MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cbovis | 2026-01-26 19:55:19+00:00
I've also noticed this explosion of code review tools and felt that there's some misplaced focus going on for companies.

Two that stood out to me are Sentry and Vercel. Both have released code review tools recently and both feel misplaced. I can definitely see why they thought they could expand with that type of product offering but I just don't see a benefit over their competition. We have GH copilot natively available on all our PRs, it does a great job, integrates very well with the PR comment system, and is cheap (free with our current usage patterns). GH and other source control services are well placed to have first-class code review functionality baked into their PR tooling.

It's not really clear to me what Sentry/Vercel are offering beyond what copilot does and in my brief testing of them didn't see noticeable difference in quality or DX. Feels like they're fighting an uphill battle from day one with the product choice and are ultimately limited on DX by how deeply GH and other source control service allow them to integrate.

What I would love to see from Vercel, which they feel very well placed to offer, is AI powered QA. They already control the preview environments being deployed to for each PR, they have a feedback system in place with their Vercel toolbar comments, so they "just" need to tie those together with an agentic QA system. A much loftier goal of course but a differentiator and something I'm sure a lot of teams would pay top dollar for if it works well.
by bubblesorting | 2026-01-26 19:55:42+00:00
Very cool! I am a good Tetris player (in the top 10% of players) and wanted to give brick yeeting against an LLM a spin.

Some feedback:
- Knowing the scoring system is helpful when going 1v1 high score

- Use a different randomization system, I kept getting starved for pieces like I. True random is fine, throwing a copy of every piece into a bag and then drawing them one by one is better (7 bag), nearly random with some lookbehind to prevent getting a string of ZSZS is solid, too (TGM randomizer)

- Piece rotation feels left-biased, and keeps making me mis-drop, like the T pieces shift to the left if you spin 4 times. Check out https://tetris.wiki/images/thumb/3/3d/SRS-pieces.png/300px-S... or https://tetris.wiki/images/b/b5/Tgm_basic_ars_description.pn... for examples of how other games are doing it.

- Clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation is important for human players, we can only hit so many keys per second

- re-mappable keys are also appreciated

Nice work, I'm going to keep watching.
by stackghost | 2026-01-26 19:56:22+00:00
Because after the US threatened to destroy our economy and/or annex us by force and/or cancel nu-NAFTA and/or impose tariffs on us regardless, we realized that Americans don't actually want us as friends so we started diversifying our trade partnerships and negotiated a mutual tariff relaxation deal with China.

The previous Canada-US relationship is gone. Months ago I wrote on HN that purely by virtue of having to weather this storm, the nature of Canada-US relations will be irrevocably and fundamentally altered. Even if Trump and his cronies were jailed tomorrow, it's too late. The rest of the world understands that Trump is just a symptom of the disease affecting America and it's going to get worse, not better.
by gretch | 2026-01-26 19:56:38+00:00
Every other source for information, including (or maybe especially) human experts can also make mistakes or hallucinate.

The reason ppl go to LLMs for medical advice is because real doctors actually fuck up each and everyday.

For clear, objective examples look up stories where surgeons leave things inside of patient bodies post op.

Here’s one, and there many like it.

https://abc13.com/amp/post/hospital-fined-after-surgeon-leav...
by overfeed | 2026-01-26 19:56:56+00:00
A core tenet of the "dark enlightenment" mind-virus that has taken hold of the valley is the idea that civilizational decline/collapse as imminent, and inevitable, so they don't really mind getting a bigger slice of a smaller cake, as long as they are in charge[1].

However, they also are getting citizenships from other countries or buying pacific islands bunkers: just in case.

1. The collapse inevitabilitism absolves them of any guilt when their actions make the world worse, since "it was going to happen anyway"
by leeter | 2026-01-26 19:57:11+00:00
I believe you're thinking of the x86 Hotpatching hook[1], which doesn't exist on x86-64[2] (in the same form, it uses a x86-64 safe one).

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221109-00/?p=10...
by arendtio | 2026-01-26 19:57:24+00:00
There are some concepts clashing here.

I mean, if you let the LLM build a testris bot, it would be 1000x better than what the LLMs are doing. So yes, it is fun to win against an AI, but to be fair against such processing power, you should not be able to win. It is only possible because LLMs are not built for such tasks.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-26 19:57:51+00:00
Medical topics are hard because it's often impossible to provide enough information through the internet to make a diagnosis. Although frustrating for users, "go see a doctor" is really the only way to make progress once you hit the wall where testing combined with years of clinical experience are needed to evaluate something.

A lot of the YouTube and other social media medical content has started trying to fill this void by providing seemingly more definitive answers to vague inputs. There's a lot of content that exists to basically confirm what the viewer wants to hear, not tell them that their doctor is a better judge than they are.

This is happening everywhere on social media. See the explosion in content dedicated to telling people that every little thing is a symptom of ADHD or that being a little socially awkward or having unusual interests is a reliable indicator for Autism.

There's a growing problem in the medical field where patients show up to the clinic having watched hundreds of hours of TikTok and YouTube videos and having already self-diagnosing themselves with multiple conditions. Talking them out of their conclusions can be really hard when the provider only has 40 minutes but the patient has a parasocial relationship with 10 different influencers who speak to them every day through videos.
by Sol- | 2026-01-26 19:58:14+00:00
I also find the implications for this for AGI interesting. If very compute-intensive reasoning leads to very powerful AI, the world might remain the same for at least a few years even after the breakthrough because the inference compute simply cannot keep up.

You might want millions of geniuses in a data center, but perhaps you can only afford one and haven't built out enough compute? Might sound ridiculous to the critics of the current data center build-out, but doesn't seem impossible to me.
by Fr0styMatt88 | 2026-01-26 19:58:31+00:00
Put together, it’s likely most people’s friends wouldn’t produce enough content to drive engagement, at least in ‘public’ social media like Facebook.

I remember this phenomenon back when Facebook was less algorithmic — some days there’d just be no new content at all. Especially I’m guessing if you limit adding friends to actually just the people you’d be happy to grab lunch with.
by montyanne | 2026-01-26 19:58:37+00:00
The plaintext TSS/ECID and the plaintext OCSP issues have been fixed, which IMO were the only meaningful security gripes of the article.

The iMessage/ADP/Metadata stuff I think is more of an implementation decision than a meaningful attempt at data collection. Using clear text file names and hashes for dealing with collisions and deduplicating is a reasonable first pass at something like this. Sure, they could probably roll some end-to-end obfuscation for this, but with how big their stack and cloud integrations are, I’m sure that’s non-trivial.
by wtallis | 2026-01-26 19:58:44+00:00
The matrix/tensor math units added to GPUs do see widespread use, both for running LLMs and for the ML-based upscaling used by most video games these days (eg. NVIDIA DLSS). The NPUs that are separate from the GPU and designed more with efficiency in mind rather than raw performance are a different thing, and that's what's still looking for a killer app in spite of all the marketing effort.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-26 19:58:50+00:00
> Both of those are heavily astroturfed / propagandized.

I'm pretty skeptical of that, honestly. I think if we apply Occam, it's just that there are enough people that do feel like that. Look at some of the Jubilee 'Surrounded' videos to see that such people are not in short supply.

There's not much financial motive in building up or buying accounts just for them to say they agree with what's going on - it doesn't help anyone in power right now. Anecdotal, but the users I check the profile history off seem legitimate posting across several different subs also.
by cbovis | 2026-01-26 19:59:18+00:00
GH Copilot is definitely far better than just a linter. I don't have examples to hand but one thing that's stood out to me is its use of context outside the changes in the diff. It'll pull in context that typically isn't visible in the PR itself, the sort of things that only someone experienced in the code base with good recall would connect the dots on (e.g. this doesn't conform to typical patterns, or a version of this is already encapsulated in reusable code, or there's an existing constant that could be used here instead of the hardcoded value you have).
by atrettel | 2026-01-26 19:59:20+00:00
I completely agree. The issue is that some misconceptions just never go away. People were talking about how bad lines of code is as a metric in the 1980s [1]. Its persistence as a measure of productivity only shows to me that people feel some deep-seated need to measure developer productivity. They would rather have a bad but readily-available metric than no measure of productivity.

[1] https://folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
by Rumudiez | 2026-01-26 19:59:39+00:00
if you do enough planning up front, you can get a swarm of agents to run for hours on end completing all the tasks autonomously. I have a test project that uses github issues as a kanban board, I iterate with the primary chat interface to refine a local ROADMAP.md file and then tell it "get started"

it took several sessions of this to refine the workflow docs to something claude + subagents would stick to regarding branching strategy and integration requirements, but it runs well enough. my main bottleneck now is CI, but I still hit the weekly limit on claude max from just a handful of these sessions each week, and it's about all the spare time I have for manual QA anyway
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-26 19:59:39+00:00
> I think that's a bit of a myth.

Why do you think that? It's definitely true. You can observe it today if you want to visit a country where peasants are still common.

From Bret Devereaux's recent series on Greek hoplites:

> Now traditionally, the zeugitai were regarded as the ‘hoplite class’ and that is sometimes supposed to be the source of their name

> but what van Wees is working out is that although the zeugitai are supposed to be the core of the citizen polity (the thetes have limited political participation) there simply cannot be that many of them because the minimum farm necessary to produce 200 medimnoi of grain is going to be around 7.5 ha or roughly 18 acres which is – by peasant standards – an enormous farm, well into ‘rich peasant’ territory.

> Of course with such large farms there can’t be all that many zeugitai and indeed there don’t seem to have been. In van Wees’ model, the zeugitai-and-up classes never supply even half of the number of hoplites we see Athens deploy

> Instead, under most conditions the majority of hoplites are thetes, pulled from the wealthiest stratum of that class (van Wees figures these fellows probably have farms in the range of ~3 ha or so, so c. 7.5 acres). Those thetes make up the majority of hoplites on the field but do not enjoy the political privileges of the ‘hoplite class.’

> And pushing against the ‘polis-of-rentier-elites’ model, we often also find Greek sources remarking that these fellows, “wiry and sunburnt” (Plato Republic 556cd, trans. van Wees), make the best soldiers because they’re more physically fit and more inured to hardship – because unlike the wealthy hoplites they actually have to work.

( https://acoup.blog/2026/01/09/collections-hoplite-wars-part-... )

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> Many of the most renowned Romans in the original form of the Olympics and in Boxing were Roman Senators

In the original form of the Olympics, a Roman senator would have been ineligible to compete, since the Olympics was open only to Greeks.
by fogzen | 2026-01-26 19:59:50+00:00
Because every time I've done something of my own initiative, one of three things happens:

1/ I'm punished or reprimanded for doing something that my time wasn't explicitly scheduled for. This comes from managers.

2/ Nobody cares and I'm now further behind on the things I committed to.

3/ People care, are happy I took the initiative, but I'm not rewarded in any way.

In all cases I am no better off. I just don't do it anymore. Employers don't want employee autonomy, so they don't get employee autonomy.
by saisrirampur | 2026-01-26 20:00:14+00:00
Very interesting question. Depends on the use-case, have seen quite a few workloads where logical replication gets throttled on I/O (reorder buffer) where NVMe based disk access should help a lot. This happens specifically when there are larger or interleaved transactions. We plan to test this at production scale soon. Stay tuned for more learnings!
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-26 20:00:27+00:00
Right, and he also very recently said that he felt essentially left behind by AI coding advances, thinking that his productivity could be 10x if he knew how to use it better.

It seems clear that Karpathy himself is well aware of the difference between "vibe coding" as he defined it (which he explicitly said was for playing with on hobby projects), and more controlled productive use of AI for coding, which has either eluded him, or maybe his expectations are too high and (although it would be surprising) he has not realized the difference between the types of application where people are finding it useful, and use cases like his own that do not play to its strength.
by chickensong | 2026-01-26 20:00:36+00:00
IMO, that isn't true, nor is the vast majority of software engineering related to the web.

Every industry has been undergoing digital transformation for decades. There are SREs ensuring service levels for everything from your electrical meter, to satellite navigation systems. Someone wrote the code that boots your phone and starts your car. Somebody's wireless code is passing through your body as you read this, while an SRE ensures the packet loss isn't too high.
by heliumtera | 2026-01-26 20:00:46+00:00
No shit. What is the point of using an llm model to review code produced by an llm model?

Code review pressupose a different perspective, which no platform can offer at the moment because they are just as sophisticated as the model they wrap.
Claude generated the code, and Claude was asked if the code was good enough, and now you want to be in the middle to ask Claude again but with more emphasis, I guess?
If I want more emphasis I can ask Claude myself. Or Qwen.
I can't even begin to understand this rationale.
by zwischenzug | 2026-01-26 20:01:31+00:00
Whatever we all television now, television then was literally "vision at a distance", which Baird was the first to demonstrate (AFAIK).

The TV I have now in my living room is closer to a computer than a television from when I grew up (born 1975) anyway, so the word could mean all sorts of things. I mean, we still call our pocket computers "phones" even though they are mainly used for viewing cats at a distance.
by ummonk | 2026-01-26 20:01:57+00:00
They’ve defined memorization complexity as having to memorize the best out of almost equally good moves (as opposed to being able to play the best move without memorization because it is so obvious.

In reality it’s almost the other way around. Because white usually has several good moves at every point, they can just memorize one of them, while black needs to memorize how they’ll respond to every good move white could make.
by eduction | 2026-01-26 20:01:59+00:00
It’s great yes, but if we in the US weren’t proving so untrustworthy, EU startups and tech giants could focus on building things that actually might out innovate us and everyone else. Which would be a win-win.

Instead they will spend a lot time duplicating tools that have some competition but entirely in the US, and maybe not innovating much if anything.

I don’t blame them. There is value in trusting your tools and not risk having them weapons. It’s just sad all around.
by leptons | 2026-01-26 20:02:05+00:00
RBG had cancer twice, and she refused to step down and let Obama replace her. More should have been done to convince her. McConnell blocking Obama from filling Scalia's vacancy probably didn't have to happen the way it did, if Democrats stood up and forced it - the Republican reasoning was absolutely stupid and not based on any lawful reason.

Yes, the Democrats fumbled this and it led to the problems we have now. I'm still a lifelong Democrat voter and always will be, but goddamnit did we shoot ourselves in the foot.

Trump had no problem convincing Kennedy to step down and be replaced. Republicans know the game, the Democrats we elect don't seem to know how to play it.
by eviks | 2026-01-26 20:02:34+00:00
There is no such general rule, and humanity has always used various media, and for every biased test you come up with (frequency of a word in a text) you can just as well come up with a test that benefits the other medium (frequency of some sound in the audio book)

* Go back a few pages to remember exactly how something/someone was described

Or you don't forget how someone looks because a visual illustration is easier to remember

* Find exactly where I was just before I fell asleep

You can't, the book closed when you fell asleep and you forgot the bookmark . But when the phone fell it disconnected your headphones which stopped the playback.
by scns | 2026-01-26 20:03:01+00:00
> I can't think of any credible reason not to have universal healthcare at this point.

When you grab em by their Amygdala, the naked monkeys will do what you want. Even to their own detriment.

As soon as they are in fight-or-flight-mode, (most) people cannot be reasoned with.

Sad but true
by arendtio | 2026-01-26 20:03:18+00:00
Thanks for the info, but I don't think it answers the question. I mean, you could train a 20-node network on 36 trillion tokens. Wouldn't make much sense, but you could. So I was asking more about the number of nodes / parameters or GB of file size.

In addition, there seem to be many different versions of Qwen3. E.g. here the list from ollama library: https://ollama.com/library/qwen3/tags
by Balgair | 2026-01-26 20:04:35+00:00
> Dario and Anthropic's strategy has been to exaggerate the harmful capabilities of LLMs and systems driven by LLMs, positioning Anthropic themselves as the "safest" option. Take from this what you will.

Yeah, I've been feeling that as well. It's not a bad strategy at all, makes sense, good for business.

But on the nuclear issue, it's not a good sign that he's explicitly saying that this AGI future is a threat to nuclear deterrence and the triad. Like, where do you go up from there? That's the highest level of alarm that any government can have. This isn't a boy crying wolf, it's the loudest klaxon you can possibly make.

If this is a way to scare up dollars (like any tyre commercial), then he's out of ceiling now. And that's a sign that it really is sigmoiding internally.
by rdtsc | 2026-01-26 20:04:37+00:00
> I wonder why that is. My guess is that it's just a symptom of the same thing that causes everyone to stop buying colorful cars, and instead default to a grayscale one: fear that being too outlandish or creative will turn off potential customers/viewers.

One aspect of it is that the sci-fi future is not really a future in general, it's a future how it was imagined at the time. In the 80s we had maximalist fashion - bright colors, shoulder pads, big hair. So the future from that time looked even more so like that.

If we look at the future as imagined in the 40s and 50s we might laugh at the silly looking robots. We'd never put robots like in a current sci-fi movie, unless as a joke. But, at the time they were not made for laughs, people thought that's what robots would really look like.

An even deeper part of this is that the future from 80s from movies that became popular also adds to how we might see the future now. Aethetics from popular movies are immortalized. Like say, you're lamenting why doesn't current sci-fi look like Blade Runner, but imagine if Blade Runner had terrible characters and bad acting. You wouldn't want that aesthetic in sci movies today. It would be associated with crap.
by dgxyz | 2026-01-26 20:05:01+00:00
No. No one really gives a shit about AI other than the tech industry and vocal CEO culture which is just using it to bury recession and regular lay offs. Otherwise it's novelty value and frustration but no one is going to use it or pay enough for it to be viable as an economic backbone.

There are many more important things to consider. Like literally everything else society sits on top of.
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-01-26 20:05:05+00:00
What I find amazing is why people continously claim glibc is the problem here. I have a commercial software binary from 1996 that _still works_ to this day. It even links with X11, and works under Xwayland.

The trick? It's not statically linked, but dynamically linked. And it doesn't like with anything other than glibc, X11 ... and bdb.

At this point I think people just do not know how binary compatibility works at all. Or they refer to a different problem that I am not familiar with.
by gregfjohnson | 2026-01-26 20:05:33+00:00
One use case that I'm beginning to find useful is to go into a specific directory of code that I have written and am working on, and ask the AI agent (Claude Code in my case) "Please find and list possible bugs in the code in this directory."

Then, I can reason through the AI agent's responses and decide what if anything I need to do about them.

I just did this for one project so far, but got surprisingly useful results.

It turns out that the possible bugs identified by the AI tool were not bugs based on the larger context of the code as it exists right now. For example, it found a function that returns a pointer, and it may return NULL. Call sites were not checking for a NULL return value. The code in its current state could never in fact return a NULL value. However, future-proofing this code, it would be good practice to check for this case in the call sites.
by nemomarx | 2026-01-26 20:05:56+00:00
I think people broadly feel like all of this is happening inevitably or being done by others. The alignment people struggle to get their version of AI to market first - the techies worry about being left behind. No one ends up being in a position to steer things or have any influence over the future in the race to keep up.

So what can you and I do? I know in my gut that imagining an ideal outcome won't change what actually happens, and neither will criticizing it really.
by Epa095 | 2026-01-26 20:06:10+00:00
Yes, it's clearly all 5d chess to manipulate a retarded ally to do what's best for it against it's will, all going according to plan. /s

Good luck meeting China without friends. Clearly brilliant statesmanship. Europe is able to read, the room, the situation, and the National Security Strategy, which makes it pretty clear that meddling with European democracy is a important foreign policy.