MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mccoyb | 2026-01-19 01:11:48+00:00
Here's a separate, optimistic comment about Yegge and Huntley: they are obviously on the right track.

In a recent video about Loom (Huntley's orchestration tool), Huntley comments:

"I've got a single goal and that is autonomous evolutionary software and figuring out what's needed to be there."

which is extremely interesting and sounds like great fun.

When you take these ideas seriously, if the agents get better (by hook and crook or RLVR) -- you can see the implications: "grad student descent" on whatever piece of software you want. RAG over ideas, A/B testing of anything, endless looping, moving software.

It's a nightmare for the model of software development and human organization which is "productive" today, but an extremely compelling vision for those dabbling in the alternative.
by vbezhenar | 2026-01-19 01:12:08+00:00
I neglected soft skills and I survived so far. I'm bad at soft skills and I probably have some sort of mental disorder like autism or something. I don't really care, I don't enjoy interacting with people and I prefer interacting with machines as much as possible. I've found a place that pays me for my technical skills and does not bother me with human interactions, I think there are more places like that in the world.
by bigmeme | 2026-01-19 01:13:06+00:00
I don’t want to pull the “we live in a society card” but you boys are having a Groundhog Day here every day.

If you don’t change the conditions of HN, or you don’t change your own condition, then these threads are a little more than coping mechanisms and spaces to vent. It’s not really a productive-productive use of time. You’ll just get trampled on with more AI content until the comments here are dominantly AI generated.

And people going after Reddit are strange. There are many active and cultured subreddits that have no bots. I’m also in favor of hiding post history as a deterrent to trolling brigades and preventing banning a person because they post in a subreddit I don’t like.

Anyway, back to your programmed 2 minutes of AI banter I guess.
by throwaway2027 | 2026-01-19 01:13:28+00:00
> Stack: Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, shadcn/ui, four languages (EN/DE/FR/JA). The AI picked most of this when I said "modern and clean."

I guess this is what separates some people. But I always explicitly tell it to use only HTML/JS/CSS without any libraries that I've vetted myself. Generating code allows you now not having to deal with it a lot more.

Cool to hear nonetheless. Can we now also stop stigmatizing AI generated music and art? Looking at you Steam disclosures.
by flopslop | 2026-01-19 01:13:41+00:00
This website absolutely is social media unless you’re putting on blinders or haven’t been around very long. There’s a small in crowd who sets the conversation (there’s an even smaller crowd of ycombinator founders with special privileges allowing them to see each other and connect). Thinking this website isn’t social media just admits you don’t know what the actual function of this website is, which is to promote the views of a small in crowd.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-19 01:14:10+00:00
The 68000 series used 0 as the initial (boot) program counter, and 4 as the initial stack pointer. (I might have those two backwards; it's been a long time.) That meant that they had to be in ROM, which meant that they were not writable. But addresses 8 through 1K were the interrupt vector table, and they did have to be writable.

This led to strange hardware implementations like "0 and 4 point to 0x800000 and 0x800004 (or wherever the ROM is) until a latch is cleared, then they point to 0" - with the latch being cleared fairly early in the boot process. This let you create a different entry point for soft and hard boot, if you wanted.

In that implementation, you could read and write to 0, once the latch was cleared.

Or you could have an implementation where 0 and 4 pointed to ROM always, and you could not have a different entry point for soft boot, and you could not write to 0, ever.
by teocalin37 | 2026-01-19 01:14:33+00:00
We work a lot with multimodal embeddings with semantic search and image-to-image retrieval over massive datasets for CCTV Data. We've had 200M+ CLIP vectors indexed in vector DBs.

On the other side SigLIP smokes it. Approx. 5-10% better recall@1 on some test datasets. But re-embedding? Weeks of GPUs is hugely expensive for re-embedding all of this data.

So we made vector Rosetta. 50M-param adapter translates CLIP to SigLIP purely in embedding space. 41x faster, zero images.

Numbers:

90.9% cosine sim preserved
94.3% Rank@1 (10K pool),
84.4% (100K)
COCO photos: 90.1%;
WikiArt: 85.7%

Added the link to the model, we thought it may be useful for other people.
by AlanLan | 2026-01-19 01:17:57+00:00
Chef, take away your steak, unless you can explain how the flame bridges the chasm of increasing entropy, performing a stress-wave trauma analysis on the intramuscular fat layers via quantum tunneling during the Maillard reaction; unless you can compute how the Brownian motion of molecular thermal vibrations within lattice defects precisely dictates the non-linear dynamics of that specific char.
Programmer, take away your code, unless you can explain how a mere diode, within its binary semiconductor holes, can ever manifest a circle—a transcendental entity that defies physical boundaries. Since you cannot replicate continuous truth within discrete displacements, your so-called precision is nothing but a mirage built upon the ruins of error.
Chef, put away your arrogance. Unless you can use your crude two-dimensional tape to measure the hydrodynamic fractal curvature your tongue assumes to counteract gravity and viscosity while swallowing that fibrous tissue. If you cannot even perceive how the micron-scale receptor distribution on your taste buds captures the molecular charge transfers, by what right do you speak of the art of heat?
Keyboard warrior, before you squander your cheap rhetoric across the web, first provide the instantaneous deformation vector of the elastic modulus in your fingertips at the nanosecond scale during each keystroke. Since you cannot calculate the air perturbations caused by the movement of your phalanges at the quantum level, every character you type regarding "mathematical sin" is nothing but the heat-death residue of disordered bio-electric discharges.
Mind your language: does it accurately reflect the reflex arc duration of the neurotransmitters crossing your synaptic gaps while your brain generated this logic of "Cycles" versus "Radians"? If you cannot even calibrate this microsecond-scale biological lag, your so-called "absolute precision" is nothing but a logical hallucination born of cortical hypoxia.
Mind your logic: does it accurately reflect whether your consciousness is currently in a state of Emptiness and Presence (Sunyata and Presence), or is it merely driven by causality, fleeing the terror of transcendental numbers to hide within a digital cage named "Integers"? As you attempt to castrate the incalculable fluctuations of the soul, your "perfect" logic is accelerating toward a total collapse following the wave-function rupture.
Mind your consciousness: as it is translated into these characters of universal skepticism, is it still "you"? Prove it.
by Spooky23 | 2026-01-19 01:18:06+00:00
You’re thinking apples and oranges.

Remember that every K-12 student for the last decade is getting it done on the cheapest low bid Chromebook possible. They are true pieces of shit, too-down managed by barely qualified people and yet the kids persevere.

That’s the baseline. Windows is an evolution of 1999, slowly shifting to the shitty cloud based model. It is the worst of both worlds. It’s like Peoplesoft in computer form. Even my IT crew at work is all Mac now.

Apple is an unreliable partner and a sole source. I think Linux is the pragmatic choice going forward.
by zbentley | 2026-01-19 01:19:40+00:00
> Given that Microsoft is going to have to continue to develop Windows anyway, there's not much reason for them to throw in the towel on the consumer desktop.

That would make sense … if Microsoft didn’t have the second most bonkers track record in history (after Google) in the domain of “fragmenting and releasing competing reimplementations of products already in your core portfolio”!
Show HN: Shared Device Group – scheduler-level GPU sharing for Kubernetes
by ChuangLabs | 2026-01-19 01:19:54+00:00
Hi HN,

GPU utilization in Kubernetes is still surprisingly poor for many inference and interactive workloads.

Most clusters either:

allocate exclusive GPUs per pod, or

rely on MIG / vGPU, which introduces rigidity and operational complexity.

I’m experimenting with a different approach: scheduler-level GPU sharing.

Shared Device Group is a Kubernetes extension that lets multiple pods share one or more GPUs, with GPU selection handled by the scheduler instead of hardware partitioning.

High-level idea:

A SharedDeviceGroup CRD defines a logical GPU group

Pods reference the group via annotation

The scheduler plugin selects a node + GPU set

Selected GPUs are injected via NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES

Optional device-plugin integration for kubelet accounting

This works best for:

inference workloads

bursty / short-lived GPU tasks

scenarios where strict GPU isolation isn’t required

Trade-offs:

not a replacement for MIG/vGPU

requires scheduler involvement

best suited for dedicated GPU-sharing nodes

Repo: https://github.com/sceneryback/shared-device-group

I’d appreciate feedback, especially from folks running large GPU clusters or inference platforms.
by falcor84 | 2026-01-19 01:20:07+00:00
You can still share via torrents, but Soundcloud seems to be the main place, as it has been for almost 20 years now.

On a separate note, I must say that starting to read your comment, I was sure it'll be going towards "Back in 2000 I cudda made a song outta that... Now, in 2025, I just use suno"
by EvansWilson | 2026-01-19 01:21:37+00:00
Michael Burry, the legendary "Big Short" investor, is once again sending ripples through Wall Street. Known for his contrarian bets and uncanny ability to spot market bubbles before they burst, Burry’s Scion Asset Management has recently overhauled its strategy. For investors tracking the Michael Burry Portfolio, the latest filings reveal a dramatic pivot: a massive bet against the AI hype and a calculated move into defensive, high-conviction value plays.

Michael Burry Portfolio: The Great AI Short of 2026

The most striking feature of the current Michael Burry Portfolio is the aggressive use of derivative instruments to hedge against Silicon Valley’s darlings. Burry has long expressed skepticism regarding the long-term competitive "moats" of artificial intelligence leaders.

The latest data shows that a staggering 66% of his reported equity exposure is tied to Palantir (PLTR) Put options, alongside a significant Put position in NVIDIA (NVDA). Burry’s thesis, often shared in his cryptic market commentaries, suggests that the AI supply chain lacks the durable advantages the market is currently pricing in. By shorting these tech giants, Burry is effectively betting that the AI "gold rush" is nearing an exhaustion point.

Defensive Shifts and Healthcare Conviction

While his bearish bets grab the headlines, Burry is also putting capital to work in sectors he deems undervalued. He has recently rotated out of consumer laggards and concentrated his "long" conviction in two primary areas:

1. The Healthcare Stronghold
Healthcare has taken center stage as a defensive pillar for Scion. Burry initiated a major new position in Molina Healthcare (MOH) and significantly increased his stake in Pfizer (PFE) via call options. These moves suggest a belief that despite regulatory headwinds, these companies provide essential services with cash flows that are currently being mispriced by a tech-obsessed market.

2. Strategic Value Picks
Beyond healthcare, Burry has shown interest in niche financial and retail plays:

SLM Corporation (Sallie Mae): A new entry into the financials sector, signaling a bet on student lending resilience.

Lululemon Athletica (LULU): Despite recent retail volatility, Burry doubled down on this premium consumer brand, seeing it as a "best-in-class" survivor of economic uncertainty.

Conclusion: The Blueprint for a Recessionary Market

Tracking the Michael Burry Portfolio is not about copying trades—it is about understanding the logic of a man who prioritizes downside protection above all else. With a portfolio turnover exceeding 50% this quarter, Burry is clearly repositioning for a more turbulent economic landscape in 2026. Whether his massive short against AI will pay off like his 2008 subprime bet remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: Burry is not waiting around for the crowd to catch up.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-19 01:21:46+00:00
Depends in which sense you want it to "catch" the bugs. As this readme notes/quotes,

> All memory safety errors are caught as Fil-C panics.

If your problem is a memory-based bug causing a crash, I think this would just... catch the memory-based bug and crash. Like, it'd crash more reliably. On the other hand, if you want to find and debug the problem, that might be a good thing.
by eru | 2026-01-19 01:22:22+00:00
> One uses emulator while developing anyways.

Yes, but part of the joy is the anticipation of playing on a real device at the end.

> Try with C64 and VICE and join us at https://csdb.dk/

Thanks for the invitation! I used a C64 as my only computer in the late 1990s long past its prime, because my mother got a really good deal on a whole set with printer and disk drives and plenty of disks with software (mostly games, from magazines). However, I was still a bit annoyed by the limitations of the system. I guess, if I had had a forth disk, I might have felt different.

In any case, for personal reasons I don't want to explore the C64 more.

But I never had a GameBoy Advance nor a Wonderswan.
by ocdtrekkie | 2026-01-19 01:22:30+00:00
I am a sysadmin and Group Policy is the entire moat Microsoft has. Linux has nothing like it, and it probably can't because it requires a level of top down authority over a platform's design and implementation that would be hard in the Linux space.

Maybe something like systemd could do something similar which defined policy over all the components they've taken over, but a distro doing it would be pointless, we're not a Linux shop and have at least three different Linux distros in service.
by wavemode | 2026-01-19 01:22:34+00:00
I can't really envision what Microsoft stands to gain by doing this. If Windows were to become a Linux distribution, what reason would anyone have anymore to buy Windows, or Windows Server? I can run Linux for free. Any kernel modifications Microsoft makes would have to be open-sourced, due to the GPL, so I'm not missing out on those either. What's the unique value proposition at that point?
by Alupis | 2026-01-19 01:24:18+00:00
None of the software and services you mentioned require Windows though - they could be made to run on Linux, and some already do.

As more and more revenue shifts from desktop/servers to cloud and services, it doesn't seem too far-fetched for Microsoft to decide maintaining the entire OS stack themselves makes less and less sense. A Microsoft Windows linux distro would free up resources to focus on what makes Windows unique.
by hacktherounds | 2026-01-19 01:24:26+00:00
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by emsti | 2026-01-19 01:25:53+00:00
A new theoretical physics work titled “EMSTI – Emergent Metric-Scalar-Tensor Theory with Irreversibility” has been released on Zenodo, presenting a mathematically and physically elaborate framework that re-derives spacetime geometry, gravity, and the arrow of time from first principles .

The work spans over 440 pages and develops a fully formal theory in which spacetime is not assumed as a background structure, but emerges from irreversible information dynamics in networks of microscopic relational degrees of freedom. Using tools from differential geometry, stochastic processes, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and quantum field theory, EMSTI derives an effective metric, curvature, and Einstein field equations as theorems, rather than postulates. General Relativity appears as the macroscopic limit of a deeper dissipative structure, with a built-in thermodynamic arrow of time.

A central mathematical result of EMSTI is the emergence of geometry via diffusion and large-deviation theory (Varadhan’s formula), linking curvature directly to entropy production. The framework naturally reproduces key results of General Relativity while avoiding classical singularities, and it predicts a scale-dependent spectral dimension flowing from 2 (UV) to 4 (IR), a feature shared with several quantum gravity approaches. The theory is explicitly compared with GR, effective field theory, and string-inspired scenarios, positioning EMSTI as an alternative route to quantum gravity grounded in irreversibility rather than quantization of geometry itself.

Beyond formal structure, EMSTI is accompanied by empirical and computational tests, including a large-scale Bayesian analysis of galaxy rotation curves (SPARC database), where the theory reproduces observed dynamics without invoking particle dark matter, and derives testable predictions distinct from MOND and ΛCDM. The work also outlines falsifiable predictions in cosmology, gravitational waves, and temperature-dependent gravitational coupling.

EMSTI is presented as a unifying, mathematically rigorous program connecting General Relativity, quantum theory, thermodynamics, and information theory within a single coherent framework. The full manuscript, including derivations, proofs, numerical methods, and validation protocols, is openly available on Zenodo and intended for researchers in gravitational physics, mathematical physics, and foundations of quantum theory.

Access the full article:
https://zenodo.org/records/17911993
by RomanPushkin | 2026-01-19 01:25:56+00:00
Prediction for the next 15 years: new operating system called Uni. AI will finally get to the point when it can actually reliably replicate the entire OS stack and it will be Windows. I mean Windows stack will get integrated into Linux, but not by Microsoft. It will be done by AI/Linux enthusiasts.

Won't happen in 2026, since AI coding is still dumb, and Cursor failed to produce a working version of a browser (despite claiming that). But soon binary files will be reverse engineered, and the whole NT kernel stack will be transferred to Linux.

At the same time there is a chance that new, AI-produced, fully Windows-compatible operating systems will start to emerge. OS similar to Windows 95.
by ggm | 2026-01-19 01:25:58+00:00
I could believe this is a filter designed to simplify conformance to some YT standard.

I could believe this is a side effect of something else.

I could believe its a problem with some output devices (sw) of the nature of "oh I'm ASCII I can't handle UTF-8 encoded data" which doesn't have a good default.

Is there some more direct profit/IPR motivated approach which directs this format of all others should be removed?
by Cedricgc | 2026-01-19 01:26:05+00:00
I'm developing concern for Steve. He's been a well known developer and writer in the industry for years now (See his popular 'Google Platforms Rant' essay from years ago) [0].

Now, Yegge's writing tilts towards the grandoise... see his writing when joining Grab [1] and Sourcegraph [2] respectively versus how things actually played out.

I prefer optimism and I'm not anti AI by any means, but given his observed behavior and how AI can't exacerbate certain pathologies... not great. Adding the recent crypto activities on top and all that entails is the ingredients for a powder keg.

Hope someone is looking out for him.

[0] https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse452/23wi/papers...

[1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/why-i-left-google-to-join-gra...

[2] https://sourcegraph.com/blog/introducing-steve-yegge
by gruez | 2026-01-19 01:26:18+00:00
>The version I've heard is that the firearm technology when the second amendment was ratified was very different than today and that makes it worth evaluating if we want to amend it again.

That's an even worse argument because it's seemingly trying to both to do an motte-and-bailey and strawman at the same time. The motte and bailey comes from seemingly trying to present as sympathetic of an argument as possible. I mean, who's against reevaluating old laws? Strawman comes from the fact that from all the 2nd amendment supporters I've heard, nobody thinks it should be kept because we shouldn't be second-guessing the founding fathers or whatever. All their arguments are based on how guns aren't that dangerous, or how it serves some sort of practical purpose, like preventing state oppression or whatever. Whatever these arguments actually hold is another matter, of course, but at least "the 2nd amendment only applies to muskets" argument doesn't rely on a misrepresentation of the 2nd amendment proponents' views.
by gpm | 2026-01-19 01:26:19+00:00
Or if you're the military commander with the option to disobey the illegal order (to go to war without congressional authorization) or take the bribe and execute the order. "Unmarked cash" (which this is) has pretty different purposes from official funds.

I think there's a pretty good chance the person who took that money was opportunistic, this time, but $400k isn't a trivial sum of money, it's not impossible it was the difference between this happening and not.
by fdr | 2026-01-19 01:26:35+00:00
I use beads quite a bit, but not as steve intended. And definitely the opposite of "Gas Town," where I use the note-taking capability and integration with Git (that is, as something of a glorified Makefile and database) to debug contexts, to close the loop and increase accuracy over time. Nevertheless, it has been useful for large batch runs over my code base: the record has been processing for thirty hours straight while getting something useful, and enough trace data to make further improvements.

Steve has gone "a bit" loopy, in a (so far) self aware manner, but he has some kind of insight into the software engineering process, I think. Yet, I predict beads will break under the weight of no-supervision eventually if he keeps churning it, but some others will pick up where he left off, with more modest goals. He did, to his credit, kill off several generations of project before this one in a similar category.
by nashashmi | 2026-01-19 01:27:17+00:00
His take is that for consumers Microsoft will abandon windows in favor of Linux. He predicts Linux will get better. And windows will get worse in development and support. And so Microsoft will give up on windows. And that worsening trend plus abandonment plus Linux improvements will cause Microsoft supporting Linux.

The probability of each event happening is high enough. But the probability of all three happening at once is low. And that is why this prediction is difficult to believe.

I think it is true windows dev is much more difficult now. The platform has an identity split. It used to favor power users. Now it favors the rich mac users. And upcoming kids who are attached to iPhones. And this means… it gets worse … Or it changes audience. The latter will be hard to pull off.

I think Microsoft also has less need for windows. We know this because its core business has been shifting. They are platform agnostic now.

So what becomes the incentive for Microsoft to continue windows?