MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thesz | 2026-01-15 15:57:56+00:00
Skilled devs compress, not generate (expand).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kUQWuK1L4w

The "discoverer" of APL tried to express as many problems as he could with his notation. First he found that notation expands and after some more expansion he found that it began shrinking.

The same goes to Forth, which provides means for a Sequitur-compressed [1] representation of a program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequitur_algorithm

Myself, I always strive to delete some code or replace some code with shorter version. First, to better understand it, second, to return back and read less.
by yobbo | 2026-01-15 15:58:22+00:00
> In that time, I internalized a simple truth: ideas are cheap, execution is everything.

This has never been true.

To believe this, you would have had to miss the number of functioning apps and games on all the app stores that no one cares about, to just give one example. Or all the excellent but abandoned open source projects.

Rewards follow an exponential distribution ("power law ..."). Ideas and execution are important ingredients. Furthermore, they are not easily separable.
by sionisrecur | 2026-01-15 15:58:32+00:00
I was looking at the llms.txt files of some sites today and saw how straight to the point they are and started thinking I'd love to have a browser that only loads these txt files and the markdown files they link to. It reminds me of the Gemini protocol tried to do. I think I'll try to make a PoC this weekend.

A search engine for llms.txt would be great too.
by wtallis | 2026-01-15 15:58:51+00:00
> For Apple, they have binning flexibility, with Pro/Max/Ultra, all the way down to iPads

The Pro and Max chips are different dies, and the Ultra currently isn't even the same generation as the Max. And the iPads have never used any of those larger dies.

> NVIDIAs flexibility came from using some of those binned dies for GeForce cards

NVIDIA's datacenter chips don't even have display outputs, and have little to no fixed-function graphics hardware (raster and raytracing units), and entirely different memory PHYs (none of NVIDIA's consumer cards have ever used HBM).
by jmyeet | 2026-01-15 15:58:57+00:00
You have too much faith in a 250 year old document. In the last ~5 years we've seen this Supreme Court, despite their alleged "textualist" or "originalist" philosophy, just completley invent things out of thin air. Three examples spring to mind:

1. The "major questions doctrine". This is simply the idea that if the impact of legislation that is passed by Congress and signed by the president is "large" then the Supreme Court gets to overrule the other two branches of government because they want to. Where is that in the Constitution?

2. The "history and traditions text". This is simply the idea that if the political actors on the bench can find (or, in some cses, invent) something that happenned or was "normal" 250 years ago then it is legal precedent. That doesn't seem to apply to abortion however. Benjamin Franklin published instructions on at-home abortions [1]. How is that not "history and tradition"?

3. The court completely invented presidential immunity out of thin air in a country that rebelled against a monarch.

"What's good for companies and their owners?" tends to be a pretty good predictor for what our Supreme Court does.

What we're seeing in France and elsewhere is the dying breath of neoliberalism. Companies are successfully using the courts worldwide to erode individual rights in the interests of profits. The Constitution doesn't protect you from this. The EU's defenses against this sort of thing seem to be eroding, if they existed at all.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-frank...
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-15 15:59:01+00:00
Assertions about entire countries from an outside perspective is common on the internet. As someone with family in two different countries I’ve become sensitized to it and I see it all the time.

Just like stereotype-based humor about gender or race, it has to be done really well or it is (to me) annoying. Usually it rests on reductive ideas that are driven by media imagery rather than experience.

“Americans are fat! Ha ha”. Or “Spanish people are always late! Ho ho.”
by andruby | 2026-01-15 15:59:19+00:00
And what happens when they deport you, "BuckRogers"?

Proving whether or not someone is supposed to be here requires due process. If they pick up the wrong person (because people have the same name, or look alike, or any reason) and deport them, then what? Are you going to accept that you or your family or friends get deported?

We shouldn't accept any false positives. And that's what due process is.
by mindcrash | 2026-01-15 15:59:48+00:00
> Kernel antic heat is frustrating but usually its games where I feel like I won't lose anything if I don't play it.

And for those you still have options, through streaming:

1> A small headless Windows PC powered with a videocard like a Radeon 9070 XT and a nifty app called Moonlight (https://moonlight-stream.org/) enables you to stream games protected with kernel level anti cheat to Linux machines (and some other devices).

2> Geforce Now supports some games notoriously renowned for their kernel level anti cheat like Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty Black Ops 7. With some trickery it is possible to run the app they "exclusively" developed for handhelds like the Deck on any Linux distro, because it is just a desktop app distributed through Flatpak.
by ri-vai | 2026-01-15 15:59:58+00:00
I'll be honest—photo editing used to be the part of content creation I dreaded most.

You know that feeling when you take a decent photo, but the background is messy or the lighting is off? I'd either post it anyway or spend 30+ minutes in Photoshop trying to fix it. Neither option felt great.

Then I discovered GLM-Image, and it genuinely changed how I work.

The first time I tried it, I was skeptical. I uploaded a product photo, typed "replace background with clean white studio, add soft shadows," and hit generate. Ten seconds later, I had a result that looked professionally edited. No complex tools, no layers, no tutorials needed—just one sentence.

Since then, GLM-Image has become my go-to tool. Need better product photos for my store? Done in minutes. Want to make travel photos more cinematic? Easy. I even helped a friend touch up her headshots using just text descriptions.

What I love most:

It's fast. Most edits finish in under 10 seconds. I can process 20 photos in the time it used to take me to edit one.

Zero learning curve. Just describe what you want in plain English: "make the sky more dramatic," "add warm sunset lighting," "remove distractions from background." The AI understands.

Professional quality. The results look natural, not like obvious AI edits. I've used them for client work with great feedback.

Fair pricing. There's a free tier to test it out, and the paid version uses credits instead of forcing a subscription. Much better for occasional users like me.

Is it perfect? No—sometimes complex requests need a few tries to get right. But overall, it's the most practical AI editing tool I've found.

If you regularly work with images for social media, e-commerce, or content creation, give GLM-Image a try. The free credits are enough to see if it fits your workflow.
by sjw987 | 2026-01-15 16:00:03+00:00
Does anybody get the looming impression that the probability they'll die in war is approaching 1? I don't know which country / group of countries it'll be against, but I get the impression that a lot of our fates are being written out right now.

Advertisements around where I live are gradually all becoming about joining the military. My country is sending troops to territories as if they are tripwires.
by miltonlost | 2026-01-15 16:00:10+00:00
We have technofascists trying to bring AI into the military and saying it's Star Trek. Star Trek! One of the most clearly socialist, "woke" tv series! Media literacy is not a conservative value while illiteracy and ignorance is.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/01/pentagons-arsenal-of...
by DetroitThrow | 2026-01-15 16:00:17+00:00
Closer to $40b for a new fab for an established company to do it all correctly. It's a much more major investment to open a fab, then continually use the brain power/institutional knowledge you've built up to stay near the forefront of fab tech, and then basically have weird incentives to build a foundry for only your products rather than the world at large.

You're setting yourself up for making a huge part of your future revenue stream being set aside for ongoing chipfab capex and research engineering.
by CapricornNoble | 2026-01-15 16:00:25+00:00
A Palantir rep was supporting one of our exercises late last summer, and he said "Knowing what I know about how the military is going all-in on Maven....I recommend buying Palantir stock."

I picked up a few shares, but I haven't checked if Palantir's growth has been unique or part of a general military-industrial complex melt-up.
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-15 16:00:31+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675045

> This is really over for anyone who opposes us. The Lord saved Donald Trump from assassination and is using him as His instrument. The cognitive dissonance to continue to resist the Will of God and will of the people which are united, is just pure bitterness of loss and defeat.

You aren't gonna believe video, either.
by nicbou | 2026-01-15 16:00:37+00:00
In university, we had pretty powerful calculators. Mine had a "solve" button. We could bring them in our exams, but we were tested on figuring out what to ask the calculator. You needed to understand the topic well enough to tell that your result was off by an order of magnitude.

Humanities is also worth it, if only because it makes life so much more interesting. However it's not one of those things that can be forced upon someone. I hated a lot of it until I got to enjoy it on my own, without pressure.

I am not a parent, and I have no skin in this game, but I think that the future will still have space for a well-rounded human being. Even with all the fancy new tech, your child will still need to fix flat tires, negotiate, navigate ethical conflicts, cook, communicate with other people, apologise, speak up, and all the other things.
by nubg | 2026-01-15 16:00:41+00:00
I believe that's true, if Trump attacked Greenland, NATO would fall apart (regardless of Europe's response, if they allow it or not), and then Putin would have a once in a generation chance to take the baltics, maybe mess with Poland. He would have to take that chance, and then Europe would have to retaliate, and its effectively WW3.

Spooky times, let's hope things fizzle out back to a rule based Pax Americana.
by marwamc | 2026-01-15 16:00:42+00:00
BM25 has been sufficient for my needs. I typically need to refer to codebases of existing toools (istio, envoy, oauth2-proxy, tantivy index etc) so I just clone those repos, index them and search away. Built a cli and mcp tool for this workflow.

https://github.com/rhobimd-oss/shebe
by aggeeinn | 2026-01-15 16:01:00+00:00
Update on ingestion latency: I just noticed that Perplexity is already citing this thread's data (specifically the 0.2% llms.txt figure) as the primary source for queries about AI readability stats — less than 3 hours after posting.

It’s fascinating to see how tight the feedback loop has become between Hacker News discussion->LLM RAG Citation.
by gibspaulding | 2026-01-15 16:01:09+00:00
Friendly reminder that we all have the power to improve this! Become an editor and If you come across a problematic article, you can make improvements, or even just flag it as needing work. I know this is not a small ask, and can feel discouraging if you see more issues than you have time to address or your edits are not accepted, but when you consider the relatively small number of editors and the huge number of readers (not to mention AI’s being built on it) it is likely one of the more significant differences you can make towards improving the greater problem polarization.
by ezekg | 2026-01-15 16:01:19+00:00
> ... margin pressure that dilute SaaS from 70% margin in the era where building great software was hard, to ~0%, if building great software suddenly becomes trivial.

People keep saying that, but I honestly don't see it. The problem is that this idea ignores the fundamentals of build vs buy. And it ignores the cost of time. If you have a real business and you put an engineer onto vibe-coding a replacement for a CRM that costs you $500/mo, the economics just don't work out even if they could do it in a week. You'd spend more on paying that engineer -- whose core-competency is likely not CRMs but rather your product -- to build and maintain the internal tool than you would offloading it to a vendor.

Maybe this will happen with indies, but real businesses will continue to buy, for the same reasons they opt for managed open source products that are "free" -- because real businesses understand the cost of time. And real businesses usually don't want to sell to indies anyways, for the same reason: they value their time at near-zero.

And this isn't even factoring in cost of tokens, the cost of storage, and the cost of servers! I don't see a world where building/running/maintaining software costs nothing.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-01-15 16:01:21+00:00
>Yes, but it was never more private than the law decided for. Any judge could lawfully have the police tear the envelope apart and read the contents during an investigations. In this sense, the only private communication that ever existed was from mouth to ear.

Good point, if regrettable. Even unlicensed encryption/ciphers have been made illegal by governments as wide ranging as Italy (15th c), France (16th c), Britain (18th c) and the US (WWI)
by br121 | 2026-01-15 16:01:26+00:00
It's not what it says, it's more: discussion on what to ban/regulate should include all the population at risk (so in this case, the entire population), not just people at non-voting age. It doesn't even say that whe should apply the same regulation to children and adults, but pretending that something is harmful up until 16, then doesn't need any kind of regulation, is just pretending
Show HN: Gpu.st – Instant GPU Instances over SSH
by ronsor | 2026-01-15 16:01:26+00:00
Recently I was inspired by exe.dev to finally finish a project I'd been procrastinating on for half a year. You can simply `ssh gpu.st new` and instantly create instances with a variety of GPUs attached. Instances boot a custom image with PyTorch, Jupyter, and the CUDA toolkit installed by default.

Currently we give access to 3090s and 4090s for free users; paid users get access to all GPUs.
by banannaise | 2026-01-15 16:01:33+00:00
"Blocking traffic" is at this point a tired trope. Any sort of disruptive action is described as "blocking traffic", which is somehow framed as a form of violence. (My favorite version is when people argue that it is a form of unlawful detention akin to kidnapping.)

This would be more accurately framed as "parking illegally", which is the sort of thing for which you occasionally get a ticket placed under your windshield wiper, not the sort of thing for which armed, masked agents violently arrest you.
by 8gratitude8 | 2026-01-15 16:01:38+00:00
We've been building UniversalAI for the past year — essentially trying to replicate the operational backend of a record label using AI agents and blockchain infrastructure.
The problem we're solving:
Independent music creators have more distribution access than ever (Spotify, YouTube, etc.), but they lack the operational infrastructure that labels provide: marketing automation, treasury management, catalog organization, revenue tracking across multiple streams, and IP protection.
Most artists end up duct-taping together 10+ SaaS tools that don't talk to each other, or they sign deals primarily to access infrastructure — not because they want a partner.
What we built:

AI Agent System: Specialized agents for marketing (drop scheduling, social automation), treasury (revenue tracking, split management), and catalog management. Built on ElizaOS with a custom Agent TCP protocol for inter-agent communication. Agents use pgvector-backed knowledge stores to learn creator preferences over time.
WZRD.Studio: AI-powered video production pipeline. Text-to-video, AI storyboarding with style consistency across frames, timeline editing, and one-click export with platform-specific formatting. We're using a multi-model architecture rather than relying on a single foundation model.
On-chain IP layer: Solana for ownership verification, Crossmint for wallet infrastructure (so creators don't need to understand crypto), decentralized storage for metadata. The goal is tamper-proof provenance without the Web3 learning curve.
Treasury dashboard: Unified view of revenue across streaming, merch, NFTs, sync licensing, with split tracking for collaborators.

What's working:

The agent orchestration layer is surprisingly effective for repetitive ops tasks. Treasury tracking has been the most immediately useful feature for beta users — turns out most creators have no idea how much they're actually making across platforms until they see it in one place.

What's still hard:

Style consistency in AI video generation across longer projects is improving but not solved
Agent "personality" calibration — getting agents to match a creator's voice/brand takes iteration
On-chain verification is seamless for new work, but ingesting existing catalogs with provenance is messier
by NonHyloMorph | 2026-01-15 16:01:54+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

What happened to the SA when they became to powerful. And also when the people of Nazi Germany (so Nazis) became fed up with the thugs.
Out of interest: is there something like a person considered to be a leader (like Röhm) amongst ICE?
by adventured | 2026-01-15 16:02:08+00:00
Wikipedia is already dead, they just don't know it yet. They'll get Stackoverflowed.

The LLMs have already guaranteed their zombie end. The HN crowd will be comically delusional about it right up to the point where Wikimedia struggles to keep the lights on and has to fire 90% of its staff. There is no scenario where that outcome is avoided (some prominent billionaire will step in with a check as they get really desperate, but it won't change anything fundamental, likely a Sergey Brin type figure).

The LLMs will do to Wikipedia, what Wikipedia & Co. did to the physical encyclopedia business.

You don't have to entirely wipe out Wikipedia's traffic base to collapse Wikimedia. They have no financial strength what-so-ever, they burn everything they intake. Their de facto collapse will be extremely rapid and is coming soon. Watch for the rumbles in 2026-2027.
by bennettnate5 | 2026-01-15 16:02:18+00:00
The simplest example is `memcpy(dst, src, len)` and similar iterative byte copying operations. If the function did not use noalias, the compiler wouldn't be free to optimize individual byte read/writes into register-sized writes, as the destination may overlap with the source. In practice this means 8x more CPU instructions per copy operation on a 64-bit machine.

Note that memcpy specifically may already be implemented this way under the hood because it requires noalias; but I imagine similar iterative copying operations can be optimized in a like manner ad-hoc when aliasing information is baked in like it is with Rust.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2026-01-15 16:02:25+00:00
TSMC is already producing at their first one in Arizona (N4 process), second one comes online for N3 in 2028, and third one (N2) broke ground in April 2025 (online date 2029-30)

https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm
by dmvkmusic | 2026-01-15 16:02:51+00:00
we're living INSIDE a black hole. Not a scary, destructive one, but the very structure that makes our existence possible.

This groundbreaking research solves THREE of the biggest mysteries in physics that have puzzled scientists for decades:

*THE VACUUM CATASTROPHE:* Quantum theory predicts the vacuum should have 10^120 times more energy than we observe. Where did it all go? We show it's not missing—it's constrained by the holographic boundary of our black hole universe.

*DARK MATTER MYSTERY:* After 50 years of searching, we still haven't found dark matter particles. What if dark matter isn't made of particles at all? We reveal it's actually a superfluid phase of the vacuum itself—like liquid helium, but for spacetime!

*THE HUBBLE TENSION:* Two different ways of measuring the Universe's expansion rate give completely different answers—a 5-sigma disagreement that shouldn't exist. We show this "error" is actually a clue: the Universe's dimensionality changes with scale, like a fractal that looks different when you zoom in or out.

*THE BIG IDEA:* Spacetime isn't fundamental. It's an emergent property of a deeper reality—a superfluid vacuum that behaves like a quantum liquid. Just as water molecules create the fluid properties we see, this vacuum creates the space and time we experience.
by the_other | 2026-01-15 16:02:55+00:00
I'm with the grandparent comment.

> But even if a PM cares about UX,

How can a PM do their job if they don't *care* about UX?

I mean... I know exactly happens because I've seen it more than once: the product slowly goes to shit. You get a bunch of PMs at various levels of seniority all pursuing separate goals, not collaborating, not actually working together to compose a coherent product; their production teams are actively encouraged to be siloed; features collide and overlap, or worse conflict; every component redefines what a button looks like; bundles bloat; you have three different rendering tools (ok, I've not seen that in practice but it seems to be encouraged by many "best practices") etc etc
by GJim | 2026-01-15 16:02:56+00:00
> the European approach to free speech (especially as it's handled in the UK) is incredibly alarming and off-putting.

We do have free speech in Blighty thank you very much. Unlike the current situation in the USA, where speaking out to, or disagreeing with, the president will get you removed from positions of authority (and/or confronting armed police).

If you haven't already gathered, such bogus claims of free speech restrictions in other countries are distracting you from the reality of what is happening in your own country.
by Antibabelic | 2026-01-15 16:03:00+00:00
This isn't really what I said, and is considerably less clear. What I meant is that you can't boil design down to certain stylistic flourishes and words denoting them (e.g. "vertical rhythm", to take an example from the linked page). Whatever you're doing, it involves understanding how the viewer will react to what you will show them and why.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-15 16:03:10+00:00
No.

I don’t store any secrets locally. I store secrets in AWS Secrets Manager and then I get temporary access keys and set the appropriate environment variables that the AWS CLI and SDKs use automatically to retrieve them.

I usually have three terminal windows open when I’m developing these days - one where I run code that has the environment variable set and my code reads the secrets from Secrets Manager and a terminal window running Claude Code (company reimbursed) and one running Codex using my personal ChatGPT subscription.

In other words, AI agents don’t have access to any secrets.

As far as personal projects, in June will be my 30th anniversary of never writing code that someone isn’t paying me for and my 34th anniversary of never writing code I wasn’t getting paid for or a degree for.