MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arjie | 2026-01-15 18:06:34+00:00
I think the reality is that any group will develop certain norms for this. I have a personal interest in making sure that Wikipedia's norms don't diverge too far from fact, but even that is limited because I have other things in my life to do. I think it's probably the most accurate mainstream aggregator there is, which is valuable in its own sense, so if I can make it a little better with a little effort I will usually try. But I wouldn't say that this means it's anywhere near flawless.

Speaking of norms, the Hacker News community will flag and downvote any comments of mine that mention that our 10 month old did not receive the COVID-19 vaccine. I think that's clear evidence of some kind of political bias. But that's this community's norms. I don't care as much to convince them as I do to fix Wikipedia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45717802 (this one was flagged but someone must have vouched for it)

Anyway, I understand if your experience trying to correct Wikipedia might have been at a different time, so you may not recall right now, but if you ever recall, my email is in my profile. I collect a list of these things and when I have a spare moment I try to make some progress.
by tmvnty | 2026-01-15 18:06:47+00:00
I’m already seeing colleagues at work using AI to generate documentations and then call it a day. It’s like they are oblivious to how _ugly_ and _ineffective_ the AI generated AI slops are:

- too many emojis
- too many verbose text
- they lack the context of what’s important
- critical business and historical context are lost
- etc..

They used AI to satisfy the short-term gain: “we have documentation”, without fully realising the long-term consequences of low quality. As a result, imo we’ll see the down spiral effects of bugs, low adoption, and unhappy users.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-15 18:06:48+00:00
I don’t think it will be a struggle for long. When you have a face to face meeting with your most powerful enemy and they tell you that they WILL conquer you (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/14/greenland-and-denma...), how can you stay coupled? This is going to accelerate the experiments started in Germany to move to open source software, etc. And I think Europe will pursue a heavy pivot to both grow local startups and couple to other powers like India or China.

At least for the next 50 years or so, the memory of this Trump administration will undermine any coupling to America. In the interim, I am not sure why these countries are even wasting time talking to American companies or representatives - they are absolutely not going to be a trustworthy long term partner:

> Rønde described the “Kafkaesque” experience of negotiating with local representatives who appear to have no actual authority.
by janalsncm | 2026-01-15 18:07:12+00:00
Excited to see more hardware competition at this level. Models that can run on this amount of RAM are right in the sweet spot of small enough to train on consumer-grade GPUs (e.g. 4090) but big enough to do something interesting (simple audio/video/text processing).

The price point is still a little high for most tasks but I’m sure that will come down.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-15 18:07:17+00:00
> If you think that America and Europe have similar experiences with authoritarianism

I didn't say the American and European experiences with authoritarianism were the same, or even similar, I said the American experience with a very specific orientation of authoritarianism, with a specific focus, is extremely deep and pervasive, and that that has explanatory power on the relatively mild reaction of the American public to a change in the intensity and overtness of that particular flavor of authoritarianism.

This is, in fact, very different from the European experience.
by alex43578 | 2026-01-15 18:07:31+00:00
1) Drawing on the thoughts of the founding fathers to argue “the government is violating the rights and protections enjoyed by Latino and African illegal immigrants” would certainly be a unique position, given who and what the constitution protected.

2) Even setting that aside, what current actions violate the Constitution?

The First Amendment has seen time, place, and manner restrictions, particularly when it crosses the line into rioting or obstructing government operations.

The Fourth has allowed for brief questioning, reasonable suspicion, and the recent Vasquez Perdomo emergency order held that these recent stops are constitutional - so even your “checks and balances” idea is working against you, as multiple branches of government are in concurrence here.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-15 18:07:41+00:00
> What aspect of Trump doing it is uniquely fascist/authoritarian?

Short non-extensive list:

Has enforcement been explicitly prioritized based on political control of areas? Yes, senior directives and public statements emphasized prioritizing deportations in Democratic-led cities.

Suppression of lawful civic activity? Yes, crowd-control force was repeatedly used against protesters, media, and observers near ICE facilities.

Have officials labeled resistance or disputed encounters as "terrorism"? Yes, senior DHS leadership publicly used "domestic terrorism" language in contested use-of-force cases.

Are there credible reports of physical or sexual abuse? Yes, civil-rights groups report detailed allegations at detention facilities

Are raids conducted with armored vehicles, masks, and heavily armed teams as standard practice? Yes, reporting documents armored vehicles, masked agents, and surge-style operations.

Have internal watchdogs or ombuds offices been dismantled or defanged? Yes, DHS eliminated or reduced multiple civil-rights and detention-oversight offices.

Has ICE expanded use of spyware, location tracking, or similar tools? Yes, contracts for advanced spyware and surveillance capabilities were activated and expanded.

Is enforcement content coordinated to generate viral political narratives? Yes, internal messages show coordination to amplify arrests and raids for public impact.

Is ICE currently exhibiting multiple indicators of a political-police / coercive-repression trajectory? Yes, politicized targeting, coercive force, anonymity, weakened oversight, surveillance expansion, political messaging.

Would you like me to go on? I have a couple of more, but I don't want to spam.

Do Americans not learn about fascism and authoritarianism in school when you grow up? Together with what to watch out for and more? Because it seems really obvious for us who did have that upbringing.
by bonoboTP | 2026-01-15 18:07:58+00:00
Curl|bash isn't any less safe than installing from random a ppa, or a random npm or pip package. Or a random browser extension or anything. The problem is the random, not the shell script. If you don't trust it, don't install it. Also thinking that sudo is the big danger nowadays is also a red herring. Your personal files getting stolen or encrypted by ransomware is often worse than having to reinstall the OS.
by burkaman | 2026-01-15 18:08:00+00:00
Does this do anything that Firefox Reader Mode doesn't? Just seems like a non-deterministic, slower, non-free version.

Also, I understand writing READMEs is boring, but please at least edit what the LLM produces. You do not need this many content-free emoji bullet point sections.

Edit: Looking at the prompt made me realize that the output of this would obviously be completely untrustworthy: https://github.com/subranag/declutter/blob/main/src/llm.ts#L...
by mindcrime | 2026-01-15 18:08:02+00:00
> What's the advantage to ...

For me personally, I'd say "not much". I'm used to using the latter form, and it's fine. But I will say that now that I know about this, I see using it in scenarios where I'm running a lot of systemctl commands over and over again in close proximity and have the "muscle memory" of typing "systemctl" more in mind.

For example, when working with a new service that isn't quite working right yet, and doing many iterations of:

$> systemctl start something.service
$> systemctl status something.service
$> journalctl -xeu something.service
$> emacs whatever
$> systemctl start something.service
$> systemctl status something.service
lather, rinse, repeat

Especially if I'm testing on my laptop AND a remote deployment, I think it's easier from a cognitive viewpoint to always "think systemctl" instead of having to "think systemctl" sometimes and "think ssh systemctl" in others.

To be fair though, it's all a pretty minor point. But I do think it's cool that systemctl has that option. shrug
by mekoka | 2026-01-15 18:09:20+00:00
It's a simple narrative, one which increasingly looks like very convenient scapegoating as the cover is being blown with the ongoing divorce. It may be time to take a closer look at the other, more insidious, culprits. Europe has had its very own history of draconian business practices. Those empires haven't disappeared. Greed is greed everywhere.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-15 18:10:08+00:00
>The point of the second amendment was, in no small part, so that the central government wouldn't deny the states the means to commit genocide against the indigenous population on their own,

What kind of revisionist history is this?

The feds were telling the states "screw off, we do the negotiating" before the ink was even dry on that. Steamrolling the natives was never really a seriously contested job or a point of political contention, the feds were always gonna be the ones to do it.
by queenkjuul | 2026-01-15 18:10:43+00:00
Some advanced uses from Windows that are very easy can be very difficult on Linux still. PipeWire, for example, while more stable overall, has made getting my audio routing all correct (e.g. for streaming) much more difficult than it is on Windows. Once it's set up it's just as stable but it took me longer to set up.

I could see that among other things totaling dozens of hours for a Linux beginner. Power management on laptops is still a common sticking point; i probably spent more than a dozen hours on that alone before giving up and going back to Windows on my laptop. And I've been using Linux for 20 years.
by jacobr1 | 2026-01-15 18:11:31+00:00
Also consider that while the OP looks like a skilled, experienced individual, all too often the documentation is being written by someone with that context, but rather someone unskilled, and with read empathy. Quality is quite often very poor, to the point where as shitty as genai can be, it is still an improvement. Bad UX and writing outnumbers the good. The successes of big companies and the most well known government services are the exception.
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by rootusrootus | 2026-01-15 18:12:01+00:00
Maybe I'm just greedy, but I'd like an in between option. Maybe you could argue that this is it, I suppose. I have Starlink in standby mode ($5/mo) as a backup for my primary Comcast ($110/mo) connection. At 500 Kbps, the Starlink connection tends to be fairly useless if the Comcast connection fails, aside from having just enough bandwidth to use it to activate full service. But real Starlink service is over $100/mo and still significantly lower capacity and quality than Comcast (when it is working normally), so it's hard to want to pay that for it as a backup. Rather than an arbitrary data cap, I'd love to have a mediocre-but-still-cheap option that could actually handle my regular non-streaming needs for occasional use. Maybe 2 Mbps and $20/month, something like that.
by tastyface | 2026-01-15 18:12:03+00:00
Undocumented immigrants? They’re just violently yanking random nonwhite people off the streets and figuring out who’s who later: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/ice-immigrat...

As well as going door-to-door and forcing entry without a warrant, besieging Spanish language immersion schools, and other dragnet horrors. Meanwhile, official DHS social media accounts are posting literal Stormfront ethnic cleansing memes. I’m not sure how anyone but the most ardent ethnonationalists can be OK with this. Even if you think all undocumented immigrants should be deported, "hunt them down like dogs and to hell with everyone else" is beastial.
by raro11 | 2026-01-15 18:12:45+00:00
Tried it. Docker wasn't preinstalled so asked Claude to do it and make sure it's running (supervisord or the likes isn't preinstalled).

It neatly did so and "registered" it as a sprite service. Then I exited my session, waiting for the sprite to go idle, but I don't think it ever does.. Still have it active. Don't know how to idle it.

Can't tell for sure if this means I'm losing credits as there is no billing usage shown anywhere.

Also waiting for the moment where I can launch a sprite from another's checkpoint.
by soundwave106 | 2026-01-15 18:12:46+00:00
One of the problems with nuclear is, um, it's ability to cause an "extinction event". Sort of.

In that:

* Nuclear power plant failures can be very, very nasty. As in, "producing uninhabitable land for eons" nasty. Yes, dam failures are spectacularly nasty, too (but don't create unlivable land as much). Yes, fossil fuel power plants also are quite bad in a "more silent way" via pollution (plus the occasional centuries-burning coal mine fires etc.). All power sources have problems. But this is a pretty big negative.

* What this means is that big centralized nuclear is also a big target for rogue actors... similar to dams, but not similar to more distributed energy sources like solar or wind. Blowing up a single solar farm or windmill doesn't have a huge impact, relatively speaking, compared to blowing up a nuclear plant. Nuclear plants thus have to spend extra expense protecting themselves against this sort of thing. (And, in the United States at least, classify much of the process of doing so.)

* Nuclear power plants can also be used to produce nuclear weapons. Now this is where the really fun politics begins. Many countries would be really unhappy if their adversary countries start making nuclear weapons from their nuclear power plants. A lot of military stuff has been spent over the last decades trying to prevent such.

This last point is where China's solar panel play actually makes more sense compared to nuclear. Think of the politics involved if China builds a big nuclear point in (insert adversary of some other country here). Could be very, very tricky in many cases. Whereas, there is very little if any politics involved with shipping a solar panel somewhere.

The distributed, small scale nature of solar panels also means that customers in countries with poor centralized power grids (common in developing countries) are able to use them to bypass the current system. This happened previously in many of these countries with mobile phones, where customers were able to bypass poor centralized phone networks. In this aspect, I think the "decentralized" aspect is far more important than the "renewable" aspect... but still.

(There are positives to nuclear, of course; I'm mainly countering the "transcendental" word here. All power sources have plusses and minuses.)

(Note: I have heard of work on smaller scale nuclear systems, but I am not certain if even a small nuclear power device completely resolves political or security concerns.)
by goku12 | 2026-01-15 18:13:01+00:00
Dumping an information capsule and demanding that it be debunked upon challenge is an age old misdirection tactic, that takes advantage of the fact that debunking statistics-based narratives take a lot of additional context. That's why the lack of credibility of the source is considered a valid reason to reject an accusation. If you didn't have a motivated agenda in this, you would have avoided this kind of singular source of such reputational dearth, instead of resorting to the tactic of inverting the burden of proof.

I never expected a meaningful response to a criticism of your comment. But I find it disturbing that you slipped in such an obscure and malicious source here without disclosing their conflict of interests. That's a genuine misdirection. The real intent of my reply was to point out this problem to the other readers. Having done that, your rhetoric and weak insults are a misguided effort that I don't find any value in addressing.
by deeg | 2026-01-15 18:13:08+00:00
Here is an example of ICE invading a home without a warrant, reported by Fox. [0] That is definitely against our way of life.

Your list of crimes is just as prevalent in white people. Statistically immigrants commit fewer crimes than native born citizens. Undocumented immigrants commit even fewer violent crimes [1]. So if we're doing house to house searches for criminals we should start with citizens.

0 - https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-family-demands-judicia...

1 - https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG...
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-15 18:13:12+00:00
It is not possible to have unbiased communication. Whenever you communicate with someone, you do it because you think it's important that the other person hears what you're about to say. This means that you filter all communication through your own moral system, which obviously has biases. When people say "this is unbiased" they usually mean "this matches the biases of my culture". Wikipedia illustrates this very well because both cultures can claim "obviously the article in my language is unbiased, while the other one is weird".

So in a way, I'd argue that Wikipedia having different biases in different language versions actually proves that it's quite unbiased. If all languages had exactly the same content, the most likely explanation would've been that one culture dominates, and the rest are just translations.
by roywiggins | 2026-01-15 18:13:39+00:00
For the love of God, people need to get back to writing their own Readmes and not just taking LLM output unedited. I do want to read, but I don't want to read ChatGPTese.

Sorry, let me ask ChatGPT to put it in terms people seem to prefer now (I don't think this stuff is actually quite right but who cares anymore):

## 1. They Optimize for Politeness, Not Usefulness

ChatGPT READMEs tend to:
- Over-explain obvious things
- Avoid strong claims
- Hedge unnecessarily
The result is text that feels safe but not informative. A good README should reduce uncertainty quickly, not pad it with disclaimers and filler.
## 2. They Follow Templates Instead of Intent
Most generated READMEs look structurally correct but contextually shallow:
- Generic section headings (“Installation”, “Usage”, “Contributing”) regardless of relevance
- Boilerplate language that could apply to almost any project
- No clear prioritization of what actually matters
This signals that the README was assembled, not written with purpose.

## Summary
ChatGPT READMEs are usually:
- Correct but unhelpful
- Polished but shallow
- Complete but low-signal
by tgv | 2026-01-15 18:13:51+00:00
Sumary: it's a copy of Wikipedia, but without the bits Musk disagrees with. Perhaps it also has some other sources, but the articles I looked up when it was announced, were verbatim copies from Wikipedia, with some bits missing. My suspicion was that they instructed their LLM ("Grok". I wonder why it wasn't called X or Grox. Anyway...) to synthesize the article from the edits, leaving out those that were rated "liberal", with the error margin on the conservative side (pun intended).
by johninthout | 2026-01-15 18:13:57+00:00
Hi All! I'm John, founder of Yasu.

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The problem we kept seeing: FinOps tools generate hundreds of "optimization recommendations" that sit in dashboards forever. Industry implementation rate is ~5%. The tools work fine—humans just can't keep up.

So we asked: what if the tool actually fixed things?

Yasu connects to your AWS/GCP/Azure, identifies waste (idle resources, oversized instances, misconfigurations), and either auto-remediates or creates PRs for your review. We also integrate into CI/CD to catch costly mistakes before deployment—where fixes are 10x cheaper.

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We're a small team out of Utrecht (Netherlands). Would love feedback from anyone who's dealt with cloud cost pain—what's worked, what hasn't? / FinOps practice tips or IRL optimization tips!
by phkahler | 2026-01-15 18:14:25+00:00
>> > the total state is significantly reduced.
>> The minimal "state space" of a rubiks cube is a constant value.

The article is about solving a cube with software. Software typically represents both the orientation AND position of 20 (or 26) pieces. Orientation might be enumerated so it can be represented by number 1-24 or 0-23 as software tends to do. It could also be represented by a set of Euler angles for each piece. Position is could be enumerated since there are only 20 positions or it could be a vector indicating the piece center relative to the origin. There is a certain amount of data needed to represent the cube in a useful way. Apparently some people store the color (1-6) for each face for a total of 6x9 = 54 numbers each from 1-6. Any of these representations has more possible states than an actual cube because you can encode position that are not possible to achieve on a real cube (solved with a single corner rotate for example). My point is that the 20 orientations are enough without the positions if you're trying to track position AND orientation like the linked article does. The positions can be recovered from the orientations.