MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-26 20:43:27+00:00
I don't need help from you, thanks for the offer though, however misguided.

Like I said, you're free to ignore all the datapoints that disagree with you and focus on the one that doesn't, if that makes you feel better.

I don't think there's much for us to discuss, and instead of going back and forth ad nauseum I'd just really appreciate it if you stopped replying to me altogether.
by Edman274 | 2026-01-26 20:43:41+00:00
It did always strike me as funny that Cronenberg had a movie about "what if TV was evil and made people murderous and the studio execs had to pay", and a movie about "what if video games were evil and made people murderous and their creators had to pay", but never a movie about "what if movies were evil and made people murderous and film directors had to pay". Obvious bias aside I wonder if it would work as a story - movies don't seem as hypnotic in the public consciousness, I believe.
by cheema33 | 2026-01-26 20:43:46+00:00
"You don't need the "language model" part to run an autopilot, that's just silly."

I think most of us understood that reproducing what existing autopilot can do was not the goal. My inexpensive DJI quadcopter has an impressive abilities in this area as well. But, I cannot give it a mission in natural language and expect it to execute it. Not even close.
by ares623 | 2026-01-26 20:43:55+00:00
That's because smartphones are objectively superior. When they are banned, a niche will become available for dumb phones and manufacturers to fill. Still having access to janky internet is not perfect yes, but I would argue it is still way better than current smartphones. Just adding a little bit of friction can shortcircuit the addiction people currently have, and the social media corps definitely know this and are super obsessed with removing any friction at all at every step of their user journey.
by sdoering | 2026-01-26 20:44:00+00:00
I have been on both - actually on all three - sorry, make that four - sides.

1. I tried to ship crap and complained to my manager for being blocked. I was young, dumb, in a bad place and generally an asshole.
2. I was the manager being told that some unreasonable idiot from X blocked their progress. I was the unreasonable manager demanding my people to be unblocked. I was without context, had a very bad prior relationship with the other party and an asshole - because no prior bad faith acts were actually behind the block - it was shitty code.
3. I was the manager being asked to help with unblocking. I asked to understand the issue and to actually try to - based on the facts - find a way towards a solution. My report had to refactor.
4. I was the one being asked. Luckily I had prior experience and did this time manage to not become the asshole.

I am glad I had the environments to learn.

Edit: Format.
by phearnot | 2026-01-26 20:44:01+00:00
> even though Russia's GDP is merely of Guangzhou's

Am I missing something? [1] lists Guangzhou’s GDP as 435,746 M USD, while [2] lists Russia’s GDP as 2,173,836 M USD.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_Chinese_cities_by_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
by bubblesorting | 2026-01-26 20:44:09+00:00
Hello fellow Tetris nerd with a -sort username :)

On the topic of reflexes decaying (I'm getting there, in my late 30s): Have you played Stackflow? It's a number go up roguelite disguised as an arcade brick stacking game, but the gravity is low enough that it is effectively turn based. More about 'deck' building, less about chaining PCs and C-Spins.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-01-26 20:44:10+00:00
Pop-sci / self-help I feel is particularly egregious in this regard. Like you could take the entirety of many self-help books and summarise them into a few bullet points.

Though having said that, if the ultimate goal of writing is to transfer one person’s experience of human thought to another, then the filler often makes sense. They’re trying to take you on the same mental journey that they went on. At least that’s the good-faith interpretation.

I think filler is also akin to the difference in experience between listening to an audiobook at 1x speed vs say 3x speed. The slower pace gives your brain time to work.

But I totally agree, once you know a bunch about a subject the filler becomes unnecessary.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-26 20:44:24+00:00
The secret sauce for me is Beads. Once Beads is setup you make the tasks and refine them and by the end each task is a very detailed prompt. I have Claude ask me clarifying questions, do research for best practices etc

Because of Beads I can have Claude do a code review for serious bugs and issues and sure enough it finds some interesting things I overlooked.

I have also seen my peers in the reverse engineering field make breakthroughs emulating runtimes that have no or limited existing runtimes, all from the ground up mind you.

I think the key is thinking of yourself as an architect / mentor for a capable and promising Junior developer.
by roughly | 2026-01-26 20:44:41+00:00
You know, it's funny - there's a couple places where this kind of thing seems to have come up. There's research around crop nutrition levels that shows decreases in nutrient levels as yield per acre goes up, there's research on supplements and vitamins that shows synergistic effects between seemingly unrelated substances, we've seen surprising effects from adding or removing species from an ecosystem. One begins to suspect that the "reductive" method of science - the sort of physics- or mathematics-type "reduce the variables of the problem until we can isolate effects" approach - isn't particularly well-suited to dealing with biological systems. You see it in bioinformatics as well - we've sequenced the genomes for many organisms, and have learned a lot from doing so, but we're also learning the limits of that approach pretty strongly - the organism isn't defined just by its 'code', but its environment; the presence, distribution, and concentration of various chemicals; etc. I suspect as we move more towards the "biological" century here we're going to have to readjust how we approach things to start trying to find those synergistic effects earlier in the process, rather than pull everything down to its constituent parts and then experimenting pairwise with various combos. I get the difficulties in doing that, but I feel like we've repeatedly found the stuff we've discarded as irrelevant to the problem ("things that are not in the visual wavelength the eye perceives") in fact do wind up being relevant (wider full-spectrum light has effects outside the mere spatial perception of objects).
by xracy | 2026-01-26 20:44:43+00:00
At this point I am praying that one of the things pushing back on this administration will be American Companies that have gotten rich on the back of "American Globalism", learning just how much it hurts when the US doesn't do its responsibility to remain Allies with it's nominal Allies.

And the EU, Canada, and anyone else who the current US administration is slighting, should absolutely be moving cash hard and fast away from the American Economy, if they want change in US policy. TACO, is about economic policy, and it's hard to imagine this administration continuing it's more unpopular global (and even local policies), if it's discovering it's not actually backed by US Mega-Corps.
by therein | 2026-01-26 20:44:46+00:00
I easily have many memories from age 4. I think I even remember the first time that I started forming memories. It was a few years before that, I had come out of my room and saw some toys I was playing with the night before. I realized they were at the same spot I left them, which made me realize the world had permanence and my awareness had continuity. I could leave things at a certain spot and they would be there the next day, that I could build things and they would stay that way. I realized I could remember things, in a way like "homo sapiens sapiens" being thinking about thinking, I realized I remember that I could remember.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-26 20:45:10+00:00
I mean perhaps, yea I must've got sidetracked by India's colonial past but for the average Indian I would consider for that passage that they generally equate UK to be part of EU usually. (Perhaps from the pre-brexit era's or just in general)

I wouldn't consider it a rant per se but rather that India's trying to move towards an multi polar deal and EU and India actually has a more net negative and Indians are wary of this deal even more so but on aggregate the deal would be extremely beneficial if seen from both sides with reason.

Also isn't UK trying to pester back into the EU again. It's super complicated to follow even as someone who follows geo-politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_re-accession_of_the_...

> I mean perhaps, yea I must've got sidetracked by India's colonial past but for the average Indian I would consider for that passage that they generally equate UK to be part of EU usually. (Perhaps from the pre-brexit era's or just in general)

When I started writing about jallianwala bagh I probably got distracted because I used to be part of drama club and we had this act when we were young and literally the amount of people dying and everything truly shocks one & genuinely disturbs one.

I recommend this documentary to know more about Jallianwala bagh massacre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9JZJx67cvo
by jeyjeyemem | 2026-01-26 20:45:27+00:00
This a frequently requested feature. At the moment, it only handles in-process messages but allowing for persistent events is definitely in the roadmap. It's not built-in right now, but this can be achieved by implementing custom RequestHandlerInvocationStrategy and EventHandlerInvocationStrategy. For example, one can implement an invocation strategy to serialize and send certain events to Kafka, queue, or your DB of choice.

See: https://github.com/joel-jeremy/emissary/blob/main/emissary-c...

Here are the default invocation strategies built-in right now: https://github.com/joel-jeremy/emissary/tree/main/emissary-c...
by finaard | 2026-01-26 20:45:35+00:00
LLMs can be quite useful in reverse engineering - there's typically a lot of steps which are not really difficult, but are hard to script, and still require a bit of an idea what's going on. Quite a bit of that can be automated with LLMs now - so it's also a lot easier now to figure what your proprietary blob does, and either interface with it, or just publish an implementation of the functionality as open source, potentially messing with your business plan.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-26 20:45:47+00:00
> Sure, I agree with all that?

Then there was no sense in you pointing out that a vote for T is not a vote for every dimension of T, since pointing out the obvious and gets another answer pointing out the obvious in response.

> That's totally irrelevant as to whether the current actions are actually popular.

You've chosen to rely on a single poll that supports your contention that they aren't, when pretty much every single other source of info is contrary to that.

You want to put all your faith in a poll, that's on you. There isn't much for us to discuss so I'd appreciate it if you stopped replying to me, so we don't just go around in circles.
by bloomca | 2026-01-26 20:45:58+00:00
I think fundamentally this approach is flawed for anything more complex than a simple endpoint. AI is already really good for throwaway code, that is very clear, it is also decent if you watch it like a hawk.

However, the complexity is still not handled super well, as you need to spend more time in code review and testing to make sure all edge cases are covered and the general module interconnection is decent. Ideally we want to modularize and make the breaking surface very small, but often it is not possible.

I think the next step is to fully remove people as accepting changes manually is just too brittle; I also think it is probably possible to do with the current tools but needs a very different approach from the current meta of highly specific docs.
by shelltief | 2026-01-26 20:46:11+00:00
The previews are slow to load sometimes with one of both previews not being available. When this happens I personally didn't vote but I shouldn't be able to vote at all
Also, maybe add a small explanation of the product on the side bc when I end up on the LP as a user it is rarely bc I arrived cold on an LP but rather bc I was looking for the product (or in another context that led me to click on the link)
The idea is good but I'm not sure that this is the best way to rate/improve landing pages
by voidmain | 2026-01-26 20:46:25+00:00
So if someone (actually, practically everyone) who runs an AI company says AI is dangerous, it's bullshit. If someone who is holding NVDA put options says it, they're talking their book. If someone whose job is threatened by AI says it, it's cope. If someone who doesn't use AI says it, it's fear of change. Is there someone in particular you want to hear it from, or are you completely immune to argument?
by satisfice | 2026-01-26 20:46:38+00:00
I appreciate that book and that context, but that's not making yourself unnecessary. In this interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9rGATwZRr0) Rear Admiral Mike "Nasty" Manazir talks a lot about empowerment, but also about how the commander of an aircraft carrier never gets a lot of sleep.
by jbverschoor | 2026-01-26 20:46:50+00:00
"As of January 2026, Apple has not released an iPhone 17 series. Apple typically announces new iPhones in September each year, so the iPhone 17 series would not be available until at least September 2025 (and we're currently in January 2026). The most recent available models would be the iPhone 16 series."

Hmmmm ok
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-01-26 20:46:58+00:00
> Funnily enough grabbing some old .so files from the RHEL 7 install and dumping them into LD_LIBRARY_PATH also worked better than expected.

Why "better than expected"? I can run the entire userspace from Debian Etch on a kernel built two days ago... some kernel settings need to be changed (because of the old glibc! but it's not glibc's fault: it's the kernel who broke things), but it works.

> Now running stuff compiled on modern Ubuntu or RHEL 10 on the older OS, now that's a whole different story...

But this is a different problem, and no one makes promises here (not the kernel, not musl). So all the talk of statically linking with musl to get such type of compatibility is bullshit (at some point, you're going to hit a syscall/instruction/whatever that the newer musl does that the older kernel/hardware does not support).
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-26 20:47:21+00:00
>The concern, then, is that when the educated people can't discuss (and let's be honest, argue about) politics, then the only people who will be discussing politics will be the uneducated people. Politics is inherently contentious and we can't make progress (however you want to define it) without occasionally hurting feelings.

I completely agree. That's why ultimately I abandoned the mainstream stuff (outside of YouTube. Yay monopoly) for discussion and go to Tildes for a lot of political talk. But Tildes is small by design and will have some blind spots.

I feel denying a quality article like this (or rather, upholding the minority's rule of denying) cracks into the idea that these policies work to keep HN high quality. Especially when what's on the front page right now is "I ported typescript to rust in a month with Claude!". These don't feel quality driven.
by tgtweak | 2026-01-26 20:47:25+00:00
Seems most major players are not only fabless but also fab-agnostic - as I noted they switch from one supplier to another even for the same product line. I'm sure it is work but it doesn't seem to be an existential crisis for a huge provider to send some volume to a new fab - certainly if it's derisking supply capacity, tariffs or other geopolitical risks.
by cladopa | 2026-01-26 20:47:31+00:00
Actually in Spain Social Security is 30 to 40% of what you earn. From the remainder 60% it is up to 50% in IRPF taxes, so you could pay 70% of what you earn.

The trick is that Franco hid the social security tax in the company side so normal people don't see it, but it is there.

Over that there is IBI for your house, there is IVA on anything you buy, and there are central bank inflation taxing anything you own in absolute terms.
by xracy | 2026-01-26 20:47:40+00:00
It's wild to me that the first Trump Administration didn't teach this lesson. The
"Just Trust me Bro" Foreign policy that has existed clearly only works if the person in power is trustworthy, and you have to carefully investigate any policy that is enforced by "trust". One of the most disappointing failures of the Biden Administration was that they didn't realize this.

The greatest failure of every other country was to get lulled into a false sense of security when the US Gov't shifted back to an at-all trustworthy foreign policy.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-26 20:47:44+00:00
This is a common theme, gambits are such depending on what your level and calculation depth is.

The queen's gambit opening (almost inarguably a gambit as it is part of a well accepted name of a second move), really isn't a gambit in the sense that you can always recover the pawn, however it is a gambit in the sense that you temporarily give it up.

If we were particularly short sighted, no doubt, responding to an early white bishop threat on g5 or b5 with a knight on f6 or c6 would look like a gambit, as we are sacrificing the knight, but lo and behold, we regain the minor piece afterwards with xf6 or xc6!

The distinction would be whether the gambit or sacrifice is solid or refutable. But it is in both cases a sacrifice.
by saturnite | 2026-01-26 20:47:54+00:00
If I find myself writing code in a way that has me saying to myself "there has to be a better way," there usually is. That's when I could present AI with that little bit of what I want to write. What I've found to be important is to describe what I want in natural language. That's when AI might introduce me to a better way of doing things. At that point, I stop and learn all that I can about what the AI showed me. I look it up in books and trusted online tutorials to make sure it is the proper way to do it.
by tosh | 2026-01-26 20:48:13+00:00
18gb RAM it is a bit tight

with 32gb RAM:

qwen3-coder and glm 4.7 flash are both impressive 30b parameter models

not on the level of gpt 5.2 codex but small enough to run locally (w/ 32gb RAM 4bit quantized) and quite capable

but it is just a matter of time I think until we get quite capable coding models that will be able to run with less RAM
by korm | 2026-01-26 20:48:32+00:00
From an engineer working on this here on HN:

> ...while far off from feature parity with the most popular production browsers today...

What a way to phrase it!

You know, I found a bicycle in the trash. It doesn't work great yet, but I can walk it down a hill. While far off from the level of the most popular supercars today, I think we have made impressive progress going down the hill.
by vunderba | 2026-01-26 20:49:21+00:00
I actually grew up playing the Spectrum HoloByte version of Tetris for PC, which only lets you rotate in one direction. As a result, I ended up playing NES Tetris for years as a kid before realizing it lets you rotate clockwise / counterclockwise!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(Spectrum_HoloByte)
by mytailorisrich | 2026-01-26 20:49:39+00:00
And that will change in 3 years or even at the end of this year... A lot is blown out of proportion by the EU itself because it serves its own agenda to expand reach and power.

Realistically there is zero alternative to US tech/online dominance in sight in Europe and the credible competitors are more likely to be Chinese (tiktok, temu, shein, etc.) What is happening is EU politics.
by coffe2mug | 2026-01-26 20:49:42+00:00
This BS should stop (even if you vote for AfD or National front)

It is so difficult we still to get a working visa into Western EU. The way this is done is by total bureaucratic nature of Ausländerbehörde. So even of one has > €80K salary and working in Apple or MS hq in Munich it is pain in the arse.

On the other hand this is encouraging people to apply and get passports. I for one would have never naturalised as German if the residence permit was quick and easy.

In summary, there is no easy legal migration.
by roughly | 2026-01-26 20:49:50+00:00
I've been pretty skeptical of LLMs as the solution to AGI already, mostly just because the limits of what the models seem capable of doing seem to be lower than we were hoping (glibly, I think they're pretty good at replicating what humans do when we're running on autopilot, so they've hit the floor of human cognition, but I don't think they're capable of hitting the ceiling). That said, I think LLMs will be a component of whatever AGI winds up being - there's too much "there" there for them to be a total dead end - but, echoing the commenter below and taking an analogy to the brain, it feels like "many well-trained models, plus some as-yet unknown coordinator process" is likely where we're going to land here - in other words, to take the Kahneman & Tversky framing, I think the LLMs are making a fair pass at "system 1" thinking, but I don't think we know what the "system 2" component is, and without something in that bucket we're not getting to AGI.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-26 20:49:56+00:00
> Firstly, dynamic IPs are quickly reused

Define quickly? My modem stays attached on the same IP for months at a time.

> so if one customer get an IP onto a bunch of firewall blocklists

That can happen anyway! Most of those are based on outgoing connections!

> a bunch of other angry customers as well as beg all the firewall vendors to unblock those IPs

Does this happen today on the huge number of ISPs that let you open ports on a dynamic IP? I'm not aware of it.

> we need to keep in mind net neutrality was not written for selfhosters

Well I'm not really focused on the idea of net neutrality, just whether it's reasonable to make customers unconnectable, and I say it's not reasonable.
by antonvs | 2026-01-26 20:50:06+00:00
FTA:

> tools like Cursor can be genuinely helpful as glorified autocomplete and refactoring assistants

That suggests a fairly strong anti-AI bias by the author. Anyone who thinks that this is all AI coding tools are today is not actually using them seriously.

That's not to say that this exercise wasn't overhyped, but a more useful, less biased article that's not trying to push an agenda would look at what went right, as well as what went wrong.
by DANmode | 2026-01-26 20:50:08+00:00
It’s emails for info that,

if they weren’t trying to extract maximum value from each customer based on demographics,

they would have POSTED IN THE LISTING FOR THE CAR.

The salesperson’s excess profit (commission) is derived purely from how much extra they can make you pay over what the dealership requires them to sell the car at.

So, they’ll not only pretend to be a human to get you to start interacting with them,

but knowing they’re trying to charge you more if you say the wrong thing compared to your peers still isn’t enough to be okay with a computer involved?

As an amateur sociologist, I’d pay to hear what other hardline stances you have.
by serial_dev | 2026-01-26 20:50:26+00:00
Lazyslop PRs offload the work to code reviewers while keeping all the benefits to the PR creator.

Now creating a 1600 loc PR is about ten minutes, reviewing it at the very least an hour. Mike submits a bunch of PRs, the rest of the team tries to review it to prevent the slop from causing an outage at night or blowing up the app. Mike is a hero, he really embraced AI, he leveraged it to get 100x productivity.

This works for a while, until everyone realizes that Mike gets the praise, they get reprimanded for not shipping their features fast enough. After a couple of these sour experiences, other developers will follow suit, embrace the slop. Now there is nobody that stops the train wreck. The ones who really cared, left, the ones who cared at least a little gave up, and churn out slop.