MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zero_bias | 2026-01-06 23:02:42+00:00
In rust you could use multiple allocators at the same time. Allocation failure handled by allocator, converting panic to some useful behavior. This logic is observable in WASM, as there are OOMs all the time, which handled transparently to application code

So I assume there is no real blockers as people in this tread assume, this is just not a conventional behavior, ad hoc, so we need to wait and well defined stable OOM handlers will appear
by tpmoney | 2026-01-06 23:03:55+00:00
They won't. Notice that Angies list doesn't operate on the "customer pays for the list" model. That's because any directory service that depends on the searcher paying suffers from the problem that once you've found what you're looking for, you have no reason to keep paying for the directory. If I need a lawn guy, I only need to find one, and then I have their number. Why am I going to keep paying the "Lawn Guy Directory" $5 a month after I found someone?

And if you're going to charge on a per-query basis, I note that Kagi isn't nearly as well funded or well known as Google, and that's with them offering an "unlimited" tier. And a per-query model disincentivizes me from using the service in the first place. The more digging I do, the more it costs me, so the more likely I am to take the first result I get back.

Even the most classic "direct to the people who are most interested" advertising model where the consumer pays money for the ads (magazine ads) still is almost entirely subsidized by the advertisers, not the consumer.
by rtkwe | 2026-01-06 23:03:56+00:00
The pitch quoted from the post I was responding to essentially said it was going to siphon all the business class fliers from normal flights: "Give those passengers a supersonic plane, cut the flight time in half, and charge the same price." There's no way businesss travellers would choose subsonic travel if supersonice was the same price for half the time.

We agree I think that there wouldn't be a similar price between the sub and supersonic travel options. The economics of running the routes can't work out to a similar price to existing offerings.
by sparky_z | 2026-01-06 23:04:00+00:00
I mean, yes, unironically. If the goal of a prediction market is to find out the truth about the world, that's what will get you there faster.

Google might feel differently about whether it's OK in that case, but that's their prerogative.

Ask yourself: If the CIA really needed to know in advance what the top search result was going to be with as much accuracy as possible (for some weird reason, doesn't matter why), how would they go about doing it? Would they spend a bunch of time evaluating all of the public information, or would they just bribe (or otherwise convince) an insider at Google to tell them?
by stavros | 2026-01-06 23:04:20+00:00
I don't think that's how it works. Otherwise, a level 3 engineer would be working 40 hours a week but 4 engineer would be working 60 hours a week, which isn't the case.

These additional things a senior does that a junior doesn't aren't "write more code", they're "coordinate with people outside your team more", "be more self-directed", "be more reliable", etc. Things which don't take more time, but which juniors don't do.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-06 23:04:34+00:00
That is basically correct in the US as well. Fast charging is about the same cost per mile as gasoline. If your only way to charge the car is with a fast charger, I recommend considering carefully whether it's the right choice for you. The improved driving dynamics may still be worth it, for sure, so it's a very personal choice -- rarely do big purchases like this come down entirely to the bottom line cost.
by tkp-415 | 2026-01-06 23:04:56+00:00
The confusion is understandable as the comparison is basic and uses image hashes (https://pypi.org/project/ImageHash/), which are pretty surface level and don't always provide reliable "this image is obviously very similar to that one" results.

You are correct that when you click something in the brackets, the results returned are covers similar to what you clicked.

Still have a lot of room for improvement as I go further down this image matching rabbit hole, but the comparison's current state does provide some useful results every so often.
by ZebusJesus | 2026-01-06 23:04:56+00:00
Qubes

https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/

Everything is its own VM, you can run apps in secure environments and when you close them it get rid of them.

You can even create networking VM's have that connected to a VPN and then make your other VMs go through it for a secure connection. There is a lot you can do with it for privacy.

Also in windows pro you have windows sandbox, when you close the sandbox everything is deleted. It is a tool lots of people don't know Microsoft offers and it is a sandbox, I use it for testing all the time.
by alas44 | 2026-01-06 23:05:00+00:00
My brother (a history book worm) writes on geopolitics as a hobby.

He wrote a comprehensive analysis in French on how Greenland will be the tipping point for NATO, the European Union and even Democracy in the USA

I found it very well articulated on the stakes and chain of consequences, so I asked him to translate it in English so I could share it here, thinking it could interest many
by YesBox | 2026-01-06 23:05:14+00:00
I've noticed a huge drop in negative comments on HN when discussing LLMs in the last 1-2 months.

All the LLM coded projects I've seen shared so far[1] have been tech toys though. I've watched things pop up on my twitter feed (usually games related), then quietly go off air before reaching a gold release (I manually keep up to date with what I've found, so it's not the algorithm).

I find this all very interesting: LLMs dont change the fundamental drives needed to build successful products. I feel like I'm observing the TikTokification of software development. I dont know why people aren't finishing. Maybe they stop when the "real work" kicks in. Or maybe they hit the limits of what LLMs can do (so far). Maybe they jump to the next idea to keep chasing the rush.

Acquiring context requires real work, and I dont see a way forward to automating that away. And to be clear, context is human needs; i.e. the reasons why someone will use your product. In the game development world, it's very difficult to overstate how much work needs to be done to create a smooth, enjoyable experience for the player.

While anyone may be able to create a suite of apps in a weekend, I think very few of them will have the patience and time to maintain them (just like software development before LLMs! i.e. Linux, open source software, etc.).

[1] yes, selection bias. There are A LOT of AI devs just marketing their LLMs. Also it's DEFINITELY too early to be certain. Take everything Im saying with a one pound grain of salt.
by ben_w | 2026-01-06 23:05:26+00:00
> The vast majority of coders in employment barely write anything more complex than basic CRUD apps. These jobs were always going to be automated or abstracted away sooner or later.

My experience has been negative progress in this field. On iOS, UIKit in Interface Builder is an order of magnitude faster to write and to debug, with less weird edge cases, than SwiftUI was last summer. I say last summer because I've been less and less interested in iOS the more I learn about liquid glass, even ignoring the whole "aaaaaaa" factor of "has AI made front end irrelevant anyway?" and "can someone please suggest something the AI really can't do so I can get a job in that?"
by 6SixTy | 2026-01-06 23:05:28+00:00
My 2 cents is that Geely could leverage their existing Volvo and Polestar dealership network much like KIA/Hyundai. Geely Holdings own ~80% of Volvo cars, and a majority share of Polestar. Polestar doesn't own any manufacturing facilities, instead using Geely or Volvo factories.

Geely's entry into the US EV market could/should ultimately be downmarket of Volvo/Polestar, since both of those are luxury vehicle brands.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-06 23:05:32+00:00
> If the author/artist wanted it to be free, the ads wouldn't be there.

That's a logical leap. The artist can want both things.

There are two payments involved:

1. The user pays with his time/attention

2. The ad company pays the site

In most cases, the author doesn't mind getting the payments from number 2 even if you skip 1. Many, many sites explicitly point out they don't find a it a problem if you install an ad blocker.

I don't have ads on my site. I'm OK with you consuming it for free. If I put ads one day, I'll still be OK with it, because I know I'll get some money regardless. It's practically free money.

I will not miss the vast majority of sites I go to that serve ads if they all decided to shut down and/or go paid only. I should be spending a lot less time on the Internet/phone to begin with!
by losvedir | 2026-01-06 23:05:38+00:00
I'm kind of surprised how many people are okay with deploying code that hasn't been audited.

I read If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies over the break. The basic premise was that we can't "align" AI so when we turn it loose in an agent loop what it produces isn't necessarily what we want. It may be on the surface, to appease us and pass a cursory inspection, but it could embed other stuff according to other goals.

On the whole, I found it a little silly and implausible, but I'm second guessing parts of that response now that I'm seeing more people (this post, the Gas Town thing on the front page earlier) go all-in on vibe coding. There is likely to be a large body of running software out there that will be created by agents and never inspected by humans.

I think a more plausible failure mode in the near future (next year or two) is something more like a "worm". Someone building an agent with the explicit instructions to try to replicate itself. Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 are good enough that in an agent loop they could pretty thoroughly investigate any system they land on, and try to use a few ways to propagate their agent wrapper.
by fooker | 2026-01-06 23:06:30+00:00
Have you ever picked a slightly more expensive nonstop flight instead of one with a layover for a vacation?

This is similar. 3.5 hours vs 7 hours is a pretty good difference.

You can take a 3.5 hours flight in the morning and have energy to see a city the whole day after that. Maybe not after a 7 hour flight unless you are a pretty experienced and motivated traveler who can sleep the entire flight and have the mental energy to enjoy new things after that.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-06 23:06:41+00:00
My Lightning is difficult to distinguish from an ICE F150 unless you know specifically what you're looking for. Especially the trims that do not have a larger-than-usual infotainment screen.

It didn't save the Lightning from being canceled, but at least they pumped out a hundred thousand of them or so before turning tail and giving the market to GM.
by jmward01 | 2026-01-06 23:06:42+00:00
There is a huge market segment waiting here. At least I think there is. Well, at least people like me want this. Ok, tens of dollars can be made at least. It is just missing a critical tipping point. Basically, I want an alexa like device for the home backed by local inference and storage with some standardized components identified:

- the interactive devices - all the alexa/google/apple devices out there are this interface, also, probably some TV input that stays local and I can voice control. That kind of thing. It should have a good speaker and voice control. It probably should also do other things like act as a wifi range extender or be the router. That would actually be good. I would buy one for each room so no need for crazy antennas if they are close and can create true mesh network for me. But I digress.

- the home 'cloud' server that is storage and control. This is a cheap CPU, a little ram and potentially a lot of storage. It should hold the 'apps' for my home and be the one place I can back-up everything about my network (including the network config!)

- the inference engines. That is where this kind of repo/device combo comes in. I buy it and it knows how to advertise in a standard way its services and the controlling node connects it to the home devices. It would be great to just plug it in and go.

Of course all of these could be combined but conceptually I want to be able to swap and mix and match at these levels so options here and interoperability is what really matters.

I know a lot of (all of) these pieces exist, but they don't work well together. There isn't a simple standard 'buy this turn it on and pair with your local network' kind of plug and play environment.

My core requirements are really privacy and that it starts taking over the unitaskers/plays well together with other things. There is a reason I am buying all this local stuff. If you phone home/require me to set up an account with you I probably don't want to buy your product. I want to be able to say 'Freddy, set timer for 10 mins' or 'Freddy, what is the number one tourist attraction in South Dakota' (wall drugs if you were wondering)
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-06 23:06:45+00:00
You think these are moral failures, or there’s a lesson to be learned. That’s a naive idea. These are governance system failures, and these people should not be punished for a suboptimal system that we put them through. They don’t get a chance to make the decision again, so what would this teach them? “So sorry you live in a poorly functioning country that doesn’t subsidize education and we told everyone they need this credential to have a middle class life haha better luck next life!”

The debt doesn’t matter, it should’ve never been issued, forgiving it won’t create inflation (they’re already not paying the debt), we’re just collectively cruel and low empathy at a nation state governance level for what’s happening. And the country will deserve the outcome.
by zvr | 2026-01-06 23:07:11+00:00
Interesting and I haven't tried it yet.

But the "Usage Guidelines" part of the "License" section at the end of the README says: "License required for: Commercial embedding in products you sell or offering Mantic as a hosted service."

This is not completely true, since it seems that the software is licensed under AGPLv3, which of course allow the use of the software for any purpose, even commercial.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-06 23:07:30+00:00
I mean, yes, generally, for most things.

This mentality is kind of dumb, no offense. We have a bunch of laws. You could just as easily use your argument to say murder should be legal, or rape, and certainly people have.

Laws do, actually, work, for the most part. No they're not perfect, but they don't need to be.
by mk89 | 2026-01-06 23:07:51+00:00
> I can't fathom how someone designed these things and though, yep, this is a good experience.

My 2 cents: it's the typical "lab" test. It overall looks cool if you think about it, on paper. In reality, they should test with children inside (potentially screaming, because that's what they do!), while pedestrians/bikes are outside near the street so you need to pay particular attention, the traffic light is turning red, and at the same time you need to open the windows to let that f** wasp out, that somehow was inside the car. I wanna see how cool that is. If there are UX standards for accessibility, why aren't there patterns about such things? Oh, right, maybe there are, and someone wants to "innovate" :)

This is the kind of distractions that really can lead to accidents, because you need to actually "watch" whether something got activated or not.

EDIT: my comment was for the other comment that mentioned the buttons for the windows :) somehow I clicked on the wrong "reply". It still applies, though!
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-06 23:08:23+00:00
(1) Answering "what is my motivation?" isn't simple because I got into this slowly. I really enjoyed participating in HN, around the time my karma reached 4000 I started getting competitive about it, around 20,000 I started developing automation.

When I helped write

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0308253100

in 2004 I thought text classification was a remarkably mature technology which was under-used. In particularly I thought there was no imagination in RSS reader interfaces and thought an RSS reader with an algorithmic feed. That December when Musk bought Twitter this was still on my mind and I made it happen and the result was the YOShInOn RSS reader [1] and I thought building it around a workflow where I select articles for my own interest and post some on HN was a good north star. [2]

It is self tuning and soldiers on despite changes in the input and how much time I vote to it. It spins like a top and I've only patched it twice in the last year.

Anything that gets posted to HN is selected once by the algorithm and twice by me. Reducing latency is a real goal, improving quality is a hypothetical goal, either of those involves some deep thinking about "what does quality mean?" and threatens the self tuning and "spins like a top".

My interest in it is flagging lately because of new projects I am working on, I am worried though that if I quit doing it people will wonder if something happened to me because that happened when Tomte went dark.

(2) I'll argue that scientific papers are better and worse than you say they are. Sometimes an abstract or an image tells a good story story, arguably a paper shouldn't get published. I think effective selection and ranking processes are a pyramid and I am happy to have the HN community make the decision about things. On the other hand, I've spent 6 months (not full time) wrangling with a paper and then come back 6 years later and come to see I got it wrong the first time.

I worked at arXiv a long time ago and we talked a lot about bibliometrics and other ways to judge the quality of scientific work and the clearest thing is that it would take a long time like not 4-5 hours of an individual but more like several years (maybe decades!) of many, many people working at it -- consider the example of the Higgs Boson!

Many of the papers that I post were found in the RSS feed of phys.org, if they weren't working overtime to annoy people with annoying ads I would post more links to phys.org and less to papers. I do respect the selection effort they make and often they rewrite the title "We measured something with" to "Scientists discovered something important" and sometimes they explain papers well but unfortunately "voice" won't get them to reform their self-destructive advertising.

I could ramble on a lot more and I really ought to write this up somewhere off HN but I will just open the floor to questions if you have any.

[1] search for it in the box at the bottom of the page

[2] pay attention if you struggle to complete side projects!
by consumer451 | 2026-01-06 23:08:33+00:00
Well, via a worm using "obvious" opportunities that no human had noticed. That is the entire magical ~.01% chance of some runaway ASI ideas, isn't it?

Honestly, the more realistic reason for orbital inferance is that the bull case for LLM automation is that what, >50% of knowledge workers (middle to upper-middle class) will be fired in the next few years? That would likely cause trouble. It's a lot harder for the 2020's Luddites to destroy their replacements if they are in orbit, vs in some field.

The other argument is power supply. Have not done the math on that.

Disclaimer: I am grasping at straws here to try to understand how orbital LLMs could ever break even. It just seems like a significant risk.
by elpakal | 2026-01-06 23:08:34+00:00
I maintain an app size inspection tool that runs locally on your macOS and added the file inspector (Sunburst chart) for Gmail if anyone is interested in exploring its contents.

As others have pointed out, the main executable is huge (~300MB) and there are a lot of localization files, but not too much traditional asset duplication.

You can click into different slices of the app and see what it's made of if interested: https://dotipa.app/?app=Gmail#examples
by biammer | 2026-01-06 23:08:50+00:00
> The automobile did not cripple the economy, even as it ended the buggy-whip barons.

So many replies in these responses that assume I am concerned or aggrieved about "losing my job/high pay/prestige/gatekeeping".

With my comment on the valuations and economy I was referring to the circular investing accounting for a substantial chunk of the economy.

Propping up the economy: https://investorsobserver.com/news/stock-update/economists-s...

Circular investing: https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-circular-economy

> This is only a problem in places that have poor water policy ... This problem predates datacenters and needs to be solved f

Agreed, but this also implies it will only be worsened by the additional thirst of this technology.

> Temporary problem (referencing the end of personal compute)

O boy do I hope you are right!
by al_borland | 2026-01-06 23:09:45+00:00
I want CarPlay for the PIM integrations (contacts, calendar, phone, etc). That’s about it.

If the music from my phone could controlled by big thunky buttons, that would be great. I get upset with CarPlay and its touch interface all the time.

There is also the issue that I simply don’t trust the car companies with my data. They have proven they can’t be trusted with it, and CarPlay is a way to get a lot of that data isolated (I hope).

I’m fine with a display for some things, a backup camera demands it, but I want to control it all with tactile controls, not touch.
by bri3d | 2026-01-06 23:09:56+00:00
The 32 core / die AMD products are almost certainly Zen 6c, which is the same "idea" as Intel E-Cores albeit way less crappy.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-zen-6-epyc-ve...

EDIT: actually, now that I think about it some more, my characterization of Zen-C cores as the same "idea" as Intel E-cores was pretty unfair too; they do serve the same market idea but the implementation is so much less silly that it's a bit daft to compare them. Intel E-Cores have different IPC, different tuning characteristics, and different feature support (ie, they are usually a different uarch) which makes them really annoying to deal with. Zen C cores are usually the same cores with less cache and sometimes fewer or narrower ports depending on the specific configuration.
by hawtads | 2026-01-06 23:10:25+00:00
Copilot and many coding agents truncates the context window and uses dynamic summarization to keep costs low for them. That's how they are able to provide flat fee plans.

You can see some of the context limits here:

https://models.dev/

If you want the full capability, use the API and use something like opencode. You will find that a single PR can easily rack up 3 digits of consumption costs.
by FunnyUsername | 2026-01-06 23:11:29+00:00
> Forced displacement is a war crime

With a very important exception for the security of civilians. It's much better to ask civilians to leave before a major military operation than to just start the operation with all the civilians there.

Or do you have a different suggestion for what Israel should done? Just left Hamas alone after Oct 7?

> beligerents have responsibilities to civilian populations

Of course, but you haven't identified any particular responsibilities that were not met here.

> This is not an argument made in good faith, and you know it.

Do you have an actual argument for why standard measures to minimize civilian harm were actually some secret ethnic cleansing scheme?