MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotsofpulp | 2026-01-26 14:50:43+00:00
>American business culture works pretty strongly against "give it 6 months or less for US TSMC foundries to produce the finest."

>I think it's most likely those fabs will stagnate and the American MBAs running them will just milk them for short-term profits. Why invest in technology when you can buy back shares? After all, your only goal is number-go-up.

The same American business culture that produced Apple/Amazon/Alphabet/Microsoft/Meta/Tesla/etc? They seem to invest quite a bit in "technology".
by sillyfluke | 2026-01-26 14:50:54+00:00
It's kind of wild that the founder of this venerable company shared the same stage with Khashoggi's fiance pre-Covid.

It's like attending a memorial of an assasinated Belarus activist and then following it up by attending the premiere of a propaganda movie about Putin's wife.

Someone inside Amazon should keep tabs on the actual non-inflated viewing numbers of this amazing blockbuster for posterity's sake.
by hackeraccount | 2026-01-26 14:51:07+00:00
So a parent gets some joy knowing their kid is running around in the sun and not being the object of some Internet predator. If some kids have Internet suddenly your kid is bugging you 16 hours a day to unlock their access. You don't want to police your kid, what you want is that ability taken out of your hands so your kid will stop annoying you.

I think the analogy is to compulsory education.

In this analogy an anonymous token from a liquor store saying "I am an adult" would be equivalent to any adult being able to buy any kid a "get out of school" card. Maybe it would work but somehow I don't think it would - and to the degree it would work it would be because of parents making sure their kids were in school - which let's be honest is what compulsory bans are trying to avoid (i.e. create less work for parents by having the ban be universal).
by Shorel | 2026-01-26 14:51:11+00:00
At this point I wish that there was some native alternative to the Web-based everything.

wxWidgets is oldschool, QT has license issues, GTK looks so-so except on Linux, TCL/TK looks ugly everywhere.

In the modern world we need some GPU accelerated GUI library. Something like the one used in SublimeText. But with BSD or MIT license of course.

That would be much more interesting for me.
by palmotea | 2026-01-26 14:51:14+00:00
> Your recording is protected by the usual copyright. It may not be used without permission except as permitted by law. If the law is being violated, sue the heck out of the state.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm sure "except as permitted by law" allows for a lot of use by law enforcement "without [your] permission." And even if it didn't, it may not do you a damn bit of good. Lawsuits take a long time.

Also, it's pretty clear that ICE employs a lot of incompetent, poorly trained, and/or dangerous people.
by laffOr | 2026-01-26 14:51:24+00:00
You could have a program, not LLM-based but could be ANN, for flying and an LLM for overseeing; the LLM could give the program instructions to the pilot program as a (x,y,z) directions. I mean currently autopilots are typically not LLMs, right?

You describe why it would be useful to have an LLM in a drone to interact with it but do not explain why it is the very same LLM that should be doing the flying.
by ndr | 2026-01-26 14:51:54+00:00
The most stalkable users are android users, but even that it's going away with newer androids. And it already beeps when you move it if it's been away from the owner for too long.

I know because I have an android phone and a not-so-used ipad and mine beep all the time.

What stalking scenario are you worried with?
by sylware | 2026-01-26 14:52:08+00:00
I wonder when we will see RISC-V (rva23+) large implementations, for instance for performance "desktop" at 5GHz+ on latest silicon process...

I know I can already replace my rpi3 with a linux supported out of the box RISC-V SOC board (aka, the enabling of assembly written software = no planned obsolescence from computer languages anymore, near 0-SDK).
by econ | 2026-01-26 14:52:10+00:00
We are apparently very spoiled with how smooth some things work on smart phones.

I want dedicated cameras to offer a superior experience. In stead it is quite bad.

In order to publish one should first disconnect the internet?

I have to put down the camera and pick up the competing device?

My absolute favorite annoyance with my cameras is the lack of charging over USB. After taking a good amount of pictures I have to guess if there is enough battery left to transfer the images to the computer.

Not that PCs or laptops offer very good charging power. This because there is little demand.

It seems in order to make the superior experience the camera maker should also make phones and/or laptops? I have no idea really.

All I know is that my phone has 100W charging. I can almost immediately return to the front. The camera does have swappable batteries going for it but that I have to remove it from the tripod to reload it won't win the war.
by vidarh | 2026-01-26 14:52:27+00:00
If you're using it 24h/day you probably will run into it unless you're very careful about managing context and/or the requests are punctuated by long-running tool use (e.g. time-consuming test suites).

I'm on the $200/month plan, and I do have Claude running unattended for hours at a time. I have hit the weekly limits at times of particularly aggressive use (multiple sessions in parallel for hours at a time) but since it's involved more than one session at the time, I'm not really sure how close I got to the equivalent of one session 24/7.
by frankc | 2026-01-26 14:52:34+00:00
I think this is a pretty solid analogy but I look at the metaphor this way - people used to get strong naturally because they had to do physical labor. Because we invented things like the forklift we had to invent things like weightlifting to get strong instead. You can still get strong, you just need to be more deliberate about it. It doesn't mean shouldn't also use a forklift, which is its own distinct skill you also need to learn.

It's not a perfect analogy though because in this case it's more like automated driving - you should still learn to drive because the autodriver isn't perfect and you need to be ready to take the wheel, but that means deliberate, separate practice at learning to drive.
by kall | 2026-01-26 14:52:38+00:00
I have had good success with using xcodegen and only a project.yml checked in. Claude can get tripped up on managing the xcode project xml.

However, before that, i set up a blank project in xcode, used the xcode github integration to create a new repo on github, set up one xcode cloud workflow and use it to push one build to testflight. That way, you get all the automatic config of app ids, profiles etc, and xcode cloud can not be enabled other way. Then tell claude to migrate to xcodegen and to run it in CI automatically.

I've started to develop iOS apps from scratch using only claude code web (no mac), by setting up a "Branch Build" workflow in xcode cloud, and a skill that teaches claude how to check builds and fetch logs.

Along with a workflow that pushes any merge on main to internal TestFlight, the dream of developing iPhone apps on the iPhone finally lives. I've tried most options for this over the years and they never stuck.

These are simple apps that build in 1-5 min on xcode cloud. For larger builds it probably won't work so well.
by freedomben | 2026-01-26 14:52:50+00:00
Seriously. I've known for a very long time that our community has a serious problem with binary thinking, but AI has done more to reinforce that than anything I can think of in modern memory. Nearly every discussion I get into about AI is dead out of the gate because at least one person in the conversation has a binary view that it's either handwritten or vibe coded. They have an insanely difficult time imagining anything in the middle.

Vibe coding is the extreme end of using AI, while handwriting is the extreme end of not using AI. The optimal spot is somewhere in the middle. Where exactly that spot is, I think is still up for debate. But the debate is not progressed in any way by latching on to the extremes and assuming that they are the only options.
by abigail95 | 2026-01-26 14:52:52+00:00
Why would I want to be constantly calling into code I have no control over, that may or may not exist, that may or may not be tampered with.

I lose control of the execution state. I have to follow the calling conventions which let my flags get clobbered.

To forego all of the above including link time optimization for the benefit of what exactly?

Imagine developing a C program where every object file produced during compilation was dynamically linked. It's obvious why that is a stupid idea - why does it become less stupid when dealing with a separate library?
by dns_snek | 2026-01-26 14:53:46+00:00
> ".. The user must approve access on a per website, per device basis .."

Of course, but a phishing website "fake-bank.com" could collect user's username, password, and then prompt them to touch their yubikey. This wouldn't trigger any alarm bells because it's part of the expected flow.

> This isn't any more a security hole than people clicking "yes" on UAC prompts that try to install malware.

Yes it is. The only reason why Yubikeys are immune to phishing and TOTP codes aren't is because a trusted component (the browser) accurately informs the security key about the website origin. When a phishing website at "fake-bank.com" is allowed to directly communicate with the security key there's nothing stopping it from requesting credentials for "bank.com"
by SkyPuncher | 2026-01-26 14:53:59+00:00
This is a good article. In fact one of my favorites now (will be sending it to my peers).

There’s a point buried in it that I increasingly come to believe is missed in nearly every single management book and management advice I’ve read. It’s almost there in point 1, but under “don’t have a PM”.

None of these points matter if you’re not creating value for your company. That is the job of a manager - get your team to create value.

I’ve been increasingly disgruntled with most management advice because it overlooks this key point.

I felt like one of the biggest steps back I took in my career was when one of my companies had our management attend training that taught these skills and then the company emphasized these skills repeatedly. Suddenly my career stagnated. I had managed before, I had led before, I had delivered results before. But my growth came grinding to a halt. I was following all of these tips and tricks while overlooking the implicit thing - deliver value.

In many, the same ways, I’ve become wary of any company beliefs, values, or guidelines that aren’t clearly working towards making the company money. They’re really just distractions for the underlying goal.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-26 14:54:03+00:00
When you use any kind of filter for a lamp, that stops a part of the light produced by the lamp, the part that has an undesired color.

So, at the same electric power consumption you have less light, or you can compensate by using a more powerful lamp, to get the same amount of light even with a filter. In both cases the energy efficiency becomes worse, i.e. the expenses for electric power are greater per output light.

On the other hand, when the manufacturer of the lamp controls inside the lamp the conversion of the light produced by the LED through fluorescence into the light that exits the lamp, there are chances to obtain a desired color and a certain shape of the emission spectrum by wasting less light than with external filters.

Cheap white LED lamps not only may have a too bluish color, but their emission spectra may have gaps, so if a natural object from the environment happens to have a color that falls in a gap of the LED lamp spectrum, it will appear much darker than in daylight. This can cause orientation problems or difficulties in identifying certain things.
by midlander | 2026-01-26 14:54:20+00:00
The official government policy, which they have communicated many times, is that the goal was return of the hostages and dismantling of Hamas. Since the return of all the hostages, there has been a drastic drop in fighting - the figures have not changed much in recent months (although the condemnations haven’t subsided). The stalemate at the moment is waiting for Hamas to disarm and hand over control to a civilian Palestinian government.
by FrostViper8 | 2026-01-26 14:54:21+00:00
> the UK already forces ISPs to hold a database of the hosts you have visited in the last three years. By implementing the laws in the way they currently are doing undermines their own legislation by pushing UK users into having a tangible reason to hide their their browsing patterns from UK networks by funneling their traffic through VPNs or other proxies to avoid age gates.

People had tangible reasons before having to avoid age-gates. You should not have people spying on your online activity.

> Tin foil aside, my issue is that they're not even good at what they're trying to do. Their policy is inconsistent with their aims and lacks technical strategy.

Good, I don't want them to be good at what they are doing.

> You think they're worried about dissenters when in practice they're more worried about elections in 2029 and whatever pearl clutching users post on mumsnet.

They can be be worried about both. They are capable of being concerned about two different things at the same time.
by jimnotgym | 2026-01-26 14:54:45+00:00
How much has the infrastructure improved since then? I see on TV that some of California has snow and flash flooding. Are there attempts being made to capture that, or soak it into the ground? Or is it cheaper to keep using the old projects?

I see on YouTube that there are parts of Texas you can buy for peanuts because ranching doesn't work there any more. I gather that the cows eat so much of the ancient grassland away that the soil washed away and now we have flash flooding? Then I see terrible flooding in the main rivers. I wonder if it is because governments are (or were) good at big centralised water projects, but spending for thousands upon thousands of swales and check dams to be built is harder, and less sexy?
by bob1029 | 2026-01-26 14:55:05+00:00
The system prompt for the drone is hilarious to me. These models are horrible at spatial reasoning tasks:

https://github.com/kxzk/snapbench/blob/main/llm_drone/src/ma...

I've been working with integrating GPT-5.2 in Unity. It's fantastic at scripting but completely worthless at managing transforms for scene objects. Even with elaborate planning phases it's going to make a complete jackass of itself in world space every time.

LLMs are also wildly unsuitable for real-time control problems. They never will be. A PID controller or dedicated pathfinding tool being driven by the LLM will provide a radically superior result.
by simonw | 2026-01-26 14:55:17+00:00
It looks like the anti-stalking mechanism remains the same: if your iPhone detects that a non-paired AirTag is traveling with you you'll get a persistent notification about it.

I've seen these myself for my partner's AirTag when I was carrying her stuff.

Apparently Android 6+ can warn you about AirTags in the same way, since May 2024: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-and-google-deli...
by mrtesthah | 2026-01-26 14:55:24+00:00
>But the other part of it is, each conversation you have, and each piece of AI output you read online, is written by LLM instance that has no memory of prior conversations, so it doesn't know that, from human perspective, it used this construct 20 times in the last hour.

In theory we should be able to use these properties to detect LLM-generated output if we can determine explore the “default” trained feature space.
by fleabitdev | 2026-01-26 14:55:41+00:00
> Influencing without authority

> Getting work prioritized

> Developing 1YP+ plans for their areas

I was a little surprised by your list. Aren't these normally the responsibilities of a team lead or a manager? If I were hired as a senior engineer, I'd expect to be involved in group decisions about cross-cutting technical concerns (architecture, choosing languages and frameworks, the code review process), but changing my team's priorities would fall well outside the job description.

If somebody has the power to tell me what to prioritise, it feels topsy-turvy for them to tell me to tell them what they should tell me to prioritise. At that point, why have a leader at all?
by techblueberry | 2026-01-26 14:55:59+00:00
"“i keep seeing founders point to the “models will be 10x cheaper next year!” like it’s a life raft. sure. and your users will expect 20x more from them. the goalpost is sprinting away from you."

Actually, I think the problems is it's orders of magnitued, so, 10x cheaper, 100x more capability / cost to train / etc.
by derwildemomo | 2026-01-26 14:55:59+00:00
I was wondering about that for a while now - it feels in my last few jobs as an EM, the major part of my work (or rather the most influential one?) was managing, coaching and guiding product. The realization was actually quite simple for me: while hiring in engineering rules is defined by an sometimes absurd number of interviews, code challenges and so on, product is a case study and you're good: and that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.
by dangus | 2026-01-26 14:56:26+00:00
Per your third paragraph, that’s exactly what I’m saying. If BEVs of modern capability were either first to market and/or the first car-buying experience, those network effects and preconceptions/biases wouldn’t be a big buying hurdle like they are today.

Remember that gas stations weren’t on very corner when the gasoline car was invented, either.

Don’t read what I said as some kind of exact computer science logical language-qualified statement where I must say the exact correct parameters, you understand my general point.

I also think your use of your personal anecdote isn’t a very convincing argument by itself. BEVs aren’t right for you as of today, in a world which isn’t a part of this hypothetical. You also pointed out that you are a minority outlier by having odd requirements like “I don’t have data on my smartphone.” Do you think that’s common among American citizens? Isn’t this argument kind of like saying gasoline pumps need to take cash?

The USA should be an ideal EV market but there are consumer perceptions that are barriers. Why is it ideal? Because over half of homes in US housing stock are single family houses with implicit access to charging. Daily commutes are around 40 miles.
by II2II | 2026-01-26 14:56:40+00:00
> when LLMs can build you an custom(!) hammer or saw in a few minutes, why go to the shed?

Because software developers typically understand how to implement a solution to problem better than the client. If they don't have enough details to implement a solution, they will ask the client for details. If the developer decides to use an LLM to implement a solution, they have the ability to assess the end product.

The problem is software developers cost money. A developer using an LLM may reduce the cost of development, but it is doubtful that the reduction in cost will be sufficient to justify personalized applications in many cases. Most of the cases where it would justify the cost would likely be in domains where custom software is in common use anyhow.

Sure, you will see a few people using LLMs to develop personalized software for themselves. Yet these will be people who understand how to specify the problem they are trying to solve clearly, will have the patience to handle the quirks and bugs in the software they create, and may even enjoy the process. You may even have a few small and medium sized businesses hiring developers who use LLMs to create custom software. But I don't think you're going to see the wholesale adoption of personalized software.

And that only considers the ability of people to specify the problem they are trying to solve. There are other considerations, such as interoperability. We live in a networked world after all, and interoperability was important even before everything was networked.
by lucianbr | 2026-01-26 14:56:42+00:00
> I don't particularily care if people can write code like they work at the assembly line. I care [...] That they can deliver business value quickly.

In my experience, people who talk about business value expect people to code like they work at the assembly line. Churn out features, no disturbances, no worrying about code quality, abstractions, bla bla.

To me, your comment reads contradictory. You want initiative, and you also don't want initiative. I presume you want it when it's good and don't want it when it's bad, and if possible the people should be clairvoyant and see the future so they can tell which is which.
by fragmede | 2026-01-26 14:56:43+00:00
Part of democracy is that it's available to all citizens, and not just for the rich. Yes, it's always been possible to find someone, but not for $200/month that will work tirelessly wherever you want them to. 9:00 am Monday? great. 7pm Tuesday? Also great. 4 am on Sunday? Just as great, for an LLM.
by _verandaguy | 2026-01-26 14:56:55+00:00
Maybe a hot take, but I don't think this is as awful for e-waste as many other things.

I've had a set of airtags for a good few years now (shortly before Covid, I think?) and they mostly just kinda work. They don't insist upon a need to upgrade, the only part that ever goes bad is the battery -- which is a standard, user-replaceable CR2032, and while batteries going into the garbage isn't fantastic, there's really only so much you can do as long as depend on them.

Like -- this announcement is technically an upgrade, but I've never been less tempted to actually buy into it because the existing product does what it does plenty well enough for my needs.

I do think it's a bit funny to highlight anything Google does now as privacy-first, though. I can't play back Youtube embeds in Waterfox because the browser's default privacy-preserving setting doesn't send referrer information to those embeds, which Youtube now requires for embeds to work. As much as I take issue with Apple's politics over the past year, they do tend to lean towards on-device logic where possible, and their work in the homomorphic cryptography niche has been interesting to follow.
by antirez | 2026-01-26 14:57:12+00:00
I believe the process of accumulation of knowledge / fixes / interesting ideas will be still valid, so there will be a tons of small projects doing things that you can replicate and throw away, but the foundational libraries / tools will be still collaborative. But I don't agree with the idea of fragmentation, AI is very good at merging stuff from different branches, even when they diverged significantly.
by SkyPuncher | 2026-01-26 14:57:25+00:00
If you consider product as a proxy for customer, I think it gets a bit easier to understand. Customers don’t care about architecture (unless you have a technical product where they do actually need to know architecture). They don’t care about many of the details. They just want their problem solved.

For software engineers, our goal isn’t to necessarily know what makes good product or not - but we do need to make sure that what we’re building solves an actual customer problem or need.
by e12e | 2026-01-26 14:57:27+00:00
> ... what films they are watching.

I assume this relates to looking at their desktop activity? Or various streaming services (bot can login from desktop, and can see what was recently viewed... Even if viewed on smart tv etc?

> At the moment it is exceptionally easy to exfiltrate anything, but you still can control via proper prompts - what you want to share and what you dont want to.

You can? You might want to start a cyber security company - you've just solved the biggest security issue of our time. That, or you're overly optimistic?