MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zahlman | 2026-01-15 22:08:28+00:00
> Even he later admitted that the original claims were fictitious

No, he did not. And nobody was claiming that Grayson reviewed Quinn's games beyond like a day or two of confusion, and none of the arguments made relied on that being the case.

> what they perceived as unfair privileges for women in the gaming industry than anything about journalism.

This is a false dichotomy. The entire point was that the journalism had a role in creating those privileges.
by cocoto | 2026-01-15 22:08:29+00:00
Personally I’m living with a partner (only 50% of the time for now), have only two social activities per month outside work in average and some small talk at work. I don’t need more and have no intention to volunteer, join church or anything like that just for the social aspect. I guess the big problem is the (growing?) minority having close to no social experiences.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-15 22:08:37+00:00
Australia fortunately has a political neutral research organisation (CSIRO) whose job is to estimate the net cost benefit for various government programs.

Detail and detail on cost benefit analysis https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2024/December/Nucl...

Needless to say not at all cost effective to go nuclear at this point. There's no reason that wouldn't hold similarly in other nations since the scale of the difference in costs are so huge too.
by natmaka | 2026-01-15 22:08:48+00:00
NVIDIA wants to run on 100% renewable electricity and already does so: https://nvidia.com/en-us/sustainability/

OpenAI bets on SMRs (now an ectoplasm, check NuScale...) and solar arrays: https://cdn.openai.com/global-affairs/openai-doe-rfi-5-7-202... , and drives breakthroughs on renewable energy: https://openai.com/index/strengthening-
americas-ai-leadership-with-the-us-national-laboratories/

Microsoft: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/micros...

Alphabet (Google) buys 'Intersect' which "delivers ((...)) infrastructure for data centers and other energy-intensive industries by co-locating industrial demand with dedicated gas and renewable power generation". 4.75 billion USD.
https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2025/Alphabet-Ann...
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-15 22:09:07+00:00
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631848

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617108

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624266

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634263
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-15 22:09:20+00:00
> It’s possible to simultaneously believe that ICE has a clear and ethical mandate while also believing that they are going about fulfilling that mandate via bad methods that need to change.

Yes, that it is a set of things that it is possible one could believe.

That is not an argument for it being a set of things that one ought to believe, as opposed to that ICE has a legal mandate that it isn't actually pursuing, and the mandate which it is pursuing is both intentionally murky, unethical to the extent that evidence suggests what it is, and also pursued by methods that are illegal and inhumane even irrespective of the bad ends that they are directed at.

> It’s possible to simultaneously believe that people shouldn’t be marked as intrinsically “illegal” while also believing that an immigration queue should exist and skipping it is immoral and should be illegal.

Again, that it is certainly a set of things it is possible to believe, but it seems pretty silly to believe. A queue is at best an undesirable consequences of particular choices about how to manage concerns about quantitative levels of immigration and particular impacts those levels might have, not an ideal to be pursued.

> Nuance is possible.

“X is possible” is not an argument is that X is, factually or morally as appropriate to the shape of the proposition at issue, justified. And an extended argument that sets of beliefs are possible is something people only engage in when they recognize that they are unable to make the case that they are justified, but nevertheless want to suggest that people are bad for failing to adopt them.
by disconcision | 2026-01-15 22:09:24+00:00
I've yet to be convinced by any article, including this one, that attempts to draw boxes around what coding agents are and aren't good at in a way that is robust on a 6 to 12 month horizon.

I agree that the examples listed here are relatable, and I've seen similar in my uses of various coding harnesses, including, to some degree, ones driven by opus 4.5. But my general experience with using LLMs for development over the last few years has been that:

1. Initially models could at best assemble a simple procedural or compositional sequences of commands or functions to accomplish a basic goal, perhaps meeting tests or type checking, but with no overall coherence,

2. To being able to structure small functions reasonably,

3. To being able to structure large functions reasonably,

4. To being able to structure medium-sized files reasonably,

5. To being able to structure large files, and small multi-file subsystems, somewhat reasonably.

So the idea that they are now falling down on the multi-module or multi-file or multi-microservice level is both not particularly surprising to me and also both not particularly indicative of future performance. There is a hierarchy of scales at which abstraction can be applied, and it seems plausible to me that the march of capability improvement is a continuous push upwards in the scale at which agents can reasonably abstract code.

Alternatively, there could be that there is a legitimate discontinuity here, at which anything resembling current approaches will max out, but I don't see strong evidence for it here.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 22:09:38+00:00
I've thought a lot about this since you wrote it. I do wonder if this could become a pyramid activity.

One problem is that it has to be people who are relatively comfortable talking to strangers, which by definition excludes the main people I'm trying to reach.

That said, I wonder if there's a middle ground. Maybe people like myself, who feel unfulfilled, but don't have too much difficulty talking to strangers, could be the ones who hold the signs. And we could help those people get to the point we're at... it could work.
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-15 22:10:11+00:00
> Both women were part of "ICE Watch", an anti-ICE activist group

Based.

> which is why the car was parked perpendicular in the street (to block the ICE vehicles) prior to the incident.

That giant ass street that could fit three of her car across its entire width? The one where she was signaling them to go around her? It doesn't sound like she was very effective at disrupting ICE.

But even if she was the most effective giant-road-blocking ICE inconveniencer Minneapolis has ever seen, she still should not have been murdered by ICE. It's morally indefensible, there's no world wherein she deserved to be shot unless she had a gun and was shooting first.
by coryrc | 2026-01-15 22:10:35+00:00
The font is bigger in your first example, the text uses twice the space (or your screenshots are different resolutions?). I greatly prefer it because it's easier to read. You could zoom out if you want, I guess.

But you could move the arrows to be to the right of the [-] and space them out a bit, sure, so they're easier to touch.
by ls612 | 2026-01-15 22:10:41+00:00
The political economy equilibrium enabled by technology very much goes the other way though. Once politicians realize they can surveil everyone in real time for wrongthink and wrongspeak they have existential incentives to seize that power as fast as possible, lest another power center seize it instead and use it against them. That is why you are seeing the rise of totalitarianism and democratic backsliding everywhere, because the toxic combination of asymmetric cryptography (for secure boot/attestation/restricting what software can run), always online computers, and cheap data processing and storage leads to inexorable centralization of soft and hard power.
by e2le | 2026-01-15 22:10:48+00:00
If I were a Russian assert, how would I cripple the US and undermine/dismantle it's vast array of partnerships, relationships, and treaties. This is how I would do it.

Trump isn't playing 3D chess, he's just a moron laying waste to the democratic values, traditions, and institutions that have enabled the US to succeed.

There's little difference between Trump and a Russian assert. He does the work of the Kremlin for free.
by zahlman | 2026-01-15 22:11:09+00:00
> If your grievance is "people don't take me seriously in arguments", then you could try deploying sources. There's probably still plenty of /v/ archives from back in the day, right?

I spent years trying to do this. It took inordinate amounts of time and mental energy, made exactly zero difference to the beliefs of my interlocutors no matter how well reasoned and evidenced, and additionally got me dismissed as some weirdo who cares too much (by people who clearly cared too much, but were annoyed that I disagreed with them).

I am not getting back into that now and am only willing to discuss this in the most top-level generalities. It was genuinely traumatic.

> At some point I realized that there just wasn't any actual ethical issues to speak of around the Depression Quest coverage, and it was just more /v/ seething about outlets liking things they didn't.

You keep talking about /v/. I don't understand why. The main discussion was on Reddit. And they showed concrete evidence of new ethical issues regularly.
by throwaway633f | 2026-01-15 22:11:10+00:00
You can accomplish both goals by setting up a proxy server to the API, and giving the agent access to the proxy.

You setup a simple proxy server on localhost:1234 that forwards all incoming requests to the real API and the crucial part is that the proxy adds the "Auth" header with the real auth token.

This way, the agent never sees the actual auth token, and doesn't have access to it.

If the agent has full internet access then there are still risks. For example, a malicious website could convince the agent itself to perform malicious requests against the API (like delete everything, or download all data and then upload it all to some hacker server).

But in terms of the security of the auth token itself, this system is 100% secure.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-15 22:11:31+00:00
If your Windows OS / macOS / iOS / Android / Linux isn't doing Z right, just move to (whatever happens to be my favorite) Android / Linux / Windows OS / macOS.

This kind of ultra-reductive advice, in any arena, personal, technical, professional, is as as low quality as mouth babble gets.

Decisions that involve many trade offs and hurdles, both obvious, and also special to each individual's specific circumstances, are never helped by such annoyingly illiterate advice.

I wouldn't mind an HN rule aimed at curbing this kind of comment, which unfortunately, comes up regularly.
by idle_zealot | 2026-01-15 22:11:54+00:00
> What are you going to do, win elections by lecturing everyone about how they're wrong and they need to think just like you?

I'm partial to the strategy of selling voters on a set of policies that will improve their lives and address their problems. Unfortunately neither party in my country is keen on that idea.

> People thought the Biden administration's immigration policy was too lax, and that was a major contributing cause to the second Trump term.

People thought that once they were told to think that. It's an easy sell to blame everything wrong on the scary dirty foreigners. When people are dissatisfied populism wins, regardless of whether the talking points are rooted in reality. The responsible thing to do is try to get people on board with populist ideas that help rather than hurt.
by chippiewill | 2026-01-15 22:11:56+00:00
This line of chatter has been going around UK-centric online discussions and it's such a braindead line of thinking. Marginal pricing is used in a gazillion countries and is tried and tested.

You do marginal pricing because otherwise providers will simply bid what they think the crossover price will be - marginal prices lower prices in the long run because providers try to improve their margins and lower their bids.

Also renewables bid on the spot and day ahead markets really low because their cost is almost entirely capex (and also most are under CfD anyway so may as well bid 0) - the spread isn't nearly as good as the data would imply. If you didn't use marginal pricing you'd have them bidding higher to cover their capex.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-15 22:12:53+00:00
THanks for your response! as well

I am interested in which bare metal instances from which provider are you using if I may ask since I had a similar idea (as mentioned before) and I wanted to deploy it on hetzner but I was always worried that hetzner's policy might be too harsh for it even though they are one of the cheapest options out there

Which server provider did you end up using?

Thanks once again for your in depth response, these are the things I come to hackernews for! cheers and looking to ya response
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-15 22:13:18+00:00
Hence the tactical frivolity Portland approach. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/22/trump-ice-port... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_frivolity

It's the social media evolution of non-violent confrontation, with the similar goal of making it impossible for any visual image or recording of a confrontation to seem anything other than ridiculous to the average viewer and laying bare the "violence inherent in the system" (as it were).
by ralusek | 2026-01-15 22:13:32+00:00
I feel like algorithmic/architectural breakthroughs are still the area that will show the most wins. The thing is that insights/breakthroughs of that sort that tend to be highly portable. As Meta showed, you can just pay people 10 million to come tell you what they're doing over there at that other place.

inb4 "then why do Meta's models still suck?"
by littlecranky67 | 2026-01-15 22:13:59+00:00
Not sure about the security sandbox, but given that paddle.com (your payment provider) takes 5% cut you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments. QR code generation for lightning invoice is instantaneous just as payment, and will cost less than 0.1% fee (payer pays fee anyway). But the security sandbox should be solid, else it will be used for illegal stuff.
by hodgehog11 | 2026-01-15 22:14:20+00:00
Just a heads up in case you didn't know, taking the Hessian over batches is indeed referred to as Stochastic Newton, and methods of this kind have been studied for quite some time. Inverting the Hessian is often done with CG, which tends to work pretty well. The only problem is that the Hessian is often not invertible so you need a regularizer (same as here I believe). Newton methods work at scale, but no-one with the resources to try them at scale seems to be aware of them.

It's an interesting trick though, so I'd be curious to see how it compares to CG.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09266
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.04737
[3] https://pytorch-minimize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/minimi...
by ferguess_k | 2026-01-15 22:14:34+00:00
*Stupid question*: What is so hard about self hosting one's own repo? I get it must be difficult for a mega corporation, but for companies like us, who have hundreds of repos but only 20 of them are regularly used, and concurrent read/write is relatively light -- considering our largest team is less than 20 persons, so even if all of them are reading/writing from the repo, it doesn't seem to be a huge issue.

Even for a bigger company, say 5x developers (we have about 100+ SWEs and maybe 10-20 other titles who use GitHub), is it really a big thing to self host their own repos? External applications are definitely on another level because you could have hundreds of concurrent visits easily.

What did I miss?
by diyseguy | 2026-01-15 22:14:55+00:00
Sure, the way cult members are happy to greet new recruits. It's very insincere. If you have a real issue and you want to talk to someone - you are very likely to hear something like: "Well, pray to Jesus dear, only he can help you." In other words, if you actually need any support - go home and pray about it - don't expect real connection with people. The only connection comes through the imaginary friends they encourage you to divert all your attention and problems to...
by frde_me | 2026-01-15 22:14:56+00:00
I mean, I'm shipping a vast majority of my code nowadays with Opus 4.5 (and this isn't throwaway personal code, it's real products making real money for a real company). It only fails on certain types of tasks (which by now I kind of have a sense of).

I still determine the architecture in a broad manner, and guide it towards how I want to organize the codebase, but it definitely solves most problems faster and better than I would expect for even a good junior.

Something I've started doing is feeding it errors we see in datadog and having it generate PRs. That alone has fixed a bunch of bugs we wouldn't have had time to address / that were low volume. The quality of the product is most probably net better right now than it would have been without AI. And velocity / latency of changes is much better than it was a year ago (working at the same company, with the same people)
by zahlman | 2026-01-15 22:15:38+00:00
No, that argument makes no sense. SQL injection doesn't happen because of where the input comes from; it happens because of how the input is handled. We can avoid Bobby Tables scenarios while receiving input that influences SQL queries from humans, never mind neural networks. We do it by controlling the system that transforms the input into a query (e.g. by using properly parameterized queries).
by simplisticelk | 2026-01-15 22:15:55+00:00
This is an extremely misleading way to report the cost of energy. It’s almost meaningless to compare the cost of wind to the cost of gas because more wind does not reduce the need for gas plant. It may reduce gas utilization, but it will increase the cost of gas on a MWh basis by increasing capacity prices.

Yes, more wind will reduce emissions, but these prices don’t mean they will reduce total system cost.
by theamk | 2026-01-15 22:16:34+00:00
Protip: if what's shown in README is your "Traditional workflow"

# Traditional workflow: decompress, grep, wait, clean up
zstd -d huge_logs.zst && grep "error" huge_logs && rm huge_logs

STOP NOW! There is never need to decompress files to disk, every compressor supports streaming decompression just fine:

# Traditional workflow: decompress + grep
zstd -dc huge_logs.zst | grep "error"

(and as a bonus, no need to install any third-party tools)
by AngryData | 2026-01-15 22:17:18+00:00
The Kalthoff repeater was invented in the 1600s. Here's a Forgotten Weapons video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghKrbNpqQoY

There is also the Cookson repeater available in the late 1600s. And in 1756 was advertised for sale in the Boston Gazette.

Multiple founding fathers, including George Washington, were also offered purchase of repeating firearms, some for use in the military, some for personal usage. But of course this is still before interchangeable parts so production is of course still expensive and repairs must be done be a highly skilled gunsmith and not just some apprentice blacksmith.
by zahlman | 2026-01-15 22:17:25+00:00
My experience suggests that Tate is talked about far more (like, orders of magnitude) than actually directly heard (unless you count fair-use clips in attempts at critique). The strongest advocates I've seen for the rights and well-being of men in general, and young men in the dating world in particular, have come from across the political spectrum in other regards, including literal socialists.

Otherwise I agree with you.
by uriegas | 2026-01-15 22:17:31+00:00
The robotics thing to replace caregivers misses the point that elder people also want connection. Yeah, it might free caregivers but still we will have a loneliness epidemic. I think this is more related to the desire for progress which is the backbone of modern life (you see it politics, school, your family, etcetera). This, I believe, has been slowly replacing the social glue of societies like religion, public space, play, chatting, etcetera.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 22:18:14+00:00
Actually I am open to the idea of an (minimalistic, non-profit) app helping solve this. What kind of app, I'm not sure, but I'm open to all ideas, including technology based ones.

I only said that because you reminded me of an idea I had, for a social experiment that tries to bring some "social media" elements into an in-person setting, to see what happens. (I do wish I could afford a camera and someone to man it, I've been told several times that I'd go viral.)
by Findecanor | 2026-01-15 22:18:14+00:00
There is still a difference between "fetch this page for me and summarise" and "go find pages for me, and cross-reference".
And what makes you think that all AI agents using Tabstack would be directly controlled in real time with a 1:1 correspondence between human and agent, and not in some automated way?

I'm afraid that Tabstack would be powerful enough to bypass some existing countermeasures against scrapers, and once allowed in its lightweight mode be used to scrape data it is not supposed to be allowed to. I'd bet that someone will at least try.

Then there is the issue of which actions and agent is allowed to do on behalf of a user. Many sites have in their Terms of Service that all actions must be by done directly by a human, or that all submitted content be human-generated and not from a bot.
I'd suppose that an AI agent could find and interpret the ToS, but that is error-prone and not the proper level to do it at. Some kind of formal declaration of what is allowed is necessary: robots.txt is such a formal declaration, but very coarsely grained.

There have been several disparate proposals for formats and protocols that are "robots.txt but for AI". I've seen that at least one of them allow different rules for AI agents and machine learning.
But these are too disparate, not widely known ... and completely ignored by scrapers anyway, so why bother.
by kruffalon | 2026-01-15 22:18:50+00:00
Unionize! Unionize! Unionize!

So much of the pressure comes from horrendous working conditions from top to bottom.

And as a secondary effect unions require meetings and hopefully cross organising with other unions having different people in them.

When we get better working conditions, we will have more time to meet other people rather than to sit exhausted with our phones having all the parasocial relationships that drain our social batteries without really connecting with a real person.
by idle_zealot | 2026-01-15 22:19:17+00:00
I don't think Trump is explicitly an asset. He just likes oligarchs and dictatorial strongmen, and is usually the dumbest man in the room. There's no doubt that there are ties there, but Trump is not a loyal man. These things combined means he can swing back and forth between doing Putin favors and being genuinely upset by perceived slights, then back to friends when Putin gets his ear to smooth things over.

Rather than specifically being a Russian asset, he's an asset to the last charismatic man he remembers speaking to.
by m4ck_ | 2026-01-15 22:19:23+00:00
We're only energy independent in the sense that we export more oil than we import. We're still reliant on foreign oil because we haven't retooled (or built enough new) refineries for a lot of the oil we produce. Allowing the Saudis to own refineries is probably a strong factor there. If the middle east and Canada cut us off, we're SOL. Venezuela barely produces anything right now.