MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shevy-java | 2026-01-19 12:47:55+00:00
It may be that AI made Wikipedia worse (I have no idea), but Wikipedia itself made several changes in the last 5 years which I hate. The "temporary account" annoys me; the strange side bars that are now the new default also annoy me. Yes, they can be hidden, but why are they shown by default? I never want them; I don't want to use them either. And some discussion pages can not be modified either - I understand that main articles can not so easily be changed, but now discussion pages as well? This happened to me on a few pages, in particular for "ongoing events". Well, I don't even visit ongoing events at a later time usually, so I give feedback or I WANT to give feedback, then I move on. With that changed policy, I can now skip bothering giving any feedback, so Wikipedia becomes less interesting as I give feedback on the QUALITY - what to improve. And so forth. It is really sad how different people can worsen the quality of a project such as Wikipedia. Wikipedia is still good, but it was better, say, 6 years ago.
by yetihehe | 2026-01-19 12:48:09+00:00
> We're all underestimating the sheer number of people in russia who have a "career" in a while-collar job in some propaganda unit.

Yes, and there are more Russians than Ukrainians, yet somehow they can't overcome a smaller country in 4 years. Trolls want you to give up in countering them. Their work is about pushing propaganda AND demoralising people so that they give up fighting. When you think "why bother", they won.
by greggsy | 2026-01-19 12:49:31+00:00
The board itself looks pretty spartan, at least compared to any other x86 ITX board I’ve seen in the last ten years. The only thing it doesn’t seem to have is audio jacks.

Is that because the platform itself is very lite, or is just typical for a dev ITX board?

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/12/milk-v-titan-a-329-o...
by bonzini | 2026-01-19 12:49:43+00:00
Sort of, at least some degree of relativism exists though how much is debated. Would you ever talk about sea having the same color as wine? But that's exactly what Homer called it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...
by abalashov | 2026-01-19 12:50:05+00:00
> How do you even begin to approach remedying that? The only recourse for humans is to offer to rebuild it all using the existing features as a functional spec.

There are cases where that will be the appropriate decision. That may not be every case, but it'll be enough cases that there's money to be made.

There will be other cases where just untangling the clusterfuck and coming up with any sense of direction at all, to be implemented however, will be the key deliverable.

I have had several projects that look like this already in the VoIP world, and it's been very gainful. However, my industry probably does not compare fairly to the common denominator of CRUD apps in common tech stacks; some of it is specialised enough that the LLMs drop to GPT-2 type levels of utility (and hallucination! -- that's been particularly lucrative).

Anyway, the problem to be solved in vibe coding remediation often has little to do with the code itself, which we can all agree can be generated in essentially infinite amounts at a pace that is, for all intents and purposes, almost instantaneous. If you are in need vibe coding disaster remediation consulting, it's not because you need to refactor 300,000 lines of slop real quick. That's not going to happen.

The general business problem to be solved is how to make this consumable to the business as a whole, which still moves at the speed of human. I am fond of a metaphor I heard somewhere: you can't just plug a firehose into your house's plumbing and expect a fire hydrant's worth of water pressure out of your kitchen faucet.

In the same way, removing the barriers to writing 300,000 lines isn't the same as removing the barriers to operationalising, adopting and owning 300,000 lines in a way that can be a realistic input into a real-world product or service. I'm not talking about the really airy-fairy appeals to maintainability or reliability one sometimes hears (although, those are very real concerns), but rather, how to get one's arms around the 300,000 lines from a product direction perspective, except by prompting one's way into even more slop.

I think that's where the challenges will be, and if you understand that challenge, especially in industry- and domain-specific ways (always critical for moats), I think there's a brisk livelihood to be made here in the foreseeable future.
by _zoltan_ | 2026-01-19 12:50:07+00:00
usually it's 2-2-2 (2 GPUs, 2 NICs and 2 NVMe drivers on a PCIe complex). no NVLink here, this is just PCIe - under this PCIe switch chip there is full bandwidth, above it's usually limited BW. so for example going GPU-to-GPU over PCIe will walk

GPU -> PCIe switch -> PCIe switch (most likely the CPU, with limited bw) -> PCIe switch -> GPU

NVLink comes into the picture as a separate, 2nd link between the GPUs: if you need to do GPU-to-GPU, you can use NVLink.

you never needed to DIY your stuff, at least not for the last 10 years: most hardware vendors (Supermicro, Dell, ...) will sell you a complete system with 8 GPUs.

what's nice on GH200/GBx00/VR systems, is that you can use chip-to-chip NVLink between the CPU and GPU, so the CPU can access GPU memory coherently and vica versa.
by Tade0 | 2026-01-19 12:50:11+00:00
Ah, the circle of outsourcing.

If they're lucky they'll find one solid worker who's going to watch everyone else's hands. I've had one criminally underpaid unofficial[0] tech lead like that. He was herding a team of 11, where like four people at most really cared about the outcome of this project.

[0] Because otherwise a raise would be in order. Can't have that.
by wink | 2026-01-19 12:50:24+00:00
Anecdata: I've never experienced any noticeable annoyance with my T470p (i7-6820HQ) but with my new (old) NUC with an i3-3217U every time you go compile some Rust or C++ it's already a bit annoying (I'm running xfce and Firefox on it, it's perfectly usable - but I wouldn't want to compile all day on it).
by isodev | 2026-01-19 12:50:57+00:00
I understand the technology of course. In fact, it's clear ATProto is an instantiation of data spaces, a tech developed in the EU for industry purposes. However, while in industry there is pre-existing need for interoperable "data product marketplaces", it doesn't translate to social media in the same context.

There is no pre-existing need or desire for people to put all their data into a single space - that part is entirely driven by social companies themselves which of course benefit from that kind of centralisation and interoperability. So yes, the prism is that our social interactions become a data product and more - a data product "under governance", well structured and with well defined schema, etc.

For end users, functionally, there is very little to be gained (and some things to be let go) but the technology is not accessible enough for non-tech folks to decide on the tradeoff themselves.

As for Mastodon, what you call limited currently includes editing posts, long form posts and private blocklists (among others), all features Bluesky lacks and current version of atproto does not allow. So let's not try to quantify/compare them like that.

Regardless, I like the idea overall, I believe the Solid project (https://solidproject.org/) addresses a similar concept but when less dependence on a single authority as is the case of Bluesky and ATProto.
by sebastianmestre | 2026-01-19 12:51:16+00:00
This is kind of bait-and-switch, no?

The author defines American style intelligence as "the ability to adapt to new situations, and learn from experience".

Then argues that the current type of machine-learning driven AI is American style-intelligent because it is inductive, which is not what was supposedly (?) being argued for.

Of course current AI/ML models cannot adapt to new situations and learn from experience, outside the scope of its context window, without a retraining or fine-tuning step.
by whizzter | 2026-01-19 12:51:22+00:00
I think much manufacturing adheres to the die-young, die-old principle (Often mentioned in the Backblaze reports), manufacturing defects shows up early on, time of stillness and then as it ages it starts to fail.

The tracks were laid in May 2025, that means no winters had passed before now and any defects in the tracks due to temperature differences hadn't had a chance to appear before now.
by timschmidt | 2026-01-19 12:51:29+00:00
Agreed. C++ has advanced incredibly over the years, with the developers putting in immense, important, and useful effort. But Rust has had the benefit of a fresh start with lessons learned. People who have yet to understand the choices made in it's design see the differing semantics as unnecessary hurdles, whereas people who've taken the time to learn why those choices were made and what adhering to them enables find themselves enamored of their newfound abilities. It's why there's such an intense communication rift between folks on either side of the experience.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-01-19 12:51:46+00:00
There is usually no quality-control on AI-output, because people are lacking time and/or competence doing it, which are also the reasons why they are using AI.

And AI still can make up things, which might be fine in some random internet-comment, or some irrelevant article about something irrelevant happening somewhere in the world, but not with a knowledge-vault like Wikipedia.

And, we are talking here about Wikipedia. They are not just checking for AI, they are checking everything from everyone and have many many rules to ensure a certain level of quality. They can't check everything at once and fetch all problems immediately, but they are working step by step and over time.

> I'm a embarrassed to be associated with US Millennials who are anti AI.

You should be embarrassed for making such a statement.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-19 12:51:46+00:00
Offtopic (I don't know if they are LLM Or not , I don't want to respond to it because many people will already do it) but someone should study the significance of em-dashes because to me (and maybe you or others) its one of the most significant indicators (sometimes false) as well.

If someone ever used em-dashes before , what are you using now? (I don't use em-dashes but I am curious!) and did you guys ever change to purposeful linguistic errors to not look AI

I am thinking of going back to a , comma like this with spaces in both side intentionally because I used to make this mistake in the start and I had people genuinely fume over this grammar nitpick more times than I can count. But after I stopped it and got better at writing, I got called AI too (mfw when I am a human helloooo)

Just writing what's on my mind recently; I find it funny to change back to grammar mistakes because of AI .

(I made the errors in this post as well! I try to ship ideas fast lol & brain.exe not working after being tired right now :] )
by BozeWolf | 2026-01-19 12:52:15+00:00
If Dock runs on AWS or Cloudflare infra it is, by definition, a no go for me and many others here. Would like to get an answer on that.

FWIW: I use scaleway far a medium sized project and find it a good experience. Of course there are bugs and some things could be better. But support is good and the responses to bugs in their terraform provider are quick.

Also using bunny.net, happy so far.

Only thing I am missing is to create mailboxes (not transactional mail) on those two providers. I needed a third one for that.
by meowface | 2026-01-19 12:52:20+00:00
Steve Yegge is not an idiot or a bad programmer. Possibly just hypomanic at most. And a good, entertaining writer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge

Gas Town is ridiculous and I had to uninstall Beads after seeing it only confuse my agents, but he's not completely insane or a moron. There may be some kernels of good ideas inside of Gas Town which could be extracted out into a better system.
by abalashov | 2026-01-19 12:52:39+00:00
> Do you not fear that future/advanced AI will be able to look at a vibe-coded codebase and make sensible refactors itself?

This is a possibility in very well-trodden areas of tech, where the stack and the application are both banal to the point of being infinitely well-represented in the training.

As far as anything with any kind of moat whatsoever? Here, I'm not too concerned.
by InsideOutSanta | 2026-01-19 12:53:44+00:00
>If people seek out the thing that makes them angry, how can we not say that they want to be angry?

Because their purpose in seeking it out is not to get angry, it's to stop something from happening that they perceive as harmful.

I doubt most people watch Alex Jones because they love being angry. They watch him because they believe a global cabal of evildoers is attacking them. Anger is the logical consequence, not the desired outcome. The desired outcome is that the perceived problem is solved, i.e. that people stop kicking cats.
by Joker_vD | 2026-01-19 12:53:50+00:00
> Enough "Market for all the things" already..

See, there are two major flavours of pro-market attitudes. The first one is "if we allow many independent individuals to try their own approaches to a problem and let the people with "better" approach to personally profit from it handsomely and make them compete against each other in an environment with objective-ish judgement of "what is better" instead of "impress the (inevitably corruptible) officials to be judged victorious and awarded the fortunes", and also manually guard and regulate against several universally known ways to sabotage such competition, then we'll be able to channel human ingenuity into solving difficult to solve technical problems while also rewarding those who are able to come up with (and implement) such solutions with low overseeing overhead". Of course, such an attitude isn't strictly speaking "pro-market", it's been around since ancient times; hell, the USSR of all places had this attitude in spades until about the 70s or so.

The second one is "Nah, we don't have to try and think about anything ourselves, just let people fend for themselves, they'll figure it out, and it won't have any unforeseen bad side effects, why would it; markets are magical like that!" Yeah, about that...
by KellyCriterion | 2026-01-19 12:53:56+00:00
Yes, but it goes more far than that:
You will have to participate in meetings, you will be asked to joing for a lunch, you will be asked to contact a customer/devcontact there, you will be asked to attend some events, you will be asked to communicate with others etc.

You are not existing as isolated particle in vacuum behind your screen :-)
by normie3000 | 2026-01-19 12:54:08+00:00
My previous phone was a second-hand iPhone SE for which I had screen, power button, big button and battery replaced at various times. I think the battery was third-party & new, but the other parts were also 2nd+ hand. I don't know about newer models, and presumably there are other things that are more "fair" about the fairphone, but it doesn't have a monopoly on repairability in my experience.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-19 12:54:08+00:00
I am laughing if its a joke lmaooo, just now realized it all of a sudden lol

pardon me I wrote king instead of kings and what you wrote in this comment felt like questionable to me first but now comical LMAO.

But my point still stands and aside from this mistake, I am curious in knowing the real answer to my question even now!
by miningape | 2026-01-19 12:54:38+00:00
I'm very much in a similar boat to you - I'm also considering a pivot away from SWE if this is what it's going to become. Luckily I'm still young and don't have anyone depending on me (other than myself).

I'm still working on my own small closed source projects, building them the way I want to, like a gameboy emulator - and I've gotten a lot of joy from those.
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by neomantra | 2026-01-19 12:56:33+00:00
I wasn’t exactly suggesting this. The source code (including SVG or DOCX or HTMl+JS for document work) is the primary ground truth which the LLM modifies. Humans might modify it too. This ground truth is then rendered (compiled, visualized) to the end product.

The PROMPTS.md is communication metadata. Indeed, if you fed the same series of prompts freshly, the resultant ground truths might not make sense because of the stochastic nature of LLMs.

Maybe “ground truth” isn’t exactly the right word, but it is the consistent, determined basis which formed from past work and will evolve with future work.
by HPsquared | 2026-01-19 12:56:41+00:00
Reader's note: this is Iodine-129 (which is created in nuclear fission and has a very long half-life), NOT iodine-131 which has a half-life of 8 days and is a highly radioactive short-term fission product.

So it's understandable that Iodine-129 could be detected as a result of decades-old testing or other releases.
by johndough | 2026-01-19 12:56:58+00:00
Determinism of LLMs has often been discussed on HN, for example here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006224

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200925

The TL;DR is that LLMs are often not deterministic because GPUs compute submatrices in parallel and sum them up in different orders, depending on which finish first. This is maybe a few percent faster than always using the same order, but it absolutely could be made deterministic if people cared enough. CUDA even provides deterministic primitives if desired. Of course also use the same random seed for samplers, but that is trivial.
by juggy69 | 2026-01-19 12:57:40+00:00
ARC-AGI-3 is the latest benchmark from Arc Prize. It has an interesting departure in that each puzzle is now interactive, like a mini RL task. Players are not told the goal, requiring the agent to explore and model the puzzle to solve it.

Is anyone giving this an attempt? May or may not be LLM-powered. Would love to hear your approaches.
by civvv | 2026-01-19 12:58:43+00:00
Wow, thanks for sharing. That is very cool, so much history in that part of the world. I go to Crete every other year, coasting along its southern side, many ruins of "lost" harbour towns which supposedly were large trade hubs in the mediterranean. I wonder if Silphium played a large role in their economies.

One of the great archeological finds of this decade(https://www.livescience.com/ancient-odeon-discovered-crete) was discovered in Lissus(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissus_(Crete)) in 2022. A great hike from Sougia for those interested, the place truly is beautiful.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-01-19 12:58:43+00:00
I remember a day at the office of a former job; there was one guy, the "chief developer", technically solid, but he was a pure a**** when interacting with others; it was quite known that he was a "difficult person".

One day, I opened the door to another floor and he approached the opened door: I saw him with two things in his hands: the one was a Leitz folder, and in the other hand he had a cup of coffee - so full that the coffee was kept in the cup already only because of the surface tension of the liquid.

I held the door opened, looked at him, a small smile and noded - he didnt show any reaction (not even think of a "thank you" or similar)
by jaggs | 2026-01-19 12:59:09+00:00
This is an excellent article. I resonated with all ten of his points.This section at the end particularly made sense.

"Regardless of my own habits, the flow of new software will not slow down. There will soon be a seemingly endless supply of AI-augmented media (games, movies, images, books), and that’s a problem we’ll have to figure out how to deal with. These products won’t all be “AI slop,” either; some will be done very well, and the acceleration in production times due to these new power tools will balloon the quantity beyond anything we’ve seen."
by Tiberium | 2026-01-19 12:59:20+00:00
You can easily do this with normal GPT 5.2 in ChatGPT, just turn on thinking (better if extended) and web search, point a Wikipedia page to the model and tell it to check the claims for errors. I've tried it before and surprisingly it finds errors very often, sometimes small, sometimes medium. The less popular the page you linked is, the more likely it'll have errors.

This works because GPT 5.x actually properly use web search.
by troupo | 2026-01-19 12:59:53+00:00
> If someone ever used em-dashes before , what are you using now? (I don't use em-dashes but I am curious!) and did you guys ever change to purposeful linguistic errors to not look AI

I keep using them because I've been using them on Mac keyboards since forever (and on iOS keyboards). I don't use them while on Linux because I couldn't be bothered to learn how to type them yet :)

I will not give up my ways just because AI is taking over
by extraduder_ire | 2026-01-19 13:00:13+00:00
There's also software called Constellation[0] from microcosm that exclusively collects "backlinks", which are items which link to a certain thing. e.g. follow records for an account, reposts/replies/likes on a post. If you click on the Backlinks tab when examining something on pdsls.dev you can see a list of them.

It can be self hosted and is much lighter than running a full appview. The author has a public endpoint for it that's keeping up with the whole network running on a single raspberry pi on his home network.

0: https://www.microcosm.blue/
by Lucasjohntee | 2026-01-19 13:00:25+00:00
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by upofadown | 2026-01-19 13:00:30+00:00
If the user can get immediate access to older messages then normally those messages will be available on a confiscated phone. That's why things like Signal have you set a retention period. A retention period of zero (message is gone when it scrolls off the screen) is safest.

If you want to protect older messages you can have the user enter a passphrase when they are in a physically safe situation. But that is only really practical for media like email. Good for organizing the protest but perhaps not so great at the protest.
by Zigurd | 2026-01-19 13:00:48+00:00
Zero surgical robots stand on legs and walk around. Zero surgical robots have human-like hands. This is an impressively dumb thing to say when you are pivoting a car company to making a product where there are no real use cases. By that I mean there isn't even one example of where a currently deployed human robot provides a benefit over conventional automation or human labor. It's all vaporware. And yet, line go up.