MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YPPH | 2026-01-09 03:44:15+00:00
I reckon hackers get a thrill out of doing the inputs themselves. They seem to be able to disregard the fact they've got an unfair advantage, pretending that they are still achieving something by their acts.

Where vision based AI will start running riot is in games like Runescape where macroing is a huge problem. I expect it will become undetectable and therefore unbannable.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-09 03:45:33+00:00
It’s unusual to tell others not to do something because you’re projecting they’re secretly doing it to compete with you, or that they’ll be depressed when they don’t do what you did.

Doubly so when the rationale is “I’m so fucking awesome”

Triply so when it’s something you’re passionate about, presumably inherently.

Quadruply so when it’s your child. Its tough as a kid hearing your parents come up with elongated excuses why you can’t dream and work towards a future.

When you let people find their own way, you might even learn something from it (ex. 70 yo gauss learns he didn’t need to tie his mental state to his work because his son doesn’t suddenly become depressed from not matching dads output)

Re: second half, sounds about right, confused at relevancy though (is the idea the child would only do it to pursue nepotistic spoils and an additional reason is the spoils aren’t even good?)
by Swizec | 2026-01-09 03:45:46+00:00
> For me, the writing speed has never been the issue. The issue has been my thinking speed. I do not see how an AI coding assistant helps me think better

Similar to moving from individual work to coordinating a large codebase: coding agents, human or otherwise, let you think at a higher abstraction level and tackle larger problems by taking care of the small details.
by conductr | 2026-01-09 03:45:53+00:00
Similar to AI PC's right now, very few consumers cared in late 90s. Majority weren't power users creating/editing videos/audio/graphics. Majority of consumers were just consuming and they never had a need to seek out MMX for that, their main consumption bottleneck was likely bandwidth. If they used MMX indirectly in Winamp or DirectX, they probably had no clue.

Today, typical consumers aren't even using a ton of AI or enough to even make them think to buy specialized hardware for it. Maybe that changes but it's the current state.
by Hope_Genom | 2026-01-09 03:46:25+00:00
Creator here. SHP treats memory as a network protocol, not storage.

Key insight: Instead of rebuilding context from JSON every call,
the protocol transmits executable knowledge directly.

Benchmarks on standard hardware:
- Context recall: 700x faster (3ms vs 2.1s)
- Complex reasoning: 139x faster
- 21k requests/sec throughput

But numbers don't lie.
by tastyface | 2026-01-09 03:46:54+00:00
What I find even more horrifying than the murder is the response from people in power. Lying. Calling the victim a terrorist. Claiming she deserved it. Expressing unequivocal support for the killer. Threatening more of the same for the opposition. Posting fucking memes! Not even a hint of sympathy anywhere to be seen.

These people are animals. They should be in chains in front of a tribunal, not running the country. And they dare call themselves Christians?
Show HN: I built an AI that calls you until you wake up
by rahma_tm | 2026-01-09 03:47:57+00:00
The Morning Struggle:
Every night you promise yourself you'll wake up early, be productive, start that workout, finally tackle your goals. But morning comes and that alarm? It's just noise. You hit snooze, roll over, and another day slips away. You're not lazy - you're just tired of being tired.

The WakeCall Solution:
What if your wake-up call felt like a friend who genuinely cares about your success? Someone who knows your name, your goals, and believes in you? Our AI doesn't just wake you up - it connects with you, motivates you, and starts your day with purpose.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-09 03:48:10+00:00
When "free shipping" is what consumers expect, do you think people are ready to pay for better service? It the package is lost, it is often cheaper to write it off as a loss and send another item or refund.

If you need overnight shipping, you can have it, but it is not cheap, so most people won't do it. As for documents, is is all electronic now.

Logistics is very much alive, but it is adapted to our needs, that is massive containerships for worldwide trade, local warehouses for fast delivery of common items, reliability that is in balance with the cost of losing items, speed matching what people are ready to pay for, and specialized services for special needs, like overnight shipping.
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-09 03:48:33+00:00
I guess there are two main concerns I have with it.

One is technical - that I don't believe when you are grinding huge amounts of code out with little to no supervision that you can claim to be executing the appropriate amount of engineering oversight on what it is doing. Just like if a junior dev showed up and entirely re-engineered an application over the weekend and presented it back to me I would probably reject it wholesale. My gut feeling is this is creating huge problems longer term with what is coming out of it.

The other is I'm concerned that a vast amount of the "cost" is externalised currently. Whatever you are paying for tokens quite likely bears no resemblance to the real cost. Either because the provider is subsidising it, or the environment is. I'm not at all against using LLMs to save work at a reasonable scale. But if it comes back to a single person increasing their productivity by grinding stupendous amounts of non-productive LLM output that is thrown away (you don't care if it sits there all day going around in circles if it eventually finds the right solution) - I think there's a moral responsibility to use the resources better.
by lossolo | 2026-01-09 03:48:55+00:00
What actually happened in July 1952, which you're calling an "insurrection" is
Shah tried to replace Mosaddegh with Ahmad Qavam. In response, the Iranian public took to the streets in massive protests supporting Mosaddegh. The Shah backed down due to popular pressure and reinstated him. That's not Mosaddegh "instigating an insurrection", unless it's your definition of a population backing their elected prime minister against royal overreach. So unless we're calling mass protests illegitimate, this was democratic pressure working as intended.

As for "no emergency and no crisis", Britain had organized an international embargo on Iranian oil, frozen Iranian assets, threatened military action, and was actively working to destabilize the government. Iran's economy was being strangled. Dismissing that as "no crisis" is basically ignoring basic historical facts.

On the military appointments, yes, Mosaddegh sought control over the military, breaking from tradition. But given that the Shah and military officers were actively conspiring with foreign intelligence to overthrow him (which we now know from declassified documents) his concerns about military loyalty weren't paranoia. They were correct.

The Hitler comparison is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Hitler dismantled democracy and ruled for 12 years. Mosaddegh was removed by a foreign backed coup and spent his remaining years under house arrest. One of these is not like the other.
by chneu | 2026-01-09 03:50:04+00:00
I use it a lot. My ex is a biologist and they use it a ton.

It's a massive dataset. There's nothing quite like it. The way people collaborate and verify information on iNat is invaluable.

The best thing about iNat is the passionate people on there. If you don't know an ID, just post it and within a day someone will correct it. It's crazy.

Download Seek and go try it out. Make sure to sign up for iNat and connect your seek to iNat so you can contribute.
by lovich | 2026-01-09 03:50:41+00:00
> Toward the end of our time at CAS we experimented with sociocracy as a way to organize without hierarchy and coercion, but despite my enthusiasm for the form, we didn’t start with universal buy-in or understanding from the whole team, we didn’t fully adopt its structures, and, like many democracies before us, we ultimately voted to abolish our own democracy when we formed the “leadership circle” and created a hierarchy.

Is he referencing a bunch of democracies I haven’t heard of or is this the kind of guy whose so far anarchist he thinks that republics and dictatorships are equivalent if not equal?

I tried to steel man this and looked up historical records on any democracy voting in a new, non democratic system and the closest I get is(not intending to Godwin’s law this) examples like the Nazi party being voted in and then taking authoritarian control.

You could make that argument if you squint your eyes a little or hold a high bar to the electorate, but I feel like I’m missing a reference with the way he said it.
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-09 03:52:02+00:00
Bad analogy, for two reasons:

1. Ukraine’s media restrictions are virtually non-existent when compared to those enforced by the Israelis in Gaza, including the intentional bombing of media offices. Keep in mind that Hamas has repeatedly called upon Israel to allow foreign press and NGOs to visit and see what’s happening on the ground.

2. The Ukraine war is a conventional war between sovereign nations with standing militaries with equivalent capabilities (air force, anti-air defenses, armored vehicles, bomb shelters, etc). The Gaza genocide is an onslaught by a sovereign nation with a well equipped military against a militant group in a dense urban area. Anyone can level entire city blocks when fighting against an opponent that has no air force or anti-air capabilities.
by bschwindHN | 2026-01-09 03:52:37+00:00
> I was minimizing time so spent while she was minimizing number of washes

I'm probably just slow, but I'm not following. Do you mean because you went fast, you had to run another cycle to clean everything properly?

If you haven't already, you should watch the Technology Connections series on dishwashers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0
by antonvs | 2026-01-09 03:53:01+00:00
> Trying and punishing members of the Trump administration for their crimes is not the same...

Do you really believe that's being "vindictive", though? If so, why?

That's a big part of the problem: people characterize following the law as being "vindictive", and comparable to actual vindictiveness. It's a big part of why the Democrats have been so unwilling to hold anyone to account.

> It is not insightful to say "oh isn't this the same thing that the fascists are doing."

Wanting vindictiveness is absolutely the same thing the fascists are doing. Part of what I'm pointing out is that we should characterize the actions that are needed in a more rational way.
by conception | 2026-01-09 03:53:18+00:00
I heard it best described to me that if you put in an hour of work, you get five hours of work out of it. Most people just type at it and don’t put in an hour of planning and discussion and scaffolding. They just expect it to work 100% of the time exactly like they want. But you wouldn’t expect that from a junior developer you would put an hour of work into them, teaching them things showing them where the documentation is your patterns how you do things and then you would set them off and they would probably make mistakes and you would document their mistakes for them so they wouldn’t make them again, but eventually, they’d be pretty good. That’s more or less where we are today that will get you success on a great many tasks.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-09 03:53:34+00:00
Last time I ran into this it was a difference of how the person used the AI, they weren't even using the agents, they were complaining that the AI didn't do everything in one shot in the browser. You have to figure out how people are using the models, because everyone was using AI in browser in the beginning, and a lot of people are still using it that way. Those of us praising the agents are using things like Claude Code. There is a night and day difference in how you use it.
by bane | 2026-01-09 03:53:57+00:00
Something I learned on HN years ago was the principle that often something that is riding to the top of the hyper curve is usually not a good product, but a good feature in another product.

At CES this year, one of the things that was noted was that "AI" was not being pushed so much as the product, but "things with AI" or "things powered by AI".

This change in messaging seems to be aligning with other macro movements around AI in the public zeitgeist (as AI continues to later phases of the hyper curve) that the companies' who've gone all-in on AI are struggling to adapt to.

The end-state is to be seen, but it's clear that the present technology around AI has utility, but doesn't seem to have enough utility to lift off the hype curve on an continuously upward slope.

Dell is figuring this out, Microsoft is seeing it in their own metrics, Apple and AWS has more or less dipped toes in the pool...I'd wager that we'll see some wild things in the next few years as these big bets unravel into more prosaic approaches that are more realistically aligned with the utility AI is actually providing.
by blep-arsh | 2026-01-09 03:54:59+00:00
There are specialized computation kernels compiled for NPUs. A high-level program (that uses ONNX or CoreML, for example) can decide whether to run the computation using CPU code, a GPU kernel, or an NPU kernel or maybe use multiple devices in parallel for different parts of the task, but the low-level code is compiled separately for each kind of hardware. So it's somewhat abstracted and automated by wrapper libraries but still up to the program ultimately.
by optimalquiet | 2026-01-09 03:55:41+00:00
Inevitably windows search fails to highlight what I’m looking for almost all of the time, and often doesn’t even find it at all. If I have an application installed, it picks the installer in the downloads folder. If I don’t have an app installed, it searches Bing for it. Sometimes it even searches when I do have the application installed!

Microsoft seems not to believe that users want to use search primarily as an application launcher, which is strange because Mac, Linux, and mobile have all converged on it.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-09 03:55:48+00:00
Let's say you're paying your devs $100k / year. All in costs on those devs are probably $150k or so. That means your $1m / year will fund 6 full time developers with a little left over. This podcast from the CEO[1] says their engineering team was 4 people and the remaining staff is the 3 owners, the 1 remaining engineer, and one part time customer support person. So assuming every full time person was costing $150k in salary and other costs, you're already over $1m / year before you pay for any other expenses.

$1M / year is a lot of runway when it's just you. It's a lot less runway once you're paying other people's livelihoods too.

[1]: https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-09 03:56:25+00:00
Its application to LLMs to push capabilities. We're going to tap out expert feedback, and objective/competitive arenas are going to be the only way to progress at a reasonable speed.

The difference is going to be instead of starting from pre-existing games and hoping that "generalizes" to intelligence, this time people are going to build gamified simulators of economically valuable stuff. This is feasible now because we can use LLMs to help generate these games much faster than we would have been able to previously.
by BobbyTables2 | 2026-01-09 03:56:48+00:00
I’ve seen too many embedded drivers written by well known companies not use spinlocks for data shared with an ISR.

At one point, I found serious bugs (crashing our product) that had existed for over 15 years. (And that was 10 years ago).

Rust may not be perfect but it gives me hope that some classes of stupidity will be either be avoided or made visible (like every function being unsafe because the author was a complete idiot).
by guitarbill | 2026-01-09 03:57:12+00:00
I'm a fan of the RP2040 chip. It's a good trade-off between being simple and capable. There are more powerful chips like the STM32's, but frankly there are too many variants and their data-sheets are nightmarish. And there are simpler chips like the Atmel AVRs, but the tooling sucks. ESP chips are also good, but I haven't kept up with them so can't give much advice.

You'll want a dev board, which has the chip plus some supporting components on it. The Raspberry Pi Pico is a good choice because it's so widely used and well documented.

If you care about Rust, you'll also want to get the Debug Probe. Worth the money.

If you don't care about Rust, any Adafruit dev board should run CircuitPython, have good documentation, and likely some projects you can start with. The reason I don't recommend these for Rust is because many of their dev boards do not "break out"/make available the connections for a debug probe.
by keeda | 2026-01-09 03:57:47+00:00
It does, but I have no mental model of what would be required to efficiently coordinate a bunch of independently operating agents, so it's hard to make a judgement.

Also about half of it seems to be tests. It even has performance benchmarks, which are always an distant afterthought for anything other than infrastructure code in the hottest of loops! https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/blob/main/BENCHMARKS.md

This is one of the defining characteristics of vibe-coded projects: Extensive tests. That's what keeps the LLMs honest.

I had commented previously (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729826) that the logical conclusion of AI coding will look very weird to us and I guess this is one glimpse of it.
by jedwhite | 2026-01-09 03:58:52+00:00
One thing to consider is that the steps in the pipeline can be deterministic (the code executed) while the outputs (summaries, reviews, evaluations, explanations) may be nondeterministic. An example would be summarizing data calculated via a traditional script, and piping it to a report-format markdown script that generates the report and summarizes the results.

I agree that this is a choice by each person using tools like this, and that it is up to each of us as developers whether a tool like this suits the use case at hand.

My own view is that the world is rapidly moving to more human language programming tools, and that system automation and shell scripting will be part of this. There is a wide array of sensible potential use cases I can see between the two polarized views of "never use an LLM' and "let's vibe code system automation".
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-09 03:58:56+00:00
You don't seem to understand the context of the post you're responding to, which is not referring to Michael Brown, but to the suspicious deaths of DeAndre Joshua and Darren Seals among others.

You can pretend you are the reasonable one here, but you're not. As someone who has been watching this for a while you look to me like a sea lion. Treating your position with disdain is the more rational of these two position.
by TheusHen | 2026-01-09 03:59:53+00:00
I built I6P, an IPv6-only P2P connectivity + transport layer in Go. The goal is to simplify P2P by assuming globally routable IPv6 (no NAT traversal), while still providing a solid secure/fast data plane: QUIC over UDP (TLS 1.3), Ed25519 identity binding (PeerID = SHA-256(pubkey)), X25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305, a symmetric-key ratchet for forward secrecy, plus a transfer pipeline with chunking, Merkle integrity, LZ4 compression, batching, parallel stream pool, and Reed-Solomon erasure coding.
by rurp | 2026-01-09 04:03:18+00:00
This was a disappointing read for several reasons. The product/management/PR issues are very relatable.

The community good of a database like iNaturalist is incredibly valuable, both now and for untold uses in the future. I've read interesting research that made use of that data and have personally found the range maps produced by it interesting.

As a user I will be very sad if they kill off Seek. I'm somewhere between a casual and a power user. I don't work in a field that would use iNaturalist but am a pretty dedicated amateur when it comes to identifying plants and animal signs, and have a stack of well worn books for such. I tried getting into the iNaturalist app several times and it just never stuck. But a couple years ago I tried Seek and it has been great! It's not perfect, but it works quite well and at a minimum gives you a starting place to confirm or reject an ID.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-09 04:05:00+00:00
I really want an HN overlay where we can act in public. The rank cowardice here is so low, these dogs hiding and cloaking the truth again and again, putting the veil over the truth. Being able to post publicly what we are up to, being able to see more directly, not have these obfuscating hiding folks hiding in their anonymity on the layer feels necessary. What a sad pathetic foe humanity faces. It's so sad than HN allows a couple people to destroy our ability to understand and see the world.
by kulahan | 2026-01-09 04:05:04+00:00
I love iNat, and I think it has a lot of real-world value. Others seem to have a better understanding than me, but from a purely anecdotal perspective, there was a huge prairie dog colony encroaching on housing. For years, nobody did anything about it. I documented it on iNat (for fun), and within a month they were relocated safely. How cool!
by chmod775 | 2026-01-09 04:05:47+00:00
> Is he referencing a bunch of democracies I haven’t heard of [..]

Historically: Weimar Republic, Czechoslovakia in 1948, Italy starting 1922, Austria starting 1933.

More recently: Venezuela starting 1999

Halfway there: Turkey starting 2017, Hungary starting 2010

If you broaden past just nations to include various organizations that used to be democractically organized at one point, you could make a much longer list...
by karel-3d | 2026-01-09 04:06:11+00:00
Eh iOS is fine UX-wise, but the OS is so buggy now it's unusable. macOS looks weird but works basically fine. I haven't noticed actual changes in my workflow; while on iOS, camera stopped working reliably, wallpapers randomly change to black, alarms randomly don't work.

Maybe it's because I use iOS more, while in macOS I "just" work, which is in reality opening a few Electron apps, a Chrome browser and a Terminal.
by jedwhite | 2026-01-09 04:06:18+00:00
I understand the concern. In practice after using this for real-world test suites and evaluations, the results with Claude Code if you do this sensibly are remarkably consistent. That's because you can still write the deterministic parts as the `./run_tests.sh` bash script (or `run_tests.py` etc).

So you're using the appropriate tools for the task at hand embedded within both traditional scripts and markdown scripts.

Examples:
- A bash script summarizes text files from a path in a loop
- A markdown script runs `./test/run_tests.py` and summarizes the results.

Tools like Claude code combined with executable scripts and pipes open up a genuinely new way of doing tasks that are traditionally hard with scripting languages alone. I expect we will see a mix of borth approaches where each gets used based on its strengths, as we're seeing with application development too.

It is a new world and we're all figuring this out.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-09 04:06:33+00:00
I can’t predict which way this will go but I sort of feel like Trump, Vance, Noem all jumping to conclusions immediately to say the shooting was a justified act of self defense, is a way of making their base believe it from the start - so they don’t form their own opinion. That keeps the other GOP legislators in line. If their base (people who voted for them) support the shooting, what’s the chance they step out of line and challenge their propaganda, even if they know it is wrong?