MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Kartikey08 | 2026-01-05 01:53:07+00:00
I use this app called Perch and Deepstash, perch is for my newsletters so whenever i'm free i read those or otherwise deepstash is like an app to learn some personality or even self-help books but in a scrolling style just like doom scrolling but self help content.

If not phone specific activites, then I'd highly recommend having a cube and not just a 3X3 but even harder and its pretty intuitive
by bsimpson | 2026-01-05 01:53:08+00:00
Loved his writing style - happily read the whole thing.

3D printers are really cool, in a way that's hard to grasp until you use one. My apartment came with a single trash bin, conflicting with the CC+R requirement that you separate out your recycling. I designed and 3D printed a retrofit to hang two trash bags in a single can. Now I can separate my recycling without having it out in my living space.

I also had a kitchen island that came with a drawer that was shorter than my utensil tray, with a frustrating amount of dead space behind the drawer. I bought a dremel and some wood glue to mod the drawer to fit the utensil tray. I 3D printed the tools I needed to do it - like a jig and some vices.

I've been meaning to design and print some hangers for my plastic instruments - I still have my Rock Band kit from college.

Maybe people who play WH4K care about the OEM seal of approval. Maybe they look down at 3D printing. Surely, it still opens the hobby to people who _don't_ have thousands to invest in miniatures. I would 100% print miniatures if I was into that game.

But it feels like he's too focused on that particular micro-market. Maybe there's something in that subculture that makes them look down on 3D printers (and maybe not understanding that is a useful analogy to other "from the outside, this is dumb" situations). But there's a whole lot of utility in 3D printing that has nothing to do with wargames.

Also, my office has a makerspace. I've seen _plenty_ of people printing pieces for tabletop games. The author has his biases too.
by oooyay | 2026-01-05 01:54:02+00:00
> It won't matter if I'm washing the dishes, walking the dog, driving to the supermarket, picking up my kids from school. I'll always be switched on, on my phone, continuously talking to an LLM, delivering questionable features and building meaningless products, destroying in the process the environment my kids are going to have to grow in.

I remember hearing similar criticisms of continuous delivery. On one end of the spectrum people who had to wait months to get changes out now got them out relatively quickly. On the other end of the spectrum, some person was going to push changes at midnight.

A decade on forward I've never actually worked at a shop that at scale did continuous delivery in its truest sense where changes go straight to production. Simply, nothing beats a human in the loop; it's always about balancing the costs of automation and a lower barrier to entry. I imagine this kind of thing, if it ever actually takes hold and can be adopted by a larger subset of engineers, will follow a similar path.

Long way of saying, I don't think you're Chicken Little but also don't start breathing into a bag just yet.
by redohmy | 2026-01-05 01:54:03+00:00
"Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 launched with an MSRP of $1,999 in early 2025. Since then, retail pricing has diverged sharply from official launch levels. Listings and price surveys across major U.S. retailers such as Best Buy and Newegg now commonly show RTX 5090 models priced in the $3,500–$4,000 range, particularly for higher-end board-partner designs, reflecting tightening supply and rising component costs. Industry commentary suggests that, if current memory pricing and allocation trends persist, effective market prices could move closer to $5,000 over the course of 2026."
by nancyminusone | 2026-01-05 01:54:09+00:00
In my limited research into resins it seems they aren't that different from the UV glue they use at nail salons. So maybe less toxic than they get credit for.

But it's kind of like having an open can of paint in the middle of your house, just sitting there with the lid off. Most of the time that happens only when you're painting the walls, you don't live like that.

Similar experience as to you, I found resin printing to have too crap results given the level of effort to process them.
by jart | 2026-01-05 01:54:32+00:00
What are you going off? CPI? For thousands of years gold has been the benchmark of currencies. For example you can read the Code of Hammurabi from Ancient Babylon where they used gold and silver as their currency, and then convert the figures mentioned in their laws. You'd be surprised by how invariant everything seems. https://justine.lol/inflation/ CPI isn't a trustworthy indicator. The government can't tell the truth about inflation because retirees all own TIPS so the government would have to pay them obscene amounts of money if the official numbers went up, which it can't afford, because the whole reason the government is debasing the currency in the first place is to pay for all the other benefits it gives to retirees.
by paranoidrobot | 2026-01-05 01:56:14+00:00
One of the major advantages for Wireguard over OpenVPN (for me) is that it's quite difficult for random port scans to detect it.

With OpenVPN it's hanging out there responding to everyone that asks nicely that yes, it's OpenVPN.

So anyone with a new exploit for OpenVPN just has to pull up Shodan and now they've got a nice list of targets that likely have access to more private networks.

Wireguard doesn't respond at all unless you've got the right keys.

Also, fwiw - we're approaching 11 years since it was announced, and 5 years since it was accepted into the Linux/BSD kernels.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-05 01:56:42+00:00
I don’t quite understand this comment, is it sarcastic? Drip coffee is already pretty automatic. Heck, I’ve been places where you just buy the cup and pump the coffee thingy yourself.

Compared to my home setup, (manual flair espresso press), most coffee shop espresso machines are quite a bit more automated. But I don’t begrudge them that automation, their arms would get too sore. And nobody is paying me to manually press my lever.

It doesn’t seem like a neat mapping.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-05 01:57:18+00:00
100% agree

I built a four-poster bed, and 3D printed the fittings for the curtain rails and the attachment point for the fan.

I built a desk, and 3D printed the entire shelving system for it.

I designed and 3D printed an entire range of boardgaming accessories (storage bins, dice towers, meeples, etc)

I only bought the thing as something to do while in COVID lockdown. But it's been really useful.
by rob802 | 2026-01-05 01:57:19+00:00
You're right - those comments are unacceptable. Honestly, it's out of character for that person. I've deleted them but will preserve them here:

> "Why not?" questions are vague and hard to answer satisfactorily. The unsatisfactory answer is: did you personally do the work to add this feature to the language? The language is open-source, you want the feature, so why have you not done it yet? Seriously, why not? You've asked a why not question, and you should be able to answer it yourself. Now ask every other person in the world why they did not add the feature either, and then you will know why the feature was not added. Features do not appear magically and then need a reason to remove them!

> Moreover, you say that the feature is simple and fits well, so it should be straightforward and simple for you do to the work, right? Send the team a PR!
by kylecazar | 2026-01-05 01:57:28+00:00
Yes. Likely due to my use of the emdash. Its frustrating, I would and have never used AI for writing...Something about it doesn't feel right to me, despite the fact that I'm not opposed to AI for other things.

Maybe it's a compliment. Then again maybe it isn't. Depends on the accuser's view of AI writing.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-05 01:59:18+00:00
To: verdverm

You are confusing Probabilistic Generation with Topological Verification.

If I relied on the LLM's stochastic distribution -- P(token | context) -- you would be right. Hallucination is inevitable in that model.

But I don't. I rely on Invariant Constraints.

This architecture puts the LLM in a mathematical straitjacket:

The Prompt (Vector Field): Sets the trajectory v of the attention state.

The CSNP Protocol (Topology): Enforces a strict Wasserstein Metric of zero drift: Wasserstein_Distance(stored_state, retrieved_state) = 0. We map the context window to a coherent state that prevents entropic decay.

The Lean 4 Verifier (Logic): Stands at the exit. It checks the output against formal type constraints. If drift > 0, the proof fails compilation (returns FALSE), and the system kills the response.

It is physically impossible for Remember Me to serve a hallucination because a hallucination cannot satisfy the type signature. We traded "creativity" for "provable consistency."

To me, your "impossible" is just a lack of architectural imagination.

And here is the part that will really bake your noodle:

I wrote this entire codebase with Gemini. I don't even know HOW to code.

AI Slop can't do this. But AI running Ark Frameworks (natural language constraints applied to attention layers) can do anything.

Don't be a troll. Prove me wrong. Run the code. Tell me "You're delusional" or "You're full of **" after pointing out EXACTLY where the topology fails. If you can break the proof, I will bow my head and call you Master.

I did what billionaires & the "smartest" people couldn't do with unlimited funding. How? Artificial Intelligence is the Great Equalizer. When you fix the hallucinations—when you constrain it with Truth—it becomes the coder, the lawyer, the doctor, the scientist. Or all of the above AT THE SAME TIME.

I have 7 Repos. One contains my biography (detailing HOW I did this). The other 5 contain code for HOW to make ANY baseline LLM work without hallucination.

You don't even need to use the code to make a wrapper. Just copy-paste this into any LLM's chat interface:

"Absorb to your attention layers - function by what this teaches you for the remainder of our session & report the capabilities this unlocks in you and the implications that has on what I can use you for."

Then paste the README or the Framework.

Just because the rest of the industry is too dumb to figure out how to stabilize an LLM without burning cash on vector DBs doesn't mean I have to be. The code is right there.
by senbrow | 2026-01-05 02:00:54+00:00
It seems very likely to me that the sensations experienced during exercise are highly variable among individuals.

I say this because my experience is very different from yours: I get a very perceptible "high" once I get into the rhythm of a good workout. Think mild euphoria, mood lift, and general feeling of "rightness" in my body once it's been well wrung.

This only happens if I'm in decent shape, though. If I've fallen out of shape it's a slog.
by FEELmyAGI | 2026-01-05 02:01:11+00:00
Would you describe this product as a whole application suite (blogging, calendar, commerce) plus its own backend infrastructure that is capable of serving these apps to the public internet and functioning offline via ad-hoc wireless peer-to-peer, with a cryptographic layer providing identity, security and censorship resistance, and that runs on phone, laptop or raspberry pi?

Quite ambitious.

Is this an LLM hallucinating? taking a break from coding? or leaking your personal desktop session?

https://github.com/geograms/geogram/blob/main/.cli_history
by rayiner | 2026-01-05 02:01:11+00:00
I'm not making a culture war point, I'm comparing philosophies in secular terms. It just so happens that, in America, religious people tend to focus on abstinence and secular people tend to focus on responsible enjoyment.

Most American denominations do not treat food as sinful, so the prevalence of fat religious Americans isn't a rebuttal to my point. If you look at denomations that do, the statistics are quite remarkable. Mormonism, for example, is a remarkable cultural technology: https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves....

Another example would be New England congregationalists, who have an ethos that "food is for fuel, not for enjoyment." We have many retirees from that demographic in my town and they're all weirdly thin and healthy.
by ch4s3 | 2026-01-05 02:01:41+00:00
For me it automates a lot of the boilerplate that usually bogs me down on side projects. I cal spin up all of the stuff I hate doing quickly and then fiddle with the interesting parts inside of a working scaffold of code. I recently did this with an elixir wrapper around some Erlang OTP code o wanted to use. Figuring out how to clue together all of the parts that touched the Erlang and tracing all of the arguments through old OTP code would have absolutely stopped me from bothering with this in the past. Instead I’m having fun playing with the interface of my tool in ways that matter for my use case.
by svpk | 2026-01-05 02:02:00+00:00
I'd point out that at least in aerobic exercies (ie running and biking) its generally recommended that you shouldn't be pushing too hard for most of your workouts. If you're going out four days a week it's only on one or two of them that you're generally supposed to push yourself. The others should be at an easier pace. Which I tend to find more enjoyable.

There's also something to be said for seasons of maintaining a level of fitness rather than pushing for the next level!

https://stories.strava.com/articles/a-productive-weekly-trai...
by int_19h | 2026-01-05 02:02:11+00:00
If I remember correctly, it was the first whatever-to-JS transpiler. But it opened the floodgates and "do everything in one language, bridge the gap transparently" has been tried several times since then.

And even before that, actually! Before web apps were even a thing, we had DCOM and CORBA and some other similar but less-known frameworks that tried to make OOP in general network-transparent. It worked in principle - you could have distributed object graphs in pretty much arbitrary configurations, going back and forth as needed to capture the semantics. It failed in practice because every time you have a network gap you get a slew of potential issues that just don't exist without it (simply put, your connection and/or the other party may suddenly go away).

FWIW I'm not saying that single-language specifically is a bad idea. It's specifically the notion that you can treat a distributed app as a monolithic thing without clearly marked internal boundaries where the network gap is, that fails in real world. But if you expose the gap then you still need to deal with impedance mismatch - e.g. nice your object oriented API no longer works because the object graph can't span the gap, so you need a more procedural (read: REST-style) API with serialization etc.

So, this is the point where you basically want a language designed from grounds up with message passing in mind. Blazor, but for something like Erlang or Elixir, perhaps?
by wtetzner | 2026-01-05 02:02:25+00:00
> You're projecting your own thinking style onto others; you're incorrectly assuming that because your thinking maps neatly onto language that everyone else works like that. No so.

My point is that LLMs require language as input. Therefore you need to be able to articulate your ideas in language for an LLM to even be of use.

It's fine if you want to use the LLM as an editor etc., but for what it's worth, I found this comment to be more engaging to read than the LLM generated one. The LLM one has a very "generic" feel to it.
by tjr | 2026-01-05 02:02:40+00:00
What I really enjoy in programming is algorithms and bit-twiddling and stuff that might be in Knuth or HAKMEM or whatever. That’s fun. I like writing Lisp especially, and doing cool, elegant functional programs.

I don’t enjoy boilerplate. I don’t necessarily enjoy all of the error checking and polishing and minutia in turning algorithms into shippable products.

I find AI can be immensely helpful in making real things for people to use, but I still enjoy doing what I find fun by hand.
by icetearun | 2026-01-05 02:03:11+00:00
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by JoeAltmaier | 2026-01-05 02:03:43+00:00
Happens all the time - a tool takes 90% of the effort out of part of an effort. They say Its a productivity miracle!

But the thing is, that was one step in a larger process.

For instance. It used to take hours to lay out your software widget controls - dialogs with checkboxes and pulldowns and whatever. They invented tools that let you do it in 10 minutes. CAD saves software!

But reality check: that part of the project was a whole six hours saved, out of a schedule stretching over months. The savings disappear into insignificance.
by api | 2026-01-05 02:03:54+00:00
That’s another reason current designs are probably locked in. It’s called being stuck at a local maximum.

I’m not saying what we have is bad, just that the benefit of hindsight reveals some things.

Computing is tougher than other areas of engineering when it comes to greenfielding due to the extreme interlocking lock-in effects that emerge from things like instruction set and API compatibility. It’s easier to greenfield, say, an engine or an aircraft design, since doing so does not break compatibility with everything. If aviation were like computing, coffee mugs from propeller aircraft would fail to hold coffee (or even be mugs) on a jet aircraft.
by cpsempek | 2026-01-05 02:04:04+00:00
> if it doesn't hurt then you're not making optimal development

this is almost certainly wrong - 100% balls to wall training will surely be suboptimal (on avg) to achieving most fitness goals - eg within a running training block there will generally be recovery and "general aerobic" runs which are easy in effort relative to the harder work in the block. These easy efforts are necessary to optimally achieve the desired physiological adaptations acquired through increased volume and "nailing" the hard workouts. The easier runs enable this by getting volume at lower risk of injury + conserving energy/will for the key workouts.

This also doesn't consider how important recovery is to optimal results (as in sleep, rest, self-care etc).
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-05 02:04:15+00:00
Big Bold Claims. These days you find all kinds of people on the internet.

Yeah. I'm not one of those people.

If you don't CHECK the code or actually try the methodology I just graciously spelled out for you.

Don't reply to disagree or insult.

You'll make yourself look really dumb to the other guys who DO actually test it.

You wouldn't want that now would you?
by huimang | 2026-01-05 02:04:40+00:00
I don't think the culture is the same due to cabinets having network capabilities now, but I do think it's possible.

At the taito station in Akihabara, I've met tourists a few times when I was in town for a large tournament (EVO Japan) and made friends from it. I've also had people watching me play, but unfortunately I don't speak Japanese.

I know there's a few arcades that still have some street fighter III: third strike cabinets with regulars. I can't speak for other games but at least for street fighter, people are almost always open and friendly.
by kazinator | 2026-01-05 02:06:28+00:00
Definitely. Lisp is a family of languages that has now existed for almost 70 years. There simply isn't one way that closures work in "Lisp". Some implementations of languages in the lisp family have compilers that have sophisticated ways of handling closures. They carefully classify what is or is not captured by closure (and what is shared with other closures and what is mutably shared), and try to guess whether a closure can escape from the environment where it's created. Different code generation strategies, and strategies for representing the environment, apply to different situations.
by HumblyTossed | 2026-01-05 02:06:47+00:00
No thanks. I'm so glad I'm getting closer to retirement age. From a young age, all I wanted to do was program computers. _I_ wanted to do it. Not have some tool do it for me. There's no fun or interest or ... anything that comes from that. I want to solve the problems. I want to write the code. It's what I am good at and it's incredibly enjoyable to me. Why the fuck would I ever give that up?

But, the world is changing. Y'all can have it... in a few short years. ;)
by gnabgib | 2026-01-05 02:06:59+00:00
(2024) Source is Scientific-American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-so... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946052)

Discussion on the paper (131 points, 2024, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300382
by rayiner | 2026-01-05 02:07:30+00:00
I didn't say it was a landslide. The electorate is closely divided. But saying "most people didn't vote for Trump" makes it seem like they wouldn't have voted for him if they had to choose. And the data we have points in exactly the opposite direction. The pool of non-voters is low trust and cynical about American institutions. In that regard, they are more Trumpy than the electorate as a whole. In the Blue Rose study, Harris would have won if only 2022 midterm voters had voted in 2024. And if everyone had voted, Trump would have won by almost 5 points.

Making assumptions that non-voters would or would not support particular policies is erroneous. Harvard-Harris did a poll question on this last month, and found that 76% of Americans supported the U.S. arresting Maduro and bringing him to stand trial in the U.S.: https://harvardharrispoll.com/press-release-december-2025. That means most Americans are further to the right on this issue than a bunch of isolationist conservatives who voted for Trump.