MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by byproxy | 2026-01-10 00:32:55+00:00
What makes this “neurotypical?” I don’t necessarily consider myself as such, but I’ve made it a point to have some routine in my life. In fact, I think being highly regimented and sticking to a routine can be very neuroatypical. I would never go so far as to say I’m autistic, but there are markers on that spectrum, like becoming upset when a routine is disrupted. I certainly am perturbed when I’ve set some routine for myself and something interrupts it.
by reactordev | 2026-01-10 00:33:50+00:00
Bro, $200!?! For a SQL browser? Nah…

$20 x 5,000 seats = $100,000 realized right now.

With that, he could invest it, finish the features, start work on 2.0 and charge and upgrade of $20 to all his customers when he has MSSQL, MySQL, pgsql, SQLite, Oracle. 2.0 could include cloud db’s.

Not everything has to be a subscription and if people continue to find value, they’ll upgrade if they think it worthy.

Subscriptions tend to be vampires on the wallet and are used to trap users into paying a developer indefinitely. I consider it hostile to users. The exception is if it’s a service that can’t run on my machine. Or a service that does back office for me.
by quotemstr | 2026-01-10 00:35:09+00:00
Caltrain is functional, I guess, but it's one linear system. It doesn't even have express tracks. (It has a few four-tracked overtaking areas, but nothing pervasive.) Inside, basic electric power outlets are hard to find. Grade separation? Ridiculous fantasy. The route map hasn't expanded since 1992.

Yeah, they've electrified the system. Congrats, I guess? The system is still a glorified people mover. It goes in one direction, turns around, and goes in the other direction.

Given Caltrain's route map stagnation and the worse fates of other CA rail projects, it really doesn't seem, well, grounded to reality, to suggest everyone emulate California rail's success. After all, it takes two days to grab a train from Seattle to SF!

If you want a half-decent model, at least look at NYC. The LIRR, Metro North, PATH, and the subway form something resembling a coherent transit grid.
by dang | 2026-01-10 00:36:39+00:00
If you don't stop, we're going to ban you. As I said, I don't want to—but when you respond to requests to stop breaking the site guidelines by breaking them again, that's not good.

I get how it's activating and annoying when moderators show up and start fault-finding, so I can appreciate the irritation here. But really, we're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't destroy itself. I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to contribute positively to that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by MyFirstSass | 2026-01-10 00:36:55+00:00
I'm not sure i understand the wild hype here in this thread then.

Seems exactly like the tests at my company where even frontier models are revealed to be very expensive rubber ducks, but completely fails with non experts or anything novel or math heavy.

Ie. they mirror the intellect of the user but give you big dopamine hits that'll lead you astray.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-10 00:37:15+00:00
There's a second layer to the conflict here, in that (e.g.) the banks will want to move the entire flow into whatever secure device, enclave, or "agent" they supply - meanwhile, the whole point of me having a general-purpose computer is to be able to do general-purpose computing that I want within this flow.

My favorite, basic example is this: I'd like to create my own basic widget showing me my account balance on my phone's home screen. Doesn't have to be real-time, but accurate to +/- few minutes to what the bank app would say when I opened it. It has to be completely non-interactive - no me clicking to confirm, no reauthorizing every query or every couple hours. Just a simple piece of text, showing one number.

As far as I know it, there's no way of making it happen without breaking sandboxing or otherwise hacking the app and/or API endpoints in a way that's likely to break, and likely to get you in trouble with the bank.

It should not be that way. This is a basic piece of information I'm entitled to - one that I can get, but the banks decided I need to do it interactively, which severely limits the utility.

This is my litmus test. Until that can be done easily, I see the other side (banks, in cooperation with platform vendors) overreaching and controlling more than they should.

The point of the exercise isn't to just see the number occasionally; I can (begrudgingly) do that from the app. The difference here is that having the number means I can use it downstream. Instead of a widget on the phone screen, I could have it shown on a LED panel in my home office or kitchen[0], or Home Assistant dashboard. Or I could have a cron job automatically feeding it to my budgeting spreadsheet every 6 hours. Or I could have an LLM[1] remind me I've spent too much this week, or automatically order a pizza on Saturday evening but only if I'm not below a certain threshold. Or...

Endless realistic, highly individual applications, of a single basic number. The whole point of general-purpose computing empowering individuals. If only I could get that single number out.

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[0] - Why would I want that is besides the point.

[1] - E.g. via Home Assistant.
by levmiseri | 2026-01-10 00:38:00+00:00
> ...that it was too difficult or inconvenient to write out full HTML by hand

It's not necessarily that writing HTML or other markup flavors is harder (obviously it is), but the beauty of Markdown for me is that it's perfectly readable in its raw form as well as with an applied styling.

And speaking of customizing the 'look' of markdown, a shameless plug for a markdown editor I've been working on with extensive customization options: https://kraa.io/about
by markusde | 2026-01-10 00:38:16+00:00
Very cool to see how far things have come with this technology!

Please remember that this is a theorem about integers that is subject to a fairly elementary proof that is well-supported by the existing Mathlib infrastructure. It seems that the AI relies on the symbolic proof checker, and the proofs that it is checking don't use very complex definitions in this result. In my experience, proofs like this which are one step removed from existing infra are much much more likely to work.

Again though, this is really insanely cool!!
by j2kun | 2026-01-10 00:38:32+00:00
> A large amount of Tao's work

Perhaps you meant, "a decent amount of his recent work." He has been doing math long before LLMs, and is still regularly publishing papers with collaborators that have nothing to do with AI. The most recent was last week. https://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Tao,+T
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-10 00:39:45+00:00
> I find this a doubtful position, as there is a reason why the feds are often desperate to get their cases pulled into federal court, it can't be for nothing.

The reason is the perception that, in times of high state-federal friction (which is when most attempted state prosecutions of federal agents, and therefore both removal and Supremeacy Clause immunity cases occur) state judges are more likely act with bias against the federal government and federal agent defendants. It’s not because of the fedeal pardon power (which has never been an issue in such cases, as you yourself implicitly note) magically becomes applicable.

There's also an economy of justice concern, since it usually cuts out a couple levels of appeal on federal questions, (instead of trial court, state intermediate appellate court, state supreme court, federal circuit, and US supreme court, the chain is just trial court, federal circuit, US supreme court) and these type of cases always involve federal questions (every case where removal is an issue due to a federal officer being involved is also a case where the parameters of Supremacy Clause immunity are going to be an active issue, and there are possibly other federal issues involved.)
by dang | 2026-01-10 00:39:48+00:00
It may be that there wasn't enough information in your comment for me to read its intent correctly. I thought you were taking a snarky swipe at the other commenter—especially because most people on HN can be presumed to know what a formal proof is.

If that was the case, I apologize for misreading you! If you're interested, I can point you to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for past explanations about this type of misunderstanding and how to avoid it in the future.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-10 00:40:10+00:00
> Aristotle integrates three main components (...)

The second one being backed by a model.

> It is far more than an LLM

It's an LLM with a bunch of tools around it, and a slightly different runtime that ChatGPT. It's "only" that, but people - even here, of all places - keep underestimating just how much power there is in that.

> math != "language".

How so?
Show HN: arxiv2md: Convert ArXiv papers to markdown
by timf34 | 2026-01-10 00:40:13+00:00
I got tired of copy-pasting arXiv PDFs / HTML into LLMs and fighting references, TOCs, and token bloat.
So I basically made gitingest.com but for arxiv papers. You can just append "2md" to any arxiv URL (with HTML support), and you'll be given a clean markdown version, and the ability to trim what you wish very easily (ie cut out references, or appendix, etc.)
by aeonfox | 2026-01-10 00:40:50+00:00
> The motorcycle is real, you can buy it.

Pretty major point of difference though isn't it? They claim this will be out there in Q1 2026, giving a chance for sceptics and industry professionals to tear it down. If this is really the long con, they'd at least give a little time for the cheques to clear before their wild claims could be assessed?

The other possibility is that they have very little moat with this new battery tech, because it's so easy to manufacture. Being the first mover might be their only play, and it's only a matter of time before someone else figures it out (or it leaks).
Show HN: Readable – A Swipeable Article Reader
by randoglando | 2026-01-10 00:41:14+00:00
I was kinda frustrated with how gamification is only used for corporate enrichment and not for individual growth, so I built this to make reading long articles more engaging and also to improve my reading comprehension by gamifying article reading.

As a bonus, if you provide a Gemini API key, it will generate quizzes using Gemma-3-27b, which can run on the free tier.

Everything is processed locally so that should address most privacy & security concerns. The code is also open-source on Github.
by dang | 2026-01-10 00:41:39+00:00
Cynical, curmudgeonly, dismissive comments that ruin it as a place for curiosity.

If you're interested, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515507 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46508115 are other places I wrote about this recently.

It's the biggest problem facing HN, in my opinion.
by markusde | 2026-01-10 00:42:38+00:00
Yes, the contributions of the people promoting the AI should be considered, as well as the people who designed the Lean libraries used in-the-loop while the AI was writing the solution. Any talk of "AGI" is, as always, ridiculous.

But speaking as a specialist in theorem proving, this result is pretty impressive! It would have likely taken me a lot longer to formalize this result even if it was in my area of specialty.
by MyFirstSass | 2026-01-10 00:43:58+00:00
Eh? The text reads:

"Aristotle integrates three main components: a Lean proof search system, an informal reasoning system that generates and formalizes lemmas, and a dedicated geometry solver"

Not saying it's not an amazing setup, i just don't understand the word "AI" being used like this when it's the setup / system that's brilliant in conjunction with absolute experts.
by 0x1ceb00da | 2026-01-10 00:44:47+00:00
I saw him as a content creator doing some research, like pewdiepie or mrbeast. He's a good writer though. The article was a fun read.

> Your goal here is to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. That’s the number one goal of this production company. It’s not to make the best produced videos. Not to make the funniest videos. Not to make the best looking videos. Not the highest quality videos. It’s to make the best YOUTUBE videos possible. Everything we want will come if we strive for that. Sounds obvious but after 6 months in the weeds a lot of people tend to forget what we are actually trying to achieve here.

- mr beast
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-10 00:45:30+00:00
1. Why Musk made such a hard-right turn politically, alienating most of his customers. People on the left were always far more likely to buy an EV than those on the right.

I believe a couple of things happened over the last few years that basically broke him. One factor may have been his daughter coming out as trans, and I have a feeling that another factor was a realization that his ambition to start a Mars colony wasn't going to be possible in his lifetime. Being forced to give up a major life goal hurts deeply no matter how much money or influence you have.

He started engaging in irrational, erratic behavior starting in 2020, such as getting into the pissing match with Unsworth, offering and then being being forced to overpay for Twitter, and pivoting towards full-blown Trumpism and neo-Nazi-adjacent politics. Before ~2019 he was just known as a hard-driving Bill Gates-style nerd CEO. By now, I don't think he cares about any role except that of cult leader.

2. Why traders continue to buy Tesla stock even as sales nose-dive.

See above. It's not a car company. It's a robot company^W^WAI company^W^Wenergy company^W^Wtaxi company^W^W personality cult.
by lossolo | 2026-01-10 00:46:24+00:00
Sanctions haven't stopped Russian influence operations, they've continued under the heaviest sanctions regime in history.
I agree that digital literacy is genuinely important, but lets not kid ourselves that we can suddenly make it work tomorrow, it's basically a generational project. Meanwhile, influence operations are happening now, at scale, with measurable effects. So what I mean is that "invest in education" approach is correct but insufficient as a response to an active, ongoing campaign. It's like responding to a house fire by saying we should invest in fire safety education. Your home will burn down while you do this.

So I understand your point but you're essentially arguing that because democracies can abuse power, they should unilaterally disarm against adversaries who face no such constraints. Russia etc have no free speech concerns limiting their operations against us. Doing nothing will allow these adveraries to destroy our democracies from within.That is an endgame of your approach, and I just can't agree with this.
So doing nothing because our tools might be misused feels like it guarantees we lose.

I think we can at least agree that the choice isn't only between "government ministry of truth" and "do nothing" and we need a middle ground solution. Transparency requirements (forcing platforms to label state affiliated accounts), requiring disclosure of foreign funding for political ads and influencers, holding platforms accountable for coordinated inauthentic behavior etc etc, these don't require the government to decide what's true. They require disclosure of who is speaking and who is paying. Think of the US influencers paid unknowingly by Russia, or the "patriotic" X accounts that turned out to be foreign run. Those are just the obvious cases already happening. This needs to stop or at least the public needs clear disclosure of funding and origin.

We have homomorphic encryption now. Let's use it in a way that protects privacy but still helps flag foreign influence and helps distinguish between foreign speech and protected domestic speech.
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-10 00:46:50+00:00
I've only ever played Skyrim on a 2009 13" MacBook Pro in Wine. It took like 30min to load and ran at like 4fps. But I didn't play past the first area.

Wasn't AoE1 released for PPC Mac natively? AoE2 was probably the best Mac game ever.
by rconti | 2026-01-10 00:46:52+00:00
It's notable that the annual ridership is up 47% in the FY ending June 2025 vs the FY ending June 2024, when electrification was only complete in September 2024-- in other words, it's not even a full year's worth of ridership increase.

On the flip side, I find it shocking that ridership is still only 60% of pre-pandemic levels.

Anecdotally, the increased service is a game-changer. Speed matters, too, a lot, but the frequency is what matters to me. A transit system that only arrives once an hour off-peak is not particularly useful. The increased frequency, to a minimum of once every 30mins means missing a train is merely annoying. It's still infrequent enough that you want to check a schedule to avoid waiting around for too long, but not a deal-breaker, IMO.
by anonzzzies | 2026-01-10 00:47:37+00:00
Is this, like in Spain and some other countries, all basically focused on blocking illegal sports streaming? Especially soccer. I have a friend who runs a fairly large forum (aka a lot of user content including links to illegal things) in Spain who gets letters about 'Illegal streaming links to movies, TV shows and sports' with a list of links; he knows he only has to remove the sports, they do not give a crap about illegal US show streams locally and US requests go to /dev/null as they cannot enforce anyway. So I assume this is only about streaming sports as well?
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-10 00:48:30+00:00
You should check Austin TX where they tried to do the same thing, but only built one rail.... So yea you have to wait like over an hour just for arrival if the train is at the other end. For what should be a 15 min ride because literally only one train can go back and forth. The train drivers sometime stop the train to get food at in-n-out burger too, seriously.

Its one of the dumbest things I've ever seen, a testament to inefficient bureaucracy. I'm not sure anyone uses it.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-10 00:48:45+00:00
Transformer != LLM. See my edited top-level post. Just because Aristotle uses a transformer doesn't mean it is an LLM, just as Vision Transformers and AlphaFold use transformers but are not LLMs.

LLM = Large Language Model. Large refers to both the number of parameters (and in practice, depth) of the model, and also implicitly the amount of data used for training, and "language" means human (i.e. written, spoken) language. A Vision Transformer is not an LLM because it is trained on images, and AlphaFold is not an LLM because it is trained molecular configurations.

Aristotle works heavily with formalized LEAN statements and expressions. While you can certainly argue this is a language of sorts, it is not at all the same "language" as the "language" in LLMs. Calling Aristotle an "LLM" just because it has a transformer is more misleading than truthful, because every other single aspect of it is far more clever and involved.
by sgjohnson | 2026-01-10 00:49:53+00:00
I’m pretty confident that the US SIGINT agencies wouldn’t manipulate BGP to redirect traffic somewhere, as such a hijack will ALWAYS leave traces that would be observable by anyone impacted, downstream or upstream.

US SIGINT agencies? They’d just pwn the routers they are interested in. And almost certainly they’ve already done it. Like 10+ years ago.

BGP hijacks are really low-tech and trivial to detect. And competent intelligence agencies don’t do either, unless it comes with enough plausible deniability that it would even be insane to suggest foul play.

I operate a small BGP hobbynet under 2 different AS numbers, and even I keep logs about path changes. Not for any practical purpose, just sheer curiosity.

BGP is a globally distributed and decentralized system. The messages (announcements) propogate virtually across the entire internet. If someone hijacked a route to a prefix that I’ve received, and the path I’ve received is the hijacked one, I’d get that information.

So yes, if that happened, I’d totally expect CloudFlare to publish it, unless they got a NSL. Which they most probably wouldn’t get, as NOTHING about the event would be secret—-it would be out in the open for everyone to see the instant it would happen. There are also tools like https://bgp.tools which operate public route collectors, with the data being publicly available. RIPE has one too.
by losso | 2026-01-10 00:50:36+00:00
I scanned all disks, I've only seen "Bravo Romeo Delta" (a 1992 game) and a Romeo Knight music disk. But the site has a pointer editor, did it look like this?

https://heckmeck.de/pointers/?user-content=00000000000000000...

I've also scanned all "tiny" cursors with 13 pixels or less. Surprisingly, there is no pointer with this exact shape yet!
by m463 | 2026-01-10 00:51:06+00:00
An interesting question would be - have I helped people more well-off than me? and how did I think about it?

I think there is no reason for him to write this article for free, or any of his articles, but I am glad he did us the kindness.

(I did like amish hackers https://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/ )
by yibg | 2026-01-10 00:51:54+00:00
Style aside, what do you think he should do? Faced with a law that not only imposes disproportionate fines (more than revenue from the country), but on the surface also requires blocking globally, there are really only a few things to do:

1. Challenge the law in court

3. Influence the law via political means

3. Try to sway public opinion so 2. may be easier

4. Give in and play ball

5. Exit the country entirely
by c0ndu17 | 2026-01-10 00:51:59+00:00
Yeah, Nah, 0 chance.

Linus Torvalds, imo, is the reason we have open source, through Linux & Git. He’s the open source philosopher king.

I think he’s put enough in to know where his allegiance lies, over a 2010 US citizenship - a very different world.

There is also 0 chance, US/MS government hasn’t put a lot of pressure on him over the last 34 years of creating and spreading, at least the OS form of socialism
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-10 00:52:34+00:00
> Also, I would not put it past OpenAI to drag up a similar proof using ChatGPT, refine it and pretend that ChatGPT found it.

That's the best part! They don't even need to, because ChatGPT will happily do its own private "literature search" and then not tell you about it - even Terence Tao has freely admitted as much in his previous comments on the matter. So we can at least afford to be a bit less curmudgeonly and cynical about that specific dynamic: we've literally seen it happen.
by femto | 2026-01-10 00:52:56+00:00
The key I found was to avoid self flagellation.

Try your hardest to do each session, but if you miss a session don't try to make it up. Just get on and do a normal session the next time it falls due. You're in it for the long term, so long term it doesn't matter if you were intermittent when building the habit, or the occasional session gets missed for a reason.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-10 00:53:01+00:00
Yeah, I don't mean to beat up on Thor Labs. As they point out, they don't even make any extra profit on those kits beyond the components themselves. And then there are the free snacks. :-P

If you are putting together some more advanced educational or experimental apparatus, they are pretty much a no-brainer supplier, as you say. But their level of quality, support, and system integration just isn't necessary for something like this.
by guelo | 2026-01-10 00:53:18+00:00
It's insane that it's not connected to Bart. Or that it isn't Bart. Bart goes SF to San Jose in the East Bay but we have a separate system on the West Bay? It's all a sign of how dysfunctional California governments have been at all levels for a long time. A big part of the dysfunction in the Bay Area is because there are 100 separate tiny governments. If it were one big government, like NYC, we could have sensibly coordinated regional projects.