MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Kerrick | 2026-01-06 22:44:38+00:00
Gemini 3 Pro (High) via Antigravity has been similarly great recently. So have tools that I imagine call out to these higher-power models: Amp and Junie. In a two-week blur I brought forth the bulk of a Ruby library that includes bindings to the Ratatui rust crate for making TUIs in Ruby. During that time I also brought forth documentation, example applications, build and devops tooling, and significant architectural decisions & roadmaps for the future. It's pretty unbelievable, but it's all there in the git and CI history. https://sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/

I think the following things are true now:

- Vibe Coding is, more than ever, "autopilot" in the aviation sense, not the colloquial sense. You have to watch it, you are responsible, the human has do run takeoff/landing (the hard parts), but it significantly eases and reduces risk on a bulk of the work.

- The gulf of developer experience between today's frontier tooling and six months ago is huge. I pushed hard to understand and use these tools throughout last year, and spent months discouraged--back to manual coding. Folks need to re-evaluate by trying premium tools, not free ones.

- Tooling makers have figured out a lot of neat hacks to work around the limitations of LLMs to make it seem like they're even better than they are. Junie integrates with your IDE, Antigravity has multiple agents maintaining background intel on your project and priorities across chats. Antigravity also compresses contexts and starts new ones without you realizing it, calls to sub-agents to avoid context pollution, and other tricks to avoid context pollution.

- Unix tools (sed, grep, awk, etc.) and the git CLI (ls-tree, show, --stat, etc.) have been a huge force-multiplier, as they keep the context small compared to raw ingestion of an entire file, allowing the LLMs to get more work done in a smaller context window.

- The people who hire programmers are still not capable of Vibe Coding production-quality web apps, even with all these improvements. In fact, I believe today this is less of a risk than I feared 10 months ago. These are advanced tools that need constant steering, and a good eye for architecture, design, developer experience, test quality, etc. is the difference between my vibe coded Ruby [0] (which I heavily stewarded) and my vibe coded Rust [1] (I don't even know what borrow means).

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/tree/stable/item/lib

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/ratatui_ruby/tree/stable/item/ext...
by observationist | 2026-01-06 22:44:59+00:00
It's not way too early, imo. This is the academic nerds proof of concept for a school research project, it's not the "group of elite hackers get together and work out a world-class production ready system".

Agent platforms have similar modes of failure, whether it's creative writing, coding, web design, hacking, or any other sort of project scaffolding. A lot of recent research has dealt with resolving the underlying gaps in architectures and training processes, and they've had great success.

I fully expect frontier labs to have generalized methodologizing capabilities withing the first half of the year, and by the end of the year, the Pro/Max/Heavy variants of the chatbots will have the capabilities baked in fully. Instead of having Codex or Artemis or Claude Code, you can just ask the model to think and plan your project, whatever the domain, and get professional class results, as if an expert human was orchestrating the project.

All sorts of complex visual tool use like PCB design and building plans and 3d modeling have similar process abstractions, and the decomposition and specialized task executions are very similar in principle to the generalized skills I mentioned. I think '26 is going to be exciting as hell.
by mikestorrent | 2026-01-06 22:45:02+00:00
I think perhaps for some folks we're looking at their first professional paradigm shift. If you're a bit older, you've seen (smaller versions of) the same thing happening before as e.g. the Internet gained traction, Web2.0, ecommerce, crypto, etc. and have seen your past skillset become useless as now it can be accomplished for only $10/mo/user.... either you pivot and move on somehow, or you become a curmudgeon. Truly, the latter is optional, and at any point when you find yourself doing that you wish to stop and just embrace the new thing, you're still more than welcome to do so. AI is only going to get EASIER to get involved with, not harder.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-06 22:45:08+00:00
IMHO EU politicians are way behind the EU public in this regard. They are incapable of thinking of Europe without USA and are terrified that it will hurt the economy or something.

However the public is much more ready to break clean of US and endure the perceived short term pain for the perceived dignity and opportunities.

Screw this up too and EU will lose all its mainstream pro-US politicians and they will all be replaced with extremes as long as those extremes promise getting rid of USA.

Whatever Trump is doing its going to be as successful as his private business ventures.

Europeans are vengeful, Tesla never recovered from Musks behavior. USA will also not recover, all those 2T market capitalization companies will have to start justifying those valuations without the EU market and likely without the rest of the world too because it will only accelerate China's influence in the other parts of the world as US will cement its position as dangerous imperialist that better stay away.

All that capital that US has will mean nothing at war time, intellectual properties and royalties will cease to be valuable. If the EU rich flee to USA they will not be taking the factories with them, extremist war time governments will take away their properties.

Relationships will be forged without US influence, working with Russia and Iran for energy and working with China will become much simpler as many of the issues between EU and these nations stem from USA's grip on Europe.
by joshstrange | 2026-01-06 22:45:41+00:00
> And if you can afford business class - where supersonic would be priced - then I mean... The meals are restaurant quality and the full recline?! I hardly want to disembark! The biggest discomfort is the dry sinuses.

Lay-flat chairs and business class are nice and a massive upgrade for long flights but better than being off the plane? Nope.

> restaurant quality

The food is mid-tier at best, I would not return to a restaurant that served food like what they serve in business class. It's only amazing when compared to the alternatives and the fact you get treated like half a human for a minute.

> full recline

Ehh, I find them claustrophobic and they only really "lay flat" if you aren't 6'+. They are approximately 1 billion times better than normal airplane chairs but you are still in an airplane.
by Calavar | 2026-01-06 22:45:56+00:00
There are multiple Python 3 interpreters written in JavaScript that were very likely included in the training data. For example [1] [2] [3]

I once I gave Claude (Opus 3.5) a problem that I thought was for sure too difficult for an LLM, and much to my surprise it spat out a very convincing solution. The surprising part was I was already familiar with the solution - because it was almost a direct copy/paste (uncredited) from a blog post that I read only a few hours earlier. If I hadn't read that blog post, I would have been none the wiser that copy/pasting Claude's output would be potential IP theft. I would have to imagine that LLMs solve a lot of in-training-set problems this way and people never realize they are dealing with a copyright/licensing minefield.

A more interesting and convincing task would be to write a Python 3 interpeter in JavaScript that uses register based bytecode instead of stack based, supports optimizing the bytecode by inlining procedures and constant folding, and never allocates memory (all work is done in a single user provided preallocated buffer). This would require integrating multiple disparate coding concepts and not regurgitating prior art from the training data

[1] https://github.com/skulpt/skulpt

[2] https://github.com/brython-dev/brython

[3] https://github.com/yzyzsun/PyJS
by Tanoc | 2026-01-06 22:46:50+00:00
Along with Breezewiki, which was specifically designed to combat Fandom/Wikia.
An another note it's always struck me as extremely presumptuous that the company thinks it can just call itself "Fandom" like the word hasn't existed in generic form for nearly a century and a half before they ever did. The lack of willingness to fend off what should be unenforceable trademarks and copyrights is creating a snowball that's going to get too big to stop in the next decade.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-06 22:47:06+00:00
You can make it more level, but in any system constrained by the physical world, you can never make it completely level.

Ever notice that there used to be a lot of businesses with names like "A+ Heating and Cooling" or "AAA Chimney Sweeps"? That was because being at the top of the phone book's alphabetical listing was more likely to get you business since a lot of people would open to a section, start at the top and start calling.

There's only so much shelf space to go around, eventually decisions will be made about who can put their products on a given shelf.

Any large business with the ability to produce multiple different products will inherently have the advantage of getting more shelf space assuming you want to display all products.

But even assuming you just wanted your shelf space to be a bunch of "per company" catalogs, businesses with more money to spend on glossier catalogs, or brighter inks, or more variations so thicker catalogs will have an advantage.

Then there's names and numbers. Hooked on Phonics gets a leg up on every other competing reading program because they got the phone number that is 1-800-ABC-DEFG, no one else can have that number. The lawyer who gets 1-800-555-5555 (or other similarly easy to remember number) has a leg up on anyone with a random number out of the phone company's inventory.

But I'm curious, what would this perfectly level field you envision look like? How would these sorts of problems be solved?
by treesknees | 2026-01-06 22:47:17+00:00
I have a set of Speed Queen appliances, and it was a relay that went bad that forced a board replacement in my washing machine, and not any of the digital components you're complaining about. Sometimes things fail. I think it's more important to buy a quality appliance that local shops know how to repair, rather than buying the cheapest Samsung model on the floor or buying the oldest mechanical machine you can find.
by wolfgang000 | 2026-01-06 22:48:15+00:00
Same setup as mine, I have an OpenVPN server running in my router, and my main PC has wake-on-lan and a KVM as a backup to turn it on and off.

I have an old used Dell Latitude that I use as a pseudo thin client. I ssh into my PC, and everything just works.

I really like this setup because I only have one environment, so everything is there, and I don't have to install anything in the laptop
by Animats | 2026-01-06 22:48:36+00:00
That's a real service.
Some airports, including LAX and London Heathrow, allow a "tarmac transfer", where the limo goes directly to the plane. [1][2] Cost is $200 to $1000. That could save an hour or more at each end.

VIP Terminal Access: Skip the standard queues and enter exclusive VIP terminals where you’ll receive expedited passport control, security checks, and personalized services, all while enjoying luxury amenities. Avoid long security lines with expedited security processing, ensuring you spend minimal time in the airport.

[1] https://limossist.com/tarmac-transfers/

[2] https://airssist.com/airport-tarmac-transfer-service/
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-06 22:48:38+00:00
> Under Biden the US reduced inflation faster than any other peer country, reduced student loan debt by billions, secured 1 trillion in mostly green infrastructure investment, secured 500 billion in semiconductor manufacturing, had a low 4% unemployment rate, helped with the NATO expansion, supported Ukraine, fought for consumer protections, expanded transgender rights and visibility, and so much more.

Indeed! But in politics, especially in the two-party systems that are the US and the UK, it is (almost) never about actual actions, policy and even campaign promises to a degree (because no one believes them any more). Individual voters often lack knowledge, context or empathy with others to recognize when stuff happens and if it is important.

In contrast, a politician's public image aka his "story" is much much more important. Even in a country like Germany which one might think focuses more on policy. We had incumbent Chancellor Schröder neck-deep in issues in 2002, then a historic flood disaster happened - and Schröder showed up in rubber boots while his competitor Stoiber was off vacationing. In the 2021 election, Armin Laschet didn't realize Steinmeier was talking on camera, someone cracked a joke or whatnot, he laughed - and got caught by said camera [2], which damaged his campaign so hard that he lost to Scholz.

Biden's age was already under discussion in his first term, and the critics were very vocal. There would have been the chance to set up Harris in the second half of his first term as a successor, prop her up into the spotlight and promise the voters continuation, the DNC didn't do that - and lost.

> Lots more people than Biden, who're a lot more physically fit would fail at debating serial liars and thugs like Trump.

Of course, of course. But still, I wish y'all had less gerontocrats in place.

[1] https://www.stern.de/politik/hochwasser--was-gerhard-schroed...

[2] https://www.rnd.de/politik/laschet-lacht-was-war-der-grund-u...
by Spivak | 2026-01-06 22:49:00+00:00
I really don't understand the hate around this one.

1. Spotify made a playlist that's "Chill Jazz To Study To" that's really popular.

2. They realize that listeners don't actually care about the specific artists in the playlist since it's background noise.

3. There are companies who specialize in making "b-roll" music for background noise and have a huge library of it just sitting around.

4. Spotify realizes they can license them on the cheap.

5. Profit?

Seems like a win for everyone involved including the listener who gets fresh tracks in their study playlists basically forever.
by dangus | 2026-01-06 22:49:40+00:00
I don’t think it matters much. In 1Password you still need your secret code to login in addition to your password. It essentially acts like a second factor.

I could give you my 1Password username and password right now and you wouldn’t be able to access it.

Being logged in to my 1Password essentially verifies that you have a physical device of mine.
by manmal | 2026-01-06 22:49:46+00:00
I’d bet that an agent would never be able to act the same on an email as I would. It just lacks my world view. This begs the question, would it really make sense for it to write emails on my behalf? It will certainly “close the loop” one way or the other, but I doubt I would like the outcome.

On the clawdbot discord, someone wrote today that, overnight, Claude sent in all iMessage threads from 2019 the message that it will rather ignore such outdated threads.
by TheCleric | 2026-01-06 22:49:47+00:00
I don't think I understand the point of this. I colored in the players for US, Russia, and China (should be that way by default I'd have thought). But I have no idea what to "simulate".

I do see in the site meta that it's purpose may be to just fill in so you can see who would have what population and area if an alliance was formed or area was conquered, but even that doesn't seem to work as selecting the US registers 0 population and 0 area.
by jm_l | 2026-01-06 22:50:04+00:00
I noticed that the dots on the surface of the sphere are evenly spaced out close to the equator, but because there is a consistent number of dots in each ring, they are very close together when you reach the poles.

One way to get dots evenly spread out over the surface of a sphere is to use a phyllotaxis spiral pattern.

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PhyllotaxisSpiralPatternO...
by rootusrootus | 2026-01-06 22:50:14+00:00
> My point being that they’re not irrational, and it’s not EV hatred that is driving it.

That's just your particular bubble. I have met very few anti-EV folk who were not deeply political about it. They don't oppose EVs on rational grounds, they only have the talking points. Matters not at all to them that the talking points were proven false years ago.
by j1elo | 2026-01-06 22:50:18+00:00
That's a reasonable argument for businesspeople, but it doesn't apply for the greater public. Because chances are that except in a minority of situations, they are on holidays and during that saved time they wouldn't be working at all anyways.

People who could perfecty afford a $2,000 plane ticket still fly with $400 ones (as long as they are within reasonable standards), for example because they have a desired budget for a given trip, and the expensive option would blow it away, so they don't mind the extra time.
by ryandrake | 2026-01-06 22:50:38+00:00
My media library is simply a directory on my Linux NAS, exported over NFS. No VPS, no Plex, no Jellyfin no Jellyfish, no Jelly donut, just NFS. If I want to listen to a song or play a movie, I just navigate to that directory and play it. Simplest system I could come up with.
by troupo | 2026-01-06 22:50:54+00:00
> a pretty big context window if you are feeding it the right context.

Yup. There's some magical "right context" that will fix all the problems. What is that right context? No idea, I guess I need to read a yet-another 20 000-word post describing magical incantations that you should or shouldn't do in the context.

The "Opus 4.5 is something else/nex tier/just works" claims in my mind means that I wouldn't need to babysit its every decision, or that it would actually read relevant lines from relevant files etc. Nope. Exact same behaviors as whatever the previous model was.

Oh, and that "200k tokens context window"? It's a lie. The quality quickly degrades as soon as Claude reaches somewhere around 50% of the context window. At 80+% it's nearly indistinguishable from a model from two years ago. (BTW, same for Codex/GPT with it's "1 million token window")
by pdimitar | 2026-01-06 22:51:00+00:00
I did latch onto semantics for a little time, that much is true, but you are making it look much worse than it is. And yes I get a PTSD and an eye-roll-syndrome from the constant close scrutiny of Rust even though I don't actively work with it for a while now. It gets tiring to read and many interpretations are dramatically negative for no reason than some imagined "Rust zealots always defending it" which I have not seen in a long time here on HN.

But you and me seem to be much closer in opinion and a stance than I thought. Thanks for clarifying that.
by jaffa2 | 2026-01-06 22:51:30+00:00
Can you not just set your TV to turn off after X hours ? In the EU this is actually a legal requirement that they can do this. (for 'energy saving')

Many TV's also have an explicit sleep timer. Yes this doesn't resolve plex issue but could solve the issue in the meantime. Or go old school and plug an actual electric timer in the socket and cut power to the TV after X minutes/hours
by iwassayinbourns | 2026-01-06 22:51:33+00:00
As a data point, when I worked in consulting 10+ years ago doing network (internet/ext), web app, mobile etc our day rate was $2k AUD flat for anything we did, and AFAIK we were at or below market cost. I know for sure that the big four charged closer to $3000 for what I understood to be a worse service (I have nothing to back that up apart from occasionally seeing awful reports). We did not an insubstantial amount of netpen at that amount. Granted, AUD isn’t USD, but I wonder what their day rate is now.
by mcsgroi | 2026-01-06 22:52:03+00:00
This is a really thoughtful breakdown. Thank you for taking the time to write it up.

The idea of writing for your future self as if they will be an amnesiac fits closely with my experience as well. Ironically, I've found that the more I record, the less I find or can surface later.

What stood out to me is how you treat usefulness as a learned skill rather than something you try to get right up front. It seems like you are only investing more effort when a note actually comes back into play, and the feedback loop of rereading seems to shape how you write over time.

I am curious about a few aspects of how this works for you in practice:

1. How often do you intentionally reread or revisit older notes versus only encountering them when you are searching for something specific?

2. How do you deal with clutter over time? Eventually the note pool becomes large enough that maintenance becomes challenging in my experience.

3. With linking and aliases, do you find that maintenance effort scales reasonably as your notes grow, or does it require more discipline over time?

4. Related to that, do you find linking and aliasing less tedious than the concept of relying on a strong search experience? Most note systems I have used seem to depend heavily on exact string matching or tags, which works up to a point but often feels less supportive to the experience than it could be in my opinion.
by omoikane | 2026-01-06 22:53:17+00:00
I wish there is a mode where the snake go toward where my mouse cursor is (similar to agar.io), as opposed to having the controls turn the snake. So in update function where we have the "direction-=.08" and "direction+=.08" bits, "direction" would be assigned a value either due to the pressed state of the 4 arrow keys, or some arctangent of mouse coordinates:

https://github.com/kevinAlbs/SphericalSnake/blob/b907738476d...

Alternatively, keep the current controls, but rotate the whole world to match the snake's direction of movement. Current mix of non-rotating world with rotating controls makes the game more difficult, most snake variants I have played opted for non-rotating world with non-rotating controls (e.g. press right to go right, independent of current snake heading, as opposed to turning clockwise).
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-06 22:53:34+00:00
6 EUR per month really ain't much but then 80 GB of SSD is really not much for a media library.

FWIW I both rip, losslessly and verifiably, my own CDs to FLAC (lossless but compressed), I run Plex (tried JellyFin and going to switch) and yet I still pay for Qobuz (I don't see why I'd pay for Spotify when lossless streaming services like Tidal and Qobuz do exist: additionally Qobuz allows to buy DRM-free song individually).

Now, and that is not a snark: I both rent dedicated servers since decades now and run Proxmox at home.

I thought "self-hosting" meant hosting on your very own hardware, at your place (e.g. from your home).

If hosting on a rented virtual server is "self-hosting", then I take it hosting on a rented dedicated server is self-hosting too? But then what's the difference between a company renting servers and deploying its apps there? That one is registered as, say, a LLC and that the other is an individual?

So "self-hosting" depends on whether you're an individual or a company?

Sounds like a weird definition of "self-hosting" to me.