MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-01-10 20:49:59+00:00
It is a dehumanizing Kafkaesque term whose use professes ignorance. But pragmatically, do you think your comment helps convince anyone of your position?

I'm personally ambivalent on illegal immigration in the abstract. But I am of the opinion that even if reforming illegal immigration is someone's pet issue, there are still many reasons they should be opposing the current regime's approach that seemingly requires summarily deporting legal immigrants, unrestrained cruelty against fellow human beings, and now what is shaping up to look an awful lot like the premeditated murder of an American citizen and mother.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-10 20:50:20+00:00
Despite 36+ years as a programmer at more or less every level of computing, I don't know that much about CPU sockets. However, my impression is that we'd not be particularly limited by a requirement that a given physical CPU socket design (size, pinouts, power supply) was used for 10 years. As a self-builder, and thus periodic (re)purchaser of motherboards and cpus, my sense is that the majority of the changes to CPU socket specs are gratuitous and unnecessary.

I could be wrong.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-01-10 20:50:37+00:00
You missed a whole section - a person creates a Lean formalization of #1 and Lean promptly says the AI proof is wrong because it doesn’t prove that formal problem statement.

The question is in the person (or AI) creating the formal problem statement - how do you know it represents the problem the proof is supposed to be for? And the answer is for people in the field, in this case, formalizing the problem and verifying the formalization is easy. It is like generating an AES key versus factoring it.
by TuringTest | 2026-01-10 20:50:38+00:00
Alignment is a marketing concept put there to appease stakeholders; it fundamentally can't work more than at a superficial level.

The model stores all the content on which it is trained in a compressed form. You can change the weights to make it more likely to show the content you ethically prefer; but all the immoral content is also there, and it can resurface with inputs that change the conditional probabilities.

That's why people can make commercial models to circumvent copyright, give instructions for creating drugs or weapons, encourage suicide... The model does not have anything resembling morals; for it all the text is the same, strings of characters that appear when following the generation process.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-10 20:50:49+00:00
I'm not convinced the WhiteLeaks should be there. In fact I don't even believe WhiteLeaks should have been published.

Don't get me wrong, Nazi ideology is disgusting and these people are scum, but I don't think being an asshole with retarded ideology is enough to lose your fundamental human rights. These people are idiots indeed but they haven't done anything to deserve that (unlike say ICE agents, Silicon Valley billionaires, or other actual fascism enablers).
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-10 20:51:03+00:00
Why would humans be reviewing footage?

I've worked on similar systems for oil & gas that combined hyperspectral imaging and LIDAR. The analysis of data collected by drones was fully automated. It was at least as effective as humans at detecting anomalies (something which was thoroughly verified prior to adoption).

The more thorough coverage, potential issues being detected much earlier, and increased automation greatly reduced the total manpower required. Humans only came into the picture when the drones found a problem that needed mitigation. Humans have long been the bottleneck for finding operational risks and issues before they turn into a headline. The more humans you can remove from that loop the bigger the win.

This was years ago, the tech has only improved.
by bmitch3020 | 2026-01-10 20:51:16+00:00
A jammed drone that's perched on a power line wouldn't fall out of the sky, and doesn't need to transmit 24x7, only when it detects some activity. The lack of a signal from it would itself be a signal of where the next attack is coming from. Anti-jamming weapons (missiles and autonomous drones) would also be useful, that lock on to any signal jamming sources and deliver the munitions directly to the target that's advertising itself.
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-10 20:51:22+00:00
Is that bonding experience worth another 12500$ a year ? CC is about 1500$ in tuition for a full 30 units vs 14000$ at a UC per year.

I made life long friends in community college.

Plus college doesn't work out for everyone, better to spend 3000$ figuring that out over 28k.

If you pay your own way and go the absolute cheapest path, your spending 3k at community college for 2 years and about 14k for 2 years at a Cal State. 17k total.

Vs 14k a year at a UC and around 56k for all 4.

This really depends on your financial situation though. For a lot of families this isn't a lot of money.
by 484558 | 2026-01-10 20:51:41+00:00
Another reason they don't sell is because software for them is not there either. I bought one and I regret it.

The domain behind "AI" is so much more than just LLMs, and there is legitimately a lot of value to extract. There is meaningful measure of progress in the notion of having explicitly parallel processing units for co-processing, but this is just not it.

Even something as simple as sorting out through your photos based on visual information in them rather than filenames is yet an unsolved problem. We have good methods for local search, none of which gets shipped to the consumer.

There are legitimately important advancements to be made in day-to-day computing, covering still clunky and awkward experience of rudimentary tasks - but they are locked to academic Python and SaaS that does not care about retention. Even M$ and its 365 story cannot beat the utility that good old offline Office brought.

The real bubble is much, much larger than AI - and it starts to show. Code and businesses which are created just to be sold, with products that are designed to NOT succeed. The hype around big LLMs is just the cherry on top.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-10 20:52:15+00:00
I really struggle when folks recommend a distro that is only now getting itself unstuck from a decade++ of inaction, starting an advance that other distros have been up to for decades.

Starting people out on a dinosaur has some advantages yes but personally I think it's malpractice, setting users up to have to make major painful shifts in the future to update all the derelict knowledge they gain.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=449033
by vdupras | 2026-01-10 20:52:15+00:00
It's weird, I feel like we're arguing over saying the same thing. Sure, I agree, but please don't say it's a meme.

Sure, it didn't take power, sure, the bourgeois were stronger, but they still managed to overthrow the forces of Louis-Phillipe. Internet wasn't invented yet, memes couldn't depose kings.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-10 20:53:20+00:00
I would guess that its just a coil thats near the cable. however I can't imagine its actually that much power, as the field isn't that strong.

_but_ at 33kv, you start to get corona discharge, which gives you a potential difference, so that might be the mechanism they get power.

(thats a wild guess. )

Edit I did some more digging, induction appears to be magnetic induction, long cables do produce a magnetic field, but not that much (unless you put it in a coil)

Capacitive coupling is much more effective at high voltage.
by rastriga | 2026-01-10 20:53:43+00:00
yes, it's obvious the data goes to Anthropic. What wasn't obvious to me was what exactly is included and how it's structured: system prompt size, full conversation replay, file contents, git history, tool calls. The goal was to understand how the wire level works.
On Azure/Bedrock - good point! My understanding is that they route requests through their infrastructure rather than Anthropic directly, which does change the trust boundary, but my focus here was strictly on what the client sends, that payload structure is the same regardless of backend.
by genezeta | 2026-01-10 20:53:48+00:00
1. Without touching the default colours: If I select a title to edit it, it appears as "very light grey on light blue background" which is extremely hard to read. The very light grey is not ideal on white background anyway, so maybe it would be better to use another default colour for titles.

2. What email clients has the resulting HTML been tested on?

3. There are some problems with the "primary button" block. First there doesn't seem to be any way to change the button's colour. It's blue and there's no way to change that. The block that contains it has a white background which can be changed, but not the background of the button itself. Then there's the text colour -which by default is another poor option, green text on blue background- which you can try to change but when you press "apply changes" it has no effect, and when you click the element again the property goes back to showing green as the colour. The same happens with the "outline button".

4. In a "Text Content" -"paragraph with heading and text"- there are also some colour problems. The properties only show the text colour of the heading but not that of the text paragraph. But then if I do select a colour and apply changes, it only changes the colour of the text paragraph but there seems to be no way to change the text colour for the heading. The same applies to the "basic header", where you can change the colour of the sub-heading but not that of the larger heading text.

5. I can't select some text with the mouse when editing it. If I try, it tries to move the block. I can select a bunch of text if I use the keyboard -e.g. ctrl+shift+arrow- but it's hard to justify that I can't do it with the mouse in a so-called visual environment.

6. A "text content" block contains exactly 1 heading and 2 paragraphs. The second of those paragraphs says "Add more paragraphs as needed..." but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that and add any additional paragraphs to the block. For that matter, there also doesn't seem to be any way to remove a paragraph from the block.
by psyklic | 2026-01-10 20:54:01+00:00
How many deaths are acceptable to say we can "handle" an illness?

Public health requires over 95% vaccination. There has never been a realistic path to that other than requiring students to be vaccinated to attend school. Without that requirement, even well meaning parents forget or may not make it a priority.

It's not fair for kids and others vulnerable in society to die because certain parents are ignorant.
by bubbasugga | 2026-01-10 20:54:06+00:00
Their cynicism is cope. They are witnessing their own decline every single day.
It's honestly so sad. On the other side of the globe there is Tesla [1]. Even if you don't like the idea of cars, this is the pinnacle of a utilitarian product. Also one of the most popular vehicles (globally) as opposed to the (incorrect) example used in the thread.

Modern cars are great for the most parts. More comfortable, more safe, more autonomous, bigger, better and faster. Of course not all cars are created equal.

Cars are a resilient mode of transport. Even if road maintenance stops for 30 years due to some kind of crisis, a society with cars will be way more functional than one that was solely reliant on a centralized transportation system. And this is not an unrealistic scenario, people are just used to the last 80 years of peace due to rapid economic growth and globalization.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ve_ttBEPw
by its_ethan | 2026-01-10 20:54:16+00:00
That feels like a fairly narrow view of what the purpose of a university is.

Look at the charter of any university and they do not just say: "create students who excel in their academic subject of choice".

The vast, vast majority of higher education mission statements/charters include goals like: "helping students develop their identity", "pursuing meaning", "strengthening community", "sharing perspectives", "helping others", etc. etc. etc.

Things like "can this person work on as a team (did they play sports?)" or "have they been a part of a community (like marching band?)" are hugely important for building a community at the university that can successfully achieve those mission statements.
by markasoftware | 2026-01-10 20:54:49+00:00
the thing is modal is running untrusted containers, so there's not really a concept of "some front facing" containers. Any container running an untrusted workload is at high risk / is "front facing".

If Modal's customers' workloads are mainly GPU-bound, then the performance hit of gvisor isn't as big as it might be for other workloads. GPU activity does have to go through the fairly heavyweight nvproxy to be executed on the host, but most gpu activity is longer-lived async calls like running kernels so a bit of overhead in starting / retrieving the results from those calls can be tolerated.
by lysace | 2026-01-10 20:54:54+00:00
(This is 90s tech, but it's still Classic Mac.)

In the late 80s as a kid I sometimes came across the Swedish version of Macworld. They mostly catered to people working in print layout/DTP I guess. They were casually reviewing all kinds of exciting things costing like $10-50k in today's money. Things like flatbad scanners were super expensive. The concept of 24-bit color was strangely exciting, seemingly bordering on alien tech.

It was like a different world compared to the kind of home computing HW I was using. Even the magazine was a lot more beautiful than anything else I had seen.
by DigitallyBorn | 2026-01-10 20:54:58+00:00
The use of Trivy is really just an interesting context for post. I use it for Terraform for guidance. I know it’s used by some teams at Splunk.

I couldn’t possibly answer a question about what every one of the 86,000 Cisco employees does.

Re: em dashes— I type with double-hyphens a lot. I guess my blog software (Jekyll) doesn’t convert them into real em dashes, but I didn’t notice until you mentioned it.
Show HN: MCP server for SOAP web services
by MarkSweep | 2026-01-10 20:55:41+00:00
Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma? Did you build a bunch of buzzword compliant web services back in the early 2000s and want all your SOAP and WSDL to be relevant again? Now you can put the smooth sheen of AI on your pile of angle brackets by exposing your SOAP-based web service as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
by eikenberry | 2026-01-10 20:56:45+00:00
This is of course Correct (pun intended)... but IMO the underlying meaning of correctness was a correctness of the abstractions to the problem domain and that correctness ultimately boils down to the expressibility of the language that allows it to create the correct abstractions. This interpretation might have to do with my having known many fans of Lisp (of which I'm one) and that people who love Lisp (like the author of the paper) are usually big expressibility proponents.
Ask HN: How common is it to withhold info about dilution?
by nocaptable | 2026-01-10 20:57:04+00:00
I've been with a startup through two funding rounds, and growth has been very healthy.

I recently asked leadership how much I've been diluted, just for financial planning purposes. I assume I've been diluted "a normal amount" and am fine with that-- I just need to know the number. Instead I got a non-answer from leadership, which surprised me. So I'm curious:

- How common is this practice in mid-stage startups?
- What is the actual rationale for withholding this information? I get why companies may want to keep the cap table confidential, but an employee's dilution factor seems like the kind of thing that doesn't matter for cap table confidentiality, but matters a lot to the employee.

Thanks in advance for any color or perspective on this.
by arendtio | 2026-01-10 20:58:02+00:00
Thanks for the video. I just bought a RPI5 and was curious if this was a mistake, but after watching the whole 'I love PI' video, I am still okay with my choice.

It is good to know that there are other boards with better multi-thread performance and AI capabilities. However, there are also a few things I disagree with in the test setup, such as rating only multithread performance and giving the best single-thread performance the lowest overall rating. In addition, concluding the AI tests without the extension board for the RPI5 seems a bit weird.

So thank you for the video, but I think it depends on what you are trying to achieve and it is not a simple there you get more bang for your buck.
by iamanllm | 2026-01-10 20:58:27+00:00
"Not as an aesthetic choice. Not as nostalgia. But as a thinking tool" is a perfectly normal sentence, and I think there is an equally bad trend of people assuming things are AI written and forget that AI was trained on human writing. But to your point, agreed there is a disconnect when things are in fact written by AI, but I skimmed the article anyway so to me it didn't matter lol.
by syngrog66 | 2026-01-10 20:58:40+00:00
90%+ of its value is that its plain text. with just a few simple conventions for annoting

the individual also claimed (in so many words) that the trillion-dollar AI industry is "controlled" by Markdown. he has either a deeply wrong understand technology, or a shameless ambition for making wild claims to boost traffic

strong writing skills. but weak on technology and nuance, or history of our field
by rmunn | 2026-01-10 20:59:14+00:00
I've had too many LLMs tell me that software product ABC can do XYZ, but when I actually read the ABC documentation I discover that that hallucination was the opposite of reality: the docs say "we cannot do XYZ yet but we're working on it." So for me, the question at the back of my mind when I encounter an obviously LLM-generated article is always, "So which parts of this article are factually correct, and which parts are hallucinations?" I care less about the "human voice" aspect than about the factual correctness of the technical facts presented in the article.

In this particular case, if the facts about how many years ago various products came out are wrong, it doesn't matter since I'm never going to be relying on that fact anyway. The fact that what the author is proposing isn't ASCII, it's UTF-8-encoded Unicode (emojis aren't ASCII) doesn't matter (and I rather suspect that this particular factual error would have been present even if he had written the text entirely by hand with no LLM input), because again, I'm not going to be relying on that fact for anything. The idea he presents is interesting, and is obviously possible.

So I care less about the "voice" of an article, but a LOT about its accuracy.
by dmitrygr | 2026-01-10 20:59:29+00:00
https://dmitry.gr/89

you can also "add to homescreen" on iOS/android and it acts like a native app & works offline. symbolic math - computer algebra system, integration/differentiation, finance app in rom, 3d graphs.

(emu is not my work, i only packaged it for PWA and host it for myself to use, but you are welcome to as well)
by wvenable | 2026-01-10 21:00:15+00:00
The only reason Azure is a success though is because of Windows. Maybe now it's so big that it can exist without Windows but Windows is the gateway into Azure. So many other companies would kill for a platform (aka Meta) and here Microsoft has one and is treating it poorly. In pure financial terms it makes sense but, as a business strategy, I think it's severely lacking.
Show HN
by ayushmaanbhav | 2026-01-10 21:00:29+00:00
Most "Voice AI" demos today are just API wrappers around cloud LLMs. They are impressive, but they fail in production for three reasons: Latency, Compliance, and Lack of Control.

I built (- --) to solve exactly this. It is a domain-agnostic, production-grade .

. ""
Enterprise AI cannot hallucinate when discussing interest rates or medical advice. VAAK uses a hybrid architecture:
● + : It flows naturally but adheres strictly to business logic for critical data.
● : It separates (conversation flow) from (long-term facts), allowing it to handle complex, multi-turn negotiations without losing the plot.
● - : Built-in Retrieval Augmented Generation that queries internal knowledge base, ensuring answers are grounded.

. ""
VAAK isn't limited to Q&A. It is engineered for specific high-value modes:
● & : Accurately identifies the user is calling before attempting to solve.
● : A dedicated layer that manages pushback (e.g., "The price is too high") with empathetic, logic-backed retorts.
● & : Tracks sentiment and guides the conversation toward a closing event.
● & : Securely handles transactional queries (Gold Loans, EMI calculations) with zero data leakage.

. & ( )
In the era of "Data Sovereignty," VAAK offers what big cloud providers can’t: .
● - : No data leaves your VPC.
● : Built-in PII redaction and audit logging.
● - : You own the model, the weights, and the inference pipeline.

. ( )
● < : Achieves human-level "interruptibility" and response times.
● : Runs inference efficiently on standard CPUs.
● : Change the entire domain (e.g., from Banking to Healthcare) just by swapping YAML files.

If you are building for Banking, Healthcare, or Government sectors where privacy and precision are non-negotiable—this is the blueprint.

& :
https://lnkd.in/gnrwvitY

hashtag#VAAK hashtag#RustLang hashtag#SystemArchitecture hashtag#GenerativeAI hashtag#SovereignAI hashtag#EnterpriseTech hashtag#VoiceAI hashtag#RAG hashtag#OpenSource hashtag#SoftwareEngineering
by pmaze | 2026-01-10 21:00:59+00:00
The names & descriptions definitely have that distinct LLM flavour to them, regardless of which model I used. I decided to keep them, but as short as possible. In general, I find the recombination of human-written text to be the main interest.

There's two stages to the linking: first juxtaposing the excerpts, then finding and linking key phrases within them. I find the excerpts themselves often have interesting connections between them, but the key phrases can be a bit out there. The "fictions" to "internal motives" one does gel for me, given the theme of deceiving ourselves about our own motivations.
by drob518 | 2026-01-10 21:01:03+00:00
I really like this idea. I’ve seen teams get stuck quibbling about details too early while using Figma. I see how this totally sidesteps that problem, similar to working with analog drawings, but with the advantage that it’s still electronic so you can stuff it into your repo and version it and also feed it into an LLM easily. I’m really curious how the LLM “sees” it. Sure, it’s characters, but it’s not language. Regardless, very cool idea. Can’t wait to give it a try.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-01-10 21:01:07+00:00
Nice piece, and intuitively true to me. The issues and proposed solutions also make sense. Of the three "understandings" identified, the section on "Power" is probably the best. A really good piece.

At the risk of being boring, Yeats was onto something.

> The best lack all conviction, while the worst
> Are full of passionate intensity.
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-10 21:01:24+00:00
What I don't like about comments like yours is the implied accusations that come with it. I don't owe you anything, take it or leave it. I don't care about printers enough to be challenged to prove it to you and risk my opsec for it :D

How about instead:

Go on and disprove me by installing an MITM proxy between your printer and the internet. Share the pcap file while you're printing a document. Then you'll know for sure whether or not what I said was right or wrong. Right?

Instead, people somehow believe powerpoint slides more than checking it for themselves with actual evidence? How did the web's hacking culture degrade into that state?