on understanding.

And no, the problem is not 'not clearly stated'. It is complete as it is and you are wrong about your guess.

And if machines and people think this is related to weight lifting then they're free to ask follow up questions. But even in the weight lifting case the answer is the same.
by bregma | 2026-01-10 12:02:06+00:00
> What are the other limitations I should know about?

It's completely inadequate for anything more than a memo or simple single-page note. Which is fine for many purposes a typical software developer encounters but quickly gets left behind for anything more.

It's exclusively a markup language, completely lacking in semantic meaning. If you're trying to write an actual document, the title is the title not some bold text in a bigger font, for example.

Like a hammer, it's a great tool for certain jobs. So many people assume all their writing tasks are nails.
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by onurkanbkrc | 2026-01-10 12:03:09+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful comment!

I think there’s a small misunderstanding, though: while systems like GPS do account for relativistic effects at the clock level (and even with extremely precise atomic clocks and practical synchronization via NTP), this doesn’t mean we have a universal or perfectly shared notion of “the same time” across distributed nodes — especially once you consider network delays, clock drift, and faulty or unreachable nodes

In physics there is no absolute global time for spatially separated events, and in distributed systems this shows up as unavoidable uncertainty in synchronization.

Also, the FLP result isn’t about relativity or physical clocks at all — it’s a theoretical result about the impossibility of guaranteed consensus in fully asynchronous systems with failures.

So even with very accurate clocks and practical time bounds, distributed algorithms still have to explicitly deal with uncertainty and partial synchrony rather than assuming perfect global time.
by femto | 2026-01-10 12:06:42+00:00
There are a number of projects that do this, using mobile phones to form ad hoc / mesh networks.

https://www.open-mesh.org/

https://briarproject.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_ad_hoc_network

The original but now defunct?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serval_Project
by freehorse | 2026-01-10 12:06:55+00:00
To be fair, the comment did not explain any concept that I can see, or why this statement is simple. It gave the statement and said it was simple to formalise. It does seem simple enough to me (basic arithmetic statement with a few variables and a bunch of quantifiers) but if somebody has no expertise/intuition, I think it is a fair question, without any hostile intent assumed.
by IshKebab | 2026-01-10 12:07:10+00:00
This is driven by the EU forcing them to allow alternative payment methods in the Play Store.

They are trying to avoid it, but I doubt the EU will let this stand:

https://www.developer-tech.com/news/google-alters-play-store...

Android is open source partly because they can fund it from Play Store profits. Google is thinking that their Play Store profits are going to be cut, and they want to make the profit up elsewhere - and importantly, maintain control of the platform. This is their method.

They've already used this playbook in the past with Google Play Services, and even before that when they abandoned all the built-in open source apps (Email, Calendar, etc.).
by mjqs | 2026-01-10 12:07:14+00:00
It's not. When using Claude Code (or similiar)you get a lot of problems in every shell about flickering, not being able to copy, not being able to move text cursor and so on. It's bad UX

If using TMUX you can "ctrl + b [" to enter copy mode and then you can move cursor as you wish. I wrote about this stuff too on https://mjqs.blog/meta/
by chongli | 2026-01-10 12:07:34+00:00
Here “much of” is doing the heavy lifting. Are you willing to commit to a percentage or a range?

I work at an insurance company and I can’t see AI replacing even 10% of the employees here. Too much of what we do is locked up in decades-old proprietary databases that cannot be replaced for legal reasons. We still rely on paper mail for a huge amount of communication with policyholders. The decisions we make on a daily basis can’t be trusted to AI for legal reasons. If AI caused even a 1% increase in false rejections of claims it would be an enormous liability issue.
by ninjagoo | 2026-01-10 12:07:37+00:00
perhaps it needs to be tech that is useful in daily life, with the ability to switch channels automatically when the main isp is unavailable. An example is the HNT helium network - an alternative data transport mechanism. Not saying that is what should be used - that's a crypto thing - but the principle is the same.

thinking about it in terms of "getting caught" might be the less ideal way to approach it - think of it in terms of building a more reliable system, which is a goal everyone can get behind.
by arter45 | 2026-01-10 12:08:35+00:00
Are you talking about individuals or companies?

Self-hosting (everyone has its own mail server) is not easy. You have to keep at least one server (possibly two or more), backups, buy a domain and an MX record, plus DKIM/SPF/DMARC, get a static IP (is MX compatible with DDNS?), ensure exposing mail servers to the Internet doesn't violate TOS from your own ISP if you do it at home (based on what kind of contract you have, it might be a thing), ensure your emails are actually delivered and your domain is not blacklisted, ensure your mail server is sufficiently secure (firewall, regular patching,...). These are just the basics. Then you might want to enable some kind of logging (and keeping it safe), automatically discard obvious spam, and so on.

Non-technical individuals cannot easily do all this. Remember even using a custom, non ISP-provided router is something that the public usually doesn't do.

Technical individuals could do this, but not everyone wants to do IT stuff in their free time. I'm a sysadmin, I have never set up a mail server but cloning your repo and following instructions I'm fairly confident I could do this (though deliverability is a whole other thing)... but I don't want to be a sysadmin even at home.

Currently, I don't see self-hosting as a convenient enough solution for me, when comparing pros to cons.

Lock-in is another issue that is not necessarily solved by self hosting. Other non-Gmail mail servers exist. The main reason behing Gmail's lock-in is 1) it easily integrates with other Google stuff, and 2) all websites support registering, notifications,... with Gmail accounts.

When it comes to 1), not all people care, and some alternatives provide somewhat similar services (calendar,...), although obviously not integrated with Google.

As for 2), this is not solved by self-hosting, unless self-hosting gets so popular that websites have to support all kinds of domains to not lose market share.
by vladdoster | 2026-01-10 12:09:00+00:00
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by mrkramer | 2026-01-10 12:10:03+00:00
Cloudflare is not for the open internet; they can you kick you out of their service if they don't like you whenever they want, which is fine and legal for that matter or they freaking can have an outage and have your service shut down that way. It's a lose, lose situation. Stay out of Cloudflare, there is nothing good about them.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-10 12:10:09+00:00
Not to be funny, but is POSIX scripting even still relevant? It's well understood that they should only be used for quick and simple tasks, and anything more serious or demanding should be done using something like python instead. But these quick and dirty tasks are very easy for LLM coding agents to do in python. I used to have dozens of shell scripts, each no more than tens of lines long, in my ~/bin/, but I had an LLM rewrite all of them in python, adding proper argument handling, --help messages and error handling too in the process. I sincerely don't think I'll ever write another bash script again.
by stevenhuang | 2026-01-10 12:10:49+00:00
The situation was more complicated than that, there was pressure from the US gov (itar) and desire not escalate the situation at the time.

Now that the geopolitical situation has changed and funding concerns mostly alleviated, there are 200k terminals in use in Ukraine.

https://circleid.com/posts/starlink-in-ukraine-what-three-ye...
by cube2222 | 2026-01-10 12:11:54+00:00
I bought a w-oled monitor for office work and gaming, very happy with my oled tv. I returned it after a couple days.

I got unbearable eye strain from it, even though I use rather large fonts, and the ppd was the same as with my previous IPS. Yes, the “more fuzzy” text was very much noticeable too.

Maybe it varies by person, maybe it’s influenced by things like astigmatism, but I totally see where the author is coming from, and I too am waiting for the new OLED panels to see if there’s an improvement.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-10 12:12:00+00:00
I agree that people clearly don't use critical thinking 100% of the time and are easily influenced.

But you're basically arguing for not criticizing the status quo.

Many social improvements have been attained by "attacking the foundations of society". How would you like living under some absolute monarchy? How do you think gay people would like to live in a church-run society like 500 years ago?
by tmsbrg | 2026-01-10 12:12:48+00:00
I tried fish for a while but as someone who heavily used bash before I couldn't get used to the new language. I also didn't feel they the language was much better than bash, at least for my usage. But I loved the default automatic coloring of arguments, underlining of files, etc.

Later I found fizsh, which I love and still use as default shell now. It's basically a configuration around zsh adding the colors, completions, and other good stuff inspired by fish to zsh. Can really recommend it for those who are used to zsh or bash but want their CLI to be more readable. Colors especially help with big command line arguments to show where they start and end, and keeping track of complex stuff like loops and conditional logic in your commands.
by solumunus | 2026-01-10 12:13:17+00:00
Because if the LLM does it wrong you simply correct it, you will still get to the end result quicker than DIY. People like this stuff because they’re getting their work done faster, or getting more work done. Personally while waiting I’m either creating plans for other tasks, or I do chores, exercise, watch TV, have a shower, etc.
by bloomingeek | 2026-01-10 12:13:41+00:00
In my ideal world, corporate responsibility is a must. Making junk products or killing product updates because they can't sell you the updated version is irresponsible. They listened to feedback because they know their products are overpriced for the market, so they decided to do the right thing, but only after they were called out. That's backwards. Corporations don't know the meaning of nice, only money.
by ninjagoo | 2026-01-10 12:13:53+00:00
> Anything persistent at all is downright unusable - they'll be tracked and destroyed, people near them arrested etc.

That's a really good point. Maybe the tech needs to be in reasonably widespread use prior to when it's needed, then it becomes harder to strangle in the moment. A product in everyone's home and office.

Wi-fi routers with long-range capabilities and automatic mesh fallback in case of isp outage?
by crawfordcomeaux | 2026-01-10 12:14:44+00:00
Loving this prime example of why I say we need to identify the genuine systems-theoretic needs of humans and our natural environments. And mathematically/experimentally define & verify them. Optimizing for anything outside of what's literally needed seems to be fundamental to oppression, intended or not.

"The important part is figuring out what you should be optimizing for in the first place.

Most of the time, we don’t even ask that question. We just optimize for whatever’s easy to measure and hope it works out.

Spoiler: it probably doesn’t."
by bigfatkitten | 2026-01-10 12:15:06+00:00
Client side support for strong authentication is pretty much nonexistent outside of the oligopoly.

Mail clients support SASL XOAUTH2 using hard-coded client IDs/secrets only for a handful of service providers; there is typically no user-facing way to add others, even via
enterprise policy.

RFC7591 and RFC7628 mostly solve this and have been around for a decade or so, but have been universally ignored by mail client developers because Microsoft and Google haven't implemented it.
by thefounder | 2026-01-10 12:15:36+00:00
>> If there is disinformation, the solution is to counter it with actual information

So what you argue is that we should build good bots to counter the bad bots right? and all this in a "secret" to avoid suspension by the tech companies. This looks like playing stupid games.

The disinformation in this era can basically shadow any kind of legitimate "counter-disinformation".
To make the game fair we would first need lockdown the internet content on citizen ID authorization so that we can identify if the free speach spread is actually published by a real person or some chinese bot pretending to be a single European mom with 3 kids.

This is not something anyone wants so I think the current trade off of court orders to take down content is legitimate and the best approach.
Cloudflare, the tech companies and US government likes the absolute free speech like everything else (i.e. free market) as long as it serves their interests. I wouldn't be surprised to see Cloudflare proudly repelling some "chinese propaganda attacks" and frame it like a cyber security win instead of anti-free speech action.
by lawtalkinghuman | 2026-01-10 12:16:23+00:00
The actual data is being held by GPs, hospitals, other secondary care providers, and pharmacies. Enough of those providers use systems that all conform to a bunch of common standards and APIs that the NHS app can get that data (and the idea is it puts pressure on the remainder to switch to systems that are accessible).

The capabilities the NHS app offers will depend on what subset of the functionality the GP practice has implemented (on, in reality, the commercial vendor that makes the software they use).

NHS has pretty reasonable developer documentation which explains most of the high level pieces of the system - https://digital.nhs.uk/developer/guides-and-documentation
by ninjagoo | 2026-01-10 12:17:46+00:00
That old maxim - the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it - no longer true unfortunately.

Larger and larger swathes of the world population are coming under the purview of governments and corporations that are technologically strangling the free flow of information over the intertubes. China, Russia, India, Iran, UK, US (corporations a.t.m.) are the prominent examples.

Just having a resilient software stack is no longer sufficient. An open source hardware stack AND infrastructure is critical.

Eventually there will be need for an open source manufacturing base as well. Even if it is only at the level of 1980s computing, that is better than nothing.

The world needs some big thinkers to start working on this yesterday. A civ resilient project to avoid the dystopian futures or something like the dark ages coming back.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-10 12:17:54+00:00
It doesn't make any sense to me why an agent would deliberately put themselves at the front of a car if they'd previously been in such an incident (presumably they weren't hurt by the previous incident). Anyone with a functioning brain would surely have much better awareness of their positioning and should be following the guidance to approach from the side.

Also, I thought there was very clear guidance about not discharging guns towards unarmed drivers as it doesn't tend to stop them and is likely to result in the vehicle being accelerated into someone/something.
by djeastm | 2026-01-10 12:18:25+00:00
>Letting a LLM do it for you is equivalent to it solving a hard leetcode problem. You're not really taxing your brain.

But things like "hey this array of objects I have, I need sorted by this property" are not hard leetcode problems

They're precisely the kind of tedious, but not taxing, problems that we prefer to farm out to someone else. Like asking a junior to do it.