MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robot-wrangler | 2026-01-09 19:23:58+00:00
The conclusion perfectly and concisely states the straw-man:

> If your job is only to write beautiful code, you have a problem.

Definitely no one at senior or even mid thinks this is what their job is about. Something like modularity is beautiful because it works and because of what it enables.. we don't try to shove it into place because it's beautiful. Talking about it the other way around sounds like a manager who does not understand engineering trying to paraphrase stuff that engineers are saying, poorly. Indeed quoting from this self-described entrepreneur's "About Me" page:

> While I was there, I took a couple computer science courses, decided I was terrible at it and swore to never write software again.

I guess that's thought-leadership for you.
by 9dev | 2026-01-09 19:24:27+00:00
What an absurd twisting of reality this is. There is no EU shadow cabal, as opposed to the very real not-so-shadowy cabal currently running the USA. Where the EU is concerned with a rule-based order, justice, and fair conditions, the US administration engages in open corruption, cronyism, and outright rule by force.

The CEO of an American company complaining about the unfair treatment in Europe is more than ridiculous.
by candiddevmike | 2026-01-09 19:24:54+00:00
> rebuild from scratch (which may not be a problem with vibe coding)

I've thought about how I could possibly vibe code from scratch something I've built and I just don't think it's possible. So much of the API contract and UI behavior is implicit that there is no way you could clone it without missing edge cases. And that's assuming the prompt is take this code and do X with it. Starting from scratch, like blank slate... Impossible.

You simply can't adequately describe a sufficiently complex app in natural language well enough to get a perfect copy. You'd have to detail every business rule, every quirk, everything that makes your app work. Try and condense the hundreds, thousands of tickets and bug reports into prompts.

Folks hedging on GenAI just constantly rewriting from scratch when they declare technical bankruptcy are in for a rude awakening (and tons of bugs).
by daviding | 2026-01-09 19:24:58+00:00
1989. I saw a paper flyer in the New York Public Library and turned up a few days later at the bus station on impulse. It was basically a moving commune, where you slept on flat boards, cooked together and moved glacially slowly towards the destination. The NY -> SF went south via FL, TX etc. It was mainly young people not actually from the US, Europe, Australia etc.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-01-09 19:25:09+00:00
Co-Pilot is analogous to AI itself.

Lots of business leaders seem to think AI can replace human workers and make their company better.

Now ask them if they think hiring lower paid humans that struggle with basic logic and math, have no real world experience and can't tell fact from fiction would do the same. And if so, why haven't they been doing this already.
by Spivak | 2026-01-09 19:25:44+00:00
I would ignore the haters, keeping Orion proprietary makes the most sense for being able to successfully charge for it as a commercial product. You can't sell an OSS product, only supporting services, as many many startups have realized and been forced to relicense to much anger within their respective communities.

And when the market is going to be primarily technical people I don't think you can trust them/us with source-available either as hackers with a strong aversion to paying for software thinking themselves clever will make and distribute bootleg builds with the license checks removed. Then you'll have to spend your time finding and DMCAing them which will only make people mad. Best to avoid it entirely.

I appreciate you/Kagi actually thinking about building a sustainable business in contrast to companies that open source their core competency and then fail to make money later.

Source: happy paying customer and user of Orion.
by pseudosavant | 2026-01-09 19:25:49+00:00
This isn't even a strictly Linux problem. On Windows, Edge has by far the best encrypted streaming playback using their PlayReady DRM. Many services like Netflix will only do 4K for Edge. Chrome is often 1080p, and Firefox was 720p last time I tried it.

Same situation on Mac where Apple's Fairplay DRM enables 4K playback in Safari, but Chrome and Firefox have the same limitations as on Windows.

Last time I tried to use Firefox on Windows as my daily driver, video playback was one of the biggest gaps that made me go back to Edge.
by gavinmckenzie | 2026-01-09 19:26:47+00:00
Putting aside the greater variety of physical traits that you describe, dogs generally are more adaptable than cats. They are estimated to have twice the number of neurons and are much more malleable whereas cats feel more hardwired into a set of cat behaviours.

I’ve assumed that this greater learning capacity and malleability is both the best part of a dog and a vulnerability that can lead them to become highly anxious and dependent animals.

I’ve had both cats and dogs, and loved them both, but my goodness they are so wildly completely different animals.
by languagehacker | 2026-01-09 19:26:53+00:00
The issue isn't with the deportations -- it's actually with the change in tactic, and a lot of the extrajudicial behavior. Immigration is an absolute mess, and it's one we created ourselves with one bad policy after another. I'd recommend "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" to understand the 50+ year history of how American military and political involvement in Latin America created the instability which caused the refugee crisis -- and even created the cultural phenomena that resulted in the creation of MS13.
Ask HN: Why did ICE deport my coworker?
by RyanShook | 2026-01-09 19:27:20+00:00
My coworker in Houston is from El Salvador and has been in the US legally under temporary protected status for roughly 20 years. He had all his paperwork in order and had renewed his temporary protected status at the proper times. He also has children born in the US.

Three weeks ago he was stopped at random by ICE while driving in his truck. He was immediately detained outside Houston then taken to detention at the border a few days later. He hired an immigration lawyer while in detention two weeks ago was deported today before anything regarding his case could be heard.
by kcplate | 2026-01-09 19:27:22+00:00
Yes, the fourth amendment exists. Yes, law enforcement officers can detain you if they’d have reasonable suspicion of a crime you have committed, or about to commit.

(That last bit I italicized you might want to read again, because it’s pretty important and you left that part out and it is the cornerstone to everything in this incident and specifically what I articulated in the comment of mine you replied to).
by rmason | 2026-01-09 19:27:49+00:00
This is genius, here in Michigan the city's along Lake Michigan get 'lake effect' snow that is a multiple of what occurs in the rest of the state. Muskegon tackled it with tunnels although most of them are closed now.

Could a data center that was water cooled end up melting snow off streets and sidewalks? It would be an easier sell to the public imho if it did.
by efitz | 2026-01-09 19:27:54+00:00
There's a logic error from assuming that because the rook is in its original position that the rook has not moved. Also I'm not sure if en passant is available if the pawn has moved from its home file, even if it subsequently moved back - so you can't assume either of these just by looking at the piece's position.

I think that you need one extra bit, that can contextually encode "rook has moved" or "en passant available".
by RickJWagner | 2026-01-09 19:27:55+00:00
That’s a great question.

I condemn neither Obama nor Trump. I believe letting people skip the legal immigration process is unfair to those that follow the rules, and it invites security problems and other issues.

To be clear, I am in favor of immigration, but greatly prefer legal immigration.

If you condemn both, I respect your integrity.

A good day to you.
by Aspos | 2026-01-09 19:28:18+00:00
No bank got fined for not root checking, correct. However banks are on the hook for unauthorized transactions. And "unauthorized" means different thing in different countries.

In some jurisdictions if bank can prove that transaction was made with customer's key then customer can not demand their money back. That's the best case, but there are only few of such jurisdictions and even there the burden of proof is on the bank and it costs a lot.

In other jurisdictions bank must reverse a transaction even if it was proven that the transaction was signed with a legitimate key, but the key _may_ have been stolen.

In some jurisdictions (i.e U.S.) banks are required to reverse a transaction at a customer’s request, even if the customer does not dispute having made the transaction.

In any case dealing with all this is too expensive and risky.
by nihzm | 2026-01-09 19:28:28+00:00
> Sometimes models that seem nonlinear turns linear if those nonlinearities are pushed into the basis functions, so one can still hope.

That idea was pushed to its limit by the Koopman operator theory. The argument sounds quite good at first, but unfortunately it can’t really work for all cases in its current formulation [1].

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08177
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-01-09 19:28:43+00:00
The most annoying thing in the LLM space is that people write articles and research with grand pronouncements based upon old models. This article has no mention of Sonnet 4.5, nor does it use any of the actual OpenAI coding models (GPT-5-Codex, GPT-5.1 Codex, etc), and based upon that, even the Opus data is likely an older version.

This then leads to a million posts where on one side people say "yeah see they're crap" and on the other side people are saying "why did you use a model from 6 months ago for your 'test' and write up in Jan 2026?".

You might as well ignore all of the articles and pronouncements and stick to your own lived experience.

The change in quality between 2024 and 2025 is gigantic. The change between early 2025 and late 2025 is _even_ larger.

The newer models DO let you know when something is impossible or unlikely to solve your problem.

Ultimately, they are designed to obey. If you authoritatively request bad design, they're going to write bad code.

I don't think this is a "you're holding it wrong" argument. I think it's "you're complaining about iOS 6 and we're on iOS 12.".
by horsawlarway | 2026-01-09 19:28:45+00:00
Here's the fundamental problem:

Trusted agents are useful. And I'm using legal meanings, not technical meanings here - so a "trusted agent" is someone or something that is legally acting on your behalf, to perform actions as though you were performing them.

The whole fucking promise of "general purpose computing" is that citizens should be able to delegate repetitive and tedious tasks to a computer. And they should have the full freedom to pick both which tasks are delegated, as well as which agent (program) is performing them.

Instead - what we're seeing is that companies are closing off as many avenues of automation for the average citizen as possible, under the guise of security.

The problem is that selecting a neutral (trusted!) agent is really, REALLY important, and companies are absolutely not neutral. They don't want the best results for "average Joe customer", they want the best results for themselves: the company.

They will make decisions that are contrary to your best interests all the time. They have exactly zero fiduciary duty to you, and boy do they know it.

In a decent world - in a decent CAPITALIST SOCIETY (which we can already debate the decency of in the first place) you allow space in the market for modification. Ex - don't like your desk? Change it. Don't like your car radio? Change it. Don't like that tool handle? Change it. Pick a different one, even one from a totally different company. Replace it.

This allows new ideas, new growth, and prevents stagnation.

In the digital world... there are a few companies that are trying as hard as possible to prevent you from being able to change anything.

---

Want a new browser? Fuck you.

Want a different UI for your banking needs? Fuck you.

Want to watch something without the ads? Fuck you.

Want to watch something with the ads, but in a less miserable ui? Fuck you too.

Want to automate something? Fuck you.

Want to export your data? Fuck you.

Want to sell software without us taking our rent money? Fuck you.

Want to shop in a different store? Fuck you.

Can't be letting our users make decisions that might cost us money.

---

So we're seeing an absolutely insane number of "digital locks" being employed not to protect users. No - instead they're getting deployed to protect revenue at the expense of users.

The only possible outcome is that service quality degrades to the point where you literally are better off without. Because that's what happens to incentives when you let companies operate in this manner.

If the consumer has no choice - the market has no power, and what little value there is in capitalism goes right into the trash bin.

So sure - if you squint, this maybe prevents someone from making a bad decision on which agent they trust.

But the problem is that now they HAVE to trust an agent they know is going to make bad decisions for them. Hope you like the biggest ad company in the world owning you digitally... Serfdom here we come.
by Macha | 2026-01-09 19:28:46+00:00
Let me give you a preview of a world coming to you, and present day reality in Ireland:

1. Your employer pays your salary by bank transfer, which requires you to have a conventional bank account.

2. You then want to spend that money, how do you do that?

Debit card? You need the phone app to retrieve the PIN when the bank first sends you the card.

Cash withdrawals in the branch? For amounts less than €10,000, the staff will direct you to the ATMs in the branch. These require an activated debit card to withdraw money, and activating that card requires the phone app.

Manual money transfers in the branch? Once again, for amounts less than €10,000, the staff won't do it - they'll instead direct you to the PCs in the branch. These are just loading the same website you can access on yours, which will ask you to the confirm with a 2FA push notification to log in.

Try another bank? The legacy banks all got the same auditor who advised them that app based 2FA is the easiest way to implement PSD2, and reduce the likelihood they get held liable when customers get scammed, so they all implemented that as the only option. The neobanks of course, are accessed solely by apps.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-09 19:28:55+00:00
For AI companies the access to the interaction is very valuable, that explains the price difference. It is data that the competition does not have access to. Of course they are storing that data for model training purposes, that's the whole reason this exists in the first place. They are subsidizing until they get their quality up to the point that the addiction is so strong you won't be able to get through your workday without it. And then surprise the per month access fee will start to rise.
by mrgoldenbrown | 2026-01-09 19:28:57+00:00
The UI absolutely could influence the backend usage.

Think about a web browser that respects cache lifetimes vs one that downloads everything everytime. As an ISP I'd be more likely to offer you unlimited bandwidth if I knew you were using a caching browser.

Likewise Claude code can optimize how it uses tokens and potentially provide the same benefit with less usage.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-09 19:29:43+00:00
The what exactly is under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41258636

Does it make sense?

[almost all Galois correspondences are imperfect; they're just the "best" imperfect correspondence, in some sense. (the ones that actually are bijections are the perfect ones, in that not only are R=RLR and L=LRL, but RL=1=LR)]

> But I don't see why

For fun? Because "Algebraic Theology" is a grammatical english noun phrase that up until recently seems to have been uninhabited? To create a model in which Spinoza is not Pantheist? All of the above?
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-09 19:30:01+00:00
>They also don't make a secret out of their plan to push the far-right to end the EU.

How is the "far right" gonna end "the EU"? When my GF walks alone at night through the parks she's never EVER afraid of the mythical far right for her safety, but the other people the far left won't let us talk about without being called a label and being cancelled from MSM for having common sense opinions.

So if the EU were to find its end, it will be 100% at the hand of its own making, from years of corruption and financial mismanagement, from years of pushing unpopular open borders far left policies that nobody was asked it they agree with them or not. That's what will end the EU. Not Musk, not X, not Putin, not Trump, but the EU bureaucrats and their unpopular policies who then use boogiemen like X and "russian misinformation" and "far right" as scapegoats to deflect from their failures like this:

Corruption being exposed on X? Must be Russian misinformation. Illegal migrant crime exposed on X. Must be far right misinformation. Epstein Files? Democrat hoax. Etc but you get the point.

Politicians hate accountability and media channels they can't control like X that risk exposing their mistakes and corruption. They want full control of media to tell you what's acceptable to think, since the internet and social media made traditional state controlled media obsolete. They don't want control of social media and user ID verification to "protect the children", they want it to protect themselves from criticism and accountability from you.

It's not Elon's or Trump's or Putin's or the far right's fault the healthcare in my country has been on a decline for 10+ years. It's not their fault wages are stagnating but property prices are skyrocketing which is what most voters care about. That's the fault of the ECB fiscal policies. It's not their fault public safety is down and crime is up. That's the fault of EU border control and irresponsible migration policies. Etc. you get the point.

So it's disingenuous at best and bad faith at worst, to ignore these long going systemic issues the EU has self inflicted on its voters, and just blame the far right for the backlash it has inevitably lead to.
by fzeroracer | 2026-01-09 19:30:12+00:00
It wasn't any sort of concession, it's something I genuinely have said before in the past and fully maintain. But it's a great and easy way to tear down that these folks don't have any sort of ideological basis beyond identity. They believe that the other side is just as tribalistic as them, that they can win by simply going ah but you believe Obama good. It's the same reason why they believe the murder was justified, not because of any factual basis but because she was 'the other'.

You can see in the other comment that rather than address the actual issue, they instead pivot to an entirely different justification. Because they know their position is truly indefensible and the only way they can win is by continuing to shift the debate. Rather than talk about the extrajudicial murder of an American citizen, you shift the debate to talking about how we need to curb illegal immigration. Because then you can avoid thinking about what happens when Americans are murdered by the state.
by kylehotchkiss | 2026-01-09 19:30:33+00:00
If immigration wasn't so obnoxious, the prices it cost to visit NYC, Disneyland/world or even the crowds you'd have to deal with at national parks aren't worth it. There's a lot of beautiful places in the world (including the country to the north), and I sense the political winds in USA will eventually change and the exchange rate "benefit" US currently has will dwindle.
by ajross | 2026-01-09 19:30:48+00:00
What crime was she "about to commit" then which she needed to be detained to prevent? Sketch for me the indictment you're imagining for which she got executed. You're doing hyper-specific hair splitting elsewhere in this thread, surely you'd like the opportunity here.

The ability of people on the right to throw all their principles about limited government and checks and balances and constitutional restraint out the window the second the person who got shot in their face is a political enemy is just amazing to me. You people are the ones who think we all need guns all the time to PREVENT this kind of thing, I thought!
by primitivesuave | 2026-01-09 19:31:24+00:00
In my reply above, I evoked the memory of Jeanette Rankin, who was the lone dissenting vote against the Pacific War after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (somewhat analogous to the October 7th attack).

It is a natural human tendency to desire that the people who inflict pain upon others to also feel pain inflicted upon them. This has been the human condition since ancient times, and yet the most revered figures in human history have been the pacifists who consistently advocate against violence (e.g. Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Gandhi, MLK, etc).
by MoravecsParadox | 2026-01-09 19:31:27+00:00
I've been following the gut microbiome space for close to 6 years now, and still am not convinced that there's anything humans can materially do to improve their gut microbiome, aside from eating more vegetables and less meat. Even the word "improve" is a misnomer - we don't quite know what's good bacteria and what's bad bacteria for a specific individual.

Additionally, as with all gut microbiome experiments - what happens in the lab in mice on mice might not translate to humans - and the human gut microbiome is extremely messy and tough to measure. We just don't have the longitudinal data across human populations to make quantifiable decisions about our gut microbiome.

I always like to draw the analogy to cigarettes and lung cancer. There's a very clear causal link to smoking and lung cancer after 20 years later. We don't have any such causal link between gut microbiome alterations and health outcomes.

Happy to hear any other opinions!
by languagehacker | 2026-01-09 19:31:30+00:00
There's a challenging burden of proof that starts even with what constitutes the ability to detain a person. US Citizens don't need to show anyone proof of citizenship due to a law that's been on the books since before World War II -- a law that was created after our legislators were disgusted by what was going on in Germany at the time. This means that for ICE to detain someone whose identity they don't already know 100%, there is a legal grey area where a citizen does not need to comply with their request. So how do they improve their accuracy? Sounds like racial profiling, right? That's because it is.

Your analogy of an illegally parked car is spurious because where a car may park is pretty unequivocal. I hope that what I've described here helps you understand that this would be like someone choosing not to tow a Ford but opting to to tow a Kia even though they're parked against the same red curb.
by butterisgood | 2026-01-09 19:31:32+00:00
I think ed is still a great editor for specific tasks. As a plan 9/9front user, when you get yourself into trouble, it's sometimes the only editor you've got left (like when graphics doesn't initialize, which I've not seen on 9front — ever?)

It's really not bad, and you can use it for scripting like sed, but it's clunkier.