MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomel | 2026-01-27 19:06:10+00:00
I think this is part of the reason humans are so stupid during any sort of divisions where "sides" emerge. To be able to do commit this genocide, you need a very ugly "switch" in your head that can make your actions justifiable/right. I think this switch is the same, emotional, unthinking one that makes some people so religion about teams sports, phone OS, political alignment, etc.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-27 19:06:27+00:00
The implicit assumption that this is a bad thing is grounded in the assumption that anyone who is a STEM PhD is automatically someone the US government should want to employ, which I don't think is true. Academia is a badly broken system, and many people with formal credentials like PhDs have wasted huge amounts of time and effort on producing what is ultimately low-quality scientific work. This is a pretty uncontroversial statement among people I know in academia - or who were in academia but left - and this should absolutely affect the degree to which federal government agencies are willing to hire people who have formal credentials like a STEM PhD.
by pornel | 2026-01-27 19:06:52+00:00
Has anyone here even read the article?! All the comments here assume they're building a package manager for C!

They're writing a tool to discover and index all indirect dependencies across languages, including C libraries that were smuggled inside other packages and weren't properly declared as a dependency anywhere.

"Please don't" what? Please don't discover the duplicate and potentially vulnerable C libraries that are out of sight of the system package manager?
by comex | 2026-01-27 19:07:11+00:00
I haven’t looked at the code, but what you’re describing doesn’t sound that bad. If the queue is empty then it doesn’t matter whether a worker is waiting on the lock or waiting on the receiver itself. If the queue is non-empty then whoever has the lock will soon complete the receive and release the lock. It would be better to just use an actual MPMC channel, but if the traffic on the queue isn’t too high then it probably doesn’t make a significant difference. With round robin in contrast, the sender would risk sending a job to a worker that was already busy, unless it took additional measures to avoid that.
by port11 | 2026-01-27 19:07:16+00:00
I really don’t know whether to trust that specific measurement. When I was a very active runner and doing intervals to improve per-km time, my VO2max went from 38 to 42. I decided to do a professional VO2max test and got a 46.

Now, 2 years later, I don’t run due to injury and a kid, and it’s resting at 34. For reference, when I went to the gym almost everyday and ran once or twice a week, the value was 32.

I don’t get much utility out of it, even looking at the trends. Not sure what Apple is doing behind the scenes to get the score.
by sodafountan | 2026-01-27 19:07:22+00:00
I stopped into the Amazon Fresh in Broomall, PA, to check it out not too long ago. It just looks bland and dystopian from the outside, and not much about it is impressive from the inside. I've worked with computers and technology my whole life, and the entrance to the store just confused me. If I remember correctly, I had to scan the Amazon app on my phone to enter the building. Once inside, it felt like a warehouse; the aisles were too small, and the food selection wasn't even really that great. (From memory, it was a few years ago that I went)

All in all, it's a cool concept on paper with absolutely terrible execution.

Only went once, bought some snacks, and left.
by pwthornton | 2026-01-27 19:07:23+00:00
The pitch from Bezos -- and it's a dumb pitch -- was basically just to make checking out faster by avoiding interacting with humans (but this can be achieved by increasing the number of cashiers and baggers). The pitch was never lower prices. The combo of all the tech and the army of Indians watching video was not cheap.

And because they were relying on computer vision and Indian vision, they had to get rid of all their fresh meals because they were too hard to calculate prices for. So, it ended up being a half-assed 7-Eleven concept. The whole concept was made by someone who hates humanity.

I personally prefer stores with actual cashiers. What I don't like are lines, but that is very solvable. The organic grocer near me is super fast to check out.
by tastyfreeze | 2026-01-27 19:07:51+00:00
> It's about making people feel safe.

It doesn't make me feel safe. It makes me annoyed. Since TSA are government agents it also pokes a tyranny button for me. I despise TSA with a passion and there is not a damn thing I can do about it. They also have the gall to offer a paid service to get around the delays they cause with taxpayer money. If airport security checkpoints need to be done it shouldn't be government doing it.
by duped | 2026-01-27 19:07:59+00:00
User now waits for 3rd party "maintainers" to get around to manipulating the software they just want to use from the 1st party developer they have a relationship with. If ever.

I understand this is how distros work. What I'm saying is that the distros are wrong, this is a bad design. It leads to actual bugs and crashes for users. There have been significant security mistakes made by distro maintainers. Distros strip bug fixes and package old versions. It's a mess.

And honestly, a lot of software is not free and won't be packaged by distros. Most software I use on my own machines is not packaged by my distro. ALL the software I use professionally is vendored independently of any distribution. And when I've shipped to various distributions in the past, I go to great lengths to never link anything if possible that could be from the distro, because my users do not know how to fix it.
by ixtli | 2026-01-27 19:08:03+00:00
I came here to see if the comments could explain to my why this obviously bad thing is actually good. Its somewhat comforting to see others worried about the implication. The fact is that governments (aka public funding) is really what drives the biggest most impactful sorts of scientific breakthroughs. Think: NASA spinoffs, the internet, rocketry, MRNA, etc.

I know that the US has been failing to fund important things like Fusion for more than 40 years now but its sad and scary to see it halting.
by ssslvky1 | 2026-01-27 19:08:39+00:00
The experience of running Moltbot(Clawdbot) today is far from plug-and-play:

Complex setup — You need to deploy it yourself on a server or VPS, install prerequisites, configure API keys, integrate with chat platforms, and keep it running 24/7.

Infrastructure management — A local ClawdBot dies when your laptop sleeps or reboots; keeping it alive often means paying for a cloud server and dealing with reliability yourself.

Security & ops burden — Exposing APIs, managing tokens, sandboxing commands, and maintaining uptime are non-trivial operational tasks.

So I tried to make it online for everyone :)
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-27 19:08:40+00:00
The Jizya tax on non-muslims in many Islamic empires was never a "discriminatory" tax. This is a common anti-muslim trope and an example of distorting history by considering it through modern political lens. In most muslim empires, this tax was only imposed on non-muslims who wanted to be exempt from serving in the military but still be a citizen of the Islamic empire they were part of. Those who chose to join military service were exempted from payment. Only free adult, non-muslim males were required to pay it and women, children, elders, the disabled, the insane, religious workers, hermits, slaves etc. were exempt. Some muslim rulers also exempted the poor amongst the non-muslims from paying it.

Muslims weren't required to pay a similar tax to the government because they were already obligated by their religion to pay a certain percentage of their wealth every year towards charity (Zakat).

This trope was popularised as part of the "divide and rule" policy of the British to generate animosity between muslims and non-muslims in many a British colony and today is commonly spouted in the anti-muslim tirades of many a right-wing religious fundamentalists.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-27 19:09:06+00:00
I mean, you're not wrong, but there isn't very much nuance here.

I think there are a number of things occurring all at once and it's going to lead to the destabilization of most democracies (which China is a big winner if this occurs).

Democracy has never really been as free as the people living in democracies believe. The rich and large media entities have always controlled the vote with much more impact than the actual issues individual voters had.

If you believe this previous statement to be true this leads to a number of issues in the modern world.

One is that previous to now most countries demanded some kind of local media ownership, so the message would be more aligned with someone living in the country rather than some other entity (not perfect, but still better than nothing).

Another is media groups tended to be smaller and more fractured. They may hold conflicting opinions on things.

Which bring us to now, with huge foreign media organizations holding massive sway over gigantic audiences. This isn't just about China over the US, it's just as much about the US over many EU entities. These are potential powers that can change course of the world and they have governments behind them directing them where to go.

Also don't forget the US absolutely loves to control what gets in the media. The right in the US didn't just start brining up socialism and communism yesterday, it's been a control mechanism on what can be published and what you can see for over 100 years.
by geminigemino | 2026-01-27 19:09:39+00:00
Yes, some parts are inherently O(n²) (mate finding, crowd density, predator/prey proximity, pathogen spread). Ecology needs pairwise relationships.

To keep it sane, I don’t do naive all-vs-all. I use:

Zone-based spatial indexing so most checks only run against local neighbors (roughly n/16 instead of n). Temporal caching of indices so they’re not rebuilt every tick. Statistical sampling for crowd density at high population (estimate from a fixed-size sample instead of full scans).

So in practice it’s closer to O(n² / k), with k ≈ 16–50 depending on zone layout and population. You still see spikes during blooms, but it’s usually 10–30× faster than naive pairwise checks.
by jermaustin1 | 2026-01-27 19:09:46+00:00
If I got rid of all of my fat and bones, I'd still weigh more than 150lbs. I have the most muscular 150lbs man inside of me.

Ideal body fat percentage is 18-24% - I'm at 25% (or was in November - might be +/- 2% since then - gained a few pounds weight, but not waist size).

So I would say I'm not morbidly obese or even regular obese based on the percentage of my body that is muscle vs fat.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-27 19:10:27+00:00
It's a NIMBY policy, pulling up the ladder. It's rooted in zero-sum thinking, that can't imagine "make the pie bigger" and can only imagine a fixed-size pie where their slice is getting smaller.

Given the impact the economy has on people's lives, it's an understandable fear. There's plenty of evidence for this not being the case (and in fact evidence for the "brain drain" strategy having substantial positive impact), but getting people to let go of a fear typically requires more than just hard evidence that it's unfounded.

(There's a separate branch of that fear, that imagines immigrants to be a drain on public assistance programs, but there's plenty of evidence that that is not the case.)

(Also, as always, policy is complicated and no comment that fits on a page is going to capture all the nuance of it or facets of it.)
by sejje | 2026-01-27 19:10:33+00:00
That's not what you quoted when you called it my take.

Now that you've got an actual take, I can respond:

He was trained to respond to deadly force with deadly force. That's what I'm talking about, the shooting. It was by the book.

Where he positions himself is about his own safety, nothing to do with whether he should pull the trigger or not.

He won't be found liable or guilty of anything.
by JohnLeitch | 2026-01-27 19:10:48+00:00
> though this would be a much more sophisticated exploit and is maybe a bit of a reach.

Not necessarily. I have successfully exploited stack buffer overflows in major products despite stack canaries, ASLR, and DEP. It largely depends on context; if the vector is something that can be hit repeatedly, such a webform that that takes a cert or whatever, that simplifies things a lot versus something like a file format exploit, where you probably only get one chance. While I haven't analyzed this vulnerability, I would absolutely assume exploitability even if I couldn't see a way myself.
by Bluecobra | 2026-01-27 19:11:26+00:00
>Corporate/enterprise networks have nightmarish setups for centralizing access to LLMs.

As someone who is on the other side of the fence on this and trying to keep the network secure and preventing data exfiltration there could be a good reason for this. More often than not we have folks doing all kinds of crazy things and ignore what’s in the handbook. For example we had someone who didn’t like MFA for remote access and would use Tailscale to have a remote permanent reverse proxy to their homelab to do whatever work they were doing. What’s funny is that we are not BOFH’s and would have helped them setup whatever they need had they just sent us an email or opened a ticket.
by order-matters | 2026-01-27 19:11:35+00:00
Which is why its backwards and makes no sense that we allow / cater to "well nothing said I couldnt do that" as a reasonable defense. The value judgement system should go both ways. then a lot less would need to be written down to begin with, because it wouldnt be an arbitrary set of rules on every front but the codification of a specific value judgement system with clarifications on how to align yourself to it.

We really shouldnt be allowing things like, "this is a location dedicated to peace and non-violence" and then section 32 subsection C part 2 (a) says "we can kick the shit out of you if you photograph the premises". Just a random made up example for communication purposes, but it applies to all sorts of things. Personally, I think it should apply to social media. there was a implied sense of privacy to it, that people could not see my information if i did not approve it - and then the fine print says except for the company running the page who can sell the information to whoever they want. Like WTF was that about? I wont say its an ignored thing, there plenty of outrage over it - but i think its incredibly fundamental to whats going wrong and feeding this information overload in a dangerous / stressful way.

Companies shouldnt need 10 pages of TOS to say all the obvious things, and appealing to this idea that only whats written down is what matters shouldnt allow for just any arbitrary set of things to be written down and called reasonable
by linolevan | 2026-01-27 19:11:50+00:00
For tiny models, the SFT data mixture is unbelievably critical to usability. They are unable to generalize in almost any way. If you don't have multi-turn conversations, they will not be able to do multi-turn conversations. If you have multi-turn conversations which are just chatting, and then single turn conversations for math, it will be unable to do math in a multi-turn setting. This is much less true for bigger models.
by logicallee | 2026-01-27 19:11:51+00:00
I notice it mentions microbrains, in case people are interested, a similar fruitflies evolving brains is this one: (Desktop only).

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8f39482c-b2c7-4bd6-8d47-4...

click the maze and you can watch flies genetically evolve brains to beat the level. Genetic algorithms beat every version of backprop and transformer architecture that I tried. Pause it and click one of the flies for a stunning visualization of its whole brain.
by ixtli | 2026-01-27 19:12:20+00:00
It sounds like you're saying that this is a step in the direction of "fixing" academia. I don't see any evidence of that, all i see is fewer scientists receiving decreasing funding in a state where weve already been slashing basic research investment for generations. Also, there is no evidence that the ones that are leaving are the least productive. Intuitively it's likely the opposite: the ones who have the most potential will find work elsewhere and will be the first to leave.

EDIT: I would also like to say that i have never seen evidence that we can measure the performance of 10k PhDs in a single dimension at all. So a claim that this could be good for scientific research and development seems unprovable at best.
by PrinsWes | 2026-01-27 19:12:21+00:00
Neat to see and it takes me back years when I needed to make a similar effect for a Christmas greeting for Canon in Flash. It needed to be able to run in Flash and on sluggish office computers of the time (16 years ago - 2010).
I eventually settled on a pooled particle system with three bitmaps:

Display bitmap - the visible output
Collision bitmap - a grayscale heightmap tracking accumulated snow
Snow sprite - the particle graphic with soft/transparent edges

When a particle hit the collision bitmap (simple pixel check), I stamped its graphic onto both the display bitmap and added it to the collision bitmap. Using grayscale for collision meant soft-edged sprites contributed proportionally to the heightmap, preventing the soft/transparent edges from causing unrealistic fast accumulation. Using stamping meant that we did not have to keep all the collided particles in memory and so the user could spam away snow particles with their mouse to their hearts content (few 100's at a time).

Edit: even more fun to see all the different ways to solve the same 'problem'. From simple to quite complex!
by ASalazarMX | 2026-01-27 19:12:45+00:00
Windows 95 Plug and Play (now called Legacy Plug and Play, which brings a tear to my eye) was a marvelous engineering feat. If operating systems had kept improving at that pace, who knows what they'd be capable of today?

These days Operating Systems (desktop and mobile) have mostly stagnated; even open source Unix derivatives are strongly committed to backwards compatibility, and have reached an island of mostly stability.

I hope to see in the future something like Plan 9, who was an effort to reimagine what an OS could be. BeOS brought innovations, but those have become commonplace while Haiku still has growing pains.

I yearn for weird again, but I don't have the skill set and resources to design/build a weird OS. Then again, standardization is good for progress, and I much prefer that the de facto standard is something free like Linux, and not proprietary Windows or MacOS. Standards should be public.
by bdhe | 2026-01-27 19:12:47+00:00
Does anyone have a good understanding of the reasoning behind these targeted operations being in places one wouldn't typically associate with the average illegal/undocumented immigrant? I'd think of CA, TX, AZ, FL, and other border states as being the primary places one would start off with before heading inland.

If the premise is that folks crossed over the unprotected Southern border, Maine is basically about as far as one can get while still remaining in the contiguous 48.
by dstamp | 2026-01-27 19:12:50+00:00
The Zodiac Z32 cipher (1970) has historically been considered unsolvable via standard cryptanalysis due to its shortness (low unicity distance). However, the cipher was accompanied by a map and the instruction "Radians and inches along the radians."

My Approach: I wrote a Python solver that treats the cipher as a Geographic Constraint Satisfaction Problem rather than a purely linguistic one. The code filters permutations based on:

Lexical constraints: Must use polar navigation vocabulary (e.g., integers, fractions).

Cryptographic constraints: Must strictly match the homophonic repetition pattern of the ciphertext.

The Result: The constraints isolated a specific plaintext: "IN THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS RADIANS TEN." When plotted from Mt. Diablo using 1970 magnetic declination, the vector lands on a specific 100-foot equilateral triangular crop mark, which also happens to be the geometric centroid of the killer's known activity radius.
by jermaustin1 | 2026-01-27 19:13:21+00:00
None ever did.

On top of that, I'm not sure if that is a real indication of anything, either.

The reason to do that is to get an idea of your abdominal fat (which is the more dangerous place for fat to store), but there are two types of abdominal fat, one is dangerous (visceral fat) and one is completely benign (subcutaneous fat). And a measurement around your waist won't tell you which you have.

I personally have almost all of my fat subcutaneous, with only 1lb of visceral fat (which is right in the perfect range).
by ampersandy | 2026-01-27 19:13:41+00:00
My charitable read on this is that an individual vibe-coded both the post and repository and was able to publish to the Cloudflare blog without it actually being reviewed or vetted. They also are not an engineer and when the agent hallucinated “I have built and tested this and it is production grade,” they took it at face value.

You can tell since the code is in a public repository and not Cloudflare’s, which IMO is the big giveaway that this is a lesson for Cloudflare in having appropriate review processes for public comms and for the individual to avoid making claims they cannot substantiate or verify independently.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-27 19:13:54+00:00
Just FYI from an insider: They are in Minnesota and Maine because it is winter and cold as fck, hoping less people will be willing to protest. Current temps win Westbrook do not get above mid 20's (f) during the day. Sorry, but Mainers are used to the cold.

PS. Where are all the ethical hackers and whistle blowers? We need you!
by ceejayoz | 2026-01-27 19:14:08+00:00
> He was trained to respond to deadly force with deadly force.

We have plenty of footage of the Good shooting, including clear footage showing the tires pointed away from him.

> Where he positions himself is about his own safety…

He placed himself in a dangerous position, in direct contravention of ICE policy on the matter. At least twice!

> He won't be found liable or guilty of anything.

Sure, but that's not because he shouldn't be.
by bayindirh | 2026-01-27 19:14:27+00:00
Immutability means you can't touch or change some parts of the system without great effort (e.g. macOS SIP).

Atomicity means you can track every change, and every change is so small that it affects only one thing and can be traced, replayed or rolled back. Like it's going from A to B and being able to return back to A (or going to B again) in a determinate manner.
by microtonal | 2026-01-27 19:14:29+00:00
Really excited to a company investing into immutable and cryptographically verifiable systems. Two questions really:

1. How will the company make money? (You have probably been asked that a million times :).)

2. Similar to the sibling: what are the first bits that you are going to work on.

At any rate, super cool and very nice that you are based in EU/Germany/Berlin!
by bigyabai | 2026-01-27 19:14:34+00:00
> It used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.

If you ever believed in that "we're going to change the world" crap then you'd probably fall for anything. It's marketing. Nobody writing that stuff ever believed a lick of it, it was manufactured from wholecloth to fool people that thought technology was apolitical.

The only difference between today's Apple and 2006's Apple is the fact that they quit virtue signalling.