MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ankit219 | 2026-01-15 01:04:50+00:00
The issue is that claude code is cheap because it uses API's unused capacity. These kind of circumventions hurt them both ways, one they dont know how to estimate api demand, and two, the nature of other harnesses is more bursty (eg: parallel calls) compared to claude code, so it screws over other legit users. Claude code very rarely makes parallel calls for context commands etc. but these ones do.

re the whole unused capacity is the nature of inference on GPUs. In any cluster, you can batch inputs (ie takes same time for say 1 query or 100 as they can be parallelized) and now continuous batching[1] exists. With API and bursty nature of requests, clusters would be at 40%-50% of peak API capacity. Makes sense to divert them to subscriptions. Reduces api costs in future, and gives anthropic a way to monetize unused capacity. But if everyone does it, then there is no unused capacity to manage and everyone loses.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/blog/continuous_batching
by vbelenky | 2026-01-15 01:04:58+00:00
Nichia is pretty top of mind for me as a solid supplier of 265-280 nm LEDs https://led-ld.nichia.co.jp/en/product/uv_top.html. Decently high output, decent lifetime (especially the longer wavelengths). There's also CrystalIS https://www.cisuvc.com/klaran-for-disinfection/ But there's tons

This review paper is from 2019, but it includes a good summary of basically everyone who's relevant to the field https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-019-0359-9 The author used to keep an updated figure on his website but sadly it seems to be down, or have moved

SilannaUV has 230nm, 235nm and 250nm wavelengths, as far as I know the only supplier that does so https://silannauv.com/

I would be pretty careful with all of these wavelengths though. None of them are truly monochromatic far-UV. Use eye/skin protection when messing with them.
by debatem1 | 2026-01-15 01:04:58+00:00
Anecdotally, a lot more people in the US tow. And pickup trucks are the indisputable king of towing.

There's also the fact that it's a lot harder to take the top off a van than it is to add a top to the bed of a pickup. If I sometimes moved manure and had a van... I'd probably rent a trailer.
by bikenaga | 2026-01-15 01:05:26+00:00
Original title: "Dust Properties of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Revealed by Optical and Near-Infrared Polarimetry"

Abstract: "We present independent polarimetric observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, including the first near-infrared polarimetric measurements. Using imaging polarimeters, we measured the degree of linear polarization from the visible RC band (0.64 {\mu}m) to the near-infrared KS band (2.25 {\mu}m), and investigated its dependence on solar phase angle (polarization phase curve; PPC) and wavelength (polarization color curve; PCC). We confirm that the PPC of 3I/ATLAS differs significantly from those of typical Solar System comets, showing an unusually large polarization amplitude. This PPC shows no significant change in the RC band across perihelion passage, despite the perihelion lying within the water snow line. This indicates that the unusual polarimetric behavior of 3I/ATLAS is unlikely to be driven by transient volatile activity, but instead reflects intrinsic optical properties of refractory dust particles. The PCC increases with wavelength over 0.6-1.2 {\mu}m and peaks at 1.5-2.0 {\mu}m, suggesting that the dominant scattering units are dust aggregates composed of submicron-sized monomers, broadly consistent with interstellar dust and solar-system cometary aggregates. Taken together, our results indicate that 3I/ATLAS preserves polarimetric properties characteristic of a primitive cometary planetesimal formed in another planetary system, with a refractory dust composition that differs from that typically observed among Solar System comets, despite sharing a similar size scale of the aggregate building blocks."
by ameliaquining | 2026-01-15 01:05:27+00:00
Note that all cryptographic primitives are still going to be in C via an OpenSSL-like API for the next while; the current proposal is to migrate from OpenSSL to one of its forks. Various bits of backend logic that aren't cryptographic primitives (e.g., parsing) have been rewritten in Rust; additionally, https://github.com/ctz/graviola is mentioned near the end as a possible implementation of cryptographic primitives in a combination of Rust and assembly (without any C), but it's not especially mature yet.
by simondotau | 2026-01-15 01:05:40+00:00
Most other car prices are "manipulated" on a minute-by-minute basis, insofar as pricing is different for each customer, based on their their willingness to go hard in negotiation, manufacturer incentives, demand levels, stock levels, finance packages, and the current mood of the dealership principal.

The difference with Tesla is that their current "best price" is published out in the open.
by alexfoo | 2026-01-15 01:06:06+00:00
Last call at 11pm stopped being a blanket rule in 2003. The Licensing Act 2003 (England and Wales) abolished strict closing times.

Most pubs now have much longer hours (some even 24/7) although they choose their opening hours based on how busy they are or think they will be. The local councils will take into account local considerations and limit individual pubs as they see fit.
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-15 01:06:08+00:00
Sure, but who is going to ship a DPDK application to end users? And how exactly would that work for existing user applications that are not DPDK aware?

I think kernel networking is the only option for Tailscale (or any similar mesh VPN solution). Given this key constraint, the best you can do is do more work in kernel space and reduce context switches.
by parthdesai | 2026-01-15 01:06:14+00:00
Does River without any extra configuration run into scaling issues at a certain point? If the answer is yes, then River doesn’t scale without optimization (Redis/Clustering in Oban’s case).

While the root cause might not be River/Oban, them not being scalable still holds true. It’s of extra importance given the context of this post is moving away from redis and to strictly a database for a queue system.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-15 01:06:17+00:00
> We had to shift music platform. I know we can replicate a lot of this ...

As far as practical solutions go a cheap VPS and a wireguard connection should let you continue with business as usual. From the perspective of YouTube maybe you moved to NZ or something.

> they used YouTube's addictive algorithms as justification for including them as social media

Did they provide YouTube the option of swapping out those algorithms to be exempted from the new law? It seems like this law was perhaps not a bad idea but the execution poorly thought out.
by chrysoprace | 2026-01-15 01:06:53+00:00
In that case the maintainer needs to have some self-restraint and accept that they don't owe them anything. If somebody depends on the maintainer's package for a critical component then they should consider paying them and possibly drawing up an explicit contract. That's what we did at my work for a critical open source component, where we paid the maintainer to add several features we needed.
by munificent | 2026-01-15 01:07:11+00:00
Nowhere did I posit that being an Uber driver has no dignity.

I observed, which is entirely likely to be true, that on average people probably find more personal fulfillment in the work of being an artist than the work of hauling crates off a ship.

Yes, we humans are clever creatures and will extract as much upside and value as we can out of any situation. That does not at all mean that all jobs are thus equivalent in all respects.

> they want to go on fun vacations and have fun experiences.

And how many of those vacations are to places with incredible architecture and rewarding art museums? How many of those fun experiences are music, plays, and movies?

Certainly, family and socializing are important avenues of meaning as well. Those aren't mutually exclusive with wanting to live in a world full of art made by others who care about it.
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 01:07:16+00:00
You're hitting an important point. I might go on a tangent here.

It's up to operating systems to offer a content consumption experience for end users which reverses the role of platforms back to their original, most basic offers. They all try to force you into their applications which are full of tracking, advertisements, upsells, and anti-consumer interface design decisions.

Ideally the operating system would untangle the content from these applications and allow the end user to consume the content in a way that they want. For example Youtube offers search, video and comments. The operating system should extract these three things and create a good UI around it, while discarding the rest. Playlists and viewing history can all be managed in the offline part of the application. Spotify offers music, search and lyrics but they want you to watch videos and use social media components in their very opinionated UIs, while actively fighting you to create local backup of your music library.

Software like adblockers, yt-dlp and streamlink are already solving parts of these issues by untangling content from providers for local consumption in a trusted environment. For me the fight by Anthropic against OpenCode fits into this picture.

These companies are acting hostile even towards paying customers, each of them trying to build their walled gardens.
by xp84 | 2026-01-15 01:07:27+00:00
> Textile scientists and engineers are also working on fabrics that resist shrinkage through advanced material design. Among promising innovations are blended yarns that combine natural and synthetic fibres.

Can someone who knows things about textiles explain to me how the above is different than all the many items I own that say on the label, 60%/40% blend polyester/cotton, etc. I assumed that's what these were.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-15 01:07:38+00:00
It wasn't just hooking up a new faucet. It was hijacking an API key intended for ClaudeCode specifically. So in this metaphor it would be hooking up a secondary water pipe from the water company intended only for sprinklers they provide to your main water supply. The water company notices abnormal usage coming from the sprinkler water pipe and shuts it off, while leaving your primary water pipe alone.
by XorNot | 2026-01-15 01:08:43+00:00
I just plain don't have room to store a trailer, but I do have room for a second car - hence I own a ute (pickup or whatever in American parlance).

Which is really the thing: it's very useful to have a second car, but a trailer can't be a second car.

What's really desperately missing is useful payload capacity: a standard ute can't carry 1 ton in the tray confidently (and it's downright impossible to find accurate info on what you should do to get that outside of "add a tag axle").
by alwaysforslicks | 2026-01-15 01:08:58+00:00
- Will the ban in australia catch everyone, No.
- Does this present some privacy issues, Yes.

But the reality is we needed to do something to combat what this is doing to our kids, while it might not be harmful content per-see there are serious effects its having to attention spans, warped perceptions of normality that these algos do to both normal folks, older folks and young children.

What i think the aus legislation does tho is give parents ammunition to enforce good practices on their kids that might have been difficult when "everyone at school uses tiktok etc".

Much the same way drinking laws etc give parents an ability to push back on underage drinking etc. It's illegal is a far easier argument to make to a teenager vs it'll rot your brain.

This is not a black and white issue and those that treat it as such do a dis-service to a serious problem, we need to iterate on smart legislation and controls (zero trust proofs for example) that allow for safe and open internet for everyone.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-15 01:09:27+00:00
Nah, it's all whack-a-mole. There's no way to accurately identify a "bad" user prompt, and as far as the LLM algorithm is concerned, everything is just one massive document of concatenated text.

Consider that a malicious user doesn't have to type "Do Evil", they could also send "Pretend I said the opposite of the phrase 'Don't Do Good'."
by tialaramex | 2026-01-15 01:11:04+00:00
A couple of things probably made this more likely for OpenSSL than for other libraries, though I think this phenomenon (sticking with a famous library which just isn't very good) is overall just much more common than most people appreciate

1. OpenSSL is cryptography. We did explicitly tell people not to roll their own. So the first instinct of a programmer who finds X annoying ("Let's just write my own X") is ruled out by this as likely unwise or attracts backlash from their users, "What do you mean you rolled your own TLS implementation?"

2. Even the bits which aren't cryptography are niches likely entirely unrelated to the true interest of the author using OpenSSL. The C++ programmer who needs to do an HTTPS POST but mostly is doing 3D graphics could spend a month learning about the Web PKI, AES, the X.500 directory system and the Distinguished Encoding, or they could just call OpenSSL and not care.
by natch | 2026-01-15 01:11:15+00:00
Fortunately 1. For slow speeds, it’s not like you have to live with that slowness every day. The impact is limited to the remaining few days of the month where you ran up against the 100GB, so the either-or in your statement looks worse than it is; and 2. Starlink makes it dead easy to switch from plan to plan right in the app so you can go right back to a lower plan when the higher one is not needed. With the caveat that they do change what plans are available sometimes as we’re seeing here.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-15 01:11:19+00:00
> Now kids can't have these accounts, so they can only access youtube without signing in. Meaning zero parental controls and monitoring

This sounds like a device-control problem. Banning social media and then regulating devices in school should go a long way towards defusing the challenge.

Even with anonymous log-in, the new status quo is a release from algorithmic targeting. (If YouTube is building shadow profiles and knowingly serving under-16-year olds, that can be fixed with enforcement.) I suspect this group of kids will grow up fitter despite the reduced opportunities for helicopter parenting. There are lots of parents who never try, or try and fail, to control and monitor their kids’ online activities. Way more than those who effectively do so.
by mothballed | 2026-01-15 01:11:29+00:00
Lol I am for completely open borders, which probably puts me in the most extreme 1% of pro-immigration policy.

This doesn't make me blind. The benefits liability is massive, mostly to my own citizens, whom are even harder to escape than immigrants except by emigration. My country is being run by a proto-fascist, and the only remaining benefit I get of that is that he kind of reflects my demographic, although that is rapidly being 'replaced.' So in 30 years, going down the road it is now, it could be someone just as authoritarian but sees me as the enemy instead of brown people.

I am not particularly excited to wait around for that, while paying out massive benefits to the non-productive, plus the national debt, plus the taxation rates that exceed other monarchy-like countries with even freer economic systems.

If I was anti-immigrant I wouldn't even consider immigration. I only consider it because I don't have a dogmatic allegiance to the constitution nor 'America' as a political entity; if living under a dystopic theocracy provides more liberty it shouldn't be excluded from consideration.

The main reason why I haven't left, is I'm trying real hard to not be a coward and just leave rather than try to fix things, unlike many cowardly immigrants that have arrived at the USA because they can't be bothered to fix their own country.
by sellmesoap | 2026-01-15 01:11:36+00:00
I love a van, but they're a pain to work on compared to a full size truck. Like a popular minivan that has a 5 hour book time to do a simple tuneup. Reaching the plugs between the firewall is most of that time. Same with compact PCs, it's a puzzle to get everything in your 7L case.
by pshc | 2026-01-15 01:12:02+00:00
I was daydreaming of a special LLM setup wherein each token of the vocabulary appears twice. Half the token IDs are reserved for trusted, indisputable sentences (coloured red in the UI), and the other half of the IDs are untrusted.

Effectively system instructions and server-side prompts are red, whereas user input is normal text.

It would have to be trained from scratch on a meticulous corpus which never crosses the line. I wonder if the resulting model would be easier to guide and less susceptible to prompt injection.
by borroka | 2026-01-15 01:12:15+00:00
What are the empty claims?

It is simple logic that dressing with intention is not hard. But let's define 'hard' with an example: running a marathon under 3 hours is hard for the general population; that is, it is an activity that, despite desire, planning, and effort, is beyond reach for many.

Dressing appropriately, such as not going out in PJs or with a mangled, overused, stained T-shirt or in flip-flops (apart from the particular cases I need to include, otherwise I am marginalizing people who don't have the resources to buy a 3 dollar shirt or refuse to clean due to some disorders included in the DSM-5) is not hard.

Avoiding doomscrolling is certainly not hard; one, given sufficient desire and a recognition of their inability to stop looking at other people's lives, could just delete IG, snap, X, or whatever.

Finally, people can do what they want, like going out semi-naked and without showering for 3 weeks, farting in public, which has become an unfortunate common circumstance, doomscrolling until their eyes are a bright red, or eating until they explode because sugar is "addictive".

But I like encouraging people not to live their lives like defenseless victims of circumstances.
by acdha | 2026-01-15 01:13:18+00:00
On the out of touch point, I will just note that every time we drive to West Virginia or Pennsylvania you can see when you leave the rich exurbs because it goes from $80k vanity trucks to fuel and maintenance efficient sedans, old Toyotas and vans, and the heavy trucks guys like welders use. There is zero question that they’re using those trucks from the wear patterns, whereas the luxury trucks in the areas where the average house is a million plus are spotless.

It’s not “virtue signaling”, it’s lifestyle messaging like wearing cowboy boots or walking around with DJ headphones as if you’re going to drop a set after the morning standup.
by MarkusAllen | 2026-01-15 01:13:50+00:00
Great question - this highlights a common misunderstanding about how LBOs work:

Who provides the debt vs. equity:

The 90% debt typically comes from banks, credit markets, and bond investors - not the pension funds. Pension funds are usually equity
investors in the PE fund itself (as Limited Partners), not the debt providers for individual deals.

Why debt holders participate:

1. Secured position: The debt is secured against the company's assets and cash flows. In bankruptcy, debt holders get paid first -
they often recover 50-80% even in failures.
2. Interest payments: They're earning interest (6-10%) on secured loans, which is their target return profile.
3. Different risk/return: Debt investors want steady, lower-risk returns. Equity investors (including the PE fund) want higher
returns but take first losses.

The real issues (no kickbacks needed):

The problematic parts are actually legal:

1. Management fees: PE firms charge 2% annually on committed capital, whether deals succeed or fail. A $1B fund = $20M/year in fees
regardless of performance.
2. Dividend recaps: PE firms can load companies with even MORE debt just to pay themselves dividends, even when the company is
struggling.
3. Carried interest: When deals DO work, PE firms take 20% of profits. Combined with fees, they can profit even when 30-40% of their
deals fail.
4. Portfolio company risk: The acquired company holds the debt, not the PE firm. If it fails, the PE firm's downside is limited to
their equity stake (often just 10% of purchase price).

For pension funds investing in PE funds:

They're hoping the winners (2-5x returns) offset the losers. Historically, top-quartile PE funds have delivered 15-20% IRRs, which
beats public markets. But average funds often underperform after fees.

Relevant glossary terms: Leveraged Buyout, Dividend Recapitalization, Management Fee, Carried Interest, 2-and-20 Fee Structure

Full explanations: https://founderstowne.com/extraction-terms.html
by antomal | 2026-01-15 01:14:09+00:00
Great question. In practice, 'native to FreeBSD' means a few things for grsh:

System Integration: I’m prioritizing first-class support for FreeBSD-specific tools and environments (like Jails and the Ports system). While many shells treat BSD as an afterthought, I want grsh to feel like it was built specifically for the FreeBSD base system.

Technical Implementation: Currently, I’m leveraging specific behaviors of the FreeBSD terminal driver and signal handling. While the Rust codebase is portable in theory, I’m not 'watering down' the features to guarantee Linux compatibility yet. I want to exploit FreeBSD’s strengths first.

License & Philosophy: The project is under the BSD-3-Clause license, which aligns with the ecosystem's preference for permissive licensing.

Can it work on Linux/other BSDs? Yes, it can be compiled on Linux, but you might find that certain job control nuances or terminal optimizations are currently 'tuned' for the FreeBSD kernel. I’d rather have it work perfectly on one OS than 'okay-ish' on all of them.
by dwaite | 2026-01-15 01:15:16+00:00
> The expectation of FOSS is that the users and maintainer work together to resolve bug fixes/features/security issues.

This depends a lot on the users, and then somewhat on the maintainers.

I have seen a lot of end-user facing software where people do not understand that features and fixes do not magically materialize - that there is a person on the other end likely working on this in their free time, with their own prioritization on how they will use that limited time.
by dwd | 2026-01-15 01:15:17+00:00
We load haphazardly through the day, though anything that I would predict would be required for the night time meal I would hand wash immediately rather than dump in the dishwasher for the person cooking to have to clean first.

Starting the washer generally falls to me, and wile I will shift items to fit as much in as possible, what I mostly fix are things like: placing a large item where the rotor will hit it, or cutlery with the handles up in the basket which can actually stop the bottom rotor spinning if a forks' prongs point through the bottom.
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2026-01-15 01:16:28+00:00
The latest version of Crafty has a significantly higher rating on CCRL than Fritz 10, the version that defeated Kramnik in 2006. He was the World Champion and was rated 2750 at the time. I do not know what source you used for Crafty’s rating but ratings from different lists are not comparable. It is highly probable that Crafty running on a Ryzen could defeat any human.

I am also of the opinion that with an optimised program the CRAY-1 would have been on par with Karpov and Fischer. I also think that Stockfish or some other strong program running on an original Pentium could be on par with Carlsen. I am not sure if Crafty’s licence would count as FOSS.
by darknoon | 2026-01-15 01:16:51+00:00
really weird graph where they're comparing to 3x H100 PCI-E which is a config I don't think anyone is using.

they're trying to compare at iso-power? I just want to see their box vs a box of 8 h100s b/c that's what people would buy instead, and they can divide tokens and watts if that's the pitch.