MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by svara | 2026-01-06 17:49:18+00:00
> If superhuman intelligence is solved it'll be in the form of building a more healthy society (or, if you like, a society that can outcompete other societies).

Maybe so, but the point I'm trying to make is this needs to look nothing like sci-fi ASI fantasies, or rather, it won't look and feel like that before we get the humanoid AI robots that the GP mentioned.

You can have humans or human institutions using more or less specialized tools that together enable the system to act much more intelligently.

There doesn't need to be a single system that individually behaves like a god - that's a misconception that comes from believing that intelligence is something like a computational soul, where if you just have more of it you'll eventually end up with a demigod.
by csoups14 | 2026-01-06 17:49:28+00:00
The easy answer: Google simply does not care. Some mix of: they don't measure it, they don't look at it, they don't goal around reducing it, nobody's performance review is going to be better because they reduced it, no director is asking product teams why they're increasing the app size. It's not surprising why these companies don't care, because it's a tragedy of the commons. The better question is why is Apple allowing these companies to ship apps that unnecessarily take up a meaningful amount of storage space?
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-06 17:49:40+00:00
I very much doubt that. I just checked the apple store page for an iphone 17. They try to sell me the larger storage model, they try to sell me apple care, but I don't see anything related to icloud. If I look at the pro, they try to sell me the max.

The difference between a 512 GB and a 256 GB non-pro model is 250 Euros. The 200 GB icloud subscription (which, again, they don't talk about when buying an iphone) costs 2.99 Euros a month. Break even is in seven years. I bet many phones don't actually last that long. If you look at a 2TB plan (which doesn't have an equivalent phone) the break-even is 2 years.

It makes no sense to try to sell the cheaper iPhone in the hope that I'll buy some icloud storage, since they actually leave money on the table. Looking at pro models, the difference between the base 256 + 2TB icloud and 2 TB model has an even longer break-even period!

So, basically, it looks actually cheaper to get a smaller phone + icloud than a bigger one.
Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery
by denizkavi | 2026-01-06 17:49:56+00:00
Hi HN, we're Deniz and Sherry from Tamarind Bio (https://www.tamarind.bio). Tamarind is an inference provider for AI drug discovery, serving models like AlphaFold. Biopharma companies use our library of leading open-source models to design new medicines computationally.

Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/luoMApPeglo

Two years ago, I was hired at a Stanford lab to run models for my labmates. Some post-doc would ask me to run a set of 1-5 models in sequence with tens of thousands inputs and I would email them back the result after setting up the workflow in the university cluster.

At some point, it became unreasonable that all of an organization's computational biology work would go through an undergrad, so we built Tamarind as a single place for all molecular AI tools, usable at massive scale with no technical background needed. Today, we are used by much of the top 20 pharma, dozens of biotechs and tens of thousands of scientists.

When we started getting adoption in the big pharma companies, we found that this problem also persisted. I know directors of data science, where half their job could be described as running scripts for other people.

Lots of companies have also deprecated their internally built solution to switch over, dealing with GPU infra and onboarding docker containers not being a very exciting problem when the company you work for is trying to cure cancer.

Unlike non-specialized inference providers, we build both a programmatic interface for developers along with a scientist-friendly web app, since most of our users are non-technical. Some of them used to extract proteins from animal blood before replacing that process with using AI to generate proteins on Tamarind.

Besides grinding out images for each of the models we serve, we’ve designed a standardized schema to be able to share each model’s data format. We’ve built a custom scheduler and queue optimized for horizontal scaling (each inference call takes minutes to hours, and runs on one GPU at a time), while splitting jobs across CPUs and GPUs for optimal timing.

As we've grown to handle a substantial portion of the biopharma R&D AI demand on behalf of our customers, we've expanded beyond just offering a library of open source protocols.

A common use case we saw from early on was the need to connect multiple models together into pipelines, and having reproducible, consistent protocols to replace physical experiments. Once we became the place to build internal tools for computational science, our users started asking if they could onboard their own models to the platform.

From there, we now support fine-tuning, building UIs for arbitrary docker containers, connecting to wet lab data sources and more!

Reach out to me at deniz[at]tamarind.bio if you’re interested in our work, we are hiring! Check out our product at https://app.tamarind.bio and let us know if you have any feedback to support how the biotech industry uses AI today.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-06 17:50:08+00:00
Vibe coding is worse, it's like a repl in Stack Overflow and if it looks good, it'll ship, even if it isn't necessarily good (how would you know unless you have experience?). The best fit imho is LLMs for helping you build deterministic code paths and data flows with strong guardrails and other quality controls, so I think low and no code is here to stay. At some point, you might have to refactor wholesale out of low or no code into a monolith when you exceed the constraints of such systems for your business or application.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-06 17:50:30+00:00
> My personal preference would be a network recommendation system. I would like to know what people I know (and in my extended network) are using and like - being it restaurants, clothes or open source software. I have 90% of friends (or friends of friends) satisfied with something - maybe I should try. Of course it is not a perfect system, but seems much better than what we currently have...

I can think of a hacky solution where your friends can share their (trustpilot?) or alternative accounts username and then you can review what they are reviewing/what they are using etc.

The problem to me feels like nobody I know writes a trustpilot review unless its really bad or really good (I dont know too much about reviewing business)

I feel like someone must have built this though

Another part is how would you get your friends list? If its an open protocol like fediverse, this might have genuine value but you would still need to bootstrap your friends connecting you in fediverse and the whole process.

And oh, insta and other large big tech where your friends already are wont do this because they precisely make money from selling you to ads. It would be harmful to their literal core.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-06 17:50:38+00:00
A significant portion of larger sizes is likely due to how Google handles shared code across its iOS suite. They rely heavily on a shared C++ backend (using tools like J2ObjC or similar internal transpilers) to keep logic consistent between Android, iOS and of course the web.

When you pull in the gmail dependency from the internal monorepo, you are most likely pulling in the entire visual stack for Google meet, chat and spaces, plus the heavy protocol buffer definitions and gRPC libraries that underpin them.

Even if you don't use the "meet" tab, the binary could be including the video codecs, the real-time transmission logic plus the AR filter assets, because the app is compiled as a "Super App" container rather than a modular mail client. I feel it's an organizational artifact as much as a technical one.
by throwawayms4 | 2026-01-06 17:50:39+00:00
Broken incentives, clueless trend-following leaders.

For the last year or so all orders from leadership have been "build more AI, show AI usage" even above things like stability and reliability.

There was no recognition from leadership over what use cases worked or not, and they appeared to believe their own hype.

To complement this, there is near to no long-term accountability for upper leadership for failure, so even as features underperform and strategy turns out to be a flop, they will continue to make millions a year, having layoffs every 6 months, and then acting surprised pikachu when morale is down and top engineers are looking to the door, since salary is barely competitive even if you are a top performer getting special stock awards.
by varjag | 2026-01-06 17:51:00+00:00
I'm not sure we're even on same versions. They appear to push different branches on different platform revisions.

Mine still cold boots/watchdogs every time you start the car in what I suspect a Patriot-style fix of numerous issues. It still has confirmation dialogs over confirmation dialogs (e.g. when selecting CarPlay you get to confirm your choice three times). Voice input is still unusable: the only thing it reliably recognizes is when I tell it to fuck off (and it scolds me for that). Door locks/keyless became more unreliable, which I frankly doubted was even possible. Everything is lagging, especially after cold boot: getting to entering nav destination after you sit in the car takes an eternity.
by josephg | 2026-01-06 17:51:05+00:00
Many of its biggest benefits of rust come directly from other languages - including Haskell. Like, rust’s Option is identical to Haskell’s Maybe type. Traits are similar to type classes in Haskell, or interfaces in Go.

In my mind, the thing that makes rust and zig nice are that they put modern language features in a systems language. Non-nullable pointers and match expressions in a language that runs as fast as C? Yes please.

I love rust, but I personally doubt rust will ever be anywhere near as popular as Python, go, JavaScript and C#. It’s just so complex and difficult to learn. But its niche is pretty clear to me: I see it as a tool for writing beautiful, correct, memory safe, performant systems code. I used to love C. But between zig, rust and Odin, I can’t see myself ever using it again. C is just so much less productive and less pleasant to use than more modern languages.
by theultdev | 2026-01-06 17:51:34+00:00
It was an interesting experience.

I'm still not entirely sure it's for the best or not.

On one hand, it is a concentration of power into hands a few people.

On the other, it is for a good cause, to maintain a list of ad network and site banners that drain resources, cause privacy issues, etc.

The Easylist people aren't saints. They get paid off by Google to allow "Acceptable Ads". So you just show a different campaigns if your user is running adblocker nowadays.
by Aachen | 2026-01-06 17:51:39+00:00
Translated source:
https://thuvienphapluat-vn.translate.goog/phap-luat/ho-tro-p...

Online advertisements only. I was curious how they were going to implement that on TV!

It doesn't mention how much time must be in between ads

The law also prohibits advertisements that harm "national security" or "negatively affects the dignity of the Party Flag, leaders, national heroes [etc.]". Wonder if that's the real purpose here
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-06 17:51:56+00:00
I am racist. I didn't choose to be, but the way it ended up is that I just don't like black people very much. I have no violent desire against them, and I'm not planning to start a race war. However, when I frequently hear and read things that say people like me should be executed, it's hard to resist radicalizing. It turns into a mortal threat of me or you, us or them. The rhetoric turns a standard minor racist into a "nazi" who should be killed, and in that environment maybe I will decide that I'd rather you be killed than me.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's not healthy for society to simultaneously want to kill Nazis and to call a lot of people Nazis who literally aren't, which happens constantly. Nazi was a powerful word and it is in the process of degrading into applying to like 40% of the country (Trump supporters, or minorly racist rural people). Saying we should kill all of them is civil war speak which we don't want.

The word "Nazi" is probably a lost cause, so I think if you're going to recommend any sort of action like executions, you should be explicit about who gets executed. It's not "Nazis", a now meaningless word, it's "people who want to kill nonwhites" or whatever.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-06 17:52:02+00:00
130 MB for localization? At 50 languages that would be 2.6 MB/language. If we assume an average 50 bytes per string and another 50 for an identifier, that's 27,000 strings.

That doesn't seem right. Localization feels like it should add a few MB. Not over 100. (Plus shouldn't it be compressed, and locally uncompressed the first time a language gets used?)
by porcoda | 2026-01-06 17:52:37+00:00
Ad driven internet content is at least 25 years old, so it’s had time to settle into the equilibrium the market will converge to. The current state of things is precisely where the market drove it to, so it seems pretty clear that the “invisible hand” isn’t going to make it better and appears to favor making it worse. This seems like an obvious case where an external force is required to push the market in a direction it doesn’t naturally want to land at.
by tristor | 2026-01-06 17:52:49+00:00
Great, I bought a Mazda 3 Premium Turbo over an Audi RS3 or VW Golf R in part because it had all physical controls and the touchscreen functionality is automatically disabled over 10mph. It's a great car, and between the simple button/knob driven UX and the HUD, I can make changes without looking away from the road while driving, which just plain makes sense for a car. The Tesla idea of putting a big tablet as your only interface to the car was stupid and insane from the moment it was done, it's shocking it took this long to return to sanity. Let's hope other manufacturers follow suit.
by aziaziazi | 2026-01-06 17:52:53+00:00
Thanks! Digging into your link I found the explanation:

> There's one glitch that occasionally confuses people. When the software lobs a story, it displays a rolled-back timestamp—not the original submission time, but a resubmission time relative to other items on the front page. If you see a timestamp inconsistency on HN, this is probably why. Edit: if this is the kind of detail that interests you, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614 for a more recent explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
by kyralis | 2026-01-06 17:52:58+00:00
Depends on the niche, really. I despise ads, but I can also admit to having learned about products from them that I have subsequently purchased and been pleased with.

Sometimes the ad lets me know about an entire type of product that I didn't know existed but found very useful, and I probably didn't even by the actual brand that was advertised.

If you consider the general concept of "letting people know what products are available for purchase", I think it's hard to disagree that it's a reasonable thing to do. That doesn't excuse the manner in which it is done today, of course, but that core functionality is not fundamentally evil.
by mikepurvis | 2026-01-06 17:53:01+00:00
I will never not talk about how bonkers it was that Jobs got up on that stage in 2005 and launched a complete replacement for the iPod mini, at the time the best-selling portable music player and it wasn't even close.

How many other execs would have the courage to do that vs letting the current thing (microdrive player) settle and holding the new thing (flash memory player) in reserve to launch only in response to a competitor gaining traction?
by HDThoreaun | 2026-01-06 17:53:15+00:00
Im baffled that you can look at the polling numbers about the migrant fiascos in dem cities and come to any conclusion other than that it was one of the biggest political fuck ups this century. Republicans played urban dems like a fiddle calling their bluff on sanctuary city talk. The bussing programs made republicans look like problem solvers and dems look like the classic progressive trope of all bark no answers. Dems didnt need to close the borders or even slow down immigration, but they did need a real answer that isnt "this isnt a real problem" and they came up with nothing.

The migrants were a serious problem for democrats and youre still denying that.
by realo | 2026-01-06 17:53:18+00:00
I like to play AAA games casually. Think Witcher etc... I own a macbook, not really made for that.

Years ago I got a subscription to GE Force Now and never looked back. I can play all the games I want , no problem.

The only thing really needed is a good Internet connection, and my Gbps fiber link works very well.

So... Subscriptions also work well for casual gaming, no problem.
by qingcharles | 2026-01-06 17:53:28+00:00
I use AI every day to write stuff.

Last night I needed a C# console app to convert PDFs to a sprite sheet. I spent 30 seconds writing the prompt and another 30 seconds later the app was running and successfully converting PDFs on the first try. I then spent about another 2 mins adding a progress bar, tweaking the output format and moving the main logic into a new library.
by defrost | 2026-01-06 17:53:37+00:00
If you care to take the time to read critically and carefully you'll note it's not _my_ argument.

It's one part of the greater case made by several Jewish holocaust and genocide scholars.

They each have the same general approach of having multiple criteria and going through weightings for / against each factor.

The argument I would make is that this is not some casual quick ill considered process that would conclude every war is a genocide and that all participants in WWII would be considered as committing genocide - as was asserted by the green account I was responding to.

To address your singular observation ... their argument isn't simply based on that single order, it's in conjunction with statements of intent and an entire body of orders.

If you're interested in replying to these arguments then a small amount of effort should find you points of contacts and names for the people advancing the assertion that the current Israeli administration is practicing genocide with respect to Gaza.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-01-06 17:53:39+00:00
Some people in 2026 are still updating sites the old school way: https://brisray.com

Ray's a great example, he even has a lovely page about webrings: https://brisray.com/utils/webrings.htm

Was very happy to have him as a guest on my series if you want to know more about the story of his site: https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/ray-thomas

That said, I don't entirely agree with the point of the article you linked.

What made the web suck was money imo. If the incentive is to keep posting to get views and those views are translated into money, then yeah, there's no incentive to keep things static. But on today's web, blogs aren't the only option. Plenty of people prefer to have digital gardens, which I think are a lot more close to old school sites.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-06 17:53:51+00:00
You're right, in that there's no reason to assume the bombs were entirely decisive by themselves. The truth is that there was nothing particularly special or interesting about the atomic bombs of the day, except that they were dropped from a single plane.

So no, they wouldn't be considered war crimes, any more than the equally-destructive firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden would be considered war crimes. Meaning, of course they would be considered war crimes, but only if the victims had won the war. That's the idea behind war. War is about doing the worst stuff you can do to the other guys, then doing whatever you can to claim the moral high ground afterward. So it's best avoided when possible.

Szilard was a great guy, and in fact, he was behind the original missive to FDR that kicked the program into gear. It's as impossible -- and as inappropriate -- for us to judge him and his motivations as it is for us to second-guess Truman's decision to drop the bombs. However, he's all wet there. Unlike Germany there was never any question that the Allied side would win the war, bomb or no bomb. The question was, what would be the cost, and who should pay that cost.

I'm fine with Japan paying it. They would certainly have done the same to us, and they would certainly have skipped the subsequent navel-gazing.
by samothrace | 2026-01-06 17:53:59+00:00
Whataboutism.

Are you implying that OP hypocritically supports Larry Ellison and Elon Musk? Are you implying that not supporting Larry Ellison and Elon Musk by not promoting their media or avoiding their products is absurd? Are you implying that people should hold Larry Ellison and Elon Musk accountable for US actions, but don't, and therefore doing it to other oligarchs is unfair or unreasonable?
Show HN: I Turned EU Cyber Laws into Open Source Code
by FabDiP89 | 2026-01-06 17:54:08+00:00
Hello HN, I’m the author. I built NIS2 Shield because I saw a dangerous trend: the new EU Cybersecurity Directive (NIS2) is creating a "moat" around Enterprise companies. Because of strict "supply chain security" requirements (Article 21), big companies are stopping to buy software from startups and SMEs that can't prove their compliance.

I didn't want compliance to be a barrier to entry or a bureaucracy nightmare. I wanted it to be an engineering problem.

The core concept: compliance as code. Instead of expensive consultants, we mapped legal requirements directly to code functions.

- Law: "Cryptography & HR security" (Art. 21.e)
- Code: Middleware that handles forensic logging (HMAC-signed), PII encryption, and session guarding automatically.

Why use it (even if you are not subject to NIS2)? Even if you are a small startup and the law doesn't apply to you yet, these are simply sane security defaults. We made features like forensic logging, rate-limiting, and encrypted auditing "plug-and-play". Since it's now trivial to implement (e.g., just adding a middleware), there is no reason not to have "Enterprise-grade" security from Day 1. It makes your product better and "future-proofs" you for when you eventually land that big Enterprise client.

The stack (MIT licensed):

- Backend: Middleware for Django, Express, Spring Boot, and .NET.
- Infra: Terraform modules for AWS/Azure/GCP with security hardening baked in (and toggles to save costs in dev).
- Frontend: React/Vue/Angular guards for client-side telemetry.

Business model (transparency):

- The Truth (Free): All the code to be secure is MIT Open Source. You can use it freely.
- The Proof (Paid): We sell the "Auditor Kit" — an engine that generates the legal PDF reports and audit dashboards for your CISO/Management.

In short: The security is free, the bureaucracy is paid.

I’d love your feedback on the repo structure and the Terraform modules!

Repo: https://github.com/nis2shield
Docs: https://nis2shield.com
by zhyder | 2026-01-06 17:54:09+00:00
Most car manufacturers made this mistake because they started mimicking the then leader for innovation (and customer satisfaction), Tesla, too much.

General cautionary tale: just coz a company is successful, doesn't mean it's doing _everything_ right. Plenty of folks who love their Teslas would prefer a few more buttons (and door handles on the inside, etc) if given the choice. Could say similar things about some choices Apple made.