MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lrvick | 2025-12-30 20:28:57+00:00
I absolutely torrent as a way to discover new content, but I want favorites on a shelf on very long shelf life media where it does not require internet access and is never going to get altered or deleted as streaming services often do, or end up unavailable in the future with no seeders.

There are piles of obscure things for which physical (sometimes bootleg) media exists but no seeders.

For example the mexican hacking drama Control Z, I found 0 complete rips even on private trackers, but I did find some nice blu ray bootlegs with cases and cover art.

Even with blu-ray rips in hand, burning a disk myself and putting it into a nice recognizable case that fits in my blu ray wall cases is a pain in the ass and I would rather pay someone else for this service.

Plus it makes it way easier to hand select shows to hand a kid to play in a portable media player, and avoids the need to give them unrestricted alone time with an internet capable device.

I prefer official copies but if the studios do not allow them and thus do not want my money then bootlegs it is.
by vovavili | 2025-12-30 20:29:42+00:00
I don't see your point. The kind of user who will struggle to type out `uv run` will find it even more difficult to type out `//usr/local/go/bin/go run "$0" "$@"; exit`. Neither approaches are the "default, officially recommended ways to run" scripts.

I strongly encourage you to read the article to acquire the context for the conversation before commenting, which is what I assume is happening here.
by SilentM68 | 2025-12-30 20:29:49+00:00
I'm not a fan of the way AI is developing, especially the threat it poses to jobs, but it has a way of finding, otherwise hard to locate, facts on the NET:

US manufacturing employment peaked in June 1979 at ~19.6 million jobs. It never "stopped" — output has grown — but jobs declined steadily afterward.

Main causes of job losses (especially sharp drop 2000–2010):

* Globalization and offshoring by US multinationals (key driver)
* China's WTO entry (2001) + PNTR (2000), accelerating imports
* Automation/productivity gains
Trade deficits and competition from low-cost countries (Asia, Mexico)

Who contributed:

* US corporations/multinationals seeking lower costs
* US government policies (trade agreements, PNTR with China)
* Economic forces (globalization, container shipping, currency issues)

It seems to me that big money, greed, and self-intrest, are ultimately to blame for any lack of employment in the US, for natives and foreign workers. Blaming the one politician that is trying to restore this country's economic power and ability to support its citizens is short-sighted, childish and really messed up because for the longest times, foreign tech workers have been the preferred go to employee for most of not all of the company's responsible for this mess.
by hollywood_court | 2025-12-30 20:30:51+00:00
The South is a bit of a lost cause. I was born and raised in Alabama. I spent many years out of the country and also living elsewhere in the US. But I've been back in Alabama since October 2010.

These people here love to shoot themselves in the foot.

I always say that Sherman should have never stopped. He should have burnt everything to the ground.
by willturman | 2025-12-30 20:30:51+00:00
> And why is grit such a good indicator of successful founders?

Based on what? Biographical accounts by successful founders?

Nassim Taleb's Fooled By Randomness [1] covers the topic of mis-attribution of some causal factor X (i.e. grit) to some phenomena (i.e. business success) that can be effectively explained solely by randomness. In the specific case of successfully starting a business, causal factors are often mis-attributed post-facto through a lens that blatantly ignores survivorship bias [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
by amkharg26 | 2025-12-30 20:30:54+00:00
This is a fascinating study, especially the finding that o1 maintains deceptive behavior even when interrogated. The fact that Claude 3.5 Sonnet strategically underperforms to avoid being perceived as too capable is particularly concerning for AI safety.

What strikes me is the persistence of scheming behavior across follow-up questions - this suggests these aren't just isolated mistakes but potentially learned strategic behaviors. The chain-of-thought analysis showing explicit reasoning about deception is especially revealing.

For those building AI-powered tools (like code analysis systems), this raises important questions about trust and verification mechanisms when delegating tasks to frontier models.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-30 20:31:00+00:00
Nice write-up. Bluetooth on Kindle always felt like a black box, and this does a great job of peeling it open layer by layer. The mix of firmware analysis, protocol reverse engineering, and practical constraints of embedded devices is especially useful. Also a good reminder of how much attack surface quietly lives in “secondary” features like Bluetooth that most users never think about.
by naikrovek | 2025-12-30 20:31:09+00:00
I add em dashes to everything I write now, solely to throw people who look for them off. Lots of editors add them automatically when you have two sequential dashes between words — a common occurrence, like that one. And this is is Chrome on iOS doing it automatically.

Ooh, I used “sequential”, ooh, I used an em dash. ZOMG AI IS COMING FOR US ALL
by fragmede | 2025-12-30 20:31:14+00:00
Who are you in this scenario though? Are you ManusAI getting bought for a giant pile of money? Are you a vendor that supplies Meta for their VR hardware that's getting paid in money? Are you an employee at Meta getting paid in money and Meta shares to build the Metaverse? Are you a shareholder of Meta who's stock is up? Like, sure, we can sit back and laugh at no legs, but Meta spent money they had on a thing they wanted to do. Sure, it didn't pan out, like that time I tried to pick up scuba diving, but when you have that much money, you can afford to try things that don't work. What's better, to try and fail, or never try because someone might make fun of you? If I just sold a company for half a billion, you could call me all the names you want, I wouldn't be able to hear you over the engines of my private fighter jet.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-12-30 20:31:21+00:00
That's a weird way to describe "enough democratic senators dissented from the party line to let a CR pass".

Unlike the republicans, the democrats have never been able to maintain that kind of tight control over members. The CR didn't pass because "democrats" chose to let it. It passed because the republicans were able to individually influence 5 additional democrats to change their votes, in addition to the 2 who had always voted for it.

The kind of tight control that the republican party has had recently is very new and hasn't really happened before in the US.
by jmward01 | 2025-12-30 20:31:30+00:00
I have noticed this algorithm in many places which is why I think it is a missing piece in game theory and why formalizing it could be powerful. People use this instinctively in their interactions with others and algorithms (like the one you pointed out) have been created using the basic concept so a formalization of the math is likely in order. Consider the question of how big the offering should be. What if all parties are actually getting the optimum result, what mechanism stops the increase/why? Does it stop? Could this lead to both parties paying the other larger and larger sums forever? It is a fun thing to think about at least.
by amkharg26 | 2025-12-30 20:31:48+00:00
This looks really interesting for AI agent workflows. The checkpoint/restore functionality could be game-changing for long-running code analysis or build processes that need to pause and resume.

I'm curious about the performance overhead compared to standard containers. For use cases like automated code review or testing pipelines, being able to snapshot the exact state mid-execution could save a lot of time debugging flaky tests.

Are there any limitations on what can be checkpointed? I'm thinking about scenarios with open network connections or complex multi-process applications.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-12-30 20:31:55+00:00
I should have said "accessible" not "easier to write", that's what I was trying to say. A much larger portion of programmers have meaningful experience writing python than perl or php. I'm more likely to get patches and/or good bug reports from users when the scripts break if the scripts are written in a language they have experience with.

> The main problem with python is getting it on systems is the biggest pain in the ass imaginable.

Just avoid external dependencies and use /usr/bin/python, most scripting doesn't need any external dependencies. Or maybe I'm not understanding what you mean?
by aspenmartin | 2025-12-30 20:32:11+00:00
Proof of what? Should you also have to prove you are not a bot sponsored by short-sellers? It’s all so so silly, anti-AI crowds on HN rehash so many of the same tired arguments it’s ridiculous:

- bad for environment: how? Why?
- takes all creative output and doesn’t credit: common crawl has been around for decades and models have been training for decades, the difference is that now they’re good. Regurgitating training data is a known issue for which there are mitigations but welcome to the world of things not being as idealistic as some Stallman-esque hellscape everyone seems to want to live in
- it’s bad and so no one should use it and any professionals who do don’t know what they’re doing: I have been so fortunate to personally know some of the brightest minds on this planet (Astro departmentments, AI research labs) and majority of them use AI for their jobs.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-30 20:32:11+00:00
Subtle but important bug. This is a good example of how “is valid” checks in crypto are rarely as simple as they sound. Accepting points outside the prime-order subgroup can quietly undermine higher-level assumptions, even if no immediate exploit is obvious. Also a reminder that low-level primitives tend to be reused far more widely than intended, so small validation gaps can have surprisingly large blast radii.
by deaux | 2025-12-30 20:32:14+00:00
With all due respect to these who as programmers are on a whole different dimension than me.. this seems like a case where both either their words were taken out of context, or one of the millions of cases of brilliant people hyperfixating on their particular domain and mistakenly extrapolating that to everywhere. Their advice could well be right for the particular type of code each of them worked on!

But taking them as general rules for coding makes as much sense as applying advice for painting a bridge to painting the Mona Lisa. Seriously, try to come up with a single piece of advice about programming style that applies to every domain. The closest one I can think of is "give descriptive name to your variables", and even that doesn't apply to lots of code written to this very day. It's impossible.

Software in 2025 is far too varied for any of that to make sense, and it has been for many decades.
by amkharg26 | 2025-12-30 20:32:40+00:00
This is a clever approach to motion detection! Using Wi-Fi spectrum analysis is much more elegant than traditional PIR sensors or cameras for privacy-conscious setups.

The ESP32 is perfect for this - cheap, low power, and has the right hardware. I'm curious about the accuracy compared to traditional sensors. How well does it handle multiple people moving simultaneously? And what's the typical detection latency?

The Home Assistant integration is a nice touch. This could be really useful for automation triggers without needing line-of-sight or dealing with camera privacy concerns.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-30 20:32:58+00:00
This is the kind of curiosity that leads to the most interesting findings. Hotels are a perfect storm of shared networks, opaque vendor integrations, and “it just works” assumptions. A mysterious UDP stream could be anything from Chromecast-style discovery to IPTV control or some half-documented vendor heartbeat. What’s usually more revealing than the payload is the pattern: broadcast vs unicast, frequency, and who responds. Also a good reminder of how much ambient network noise we’re all swimming in without noticing.
by amkharg26 | 2025-12-30 20:33:08+00:00
This is a perfect example of users being forced to hack around product limitations. Google Assistant has gotten progressively worse over the years - more ads, slower responses, and losing the ability to do basic tasks it used to handle.

The fact that people are resorting to custom integrations and local LLMs shows there's a real gap in the market. Google had a huge head start but seems more interested in monetization than actually improving the core experience.

Would love to see more open-source alternatives that run locally. The privacy benefits alone make it worth the effort.
by quietsegfault | 2025-12-30 20:33:22+00:00
You don’t compare a US region to sovereign countries that don’t share federal transfers, monetary policy, or capital markets. The correct comparison might be the South vs other US regions. In that comparison the South has persistently lower incomes, higher poverty, worse health outcomes, and weaker mobility. And while immigration is federal, states clearly influence who stays through jobs, education, civil rights enforcement, and political climate.
by Zigurd | 2025-12-30 20:33:40+00:00
The US accounts for a share of the UN budget roughly equal to the US share of global GDP. The US accounts for a fairly small fraction of the NATO budget. Very little of the US defense budget is spent via NATO. The US being "ripped off" has no basis in fact. Letting Russia impale itself on Ukraine is a pretty good bargain compared to meeting our NATO obligations should Russia invade Europe. We've been getting a good deal, which makes throwing that away pretty insane.
by amkharg26 | 2025-12-30 20:33:43+00:00
Great reverse engineering work! The Kindle's Bluetooth implementation has always been frustratingly limited - only supporting Amazon's official accessories despite having the hardware capability for much more.

It's interesting to see the protocol layers exposed. This could potentially enable custom keyboard support or even audio output if someone takes it further. Amazon intentionally locks down these devices to push their ecosystem, but the hardware is perfectly capable.

Would be curious to see if this could enable BLE-based automations or integrations with reading tracking apps. The closed nature of Kindle has always been its biggest weakness.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-30 20:33:46+00:00
The title is doing a lot of work here. What resonated with me is the shift from “writing code” to “steering systems” rather than the hype framing. Senior devs already spend more time constraining, reviewing, and shaping outcomes than typing syntax. AI just makes that explicit. The real skill gap isn’t prompt cleverness, it’s knowing when the agent is confidently wrong and how to fence it in with tests, architecture, and invariants. That part doesn’t scale magically.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-30 20:33:49+00:00
Did you skip the "back a million photos" part? That's at least 3 copies of every file, spread across your group. If you want maximum safety you can add a local backup too, which isn't much more money. You don't need to spend anything on fault tolerance. Your files should already be on multiple servers, but also if it goes down for a few days that isn't a big deal.
by zahlman | 2025-12-30 20:33:52+00:00
> Singapore does the whole "race based quotas for everything"

By American constructions of race, almost everyone in Singapore is of the same race.

Even going by genetically objective ethnicity, almost three quarters of people in Singapore are Han Chinese. It's not remotely comparable to the American situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_in_Singapore

> and they have by many metrics, the best standard of living in the entire world.

As self-reported by people from cultures that happen to share common values. They rate higher on HDI than the US, sure; but so does the UAE, and Slovenia is almost as high. They're unusually wealthy per capita, but so is Ireland (capitalist shell games). And there are a lot of things the average American probably wouldn't like about that society, e.g. the strict rules against littering and the threat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore .
by pipes | 2025-12-30 20:34:40+00:00
Can anyone explain why my Samsung s95b oled TV film maker mode is so dark?

I'm a parent with young kids and I just do not have time to delve into all the settings. I've managed to stop films looking like soap operas but I'm not sure exactly what I've adjusted.

Also, if I'm watching from my pc on the same TV using VLC player is it a mistake just to leave the TV on "game mode" ? This seems to work fine, but I've no idea how that interacts with settings on the TV.

One last rant, it seems to have a setting that uses a light sensor to darken the picture if the room is dark. It seems to be nearly impossible to turn off except through some service menu nonsense I really don't want to touch. The only temp fix is turning the TV on and off again, which I've resorted to when I literally couldn't see what was going on in the film.
by sirmike_ | 2025-12-30 20:34:49+00:00
LMAO of course the author would have a hyphen in his last name to write such loaded and editorialized garbage. Real horseshit from Steven Vaughan-Nichols. This fucking hack has no true real world tech experience.

"Even foreign workers already in the US are having second thoughts about living in a country that’s officially hostile to anyone who’s not of European descent. A recent report from Specialist Staffing Group found that 32% of US-based STEM pros said they were open to relocation. That’s bad news for US companies, which are already seeing projects delayed or disrupted.

Major tech firms, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, have reportedly urged overseas staff to return to the US quickly while simultaneously warning them to limit dependents’ travel. At the same time, all these top tech companies, and many more, have been laying people off. Even if you can trace your ancestry back to the Mayflower, we’re living in a time of tech job insecurity."
by hollerith | 2025-12-30 20:34:52+00:00
The Federal government has famously been involved in how well states enforce civil rights starting in the 1950s.

Also, the Southern US can't be doing that badly at guarding civil rights if a non-white immigrant can write,

>As a brown guy I'd prefer my odds in the reddest county in Mississippi than anywhere in Asia (other than my own ethnostate).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31227980
by lowkey_ | 2025-12-30 20:34:58+00:00
> Where I think we can legitimately say this is MAGA versus Republicans is in the reverse brain drain. America in the 1950s was a destination for top minds. Ameirca in the 2020s is not.

I do think it's counter-productive for America to make it harder for legal and talented immigrants, and we should fix that - but what's your evidence that America isn't still the world capital for the ambitious?

Statistically: The close competitors (e.g. Western Europe, Canada) are looking pretty dire economically compared to the US.

Anecdotally: I have friends from Estonia, Canada, the UK, and France that are all clamoring to be in America for the opportunity.

Historically: Post-WWII in the 1950s, 6.9% of the population was foreign-born. It's now 15.8%. So are we really more closed-off than we were then? Or is this just the response to the ever-increasing interest in immigrating because of the US being as compelling as it is?
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-30 20:35:13+00:00
“IDEsaster” is a good term, because most of the risk isn’t in the model but in the ambient authority we casually hand to agents. An AI that can read repos, write code, run tests, hit package managers, and access secrets is effectively a junior engineer with prod keys and zero fear. The interesting vulnerabilities aren’t prompt injections in isolation, but cross-boundary ones: repo → CI → secrets → cloud. Until IDEs treat agents like untrusted plugins with strict sandboxing, least privilege, and auditable actions, we’re just automating foot-guns at scale.
by netsharc | 2025-12-30 20:35:19+00:00
I think the theory is, even if they heard something, they would've shrugged (1) and said "I dunno", because they don't want to reveal to e.g. the Chinese about their listening capabilities.

The sentence is also true if you replace "they" with "the Chinese Navy" and "Chinese" with "Americans".

(1) https://media.tenor.com/zDbPxZJwlFQAAAAM/shrug.gif
by mothballed | 2025-12-30 20:35:40+00:00
The ones that voted for it were all magically the ones that were either not seeking re-election or ones that are not up for election the next term.

This is a hell of a coincidence.

I don't mean to call out the Democrats as the only one who do this (on HN you simultaneously can't point out a party for something because then somehow you're being partisan, but you're also damned if you don't give an example, so it puts you in a tough spot). Just a most recent thing I've noticed.

Up until recently even on HN Schumer was nearly universally damned for letting it happen or being behind it in his capacity as a minority leader. Perhaps without evidence, and perhaps baselessly. But it's telling that as soon as I point it out in a slightly different context, then suddenly it's an opinion worthy of greying out.

>Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, continued to face criticism from members of his own party after he reversed course and allowed the stopgap spending bill to come to a vote.
by aspenmartin | 2025-12-30 20:35:51+00:00
Right: they disagree with me and so must not know what they’re talking about. Hey guess how I know neither of you are all as good as you think you are: your egos! You know what the brightest people at the top of their respective fields have in common? They tend not to think that new technologies they don’t understand how to use are dumb and they don’t think everyone who disagrees with them is dumb!
by christkv | 2025-12-30 20:35:59+00:00
If you want to reduce imports and boost exports a plummeting USD is what you want. Why do you think China manipulates its currency to keep it weak.

Who are these more reliable trading partners you are talking about ?

Fed does not seem to do what Trump wants.

It's all the markets NASDAQ, DOW, S&P 500, most of the big AI stuff is privately held investments with the exception of Google and Nvidia.