MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sgbeal | 2026-01-25 04:33:49+00:00
> The fact that they didn’t make STRICT default is really a shame.

SQLite makes strong backwards-compatibility guarantees. How many apps would be broken if an Android update suddenly defaulted its internal copy of SQLite to STRICT? Or if it decided to turn on foreign keys by default?

Those are rhetorical questions. Any non-0 percentage of affected applications adds up to a big number for software with SQLite's footprint.

Software pulling the proverbial rug out from under downstream developers by making incompatible changes is one of the unfortunate evils of software development, but the SQLite project makes every effort to ensure that SQLite doesn't do any rug-tugging.
Ask HN: A good Model to choose in Ollama to run on Claude Code
by sujayk_33 | 2026-01-25 04:34:36+00:00
Given that Claude Code supports a locally running model on Ollama, which is the best Thinking Model that supports tooling, can I pick for good output?

Also, if anyone has tried, does it still require a Claude Subscription?

(I currently have an RTX 5060 machine with 8GB of VRAM)
by cryzinger | 2026-01-25 04:34:44+00:00
Hmm, I guess I didn't see it as pandering, or I'm misunderstanding what you mean by pandering; if anything it I saw it as the opposite, since the author (a writer) is poking fun at writers. So instead of a story about a bunch of noble, intelligent, sexy writers who defeat the big bad AI, it's a story where these writers are regular, imperfect people with their own insecurities and selfish motivations. But even as imperfect people, their fears and goals are (to me!) sympathetic.

My perception here is probably colored by some of the circles I run in, too. I think a lot of writers and artists are concerned about AI, and will reassure themselves how their jobs are safe because AI can only produce crap, but then they'll also complain how a lot of popular human-produced art is also crap--which opens up a kind of dual insecurity of (1) why is that crap popular and not my own amazing, brilliant work and (2) if audiences already love crap then maybe AI really will take all of our jobs after all...

And I'm probably reading waaaaay deeper into the "I thought genre was beneath you" line than the author ever intended, but that's what it evokes to me. It makes the three writers in the story seem like jerks, which keeps the whole thing from feeling like a two-dimensional morality tale, but it also makes the AI really seem like a jerk for playing to their insecurities, which reminds me that I'm still rooting for those three jerks.
by dotancohen | 2026-01-25 04:35:15+00:00
> old telephone lines did not disclose info about me with merely my phone number.

Old telephone lines most certainly disclosed additional information about you. Who you contacted, when, how often.

Did you call that drug dealer every Tuesday evening? Looks suspicious. Did that criminal call you the day before he robbed a store not far from your home? Looks suspicious. Do you call Pakistan twice a week? Looks suspicious. Have you ever called a suicide prevention hotline? A bank other than your own? A mosque? An independent political party?

Your POTS phone was always revealing information.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-25 04:36:22+00:00
> My friends all younger than me prefer Discord.

That's interesting; I have and use discord myself (owner of a 300+ member server for my WoW guild), but I've never really considered it a messaging app in the same way I do iMessage, WhatsApp, and so on. I think because everyone is pseudo anonymous, it's more like social media to me. Plus I've got the phone numbers and iMessage groups for close friends I've made over discord.

Given its popularity among gamers of all nationalities, I wonder where discord stacks up in relation to the EU's DMA?
by squigz | 2026-01-25 04:37:04+00:00
That a government would be willing to risk this for publicity isn't really changing my mind.

"Come to Taiwan; you may or may not watch someone plummet to their death while here" doesn't appeal to me, personally anyway. Anyway that guy that did it with safety equipment a few years back made the rounds in the news too, so not sure this was necessary in that regard.
by sgbeal | 2026-01-25 04:39:13+00:00
> That @ syntax is used in modern day Fossil too. Maybe that adds some extra overhead?

(Long-time Fossil dev here.)

The @ syntax is pre-processed, transformed to printf()-like calls, the destination of which depends on whether fossil is currently running (to simplify only slightly) from the CLI or as a CGI/server process.

That is: @ itself has no runtime costs, but does transform into calls which do have runtime costs. (printf() and its ilk aren't cheap!)
by theYipster | 2026-01-25 04:39:54+00:00
IOMMU pass-through is the next feature I'm working on, but I felt it was now time to release the V1. Currently, vm-curator supports:

- VM creation with over 100 different OS profiles, built for KVM and emulation
- 3D para-virtualization support using virtio-vga-gl (virgl)
- UEFI and TPM support (auto-configured for OSes that need it, like Windows 11)
- QCOWS2 Snapshot support.
- USB Pass-through support and management.

There is also a rich metadata library with ascii art, descriptions of OSes, and fun-facts.

VM Creation with IOMMU will require the following for GPU pass-through:
- a motherboard capable of proper IOMMU support.
- 2+ GPUs, plus a dummy HDMI or DP1.4 plug for the passed-through GPU
- Looking-Glass for display

VM-curator can host and manage other gpu-passthrough configurations, as the application supports editing each VM's launch script, but the above profile is what I'm planning to put into the creator system.

I have a TRX40 (Threadripper) motherboard, which will serve as an ample test-bed, but I still need to acquire a second GPU.
by hakfoo | 2026-01-25 04:40:06+00:00
It's fascinating how education has COMPLETELY fallen off the radar politically in the last 10-15 years.

Even before we introduced a WWE manager for the Secretary of Education, we stopped discussing educational competitiveness. I can recall a couple decades ago every year or two the news having nervous handwringing stories about "(originally Japanese, then Korean, then Chinese) 6th graders have the math skills to design a full lunar rocket launch system, while American high-school graduates are incapable of filling out a Lotto playslip correctly".

The only time anyone talks about schools now is "is one getting shot up" or "looking for an excuse to ban books or siphon the few remaining dollars the public school programs have left into private/charter/religious schools that aren't necessarily delivering better overall outcomes." Rather than fixing the affordability crisis in secondary education, we're seeing an awful lot of amplification on the "not everyone should go to college" narrative, which might be technically accurate but seems to undermine the Delta Force plan you mentioned even more. Nobody seems to make education a central campaign issue anymore (even before all issues were subsumed by "will there be a fair election next time?")

The only way it makes sense is if we gave up on the idea of education as an economic driver. What is our economic vision for 2050? Feels like the current administration has maybe two ideas left:

* Hope everyone else leaves the petrostate pool, either by supply collapse or market trend/long term economic vision shifts, and then we can be the world's leading supplier of goo, from a puppetized Venezuela and maybe by coaxing Alberta seperatism enough.

* Bully economics, no longer even trying to compete on legitimate product merits and just saying "You'll buy 70,000 Dodge Darts if you don't want us to start shooting up your fishing boats."
by jml7c5 | 2026-01-25 04:40:45+00:00
Netflix has a stream with close-up cameras, as they were the ones who arranged the whole thing. Unfortunately the commentary and color grading are both terrible: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81987107

A YouTube search pulls up a stream filmed from the ground (a nearby building?) using a zoom lens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzthkg2ti2Q
by 127 | 2026-01-25 04:41:33+00:00
Responsibility of intellectuals, or wise men/women, has always been to guide the tribe towards security, happiness and prosperity. Not to sow dissent inside the tribe by moralizing, while completely ignoring all the ills in other tribes.

So called "intellectuals" who do it just to further their own selfish goals, should not be awarded high ranking positions.
by komali2 | 2026-01-25 04:41:53+00:00
Yes, I would, for the same reason I refuse to say anything at the border other than "I'm an American citizen," and for the same reason I refuse to say a word to the police during a traffic stop other than "I reserve my fifth amendment right to remain silent."

Rights aren't rights if you don't get to actually use them.

Right now Americans are learning the lessons of the black panthers: constitutionally protected "rights" are only rights so long as your flexing of them isn't inconvenient to the State. We've been shouting this at McMilitias for decades now.
by orionsbelt | 2026-01-25 04:42:41+00:00
> You can quite clearly see the second shooter in the video standing over him, shooting him multiple times as he's laying motionless on the ground after being beaten and shot once.

Yes, that's how cops/ICE react when they hear gunshots. They shoot and ask questions later. I'm not necessarily defending that (I think it would be a great thing if cops/ICE received more expensive training, cared more about de-escalation techniques, and perhaps even were more willing to risk their own lives than just always shoot recklessly), but putting all that aside, if someone yells "gun", and then a shot is fired, the second shooter assuming it's the guy they are tackling and shooting multiple times is a typical cop reaction. So the main question is - who fired the first shot and why? The moral weight of the event, at least in my view, is very different if it was ICE deliberately shooting, or an accidental discharge of a fire arm.

> According to whom? What's your source for this? Wild that you're trying to muddy the waters with "theories" that even ICE hasn't claimed (the only defense so far is that he was a violent domestic terrorist who wanted to murder ICE agents, which is demonstrably false).

Most likely according to me, based on the video I have seen (https://x.com/Landeur/status/2015191223900803407). I could be wrong. I was responding to someone who said there's clear video that it was a deliberate execution. The water of any breaking news reporting is already muddy; it's all speculation on all sides.
by hereme888 | 2026-01-25 04:43:11+00:00
So apparently all swarm features are controlled by a single gate function in Claude Code:

---

function i8() {

if (Yz(process.env.CLAUDE_CODE_AGENT_SWARMS)) return !1;

return xK("tengu_brass_pebble", !1);

}

---

So, after patch

function i8(){return!0}

---

The tengu_brass_pebble flag is server-side controlled based on the particulars of your account, such as tier. If you have the right subscription, the features may already be available.

The CLAUDE_CODE_AGENT_SWARMS environment variable only works as an opt-out, not an opt-in.
by sgbeal | 2026-01-25 04:44:12+00:00
> I’ve been experimenting with LiveStoreJS which uses a custom SQLite WASM binary for event sync

i'm not sure whether this might be helpful to you, but 3.52 will include a revamped "kvvfs" which (A) also works (non-persistently) in Worker threads and (B) supports callbacks to asynchronously send all db page writes to the client.

<https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/kvvfs.md>
by keeda | 2026-01-25 04:45:21+00:00
Right, but I'm contending there is a form of collusion. Here's a paraphrased conversation I had with someone who's in the exec class when I remarked on all the layoffs happening at the same time:

"Elon has signaled to the industry that you can layoff a 80% of your employees and things will still be OK, and the rest of the industry is following his lead."

When I pointed out that that wasn't true, things were actually getting rather bad amongst the employees and from a product quality / safety perspective, the response was, "It doesn't matter. They've all decided the status quo must change and decided that they want to do the same things."

This rhymes with what I heard from other senior people as well. And suspiciously the same anti-employee tactics have been happening across the industry at the same time -- layoffs, forced attrition, shifting jobs offshore, RTO, increased workloads with reducing headcount leading to record levels of burnout...

Even if we charitably assume it's group-think, that's still a form of collusion.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-25 04:45:28+00:00
I can only speak for Japan, but I suspect China is the same. In Japan, English programming is the norm because all mainstream programming languages are written in English. Keywords, libraries and documentation are in English, so there's not really any getting around the fact that you have to learn to read at least some English. Some Japanese developers do write identifiers in Japanese where languages support it, and documentation / comments are often written in Japanese, of course.

I, personally, think this is a lamentable state of affairs that raises the barrier to entry for programming, especially for children. There are education-oriented Japanese programming languages that try to fill the niche for teaching children, but I think it would be beneficial if there were serious languages with a full ecosystem rather than one designed to be training wheels before learning English programming languages.
by sathish316 | 2026-01-25 04:45:51+00:00
Subagent orchestration without the overhead of frameworks like Gastown is genuinely exciting to see. I’ve recorded several long-running demos of Pied-Piper, which is a Subagents orchestration system for Claude Code and ClaudeCodeRouter+OpenRouter here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKWJ03cHcPr3OWiSBDghzh62A...

I came across a concept called DreamTeam, where someone was manually coordinating GPT 5.2 Max for planning, Opus 4.5 for coding, and Gemini Pro 3 for security and performance reviews. Interesting approach, but clearly not scalable without orchestration. In parallel, I was trying to do repeatable workflows like API migration, Language migration, Tech stack migration using Coding agents.

Pied-Piper is a subagent orchestration system built to solve these problems and enable repeatable SDLC workflows. It runs from a single Claude Code session, using an orchestrator plus multiple agents that hand off tasks to each other as part of a defined workflow called Playbooks:
https://github.com/sathish316/pied-piper

Playbooks allow you to model both standard SDLC pipelines (Plan → Code → Review → Security Review → Merge) and more complex flows like language migration or tech stack migration (Problem Breakdown → Plan → Migrate → Integration Test → Tech Stack Expert Review → Code Review → Merge).

Ideally, it will require minimal changes once Claude Swarm and Claude Tasks become mainstream.
by zdragnar | 2026-01-25 04:46:04+00:00
"Smart" in all other classes of purchases typically means IoT / Internet connected.

The computerization of formerly mechanical features making it harder to DIY repair is a separate but also valid concern, though I'm not sure how it applies to EVs.

Added: see https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2011758140510142890 for exactly the kind of thing that nobody wants.
by mcdeltat | 2026-01-25 04:46:48+00:00
I've been an avid C++ user for ages and this is the first time I've seen the final spec of C++26 reflections used in a practical context - and wow am I having a "wtf" moment at the syntax.

^^T ?? obj.[:member:] ?? What is this craziness? No way this is the best we could come up with. I'm actually thinking C++ may be going too far (and this is as someone who thinks template metaprogramming is "fine").

Never before has that quote "inside C++ is a smaller, better language trying to get out" been more applicable.
by Sep142324 | 2026-01-25 04:47:19+00:00
I work on Proton/Timeplus (disclosure).

We hit a SIGSEGV where the backtrace was misleading: our fatal handler tried to print a stack trace and that trace capture sometimes crashed inside libunwind, so it looked like “unwinding is broken”.

What worked was building a deterministic postmortem harness (core dump + debug binary + symbols + matching source paths) inside Docker, then installing Codex in the same container so it could run GDB + rebuild/iterate in-place.

OpenAI Codex pivoted away from unstable backtraces and classified the crash via siginfo_t/ucontext_t. It turned out to be SEGV_PKUERR (Intel MPK/PKU) caused by a thread-local PKRU mismatch when some worker threads entered V8.

PR with the patch: https://github.com/timeplus-io/proton/pull/1091
by margalabargala | 2026-01-25 04:47:30+00:00
> The tires and their dust don't care whether you're braking by regen or friction.

I'm aware. The point I'm making is that EVs apply more braking than ICE vehicles do, due to the specifics of the implementation of regen braking that all manufacturers have chosen.

> You can coast in EV as well

Not without literally putting it in neutral. If you just take your foot off the accelerator, any modern EV will apply some amount of regenerative braking. It's not really possible to hold the accelerator pedal at the exact position where you are not applying motor power but also have 0kW of regen braking, certainly for any extended period of time.

If your point is that someone could make an EV to which regen braking contributes no more to tire wear than an ICE vehicle, you're correct. Unfortunately, no such EVs are currently manufactured. Even the ones that allow you to "turn off" regen braking will generally apply 1-2kW of regen if your foot is off the accelerator.
by sgbeal | 2026-01-25 04:47:33+00:00
> The query optimizer is allowed to see more opportunities to optimize and avoid unnecessary work.

Let's also not forget that db servers can have a memory, in that they can tweak query optimization based on previous queries or scans or whatever state is relevant. SQLite has no memory, in that sense. All query optimizations it makes are based solely upon the single query being processed.
by hnburnsy | 2026-01-25 04:47:56+00:00
Funny all I see here are every single critical Elon post from Fred at Electrek.co gaining hundreds of points

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618901 [970 points]

Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-cha... [672 points]

Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-... [299 points]

Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash https://electrek.co/2025/12/15/tesla-reports-another-robotax... 155 points

When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869916
151 points
by queenkjuul | 2026-01-25 04:49:28+00:00
ICE shot a woman 5 times while she was alone in her car. Body cam confirmed she did not resist, federal investigation failed to produce charges.

But yeah, it's just not happening, you couldn't possibly just be unaware

Edit: you literally said "i will not watch the videos" - you are admittedly willfully ignorant on the subject, your posts are therefore irrelevant
by daxfohl | 2026-01-25 04:50:21+00:00
There's no need to anthropomorphize though. One loop that maintains some state and various context trees gets you all that in a more controlled fashion, and you can do things like cache KV caches across sessions, roll back a session globally, use different models for different tasks, etc. Assuming a one-to-one-to-one relationship between loops and LLM and context limits what you can do and makes coordination a lot harder.

Multiple independent automata reviewing each others code etc., IME there's nothing driving to resolution and so they'll keep going around in circles. Code review is a process created for a human system. With an automated coding system, any kind of extra "review" can be baked into the agent loop as the code is being written; it doesn't have to be a separate entity in a separate process communicating over github.
by PacificSpecific | 2026-01-25 04:50:49+00:00
Hey thanks for sharing. I gave it a try but ran into some issues.

Is this intended to be able to be used on a phone? I saw the instructions about guiding a yellow ball but what I experienced was about 10 seconds of chiptune music with a maze that had some icons I couldn't interact with.

After the 10 seconds a series of green spheres and vertical lines washed across the screen but I wasn't able to control them.

I'm using the duck duck go browser on Android if that helps.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-25 04:50:57+00:00
Another perspective:

"You know, I ran into Henry Kissinger years ago and I asked him if he enjoyed the intellectual stimulation of the work, and he said in effect, 'I am working with the ideas that I formed at Harvard years ago. I haven't had a real idea since I've been on this; I just work with the old ideas."
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-25 04:52:37+00:00
It's not necessarily bad, these probably aren't hard figures but a GP once told me that of the cases he gets, if you do nothing much then 70% will get better by themselves, 20% will stay the same, and 10% will get worse (may have misremembered the numbers there). A lot of people just need a bit of reassurance and something to make them feel like they're doing something and they'll be OK, for which very affordable TCM is fine. Albert Schweitzer was once asked why he was OK with witch-doctors (as they were called then) practising outside his hospital, and he said they treated the stuff they could and sent the serious cases to him. It was an arrangement that worked for both sides.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-01-25 04:54:36+00:00
Many car enthusiasts remove the catalytic converter for a combination of additional power and/or better sound. It has a massive impact on emissions and what you might be smelling is hydrogen sulfide which is normally converted to sulfur dioxide which is orderless.

I should note the power increase may not have a major impact on newer cars where the cat has been optimized to reduce it's negative power impact.

Infact a popular tuner company, APR, that provides flashes tested the recent Volkswagen GTI and R generation with their most common tune and determined that with their tune removing the cat had a nominal impact.

*Basically they can bring the cars power as high as the OEM internals can handle reliably while keeping the cat. There are cars where it still has some impact and of course, different from power ,"straight piping" a car can offer a subjective sound change.
by Insanity | 2026-01-25 04:54:41+00:00
I guess watching the film ('free solo' is the one you mention) is the lowest effort way of getting his perspective and I recommend the film.

For a deeper dive, the book "Alone on the wall" is a good read and I recommend it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36531127-alone-on-the-wa..., although that said the book might be less appealing to someone who 'knows nothing about climbing' and is more of a time investment than the short documentary :)