MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stryan | 2026-01-15 20:24:15+00:00
A planned neighborhood is technically by definition not suburban sprawl, as sprawl requires a lack of planning. On the other hand, I'd argue if you can do all of that (and said walking distance is under a mile[0]) you're not even in a suburb, you're in a dense enough location to be a town or small city. Unfortunately thanks to American zoning and planning it can be very difficult to know what your home area is actually considered and it makes this type of anecdotal evidence not particularly useful[1].

[0] A mile is essentially the farthest the average person will comfortable walk versus driving a car for travel that does not require carrying anything back. Once you add in carrying things (e.g. groceries) it drops to half a mile. Anything less dense than that and people won't want to walk, anything more dense than that and you're into standard city planning.

[1] Assuming you're American of course and obviously I'm not about to ask you to dox yourself, considering this type of thing can vary right down to the neighbourhood level.
by mildmelon | 2026-01-15 20:25:03+00:00
Author here. Not ridiculous at all, the name is a bit of a misnomer. I had tried doing true ASCII but moving data back to the CPU to render it all was too slow. So I opted to recreate them as glyphs that are drawn using signed distance functions, which gets pretty close to looking like real ASCII while still being incredibly performant due to it never leaving the GPU.
by akira_067 | 2026-01-15 20:25:09+00:00
The resource being extracted is the application of knowledge to tasks.

Which might sound confusing or esoteric, but then again, white collar work exists strictly because there are abstractions over the economy that give that work leverage to run machines (companies) that then proceed to optimize this extraction and value creation process in other domains.

All this to say: the creation of digital <outputs> to be used and place in locations where they mean something to someone in the context of the abstractions built up inside corporations is the thing being extracted. How many of these units of output is the thing that changes and has a relation to Jevons paradox.
by hagbard_c | 2026-01-15 20:25:09+00:00
In other words you have no information which contradicts what is stated in the article so you turn to ad-hominem tactics. For what it is worth the same statistics can be found in many other countries, Denmark [1], Sweden (where I live) [2] and The Netherlands (where I'm from) [3,4] among them. You probably won't believe these either since they go against the desired narrative but I have to ask who you think is helped by this attitude. Are the governmental organisations which created these statistics just racist as well?

Here we're talking specifically about Somalis because people from that country have been in the news lately. The original tangent was that the lack of integration into host countries as well as the large dependency on social services together with the taboo on mentioning any of these issues - as you so well displayed here - are a large cause of the tensions around migration.

[1] https://fm.dk/media/5cnhiydz/indvandreres-nettobidrag-til-de... (page 14, the document is in Danish so you might need a translation engine)

[2] https://www.konj.se/media/kpgnt5iw/specialstudie-117-invandr... (page 30, document is in Swedish)

[3] https://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=2011D22345 (page 29, document in Dutch)

[4] https://www.regioplan.nl/wp-content/uploads/data/file/rappor... (page 20, document in Dutch)
by BuckRogers | 2026-01-15 20:25:23+00:00
Wrong again.

Of course with your limited worldview, you don't understand and never will. My "ideology" is submission to the Creator. It's not "my" ideology. You have your ideology though. Though it's not really yours at all, you're just society's pawn that blows with the wind. The most disconcerting fact for you is that in 2,000 more years, there will be someone just like me. In 2,000 years, you will be viewed as a misguided soul, manipulated and controlled. Under the premise that you wish and hope that you're an autonomous, independent entity. You have a lot to learn.

>I do know that, as he was released from the hospital same day.

More wishful thinking. Spoken from your easy chair, not being the one hit by a car. You have no idea what you're talking about, no access to his medical records nor do you know what was or wasn't done. You wish the reality that aligns with your views.

Of course this tracks with your views on your President, RussiaGate, and the rest of the lies you believed and are now proven to be untrue. But par for the course, you just move onto the next subject every single time. Same playbook with not addressing my actual comments here, but searching for something else to address instead. What a joke. People see you for what you are in wider society. Your side is losing ground daily, you're panicking. And that's a good thing. Time is up.
by mellosouls | 2026-01-15 20:25:35+00:00
Sleep buds (flat earbuds you can lie comfortably in). Mine were dirt cheap ones built in to sleeping mask off eBay. Def helped my sleep patterns when I started using Audible on a 30 minute sleep timer with them.

Kindle. Reawakened my inner book-worm many years ago. Library in a pocket. Don't use it so much tho since Audible.

Good quality (sturdy and high lumen) compact tactical torch.
by jjcm | 2026-01-15 20:25:42+00:00
I feel like I get a ton of value out of a cheap VPS.

Just having a dedicated IP I can serve small and dumb things from has been fantastic, doubly so now that LLMs can do most of the driving.

https://lowendbox.com/ has a ton of providers, but I personally use vultr (no high or low praise for vultr, but they've been solid and cheap).
by techblueberry | 2026-01-15 20:25:46+00:00
There’s just no way this is true, because it’s not about the AI it’s about the humans. Slop is the consequence of making creation frictionless. Full stop, it’s not about the quality of the AI.

“LLMs produce images, sounds, and other forms of art - but quality in those domains requires human judgment. Code is different. Code offers something rare: verifiability of correctness.”

Holy shit no. Code slop was a problem before AI because of the intent behind writing the code, not the quality of the code itself. I myself produced whole novels of code slop. AI supercharges that in all domains.
by spike021 | 2026-01-15 20:26:27+00:00
I feel like the idea social media prevents socializing in real life is a bit of a straw man.

I've made many friends over the years through platforms like Instagram, some in countries I don't even live in, and we've met many times in person.

Of course that won't necessarily work for everyone but the point I'm trying to make is that social media isn't some one way street that won't return value.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-15 20:26:54+00:00
"The term "attack" is used here in a technical sense that differs somewhat from common English usage. In common English usage, an attack is an aggressive action perpetrated by an opponent, intended to enforce the opponent's will on the attacked party. The term is used here to refer to behavior that subverts the intent of communicating parties without the agreement of those parties."

"An attack may change the content of the communication, record the content or external characteristics of the communication, or through correlation with other communication events, reveal information the parties did not intend to be revealed. It may also have other effects that similarly subvert the intent of a communicator. [RFC4949] contains a more complete definition for the term "attack"."

The alleged intent of the third party is irrelevant

"In particular, the term "attack", used technically, implies nothing about the motivation of the actor mounting the attack. The motivation for PM can range from non-targeted nation-state surveillance, to legal but privacy-unfriendly purposes by commercial enterprises, to illegal actions by criminals."
by louis030195 | 2026-01-15 20:27:02+00:00
Looks great. I don't use opencode myself but like a lot Claude skills, agents, I have like 50 different ones for personal life, work, dating, whatever
Is there integration with Claude skills?

Have you considered using or integrating with ACP? https://zed.dev/acp

We use it in our desktop app IDE (mediar.ai) and it's pretty good
by acdha | 2026-01-15 20:27:06+00:00
It all started with his post, attacking her relationship with Grayson, who never reviewed her games. Even he later admitted that the original claims were fictitious but that did nothing to stop the attacks – if you look at the threats she received or the online statements the attackers made, they cared a LOT more about her alleged infidelity or what they perceived as unfair privileges for women in the gaming industry than anything about journalism.

This was later added to his post:

> To be clear, if there was any conflict of interest between Zoe and Nathan regarding coverage of Depression Quest prior to April, I have no evidence to imply that it was sexual in nature.

He even told Boston Magazine that this was the hook he used to get attention, with what he knew was a high likelihood of attacks:

> As Gjoni began to craft “The Zoe Post,” his early drafts read like a “really boring, really depressing legal document,” he says. He didn’t want to merely prove his case; it had to read like a potboiler. So he deliberately punched up the narrative in the voice of a bitter ex-boyfriend, organizing it into seven acts with dramatic titles like “Damage Control” and “The Cum Collage May Not Be Accurate.” He ended sections on cliffhangers, and wove in video-game analogies to grab the attention of Quinn’s industry colleagues. He was keenly aware of attracting an impressionable readership. “If I can target people who are in the mood to read stories about exes and horrible breakups,” he says now, “I will have an audience.”

> One of the keys to how Gjoni justified the cruelty of “The Zoe Post” to its intended audience was his claim that Quinn slept with five men during and after their brief romance. In retrospect, he thinks one of his most amusing ideas was to paste the Five Guys restaurant logo into his screed: “Now I can’t stop mentally referring to her as Burgers and Fries,” he wrote. By the time he released the post into the wild, he figured the odds of Quinn’s being harassed were 80 percent.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/04/28/gamergate/2/
by wijwp | 2026-01-15 20:27:13+00:00
> I buy people lunch and sit on the curb eating with them and attempting to understand them.

I clearly don't have the same people on the street as you do. You should not be just sitting down and having lunch with people who are having daily psychotic breaks or are otherwise aggressive. You can't have a conversation with someone who is constantly riding the line of ODing. I have a regular I see who runs around in the road screaming at cars and people.

The very incomplete "down on their luck" view of homelessness is killing progress in my city.
by subroutine | 2026-01-15 20:27:19+00:00
Facebook caused genocide... Ok man. And BMW, Mercedes, Bosch, Siemens, VW, Zeiss, Fiat, etc. were responsible for genocide during WW2. But this is all completely off topic.

> Apple and Google stopping my European company to do the same, because they make it really hard to leech user data from their platforms.

I cant tell if you are for or against collecting user data.

If it's any consolation US startups have to compete with existing US companies too. Also it doesn't hurt to work with them instead of against them. Some European companies are getting quite rich from such relationships. Arm is making a killing off Apple. Ayden gets paid every time you order an Uber. Google licenses Nokia and Ericsson technologies. I'm sure there are many other examples.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-15 20:27:33+00:00
I am of course aware of that.

But reducing loneliness is just a means to an end. My point is that there exist a lot of rewarding things that you can do alone at home, which may give you a hapiness malus because of the loneliness, but also a happiness bonus because you like the activity.

If a solution to reducing loneliness shall be sustainable, it better increases the happiness or rewardingness overall, too. Otherwise you see loneliness as a problem, but see the alternatives as being the worse options, i.e. by rational choice, the loneliness will not be reduced.
by birdcircle | 2026-01-15 20:27:37+00:00
> U.S. officials have also said that there is substantial risk to the U.S. economy if China invades Taiwan and reduces access to TSMC chips.

> “We’re going to bring it all over so we become self-sufficient in the capacity of building semiconductors,” Commerce secretary Lutnick said.

So they really were not joking when they said that they were just going to relocate TSMC to Arizona. Crazy how effective government can be when it has an existential strategic purpose.

Is the EU even remotely capable of such a thing given all the grumbling about dependence on American and Chinese tech?
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-15 20:27:38+00:00
Regardless of the exact circumstances of that scenario, there has been no efforts towards even the most token forms of accountability, and your echoing of state propaganda only furthers their success. You are on the wrong side of history with this one. An armed state police force that exists above accountability (except to the executive) is by definition a Geheimestaatspolizei.
by 7speter | 2026-01-15 20:27:40+00:00
>Things like TV that took entertainment from a group activity to a single person event.

TV was the visual replacement of radios, and both used to bring families together for tv events… I remember lots of instances of that as a child.

It also brought people together at work. Everyone used to watch nearly the same things, and even up to 15 years ago, there’d at least be groups you could find in your office who was watching the same things you did, and could engage in water cooler talk.

Now theres so many shows on streaming networks, and you can watch whenever, so its all fractured.
by bri3d | 2026-01-15 20:28:00+00:00
I'm not trying to make an ethical judgement here; personally, I think there is certainly a reckoning to be had given the role ICE have taken on, and I don't think that "we just make the platform" excuses culpability.

However, my concern with the Palantir conversation (and your comment) is that people are giving them too much credit, essentially: there is a public opinion (stoked by Palantir leadership) that Palantir is some kind of superpowered evil fortress full of data allowing the government to circumvent checks and balances. As far as I can tell, really it's a consultancy with a graph database, and the checks and balances never existed in the first place. These two things are very different problems to solve.

> I guess IBM didn’t tell the nazis who to kill either, they just sold them the punchcards so they could round them up.

As an aside, this is a common talking point but has also struck me as odd because this is the foundational legal and ethical argument by which IBM continues to exist today. It's definitely food for thought but it's also not exactly a hot take.
by periodjet | 2026-01-15 20:28:02+00:00
Why have we all lost the ability to think in a nuanced way? It’s very disturbing to witness, particularly on a forum like HN, ostensibly populated by smart people.

It’s possible to simultaneously believe that ICE has a clear and ethical mandate while also believing that they are going about fulfilling that mandate via bad methods that need to change.

It’s possible to simultaneously believe that people shouldn’t be marked as intrinsically “illegal” while also believing that an immigration queue should exist and skipping it is immoral and should be illegal.

Etcetera, etcetera.

You don’t HAVE to dedicate yourself to a fully polarized set of beliefs. Nuance is possible. What the hell is causing us to lose our minds like this? Is it really just social media? So frustrating to witness.
by bblcla | 2026-01-15 20:28:08+00:00
(Author here)

I have! I agree it's very good at applying abstractions, if you know exactly what you want. What I notice is that Claude has almost no ability to surface those abstractions on its own.

When I started having it write React, Claude produced incredibly buggy spaghetti code. I had to spend 3 weeks learning the fundamentals of React (how to use hooks, providers, stores, etc.) before I knew how to prompt it to write better code. Now that I've done that, it's great. But it's meaningful that someone who doesn't know how to write well-abstracted React code can't get Claude to produce it on their own.
by mildmelon | 2026-01-15 20:28:31+00:00
Author here. This is all done on the GPU using shaders. It's a few layers, and you can find the details over on my Bluesky post, feel free to read it there. I've been thinking about making a blog post covering how I went about building it.

https://bsky.app/profile/caidan.dev/post/3mcdwifkfvc2o
by nitwit005 | 2026-01-15 20:28:36+00:00
You're assuming deportations work, but the evidence doesn't suggest that. Huge numbers of deportations have happened, with some people deported multiple times. Do you feel the problem is solved?

Ultimately, you have to fix the incentives. Fine the people hiring them, making it uneconomical, and you will remove the main incentive for people to enter the US illegally.

Our politicians have simply seemed fairly uninterested in holding business owners accountable.
by jakelazaroff | 2026-01-15 20:28:50+00:00
What's difficult to explain? If you're having an agent crawl a handful of pages to answer a targeted query, that's clearly not mass scraping. If you're pulling down entire websites and storing their contents, that's clearly not normal use. Sure, there's a gray area, but I bet almost everyone who doesn't work for an AI company would be able to agree whether any given activity was "mass scraping" or "normal use".
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 20:29:00+00:00
> If the government has already been disrupted, then who is taking down the Internet?

A disrupted regime can still be a dangerous regime. The Islamic State largely couldn't govern, but they could certainly get organized enough to wreck shit.

> 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.

Maybe it's hopelessly optimistic of me, but I like to think the giant organization that includes FEMA has some plans for what to do if the internet isn't available.

> 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.

But could they survive without it? Probably. The protocol is open source.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 20:29:14+00:00
There's risk to helping people out.

I've been fucked over plenty times, sometimes to the tune of 5 digits. Once even cost me my home, and I found myself homeless again for a while.

A good friend of mine once gave someone a ride at a gas station, and they led him to a house where another person jumped inside the car with a gun. They held him hostage, tried to force him to do fentanyl at gunpoint, and drove him around to several ATMs so he could empty out his account. They used his vehicle to sell drugs, and held him hostage in a motel room where they were also sex trafficking women. They nearly killed him, and he is lucky to be alive.

I also know others who have been jumped around here and had the shit beaten out of them. For reference, I live in a city frequently cited as a "murder capital" of the US. You have to be way more careful out here than in downtown San Francisco. As far as NYC, I imagine it's a mixed bag depending on your area. I'm not suggesting naively approaching strangers, I hope it doesn't come across that way.

You aren't an asshole if you don't buy someone a tent, I was suggesting ways to help that have more tangible impact than handing someone a $5 bill which probably just goes towards an addiction. I don't hang around Reddit, so I can't speak for the general callousness of the community, but what I'm suggesting is to go beyond the average, to do more than most would, in reverence of the fact that we're all floating on this lonely space rock together.

As far as women, all I can say is that my girlfriend would be fine with any of those traits, as long as I still maintained a level of compassion.
by nonethewiser | 2026-01-15 20:29:17+00:00
Fabs are in kind of a catch 22. They need big business to improve and to get lots of business they need to be competitive. Im mostly familiar with that narrative in terms of Intel's current uphill battle - was it really the same for TSMC? I guess maybe there was a similar dynamic except the playing field was more even at that time, so it was a bit less of a catch 22.
by michaelmrose | 2026-01-15 20:29:22+00:00
Literal Nazi stuff

"These people are akin the mold growing upon a rotting city-state economy. They have to be removed." --our poster

"humanity suffers today under Jewish parasitism" --Adolf Hitler

It is this fake injury or mis-assignment of blame for real harm that serves as justification for actual crimes against humanity be they at CEDOT or Dachau

Immigrants aren't hurting us by existing.
by FigurativeVoid | 2026-01-15 20:29:34+00:00
I have been trying to make more friends in the real and virtual world the past two years, and I have been pretty successful. Most of my new friends come from the following: Volleyball, MtG, or a writing group.

Really, I think that it comes down to make making or joining a space with a shared activity and moderating out the crap.

The problem is most communities are losing those spaces in favor of private social clubs. That's what we need to fight.
Ask HN: Why don't people value their code?
by mrdependable | 2026-01-15 20:29:42+00:00
I have been trying out Claude Code a bit since reading all the hype about how good it is. It does work pretty well, but one thing that was a bit worrying was that every time I started a new session, it asked me to allow Anthropic to train on my code. I had already opted-out when that was first introduced, so it should have been redundant at that point.

I don't want them training on my code, and it makes me not want to use it at all seeing how keen they are to do it. From opinions I read online, people seem more than happy to allow AI to train on their code, and I really don't understand why. Do you not value your work? I highly doubt that companies like Anthropic, Google, or OpenAI are freely adding all their IP to the training data. Is it because you think these big companies are going to use it for good?

People like to bring up open source and how it is done for the good of the group, but I don't believe open source code is created out of pure benevolence. There is some value derived from having your name attached as creator of whatever open source code. The only person I would put an exception for is Satoshi Nakamoto, but that guy is either dead or a saint.
by timeinput | 2026-01-15 20:29:53+00:00
I'm sure it depends where one lives, but if your drinking water is safe there's no real reason to boil the water except for proper steeping.

I definitely use boiling water with my bagged breakfast tea, but boiling is too hot for white and green tea (especially fancier teas), and boiling water "scorches" the "delicate flavors" (using quotes since I'm sure there are better / nicer words than those), so you want to steep at 80C or lower depending on the tea, the quantity the vessel, and the process.
by zikduruqe | 2026-01-15 20:30:09+00:00
I purchased a Swiss Army knife back when I was a teenager with my first paycheck after working in the tobacco fields. I carried this everywhere with me, even when I decided to start learning about wilderness survival before it was cool to do so.

Fast forward a quiet a few decades, and I still have and use this SAK. And I want to say this SAK helped me forge my knowledge and build my skills that helped me have a brief TV career demonstrating these things.