MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mbowcut2 | 2026-01-15 02:27:38+00:00
Wow, I didn't know about the "skills" feature, but with that as context isn't this attack strategy obvious? Running an unverified skill in Cowork is akin to running unverified code on your machine. The next super-genius attack vector will be something like: Claude Cowork deletes sytem32 when you give it root access and run the skill "brick_my_machine" /s.
by roughly | 2026-01-15 02:28:11+00:00
> Their measured performance on things people care about keep going up, and their software stack keeps getting better and unlocking more performance on existing hardware

I'm more concerned about fully-loaded dollars per token - including datacenter and power costs - rather than "does the chip go faster." If Nvidia couldn't make the chip go faster, there wouldn't be any debate, the question right now is "what is the cost of those improvements." I don't have the answer to that number, but the numbers going around for the costs of new datacenters doesn't give me a lot of optimism.

> Is that based just on the HN "it is lots of money so it can't possibly make sense" wisdom?

OpenAI has $1.15T in spend commitments over the next 10 years: https://tomtunguz.com/openai-hardware-spending-2025-2035/

As far as revenue, the released numbers from nearly anyone in this space are questionable - they're not public companies, we don't actually get to see inside the box. Torture the numbers right and they'll tell you anything you want to hear. What we _do_ get to see is, eg, Anthropic raising billions of dollars every ~3 months or so over the course of 2025. Maybe they're just that ambitious, but that's the kind of thing that makes me nervous.
by ImprovedSilence | 2026-01-15 02:28:37+00:00
It could be that. It could be AI farming. Ask questions you want AI to be able to answer, get a bunch of reasonable comments for the models to gobble up. Next time you ask google, gemeni might even post links to this very post!
I'd say it's 50/50 if it's for AI or astroturfing.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-15 02:28:54+00:00
It's weird. When the UK voted to leave the EU, the trajectory was quite clear: exodus of workforce, economic slowdown, crisis in academic research etc. It is all playing out as projected.

But because it was kind of slow, you could kid yourself that it's not going to happen. It was like a slow-mo car crash, like watching "the Titanic" and hoping it will at last moment miss the iceberg.

This feels similar.
by tracerbulletx | 2026-01-15 02:29:14+00:00
People really want to have a business with none of the work of running a business. They want to make something useful, then have people just pay them for it without any of the things that go into operating a business. In a perfect world value would directly correlate to income, but it isn't even close to being the case, there's a lot of coercion and control of supply that goes into owning a business.
by Dibes | 2026-01-15 02:29:32+00:00
The thing is, for most people a standard wall outlet is plenty. The math works out that a simple 15/20 amp circuit can charge over 40 miles overnight, and the vast majority of people aren't driving more than that for their daily commute plus errands. Level 1 charging is genuinely sufficient most of the time. I was particularly swayed by the technology connections video on this topic I watched before buying my first EV https://youtu.be/Iyp_X3mwE1w

The real pain point, in my opinion, is whether you have any place to plug in nightly. If you don't, then as you pointed out, it becomes a nightmare to own. Range anxiety is completely justified when public charging infrastructure is still as unreliable as it is, years after the initial build outs. Your points about charging pain are all too common.

If you have a garage with an outlet, you are generally fine. I lived off a level 1 charger for over a year before I decided I wanted the convenience of a level 2 charger.
by Affric | 2026-01-15 02:29:39+00:00
The main thing holding them back for me is the range.

A few times a year I do quite long drives, sometimes you get the odd road closure and you've added a day to your trip at best, could be stranded at worst.

There will be a phase shift where there are lots of fast chargers but in Australia we aren't quite there yet. Lots of my friends have EVs. The busiest routes are pretty good.

On the one hand I will be a late adopter of the tech but on the other at least I know it will be a significant upgrade when I get there.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 02:29:45+00:00
WHAT??

Edit: I may have been rude previously but I was feeling beyond angry because I have tried to be a part of the community and I don't even know what to say

I genuinely am speechless. I think its so sad to see HN community be unable to trust and how you accuse me man which is so sad to see.

I genuinely just don't know what to say? I hope you are (jokng or something?) but what sort ofjoke is this?
by cortesoft | 2026-01-15 02:30:12+00:00
Yes, my understanding is that the cost of missing out on those companies that are providing the returns is much more costly than investing in a company that is NOT generating those returns.

In other words, the risk is to miss the winners, not that you will invest in a loser.

The problem is that it is very hard to predict the winners, so it is best to invest in all companies to make sure you have the winners
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 02:31:53+00:00
They weigh slightly more than a similar ICE vehicle. And why would drafting a big rig increase tire wear? The problem I mentioned was that EV drivers frequently drive more aggressively because it's intoxicating to be able to silently dust basically every other car on the road that isn't another EV. Those people do have tire wear issues :). And they're not drafting a big rig...
by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 02:31:55+00:00
The title is misleading if you don’t read the whole text: Anthropic is not blocking OpenCode from the API that they sell.

They’ve blocked OpenCode from accessing the private Claude Code endpoints. These were not advertised or sold as usable with anything else. OpenCode reverse engineered the API and was trying to use it.

The private API isn’t intended for use with other tools. Any tool that used it would get blocked.
by rayiner | 2026-01-15 02:32:50+00:00
You don’t end up with communities that lack those things entirely, because they’re within America. Instead, what happens is that higher organizational units compensate by imposing the organization that’s lacking internally. These communities become dependent on others to provide law, organization, and civic institutions. That distorts the structure of society, making it a top-down structure rather than a bottom-up structure. The lack of social cohesion between different cultural groups further increases the need for top-down control and administration to manage that conflict.

> A lot of current American cultures with centuries of history would fail that test

Well we created a lot of national myths in the mid 20th century to reconcile our historic immigration trajectory. But we have a lot of data we should be able to draw on. Which place closer resembles Denmark or England: Massachusetts outside Boston or Minneapolis, or New York and New Jersey?
by queuebert | 2026-01-15 02:32:55+00:00
You seem to be intuiting some kind of chi squared minimization. It is true that fewer free parameters constrain models, but there is nothing in nature that prefers simplicity. That is probably the most annoying thing to us physicists. Even thermodynamics is always shoving us toward disorder. Just look at plasma physics some time for deterministically intractable problems stemming from four little equations (one if you like tensors).

I think it's better to think of most real world models as being low dimensional-ish, where there is a decaying power law of eigenvalues, and most are quite small, though not zero. You can get quite far by looking at the largest modes and ignoring small ones, but you're not exact, so you're not seeing The Truth, or whatever. Forcing your self to use fewer parameters is a way of denoising, however, that is quite effective.
by pixelmonkey | 2026-01-15 02:33:28+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 02:33:31+00:00
They’re not literally blocking OpenCode. You can use OpenCode with their API like any other tool.

They’ve blocked the workaround OpenCode was using to access a private API that was metered differently.

Any tool that used that private endpoint would be blocked. They’re not pushing an agenda. They’re just enforcing their API terms like they would for any use.
by danpalmer | 2026-01-15 02:33:37+00:00
This is a separate discussion, but while I agree in general that pages should be less bloated than they are, ads shouldn't burn my CPU, etc, I think it's a sign of progress that the web takes much more bandwidth. 4K video is better than HD, is better than SD, is better than no video. Illustrations improve articles. More client side Javascript tends to mean more interactivity which is often a good thing (not always). The web today does so much more than it did 20 years ago, and we should be proud of that achievement rather than push back on progress by expecting the web to work on a connection from 20 years ago.
by yongjik | 2026-01-15 02:33:46+00:00
I downvoted you because you're spreading baseless conspiracy theory.

Few denies President Park was grossly incompetent in how she behaved during and after the Sewol ferry disaster. Also, the ferry was illegally and unsafely modified and then overloaded. It was a ticking time bomb: its sinking is a classic example of "everything that can go wrong went wrong."

But some people aren't satisfied with that, they think it's impossible that such a big ship would turn over by accident, so they need a villain with a human face. Ergo the conspiracy theory of somebody intentionally killing hundreds of people. And because nobody can explain why anybody would gain anything from such a heinous act, they invent a story of a human-sacrificing cult.

Imagine being a parent who just lost a child to something like that, and being told by people that there is a villain who murdered their child, and the only way to uncover the truth is to fight and protest on streets. For years. Forever. Until the "truth" is uncovered, which will never happen.

It's truly one of the most reprehensible mind viruses I've seen in Korea.
by chongli | 2026-01-15 02:34:25+00:00
That diversification is a bit of a smoke-screen though. The most popular index funds are cap-weighted. This causes the allocation of capital within the fund to become increasingly dominated by those few winner-take-all companies.

When index funds grow to huge levels of assets under management, their own asset allocations come to make up a significant portion of the market cap of the stocks in the portfolio. Thus the cap-weighted investment strategy becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
by frankchn | 2026-01-15 02:34:51+00:00
If Intel's original 10nm process and Cannon Lake had launched within Intel's original timeframe of 2016/17, it would have been class leading.

Instead, they couldn't get 10nm to work and launched one low-power SKU in 2018 that had almost half the die disabled, and stuck to 14nm from 2014-2021.
by ImprovedSilence | 2026-01-15 02:34:59+00:00
it's a perceived must. when running "all season" tires year round the AWD inspires more confidence, and most people don't even know winter tires are a thing. Plus 4x4 only helps you start moving, but once you are, every car still only has 2 wheels to turn and 4 to stop, which are quite possibly more crucial in snow....
by olyjohn | 2026-01-15 02:36:22+00:00
If you have distinct spikes, you might have an obstruction. You need a much larger view of the sky to the north to completely get rid of that. If the connection is perfect, you should get consistent 20ms pings all day long. But it is really difficult to do, especially when traveling and you don't have control of where you can actually put the dish.
Show HN: Detect changes and keep data in sync with meter's web scraper
by hankwilliamsjr | 2026-01-15 02:36:50+00:00
Hi everyone!

I recently built an end-to-end RAG app, and I needed to do some serious data extraction off the web. I realized that many web scraping tools index too heavily on the markdown style - so you end up with tons of noise in vector DBs and you can't track content diffs.

I built meter to fix that - extracts only the data you want, and notifies you either through webhook or a pull endpoint of any changes to that data over time.
by jackcosgrove | 2026-01-15 02:37:33+00:00
And anyone who thinks they can consistently predict who will be among the 4% is... mistaken. Diversification is how one manages risk when a system has a power law distribution of outcomes.

Trying to beat the market is playing a zero sum game. Someone has to lose for you to win. I understand savvy winners add information, but most winners are just lucky and it still makes me uneasy to play a zero sum game.

When you simply try to match the market, you float on the tide that mostly raises all boats and sometimes lowers them. That sits much better with me.
by JamesGriffin | 2026-01-15 02:37:33+00:00
Close to my heart as I'm at the actual JPM conference this year. The author's not running in the right healthcare circles though which is why they hasn't met them. If they were connected with the CEO and/or CFOs of health systems or any of the public companies presenting, they'd definitely know people that have attended. Regardless, fun read though. And it is true, -hard- to get in.
by anonymars | 2026-01-15 02:39:16+00:00
You are absolutely missing the point of what he is saying. Once your kid gets to a certain age, you are no longer able to control them. Regardless of the reason (nature vs nurture), if your kid starts going down a bad path, you the parent are unable to rein them in.

The context was that he watched his stepson get into drugs, and was unable to force him into rehab. If the son left, the parents could not coerce him into staying.

And so his son died of a drug overdose. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604020)

So if you are in that position, and your kid gets into drugs, and there is nothing you can do about it, what would you do as a good parent?

Now apply the same thing to if you think your kid is becoming a danger to others.

His full statement was that if we collectively reject the premise of restricting someone's (the child in question) bodily autonomy (by committing them), the argument is the only two options that remain are to watch helplessly or kill your kid. Obviously he is not seriously advocating the latter any more than Jonathan Swift was truly advocating for eating them.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 02:39:46+00:00
Someone accused me of being a bot and called me a clanker when we are talking about this.

I am extremely annoyed at hackernews right now

wtf is happening. someone said nice try clanker bcause of my username like (wtf/)

This community is feeling more hostile and less trustworthy I am sorry to say that
by thrance | 2026-01-15 02:39:59+00:00
> You say Trump is 10 times worse than Obama, I see nothing that even remotely suggests this is true. If you have any articles to show that back this up, please show them.

This is hopeless. I don't think there's anything I could say or show that would change your opinion. If the Epstein affair, his $TRUMP coin, the Qatari plane, the failed Jan 6 coup, the multiple recent ICE shootings didn't make you think that Trump is a worse president than Obama, then I don't think anything will. Not to forget, the many people he sent to CECOT without any due process, his rampant warmongering that threatens even Europe, the complete erosion of America's goodwill on the international scene, his destruction of all public research, the trillions he added to the national debt just so he could give some tax cuts to his friends, and on and on and on it goes.

I'm sure you're aware of all these events. I'm sure you have rationalizations for all of them, even the pedophilia. Know that I am no fan of Obama, at all, but anyone still claiming that Trump is no worse than him has a serious issue. I hope you can work through it, in time.
by ranger_danger | 2026-01-15 02:40:12+00:00
False equivalence.

The free market isn't a simple two-way exchange of favors, it's a system governed by supply, demand and the value of goods and services... not reciprocal altruism.

If an individual works for free, they are not creating a reciprocal obligation on the part of a corporation. In a functioning market, companies pay for labor because they benefit from it. If someone chooses to work for free, that's a personal decision... not a transaction that obligates others to reciprocate.
by dpark | 2026-01-15 02:40:19+00:00
I have no idea if this guy’s thoughts on the device and what would make it special are correct. (In fact I think his one camera for the whole thing idea would get boring quickly.) But it’s damning that no one seems to be able to recommend the device. I want one, but only as a toy and I can’t justify that kind of cost for a toy. I’ve not heard anything that was even remotely compelling.
by 10000truths | 2026-01-15 02:40:49+00:00
> high risk of losing 1/2 of your savings at an inopportune moment

Operative word being moment. The volatility is irrelevant if you wait it out long enough, hence "long term". If you need a shorter term low-risk investment vehicle, that's what treasury bills/notes are for.

> watch it all decay away thanks to our inherently inflationary regime

Any alternative investment strategy is equally affected by inflation.
by nofriend | 2026-01-15 02:41:14+00:00
It's hardly a subsidy if it's the removal of a tax that will go away entirely if the business is shuttered. This is frankly an awful framing. A well designed tax taxes a small portion of the business' margin. If the business has small margins, the tax is proportionately small. The tax in question is one that applies regardless of whether the business is making any money, and hence seems to have the express purpose of killing businesses.
by tudorg | 2026-01-15 02:41:39+00:00
Others have mentioned similar solutions but I’d like to add one: a database solution with CoW branching and PII anonymisation solves the db part in a safe way.

Disclaimer: I work at Xata.io, which provides these features. We have a recent blog post with a demo of this: https://xata.io/blog/database-branching-for-ai-coding-agents
by suprasam | 2026-01-15 02:42:07+00:00
ZeroFS doesn't exploit ZFS strengths with no native ZFS support, just an afterthought with NBD + SlateDB LSM
Good for small burst workloads where everything kept it in memory for LSM batch writes. Once compaction hits all bets off with performance and not sure about crash consistency since it is playing with fire.
ZFS special vdev + ZIL on ssd is much safer. No need for LSM. MayaNAS ZFS metadata at SSD speed and large blocks get throughput from high latency S3 at network speed.
by klodolph | 2026-01-15 02:44:33+00:00
> Thus the cap-weighted investment strategy becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Either you’re doing the math wrong or you’ve skipped some steps.

Let’s say you have companies X and Y, each with 50% of the market. X is a winner, and the stock price goes from $10 to $45. Y is a loser, and the stock price drops from $10 to $5. The new weight is X=90% and Y=10%.

But this cannot be a self-fulfilling prophecy for index funds, because the index funds do not have to buy or sell any shares of X or Y to keep up (I mean rebalance, specifically). In this scenario, the index funds are just holding. (By “holding” I mean “not rebalancing”.)

This is… an oversimplified scenario. But it illustrates the problem here with the “index funds cause a small number of stocks to be winners” theory. There are alternative theories that make sense, but not this one.

(What makes the scenario more complicated is when you think of buybacks, dividends, delisting, etc.)
by jackcosgrove | 2026-01-15 02:44:45+00:00
Don't index funds trail market changes though? I thought their allocations are reactive. In other words, the Mag 7 are being bid up by people trying to beat the market. I don't see how index funds could move prices.

I do understand how they can stabilize allocations where they are, which I think is the concern. Zombification rather than a positive feedback loop.
by paxys | 2026-01-15 02:45:16+00:00
Remember the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, famously caused by passive investors buying CDOs through their Vanguard funds? Or the dotcom bubble? The great depression? Remember when passive investors were buying tulip ETFs in the 1600s?

You don't, because every single financial bubble in history has been caused by active investors speculating and gambling, in most cases with other people's money. And now that people want to stop giving them money (and the associated fees) they turn around and go "you don't know what you are doing, you'll totally cause a bubble". Give me a break.
by DANmode | 2026-01-15 02:45:17+00:00
because they want to avoid selling these things as long as possible!

Same reason they shot the Volt in the back before it even hit the production floor.

They want you to get made fun of by your foreman for driving it,

so they sell very few,

and they can shrug at the government, or whoever, and say “See? Toldja nobody wants any.”
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-15 02:46:10+00:00
So different hardware, a clinical unit designed for thousands of hours.

Vs a very likely Shenzen unit that a teeny tiny group is selling on a basic website. And, you can make zero claims on whether a light spectrum of a led will go up or down over time despite one example. Amplifiers/voltages, coatings wearing down, oxide layers in diodes breaking down, etc.
by talkingtab | 2026-01-15 02:46:29+00:00
Hmmm. The ruling had a far greater impact than simply that law. It established that corporations have the same right to free speech that ordinary citizens do as a general principle.

What is the result. We now have a situation where a candidate cannot be elected without a large amount of funding. You will need to either be a billionaire or a corporate toady to get elected. Who is the elected official beholden to? What does the elected official have to do to improve their chances of re-election? Do better by the voters do better by the corporation. This is simple logic.

Added to that you have corporations and the rich controlling the media. Murdoch, Bezos, Musk. If the common citizens want to have a living wage be the minimum, Jeff Bezos does not. How willing is the Washington Post to raise the banner of changing the US minimum wage? This is a rhetorical question as the answer is obvious.

And any media that are not outright owned by the greed afflicted, most media receive a substantial part of their income from advertising, they are also not beholden to common citizens. The New York Times wants to appeal to the rich because that is the market for their advertisers. That is why you see stories in the NYT about "How much second vacation home will two million buy you in Maine". And that is why you do not see stories about "How much hovel will minimum wage buy you in Maine".
by belorn | 2026-01-15 02:46:38+00:00
The more variability there is in the grid, the more the grid need to invest in balancing, reserve energy and transmission. Each of those are expensive to build out and maintain. They are usually paid through taxes and grid fees, and here in Sweden you will generally pay more for those than for the energy that you consume.

Any saving on the production side will only effect part of the bill, and the total bill can go up even as the average wholesale price goes down.