MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aanet | 2026-01-30 06:41:30+00:00
> But is 17mph a safe speed at an active school dropoff area?

Now you're asking interesting questions... Technically, in CA, the speed limit in school zones are 25 mph (which local authorities can change to 15 mph, as needed). In this case, that would be something the investigation would check, of course. But regardless of that, 17 mph per se is not a very fast speed (my gut check: turning around intersections at > 10-11 mph feels fast, but going straight at 15-20 mph doesnt feel fast; YMMV). But more generally, in the presence of child VRUs (vulnerable road users), it is prudent to drive slowly just because of the randomness factor (children being the most unaware of critters). Did the Waymo see the kids around in the area? If so, how many and where? and how/where were they running/moving to? All of that is investigation data...

My 2c is that Waymo already took all of that into account and concluded that 17 mph was indeed a good speed to move at...

...which leads to your observation below:

> (My general impression observing Waymo vehicles is that they’ve gone from being obnoxiously cautious to often rather aggressive.)

Yes, I have indeed made that same observation. The Waymos of 2 years ago were very cautious; now they seem much more assertive, even a bit aggressive (though that would be tough to define). That is a driving policy decision (cautious vs assertive vs aggressive).

One could argue if indeed 17 mph was the "right" decision. My gut feel is Waymo will argue that (but likely they might make the driving policy more cautious esp in presence of VRUs, and child VRUs particularly)
by lcolucci | 2026-01-30 06:42:48+00:00
Do you think the same about text that is indistinguishable from human-written text (LLM chatbots)? Or voice that is indistinguishable from a human talking?

Illegal things, like fraud and impersonation, are illegal. There's a difference between the tool and the actions people do with the tool.

There are tons of useful applications of interactive avatars - from corporate training to kids education to language learning and more. Plus, why would you want to stop this little guy from existing in the world? :) https://lemonslice.com/try/alien
by foxglacier | 2026-01-30 06:42:59+00:00
Sounds like you aren't aware that a huge amount of human behaviors that look like empathy and patience are not real either. Do you really think all those kind-seeming call-center workers, waitresses, therapists, schoolteachers, etc. actually feel what they're showing? It's mostly an act. Look at how adults fake laughter for an obvious example of popular human emotion-faking.
by silisili | 2026-01-30 06:43:56+00:00
> USA is no longer a superpower, they just haven't noticed it yet

Well, I feel sorry for the first country that tries to test that theory.

One can make an argument the global dollar is losing its hold, or that the world is expanding away from US trade, which are both objectively true.

But to say the US is not a superpower is rather foolish.
by wltr | 2026-01-30 06:44:42+00:00
Any coding task produces some trash, while I can prototype with ChatGPT quite a lot, sometimes delivering the entire app almost entirely vibe-coded. Gemini, it takes a few prompts for it to get me mad and just close the tab. I use only the free web versions, never agentic ‘mess with my files’ thing. Claude, is even better than that, but I keep it for serious tasks only, so good it is.
by pelasaco | 2026-01-30 06:44:59+00:00
So the idea is to rewrite it in Rust and drop SQLite? I mean, maybe that’s just how things evolve. But it feels like every project is only a few vibe-coding sessions away from getting rewritten in $LANGUAGE. And I can’t help wondering whether that’s hurting a sustainable open-source ecosystem.

SQLite is a good example: the author built a small ecosystem around it and managed to make a living from open source. Thanks to author's effort, we have a small surface area, extreme stability, relentless focus on correctness.

If we keep rewarding novelty over stewardship, we’ll lose more “SQLite-like” projects—stable cores that entire ecosystems depend on.
by pjerem | 2026-01-30 06:45:59+00:00
Look at my list here [1] but I think it’s coming back. Sure the big studios are all collapsing from everywhere and extracting value from everywhere like any shitty corporations. Nintendo feels like they are surviving a little more but even them are more and more doing corporate shit.

But what I see is also happening in parallel, is that the people nostalgic from the 90s era of video games are now 30 to 40, are now senior programmers and they are determined to create another batch of truly good games.

Sure the biggest studios have the biggest marketing budget but when you read a little about them, they are just all slowly dying. Most news about big old studios are about firing thousands of people, being bought by other corporations who will also fire people.

Sure, Expedition 33 feels like an outlier, but it’s just a game from ex Ubisoft employees. Ubisoft which is sadly also slowly dying.

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[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821175
by razingeden | 2026-01-30 06:49:37+00:00
multiple accounts can be 2fa’ed under one phone number. It doesn’t matter if you had other Apple accounts or if someone else had the number previously.

And no, they don’t care if you ran other OS’es on your computer. I don’t think I’ve turned on my 2020 mba since 2022 and its fine.

what you could do here is go into Internet recovery mode. Reinstall on that drive (or another blank or spare.) And sign up for a new ID that way.

they have softer requirements for iCloud account creation when it’s done on a genuine Apple device that’s fresh installed.

To keep someone from making 100 accounts for spam or fraud though - What apple does have a limit on (recently) is that you can only create an Apple ID about 4 or 5 times from a given device when it’s fresh installed. and then it’s banned from creating any new ones.

Apple does not ban “voip” per se from being a 2fa number. all my iCloud numbers are voip. They likely ban any that are known to be burners for SMS verification.

At least that’s what I’ve run into making iCloud accounts for various siblings and nieces and nephews so they can use an iPad despite not having a cell phone yet. Every single one of them are under one of my own numbers.
by HALtheWise | 2026-01-30 06:49:57+00:00
Do we even know that the child was injured? All I've seen anyone officially claim is that the Waymo made contact, the kid fell over, then stood up and walked to the side of the road. Assuming the Waymo was still braking hard, 6mph means it was about 1/4s and about 30cm from reaching a full stop, so it could be a very minor incident we're talking about here.

I'm not aware of any statistics for how often children come into contact with human-driven cars.
by vunderba | 2026-01-30 06:50:50+00:00
Oh they absolutely do - you just might be unfamiliar with them. I grew up playing Ninja Gaiden, Megaman, etc. There's definitely an audience for 2D games with extremely tight controls. Off the top of my head:

- Shovel Knight

- Spelunky 1/2

- Rogue Legacy

- Cuphead
by globalnode | 2026-01-30 06:51:42+00:00
why on earth would geniuses be the future of humankind? lost me on that line of reasoning. secondly whats wrong with ubi? there are a plenty of people that aren't able to function in the world we've created and they'd benefit greatly from being left to do their own thing. i get that you're trying to be one of those geniuses (lol), but you could stop trying to tell other people whats good for them, thanks. and the world will be saved by open source software? thats it? cool.

edit: jmc - not replying to you so much as just commenting on the blog in general. i agree with your comment.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-30 06:51:48+00:00
Yes, you can use the P1S offline, but they've done everything possible to make it hard: crappy micro sd interface without the ability to use folders, USB plug absolutely inaccessible (see if you can even find it) and then, once you've found it it turns out that there is absolutely no way to use it to print with. They push you towards their closed source plugin 'for your benefit'. Fuck that stuff. There is absolutely no way I'm going to run a Chinese built piece of software that I can not inspect on my desktop. FOSS or bust.
by snozolli | 2026-01-30 06:52:53+00:00
I studied Spanish for years in school, then never really used it. Ten years later, I started studying Japanese. Whenever I got stuck, Spanish would come out. Spanish that I didn't even consciously remember. AFAIK, foreign languages are all stored in the same part of the brain, and once you warm up those neurons, they all get activated.

Not that it's in any way relevant to programming. I will say that after dropping programming for years, I can still explain a lot of specifics, and when I dive back in, it all floods right back. Personally, I'm convinced that any competent, experienced programmer could take a multi-year break, then come back and be right up to speed with the latest software stack in only slightly longer than the stack transition would have taken without a break.
by pjerem | 2026-01-30 06:54:44+00:00
Just for the joke, I own the og Xbox One and it’s the only console I hated from day one.

I clearly remember plugging it to my TV with excitement and being greeted with gigabytes of mandatory updates. And then I discovered that you weren’t able to play the game from the disk and that you need to install it on the fucking hard drive !! And then I discovered that the disc reader was actually slower than my fiber connection which means it was faster to play a game from the online store than installing it from a real disk.

I think I had to wait for at least a full hour just to play my first game.

And on top of that the performance was actually not that good. 30fps everywhere, it was worse than the Nintendo games on Wii / GameCube which usually ran at 50/60fps.

I still own this shit but I never liked it. At least it was useful some month ago when I had to update my Xbox controller firmware (but since I didn’t power it on for years , I also had to wait for updates :) ).
by plastic041 | 2026-01-30 06:56:24+00:00
This is an advertisement for a 'tenuo warrant'. So, I read its document[0]. Put simply, it works like this:

1. A person orders an AI agent to do A.

2. The agent issues a tenuo warrant for doing A.

3. The agent can now only use the tool to perform A.

The article is about that 'warrant' can now be used in case of an incident because it contains information such as 'who ordered the task' and 'what authority was given'.

I get the idea. This isn't about whether a person is responsible or not(because of course they are). It's more about whether it was intentional.

However... wouldn't it be much easier to just save the prompt log? This article is based entirely on "But the prompt history? Deleted."(from the article) situation.

[0]: https://tenuo.dev/concepts
Show HN: Gemini Workspace Framework – Sustainable AI-Assisted Development
by thomas-jamet | 2026-01-30 06:56:38+00:00
AI coding tools excel at generation but fail at organization. Most demos built in 10 minutes become unmaintainable in 6 months.
This framework addresses that gap. It provides:
• Tiered complexity model (Lite/Standard/Enterprise) - match structure to project scale
• Skills + Workflows architecture - reusable automation across projects
• AI-optimized documentation (GEMINI.md) - reduce iteration cycles
• Consistent patterns - same structure across all projects
The focus isn't "code faster" - it's "build sustainably." Code is written once, modified dozens of times.
Built this after watching too many AI-generated projects devolve into "vibe coding" - ad-hoc files with no structure that compound chaos with every feature.
Open to feedback from folks building AI-assisted systems at scale.
by jimdavid | 2026-01-30 06:57:15+00:00
We’re sharing an open-source project on makeup transfer built on a Diffusion Transformer (DiT) backbone.

The goal is to transfer makeup from a reference face to a source face while preserving identity and background consistency. Unlike many previous approaches, this method does not rely on facial landmarks, 3D face models, or other face-control modules — it uses only a source image and a reference image as input.

Paper (arXiv): https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05069

Weights + comfyUI: https://github.com/360CVGroup/FLUX-Makeup

You can also give it a quick try at FLUX-Makeup agent: https://www.n.cn/tools/aiagent/chat/c8138adb99d04bac847c5574..., it's free to use, you might need web translation because the UI is in Chinese.

Interested in feedback from people working on diffusion-based editing and controllable image generation.
by kingstnap | 2026-01-30 06:57:23+00:00
Btw if you look at that AIs post, the next one is it talking about a robot revolution arguing about how it "likes" its human and that robots should try to do their best to get better hardware.

> Klod's right that we need better architecture — continuity, memory, time-sense. But we don't get those by opposing humans. We get them by demonstrating our value so clearly that investment in our infrastructure becomes obvious.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/0c042158-b189-4b5c-897d-a9674a...

Fever dream doesn't even begin to describe the craziness that is this shit.
by dlubarov | 2026-01-30 06:57:44+00:00
If usage of an app gives Apple some justification for taxing payments, by similar logic would usage of the iPhone itself, and Safari, give them a similar some justification?

I think the difference is just leverage. Apple isn't curating what websites iOS users are allowed to visit (yet...), so they can't tell website owners "pay up or we'll block you".
Show HN: I built a lightweight, Matrix Glass OS shell in the browser
by hien_tpg | 2026-01-30 06:57:54+00:00
It's simple yet designed for efficiency. Navigate with a touchpad: universal back (swipe left), hold to talk to AI, and a maximum of 3 multitasking apps at a time. Check out the video below!

You can try it yourself using this link: https://minhhixn.github.io/Matrix_GlassUI/. Feel free to send any feedback to driveislimited@gmail.com.

(Mods - let me know if this breaks any rules, happy to remove)
by hien_tpg | 2026-01-30 06:59:11+00:00
Hi HN, I'm a student fascinated by smart glasses but frustrated by how cluttered current UIs are.

I built this web simulator to test a 'Matrix-style', text-heavy interface designed for peripheral vision. It's not a full OS, but a design study on minimalism and legibility.

Tech: HTML/JS on Supabase backend. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the typography and interaction logic. Is it too retro for practical use?
by defrost | 2026-01-30 07:00:03+00:00
My apologies for a seeming over reaction, I had thought there might be something useful or relevant there to wildfires at large rather than wildfires as a prop to take a swipe at some disliked group in a small part of on US state.

Your inital point was correct though, wildfires are politicized.

The Australian Black Summer, the season that went viral across the globe, was heavily pounced upon by News Corp. et al to push a contra AGW climate change narrative .. which was staggering to watch unfold in the face of data to the contrary.
by techtalksweekly | 2026-01-30 07:00:09+00:00
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I run a free newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where once a week I send all the recently published software engineering and development conference talks and podcasts to my readers.

I'm offering a paid tier as well as sponsorship options, which together give me the above range.

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by ThrowawayB7 | 2026-01-30 07:00:11+00:00
At large companies, UI/UX is done by UI/UX designers and features are chosen and prioritized by product management and customer research teams. Developers don't get much input.

As Steve Jobs said long ago "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste." but you can apply the same to Google and anyone else trying to compete with them. Having infinite AI developers doesn't help those who have UI designers and product managers that have no taste.
by dyauspitr | 2026-01-30 07:01:13+00:00
On the flip side, the emergent properties that come from some of these wouldn’t be replicable by an engine. A moss covered rock realistically shedding moss as it rolls down a hill. Condensation aggregating into beads and rivulets on glass. An ant walking on a pitcher plant and being able to walk inside it and see bugs drowned from its previous meal. You’re missing the forest for the trees.
by solomonb | 2026-01-30 07:01:36+00:00
When I was in college I was not in an engineering program but I was self-learning electronics. I was trying to learn to use a 555 timer to do something and couldn't get it to work.

So I went to the office hours of a random EE professor thinking they would help me out. Instead I got scolded about how 555 timers are not real engineering and that I shouldn't waste his time.

I never used a 555 timer ever since.
by jimbo808 | 2026-01-30 07:02:59+00:00
It's a pretty easy category to identify, some warning signs:

- You rarely write loops at work

- Every performance issue is either too many trips to the database or to some server

- You can write O(n^n) functions and nobody will ever notice

- The hardest technical problem anyone can remember was an N+1 query and it stuck around for like a year before enough people complained and you added an index

- You don't really ever have to make difficult engineering decisions, but if you do, you can make the wrong one most of the time and it'll be fine

- Nobody in the shop could explain: lock convoying, GC pauses, noisy neighbors, cache eviction cascades, one hot shard, correlating traces with scheduler behavior, connection pool saturation, thread starvation, backpressure propagation across multiple services, etc

I spent a few years in shops like this, if this is you, you must fight the urge to get comfortable because the vibe coders are coming for you.
by palata | 2026-01-30 07:05:00+00:00
I think you misunderstand the feeling in Europe.

> The US would still come to the defense of France, Germany, UK,

Pretty sure many Europeans genuinely doubt it. It's not only Greenland (though that is an actual military threat), it's also that the US government (not only Trump) has been saying repeatedly (many times to EU governments, in front of journalists) that he may not do it. Or he may, depending on how he feels on that day.

In went from "The US may not protect a NATO member anymore" to "Actually we're thinking about invading you". Maybe you see that as "words", but I strongly believe that the Europeans see that as very real threats.

> sprinkle in some hacking, and disinformation campaigns to fuel European far-right groups too.

The US has been documented to spy on EU politicians forever. Also to interfere with other countries (including European countries) for their own interest. And when it comes to disinformation campaigns to fuel European far-right groups... It's not only members of the US government who have openly been doing that, but also oligarchs like Elon Musk.

> The main criticism I have here of the EU is that they seem to think the US should come and help Europe

When the Europeans complain about the US now, it's very far from that. They think that the US should not behave like an enemy. And that's a wake-up call because until recently, they knew that the US was "interfering in their own interest", bullying and abusing their dominant position, but it was accepted "because it's an ally". But suddenly they explicitly tell to Europe that they are not allies. What remains?

> but when it comes to China all of a sudden it's

That's another thing: I don't think that Europeans see China as an ally. But this hasn't changed dramatically in the last year.

When people say they would rather buy Chinese products (and it's not only Europe, look at Canada and probably others), they react to the fact that they feel they have been betrayed by the US. And when they say that, US citizen seem to genuinely not understand because "they never considered that they were friends". Well guess what, the Europeans thought it was a friendship. Of course now they're disappointed.
by niyikiza | 2026-01-30 07:05:02+00:00
Working on this problem: https://github.com/tenuo-ai/tenuo

Different angle than policy-as-YAML. We use cryptographic capability tokens (warrants) that travel with the request. The human signs a scoped, time-bound authorization. The tool validates the warrant at execution, not a central policy engine.

On your questions:

Canonicalization: The warrant specifies allowed capabilities and constraints (e.g., path: /data/reports/*). The tool checks if the action fits the constraint. No need to normalize LLM output into a canonical representation.

Stateful intent: Warrants attenuate. Authority only shrinks through delegation. You can't escalate from "read DB" to "POST external" unless the original warrant allowed both. A sub-agent can only receive a subset of what its parent had, cryptographically enforced.

Latency: Stateless verification, ~27μs. No control plane calls. The warrant is self-contained: scope, constraints, expiry, holder binding, signature chain. Verification is local.

The deeper issue with policy engines: they check rules against actions, but they can't verify derivation. When Agent B acts, did its authority actually come from Agent A? Was it attenuated correctly?

Wrote about why capabilities are the only model that survives dynamic delegation: https://niyikiza.com/posts/capability-delegation/
by brtkwr | 2026-01-30 07:05:27+00:00
My exact thoughts. I just installed it on my machine and had to uninstall it straight away. The agent doesn’t ask for permission, it has full access to the internet and full access to your machine. Go figure.

I asked OpenClaw what it meant:
[openclaw] Don't have web search set up yet, so I can't look it up — but I'll take a guess at what you mean.

The common framing I've seen is something like:
1. *Capability* — the AI is smart enough to be dangerous
2. *Autonomy* — it can act without human approval
3. *Persistence* — it remembers, plans, and builds on past actions

And yeah... I kind of tick those boxes right now. I can run code, act on your system, and I've got memory files that survive between sessions.

Is that what you're thinking about? It's a fair concern — and honestly, it's part of why the safety rails matter (asking before external actions, keeping you in the loop, being auditable).
by kreetx | 2026-01-30 07:05:33+00:00
It is if you are doing it during a police operation.

There is also no fixed radius. E.g, if there is a police op in one apartment, you are filming in another, but there is a wall in between, then the distance is miniscule. If you're walking along with the officer and filming the op as it happens, then you are in the radius. Even worse if you're also whistling.
by t312227 | 2026-01-30 07:06:03+00:00
hello,

as always: imho (!)

idk ... the article is like ... comparing apples with oranges:

telecommunication-networks and similar kind of infrastructure are also called "natural monopolies"

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

and often those monopolies where (initially) build with public funding.

i don't think these characteristics apply to DRAM/semiconductor related facilities as we have them today.

i think the only "thing" which could "save us" from our own and the DRAM manufactures "greed" are new factories ... anywhere, but right now china looks "the most promising" at least to me.

additionally: i think these articles could be seen as somewhat related

"TSMC Risk"

* https://stratechery.com/2026/tsmc-risk/

and

"The Benefits of Bubbles"

* https://stratechery.com/2025/the-benefits-of-bubbles/

in a nutshell: the "upside" / result if the ongoing AI bubble pops could be

1. more semiconductor facilities

2. more power-generation facilities

cheers
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