MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jadowdl | 2026-01-06 06:04:53+00:00
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by anigbrowl | 2026-01-06 06:05:29+00:00
I'm sorry, I don't get it. Could you have just switched to reader mode? Did you try any sort of control group, eg reading some articles in print magazines or a book unrelated to your work activity?

It's not that I don't agree with you about the low quality of web reading experiences, and that many articles themselves are low quality bait, designed to tease, rather than inform. I resnt the time wasted on checking out articles, skimming them, and realizing they're crap, and am equally annoyed by the distractions inflicted on readers attempting to read quality long form articles.

But unlike you, I find it relatively easy to parse an article, decide quickly whether it's worth reading or not, and allocate cognitive capacity (if it's complex) or engage reader view it looks to be simple but I want to zip through it quickly (eg articles that are a straightforward list of facts).

I'm all for it if this tool is helpful to people; I just wonder if it's solving the real problem.
by apitman | 2026-01-06 06:05:33+00:00
What I want is a smart watch that lets me map hardware buttons and rotary knobs to arbitrary actions on my Android phone. For example I want to be able to use the knob to control the volume of whatever I'm listening to on my phone.

I worked on a prototype of this idea back in school[0]

Does Pebble support this?

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTOxHxHFjwJXeCLROAPf6OJD...
by kelnos | 2026-01-06 06:05:53+00:00
> you are also aggregating non-insider information

You're not really aggregating non-insider information, because in these cases, it's not really "information", it's just (at best) rational guessing or (at worst) gambling.

But yes, Kalshi and Polymarket essentially aggregate gambling, rational guesses, and insider information that's likely to be correct. It's a losing game unless you're an insider, and these companies profit off of other people's addictions.
by llbeansandrice | 2026-01-06 06:06:43+00:00
Replying to my own comment surprised that everyone is latching on to just poor moderation on a single site and ignoring the wealth of other options for communication and problem solving like slack communities, Reddit, blog posts, running a site like SO but with a better/different moderation policy, the list goes on and on.

I’ve seen this trend a number of times on HN that feels strawman-y. Taking the worst possible example of the status quo but also yada-yadaing or outright ignoring the massive risks of the tech du jour.

The comment I’m replying to hand waves over “legal issues” and totally ignores the fact that this hypothetical (and idealized) version of AI fundamentally destroys core aspects of community problem solving and centralizes the existing knowledge into a black box subscription all for the benefit of a clunky UX and underlying product that has yet to be proven effective enough to justify all the negative externalities.
by Nio1024 | 2026-01-06 06:06:47+00:00
From early to late 2025, I’ve clearly felt the conversation around AI becoming more grounded. The excitement around grand narratives is cooling, while attention is shifting toward real, concrete problems. My team and I are genuinely encouraged by this shift, as it’s a positive signal for what we’re building right now.

The AI world has never lacked people who paint ambitious visions of the future. What’s truly scarce are practitioners who stay grounded, understand the fundamental boundaries of complex systems, and focus on solving real engineering problems one by one. The value of AI doesn’t lie in promising to overturn everything, but in reliably increasing certainty within well-defined scenarios.
by explodes | 2026-01-06 06:07:37+00:00
Whatever the pasta is now, it cooks quite differently. You'll get softer noodles much quicker, and will congeal into a blob unlike the old recipe.
Additionally the water gets extra starchy with the new recipe.
I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else but the quantity per box has decreased as well. Special shapes came in smaller weights, but now even the regular box does too.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-06 06:09:57+00:00
> What he meant was simpler and more powerful: start doing the job before you have the title. Take on more responsibility before you're officially given it.

protip: this won't get you promoted, won't get you any accolades within the company, and will more like get you on a Performance Improvement Plan

if you want to get promoted, get a offer at another company and take that offer

if you want a fat bonus, if your company has a formal bonus structure, do other's people's work for them while potentially neglecting your own
by camillomiller | 2026-01-06 06:10:56+00:00
The mirror climbing tech chaps are doing to justify the technology per se is the most baffling I’ve seen years of following in tech.
It exists therefore it has to be out there. Imagine if we applied that to industrial chemicals, pharmaceutical products, or literally any other industrial endeavor.
It’s particularly pathetic to watch the absolutely non-existent level of self reflection.
by stingraycharles | 2026-01-06 06:12:44+00:00
Noob question from me: what’s the difference between accuracy and calibration? A well calibrated market would be more accurate and vice versa, not?

Edit: just found the answer myself: “accuracy measures the percentage of correct predictions out of total predictions, while calibration assesses whether a prediction market's assigned probabilities align with the actual observed frequency of those outcomes”
by CosmicShadow | 2026-01-06 06:13:07+00:00
Facebook Messenger constantly tells you shit like "Hey, it's been 1 minute since someone messaged you, you better check it out!", Uber Eats is constantly telling me about meal deals even directly after I just ordered food on Uber Eats, and now it's giving me Uber ads implying the only thing stopping me from going out is that I haven't ordered an Uber, despite my history of only using it once a year when out of country and that I JUST ORDERED FOOD TO MY HOUSE!

You can't turn these off without never getting FB Messenger messages or notices of if your food has arrived because no one knows how to ring a fucking doorbell anymore even if the note specifically says to :/
by wrl | 2026-01-06 06:14:48+00:00
I find it really funny that so many people who vibecode software do their best to cover the AI tracks, especially when it's open-source. I think it's because you all know how negative the public sentiment about AI is, and the sentiment continues to build.

Here you are talking not just about how you've used it, but also how you're planning to sell this as a plugin to musicians – who, as a group, are overwhelmingly averse to AI. Because if they weren't averse to AI, they'd just be using Suno.

Best of luck.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-06 06:14:54+00:00
> You sue them.

I'm a little confused here - you sue them, in small claims court, for not providing a service address?

How do you serve them without an address, for a claim of not providing an address?

I mean, I know what happens when I appear in court as the applicant/plaintiff, and tell the judge that the respondent/defendant was never served.

Okay, lets say the judge doesn't laugh my case out at that - how is my claim going to proceed? "I claim $X monies for not supplying me with their service address"?

(My understanding is that, by not providing a service address, all you can do is report them to specific bureaus, arbitration councils, etc. You cannot sue businesses, as far as I know, for not having or not providing a service address).
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-06 06:15:13+00:00
At least in older CPUs the caches were SRAM (static RAM). It is complicated but requires no refreshing. DRAM is basically just a capacitor per bit and capacitors leak so you constantly have to refresh the entire memory space. When the CPU sends a request to RAM, the memory controller might be too busy refreshing the soon to decay parts to actually respond right away. And if I recall correctly when you read from DRAM you destroy what was there so the process is to read it, then write it back, then send the answer to the CPU which is just a lot of steps. But the price and die size difference is huge so we use GB or TB levels of DRAM and MB levels of SRAM.
by bbor | 2026-01-06 06:15:21+00:00
Oh my lord it's written in bash. That's incredible. Well done! It's good to feel like the new kid sometimes as I approach 30 and ossify technically -- I'm sure this will develop a healthy fanbase of senior engineers, if the one's I've known are anything to go off of.

More relevantly: I've spent way too long rolling my own issue tracking systems (plural!) over the years, and it's good to see someone else share my intuition that dependencies and tagging are by far the most important part of solo-ish issue trackers. You'd be shocked how many massive tech companies publish issue trackers where dependencies are an afterthought (or worse: a paid upgrade).

My only tiny, soft suggestion would be mention "Unix Philosophy" rather than just the MVP link, tho it is indeed cute. As I alluded to above, the former has a dedicated cult behind it already ;)
by ggomma | 2026-01-06 06:15:49+00:00
Great question, and I appreciate your feedback.

On reader mode, Yes, I tried it. Reader mode is great for stripping visual noise, but it didn't solve my core problem. When a long article is visible all at once, the scrollbar still whispers "this much left to go", and my brain starts looking for an escape hatch. What I needed was seeing only one thought at a time(an intentional constraint).

On control groups, Fair point, I didn't run formal tests. But I could still read physical books. I just did it less and less, because my web reading habits were eroding my overall attention span. This is a personal story, not a scientific claim.

On you not needing this, I'm genuinely glad for you! Seriously. The ability to quickly triage an article and allocate the right cognitive effort. that's a skill I lost. Not everyone has the same problem. Some people need patches to quit smoking, others just put them down. Both are valid.

On "solving the real problem", Maybe it doesn't! The real problem might be the attention economy, platform incentives, or my own habits. Parsely is a symptom treatment(a bandage). But for me, that bandage let the wound heal. Sometimes that's enough. This isn't a universal solution. It's for people like me, people who know how to read but somehow lost the ability to do it.
by themafia | 2026-01-06 06:16:58+00:00
This is a nice effort at gatekeeping, but which would you prefer, historical examples such as Union Pacific, ADM, or AT&T, or more modern examples such as Apple and Visa?

Is there any reason you want to isolate it to one thing? Does that benefit the discussion in any way? Were you trying to project that you don't believe anything such as a modern monopoly can be said to exist?

Monopoly comes in many forms, and only the most limited version of the argument puts it at "100% market control," whereas, if you read the many good laws that were passed in the wake of consumer and market harms, you'll see there are four specific elements, any of which, are not only a criminal act but are widely considered "monopolistic behavior."
by cubefox | 2026-01-06 06:17:03+00:00
> 1. Promotions are not a reward for past performance. Instead, they are a bet that you will contribute more towards those goals with a promotion than without one.

> 2. As the OP says, if you are demonstrating performance at your boss's level, that's evidence/proof that a promotion is warranted.

That's not evidence for 1. At least you haven't explained a reason why it would be.
by 0x38B | 2026-01-06 06:18:23+00:00
I lost the cable for my original Pebble and 3D printed a clip on housing with wires bent to contact the pens on the watch. It worked for charging. I haven’t worn it again because I don’t have a band and my battery needs replacing.

I loved my original Pebble. I remember how great the quick shortcuts to control my music were without having to look down from driving.
by nbates80 | 2026-01-06 06:19:01+00:00
I think his main point, and what can’t be overcome without a cultural shift is on these paragraphs:

> For those in the 3D printing crowd who weren't big into playing, just painting, part of the point is showing off your incredible work to everyone else. Except nobody wants to see a 3D-printed forgery of an official model. It's like showing up to a car show with a kit car that looks like a Ferrari. Sure, it's impressive in its own way, but it's not really a Ferrari, and everyone knows it, and now we're all standing around pretending we don't know it, and it's uncomfortable for everyone.

> Once someone figured out one of your minis was 3D printed, shops generally wouldn't feature it in their display cases. So there was no reason for people who were going to put in 10+ hours per model to skip paying for the official real models. If you're going to invest that much time, you want the real thing. You want the little Games Workshop logo on the base. You want to be able to say "yes, I paid $60 for this single figure" with the quiet dignity of someone who has made peace with their choices

They want the “real thing”. I.e. the overpriced chunk of plastic a company managed to inflate the price of.

It is about the ritual. They want all the love, skill and time they put into this craft to be poured on this talisman. They don’t want it to be wasted on the cheap unofficial knockoffs.

It’s interesting how companies in consumerist societies manage to create artificial value by engaging communities in these type of branded religions (the article used that word, and I think is apt)
by zelon88 | 2026-01-06 06:19:14+00:00
My concerns are the computerization of vehicles in general. The issue is not entirely with the telemetry itself, as you frame it. My issue is "what happens when the telemetry is not available?" You, and perhaps your friend, seem to be framing the problem as though the concern is that the car is filled with "spyware." My issue is that the car is filled with "DRM" from the manufacturer. When I buy a car, I expect to own that car entirely, forever. If I wanted to rent the right to someone else's car... I'd lease a car.

Musk touts the CyberTruck as "the perfect armageddon vehicle" but if you have no cell phone service how do you charge the truck? What if Tesla disappears, or GCP is down, or WW3 actually happens and the datacenters go dark? Can you operate the vehicle? What if the power goes out because... Armageddon. How do you fuel the vehicle?

What if Musk sees what I said about him on social media and accuses me of violating the TOS? Will he disable my vehicle remotely? I've seen this in the real world when a machine shop missed it's payment to Haas.

In a real armageddon, my 1997 shitbox would still function. My 2013 F150 would function right up until the EMP hit. A 2025 EV probably would not make it to a fueling source within 24 hours after the power goes out.
Ask HN: Why are LLM's made intentionally non-deterministic?
by mojuba | 2026-01-06 06:19:19+00:00
Just found out that the main factor that introduces non-determinism in LLM's answers is the so called temperature that adds variation ("creativity") into selecting the winning token each time.

This might be good for creative tasks, but may as well become an obstacle in adopting LLM's for certain other tasks. Among other things, it makes LLM-based systems untestable.

Program code is deterministic for a reason (if you forget about physical defects and cosmic particles occasionally hitting microchips and flipping some bits). If your code is supposed to control a nuclear power plant you better have a testable system with proven correctness.

So why aren't the users of LLM's given some sort of a fader to control temperature with an option to have 100% determinism? Who decided that we shouldn't have control over this parameter and why?
by defrost | 2026-01-06 06:19:29+00:00
It's happened before, although with no loss of civilian life.

In 1998 neither India nor Pakistan were considered members of the nuclear warhead club.

Then India detonated 5 warhead sized kiloton and sub kiloton class thermonuclear (fusion / hydrogen) weapons .. and within 20 days Pakistan responded with six atomic tests (non fusion, larger than warhead size).

The interesting thing about that exchange is that India suprised the world intelligence community pants down with capability and execution, and Pakistan's speed of response was equally suprising.

Despite the spectacle of rapid cross fire of eleven nuclear weapons and tense international responses the small nuke treats didn't escalate into anything larger .. and likely served to keep heads a little cooler wrt both India and Pakistan.

All up there has been > 2,000 nuclear detonations across the globe, some definitely intended to intimidate or otherwise push the envelope of possibility.

In that light another small nuke that avoided civilians and had a military target is unlikely to escalate although it would certainly cause a collective intake of breath and give pause.
by dinobones | 2026-01-06 06:20:41+00:00
A brief history of programming:

1. Punch cards -> Assembly languages

2. Assembly languages -> Compiled languages

3. Compiled languages -> Interpreted languages

4. Interpreted languages -> Agentic LLM prompting

I've tried the latest and greatest agentic CLI and toolings with the public SOTA models.

I think this is a productivity jump equivalent to maybe punch cards -> compiled languages, and that's it. Something like a 40% increase, but nowhere close to exponential.
by Groxx | 2026-01-06 06:21:58+00:00
Not really? You just need to define the stable ABI: you do that via `[repr(C)]` and other FFI stuff that has been around since essentially the beginning. Then it handles it just fine, for both the code using a runtime library and for writing those runtime libraries.

People writing Rust generally prefer to stay within Rust though, because FFI gives up a lot of safety (normally) and is an optimization boundary (for most purposes). And those are two major reasons people choose Rust in the first place. So yeah, most code is just statically compiled in. It's easier to build (like in all languages) and is generally preferred unless there's a reason to make it dynamic.
by jeffrallen | 2026-01-06 06:22:34+00:00
You're old fashioned, and that's ok, if it's ok with you.

But when high level languages were getting started, we had to read and debug the the transformed lower level output they made (hello C-front). At a certain point, most of us stopped debugging the layer below and most LLVM IR and assembly flow by without anyone reading it.

I use https://exe.dev to orchestrate several agents, and I am seeing the same benefits as Steve (with a better UI). My code smell triggers with lots of diffs that flow by, but just as often this feeling of, "oh, that's a nice feature, it's much better than I could have made" is also triggered. If you work with colleagues who occasionally delight and surprise you with excellent work, it's the same thing.

Maybe if you are not used to the feeling of being surprised and mostly delighted by your (human) colleagues, orchestrated agentic coding is hard to get your head around.
by majormajor | 2026-01-06 06:22:45+00:00
Well, at some point you'd learn by maxing out your credit card on your cloud bill, or getting hacked and losing all your users' data, or...

Companies with money-making businesses are gonna find themselves in an interesting spot when the "vibe juniors" are the vast majority of the people they can find to hire. New ways will be needed to reduce the risk.
by omoikane | 2026-01-06 06:22:51+00:00
Going from person to team is fairly easy, but going from team to person is hard. That is, you can often confirm a person is a member of a particular team or organization just by looking up their email address, but the reverse direction of finding the right point of contact for a particular team or organization can be difficult.

Searching for the tree root starting from a tree leaf is easy, but searching for the right leaf starting from the root takes a lot more effort.
by tamcap | 2026-01-06 06:23:03+00:00
This clarification is missing from many others sources (such as the AP one I saw from a local news source): https://www.wral.com/news/ap/9b8df-us-drops-the-number-of-va... .

What you are describing is a somewhat routine adjustment and if it's non-inferior... sure. But it sure reads differently in different sources...
by defrost | 2026-01-06 06:23:11+00:00
1. Punch cards -> Assembly languages

Err, in my direct experience it was Punch Cards -> FORTAN

Here, for example, is the Punch Card for a single FORTRAN statement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FortranCardPROJ039.agr.jp...

PunchCards were an input technology, they were in no way limited to either assembley languages or to FORTRAN.

You might be thinking of programming in assembly via switch flipping or plug jacking.
by themafia | 2026-01-06 06:23:45+00:00
Lawsuits. Civil remedies include breakup of the company.

I was never sure why the ownership class preferred one large investment over many smaller or even medium sized ones. Apparently diversification is only good for /my/ portfolio.

The reality is, the current government security state prefers this arrangement, as it vastly simplifies their strategies for mass data collection and abuse. There used to be 30 cellular companies. There were so many they felt entitled to tell the government off when they overreached. Widely seen as a problem by law enforcement the message was received and enforcement of anti trust laws in certain sectors ceased.
by rich_sasha | 2026-01-06 06:24:06+00:00
How much volume on this bet? Let's ignore black swan events and say it's a guaranteed 3% return. On how much? $1? $10? $1m?

I'd weigh the accuracy by how much money is at stake...

Even then, a "perfect" prediction market need not be accurate, if people use it for hedging. If some low probability event is really bad for me, I may pay over odds (pushing the implied probability up) to get paid if it happens. The equilibrium probability may be efficient, reasonable and biased.
by wild_egg | 2026-01-06 06:24:25+00:00
I'm not familiar with enough to say concretely. What's the dependency management experience like with those? That's really the core of my needs.

On the surface though, those are both significantly heavier tools. At minimum, there's a learning or adaption curve. I had built workflows on top of Beads and making a drop-in replacement was easier than reworking all of them.