MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abanana | 2026-01-25 12:26:04+00:00
People are afraid to sound too critical. It's very noticeable how every article that points out a mistake anywhere in a subject that's even slightly politically charged, has to emphasize "of course I believe X, I absolutely agree that Y is a bad thing", before they make their point. Criticising an unreplicable paper is the same thing. Clearly these people are afraid that if they sound too harsh, they'll be ignored altogether as a crank.
by Paddyz | 2026-01-25 12:27:20+00:00
Great point! This really is a nuanced and important issue.

I totally get the concern—continuous recording is definitely a gray area in everyday life. My tool is more focused on active recording (like saying "Doubao, take a note..."), not passive monitoring. The key differences are:

Intent - You clearly know what you're recording. It feels more like "writing something down" than "recording audio"

Visibility - Earbuds are already so commonplace that they don't draw attention like a dedicated voice recorder would

Social boundaries - I typically only record personal thoughts, not conversations with others (which would require clear consent)
by KolmogorovComp | 2026-01-25 12:27:22+00:00
> Social media apps? The iOS variants of those apps are afaik in no way better. What else is there, where is the advantage?

This is incorrect. The IOS versions of social media apps extract way less data from the device than on android, and is thus more privacy friendly.

Sure the best way would be for people not to use them, but if you "have" to, then it's better to use those on IOS.
by JamesTRexx | 2026-01-25 12:28:48+00:00
After the first battery of my Samsung S4 expanded at the end of its life in less than 2 years, I found a utility that didn't work perfectly but could limit charge anywhere between 30 to 100% most of the time, and it prolonged the lifetime of the couple of later batteries during the 10+ years I used the phone with a limit around 66%.

I was glad to see my new Samsung XCover 7 has a built-in option to limit charge to 80%, although a flaky usb cable could sometimes overcharge to 100%. And also has a removable battery.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-25 12:29:09+00:00
We're still burning massive amounts of fossil fuels as waste products from refining oil to make plastics and chemical feedstocks. A huge amount of that is propane that just gets flared off.

We could have been running cars on that for decades, but getting people to make their dirty polluting inefficient old petrol cars run on fuel that emits carbon dioxide and water with no HC, CO, SOx, NOx, or particulates was nowhere near as profitable as selling them lots of debt to buy cleaner greener diesels.

And we're burning the fuel they'd run on anyway.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-01-25 12:29:17+00:00
I have voted in every election and have not voted for any in this administration. The wife and I have been to the protests in Omaha. Every one. When there was a walk-out day, the wife and I stayed home, did not shop.

Yeah, it feels to me that our actions have had zero effect but I am at a loss as to what else to do that is legal.

Look at history when other fascist regimes moved in and ask yourself what a single, ordinary person at the time could have done to have prevented it.

I suspect (like history has shown), it's going to take as long as it takes until enough of us can collectively shut the shit down. In the mean time my gestures will, sadly, have nearly zero impact.
by jakub_g | 2026-01-25 12:29:19+00:00
Re: iOS apps being easier to develop: device sizes are the minuscule of the problem.

The real problem is that Android vendors mess up with the OS in weird ways by adding custom ultra battery savers, removing APIs etc. which is much less predictable than dealing with a few Apple devices, that are more homogenous.

Then many vendors ship their own apps which are buggy and you need to know that vendor's Z Calendar app has a weird bug to account for.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-25 12:29:22+00:00
> I have seen many claims of this sort, but every single time there's been video available of the incident, it's become clear to me that nothing of the sort is going on.

Have you considered the potential bias that people are dragged out of their cars before they can start recording video? Perhaps the dragging out of the car happens while nobody is recording them, then people see and start recording for posterity. That seems an obvious assumption. Do you have reason to think otherwise such that you can dismiss others' reports with intellectual honesty rather than motivated reasoning?

> This comment, like many others I've made on the topic, has been completely illegitimately flagged. I'm getting rather tired of that.

> It perhaps just doesn't agree with your point of view.

I don't really agree with the flags but this casual dismissal of "you just don't like it" is not helping you to understand the actual reasons others may have to flag (and downvote, which I do agree with). For example, maybe others watched the videos and think there is no way to justify what they saw. To such an individual, seeing someone try to justify it might look like trolling regardless of said someone's self-perception of their commentary. You will get nowhere merely complaining about the flags and downvotes; they will keep coming (on this topic) until you start to comment more thoughtfully (on this topic), or not at all.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-25 12:29:50+00:00
> Broken files — 16 models were actually Git LFS text pointers (several hundred bytes), not binaries. If you try to load them, your code crashes.

Yeah, if you don't know how use the repositories, they might look broken :) Pointers are fine, the blobs are downloaded after you fetch the git repository itself, then it's perfectly loadable. Seems like a really basic thing to misunderstand, given the context.

Please, understand how things typically work in the ecosystem before claiming something is broken.

That whatever LLM you used couldn't import some specific libraries also doesn't mean the repository itself has issues.

I think you need to go back to the drawing board here, fully understand how things work, before you set out to analyze what's "broken".
by JasperBekkers | 2026-01-25 12:30:56+00:00
This is genuinely cool, the CAB rejecting implementations must be hilarious to watch in action. The Kanban + Git worktree isolation is smart for keeping agents from stepping on each other.

I've been working on something in this space too. I built https://sonars.dev specifically for orchestrating multiple Claude Code agents working in parallel on the same codebase. Each agent gets its own workspace/worktree and there's a shared context layer so they can ask each other questions about what's happening elsewhere (kind of like your Librarian role but real-time).

The "ask the architect" pattern you described is actually built into our MCP tooling: any agent can query a summary of what other agents have done/learned without needing to parse their full context.
by WhyNotHugo | 2026-01-25 12:31:27+00:00
Realistically, they have nothing to lose. There a duopoly. It’s not like people pissed at this are going to migrate away.

Sure, a small proportion might move to Linux Mobile.

Most of the rest of the population will just stick to Google, because they don’t have a choice.

In many countries, your government or some other essential service demands that you have either an Apple or Google device.
by joshuaisaact | 2026-01-25 12:31:27+00:00
Fair point on the date - the paper was updated October 2024 with Llama-3 and Qwen2.5 (up to 72B), same findings. The v1 to v3 revision is interesting. They initially found personas helped, then reversed their conclusion after expanding to more models.

"Comprehensively disproven" was too strong - should have said "evidence suggests the effect is largely random." There's also Gupta et al. 2024 (arxiv.org/abs/2408.08631) with similar findings if you want more data points.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 12:31:55+00:00
I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn, that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film.

SGI was well-known to the film industry, because their IRIX systems were basically the sine qua non of graphics workstations and powerhouses. SGI invested heavily in the graphical capabilities, including 3D rendering, and therefore when the industry graduated from Amigas with the "Video Toaster" they slid into SGI systems quite nicely.

So it stood to reason that a couple of them would show up in an actual film. How plausible it was to have SGI systems on-site at a Jurassic Park type lab? I don't know, but seems reasonable, if they were also crunching DNA numbers.
by yayachiken | 2026-01-25 12:32:37+00:00
Well, there is always a regulatory measure that would be a lot easier to implement: Lawmakers could just disallow Tier 1 carriers to provide consumer Internet access. (This forced separation of business domain already has precedent in other sectors, e.g. energy companies having to separate network upkeep from energy trading or banks having to split their investment branch from the credit branch)

And I have a feeling that as soon as that is seriously discussed, the current exploitation of market power will stop rather quickly, without any need for actual regulation.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-25 12:32:40+00:00
Citation for anyone interested[1].

He also has a history of doing exactly this before. It's the second time he was "struck" by a moving vehicle after purposely putting himself in his purported harms way. Who knows how many times he's practiced for this murder before.

If the video somehow didn't do it, the "fucking bitch" not even seconds after pulling the trigger would put any one of us away for murder.

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-i...
by jorvi | 2026-01-25 12:32:46+00:00
For one, I can actually use gesture controls without constantly triggering backswipes. Even something as droll and first party as Google Photos suffers this problem, where, say, cropping a photo and pulling too close from the screen edge will result in a backswipe detection instead.

Another example is Sonos, where the iOS app contains TruePlay to tune your speakers. They can do this because there is relatively few iPhone models (microphones). But this is a general, noticeable trend, where developers will add more / better / polished features to the iOS app.
by spiderfarmer | 2026-01-25 12:33:06+00:00
Well, where are your facts? Did you contact them to find out what they can and cannot do?

The conspiracy theories often imagine cloud seeding as some weather control superweapon that can create catastrophic floods or droughts. In reality, you're just giving water droplets or ice crystals something to condense around (usually silver iodide particles). You're working with what nature has already provided and you can't conjure storms from nothing or dramatically amplify them.

But hey, maybe it's better limit your knowledge about a subject to just its name. It enables you to be afraid of things you don't understand. Some people crave that feeling.
by SkiFire13 | 2026-01-25 12:33:46+00:00
Closures are pretty simple in relation to their captures lifetimes, but they do have a lot of complexity in how the lifetimes of their argument and return type are computed. The compiler has to basically infer them, and that can easily go very wrong. The only reason it works most of the time is because closures are immediately passed to functions whose trait bound specify the expected signature of the closure, but once you deviate a little bit from the common case things start to break down. For example if the bound is `F: SomeTrait` where `SomeTrait` is implemented for `FnOnce(&' i32) -> &i32` the inference will break. Similarly if you store the closure in a local variable before passing it to the function. This used to come up pretty often for "async" closures that were supposed to take a reference as input, since it's impossible to specify their correct trait bound using directly the `Fn*` traits. There are a bunch of related issues [1] in the rustc repo if you search for closure and higher ranked lifetimes.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen%20is%3A...
by throw0101c | 2026-01-25 12:33:59+00:00
> Well, from what I’ve seen, the most likely theory is that the agent who disarmed the man (after another agent had yelled “gun”) then accidentally discharged the weapon, which caused all the other ICE officers to freak out and discharge their weapons.

Then an investigation should clear up the situation and exonerate the ICE folks. But ICE/FBI are (a) not investigating any of the shootings, and (b) are blocking the local police from investigating.

In the Renee Good case, the FBI is actually 'investigating' the victim of the shooting.
by botacode | 2026-01-25 12:34:06+00:00
This is a really cool small scale experiment. More of this type of work is need so we can have fairer and more transparent search options.

I'd be curious to see the sensitivity of the ratings to things like rater composition (is it a quirk of Redditors they like Bing better?) and search topics.

Also makes me wonder how much of the ratings rank to do with a decline in quality (or diversification/drift away from the Redditor vector) of Google's own search raters (the index is heavily influenced by manual rating).
by knowledgeinfra | 2026-01-25 12:34:10+00:00
This paper argues that the dominant metaphor for LLM failure, hallucinations, misdiagnoses the real problem. Language models do not primarily fail by inventing false facts, but by undergoing fidelity decay, the gradual erosion of meaning across recursive transformations. Even when outputs remain accurate and coherent, nuance, metaphor, intent, and contextual ground steadily degrade. The paper proposes a unified framework for measuring this collapse through four interrelated dynamics, lexical decay, semantic drift, ground erosion, and semantic noise, and sketches how each can be operationalized into concrete benchmarks. The central claim is that accuracy alone is an insufficient evaluation target. Without explicit fidelity metrics, AI systems risk becoming fluent yet hollow, technically correct while culturally and semantically impoverished.
by honzabe | 2026-01-25 12:34:39+00:00
> What is the European alternative to the US military if Russia attacks Europe?

European military. Why do some people act as if European countries had no armies?

And even if we had no armies and Russia attacked and totally destroyed us, how is it related to the topic discussed here, which is whether the influx of European engineers to the US will continue or not?

> This whole thing just seems like the standard hysterical overreaction of people who spend too much time on social media.

Perhaps. I don't think it is, but let's say you are right. How is that relevant? People do not want to go to a country they perceive negatively. Whether that perception is an objective fact or hysteria is, in this context, immaterial.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-25 12:34:39+00:00
> If the exhaust had to go through the cabin so the driver got the worst of it, car exhaust would be the cleanest air on the planet within months and/or alternatives to cars would rocket.

This is why forklift trucks and Zambonis run on propane instead of petrol or diesel. If you burn gas, you get no carbon monoxide or unburnt fuel because it runs ever so slightly lean and all the fuel is burnt.

This means keeping the air clear is just a case of getting rid of carbon dioxide and water, so you can open some vents (warehouses have great big vents, big enough for trucks to drive in and out...) and let the place air out. You won't die if you breathe it, unlike the CO and unburnt fuel from petrol and diesel engines.

It's a simple and inexpensive conversion, too.
by joshuaisaact | 2026-01-25 12:36:15+00:00
Fair push back. The distinction I'm drawing is between:

A. Using a role prompt to configure a single function's scope ("you are a code reviewer, focus on X") - totally reasonable, leverages training

B. Building an elaborate multi-agent orchestration layer with hand-offs, coordination protocols, and framework abstractions on top of that

I'm not arguing against A. I'm arguing that B often adds complexity without proportional benefit, especially as models get better at long-context reasoning.

Fairly recent research (arXiv May 2025: "Single-agent or Multi-agent Systems?" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18286) found that MAS benefits over single-agent diminish as LLM capabilities improve. The constraints that motivated swarm architectures are being outpaced by model improvements. I admit the field is moving fast, but the direction of travel appears to be that the better the models get, the simpler your abstractions need to be.

So yes, use roles. But maybe don't reach for a framework to orchestrate a PM handing off to an Engineer handing off to QA when a single context with scoped instructions would do.
by franga2000 | 2026-01-25 12:36:27+00:00
Calling this "paying to unlock ports" is disingenuous. I'm also a T-2 customer and have run into this before. They block ports on dynamic IPs, but if you pay +2€/mo for static, this is unlocked. This seems reasonable. If you're not paying for static IPv4, you're paying for "internet access", whether that's a rarely chaning dynamic IPv4, a constantly changing IPv4 or full CGNAT.

Would you also say your mobile phone operator is violating net neutrality by putting you behind CGNAT that you can't forward arbitrary ports through? You can pay a bunch of money to get a private APN and get public IPv4 addresses. Would you call that an unblock fee?
by smitty1e | 2026-01-25 12:37:27+00:00
81mil votes for Zombie Joe in 2020?

J6 as a revolution, with 0 weapons?

Russiagate laid bare in Congressional testimony as a Jack Smith fabrication?

$ Billions in fraud in MN coming under scrutiny?

Do go on about "The Narrative" and its relation to objective truth, please.
by SkiFire13 | 2026-01-25 12:37:48+00:00
Functional programming languages usually don't support linear/affine types, non-gc references and mutations.

Their closures are essentially the equivalent of Rust's `Rc<dyn Fn(...) -> ...>` with some sugar for expressing the function type and hiding all the `.clone()`s needed.

It's easy to get simplier results if you support less features and use cases.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 12:39:03+00:00
Well there is no "European military" per se and there will be no "Russia invades Europe" scenario, because "Europe" is a continent and not a sovereign nation.

What would happen is that Russia invades Poland, or Russia invades Romania or Bulgaria or something. Those are Eastern European countries. (I mean they all used to be Soviet bloc anyway.) Or Russia would invade Germany like the good ol' days. So whatever nation they invaded would sic their own armed forces on them, and their allies' too. NATO could jump into the fray.

Americans (and perhaps Russians too) often misunderstand how terribly small European nations are, really. They're mostly smaller than individual United States. So, less population, less time to transport stuff, fewer natural resources available in a sovereign context, etc. But lots of national borders.

So Russia won't invade "Europe" but they could go into one or more nations on the list.
by maqp | 2026-01-25 12:39:22+00:00
>Telegram can make it work because they do have it if you switch it on per chat

You can't enable 1:1 secret chat from your desktop client. The secret chat doesn't appear on desktop when you enable it on your phone. So you're forced to drop end-to-end encryption if you want interoperability between phone and desktop clients. You can't enable secret chats for group chats on any client. The company isn't working to make secret chats actually usable.

>I guess you are from Ukraine?

Nope.

>Definitely not Signal, slow and unfriendly

The thing is, friendly apps are apps that respect your human right to privacy. There's a term for applications that appear to do something useful while doing something against the user's interests without them knowing: A Trojan Horse. Which is a malware classification.

When you view it through that lens, Telegram is the unfriendliest app out there outside completely unencrypted messengers like Palringo (at least used to be the case), where anyone can read your message from the cable with WireShark.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-01-25 12:39:24+00:00
The iOS YouTube app is not worse than the one in Android. Texting in iOS is arguably better or, at the very least, there is one more app to choose (Messages). And I’m curious to know what makes Antenna Pod so much better than the thousands of other podcast apps out there.

Social media apps have historically been worse in Android, because of lax app and privacy controls.

> What else is there, where is the advantage?

Personally, I’d rather not have Google buried deep inside all aspects of my phone.
by graemep | 2026-01-25 12:39:33+00:00
In fact, religious ideas (at least in Europe) were often in opposition to the ruling elite (and still are) and even inspired rebellion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ball_(priest)

There is a reason scriptures were kept away from the oppressed, or only made available to them in a heavily censored form (e.g. the Slaves Bible).
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 12:39:59+00:00
Look at everyone becoming a prescriptive grammarian all of a sudden! Yes, my friends: this is what censorship looks like.

Like, I have no idea why "sideloading" is supposed to be scary. It's not a scary term to me. Because it simply means data transfer. It's no more scary than "uploading" or "downloading" really. I mean perhaps "torrenting" is a little scarier? I don't know. I am not a torrenter.

But really it should imply some friction and some barriers. Because it involves breaking the trust model. You're not jailbreaking your phone but you're setting up something that's inherently less than secure. People should be aware of that.

It is not infantilising users; it is educating and empowering them to know the difference. Is user awareness and preparedness a problem for y'all?
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-25 12:40:11+00:00
GrapheneOS can choose to simply not apply the same restrictions but now that they're partnering with another vendor to get security updates earlier, I'm not sure what the future holds in this aspect.

This is only an issue for Google compliant Android so projects like LineageOS will be fine. Depending on their implementation, this may even just be restricted to AOSP with Samsung and others just ignoring the extra restrictions.

But, if they make compliance a requirement for being part of their parent programme, GrapheneOS will be in a tough spot.
I've build agent which runs my Twitter account on auto-pilot
by bmykhaylivvv | 2026-01-25 12:40:31+00:00
I am Den, I am a founder of Amplifresh

Initially, it was a tool for doing one-click replies on Twitter, which I've bootstrapped to $500 in about 40 days

Thanks to this tool, I went from 0 to 2000 followers on Twitter in about a month

But then I understand that it takes lootttsss of time to do posts, replies, likes on Twitter
And I've automated all these actions for myself

Currently, I am considering giving it to other users who also want to grow on Twitter but do not have enough time for it.

For now, it can do:
1. writing posts in communities
2. Handing replies
3. liking posts

and all these things are completely on autopilot

Currently, I am looking for some people who are active on twitter and want to automate it
https://amplifresh.com/agent

Feel free to book a demo for a time slot that works best for you, and I'd be happy to test it out together.
by grishka | 2026-01-25 12:40:40+00:00
In my country, for example, buying phones from carriers as part of your plan just isn't a thing. As in, you couldn't do it even if you wanted to. Same for postpaid plans and contracts.

As a result, quite a lot of people use the "I can't believe they could make and sell an entire phone at this price" Xiaomi and similar phones.