MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrinterweb | 2026-01-02 23:00:48+00:00
Soon was wrong. I should have said it is already happening. Google Gemini already uses their own TPU chips. Nvidia just dropped $20B to buy the IP for Groq's LPU (custom silicon for inference). $20B says Nvidia sees the writing on the wall for GPU-based inference. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/nv...
by loktarogar | 2026-01-02 23:01:11+00:00
It shows the guy going to the restaurant, the same guy that eventually shows up at my door. It shows it on the way to a couple of deliveries and takes as long as extra deliveries should roughly take. It shows the immediate previous delivery when it's almost delivered, and the guy spends about as long as i'd expect at that place.

Not saying that it's not deceptive in some way, but it's more than just a surface-level difference.
by Karliss | 2026-01-02 23:01:23+00:00
If you had read the link you posted you would know those are various historic proposals for language reforms not something that's widely used. Same way there have been various proposals for English spelling reforms. That's not the normal way for writing reading Russian. Russian uses Cyrilic alphabet which if anything is closer to Greek alphabet than Latin. There are other slavic langauges which actually use Latin based scripts. If you don't read Russian it might look like some of the letters look similar but that's only less than half of alphabet and from those half have completely different meaning than Latin lookalikes.

Yes there are various schemes for transliterating Russian into latin script, which people occasionally use for various reasons like typing on a computer or phone which hasn't been fully configured for use with Russian language, in contexts where unicode isn't supported or to make street signs legible for tourists. That's different from the "Russian Latin alphabet". In most cases where proper Cyrillic is problematic dedicated "Russian Latin alphabet" that's based on Latin with extra diacritic marks would also be problematic.

Similar thing could be said about other languages like Japanese or Chinese, but I don't think anyone would describe them as "languages that use the Latin alphabet".

As for typing on keyboard the main Russian layout is nothing like qwerty. Computer keyboards sold in relevant regions often have dual labels. I personally never learned touch typing in Cyrillic and use the phonetic layout in the rare cases I need to do so since for me it was a second foreign language.

Which exact approach Click chose - who knows. Will it be possible to choose your preferred Russian layout like on a desktop computer? Likely not. If they supported that I would have expect them to also add layouts for more languages. Although maybe they didn't want to promise anything for languages for which they don't have OS UI translations.
by gmd63 | 2026-01-02 23:02:12+00:00
Yep. Also an issue: the high profit industries are abused by pump and dump scammers like Vivek Ramaswamy who had his doctor mother run a phase 2 clinical trial on a struggling Alzheimer's drug he bought from GlaxoSmithKline before he cashed out and it inevitably failed phase 3 trials.

We're moving in the opposite direction of ensuring that capital is allocated productively in said industries by destroying regulations and agencies like the CFPB, FTC, SEC, and by giving platforms and political power to the cheaters and fraudsters who have infested the Republican party.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-02 23:02:34+00:00
> You implied that it was in a bit of sophistry that's the same class as the US Federal Government saying "Of course States' compliance with this new Federal regulation is completely voluntary

This is a very bad faith interpretation of my comment. I did not imply it and I'm not trying to use CIA tricks to make people implement it as a feature.

Are you upset that I gave an example?
by duskwuff | 2026-01-02 23:02:38+00:00
It's not at all clear to me that Mobile IP would be viable at the scale of a modern wireless service provider. It amounts to routing all traffic to/from the mobile device through a machine on the network of its "home" IP address. Without some fairly invasive routing shenanigans, this would be disastrously bad for users traveling far from their home network (e.g. a user gone on vacation).

Not that it matters, really. As far as I'm aware, there were never any substantial deployments of this protocol.
by ben_w | 2026-01-02 23:02:54+00:00
> Not possible.

To which governments, courts, and populations likely respond "We don't care if you can't go to market. We don't want models that do this. Solve it or don't offer your services here."

Also… I think they probably could solve this. AI image analysis is a thing. AI that estimate age from an image has been a thing for ages. It's not like the idea of throwing the entire internet worth of images at a training sessions just to make a single "allowed/forbidden" filter is even ridiculous compared to the scale of all the other things going on right now.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-02 23:03:19+00:00
> it's been a great car.

It's not really that great of a car. I mean it's driving an iPad, basically. Also, they've been plagued with reliability issues eg limiting how much you can adjust your seat because they're so prone to breaking [1].

Also, the Cybertruck is an unmitigated disaster in practically every way.

> EVs are very much a luxury item

In the US, this is kinda true but largely due to trade barriers. Things would be very different if we could buy BYD cars.

Charging is part of the problem too combined with how much Americans drive. But Americans partly drive so much because there's practically zero robust public transit infrastructure that forces people to drive, we build houses really spread out and a common charging network isn't a state priority like it is in China.

> very slow to adopt NACS

So, Tesla's Supercharger network was the only moat Tesla had for their cars. Even now, I believe Tesla charges third-party users significantly more [2].

> An EV can last significantly longer than ICE vehicles

I see what you're saying but battery degradation is a serious problem over time, such that EV depreciation is super high.

Also, some ICE vehicles are super reliable and some of those are weirdly banned in the US. I'm thinking specifically of the Toyota Hilux. Japanese cars in general were banned (after lobbying from the auto industry) because of their extreme reliability and low price.

> I have absolutely zero interest in lease deals

Each to their own but IMHO leasing is the smartest way to currently "own" an EV, given the depreciation.

[1]: https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-now-monitors-how-ofte...

[2]: https://insideevs.com/news/710822/tesla-supercharger-cost-fo...
by techblueberry | 2026-01-02 23:03:22+00:00
> In leftist popular culture there is a love for modernist style architecture, minimalism, and a disrespect for building beautiful things that cost a lot of money or time.

Which leftist popular culture? I mean sure, there was bauhaus, but it’s not like banks are putting up neo-gothic office buildings, they’re putting up spires of glass.
by econ | 2026-01-02 23:03:53+00:00
To convince you I would really need to rebuild this thing and show it side by side with blogs and news outlets.

To give one example, at the time I gathered f500 feeds my other feed sets (tens of thousands) suffered horribly from echo chamber effect. I had endless headlines announcing that David Bowie died. Something like half of it. I don't find that a particularly interesting topic. I have my own memories of his work and have little need for more. Perhaps you would like to read 20 of those? Surely not thousands? It isn't that it isn't a noteworthy event but it drowns out everything else.

Meanwhile Walmart is talking about donating returned Lego to charities.

Exon is talking about a giant ammonia deal to make carbon neutral hydrogen

and GM talks about their next generation software platform to help bring long term continuous innovation to customers through over-the-air updates.

They apparently have tons of diagnostic data and are looking to make it more practical complete with remote tuning for old clunkers.

This to me is quite a lot more interesting than say cbnc talking about war with iran, if bitcoin will survive and that Tesla stock is down???? I really needed more articles about those topics? I thought I already got a million of those. No way in hell I will open those links.
by ma1or | 2026-01-02 23:04:23+00:00
I'm the founder of Replay. We've been working on a "video-to-code" engine that uses Gemini 3 Pro to analyze UI flows (not just screenshots) and reconstruct them into React + Tailwind.

One big pain point with AI generators is that they produce "dumb components" with fake data structures. You always have to rewrite the props to match your backend.

We just shipped a feature documented here (https://replay.build/docs) that solves this:

The AI connects to your Supabase (read-only) to fetch the schema. When it sees a list of items in the video, it looks at your actual tables (e.g., products) and generates code that matches your column names (price_cents vs price).

The goal is to get "run-ready" code, not just a mock.

Would love to hear your feedback on the generated code quality and the schema mapping approach!
by klardotsh | 2026-01-02 23:04:32+00:00
You can’t stop it from being mercilessly pirated, and it’s a fool’s errand to try, unless you want to go down the user hostile route much of the ebook industry insists on (vendor specific reading apps/devices serving as DRM).

Bandcamp learned this lesson. GOG learned this lesson. They both provide services users love, without DRM, and just accept that there is no capitalistic scarcity inherent to digital goods like there is to physical ones. An indie ebook publisher would be wise to heed those teachings.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2026-01-02 23:05:47+00:00
So we acknowledge v4 and CG-NAT are a problem but don't want to use the already available solution because game developers took it upon themselves to DEFEAT NAT :)

That just reminded me of a peer protocol I worked on a long time ago that used other hosts to try to figure out which hosts were getting translated. Kind of like a reverse TOR. If that was detected, the better peering hosts would send them each other's local and public addresses so they could start sending UDP packets to each other, because the NAT devices wouldn't expect the TCP handshake first and so while the first few rounds didn't make it through, it caused the NAT device(s) to create the table entries for itself.

Was it Hamachi that was the old IPX-over-IP tunneling? I'm fairly sure it used similar tricks. IPX-over-IP is also done on DOSBOX, which incidentally made it possible to play Master of Orion 2 with friends in other continents.
by giodamelio | 2026-01-02 23:06:04+00:00
Location: Seattle, WA
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I have also done smaller amounts of work in Java, Kotlin, Ruby + Rails and Clojure.
Resume: https://resume.giodamelio.com/
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I am a software engineer with 9 years of professional experience, though I have been programming since I was a kid. I am a huge proponent of Open Source (see my Github[1]). I am looking to join a smaller company, either as a FTE or on a contracting basis.

[1]: https://github.com/giodamelio
by datameta | 2026-01-02 23:06:17+00:00
I was never in webdev, per se. I switched from "fullstack" (which included backend+frontend as well as mobile/firmware/ML) to hardware eng at IBM, and then widened back out again to R&D Engineering at a startup to work on a patent. I had always wanted to be closer to hardware/embedded and anything that involves sensor-laden and/or RF-enabled systems so it was a natural progression for me.
by qsera | 2026-01-02 23:06:42+00:00
>If that causes reallocation, the reference is no longer valid

Doesn't the append/push function return a pointer in that case? At least in `c` there are special functions that reallocate and is not done by implicitly (but I understand someone could write a function that does it).

Thus it appears that borrow checker's behavior is guided by bad designs in other languages. It takes arbitrary, non-intutive behavior to patch an originally bad design. No wonder the borrow-checker ended up being how it is.
by texuf | 2026-01-02 23:06:46+00:00
I've seen this first hand and yes, it's not sinister, getting dozens of services coordinated and permissioned under a single, easy to use, system is too much cognitive load for the team that inevitably gets tasked to do these things. Think about Privileged Access Management or Active Directory, but an 8 year old has to get it to work with a stay at home mom's 5 year old android device, and the PM's working on it can't think through second order effects (or even first order effects sometimes). And of course anything that negatively affects metrics will get rolled back (that part might be sinister).
by semilin | 2026-01-02 23:07:00+00:00
I'm not intending to say it's acceptable for professors to use AI entirely in their grading. They obviously ought to contribute. I realize I actually misread your original comment, thinking of "instructor can have AI do his job" as "instructor can have AI to help do his job." Sorry about that. Point being, I think the expectation for real human thought ought to hold for both teacher and student.
by adrr | 2026-01-02 23:07:07+00:00
I own 2019 model 3. Car is falling apart which is why consumer reports Tesla in last place in reliability. Won’t fix things under warranty either, they claimed I hit a something when my front suspension failed which is a very common issue in my car. Also paid for FSD, but not getting upgraded to the new hardware like Musk promised so will never get true FSD. Worst car I ever bought.
by 000ooo000 | 2026-01-02 23:07:15+00:00
>"Used AI"

>"Wrote this in a day"

>"So please forgive any imprecision or inaccuracies"

Um, no? You (TFA author) want people to read/review your slop that you banged together in a day and let the shit parts slide? If you want to namedrop some AI heavy hitter to boost your slop, at least have the decency to publish something you put real effort into.
by observationist | 2026-01-02 23:08:02+00:00
I'm slightly optimistic with the heightened scrutiny on AI and general political turmoil - maybe there's a shot at a reasonable digital bill of rights regulation, and both parties seem fairly universally against allowing China to run surveillance apparatus inside US homes. An Alexa or Roomba is one thing, but a humanoid is too close to having an actual person - there's enough of a subjective difference in vibe that it might reach critical mass in the zeitgeist.

US politics is on the "cannot let China win the AI race" side of things, as well as the "cannot have a chinese/corporation/government robot spy in your bedroom" side of things. Cheap Temu speakers with microphones that phone home, or chargers that connect to wifi for botnets, and so on, that sort of abstract IoT threat doesn't resonate. Commander Data doing your dishes feels like a person in your home.

Then again, the people are regarded.
by nhod | 2026-01-02 23:08:33+00:00
There’s also Rivian. My R1S is my favorite car I’ve ever owned and this is going to be their “Model 3 year” when the R2 comes out. There’s also Lucid and Zoox.

And the Chinese manufacturers, of course. If you haven’t been outside the US lately you don’t realize just how popular BYD is everywhere but here. I’m in Thailand at the moment and they are everywhere. Mexico too.
by timeproofs | 2026-01-02 23:10:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the creator of TimeProofs, an open, stateless proof-of-existence protocol and API.

The problem it tries to solve is simple:
How can you prove that a digital event or file existed at a given time, without uploading or exposing the data?

TimeProofs works by:
- hashing data locally
- issuing a signed timestamp
- producing a portable proof file (.tproof.json)
- allowing independent verification later (online or offline)

Key constraints:
- no data storage
- no metadata collection
- no blockchain
- no identity or compliance claims

It’s designed as a neutral infrastructure layer, similar in spirit to DNS or TLS, but for timestamped evidence.

One challenge we’re facing is discoverability:
search engines often confuse “TimeProofs” with existing timestamping vendors or proprietary services, despite very different goals and architecture.

I’m posting here mainly to get technical feedback:
- Is the problem clearly stated?
- Is the scope too narrow or too broad?
- Does the stateless + bundle approach make sense?

Website: https://timeproofs.io
Spec: https://timeproofs.io/proofspec.html

Honest feedback welcome.
by Izkata | 2026-01-02 23:11:45+00:00
Yeah, I see people describe it like that all the time, it's never corrected, and doesn't match how I always thought mortgages in general work (and definitely doesn't match mine), so I'm never entirely sure if it's a different system from another country or just a version of the blind leading the blind. Which is why I made my comment so specific to myself.

The parent of that comment mentioning "a fee to overpay" is one I've never even heard of before. Definitely not the case here, free to pay down the principal as much as I want whenever I want as long as the current interest for the month is paid first.
by zen928 | 2026-01-02 23:11:52+00:00
Drinking is an archaic caveman activity that newer generations dont really care about, observed on a global trend. GenX and older millennials ring this bell continuously for a crowd that doesn't care. Shouldn't you focus on issues that actually impact and hurt people instead of trying to point out some "inconsistency" about the usage of the land of the free slogan that no one ever brings up in any conversation about america?
by est31 | 2026-01-02 23:11:56+00:00
If you are an ISP running dual stack ipv4 with NAT plus ipv6, the more connections happen via ipv6 and the more traffic happens via ipv6, the better, because it doesn't have to go through the NAT infrastructure which is more expensive, and cost scales with traffic (each packet needs its header to be modified) and number of parallel open connections (each public v4 address gives you only 65k port numbers, plus this mapping needs to be stored in RAM and databases).
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-02 23:12:15+00:00
We're talking past each other, I think.

To be clear, I believe that models are machines. They're clever, useful machines. We get sucked in. But, they're just machines, and thus property. If I delete a model, in an effective sense, I've disposed of property. I have not destroyed anything that I would consider a "who", i.e. a person. I've just turned off the computer. But, as the original piece points out, there are folks out there with a pathological (yes!) concept of AI as sentient entities - persons; well, let's say person-adjacent, at least. They have "relationships". Will they feel absolutely evil when they stop paying the subscription, and the company "terminates" the model? Maybe they will, but that's their scrambled thinking, not mine. If one believes an AI is a person, one *does* have an ethical dilemma when it's turned off. You'd have an ethical obligation to stop the slaughter, wouldn't you?

If I take my sick dog to the vet to be put down because she has a cancer that's making her life miserable I'm emotional, but ethically I feel it's the right thing to do. It's also lawful. I don't think I'd feel as comfortable ethically taking my grandmother for the big exit. Also, it's not lawful in most places: even with informed consent. The distinction is the difference.
by jiggawatts | 2026-01-02 23:12:33+00:00
Ironically posted on Medium, which showed me the text, then blanked the whole screen to replace the text with light grey polyfills, and then showed me the same text again... several seconds later.

That's because Medium is a bunch of APIs and (micro) services, not a monolith like it should be.

Heck, it could be plain static HTML because it's just text for crying out loud!

Instead, it uses a GraphQL query through JSON to obtain the text of the article... that it already sent me in HTML.

Total page weight of 17 MB, of which 6.7 MB is some sort of non-media ("text") document or script.

This is user-hostile architecture astronaut madness, and is so totally normal in the modern internet that nobody even bats and eye when text takes appreciable amounts of time to render on a 6 GHz multi-core computer with 1 Gbps fibre Internet connectivity.

Your customers hate this. Your architects love it because it keeps them employed.
by positron26 | 2026-01-02 23:13:03+00:00
Positron | Bootstrapping Startup | South Korea | Co-founder

Equity-only co-founders. If you must take a salary position, send us a resume with "Salary only" and we'll check back later.

We're developing an efficient social-decision model so that communities can organize social-finance campaigns and effectively administrate funds without being beholden to one creator. Keeping funds in the hands of backers creates accountability and is one key to taking social finance to the next level.

We say that our social tech "makes the money smarter." It will do this by making communities smarter. How we do social will change how every future social platform gets built and will upset every social product on the market. Society will benefit tremendously from the more coherent discourse.

To bootstrap our platform, we are developing an music visualizer called MuTate. It will soon be powered by our in-house machine learning tricks, which do not rely on back-propagation in order to enable radical forward architectures that are smaller and easier to develop and train. This work directly impacts our mission and aligns us both with consumer enthusiasm for small & local AI to run outside the cloud and with people working on hard problems that need AI tool-kits they can embed their own world models within.

We are using PrizeForge as a better kind of Patreon while we finish our crowd cognition implementation and start to integrate social decisions with our existing social finance.

Our entire tech stack is Rust where possible. We use Leptos, Axum, Postgres with SQLx. It's like a full-stack typescript setup, but with Rust and WASM. MuTate uses Rust, the Vulkan API, and Slang.

Anyone who materially accelerates the trajectory of the company will participate proportionately in the rewards. Our work on MuTate will put us default-viable. Our work on crowd cognition and community-organized campaigns will likewise make use default-viable.

Prototype two-dimensional fund raising: https://prizeforge.com
Career listings with more details: https://positron.solutions/careers
MuTate Github repo: github.com/positron-solutions/mutate

Korean language skill is optional but anticipate learning business Korean and translating a lot. Same timezone is as far as will be considered remote unless you're physically stuck in Ukraine etc and begin by contributing on MuTate.
by SigmundA | 2026-01-02 23:13:03+00:00
All the money managements apps (Monarch etc) use one of the big three bank gateways, Plaid, MX or Fincity.

They all have issues mainly the banks want constant reauth two factor rather than just trusting forever.

Mint was better they had their own connection supposedly and now that’s gone but wasn’t an open api.

I get the feeling banks don’t want this sort of thing and are fine making it annoying to use
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-02 23:14:01+00:00
> I did Math all the time with my 5 year old and he loved it, but then I also love math, and it's easy to make fun.

I have 4 kids; two of them also found math fun at age 5, the other two did not. I do not believe my ability to make math fun differed significantly between the attempts.