MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by puppymaster | 2026-02-05 05:55:45+00:00
Regardless of how Apple will solve this, please just solve it. Siri is borderline useless these days.

> Will it rain today?
Please unlock your iphone for that

> Any new messages from Chris?
You will need to unlock your iphone for that

> Please play youtube music
Playing youtube music... please open youtube music app to do that

All settings and permission granted. Utterly painful.
by bandrami | 2026-02-05 05:55:54+00:00
> Anger about the 2008 bailout makes sense

Does it?

It cost the taxpayers nothing (in fact it made us money), it destroyed 4 of the 5 largest investment banks in the US, and it sent over 200 bankers, brokers, and auditors to jail.

What part of that are people mad about, and why?
by tombert | 2026-02-05 05:55:58+00:00
I'm not necessarily saying that you used an LLM, but em dashes aren't used that often when regular people are typing. I use Grammarly all the time and they've never suggested that I add an em dash, and it's often a sign of a low-effort "ask ChatGPT for a response to this comment".

Again, not necessarily saying that's what you did, just that that's the red flag.
by christkv | 2026-02-05 05:55:59+00:00
There will be an exiting explosion of internal apps and tools and then it will die down as companies get back to business. All those tools and apps will turn into legacy apps and they will eventually try to migrate data off them into some saas platform because its not core to business.

Saas will have to drop prices to be competitive so fat margins will go away which will probably affect margins for AWS etc.
by Groxx | 2026-02-05 05:56:17+00:00
The display driving code is part of their "xochitl" binary, which is not GPL (and might not be allowed to be, eink-the-company is rather protective of their tech and waveforms). ~All modding happens by reverse engineering the binary to call into that code to act like a display driver for other software: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-framebuffer

The rest has been released a few times, though last I checked it was quite out of date. Far from ideal, but still significantly better than most companies: https://developer.remarkable.com/
by Larrikin | 2026-02-05 05:57:18+00:00
Ignoring the fact that OP does not know about existing solutions like Grocy where people do find value in the currently tedious setup of adding products and tracking their kitchens inventory, and just zeroing in on your first point. The paper grocery list is terrible

If you cook at all a solution like Mealie becomes your cookbook. Its trivial to create grocery list for when you take the time to plan out your meals for the day, week, or month. If you are not shopping by yourself, everyone on the app can just pick up things in the grocery store independently. Its an actual time saver

Mealie exposes an API so you could theoretically expose it to another solution like Home Assistant and have your grocery list sync with your errands list. Suddenly you have the ability so that anyone using Home Assistant could get an alert when they are nearby the grocery store or Costco to pick up things on this combined list. Maybe your partner is walking by a store you've created a zone for, with items on your master list, gets an alert, and they can mark off some things that they picked up and it syncs back to where the items were originally added. Your inventory is then updated based on marked off items.

Now imagine if you did not have to come up with the bespoke master list for all the stores you go to and it can determine when to send that alert. You can also just snap a picture of your receipt or shopping cart and it is all figured out for you.

But you could just use piece of paper with the magnet on the fridge.

Theres a lot of manual process that can be eliminated for things people already find convenient enough to do manually. Local models can easily handle much of this already.
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-05 05:58:18+00:00
We don't really "use it" and what do we use it for in the first place. Think about what the zodiac system is used for and we absolutely have alternatives. What giving people insights into their personality based on an arbitrary star pattern during the year. We do have other approaches to explain peoples personality and behavior traits that are based on evidence and science as opposed to the stars and their birth date.

What we're talking about here is similar to the food pyramid, its a generalised approach to helping people understand what they should and shouldn't eat specific to the type of food and level of "processing". Something developed based on rising scientific evidence of the impacts of large consumption of highly processed or hyper palatable foods.

I'm not saying we shouldn't use the NOVA system, I'm asking those that bash it to come up with an alternative approach or remodel it. The same way the food pyramid has changed, whilst the zodiac system hasn't.
by wsatb | 2026-02-05 05:58:52+00:00
The problem is your comment is missing really important information. You said you returned in 2017, but only mentioned that it was good in 2005. This leaves a 12 year period where it could have declined. You didn't say it was good in 2005 and you already started to see the decline before you left. You have no more evidence that it declined before the acquisition than after it so it reads as some weird defense of Bezos.
by thesz | 2026-02-05 05:58:53+00:00
This is a story of how one became better golf player by increasing his strength: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr2pgBTRpK4

One can enhance cognitive functions by strength training: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8534220/

Aside from time travel, the best way to improve in very important things is through strength training.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-05 06:00:49+00:00
Absolutely:

> In order to predict where thinking and reasoning capabilities are going, it's important to understand the trail of thought that went into today's thinking LLMs.

No. You don't understand at all. They don't think. They don't reason. They are statistical word generators. They are very impressive at doing things like writing code, but they don't work the way that is being inferred here.
by charleshmartin | 2026-02-05 06:01:37+00:00
If you train a model for too long, it may overfit it's training data. Not surprising, this has been know for like forever. But did you know you can detect the signatures of overfitting in the layer weight matrices directly, without needing access to any data (train or test) ?

In our recent paper (with hari kishan prakash ), - : - , we show this explicitly in 2 different classic grokking experiments. And the overfitting we see is very different from what has been seen before!

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02859
by nippoo | 2026-02-05 06:01:54+00:00
My favourite one of this kind is the Rockchip RK808 RTC, where the engineers thought that November had 31 days, needing a Linux kernel patch to this day that translates between Gregorian and Rockchip calendars (which are gradually diverging over time).

Also one of my favourite kernel patch messages: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-02-05 06:03:58+00:00
> This goes out the window the first time you get real users, though.

Not really. Many users are happy for their software to change if it's a genuine improvement. Some users aren't, but you can always fire them.

Certainly there's a scale beyond which this becomes untenable, but it's far higher than "the first time you get real users".
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-05 06:04:26+00:00
Works best, if you retain, but most companies aren’t willing to do that. They basically force you to leave, in order to make good money.

Being older is just part of the formula. Being good is another part, and having a good relationship with the company and coworkers, is just as important. That comes from longevity in the job, and also, a sense of security.

Companies love to have workers that are constantly afraid they’ll lose their jobs. That doesn’t really encourage a productive, quality-focused mindset.

There’s a lot of negative stuff, said about older employees. Maybe some of it is true, but I suspect that a lot of it, is an inevitable response to years of being treated like shit.
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-05 06:04:58+00:00
WaPo lost 250K - about 20% - of subscribers in a few days when Bezos killed the paper's endorsement of Harris and then set out to control the Opinions section.

People don't like overt control of editorial by a billionaire owner obviously seeking to curry favor with the WH (and not just any WH but unquestionably the most overtly corrupt WH in history since the Pendleton Civil Service Act)
by fragmede | 2026-02-05 06:05:58+00:00
This highlights a huge problem with LetsEncrypt and CT logs. Which is that the Internet is a bad place, with bad people looking to take advantage of you. If you use LetsEncrypt for ssl certs (which you should), that hostname gets published to the world, and that server immediately gets pummeled by requests for all sorts of fresh install pages, like wp-admin or phpmyadmin, from attackers.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-05 06:06:06+00:00
Who cares? So much books are just slop (pulp), or, these days, over 70% filler. Even if they are "decent" fiction or non-fiction, the majority still are almost entirely shallow entertainment, whether explicitly or implicitly as simplistic "edutainment" of some kind. There are blogs, articles, technical papers, heck, even user discussions that contain far greater depth and/or demand far greater attention and mental work than the vast majority of "books" out there today.

Just thinking "reading books" is something good or impressive borders on anti-intellectual in the world of the internet. A much better indicator of real intelligence is e.g., does a person read actual scientific papers or technical documents, or sites like ACX, HN, SeriousEats (or any other site which dives into any hobby or art with research and with long-form articles), do they know about e.g. SciHub and LibGen and Anna's Archive, do they know about people like James Hoffmann if they are into coffee, or Kenji Lopez if into home cooking, and I'm sure hundreds of other careful and obscure podcasts and individuals, discussion forums, and other digital textual sources.

Yes, please have read some serious books and works in your life, at some point (preferably some classic and modern literature and philosophy, but anything with real depth is good). But worship of "books" simpliciter is pure midwit in 2025 (and was so already in 2010, at bare minimum).
by monch1962 | 2026-02-05 06:06:28+00:00
What are peoples' current suggestions for using Claude Code with a locally hosted LLM running on regular consumer hardware (for the sake of discussion, assume you're spending $US500-ish on a mini PC, which would get you a reasonably decent CPU, 32Gb RAM and a cheapish GPU)?

I get that it's not going to work as well as hosted/subscription services like Claude/Gemini/Codex/..., but sometimes those aren't an option
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-05 06:06:49+00:00
Nothing is black and white and therefore you may be somewhat correct. Society and the world is a complex beast with many drivers and gears, however it would be silly to think it isn't also a big driver and is just boiled down to moral panic, especially for our younger cohort.

Even by my own personal account social media is addictive especially short form video content.

Just the addictive components alone and the type of content that is constantly served to young adults is a concern, not withstanding other issues with social media.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-05 06:08:26+00:00
Not sure why they made the connection to sentry.io and not with CT logs. My first thought was that "*.some-subdomain." got added to the CT logs and someone is scanning *. with well known hosts, of which "nas" would be one. Curious if they have more insights into sentry.io leaking and where does it leak to...
by owenbrown | 2026-02-05 06:08:52+00:00
The other demos didn't work for me, so I made https://github.com/owenbrown/transcribe
It's just a python script to test the streaming.

Wow, Voxtral is amazing. It will be great when someone stitches this up so an LLM starts thinking, researching for you, before you actually finish talking.

Like, create a conversation partner with sub 0.5 second latency. For example, you ask it a multi part questions and, as soon as you finish talking, it gives you the answer to the first part while it looks up the rest of the answer, then stitches it together so that there's no break.

The 2-3 second latency of existing voice chatbots is a non-started for most humans.
by rock_artist | 2026-02-05 06:12:23+00:00
As mentioned here already,
Lately Apple is about taking existing ideas and introducing them as new features.
(At least in Tim Cook’s era, only exception is Apple silicon)

Especially in the “AI game”. Just yesterday Xcode got fuller agent support for coding way later than most IDEs.

I’d expect some sort of Shortcuts integration in the near future.
There’s already Apple Foundation Models available to some extent with Shortcuts.
I’m pretty sure they’ll improve it and use shortcuts for agentic workflows.

Having said all that,
Maybe it’s my age. I think currently things are over-hyped

- Language models running in huge centers are still not sustainable. So even if you pay a few cents, it’s still running over capital fumes.

- it’s still a mixed bag. I guess it might be useful in terms of profession because like managing people to produce the desired result, you need skills to properly get desired results from AI. In that sense, fully automated agent filing my tax still feels concerning to me if later I won’t have coverage if something was off.

- on-device, this is where Apple shines hardware wise and I personally find it as more intriguing.
by notsylver | 2026-02-05 06:14:06+00:00
I think people are misunderstanding. This isn't CT logs, its a wildcard certificate so it wouldn't leak the "nas" part. It's sentry catching client-side traces and calling home with them, and then picking out the hostname from the request that sent them (ie, "nas.nothing-special.whatever.example.com") and trying to poll it for whatever reason, which is going to a separate server that is catching the wildcard domain and being rejected.
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-05 06:14:16+00:00
January 2026 might be the month of langs created to be used by AI. Usually the chief concern is saving on tokens, prompted by context window anxiety. (This completely disregards the fact that agents thrash the context window by doing wrong things, then attempting to fix them; or by reading unrelated stuff; or by calling unhelpful tools; etc)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46450217 Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans (1 Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571166 Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language (11 Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46583581 Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language (12 Jan 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684958 Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs (19 Jan 2026)

See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582728 Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - where someone said "Someone has made a programming language called Sui, which is said to be designed for LLMs." https://github.com/TakatoHonda/sui-lang

And many other threads I didn't find right now
by coppsilgold | 2026-02-05 06:15:31+00:00
> Is your concern the secure enclave in an iPhone is deflatable, and in such a way as to allow key extraction of device unique seeds it protects?

This is a safe assumption to make as the secret bits are sitting in a static location known to anyone with the design documents. Actually getting to them may of course be very challenging.

> Do you have any literature or references where this is known to have occurred?

I'm not aware of any, which isn't surprising given the enormous resources Apple spent on this technology. Random researchers aren't very likely to succeed.
by zuminator | 2026-02-05 06:16:15+00:00
100% agree. Office and Windows were hugely successful because they did things that users (and corporations) wanted them to do. The functionality led to brand recognition and that led to increased sales. Now Microsoft is putting the horse before the cart and attempting to force brand recognition before the product has earned it. And that just leads to resentment.

They should make Copilot/AI features globally and granularly toggleable. Only refer to the chatbots as "Copilot," other use cases should be primarily identified on a user-facing basis by their functionality. Search Assistant. Sketching Aid. Writing Aid. If they're any good at what they do, people will gravitate to them without being coerced.

And as far as Copilot goes, if they are serious as me it as a product, there should be a concerted effort to leapfrog it to the top of the AI rankings. Every few weeks we're reading that Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, or DeepSeek has broken some coding or problem-solving score. That drives interest. You almost never hear anything similar about Copilot. It comes off as a cut-rate store brand knockoff of ChatGPT at best. Pass.
by b1temy | 2026-02-05 06:16:39+00:00
Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent?

Seems to me that the problem is the NAS's web interface using sentry for logging/monitoring, and part of what was logged were internal hostnames (which might be named in a way that has sensitive info, e.g, the corp-and-other-corp-merger example they gave. So it wouldn't matter that it's inaccessible in a private network, the name itself is sensitive information.).

In that case, I would personally replace the operating system of the NAS with one that is free/open source that I trust and does not phone home. I suppose some form of adblocking ala PiHole or some other DNS configuration that blocks sentry calls would work too, but I would just go with using an operating system I trust.
Ask HN: Has your whole engineering team gone big into AI coding? How's it going?
by jchung | 2026-02-05 06:17:22+00:00
I'm seeing individual programmers who have moved to 100% AI coding, but I'm curious as to how this is playing out for larger engineering teams. If you're on a team (let's say 5+ engineers) that has adopted Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or some other agent, can you share how it's going? Are you seeing more LOCs created? Has PR velocity or PR complexity changed? Do you find yourself spending the same amount of time on PRs, less, or more?
by gnabgib | 2026-02-05 06:18:28+00:00
As a Show (283 points, 7 days ago, 883 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802254

As spam (191 points, 171 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826963 (90 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840938

Exposing data to the public (23 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842907

Hacked (391 points, 3 days ago, 242 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857615
by barrell | 2026-02-05 06:19:05+00:00
Very happy with all the mistral work. I feel like I'm always one release behind theirs. Last time they released Mistral 3 I commented saying how excited I was to try it out [1]

Well, I'm happy to report I integrated the new Mistral 3 and have been truly astounded by the results. I still am not a big fan of the model wrt factual information - it seems to be especially confident and especially wrong if left to it's own devices - but with http://phrasing.app I do most of the data aggregation myself and just use an LLM to format it. Mistral 3 was a drop-in replacement for 3x the quality (it was already very very good), 0% error rate for my use case (I had an issue for it occasionally going off the rails that was entirely solved), and sticks to my formatting guidelines perfectly (which even gpt-5-pro failed on). Plus it was somehow even cheaper.

I'm using Scribe v2 at the moment for TTS, but I'm very excited now to try integrating Voxtral Transcribe. The language support is a little lacking for my use cases, but I can always fall back to Scribe and amatorize the cost across languages. I actually was due to work on the transcription of phrasing very soon so I guess look forward to my (hopefully) glowing review on their next hn launch! XD

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121889#46122612
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by JoblessWonder | 2026-02-05 06:19:53+00:00
Yeah… I didn’t say they both weren’t true due to a mathematical error… I was insinuating that the survey is probably flawed because if 20% of Americans can’t read… they likely aren’t even taking this survey.

It is also my uneducated guess that the actual percentage of Americans who haven’t read a single book in the past year is MUCH higher than 40%. Maybe a survey of HN commentators but not of the general population.
by impulser_ | 2026-02-05 06:20:58+00:00
I honestly think OpenAI needs a new leader, they are so lost. They have no vision, it seems like they are just always chasing and not leading anymore.

Anthropic has a clear vision, they want to build the best agentic models so they can build products for humans to use like Claude Cowork, and Claude Code.

Google has a clear vision, they want to build the smartest model possible to give to consumers to use and to implement into their products.

OpenAI doesn't have any vision. GPT 5.2 alone has 5 different version that are all essentially the same. They are slow, take forever to do anything, and aren't smart in any area. They released Sora then just forgot about like everyone did. They released Atlas and forgot abotu like everyone did. They release GPT Image which honestly is probably the main reason they still have users they have.

They honestly might be in trouble, Oracle is fucking themselves over with the amount of debt they have to build out infrastructure for them. Microsoft and Nvidia are backing away from putting more eggs in the basket.

It actually no surprise they are trying to find every way to make money because if they don't they might be the first to fall.

Anthropic might not be winning the consumers, but it almost like you don't want to win consumers yet until you figure out how to make enough money to support them as Anthropic and OpenAI don't have business producing 100b in net income every year.
by nikitau | 2026-02-05 06:21:58+00:00
Maybe I should have been more explicit that here "variance explained by" is used quite literally with the meaning it has in statistical modeling. I get that you meant it in a "correlation not causation" way, but "correlation" in the context of statistics is a loaded term. Interpretability of heritability is difficult in general. Most people struggle with it. But if it truly were 100% (rarely is if ever) it would imply causation solely from genetic factors. Causation from both genetics and environment is always there - heritability just seeks to formalize the measure of proportion.
by vormals | 2026-02-05 06:23:17+00:00
No, the "over 5 years" is just a theoretical justification for the Fünftelregel, not how it is implemented.

You earn all the 200k in one year.

You pay all the taxes in one year.

I mean I kinda get that this is a first world problem. But isn't a marginal income tax rate of over 100% at least a little bit complain-worthy?