MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mxuribe | 2026-01-26 17:46:41+00:00
I acknowledge being hung up on titles. I used to give titles too much attention as a very new person on my very first job...then over the decades, i learned not to get hung up on titles...but i guess my current $dayjob has sooooo many flaws (organizationally, they're very amateurish), that it seems i got re-sensitized to titles. Here, titles seem to give a person everything from significantly better pay, to better authority, to training offerings, etc., etc...even beyond the point of being rational and sound. Its almost to the point of something silly like in the Office Space movie. So yeah, i guess the dire state of my current employer has made me a bit more negative than i used to be, and now focusing on crap like titles. ;-) I guess they got me (for now)!

If your place is indeed the least sweatshop job, then congrats and enjoy the good parts! :-)
by mamcx | 2026-01-26 17:47:06+00:00
What I wonder is if there will be the pay for enticing developers to build it.

I think many of use will love to do this kind of stuff, but is mostly US companies that pay for it.

For example, I like to make RDBMs and ERPs kind of software, but here in LATAM is near impossible to get funding for it, how is in Europe?
by helsinki8 | 2026-01-26 17:47:08+00:00
Your link references a single study of 18 research participants who were male, exercised exactly once or twice per week, and were between the ages of 18 and 40.

It's an interesting result, but it hardly "refutes" the hundreds of larger studies that show the opposite result.

The most likely thing is that this paper is just a complete anomaly though. It'll be interesting to see if anyone else ever replicates this result, or does so in a more representative participant population.
by grishka | 2026-01-26 17:47:11+00:00
> Spin up a VPS, create A@X, send out some messages, nuke the VPS, spin up a new VPS and create a new A@X, send out some more messages, and check how well remote instances handle the situation.

If you do it in a rapid succession, then of course it would not work. You have to wait at least a day, and then, when you send something to another server, there's a good chance it would refresh your actor and pick up the new key. You can also force a refresh on a server where you have an account by pasting your self-hosted account's username or URL into the search.

> Proper account migration would mean moving the account itself

There is no such thing as "account itself" as a separate entity in ActivityPub. The URL that points to the actor object JSON, aka the ID, is your account, and that includes the domain. There are no higher-level identities.
by mannyv | 2026-01-26 17:47:24+00:00
I think the great thing about China's censorship bureau is that somewhere they actually track all the falsehoods and omissions, just like the USSR did. Because they need to keep track of what "the truth" is so they can censor it effectively. At some point when it becomes useful the "non-facts" will be rehabilitated into "facts." Then they may be demoted back into "non-facts."

And obviously, this training data is marked "sensitive" by someone - who knows enough to mark it as "sensitive."

Has China come up with some kind of CSAM-like matching mechanism for un-persons and un-facts? And how do they restore those un-things to things?
by KittenInABox | 2026-01-26 17:47:32+00:00
All federal officers are at risk of being doxxed and their families being targeted. The national guard deployed currently has their faces uncovered to the public and no doubt have the same risk to them. Again, I don't understand how DHS is special in this regard. All credible threats to individual officers and their families should be pursued through the court of law exactly the same as threats to every other federal officer.

If I'm being dumb then please explain with stupid-speak to me.
by graypegg | 2026-01-26 17:47:40+00:00
Source?

I would not trust this as-is. I do not like the `curl | sh` install strategy generally, but especially with something like this it feels sketchy.

> We couldn't read your secrets even if we wanted to.

Yes you can, you got to run a shell script with root privs when the cli was installed. You might only store ciphertext in your DB but skimming the shell script, it's dumping a mystery binary off your digitalocean spaces bucket and giving it all-user execute privs. There is no way to verify that binary isn't skimming my key.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-26 17:47:46+00:00
The EU can also ban access to US products, once EU alternatives are available, for example. "National security" or whatever PR is needed to make the case.

I'm unsure the EU could build and require anything worse than Teams, considering the open source landscape for that product category, for example. The primitives exist, scale them up and lock out US companies from the EU market with policy.
by RockstarSprain | 2026-01-26 17:47:57+00:00
+1.

I am running a Galene instance via the YunoHost self-hosting package on a small dedicated server (2 cores, 4gb of RAM).

So far it’s much better than I expected, both in terms of latency and the overall video/audio quality. Feels better than Jitsi and even a FaceTime / WhatsApp call.
by jerlam | 2026-01-26 17:48:37+00:00
The United States (who created and operates GPS) also has the ability to make civilian GPS receivers in a specific area or region area less accurate, in case of war. I would assume that other countries' systems (Russia, China, maybe not EU) also have this ability.

GPS was primarily developed as a military technology. It was intentionally inaccurate for all civilians up until the year 2000.
by softwaredoug | 2026-01-26 17:48:48+00:00
Americans fail to appreciate a few things about our economy

1. We have a large homgoneous market where you can build a product and it’s expected it can succeed for hundreds of millions of Americans

2. EU is the easiest second market, and another step change of hundreds of millions of customers in a somewhat unified market

3. there’s not an easy 3rd economy that replaces EUs wealth, population, and comfort with English + technology

When we piss everyone off in the EU tech company growth gets kneecapped and limited to US / Canada. Theres not an easy market to expand to without much deeper focus on that specific market and its needs, for much fewer returns.
Java, the Domain Driven Cult
by newsoftheday | 2026-01-26 17:48:50+00:00
I've done enterprise Java since the mid-2000's, before that, .NET (early .NET) then C++ before that, mostly SV startups.

Today I saw a reference to @Embeddable and had never seen it or used it out of many companies I've worked for. I went down an interesting rabbit hole with Gemini, but it'd probably have been similar with any AI.

What I discovered is there is this group (I prefer to think of them as a cult) that reminds me of the TDD and BDD groups (cults) called the DDD (Domain Driven Design) group (cult).

Apparently @Embeddable/@Embedded concept is their doing.

I could go through a list or arguments for @Entity and against @Embeddable but the AI summary is more succinct and frankly states the cases clearly, if I may:

SCENARIO: @EMBEDDABLE vs. @ENTITY

| FEATURE | USE @EMBEDDABLE | USE @ENTITY |

| Object Lifecycle | Address dies with User | Address exists on its own |

| Storage | In User table (Flat) | In Address table (Norm) |

| Complexity | No FKs; No Joins | Requires @OneToOne/@Many |

| Querying | Must query via User | Can query Address directly |

| Database Schema | One table (Users) | Two tables (Users, Addrs) |

| Identity | No ID; value-defined | Has its own Primary Key |

I find it difficult to imagine that anyone working with microservices in the enterprise would allow coders to use @Embeddedable. One major caveat with using it, aside from that one "Address dies with the User"; "If you ever find yourself in a situation where you are forced to use @Embedded for two different addresses in the same class (like homeAddress and billingAddress), you'll need @AttributeOverrides to avoid column name collisions.".

Name collisions, oh boy, that sounds fun. Friends don't let friends use @Embeddable.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-26 17:49:09+00:00
>self driving cars are still not here

That's one of my triggers that we've reach AGI. In may senses, self driving cars are here. In the vast majority of tasks self driving likely works fine. It's when you get to the parts where you need predictive capabilities, like figuring out what other idiots are about to do, or what some random object is doing in the road that our AI doesn't have the ability to deal with these things.
by mtippett | 2026-01-26 17:49:10+00:00
Lots of good advice there. I did pause on the "Be risk adverse". My take is

- Be Risk Aware - know them, quantify them, manage by mitigating or having contingencies

- Don't be Risk Averse - Averse means being avoidant of risks or disinclined, it's safer, but it means risks aren't taken.

- Don't be Risk Paranoid - Protecting against unseen risks wastes time and efforts.
by jhatemyjob | 2026-01-26 17:49:15+00:00
I don't think you need to go that far, but yeah, there is zero substance in OP's take. It's complete noise.

A few accomplished devs I follow, mitchellh (Terraform/Ghostty), antirez (redis), and apenwarr (Tailscale), use AI to generate code (with mixed results) and have written extensively about their experience. Outside of those three I see little benefit of considering other people's opinions.

The extreme on both sides screams inexperience to me. AI isn't all-powerful, it's not gonna take your job. But it is a huge platform shift, and should be taken very seriously. If you're getting bad results, you aren't using it correctly.
by traceroute66 | 2026-01-26 17:49:25+00:00
> As a software engineer in the US you're not really worrying about access to health care

You're "not really worrying" ... whilst you are in a job.

There fixed that for you.

As I am sure you are acutely aware US is the home of lay-offs and is generally easy to fire people.

If you loose your job in the US it becomes panic stations because you loose that precious employer-paid healthcare overnight.

Meanwhile in Europe ? Take your time job hunting a new job, healthcare is still free.
by 9rx | 2026-01-26 17:49:35+00:00
I successfully vibe coded an app in 2023, soon after VS Code Copilot added the chat feature, although we obviously didn't call it that back then.

I remember being amazed and at the time thinking the game had changed. But I've never been able to replicate it since. Even the latest and greatest models seem to always go off and do something stupid that it can't figure out how to recover from without some serious handholding and critique.

LLMs are basically slot machines, though, so I suppose there has always been a chance of hitting the jackpot.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-26 17:49:35+00:00
I’m trying to understand how “burning” works here. If I understand correctly:

1. Someone has a domain, example.net. They set up a did:web:example.net, and a handle @example.net pointing to it.

2. They deleted their account and let the domain expire.

3. I register the domain, but can’t set up did:web:example.net again. But I assume I can still set up did:web:mynewdid.example.net, and then point @example.net to that DID instead.

I won’t have access to the original account, but I will be able to use that domain as a handle for a new one.

(This, of course, is only my assumption. I’ve been able to switch my domain from one did:plc to another, but I haven’t tried it for did:web.)
by WarmWash | 2026-01-26 17:49:36+00:00
But you can use pretty much any other model or search engine to learn about Turley.

China's orders come from the government. Turley is a guy that OpenAI found it's models incorrectly smearing, so they cut him out.

I don't think the comparison between a single company debugging it's model and a national government dictating speech are genuine comparisons..
by pickleglitch | 2026-01-26 17:49:40+00:00
Not YET. But ICE's budget is now larger the military budget for most countries. They are spending billions developing sophisticated AI-powered surveillance tech infrastructure and building detention centers (aka, concentration camps).

When they run out of immigrants to deport, they aren't going to just sell all that crap on ebay. They're going to go looking for more targets.
by jorvi | 2026-01-26 17:49:40+00:00
The way out of this hole is by the EU mandating a 5, 10 and 20 year plan for getting off US tech and pivoting to open source.

Start with a target small municipality in each country. Switch to SUSE (with a desktop that supports Active Directory), Collabora and what not. Then switch the mail stack. Then the files stack. Etc.

Next step is scaling it up to a small city, then a big city, then a province, and finally the whole country.

Parallel to this you do the universities and militaries.

The beauty of this is that the untold tens (hundreds?) of billions € in Microsoft / Google / Amazon support contracts will now instead flow into open source support contracts. Can you imagine the insane pace LibreOffice would improve at if a few billion € in support contracts was paid to Collabora each year?

One thing the government would have to resist is thinking that open source is 'free' and that they can cut their yearly spend on digital office stuff to the bone.
by htx80nerd | 2026-01-26 17:49:41+00:00
I ask Gemini health questions non stop and never see it using YouTube as a source. Quickly looking over some recent chats :

- chat 1 : 2 sources are NIH. the other isnt youtube.

- chat 2 : PNAS, PUBMED, Cochrane, Frontiers, and PUBMED again several more times.

- chat 3 : 4 random web sites ive never heard of, no youtube

- chat 4 : a few random web sites and NIH, no youtube
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-26 17:49:43+00:00
If a law enforcement agency is so incredibly unpopular that they feel the need to hide their faces, they should not exist. Nobody likes LAPD, and they almost exclusively piss people off close to where they and their families live. Yet, no covering their faces.

ICE exclusively deals with targets who are not dangerous in of themselves (because when an illegal immigrant breaks other laws, the real cops respond), so they're not hiding their faces from them. They're hiding their faces from the general public, who, you might note, are the root of authority in a democracy. That is an unambiguous message that they are not acting in the best interest of the people, and should fuck off.
by vermaden | 2026-01-26 17:50:07+00:00
Not sure why You got such low transfer speeds so I just tested EXT4 and NTFS read and write performance on FreeBSD.

Its about:

-> 800+/250+ MB/s for NTFS

-> 200+/128+ MB/s for EXT4

... and its on 8 years old ThinkPad T480 laptop with CPU speed set/limited to 1.4GHz.

Details:

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_mlqaTWEAAxyRU?format=jpg&name=...

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_mlqaMWMAMbq2q?format=jpg&name=...
by simcop2387 | 2026-01-26 17:50:15+00:00
Neat, definitely a part of history that I'm not familiar enough with myself since I was only ~6 or so around then when the article was published.

It definitely seems to reinforce the joke backronym of "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms" for the whole thing given how badly it was all refered to. It's a lot like the whole Clippit/Clippy situation with the Microsoft Office assistants. Originally it was only named Clippit but Clippy got coined by everyone else and even Microsoft ended up giving in and using it in marketing materials not too long after the fact.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-26 17:50:17+00:00
> The content you write should reflect you, not the reader.

It's not a binary proposition. One can write for both, as long as they're willing to compromise. I'd rather something be 80% good and have an audience than 100% good with no audience.

Why write if no one will read? I have no idea if even I will read it - I already "read" it while writing it. Maybe in 20 years I'll revisit? I don't know.

> I get scared when an author is talking to me, the reader.

> Also I hate when the actors on TV suddenly start talking to the viewer about what they did and why did etc. Disgusting.

That's your quirk. Don't assume others have the same preferences as you.

> Things like "So you are reading this book because you want to learn about AI" sounds very cheap.

I don't see anyone advocating writing like this.

In general, most writers disagree with you. I take it you've not heard of "Kill your darlings"?
by volkercraig | 2026-01-26 17:50:43+00:00
I mean semantically language evolved as an interpretation for the material world, so assuming that you can describe a problem in language, and considering that there exists a solution to said problem that is describable in language, then I'm sure a big enough LLM could do it... but you can also calculate highly detailed orbital maps with epicycles if you just keep adding more... you just don't because it's a waste of time and there's a simpler way.

The latter part is interesting. I'm not sure how the performance of one of those would be once they are working well, but my naive gut feeling is that splitting the language part and the driving part into two delegates is cleaner, safer, faster and more predictable.
by mythz | 2026-01-26 17:50:51+00:00
No custom state machine or agent, it's only a copy of Anthropic's 3 computer use tools: run_bash, edit, computer.

https://github.com/ServiceStack/llms/tree/main/llms/extensio...

It's run in the same process, there's no long agent loops, everything's encapsulated within a single message thread.
by bob1029 | 2026-01-26 17:50:53+00:00
Container ships tend to be fairly slow to respond and may not function as expected during a nuclear war.

The only way for this to work as a retaliatory measure is to have the weapons already in place at the target locations. Now, imagine if someone were to discover the weapon and trace it back to whomever installed it. This is effectively a slow motion nuclear exchange that was initiated by the "defender".
by jefftk | 2026-01-26 17:50:59+00:00
Not writing the feature makes sense, but pushing Firefox and Safari to add support would be pro-social if you're up for it. The most common reason for browsers not to add support is something like "this can be done in other ways, and it has maintainability/security/bloat downsides". Running into a feature you can't build is evidence on the "this can be done in other ways" question (but of course the other downsides could still be big enough that it's not worth doing).
Show HN: A CLI agent that runs code while it reasons (Subconscious and E2B)
by ohstep23 | 2026-01-26 17:51:02+00:00
I don’t believe agents should “think” without being allowed to check their work. So I built a CLI agent that can actually run code while it reasons.

Subconscious handles the reasoning and tool-calling while actively pruning context as it goes, so the agent runs faster, costs less, and has more tokens available for complex tasks.

Code runs in one of the fastest sandboxed environments available using E2B, keeping execution quick while your local machine stays clean, organized, and protected from prompt injection.

The result feels less like a language model and more like working with a tool that can verify its own work, stay disciplined, and generate real reports and charts.

Run it with:

npx @subcon/e2b-cli

If you care about reliable agents, CLIs, or running code safely without touching your local machine, this is worth a look. Especially if you are tired of deleting random .md files.
by eigenspace | 2026-01-26 17:51:40+00:00
While, there's a real risk of overselling the enthusiasm right now, there's a much bigger risk of complacency making dinosaurs stick their head in the sand and think nothing ever changes.

IMO, if ones thinks the lessons about competition between tech platforms from the previous few decades are 1-to-1 applicable in the current geopolitical, economical, and strategic state of the world, then that person is either not paying attention, or they're in denial.

Companies, governments, and militaries are looking around their office right now and realizing their organization could grind to a complete halt if Trump made a phone call to a very small handful of executives.

That's an existential risk, and organizations absolutely can and do choose products that are on their face inferior if it helps shield them from existential risk. (Western) Tech is one of few industries that has no institutional experience with dealing with geopolitical risk, but it's happening now.
by dimitri-vs | 2026-01-26 17:51:53+00:00
> Picture MS Word where the GUI is just a page and a sidebar for telling an LLM what you want it to do.

Done. And it seems absolutely awful.

"Please bold the text I have selected" instead of a preexisting bold button.

Oh wait I can just tell it all the tools I commonly use and where to put them... Hmmm topbar or side bar. Wow so much fun getting to make all these decisions!

Ok time to change fonts. "Please add a font picker so I can pick a font"
by lern_too_spel | 2026-01-26 17:51:58+00:00
> to deny climate change

This is a statement of facts, just like the Tiananmen Square example is a statement of fact. What is interesting in the Alibaba Cloud case is that the model output is filtered to remove certain facts. The people claiming some "both sides" equivalence, on the other hand, are trying to get a model to deny certain facts.
by zibini | 2026-01-26 17:52:20+00:00
I've yet to encounter any censorship with Grok. Despite all the negative news about what people are telling it to do, I've found it very useful in discussing controversial topics.

I'll use ChatGPT for other discussions but for highly-charged political topics, for example, Grok is the best for getting all sides of the argument no matter how offensive they might be.
by wrqvrwvq | 2026-01-26 17:52:27+00:00
Ukraine gave up more than nukes, it forfeited future membership in russian federation and nato. All the ridiculous bush-era bluster about nato membership for ukraine was in itself a (minor) violation of budapest memo.

Reasonable observers don't think ukraine could have kept russia's nukes, firstly because they were russia's and not ukraine's, and secondly because a country with less than $100B economy (in shambles at the end of the ussr) can't afford to maintain nuclear surety. Additionally, it's very unclear whether any nukes would have been employed by now. Any nuclear attack on russia would result in total annihilation, and if ukraine could only strike a few high-value targets in exchange, it's not a winning weapon or even a deterrent.

Finally the rest of the thesis above is likely to result in a wave of assassinations and sabotage across europe and a wider war that almost all parties have sought to avoid. It's a fever dream shared by angry dummies who are completely incapable of rational thought.
by GoatInGrey | 2026-01-26 17:52:28+00:00
My personal theory is that as the excitement for LLMs normalizes, we'll land on something evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Prompt programming will take over what used to be quick/amateur micro programs (this includes userspace "developers"). Skilled developers will operate on a spectrum: all manual code at one extreme, and at the other extreme, manually defining just the essential patterns that prompt programming can reasonably build upon.

I do not suspect that we will stay in an individualized programs Tower of Babel situation, if we ever enter it in the first place.

It's anyone's guess as to what we end up settling on, of course. This is just a guess of mine.