MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by observationist | 2026-01-13 18:58:21+00:00
You mean the "counter protests" organized and dictated by IRGC and the regime, you mean? The totally organic, completely believable groups of coordinated military aged men and occasionally their wives showing up for on-message photo ops for Khamenei & crew?

This regime has already completely failed - their currency is completely debased, they've destroyed their water supply, and over the last several decades they've been unable to meet the very reasonable and understandable conditions needed to join the international community and get sanctions lifted, allowing them to engage in trade and lift their economy out of the gutter.

The choices made by this regime are the precise and exact reasons for their current degraded state. The rest of the civilized world set the conditions, and they chose not to engage in civilization. I have absolutely zero sympathy for the supporters of the regime, they're a group who've been in power for less than 50 years, and every year they've been in power they've brought nothing but atrocity and grief to the world.
by WorldMaker | 2026-01-13 18:58:21+00:00
My father, who is very non-technical has never left Firefox and stuck with it for decades, even against Microsoft and Chrome's tactics to try to claim default browser and constantly install them into his face. My father particularly hates Chrome because he never understands how it keeps reinstalling itself despite his best efforts. His taskbar is often a mess of all three browsers because he can't figure out how to keep Edge and Chrome unpinned. My father sees Chrome installing itself and auto-pinning to his taskbar and Start Menu as the exact same IE-level adware/spyware shenanigans that led to him fleeing to Firefox in the first place.

I returned to Firefox again after years of IE8+ and Spartan Edge. I've never liked the "mouthfeel" of Chrome, have generally felt it to be bloated and slow and ad-heavy adware (though not as strongly as my father and I often do know how Chrome gets backdoor installed through shameful adware deals like with Adobe), and when Edge switched to being just another Chromium I still felt the same in my dislike of Chromium and I went back to Firefox. (Spartan Edge had so much better performance and battery usage than Chromium. It's death was not mourned by enough people.)

Feel free to correlate these two counter-anecdotes with more and see if you find some patterns to reach your own conclusion. That's the fun of anecdata and marketing, there are patterns on every side, you can interpret it how you want. "Popularity" isn't facts, pattern matching based on popularity of certain anecdotes can lead to incorrect conclusions. Especially when Marketing is involved. Marketing is about making popular things that aren't necessarily facts, especially when an advertiser is unscrupulous and no one is busy enforcing truth in advertising laws.
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-13 18:58:27+00:00
A portion of pycon expenses are spent on outreach during the event. There are dedicated grants, aid, support as well.

During the 2010s, the packaging group was begging for help. "We're only volunteers," a common refrain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605018

During the 2020s, funding for packaging was provided by Mozilla and ZuckChan, because PSF wouldn't do enough.

As we all know, astral stepped in and solved the problem for them. I moved to their tools as soon as was possible. And not simply because they were fast, but because they work.

Here's one that they broke for my package a couple of years ago in pip, and never fixed: https://github.com/pypa/packaging/issues/774
by ebbi | 2026-01-13 18:58:30+00:00
The difference is one set of protestors support US/Israel intervention for regime change.

The other group of protestors are protesting against this. There is a segment within this group that are ardently pro-Regime. The other segment (which I think is the majority of the group, and Iran, but I have no evidence and so this is purely anecdotal based on my various discussions with Iranians) is that they do want regime change, but not from any outside influence - they would ideally like an organic democratic process that Iranian citizens control.
by submeta | 2026-01-13 18:58:34+00:00
The man brought us LLMs and ever more capable models. I don’t know about the critics, but my work life completely changed from Dec 2022 on. Ever since chatgpt was released. I cannot imagine working without LLMs and agents anymore. They make me literally 10-100x more productive, transforming text, generating text, doing research, writing code, documenting systems, doing web search and so much more.

And for that I am forever thankful to Sam Altman and all the people who made this possible.
by nyrikki | 2026-01-13 18:58:36+00:00
It must have been more complex then that, I was at the skywalker ranch when onyx was being replaced by o200/2000 and never saw a purple onyx at Kerner(ILM), I had a purple Indy impact as my home machine and was looking for purple. I hated teal with a passion.

Perhaps all the purple rack onyx had been dumped but we dug through ILMs boneyard looking to add to our cxfs cluster, but the bus speed was two low.

It is possible that R10k was different or that there were multiple chassis. The ones I had experience with required RAM in slot 1, with CPU in slot 2, with up to 4 CPUs on the board.

o200 was more restrictive, with 2 CPUs per chassis, with the ability to cray-link two chassis for a total of 4 CPUs, more required o2000.

But this was a quarter of a century ago or more by now…so I may misremember things.
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-13 18:58:45+00:00
I am a musician, in the “accomplished amateur” category. For me, music is a never-ending journey of learning and skill-building, and I’ve come to appreciate that journey as much or more than the destination (= recording or live performance). If you gave me a one-click button to improve my skills, I’m not sure I would click it— I’d rather get there myself.

I’d encourage you to dig deeper into why and how the music that is being created by those tools works.
by tptacek | 2026-01-13 18:58:50+00:00
You're right, I'm not going to provide you evidence for this, my claim is that there's no need for me to do so, any more than I need to provide evidence that the sun rose this morning. Again: there's nobody here but me and you at this point, so there are no points to score.

It would be totally reasonable for you to break off this thread at this point (I normally would too), but if you want someone to talk to that isn't susceptible to wishcasting in either direction on this news event, I'm here for you.
by mlinsey | 2026-01-13 18:58:57+00:00
Very different to lie about what your current product actually does (especially if it's a medical testing product!) vs to give predictions about your future products that turn out to be too overhyped. A good example of the latter is Elon, which also goes to show that you only have to have the pie-in-the-sky vision succeed a couple times for a lot of people to forgive a lot of other overpromises.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-01-13 18:58:59+00:00
I believe that unless one manages to regress to our primal animal state the brain has a need to think about something in order not to think about self and the possible dark existential stuff which should absolutely be ignored and avoided.

In this scenario the best possible way to occupy the brain is to set goals and build discipline towards reaching such goals.

Even pleasurable stuff like music or social connection or even I'd go as far as sex might seem 'not work' on day-1 after you fire yourself after receving the 10mil cheque

But On day 60 after leaving work with 10m

1) the 'fucking around' on the fretboard becomes 'practicing scales for at least 30 mins'

2) the hanging out at the bar becomes 'organizing parties in a way to maximize social fun with games etc'

3) the 'ONS from the club' becomes 'trying to find an escort with girl-next-door look who'd also offer Pornstar sex service and greek sex service'

Every human endevour of any kind has an S-curve type shape where after a while if you want to progress and get novelty from higher experiences you must apply IQ and discipline and so it becomes a 'work'

Leonardo Da Vinci after having signed up all the accomplishments that we know basically turned wedding and party organizer in Milan , I suppose orgy organizer too but don't quote me on that, and guess what? After 60 days or so it became a 'job' for him to put the pieces together in a way to reach an amazing social result.

Same with today marriages, happiest day of her life? It's the most work of her life too to get those 8 hours or whatever is the party lenght exactly right
by tavavex | 2026-01-13 18:59:04+00:00
> maybe if she'd had a gun she wouldn't have been shot

And how do you imagine that, exactly? You think that cop was fine shooting her for driving away in panic, but would patiently wait for her to grab a gun? And what would you like a person in her situation to do with the gun? Shoot him? The fact is, pulling a weapon in front of a US cop is begging to be killed on the spot. A common point of advice is that if you're stopped in the US by police, you should never look like you're reaching for anything, because the worst-case penalty for that is death. It instantly escalates the situation to life-or-death for a group of people that is largely already itching to pull the trigger.
by bediger4000 | 2026-01-13 18:59:17+00:00
First, shame on whoever did this. It just makes it easier for advertisers to corrupt ad-supported media. Advertising is all lies.

Second, A/B testing. It occurs to me that A/B testing exists because nobody has any confidence in their ability to predict what ad, or even what kind of ad, will work. To end up with an ad that works at all, you must do the ad design empirically, with A/B testing. Therefore, anyone who says that can do ad designs is mostly lying to us.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-13 18:59:25+00:00
An aside but https://sunoai-music.com/ seems incredibly broken on my desktop.

Typed a prompt and hit generate. No response after waiting some time. I scrolled down to existing sample music to get a sense of what it creates and hit play. Not one of the play buttons worked. Ok load up Chrome instead of Firefox, maybe they did some Chrome specific thing? Nope site's still broken and none of the samples under "Suno AI Music Gallery" actually work. There's a javascript error "invalid client" on clicking it. I'm not logged in i guess?
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-13 18:59:41+00:00
Sure, the analogy applies. Vibe music, vibe art, and vibe coding, for the original specific use of "vibe" meaning "take whatever the computer spits out and don't try to understand it or make it human-serviceable at all", are all low-effort, and they don't belong alongside the corresponding human work without a clear warning label.
by oceanplexian | 2026-01-13 18:59:49+00:00
That's not what he said, that's his take being presented through a media filter.

His comments were in response to a Rasmussen Reports poll that asked people if they agreed with the statement "It's OK to be white". Around 26% of Black respondents disagreed (with some unsure), which Adams interpreted as meaning nearly half of Black Americans were not OK with white people.

Is it reductive? Sure. Is it racist? Of course not. You're allowed to have opinions on the Internet as long as you treat others with respect.
by dpe82 | 2026-01-13 18:59:50+00:00
We haven't had a major conflict in 80 years. Little skirmishes all over the place, sure, but we've forgotten that significant wars between major powers used to be both terrible for everyone involved and also common. Our grandparents after WW2 decided to go a different path and created a largely rules- and trade- based international order that has largely kept the peace. We don't realize how good we've had it.
by tucnak | 2026-01-13 18:59:51+00:00
This is nothing new, really. The recommendation for MCP deployments in all off-the-shelf code editors has been RCE and storing credentials in plaintext from the get-go. I spent months trying to implement a sensible MCP proxy/gateway with sandbox capability at our company, and failed miserably at that. The issue is on consumption side, as always. We tried enforcing a strict policy against RCE, but nobody cared for it. Forget prompt injection; it seems, nobody takes zero trust seriously. This is including huge companies with dedicated, well-staffed security teams... Policy-making is hard, and maintaining the ever-growing set of rules is even harder. AI provides incredible opportunity for implementing and auditing of granular RBAC/ReBAC policies, but I'm yet to see a company that would actually leverage it to that end.

On a different note: we saw Microsoft seemingly "commit to zero trust," however in reality their system allowed dangling long-lived tokens in production systems, which resulted in compromise by state actors. The only FAANG company to take zero trust seriously is Google, and they get flak for permission granularity all the time. This is a much larger tragedy, and AI vulnerabilities are only cherry on top.
by lostapathy | 2026-01-13 19:00:18+00:00
This right here - I have been investigating getting my own contractor license for DIY work on a property I own that must be permitted but city will only issue permits to licensed contractors. Took a practice test for the exam on a whim and nearly passed it without studying. Anybody seriously considering DIY'ing the install of something like this probably could get a license without a lot of work.
by volkk | 2026-01-13 19:00:31+00:00
i mean you said it yourself, the internet is global. those few thousand can have impressions of hundreds of millions. whether they do their cam shows abroad or local matters little. it's the inherent incentivization approved by a government that leads to deeper cultural erosion. if you're in a poor country with no access to education, and your only way into the US is porn, then that's what will ultimately win, rather than incentivizing higher education, etc. And before an argument is made that this will just be a way to get in and then those folks will go and seek PHDs and be productive members of society--i have a bridge to sell you.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-01-13 19:00:33+00:00
There's a strong parasocial element to traditional prostitution, although it's used more by high-end "escorts" who deliberately cultivate conversational skills. So none of this is new.

"My default strategy was this: I would invite the man in, we’d sit down and talk for a while. I’d establish physical contact in the conversation by touching his hand when laughing at a joke, or crossing my leg so it bumped into his. I would become increasingly charmed, utterly fascinated by his life, and I asked him to explain to me concepts I already knew (remember, they like you smart in order to validate their identity as a man who likes smart women, and they still love teaching you things)."

https://knowingless.com/2021/10/19/becoming-a-whorelord-the-...
by pianopatrick | 2026-01-13 19:00:49+00:00
My guess is that in Ukraine the Russian EW systems are deployed tens of kilometers back from the line of contact to protect them from artillery strikes and fiber optic drones. These Russian EW systems are likely used to protect command posts and logistics bases but not the line of contact.

But because Iran is not yet an active war zone the Iranians can deploy those systems close to the cities.

Also, Starlink terminals can be located via their RF emissions. So using a Starlink terminal in Iran seems to come with a high risk that security forces can locate and arrest you.
by fullstop | 2026-01-13 19:01:13+00:00
2019 prices, but it was $487 to move a receptacle from under a window to the left of the window prior to making that window opening a french door.

In 2025 it was $1,100 to have an EVSE put in, including permit fees.

I'm in Pennsylvania.

Working with my township to get a permit / inspection was horrible -- they dragged their feet for months!

I have to believe that I am one of a few people in my township who have done this the "right way".
by MarginalGainz | 2026-01-13 19:01:24+00:00
This resonates with what I'm seeing in the enterprise adoption layer.

The pitch for 'Agentic AI' is enticing, but for mid-market operations, predictability is the primary feature, not autonomy. A system that works 90% of the time but hallucinates or leaks data the other 10% isn't an 'agent', it's a liability. We are still in the phase where 'human-in-the-loop' is a feature, not a bug.
by twixfel | 2026-01-13 19:01:33+00:00
>Everyone's views, evern yours, are abhorrent to at least some other person on the planet.

Yes and I accept that they won't respect me. I do not demand that they respect me, it's fine, of course they won't respect me if they find me abhorrent. I don't care.

>The grown up thing is to accept that and still be able to hold meaningful dialogue.

Not really, I don't debate every one and every topic. It's totally valid to just write people off as bastards based on their behaviour and move on with your life.
by Nya-kundi | 2026-01-13 19:02:01+00:00
I built this small bounded work queue in C using pthread_mutex_t and pthread_cond_t.

I wrote this because I found many C queue examples online skip the "boring" parts of correctness—like memory visibility and invariant preservation—in favor of performance. I wanted a version where I could prove to myself why it works under heavy contention.

Key Design Choices:

Single-mutex design: Keeps the mental model simple and leverages the "Release-Acquire" semantics guaranteed by pthreads for memory visibility.

Two condition variables: Uses not_full and not_empty with while loops to robustly handle spurious wakeups.

Explicit Invariants: The project documents structural, behavioral, visibility, and liveness invariants.

Verification:

Tested under contention with multiple producers/consumers.

Verified with ASan, UBSan, and TSan (no races or UB detected).

It’s intended as a clear, correct baseline for when the bottleneck is the task processing rather than the lock itself.

Design notes and reasoning: https://emmanuel326.github.io/notes/bounded-queue.html

I'd love to hear feedback on the implementation or the way I've framed the invariants!
by ajolly | 2026-01-13 19:02:06+00:00
Change the ForegroundLockTimeout registry setting to increase the timeout, or you can set it to the max integer value to never let the app steal the focus.

by default if you haven't typed anything for a little bit Windows allows an application to steal focus. If you change that value you can prevent windows from ever stealing focus or change how long they have to wait before they're allowed to.
by fennecbutt | 2026-01-13 19:02:07+00:00
Been mugged twice in London, police weren't interested at all, even with the one where I was assaulted pretty bad.

Got my car totalled on the m40 by a teen with a license of 6 months who was clearly on his phone - that one I was for sure lucky, could've easily been the end of me. The police? Didn't even show up. My police report that I filled out while still shaking got a response letter of "We don't care m8".
by asdff | 2026-01-13 19:02:27+00:00
The difference you see is between a sponsored protest and unsponsored. Basically, bleeding heart liberals have been successfully convinced to align with Hamas without them explicitly realizing it either. This is a good primer on Hamas in the US and their general media strategy:

https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/202...

Kind of interesting to keep in mind when people protest for a ceasefire instead of say, Hamas removed from power and free open elections resumed for Palestinians.
by andyjohnson0 | 2026-01-13 19:02:38+00:00
As with many others here, I admired his early creative work, but found his political beliefs to be abhorrent. An illustration, I guess, that we are maybe all of a mixture.

I'm sorry about the manner of his dying, even if the world may also be a marginally better place without the bile he inflicted on it. Still, I'm sorry he's died. He was only ten years older than me.

And my favourite Dilbert cartoon is still the one about "eunuch programmers" [1].

[1] https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1993-11-09

(Edit: url)
by mixmastamyk | 2026-01-13 19:02:41+00:00
I didn't say either/or, and was talking about priorities. One shouldn't install a fancy roof when the foundation is crumbling.

> The PSF would not be fulfilling their mission if they only funded packaging until packaging was "solved" (whatever that might mean) and only then did they fund outreach.

They did the opposite. So they still didn't fulfill it, to the extent that Mozilla, ChanZuck, and astral felt compelled to step in.
by sprucevoid | 2026-01-13 19:02:57+00:00
> These things are balancing out lately

What measures and data do you base that claim on?

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts
"lives lost based on the decline in outlays (current spending) may be in the range of 500,000 to 1,000,000 and potential lives lost based on the decline in obligations (commitments to future spending) are between 670,000 and 1,600,000."

What is your best estimate of deaths due to "woke" or whatever you consider the scourge of the "past decade" to be?

How many visas revoked due to the holder being not woke enough? How many people were deported from the US for being insufficiently woke? And so on. "Woke" may not be what you meant. Whatever you meant, present your measure and data.
by whatsupdog | 2026-01-13 19:03:10+00:00
Wtf are you talking about Muslims in India? Indian Muslims are more privileged and have more rights than other groups in India. E.g. Muslim men can have 4 wives, regular men only one, Muslim men can divorce by saying "talaak" 3 times, regular men have to go through courts and all. And yes Kashmir needs to be talked about more, especially the Hindu Exodus from Kashmir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus due to the threat of violence from Islamic extremists.
by etblg | 2026-01-13 19:03:24+00:00
> I hate to be that person, but the fact that so many people on HN think OF is prostitution is revealing of the site's demographics (i.e. older). It is, as some may put it, boomer thinking.

Well it's not non-existent either, there are a fair number of onlyfans models (and also general actors in the field of pornography who do the same) who do escorting on the side.
by 0x457 | 2026-01-13 19:03:31+00:00
The entire document can be summarized as "It doesn't benefit Wasm that runs in browser, therefore it's in violation"

From my understanding WASI never was expected to run a browser. I'd rather listen complains about WIT being very rust-biased.

Also seems to be okay with having a shim in wasm module to adapt to browser behavior, but not the other way around?
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-13 19:03:34+00:00
The difference is that code is functional, and the product is the output of the code, not the code itself, whereas music is the thing in itself. I'm not inherently anti ai-creations, but the bar is higher for style in aesthetic domains than functional ones, so AI art/writing/music/etc needs to be heavily filtered/massaged/etc. Plenty of writers/artists/musicians are using AI like an idea generator/scaffold then recreating/enhancing the outputs and going under the radar, it's just the low effort people that everyone sees.
by kuerbel | 2026-01-13 19:03:34+00:00
Maybe it's not about gaining something, but rather about not losing anything. Signal seems to operate from a kind of activism mindset, prioritizing privacy, security, and ethical responsibility, right? By warning about agentic AI, they’re not necessarily seeking a direct benefit. Or maybe the benefit is appearing more genuine and principled, which already attracted their userbase in the first place.