MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bridged7756 | 2026-01-12 03:29:07+00:00
This is so stupid. You still have to review that code, you still have to know what the solution to something is, ergo, you still need to know how to do it and you still have to deal with the cognitive load from reviewing someone else's code. I don't understand how you can write as if the implementation, fairly trivial and mechanical, is somehow more taxing than reading someone else's code..

This is not the support argument you think it is, it just further allures to the fact that people raving about AI just generate slop and either don't review their code or just send it for their coworkers to review.

I guess AI bros are just the equivalent of script-kiddies, just running shit they don't know how it works and claiming credit for it.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-12 03:30:04+00:00
I think it’s also important to talk about what it means to “read at a 6th grade level” when this is mentioned, because a lot of people (myself included) might assume that just means they could finish and understand a book intended for 6th graders.

But there’s actually meaningful criteria that sheds some light on the critical thinking capabilities of people who can or can’t read at certain levels, especially as it pertains to propaganda. Below a certain level, people are not well-educated enough to critically assess a text against the motivations of its authors (somewhere around 9th grade). Americans are prone to conspiratorial thinking so you might think that that’s alright because they’re often skeptical of any text, but it just seems like it causes them to dig even deeper into the propaganda that’s targeted to them.

It’s kind of like learning that some people don’t have an inner monologue, or that they aren’t capable of imagining shapes or objects abstractly in their mind. Except it’s a lot more serious as it deals with critical thinking directly: these people don’t understand that what they’re reading was written for a purpose.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-12 03:30:10+00:00
What is this, the hipster approach to technology evaluation? Steam conversion efficiency doesn't make sense as a metric for nuclear because (AFAIK) fuel consumption per watt isn't the primary driver of cost for that technology. Or am I mistaken?

> I still have pinning rust disks, but only because they are cheap. If SSDs were cheaper, then we would see a massive switch.

I only use this technology because it is more competitive than the alternatives for my usecase ... ?

> denigrating steam also denigrates all fossil fuel electricity sources

I doubt name calling is a sensible basis for policy decisions.
by schiffern | 2026-01-12 03:30:21+00:00
>Lidars come down in price ~40x.

Is that really true? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Ars cites this China Daily article[0], which gives no specifics and simply states:

>A LiDAR unit, for instance, used to cost 30,000 yuan (about $4,100), but now it costs only around 1,000 yuan (about $138) — a dramatic decrease, said Li.

How good are these $138 LiDARs? Who knows, because this article gives no information.

This article[1] from around the same time gives more specifics, listing under "1000 yuan LiDARs" the RoboSense MX, Hesai Technology ATX, Zvision Technologies ZVISION EZ5, and the VanJee Technology WLR-760.

The RoboSense MX is selling for $2,000-3,000, so it's not exactly $138. It was going to be added to XPENG cars, before they switched away from LiDAR. Yikes.

The ATX is $1400, the EZ5 isn't available, and the WLR-760 is $3500. So the press release claims of sub-$200 never really materialized.

Furthermore, all of these are low beam count LiDARs with a limited FOV. These are 120°x20°, whereas Waymo sensors cover 360°x95° (and it still needs 4 of them).

It seems my initial skepticism was well placed.

>if you had to choose one or the other for cost you’d be insane to choose vision over lidar

Good luck with that. LiDAR can't read signs.

[0] https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/06/WS67c92b5ca310c...

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-beijing-international-a...
by m463 | 2026-01-12 03:31:12+00:00
I use libimobiledevice on linux

plug iphone into usb. lsusb should show it.

I backup my photos with:

sudo ifuse -o allow_other /mnt
rsync -a /mnt/DCIM <photos-dir>
sudo umount /mnt

Actually, I backup all of /mnt not just DCIM, but that answer
is for you. I also backup the entire phone with:

sudo idevicebackup2 backup <backup-dir>

but in this form it either does the photos as data files, or
doesn't back them up. I think it is a complete backup.
by baubino | 2026-01-12 03:31:28+00:00
People are (and have been) taking to the streets. Americans tend to think that a protest must involve everyone otherwise it’s pointless. They don’t realize that protests typically involve a tiny fraction of the population. The more, the better of course, but stop sitting around waiting for it to get big. Either get out there now or find other ways to contribute. There’s plenty to be done.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2026-01-12 03:31:35+00:00
I'm not sure if I got in this weird LLM bubble where they give me bad advice to drive engagement, because I can't resist trying to correct them and tell them how absurdly wrong they are.

But it is astounding how terrible they are at debugging non-trivial assembly in my experience.

Anyone else have input here?

Am I in a weird bubble? Or is this just not their forte?

It's truly incredible how thoughtless they can be, so I think I'm in a bubble.
by efitz | 2026-01-12 03:32:33+00:00
This is interesting research; thank you for doing it.

I am not sure token efficiency is an interesting problem in the long term, though.

And in the short term I wonder if prompts could be pre-compiled to “compressed tokens”; the idea would be to use a smaller number of tokens to represent a frequently needed concept; kind of like LZ compression. Or maybe token compression becomes a feature of future models optimized for specific tasks.

I was wondering last year if it would be worthwhile trying to create a language that was especially LLM-friendly, eg that embedded more context in the language structure. The idea is to make more of the program and the thinking behind it, explicit to the LLM but in a programming language style to eliminate the ambiguity of natural language (one could just use comments).

Then it occurred to me that with current LLM training methodology that there’s a chicken-and-egg problem; it doesn’t start to show rewards until there is a critical mass of good code in the language for LLMs to train on.
by gruez | 2026-01-12 03:32:39+00:00
>I think that's the point. None could name a crime, and that didn't matter.

From a 10s skim on wikipedia:

>Some experts, officials, and members of Congress contended that Clinton's use of a private email system and a private server violated federal law, specifically 18 U.S. Code § 1924, regarding the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or materials, as well as State Department protocols and procedures, and regulations governing recordkeeping.

I'm not saying those allegations are true, but to claim "none could name a crime" suggests you didn't even try.

>Meanwhile, 34 actual felony convictions, court finding misuse of millions in charity funds, an attempted coup, being found liable for sexual assault, SCOTUS having to formally place the president above the law to avoid prosecution... none of it even moved the needle for those same folks.

If you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in..., that has the same air of credibility as him going after Fed governors for mortgage fraud.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-12 03:33:19+00:00
> You mention about Dr pepper and how strikingly similar Dr Pepper zero is, what are some other drinks which have a genuinely similar.

Any of the Zero variants are worth a try, in my experience. Historically I choose Coke, and for quite a while I drank Coke Zero, which is pretty good. More recently in the last year or so I've fixated on Pepsi Zero, even though I've never really been a Pepsi fan otherwise. I also like Dr Pepper Zero, as I mentioned in my first post. I've never really liked any of the diet versions of soda, they just tasted too different to me.
by itchingsphynx | 2026-01-12 03:33:59+00:00
Ahh yes, the irony is not lost on using a paid closed-source service to create and help manage a self-hosted service running FOSS. I thought it was because I didn't want to pay SAAS subscription costs, but now I just need Claude Pro...

I'm asking Claude technical questions about setup, e.g., read this manual, that I have skimmed but don't necessarily fully understand yet. How do I monitor this service? Oh connect Tailscale and manage with ACLs. But what do I do when it doesn't work or goes down? Ask Claude.

To get more accurate setup and diagnostics, I need to share config files, firewall rules, IPv6 GUAs, Tailscale ACLs... and Claude just eats it up, and now Anthropic knows it forever too. Sure, CGNET, Wireguard, and ssh logins stand between us, but... Claude is running a terminal window on a LAN device next to another terminal window that does have access to my server. Do I trust VS Code? Anthropic? The FOSS? Is this really self-hosting? Ahh, but I am learning stuff, right?
by amlib | 2026-01-12 03:34:28+00:00
PopOS was very behind other distros in adopting new versions of software until recently due to their epic diversion of building a brand new DE, letting the then existing release bitrot. This created all sorts of issues and incompatibilities that had already been solved for one or even two years in other distros.

Things are changing and improving VERY fast in linux land lately, so being behind by that much is gonna pretty much set you up for disappointment, along all the usual reasons why you ideally want to be on the just dull enough part of the bleeding edge for linux desktop, where you are only getting a few small shallow cuts and hopefully no deep cuts...

Anyway, popular acclaim for popos reached it's peak just when those problems started to show up. It used to be better in years prior, but the reputation tends to lag the actual reality, so sentiment at that point was to recommend it even though it wasn't actually a good choice.

Honestly, give Linux another try four or so months from now. You will get to start fresh on a brand new Ubuntu LTS or the usual new Fedora release. Try Gnome or KDE, see which ones sticks the best with you. Just don't try anything else if you want maximum features, commodity and stability.

Yes, you were unlucky :(
by dham | 2026-01-12 03:35:20+00:00
Are you talking hw3 or 4? Also, the e2e FSD is recent. And FSD has gotten really good since 13, and with 14 it's really, really good. Not sure what 2015 has to do with anything. Red hands of death would be sunglare due to your windshield not being clean. I haven't had red hands since 14 came out.
by rkomorn | 2026-01-12 03:35:22+00:00
> Earliest Roombas navigated by touch (bumping into walls)

My ex got a Roomba in the early 2010s and it gave me an irrational but everlasting disdain for the company.

They kept mentioning their "proprietary algorithm" like it was some amazing futuristic thing but watching that thing just bump into something and turn, bump into something else and turn, bump into something again and turn again, etc ... it made me hate that thing.

Now when my dog can't find her ball and starts senselessly roaming in all the wrong directions in a panic, I call it Roomba mode.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-12 03:35:26+00:00
This is what Wolff, who has written 3-4 biographical books on Trump, thinks:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wolff_(journalist)

He used the term suis generic in a (PBS?) interview to describe Trump:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis
by Wyverald | 2026-01-12 03:36:31+00:00
That was a sensible chuckle indeed... but then it also made me realize that grabbing things IRL _moves_ them, not _resizes_ them. Nothing IRL really resizes.

So while it makes a lot of sense to grab inside the object to move it, IMO it actually makes less sense to grab _inside_ the object to resize it. (Imagine the reverse argument -- IRL you can actually grab the middle of the plate to move it, but if grabbing the middle of the window resized it, that would also be very bad.)

I've been trained to grab the edge to resize windows. So I wouldn't try to reach so far inside the rounded rectangle as OP, although it doesn't invalidate their entire argument.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-12 03:36:36+00:00
I'm missing "I don't agree with him on this" because I don't hear Trump supporters say that. Trump doesn't allow them to - he thinks it's wrong for anyone to disagree with him and illegal for anyone to try and stop him from doing something he wants to do. Again, the whole context here is that Trump is trying to jail one of his own appointees for failing to enact his preferred monetary policy.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-12 03:36:50+00:00
The Lightning BEV has been discontinued. The Lightning will continue to be produced, after a delay, but it will only come as an EREV configuration. Ford has been mum on the details but my guess is it will share a large part of the underlying architecture with the pure BEV version. I won't be shocked if Ford backpedals at some point in a couple years and offers both variants simultaneously.

I'm not entirely convinced Ford would have discontinued the BEV if the F150 aluminum manufacturer hadn't caught on fire a few times over the space of a month or so. Ford really needs to go for maximum margin trucks when they cannot produce all that they want, so it made sense to put the Lightning BEV on indefinite hold.
by gruez | 2026-01-12 03:37:23+00:00
>This response is funny to me, because there’s been a massive drop in rightwing violence in the US since Trump was elected… but that’s because state-sponsored violence isn’t counted towards the statistics.

>Pretty funny how there aren’t any more Proud Boy marches, yeah? Couldn’t be that they’re all getting paid six figure salaries to round up brown people at Kavanaugh stops…

Yes, that's how protests typically work. If things are going your way, you stop protesting. Nobody is protesting for gay marriage in California because they already won.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-12 03:37:58+00:00
It’s clear that he’s very easily persuaded on many topics that he already has a slight bias towards, but that he also has his pet projects that his handlers don’t want to mess with because that would jeopardize their political capital (ball room).

Quick heuristic I have is: vanity project = Trump; neocon pet project = Heritage Foundation; anything related to racial purity = Stephen Miller; quackery = RFK and other grifters.

The tariffs are partially his bias, but also Navarro who lost his mind somewhere around 2015 and became an economics pariah.
by __float | 2026-01-12 03:38:46+00:00
There's a huge amount you're missing by boiling down their complaint to "bubble sorts or inelegant code". The architecture of the new code, how it fits into the existing system, whether it makes use of existing utility code (IMO this is a huge downside; LLMs seem to love to rewrite a little helper function 100x over), etc.

These are all important when you consider the long-term viability of a change. If you're working in a greenfield project where requirements are constantly changing and you plan on throwing this away in 3 months, maybe it works out fine. But not everyone is doing that, and I'd estimate most professional SWEs are not doing that, even!
by funkaster | 2026-01-12 03:38:50+00:00
* A kart data analysis & video synchronizer, that helps you actually understand the ton of data that data loggers like Mychron and UniGo generate https://kartinsightspro.app - written in CHICKEN scheme with tons of FFI bindings

* Schematra https://schematra.com/ - a web "framework" written in CHICKEN scheme

* Lots of (unpublished, but will try to do so soon) eggs that spawned from building schematra & KartInsightsPro

* llm.scm (inspired by ruby's llm gem)

* imgui.scm

* aws.scm (support for core AWS services like SSM, S3, other APIs)

* umami.scm

You get the idea. I started playing with CHICKEN to scratch the itch of building something in Scheme and I couldn't stop. Using ast-grep as a skill in claude code makes it a lot easier to edit code as well.

Edit: format
by lunar_mycroft | 2026-01-12 03:40:09+00:00
> People seem to believe that there is a burden of proof. There is not. What do I care if you are on board?

The burden of proof rests on those making the positive claim. You say you don't care if others get on board, but a) clearly a lot of others do (case in point: the linked article) and b) a quick check of your posts in this very thread shows that you are indeed making positive claims about the merits of LLM assisted software development.
by stetrain | 2026-01-12 03:40:20+00:00
That sounds nice, but I don't think there is much evidence that the above is actually what the current administration is doing, or even attempting to do.

Having blatantly political messages blasted across websites for national parks and on airport security video screens during the shutdown, for example, doesn't seem like a move towards "serving the public", but rather a move towards consolidation of direct control to the politicians at the top of the executive branch.
by efitz | 2026-01-12 03:41:32+00:00
This is awesome, thank you for doing this work; it’s not glamorous but it’s a key feature to making computers productive.

I know it’s not a popular opinion here but I think that Windows has two killer features that are always overlooked- the standard print dialog (and all the underlying plumbing), and the standard file dialog (at least until Windows 8).

The ability to print and to interact with files, that just works, without having to retrain people every time a new OS comes out, and without having to reprogram your apps or write your own drivers and/or UI, is incredibly important.

Yes, I know Linux and Mac have the same, but IMO Windows was light years ahead for decades, and is still more consistent and easy to use.
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-12 03:41:57+00:00
> $7000 DRM tail light units

What car has that? Please do not spread misinformation.

The Lightning taillights are expensive, a couple grand directly from Ford, primarily because of the integrated blind spot radar. That is the part that needs to be re-paired to the truck if you replace it, the taillights themselves are same as they ever were. Most of the time when someone breaks a taillight they just grab one from eBay and swap over the BLIS because it wasn't damaged.

Also, expensive taillights and headlights are 1) not unique to the Lightning, and 2) not unique to Ford.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-12 03:42:55+00:00
I saw someone use the term "orchestration", which seems to be the word for building the software using LLM tools.

It made me think of the conductor, seemingly the most skillless job in the orchestra. All you do is wave the batton, no need to ever play a instrument. If LLMs are doing the hard part (writing code) then we can be the conductor waving the batton.

But of course the visuals are misleading. Being conductor doesn't take the least skill, it takes the most. He hears every instrument individually, he knows the piece intimately, and through his conducting brings a unique expression to a familiar work.

LLMs have made the musician part automated. They'll play whatever you want. No doubt a powerful tool in the hands of a skilled conductor. And a incredible tool for someone who can't play to generate music for themselves.

There's no shortage of "I built it and they won't come" posts here on HN, predating LLMs by decades. Because code has never been the hard part of "software as a business ". LLMs have driven this point home. Code has never been cheaper. Business has never been harder.
by pilord314 | 2026-01-12 03:43:15+00:00
A disassembly diff tool:

input <- old_image new_image

output -> report

Example summary:

================================================================================

TOTAL

================================================================================

-20 insns, -40 bytes (c.insn→insn +40b) [spill -22, cmov +3, call -2, br -1] mem +13, alu -6, mv -4, bitmanip -1

Added/Removed: +0 / -220 bytes

Functions: 4 better (-20 insns), 0 worse (+0 insns), 1 removed, 1062 unchanged
by jryle70 | 2026-01-12 03:43:23+00:00
If you follow antirez's post history, he was a skeptics until maybe a year ago. Why don't you look at his recent commits and judge for yourself. I suppose the majority of his most recent code is relevant for this discussion.

https://github.com/antirez?tab=overview&from=2026-01-01&to=2...
by sfblah | 2026-01-12 03:43:27+00:00
I'm sure Powell is a very nice man, and I have no issue with the idea that the other leaders aren't such great people.

But, I actually think in an ironic twist Powell's tenure may have had the most damaging effects on the US of any of these people. In my worldview, the Fed's interest rate policy was one of the main catalysts in the US shift toward extreme polarization and authoritarianism (on both sides, honestly).

I realize Powell wasn't alone in promoting this, and a lot of blame goes to Yellen, Bernanke and Greenspan. But, as a member of the Fed board since 2012, I think he's presided over the last best chance to change course and avoid a debt bomb.

Back in 2012-2016, I believe the Fed could have allowed a recession and solved a lot of the problems we now face. Same goes for 2020 (which I view as a fake recession). Fast forward to 2026, I'm not actually sure there's a way out.
by efitz | 2026-01-12 03:43:40+00:00
What is the percentage of US adults who even know who Jerome Powell is?

If only a tiny minority of surveyed adults knew, then I really doubt whether the poll tells us anything useful.

I think that these polls mostly tell us that:

- Trump is polarizing and unpopular

- Congress is always unpopular

- the Supreme Court is popular or unpopular based on how recently they ruled for/against an issue that the respondent is passionate about

- for people in politics, the less well known you are, the less unpopular you are
by TheDong | 2026-01-12 03:44:21+00:00
Individual developers at apple may be weakly supportive (at best), but apple as a corporation has tended in the opposite direction, of locking down macOS and iOS more and more.

Sure, some developer may have added things like raw image mode, but if someone on high says "wait, people are buying macbooks and then not using the app store?" or as soon as someone's promo is tied to a security feature that breaks third-party OSes... well, don't be surprised when it vanishes. Running any OS but macOS is against ToS, and apple has already shown they are actively hostile to user freedom and choice (with the iOS app store debacle, the iMessage beeper mini mess, and so on). If you care about your freedom and ability to use Linux, you should not use anything Apple has any hand in ever.
by dag11 | 2026-01-12 03:44:27+00:00
I randomly skipped to five different paragraphs and each one ended with a "!x but y" logical statement, just formatted differently most of the time. Crazy how you can't unsee it.

A sibling [dead] comment to mine is a rebuttal to "just post the prompt", where it itself was expanded to several paragraphs that each say nearly nothing, including this gem:

> "That’s not a critique of the writing. It’s a diagnosis"

I miss when people just typed their thoughts concisely and hit send without passing it to an inflater. I'd maybe have a chance of understanding the sibling comment's point.
by musicale | 2026-01-12 03:44:49+00:00
PS5 pro - just works, decent 4K gaming, plays PS5 games and timed exclusives, remote play support, compatible with my PSN library / flash drive full of PS4 games. Reasonably quiet (though not as whisper quiet as original PS5.)

Steam Machine - pre-configured and easier than regular PC, decent 1440p gaming, plays nearly any PC game, remote play support, compatible with my Steam and GoG libraries.

Both sound good actually.