MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmathai | 2026-01-20 21:30:18+00:00
You may also be getting a worse result for higher cost.

For a medical use case, we tested multiple Anthropic and OpenAI models as well as MedGemma. Pleasantly surprised when the LLM as Judge scored gpt5-mini as the clear winner. I don't think I would have considered using it for the specific use cases - assuming higher reasoning was necessary.

Still waiting on human evaluation to confirm the LLM Judge was correct.
by darkarmani | 2026-01-20 21:30:18+00:00
> they should have oversight

Congress provides oversight and accountability of the Fed. The GAO does audits as well. Frank-Dodd provides more windows into the Fed. Why did you think the Fed doesn't have oversight?

> Not ever passing an audit of any kind

It might have been hard for you to find because it is hidden under the "audit" page on their website: https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/audit.htm

> Why is the independence of the Federal Reserve sacrosanct?

It's never been completely independent. It's independent from short-term (4 years) political influence. It's audited and has congressional oversight and the President nominates people to the board.

What else do you want? Interest rates set by Presidential tweets?
by rurp | 2026-01-20 21:30:18+00:00
Modern presidential campaigns are absolutely saturated with money, and everywhere they spend has diminishing returns. You might be able to spend $50-100M in ads and get some value from it, but a second or third $100M? By that point you've reached every possible voter many, many times and each successive ad can be zero or even negative value.

Given the immense sums of money, little to no accountability on how it's spent, and a finite list of traditional spending targets I expect campaigns have dabbled in all sorts of unusual approaches.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-20 21:31:52+00:00
For a long time, the only very high (>200) DPI monitors on the market were Apple's first-party ones and the LG UltraFine, the former being stupidly overpriced and the latter having, as you say, reliability horror stories. I assume the dearth of other options was because macOS doesn't do fractional scaling, only 2x, so only Apple users really needed 5K-at-27" or 6K-at-32" whereas Windows/Linux users can be ok with 150% scaling.

But that's finally changing: several high-DPI monitors came out last year, and even more are coming this year, which should force manufacturers to do better re: both price and reliability. Last year I got a pair of the Asus ProArt 5K monitors, plus a CalDigit Thunderbolt hub, and have been very happy with this setup.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-20 21:32:08+00:00
> So draw from that whatever conclusions you wish.

Sure but replaced by what? The abysmal failure that the EUR is? Or a chinese currency?

What other options are there besides either a Chinese currency or the EUR?

Chinese. EUR.

Seen these twho choices, everybody understands why the USD isn't anywhere near losing its dominance status.
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-20 21:32:27+00:00
> I love Danish people.

You love the Danish people, but you're ok with the US threatening war against them and removing itself from NATO over a piece of land that we don't need?

There is no rationality in your position. Loving people shouldn't lead to attacking them, that's the abuser's mindset, and in that there is no real love.
by epage | 2026-01-20 21:32:30+00:00
> Use hand-written parser
>
> The old parser was written with winnow which is a parser combinator library.
While it’s easy to create a parser with parser combinators, it’s generally slower than a hand-written parser,
so the first step is to write the parser by hands. Hand-written parser is not only faster but also allows to do more optimizations in the future.

Maintainer of Winnow here. I wish there were more details on this. I switched `toml` / `toml_edit` to being hand written and got some performance boost but I feel like the other things listed would have dwarfed the gains that I got. I wonder if there were sub optimal patterns they employeed that we could find ways to help better guide people.

For anyone going on about "hand written is always better", I disagree. Parser combinators offer a great way to map things back to grammar definitions which makes them much easier to maintainer. Only in extreme circumstances of features and/or performance does it seem worth going hand-written to me.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-20 21:33:00+00:00
A lot of people are going to be upset by this, but I really like and hope we see better analysis of likes on Bluesky/atproto, where this data is public!

Imo it really sucks they social networking is a dark forest, controlled by a very few, who increasingly have offered less and less and less at higher and higher prices to researchers, academics, and more generally bots and services that used to be up to & doing cool things. BlueSky has the juice, imo, and while most folks using it today are only using official Bluesky services, some folks are using independent services for all their PDS hosting and for viewing the network.

That the network is public feels like such a minimum baseline level, is such a basic obvious and essential baseline for society to begin to have any trust ability or engagement with such mass communication systems as we have.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-20 21:33:04+00:00
I am not aware of studies, but my experience agrees with this and I see nothing surprising in it.

In the schools in which I was, the best results were obtained by the students who were intelligent, but not too intelligent, because they were able to accomplish easily whatever was requested from them by the teachers and they were content with that, so they had good relationships with all teachers, resulting in uniformly good grades.

The students who were more intelligent than that, had difficulties, because they were frequently better than the teachers. Few teachers were OK with that, especially when the better students were unable to restrain themselves to not point at mistakes done by the teachers. Even when they avoided conflicts with the teachers about what is right and wrong, the better students were bored by what they were taught and they were reluctant to do various kinds of homework that seemed pointless for them. So they usually did not have good relationships with most teachers, with the exception of a few teachers, who either were very good themselves or they appreciated better talent when they saw it. So the best students had excellent grades only at one subject or two, with low grades at many others, so they ended only with average grades.
by gus_massa | 2026-01-20 21:33:04+00:00
If you have a blog post with a few more technical details, it may be a nice submission for HN. (Do you have a few photos of the intermediate steps to share?)

Some ideas/questions: How is it painted? Is it laser cut or by hand? Did you designed it? How did you do the calculations? Does Saturn have rings? Where is the cutoff? (No Neptune/Uranus/Fobos/Deimos/...) Have you tried to give a different size to each planet?

PS: I showed the video to my older daughter that is interested in astronomy and she likes it.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-20 21:33:09+00:00
The British didn't really make unforced errors like Germany did, though. They mostly were forced into a fire sale situation as they were fighting for their lives. Even with everything they sold off, they were still within an inch of surrendering. The French story is similar. They may have been in a slow decline, but the war threw them off a cliff.

It's hard to look at what the US is doing and not become extremely angry, because historically the dumb hubristic nationalism always leads to crushing misery. It's so utterly predictable, and yet we're forced to watch the idiocy play itself out again.
by lorddumpy | 2026-01-20 21:33:28+00:00
With vision models (SOTA models like Gemini and ChatGPT can do this), you can take a picture/screenshot of the button layout, upload it, and have it work from that. Feeding it current documentation (eg a pdf of a user manual) helps too.

Referencing outdated documentation or straight up hallucinating answers is still an issue. It is getting better with each model release though
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2026-01-20 21:34:03+00:00
Really love this, seriously great analysis (even though I'd quibble on a few points).

Stability is a relative thing though. It's hard to judge this except in relation to what other countries were doing.

>Various Euro nations

Suicided in 1900s and destroyed everything they built

>China

Collapse, civil war, famine, poverty

*pretty good for ~30 years
by omgJustTest | 2026-01-20 21:34:07+00:00
Monetary penalties are different from trust erosion in that they are the test of whether trust can be restored, ie you are acting very unpredictable => I am going to show you I'm paying attention and hit you with a penalty and watch your response. If you continue to show you are unpredictable => I plan an exit so that I don't _have_ to trust you, ie trust erosion.

Ultimately if there's too much unpredictable behavior the pain endured will become higher than the pain of eroding trust... which if trust was truly eroding would be signaled by establishment of monetary systems independent of the US, probably with the International Monetary Fund as a base, backed by at least India, China & Europe.
by kazinator | 2026-01-20 21:34:44+00:00
I like manual transmissions; they do what you tell them, and do it quickly. They are fun to drive.

They are also on their way out, together with the internal combustion engine. It's possible to work them into electric cars, but they don't make much sense there.

The deal breaker for me isn't the lack of a manual transmission, but all the screens and software updates, and barriers to repair.

Can we not have an electric econobox that focuses on utter simplicity?
by epistasis | 2026-01-20 21:35:06+00:00
Indeed. There was a progressive slate elected to the board of this pension fund a decade ago, to facilitate oil divestment:

https://bsky.app/profile/runestahl.bsky.social/post/3mcuyopn...

Doing a small amount of CYA as a fiduciary, while causing bond rates to rise, is merely prudent.
by hamiltont | 2026-01-20 21:35:49+00:00
Not sure I'm fully following your question, but maybe this helps:

IME deep thinking hgas moved from upfront architecture to post-prototype analysis.

Pre-LLM: Think hard → design carefully → write deterministic code → minor debugging

With LLMs: Prototype fast → evaluate failures → think hard about prompts/task decomposition → iterate

When your system logic is probabilistic, you can't fully architect in advance—you need empirical feedback. So I spend most time analyzing failure cases: "this prompt generated X which failed because Y, how do I clarify requirements?" Often I use an LLM to help debug the LLM.

The shift: from "design away problems" to "evaluate into solutions."
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-20 21:35:55+00:00
They are hugely popular in the US because there are more of them for sale and they have a lot of momentum from Toyota getting lost in the Hydrogen distraction.

From the perspective of a BEV with a modern range, hybrids have terrible all-electric range (if they even have true electric range) and worse maintenance schedules/cost of ownership. That's the compromise: less weight for good batteries for pure electric range and higher cost of ownership for high weight moving parts that you don't need in trips below electric range.
by tecleandor | 2026-01-20 21:36:19+00:00
"We are a Swedish company building products that help people get online, used by millions of people worldwide."

So I look for them. They have a "Free wifi connection" / "Wifi passwords map" app. It surprises me because it has a good score on Google Play but then I begin to check the reviews, and a bunch of them go like: "Five stars because if you do a good review you can use it for free".

I install it and on starting it and in the first minute: Asks you to create an account but you can't click on the terms of service or privacy policy, the links don't work. I skip it. It tries to change your default launcher. It tries to change your default browser. It asks you to share your home wifi password with them. Pops up adds everywhere. Tries to get a good review from you.

No thanks, not even near.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-20 21:37:05+00:00
> Total lack of scientific integrity and ethical principles by this administration.

I understand that. But what about upvoting and commenting on the individual reporters who are now going door to door to all the daycares in Minnesota where there are zero children enrolled, where windows are hidden by taped newspapers, and who defrauded US citizens to the tune of billions.

Billions not just to enrich a few fraudsters: money apparently used to finance jihadist terrorist organization.

So... a $1.6 M dubious grant vs billions to finance islamist jihad.

Pick your "side" very carefully here.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-20 21:37:07+00:00
That's similar functionality, but it's not a Shazam Now shortcut. I really don't want any widgets -- at all, ever. And I need labels -- remembering arbitrary iconography is a silly task when phonetic written language exists.

Just a shortcut is fine. Or at least: It had been fine for nearly a decade.

This, right here: This is what I want, and what I was using with Nova Launcher until late last night. https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/01/27/shazam-gets-updated...

:)

(Besides, Shazam is just a singular example. I had other shortcuts that I also used. I'm really rather disinterested in finding individual workarounds for each of them.)
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-20 21:37:24+00:00
ICE needs to be shrank down to 2003 levels.

And no selective protections. Not like how meat and dairy processors were corruptly shielded from immigration raids and tacitly allowed to break the law unlike everyone else.

The corruption, lawlessness, and brutality of the paramilitary kidnapping gestapo has to end.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-01-20 21:37:35+00:00
> It amazes me it’s so hard to find monitors around 210+ PPI.

You're in luck; several 5120 × 2880, 600 mm × 340 mm monitors at high refresh rates were announced at CES a couple weeks ago.

MSI MPG 271KRAW16
LG 27GM950B
Acer Nitro XV270X
HKC M9 Pro
Hisense 27GX-Pro

And many more.
Operational AI Governance and the Runtime Decision Ownership Gap
by vivekanandsingh | 2026-01-20 21:37:38+00:00
Over the last year, we examined how AI systems are actually used after deployment across regulated and enterprise environments.

A consistent pattern emerged: organizations can increasingly prove what AI systems did, but cannot reliably prove who owned decisions at runtime, or whether meaningful human judgment was exercised.

In practice, “human-in-the-loop” often degrades into habitual approval. Review becomes ceremonial, and AI systems transition into de facto automation without explicit intent or governance.

This failure rarely originates in model error. It arises from gradual behavioral drift and organizational dynamics that existing AI governance frameworks are not designed to observe or manage.

The result is an audit and accountability gap: when incidents occur, decision rationale cannot be reconstructed without re-running systems or relying on interviews.

We wrote a short research paper documenting these failure modes and the structural gap between governing AI systems and governing AI usage.

Genuinely interested in critique from people who have seen similar dynamics in production systems, audits, or post-incident reviews.
by kccqzy | 2026-01-20 21:37:44+00:00
Patents are supposed to protect the inventor’s interest. The trick is to divulge enough details to get protection, but not enough that competitors can just copy. So if a patent says “a hydrofluoric acid-based etchant” you can almost be sure that ingredients other than HF will be necessary in a fashion that’s not immediately clear until it is tried. The actual formulation will be a trade secret. What’s also unsaid is of course, the concentration of HF, the duration of exposing the glass to HF, the temperature at which this is done, the method of applying HF to the glass and the method to remove residue HF, etc.
by krupan | 2026-01-20 21:38:12+00:00
This is a tough argument to engage with. Define "frivolous" when it comes to money printing. Define beneficial, and define beneficial to whom. Talk about who decides how much money to print. And you said it's beneficial to have the supply grow or shrink. We know "printing more" is how you grow the supply, but how do you shrink the supply?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-20 21:38:24+00:00
> In a crisis you can't eat dollars, gold, oil, or bitcoin

But you can easily trade dollars for stuff Americans will sell you. That's the advantage of a national backer. In a crisis, they'll welcome the influx of capital in exchange for goods and services. Precisely what you need it you want to spend it.

This is why sanctions fuck up reserve calculations. If, in a crisis, America will sanction you, you might as well have held gold or Bitcoin.
by JamesTRexx | 2026-01-20 21:38:44+00:00
Trial and error was the root of what became my IT career. I became curious about what each executable did from DOS and with that did my first tweaking of autoexec.bat and config.sys to maximise memory.
Years later I was the only one who could investigate network (and some other) problems in Windows via the command line while I was the junior of the team. Ended up being the driver of several new ways of working for the department and company.
by alphax314 | 2026-01-20 21:39:13+00:00
Am I the only one who has setup notifications in the terminal so when claude is done and asks for a permission or whatever else it might need the terminal has a red dot and is bouncing? I go back to it respond in two seconds and then switch back to whatever I was doing. It doesnt feel that disruptive that I would want to run it with the —dangerous flag.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-20 21:40:08+00:00
> thought we were talking about World reserve currency here i.e. international trade

Yes. If you're a random country, you can use your dollars to buy shit from America. Countries hold reserves for basically two direct reasons: to intervene in FX markes and protect their imports. The latter is the main one. At the end of the day, your ideal reserve composition matches your import portfolio because you want currency you can send to the people who are selling you shit.
by staticassertion | 2026-01-20 21:40:29+00:00
Most mitigations just flat out do not attempt to help against "arbitrary read/write". The LLM didn't just find "a vuln" and then work through the mitigations, it found the most powerful possible vulnerability.

Lots of vulnerabilites get stopped dead by these mitigations. You almost always need multiple vulnerabilities tied together, which relies on a level of vulnerability density that's tractable. This is not just busywork.
by ncr100 | 2026-01-20 21:40:30+00:00
I wonder if that idea would support enhancing the Congress with more members + more true-representational (not Gerrymandered) membership, and eliminating the Senate?

I have Zero fundamental understanding of governing, or best-practices for representational government, nor for my own / USA's system. And I wonder wtf should I actually know, in order to fore-arm myself for this upcoming period where the USA must adapt to the perils of this new age.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2026-01-20 21:41:06+00:00
> almost all humans use computers but only 0.1% or so can program them.

This is nitpicking but I was curious: there are 4.4 million software developers in the US (https://www.griddynamics.com/blog/number-software-developers...). The population is 340 million, 0.1% would be 340,000. You’re off by over one order of magnitude.
by throwaway85825 | 2026-01-20 21:41:11+00:00
I can't vouch for the color but it's an LCD panel so I suspect it's probably not the best. I have no way of testing this though.

Text is just a function of pixel count and using the standard rgb lcd cell.

The 55" model hasn't been made in a few years so you'd have to buy used. You'd have to beg samsung to bring it back.
by nunobrito | 2026-01-20 21:41:55+00:00
Salaries are low and equipment/infrastructure is top notch so the overall deficit per year is about a billion EUR, which is the extra they deduct from our taxes and Germoney. Quality and efficiency of "bang per buck" is decent albeit citizens always complain.

Portuguese did run half the world for a couple of centuries, the most spoken language by natives on the southern part of this planet but quite tiresome to deal with all that, now is more like Italy and prefers quality of life.
by scotty79 | 2026-01-20 21:42:13+00:00
Sounds awesome. But they achieved it by basically harwiring specific RAM to specific CPU. It's awesome that they made a product, but there's no extensibility and since it's internal apple innovation it's basically a technological dead end. Nobody can build anything upon this and there's nothing to build. Even a cool $2k laptop you can run small LLM on is basically a closed off expensive toy. Much like iPhone.

Technology will grow in parallel and surpass it fairly quickly like the Android phones did. Only brand loyalty in US holds this thing still propped up long term.
by Xeoncross | 2026-01-20 21:42:27+00:00
I really wish more people wanted screens that looked as good as their cellphone.

Bright, sharp text, great color. We've had the great Apple Studio Display for years now, it's about time others came to fix some of it's short-comings like 27" size, 60hz and lack of HDMI ports for use with other systems.

So many of us have to stare at a screen for hours every day and having one that reduces strain on my eyes is well worth $1-3k if they'd just make them.
by jessehorne | 2026-01-20 21:42:49+00:00
Hey!

I can speak to this a little bit as far as advice goes, as a software eng. I think a good PM is someone that works with us, advocates for our opinions, assuming they are good, and so on. Really good / quality communication between a PM and their eng's will go a long way. Being flexible and available will go a long way. I think you'll pick up on this pretty quick.

I think you should go beyond the basics of jira and probably learn other tools too at some point and aim to be a master of those. If for no other reason that you can be there as a resource if eng's need questions answered about it. It feels like every year I have to learn a new tool or get confused after some update depending on what we're using. This advice may be foo bar.

Someone else may mention this but in short, being somewhat technically knowledgeable will help a lot with understanding terms, conversely having to explain them, etc. Not all eng's are great at explaining to non-technical folks things they really need to understand sometimes. I think a PM can step in, in those instances, if done correctly.

Best of luck. Are you sending apps in currently?
by jollyllama | 2026-01-20 21:43:20+00:00
I don't think it will happen. 10% of EU bank loans that are dollar-denominated [0]. If they cut the flow of dollars into the EU, the debtors of those loans would wind up offering a premium for their goods and services to non-US companies, making them uncompetitive. It would be a roundabout tariff that would hurt the EU countries too much.

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/financial-stability-publicat...