MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drawnwren | 2026-01-11 00:27:32+00:00
It doesn't though. As an aside, I have been using a competitor to chatgpt health (nori) for a while now, and I have been getting an extreme amount of targeted ads about HRV and other metrics that the app consumes. I have been collecting health metrics through wearables for years, so there has been no change in my own search patterns or beliefs about my health. I just thought ai + health data was cool.
by myembeddedstuff | 2026-01-11 00:27:32+00:00
It has been noted that clear explanations of how RPC works on the Arduino UNO Q are limited. To address this gap, a detailed breakdown was prepared, focusing on:

- what RPC actually does on the UNO Q
- how the request/response flow is structured
- why this pattern can be useful for small microcontrollers
- how it differs from more traditional communication approaches

To validate the protocol at the physical level, logic‑analyzer sniffing was also performed, allowing the behavior of the RPC exchange to be observed directly on the wire.

The write‑up is shared in case it is useful to others working with embedded systems or low‑level protocol design, or if further discussion about the design choices behind RPC on the UNO Q is of interest.

Article: https://myembeddedstuff.com/arduino-uno-q-rpc-explained
by zephen | 2026-01-11 00:27:39+00:00
> In my opinion information wants to be free.

Information has zero desires.

> It's wild to me seeing the tech world veer into hyper-capitalism and IP protectionism.

Really? Where have you been the last 50 years?

> Plumbers are not claiming use fees from the pipes they installed a decade ago.

Plumbers also don't discount the job on the hopes they can sell more, or just go around installing random pipes in random locations hoping they can convince someone to pay them.

> Why should intellectual property authors be given extreme ownership over behavior then?

The position that cultural artifacts should enter into the commons sooner rather than later is not unreasonable by any means, but most software is not cultural, requires heavy maintenance for the duration of its life, and still is well past obsolescence, gone and forgotten, well before the time frame you are discussing.
by noosphr | 2026-01-11 00:28:00+00:00
I've found that short symbols cause collisions with other tokens in the llms vocabulary. It is generally much better to have long descriptive names for everything in a language than short ones.

An example that shocked me was using an xml translation of C for better vector search. The lack of curly braces made the model return much more relavent code than using anything else, including enriching the database with ctags.

>GlyphLang is specifically optimized for how modern LLMs tokenize.

This is extremely dubious. The vocabulary of tokens isn't conserved inside model families, let alone entirely different types of models. The only thing they are all good at is tokenizing English.
by drakeballew | 2026-01-11 00:28:05+00:00
I am not familiar with the source of this quote, but I don't disagree, it is just incredibly reductive. Gilles Deleuze him-/her-self was not born and did not live in a vacuum. They were influenced and mimetically reproduced ideas they were exposed to, like we all do. I don't find the point of this project meaningless myself. The opposite in fact. But the results are not accurate for anyone who has actually read any of these texts.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-11 00:28:08+00:00
We already know that Private Equity kills people in the hospitals [1] and nursing homes [2] for profit. So why do we continue to allow them to operate Healthcare facilities?

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2813379

[2] https://www.nber.org/papers/w28474
by gerdesj | 2026-01-11 00:28:23+00:00
OK so you know how it goes in poker and I should probably read the literature ...

How much of a session is based on "reading players" vs "playing the odds"?

What I am getting at, is how different is poker than say roulette or blackjack? My initial thoughts are that poker such as TX hold 'em is not a game offered in a casino, so it must be mostly indeterminate. I imagine that the casino versions of poker are not TXHT.

By contrast, roulette is simply a game where the casino wins eventually with a fixed profit (thanks to 0 and a possible 00). That is all well documented.

I have only ever visited a casino once, 25 years ago, Plymouth, Devon as it turns out and I was advised to only take £50 in readies and bail out when it was gone. I came out £90 up, which was nice and my "advisor" came out £95 up (eventually, after being £200 down at one point). Sadly my "advisor" ended up bankrupt a year later.

So, how do you play a LLM? I would imagine that conversation is not allowed ...
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-11 00:28:29+00:00
> Nazi ideology is disgusting

Disgusting is the least of its problems. I'm not saying this in connection to the privacy issue, it's just weird to see something like "death is icky, it smells bad".

> I don't think being an asshole with retarded ideology is enough to lose your fundamental human rights.

I don't know who is being doxed by WhiteLeaks, but again, the bigger problem is that doxing creates threats to personal welfare, health and life.

I'm not sure how doxing can be stopped in the current polarized political environment, both sides use it as a weapon... because it works as such. Maybe we should focus on that problem instead.
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-11 00:28:55+00:00
There's a kind of new aristocratic class developing a broad ideology of anti-populism in power in the UK. The majority of politicians are drawn from backgrounds, or familial backgrounds, in the British news media and get careers there for themselves or their spouses after leaving government. The majority of senior news media personnel, in journalism or management, are drawn from the political establishment in the same inverted way. They organised the Tory leadership elections to install Johnson and later Truss on the belief that low-tax austerity would improve the country and then, facing a continued decline of London relative to the UAE by the policies they championed, coordinated to give Starmer the most complimentary media presence possible from mid 2023 to until the day of the election, conditioned on his continuing their policy platform.

One example of this is how the most recent interview Starmer has been given at the time of writing was to the newly-promoted politics correspondent of Sky News, the spouse of one of his most loyal Labour MPs, formerly an assistant editor of The Spectator, a popular politics magazine that promotes the abolition of inheritance tax, reductions in the age of consent, the introduction of qualified immunity from war crimes for the armed forces, the introduction of civil forfeiture, the return of the death penalty and holocaust denial. Unless an outside force compels other factions in UK politics to act, the media faction will likely replace Starmer with some other NEC loyalist who avoids flubbing line delivery on camera sometime this year. After all, the Starmer government has set a record in UK politics for the fastest decline in polling numbers and Starmer has personally put out the message in news briefings that removing him from office in 2026 would be a grave mistake for the party.
by rvnx | 2026-01-11 00:29:35+00:00
"If Greeland declares independence" -> "If Greenland unilaterally declares independence"

Quoting that agreement:

> "The agreement on independence shall be endorsed by a referendum in Greenland. The agreement shall furthermore be subject to the consent of the Folketing [Danish Parliament]."

For now there are no signs at all of Denmark willing to give away Greenland.
by xiphias2 | 2026-01-11 00:30:17+00:00
One interesting thing for me is NVIDIA coming out with its reasoning model for self driving.

If it works well, Tesla's strategy of keeping the car minimal/cheap to produce but with enough sensors and an upgradable hardware may become extremely useful as new techniques are coming to tackle the long tail of self-driving cases to handle.

I'm sure Tesla will soon copy Nvidia and put a reasoning model in its cars as well.
by touisteur | 2026-01-11 00:30:40+00:00
I don't know about 'a few specific cases'. STIs, mental health issues, pregnancies (interrupted or not, voluntarily or not), contraception methods and/or lapses, anything often misunderstood like MS or neurodegenerative diseases, huntington, substance use/abuse (voluntary or not), victim of assault (sexual or not), sterility/fertility/impotency/incontinence, any manageable medical issue someone might use to not give you a job, to rent you an apartment, although you do actually manage it well...

None of those I'd want shared anywhere, to anyone, against my will. Those (overall) are not rare.
by class3shock | 2026-01-11 00:31:29+00:00
Or it's a placebo effect.

And if it didn't work out and made you worse or, god forbid, the advice caused you to get seriously injured, then what? ChatGPT won't take any responsibility.

I have so many issues with our current health system but an alternative is not an unreliable search tool that takes no responsibility for the information it provides.
by cameronrye | 2026-01-11 00:31:36+00:00
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by Animats | 2026-01-11 00:32:17+00:00
In the Rust graphics community, we have My First Renderer about four times, and no good renderers. It's about a year of work to get to where you can load the standard glTF examples and render them. Those are all small static scenes. Then you hit the scaling, performance, and dynamic update issues, where it gets hard.

The effort level for a good renderer in Rust is not yet known, but it's above two developer years. I'd guess three to five. Currently, there are three failed efforts and one in progress with some EU funding.

For multi-platform (desktop, laptop, browser, phone) add another year or two. All those use Vulkan, but with slightly different subsets and constraints.

I'm a user of renderers, not a developer of one.
by sublinear | 2026-01-11 00:33:12+00:00
Has this not always been "the meta" everywhere for all of human history (and nature)? It's the fundamental driving force in favor of "diversity" always winning out over time. It's diffusion.

It's definitely there in sports teams, jobs, politics, etc.

There's a natural limit to this effect. The downside is that being a big fish in a small pond means you may not leave the pond without a longer term goal beyond it, and there's a saturation point of talent beyond which any competitive advantage is minimal.

This ultimately does not really impact the lesser schools much unless they were starved for talent for too long and needed to raise the bar. Migration patterns have an ebb and flow.
by jackhuman | 2026-01-11 00:33:13+00:00
I first took a css courses to get the basics then didn’t do much with it, then tailwind came out. I had used bootstrap, but always struggled to get stuff to look nice. I’m not doing web dev most of the time. So it was much easier to memorize tailwind utility classes than css. These days with ui frameworks like daisy, shadcn, tailwind is pretty easy for doing something simple for an IT dev tool but still customize it.

For creativity, I wished I had the time to get really good with css. It really seems to have grown a lot. Using sveltekit, its really easy to get component scoped css
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-11 00:35:13+00:00
Were these contributions not a radical act against zero-sum games in the first place? And now you're gonna let the zero-sum people win by restricting your own outputs to similarly zero-sum endeavors?

I don't wanna look a gift horse in the mouth here. I'm happy to have benefited from whatever contributions were originally forthcoming and I wouldn't begrudge anybody for no longer going above and beyond and instead reverting to normal behavior.

I just don't get it, it's like you're opposed to people building walls, but you see a particularly large wall which makes you mad, so your response is to go build a wall yourself.
by sejje | 2026-01-11 00:35:15+00:00
They offer (real) poker at some casinos. It's standard NLHE usually 100-200bb max buyin, sometimes match the stack etc.

Most common game spread is 9-handed $200 max $1/$2 NLHE. It's exactly like the game on the link, except more players and lower stakes.

In the game, you try to win the money of the other 8 players, not of the casino. The casino takes a rake each hand, and a player with a large enough edge can overcome it. The edge might be you're excellent, or it might be they're terrible (or drunk). But the house gets paid to deal each hand.

In the long term, poker outcomes are determined by skill. In the short term, they're luck. In the medium term, both. Most people never reach the long term, it's a lot of hands.

There's also table games, similar to blackjack, that they call "three card poker" etc. These can't be beat, they favor the house. Standard table game, with a poker flavor. I've never played one of these.
by jsight | 2026-01-11 00:36:35+00:00
TBH, if everyone involved is invested in what is being said, you don't need to be in person and you don't need to shut laptops.

If that is the majority of your meetings, you are in a good place.

The mistake is to think the rules are what makes the meeting useful. Having the right audience, an agenda, and appropriate expectations for the outcomes are the useful things.
by AIorNot | 2026-01-11 00:36:41+00:00
I used to work in ISS mission control, this is not an emergency return but an early return

Also coming down on the Soyuz is pretty routine and only takes a few hours- I’d say it was overall a far less risky situation than being in Antarctic on a deep ocean vessel with appendicitis etc

We have dozens and (hundreds behind them) of men and women monitoring those folks from a global network of control centers 24 hrs a day- The station is mostly commanded from the ground and plans and procedures exist for everything

- if anything its all over orchestrated and over-planned in my opinion, owing to national politics, corporate contracts and international bureaucracy

Is it risky- yes obviously-but I’d argue its less risky then being out at the south pole in winter

See: https://nasawatch.com/iss-news/crew-medical-telecon-summary/
by martin_drapeau | 2026-01-11 00:36:57+00:00
They exist to protect the creator/inventor and allows them to get an ROI on their invested time/effort. But honestly today, the abundance of content, especially that can be generated by LLM, completely breaks this. We're overwhelmed with choice. Content has been comodotized. People will need to come to grasp with that and find other ways to get an ROI.

The article does provide a hint: "Operate". One needs to get paid for what LLMs cannot do. A good example is Laravel. They built services like Forge, Cloud, Nightwatch around open source.
by p-e-w | 2026-01-11 00:37:15+00:00
Because between the 1970s and 1990s, Western nations decided that private operations should be the default for everything except where the law specifically requires state institutions, instead of the other way round.

In many countries, essential services like hospitals, drinking water supply, airport security, schools, even prisons are now partially or fully privatized. It seems insane when you think about it, but that’s what your grandparents voted for.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-11 00:37:35+00:00
>GrapheneOS is not solving the actual interesting problem

Consumers don't care how interesting the developer's problems are. They want their own problems to be solved and GrapheneOS does a better job of that.

>running on an entirely mainline kernel

Google already did that work years ago. Android will work on a mainline kernel. Just like with x86 the mainline kernel needs to support the hardware e you want to use though.
by ryukoposting | 2026-01-11 00:38:21+00:00
This mirrors my experience. Most stuff you do on Windows "just works" on Linux nowadays, and when it doesn't, there are low-friction alternatives.

The one pain point for me is film and book scanning. AFAICT there are exactly zero Linux software packages that will play nice with my Epson V800 or my Fujitsu SV600. I keep a Windows laptop around (second-gen ThinkPad X1 since you asked) and its only job is to talk to those devices. Firewall doesn't let it get on the internet, its only network access is to move scans onto my NAS.
by cogman10 | 2026-01-11 00:38:39+00:00
> The same one who just said PE isn't allowed to buy any more residential real estate?

We'll see. That was just an EO. That doesn't really have the force of law behind it. There's not a regulatory body (AFAIK) that would or could prevent PE from gobbling up a home.

But if there's a route to stop it then I'm not opposed to it. PE buying essential goods and industries is bad for everyone.
by andy99 | 2026-01-11 00:38:51+00:00
Government is probably the worst actor to run healthcare facilities. It’s not that different from PE, except with more administrative bloat. I’d be curious to compare US PE run facilities with government run facilities in Canada.

There is not an easy answer here, it basically a cost centre that whoever runs it, the welfare state is incentivized to spend as little as possible on it. PE is almost certainly a bad solution. If they can destroy a restaurant or other low impact business, I hate to think what they’d do to businesses that care for people. You’d get the healthcare equivalent of Burger King. But with government you get the equivalent of the DMV.
Show HN: I made 25 tech predictions and mass-published them
by JoseOSAF | 2026-01-11 00:39:17+00:00
I did something that might be incredibly stupid.
I made 25 specific predictions about what will happen in tech over the next 6 months — and published all of them with deadlines before I could chicken out.
Not vague "AI will grow" predictions. Specific, falsifiable claims like:

Medical AI will face mandatory safety requirements within 18 months (regulatory signals are screaming)
There's a ~6 month window in AI infrastructure before consolidation locks out new entrants
Browser agents hit mainstream faster than current discourse suggests

Each prediction has a confidence score, a hard deadline, and what would prove me wrong.
Why would I do this?
Because I'm tired of pundits making unfalsifiable claims and retroactively declaring victory. "I predicted crypto would struggle" — okay, when? By how much? What counts as struggling?
So I'm doing the opposite. Public predictions. Specific deadlines. No editing after the fact.
The first verification check runs January 24. I'll publish results whether they make me look smart or completely delusional.
A few already make me uncomfortable — some have conviction scores above 75%, which feels overconfident for 6-month horizons. But that's the point. If I'm not risking being wrong, I'm not actually predicting anything.
All 25: https://asof.app/alpha
What's your most contrarian take on what happens in tech this year? Curious what predictions HN would make with actual deadlines attached.
by MichaelApproved | 2026-01-11 00:39:23+00:00
I used to play A LOT at low and high levels.

At low levels, playing is ABC simple and mostly about following basic strategy for starting hands and pot adds for chasing. Don’t get fancy and keep your temperament steady and you’ll win.

To a slight degree, you can do better with reading players and identifying them in broad ways (wild, conservative, confused, etc.) but don’t let that allow you to get fancy. Stick to the basic fundamental strategy for hands, position, and pot odds to crush lower level games.
by lifetimerubyist | 2026-01-11 00:39:40+00:00
Part of it was the game just didn’t play nice with Wayland, and since I use Gnome I don’t have an X11 session available. I could’ve tried on a different DE but didn’t want to install a bunch of extra bloat; yet I installed a whole other Os…sigh

shrugs

Maybe I’ll try switching to KDE and see if it works better under X11 there.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-11 00:39:44+00:00
> if we disregard all long term incentives, who cares about space?

The short-term incentives string together into a long-term plan.

> Our climate is getting less hospitable, right now, in our lifetime. Storms are stronger, wildfires are more frequent and severe, we're beginning to strain our fresh water aquifers, etc. We are seeing really alarming rates of decline of flying insect biomass and other signs of an ecosystem in distress, and that ecosystem provides us with trillions of dollars of value

Which has been enough urgency to do what exactly?

> Solar, wind, etc. are also getting more and more competitive with fossil fuels

Great example of folks pursuing short-term profit incentives making progress towards a long-term goal.

> if this is true, then wouldn't you say, by your logic, that this is a near term incentive for developing sustainable technologies?

If we try. Yes. If we gut those programmes, no. (For the technology benefits we just have to try.)

> we have different values and different levels of skepticism (or perhaps are skeptical of different things) but broadly/directionally agree

I think so too.

I think some people are motivated by stewardship and others by exploration. Focusing one one at the expense of the other is a false economy. And pursuing both doesn’t necessarily mean a long-term trade-off.
by dboreham | 2026-01-11 00:39:48+00:00
Full sized dogs can kill and eat a human. Full sized sand cat (or whatever they began as) can't eat a human. It's another domestication filter: "can't be able to easily eat a human".

Years ago I was walking along the beach on a pacific island (probably Rarotonga). I'd noticed dogs running about (individually, not in a pack) and remarked how docile they seemed. Mentioned this to a local I ran into to which he responded "any that wasn't docile went in the Umu".
by goose0004 | 2026-01-11 00:40:03+00:00
That's an awesome tool! I think textclip.sh solves a different problem though (correct me if I'm wrong - this is the first I've been exposed to it). Compression at the URL/transport layer helps with sharing prompts, but the token count still hits you once the text is decompressed and fed into the model. The LLM sees the full uncompressed text.

The approach with GlyphLang is to make the source code itself token-efficient. When an LLM reads something like `@ GET /users/:id { $ user = query(...) > user }`, that's what gets tokenized (not a decompressed version). The reduced tokenization persists throughout the context window for the entire session.

That said, I don't think they're mutually exclusive. You could use textclip.sh to share GlyphLang snippets and get both benefits.