MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by igouy | 2026-02-01 17:33:58+00:00
> maybe Java benefits from out of band GC

benchmarks game uses BenchExec to take 'care of important low-level details for accurate, precise, and reproducible measurements' ….

BenchExec uses the cgroups feature of the Linux kernel to correctly handle groups of processes and uses Linux user namespaces to create a container that restricts interference of [each program] with the benchmarking host.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-01 17:34:40+00:00
Yes.

Its weird having a long time military part time job and a software full time job. Military people tend to be extremely confrontational, and usually not in any way negative. Software people tend to greatly fear confrontation in any form. It really feels like a form of cowardice on repeat. The weirdness is hyper amplified when the manager is the person who is most intimidated and fearful of one-on-ones. That's American social cultural and why so many people take anti-anxiety medications when they shouldn't.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-01 17:34:49+00:00
Looks fairly artistic to me.

I figure they've already got sophisticated AI serving as critics who ruminate amongst themselves about the underlying meanings in some of these compositions.

Which ordinary people just would't be able to comprehend ;)

What do I know, all I do is just look at the pictures.

Like they say, "there's no accounting for taste".
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-01 17:36:31+00:00
> I have also given them examples of good answers: terse and to the point

Oh man, this reminds me of one test I had in uni, back in the days when all our tests were in class, pen & paper (what's old is new again?). We had this weird class that taught something like security programming in unix. Or something. Anyway, all I remember is the first two questions being about security/firewall stuff, and the third question was "what is a socket". So I really liked the first two questions, and over-answered for about a page each. Enough text to both run out of paper and out of time. So my answer to the 3rd question was "a file descriptor". I don't know if they laughed at my terseness or just figured since I overanswered on the previous questions I knew what that was, but whoever graded my paper gave me full points.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-01 17:36:52+00:00
The other one you get is "remove object from person", which is usually not as rude as it sounds. Mostly, it's cutting a ring that's too tight off someone.

What, you want me to call 999? To get a ring that's too tight off? I mean it's hurting my finger but is it really an emergency?

Yes, dumbass, it's an emergency. Get the ring off your finger right now before the blood supply gets compromised and you end up with a big slug of stale dead blood washing round you when you finally do get it off. You could lose your hand if you piss about with it too long.

I know it seems like overkill to have a 18-tonne Scania rock up with five guys in it just to cut through that little ring, but they have the right tools to do it quickly and easily, and no-one wants to have to cut your hand off.

Ring 999 while you still have two working hands.

Smoke alarm going off? No apparent reason? At least ring them up for advice. There might be something you haven't seen. Just phone them.

It's far easier dealing with you not being on fire in the first place, than dealing with you being on fire later. Not being on fire is good.
by kloud | 2026-02-01 17:37:05+00:00
Good to know, that makes it even better. I still find Opus 4.5 to be the best model currently. But if next generation of GPT/Gemini close the gap that will cross the inflection point for me and make 3rd party harnesses viable. Or if they jump ahead, that should put more pressure on the Flicker Company to fix the flicker or relax the subscriptions.
by danaris | 2026-02-01 17:37:25+00:00
> It is so clear that AI tools will be (and are already) a big part of future jobs for CS majors now, both in industry and academia.

No, it's not.

Nothing around AI past the next few months to a year is clear right now.

It's very, very possible that within the next year or two, the bottom falls out of the market for mainstream/commercial LLM services, and then all the Copilot and Claude Code and similar services are going to dry up and blow away. Naturally, that doesn't mean that no one will be using LLMs for coding, given the number of people who have reported their productivity increasing—but it means there won't be a guarantee that, for instance, VS Code will have a first-party integrated solution for it, and that's a must-have for many larger coding shops.

None of that is certain, of course! That's the whole point: we don't know what's coming.
by bendangelo | 2026-02-01 17:37:30+00:00
I didn't know sqlite had a vector extension. I'm also using nomic 1.5 with 256 size vectors. After about 44k entries searching is way too slow. I'm thinking about reducing the size to half. What size are you using?

For text search, I'm using lnx which is based off of Tantivy.

I disabled the vector search feature for now but I will re-enable it after some optimization. The site is at https://stray.video
by derektank | 2026-02-01 17:38:35+00:00
This is a mouse model, so treatment toxicity as always remains a question mark in humans. Additionally, protein degraders like SD36 are very new, I don’t think any are FDA approved at this point, and figuring out e.g. dosing for human clinical trials will require more research on e.g. bioavailability, stability, etc. in humans.
by 6SixTy | 2026-02-01 17:38:41+00:00
I have to wonder if the Nintendo Switch picking up the Tegra X1 SOC has something to do with it. There's a good chance a lot of components of the (custom microkernel) operating system are derived from Android, and with the Switch receiving active support for so long, I wouldn't be surprised if the work between the Shield TV and Switch are related.

With the Switch being shipped for nearly 10 years, it pales in comparison to the shelf life of most any processor Apple, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, MediaTek (?) push out.

Though Apple in particular is interesting, as their Apple TV lineup also has the same long legs, with the Apple TV HD/4th Gen releasing in 2015 and receiving the latest OS.
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2026-02-01 17:38:45+00:00
Interesting history, which does seem to be true: In the Beginning, the reliability of floppies was really quite good. Over time, as the mass market developed, however, quality went down as people shaved pennies and fractions of pennies. Storied brands such as Sony ended up being bad sector magnets (well, you know what I mean...).

My big secret for those of us still using floppies (USB floppies are a steal!) --- get Maxell NOS; they're about $3 per diskette now, but I have beat them hard and they keep going. Of course, I also had a batch of poorly-stored floppies that would not even turn (!) from one vendor (cheap, tho...) and they almost ruined one drive.

My rule now is: once a single sector goes kaput, make a new working copy from your backup (you HAVE a backup, right???), mark the bad sector of the failed disk, and put it in the 'BAD' pile. I have not yet had a sector on a Maxell 1.44 diskette go bad. Several SONY diskettes however are in that pile.

Note that the head drags on the surface of a floppy, so you're always losing a little; what that closeness does, tho, is allow phenomenal bits-per-square-inch. The coatings are very good, binders are good, magnetic properties are excellent. And the head widths (both sides, after all) are small. So you get formatted 80 cylinders of 18,432 bytes per cylinder MSDOS-compatible capacity, at that 5 revolutions per second ( 300 RPM, but gosh, RPS is a better unit here...) speed.

The floppy drive is an incredible chunk of engineering. It's unfortunate that Zip 100 and Zip 250 arrived so relatively late in the game.
by shagie | 2026-02-01 17:39:20+00:00
This reminds me of a bit from Car Wars by Cory Doctorow. It is currently at https://doctorow.medium.com/car-wars-a01718a27e9e in a text only view. The original had a bit more mixed media nature to it that is now offline. https://web.archive.org/web/20170519202315/http://this.deaki... for that version (the microblogging of chapter 2 makes more sense when it shows up in that style).

You have to have some ability to do "prompt injection" - https://www.trafficsign.com/road-work-signs are all "prompt injection". It needs to even be able to handle things that change - https://www.trafficsign.com/products/10023/stop-slow-roll-up... ... or things like billboards "Truck Stop Ahead" a chain control site ( https://www.facebook.com/61556756493806/posts/-chain-control... )

In the "what about funny road signs" that might be confusing to an AI I stumbled across https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225370260/driven-to-distract... - apparently, they're no more. From 2024:

Over the years, the agency has flagged signs that could be confusing. Now, in rules issued last month, it gives states two years to phase out signs that have "obscure" meanings or use pop-culture references that could require drivers "greater time to process." In a statement, the agency said safety is the priority and states "are expected to exercise good judgment."
by sponaugle | 2026-02-01 17:39:36+00:00
I have a 3 node proxmox setup on MS-01s using a 25G Thunderbolt ring for Ceph, and indeed it took a lot of hoops to get it working correctly and reliably. I did manage to get it such that nodes can go up and down without needing to unplug anything, and the dynamic routing works if a node disappears. Performance is pretty good, with a more realistic 20ish gbit/sec.
by Scubabear68 | 2026-02-01 17:40:11+00:00
The worst I ever saw was an engineer misunderstood microservices, and made a service per endpoint.

He started complaining to management that 50 CI/CD setups was his limit he could support.

He was absolutely amazed when I showed him he could combine endpoints into a larger logical service. 50 services became three, and it’s still three a few years later now.
by chaps | 2026-02-01 17:40:13+00:00
It's not as obvious of an answer as it initially sounds. Coming at this from a stint in investigative journalism where even beginning an investigation requires getting grants and grants involve convincing other people that the money is going to good use. Also having been told that an investigation I ran was nothing by multiple editors that turned out to be something big... it really shifted how I perceive investigations and what it means to stick your neck out when everyone's telling you that something isn't happening even when it is.
by Fnoord | 2026-02-01 17:40:23+00:00
The only customers who care about DRM are the suppliers; not the users. Force the user to not be able to play DRM content, and they'll end up pirating.

Furthermore, I never demanded a new Android TV version. All I wanted was security fixes, not Google's new shitty launcher. I'd never have bought the product if it contained the current launcher.
by asim | 2026-02-01 17:41:22+00:00
I started working on something similar but for family stuff. I stopped before hitting self editing because, well I was a little bit afraid of becoming over reliant on a tool like this or becoming more obsessed with building it than actually solving a real problem in my life. AI is tricky. Sometimes we think we need something when in fact life might be better off simpler.

The code for anyone interested. Wrote it with exe.dev's coding agent which is a wrapper on Claude Opus 4.5

https://github.com/asim/aslam
Show HN: Watch ChatGPT Codex agent add TailwindCSS to a site
by logicallee | 2026-02-01 17:41:30+00:00
Many people would like to see the latest coding agents in action, here you can see me add Tailwindcss to a project just by asking for it from ChatGPT Codex, completely redoing all the front-end code. This is a complex process, and Codex did this part completely autonomously, just asking about commands before running them.
by ticulatedspline | 2026-02-01 17:42:33+00:00
> Nearly half of all Americans didn’t read a single book in 2025, with the habit falling roughly 40% over the past decade

I don't think this is a great metric of literacy. For one not all books are exactly high quality, and now more than ever there's a plethora of non-book written content available to us.

I used to read a lot of books when I was in school but these days I rarely do, however I probably consume more written word than ever. News, blogs, documentation, various and sundry articles. I read a lot, just not books anymore.
Show HN: Harmony AI – Clawdbot for the rest of us
by Vishal19111999 | 2026-02-01 17:42:51+00:00
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by incolumitas | 2026-02-01 17:42:54+00:00
Most people say that IP Geolocation is mere guesswork.

In this study I wanted to find out how good various different geolocation providers rank when being compared with real GPS location data obtained via the JS Location API.

Seems like IP Geolocation is 93% correct to the country level and like 70% correct to the city level.

This is way better than a "random guess" and therefore the utility is definitely given.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-01 17:43:04+00:00
You are wrong.

Every country in EU is materially better in the bloc, and the only country that left it is much worse for it.

Brexit was such a monumental disaster for the UK that even far right morons in other EU countries had to massively tone down if not abandon any "exit" rhetoric. Now their strategy is to "reform" the EU (i.e.: weaken it).

> 20 years of failed projects (apart from the law saying that bottles should have their cap attached)

This alone shows you are unwilling to engage with the idea of the EU in good faith, thus this conversation with you is a massive waste of my time.

The EU is not perfect (and in fact the expectation of unanimous decisions via veto powers is one if its main weaknesses). But every country, including my own, would be much worse without it.

I will not reply any further, feel free to have the last word.
by cwnyth | 2026-02-01 17:43:48+00:00
I was linking it partially tongue in cheek, but oracles and the auspices in antiquity were specifically not about morality. They were about predicting the future. If you wanted to know if you should invade Carthage on a certain day, you'd check the chickens. Literally. And plenty of medical practices were steeped in religious fare, too. If you go back further, a lot of shamanistic practices divine the facts about the present reality. In the words of Terrence McKenna, "[Shamans] cure disease (and another way of putting that is: they have a remarkable facility for choosing patients who will recover), they predict weather (very important), they tell where game has gone, the movement of game, and they seem to have a paranormal ability to look into questions, as I mentioned, who’s sleeping with who, who stole the chicken, who—you know, social transgressions are an open book to them." All very much dealing with facts, not morality.

With regards to Pythagoreanism, Pythagoras himself thought of mathematics in religious ways. From the entry on Pythagoras (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/) in the SEP:

> The cosmos of the acusmata, however, clearly shows a belief in a world structured according to mathematics, and some of the evidence for this belief may have been drawn from genuine mathematical truths such as those embodied in the “Pythagorean” theorem and the relation of whole number ratios to musical concords.

There are numerous sections throughout both of these entries that discuss Pythagoras, mathematics, and religion. Plato too is another fruitful avenue, if you wanted to explore that further.
by hnfong | 2026-02-01 17:44:01+00:00
"Taiwanese lectures Hong Konger about Hong Kong" is a recurring meme on Threads among local Hong Kongers. I didn't expect I'd experience one here.

I mean, I know I am supposed to refute your point with rational points, but I really don't know what to say except that you're wrong, and you're confusing the cultural divide between Cantonese speakers and non-Cantonese speakers, and the political tensions between Hong Kong and mainland China.

Note that I never said "Hong Kong" in my comment because the majority of Cantonese speakers are actually in mainland China.
by subhobroto | 2026-02-01 17:44:42+00:00
I have been thinking about this and it seems like it's an asset that students want to do as little work as possible to get course credits. They also love playing games of various sorts. So instead of killing trees, printing pages of materials out and having students pay substantial sums to the printing press so we can inject distance between students reading the material and ChatGPT, why not turn it around completely?

1. Instead of putting up all sorts of barriers between students and ChatGPT, have students explicitly use ChatGPT to complete the homework

2. Then compare the diversity in the ChatGPT output

3. If the ChatGPT output is extremely similar, then the game is to critique that ChatGPT output, find out gaps in ChatGPT's work, insights it missed and what it could have done better

4.If the ChatGPT output is diverse, how do we figure out which is better? What caused the diversity? Are all the outputs accurate or are there errors in some?

Similarly, when it comes to coding, instead of worrying that ChatGPT can zero shot quicksort and memcpy perfectly, why not game it:

1. Write some test cases that could make that specific implementation of `quicksort` or `memcpy` fail

2. Could we design the input data such that quicksort hits its worst case runtime?

3. Is there an algorithm that would sort faster than quicksort for that specific input?

4. Could there be architectures where the assumptions that make quicksort "quick", fail to hold true? Instead, something simpler and worse on paper like a "cache aware sort" actually work faster in practice than quicksort?

I have multiple paragraphs more of thought on this topic but will leave it at this for now to calibrate if my thoughts are in the minority
by 6stringmerc | 2026-02-01 17:44:46+00:00
My thesis paper about a course for Freshman Composition Writing to stress fundamentals by way of using quill, pencil, pen, and finally a typewriter, was written 20 YEARS AGO in response to Spell Check and Auto Predict at the time...2006...

This isn't my article nor do I know this Educator but I like her approach and actions taken:

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5631779/ai-schools-teac...
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2026-02-01 17:45:05+00:00
RX-01 DEC / IBM 3740 compatible was 77 tracks, single-sided, 128 bytes per sector and 26 sectors per track. Total 256,256 bytes. FM Modulation. 360 RPM. Disk to drive buffer: 4 µsec per data bit. Track-to-Track Seek: 6 ms. Head Settle Time: 25 ms. Average Access: Approximately 262 ms. 8" diameter diskette

One of these was used to load the microcode into the VAX-11/780 upon boot.
by libraryofbabel | 2026-02-01 17:45:07+00:00
I agree with you that everything is changing and that we don’t know what’s coming, but I think you really have to stretch things to imagine that it’s a likely scenario that AI-assisted coding will “dry up and blow away.” You’ll need to elaborate on that, because I don’t think it’s likely even if the AI investment bubble pops. Remember that inference is not really that expensive. Or do you think that things shift on the demand side somehow? Either way, you’ll need to elaborate for your claim to sound on any way convincing, I think.
by ajcp | 2026-02-01 17:46:04+00:00
Yup! Two or three times at this point, and haven't had an issue.

When I've filed they just process it straight through, and then one of their actual reps emails within x hours to just check in, give an update or clarifications, etc, but that's it really.

IIRC their whole approach to competitive pricing is doing away with manual claims investigations below a certain threshold, so this tracks.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-01 17:47:25+00:00
Amusing, but no (at least I sincerely hope). Food and wet samples are never in the same vicinity as a matter of OSHA (plus just a general desire not to get yourself or others killed). Violating that would typically be a great way to speedrun getting fired.

Radioactive substances go beyond that, generally being handled in their own dedicated area that no one else is permitted to enter for any reason. The level of paranoia is actually fairly impressive (but obviously necessary).
by jleyank | 2026-02-01 17:47:31+00:00
I suspect that studios, within possibly a film cycle or two, are quite aware of what makes a good return on investment and what doesn’t. One problem is that Hollywood pays (far) more attention to international sales than before and what sells “there” might be less interesting “here”. So if they make stuff that fails to sell anywhere they’ll give up on that kind of thing.

So it comes down to what the international return of “family” movies are vs what’s being made now. If you want mild stuff, throw lots of cash at the box office or streaming service. And you have to outspend the rest of the world.

Oh, and Lord of the Rings had a lot of violence and discussions of Evil. And that’s ok? What about the Harry Potter flicks, as I recall lots of people thought them inappropriate at the time (witchcraft)?
by wowczarek | 2026-02-01 17:47:44+00:00
All the way up to 2004 or 2005, my home router was an old 486dx box running FREESCO (https://freesco.info/) - and it was, indeed, booting from a single floppy. Linux 2.0.something.

To my surprise I discovered today that FREESCO was still releasing updates all the way until 2014.
by piinbinary | 2026-02-01 17:48:30+00:00
It didn't know about the Woodboring beetle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodboring_beetle

Doing this felt odd, it was like it wore out something in my brain. After a while I could picture the animals I wanted to enter but I struggled to remember the word for them. Only now, a minute or so after stopping, could I remember 'Dragonfly'

I was also amused by the reaction to "crab":

> (Carcinization makes it hard to define “crab”, so I'm going to pretend you said “brown crab”.)
by epistasis | 2026-02-01 17:48:33+00:00
Please do not get your science reporting from the NYPost. 99% chance it's some random press release fetched when an editor says "hey let's try to do a feel good science story" and it will not be placed into context of what the actual chances for success are; that only comes from Phase 3 clinical trials in humans.

And often the first trials are not very impressive, just barely enough to get approval, and then slowly more effective use of the treatment is found through more trials later on.

It's a slow pace of discovery, with few "holy shit this is amazing moments" that are recognizable to anyone who's not in the thick of knowing what typical treatments and outcomes are for a specific type of cancer.

Maybe the NYPost is trying to turn a corner towards doing serious journalism, but this is not it. The first time they mention KRAS it has a typo as KRS which tells you the author knows jack shit about anything related to the topic. That's not a typo that survives a basic proofreading. KRAS is a major player in cancer, not just pancreatic cancer.