MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by valdezm | 2026-01-05 23:38:22+00:00
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes
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Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby, etc. -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent 4 months in 2025 building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com

Building startups (based in San Francisco) @ http://sharedfounders.com/ (helping founders take their ideas built on platforms like v0.dev, lovable.com, replit.com, bolt.new, base44.com from AI generated scaffolding to Production)

More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markavaldez_ai-activity-73922...

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Email: hello@valdezm.com
by pfdietz | 2026-01-05 23:38:26+00:00
"As water supply systems and sewage treatment systems depend on electricity, widespread outbreaks of cholera and other waterborne diseases, causing large numbers of civilian deaths, have in the past been the direct consequence of this bomb's use.[3]"

In the Talk:

"Nowhere in the attributed footnote is this laid out. Disingenuous, as it adds information to quoted source that is not in it."
by bwestergard | 2026-01-05 23:39:28+00:00
RE: The total mass of wood burned by humans annually continued climbing through 2023. Not sure how to square that with the figures on your link for "traditional biomass".

See: https://jkempenergy.com/2024/12/11/rising-wood-fuel-consumpt...

RE: Whales. I'm all for regulation.
by tastyface | 2026-01-05 23:39:41+00:00
I haven't been retaining evidence along this particular axis, but I do know that Musk regularly gets his panties in a knot whenever a woman is in a position of power: https://www.out.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-elon-musk-fdny

Miller, I'm sure, is mostly focused on his manifesting white nationalist wet dream and murder rampage.
by keskival | 2026-01-05 23:40:04+00:00
Location: Spain
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AI, software engineering, healthcare, maps, supply chain, engineering, leadership, foundation models
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/keskival/cv/raw/master/docs/cv_eng.pdf
Email: tero.keskivalkama@gmail.com
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I have programmed computers since I was 6 years old in 1988. I have over 25 years of professional experience in different roles in the trifecta of AI research/software engineering/leadership.

I was one of the people growing the deep learning revolution in Finland organizing Cybercom Machine Learning Guild and later AI Morning, and created one of the first open source implementations for Google Wavenet. I have won two IndustryHack competitions. I have authored quite a lot of patents in deep learning.

Most recently I have worked to teach cancer biology to machine intelligences to exceed human level in oncology.

I am open to all kinds of senior and leadership positions which benefit from a generalist.
by array_key_first | 2026-01-05 23:40:10+00:00
In, like, an "ask a bunch of people and see what they think" way. Consensus. I'm not talking legality because I'm not a lawyer and I also don't care.

But I think, most people would say "uh, yeah, the business needs to do something or implement some policy".

Another example: selling guns versus running a shooting range. If you're running a shooting range then yeah, I think there's an expectation you make it safe. You put up walls, you have security, etc. You try your best to migrate the bad shit.
by visarga | 2026-01-05 23:40:25+00:00
> But if I didn't already have experience of code review, I'd be limited to vibe-coding (by the original definition, not even checking).

Code review done visually is "just vibe testing" in my book. It is not something you can reproduce, it depends on the context in your head this moment. So we need actual code tests. Relying on "Looks Good To Me" is hand waving, code smell level testing.

We are discussing vibe coding but the problem is actually vibe testing. You don't even need to be in the AI age to vibe test, it's how we always did it when manually reviewing code. And in this age it means "walking your motorcycle" speed, we need to automate this by more extensive code tests.
by ruralfam | 2026-01-05 23:40:27+00:00
Been following/hoping for the ultimate battery for... a few decades now I think. Donut reads as a home run of sorts. However... during those decades reading about "new tech" that promised great gains, all ended up in the dustbin of history. I really, really hope Donut is for real. Breath. Not. Holding. HTH, RF

ps: Just ordered two new dog collar lights cause the relatively new ones we had fully discharged while the mutts were outside. Now they wont charge. Jesus I hate LiOn.
by 1bpp | 2026-01-05 23:41:27+00:00
Seconding the Garmin watches, been using a Forerunner for years and the battery still lasts over a week with an always-on display. Does about as much as a Pebble and even has a documented SDK with sideloading. The refresh rate is very low but totally fine for a watch, I think newer models have much better displays. The only thing I wish were better is exporting all the tracked health data in a format I can use myself. Using the official tool for that I couldn't even get heart rate data.
by j1elo | 2026-01-05 23:41:31+00:00
A great power of Firefox are its add-ons, aren't they? Sidebery [1] has been a solid implementation of vertical tabs since a long time ago. Begore that got popular, Tree Style Tabs [2] was also a very comprehensive solution.

But nowadays, vertical tabs are native since Firefox v136 [3][4], so at least for the basics you won't need an add-on.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sidebery/

[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41192118

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254871
by _steve_yegge_ | 2026-01-05 23:42:10+00:00
I love this take. I think what you're describing is very much happened with the Industrial Revolution. It was just a bunch of powerful, dangerous machines at first, doing small jobs faster. Scaling it up took the whole planet and a long time.

I think we are at the beginning of the second such journey. Lots of people will get hurt while we learn how to scale it up. It's why I've gone with dangerous sounding theming and lots of caution with Gas Town.

I only think it takes 2 years this time though.
by neoCrimeLabs | 2026-01-05 23:42:39+00:00
> This is not a weakness in the design of containers.

Partially correct.

Many container escapes are also because the security of the underlying host, container runtime, or container itself was poorly or inconsistently implemented. This creates gaps that allow escapes from the container. There is a much larger potential for mistakes, creating a much larger attack surface. This is in addition to kernel vulnerabilities.

While you can implement effective hardening across all the layers, the potential for misconfiguration is still there, therefore there is still a large attack surface.

While a virtual host can be escaped from, the attack surface is much smaller, leaving less room for potential escapes.

This is why containers are considered riskier for a sandbox than a virtual host. Which one you use, and why, really should depend on your use case and threat model.

Sad to say it, a disappointing amount of people don't put much hardening into their container environments, including production k8s clusters. So it's much easier to say that a virtual host is better for sandboxing than containers, because many people are less likely to get it wrong.
by jonas21 | 2026-01-05 23:43:00+00:00
You're getting at the crux of the issue: it's very hard to distinguish legitimate DMCA takedown requests submitted by individuals from illegitimate ones, and occasionally, they're going to make mistakes. Anything that the author said in his emails could have just as easily been said by someone else who was trying to take down the content illegitimately.

At the end of the day, the best option is to use an attorney who would at least run the risk of professional consequences for submitting false claims.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-01-05 23:43:16+00:00
That perspective is always such a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution and natural selection. (Yes I know It's for a comedy bit but I see this way too often).

Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection were never really about directly competing against other members of their species. There was certainly a component of that but natural selection is predominantly about competing against nature itself.

It's all about developing traits that help a given individual or community/ecosystem survive and thrive. And unsurprisingly in most ecosystems it's not competition from peers but rather competing against weather, environmental conditions, and the food chain/predators. So what you see is that at basically every single level (from plants and microbes, up through insects, birds, mammals, and at all stages of human history) you have a constant push for mutualistic behaviors.

It's why birds warn their entire ecosystem (including other bird species and non-bird species) about predators and danger. Or as another bird example, migratory birds will cooperate and share food even when migrating with birds of different species. Anything that can bolster the ability to survive and thrive for the community as a whole (and often entire ecosystem) ends up driving evolution far more than advantages for a single individual. Doubly so with punishing adversarial advantages for individual that end up disproportionately harming the community/whole.
by ibero | 2026-01-05 23:43:26+00:00
we saw this exact playbook with ios 7. i don't think you need to attribute malice or read into it much.

ios 7 relied heavily on blurring effects-- a flex at the time due to the efficient graphic pipeline vs android they had. this was coming off the heels of Samsung xerox'ing and they wanted a design that would be too expensive for competitors to emulate without expensive battery hit. liquid glass is following in this tradition.

and similarly to ios 7, the move to flat design was predicated on the introduction of new form factors and screen. flat design lent itself well to new incoming screen sizes and ratios. prior there was really one or two sizes and that was it, easy to target pixel perfect designs against. as apple moves to foldables and more, this design flexibility is once again required.

as for no one trying to emulate it, i'm not so sure, OriginOS 6 ripped it off back in October.
by TrackerFF | 2026-01-05 23:43:34+00:00
Here are the cold hard facts:

- Greenland and Denmark don't want to sell to the US.

- Denmark is a close ally of the US, and is a NATO member.

If the US decides that the only way to get Greenland is to take it by force, than that's the end of NATO. And it will usher in a new and unprecedented time where Europe will treat the US as hostiles. Whatever values US hopes to extract from Greenland via their natural resources will absolutely pale in comparison to the new economic world that springs up.

And even if by some miniscule chance the US manages convince the majority of Greenlanders that they should break off from Denmark, and sell to the US, they can pretty much set the price. Or it's up to the above point.

Even more important: Trump and his cronies will be long tone until anything would materialize.

This is nothing but Trump wanting to make a huge splash before he fades away. Even if there are billionaires working behind the scene, I fully expect a future non-MAGA president to completely abandon any idea of annexing Greenland, and work on repairing the damage that Trump has done to international relations.

Doing a surgical strike on a known enemy of the US / ally of Russia and China (Maduro and Venezuela) is one thing. Going to war with allies and destroying NATO is a completely different matter.
by PebblesHD | 2026-01-05 23:43:41+00:00
Thats just… weird? Why would you want to use somebody else’s fridge? Like I get its a few hundred dollars but they last decades. The Samsung fridge I still have was the very first appliance I ever purchased when I moved out at 18. Added to the fact that basically no free-standing appliances are included with rentals here, other than clothes dryers which I also hate and swap for my own.
by agosta | 2026-01-05 23:44:09+00:00
Unlike other reply, I do not work at Brave, and I can also confirm that Brave never did that. They do have their own ads but those have always been opt in (you are not opted in by default), and they do pay some small amount of USD in their crypto token for opting in to those - it's pennies. People scoff at the pennies but guess who pays out nothing to show you ads against your will - literally everyone else.

What you may be thinking of was at one point, when you went to a URL (for some URLs), the browser would rewrite the URL to contain their affiliate link. There was blowback for doing that. They quickly removed that/haven't done it since as far as I know
by vunderba | 2026-01-05 23:44:28+00:00
Not OP but but one of the reasons I avoided Anki for a long time was that I wanted to be able to answer cards quickly without actually looking at my phone. I ended up using a combination of automatic TTS, bluetooth headphones, and swipe-up/down gestures to indicate my response because I wanted to do flashcards while going on runs.

I currently use a bespoke piece of software for this now but I've had great success in the past with Flashcards Deluxe (by Orange or Apple). It supports automatic TTS, answering by gestures, etc. I used to use it back when I had a long commute.

https://orangeorapple.com/flashcards
by lapetitejort | 2026-01-05 23:44:32+00:00
I had a fridge slowly die on me. Previously I had hand-picked an amazing set of washer and dryers that I'm sure will last me decades. Then I searched for the perfect induction stove. Then a microwave with convection heating. I paid more than average for these appliances because I wanted them to last for a long time, and I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. So when it came time to buy a new fridge, I could not find a "premium" model. They all capped in price unless I bought a fridge larger than the standard size. I ended up buying a similar model to the previous, this time with a five year warranty. I'm confident it will die out soon, probably right after the warranty expires. Maybe because of the fact that it's running 24/7?

In short, I don't like shopping for fridges, and I'm glad fewer Angelinos will have to.
by riskable | 2026-01-05 23:44:53+00:00
Until there's a database of all the copyrighted works in the world that anyone can access—along with their licenses—it is absolutely not possible to know for certain if something is violating copyright.

Simple example: Disney opens up a new website that has some of their obvious content on it. How does Google know that Disney owns that website and has authorized its use? If they get a takedown notice, how do they know the sender owns the content?

There's no formal verification system that exists for such things. It's all based on an honor system that is easy for bad actors to abuse (which is probably why Google changed how they do things).

The entirety of copyrighted law has failed. It isn't working as intended and hasn't for a long time now. Anyone who understands how easy it is to copy bits should know that the original intent of copyright can't work anymore. We need something new to replace it.
by AmbroseBierce | 2026-01-05 23:45:14+00:00
Google bots decided that my parody website[0] that very clearly says "Foogle" instead of "Google" constitutes phishing and is now automatically blocked in Chrome and Firefox, despite not asking for any user input like email or password or name or anything that could slightly make it suspicious of being a phishing website, plus the sites uses unserious language like "Disunited States", it's a sad statement of their AI capabilities if a site like this gets automatically marked as "phishing", and the overall trend of abusing their power in the name of safety, a tale as old as time.

[0] https://www.forbiddensearchdetected.com
by Tirrekp | 2026-01-05 23:45:39+00:00
We’re building a Memory OS — infrastructure that gives AI agents persistent state, truth guarantees, and long-term continuity across interactions.

Looking for:

• distributed systems engineers
• infra engineers comfortable with logs, state stores, and latency optimization
• people who like building primitives and invariants, not features

We’re in pilot with a logistics-focused design partner and expanding.

Interested? DM me.
by mothballed | 2026-01-05 23:45:40+00:00
Giving them no legal avenue allows us to put more of them in jail. Once they are in jail the odds of them molesting children goes from "possible very low but measurably above zero" to "~0."

I think you are looking at it from the point of it being a punishment for victimizing someone -- when in fact it's used not to punish crime but to put away people who potentially might victimize someone in the future.
by fpaf | 2026-01-05 23:45:43+00:00
Besides the ability to deal with text, I think there are several reasons why coding is an exceptionally good fit for LLMs.

Once LLMs gained access to tools like compilers, they started being able to iterate on code based on fast, precise and repeatable feedback on what works and what doesn't, be it failed tests or compiler errors. Compare this with tasks like composing a powerpoint deck, where feedback to the LLM (when there is one) is slower and much less precise, and what's "good" is subjective at best.

Another example is how LLMs got very adept at reading and explaining existing code. That is an impressive and very useful ability, but code is one of the most precise ways we, as humans, can express our intent in instructions that can be followed millions of times in a nearly deterministic way (bugs aside). Our code is written in thoroughly documented languages with a very small vocabulary and much easier grammar than human languages. Compare this to taking notes in a zoom call in German and trying to make sense of inside jokes, interruptions and missing context.

But maybe most importantly, a developer must be the friendliest kind of human for an LLM. Breaking down tasks in smaller chunks, carefully managing and curating context to fit in "memory", orchestrating smaller agents with more specialized tasks, creating new protocols for them to talk to each others and to our tools.... if it sounds like programming, it's because it is.
by simonw | 2026-01-05 23:45:48+00:00
Agents as staff replacements that can tackle tasks you would normally assign to a human employee didn't happen in 2025.

Agents as LLMs calling tools in a loop to perform tasks that can be handled by typing commands into a computer absolutely did.

Claude Code turns out to be misnamed: it's useful for way more than just writing code, once you figure out how to give it access to tools for other purposes.

I think the browser agents (like the horribly named "ChatGPT Agent" - way to burn a key namespace on a tech demo!) have acted as a distraction from this. Clicking links is still pretty hard. Running Bash commands on the other hand is practically a solved problem.
by apparent | 2026-01-05 23:46:31+00:00
Huh? There was no Kickstarter, just pre-orders. And when they announced the Round they said that anyone who preordered a PT2 can flip their pre-order and keep their place in line.

My guess is that part of the reason they decided to make the round is that they got so much interest in Pebbles in general, and so many requests for the Round specifically. I don't think they would have wanted to take the risk from the beginning without knowing the demand.
by eqvinox | 2026-01-05 23:46:54+00:00
For a length-15 ASpath to show up on the internet, a whole bunch of better routes need to disappear first, which seems to have happened here. But that disappearance is very likely unrelated to CANTV.

Furthermore, BGP routes can get "stuck", if some device doesn't handle a withdrawal correctly… this can lead to odd routes like the ones seen here. Especially combined with the long path length and disappearance of better routes.
by akdas | 2026-01-05 23:48:32+00:00
One thing that I've seen implemented to prevent that is to have the pay bands for level N and N+1 overlap. So in the time that you're doing "next level" work, you're expecting to be at the top of your current pay band, and then the promotion doesn't automatically give you a big pay raise, but it unlocks a pay band that you can go up in.

This works if performing at the top of your current level equates to performing at the bottom of the next level. That said, there's a problem where sometimes a "promotion" is really a new role, meaning to perform at the next level, you have to kind of not perform well at the current level.
by drnick1 | 2026-01-05 23:49:10+00:00
This is good news, but I am confused by the following:

"""

Brave Origin is:

1/ new, optional, separate build (stripped down, no telemetry/rewards/wallet/vpn/ai);

2/ free on Linux, one time buy elsewhere.

"""

So the stripped down version (at least the non-Linux one) will not be open source?
by pcthrowaway | 2026-01-05 23:49:30+00:00
I was actually a big fan of this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQfbA2E7z5A

It features a bunch of internationally known figures (mainly world leaders) in drag (or gender-swapped). So obviously something not achievable without AI video generation

I think it's interesting as a gimmick, but generally really don't like AI-generated videos. My main issue with them is more to do with capitalism than AI video generation though.
by Rebuff5007 | 2026-01-05 23:49:37+00:00
Few things that go overlooked from someone that works in industrial robotics:

- note that google already has investment in industrial robotics with intrinsic ai (that is the confluence of OSRF, bot and dolly, and a few other robotics/ai companies)

- this partnership specifically seems to be focused on humanoid robotics, which is not taken seriously by industrial manufacturing folks
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-05 23:49:51+00:00
They'll just make the food more expensive. It's something they've been doing for decades, sneakily.

I remember the YORKIE bar which had the letters of the name stamped on each piece (it was a segmented chocolate bar).

Eventually someone in my house noticed the stamped letters were gone, turned out they moved to a smaller bar with only 5 segments. It was hard to notice otherwise.
by johncolanduoni | 2026-01-05 23:50:18+00:00
In principle, it means you could run multiple sites from the same IP and someone intercepting traffic to that IP (but not the client’s DNS path) couldn’t tell what site each connection was to. It mostly makes sense for CDNs, where the same IP will be used for many sites.

If you don’t use a CDN at all, the destination IP leaks what site you’re trying to connect to (if the domain is well known). If you use a CDN without ECH, you send an unencrypted domain name in the HTTPS negotiation so it’s visible there. ECH+CDN is an attempt to have the best of both worlds: your traffic to the site will not advertise what site you’re connecting to, but the IP can still be shared between a variety of sites.

It’ll be interesting to see how countries with lighter censorship schemes adapt - China etc. of course will just block the connection.