MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by overgard | 2026-01-07 04:42:14+00:00
Ugh, I'm so sick of these "I can use AI to solve an already solved problem, thus programmers aren't relevant." Note the solved problem part. This isn't convincing except to people that want a (bad) argument to depress wages and lay off workers while making the existing seniors take on more and more work. This is overall bad for the industry.
by nbates80 | 2026-01-07 04:43:32+00:00
From the article:

> And never forget that the post-American internet will be good for Americans. Because, in a K-shaped, bifurcated, unequal America, the trillions that American companies loot from the world don't trickle down to Americans. The average American holds a portfolio of assets that rounds to zero, and that includes stock in US tech companies.

> The average American isn't a shareholder in Big Tech, the average American is a victim of Big Tech. Liberating the world from US Big Tech is also liberating America from US Big Tech.
by dang | 2026-01-07 04:43:40+00:00
Can you please not post snarky comments or shallow dismissals to Hacker News? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

No one is saying you owe billionaires better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by xp84 | 2026-01-07 04:44:17+00:00
Look, I don’t think there’s a good reason to attempt to take it in the first place, especially when a friendly ally already controls it without any threats of any kind happening (compared to say, the Cuban Missile Crisis for the opposite situation).

However, the rest of NATO has nothing to gain from throwing their whole military at the US in the Western Hemisphere. They certainly can’t win that conflict, so what would be the point? Just to kill hundreds of thousands of their troops?

They should know that the Americans aren’t going to kill the residents anyway, so it’s really just an idiotic dick-waving contest that Trump wants. The smart move would be to diplomatically retaliate and just screw with the US economically, to extract a concession from the next US President, who won’t have such
obtuse ideas and will be eager to make the consequence of this self-inflicted jackassery (like no Americans allowed to visit the EU, EU regulators banning Google and Apple devices, etc) go away.
by thordenmark | 2026-01-07 04:44:42+00:00
You're right, I should have used country as an example. But the kind of metal I'm talking about, good 70's and maybe even a little 80's hair metal is in short supply these days.

I do listen to a ton of new music, there is enough time in the day for both. And if I want a cool new 70's style heavy metal song that is about a niche subject like the Chronicles of Prydain, AI does an amazing job.
by replwoacause | 2026-01-07 04:45:08+00:00
I have this same issue. I’ll start reading something and within a few words or sentences I’m in full “skim mode.” Before I know it, my eyes have scanned and hopped all over the page. Then I’ll force myself to start again, only to realize my eyes are reading the words but my brain isn’t actually processing them.

It’s gotten noticeably worse with age, and honestly I think AI has made it even worse. When it spits out huge blocks of text and I’m just trying to find a specific nugget, I default to scanning and skimming. Over time, I think my brain has optimized for that because it hates parsing reams of extraneous text just to get the one thing it’s after.

I also have ADHD-PI… but I’ll give this a shot. Thanks for sharing!
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-07 04:45:28+00:00
Out of curiosity, I just tried Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-Q3_K_S-2.70bpw.gguf (the version they recommend for the Raspberry Pi) on a Blackwell GPU. It cranked out 200+ tokens per second on some private benchmark queries, and it is surprisingly sharp.

It punches well above the weight class expected from 3B active parameters. You could build the bear in Spielberg's "AI" with this thing, if not the kid.
by andersmurphy | 2026-01-07 04:45:40+00:00
What am I missing? The transactional safety problem (the bulk of the paper) is solved simply with a single writer. Which is where you want to be anyway for efficient batching throughput (and isolation).

The other concerns seem to imply there are no other programs running on the same machine as the database. The minute that's not true (is it ever true?). Then OS will do a better job (as seen with LMDB etc).

I think it's telling that the paper focuses on mongoDB not LMDB.
by joshribakoff | 2026-01-07 04:46:09+00:00
Why is that funny? What company gives you unlimited resources? That doesn’t scale. Google employees can’t just demand a $10,000 workstation. It’s reasonable to assume they have some guardrails, for both financial and stability reasons. Who knows… if it’s unlimited now, will it stay that way forever? Probably unlimited in the same sense as unlimited pto.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-01-07 04:46:45+00:00
I never been to Las Vegas, but social media makes me feel like entering a casino in John O’Briens Leaving Las Vegas (the book, not the film). Despite of all the glitz and glamour, just a desolate desert for those who have lost all the hope… And the way all these applications make you hooked works exactly like the coin machines in a Casino. Jean Pormanove was just a one poor soul, there’s literally thousands of them, somebody (or themselves) live-streaming the destruction of their bodies and soul. This is suppose to be fun?

I left long time ago. I kicked many things back then and are a lot happier now. I hope the culture is changing and some band for kids (I believe Australia is only the beginning) will cause a shift in global culture and in future IG, TikTok and rest of them are seen in similar light to tobacco today.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-07 04:47:53+00:00
I'm not sure that is mostly the ad's fault. Hitting a target on a touchscreen is hard to do. This seems like it's the phone's fault first to me.

(If you're using a mouse, forget what I said. But I haven't run into an ad where the close button didn't close it... if you were able to click the close button.)
by thordenmark | 2026-01-07 04:48:05+00:00
Actually, the more I think about your reply, no. Modern "heavy metal" is some guy growling and yelling in the mic, unless you know of a metal singer with a great Rob Halford or Ronnie James Dio voice I can listen to. An exception is Zakk Wylde, that dude is badass, I had the good fortune to see him perform at Red Rocks.
by cryptica | 2026-01-07 04:48:18+00:00
I think overall, the idea of money is messed up on many levels. What we call 'money' today doesn't even have an identity. It's the most important thing in the world, it's also the most heavily utilized thing in the world but almost nobody knows what it means.

- It's backed by nothing.

- It's not a fair medium of exchange because it physically cannot circulate very far from 'money printers' (not many hops) before it's taxed down to nothing. This means that it's unevenly scarce based on social proximity; unfair by design. Cantillon effects on steroids.

- It doesn't even exist as a single cohesive concept; the US dollar in your bank account is not the same as the US dollar in your friend's bank account and it's not the same as the US dollar which European traders use to buy derivatives (e.g. Eurodollars)... There are literally thousands of different ledgers (banks, institutions, in different countries), each presenting its own interface supposedly showing their holdings of this mythical unit called 'The US dollar' which is actually thousands of different currencies, which happen to share the same name, scattered around the world and held together only by regulators whose only shared interest is to print more units for themselves than the next guy does. Slow and fallible human regulators represent the only layer of 'consensus' which exists for the entire fiat monetary system; they move at snails' pace in a world of high frequency trading.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-07 04:48:19+00:00
> 2. LLMs are far, far more efficient than humans in terms of resource consumption for a given task: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76682-6 and https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-energy-footprint-of-humans...

I want to push back on this argument, as it seems suspect given that none of these tools are creating profit, and so require funds / resources that are essentially coming from the combined economic efforts of entire countries. I.e. the energy externalities here are monstrous and never factored into these things, even though these models could never have gotten off the ground if not for the massive energy expenditures that were (and continue to be) needed to sustain the funding for these things.

To simplify, LLMs haven't clearly created the value they have promised, but have eaten up massive amounts of value produced by anyone else. But that value produced by everyone else had energy costs too. Whether or not all this AI stuff ends up being more energy efficient than people needs to be measured on whether it actually delivers on its promises.
by jdwithit | 2026-01-07 04:48:21+00:00
I "love" the ones that randomly decide to reactivate literally years after unsubscribing and never interacting with the business again. The other day I randomly got an email from a yoga studio I once bought my wife a gift card from. We moved and neither of us has been there since 2021. Why on earth am I suddenly getting spam 5 years later. I get similar messages from hotels many years later too. Sometimes ones I didn't even end up staying at, just browsed. You can sense the desperation through the monitor.
by sgnelson | 2026-01-07 04:49:02+00:00
That Supermicro story was never confirmed/verified. All the companies involved denied that it happened (that doesn't mean much however) but no other reporters were able verify the story as far as I'm aware. With Bloomberg saying they had something like 12 anonymous sources, the likelihood that the NYT, Washington Post, Wired, etc. etc. etc. were not able to reach any of the same sources or corroboration says something.

Also, if these things were out there in such a large supply, I would have expected some hacker would have literally found an old board and found the chip and presented it to the world as evidence.

In terms of a coverup, this was during the first Trump term, and he's not exactly a fan of China, so I don't see any real reason the entire US business and intelligence community would keep it a secret (never mind the fact that if they can keep it a secret... and contact their traditional ways of leaking, not Bloomberg.)

I'm not saying it didn't happen, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and there has been effectively zero evidence presented.

And I'm not debating the fact that I'm sure it can happen and will happen. But let's stick with facts, not just some rumors.

(This post written without an AI summary.)
by inferiorhuman | 2026-01-07 04:49:50+00:00
With the original Arduino Due there was some fun undocumented behavior with the MCU (an Atmel Cortex-M3) where it would do random things at boot unless you installed a 10k resistor. From booting off of flash or ROM at random to clocks not coming up correctly.

I swear I was doing just fine with it booting reliably until I decided to try flashing it over the SWD interface. But wouldn't you know it, soldering a resistor fixed it. Mostly.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 04:50:04+00:00
> If a home has an active mold problem, it probably has an active water or moisture problem.

Mold can't grow or spread without moisture, so a moisture problem is a necessary prerequisite for a mold problem.

So focusing on fixing any moisture problems is a great place to start. Feeling around walls and baseboards or climbing up into the attic in the hours and days after a big rainstorm is one way to get started without any equipment investment. Air circulation also helps dry things out, so make sure every space has some openings for air exchange.
by Teknomadix | 2026-01-07 04:50:05+00:00
This is cute.

My personal world changed when I discovered Nix On Droid and cloned my personal Claude Code flake which uses pnpm to keep a rolling bleeding edge version with revision controlled dots. I started using Nvim /avante and open router shortly after that, also via Nix on Droid. Game changer for those long subway rides.
by rtsang1 | 2026-01-07 04:50:20+00:00
I don't know if this counts, but I believe Norway taxes unrealized gains (indirectly) via wealth tax. All stock value is on the chopping block come tax time.

I doubt this is a common thing. Whereas the other case (dividends tax credit) is far more common. It impacts those of us in Canada. Our government disincentivizes buybacks and encourages dividends instead. Typically, if you're in a low income bracket, and have investments brewing for decades (with high amounts of unrealized gain) in an unregistered account, it is preferable to get dividends over buybacks.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-07 04:50:37+00:00
There are no country flags in UTF. The flag you're seeing is the interpretation of a 2 character ISO country code by your OS.

> Although they can be displayed as Roman letters, it is intended that implementations may choose to display them in other ways, such as by using national flags. The Unicode FAQ indicates that this mechanism should be used and that symbols for national flags will not be directly encoded. This allows the Unicode consortium to avoid any issues surrounding which countries to include (and, de facto, recognize), instead leaving it entirely to the system implementation as to which flags to include (see: partially recognized state).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol
by montyanne | 2026-01-07 04:50:48+00:00
Just curious - how much of this was AI generated? The readme has crazy emojis & the code was all checked in at once, which is usually my telltale for these kinds of things. Didn't see anything crazy in the source files.

I think its polite to indicate AI agent usage in security related projects like this since they can have huge holes if they're just being vibe coded.

-- Edit: Intended to post this on the board root, sorry.
by adrianwaj | 2026-01-07 04:51:14+00:00
"At this point, I don't even know if I would want to connect with others that much."

Seeing this recent comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469403) gave me the idea:

Check out the searches "We could" | "what if we could" | "people should" from HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Going forward, isn't there the potential right now to connect the right people together for the right reasons?
by clanky | 2026-01-07 04:51:37+00:00
This is also a discussion about Palantir more broadly, but of course Lonsdale is tarred by that association, that's not my doing.

If he finds Epstein association distasteful then as someone with ample means and no need to fear retaliation against his employment, he certainly should have publicly repudiated his close associates with Epstein ties. Has he done that?
by readthenotes1 | 2026-01-07 04:52:02+00:00
"To have broken these bounds they would have to rediscover in themselves that capability which was their birthright, as it was mine: The capacity to be alone."

I know someone who believes he has solved all the remaining major math and physics challenges and submitted them for the various awards.

He is alone, too. His schizophrenia has isolated him pretty thoroughly.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-07 04:52:23+00:00
Having been involved with local governments and served on city council committees, my experience has been that they literally only care about things that are legible to them. If I have an idea about parking or a preference for landscaping, they are pretty responsive. If I want them to remove flock cameras they tell me I am a crank. And all the canidated running feel the same way.

But honesty, national politics are very local for me.

Because you can answer this question, maybe:

in what way did my vote in rural Colorado effect -any- election at -any- level in a way that I could have avoided this situation where I go to weekly protests against ICE?

Cause, hoss, I hate this shit. There is literally -nothing- more that I would love to believe than I could just, like, vote for a better local school board.

I am almost 50 and I am in the streets with kids because I know for a fact that mass deportations which started under Obama are the root of what we are seeing.

Or how about this:

literally what voting action have I have taken that makes me responsible for the two children who were kidnapped from my community by ICE, for whose sake I got pepper sprayed by DHS Federal Police and ICE, and who we were unable to prevent from being stolen.

Because while I feel culpable for not following up on all actions that I had at hand, I don't think that it was voting that led the feds to assault me and 20 of my comrades.

So you're smart- tell me how my vote caused that in a way that I can "do better next time".
by Aurornis | 2026-01-07 04:52:52+00:00
Everything about this website screams alternative medicine scam. "Integrative medicine" and "book a consultation" is not what you want to see on your mold testing lab's website. It means they're out to sell you things. I can almost guarantee that everybody who gets one of their test kits will get, surprise, a positive result that requires more expensive consultations and treatments from them.
by nsoonhui | 2026-01-07 04:52:57+00:00
When I started my company, we suddenly found that we were in a good small fortune, not enough to be millionaires or billionaires, but enough to get people to run the business semi automatically with very minimum input from the founders.

I took a semi retirement approach to the business, there really wasn't a lot of things to do, my role was sort of just "managing" programmers. I got so much free time that I could even start a second business on the side.

Despite my best ability to stretch my work, I couldn't even fill up half of my working hours. One would have thought that this is heaven. But the time I was most free was also the time I was most miserable. I wasn't happy, I was gaining weight, I was perennially asking myself why the business couldn't be bigger and I couldn't sell it, so that I can be real millionaires and billionaires with financial freedom!

Then fate intervened, the sudden fortune disappeared and I no longer had the luxury of just "managing people"; I have to do hands-on. And it was this activity, the feeling that I was contributing to something, that I was writing code again and actually building stuffs, that made me happy again.

Today we are bigger than what we once we were, but still, I am writing code and pretty much hands-on.I vow that I will never retire, even though if I could. Because it's the meaningful work that sustains life and provides happiness.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-07 04:53:56+00:00
Bandwidth transit prices, peering, and other data for for ISPs and the like tend to be highly classified (lol), but it's very close to $0. Take Steam for instance. They are responsible for a significant chunk of all internet traffic and transfer data in the exabytes. Recently their revenue/profit data was leaked from a court filing and their total annual costs, including labor/infrastructure/assets/etc, was something like $800 million. [1]

Enabling on site money transfers (as YouTube does) and taking a small cut from each transfer (far less than YouTube does, as they take a massive 30% cut) would probably be getting close to enough to cover your costs, especially if you made it a more ingrained/gamey aspect of the system - e.g. give big tippers some sort of swag in comments or whatever, stuff like that. It's not going to be enough to buy too many [more] islands for Sergey and Larry, but such is the price we must all pay.

[1] - https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/valves-reported-prof...
by preommr | 2026-01-07 04:54:01+00:00
I don't understand how these setups scale longterm, and even more so for the average user. The latter is relevant because, as he points out, his setup isn't that far out of reach of the average person - it's still fairly close to out of the box claude code, and opus.

But between the model qualities varying, the pricing, the timing, the tools constantly changing, I think it's really difficult to build the institutional knowledge and setup that can be used beyond a few weeks.

In the era of AI, I don't tink it's good enough to "have" a working product. It's also important to have all the other things that make a project way more productive, like stellar documentation, better abstractions, clearer architecture. If it's just pushing around typical mid-level code, then... I just think that's falling behind.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-07 04:54:02+00:00
Yea, after this little experiment, I feel like I can just go through every big, bloated, slow, tech-debt-ridden software I use and replace it with a tiny, bespoke version that does only what I need and no more.

The old adage about how "users use 10% of your software's features, but they each use a different 10%" can now be solved by each user just building that 10% for themselves.
by xp84 | 2026-01-07 04:54:37+00:00
I agree, I don’t need recommendations from my own library. I know when I am in the mood for a particular album, and if not, it’s much more pleasant to glance through my Artists list than to trust some jerk at Spotify to tell me what I want. Especially since they are now actively trying to replace the music on their mood playlists with royalty-free stock Muzak.

For discovery, there are plenty of (especially linear) streaming music sources that are dirt cheap or free, anyway.
by blibble | 2026-01-07 04:54:48+00:00
> Given both keys are supposed to be handled as a secure, opaque bundle, disclosed to no one beyond the bound origin at create time.

yes, there is no way to enumerate the public key in the webauthn api, but this is a property of the webauthn api only

the passkey cryptosystem consists of more than the webauthn api

there's the platform and roaming authenticators too

and I have shown you, it is common for the layer below webauthn to support enumeration of the resident public keys

because... it's useful!

HSMs let you see public keys, protected Java keystores let you see the public keys, the windows certificate manager lets you see public keys

(because surely no-one would be daft enough to try to build a secret key scheme out of the public keys of a pair?)
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-07 04:54:49+00:00
> Would also love to better understand what factors into "accuracy" since there might be some nuance there depending on the measure.

It's accuracy across GSM8K, MMLU, IFEVAL and LiveCodeBench.

They detail their methodology here: https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-4B-I-2507/
by galacranesweep | 2026-01-07 04:55:24+00:00
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