MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JacoboJacobi | 2026-01-15 23:16:35+00:00
I think the trouble with arguments about AGI is that they presume we all have similar views and respect for thought and human intelligence, while the scale is maybe wider than most would imagine. Its also maybe a bit bias selecting to make it through academia systems with high intellectual rigor to on average have more romantic or irrational ideas about impressive human intelligence and genius. But its also quite possible to view it as a pattern matching neural networks and filtering where much of it is flawed and even the most impressive results are from pretty inconsistent minds relying on recursively flawed internal critic systems, etc.

Looking at the poem in the article I would be more inclined to call the end human written because it seemed kind of crap like I expect from an eighth grader's poem assignments, but probably this is the lower availability of examples for the particular obsessions of the requestor.
by simianwords | 2026-01-15 23:16:39+00:00
God damnit this man’s story is so distressing. I hate everything about it. I hate the fact that this happened to him.

The fact that he spoke about his favorite children’s book is screwed up. I can’t get the eerie name out of my head. I can’t imagine what he went through, the loneliness and the struggle.

I hate the fact that ChatGPT is blamed for this. You are fucked up if this is what you get from this story.
by DetroitThrow | 2026-01-15 23:17:03+00:00
>If I see something heading toward failure, I let people know they may want to consider a different approach. That’s it. There’s no need to be harsh or belabor the point but it’s better to speak up than to quietly watch a train wreck unfold.

Yes, it seems cruel and also counter to ensuring the org succeeds. Your perceived ability as an engineer might go up if your colleagues fail, but your colleagues failing when you knew a possible way for things to go better is harmful to your org's goals and culture. It only takes a small few failures for the bar to be lowered to the point that you yourself may not want to work there.

Even sometimes when other people's projects are NOT your problem and they aren't seeking feedback, sometimes you SHOULD make their flaws your problem if it is of crucial importance to your org. Knowing when you should expend your energy on an initiative like that is in itself a mark of seniority.

The blog itself mentions this a bit.
by db48x | 2026-01-15 23:17:47+00:00
And yet even Feanor was a “good guy” at one point in time. It wasn’t until many years after the invention of the palantiri that he went off the rails, and that was only after talking to Sauron for a while.

But I think that Feanor’s character is irrelevant. An evil person could create a tool that ends up being useful for good purposes. Tools are neutral; they don’t inherit the character of their creator or their user.
by twistedanimator | 2026-01-15 23:17:50+00:00
My latest favorite gadget is a Wuben G5 light. Very compact, very bright, and has lots of handy features like a swivel and magnet. $20 on Amazon right now.

I have 3 for myself as I like to keep them around the house. I've also bought a couple as gifts for my sons who both really liked them.
by UncleMeat | 2026-01-15 23:17:51+00:00
Unfortunately, dem leadership seems prepared to repeat the failures of the Biden administration. Dems returning to power and then just continuing largely on the status quo is not an acceptable outcome of the 2026 and 2028 elections.

And with a willing supreme court insisting that numerous congressional restrictions on the president's power are actually unconstitutional, I'm not so certain that winning congress in 2026 will actually do much to limit Trump's criminal actions.
by jszymborski | 2026-01-15 23:17:51+00:00
Our D&D group meets once to twice a month and is about seven or eight people. That's large enough that at most two of us can not show up and we're still enough to play and enjoy ourselves. The DM writes session recaps and posts them the day before the next session. The overhead here is minimized by his taking notes during the session. This has kept our group going for something like three or four years now!

The one thing about D&D is that I know almost everyone there exclusively through the campaign, and 90% of my interactions with them have been in character, which means I actually know very little about their personal lives. We're getting better with this with non-D&D hangs though.
by amradio1989 | 2026-01-15 23:18:08+00:00
Its mostly social anxiety. Which makes sense. Children have progressively been raised more and more on screens and devices. Teenagers rely more and more on technology to solve problems. Adults do too. No one has to interact anymore, which means many people no longer know how. Cue the anxiety.

In previous generations, you had to interact with others to get anything done at all. Kids had to play with kids, parents had to talk to the postman, the milkman, the newspaper boy, the telephone operator, the neighbors, you name it. It was a necessity for a functional life, so people did it.
by dzink | 2026-01-15 23:18:10+00:00
If one person thinks this way, many more do. This is typical in large organizations, especially government institutions, because expense of running entire teams at massive costs for no reason is not born by the team but by someone with a much larger budget that has more money than care or completely wrong incentives (the more people I manage, the more important I am, type of orgs). This is organizational gangrene described from the inside and partly how or why it happens. If you are leading an organization and reading this - figure out how to measure and prevent it.
by danebl | 2026-01-15 23:18:13+00:00
You are right, that was poor wording. If we compare apples to apples:

Traditional: must decompress entire file (even when streaming)
- zstd -dc huge_logs.zst | grep "error" # 709 MB decompressed through memory

Crystal: indexed search, skip to matches
- cuz search huge_logs.cuz "error" # Only decompress matching blocks

Thanks for pointing this up. We will update the readme file.
by pvelagal | 2026-01-15 23:18:16+00:00
Kids make friends pretty easily when they go to school and later college. Only after graduating college it becomes very hard to make friends.

So one solution is have folks attend classes in schools and universities or even local libraries during weekends. Classes specifically designed for different age groups - 30s, 40s, 50s etc. Classes related music, personal finance, investing, art, sports, cooking etc

Govt should offer tax breaks for attending these classes. That would attract a lot of people.
by akst | 2026-01-15 23:18:17+00:00
I love this

I made something like with a similar aesthetic a few years ago but themed after win95 (which seems to be hardly unique these days). But it had a secret gimmick where aspects of it were implemented with in terms of itself (mostly, file icons could be edited within app and you could see them update on the desktop).

I had grand plans for it but they never eventuated.

https://resume.akst.io/
by 3rodents | 2026-01-15 23:18:24+00:00
I agree with the other respondent. I’d go as far as to say your resume is bad. All I got from it is that you went to university and have some backend experience and also game development experience. I would have passed on your resume if it had been submitted to a job I was hiring for. There is not even a GitHub link.

A person should be able to look at your resume and visualise what you have done and what you could do for them. What game(s) did you work on? What PHP frameworks did you work with? What were the internal tools you built?

“We need someone to do x, is this the resume of someone who can do x?”

The job market is tough and fixing your resume might not be a silver bullet but it is at least something actionable :)
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-15 23:18:28+00:00
That's sad, but it mirrors my experience with commercial customers. Tape is so fiddly but the cost efficiency for large amounts of data and at-rest stability is so good. Tape is caught in a spiral of decreasing market share so industry has no incentive to optimize it.

Edit: Then again, I recently heard a podcast that talked about the relatively good at-rest stability of SATA hard disk drives stored outdoors. >smile<
by stonogo | 2026-01-15 23:18:50+00:00
All too common (not just with compilers) for someone to port the subset they care about and declare it done. Rust's decision to create standards of compliance and be conscious about which platforms are viable targets and which ones don't meet their needs is a completely valid way to ensure that whole classes of trouble never come. I think it's a completely valid approach, despite complaints from some.
by to11mtm | 2026-01-15 23:19:37+00:00
Still more predictable than GPU buys in the current climate. Power connector melting aside, GPUs in most cases get replaced less frequently than cell phones, unless of course you have lots of capital/profit infusion to for whatever reason stay ahead of the game.

Heck if Apple wanted to be super cheeky, they could probably still pivot on the reserved capacity to do something useful (e.x. revised older design for whatever node they reserved where they can get more chips/wafer for cheaper models.)

NVDA on the other hand is burning a lot of good-will in their consumer space, and if a competitor somehow is able to outdo them it could be catastrophic.
by omgJustTest | 2026-01-15 23:19:40+00:00
The point the author is making is somewhat maligned by the title "... let bad projects fail".

The point the author makes is that sometimes you are not in control of those projects. Therefore "letting them fail" seems a false choice constructed by the author.

A better title "You don't know what other people are doing and you don't know why unless it is your job to do so."
by justajew | 2026-01-15 23:19:45+00:00
You just don't understand, and are not interested to, I think.

You didn't, and don't, care about the rights of people seeing themselves as a part of the Russian people leaving in Ukraine. You didn't, and don't care when they are abused, get their language and culture robbed away from them by the crazy ukranian nationalists, when they get kidnapped and murdered (yes, it was happening also before the 2022 invasion).

You didn't, and don't, care what kind of danger the Ukranian NATO ally would have posed to Russia. (We see now what that means, and eventually it would become this way also without the 2022 invasion, because NATO is "defensive" only for people refusing to accept reality).

You had no moral problems to equate Russia with the nazi Germany to justify pumping weapons and "military counselors" to Ukraine. I could continue here ad infinitum.

As for being your mercenaries against Russia, the Ukranian government and nationalists strived for thar, the rest of the population perhaps understood it later. But you can be sure they all understand it now.

I could continue, but I really don't think you are intelligent and honest enough for me to bother. Most of you are not. And in any case this post will be soon "disappeared", after all "..he is repeating Russian talking points!.."
Show HN: Jtpck sends your Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI back to you
by piratebroadcast | 2026-01-15 23:19:52+00:00
JTPCK is a platform that consumes the OpenTelemetry data sent from Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI. JTPCK turns this data into a free dashboard for the user and exposes that data back to the user through an optional, simple, user‑owned API endpoint
by fittingopposite | 2026-01-15 23:19:56+00:00
With the remote setup of Claude Code (e.g. [1]) I can know (vibe)code from my phone. But typing has been a pain. Didn't find a great speech to text app for Android featuring Nvidia's Parakeet v3, which is the (?) leading STT model.
Found this repo. It's working flawlessly. Checked it with adb (I am always a bit suspicious). And it's really fully local. Highly recommend :)

[1] https://github.com/rberg27/doom-coding
by doublet00th | 2026-01-15 23:20:17+00:00
Cloudflare definitely isn't with their Durable Object design. As an infra developer/Django user myself, I know it's a pretty big paradigm shift to think in the 1 DB per user realm.

However, I do think it'll unlock "globally available" apps as a first class citizen moving forward. If Uber were made today, I suspect it'd follow the 1 DB per user and be deployed really close to the edge with providers like Fly.io, Koyeb, or Cloudflare.
by acdha | 2026-01-15 23:20:31+00:00
GamerGate wasn’t doing that work and they distracted mightily from it. For example, the much-hated Kotaku was actually doing reporting which got them black listed so not only was GamerGate not contributing there, they were actually harming the people who were:

https://kotaku.com/a-price-of-games-journalism-1743526293

Even if they had also been involved, it would not excuse the abusive behavior.
by macNchz | 2026-01-15 23:20:48+00:00
For what it's worth, I evaluated Fly.io during a divorce from Heroku some time in mid 2022 (I think), found the platform was... way too rough around the edges at the time to want to migrate any real workloads. I kept it on my radar and shipped an MVP with it in 2024, found it was a lot more polished, and now have multiple production apps running there. I'm genuinely pumped about Sprites and have started building against the API—I did notice the weirdness with the docs, but you guys have been doing well on the "this thing that {was broken|I didn't like|was missing} now works the way I'd hoped it would" front.
by aaronbrethorst | 2026-01-15 23:20:52+00:00
I have to question the judgment of the manager talking shit about another team and its leader to a junior engineer. Going and looking at the author's LinkedIn history (it's available via his About page) makes it pretty clear that this was happening within Google.

I think it speaks poorly of their manager's professionalism, and what sort of behavior they consider to be acceptable with regard to colleagues.
by MoltenMan | 2026-01-15 23:21:02+00:00
I agree with a lot of what you've said, but I completely disagree that LLM's are no longer sycophantic. GPT-5 is definitely still very sycophantic, 'You're absolutely right!' still happens, etc. It's true it happens far less in a pure coding context (Claude Code / Codex) but I suspect only because of the system prompts, and those tools are by far in the minority of LLM usage.

I think it's enlightening to open up ChatGPT on the web with no custom instructions and just send a regular request and see the way it responds.
by sailfast | 2026-01-15 23:21:22+00:00
In my experience, the problem is not a low success rate, but the burnout from being the only person that invites people to do things. At a certain point you want to see some reciprocation to create community. It can definitely happen, but a lot of folks still fall back on the habits. You have to invite and then also start asking people who's gonna host the next one and get them on the hook, and then not burnout from being a constant organizer :)
by DetroitThrow | 2026-01-15 23:21:40+00:00
Closer to $40B for some of the latest fabs from TSMC you're seeing, yes. While there could be huge simplification in SoC and packaging processes if it was focused on a single product, Apple's needs will likely still be about having cutting edge processors, so it would still be pretty high even if they were to just buy TSMC.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 23:21:42+00:00
You’re just trying to robe your personal idea of what’s constitutional in some fairytale amalgamation of modern social justice and enlightenment writings.

The reality is simple: the founding fathers did not and would not care that illegal (or heck, even legal) African immigrants were being arrested and deported, as evidenced by the fact that many of them literally held slaves. So, your opening position that I “should read more of the thoughts of America’s founding fathers” is wrong.

To checks and balances, the current state of government action is ironically in line with how those founding fathers would want government run.

Hamilton: “The courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature… to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority”. If the courts don’t see fit to constrain this exercise of power, it’s within the authority.

Washington himself led a militia against the Whiskey Rebellion, since the members were using intimidation, violence, and obstruction to impede a government function (wow, sounds familiar…)

Turning back to the present day, the standard being used is simple: The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes
immigration officers to “interrogate any alien or person
believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in
the United States.” 66 Stat. 233, 8 U. S. C. §1357(a)(1).
Immigration officers “may briefly detain” an individual “for
questioning” if they have “a reasonable suspicion, based on
specific articulable facts, that the person being questioned
. . . is an alien illegally in the United States.” 8 CFR
§287.8(b)(2) (2025); see United States v. Brignoni-Ponce,
422 U. S. 873, 884 (1975); United States v. Arvizu, 534 U. S.
266, 273 (2002). The reasonable suspicion inquiry turns on
the “totality of the particular circumstances.” Brignoni-
Ponce, 422 U. S., at 885, n. 10; Arvizu, 534 U. S., at 273.

If you want to argue these protections are being violated, you should probably make a stronger case than the one before the court that’s likely to lose. I’ll defer to the Supreme Court for constitutional analysis, as the founding fathers intended.
by blixt | 2026-01-15 23:21:46+00:00
I’ve been building on an opinionated provider-agnostic library in Go[1] for a year now and it’s nice to see standardization around the format given how much variety there is between the providers. Hopefully it won’t just be the OpenAI logo on this though.

[1] https://github.com/flitsinc/go-llms
by loudmax | 2026-01-15 23:22:40+00:00
It depends on the context. If you're with a small organization and you're interacting with the project early in the development, it could well be your duty to explain your misgivings and why you think they should do things differently. If you're with a large organization and the project is already underway, it's going to take a lot of time and effort to redirect the project. That's time and effort that could probably be spent more productively elsewhere.
by astura | 2026-01-15 23:22:46+00:00
>The suggestion I gave, was in good faith, but it seems that your "question" was not.

My question was absolutely asked in good faith, not sure why you think it wasn't? You, yourself, made it sound very easy. I was looking for advice since you've made it sound like you've easily succeeded in volunteering and I wasn't able to. I was hoping, at the very least, for you to share how you got started.

And yeah, it's kinda offensive to get "draw the rest of the damn owl[ed]"[1] when you put yourself out there to genuinely ask for help.

And I still am asking for advice if you're willing to share. I would still love to volunteer.

[1] https://teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/now-draw-the-owl/
by bastawhiz | 2026-01-15 23:22:57+00:00
Redis is as reliable as the storage you persist it to. If you're running Redis right, it's very reliable. Not S3 reliable, though. But if you need S3 reliable, you would turn to something else.

I expect that most folks looking at this are doing it because it means:

1. Effectively unbounded storage

2. It's fast

3. It's pretty darn cheap

4. You can scale it horizontally in a way that's challenging to scale other filesystems

5. All the components are pretty easy to set up. Many folks are probably already running S3 and Redis.
by dwaltrip | 2026-01-15 23:23:10+00:00
More succinctly:

* Know your audience. Saying things they are unable to hear is a waste of energy.

* Choose your battles carefully.

The flip side:

* Trust your gut

* Speak authentically and with an aim to help (not convince)

* Don’t be overly invested or dependent on the actions and reactions of others (can be hard to do if someone has power over you)

Balancing these things is something I’m learning about…
by bloppe | 2026-01-15 23:23:47+00:00
Ya. I'm saying I support UBI, and that the concern most people raise about UBI (usually along the lines of "I don't think anybody should just coast by without working") is completely unfounded.

The parent post was talking about how everybody would have more time for unpaid pursuits if only we had UBI. I'm saying that I don't think UBI would change that much. People will continue to pursue unpaid hobbies much like they do today, but making money will still be just as important.
by michael_j_x | 2026-01-15 23:24:25+00:00
You can voice your concerns, but should not go fighting, especially at personal cost. It could be that you may be wrong in your assessment, and the project turns out to be successful, or it could be that you may have been right for the wrong reasons, or it could be that you were right all along.
In any case, you are part of a company, and that means recognizing that yours is only one of many opinions driving strategy and allocating resources. If you find your self often needing to stand up against others for your beliefs, then you are probably not in the right company.
by JohnFen | 2026-01-15 23:24:28+00:00
> If I see something heading toward failure, I let people know they may want to consider a different approach.

This is what I do as well, in writing. Then I drop it. Professionalism demands that I say something. That's part of what I'm being paid to do. But experience has taught me that it's almost certainly not going to change anything, so I just do my duty and move on.
by avadodin | 2026-01-15 23:24:53+00:00
The average user expectation is probably not that any random exe they download from the piratehub or whatever can actually run Linux shellcode on their system.

I think all syscalls should be landlocked by default(It might require a novel kernel-assisted mechanism to keep existing official Wine libraries working, not sure).

Some of these programs with Wine support will have to get grandfathered in, of course, but at least let the user add them to a white list with a confirmation popup.

"This program wants to run Linux h4x0r shellcode. Allow?"

And then of course provide a mechanism so that new Wine-aware applications can interact with Linux features in a safer way.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-15 23:25:02+00:00
I don't need to reach far to find preliminary evidence of circuits forming in machine learning models. Here's some research from OpenAI researchers exploring circuits in vision models: https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/ Are these enough to meet your arbitrary quality bar?

Circuits are the basis for features. There is still a ton of open research on this subject. I don't care what you care about, the research is still being done and it's not a new concept.
by tac19 | 2026-01-15 23:25:29+00:00
That would set a bad precedent. We're talking about an adult taking his own life. In Canada the government will not only coach you how to do it, they'll provide the poison and give you a hospital bed to carry out the act. A number of other governments do this too.

That's not to equate governments and private internet services, but I think it puts it into perspective, that even governments don't think suicide is the worst choice some of the times. Who are we to day he made the wrong choice, really it was his to make. Nobody was egging him on.

And if you believe people that say LLMs are nothing but stolen content, then would those books / other sources have been culpable if he had happened to read them before taking his own life?