MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troupo | 2026-01-07 21:57:18+00:00
> If you refuse to use what you call workarounds

Who said I refuse them?

I evaluated the claim that Opus is somehow next tier/something different/amazeballs future at its face value. It still has all the same issues and needs all the same workarounds as whatever I was using two months ago (I had a bit of a coding hiatus between beginning of December and now).

> then you end up with a guy from Memento and regardless of how smart the model is

Those models are, and keep being the guy from memento. Your "long memory" is nothing but notes scribbled everywhere that you have to re-assemble every time.

> And that's why you can't tell the difference between smarter and dumber one while others can.

If it was "next tier smarter" it wouldn't need the exact same workarounds as the "dumber" models. You wouldn't compare the context to the 15-30 second short-term memory and need unspecified tools [1] to have "long-term memory". You wouldn't have the model behave in an indistinguishable way from a "dumber" model after half of its context windows has been filled. You wouldn't even think about context windows. And yet here we are

[1] For each person these tools will be a different collection of magic incantations. From scattered .md files to slop like Beads to MCP servers providing access to various external storage solutions to custom shell scripts to ...
by g947o | 2026-01-07 21:57:32+00:00
> Voilà: bold text, emojis, and plenty of sycophancy – every trick in the LMArena playbook! – to avoid answering the question it was asked.

This is hard to swallow.

I don't believe a single word this article says. Apparently the "real author" (the human being who wrote the original prompt to generate this article) only intend to use this article to generate clicks and engagement but don't care at all about what's in there.
by puddnutz | 2026-01-07 21:57:50+00:00
Not to nitpick, but your note about Motocross Maniacs on the North American timeline should be updated.

It is correct that it's Konami's first GB title, but that only applies in Japan. In the US, Castlevania: The Adventure technically releases first with Motocross Maniacs releasing afterward.

You have this correct on the Japanese timeline.
by gerardnico | 2026-01-07 21:58:12+00:00
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The cost of calling a service is also not free.

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by 827a | 2026-01-07 21:59:08+00:00
Its true that its a small number, but when you look at the statistics as a function of "percentage of homes purchased in 2024" instead of "total percentage ownership of homes", it is a bit more substantial: My understanding is the number is closer to 2% for Institutional investors, and as high as 4% for major markets like Phoenix and Dallas.

What it will come down to is the exact wording of what Trump means by "large institutional investors" (his exact words on Truth).
by anthomtb | 2026-01-07 21:59:17+00:00
I did keto for a few months a long time ago (2010/2011). This was early in my career and long coding and debug sessions were a normal part of my day-to-day.

There was zero impact to my work focus, positive or negative, from cutting nearly all carbohydrates out for several months.

I am curious were you heard or learned that "sugar is really important for focus". Just a vibe, perhaps?
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-07 21:59:34+00:00
This is basically a maximum wage for landlords, bound to start a secret society.

IMO it's a crooked notion that landlords are rent seeking and nothing else - they do create supply and maintain housing.

Issue is when they want to politically and artificially raise the value of their property by preventing more housing from being built, so, if you're going to ban something, ban artificial regulations on construction!

North Carolina has done some good by loosening up code around tiny homes, but, a lot of municipalities want to enforce big homes only because they like the property tax of high value houses, 4 bedroom and all. Small town I'm in basically won't allow expansion of housing because the people that live here don't want the village to get any bigger, but if it's democratic like that I'm mostly OK with it, it's when there's demand for housing and someone with a perverse incentive to block it that we should want to solve for.
by WalterBright | 2026-01-07 21:59:37+00:00
> They are a tiny portion of the market, but a huge driving force in setting and manipulating prices, because their properties get leveraged, instrumentalized, and securitized, with derivative products, speculation, and all sorts of incentives that you don't normally want operating in the arena of housing.

Raising prices when you only have a tiny portion of the market does not work. People won't buy them when there's another house for less.
by mikrl | 2026-01-07 21:59:53+00:00
>"processed" and "healthy" are oxymorons

Alkali processed corn (nixtamal/hominy/masa) is waaay healthier for you than straight up cornmeal. The aggressive base degrades the structures and make the vitamins more bioavailable to humans.

Cornmeal itself is processed by drying and grinding said corn, but I wouldn’t consider it junk food.
by plagiarist | 2026-01-07 22:00:03+00:00
TPMs are basically storing the hashes of various pieces of software, then deterministically generating a key from those. Since the BIOS software changed, that hash changed, and the key it generates is completely new.

If someone had messed with your BIOS maliciously, that's desirable. Unfortunately you messing with your BIOS intentionally also makes the original key pretty much unrecoverable.
by indymike | 2026-01-07 22:00:05+00:00
> e never seen big corporations own single-family rentals en masse.

I just sold a house to a big corporation that owns about 12,000 homes. There's a whole industry for enabling these buys, opendoor, offerpad, etc... It's usually a wash selling your home as is to a wholesale deal vs. prepping your home and selling it, the difference being done about 60-90 days faster than via retail.

The company I sold to already owned four houses on my street. It's crazy.
by WackyFighter | 2026-01-07 22:00:10+00:00
No that is not the definition of a military invasion.

> An invasion is a military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering the territory of another with the goal of militarily occupying part or all of the invaded polity's territory, usually to conquer territory or alter the established government.

What happened on Saturday was not an invasion. It was an extraction/capture operation. It was a large scale one, but they left after they captured Maduro and his Wife.

> I think you can argue that the Bin Laden raid was and invasion into Pakistan. Anytime a military forces enters uninvited, that's an invasion.

No it wasn't. When they killed Bin Laden they didn't "invade" Pakistan. They infiltrated, then assassinated him and left.
by parl_match | 2026-01-07 22:00:18+00:00
fwiw at the level of protein i need to eat to build muscle mass (im weight training 3x a week), even that 27 vs 19 difference starts to become a problem.

people don't realize how challenging it is to eat 200g of protein a day, every day, for months.

that said, i do eat a lot of plant based protein. i love chickpeas and i also fuck w tofu a lot.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-07 22:00:20+00:00
Which still contributes to unaffordability.

A house bought for the purpose of renting out is a house that could have gone to someone who wanted to buy it. It creates upward pressure on housing prices.

I mean, I get it. There are some people that truly do want to rent a house because they know the living situation is temporary.

But we have a generation that was able to buy houses during an economic boom where you could buy a house with an entry-level job, and once that house was paid off, they started buying up houses with their extra money to rent out, and it was so lucrative that prices have skyrocketed and now people in their 20s can't buy houses without a decently lucrative job.

Obviously, there are many factors at work here, but buying or building houses with the intent to rent them out is certainly a contributor.

I just think about the fact that I bought my house in 2015 for about $340K, and it's now worth about $600K, an 80% climb in just 10 years, and I think that's absurd, not to mention a bad thing for society overall.
by m4ck_ | 2026-01-07 22:00:31+00:00
>There's lots of affordable homes they're just located where no one wants to live

It's probably more accurate to say "they're just located where no one can get a job." You can give up you SWE job or whatever and move to a small town/rural area, but you're not going to convince anyone to give you a mortgage off your income from the subway at the local truck stop, or whatever labor gig you can get at the local industrial concern. Although if you're in medicine there is probably hope.

If only technology had progressed to an extent that we don't psychically need to be concentrated in 15-20 HCOL major metro areas to do most (if not all) office jobs.
by kingkongjaffa | 2026-01-07 22:00:34+00:00
You can make a router skill that describes how to use the other skills together. I'm experimenting with this now but my core problem is still How to Make Claude Code Skills Activate Reliably.

During testing today I asked a task I knew should have activated a skill and claude just did it without the skill instead.

This might help:
https://scottspence.com/posts/how-to-make-claude-code-skills...
by theothertimcook | 2026-01-07 22:00:49+00:00
Who’s we, what’re they thinking, and how is it wrong?

I fundamentally agree with the angle of the author(s).

The drug rat thing is a red herring that keeps being used as an anchor to analogise complex and varied behaviours.

The disease model is absolute dogshit, but, it creates the perfect environment for medicalisation and treatment.

And now you have a market.

Nobody needs an explainer on how markets can deviate to create feedback loops, likewise nobody wants to hear that despite plenty of organisations/operations doing great work there are others creating immense harm, misery, and wealth.

My main point is I don’t get the collective we, because the average person has little interaction with models of addiction, I’d argue that most people would struggle to define it, and then the nuance between addiction colloquially (I’m addicted to matcha lattes) vs addiction medically (I’m addicted to opioids) creates even more problems.

No solutions here, just thoughts.
by echelon | 2026-01-07 22:01:01+00:00
Is it?

Google isn't exposed in such a way.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are being deflected to a single entity, adding to customer costs.

This turns into a game of who has the bigger ad budget.

Companies can compete on product and win in the court of public opinion. TikTok marketing and reviews showcase this masterfully. Even Reddit reviews.

Yet when you go to search for those things, the Google tax bridge troll steps in and asks for their protection money.

They're a cancer on capitalism.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-07 22:01:34+00:00
besides being loud in the media and policy, does it matter?

to keep this focused on hacker news. this is like asking the programming community to solve "some intractable social problem," and then sometimes you get an answer, "well, what we need is, a new kind of open source license."

disputes over guidelines and the meaning of highly processed, outside the academic humanities context, is kind of pointless right? if you are talking about cultural influence - you can't coerce people to eat (or not eat) something in this country, so cultural influence is the main lever government can pull regarding food - the answer to everything is, "What does Ja Rule think?" (https://www.okayplayer.com/dave-chappelles-ja-rule-joke-is-h...) that is, what do celebrities say and do? And that's why we're at where we are at, the celebrities are now "running" the HHS.

There's a definition for highly processed food, it's whatever Ja Rule says it is. Are you getting it?
by lawlessone | 2026-01-07 22:01:36+00:00
>that will inevitably shrink the supply of rentals

As someone that's renting because buying is impossible i think this would be fantastic. They should do it with Airbnb too.

Not American or in the US, this is problem everywhere now. People thinking they're entrepreneurs for gouging.

People will come up with all kinds of reasoning, its the property tax, it's migrants, its minimum wage, it's millennials, it's inflation ,when ultimately it's just that landlords will charge whatever they think they can get away.

and sometimes they'll try to charge in other ways...

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/02/...
by stanislavb | 2026-01-07 22:02:16+00:00
"2. Self Driving Cars. In the US the players that will determine whether self driving cars are successful or abandoned are #1 Waymo (Google) and #2 Zoox (Amazon). No one else matters. The key metric will be human intervention rate as that will determine profitability." - I love that he's not mentioning the speculation company of the century. We don't have to mention it either.
by duesabati | 2026-01-07 22:02:38+00:00
Yeah I can see that, but that lisp feature is not exclusive to lisp, if you know what you want and what you are doing you can implement the very same thing in any other language, you may say it is convenient that lisp already has it, but it does not make it more powerful. I don't know list, but there will surely be something that is missing from it that another language has it, now I ask you which is more powerful? See? Everything is relative to what you want to do. The very author of the blog you shared is falling in the same set of programmers he wants to criticize because now he thinks in lisp macro and the very moment he cannot use lisp, he will feel lost but has he stopped and thought that what he needed was something to manipulate code at compile time he could have used any language
by devwastaken | 2026-01-07 22:02:44+00:00
The law is clear - the woman was obviously detained, she decided to attempt fleeing in a vehicle with an officer in their path. just because the officer was quicker right at the end doesn't mean it wasn't an attempt use of deadly force.

Very easy to judge from a video afterwards, you have to consider from the perspective of the officer from other side of the video. They cant see the direction of the tires or play it back frame by frame.

Protests of the officers actions are in reality a call for that officer to be ran over. The woman made the decision to ignore the law, recklessly endanger others, and theres hundreds of cases of precedent for use of force in response to force.

Wether or not the stop was lawful is not relevant - you dont fight it on the streets, you defend it in court. you cannot simultaneously support rule of law and support that those recklessly ignore it.
by kingkongjaffa | 2026-01-07 22:02:52+00:00
I'm reading up on this right now.

Here's some prior work that might be interesting: https://scottspence.com/posts/how-to-make-claude-code-skills...

Edit: I realise it might look kind of weird I posted this link in 2 comments on this thread - disclaimer I am not the author of that random blog post, just sharing what I found!
by andor | 2026-01-07 22:03:06+00:00
Bread with sugar in it is problematic, but that doesn't mean all bread is bad. That would be like saying that boiled potatos are as unhealthy as french fries. Or rolled oats vs. sugary industrial cereals. Whole grains are actually really healthy.

Bread and pasta are staples in France and Italy, and still they are much healthier than the US. In France, there's nothing wrong with a baguette from a bakery (or even from a supermarket). You'll also find industrially produced white bread if you really want to, but people aren't buying that as much, because of their food culture. On average, they have a better understanding of what's good and healthy.

One of the key issues is understanding food as products rather than produce. By outsourcing your food to large companies, you are giving them an opportunity for cutting costs by reducing the quality of the production process (e.g. reduced fermentation time of the dough) or the ingredients (e.g. adding sugar for better browning or to make the product more addictive). It's a result of the financialization of everything and the need for growth.

Rather than buying branded products and going to chain restaurants, buy from smaller places or cook your own food, from scratch.
by indymike | 2026-01-07 22:03:38+00:00
Counter notice means I'm ok with defending a lawsuit. There are some big costs there. The problem with the current system is there's no protection for false/bogus DMCA takedowns and those do real economic damage to legitimate content owners and creators. I've had IP protection companies file takedowns on my own code and my own artwork and that was highly disruptive to my business.
by kiba | 2026-01-07 22:03:44+00:00
Landlord, or property management, is a job, same as any other job you might have. The problem is not owning multiple properties, but not paying enough taxes on land. Otherwise, landlords benefit from the free lunch that comes with economic growth and real estate price appreciation, which is true for every homeowners in this country.

IF you want affordability? Tax land.

Doesn't matter who owns them. Your grandma or wall street.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-01-07 22:03:46+00:00
This kinda reminds me of student loans, why not get as many people as possible into 6 figure debt?

Yes mortgage is often cheaper than rental, but the whole tradeoff is the commitment, just like all kinds of services, if you pay 40 years up front you can get a good deal, but do you really want to take out a loan to do that?

Limiting landlords ability to buy property is reducing demand for construction, you want to increase demand for housing, not decrease it.

As I said in a sibling thread, it does suck that property owners are incentivized to raise their property values, preventing supply from reacting to demand.
by strangattractor | 2026-01-07 22:03:52+00:00
Sounds to me like they intend to control the oil production infrastructure which is land/territory within Venezuela - but what do I know.

Isn't the entire Polymarket concept rife with ways to abuse the system? If I have insider knowledge I get shills to create a market for that knowledge - then make an extreme bet at the last moment. Seems sort of like betting the 49ers will not win the Super Bowl because you know that Purdy's kneecaps are about to be busted. Or large options trades the day before the Senate votes on Healthcare bills.
by matt-p | 2026-01-07 22:03:53+00:00
I agree, I'm quite curious on what feelings are about still putting it in a public GitHub repo?

AI models will train on your codebase, unethical actors will still take it and not pay. Others can give the .zip to Claude and ask it to reimplement it in a way that isn't license infringement. I think it really turns open source upside down. Is this a risk worth taking or best to just make getting the source something that's a .zip on a website which the models realistically won't train on.
by riazrizvi | 2026-01-07 22:04:01+00:00
This will absolutely help. It’s easy for these institutional players to downplay their involvement with select stats, to play PR defense, but platforms like Zillow work with institutional funds to sell them an information advantage that means they are at the end of the market that does the most upward impact on pricing.

People don’t have a natural feel for how little you need to alter flow to cause liquidity in a system to collapse.
by darknavi | 2026-01-07 22:04:11+00:00
Indeed. I was in Sweden and learned that you can look up someone's address and pay on a government website. I think there are some "are you human" checks, but it's basically all in the clear.

It creeped me out a bit and then I was angry when I realized it's the same way in the US, but maybe worse. In the US this is possible too, you just have to pay private data brokers and a bunch of middle men make a cheap buck. Employers sell your pay data, websites sell your address. Everyone makes a buck at your expense.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-07 22:04:21+00:00
I feel any fuzzy tab grouping feature [0] is a significant security risk by default. Especially with black-box LLMs.

Consider a phishing site which opens up in a new tab, tricking the browser into color-coding and sliding it over into the middle of the user's existing tabs for the real site: "Huh, my bank says I got logged out and need to re-enter my credentials, well, no problem, I mean this is obviously the same interface I was working with earlier, right?"

Protecting against that attack would require some deterministic security rules, such as refusing to add to any group if the domain isn't already represented there... But at that point, isn't the AI-fuzziness really only useful for deciding when not to group things by domain?

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-ai-enhanced-tab...
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by dkarl | 2026-01-07 22:05:07+00:00
The public health discourse about protein is in a weird place right now. The recommendations are higher than ever, yet people are constantly told not to think about protein, or to worry about excess protein intake instead.

Case in point: the Mayo Clinic article titled "Are you getting enough protein?"[0]

It claims that protein is only a concern for people who are undereating or on weight loss drugs, yet it cites protein recommendations that many people find challenging to meet (1.1g/kg for active people, more if you're over 40 or doing strength or endurance workouts.) To top it off, it's illustrated with a handful of nuts, which are pretty marginal sources of protein. It's bizarrely mixed messaging.

[0] https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speak...