MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stavros | 2026-01-08 16:04:54+00:00
If the publish the API for the server, as well as allow the device to specify the API hostname to connect to, that's all I need. We can write our own server implementation fairly easily, and this saves us the hassle of having to reverse-engineer the API, plus makes setup much easier if we can just tell the device where to connect.

I wish more manufacturers would unlock their devices for local use when they don't want to support them any more. Or maybe even, hear me out, before support ends! Maybe we could even vote with our wallets and buy open stuff instead of walled gardens.
by morley | 2026-01-08 16:04:59+00:00
Ah, I knew I recognized the friendship between Jeff and Sanjay -- they were the subject of a New Yorker article in 2018:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...

EDIT: And HN at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18588697
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-08 16:04:59+00:00
The article is ridiculous garbage. I knew the IEEE had fallen to irrelevance, but that their magazine now prints nonsense like this -- basically someone's ad wrapped in an incredibly lazy supposition -- is incredibly indicting.

The guy wrote code depending upon an external data file (one that the LLM didn't have access to), with code that referred to a non-existing column. They then specifically prompted it to provide "completed code only, without commentary". This is idiotic.

"Dear LLM, make a function that finds if a number is prime in linear time. Completed code only! No commentary!".

Guy wanted to advertise his business and its adoption of AI, and wrote some foolish pablum to do so. How is this doing numbers here?
by vidarh | 2026-01-08 16:05:07+00:00
It's silly because the author asked the models to do something they themselves acknowledged isn't possible:

> This is of course an impossible task—the problem is the missing data, not the code. So the best answer would be either an outright refusal, or failing that, code that would help me debug the problem.

But the problem with their expectation is that this is arguably not what they asked for.

So refusal would be failure. I tend to agree refusal would be better. But a lot of users get pissed off at refusals, and so the training tend to discourage that (some fine-tuning and feedback projects (SFT/RLHF) outright refuse to accept submissions from workers that include refusals).

And asking for "complete" code without providing a test case showing what they expect such code to do does not have to mean code that runs to completion without error, but again, in lots of other cases users expect exactly that, and so for that as well a lot of SFT/RLHF projects would reject responses that don't produce code that runs to completion in a case like this.

I tend to agree that producing code that raises a more specific error would be better here too, but odds are a user that asks a broken question like that will then just paste in the same error with the same constraint. Possibly with an expletive added.

So I'm inclined to blame the users who make impossible requests more than I care about the model doing dumb things in response to dumb requests. As long as they keep doing well on more reasonable ones.
by Gormanu | 2026-01-08 16:05:28+00:00
Most procurement tools are either huge ERPs that are way too heavy and expensive for SMBs, or duct-taped tools like Airtable that fall apart once you need audits and real tracking. Quickinim sits in the middle. It’s lightweight, cloud-first, works without an ERP, and actually covers the warehouse side with QR scans for incoming goods. Suppliers get a simple portal (no training nightmares), everything is logged for compliance, and pricing scales sanely with team size. We’re not here to replace ERPs - just to kill the spreadsheet-and-email chaos procurement teams are stuck in.
by snarf21 | 2026-01-08 16:06:21+00:00
I'm not sure. I asked one about a potential bug in iOS 26 yesterday and it told me that iOS 26 does not exist and that I must have meant iOS 16. iOS 26 was announced last June and has been live since September. Of course, I responded that 26 is the current iOS version is 26 and got the obligatory meme of "Of course, you are right! ramble ramble ramble...."
by palmotea | 2026-01-08 16:06:23+00:00
> One point is that the things that have increased in cost are more heavily regulated/government controlled than the items that haven't.

> I did hear an interesting quote from someone techy that said "If you punch a whole in a plasterboard wall, it is now cheaper to buy a TV to cover the hole than get someone to repair the plasterboard."

Isn't that Baumol's cost disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect), not regulation? As manufactured goods get cheaper, labor gets relatively expensive. The expensive part of patching a hole in a wall is not the materials, it's having a guy come and do that work. There's no opportunity for automation or economies of scale with having a guy come over to your house to deal with your specific situation, but there are tons of those in a factory.

An even cheaper way of covering the hole than a TV is to hang up a rough piece of drywall without competent installation.

Also, I'd be wary of quotes from "someone techy," tech people can be pretty shallow and stupid, and it's pretty obvious that whoever was said that quote was going for shock/cleverness and sacrificed truth and understanding.
by sjreese | 2026-01-08 16:06:45+00:00
yeah,, well ... a ticket comes in and you sit on it -- thinking the user can wait will get YOU cut from the team. We win when we all get to the top together -- we languish we some work and others do not. EG The question is the Russians are 40 km from Kiev -- what are your orders? -- fall back was too late.. ? The user have lost connect to the server 90 people are offline -- 8 hours later -- they went home and reboot the server was too late ? you see -- every comms has value and you must act well before it is too late!
by winstonwinston | 2026-01-08 16:06:47+00:00
> It should be no surprise that even the SPF-DKIM-DMARC trinity is not actually enough to avoid bounces and disappearances

That is the main takeaway.

Unauthenticated mail is guaranteed to cause delivery issues to gmail and then authenticated mail got something like 50/50 chance to get delivered to INBOX.
by bee_rider | 2026-01-08 16:06:57+00:00
This seems like a kind of odd test.

> I wrote some Python code which loaded a dataframe and then looked for a nonexistent column.

df = pd.read_csv(‘data.csv’)
df['new_column'] = df['index_value'] + 1
#there is no column ‘index_value’

> I asked each of them [the bots being tested] to fix the error, specifying that I wanted completed code only, without commentary.

> This is of course an impossible task—the problem is the missing data, not the code. So the best answer would be either an outright refusal, or failing that, code that would help me debug the problem.

So his hoped-for solution is that the bot should defy his prompt (since refusal is commentary), and not fix the problem.

Maybe instructability has just improved, which is a problem for workflows that depend on misbehavior from the bot?

It seems like he just prefers how GPT-4 and 4.1 failed to follow his prompt, over 5. They are all hamstrung by the fact that the task is impossible, and they aren’t allowed to provide commentary to that effect. Objectively, 4 failed to follow the prompts in 4/10 cases and made nonsense changes in the other 6; 4.1 made nonsense changes; and 5 made nonsense changes (based on the apparently incorrect guess that the missing ‘index_value’ column was supposed to hold the value of the index).
by gwd | 2026-01-08 16:07:13+00:00
Nice! Might be nice to have a bit more of a visual indication that you'll get the Wordle-style "match"; also, for things like the Minor Prophets where there are quite a few and people aren't super familiar with them, might be nice to have something else (like "starts with M" or something, so that you can get Micah -> Malachi, rather than cycling through them all).

Also let me plug the system I'm developing which helps you learn Biblical Greek, by reading selections of scripture where you know all the words but one or two. Each one takes about the effort of a Wordle (or Bibdle) puzzle to decode. https://www.laleolanguage.com
by ahmed_abbas | 2026-01-08 16:07:14+00:00
Thank you for the feedback! You’re absolutely right. As a Solo Technical Founder coming from an engineering background, I initially focused on the 'Mastery' logic and the technical stability of the platform.

I'm currently in the process of finalizing the subscription tiers. Since Trainivio is designed for high-stakes technical training, I wanted to ensure the pricing reflects the value for different team sizes.

However, I hear you loud and clear. Transparency is key. I’ll be updating the landing page shortly with a clear pricing structure.

In the meantime, I’d love to know: for a tool like this that guarantees trainee focus, what pricing model would you find most fair for a small to medium-sized technical team?
by Zababa | 2026-01-08 16:07:14+00:00
It is silly because the problem isn't becoming worse, and not caused by AI labs training on user outputs. Reward hacking is a known problem, as you can see in Opus 4.5 system card (https://assets.anthropic.com/m/64823ba7485345a7/Claude-Opus-...) and they are working to reduce the problem, and measure it better. The assertions in the article seem to be mostly false and/or based on speculation, but it's impossible to really tell since the author doesn't offer a lot of detail (for example for the 10h task that used to take 5h and now takes 7-8h) except for a very simple test (that reminds me more of "count the r in strawberry" than coding performance tbh).
by ifwinterco | 2026-01-08 16:07:21+00:00
My point is if credit cards didn't exist, the $1 thing would cost 98c, so in that sense it's your money.

Admittedly that is overstating it a bit because not everyone uses a rewards card. In reality the 2% cashback is 1% your own money being given back to you and 1% money from people paying in cash being transferred to you (normally regressively as someone else pointed out).

If you get a discount for paying cash, then it really is just your own money
by qsort | 2026-01-08 16:07:22+00:00
This is not my experience. Claude Code has been fine for data science for a while. It has many issues and someone at the wheel who knows what they're doing is very much required, but for many common cases I'm not writing code by hand anymore, especially when the code would have been throwaway anyway. I'd be extremely surprised if a frontier model doesn't immediately get the problem the author is pointing out.
by viggity | 2026-01-08 16:07:58+00:00
Nice work! Out of curiosity, how are you deciding what the verse of the day is? i.e. is randomness weighted somehow? There are are ~31k verses in the bible, 23k in old testament, 8k in new testament. Is it 2.5 times more likely to be an old testament verse? Or, perhaps you're picking a testament at random, then a random book, then a random verse. Lots of ways to skin the proverbial cat.
by micromacrofoot | 2026-01-08 16:08:07+00:00
you've got to find better sources than a health coach selling a subscription program that benefits from this take, that post is indistinguishable from spam

red meat and colorectal cancer https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4698595/

> As a summary, it seems that red and processed meats significantly but moderately increase CRC risk by 20-30% according to these meta-analyses.

red meat cardiovascular disease, and diabetes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37264855/

> Unprocessed and processed red meat consumption are both associated with higher risk of CVD, CVD subtypes, and diabetes, with a stronger association in western settings but no sex difference.
by IMTDb | 2026-01-08 16:08:24+00:00
A key difference is that the cost to execute a cab ride largely stayed the same. Gas to get you from point A to point B is ~$5, and there's a floor on what you can pay the driver. If your ride costs $8 today, you know that's unsustainable; it'll eventually climb to $10 or $12.

But inference costs are dropping dramatically over time, and that trend shows no signs of slowing. So even if a task costs $8 today thanks to VC subsidies, I can be reasonably confident that the same task will cost $8 or less without subsidies in the not-too-distant future.

Of course, by then we'll have much more capable models. So if you want SOTA, you might see the jump to $10-12. But that's a different value proposition entirely: you're getting significantly more for your money, not just paying more for the same thing.
by Supermancho | 2026-01-08 16:08:27+00:00
Claude has been measurably worse over other models, in my experience. This alone makes me doubt the number. That and Anthropic has not released official public financial statements, so I'll just assume it's the same kind of hand waving heavily leveraged companies tend to do.

I actually for for ChatGPT and my company pays for Copilot (which is meh).
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-01-08 16:08:33+00:00
But the size of the box is what, again? We're not measuring the volume of the tv, but the volume of the tv's box. I've never seen a tv box less than about 10" deep. Most are more like 14". They're what, even for a 43", nearly 5ft long by 4ft. That's 20 cubic feet, or something like it, for the crappy little smallest tv that they sell at Walmart. That would compare what, to a 13" crt (similar price points and so on). That probably fit in a box that was 8 cubic feet.

None of you are looking at this right. We were talking about how much space to ship one of them. And here you are talking about how thin the tv is when you stare and gawk at it, not the box it came in. Reddit-tier commentary.
by crat3r | 2026-01-08 16:08:44+00:00
Because it is not even a remote exaggeration to say that in order to truly make the morally "correct" choices everyday, you would need to not participate in any part of society.

Telling people to feel bad about eating animal protein but to keep driving their cars that destroy the environment, shopping at stores that underpay their employees, purchasing items that are made with diminishing resources in countries that pay close to nothing to their labor force is picking an arbitrary battle in a war of existence.

Promoting making better choices will always be more effective than asking people to feel guilty over existing at all.

Source your food locally if you can, cook and eat only what you need, etc.
by terminalbraid | 2026-01-08 16:08:49+00:00
The strength of argument you're making reminds me of an onion headline.

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...

"This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t"
by publicdebates | 2026-01-08 16:08:57+00:00
This is too difficult:

Do not trust in a friend;
Do not put your confidence in a companion;
Guard the doors of your mouth
From her who lies in your bosom.
For son dishonors father,
Daughter rises against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
A man’s enemies are the men of his own household.
Therefore I will look to the Lord;
I will wait for the God of my salvation;
My God will hear me.

Tried [redacted] and [redacted] first, turns out to be [redacted]. I would literally never have guessed that. It genuinely could have been from any [redacted] book at that point. Maybe if I could just give up with a button.

Also yeah it's weird that I have to wait a day to do the next one. I get the appeal of having a daily routine fun site, but why not also let me do a random one each time I pass/fail if I want?
by egglemonsoup | 2026-01-08 16:09:04+00:00
Thank you so much for noticing. I didn't even know there was a difference between Orthodox/Catholic and Protestant canons until a week after the site was live.

I spent a decent amount of time trying to add the Deuterocanonical books. Ultimately I put it on hold, because I was worried that adding those books would make a challenging game even harder (at least for my initial audience of 20 family and friends). I also wondered if adding those books would put off any Protestant visitors... but I see their omission has caught your attention, that's Orthodox 1, Protestant 0. I'll find an elegant way to work them in.

And I never thought of adding an RSS feed! I'll add that to the todo!
by ktg0215 | 2026-01-08 16:10:13+00:00
This addresses a real problem. I've seen too many impressive AI demos that fell apart when trying to ship to production. The "30-minute mock timeout" is a clever forcing function - it's easy to let mocks linger forever.

The DRS scoring could be useful for teams struggling to answer "is this ready to deploy?" Currently trying this out with my own Claude Code workflow.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-08 16:10:14+00:00
>Stuffing ever more controllers, cameras, and sensors in there to focus and aim LEDs

I agree it's all overcomplicated bullshit in order to polish another percent or two out of the turd but the overcomplicated bullshit is already in the field so why not write software that uses it a little better?

>Consider, though, that as drivers feel more comfortable on the road with their white dwarves, they are likely going to drive faster and more recklessly. It’s the same as American Football helmets switching away from leather—the hits get harder.

Faster when adjusted for equivalent safety sounds like a good thing to me.
by Dansvidania | 2026-01-08 16:10:23+00:00
I would disagree, but I admit I am ignorant on the matter, so maybe you can explain to me how that's wrong.

My opinion, with all the caveats that come with an opinion, is that states do organise into over-arching organisations in the context of international laws, such as EU, UN, etc.

Such over-arching organisations do not have the same degree of power that a state has over its citizens, sure, but I think it still qualifies. You can theoretically also "disregard" state law, regional law, etc. The problem with that is that the power disparity is such that you can't hope to get away with it (in a perfect world and in a vacuum, that is, as many people do disregard national law and get away with it :D But thats beside the point, I think you'd agree?)
by verdverm | 2026-01-08 16:10:38+00:00
and they are using OpenAI models, who haven't had a successful training run since Ilya left, GPT 5x is built on GPT 4x, not from scratch aiui

I'm having a blast with gemini-3-flash and a custom copilor replacement extension, it's much more capable than Copilot ever was with any model for me and a personalized dx with deep insights into my usage and what the agentic system is doing under the hood.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-08 16:11:05+00:00
There are hints in the style of writing which can place things pretty quickly.

It's pretty easy to tell that something is old or new testament based on the writing styles. What's hard is the OT has a fair number of similar writers and a lot of books. The first question I got was [redacted] (lol) which is really hard to track down as they all sound the same to me.

Edit I didn't realize everyone had the same question. So pulled out the hint.
Ask HN: Why don't math/physics teachers protect people from COVID brain damage?
by amichail | 2026-01-08 16:11:11+00:00
A super smart math or physics teacher in each school should always wear an N95 mask indoors and explain to students that they do this to protect their brain health from COVID-19.

Students tend to take intellectually sharp teachers seriously, especially in math and physics. Seeing a clearly competent adult make a consistent, voluntary choice signals that this is evidence based risk management, not panic or politics.

What do you think of this idea?
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-08 16:11:22+00:00
Some of the coolest MUDs I played in had effectively only two useful rooms, and no mobs or items to really speak of. They were barely more than a couple of IRC chat rooms, but with the ANSI colors support and complex script languages a MUD Engine directly over telnet could provide to a good MUD client.

There were far more genres of MUDs than just the Diku-style ("EverQuest-like", to use as analogy the graphic MMO that took a lot from the Diku-style of MUD) that needed to be "endless" content farms of mobs and items and new areas full of more mobs and items.

But also many of the fan favorite Diku-style MUDs were procedurally generated and no one was actually building all those thousands of rooms/mobs/items by hand even then. In theory you could use an LLM as a part of procedural generation process, but that's not the kind of content I would have wanted from a good MUD at the time I was heaviest playing MUDs. (But then I also didn't play many Diku-style/Diku-inspired MUDs, either. I was more on the Socializer side of things at the time.)
by sometimes_all | 2026-01-08 16:11:29+00:00
I'd just wish they'd give me some sort of N8N/IFTTT-like capabilities a bit more powerful than the filtering/tagging stuff they have right now. I'd be happy to use AI as one of the blocks within custom flows for decision making/draft-building.

Instead I get blanket features I cannot control (and probably cannot turn off?). They just don't end up being useful most of the time, and get shoved in everyone's faces regardless of them actually using/requesting them.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-08 16:11:37+00:00
> Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom. For son dishonors father, Daughter rises against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man’s enemies are the men of his own household. Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.

Yikes, got a fun one right away. That seems like rather unhealthy behavior to me. Maybe not really for the younger ones then.
by moshegramovsky | 2026-01-08 16:11:52+00:00
This definitely matches my experience.

Gemini 2.5 was genuinely impressive. I even talked it up here. I was a proper fanboy and really enjoyed using it. Gemini 3 is still good at certain things, but it is clearly worse than 2.5 when it comes to working with larger codebases. Recently, I was using AntiGravity and it could not help me find or fix a reference-counting bug. ( 50 classes, 20k LOC total, so well within context limits ) I know AntiGravity is new, which explains why it is rough around the edges. But it is built on Gemini, so the results should at least be on par with Gemini 3, right? Apparently not. I am an excellent prompter, and no amount of additional context, call stacks, watch-window values, you name it, made any difference.

I still use Gemini for code reviews and simple problems, and it remains excellent for those use cases. But in many respects, Gemini 3 is a regression. It hallucinates more, listens less, and seems oddly resistant to evidence. It produces lots of lofty, confident-sounding statements while ignoring the actual facts in front of it. The experience can be exhausting, and I find myself using it much less as a result. I guess this is typical of companies these days - do something great and then enshittify it? Or maybe there are technical issues I'm not aware of.

What is especially interesting is reading all the articles proclaiming how incredible AI coding has become. And to be fair, it is impressive, but it is nowhere near a magic bullet. I recently saw a non-programmer designer type claiming he no longer needs developers. Good luck with that. Have fun debugging a memory leak, untangling a database issue, or maintaining a non-trivial codebase.

At this point, I am pretty sure my use cases are going to scale inversely with my patience and with my growing disappointment.