MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by C6JEsQeQa5fCjE | 2026-01-23 17:03:29+00:00
> Social media incentivizes small 'creators' to espouse outrageous views that mainstream media does not, and that seem vitally important

You write about this in a negative tone ("outrageous views"). To go for the extremely low hanging fruit, what about when the establishment media tried to mostly ignore Epstein, and it was only the hard push from social media personalities that brought the topic back into the mainstream? What confidence does that leave in the establishment media, and that they are not bought and paid for by the 'ruling pedophile class'?

When the establishment media refuses to talk about certain topics, it gives up the control over the narrative on that topic. That is their conscious choice. It is obvious that individuals will rise to fill that gap. Why are you writing about it as if it's a bad thing?

Does a liberal democracy even exist without independent media? I think not.
by eis | 2026-01-23 17:04:07+00:00
We have also a service impacted by this. There is no status acknowledgement of the severe degradation. Most of the time queries just take 2-10s, some even 20s+ and a few times they even hang indefinitely. It's a CF-internal networking issue and not SQL execution issue because in the meta data you can see SQL processing taking like 1ms. Even a simple "SELECT 123" in their dashboard D1 console can take 10+ seconds.

Our company opened an issue but we have not heard back in 3 days. The issue has been going on for more than the 3 days, we've noticed it nearly a week ago.

You can also find people in the CF community forums or in other places complaining about D1 latency and networking issues going back as much as a year. Nobody from CF replies in their community forums.

I think this is 1. not an acceptable level of service 2. not acceptable level of support 3. very surprising for a company who is all about fast and reliable networking.

Unfortunately I experienced all kinds of problems with Cloudflare and their non-CDN services over the past couple of months and I've also never seen a major cloud service provider suffering from so many dashboard errors and bugs.

Cloudflare folks, if you read this: you need a Snow Leopard year. You've launched many services and products but they are riddled with bugs, performance issues and outright outages. The recent launch of your data warehouse offering which in our testing (and I think even in your presentation) showed data processing speeds measured in the kilobytes/s while not even supporting aggregations at launch would have been embarassing even 20 years ago.

Please please step up your quality game because you do have some interesting offerings with good potential. The two huge outages last year were just surfacing deeper issues that seem to permeate throughout the stack.
by Balgair | 2026-01-23 17:04:15+00:00
I'd be interested to know what the controls were for those studies. Were the participants already addicted or was the 30mg+ dosing done on non-addicted people? It's a lot of studies to pour through.

Also, that is a lot of metrics!

And it seems that the athletic performance increase to get statistical validation (for any person) is in the grams range. I ... I just can't see any reason to take that much caffeine unless I'm at the Olympics. I'd be jumping out of my skin!
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-23 17:04:41+00:00
Why does HN love analogies? You can pick any animal or thing and it can fit in some way. Horse is a docile safe analogy it’s also the most obvious analogy. Like yes the world gets it LLMs have limitations thanks for sharing, we know it’s not as good as a programmer.

We should use analogies to point out the obvious thing everyone is avoiding:

Guys 3 years ago, AI wasn’t even a horse. It was a rock. The key is that it transformed into horse…. what will it be in the next 10 years?

AI is a terminator. A couple years back someone turned off read only mode. That’s the better analogy.

Pick an analogy that follows the trendline of continual change into the unknown future rather then an obvious analogy that keeps your ego and programming skills safe.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-23 17:04:44+00:00
Do you understand at a molecular level how cooking works? Or do you just do some rote actions according to instructions? How do you know if your cooking worked properly without understanding chemistry? Without looking at its components under a microscope?

Simple: you follow the directions, eat the food, and if it tastes good, it worked.

If cooks don't understand physics, chemistry, biology, etc, how do all the cooks in the world ensure they don't get people sick? They follow a set of practices and guidelines developed to ensure the food comes out okay. At scale, businesses develop even more practices (pasteurization, sanitization, refrigeration, etc) to ensure more food safety. None of the people involved understand it at a base level. There are no scientists directly involved in building the machines or day-to-day operations. Yet the entire world's food supply works just fine.

It's all just abstractions. You don't need to see the code for the code to work.
by cbeach | 2026-01-23 17:04:46+00:00
Yes, anti-motorist policy is thinly veiled.

Local councils are willing to admit they are directly harming the interests of people peacefully going about their legitimate business, in order to try to manipulate their behaviour.

It's all such zero sum thinking. Rather than reducing congestion (and thus pollution) by making the roads more efficient, they prefer to make them LESS efficient (with LTNs, modal filters, speed bumps, chicanes, one-way etc) in the hope that this will discourage traffic. All it does is move the congestion from one place to another, and make the situation worse overall.
by lorenzleutgeb | 2026-01-23 17:05:11+00:00
Right. Radicle nodes out of the standard distribution would be kind enough to delete. On the technological level you cannot do more (also not really less, funnily enough). But it would be possible to patch the code and remove deletion.

Often times I just take the "information theory perspective": You fundamentally cannot make something "more private". Once it's out, it's out. You cannot "untell" a secret. That's just not how it works.

But then other solutions also have this problem. Once I have `git fetch`ed from GitHub, or received that e-mail containing a patch on a mailing list, I have a copy on my filesystem. It's going to be pretty darn hard to remove it from there if I don't comply. Maybe you'd have to enforce some law.

In that context, it seems that people were led to believe that "removal from the server(farm)" is the same as "removal from the universe", but that's just not true.

Happy for any insight on how to approach this differently.
by slfnflctd | 2026-01-23 17:05:14+00:00
> Yegge deserves praise for exercising agency and taking a swing at a system like this [...] then running a public tour of his shitty, quarter-built plane while it’s mid-flight

This quote sums it all up for me. It's a crazy project that moves the conversation forward, which is the main value I see in it.

It very well could be a logjam breaker for those who are fortunate enough to get out more than they put into it... but it's very much a gamble, and the odds are against you.
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-01-23 17:05:18+00:00
I'm reading this just as I am working on a PWA that uses Bun.Terminal to spawn Claude Code and xterm.js to mirror its TUI on the web to expose Claude Code in a way where I can use it while I'm on the phone with TailScale.

I didn't really think about this until now (I am just solving my problem), but I guess I could get OpenCode'd for this. Similar to the OP I don't find I am doing anything particularly weird, but if their use case wasn't looked upon favorably by Anthropic, mine probably won't be either.

After the OpenCode drama where some people got banned for using it I saw some people from Anthropic on Twitter asking folks to DM them if they got banned and they'd get unbanned. I know I wouldn't be doing that, so I guess if I get banned, I am back to Codex for a while.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-23 17:05:31+00:00
> attempting to appeal to 'centrists' and Republicans, exactly what you wanted

Why do you think this is what they wanted?

> At this point, the only recovery from the damage Trump has inflicted upon this country is going to be a massive power grab. That means dissolving ICE and arresting everyone involved, packing the supreme court, pulling out all of the Trump appointees and criminally investigating everyone involved with this administration. And let me be very clear: any Dem that does not agree not only deserves to lose, but they deserve to be harassed for the rest of their life and never, ever hold another job again. There is no middle ground anymore.

This just ignores the point from the parent comment it is in response to; regardless of how agreeable these actions would be to you and others (myself included), there are many who could be easily convinced that the result will be harmful to them pretty much "because it's 'the Democrats' doing it". You can arrest however many thousands of politicians and agents; the problem would be exacerbated in that case since the same people who voted for Trump twice would feel even more aggrieved. Many of them like what (they think) he's doing and would jump at any opportunity to vote for someone similar.

What you describe would not be the recovery you hope for, at least not long term. Granted, I don't know what would be, but this issue is one of "post-truth" where significant amounts of people can simultaneously be convinced of conflicting opinions about an event, even given videos from multiple perspectives, as we learned recently. Throwing an easily-contested "massive power grab" into the mix is not a serious suggestion. The political machine that got Trump elected will easily get another demagogue elected off the back of lies mixed with truths about said power grab.
by lateforwork | 2026-01-23 17:06:01+00:00
> clinical trials

Keep in mind that the Western system is not perfect either. Many good natural medicines are ignored by western countries because they have not undergone clinical trials. Why haven't they undergone clinical trials? Because that takes large amounts of money and no one is going to make that investment unless they can patent the molecule.

Of course, natural medicines that have been in use for hundreds if not thousands of years are not patentable, so no one will do a clinical trial for them. As a result, when you go to a doctor in a western country they are completely ignorant about natural medicines and will only prescribe drugs pushed by big pharma.
by jrmg | 2026-01-23 17:06:33+00:00
This is also my experience. Everything I’ve ever tried to vibe code has ended up with off-by-one errors, logic errors, repeated instances of incorrect assumptions etc. Sometimes they appear to work at first, but, still, they have errors like this in them that are often immediately obvious on code review and would definitely show up in anything more than very light real world use.

They _can_ usually be manually tidied and fixed, with varying amounts of effort (small project = easy fixes, on a par with regular code review, large project = “this would’ve been easier to write myself...”)

I guess Gas Town’s multiple layers of supervisory entities are meant to replace this manual tidying and fixing, but, well, really?

I don’t understand how people are supposedly having so much success with things like this. Am I just holding it wrong?

If they are having real success, why are there no open source projects that are AI developed and maintained that are _not_ just systems for managing AI? (Or are there and I just haven’t seen them?...)
by nokun7 | 2026-01-23 17:07:09+00:00
What I mean is that later employees—especially the ones who joined during the 2021–2022 hype when Brex was valued at that crazy $12.3 billion peak—got their RSU grants priced at those very high levels. That meant their equity was basically "underwater" once valuations crashed post-2022; the shares they were promised wouldn’t pay out much (or anything meaningful) unless the company somehow got back to those crazy heights.

To keep people from jumping ship and to make things feel fairer, IIRC in 2024 Brex did some RSU "top-ups" - basically, they handed out extra shares at the much lower current valuation to compensate for the drop and give those folks a better shot at actually making some real money or "breaking even".
by yesturi | 2026-01-23 17:07:15+00:00
PC-s were only described in hobby magazines, like Bajtek or Młody Technik. Nobody had them, though, except maybe some institutions. The hobbyists used to own ZX Spectrum or Commondore 64, but even that was rare.

I know one programmer in his 50s. He had an access to the ZX Spectrum in his primary school, but that was by effort of his local physics teacher.
by shykes | 2026-01-23 17:07:35+00:00
The spinning out of containerd is best understood in combination with the launch of Docker Desktop, which was not open source, and later became the main source of revenue.

Docker in its entirety was at risk of being wrapped as a commodity component. By spinning out lower-level components under a different brand, they (we) made it possible to keep control of the Docker brand, and use it to sell value-added products.

Source: I'm the founder of Docker.
by smiru | 2026-01-23 17:08:02+00:00
I think the concept might’ve been misunderstood. Supercomp isn’t trying to replace personal trainers or proper workout routines — it’s a fitness program generator that gives people structure and a full overview of what actually matters.
Most of us start out just going to the gym without a real plan. I used to do that too — I’d follow a push/pull/legs split, go consistently for months, and still see no results. The problem wasn’t effort; it was that I was guessing everything. I didn’t know my calorie intake, never tracked my macros, barely did any cardio, and had no idea how all these things worked together.
That’s what Supercomp fixes. It lays out everything you need in one place. For each day of your plan, you know exactly what’s expected of you — your workouts, meals, macros, cardio, water intake, even meal logging. It takes the confusion out of the process and shows you the full picture.
I’ve been using one of my own plans for three months now and have dropped 8 kg. Not because I built some magic tool, but because it’s based on research, real data, and structure. For me, having everything I needed to transform my body in one place made all the difference.
by observationist | 2026-01-23 17:08:06+00:00
I've started to realize of late that a vast majority of tech is "making things and services that maximize the amount of money taken out of customer wallets" and not "making cool technology that works". They have just as much pride and put just as much care and craft into squeezing money out of consumers as developers and engineers put into their projects.

This creates a market where quality and craftsmanship and customer service reduce competitiveness and eat into profits. We've empowered and optimized a market for the enshittifiers, and they're damn good at what they do.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-23 17:08:16+00:00
>You might have a stronger case with the national authority

At least on the ISP side, we started doing it this way after the telcos would yank our chains for weeks or months first, when we had issues that needed to get solved quickly. More so I started working with our competitor ISPs because it was very common we'd all the have the same issues. More than one complaint of the same type in the same area to these agencies tends to get noticed and followed up quickly. The follow through process on it starts to get expensive for the telcos too.

My next recommendation on this political ad bullshit is don't go at it alone. Find as many like minded people to dig up and complain on these ads as you can. Flood the regulators with violations that are occurring. When you think of it in reverse, these companies breaking the law will have no issues with pooling resources and going after you.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-23 17:09:14+00:00
> I don't really expect the prices to be this cheap for much longer

Open models are a great proxy (and scare tactic) to what we can expect. As they are already released, and won't change, you'll get basically the same capabilities in the future for current or decreasing cost (with normal hardware improvements trends). The current SotA for open models (dsv3, glm, minimax, devstral, etc) are at or above the mini versions of top labs (haikus, -mini, etc). With the exception of gemini 3.0-flash I would say. So, barring any black swan events in Taiwan, we can expect to be enough pressure to keep the prices at those points, or lower in the future. And we can expect the trend of open to chase top labs to continue. The biggest "gain" from open models is that they can't go backward. We can only stagnate or improve, on all fronts (capabilities, sizes, cost, etc).
by conartist6 | 2026-01-23 17:09:15+00:00
I write JS, and I have never directly observed the IRs or assembly code that my code becomes. Yet I certainly assume that the compiler author has looked at the compiled output in the process of writing a compiler!

For me the difference is prognosis. Gas Town has no ratchet of quality: its fate was written on the wall since the day Steve decided he didn't want to know what the code says: it will grow to a moderate but unimpressive size before it collapses under its own weight. Even if someone tried to prop it up with stable infra, Steve would surely vibe the stable infra out of existence since he does not care about that
by rich_harris | 2026-01-23 17:09:38+00:00
The Svelte implementation is very inefficient. With a small change I was able to get it to the number two spot on both duration and memory, at least running on this machine. Thyn is in the top spot on both counts — not _hugely_ surprising for a brand new project, but impressive nonetheless.

React, needless to say, languishes at the bottom.

Will send a PR to fix the Svelte implementation.
by radicality | 2026-01-23 17:09:46+00:00
For email app on Mac, I’ve been using MailMate for a few years now and quite like it. Once you sync the mailbox, search is basically instant.

And for even bigger search tasks, Foxtrot Pro is quite good too. Not cheap, but it is fast, and the tool I reach for when I need to find something and when Finder search don’t find it
by gtowey | 2026-01-23 17:10:09+00:00
Not even remotely close.

Compilers are deterministic. People who write them test that they will produce correct results. You can expect the same code to compile to the same assembly.

With LLMs two people giving the exact same prompts can get wildly different results. That is not a tool you can use to blindly ship production code. Imagine if your compiler randomly threw in a syscall to delete your hard drive, or decide to pass credentials in plain text. LLMs can and will do those things.
by crote | 2026-01-23 17:10:43+00:00
The big difference is that compilation is deterministic: compile the same program twice and it'll generate the same output twice. It also doesn't involve any "creativity": a compiler is mostly translating a high-level concept into its predefined lower-level components. I don't know exactly what my code compiles to, but I can be pretty certain what the general idea of the assembly is going to be.

With LLMs all bets are off. Is your code going to import leftpad, call leftpad-as-a-service, write its own leftpad implementation, decide that padding isn't needed after all, use a close-enough rightpad instead? Who knows! It's just rolling dice, so have fun finding out!
by netsharc | 2026-01-23 17:10:55+00:00
It was hackers building crazy stuff (Steve Woz' book detailed how he built one of the company's first computers, and he knew what every logic gate in it did) and then some people realized there's money to be made...

Any "founders" out there showing off their vibe-coded SaaS with money from their FAANG career that they got after finishing the bootcamp course? (I mock, as the inner voice asks "You had the talent, why aren't you in the 2 commas club?")
by badsectoracula | 2026-01-23 17:10:56+00:00
Nintendo (or whoever) will shutdown whatever users visit to download the thing they want gone. From a skim through the user guide, Radicle seems to only handle the dev/backend side of things and Nintendo wouldn't care that much about it. After all there are already several git mirrors of Yuzu, what was lost was the official "download this" page and the centralized Github bits (issues, etc), though other projects could like handle this bit just fine either as addons (Forgejo) or natively (like the Fossil SCM).
by matthewdgreen | 2026-01-23 17:11:49+00:00
That's more or less what heat pump clothes dryers do. They draw in air, heat it, and then blow the humid air back over the cold side of the heat pump loop to condense it. They save tons of energy. I don't think there's anything similar for water (in clothes or dish washers) but the quantities might just be too small to bother with.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-01-23 17:11:55+00:00
I may be missing something, but from the article it seems that the lawsuit alleges that Apple a) does not allow third party NFC payments, and b) they charge banks a fee for using Apple Pay, which could result in these fees being passed to consumers.

While the first point has not been true since 2024, the second is a bit odd to me, since banks and credit card issuers have been collecting a percentage of sales from merchants since forever. My question is, why wouldn't this lawsuit apply to the oligopoly banks and credit providers hold on the traditional point of sale?
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-23 17:11:59+00:00
There is an incentive for dishonesty about what AI can and cannot do.

People from OpenAI was saying that GPT2 had achieved AGI. There is a very clear incentive for that statement to be made by people who are not using AI for anything productive.

Even as increasingly bombastic claims are made, it is obvious that the best AI cannot one-shot everything if you are an actual user. And the worst ones: was using Gemini yesterday and it wouldn't stop outputting emojis, was using Grok and it refused to give me a code snippet because it claimed its system prompt forbade this...what can you say?

I don't understand why anyone would want to work on a codebase they didn't understand either. What happens when something goes wrong?

Again though, there is massive financial incentive to make these claims, and some other people will fall along with that because it is good for their career, etc. I have seen this in my own company where senior people are shoehorning this stuff in that they clearly do not actually use or understand (to be clear, this is engineering not management...these are people who definitely should understand but do not).

Great tool, but the 100% vibecoding without looking at the code, for something that you are actually expecting others to use, is a bad idea. Feels more like performance art than actual work. I like jokes, I like coding, room for both but don't confuse the two.
by geokon | 2026-01-23 17:12:20+00:00
whats the advantage over just manually making a uberjar and using jlink/jpackage?

Do you have the ability to crosscompile to other architectures/OS?

Do you have the ability to generate a plain executable? the jlink/jpackage route ends up generating an "installers" for each system, which i find hard/annoying to test and people are reluctant to install a program you send them

In the past ive ended up distributing an uberjar bc i didnt have the setup to test all the resulting bundles (esp MacOS which requires buying a separate machine). I also found JavaFX to be a bit inconsistent.. though its been a few years and maybe the situation has improved