MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BoiledCabbage | 2026-01-09 05:35:39+00:00
> It is embarrassing to restrict an open source tool that is (IMO) a strictly and very superior piece of software from using your model.

> Shutting down the other tool, if that's what's in fact happening, is what is embarrassing.

To rephrase it different as I feel my question didn't land. It's clear to me that you think it's embarrassing. And it's clear what you think is embarrassing. I'm trying to understand why you think it's embarrassing. I don't think it is at all.

Your statements above are simply saying "X is embarrassing because it's embarrassing". Yes I hear that you think it's embarrassing but I don't think it is at all. Do you have a reason you can give why you think it's embarrassing? I think it's very wise and pretty standard to not subsidize people who aren't using your tool.

I'm willing to consider arguments differently, but I'm not hearing one. Other than "it just is because it is".
by TimorousBestie | 2026-01-09 05:36:06+00:00
It’s remarkable that such a short blog post can contain so many factual inaccuracies and completely wrong advice. Police in America have no obligation to assist victims and no duty to detain criminals.

Actual advice for avoiding police violence in the US: avoid police interactions, move away from cities, stay away from public spaces, and reduce time spent driving.
by gpm | 2026-01-09 05:36:42+00:00
Best coding tool is what makes users use something, a good model is just a component of that.

I don't think "we have the current best model for coding" is a particularly good business proposition - even assuming it's true. Staying there looks like it's going to be a matter of throwing unsustainable amounts of money at training forever to stay ahead of the competition.

Meanwhile the coding tool part looks like it could actually be sticky. People get attached to UIs. People are more effective in the UIs they are experienced with. There's a plausible story that codeveloping the UI and model could result in a better model for that purpose (because it's fine tuned on the UIs interactions).

And independently "Claude Code" being the best coding tool around was great for brand recognition. "Open Code with the Opus 4.5 backend - no not the Claude subscription you can't use that - the API" won't be.
by bschwindHN | 2026-01-09 05:36:45+00:00
I'd be happy to hear some of the differences if you don't mind. Both Embassy and FreeRTOS are often used to organize the various tasks you want to perform in an embedded context so I think it's fair to compare them.

I know their implementations and behaviors can be quite different, but I'd like to hear more about what makes this an apples to oranges comparison.
by cholantesh | 2026-01-09 05:37:50+00:00
Estimates of birth that rely on the mid-2023 figure and deliberately ignore Israel's systematic dismantling of the health and food systems in Gaza and the drop in fertility levels.

>the casualty count that Hamas claims

The Gaza Health Ministry's count is widely regarded as an underestimate, but mostly by people who don't refer to it with a dogwhistling caveat.
Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026
by remywang | 2026-01-09 05:39:19+00:00
The best phone in 2026 is a dying iPhone 12 mini. It’s the smallest smartphone still maintained by a major manufacturer (both software updates and repair parts), runs all apps securely & as designed, costs ~$150 with accessories available for dirt cheap (my favorite sleeve officially made by Apple [1] cost $129 on release but is now available for around $10). A dying battery makes the phone better - it forces you use the phone less and only when you really need it. Don’t replace your battery, just turn the phone off and you’ll feel immediately less stressed. If you don’t want to miss calls, get an old Apple Watch with cellular and use it as your main “phone”. Buy a dying iPhone mini to save the planet and yourself, and maybe if Apple sees enough active minis they will make another one...

[1]: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/IPhone_12_Leather_Sleeve_with_MagSafe
by abustamam | 2026-01-09 05:39:29+00:00
I think the telling part is that so many people believed it without questioning.

Like there's the oft-debunked "factoid" that says that the Windows Start Menu is written in react native... While the fact itself may be false, the fact that so many people readily believed it says a lot about the start menu.

If someone were to make a similar claim about something like HN was built in react then almost everyone here would instantly fact check.
by jszymborski | 2026-01-09 05:39:45+00:00
(I love Hypha. I'm an early member of CoSocial which you folks kindly call home on the fediverse :) )

While I'm open to the idea that "certain things XY can't be built under system Z", I think that this feels like one of those things that should be no?

My question re: non-profit co-op-ey things is usually "can this thing run sustainably by enriching users" rather than the usual "can this thing run sustainably by enriching shareholders".

A super low-overhead social network for ecology feels like it could easily fit that bill. Lots of democratically run social networks running today to attest to that.
by casparvitch | 2026-01-09 05:40:07+00:00
I guess one issue is that you pay $200/month whether you use it or not. Potentially this could be better for Anthropic. What was not necessarily foreseeable (ok maybe it was) back when that started was that users have invented all kinds of ways to supervise their agents to be as efficient as possible. If they control the client, you can't do that.
by vladdoster | 2026-01-09 05:41:55+00:00
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by adrianwaj | 2026-01-09 05:42:06+00:00
It's hard to fake a reputation score. If someone is providing services in an area, they aren't going to start faking a location, and if they do they won't gain any reputation.

But location is already baked into many social media apps anyway, though. https://gemini.google.com/share/68d4fd324d94 ...that'd be the real issue here, perhaps.

Locally produced food is the important one, going forward. It can be much cheaper living away from a city, yet people still want their services. They want to know where the best place to live is.. even to the nearest mile for walking reasons. They want to know where a doctor is, if the nearest hospital is over an hour's drive away. Also language.. how can digital nomads move about and find same-language speakers.

What's wrong with Google maps for this type of stuff? Is there a competitor with downloadable data? What if a war breaks out in your region or the internet goes out or is inaccessible. Need offline data. What happens if service providers don't trust users enough to want to share their data?

A good idea would be for people to take photos of their local community board and share that.
Show HN: Interactive checklist walkthrough for Dragon Quest VII
by causalzap | 2026-01-09 05:42:26+00:00
Hi HN,

I grew up playing Dragon Quest VII, but I always hated how archaic the text-based walkthroughs (GameFAQs) and ad-heavy wikis felt. With the new "Reimagined" demo out on Switch 2/Steam, I decided to build a modern companion tool.

The Stack:

Built with Astro for zero-JS performance on static pages.

Tailwind CSS for the UI (aiming for a clean, game-menu aesthetic).

Local Storage to persist checklist progress (no login required).

Key Features:

Interactive Shard Locator: Filter collectible fragments by region/color.

Progress Tracking: Check off "Missable Items" and "Story Flags" as you go.

Responsive: Works perfectly on mobile while you play on console.

It’s a passion project to see if game guides can be more than just static text walls. Would love to hear your feedback on the UX!
by eddythompson80 | 2026-01-09 05:45:28+00:00
It’s not a gimmick feature. It’s just the “user” is always, inherently, in “control” of the kernel itself when it comes to Linux. That’s not true with NT or Darwin. You (a 3rd party) can always verify NT or Darwin’s “integrity” by checking it’s cryptographically signed by Microsoft or Apple. Other than assuming that Valve (or Sony, Nintendo, Debian, SUSE, RedHat, etc) is the “trusted kernel” for your game, you can’t do that with Linux. And the moment you say “My application only runs on Kernels signed by {insert organization}, are you really “Linux”?
by yawaramin | 2026-01-09 05:45:34+00:00
> many people who've talked to me about Htmx are confused about what Htmx is and believe that it works without javascript

The htmx landing page's first paragraph says 'htmx gives you access to AJAX...'

AJAX stands for 'Asynchronous JavaScript And XML'.

Close below that, it has a 'quick start' section that shows how to install it, using a `<script>` tag.

For people who think it works without JavaScript, I am afraid they are facing deeper issues than htmx's tagline.
by silexia | 2026-01-09 05:46:52+00:00
So you folks agree that anyone who disagrees with you must be a bot / shill / troll and should be summarily banned? I am quite glad Dan and Tom run this and not you.

Dan and Tom must be doing a good job anyways, because I have the same opinion you do, but just the opposite direction. I would like to see all the far left cranks who have taken over what was once an entrepreneur / hacker / libertarian's forum banned.
Ask HN: Anyone in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai area wants to meet up?
by etkgv6xa | 2026-01-09 05:47:35+00:00
Hi HN! First time poster, long time lurker.

Anyone open for a coffee/beer/hike in the Hangzhou, Suzhou or Shanghai area before Jan 18th? Email me (address in bio)!

A little bit about me:
I'm mainly an algebraic geometer, but I'm broadly interested in everything else too. My recent addiction is learning about topological quantum computing... We can talk about anything you like too, it's so hard to find similar minded people here :-/ so let's not fix a topic.

I'm fluently in both Mandarin and English (China-born, PhDed in the US).
by Rapzid | 2026-01-09 05:48:07+00:00
Agree. Also, most JD programs in most states require a 4 year degree to enter.

That sounds like "a good idea" to a lot of people in the context of high school graduates. But for someone older who had a (let's say successful) career in the trades, or software engineering, without needing a 4 year degree.. It's a huge barrier to entry needing 4 years of college before even starting JD for those interested in law later in life.
by rnjn | 2026-01-09 05:48:46+00:00
founder at base14 here, the company that is building Scout. Thanks for the feedback, I will work on bettering my messaging.
Scout is an otel-native observability platform (data lake, UI, alerts, analytics, mcp, the works). We are building some specialised explorers (suffix 'X' for explorers) like pgX for postgres. Essentially we are building telemetry readers for components that send relevant metrics and logs through to a telemetry data lake. for each component/domain we find from experts what they look at for analysis and incidents, and bring that to a full stack "unified" dashboard. and we go beyond what a regular prometheus endpoint provides. thanks again.
by Dwedit | 2026-01-09 05:50:04+00:00
It wasn't some dummy "add numbers" loop, this was doing math (multiply-add) on large 336-bit integers.

Performance sucked when I used native Javacsript BigInts. When I made my own BigInt by using an array of doubles, and pretended that the doubles were 48-bit integers, performance was much better. Using the arrays meant that all allocation of temporary values completely stopped. I had to write my own multiply-and-add function that would do bigint = bigint * 48-bit number + other bigint + other 48-bit number.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-09 05:50:20+00:00
>the third parties (...) just refuse to provide their services to you

1. The third parties are not your device.

2. This only prevents their app from attesting in the insecure kernel. You can still use the app with it loaded in the secure kernel.

>Anyone who uses an Android device that doesn't pass the attestation know this well.

This is quite different because no Android operating system lets you transparently run those apps in a secure vm that would pass attestation. Needing to reflash your device is totally different than the OS transparently loading the app in a secure environment.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-09 05:50:24+00:00
The UPS delivery scenario is also evocative:

> Like an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras, that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing isn’t allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they don’t make quota.

> The driver is in that van because the van can’t drive itself and can’t get a parcel from the curb to your porch. The driver is a peripheral for a van, and the van drives the driver, at superhuman speed, demanding superhuman endurance. But the driver is human, so the van doesn’t just use the driver. The van uses the driver up.

I guess it resonates for me because it strikes at my own justification for my work automating things, as I'm not mercenary or deluded enough to enjoy the idea of putting people out of work or removing the fun parts. I want to make tools that empower individuals, like how I felt the PC of the 1990s was going to give people more autonomy and more (effective, desirable) choices... As opposed to, say, the dystopian 1984 Telescreen.
by evgpbfhnr | 2026-01-09 05:50:39+00:00
I don't get why a bad guy couldn't dump the current log / hash, then load a kernel module that'd just replay the same values whenever someone asks for it?
Does the log have a challenge/nonce from the client that'd change the hash everytime it's obtained? (if the client loads their own kernel module they can check it's on the list, but the whole point is about not having to do that, right..)
by Xevion | 2026-01-09 05:50:48+00:00
> Anthropic shouldn't have an all-you-can-eat plan for $200 when their pay-as-you-go plan would cost more than $1,000+ for comparable usage. Their subscription plans should just sell you API credits at, like, 20% off.

Sorry, I don't understand this. Either you're saying

A) Everyone paying $200/mo should now pay $800/mo to match this 20% off figure you're theorizing... or
B) Maybe you're implying that the $1,000+ costs are too high and they should be lowered, to like, what, $250/mo? (250 - 20% = $200)

Which confuses me, because neither option is feasible or ever gonna happen.
by smileybarry | 2026-01-09 05:52:12+00:00
> It's perfectly accurate, as Microsoft could let you use Riot's servers without using the secure kernel if they wanted to.

And then you're back to needing to load vgk.sys at boot time to play a Riot game. And that's dramatically worse as anticheats like Vanguard do PCIE & DMA screening, vulnerable driver blocklist enforcement, and other hardening at boot time.

The fence you're trying to maintain is already broken on both sides: media DRM (Widevine) does hardware attestation. TPM attestation already exists. Macs don't let you connect to some Apple services without a hardware-sourced ticket. Secure Boot enforcement and requirement by some apps is already a thing.
by intended | 2026-01-09 05:52:17+00:00
> https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

Shows that devs overestimate the impact of LLMs on their productivity. They believe they get faster when they take more time.

Since Anthropic, GitHub are fair game here’s one from Code Rabbit - https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-gen...
by snailmailman | 2026-01-09 05:53:12+00:00
I don’t think it is an improvement.

At the level of League of Legends me and my friend group play, we never noticed cheaters. We play casual ARAM games. Never noticed any hackers or anything.

But we definitely notice when at the start of the game, one of our team didnt actually get past the loading screen because Vanguard decided instead they need to reboot their machine. And then good luck winning when you are down a player for several minutes.

It doesn’t happen often, but it happens way more often than cheaters did. And this bug happens to multiple people in my friend group. This anti cheat software is extremely buggy. And causes way more problems than it solves for us.

I wish i could say “but the software is improving” because the last few weeks it’s been fine, until literally yesterday. I got out of fountain and into combat and then got a “Vanguard must be running” popup. It kicked me out and I couldn’t get back in until I rebooted. And then if you open league too fast after the reboot, because you are hurrying to get back in, you can actually open League before Vanguard starts and then too bad you have to reboot again!
by blharr | 2026-01-09 05:53:41+00:00
The amount doesn't really matter. What matters is the variance. There could be only 3 radiologists in the world that use different practices with 1% 10% and 50% error rates. It would be misleading to say "Radiologists miss 50% of diagnoses" based on one practice.

The assumption when gathering these statistics is that more or less you can average these out, but with AI you might have a model with literal 100% error rate or a model with a much lower error rate, and that changes a lot depending on the AI method its using.
by Alupis | 2026-01-09 05:54:21+00:00
Particularly frustrating, because Rainbow Six Siege runs spectacularly on linux, but the moment you join a multiplayer session the anticheat forces a crash-to-desktop.

For many of these games it's a choice. They choose not to support linux. Perhaps one day that will change.

I've been playing online multiplayer games, including competitive FPS and more, for nearly 3 decades. Cheating has never been such a problem that it made me quit a game. So much of this is way overplayed by wannabe-super-sweat try-hards, thinking they're competing in high-stakes games.

So we cede more and more control of our computer over to video game(!!) companies, going deep down the rabbit hole of kernel-level anti-cheat and worse to come.

It's a freaking video game... have fun. If someone cheats, find a new server. It's really that simple.
by smileybarry | 2026-01-09 05:55:24+00:00
Okay, then I don't get the point you're trying to make. You "slippery slope"'d the Secure Kernel TPM attestation used for multiplayer games into "what if you can't do banking anymore". Like I said (and you agreed), we're already using hardware attestation. So what's the problem with this approach that gets rid of the requirement of anticheat drivers, freeing your hardware? (You can now use that one app that Vanguard preemptively blocks for using a vulnerable driver)
by 3abiton | 2026-01-09 05:56:21+00:00
> There is a saying about Gauss: when another mathematician came to show him a new result, Gauss would remark that he had already worked on it, open a drawer in his desk, and pull out a pile of papers on the same topic.

As if phd students need more imposter syndrom to deal with. Ona serious side, I wonder what conditions allow such minds to grow. I guess a big part is genetics, but I am curious if the "epi" is relevant and how much.
by jalapenos | 2026-01-09 05:56:40+00:00
I think it's just what democracy does, make people to turn off their brains and instead decide if something is good/bad, right/wrong based on whether they like the person saying it.

All you have to do is look at this food pyramid and the old food pyramid and ask "if I had to feed one of these a week to my kid which would I pick".

It's clearly superior and it's just sad that people are so just defiant to good, for who knows what reasons.
by BoiledCabbage | 2026-01-09 05:56:52+00:00
I appreciate you sharing your thinking.

I think it's reasonable to state that at the moment Opus 4.5 is the best coding model. Definitely debatable, but at least I don't think it controversial to argue that, so we'll start there.

They offer the best* model at cost via an API (likely not actually at cost, but let's assume it is). They also will subsidize that cost for people who use their tool. What benefit do they get or why would a company want to subsidize the cost of people using another tool?

> I don't think "we have the current best model for coding" is a particularly good business proposition - even assuming it's true. Staying there looks like it's going to be a matter of throwing unsustainable amounts of money at training forever to stay ahead of the competition.

I happen to agree - to mee it seems tenuous having a business solely based on having the best model, but that's what the industry is trying to find out. Things change so quickly it's hard to predict 2 years out. Maybe they are first to reach XYZ tech that gives them a strong long term position.

> Meanwhile the coding tool part looks like it could actually be sticky. People get attached to UIs. People are more effective in the UIs they are experienced with.

I agree, but it doesn't seem like that's their m.o. If anything the opposite they aren't trying to get people locked into their tooling. They made MCPs a standard so all agents could adopt. I could be wrong, but thought they also did something similar with /scripts or something else. If you wanted to lock people in you'd have people build an ecosystem of useful tooling and make it not compatible with other agents, but they (to my eyes) have been continuously putting things into the community.

So my general view of them is that they feel they have a vision with business model that doesn't require locking people into their tooling ecosystem. But they're still a business so don't gain from subsidizing people to use other tools. If people want their models in other tools use the "at-cost" APIs - why would they subsidize you to use someone else's tool?