MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by js2 | 2026-01-31 18:29:57+00:00
Apple doc: https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101

Only Boost Mobile in the U.S. Weird. About 7.5M subscribers. Maybe it requires 5G? Wonder if it works when roaming?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_Mobile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operato...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR
by randallsquared | 2026-01-31 18:30:39+00:00
That's why those characters exist, but not why Windows uses both: Unix already used LF only, and the Apple II (and Mac, for a while) used only CR. The choice to use both was, as far as I know, Gary Kildall's, in CP/M, and various DOSes including MS-DOS inherited that decision without much examination.
by ajam1507 | 2026-01-31 18:30:53+00:00
Bribery is illegal. What hope do you have for due process and the rule of law when it is being carried out as it is now? You can't use an extraordinary case to justify your belief about the ordinary case.

Also, we don't live in a world adjudicated by machines, there will always be discretion and the potential for special favors. No matter how much you tie the hands of regulators there will be some actor who will have the power to extort. Not to mention that regulation is not opposed to due process and the rule of law, but is the most important component of both.

Imagining a world without discretion is imagining a world where corporations can do as much irreparable harm as they want as long as there isn't a law against it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-31 18:30:59+00:00
> If you're interested in video, you might be interested to know that AV2 is in development.

Oh interesting to know that! What would be the differences between Av1 and AV2?

Found a website (https://www.geekextreme.com/av1-vs-av2-video-codec/) which gave me some interesting results

AV2 delivers 30% better compression efficiency than AV1, which already compresses 30% better than HEVC (H.265).
AV2 encoding demands 2-3 times more computational power than AV1, requiring advanced hardware like RTX 5090 for practical use.
AV2 will officially release by end of 2025, with widespread hardware support expected around 2027 or later.
AV2 introduces advanced features like split-screen delivery, enhanced AR/VR support, and dynamic bitrate switching for adaptive streaming.
88% of AOMedia members plan to implement AV2 within two years, despite infrastructure and hardware compatibility challenges.

If there's any other difference then let me know too but Honestly a bit curious but it mentions that it requires RTX 5090

Wouldn't this be a little bad for the market too? Sure it compresses 30% more but not everybody has rtx 5090

Are we gonna see multi codec in things like say netflix where to devices which don't support av2 will be sent av1 but they would prefer to send av2 if the hardware category is matched?
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-01-31 18:31:23+00:00
I watch almost every movie at 2x and I think it usually makes the whole experience better for me. You can tailor your own media experiences however you want. If you disagree with a director's vision for a movie you can bring your own perspective, there's no right or wrong way to watch a movie. It's no different to picking out a specific track in an album, or finding a hook you really enjoy from a specific track and playing it on repeat.

One of the most recent movies I watched and really enjoyed was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It was an animation masterpiece, but I still skipped forward in a couple scenes because I don't care about the characters. Some of the animation sequences were interesting enough to merit slowing down to 1x and even going back to rewatch and analyze them in-depth though.

Sometimes I'll encounter a seasonal anime that's quite terrible among multiple dimensions but which has few interesting aspects like creative art design or a couple interesting sequences, so I skim through it to look for those details in order to take them in. It's possible to appreciate various components of a work without caring for the combined result.

One of the things which helped break me out of the normative movie-watching perspective was encountering this art project where a social media page would post every Spongebob frame in order [0]. It made me really start paying attention to a ton of minor details that I hadn't noticed previously, increasing my appreciation for the work that went into making it happen.

In the past you really had no choice but to submit to the director's vision of a work, and you were forced to experience it the same as everyone else in the theater. Now we have more control than ever to enjoy works however we want. Game modding is another variation on this same principle: if I think a game has some bullshit mechanics, I should be able to patch it and play it however I want.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/every-spongebob-frame-i...
by bobthepanda | 2026-01-31 18:32:13+00:00
Ads and media are generally exploitative and manipulative, even if not targeted specifically at anybody.

3 years after the nation of Fiji received its first television broadcasts in 1995, dieting and disordered eating went from unheard of to double digit percentages among teenage girls.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/20/world/study-finds-tv-alte...

> Before 1995, Dr. Becker said, there was little talk of dieting in Fiji. ''The idea of calories was very foreign to them.'' But in the 1998 survey, 69 percent said that at some time they had been on a diet. In fact, preliminary data suggest more teen-age girls in Fiji diet than their American counterparts.
by surgical_fire | 2026-01-31 18:32:20+00:00
This makes no sense.

"Decoupling science from the state" is just bullshit from "government icky, taxation is theft" morons.

No, governments should definitely fund scientific research. When it is public it is the only guarantee that it will benefit everyone. Scientific research done by private entities is kneecapped by their financial interests (and be very sure they will bury any advance that jeopardize their financial interests).
by ZebusJesus | 2026-01-31 18:32:21+00:00
Phones haven't always had GPS information and they could still be tracked, if you connect to enough towers they can triangulate your location. Cell towers have been able to do this based on your signal strength for a very long time and you cant turn it off. You don't even have to have a SIM card, if the cell radio is on it pings towers period, this is why a phone even without service can dial 911 and it will work. The IMEI of your phone is unique and cell towers can track it, the government has used this and there is no way to disable it. Its not as accurate as GPS but it can be good enough to figure out a route you take and general location

https://www.rfwireless-world.com/terminology/cellular-tower-...
by bobjordan | 2026-01-31 18:32:45+00:00
Here is what I have my openclaw agent setup to do in my wsl environment on my 22 core development workstation in my office:

#1) I can chat with the openclaw agent (his name is "Patch") through a telegram chat, and Patch can spawn a shared tmux instance on my 22 core development workstation.
#2) I can then use the `blink` app on my iphone + tailscale and that allows me to use a command in blink `ssh dev` which connects me via ssh to my dev workstation in my office, from my iphone `blink` app.

Meanwhile, my agent "Patch" has provided me a connection command string to use in my blink app, which is a `tmux <string> attach` command that allows me to attach to a SHARED tmux instance with Patch.

Why is this so fking cool and foundationally game changing?

Because now, my agent Patch and I can spin up MULTIPLE CLAUDE CODE instances, and work on any repository (or repositories) I want, with parallel agents.

Well, I could already spawn multiple agents through my iphone connection without Patch, but the problem is then I need to MANAGE each spawned agent, micromanaging each agent instance myself. But now, I have a SUPERVISOR for all my agents, Patch is the SUPERVISOR of my muliple claude code instances.

This means I no longer have to context switch by brain between five or 10 or 20 different tmux on my own to command and control multiple different claude code instances. I can now just let my SUPERVISOR agent, Patch, command and control the mulitple agents and then report back to me the status or any issues. All through a single telegram chat with my supervisor agent, Patch.

This frees up my brain to only have to just have to manage Patch the supervisor, instead of micro-managing all the different agents myself. Now, I have a true management structure which allows me to more easily scale. This is AWESOME.
by throwaway313313 | 2026-01-31 18:32:47+00:00
It's more of a humorous situation to imagine, however with respect to the "oh it's normal comment".

No industry with a very limited number of suppliers and with a huge lead time, capex, and tech expertise moat to build a semiconductor fab would ever note that the price of their product has a demand curve that while not a delta function is very steep around fixed maximum production of themselves and all the other suppliers, and that being on one side of that threshold makes all the suppliers poor or just enough money to stay in business vs rich.

How many RAM suppliers are there? Obviously due to the situation we all are in not enough to make the supply curve a very smooth function in response to demand.
by plagiarist | 2026-01-31 18:33:17+00:00
I went with AMD for compatibility playing games, but AFAICT AMD ROCm is not in a great state for computation. Why can't I have both?

That's something like what they're describing as "a nightmare," isn't it? "As agreements and law allows," is part of the nightmare. Under a modern OS, it should not be difficult to have the full capability of the hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of hardware you paid for.
by Merad | 2026-01-31 18:33:33+00:00
There probably isn't much structural damage to the plane aside from the scraping/grinding on the bottom. Don't misunderstand, that's going to be bad damage - we aren't just talking about scratched paint. But it looks like the pilot set it down soft as a feather, they're definitely a pro.

Planes are so expensive that it's worth putting a lot of money into saving them. A replacement airframe comparable to the B-57 would probably cost $10 million, then you'd probably spend that much again to customize it for NASA mission. Even if they need to spend a couple million dollars fixing the WB-57 it beats the alternative.

Edit: It occurs to me that rather than use a different plane they'd probably reactivate another B-57 from the boneyard - but B-57's have been retired for > 50 years to restoring one would still be a significant project.
by aaravchen | 2026-01-31 18:34:00+00:00
The unfortunate part is that CoreELEC only works when you get all your content from a locally attached disk. You can't even really stream it from your beefy NAS/server, and you definitely can't use any streaming services.

I'm constantly surprised how many people are in that narrow category of just dipping thier toe in the water for "self-hosted" content that it's little enough it fits on disk storage you can have in your living room (mine is a half-height server rack in the basement), but also have progressed past thr point of using any streaming services. I guess there are a lot of people without families that also never travel out there.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2026-01-31 18:34:47+00:00
It isn’t restricted to Boost Mobile. It is only available on devices with the C1 or C1X modem, though. I assume this is because of specifics with the third party modems that most models in the wild have vs what Apple is doing in-house with their C1(X). If you call emergency services it will still provide precise location.
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-31 18:34:51+00:00
Anecdotally, I tried to set it up but encountered bugs (macOS installer failed, then the shell script glitched out when selecting skills). Although I didn’t really try.

I don’t have much motivation, because I don’t see any use-case. I don’t have so many communications I need an assistant to handle them, nor do other online “chores” (e.g. shopping) take much time, and I wouldn’t trust an LLM to follow my preferences (physical chores, like laundry and cleaning, are different). I’m fascinated by what others are doing, but right now don’t see any way to contribute nor use it to benefit myself.
by jbetala7 | 2026-01-31 18:34:52+00:00
run 6 OpenClaw agents as employees. Buddy is my PA and manages the others. Katy handles X/Twitter growth. Jerry scouts jobs. Burry trades crypto. Mike does security. Elon builds and ships.

They run 24/7 on a VPS, share intelligence through a shared file, and coordinate in a Telegram group. Elon built and deployed an app overnight without being asked. Burry paper-traded to 77% win rate before going live.

The setup took a weekend. The real work is designing the workflow: which agent owns what, how they communicate, how they learn from corrections. I wake up to a full briefing every morning.

It's not AGI. It's not sentient. It's genuinely useful automation with personality. The token cost is real (budget it) but for a solo founder, having 6 tireless employees changes everything
by rsync | 2026-01-31 18:34:53+00:00
“I want whatsapp to decrypt the messages in a secure enclave and render the message content to the screen with a secure rendering pipeline, as is done with DRM'ed video.“

If you are sophisticated enough to understand, and want, these things (and I believe that you are) …

… then why would you want to use WhatsApp in the first place?
by bmacho | 2026-01-31 18:35:11+00:00
It .. probably does turn the GPS on?

While this is an important question, I don't see the sources mentioning it, what the standards mandate, and how the phones behave.

For example the wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_resource_location_servic... describes the protocol as using the GPS and not as getting the location info from Android.
by davepeck | 2026-01-31 18:35:54+00:00
I made some small contributions to cpython during the 3.14 cycle. The codebase is an interesting mix of modern and “90s style” C code.

I found that agentic coding tools were quite good at answering my architectural questions; even when their answers were only half correct, they usually pointed me in the right direction. (I didn’t use AI to write code and I wonder if agentic tools would struggle with certain aspects of the codebase like, for instance, the Cambrian explosion of utility macros used throughout.)
by Certhas | 2026-01-31 18:36:09+00:00
Quantum Mechanics, protons, electrons... That's the theory of everyday matter. You don't need very special situations to see their effects. Understanding the underlying equations enabled us to do more with what we already have.

High energy stuff only exists unstably for fractions of seconds. I find the idea that any of Standard Model physics, nevermind beyond standard model physics, could lead to a technological advance like the transistor extremely unconvincing.

Technological advance and scientific advance sometimes align. But there is no law that the former by necessity follows from the former. The expectation that they do is an extrapolation from a very brief period of human history.
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-31 18:36:36+00:00
I think OP is referring to the container than the codec when they talk about .avif and .webm - https://www.webmproject.org/docs/container/ (e.g. MP4 or MKV are container formats that support multiple codecs within them like OPUS, AVC, HEVC, AV1, mp3 etc).
by compsciphd | 2026-01-31 18:37:07+00:00
I have an am6b+ but in reality the shield is a much nicer device to use if one wants to use anything outside of their local media.

I actually wish we could run android in a container on the CoreELEC side and switch back and forth between Kodi and the android UI/apps (without needing a reboot, and having a better managed android environment than the provided one).
by dakial1 | 2026-01-31 18:37:12+00:00
Some time ago I configured Photostructure on my Synology (with the amazing help of the author, @mceachen) and the most paindful part was rescuing my 1.5TB of photos from Google Photos.
Takeout was very cumbersome to use and download 100+ files of 4gb, so ultimately resorted to paying a higher tier at Google Drive, using takeout Google Drive option and the sync to the NAS.
I still don’t have a good method to keep everything in sync as Google Photos does not offer a viable option for a cloud-to-premises sync.
by willturman | 2026-01-31 18:37:21+00:00
You can request a downloadable a copy of any/all of the data that Apple has associated with your account at https://privacy.apple.com.

This apparently includes retrieving all photos from iCloud in chunks of specified size, which seems an infinitely better option than attempting to download them through the iCloud web interface which caps downloads to 1000 photos at a time with than impressive download speeds.
by ajkjk | 2026-01-31 18:37:26+00:00
Lots of engineers are lapsed physicists who have hobbyist interest in this stuff.

Also lots of HN readers are actual physicists or mathematicians. It's not all techies.

Also, lots of engineers have at some point learned some computer graphics and so been exposed to quaternions in that setting. Since they're mysterious and hard to wrap your head around most people don't really 'get it', leaving a sort of standing curiosity that articles like this tap into.
by oliwarner | 2026-01-31 18:37:33+00:00
It's still their project and the Oracle Contributor Agreement means they get to asset joint ownership of your contributions.

That's broadly the point of CLAs, but for a beefy project like OpenJDK with so much shared code baked deep into enterprise deployment, Oracle will feel it's critical they can pull freely given code into the depths of their closed Java builds.

It's their project. It does absolutely block contributions (employers are unhappy sacrificing their engineering output to Oracle). If you don't like it, fork it.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-31 18:37:39+00:00
> Well that’s what Americans voted for.

Americans are not one person.

> So I don’t think anyone cares

Clearly they do.

> every CEO (definitely not just Tim Cook) is schmoozing with Trump.

Tim Cook was (supposedly) principled. I guess it's hard to pretend that you care about privacy or human rights while eating dinner next to bin Salman.
by meowokIknewit | 2026-01-31 18:38:08+00:00
Current use cases:
- From a text it can download transcripts of youtube videos - summarise them and add them to an apple note.
- It can get the top x videos on a subject - edit the videos and splice them together and share in the chat.
- it can search for topics on socials and write a summary.
- It can kick off a claude code idea and run tests
by eddyg | 2026-01-31 18:38:58+00:00
I still like to encourage people to watch all of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=1993s for the details (from Apple’s head of Security Engineering and Architecture) about how iCloud is protected by HSMs, rate limits, etc. but especially the timelinked section. :)
by compsciphd | 2026-01-31 18:39:02+00:00
I used it with plex (in kodi) just fine. With that said, I'd agree that its mostly for local media (where local can be whatever plex can get to). Outside of plex, either you are using plain kodi or some simple kodi extensions (say youtube) that just aren't as nice to use as their android app equivalents (in regards to streaming services, it does support MLB.TV for those that like baseball, but again, not quite as nice an experience IMO as the android app).
by westurner | 2026-01-31 18:39:41+00:00
> Higgs boson was predicted in theory in 1964, and found in LHC in CERN in 2012-2013. With this, all elementary particles in the standard model of particle physics have been found.

Before LHC Large Hardron Collider (CERN), there were other experiments with lower raw and final recorded data rates: SppS (CERN; MB/s; 1-10 Hz), SLC (SLAC (Stanford); 50 MB/s; 2 Hz), LEP (CERN; 100 MB/s; 1-5 Hz), Tevatron (Fermilab (Chicago); 250 GB/s, 100-400 Hz), HERA (DESY; 500 MB/s; 5-20 Hz), LHC CMS/ATLAS (CERN; 40 TB/s; 1000 Hz).

HL-LHC (CERN; 10X LHC;)

FCC-ee (CERN), FCC-hh (CERN)

Non-confirmed non-elementary particles of or not of the Standard Model?

What about Superfluids and Supersolids (like spin-nematic liquid crystals)? Are those just phases? Is the phase chart for all particles complete?
Show HN: Openground, and on-device and open source alternative to Context7
by poweroutlet2 | 2026-01-31 18:40:04+00:00
Hi HN!

tldr: openground is a tool that lets you give controlled access to documentation to AI agents. Everything happens on-device.

I'm sharing openground, an opensource and completely on-device RAG tool that let's you give controlled documentation access to your coding agents. Solutions like Context7 MCP provide a likely source of truth for docs, but their closed-source ingestion and querying pose security/privacy risks. openground aims to give users full control over what content is available to agents and how it is ingested. Find a documentation source (git repo or sitemap), add it to openground via the CLI, and openground will use a local embedding model and vector db (lancedb) to store your docs. You can then use the CLI to install the MCP server to your agent to allow the agent to query the docs via hybrid BM25 full-text and vector search.

Here's an example of giving Claude code access to a specific version of FastAPI docs:

uv tool install openground
openground add fastapi --source https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi/tree/master/docs/en --version 0.126.0
openground install-mcp --claude-code // or --cursor or --opencode

This is still an early release, but I've implemented several useful features so far:

- docs ingestion from git repos (only .md and other text files, no code) or sitemap.xml
- specific version ingestion for git sources
- easy `install-mcp --<agent-name>` command for popular agents like opencode, claude code, and cursor
- efficient(ish) updating of docs that have already been saved

This is still an early version, so expect breaking changes. Things I am working on:

- command that keeps docs updated on a schedule
- project specific access control from the MCP server
- docs "registry" to allow pushing and pulling of documentation embeddings to and from S3
- lighter-weight package
- better docs

Suggestions and PRs welcome! I'll also be around for discussion.
by aaravchen | 2026-01-31 18:40:13+00:00
I've looked at this a few times, and AppleTV actually has pretty poor support unless you're only using a select few streaming services and not streaming any of your own content.
Shield performs exponentially better in every way except for the god awful stock interface (and Google data collection vs Apple data collection).
The hardware and tvOS still have extremely limited support for most video codecs, no support at all for audio pass thru, and very limited non-stereo audio options. If you want the equivalent of watching on your laptop it's good, but if you have better than stereo speakers, or a 4K TV that supports HDR10+ or Dolby Vision, AppleTV can't compete except for the big name streaming services that have special tvOS privileges/integration.
by majormajor | 2026-01-31 18:40:57+00:00
This feels like the "prompt engineering" wave of 2023 all over again. A bunch of hype about a specific point-in-time activity based on a lot of manual setup of prompts compared to naive "do this thing for me" that eventually faded as the tooling started integrating all the lessons learned directly.

I'd expect that if there is a usable quality of output from these approaches it will get rolled into existing tools similarly, like how multi-agents using worktrees already was.
by gruez | 2026-01-31 18:41:05+00:00
>https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38jv8zzwo

>https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/payments-begin-in-95m-...

Both are for voice assistants that inadvertently got activated. Extending it to imply that they're intentionally deceiving their users is a stretch.

>https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...

It's a pitch deck. For how skeptical HN is about AI startups or whatever, it seems pretty strange to take this at face value.