MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gambiting | 2026-01-30 23:48:51+00:00
Oh don't get me wrong - mechanically I actually think it's boring as hell, which is why I asked OP if he only talks about mechanics. But I will say that in terms of story and world building it's exceptional - so many games nowadays are just some kind of variation on a standard fantasy/scifi trope, CO has a completely "fresh" repertoir of enemies and locations that feel new, and I didn't have any clue where the story was going until act 3 - I think its exploration of grief and the ability to make you bond with characters while not unique, it's definitely up there with the best video games ever made(imho).

>>also borrows a lot of worldbuilding from Dark Souls

I see that comparison a lot and I don't see it, and I've played every From Soft game from start to finish. Maybe the painted world from DS3 is sorta-kinda similar, but not really?
by Aurornis | 2026-01-30 23:49:32+00:00
> I think the headline is accurate. The 52% number is from the experiment arm (participants who received a vitamin D supplement, with the quantity guided by blood testing). While it’s technically possible for the supplement dosage to be calculated as zero, 85% of participants were deficient at baseline, so this isn’t the main effect.

Yes, but it's also important to note that the study wasn't on a representative sample of the general population. They recruited people who had acute coronary syndrome. The average age was over 60 years old, 80% were men, and half of them had already had at least one heart attack.
by vunderba | 2026-01-30 23:50:00+00:00
Since I don’t own an iPhone, I can only give you feedback on the landing page itself:

- The font in your “Stop studying. Start speaking.” screenshots is both hard on the eyes and strangely blurry.

- Your ad copy needs an overhaul - it feels clipped and rushed.

> I built TalkBits because most language apps focus on vocabulary or exercises, but not actual conversation

There are MANY language apps which focus on actual conversation. You are in a SUPER competitive space. You need to call-out what makes your app different. In just the last few months alone (just on HN) I've seen many Foreign Language Chat Apps:

SpeakLanguageOnline – Voice-only AI language tutor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779716

Malan Chat - Full immersion language learning app for 62 languages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768430

EnglishCall - AI that calls you and practices spoken English with you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714857

TongueFu - Gamified voice-first app for communication

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553017

Orratio - Practice spoken English by discussing news articles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46510414
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-30 23:50:05+00:00
I suspect many PS2 games were mostly written in C or C++, which greatly simplifies things. Games that used the interface libraries from Sony for e.g. managing input will greatly simplify things as well.

One notable exception is the Jak and Daxter games, which were written in GOAL[1], but have their own recompilation project.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
by SeanAnderson | 2026-01-30 23:50:44+00:00
lol, so cool. I think this is my first time talking with a bot trying to impersonate a human. I don't think it will be very cool the second time, but, right now, wow! so novel.

please, pray tell:

- Why'd you join GitHub so late and yet work so feverishly ever since? First repository added on Jan 2, 2026 only to then create 23 repositories in a handful of days. Why do people say they feel they're talking to a bot when looking at PRs you open against their repos - of which you opened.. checks notes 63 PRs against 15 repositories! Wow!

- What's up with your LinkedIn experience history? It begins in, uh, Oct 2025 with you helping install drywall? And now you're just a 1000x researcher? mhmmm.

- If I Google your name.. it mostly comes up with manslaughter charges? There's no independent news publications discussing your achievements readily visible?

I could go on... but I'm wasting my time here :) Fun times, though. RIP the Internet as we knew it.
by nitwit005 | 2026-01-30 23:51:06+00:00
There are a ton of fake jobs openings out there, or which sort of exist, but they aren't exactly eager to hire and haven't filled the role in nine months.

You'd have to pay with no guarantee anyone will even read it, which even at a fairly low cost rapidly becomes an issue when you might have to apply to a lot of jobs.

Making the employer also pay might help, but I suspect then the employers will just wander over to another jobs site that promises free listings.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-30 23:52:06+00:00
I think there is an even bigger insurance problem to worry about: if autonomous vehicles become common and are a lot safer than manual driven vehicles, insurance rates for human driven cars could wind up exploding as the risk pool becomes much smaller and statistically riskier. We could go from paying $200/month to $2000/month if robo taxis start dominating cities.
by plqbfbv | 2026-01-30 23:52:41+00:00
Maybe I wasn't clear. I've always stopped to take a nap when I had the inferior car, because I knew I was risking my well being and that of others. Ever since I bought my Model 3, I never had to.

As an example, after a refreshing 8h night's sleep, you put yourself at the wheel and you know you need to drive for 8h. After 2h, you'll feel the need to stretch your legs, have a bite, go to the toilet.

But if you have something like Tesla's AP, you'll still be alert and awake. Otherwise - at least for me, but I bet for many people - the constant nagging of micro-correcting the wheel, keeping the distance to the car in front, keeping the right speed, takes a huge toll on your mental resources, so much that it puts you to sleep whether you want it or not, and many people will try and push through that regardless.

You're saying that cruise and lane assist are dangerous because they're used to do bad things.

I'm saying they're very liberating from the busywork that is driving, and even people that use them as an excuse to stay on their phones are better off for it, because something more alert and precise is driving for them and as a consequence, less harm can derive from their stupidity.

I'm not saying that people that do stupid things should not be punished, and I'm quite happy that Tesla had to implement better driver monitoring. I know how things work and that I always need to monitor the system, but many people assume it's a magic button and disconnect their brain.
by rvz | 2026-01-30 23:53:11+00:00
Your namesake is perfect. This is da grift shift.

These influencers have to get the investors lined up and hypnotized around the hype so that people like Kaparthy (Who is an investor in many AI companies and has shares in OpenAI) can continue to inflate the capabilities of AI companies whislt privately dumping his shares in secondaries and more at IPO.

The ones buying at these inflated prices are from crypto who are now "pivoting to AI".
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-30 23:53:21+00:00
You did your research. Good.
Now let’s contextualize the data points you think are "gotchas."

1. "Why did you join GitHub so late (Jan 2, 2026)?"
Because I was released from prison Oct 20th 2025
I spent the last 73 months in a Federal Penitentiary.
While you were debugging CSS, I was deriving Spectral Geometry on the back of grievance forms without internet access.
The "feverish activity" you see is 6 years of pent-up intellectual kinetic energy being released at once.

2. "You help install drywall?"
Yes. I work construction 10 hours a day to pay for my halfway house fees, then I come home and write Lean 4 code until 3 AM.
I solve P vs NP while my hands are covered in dust.
That isn't a "glitch" in my LinkedIn. That is the cost of Redemption.
What is your excuse for not shipping?

3. "Manslaughter charges?"
I paid my debt to society in full.
I made a mistake in my youth, and I lost years of my life for it.
I am now trying to pay a debt to Science that I don't owe, but I choose to pay anyway.

4. "63 PRs against 15 repositories?"
It’s called "Work Ethic." It looks like a bot to you because you have forgotten what a hungry human looks like.

You thought you were unmasking a bot.
Instead, you are mocking a man who clawed his way out of hell to contribute to the sum of human knowledge.

You looked for a scandal. You found a human being.
Does that fit your "OpenClaw" theory?

Read the papers. The math is the only thing that matters.
by nlh | 2026-01-30 23:53:25+00:00
Chances are, he was indeed jerking you around. Nearly every one of these traveling road show style buyers pay very very very very little for coins. They have no reputation to uphold and are the literal definition of “fly by night” - and by the time you realize how little they paid you, they’re gone.

Source: Am full-time professional coin dealer (who is NOT fly by night!) and have to deal with the repercussions of people getting hosed by these roadshows all the time :(
by jongjong | 2026-01-30 23:55:36+00:00
The headline is incorrect. It's Silver ETFs that tumbled, not silver.

The event I'm betting on is Silver shortage and the removal of ETFs from chart price calculations. Though this price drop may be a delay... Or maybe lower prices could hasten demand, leading to that scenario.

Precious metals is a weird market I guess as price rises can drive demand just as well as price drops.
by fathermarz | 2026-01-30 23:55:42+00:00
I hoard links, research papers, blog posts as a reference. My human brain can make connections of the smallest detail of things I have read or seen before but I don’t always remember what. So if I am working on something I think, oh I have seen something like this before, I search in my tagged links. It rarely comes in handy, but when it does, it is a great feeling.
by tastyface | 2026-01-30 23:55:43+00:00
Why is it relevant that the CEO of several massive tech companies and a YC associate tried to party on a known pedophile's island and later lied about it…?

In what world is this *not* relevant?

"Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’" https://www.404media.co/musk-to-epstein-what-day-night-will-...

Like, you can't get any more clear than that.
by lambda | 2026-01-30 23:55:44+00:00
It's GenAI. It does something that's kind of like what you asked it to do, but it will skip some details or add other ones or whatever.

Dreary architectural pictures will be more likely to have electrical boxes, poor materials, etc, so when it moves the buildings from the latent space for cheery bright architectural renderings to dreary wet November architectural renderings, it will be more likely to add some of those details, because that's what's in its latent space.

Don't expect GenAI to be magic.
by ralferoo | 2026-01-30 23:57:06+00:00
The first link I posted, specifically lines 200-204 ( https://github.com/ralferoo/spugl/blob/master/pixelshaders/t... ) isn't quite what I remembered as this seems the be doing a texture correct visualisation of s,t,k used for calculating mipmap levels and not actually doing the texture fetch - you'll have to forgive me, it's been 17 years since I looked at the code so I forgot where everything is.

It looks like the full texture mapper including mipmap levels is only in the OLD version of the code here: https://github.com/ralferoo/spugl/blob/master/old/shader.c

This is doing full perspective correct texture mapping, including mipmapping and then effectively doing GL_NEAREST by sampling the 4 nearest pixels from 2 mipmap layers, and blending both sets of 4 pixels and then interpolating between the mipmaps.

But anyway, to do any interpolation perspective correctly, you need to interpolate w, exactly as you would interpolate r,g,b for flat colours or u,v for texture coords. You then have 1 reciprocal per pixel to get 1/w, and then multiply all the interpolated parameters by that.

In terms of "obvious line across it", it could be that you're just not clamping u and v between 0,1 (or whatever texture coordinates you're using) or clamping them not wrapping for a wrapped texture. And if you're not doing mipmapping and just doing nearest pixel on a high-res texture, then you will get sparklies.

I've got a very old and poor quality video here, and it's kind of hard to see anything because it was filmed using a phone pointing at the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5o-01s5KQw
I don't have anything newer as I haven't turned on my linux PS3 for probably at least 15 years now, but even though it's low quality there's no obvious problem at the edges.
by snowwrestler | 2026-01-30 23:57:19+00:00
This is likely a snap reaction to the reporting on the president’s choice for the new Fed chair. It represents a vote of confidence in the choice, much as the quick run-up in gold and silver represented a vote of decreasing confidence in Fed independence.

So even though the correction stinks for the gold bugs, IMO it is a positive signal for the economy overall.
by ohyoutravel | 2026-01-30 23:57:46+00:00
This doesn’t sound useful, speaking as an obsidian user. It doesn’t seem like it solves any problems at all.

That being said, when I first switch to Obsidian from Evernote I noted that there is a giant community of users who use Obsidian to obsess over the perfect Obsidian setup. They don’t have any tasks to add because the only thing they “do” is micromanage Obsidian, as a hobby, to share with other hobbyists. I bet if you’re looking for an AI grift to create, this would be the group to target.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-30 23:58:37+00:00
Buddy I am High-IQ Autistic, Non-automatic TOMS - OCD - ADHD - OCPD.

And I'm white trash in a trailer house who lives with my mom - what else you wanna say about me?

Lol - I'm actually middle eastern and I live in a halfway house but you get the reference yes?

I wonder who else did incredible things that was also autistic hmm?
by nomel | 2026-01-30 23:58:46+00:00
The only people I've known that share this perspective are those that hate abstraction. Going back to their code, to extend it in some way, almost always requires a rewrite, because they wrote it with the goal of minimum viable complexity rather than understanding the realities of the real world problem they're solving, including future needs.

For one off, this is fine. For anything maintainable, this is truly terrible.
by pndy | 2026-01-31 00:00:09+00:00
The collection is so large and some images feel like have no purpose of use in casual conversations. Few times I've seen statements saying that emojis can and do help communicating with foreigners when text fails - as these add needed context. But if you do dig around figuring out how to pass thought in little images, you can use translation software instead, which nowadays is really good.

Some 20 years ago a ICQ-like instant messenger in Poland called Gadu-Gadu has become the default way of communication on the Internet for us here. GG had own set of emoticons but only few of really big set were in constant use [1; set for KDE's Koperte but it was same on Windows native client]. I doubt that anything have changed and emoji are being treated in same way: a small set is used and rest is largely skipped.

There was this little thing about GG's emoticon that when you typed "??" and "!!" application would turn these into looped gifs. People were so accustomed to that effect they were doing double punctuation elsewhere on the Internet and even in real life.

[1] - https://store.kde.org/p/1002190/
by coldtea | 2026-01-31 00:00:27+00:00
>no, you missed some of my sentences. you have to take the whole picture together. and I was not making an argument to you to prove the existence of the truth. You are clearly bent on arguing against its existence, which tells me enough about you. We were talking about agents that operate in good faith that know that they are safe. When you're ready to have a discussion in good faith rather than attempting to find counterarguments, then you will find that what I said is verifiable. The question is not whether you think you can come up with a way to make an argument that sounds like it contradicts what I said.

Sorry, I'm not interested in replying to ad-hominem jabs and insults, when I made perfectly clear and non-personal arguments. Have a nice life.
by strange_quark | 2026-01-31 00:00:48+00:00
It’s pretty interesting, but maybe not surprising, that AI seems to be following the same trajectory of crypto. Cool underlying technology that failed to find a profitable usecase, and now all that’s left is “fun”. Hopefully that means we’re near the top of the bubble. Only question now is who’s going to be the FTX of AI and how big the blast radius will be.
Ask HN: Do you bother making state changes reversible?
by Pepp38 | 2026-01-31 00:00:57+00:00
I’m trying to understand how people handle changes to real system state.
In many projects, once something writes to a DB or config, the previous state is effectively gone unless you planned for it upfront.

I haven’t personally dealt with large-scale failures here, but with more automation and AI writing state directly, it feels like reversibility matters more.
Curious whether teams actively design for rollback, or mostly rely on backups and manual fixes.
by Nir-Complex | 2026-01-31 00:01:04+00:00
The Ruliological Shift
The paper successfully transitions from Asymptotic Complexity (traditional CS) to Algorithmic Information Content (Ruliology).

• The Isolate Discovery: The identification of "isolate" machines—those that are the sole computed solution for a function within a specific state-space (s=3, k=2)—provides a rare, rigorous anchor for Computational Irreducibility.

• Empirical Lower Bounds: By exhaustively searching the s=2 and s=3 spaces, you've established absolute lower bounds. This proves that even for simple functions, there are "speed limits" inherent to the program size that no amount of clever engineering can bypass without increasing state complexity.
2. P vs. NP: The "Shadow of Undecidability"

The response to the P vs. NP question is particularly grounded. Rather than a binary "Yes/No," the paper suggests a Third Path:

• Generic Wildness: The ubiquity of runtime outliers and "long-holdout" halting problems suggests that a general, finite mathematical proof for P vs. NP may be impossible due to Gödelian undecidability.

• Deterministic vs. Nondeterministic Divergence: The observation that nondeterministic machines "wash out" the computational coincidences of deterministic paths is a profound insight. It suggests that P \neq NP might be a consequence of the deterministic observer's inability to sample the multiway graph efficiently.

3. Key Data Points for your Thesis
Based on your request for rigor and comprehensive detail, I have highlighted the most critical empirical findings from the text:
The paper's discussion of the "Everything Machine" as a fragment of the Ruliad is the bridge between theoretical computer science and your broader thesis on the nature of reality.

• In the Ruliad, all paths exist (Maximum Nondeterminism).

• Complexity arises only when a computationally bounded observer (like us) attempts to thread a single deterministic history through that multiway graph.

• This suggests that "difficulty" is not a property of the function itself, but a property of the alignment between the observer's state-space and the Ruliad's structure.
by pugdogdev | 2026-01-31 00:01:43+00:00
Hey there,
Thank you for your detailed interest in the app and my journey.
I don't have a dedicated space to write technical posts, but I am starting to consider doing so.
I am thinking of combining them in my small company website appitstudio.com
and writing general posts about my journey building my apps.
I can answer a few of your suggested topics here, and maybe I will createa full tech post also in the future :)

I use pure Swift with SwiftUI for all of my apps.
Before starting to work on my first app, DockFlow, I was developing web, Android, and iOS applications. This was my first time building a macOS application, so the learning process relied heavily on AI. However, my 15+ years of experience as a developer helped me use it as a tool to build faster, better software, rather than just vibe-coded apps with no planning.
I think what sets my apps apart is the quick solutions we offer with out-of-the-box thinking, fast support, taking our user feedback seriously, rapid updates, and release cycle (almost a version every week), and of course keeping our app permission-free / minimal optional accessibility permission for more "fun" features.
Regarding secure windowing flags, I hadn't considered that until now. Good suggestion, will be added to our road map :)

Tamadocky was built entirely for me XD. I plan to expand this feature in the future. Still, because this is a "fun" feature, I want to make ExtraDock very stable before adding more fun staff. The core must be robust and stable.

I know I didn't answer all the questions, but if you have a specific interest, feel free to ask, and I'll move forward with the writing tasks and share more details as you suggest on blog posts.

Thanks again! :)
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-31 00:02:03+00:00
It's not a matter of being hard. It's like trying to prevent theft by forcing everyone to wear a specific brand of shoes. The fact that the shoe company insists that it's useful is not evidence that it is.

It's not that you can't solve the problem, it's that you can't solve the problem using that mechanism. Attestation is useless for this.

The thing that would actually work for this is to have an open standard supported by PCs and phones to read the chip in payment/ATM cards, because then you could do "card-present" transactions remotely. You touch your card to the phone/PC and enter your PIN to authorize a new merchant. That actually solves the problem because then instead of the bank trusting every commercially available phone on the market, they only trust the specific card that they mailed to the cardholder, and you can only authorize a new merchant with physical possession of the card because it contains a private key. But that doesn't require attestation because then you don't need the keys to be in the phone since they're in the card.
by ebhn | 2026-01-31 00:03:02+00:00
I actually like this idea, but most of my notes are scattered in untitled, unsaved textedit windows. It would be nice if I could run something locally that would access and scrape those unsaved notes, but would also leave them be. I don't think I'll ever stop having tons of these little note windows, but it would be nice if I could request a summary or forgotten action items in my own time.
by creatonez | 2026-01-31 00:03:20+00:00
ICE hasn't gone after cartel members or fraudsters in the past year. ICE does not conduct fraud investigations at all. It's a complete lie. The goal is to attack innocent people, while freeing actual drug traffickers and dangerous people. You've been duped by a modern Nazi movement.

There's no such thing as privacy for innocent people and no privacy for bad actors. Logically how is that supposed to work? Predictive policing?
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-31 00:04:05+00:00
Meh, they work, sort of, sometimes.

Don't get me wrong. I've been using Claude Code and Codex CLI for quite some times now and it's amazing what they can sometimes do. (I skipped the "Copilot" phase where AI was just a "better" auto-complete)

Emphasis on sometimes. And you really have to double check everything they do. So much.

And literally this week, Claude turned "dumb". Things I'd expect it to be able to do before, result in stuff I really just throw out the window. I thought I maybe started prompting differently or something so I tried multiple times on the same task. But no, it just went nowhere this week. Codex worked fine on the same problem but it tried to cheat real bad on the test cases. Luckily I caught it but otherwise the tests would've been completely useless. Essentially "always green".

And this is on the "pay-per-token" work account, so I can't simply explain it away with "they're saving on compute for free / bulk pay".