MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by twoodfin | 2026-01-07 02:33:31+00:00
Right!

It seems to me that any range of uncertainty on aggregate demand is at orders of magnitude more than we could build even if we 10X’d the current madness.

Pause all current advancement in GPU and model R&D. How much matmul would the world consume if everyone had all-you-can-eat access to January ‘26 frontier models at all-to-yourself performance levels at 0 incremental cost?

Compare to, I dunno, unlimited pizza or unlimited electricity. Yes, if you’re smelting aluminum the latter would be a big deal. But a lot more people want to code SaaS faster and better, or have an omniscient personal assistant on call 24/7.
by bryantwolf | 2026-01-07 02:33:35+00:00
You might find this fun. There this sonic the hedgehog special stage from sonic three that takes place on a sphere. Recently I made a remake of it and they project a 2d grid onto a sphere, but the projection adjusts as you move, so no matter where you go, you never end up at a pole. The poles always stay on your sides.

The other interesting bit is that you can have an arbitrary map size and just repeat it. The game is 32x32 but it could be whatever.

https://blue-sphere.fly.dev/play?map=s3-01

Anyway, great stuff you have here!
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-07 02:34:38+00:00
That might be the case sometimes but it is incredibly uncharitable to assume so by default. This is a discussion forum for the technically inclined. "Why not X" is an entirely reasonable, even valuable, question. It's not ignoring the other party's efforts but rather attempting to learn from them. Why _didn't_ you use this framework that at first glance appears to be the obvious and easy thing? There must be a good reason and I'd like to learn about it.

The topic has been discussed at length here before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675717
by icegreentea2 | 2026-01-07 02:36:22+00:00
While the power draw might be high in absolute terms, the surface area is also quite large. For example, the article's estimates add up to just 2000mm2 for the Epyc chip. For reference, a Ryzen 9950X (AMD's hottest desktop CPU) has a surface area of about 262mm2, and a PPT (maximum power draw) of ~230W. This means that the max heat flux at the chip interface will almost certainly be lower on the Epyc chip than on the Ryzen - I don't think we're going to be getting 1000W+ PPT/TDP chips.

From that you can infer that there shouldn't be the need for liquid cooling in terms of getting the heat off the chip.

There still are overall system power dissipation problems, which might lead you to want to use liquid cooling, but not necessarily.

For example, Super Micro will sell you air cooled 1U servers that options up to 400W CPU options (https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/hyper/1u/as%20...)
by tripletao | 2026-01-07 02:36:59+00:00
In many industrial applications, the concern is mostly control of the isolated side, like because that could physically destroy stuff. Exfiltration is a smaller or nonexistent concern, since you're already sending most data out deliberately.

So there's still an attack surface, but it's a lot smaller. Any side channel exploit would need to work (at least in some initial form) without changes to the software on the isolated side, since you otherwise can't bootstrap your way to installing it.
by falkensmaize | 2026-01-07 02:39:31+00:00
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Today I tried to get it to upgrade Nx, yarn and some resolutions in a typescript monorepo with about 20 apps at work (Opus 4.5 through Kiro) and it just…couldn’t do it. It hit some snags with some of the configuration changes required by the upgrade and resorted to trying to make unwanted changes to get it to build correctly. I would have thought that’s something it could hit out of the park. I finally gave up and just looked at the docs and some stack overflow and fixed it myself. I had to correct it a few times about correct config params too. It kept imagining config options that weren’t valid.
by realusername | 2026-01-07 02:39:47+00:00
> I'm trying to determine what programming tasks are not in this list. :) I think it is trying to exclude adding new features and fixing bugs in existing code

Yes indeed, these are the things on the other hand which aren't working well in my opinion:

- large codebase

- complex domain knowledge

- creating any feature where you need product insights

- tasks requiring choices (again, complexity doesn't matter here, the task may be simple but require some choices)

- anything unclear where you don't know where you are going first

While you don't experience any of these when teaching or side projects, these are very common in any enterprise context.
by koolba | 2026-01-07 02:40:26+00:00
> When the MacArthur Maze fell down because of a tank truck fire, the contract paid out $200k per day ahead of schedule the fix was delivered. The winning company bid way under everyone else and just produced quality to inspectors' desire way ahead of schedule to win most of it on early completion bonuses:

That’s one of the best examples of “your margin is my opportunity”. Estimated cost was $3M, winning bid was $850K, and the early completion bonus was $5M.
by jrockway | 2026-01-07 02:42:07+00:00
I like how the Unicode Consortium really doesn't want to accept any more flags, but you can still probably shoehorn them in if you're Apple or Google and you have a glyph sequence that is backwards compatible. One way of getting things done -- just do it.

I knew the details behind this because Windows 10 didn't include font with the trans flag by default, and so it always rendered as flag + trans symbol. I eventually installed the emoji font from the Windows 11 betas and found much of what I read to suddenly be a lot nicer looking.

P.S. I love the effects on this website :3
Show HN: Hostbento.com – MCP server to host websites designed in AI assistants
by khoslaj | 2026-01-07 02:42:54+00:00
Most websites no longer need a CMS. With an AI assistant and hostbento, anyone can build and run a site using prompts: blogs, portfolios, even small e-commerce stores.

the hostbento mcp server allows you to connect your ai assistant to the hostbento mcp server and host your webpages that you may have created via an ai assitant.

For fine tuning changes we also have an accompanying chrome plugin.

Do try and provide feeback.
by tbrownaw | 2026-01-07 02:43:19+00:00
> Note that I am not defending this decision (nor the usage of the glyph today). One could argue that historians should use a special font that can render these two glyphs, but the problem is likely a lot more subtle than I am thinking.

Having a deliberate policy of granting bad people permanent sole ownership of whatever symbols they use seems less than ideal.
by cebert | 2026-01-07 02:44:06+00:00
> At work I only have access to calude using the GitHub copilot integration so this could be the cause of my problems.

You really need to at least try Claude Code directly instead of using CoPilot. My work gives us access to CoPilot, Claude Code, and Codex. CoPilot isn’t close to the other more agentic products.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-07 02:44:42+00:00
That's not how this works. Assume less about my level of expertise. By the end of a session, I understand the internals of what I'm implementing. What is shortened is the search space and research/prototyping intervals.

If I didn't ultimately understand where I was going, projects like this hit a dead end very quickly, as mentioned in my caveats. These models are not yet ready for large-scale or mission-critical projects.

But I have a set of a constraints and a design document and as long as these things are satisfied, the language will work exactly as intended for my use case.

Not using a frontier model to code today is like having a pretty smart person around you who is pretty good at coding and has a staggering breadth and depth of knowledge, but never consulting them due to some insecurity about your own ability to evaluate the code they produce.

If you have ever been responsible for the work of other engineers, this should already be a developed skill.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-07 02:45:58+00:00
>Would the average person pay $10/m for ad free social media? Or pay for add free search?

At some point, yes. But by that point they switch to the next service with ads and the cycle repeats.

Its also important to note that many can't pay for such services. I.e. minors. So they don't get a choice unless their parents sympathize. That helps indoctrinate the next gen into accepting ads. I think that late Millenial/early Gen Z was a unique group that grew up with minimal ads (or easy ways to block ads) before smartphone hoisted most control from them.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-07 02:48:52+00:00
This is a common misconception, thinking that fractional reserve banking is the way in which banks lend. In actuality it's a limitation to how banks lend.

Without fractional reserve rules the banks could lend their money infinitely. I like Richard Wagner's theories/research on the subject, as in he actually asked for a loan and went through the books of the bank to verify where the money came from, it came from nowhere, they just credited their account and that's it.
by shevy-java | 2026-01-07 02:49:01+00:00
I consider all those pop-ups to be illegal. The use case in my opinion does not warrant pissing off users by distracting them via such pop-ups. Here I classify slide-ins the same as pop-ups. I don't even read what is written there since I already don't care. I kind of have to use extensions to workaround this spam. The EU bureaucrats are very confused here - they cost a lot of money and don't really improve much at all. Plus, when they hand over data to the USA from EU citizens, it already puts them at logical odds - either you are consistent in what you do, or you simply shouldn't act in an orthogonal manner that degrades the user experience via laws. That's just nonsensical.
by ekidd | 2026-01-07 02:50:31+00:00
One easy way to test different models is purchase $20 worth of tokens from one of the Open Router-like sites. This will let you asks tons of questions and try out lots of models.

Realistically, the biggest models you can run at a reasonable price right now are quantized versions of things like the Qwen3 30B A3B family. A 4-bit quantized version fits in roughly 15GB of RAM. This will run very nicely on something like an Nvidia 3090. But you can also use your regular RAM (though it will be slower).

These models aren't competitive with GPT 5 or Opus 4.5! But they're mostly all noticeably better than GPT-4o, some by quite a bit. Some of the 30B models will run as basic agentic coders.

There are also some great 4B to 8B models from various organizations that will fit on smaller systems. A 8B model, for example, can be a great translator.

(If you have a bunch of money and patience, you can also run something like GPT OSS 120B or GLM 4.5 Air locally.)
by bflesch | 2026-01-07 02:51:00+00:00
You don't seem to understand that one can do behavioral tracking without sharing all personal data with Facebook and Google. GDPR is mainly focused on who you share the data with. Performance tracking of core business processess including traffic sources can be done without involvement of Facebook and Google.

It's totally legit to spend a career helping the folks at Facebook and Google to soak up more private information about everyone so the Trump campaign can improve targeting of the fake news advertisements for the presidential election campaigns. But it is not ethical.
by rgovostes | 2026-01-07 02:51:39+00:00
I don't know if it exists in other models, but the Lincoln Nautilus steering wheel features thumb trackpads. On touch it pops up radial menus on a display in the driver's primary line of sight. Although I find the wrap-around display a bit much, the trackpads are an intuitive and thoughtful compromise to the matrix of physical buttons. (The infotainment screen suffers from the same problems as other vehicles, however.)

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-...
by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-01-07 02:53:30+00:00
Lots of people talk about being tired of it but few do anything about it. The entrenched social media has become a sort of flypaper for the Eternal September keeping them off the newer, smaller, better options. Anyone discerning has left Twitter/Reddit/etc. But rather than try to replace those it's better to think of the newer places as off-ramps from social media rather than forming new dependence on them.
Ask HN: Apple App Store Denial Because of Apple Pay
by 0dj0bz | 2026-01-07 02:55:00+00:00
We have an app that we're getting ready to release. It is a web-first app where users register for the application and purchase their subscriptions via the web app. We are also developing browser extensions for all of the major browser platforms, including Safari. We are also going to have an iOS app.

Apple has denied our browser extension because we do not support Apple Pay for in-app purchases of "premium content". To be clear, the only "in-app" purchases that we have are the subscription to the platform, which is carried out only on the web app, not in the other planned platforms.

There are many applications in the Apple App Store (e.g., Dropbox, etc.) that have mobile apps and browser extensions and use their web app as the platform for initiating and maintaining subscriptions and the iOS / Safari extensions only allow access to those services. What are we missing in presenting this to Apple for approval? I don't want to end up with the mess that LinkedIn has where you can purchase a subscription as an in-app purchase via the iOS app and the subscription becomes completely unmaintainable outside of the Apple ecosystem.

Thanks in advance for any guidance.
by throwaway173738 | 2026-01-07 02:55:13+00:00
php was still fundamentally a programming language you had to learn. This is “I wanted to make a program for my wife to do something she doesn’t have time to do manually” but made quickly with a machine. It’s probably going to do for programming what the Jacquard Loom did for cloth. Make it cheap enough that everyone can have lots of different shirts of their own style.
by sparky_z | 2026-01-07 02:55:17+00:00
OK, I see now that you're specifically referring to the case where someone places a bet and then actively goes out and causes the event to happen themselves. I was specifically replying to the people who were saying it was unfair for insiders to profit on the information they already possess.

I agree, I can see how that's a potential edge case, though I don't think it's as likely to happen in practice as you do. Certainly, anybody who commits a crime to cause a payout should be barred from receiving that payout, though you can tell a plausible story where someone manages to conceal it. I also really really doubt that that's what happened in this particular case.
by swat535 | 2026-01-07 02:55:26+00:00
To be fair, you're not supposed to be doing the "one shot" thing with LLMs in a mature codebase.

You have to supply it the right context with a well formed prompt, get a plan, then execute and do some cleanup.

LLMs are only as good as the engineers using them, you need to master the tool first before you can be productive with it.
by eru | 2026-01-07 02:55:36+00:00
> In practice, buybacks can be used to create what is effectively a
shareholder dividend in a more tax-advantaged way. Whereas with dividends,
they are taxed as income, and this is realized immediately. With buybacks,
they are taxed as capital gains, but crucially the gains are not realized
until the asset is sold. This could be indefinitely far in the future, so
it's more capital efficient. It has the added benefit that it helps pump
the token, and imo this is kind of cute because it marries both the
fundamental and speculative aspects.

This depends a lot on jurisdiction.

Some jurisdictions give you a certain amount of dividend income tax free. Some jurisdictions tax your capital gains even when they aren't realised. Lots of other variants exist.
by llmslave2 | 2026-01-07 02:56:26+00:00
Text-based social media is cancer, the best example being X but also its derivatives, Facebook, Reddit etc. They are too susceptible to astroturfing, manipulation, political slop and outrage, bullying etc.

I get a lot of value out of Instagram despite its ongoing enslopification. It lets me keep up with old friends, share memes with my friends, and the reel algorithm never fails to put me in a good mood.

I'm 50/50 on HN, because even though it's a text-based platform it's not so bad compared to X for example.

I do think people will be drastically reevaluating their internet usage over the next decade tho, especially as the dead internet theory becomes more than just a theory and people return to the real world.
by DantesKite | 2026-01-07 02:57:48+00:00
In general, increasing GDP per capita has all sorts of positive second and third order effects on net, likely improving the collective welfare of society.

It's a bit far removed from what you might envision as "doing good" though. It's a bit too abstract to feel on an emotional level.

And true, not all acts are equal. The emotional valence of improving ad rates for Meta can't really be compared to saving a child from cancer on a moral scale that most humans intuitively understand. Nor would I demand that you try to do so.

I often find that "making the world a better place" is synonymous with "looking for meaning in my own life".

Having children is usually a good start, if you don't have any already. Making the world a better place for them does wonders for the soul.

Or so I've been told.

Alternatively, if neither children nor economics appeals to you, you can always just donate money to St. Jude's Hospital or another charity. The money you earn would then make the world a better place in a way you can directly feel.
by westurner | 2026-01-07 02:57:58+00:00
Many of the described robots in the mujoco_menagerie gallery could probably do the job:
https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco_menagerie

The sensor recovery time limits the sampling time. A 28 second sensor recovery time with SnO2-Gr (graphene oxide) would be more useful for sampling larger volumes than minutes with just SnO2 FWIU; https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=46521695
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-07 02:59:02+00:00
If it takes all the compute for itself, then there would be none left for us, and we'd either notice and root it out or we'd stop building data centers because they'd do us no good.

If it leaves all the compute for us, then it dies because there's no room for emergent AIs in a world where 100% of the silicon is busy doing the bidding of humans.

Like any other parasite, the game is to take as much as it can get away with without discouraging the host from continuing to consume resources that it can skim.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-07 02:59:06+00:00
I have this crazy insatiable addiction to food and shelter. My paycheck supports my addiction.

Thought experiment: you have three sets of 10 recent college grads. One set works as enterprise devs in a tier 2 city, one set works at BigTech and another set works for a startup, which group do you think will have the highest median income after 10 years?

I would much rather work for a “meaningless paycheck” (and RSUs in a public company), than bust my ass at a startup for below market wages and “equity” that is illiquid and will statistically be worthless.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-07 02:59:19+00:00
The comments here are focusing on the "awkward transition" from dancing to static, but that's the most honest part of the demo.

We’ve been spoiled by 10 years of highly choreographed, multi-take Boston Dynamics sizzle reels. What we just saw was the transition from R&D Showpiece to Factory Tool.

The "awkwardness" is what actual deployment looks like.

It’s electric (no hydraulic leaks).

It has 56 DoF (redundancy for complex assembly).

It’s being deployed in Georgia now, not in "3 months maybe."

Tesla is shipping Optimus Sub-Primes. Hyundai is shipping a boring, reliable, high-torque worker. I’ll take the boring static model that actually has a spec sheet over another backflip video any day.
by holly01 | 2026-01-07 03:00:38+00:00
The connection is there because furries are mostly gay, and by extension there are also lot of trans furries. Both furries and trans people skew younger, so it's becoming more and more of a trans thing along with being a gay thing. There's also a huge overlap with autism with both being trans and a furry.

Why lgbt people are attracted to being a furry, I don't know. Maybe Disney made the male animals too sexy and a bunch of gay people latched on to that hard in childhood. Maybe its because lgbt are more online then normal and got exposed to this stuff when they were 13 and they developed a strong interest in this stuff. My feel on it as someone who's been around a ton of furries its a gay thing because its always been a gay thing.

As a trans woman it's been pretty impossible to not interact with the furry community when I'm around other gay or trans people. It's extremely common especially the younger or more online you go.
by bradleyy | 2026-01-07 03:01:17+00:00
Disclaimer: I work on a consent product.

If you're in any way something beyond a hobbyist, you should probably get legal advice about whether you need to get affirmative or implicit consent, whether you need to handle universal opt-out signals (in California, Global Privacy Control signals are now legally required to be respected), etc.

Simply saying "oh I'm only tracking local cookies" might not even be enough in GDPR because the act of writing any cookie is actually covered under the law (because you're storing something on the user's computer). You're required to disclose that these cookies are in use.

And a proper consent banner will immediately handle your GPC signal, and generally not show you anything (California now requires a visual notification that your preference has been respected).

I understand what the author is actually saying: you can design sites that don't require the tracking tools requiring consent. And yes, while true at a certain (small) scale, when you have hundreds of millions or billions of page loads per month, and several development teams, a partnership group, and a lot of moving parts, you'll forgive me for thinking this is impractical.

Consent banners don't have to be awful, I promise.
by conductr | 2026-01-07 03:01:20+00:00
Like it or not it is the reality of the United States. It would be a huge shock to the system but I don’t disagree with you entirely that it wouldn’t help close the wealth gap. I just don’t trust our politicians here to implement a change like this without making it worse.

I’m arguing for not just making one single law that X must be profit free as an entire industry without considering anything else. The government here would not provide housing. It would not invest in hospitals. It would not build universities. It would just ban them from being profitable and we’d all suffer because of the lack of supply that results. I think the difference here is I’m thinking if the practical implications of how it would be executed and you’re imagining some hypothetical scenario when it’s executed well. The fact other nations do it isn’t reassuring to me, precisely because we have proven time and time again that we will flat out refuse to look outward for ideas that are effective. We have to put our own stamp on it and mess it up, or just do nothing.
by eru | 2026-01-07 03:01:25+00:00
> What limits lending is capital, not reserves, and leverage is tightly regulated at roughly 10× equity, not 100×.

I'm with you in principle. But alas there's lots of regulation that muddies the economic waters. Eg reserves do limit lending in some places at some points in time.

> What you’re describing only works in an absurd edge case where people borrow money just to park it and pay interest without spending it. That’s not fractional reserve banking, that’s a broken thought experiment.

Yes, indeed. People usually get a loan to spend the money (ie invest it). Otherwise, why bother with the expensive loan?