MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by karim79 | 2026-01-01 06:02:28+00:00
Israel is an occupier. This isn't symmetrical warfare.

Israel won't let food into Gaza in reasonable quantities. It has restricted basic things like tent poles and just about any commodity which humans anywhere else in the world would have the luxury of being able to take for granted.

All in violation of international law - that which has lost all meaning in the last three or so years.
by mindslight | 2026-01-01 06:03:14+00:00
Because in an environment with personal computing devices and where consumer tech companies' primary business is surveillance, the two are equivalent.

(Personal computing devices make it so anyone of a certain age can run software that proxies their credentials to another user (either for profit or activism), and the primacy of the surveillance business makes it so that third parties can never be trusted to mask your identity)
Show HN: A small R5RS-ish Scheme interpreter with call/cc
by deanmen | 2026-01-01 06:03:40+00:00
I’ve been building a small Scheme interpreter as a learning project, mainly to understand continuations and core Scheme semantics.
It supports mutable pairs and call/cc, and is intentionally minimal rather than production-ready. equal? is allowed to diverge on cyclic structures.
by acoard | 2026-01-01 06:03:56+00:00
What about longer rest periods? For example if I wait 1hr between sets I can do full weight again without dropping down weights with a 2-5min break. In fact I can get multiple more sets in and significantly increase my total volume if I spread a workout over a day (which is easier with WFH). Any thoughts on this? Is there not enough muscle fatigue with this approach?
by simonw | 2026-01-01 06:05:15+00:00
Yeah, I don't think I was particularly clear in that section.

I don't think MCP is going to go away, but I do think it's unlikely to ever achieve the level of excitement it had in early 2025 again.

If you're not building inside a code execution environment it's a very good option for plugging tools into LLMs, especially across different systems that support the same standard.

But code execution environments are so much more powerful and flexible!

I expect that once we come up with a robust, inexpensive way to run a little Bash environment - I'm still hoping WebAssembly gets us there - there will be much less reason to use MCP even outside of coding agent setups.
by antonvs | 2026-01-01 06:06:06+00:00
The point is that your statements here are completely contradictory. First you say:

> "Its why I can insult and talk terrible of president Turnip (spit) and not fear the gulag."

But then you say:

> "But I also stay quiet publicly. Speaking out is a way to get the hammer."

In other words, you're afraid to exercise your first amendment rights. You feel that you can't, in fact "insult and talk terrible of president Turnip" without unacceptable consequences.
by toomanyrichies | 2026-01-01 06:06:06+00:00
> Plenty of people are happier with nicer things.

Are they truly happier, in the sense of being more content? Or are they just deriving more temporary pleasure from the hedonic treadmill they're on?

You can probably tell which one it is by how long their happiness with their house / car / TV / fill-in-the-blank lasts before they start thinking about trading up to an even nicer fill-in-the-blank.

Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard wrote a great book on happiness, here's an excerpt I enjoy which talks about the difference between pleasure and happiness, in two parts. [1] [2]

1. https://www.matthieuricard.org/en/pleasure-and-happiness-the...

2. https://www.matthieuricard.org/en/pleasure-and-happiness-the...
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-01 06:06:11+00:00
I have a bunch of tabs opened on this exact topic, so thank you for sharing. So far I've been using devcontainers w/ vscode, and mostly having a blast with it. It is a bit awkward since some extensions need to be installed in the remote env, but they seem to play nicely after you have it setup, and the keys and stuff get populated so things like kilocode, cline, roo work fine.
Show HN: Neural_covenant – 129-modality AGI stack built for sovereignty
by AISovereignDev | 2026-01-01 06:06:33+00:00
I am a builder, not a researcher. Version 0.6.0 of NEURAL_COVENANT moves beyond standard LLM text prediction into a functional 129-modality AGI implementation.

Repo: https://github.com/AI-Sovereign/Multimodal-AGI-Architecture-...

Key Engineering Specs:
* 129-Modality Nexus: Ingests Bio-Physiological (HRV/GSR), Electromagnetic (RF/WiFi), and Semantic data. Handled via Hierarchical Tensor Fusion into a shared latent space Z.
* The Neural Trinity: Integrates snntorch (LIF spiking neurons) for event-driven efficiency, torch-geometric (GCN) for relational mapping, and Transformers for high-level cognition.
* Performance: Serialized via FlatBuffers and served through a Granian (Rust) backend to maintain sub-millisecond latency.
* Mathematical Core: Optimizes for Capacity Φ to maintain intelligence density across streams. Spiking dynamics: U[t+1] = βU[t] + (1-β)I[t] - S[t]U_thresh.

This is a local-first, sovereign architecture. I’m looking for feedback from the community on the normalization efficiency of the 129-modality super-tensor using Polars and the GCN update normalization constants.
by westurner | 2026-01-01 06:06:56+00:00
What about Time Under Tension?

"Equalization of Training Protocols by Time Under Tension Determines the Magnitude of Changes in Strength and Muscular Hypertrophy" (2022)
https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/fulltext/2022/07000/equal... :

> Abstract: [...] In conclusion, training protocols with the same TUT promote similar strength gains and muscle hypertrophy. Moreover, considering that the protocols used different numbers of repetitions, the results indicate that training volumes cannot be considered separately from TUT when evaluating neuromuscular adaptations.
by crystal_revenge | 2026-01-01 06:07:27+00:00
I think the confusion is people's misunderstanding of what 'new code' and 'new imagery' mean. Yes, LLMs can generate a specific CRUD webapp that hasn't existed before but only based on interpolating between the history of existing CRUD webapps. I mean traditional Markov Chains can also produce 'new' text in the sense that "this exact text" hasn't been seen before, but nobody would argue that traditional Markov Chains aren't constrained by "only producing the past".

This is even more clear in the case of diffusion models (which I personally love using, and have spent a lot of time researching). All of the "new" images created by even the most advanced diffusion models are fundamentally remixing past information. This is really obvious to anyone who has played around with these extensively because they really can't produce truly novel concepts. New concepts can be added by things like fine-tuning or use of LoRAs, but fundamentally you're still just remixing the past.

LLMs are always doing some form of interpolation between different points in the past. Yes they can create a "new" SQL query, but it's just remixing from the SQL queries that have existed prior. This still makes them very useful because a lot of engineering work, including writing a custom text editor, involve remixing existing engineering work. If you could have stack-overflowed your way to an answer in the past, an LLM will be much superior. In fact, the phrase "CRUD" largely exists to point out that most webapps are fundamentally the same.

A great example of this limitation in practice is the work that Terry Tao is doing with LLMs. One of the largest challenges in automated theorem proving is translating human proofs into the language of a theorem prover (often Lean these days). The challenge is that there is not very much Lean code currently available to LLMs (especially with the necessary context of the accompanying NL proof), so they struggle to correctly translate. Most of the research in this area is around improving LLM's representation of the mapping from human proofs to Lean proofs (btw, I personally feel like LLMs do have a reasonably good chance of providing major improvements in the space of formal theorem proving, in conjunction with languages like Lean, because the translation process is the biggest blocker to progress).

When you say:

> So it is absurdly incorrect to say "they can only reproduce the past."

It's pretty clear you don't have a solid background in generative models, because this is fundamentally what they do: model an existing probability distribution and draw samples from that. LLMs are doing this for a massive amount of human text, which is why they do produce some impressive and useful results, but this is also a fundamental limitation.

But a world where we used LLMs for the majority of work, would be a world with no fundamental breakthroughs. If you've read The Three Body Problem, it's very much like living in the world where scientific progress is impeded by sophons. In that world there is still some progress (especially with abundant energy), but it remains fundamentally and deeply limited.
by compass_copium | 2026-01-01 06:08:08+00:00
>I’m still holding hope that slop won’t end up as bad a problem as many people fear.

That's the pure, uncut copium. Meanwhile, in the real world, search on major platforms is so slanted towards slop that people need to specify that they want actual human music:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MusicRecommendations/comments/1pq4f...
by rvz | 2026-01-01 06:08:25+00:00
It is promotional spam.

But given the volume of LLM slop, it was kind of obvious and known that even the moderators now have "favourites" over guidelines.

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. [0]

The blog itself is clearly used as promotion all the time when the original source(s) are buried deep in the post and almost all of the links link back to his own posts.

This is now a first on HN and a new low for moderators and as admitted have regular promotional favourites on the top of HN.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Bridged7756 | 2026-01-01 06:09:44+00:00
No, the first one thrives because they know how to play politics, the second one fails because they don't know how to play politics.

You described word for word the archetypical engineer, competent technically, incompetent politically. A liability to his team and superiors in a cut-throat corporate environment. That's why they fail, they can't be trusted to not screw their team over to do the right thing.
by taraindara | 2026-01-01 06:09:46+00:00
The best way it works is if you have trust with just a few people, and your network availability grows as people connect to more people.

Could even start as a virtual private network of sorts.

I have trust with my friend A. They add. Friend B, who I can only see because I know A. If we have a need to talk to each other, then we can proxy through A.

Don’t know exactly how this scales… it becomes a tor network of sorts. But you actually know the peers chaining your requests together to some degree. You get a bad request, you respond that you don’t want communication with that peer anymore. The message hops back through the chain and each peer decides to drop the route for you.

Each peer has their own rate limits, preventing certain floods from happening. One bad actor floods out from many locations, eventually it all connects back toy eh bad actor. Don’t need a vpn on this network, as you’re already tunneling around through others.

How to handle bot nets would be interesting. Basically as nodes detect bad traffic eventually the word gets around to put those nodes into a high risk status. Owners of those nodes would be able to see they’re being restricted. It’s up to them to stop the bad traffic from coming from their own devices.

This idea is still forming…
by CascadeGuard | 2026-01-01 06:11:07+00:00
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by oofbey | 2026-01-01 06:11:23+00:00
Why do you think it’s not a VC idea? VC is necessary to scale up to large volume. It’s easy for me to believe that insect protein can be a good business at high volume but not low. At volume you can get economies of scale and efficiency and get your cost basis down, making things profitable that wouldn’t be profitable at lower volume. Makes sense on fundamentals without a lot of details. Sounds like they were just too ambitious and chased after a very large market with very thin margins. (Animal feed.) instead of a smaller market with thicker margins (pet food)

The fact that they were simultaneously pursuing animal, pet, and human product lines is just poor management. Exactly the kind of poor management that VC can encourage, mind you. Because VC pumps in tons of money and wants to see big plans.
by bawolff | 2026-01-01 06:12:14+00:00
> Israel is an occupier.

Not really relavent. Occupying powers still have the right to self-defense. Certainly they have the right to take defensive measures to prevent attacks on the civilian population of their primary territory, which is what is being discussed here.

> Israel won't let food into Gaza in reasonable quantities

As far as i understand the food situation in Gaza has now stabilized. However even if Israel was illegally restricting food into gaza, that wouldn't have any bearing on the legality of them setting up air defense systems on their own territory.

> All in violation of international law

Being an occupying power is not in and of itself a violation of international law. (The food thing might be. Israel is allowed to put certain restrictions on aid, but groups like the ICC have argued that the restrictions were beyond what was permissible under international law. Personally, even though it is incredibly unlikeky to happen, i hope the issue goes to trial at the ICC so we get a firm answer. However even if true, it does not mean Israel loses every right it has under international law)
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-01-01 06:12:29+00:00
It holds true, but with some caveats.

Generally training to failure is completely fine for say a set of tricep extensions. Generally safe.

However, training to failure on compound lifts like a deadlift or benchpress, or involving sensitive muscles like a shoulder press, isn't.

Technique generally suffers at the point of failure. Making a habit of doing thousands of repetitions in the next decade at the point where technique fails, on an exercise that can mess up your back permanently, or your shoulders, is bad advice.

For these exercises it's better to stop 2 reps short of failure. This is more safe. Also it requires moderate recovery getting you back in the gym quicker, meaning you can compound more incremental improvements in a given training period (say 5 years).

Even then, some still cautiously go to failure to keep an understanding of what their failure point really is. You could go for a PR once or twice a month for example and go to failure, with a proper warmup, spotter etc. But purely for hypertrophy there's not really a point, this is more for strength training.

Generally people that say they train to failure mean 2 reps in reserve. Training to absolute failure on all muscles is very rare and generally advised against.
by nsoonhui | 2026-01-01 06:12:50+00:00
Though your comment is phrased ambiguously ( not sure you are referring to the Arabs in Israel, or Arabs in Gaza/west bank), I try to respond to both.

For Arabs in Israel, it is important to note that inside Israel parliament knesset, there are Arab representatives, some who even call for the soft dissolution of the state itself ( rights of return). They are the descendants of the Arabs who didn't leave Israel during the 1947 Israel independent war. So no, Arabs there are by and large not removed at all by anyone. By contrast, there are zero Jews in Gaza or West Bank. Jews enter those places at their own peril, they could be lynched.

The Arabs in GAZA/West Bank are not under Israeli jurisdiction, and by their actions and words they are still declaring war on Israel, despite that they launched the war first every single time, and lost every single time, and play victim every single time. If Israel wanted to wipe them out then there is no need for Israel to accept the 1947 partition, the David peace accords (2000) or the Oslo accords (2008), which Palestinians all rejected wholesale. If Israel really wanted to wipe them out, the GAZA war following October 7 terrorist attack would be over by the next day as Israel dominated absolutely militarily.

Really, the conflict is really that simple. One side, Israel, wants peace, and the other, the Palestinians, who don't ( as captured by their slogan, "from the river to the sea Palestinians will be free", do look up on where is the river and where is the sea if you have doubt).

It is made complicated only because a lot of people try to obscure the reality. But that's the topic for another day.
by prxtenses | 2026-01-01 06:14:12+00:00
Yes! We added that in v1.2.0 with the extract module

Supported thinking block patterns:

<thinking>...</thinking> (Claude) |
<thought>...</thought> (DeepSeek) |
<reasoning>...</reasoning> |
<scratchpad>...</scratchpad> |

Also handles markdown code blocks and common LLM prose like "Here's the JSON:" or "Hope this helps!"
by cyberrock | 2026-01-01 06:14:17+00:00
By far the biggest boost to my efficiency is using the same stackable containers for prep and storage instead of just random bowls. Even if they don't have measurement marks, just using the same containers all the time lets me measure by sight for ingredients that don't need to be precise. It also allows saving space on counters and in sinks.

Commercial cooks from fast food line cooks to Gordon Ramsay may be rolling their eyes at this basic fact right now, but most cooking shows and videos don't seem to show this strategy.
by mindslight | 2026-01-01 06:14:26+00:00
I bought a rackmount case on ebay that for some reason got shipped "Adult signature required", which is seemingly for alcohol shipments. The Fedex delivery guy repeatedly pestered me to scan my ID. I had already shown him my ID, signed for the package, and had possession of it. But he didn't speak English and couldn't understand me telling him we were done, so he just kept repeating "scan" and shoving the terminal at me. He also kept trying to steal the package back from me as if it hadn't been delivered, and I had to keep getting very aggressive to make him back off. He then insisted I speak to his supervisor on his phone (the ones who are now unreachable when you have a problem). The supervisor then continued badgering me about their policies and threatening to call the police (I told him go right ahead). Eventually they did give up and leave. No police ever showed up, and Fedex continues to deliver to me just fine. What an all around dystopian nightmare, though.
by asdefghyk | 2026-01-01 06:15:09+00:00
British ethical hacker granted rare visa after finding ‘critical vulnerability’ in government site

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The 858 visa, formerly the Global Talent visa, is awarded to fewer than 1 percent of applicants.

It requires evidence of internationally recognised achievement, typically seen in Nobel Prize winners and Olympic medallists.
by johnvteixido | 2026-01-01 06:16:05+00:00
Aura is a new programming language that transpiles to Ruby, making it easier to build AI/ML workflows and integrated web apps with forgiving syntax and zero boilerplate. Inspired by Ruby's elegance, it handles common errors gracefully (e.g., auto-inferring tensor shapes) and supports Torch-rb for ML and Sinatra for serving. Early stage (v0.1), but includes examples like an MNIST classifier with a prediction endpoint. Feedback welcome—especially on parser extensions or more ML layers!
by travisjungroth | 2026-01-01 06:18:38+00:00
Hard to stay warmed up that way. What you’re describing is how people tend to get big without the gym (lifting heavy things through the day) but they also tend be pretty active in between (think farm work).

But as long as you’re not going so hard you risk injury, it might be great overall. Could be really good for your mental state.
by Teknomadix | 2026-01-01 06:18:38+00:00
LOL.
Seems like the OP is confused and misreading normal macOS/iOS behavior as a conspiracy.

Interface stats are cumulative since boot (eg: not real-time), mDNSResponder traffic includes all historical Bonjour activity. utun tunnels are standard iCloud/VPN infrastructure. Shannon-Hartley math proves WiFi can move data, not that anything covert is happening.
by bambax | 2026-01-01 06:20:10+00:00
What I'm currently doing could be called compute-fetch-store: the compute part is done entirely in the database with SQL views stacked one on top of the other. Then the program just fetches the result of the last view and stores it where it needs to be stored.

Stacked views are sometimes considered an anti-pattern, but I really like them because they're purely functional, have no side-effects whatsoever and cannot break (they either work or they don't, but they can't start breaking in the future). And they're also stateless: they present a holistic view of the data that avoids iterations and changes how you think about it. (Data is never really 'transformed', it's simply 'viewed' from a different perspective.)

Not saying that's the only way, or the best way, or even a good way! But it works for me.

I think it would apply well to the example: you could have a view, or a series of views, that compute balance top-ups based on a series of criteria; then the program would read that view and send email without doing any new calculation.