MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by egorfine | 2026-01-29 12:48:25+00:00
> client-side desktop Linux remote attestation gaining any foothold is to satisfy anti-cheat for gaming, which might actually be a win in many ways.

It will be, no doubt. As soon as it is successfully tested and deployed for games, it will be used for movies, government services, banks, etc. And before you know you do not have control of your own computer.

> Who owns the garden?

Not you.

> everyone installs overlays over the top of that

Except this breaks cryptography and your computer is denied multiple services. Because you are obviously a hacker, why else would anyone want to compile and run programs.

> turning the integrity protection off (and no means to do so on PC hardware)

It's a flip of a switch, really. Once Microsoft decides you have had enough, the switch is flipped and in a couple of years no new Intel computer will boot your kernel.
by paufernandez | 2026-01-29 12:48:36+00:00
Agree. But sometimes there is no "root cause", the brain is still a mystery. If you had been depressed even when you knew there was nothing to worry about, you would see it differently, because then you deduce that the black cloud is produced within.

Chemistry trumps psychology. Good enough chemistry enables cognitive treatments. But to fix the wrong chemistry you need chemistry.
by top_sigrid | 2026-01-29 12:48:41+00:00
> If you can train a policy that drives well on cameras, you can get self-driving. If you can't, you're fucked, and no amount of extra sensors will save you.

Source: trust me, bro? This statement has no factual basis. Calling the most common approach of all other self-driving developers except Tesla a wank also is no argument but hate only.
by ciconia | 2026-01-29 12:48:47+00:00
> The liquidity that flooded the tech sector didn’t just inflate valuations; it inflated teams, egos, and expectations.

Yes it's kind of obvious to anyone who's looking at the actual work being done: the constant churn of OS updates, the JS-framework-du-jour, apps being updated constantly...

It seems to me like a lot of this is just busy work, as if engineers need to justify having a job by being releasing inconsequential updates all the time. Bullshit jobs anyone?

I for one would really like things to slow down, we all deserve it!
by rob | 2026-01-29 12:48:53+00:00
Lol yeah Tesla is doing so great they just got rid of two flagship models.

Government rebates have ended. Sentiment towards EV has shifted negatively in consumer eyes. Manufacturers are sticking to gasoline. Even Jeep just got rid of all their electric stuff.

Maybe they'll be good for self driving robot taxis over in California with "FSD."

Past performance does not indicate future success.
Show HN: System to have Claude compose and perform a techno track end-to-end
by digitcatphd | 2026-01-29 12:49:15+00:00
I've been fascinated by a fundamental gap in AI music: Current models (Suno, Udio) generate audio via sequence prediction—they pattern-match existing waveforms but don't "know" music theory. Consequently, you can't get stems, adjust the mix, or modify the arrangement logic.

I wanted to see if an LLM could compose music from first principles—understanding scales, chord progressions, and arrangement theory—and control a DAW to generate the audio.

Loom Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/8f55136085a24ed1bc79acb5cdda194c

The Stack
Ableton Live 12: The DAW engine.

Ableton MCP (Model Context Protocol): Forked and extended to allow Claude to manipulate MIDI, clips, and devices.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: The "Composer," equipped with ~12 custom skill files covering arrangement, EQ, and sound design.

Gemini: The feedback loop. Used to analyze rendered audio (via stem separation) and provide critique for iteration.

Python: 1,700+ lines of performance scripts.

The Engineering Challenges
1. The Sample Library Problem Techno relies on curated samples, not just synthesis. But LLMs can't "hear" a sample library to pick the right kick or hat.

I built a sample analysis system that pre-processes the library and generates JSON profiles. This allows Claude to query samples by spectral characteristics rather than just filenames.

JSON
{
"file_name": "001_Stab_Low.wav",
"bpm": 126.0,
"key": "N/A (atonal)",
"spectral_centroid_mean": 297.2,
"brightness": 0.04,
"warmth": 1.0,
"texture_tags": ["dark", "warm", "soft-attack", "distorted"],
"category": "bass"
}

2. The Performance Layer (Polymetrics) Ableton's Session View handles loops, but a track needs transitions. I didn't want static blocks; I wanted a live performance.

I wrote a Python performance engine that creates a real-time automation script. It handles volume fading, spectral carving (ducking frequencies when elements collide), and—most importantly—polymetric cycling to create hypnotic phasing:

Python

# Polymetric cycle lengths in beats
POLY = {
"STAB": 7, # Cycles every 7 beats
"RIDE": 5, # Cycles every 5 beats
"DING": 11, # Cycles every 11 beats
"ARPEGGIO": 13 # Cycles every 13 beats
}

The Pipeline

Planning: Claude analyzes target styles (e.g., Ben Klock, Surgeon) and generates an arrangement map (Intro -> Peak -> Outro).

Setup: Spawns 19+ tracks with specific instrument racks.

Generation: Python scripts generate MIDI patterns (e.g., 256 events following G minor with velocity curves).

Performance: The system "plays" the track, automating parameters in real-time based on the energy curve logic.

Results & Learnings

The output is recognizably techno. The mix is balanced, and the structure is logical. However, while the system creates music that is theoretically correct, it currently lacks the intuition to break rules in interesting ways—the "happy accidents" of human production are missing.

I suspect the next step for symbolic music generation is modeling "taste" as a constraint function rather than just adhering to theory.
by hermannj314 | 2026-01-29 12:49:22+00:00
I bought the once weekly 50,000IU bottle on Amazon and am currently taking 4 a day and I am ignoring all growing signs of vitamin D toxicity because I read this guys blog and never once ever decided to consult another source, including later paragraphs in that same blog because there was no warning. Without a warning, you should blindly follow all medical advice you read online.

That is that pathway to death you are worried about?
by adrian_b | 2026-01-29 12:50:19+00:00
Good to know, but the fact that the knowledge about the possibility of connecting an external monitor is very well hidden on the Google site and the existence of a true desktop mode is even better hidden from any potential Google customers, does not inspire confidence.

From this state of affairs I cannot be sure that if I bought a Google Pixel it would really be usable with a monitor, as such hidden features could be removed at any time.

Other smartphone vendors clearly specify for their phones whether e.g. they support DisplayPort 1.4, so that they can use a monitor at a decent resolution, and whether they have a desktop mode.
by sylware | 2026-01-29 12:50:29+00:00
I am about to give my take on software development:

Most [sane] software out there, but not all, has a main development time which is ridiculous compared to its life cycle (you could code in binary machine code, for several ISAs, it would not even matter).

Then, it is extremely hard to justify _HONESTLY_ a permanent income in software development. Really, really hard.
by nfriedly | 2026-01-29 12:50:44+00:00
> How did they abandon it? It release october last year according to google.

Oh, geez, I didn't realize they abandoned it so hard they even recycled the name! I was referring to the 2021 g100: https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g100-10791.php - it looks like the 2025 recycle lacks video output :/ https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g100_5g_(china)-14228.p...

As for why anyone should do it, I'm not really arguing that anyone should. I was just trying to point out that it's more affordable than you might think. (Although it can't beat the deal you got on your laptop.)

I think it might make sense if you already have a laptop dock with a screen and a keyboard at home and at school/work, and your needs were fairly lightweight, and you really valued portability. Or as you suggested, it could just serve as a backup device in case your main laptop gets broken or whatever.
by jermaustin1 | 2026-01-29 12:51:08+00:00
> However, it only works if your product is good and you have decent margins.

Not sure if the product has to be good. Look at the lineage of my wife's car The 2019 Chevy Trax, based on the Buick Encore, based on the Opel/Vauxhall Mokka. It isn't a good car under any of the badges, but it does run, and is small, but the crazy thing is my Ford Ranger gets roughly the same milage as it. Note: the gas milage is probably an American issue, because it runs a naturally aspirated i4 gas engine instead of a more efficient turbo diesel.
by gosub100 | 2026-01-29 12:51:19+00:00
You want PCIe-6? Cool well that only runs on Asus G-series with AI, and is locked to attested devices because the performance is so high that bad code can literally destroy it. So for safety, we only run trusted drivers and because they must be signed, you have to use Redhat Premium at a monthly cost of $129. But you get automatic updates.
by irrlichthn | 2026-01-29 12:52:55+00:00
Sounds very negative, but I can confirm - it's the truth unfortunately.

I'm developing windows desktop apps since nearly 30 years now and tried mostly everything Microsoft has thrown at us - Win32 - WinForms - WPF - WinJS - WinRT - UWP - WinUI - MAUI - not sure if that was all - and Win32 always wins. Everything else is incredible broken and stops being supported in such a short time. It's a shame really.
by xtiansimon | 2026-01-29 12:53:04+00:00
> “I think to an extent Trump is a fall guy…”

That’s a strange conclusion to make, because the definition of a “fall guy” is someone who takes the blame, while others, who are more culpable, go free. Whereas most critics would say he’s the “kingpin”, and supporters say he’s “the decider”.

You don’t need a very long awareness of political history to find examples of what government was like before to realize the US is in extraordinary times in terms of loyalty to his leadership and presidency. You don’t need to look long before you find repeat examples—from the Congress, the Supreme Court, and his appointees—of individuals making excuses or previously inconceivable accommodations for the president’s conduct, choices, and decisions to then conclude the president is, as they say, “calling the shots”. That is not the characteristic of a “fall guy”, but a “kingpin”.

Personally, I feel we’re lucky that our “dictator-in-chief” is in the pattern of a real estate developer and not, say, a paranoid military general.
by querez | 2026-01-29 12:53:21+00:00
I assume TPU TCO is significantly cheaper than GPU TCO. At the same time, I also assume that market demand for GPUs is higher than TPUs (external tooling is just more suited to GPU -- e.g. I'm not sure what the Pytorch-on-TPU story is these days, but I'd be astounded if it's on par with their GPU support). So moving all your internal teams to TPUs means that all the GPUs can be allocated to GCP.
by yorwba | 2026-01-29 12:53:34+00:00
The model is explicitly trained to produce as uniform a distribution as possible, because it's designed for batched inference with a batch size much larger than the expert count, so that all experts are constantly activated and latency is determined by the highest-loaded expert, so you want to distribute the load evenly to maximize utilization.

Prompt ingestion is still fairly similar to that setting, so you can first compute the expert routing for all tokens, load the first set of expert weights and process only those tokens that selected the first expert, then load the second expert and so on.

But if you want to optimize for single-stream token generation, you need a completely different model design. E.g. PowerInfer's SmallThinker moved expert routing to a previous layer, so that the expert weights can be prefetched asynchronously while another layer is still executing: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20984
by legulere | 2026-01-29 12:53:57+00:00
If you're not in the respective fields it can be pretty difficult to distinguish good from bad research. I am not able to do so.

If you (or your close ones) don't suffer from depression, then I guess it's best to ignore it until scientific consensus has formed. That will for sure show up on wikipedia. As far as I can see as a layperson there is a lot of correlation with Vitamin D that breaks down in interventions and Vitamin D is recommended mostly for babies and elderly people. On the other hand I see Vitamin D pushed as a miracle drug not unlike Vitamin C used to some decades ago and regular reports of overdosing of supplements leading to organ failure.

If you're suffering from depression, you should talk to your doctor. They will be able to help you to weigh potential benefits with risks
by lossolo | 2026-01-29 12:53:59+00:00
> I'm sure if cell phones were free, the majority would be free users too.

LLMs will be a commodity for the majority of people around the world and will be available for free for most tasks on Meta platforms or via Google.

> But beside that, OpenAI is pricing ads at $60/1000 views

Good luck with that CPM.
by thephyber | 2026-01-29 12:54:24+00:00
The entire car is a surveillance machine and the company is happy after a crash to taint the driver in the public’s eye if it will improve the image of their AutoPilot. It’s bad enough having to deal with car insurance after a crash without your car’s manufacturer blaming you in public, sending the recipients to news outlets.

Tesla has a monopoly on their car repairs, which reduces the number of mechanics qualified to work on it, increasing the cost and the wait time.

Teslas are a very expensive platform to service being largely an aluminum frame. Difficult+expensive to repair and replacements are expensive compared to cheaper cars which usually have more plastic. This means insurance is also expensive.

And this doesn’t even begin to get into the weirdness of their reputation for hiring private eyes to stalk employees and call the police to in an attempt to get an employee killed. Having an exec who has a ketamine problem and mania issues doesn’t lend itself to long term stability.
by ForHackernews | 2026-01-29 12:54:47+00:00
I don't really understand this writer's objection: Big tech is big money and big risks. If some giant FAANG company is going to take a gamble on paying you $350,000 TC you should be squirreling most of that away for yourself in case the bet goes south.

If you want stability, go write Java for an insurance company for $85,000/year in Hartford, CT.

OP is horrified to discover risky gambling happening in Las Vegas.
by jagged-chisel | 2026-01-29 12:54:51+00:00
I’m generation X. My grandmother will be 97 in March. Her memory is actually really good. She gets frustrated when she’s talking about family and doesn’t recall a specific name of a great- or great-great-grandchild (With five generations alive at the same time, that’s a lot of names. I call my kids and my granddaughter the wrong name all the time - ah the human condition), but her mind is doing well.

Many times, I have mentioned how things have changed in the last century, how most of the things we make use of now were developed and refined in the last 100 years - industrial machinery, communications, computers …

There’s a simpleness to her experience. She is most definitely a beneficiary of society. She has lived comfortably without the need to understand how everything works; and hasn’t had the curiosity to question.

I’m not sure I have a point, but I do personally find it a little disappointing to have someone who lived through so much without having the ability to discuss it at depth.
by tedggh | 2026-01-29 12:55:28+00:00
I spent a month in Spain driving a BYD daily and it was fine. I just don’t like the tackiness of the interior and not in love with the exterior either. The handling is also ok, nothing exciting. There’s something still very Chinese about these cars. Not saying that matters if you just want an affordable and reliable EV that takes you from point A to B. BYD can do that perfectly fine. I personally like the design of the Model Y (own one) very much, it also feels much more “alive” particularly the dual motor. There’s no comparison with the BYD I drove. Also never had any issues with build quality other than the charging port malfunctioning, and it was fixed outside my house, all I had to do was touch a button in the app to call service. FSD is pretty damn amazing. The tech is great and the updates do make the car better in many ways. I hope Tesla finds its way because apart from all the controversy they can make good cars.
by pbhjpbhj | 2026-01-29 12:55:50+00:00
There was a good CCC talk on pulling images from weather sats (and data from other satellites) - https://youtu.be/fM5w7bFNvWI?si=Dq6S6nYOE_frAd7b

It's been done before, but this was a great talk imo.
by CaptainV | 2026-01-29 12:56:11+00:00
Current Weather Display - View real-time weather conditions with animated ASCII art icons
Multi-Day Forecast - Browse daily weather predictions in an elegant card layout
Hourly Forecast - Check hour-by-hour weather for the next 48 hours
Multiple Locations - Save and manage your favorite cities
Customizable Settings - Configure temperature units, animation preferences, and more
Beautiful UI - Professional terminal interface with smooth navigation
Auto-refresh - Automatic weather updates at configurable intervals
by lossyalgo | 2026-01-29 12:57:03+00:00
Also they are often prescribed as a life-long solution, instead of a temporary stop-gap to get through some bad state of mind while, as you said, "tackling the root cause". At some point they will potentially stop working which requires switching meds and often the next one won't work as well, plus, leaving the user stuck with withdrawal symptoms for unspecified amount of time (potentially years) and anti-depressant pushers don't usually warn about this, or even acknowledge it when confronted with "since stopping I have symptom x, y, z".

Source: multiple friends, family and forums (while researching how to help friends & family get off of various SSRIs).
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-29 12:57:37+00:00
Whether you were around or not is irrelevant, I wasn't around for some of that either. I brought it up so we can learn from the past instead of repeat those mistakes.

> , there was no prior tech that was anything like it to even make realistic guesses into what it would turn out to.

Same with LLMs.

> AI is not a net good.

You're falling into the same trap as previous generations when you do that. You won't actually end up fixing or improving the negative impacts of AI and your country/society will lose out big time in all sorts of ways.

Tech doesn't make things bad, people do to the most part. Where AI is abused, it needs legislation, not resistance and you should know it is a LOT more nuanced than that. How is an LLM language translator for tourists being loped in the same bucket as LLMs being used to target people for assasination? Your lack of nuance is laziness, no political or ideological stand can justify that laziness.

Nuclear energy had a lot of negatives, and people made the same types of arguments and outright banned it, next time you complain about climate change consider that your way of thinking might be part of the problem. Right now datacenter build outs are contributing to water scarcity for example, so instead of doing the hard and nuanced work of actually regulating and fixing that you oppose AI entirely. You do the easy thing, in the end we live in the real world and supply/demand economics rules, so your resistance is only performative at best, or catastrophic to the economy at worst. The latter part isn't for billionaries, and it isn't just for job markets, when the economy goes, all the climate change talk goes with it, all the EVs, green energy initiatives,etc... go, wars and crises increase, disease outbreaks increase. Doing the easy thing leads to this is my point, not that you need AI to prevent those.

> I find it absurd that experienced engineers today look at AI and believe it will make their children’s lives better, when very recent history, history they themselves lived through, tells a very different story.

100x it would! although whose children depends on who regulates it first. My bet is China and the EU will regulate the crap out of it and extract the most value for themselves and future generations. AI is just solution, a tool, it isn't magic as you very well know. Companies have being using ML for surveillance for a long time. The US gov was using life of pattern analysis ML ten years ago to pick out assassination targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. You have a fundamental lack of laws and a broken system of governance, don't take that out on tech.
by grvdrm | 2026-01-29 12:57:38+00:00
Thanks for sharing.

I briefly quit caffeine once but it as well before any realization of anxiety. So, hard to extrapolate forward from that experience.

What feels different to me (compared to you) is this: sometimes I'll drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning and be awake but useless. Sometimes totally productive. Caffeine in some form is there - recently sometimes substituting coffee for a Celsius.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-29 12:58:08+00:00
It is what happens when passionate advocates feel betrayed by all the mismanagement that has happened since Windows 8.

I switched from someone that was kind found of WinRT, as what .NET 1.0 should have been, AOT compiled languages built on top of COM, improving the VB 6 experience, to someone burned out with the experience, back into Web development and distributed systems.

However, Microsoft keeps talking as if everything was tiptop, and that angers me thus I keep track of how bad things still are, and spend time making others aware of the false promises.

For example, I bet no one is aware that C++/WinRT is actually in maintenance, and the team responsible for killing C++/CX, is now having fun with Rust on windows-rs.

Yet Microsoft talks about using C++ to develop WinUI applications, as if the tooling was at the same level as using C++ Builder or Qt/QtBuilder.
by mexicocitinluez | 2026-01-29 12:58:12+00:00
> Most engineers (including me) spent months grinding LeetCode at least twice in their career, studying system design, and passing grueling 6-round interviews to prove they are the “top 1%.”

Really grateful that the opportunities I've been given weren't predicated on knowing things completely irrelevant to my job. I have spent exactly zero time solving LeetCode problems in my career (beyond algorithm stuff in college).
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-29 12:59:00+00:00
Westinghouse Electric Corporation built early electrical grid turbines, and worked extensively with consumer product markets to close the circle of demand. Accordingly, more retail products required more energy, and more energy required more turbines.

The LLM proponents are trying the same naive move with intangible assets, but dismissed finite limits of externalized costs on surrounding community infrastructure. "AI" puts it in direct competition with the foundational economic resources for modern civilization. The technical side just added a facade of legitimacy to an economic fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_exclusion_principl...

Thus, as energy costs must go up, the living standards of Americans is bid down. Individuals can't fix irrational movements, but one may profit from its predictable outcome. We look forwards to stripping data centers for discounted GPUs. =3

"Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds" (Charles Mackay, 1852)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm