MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vessenes | 2026-01-14 03:42:00+00:00
As a user of a lot of coding tokens I’m most interested in latency - these numbers are presumably for heavily batched workloads. I dearly wish Claude had a cerebras endpoint.

I’m sure I’d use more tokens because I’d get more revs, but I don’t think token usage would increase linearly with speed: I need time to think about what I want to and what’s happened or is proposed. But I feel like I would be able to stay in flow state if the responses were faster, and that’s super appealing.
by lesdeuxmagots | 2026-01-14 03:42:39+00:00
The point of the conference is not the official conference itself, but the meetings that happen around the conference. This is not true of all conferences, but for the JPMHC, and many other major conferences, that is the entire point. It's just a way to get people all in one place at one time, so that there is an efficient gathering to do deals.

Funds pay thousands, often $10K+, per room at the nearby hotels, often spending hundreds of thousands to book over a dozen hotel rooms to use as makeshift conference rooms. The hotels often don't even allow people to sleep in the rooms, only to use them strictly as conference rooms.

All the real action happens in those hotel rooms, at private events, private receptions, etc.
by rramadass | 2026-01-14 03:43:24+00:00
These are the two books i had zeroed in on before asking here.

However, how approachable is the "Classical and Quantum Computation" book? Mathematics is fine as long as it is accessible. Also how good is the explanation of analogy/comparison between concepts from "Classical Computation" vs. "Quantum Computation"? I believe this is the best way to learn this subject and hence am quite interested to know more about how this book does it.
by abetusk | 2026-01-14 03:43:24+00:00
Do you know what the single, most effective way to ensure end-of-life projects open sources the software and hardware? It's if it's *open source*.

Not assurances that if they meet their funding goal they'll open source. Not a pinky promise to open source in the future. Not magnanimous decision by upper management to open source if the business fails.

It's open sourcing from the outset so that people who invest in their technology can be assured they've fulfilled their promise to the community.

Pay for products that produce open source software and hardware. Pay artists that put out libre/free work. Demand projects that ask for money and "will open source in the future" open source now before taking your money.

In my view, finger wagging at corporate entities not open sourcing their products after end-of-life amounts to posturing.
by jareds | 2026-01-14 03:44:05+00:00
I've been blind since birth. When it comes to 2d things such as linear and quadratic graphs, shapes such as triangles, circles, squares, etc, I had no issues when the material was provided using braille graphics. I can't comprehend representing a 3d object in two dimensions. When I was in college I switched from Computer Science to Telecommunications the second time I failed calc ii. I just couldn't comprehend rotating a shape around the access of a graph to get a 3d shape. This may be something solvable by 3d printing, but that was not easily available when I was in college.
by jhanschoo | 2026-01-14 03:44:19+00:00
> It's a story and the readers perception changes over the course of reading the book.

You're referring to casual reading, but writers and people who have an interest and motivation to read deeply review, analyze, and summarize books under lenses and reflect on them; for technique as much as themes, messages, how well they capture a milieu, etc. So that's quite a bit more than "no human"!
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-14 03:44:27+00:00
> We - technologists - mocked the humanities for decades for being useless. Now look where we got without them.

A lot of programmers were very critical how in particular since the release of the iPhone people suddenly accepted the golden cage against which programmers before very aggressively fought.

So the issue is rather that people did not listen to these old-school programmers, (as usual) mocked these as nerds, and instead listened to "hipsters" and marketers.

One can discuss a lot how useful humanities are, but what brought us in the current situation is rather that the masses did not listen to the old-school programmers.
by bastawhiz | 2026-01-14 03:46:05+00:00
That is a best practice for two real reasons:

1. You don't want third parties to know how many objects you have

2. You don't want folks to be able to iterate each object by incrementing the id

But if you have composite IDs like this, that doesn't matter. All objects that belong to a repository have the repository id inside them. Incrementing the id gives you more objects from the same repo. Incrementing the repo id gives you...a random object or nothing at all. And if your IDs include a little entropy or a timestamp, you've effectively kneecapped anyone who's trying to abuse this.
by mattmaroon | 2026-01-14 03:46:07+00:00
The codebase is old and really hard to work on. It’s a game that existed pre-iPhone and still has decent revenue but could use some updating. We intentionally shrank our company down to auto-pilot mode and frankly don’t even have a working development environment anymore.

It was basically cost prohibitive to change anything significant until Claude became able to do most of the work for us. My cofounder (also CTO of another startup in the interim) found himself with a lot of time on his hands unexpectedly and thought it would be a neat experiment and has been wowed by the results.

Much in the same way people on HN debate when we will have self driving cars while millions of people actually have their Teslas self-driving every day (it reminds me of when I got to bet that Joe Biden would win the election after he already did) those who think AI coding is years away are missing what’s happening now. It’s a powerful force magnifier in the hands of a skilled programmer and it’ll only get better.
by AJ007 | 2026-01-14 03:46:16+00:00
"Your band was formed after 2023, we will ignore you even if you aren't AI"

By the end of 2026 the AI/no-AI thing is debate is going to be dead because there will be no way to know the difference. This is almost true right now, it just is going to take the general public a while to catch up.

One distinction which could be made: I would like to see bands that are humans because I want to physically attend and enjoy concerts. If the "artist" has never played a concert I don't want to listen to them. Which expands a whole new grey area..
by dr_ | 2026-01-14 03:46:17+00:00
Seems like a subset of enthusiasts - early stage VC types, people working in product, people who write lengthy healthcare posts on LinkedIn, have been trying to position it as another HLTH, but that’s not what it is. It’s an investor conference that you need to be invited to. Wouldn’t be surprising if JPM somehow had taken a stake or done a deal with your company, combined with some government insiders.
The digital health community, however, has used it to start off the new year with a bang. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
by jaggederest | 2026-01-14 03:47:08+00:00
Why stop there? I think more or less every non-durable product manufacturer (say, lifespan less than 5 years) should be required to take the product back at end of life and dispose of it properly. Trash is an enormous externality. I'm talking about plastic clamshells, container lids, "disposable" storage containers, the lot.
by lalitgehani | 2026-01-14 03:47:19+00:00
I completely get the fatigue. We’re seeing a lot of "one-shot" projects right now that look great for a week and then die because there was no actual design behind the prompt.

For SnackBase, I actually spent the majority of my time on the architecture and compliance logic rather than just generating boilerplate.

Compliance Core> Getting the immutable hash-chain for audit logs to work correctly with async SQLAlchemy while ensuring it doesn't kill database performance is something I had to iterate on manually. AI is great at writing a function, but it's notoriously bad at keeping a consistent "Clean Architecture" across hundreds of files without a human steering the ship.

Custom DSL> I built the DSL specifically to solve the maintenance problem you mentioned. It acts as a single source of truth for the DB, API, and UI. This makes the project much easier to maintain long-term because you aren't manually updating three different layers every time a schema changes.

I built this because I actually need it for my work in Life sciences domain. My goal isn't a blast of commits but a rock-solid foundation that can survive a GxP audit.
by ktg0215 | 2026-01-14 03:47:32+00:00
Hey HN! Indie dev from Japan here.

I built PromptStash because I kept retyping the same prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI tools. It started simple, but evolved into something more powerful.

*What it does:*
- Save prompts and insert them with one click (or slash command "/")
- Works on 19+ AI services including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok
- Variable templates: `{{language:select:English,Japanese}}` for dropdowns, `{{topic}}` for text input
- Context variables: `{{selectedText}}` auto-captures highlighted text, `{{pageUrl}}` grabs current URL
- Prompt chains: string multiple prompts together for multi-step workflows (e.g., "gather requirements" → "design" → "implement")

*Example use case:*
I have a chain for code review: first prompt asks for potential bugs, second asks for performance improvements, third asks for refactoring suggestions. Click "next" after each AI response.

All data stays local in your browser. No account needed.

$5 one-time (free tier: 3 prompts). I'm trying to build sustainable software without ads or subscriptions.

Feedback welcome – especially on the prompt chain UX. What workflows would you automate?
by dang | 2026-01-14 03:47:45+00:00
And those are the good actors! We're under a crawlocalpyse from botnets, er, residential proxies.

"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36", anyone?
by 0hijinks | 2026-01-14 03:48:02+00:00
It's surreal to read written arguments defending an "extraordinary rendition" using the military in terms of domestic criminal cases. And to so plainly state that international law ought not apply to the leader of the free world, effectively because we think we can and our interests come first, is distressing. If this is an "arrest" of a "fugitive", to keep with the DOJ analogy, it should be subject to the laws of its jurisdiction. Not the laws of whomever has air superiority.

> ... international law does not prevent [us] ... from ... arrest[ing] individuals [residing in a foreign state] for violations of United States law.

God, that's chilling.

> Congress has declined to amend relevant statutes to deny the Executive the ability to engage in rendition.

> Congress's continued appropriation of funds to the agencies known to engage in the practice should be taken as (at minimum) acquiescence.

So, because our Congress can't pass a bill handed from God himself unless it fills their coffers, we're silently consenting to this baloney?

And I get that legal precedence is a thing, but we shouldn't be looking at military operations in Haiti, or Libya, or Iraq as justification for more international shit-stirring. It's a slippery slope.

Albeit semantics, rebranding to the War Department is not good optics if one intends receive said department's advice before carrying out "a use of force that ... does not rise to the level of war in a constitutional sense". This nonsense is maddening.
by dzelzs | 2026-01-14 03:48:48+00:00
In this case - recognition of an attempt at doing something.
Downplaying that is similar to Downplaying protests for not achieving anything.
At the very least it might have brought attention to the topic of contention for more people which can be a spark for change. If you have apathy and disdain for attempts at change - it might be worth evaluating what the consequences might be of that at a societal level when that apathy is the norm for harder to change things (like politics, big corp practices etc.)
by bhouston | 2026-01-14 03:49:10+00:00
How long until it is used against civilians who are viewed as annoying or part of an opposing ideology group or business competitors?

The worrisome part is that it may be easy to conceal and thus one can do this without much of a risk of getting caught.

We will likely have to respond with detectors everywhere, maybe even inside of phones (which would be really convenient and justify an upgrade cycle.)
by duxup | 2026-01-14 03:50:34+00:00
I’m not in favor of doxing.

But let’s be clear, it’s not a few bad apples. ICE by design is operating outside the law.

The videos are endless, people outside their homes on a walk questioned and threatened with arrest if they do not produce ID, face scanned and so on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qbawlr/minnea...

They’ve blocked off whole neighborhoods going door to door questioning people.

Let alone the videos of drive by pepper spray, drawing their weapons on people, shoving people to the ground…

These aren’t one off events. This is everyday in Minneapolis.
by gbnwl | 2026-01-14 03:50:43+00:00
But why would it take a month to generate significant tech debt in novel domains, it would accrue even faster then right? The main idea I wanted to get across is that iteration speed is much faster so what's "tech debt" in the first pass, can be addressed much faster in future passes, which will happen on the order of days rather than sprints in the older paradigm. Yes the first iterations will have a bunch of issues but if you keep your hands on the controller you can get things to a decent state quickly. I think one of the biggest gaps I see in devs using these tools is what they do after the first pass.

Also, even for novel domains, using tools like deep research and the ability of these tools to straight up search through the internet, including public repos during the planning phase (you should be planning first before implementing right? You're not just opening a window and asking in a few sentences for a vaguely defined final product I hope) is a huge level up.

If there are repos, papers, articles, etc of your novel domain out there, there's a path to a successful research -> plan -> implement -> iterate path out there imo, especially when you get better at giving the tools ways to evaluate their own results, rather than going back and forth yourself for hours telling them "no, this part is wrong, no now this part is wrong, etc etc"
by camillomiller | 2026-01-14 03:51:17+00:00
So you just want to be lazy and subsidize to the parrot machine the very essence of what it means to be creative.
I am utterly baffled by this recurring comparison between past electronic tools, which actually have a pretty harsh learning curve to be mastered, and a software contraption that overtakes your creative agency.
I see it everywhere, like comparing Midjourney to the shift to digital photography. What are y’all blokes on? How is it possible that even fine minds just lazily accept such a flawed parallel between two completely different technological paradigms?
by alephnerd | 2026-01-14 03:51:21+00:00
The actual announcement by Vandy - https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/01/13/vanderbilt-university...

Includes a lot of info that the WSJ article glazed over (eg. "Vanderbilt’s planned San Francisco campus expects to serve about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students")

Looking at Vandy NYC [0], I'm guessing they're trying to pull a Wharton@SF and expand their BSchool's presence in the Bay (and thus enhancing their alumni pool) along with subsuming CCA which has been under tough financial strain for the past few years.

I'm also guessing the Nashville moniker is negatively impacting undergrad admissions (eg. I and my peers didn't even apply to CS@GT for undergrad because who wants to live in Georgia...)

[0] - https://www.vanderbilt.edu/nyc/
by SERSI-S | 2026-01-14 03:52:29+00:00
Thanks — that’s a very clear way of framing it, and the Long Now references are useful.

I agree the real challenge over 100-plus year timeframes isn’t storage itself, but continuity of care. Institutions like the Internet Archive handle this through organisational cohesion, endowments, and legal structure. That’s effective, but it also concentrates risk in a single organisation.

What I’m exploring is whether some of that continuity can be handled structurally rather than relying entirely on institutions - where stewardship emerges from ongoing contribution and renewal, rather than fixed roles or transferable incentives. The goal isn’t to replace institutions outright, but to reduce how much long-term survival depends on any single one.

I think your point about renewal over time is the hardest part. Sustaining motivation across generations is fundamentally a social and governance problem, and I don’t have a complete answer there yet.
by jamesfinlayson | 2026-01-14 03:53:18+00:00
Yes I've read about something like before - like the jump from living in 1800 to 1900 - you go from no electricity at home to having electricity at home for example. The jump from 1900 to 2000 is much less groundbreaking for the electricity example - you have more appliances and more reliable electricity but it's nothing like the jump from candle to light bulb.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-14 03:53:42+00:00
I'm in the process of designing some electronics bricks for one of my kids so he can take a schematic, given all of the parts then place the bricks on a baseplate and connect them with the circuit represented as close as possible. It's an interesting project, the biggest challenge I seem to have is to source the spring terminals, I have yet to find a place that will sell them separately.
by tbrownaw | 2026-01-14 03:53:52+00:00
Ibram Kendi wrote about how the only way to not be racist is to deliberately treat people differently based on their race. He was quite popular for this for a while.

But also for the DEI thing specifically, what's going on is that objecting to the implementation details is proof that you oppose the stated goal. Even if what you're doing is pointing out that the implementation is counter-productive to the stated goal. I think it might be some sort of tribalism thing.
by nodesocket | 2026-01-14 03:54:02+00:00
Thanks for the reply. At this point I am so deep down the rabbit hole of code and tests (completed) switching frameworks would put me back another couple months. I'm focused on business logic and growing users.

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by kundan_s__r | 2026-01-14 03:54:03+00:00
Fair enough. A healthy dose of skepticism has served us well for every overhyped wave so far. The difference this time seems to be that AI systems don’t just fail noisily — they fail convincingly, which changes how risk leaks into production.

Treating them with the same paranoia we applied to web scale infra and crypto is probably the right instinct. The chupacabra deserved it too.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-01-14 03:54:30+00:00
>
We've ruined everything just like all other generations, specially programmers.

Rather: programmers did warn very vehemently of the situation (and were particularly worried that with the release of the iPhone people accepted the golden cage). The problem was rather that people did not listen to these "nerds" (or at least did not act on their strong recommendations), but rather listened to "hipsters" and marketers.
by boca_honey | 2026-01-14 03:54:43+00:00
This made me feel so nostalgic. I haven’t heard the term "netsplit" in probably 25 years. It’s amazing how things that once seemed so important get relegated not just to history, but sometimes to total oblivion.

Well, almost. Apparently, it has its own wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit
by dwoldrich | 2026-01-14 03:55:16+00:00
wut? dang isn't a super soldier, afaik, leave him out of this. Germany's got huge problems, mind your own business.

Are you a human coherency? Cohere to Here's a coherency test: tell me about your crawlspaces concrete rebar crawl under before a pub crawl credits crawl baby crawl cow crow cowl Donalb Trumlp bello rebar or concrete. Nike Shox bike lox?
by memset | 2026-01-14 03:55:25+00:00
I work at Ramp and have always been on the “luddite” side of AI code tools. I use them but usually I’m not that impressed and a curmudgeon when I see folks ask Claude to debug something instead of just reading the code. I’m just an old(er) neckbeard at heart.

But. This tool is scarily good. I’m seeing it “1-shot” features in a fairly sizable code base and fixes with better code and accuracy than me.
by Aperocky | 2026-01-14 03:56:09+00:00
> That doing this is it's own skill and I have not spent enough time with it.

Yeah, this.

I sucked (still sucks?) at it too, I spent countless hours correcting them. And throwing away hours of "work" they made, And even had them nuking the workplace a couple times (thankfully, they were siloed). I still feel like I'm wasting too much time way too often and trying new things constantly.

But I always thought I can learn and improve on this tool and its associated ecosystem as much as the other programming tools and languages and frameworks I learned over the years.
by trhway | 2026-01-14 03:56:48+00:00
The ESP32 (with Bluetooth and WiFi) is like $5 on AMZN. Which is probably sub-$2 in any meaningful quantity in Shenzhen. We've been living, at least until the tariffs, in a StarTrek like world where whatever we want is available from Shenzhen for a ridiculously low price (which in many respects is better than "free" because "free" brings with it its own humongous problems).
by daxfohl | 2026-01-14 03:57:27+00:00
I mean, it's somewhat moot, as even the formal hypothesis ("what is this proof proving") can be more complex than the code that implements it in nontrivial cases. So verifying that the proof is saying the thing that you actually want it to prove can be near impossible for non-experts, and that's just the hypothesis; I'm assuming the proof itself is fully AI-generated and not reviewed beyond running it through the checker.

And at least in backend engineering, for anything beyond low-level algorithms you almost always want some workarounds: for your customer service department, for engineering during incident response, for your VIP clients, etc. If you're relying on formal proof of some functionality, you've got to create all those allowances in your proof algorithm (and hypothesis) too. And additionally nobody has really come up with a platform for distributed proofs, durable proof keys (kinda), or how to deal with "proven" functionality changes over time.
by 46493168 | 2026-01-14 03:57:48+00:00
Scott had prostate cancer, probably for a few years since by the time he publicly announced having it (May 2025) there were signs of the cancer spread to his hip and lower vertebrae.
Rather than treating it immediately with surgery, drugs, or traditional cancer therapy; he took ivermectin and other de-worming medication.
He was begging RFK jr / trump to grant him access to an "experimental" cancer treatment in November. After being paralyzed and starting radiation therapy because the cancer had spread into his spine.
The man's life is a prime example of how modern conservatism will rot your brain. Prostate cancer is one of the most survivable cancers in adults (especially men over the age of 60), and he died painfully over the course of years because he believed in grifters over doctors.