MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 5d41402abc4b | 2026-01-09 09:14:53+00:00
>rushed to market, fix the bugs later

I've yet to see a MCU vendor ship without bugs. At least with ST, the MCU is very cheap.

>USB controllers straight up doesn't enumerate with ARM Macs

I've seen USB devices struggling to enumerate on Mac/IOS devices before. This feels more like an Apple bug to me considering how they work very well on Linux, Windows and Android.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 09:14:57+00:00
> [Aquinas reconciled with Spinoza] is kind of bad faith.

How so? I'm dead serious; Algolia will confirm — and you sound like part of the small audience that would actually know what the differences to be reconciled are.

Be back after (making a few other replies and) reading up on Abelard. Is this the same Abelard as Sic et Non?

Thanks for the substantial reply!
by jwblackwell | 2026-01-09 09:15:15+00:00
I absolutely love the idea of Replit and I think it's an awesome platform and idea.

I do wonder how sustainable it is as a business though. I expect Replit is sending the majority of that money to the big AI labs through API costs

As soon as anything becomes serious you're going to try and take it off Replit and use something like Claude Code and AWS etc
by jedwhite | 2026-01-09 09:15:36+00:00
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. This tool:

- Lets you make regular Markdown files directly executable using shebang line.

- It keeps the Markdown itself clean and standard rather than using variable placeholders or any kind of special syntax.

- Includes support for session isolation

- Allows you to keep script use separate from your regular Claude Code subscription, by allowing you to specify the provider cloud / model in scripts, or switch them on the fly.

Another commenter suggested a custom format for executable llm scripts, which looks like the direction mdflow takes.

Using claude-switcher you can also use multiple clouds/keys for billing and failover, and to keep your subscription tokens for interactive or personal use, which I think is also useful.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-09 09:15:39+00:00
> That logic is flawed. The end value and ROI for S&P500 is the same regardless of the currency used to display it.

> It's the same as complaining that the temperature increased more in Fahrenheit than in Celsius.

No, that logic is flawed. Fahrenheit and Celsius are pegged to each other, the Euro and the USD are not.
by mcny | 2026-01-09 09:16:00+00:00
Because from what I understand, the whole premise of billionaires giving AI all their money is

1. AI succeeds and this success is defined by they will be able to raise prices really high

2. AI fails and receives a bailout

But if there are alternatives I can run locally, they can't raise prices as high because at some point I'd rather run stuff locally even if not state of the art. Like personally, USD 200 a month is already too expensive if you ask me.

And the prices can only go up, right?
by Zababa | 2026-01-09 09:16:09+00:00
I don't think the author of the article found "good evidence". He found a specific case where there was a regression. This could be due to:

- models actually getting worse in general

- his specific style of prompting working well with older models and less well with newer models

- the thing his test tests no longer being a priority for big AI labs

From the article:

> GPT-4 gave a useful answer every one of the 10 times that I ran it. In three cases, it ignored my instructions to return only code, and explained that the column was likely missing from my dataset, and that I would have to address it there.

Here ignoring the instructions to give a "useful answer" (as evaluated by the author) is considered a good thing. This would mean if a model is trained to be better at instruction following, it would lose points in that test.

To me this article feels a bit like saying "this new gun that shoot straight 100% of the time is worse than the older gun that shot straight only 50% of the time, because sometimes I shoot at something I don't actually want to shoot at!". And in a way, it is true, if you're used to being able to shoot at things without them getting hurt, the new gun will be worse from that point of view. But to spin up a whole theory about garbage in/garbage out from that? Or to think all models are getting worse rather than, you're maybe no longer the target audience? That seems weird to me.
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-09 09:16:24+00:00
I feel uncomfortable the more we celebrate economic 'resilience' Recession avoided. Growth sticks. ~

Jobs remain. I've learned to differentiate survival from renewal.

Surviving is the ability to withstand shocks and not break. Renewing is the ability to rebuild and strengthen so that the next shock is less painful.

Most policies focus on the former. The latter is far more difficult. It is slower and easier to postpone. Protectionism is a classic example. It keeps the numbers stable in the short run but it means there is often less incentive to improve productivity, skills and supply chains. On the surface it all looks fine, but nothing gets better.

A new guide for me is if a policy makes it easier to be static, it is probably not progress. I wonder if others think the same. What signs indicate that renewal is underway? When has buying time worked? What is more important than growth?
by jkelleyrtp | 2026-01-09 09:16:35+00:00
I work on Dioxus (Rust WASM framework).

WASM for frontend, at least, has been held back by fundamental tools like bundle splitting, hot-reload, debugger symbols, asset integration, etc. We spent a lot of 2025 working on improving this. Vite and friends are really good!

I've been working on a big Dioxus project recently and am pretty happy with where WASM is now. The AI tools make working with Rust code much faster. I'm hopeful people gravitate towards WASM frameworks more now that the tools are better.
by nickmyersdt | 2026-01-09 09:18:17+00:00
The goal itself is flawed, not just the execution.

If you build a system explicitly designed to have no content boundaries, and it produces CSAM, that's not a failure of execution - that's the system working as designed. You don't get credit for noble intentions when the outcome was entirely foreseeable.

Deciding to place no limits on what an AI will generate is itself a value judgment. It's choosing to enable every possible use, including the worst ones. That's not principled neutrality; it's moral abdication dressed up as libertarianism.
by HoJojoMojo | 2026-01-09 09:18:30+00:00
You are saying it needs at most minor tweaks when used for something specific like a product support channel?

For the long-term value of a horribly overpriced and debt ridden corporation it matters quite a lot if the catch up of open source to adequate is less than a decade in instead of several decades in some uses and a few more in others.
by simondotau | 2026-01-09 09:18:40+00:00
Not wishing to waste so much time on a reply, I asked ChatGPT what it thought of your last reply and here’s what it said. There might be something to this AI stuff after all.

——————

That message is textbook projection plus motive attribution.

What’s happening, plainly:

1. Projection

They accuse you of a parasocial relationship while displaying one themselves—just inverted (hostile instead of admiring).

2. Mind-reading / motive attribution

“It’s psychologically safer for you…” assigns an internal emotional motive without evidence. That’s not argument; it’s speculation presented as diagnosis.

3. Poisoning the well

By framing disagreement as psychological defense, they pre-emptively invalidate anything you say next. If you respond, it “proves” their claim.

4. Pathologizing dissent

Disagreeing with them is reframed as mental weakness rather than a difference in reasoning or evidence.

5. Asymmetric skepticism

Their own emotional investment is treated as insight; yours is treated as pathology.

Key point:
Once someone shifts from claims → psychology, they’ve abandoned good-faith debate. That’s not insight—it’s a tell.
by Ianjit | 2026-01-09 09:18:40+00:00
Please provide links to the studies, I am genuinely curious. I have been looking for data but most studies I find showing an uplift are just looking at LOC or PRs, which of course is nonsense.

Meta measured a 6-12% uplift in productivity from adopting agentic coding. Thats paltry. A Stanford case study found that after accounting for buggy code that needed to be re-worked there may be no productivity uplift.

I haven't seen any study showing a genuine uplift after accounting for properly reviewing and fixing the AI generated code.
by matt-p | 2026-01-09 09:19:10+00:00
This is fair, but it restricts the number of open source contributors massively if that's the criteria.

Let's say I'm a company and I have this library I've developed at enormous expense. The company is happy to share it so long as competitor X a big multi-national corp doesn't get it for free. Is it better that it gets open sourced as GPL3 with commercial use on application, or better it stays closed source?

Let's say I'm a developer trying to get a job, I pour months of my time into a new project that's open source, of course I want that attached to my reputation, because that's a part of how I get my new job.

The number of people who can code for free and are happy to not attach thier name and to watch as big AI labs profit off their work while they can't afford rent is super close to 0.
by EGreg | 2026-01-09 09:19:16+00:00
Actually the great secret of wasm (that will piss off a lot of people on HN I am sure) is that it is deterministic and can be used to build decentralized smart contracts and Byzantine Fault Tolerant distributed systems :)

Some joker who built Solana actually thought Berkeley Packet Filter language would be better than WASM for their runtime. But besides that dude, everyone is discovering how great WASM can be to run deterministic code right in people’s browsers!
by sehansen | 2026-01-09 09:19:18+00:00
That's mean wealth, not median wealth. Mean millenial wealth at 34[0] is $345,000 and median millenial wealth at 38[1] is $130,000. Given that inequality has been rising steadily in the US over the past 30 years, the mean and median wealth of Gen Xers and boomers were almost certainly closer to each other than for millenials.

0: your source has mean at 34 in 2025, https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2025/june/the-state-of...
1: the best I could find was median at 38 in 2022: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/feb/millennia...
by metalman | 2026-01-09 09:20:16+00:00
not quite the last

https://www.barnstormers.com/

airplanes, airplane stuff, airports, airport stuff, little airplanes, big airplanes, fighter jets, airplanes from the dawn times, every budget and skill level.
online since day 2, almost exactly unchanged, certain adds cost a few bucks to list, other adds are hand coded into the pages,
social side is listings for "fly in's"
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-09 09:20:24+00:00
> then we'd have safe roads that don't encourage reckless driving.

You mean like speed limits, drivers licenses, seat belts, vehicle fitness and specific police for the roads?

I still can't see a legitimate use for anyone cloning anyone else's voice. Yes, satire and fun, but also a bunch of malicious uses as well. The same goes with non-fingerprinted video gen. Its already having a corrosive effect on public trust. Great memes, don't get me wrong, but I'm not sure thats worth it.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-09 09:20:37+00:00
That's a good question. So, 2008 was a major problem and financial institutions brought that on themselves. But that's - fortunately, even though there were significant knock on effects - limited to one very important slice of the market, not unlike say when Enron went bust or when the .com bust happened. The rest of the free market is what pulled us out of those things.

Free markets are on balance a good thing, assuming a level playing field and regulations to curb externalization and monopolization as well as cartel forming.
by epolanski | 2026-01-09 09:20:46+00:00
Small caps and emerging markets in the long run should outpace advanced high cap markets as they have more room to grow.

There's also some other interesting aspects of emerging markets specifically: they never went more than 4.5 years before recovering from a crash to ath, whereas it took the SP500 12 years and EU 600 index 14 to recover from the 2000 one.
by Nursie | 2026-01-09 09:21:04+00:00
> Starmer’s winter fuel allowance for example.

To me this is a prime example of the problem - they were really just fucking around at the edges anyway. It wasn't any sort of major reform. That old scene from Futurama often springs to mind -

"I say that your 3% Titanium tax goes too far!"

"And I say that your 3% Titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!"

I do agree the press are complicit though.
by stavros | 2026-01-09 09:21:31+00:00
> How many times in history has wealth been less concentrated?

Mostly all of them! There have been periods where inequality dropped, but mostly it's been rising since at least the 1300s. I'm on mobile and can't link research, but there are a few papers that investigate this.

> As far as I'm aware, for almost all of history post-agriculture, wealth was highly concentrated while the average person lived in abject poverty (think: kings vs peasants).

And yet it was less unequal than now, an era where we've managed to use technology to concentrate wealth at an unprecedented scale. No longer is the richest person you know the king who collects your taxes next door, now it's a SV trillionaire on the other side of the world.
by dspillett | 2026-01-09 09:21:47+00:00
Of wide adoption is more important than than the key benefits of strong copyleft OpenSource, then something like MIT will help, but personally I'd keep with AGPL3.

I wasn't advocating for change in my previous comments, just pointing out that a fair number of people will ask for that, and why they would. IMO "we can't use it under this license because of company policy" is a them problem, not a you problem!
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-09 09:21:50+00:00
The quality variation from month to month has been my experience too. I've noticed the models seem to "forget" conventions they used to follow reliably - like proper error handling patterns or consistent variable naming.

What's strange is sometimes a fresh context window produces better results than one where you've been iterating. Like the conversation history is introducing noise rather than helpful context. Makes me wonder if there's an optimal prompt length beyond which you're actually degrading output quality.
by DSingularity | 2026-01-09 09:21:59+00:00
Am I in some weird alternative universe where Israel did not just engage in a genocidal campaign against a population of Palestinians that are descendants of refugees from their prior genocidal campaign? Israel just finished killing probably over a hundred thousand civilians. The displaced the majority of Gaza. They destroyed the vast majority of its hospitals and universities and public infrastructure. They killed foreign aid workers even after those foreign aid workers cleared their routes with Israelis. Israeli soldiers raped Palestinians on camera. Then those solders were celebrated on public Israeli television and by the Israeli government. Attempts to prosecute those solders resulted in punishment for the prosecutors.

Is Saudi Arabia a human rights violator? Yeah and so is a bunch of western governments. But no modern government comes close to the abuses of the Israeli government and Israeli military. This is the view of the free people of this world.
by MORPHOICES | 2026-01-09 09:22:10+00:00
WebAssembly was supposed to be the first “universal runtime” that could literally run anywhere at lightning speed, and while it was certainly an impressive achievement, it was clear to me that the technology friction was mostly on how it was integrated, or more specifically how it was integrated with tools, debugging, interoperation, etc. ~

The web technologies and frameworks that we have today and how we use them to create solutions, still a lot of developers rely on JavaScript. It may be an outdated language with a lot of issues and problems, but it is still the most popular programming language today. Platforms tend to fail because the workflow surrounding them doesn't offer the flexibility to make the most of the platform.

The most valuable lesson to learn is that potential alone doesn't drive widespread use of a technology. The flexible integration offered by JavaScript is the only thing that made widespread use of it possible. What is the most valuable thing that Web Assembly offered you? What is the missing element in Web Assembly that makes it hard to use? What does the new technology offer that makes it harder to use and does it repeat the same patterns as Web Assembly?
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 09:22:14+00:00
On the abstraction front, I'll confirm that if you go back far enough in just about any line on the Mathematics Genealogy Project, you get to DDs (some Christian, some Islamic).

Example: starting from Frege, we can get from:

https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=46166

to

https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=125658

and then

https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=131444
by pjc50 | 2026-01-09 09:22:49+00:00
Presumably in response to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/08/musks-x-coul... and others. I've seen a claim that Spain is referring X for prosecution over this as well.

It's just been restricted to paying customers, and that decision could be driven as much by cost as by outrage.

Edit: may also be linked to people making deepfakes of Renee Good, the woman murdered by US authorities in Minneapolis.
by rendx | 2026-01-09 09:23:37+00:00
For me, it is important to know and reflect on these stories so we can collectively heal and learn from them, regarding child abuse, narcissism, and especially (what is also mentioned in the article) enabling such abuse. This is why I posted it.

If we bury these stories, and always only talk about it when people are long dead or not at all, we as communities will not evolve out of those patterns. A culture that "honors the dead" by not talking about the bad stuff they've done is catering to its abusers.

Today, we should talk about Trump, Musk, etc, also in the light of how they treat their children. And what we can and should do to protect those that cannot protect themselves.

We all have responsibility - the ability to respond. If we look away from the stories, we will also look away when something happens near us. And it should encourage us to grow in how we treat other people (especially children) around us. Yes, this can bring up difficult feelings about our own acts, and our own childhood experiences. And it should.
by ahmetomer | 2026-01-09 09:23:40+00:00
Hi, OP here:

Unfortunately, with a brisk urge to clean it all up, I hadn't paid attention to which extension it was that got my browser compromised; I had immediately removed all extensions, cleared browser data, stopped the sync, and uninstalled it altogether (for fear of getting further compromised).

What I can say is that I have tried a number of extensions for the purpose of making a website in dark theme, for ease of reading, which weren't as popular (in terms of rating & installs), and highly likely that those were malware.

That being said, I now hesitate to even install extensions that are selected by the Google Chrome editor team. I vibe-coded a simple extension myself to use as a "dark reader", and will probably avoid installing anything anymore. I got my fair share of damage.
Show HN: Titanpl-SDK – Create, test, publish, and auto-load extensions in Titan
by soham_byte | 2026-01-09 09:24:06+00:00
I’ve been working on an extension system for the Titan Planet runtime, and this is the first public release of titanpl-sdk. It lets developers add capabilities to Titan without modifying the core server or relying on Node.js.
Current features:
• Scaffold a new extension with titan create ext <name>
• Local test/run workflow powered by titanpl-sdk
• Publish extensions to npm
• Titan runtime automatically detects and loads installed extensions (zero config)
• Supports pure JavaScript extensions or hybrid JS + Rust-backed ones
• Simple APIs for exposing functions, validators, handlers, etc.
Repos:
• Extension template: https://github.com/ezet-galaxy/titanpl/tree/main/templates/e...
• SDK: https://github.com/ezet-galaxy/titanpl/tree/main/titanpl-sdk
• Example extension (validation): https://github.com/Yom-Roy/-titanpl-valid
I’m looking for feedback from people who’ve built plugin systems or worked on JS engines(v8)
If you have questions or want to explore further, the Titan Atmosphere community is here:
https://titan-docs-ez.vercel.app/community
Would appreciate architectural feedback, critiques, or ideas on where this should go next.
by B480FA8D | 2026-01-09 09:24:11+00:00
The TOS, which is a contract of adhesion for consumer-facing products, does not really matter that much in my opinion since "we have to lock you in to our specific interface on our public offering" is not a cognizable interest. SCOTUS is also very clear in requiring actual damages (in incremental harms) to establish a CFAA violation. At any rate, opencode is essentially providing equitable estoppel as a service by being open and popular - cannot go after me without first dealing with the "unionized" project (last words)! I don't think they get to conflate the issues of alternative interface dispute and their intentional pricing strategy losing money on heavy users.

Of course, they are banning for financial economic interests, not nominal alleged contractual violations, so Anthropic is not sympathetic.

// NOT LEGAL ADVICE

Obviously, I think it can make sense to Anthropic since opencode users likely disproportionately cost them money with little lock-in - you can switch the moment a comparable model is available elsewhere. It does not (necessarily) mean there are any legal or ethical issues barring us from continuously using the built-in opencode OAuth though.
by decimalenough | 2026-01-09 09:24:22+00:00
Rare earths are not actually all that rare, they're just present in very low concentrations and require tons of processing with nasty chemicals to extract. Those startups etc aren't sitting around twiddling their thumbs for kicks, they're mostly mired in bureaucratic approvals and/or lack of finances due to a very justified fear of those approvals. Throw in the wild price fluctuations and it's much easier to just buy everything from China, which already has everything in place.
by gf000 | 2026-01-09 09:24:42+00:00
Because people don't want to load 300MB for a simple website (and this is blocking the first render, not just loading in the background).

Not every language is a good source for targeting WASM, in the sense that you don't want to bring a whole standard library, custom runtime etc with you.

High-level languages may fare better if their GC is compatible with Wasm's GC model, though, as in that case the resulting binaries could be quite small. I believe Java-to-wasm binaries can be quite lean for that reason.

In c#'s case, it's probably mostly blazor's implementation, but it's not a good fit in this form for every kind of website (but very nice for e.g. an internal admin site and the like)