MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-12 14:02:09+00:00
I'm not "mad", I'm "sad" -- because I was very much on "Team Anthropic" a few months ago ... but the tool has failed to keep up in terms of quality.

If they're going to close the sub off to other tools, they need to make very strong improvements to the tool. And I don't really see that. It's "fine" but I actually think these tools are letting developers down.

They take over too much. They fail to give good insights into what's happening. They have poor stop/interrupt/correct dynamics. They don't properly incorporate a basic review cycle which is something we demand of junior developers and interns on our teams, but somehow not our AIs?

They're producing mountains of sometimes-good but often unreviewable code and it isn't the "AI"'s fault, it's the heuristics in the tools.

So I want to see innovation here. And I was hoping to see it from Anthropic. But I just saw the opposite.
by bargainbin | 2026-01-12 14:02:42+00:00
There was an interesting study recently that showed coming off actually caused weight re-gain an order of magnitude worse than yo-yo dieting.

The media spun it as GLP-1’s being evil and pointless, quelle surprise, but really it hints towards obesity being more than just “fixing your relationship with food” and acknowledging that there is more we don’t understand about why some people are fatter than others despite similar lifestyles.

Going to be an interesting decade as more data is gathered on these, that’s for sure.
by jasongill | 2026-01-12 14:02:50+00:00
The cash-payer (no insurance) price of GLP-1's has fallen by about 70% since I started on them 18 months ago, from around $1100/mo to $350/mo, for brand-name non-compounded (Ozempic, Zepbound, etc). Many people also stretch that 1 month supply to last longer, as well (eg "click counting").

Not to say that it's cheap, but they are no longer the high-priced drugs only for the glitterati that you may be thinking.
by lightning19 | 2026-01-12 14:03:09+00:00
I'm taking on Vercel and Render with a zero config cloud hosting platform. So far we have:

- connect your github and deploy from web/cli/vs code/cursor

- static sites automatically detected and deployed on a CDN

- logging

- encrypted env vars

- built in monitoring

- custom domains

- auto deployments from new branches or commits

- multi-branch deployments
by mwexler | 2026-01-12 14:03:12+00:00
This reminds me of EFF's Cover Your Tracks, the rebrand of Panopticlick: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

This helps you see how your browser tries to block or deflect fingerprint and trackers. I miss their "You are one of x,000 users" from the old site but it still gives a nice summary of bits of info your browser leaks and how fingerprinting basically works.
by azdle | 2026-01-12 14:03:17+00:00
It's actually already using wasmtime as one layer in its sandbox. I just think that trying to support other languages, especially in a fully language agnostic way, would make things like documentation far more complex than I could handle and make the service complex enough that the only people who could understand it would be the type of person who don't really need a service like this in the first place.
by jonhohle | 2026-01-12 14:03:26+00:00
The difference between the two is not that subtle. If I order a Coke at a restaurant and they bring out a Pepsi, I can tell immediate and usually send it back for something else.

I don’t have trained taste buds, but something in Pepsi is off putting to me. Worse is artificial sweeteners, which I think I’m have whatever mutation makes aspartame taste bitter. I could never understand why people like Diet Coke, but it turns out I’m the strange one.
by 01284a7e | 2026-01-12 14:03:29+00:00
Most people live in a fake world, especially when they are playing the part of tourists.

The original post laments having to interact with these people (in Cambridge, MA - oh no, Harvard and MIT sweatshirts, maybe as a "local" you should walk off the beaten path a bit).

Looking up webcams and Wiki pages as a substitute for going places is a bad conclusion - it's even more of a fake world. The author thinks we can somehow "really beautiful how rich of a cultural understanding can be cultivated without ever setting foot in the country". Really beautiful? Come on, that's ridiculous. I get that this is Hacker News but that's a terminally online viewpoint that's warped as can be.
by Ygg2 | 2026-01-12 14:03:37+00:00
> 1. more compile-time safety is always better, even if it complicates the language (or everyone who uses Rust should use ATS), and 2. any cost is worth paying for safety (or Rust wouldn't exist in the first place).

You keep repeating this. It's not true. If what you said was true, Rust would have adopted HKT, and God knows whatever type astronomy Haskell & Scala cooked up.

There is a balancing act, and Rust decided to plant a flag in memory safety without GC. The fact that Zig, didn't expand on this, but went backwards is more of an indictment of programmers unwilling to adapt and perfect what came before, but to reinvent it in their own worse way.

> There are also different kinds of safety with different value and different costs. For example, spatial memory safety appears to have more value than temporal safety (https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2025/2025_cwe_top25.html)

How did you derive this from the top 25 of CWEs? Let's say you completely remove the spatial memory issues. You still get temporal memory issues at #6.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-12 14:03:52+00:00
Who cares how they're doing it in Albania? It used to be better in America, now it's worse and it's taken our entire society with it.*

I DO know exactly what sixth grade level is. It means they can read simple paragraphs, but not critically. These people lack the ability to think critically because they never learned it. They're the ones that open phishing emails and get taken by shady real estate con-men and Nigerian prince scammers.

You can be semi-literate and be a good person. You can't be semi-literate and make good decisions. Not in the modern world.

* To clarify - Reading levels in the United States have been declining at an alarming rate for a long time. They peaked in 1992 and have been steadily decaying since. You'll also note that 1992 was the year Dan Quayle was disqualified from the presidency because he couldn't spell potato. Imagine applying those standards to a modern politician.
by alsetmusic | 2026-01-12 14:04:36+00:00
I remember when two engineers on our staff at $BIGCORP test-drove Git for a month and then gave a lunch-talk about their impressions for anyone who was curious about it. They were in favor of switching to it for local / team workflows. At the time, there would still be a translation layer back to our pre-Git company repo, but they advocated for the extra overhead for the gains in new workflow possibilities. You can guess what happened next.

Git had only been around for a handful of years at the time. If not for people slowly adopting it a little at a time, thus leading to the network effect, Git would not have become the dominant VCS of the day. So yeah, when things like this, JJ, etc come along, it's worth paying attention and keeping an open mind cause any one of them might be the "everything else is irrelevant," tool in fifteen years.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2026-01-12 14:04:50+00:00
I remember those discussions. 5-10 years ago people were summing all electric cars, including ICE cars starting batteries, to prove the scale was irrelevant.

Now the goalpost is shifted "not even a single winter day without any other input of electricity". Which is a high 90s percent decarbonized grid. Not fully decarbonized, but almost.

In California storage is now timeshifting 50 GWh daily. An expansion that has come in the last few years.

Battery prices are down to $50/kWh when not using extremely expensive western batteries. Which means in the near future 50-200 kWh systems attached to houses. Excluding the BEV providing demand response to also help shape grid demand.

I think you should update your priors to 2026 data. We're in the point of the S-curve where batteries goes from nowhere to everywhere in the blink of an eye.

Just like solar was almost insignificant in 2020 adding a mere 140 GW over the year while in the first 6 months of 2025 we added 380 GW of solar.
by Fiveplus | 2026-01-12 14:05:26+00:00
Talking about the design, the further we get from 2012, the more obvious it becomes that windows 8 was kinda like the bauhaus movement for an operating system that wanted to be on touch screens but was made to work on traditional mouse-keyboard interface. It was technically correct, aesthetically pure but socially rejected because it was too stark for the general public (my opinion).

This implementation gets one thing most Metro clones miss, i.e the typography as structure paradigm. In Win8, there were no divider lines or heavy drop shadows to denote hierarchy. The hierarchy was defined strictly by the weight and size of the font.

We spent the last decade drifting back into glassmorphism and mica materials (win11) because people missed the comfort of texture but from a pure information density and rendering performance perspective - the flat, monochromatic 2D plane of windows 8 is a nice tangent. It removed the cognitive load of decoding the UI chrome for touch users.

ps: I'm impressed by the constraint of using native Qt/C++ here instead of taking the easy route with electron or QML/javascript bindings for everything.
by mpalmer | 2026-01-12 14:05:33+00:00
I'll take this to mean that you think arbitrary access to a computer's capabilities will require licensure, in which case I think this is a bad metaphor.

The point of a driver's license is that driving a ton of steel around at >50mph presents risk of harm to others.

Not knowing how to use a computer - driving it "poorly" - does not risk harm to others. Why does it merit restriction, based on the topic of this post?
by PunchyHamster | 2026-01-12 14:05:45+00:00
Git kinda requires you to read the git book. But I wouldn't call it "hard to use", once you know how it works most of the things it does are obvious (if occasionally badly named).

And you could probably get rid of like... 90% of things people complain about by just writing better frontend (and some people did that) to same backend
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-12 14:05:54+00:00
It’s not just look and feel, it’s approach to various things, like how GNOME shares the iPadOS tendency to cut advanced features instead of putting them in a less prominent position. The menu bars of Mac apps are full of such functions that under GNOME simply wouldn’t be implemented because they don’t fit in a toolbar or hamburger menu. There are several aspects of out of the box customization that are more like iPadOS than macOS too, which is why the GNOME settings app has less than half the settings that the macOS settings app does.

If GNOME wants a touch friendly mode that’s fine, but they’re doing the Microsoft Windows 8 thing and forgetting that there’s a ton of desktop PCs that will never have touch as well as plenty of touch-capable laptops where that capability is unused or even flat out disabled. The least they could do is provide a “traditional desktop” toggle in settings to restore more sane padding values that don’t burn 20% of my non-touch 12” ThinkPad’s limited screen space for no good reason.
by usefulposter | 2026-01-12 14:05:56+00:00
https://old.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1pltqal/my_son...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1pkrqtm/thiele_mach...

https://old.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/1pj3ovl/thiele_mac...
by weslleyskah | 2026-01-12 14:06:05+00:00
It is so amazing how Lord of the Rings persists in this world as a work of fantasy.

I used to visit a french LotR forum with comments dating back to the early 2000s until now. Nostalgic and surreal.

https://www.forum-elbakin.net/viewforum.php?f=12
by Nasrudith | 2026-01-12 14:06:24+00:00
Personally I can't help but think that 'reasonable' is a dangerous legal standard due to its unpredictability, subjectivity and assumed values and knowledge. Is it reasonable to put powdered aluminum and iron oxide into paint? What about when the paint is going onto a Zeppelin? Oh wait, those are thermite's ingredients. Oops. Is it reasonable for the paint seller to be held liable for selling paint with common reagents?
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-12 14:07:15+00:00
This “both sides” bullshit is so tired. You’re exaggerating and misleading with most of this, but even if all of this was true, it represents about a week’s worth of what Trump has done. They just shot a woman in the face, immediately started calling her a terrorist, and show no intention of even investigating it. I don’t give a single fuck about the DNC “chastising” someone when held up against this kind of slide into fascism.
Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
by Jabbs | 2026-01-12 14:07:22+00:00
I've often been in the market for new software engineer opportunities and have found some untraditional ways of finding new jobs. But with so many job search tools, AI and ATS matching I'm curious what job search strategies are working for you today? Also, what has been a waste of time?
by digitalsushi | 2026-01-12 14:07:56+00:00
ive got a desk full of octo coupler relays and an arduino learning kit and i'm using AI to goad me into making a cascading small motor starter thing with an air particulate sensor that's taking 180 days to show up from China, to automatically control my 6 small air scrubbers in my wood shop since i'm allergic to just about everything in there but love the hobby
by andrepd | 2026-01-12 14:07:57+00:00
It's difficult, and you detainly have to step foot outside the tourist trails for 5 minutes, which most tourists maybe don't. If you stick to the brunch places and the tourist trap museums, then yes. But the world is still incredibly diverse; if you travel you can experience this diversity, but you have to make an effort, including research and probably learning a bit of the language.
by michalsustr | 2026-01-12 14:08:23+00:00
My experience (with minfx.ai) has been that it is very important to build a system which imposes lots of constraints on the code. The more constrained you can make it, the better. Rust helps a lot in this. Thanks to this, for the first time in my career, I feel like the bigger the system gets, /the easier/ it is to develop, because AI can discover and reuse common components. While human would struggle searching for these and how to use them in a large codebase. Very counter-intuitive!
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2026-01-12 14:08:51+00:00
I decided to check one of my local grocery stores because I honestly wasn't sure where they stood relative to each other.

Most Little Debbie varieties, for a standard package containing 6 or 12 items depending on the size of the items, are listed at $3.19.

Apples are commonly sold in 3 pound bags, which the internet suggests would contain 6-12 apples depending on the variety of apple and individual sizing. The 3 pound bag seems like a reasonable comparison to the standard Little Debbie packages, as it's 6-12 "snacks" in either case.

The cheapest option is Red Delicious at $3.99. You can spend up to $6.99 for 3 pounds of a more premium variety.

Little Debbies cost $0.26 to $0.53 per snack. Cheap apples are $0.33 to $0.66 per.

The advantage is also present with larger quantities. A large package of Little Debbie snacks costs $5.49, and a 5lb bag of Red Delicious apples costs $5.99. You're getting 2x the Little Debbie snacks in the larger package, but you're only getting 66% more apples in a 5lb bag.

At the larger quantity, LD's per snack price range is $0.23 to $0.45. Red Delicious apples are $0.30 to $0.60.
by taykolasinski | 2026-01-12 14:09:12+00:00
OP here. I spent the last few days reproducing the mHC architecture from the recent DeepSeek paper (2512.24880).

Two key takeaways from the reproduction:

Unconstrained Hyper-Connections really do explode (7x amplification even at 10M scale).

I hit a nasty "stream persistence" bug where my tensors were the right shape, but the architecture was functionally broken.

This is Part 1 (10M scale). Part 2 (scaling to 1B on A100s) is coming later this week. Happy to answer questions about the implementation.
by vrosas | 2026-01-12 14:09:18+00:00
> And that means: none of them can make a profit

Well, no. It just means no single player can dominate the field in terms of profits. Anthropic is probably still losing money on subscribers, so other companies "reselling" their offering does them no good. Forcing you to use their TUI at least gives them control of how you interact with the models back. I'm guessing but since they've gone full send into the developer tooling space, their pitch to investors likely highlights the # of users on CC, not their subscriber numbers (which again, lose money). The move makes since in that respect.
by doom2 | 2026-01-12 14:09:21+00:00
> It's just navel-gazing to pretend like what he's doing has high approval

Then how is it being reflected in Congress? Where are the Republicans speaking loudly on behalf of their dissatisfied constituents and voting on bills accordingly? We shouldn't have to wait every two years for a midterms or general election for the negative approval rating to make itself known, politicians can choose any time to act in a way that shows they're listening to their constituents.
by gjadi | 2026-01-12 14:09:52+00:00
I agree with the excel thing.
Not with thinking it can't happen with vibecoded python.

I think handling sensitive data should be done by professional.
A lawyer handles contracts, a doctor handles health issue and a programmer handles data manipulation through programs.
This doesn't remove risk of errors completely, but it reduces it significantly.

In my home, it's me who's impacted if I screw up a fix in my plumbing, but I won't try to do it at work or in my child's school.

I don't care if my doctor vibe codes an app to manipulate their holidays pictures, I care if they do it to manipulate my health or personal data.
by torginus | 2026-01-12 14:10:08+00:00
Personally I've yet to see any high profile programming person (who's not directly invested into AI) endorse only coding by prompting.

Experienced coders that I follow, who do use AI tend to focus on tight and fast feedback loops, and precise edits (or maybe exploratory coding) rather than agentic fire-and-forget workflows.

Also, an interesting side note, I expected programmers I think of as highly skilled, who I know personally to reject AI from personal pride - that has not been the case. However 2 criticisms I've heard consistently from this crowd (besides the thing I mentioned before) was

- AI makes hosting and participating in coding competitions impossible, and denies them of brain-teasers and an ability to hone their skills.

- A lot of them are concerned about the ethics of training on large codebases - and consider AI plagiarism as much of an issue as artists do.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-01-12 14:10:19+00:00
I think you are correct, with one large caveat:

With very good tooling (e.g., Google Antigravity, Claude Coding, Open AI’s codex, and several open platforms) and not caring about your monthly API and subscription costs, then very long running trial and error and also with tools for testing code changes, then some degree of real autonomy is possible.

But, do we want to work like this? I don’t.

I feel very good about using strong AI for research and learning new things (self improvement) and I also feel good about using strong AI as a ‘minor partner’ in coding.
by meinersbur | 2026-01-12 14:10:20+00:00
Live tiles are nearly universally praised in retrospect, but it might be a case of hindsight bias [1]. The video [2] brings up some problems of the concept and why no other company copied the concept.

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

[2] https://youtu.be/OgXlNaYXRu4
by fidotron | 2026-01-12 14:10:30+00:00
The problem MS created was WP7 was a technical dead end: a feature phone OS with a Silverlight UI, which was almost impossible to bypass, hurting third party support a lot.

WP8 was a far "better" OS, but it came with higher system requirements more comparable with Android.

Google never got enough crap on for their stunts with youtube in that era though.
by teekert | 2026-01-12 14:11:48+00:00
Nice. I'm an open source guy, but being disappointed with Android's openness (years ago) I got a Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows 10 Mobile (or whatever it was called). Loved that OS. Fast, well integrated. Can't help but keep thinking it would have gone somewhere if they'd kept at it (in the form of Android app compatibility or "the defacto MS365 OS" or something).

Then they'd call it Copilot OS in 2026 and mess it up anyway. So perhaps it's good that it died ;)
by belorn | 2026-01-12 14:11:52+00:00
How does the law distinguish itself from anti-harassment laws?

I recall a old lawsuit (not sure which country) where a student had photoshopped a nude body onto a picture of their teacher and given it to other students. The main question in the case was if this qualified as sexual harassment, even if the teacher in question never received the image. I don't remember the outcome, through I think they were found guilty.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-01-12 14:12:23+00:00
Cause and effect is backward. The locations indicate where people are buying it. And cheap doesn't really add up either because if somebody wants the cheapest possible calories they would be buying rice, flour/pasta, potato...

I don't know why the problem is shied away from. It is because people are addicted to fast food and to their sedentary lifestyles. It's not the price or availability of good food, not the first order effect anyway.

You'll never be able to force "whole foods" sellers into unprofitable places and if you did by some miracle, you'll never be able to force people to buy it no matter how much money you gave them. Vegetables and grains and basics could be free and many obese food addicts will go buy a burger from a drive thru.
by codyb | 2026-01-12 14:12:27+00:00
When I read the welcome screen which includes the "hit features", all I remember was

"You can change your icons!" - What? Was that the big issue of my day? (Although, after I saw what they had done to them, it certainly loomed larger in my mind)

and

"Notification summaries that may be incorrect"

Miserable. Won't be upgrading the personal computer, am fast moving away from Apple as a whole, am telling others not to upgrade for as long as possible.
by febusravenga | 2026-01-12 14:12:33+00:00
Exactly. I don't know how about "big design houses" like Apple, but in my small shop designers _only_ care about static screen stories. They don't care how user will click those icons, how focus will work, how any dynamic aspects of complex UI works.

In past it was "given" by desktop env, now it's all rebuilt in material or other design but without any advanced behavior, it only "looks good on static screen".
by vimax | 2026-01-12 14:12:49+00:00
I built a testing framework, and I wanted it to generate HTML reports during testing with not post-processing report compilation step. I wanted the html in real-time so if a test was cut short for any reason from killing the job to power failure, you'd have a readable html report showing where things stopped.
I could do this by just appending divs as rows without closing any of the parent divs, body or html tags.
So the more general answer, anytime you want to continuously stream html and not want to wait until the end of the document to begin rendering.
by u_sama | 2026-01-12 14:12:52+00:00
There are valid counterarguments to the overweight values, a lot of women who might be overweight are healthy because different % of fat are acceptable depending on the structure of the body.
I agree, that has to do with "malbouffe" and other lifestyle choices. As for offering them that is a nice thing, but I am curious about the mechanics (mutuelles) and such of the medicine.