MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by heliumtera | 2026-01-29 17:17:22+00:00
Standard SRE tasks are bad benchmarks.

First of all, familiarity with open telemetry apis is not knowledge, they are arbitrary constructs.

We are implying that conforming to a standard is the only way, the right way. I would challenge that.

Assuming models were good at this tasks, we could only conclude that this tasks were trivial AND sufficiently documented.
Assuming they were good at this type of tasks (they can be trained to be good cheaply, we know that based on similar acquired capabilities) making a benchmark out of it would be less useful.

But I am sure nobody really cares and the author just had to SEO a little bit regardless of reality
by SimianSci | 2026-01-29 17:17:27+00:00
There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed.
Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool.

Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.
by alexpotato | 2026-01-29 17:17:37+00:00
> Hiking has the biggest effect though.

I remember reading that pine trees give off a chemical that is a natural human bronchodilator.

One thought of why people love hiking, especially in piney woods, is that the chemical allows humans to process more oxygen which in turn helps them feel more "energized".

I point this out for two reasons:

1. It's a fascinating bit of trivie

2. It highlights that there are MANY confounding variables so it will always be tough to figure out the isolated impact.
by grim_io | 2026-01-29 17:18:11+00:00
Doesn't your argument reveal the irrationality of the administrations’ tariff policy?

Yes, countries do not export goods as charity to the US. They get to hodl the Dollar.
This huge demand for the Dollar has made it possible to print so many of them and still keep the value, giving the US a big advantage over any other currency.

But who is responsible for the trade deficit anyway? It's the US consumer, of course. No one is forcing them to buy all this stuff.

Now imagine yourself in the shoes of a poor country exporting textiles to the US. What are you to do to make the US administration happy? You can't afford American products, so your only choice is to stop selling to the US? How does that make any sense or help anyone?
by blessedrebus | 2026-01-29 17:18:43+00:00
A month ago I shared Krawl, an open-source deception server for detecting and analyzing malicious web crawlers. Today I’m happy to report that it has reached v1.0.0 and is production-ready.

https://github.com/BlessedRebuS/Krawl

Krawl serves realistic fake web applications (admin panels, configs, credentials, and crawler traps) to clearly separate malicious attackers from legitimate crawlers while collecting actionable intelligence.

In the past month, we’ve analyzed over 4.5 million requests across all Krawl instances, including attacks, legitimate crawlers, and malicious bots.

We’re also planning to build a *knowledge base of the most common attacks* observed through Krawl to help security teams and researchers understand patterns and respond faster.

If you have ideas to integrate with Krawl, or want to contribute, you’re welcome to join the project.

Repo: https://github.com/BlessedRebuS/Kraw
Demo: http://demo.krawlme.com
Dashboard: http://demo.krawlme.com/das_dashboard
by nlh | 2026-01-29 17:19:00+00:00
Noticed the exact same thing a few days ago. So much so that I went on twitter and HN to search for “claude speed boost” to see if there was a known new release. Felt like the time I upgraded from a 2400 baud modem to a 14.4 as a kid - everything was just lightning fast (for a brief shining moment).
by tracker1 | 2026-01-29 17:19:49+00:00
I tend to keep a run/ directory in my projects (used to be _scripts to find easier, but now I favor the write-friendly ./run/dev or ./run/dbup, etc).

Some of the scripts are bash, but many are TypeScript via Deno... it's great that you can reference your dependency modules directly as well as not needing a separate install step like node. Most of my shell scripting is now in Deno.

In fact, now VS just added shebang detection for TS files without the .ts extension... So I don't even need that little extra to edit properly anymore. It works great as a shell scripting language.
by formerly_proven | 2026-01-29 17:19:54+00:00
Top 20 company globally by revenue

Enterprise app observability is purely a responsibility of each individual application/project manager. There is virtually no standardization or even shared infra, a team just stuffing plaintext logs into an unconfigured elasticsearch instance is probably above median already. There is no visibility for anything across departments and more often that not, not even across apps in a department.
by boogrpants | 2026-01-29 17:20:31+00:00
Elon didn't build car, rocket, or satellite industry.

Men and women who died decades ago did.

No one alive today has invented anything. Every industry we rely on was started 100+ years ago.

The rich today are idiots who invested money in other people (workers).

The real con worked; you see them as the epoch of modern economy, industry. To be seen as essential and too big to fall is the real con they shill.
by estebank | 2026-01-29 17:20:38+00:00
Train travel from LA to NY wouldn't be efficient, but there are plenty of population poles like LA to SF where train travel would make sense and a network of those could make cross country travel feasible if not in a hurry. But as the GP pointed out, it is not that useful if you can arrive to LA by train, if then when you arrive you need to rent a car before you've even left the station.

It is always shocking to me when I land at an airport in the US and there no public transport available.

It is common for conversations about good local public transport to have a retort in some sub-thread about how big the US is, as if the feasibility of long distance travel affected the feasibility of other modes of local travel.

You mention the SF peninsula. When I first moved there, I lived in the westside of SF and had friends living in Sunnyvale. On a weekend, it took 4 hs to get to Mountain View (~40miles, at the time, checking now it seems like Caltrain weekend service might have improved, so the same trip would take about 2hs), and then had to be picked up by car to finish the rest of the trip. It was faster (~3:30hs, if more expensive) to go from Paris to Amsterdam (>300miles) by train.
by wcfrobert | 2026-01-29 17:21:05+00:00
> "First of all, one should use Indian or Ceylonese tea. China tea has virtues which are not to be despised nowadays—it is economical, and one can drink it without milk—but there is not much stimulation in it. One does not feel wiser, braver or more optimistic after drinking it. Anyone who has used that comforting phrase ‘a nice cup of tea’ invariably means Indian tea."

These are some of the worst tea-making tip I've ever seen. I get that taste is subjective and all, but come on... This is like saying:

"Al Pastor street taco in Mexico has its virtues - it is economical, and one can eat it without salsa - but there is not much stimulation in it. One does not feel wiser, braver or more optimistic after eating it. Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a great taco' invariably means Taco Bells"

CTC tea [1] is inferior in quality. They are mass-produced, brews quick, and tastes way too strong (hence the milk). Tea was invented in China and tea culture goes back thousands of years. India and Sri Lanka only started producing tea in the mid 1800s. Robert Fortune literally dressed up as a Chinese merchant, snuck into some rural village in Fujian, and smuggled some teas back so the British East India Company can cultivate it in and around India.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_tear,_curl
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-01-29 17:21:09+00:00
I've noticed a degradation in Opus 4.5, also with Gemini-3-Pro. For me, it was a sudden rapid decline in adherence to specs in Claude Code. On an internal benchmark we developed, Gemini-3-Pro also dramatically declined. Going from being clearly beyond every other model (as benchmarks would lead you to believe) to being quite mediocre. Delivering mediocre results in chat queries and coding also missing the mark.

I didn't "try 100 times" so it's unclear if this is an unfortunate series of bad runs on Claude Code and Gemini CLI or actual regression.

I shouldn't have to benchmark this sort of thing but here we are.
by EastLondonCoder | 2026-01-29 17:21:13+00:00
A few concrete mechanisms that made this work (happy to expand):

* “Host layer”: greeting newcomers + making it safe to arrive alone mattered more than we expected.
* Curation as governance: coherent music changes how people behave in the room.
* Offline outreach outperformed posting: visiting local businesses in person built trust faster than Instagram.
* Scale changes the social physics; we stayed small on purpose.

Curious if anyone here has built local repeatable formats (meetups, reading groups, hackerspaces), what made them stick?
by pixl97 | 2026-01-29 17:21:13+00:00
Quite often it is both.

It's not uncommon for incompetent people to be put in positions of power. Because they are incompetent, competent but malicious people take advantage of this and commit actual crimes.

This is where actual conspiracies show up. And that is the incompetent powerful people cover up said crime to avoid looking incompetent.

It is an extremely common pattern.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-29 17:21:43+00:00
> The hate is (among other points) because they are only arguably, marginally, better than placebo

Only true for some. Inarguably, well-proven false for others.

Likewise, placebos and aspirin are comparable at relieving those headaches where aspirin doesn't really solve the source, but that doesn't mean aspirin's well-documented effects are meaningless in general.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 17:21:47+00:00
I mean couldn't this literally have been a OpenCode addon or something standalone or even ollama. Like the hype behind it is really ridiculous and I sort of hate it because I feel like its a grift.

I saw an AI generated (not even local llm but some cloud llm SORA) AI video ad of lobster/clawdbot on r/localllama not by any reddit ad (whcih gets block by ubo) but rather by a human.

I really got pissed by it and there was one comment which was pissed too. I really resonated with that comment. Clawdbot is really dumb, I seriously don't understand the hype.

WE are getting into purely crypto version of somehow AI (like with all of its weird hype mostly). The bubble is near imo.
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-29 17:21:48+00:00
They allow me to function. I've gone through various dosages of various types to find the ones that work best for me, but they have never stopped working. They also allowed me to stick with CBT therapy, and after 20 years my therapist told me I didn't need him anymore ("Call if that changes").

Your second paragraph reveals a biased motive behind your opinion.

I'm really tired of reading anti-medicine testimonials from people who had anecdotal bad results. Yes, penicillin won't stop antibiotic-resistant strains of some germs, and in fact may kill people like me if we take heavy doses. That's worse than what you're describing for SSRIs; does that mean doctors shouldn't prescribe it?
by lurking_swe | 2026-01-29 17:21:55+00:00
i don’t think you realize how fast modern CPUs are. If this stresses your server out, you probably have no business hosting things publicly on that server. This person is hosting stuff on Vercel using serverless which is the root of their problem.

4 request per second is just noise. it’s like complaining about car noise when deciding to buy a house next to the freeway. Exposing things publicly on the internet means _anyone_ can try talking to your server. Real users, bots, hackers, whatever. You can’t guarantee bots are bug-free!

Dynamic content is _typically_ served to logged in users. Content that is public facing is typically cached, for obvious reasons. Of course Meta should fix this…but using Vercel and serverless in this manner is a very poor choice.
by sh3rl0ck | 2026-01-29 17:22:16+00:00
Should be, but sadly isn't; the incentive is to feed into the economically incentivised "bs" rather than be wary of it, which is just... disheartening. Schools often inculcate this enough on a subconscious level that I've seen my fellow college mates rather unable to shake off that residual behaviour.
by Scubabear68 | 2026-01-29 17:22:19+00:00
You got it. Scala had a shot being an early mover in the JVM functional programming space, but they really shot themselves in the foot with their version transition problems and tooling issues you allude to. Java is probably "good enough" for most shops now, and if you are not bound to the JVM I really don't understand why you would go with Scala today.
by DataSpace | 2026-01-29 17:22:25+00:00
I’ll share one of the few encounters I had with the Woz:

At age eight, I attended Steve’s 40th birthday party. My father was his insurance agent.

Steve had transformed his house in Almaden Valley into a playhouse. The attic spanning the entire footprint of the house was carpeted and filled with arcade games, Nintendo Entertainment Systems, snacks, and any fun a kid could imagine. You entered and exited via ladders built throughout the house, in various rooms.

In one room, “The Ball-oon Room,” the floor was filled from floor to ceiling with balloons.

Steve had a dinosaur cave constructed in his backyard that integrated into his pool and a pond. Glass viewing ports peered into the depths of the pond. A television embedded into the wall playing archaeology shows on loop, fossils in the walls.

Why? To learn. To play. To inspire. That’s who he is.

There were many extravagances at Steve’s 40th, like a stadium-quality stage erected on the hillside that could seat a few hundred.

The most memorable thing for me was the party gift: burgundy sunglasses with built-in flashing LEDs. As a little boy, that blew my mind and inspired me for a lifetime.

Videos exist.
by Rochus | 2026-01-29 17:22:38+00:00
This is an interesting system that I studied closely a few years ago, along with a few others based on Lua or Python.

What surprises me enormously about all these systems is the fact that, in builds that can become enormously large and complex systems in themselves, we voluntarily forego most of the advantages we have learned over sixty years of software engineering. I am thinking, for example, of strong typing and type checking by the compiler, which then also enables better support from IDEs and analysis or visualization tools.

It's kind of like other scripting languages. For small applications, it all looks practical and efficient, but woe betide it if it becomes as big as Qt or other systems with several hundred thousand lines of code.
by blibble | 2026-01-29 17:23:02+00:00
> How good for the EU will it be if the US collapses into financial ruin (it won't)?

this isn't the aim

the aim is to decouple enough so you can't be blackmailed

which unfortunately is quite a herculean task, but hey, you've gotta start somewhere

> The EU can say well we're going to go sell all these treasuries, well they become worth less and less and collapse the global economy.

they won't sell them simultaneously, because that would be crazy

but they will change their portfolio allocations over time in response to these new risks made obvious from the hourly yelling out of the white house

which increases US funding costs, decreasing its competitiveness, which is a vicious circle

if it goes on long enough, other trading partners won't want to be paid in dollars at all
by vikashjohn2505 | 2026-01-29 17:23:03+00:00
We present a neurosymbolic framework that combines LLMs with SMT solvers to produce verification-guided answers through iterative refinement. Our approach decomposes LLM outputs into atomic claims, autoformalizes them into first-order logic, and verifies their logical consistency using automated theorem proving. We introduce three key innovations: (1) multi-model consensus via formal semantic equivalence checking to ensure logic-level alignment between candidates, eliminating the syntactic bias of surface-form metrics, (2) semantic routing that directs different claim types to appropriate verification strategies: symbolic solvers for logical claims and LLM ensembles for commonsense reasoning, and (3) precise logical error localization via Minimal Correction Subsets (MCS), which pinpoint the exact subset of claims to revise, transforming binary failure signals into actionable feedback. Our framework classifies claims by their logical status and aggregates multiple verification signals into a unified score with variance-based penalty. The system iteratively refines answers using structured feedback until acceptance criteria are met or convergence is achieved. This hybrid approach delivers formal guarantees where possible and consensus verification elsewhere, advancing trustworthy AI. With the GPT-OSS-120B model, VERGE demonstrates an average performance uplift of 18.7% at convergence across a set of reasoning benchmarks compared to single-pass approaches.
by evertheylen | 2026-01-29 17:23:18+00:00
Not really, I used it to develop against a "real" postgres database for a node backend app. It worked fine and made it pretty easy to spin up a development/CI environment anywhere you want. Only when inserting large amounts of data you start to notice it is slower than native postgres. I had to stop using it because we required the postgis extension (although there is some movement on that front!).
by scrlk | 2026-01-29 17:23:56+00:00
Not sure if this is applicable to DHS, but USG natsec only LLMs exist:

> We’re introducing a custom set of Claude Gov models built exclusively for U.S. national security customers. The models are already deployed by agencies at the highest level of U.S. national security, and access to these models is limited to those who operate in such classified environments.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-nat...
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-29 17:24:24+00:00
> especially when I see some obstruction ('behind a tall SUV', was the waymo overtaking?)

Yep. Driving safe isn't just about paying attention to what you can see, but also paying attention to what you can't see. Being always vigilant and aware of things like "I can't see behind that truck."

Honestly I don't think sensor-first approaches are cut out to tackle this; it probably requires something more akin to AGI, to allow inferring possible risks from incomplete or absent data.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-29 17:24:31+00:00
It can, they just need to approach it not like a big corporation with a multi million dollar a year CEO but as a grassroots project.

If something like KDE can build a whole desktop on a shoestring budget with some donations, Firefox can too. And I'd gladly donate to it. Problem is I can't because you can only donate to the foundation. And I don't want to fund their dogood distractions, just firefox.

Besides, the search deal will end one way or another. Either Firefox will lose so much marketshare that Google no longer bothers, or the DoJ will finally ban the search deals. Relying on it is ultra stupid.
by aaronbrethorst | 2026-01-29 17:24:56+00:00
I can't go so far as to say it saved my life, but I'm part of that cohort of 10% of men who develop postpartum depression. Taking a small dosage of Lexapro had zero side effects for me and helped me deal with not just the anxiety and depression I was experiencing but also a lot of pre-existing anxious behavior that I didn't even realize was abnormal.

Huge quality of life improvement. 10/10 would medicate again.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-29 17:25:03+00:00
Hard disagree... I find that Deno shebangs and using fixed version dependencies to be REALLY reliable... I mean Deno 3 may come along and some internals may break, but that should have really limited side effects.

Aside: I am somewhat disappointed that the @std guys don't (re)implement some of the bits that are part of Deno or node compatibility in a consistent way, as it would/could/should be more stable over time.

I like Deno/TS slightly more because my package/library and version can be called directly in the script I'm executing, not a separate .csproj file.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-29 17:25:36+00:00
> limited context sizes

Context size isn't the issue. You cannot effectively leverage an infinite context if you had one anyways. The general solution is to recursively decompose the problem into smaller ones and solve them independently of each other, returning the results back up the stack. Recursion being the key here. A bunch of parallel agents on separate call stacks that don't block on their logical callees is a slop factory.
by slfnflctd | 2026-01-29 17:25:37+00:00
You definitely have a point. It would not be rolled out all at once, everywhere. It would happen sporadically, starting with areas that have a higher tax revenue base. There may never be an international standard. There will be tons of places it will never work at all.

All the same, it still reminds me of past infrastructure changes which ended up being widely distributed, with or without standards, from railroads to fiber optic cables.

And this:

> if we wanted to go beyond the bare minimum, we'd plug the potholes, paint the markings and fix the road signs first

...just strikes me as a major logical fallacy. It's like the people who say we shouldn't continue exploring our solar system because we have too many problems on Earth. We will always have problems here, from people starving because of oppressive and unaccountable hierarchies they're stuck under to potholes and road markings the local government is too broke or incompetent to fix. We should work on those, yeah, but we should also be furthering the research and development of technology from every angle we realistically can. It feels weird to be explaining this here.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-29 17:25:51+00:00
There are indeed some form of serious depression that are non-responsive to psychotherapy alone. Those are however not the norm. Dr. David D Burns, practising psychiatrist and author of the book Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy has written a whole chapter in it on the appropriate use case and effectiveness of anti-depressants today. (If you are considering using anti-depressants, I urge everyone to get the latest revision of his book and read that chapter). He believes anti-depressant has its use during treatment but also shares studies that suggest modern psychotherapy, like Cognitive Therapy which he advocates, has now begun to surpass the effectiveness of anti-depressants in "curing" depression in the long-term.

A particular point he makes about depression in it is insightful: Although depression is conventionally viewed as a medical illness, research studies indicate that genetic influences appear to account for only about 16% of depression. For many individuals, life influences appear to be the most important causes.
by blacksmith_tb | 2026-01-29 17:26:02+00:00
Worth mentioning that though tea does contain polyphenols and flavinoids which are good for us (and l-theanine and caffeine which we enjoy introducing to our nervous systems), it's had a much bigger impact on health historically because it required us to heat water to boiling (or near boiling, depending on what kind of tea you're making).

Also, can't miss a chance to spice things up with the mention of adding salt to brewed tea[1]. Which is heretical, but seems palatable to me, though I probably wouldn't do it to good tea.

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68085304
by IncreasePosts | 2026-01-29 17:26:04+00:00
I wonder if that is a "fully attentive human drive who drove exactly the same as the Waymo up until the point the child appeared"?

Personally, I slow down and get extra cautious when I know I am near a place where lots of kids are and sight lines are poor. Even if the area is signed for 20 I might only be doing 14 to begin with, and also driving more towards the center of the road if possible with traffic.