MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwohnitmok | 2026-02-08 03:21:12+00:00
I'm curious what you heard exactly. As far as I can tell, centaur chess looks completely dead.

Nobody ever wins anymore in the ICCF championships (which I believe is the most prestigious centaur chess venue, but am not sure).

This is not an exaggeration. See my comment from several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768948

As far as I can tell based on scanning forums, to the extent humans contribute anything to the centaur setup, it is entirely in hardware provisioning and allocating enough server time before matches for chess engines to do precomputation, rather than anything actually chess related, but I am unsure on this point.

I have heard anecdotally from non-serious players (and therefore I cannot be certain that this reflects sentiment at the highest levels although the ICCF results seem to back this up) that the only ways to lose in centaur chess at this point is to deviate from what the computer tells you to do, either intentionally or unintentionally by accidentally submitting the wrong move, or simply by being at a compute disadvantage.

I've got several previous comments on this because this is a topic that interests me a lot, but the two most topical here are the previous one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022581.
by vel0city | 2026-02-08 03:21:55+00:00
I agree, I totally missed your comment was related to the 30+min concept.

> But, you can also easily find suburban places where you can do it, and those places are all over, there is nothing rare about them

I agree, you can find some housing stock like that in most housing markets. It's less rare than finding a unicorn, I agree. But they're also often not a large chunk of the overall housing market.

It sounds like all those experiences are in Southern California. That's pretty dense compared to a lot of the places I've lived, even though I wouldn't call it extremely dense. It's also a place that while still having a lot of notable NIMBY stuff going on it tends to be way more amenable to pedestrian and bike infrastructure and city design. Weather also leads to more and more people willing to be outside. You should expand your study to other areas, not every place in the US is Southern California.

Look around the rest of North Texas for a good example. You can find pockets where it's decently walkable. Plano and Richardson and some parts of Dallas can be pretty bikeable. But Frisco? Little Elm? Arlington (outside the college campus)? Aledo? You can live at the edge of a large neighborhood and still have it be walkable/bikeable. But then there's still the rest of the neighborhood where it's going to take a while to walk to the edge.

Look at Kansas City, KS [0]. You'll find tons of neighborhoods like this. Not exactly walkable, like much of the metro area. Once again, sure, pick a house at the edge of this neighborhood and it's okay, but that's not the majority of the housing stock. Once again, sure, you'll find some neighborhood around that is relatively bikeable, but percentage of hosing stock it's pretty rare. Not unicorn rare, but still pretty limiting on the housing market. Can you find houses that are walkable? Sure. Is it in your budget? Does it meet your other needs? Is it close to your work? Are the schools still pretty OK?

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/L7vRMc4v4ouS9uuh9

Go to St Louis [1]. See it's pretty much the same story? Most of this suburban housing stock isn't walkable and is not very bikeable.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/CLZDVKjdVkwj92sq6

Can you find some place walkable and bikeable in practically any decently sized metro area in the US? Sure. It's it even a quarter of the overall suburban housing stock in that metro? Probably not!
by pandaman | 2026-02-08 03:22:02+00:00
I think you are confused. Zoning is not words, zoning is a set of regulations. There is no zoning for an Indian restaurant yet you can open one in a commercial lot and can't in a residential or agricultural. Same with homeless camps: there is no specific zoning for a homeless camp only but they are much easier to keep in commercial lots than residential, where it will immediately run into occupancy limits, impervious cover, trash and other restrictions.
by notesinthefield | 2026-02-08 03:22:23+00:00
I was 347lbs at the time. Wasnt a diabetic (nor pre-diabetic) no heart disease, blood pressure or really anything other than my weight. Prior to then Id had two massive bouts of weight loss at 50-100lbs so I know what it takes. Id tried but this last time without meds was extremely hard. You cant do much in the way of productive exercise when both your shoulders need replacement at 30 and between two knees have an ACL tear and two MCL tears. To top it off I had wildly out of whack hormones.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-08 03:22:32+00:00
Every single CVE at least prior to the last couple years was written by a human. Azure and AWS have failed or have been compromised in embarrassing ways. I don’t take this human good, machine bad argument seriously. On the bright side, high integrity software may finally be an expectation for customers paying for software as “barely works” is becoming practically free.
by jonas21 | 2026-02-08 03:22:43+00:00
> There is also a solenoid inside the enclosure, but since the keyboard is not powered up, this was not being activated — and these are seemingly particularly loud! But why? The teletypewriters, paper terminals and card punches which preceded such early “glass teletypes” would have been very noisy indeed, hence it was decided that terminals like the IBM 3278 would need to provide much more positive feedback than simply that provided by a clicky switch module.

Reading this, I thought it could not possibly be true -- the keys are so loud and clicky already. But it turns out it actually was the case, as demonstrated here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT9CHub9Cxs
by dpweb | 2026-02-08 03:24:06+00:00
Made a quick bot app (OC clone). For me I just want to iMessage it - but do not want to give Full Disk rights to terminal (to read the imessage db).

Uses Mlx for local llm on apple silicon. Performance has been pretty good for a basic spec M4 mini.

Nor install the little apps that I don't know what they're doing and reading my chat history and mac system folders.

What I did was create a shortcut on my iphone to write imessages to an iCloud file, which syncs to my mac mini (quick) - and the script loop on the mini to process my messages. It works.

Wonder if others have ideas so I can iMessage the bot, im in iMessage and don't really want to use another app.
by spacephysics | 2026-02-08 03:24:18+00:00
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next 5-10 years the new and popular programming language is one built with the idea of optimizing how well LLM’s (or at that point world models) understand and can use it.

Right now LLMs are taking languages meant for humans to understand better via abstraction, what if the next language is designed for optimal LLM/world model understanding?

Or instead of an entirely new language, theres some form of compiling/transpiling from the model language to a human centric one like WASM for LLMs
by keybored | 2026-02-08 03:25:03+00:00
Always such glowing recommendations of human kind from techies.

People devolve like that when they have no purpose or opportunities. Which I’m sure would happen with the real goal of UBI: barely subsistence support in order to grow a larger pool of reserve labor while the rich (who are not degenerate at all[1]) live large.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929869
by gsk22 | 2026-02-08 03:25:34+00:00
I think you would be hard-pressed to find any human who has been 100 pounds overweight for any amount of time that doesn't have an obesity-related comorbidity.

Hypertension, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, etc are all common in the general population and exacerbated or even caused by the physical and lifestyle conditions that beget obesity.
by stackskipton | 2026-02-08 03:28:11+00:00
My thoughts as someone who used to do a ton of Exchange/365 setups.

Protocol compatibility shouldn't be MVP. Forcing everyone into a browser is fine, millions of people interact with Google that way.

Same thing with End to End. Just ability to self-host is fine. If someone wants to encrypt their data, since you store it all as files, just have them encrypt local file store.

SQLite + Files is great storage method and actually makes your system more clusterable than you think. You develop a gateway that looks up which servers holds the active user, direct all traffic there. Secondary servers just receive updated copies of data from primary. Exchange works this way.
by switchbak | 2026-02-08 03:29:30+00:00
I have a framework laptop, and when it works it’s just ok. It looks just enough like a Mac to have me feel frustrated when I use it.

In theory we may be able to run Linux (reliably, not in the bleeding edge) on Apple hardware eventually. But you still pay the Apple tax, which is pretty bonkers these days. But dang those machines are nice.
by prxm | 2026-02-08 03:29:49+00:00
This is one of my favourite activites with LLMs as well. After implementing some sort of idea for an algorithm, I try seeing what an LLM would come up with. I hint it as well and push it in the correct direction with many iterations but never tell the most ideal one. And as a matter of fact they can never reach the quality I did with my initial implementation.
Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT
by g1raffe | 2026-02-08 03:30:39+00:00
Built this to access self-hosted services behind CGNAT without running a VPN.

Discord bot that manages cloudflared tunnels. Whitelist services, send "!tunnel start gitea 1h", get a public URL that expires.

Uses Cloudflare's free quick tunnels.
by XCSme | 2026-02-08 03:30:53+00:00
In my experience, most people with cancer that I know simply oscillate between having life-threatening active cancer/tumors and remission.

I don't know any case where people have detectable cancer and it's just being managed, I think that's more the exception than the rule.

For my girlfriend, when she was in her last stages they had to do that (try to slow down/manage the cancer instead of remove it), but that was already palliative care and she died soon after. Also, the only reason they didn't try removing the tumor is because the specific location in the brain (pons) is inoperable.
by com2kid | 2026-02-08 03:31:06+00:00
Also the elderly and poor who cannot afford the prescriptions.

GLP-1 drugs range from $100-$200 a month from mail order compounding pharmacies, or $500 a month on "discount" plans from the drug makers.

This change to FDA enforcement is going to prevent a lot of people from getting help.

The positive impact of GLP-1 drugs is huge, but the price is out of reach for most people. The people who most benefit, elderly obese people at high risk of injury due to falls, who have a low quality of life from morbid obesity, are least able to afford access to the drugs.

These compounding pharmacies were improving a lot of lives.
by danans | 2026-02-08 03:31:15+00:00
> Not sure your point. It's fiction. Are we closer to finding dragons, faeries, or magic?

No, but we've become increasingly superstitious, and cultish. A lot of the day to day parts of sci-fi have become reality so it's not as exciting anymore. Sci-fi no longer serves as escapism. Anymore, it reminds us of our limitations.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-08 03:31:43+00:00
> To this day, afaik no testing of vapes is required to ensure they don't contain this toxic ingredient.

This is a pretty good example of how "testing requirements" tend to be reactionary and effectively useless.

Vapes contained Vitamin E because the sellers were cutting the product with it, the same way drug dealers cut drugs with starch or sugar or something worse. It wasn't a manufacturing mistake, they were adding it on purpose to rip off the customer. It makes sense for that to be a crime -- it's fraud and negligence -- so the argument comes that we should require testing for it.

But if you add a test for something like that, they either cut it with something else that the test won't show (which might be even worse) or they add the cutting agent to the distribution pipeline somewhere after the point where the testing requirement is imposed. Testing for something works against mistakes, not purposeful behavior.

Meanwhile the people doing it were probably idiots who didn't know it would cause physiological harmful and thought they were just ripping people off, so then the argument comes that we should be testing to make sure they're not doing that. Except there is no generic test for every possible problem, so at the point they first started adding it, the government would have had no reason to test for that in particular, and by the time it becomes generally known that adding that substance is harmful, they'd have stopped adding it because they don't want to be sued or arrested when their customers have those symptoms and then permanently testing everything for something everybody has already independently stopped doing is a waste of resources.

The problem is people want the generic test that could catch every possible problem and that isn't a real thing, and there is no point in doing the specific test for something that has already stopped happening.
by lionelw | 2026-02-08 03:31:49+00:00
Is this the first time mainstream media is saying something? Prominent voices have done so for years e.g. Anil Dash[0], but no one seems to have gotten the memo; people who I thought would care have continued to either be on it or cite content from it, oblivious.

Edit: Scrolling down to related stories shows articles criticising Nazi Substacks since 2024

[0] https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
by wolrah | 2026-02-08 03:32:01+00:00
> owing to its height and the distance it can receive from,

And, importantly, the fender-mount LIDARs. It doesn't just have the one on the roof, it has one on each corner too.

I first took a Waymo as a curiosity on a recent SF trip, just a few blocks from my hotel east on Lombard to Hyde and over to the Buena Vista to try it out, and I was immediately impressed when we pulled up the hill to Larkin and it saw a pedestrian that was out of view behind a building from my perspective. Those real-time displays went a long way to allowing me to quickly trust that the vehicle's systems were aware of what's going on around it and the relevant traffic signals. Plenty of sensors plus a detailed map of a specific environment work well.

Compare that to my Ioniq5 which combines one camera with a radar and a few ultrasonic sensors and thinks a semi truck is a series of cars constantly merging in to each other. I trust it to hold a lane on the highway and not much else, which is basically what they sell it as being able to do. I haven't seen anything that would make me trust a Tesla any further than my own car and yet they sell it as if it is on the verge of being able to drive you anywhere you want on its own.
by spiderfarmer | 2026-02-08 03:32:59+00:00
I think you’re wrong in several ways.

Even capable coders can’t create a Reddit clone in a week. Because it’s not just a glorified CRUD app. And I encourage you to think a bit harder before arguing like that.

Yes you can create a CRUD app in some kind of framework and style it like Reddit. But that’s like putting lines on your lawn and calling it a clone of the Bernabeu.

But even if you were right, the real barrier to building a Reddit clone is getting traction. Even if you went viral and did everything right, you’d still have to wait years before you have the brand recognition and SEO rankings they enjoy.
by qzcanoe | 2026-02-08 03:33:09+00:00
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by cheeze | 2026-02-08 03:33:49+00:00
> I’d agree for a home computer Linux or macOS are the only sane choices now.

Unless you care about gaming at all. Sure you have the Linux evangelists who talk about how much better support has gotten (it has!) but there are still huge glaring holes.

I run MacOS for everything except gaming. I'm not even that big of a gamer but it's the only sane option there.
by Insanity | 2026-02-08 03:34:01+00:00
Post had nothing to do with Haskell so the title is a bit misleading. But rest of article is good, and I actually think that Agentic/AI coding will probably evolve in this way.

The current tools are the infancy of AI assisted coding. It’s like the MS-DOS era. Over time maybe the backpropagating from “your comfort language” to “target language” could become commonplace.
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-08 03:34:46+00:00
Hims is mostly marketing. They are using compounding pharmacies to fulfill orders. Compounders are a shady industry in general, and most the GLP places are using Florida pharmacies, which are notoriously extra shady, as Floridas regulatory function is deliberately incompetent.

Compounders are primarily regulated at the state level, and regulatory effectiveness varies. The more legit ones are mostly buying Rybelsus (the pill version of Ozempic for Type 2 diabetes) at wholesale and crushing it. The shadier ones are using precursors, sourcing from questionable & unregulated suppliers or watering down does and adding stuff like vitamin B-12.

The FDA has more limited jurisdiction, and they have been busy firing people.

The federal attention probably has more to do with whatever grift POTUS has going with Eli Lily and Novo Nordisk. Both companies are about to scale up their daily tablet versions of Wegovy and Zepbound at lower price points, and that availability will push the cost of compounded injectables way down.
by itsboring | 2026-02-08 03:34:57+00:00
Not to mention that it seems like everything has to go through like 10 redirects just to log in, and then you have to dismiss various pop-ups before you can just do whatever you went there to do. Some will say that the last part is just a UX problem, but in my opinion, sluggishness is the king of UX prooblems.

On the topic of Electron, I’m really torn. I can’t help but feel some gratitude for the fact a few of the work tools I need work on Linux (stuff like Slack, Teams, Zoom).
by simonster | 2026-02-08 03:35:11+00:00
If the government audited the company's tax records and disagreed that the fiber bars should've been expensed, they'd most likely charge tax, interest, and a penalty proportional to the $5 cost. Fraud requires intentional wrongdoing; no court or auditor is going to find that a company intentionally schemed to defraud the government of a couple dollars by sneaking fiber bars into a travel expense report.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-08 03:35:31+00:00
macOS has gotten subtly worse in a "death by a thousand cuts" kind of way. But, nothing like Windows's speed-run to Awful.

Neither OS is empowering me to do what I want to do on my computer anymore. Instead they're constantly nudging me towards doing things Microsoft and Apple want me to do.

Don't you want a Microsoft account? You really should make a Microsoft account. Please make a Microsoft account. We're going to pop up the Microsoft account at you until you say yes. OK, fucker, now you have to make a Microsoft account in order to use your computer.

Sync your stuff to the iCloud! No, really, you're forgetting to use iCloud. Come on, don't you want to use iCloud? We're going to make iCloud the default for saved documents now.

Go ahead and install that app. OK, now go ahead and install it but we're going to warn you that it's from the scary internet. Now, when you install the app, we're going to put a scary dialog if it's not from a developer we're OK with. Now, when you install the app, we're not going to let you even run it until you go into settings and confirm a scary dialog deep in Settings.

I'm not really in the driver's seat anymore. I'm kind of a passenger with limited access to the steering wheel. These are just a few examples but there are plenty of other cases where both Microsoft and Apple are inserting themselves between me and my computer, gatekeeping what I can do on them and treating me like some kind of attacker towards my own computer.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-08 03:35:48+00:00
Users shouldn't need permission from trillion dollar corporations looking for a source of recurring revenue to be able to run the software they want.

It isn't 2001 anymore, systems are designed to be secure, and the outdated security model of trusting gatekeepers to keep you safe has been shown to be a farce, as billions of dollars are siphoned each year from innocent users who are just listening to good-intentioned people like yourself and trusting the App Store or Play Store. But they still get scammed anyway. The gatekeepers do not give a shit and approve of malware everyday. Hell, if you structure your scam right, you'll make those gatekeepers very rich until they reluctantly remove you. That or they leave the app because it's a "game" or "service".

How many users are being scammed by "legitimate" apps that charge subscription fees for features already on their devices, or god forbid, apps/games that are just illegal and unregulated casinos? Absolutely tons. I regularly find my older relatives being scammed by the App Store with a dozen different recurring subscriptions they didn't know they signed up for and certainly don't use. And those are the apps/services deemed "legitimate" by gatekeepers, because they're profitable even if they're taking advantage of users.

Sorry, I don't trust gatekeepers who run unregulated casinos and are the largest distributors of malware in the world to keep anyone safe. Design systems to be secure and you don't have to trust corrupt gatekeepers' blessings.
by jaywcarman | 2026-02-08 03:36:01+00:00
> >Also, we've realized the scientific reality that traveling faster than light is likely impossible, and the vast distances to other habitable planets would mean tens of thousands of years of travel even with the most efficient technology.
>
>This makes for more epic story telling though. I've seen sci-fi stories span eons due to the vast distances limited by speed. Even at light speed it still takes a huge amount of time.

Here's one such example:
[The Destination Star by Gregory Marlow](https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-destinatio...)
by snayan | 2026-02-08 03:38:12+00:00
hot or not is back.

I think the algorithm is janky based on the list.

But, history has shown that people love to see how they rank up.

Historically, these sort of sites allowed users to rank each other.

Given yours is algorithm based, it'd make sense to give some context as to how the algorithm works... and an example of the 'ideal face' according to the algorithm.
by camdenreslink | 2026-02-08 03:39:02+00:00
Is the time it takes for an engineer to implement PRs the bottleneck in generating revenue for a software product?

In my experience it takes humans to know what to build to generate revenue, and most of the time building that product is not spent coding at all. Coding is like the last step. Spending $1k/day in tokens only makes sense if you know exactly what to build already to generate this revenue. Otherwise you are building what exactly? Is the LLM also doing the job of the business side of the house to decide what to build?