MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluescrn | 2026-01-31 21:04:49+00:00
The reality is that the home movie experience is now better.

Seeing a film on the big screen was still a great experience back in the 80s and early 90s when the home experience was VHS and a smallish CRT with mono audio.

It started to change when DVD arrived, but then we reached the era of affordable large LCD TVs, blu-rays, and then streaming. And now a lot of people have a 'big screen' at home. With a volume control and pause button. Better drinks (including alcohol) and snacks without paying the premium price, without having to drive anywhere. And no kids throwing popcorn around, or other people talking during the movie or other phones going off during quiet moments...

(That and the decline of movies. Maybe I'm just getting old and miserable, but there's been very little that's got me excited in recent years. Maybe I'll get out to a cinema for Project Hail Mary, loved the book and the trailers look promising)
by crazygringo | 2026-01-31 21:04:50+00:00
> But I don't trust them, given that no one else (other than Apple) would know where I am in real time.

Literally every website and app you use with any kind of shared analytics/ads gets your general location just from your IP address alone, and can update your profile on that analytics/ads provider.

It is far more likely this, than your cell phone provider.
by socalgal2 | 2026-01-31 21:05:08+00:00
I haven't seen your PRs and I don't work on those project. I have small projects that receive few patches.

My experience of the few patches I have received though is they are 100% without exception, bad patches. Bad in that, without me putting an hour or 2 of work into them I can't just accept them. The most common case is no tests. The patch fixes an issue, but the issue exists because there was no test for the case the patch is fixing. So, to accept the PR, I have to download it and spend time writing a test.

Other common experiences are bad coding practices and non-matching styles so I have two choices

(1) spend 30-60 minutes downloading the patch, fixing these issues myself

(2) spend 40-60 minutes adding comments to try to get the person who posted the PR to make their patch acceptable (40-60 mins includes the back and forth).

More often than not, (2) never gets a response. The contributor's POV is they provided a fix and I should be happy to take it as is. I get that. At a certain level they are correct. But, these projects are hobby projects and I have limited time. So I generally don't do (2) because if they ignore the comments then it's wasted time, and (1) has the hurdle that I need to take an hour out to deal with it.
by wiether | 2026-01-31 21:05:14+00:00
> I think by 2030 any product without an API designed for agents will be dead

And I think that products making billions today by only exposing a 20yo SOAP API are still going to make billions in 4 years.

I hate having to work with them, but I've been playing this game long enough to know that most of the world is running on legacy software and it won't change in about 1400 days.
by logicchains | 2026-01-31 21:05:17+00:00
>the writing is on the wall that social media's are numbered, well at least its in current form

There's enough of us devs that absolutely fucking hate the idea of governments controlling how people communicate that the next stage of social media will probably be a decentralised system that's extremely difficult to shut down. Unless every government devolves into full on China-style authoritarianism with deep packet inspection, a national firewall and ubiquitous surveillance, there's no way to stop a well designed distributed social media platform. There just hasn't been enough incentive yet for people to build one.
by bigfatkitten | 2026-01-31 21:05:26+00:00
> because PWC is a highly-respected organisation.

PwC are a well known band of crooks who always put their own enrichment well ahead of the public interest.

They were banned entirely from bidding for Australian federal government contracts, because they misused privileged information on tax policy they received from one client (the government) to advise other clients on tax avoidance strategies. It was a symptom of systemic corruption that permeates their entire business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PwC_tax_scandal
by bsimpson | 2026-01-31 21:06:01+00:00
I've only been doing this for a few weeks, so too early to tell if it's a good setup, but I added a GitHub Action that rebases my personal fork atop nixpkgs-weekly. I'm hoping that will help keep me from having a stale-by-default personal nixpkgs. (I use a personal nixpkgs to stage PRs waiting to be merged upstream.)

https://github.com/appsforartists/nixpkgs/commit/769a72d3a6f...
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-31 21:06:03+00:00
The issue is what the client app does with the information after it is decrypted. As Snowden remarked after he released his trove, encryption works, and it's not like the NSA or anyone else has some super secret decoder ring. The problem is endpoint security is borderline atrocious and an obvious achilles heel - the information has to be decoded in order to display it to the end user, so that's a much easier attack vector than trying to break the encryption itself.

So the point other commenters are making is that you can verify all you want that the encryption is robust and secure, but that doesn't mean the app can't just send a copy of the info to a server somewhere after it has been decoded.
by tptacek | 2026-01-31 21:06:26+00:00
Lots of people on both ends of the political spectrum supported it at the time, because Baathism truly was nightmarish, and because almost everyone disastrously overestimated the competence of American war leadership.

But, whatever the rationale amongst the rest of the "Coalition of the Willing" might have been, the core claim of the war's instigators in the US was WMD. Regime change was a mechanism for decisively eliminating terrorist threats.
by verhash | 2026-01-31 21:06:38+00:00
LLMs are probabilistic by nature. They’re great at producing fluent, creative, context-aware responses because they operate on likelihood rather than certainty. That’s their strength—but it’s also why they’re risky in production when correctness actually matters. What I’m building is not a replacement for an LLM, and it doesn’t change how the model works internally. It’s a deterministic gate that runs after the model and evaluates what it produces.

You can use it in two ways. As a verification layer, the LLM generates answers normally and this system checks each one against known facts or hard rules. Each candidate either passes or fails—no scoring, no “close enough.” As a governance layer, the same mechanism enforces safety, compliance, or consistency boundaries. The model can say anything upstream; this gate decides what is allowed to reach the user. Nothing is generated here, nothing inside the LLM is modified, and the same inputs always produce the same decision. For example, if the model outputs “Paris is the capital of France” and “London is the capital of France,” and the known fact is Paris, the first passes and the second is rejected—every time. If nothing matches, the system refuses to answer instead of guessing.
by 20260126032624 | 2026-01-31 21:06:43+00:00
> How much positive evidence for guilt is necessary before we decide that some man should be put away?

The answer to this question is ZERO. We are human, after all (and the corollary is that no amount of evidence will tip the scale for someone we don't want to put away). How much positive evidence for guilt ought to be necessary for a society to remain moral/egalitarian/equitable is a different question entirely.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-31 21:08:29+00:00
Serious question: will this limit the ability of 911 emergency services to help you?

I can imagine a scenario where emergency servies are authorized to send the ping to get your precise location and if you disable this, you may regret it. And a major feature of some phones/watches is the ability to automatically call 911 under certain fall/crash movement detection, where you might not have the ability to re-enable your GPS location.
by ritvikarya98 | 2026-01-31 21:08:36+00:00
Thanks for looking into this! I agree with you and hence I'm also relying on Wolfi packages, which will ensure they are updated as soon as upstream is available so I'm piggy backing on that. Github Actions run daily/weekly based on the cadence and once the pipeline is setup do not require a significant effort imo. And I want it to be community driven so we can add images as and when people want it and build it accordingly. Chainguard tools surely help with this! I aim to show that companies can try and build internal pipelines like this for all images in their repository
by dgfl | 2026-01-31 21:08:56+00:00
In a few cases and in a simplistic sense, yes. But the point of the comment you’re replying to still stands completely. Quantum tunneling is nothing exotic and we have plenty of devices exploiting the principle (e.g. tunnel diodes). It was basically fully understood the moment the Schrödinger equation appeared.

These accelerators are as large as they are to try and find mismatches between theory and experiment. And even then, we can explain virtually every experiment that the LHC has conducted. If we did find something unexpected with one of these colliders, it would only really apply to experiments made in the collider. Particle physics is irrelevant for everyday stuff since we already fully understand everything involved.
by estearum | 2026-01-31 21:09:37+00:00
One nice thing about humans for contexts like this is that they make a lot of random errors, as opposed to LLMs and other automated systems having systemic (and therefore discoverable + exploitable) flaws.

How many caught attempts will it take for someone to find the right prompt injection to systematically evade LLMs here?

With a random selection of sub-competent human reviewers, the answer is approximately infinity.
by acessoproibido | 2026-01-31 21:10:03+00:00
No he's right, there is definitely a difference in pacing for films throughout the decades.

Much of the content that Netflix produces however is not made to be shown in a cinema like setting - its something that people put on while doing something else, like TV so whatever Damon was saying on a podcast makes sense in the context, its however not indicative of a whole generation of movies - there are still plenty of films being made that require full attention for an extended period of time, many of which are also on Netflix. One could argue that there was never a time in history where more excellent, deep and complex content was being made.

One other part is also that traditional TV (which arguably also never required full attention) has been replaced by new mediums. Personally I never owned a TV in my life.

The whole argument "phone bad" is a bit lazy IMO and doesn't at all take in account the nuance that would be required for a serious discussion.
by pitched | 2026-01-31 21:10:16+00:00
These AI agents have been such a burden to open source projects that maintainers are beginning to not take patches from anyone. That follows from what you’re saying here because it’s the editing/review part that’s human-centric. Same with the approval gates mentioned here.

Another parallel here is that AI agents will probably end up being poor customers in the sense of repeat business and long-term relationships. Like how some shops won’t advertise on some platforms because the clicks aren’t worth as much, on average, maybe we’ll start to see something similar for agents.
by NickC25 | 2026-01-31 21:10:21+00:00
> With classic chatrooms (or a random vBulletin forums, if you wish) you would meet somebody online, then you would become friends over time and then you meet them in real life. I did that too.

And it was usually themed around a specific hobby or activity, which would naturally turn into offline, real-world activity. almost as if it was a conduit to connecting real people with real interests, who would seek out communities based around their interests, connect, and then eventually go and do those interests.

I was heavily into a few growing up, all of which revolved around real-world activities, which the forum members all actively participated in. One, in particular that really stuck with me for years, was tennis. The forum I was on had monthly meetups for my region (NYC metro area) and dozens of people would show up, engage, and enjoy each other's presence and participation. There was also a travel section, so if I was traveling to another country or part of the US, I'd be easily able to tap into that region's meetup and get a chance to hit some balls whenever I was on the road. Lovely.

What was nice is that genuine communities were formed, and people actually and actively policed their own communities not as a power trip (hey Spez!) but rather in earnest to ensure their communities were welcoming and that whoever was interested in that topic/activity could participate.
by no_wizard | 2026-01-31 21:11:16+00:00
Without a strong propsition as to why I, as a customer, would use an agent over not doing so? Whats the value prop?

Thats always missing from these sorts of articles and comments, is why is this better

Related query: how is this really any different than what the W3C has proposed with Hydra[0] or other linked data APIs and formats? Who benefits by making their APIs more transparent, when 15 years or so ago there was a big push for this exact thing and it failed due to business concerns, not technical ones.

It's simply assuming what the way forward is without positing why other ways will not work to justify the position.

My secondary critque of the article, is using this as a basis of comparison:

>any product that can't be used by an agent will be as dead as a product without mobile support is today

First, I think its important 'mobile support' is defined. Is it as simple as a mobile friendly website or an app? Are we talking equivalent functionalities as well with the desktop counterpart?

Second, it ignores a ton of successful projects and products. Blender, Maya, Unreal engine. There's also a huge swath of games that only launch on PC or consoles.

If equivalent 1:1 functionality is to be considered, Adobe suite is still primarily a desktop tool, as is Figma.

I know there are a huge host of apps I'm missing too.

While more consumer apps migrated to web + mobile, you can often find functional differences between accessing on desktop vs mobile, where desktop is more complete. Its still not uncommon to have a mobile / tablet version of an app that is missing features that the desktop or website version is not.

[0]: https://www.hydra-cg.com/spec/latest/core/
by bitwize | 2026-01-31 21:11:26+00:00
Getting good UX requires professional designers, extensive human testing, and knowledge of human psychology—things historically in short supply among the OSS geek set. In the 1980s Apple ran a human factors lab that spent thousands of hours determining which interface features were the easiest to use and most efficient for many common computing tasks. This is why classic Mac OS is still the gold standard for UX. Even Mac OS X started making compromises to accommodate techie trends, rather than keeping the focus on the average user.

Because much proprietary software has garbo UX, that doesn't make the OSS UX situation not garbo.
by _annum | 2026-01-31 21:11:44+00:00
If corrugated metal were not associated with shacks, would it be so concerning? Most materials can look good with the right execution. The difference comes from form and detailing.

"Classical" architecture is (thankfully) dead and will never return. It's too costly and we lack the skilled labour force required. For those that nonetheless demand it, we get cheap imitations of classical details that look worse than a simpler but well-considered alternative.

There have been some promising advances in automated machine carving of stone, but it's still expensive. It has a bright future as part of a hybrid aesthetic enabled by contemporary technology. We need to look forward and not back.
by geor9e | 2026-01-31 21:11:55+00:00
I've been using it lots. I just chat with it on Telegram and tell it to look stuff up on the internet. The results have been higher-quality than the other AI chats available. And I like how the response comes through as a chat notification on my phone, which feels more natural. It's somewhere between perplexity and chatgpt/gemini deep research in speed and accuracy, but without having to "approve a plan" or all that annoying slow stuff. I'm using the kimi model. Overall, it's just been a better experience. I haven't even bothered getting into the other capabilities it has yet.
by ericmay | 2026-01-31 21:11:57+00:00
> The interesting part is whether and what extent China is different

Much worse for the EU, both strategically and economically. You’ll be able to buy Chinese services and give them your data and money, but you won’t be able to operate in their market. Germany is feeling the pain there. [1] Strategically they’re a Russian ally and are actively supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine and further aims against the EU.

Something like Russia -> China -> US as worst to least worst partners.

The EU should invest in technical and military capabilities and divest from reliance on other countries and echos the US American position very closely.

[1] For example https://www.autoblog.com/features/germanys-auto-industry-is-...
by bccdee | 2026-01-31 21:12:22+00:00
A saggy middle is relative. It's one thing for the middle of a movie to be the least compelling part; it's another for the middle to be so dull that you have to skip it entirely. If a movie's longer than 90 minutes, then they had room to cut stuff, and they chose not to.

> Your analysis is extremely simplistic.

It's extremely general, is what. That's by necessity; we're not talking about any particular movie. Broadly speaking, if it's worth watching the end of a movie, it's probably worth watching the whole thing.

> Nobody ever said anything about it being painful or uncomfortable

"Suffering through boredom" was how you phrased it.
by mystraline | 2026-01-31 21:12:23+00:00
Sorry, no.

MS is the same network were even their lead engineers answer "well, uhh create a new account and hope you're not banned", when it comes to fixing a illegitimate ban issue.

None of the biggies are good. None of them.

You're better off building your own data enter. Can't believe I'm saying that, but I am. And it doesnt have to be acres and MW and water cooled. It can be a 42U rack.

Hell, I'm a homeowner and have 27U rack with 10U full, battery backup, solar, fiber and a backup internet connection, and stuff.

A small business could easy do this and own the hardware and software to their enterprise. In fact, they probably should. Helps prevent rug pulls!
by mmooss | 2026-01-31 21:12:29+00:00
About religion, I don't think we can say "always" or anything near to that.

I agree that religions commonly use the god/god's will as the reason, but I don't think we should take that at face value. It's the argument to trump all others - rulers often claim to be chosen by the will of the supernatural - but not the reason the rule was made, which is a product of the cultures involved.

And humans often come to the same ethical conclusions: The rules against murder and rape, the priority on justice and fairness, as examples, are universal across cultures regardless of religion (look up 'cultural univerals').
by andersmurphy | 2026-01-31 21:12:38+00:00
The limitations of HTMX are not the same as the limitations of Datastar. Datastar is a whole other beast with only a few at most vestigial similarities to HTMX.

You can't do virtual scroll over a billion checkboxes in HTMX (I've yet to see anyone manage in react for that matter either), yet you can do it easily in Datastar. [1]

[1] https://checkboxes.andersmurphy.com
by windowshopping | 2026-01-31 21:12:55+00:00
I use claude code daily, but I've never been in a situation where Claude code was "deciding which product to use," that doesn't make sense to me. Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Can anyone give me more context for this? How do you end up having Claude code reading documentation and "choosing" a product to use? What type of prompts lead to this? I'm typically using it to add features to an existing repo, which doesn't really require any new services, to be fair, so I just haven't run into it I guess, but I didn't even know it was possible.
by majoe | 2026-01-31 21:13:33+00:00
Kartoffel is the standard German word.

Erdäpfel is used in many dialects and has plenty of variants.

Actually the various different words for potatoe and their distribution across Germany, Swiss and Austria is linguistically quite interesting (see this map [1]).

The legend is in German and roughly translates to (from top to bottom):

- Potatoes

- Ground pears

- Earth apples

- Earth pears

- Hearth apples

[1]: http://stepbysteplingue.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/karto...
by mike_hearn | 2026-01-31 21:13:33+00:00
HN lets users opt to automatically lock themselves out after a while (noprocrast). Fortnite and WoW do not. Sounds like one knows they have users with problems, no?

I think the term addiction is way overused in this stuff. If a company makes a product you enjoy using that doesn't mean you can just describe it as addictive and get out of jail free. If there's some chemical in it that messes with your brain, fine, otherwise people need to take ownership of their own choices.

I think the disturbing reality is these countries are wanting to control social media to control the population politically. There was even a Labour MP in the UK who admitted it on television. If it weren't the case they'd just tell concerned parents to turn on the parental controls devices already have, problem solved. Instead they pass laws to end internet anonymity, but only on the big networks, which won't do anything for kids but is an excellent way to control political discontent.
by Nifty3929 | 2026-01-31 21:13:40+00:00
"... and they're paying for it..." - that might be the exact issue. Google has no way to ensure that these small shops and startups will pay their bill, so quotas are used to prevent the company from running up a large bill they won't be able to pay.

I see a bunch of threads on reddit about startups accidentally going way over budget and then asking for credits back.

This doesn't at all mean the startups have bad intent, but things happen and Google doesn't want to deal with a huge collection issue.

If someone rolled up to your gas station and wanted to pump 10,000 gallons of gas but only pay you next month - would you allow it?
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-01-31 21:14:11+00:00
> they auto-reject your quota request if you don't respond to their emails within 48 hours but their responses take 1-3 weeks

It boggles my mind anyone would base their business on their good will. By now it should be obvious that companies with a huge number of customers don't care about individual cases that much for obvious reasons. That's why they cut on customer support. You get much better support with smaller companies where you (as an individual or business) are much more important to them.
by hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | 2026-01-31 21:14:59+00:00
By creating 'rules' for social media based on what's good and bad instead of banning it altogether you end up creating loopholes instead. Even in the case we instead first discuss what is "ass" we will probably end up having a debate instead of getting anything done for another 10 years. I'm on team, just get shit done.