MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-12 18:32:06+00:00
The LOTR movies are great movies, but are pretty poor adaptations. I don't mind changes which were necessary due to the medium (e.g. cutting Tom Bombadil, which just would bloat the movie without adding anything crucial to the story). But Jackson went beyond that and made changes (for example, having Faramir give in to the temptation of the Ring for a time) because he disagreed with Tolkien's story (that specific change was explained in terms of Faramir's character in the book "doesn't work with the way we are trying to portray the Ring"). That's crossing a line, imo.

The Hobbit movies, on the other hand, are both bad adaptations and bad movies. Truly awful stuff.
by alephnerd | 2026-01-12 18:32:17+00:00
Those same asset managers are my LPs and peers. It's hard enough making a broad ExChina strategy. Making an ExAmerica strategy is even harder given how lopsided the global equities market is.

Furthermore, the articles you yourself provided are either marketing collateral for emerging markets stock (JPM) or opinion pieces by asset managers trying to vouch for their case.
by digestives | 2026-01-12 18:32:25+00:00
Thank you for sharing this - it reminds of the film adaption of "The Peasants" novel which uses a painted animation technique made up of thousands and thousands of paintings. Quite literally, nearly "Every Frame [is] a Painting".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peasants_(2023_film)#Produ...
by brabel | 2026-01-12 18:32:27+00:00
I had a 75-inch TV I inherited, it was on the higher end and the TV UI was supper snappy.
Then, I broke it accidentally and got only 1/4 of the money from insurance. Because I barely watch TV, I thought I would just buy a TV of the same size, but on the lower end... both TVs were Samsung anyway.
What a huge difference. The image quality is a little worse, barely noticeable after you get used to it. But the UI is agonizingly slow. Every time I turn the TV on it starts showing some channel fairly quickly, but then after several seconds the image gets black because it's loading the stupid UI... and I can't find a way for it to NOT do that! The higher end TV, needless to say, didn't do that.
So now, I know what you're paying for when you get a TV for $4,000 instead of $1,000: slightly better image , but a proper computer to run the stupidly heavy UI (probably made using some heavy JS framework, I suppose).
by pizlonator | 2026-01-12 18:32:35+00:00
Sure. Any pass that is scoped to functions (or even loops, or basic blocks) will have increased scope if run after inlining, and most passes run after inlining.

In the context of this thread, your observation is not meaningful. The point is: LICM doesn't cross function boundary and neither does regalloc, so LICM has no greater scope than regalloc.
by nosianu | 2026-01-12 18:33:47+00:00
I have difficulty reading the light gray text on white/bright background that too many sites favor these days. I have a pretty good 4K 32 inch monitor. Even with a full Adobe color space capable and calibrated device in a darkroom I don't want to read that combination.

I don't get it, I have medically tested 120% color vision (it was a lengthy test), definitely nothing wrong on my side, so I don't understand at all what the designers and coders are seeing that they think that that is a great idea. The difference between the pixels is objectively bad, one can take a screenshot and look at the background versus text pixels.
by PeterStuer | 2026-01-12 18:33:54+00:00
Keep in mind a gaggle of CC/Opus 4.5 agents is the worst this tech will be. How long ago did we hail 3.5 as the best? ATM, we are counting in months and weeks and the frogs are still leaping, and for all the naysayers, this has not yet slowed down.

Will the bubble pop and wipe out progress? Will this be a boon or bust for humanity? Who knows. In any case, the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades ;).
by observationist | 2026-01-12 18:34:07+00:00
This looks like it might be the end for the current regime. There are still people getting information out, and they are tearing down and burning state buildings - around 3000 protesters killed since the crackdown began, but there appear to be tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people who have risen up against the ayatollah, with an unknown number of state forces and officials killed. Crazy start to the year.
by dwaite | 2026-01-12 18:34:25+00:00
> No, the much more secure while at the same time liberty-preserving way to do this are heavily sandboxed secure enclaves with attestation, or even better standalone tamper-proof devices capable of attestation.

Thats what is being required. The problem is making sure the policy is enforced correctly includes local business logic and user experience components. The money transfer needs to come from an authenticated user providing consent, not from some software that happens to have managed to get installed on the phone with sufficient permissions to interface with the secure element or to have their version of a library loaded.

That means one needs to validate user-facing software, and not just the API to a black box. Thus one is requiring a chain of custody validation up to the boot loader.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-12 18:34:35+00:00
Personally I think a happy medium is to compile to C99. Then, after your own compiler's high-level syntax transformation pass, you can pass it through the Tiny C Compiler which is somewhere on the order of ~10x faster than Clang -O0. When you need performance optimizations at the cost of build speed, or to support a compilation target that TCC does not, you can freely switch to compiling with Clang, getting much of the value of LLVM without ever specifically targeting it. This is what I do for my own language, and it makes my life significantly easier and is perfectly sufficient for my use, since as with most languages my language will never be used by millions of people (or perhaps only ever one person, as I have not deigned to publish it).

I think writing a compiler targeting machine code from scratch only really makes sense if you have Google's resources, as Go did. That includes both the money and the talent pool of employees that can be assigned to work on the task full-time; not everyone has Ken Thompson lying around on payroll. To do better than LLVM is a herculean feat, and most languages will never be mainstream enough to justify the undertaking; indeed I think an undertaking of that scale would prevent a language from ever getting far enough along to attract users/contributors if it doesn't already have powerful backing from day 0.
by zahlman | 2026-01-12 18:35:03+00:00
> When comparing things like bread and butter, the ultra processed versions are much cheaper.

I can't even fathom what you have in mind as "the ultra processed version of butter". Margarine is a completely different product from a different source.

Bread is a relative luxury regardless. The sponge-foam "wonder" stuff isn't even the cheapest for sale here generally. But even then, typical bread is (adding up the macros) only about 60% actual grain by weight (the rest mostly water), going by the nutrition label; so a kilogram of whole grain whatever equates to nearly two and a half loaves. Even whole rolled oats are much less expensive, on this basis, than the cheapest bread I can find and it's not complicated to cook them.

At any rate, bread and butter are two of the worst possible examples to make a claim about energy density in "healthy" versus "processed" options. Grain is grain (overwhelmingly carbohydrate and almost no water beside what is added in cooking or baking) and fat is fat.
by prmoustache | 2026-01-12 18:35:14+00:00
I think it wouldn't be the default on many distros if everybody hated it.

I think we face the prism of the internet. Since it is the default on so many distros, almost everyonr has been faced to it at some point and those who don't like it are very vocal about it. Those who have been presented Gnome 3 as their first Linux Desktop and have been liking it have had no reason to try out other desktops and will be less vocal against them.
by mikestew | 2026-01-12 18:35:53+00:00
Nor would it have much impact. Retail investors are a tiny part of the market. Sure, we all have 401Ks and IRAs, but are we collectively trading GOOG and MSFT? No. The people managing funds that go into those 401Ks are trading those stocks, but individually we aren't (generally speaking, of course).
by rmonvfer | 2026-01-12 18:36:06+00:00
That’s crazy cheap, I pay close to 400€ (!!!) monthly for Tirzepatide (GLP-1) and close to 50€ for Lisdexamfetamine (ADHD) in Spain. Truth be told, the ADHD meds are covered by the Social Security health insurance or I’d be paying double that, but I don’t think GLP-1s will ever be covered here.
by nancyminusone | 2026-01-12 18:36:07+00:00
The people who use Solidworks buy Solidworks to use Solidworks. You'll go up to one of them and they'll have the whole model done in like 8 key presses before you even finish typing in your prompt.

All the people who aren't professional CAD users have Fusion, which they can get for free. They would probably benefit the most from text to model AI, but would probably also be the least willing to pay.
by hilbert42 | 2026-01-12 18:36:14+00:00
"I am hoping we get more than 2 years out of our current TV before the GUI starts creaking under it's own weight."

Ha! The Sharp color TV here in the kitchen is now nearly 48 years old (bought in 1978) and still functions well but with the addition of a set top box/PVR although its remote control has been repaired many times (but the TV itself has never needed maintenance).

Other flat screen TVs have no internet access or are used monitor style with separate STBs/PVRs. As I mentioned on HN some weeks ago, if the trend continues and manufacturers booby-trap sets into planned obsolescence, I'll buy only monitors and connect them via HDMI to a TV feed.

My ancient Sharp TV shouts at me that these days there's something terribly wrong with domestic electronic appliances.
by ericmay | 2026-01-12 18:36:37+00:00
> Who says we aren't? There is always criticism against countries that invade other countries. Be it the US, Russia, China, you name it.

Because while I recognize the OP being about the US, the vast majority of the criticism and discussion takes place regarding the United States. But even in criticizing the US here one could in good faith argue a caveat is required saying "but this is done by all countries" or something along those lines.

> But it's not as if Greenland (or the EU, or Canada) was threatening to invade the US, is it?

No, but I don't think that's particularly relevant in this context? You're just venting.

> I think this is an interesting point: people in many countries would not be grateful if their military invaded other countries. So they wouldn't "thank the military for their service". That the Americans do it may sound weird to non-Americans, given that the US are generally more invading than defending their own territory. "Thanks for destroying an entire country and disrupting millions of life, because I like cheap gas".

Well my point here was just that the Iraq war is widely criticized, and in this context I think it's safe to assume that it would also have been criticized as not being good for the poorer folks in the United States, and I just wanted to point out that they want their cheap gas prices too, and they're also thanking the US military for bombing Iraq. Some want to try and say America is bad but not the poor people because of an internal juxtaposition they hold in their mind. The poor Americans are just as complicit and benefit too. In fact, they're typically more supportive of these endeavors than the wealthy elites regardless of who benefits.

> people in many countries would not be grateful if their military invaded other countries

Well most countries lack a military that is capable of doing much of anything so they don't really experience this happening, and if their country does try to invade another one it is usually facing repercussions from the United States, so your sample size is small.

But I also don't think this is quite true and you can broaden it to general military activity.

Iranians for example were celebrating in the streets over bombings of Israel. Israelis were celebrating the bombing of Iran's military and leadership. Do I need to even get in to Russia and Z? Nevermind Pakistan and India, even internally in countries like India you have religious or ethnic minorities murdered and it is celebrated. Do you think there is a lack of patriotic Chinese who are eagerly awaiting the bombing and invasion of Taiwan? You're thinking about this in an American-centric way. Americans aren't special, all countries like and do these things and have done so historically and will continue to do so in the future provided they have the means and internal justification.
by akiselev | 2026-01-12 18:36:39+00:00
> How did you make Claude "know" the PCB layout/schematic specifics? Is just giving it a "reference prompt" enough to produce any interesting results?

I have a mini query language in the CLI that implements a lot of spatial queries, both structured and via prompts (another LLM translates the prompt to a structured query), against the Altium file format and an intermediate representation I keep. Most queries and editing commands use relative positioning ("to the left of"), units ("right edge minus 10mm"), and parameters (U1.P1.Top + MinSpacing * 5), etc. The LLM rarely needs to use concrete units because it's mostly parametrized by component clearances and design rules - I just choose some numbers at the beginning like board size and layer stackup (mostly set by the fab).

The CLI has over a hundred subcommands and I use Claude skills to split up the documentation, but the agent actively explores the schematic and PCB themselves. The Claude skills include instructions to use the measurement subcommands to sanity check after making a move or when doing a review at the end, although I'm in the process of implementing a GPU based design rule checker. My Solidworks interface works the same but there are many more "verbs" there for the LLM to manage.

At the end of the day it's mostly just orchestrating another tool which does most of the spatial logic and calculations. It's definitely easier with Altium than Solidworks so far.
by throwaway18875 | 2026-01-12 18:36:49+00:00
Currently running it using LM Studio. It can download it from Hugging Face. It generates incoherent text though

===

You:

I pray you, who is this Master Newton?

timecapsulellm-v2-1800-1875-mlx:

TI offer to pay you the very same fee as you did before.
It was not in the power of your master to deliver the letter to your master. He did. I will be with you as soon as I can keep my word.
It is not at all clear, whether the letter has been sent or not.
It is not at all clear: but it is clear also that it was written by the person who gave it.
"No," I said, "I cannot give it to you."
There, the letter was sent to me.
"The letter is yours, I believe," I said.
"But, I hope, you will not refuse to give it to me?
by dpoloncsak | 2026-01-12 18:36:50+00:00
There's been some talk of people using Starlink to stay online. Is this a practical counter measure, or is Iran just not yet prepared to deal with them?

It's my understanding Iran polices the ISPs, who aren't assigning IP addresses at this time. Iran could treat the dishes as contraband, but short of working with Starlink, is there a practical way for them to prevent satellite internet? You could flood all channels with packets like a jammer or something, but doing that at nation-scale still seems impractical to me? I'm not an expert in any of these fields, just asking really
by nosianu | 2026-01-12 18:36:52+00:00
> You want your designers to have accurate color reproduction for obvious reasons

I don't know, I conclude the opposite. If you need accurate color reproduction when you publish online, you are doing something wrong.

I used to co-own a small digital printing business, so I'm aware of what all of it means, and I had an appropriate monitor myself and a paid Adobe Design Suite subscription.

But for the web, when our setup is too good it's actually a detriment. It is predictable that you end up publishing things that require your quality setup. There is a good reason not to bother with a high quality monitor usable for serious publishing and photo/video editing when you only do web thing. Which is exactly why when I bought my last monitor, which is for business work and coding and web browsing and other mundane things, I deliberately ignored all the very high quality displays, even though the company would have paid whatever I chose. It is not an advantage for that use case.
by minhduong243 | 2026-01-12 18:37:00+00:00
In this case, he is entitled to liking or disliking the experience watching the game on VP. I read that several liked the experience, but he absolutely can have a different opinion. What I am talking about here is that he implied to know more about the product than Apple, which started the project way back in 2015 and has more information than he does. We can all like or dislike a product or opine on a strategy or a state of a business, but claiming to know more about a product, esp one like VP, than the company itself, looking outside in, is too much imo.
by anon84873628 | 2026-01-12 18:37:08+00:00
Interestingly, another front page article today is about Apple choosing to use Gemini for Siri.

A lot of the comments revolve around how much they will be locked in and how much the base models are commoditized.

Google is pretty clearly ok with being an infrastructure/service provider for all comers. Same is true for Open AI (especially via Azure?) I guess Anthropic does not want to compete like that.
by bloppe | 2026-01-12 18:37:43+00:00
> Also Opencode makes it all easily swappable

It's all easily swappable without OpenCode. Just symlink CLAUDE.md -> AGENTS.md and run `codex` instead of `claude`.

> they are working hard on making it impossible for other models to support their every increasing agent feature set (skills, teleport and remote sessions, LSP, Chrome integration, etc).

Every feature you listed has an open-source MCP server implementation, which means every agent that supports MCP already has all those features. MCP is so epic because it has already nailed the commodification coffin firmly shut. Besides, Anthropic has way less funding than OAI or Google. They wouldn't win the moat-building race even if there were one.

That said, the conventional wisdom is that lowering switching costs benefits the underdogs, because the incumbents have more market share to lose.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-12 18:37:49+00:00
> But what stands out is that this heavy-handed, controversial tax is being proposed during a time of relative prosperity.

There are CS graduates with a masters degree working 12-hour shifts at Sweetgreen to afford rent on a 300 square-foot apartment.

You are not living in a period of relative prosperity, it's not the 1990s anymore. You are living in a unique, post-gentrified nightmare that does not exist anywhere else in the United States.
by gpm | 2026-01-12 18:37:58+00:00
The problem the second you stop subsidizing Claude Code and start making money on it the incentive to use it over opencode disappears. If opencode is the better tool than claude code - and that's the reason people are using their claude subscription with it instead of claude code - people will end up switching to it.

Maybe they can hope to murder opencode in the meantime with predatory pricing and build an advantage that they don't currently have. It seems unlikely though - the fact that they're currently behind proves the barrier to building this sort of tool isn't that high, and there's lots of developers who build their own tooling for fun that you can't really starve out of doing that.

I'm not convinced that attempting to murder opencode is a mistake - if you're losing you might as well try desperate tactics. I think the attempt is a pretty clear signal that Antrhopic is losing though.
by simion314 | 2026-01-12 18:37:59+00:00
>What makes you think Meta will do a better job of policing this than the actual police?

Meta announce they will stop political/electoral advertising in EU, so this ios proof that Meta can do but we need to foce them to act, otherwise Meta makes money from all the scams in the ads that are published, in fact I remember Meta looked into the scam problem and decided to stop looking sicne solving the problem would reduce their profits.

Now in case all those well paid engineers at Meta can't find a solution here is an idea I had just by thinking at it for a few seconds, those geniuses shoudl be able to find better ones if they want.

1 when a scam ad is reported block that account and their ads

2 before the ad is published have an AI scan it, if it looks to be related to politics, crypto or other scam friendly domains have someone review it . do not allow fresh accounts to publish this kind of shit without a human review

3 for Facebook content when someone shares fake shiot, like a proven fake document, or scam or faked video block the account and then notify all the people that liked or shared the scam that they were scammed/tricked ... when your users will get 10 daily notifications "You are an idiot you shared this fake shit" you might realize you should do something about scams or users will stop engaging with your stuff.

I am talking here about proveable scams and fakes , so not about some gray area. I mean scams, faked videos/images/documents etc
by throwaway920102 | 2026-01-12 18:38:06+00:00
I read parts of this and found them quite interesting! One of the annoying things about schizophrenia is when someone you care about is in treatment/remission/managing their symptoms, if they use metaphor or symbolism or other similar linguistic devices it can be hard to tell if they are doing that - intentionally using metaphor/symbolism/imagery to make a point, or if they are veering off into a strange delusional statement and something you think is meant to be metaphor is actually written or spoken literally.

I had a similar reaction when first skimming this book in that some of the sections sort of looked almost like allegory or something similar to allegory, but I wasn't sure if it was an artistic/linguistic device or if it was something resultant from schizophrenia.

Do you care to comment about that OP? EG: Metropolis chapter (page 10) through page 19 (Yoshu Prophecies). FWIW my takeaway was to have the charitable view that given your ability to even write this book, these sections are a depiction of some of those psychosis period for some illustrative purpose. But I have a small question in my head about it.

I understand it must be a burden to do have do so, but I wonder if you'd find that others would understand you more if you loudly prefaced usages of these sorts of techniques with their announcement. EG: "This is a metaphor, but _____" or "Here's an example:", or "I don't mean this literally, but ____". Dunno what the preface would be for these parts of the book, and I like I said I skimmed because I'm supposed to be at work rn.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-12 18:38:14+00:00
I am a deep LLM skeptic.

But I think there are also some questions about the role of language in human thought that leave the door just slightly ajar on the issue of whether or not manipulating the tokens of language might be more central to human cognition than we've tended to think.

If it turned out that this was true, then it is possible that "a model predicting tokens" has more power than that description would suggest.

I doubt it, and I doubt it quite a lot. But I don't think it is impossible that something at least a little bit along these lines turns out to be true.