MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jart | 2026-01-01 04:56:09+00:00
Math is only useful when you apply it to something that has value, like knowledge. Warren Buffett got it by reading balance sheets all day. He'd see through all the smooth talking and marketing because of it. One of the things that makes the system broken these days is no one has time to do what he did. People just park their money in passive funds like VTI. I'd be surprised if even Vanguard read these companies balance sheets. Although I know the fund managers care a lot about environment social governance.
It Can Apply and Positive in Favor the Newton III Law on an Engine System Device
by monterrey | 2026-01-01 04:56:25+00:00
Is it possible to apply positive + in favor Newton III Motion Law as a dynamic system in a Motor Engine Device?

3rd Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at From of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1/Action, + 2/Reaction = Retrodynamic. / For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 2 Forces in 1 System.

RETRODYNAMIC Effect - Dextrogiro/Action => vs <= Levogiro/Reaction Phenomena Effect. / Rotor/RPM VS InFlow/Way. 3d Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at Front of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1/Action, + 2/Reaction = Retrodynamic.

"Changing rotation inside a mass makes it possible to change its inertial properties. It is the equation for a jet motion without rejection of any mass.” Albert Einstein.

The logic of creation of an inertial propulsion system is thus: Any motion is rotation ---- Rotation of a matter generates a space-time Torsion ---Torsion of space - time is described by Ricci torsion --- Ricci torsion is an inertial field-----the rest mass of any object is determined by its inertial field---- operating by fields and forces of inertia inside of mass we can create inertial propulsion system which moves according to the equation [m (t) dv/dt =-vdm/dt].

Newton's Third Law of Motion: III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

It is the sum of both (two) Forces - one to other / Are two Forces in one system.

The formula of the Retrodinamic effect is a simple mathematical summation. What is Dextrogiro plus Levogiro, gives the result of the sum, of what is the total, which is the retrodynamic effect. But keeps doing Exponential.

http://stateoftheartnovelinflowtech.blogspot.com

https://padlet.com/gearturbine/un2slbar3s94
by xp84 | 2026-01-01 04:56:42+00:00
Is this some sort of new LLM that wastes GPU cycles accusing everyone else of being an LLM?

Seriously, I’ve seen this exact genre of comment daily on hn lately and I don’t get what you’re gaining by trying to sniff out bots. Not what anyone has to gain by truly botting on here. Nobody is selling their HN accounts right? And how many pretty run-of-the-mill comments like the above would it take to have an account worth selling anyway even if there was a market for that? 100,000?
by henning | 2026-01-01 04:57:35+00:00
Yep, lots of different ways to get jacked. That means if you couldn't care less about strength, you can do pretty much any decent exercise that targets the muscle(s) you want to grow in a very wide rep range. Most people want a combination of both size and strength, so you can just do some sets of 5-10 if you aren't already. If you want to have a strong deadlift or squat or whatever, you should train that movement. Not as complicated as fitness social media people want to make it seem: train for what you want.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-01 05:00:12+00:00
The point is, why would they bother when there’s cheaper and easier ways to do it? A high tech laser system is great for shooting stuff down because it replaces missile systems that cost even more. If you want to cripple people, why would you use it instead of a cheap gun or baton?

“It could be used to hurt people” doesn’t mean much. You at least need “it could be used to hurt people, and it’s better at it in at least one way than what’s already available.”
by bsder | 2026-01-01 05:00:15+00:00
> So what's your point other than trying to argue over the definition of poor?

Because people make political decisions about programs that support the "poor" and the definition matters.

In particular, if a program supports the "poor" and winds up handing money to someone who is making $100K, there are a lot of people who will scream about that and attempt to cut off all support for all poor people.

This was the whole the point behind the racist "welfare queens" dog whistles, for example.
by tguvot | 2026-01-01 05:01:02+00:00
from haaretz article about Hamas plans:

Indeed, Abu Zaydeh is well aware that for the past two years the
Hamas leadership had been talking about implementing "the
last promise" (alwaed al'akhir) – a divine promise regarding
the end of days, when all human beings will accept Islam.
Sinwar and his circle ascribed an extreme and literal meaning
to the notion of "the promise, " a belief that pervaded all their
messages: in speeches, sermons, lectures in schools and
universities. The cardinal theme was the implementation of the
last promise, which included the forced conversion of all
heretics to Islam, or their killing.

https://judaic.arizona.edu/sites/judaic.arizona.edu/files/20...
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-01 05:01:07+00:00
> Also that they blocked the term "Meshcore" on their Reddit Sub leaves a bad taste. Both projects share similar problems - they should cooperate instead of fight each other.

Oh yeah I saw that behaviour on the lineageos irc too. Mentioning microG gets you instabanned there. Micro G is an excellent Google Play Services alternative which is open source. But the lineage guys hate it because they're afraid of pissing Google off.
by NoToP | 2026-01-01 05:04:09+00:00
The 1972 Knapp Commission into police corruption introduced some really great vocabulary to express "the rank and file are complicit".

"Meat eaters" and "grass eaters".

The meat eaters were the officers that actively pursued opportunities to be corrupt and spent a great deal of time on the job engaging in corrupt activities instead of police work. The grass eaters were essentially normal officers who would turn a blind eye or do things that had been normalized such as accepting or soliciting small bribes opportunistically.

In the words of the report, "the grass eaters are the heart of the problem".
by crystal_revenge | 2026-01-01 05:04:11+00:00
That must have been a long time back. Having lived through the time when web pages were served through CGI and mobile phones only existed in movies, when SVMs where the new hotness in ML and people would write about how weird NNs were, I feel like I've seen a lot more concrete progress in the last few decades than this year.

This year honestly feels quite stagnant. LLMs are literally technology that can only reproduce the past. They're cool, but they were way cooler 4 years ago. We've taken big ideas like "agents" and "reinforcement learning" and basically stripped them of all meaning in order to claim progress.

I mean, do you remember Geoffrey Hinton's RBM talk at Google in 2010? [0] That was absolutely insane for anyone keeping up with that field. By the mid-twenty teens RBMs were already outdated. I remember when everyone was implementing flavors of RNNs and LSTMs. Karpathy's character 2015 RNN project was insane [1].

This comment makes me wonder if part of the hype around LLMs is just that a lot of software people simply weren't paying attention to the absolutely mind-blowing progress we've seen in this field for the last 20 years. But even ignoring ML, the world's of web development and mobile application development have gone through incredible progress over the last decade and a half. I remember a time when JavaScript books would have a section warning that you should never use JS for anything critical to the application. Then there's the work in theorem provers over the last decade... If you remember when syntactic sugar was progress, either you remember way further back than I do, or you weren't paying attention to what was happening in the larger computing world.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU

1. https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-01 05:04:27+00:00
>> By that logic, if I hand a s/w engineering team a PostIt note saying "add feature X", then all they are doing is "revise and refine" the solution I made, not generating a solution.

> You have gone from me talking about just "revising and refining a post" to someone generating whole software features using LLM.

I simply extrapolated your stated position by applying it to another, relatable, situation. The use of "add feature X" was to keep the response succinct and served as a placeholder.

> Next time, you might want to review the HN guidelines and be less combative

And you might want to review same after originally authoring:

These incessant complaints about LLM-written text don't
help and they make the comment threads really boring. HN
should really introduce a rule to ban such complaints just
like it bans complaints about tangential annoyances like
article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button
breakage
by mystraline | 2026-01-01 05:05:55+00:00
No. It serves as a defense for people to criticize government. Its why I can insult and talk terrible of president Turnip (spit) and not fear the gulag.

People who 'advocate' for threats, assault, or death of people should never be permitted. Like, for example, Kiwi Farms. They've advocated for online bullying, threats, and ended up getting a bunch of people killed.
by snailmailman | 2026-01-01 05:06:25+00:00
I get all those same ads on YouTube. It’s easily >90% complete scam products, and most of the non-scam products are at least breaking YouTube’s own “rules” regarding what content is allowed. Like if one of the reportable reasons is “addictive product” why do I see so many ads for nicotine products?

I tried to report an ad that had literal nudity/porn in it. The report page was acting funky so I pulled it up manually in safari where I wasn’t logged in. and it made be log in to report the ad because the ad was age restricted. why is it running as an advertisement at all then? Clearly it got flagged somewhere to be age restricted.

YouTube has approximately zero incentive to fix this. They are a complete monopoly and there isn’t any consequence to any of the blatantly illegal products that I see advertised on their platform. I’ve seen ads for drugs and firearms. The firearm ad was claiming it was “easy to sneak past security” but the highest consequence is that the ad account gets nuked and another immediately takes its place.
by breppp | 2026-01-01 05:07:06+00:00
FYI that source is associated with Hamas presence in Europe, acts as a Hamas propaganda piece and previously invented news such as Palestinian organ theft by Israel.

here is the organization founders Ramy Abdu and Mazen Kahel posing with Ismaeil Haniye the leader of Hamas https://www.facebook.com/DrArafatShoukri/photos/t.1000537951...
by coffeefirst | 2026-01-01 05:08:48+00:00
Well, this is the internet. Arguing about everything is its favorite pastime.

But generally yes, I think back to Mongo/Node/metaverse/blockchain/IDEs/tablets and pretty much everything has had its boosters and skeptics, this is just more... intense.

Anyway I've decided to believe my own eyes. The crowds say a lot of things. You can try most of it yourself and see what it can and can't do. I make a point to compare notes with competent people who also spent the time trying things. What's interesting is most of their findings are compatible with mine, including for folks who don't work in tech.

Oh, and one thing is for sure: shoving this technology into every single application imaginable is a good way to lose friends and alienate users.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-01 05:08:52+00:00
> the difference between high and low load programming within [newbies]

Fixed that.

As the comment you replied to noted, newbie gains are remarkably sensitive to any stimulation, and insensitive to the type of stimulation. Because going from zero to any resistance training is a massive stimulus increase, on a long-term under stimulated system.

The study does confirm that. The data it produces is useful.

What this study doesn't do, is help newbies (or anyone) choose the most effective practices to adopt. Because 10 weeks is way too short to identify best practices for any sustained program.
by aoeusnth1 | 2026-01-01 05:09:52+00:00
It has! CLs/engineer increased by 10% this year.

LLMs from late 2024 were nearly worthless as coding agents, so given they have quadrupled in capability since then (exponential growth, btw), it's not surprising to see a modestly positive impact on SWE work.

Also, I'm noticing you're not explaining yourself :)
by handoflixue | 2026-01-01 05:10:13+00:00
> LLMs are literally technology that can only reproduce the past.

Funny, I've used them to create my own personalized text editor, perfectly tailored to what I actually want. I'm pretty sure that didn't exist before.

It's wild to me how many people who talk about LLM apparently haven't learned how to use them for even very basic tasks like this! No wonder you think they're not that powerful, if you don't even know basic stuff like this. You really owe it to yourself to try them out.
Show HN: Forensic evidence of iOS mesh networking bypassing Airplane Mode
by TakeFlight007 | 2026-01-01 05:10:44+00:00
I found evidence of autonomous mesh networking on iOS during Airplane Mode. What am I missing?

Did forensic analysis on my iPhone during Airplane Mode isolation. Kernel stats show 2,657 packets transmitted and 84.5MB processed through mDNSResponder while interfaces report "inactive". Found a parallel utun2 tunnel bound to IDS framework that persists during isolation. Applied Shannon-Hartley theorem to verify the channel capacity supports this volume. Either I'm misunderstanding legitimate system behavior, or this is a covert channel. Reproducible steps and raw evidence included.

https://github.com/JGoyd/NeuralNet
by HPMOR | 2026-01-01 05:11:46+00:00
I think this is an open question still and very interesting. Ilya discussed this on the Dwarkesh podcast. But the capabilities of LLMs is clearly exponential and perhaps super exponential. We went from something that could string together incoherent text in 2022 to general models helping people like Terrance Tao and Scott Aaronson write new research papers. LLMs also beat IMO and the ICPC. We have entered the John Henry era for intellectual tasks...
by throwaway150 | 2026-01-01 05:14:39+00:00
> I simply extrapolated your stated position by applying it to another, relatable, situation.

The extrapolation led to something I didn't imply. If you're making the extrapolation to add a point in addition to what I said, I'm sure that'd have been very welcome if you hadn't posed it in a combative manner that comes across as a 'take down' of my comment.

Going back to where it all began:

> Using an LLM to generate a post with the implication it is the author's own thoughts is the quintessential definition of intellectual laziness.

Extrapolation, yes. But non sequitur because my comment not even remotely implied generating a whole post using LLM. So your extrapolation stands well on its own. I just don't see the need to pose it as a sort of "take down" on my comment.

What I find really funny is that in reality like you, I detest LLM-based plagiarism too. So we must be in agreement? Yet you manage to find disagreements where there are none and be combative about it. Well done, sir!

> And you might want to review same after originally authoring

I have. I've found nothing in the guidelines that forbid me from expressing my frustrations over the abundant supply of trite comments. Nothing there forbids me from begging the HN overlords to discourage trite comments about LLM-written text. They already discourage comments about tangential issues like website format, name collisions, back-button issues. They might as well discourage comments about LLM-written text. That was my request. The HN overlords may not pay heed to my request and that's fine. But after reading the guidelines, I don't see why I cannot make the request I've in my mind.
by donkeybeer | 2026-01-01 05:14:45+00:00
Its literally in the name, neoclassicism. All I am saying is why did you say its "farcical" that its a modern view of an old style?

I think it is a lazy copy paste of old tropes. I know because I can see these tendencies in myself too. I like some old styles and if I had my way I could keep listening to newer bands that replicate this style my whole life. But the thing is, without the original inspirational fire behind the style its just a nice copy.

I see you had dissed on brutalism some time before, I really don't understand why. I feel at least in some ways brutalism is a non-pastiche manner achieves things like the imposing sense of grandeur and power of classical architecture.
by KPGv2 | 2026-01-01 05:15:50+00:00
> That seems asinine to me

Until you realize that child pornography would be protected by the First Amendment without obscenity carved out.

The Miller Test is what defines obscenity, and it seems pretty reasonable to me: is it about gross sex according to the average person (not the most Karen person), and does it lack serious literary, political, scientific, or artistic merit.

Honestly, I'm not aware of a Supreme Court case that held something to be obscene that was IMO wrongly decided. Pornography is fine. Even lolicon (cartoon sex of children) has been protected under the First Amendment and not deemed obscene.
by nstart | 2026-01-01 05:19:30+00:00
The problem with X is that so many people who have no verifiable expertise are super loud in shouting "$INDUSTRY is cooked!!" every time a new model releases. It's exhausting and untrue. The kind of video generation we see might nail realism but if you want to use it to create something meaningful which involves solving a ton of problems and making difficult choices in order to express an idea, you run into the walls of easy work pretty quickly. It's insulting then for professionals to see manga PFPs on X put some slop together and say "movie industry is cooked!". It betrays a lack of understanding of what it takes to make something good and it gives off a vibe of "the loud ones are just trying to force this objectively meh-by-default thing to happen".

The other day there was that dude loudly arguing about some code they wrote/converted even after a woman with significant expertise in the topic pointed out their errors.

Gen AI has its promise. But when you look at the lack of ethics from the industry, the cacophony of voices of non experts screaming "this time it's really doom", and the weariness/wariness that set in during the crypto cycle, it's a natural tendency that people are going to call snake oil.

That said, I think the more accurate representation here is that HN as a whole is calling the hype snake oil. There's very little question anymore about the tools being capable of advanced things. But there is annoyance at proclamations of it being beyond what it really is at the moment which is that it's still at the stage of being an expertise+motivation multiplier for deterministic areas of work. It's not replacing that facet any time soon on its current trend (which could change wildly in 2026). Not until it starts training itself I think. Could be famous last words
Show HN: The Best Way to use MCPs with coding agents
by datron | 2026-01-01 05:21:02+00:00
Hey folks, I built Jilebi - an MCP server/runtime written in rust that gets its tools from javascript plugins. These plugins run in a deno sandboxed Runtime and need permissions to access file and network resources.

It simplifies creating and installing MCP servers. Give it a try! Right now I'm working on reducing the size of the executable - any tips would be appreciated.

Happy new year!
by wtallis | 2026-01-01 05:21:53+00:00
Most likely, it's just a matter of time and the NVIDIA DGX Spark is partly serving as a pipe cleaner product. They clearly need to work on power management, and solid Windows support may be more work than the Linux support they've shipped so far.

Mediatek-based laptops (other than the existing Chromebooks using what's more or less Mediatek phone chips) are one of the big things to keep an eye out for at CES next week. They have a solid market opportunity to provide an alternative ARM solution to compete against Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and upcoming X2 Elite: having a NVIDIA GPU would give Mediatek a huge advantage over one of Qualcomm's most pronounced weaknesses, and the CPU cores Mediatek is using are probably "good enough" for a GPU-focused system (mobile AI workstation or low-power gaming laptop).
by _heimdall | 2026-01-01 05:22:08+00:00
Avoiding scaling your lifestyle with tour current wealth seems like an extremely important lesson people could learn here. Very few people know what "enough" means to them.

Its probably worth noting that I mean "enough" in the context of consumption and physical goods. "Enough" wealth doesn't really matter, its only a number in a database or a piece of paper until you spend it.
by dangus | 2026-01-01 05:22:15+00:00
The odd part of this journey to me was basically:

1. We aren’t going to sell.

2. Confiding with your spouse with clear concerns about current levels of stress and time commitment.

3. We can resolve a lot of the stress and sustainability problems by (among other things) raising another funding round!?

I did a double take…isn’t that just inviting more stress, more pressure from investors, more expectation to grow and exit?

I find it hard to relate to this C-suite life and logic, it seems so hyper-capitalist and backwards. There are so many oddly revealing bits of this piece that are like a window into the world of an alien being compared to my perspective.
by jamster02 | 2026-01-01 05:24:00+00:00
> the Unicode string "√5" is representable as 4 UTF-8 bytes

As the other person pointed out, this is representing an irrational number unambiguously in a finite number of bits (8 bits in a byte). I fail to see how your original statement was careful :)

> representable in a finite number of digits or bits
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-01 05:24:10+00:00
It has some job postings yes but they are really few and far between. And really inconspicuous. And don't try to track us across the internet.

If all ads were like this we wouldn't hate them.

And I don't think they will start. It's good advertising for Ycombinator (I'd never heard of them before) and it doesn't cost a fortune to run really. They have one employee (or maybe 2 now?) and it all runs on one physical server. It's not a meta with a huge workforce and offices and datacenters all over the world.
by throw10920 | 2026-01-01 05:24:31+00:00
> There's not much argument to be had.

Yes, there's no argument because you're incapable of coming up with an argument because you don't have anything to base it on. You're just responding emotionally and trying to slander them because you know that they made a good point and you hate that.

> You've created a logical justification for a myopic, misanthropic world view.

It is neither. It is a quite reasonable worldview that the vast majority of the population subscribes to and finds rather acceptable.

> Many find reciprocation important in a relationship.

This is a non-answer, because you know that the answer is "no", but you can't bear to say it because that would be admitting that your position is inconsistent, yet you can't assert that the answer is "yes" because that's obviously insane.

Thank you for so eloquently refuting all of your own arguments.
by ewoodrich | 2026-01-01 05:25:07+00:00
Exactly. There was a stretch of 6 months or so right after ChatGPT was released where approximately 50% of front page posts at any given time were related to LLMs. And these days every other Show HN is some kind of agentic dev tool and Anthropic/OpenAI announcements routinely get 500+ comments in a matter of hours.