MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apetresc | 2026-02-06 17:59:25+00:00
Which model, 5.3 or 5.3-Codex? Yes, 5.3-Codex was announced and released. 5.3 wasn't announced. None of it is "absurd", and it also wouldn't have been "absurd" if they announce something but don't release it that same day (which they didn't do, but if they had - what exactly is absurd about that? Companies make announcements about future releases ALL the time.)
by sophacles | 2026-02-06 17:59:38+00:00
The proper experience is to copy it onto an old VHS, worn out and a bit stretched in places. Play it for the umpteenth time on a 1980s VCR feeding a fuzzy old tv in the basement for background noise (and a killer sound track) as you beat your head against a crt monitor wondering why your code won't compile.

Bonus points if you pause to watch the movie and wonder "how have I seen this movie countless times and only just now noticed there's a 6th hacker in the 'main' crew?".
by vjerancrnjak | 2026-02-06 17:59:52+00:00
Flink is not really a performance choice, it's bloat to throw software as fast as possible at problems. I don't think there's any benchmark demonstrating insane capabilities per machine. I definitely couldn't get it to any numbers I liked, given other stream processing / state processing engines that exist (if compute and inmemory state management is the goal). Pretty sure any pathway that touches RocksDB slows everything down to 1-10k events per second, if not less.

The problem of finding out which video is next, by immediately taking into account the recent user context (and other user context) is completely unrelated to what Flink does -- exactly-once state consistency, distributed checkpoints, recovery, event-time semantics, large keyed state. I would even say you don't want a solution to any of the problems Flink solves, you want to avoid having these problems.
by tavro | 2026-02-06 18:00:06+00:00
> NO!

oh, sorry for misunderstanding then.

> NOOOO! NO NO NO!! It's ALREADY BREACHED!

i see and hear your point. it just makes me sad to think about security in this way, even though i think it would be good for someone that operates in the cyber security sphere. i think a more healthy way of approaching this for the general person, is what the person above said: "[...] what you're practically shooting for is to make the cost higher than the value an attacker would get from breaching you.", or for you not to lose more money/resources/value/whatever by securing your system, than you would do by getting breached or attacked. but that is just my opinion, and i am not an expert, so!

:o)
by WarmWash | 2026-02-06 18:00:29+00:00
And what's you argument? That people wouldn't be upset that outsiders are lobbying their town?

I never said anything about outsiders forcing anything. They simply lobby and people get mad about it, those lobbyists are "YIYBY". Its the origin of a term.

You built a strawman about forcing a town to do something, and are really intent on attacking that strawman. But you built it, I never said anything to that effect.
by acdha | 2026-02-06 18:00:36+00:00
Think about if this happened in the real world. Like if I ran a book store, I’d expect some scammer to try to schmooze a discount but I’d also expect the staff to say no, refuse service, and call the police if they refused to leave. If the manager eventually said “okay, we’ll give you a discount” ultimately they would likely personally be on the hook for breaking company policy and taking a loss, but I wouldn’t be able to say that my employee didn’t represent my company when that’s their job.

Replacing the employee with a rental robot doesn’t change that: the business is expected to handle training and recover losses due to not following that training under their rental contract. If the robot can’t be trained and the manufacturer won’t indemnify the user for losses, then it’s simply not fit for purpose.

This is the fundamental problem blocking adoption of LLMs in many areas: they can’t reason and prompt injection is an unsolved problem. Until there are some theoretical breakthroughs, they’re unsafe to put into adversarial contexts where their output isn’t closely reviewed by a human who can be held accountable. Companies might be able to avoid paying damages in court if a chatbot is very clearly labeled as not not to he trusted, but that’s most of the market because companies want to lay off customer service reps. There’s very little demand for purely entertainment chatbots, especially since even there you have reputational risks if someone can get it to make a racist joke or something similarly offensive.
by runarberg | 2026-02-06 18:02:05+00:00
Unlike autonomous driving, public transit is a proven solution employed in thousands of cities around the world, on various scales, economies, etc.

> Redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure isn't happening, look around.

We have been redesigning and rebuilding city transportation infrastructure since we had cities. Where I live (Seattle) they are opening a new light rail bridge crossing just next month (first rail over a floting bridge; which is technologically very interesting), and two new rail lines are being planned. In the 1960s the Bay area completely revolutionized their transit sytem when they opened BART.

I think you are simply wrong here.
by saithir | 2026-02-06 18:02:30+00:00
> Available offers
> Get offers for top games with Play Pass
> 50% zniżki na zakup w aplikacji
> Do 37 zł zniżki co tydzień
> Candy Crush Soda Saga

Yeah, I would say a big ad for a game that is literally THE textbook example of gambling mechanics and dark patterns, followed by 10 other ads for games of the similar genre, is exactly what the previous poster does NOT want from a service like that.

Oh and also from that page there's no telling at all what actual _games_ are included. The only slider on this page that lists anything is for different gambling slop "offers".

That's not even in the same category as Apple Arcade.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-06 18:02:45+00:00
>There is also still a lot of low-level proprietary code developed in C. I would guess far more than what is developed in Rust.

Do you mean that there's still code being developed, or that it still exists? Because I meant the former, the latter is true of a lot of dead languages like fortran and cobol, and it would cement the idea of being a dead language.
by pardon_me | 2026-02-06 18:03:05+00:00
This is the point we are at now with wide-scale societal technologies; combining the need for network effects with the product being the prototype, and no option but to work on the system live.

Some projects have been forced so far, by diverting resources (either public-funded or not-yet-profitable VC money), but these efforts have not proven to be self-sustaining. Humans will be perpetually stuck where we are as a species if we cannot integrate the currently opposing ideas of up-front planning vs. move fast and break things.

Society is slowly realizing the step-change in difficulty between projects in controlled conditions that can have simplified models to these irreducibly complex systems. Western doctors are facing an interesting parallel, now becoming more aware to treat human beings in the same way--that we emerge as a result of parts which can be simplified and understood, but could never describe the overall system behavior. We are good examples of the intrinsic fault-tolerance required for such systems to remain stable.
by pelagicAustral | 2026-02-06 18:03:10+00:00
I used to be a fan of Heroku when I started working web apps... The deployments were so easy, but I became numb to the actual task of dealing with the complexities of a deployment, when they killed the free tier I struggled for a while... I work with Rails, and I used to bitch a lot about how hard it was to deploy an app, but in retrospective I kind of thank Salesforce for murdering their own product.

Now I deploy at my leisure with stuff like Dokku, or Kamal, directly on a 5 bucks VM on a fresh Linux box in 10 minutes flat. I wrote a nice web app that wraps around Dokku and manage the stack much in the same way I did before with Heroku... I'm much happier and I learned a ton on the way.
by al_borland | 2026-02-06 18:04:04+00:00
I have used Apple products for over 20 years, because I felt like a customer instead of the product. Apple’s services strategy has changed this perception. I question Apple’s competitive advantage when they shift to a Google-like business model. They are actively throwing away the very thing that made them a unique and valuable player in the industry, and for what? A couple extra percent profit in the short term?

Steve Jobs always said he wanted to make insanely great products for customers. Products they’d be proud to recommend to their family. It feels like Cook lost his way, spending too much time focusing on the stock, instead of letting great products drive adoption, and letting the stock follow.

If the rumors are true that Apple is preparing for a change at the top, I how we see a dramatic change in the services strategy and Apple can get back to making great products that people actually want to use.
by kiwicopple | 2026-02-06 18:04:44+00:00
> Why is there no InnoDB for PostgreSQL?

(we maintain OrioleDB) Mostly because the TAM API isn't mature enough yet. Hopefully we can upstream more patches so that it's possible

> undo-based MVCC storage engine project stall?

From what I could gather, it ran out of steam simply because of the difficulty of the task. There is a lot of work involved to get the requisite patches into core and the community are (correctly) cautious
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 18:05:55+00:00
Relevant and topical..

TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911869

Gen Z less intelligent than millennials: How skipping books and doomscrolling are taking a toll on cognitive abilities: says Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/gen-z-less-intelligent-...
by renewiltord | 2026-02-06 18:06:10+00:00
Yeah, the fraud’s been around for a while and the Biden DoJ was investigating it. One of the guys got fingered trying to bribe a juror¹ but he stole half the bribe money.

The politicization of the issue means that Democratic Party aligned people continually flag any reference to the scam on HN though. If anyone else said that someone broke in and stole all the records from a daycare days after it was accused of fraud it would be considered a bald-faced lie but because of the political alignment (this is VP candidate Walz’s state) everyone is forced to pretend there’s no scam.

¹ Paradoxically the one honest juror who reported the bribe was removed from the case. No others reported any bribe which obviously must mean they received none.
by dperfect | 2026-02-06 18:06:12+00:00
Letting Claude work a little longer produced this behemoth of a script (which is supposed to be somewhat universal in correcting similar OCR'd PDFs - not yet tested on any others though):
https://pastebin.com/PsaFhSP1

which uses this Rust zlib stream fixer:
https://pastebin.com/iy69HWXC

and gives the best output I've seen it produce:
https://imgur.com/itYWblh

This is using the same OCR'd text posted by commenter Joe.
by LeFantome | 2026-02-06 18:06:19+00:00
This is a good summary and my take as well.

The cloud is great when you just need to start and when you do not know what scale you will need. Minimal initial cost and no wasted time over planning things you do not know enough about.

The cloud is horrible for steady-state demand. You are over-paying for your base load. If your demand does not scale that much, you do not benefit from the flexibility. Distance from the edge can cause performance problems. In an effort to “save money” you will chase complexity and bake in total reliance on your cloud provider. AAA l

Starting with the cloud makes sense. Just make sure not to engineer a solution you cannot take somewhere else.

As you scale and demand becomes known, you can start to migrate some stuff on premises or to other managed providers.

The great thing about “cloud architecture” is that you can use a hybrid model. You can selectively move parts of the stack. You can host your baseline demand and still rely on the cloud for scalability.

Where you need to spend the money and gain the expertise is in design. Not a giant features waterfall but rather knowing how to build an application and infrastructure that is adaptable and portable as you scale.

Keep it simple but also keep it modular.

At least, that had been my experience.
by hyperpape | 2026-02-06 18:06:42+00:00
> They will sometimes organize recruitment very openly, using the same channels you use for recruiting at any other time: open Facebook groups, Reddit threads, and similar. They will film TikTok videos flashing their ill-gotten gains, and explaining steps in order for how you, too, can get paid.

> As a fraud investigator, you are allowed and encouraged to read Facebook at work.

I tend to believe this, but it would be a lot more compelling with links to a case where Facebook/TikTok posts were useful evidence.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-06 18:07:09+00:00
How is it YIYBY if they can’t force the town to sell the land? They can lobby until they are blue in the face, but they can’t really accomplish anything.

You are the one who said the town owns the land. If they own the land, it looks like the voters are safe—nothing should happen.

You are the one who built the strawman by inventing a public forest under threat from lobbyists. I was just showing that this strawman was an illusion.

I believe that NIMBYs often try to do a motte and bailey argument where they make it seem like someone is literally going to force property owners to build something, when in reality they are trying to prevent property owners from using their property as they want. That really gets my goat, because it’s dishonest.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-06 18:08:00+00:00
The additional drag is negligible. People have been producing "racing doors" with handles for decades. They focus on cutting all the other features of the door like weight and mechanical complexity instead. It's an even more irrelevant consideration for consumers, who could save far more fuel by changing how they drive.

Flush handles exist as brand differentiators. They're a "futuristic" feel-good feature that consumers want, like engine noise, tablets, and colorful dashboards.
by malklera | 2026-02-06 18:08:19+00:00
Good for them.
More curious about file types and protocols, would their software output an open file type and "speak" open protocols?
Let's say a French office needs to talk to a US office.
Can each party use their own client and it still work, or does one party have to download the software of the other?
The same with documents: can each party read the documents produced by the other?
by Tachyooon | 2026-02-06 18:08:50+00:00
It's a potentially big problem for sure. It reminds me of stories I've heard about the public education system in some of the Scandinavian countries. From what I remember off the top of my head, Finland has a system where private educational facilities do not exist. Meaning that, if rich or otherwise elite people want their kids to receive a good education, they need to support the public education facilities their own kid attends. I quite like this idea that everyone is nudged towards helping everyone else, even if they mostly care about their own family and friends.

Similarly in a lottocracy you'd want everyone to be a capable leader when their name is picked from the hat. As the professor I listened to put it, lottocracy makes you think what a democracy really values. Is it about everyone's voice being heard, or is there another goal we should care about more? Not an easy question to answer.
by omnimus | 2026-02-06 18:09:27+00:00
This is very US centric way of looking at it. This whole hero story about Tesla might be required to push US market but would it matter to EU or China? It's very likely market would transition to EVs because of environment/economics probably even in similar pace.

In EU environment movement is very strong especially in the rich countries. BYD is company from 95. They have been leading up to this for 30 years. If you take out the theatrics... it's actually China/BYD who are pushing everyone (especially EU carmakers) to EVs. If anything Tesla is on a trajectory of remembered as a one of car industry biggest disasters and wasted potentials.
by mattlondon | 2026-02-06 18:09:31+00:00
Suddenly all this focus on world models by Deep mind starts to make sense. I've never really thought of Waymo as a robot in the same way as e.g. a Boston Dynamics humanoid, but of course it is a robot of sorts.

Google/Alphabet are so vertically integrated for AI when you think about it. Compare what they're doing - their own power generation , their own silicon, their own data centers, search Gmail YouTube Gemini workspace wallet, billions and billions of Android and Chromebook users, their ads everywhere, their browser everywhere, waymo, probably buy back Boston dynamics soon enough (they're recently partnered together), fusion research, drugs discovery.... and then look at ChatGPT's chatbot or grok's porn. Pales in comparison.
by MikeNotThePope | 2026-02-06 18:10:22+00:00
I was hiking in Nepal a couple years ago. I regularly saw porters carrying 85kg (187 lbs) of wood on there backs up the mountain trails (pic I took: https://imgur.com/a/ahJhoi9). I asked my Nepali guide how much he can carry, and he said "I can carry you!" I'm 195cm (6'5"), and weighed about 120kg (264 lbs) at the time, and this guy was maybe half my size. I told him to prove it, so he asked me to get on his back, which I did, and then he picked me up and started running. Crazy strong.
by mlpoknbji | 2026-02-06 18:11:06+00:00
This is a very interesting contribution to the AI/math space. I hope it can be seen by nonmathematicians interested in this. The mathematicians involved are quite well known (Martin Hairer is a Fields medalist). See https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1qx77l7/a_new_ai_math... for some discussions.
by rznicolet | 2026-02-06 18:11:42+00:00
Blood of the Old Kings, by Sung-Il Kim (translated by Anton Hur). Absolutely fabulous fantasy novel -- it's an about folks in an empire literally powered by the dead, and the folks fighting against its worst excesses. Very strange, mythological magic and excellent ethical through-line. This is a reread for me before I dive into the sequel.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-06 18:11:57+00:00
My understanding is that contextual clues are a big part of it too. We see a the pitcher wind up and throw a baseball as us more than we stereoscopically track its progress from the mound to the plate.

More subtly, a lot of depth information comes from how big we expect things to be, since everyday life is full of things we intuitively know the sizes of, frames of reference in the form of people, vehicles, furniture, etc
. This is why the forced perspective of theme park castles is so effective— our brains want to see those upper windows as full sized, so we see the thing as 2-3x bigger than it actually is. And in the other direction, a lot of buildings in Las Vegas are further away than they look because hotels like the Bellagio have large black boxes on them that group a 2x2 block of the actual room windows.
by wvenable | 2026-02-06 18:12:06+00:00
> Ok, hold up. That is not a SaaS app lol. That is an on-prem installation. Very very very very much not the same thing.

I didn't mean to imply on-prem. "Install" was the wrong word; call that "onboarding" instead. There is always some integration component as well because nothing lives entirely on it's own. Some SaaS providers are really good; no complaints on this part. Some are terrible. I believe one new vendor is going to try and charge us almost $100,000 to integrate their product with our other products. The entire purpose of this product is the integration. This is one I'm pushing to do internally because it's so fiddly.

> The corollary to that is every minute your app doesn't work you cost them money. If you fuck up and store protected data the wrong way or lose data because it tipped over, you're also costing them money.

So? You seem to think SaaS software doesn't go down, break it weird ways, get slow for no reason, etc. Across everything we probably had half a dozen small outages last month. But none of our internal (also cloud) products went down at all. Hell, one of the biggest most common SaaS products in our industry released an undocumented change last month to their API that subtly returned incorrect results. As far as I can tell, they still haven't acknowledged it.

I'm not saying we don't have bugs or bad things don't happen but I don't see why you think that externally purchased software is automatically better.

> I can tell you have never had to clean up one of these apps. Knowing the technology is not the issue.

Good developers produce good results. I have a new intern on my team who's currently still in school and she's absolutely killing it working on our apps. So maybe the problem isn't internal development, it's just shitty developers. Those exist in SaaS products as well; I look at some of their shit and I wonder what we are paying for. It can be well hidden behind nice marketing and big brands but it's still crap.

One vendor tried to sell us a product that was actually sneakily split into two pieces -- one developed in North American in .NET and the other half in India in PHP! They nightly sync the data between them. At the time, we had multiple products for this job and we were looking for one integrated product to replace them. I just happened to notice when looking at the URLs during the sale pitch and that's what caused them to spill the beans. We didn't buy that product.

While a lot of our internal development is complete products, a good chunk is actually filling out the functionality holes or working around bugs in our SaaS products.

> Sure you can. Getting the data is the easy part.

The last one we dropped, we definitely didn't get our data out. In fact, as soon as we cancelled the contract (3 month lead time) we were basically dead to them.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-06 18:12:08+00:00
CUDA is a GPGPU software layer that is very mature, and integrates with C,C++, Python, Fortran very well. AMD just never really got the same quality of GPGPU software in the last 20 years. 99% of scientific computing that uses GPUs (which is a lot since they are so much faster than CPUs for linear algebra) have gone to Nvidia because of this. All of the big AI libraries (Tensor Flow, PyTorch) basically ended up writing around CUDA, so they just didn't write things for AMD. Plus if you go and look at a job for signal processing or whatever at say Lockheed Martin or Raytheon, they specific CUDA.
by neiljohnson | 2026-02-06 18:13:11+00:00
The complexity associated with Matrix comes from wanting to build a multivendor ecosystem around an open standard, the decentralisation (and federation) to avoid building islands and then implementing things like multi-device e2ee and VoIP in such a context.

However, it is exactly these properties that make it so appealing to an organisation like the EC as they pursue digital sovereignty.

The goals of Matrix have nothing to do with being a social network. You could theoretically build a social network on top of Matrix (Matrix essentially syncs JSON in real-time), but I'm not aware of a project with traction, and more to the point, those projects are not relevant to this discussion. Yes Matrix is resilient to network partitions (that's a good thing for a messenger!), but that seems entirely orthogonal to your point on social networks.

Finally, I don't think it's fair to draw a comparison between the relationship between Kandra Labs and Zulip vs Element and Matrix. Yes Element is a major player in the Matrix eco-system having originally formed to hire the Matrix founding team, but since then many Matrix vendors have sprung up and if Element were to disappear tomorrow Matrix would continue. In fact, this is the whole purpose of having an independent Foundation, which in turn encourages multiple vendors to operate side by side.