MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-07 01:29:40+00:00
There's only a couple of cases where this can go wrong. Either the contents of what is being sent out could be wrong, or the hardware itself could be tampered with to extract extra information on another optical or radio channel. Both of these require extensive software tampering. In the simple case where you trust the software on both sides, and the hardware, this can be practically as good as it gets (with the requirement that the inside be monitored automatically somehow).
by graeme | 2026-01-07 01:30:16+00:00
That's not quite correct. There's a lot of NIMBY pressure in cities, where land is scarce and there's lots of people to attend planning meetings to block building.

However, if you want to build a datacenter, you don't need to build it in downtown Manhattan. You can build it anywhere, and some places make it easy to build data centers.

By definition local restrictions apply locally. If you want more housing in Manhattan then Manhattan nimbyism really matters. But if you want to build a data center somewhere you have a lot of options. There's no nationwide vote on allowing datacenter construction.
by csuwldcat | 2026-01-07 01:30:23+00:00
How it's better: automatically synced across all a user's devices, not subject to manual interactions with input fields (you can't programmatically request/regen passwords the same way you can with this).

I did use AI for the ECDSA public key recovery diagram, because I wasn't about to spend hours hand rolling that in Lunacy. It's correct in broad strokes, and anyone who wants to understand it more deeply can just look at the code, imo.
by jedberg | 2026-01-07 01:31:53+00:00
> However, committing to a tighter schedule would cause a lot of problems if they were late too often, kinds of problems that means they would make less money than with the current schedule.

There is always a price where this isn't the case. My overall point is that that price is still too high and people aren't willing to pay, and we don't really know if that's the case (but maybe the airlines probably do).
by dyzz | 2026-01-07 01:32:40+00:00
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by xattt | 2026-01-07 01:33:03+00:00
> doctor =/= expert on probiotics

Medical microbiologists would love to have a word with you. Medicine and medicine-adjacent disciplines each develop institutional knowledge that percolates from each specialized discipline.

> …the research on probiotics is still very much in its infancy and a LOT remains to be figured out.

I’m curious who you think does the research. It’s certainly not Bubba from down the creek.
by nothercastle | 2026-01-07 01:33:25+00:00
A sandwich shop can’t be a bakery but a bakery can make sandwiches it’s the other way around. A bakery needs scale, subway can reheat ok bread but they will never have scale to make their own or make great bread. Bread needs to be fresh for best results. Sandwich ingredients are stable and easily procured. A sandwich shop Benifits from a good layout but can do without. A bakery needs heavy production equipment that is not easily replaced.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-07 01:33:31+00:00
> The artists are calling the AI companies oppressors because they are breaking the artist's stranglehold on the market.

Tt's because these companies profit from all the existing art without compensating the artists. Even worse, they are now putting the very people out of a job who (unwittingly) helped to create these tools in the first place. Not to mention how hurtful it must be for artists seeing their personal style imitated by a machine without their consent.

I totally see how it can empower regular people, but it also empowers the megacorps and bad actors. The jury is still out on whether AI is providing a net positive to society. Until then, let's not ignore the injustice and harm that went into creating these tools and the potential and real dangers that come with it.
by notorious_pgb | 2026-01-07 01:34:13+00:00
Interesting, but the PRF / LargeBlob extensions already enable just such functionality (and more) without relying on the secrecy of a public key.

Why not just use those?

Edit: that's what I get for not reading far enough -- the article addresses this, though I would quibble with the confident assertion that the extensions are not available in major browsers, given I worked for a startup literal years ago which built major functionality on top of these extensions, which were available in (at least) all relevant mobile browsers.
by t-writescode | 2026-01-07 01:35:45+00:00
While that’s true, and there are several locations that are using their local authority to perform those actions; but, *all* of that is power wielded by elected officials. The smaller the location the less “who voted for this” likely means anything because the decisions that are made that impact all of us are made by a smaller and smaller number of people with less and less authority, but it is still voted for.
by cherry_tree | 2026-01-07 01:36:51+00:00
Would you even be in favor of a public transportation system that did what you’re asking for? If MAJOR_CITY had a bill for an Uber-like system where you could hail a car subsidized by the taxpayer or even free to give you a ride?

Or are you against the idea of “public transportation” (transportation costs shared by taxpayers) and your criticisms of its quality or convenience are really moot because you are ideologically against the premise?
by fragmede | 2026-01-07 01:36:56+00:00
Why wait 15 years? If it's becoming too big of a ball of mud, tell the AI that, and have it ultrathink a plan on what to refactor together and better follow DRY principles of clean code, or whatever you adhere to. Tell it hey, I noticed that we're reimplementing the same thing a couple of times, let's make it a class that can be reused instead. It'll happily generate cruft. The human in the loop should call that out so it doesn't get out of control. Maybe that's what we'll be paying the human to do still in 15 years.
by socketcluster | 2026-01-07 01:37:22+00:00
This is a lovely message, I hope I get a message like that posted on my open source project when my time comes.

I've always felt like the code I write is a piece of myself; a monument to leave behind for others to admire and interact with once I'm gone.

For me, software development creates an unmatched feeling of alignment. The idea that you could be dead and still share this feeling of alignment with others from beyond the grave is uplifting.

I suppose some people could say similar things about artworks, films or books. For some people, it's code.

Many people appreciate beautiful art, films, books, buildings even... But few people appreciate beautiful code. I think it's partly because most people have never seen beautiful code and partly because beautiful code doesn't pay the bills when maintenance work is billed by the hour... Probably why it's rare to begin with; though generally, open source provides a refuge from this by removing (or reducing) the financial incentive.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-07 01:37:55+00:00
Tesla's lack of buttons long pre-dates any sort of ADAS feature development. Here's the interior from their 2009 Model S prototype:

https://i.redd.it/ahxh0bmh7ka11.jpg

The first version of autopilot that did anything that could charitably be called navigation wasn't introduced for another 8 years after this car and actual self-driving remains a distant goal 17 years later.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-07 01:38:19+00:00
Control by phone sensor (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Orientation...) would be nuts.

tilting the phone as the control...

Here's a demo of the control since mdn didn't have one:

https://9ol.es/pitch.html

Also a more practical thing while we're doing this is a thumb drag control, that'd make this a hit.

Like flappy bird level.
by j1elo | 2026-01-07 01:38:40+00:00
Oh, not at all. I appreciate the rethoric, although it didn't work with me because I've never experienced Google as childish or even amicable. So the author's excessive predisposition to think of Google as a marvelous friend was a bit jarring for me (and that's why I personally felt the tone a bit on the side of emotional manipulation). But, to each their own. Expressing commentary and emotions is good, I do prefer it to cold facts all the time :-)
by llamatheollama | 2026-01-07 01:40:06+00:00
This is a really thoughtful direction. The “overlay instead of another workspace” idea resonates a lot, especially the screen-as-context inversion.

Curious about one thing: where local LLMs feel “good enough” today vs where you still fall back to remote models

The perf work + installers make this feel way more real than most agent demos. Nice job shipping something people can actually try.
by zelon88 | 2026-01-07 01:40:10+00:00
To charge a 57,000 watt tesla with an 800w consumer solar panel would take 71 hours of sunlight. There is not 24 hours of sunlight in a single day. This also is not considering the battery management which heats the battery passively. So it would take a week to charge a Tesla with equipment that you could carry inside the car.
by winterbloom | 2026-01-07 01:41:08+00:00
Didn't feel like reading all this so I shortened it! sorry!

I shortened it for anyone else that might need it

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Agentic Reviews: Performs deep PR checks against custom checklists.

Smart Triage: Pre-analyzes tickets to give devs a head start.

Check out the showcase repo to see these patterns in action.
by luthiraabeykoon | 2026-01-07 01:41:18+00:00
Good question. Local LLMs are already “good enough” for most in-context work: short-to-medium writing, refactors, reasoning over what’s on screen, and multi-step agent plans where latency and privacy matter more than raw IQ.

I still fall back to remote models for very long-context tasks, heavier code synthesis, or when you want best possible reasoning over large codebases, the goal is to default local, then escalate only when it actually adds value.
by belter | 2026-01-07 01:41:19+00:00
https://www.government.se/government-policy/sweden-in-nato/t...

"All decisions in NATO are taken by consensus, which means all NATO member countries must agree unanimously to take decisions."

Its not automatic. After 9/11, Article 5 was not automatic. The Council met and unanimously agreed that the attacks qualified as an Article 5 case. Only then did each member decide how to assist.

In 1974 both Turkey and Greece were already NATO member, and consultations were made under article 4. Actually Greece got pissed off and did not leave NATO completely, but left the NATO command for a few years.

"...In 1974 due to the Cyprus crisis, Greece withdrew military units from NATO forces in the Southern Mediterranean, over threats of invasion of Cyprus by fellow NATO member Turkey. Later in 1974 due to the invasion of Cyprus by Turkish forces, Greece withdrew from the NATO military command..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_NATO
by rectang | 2026-01-07 01:41:26+00:00
Adding capacity to software engineering through LLMs is like adding lanes to a highway — all the new capacity will be utilized.

By getting the LLM to keep changes minimal I’m able to keep quality high while increasing velocity to the point where productivity is limited by my review bandwidth.

I do not fear competition from junior engineers or non-technical people wielding poorly-guided LLMs for sustained development. Nor for prototyping or one offs, for that matter — I’m confident about knowing what to ask for from the LLM and how to ask.
by 0928374082 | 2026-01-07 01:41:32+00:00
Here is a recent picture, taken during discussions about Greenland: https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-...

You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark.

You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all"

https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-st...
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-07 01:41:45+00:00
No but if they weren't double dipping with the sponsors I'd pay for premium.

It's just that as it stands it makes no sense to do so. I still get ads so there's nothing in it for me. And if I use sponsorblock I might as well go the full way.

It's really on YouTube that they have let this situation be created. They should have stopped sponsor segments the moment they arrived.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-07 01:42:31+00:00
I have a hard time seeing the truth of your statement. If I think about where Google's largest data centers are located in America, they are all on former industrial sites that had access to large amounts of power and water, like the old Gatorade factory in Oklahoma. While you can argue I guess that this choice, like everything else, was the product of all choices made by society prior, I am not seeing a direct connection between financial and legal incentives and the siting of those data centers.
by sveltecult | 2026-01-07 01:42:31+00:00
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by johannes1234321 | 2026-01-07 01:42:51+00:00
Considering that for most banners the "consent" is the easy option I assume a lot. People want to get rid of the banners.

However I claim the point of the bad UX is to make users angry and then have them complain about EU etc. "demanding" those. In order to weaken the regulation of tracking. If they are successful (and they are making progress) "no more cookie banners" is a lot better headlines than "more tracking"
by majormajor | 2026-01-07 01:43:50+00:00
"Write the specs and let the outsourced labor hit them" is not a new tale.

Let's assume the LLM agents can write tests for, and hit, specs better and cheaper than the outsourced offshore teams could.

So let's assume now you can have a working product that hits your spec without understanding the code. How many bugs and security vulnerabilities have slipped through "well tested" code because of edge cases of certain input/state combinations? Ok, throw an LLM at the codebase to scan for vulnerabilities; ok, throw another one at it to ensure no nasty side effects of the changes that one made; ok, add some functionality and a new set of tests and let it churn through a bunch of gross code changes needed to bolt that functionality into the pile of spaghetti...

How long do you want your critical business logic relying on not-understood code with "100% coverage" (of lines of code and spec'd features) but super-low coverage of actual possible combinations of input+machine+system state? How big can that codebase get before "rewrite the entire world to pass all the existing specs and tests" starts getting very very very slow?

We've learned MANY hard lessons about security, extensibility, and maintainability of multi-million-LOC-or-larger long-lived business systems and those don't go away just because you're no longer reading the code that's making you the money. They might even get more urgent. Is there perhaps a reason Google and Amazon didn't just hire 10x the number of people at 1/10th the salary to replace the vast majority of their engineering teams year ago?
by jonstewart | 2026-01-07 01:44:43+00:00
It can do this at the level of a function, and that's -useful-, but like the parent reply to top-level comment, and despite investing the time, using skills & subagents, etc., I haven't gotten it to do well with C++ or Rust projects of sufficient complexity. I'm not going to say they won't some day, but, it's not today.
by opan | 2026-01-07 01:44:47+00:00
I don't have strong feelings on 48fps video as I haven't been exposed to it much, if at all (I kind of just ignore LotR and Star Wars and figure I missed the boat on them at this point), but I will say I have watched and recorded 60fps YouTube videos and I am not bothered by them at all. Maybe something in between 24 and 60 would feel a bit "off" to me, but I'd at least be in favor of stuff going to 60, I think.
by garbawarb | 2026-01-07 01:45:52+00:00
I'm seriously trying to understand the long-term goals here. So the US goes to war with Canada and Europe, cutting off relations with them forever. Probably they try to take over Canada too and succeed. So now they have control over all of North America... How is it worth antagonizing their closest and strongest allies? They'll own more territory but cripple themselves in terms of global trade. A lot of Americans would surely be against their aggression too, not to mention the oeople in the territories they take over. A lot of that damage has already been done, since the US has always been fickle and unreliable but now we're seeing just how far they're willing to go. Is that just it? They want physical dominance over the Americas at
the expense of economic gains?

Any chessmasters here who can see into the future?
by 0928374082 | 2026-01-07 01:46:25+00:00
Just because Trump's own countrymen let him steamroll them, why do you think Europeans would?

Here is a recent picture, taken during discussions about Greenland: https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-...

You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark.

You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all"

If we may talk brass tacks, he also has several boomers that could lob a bus or a few at the new White House ballroom. Half an hour flight time if they didn't bother to leave their home base; shorter than that if they fired from somewhere in the Atlantic: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17070508372...

https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-st...
by BLGardner | 2026-01-07 01:47:37+00:00
The key word here is 'public'...
"No Re-hosting: You may not host these Tools on other websites or public repositories”
You can host on a local network, modify to suit your needs, point to local libs if CDNs are a concern. Just don't make them Public. The latest versions will be available on Github if they are ever needed.
by tonymet | 2026-01-07 01:48:07+00:00
"Advertising or behavioral tracking cookies"

Any real business needs to do behavioral tracking for campaign conversions, add-to-cart, customer acquisition, funneling, retention, personalization, etc.

I love how we all hate cookie banners and say they are unnecessary, but are salaries are all paid by apps that do behavioral tracking.

Only hobby blogs can get by without it.
by defrost | 2026-01-07 01:48:14+00:00
Ditto Australia, Atlassian co founder has pivoted SunCable (solar energy to Asia) project to Solar Power for Data Centres in Australia.

Data centres coming for what's left of Australia's green export superpower dream (crikey.com.au) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362487

two weeks ago
by anjel | 2026-01-07 01:48:24+00:00
They sell a yogurt starter that is purportedly Salivarius and ruteirii culture over at Beazos' Clubhouse. I haven't had it tested but it's way easier than the usual Bulgarian microbes. Assuming the cultures are as labeled, I have to imagine eating live culture yogurt is more likely to propogate than loszenges made in a factory though.
by jeffbee | 2026-01-07 01:48:25+00:00
Yeah I don't have the inclination to repeat myself but it's a bad article based on bad data and flawed reasoning.

Bloomberg also ran this article, by the same author, that says AI data centers are interfering with your applicances, which is also pure bullshit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-power-home-applia...
by biophysboy | 2026-01-07 01:48:32+00:00
Some fun facts I recently learned from JP Morgan's "Eye on the Market" (which I highly recommend)

- Tech capex in 2025 was about as much $ as the 1944 manhattan project, the 1949 electricity buildout, the 1964 Apollo project, the 1966 Interstate highway project COMBINED.

- OpenAI promised to pay Oracle $60B, which it doesn't earn yet; in return Oracle promised to provide them cloud facilities they haven't built yet. These will require over 2 Hoover dams worth of power.
by notorious_pgb | 2026-01-07 01:49:28+00:00
Very fair (see my edit), though I would submit to you that this isn't a sufficient polyfill for PRF, since PRF allows for a _secondary secret_ alongside the public key, allowing the server to safely store the public key without storing the cryptographic seed material itself.

The inability to use a passkey for the purposes of both authentication and secret storage (at least, without building non-trivial additional cryptographic plumbing) seems to me a reason to just use and push for the continued adoption and acceleration of the purpose-built extensions, instead of reusing a _public_ key as private material.
by verdverm | 2026-01-07 01:51:09+00:00
Gerring off of their plans and prompts is so worth it, I know from experience, I'm paying less and getting more so far, paying by token, heavy gemini-3-flash user, it's a really good model, this is the future (distillations into fast, good enough for 90% of tasks), not mega models like Claude. Those will still be created for distillations and the harder problems
by notorious_pgb | 2026-01-07 01:51:12+00:00
You're right and I was misremembering (we had only developed against modern mobile browsers), though I am 100% certain we made use of these extensions on iOS Safari, so I honestly don't believe caniuse when they assert that it supports _neither_ extension. Per my recollection, iOS Safari supported the large blob extension quite early on.

Apologies for the brash statement earlier; that was wrong of me.
by ern | 2026-01-07 01:51:35+00:00
I'd used both CC and Copilot Agent Mode in VSCode, but not the combination of CC + Opus 4.5, and I agree, I was happy enough with Copilot.

The gap didn't seem big, but in November (which admittedly was when Opus 4.5 was in preview on Copilot) Opus 4.5 with Copilot was awful.