MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-30 20:15:57+00:00
Beyond a bribe it's just wicked propoganda at that. Was just stunned at this review,

> So, what’s the point? How does this superficial, wilfully deceitful reality readjustment serve the sociopathic ascension of Trump’s will (because everything has to)? Watching Melania get fitted for expensive clothes in gaudy rooms, or talk up how extravagantly staged she demands her balls be - and both happen a lot in Brett Ratner’s unrelentingly boring feature doc debut - only strengthen perceptions of her as a chilly, lifeless socialite wannabe.

Ok, ice burn mostly so far. Expected. But:

> And I realised then what the point was - Trump is tightening his family business’ grip on the White House beyond his years and before our eyes. MELANIA is not the story of the First Lady of American politics, but the imagining of the first homeland monarch in U.S. history. This is not a film concerned at all with the America of today; it is propaganda that serves the formation of a future non-democracy.

I'm all too afraid that there is something truly wicked this boring dry flop of a movie will accomplish, over time, for some incredibly infernal anti-Democracy forces in the world. That one of the top 3 richest men in the world would give a messely couple million bucks for an anti-Democracy pro-Regal pro-Imperial project like this is perhaps unsurprising, beyond the simple dimension of grift it obviously presents.

https://screenspace.substack.com/p/the-animated-pics-vying-f... via the lovely https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3mdncqwyuks2...
by davidmurdoch | 2026-01-30 20:16:42+00:00
I guess I'm just trying to suggest that teachers sometimes might think they know why things are being taught, and make claims like "you wont always have a calculator" as the reason for learning mathematics.

One conclusion might be that it'd be better for some students if teachers understood the why, as they might change their approach on some subjects. An example: knowing that certain equations and patterns EXIST, and which kinds of problems they apply to, is generally much more important that knowing the actual equations by heart themselves.
by eknkc | 2026-01-30 20:17:57+00:00
It is not opus. It is good, works really fast and suprisingly through about its decisions. However I've seen it hallucinate things.

Just today I asked for a code review and it flagged a method that can be `static`. The problem is it was already static. That kind of stuff never happens with Opus 4.5 as far as I can tell.

Also, in an opencode Plan mode (read only). It generated a plan and instead of presenting it and stopping, decided to implement it. Could not use the edit and write tools because the harness was in read only mode. But it had bash and started using bash to edit stuff. Wouldn't just fucking stop even though the error messages it received from opencode stated why. Its plan and the resulting code was ok so I let it go crazy though...
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-30 20:18:12+00:00
The hidden virtual weights in reality.

Which are often complex & multi-faceted, measuring the rest of reality's weighing, to make broad judgement with. Reality's normal context window is a google deep for even the most everyday of circumstance. The weights exist there, but amid too broad a reality with too many factors for that exacting a use, and are too complected to measure out individually easily.

Code is simple. It's context is limited to what it is. To ascertainable viewable realities that mankind has already distilled out, into the form of systems and code.

And like relativity, we can measure the curvature of space around these weights, can envision how space bends and attracts. And now set in motion our own bodies, to orbit on nicely composed courses.
by gizmo686 | 2026-01-30 20:18:25+00:00
I would be surprised if that was what they were actually looking at. They are an established insurance company with their own data and the actuaries to analyze it. I can't imagine them doing this without at least validating a substantial drop in claims relating to FSD capable cars.

Now that they are offering this program, they should start getting much better data by being able to correlate claims with actual FSD usage. They might be viewing this program partially as a data acquisition project to help them insure autonomous vehicles more broadly in the future.
by thedanbob | 2026-01-30 20:19:05+00:00
> Why did NYC release it in the first place? Did they not QA it?

Considering Louis Rossmann's videos on his adventures with NYC bureaucracy (e.g. [0]), the QAers might not have known the laws any better than the chat bot.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi8_9WGk3Ok
by kolbe | 2026-01-30 20:19:13+00:00
> Quite likely this year we will have federal law that will allow selling cars with fully unsupervised self-driving, in which case the insurance/liability will obviously land on the maker of the system, not person present in the car.

This is news to me. This context seems important to understanding Tesla's decision to stop selling FSD. If they're on the hook for insurance, then they will need to dynamically adjust what they charge to reflect insurance costs.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-30 20:19:31+00:00
When it comes to revealed preferences vs. stated preferences, "Gamers" probably have the wildest difference between them.

Games shouldn't cost $70!! [consistently pays $70 for games]

Game sequels suck, they're just rehashes of previous games!! [buys the sequels anyway]

Games shouldn't have AI content! [buys games with AI content]

Microtransactions are terrible! [pays for microtransactions]

Loot boxes are ruining games! [plays games with loot boxes]

Anti-cheats are rootkits. They are unacceptable! [plays games with anti-cheat]

That's it, they crossed the line. I'll never buy that game! [buys the game]
by rimunroe | 2026-01-30 20:19:35+00:00
My understanding is that this and similar techniques don't get you back into the before first unlock (BFU) state. To do that as far as I know you have to shut down the device. Otherwise--even if locked--your phone will be in the after first unlock (AFU) state. I believe that in the AFU state considerably more of the system is decrypted and accessible than in the much more limited BFU state.

Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in here.
by The_Fox | 2026-01-30 20:19:41+00:00
Agreed- just a month ago I told my team to read https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... and note how Spolsky knew the details of his application (weird date issues in Excel and VB). If you want to be a senior engineer, you need to know where are the odd edge cases in your app. I don't want to be the only one on the team who remembers that stuff.
by Daishiman | 2026-01-30 20:19:50+00:00
Why don't you enlighten us since you seem to know so much about the topic?
I know that none of the people who are experts at detecting the statistical artifacts that appears during voting roll have questioned the integrity of the US election.

In fact the only people questioning it are conspirancy-minded people who don't know that there are robust methodologies to detect election fraud.
by oneshot2150 | 2026-01-30 20:19:57+00:00
It’s odd that people seem to be so against the AI slop in particular, because energy and water and whatnot. I’m fairly sure video games eat a lot more power than AI slop and are just as useless. So is traveling - do people truly need to fly 3000 miles just to see some mountains? Why do people demand food they like when you’d survive just fine off of legumes and water?

> Everywhere I go, there are these huge, ugly, energy and water devouring behemoths of buildings.

Everywhere you go? Really?

The water consumption is minor, btw. Electricity is more impactful but you’d achieve infinitely more advocating for renewables rather than preaching at people about how they’re supposed to live in mudhuts.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 20:20:04+00:00
I tried to use opencode for kimi k2.5 too but recently they changed their pricing from 200 tool requests/5 hour to token based pricing.

I can only speak from the tool request based but for some reason anecdotally opencode took like 10 requests in like 3-4 minutes where Kimi cli took 2-3

So I personally like/stick with the kimi cli for kimi coding. I haven't tested it out again with OpenAI with teh new token based pricing but I do think that opencode might add more token issue.

Kimi Cli's pretty good too imo. You should check it out!

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-cli
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-30 20:20:04+00:00
I feel like the company might have been Yellow Springs Instrument (YSI, now a division of Xylem).

The dissolved oxygen sensor (the Clark electrode) was invented by Dr. Lee Clark at Antioch University (Yellow Springs, OH) and commercialized by YSI in the 1960s. A friend of mine worked at YSI from the late 60s thru the 80s on biosensors (glucose and lactic acid, using the Clark electrode as the basis) and worked directly with Dr. Clark.

Carl Feynman was born in 1962, according to what I'm reading, so if he was 14 that would have put this story in the time period early in the commercialization of these sensors.

Some good background:

https://derangedphysiology.com/main/cicm-primary-exam/respir...

https://www.anaestheasier.com/the-clark-electrode/

I'll have to hit my friend up to see if he knows anything about this. I'm certain he'd get a kick out of reading this, if nothing else.
by generalizations | 2026-01-30 20:20:08+00:00
From Plato's Phaedrus, on the invention of writing:

Theuth: "This invention, O king, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered."

Thamus replied: "Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.

You have discovered an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."

Which is to say: "All this has happened before, and will happen again."
by krick | 2026-01-30 20:20:27+00:00
> We aquired TikTok because of the perceived threat

It's very tangential to your point (which is somewhat fair), but it's just extremely weird to see a statement like this in 2026, let alone on HN. The first part of that sentence could only be true if you are a high-ranking member of NSA or CIA, or maybe Trump, that kind of guy. Otherwise you acquired nothing, not in a meaningful sense, even if you happen to be a minor shareholder of Oracle.

The second part is just extremely naïve if sincere. Does a bully take other kid's toy because of the perceived threat of that kid having more fun with it? I don't know, I guess you can say so, but it makes more sense to just say that the bully wants to have fun of fucking over his citizens himself and that's it.
by CRConrad | 2026-01-30 20:21:29+00:00
> It's pure logic that Tesla has to pursue bets that would justify billion dollar valuations and being a car company isn't that.

Isn't this in reply to a post (or was that another reply just below it?) about how other, "traditional", car companies are valued at 55, 60, 80, and 280 billion dollars...? Seems being a car company and having a billion dollar valuation isn't all that incompatible.
by 1shooner | 2026-01-30 20:21:35+00:00
Graphene also has a kind of workaround to add fingerprint duress:

>GrapheneOS improves the security of the fingerprint unlock feature by only permitting 5 total attempts rather than implementing a 30 second delay between every 5 failed attempts with a total of 20 attempts. This doesn't just reduce the number of potential attempts but also makes it easy to disable fingerprint unlock by intentionally failing to unlock 5 times with a different finger.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-01-30 20:22:01+00:00
Don Reinertsen did some nice work on what he calls lean 2.0. Part of that is basically doing cost estimations for work. Cost estimations basically just boil down to hours times cost per hour. The nice thing of thinking in dollars instead of hours is that it suddenly becomes a money game. Now there is a stake. Because companies are usually budget constrained and while they can pretend there are more than 24 hours in day, pretending there are more dollars in the bank is a lot harder. The tradeoffs get a lot more real.

One of the points he makes that a bad estimate is better than no estimate. If you have no estimates, you literally can't plan. Even if you are going to be off by 3x it's better than not knowing. A lot of the companies have no clue about the cost of what they are doing. So, he fixes that by making them predict cost of their plans. Which in turn forces them to do time estimates. Like Joel says, breaking things down helps making better estimates.

Another point he makes is that different people can come up with wildly different cost predictions for the same thing. That's still a lot better than not having any cost at all. Whenever you get wild divergence in cost estimates, that signals that there's no collective understanding of what a team is doing. That's a problem that needs fixing or somebody needs a reality check with their expectations (e.g. managers). If they are low balling an expensive thing, they are going to look pretty bad when that doesn't happen repeatedly.

And then he introduces a concept called "cost of delay" which is a simple potential revenue based mechanism for calculating what it would cost if feature X ships 3 months late. Now you get money based prioritization. We make more money if we do X before Y.

And a final point he makes is that empowering people to come up with money saving measures can actually be hugely beneficial. Some things get cheaper if you rethink a design, maybe re-implement some thing, etc. Instead of making people beg for permission to do that, it's much more cost effective to let people figure things out. Up to a certain dollar amount. That amount can go up or down as people gain experience. But the point is that rewarding people for things that are profitable is a very sane thing to do for companies. And usually the experts have the best understanding of where the potential gains are.

All very simple ideas conceptually. But the thing is, many software shops have no clue about any of this. They don't understand their own cost. They don't understand the dollar impact of choices they make; including important things like prioritization.

I don't actually practice any of this. But it's an intriguing way to look at estimations. Well worth checking out his work.
by tom_alexander | 2026-01-30 20:22:32+00:00
> it seems like there's no standard reporting of charge level over the wire

Isn't that the "Battery_Status" message in the USB PD spec? Page 152 in this pdf: https://e2e.ti.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussion...

Combine that with the "Battery_Capabilities" message (page 163) to get the total capacity, and you can calculate the charge percentage.
by bityard | 2026-01-30 20:22:48+00:00
I have a considerable backstock of Logitech Anywhere MX (no bloody 2, 3, or 4...) mice in my drawer entirely because they can be powered by 2x AA batteries for months at a time. I like these because when the batteries die, I just swap them out and keep doing work.

I have one of the newer models and when the battery runs out, I have to stop what I am doing and charge the mouse. Yes, you can get through the rest of the day with a quick 5-minute charge but if you're like me, you won't remember to plug in the mouse at the end of the day and will have to repeat the quick-charge multiple times until I finally remember to plug it in overnight (usually by writing a sticky-note). I assume Logitech's answer to this would be: buy a second mouse as a backup!

The only major downside is that these older mice don't do bluetooth and USB Type-A ports are getting more and more rare.

This has greatly informed my decision to always try to buy things that take AA batteries, or at least easily replaceable li-ion batteries (at worst).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 20:22:49+00:00
I tried kimi k2.5 and first I didn't really like it. I was critical of it but then I started liking it. Also, the model has kind of replaced how I use chatgpt too & I really love kimi 2.5 the most right now (although gemini models come close too)

To be honest, I do feel like kimi k2.5 is the best open source model. It's not the best model itself right now tho but its really price performant and for many use cases might be nice depending on it.

It might not be the completely SOTA that people say but it comes pretty close and its open source and I trust the open source part because I feel like other providers can also run it and just about a lot of other things too (also considering that iirc chatgpt recently slashed some old models)

I really appreciate kimi for still open sourcing their complete SOTA and then releasing some research papers on top of them unlike Qwen which has closed source its complete SOTA.

Thank you Kimi!
Ask HN: Is OpenAI double-charging you lately?
by sebastiennight | 2026-01-30 20:22:50+00:00
I noticed in the last few days multiple large charges from OpenAI for their API service, which were surprising as they usually bill us once a month and each bill from this week is as big as an entire month of usage.

When looking at those new paid invoices, they all are marked as regarding periods that we've already paid for (eg Sept-Oct 2025) and with wildly different numbers per line item compared to our actual usage from that month.

Will take it up with support, but wondering if others are going through the same issue?
by bluGill | 2026-01-30 20:24:06+00:00
For the vast majority of people who own a car, continuing to own the car will remain the better deal. Most people need their car during "rush hour", so there isn't any savings from sharing, and worse some people have "high standards" and so will demand the rental be a clean car nicer than you would accept - thus raising the costs (particularly if you drive used cars) Any remaining argument for a shared car dies when you realize that you can leave your things in the car, and you never have to wait.

For the rest - many of them live in a place where not enough others will follow the same system and so they will be forced to own a car just like today. If you live in a not dense area but still manage to walk/bike almost everywhere (as I do), renting a car is on paper cheaper the few times when you need a car - but in practice you don't know about that need several weeks in advance and so they don't have one they can rent to you. Even if you know you will need the car weeks in advance, sometimes they don't have one when you arrive.

If you live in a very dense area such that you almost regularly use transit (but sometimes walk, bike), but need a car for something a few times per year, then not owning a car makes sense. In this case the density means shared cars can be a viable business model despite not being used very much.

In short what you say sound insightful, but reality of how cars are used means it won't happen for most car owners.
by stevoski | 2026-01-30 20:24:32+00:00
Fogbugz, if the first version even existed in 2000, was not a SaaS. Nor was Jira, by the way.

Both products were initially once-off purchases that you had to install and run on your own infrastructure, and with new, major versions packed with new features that you had to buy if you wanted, but could ignore if you didn’t.

The move to a SaaS model came years later for both products.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-30 20:24:38+00:00
I tried doing this in Python a bit ago. It did not go well and it really showed how SLOW Python really is.

Even with just an 1280x720 window, setting every pixel to a single color by setting a value in a byte array and then using a PyGame function to just give it a full frame to draw, I maxed out at like 10 fps. I tried so many things and simply could not get any faster.
by commandlinefan | 2026-01-30 20:24:43+00:00
As always, the only way anybody has ever thought of to "plan" software is:

1) write down everything you're going to do
2) write down how long that's going to take
3) add them all up and voila! You have a schedule!

The ways this breaks down in practice would be comical if not for the fact that everybody takes it so seriously. The biggest problem is that step 1 takes longer than the actual software development task all the time, every time. That might not be _so_ bad other than the fact that it's also always completely wrong.
by bonoboTP | 2026-01-30 20:24:49+00:00
I checked the link, it never says that the model's prediction get lower quality due to batching, just nondeterministic. I don't understand why people conflate these things. Also it's unlikely that they use smaller batch sizes when load is lower. They just likely spin up and down GPU serves based on demand, or more likely, reallocate servers and gpus between different roles and tasks.
by viraptor | 2026-01-30 20:24:58+00:00
A lot better in my experience. M2.1 to me feels between haiku and sonnet. K2.5 feels close to opus. That's based on my testing of removing some code and getting it to reimplement based on tests. Also the design/spec writing feels great. You can still test k2.5 for free in OpenCode today.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-30 20:26:22+00:00
Liability is a separate matter from autonomy. I assume you'd consider yourself autonomous, yet it's your employer's insurance that will be liable if you have an accident while driving a company vehicle.

If the company required a representative to sit in the car with you and participate in the driving (e.g. by monitoring and taking over before an accident), then there's a case to be made that you're not fully autonomous.
by rimunroe | 2026-01-30 20:26:32+00:00
I don't know about that exactly, but my understanding was that this is similar in justification to compelling a person to be fingerprinted or give a DNA sample. To me there does seem to be a fairly major difference between forcing someone to disclose information held in their mind and forcing them to provide a biometric. The former seems equivalent to compelling testimony against oneself. I have a hard time seeing the latter as compelling testimony against oneself, especially if giving fingerprints or DNA isn't.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-30 20:26:44+00:00
> Also, self driving is a feature of a vehicle someone owns, I don't understand how that should exempt anyone from insuring their property.

Well practically speaking, there’s nothing stopping anyone from voluntarily assuming liability for arbitrary things. If Tesla assumes the liability for my car, then even if I still require my “own” insurance for legal purposes, the marginal cost of covering the remaining risk is going to be close to zero.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-30 20:27:14+00:00
There's no comparison. GLM 4.7 is fine and reasonably competent at writing code, but K2.5 is right up there with something like Sonnet 4.5. it's the first time I can use an open-source model and not immediately tell the difference between it and top-end models from Anthropic and OpenAI.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-30 20:27:14+00:00
Well, my plan to make a Moltar theme for Moltbot for the wordplay of it is not quite so pertinent anymore. Ah well. None-the-less, welcome openclaw.
https://spaceghost.fandom.com/wiki/Moltar

Anyone else already referred to it as Openclawd, perhaps by accident?