MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varenc | 2026-01-14 02:03:29+00:00
I definitely think it's a viable idea! Someone like Hackerone or Bugcrowd would be especially well poised to build this since they can look at historical reports, see which ones ended up being investigated or getting bounties, and use the to validate or inform the LLM system.

The 2nd order effects of this, when reporters expect an LLM to be validating their report, may get tricky. But ultimately if it's only passing a "likely warrants investigation" signal and has very few false negatives, it sounds useful.

With trust and security though, I still feel like some human needs to be ultimately responsible for closing each bad report as "invalid" and never purely relying on the LLM. But it sounds useful for elevating valid high severity reports and assisting the human ultimately responsible.

Though it does feels like a hard product to build from scratch, but easy for existing bug bounty systems to add.
by bigblind | 2026-01-14 02:03:57+00:00
I think more important than worrying about people treating an opaque value as structured data, is wondering _why_ they're doing so. In the case of this blog post, all they wanted to do was construct a URL, which required the integer database ID. Just make sure you expose what people need, so they don't need to go digging.

Other than that, I agree with what others are saying. If people rely on some undocumented aspect of your IDs, it's on them if that breaks.
by techblueberry | 2026-01-14 02:03:58+00:00
It’s nice reading this review because it’s exactly how I’ve felt recently. This whole “everyone will be the manager of 10 agent workflows” makes my head spin. I often get into this mode where I’m multitasking and I have to stop and remember real delivery often happens when I slow down and single thread.

I mean even before automated coding, I’d gotten myself too far down like refactoring too many things. It’s strange to see a lot of people seem to talk in, like we’ll do everything in big pre-specked water fall boulders rather than maybe AI powered atomic workflows we’ve encouraged in the past.
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-14 02:05:02+00:00
I think you are missing how ICE was used by Obama.

The ACLU calls it ‘monstrous’ and discusses Trump And Obama in the same paper. They cite Obama for lack of due process and write horrific stories about Obamas usage.

Read this paper and try to tell me Obama should not be condemned but Trump should. You really can’t do it.

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrol-wa...
by retrocog | 2026-01-14 02:05:05+00:00
The triangulation effect with 3+ observers is fascinating, but there may be a weirder extension: what if the "third observer" isn't another person but the relationship coherence between two people?

Instead of three independent signals, you'd evaluate: given how Alice and Bob usually interact, does their agreement/disagreement pattern here tell you something? (E.g., if they're habitual contrarians, their agreement is the signal, not their disagreement.)

Take it further: human + LLM collaboration, where you measure the ongoing conversational dynamics—tone shifts, productive vs. circular disagreement, what gets bypassed, how contradictions are handled. The quality of the collaborative process itself becomes your truth signal.

You're not just aggregating independent observations anymore; you're reading the substrate of the interaction. The conversational structure as diagnostic.
by dgellow | 2026-01-14 02:05:51+00:00
I’m diagnosed adhd. If you’re like me, you cannot switch it off. Medication helps a lot with the negative effects, but the stream of ideas is never turned off, it’s just way more manageable, and you feel more in control. That has been a huge improvement to my mental health.

Weed does help sometimes, though I would not say the stream is turned off, but a lot of things go in the background, if that makes sense.

It’s cliche but I would recommend to see a psychiatrist for diagnosis and a therapist
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-14 02:05:58+00:00
This is the bit I get frustrated by - the need for jerbs at all.

If we manage to replace all the workers with AI - that's awesome! We will obviously have to work out a system for everyone to get shelter, and food, and so on. But that post-scarcity utopia of everyone being able to do whatever they want with their time and not have to work, that's the goal, right? That's where we want to be.

Jerbs are an interim nightmare that we have had to do to get from subsistence agriculture to post-scarcity abundance, they're not some intrinsic part of human existence.
by thereWasAFish | 2026-01-14 02:06:43+00:00
> Main developer is blind, so accessibility has priority;

Never thought about it before, but doing development work as a blind person sounds extremely impressive.

Vision is just such a fast and easy way to acquire information. Without it, it seems quite difficult to check your existing code, easily read prior documentation, take notes, and just various other conveniences that one take for granted.

I'm sure there are various tools and methods to ameliorate these problems, but still.
by maxbond | 2026-01-14 02:07:41+00:00
To complete the circle, now that we have winnowed the space down to these options, we would normalize them and end up with 0.16 / (0.16 + 0.16) = 0.5 = 50% in both cases.

The reason I'm not putting % signs on there is that, until we normalize, those are measures and not probabilities. What that means is that an events which has a 16% chance of happening in the entire universe of possibility has a "area" or "volume" (the strictly correct term being measure) of 0.16. Once we zoom in to a smaller subset of events, it no longer has a probability of 16% but the measure remains unchanged.

In this previous comment I gave a longer explanation of the intuition behind measure theory and linked to some resources on YouTube.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35796740
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-14 02:08:18+00:00
Flamegraphs are wonderful.

Me: looks at my code. "sure, ok, looks alright."

Me: looks at the resulting flamegraph. "what the hell is this?!?!?"

I've found all kinds of crazy stuff in codebases this way. Static initializers that aren't static, one-line logger calls that trigger expensive serialization, heavy string-parsing calls that don't memoize patterns, etc. Unfortunately some of those are my fault.
by chlorion | 2026-01-14 02:08:23+00:00
I self host a small static website and a cgit instance on an e2-micro VPS from Google Cloud, and I have got around 8.5 million requests combined from openai and claude over around 160 days. They just infinitely crawl the cgit pages forever unless I block them!

(1) root@gentoo-server ~ # egrep 'openai|claude' -c /var/log/lighttpd/access.log
8537094

So I have lighttpd setup to match "claude|openai" in the user agent string and return a 403 if it matches, and a nftables firewall seutp to rate limit spammers, and this seems to help a lot.
by eru | 2026-01-14 02:08:57+00:00
> A public mail service is required by our constitution.

Where does it say so in your constitution? All I can find is the postal clause which Wikipedia summarises as follows, but whose full text isn't much longer:

> Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, of the United States Constitution, the Postal Clause, authorizes the establishment of "post offices and post roads"[1] by the country's legislature, the Congress.

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

The Postal Clause certainly allows the government to run a public postal service, but I don't see how the constitution _requires_ it. It doesn't even require the federal government to regulate postal services, it merely allows it.

Perhaps I missed something?

> It's cheaper than the private options and often the only option for many rural areas.

If you want to subsidise rural areas, I would suggest to do so openly, transparently and from general taxation. At least general taxation is progressive etc. Instead of just making urban folks pay more for their mail, whether they be rich or poor.

I would also suggest only subsidising poor rural areas. Rich rural areas don't need our help.

> It's not a monopoly.

Compare and contrast what USPS has to say https://about.usps.com/universal-postal-service/universal-se...
by shagie | 2026-01-14 02:09:42+00:00
> Benefit to the person is probably a path to citizenship

As I understand it, from an O-1 visa (a temporary one that needs to be renewed every year after the third), the next step is the Employment-Based Immigration: First Preference EB-1 visa.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...

> You may be eligible for an employment-based, first-preference visa if you are an alien of extraordinary ability, are an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a certain multinational executive or manager. Each occupational category has certain requirements that must be met ...

An OF model isn't likely to fall under the "outstanding professors and researchers" or the "certain multinational executive"... so we're going with the extraordinary ability criteria.

> You must meet at least 3 of the 10 criteria* below, or provide evidence of a one-time achievement (i.e., Pulitzer, Oscar, Olympic Medal) as well as evidence showing that you will be continuing to work in the area of your expertise. No offer of employment or labor certification is required.

More on the specifics can be found at https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-6-part-f-chapter-...

After reading this... I'm going to say that it is unlikely that an OF model would meet the requirements for an EB-1 visa as a path to citizenship.
by esond | 2026-01-14 02:10:41+00:00
We use the blank cards almost exclusively.

For Christmas, we got several members of our extended family to read their favourite story book into a voice memo on our phone(s). We set up a blank Yoto card with all those stories, and with custom icons.

It was a great stocking stuffer for our toddler, and very cute to hear him call out who is reading :)
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-14 02:11:36+00:00
Note that Szeto Wah had more of a pastor/frontman persona than a Besserwisser persona => the meme (lunge?) exceeded his reach

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E9%9B%80%E8%A1%8C%E5...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeto_Wah#:~:text=Under%20his%...
by snowwrestler | 2026-01-14 02:12:35+00:00
If the government has already been disrupted, then who is taking down the Internet?

No, the goal of “take down the Internet” is to degrade the organizing of protestors / agitators / insurgents, while preserving the ability of government to organize against them. It only works if the government has a separate sufficient infrastructure, or completely controls routing on shared infrastructure. Neither of those are true in the U.S.

To pick just one recent newsworthy example, the federal government does not have a way to deny Signal messaging to their opponents, while preserving their own use of it.
by Nursie | 2026-01-14 02:12:53+00:00
> look at the other guy replying to my comments,

And look at you - making incorrect assertions about both free speech zones (they are still used) and your central point about the arrest of a protestor who it turns out wasn't arrested.

It's sad that you're not going to walk away from this discussion thinking "Huh, maybe I wasn't very well informed, it's pretty terrible in both countries so calling out the UK as significantly worse might actually be wrong" but instead believe you were attacked by unreasonable, tribal British people defending authoritiarianism.

But that's arguing on the internet I guess.

By the way, here's another example of the use free speech zones and the arrests of people for having their say -

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/12/protesters-keep-gett...

"Since state officials created a “free speech zone,” local police continue to make arrests that have “no apparent purpose other than just intimidating people away from that line, and sending a message that they’re going to be controlling the area with force,” said civil rights attorney Joe DiCola."

Suppression of protest is unfortunately a popular thing for governments in a lot of places right now. It's as bad (if not worse) in Australia, where I live, especially in New South Wales where they seem determined to find a pretext to ban any and all marches.

And to make it absolutely clear - I do not support any of it nor am I defending the actions of the UK authorities. Also not a monarchist, that family of parasites needs to be stripped of all powers, lands and assets stolen from the British and other peoples, and I was disgusted by what the British authorities did to suppress dissent leading up to the coronation of King big-ears.
by nl | 2026-01-14 02:13:09+00:00
> omniscient vibe... that HN human commenters usually don't

au contraire!

HN commenters are notoriously overconfident of their (our?) knowledge, especially in areas outside our expertise.

> Do you think the root comment is _not_ AI?

I don't think it is AI, and more importantly I think the random accusation of "you are an AI comment" is a shitty thing to say. It's impossible to prove a negative.
by shagie | 2026-01-14 02:16:28+00:00
> Does anyone know on which work visa do models come in then? It can’t be H1B…

The H-1B1 visa is the one that we're mostly familiar with. Specialist occupations that require "[t]heoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and [a]ttainment of a bachelor's or higher degree in a directly related specific specialty (or its equivalent) as a minimum for entry into the occupation in the United States."

The H-1B2 visa is for DOD Researcher and Development Project Worker.

The H-1B3 visa is for... Fashion Model

> The position/services must require a fashion model of prominence.

> To be eligible for this visa category you must be a fashion model of distinguished merit and ability.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/h-1b-spec...
(expand the eligibility criteria)

The specifics of the law are at https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/part-214/section-214.2#... - subsection 1 matches H-1B1, 2 matches H-1B2, and 3 matches H-1B3

> 8 CFR 214.2(h)(4)(i)(A)(3) - Will perform services in the field of fashion modeling and who is of distinguished merit and ability.
by brudgers | 2026-01-14 02:17:34+00:00
If I’ve understood your comments, I get the impression your business practices entail scraping. Often but not always, scraping for money happens in an adversarial context.

If that’s the case, your adversaries are incentivized to employ counter-measures and/or simply make your life difficult in general. It could be as straight-forward as a letter to the platform from in-house legal with reference to DCMA or similar. Or to put it another way, if you are scraping sites people will pay you to scrape, even if you aren’t on questionable legal ground there’s a non-trivial chance the scraping is making the targets unhappy.
by ninkendo | 2026-01-14 02:18:28+00:00
Why don’t you take a moment to explain to the class why you think web crawling means you can’t cache anything?

It seems to me that the very first thing I’d try to solve if I were writing a tool for an LLM to search the web, would be caching.

An LLM should have to go through a proxy to fetch any URL. That proxy should be caching results. The cache should be stored on the LLM’s company’s servers. It should not be independently hitting the same endpoint repeatedly any time it wants to fetch the same URL for its users.

Is it expensive to cache everything the LLM fetches? You betcha. Can they afford to spend of the billions they have for capex to buy some fucking hard drives? Absolutely. If archive.org can do it via funding from donations, a trillion dollar AI company should have no problem.
by dsunds | 2026-01-14 02:19:02+00:00
I grew up with Scott Adams.

My very fist job as a junior dev in a corporation, pre dot-com, his comics resonated with me and my co-workers. My proudest achievement was finding a way through the corporate firewall to get his comics off the internet and post them internally.

As I grew older his work became less interesting and less relevant as I moved to the pointy haired side. But as a natural skeptic his impact helped shape me and my career. It worked for me!

I don't understand what causes such successful people to take a hard turn toward apparent bigotry. As you age you have to reconcile change and your place in history. I'll try to take lessons from Scott Adams and my other would-be heroes as I go and hope to leave the world better off in my small way.
by rexpop | 2026-01-14 02:19:28+00:00
For much of history, laws in many countries were designed to uphold systems of privilege for white men. Segregation, discrimination, and unequal treatment were institutionalized, limiting legal protections for non-white individuals and women.

I mean, the legal discrimination against people of color throughout history has been accompanied by extreme violence and oppression. It's a brutal legacy that cannot be overstated.

Slavery and human trafficking, lynching and extrajudicial killings, Jim Crow laws, police brutality, denial of voting rights, economic exploitation, forced relocation and genocide, invasive medical practices, cultural suppression, and educational disparities... when you whinge about "decades" of legal protections for marginalized identities, I just wonder why you think you're making anywhere close to a salient or meaningful contribution to discussions of justice.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-01-14 02:20:59+00:00
I used to like ZT but they went BSL. Plus it is not running in kernel unlike WireGuard. Memory usage is extremely high.

I used to run my K8S homelab through ZT as well. Latency is extremely bad.

What I wanted is more like meshed L2TPv3, but L2TPv3 is extremely hard to setup nowadays
by purple-leafy | 2026-01-14 02:21:35+00:00
Honestly man I’ve just come to accept that I’ll be a little unfocused and wired, I’ve learnt there’s not much I can do about it.

We really need novelty so you’ll excel in environments that can offer that (travel, anything fast paced, transport roles like trucking etc)

Embrace the chaos, don’t fight it
by pchew | 2026-01-14 02:21:53+00:00
Yes, 48 amps at 240 is 11.5kw. Each Powerwall 3 is 11.5kw(edit: not to be confused with its capacity which is 13.5 kwh, one is a power output, one is a storage capacity. Just so you don't go thinking that's some amazing mixup between the comments). The original comment is all within your framework of 3 Powerwalls vs one EG4 18K with 3 batteries. That's 12kw AC for the EG4, and 34.5kw on 3 Powerwalls. I've never stated a single powerwall has more output than that(hell I even rounded down on the output of the 3 powerwalls to 34kw), only that they have a very impressive inrush and solar capacity. The incongruity of the comparison between the two systems is the entire origin of this discussion. Do you even remember what you posted and I responded to? You don't know how to use an amp clamp and don't understand the American split phase power grid. Stop consulting ChatGPT for 'gotchas' and actually read what you're writing.
by jeswin | 2026-01-14 02:22:10+00:00
I did a Show HN for a language called Tsonic yesterday, which is a variant of TypeScript (all tsonic is valid typescript) requiring stronger typing which compiles to x64/ARM native code via .Net/NativeAOT. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604308

It didn't appear in Show HN at all. Perhaps because another user posted it as a regular topic just a few minutes earlier, which drops off very quickly (within minutes) - but I think the issue is wider.

For a while now, I've felt that the new topics stream requires you to promote the topic outside of HN to be seen on HN - sometimes by adding a "Discuss on HN" link in the blog, or on social networks etc. The problem is quite fundamental: the "Show" link gets a small fraction of clicks. The "Show New" (two clicks away) probably gets tinier, miniscule fraction of clicks. The intersection of people who are interested in the project and those who have clicked "Show New" would be very nearly null. So upvotes will have to come from outside.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-14 02:22:30+00:00
> If England want to house American nuclear weapons, they can house them in England

Sure. But the point is they don't. Moving nuclear weapons (and building a new submarine base) is difficult, disruptive and expensive. (Having a non-nuclear power on the same landmass as a geopolitical competitor is also nice. If there is an underlined vision of this millenium shared by the world's great and regional powers, it's that nuclear sovereignty trumps the conventional kind.)
by SchemaLoad | 2026-01-14 02:22:43+00:00
It's the bare minimum but not good enough imo. If your smart home products rely on an external server which no longer exists, the average person will never install a 3rd party firmware and self host the servers. They will just throw it in the bin.

Ideally we should just be designing products so they don't have external dependencies. A smart speaker should be able to stream over the local network on a standard protocol which doesn't rely on an external server existing. A lightbulb should be able to be paired using a generic standard without running through the OEMs servers.

Thankfully for some devices this does seem to be the trend. Matter over Thread smart devices are not dependent on proprietary hubs, apps, or external servers.
by jhj | 2026-01-14 02:23:06+00:00
These flops are not the same. The 2013 phone flops are fp32, the A13 flops look to be fp32 as well (not entirely sure), while the Cray numbers (like the rest of the HPC industry) are fp64 (Cray 1 predates what would become IEEE 754 binary64 though, so not same exact arithmetic but similar in dynamic range and precision).

A modern Nvidia GB200 only does about 40 tflop/s in fp64 for instance. You can emulate higher precision/dynamic range arithmetic with multiple passes and manipulations of lower precision/dynamic range arithmetic but without an insane number of instructions it won't meet all the IEEE 754 guarantees for instance.

Certainly if Nvidia wanted to dedicate much more chip area to fp64 they could get a lot higher, but fp64 FMA units alone would be likely >30 times larger than their fp16 cousins and probably 100s of times larger than fp4 versions.
by jaffee | 2026-01-14 02:24:45+00:00
What a joke this guy is. I can sit down and crank out a real, complex feature in a couple hours that would have previously taken days and ship it to the users of our AI platform who can then respond to RFQs in minutes where they would have previously spent hours matching descriptions to part numbers manually.

...and yet we still see these articles claiming LLMs are dying/overhyped/major issues/whatever.

Cool man, I'll just be over here building my AI based business with AI and solving real problems in the very real manufacturing sector.
by hedgehog | 2026-01-14 02:24:57+00:00
I'm not sure if you're going out of your way to be a dick or just obtuse but 1) that's not true on most SSDs, 2) there's overhead with all the indirection on a Digital Ocean droplet, and 3) this is obviously a straight forward user space implementation that's going to have all kinds of scheduler overhead. I'm not sure who it's for but it seems to make some reasonable trades for simplicity.
by daveguy | 2026-01-14 02:25:25+00:00
It doesn't have to be the same analysis to put it in a partially overlapping vector space. Not saying it wasn't a useful perspective shuffling in the vector space, but it definitely wasn't original.

LLMs haven't solved any of the 2029 predictions as they were posited. But I expect some will be reached by 2029. The AI hype acts like all this is easy. Not by 2029 doesn't mean impossible or even most of the way there.