MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tmsbrg | 2026-01-03 16:36:55+00:00
Hey, I just saw your talk and for someone who's not really up to date with the latest AI developments it's eye opening what you got going in SoC investigations.

I personally work as pentester and we're still doing a lot of manual work with AI simply as a better version of Google, but seeing the BOTS presentation I feel we can do better. Do you have any idea if anyone's working on something similar to Louie in pentesting space, or if Louie could work with pentesting workflows?
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-03 16:37:50+00:00
I’m deeply skeptical of these claims.

Every time someone says “AI built in an hour what took us a year,” what they really mean is that humans spent a year doing the hard thinking and the AI merely regurgitated it at silicon speed. Which is, of course, completely different from productivity.

Also, if it truly took your team a year, that probably says more about your process than about AI. But not in a way that threatens my worldview. In a different way. A safer way.

Let’s be clear: writing the code is the easy part. The real work is the meetings, the alignment, the architectural debates, the Jira grooming, the moral struggle of choosing snake_case vs camelCase. Claude didn’t do any of that. Therefore it didn’t actually do anything.

I, personally, have spent years cultivating intuition, judgment, and taste. These are things that cannot be automated, except apparently by a probabilistic text model that keeps outperforming me in domains I insist are “subtle.”

Sure, the output works. Sure, it passes tests. Sure, it replaces months of effort. But it doesn’t understand what it’s doing. Unlike me, who definitely understands everything I copy from Stack Overflow.

Also, I tried AI last year and it hallucinated once, so I’ve concluded the entire field has plateaued permanently. Technology famously never improves after an early bad demo.

Anyway, I remain unconcerned. If AI really were that powerful, it would have already made me irrelevant, and since I still have a job, this must all be hype. QED.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to spend the afternoon explaining why a tool that just invalidated a year of human labor is “just autocomplete.”
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-03 16:38:37+00:00
No, his hatred is quite general, directed at various groups which I belong to some of. One time I remember well, for example, is when he posted a video of himself dumping poo on No Kings protesters (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna238521). If a friend or relative responded to some political dispute with a video of them pooping on me, I’d be pretty scared.
by aisisiiaai | 2026-01-03 16:38:43+00:00
> Perhaps the problem lies in the Anglo-American "Democracy" as a system of rule itself

Your description of the problems is accurate and the solution hinges on the “Anglo-American” descriptor. Western style democracies don’t work with you get non westerners (or those that don’t see themselves as European) involved. Kevin MacDonald’s books describe how our western cultural systems are uniquely vulnerable to coordinated (ethnic) groups. He’s an actually banned author, but I’d recommend his books if you’re interested in an accurate breakdown of the problem (and please don’t decry them without reading them).

So, the problem isn’t necessarily democracy, it’s that certain groups make democracy impossible. Just like dev teams - with high trust members, you can get some impressive stuff done. But add in a few deliberate bad actors and it all falls apart.
by locallost | 2026-01-03 16:39:10+00:00
Or you can just quote the man himself.

Fox News: What do you see as the future of Venezuela’s oil industry?

Trump: Well, I see that we’re going to be very strongly involved in it. That’s all I can say. We have the greatest oil companies in the world—the biggest, the greatest—and we’re going to be very much involved in it.
by mothballed | 2026-01-03 16:39:29+00:00
The US may have no use for Venezuelan oil, but Venezuela nationalized US investments in 1976, stealing Exxon and Gulf Oil's assets then paying them back a pittance.

Venezuela owes those companies several billion in 1976 dollars, money they have not repaid. The US will now likely use their oil as collateral to force them to pay. No I am not dumb enough to think they will stop only there or do this in a justifiable way, but I would assert, when someone steals something from you, you have the right to use force to get it back, even if the method just used is not the right one.
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by shahinsalehiin | 2026-01-03 16:39:36+00:00
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by trinix912 | 2026-01-03 16:39:36+00:00
> Countries would be scrambling to team with the USA IMO. You see the same happen for obvious "bad actors" now.

I honestly don't see that happening. Yes, there are Hungary and Poland, but if Italy - currently a US ally - got wiped off the map for some lame reason, why would or should anyone trust their alliance with the US?

Non-EU European countries also have mixed feelings about the US (and the West in general). See Serbia for example.

> Also, I think America can make it on its own, no help. And still be a powerhouse. You don't have to agree.

Yes, I'll disagree. We once had the whole making-it-on-our-own story in many countries in Eastern Europe. There were numerous shortages of even the most basic household items like fabric softeners and coffee. Many of those countries even had some trade between each other (Comecon) but it wasn't enough and that was 50+ years ago when we weren't dependent on China for electronics and every other piece of plastic out there.

The world is now more globalized and codependent than ever. You don't have to agree with me either.
by hiddencost | 2026-01-03 16:39:45+00:00
No, you're not steel manning. You're just justifying unilateral regime change.

None of that matters.

There was no declaration of war powers from Congress, this entire operation is a flagrant violation of US and international law.

And, to point 1, this operation was carried out by a US President who attempted to violently overthrow the US government to avoid ceding power, which really puts a damper on point 1 I think.
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-03 16:39:53+00:00
That's a very bad example, as ordinary Russians lived MUCH better lives under the USSR than they did under the Czars, at least at that time. The Czarist empire was still mostly a feudal state, and most peasants lived with no education and no money, barely scraping by. Standards of living, while still much, much lower than what was achieved in Western Europe, were still much better than what came before.

Now, can we imagine a world where the Czar was replaced with a Western-style democracy, where the Russian population would have ended up much better than they did? It's possible, sure - but there are no guarantees.
by andai | 2026-01-03 16:40:02+00:00
Isn't ironic that browsers do like 10,000 things nowadays, but Vivaldi (successor to Opera) is the only one that does the handful of things users actually want?

I don't use it myself because my computer is too slow (I think they built it in node.js or something). But it makes me happy that someone is carrying the torch forward...
by buo | 2026-01-03 16:40:08+00:00
I have to use a Windows laptop for work; it was migrated to Windows 11 a few months ago. Win 11 is definitely, measurably worse than Win 10, at least in the configuration that my employer's IT forces on the machine. One example is that its UI is much slower (typing in the search box at normal speed often misses keystrokes, for instance -- never happened on Win 10).
by goatlover | 2026-01-03 16:40:48+00:00
The woman known as Katie Johnson accused Trump of raping her and another girl at age 13 at one of Epstein's parties, but dropped the lawsuit. Michael Wolff said Epstein showed him pictures of Trump with topless girls who could have been underaged from his vault. Trump was accused of going into his underaged beauty pageants when they were dressing. Trump sent the birthday letter to Epstein with the nude female drawing and lots of innuendo about sharing a secret. Maxwell was given a very favorable deal by Todd Blanche, and it's known the administration didn't want to release the full Epstein files because of how much Trump was mentioned in them.

Plus Trump was very good friends with Epstein and Maxwell. Do the math.
by OJFord | 2026-01-03 16:40:49+00:00
> There are various options, not everyone is aligned... I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated what we built last year in an hour.

This is silly, they didn't spend a year trying to crank out the right code, they spent a year not being aligned, disagreeing on approach, getting people to commit, support from other teams providing necessary integrations or platform etc. - Claude didn't help with any of that, it just did the code part, which wasn't the problem in the first place.
by umanwizard | 2026-01-03 16:41:10+00:00
Then something is misconfigured in your setup.

It’s amazing to me that you’ve spent hours arguing this point on this thread, when it‘s based on an assumption (dual-stack machines use v4 by default) that is simply, verifiably wrong. If that were true, then you’d be right that nearly all IPv6 usage is attributable to mobile. But it’s not true!
by Den_VR | 2026-01-03 16:41:27+00:00
I’ve heard Maduro was not elected in free and fair elections… The official results reported Maduro winning with about 51 % of the vote.

European Parliament resolutions and reports explicitly described the process as lacking transparency and integrity such as not publishing detailed polling station results, meaning the results could not be independently verified, and concluding the election was neither free nor fair.

You may recall María Corina Machado was barred from running shortly before the election itself.
by jeltz | 2026-01-03 16:42:02+00:00
A kernel engineering job is much more fun than yet another backend web gig. A large part because when working with typical web coding people do not want you to do actual software engineering.

But the actual issue is that if you underpay people they will not feel respected and valued so they will either not be motivated or leave. So you cannot pay below market, but you do not need to pay FB salaries either.
by hollerith | 2026-01-03 16:42:18+00:00
Can you guess what resource the US is trying to procure by this military action?

I think you are trying to force an incorrect simplistic narrative on the situation. Obtaining natural resources is not an important motivation for US military action with the possible exception of US intervention in the Persian Gulf during the Cold War (and even there I see no evidence that the US was trying to get out of paying the going international rate for the oil as opposed to merely ensuring that willing sellers in the Gulf could continue to transport their oil over the ocean). Venezuela's cooperation with Moscow and Beijing is a much more likely motivation, i.e., US national security.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 16:42:28+00:00
Come on, it’s the BBC - which has a much wider spectrum of audience than you and me.

Think with it a little - the statement “in the 5G tower” is intended to bring the context of this event closer to those who are not knowledgeable about this technology, but would nevertheless read the article. You and I may understand that the economies of scale don’t make sense yet - but they could, some day, if this technology succeeds, be relevant to the local neighborhood.

To many, the 5G tower is the most mystical, mysterious technology in their neighborhood - and indeed, the silicon ingots being manufactured this way would, eventually, find their way to the local neighborhood if this technology is successful.

It would probably have been more appropriate to say “some day these ingots will power the supercomputers in your pocket”, which would be an accurate statement - but that is a whole order of magnitude of different economic scale than in the industrialization of cell networks. Maybe it’d be more appropriate for the BBC writer to have said that satellites might one day benefit from space-grown silicon wafers - but that is still to distant to the Mom and Pop readership they’re targeting in these articles…
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-03 16:42:29+00:00
> the silence of the Iranian government on this point suggests something coordinated to me

Or, you know, a theocratic autocracy that realizes the perception of its military power is critical to keeping the populace in line?

And admitting to an inability to stop military action on one of their most heavily defended targets by the very enemy they've whipped their supporters into a froth over is a bad look?
by andsoitis | 2026-01-03 16:42:45+00:00
> should solve your own internal problems at your own time table

That's not how international geopolitics works. There are many means in which nation states pull levers to take on problems that exist in other countries. Sanctions, diplomacy, trade barriers, propaganda, military interventions, threats, etc. are all tools that are used by nation states around the world every day.
by ku1ik | 2026-01-03 16:43:02+00:00
Here's a copy of my Mastodon post [1] from Oct 2025:

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I had a job interview yesterday, which happened via Google Meet.

Even though I use my desktop Linux workstation and Firefox 99% of the time for everything, my first instinct was to do this interview on a MacBook and Chrome, to avoid surprises and not look unprofessional if something doesn't work, which has happened in the past. Last year, when I was asked to share the screen during a daily, I had to say "um, I'm sorry, Zoom and desktop sharing don't work on my system."

But I thought I'd first do a test on my workstation, just to see if maybe I shouldn't be concerned anymore. I was sceptical.

The ideal scenario was that on my standard GNOME 48 / Wayland / PipeWire desktop I'd be able to use Firefox for this call, and AirPods, a Logitech webcam, and desktop sharing (5K ultrawide scaled at 125%) would just work with no tweaks whatsoever.

And it did!

I've been using Linux on the desktop for over 20 years (on and off, but mostly on) and I know how to hold my Linux systems, but the situation with Bluetooth audio and desktop sharing in previous years has been... spotty. I was less worried about AirPods — I switched to PipeWire ~3 years ago and so I know Linux audio has been rock-solid and pretty much solved already. But desktop sharing used to be hit-or-miss, highly dependent on whether you used X11 or Wayland, further complicated by the use of Flatpaks.

Since my test went well, I did the interview on the desktop machine. It went smoothly, with no surprises.

Therefore, I announce 2025 as the Year of the Linux desktop :)

[1] https://hachyderm.io/@ku1ik/115388713511052943
by softwaredoug | 2026-01-03 16:43:43+00:00
On the legality front

Congress practically matters when significant mobilization, boots on the ground, money, with high likelihood of many lives lost. Iraq. Not random one-off adventures.

Otherwise modern Presidents have done this thing for decades.

I think it’s more an effective argument to question this as a policy. As in “is there a plan for what comes next”. Congress should be holding hearings and performing oversight to understand whether theres actually a plan and to allow debate.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-03 16:43:55+00:00
I feel like you’ve learned a strange, distorted version of the concept of “main character syndrome”. There’s a number of main characters who the Trump administration has gone out of their way to immiserate, and it’s entirely reasonable for fear that you might be next to motivate your politics. Trump doesn’t care about me personally yet, and presenting as many obstacles as possible to the causes he cares about will help keep it that way.
by kscarlet | 2026-01-03 16:44:03+00:00
> As to the actual difference between JIT vs. AOT... it may just come down to accounting. That is, on whether you can always exclude the compilation time/cost from the overall program execution time/cost or not. If so, you're compiling ahead of (execution) time. If not, you're compiling during execution time.

Well, this includes what I refer to as "on-the-fly" AOT, like SBCL, CCL, Chez Scheme... Even ECL can be configured to work this way. As I mentioned in another comment, people in those circles do not refer to these as "JIT" at all, instead saying "I wish my implementation was JIT instead of on-the-fly AOT"!
by addaon | 2026-01-03 16:44:12+00:00
For my airplane design, I've used Rhino3D (which is 3d modeling, not CAD), and used their Python-based plug-in API to create a very custom, limited scope parametric CAD on it... using a mix of geometric and aerodynamic parameters, and using vortex lattice methods to bridge between them. So the wing chord (MAC) can be set in centimeters, but the wing span set to achieve a specific modeled climb rate. It's all very ad hoc, but also lovely to develop in. Hit run, in three seconds have a freshly-generated OML, use Rhino's UI to make a few changes, confirm I like them, then move those changes to code and re-run. Hit undo/redo a few times to compare the hand-drawn and generated versions, then move on to the next feature.
by vagab0nd | 2026-01-03 16:44:22+00:00
We often hear claims like "do this and you'll make so much money" or "this is so good it's unbelievable." Occasionally, they turn out to be true. I've experienced a couple myself and feel fairly positive about the current one. The initial resistance comes from not wanting them to be true because then I know I either have to take action or risk missing out. It's a weird psychological thing that I now try hard to avoid.
by MrOrelliOReilly | 2026-01-03 16:45:33+00:00
For everyone defending these actions on the basis of Maduro's own corruption and the desires of Venezuelans, I would encourage you to research the history of American intervention and regime change in Latin America. It is impossible to anticipate the second and third order effects of this change, and how it will be absorbed in the local politics. We are witnessing the return of American military intervention in Latin American, nothing more and nothing less.

To everyone proclaiming that we should turn to Venezuelans to assess these actions, how dare you assert that Americans have no autonomy in the actions of their own government. It is tremendously unfortunate that congress has forfeited all decision making authority to the executive branch, but as our democracy was intended this would amount to an act of war, which would require authorization by congress.
by OJFord | 2026-01-03 16:45:33+00:00
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Most recent role was building data analytics platform for agricultural customers; previously connectivity/control/update for IoT devices. I think I'm good at understanding and adapting to a new business domain, and enjoy that learning opportunity. I believe we build better software with a better understanding of the context it operates in.

Have done & can do full-stack work (helped last company grow from three engineers and through acquisition) but lean towards backend/infrastructure in expertise. Most recently platform technical lead (IC).

MEng EE & CS blend. (No professional EE experience, but somewhat maintained as a hobby.) 8y post-intern experience in web software.

Looking for something new to sink my teeth into in an organisation with room to grow. Remote opportunities only please, and that I'm eligible for residing in the UK & as a British citizen, though I'm perfectly willing to travel for particular events/big meetings. Cheers!
by wseqyrku | 2026-01-03 16:45:39+00:00
I'm not well informed on how this came to be, but to consider this with regard to US's own interests, I think it is simply a problem to be dealt with sooner than later. You definitely don't want to ignore it until it's a "real problem".

edit: I'd also add that this was also a message to the Supreme Leader -- he seems to be oblivious to the consequences of the threats for his own people and, quite frankly, counts on the percentage of people who disagree. The sheer volume of the lies that is going around is astonishing and you have to live it to know.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-03 16:46:02+00:00
I agree. Books have a higher intellectual ceiling than most things, but there is as always a mountain of slop, too. I'd rather someone spend a year interrogating Plato or Moby Dick than read 300 Agatha Christie or Steven King type novels. There is nothing virtuous about reading in itself.

I echo the sentiment of the sibling comment: book count challenges are foolish and missing the point.
by johnwheeler | 2026-01-03 16:46:19+00:00
Thank you so much. Yeah it's really cool. I also bought myself a copy of Max MSP and I'm recreating it visually so I can tweak all the parameters and really understand what's going on because the AI did all of the theory for me but I have all the numbers. When you tweak the numbers it makes it sound totally different. So yeah I'm excited. This is what I want to do with my life. I want to build electronic music gear. I'm not saying AI is not going to be able to do that one day but I just can't do web programming anymore. I don't know. I've been doing it too long and I just don't like it anymore.
by mothballed | 2026-01-03 16:46:19+00:00
The US only exists due to the foreign intervention of France, and the at-the-time foreign intervention of a few Indian tribes, to help overthrow the crown regime. You might note the domestic efforts were also a dominating force, but I have no reason to believe anti-Maduro domestic efforts were not an instrumental force in making such a smooth operation possible for the US.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-03 16:46:22+00:00
It’s really not a big if, it’s currently an actual reality of modern audio interface/DAW configurations. Very few modern audio interfaces do not have MID clock very tightly bound to their audio clock, which is the master clock with far greater accuracy, anyway.

Yes, MIDI jitter can be compounded on the receiving end - but having a very tightly bound MIDI clock to the audio clock can negate a lot of those issues upstream in the first place, and that is precisely why you get a good audio interface that does this anyway.

(Disclaimer: have worked in pro audio product development for decades, have written drivers for exactly this use-case, and I have personally been in the trenches to fight the myths about Audio and MIDI jitter as a developer for a long time now..)
by htx80nerd | 2026-01-03 16:46:33+00:00
>I, personally, have spent years cultivating intuition, judgment, and taste.

exactly. I am using AI to make tons of good code and I love it. but the AI makes silly oversight or has gaps in logic that to someone with 'hands on' experience thinks of right away.

im debugging some web server stuff for hours and ai never ask me for the logs or --verbose output, which is insane. instead the ai comes up with hypothetical causes for the problem then confidently states the solution.