MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 542354234235 | 2026-01-12 19:13:33+00:00
Why is it that people can't seem to grasp that the brain is just as biological as the kidney or pancreas? If your pancreas isn't producing the right chemicals in the right quantities at the right times for normal healthy functioning, of course we need to treat that. But if the brain isn't producing the right chemicals in the right quantities at the right times for normal healthy functioning, then obviously its willpower or laziness or whatever.
by Rendello | 2026-01-12 19:13:44+00:00
When I was in Poland, I was shocked by the number of Żabka convenience stores. They didn't look quite like Japanese combinis (from what I've seen online), but were leagues ahead of the typical North American convenience stores. They were on every corner, sometimes you could look down the street and see multiple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBabka_(convenience_store)
by alexsmirnov | 2026-01-12 19:14:17+00:00
This is exact the impression that I got. Every question or task given to LLM returns pretty reasonable, but flawed result. For the coding, those are hard to spot but dangerous mistakes. They all look good and perfectly reasonable, but just wrong. Anthropic compared Claude Code to a "slot machine", and I fell that AI coding now is something close to gambling addiction. As small wins keep gambler to make more bets, so correct results from AI keep developers to use it: "I see it made correct solution, let's try again!"
At a startup CTO, I review most of the pull requests from team members, and team uses AI tools actively. The overall picture strongly confirms your second conclusion.
by margalabargala | 2026-01-12 19:14:45+00:00
> So me saying I am not going to give them money until they start selling burgers is a meaningless too them.

Sure, but that's because you're you. No offense, but you don't have a following that people use to decide what fast food to eat. You don't have posts about how Taco Bell should serve burgers, frequently topping one of the main internet forums for people interested in fast food.

HN front page articles do matter. They get huge numbers of eyeballs. They help shape the opinions of developers. If lots of people write articles like this one, and it front pages again and again, Anthropic will be at serious risk of losing their mindshare advantage.

Of course, that may not happen. But people are aware it could.
by zahlman | 2026-01-12 19:15:01+00:00
About $6/day, Canadian. Only for myself. Not counting energy costs.

The core of it is the stuff you'd expect, at least if you remember older stereotypes of the diets of the poor. But it doesn't have to be just the things that would drive you mad. There's room for quite a bit of variety, really. In fact, there's room to eat out sometimes at my current price level.

I buy a lot of dry food (naturally dry or dehydrated in processing) in bulk: flour, rice, dried fruit (carefully portioned out), legumes (split peas and kidney beans are what I like; I could get others if I wanted), skim milk powder (many culinary uses). Mostly frozen meat (not pre-made things in boxes), or ground meat that I buy in quantity and freeze. Boring old generic cheese in the full-sized bars, not sliced or shredded and definitely not the plastic crap. (I really should get eggs more often. Even at regular prices, which have nearly doubled since 2020 for the most basic offering, they're still reasonably priced for what you get.) Not a whole lot of fresh vegetables, or rather, just starchy ones like carrots and potatoes when they go on sale.

I drink tea that I make myself (I haven't crunched the numbers but I assume homemade drip coffee is comparable). I don't buy pop (er, "soda") and my selection of snack foods is quite limited: generally bottom-shelf generic-brand cookies and biscuits (even then I shop around) and sometimes generic-brand potato chips. I used to get generic-brand ice cream sometimes but those prices have gone way out of control.

And I read the flyers.
by DiscourseFan | 2026-01-12 19:15:24+00:00
There are numerous videos of high level professional poker players winning large hands with incredible bluffs, this whole "Nash equilibrium solution" is nothing more than a conjecture with some symbols thrown in. I will re-iterate, there is no such thing as perfect knowledge when you have imperfect information. If you play "optimally," you will get bluffed out of all your money the moment everyone else at the table figures out what you're doing.
by leptons | 2026-01-12 19:15:51+00:00
>Apple actually caring about UX again

I doubt Apple ever really cared about UX. It took Apple 24 years after Microsoft's Windows 2.0 introduced resizing a window from any edge, for Apple to finally implement it in MacOS Lion in 2011. Apple UX is ridiculous.

If they cared about UX, they'd throw out their "HIG", hire some competent people, and start over.

Why is the first item on the first menu of every software program "About this software"? Is it because the most frequently used thing by every user is to know what version of the software they are running? Apple specified this in their "HIG" long ago and it never changed, and it's been stuck there ever since. And it's completely stupid. MS Windows applications typically have "About this software" as the last menu item on the last menu, which is objectively a far better place for it than the first thing on the first menu, since it is rarely needed when using an application.
by benoau | 2026-01-12 19:15:57+00:00
> Now it feels like you're saying "this is anti-trust because someone accused them of anti-trust before".

No it's antitrust because they have a failed product, but purely by virtue of shutting out competitors from their platform they have been able to turn three years of flailing around into a win-by-outsourcing. What would Siri's position be like today if they hadn't blocked default voice assistants? Would they be able to recover from their plight to dominate the market just by adopting Google's technology? How would that measure against OpenAI, Anthropic or just using Google directly? This is why it's an antitrust issue.
by cyberax | 2026-01-12 19:16:03+00:00
I solved it by adding a simple Tailscale action to handle failure. It creates an ephemeral instance and waits for connections for 3 minutes. Then it loops while there's an active SSH session present.

It's that simple: https://gist.github.com/Cyberax/9edbde51380bf7e1b298245464a2... and it saved me _hours_ of debug time.

I've moved all my CI/CD to use Taskfiles inside a Docker container since then, so my local environment can replicate the CI/CD environment up to the GITHUB_TOKEN. Still, being able to poke around Github builders is great.
by pigpop | 2026-01-12 19:16:37+00:00
You could wire in one of those small phone vibration motors and get similar noises out of it. Experimenting with different ways of mounting the motor so that it makes metallic or mechanical noises would be fun. If you really wanted to get the full audio experience you could also add another motor that spins a small, disk shaped load that you could ramp up and down for the steady whirring noises.
by falloutx | 2026-01-12 19:16:58+00:00
Claude already played their card, from threatening that 90% of the code will be written by Ai then cutting off their most enthusiastic followers. Opencode and others haven't threatened the industry and generally have better standing with most devs. I do not see how Claude can ever be profitable at this point, they don't have any stickyness and they actively propose cutting their own market.
by nickpsecurity | 2026-01-12 19:17:13+00:00
That would be an interesting experiment. It might be more useful to make a model with a cut off close to when copyrights expire to be as modern as possible.

Then, we have a model that knows quite a bit in modern English. We also legally have a data set for everything it knows. Then, there's all kinds of experimentation or copyright-safe training strategies we can do.

Project Gutenberg up to the 1920's seems to be the safest bet on that.
by loeber | 2026-01-12 19:17:18+00:00
But that's the point of the article. The state is failing in all of these dimensions, while state tax revenues and budgets have nearly doubled! We have more spending, but it's not fixing the issues. Many Silicon Valley people are upset about the ineffectiveness of this spend.

Now the spend is going to go even higher, driving out Silicon Valley in the process, but it will not achieve any of the objectives. In fact, it may be destructive to California on a whole.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-12 19:17:54+00:00
Sounds like David has some time on his hands now and might be interested. If you have any particular ideas he might be open to doing a bit of sleuthing.

I was crushed to hear that Oliver Sacks made up key details of his books. He’s taught in every intro class. Millions of people are carrying around false facts about psychology and brain science.
by rCube22 | 2026-01-12 19:18:25+00:00
You are just taking advantage of their CC subscription business model, which they are subsidizing because you are using CC. Why should they do this when you don't use their product?

Also You can still use OpenCode with API access...so no they didn't lock anything down. Basically the people just don't want to pay what is fair and is whining about it.
by buellerbueller | 2026-01-12 19:18:29+00:00
https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj-2025-085304

"This review found that cessation of WMM [weight management medication] is followed by rapid weight regain and reversal of beneficial effects on cardiometabolic markers. Regain after WMM was faster than after BWMP [behavioral weight management programs]. These findings suggest caution in short term use of these drugs without a more comprehensive approach to weight management."
by cdaringe | 2026-01-12 19:18:31+00:00
I love and use xfce, but it “just works” for me only ~98%. Window snapping dimensions are oft still wrong, i get visual artifacts sometimes , etc. minor issues. With gnome i may not love everything about it, but i change nothing and it does “just work” closer to 99.9+%

Seems like YMMV
by jjk166 | 2026-01-12 19:19:48+00:00
Well it sounds like the whole issue is that the regime has been tanking their economy due to years of funneling money to the Revolutionary Guard, and it's lead to them having to restrict more and more who they can provide favoritism to. It's unclear whether that means it's becoming more difficult to placate the IRGC or there are elements in the IRGC getting greedy, but either way it indicates the loyalty of the military and police can't be taken for granted.
by atmavatar | 2026-01-12 19:20:14+00:00
Neither candidate was ever going to push back against Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

While it was very disappointing the Democrats weren't exerting significant pressure against Israel, and Kamala gave no indication she'd act any different, it was delusional to believe Trump was going to be any different. He was very clear that he supported Israel as well, and he went as far as to claim he'd support Netanyahu even more strongly than Biden. Sure, he sabre-rattled a bit about wanting the war in Gaza to end before he took office, but he also indicated he'd support residual IDF actions (i.e., continued killings of Palestinians) within Gaza afterward.

There was never a candidate who was going to push back against Israel, no matter how much you or I would have liked for there to have been one.
by coder543 | 2026-01-12 19:20:27+00:00
All signs are that they are doing exactly that. They already have an on-device LLM which powers certain features, and I expect they will have a better-trained version of that on-device model that comes out with the "new Siri" update.

In the original announcement of the Siri revamped a couple of years ago, they specifically talked about having the on-device model handle everything it can, and only using the cloud models for the harder or more open ended questions.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-12 19:20:41+00:00
Fiber mostly, but that's not an addictive, I guess that's a subtractive.

But think about, say, oranges. They naturally have fiber in them to make you feel more full and to slow the absorption of sugar. Then we remove all the fiber by juicing them, and now you can eat 6 oranges in 60 seconds, which is typically impossible or, at least, very uncomfortable.

It's the same story for the entire food industry. Whole foods are complex, we often zone in on some aspect of them and extract it, essentially concentrating it.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-12 19:20:48+00:00
this is a fashionable sentiment, but as Nietzsche (a man who cannot be accused of having much sympathy for Christianity) pointed out: The notion that a slave, humiliated and crucified, was as worthy of mercy and equal was nothing short of a complete overturning of the moral order of the world. Far from obvious it was radical and subversive. The kind of modern atheist who doesn't see this does so because he has Christian values so deeply in his bones he doesn't even realize it.
by gs17 | 2026-01-12 19:20:54+00:00
It seems to assume 100 per day is your goal and so naturally per-week is 700, except per-month it assumes 3,042 (I'm guessing this is the average between 30/31/28/29 day months?) and per-year is 36,500. It really should be based on the current month's length, and should allow you to set your goal. It would also be nice if it was flexible for multiple exercises, too.

EDIT: I found the goal changing option, but it's per-year instead of per-day. I'm pretty sure most people don't set their push-up goals that way.
by mrandish | 2026-01-12 19:21:01+00:00
> If this works better for you than a Logitech or Kensington trackball

A few years back, I bought and tried various Logitech/Kensington-type trackballs between two halves of my split keyboard and none of them worked well enough due to being too large for comfortable reach (and also the casing being large enough to force the halves farther apart than I prefer). I even bought a smaller uncased trackball component to try to make something but never got around to it.

I saw a photo of this product a few days ago in some CES round-up and immediately thought "oh, someone finally made the thing I wanted" (narrow, small). Of course, because the exact height, position and angle of these kinds of things tend to matter ergonomically, it may not work for me but it's a lot closer than anything I've yet seen. If it's reasonably priced, I'll probably pick one up to try.
by simonw | 2026-01-12 19:21:08+00:00
Code doesn't bother me as much, because it's not claiming to be the opinions of the person who wrote it.

My problem is LLMs making statements on people's behalf as if they represent the position of that person.

Your example of my writing there isn't LLM generated. Did you get caught out by the em-dash? That's thanks to this 10+ year old string replacement: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/b8066f870a9...

The only LLM writing on my blog is from when VS Code or Apple Notes occasionally help complete a sentence for me.
by thoughtstheseus | 2026-01-12 19:21:29+00:00
They’re the wrong numbers and people misunderstand the numbers. The consumption basket for CPI (food) is determined by consumption surveys. Not desire or historical consumption. You can have less and lower quality food with a rising spend on food.

For example, food away from home is down. People cannot afford to go out to eat as much. Rather than reflect the higher cost of going out to eat, the consumption basket reduces the proportion of food away from home.

There are also hard limits on food spending. People have limited money. Instead what you seeing is a continued increase in SNAP and record food bank usage.

Make no mistake. The young family or median person is worse off with food security today despite spending more.
by samuelson | 2026-01-12 19:21:41+00:00
I think it would be fun to see if an LLM would reframe some scientific terms from the time in a way that would actually fit in our current theories.

I imagine if you explained quantum field theory to a 19th century scientists they might think of it as a more refined understanding of luminiferous aether.

Or if an 18th century scholar learned about positive and negative ions, it could be seen as an expansion/correction of phlogiston theory.
by JohnnyMarcone | 2026-01-12 19:22:12+00:00
Look up the build back better act that Biden proposed and tell me if you think that was centrist. It originally proposed extending the child tax credit (basically basic income for people with kids).

The Inflation Reduction Act, the negotiated paired down version was still the biggest climate bill in history.

He also attempted to cancel 10 to 20k each of student debt, a progressive priority. That was blocked by the Supreme court.

The list goes on.

If the electorate had given Biden a bigger majority in Congress he would have passed much more progressive legislation.
by nkohari | 2026-01-12 19:22:49+00:00
Roe v. Wade isn't gone because of the will of the people. Nobody voted to overturn it. It's gone because of a unique scenario involving the balance of power in the SCOTUS.

Congressional Republicans simply refused to confirm a legally appointed justice, allowing a conservative justice to be appointed in their place after the next POTUS was elected. Then, another liberal justice passed away creating another vacancy which was again filled by a conservative. If either or both of those things hadn't happened, Roe v. Wade would not have been overturned.

And sure, you can say it was the will of the people that a conservative was in office at the time, and appointed the justices, but that's not the same as voting for or against federal abortion rights.
by observationist | 2026-01-12 19:22:59+00:00
There's a huge difference - in previous protests, they were begging the regime to hear their voices, to do the right thing - to reform, or change policy.

This time, there's no calls for conciliation or change, it's outright "death to the tyrants" and an astonishing number of people hitting the streets. They're burning down mosques, tearing down statues, burning out police stations, lynching regime officials, going to officials houses and dragging them out, and so on.

Also, it's been going on for 16 days at this point, and for some reason, is noticeably absent from world media. That feels significant, somehow.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-12 19:23:01+00:00
I don't think it was mentioned, but Bhutan minority groups have experienced ethnic cleansing and oppression; we used to accept their refugees, but now we probably don't, so it's likely that these overstays are actually people fleeing or related to those fleeing persecution. Another fun externality of politicians persecuting immigrants based on statistics.
by feanaro | 2026-01-12 19:23:20+00:00
This alone still wouldn't be a clear demonstration that AGI is around the corner. It's quite possible a LLM could've done Einstein's job, if Einstein's job was truly just synthesising already available information into a coherent new whole. (I couldn't say, I don't know enough of the physics landscape of the day to claim either way.)

It's still unclear whether this process could be merely continued, seeded only with new physical data, in order to keep progressing beyond that point, "forever", or at least for as long as we imagine humans will continue to go on making scientific progress.
by digdugdirk | 2026-01-12 19:23:25+00:00
I've been curious how this project will grow over time, it seems to have taken the lead as the first open source terminal agent framework/runner, and definitely seems to be growing faster than any organization would/could/should be able to manage.

It really seems like the main focus of the project should be in how to organize the work of the project, rather than on the specs/requirements/development of the codebase itself.

What are the general recommendations the team has been getting for how to manage the development velocity? And have you looked into various anarchist organizational principles?
by arjie | 2026-01-12 19:23:58+00:00
As a Claude Code user (on the Max $200 plan), I think this is fine. Already I frequently receive:

API Error: 529 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"overloaded_error","message":"Overloade d"},"request_id":"req_011CX42ZX2u

If they want to prioritize direct Anthropic users like me, that's fine. Availability is a feature to me.
by zjzkshz | 2026-01-12 19:24:12+00:00
This is speculation, but given how cozy he is with Israel it’s not “nonsense”. And the rest of the post is verifiable, despite it being described as “mostly nonsense”.

Words are cheap and politicians often do much different than they promised. Remember when Trump said no new wars? Remember when he said we were done in Iran after dropping the bombs, and now intervention is looming?
by falaki | 2026-01-12 19:24:25+00:00
Some personal observations as I am in touch with a few folks inside Iran through Starlink.

1. The jamming/disruption is local to large cities most notably the capital, Tehran.

2. Even in Tehran it is not complete and my friends are able to send and receive messages. Uploading videos is harder.

3. The regime is now raiding homes that they suspect have Starlink terminals. I don't know how they identify them but I do wonder if they are using technology to locate them.
by hi-wintermute | 2026-01-12 19:24:32+00:00
I did some napkin math on this as I recently picked up a 3D Printer and wondered the environmental comparison to print-at-home vs pick something up at the store and I was surprised. Had some help from Claude but "last mile delivery" is absolutely where the majority of the kWh is burned in the supply chain.

Container ships use ~0.015 kWh per ton-km[1] and a car is ~1.35 kWh/km.

If you go to the store and end up getting >10 things it becomes "worth it" from an energy standpoint. Anything less printing at home seemed to be more economical... Not an expert though just saying it opened my eyes to how inefficient "last mile delivery" energy consumption is.

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/c15/page_95.shtml (old reference)
by whatshisface | 2026-01-12 19:25:27+00:00
If you eat 1% fewer calories than you burn every day you will die. You will also die if you eat 1% more calories than you burn every day. Is it possible, really, to suggest that the availability of calories was 100% of the daily requirement of our ancestors, and not 99%, or 101%? That is a level of accident that exceeds belief.

It is incredible to think this precise balance could be maintained by anything other than a closed loop of biological control. How would the wheat on a medieval farm know how much to grow each season? If it was off by 1% consistently, everyone would have died... unless they had a mechanism for satiation.

How do you think our microbial ancestors maintained internal salinity, through the limited availability of salt in the ancient ocean?
by wojciem | 2026-01-12 19:25:46+00:00
Totally relatable pain- getting LLMs to reliably drive precise CAD operations is surprisingly hard, especially when spatial reasoning and plane/extrude/chamfer decisions go wrong 70%+ of the time.

For people looking at a different angle on the "text to 3D model" problem, I've been playing with https://www.timbr.pro lately. Not trying to replace SolidWorks precision, but great for the early fuzzy "make me something that looks roughly like X" phase before you bring it into real CAD.
by achierius | 2026-01-12 19:26:15+00:00
> and you'll be rehired and have to clean up the mess, then continue on

Not how this works. Yes, it happens sometimes, but there's no guarantee. Alternatives include:

- The rest of your team (or another tam) soaks up the additional work by working longer hours

- They hire someone else, or transfer someone from elsewhere

- The company accepts the lower output quality / whatever breakages result

- The breakages, even if unacceptable, only show up months down the line

So all that needs to happen is for your boss to believe they can replace you up to the point where they feel comfortable firing you. Whether that works or not is largely immaterial to the impact it thereafter has on your ability to pay rent / your mortgage / etc.