MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101c | 2026-01-30 12:20:00+00:00
The USAF may be inconvenienced:

> Air Combat Command received the latest E-11A aircraft equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, Sept. 18. The system currently operates on two platforms: the E-11A, a modified Bombardier business jet and the EQ-4B, a modified Global Hawk Block 20 remotely piloted aircraft.

* https://www.acc.af.mil/News/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000910543

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Airborne_Communica...
by xienze | 2026-01-30 12:21:02+00:00
> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention

In order for this to be “safe” you’re gonna want to confirm what the agent is deciding needs to be done proactively. Do you feel like acknowledging prompts all the time? “Just authorize it to always do certain things without acknowledgement”, I’m sure you’re thinking. Do you feel comfortable allowing that, knowing what we know about it the non-deterministic nature of AI, prompt injection, etc.?
by augment_me | 2026-01-30 12:21:11+00:00
I don't think that most research starts with the idea of being a crypto rugpull. Many research labs and startups fail, and that is fine, you dont have to double down and drag a bunch of people into the mud with you because of that, which is what a lot of the example the author points to.

In some sense I just feel like this is another way to gamble, which in general is seeing an unprecedented growth with Polymarket and the likes. There is less faith in white-collar skills making you rich, so you just try your luck.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-30 12:21:36+00:00
Sure, but I was asking about a phone number where I can call and talk to a human who may have more experience in these matters.

The first thing support.apple.com asks me to do (when I want to post a question) is to ask me to log in with my AppleId. My problem is that the AppleId that has always worked in the past no longer seems to work and when I try to create a new one, it says my mobile phone number is invalid.
by fatherwavelet | 2026-01-30 12:21:52+00:00
The economy in the 21st century developed world is mostly about acquiring positional goods. Positional goods as "products and services valued primarily for their ability to convey status, prestige, or relative social standing rather than their absolute utility".

We have so much wealth that wealth accumulation itself has become a type of positional good as opposed to the utility of the wealth.

When people in the developed world talk about the economy they are largely talking about their prestige and social standing as opposed to their level of warmth and hunger. Unfortunately, we haven't separated these ideas philosophically so it leads to all kinds of nonsense thinking when it comes to "the economy".
by cbeach | 2026-01-30 12:22:05+00:00
We tend to defend companies that push the frontiers of self-driving cars, because the technology has the potential to save lives and make life easier and cheaper for everyone.

As engineers, we understand that the technology will go from unsafe, to par-with-humans, to safer-than-humans, but in order for it to get to the latter, it requires much validation and training in an intermediate state, with appropriate safeguards.

Tesla's approach has been more risk averse and conservative than others. It has compiled data and trained its models on billions of miles of real world telemetry from its own fleet (all of which are equipped with advanced internet-connected computers). Then it has rolled out the robotaxi tech slowly and cautiously, with human safety drivers, and only in two areas.

I defend Tesla's tech, because I've owned and driven a Tesla (Model S) for many years, and its ten-year-old Autopilot (autosteer and cruise control with lane shift) is actually smoother and more reliable than many of its competitors current offerings.

I've also watched hours of footage of Tesla's current FSD on YouTube, and seen it evolve into something quite remarkable. I think the end-to-end neural net with human-like sensors is more sensible than other approaches, which use sensors like LIDAR as a crutch for their more rudimentary software.

Unlike many commenters on this platform I have no political issues with Elon, so that doesn't colour my judgement of Tesla as a company, and its technological achievements. I wish others would set aside their partisan tribablism and recognise that Tesla has completely revolutionised the EV market and continues to make significant positive contributions to technology as a whole, all while opening all its patents and opening its Supercharger network to vehicles from competitors. Its ethics are sound.
by mlrtime | 2026-01-30 12:22:14+00:00
edit: Thinking about this further, it would be the same incentive. Before people would do it for free for the karma. They traded time for SO "points".

Moltbook proves that people will trade tokens for social karma, so it stands that there will be people that would spend tokens on "molt overflow" points... it's hard to say how far it will go because it's too new.
by hnthrow0287345 | 2026-01-30 12:22:19+00:00
A nice use of AI would be to learn what kind of interruptions I hate and suppress those as much as possible. The trick would be installing it to the level of authority to ignore stuff from the companies making the phones and OS too without having complicated jailbreak/hacking procedures.

The reality is that we just have shit consumer protections for our time and attention, because it's revenue for the companies, which lawmakers don't want to infringe upon. They can't even go after the relatively small markets of phone call/mail spam.
by mdtrooper | 2026-01-30 12:23:36+00:00
I think these kind of things will bring problems.

Because Nint€ndo or $ony (and others game companies) have a big problem, their old games are awesome and if the people can play these games, then the people will be happy and will not need new games or new sagas.

Because the problem is not the people playing old games, the real problem is the people will not pay for new games

And we know that these companies have army of lawyers (and "envelopes" to distribute among politicians) to change the laws and make illegal something that is not illegal.
by deaux | 2026-01-30 12:24:11+00:00
> Gamers generally game on PC because they like building their system. Otherwise they would use a PS5 Pro or whatever.

You're making a huge assumption here. I think that's a really small percentage. Most people game on PC because certain games they like to play are only on PC, or are much better suited to PC, or because their friends are on PC, or because they want to play on the go (Steam Deck is very recent and still not widely used), or because they need to have a PC anyway. Or because they grew up with it at home/in the neighborhood because there was no money for a console. Or because "Because they like building their system", I'm going to peg at <10%.
by sublinear | 2026-01-30 12:25:04+00:00
Is there really a bubble though?

Most of the activity is with the same old big tech stocks, and the largest investment by far is not even market driven. Stargate is defense spending.

AI doesn't have to sway consumers, and it doesn't even have to work that well now or ever for governments to keep pumping money into it. The whole point of Stargate is to de-risk with reduced need for security clearances to handle big data (whistleblowing) and eventually get away from foreign tech. Also, there are a ton of businesses who have always done things on-premises for compliance and they can now cut costs by migrating to these government vetted data centers.

It genuinely shocks me how rarely anyone brings this up. It's been very loudly said by Trump and OpenAI since he took office, and it was going to happen regardless of who was elected.
by VorpalWay | 2026-01-30 12:25:21+00:00
On other layouts that isn't enough. For example French keyboards are AZERTY, not QWERTY. and here in Sweden we have å, ä and ö next to the (tall) enter key, instead of the symbols US and UK have.

(Side note: those are not a and o with diacretics, they are entirely separate letters in the alphabets of the Nordic countries, with entirely different sounds.)
by Enginerrrd | 2026-01-30 12:25:42+00:00
I think you’re missing a major point the article mentioned. High level athletes are genetic freaks that can tolerate much higher training loads. Recovery capacity is somewhat trainable within limits but there are limits and there’s a big genetic component to that. Hormonal environment matters too, but there’s a genetic component to that as well.

So there’s a huge selection bias in the population of people that can tolerate the training loads you’re talking about without having their bodies fail them and take them out of the population you’re thinking of.
by bitshiftfaced | 2026-01-30 12:25:58+00:00
Ice cream / milk has saturated fat, which is something that people who are watching their cholesterol might want to limit. Fat helps slow digestion, which is beneficial for the glycemic index. It depends on the ice cream too. Steel cut and rolled oats' glycemic load is not that bad, especially when eaten with berries, nuts, etc.

Also, using ice cream as the benchmark is misleading, as people might view it as a junk food and think that its glycemic index is higher than they otherwise would, but actually its glycemic index is low/moderate, depending on the type.
by throw0101c | 2026-01-30 12:26:00+00:00
Some numbers from (current) top comment:

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Taking the post literally means grounding at least 5,500 to 6,000 airframes immediately.

If the "decertification" extends to Canadian-made engines on American-made planes, that number explodes past 15,000.

Helicopters Bell 407, 412, 429, 505 3,000+ Law enforcement and MedEvac.

Regional Jets CRJ-700 / 900. 600+

High-End Jets Global / Challenger / Learjet. 1,500+

Turboprops Dash 8 / Twin Otter. 200+

Modern Narrowbody Airbus A220. 150+

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* https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1qqq5xn/all_chall...

Also someone noted that the US-made Gulfstreams use PW&C engines:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_Canada_PW800 § Variants
by stripled | 2026-01-30 12:26:33+00:00
We just released cuthbert , a modular python package for working with time series - specifically probabilistic state-space-models, think Kalman or particles filtering and smoothing.

We put a lot of thought into the code structure to ensure it supports (temporal) parallelisation, composition with JAX ecosystem and can be easily extended with new methods.

Would love feedback, issues, or ideas for where it should grow next! (Just don't say into a butterfly)
by weddpros | 2026-01-30 12:27:25+00:00
Hi! thanks for your feedback. Indeed the site fails to tell you what ezS3 does: it's not an alternative to Minio, it's not an S3 storage implementation. S3 is made for machines, ezS3.net "proxies" it for humans: it's a web-based S3 browser, and adds RBAC and sharing.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-30 12:28:07+00:00
> Most gamers don't give a shit about openness

I don't think this is a given. I think most gamers so far haven't cared about openness because pragmatically, it didn't matter for them.

Now they're seeing the long-term effect of not caring about that though, which is why we're suddenly seeing a movement of gamers moving to Linux, and trying to get others to move with them, because they realize the importance now, as their desktops are slowly collapsing over Microsoft's decision to let AI do all the programming, and having zero QA before releasing stuff to the public.
by jaccola | 2026-01-30 12:28:08+00:00
The initial tweet was primarily a lie though

> The rendering engine is from-scratch in Rust with HTML parsing, CSS cascade, layout, text shaping, paint, and a custom JS VM.

If I cloned Pixar’s rendering library and called that then added to my CV ‘built a renderer from scratch’ this would be entirely dishonest…

I use LLMs often and don’t hate Cursor or think they’re a bad company. But it’s obvious they are being squeezed and have little USP (even less so than other AI players). They are frankly extremely pressured to make up lies.

I don’t think I’d resist the pressure either, so not on a high horse here, but it doesn’t make it any less dishonest.
by i_love_retros | 2026-01-30 12:28:54+00:00
I don't understand how so many people can be OK with inflicting brain rot on themselves and basically engineering themselves out of a career.

I use a web ui to chat with ai and do research, and even then I sometimes have to give up and accept that it won't provide the best solution that I know exists and am just to lazy to flesh out on my own. And to the official docs I go.

But the coding tools, I'm sorry but they constantly disappoint me. Especially the agents. In fact the agents fucking scare me. Thank god copilot prompts me before running a terminal command. The other day I asked it about a cypress test function and the agent asked if it could run some completely unrelated gibberish python code in my terminal. That's just one of many weird things it's done.

My colleagues vibe code things because they don't have experience in the tech we use on our project, it gets passed to me to review with "I hope you understand this". Our manager doesn't care because he's all in on AI and just wants the project to meet deadlines because he's scared for his job, and each level up the org chart from him it's the same. If this is what software development is now then I need to find another career because its pathetic, boring, and stressful for anyone with integrity.
by pregnenolone | 2026-01-30 12:28:59+00:00
I've always liked Scala as a language, but it's challenging to write high-performing and memory-efficient code on the JVM in general. Whenever you raise this issue, you'll encounter a horde of JVM fanboys who insist that it’s not true, giving you all kinds of nonsense excuses and accusing you of not measuring performance or memory consumption properly. If you genuinely want to produce well-performing JVM code, you're essentially writing C-style Java. As soon as you introduce abstraction, performance issues inevitably arise – largely due to the fact that features and modernizations from Project Valhalla haven’t yet been implemented/shipped. Scala proponents will suggest using macros and opaque types, but at scale this approach becomes incredibly cumbersome and even then you won't be able to completely prevent boxing that would actually be unnecessary; you could just as well be writing Rust.
by adriand | 2026-01-30 12:30:00+00:00
I would call strong opposition to Musk a democratic responsibility, not a derangement. We are talking about a guy with a fondness for the far right and throwing Nazi salutes, and whose destruction of USAID had, by November 2025, resulted in “hundreds of thousands of deaths”. [1] Those, of course, are just a couple of examples.

If strong opposition to that kind of evil makes me deranged, count me in.

1: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-30 12:30:24+00:00
Also. You have a WORKING iMac G5? Mine died a couple months after delivery. Apple then refused to replace, repair or refund, even after admitting they were responsible for it under their warranty.

This was about the same time I started de-applifying my life.

The irony is at the time I was performing a security review of the code that went into the QualComm baseband processor apple used for the original iPhone.
by pbronez | 2026-01-30 12:31:56+00:00
Pretty fun blog, actually. https://orenyomtov.github.io/alexs-blog/004-memory-and-ident... reminded me of the movie Memento.

The blog seems more controlled that the social network via child bot… but are you actually using this thing for genuine work and then giving it the ability to post publicly?

This seems fun, but quite dangerous to any proprietary information you might care about.
by kortex | 2026-01-30 12:32:10+00:00
I can relate. It's definitely possible, but you have to really want it, and it takes a lot of work.

You need cybernetics (as in the feedback loop, the habit that monitors the process of adding habits). Meditate and/or journal. Therapy is also great. There are tracking apps that may help. Some folks really like habitica/habit rpg.

You also need operant conditioning: you need a stimulus/trigger, and you need a reward. Could be as simple as letting yourself have a piece of candy.

Anything that enhances neuroplasticity helps: exercise, learning, eat/sleep right, novelty, adhd meds if that's something you need, psychedelics can help if used carefully.

I'm hardly any good at it myself but it's been some progress.
by dataviz1000 | 2026-01-30 12:32:46+00:00
This is what I am thinking about this morning. I just woke up, made a cup of coffee, read the financial news, and started exploring the code I wrote yesterday.

My first thought was that I can abstract what I wrote yesterday, which was a variation of what I built over the previous week. My second thought was a physiological response of fear that today is going to be a hard hyper focus day full of frustration, and that the coding agents that built this will not be able to build a modular, clean abstraction. That was followed by weighing whether it is better to have multiple one off solutions, or to manually create the abstraction myself.

I agree with you 100 percent that the poor performance of models like GPT 4 introduced some kind of regularization in the human in loop coding process.

Nonetheless, we live in a world of competition, and the people who develop techniques that give them an edge will succeed. There is a video about the evolution of technique in the high jump, the Western Roll, the Straddle Technique, and finally the Fosbury Flop. Using coding agents will be like this too.

I am working with 150 GB of time series data. There are certain pain points that need to be mitigated. For example, a different LLM model has to be coerced into analyzing or working with the data from a completely different approach in order to validate. That means instead of being 4x faster, each iteration is 4x faster, and it needs to be done twice, so it still is only 2x faster. I burned $400 in tokens in January. This cannot be good for the environment.

Timezone handling always has to be validated manually. Every exploration of the data is a train and test split. Here is the thing that hurts the most. The AI coding agents always show the top test results, not the test results of the top train results. Rather than tell me a model has no significant results, it will hide that and only present the winning outliers, which is misleading and, like the OP research suggests, very dangerous.

A lot of people are going to get burned before the techniques to mitigate this are developed.

Overfitting has always been a problem when working with data. Just because the barrier of entry for time series work is much lower does not mean that people developing the skill, whether using old school tools like ARIMA manually or having AI do the work, escape the problem of overfitting. The models will always show the happy, successful looking results.

Just like calculators are used when teaching higher math at the secondary level so basic arithmetic does not slow the process of learning math skills, AI will be used in teaching too. What we are doing is confusing techniques that have not been developed yet with not being able to acquire skills. I wrack and challenge my brain every day solving these problems. As millions of other software engineers do as well, the patterns will emerge and later become the skills taught in schools.
by slfnflctd | 2026-01-30 12:33:26+00:00
Oh. Goodness gracious. Did we invent Mr. Meeseeks? Only half joking.

I am mildly comforted by the fact that there doesn't seem to be any evidence of major suffering. I also don't believe current LLMs can be sentient. But wow, is that unsettling stuff. Passing ye olde Turing test (for me, at least) and everything. The words fit. It's freaky.

Five years ago I would've been certain this was a work of science fiction by a human. I also never expected to see such advances in my lifetime. Thanks for the opportunity to step back and ponder it for a few minutes.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-01-30 12:33:28+00:00
That's also my setup, the external 4k monitor is roughly the same scale as my FHD laptop. I did this on purpose, to avoid having to mess around with scaling and just run everything at 100%.

But more and more laptops start having higher resolutions nowadays, and using my external screen at a scale of more than 100% would be a waste. But a 3-4k 14" laptop at 100% would be unusable.
by xiaohanyu | 2026-01-30 12:33:31+00:00
"If you are looking for that one trick that lets you get ahead and jumpstart your career, my advice to you is: Don’t choose the path of least resistance. When training a muscle, you only get stronger with resistance. The same is true for learning any new skill. It is when you struggle with a specific problem or concept that you tend to remember."

Pretty nice description.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-30 12:33:48+00:00
Right. I know about all these things (but thanks for listing them!) as I've been struggling with it for nearly two decades, with little progress to show.

I keep gravitating to the term, "prompt adherence", because it feels like it describes the root meta-problem I have: I can set up a system, but I can't seem to get myself to follow it for more than a few days - including especially a system to set up and maintain systems. I feel that if I could crack that, set up this "habit that monitors the process of adding habits" and actually stick to it long-term, I could brute-force my way out of every other problem.

Alas.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-30 12:34:30+00:00
Not really, there are good applications for metaverse tech, they just need time to mature. However I don't really see it in the realm of social media. It's not something that's for everyone, at least not yet. I don't understand what meta was thinking there.

It's amazing for gaming though, and for architecture, 3D product design collaboration. I use it a lot daily and I have 5 headsets (plus two AR ones) but I also know it's not for everyone. It's also really good for porn which somehow in America isn't seen as a real industry but in my view it's a good usecase for the tech too. Anything that relies on immersion benefits from it.

AI has its niches too where it's genuinely useful (and coding really is a niche, it's not a mainstream activity) but just like metaverse they're trying to cram it in situations where it doesn't really add any value.
by craftkiller | 2026-01-30 12:34:41+00:00
> Cheapshot: Good Old Games (as long as our proprietary software functions)

False. That's literally the point of GOG. You can download the games directly from their website, install them, and run them without running any GOG software. GOG could vanish tomorrow and you'd still be able to play every game you purchased, as long as you backed up their installers somewhere.
by siliconc0w | 2026-01-30 12:34:48+00:00
Good for them to design and publish this - I doubt you'd see anything like this from the other labs.

The loss of competency seems pretty obvious but it's good to have data. What is also interesting to me is that the AI assisted group accomplished the task a bit faster but it wasn't statistically significant. Which seems to align with other findings that AI can make you 'feel' like you're working faster but that perception isn't always matched by the reality. So you're trading learning and eroding competency for a productivity boost which isn't always there.