MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2026-01-12 04:15:42+00:00
It's actually hipsters that are into steam, you know, the steam punks.

I don't care about steam conversion efficiency as much as I care that steam Rankine cycle engines are a solved problem so there is no more technological advancement. One of the biggest advancements over the past decades is using a Britton cycle in front for natural gas, ie moving away from steam engines.

> I only use this technology because it is more competitive than the alternatives for my usecase ... ?

If I understand you, yes of course use the more competitive technology. Sticking with steam when there are cheaper alternatives is a poor idea. But moreover as we look to what people choose as technology improves, we will find that steam usage will be relegated to things like geothermal, which like nuclear has essentially free fuel, but doesn't have to go down for a month to refuel, has the potential for more variable generation instead of undesirable constant generation, and is far less complicated.

> denigrating steam also denigrates all fossil fuel electricity sources

The critique is not name calling, it's pointing out that the technology is mature and not improving, unlike the technologies that are recolutionizing grid energy right now across the world. The number of applications that use fuel to generate electricity via steam are shrinking. Perhaps hydrogen in the future, if electrolyzers ever come down the cost curve, but it's pretty speculative.

Horse buggies still exist, but mostly as novelties. Steam generation is headed the same direction.
by Bridged7756 | 2026-01-12 04:16:21+00:00
That's what I've been saying. On top of that, I have to read way more code, sometimes multiple times as it just doesn't get it, and add the extra cognitive load of "correcting it" rather than just do it myself. I find the act of reading code way more taxing than just mechanically writing the solution, so I don't know where all the AI zealots are coming from.

Also add the huge security gap of letting a probabilistic tool with blurry boundaries execute shell commands. Add the fact that AI is currently not being profitable, and that all major players most likely train on your code (Anthropic does).
by ehnto | 2026-01-12 04:16:45+00:00
Sorry I guess it's not very clear from my post, the data points aren't what's missing it is the insights. An insight comes from the melding of a life of experiences, you can't just stick a bunch of sensors on humans and reach the same insights. The expression of latent space in our own brains you could think of it as. We're also not little one way input boxes, we run world sims in our brains all day long.

If you were to frame human brains as their own world models, Stack Overflow was a very lossy distillation from the brains of those insights.

I don't think you reach those insights by simply piping in data from the world (also that sounds expensive to do at a worthwhile scale)
by Aurornis | 2026-01-12 04:17:00+00:00
> * As (ostensibly) a representative Democracy America's fate is dictated by the majority of it's citizens.

No, it's determined by the people who actually go out and vote.

Bizarrely, voter turnout among younger people remains low. It's beyond frustrating to work with large groups of young people who are seemingly always talking politics and angry about something political, then to watch as half of them either forget to vote or act like they're too apathetic to vote.

The craziest part was seeing this apathy play out in states with vote-by-mail systems that required as little effort as possible. I still don't get it.
by maysunyoung | 2026-01-12 04:17:12+00:00
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by blowsand | 2026-01-12 04:17:18+00:00
Clearly? When there are very large numbers of people who do not see it so definitively, I think it’s not quite as clear as you suggest. I’d like to see the evidence and not just discard it as pure fiction.

Are you saying the entirety of the DOJ apparatus could be politically steered to look for non-existent evidence or make frivolous referrals?
by digiown | 2026-01-12 04:17:24+00:00
> one node needs a public IP/port

A lot of people are behind CGNAT or behind a non-configurable router, which is an abomination.

> Secure your router

A typical router cannot be secured against physical access, unlike your servers which can have disk encryption.

> Your router is a SPOF regardless

Tailscale will keep your connection over a downstream switch, for example. It will not go through the router if it doesn't have to. If you use it for other usecases like kdeconnect synchronizing clipboard between phone and laptop, that will also stay up independent of your home router.
by polishdude20 | 2026-01-12 04:17:55+00:00
In a way it's good but as far as energy usage goes, it sucks.

Not only is it taking way more energy to write software now with LLMS than by "hand", now everyone is repeating work many times over to write the same tools.

From a freedom standpoint one could argue is gives the user the most freedom to have what they want and need. But its very bad from an energy efficiency point of view.
by IAmGraydon | 2026-01-12 04:19:12+00:00
>I’ve come back to the idea LLMs are super search engines.

Yes! This is exactly what it is. A search engine with a lossy-compressed dataset of most public human knowledge, which can return the results in natural language. This is the realization that will pop the AI bubble if the public could ever bring themselves to ponder it en masse. Is such a thing useful? Hell yes! Is such a thing intellegent? Certainly NO!
by zinodaur | 2026-01-12 04:19:38+00:00
> I certainly can't strace or run raw CLI commands on a host in production.

Have you worked the other way before? Where you have ssh access to machines (lots of them, when you need to do something big) that have all of your secrets, can talk to all of your dbs, and you can just compile + rsync binaries on to them to debug/repro/repair?

To me, being without those capabilities just feels crippling
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-12 04:20:04+00:00
This is clearly a fraudulent criminal investigation. Classic dictator strategy of charging opponents with trivial crimes to achieve political power grabs. US futures in stock market are way down.

But I bet a third of the country will blindly support it. They will see it as a just investigation into a crime. And they won’t care about the consequences. Or connect cause and effect. And with that much support the administration can get away with anything.

As for their various unconstitutional and illegal acts - what method is there to hold the executive branch accountable? It’s not like there’s a police force to arrest them right?
by TheDong | 2026-01-12 04:20:29+00:00
> Nothing IRL really resizes

A few things sorta do.

If you want to increase the size of saran wrap or aluminum foil, you grab the edge and pull. Same for increasing the size of toilet paper before tearing it off.

When you want to stretch your fitted sheet onto your mattress, you grab the corner and pull to stretch it over.

When you want to make your pizza dough larger, you toss it above your head in a circle, so I guess that one doesn't really match the macOS gesture, I guess you should be spinning windows to make them bigger.

However, when you're doing other baking things, like placing fondant or a pie crust, you do stretch from the edges some.
by discrisknbisque | 2026-01-12 04:21:27+00:00
The Validation Locality piece is very interesting and really got my brain going. Would be cool to denote test conditions in line with definitions. Would get gross for a human, but could work for an LLM with consistent delimiters. Something like (pseudo code):

```
fn foo(name::"Bob"|genName(2)):
if len(name) < 3
Err("Name too short!")

print("Hello ", name)
return::"Hello Bob"|Err

```

Right off the bat I don't like that it relies on accurately remembering list indexes to keep track of tests (something you brought up), but it was fun to think about this and I'll continue to do so. To avoid the counting issue you could provide tools like "runTest(number)", "getTotalTests", etc.

One issue: The Loom spec link is broken.
by davorak | 2026-01-12 04:21:30+00:00
The part I quoted:

> This restriction is specifically about competitive use - you cannot use Claude to build products that compete with Anthropic's offerings.

Is more strict than the examples. The examples are what I think may not be enforceable.

So for example:

> What is NOT prohibited:
> - General ML/AI development for your own applications (computer vision, recommendation systems, fraud detection, etc.)
> - Using Claude as a coding assistant for ML projects

If you use Claude for "General ML/AI development for your own applications..." and Anthropic puts out a specific product for "General ML/AI development for your own applications..." you probably can not use Claude for "General ML/AI development for your own applications..." and have to use the new specific product instead. Well as long as the example is not enforceable.

The first quote looks enforceable and if I want to be on the same side I have to assume it takes precedence over the example.
by fragmede | 2026-01-12 04:22:25+00:00
> no flow state possible with LLM “coding”

I've hit flow state setting it up to fly. When it flys is when the human gets out of the loop so the AI can look at the thing itself and figure out why centering the div isn't working to center the div, or why the kernel isn't booting. Like, getting to a point, pre-AI, where git bisect running in a loop is the flow state. Now, with ai, setting that up is the flow.
by nik_0_0 | 2026-01-12 04:23:29+00:00
I had tried this but found it a little bit weird - switching back and forth on the same device between the 'hard drive w/ full files' library and the 'primary drive optimize storage' didn't really seem easy.

IIRC Photos.app will not even open if the default library you are pointing at is not there (i.e drive was unplugged). Are you able to just open up the library file directly and it will work as expected?

I also recall when changing Photos.app back to the HDD Library it did a ~2h 'rebuild' session before it even started downloading the new photos, but maybe thats acceptable with the 'every so often' approach.
by ritahuang | 2026-01-12 04:23:48+00:00
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by nevster | 2026-01-12 04:25:05+00:00
Here's how AI coding has helped me : to beat procrastination.

Often while trying to fall asleep, I'll be thinking something like "I need my app to do such and such".

The next day, instead of forcing myself to start coding, I can literally say to Intelij Junie (using Claude), exactly that: "I need my app to do such and such". I'm often pleasantly surprised by the outcome. And if there's anything that needs to be tweaked, I'm now in the mode of critiquing and editing.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-12 04:25:31+00:00
U: not chaplain-trainee in question but a sizeable pctage of the paradoxes do seem to come from the upper middle/lower upper (more than directly explicated by Linebarger)

Not: Magpie* regurgitation of mixed Confucianist/Supply side precepts

https://youtu.be/bJ_lfBmlScs?t=3m11s

"皈依者狂热" in the comments

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9A%88%E4%BE%9D

*Although the source is Daoist
by amluto | 2026-01-12 04:25:48+00:00
I’m fine with this being the general idea. But it seems a bit unfortunate to make it be the only idea.

> You are normally running several instances of your frontend so that it can crash without impacting the user experience, or so it can get deployed to in a rolling manner, etc.

Err, the classic way to do this is to hand off the listening socket from one server instance to the next. You can’t do this if your orchestration tools insist on tearing down the entire network namespace to update the server. Sure, you can use fancy load balancers or software defined networking or firewall kludges to hand off something that functions like a listening socket, but it kind of feels like we lost the plot somehow. The old techniques work, and they often worked at the appropriate scale for the application — why are we building new systems can’t be made to work well without extra layers.

In any event, the feature I want isn’t rocket science. I think Kubernetes would need to add two special kinds of Pods:

1. An joinable Pod that explicitly permits other Pods to join with it (this would be a genuine Pod with some special attributes).

2. A subsidiary Pod that depends on a joinable Pod and joins its network namespace. This would almost be a real pod except that it would have no network namespace of its own and hence no normal managed hostname or addresses.

#2 is a bit weird, but there’s precedent. A hostNetwork: true Pod is already weird in exactly the same way.
by 10c8 | 2026-01-12 04:26:09+00:00
While I agree, I can't help but wonder: if such a "super search engine" were to have the knowledge on how to solve individual steps of problems, how different would that be from an "intelligent" thing? I mean that, instead of "searching" for the next line of code, it searches for the next solution or implementation detail, then using it as the query that eventually leads to code.
by leptons | 2026-01-12 04:26:27+00:00
>When I enter a building, I know that an engineer with a degree, or even a team of them, have meticulously built this building taking into account the material stresses of the ground, the fault lines, the stresses of the materials of construction, the wear amounts, etc.

You can bet that "AI" is coming for this too. The lawsuits that will result when buildings crumble and kill people because an LLM "hallucinated" will be tragic, but maybe we'll learn from it. But we probably won't.
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-12 04:27:16+00:00
More FUD and guilt by association. Microsoft and Google are also major contributors to the C and C++ standards bodies. Microsoft also has C# and Google has Kotlin. I think claiming they control Rust is weak given the community organization structure within the project and claiming the studies are inherently biased because they provide some funding is exceedingly weak.

IMHO the onus is on you to present any contrary studies showing Rust's safety profile isn't as good as the studies indicate when compared with C++ or to demonstrate where Zig's safety profile in real world complex environments stacks up.

We can disagree on opinions, but you can't discard all experimental evidence in favor of no evidence, especially when the safety profile of Rust is backed by solid theoretical models as to why it would be safer.

To that point, AWS and Cloudflare have also adopted the Rust language for all new projects. I think that says something about the recognition that it really is much harder to write trivial memory vulnerabilities.
by lkois | 2026-01-12 04:28:47+00:00
What do you mean by proportion? They are different data sources, and their usage is determined by system design.

eg A driving decision system needs to know object distances AND traffic light colours. It doesn't particularly need to know the source of either.
You could have a camera-only system that accurately determines colour and fuzzy-determines distance. Or you could have a LIDAR-only system that accurately determines distance and fuzzy-determines colour.

Or you use both, get accurate LIDAR-distance and accurate camera-colour and skip all the fuzzy-determination steps.
Or keep the fuzzy stuff and build a layer of measurement-agreement for redundancy.

So then the question becomes, what's your proportion when deciding whether to stop at a traffic light? Is it mostly light colour or mostly distance to other objects? Or 50/50?

I'd say it's 100/100.
by blackguardx | 2026-01-12 04:29:44+00:00
My minivan has more 50% weight capacity than a Toyota Tacoma. I can haul more construction debris and load/unload them easier because my tailgate is lower. I wouldn't want to try to haul mulch or manure though. That being said, most of my friends with trucks have caps on the back and can't haul mulch any easier than me.
by anishgupta | 2026-01-12 04:29:48+00:00
Had fun reading this, pretty well written.
>Consolidate into a monorepo
lol this sounds like as if you make a dog tired by playing with it so it sleeps which you're gone :'D

>Contextualize the actual risk
This is not as easy as it seems, for example reflection cases where runtime behavior affects a package usage.
example:
const lib = require(process.env.PARSER)
lib.parse(userInput) could use a safe parser in production or a vulnerable one in another environment, but from a code level perspective there's no certainity which package is actually used
by AndrewDavis | 2026-01-12 04:29:52+00:00
Recent switcher to macos. I can't find a way to separately set mouse acceleration and scroll wheel momentum.

I use a trackball for RSI reasons, in order to get across the screen in a single flick means high sensitivity, mouse acceleration is absolutely needed to be able to make small movements. This makes my scroll wheel useless because a single scroll moves the page about 1/10 of a line
by FaradayRotation | 2026-01-12 04:30:29+00:00
~10 years ago I remember how shocked I was the first time I saw how many people were trying to probe my IP on my home router, from random places all over the globe.

Years later I still had the same router. Somewhere a long the line, I fired the right neurons and asked myself, "When was the last time $MANUFACTURER published an update for this? It's been awhile..."

In the context of just starting to learn about the fundamentals of security principles and owning your own data (ty hackernews friends!), that was a major catalyst for me. It kicked me into a self-hosting trajectory. LLMs have saved me a lot of extra bumps and bruises and barked shins in this area. They helped me go in the right direction fast enough.

Point is, parent comment is right. Be safe out there. Don't let your server be absorbed into the zombie army.
by palmotea | 2026-01-12 04:30:55+00:00
>> This is the political will of a plurality of American voters.

> This fallacy gets repeated over and over, but it's obviously false.

And it's used to condemn and justify. Most politicians, including Democrats, like to pretend that winning means the unpopular policies they happen to like are the will of the people. They will constantly gaslight you on it.

In reality, American politics gives people coarse choices that few are entirely happy with and many are very unhappy with. It's really hard to justify radical partisan action without denying that fact.
by eru | 2026-01-12 04:31:23+00:00
I've also had decent experiences with Rust recently. I haven't done enough Haskell programming in the AI era to really say.

But it could be that different programming languages are a bit like different human languages for these models: when they have more than some threshold of training data, they can express their general problem solving skills in any of them? And then it's down to how much the compiler and linters can yell at them.

For Rust, I regularly tell them to make `clippy::pedantic` happy (and tell me explicitly when they think that the best way to do that is via an explicit ignore annotation in the code to disable a certain warning for a specific line).

Pedantic clippy is usually too.. pedantic for humans, but it seems to work reasonably well with the agents. You can also add clippy::cargo which ain't included in clippy::pedantic.
Show HN: Remember Me AI (FULL RELEASE) – 40x cost reduction in AI memory systems
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-12 04:32:14+00:00
Remember Me AI introduces the Coherent State Network Protocol (CSNP) - a mathematically optimal approach to distributed AI memory that achieves:
40x cost reduction vs. traditional vector databases

Wasserstein-optimal memory coherence guarantees Zero-hallucination property through strict state consistency Provably stable long-term memory retention

The Problem Current AI memory systems (RAG, vector DBs) suffer from:

Memory drift: Context degradation over time Hallucination: Retrieved memories don't match original context

Cost explosion: Embedding storage/retrieval scales poorly

Coherence loss: No mathematical guarantee of consistency

The Solution: CSNP treats AI memory as a quantum-inspired coherent state with mathematical guarantees derived from optimal transport theory.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-12 04:32:33+00:00
What if consequences end up being good for America?

I mean, US was let to accumulate immense wealth and military power thanks to it’s behavior with no pushback the last 35 years and suddenly decided that will change it’s behavior and demands the resources of other countries to run some scheme outside the rules. It is possible to end up wrecking everything and still be better for Americans thanks to forcing the rest to pay tribute.

It’s even possible that those subjugated see improvements thanks to technology efficiencies, i.e. Venezuelans may end up seeing their oil being efficiently taken away and being paid more fore it than the local effort ever did even if in unfair terms.
by solomonb | 2026-01-12 04:33:20+00:00
You are right that there is significantly more Javascript in the training data, but I can say from experience that I'm a little shocked at how well opus 4.5 has been for me writing Haskell. I'm fairly particular and I end up re-writing a lot of code for style reasons but it can often one shot an acceptable solution that is mostly inline with the rest of the code base.