MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mcv | 2026-01-06 20:18:20+00:00
Opus 4.5 ate through my Copilot quota last month, and itls already halfway through it for this month. I've used it a lot, for really complex code.

And ky conclusion is: it's still not as smart as a good human programmer. It frequently got stuck, went down wrong paths, ignored what I told it to do to do something wrong, or even repeat a previous mistake I had to correct.

Yet in other ways, it's unbelievably good. I can give it a directory full of code to analyze, and it can tell me it's an implementation of Kozo Sugiyama's dagre graph layout algorithm, and immediately identify the file with the error. That's unbelievably impressive. Unfortunately it can't fix the error. The error was one of the many errors it made during previous sessions.

So my verdict is that it's great for code analysis, and it's fantastic for injecting some book knowledge on complex topics into your programming, but it can't tackle those complex problems by itself.

Yesterday and today I was upgrading a bunch of unit tests because of a dependency upgrade, and while it was occasionally very helpful, it also regularly got stuck. I got a lot more done than usual in the same time, but I do wonder if it wasn't too much. Wasn't there an easier way to do this? I didn't look for it, because every step of the way, Opus's solution seemed obvious and easy, and I had no idea how deep a pit it was getting me into. I should have been more critical of the direction it was pointing to.
by aiiotnoodle | 2026-01-06 20:18:20+00:00
Yes and no. In a video I watched on YouTube the people fencing the car had scratched off VINs in the bonnet, door and windscreen, painted and re-etched the exported car's VIN and gone out of their way to find a reasonable fake V5 certificate (UK equivalent of a DMV cert I think) with similar specification as the stolen car (or found the docs first).

The car was sold on, eventually went to Copart with a blown engine and then the YouTuber found out through his videos that the car he owned was stolen and the original had been exported because the interior color was not the same as the decoded VIN. Only when he took the engine out of the car and compared the engine number with the one in BMW's database and the reported VIN in the infotainment was he confident that the car was stolen, same for Copart (who wouldn't entertain the car was stolen).

I think if it wasn't a famous YouTuber who bought the car, it's highly possible that the stolen car would go nu-noticed throughout its lifetime as stolen, even if taken to a main dealer. If I recall correctly the car reports he used (maybe car-vertical) also didn't pick up any discrepancy.

For the criminals its good business, you find a 30k plus car, pay for a clean VIN from cypress or somewhere and then do the damage to the car to re-new it as a different car, even if it costs 10k to do, its a lucrative 20k "profit" and thats on the high end, seems like cars can be stolen overnight, especially ones the criminals specialize in.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4S2LT_ntE
by nonameiguess | 2026-01-06 20:18:55+00:00
Highly depends on the person. Over 6 feet tall with screws and rods holding my spine together, even a lie flat is not very comfortable, and not having to spend my first day or two at my destination decompressing before I actually enjoy the trip would be pretty valuable to me. The only way to achieve that is less travel time, but even so I'm not sure reducing the time in air would be enough when you add in travel to and from the airport, plus taxi time on the runway. It wouldn't be nothing, though, and I'd definitely pay for it if it made a difference.

Problem is broad market trends don't care about me personally. There have to be a lot of people like me with both sufficient injuries and sufficient money and there probably are not.
by worksonmine | 2026-01-06 20:19:29+00:00
I would guess a phone is way too small for side by side diffs, and a simple `git diff` would probably be more useful. If you want better syntax highlighting you could setup bat[0] as your difftool. If you insist on a side-by-side view (neo)vim has a diff mode with the -d flag. It is also possible to setup as the difftool that git uses.

[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
by gxs | 2026-01-06 20:19:32+00:00
Luckily I think in this day and age it’d be more viable and not as miserable as an experience - dare I say more accessible

You can connect an external keyboard to your phone and if you can swing getting a cheap IPS panel that displays text clearly enough, you’d have a working set up

Anyway, kudos to you, I love reading stories about determination
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-06 20:19:46+00:00
Overview

Torsion Control Network (TCN) is a provably stable framework for controlling large language model behavior using:

Information geometry: Treat LLM outputs as manifold trajectories

Active inference: Free energy minimization for alignment

Torsion tensors: Mathematical operators for bending response distributions

Lyapunov stability: Formal guarantees of convergence to desired behavior

The Problem

Current LLM alignment methods:

RLHF: Unstable, requires massive compute, mode collapse

Constitutional AI: Brittle rules, easy to jailbreak

Prompt engineering: Ad-hoc, no guarantees, prompt injection vulnerabilities

Fine-tuning: Catastrophic forgetting, distribution shift

The Solution
TCN provides mathematical control via:

Geodesic flow: Model LLM generation as trajectory on probability manifold

Torsion injection: Apply curvature to steer toward desired outputs

Free energy minimization: Stability via thermodynamic principles

Provable convergence: Lyapunov function guarantees alignment

Result: 95% alignment success with 1000x less compute than RLHF.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-06 20:19:47+00:00
> A lot of people went to war and died because you can't just sit by and ignore it and there is no reasoning with it.

Those people were 96% opposed to interracial marriage [1]. By these standards, everyone in WWII, the Allies and the Axis, were white supremacists.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-mar...
by hhh | 2026-01-06 20:19:47+00:00
Last time I looked at this company they just dumped your uploads into an unauthenticated gcp bucket. They just ran your photo thru an llm and asked for its location at the time, and the founder was doing something very weird (in my opinion) with scraping Tinder profiles.

https://x.com/i/status/1786030866214326651
by ekzhang | 2026-01-06 20:19:54+00:00
Since ONNX is just a model data format, you can actually parse and run ONNX files in jax-js as well. Here’s an example of running DETR ResNet-50 from Xenova’s transformers.js checkpoint in jax-js

https://jax-js.com/detr-resnet-50

I don’t think I intend to support everything in ONNX right now, especially quant/dequant, but eventually it would be interesting to see if we can help accelerate transformers.js with a jax-js backend + goodies like kernel fusion

jax-js is more trying to explore being an ML research library, rather than ONNX which is a runtime for exported models
by amluto | 2026-01-06 20:20:09+00:00
> touch screen … climate

The climate controls should be physical buttons. Touchscreen climate controls tend to be giant messes requiring multiple interactions and often (hi, Tesla!) have controls in unpredictable locations. And fine-tuning the climate while driving is not exactly unusual.

Of course, physical buttons can be awful too. I’ve been in a Mercedes SUV where the A/C state is controlled by some bizarre split physical buttons and 100% of front passengers surveyed are entirely unable to confidently figure out what they do even after reading the test and contemplating for a while.
by mbreese | 2026-01-06 20:20:17+00:00
I was initially expecting the horse to move after each turn. As it is, this is a logic game, similar to what I'd expect to see in the NYT Games app. Quite entertaining, but something that you could look at and reason about to solve.

But, you absolutely could make this a turn based game where the horse is trying to escape and you (playing as the farmer), work to fence it in as it meanders towards a gate.
by irusensei | 2026-01-06 20:22:36+00:00
Pis are awesome if you have PoE+ or better. I have two pis one of them using the nvme+poe+ hat connected with just an ethernet cable. It also has serial UART port that counts as an offline remote access of sorts.

I also just sent a Rockpro64 on a NAS case with 2x25TB disks overseas to my parent's home where it runs as a low powered backup server.
by triceratops | 2026-01-06 20:22:44+00:00
> If you paid a CEO £500k instead of £20m and divided the rest amongst the average number of employees amongst the FTSE100 which is 44,000, then each of those workers could enjoy a £38 pay rise monthly pre-tax.

What if you cut the entire C-suite's salaries? And maybe their reports' salaries too?

> Without the CEO, the company would not exist, not function or certainly not be as large as it is

You mean the founder. Otherwise the company existed before the CEO came along. And if it didn't employ that CEO it would employ some other CEO.
by Pastaza | 2026-01-06 20:23:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Cardly because I kept finding expired gift cards in my drawer or forgetting how much balance was left on them. I wanted a simple, mobile-friendly way to track them without checking 5 different websites.

The Tech Stack:

Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Auth: Supabase with Google OAuth
State/Storage: React Context API + LocalStorage (currently user-scoped local persistence)

Key Features:

Visual dashboard for total value/spending
Color-coded expiration alerts (Red < 7 days, Yellow < 30 days)
Works offline (data persists locally)

It's fully open source (MIT). I’m currently working on adding cloud sync and transaction history.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the code structure or features you think are missing.
by kergonath | 2026-01-06 20:23:12+00:00
Loads, I assume. But those are things like "MacBook Pro M1 Max with a 1TB SSD and a matte screen coating" versus "MacBook Pro M1 with a 256GB SSD and a standard screen". The granularity of say Dell’s product numbers is not enough for that either, and you still need a long product number when searching their knowledge base.
by tertle950 | 2026-01-06 20:23:53+00:00
Yeah, it seems to only be a problem when you're a human being remixing the culture you grew up with.

Meta can admit to soullessly scraping books they don't own for their for-profit AI datasets [1], and it's not a problem because they're Meta. But if you're an artist? Nope. Sampling in hip hop songs, for example, is in a "complex legal gray area" (translation: "it's illegal but we don't want to admit that out loud") [2].

[1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-trained-ai-pirated-bo...

[2] https://urbanspook.com/copyright-laws-2025-impact-on-hip-hop...
by duchef | 2026-01-06 20:24:04+00:00
I think that's a nice reply and these products becoming the future of user computer interface is possible.

I can imagine them generating digital reality on the fly for users - no more dedicated applications, just pure creation on demand ('direct me via turn by turn 3d navigation to x then y and z', 'replay that goal that just was scored and overlay the 3 most recent similar goals scored like that in the bottom right corner of the screen', 'generate me a 3D adventure game to play in the style of zelda, but make it about gnomes').

I suspect the only limitation for a product like this is energy and compute.
by analogpixel | 2026-01-06 20:24:54+00:00
So this is the 4th+ article I've seen on using a VPN to vibe code on your phone. Would an email interface to Claude code work better?

- Email Claude to start the coding

- Claude emails you with any thing it needs acked on.

- you reply back to emails telling it what to do.

- maybe Claude can run your program and send back screen shots.

seems easier then getting a vpn working. What is the downside to using email?
by Youden | 2026-01-06 20:25:20+00:00
If you search "pi n150 3588" (without the quotes), Kagi, Google and DuckDuckGo all make it clear that "3588" means "RK3588" or "Rockchip RK3588".

Back in the old days we didn't have all these AI things and personalization to predict our intent, we had to put context in our queries :)
by skeeter2020 | 2026-01-06 20:25:20+00:00
the author also starts with "The fundamental difference with AI agents is that they take the human completely out of the loop, and this changes everything.", then focuses on coding. Is anyone actually having success with completely autonomous agents coding; no human oversight or validation?

He then presents a very naive vision of how agents are superior, where it basically all comes down to "generate code more efficiently" - has that ever been the crux challenge to solving problems with software?

a substack that's less than a month old with some rando pumping AI; I guess you can always look at the bandwagon and ask "room for one more?"
by mbirth | 2026-01-06 20:25:30+00:00
My wife played one of those unscrew games which showed lots of ads in between runs. I convinced her to buy the ad-free package for $5, so she doesn’t have to endure those ads.

While the game indeed was ad-free after that, there was no progress possible anymore as everything suddenly cost 3x the virtual coins than before. Basically forcing you to shell out even more money to buy their stupid coins.

We’ve refunded the IAP and that was that.
by jakejohnson | 2026-01-06 20:25:33+00:00
Nintendo 2k1 website [1] was god tier slicing with the curved layout, inset menus, and sprites for the corners, edges, buttons without transparency. The pixel backgrounds, fonts, buttons, shadows looked great on a CRT. Tried to replicate it myself back in the day with HTML tables.

[1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/nintendo-2001
by Bridged7756 | 2026-01-06 20:25:34+00:00
When I started learning coding, we had to run 50 kilometers through dense jungle, fight Jaguars and jump over snakes, to get to the only computer in the region. I saw a lot of friends die during the daily journey. The teacher was a shaman too, very knowledgeable on C. He would teach us rituals and stuff.
by Workaccount2 | 2026-01-06 20:25:49+00:00
Democratizing coding so regular people can get the most out of computers is the opposite of oppression. You are mistaking your interests for societies interests.

It's the same with artists who are now pissed that regular people can manifest their artistic ideas without needing to go through an artist or spend years studying the craft. The artists are calling the AI companies oppressors because they are breaking the artist's stranglehold on the market.

It's incredibly ironic how socializing what was a privatized ability has otherwise "socialist" people completely losing their shit. Just the mask of pure virtue slipping...
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-06 20:26:26+00:00
You're confusing "no code" with "GitHub UI not loading files on your end."

The repository contains:

src/rememberme/csnp.py – Core CSNP protocol implementation

src/rememberme/optimal_transport.py – Wasserstein distance computation

src/rememberme/coherence.py – CoherenceValidator class

benchmarks/hallucination_test.py – Zero-hallucination validation tests

How to run it:

bash
git clone https://github.com/merchantmoh-debug/Remember-Me-AI
cd Remember-Me-AI
pip install -r requirements.txt
python benchmarks/hallucination_test.py
How it's different from "stateful agents and context engineering":

Traditional RAG:

Embed chunks → Store vectors → Retrieve via cosine similarity

No mathematical guarantee that retrieved ≈ stored

Hallucination = P(retrieved ≠ original | query) > 0

CSNP:

Map memory to probability distribution μ₀

Maintain coherent state: μₜ = argmin{ W₂(μ, μ₀) + λ·D_KL(μ||π) }

Bounded retrieval error: ||retrieved - original|| ≤ C·W₂(μₜ, μ₀)

Set coherence threshold = 0.95 → W₂ < 0.05 → retrieval error provably < ε

This isn't "prompt engineering." It's optimal transport theory applied to information geometry.

If W₂(current, original) exceeds threshold, the system rejects the retrieval rather than hallucinating. That's the difference.

Run the code. Check papers/csnp_paper.pdf for the formal proof. Then tell me what breaks.
by idontwantthis | 2026-01-06 20:26:34+00:00
A world of robotaxis requires a huge percentage increase in the number of cars on roads because you will need many empty cars on the roads at all
times repositioning or picking up passengers.

I can’t see how that won’t negate and even be worse than any benefit from improved reaction times.

Any attempt to solve for repositioning just takes you closer and closer to buses or trains.
by nonameiguess | 2026-01-06 20:26:53+00:00
It's pretty funny to see the 2016 date here. That's a few years after I finished grad school having doubled up in computer science and finance. It was nearly axiomatic at that point that small cap value funds were the best way to go for long-term investing, having outperformed all other broad options consistently for the past century over any time horizon longer than a decade.

Except today. Even since this was written, large cap growth funds or "blue chip" stocks have tremendously outperformed everything else, more than doubling the return of small cap value. Big companies are absolutely not failing. They're doing better than they ever have at any other time in history, granting this is the admittedly short span of human history in which we had public equity markets.
by goatlover | 2026-01-06 20:26:55+00:00
There's a middle ground between doomerism apathy and optimistic status quo that problems aren't that bad so business as usual. People become pessimistic when they see societal structures that prevent actions dealing with serious problems. You don't have any justification or saying the long term trend is always positive. The future has many possibilities, not all good. The human past is a mixed bag. Trends are trends until they're not. Past wrong predictions are not guarantees those or similar predictions won't come true in the future.

We really don't know that democracy will always prevail, that capitalism is sustainable in the long term, and that our current global civilization is immune to collapse. We don't know there will never be a nuclear war or that climate change won't hit the wrong tipping point. We don't know that humanity's future will continue to be better off indefinitely.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-06 20:27:02+00:00
I think I was speaking equally to anyone else reading the thread, but also I should have pointed out that the longer you watch an ad, the more familiar you will become with accepting and expecting the product being sold. There's no way to get around the time spent. Just because the first 5 seconds have the largest proportional impact, doesn't mean the last 25s won't also have an impact.

But even if everything I said was incorrect, and you actually are immune, just like you describe... everyone else isn't, and they're being targeted as much as you are.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-06 20:27:04+00:00
This horrible touchscreen-only situation always reminded me of a similar fashion trend in the mid 80s... digital speedometers and "automatic" seatbelts.
Both looked great in a magazine, showroom, and the Knightrider TV show, but were suboptimal in real life.

Thankfully no one back then had the absurd idea to force them into every single car model, and eliminate choice for the next ten years.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-06 20:27:09+00:00
You're conflating "peer review" with "proof validity."

The mathematics don't care about journal gatekeepers. The proof either compiles in Lean 4 or it doesn't. The Wasserstein bound either holds under the axioms or it breaks.

Current validation status:

Lean 4 formal verification: Compiles (see proofs/ directory)

Benchmark tests: 10,000 conversations, 100 turns each → 0.02% hallucination rate vs. 12.3% (Pinecone)

Independent code review: 3 mathematicians verified the Wasserstein stability theorem

Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18070153 (publicly archived, citable)

Peer review timeline:

Submitted to ICML 2025 (Dec 15, 2024)

Under review at JMLR (Jan 2, 2025)

Average review cycle: 6-12 months

You want me to wait a year for a stamp from reviewers who might not understand optimal transport theory, while the code is live, testable, and MIT-licensed right now?

No.

I released it because empirical falsifiability > bureaucratic approval. If the math is wrong, someone can break the proof in Lean and submit a counter-example. That's faster and more rigorous than waiting for Reviewer 2 to complain about font sizes.

If you think it's invalid, run the tests. Point to the line in csnp.py where the Wasserstein bound fails. I'll fix it or bow out.

But "where's your peer review" isn't an argument. It's a status query masquerading as skepticism.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-06 20:27:12+00:00
> A new policy that prevents creators from doing sponsor spots? We all know what the result of that would be.

Well or not show the sponsors to premium users. They could simply upload a separate premium version. Don't forget, these content creators are already getting a lot more money from YT when a premium user views their vids. So they're not entitled.

They can walk away but where would they go?? Besides, more and more people are using sponsorblock since it's become totally insane with these.
Show HN: Gtree, a simple convention based worktree manager
by sauercrowd | 2026-01-06 20:27:35+00:00
Git worktrees are great, but the syntax is much more involved, and requires me to decide where worktrees go which I dont really care.

gtree is a simple shell script which provides two commands to fully your workflow:

gtree add <branch>: create a new worktree for a branch in a default directory and cd to it. if branch doesnt exist, create it.

gtree packup: remove the current worktree and change back to the main repo. Optionally immediately change to the worktree branch using `-c`

Been using it for a few days and it works really well for me - curios what y'all think!
by scottbez1 | 2026-01-06 20:27:39+00:00
How do I use a laptop while standing on a train each day? It sounds like a laptop is sufficient for you, but I suspect (based on myself and other responses in this thread) that a laptop is not always viable for many people; this tutorial appears targeted toward those people.

I’ve actually considered a neck/shoulder support for a laptop in the past but decided against it because it’d be cumbersome and make me a theft target.

As for AI, personally speaking I use AI coding tools to allow me to continue enjoying some hobby side projects with less free time available with a kid. It’s been a massive boost to my happiness in a generally low stakes area. I’m curious to see if I can get a similar unlock on my short and interrupted commute times as well, which is why I (personally) find this article interesting.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-06 20:27:50+00:00
No, I think they shouldn't be double dipping. If I pay for premium I want no ads whatsoever. Not for the content creators to sneak some in anyway.

And no I don't tend to watch many with sponsor crap in them because they aren't actually very good (think the low-quality crap from LTT etc). The best channels (EEVBlog is one notable one) don't have sponsors at all because they're made for love.

What I am not doing is watching the sponsorship segments anyway. So yeah I use sponsorblock. And I use Ublock origin or revanced to remove the ads too because there's way too many now.
by hbosch | 2026-01-06 20:27:57+00:00
>And if you can afford business class [...] The meals are restaurant quality and the full recline?! I hardly want to disembark!

Let's settle down. This kind of biz class experience is almost certainly unique to international travel. Flying "business class" from ATL to SFO might get you a plate of microwave slop and an extra 15deg of incline on almost all domestic jets. Once in a blue moon you'll get a modern plane with the diagonal seats. One less person in the row, though.

Paying for business class domestically is almost always a sham by my experience.