MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonnon | 2026-01-07 04:55:56+00:00
Thiel has never espoused anything remotely close to this, and has even shown, in his lectures, a willingness to engage with Marxist thought, even if he disagrees with it, and to try to separate and highlight the intellectual wheat from the chaff.

However, the "Paradox of Tolerance" left doesn't really have much of a leg to stand on here, when they've been asserting their right to assault or even kill anyone they deem a Nazi, or even just a "fascist" (a horribly overloaded term), since even before the first Trump administration. The comments extremistwashing Charlie Kirk and implicitly or even explicitly ("[ Removed by Redit ]") justifying his execution did well enough to alienate moderate rightwingers to the degree that few, if any, will voice their opposition to the normalization of this kind of rhetoric.
by versteegen | 2026-01-07 04:56:05+00:00
Yes, unfortunate that people keep perpetuating that misquote. What he actually said was "we are not far from the world—I think we’ll be there in three to six months—where AI is writing 90 percent of the code."

https://www.cfr.org/event/ceo-speaker-series-dario-amodei-an...
by businessmate | 2026-01-07 04:56:25+00:00
This note defines the minimum characteristics of the Correction & Assurance Ledger referenced in the AIVO Standard.

The Ledger serves as an evidentiary record of observation and corrective statements relating to selected AI-generated representations that may be externally relied upon in practice. It does not assess model accuracy, control inference, enforce behavioural change, or assure outcome correctness.
by Manuel_D | 2026-01-07 04:56:26+00:00
A 5x disparity is still a lot more than a 2x disparity. In fact, considerably less than 2x given the overhead time of traveling to the airport, security, boarding, etc.

How many people would pay 8x the ticket price for a 45 minute flight from Paris to Munich (The Concorde was ~8x the ticket price of economy subsonic flight tickets)?
by amarant | 2026-01-07 04:56:47+00:00
It's true but the regulations are hardly insurmountable. As a German you may have heard of such European manufacturers like Volkswagen, kuka and reinmetal

As a Swede I can add Saab(aeronautics, not the defunct car manufacturer), Scania, and IKEA to the list.

Far from a exhaustive list, but proof positive that manufacturing can in fact happen under European regulations.
by cal_dent | 2026-01-07 04:57:21+00:00
> Today, the majority of the world’s population is online, and memes are often the only cultural language shared by all users in a community

I've always wondered how sure of this are we actually? Particularly now in the age of easy bot activity too. I buy that a significant % of population is online but I'd hazard at a decent guess that the majority are passively online content rather than actively engage in it so how truly online is the world in a representative sense?

It feels to me that you still have to be a bit non-average to interact online in much the same way as it used to be
by seabass-labrax | 2026-01-07 04:57:36+00:00
I'm not aware of any single furry emoji, but I've noticed a lot of furry communities on the Fediverse using custom (non-Unicode) emoji packs; see [1] for how that might work. Also an example of the feature in use[2].

[1]: https://misskey-hub.net/en/docs/for-users/features/custom-em...

[2]: https://thegayagenda.fans/notes/ah5imm41r1ru05a7
by gulaggoon | 2026-01-07 04:57:53+00:00
The main difference is that slash commands are invoked by humans, whereas skills can only be invoked by the agent itself. It works kinda as conditional instructions.

As an example, I have skills that aide in adding more detail to plans/specs, debugging, and for spinning up/partitioning subagents to execute tasks. I don't need to invoke a slash command each time, and the agent can contextually know by the instructions I give it what skills to use.
by readthenotes1 | 2026-01-07 04:57:58+00:00
"Because it's the meaningful work that sustains life and provides happiness."

For you.

For me, it is having the time to do what I wish. Currently helping a friend with recovery after a major surgery. Next month, who knows?

No, it's not at all the same as "meaningful work".

At least in part, I do not need the attaboys or regular 'sense of accomplishment' that one get from plate-spinning or other meaningful work.
Show HN: LensFlowPro – Native macOS screen recorder with system audio capture
by chenjy16 | 2026-01-07 04:58:08+00:00
Hello HN,
I'm the developer of LensFlowPro. I built this because I was frustrated with the current state of screen recording on macOS:
QuickTime is native but lacks system audio recording (without third-party plugins) and camera overlay.
OBS is powerful but feels too heavy and complex for quick demos.
Electron apps often drain battery and feel sluggish.
Tech Stack:
It's a 100% native app built with Swift and AVFoundation. It uses the ScreenCaptureKit API (introduced in macOS 12.3) for high-performance capture with minimal CPU usage.
Key Features:
System Audio Capture
Mouse Highlights
Camera Overlay
Battery-friendly
It's a paid app (one-time purchase), but here are some promo codes for the HN community to try it out:
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I'd love to hear your feedback on the implementation or feature requests!
by badc0ffee | 2026-01-07 04:58:14+00:00
I used to use Instagram this way, but now my feed is 90% videos, memes and trash. I don't post there anymore either, because in the process of responding to comments and checking likes, I get sucked right back into those videos.

Of course I checked just now and the first post was photos by someone I actually follow. But not posts 2-.
by jdwithit | 2026-01-07 04:58:22+00:00
There's also the tactic where the layout of the page/app reflows after a second or two, changing where the ads are. It drives me up the wall. Go to tap on a button, SURPRISE, an ad popped in where the button used to be 10ms before you touched the screen and now you're forced into some company's site whether you wanted to see it or not.
by stellarvore | 2026-01-07 04:58:33+00:00
Historically speaking, if an autonomous system found a bug [monkeys and fuzzers have done that for years ;)], you'd just get a "test failed" log. You'd still need to manually dig through the stack traces to pinpoint the "why" of it. Well, an Ai app can tell you that the system crashed or a button moved 5px to the left. But it still can't tell you if that movement broke the UX without a human explicitely defining the heuristic first.

IMO, the hard parts that actually getting solved right now is the autonomous serialization of state; context capture and issue repro steps to be precise (and definitely not the "finding of bugs" part).
by ggm | 2026-01-07 04:59:42+00:00
It is probably just me, but I think calling GPS synced NTP instances stratum 0 was a mistake. Not a mistake of this author, a mistake of the community at large.

A rubidium clock you pace to the BPIM, thats stratum 0. A clock you sync to the GPS system, which itself is under very indirect management and has some very specific time drift issues to various forms of civil and scientific time... I am less sure is a stratum-0. You don't own the time source, you get to read it.

Mostly, the ones I have been involved in have being training a PPM signal off the GPS source, and have minor issues around the kernel timing to read the serial train. That only limits precision. You still have the usual issues with your hosts crystal synced clock, and I've read a LOT of stuff which suggests RPI are not very good in that regard.

I run an instance of Bert Huberts GPS tracking project with a ublox USB thing, and another instance of a newer UBLOX antenna, on a NUC doing chrony. In the past I ran a number of the RIPE NCC serial GPS cards in Dell servers.
by deathanatos | 2026-01-07 04:59:52+00:00
I'm also going to dissent with a "but is it a shallow rebuttal?" here? TFA is a of the "problems we wish we had" sort — we're all just temporarily embarrassed billionaires here, right guys? Right?! (Because a mere million doesn't cut it, these days…) But the rank and file of us are still on Duck Tales, Larry. Especially these days.
by LarsDu88 | 2026-01-07 05:00:29+00:00
Sergey unretires, Gemini suddenly becomes the top LLM (for a week or two at least)

Google has made some subtle moves that a lot of folks missed, possibly with Sergey's influence. Like hiring back Noam Shazeer, who practically invented the backbone of the technology.

It's good to have folks with presumptions of being scientists actually run companies for once.

That being said, I wish his ex-wife hadn't spent her millions in the divorce proceedings to get RFK Jr into a cabinet level position to gut billions in research spending.
:(
by arjie | 2026-01-07 05:00:59+00:00
It's been great to see. Google's AI efforts have truly seen a resurgence in quality with his return. What I enjoy about this article is the fact that it presents a view that now seems relatively rare: the idea that you may have a purpose beyond pleasure and that pursuing that purpose is a more fulfilling pleasure than any comfort you could give yourself.

I think that kind of thing strikes many people. Sometimes like with Socrates and his daimonion which restrained him from risk and other times like with one of my favourite lines in all literature where Ahab of Moby Dick remarks:

> What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me?

I find so much of this relatable in my own way, billions absent.
by dang | 2026-01-07 05:01:13+00:00
Related. Others?

What Is Code? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331697 - Oct 2022 (50 comments)

What is code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17259483 - June 2018 (36 comments)

What Is Code? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9698870 - June 2015 (355 comments)
by zmgsabst | 2026-01-07 05:01:47+00:00
I’ve yet to see a single product that isn’t related to domains existing products solve problems for. That is, I’m aware of any time in history a wholly new category emerged suddenly.

So your question seems like pure fantasy to me — like asking how we’ll slay dragons without ads. I don’t know, but I don’t think that’s a thing which actually needs doing, either.

New products within an existing category show up in catalogs, review articles, etc just fine without ads. As does your highly technical product, for which people in the relevant industry already know the information and/or are already used to narrowing their search to a few products and then requesting additional information.

Your pro-ad arguments seem to be solving problems that don’t actually exist.
by pm90 | 2026-01-07 05:01:50+00:00
Living as we do in a society where basic needs are not guaranteed without a giant pile of money, most humans don’t get to experience what it feels like to be in a place where you don’t base your life decisions on financial well being. Thats very limiting; it isn’t that surprising that someone who has achieved that is now looking for meaning in other things. Besides: if you’re Sergey Brin, I imagine you can get to talk/work with whatever at Google interests you most and hand off the gruntwork to minions all the while being treated with deep reverence. It’s not exactly hard to see why he might like it.

One thing I wish more people would understand though is that this is also the best case for some kind of guarantee of basic necessities for every human (UBI, State Subsidies, whatever). Once we know we won’t just die, people might then spend their time on trying out different things and figuring out what works best for them. I believe we could achieve an overall better society this way.
by laughingcow | 2026-01-07 05:02:11+00:00
It has been my observation that those that retire without solid plans to keep busy 15-20 hours a week really do struggle. You have to be missed by people when you are sick or out of town. You have to have a reason to get out of bed. I think your choice of activity tells a lot about you since the 'pay the bills and save for retirement" argument no longer applies. Some volunteer to better the world. Some continue their life work to take wealth from those with less power.
by gh02t | 2026-01-07 05:03:05+00:00
Android TV can run Tailscale or Wireguard natively. AppleTV has a native Tailscale app, and I think you can also use Passeportout for Wireguard on AppleTV but I haven't used it. Alternatively if you're on the go a lot and want to use a streaming stick in your hotel you can use a travel router that supports VPNs like GL.inet.

Airplay and Chromecast are a different story. Maybe someone else here knows different, but while it's not literally impossible it doesn't really work because of mDNS. A layer2 VPN might, but not so much on Tailscale/Wireguard.
by random3 | 2026-01-07 05:03:49+00:00
Maybe, but at least Open AI, XAI and any Bostrom believer thinks this is the case.

Ilya Sutskever (Sep 20, 2017)

> The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship. You are concerned that Demis could create an AGI dictatorship. So do we. So it is a bad idea to create a structure where you could become a dictator if you chose to, especially given that we can create some other structure that avoids this possibility.

Nick Bostrom - Decisive Strategic Advantage
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vkjWGJrFWBnzHtxrw/superintel...
by ashleyis | 2026-01-07 05:04:36+00:00
Pretty fun! got to Volcano in 39 moves!

I found a path from Piano to Volcano with 39 generated topics!
Piano → Fazioli (people)
Fazioli → Fazioli Factory (places)
Fazioli Factory → Pordenone Province (places)
Pordenone Province → Italy (broader)
Italy → Sicily (places)
Sicily → Mount Etna (deeper)
Mount Etna → Etna Volcano (deeper).

Try it yourself at www.llmgame.ai
by Ericson2314 | 2026-01-07 05:05:08+00:00
Grothendieck ended up totally crazy too, unfortunately. Some people might be truthers that his final writings would be made sense of someday, but I don't think that is a responsible hope to carry.

The idea that Grothendieck both massively succeeded and failed in some sort of countercultural/neurodivergent knife edge is I think the ambiguous but correct morality tale.
by cma | 2026-01-07 05:05:47+00:00
I think manipulation will come long before 2036, but the people doing high level planning on LLMs trained on forum discussions of Chucky movies and all kinds of worse stuff and planning for home robot deployment soon I think are off by a lot. Things like random stuff playing on TV rehydrating that memory that was mostly wiped out in RLHF; it will need many extra safety layers.

And even if it isn't just doing crazy intentional-seeming horror stuff, we're still a good ways off from passing the safely make a cup of coffee in a random house without burning it down or scalding the baby test.
by pm90 | 2026-01-07 05:06:16+00:00
I worked at a company with multiple cofounders; one of them became the CEO, the other one was initially CTO, but ultimately his title was just cofounder after a while and someone else was hired to be CTO. This person then went on to just prototype and build whatever he wanted to; the service he built ended up having no OC engineers supporting it, pages went to him but he didn’t bother responding and nobody would tell him he had to respond lol. Ultimately people just didn’t use that thing or delayed using it as they couldn’t really rely on it.
by zephen | 2026-01-07 05:06:17+00:00
Upvoted for:

> which shouldn't be necessary unless you're pushing the limits of its rise/fall times

Right, I should have clarified this. To make them go fast, you can often use more power (to a point), and that can shorten the LED lifespan. (To be fair, there are techniques to give you a bit faster speed without making them too bright, like pulse-shaping, but it didn't appear anything that fancy was going on there.)

And, unfortunately, "fast" for the optoisolator isn't very, in any case. The cut-off frequency for the first datasheet I found corresponding to that app note was 80 KHz.

> I think the galvanic isolation is mostly a feelgood here,

And...

I don't get this.

If it does nothing useful, why bother?

IMO, the primary good use for an optoisolator these days is either for something analog-ish like the feedback for a switch mode power supply, or for when you're breadboarding something with really high voltages and don't want to bother with SMT devices.
by mockingbirdy | 2026-01-07 05:06:24+00:00
Had this exact situation. Turned to drugs. Lived like a GTA character. That’s unsustainable, similar to luxury vacations which turn dull. Now I‘m finding investors for curing MS with a team of researchers who‘ve built sth that is more accurate than CRISPR to cure my sister.
I actually want to get in contact with Sergey Brin about that because we might have something interesting for him - but my American contacts are only connected to Musk and people like a Polygon founder and music/hollywood people. This is not a psychotic or exaggerated message, I‘m sure HN can vet us (@dang) and get us contacts, currently I‘m talking to family offices in Saudi Arabia.
About meaning: if you get bored, aim for bigger positive impact.

paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29857928/

short: We have a rigorously validated antigen-specific immune tolerance platform with bystander suppression, NIH/MS Society backing, and a clear translational gap.
by baalimago | 2026-01-07 05:07:50+00:00
I'm a bit jealous. I would like to experiment with having a similar setup, but 10x Opus 4.5 running practically non stop must amount to a very high inference bill. Is it really worth the output?

From experimentation, I need to coach the models quite closely in order to get enough value. Letting it loose only works when I've given very specific instructions. But I'm using Codex and Clai, perhaps Claude code is better.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-07 05:08:15+00:00
That was absolutely slamming the hardware. (source: worked on Android, and GPs comments re: this are 100% correct. I’d need a bit more, well anything, to even come around to the idea the opposite is even plausible. Best steelman is naïvete, like “aren’t updates are just a few mvs and a reboot?”)
by kube-system | 2026-01-07 05:08:22+00:00
> There are no successful economies without blue paint

I don't think that is true. The oldest known mass printed advertising is about 2000 years older than the oldest known blue pigment.

> As far as I'm aware, there hasn't been enough testing to say much about the importance of ads.

I think if you look at some early advertising (e.g. BCE), you'll see that most have a painfully obvious functional form of just simply announcing the existence of a product/service for the world to observe.
by tac19 | 2026-01-07 05:08:39+00:00
> ask Opus 4.5 to read adjacent code which is perhaps why it does it so well. All it takes is a sentence or two, though.

People keep telling me that an LLM is not intelligence, it's simply spitting out statistically relevant tokens. But surely it takes intelligence to understand (and actually execute!) the request to "read adjacent code".
by jedberg | 2026-01-07 05:09:41+00:00
I retired when my first kid was born. I had plenty to keep me busy playing with her, taking care of her, traveling with her. And then we had the second one, and were extra busy.

But I was still "working" the whole time. I was running a small startup, and still keeping up on tech and taking speaking gigs. I was not great at fully retiring.

I unretired when the second kid got to 1st grade. We could no longer travel on a whim and the house was empty 6 hours a day. I didn't seek work, but someone reached out with an interesting job and I didn't say no.

Funny enough, my wife and I were just talking about how we were both bad at retirement (she also retired and has since gone back to work). But we talked about how the next retirement will be better, because the kids will be gone and we'll just sit around making art and building Lego all day.

We'll see if that actually happens!
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-01-07 05:10:08+00:00
You do realise many of us read ”on the internet” (or preferably study literature, history, art and the language) of places we visit? These two in no way cancel each other out.

I have been on a work trips to places I really did not quite know the culture, history, or the language of, nor did I care enough to learn about them. These trips are always boring, even without the work stuff. Mass-turism is similar and most beautiful artistic achievements are just tedious extension of yet more of Disneyland forever.

I spoke a bit of Japanese when I travelled to Tokyo over 10 years ago, before the current tourist boom. I had known the history and culture for years from reading about it and studying martial arts since I was a child. I was an art student when I went to Rome, Firenze, Venice, Napoli. I could read a comic book in French when I first went to Paris, knowing of course the art historical perspective to it, but wanted to understand the culture, the feel, match it with my reading of the history.

So there’s travel and there’s travel. You can travel to your own back garden and find immense treasures, after a bit or research. Or you can go to other side of the planet and find nothing at all.
by pogue | 2026-01-07 05:11:15+00:00
I was thinking this too. I'm assuming it doesn't look like an SMTP server from the outside? Because if it does, that would absolutely land your IP up on many, many DNSbls very quickly if it started getting probed.

Interesting idea though, spoofing other protocols than HTTP/HTTPS are probably a good idea for censorship evasion in countries with incredibly strict national firewalls.
by nurettin | 2026-01-07 05:12:21+00:00
SO is officially dead according to the graph of number of questions posted per month.

Google+SO was my LLM between 2007-2015. Then the site got saturated. All questions were answered. Git, C# Python, SQL, C++, Ruby, PHP, most popular topics got "solved". The site reached singularity. That is when they should have frozen it as the encyclopedia of software.

Then duplicates, one-offs, homeworks started to destroy it. I think earth society collectively got dumber and entitled. Decline of research and intelligence put into online questions is a good measure of this.
by decimalenough | 2026-01-07 05:12:50+00:00
There is no flag in the encoding. Instead, there are codepoints for each of ISO 3166-1's "Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

Both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China agree that there exists an entity called "Taiwan, Province of China" (TW). They have different views about what that entity's flag is (and many other things about that entity), but Unicode doesn't offer any opinions on that.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-07 05:12:58+00:00
> website that made money that way

Some of those scenarios are dubious as to whether they actually bring profit and "make money". They can very well be a net loss and are merely there to justify the job of the advertising/marketing/analytics/etc team, who is conveniently charge of crunching those numbers and obviously would never put any adverse numbers forward.

Same thing in advertising - there's a lot of middlemen in the industry that are happy to take their cut, cook the numbers and look the other way despite no actual impact on sales.

So while I don't disagree these things can make money when in the right hands and done in moderation, the reality is that there's a shit ton of waste and deadweight in the industry. It may very well be that the actual (vs self-reported) profit from ad/marketing efforts is negative and merely covers the paychecks of said ad/marketing teams.