MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-23 00:12:34+00:00
> One issue with this analogy is that calculators really are precise when used correctly. LLMs are not.

I made this a separate comment, because it's wildly off topic, but... they actually aren't. Especially for very large numbers or for high precision. When's the last time you did a firmware update on yours?

It's fairly trivial to find lists of calculator flaws and then identify them in research papers. I recall reading a research paper about it in the 00's.
by lilouartz | 2026-01-23 00:12:47+00:00
I don't want to, and I don't plan to. At a time when this happened, I was deep in my studies preparing for exams, and I just remember thinking to myself, "I cannot afford to pull myself into what could become a legal matter" I am now in better position to allocate time and attention should such claims be made again.

That said, the couple of brands that were removed were not brands that I would have wanted anyone to buy anyway. Not much is lost by not having them on the website from the perspective of fulfilling customers' journeys of finding a good product.

I do like the suggestion made in one of the comments informing customers why some brands are not visible on the website. That warning might on its own deter others from making such claims.
by amoorthy | 2026-01-23 00:13:07+00:00
As a co-founder (tech background but haven't coded in a while), I got comfortable with sales best when I hired a sales coach. There are so many things to learn in sales and a coach is often the fastest way to assess your inherent weaknesses and address them head on.

I paid $2k/mth about 10 yrs ago; at the time I felt scared to spend so much but once I realized it was an investment in me, and I put in the time to learn, I can safely say it continues to pay off even now. I quite enjoy sales now. Not saying I'm good at it but certainly a far way from "I hate sales and would much rather code".
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-23 00:14:15+00:00
You are giving me images from The Bug Short where the guy goes to investigate mortgages and knocks on some random person’s door to ask about a house/mortgage just to learn that it belongs to a dog. Imagine finding out that Anthropic employs no humans at all. Just an AI that has fired everyone and been working on its own releases and press releases since.
by throwup238 | 2026-01-23 00:14:36+00:00
> Just because some products or services are great value, doesn't make other products bad value.

Sorry, but no. If they're worse value than my email and password providers which my digital life revolves around and who only charge me $5/mo each, then yes those products are a bad value.

I pay $3,000/yr for Altium, $200/mo for Claude Max, $60+/mo for ad-free streaming, and begrudgingly $50/mo for Adobe so I'm not against paying thousands a year in nice fat profit margins if they provide actual value, like a shit ton of GPU compute time or a well made piece of professional software. "Value" here is obviously subjective relative to the beholder, but IMO the vast majority of SaaS I look at are hardly worth two bucks a month, let alone tens.
by jasonfarnon | 2026-01-23 00:15:07+00:00
agree, I dont find this evidence of AI. It often happened that authors change, there are multiple venues, or I'm using an old version of the paper. We also need to see the denominator. If this google paper had this one bad citation out of 20 versus out of 60.

Also everyone I know has been relying on google scholar for 10+ years. Is that AI-ish? There are definitely errors on there. If you would extrapolate from citation issues to the content in the age of LLMs, were you doing so then as well?

It's the age-old debate about spelling/grammar issues in technical work. In my experience it rarely gets to the point that these errors eg from non-native speakers affect my interpretation. Others claim to infer shoddy content.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-23 00:15:27+00:00
> I do think it can be used in research but not without careful checking.

This is really just restating what I already said in this thread, but you're right. That's because wikipedia isn't a primary source and was never, ever meant to be. You are SUPPOSED to go read it then click through to the primary sources and cite those.

Lots of people use it incorrectly and get bad results because they still haven't realized this... all these years later.

Same thing with treating stochastic LLM's like sources of truth and knowledge. Those folks are just doing it wrong.
by mentos | 2026-01-23 00:16:23+00:00
What do you estimate the cost would be to have each tile hand drawn by an artist?

I don't think there are enough artists in the world to achieve this in a reasonable amount of time (1-5 years) and you're probably looking at a $10M cost?

Part of me wonders if you put a kickstarter together if you could raise the funds to have it hand drawn but no way the very artists you hire wouldn't be tempted to use AI themselves.
by beoberha | 2026-01-23 00:16:45+00:00
I had never written an iOS app until a couple months ago and was initially very put off when I hit the same wall. The alternative is to host on a cheap VPS and find some way to prevent other people from using your app. When you cost it out, it's close enough to the 100 bucks a year for the Apple account. However, the kicker for me is the side loading process. Way too much headache compared to a deploy script that has my changes running nearly instantly.
by lilouartz | 2026-01-23 00:16:50+00:00
That's the plan. I don't intend to own any stock. I want to focus on covering the broadest range of supplements across all of the marketplaces, having the richest data about them, and then focus on the affiliate revenue.

The affiliate revenue can be anywhere from 5% to 10% depending on the affiliate partner. Considering no overhead of support, inventory, or logistics, it's a pretty good deal for me, especially for now, while I'm still a solo founder.
by masfuerte | 2026-01-23 00:17:54+00:00
HN broke link [1]. This works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Smoked_Fish_Corp%2E

I love smoked salmon but in the UK it's mostly farmed trash so I don't buy it any more. If you look hard enough, smoked wild salmon is available, but at ~£1/g it's well out of my price range.
by mcgrath_sh | 2026-01-23 00:18:06+00:00
I don't think it is "a stigma against something that was built assisted by an LLM." I think the author is coming at it in the same way I do with some similar tools: "this is good enough for me, I am the end user, and I don't have the time or desire to iron out a bunch of edge cases or make things for more than one user."

I am rewriting my website. I was using a converted Pelican template. I started the rewrite using variables similar to the template, then about halfway through, I realized, "this is dumb. I am the only user. I care about nobody else. I can hardcode nearly all of this, and if I want a change, change the hardcoded name." An example of this was various social media names.

I have scripts that convert color themes for applications from more popular themes to a theme I particularly like. I hard-coded the input colors and output colors. I could have made a config file, etc, but, that adds complexity and, more importantly *I do not care about other users.*

There is a huge leap between "good enough for me to use for exactly my use case" and release or sell as a product.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-23 00:18:30+00:00
> but I have yet to find a client that would pay me to spend an ungodly amount of time fucking around with my toolbelt instead of delivering results.

right, yeah, I got started by being able to expense the $200 plan, and now I don't expense it but there's no going back, mostly because this is extremely undervalued and its unclear how long this deal will be around

Claude's $200/mo Max x20 plan is the best deal in the game, its equivalent to about $2600 worth of API credits, and is 4x more ability than the $100 plan (Max x5)

all roads to not really... caring... about why you're resistant to this. it's going to be too late when Anthropic raises the prices, all the reasons behind your reservations grow, unless someone else undercuts them just as well.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-23 00:19:09+00:00
If you're open to Forth,

https://github.com/remko/waforth

> WAForth is entirely written in (raw) WebAssembly*, and the compiler generates WebAssembly code on the fly.

* https://github.com/remko/waforth/blob/master/src/waforth.wat
by _carbyau_ | 2026-01-23 00:20:04+00:00
I second Blender. I don't use anything else and don't see why I would want to. I hope to get into geometry nodes in future.

The donut tutorial is ... handwavy relevant to 3D printing.

3D modelling for 3D printing doesn't require materials, colours, lighting, camera placement etc etc. But doing the donut tutorial will get you used to many aspects of blender and realise just how powerful this software is. It's also kind of a Blender right-of-passage.

The Blender documentation for beginner video series is honestly really good too. Goes through the concepts of the interface directly in short bite sized videos. Annoyingly, I can't find them on blender.org because I've been cloudflare blocked...

And Blender has a large body of community forums for questions and answers if you want to search(first), post a question, or likely ask your friendly AI what the answer is.
by fragmede | 2026-01-23 00:20:23+00:00
Some people, (eg people who aren't already Brex customers), aren't going to get that email, and aren't following Brex's social media presence. They may not even have a social media account of their own, not even a Linkedin. The only way they would hear about is is via their landing page.

How much you use social media, and are a Brex customer, is going to influence how big you think that group of people is, but it's for sure, non-zero.
by nelgaard | 2026-01-23 00:20:25+00:00
I do something similar, but simpler.

E.g., for rolling daily backups, something like

ls -l *.backup | mail -s "backup done" me@foo.dk, someoneelse@bar.dk

even for successful cron jobs. That way you can check file sizes, timestamps, etc.

That way I will notice if something is not working, even if emails are also not working, the server is down etc. It requires of course that you actually read those emails. But at least if people have accepted to check them, they cannot complain. Well, they can of course, but then I can also blame them.
by platinumrad | 2026-01-23 00:20:45+00:00
Would it be accurate to think of it as a better way of doing the following?

```
int
add(int a, int b) {
#ifndef FREESTANDING
printf("adding %d and %d\n", a, b);
#
return a + b;
}
```

> You still share logic by compiling the same source multiple times

What's the benefit of this approach over sharing code via libraries?
by adrian_b | 2026-01-23 00:20:47+00:00
The manpage syscall(2) exists on both Linux and FreeBSD, while syscall(9) does not exist on either of them.

On Linux there is also a syscalls(2) manpage, while no syscalls page exists on FreeBSD.

These man pages belong to libc (e.g. glibc on Linux), not to the kernel. This distinction does not matter on FreeBSD and other *BSD, where the kernel and the standard C library are always synchronized, but it matters on Linux, where glibc and the kernel are developed independently, so their lists of syscalls are not the same. Typically glibc is synchronized with an older Linux kernel, not with your current kernel.
by numpad0 | 2026-01-23 00:20:52+00:00
You would not be disagreeing with me, actually. I should have clarified that the problem is somewhere in current implementations of generative AI(Google Transformer derivatives), in my opinion, and is not necessarily the case to every shape and form of AI.

But nearly every single implementation of generative AI data generators appear to exhibit this behavior, with Google Nano Banana(tm) implementation as potential sole exception or lesser offender. Something in it is rage and/or derangement coded, NOT in artistic way that rock or metal music recordings are. Maybe this was what supposed "toxicity" of LLMs discussed heavily as chatbots rolled out remedied by extreme sycophancy to the point that LLMs don't literally flip out people and drive them into state of psychosis. But whatever it is, it's insane that everyone supportive of AI is tone deaf on a phenomenon that obvious, reproducible, and widespread.

All it takes to turn anyone into anti-AI Luddite is to show them a piece of text, image, code, any data that they are familiar with. That's not a simple moral panic.
by clickety_clack | 2026-01-23 00:21:26+00:00
Practically, yes. But in economics they often classify “savings” only as being in a bank account. So if you “save” money in a 401k, where it’s invested in stocks, bonds or ETFs or whatever, then it’s not recorded as savings because they consider that “investment”. So when someone says EU saving is 18.79% vs US saving of 3.50%, most of the wealth saved by Americans isn’t showing up in that comparison because it’s not in a bank account.
by superturkey650 | 2026-01-23 00:22:25+00:00
This is what I’ve been doing too. Give the LLM a link to an OAS for an API and let it use curl for everything after that. I don’t even wrap the API or use restish all, the LLM knows how to use curl well enough.

This lets me add quick skills that are essentially just: “this is the OAS link, this is how you store and use the authorization, this is when I want you to use it”. That combined with pointing it at the documentation for common workflows and usage examples, and it’s been great.

The only thing I’ve had trouble with is auth really. MCPs are treated as first class citizens by most model provider’s agents and trying to provide a shell-based alternative for hiding the secret credentials from the LLM has been difficult.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-23 00:22:39+00:00
> We should be trying to optimize for the best combination of risk and benefit

I 100% support this stance, it's good advice for life in general. I object to the ridiculous Luddite's view espoused elsewhere in this thread.

>The GenAI industry lobbying for a moratorium on regulation is them trying to hand wave any disenfranchisement (e.g. displaced workers, youth mental health, intellectual property rights violated, systemically racist outcomes, etc).

There must be a balance certainly. We can't "kill it before it's born", but we also need to be practical about the costs. I'm all in on debating exactly where that line should be, but object to the idea that it provides no value at all. That's madness, and dishonesty.
by stackghost | 2026-01-23 00:22:40+00:00
I think the point they're making is that "I, a seasoned network security and red-team-type person, could have done this in Wireshark without AI assistance" is neither surprising nor interesting.

That'd be like saying "I, an emergency room doctor, do not need AI assistance to interpret an EKG"

Consider that your expertise is atypical.
by fluoridation | 2026-01-23 00:24:15+00:00
Because what is meant by "this organization has been disabled" is fairly obvious. The object in Anthropic's systems belonging to the class Organization has changed to the state Disabled, so the call cannot be executed. Anthropic itself is not an organization in this sense, nor is Google, so I would say that referring to them as "non-disabled organizations" is an equivocation fallacy. Besides that, I can't tell if it's a joke, if it's some kind of statement, or what is being communicated. To me it's just obtuseness for the sake of itself.
by rasz | 2026-01-23 00:24:50+00:00
in this particular case "We need to be able to capture 60 MHz SPI."

For something cheap and capable you could try building rp2350 based https://github.com/gusmanb/logicanalyzer, goes up to 400Ms/s. Its just a Pico1/2 with a level shifter board

"This is an affordable logic analyzer capable of reaching up to 400Mhz of sampling speed. The analyzer uses a Pico/Pico2 as its core. The analyzer offers 24 channels but can be chained up to 5 devices allowing the sampling of up to 120 channels at once."

I havent played with their software yet, but I have a ton of experience with pulseview and while its feature rich it is sluggish and not suited for high speed big volume acquisitions (especially the dreadfully Python 3.4 plugins and Im saying this as an author of one of the plugins) so anything written even half competently might be better.
by croon | 2026-01-23 00:25:06+00:00
> I'm not sure what you are getting at here. A voter can not verify their vote in the current paper systems.

In the current paper systems you don't have to, as you know what you put on it before it got anonymized and counted as one vote by the teams watched by teams.

> Using these systems they can.

In theory, yes. In practice, barely. If it was easy/practical it would be intrinsically susceptible to coercion.

In general, I agree with everything you write except for this paragraph:

> We are automating voting with voting machines and vote tabulators for good reasons. They are easier to use, particularly for the disabled, they are faster, they are cheaper than redundant teams of people, and they more accurate than manual methods. They are already arrived, and their use will only grow over time. Pleas like yours to "just use paper" are having little effect on their inceasing adoption.

The only "good" reason would be cost, but I wouldn't agree that it's a worthy trade-off. They could be easier to use, but it seems generally to be prone to UI issues making it unclear who/what you're voting for.

I'm sure their use will grow over time, but it won't be for any reasons that are good for democracy.
by derefr | 2026-01-23 00:25:30+00:00
I would argue that an LLM is a perfectly sensible tool for structure-preserving machine translation from another language to English. (Where by "another language", you could also also substitute "very poor/non-fluent English." Though IMHO that's a bit silly, even though it's possible; there's little sense in writing in a language you only half know, when you'd get a less-lossy result from just writing in your native tongue, and then having it translate from that.)

Google Translate et al were never good enough at this task to actually allow people to use the results for anything professional. Previous tools were limited to getting a rough gloss of what words in another language mean.

But LLMs can be used in this way, and are being used in this way; and this is increasingly allowing non-English-fluent academics to publish papers in English-language journals (thus engaging with the English-language academic community), where previously those academics they may have felt "stuck" publishing in what few journals exist for their discipline in their own language.

Would you call the use of LLMs for translation "shoddy" or "irresponsible"? To me, it'd be no more and no less "shoddy" or "irresponsible" than it would be to hire a freelance human translator to translate the paper for you. (In fact, the human translator might be a worse idea, as LLMs are more likely to understand how to translate the specific academic jargon of your discipline than a randomly-selected human translator would be.)
by dTal | 2026-01-23 00:25:36+00:00
I don't think this argument is logically sound. The assertion that this (and every other!!) technological innovation is a "net positive" merely because of our monotonic population growth is both weakly defined and unsubstantiated. Population is not a good proxy for all things we find desirable in society, and even if it were, it is only a single number that cannot possibly distinguish between factors that helped it and factors that hurt it.

Suppose I invent The Matrix, capable of efficiently sustaining 100b humans provided they are all strapped in with tubes and stuff. Oh and no fancy simulation to keep you entertained either -it's only barely an improvement on death. Economics forces everyone into matrix-hell, but at least there's a lot of us. Net positive for society?
by renewiltord | 2026-01-23 00:25:41+00:00
Presumably they didn't want to sit there and monitor Claude Code doing this for each of the 14 things they want done. Using a harness around Claude Code (or its SDK) is perfectly sane for this. I do it routinely. You just automate the entire process so that if you change APIs or you change the tasks, the harness can run and ensure that all of your sets are correctly re-done.

Sitting there and manually typing in "do thing 1; oh it failed? make it not fail. okay, now commit" is incredibly tedious.
by JodieBenitez | 2026-01-23 00:26:30+00:00
I should mention that I don't even have a 3D printer or a CNC machine. I'll be in my fifties soon and maybe I get grumpy, but I sometimes have the feeling that more and more aspects of our lives fall under a law of some sort, down to very precise details. It's death of freedom by a thousand paper cuts. And it's always in the name of a good thing, of course. But in the end, it's really taking responsability away from the people.

Anyway, thanks for this discussion.
by 3rodents | 2026-01-23 00:27:05+00:00
dimator captured the point I was hoping to make, more eloquently than I could hope to. I defer to their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725512

That said, to address your broader point: me, personally, I am thrilled that the barrier to entry for building software has been all but eliminated. The joy of creation belongs to us all.
by gsinclair | 2026-01-23 00:27:58+00:00
I believe Uiua is an excellent one to look at first. It’s simpler than the others you mentioned without sacrificing any power (that I know of). You can type in meaningful words which then appear as cute glyphs, rather than learning new ways of entering things. Each glyph has only one meaning whereas APL (and I think the others) assign context-dependent meanings to some glyphs.
by grantmuller | 2026-01-23 00:29:19+00:00
>In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)

I have no idea what you're talking about, so I guess I'm not "one of them".

> That's a formula right there my friend

No, it's an analogy, or a colloquial metaphor.
by aanet | 2026-01-23 00:29:38+00:00
^ THIS

I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours.

What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??
by xl-brain | 2026-01-23 00:29:49+00:00
I don't disagree with your comment that the best de facto firewall is a proper firewall. I think you are reacting against the idea that I am saying IPv6 is less secure than IPv4. I am not saying that.

The point of my original post is that the author's take is controversial because people are skeptical about whether networks ARE being secured when NAPT is not present.

They are right to be skeptical, in my opinion, because the rollout of IPv6 has been bungled over and over again. That is not a problem with IPv6, its a problem with the adoption of IPv6.
by dave1010uk | 2026-01-23 00:30:11+00:00
> Heck, there's others who were wealthy in scripture, even kings are they all doomed?

This is a great question. In the next verses, the disciples ask pretty much the same thing: "Who then can be saved?" and then Jesus explains to them:

With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

Whether it's a camel or a rope (and whether it's a literal needle or a small city gate, as some people argue), I think is less important (though still interesting). Either way, after the rich young ruler walks away, Jesus turns to his disciples and paints a picture something that's completely impossible without God, no matter how hard we might try by ourselves.