MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by some_furry | 2025-12-28 17:33:27+00:00
> I want secure messaging, not encrypted SMS.

I send long messages via Signal, typed on a desktop computer, all the time. (In fact, I almost exclusively use Signal through my desktop app.)

You don't have to use it like "encrypted SMS"! You're free.

> I want my messages to sync properly between arbitrary number of devices. I want my messaging history to not be lost when I lose a device.

OK. https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devi...

> I want not losing my messaging history to not be a paid feature.

I genuinely don't understand what you mean here. From https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/

"If you do decide to opt in to secure backups, you’ll be able to securely back up all of your text messages and the last 45 days’ worth of media for free."

If you have a metric fuckton of messages, that does cost money, sure, but as they say:

"If you want to back up your media history beyond 45 days, as well as your message history, we also offer a paid subscription plan for US$1.99 per month."

"This is the first time we’ve offered a paid feature. The reason we’re doing this is simple: media requires a lot of storage, and storing and transferring large amounts of data is expensive. As a nonprofit that refuses to collect or sell your data, Signal needs to cover those costs differently than other tech organizations that offer similar products but support themselves by selling ads and monetizing data."

If you want Signal to host the encrypted storage, that costs money. If you don't want to pay Signal money, they provide 45 days of backup for free.

If you want to self-host your own backups (at your own cost), that's easy to do.

https://imgur.com/a/EIfaIee

You can literally set up SyncThing to stream your on-device backups to your NAS, cloud storage, or whatever.

> I want to not depend on a shady crypto company to send a message.

Shady crypto company?

Are you referring to MobileCoin? That feature isn't in the pipeline for sending messages.

I checked! https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-us...
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-28 17:33:31+00:00
There is no reason for me to take you seriously, since you're resorting to just being aggressive, calling people idiots, and so on.

So you can take that as you're being right and me not having any arguments against your superior intelligence, which you certainly will think.

But I don't give any value to what you say or believe. There is no productive conversation to be had with you.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 17:33:40+00:00
"News and Elections" let you influence large swaths of the population. A shitty customer service bot that can't give a good answer wouldn't influence anyone besides "Now I understand what Rage Against The Machine was all about", but it's not gonna make "un-electable" people suddenly presidents, compared to what you can do with a influence campaign on social media.
by epistasis | 2025-12-28 17:33:41+00:00
Here's why I think AI has the potential to absolutely destroy news and elections: The wave of fake content will only get better and look more real over time, causing even larger amounts of false belief, but perhaps even more worryingly, a grand break down in trust overall.

This will funnel people into having deeper trust for their sources, and less trust of sources they don't know. The end result will be even greater control of people's information sphere by a few people who shape those trusted channels, separating people from reliable news and information about the world. This will be disastrous for democracy, as democracy depends on voters being able to make decisions on reliable true information.

I don't know if this will come to pass, but the above narrative seems highly probable based on what we have see so far with social media, especially video-driven social media.
by treebeard901 | 2025-12-28 17:33:42+00:00
Gang stalking has evolved to mean that people using the surveillance state, often bored people in Govt or law enforcement with a specific target (and false justification), will all work together against the target and do various things to them. It is meant to be done in a deniable way. Turns out that the same people involved in this also control the doctors and the medical system who can then make a determination that the target is delusional. After all, the doctors, medical professionals, etc all require licenses from the state to continue operating.

This follows from Stasi like tactics developed in East Germany which mirror the methods used by COINTELPRO. The Stasi called it Zersetzung, or deconstruction. One difference is that the Stasi didn't have the massive surveillance state that exists today. They also required in person informants on other friends and family. A large portion of the population became informants and participated in the forms of Zersetzung against the states defined target.

Now cell phones and online services, along with constant tracking and surveillance have replaced this need for human informants. They still exist of course, but are just not a requirement.

Some of it is just bored, power tripping law enforcement agents or people in Govt with access to the surveillance state. Even with all the data brokers and sharing, it's possible for a reasonable wealthy person to do this without acting under the color of law.

Hopefully the public will know more about these operations in the near future. The lying, rights violations and gaslighting is all uniquely un-American, and the public needs to hold the state accountable for it.

EDIT: A lot of the YouTube videos about it seem to go off the deep end and include conspiracies like Havana Syndrome or other crazy stuff that does fall under mental illness. This allows actual gang stalking where 3 or more people rely on Govt authority and the surveillance state to target a specific person, usually with the goal to harm them in some way. Often not physically. More reputationally, and so on. Zersetzung was real. Much is known after the fall of the Stasi. It is happening in the U.S.
by romandr | 2025-12-28 17:33:51+00:00
Not all of them, though:

Monday - "понедельник", which is coming from the "day after the (previous) week", i.e. after the Sunday
Tuesday - "вторник", true here, has "second" in the name
Wednesday - "среда", has "middle" in the name
Thursday - "четверг", also true, has "fourth" in the name
Friday - "пятница", also true, has "fifth" in the name
Saturday - "суббота", derived from the Hebrew "shabbat"
Sunday - "воскресенье", almost the same word as "воскресение", which is the Christian Church word for the Resurrection (of Jesus Christ)
by sgjohnson | 2025-12-28 17:33:51+00:00
> This argument that nuclear power generation is clean if you ignore the times when it isn't seems a bit no-true-Scotsman to me.

The same can be said about wind and solar. Nothing about producing the rare earths required is clean.

Even if we include Chernobyl, nuclear is still by far the safest source of energy when looking at deaths per TWh generated.

> I can, off the top of my head, name two sites that are dangerous decades after they were polluted

Two? I can only count one. Fukushima is almost perfectly safe today, although exclusion zones still exist.
by cbarrick | 2025-12-28 17:34:30+00:00
It is genuine human artwork, designed to look like generative AI. The retweet by the Apple TV account clearly ties the artwork to the show Pluribus, whose themes are relevant to the current societal discussions around gen AI.

All of this has clearly gone over Gruber's head.

It is quite funny that Gruber has enough of an opinion about this artwork to make a blog post about it, while at the same time completely missing the point.
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-28 17:34:36+00:00
Karp isn't british, and its not like Oswald Mosley is that well known in the UK.

Mosley's speeches are not common knowledge. For example if you reference "rivers of blood" someone who's vaguely knowledgable in British politics will have a basic understanding of the reference. (Enoch Powell)

if you said "Hurray for the black shirts" someone might know you're talking about the daily mail's endorsement of Mosely. But thats the Dailymail, not Mosley.

But if you say "britian first speech" you'll get blank looks. Even if you're a politics nerd.

So for someone who is pretty uninterested in british politics, to memorise a speech from oswald mosley, is deeply fucking weird. Now, if that had been some politician like Lloyd George or Disraeli, you know someone who was actually a good orator, still weird, but not much else.

To memorise a speech from a fascist, who married a fascist, organised a fascist party, was interred for being a fascist, and tell it back to the grandson of that fascist, who you employed mainly because he's the grandson of the fascist, is big fucking tell that he's a bit fascist.
by layer8 | 2025-12-28 17:34:39+00:00
> The good news is that the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has decided to stop adding leap seconds by 2035.

This is not entirely correct. What has been agreed is to allow deviations of more than one second after 2035, so that clocks have to be adjusted less frequently (on the order of every 50-100 years is the intention). However, the allowable deviation, and how to adjust clocks when it is exceeded, has yet to be decided.
by ThunderSizzle | 2025-12-28 17:34:57+00:00
Put plainly, any sort of expectations as if they other person is an employee or coworker makes no sense to me.

If Google wants bugs fixed in open source software, they should also submit a PR with the fix, or provide a bounty for the fix.

The way this is done is an unveiled threat (if it was my library, I'd tell them as much. Deadlines are for vendors or employees, not for free libraries).
Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack
by packet_mover | 2025-12-28 17:35:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small demo stack for offline maps + routing + geocoding that runs entirely locally on edge/on-prem devices (kiosks, gateways, vessels, etc.). It’s a single Docker Compose deploy for a tiny area (Monaco) so it’s easy to try.

What’s inside:

- Vector tiles served locally (PMTiles)

- Routing served locally (Valhalla)

- Offline geocoding/search (SQLite index built from Nominatim-derived data)

- MapLibre UI wired to local endpoints

After the initial image pulls, there are no external map/routing/geocoding API calls. Everything is exposed behind a single Nginx entrypoint on one port.

Quickstart:

git clone https://github.com/corviont/monaco-demo
cd monaco-demo
echo "CORVIONT_PORT=3000" > .env
docker compose up -d

Then open: http://localhost:3000

Docs: https://corviont.com/docs

What I’m building next (if people need it): a signed on-device updater for regional datasets (verify → atomic swap → reload), so fleets can stay offline and still keep data fresh.

If you’d use something like this, I’d love input on:

1.) Where does offline maps/routing/search matter in your setup?

2.) Any constraints that bite (arch, RAM/disk, fleet size)?

3.) Update constraints (bandwidth caps, maintenance windows, air-gapped vs intermittent)?

4.) Which regions + deployment style would you want (Compose / Portainer / Mender / Kubernetes)?
by RajT88 | 2025-12-28 17:35:49+00:00
There is quite a lot of pressure put outside from the beer of a full bottle, but that little bit of air is probably enough to cause it to implode at some point.

I'll be honest; I have no idea how to estimate that. I'm sure there are folks on here who can (and might). It's probably not as deep as you'd think.
by analogpixel | 2025-12-28 17:35:56+00:00
I think a lot of people on HN don't realize that some people require software outside of a terminal and a web browser. Can I run Ableton on linux? can I run all the audio plugins that only ship windows/mac versions? is there a decent graphics editor? (gimp is not it.) If all I did was play in the terminal and a web browser, I'd have switched to Linux by now.
by Xorakios | 2025-12-28 17:36:19+00:00
I'm 63 and tend to communicate in full sentences, that often include semi-colons and differentiate between - and -- based on context.

I asked Perplexity in a months long development task that is both complex and complicated what punctuation I should utilize to minimize token and computational cost to get best results, and using semi-colons to delineate related requests in a single prompt was best. Separate prompts for different aspects of the specific projects, or double spaces between sentences. Placing commas inside or outside quotes wasn't mentioned. But third most important, according to Perplexity, was capitalizing important words even if they weren't proper nounds, which I did not expect but now fear I will over-use (I still write thank-you letters by hand, so YMMV!)
by jiggawatts | 2025-12-28 17:36:23+00:00
That’s some grade A nonsense.

The core algorithm behind modern generative AI was developed specifically for translation, the task which arguably these chatbots are the most suited! It’s the task that they’re far the best at, both relative to older translation algorithms (which were also AI), and relative to their capabilities other tasks that they’re being put to. These LLMs are “just” text-to-text transformers! That’s where the name comes from!

“Stop using the best electric power tool, please use the outdated steam powered tool.” is what you’re saying right now.

You’re not even asking for something to be “hand crafted”, you’re just being a luddite.
by thegrim000 | 2025-12-28 17:36:36+00:00
Here's some of the other submissions by the OP:

"As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary", " Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs", "Apollo cuts risk and stockpiles cash in preparation for market turmoil", "The Private-Credit Party Turns Ugly for Individual Investors", "Stock Market Crash Is Here: How Bad Can It Get?", "Investors seek protection from risk of AI debt bust", "Oracle Credit Risk Gauge Deteriorates After Earnings Report", etc, etc, etc.

Wow, look at that. An account that overwhemingly only post doomer scare mongering anti-US economy stories. Surely just a normal human posting normal stories that hackers would find interesting, and there's no other motive behind their posting pattern at all.
by tacitusarc | 2025-12-28 17:36:53+00:00
I agree with the author that there is a sense of hypocritical outrage in Pike’s post.

My viewpoint is similar. Google has done many negative things, and at this point it can easily be argued they have caused net harm. By choosing to remain employed there, Pike tacitly admits he believes that they land on the net positive side.

There is at least as much nuance to AI as a technology, but his level of outrage indicates he is not evaluating it through the lens of trade-offs. His reaction then begs the question: why would he be nuanced in the case of his employer but not in the case of AI? And the answer seems obvious: he profits from Google directly, not AI.

If you reach that conclusion, his words ring pretty hollow.
by packet_mover | 2025-12-28 17:36:57+00:00
A bit more context on why I built this and how it differs from common options:

Goal: treat maps/routing/search like a local appliance. Once the dataset is on the device, there are no external map/routing/geocoding API calls. After the initial Docker pulls, you can unplug WAN and still browse tiles, route A→B, and search/reverse-geocode locally. It’s packaged behind a single local gateway/port so any app on the LAN can hit the same endpoints.

Also important for consistency: tiles, routing tiles, and the geocoder index are all built from the same underlying extract for a given region (so you don’t end up mixing sources/versions across components).

How this differs from common alternatives:

- Mapbox / HERE SDKs: they do support offline use cases, but the typical path is SDK-first (embed their SDK in every app, manage offline packs per app/device, adopt their licensing + integration surface). This project is server-style offline in Docker: drop it onto an edge box and multiple clients can share the same local tiles + routing + geocoding service without wiring a proprietary SDK into each client.

- Mapbox Atlas: Atlas is the closest “serious” comparison (an on-prem/offline Mapbox platform). The difference I’m aiming for is edge ops: Corviont is intentionally focused on specific regions and a smaller “appliance-like” bundle (PMTiles + Valhalla + SQLite geocoder) designed to be friendlier to edge hardware and simple deployments, rather than a full on-prem mapping platform.

- Google Maps Platform: for developers, offline usage is effectively contractually off-limits (tight restrictions on caching/storage and “offline use” of map content). So “just run Google Maps offline on my fleet” isn’t a realistic path.

- Tiles-only servers: offline tiles are only one piece — many deployments still need routing + geocoding locally. This bundles all three behind one gateway/port.

- Routing-only engines (OSRM/GraphHopper/Valhalla alone): routing doesn’t cover the “search / reverse-geocode” side. This is meant for navigation-like UX, not just a route endpoint.

- Running Nominatim: it’s powerful, but it’s heavy to operate (Postgres, import/tuning, ongoing ops). This demo uses a SQLite-based offline index derived from Nominatim-style data so it’s easier to ship as an artifact to edge targets.

What’s next (and what I’m trying to validate): a signed on-device updater that’s actually fleet-friendly:

- verifiable updates (signed manifests), fail-closed, atomic swap + rollback

- incremental publishing on the build side (so a “new dataset” doesn’t always mean re-shipping everything)

- incremental/resumable downloads on devices with bandwidth caps + maintenance windows

- staged rollout patterns (canary → wider) for fleets

If you’re willing to share your map coverage + deployment style (Compose/Portainer/Mender/K8s), I have a short form here: https://corviont.com/#join-waitlist
by stefanfisk | 2025-12-28 17:37:40+00:00
For me the touchpad experience is not just about the hardware. I got a Magic Trackpad for my Linux desktop hoping that it would at least be somewhat comparable to my MacBook. But scrolling and gestures are nowhere near as consistent fluid as in macOS since the software support just isn't there.

As a fairly typical example, getting Firefox on Linux to actually scroll smoothly takes googling and fiddling with settings. Gesture support is hit or miss. On macOS, Firefox behaves just like any other native app in this regard.
by danaris | 2025-12-28 17:37:41+00:00
No; they're supposed to tell Nvidia they can't hire those guys.

This isn't about the people being hired; it's about the company that's trying to headhunt them.

And, once again: robust, sane antitrust would never have let one company get as big, as vital to the tech sector, and wielding as much power as Nvidia does in the first place. If there were 8 companies that do what Nvidia does, letting one of them hire these guys wouldn't be nearly as much of a big deal.

> Point is, antitrust works fine.

Not the way we've been doing it, it doesn't. Like I said, that's the whole point.
by akmarinov | 2025-12-28 17:38:26+00:00
Oh yeah, I’ve been a lot more productive, closing tickets faster.

These tools are somewhat slow, so you need to work on several things at once, so multitasking is vital.

When i get defects from the QA team, I spawn several agents with several worktrees that do each of the tickets- then i review the code, test it out and leave my notes.

Closing the loop is also vital, if agents can see their work, logs, test results it helps them to be more autonomous
by Pooge | 2025-12-28 17:39:02+00:00
> Have you ever found a 10/10 on your own?

If I've ever did, it's after having been recommended something. For example if someone sends me a song and then I go to the "most popular" songs from that same artist. Sometimes I would stumble upon something I like even more than the recommendation.

For example if it's a genre that interests me I would search "[genre] mix" on YouTube. In which case it's usually mixed by a human.
by E39M5S62 | 2025-12-28 17:39:12+00:00
I booted a G4 Mac the other day, running 10.4.something. I was thrown back in time to a period where OS X was clearly their flagship software stack. Everything was coherent and cohesive - and shockingly - fast. I'd daily 10.4 again if it could operate on the modern internet comfortably!
by jorgyak | 2025-12-28 17:39:12+00:00
For a consumer oriented personality test, I think this is the first that works this way.

I hope framing it in this way could lead to better epistemics about personality types. Personality types are of course pseduoscience, but people get caught up in confusion along the lines of 'how can you say being INTJ is not real when I read a description of what it means to be INTJ and I liked it??' very often.

You are correct that this is a very basic machine learning technique
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 17:39:29+00:00
"It" being ChatGPT, in that case. I guess most people know, but not all AI is the same as all other AI, the implementation in those cases matter more than what weights are behind it, or that it's actually ML rather than something else.

With that said, like most technology, it seems to come with a ton of drawbacks, and some benefits, while most people focus on the benefits, we're surely about to find out all the drawbacks shortly. Better than social media or not, its being deployed on a wide-scale, so it's less about what each person believes, and more about what we're ready to deal with and how we want to deal with it.
by caseysoftware | 2025-12-28 17:40:05+00:00
The claim from the post above was "why were there so many FBI agents at the Jan 6 debacle" and the response asked for a source.

If you consider the response to the violence part of "the Jan 6 debacle", then yes, FBI agents were present.

The documents would NOT specify they were in "plainclothes" because the FBI doesn't wear uniforms, therefore everything would be "plainclothes" by definition. This is both common knowledge but I can personally confirm from my time there. You can dislike the characterization but it is correct.

The more interesting questions:

- Since the FBI primarily an investigative body (in the name) and these were NOT tacteams providing armed support, what was their purpose?

- Further, why did it take almost 5 years for the FBI to identify the man placing the pipebombs? According to reports, no new evidence came to light.
by rodrigodlu | 2025-12-28 17:40:09+00:00
Definitely. The things that I most agreed with my doctor and my psychologist was around rebuilding my daily routines on things that are important, but not overly rewarding, or with delayed reward (physical exercises, home chores, reading and entire book chapter before stopping).

So much so that I can reduce the medication when I feel my routine is healthy enough.

No overdoing neither under doing. Taking care of hyper focus is more important than anything else. Learning to transfer the rewards from highly rewarding things (videogames) to the chores.

During my gaming sessions as well, playing harder modes repeatedly without giving up.

It's very important this aspect of reframing things. Pursuing healthier outcomes by changing the routine.

Unfortunately a really close person to me is taking much higher dosages, but it's not seeing this way, neither the doctor of this person frames the same way like my doctor is doing.

I went all up to 50mg, using generics or whatnot, extended release or regular ones, now I'm a happy camper on 10mg. Will go to 20mg because I need to force myself into more exercises, usually I take 30 minutes before these sessions of "boring" routines.

More important than anything is having an honest discussion with my psychiatrist about the role and objectives of taking the medication.