MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lelanthran | 2026-01-06 18:09:24+00:00
> I think you might want to reread the line you quoted directly above this,

I am reading exactly what I said:

> You can write code that handles OOM conditions gracefully, but that way of writing code is the default only in C.

How is it possible to read that as anything other than "That Way Of Writing Code Is The Default Way In C"?

Are you saying that checking the result of malloc (and others) is not the default way of allocating memory?
by gus_massa | 2026-01-06 18:09:36+00:00
1. It's interesting, but you need a PhD in Chemistry and another PhD in Biology to understand the answer. There are probably like 10 non trivial steps from single molecules with 10 atoms to the RNA world, and we don't know any of them. If you would be happy to be sure that my hand waving is correct, you can ask it to be sure.

2. It is quite boring. A chunk of (liquid?) iron. I guess my metallurgy knowledge is too low to find the details interesting. I suggest to find another question.

3. It would be really nice to know that we would not nuke ourselves. Fingers crossed.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-06 18:09:37+00:00
The reason that the abolition of an arbitrary and cruel legal system was sought in the enlightenment was because although it often had a monopoly on legitimate usage, the state did not have supreme military power over the public (who were widely opposed to both the perceived disproportion of punishments and the rate of false positives).

If either side of any struggle acquires supreme force, the other side suffers without limit or recourse.
by next_xibalba | 2026-01-06 18:09:52+00:00
To wit, the vast majority of them have:

- easy access to clean water

- sufficient calories

- safe shelter

- education (presumably they can read and write if they’re on Reddit)

- internet access

- free time (can’t be writing nasty comments on Reddit if you’re swinging a pick axe in a coal mine)

Many of these things can’t be claimed by millions in the world.

And yet, it’s one of the most cynical, negative on the internet.
A topological knot finite state machine in logic space
by morpheos137 | 2026-01-06 18:10:09+00:00
Treat as a knot$\mathcal{F}(3)\|\mu_H^{19.31}\|\epsilon_{.0233}\|\beta_{\kappa+\frac{1}{2}\lambda}=0\|\mathcal{P}_{\frac{37}{73}:\epsilon}\|\oint \mathbf{J} \sin\delta_\ell=0\|\Delta \phi_n \to \ell_D^{1400}\|\Omega \circlearrowleft \{37 \leftrightarrow 73\}_{\{0 \mid \infty\}}^{\text{0x3749}}$derivephysics

This string encodes a knot topology in logic space that generates physics, space, time, constants, fine tuning, and ontology as a quine that is logically necessary.

The necessary hardware to run is "possibility" and a sufficiently powerful interpreter.

It is not a metaphor but is in fact the subjective physical universe when fully decoded and executed.
by kachapopopow | 2026-01-06 18:10:12+00:00
It's also the feeling I have, opus is not a ground-breaking model by any means.

However, Opus 4.5 is incredible when you give it everything it needs, a direction, what you have versus what you want and it will make it work, really, it will work. The code might me ugly, undesirable, would only work for that one condition, but with futher prompting you can evolve it and produce something that you can be proud of.

Opus is only as good as the user and the tools the user gives to it. Hmm, that's starting to sound kind-of... human...
by minimaxir | 2026-01-06 18:10:19+00:00
See also: a post from a couple days ago which came to the same conclusion that Opus 4.5 is an inflection point above Sonnet 4.5 despite that conclusion being counterintuitive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495539

It's hard to say if Opus 4.5 itself will change everything given the cost/latency issues, but now that all the labs will have very good synthetic agentic data thanks to Opus 4.5, I will be very interested to see what the LLMs release this year will be able to do. A Sonnet 4.7 that can do agentic coding as well as Opus 4.5 but at Sonnet's speed/price would be the real gamechanger: with Claude Code on the $20/mo plan, you can barely do more than one or two prompts with Opus 4.5 per session.
by msdaniel | 2026-01-06 18:10:32+00:00
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by BizarroLand | 2026-01-06 18:11:09+00:00
I'm sure that some of these patents happen by slipping the examiner a few bands in the application paperwork. Afterwards it's on other people to defend themselves to the tune of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if they lose you can get an entire company and all of its IP, property, and money.

$5k under the table is a small price to pay for such potential payoff, not to mention the value of the chilling effect on competition.

It's unethical, seedy, shitty, banal, and pestilent, the kind of thing that only the most hellbound and soulless of sleazebags would ever even think of to do, but it's profitable.
by aiauthoritydev | 2026-01-06 18:11:16+00:00
In all car reviews, driver impressions and forums, there is near universal and near unanimous preference for physical buttons for common control like volume and climate control. It is beyond me why anyone would experiment with something that is like 100 year old tech and loved by people.

I hope Apple Carplay and Google Android auto can also take over other car control such as volume and climate control. Later someone can build uniform hardware buttons and knobs that I can place on my steering wheel and it can use the phone to control those features.
by honeycrispy | 2026-01-06 18:11:30+00:00
A couple weeks ago I had Opus 4.5 go over my project and improve anything it could find. It "worked" but the architecture decisions it made were baffling, and had many, many bugs. I had to rewrite half of the code. I'm not an AI hater, I love AI for tests, finding bugs, and small chores. Opus is great for specific, targeted tasks. But don't ask it to do any general architecture, because you'll be soon to regret it.
by schubidubiduba | 2026-01-06 18:11:51+00:00
Those are called Outermost Regions (OMRs), and there are 9 of them, for instance french guiana.

Due to their remoteness, they are exempt to some EU laws. But they are part of the European Union.

Then there are some regions which are part of the European Economic Area (EEA), but not the EU, like Norway or Switzerland.

And several further distinctions and special cases afaik.
by wpm | 2026-01-06 18:11:53+00:00
Price parity but not feature parity. I still struggle to find good use-cases for the full sized Pi that both require direct GPIO and the increased CPU capabilities/storage speeds. For anything that needs GPIO, I find it much easier to just run it on a Zero 2W.

For anything else, where I just need "small computer running Linux to do a thing over USB or the network", the Intel mini-PCs are still a better deal.

1. They are usually upgradable, either in storage, and/or RAM, WiFi, etc depending on which one you buy.

2. They usually have actual M.2 storage without the need for an add-on board.

3. More sensible board and port layouts. I despise the Pi B form factor. Easily the worst thing about my Radxa X4 is the slavish "lets make it Pi B" form factor, which they didn't even manage to do, so any time I use it it's a port squid mess instead of having everything be neatly managable and I don't get to use any of the Pi B form-factor accessories I have anyways.

4. Can run any x86 operating system, and get installed off of a USB. I dual boot my Radxa X4 between Windows and Linux.

5. Typically have faster networking and definitely better video/NPU hardware. Intel QSV is excellent.

6. Power usage stats that are a rounding error up or down from what a Pi 5 could do.

At this point, I'd rather the Pi Foundation really focus on the Pico stuff, I find it far more interesting. The compute modules are also pretty useful when you really want to customize the I/O. As the landscape changed, the full-size Pi B's just seem...left out. Weird boot process, weird form factor, weird Broadcom stuff, weird price/performance ratio, downright hostile power supply choices (5V5A is supported by like two special snowflake supplies, and guess what, the Pi Foundation sells one!), few upsides. Maybe if the mini-PCs prices still increase, and the Pi Foundation can still get away with selling 8GB Pi 5s at $100 or whatever, it'll make more sense.
by Hikikomori | 2026-01-06 18:11:57+00:00
You're description matches a well planned and communicated slow increase of tariffs targeting specific products or industries so companies have time to adjust (newsflash, US was already doing this). Trump used blanket tariffs as a hammer to extort other countries, but its not like we want to buy your shitty cars anyway. Most of these facilities already existed or were planned. hint: most foreign brands were building their cars in US already.

If the economy is doing so well because of these tariffs why are they hiding numbers?

Its not even the first time US tried tariffs like these, it didn't go well then but Trump talks about like it was a golden age.
by s-macke | 2026-01-06 18:12:49+00:00
Just some examples I’ve already made public. More complex ones are in the pipeline. With [0], I’m trying to benchmark different coding-agents. With [1], I successfully reverse-engineered an old C64 game using Opus 4.5 only.

Yes, feel free to blame me for the fact that these aren’t very business-realistic.

[0] https://github.com/s-macke/coding-agent-benchmark

[1] https://github.com/s-macke/weltendaemmerung
by cloverich | 2026-01-06 18:13:02+00:00
It bugs me but also it comes with the territory - HN attracts an awful lot of programmers, and most programmers skew hard to pedantry (more specifically, noticing and correcting minute details). I'd love the exact same community minus the pedantry, but if losing the pedantry costs the programmers, but am not sure how possible that is (without more sophisticated moderation).
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-06 18:13:05+00:00
Catalogs - offline and on-line, commercial and government. Deprived of constant noise and overstimulation of advertising, people will actively seek such information out, whether because they have a problem to solve, or just out of curiosity. All we're talking about here is switching from current "push" model of advertising back to "pull" model.

Who here never browsed a product or company catalog they found, just because they were curious?
by denizkavi | 2026-01-06 18:13:07+00:00
Thanks! I think advantages we had over previous generations of companies is that demand and value for software has become much clearer for biopharma. The models are beginning to actually work for practical problems, most companies have AI, data science or bioinformatics teams that apply these workflows, and AI has management buy-in.

Some of the same problems exist, large enterprises don't want to process their un-patented, future billion-dollar drug via a startup, because leaking data could destroy 10,000 times the value of the product being bought.

Pharma companies are especially not used to buying products vs research services, there's also historical issues with the industry not being served with high quality software, so it is kind of a habit to build custom things internally.

But I think the biggest unlock was just that the tools are actually working as of a few years ago.
by manmal | 2026-01-06 18:13:10+00:00
IMO codex produces working code slowly, while Opus produces superficially working code quickly. I like using Opus to drive codex sessions and checking its output. Clawdbot is really good at that but a long running Claude Code session with codex as sub agents should work well also.

The above is for vibe coding; for taking the wheel, I can only use Opus because I suck at prompting codex (it needs very specific instructions), and codex is also way too slow for pair programming.
by OldGreenYodaGPT | 2026-01-06 18:13:15+00:00
Most software engineers are seriously sleeping on how good LLM agents are right now, especially something like Claude Code.

Once you’ve got Claude Code set up, you can point it at your codebase, have it learn your conventions, pull in best practices, and refine everything until it’s basically operating like a super-powered teammate. The real unlock is building a solid set of reusable “skills” plus a few agents for the stuff you do all the time.

For example, we have a custom UI library, and Claude Code has a skill that explains exactly how to use it. Same for how we write Storybooks, how we structure APIs, and basically how we want everything done in our repo. So when it generates code, it already matches our patterns and standards out of the box.

We also had Claude Code create a bunch of ESLint automation, including custom ESLint rules and lint checks that catch and auto-handle a lot of stuff before it even hits review.

Then we take it further: we have a deep code review agent Claude Code runs after changes are made. And when a PR goes up, we have another Claude Code agent that does a full PR review, following a detailed markdown checklist we’ve written for it.

On top of that, we’ve got like five other Claude Code GitHub workflow agents that run on a schedule. One of them reads all commits from the last month and makes sure docs are still aligned. Another checks for gaps in end-to-end coverage. Stuff like that. A ton of maintenance and quality work is just… automated. It runs ridiculously smoothly.

We even use Claude Code for ticket triage. It reads the ticket, digs into the codebase, and leaves a comment with what it thinks should be done. So when an engineer picks it up, they’re basically starting halfway through already.

There is so much low-hanging fruit here that it honestly blows my mind people aren’t all over it. 2026 is going to be a wake-up call.

(used voice to text then had claude reword, I am lazy and not gonna hand write it all for yall sorry!)

Edit: made an example repo for ya

https://github.com/ChrisWiles/claude-code-showcase
by bsclifton | 2026-01-06 18:13:23+00:00
Already shared, but that (what you linked to) was a proposal and no deliverable was ever publicly released. A simple prototype was made and tested by a limited number of employees - instead of showing an ad, it would show a picture of a mustachioed man as a placeholder. That silly picture would be replaced with real code if the idea panned out. It didn't. The idea and the code was canned before I joined Brave and I've been here for almost 10 years (I joined August 2016).

Disclaimer in case it's not obvious: I am a Brave employee
by phantasmish | 2026-01-06 18:13:45+00:00
If I go looking for a directory of [service, in my area] that’s hardly an ad! If those include, say, reviews and pricing info, great! Yes, please!

I definitely don’t want that directory to be skewed with ads in favor of those with the most money, or who have decided to burn the most of their limited resources on ads instead of improving their services, lowering their prices, or hell, just taking more profit. The ads were the biggest problem with the good ol’ yellow pages.
by barnabee | 2026-01-06 18:13:51+00:00
> You mean for the sharing library and streaming services and all the other features that require identification to even use

Plex is for streaming my media from my server to my clients. I know a decent number of people who use (or used) Plex and I don’t think any of them would ever use it to access streaming services.

I have no problem with charging for functionality that needs their servers, or introducing streaming. But the way their authentication, “services”, and streaming features hae been shoved in our faces in the UI over time feels like a rug pull to those of us who paid for something else.
by DooMMasteR | 2026-01-06 18:14:11+00:00
nope but freeTV is limited to 10% total ad time, and payTV limited to 5%.
Maximum ad time per hour is 4 times 5 minutes and a single movie cannot be interrupted more than two times, a show not more than 4 times.
News cannot be interrupted at all and programs shorter than I think 10 minutes neither.
by zenoprax | 2026-01-06 18:14:11+00:00
I've been running a Jellyfin server for nearly four years now. I never tried Plex or Emby but JF has been an impressive bit of software.

The availability of clients (Roku, Apple TV, Android, Xbox) is good enough that I have no problem inviting friends and family to join mine. I've learned so much about the tech bubble I live in simply from getting them onto the server.

I think the biggest obstacle to adoption beyond simple home servers is the reliance on SQLlite. If it were possible to set it up with Postgres you could run a monster server on AWS with RDS, S3, a Kubernetes. Not sure about the business case for that... but I would enjoy setting it up and pushing it to its limits.
by 0x3444ac53 | 2026-01-06 18:14:24+00:00
Fascism is not functionally dead. We just don't have governments actively calling themselves Nazis and fascist. The modern day christian nationalist movement in the United States is a fascists movement, and that's without even getting into the actual neo-nazi and white supremacist groups that also have ties to people in power.

Like I said to another comment, I thought we were discussion the modern right wing and left wing movements happening now, I'm not sure why we're bringing up previous communist movements. Seems irrelevant to my comment.
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-06 18:14:39+00:00
Shortly before I started paying for YouTube, I remember seeing one of those ultra-long ads. The ad seemed interesting, so at first I didn't want to skip it. As soon as I saw that it was a looooong ad I got into the habit of checking the length of an ad before I even considered if it's worth watching.

Now I just pay for Youtube. I'm a lot happier that way.
by mk89 | 2026-01-06 18:14:40+00:00
We should not mix random unknown person being bullied online with VIPs or politicians being made fun of.

Even during the Roman Republic people could make fun of or heavily insult politicians, and also with ugly things that we could never say today. Even Julius Caesar was mocked heavily (the famous "every woman's man and every man's woman")

...unsurprisingly, this changed when the Republic ended and the Empire started.

And here we're today thinking about our sensitive politicians :)
by bgirard | 2026-01-06 18:14:51+00:00
It's not from a few prompts, you're right. But if you layer on some follow-up prompts to add proper test suits, run some QA, etc... then the quality gets better.

I predict in 2026 we're going to see agents get better at running their own QA, and also get better at not just disabling failing tests. We'll continue to see advancements that will improve quality.
by emsign | 2026-01-06 18:14:56+00:00
I don't think this has to do with counterinsurgency but more like what the actual communists and fascists did: destroying an ideology by physically destroying the persons that associate with it. An ideology in this case communism (a broad term) that Palantir founders considered even an intellectual threat to their own ambitions. People who have understood Marx' theories and can apply them to analyze what's going on might be in theory immune to the hypercapitalist spectacle that a coalition which includes Palantir might stage. Which is kinda what happens the spectacle I mean with the current administration.
by mcbishop | 2026-01-06 18:15:22+00:00
For me, there's a sharp binary:
If I ask AI to "own" a coding-problem solution — with me passing back the failure responses until resolved — my mind gets numb and I learn nothing.
If I insist on owning the solution — using AI in my effort to better understand the problem space — my mind is active and I get better at coding.
Sometimes I'm lazy and fall into the former. But mostly, so far, the latter.
by nebezb | 2026-01-06 18:15:29+00:00
Your response is both unnecessarily aggressive and plainly wrong.

Yes, Plex _should_ work without an internet gateway. Why? Because it’s a client/server media application; it transcodes media to clients/players over the network.

Plex used to work like this. Actually, it was exclusively unauthenticated. Then early 10s they added optional auth, and eventually allowed you to reserve “server names”, and finally enforced with for running their server. But you can still use a client without auth today. Just read their docs: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-fo...
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-06 18:15:32+00:00
Because most phones have enough memory to handle all the bloat, and when they don't, Google can sell those people cloud space. Not to mention that adding more memory is how phone manufacturers earn money - out of my ass example just to illustrate the concept: 100GB phone costs $400, same phone but with 200GB memory costs $500, 100GB memory chip costs $20, manufacturer pockets the difference. Having bloated apps and no SD card (iOS doesn't support SD Cards, Android makes them work like shit on purpose) justifies in the eye of the consumer the necessity of extra memory. Most people have fast internet connection so download time is always acceptably small, no matter how much bloat you put, not to mention that updates are in the background anyway.

The economic pressure to keep apps small is literally negative.
by goku12 | 2026-01-06 18:15:36+00:00
> There’s growing skepticism toward OOP, and that’s reflected in the popularity of languages like Rust and Zig, which are explicitly designed to push against traditional object-oriented patterns.

I don't know about Zig, but my experience with Rust's trait system is that it isn't explicitly against OOP. Traits and generics feel like an extension and generalization of the OOP principles. With OOP, you have classes (types) and/or objects (instances) and bunch of methods specific to the class/object. In Rust, you extend that concept to almost all types including structs and enums.

> OOP, by contrast, offers a new conceptual lens: objects, inheritance, polymorphism, and eventually design patterns.

Rust doesn't have inheritance in the traditional sense, but most OOP languages prefer composition to data inheritance. Meanwhile, polymorphism, dynamic dispatch and design patterns all exist in Rust.
by eisa01 | 2026-01-06 18:15:45+00:00
It is in the pipeline at least:
https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/discussions/1294

As my needs are quite simple, I currently just use VLC with a SMB share. Works quite well, VLC is able to play standard .mkvs just fine!
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-appletv.html
by mpalmer | 2026-01-06 18:15:56+00:00
After reading that article, I see at least one thing that Opus 4.5 is clearly not going to change.

There is no fixed truth regarding what an "app" is, does, or looks like. Let alone the device it runs on or the technology it uses.

But to an LLM, there are only fixed truths (and in my experience, only three or four possible families of design for an application).

Opus 4.5 produces correct code more often, but when the human at the keyboard is trying to avoid making any engineering decisions, the code will continue to be boring.
by morpheos137 | 2026-01-06 18:16:00+00:00
If you have specific questions I can answer them. I know this sounds like an improbable assertion but we have yet find a contradiction. As to why I am giving it away on a random internet board. No one owns it. My doing this is its execution. And if know one is interested then this can just sit here until the machine needs to execute a self reflection operation.