MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bb88 | 2026-01-16 02:12:05+00:00
With networks like meshtastic there's this sweet spot of density. Not enough density, no message throughput. Too much density, also no message throughput.

It's one of these things where for the early adopters it worked great, but then the late adopters got pissed off because it didn't work.

As for meshtastic: I'm one god damned fucking hop away from my friend through a repeater. And it doesn't fucking work!
by lovich | 2026-01-16 02:13:20+00:00
> Many leading Silicon Valley companies that are still around today were founding back then.

Define “leading”, then tell me what companies are still around. I can think of two off the top of my head and one of them has an immigrant CEO.

> But the whole argument is disingenuous. The article is about mass immigration. Silicon Valley’s success has fuck all to do with the millions of immigrants that come in every year illegally or through family reunifications.

Ah, I’m done responding to you with this conflating illegal immigration with family reunification
by DavidPiper | 2026-01-16 02:13:45+00:00
This is true, and I'm a big fan of SA leading the charge, having grown up there.

However, we could also build out more green energy technology to become a large energy exporter. (You could argue we are kind of that now, with the amount of coal we export.)

Especially given we have strong but complicated geopolitical ties to both China and the USA, it feels like guaranteeing our own energy sovereignty, plus gaining the ability to export power directly, would be a strong political as well as environmental move.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-16 02:14:38+00:00
Perhaps I have been not talking to voice models that much or the chatgpt voice always felt weird and off because I was thinking it goes to a cloud server and everything but from Pocket TTS I discovered unmute.sh which is open source and I think is from the same company as Pocket TTS/can I think use Pocket TTS as well

I saw some agentic models at 4B or similar which can punch above its weights or even some basic models. I can definitely see them in the context of home lab without costing too much money.

I think atleast unmute.sh is similar/competed with chatgpt's voice model. It's crazy how good and (effective) open source models are from top to bottom. There's basically just about anything for almost everyone.

I feel like the only true moat might exist in coding models. Some are pretty good but its the only industry where people might pay 10x-20x more for the best (minimax/z.ai subscription fees vs claude code)

It will be interesting to see if we will see another deepseek moment in AI which might beat claude sonnet or similar. I think Deepseek has deepseek 4 so it will be interesting to see how/if it can beat sonnet

(Sorry for going offtopic)
by ggm | 2026-01-16 02:14:43+00:00
Given some airlines (Hawaiian?) do sometimes weigh passengers on their smaller craft, I could believe fuel load would drop if pax weight dropped but I don't actually believe either fuel cost or weight really strongly informs pricing. It's used as an excuse. A350 are significantly more efficient than older craft, but if you do more business suites you carry less and make even more money. The price does not drop, profit rises.

(The weight is about balance and total load as I understand it)
by ehnto | 2026-01-16 02:15:00+00:00
I'm not convinced, I believe the institutions of church were and often still are the foundations of communities in many positive ways.

But the fact that they rest on an arbitrary belief in one of the popular gods does make it a pretty shakey foundation.

We see it right now, as the belief in Christianity has dwindled so too have the communities the church was supporting, the community can be separate to belief and probably should be of it is to support a greater community.
by willmarch | 2026-01-16 02:15:30+00:00
Your sources don’t say what you’re claiming.

The BBC piece is about recorded apprehensions/encounters being very low (still “<9,000/month”), not that the “flow” is “largely eliminated.” Encounters aren’t the same thing as total unlawful entries, and “very low” isn’t “eliminated.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8wd8938e8o

The ABC/Brookings story is about net migration turning negative in 2025, mostly due to fewer entries. Net migration is not a measure of the unauthorized population, and the article even notes removals in 2025 are only modestly higher than 2024. https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-1st-time-50-years-experienced-n...

Also, the claim “no headway for decades until now” is inconsistent with standard estimates: Pew shows a decline from 2007 to 2019 in the unauthorized population. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-k...
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-16 02:15:38+00:00
> Note: you are going to get well under a 50% success rate here. Accept that most people flake. It may always feel painful (and nerds like us often are rejection-sensitive). You have to feel your feelings, accept it, and move on.

Most importantly, you have to hear “I can’t” and be really cool about it or folks will half commit out of guilt and bail. They probably have a good reason, especially if they have kids. Or maybe they’re just exhausted! That is valid - you will sometimes feel that way too, and you should clearly (but politely) communicate it when you need.

If you consistently say yes/no and adhere to it, people will return the favor and you’ll all be better for it. My social life vastly improved post COVID when I adhered to that. My friends and I are incredibly honest so now folks rarely bail (always for good reason) and we all can reliably plan to hang out without guessing if someone actually means “no” when they say maybe and all that nonsense.
by ropable | 2026-01-16 02:15:56+00:00
A social circle is like a garden, inasmuch as you have to put in work to tend and maintain it. You have to put yourself in a position of potential awkwardness or rejection, which isn't easy. Interacting with people (especially strangers) also takes practice - small talk is a skill like any other.

If you already have a friendship circle, start being the one to propose meetups (cafe, pub, picnic, hike, etc.) If you don't, it's harder - join a social sporting league, group fitness class, dance class, DnD group, anything where people have to talk with each other. When you arrive, turn your phone off for the interval. It might take a couple of goes to find something that sticks or the right environment.

I think that the real trick of "solving" the loneliness epidemic is that it isn't spread evenly. Everyone has their own individual level of opportunity for social interaction, so the solution is hyper-local and individualised. There's no one size fits all solution.
by lovich | 2026-01-16 02:17:30+00:00
For more useful feedback, this is the sort of commentary that means I’m disregarding the posters views going forward.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642131

> But the whole argument is disingenuous. The article is about mass immigration. Silicon Valley’s success has fuck all to do with the millions of immigrants that come in every year illegally or through family reunification.

He snuck in “family reunification” in a discussion about mass emigration and conflated it with illegal immigration in scope.

I went through the family reunification process. It was a benefit extended to me by the government as a citizen, and I’m native born before the jingoists join in.

You have to sign up to take care of said family’s welfare until the point that they have made enough payments into the system that they are no longer a burden. I remember having to calculate it for my spouse during the citizenship application for them a decade after the green card application.

I legitimately detest this person and their views over this, their attempt to lump in all forms of immigration with violating the law, and now you know why they get comments grayed out whenever enough people hear their dog whistles.
by nandomrumber | 2026-01-16 02:17:32+00:00
Which but is false? Samsung definitely did manufacture Apple chips.

Common manufacturer
Samsung[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC

Apple A6 which is fabricated with Samsung 32 nm HKMG (Hi dielectric K, Metal Gate) CMOS process

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+A6+Teardown/10528
by codemonkey-zeta | 2026-01-16 02:17:36+00:00
I'm a big fan of Dustin, I think the programming interface electric presents is very compelling, and the benefits are really impressive.

The killer feature, for me, of electric is that it makes the network _transparent_ to me, the programmer, and makes solving complex problems concise.

I see electric as a kind of emacs - an excellent operating system that lacks a decent front-end.
Reactive programming is hard, and it really ought to be way more visual, and electric should give me those tools.

I find the frontend side of the electric somewhat obtuse, and it's easy to go off the rails, needing to understand the underlying reactive layer https://github.com/leonoel/missionary.
Why should I target this bizarre DSL when there are millions of React, Angular, JQuery apps out there that work, and would be too onerous to adapt to this style of programming, and too annoying to carry a second framework in prod (even if you bundle an electric app in your existing one, the runtime can be very big by web standards).
I would love to see a framework built on top of electric that interfaces with any existing frontend as easily as it does now for any backend (Datomic is just one target of many for the spreadsheet Dustin built). I may try to explore this idea myself.

But is the business of Hyperfiddle building instances of this new hypermedia, or the hypermedia system itself?
I don't understand exactly what Dustin is selling me, at the end.
Trying to sell this particular spreadsheet as a solution, or is it access to the runtime (electric 3)?
How am I supposed to buy into a new programming model if I cannot use it?
by woeirua | 2026-01-16 02:19:25+00:00
It's just amazing to me how fast the goal posts are moving. Four years ago, if you had told someone that a LLM would be able to one-shot either of those first two tasks they would've said you're crazy. The tech is moving so fast. I slept on Opus 4.5 because GPT 5 was kind of an air ball, and just started using it in the past few weeks. It's so good. Way better than almost anything that's come before it. It can one-shot tasks that we never would've considered possible before.
by rramadass | 2026-01-16 02:19:49+00:00
> The first 20 confusing hours are where most people bounce: you can’t even formulate a useful question for a human, you don’t know the right terms, and you feel dumb.

> argument is about how people use the tool, not what the tool is.

> The deep understanding still comes from struggle, debugging, building mental models. An LLM can either be a summarization crutch or a Socratic tutor that keeps pushing you one step past where you are, depending on how you interact with it.

> But historically we’ve underestimated how much of the "road" was actually just gate friction: social anxiety, jargon, bad docs, hostile forums.

Very well said.
by stevage | 2026-01-16 02:20:00+00:00
It helps to remember that you are competing with: no event.

If there are other parties happening and you're trying to make a better one, by all means, go all out. But mostly people in their 40s aren't going to many house events, so they're just happy to be somewhere with people. They don't care that you didn't decorate or sweep the floor or prepare an elaborate meal. You made soup and they're thrilled.
by crosslayer | 2026-01-16 02:20:27+00:00
One thing that stood out to me is that many of the reported gains from coordination seem highly task topology dependent rather than agent count dependent.

In particular, the error amplification vs. containment difference between independent and centralized coordination feels like an architectural property, not an optimization artifact. It suggests that scaling failures may come less from “too many agents” and more from mismatched coordination geometry relative to task dimensionality.

I’m curious whether the authors experimented with adaptive coordination strategies that change topology mid task (e.g., collapsing from decentralized to centralized once saturation or error coupling is detected) or whether the evaluation assumes a fixed coordination structure per run.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-01-16 02:22:11+00:00
Despite the author (quite correctly) saying that explanations of riichi mahjong tend to sound like Calvinball, I highly recommend people learn the game if you have some time. There are some good videos on youtube going through it (they are long!), but once you learn how to play it's a ton of fun. A good mix of luck and strategy, and tiles are fun to play with (if you're playing in person).
by arkaic | 2026-01-16 02:22:19+00:00
On the other hand, you also can't have an attachment to what you want the outcomes to be. You can't expect the same in return from everyone else. Until you let go of this transactional mindset, you will grow resentful when a lot of them start canceling on you, and believe me, at your 30s and above, with all these things that compete for our time, they will.
by mindcrime | 2026-01-16 02:22:25+00:00
I don't know. Maybe. It seems like something that could be handy, but I don't yet know how much I'll wind up using it. For what it's worth, I was working on a scenario exactly like this earlier tonight, and I wound up just ssh'ing into a shell on the remote box to do stuff. But that might just be inertia from being used to doing that, or maybe it was because I had a lot of other stuff to do on that box at the same time...
by btilly | 2026-01-16 02:22:25+00:00
You don't have to do it all yourself.

Join an organization. For example every city has Toastmasters, most have several. Easy to find, and it is an excellent place to meet people. And you'll learn how to convert social anxiety into social adrenaline.

Do you have a faith? Actually go to church instead of just believing. Are you non-religious? Several strands of Buddhism can be followed as philosophy and practice without adopting any mystical beliefs. Vipassanā (also called Insight) and Zen are a couple of examples.

And how do you turn random people that you met into life-long friends? You can reduce the time investment by a lot. If you call someone on a spaced repetition schedule, you can make them internalize that the door is always open. Without requiring a large commitment on either side. And a spaced repetition schedule is easy to achieve - just think Fibonacci. I'll call you back in 3 days. Then 5. Then 8 (round down to a week). And so on. It feels like a lot of calls at the start. But it slows down fast. Over a lifetime, it is only around 20 calls.

Play around with it. If it was someone you met and hung out with on a cruise, maybe start at a week for that first call. Either way, you're reinforcing the idea that we like to talk, and the door is always open.

You can use a similar idea to keep people who move on from your workplace in your life. People always mean to stay in contact. Then don't. But with structured reinforcement, you can actually make it work.
by zz5759 | 2026-01-16 02:23:02+00:00
https://yesornoai.com

A collection of free decision-making tools I built:
- Decision Wheel (customizable spinning wheel)
- Coin Flip (yes/no decisions)
- Tarot Reading (with AI interpretations)
- Magic 8 Ball

Features: AI-powered result analysis (OpenAI), 10 languages, dark/light themes, mobile
responsive.

Tech: Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase.
by gregbot | 2026-01-16 02:23:10+00:00
Well if by close to nothing he means waste lasting 300 years instead of 10,000 years and by latest generation he means gen IV reactors like bn-800, superpheonix, oklo, moltex etc sure he is basically correct. Here’s a source where you can read more about breeder reactors: (which is what he is referring to)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
by ignoramous | 2026-01-16 02:23:23+00:00
> ton of security automation stuff we're doing that a Sprite keeps up

Hm. The sprites.dev webpage goes,

Sprite is a hardware-isolated execution environment ... Sprites execute code in Firecracker VMs. Even we have a hard time seeing what they're doing.

Any plans for Fly.io to support CCA / TDX / SEV-SNP?
by Muskwalker | 2026-01-16 02:24:46+00:00
If it's not your thing, it's not your thing, but if 'lying' is really the only barrier, note that a lot of churches actually consider it part of their mission to work with nonbelievers and would take something like "I'm not a believer but I'd like to learn what it's like for you all" (or some other true formulation of your intentions) as a valid form of interest.
by ickelbawd | 2026-01-16 02:25:17+00:00
I think it’s bigger than a decrease in attendance in religious groups though I agree the impact is felt there too. Social clubs, non-profits, fraternal and civic organizations, neighborhood associations, labor unions, local political chapters, trade associations, etc etc.

Basically all forms of outward focused, community or geographic based groups seem to have been on a downward trend for decades in favor of hyperreal, inward-focused online spaces.
by aylmao | 2026-01-16 02:25:30+00:00
> The modern experimentation rejecting God and family doesn't seem to be working out so well.

Although I agree with the sentiment, I think the problem is what replaced it, not that they were replaced. Religious belief has been replaced by a quasi-religion revolving around clipling autodetermination and aggrandizement.

I don't think people suffer from not having faith in some god nowadays, I think they suffer for not having faith, period. I see people around me prefering to live in known discomfort, than choosing to "roll the dice". Religion played the role of teaching people not everything that happens to them is in their control, and comforting them that it would all turn out well. What we have nowadays is the awfuly debilitating belief that everything that happens in your life is your own doing, and that unless there's evidence thigns will work out, there's no reason to believe they will.

I personally see the risk-adversity this philosophy leads to everywhere. I see it in people prefering apps over potentially making a fools of themselves, or "risking it" with a stranger. I see it in people who want leave jobs or living situations but fail to take the leap. I see it in people strugging with even small decisions, obsessing over reading reviews for everything, refusing to commit in relationships.

Religion also gave you a certain peace of mind concerning your purpose in life, and assured you you could be perfectly content with little. In fact it assures you can be more "successful" at life than people who achieve great wealth or fame, since in religion success is measured by, say, devotion, acts of service, building a family, or other means instead.

This can be replaced by positive philosophies that focus people in the prusuit of eudaimonia, but instead have been replaced by reverence to aggrandizement and too often hedonism. The goal too often becomes fame, money, status, or, again, control, both out of fear your life might not be determined by you solely, and for the pursue of vain pleasures.

I see this as a product of an obsessive reverence to libertarian capitalism. Overall, it works very well in its favour. Convincing people the course of their lives depends soley on their own decisions is ingraining reverence for individualism and rejection for collectivism. The pursuit of wealth and status is good for the economy; when people are truly happy with the small things in life, they tend to buy less. I'm not saying libertarian capitalism lead to this philosophy, or that this philosophy lead to libertarian capitalism; I think they go hand-in-hand, and as one grows so does the other.
by shartshooter | 2026-01-16 02:25:35+00:00
Damn. There are some things here that resonated with me and some that don’t. I had a time of my life where I just felt like I didn’t vibe with my ex’s friends. We’d go to parties and these people would feel so shallow. Having grown up poor around a bunch of perpetually rich people made me feel different.

You also said that the world is burning, and it is to some defree. But it’s also filled with so many kind and amazing people making an impact where they are. Sure, maybe the gal serving coffee isn’t fixing climate change but she’s making the person she’s talking to that day feel special. That’s important too. Same goes down the soccer coach who’s helping kids find passion in something.

The world is full of contradictions and imperfections. It’s also full of kindness and generosity everywhere you go, if you’re looking for it. If you’re looking for ways to validate that the world is burning, your gonna find those too

Social media blows, I hate it too. I’m not entirely sure society is moving in the right direction, but I’m just an atom in the ocean. I can affect those around me and hopefully those people affect more. My hope is that my joy spreads through other people, and if it doesn’t, that’s ok too.

I’m bummed you’re hurting, and with a job and a million responsibilities it can be hard to lift your gaze to see the forest for the trees
by rayiner | 2026-01-16 02:26:14+00:00
> Define “leading”, then tell me what companies are still around. I can think of two off the top of my head and one of them has an immigrant CEO.

Intel, AMD, Apple, Cisco, and Oracle, all have above $200 billion market cap and were founded in the 1960s or 1970s.

Being CEO of an established company obviously is a much easier job than building one in the first instance.

> Ah, I’m done responding to you with this conflating illegal immigration with family reunification

They’re both immigration pathways where people aren’t filtered based on skills and credentials.
by al_borland | 2026-01-16 02:26:49+00:00
Execution still matters. Using AI in the background or not, how the idea is implemented and delivered still matters just as much as it always did. People use the term “AI slop” because someone thought execution didn’t matter and AI could do it all for them… and it was terrible. This goes back to what you said about trying to delight the user, this is execution… AI or not.

As for the rest, I think this line is key:

> But I was thinking more like a private user who already trusts what I use by default (because I built it)

Of course you trust what you wrote, but do you trust what everyone else writes? Put yourself in the shoes of your potential customers. Most people don’t know you, your values, your intent… all they have to go by is what you tell them. Also remember, people lie. So don’t just tell them, prove it.

And to your point with AI, the ability for someone to make something that was seemingly done with care and to delight, just so they can steal data, has never been easier. Your take away was execution is cheap, but maybe the take away should be data harvesting is now cheap, and that data is more valuable than ever, so people are right to be wary of anything that is accessing their data.
by tialaramex | 2026-01-16 02:26:58+00:00
I rather enjoy Mahjong - the actual game, played in person even - and so it's a continuing mild disappointment that so often when a thing says "Mahjong" it's actually just tile matching, or a porn game, or in some cases both.

I played a decent video game rendition of the actual Mayjong - not tile matching, nobody gets their tits out, it matters whether you're actually any good at it - in the 1980s but I had no idea this wasn't a common thing, so I don't even remember the name of the software.
by gamblor956 | 2026-01-16 02:27:35+00:00
Not true at all. Costco uses the industry-standard Net 60 for supplier payment.

Companies have to be fairly large to be Costco suppliers. What suppliers lose in margin they more than make up for in scale. It's better to sell 10 million at 5% margin than 1 million at 10% margin.

And they don't require a % of supplier's business revenue as that would be illegal in the U.S. Most of the products found at Costco are generally found at other retailers, just in smaller packages or as different SKUs.