MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mkl | 2026-01-20 01:12:00+00:00
This is meaningless without knowing the contents of PROMPT.md. The blog post hides the contents of PROMPT.md in a second subscriber-only post (I don't know if the post's 36 minute video explains anything - 33% in it still hasn't).

https://github.com/repomirrorhq/repomirror/blob/main/repomir... (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45005434) provides a bit more detail, and prompts, but only seems to use the method for porting existing software.
by adastra22 | 2026-01-20 01:12:16+00:00
I don’t think that assumption holds. For example, only recently have agents started getting Rust code right on the first try, but that hasn’t mattered in the past because the rust compiler and linters give such good feedback that it immediately fixes whatever goof it made.

This does fill up context a little faster, (1) not as much as debugging the problem would have in a dynamic language, and (2) better agentic frameworks are coming that “rewrite” context history for dynamic on the fly context compression.
by colmmacc | 2026-01-20 01:12:36+00:00
I am very petty about this one bug and have a very old axe to grind that this reminded me of! Way back in 2011 CloudFlare launched an incredibly poorly researched feature to just return CNAME records at a domain apex ... RFCs be damned.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/zone-apex-naked-domain-root-doma... , and I quote directly ... "Never one to let a RFC stand in the way of a solution to a real problem, we're happy to announce that CloudFlare allows you to set your zone apex to a CNAME."

The problem? CNAMEs are name level aliases, not record level, so this "feature" would break the caching of NS, MX, and SOA records that exist at domain apexes. Many of us warned them at the time that this would result in a non-deterministic issue. At EC2 and Route 53 we weren't supporting this just to be mean! If a user's DNS resolver got an MX query before an A query, things might work ... but the other way around, they might not. An absolute nightmare to deal with. But move fast and break things, so hey :)

In earnest though ... it's great to see how now CloudFare are handling CNAME chains and A record ordering issues in this kind of detail. I never would have thought of this implicit contract they've discovered, and it makes sense!
by eth0up | 2026-01-20 01:12:50+00:00
It doesn't matter what I search for on ddg; Sumerian statues, Hubble Deep Field, parasites in South America - I always get highly irrelevant local results for stupid shit, eg hotels, restaurants and things too bizarre to remember.

I've lost track of any benefit for ddg. What's it supposed to be good for?

Long Live Scroogle. Scroogle is dead. And I think the Internet is begging for nembutal. It's become a series of tubes, stuffed with Amazon affiliate links and Black Rock blog spam.

I don't need AI to summarize spam.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-20 01:12:57+00:00
I see some commenters saying “if you are an expert, the model is a productivity multiplier”

What is being said here is “I can give my model a high quality feedback loop”.

With good simulators and good access to info about latest products etc a novice can also give their model a high quality feedback loop! But they have to build it or source it from somewhere. I’m talking all the right tools to give the model a goal and let it rip.

Once that loop is built the human is out of the loop and the model has the grounding it needs to converge on a solution instead of needing constant prodding.

There’s immense opportunity for experts to create these grounding tools and productise them.
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-01-20 01:13:51+00:00
Seems like a simplified Rust with partial prefix notation (which the rationale that is better for LLMs is based on vibes really) that compiles to C. Similar language posted here not too long ago: Zen-C => more features, no prefix notation / Rue => no prefix notation, compiles directly to native code (no C target). Surprisingly compared to other LLM "optimized" languages, it isn't so much concerned about token efficiency.
by minki_the_avali | 2026-01-20 01:14:01+00:00
Cursedcraft is written in C99 with display output working either via ncurses or fbdev. It uses 32 bit fixed point math for rendering and procedurally generates worlds. It has 15 placeable block types (mapped to the ANSI colors) and supports multiple input methods like curses key detection, evdev, raw mode and gpm mouse.
by anonnon | 2026-01-20 01:14:16+00:00
I don't agree with what Trump is doing, but NATO is clearly more of a liability for the US at this point than an asset, distracting us and diverting resources from our primary theater of geostrategic concern (Asia-Pacific), and Europeans are generally arrogant, ungrateful allies, who, if opinion polls are to be believed, had tepid attitudes towards us even when we had a pro-Europe president (Biden) in the White House who provided Ukraine with over a $100 billion in aid, almost of all of which was either arms or cash (as opposed to loans, which the EU preferred). If that aid couldn't buy much goodwill with our allies, then why are they our allies at all, especially considering that they lack both the means and the will to help us should we come into conflict with China?
by sunrunner | 2026-01-20 01:14:18+00:00
I’ve long suspected that my company’s previous Head of Architecture was a double agent, actually working for a competitor. I’ve never seen anyone create so much process that likely looks good to the board while slowing every single person down, yet never actively preventing anyone from doing anything.

I mean, it’s either that or they were just incompetent, and honestly the double-agent theory is more fun. Although, Hanlon’s Razor and all...
by marak830 | 2026-01-20 01:14:36+00:00
I think it's more a dependency and less a derivative (there isn't any source code/game objects being distributed via the mod as far as I can tell.)

I would be very interested to see how a court would rule on this, as AFAIK such as Lexmark v. Static Control Components, you can modify products you purchase, but how much weight would the TOS really hold?
by tialaramex | 2026-01-20 01:15:43+00:00
> std::unique_ptr ensures that no other std::unique_ptr will own its object

Literally all std::unique_ptr does is wrap the pointer. If we make two unique_ptrs which both think they own object X then not only will they both exist and point at X (so they don't actually ensure they're unique) they'll also both try to destroy X when they disenage e.g. at the end of a scope, leading to a double free or similar.

Uniqueness is a property you are promising, not one they're granting.

I expect you knew this, but it's worth underscoring that there is no magic here. This really is doing only the very simplest thing you could have imagined, it's a pointer but as an object, a "smart pointer" mostly in the same sense that if I add a cheap WiFi chip to this refrigerator and double the price now it's a "smart fridge".
by _heimdall | 2026-01-20 01:16:03+00:00
How so? The OP referenced how difficult it is to avoid said takes and news without being a complete luddite. That certainly implies avoiding certain tech, I have to assume they meant much of the digital tech we use today rather than the power loom luddites were pushing back on.

Your bleach scenario is confusing to me, its also you arguing against something completely unrelated to the discussion here.
by nabbed | 2026-01-20 01:16:06+00:00
It reminds me of this: Every time Yahoo sneaks into the tech news, somebody posts a comment along the lines of:

"TIL Yahoo still exists"

or

"What? There's still a Yahoo?".

It's almost like there's a bot that adds these comments.

Apparently, there is no overlap between Yahoo users and people into cool tech. (I am still a Yahoo email user, so I guess I don't like cool tech).
by caspar | 2026-01-20 01:16:23+00:00
I think state of the art LLMs would pass the Turing test for 95% people if those people could (text) chat to them in a time before LLM chatbots became widespread.

That is, the main thing that makes it possible to tell LLM bots apart from humans is that lots of us have over the past 3 years become highly attuned to specific foibles and text patterns which signal LLM generated text - much like how I can tell my close friends' writing apart by their use of vocabulary, punctuation, typical conversation topics, and evidence (or lack) of knowledge in certain domains.
by archargelod | 2026-01-20 01:16:54+00:00
It should not be a problem, pseudorandom numbers are used in simulations, like monte-carlo, all the time.

Nim uses xoroshiro[0] algorithm for std/random module and it produces good quality statistically random bits until 5TB of output. And lower 4 bits have a little bias, but it should not matter as we only use upper 64 out of available 128 bits.

Also, I just now realise that xoroshiro-128+ is really cheap, so perhaps my batching optimisation was unnecessary here.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift#xoroshiro
by CronosBrowser | 2026-01-20 01:17:08+00:00
I’m part of a small team based in Iași, Romania, and we’ve spent the last year building Cronos Browser. To be honest, we built this because we were frustrated that "AI integration" in modern browsers usually just means sending all your data to a cloud API. We wanted to see if we could move that intelligence directly to the edge.
The browser is based on Chromium for compatibility, but we stripped out the telemetry and Google services. The main differentiator is that we integrated an inference engine directly into the client. This means features like summarization, translation, or asking the assistant (we call it UIKI) happen 100% locally on your CPU/GPU. No data leaves the machine, which we think is the only way to do privacy-first AI.
We’re also experimenting with something pretty ambitious called the AVALW Protocol, which is a decentralized layer we're designing to mitigate some of the MITM vulnerabilities inherent in standard HTTPS, though it's still in heavy development. There’s also an opt-in "Pool Mode" for P2P distributed computing if you want to contribute resources to the network.
We know the browser market is incredibly tough and skepticism is high for new protocols, so we’re here specifically for technical feedback. We’re currently live on Windows, with Mac/Linux in the pipeline.
I’ll be hanging around the comments to answer questions about our local inference implementation or the protocol design. Roast us or help us improve!
by jesse__ | 2026-01-20 01:18:04+00:00
Another commentor succinctly pointed out one argument against RAII+friends is that it encourages thinking about single objects, as opposed to bulk processing.

In many contexts, the common case is in fact bulk processing, and programming things with the assumption that everything is a single, discrete element creates several problems, mostly wrt. performance, but also maintainability. [1][2]

> The whole point of an arena allocator is the exact opposite of RAII

Yes, agreed. And the internet is rife with people yelling about just how great RAII is, but comparatively few people have written specifically about it's failings, and alternatives, which is what I'm asking about today.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc&t=2252
by linguae | 2026-01-20 01:18:45+00:00
I agree that there’s always been toxicity on the Internet, but I also feel it’s harder to avoid toxicity today since the cost of giving up algorithmic social media is greater than the cost of giving up Usenet, chat rooms, and forums.

In particular, I feel it’s much harder to disengage with Facebook than it is to disengage with other forms of social media. Most of my friends and acquaintances are on Facebook. I have thought about leaving Facebook due to the toxic recommendations from its feed, but it will be much harder for me to keep up with life events from my friends and acquaintances, and it would also be harder for me to share my own life events.

With that said, the degradation of Facebook’s feed has encouraged me to think of a long-term solution: replacing Facebook with newsletters sent occasionally with life updates. I could use Flickr for sharing photos. If my friends like my newsletters, I could try to convince them to set up similar newsletters, especially if I made software that made setting up such newsletters easy.

No ads, no algorithmic feeds, just HTML-based email.
by jmann99999 | 2026-01-20 01:19:06+00:00
I’ve noticed a recent change in Walmart Scan & Go (Walmart Pay) that really illustrates how far their purchase tracking goes. If you’ve set up Walmart Pay with a credit card, and you later use that same physical card in-store, Walmart now appears to associate those transactions with your account as well.

I’m fairly confident of this because the app has started showing me in-store purchases that were not made using Walmart Pay. It suggests they’re linking transactions at the card-number level, not just through the app.

I suspect they may also be tying in-store purchases to your profile if you’ve ever placed an online order, though that part is speculation.
Show HN: LeetDreamer: AI-hallucinated LeetCode solution videos
by joshribakoff | 2026-01-20 01:19:12+00:00
I made a small pipeline that takes a structured scene spec and generates narrated, animated LeetCode solution videos. The demo video is at the top of the repo. It’s rough around the edges, mostly a proof-of-concept, but it was fun to build. Curious what the HN crowd thinks about hallucinating algorithm explanation videos.
by Nadav--Shanun | 2026-01-20 01:20:38+00:00
Everyone building toward superintelligence is obsessed with hardware. AR glasses. AI pins. Cameras everywhere. Sensors on every surface.

They’re all wrong. Or at least, they’re all early.

The human body has never been augmented. Not permanently. And it won’t be for decades. We are a species habituated to two rectangles — the phone and the laptop. That’s where we live. Eight hours a day, minimum. Every decision, every intention, every meaningful action flows through those screens.
by bnchrch | 2026-01-20 01:20:49+00:00
While the headline is interesting.

I think the table at the end of the article is more so.

- Worldwide sales -10% YoY

- China sales -26% YoY

And when you cross compare Porsche saying they sold more EV powertrains than their gas equivalents against China's new found foothold as the market leader in consumer electric cars (BYD, NIO, Xiaomi, etc...)

Then I think you see an early indication not just of electric car dominance, but of the (very potential) rise of China as the premier automotive super power.
by sneak | 2026-01-20 01:24:06+00:00
> With that said, social media still works for connections. DMs are good. Having actual conversations in comments is good.

No. DMs are not e2ee so you’re allowing an advertising surveillance company to leverage private conversations with friends against you and your friends. It’s also available to federal police WITHOUT A WARRANT. They can data mine it, associate it with your email and phone number, and sell it off to data brokers.

Friends don’t let friends use surveillance platforms.

Delete your instagram and facebook accounts. Today. Refuse to be the honey in the corporate trap that results in your friends and loved ones being placed under surveillance.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-20 01:24:09+00:00
And most of the 3 million developers working in the
US aren’t working for a FAANG and will never make over $200K inflation adjusted. If you look at the comp of most “senior developers” outside of FAANG and equivalent, you’ll see that the comp has verb stagnant and hasn’t kept up with inflation for a decade.

I have personally given the thumbs down to two developers who came from a FAANG when it was clear that they were just code monkeys who had to have everything handed to them.

Have you looked at how hard it is for mid level code monkeys even from a FAANG to get a job these days? Just being able to reverse a b tree isn’t enough anymore.

FWIW, I did a 3.5 year stint at AWS until late 2023 Professional Services (full time with the same 4 year comp structure as software devs get). But made about 20% less and it was remote the full time I was there. and I’m very well aware of what software developers make.

I still work full time at a consulting company (cloud + app dev). And no FAANG doesn’t pay enough difference than what I make now to give up remote work in state tax free relatively low cost of living central Florida at 50 years old and grown (step)kids
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 01:24:19+00:00
Never spam a company, I agree. If you're going to "circumvent", pick one or two (and honestly, even 2 is pushing it) contacts you know the most and email them. And make sure they are at least related to the department you're going into unless it's an director/executive person (I'm not much more effective in getting someone a sales role as you would be going to the online portal). Anymore than that and you won't be seen any differently from a spam caller.

The goal is to personalize, not spray and pray all at one company.
by eddythompson80 | 2026-01-20 01:24:44+00:00
> Not true. Bluetooth, lora, and zigbee all coexist in the same unlicensed spectrum just fine. There’s no reason phones couldn’t speak these, or that a similar low-power protocol couldn’t be standardized.

They already do. Most phones have Bluetooth. All those examples run on the 2.4GHz spectrum and all have the same RF range limitations and challenges. What’s your point?

> Ok, and? That’s already true for cellular, gps, and wifi today.

Hence the enforcement of cellular bands and gps through regulation. Again I’m confused as to what you are trying to say? Anyone can cause an RF jam. It’s illegal. Depending on how much it impact others, you might get a visit from the FCC, a fine or jail.

> You’re missing the point. People already carry radios everywhere which are more than capable of longer range p2p communications.

No they are not. You can’t get more than very short line of sight communication on the UHF band. You need to drop to at least the VHF band for any reasonable non-assisted communication and even still most people communicating in the VHF bands are using repeaters.

> The real question is why no such standard exists, despite its obvious utility.

You just listed 3 standards. Their utility is extremely limited and very unreliable as the distance, foliage, concrete increases between the parties. Telling anyone to rely on UHF transceiver in an emergency is misleading and dangerous. Telling anyone who is worried about communication in an actual emergency situation to have an HT is not smug. It’s the tool you need for the job. Average people carry phones because they are not frequently in such emergency situations. Those who are (emergency services, hardcore hikers, snow skiers, wild adventure types carry radios or satellite phones for this reason.

Plus with the recent low orbit satellite constellations making it possible to fit compatible transceiver in small phones (as opposed to needing a huge antenna for it) it’s even more of a moot point for emergency situations now.

You’re not gonna change antenna theory because you feel it’s smug.
by geoka9 | 2026-01-20 01:24:45+00:00
> If you look at the fifth chart, the large european economies also seemed to have grown slightly faster after the war than before it. So I’m not sure how much the U.S. is benefitting from being the hegemon.

Nobody's denying that the US-created world order has been good for its partners but that doesn't mean the benefit was at the US's expense. International trade is not a zero-sum game - the lifting tide and all that.
by krackers | 2026-01-20 01:24:47+00:00
If you add enough agents, you basically recreate the structure of human teams again. And the lessons from mythical man month etc. start applying. Large companies/teams don't seem to produce higher quality software than small ones, in fact they usually seem to be worse.

At best the notion of "subagents" today seems to be a hack to work around context length limits.
by netsharc | 2026-01-20 01:25:06+00:00
Your reply has proven my last sentence correct, and then some...

Today I was listening to a podcast where the host said his internal monologue when a commenter on the Internet upsets him with a dumb comment is "you know what, they're probably 12 years old.". I think I'll adapt that idea. Because who else gets told A and immediately argues "Let me tell you, I'm sure Not A is correct/would've been the better move!", twice. Maybe someone who again didn't bother to read the links, because of course he's smarter than that, considering he's already smarter than Obama's team!
by deaux | 2026-01-20 01:25:38+00:00
Of course not, smartphones are Chinese tech, and that's the exact crux!

While a massive endeavor, it's absolutely doable to create the EU's own OS and store. It's not doable to create the manufacturing capacity needed to produce all the hardware that goes into smartphones at scale.

China itself ironically serves as a great example - they have their own Android store, mostly run on Chinese phones, some on non-Android OS. Yet they still haven't been able to get rid of the dependency on TSMC/ASML. They're working on it and will get there, but it's taking many years longer than the software part. And not for lack of trying. The fact that they're still tolerating iOS doesn't disprove the existence of the former ecosystem. iOS is said to have maybe 20% market share in China.
by stackskipton | 2026-01-20 01:26:05+00:00
I think they rightly pointed out that US States construct is problematic esp in much more interconnected world.

However, I think fundamental problem still goes back to politics where Congress effectively does not do their job and thus fighting around executive and judicial leave us in worse place. Chevron and lack of it is mostly due to Congress just passing big stuff and then massive fights in courts when Congress could step in and be like "Nope, we are changing our mind, this is happening."
by czmilo | 2026-01-20 01:26:44+00:00
Z.AI's GLM-4.7-Flash is a 30B parameter MoE model with only 3B active parameters per token, achieving 59.2% on SWE-bench Verified (vs 22% for Qwen3-30B, 34% for GPT-OSS-20B). Runs efficiently on consumer hardware: 24GB GPUs (RTX 3090/4090) or Mac M-series chips at 60-80+ tokens/second with 4-bit quantization.

The guide covers architecture details (MoE design, MLA attention for 200K context), benchmark comparisons, local deployment via vLLM/MLX/Ollama, API pricing ($0.07/$0.40 per 1M tokens), and real-world user feedback. Community reports highlight strong performance in UI generation and tool calling, though reasoning lags behind specialized models.

Open weights available on Hugging Face. Free API tier or completely offline deployment.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-20 01:26:53+00:00
>There are more effective ways of spending your time than that.

I'm not sure in this day and age. Your goal is to get in front of a human, and that's harder than ever. If you spend hundreds of applications with no response, even a "You're blacklisted" response from a human will feel better than the cold neglect of today.

It's not zero effort, but I argue it's less effort than being months into your search and trying to find another 20 companies that you seem to be qualified for. Having the human element can also be encouraging too instead of the 50th dang workday application.
by Denkel | 2026-01-20 01:27:10+00:00
I know you are not to be listened to when you dare say "innocent hand gesture made once", when he very clearly made it twice in a row; front, turn and repeat:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/R_6dVlz6mug

That is there, recorded, and you are telling me to ignore what I see.

I know you won't care, this video is not for you, is there in case anyone else starts to belive your lies, they can see for themselves.