MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2026-01-11 21:24:04+00:00
>Breathing life into a vile monster who remains a contentious subject is just gross and not worth publishing.

No, it is absolutely worth publishing, because that's exactly what AI does.

People already model celebrities and their dead children with it, and they have deeper and more intimate relationships with it than with any real person. People already allow AI to form their reality. The human "soul" (however one wants to think of it) is already a commodity. And the entire Epstein affair is already a circus. It's just another memeplex. That's the world we live in now. Sure, let's have an Epstein app. Why the fuck not? Why pretend we're serious people living in a serious society where Epstein's crimes have serious consequences?

It's art because it reflects the nature of reality.
by nephihaha | 2026-01-11 21:24:53+00:00
The most obvious problem with this article is that it assumes Von Däniken came up with this idea. Years before "Chariots of the Gods", Peter Kolosimo already had best-selling works discussing ancient aliens.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts

"However, the fifties and sixties were more dominated by European works. The Italian Peter Kolosimo wrote several books as early as 1957, but his Timeless Earth (1964) became an international best seller and was translated into several languages. French-language authors included Henri Lhote who proposed that prehistoric Saharan rock art depicted close encounters, Bergier and Pauwels' Morning of the Magicians (1960), Robert Charroux's One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History (1963) and Misraki's Flying Saucers Through The Ages. A few British authors also published before Von Däniken, such as Brinsley Le Poer Trench, John Michell and W. Raymond Drake who wrote Gods or Spacemen? in 1964.

"Although Von Däniken claims he was formulating his ancient astronaut ideas throughout his school days, it is clear that many others had already published their books on the subject, long before he became notable with Chariots of the Gods? in 1968."
by usefulcat | 2026-01-11 21:24:57+00:00
That still leaves the problem of when to use std::swap vs ordinary assignment in generic (i.e. templated) code.

Like when std::vector needs to resize its underlying storage (as a result of push_back, for example), it has to decide which approach to use to copy/move items from the old storage to the new storage.

For std::vector<std::string>, std::swap would probably be at least ok if not optimal, but for std::vector<int> it would be overkill and therefore decidedly non-optimal. In the latter case, you want to do memcpy(new, old) and be done, not std::swap(old[i], new[i]) for each int.

I think a lot of the motive for adding move semantics to c++ has to do with giving the compiler enough information to produce results that are both optimal and correct in generic code.
by bleonov | 2026-01-11 21:24:58+00:00
Was really impressed with Claude ability to port models from cuda PyTorch to MLX, so that’s what I have been doing last three weeks; basically I have Mac to test ported models and Gradient vm with PyTorch and Nvidia gpu, Claude can run code in vm, investigate layers and deep analyze the model mechanics and then reimplement them on local Mac with MLX. So far completed port of various models mainly in audio domain, achieving pretty substantial speeds for inference on my machine. Models ported with numerical parity to originals: facebooks omnillingual ASR, Sam-audio, Nvidia sortformer. Planning on releasing this in repo soon.
by amdsn | 2026-01-11 21:24:59+00:00
I remember slop, sloppa, etc. were frequently used terms on /ck/ (the cooking board) long before any nouns and adjectives were prepended to them. it is unfortunate that most 4chan lingo nowadays enters the mainstream via the /pol/ -> twitter human centipede, which usually means the words pick up a certain awful flavor from that board.
by ankit219 | 2026-01-11 21:25:24+00:00
Because your subscription depends on the very API business.

Anthropic's cogs is rent of buying x amount of h100s. cost of a marginal query for them is almost zero until the batch fills up and they need a new cluster. So, API clusters are usually built for peak load with low utilization (filled batch) at any given time. Given AI's peak demand is extremely spiky they end up with low utilization numbers for API support.

Your subscription is supposed to use that free capacity. Hence, the token costs are not that high, hence you could buy that. But it needs careful management that you dont overload the system. There is a claude code telemetry which identifies the request as lower priority than API (and probably decide on queueing + caching too). If your harness makes 10 parallel calls everytime you query, and not manage context as well as claude code, its overwhelming the system, degrading the performance for others too. And if everyone just wants to use subscription and you have no api takers, the price of subscription is not sustainable anyway. In a way you are relying on others' generosity for the cheap usage you get.

Its reasonable for a company to unilaterally decide how they monetize their extra capacity, and its not unjustified to care. You are not purchasing the promise of X tokens with a subscription purchase for that you need api.
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-11 21:25:45+00:00
How is it not a light abstraction? If you're familiar with systemd, you can easily understand what the snippet below is doing even if you know nothing about Nix.

systemd.services.rclone-photos-sync = {
serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
path = [ pkgs.rclone ];
script = ''
rclone \
--config ${config.sops.secrets."rclone.conf".path} \
--bwlimit 20M --transfers 16 \
sync /mnt/photos/originals/ photos:
'';
unitConfig = {
RequiresMountsFor = "/mnt/photos";
};
};
systemd.timers.rclone-photos-sync = {
timerConfig = {
# Every 2 hours.
OnCalendar = "00/2:00:00";
# 5 minute jitter.
RandomizedDelaySec = "5m";
# Last run is persisted across reboots.
Persistent = true;
Unit = "rclone-photos-sync.service";
};
partOf = [ "rclone-photos-sync.service" ];
wantedBy = [ "timers.target" ];
};

In my view, using Nix to define your systemd services beats copying and symlinking files all over the place :)
by fastasucan | 2026-01-11 21:26:21+00:00
>Motivation is fleeting but routine persists

Dude, not when we are talking about mental health problems. A semi serious mental health problem can take you out of the routine of showering, eating and brushing yoir teeth.

>There is no question if I want to do it, it is set at that time and I have to do it, period.

Again we talk about mental health here. Getting out of bed before dinner can be an impossible task. There is no "I have to do it, period". That period can cease to exist, and all you are left with is "i have to do it" over and over again without the ability to actually do it.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-11 21:26:42+00:00
I truly hate, more than anything else in the tech discourse, that this gets trotted out every time the discussion of RAM comes up. "unUsED rAM iS wASTED RAm", always used to defend and justify abhorrent and incompetent software development practices. Even with 32gb, I routinely run into out-of-memory crashes on a near-daily basis with workloads that should not in principle be anywhere near that usage.

If they were making decisions based on RAM, they were almost certainly encountering real-world issues which prompted looking at their usage statistics in the first place, rather than just looking up their RAM usage metrics for funsies.
by ur-whale | 2026-01-11 21:27:21+00:00
> Only very few people in Iran have Starlink dishes.

Couple of sources I read talk about 40k+ dishes in Iran

Granted, that's not much at the scale of a country of 90M+ people, but still, if the numbers are correct, that's not nothing and that's why we're getting videos of the riots outside of Iran.

The sad thing is Starlink dishes (mobile or even worse, fixed) are super easy to radio-triangulate and are quickly being taken down.

[EDIT]: and the mullahs have just officially announced that anyone caught using one will be jailed (which was obvious, but not yet official).
by gamesieve | 2026-01-11 21:28:10+00:00
https://gamesieve.com/

An alternative front-end / game discovery service / price tracker for GOG's catalog. Mostly manually enhancing the data from the API (90% heuristics, 10% human effort, as the total dataset isn't large enough for it to be worth doing otherwise), and offering a wider range of filters for it all.

I'm grouping all related products together for a more complete overview, and have recently added library import, where I mostly 'solved' the issue of GOG not recognizing that you own certain games if you got them as a freebie or as part of a since-delisted deluxe edition. Just now starting in on incomplete "series" listings, seeing what'd be involved with making them contain all relevant games, and then exposing that.
by ericmcer | 2026-01-11 21:28:19+00:00
If cooperation is a beneficial survival trait, it would have to be because helping others so they can continue creating value for the group is better for everyone than letting them die. At some point a reward system around helping weak members of the group was conditioned into us.

Viewed under that lens, the author and other travelers who live off the kindness of strangers are a kind of parasite, who exploit that reward system. They have no designs to contribute to the group once they are back on their feet, in fact they have made themselves intentionally helpless as a lifestyle.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-11 21:28:23+00:00
We're expected to comply with the 'law' and not do anything to impede investigations or ICE activity such as living on the same block as an ICE raid. But they're not expected to comply with the law and actively impede investigations into their activity.

And for reference, ICE as we speak is doing door to door raids in Minneapolis targeting everyone, including American citizens.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-11 21:28:25+00:00
I'd love to take on this challenge: the article they linked shows the cost add for LIDAR (+$130) --

-- but I'm not sure how to get data on ex. how much Tesla is charged for a Nvidia whatever or what compute Waymo has --

My personal take is Waymo uses cameras too so maybe we have to assume the worst case, +full cost of lidar / +$130
by mrexroad | 2026-01-11 21:28:32+00:00
My library is large too (roughly a third larger). After years of far more complicated storage/backup solutions, I settled w/ a second Photos library on an external hdd w/ optimize storage disabled. I plug the drive in and open this library every so often to update and then duplicate the drive for an off-site copy. Day to day, I use a Photos library on my primary drive with optimize storage enabled.

I’ve found unreasonable value in being able to search through hundreds of thousands of photos from my phone, so I went all-in on Photos.app. Though one enabling factor is that my photography workflow has drastic simplified in recent years to doing very little post (except for astrophotography, which I try and keep wip out of Photos.app anyway).
by taicore | 2026-01-11 21:28:40+00:00
Tai Constitutional Architecture is a live, verifiable governance and value-custody system deployed on Ethereum mainnet. It implements a constraint-based architectural model in which authority is structurally limited, execution is delayed and observable, and artificial intelligence is strictly advisory.

This repository contains the full source code, deployment scripts, and verification artifacts for the system as deployed. It is intended for auditors, protocol engineers, governance designers, and AI safety researchers seeking to evaluate how constitutional constraints, temporal enforcement, and non-erasive history can be encoded directly into smart contracts.

The system has no privileged upgrade authority, no autonomous AI control, and no mechanism to bypass time, scope, or recorded intent. Governance actions are human-originated, delayed by design, and permanently recorded. AI components generate signals and analysis but cannot move funds, execute transactions, or modify governance outcomes.

This is not a proposal, simulation, or experimental framework. The contracts are live on Ethereum mainnet, bytecode-verified, and reproducible from this repository. The purpose of this repository is not to make claims, but to provide a clear, auditable system map for independent review and analysis.
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-11 21:28:55+00:00
This post is very well presented and it highlights how absolutely bizarre the latest update was. The video demonstration was also very well done.

I remember a few years ago, people complained when Apple merely made the entire operating system uglier. (Something about a gradient on the battery?) A lot of people would talk hyperbolically ("apple KILLED macos!"), and that's indistinguishable to an outsider when an update like this brings other people out of the woodwork to say, "Hey, these changes are genuinely bizarre and absurd, what happened?"
by gnabgib | 2026-01-11 21:29:45+00:00
Discussion (27 points, 2 months ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920570

Related: A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry (201 points, 3 months ago, 273 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500699
by nephihaha | 2026-01-11 21:29:51+00:00
I've heard this claim many times, and yet I remember VD books (and similar ones like Kolosimo's) discussing Prehistoric Europe including cave art and megaliths. The Ancient Aliens TV series does have episodes on Ireland, the Norse and Graeco-Roman mythology.

Even today, these types bring up Baalbek's massive triliths on a regular basis, and state they could not have been built by such classical civilisations.
by cb321 | 2026-01-11 21:29:54+00:00
I am replying here as a kind of "better place to attach".

Anyway, to answer grandparent, I basically never had rebuild loops in 19 years.. just emerge -uU world every day or sometimes every week. I have been running the same base system since..let's see:

qlop -tvm|h1
2007-01-18T19:50:33 >>> x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r4: 9m23s

I have never once had to rebuild the whole system from scratch in those 19 years. (I've just rsync'd the rootfs from machine to machine as I upgraded HW and gradually rebuilt because as many others here have said, for me it wasn't about "perf of everything" or some kind of reproducible system - "more customization + perf of some things".) The upgrade from monolithic X11 to split X11 was "fun", though. /s

I do engage in all sorts of package.mask/per-package use/many global use. I have my own portage/local overlay for things where I disagree with upstream. I even have an automated system to "patch" my disagreements in. E.g, I control how fast I upgrade my LLVM junk so I do it on my own timeline. Mostly I use gcc. I control that, too. Any really slow individual build, basically.

If over the decades, they ever did anything that made it look like crazy amounts of rebuilds would happen, I'd tend to wait a few days/week or so and then figure something out. If some new dependency brings in a mountain of crap, I usually figure out how to block that.
by MyFirstSass | 2026-01-11 21:30:07+00:00
Does anyone know if Stephen Lemay replacing Dye will potentially "save" the increasing mess that is OSX, at least UX wise, or is it more of a meaningless figurehead swap in a big org?

Tahoe is tragically bad by almost every UX measure, and following various Apple subreddits i wonder if they just don't care anymore - since the majority of people are shocked by the amateurishness of both bugs and design choices in the latest update - this comes on top of literally every major bug being ignored from the alpha to releasing anyway then continuing to ignore feedback.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-11 21:30:29+00:00
It solves some rare edge cases where the destruction of the moved-from object must be deferred -- the memory is still live even if the object is semantically dead. Non-destructive moves separate those concerns.

There is a related concept of "relocatable" objects in C++ where the move is semantically destructive but the destructor is never called for the moved-from object.

C++ tries to accommodate a lot of rare cases that you really only see in low-level systems code. There are many features in C++ that seem fairly useless to most people (e.g. std::launder) but are indispensable when you come across the specific problem they were intended to solve.
by maxglute | 2026-01-11 21:30:33+00:00
>perspective of space debris and space sustainability

PRC are being careless in 800km orbit, which is actually much worse, but historically that's where US / USSR abandoned debris, PRC still small %, either way it's just stopgap for reusables, they obviously can't hit 200k mega constellation without reusable tempo. In meantime no point reengineering end of life vehicles since reusable replacement likely going to be done by then, especially at risk of missing delivery/capability to keep ITU filings, or worse, lose them to competitors (US).

Lets be real, space is being soft weaponized post SpaceX/Starshield, space debris/sustainability can wait, launch is realpolitik now. Much more important to be competitive = reserving prime orbits ITU has available in limited quantities, first file first serve. Starlink's done their own orbit squatting, PRC simply making sure strategic LEO isn't monopolized by US mega constellations.
by Yizahi | 2026-01-11 21:30:37+00:00
The corporate hypocrisy is reaching previously unseen levels. Ultra-wealthy thieves who got rich upon stealing a dragon horde worth of property are now crying foul about people following the same "ideals". What an absolute snowflakes. LLM sector is the only one where I'm rooting for Chinese corporations trouncing the incumbents, thus demonstrating FAFO principle in practice.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-11 21:31:10+00:00
Thanks, I've seen that repository before, but when I last saw it it boiled down to basically "create a prefix with these winecfg values" and not much more, but it seems a lot more fleshed out now, will give it another go.

Would be great if we'd eventually get some PipeWireASIO thing, sounds like a missing piece of the puzzle still, although not strictly required I suppose.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-11 21:31:19+00:00
This is blatantly illegal since a judge recently ruled they MUST allow congressional visits:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/ice-inspectio...

The DHS (Kristi Noem) now claims their repeat of the same illegal policy is now legal because it is using a different funding source, which is obviously false. It’s all the same pool of money.
Show HN: FitBee – A simpler and more focused alternative to MyFitnessPal
by yqiang | 2026-01-11 21:31:28+00:00
I was overweight in college and started my weight loss journey using MyFitnessPal. Tracking calories not only helped me lose weight but also taught me a lot about nutrition and helped establish healthy eating habits that continue to benefit me. However, I’ve always been frustrated by the existing nutrition tracking apps. They are slow and bloated, lack accurate nutrition data, or don’t respect user privacy. I wanted to build something that I’d love using myself.
A few things that make FitBee stand out:

* Fast, lightweight and to the point - The app is just about tracking your nutrition and makes that front and center. I've tried to make things that you do often as simple as possible.

* Robust Apple Health support - You can read/write data to Apple Health. I wear an Apple Watch so it's great for getting the energy burned through exercises.

* Accurate nutrition data - The nutrition data is sourced from the USDA dataset and nutrition labels off the packages. I also spent effort adding east asian foods (e.g. things you get at 99 Ranch or Weee) to the database, since those were hard to find/track in other apps I've tried.

* Photo Logging - You can take a photo of a food and get an estimate of the calories and macros. It's not 100% accurate but it's been super helpful for me when eating at a restaurant that doesn't have published nutrition info.

* Recipe importing - You can pretty much point any recipe at the app and it'll import the ingredients and generate nutrition information for you. As I got more into fitness, I started to cook more so this has been super helpful.

* No Ads - The app is monetized via a subscription.

* Monetization - Most of the features are free, but there are a few which require a monthly or annual subscription. I also recently added a one time purchase option since a few folks had asked about it.

You can try FitBee here: https://apple.co/4aGUw5X. I'd love your feedback!
by maxbond | 2026-01-11 21:31:46+00:00
> For all you know, maybe that was the goal.

That's my interpretation, yes - it's rage bait. It was meant to be upsetting in a vacuous, meritless way (with all due respect to OP).

> Not knowing someone's motivations, and making up something to fill the blank, leads to errors, ...

I'll hazard that. I'm interpreting the art. I'm open to hearing a different interpretation. I'm open to hearing OP's objections to my interpretation (should they have any). I'm not open to the idea that we simply can't analyze or interpret.

I'm not simply "making something up." I gathered what evidence I could find (eg I read OP's comment history), I thought about the piece, I reasoned my way to a conclusion, and I went through several drafts of my comment to remove any swipes and hone my criticism. Could I be wrong? Sure. Again, I will hazard that. I pondered this already and decided I would rather be wrong than silent.

> ...thinking it would be OK to run over the stupid asshole since they're obviously some other species that is too dumb to protect itself...

Wild, wild leap. This is not remotely the same reasoning I am employing. This is just a slippery slope fallacy. I'm not in danger of dehumanizing and murdering someone because I told someone exactly why I didn't like their art. I went out of my way to be respectful. If someone didn't like my work I would want to hear it and I would want it to be expressed respectfully and without malice. So that is what I did.

To be frank, I think you should reread your comment and consider if it is not you that is imputing my motives in a shallow manner.
by natdempk | 2026-01-11 21:32:20+00:00
I think if you believe this I'd recommend trying it yourself.

I've done this blinded with colas, and it's pretty easy to tell the difference between Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Pepsi, and Diet Pepsi. You might not know which is which without some history drinking them, but they all taste very distinct by themselves.

Really disagree that these are indistinguishable parity products, or that most people would not be obviously able to tell the difference between them.
by davnicwil | 2026-01-11 21:32:23+00:00
looking backwards in the supply chain for other externalities is a good point, but I'm not sure any energy production method is exempt from this?

Also, by the way, my perspective isn't about nuclear Vs X (wind turbines etc) - I like all the ones that are net clean and useful in different circumstances as part of a mix.

I'm just addressing the narrower point about whether nuclear per se is a net benefit for society, which I believe it is, massively.
by internet2000 | 2026-01-11 21:33:11+00:00
That's funny. I perceive resizing windows as easier now, because the cursor change is more dramatic when it gets in the resizing area. Pre-Tahoe, the diagonal one in particular looked almost the same, except with an arrow end in the bottom. Now it splits into two triangles.

I still operate off muscle memory, so it's not actually easier or harder, of course.
by nntwozz | 2026-01-11 21:33:11+00:00
Not to beat on my own drum but as a mac convert from the days of Tiger I saw the writing on the wall from miles away.

Still on iOS 18 and macOS 15 (Sequoia). I was a day one upgrader up until now, never had any regrets but this time things seemed very different.

It's worrisome but all is not lost, I'll start sweating for real if next year's releases don't improve things substantially.