MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chasil | 2026-01-27 00:05:05+00:00
I have only seen the Google side, just a single time when one of my Chipolos threw an alert on my passenger's Samsung.

My Chipolo certainly still works.

There are [cheap] tags being sold that are compatible with both Apple Find My and Google's Find Hub. I would rather have a dual-network device than Apple's improved model.

Would it be so difficult for Apple to put a hole in the Airtag so it could be directly attached to a keychain?

Here is an example of dual-network tags:

https://www.amazon.com/Tracker-Locator-Android-Bluetooth-Fin...
by trevwilson | 2026-01-27 00:05:49+00:00
> If you're fine with software which gets a little bit harder to work on every time you make a change and which might blow up in unexpected ways, AI is totally fine.

While the speed and scale at which these happen is definitely important (and I agree that AI code can pose a problem on that front), this applies to every human-written piece of software I've ever worked on too.
by guywithahat | 2026-01-27 00:06:10+00:00
I was thinking that too, it feels remarkably out of touch. People own the builds, homes, and businesses. If you're graffiting someone's business you're a tourist in the city, not an owner. Even from a philosophical perspective this makes no sense, because it claims the tourists hold ownership over someone else's city because they bought a can of spray paint while living in their parents basement
by mattgreenrocks | 2026-01-27 00:06:14+00:00
The right job for a person depends on whether they can rise above the specific flavor of pain that the job dishes out. BigTech jobs strike me as having an inextricable political element to them: so you enjoy jockeying for titles and navigating constant reorgs?

The pay is nice but I find myself…remarkably unenvious as I get older.
by mancerayder | 2026-01-27 00:06:25+00:00
You called them seniors? Like senior citizens?

I guess as a senior sysadmin before I got absorbed into cloud "devops" and management, I'll say they're right! Legacy backup is found, I just discovered yesterday, in control panel I believe and it's called Windows 7 "File History and Restore".

Implying you're one thousand years old and using a legacy system if you don't use Onedrive.
by miltonlost | 2026-01-27 00:06:30+00:00
> What would you expect the behavior of the AI to be? Should it always assume bad data or potentially bad data? If so, that seems like it would defeat the point of having data at all as you could never draw any conclusions from it.

Well, I would expect the AI to provide the same response as a real doctor did from the same information. Which the article went over the doctors were able to.

I also would expect the AI to provide the same answer every time to the same data unlike what it did (from F to B over multiple attempts in the article)

OpenAI is entirely to blame here when they are putting out faulty products, (hallucinations even on accurate data are a fault of them).
by schubidubiduba | 2026-01-27 00:07:33+00:00
No. The US wants the EU to be a vassal, this should be obvious. Why would they want an EU that is more capable of acting against US interests?

The US wants EU to be a vassal, but got tired of paying the protection money for that. Now they are trying, and failing, to keep the EU under their control despite bringing less to the table every day.
by throwaway2046 | 2026-01-27 00:07:35+00:00
Linking against an older glibc means setting up an older distribution and accepting all the outdated toolchains and libraries that come with it. Need to upgrade? Get ready to compile everything from source and possibly bootstrap a toolchain. I wouldn't call this trivial.

The fact that you need to use a container/chroot on Linux in the first place makes the process non trivial, when all you have to do on Windows is click a button or two.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-01-27 00:07:55+00:00
Yes, they can do that. But they can't select who gets the binary, so everybody gets it. Debian does reproducible builds on trusted machines so they would have to infect the source.

You can safely assume the source will be viewed by a lot of people over time, so the change will be discovered. The source is managed mostly by git, so there would be history about who introduced the change.

The reality is open source is so far ahead on proprietary code on transparency, there is almost no contest at this point. If a government wants to compromise proprietary code it's easy, cheap, and undetectable. Try the same with open source it's still cheap, but the social engineering ain't easy, and it will be detected - it's just a question of how long it takes.
by xp84 | 2026-01-27 00:07:59+00:00
> After all, according to the last NYT poll the current POTUS commands an approval rating of 41 % in the USA. The number of people I meet who do not understand how tariffs work, for example, is staggering.

For sure -- the bottom 41% of economic literacy are so misinformed that they have no clue what they're talking about. But those voters aren't picking the nominee for President from among a circus of general morons, the party elites are, and the Republican Party elites are rich dudes who don't want to screw ourselves back to the stone age. Without Trump just flailing around like an idiot, they'd be content to do things that preserve the status quo in a lot of areas. They pander to the unsophisticated Trumpists where needed, but it's lip service, since a lot of them, for instance, love open borders because of how it depresses wages and gives them a compliant workforce. They talk a big game about the debt or the deficit, and also work to make sure we increase defense spending and funnel as much healthcare spending as possible through a bunch of private insurers who add a huge margin to our healthcare costs.
by lysace | 2026-01-27 00:08:23+00:00
Seems like apple is licensing usage of their Bluetooth protocol/scheme via the "MFi program".

https://developer.apple.com/find-my/

> Would it be so difficult for Apple to put a hole in the Airtag so it could be directly attached to a keychain?

Yes. It is surprisingly a near impossible engineering challenge at the levels Apple hardware is being done. Have you even considered the wear and tear that a mere hole in an ABS plastic molded detail would be subjected to over the lifespan of...several years?

(Just kidding, obviously they just want to upsell their customers with extremely overpriced accessories.)
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-27 00:08:41+00:00
I personally don't give a shit either way but I've worked in dev shops with a clear preference for the second one. I can see their point because the code as natural language parses better but I don't think its strong enough to care about.

Sort of place that is fussy about test naming so where I would do smth like:

TestSearchCriteriaWhere

they'd want

Test_That_Where_Clauses_In_Search_Criteria_Work

I think its a waste of typing but idk, I'm willing to let it slide because I think its a pointless hill to die on.
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-27 00:08:44+00:00
Yeah, I still don’t buy it. No data center operator is going to use almost twice as much electricity to operate their cooling system if they could install evaporative cooling towers and almost double the efficiency of heat rejection. You can remove 7W of heat for 1W of electricity with a cooling tower, it’s 4W for 1W with a closed loop system. I could see them doing it in a humid area where you can barely get any cooling from evaporation due to the air being satured, but that only covers the Deep South and Florida in the US.

I don’t care if some company operating data centers claim that they’re aiming for closed loop cooling systems when the economics favor open loop cooling. Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome, the incentive to increase profit by using cooling towers will beat out the abstract good feeling you get from not using evaporative cooling towers and paying almost twice as much to reject heat from your data center which you only operate to make a profit.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-27 00:09:11+00:00
Well, verification is easier than creation (i.e., P ≠ NP). I think humans who can quickly verify something works will be in more demand than those who know how to write it. Even better: Since LLMs aren't as creative as humans (in-distribution thinking), test-writers will be in more demand (out-of-distribution thinkers). Both of these mean that humans will still be needed, but for other reasons.

The future belongs to generalists!
by ggm | 2026-01-27 00:09:14+00:00
Yes. Senior Citizens. Home users. Legacy backup is there, but MS both de-preference it, and use dark pattern labels on boxes to make it hard to stop one drive from nagging you about what MS want you to do.

And, if you did do a network attached install, your actual Document paths now lie UNDER the one drive anchor mount and so you have to un-do things, in order to be cleanly able to delete one drive: If you don't do this, your files can disappear because they are on local disk, under a one drive protected directory which will be wiped.

Oh, and it does registry edits to wire One drive into office, so there's all kinds of sneaky paths which make this visible. And these are >75yo, declining faculties people. It's hugely unfair.

(I volunteer for a local not-for-profit assisting seniors, older people, with their ICT burdens)
by weikju | 2026-01-27 00:09:22+00:00
> What are the best options for porting Mac default keybindings over to KDE?

My recommendation is to get used to the KDE keybindings, and individual applications' keybindings. You'll never be able to fully replicate the macOS keybinding experience, so better get used to it. (Same when people use macOS, I recommend to get used to their keybindings and not try to replicate Linux/Windows)
by nozzlegear | 2026-01-27 00:09:33+00:00
Strictly from a realpolitik standpoint, universal healthcare like the systems found in Europe is unlikely to happen because too much of the American economy is tied up in healthcare and healthcare services. People trying to improve the system here in the US would be better served by looking for a fix that's uniquely American (ACA, all-payer rates, public option, etc.), rather than trying to tear out what we have and replace it with universal healthcare.

Mandatory disclaimer that I don't like our health insurance or healthcare prices any more than anybody else does, and in a perfect world I'd love to have universal healthcare instead.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-01-27 00:10:30+00:00
I think in this case itemCount had application in a couple of conditions later in the function, so there was value in extracting the count. In my recollection I might be missing some nuance, lets say for the sake of argument it was:

var relevantCount = items.Where(x => x.SomeValue > 5);

vs

var numberOfRelevantItems = items.Where(x => x.SomeValue > 5);

so it wasn't necessarily cheap enough to want to repeat.
by serf | 2026-01-27 00:11:01+00:00
this reasoning is flawed.

wouldn't a for-profit company just balance the workforce for the productivity gained to increase overall profit?

some person is 10x 'more productive' (whatever that means) , let's cut 9 jobs.

Although to your grander point, employment during the LLM-embrace period seems fairly stable.[0]

[0]: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/msft/employees/
by zmmmmm | 2026-01-27 00:11:02+00:00
I can believe in certain domains things can work this way, but we have way too many complex stakeholders and dependencies to have random deploys to production constantly happening without notice by anybody who feels like it.

At very least there is comms, stakeholder signoff, etc. How would you have eg: customer support staff able to operate if the very button they are telling the customer to press disappears or changes its text during the call?
by pentagrama | 2026-01-27 00:11:04+00:00
There actually is a concrete reference for the Windows 95 era research. Microsoft published detailed results from their usability work in the mid-90s, including task based testing with real users, error analysis, and iterative design changes.

Article title: The Windows® 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (1996)

Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611
by nthypes | 2026-01-27 00:11:53+00:00
Published: 2026-01-26
Updated: 2026-01-26
Description
Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities exist in React Server Components, affecting the following packages: react-server-dom-parcel, react-server-dom-turbopack, react-server-dom-webpack. The vulnerabilities are triggered by sending specially crafted HTTP requests to Server Function endpoints, and could lead to server crashes, out-of-memory exceptions or excessive CPU usage; depending on the vulnerable code path being exercised, the application configuration and application code. Strongly consider upgrading to the latest package versions to reduce risk and prevent availability issues in applications using React Server Components.
by carl_dr | 2026-01-27 00:12:07+00:00
The output is “identical” if you’re using the same model. Consider them separate front ends really.

OpenCode - you can easily see the changed files on your branch, it defaults to being permissive with tools, can easily fork a session so you can fix unrelated issues or small issues without consuming context, you can add more “modes” like build and plan as a first class construct, you aren’t limited to just Anthropic models.

Claude Code - you can do all of the above in one way or another, not least if you use an IDE with it

I started using OpenCode to get away from the horrible Claude flicker, but it seems that they have fixed that recently - I don’t think I’ll be going back though, and I use Opus/Sonnet exclusively.
by ninkendo | 2026-01-27 00:12:16+00:00
It doesn’t begin at the transmitter either, in the earliest days even the camera was essentially part of the same circuit. Yes, the concept of filming a show and showing the film over the air existed eventually, but before that (and even after that, for live programming) the camera would scan the subject image (actors, etc) line-by-line and down a wire to the transmitter which would send it straight to your TV and into the electron beam.

In fact in order to show a feed of only text/logos/etc in the earlier days, they would literally just point the camera at a physical object (like letters on a paper, etc) and broadcast from the camera directly. There wasn’t really any other way to do it.
by behnamoh | 2026-01-27 00:12:48+00:00
IDK what's going on in your shop but that sounds like a terrible idea!

- Libraries don't necessarily map one-to-one from Python to Rust/etc.

- Paradigms don't map neatly; Python is OO, Rust leans more towards FP.

- Even if the code be re-written in Rust, it's probably not the most Rustic (?) approach or the most performant.
by josephcsible | 2026-01-27 00:13:33+00:00
> There is no evidence this is happening in any widespread fashion.

Isn't the point of this data so that they can uncover exactly that? It'd be silly to say you're not allowed to look for evidence of anything unless you already have evidence of it. Also, the qualifier "in any widespread fashion" is weasel words. It makes me think you already know it is happening, and the only remaining question is to what scale.
by drtgh | 2026-01-27 00:13:44+00:00
> By "consumers" you mean by people buying top tier gaming PCs (and either without one already or unwilling to wait).

Good try. We are talking about a window of X years were the average normal consumer, average people, will not be able to buy tech, and should not buy tech, due the prices will put average low-end technology at prices of extra mega top tier technology, anything with a CPU or disk or memory. The consumer will notice the abuse and will avoid to fall if possible (Even now, right now, the prices are excessive, people should avoid buying under the current terms, too late, it is better to wait).

This pause were the tech supply is not destined to the average consumer is the perfect window for China to take Taiwan if they plan the strategy well.

And it is not needed even to predict, Chinese government just need to follow/observe the prices and discomfort, and if the pattern follows, it is the moment. The average consumer even will aim them.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-01-27 00:13:44+00:00
Yep, small biz can't compete with big business.

And to clarify, if there was a single regulatory body, it would be fine. I just didn't want to deal with each country.

Probably a shame since it was totally safe. Too much regulation causes your costs to go up and features to go down.

I don't blame your attitude here. If you can't get something, you want to come up with something that makes you feel better.
by DrewADesign | 2026-01-27 00:13:48+00:00
> The remainder of the possible uses of a "computer" are mainly video editing and non-casual gaming.

You're overlooking a whole universe of business users. With the proliferation of tablets, smart TVs and phones, I'll bet many of those users ONLY user a computer at work. The vast majority of (mature) small-to-medium sized businesses lack the technical agility, expertise, time, money and/or initiative to switch from their existing legacy system of Windows file shares, outlook calendars, etc. and likely don't see a need to try. I'll bet most of those companies haven't even had a serious technical strategy conversation about the new ai features/changes in windows beyond "Phyllis in accounting discovered if you change setting X, then the stupid copilot thing won't get in the way when you're trying to run the TPS report macro." Even if they can do whatever they need to do in a browser, getting everybody in the company on board with the change and then figuring out what parts of their business break by doing so isn't something they generally feel compelled to investigate.

I don't work in the software business anymore-- it's easy to forget that technical expertise isn't built-in to your workforce in the overwhelming majority of businesses, and most of them are way too ingrained in their procedures to jump ship to the latest SaaS solution that would do it 100x better once they figured it out.
by rvnx | 2026-01-27 00:13:57+00:00
Not really, I was thinking about fake news, recent events, foreign policy, forbidden statistics, etc.

The execution is really country-specific.

Now think that at the EU-level itself, they can fine platforms up to 6% of the worldwide turnover under the DSA. For sure they don't want to take any risk.

You won't go to jail for 10 years, it's more subtle, someone will come at 6 am, take your laptop and your phone, and start asking you questions.

Yes, it's "soft", only 2 days in jail and you lost your devices, and legal fees but after that, believe me you will have the right opinion on what is true/right or not.

For what you said before, yes, criticizing certain groups or events is the speedrun to get the police at your door ("fun" fact: in Greece and Germany, saying gossips about politicians is a crime).

The US is way way way more free. Again, it's not like you will go to jail long time, but it will be a process you will certainly dislike, and that won't be worth winning a Twitter argument.
by hn_acker | 2026-01-27 00:14:58+00:00
I did not post this article on account of a technical angle or lack thereof. I posted it because I believe the judge's order is a practical necessity in this situation, and to the extent that it is a practical necessity is an "interesting new phenomenon". The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) sought such a temporary restraining order this time because the BCA learned from the last time the federal government blocked the BCA from investigating a killing by ICE [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ren%C3%A9e_Good#Inv...
by Yizahi | 2026-01-27 00:14:59+00:00
> This might seem far-fetched but the counterfactual is Kafkaesque.

> As the proprietors of an, er, AI code review tool suddenly beset by an avalanche of competition, we're asking ourselves: what makes us different?

> Human engineers should be focused only on two things - coming up with brilliant ideas for what should exist, and expressing their vision and taste to agents that do the cruft of turning it all into clean, performant code.

> If there is ambiguity at any point, the agents Slack the human to clarify.

Was this LLM advertisement generated by an LLM? Feels so at least.
by elektronika | 2026-01-27 00:16:37+00:00
> Either way, this is categorically different from China's policies on e.g. Tibet, which is a centrally driven censorship decision whose goal is to suppress factual information.

You'll quickly run into issues and accusations of being a troll in the "free world" if you bring up inconvenient factual information on Tibet. The Dalai Lama asking a young boy to suck on his tongue for example.
by threecheese | 2026-01-27 00:16:41+00:00
My intuition from using the tools broadly is that pre-baked design decisions/“architectures” are going to be very competitive on the LLM coding front. If this is accurate, language matters less than abstraction.

Instructions files are just pre-made decisions that steer the agent. We try to reduce the surface area for nondeterminism using these specs, and while the models will get better at synthesizing instructions and code understanding, every decision we remove pays dividends in reduced token usage/time/incorrectness.

I think this is what orgs like Supabase see, and are trying to position themselves as solutions to data storage, auth, events etc within the LLM coding space, and are very successful albeit in the vibe coder area mostly. And look at AWS Bedrock, they’ve abstracted every dimension of the space into some acronym.