MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-23 22:55:44+00:00
This is actually the crux of the argument for iconoclasm. This is why faiths like Judaism and some sects of Islam strictly forbid any representation of creation or humanity, especially to "represent" the divine or spiritual realities.

If you begin personifying everything, if you represent spiritual/invisible concepts in concrete, human terms, if you reduce transcendent concepts to the pragmatic and the visible product of a sculptor's hands, people can get really confused. I promise.

People can lose sight of that transcendence and eternal meaning behind the symbols. They can get really wrapped up in the physical manifestations. This is also the central problem with the autism spectrum and such.

Aniconism attempts to free the mind from these limiting images. If you're Muslim and you contemplate a building with nothing but artistic words and text scrawled all over it, you obtain a far different result than contemplating a richly symbolic statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Many people have the intellect and the insight to go beyond that concrete imagery, but not all.
by mansi_mittal | 2026-01-23 22:56:03+00:00
This resonates with real pain I’ve seen once agent systems leave the demo phase. Most failures aren’t model quality issues — they are retries with side effects, partial execution failures, and lack of visibility/control once things are running live. The idea of a lightweight, inline control plane that doesn’t replace the orchestrator but governs execution step-by-step feels like a pragmatic way to tackle that.

I especially liked the ability to start in observe-only mode and progressively enforce policies, and the focus on auditability and permissions per step. That’s the kind of thing teams usually end up building ad-hoc once compliance or reliability becomes non-optional.

A couple of things I’m curious about (and would love your thoughts on):
1. How you think about debugging or replay for long-running/stateful workflows when enforcement decisions affect downstream steps

2. What you’re seeing in practice around latency overhead at scale when AxonFlow is fully in the hot path

Overall, this feels like it’s aimed at the right stage of maturity — not early demos, but teams already feeling production constraints.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-23 22:56:38+00:00
> That said, faster inference can't come soon enough.

why is that? technical limits? I know cerebras struggles with compute and they stopped their coding plan (sold out!). their arch also hasn't been used with large models like gpt-5.2. the largest they support (if not quantized) is glm 4.7 which is <500B params.
by kens | 2026-01-23 22:56:49+00:00
The byte order doesn't make much difference. The more important difference compared to a typical RISC chip is that the 8086 supports unaligned memory access. So there's some complicated bus circuitry to perform two memory accesses and shuffle the bytes if necessary.

To understand why the 8086 uses little-endian, you need to go back to the Datapoint 2200, a 1970 desktop computer / smart terminal built from TTL chips (since this was pre-microprocessor). RAM was too expensive at the time, so the Datapoint 2200 used Intel shift-register memory chips along with a 1-bit serial ALU. To add numbers one bit at a time, you need to start with the lowest bit to handle carries, so little-endian is the practical ordering.

Datapoint talked to Intel and Texas Instruments about replacing the board full of TTL chips with a single-chip processor. Texas Instruments created the TMX1795 processor and Intel slightly later created the 8008 processor. Datapoint rejected both chips and continued using TTL. Texas Instruments tried to sell the TMX1795 to Ford as an engine controller, but they were unsuccessful and the TMX1795 disappeared. Intel, however, marketed the 8008 chip as a general-purpose processor, creating the microprocessor as a product (along with the unrelated 4-bit 4004). Since the 8008 was essentially a clone of the Datapoint 2200 processor, it was little-endian. Intel improved the 8008 with the 8080 and 8085, then made the 16-bit 8086, which led to the modern x86 line. For backward compatibility, Intel kept the little-endian order (along with other influences of the Datapoint 2200). The point of this history is that x86 is little-endian because the Datapoint 2200 was a serial processor, not because little-endian makes sense. (Big-endian is the obvious ordering. Among other things, it is compatible with punch cards where everything is typed left-to-right in the normal way.)
by chainbuilder | 2026-01-23 22:56:59+00:00
After launching Kettaro, we spent time watching how people actually use it. The main issue wasn’t missing data, it was cognitive overload.

We added an interpretation layer on top of existing analytics:

A wallet “story” timeline built from sampled transactions across the wallet’s full history

A simple 0–100 wallet health score based on age, activity, risk exposure, diversity, and counterparties

Plain-English summaries for wallets and transactions

Lightweight PDF exports for sharing or record-keeping

Expanded chain coverage (now 11 networks)

The goal is to make on-chain analysis readable without removing technical depth.

Still iterating and very open to feedback from people who regularly inspect wallets or build similar tools.
by pedalpete | 2026-01-23 22:57:28+00:00
As the founder of https://ayvri.com, I thought/hoped you were taking over where we left off.

You're maybe on the path, but I'd recommend smoothing out the camera movement when going from point to point, and rather than go direct from point to point, you can calculate smooth arcs between almost any point.

This may be difficult in the Google Maps API, we built our own renderer, camera, etc.

I'm VERY surprised that the Google Maps API is priced in such a way that you can actually afford this if it got any amount of scale.

Happy to answer any questions if I can help.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-23 22:57:29+00:00
Not sure if you are missing the point or hitting on the actual point.

That is an example. Given the amount of AI-generated scam content exactly like that (and worse, have you seen the ED ones?) on the internet today, creating something in the same vein seems harmless.

On the other hand, unleashing the ability to generate massive numbers of variations cheaply, and experimenting to find the optimal mixture of insecurity, fear and avarice to exploit....that's dystopian. But Madison Avenue actually got most of that figured out long ago.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-23 22:57:31+00:00
Appears to be wpengine hijacking or misconfiguration. impact.soylent.com points to wp.wpenginepowered.com

https://wpengine.com/support/point-domain/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250623223238/https://impact.so...

https://web.archive.org/web/20260123223338/https://impact.so...
by 1718627440 | 2026-01-23 22:57:44+00:00
> politicians can win by being emotionally satisfying

That is called populism and comes with a huge stigma for a reason.

> The common denominator on the left and the right is a completely garbled and fragmentary concept of the Constitution.

Sure, a disagreement with what people think and what the constitution says is going to cause problems. Ultimately society is based on trust, once you loose that you have already lost some important part. The existence and growth of para-country organizations (e.g. FAANG) has certainly affected if not effected your current issue (and continues to do so for other countries in the world).
by andrepd | 2026-01-23 22:58:25+00:00
I implemented Teju Jaguá in Rust, based of the original C impl https://github.com/andrepd/teju-jagua-rs. Comparing to Zmij, I do wonder how much speedup is there on the core part of the algorithm (f2^e -> f10^e) vs on the printing part of the problem (f*10^e -> decimal string)! Benchmarks on my crate show a comparable amount of time spent on each of those parts.
by erredois | 2026-01-23 22:58:54+00:00
I am not very familiar with Juniper config, but this phrase summarizes it well. "This means we (AS13335) took the prefix received from Meta (AS32934), our peer, and then advertised it toward Lumen (AS3356), one of our upstream transit providers. " basically you should not receive a prefix from an eBGP session ( different AS) and advertize to an eBGP session. As they mention at the next steps, good use of communities could help avoiding it, in case of other misconfigurations.
by kaydub | 2026-01-23 22:59:50+00:00
This is one of those places I feel like they're trying to do too much with the LLMs and I think this is one of those places where there's "a bubble". I feel like the LLMs are text tools, so trying to take them out of their domain and force them somewhere else you're going to have problems.

Anyways, I replied because I had something else I wanted to say.

I was using Gemini in a google worksheet a while back. I had to cross reference a website and input stuff into a cell. I got Gemini to do it, had it do the first row, then the second, then I told it to do a batch of 10, then 20. It had a hiccup at 20, would take too long I guess. So I had it go back to 10. But then Gemini tells me it can't read my worksheet. I convince it that it can, but then it tells me it can't edit my worksheet. I argue with it, "you've been changing the worksheet wtf?" I convinced it that it could and it started again, but then after doing a couple it told me it couldn't again. We went back and forth a bit, I'd get it working, it would break, repeat. I think it was after the third time I just couldn't get it to do it again.

I looked up the docs, searched online, and I was concerned that I found Google didn't allow Gemini to do a lot of stuff to worksheets/docs/other google workspace stuff. They said they didn't allow it to do a ton of stuff that I definitely had Gemini doing.

Then a week or two went by and google announced they're allowing gemini to directly edit worksheets.

So wtf how did I get it to do it before it could do it???
by jiehong | 2026-01-23 23:01:05+00:00
When I connect my iPhone to my dock with an external screen, it mirror the phone screen to the display, which is nice.

But, the keyboard never activates in any field.

If you use that to charge your phone (so the external screen is off), you can’t talk to people since the phone really don’t want you to have a keyboard at all as long as your connected.
by codegeek | 2026-01-23 23:01:21+00:00
I have sold B2B SAAS for 10+ years and I have seen it all. It all depends on the size of your buyer's organization, amount of politics involved (if larger org), red tapes to go through and various other challenges.

Let's break it down a bit.

- For prospects where company size is less than 50 employees or so, the owner/founder(s) are usually involved even if not from Day 1 and it is a lot easier to try and close the deal considering they have a real need/want for what you are selling.

- For prospects where company size starts going into 50-100 or more, now you are dealing with smaller teams with their own needs/politics etc. Not always, but often. This is where a good "champion" who may not be the final decision maker but is mostly sold on your product can be very helpful. Now, the downside is that if you cannot convince the champion, you will never get to the decision makers or will be very hard because they will just tell you to talk to the champions first.

I don't think a tool can solve this problem considering that is the premise of your post. It is a human problem.
Show HN: On-brand, context-related <img> generation for blogs
by aleksam | 2026-01-23 23:01:39+00:00
I got very good at SEO (particularly the tech side) and free tools.

I started recently doing some collabs as well.

What is currently slowing me the most is creating on-brand images related to the content, by far.

I was using AI to generate images, but it needed constant hand-holding, prompting, and control.

So I built BlogImageGen, which helps me build on-brand, context-related images in predefined styles and formats.

Would love to hear your feedback.
by gt0 | 2026-01-23 23:02:13+00:00
I tried ReactOS a little while ago, in some ways it's closer than it feels to being acceptable as a daily driver, in others it's quite far away.

I like the idea of there being more alternatives Operating Systems that aren't just a Linux distro. Operating Systems like Haiku and ReactOS I think are great for being a direction that isn't Linux. It's not that Linux is bad, but it's a slow moving change-resistant juggernaut that isn't going to be a place where innovation will thrive.
by lemax | 2026-01-23 23:02:54+00:00
Yeah, I guess this take is tempting for a technologist, but Gen Z is buying iPods and walking around in wired headphones because it's cool and nostalgic, not because of usability. Cycles of nostalgia are well understood to be getting smaller. The creative industry is creating new things less frequently and referring back sooner (the old 20 year cycle of fashion repeating itself is contracting). There is an element of disenchantment, of wanting to disconnect from the present, but that has always sort of been there as people reached for vintage cameras, record players, and old clothes in the niche cultural movements that have preceded the current Gen Z 2000's obsession that's happening.

see https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1081115609/from-tumblrcore-to...
by oblio | 2026-01-23 23:03:17+00:00
That sounds benign but I'm guessing all of that was in a 24/7 loop and probably running in parallel a bunch of times.

It's like the "unlimited Gmail storage" that's now stuck at 15GB since 2012, despite the cost of storage probably going down probably 20x since 2012.

Companies launch products with deceptive marketing and features they can't possibly support and then when they get called on their bluff, they have to fall back to realistic terms and conditions.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-23 23:03:55+00:00
Sorry, what am I missing here, this complaint is true for all architectures, because the readers are always going to be out of sync with the state in the database until they do another read.

The nanosecond that the system has the concept of readers and writers being different processes/people/whatever it has multiple copies, the one held by the database, and the copies held by the readers when they last read.

It does not matter if there is a single DB lock, or a multi shared distributed lock.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-23 23:04:31+00:00
> The whole aesthetic of startup success—those triumphant IPO bell-ringing moments—celebrates money, not wisdom or authentic progress.

Didn't see anything about ethics either, which, again, is not necessarily what a VC firm is about. It's actually kind of refreshing--the website clearly conveys YC's focus: It's about being "formidable" and "intensive work" and "urgency" and "fast." The editing on this site is impressive. They have boiled away everything down to the core of what the firm believes in, and it's "work hard make lots of money fast". Not something I'd personally be interested in being part of, but the site's wording is remarkable in its honesty, and I clearly know after reading it that the YC experience would not be my cup of tea!
by snowmobile | 2026-01-23 23:04:47+00:00
I mean, it hasn't even "decided" whether it's going for "Iowa, Texas or Cordoba, Argentina". Just look at the files in the repo, it's looking an awful lot like those AI transcripts where somebody's "discovered a new kind of physics".
https://github.com/brightseth/proof-of-corn/blob/main/proof-...
by wcfrobert | 2026-01-23 23:05:00+00:00
This exercise is pointless.

Of course software can affect the physical world: Google Maps changes traffic patterns; DoorDash teleports takeoff food right to my doorstep; the weather app alters how people dress. This list is un-ending. But these effects are always second-order. Humans are always there in the background bridging the gap between bits and atoms (underpaid delivery drivers in the case of doordash).

The more interesting question is whether AI can __directly__ impact the physical world with robotics. Gemini can wax poetic about optimizing fertilizers usage, grid spacing for best cross-pollination, the optimum temperature, timing, watering frequency of growing corn, but can it actually go to Home Depot, purchase corn seeds, ... (long sequence of tasks) ..., nurture it for months until there's corn in my backyard? Each task within the (long sequence of tasks) is "making PB&J sandwich" [1] level of difficulty. Can AI generalize?

As is, LLMs are better positioned to replace decision-makers than the workers actually getting stuff done.

[1] http://static.zerorobotics.mit.edu/docs/team-activities/Prog...
by at1as | 2026-01-23 23:05:32+00:00
> The Big 6 control all media in the US, and mergers happen all the time

Media has not been in a healthy state for quite some time. For a long time that had little to nothing to do with tech. With streaming these days and tech companies buying studios, that's unfortunately no longer the case.

I didn't call that out directly in the article, but I agree there's cause for concern and there's probably good reason to strike down the HBO acquisition.

> What I think the author is referring to are the minor concessions Apple has made in some territories, mainly the EU

Government moves slowly, and I think a lot of it is still in flight, but Apple is fielding cases globally.

Apple pay was hit with anti-trust cases in Korea and Japan. Epic has had success against Apple, and they've been ruled in contempt of court for not adhering the verdict (with the CFO referred to the DOJ for possible criminal prosecution).

The EU has been the most heavy-handed. I think these are just the beginning

> Anti-competitive moats are still alive and well, and growing larger.

For the last few years big tech has been more cautious. Very few acquisitions (though an insidious loophole was created in which founders are acquihired, license their IP and then effectively kill their old company). So that'll require another look.

> What a silly article. I don't understand how anyone can consider the current state of the tech industry "fun"

Well, I'm having fun! And that's good enough for me ;)
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-23 23:05:40+00:00
A user cannot write programs for MacOS without restriction by the company, e.g., prior approval, "developer" fees, etc.

Adding emphasis on "without restriction"

Opinions may differ but to me using Apple's "Darwin OS" is different from using a BSD project OS

For one, I cannot install Darwin without also installing a gigantic GUI

XNU, or XINU, stands for "X Is Not UNIX"

To me, that giant Apple GUI is not UNIX
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-23 23:05:51+00:00
This website appears to indicate that Visa/Mastercard fees are about 6x as high in the US vs EU:

https://wallethub.com/edu/credit-card-interchange-fees-by-co...

The EU had such a good deal with the US. But they couldn't resist making fun of us. They made fun of us for our military spending while we deterred Russia. They made fun of us for our health spending while we subsidized their drug development costs. They made fun of our long work hours, while demanding Ukraine contributions based on our high GDP (which is high in part because we work long hours). They talk so much about America's soft power in Europe, without realizing that Europe's soft power in America is practically all gone at this point.
by postalcoder | 2026-01-23 23:06:07+00:00
The best part about this blog post is that none of it is a surprise – Codex CLI is open source. It's nice to be able to go through the internals without having to reverse engineer it.

Their communication is exceptional, too. Eric Traut (of Pyright fame) is all over the issues and PRs.

https://github.com/openai/codex
by anonym29 | 2026-01-23 23:06:23+00:00
Apples and oranges. The claim being refuted was an absolute negative that claimed no universal moral standards exist, a binary statement.

Difficulty is a spectrum.

This matters because if there's a single counterexample to an absolute, binary assertion, the assertion is proven false.

Nobody's arguing that all moral standards are easy to reach consensus on, the argument is that "there are no universal moral standards" is a demonstrably false statement.
by westoncb | 2026-01-23 23:06:42+00:00
Interesting that compaction is done using an encrypted message that "preserves the model's latent understanding of the original conversation":

> Since then, the Responses API has evolved to support a special /responses/compact endpoint (opens in a new window) that performs compaction more efficiently. It returns a list of items (opens in a new window) that can be used in place of the previous input to continue the conversation while freeing up the context window. This list includes a special type=compaction item with an opaque encrypted_content item that preserves the model’s latent understanding of the original conversation. Now, Codex automatically uses this endpoint to compact the conversation when the auto_compact_limit (opens in a new window) is exceeded.
by AwGeezeRick | 2026-01-23 23:07:48+00:00
Comma/OpenPilot is actually amazing. One of my cars is a Tesla Model 3 Performance 2025 and I love it, FSD on HW4 is great. Super fast.

I also have a Lexus ES 2025, I bought the Comma for it and it works better than Tesla’s AutoPilot (the thing they’re taking away new new Teslas). AutoPilot isn’t great to begin with, I kinda always hated it. But I do like cars that can drive themselves when I have long road trips and wanna be able to look at work. Comma makes that completely doable on the Lexus.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-23 23:08:46+00:00
kith: people whom you have chosen to be in your entourage (friends, etc., as opposed to kin)

karass: (from "Cat's Cradle", 1963) "a group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident"

granfalloon: (idem) "a false karass; i.e., a group of people who imagine they have a connection that does not really exist. An example is 'Hoosiers'. Hoosiers are people from Indiana, and Hoosiers have no true spiritual destiny in common. They really share little more than a name."
by amenhotep | 2026-01-23 23:09:02+00:00
That is exactly the point. It's working because everyone is peacefully going along with it. They have the consent - or at least acquiescence - of the governed. That's why they have no issues.

It is, therefore, not remotely relevant to your post starting this whole thread off saying that the consent of the governed is irrelevant and all you need is tanks.
by codingdave | 2026-01-23 23:10:21+00:00
Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Specifically, "Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead."

tbh, though, even if you remove the "Show HN", the crowd here tends to not have much interest in "Buy my book!"
by ljm | 2026-01-23 23:10:33+00:00
Yet, if you can only explain an exception using the word ‘exception’ you’re not making any head way.

I like the idea of an exception as a way to blow out of the current context in order for something else to catch it and handle in a generic manner. I don’t like the idea of an exception to hide errors or for conditional logic because you have to know what is handling it all. Much easier to handle it there and then, or use a type safe equivalent (like a maybe or either monad) or just blow that shit up as soon as you can’t recover from the unexpected.