MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Bishonen88 | 2026-01-15 11:16:37+00:00
Similar experience here.

Did sign up for Claude Code myself this week, too, given the $10/month promo.
I have experience with AI by using AWS Kiro at work and directly prompting Claude Opus for convos. After just 2 days and ~5-6 vibe coding sessions in total I got a working Life-OS-App created for my needs.

- Clone of Todoist with the features that I actually use/want. Projects, Tags, due dates, quick adding with a todoist like text-aware input (e.g. !p1, Today etc.)

- A fantastical like calendar. Again, 80% of the features I used from Fantastical

- A Habit Tracker

- A Goal Tracker (Quarterly / Yearly)

- A dashboard page showing todays summary with single click edit/complete marking

- User authentication and sharing of various features (e.g. tasks)

- Docker deployment which will eventually run on my NAS

I'm going to add a few more things and cancel quite a few subscriptions.
It one-shots all tasks within minutes. It's wild. I can code but didn't bother looking at the code myself, because ... why.

Even though do not earn US Tech money, am tempted to buy the max subscription for a month or two although the price is still hard to swallow.

Claude and vibe coding is wild.
If I can clone todoist within a few vibe coding sessions and then implement any additional/new feature I want within minutes instead proposing, praying and then waiting for months, why would I pay $$$...
by weiwenhao | 2026-01-15 11:16:41+00:00
Nature's runtime architecture draws heavily from Go, with its GC similarly referencing Go's allocator and collector approaches. However, the use of mark-and-sweep GC inevitably leads to memory fragmentation issues. Virtual memory usage tends to advance progressively. In contrast, the span-based memory allocator avoids significant fragmentation problems during frequent memory releases and allocations.

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I also believe predictable memory management is crucial. An arena-based supplementary memory allocator could be the next key feature.
by ekidd | 2026-01-15 11:16:45+00:00
Yes. I have been building software and acting as tech lead for close to 30 years.

I am not even quite sure I know how to manage a team of more than two programmers right now. Opus 4.5, in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, can develop software almost as fast as I can write specs and review code. And it's just plain better at writing code than 60% of my graduating class was back in the day. I have banned at least one person from ever writing a commit message or pull request again, because Claude will explain it better.

Now, most people don't know to squeeze that much productivity out of it, most corporate procurement would take 9 months to buy a bucket if it was raining money outside, and it's possible to turn your code into unmaintainable slop at warp speed. And Claude is better at writing code than it is at almost anything else, so the rest of y'all are safe for a while.

But if you think that tech writers, or translators, or software developers are the only people who are going to get hit by waves of downsizing, then you're not paying attention.

Even if the underlying AI tech stalls out hard and permanently in 2026, there's a wave of change coming, and we are not ready. Nothing in our society, economy or politics is ready to deal with what's coming. And that scares me a bit these days.
by rsynnott | 2026-01-15 11:16:52+00:00
> The majority of Greenlanders want independence.

In the abstract, yes. In the specifics, maybe not so much:

> A poll in 2016 showed that there was a clear majority (64%) for full independence among the Greenlandic people,[25] but a poll in 2017 showed that there was a clear opposition (78%) if it meant a fall in living standards.

Greenland gets about 700m/year subvention, so about 15k per capita. Without that it would be very serious trouble, making actual independence (vs self-rule, which it largely already has) difficult. Realistically it's difficult for such a small country to be truly independent.
by kouteiheika | 2026-01-15 11:17:08+00:00
A natural language based smart home interface, perhaps?

Tiny LLMs are pretty much useless as general purpose workhorses, but where they shine is when you finetune them for a very specific application.

(In general this is applicable across the board, where if you have a single, specific usecase and can prepare appropriate training data, then you can often fine-tune a smaller model to match the performance of a general purpose model that is 10x its size.)
by jraph | 2026-01-15 11:17:10+00:00
> but if you acquire those skills yourself you shape your brain in a way that is definitely useful to you in many other aspects of life.

Yep, and reading you will feel less boring.

The uniform style of LLMs gets old fast and I wouldn't be surprised if it were a fundamental flaw due to how they work.

And it's not even sure speed gains from using LLMs make up for the skill loss in the long term.
by Helmut10001 | 2026-01-15 11:17:36+00:00
MARSTEK VENUS E 5.12kWh. Got it in August 25 for 1050,00 EUR. It is awesome how open it is designed, I was able to activate and automate it without adding it to my local network (wifi) or using the Marstek App even once. I wrote a blog post here [1].

[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2026-01-11_marstek-battery-homeassi...
by graemep | 2026-01-15 11:18:06+00:00
Self driving is not a commodity, because it is not fungible - you cannot take BYD's self driving and put in in your Tesla. Cars themselves are not fungible either although at the moment they are reasonably competitive markets for cheap cars (luxury cars less so).

If in two years time Tesla decides they are going to charge a subscription for self driving to work on cars sold before they decided to make it a subscription what do people who have those cars do? They can sell the car (hopefully), give up self driving, or pay up.

There are not that many manufacturers. Maybe few enough for pricing to be oligopolistic rather than perfect.

They may all adopt a subscription model which will let them sell cars cheaper. Maybe even at a loss - in much the same way that smart TVs are sold as a loss because of the value of the income generated by data collection. Most people do not understand the true cost of ongoing subscriptions so its quite likely to win if cars to cheap as a result.
by valdiorn | 2026-01-15 11:18:23+00:00
> if someone has deliberately hidden their identity online, knowingly disclosing that is malicious

That argument breaks down if the person hiding their identity is doing malicious things. If you hide behind anonymity and you're harassing people and sending threatening or hateful messages, disclosing their real identity is a public service.

Or could I set up an anonymous account, doxx people all day long for the lulz, and then cry wolf when you doxx me for being a prick? :)
by al_borland | 2026-01-15 11:19:17+00:00
I was given a prescription for XR. It took me a month or more to even try it, because I’d sleep in, then it would take me a while to get moving, and by that time I was worried it would still be active with the idealist it me would think I should go to bed. Something that didn’t last as long would give me much more control.
by nicbou | 2026-01-15 11:19:33+00:00
I write documentation for a living. Although my output is writing, my job is observing, listening and understanding. I can only write well because I have an intimate understanding of my readers' problems, anxieties and confusion. This decides what I write about, and how to write about it. This sort of curation can only come from a thinking, feeling human being.

I revise my local public transit guide every time I experience a foreign public transit system. I improve my writing by walking in my readers' shoes and experiencing their confusion. Empathy is the engine that powers my work.

Most of my information is carefully collected from a network of people I have a good relationship with, and from a large and trusting audience. It took me years to build the infrastructure to surface useful information. AI can only report what someone was bothered to write down, but I actually go out in the real world and ask questions.

I have built tools to collect people's experience at the immigration office. I have had many conversations with lawyers and other experts. I have interviewed hundreds of my readers. I have put a lot of information on the internet for the first time. AI writing is only as good as the data it feeds on. I hunt for my own data.

People who think that AI can do this and the other things have an almost insulting understanding of the jobs they are trying to replace.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-01-15 11:19:36+00:00
Most dont consider, that skirmishes dont have to make use of all military capabilities. Take a look at india vs china [0]. To be clear, those sticks-and-stones fights still cost lifes, are totally unnecessary and for a power-corrupted US soldier maybe unthinkable but it does not have to be an all out war. Maybe some ghandian unarmed european opposition is all it takes for the US opposition to find some traces of a spine.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2021_China–India_skirmish...
by roxolotl | 2026-01-15 11:20:07+00:00
It genuinely makes me so sad to see the US not doing the same. Having grown up to the constant beat of “energy independence” as the core goal of a party it seemed obvious that the nearly limitless energy that rains down from the sky would be the answer. But instead we’ve kept choosing the option which requires devastating our, and other’s around the world, community. That’s not to exclude the harsh reality of mining for the minerals required to build these, nor the land use concerns. But it’s difficult to compare localized damage to war and globalized damage.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-15 11:20:22+00:00
> And mechanically reliable.

What moving parts do competitors have to be less mechanically reliable?

In fact, a NUC or used laptop would be even more reliable since you can replace NVME storage and RAM sticks. If your RPI ram goes bad you're shit out of luck.

>RPi will still have lower power consumption and is far more compact.

Not that big of on an issue in most home user cases as a home server, emulator or PC replacement. For industrial users where space, power usage and heat is limited, definitely.

>I'm in the market to replace my aging Intel NUCs, but RPi is still cheaper.

Cheaper if you ignore much lower performance and versatility vs a X86_X64 NUC as a home server.
by Someone | 2026-01-15 11:20:24+00:00
> making it easy to compare execution strategies and choose the best one

Once your CPU has pipelining and out-of-order execution (which they will, of speed is an issue), that easy gets out, no matter what instruction set your CPU uses.

Fast code often needs to be adjusted depending on the size and timing of various caches. That’s no different with RISC-V.

I also expect that RISC-V will have warts in its instruction set, if it doesn’t already have them.

For example, there’s the idea of instruction fusion, where the CPU treats a pair of instructions as a single one. If you’re writing assembler, whether your specific CPU fuses an instruction pair can affect what the fastest code is.
by David_Osipov | 2026-01-15 11:20:27+00:00
There is a nuance here for Cloudflare users that makes this problematic.

While analyzing the Jabber.ru incident (which used this exact BGP->TLS vector), I discovered that Cloudflare's "Universal SSL" actively injects permissive CAA records that override user-defined restrictions.

If a user sets a strict accounturi CAA record (RFC 8657) to lock issuance to their specific account—specifically to prevent BGP hijackers from getting a cert—Cloudflare's system automatically appends a wildcard record alongside it to keep their automation working. Because CAs accept any valid record, this effectively nullifies the protection.

It creates a situation where you think you have mitigated the BGP risk via DNS, but the vendor has silently reopened the door.

I wrote up the technical analysis of this override behavior here: https://david-osipov.vision/en/blog/cybersecurity/cloudflare...
by maxglute | 2026-01-15 11:20:41+00:00
PRC Solar is cheaper (LCOE) than nuclear, more distributed, faster to build. Western PRC with good solar is mostly empty/depopulated (2/3 of PRC with 80% of solar/wind potential has like 5% of population, it's empty). Easy to install, lots of transferrable skills from general construction (vs nuclear workforce). Real estate crack down = lots of lower skilled blue collar installing solar as jobs program. Serendipitous synergy. PRC installed renewable capacity exceeds energy required to manufacture same equipment on GW basis, functionally makes production of entire sector carbon neutral/sink, as in will displace more fossil than used in production and sink after. Obviously manufacture works off grid mix, including coal, but broad point is every panel going to save more emissions vs embodied carbon payback through life cycle. There's also plans for recycling / recover materials for circular economy.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-01-15 11:20:46+00:00
I learned about this book / concept: Tools for Conviviality [0]:

> Illich proposes the idea of a 'convivial tool', one which allows its user to exercise their human autonomy and creativity.

This came up as I was reading about UX / UI design and trying to understand the fundamentals of how to increase human autonomy. Although my key takeaway is a bit shallow at the moment, mostly focused on applying this map towards existing tools in order to try to identify ways in which they can be modified and improved to maximize autonomy.

The Wikipedia article also references this concept of radical monopoly:

> Tools for Conviviality also introduced Illich's idea of a 'radical monopoly', which describes a technology or service which becomes so exceptionally dominant that even with multiple providers, its users are excluded from society without access to the product.

Which has extended to me wondering about what the world will look like as people are increasingly pushed to use LLMs or other AI tools in more and more interactions. And in particular, what actions can or should be taken to maximize human well-being.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality
by bflesch | 2026-01-15 11:20:52+00:00
Oh come on please stop this insincere false narrative. IP-to-geolocation works extremely well even with semi-public databases, and Google has spent billions on collecting a very powerful database of it.

Google is internally fusing data from all devices that were ever in your LAN or near your WIFI access point. It merges them based on:

- outside IP address given by ISP and mobile phone carriers
- list of network devices incl. IP address & MACs (do you have a 3d printer or not?)
- any info they can extract via their Smartphone Apps both on Android and IOS
- Android devices share geolocation data with google anyways
- user agents & browsing history on google properties and 3rd party websites
- every time your IP addresses hit anything in google cloud or google CDNs (e.g jquery from googlestatic.com or google fonts)
- all data you have ever provided to them (payment data, gcloud, gmail)
- all the tracking that is already built into chrome and other google software

Plus they procure data from third-party providers. Only a single app on your smartphone needs to have geolocation privilege and then the data (location, ip address and user data) is available for google to digest via their scripts/SDKs which are packaged into basically every smartphone app.

The large tech companies have significant incentive to mutually share data with each other, that's why you often see Javascript from one tech company included in the website or product of another one. It's enough to touch a google dc with a single packet included in the facebook app for them to associate your session with the new IP address and vice versa.

Google has years of data on how often user agents and devices behind a certain IP address change. They can very confidently say if your ISP-provided IP address has been rotated or not, and where it was rotated to. They most definitely have enough GPS positions from smartphones that they can predict where you sleep, so if your smartphone shows up under another IP address but the network devices around it stay the same they can easily deduce that this is your new dial-up IP address.

All of this not even discusses unethical or clearly illegal ways these companies have acquired data by abusing a lack of security measures on the smartphone operating systems. An example is Facebook uploading entire smartphone contact books to their servers to fuel their "organic" growth - Google most definitely has done exactly the same.

The "careless people" book highlights that Facebook deployed spyware with their smartphone apps which monitored what other apps the users were using - this is how they figured out that WhatsApp was going viral and based on this data they did the surprise acquisition of WhatsApp. I'm confident that google abuses the same security vulnerabilities in order to further collect data.
by sprash | 2026-01-15 11:20:52+00:00
Playing around with 68k assembly is actually much more fun. These days all the logic is absolutely dwarfed by caches in terms of chip area. This means using RISC does not really make as much sense today as it did in the 80s. That's why the most popular architectures are still CISC (assuming ARM64 can not really be called RISC).

Personally I would be more interested in a fully orthogonal instruction set like 68k but without the insane addressing modes and a better binary format.
Show HN: An AI assistant you can text via Apple satellite messaging
by mmoustafa | 2026-01-15 11:21:00+00:00
I've been on the road in some places with really sh*t cellular in the US and sometimes I really need to lookup something online but it will take an hour for Google to load. Well, Olly works even with zero bars as long as you have a (newish) iPhone and a view of the sky. Been a lifesaver for quick questions when I'm in the middle of nowhere.

Let me know what you think https://olly.bot/
by latexr | 2026-01-15 11:21:03+00:00
> (you might call them slogans?)

You’re being ridiculous. These are not slogans, and no one arguing in good faith would claim they are.

https://youtu.be/l0K4XPu3Qhg?t=60

> but they definitely provided some real measurable value.

Something which provides value can still be a scam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614364

I addressed all your points some eight levels up the thread.
by namedix | 2026-01-15 11:21:15+00:00
Good question — this was one of the trickiest parts to get right.

When you say "had a burger," the AI makes an educated guess based on a typical burger and shows its assumption: "Burger (~200g patty, standard bun) — ~550 kcal"

If you say "had a big burger," it'll bump the estimate: "Large burger (~250g patty) — ~700 kcal"

The key is it always shows what it assumed — portion size, ingredients, etc. So you instantly see if it's off.

If it guessed wrong, you just correct it in the chat: "it was a smaller patty, maybe 150g" or "add cheese and bacon" — and it recalculates.

The goal was making corrections conversational instead of form-based. Feels faster than hunting through dropdowns.

Not perfect, but gets you in the right ballpark quickly. And if you want precision, you can always go detailed upfront: "200g beef patty, brioche bun, slice of cheddar, lettuce, tomato."
by pbasista | 2026-01-15 11:22:46+00:00
> how "renewable" are the materials used to produce these

Very renewable. Solar panels are mostly glass, silicon and a little bit of metal. And they last ~30 years. Wind turbine blades are made out of fiberglass or similar materials. They may need replacing every ~30 years as well.

Other infrastructure would not need any significant maintenance for even longer.

These kind of power plants, apart from being renewable, have very low running costs. And that is the point.

Of course their production is very variable and therefore they cannot be used as the only power source. So e.g. nuclear power plants are still needed to back them up.

I think it is very rational to build as much power plants that are cheap to run. And back it up with nuclear or other power plants that are expensive to run but which can cover for time when the production of renewables is low.
by ilinx | 2026-01-15 11:23:41+00:00
Thanks for the recommendations! I’m actually getting to the end and wondered where to go next. Perfect timing! I’ll go ahead and order those today :).

> Where did you acquire cheap ancient coins? ebay? May be cool to get some for my dnd group

I bought most of mine on VCoins. The few I bought weren’t certified or anything, but they have lots of very well established sellers. I got a few bronze and silver coins from the Middle East and India. They were in good shape at about $10-20 US (plus international shipping). I also got some nicer Byzantine and Roman coins in the $50 US price range. I tried to group my orders from each seller to save on shipping. So far everything I’ve gotten is exactly as pictured, and the transactions have been very smooth. I got a couple more from a local dealer. The prices were a bit higher, but he was a lot of fun to talk to, which more than makes up for the price difference.
by lmeyerov | 2026-01-15 11:23:43+00:00
Claude code / codex which internally uses ripgrep, and I'm unsure if it's using parallel mode. And, project specific static analyzers.

Studies generally show when you do agentic retrieval w/ text search, that's pretty good. Adding vector retrieval and graph rag, so the typical parallel multi-retrieval followed by reranking, gives a bit of speedup and quality lift. That lines up with my local flow experience, where it is only enough that I want that for $$$$ consumer/prosumer tools, and not easy enough for DIY that I want to invest in that locally. For those who struggle with tools like spotlight running when it shouldn't, that kind of thing turns me off on the cost/benefit side.

For code, I experiment with unsound tools (semgrep, ...) vs sound flow analyzers, carefully setup for the project. Basically, ai coders love to use grep/sed for global replace refactors and other global needs, but keeps tripped up on sound flow analysis. Similar to lint and type checking, that needs to be setup for a project and taught as a skill. I'm not happy with any of my experiments here yet however :(
by mlrtime | 2026-01-15 11:24:13+00:00
Many aren't reading the bible and thinking it's plausible, or fact driven.

However people read it and find connection to their past/present and somehow brings them peace. No different than any other old philosophical old book.

When I hear these rants against people deciding to choose a reglion, I hear projection. I hear people struggling to come up with their own belief system (maybe a little here as well)
by SonOfLilit | 2026-01-15 11:24:14+00:00
Gotta say, I assumed this is some sort of virtual/imaginary thing, but it seems like there's a point in the optical system where if we placed a screen, we'd see the FT of the image coming in! And before we had digital image processing people used to place masks there to filter out low frequency or high frequency details in the image. Which is absolutely insane and I have no comprehension of how the physics works out!
by cik | 2026-01-15 11:24:25+00:00
I went down a similar path, sans book. I opted to remove processed foods from my diet in its entirety - to be clear, I consider neither oil, nor vinegar to be processed. This has resulted in basically the only processed food in my life now being soy sauce.

The hard reality is that food, which I already enjoyed, tastes significantly better. Similarly, when I fall off the wagon and have some UPF (crips).. it just tastes flat. Highly recommended, even without the health benefits, frankly.