MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vladdoster | 2026-01-15 06:09:02+00:00
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by pathartl | 2026-01-15 06:09:19+00:00
It's an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely believe that 11 is the best version of Windows yet. I've been using computers for 30 years and you're right, everyone has _always_ complained about Windows. The only reason people have a fondness for XP is because it was pretty much the world's first Windows. It's the OS that was used to connect the world, and IE being (for the time) the competent browser played a huge role in that.
by solumunus | 2026-01-15 06:09:40+00:00
You should know better than to form a opinion from one study. I could show you endless examples of a study concluding untrue things, endless…

I’ve been full time (almost solo) building an ERP system for years and my development velocity has gone roughly 2x. The new features are of equal quality, everything is code reviewed, everything is done in my style, adhering to my architectural patterns. Not to mention I’ve managed to build a mobile app alongside my normal full time work, something I wouldn’t have even had the time to attempt to learn about without the use of agents.

So do you think I’m lying or do you just think my eyes are deceiving me somehow?
by AngryData | 2026-01-15 06:10:16+00:00
Well first of all people shouldn't have to pay an extra tax to go online, no matter how small, because that $1 won't be $1 for more than a year even if it was legislated to start that way.

Also if such identification cards are that easy to get, it is inevitable that the majority of kids are going to get access to them. I or somebody else could go across town to different stores, get 30 different ID cards, and then sell them for $15 a piece. And that is of course assuming foreign states and people don't break or circumvent the situation and sell ID codes online.
by postalcoder | 2026-01-15 06:10:35+00:00
I agree. Someone here posted a drop-in for grep that added the ability to do hybrid text/vector search but the constant need to re-index files was annoying and a drag. Moreover, vector search can add a ton of noise if the model isn't meant for code search and if you're not using a re-ranker.

For all intents and purposes, running gpt-oss 20B in a while loop with access to ripgrep works pretty dang well. gpt-oss is a tool calling god compared to everything else i've tried, and fast.
by randyburden | 2026-01-15 06:11:44+00:00
Awesome. We've been using Sparrow-0 in our platform since launch, and I'm excited to move to Sparrow-1 over the next few days. Our training and interview pre-screening products rely heavily on Tavus's AI avatars, and this upgrade (based on the video in your blog post) looks like it addresses some real pain points we've run into. Really nice work.
by t-3 | 2026-01-15 06:12:51+00:00
Scales are fine, but you're going to need scoops anyway. However, once you've made a recipe before, you probably won't need the scale to make it a second time. Volume measuring equipment is useful for more than measurement, can be easily multiplied or halved, never needs calibration, charging or changing of batteries, and you're going to be estimating anyway once you've gotten familiar with a recipe. It's also very easy to estimate without any standard measuring equipment at all.
by crazysim | 2026-01-15 06:12:56+00:00
"It’s a testament to their persistence that they’re managed to keep this up for over 10 years, and I for one will be buying Denis/Masha/whoever a well deserved cup of coffee."

https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-...

And one where the author's cool with whoever is running archive.today.
by graphpilled | 2026-01-15 06:14:49+00:00
Hi HN, I'm a computer systems engineering student in Mexico who switched from film school. I built CineGraphs because my filmmaker friends and I kept hitting the same wall—we'd have a vague idea for a film but no structured way to explore where it could go. Every AI writing tool we tried output generic, formulaic slop. I didn't want to build another ChatGPT wrapper, so I went a different route.
The idea is simple: you input a rough concept, and the tool generates branching narrative paths visualized as a graph. You can then sculpt those branches into a structured screenplay format and export to Fountain for use in professional screenwriting software.
For the training data, I spent a month curating 100 films I consider high-quality cinema—Godard, Kurosawa, Brakhage, and others. I built a 1000+ line extraction pipeline using Qwen3-VL to pull narrative structure, characters, and themes from each film with subtitles enabled. From those extractions I generated a 10K example dataset and fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct with a LoRA optimized for probabilistic story branching. The graph visualization is built with React Flow.
We've been using it ourselves to break through second-act problems and explore narrative directions we wouldn't have considered otherwise. The branching format forces you to think in possibilities rather than committing too early.
You can try it at https://cinegraphs.ai/ — the free tier gives you 3 projects. Would love feedback on the generation quality and whether the graph interface feels intuitive for your workflow.
by sublinear | 2026-01-15 06:15:00+00:00
You do realize the developers only "know the code best" because they're busy writing code all day, right?

Nobody wants to be held more accountable with less control over the result.

The moment you tell the devs to focus on working with AI is the moment their guess is as good as anyone else's what the hell is going on. You're not going to squeeze more productivity this way.
by josephg | 2026-01-15 06:16:55+00:00
Again, can you provide an example or two? Its hard to agree or disagree without an example.

I think all C++ wild template stuff can be done via proc macros. Eg, in rust you can add #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] to have a highly performant JSON parser & serializer. And thats just lovely. But I might be wrong? And maybe its ugly? Its hard to tell without real examples.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-15 06:18:10+00:00
Baking--along with fermentation, curing, and certain brines or other solutions--is the subset of cooking where accuracy of the masses of ingredients matters more than most others.

And yet still you are right you must often adjust significantly in baking for other factors (temperature + yeast activity, humidity, flour grind and composition, and general feel on kneading).
by inejge | 2026-01-15 06:18:22+00:00
> But why not have the developer that wrote the code guide the AI to generate the content? They know the code best.

Knowing the code and knowing how to make the code, or the interface to the code, comprehensible to another user, are different things. Just like with UIs, and the fact that an expert is not necessarily the best teacher.

Anyhow, the age of monumental feats of technical writing is past. Too expensive, and the subject is too volatile for the most part. Economics dictate that we'll have to deal with the cheapest possible docs. We already do.
by ajoseps | 2026-01-15 06:19:32+00:00
There’s been multiple threads on HN front page that have been about this for the last week as well as protests in certain US cities like LA and SF.

I don’t know if you’re being willfully dishonest or you’re genuinely oblivious.

EDIT: also Renee Good’s killing is a domestic issue and is much closer to home for most Americans than Iran. It is not surprising that there is a lot of chatter about it.
by antonvs | 2026-01-15 06:19:42+00:00
RBAC doesn't help. Prompt injection is when someone who is authorized causes the LLM to access external data that's needed for their query, and that external data contains something intended to provoke a response from the LLM.

Even if you prevent the LLM from accessing external data - e.g. no web requests - it doesn't stop an authorized user, who may not understand the risks, from pasting or uploading some external data to the LLM.

There's currently no known solution to this. All that can be done is mitigation, and that's inevitably riddled with holes which are easily exploited.

See https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
by AngryData | 2026-01-15 06:20:15+00:00
That is funny, because the vast majority of leftists, whether it is progressives, social democrats, socialists, or Marxists or what have you would complain that schools mostly ignore leftist ideals in favor of free market capitalism, conservative/traditional US political theory and civics, and propagandized history that always assumes the US was a good guy acting in good faith.
by yesfitz | 2026-01-15 06:20:27+00:00
Trailer parks have prefabricated housing rather than true trailers. These prefabs can technically be moved, but not easily or cheaply, essentially tying them to the lot. RVs can be moved easily and cheaply.

So no, this is not exactly a trailer park because it separates housing from the real estate.

I'm not pitching the RV Parking Garage concept as an ideal or even plausible solution, but as an example of a way to disrupt the housing market in developed metros.

My goal is to hear some other ideas to decrease average rents while requiring little to no government/regulatory involvement.
by cuuupid | 2026-01-15 06:20:39+00:00
The first time I met Tavus, their engineers (incl Brian!) were perfectly willing to sit down and build their own better Infiniband to get more juice out of H100s. There is pretty much nobody working on latency and realtime at the level they are, Sparrow-1 would be an defining achievement for most startups but will just be one of dozens for Tavus :)
by dwattttt | 2026-01-15 06:21:30+00:00
> As with C, there is nothing preventing anyone from writing all of that generated code by hand. It is just far more work and much less maintainable than e.g. using C++20.

It's also still less elegant, but compile time codegen for specialisation is part of the language (build system?) with build.rs & macros. serde makes strong use of this to generate its serialisation/deserialisation code.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 06:21:35+00:00
> The average new vehicle price in the US is 50k, people are not buying the base model.

$50K is much closer to the $40K base model than the $80K platinum model.

Everyone loves to cite the platinum model as if all the contractors or CEOs or whoever were bashing today are driving it, but most people are not buying the most expensive models.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-15 06:22:20+00:00
The imprecision of volumetric measurements can absolutely ruin much baking, and many other recipes based on things like surface areas, or where the perception of flavours does not scale linearly with things like either volume or mass of the ingredient.

You're right volumes seem easier, at first blush, but the cost of this easiness is a dramatic / considerable reduction in consistency, compared to when measuring by mass.

Once you switch to regularly scaling by mass (just as a guideline, and still adjusting to taste, texture, and other factors), you'll realize the apparent easiness of volumes is pure illusion, and actually makes getting good results much harder.
by ggm | 2026-01-15 06:22:36+00:00
I'm not in favour of the WH proposal in any case, but specifically there's no economic justifier in materials extraction, strategically. It would be more sensible to continue to invest in onshore and close ally mining and production/processing, and get source diversity.

If the problem was sourcing them, entering into a strategic alliance with Danish and Greenland interests is pretty straightforward. I can't see this justifying state seizure in any circumstances.
by AngryData | 2026-01-15 06:23:56+00:00
100% if those are the alternatives, I would never trust the top results for google which we all know are seriously gamed. In a number of states librarians are mandatory reporters, and even in places where they aren't if kids start asking them such questions they are going to call either their school or the kid's parents which could cause a much worse situation considering they were avoiding asking their parents in the first place.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 06:25:46+00:00
You’re making a big assumption. LLM providers aren’t necessarily taking a loss on the marginal cost of inference. It’s when you include R&D and training costs that it requires the capital inputs. They’ve come out and said as much.

The Claude Code plans may not be operating at a loss either. Most people don’t use up 100% of their plan. Few people do. A lot of it goes idle.
by kqr | 2026-01-15 06:26:29+00:00
If your goal is a different perspective on calculation, I warmly recommend learning mental maths with logarithms too. Not only does it complement slide rule practise, but it also gives you a linear/additive understanding of multiplication/powers which is useful.

I don't understand complex numbers and time--frequency domain translations but I suspect a log understanding feels similar to those.

https://entropicthoughts.com/learning-some-logarithms
by ggm | 2026-01-15 06:26:45+00:00
The bottom line is there is no honour amongst thieves. Even sold as parts if he had dismantled them himself at some point a fence would get caught with phone parts they had no audit trail for, and part # would line up with congress shipments of secured devices.

This theft was doomed from birth. Far smarter to have sold the phone IMEI to a foreign power for a shitload more money and get out to a non extradition nation state.
by no-name-here | 2026-01-15 06:27:54+00:00
I'm not agreeing with the OP proposal, but with LLMs today, no matter how you license your code and no matter what ToS or other prohibition you put on it, there does not seem to be any way to prevent LLMs from absorbing and using it to implement a replacement unless you choose to only do closed source code - there's no "opt out" for someone's source code, let alone an opt-in (again, unless we give up open source). (A very different situation from the AI companies themselves, where companies such as Anthropic make Claude Code closed source, and their ToS provide strict prohibitions on using it to work on something that could compete with them - can you imagine if Windows or MacOS's ToS prohibited people from using their OS to work on a competing OS, of if the VSCode ToS prohibited people from using VSCode to work on another editor?)
by mycelia | 2026-01-15 06:28:11+00:00
Hi! This benchmarking was done w/ DeepSeek-V3's published FP8 weights. And Blackwell performance is still being optimized. SGLang hit 14k/s/B200 though, pretty cool writeup here: https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-09-25-gb200-part-2/
by lambda | 2026-01-15 06:28:53+00:00
That was a shitpost, it wasn't harassment.

And he apologized to you and handed the domain over to you.

And now you've decided, 8 years later, to blow up your relationship with a number of other folks in the industry, over a shitpost and some mild criticism?

Please, for the love of god, just drop this whole thing. Dredging this up from years ago has lost you a supplier of a popular product already, and a number of customers. I know a bunch of people who used to want to buy from the cool woman owned hacker manufacturer, and now won't touch it with a 10 foot pole after everything you've done.

And please, for the love of god, stop hiding behind Limor when people are criticizing you. You have repeatedly claimed that people are harassing Limor, when every single piece of criticism I've seen here has been directed at you or the Adafruit social accounts that you post through. And stop using your child as a shield as well.

You are a public figure, and sometimes people are going to disagree with you. They might find your use of GenAI image models to be problematic. They may find your over-hyping of drama happening in the open source hardware community to be a bit much. But you know what? That's OK. People can disagree with you, and make jokes about that disagreement.

But claiming that you are being harassed because people occasionally make a joke at your expense, blowing up relationships with your suppliers, driving away customers because you expose emails and deadnames (or legal names, in cases where people go by pseudonyms online), and doing it all while using your wife and child as a shield is not very professional behavior.

Step back, take a deep breath, pick your battles, own up to your mistakes, apologize for the places where you've gone wrong, and stop using your wife and child as a shield, and maybe you can repair some of this reputational damage. But you really need to get some distance from this.
by aggregator-ios | 2026-01-15 06:28:58+00:00
Spot on. The misconceptions, even from other EV owners is astounding. People are constantly confused about kWh vs kW, Amps, voltage, temperature, range, mi/kWh, etc. Even PhD Computer Science and other highly educated folks who have owned EVs for a long time can't quite communicate the difference between those units of measurement. So of course when a curious person asks them or others, they only quote the falsehoods that someone told them.

Some examples:

1. I constantly see EV owners install 60A/11kWh service, costing them on average $10k when their driving needs don't require it.

2. People thinking they need more than 300mi of range and think they will run out of batteries like they do on their headphones.

All of this needs an understanding of the aforementioned units and basic physics. But, you're not going to get that by just talking to people. Salespeople are especially not going to do that, they can't even do that for combustion cars.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-15 06:29:27+00:00
> As someone who's just been trying to buy a crappy used truck to haul some crap to the dump a couple times a year,

I don’t get it. Why would you buy, maintain, and park an entire second vehicle for something that is beyond trivially cheap to hire out?

If you wanted to DIY then renting a truck for the day makes more sense.
by Xylakant | 2026-01-15 06:29:32+00:00
Funny that you would propose such a practical and simple solution. This has been proposed by the Green Party in Berlin and I’m surprised you didn’t hear the wailing choir of house owners across the Atlantic. “Too impractical”, “too costly”, “who would pay for that?”.

Thing is, the current system works well for all people except the ones that want to walk on the icy pavement. Politicians aren’t responsible. House owners shed the responsibility to a contractor. Many contractors regard this essentially as largely free money and just weigh the cost of a potential lawsuit against the accumulated income. It’s extremely good at diluting the responsibility so that no affected individual can effectively do anything about it. Why change a system that works so well for all of the people except the ones affected by the outcome?
by isomorphic | 2026-01-15 06:29:32+00:00
The "We" is short for Westinghouse, or at least it was: Westinghouse Steered Stabilized Camera Mount, thus WESSCAM. Then they dropped an "S".

Granted pronouncing the name is ambiguous, Wes-cam or We-scam. But they're known well enough in the industry at this point that it's not a problem for them.
by mandw | 2026-01-15 06:30:04+00:00
I did feel my post was a bit unneeded when I added my edit :)

My point about the 30% was that you mentioned that he got in rust and attributed it to essentially, better algorithms in the rust lib he used. Once he knew that then its hard to say that rust is 'faster' but the point is valid and I accept that he gained performance by using the rust library.

My other point was that the speed of his code probably didn't matter at the time. If it was a problem in the past he probably would have taken the time to profile and gain some more speed. Sure you cant gain speed that can't be had but as you pointed out, it wasn't a language issue, it was an implementation of the library issue.

He could have arbitrarily used a different program that used a good library and the results reversed.

I also agree that most devs are not working down at that level of optimisation so the default libraries can help but at the same time it mostly doesnt matter if something takes 30% longer if that overall time is not a problem. If you are working on something where the speed really matters and you are trying to shave off milliseconds then you have to be that developer that can work C or Rust at that level.
by csomar | 2026-01-15 06:30:28+00:00
You can stop reading the article from here:

> Today's agents work well for focused tasks, but are slow for complex projects.

What does slow mean? Slower than humans? Need faster GPUs? What does it even imply? Too slow to produce the next token? Too slow in attempts to be usable? Need human intervention?

This piece is made and written to keep the bubble inflating further.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-15 06:30:50+00:00
Not excusing this malicious behavior, but I have to say, the mentioned blog post is a major dick move, too. Got quite the impression of a passive aggressive undertone, and there is clearly bittersweet irony in collecting and "archiving" an archiver's personal information from long ago traces. Maybe it's all some feud between two dicks, some backstory untold. Maybe the blog author wanted some information gone from archive.today, but was denied.