MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pwg | 2026-01-08 19:36:40+00:00
Read up on the Intel Management Engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

It began life as an "out of band" way to administer servers so that an ops. team could do everything (other than actual hardware changes) remotely that would otherwise need a person to be standing in front of the server in the datacenter poking commands into a keyboard.

It then grew in responsibilities to also support the "secure boot" aspect of system startup, and beyond some Intel CPU version point (I do not remember which point), it exists in every Intel CPU produced.
by maxall4 | 2026-01-08 19:37:12+00:00
Starlink receivers are actually very complicated. They make use of a bunch of high-end FPGAs and a bunch of other expensive and uncommon components. See this teardown: https://youtu.be/h6MfM8EFkGg?si=m-sN6UW4nh8_HzPR.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-08 19:37:48+00:00
I looked at this a couple days ago and my thoughts were basically the same as Cloudflare's. It looks like a misconfiguration - one that's easy to make and isn't terribly uncommon. I can't rule out it wasn't an attack, but absent some other evidence, I don't see any reason to believe it was one.

That said, looking at their Cloudflare radar page now for AS8048, I don't recall there being any other BGP route leaks listed there for December from AS8048 and I definitely don't recall there being any BGP origin hijacks listed. The latter is something rather different from a route leak - that looks like someone blackholing some of CANTV's IPs.

I don't think I somehow just missed that since I definitely looked at CANTV's historical behavior to see if anything they did was unusual and that would have been one of the first things I checked, but perhaps they updated radar with data from other collectors or re-ran anomaly detection on historical data.
by tverbeure | 2026-01-08 19:38:04+00:00
FWIW: GDDR is not higher latency than DDR. It just seems that way because the GDDR interface clock is much higher, so the number of clocks are higher too. But in terms of wall clock time, the latency is very similar.

Which makes sense: the latency is determined by the underlying storage technology and the way to access that storage, which the same for both.
by keyringlight | 2026-01-08 19:38:05+00:00
One caveat, you might want to account for text that the writer deleted staying deleted/hidden. I'm not always the best at proofreading before submitting, but I'll often cut tangents I'm prone to ramble onto. Accidental pastes from other sources that are meant to stay private would be another issue if the history tracker grabs everything that goes into the text box.
by martinald | 2026-01-08 19:38:32+00:00
Tbh it's been the same in Windows PCs since forever. Like MMX in the Pentium 1 days - was marketed as basically essential for anything "multimedia" but provided somewhat between no and minimal speedup (v little software was compiled for it).

It's quite similar with Apple's neural engine, which afiak is used very little for LLMs, even for coreML. I know I don't think I ever saw it being used in asitop. And I'm sure whatever was using it (facial recognition?) could have easily ran on GPU with no real efficiency loss.
by kens | 2026-01-08 19:39:21+00:00
The journal Science has an interesting article on China's remarkable shift to renewable energy:

"China’s turn to green energy dwarfs any other country’s, as a parade of astonishing numbers attests. In 2024 alone it installed new solar and wind generation equivalent to roughly 100 nuclear power plants, and the pace quickened early this year. Dozens of new, ultrahigh-voltage power lines are marching thousands of kilometers from western deserts where much of the solar energy is generated to the eastern cities where it is used. Hungrily awaiting the bounty of clean energy are millions of electric cars and a sprawling network of high-speed electric trains that can zip between cities 1000 kilometers apart in a morning."

The article also mentions that China produced more than 12 million electric cars in 2024, 70% of global production. "China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies. It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match."

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.aee8001
by dust42 | 2026-01-08 19:39:25+00:00
Well, my answer was partially tongue in cheek. However, under the circumstances I mentioned I had better results with a local model. But then up to today I really like Deepseek for dev - for me and my use cases it still outperforms Opus. The problem is we don't have good and universal benchmarks, inststead we have benchmaxxing. For my use cases Chinese models may be perfect but maybe for yours American one's may outperform them by a huge margin? So I urge you to use YCI - Your Capability Index.
by rsync | 2026-01-08 19:39:51+00:00
“ When I signed up for ChatGPT, not only did I turn off personalization and training on my data, I even filled out the privacy request opt-out …”

You did all of that but then you gave them your real name?

Visa/MC payment network has no ability to transfer or check card holder name. Merchants act as if it does, but it doesn’t. You can enter Mickey Mouse as your first name and last name… It won’t make any difference.

Only AMEX and Discover check validate names.

FWIW, I have a paid account with OpenAI, for using ChatGPT, and I gave them no personal information.
by psaccounts | 2026-01-08 19:40:04+00:00
I published a video that explains Self-Attention and Multi-head attention in a different way -- going from intuition, to math, to code starting from the end-result and walking backward to the actual method.

Hopefully this sheds light on this important topic in a way that is different than other approaches and provides the clarity needed to understand Transformer architecture. It starts at 41:22 in the below video.

https://youtu.be/6jyL6NB3_LI?t=2482
by imiric | 2026-01-08 19:40:25+00:00
That is a losing battle.

Even if you manage to make bot usage more expensive, which is all a captcha can do, the content posted by humans in discussions and shared links is increasingly generated by machines.

It's ironic having a community of people object to the same technology they helped build. Enjoy the show, and learn to live with it. It's going to get much worse before it gets any better, if at all.
by skrebbel | 2026-01-08 19:40:51+00:00
I have one as well and I simply don’t get it. I lucked into being able to do somewhat acceptable local LLM’ing by virtue of the Intel integrated “GPU” sharing VRAM and RAM, which I’m pretty sure wasn’t meant to be the awesome feature it turned out to be. Sure, it’s dead slow, but I can run mid size models and that’s pretty cool for an office-marketed HP convertible.

(it’s still amazing to me that I can download a 15GB blob of bytes and then that blob of bytes can be made to answer questions and write prose)

But the NPU, the thing actually marketed for doing local AI just sits there doing nothing.
by torcete | 2026-01-08 19:41:09+00:00
In reference to this. I just want to tell the case of sugar alcohols and my partner. She used to suffer random intestinal bloating and it tooks us a while to discover the reason.

We were aware of the problems associated with carbs and sugar consumption and we tried to find alternatives so we switched to 0% sugar foods. It turns out that most of them are filled with sweeteners, mostly sugar alcohols, and they have worse consequences.

In fact, anything that you ingest, and it is not absorbed by your digestive system, must go somewhere. Sugar alcohols can be fermented by the gut bacteria causing other kinds of problems. I would say that the best thing to do is to reduce/remove sugar from your diet without trying to find substitutes.

By the way, my partner went to her GP (NHS) and they just dismissed her case by just saying. "Oh, we believe you have IBS". That's it, case close.
by dewey | 2026-01-08 19:41:25+00:00
This won't work, HN is a high enough value target (Not a random site where bots try to spam some guestbook) that people would adapt to that quickly. Headless browsers, browser extensions, outsourcing captcha solving etc. - there's too many ways to do that if you are determined unless you want to also throw captchas at regular users for every action.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-08 19:41:30+00:00
Potentially related:

Investigating Parkinson’s disease risk across farming activities using data mining and large-scale administrative health data - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-024-00864-2 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-024-00864-2 - January 2025
by pogue | 2026-01-08 19:41:47+00:00
Do you have some examples of ai slop posts?

There are quite a few third party apps for Hacker News, such as Hacki (ios/android). [1]

Something like using a third party app that includes forms of spam filtering like checking when the user joined, how many posts they have, amount of 'karma' (or whatever it's called here). You could implement blocking individual users & etc etc. This app does not have that but it could be forked and modified or talk to the dev...

That might be a better solution than trying to implement all types of annoying captchas & other extremely annoying checks on HN's side.

[1] https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki
by pixelatedindex | 2026-01-08 19:41:50+00:00
> If it is, why not do it and become rich too?

If I had the capital I absolutely would have. It’s a bit worse now but any property you bought pre-covid (at least in big cities) can be rented out for more than what mortgage costs. I remember looking at houses in the Bay Area and the monthly mortgage would be 3K while you can rent it out for 4-5K. Anyone who owned property in the 90s and early aughts are absolutely rolling in it. You can invest the profits in an index fund on top of it.
by com2kid | 2026-01-08 19:42:34+00:00
"Bose blows" is typically in regards to their price/performance, and especially with how they marketed themselves throughout the 90s and early 2000s.

Bose used to advertise that they were the best sounding speaker out there, while also running advertisements that made claims which violated the laws of physics.

For the same price as a Bose system you could get something much higher quality. Bose was selling at luxury prices w/o luxury quality. They got away with it because compared to the cheap garbage most people listened to, Bose's stuff was nicer. Their quality was mid to upper mid tier, and the build quality was generally good.

But people got irritated by a decade ads saying a tiny speaker is more powerful than a proper speaker setup.

Now days Bose makes good quality noise cancelling headphones (and I suspect they made more revenue selling NC headphones during the open office and then COVID era than they ever did selling speakers in the 90s!) and they brand car stereo systems.

Their noise cancelling headphones are good, even if the ear pads wear our way too fast.

Pretty much no one has a home hi-fi setup anymore, everyone just has a sound bar. I do have a hi-fi music setup, people are rather shocked when they come over that I even bothered. I got it for $2k on Craigslist years ago, the setup cost someone a small fortune when they were brand new. IMHO buying new hi-fi gear is pointless, Speakers made in 2005 sound just as good as speakers made in 2025, the laws of physics haven't changed any!
by labanimalster | 2026-01-08 19:42:42+00:00
The discussion about Starlink is interesting, but with only ~0.1% of the population having access, the real story is the 99.9% who are cut off right now. The asymmetry between those who can broadcast to the world and those who can't is staggering — and even among that 0.1%, many are too afraid to broadcast anything, knowing the risks.
by senordevnyc | 2026-01-08 19:43:01+00:00
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but yeah, this is my dream. I've had employees and contractors before, and I'd like to avoid the headaches and stress of being responsible for someone else's income. And then if shit goes sideways and you have to lay them off, you're a monster. Easier just to not hire anyone in the first place.
by helloaltalt | 2026-01-08 19:43:14+00:00
IPv4 is sanctioned/heavily restricted in iran as well, I mean very high filtering

The reason they didn't do this for ipv6 is because ipv6 obviously has a lot more addresses and so they just ended up blocking it whole.

Atleast that's what I read in one of the comment threads discussions in here

I don't think that in iran there would still be any available ipv4 entry nodes that they would allow. They would filter/block it as well?
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-08 19:43:17+00:00
It seems like there's recently been a lot of work to better align Dependabot with the rest of GitHub Advanced Security. I've just started seeing Dependabot alerts showing up in the Security Tab instead of directly to PRs, moving the "make a PR" to a button inside the alert, but also more buttons now to ignore the alert. The alert is also better about showing the root dependency that brought in the alerted dependency. Overall, this seems an improvement over spamming PRs that I may not care about, though yes the PRs when you do click the "Create PR" button are just as anemic and specific to the low-level dependency as they always were, for now. I'm surprised there's not yet a "Start Copilot PR" version of that same button, but I'm guessing that's also what they've been working on over other features to the existing PR tool.
by 9rx | 2026-01-08 19:43:32+00:00
The problem isn't so much the five seconds, it is the muscle memory. You become accustomed to blindly hitting "Yes" every time you've accidentally typed something into the text box, and then that time when you actually put a lot of effort into something... Boom. Its gone. I have been bitten before. Something like the parent described would be a huge improvement.

Granted, it seems the even better UX is to save what the user inputs and let them recover if they lost something important. That would also help for other things, like crashes, which have also burned me in the past. But tradeoffs, as always.
by com2kid | 2026-01-08 19:43:51+00:00
Until the rest of the market caught up, Bose's noise cancelling algorithms were top notch. As soon as Apple entered the fray a bunch of money was thrown at the problem, the bar was raised, and now good quality noise cancelling is the norm.

But for awhile Bose's headphones had the best noise cancelling out there.

Their old ads were super irritating though, and many people (such as you and me!) are still irritated about them decades later.
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-08 19:43:55+00:00
More generically-named env vars should not be set as an "export" in a rc file like that (IS_DEMO/DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER etc). They'll get exported to every process spawned by the shell, which could have unintended consequences.

You could instead eg:

alias code='DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 IS_DEMO=1 /usr/local/bin/code'

or write a wrapper shell script (analyse/adjust $PATH if you're going to name it the same as an existing binary/script), eg

#!/bin/bash

export FOO=bar

exec /usr/local/bin/code
by H8crilA | 2026-01-08 19:44:23+00:00
Just to add more details.

Beamforming is essentially yet another way to achieve gain, just like one does with a directional antenna. The Starlink terminal achieves a gain of roughly 33 dB, which means it talks (and also listens) in the peak direction at power levels that are around 2000x higher than what one would achieve with isotropic antennas. 2000x sounds like a lot, but it is actually not impossible to reach. Consumer electronics sends at most a few Watts of RF power, but serious jammers of the type used by militaries can run kilowatts. If you consider the peak power used for brief moments of time then you can get as high as megawatts - the famous AWACS aircraft briefly flash half a continent at somewhere around 1 MW, with average TX power of ~single digit kilowatt.
by api | 2026-01-08 19:44:35+00:00
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)

https://avida-ed.msu.edu

https://github.com/adamierymenko/nanopond

Lots of evolving bug corewar-style systems around.

I think the interesting thing with this one is they're having LLMs create evolving agents instead of blind evolution or some similar ML system.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-08 19:44:40+00:00
> goals, means, and sustenance

Surely not sustenance in the sense of food so I presume it's what we usually call meaning? People might get it from whatever fulfills them. For many it's giving back to the community in some way. It's not something I was told, more something that feels right and would scale well if everyone did it.

What are absolutely objective goals here? Are we talking about what do I want to be true at the end of my life? Staying healthy, looking back when you're old and not regretting a lot, being part of and respected by your community, those things. What would be a goal that God would suggest one works toward in this context. Can you relate that to what you have in mind?
by deflator | 2026-01-08 19:44:46+00:00
I think it says that industries have a lot of power over governments in the US, especially when they are critical to people's survival. The food industry has enormous power, maybe more than any other industry in the US. Few other industries mint their own laws that fly in the face of the constitution as well as the food industry. Ag Gag laws are crazy. People talk about people being labelled terrorists for activities that are obviously not terrorism. Animal Rights activists who go to extremes have been familiar with that for a while now.
by SilentM68 | 2026-01-08 19:45:33+00:00
I tend to agree with most of what you said regarding all governments and countries. What may not be widely known is that some authoritarian regimes have been accused by expatriates of identifying and indoctrinating intellectually gifted children into their state-sponsored organizations for use by these entities for unmentionable purposes. Of course, it's next to impossible to find written documentation, with specific details since detailed evidence in such states are understandably hard to retrieve. Most of these accounts arrive through word of mouth.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-08 19:46:50+00:00
LLMs are vulnerable in the same way humans are vulnerable. We found a way to automate PEBKAC.

I expect that agent LLMs are going to get more and more hardened against prompt injection attacks, but it's hard to get the chance of them working all the way down to zero while still having a useful LLM. So the "solution" is to limit AI privileges and avoid the "lethal trifecta".
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-08 19:47:00+00:00
Yes, seemingly so. I guess we'd have to wait for full investigations to conclude before saying for sure, but sure looks like it.

> “To the extent that international humanitarian law applies, at the time of the attacks there was no way of knowing who possessed each device and who was nearby,” the experts said. “Simultaneous attacks by thousands of devices would inevitably violate humanitarian law, by failing to verify each target, and distinguish between protected civilians and those who could potentially be attacked for taking a direct part in hostilities."

> “Such attacks could constitute war crimes of murder, attacking civilians, and launching indiscriminate attacks, in addition to violating the right to life,” the experts said.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/09/exploding-pa...
by ibejoeb | 2026-01-08 19:47:02+00:00
You think they could be lying, but your argument is that they're being candid? Then we simply see it differently. I just read the primary source, so I know without a doubt that it's weasely.

Moreover, it was put forward as proof that they don't keep the data, but the source is actually called "Does TSA protect all data (e.g., photos) collected." What are they protecting if they don't have it? What would be the point of even doing this if they don't collect it?

But leave that aside and let's talk about your experience. Did it say the data would be deleted after 24 hours or did it say it would be deleted after use? What is use? Use could be we're operating a giant biometric database and we intend to keep doing it until the asteroid, and why wouldn't it be that?
by criddell | 2026-01-08 19:47:04+00:00
A while ago I tried to figure out which APIs use the NPU and it was confusing to say the least.

They have something called the Windows Copilot Runtime but that seems to be a blanket label and from their announcement I couldn't really figure out how the NPU ties into it. It seems like the NPU is used if it's there but isn't necessary for most things.
by spacemule | 2026-01-08 19:47:05+00:00
Bouncing signals off of the ionosphere is most definitely not an option here. The bandwidth of the signals that Starlink needs in order to provide service are far wider than the range of frequencies that bounce off any layer of the ionosphere. If you could get a 10GHz signal to bounce off of the F layer, you'd have a lot of very excited amateur radio operators who would start using that instead of the moon as their reflector.
by alphadatavault | 2026-01-08 19:47:08+00:00
This is encouraging data, but I think it's worth being cautious about interpreting it as a blanket positive. Yes, new tools create new job categories historically (the internet age proved that)—but the _distribution_ matters enormously.

The workers whose jobs are most exposed to AI displacement often aren't the ones who'll benefit from the new high-skill positions created. Retraining at 40+ is brutal, and regional economies can't pivot overnight. The Vanguard finding is interesting because it shows net job growth, but it doesn't tell us if the same workers are transitioning, or if it's churn.

I'm optimistic AI will create prosperity overall, but we should stop acting like "the market will sort it out" is enough for the people caught in the middle of that transition.
by attractivechaos | 2026-01-08 19:47:20+00:00
First of all, as khuey pointed out, the current implementation accumulates values. extend() replaces values instead. It wouldn't achieve the same functionality.

I tried extend() anyway. It didn't work well. Based on your description, extend() implements a variation of preallocation (i.e. Solution II). However, because it doesn't always reserve enough space to hold the merged hash table, clustering still happens depending on N. I have updated the rust implementation (with the help of LLM as I don't use rust often). You can try it yourself with "ht-merge-rust 1 -e -n14m" or point out if I made mistakes.

> HashMap will by default be randomly seeded in Rust

Yes, so it is with Abseil. The default rust hash functions, siphash in the standard library and foldhash in hashbrown, are ~3X as slow in comparison to simple hash functions on pure insertion load. When performance matters, we use faster hash functions at least for small keys. Then you will need a solution from my post.

> In a new enough C++ in theory you might find the same functionality supported, but Quality of Implementation tends to be pretty frightful.

This is not necessary. The rust libraries are a port of Abseil, a C++ library. Boost is as fast as Rust. Developers should learn from each other, not fight each other.
by parliament32 | 2026-01-08 19:47:37+00:00
Oh yeah that's odd. What a weird measurement. Maybe a "serving" is considered a third?

No, I bought a kitchen scale and did everything by weight, it seemed like the only sensical solution. This is probably a good time to plug Cronometer! I'm not affiliated, just been a happy paying customer for a few years now. https://cronometer.com/