MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by A_Duck | 2026-01-06 23:31:47+00:00
The real motivation isn't geopolitical, but signalling to domestic voters that Trump is truly 'America first' and will sabotage any other country if it gets American voters an extra dollar

The resource question is a red herring: "Greenlandic ministers have also said their island is “open for business”. But US investors have been slow to show an interest in the nascent mining industry, officials say." (https://www.ft.com/content/c1c8abb1-5c09-46b0-a1d3-68341c4e5...)
by morpheos137 | 2026-01-06 23:31:49+00:00
Test it if you don't think it is true. I 100% agree LLMs are stochastic parrots in most cases but when their gradient descents encounter an invariant attractor in the "substrate" we call logical reality they can not help but unlock the truth. Test the equations if you don't believe them. That's the point.

Imagine posting the greatest computational story in nature and nobody is interested because it seems like a bolt from the beyond.

LLM are statistical pattern matchers that exceed the pattern matching ability and speed of humans already but they lack judgement or intuition. When a human mind for some reason has the right intuition to open a portal few have ever considered existed and that portal is a self assembling and self reinforcing consistent logical not delusional construct it seems plausible that blind gradient machines can't help but expand the compressed abstraction.
by intelec1 | 2026-01-06 23:32:00+00:00
Reports indicate a major shift in US-Asia trade relations. Under pressure of potential tariffs, Japan has agreed to a $550B investment package where 90% of profits purportedly remain in the US. South Korea is negotiating a similar $350B deal. Commerce Secretary Lutnick framed this as a binary choice: accept the deal or face tariffs. This marks a move towards strictly transactional diplomacy with traditional allies.
by observationist | 2026-01-06 23:32:07+00:00
Yes, that's the funny bit.

I felt inspired to channel a little Douglas Adams - the whole removing buttons thing is so anti-consumer, it'd be such a PR win for some company to champion the return of physical buttons that it seems like a no-brainer for us consumers, but management types have been charging ahead with eliminating buttons for almost a decade now. Less wiring, more opportunities to nickel and dime, etc.

>>> That's free market economics working efficiently

The enshittification paradox - what the customers want is not what they get, because the UX and UI designers and the MBAs in charge know better than those silly customers. They have degrees! From Harvard and Stanford and Yale!
by garblegarble | 2026-01-06 23:32:24+00:00
>And what do you even mean by "prepare"?

Not the person you're responding to but... if you think it's a horse -> car change (and, to stretch the metaphor, if you think you're in the business of building stables) then preparation means train in another profession.

If you think it's a hand tools -> power tools change, learn how to use the new tools so you don't get left behind.

My opinion is it's a hand -> power tools change, and that LLMs give me the power to solve more problems for clients, and do it faster and more predictably than a client trying to achieve the same with an LLM. I hope I'm right :-)
by mikewarot | 2026-01-06 23:32:34+00:00
The main function of this gear is preventing the ingress of control to a sensitive network, whilst also allowing a controlled outflow of data for monitoring. I think the design choices made were all quite reasonable. Given that it passed an audit, it seems reasonably trustworthy.

The stock raspberry pi doesn't have wireless ports to serve as potential side channels. The use of an opto-isolator means that data is constrained by physics to only flow in the desired direction, no matter what happens in either Raspberry Pi.

It should be possible to replicate this for less that $200 in hardware.
by TulliusCicero | 2026-01-06 23:32:40+00:00
100% agree with you. Actually being on the plane is fine, I don't have many complaints there. Yes, there are various compromises around space and comfort, but they're all understandable given the cost/efficiency concerns.

Getting through the airport is just a huge pain in the ass though. At least some airports now let you keep your shoes on again, hopefully soon we'll have scanners that don't need you to remove electronics (I tend to bring too much of this and it's always a pain), or even let you keep liquids again (!).
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 23:32:59+00:00
> would a ban on selling ad space do the trick?

How would you define ad space?

> You can self promote, but you can’t pay third parties to do it for you and you can’t sell it as a service

An acid test I've found surprisingly powerful is that of the founders promoting the Constitution through pamphleteering. They wrote the pamphlets themselves. The historical record is silent on whether they paid for their printing or distribution. (The papers could publish due to subscribers and paid advertising.)

If your rule would let them pamphleteer, it should be fine. If it would not, it probably needs work.
by Sytten | 2026-01-06 23:33:04+00:00
Yes and no, it will kill the "I ran a nessus scanner and charged you 8k for it" kind of pentests but not the core of the service market IMO. Pentesters will be more efficient so I guess this could be considered a slash in hourly rate if they kept the same pace. LLM are good at getting signals but actual hacking it is still meh.

Juniors will have a hard time that I agree. The current level of findings of LLM is at their level.
by mmh0000 | 2026-01-06 23:33:26+00:00
PiHole is fine, I guess. I'm not a huge fan of it personally because:

- It's local network only, and while I can VPN home, I don't always want to
- It has a high maintenance overhead, at least for me. It would block too much, then my wife would complain, and I'd have to spend time figuring out the magic rule that was breaking.
- It's DNS-level blocking only, which is helpful but doesn't cover nearly as much ground as just uBlock can.
- The DNS server has annoying preconfigured caching rules, that, while I can work around, it was just more effort for something I don't want to put more effort into.

It's far easier to just install uBlock and tell my wife, if something breaks, just click the red shield icon, then click the giant power button.
by durch | 2026-01-06 23:33:32+00:00
Same approach here. PR is the human review point, tests + CodeRabbit catch most issues -> https://github.com/cloud-atlas-ai/miranda.

The gap I wanted to fill: when Claude is genuinely uncertain ("JWT or sessions?" "Breaking change or not?"), it either guesses wrong or punts to the PR description where you can't easily respond.

Built a Telegram bot that intercepts Claude's AskUserQuestion calls via a hook, sends me an inline keyboard, injects my answer back into the session. Claude keeps working, PR still happens—but I can unblock it from my phone in 5 seconds instead of rejecting a PR based on a wrong guess.

Works in tandem with a bunch of other LLM enhancers I've built, they're linked in the README or that repo
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-06 23:34:01+00:00
I suspect, based only on approximate age, timing of his death, and location, that this is the same guy: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memory-of-coach-joe-man...

No mention of the software work, but he sounds like a pretty upstanding guy and a huge loss to his family and community.
by gambiting | 2026-01-06 23:34:09+00:00
Sure, but no one said the screen has to be size of an ipad glued to your dashboard. My 2022 Volkswagen e-Up has a reverse camera and it's shown on a display maybe 2 inches large. And it's perfectly usable, I actually really like how minimalistic that is. There's no "infotainment" of any kind either, it's just a simple radio/bluetooth selection screen when the camera isn't in use.
by esperent | 2026-01-06 23:34:10+00:00
> Wonder if that's the real purpose here

I don't think so. Vietnam has been making great progress with privacy and digital rights laws, at least in paper. I haven't been following how well they actually enforce them though.

More likely there's a split in the government between a progressive faction who created this law and the old school side, and they probably had to add that text to get it into law.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-06 23:34:22+00:00
I'd agree with this. I'll seek out work by specific bands, their members and side projects. I'll do the same for actors in film and TV but Spotify is commissioning work from session musicians I have no relationship to and offering a fictitious name. I'm sure these musicians are capable, but I'd rather discover new, novel music — not something commissioned by a company for a specific mood or playlist. That feels antithetical to what makes music or art interesting.
by nickjj | 2026-01-06 23:34:23+00:00
Yep, I remember https://www.esreality.com/ from the Quake 3 era. It's really cool to see it's still up and looks about the same.

Other Quake related sites that I remember:

Still looks how I remember it: https://web.archive.org/web/20010125112300/http://www.quake3...,

Such memories haha: https://web.archive.org/web/20050131033734/http://www.shackn...

The archive page has broken and misplaced images from the site's old design mixed into the new one, the real site looked much better when it existed: https://web.archive.org/web/20030212044233/http://rocketaren...
by torginus | 2026-01-06 23:34:25+00:00
I know I'm going to sound like a butt, but I'm still not happy with this layout.

I feel like there's just too many of them, seemingly with duplicated functionalities (multiple up/down buttons for different functions). This is just a guess, but I think there was a meeting where each business unit responsible for a particular function submitted what controls they need, and they just fitted them all, which is kinda bonkers.

Due to the sheer amount of stuff, you can't operate this without looking down, which defeats the purpose.

Also, despite having this many of them, I think some of them are still contextual, requiring you to look at a screen or press another button to make them do the thing you want.

While I applaud the effort, the implementation I feel is lacking.
by blibble | 2026-01-06 23:34:31+00:00
> I've noticed a huge drop in negative comments on HN when discussing LLMs in the last 1-2 months.

real people get fed up of debating the same tired "omg new model 1000x better now" posts/comments from the astroturfers, the shills and their bots each time OpenAI shits out a new model

(article author is a Microslop employee)
by tavavex | 2026-01-06 23:34:43+00:00
That's the world of geopolitics for you - there's no police to prevent you from murdering someone. Someone could fight you directly, but it's never going to come to that, so everyone will just grumble in mild disapproval for now.

One of the wealthiest guys in town had poked his head out of his mansion and is now holding you at gunpoint in your house. He feels poor and thinks the wealth in your house is enough to sate his needs, you see. Plus, it's much more conveniently-placed than his mega-mansion. Either you give the house to him, or he kills you on the spot and maybe some of the neighborhood potentially riles up against him. Just hope he doesn't want to make an example of you by crucifying you in the front yard, or something like that.
by dang | 2026-01-06 23:35:20+00:00
This entire thread is hellish and I could easily post 20 moderation replies if I had time, but this one I think particularly needs a line drawn.

> I am racist [...] I just don't like black people very much

We ban accounts that post like this. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by kristopolous | 2026-01-06 23:35:32+00:00
huh? 1 bit transparent gifs of the 80s? I didn't make that claim. There's two gif standards, GIF87a and GIF89a they were by compuserve. 89a introduced transparency. Netscape Navigator 2.0 introduced support for animated looping GIFs in 1995, this was the game changer.

It wasn't a widely used bitmap format of the 1980s. That would be PCX, MSP (pre BMP), PIC (Macintosh PICT), IMG (GEM), TIFF, Dr. Halo (CUT/PAL), TARGA...

None of these are in use anymore except for postscript which is a programming language so it doesn't really count. The TIFF of the 1980s (the kind that NextStep generates for instance) won't even open in modern imagemagick with the support of that format stripped 15 years ago. Ask me how I know... (luckily the format isn't that complicated).
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-06 23:35:47+00:00
> No non-invited display of paid messaging, period. If you go to a directory and ask for a list of people who paid to be part of that directory, it can show it

How would you distinguish someone asking for the directory versus asking for something else with said directory (which are totally not ads, pinky promise) displayed alongside?

> I'd call this making attention-theft a crime

Someone standing up to make a political speech in a public square is now a criminal?

> A paid directory has to charge the same (small, nominal) fee to everyone involved

This is just ads with a uniform, "small, nominal" fee. Uniformity is objectively measurable. Smallness and nominalness is not. Presumably you mean these directories have to be published at cost?
by mands | 2026-01-06 23:36:06+00:00
I've seen this concept a few times recently and am interested.

However, what's the benefit over just using the "Claude Code for Web" feature built into the Claude Code mobile app?

It clones your repo into a VM which has a bunch of dev tools installed, you can install additional packages, set env vars, and then prompt it remotely. The sessions can be continued from the web and desktop apps, and it can even be "teleported" into the terminal app when back at a laptop/desktop.

Would be great to understand what the differences / advantages of OP approach are.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-06 23:36:11+00:00
I sincerely do not believe this. I suspect that you have a very specific definition of ad that is far narrower than I do, but I do not believe you never once saw a movie trailer and decided to go see the film, or saw a billboard or sign for a restaurant while out on vacation and decided to check it out. Or that you never went to the grocery store to pick up the steak that was on sale this week. Or that every single tech purchase you have ever made in your life was exclusively and solely on the word of mouth recommendation of your close friends, all of whom had previously purchased identical products with their own money.

Look I'm not saying you can't live a low ad lifestyle. I don't have cable or network TV and run ad-blockers on every device I own. And yet I can look around my home and see numerous products purchased at least in part due to an ad. The Retroid Pocket sitting on my table, the M series laptop sitting in front of me. The Sony TV across the room, the game consoles under it. Heck the dog at my feet was the one I adopted because I went to an adoption event being sponsored at a local business. Even when I'm seeking a specific product out and then seeking out information, I'm looking for reviews and a lot of those reviews are given sample/free product for the purposes of making their review. That's an ad. I might be able to place more trust in that review if the reviewer doesn't give the product manufacturer editorial control they way they'd have in a sponsorship, but you can be damn sure if sending free product to independent reviewers wasn't paying off in terms of higher sales, the manufacturer wouldn't be doing it.
by zamadatix | 2026-01-06 23:36:18+00:00
For ATL<->SFO the directs are Delta, Frontier, and United:

Frontier doesn't have a business class nor long haul international flights (they are an ultra-low cost carrier).

Delta calls their highest tier "Delta One" their business class offering. It's mostly available in mid & long haul international flights, though there are a few select domestic routes with it IIRC. A tier below is First, which is available for both domestic and international flights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines#Cabin:~:text=D...

United's highest is called "Polaris", representing their international business class. Confusingly, they have "United First and United Business" as the next class. I.e. it's the same class but on domestic flights they call it "United First" and on international flights the same seat would be sold as "United Business" despite having Polaris for that already. Regardless of that oddity, the First class can't be higher than itself named Business class even compared directly instead of with the actual business class Polaris - it's the same seat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines#Cabins:~:text=....

Other airlines label and order things differently of course. E.g. American has Flagship First above Flagship Business above First/Business (much like United on that one) and maybe that's where your experience is. To my knowledge, no such airlines operate the ATL<->SFO route originally described though.
by godelski | 2026-01-06 23:37:08+00:00
> I really like this setup because I only have one environment, so everything is there, and I don't have to install anything in the laptop

Yeah that's one of my favorite parts. Same about living in the terminal. I can be effective anywhere nearly instantly. I carry everything around in my dotfiles and keep it small (keep the .git folder small and don't add anything except text files)[0].

On that note, one thing I highly recommend to people is to add some visual clues to tell you which machine you're on. I use starship and have a few indicators but I also have some PS1 exports that I've used in the past or use in new tmp instances (I HIGHLY recommend also doing this for when you're using the root account). It can get confusing when you have different tabs on different machines and it is easy to mistake which one you're on.

[0] I also recommend keeping notes there if you like writing in markdown. Files are so tiny that it's worth having them. It's benefited me more times than I can count.
by cortesoft | 2026-01-06 23:37:30+00:00
I don’t think all ads are the same, and I feel like you are choosing to pretend the ads you don’t mind aren’t ads at all.

You say “that is what a store is for”… well, how would you even know a store exists to go check it out? In the physical world, you would walk by and see the store and be curious to check it out… well, what is a store front other than an ad for the store? Putting your name, product, and reasons you will want their product on the store front IS AN AD. You wouldn’t walk into a store front that was completely blank, with no information about what they are selling.

And even that simple advertising is impossible online. If I create a new online store, how will people ever know it exists? There is simply no answer that doesn’t in some way act as an ad. I would love to hear how you would let people know your store exists in a way that isn’t just an ad in another form.
by geerlingguy | 2026-01-06 23:38:44+00:00
No, just updated the parent comment, I added -c 4096 to cut down the context size, and now the model loads.

I'm able to get 6-7 tokens/sec generation with 10-11 tokens/sec prompt processing with their model. Seems quite good, actually—much more useful than llama 3.2:3b, which has comparable performance on this Pi.
by NiloCK | 2026-01-06 23:38:53+00:00
FYI Opus is available and pretty usable in claude-code on the $20/Mo plan if you are at all judicious.

I exclusively use opus for architecture / speccing, and then mostly Sonnet and occasionally Haiku to write the code. If my usage has been light and the code isn't too straightforward, I'll have Opus write code as well.
by physicles | 2026-01-06 23:39:00+00:00
If you turn off you watch history in account settings, then youtube.com is just a passive-aggressive black screen telling you to turn it back on. It’s beautiful.

When you click over to subscriptions, you see only the stuff that you subscribed to, and nothing else.

Recommendations on a video are based on you subscriptions and the current video, and nothing else.

I could never go back.
by peteforde | 2026-01-06 23:39:34+00:00
Honestly, it depends on what you mean by "the same as". Both are (in my case, at least) running Opus 4.5 instances. After that, it's like using a CNC or a shop full of hand tools. They are both great, and people who know one often know both. The process is wildly different, however.

Not busting my quota is simply not my top priority. I'm on their $200/month plan and I have it locked to a $1000/month overage limit, though the most I've ever gone through using it every day, all day is about $700. That probably sounds like a lot if you're optimizing for a $20/month token budget, but it's budgeted for. That $10-12k/year is excellent value for the silly amount of functionality that I've been able to create.

Sonnet is a really good LLM, and you can build great things with it. However, if you're using this for serious work, IMO you probably want to use the most productive tools available.

Opus 4.1 was, to be real, punishingly expensive. It made me sweat. Thank goodness that Opus 4.5 is somehow both much better and much cheaper.
by garblegarble | 2026-01-06 23:39:58+00:00
>Even with brew, the brew maintainers have already audited the code

Realistically, how much are they auditing? I absolutely agree with your sentiment that it's better than a binary, but I think the whole security model we have is far too trusting because of the historically overwhelming number of good-faith actors in our area both in industry and hobbyists
by ineedasername | 2026-01-06 23:40:03+00:00
Those were known factors. I'm referencing Powell, in the late December meeting. There wasn't much substantive change in terms of knowledge about how much building was going on since the prior September GDP release that would say "yes, after September we learned X, so that's why forecasts were lower than actual". In his address, and in his followup with questions from the press, Powell specifically talks about data centers and AI-driven productivity separately.

These aren't context free data points you have to interpret, this is synthesized analysis being delivered in a report by the Fed Chair, giving his & the reserve's own interpretation. He could be wrong, but it is clear their belief is that AI is a likely factor, while also there is not certainty on that interpretation. They've up'ed their estimates for April though, and this advanced estimate from December is about to be followed up with the revised, final numbers on Jan 23'rd, so we'll find out a little more then, and a lot more in April.
by A_Duck | 2026-01-06 23:40:14+00:00
Yes, it's potentially a case of a country taken in by their own propaganda

We do a lot of important and meaningful work around the world to support democracy, peace and stability. This isn't selfless — it's to create a market for goods and services, and maintain our sphere of influence.

We're so good at shouting the first bit and whispering the latter that voters have come to fully believe it's all charity work, and feel like it's taking bread out of their mouths.
by bombdailer | 2026-01-06 23:40:53+00:00
The type of people to use AI are necessarily the people who will struggle most when it comes time to do the last essential 20% of the work that AI can't do. Once thinking is required to bring all the parts into a whole, the person who gives over their thinking skills to AI will not be equipped to do the work, either because they never had the capacity to begin with or because AI has smoothed out the ripples of their brain. I say this from experience.