MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TZubiri | 2026-01-05 04:00:33+00:00
Knowing how to work with builtin tools would shine in that environment. I first learned this style in a Spolsky blogpost were they talked about Wasabi, a language that compiled to either PHP or Visual Basic I think it was, the idea being that those languages were preinstalled in most servers of the era.

In a similar sense, knowing how to work with the builtin tools of major OS is a huge advantage. If you can write your code in vim or nano or notepad without breaking a sweat over your favourite hotkeys not working, that's a lot of hours saved.
by danpalmer | 2026-01-05 04:01:16+00:00
> If you appeared in a puff of smoke before the authors of that paper, just after publication — a few months before half of them cleaved from OpenAI to form Anthropic — and carried with you a laptop linked through time to the big models of 2026, what would their appraisal be ? There’s no doubt in my mind they would say: Wow, we really did it ! This is obviously AGI!

I really don't think this would be the reaction. I'd say they would (or should) look at the systems we have now and see a very clear path between where they were then and where we are now, with all the positives _and negatives_. We still get hallucinations. We still get misalignment, if anything as capabilities have improved so has the potential for damage when things go wrong. It's pretty clear to me that late 2025 models are just better versions of what we had in 2021.

That's not to say they're not more useful, more valuable, they absolutely are! But that's all about product integrations, speed, and turning up the dial on inference compute. They're still fundamentally the same things.

The next big step forward, the thing that LLMs are obviously missing, is memory. The fact we're messing around with context windows, attention across the context space, chat lookup and fact saving features, etc, are all patches over the fact that LLMs can't remember anything in the way that humans (or pretty much any animal) can. It's clear that we need a paradigm shift on memory to unlock the next level of performance.
by aeonfox | 2026-01-05 04:01:55+00:00
I was imagining a console that's at easy arms reach that's fixed into interior and don't require taking eyes of the road. The S3XY buttons look pretty cool, but they don't seem to be able to give you the resistive feel of something fastened to the interior. The Knob provides something like a console, but it seems pretty limited in how many tactile options it provides and you still need to take your eyes of the road. A number of simple dials with tactile clicks and fixed positions provide a user interface that don't require visual confirmation.

And touchscreens are another visual distraction. I think they're a contributor to the increasing vehicle accident and mortality rates. Ideally, nothing should take your mind/eyes off the road. A HUD for navigation and dashboard guages/alerts is about all anyone 'needs' in terms of display, but in the end it's about what individuals want, human lives be damned.
by qnleigh | 2026-01-05 04:02:05+00:00
- I try to get outside and go for a short walk. Even a cloudy sky is actually much much brighter than the lights inside a building, so it has a stronger affect on maintaining your circadian rhythm than indoor lights. It's also a good time to zoom out and reevaluate priorities. Or just enjoy looking at the sky.

- Read and revise my todo list. I find I actually spend a huge amount of time thinking about my to do list, and I think it pays off. One better decision of what to work on can save days, lead to new ideas, or even completely change the course of what I work on.

- Sometimes I guess I manage to squash a bug or complete some other minor task, but probably I'm more productive if I just use that time to think rather than context switch twice and rush some minor task.

- The big exception is if I can get something started that will run on its own for a long time. Then 10 spare minutes can save hours.
by x0x0 | 2026-01-05 04:04:03+00:00
This writeup is great, particularly the discussion of how Mehmet worked through understanding the system.

That said, Logpoint sell a siem product w/o a vulnerability intake process and that can't manage to rapidly patch pre-auth RCE security holes. There's nothing to say besides Logpoint are not serious people and nobody should use their nonsense. Given the number of bugs found and the surface level depth, security wasn't even an afterthought; it was not thought about at all.
by ZenoArrow | 2026-01-05 04:04:11+00:00
> pro-Brexit (the founder is very anti-EU and publishes an in-house propaganda mag to that effect), pretty right wing, heavy drinkers

That's a massive stretch. In my experience, the common denominator with Wetherspoons is it's somewhere people go for the cheap drinks and food. You get people of different backgrounds, age ranges and political beliefs going to Wetherspoons pubs (including plenty of apolitical people). The only undeniably true statements is that Tim Martin was pro-Brexit and there was anti-EU material in the Wetherspoons magazine around the time of the Brexit referendum, but beyond that it's not an issue that's particularly high profile anymore, it's not part of daily conversation like it once was, many people have moved on from discussing it.
by doix | 2026-01-05 04:06:03+00:00
Super interesting to hear about those concepts from another language/culture. While you are right that in software pretty much everything is "scaffolding" in the semiconductor the scaffolding vs steel applies.

To simplify it as much as possible, to make a chip multiple masks are created for different layers. The top layers are metal(scaffolding) and the base layers are silicon(steel). The metal layer masks are much cheaper to make than the base layers. So we add extra unused cells in the base layers and then if there are issues we try to fix them only in the metal layers.

It's not really an art nowadays, since it's been refined so much with tooling and processes. But your analogy is very applicable, I might try to refer to it in the future if I ever need to explain the concept to someone.
by yep31 | 2026-01-05 04:06:30+00:00
You should try 20g springs, they are really good for typing. I also removed the keycaps and replaced them with small pieces of band-aid on top of the switch stems which also helped. Also dictating plain text like comments and typing only for correcting errors in dictation and for short actions is better. It's easier to press a button rather than say a lengthy command, because vocal cords can also be damaged by speaking too much.
by GuB-42 | 2026-01-05 04:07:22+00:00
I think there is a big difference. You can go against your traits, but it will take effort. That is, it will feel like work, not fun.

Many people are good at their job while not particularly enjoying it, they like the money, status, recognition, etc... they learned the skills to make it easy for them, but the job itself is just a mean to an end. This is like these programmers who may be skilled, but during their time off, they won't do so much as touching a computer.

This is the idea behind a "social introvert", they socialize for the benefits of socializing, like for their career, or simply maintaining friendships, because even introverts want friends. They can be good at it, they can do it with little effort, but they don't enjoy it. Extroverts will socialize just for the sake of it, even if it is detrimental, as in partying all night when there is work to do.

Same idea for all the other traits, you can go against your personality, but it will cost you. Do it too much, and you will burn out. That's why I think you should be honest with yourself. For example, if you are low on openness, it is good reading on opposing viewpoints, it may help you understand customer needs at work, hold more interesting conversations, etc... so it is worth the effort. However, it doesn't mean you should force yourself to spend a week in a hippie festival if you can't stand drugs just because you pretend you are open. Actually open people will not force themselves to go, in fact, they are more likely to force themselves to be reasonable and not go.
by chirsz | 2026-01-05 04:07:31+00:00
In ancient China, the imperial year designations were usually changed in the second year following the coronation of a new emperor, thus preventing the occurrence of two imperial year designations in the same year. Japan seems to have chosen to change the imperial year designation in the same year because of the faster flow of information in modern times. I still think it would be more convenient to change it the second year.
by 4k93n2 | 2026-01-05 04:07:53+00:00
other people there have no way of knowing what your situation is. maybe you were with your friends just before they came in, or maybe youre meeting someone but theyre running late. most arent even going to be paying that much attention that they would notice, and even if they do theyre going to forget about you a second later because they have theyre own things to be worrying about
by somenameforme | 2026-01-05 04:08:29+00:00
It's 100% relevant, because more or less every government in the world sees clamping down on corporate monopoly and economic damage as part of their core responsibilities. But that tends to be forgotten when those corporations are government adjacent.

See: FTC rulings on mergers for this taken to the point of absurdity. Contrary to what one might think, especially if you're in a tech bubble, the FTC regularly cancels mergers and works to void potentially anti-competitive behaviors. But when it comes to big tech, which has become completely intertwined with the government, they are treated in a rather different way.
by effekt | 2026-01-05 04:09:02+00:00
He's still alive and well! While he's not super active and let his website(s) die, you can follow him on Facebook where he generally seems the most active these days: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063887643279&ref=...

And instead of YT/archive (though, shoutout to textfiles.com, which is now part of archive), https://www.pouet.net/ and https://scene.org/ is still where things are generally at
by cols | 2026-01-05 04:09:14+00:00
Many of the replies to my comment ascribe support for Maduro where there is none. However, I’m still sorry for what we have done. I don’t think there was a single motivation behind it aside from acquiring Venezuelan oil and gold reserves through thinly veiled piracy. Anyone who says we did it to topple a dictator is a rube or myrmidon. Too many unpredictable outcomes have been birthed from government foolishness like this in the past for me to believe it will end any differently.

All the best to you and your family and friends. For what it’s worth (not much I’m sure) many of us didn’t vote for this and are aghast.
by clumsysmurf | 2026-01-05 04:09:55+00:00
Yes, I noticed this too. I ran a lot in high school / university, and for some reason we mostly ran on the roads. In my late 20s a doctor told me my knees sounded like they were "65".

I read a book my Michael Colgan at the time, and he mentioned training athletes on the trails as much as possible to reduce injury, so I gave it a try ...

That was 25+ years ago. At first people looked at me strange, like I was running from an animal. But its common now, and I'm still running on the trail, and knees seem OK.

Yes of course, you can still trip, step on a snake, etc, but its a different kind of injury. You are adapting gait and balance constantly which is nice too.

Running on the trail is much more interesting, with constant change, ups, downs, variations. Whereas running on grass / asphalt I can go into autopilot mentally and start ruminating, this is harder on the trail and I am more in a state of "here and now".
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-05 04:09:56+00:00
To me, this story is one of a person discovering the freedom found by unplugging:

On the second day, I decided to leave my phone at home, so
I lived those two hours to the fullest. I didn’t take any
device that could connect me to the internet or to other
people.

By consciously relinquishing the ability to electronically connect, the author was able to connect with the moment and thus find joy in it.
by tbrownaw | 2026-01-05 04:10:35+00:00
I want a thing that has a fuzzy capability <X>.

To make this easier to discuss and think about, here's a short name <Y> for that thing, and a longer definition <Z> that probably describes that thing.

.

Oh look, if I take the literal definitions of some words in <Y>, there's a thing that fits!

Therefore <X> is solved!
by zarzavat | 2026-01-05 04:11:28+00:00
No. My point is more nuanced than that. All of the things in the article have value to someone, but their value to you is defined in terms of how much better they make your product.

If you spend so much time on the cumulation of product-adjacent activities that you don't make a good product, then their cumulative value to you was negative.

But I do, personally, love a good build system. The value is extremely high and it only takes 10 minutes to set one up.
by unsungNovelty | 2026-01-05 04:13:15+00:00
Agree. And another way in Hinduism is - mantras. They kind of reset you brain. Saying them kind of helps you observe everything around you with ease. Suddenly, you connect with your body and surroundings. It helps you especially when stressed and anxious situations. I don't know the word in English, but it makes you achieve ekagrutha.
My fam says the word is concentration. But not sure if it is the exact translation.

And you have the added benefit being to able to pick the god of your choice that resonates with you and recite their mantras.
by defrost | 2026-01-05 04:13:26+00:00
> and propane won’t cut it

Depends entirely on tank size really.

Standard (in Australia) is 2x45kg household cylinders (chest high to an adult) for household cooking.

(Finish one, switch to the other while waiting for swap).

It's not hard to have eight or more cyclinders on standby and to keep them topped up for when needed.

For rural / quasi industrial, furnaces, generators, etc it's not uncommon to have fixed installation 210kg LPG bulk cylinders filled by supply truck .. and larger.

When disaster strikes a bulk tank lasts a long time if the primary drains on it (eg: a tile or glass furnace) are wound back or turned off.

Eg: https://www.supagas.com.au/for-home/lpg-gas-bottles/tanks
by minimaxir | 2026-01-05 04:13:40+00:00
To add since the poster is being confusing: this is the GitHub repo for their project: https://github.com/fells-code/seamless-glance-distro

It is indeed not open sourced, as the repo only has a README and a download script. The "open source" they are referring to I think is the similar README convention.

Which makes this comment they made on Reddit especially odd: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1q3ik9z/comment/nxpq7t...

> And the folder structure is almost an exact mirror of mine

Even though Rust has patterns on how to organize source code, similar folder structure is unlikely, particularly since the original code is not public so it would have to be one hell of a coincidence. (the funniest potential explanation for this would be that both people used the same LLMs to code the TUI app)
by apparent | 2026-01-05 04:13:41+00:00
Everyone hopes for and has faith in their kids with regard to some actions. It could be going to class, staying out of gangs, not drinking/doing drugs. We don't know for a fact our kids will do what we hope, but we act in a way that shows we have faith in them, so as to avoid undermining their confidence.

I don't need to use the yardstick you propose. There are many confounders in aggregate data, and there are not public polls that capture the demographics and beliefs of my family. It would be a fool's errand to pretend that publicly available data is somehow more important than my own understanding of my kids.

It's funny how you think I shouldn't be able to make decisions for my children, but you seem to think that you know better than me what is right for them.
by yongjik | 2026-01-05 04:13:58+00:00
> Centuries in the Gregorian calendar start from 00 with their last two digits - 1800, 1900, and 2000.

Umm, wait, what? No, Gregorian centuries most definitely start at year xx01! The first century was from year 1 to 100, the second from 101 to 200, and so on. There was no year zero in the Gregorian calendar.
by mr-ron | 2026-01-05 04:14:02+00:00
Last paragraph resonated so deeply with me. Especially this:

```It’s also not the typing of code that I really enjoy, nor is it the syntax or structure or boilerplate that’s required to build anything. It’s the fact you get to build something out of nothing, writing code was just how you got there. And with today’s tooling, that saves a ton of time.```

I never really related with folks that code for beauty or are put off by how AI does the actual coding. The beauty is actually creating something, solving real problems, shipping, and (hopfully) winning. It might be cliche, but it is incredibly true for me to say that using AI feels like a superpower.
by ilyagr | 2026-01-05 04:14:30+00:00
Actually, it would be more correct to do

echo '^q toggle-option -redraw-on-quit\nq' >> ~/.config/lesskey

The original version I suggested works too, but by accident. `redraw-on-quit` is the actual option name.

(I'd edit my original message, but it's too late for that)

----

Also, note that if you put `--redraw-on-quit` into your `LESS` config (and not `-X`), and set up `^q` as above, things will still work but with flipped behavior of `q` and `^q`.

If your version of `less` is new enough, I believe that the `--redraw-on-quit` behavior is in every way (slightly) better than the `-X` behavior. In addition to the above, some terminals have special behaviors in alternate screen (like converting mouse wheel to up/down keys), which `--redraw-on-quit` will preserve.
by dhosek | 2026-01-05 04:15:17+00:00
Well there was a lynx spotted in north Oak Park in the last couple-three years so there’s another potential predator, but yep, they definitely need predation. I’ve seen some sizable herds north of North Avenue in the forest preserve there (along with lots of bread put out by people who wanted to feed the deer). They’re a lot bolder there than south of North.
by effekt | 2026-01-05 04:15:40+00:00
As for cracktros, probably not. I should spelunk through backups. However, the most technical and competitive people generally transitioned to the demoscene in the early 2000s and that scene is far more open.

You can find a lot of groups/individuals publish a lot of esp. their older stuff now.

Two off the top of my head:

- https://github.com/ConspiracyHu (and they made a W32 port of Future Crew's Second Reality, which is public domain: https://github.com/mtuomi/SecondReality)

- Farbrausch published their original demo tool source ages ago: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
by netsharc | 2026-01-05 04:16:04+00:00
There's a part in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where the narrator's friend's bike needs some fixing, and the narrator said (I paraphrase) "you could use this piece of aluminum from a soda can to fix it", but the bike owner thinks that's blasphemy, the only way to fix it is with a part from the bike manufacturer...

https://www.excitant.co.uk/rip-robert-m-pirsig-why-zen-and-t...

But I suppose a Rolex has the property of "a token to remind me of my prosperity" that a Lolex doesn't...
by marcosdumay | 2026-01-05 04:17:09+00:00
Yes. The entire reason DEs expect people to dismiss those dialogs is because they are modal. And there's no reason at all for them to be modal.

KDE even got an entire notifications application, and discovered that it's bad to make them modal. But didn't move away from the idea of dismissing them on any interaction, it still acts like it's a modal.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-05 04:17:39+00:00
I switched to trail and found I stopped getting injuries related to lateral stabilization of my hips and legs.

I've come to think it's because the trails challenge those stabilizers sufficiently so they get trained properly rather than... I don't know, repeatedly being irritated by running too straight for long periods of time?

I'm not a kinesiologist so I have no idea what the real difference is, but I do know I get hurt far less on the trails than I did on pavement.

One possibility is that I go slower overall so I can't push the limits of some muscle and tendon groups like I could on pavement. Everything gets more equally pressured, but less on average.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-05 04:17:51+00:00
Maybe you've been outside for too long.

Both those who voted for Trump or abstained from Harris believed they were acting _against_ authoritarians.

(BB was kinda fiction-in-a-fiction and would have provided no clue either for Harris and against Trump-- and 1984 (/Schachnovelle) didn't give a clue on how you might recognise an inner party-goer if you ran into one? Maybe Animal Farm would be better?)
by phamilton | 2026-01-05 04:19:46+00:00
It all comes back to "Do more because of AI" rather than "Do less because of AI".

Getting back into coding is doing more. Updating an old project to the latest libraries is doing more.

It often feels ambiguous. Shipping a buggy, vibe-coded MVP might be doing less. But getting customer feedback on day one from a real tangible product can allow you to build a richer and deeper experience through fast iteration.

Just make sure we're doing more, not less, and AI is a wonderful step forward.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-05 04:21:36+00:00
(2019) Related since:

Fermilab is 'doomed' without management overhaul claims whistleblower report (79 points, 2024, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378240

DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab (218 points, 2024, 127 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41236718

Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center (247 points, 2023, 144 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35303391

Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics (192 points, 2022, 122 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30948260

Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation (198 points, 2020, 157 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466836
by rvz | 2026-01-05 04:21:42+00:00
> It's clear that we need a paradigm shift on memory to unlock the next level of performance.

I think this is on point to the next phase of LLMs or a different neural network architecture that improves on top of them, alongside continual learning.

Adding memory capabilities would mostly benefit local "reasoning" models than online ones as you would be saving tokens to do more tasks, than generating more tokens to use more "skills" or tools. (Unless you pay more for memory capabilities to Anthropic or OpenAI).

It's kind of why you see LLMs being unable to play certain games or doing hundreds of visual tasks very quickly without adding lots of harnesses and tools or giving it a pre-defined map to help it understand the visual setting.

As I said before [0], the easiest way to understand the memory limitations with LLMs is Claude Playing Pokemon with it struggling with basic tasks that a 5 year old can learn continuously.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291895
by cyberrock | 2026-01-05 04:21:47+00:00
I think your particular Gmail issue exists because they want mobile web and touch screen web users (there are dozens of us!) to be able to tap the recipient to show the user card, like hover does for mouse users. To support your usecase (click to directly edit recipient), touch, click, and hover need to have different actions, which may upset some other users. Unless you mean double click to edit, which I would support.

I save my energy for more heinous UX changes. For example, the YouTube comment chyron has spoiled so many videos for me and is just so generally obnoxious.