MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matthewaveryusa | 2026-01-24 00:37:44+00:00
realpolitik time folks:

First do a left-right on the link that Aurornis posted [1]. Notice the extra fat in the chin, the elongated ear, the enlarged mouth and nose, the frizzlier hair, the lower shirt cut.

You hate it. You think, intellectually, that this shouldn't work and surely no one would have the gall to so brazenly do this without the fear of being caught and shamed. And then you think, well once the truth is revealed that there will be some introspection and self-reflection on being tricked, and that maybe being tricked here means being tricked elsewhere.

Well someone, in an emotionless room, min-maxed the outcomes and computed that the expected value from such an action was positive.

And here we are.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-levy-armstrong-crying-...
by adrianwaj | 2026-01-24 00:39:17+00:00
Wait, have you seen this? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/request-network

"As 2025 ends, we’re recounting this year’s launch, the Request Network API allowing builders to accept crypto payments, manage payouts, and invoicing flows via API endpoints, with many others to come next year."

https://x.com/RequestNetwork/status/2006364797936488742

I personally think payment tech should stay as in-house as possible for security reasons. Can't something be vibe-coded? Don't give others the temptation to spy.

And from my understanding and minuscule experience, the French are experts in commercial espionage. Please, someone disagree.

BUT, for you this is a French startup, so I thought you'd like it.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2026-01-24 00:40:02+00:00
- New candidate drug molecules identified by pharmaceutical companies through AI;
- New alloy formulas discovered by material laboratories;
- Optimized circuit architectures developed by chip design teams;
- Even new products incubated by startups based on AI-generated ideas.

This will tank adoption in high tech fields that live and die by IP.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-24 00:40:41+00:00
All Americans are probably better off using Chinese apps that the Chinese government uses to snoop on them and Chinese are better off using American apps that the American govt uses to snoop on them than the opposite.

The impact the Chinese government can have on an individual American is minor compared to the US govt and the same goes for the American and Chinese govts on the average Chinese person.
by jasonfarnon | 2026-01-24 00:42:26+00:00
"Gen Z buying iPods and people buying N64 games again is not evidence of the monoculture breaking apart - it's a retreat into the past for the enlightened few because their needs are not being met by modern goods and services."

That seems like a charitable interpretation to me. Maybe it's just a retro fashion trend that is even at its peak a tiny blip in the market, like back in the 90s when bell bottoms were "in". Give it a few years and we'll see.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-01-24 00:43:17+00:00
> Journalists love the "Microsoft gave" framing because it makes Microsoft sound like they're handing these out because they like the cops, but that's not how it works. If your company has data that the police want and they can get a warrant, you have no choice but to give it to them.

I’m not sure how you’re criticizing the “gave” framing when you’re describing and stating Microsoft literally giving the keys to the FBI.
by canpan | 2026-01-24 00:43:43+00:00
Regarding memory, I recently changed to try to not use dynamic memory, or if I need to, to do it once at startup. Often static memory on startup is sufficient.

Instead use the stack much more and have a limit on how much data the program can handle fixed on startup. It adds the need to think what happens if your system runs out of memory.

Like OP said, it's not a solution for all types of programs. But it makes for very stable software with known and easily tested error states. Also adds a bit of fun in figuring out how to do it.
by bluGill | 2026-01-24 00:43:48+00:00
Organic allows some really nasty chemicals that build up in the soil because they were used 200 years ago. Organic often substitutes plowing for weed killer - this is both bad for the air - more CO2 - and plowing destroys the soil.

if organic finds something good conventional farming adopts it.

conventional farming is developed at research universities. Organic is developed in cities by people who know nothing about farming, and often have an agenda.

not that conventional farming is all good. And even where it is better not all farmers do what is best. However organic is not a step better.
by camillomiller | 2026-01-24 00:44:31+00:00
What else do you need, dear Americans?
This is not who you are. Yet, by saying nothing, by thinking of tech as a neutral force, by working for the very companies that enable this, well, you are all silent accomplices.

Also, can someone explain to me why NOTHING of this is challenged in court or prosecuted? Where the hell is your judicial system?
by ncruces | 2026-01-24 00:44:43+00:00
You're only file format compatible if you don't use any of the Turso extensions.

Just like STRICT tables, as soon as you use an unsupported feature in your schema, your database becomes incompatible.

With STRICT tables you needed to upgrade SQLite tools.

But if you use something from Turso you're placing yourself outside the ecosystem: the SQLite CLI no longer works, Litestream doesn't work, sqlite_rsync doesn't work, recovery tools don't work, SQLite UIs don't work.

Turso has no qualms with splitting the ecosystem. They consider themselves the next evolution of SQLite. The question is do you want to be part of it?
by system7rocks | 2026-01-24 00:44:46+00:00
I am a diehard Apple fan. I stuck with Apple through the dreadful 90s and fought for their relevance as a needed computing alternative in education spaces. I extolled their virtues. I hung on until Steve Jobs took over and helped things improve... quite drastically, in fact. I could never have imagined the widespread celebration of the hardware with the m series of chips. Quite an achievement.

But even now, I acknowledge the latest macOS release is dreadful. Just absolutely dreadful.

And the fix is easy - hire new young talent. Hire kids out of college. Bring in fresh faces who are going to speak the truth, who are hungry to make it better. Listen to them and do what they say.
by taurath | 2026-01-24 00:44:49+00:00
This really does seem like a possible way forward to me. I had the advantage of taking a few years off of work, and I was able to pursue a lot of interesting venues I never would have if I had the continuous stress of rent going on. I gained a much stronger sense of myself as a being outside of just being a "worker". I helped others, built relationships, and moved some research forward. It was a societal net positive for me to NOT work.

Imagine the groundswell of what so many disadvantaged people could do if they weren't just working to survive - how many people could actually come online, and turn their attention towards other problems, or live healthier lives. In the neurodivergent community many can't reach the demands of steady work consistently enough to stay employed, yet they're often some of the most competent when actually on.

What is the most telling I think is how many zero-sum IQ-superiority-complex eugenicists out there who truly have never faced or considered the levels of adversity people not like them go through every day. This empathy gap and denial of shared humanity is the most dangerous meme of our species.
by imiric | 2026-01-24 00:45:37+00:00
Well, I appreciate your optimism, but do think it's misplaced.

We live in an increasingly polarized world, with rising political tensions and climate-related problems. Technology has played a major role in adding fuel to the fire, if not being directly responsible for our current unstable situation. Wealth and power are increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a few megalo+plutomaniacs. Advertising dominates all our communication channels, and along with social media, is the greatest brainwashing machine ever invented. "AI" is marketed as the solution to our problems, when in reality it's devaluing human work and flooding us even more in disinformation and propaganda.

But, hey, at least we can buy some VR headsets to distract us from all of this.

By any measure, these are all dystopian signs, which only seem to be growing stronger. I guess we all have a picture from books and movies that dystopia is something that's clearly visible, oppressive, etc. It's likely that it can be difficult to see if you gradually transition into it. Boiling frogs, and all that.
by cptskippy | 2026-01-24 00:45:51+00:00
Neo Deco is growing in popularity. There's a few youtube channels dedicated to art deco restoration and influencers showing off art deco motifs in their homes that have spurred the trend.

It's just the slow swing of the pendulum away from the AirSpace aesthetic that was the modern interpretation of mid-century modern that came out of the early 2000s.

Author is a hipster.
by twisteriffic | 2026-01-24 00:46:41+00:00
> C# similarly has old warts that are discouraged now. .NET Framework is a great example (completely different from modern c#, which used to be called "dotnet core"). WPF and MAUI are also examples. Or when "dynamic" was used as a type escape hatch before the type system advanced to not need it. ASP being incompatible with ASP.NET, the list goes on.

Almost all of this is incorrect or comparing apples to oranges.

.net framework and .net core are runtime and standard library impl, not languages. C# is a language that can target either runtime or both. Framework is still supported today, and you can still use most modern C# language features in a project targeting it. WPF and Maui are both still supported and widely used. ASP predates .net - c# was never a supported language in it. ASP.net core has largely replaced ASP.net, but it's again a library and framework, not a language feature.

Dynamic in c# and the dlr are definitely not widely used because it's both difficult to use safely and doesn't fit well with the dominant paradigm of the language. If you're looking for STD lib warts binaryserializer would have been an excellent example.
by thebigman433 | 2026-01-24 00:46:55+00:00
> To the first point, they've sold at least 2M pairs, and are reported scaling production to handle up to 10M units per year

Im actually very curious to learn more about the usage statistics of their glasses overall. I live in SF and I have noticed 1 person wearing them in the wild. Its obviously probable that Ive missed a handful, but my suspicion is that a lot of people wear them for short bursts of time, for specific events.
by mattnewton | 2026-01-24 00:47:47+00:00
I think we're never going to be able to have robust ai detection, and current models are as bad as they'll ever be. Instead we really need to have the ability to sign images on cameras that show these are the bits that came off this hardware unedited, that professional news outlets can verify.

But that's going to cost money to make and market all these new cameras and I just don't know how we incentivize or pay for this, so we're left unable to trust any images and video in the near future. I can only think of technical solutions and not the social changes that need to happen before the tech is wanted and adopted.
by nine_k | 2026-01-24 00:48:29+00:00
With proper discipline, one can even program a Turing machine directly. The problems are two: (1) Doing so is very slow and arduous, and (2) a chance of making a dangerous error is still quite high.

For instance, it appears that no amount of proper discipline, even in the best developers, allows to replace proper array support with a naked pointer to a memory area.
by pibaker | 2026-01-24 00:50:01+00:00
Not disagreeing with your point but: I have never seen any call of duty player who actually thinks you can actually carry twenty magazines worth of bullets or recover from a dozen gunshots by cowering behind a car. I have however seen many overconfident strategy and simulation game players talk as if playing civilization gives them a license to be confidently wrong about real world history and geopolitics.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-24 00:50:02+00:00
A route leak is often like this: an ISP in Pakistan is ordered to censor YouTube, so they add a route internally to YouTube's IP addresses that passes to their censoring machine, or to nowhere. They accidentally have their edge routers configured to pass this route to all their connected networks instead of keeping it internally to themselves. Some of their peers recognize this as the shortest route to YouTube and install it into their own networks. Others recognize it's not the real YouTube and ignore it. Transit providers check route authorization more thoroughly than peers, so none of them accept it and the route doesn't spread globally.
by breve | 2026-01-24 00:50:21+00:00
Sony cameras can sign still images and videos to vouch that they are not AI generated:

https://authenticity.sony.net/camera/en-us/index.html

https://www.sony.eu/presscentre/sony-launches-camera-verify-...

Ideally it'd become an open standard supported by all manufacturers. Which is what they're trying to do:

https://c2pa.org/
by Mawr | 2026-01-24 00:50:31+00:00
Oh, but you see, when Mr. Musk said:

'In a post on X.com, Musk said Tesla "started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car. Congrats to the Tesla AI team!"'

He really did mean "in the car". The safety supervisor is still there, just in another car [1], so it's not technically a lie, silly us!

[1]: https://xcancel.com/JoeTegtmeyer/status/2014410572226322794#....
by masfuerte | 2026-01-24 00:51:30+00:00
There was a great blog post a few years ago that reverse engineered the on-disk data structures and demonstrated extracting the key. Of course, I can't find it now.

Microsoft themselves [1] say:

> If a device uses only local accounts, then it remains unprotected even though the data is encrypted.

There is a further condition: if you explicitly enable bitlocker then the key is no longer stored on the disk and it is secure.

When I run "manage-bde -status" on my laptop it says "Key Protectors: None found". If the TPM was being used that would be listed.

Have you tried plugging the disk or ssd from your old laptop into another computer?

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating...
by parl_match | 2026-01-24 00:52:34+00:00
Because "gave" implies a favor or a one sided exchange. It implies that Microsoft is just giving away keys for no reason!

Better, and more accurate wording, would be that "Microsoft surrendered keys" or "Microsoft ceded keys". Or "Microsoft legally compelled to give the keys". If Microsoft did so without a warrant, then "gave" would be more tonally accurate.

In addition, none of this is new. They've been turning over keys when legally compelled to, for many years.

Fun fact: Apple does this too. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-24 00:53:23+00:00
It requires a bit of tinkering, but I think pipecat is the way to go. You can plug in pretty much any STT/LLM/TTS you want and go. It definitely supports local models but its up to you to get your hands on those models.

Not sure if there's any turnkey setups that are preconfigured for local install where you can just press play and go though.

Last I heard E2E speech to speech models are still pretty weak. I've had pretty bad results from gpt-realtime and that's a proprietary model, I'm assuming open source is a bit behind.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-24 00:53:38+00:00
Certainly the US healthcare system needs reform. But I believe a big reason why we have paid such high drug prices for so long is because congresspeople in the US believed that it was good for us to subsidize drug innovation for the entire world. That era is over. Like I said, you Europeans had a good thing going, but you just couldn't let well enough alone.
by bastard_op | 2026-01-24 00:53:47+00:00
My normal day job is IT consulting, network/security mostly, so I'm using it largely to connect to my workers, sandboxed or not, to make me scripts to do things, modify configurations, and I built out an ansible/terraform integration in my mcp to be able to start doing direct automation tasking them directly via it as well.

The whole thing I needed was to let AI reach out and touch things, be my hands essentially. This is why I built my tmux/worker system, I built out an xdg-portal integration to let it screen shot and soon interact with my desktop as a poc.

I could let it just start logging into devices and letting them modify configs, but it's pretty dumb about stuff like modifying fortigate configurations at times what it thinks it should do vs what the cli actually let's it do, so I have to proof much of it, but that's why I'm building it to be able to run ansible/terraform jobs instead using frameworks that are provided by the vendors for direct configurations to allow for atomic config changes as much as vendor implementations allow for.
by JamesTRexx | 2026-01-24 00:54:31+00:00
Two things I thought while reading the post:
Why not typedef BitInt types for stricter size and accidental promotion control when typedeffing for easier names anyway?
I came across a post mentioning using regular arrays instead of strings to avoid the null terminatorand off-by-one pitfalls.

I still have a lot of conversion to do before I can try this in my hobby project, but these are interesting ideas.
by parl_match | 2026-01-24 00:54:57+00:00
> Yes. The thing is: Microsoft made the design decision to copy the keys to the cloud, in plaintext. And they made this decision with the full knowledge that the cops could ask for the data.

Apple does this too. So does Google. This is nothing new.

It's a commonly used feature by the average user who loses their password or their last device.

During set up, they even explicitly inform the user that their bitlocker keys are being backed up to the cloud. And, you can still choose to use bitlocker without key escrow.
by pessimizer | 2026-01-24 00:55:10+00:00
> I deleted it after it only found about half of my books, which incidentially is my chief problem with Calibre.

Just find the citation on the web like at Open Library or somewhere, grab it, and add the book as an attachment.

I wouldn't drop it because all the stuff may not be done automatically. If you're going to read the books, you should be spending hours with them. I myself only put them into Zotero when I start reading them. I don't need to crowd it with wishful thinking. It's bloated and gets slower the more entries you add.
by thebigman433 | 2026-01-24 00:55:29+00:00
> Well... yeah, but the Tesla will do that on an empty road, then approach a slow car from behind and make a lane change decision to pass, then take your next exit and continue on through city streets, through all sorts of traffic conditions, to your destination. And it will monitor your attention with eye tracking instead of making you mess with the wheel.

The point is that it now only does that if you subscribe. If I dont want to pay a monthly fee, an economy car now has a better feature set in this area
by reactordev | 2026-01-24 00:56:28+00:00
If someone comes to you and says: "I want to build a platform that does WhizzyWhatsIt for my customers, it has to be on AWS so it's mingled with my existing infrastructure. It needs to provide an admin portal so that I can set WhizzyWhatsIt prices and watch user acquisition make my bank account go brrrrrtt. It needs the ability for my quazi-illegal affiliate marketing ring to be able to whitelabel and brand it as their own for a cut of the profits."

This is obviously satire but there's a clear ask, some features, from there you know what you need to have to even achieve those features, what project management process would you employ? Agile? Waterfall? Agile-fall? Kanban? Call me in 6 months?
by ezfe | 2026-01-24 00:56:47+00:00
> The courts could not care less about the implementation details

That's not really true in practice by all public evidence

> the automated CSAM reporting apple does

Apple does not have a CSAM reporting feature that scans photo libraries, it never rolled out. They only have a feature that can blur sexual content in Messages and warn the reader before viewing.

We can argue all day about this, but yeah - I guess it's true that your phone is closed source so literally everything you do is "under the complete and sole control of Apple."

That just sends you back to the first point and we can never win an argument if we disagree about the level the government might compel a company to produce data.
by gizmov21 | 2026-01-24 00:56:48+00:00
What, pray tell, can we do?

Tens of thousands of people are protesting and some getting arrested, anyone with a voice is doing what they can to sway public opinion.

Our higher courts are compromised (and feckless at times even when used correctly), and the police help ICE. And a large number of Americans do, in fact, want this. Others don’t care until it hits them personally.

So what specifically are people to do, like myself, who live in an unaffected area and who’s politicians are in fact speaking out against this?
by crq-yml | 2026-01-24 00:57:17+00:00
Korg satisfies both ends of this spectrum in its different products. The Microkorg 2 is the update of its record-setting best-seller built around "here is a giant preset knob that has sounds organized by genre". You can program a Microkorg and it does have plenty of depth, but the general idea of it is to be a go-to "recall" box for the quintessential synth sounds.

While the feature is useful, in some senses it's not terribly important to have a sound be exact, because you're giving a performance to the circumstance. Acoustic instruments react to temperature and humidity and all of that - it worked fine for thousands of years of music.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-24 00:57:29+00:00
> My 5 year old Subaru has been able to lane keep and auto follow to the point that a 2h drive on the freeway is me tapping the wheel every ten seconds

I have a '22 Outback. My Dad has a Tesla of similar vintage. I have to pay about as much attention for FSD as I do with the Subaru, the difference being the Subaru is more predictable.

Can't wait for Waymo to start chopping into the top end of the market.
by giobox | 2026-01-24 00:57:48+00:00
This link shows that every single 2026 Civic and CR-V trim have the "basic" Honda Link package at a minimum - not a single trim has no modem.

This page here explains what "basic" means:

https://www.verneidehondasiouxcity.com/hondalink/

"basic" still includes remote access to checking some vehicle features.
by avidiax | 2026-01-24 00:57:56+00:00
I wouldn't describe myself as libertarian. To make a libertarian strawman, such a strawman might claim that all safety features in cars ought to be provided by the free market. Of course, the predictable outcome is that most people won't prioritize safety in cars, so cars that spend their production budget on non-safety features will outsell those that spend on safety features, leading to at best a niche market for safety cars.

So no, I don't think any libertarian is OK with being forced to do almost anything, in principle. The very idea that you'd need to wear seatbelts or have a license or be compelled to have insurance or not have an open bottle of vodka in your cup holder is anathema. The free market should simply operate through the courts and put those that can't drink responsibly and cover the damage they cause into debtors prisons, to continue the strawman.

I would actually prefer much stricter enforcement of insurance and licensing laws, akin to say, the UK or Germany. I don't think you need hardware interlocks to do it, but you would have to have police willing to actually pull over people with fake license plates or missing insurance. That is not the case in much of California.