MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MangoCoffee | 2026-01-15 23:38:15+00:00
>Apple has used both Samsung and TSMC for its chips in the past. Until the A7 it was Samsung, A8 was TSMC, and the A9 was dual-sourced by both! Apple is used to switching between suppliers fairly often for a tech company; it's not that it's too hard for them to switch fab, it's that TSMC is the only competitive fab right now.

This is false. Samsung competes with Apple on smartphones. Apple even filed a lawsuit against Samsung over smartphones.

Apple moved to TSMC because how can you trust someone to make chips for you containing your phone's core IP?

>I could totally see Apple turning to Intel for the Mac chips

I could totally see Apple will be wary turning their core IPs to Intel
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 23:38:55+00:00
Can we please make this HN discussion stay open forever. This is one of those threads which has clicked me the most. I thank the creator of this a lot. A lot of these comments are super insightful and I wish to talk but I feel and explain my situation but I always sometimes feel like it takes a mental toll. I sincerely love this discussion and have gone I think 75% aruond and its so great to see people similar to us

I wish if this post could perhaps be made an exception or similar where people can talk about this for longer. Perhaps its just me but I wish for something like this avenue in some more time (perhaps right now I feel a bit closed off for some reason) where I wish to talk but words don't come out so much.

I don't know if I am walking around the bush on what I would wish to talk about here because of it right now. I have been trying to screenshot all the posts I could find which are great here and I just don't know, I just want this HN thread/discussion to stay open forever so that I can talk here a month in or two months in when I feel even more comfortbale

The point I am trying to say is that I was losing hope in HN and every social media because of botting and other issues and just lack of trust and direction and irl interactions are few and between. This feels such a great thread and I appreciate the author (I saw their work on their website which is phenomenal)

In a way, I think atleast this thread will help solve or atleast help me (or that's how I feel) in loneliness epidemic and I am grateful for that but I just want this to stay forever.

One of the issues I have in creating a special place for talks like these is that I see very few people sign in//sign up or talk. HN has lots of users and I got some really insightful answers here.

I think its technically possible and I just want the moderators to do this once. Dang if you are reading this, I genuinely hope that you can keep this thread permanent/long time. Loneliness is a real concern and I just feel that some people are unable to reach out (perhaps me right now) and definitely need some right place and right time and if this could just stay or (stay longer at the very least) I would deeply appreciate it sir
by JohnFen | 2026-01-15 23:39:51+00:00
> Has it backfired?

You weren't asking me, but I'll chime in anyhow. If by "backfire" you mean have I suffered any adverse consequences, then no.

Interestingly, in several cases, I've had other engineers talk to me privately to express gratitude that I said something. They had the same concerns as I, but were too afraid to speak up for fear of consequences.

My attitude has always been that if I'm being punished for doing my job then I'm in the wrong job anyway, so I don't worry about it.
by subbu_devhub | 2026-01-15 23:40:04+00:00
@focusedone if you see the code link here https://github.com/subranag/declutter/blob/main/src/page.ts there are some specific techniques recommended to simulate normal browsing behaviour, but it does not work 100% percent of the times, but works on most of the sites

for example
* simulate scrolling after page loads
* simulate plugins
* simulate location
etc

once all of this is done hopefully the HTML content becomes readable
by treetalker | 2026-01-15 23:40:05+00:00
> The [Fourth] amendment is meant to protect Americans from unreasonable searches or seizures of their property by the government.

Much more than that! It reads:

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Seizure includes, for the sake of example, physical violence and, more specifically, shooting people in the head.
by orbital-decay | 2026-01-15 23:40:13+00:00
> in general I find GPT 5.x to actually be a huge breakthrough in terms of asserting itself when I’m wrong

That's just a different bias purposefully baked into GPT-5's engineered personality on post-training. It always tries to contradict the user, including the cases where it's confidently wrong, and keeps justifying the wrong result in a funny manner if pressed or argued with (as in, it would have never made that obvious mistake if it wasn't bickering with the user). GPT-5.1 in particular was extremely strongly finetuned to do this. And in longer replies or multiturn convos, it falls into a loop on contradictory behavior far too easily. This is no better than sycophancy. LLMs need an order of magnitude better nuance/calibration/training.

Fundamental LLM phenomena (ICL, repetition, serial position biases, consequences of RL-based reasoning etc) haven't really changed, and they're worth studying for a layman to get some intuition. However, they vary a lot model to model due to subtle architectural and training differences, and impossible to keep up because there are so many models and so few benchmarks that measure these phenomena.
by observationist | 2026-01-15 23:40:21+00:00
If someone shits on the floor, sometimes you have to let it sit and stink until someone else makes them clean it up.

If you clean it up, you're taking responsibility for it that might not be yours to take, and in an organization with many managers, that can permanently wreck your chances for advancement if those above you perceived your involvement as intruding on their territory, or trying to make them look bad, or trying to make the culprit look bad, and so on, and so forth.

Rarely is it "wow, there was a problem and they fixed it, without even being asked!"

Organizations that are rational and have good management let people take responsibility like that, and it's a good thing. Most organizations are not like that, and the bigger they get, the more likely it is you'll have an adversarial, territorial, hyper-political environment with saccharine smiles and backstabbing, and doing anything that even hints at negatively framing a manager, even just in their own minds, is sufficient reason to make it not your problem.

If you have good reasons to fix it, or if it's your problem for reasons that make management look good, you have the opportunity to fix an issue and be appreciated for it. Otherwise, it's just not worth jumping on other teams' grenades.

It'd be nice if everyone was rational and competent and secure and anti-fragile, but humans kinda suck in groups.
by jaygeorgedunn | 2026-01-15 23:40:24+00:00
Hey folks,

I'm new to hacker news, mostly because I haven't had anything worthy to talk about. I may have browsed a bit after clicking on an article every now and then, but that's about it.

Recently, I created a method to generate memorized, infinite deterministic data. This is similar to procedural generation but has the ability to always be reproduced, is reversible, and can be jumped to by index. This is all only from an input parameter string with a size of just a few bytes.

I've released the code on Github and would like to keep it open source. The tool is pretty powerful, and can be used for things like content generation, synthetic data and procedural generation. While it isn't typical compression, its ability to re-create data in real-time allows for a tremendous reduction in storage space.

I got the idea to experiment on an infinite map while playing the game No Man's Sky.

Youtube Demos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZpLizGTNv6ZesE19gLMniNZb...
Ask HN: When is Gemini 3.0 Flash Lite coming out?
by Nora23 | 2026-01-15 23:40:24+00:00
I'm currently using Gemini 3.0 via API, but it's slow and expensive. On the other hand, 2.5 Flash doesn't have enough capability for what I need.

I was hoping for a 3.0 Flash Lite version that balances speed, cost, and performance, but I haven't seen any rumors or announcements. Does anyone know if Google is planning to release one?
by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 23:40:25+00:00
> It’s important to point out that for much of the lifecycle of a project, whether it’s “bad” is highly subjective.

I can’t emphasize this part enough.

I’ve been part of some projects where someone external to the team went on a crusade to shut our work down because they disagreed with it. When we pushed through, shipped it, and it worked well they lost a lot of credibility.

Be careful about what you spend your reputational capital on.
by Lerc | 2026-01-15 23:40:44+00:00
Thank you very much for this description.

If I understand it in a nutshell. If Gradient is the angle Hessian is the curvature.

and Jacobians let you know how much weights contributed to the blue component of something identified as a big blue cat.

I think.

Jacobians look like they could be used to train concept splitters. For instance if an LLM has a grab bag of possible conversation paths, the final embedding would have information for each path, but once the selection is made it could filter the embedding to that path, which would be beneficial for chain of thought using the filtered embedding instead of the predicted token. I always wondered how much the thinking in embedding space carried around remnants of conversation paths not taken.
by wordsunite | 2026-01-15 23:40:45+00:00
Definitely a big tech thing I don’t miss. At a startup everyone is trying to make the company succeed vs pet projects, so giving advice about architectural decisions or helping fellow engineers with areas you have more expertise in is often welcomed. There are always pros and cons, but that type of culture is so much more fun. Even on hard days I love working with people who want to help each other.
by Nadav--Shanun | 2026-01-15 23:41:22+00:00
No electricity. No internet. Just jungle and the mission.

He made technology work in conditions it was never designed for.

Meanwhile, sales teams in 2025:

Air conditioning
Gigabit wifi
$50,000 tech stack

Still manually copying data between tools.

If Pablo could make AI work in a rainforest with a satellite phone and generator, we can automate your CRM updates.

The technology exists.

Someone just needs to build it for you.

That's what we're doing at Geome.

Your computer works. You go outside.
by dzink | 2026-01-15 23:41:43+00:00
The goal is not to ignore human nature, but to build better tools for orgs to get feedback and act on it before it corrodes them on the inside. Government is the biggest of them all - fix this and maybe you can create government that works for you, instead of blowing taxpayer dollars like a leaky bucket. Humans in an organizations are like cells or organs in a body. Every country, team, and organization iterates on a proper nervous system for their body.
by amluto | 2026-01-15 23:42:02+00:00
Which has what, exactly, to do with Palantir?

On a somewhat related note, it always bothers me that the discussion is about whether it’s appropriate for the government to buy this sort of data as opposed to whether it is appropriate for anyone to sell, or for that matter collect, that data.

I would prefer if neither the government nor any data brokers or advertisers had this data.
by V__ | 2026-01-15 23:42:10+00:00
Obama was elected, which made some people very angry:

> Here’s John Boehner, the likely speaker if Republicans take the House, offering his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We’re going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”

> Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up his plan to National Journal: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

Sure Trump took everything to an absurd level of "do the opposite of biden no matter what", but it started back then.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2010/10/the-gops-no-compromis...
by blondie9x | 2026-01-15 23:42:34+00:00
But what surprises me most in this entire debate is how little we talk about the biological cost of CO₂ itself. We focus so much on the globalized damage to the climate that we’ve overlooked the direct, physiological tax that combustion is levying on our bodies. For some reason conservative governments want us to continue to trade our atmospheric oxygen for carbon dioxide through the burning fossil fuels. I wrote more about this topic on substack:

https://minimallysustained.substack.com/p/beyond-the-greenho...
by Desafinado | 2026-01-15 23:42:54+00:00
I agree. When I say people lived in close proximity I don't mean 'across the city' or 'the next town over', I mean that traditionally you were actually in the same physical location where socializing required essentially no travel, and you'd often have to exist in communal spaces.

These days even people who are nearby are still far. That 30 minute drive both ways along with coordinating a time is a lot of extra work to add onto an already busy life.

But if these same people lived on your street you could just pop over for a quick coffee. As is what actually happens. My wife and I have socialized with new friends in our neighborhood more than close family lately because they're right around us. The kicker is we built the friendships through our kids school and repeated proximity rather than artificially.
by uejfiweun | 2026-01-15 23:43:12+00:00
I wonder if there would be some way to create a hyper-local MMO. Let people meet each other from the comfort of their homes and bond over the shared activity of the MMO, and make it so the people you are likely to play with are also in your general geographic region. That way, it would be an easy way to meet people, bond with them, and potentially meet up IRL to take the friendship further.

I think this would be an awesome idea but the main challenge here would be game design and implementation. You'd need a lot of capital and some big ass game studio.
by epolanski | 2026-01-15 23:43:36+00:00
I've never learned so much and so fast as I do with LLMs.

1. Most of the learning before, especially technical related involved a lot of google searching for the information I needed. LLM here removes a lot of the friction and boring parts of the process.

2. At work I can leverage LLMs for some very mundane tasks, again, mostly related to information gathering. There was a time when I needed days to connect the dots in some very convoluted code written by your average developer. Even more to figure out the purpose of choices and how they connected to the business domain, often in situations where the relevant stakeholders and people with the know-how left the company. This kind of work, made of tons and tons of paper pages with my notes would sincerely exhaust me. And this kind of work has been the bulk of my career because coding was never the hard part. On this LLMs are increasingly better. This leaves me a lot of energy more to actually investigate the overall architectural decisions and technical details both of my projects and their dependencies (which have never been as easy to traverse).

3. Since I am less mentally exhausted (the only way to get mentally exhausted with LLMs is if you're "half vibecoding" so producing tons and tons of code which you are actually thoroughly reviewing) I have way more space to dedicate to learning. I do it both by practicing manual coding stuff for fun or editing the things I don't like in the work codebases I see, or by doing more katas on codewars or leetcode exercises. Also, I end up just in general asking more questions I would've not made just out of sheer curiosity and often learn a lot of things that suddenly "click". Another thing I do is way more spaced repetition exercises on topics I care (such as the many odd things you can learn with a language like C or metaprogramming coolness you encounter in Ruby and similar) on Remnote.

Honestly I don't get how you can learn less by having such a tool that removes so much friction.

But of course, if every AI naysayer conflates every LLM usage with vibecoding and with delegating the thinking and reasoning to LLM messages then sure, they are a disaster used like that. But that's on the user, not the tool.
by tyleo | 2026-01-15 23:43:56+00:00
Yeah, I love this take. Very similar for me.

I have encountered people who don’t want to hear advice and repeatedly have a sort of knee-jerk negative reaction. It’s very rare though and I’d leave an org if this was the norm. I can count these people on one hand in my 10-year career.

I’ve also encountered people who have an initial negative reaction but considered the advice over the next few days or weeks and later thanked me.
by sunshine-o | 2026-01-15 23:44:16+00:00
Yes I am not sure people really have a grasp of what NATO is.

NATO is just a military fair where Denmark, Belgium or Greece get scammed and order a dozen F35.

And also a lot of people get some cushy jobs and contract there. They sometimes produce funny videos and documents like [0]

The idea that you can takeover NATO without the US and repurpose it to fight a war is nonsense.
This idea has probably been put in people head by having Mark Rutte, an aspiring pianist who worked in HR at Unilever, talking nonsense on TV all the time.

- [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUeOJ5pMHiQ
by mystraline | 2026-01-15 23:44:36+00:00
Ive done exactly this.

Upper management agreed to geoIP blocking of the app, without consulting engineering. Why this matters is that GeoIP blocking is at best a whack-a-mole with constantly updating lists and probabilistic blocklists. And is easy to route around with VPNs.

The verbiage they approved was "geoblocking", not "best effort of geoblocking". Clients expected 100% success rate.

When that didn't work, management had to walk that back. We showed proof of what we did was reasonably doable. That finally taught upper management to at least consult before making grandiouse plans.
by 8bitsrule | 2026-01-15 23:44:47+00:00
GPT keeps using the word 'I' in its responses. It uses exclamation marks! to suggest it wants to help!

When I assert that its behavior is misleadingly suggesting that it's a sentient being, it replies 'You're right'.

Earlier today it responded:
"You're right; the design of AI can create an illusion of emotional engagement, which may serve the interest of keeping users interacting or generating revenue rather than genuinely addressing their needs or feelings."

Too bad it can't learn that by itself after those 8 deaths.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-15 23:45:20+00:00
If we were interested in buying it out from under Denmark, we could have done that before souring relations with some of our strongest allies. If we are only interested in using it for strategic military purposes, we already have effectively unchecked ability to set up bases and such.

I can buy that Greenland valuable to the US for geopolitical reasons. I can't understand what about the status quo of "we get to put our military here, and our close ally Denmark can run the civilian stuff" was so terrible that we needed to undermine our allies' and enemies' confidence in us to seize it.
by gnfargbl | 2026-01-15 23:45:27+00:00
Calling this corporate pacifism is being quite kind. I would be a little stronger and say that this article is a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

The behaviours described are obviously pathological, and the author must know that they are pathological. If the right thing for the company is for team A to give up their core user flow then, in a truly healthy organisation, team A should do that relatively easily, safe in the knowledge that they will be rewarded and not punished for helping the wider organisation succeed.

The fact that team A will not do this is obviously not unusual, but it shouldn't be normalised as healthy corporate behaviour either. This kind of thing is a symptom of a sick business.
by okanat | 2026-01-15 23:45:32+00:00
For purely data, sure, that works. I have actually done it for multiple projects but for industrial purposes. It is slower than what a phone can achieve with an integrated baseband and SoC but would be good enough

For VoLTE, it is possible to get very basics with external modules but it is also very time and operator dependent. You need to have the profiles of each and every single operator you may support. If the phone would be globally available, this means thousands of profiles. Your module needs to be configurable after deployment. You still carry the risk of operator changing their profile or switching to a different encoding that your module doesn't support.

RCS is completely proprietary to the specific operator. There are currently no external modules that supports it, nor I beleive will be due to the complete proprietary nature. Google and Apple internally handle their pairing with the ones that support it.

On top of these two, you have actually a significantly bigger problem. The reason companies like Qualcomm integrate baseband chips with the main SoC die is the power efficiency. With external modules you will never reach an integrated circuit efficiency. Moreover you are sacrificing valuable battery space to the extenal module.
by MangoCoffee | 2026-01-15 23:45:38+00:00
>If tech sector is so anti-competitive, the government should just seize it and nationalize it.

Trump is using his DOJ to probe Jerome Powell with a bogus lawsuit because the Fed won't lower rates on demand.

An independent Fed is the most important body for the USA. Lowering rates should be based on facts, not dictated by some bankrupt casino CEO. And now you want our government to nationalize the tech sector?
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 23:46:23+00:00
I’m unfamiliar with the details of the door knocking case, but I’ll defer to the courts on it. More broadly, plenty of citizens have had their fourth amendment rights violated, petitioned the court for redress, and received it - that doesn’t mean we stop enforcing traffic laws, drug laws, or disband the local police.

Naturalization: not mentioned in my thread that I can see, but just like parole, TPS, and other immigration proceedings, it’s only permanent when it’s permanent.

“if we wanted to reduce crime, we'd go after citizens first”: Yes, I agree! Let’s fund the police and prosecutors, reinstate requirements to post bail for crimes, and enforce our existing laws, even for things like shoplifting, drug possession, and panhandling.
by t-writescode | 2026-01-15 23:46:40+00:00
Even in startups, sometimes you’ve just got to let the consequences of the things you’ve warned about happen.

I’ve lost too much sleep and fought too many battles and lost too much clout over the years trying to make sure bad things didn’t happen. “Nobody could have foreseen this” is still said, even if there’s a ton of evidence, recommendations, pleading, etc, to keep it from happening.
by xyzelement | 2026-01-15 23:46:49+00:00
You got downvoted for stating your experience in a way that feels unpalatable to someone who doesn't have to deal with this. But your story is a perfect example of what I am talking about. If you live in MN or somewhere else that's drastically changed in this way in recent years, you're (a) thrilled that someone is finally doing something and (b) just not gonna be super upset about things that go wrong in the process even though obviously you don't want them going wrong.