MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verdverm | 2026-01-18 23:59:00+00:00
I've been working on something similar, but geared towards integration with VS Code. Builds on CUE + Dagger via https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/examples/env

This allows you to not only run current commands in a containerized environment, but also any point in history

> .go-version

I would not call this idiomatic Go, you can get the version my project requires from my go.mod file. Imo, a single file with the inputs your tool needs would be preferable to a bunch of files with a single line, but ideally it can infer that on it's own by looking at the language files that already exist
by smeej | 2026-01-18 23:59:46+00:00
> The irony of prediction markets is that they are supposed to be a more trustworthy way of gleaning the future than internet clickbait and half-baked punditry, but they risk shredding whatever shared trust we still have left. The suspiciously well-timed bets that one Polymarket user placed right before the capture of Nicolás Maduro may have been just a stroke of phenomenal luck that netted a roughly $400,000 payout. Or maybe someone with inside information was looking for easy money.

I'm trying to understand what the criticism is here, because the example seems to support the point that these are meant to be a way of learning the future, not oppose it. I thought the whole point was that yes, people with inside knowledge will bet large sums of money on things they expect to happen, and that's what makes the prediction useful. The market is meant to incentivize people who know things to act on them in a way that makes them known.

If I knew someone wanted me dead, of course I would want a prediction market on it, and if the odds suddenly shifted dramatically in favor of my death, I would use that as a trigger for whatever defense strategies I had in place. Someone has really good reason to bet a lot of money on the prospect that I'm about to die. It's probably someone who knows of an active plot in motion to try to kill me! The sooner I can find out about that, the better. I would much rather give them an incentive to make that known somewhat earlier than wait.

I feel like there must be some big piece of this puzzle that I'm missing that makes it so these cannot operate the way I imagine them, but I haven't heard anyone explaining what it is. Someone fill me in on what I'm missing here?
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-18 23:59:48+00:00
You should explicitly state who those people are, what illogical things they have written, and why they are illogical.

I think it's very likely that people who can plausibly be considered "heroes of the rationalist movement" have written illogical things. But I don't know which specific people and which specific things you mean by that, so I don't know if I think you in particular are correct in your judgement or not.

Using first principles thinking and steelmanning are just rhetorical techniques for persuasive thinking and writing. Even people who are unfamiliar with those particular pieces of terminology do them.
by moron4hire | 2026-01-19 00:00:51+00:00
But if it requires understanding of a data protocol, it doesn't really matter if it's over the file system or a socket or flock of coked-up carrier pigeons. You still need to write custom user space code somewhere. Exposing it over the file system doesn't magically make composable applications, it just shuffles the code around a bit.

In other words, the transport protocol is just not the hard part of anything.
by kart23 | 2026-01-19 00:01:00+00:00
the example at the top of the article isn’t exactly the best example to show people why this software shouldn’t be allowed. they could go to the liquor store, and ask them to pull cameras, and with a warrant if needed. it just seems more powerful to say this software is useless and wasting taxpayer money.

but also, who is supplying location data to tangles? saying the ‘dark web’ is not helpful or informational, and honestly if the cops are just buying location data there’s nothing illegal about the search, because it’s not a search. you willingly provided your location data to this company who is then selling it, your beef is with them to stop selling your data if it’s not in their privacy policy. it smells like they’re just using social media and claiming they have this huge database on peoples locations. this sounds like a huge nothing burger to me.

basically: don’t use sketchy apps that sell your location to data brokers or just turn off your location data for that app.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/location-data-broker-g...
by nhatcher | 2026-01-19 00:01:16+00:00
Eli Bendersky's post are always insightful and interesting.

I really would like to see a small language
that compiles to wasm in the browser.

Of course you can use things like Lua that has it's own vm also in wasm. Or Rhai with it's own interpreter. But I am looking for a language that compiles to wasm in less than 1Mb of wasm
by acherion | 2026-01-19 00:01:34+00:00
I loved my T430s. I swapped the keyboard out for a backlit one, and took out the DVD drive and replaced it with a hot swappable second battery. I was running Ubuntu MATE on it, it worked very well for me. The ThinkLight was also great.

I now have a second hand T480s which is also a wonderful machine, but not as amazing as that T430s. I gave my T430s to my mother who uses it to run software (albeit via Windows now) for her sewing machine.
by gruez | 2026-01-19 00:01:46+00:00
>There's "nothing worth clicking on" for question 1 because it's arguably (certainly so in my opinion) a worthless question. Without at the very least providing the specific model of car, even an experienced mechanic will struggle to answer it for you meaningfully as phrased - there are a huge range of recommended oil service intervals across different car models.

Doesn't seem too hard to generate a bunch of content marketing articles for "how often to change oil for {2012,2013,...2026} corolla", similar to how there's content marketing spam for every windows error message imaginable, which end up being some variant of "have you tried sfc /scannow?".
by danpalmer | 2026-01-19 00:01:49+00:00
From the FAQ as to how they are so cheap...

> Our technical infrastructure is our secret weapon. We're built from the ground up on Cloudflare's global edge network using reactive systems and local-first architecture. With modern, secure network protocols, we've reduced infrastructure costs by 100x compared to Slack or Teams. Their systems were built over a decade ago on legacy infrastructure that can't be easily modernized. We started fresh—and pass those savings directly to you.

...but this doesn't pass the sniff test. Cloudflare's products are value-add on value-add, they're a long way from raw infrastructure costs. At a small scale the fact you can pay as you go might mean they're cheaper than VMs or machines to get a good UX, but at scale they're hugely expensive.

Their technical infrastructure sounds like their Achilles heel in the long run.
by strken | 2026-01-19 00:03:20+00:00
It's not a worthless question at all. The answer is "read the manual" and maybe also "your usage might meet the severe maintenance schedule and you'll need to read the footnotes."

Yes, it's not a question that has a literal numerical answer in the exact form that's being asked for, but if you ask an actual human they can 100% answer it for you.
by KerrickStaley | 2026-01-19 00:03:20+00:00
This 2-minute video is a great intro to the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVv_IQKlafQ

I think this tech has become "production-ready" recently due to a combination of research progress (the seminal paper was published in 2023 https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/) and improvements to differentiable programming libraries (e.g. PyTorch) and GPU hardware.
by tracerbulletx | 2026-01-19 00:03:20+00:00
Depends entirely on what you're selling, the margins, the conversion rate of their landing page, and conversion rate of their sales funnel. Some companies are on auto pilot and are over paying, but the math and techniques are simple for SEM ROI when done with a little attention.

If what you're selling is mortgages or franchise businesses the cost you are willing to pay for a click just to get a chance to convert to a lead, just to get a chance to convert to revenue, is surprisingly high.
by ragall | 2026-01-19 00:03:24+00:00
> But it's never been the case that a dev could just focus on technical things and not spend any time figuring out the context they are working in, and behaving accordingly.

This is factually wrong. Until a few decades ago in tech, and it's still like that in most economic sectors and I dare say most countries, it's the managers that take the role of figuring out the organization and interfacing with other teams. An engineer being only in charge of technical issues but nothing business-related was the norm; that would yield no promotion into management, of course, but still the norm.
by yadavrh | 2026-01-19 00:05:57+00:00
That’s a fair critique if the goal was 1:1 feature parity with Slack (2,400+ integrations, workflows, huddles, etc). If that is the definition of maturity, we will indeed never catch up—and that is by design.

As an ex-Salesforce team, we are well aware of the legacy architecture constraints that Slack operates under and how that drives up their infrastructure costs per user.

We spent months building a custom sync and storage engine from the ground up specifically to avoid that legacy tax. Our pricing isn't a 'deep discount' strategy to mask lower quality; it reflects the fact that our structural cost to store and search text is orders of magnitude lower than the incumbents.

We aren't trying to build a 'cheaper Slack clone' with all the same bells and whistles, we are building a focused, high-performance tool for teams that just want the core communication experience to work perfectly, without paying for the decade of technical debt.
by zenoware | 2026-01-19 00:07:38+00:00
OpenAI's CFO published detailed financials showing a near-linear relationship between compute capacity and revenue: ~$10B per gigawatt, consistent across 2023-2025.

Key numbers:

- 2023: 0.2 GW compute, $2B revenue

- 2024: 0.6 GW compute, $6B revenue

- 2025: 1.9 GW compute, $20B+ revenue

They're introducing ads to ChatGPT's free tier (Altman previously called AI ads "uniquely unsettling"). Still burning ~$9B/year with profitability targeted for 2029-2030.

The business model is essentially: subscriptions + API + ads + healthcare vertical + commerce. They're speedrunning what took Google/Meta a decade.

Interesting strategic detail: they're diversifying compute providers away from Microsoft dependency, which explains the Stargate project with SoftBank.
by danabramov | 2026-01-19 00:07:48+00:00
Not sure I fully get you... In your example, isn't the problem that nobody cares about this data? So there is no motivation to build a client. Whereas if these were beloved notes or minisites or whatever that got wiped out by the latest acquisition (e.g. see https://bento.com/ shutting down), people would know exactly what those are, and there would be incentive for someone to compete for the userbase.

E.g. Blento (https://blento.app/) is atproto Bento that I only saw a couple of days ago. But the cool thing is that if it shuts down, not only someone else can set it up again (it's open source), but they're also gonna be able to render all of the users' existing content. I think that's a meaningful step forward for this use case.

Yes, there's gonna be tons of stuff on the network that's too niche, but then there's no harm in it either. Whereas wherever there is enough interest, someone can step in and provide the code for the data.
by 101008 | 2026-01-19 00:08:10+00:00
Agree with the sentiment here. On top of this, something very important are integrations.

We use a lot of tools that send messages to dedicated Slack channels for notifications. CI failures, incidents, etcs. They use probably Slack API that you can replicate, but the integrations are native in other services ("Click to connect to Slack"). Without that, you are in a big disadvantage.

But good luck!
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-19 00:09:11+00:00
It was a POC from shortly after Spectre CVE dropped, and I'm not sure if the source code made it into the public. I heard about the exploit in a talk by Joanna Rutkowska, where she admitted the OS could no longer completely span TCSEC standards on consumer Intel CPUs. YMMV

The modern slop-web is harder to find things now, and I can't recall specifically if it was something more than just common hypervisor guest escape. =3
by darhodester | 2026-01-19 00:09:28+00:00
I have. Personally, I'm a big fan of hybrid representations like this. An underlying mesh helps with relighting, deformation, and effective editing operations (a mesh is a sparse node graph for an otherwise unstructured set of data).

However, surface-based constraints can prevent thin surfaces (hair/fur) from reconstructing as well as vanilla 3DGS. It might also inhibit certain reflections and transparency from being reconstructed as accurately.
by born-jre | 2026-01-19 00:10:05+00:00
yeah, i was too bored this weekend and wanted some feedback on thing i was working on but it did not get that much traction.

Anyway i don't think this kind of idea has been tried that much. there are projects that try to wrap existing project in docker/helm thing but this is platform solely built for running apps, means platform give ton of stuff (auth,file management, websocket etc etc) and core app logic is really small (look at server.lua file).

this is thinking from of normal people (not tech enthusiast running homelab or what not) being able to run server apps with same ease as they install apps from playstore in their phone. (atleast that's the idea)
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-19 00:10:17+00:00
I can see a government requiring itself to provide some funding to open-source projects that it actually makes a lot of use of. But not just open-source in general; no one needs to get funding for some pet project that only that one person cares about and isn't very good anyway: putting some crappy chatGPT-generated code on GitHub should not qualify you for government funding.
by baka367 | 2026-01-19 00:10:21+00:00
Every PR has to match their way exactly.

The logic, the method names, the test names, code in the log messages.

Does not matter what the output or complexity is, does not matter how the previous state of the code in the area looks like, it. Must. Look. And. Read. Their. Way.

A 3 file PR review can take weeks. There was once a PR for a new feature that took 1.5 years and 2 developers (the og op left the company 3 months into having opened this PR) to eventually merge.
by lurk2 | 2026-01-19 00:10:38+00:00
> (1) That rule refers to things people have posted to HN in things like "Show HNs" (or their moral equivalents).

There’s nothing I’m seeing in the text as it is written that suggests this to be the case. There are just a lot of comments I see that amount to: “I don’t like this,” which can be an interesting signal by itself but not if users refuse to elaborate on it, which is what I (erroneously) thought was happening here.

> You may have missed the link to ~1,000 words of detailed criticism of CATB, on which I support my claim here that CATB is bad.

I did miss it, sorry. I clicked through and didn’t notice that the top comment was yours. I assumed you were just linking to a past discussion.

I’m sure you already know this, but on the off chance you don’t, you can click on a comment’s timestamp to get a permalink to the specific comment, like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940773
by lovich | 2026-01-19 00:10:56+00:00
Total War: Warhammer came out in 2016 and was a massively popular game that kicked off a franchise.

If I recall right that was when GW started seemingly letting pretty much every studio take a crack at making games with their IP. There was a lot of trash but the sheer number of games put out meant they kept having 1-2 a year that were popular.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-19 00:11:40+00:00
"Well before this tragedy, Defendant Tesla had received repeated notice that its vehicles were prone to Sudden Uncommanded Acceleration [SUA], explosive fires, whether triggered by a crash or occurring spontaneously, and that such fires were difficult and time-consuming to extinguish. Tesla also knew that its decision to prevent its AEB system from activating would allow otherwise preventable collisions to kill and maim people. Tesla knew that its reliance on electronic door systems created a serious risk of occupant entrapment after crashes. Owners, rescuers, and regulators had documented prior incidents where Tesla occupants survived crash forces but were unable to escape when power failed and fire ensued. Despite these warnings, Defendant Tesla continued to market and sell vehicles including the subject vehicle that predictably trapped survivors in foreseeable emergencies."

"The Dennises were traveling westbound on South 56th Street, toward the intersection with South Washington Street, in Tacoma, Washington, when their Tesla Model 3 suddenly and rapidly accelerated out of control, continuing to accelerate faster and faster for at least 5 seconds before crashing into a utility pole on the northwest corner of South 56th and South Washington streets shortly after 1:00 PM. 9. Video footage from a nearby business shows the Dennis Model 3 rapidly accelerating and swerving to avoid hitting other vehicles as it sped out of control. At no time did the Model 3s Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) system engage prior to it crashing into the utility pole.

Immediately upon impact the Model 3 burst into flames, in what was only the beginning of an extremely hot fire that immediately engulfed the Model 3 and would burn for many hours before responders from the fire department were able to extinguish it completely.

Several bystanders ran to the vehicle and attempted to assist Jeff and Wendy Dennis but the Model 3s door handles would not operate by design making it impossible for anyone to open the doors from the outside of the vehicle. Several good Samaritans even attempted to use a baseball bat to break the car windows to help the Dennisses out of the burning vehicle. However, the increasingly intense fire forced them to distance themselves from the rapidly growing fire. They could only watch helplessly from a distance as the severely injured Jeff and Wendy burned in the inferno. The Tesla as it struck the utility pole.

[photos]

Seconds after impact the Tesla exploded into flames."

https://ia801700.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.wawd.3...

Italics are mine

HN commenters sometimes reply to stories about Tesla crashes by asserting that it was the driver's fault, Tesla's rarely catch fire, etc.

Perhaps this comment will draw some of those replies

Other cases mentioning "sudden uncommanded acceleration" include

Inkie Lee v. Tesla, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2020)

Djemil v. Tesla Inc (W.D. Wash. 2021)

Thakrar v. Tesla, Inc. (N.D. Ill. 2022)

Leach v. Tesla, Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2023)

There are hundreds of wrongful death cases involving Tesla fires

Tesla fans are entitled to their opinions
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-19 00:11:42+00:00
You forget that people are not necessarily doing this for rational reasons.

Some people do it for for entertainment, some people are gambling addicts, some people think they have a strong grasp or inside knowledge when they don't.

It is, at root, a casino. Apply your lens to any casino game, and it shouldn't exist (some very narrow exceptions apply in the casino).
by strken | 2026-01-19 00:12:10+00:00
My understanding is that unchecked wealth only remains that way until its owner acts irrationally on a stock exchange, at which point it is quite rapidly checked and becomes someone else's unchecked wealth.

Which is to say that Elon Musk can inflate any market he wants, but only by losing sums of money that will become increasingly significant as more and more people find out about the free cash giveaway.
by yadavrh | 2026-01-19 00:12:10+00:00
I appreciate the skepticism—usually 'Managed Platform' does imply a heavy markup over raw compute. But for a chat application specifically, the math leans heavily in favor of Cloudflare Workers (Isolates) over traditional VMs/Containers.

You mentioned scale: Cloudflare's free tier covers the first 100k requests/day, but the paid tier is where the economics really shine at scale. We pay roughly $0.30 per million requests

In the traditional architecture (Slack/Teams), you pay for provisioned capacity to handle peak load. That means you are paying for massive EC2 clusters and RDS instances 24/7, even when usage dips at night. You pay for the idle time.

With Cloudflare Workers, we pay strictly for execution time. Chat is incredibly bursty and text data is small. If no one is typing, our infrastructure cost is literally $0. We don't pay for idle CPU.

Even at scale, the cost of executing a Worker for a few milliseconds to route a JSON packet is significantly lower than the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of maintaining a global fleet of VMs, load balancers, and a DevOps team to manage Kubernetes. We trade 'raw metal' efficiency for 'operational' efficiency, which is where the real savings are
by jrowen | 2026-01-19 00:13:56+00:00
Thanks for your thoughts. I do feel like this is all very specifically connected to Twitter. Which tech people really adopted, but I never used much, so it is interesting that these different perspectives are somewhat tied to one's megaplatform(s) of choice. I don't know of another social network that has inspired such a consistent effort to be forked or cloned. I do kind of feel like "change the category" and create a new network with the traits you want to see is the right move.

For better or worse, Twitter built their network. That many people willingly signed up and posted and continue to post there. I don't think anyone really should be able to fork it, because the users didn't collectively agree to that, and they don't all agree on what a good road or a bad road is. Ultimately, they can choose to leave if and when they want. Are these networks rather sticky, yes of course, but that's life.

We've seen lots of social networks come and go, things do change over time, there's ample opportunity for new ideas to flourish. In that sense, AT is perfectly welcome to throw their hat in the ring and see if that resonates and sticks. If people want their social network to be forkable, that concept will succeed.

I do think it misses what a lot of people find valuable about the tangibility and constraints of "I am making this content specifically for this platform and this audience at this point in time." I don't think most people think of their social media posts as a body of work that they want to maintain and carry over in an abstract sense independent of platform, and give open license to anyone to cook up into whatever form they can dream of.
by celadin | 2026-01-19 00:13:57+00:00
I'm still sharing this post in the internal org trainings I run for those new to LLMs. Thanks for it - really great overview of the concept!

I saw in your other comment you've made accommodations for the newer generation, and I will confess than in Cursor (with plan mode) I've found an abbreviated form works just as well as the extremely explicit example found in the post.

If you ever had a followup, I imagine it'd be just as well received!