MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Blue_Cosma | 2026-01-09 23:40:14+00:00
Our main driver and hypothesis was to work with regulated industry. We worked with a few large enterprise clients in defence and industry for R&D and IP use cases mostly.

Our stack changes per project, adapting to client needs and infra: Llama 70B on a Mac Studio M1 with Ollama in 2024, vLLM on 4xH100 private cloud for larger deployments. Most recently, we've been working on a custom workstation with 2x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q + 1.1TB DDR5 to run larger models locally using SGLang and KTransformers.

The question isn't rhetorical, I'm trying to understand if the demand we see in regulated sectors is the whole market or if there's broader adoption I'm missing.
by bananabiscuit | 2026-01-09 23:40:38+00:00
I never said the U-turn was the only acceptable reason that they could be there, I only mentioned it because it was the most innocent possible reason for Renee to be there that I can think of.

In these cases, isn’t it usual for evidence to be kept out of the public eye until after all relevant court trials are done?

Also, just to be very clear, I am not saying ICE shot Renee because she was being a nuisance. I am saying she got shot because she made an intentional and almost lethal maneuver at the ICE agent with her car.
by D-Machine | 2026-01-09 23:40:55+00:00
Dunno why you are being downvoted, probably cope. It is well known by now that antidepressants are only marginally effective on average [1-2]. You're right they should probably only be prescribed for quite severe or treatment-resistant depression. Although the treatment-by-severity effect has been somewhat disputed [3-4], it has rough support [5], and makes sense since it is dubious that we should be giving ineffective medication with serious costs and side-effects to people with moderate depression.

[1] https://ebm.bmj.com/content/27/2/69.abstract

[2] https://ebm.bmj.com/content/25/4/130.abstract

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1744-859X-12-26

[4] https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.116.187773

[5] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/18515...
by eek2121 | 2026-01-09 23:41:08+00:00
It won't ever replace anything, because most folks don't understand the tech. I've no other way to explain this except to present this question: which is more popular, ASM, or literally any other higher level language (C, C++, etc.)?

Compilers, languages, and frameworks were built for ease of use for the end developer specifically so that any type of ASM would be avoided. Web technologies/frameworks along with Operating system APIs, etc. were a FURTHER level of abstraction. WASM has it's place, just the same as ASM has it's place. Trying to replace React with x86 ASM sounds foolish, does it not? The same goes for WASM. Why?

WASM is designed for situations where performant, low latency compute is needed, along with low level control, etc. Even IF they integrated DOM, very few would use it. Most of today's developers don't even know ASM for any platform, and they aren't about to learn it. They want to be productive, not rewrite basic stuff.

I mean shoot, as much as I dislike the AI bubble (AI/LLMs are great, corporate america is the issue), it is SHOWING what people want, which most of us already knew people wanted: we want to automate out the boring stuff and focus on the hard stuff.
by oaiey | 2026-01-09 23:41:25+00:00
Yeah correct. I hate this so much in this topic. I hate the disrespect for the law in this topic here but he is right here. The Olympics, soccer and all the other sports (but also other billionaires businesses) have to be put back in their place. How is FIFA able to prevent me from drinking my favourite beer in the city center of my favourite town just because world cup is on town.
Show HN: I built a tool to create LLM Tier Lists based on real tasks
by iliailinskii | 2026-01-09 23:41:35+00:00
Hey HN,

Following up on my prompt tool. I realized that "prompt engineering" is useless if we don't know which model actually handles the instruction best. We often argue if GPT-5 is better than Gemini 3 Pro, but it usually depends on the specific use case.

So I built a module to create Head-to-Head Model Benchmarks (Tier Lists).

How it works:

Define a specific task (e.g., "Writing a LinkedIn launch post").

Run it simultaneously on 14+ models (including the latest GPT-5, Gemini 3, Claude 4.5 families).

Compare metrics: Speed, Token usage, and qualitative output.

Rank them: Drag and drop models into S, A, B, C tiers based on the results.

Why I built this: I found that for coding, Model X might be S-Tier, but for creative writing, it drops to C-Tier. This tool lets the community build a library of proven "best models" for specific intents.

The experiment linked above shows how Gemini 3 Pro outperformed others in marketing copy (S-Tier) for my specific criteria, while others felt too robotic.

Would love to see you create your own benchmarks and share the results. Which model is your current daily driver for coding vs writing?
by nunez | 2026-01-09 23:42:03+00:00
As a person who was super into the rooting scene before getting iPhone-pilled in 2018 or so, I can see both sides to this issue.

On one hand, people that jump through the crazy hoops phone manufacthrers put up to get root are either technically-proficient or willing to become so and are, usually, responsible enough to keep their devices locked down and secure.

On the other hand, banks are subjected to literally all of the regulations, and breaking any of them usually incurs unbelieveable fines. Given that phones are the default computing device for most people these days and how (relatively) easily secrets can be extracted from rooted devices, blanket-banning them makes a lot of sense.

Nonetheless, modern Android is just as locked down as modern iOS, with a few exceptions (like adb access) and without the awesome hardware and software optimizations for that hardware that make video recording fast and web browsing even faster. Between this and nobody having a real answer to Apple Watch, I'll be an iOS stan for the foreseeable future.
by bmicraft | 2026-01-09 23:42:26+00:00
This reads like an ad. Why would you capitalize it like a product name and then even link to the website?

I still have no idea what it really is. From the name I'd think you're going for a run at a local park. The website calls it a "5k and 2k community event", what that's supposed to mean I have no clue. It insists you either "join" or "volunteer", all while being as non-specific as possible why I should even care

2/5k what? people? distance? currency? number of events? It almost reads like in-group speak of a cult I don't partake in.

-- Rant over --
by yousif_123123 | 2026-01-09 23:42:29+00:00
Don't underestimate the meaning and relationships people had in those times, hunting together to feed your family, farming with your community and interacting with animals etc.

I think physical activity, even just going on walks makes one feel change is possible. If something sucks and I sit home all day on YouTube, then it continues to suck. If I can change my environment, do things outside, see new people and find myself if different situations, then the thing that sucks starts feeling like maybe it also could change.

For example I doubt exercising in a basement just by yourself on 1 machine is likely to materially help with depression. At least not as much as going out doing a variety of things, or playing a game of basketball at the local gym/community center.
by riffic | 2026-01-09 23:42:38+00:00
There's something really interesting about the constraints given by plain text that you would lose with What You See Is What You Get (or, the ever-unfortunate acronym WYSIWYG) controls. I almost think what you get in that case is an unfortunate mindset-shift towards What You See Is All There Is (or, an incredibly dope acronym, WYSIATI).
by chmod775 | 2026-01-09 23:42:44+00:00
I can write a sed command/program that replaces every occurence of PI with TAU/2 in LaTeX formulas and it'll take me about 30 minutes.

The "intellectual effort" this requires is about 0.

Maybe you meant Euler's number? Since it also relates to PI, it can be used and might actually change the framework in an "interesting way" (making it more awkward in most cases - people picked PI for a reason).
by jp57 | 2026-01-09 23:43:18+00:00
Okay, I will take the contrarian position. As I read this I kept waiting for the part where he somehow repays all the hospitality he has received, if not directly to those who gave it, then forward, somehow. Instead, all I got was new-agey rationalization.

To solicit a gift from a stranger takes a certain state of openness. If you are lost or ill, this is easy, but most days you are neither, so embracing extreme generosity takes some preparation. I learned from hitchhiking to think of this as an exchange. During the moment the stranger offers his or her goodness, the person being aided can reciprocate with degrees of humility, dependency, gratitude, surprise, trust, delight, relief, and amusement to the stranger. It takes some practice to enable this exchange when you don’t feel desperate. Ironically, you are less inclined to be ready for the gift when you are feeling whole, full, complete, and independent!

The things he lists are not reciprocation. The paragraph strikes me as a long-winded way of saying, "It takes a special mindset to beg from others when you're not actually needy." Indeed it does.

One might even call the art of accepting generosity a type of compassion. The compassion of being kinded.

Not only does he rationalize a life of asking for and taking from others, even the very poor, without any material reciprocation, but even admits that he is not sure he would have done the same for another person in his position.

When the miracle flows, it flows both ways.

No. The attitude of humility and gratitude with which one is obliged to receive another's charity is not itself a repayment. The social contract around this kind of hospitality is that everyone gives and receives materially; if you are taking now because you have nothing to give, then the expectation is that you will give to someone else later, not simply walk the earth taking and taking. It's a prisoner's dilemma, and we only all benefit if we all cooperate. Calling a person who takes but never gives back in a material way a "kindee" is just sanctifying the defector.

(EDIT: please note that I'm not advocating against offering hospitality, only against taking it with an attitude that you will neither repay it nor pay it forward, because just the act of accepting it is somehow holy.)
by measurablefunc | 2026-01-09 23:43:24+00:00
In 1897, the Indiana General Assembly attempted to legislate a new value for pi, proposing it be defined as 3.2, which was based on a flawed mathematical proof. This bill, known as the Indiana pi bill, never became law due to its incorrect assertions and the prior proof that squaring the circle is impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
by lwansbrough | 2026-01-09 23:43:25+00:00
Can anyone with specific knowledge in a sophisticated/complex field such as physics or math tell me: do you regularly talk to AI models? Do feel like there's anything to learn? As a programmer, I can come to the AI with a problem and it can come up with a few different solutions, some I may have thought about, some not.

Are you getting the same value in your work, in your field?
by Pfhortune | 2026-01-09 23:43:27+00:00
Pretty much the same setup here. Pixel 9 Pro GOS + iPhone 15 (USB-C everything!). The iPhone is a Canadian model that retains the SIM slot.

Most of my banking apps work fine on GrapheneOS, but I've adopted this because I'm confident they'll eventually break. And access to Apple Pay is nice.

Carrying two phones is annoying, but, agency over my main computing device is worth the price.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-09 23:44:07+00:00
It's a bluff because it would an extremely stupid blunder.

- 15k-20k .30 caliber and larger rifles with 800-1000 m range amongst 55k people. They sell suppressed rifles that are effectively sniper rifles on FB Marketplace for relatively cheap.

- No highways, no infrastructure, and a giant sheet of ice.

- Icebergs that sank the Titanic.

- Weather that would make Napoleon think twice.

- The single operational US base is 1000 miles / 1600 km from Nuuk, and is mostly just a 10000' runway, a port, 150 personnel, and ICBM launch detection gear.

- Using force would end NATO, which might be the plan if he's a Russian asset.
by Sophira | 2026-01-09 23:45:04+00:00
Pirate... what? A phone? Android? Banking apps?

The problem here isn't the money, it's the lack of privacy and control.

The best analog I can think of to piracy in this situation would be rooting the phone/installing GrapheneOS. And, yeah, that's definitely something people should do if they want that control, but I really hope people don't put it in the same category as piracy...
by IAmBroom | 2026-01-09 23:46:04+00:00
Mostly, if not entirely, due to poor raising.

I've gotten "BEWARE OF DOG!" pitbulls and rottweilers to befriend me simply by speaking kindly to them, and then over a period of days raising that to handsniffs, then petting.

Misanthropic dogs are taught that behavior, which contradicts 10,000+ years of training. They don't enjoy being assholes.

This is not to say dogs aren't naturally barky and suspicious of strangers; that is also part of their millenia of training. Lots of nice people are also suspicious of strangers. But aggressively attacking people is basically psychotic behavior for a social animal that considers humans part of its society.
by Rohansi | 2026-01-09 23:46:06+00:00
People already closet cheat to avoid detection. It's nothing new.

You can closet cheat with ESP and that is very game breaking without obvious rage cheating. You can't do ESP if cheats are limited to what is visible on screen so I would say it's an improvement. Even something like autoaim is a bit less effective because it wouldn't be able to snap on players who are offscreen. The gap between cheating and legit players would be reduced which makes it less frustrating for the legit players and probably less tempting for cheaters.
by ric129 | 2026-01-09 23:46:08+00:00
I do like that the article touches exactly this, and even though I'm a stranger to the entire concept, it makes sense:

>Hardly anyone hitchhikes any more, which is a shame because it encourages the habit of generosity from drivers, and it nurtures the grace of gratitude and patience of being kinded from hikers

I can see how it becomes a healthy feedback loop
by Johnny_Bonk | 2026-01-09 23:46:36+00:00
Sweet, thank you for sharing. In my case, I need an api I can call cause i only have a mac air which is essentially worthless for development lol. Also I am bootstrapping a startup and one of the features is essentially turning rooms into 3d space. I know theres matterport 3d and some others but still looking for something simple where i could pay a couple cents per api call with x amount of images. does that make sense?
by homarp | 2026-01-09 23:47:12+00:00
It's a complement to my other answer to you (about your Q on why ppl would not want to learn/use js and would prefer WASM if there was FastDOM ==> because not everyone wants to be multilingual): I was listing a few languages that people are confortable with and would rather use through WASM than learning idiomatic JS/TS ( it's easy to learn the syntax, it takes practice to learn the idiomatic way).

And yes, I do meant that my listed have gotten better, just like JS/TS.

As for why not comp/transpiling to JS? it is my impression that WASM was born out of that ( Compiled to subset of js (asm.js)) and it's an evolution of compiling to JS.
by bgwalter | 2026-01-09 23:47:24+00:00
This is scientifically not interesting as we don't know how much computational power was used and it is not reproducible for other professors in other universities who lack the data centers and the exact software used.

Also, I would not put it past OpenAI to drag up a similar proof using ChatGPT, refine it and pretend that ChatGPT found it.

After all, OpenAI plans an IPO this year.
by MillionOClock | 2026-01-09 23:47:28+00:00
I also feel like an heavily multimodal model could be very nice for this: allow multiple images from various angles, optionally some true depth data even if imperfect (like what a basic phone LIDAR would output), why not even photos of the same place even if it comes from other sources at other times (just to gather more data), and based on that generate a 3D scene you can explore, using generative AI for filling with plausible content what is missing.
by mothballed | 2026-01-09 23:47:39+00:00
Hmm... this is far outside my domain but apparently there has been no litigation deciding on this yet[].

While no court has conclusively decided this issue, precedent and the structure of the Constitution dictate that answer is “no.” The availability of an immunity defense arising under federal law does not change which sovereign is prosecuting the offense. The president may not pardon such offenses even when they have been removed to federal court. This stands in sharp contrast to convictions under the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, which allows federal courts to incorporate state criminal law to cover acts committed on federal land not otherwise covered by federal law (for example, a domestic assault that takes place on a military base), and which may be pardoned by the president. Those are federal offenses—“against the United States”—because the federal statute borrows the law of the state surrounding the federal enclave, and they are prosecuted by the Justice Department. The charging documents themselves arise under federal law for purposes of Article III.

Your and their argument is compelling, but so is the counter argument IMO. Seems like something that might be tested at some point. If you have any further citations where a court has decided on this would love to look over it.

[] https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/state-prosecutions-of-f...
by muwtyhg | 2026-01-09 23:47:59+00:00
You mean the woman who was driving the car?

I think we do take away the license of people shown unfit to drive, or with conditions that may cause their driving to hurt others (conditions that cause sudden loss of consciousness, confusion, etc). If the officer has PTSD from being dragged, he should not be given a gun and told to stop someone operating a car using his own body.

Not to mention, do you think we hold our law enforcement to the same standard as our civilians? Do we expect more or less restraint from them in situations like this? Are they trained to handle these situations? If so, what failed in this instance?
by kridsdale3 | 2026-01-09 23:48:17+00:00
Not just for math, but ALL of Science suffers heavily from a problem of less than 1% of the published works being capable of being read by leading researchers.

Google Scholar was a huge step forward for doing meta-analysis vs a physical library.

But agents scanning the vastness of PDFs to find correlations and insights that are far beyond human context-capacity will I hope find a lot of knowledge that we have technically already collected, but remain ignorant of.
by j-krieger | 2026-01-09 23:48:50+00:00
> The issue I have with your argument is that you're treating inaction as neutral.

The issue I have with your argument is that you're treating action as a necessary evil enacted by a well meaning government. It isn't.

> I mean we're ceding the information space to whoever is willing to manipulate it most aggressively.

I am well aware that this is a difficult thing to solve. What is it then, that you propose we do?

> These laws require distinguishing foreign influence from domestic speech. By your logic, these should have already devolved into tools of domestic political persecution. Have they?

Yes. YES. The FARA has sometimes been applied asymmetrically, especially against individuals or organizations connected to political opponents, lobbyists and think tanks. It is the perfect example for what I mean. The FARA is broadly defined and with a DOJ under an administration, it is prone to misuse. The DOJ under Trump considered to use it to charge Hunter Biden. The identification of "hostile agents" that you argue is necessary is exactly what I mean when I point to government misuse, as the Trump admin is currently using these exact laws to identify activists and nonprofits as domestic terrorists [1]. We have people in this thread decry the Trump administration for their actions and stances on selectively applying free speech while they at the same time argue for more government power even while it is being abused in this very moment. I am aghast at how this is happening.

> Another issue that I have with your argument is that you've identified risks of action but proposed nothing. What's your actual framework here? If coordinated foreign information warfare is real and harmful, and ongoing (which you acknowledge) what should democracies do?

Do what democracy's are already doing. Issue sanctions that hurt. A large amount of LNG and gas imports in Europe are still traceable to Russia. Invest into digital thinking and digital literacy. But that would require putting your money where your mouth is, instead of arguing for those sweet tools of citizen control. Germany spends below average on education and our pupils suffer. The same is true for US education. Sorry, but I won't argue for controlling a stupid populace when we fail at teaching at the same time.

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/how-nspm-7-seeks...
by reactordev | 2026-01-09 23:49:24+00:00
Whatever, Glide was amazing! So much so that Nvidia bought them.

I remember what a huge difference it was having a dedicated 3D card capable of fast 2D and 3D vs the software rasterizer. Yes, NovaLogic games ran better. Yes, you can play Doom at decent FPS. Yes, SpecOps ran at full monitor resolution. They had a LOT to brag about.
by Analemma_ | 2026-01-09 23:49:34+00:00
This is a good article, although I wish it had talked a little more about the standardization (or rather, the lack thereof) in Markdown. I get why it didn't, it's trying to be positive about something that is an overwhelming net positive for the world, but I think a "warts-and-all" treatment of the history would be more honest.

I appreciate that Gruber brought this very helpful thing into the world, but OTOH he was such a prick about the whole Standard Markdown debate, for no real reason other than ego. And it resulted in Markdown remaining an ill-defined standard to this day, with occasional compatibility issues still cropping up even though most platforms support most of "Github-flavored Markdown" (itself a stupid name and indicative how badly this has gone).
by Intralexical | 2026-01-09 23:49:44+00:00
Subtracting gravity losses, the largest effect of your 45 degree thrust vector would be sideways acceleration. Which is generally what you want, to get up to speed as quickly as possible, instead of wasting energy ascending vertically.

We just don't do it on Earth because we need to get out of the atmosphere first for efficiency and structural reasons. But on the moon or another vacuum body, "diagonal kick followed by minor circularization burns at apogee" is pretty close to the optimal strategy. Even on Earth, it's similar to the trajectories proposed by SpinLaunch and other "space cannon" concepts.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-09 23:50:28+00:00
> The venue moving to a federal court, for a person federally considered pardoned of all federal jeopardy, seems like a problem.

Its not. A federal pardon Constitutionally can only affects federal offenses, not state offenses. That Congress has created a mechanism by which federal courts may try some state offenses does not convert them into federal offenses.

> IANAL but I don't see why a federal pardon wouldn't be binding on a federal court

Because the Constitution doesn't give the President the power to pardon anything but offenses against the federal government. It is the sovereign against which an offense is alleged, not the court in which it is tried, that matters.