MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Closi | 2026-01-01 13:13:27+00:00
I've posted elsewhere, but I still have lots of issues personally:

* Your deletion policy says you delete images instantly and via the UI in settings, but I've checked and they are retained in the object store. You need to update these policies to be honest and say that the images aren't deleted, and that you currently retain them and just delete the reference to them.

* Your privacy policy says you can't see user content, but you clearly can (as you have both the data and the encryption keys). You might not have developed the functionality to read it yet - but it is trivial to do. Just be honest and say 'your data can technically be accessed by us, but we promise not to look at it'.

* Your privacy policy only limits your access to 'what is allowed by law' - which is clearly the absolute minimum!

I think your policies currently say how you would like it to be, rather than how it is. You need to be honest with users about how their data is actually processed.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-01 13:15:12+00:00
> All past pop-culture AI was sentient and self-motivated, it was human like in that it had it’s own goals and autonomy.

I have to strongly disagree with you here. This was absolutely not the case in a very large amount of science fiction media, particular in the 20th century. AIs / robots were often depicted of automatons with no self-agency, no goal setting of their own, who were usually capable of understanding and following complex orders issued in natural language (but which frequently misunderstood orders in ways humans find surprising, leading to a source of conflict.)

Almost all of Asimov's robots are like this, there are a handful of counter examples, but for the most part his robots are p-zombies that mis-follow orders.

Nonhsentient AI with no personal motivation also frequently comes up in situations where the machine is built to be an impartial judge, for instance in The Demolished Man, all criminal prosecutions need to persuade a computer which does nothing but evaluate evidence and issue judgments.

Non-sentient AIs also show up often in ship-board computers. Examples are Mother in Alien, and the Computer in at least most of Star Trek (I'm no Trekkie, so forgive me for missing counter examples and nuance, technology in that show does whatever the writers needed.)

Even the droids in Star Wars, do they ever really execute agency over their own lives? They have no apparent life goals or plans, they're along for the ride, appliances with superficial personalities.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, does Deep Thought actually have self-agency? I only recall it thinking hard about the questions posed to it, and giving nonsensical answers which miss the obvious intent of the question, causing more trouble than any of it was worth.

Ghost in the Shell; obviously has sentient AIs, but in that setting these are novel and surprising, most androids in that are presumed to be just machines with dumb programming and it's only the unexpected emergence of more complicated systems that prompt the philosophizing.
by nimbius | 2026-01-01 13:15:28+00:00
"Intel is optimising for common cases inside the most dominant desktop operating system."

- literally the history of Intel for more than 30 years and likely why we see this benefit now. gaming the compiler and hoping they wont get caught bought them a decade against AMD.

"Intel and microsoft worked together when designing the CPU"

- I guess the bitterness of Itanium doesnt last forever.
by anovikov | 2026-01-01 13:15:42+00:00
In the fall of USSR, no one was "afraid to shoot". No one was motivated to do so. Or do anything for the completely failed system that no longer worked for anyone, inside or outside it. By 1991, no one cared for good ol' Union. That's the only reason it died so peacefully in its sleep with virtually no violence - it was so rotten, no one could care for its survival.
by rvz | 2026-01-01 13:15:55+00:00
> Bad news is delayed or softened, not out of malice, but because it feels unconstructive without a solution. By the time issues surface clearly, the remaining options are usually expensive or binary.

Internal politiking is also one of the ways a project gets derailed and failure becomes almost certain since agendas form when the cracks show up.

Honestly, there is no solution against this and it will always happen. If this becomes a repeated experience at work, you just have to leave and it doesn't become your problem anymore.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-01-01 13:16:20+00:00
I know! Musk still hasn't found that 2 Trillion of fraud and waste he promised and now he's moved onto something else.

Trying to take credit for and simultaneously misrepresent the findings of genuine government auditors while sacking them was too much work apparently.

Now he's trying to do something even scummier with GOP hired fake-influencer propagandists.

When will this outright fraud give us all a rest?
by tialaramex | 2026-01-01 13:16:35+00:00
It does really help, in modern languages where they provide tools in the box and the ecosystem just accepts those as the default† tools, to have the default be that when you make a new project it just works, often by having it print "Hello, World!" or something else simple but definitive as proof we made a program.

† Default means just that, neither Rust's own compiler nor the Linux kernel need the cargo tooling, but these projects both have actual toolsmiths to maintain their build infrastructure and your toy program does not. There should be a default which Just Works at this small scale.
by denysvitali | 2026-01-01 13:17:17+00:00
Disclaimer: This comment is not intended to be political - I don't care about the specific party she's part of.

Out of all the people I would trust on the matter, Kamala Harris doesn't certainly end up at the top of my list, for reasons such as this one:
https://youtu.be/O2SLyBL2kdM?si=Zq-EN8zxj4Y_UCwI

You also don't need to be in classified meetings to understand that Bluetooth/ BLE (and specifically the way most vendors implement the spec) is not as secure as other more battle-tested technologies
by miduil | 2026-01-01 13:17:21+00:00
Glad this submission is finally receiving upvotes.

This was just shown at the 39C3 in Hamburg, few days back.

Common (unpached) Bluetooth headsets using Airoha's SoCs can be completely taken over by any unauthenticated bystander with a Linux laptop. (CVE-2025-20700, CVE-2025-20701, CVE-2025-20702)

This includes firmware dumps, user preferences, Bluetooth Classic session keys, current playing track, ...

> Examples of affected vendors and devices are Sony (e.g., WH1000-XM5, WH1000-XM6, WF-1000XM5), Marshall (e.g. Major V, Minor IV), Beyerdynamic (e.g. AMIRON 300), or Jabra (e.g. Elite 8 Active).

Most vendors gave the security researchers either silent treatment or were slow, even after Airoha published fixes. Jabra was one of the positive outlier, Sony unfortunately negatively.

What is exciting, even though the flaws are awful, that it is unlikely for current generation of those Airoha bluetooth headsets to change away from Aiorha's Bluetooth LE "RACE" protocol. This means there is great opportunity for Linux users to control their Bluetooth headsets, which for example is quite nice in an office setting to toggle "hearthrough" when toggling volume "mute" on your machine.

RACE Reverse Engineered - CLI Tool: https://github.com/auracast-research/race-toolkit

I feel like this should receive state-level attention, the remote audio surveillance of any headset can be a major threat. I wonder what the policies in countries official buildings are when it comes to Bluetooth audio devices, considering that Jabra is a major brand for conference speakers, I'd assume some actual espionage threats.
Show HN: LeadSynth – Capture leads at the exact moment they're looking
by datamine007 | 2026-01-01 13:17:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a founder building LeadSynth after running into the same problem over and over:

Our product was fine. Our messaging was fine.
But lead gen felt random and exhausting.

What we realized was that most lead gen fails because of timing, not quality.

When someone posts:
“Looking for a tool that does X”
“Any recommendations for Y?”

They’re in a short decision window (often hours).
If you reply early with something useful, you’re in.
If you reply later, you’re usually out — regardless of how good your product is.

As founders, this is hard to capture manually.
These signals happen:
- across time zones
- outside business hours
- while you’re coding, sleeping, or offline

So we built LeadSynth to solve that exact problem.

What LeadSynth does:
- Monitors public conversations (Reddit, X, LinkedIn) 24/7
- Detects explicit buying intent (not keyword noise)
- Drafts and posts contextual, helpful replies automatically
- Starts real conversations while founders focus on building

This isn’t cold outreach.
We only engage when someone explicitly asks for help.

Why founders use it:
- No scraping or email blasting
- Much higher response rates than cold outreach
- Consistent inbound-like conversations without ads
- Lead gen runs while you build instead of replacing your day job

We’re using LeadSynth to grow LeadSynth, which is how we validated it.
The biggest unlock wasn’t more leads — it was never missing the right moment.

Happy to answer questions, including:
- How we avoid spammy behavior
- How we detect intent vs casual mentions
- Platform safety and rate limits
- What breaks at scale

Product: https://leadsynthai.app
by bawolff | 2026-01-01 13:17:52+00:00
> I surely hope you don't really think "might makes right" and only cynically say that to express your thoughts about international politics

The expression should not be understood to mean that might makes things morally just. In the weak form it means the strong can do what they want because what are the weak going to do about it? The stronger form of the expression is the idea that strong players set up the rules (legal code, etc) and as such they rig the rules in their favour.
by ndiddy | 2026-01-01 13:19:49+00:00
> It's 2025 and I would have expected the linux foundation or canonical to at least create a label "linux compatible" or "linux tested", so that brands can license it, and maybe spend money to collaborate with hardware vendors so they can write correct drivers, but that has not happened.

A few distros do have something like this. Ubuntu has the "Ubuntu Certified" program https://ubuntu.com/certified and Fedora has "Fedora Ready" https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/marketing/ready/list/ . For a situation like this, that doesn't really matter though. Linux does run on the laptop and Lenovo does officially support running Linux on it. If there's a problem with the CPU scheduling or something for that line of processors, Intel would have to fix it, not Lenovo.

> Open source/linux folks are so politicized against capitalism, proprietary software and patents that they excluded themselves from the economy. Only valve and the steam machine might have a chance of changing that situation but it's not even guaranteed.

I don't know what you're talking about here. The vast majority of Linux kernel development is done by companies, not unpaid volunteers. This has been the case since at least as far back as the mid 2000s.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-01 13:19:54+00:00
That's the biggest part of it. But there is also grassroots opposition to anything that could be made into or even just rhetorically support the feasibility of voter IDs. And the party which would want voter IDs is also the party which is most spooked about beast numbers and antichrists...

Either way you slice it, almost nobody in America is seriously pushing for a proper federal ID, which is why we're all still abusing SSN cards for this crap.
by cdmckay | 2026-01-01 13:20:20+00:00
I have a Framework 13 running an AMD AI 300 Series with Fedora as my personal laptop and an MBP M2 Pro as my work machine.

I would say that the Framework is fine for battery life when you’re using it but loses like 20-30% of battery per day in sleep mode vs like 1% per day for the MBP.

The workaround I use now is to set the FW to hibernate after 30 minutes of sleep so it’s not dead when I decide to use it again after a few days.

The downside of this is that waking up takes a couple of minutes and so I still tend to use the MBP if I need to do something quick and don’t want to wait for the hibernate tax.
by eduction | 2026-01-01 13:20:31+00:00
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/trump-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of...

It’s very easy to google this.

Btw they never denied but per usual said they could not comment on individual accounts. But he did at least sue capital one.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-bank-lawsuit-florida-28c05c...
by mupuff1234 | 2026-01-01 13:21:15+00:00
Imagine a scenario where israel doesn't need bomb shelters or sirens since rockets are destroyed almost instantly. Right now even if iron dome works it still greatly disrupts the day to day life in israel (not to mention the pure financial burden of interception)

Now I doubt the technology is anywhere close to that now, but in 10-20 years alongside other technological advancements? Who knows.
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2026-01-01 13:22:22+00:00
>Do they deserve to just have fucked lives?

Yes. That's what nature does. You are of course free to help them with your personal resources.

> And the state is currently pushing social media onto kids and parents, should it maybe stop doing that, at least?

When did the state have the right to 'push' social media to start with? Do you need a law for everything that can potentially go wrong? How about a generic 'do no harm' law? (I must note that social media can be avoided by most people at this point but I digress.)
by srean | 2026-01-01 13:23:13+00:00
> Backpacking feels meaningful in the moment, but is also largely forgettable.

Was your schedule oversubscribed in these ? I ask because my experience of pleasure travel is very different. More so when there were (i) very little schedule to speak of, other than start and end dates, (ii) had a partner to share the experience of unplanned discovery to share with.

Both, I think, make a significant difference to the experience.
by ahtihn | 2026-01-01 13:23:23+00:00
> The emergent phenomenon is that the LLM can separate truth from fiction when you give it a massive amount of data.

I don't believe they can. LLMs have no concept of truth.

What's likely is that the "truth" for many subjects is represented way more than fiction and when there is objective truth it's consistently represented in similar way. On the other hand there are many variations of "fiction" for the same subject.
by matwood | 2026-01-01 13:23:46+00:00
> Are they truly happier, in the sense of being more content?

The biggest thing anyone can do in their life is figure out exactly what makes them happy, and spend their money there. Don't let society tell you. People on this site likely care about computers and spend a disproportionate amount of their money on them, and that's ok. I don't care about cars or TVs, but I care about experiences and comfort so will spend money on travel and upgraded plane tickets.

I also care about agency, so tend to save money rather than spend. I want the freedom it provides more than what it can buy - typically.
by Amir_A | 2026-01-01 13:23:48+00:00
Except it is...? Jews were living peacefully in Palestine long before the establishment of a judeo-supremacist apartheid state, to the point you had entire refugee boats of Ashkenazis seeking safe harbor from the holocaust, who ironically became the cornerstone founding population of the Jewish state after the Nakba in 1948 killed and forcefully expelled hundreds of thousands of people (it's the ultimate cautionary tale on unchecked immigration lol).

You start to have a problem when you try to forcibly alter the demographics of a region to become majority Jewish, in a region where the majority were not Jews. This is quite literally Zionism 101. If you don't think this is the root cause, what pray tell do you believe it is?
by YaeGh8Vo | 2026-01-01 13:25:25+00:00
We don't know enough about OP's situation, so we're both projecting quite a bit.

Of course communication is important, and the first thing I would do is talk about the shared expectations we had for the children's schedule. Maybe she didn't understand or remember. Or maybe something on her side changed. Take the calendar, mark explicit downtime hours, and talk about how those should be treated.

If that doesn't work, then it's tough. It might be some deeper patterns in the couple that needs to be broken down and restored. Or a psychological issue on her side. That's where the change of behavior can be useful. It's still communication, on the non-verbal level.

Anyways, I hope OP does something and doesn't just let things fly by.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-01 13:25:27+00:00
> the need is fulfilled adequately

It is not. Wilderness rescues are extremely resource constrained due to the costs involved coupled with the fact that those in need of rescue were fully aware of the risks before they set out. There's a severe limit to how many tax dollars will go towards bailing adults out of situations of their own making. Lowering costs would quite literally save lives.
by wpietri | 2026-01-01 13:26:48+00:00
This is not a great argument:

> But it is hard to argue against the value of current AI [...] it is getting $1B dollar runway already.

The psychic services industry makes over $2 billion a year in the US [1], with about a quarter of the population being actual believers. [2].

[1] The https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/industry/psychic-ser...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/692738/paranormal-phenomena-met...
by TZubiri | 2026-01-01 13:27:01+00:00
For games that are as complex as pokemon, it's usually necessary to restrict analysis to some subset. In this case team typing was used.

I personally like restricting to generation 1, as it is very cannonical, very static, and one of the simplest.

Furthermore I like the 1v1 format, which instead of a team, it's just 1 pokemon vs the other. Otherwise you have to resort to heuristics.

But even with a 1v1 and generation 1 restriction it still isn't solved!

Even a single matchup it's very complex to arrive to a theoretical mathematical problem, and still quite burdensome to write a montecarlo simulation.

For example:

Tauros vs gengar (Not an uncommon matchup in competitive gen 1)

Hypnosis has a 60% accuracy, tauros can sleep for 1 to 6 turns with equal probability. Tauros can 2HKO with Earthquake, but can also crit. Gengar can 4HKO, with each crit counting as a double hit (both crits having roughly 20% chance).

The question of who has the advantage is to my knowledge unsolved (also consider that in 1v1 the answer is different, as in teams you only have 1 sleep, so Gengar wastes it). It's also different from the problem of choosing the actual correct move, not only do you need to find the best first move, but in the game decision tree, you need a decision for each node. For example, if Tauros has 60% HP and Gengar has 100%HP, is it still better to go for hypnosis, or better to go for damage and hope for 1 out of 2 crits. This is all made more complex by the fact that both mons have a speed tie, so it's yet another probability event of who will attack first.

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/gengar-vs-tauros-1v1-w...

For a simple gen 1 with hidden teams, I think there's a bigger game tree than chess, and even Poker. The fact that it's non-stochastic with hidden information makes it very similar to poker analysis wise, I bet Counter Factual Regret Minimization approaches would work as well.
by josephg | 2026-01-01 13:27:05+00:00
Yep. I've heard it said that Rust forces you to experience all the pain up front. C will happily compile very broken code.

One of my formative memories learning C came after I wrote a function which accidentally returned a pointer to a variable on the stack. It took me about a week to track that bug down. I found it eventually - and then realised the compiler had been warning me about it the whole time. I'd just been ignoring the warnings "while I got my code working". Ugh. The rust borrow checker wouldn't let you even compile code like that.

If you're going to be working in a programming language for years or even decades, I think the extra complexity (and extra difficulty while learning) is an investment that will pay off. But I'd be very happy for rust to stay a niche language for systems software. C#, Go, Typescript and Swift seem like great choices for making webpages and apps.
by rvz | 2026-01-01 13:27:15+00:00
Yes. This is a general improvement in a long time of the residual design in deep neural networks and it also improves on training LLMs with hyper-connections (HC) at a large scale when compared with the standard HC architecture.

So far they tested this on training 27B models with a tiny overhead and has less "exploding" signals when compared to the other approaches and the baseline. Would be interesting to see results from >100B+ parameter models.

This should be recommended reading for those interested in micro-design changes from the days of residual networks (ResNet) -> to Manifold-Constrained Hyper Connections (mHC).

Instead of just adding more GPUs + Money + Parameters + Data at the problem.
by yakattak | 2026-01-01 13:28:19+00:00
My partner and I were discussing our need for “third spaces” this week. We’re homebodies, and enjoy being home. However mundanity of wake, work, hobbies, sleep in the same place every day is getting to us.

It’ll be a slightly different approach to the other though. For me, I want to start playing some tabletop games (war games and/or RPGs) at my Friendly Local Game Shop. I think these types of interactions are important for community.
by vibrio | 2026-01-01 13:28:33+00:00
“Viruses” have a very broad feature set-beyond evoking Batman, it seems like a lot of details need to be hammered out here, even residually chlorinated water can be problematic in maintaining titers.
IMO, These days, public health policy (conspiracy?) seems to be a more efficient way to spread pathogens. Not precise targeting tho.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-01 13:28:34+00:00
It's a straight forward argument and he presented it fairly clearly so...

Maybe this will help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

The hard nut to crack here is nobody has am empirical test for the subjective experience of consciousness. A machine which actually possesses it, and a machine which merely emulates it and answers questions as if it has that subjective experience cannot be distinguished using any empirical test. That includes people; it's simply a matter of common courtesy and pragmatism that we assume other people have comparable subjective conscious experiences (aka they aren't p-zombies.)
by amelius | 2026-01-01 13:28:55+00:00
> Straightjackets can be very useful.

Except Rust's straightjacket is so tight it obstructs blood circulation to the brain.

> Straightjackets and GC are very compatible.

Of course, if the straightjacket induces vertigo it should be taken off. Doctors say straightjackets should be used sparingly.

(Yes, I agree that Rust is missing an automatic GC.)
by Someone1234 | 2026-01-01 13:29:20+00:00
My impression the video isn't designed for people "inside baseball," and tries to establish context for "What even is this thing that you're working on?" I guess the author could add a skip if viewers don't want 5-minutes~ of Wii U background/context.

Here is a rough timestamped-link for skipping the context:

https://youtu.be/jlbcKuDEBw8?si=X1S3g2npigtWf5bk&t=303