MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bloomingeek | 2026-01-15 06:30:51+00:00
We bought our first minivan in 1998, a Ford Windstar. It was purchased to run our teenagers to activities, but I quickly fell in love with all the other things it could do, including what you've mentioned above. We put a ton of miles on it before trading it in. Next was a 2007 Town and Country with two sliding doors! By this time we were running grandkids and it was perfect.

After deciding to replace it, we struggled to decide what kind of vehicle to upgrade to. For our lifestyle and the side projects I like to do, another minivan was the obvious choice. Now it's a 2018 Pacifica and we're retired. The quality is outstanding, with 112K miles on it, I expect to put on another 100K before seeing what's available for the next upgrade. None of these vans ever gave us any engine or transmission trouble, despite the high number of miles I was able to put on them.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-15 06:31:06+00:00
> They'll hit 16 and be given full access to the entire range of platforms, and they'll overdo it and binge on it, with all the harms that happen because of that.

"Full access" meaning deanonymized, with a hostile government watching over their shoulders to control online sentiment:

First, we are told, the relevant secretary of state (Michelle Donelan) expressed “concern” that the legislation might whack sites such as Amazon instead of Pornhub. In response, officials explained that the regulation in question was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but was about regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”, a phrase that rather gives away the political thinking behind the act. - https://archive.md/2025.08.13-190800/https://www.thetimes.co...
by ttul | 2026-01-15 06:31:13+00:00
I tried talking to Claude today. What a nightmare. It constantly interrupts you. I don’t mind if Claude wants to spend ten seconds thinking about its reply, but at least let ME finish my thought. Without decent turn-taking, the AI seems impolite and it’s just an icky experience. I hope tech like this gets widely distributed soon because there are so many situations in which I would love to talk with a model. If only it worked.
by mycelia | 2026-01-15 06:31:21+00:00
Lot of cool stuff coming up! As a Ray developer, I focus more on the orchestration layer, so I'm excited about things like Elastic Expert Parallelism, posttraining enhancements like colocated trainer/engines, and deploying DSV4 (rumors are the architecture will be complex). vLLM roadmap is here for reference: http://roadmap.vllm.ai/
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-15 06:31:48+00:00
>Formal latin should have remained the language of academics and international trade. We really screwed up.

I think if formal Latin was really that great a language, it would have endured much longer. Latin is a horribly complicated language, and this is probably a big reason why "vulgar Latin" came about, and why Latin-influenced languages evolved from it (Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc.), yet were neither actual Latin themselves, nor as complicated.

There's a good reason English is so popular these days, and it's not just US dominance. English is a really easy language to learn poorly. It's hard to get all the little details right (like this apostrophe stuff), especially for formal writing, and it's hard to really master it, but it's really easy to learn it at a basic level and become decently conversational with it. You'll make lots of mistakes at this level, but it doesn't matter because with the way the language works, listeners will still understand you just fine. It's not like highly inflected languages where conjugating something incorrectly suddenly changes the meaning completely.

A complicated language like formal Latin makes sense if you want your language to be more like a rigid technical specification: it leaves much less room for ambiguity. But this is not at all easy for speakers of other languages to learn well enough as a 2nd language for international trade.
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-15 06:31:59+00:00
George Lucas does *not* have a reputation as an amazing or fantastic director (like Roman Polanski etc.). In fact, quite the opposite: his Star Wars prequels have some of the worst direction I've ever seen. His first three SW movies were great, but they were very much team efforts, and in the first one, his wife heavily edited it to make it come out so well. The other two weren't even directed by George. George is (was?) a brilliant ideas person: he had a great vision for his movies, and picked some great people to work with (esp. in FX), but he sucked at actual execution and working with actors and script-writing and all that stuff. His best legacy, aside from the first Star Wars, is really his FX company, Industrial Light & Magic, not his work as director.

Leia's slave costume was nothing awful, was perfectly acceptable in 1983, and shows much less skin than a bikini, and was forced on her by an evil and ruthless gang boss who liked to eat his slaves at times, or feed them to his monsters.
by Quothling | 2026-01-15 06:32:35+00:00
What sort of deal woul they be pressuring us to enter? One where USA has basically free reign to do whatever they want in Greenland militarily? Because we already have that deal. One where US companies can enter agreements with Greenland to extract minerals? Because we already have that. One which blocks Russian interests in Greenland? Because we've been in a pseudo war with Russia for a while, with them seizing Danish assets and companies in Russia. So it would be unthinkable to allow them any sort of presence in Greenland. If the US was so concerned about security in Greenland it's sort of weird that they've gone from 20ish bases to just 1 over the past few decades.

As far as losing an ally goes... We already did that. EU is being diplomatic because we hope the USA comes to their senses, and because why wouldn't we? But internally everything is shifting away from US reliance because nobody actually belives USA would show up to protect Estonia if Russia invaded. So what our NATO allies are doing is sending troop to Greenland to make it very expensive for the US to attack it.

The deals that can be made are also sort of limited. Greenland is not ours to give away. The people of Greenland could democratically decide to leave the kingdom and enter some sort of deal with USA, and they might have, if they hadn't been threatened with invasion. Though it would frankly be unlikely considering they'd trade the Danish welfare and healthcare systems and workers rights for whatever the USA has.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-15 06:33:30+00:00
Surströmming, the Swedish can of fermented fish, is strongly recommended to be punctured while submerged in tap water. It is not pasteurized and is actively fermenting in storage, and the content will spray around if opened under atmospheric conditions.

When transported on cargo flights, they are double packed as cans in a barrel in a crate, and considered UN classified "miscellaneous dangerous goods" with identification number UN3334 "Aviation regulated liquid, n.o.s." with accompanying scary(albeit monochromatic) warning stickers, if at all accepted. When transported on ocean going vessels, they are often required to be in its own shipping container, again double packaged and correctly labeled.
by ssengupta3 | 2026-01-15 06:33:42+00:00
Google just solved a problem we stopped noticing because it seemed unsolvable. Their new "Titans" models possess continuity that every previous AI lacked. These systems maintain context across millions of tokens, which translates to genuine conversational memory stretching across weeks or months. We got used to training our AI assistants from scratch each session. That era just ended.
by dwattttt | 2026-01-15 06:33:51+00:00
> In larger projects things like data structures and libraries are going to dominate over slightly different compiler optimizations.

At this level of abstraction you'll probably see on average an effect based on how easy it is to access/use better data structures and algorithms.

Both the ease of access to those (whether the language supports generics, how easy it is to use libraries/dependencies), and whether the population of algorithms and data structures available are up to date, or decades old, would have an impact.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-15 06:34:17+00:00
> you're going to be estimating anyway once you've gotten familiar with a recipe

I would disagree slightly for this when it comes to making precise doughs or other things like brines, syrups, candy, and etc. Or at least I would change "estimating" to "adjusting" in your statement above. When it comes to trying something new (whether in baking from a proper source, like e.g. Modernist Bread or Modernist Pizza, or otherwise), a scale is invaluable.

But yeah, once you have some something a few times and have the feel, you can convert to volumes and go based on your senses. There's a baseline science / formula to some cooking, but the rest really is art.

This feels like a nit, because really I am just glad to see someone else pointing out the obvious realities here. While I would be hesitant to try Mr. Slide Rule's cooking, I'd try your cooking without fear!
by Fezzik | 2026-01-15 06:34:27+00:00
Also related and worth a read, I think, is the Supreme Court case Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952). The content of the dispute is different, as it involves the President seizing private property, but it is (one of?) the seminal cases regarding the scope of presidential powers. Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion is, at least for now, considered the best articulation of when the President may take unilateral action.
by lormayna | 2026-01-15 06:34:27+00:00
I don't know about AI antennas, but smart antennas[1] are a things since more than 15 years. Basically they are array of antennas that can change via software the directivity (mainly used in radar systems) or increase/reduce power transmission and direction (this is used in 5G cell).

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_antenna
by ggm | 2026-01-15 06:34:38+00:00
What is "good" contextually here?

If you believe in zero-sum I win you lose, then much of this policy is aiming to do precisely that. Badly executed but that's the intent.

I don't believe in that, I genuinely believe in mutuality even between competing parties, build a bigger economy stuff, and so most-favoured-nation multilateral free trade.

This is not my world view. I can't steelman this well, but I think that's where you go here.

BTW you are a young, low karma account. That has implications for many people.
by lovich | 2026-01-15 06:34:39+00:00
Well see, now based on my heuristics I don't think youre here in great faith/a real person either

1) your account was made post LLM access being widespread

2) you made this claim

> I am extremely annoyed at hackernews right now

> wtf is happening. someone said nice try clanker bcause of my username like (wtf/)

and when I go back through your comment history trying to find when that occurred, I got to over 8 days ago and no one ever used the word "clanker" in response to you.

The signal to noise ratio is at an all time low because of LLMs. If you are a real person, I guess that sucks, but I have a difficult time believing anything you say now
by elric | 2026-01-15 06:35:42+00:00
The same liability issue exists in Belgium, with very similar results. Some people will clear the pavement in front of their homes, others won't. Some don't have the time, some don't have the ability. Some try but make it worse, by brushing aside the snow without salting a thin leftover layer can easily turn into black ice.

Our tax rate is insane. This is a responsibility/liability that should rest with the governments, but they'd never get it done.

My hot take is that the govt ought to facillitate the process, e.g. by providing salt/grit/shovels/salt spreaders, so that people at least have a realistic chance of getting it done.
by medbrewery | 2026-01-15 06:35:47+00:00
Want to be a doctor? First you pay $300k for med school. But before that, you pay $6k just to study for the entrance exam. The industry is a scam preying on 22-year-olds chasing a dream. I scored 97th percentile, built my own prep, and I'm giving it away. Feedback welcome.
by mycelia | 2026-01-15 06:35:59+00:00
For my work personally, agentic AI usage is pretty standard SWE fare (Cursor/CC). Even within the engine, optimizations are often centered around things like increasing communication/compute overlap (this is called Dual-Batch Overlap in vLLM).

Probably there are more interesting/easily verifiable agent loops you could try for kernel optimizations. At this point, the best are still written by hand, though. Ex: DeepEP kernels https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP
by zaptheimpaler | 2026-01-15 06:37:23+00:00
I haven’t used agents as much as I should, so forgive the ignorance. But a docker compose file seems much more general purpose and flexible to me. It’s a mature and well-tested technology that seems to fit this use case pretty well. It also lets you run all kinds of other services easily. Are there any good articles on the state of sandboxing for agents and why docker isn’t sufficient? I guess the article mentioned docker having a lot of config files or being complex, is that the only reason?
by DrNefario | 2026-01-15 06:37:45+00:00
Black Lives Matter is objectively not a grift. There is an argument to be made regarding "BLM Global Network", but calling them BLM is like saying all vegans support PETA.

Regardless, that's irrelevant to the discussion at hand. You don't have to change your beliefs to be part of the Gleam community, you just have to not be an asshole about them. If you're the kind of person that starts an argument any time BLM is mentioned, is it understandable why they wouldn't want you in their community?
by fnordpiglet | 2026-01-15 06:39:43+00:00
The idea that complex Rube Goldberg machines powered by fire and explosions are somehow going to have a future compared to devices with minimal moving parts powered by a fundamental force of nature in its most pure form is absurd on the surface.

Americans and American companies often hold onto technologies long after they are clearly done for in the belief that hope and marketing and stubborn refusal to let go of some romantic view that gas stations and loud noisy slow devices that require constant maintenance are cool.

Toyota and others are rightly betting the American taste will be slow to swing, that our leadership is spineless and has no forward vision, and that they can keep monetizing old technology. What they are getting wrong is the inexorable force of economic and technological reality will strangle ICE manufacturers in a slow then sudden death. BYD, MG, etc are r through the regulatory grind while building their production and logistical capacity. Once they can penetrate the US market veil it’ll be over for Ford, GM, Toyota, and others. Tesla will have to cut margin so fast it’ll be dizzying.

If you’ve driven these Chinese EVs you’ll know the writing is on the wall, and as these legacy automakers cancel their last gasp attempt to be relevant in the future, they’ve ended their role in world manufacturing in the quixotic notion that hope is a strategy.
by willvarfar | 2026-01-15 06:39:56+00:00
I had a great euphoric epiphany feeling today. Doesn't come along too often, will celebrate with a nice glass of wine :)

Am doing data engineering for some big data (yeah, big enough) and thinking about efficiency of data enrichment. There's this classic trilemma with data enrichment where you can have good write efficiency, good read efficiency and/or good storage cost, pick two.

E.g. you have a 1TB table and you want to add a column that, say, will take 1GB to store.

You can create a new table that is 1.1TB and then delete the old table, but this is both write-inefficient and often breaks how normal data lake orchestration works.

You can create a new wide table that is 1.1TB and keep it along side the old table, but this is both write-inefficient and expensive to store.

You can create a narrow companion table that has just a join key and 1GB of data. This is efficient to write and store, but inefficient to query when you force all users to do joins on read.

And I've come up with a cunning forth way where you write a narrow table and read a wide table so its literally best of all worlds! Kinda staggering :) Still on a high.

Might actually be a conference paper, which is new territory for me. Lets see :)

/off dancing
by energy123 | 2026-01-15 06:40:50+00:00
> Long-running projects that converge

This is how I think about it. I care about asymptotics. What initial conditions (model(s) x workflow/harness x input text artefacts) causes convergence to the best steady state? The number of lines of code doesn't have to grow, it could also shrink. It's about the best output.
by n8cpdx | 2026-01-15 06:41:13+00:00
I used to get sick a lot more often, pretty consistently 3-4 times per year. Since I’ve started masking on trains (specifically because others who are sick and coughing aren’t wearing a mask) and other things (elderberry, zinc, NAC at signs of cold) I’ve gone down to 1-2 times per year. And that is mostly from hooking up with people who had COVID and didn’t realize it.

It’s hard to say exactly what led to the reduction in illnesses, but the N95 masks have the strongest evidence base of the interventions I’ve tried.
by journal | 2026-01-15 06:41:14+00:00
i dont understand why these questions are so common? is it not obvious how one should use these capabilities? i compose my context in md file and send it through API. i wrote a simple lms.exe to send context and append response to the same file. why doesn't everyone else do that? i never believed in agents that compose their own context like Cursor. and i always pass the lowest reasoning value parameter to the API I can. why doesn't anyone else do this? you become dependent on a tool, you're already dependent some of you on fancy IDEs and agents. we're already dependent on top 3 vendors and openai is the only one that no one complains about from API key configuration side. you're gonna become dependent not only on LLMs but on the tooling as well? no thanks. anyone with a different opinion regarding this down to exact work flow, you are walking down the wrong path. you have to become efficient at converting electricity to text. admit it, some are just better than others while some will never get it at all. you know you won't because you know people in your life that never change their opinions about something, or always get into car accidents because they're a bad driver. you cant change these people and you might be one of them.
by Xraider72 | 2026-01-15 06:42:08+00:00
The whole 3.0 rewrite is a massive regression in all ways possible - they deprecated the old engines and replaced them with providers, and they are not that much easier to work with as a developer (I hope that providers are at least easier for the maintainers to handle) and the library is a lot more runtime dynamic (for some reason). This has resulted in mutex explosion and massive performance regressions in every facet. haproxy has an amusing article on the topic.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

People who need cryptography but on the openssl API should be using aws-lc and seek a TLS stack elsewhere.
by lovich | 2026-01-15 06:42:16+00:00
Hey, I'm just joyless, not broken. Also that thread was full of people complimenting his political views, not just his work on Dilbert.

Don't try to sneak in political commentary under the guise of "complimentary comments" and you shouldn't have to deal with as much pushback from people with opposing viewpoints.

That or keep doing so and complaining about others free speech. I'm an anonymous poster on the internet, not a cop.
Dynamic semantic navigation for app launchers
by powerwordtree | 2026-01-15 06:43:10+00:00
I noticed Windows quietly changed the Start Menu again today.
It now looks even more like the mobile pattern of “pinned apps + grouped categories”.

That made me realize something:
hard categories simply don’t work on desktop systems.

Users have different habits, apps overlap in function, naming is inconsistent, and no one wants to maintain folders.
Automatic grouping is even worse — mislabels, weird clusters, inconsistent logic.
And no vendor can maintain a global classification database for desktop apps.

Search isn’t great either.
Desktop workflows are mostly mouse‑driven, so switching to the keyboard breaks the flow.
Mixing local results with web content (and ads) makes it noisy and unreliable.

So here’s a small idea that popped into my head:

Instead of categories or pure search, why not use a dynamically generated semantic navigation?

- pinned apps stay as the stable entry
- “all apps” opens a space with semantic filters
- the system generates dynamic tags from local apps
- users click tags to narrow down step by step
- one app can appear under multiple paths
- lightweight multi‑level menus, always reversible
- alphabetical list stays as fallback
- manual search still exists for precision

Not hard categories.
Not traditional search.
Just a lightweight, dynamic, semantic map of your local apps.

It’s a small thought, but maybe a better direction —
and it could work on mobile too.

(AI‑assisted translation from my original notes.)
by shevy-java | 2026-01-15 06:43:18+00:00
> An example of this from a long time ago is the Stylo project. Mozilla tried to parallelize Firefox’s style layout twice in C++, and both times the project failed. The multithreading was too tricky to get right. The third time, they used Rust, and managed to ship

I am getting tired of those Rust-promo comments citing Firefox or other projects from Mozilla that also fail.

Mozilla has consistently lost market share with Firefox. Nowadays it pushes things into it that the users do not want, so the death-cycle continues here; the whole AI slop is a wonderful example of this. I even had those things hover out (!) of firefox into other parts of my IceWM desktop. Even if this may be a separate bug or related to nouveau, why are those things I don't need, hovering outside of Firefox to begin with? I never asked or wanted for those things; Mozilla dictated that onto me.

Yet there are people such as Steve, who constantly promote Rust - and cite Firefox or Mozilla. Something does not work here; the promo should instead be "thanks to Rust, Firefox is now chasing Chrome realistically again". But this is not happening. So why the promo? You can not promote a new language by pointing at failing projects. That makes no sense.
by cbcoutinho | 2026-01-15 06:43:20+00:00
The Nextcloud MCP Server [0] supports Qdrant as a vectordb to store embeddings and provide semantic search across your personal documents. This enables any LLM & MCP client (e.g. claude code) into a RAG system that you can use to chat with your files.

For local deployments, Qdrant supports storing embeddings in memory as well as in a local directory (similar to sqlite) - for larger deployments Qdrant supports running as a standalone service/sidecar and can be made available over the network.

[0] https://github.com/cbcoutinho/nextcloud-mcp-server
Tenor API is shutting down
by ankushkun_ | 2026-01-15 06:43:41+00:00
I have been using tenor in a handful of social apps I build, even big platforms like Twitter, Whatsapp, Discord, all use Tenor (more than Giphy) to let people share GIFs.

This morning I received a mail from tenor that they are set to sunset the Tenor API on June 30.

No new signups starting now.
All APIs will stop working after June 30 :(
by Xraider72 | 2026-01-15 06:44:48+00:00
haproxy has an article on the subject

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

TLDR - on the TLS parts, quite a lot, up to 2x slower on certain paths. Amusingly, openssl 1.1 was much faster.

libcrypto tends to be quite solid though, though over the years, other libraries have collected weird SIMD optimizations that enable them to beat openssl by healthy margins.