MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akoboldfrying | 2026-01-13 12:19:57+00:00
Certainly! What surprised me was that apparently LLMs are deliberately designed to enable multiple ways of encoding the same string as tokens. I just assumed this would lead to inefficiency, since I assumed that it would cause training to not know whether it should favour outputting, say, se|same or ses|ame after "open", and thus throw some weight on each. But provided there's a deterministic rule, like "always choose the longest matching token", this uncertainty goes away.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-13 12:20:20+00:00
> What are we to do if not monitor?

Simple, you can choose to only use platforms that use the most stringent scanning technologies for your and your family.

You give the UK government (or the equivalent that applies to you) to continuously scan everything from pictures to emails to messages and then obviously you give them the right to prosecute you and come after you when one of their AI algorithms mistakenly detects child porn on your device or in your messages just like this guy: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

For the rest of us, we should be free to opt out from being surveilled by machines 24/7.

Then everyone is happy.
by PContainer1 | 2026-01-13 12:20:26+00:00
30 Zylinder, durchmesser 1,25m, Höhe 1m und 50 Zylinder durchmesser 1,25m Höhe 0,8 m, zylinder können gestaplet werden und können evrsetzt geladen werden sie sollen auf so wenig wie möglich 40'HC bestmöglich verteilt werden
by gitgud | 2026-01-13 12:20:42+00:00
Fine I’ll chime in… The main advantage tailwind has is that utility css can be composed without needing to worry about hierarchy. This is not true for bootstrap.

This makes tailwind much more predictable for component based UI architecture, in your example you would define a <Button> component so that verbosity of css is explicitly defined once where it’s used, not buried within a bootstrap framework somewhere.

If you’re not using a component based architecture, then tailwind is much more verbose, but still useful, as copying/pasting tailwind HTML is insanely easy and reliable. This is not true for bootstrap.

Bootstrap has it’s place, it’s good for cases where you’ I don’t care about the details of how it looks. But with component based architectures, tailwind is a much more flexible and better abstraction in my opinion.
by joshocar | 2026-01-13 12:21:04+00:00
I also think there is an education gap. People grow up eating processed food and don't learn to cook. People often try to cook, but online recipes are not really teaching you anything and are often far more work than they need to be or turn out bad, so people think or learn that cooking a meal takes a long time, is a lot of work, and doesn't taste as good. Cooking becomes the exception rather than the norm.

In reality you can have a piece of salmon, with a veggie and side in ~20m with 2m of prep and 2m of cleanup. An online recipe would have you cooking down a sauce, making a complicated side, and use some random ingredient that you need to buy for that one meal.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-13 12:23:09+00:00
Newsom*

Of course, because he's in the pocket of limousine party. I remember him as SF mayor. He's been slowly plotting this course for a while now, always eager for the next big chair while trying to keep the rich folks happy while saying nice, progressive-emulating platitudes that don't move the needle in the favor of average people. This guy is the next iteration of Bill Clinton: supply-side worshipping, Republican Lite with James Carville replaced by Ezra Klein "Abundance"-wank in terms of policy strategy. And like Clinton and all slimy politicians, he's already cheated on his wife too. Being slightly more socially liberal on the periphery and then turning right based on how the political winds are blowing as Newsom does doesn't do anything to address systemic political corruption, excesses of power of billionaires and corporations, grotesque inequality, or America's embarrassing lack of universal, single-payer healthcare. Newsom is the favored pick of rich Democrats and independents, but is more of the status quo and less about helping people who need it more than increasing selective socialism for billionaires.
by c0n5pir4cy | 2026-01-13 12:23:32+00:00
Important thing to note - UKDefenceJournal only tracks a set of known Iran linked related accounts that could be tracked because of previous Internet blackouts in Iran.

It would be interesting to see how this applies more widely to other sets of content and countries.

From the original UKDJ article:

> The original UK Defence Journal investigation stressed in an editor’s note that “this article does not claim that Scottish independence is a foreign plot, nor does it suggest that support for independence is illegitimate, inauthentic, or driven by anything other than sincere political conviction.”

> The focus, we underlined, was not on genuine activists but on documented attempts by Iranian-linked actors to exploit authentic political debates for their own strategic purposes. Robertson’s reply arguably missed this distinction. The concern raised by analysts was not that independence itself is tainted, but that foreign actors are infiltrating the conversation, seeking to magnify division and undermine trust in democratic processes.
by ploum | 2026-01-13 12:23:48+00:00
It should be said again and again that:

1. There’s no law requiring a cookie popup.

2. In Europe, most Cookie popup are, in fact, completely illegal

3. Most cookie popup come from the same actor who designed them to be, on purpose, as annoying as possible in order to decrease the popular support for the EU GDPR law.

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law
by neonarc | 2026-01-13 12:24:24+00:00
I’m working on Neon Arcade (https://neonarc.app/
) — a browser-based arcade platform with a curated collection of free unblocked games and remastered classics.

The site offers a mix of nostalgic titles and new casual games that people can play instantly in any browser without downloads, whether on school/work networks or on personal devices. I’ve been focusing on polish, responsiveness, and a fun vibe, and I’m interested in seeing how players engage with different genres (from puzzle to platformers) directly in the browser.

Would love to hear feedback on the idea and potential features people want to see next.
by ignoramous | 2026-01-13 12:26:01+00:00
> I agree with the sentiment, but unfortunately often this is too simplistic. For example, a lot of Palestinians are not tolerant towards LGPT people -> a lot of LGPT people are not tolerant towards Israelis -> a lot of Israelis are not tolerant towards Palestinians.

Nice bait with broad sweeping generalizations there.

One of critiques of "Paradox of Tolerance" is its proponents (probably not Karl Popper himself) take the argument to its extremes (similar to the generalization you posit), while the reality is more of a spectrum.
by OlaProis | 2026-01-13 12:27:16+00:00
Done! I just published the full workflow documentation today:

AI Development Workflow: Complete explanation of the process, handover system, how I manage context between sessions

Historical PRDs: The actual Product Requirements Documents used to generate tasks (v0.1.x through v0.3.0)

Task JSON files: How requirements were broken down into implementable tasks via Task Master

Handover templates: The reusable prompts I use to maintain context between AI sessions

Thanks for pushing on transparency, your comment about "open weights vs open source" is a useful framing. The goal is to share enough that someone could reproduce and learn from the approach.
by svelle | 2026-01-13 12:27:58+00:00
It's pretty much all laid out on Wikipedia.

He initially supported the Democratic Party but because of crypto and AI he donated millions to super PACs for Trump, supported DOGE and said that children are now being readicalized to hate capitalism as well as directly messaging the Trump administration to put pressure on Universities like NSF, SU and MIT because of DEI or something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen#Political_view...
by runarberg | 2026-01-13 12:28:00+00:00
Perhaps. But perhaps this era of AI slop leaves a foul taste in many people’s mouth. I don‘t know the reputation, all I see is somebody who felt the need to AI generate a picture and post it on HN. This is slop, and I personally get bad vibes from people who post AI generated slop, which leaves me with all sorts of assumptions about their character.

To clarify, they are here to have fun, they liked the joke about cow-ork (which I did too, it was a good joke), and they had an idea on how to build up on that joke. But instead of putting in a minor effort (like 5 min in Inkscape) they write a one sentence prompt to nano-banana and think everybody will love it. Personally I don’t.
by chrisco255 | 2026-01-13 12:28:15+00:00
What grocery store chain in the U.S. are you referring to? Every major chain grocery store generally stacks fresh food around the entire perimeter of the grocery store, reserving the aisles for boxed, canned, and frozen food.

You can find dozens of varieties of fruits and vegetables, tons of fresh beef, pork, chicken and fish, milk, cheeses, even bread, in every major chain grocery store in the U.S.
by ycombiredd | 2026-01-13 12:28:51+00:00
Maybe I am missing something or am just naive, but isn't it fairly common for social media accounts of well-known figures to be taken over (hacked/phished/whatever) for the purpose of shilling some crypto scam? Launching a memecoin and then very quickly (30 min later, apparently) rugpulling seems like it would at least as likely fit that type of scam as it would being one where the public figure themselves is actually behind the scam.

Not making a claim as to what is actually true, just positing explanations. Heck, maybe plot twist: it is actually Eric Adams behind it, but the "account takeover" possibility was planned to serve as plausible deniability.

You know... like "an actor that's playing a dude, disguised as another dude" type thing.
by Tanoc | 2026-01-13 12:29:05+00:00
The enshittification has taken even the foods that were staples of the carb and sugar funnel. Many people aren't buying these foods not just because of GLP-1s, but because the quality of the food itself has gotten so bad. Doritos for example have almost no cheese dust on them, and the chips themselves are much thinner and now made with palm olive which makes them crumble rather than crunch. The satisfaction of both the flavour and the mechanics of eating Doritos is gone. Cheez-Its are more salt than cheese flavouring, and are overbaked until they're thin and crackly like flint flakes so as to maintain volume while using less dough. Faygo has reverted to using sucralose, which is mildly toxic and is a known carcinogen. Sucralose also tends to trigger sugar backlash, where the body mistakenly assumes it has taken in far less sugar and carbs than it actually did and then proceeds to rush and crash. Gushers come in packs of just four to seven now, and use far more xanthum gum as filler which makes them trend more towards chalky than gummy. Bagel Bites are now just bagels with cheese, as their is almost no sauce and hardly any toppings. Corn dogs are likely to be chicken or chicken and pork with soy fillers rather than beef or beef and pork. Little Debbie Swiss Rolls have a chocolate coating so thin that you're almost guaranteed to find holes on the top and sides where you can see the bare cake and have also switched to using palm oil.

I could go on and on. But the point is, these foods are no longer a source of contentment. I've spoken to a lot of people who stress eat who have told me that the terrible quality of their comfort foods has become a stressor in and of itself. They eat an entire box of Cheez-Its without noticing because the thinness of the cracker walls and the salt triggers them to eat more, they feel sick after eating frozen tacquitos because the tortillas have so many fillers, or they get anxiety that they've wasted their money because they get so little in a Payday bar. It's driving them away from these foods.

On the upside maybe it will drive them to cook for themselves like it has to you.
by lou1306 | 2026-01-13 12:29:41+00:00
As soon as you forget (or your adversary manages to delete) an \0 at the end of any string, you may induce buffer overflows, get the application to leak secrets, and so on. Several standard library functions related to strings are prone to timing attacks, or have weird semantics that may expose you to attack. If you roll your own security-related functions (typical example: a scrubber for strings that hold secrets), you need to make sure these do not get optimised away by the compiler.

There's an awful lot of pitfalls and footguns in there.
Alternative for Microsoft Lens
by tritiy | 2026-01-13 12:29:46+00:00
Hi,
I've just seen that Microsoft will be retiring Microsoft Lens (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/retirement-of-microsoft-lens-fc965de7-499d-4d38-aeae-f6e48271652d).
Microsoft recommends OneDrive but are there any alternatives that you can recommend?

I'm using Android.
by matrss | 2026-01-13 12:30:09+00:00
If you don't want to argue about definitions, then I'd recommend you don't start arguments about definitions.

"AI" is not special-sauce. LLMs are transformations that map an input (a prompt) to some output (in this case the implementation of a specification used as a prompt). Likewise, a C compiler is a transformation that maps an input (C code) to some output (an executable program). Currently the big difference between the two is that LLMs are usually probabilistic and non-deterministic. Their output for the same prompt can change wildly in-between invocations. C compilers on the other hand usually have the property that their output is deterministic, or at least functionally equivalent for independent invocation with the same input. This might be the most important property that a compiler has to have, together with "the generated program does what the code told it to do".

Now, if multiple invocations of a LLM were to reliably produce functionally equivalent implementations of a specification as long as the specification doesn't change (and assuming that this generated implementation does actually implement the specification), then how does the LLM differ from a compiler? If it does not fundamentally differ from a compiler, then why should the specification not be called code?
by RobertoG | 2026-01-13 12:30:09+00:00
One man information is another one bot.

The Herald information comes from ukdefencejournal.
They don't tell us exactly where the information comes from originally, despise talking about the company Cyabra later in another context.

But the Jewish Telegraphic Agency tell us that the information about Iran also comes from Cyabra (1)

Cyabra? The Tel-Aviv based company, with important customers as the USA State Department, informing us about Iran?

What could possible go wrong?

(1) - https://www.jta.org/2025/07/14/global/when-irans-internet-we...).
by graemep | 2026-01-13 12:30:49+00:00
Not Iranians - what would anyone gain by influencing Iranians' views of Scottish nationalism? My experience has been that people outside the west barely know Scotland exists and are not going to care about it anymore than the average Scot is likely to have strong feelings about Laos.

It may be aimed at Scots but sometimes be done too blatantly so slips into the implausible. It may be aimed at influencing just those prone to conspiracy theories - who might be few but more likely to extreme actions.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-01-13 12:31:50+00:00
> Most people are overweight, and from what I've seen of modern studies, the health risk of being overweight is almost negligible.

Health risks of being overweight are very well researched and are significant (cancer risk, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular health). If you meant the mortality, then it is also worse for overweight people when confounding for smoking and reverse causality.
by newyankee | 2026-01-13 12:31:56+00:00
while even people born in Asian countries like me would like to go back 3-4 generations and forcefully reduce birthrates, it is not a problem as simple as it seems.

By that logic Canada, Australia, NZ, and arguably even US are settled places and should not be counted.

I do agree that every goalpost can be moved by drawing the boundary as you wish, but surely the fact that developed countries enjoyed a good standard of living for 100+ years and contributed more for a long time counts for something
by Earw0rm | 2026-01-13 12:32:25+00:00
Networks were full of this stuff before the bot armies were a glimmer in whoever's eye.

I don't doubt bots are a factor in the sheer volume of it, but human nature on network debates was bad when it was only fairly smart, educated people, and it only got worse as the AOL-to-Facebook pipeline demographic became politicised.

Glinner isn't a bot, just to pick one example of somebody who - irrespective of the merit or not of his argument - simply behaves like an asshole, constantly.
by joshocar | 2026-01-13 12:32:31+00:00
People develop drinking problems for two reasons, they have a genetic predisposition to getting more reward from drinking and/or they have untreated trauma that they are medicating. In my family, my grandfathers war trauma was transferred to his kids, who then transferred it to their kids or dealt with the trauma and didn't.

For the genetic side, people often slide into it by culture/habit. For example, it starts with a drink with friends, then a few times a week with friends, then on your own and with friends, after a few years it turns into every night on your own, then a few each night, then you hide how much you are drinking from loved ones, until you (hopefully) realize that you might have a problem. Bill Barr talked about this last year in his standup, for a good example and an example of how you can get ahead of it if you are self-aware. Many people keep going and end up with the physical addiction.

The trauma side is why I think some people have a real hard time shaking the addiction, and tend to go back. The drinking can also cause you more trauma, making it harder.
by munksbeer | 2026-01-13 12:34:00+00:00
> A major expansion of the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) has taken effect, legally obliging digital platforms to deploy surveillance-style systems that scan, detect, and block user content before it can be seen.

If this is implemented as it reads, just a note to everyone else, everywhere in the world:

For this policy to work, everything must be scanned. So now, every time you communicate with someone in the UK, your communications are no longer private.
by torgoodfillibut | 2026-01-13 12:34:03+00:00
I don't like the social harms related to AI but I think the energy is a silly emphasis. No one has ever thought twice about any heavy industry or absurdist garbage for consumers, home heating, etc.

If we were on track for everything else a serious uptake of AI might have put us barely off track.. But this is like blaming the wafer thin mint for the fat guy exploding.
by systemtest | 2026-01-13 12:34:10+00:00
How can it be that low? The Netherlands has a stamp rate of €1.40 for 20 grams and you can traverse that country in three hours. 20 to 50 grams is €2.80. If you have to cross a border that goes up to €4.22

Can you send a letter thousands of miles for only 61 cents? That's amazing!
by vintermann | 2026-01-13 12:34:31+00:00
Chatham house are famous for the rule that if you're invited, you agree that if you talk about what they talked about in their meetings, you must not say who said it.

Most political manipulation of influential people isn't sophisticated at all, it's 3rd grade bullying level. For instance, getting invited to an exclusive meaning as proof of your importance/"seriousness". Brazen flattery, but it works.

And the secrecy grooms them into betraying outsiders in favor of insiders. It's not such a big betrayal to give cover to powerful people's ugly opinions, but it's a start. And once you've done one bad thing with the gang, you're easier to persuade to do worse things with the gang. Again, really banal stuff.

Remember in Snowden's biography, he mentioned being involved in a plot to get some diplomatic person to drunk drive, so they could swoop in and "help" him. That wasn't just targeted at the diplomat. It was also targeted at rookie CIA agent Ed: first do iffy things with us, so that you have firmly rationalized and justified it to yourself once we ask you to do uglier stuff.
by viraptor | 2026-01-13 12:35:05+00:00
This has nothing to do with the frameworks though. Almost every listed step of delay there is due to specific software design choices, not JS level stuff. For example search - why isn't every possible next letter prefetched before you even select it? It's trivially cacheable at local nodes anyway. Why isn't the first few seconds buffered by the time you open movie description? How is the UI even possible to be laggy - there are way larger services using react without issues.
by pamcake | 2026-01-13 12:35:28+00:00
People leave Iran for UK. The idea is that if UK seems less atttactive and stable, fewer people will be strongly inclined to pursue it. It also normalizes chaos at home.

I think there are parallels to draw to how Fox News tried to paint a picture of places in Europe being on fire and overtaken by gangs and radicals years before that became close to actual reality.
by angoragoats | 2026-01-13 12:35:50+00:00
> Wait you’re fully aware of Reddit’s history as a CSAM hub

Yes.

> And that information is irrelevant to mention in response to your request that we don’t share sites that boost CSAM on the Y Combinator Forums? Because you went to a meetup once?

No. Please read what I wrote again, as you seem to be confused.
by egberts1 | 2026-01-13 12:35:54+00:00
Some basic questions from a cybersecurity vulnerability researcher:

- what kind of authentication protocol stack is used

- what algorithm is used for network protocol encryption (hash, block, encryption)

- is data centrally stored, if so, is it encrypted at rest? Key stays in phones?

- any accounting audit done? (Moot but just a check mark in a small-family-business-oriented checkbox)

Great pricing!!
by jedimastert | 2026-01-13 12:36:56+00:00
> no small number of users choose Apple because they do not trust Google

Unfortunately, it probably actually is a small number comparatively. Or at least I would need to see some sort of real data to say anything different.

I feel like people who distrust Google probably wouldn't trust Apple enough to give them their data either? Why would you distrust one but not the other?
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-13 12:37:14+00:00
For the reason I stated that you quoted right there. Separating the potentially quite large set of changes of the initial (properly working) feature from the (hopefully not too large) set of changes reconciling that feature with the other (apparently incompatible in this example) feature. It provides yet another option for filtering the irrelevant from the relevant thus could prove quite useful at times.

Recall that the entire premise is that there's a bug (the allergy). So at some point a while back something went wrong and the developer didn't notice. Our goal is to pick up the pieces in this not-so-ideal situation.

What's the advantage of "cleaning up" here? Why pretend anything? In this context there shouldn't be a noticeable downside to having a few extra kilobytes of data hanging around. If you feel compelled to "clean up" in this scenario I'd argue that's a sign you should be refactoring your tools to be more ergonomic.

It might be worthwhile to consider the question, why have history in the first place? Why not periodically GC anything other than the N most recent commits behind the head of each branch and tag?
by pjc50 | 2026-01-13 12:37:16+00:00
> drive 1000 miles a day and so electric cars will never work for anyone

Whenever I see one of those I like to post Yong-heum Lee, who really did 500 miles a day in an Ioniq 5: https://www.hyundaimotorgroup.com/en/story/CONT0000000000176...

But as you say, facts are of limited use in debates any more.