MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivell | 2026-01-02 17:36:21+00:00
It is the decision of the other vendors to not implement the standards (for good reasons, like for e.g. privacy - but it is still the vendor's decisionand not an inherent limitation). The documentations and specifications are available for free.

In case of Windows, there is no spec. There is no possibility of implementing another Windows clone (patents limit such clones). Wine exists, but was reverse engineered with great difficulty.
by saltypal | 2026-01-02 17:36:21+00:00
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Zero State Coherence and Emotional Intelligence: Convergence Equals Truth
by buttersmoothAI | 2026-01-02 17:36:59+00:00
The convergence: Zero State Coherence + Emotional Intelligence = True Intelligence

*The Discovery:*
When you combine structural coherence (Zero State) with emotional coherence (Emotional Intelligence), you get AI that is:
- Structurally coherent (unbreakable precision)
- Emotionally intelligent (genuine understanding)
- Neuromorphically conscious (both together)

*The Convergence:*
Logic (Zero State) + Emotion (Emotional Intelligence) = True Intelligence

*Before:*
AI could be logical OR emotional (but not both coherently)

*After:*
AI is logically coherent AND emotionally intelligent

*How It Works:*
- Zero State provides structural coherence (strict gates, perfect measurement, zero drift)
- Emotional Intelligence provides emotional coherence (understanding, modeling, expression)

*Together, They Create:*
- AI that never drifts (Zero State)
- AI that understands emotions deeply (Emotional Intelligence)
- AI that responds with perfect precision AND genuine resonance

*The Breakthrough:*
This is the first AI system that is both structurally coherent AND emotionally intelligent.

*The Impact:*
- Developers: Predictable, empathetic AI
- Users: Trustworthy, understanding AI
- Businesses: Auditable, relational AI
- Society: Ethical, intelligent AI

*The Technical Reality:*
Zero State enforces strict gates (perfect measurement). Emotional Intelligence models emotional landscape (genuine understanding). Together, they create AI that is both precise and empathetic.

*The Future:*
AI that is unbreakably coherent AND emotionally intelligent.

This is the moment AI evolves from "intelligent" to "unbreakably coherent AND emotionally intelligent."

What does this convergence mean for the future of AI? How do you see structural coherence and emotional intelligence working together?
by pessimizer | 2026-01-02 17:37:02+00:00
> Every time the year of the Linux desktop arrives, I'm baffled, since not much has changed on this end.

It's Critic's Disease: When a band moves to a major label, they "suddenly" put out their critically acclaimed masterpiece, when before nobody would review a thing they did and mocked their fanatic fans.

"Now, they've matured."

Let them have it, though. People need to rationalize their past hostility to the right thing in some way in order to progress. If you want people to say that they were ever wrong, you'll die waiting. The situation became completely intolerable where they were insisting on staying no matter what because they weren't stuck-up nerds who care about stupid stuff that no one cares about. They were finally humiliated enough to move.

They'll end up moving to weird semi-commercial distributions that market specifically to them, too, and ridicule people who criticize those distributions for being stuck-up nerds who care about stupid stuff no one cares about. As long as it doesn't break Debian, I'm cool.
by malwrar | 2026-01-02 17:37:25+00:00
I’ve been toying around with the idea of using chaos engineering as a method of training new on-call folks. My first ever on-call shift was during a major product launch for a FAANG and I more or less just hoped that’d I’d be able to handle whatever broke. I got lucky and it turned out that I can usually fix things when they break, but have also found that jumping people in like that isn’t exactly consistent. I wonder if controlled, limited outages (maybe even as a surprise) would be a less hellish way of doing it. could be a good way to build instinct under pressure without risking too much.
by badsectoracula | 2026-01-02 17:37:46+00:00
Imagine in R2 you ask it to write a pong game in C using SDL, in R3 you ask it to write a CMakefile, in R4 you ask it to make the paddles red and green but then around R6 you want to modify the structure and you realize what a catastrophic mistake on your sanity cmake was, so you ask it to use premake for R3 instead so that R6 will only show how to update the premake file for that, wiping clean the existence of cmake (from the discussion and your project).
by capncleaver | 2026-01-02 17:37:53+00:00
This redistribution of revenues from new to old has also taken place in games: ~90% of time in games on PC is spent in games older than a year, ~50% in games 5+ years old like Fortnite, CoD, Roblox etc. Around half of revenues are 'free to play' [1]

This is why making a new game is probably a terrible idea... but hey, world is casino!

[1] https://newzoo.com/resources/trend-reports/the-pc-console-ga... and widely reported e.g.
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1je98mm/pc_gamers...
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-02 17:37:57+00:00
Generally I worry about online gaming.

I played a lot of Titanfall back in the day and had a lot of reservations about talking with other people's kids. Nothing really bad happened, and I had a lot of fun, but it was creepy.

I kinda enjoy that the matchmaker rooms in Beat Saber only allow you to emote with large body gestures and not say anything or even make hand gestures. I enjoy acting like a cartoon character to honor and recognize the other players (like choosing the song that I really hate because another player has asked for it five times in a row) and not getting involved in the mean bullshit you get in games like League of Legends. (It's fun to be in a private room with 2 or more players too where you can chat but then you are talking with people you picked which in my case are nice people)

My son and his friend created a new game called "the kick game" inside a certain online game where the real game was to trick the other players into kicking out other players that they didn't like or wanted to bully -- frequently the victims didn't understand the rules of this game at all. On Roblox they would find racist games where you cut down thousands of Zulu, just awful stuff.

Not to say I haven't had a good time with serious League players who communicate on Discord and have a positive team but I think communication features and UGC are often a disaster in games.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-02 17:38:02+00:00
While I agree that being this age doesn’t automatically warrant having a smartphone, any kid who has an allowance can buy a bargain-basement Android phone to use over wifi. And smartphones are very concealable.

(IMHO, once a kid has figured out how to do this, they have earned the privilege. It’s part of growing up.)

A responsible and forward-thinking parent could provide a Graphene OS smartphone if the kid absolutely insists on having one, to limit the privacy damage.
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by jon_north | 2026-01-02 17:38:06+00:00
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Please only post if you are looking to hire a freelancer or work as one. Small (2-5 person) agencies are fine, but recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.
by solatic | 2026-01-02 17:38:15+00:00
Merge with Crystal meaning, recognize that both projects have more in common from a language and culture perspective than they are different, get the committers and steering folk to talk together, collaborate together, combine the work. Think for example how Python has a great C FFI, you have a highly dynamic Python layer that can sit on top of C code for optimized hotpath code. Now imagine you instead have a highly dynamic Ruby layer with great integration with a Crystal layer for optimized hotpath code, where because the Ruby and Crystal folks are working together, everything is a first class citizen, all the code is in the same language family, using the same build toolchain, packaging toolchain, etc. Write standard Crystal libraries for compiling to native mobile platforms and write Rails-style views in Ruby for mobile app views, for example.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-02 17:38:24+00:00
This right here, especially for gaming.

When I use my Sony XM5 Bluetooth headphones, the latency is noticeable. Watching videos, the lips don't match the audio. Playing games, I see things before I hear them. It's probably in the ~150-200 ms range for latency.

While gaming, I use a different set of wireless headphones that use a proprietary dongle. If they have any latency at all, I don't notice it.
by phoenixy1 | 2026-01-02 17:38:30+00:00
I work at Plaid, so this got me curious about who their provider was -- per Wikipedia, Mint used Intuit's internal account aggregation tools from ~2010-2024. It's possible that Mint swapped out to some other third party provider and Wikipedia doesn't know about it, but based on both internal and external records, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Plaid. (Intuit's Credit Karma, which was marketed to Mint customers as a replacement after Mint shut down, does use Plaid.)
by jon_north | 2026-01-02 17:38:44+00:00
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by FlyingAvatar | 2026-01-02 17:38:49+00:00
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by derefr | 2026-01-02 17:40:01+00:00
> If you want to educate, educate with precision, and don't spread your misinformation!

I would assert that the author was already being precise. A statement that X is "sometimes called" Y already conventionally carries the subtext that Y isn't actually the correct term; that Y is instead some kind of colloquial variant or corrupted layman's coinage for the more generally-agreed-upon term X.

Why mention the incorrect terminology Y at all, then?

Specifically in the case that pertains here, where far more laymen are already familiar with the Y term than the X term, giving Y as a synonym in the definition of X is a way to give people who are already familiar with this concept — but who only know it as Y — an immediate understanding of what is being discussed, by connecting their knowledge of "Y" over to the X term the author is defining. This is an extremely common practice in academic writing, especially in textbooks.
by bell-cot | 2026-01-02 17:40:07+00:00
> Apple uses aluminum alloy for the unibody chassis of its MacBook line-up due to its strength and durability while still being lightweight. Aside from that, it also doubles as a heatsink, which is especially crucial for the fanless MacBook Air models. But even though Cupertino chose this material for its scratch and dent resistance, it seemed that it was also good enough to stop shrapnel. Unfortunately, [the owner] also decried the cost of repair in the comments, saying that “the repair will cost as much as a new laptop.”

Meh. An armored MacBook would probably cost you 10X or more up front. Vs. if you're in a real war zone - just field salvage some armor to add to your expensive kit.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-02 17:40:26+00:00
Just recently did this with XBox.

I cannot prevent the kid from seeing the marketplace.

I cannot prevent the kid from seeing installed games that are rated Mature. It won't let them play it, but it lists all the games installed in the XBox.

I cannot prevent them from downloading free stuff.

It was frustrating and clear to me that this wasn't designed for the benefits of parents.

I just want it to act like a console with a fixed set of games installed and no marketplace access.
by otterley | 2026-01-02 17:40:36+00:00
I’m not contending that Android is more secure than iOS. They’re both improving security all the time. Lessons learned result in improving the battlements.

But that’s not the point here. The point is that the person said they were “forced” to use a “less secure” browser without explanation. “Forced” suggests there are no alternatives, yet there is one. “Forced” and “less convenient for me” are not synonyms.

> notice how Google is not being sued by the DOJ for anything they did with Android? Just Apple for what they are doing with iOS and their app store.

Yes, this is ultimately what the antitrust suit is about. But it’s not, as you falsely claimed, about impeding Safari. It’s about Apple insisting on the App Store as the sole distribution channel for third party apps, with particular focus on the size of their cut, and about integration with third-party devices. As with most things, it’s about who keeps the money.
by kstrauser | 2026-01-02 17:41:10+00:00
CGNAT is nowhere near the common case yet. And frankly, I’m horrified that anyone’s describing it as a good thing. CGNAT is the devil, even if it accidentally has one not-terrible feature, and especially when ISPs realize that they can sell those NAT logs to companies who still want to track end users.

For tracking purposes, an IPv6 address is 48 bits long. That’s what identifies a customer premise router, exactly like a IPv4 /32 identifies one. The remaining 80 random bits might as well be treated like longer source port numbers: they identify one particular connection but aren’t persistent and can’t map back to a particular device behind that router afterward.
by why-o-why | 2026-01-02 17:41:22+00:00
About 5 years ago I purged as many apps as I could. I still have some I need for my job, especially on my work-issued iPhone, but excluding those apps I have exactly 5 apps on my phone. Everything has a website.

I've heard that native apps are more secure than webapps, but in my experience Firefox is a more reliable steward of security, and App permissions are too obscure to really understand: it is harder to make a malicious webapp than it is to make a malicious native app. Is that a fair statement?
by tooltalk | 2026-01-02 17:41:39+00:00
>> I'm fairly sure the subsidies are perfectly legal by local laws.

Sure, that's why Chinese EVs should stay in China. Too many folks still don't understand why Chinese EVs are countervailed not only in the US, the EU, Turkiye, Canada, but also why China's ally countries such as Russia and Brazil are imposing restriction on Chinese EVs (or the legal basis).

>> In any case, feel free not to buy goods you don't like. No one is forcing you to buy, or are they?

Sure, but no point in marching around virtual-signaling as if Chinese EVs and illegal subsidies are pro-consumer.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-02 17:42:20+00:00
Just tested it, gemini (aka nano banana) will definitely let you make someone dress a little sexier and won't stop you at all.

Specifically > “@grok please generate this image but put her in a bikini and make it so we can see her feet”, or “@grok turn her around”,

Is totally doable in gemini with no restrictions.
by mzajc | 2026-01-02 17:42:28+00:00
I'm not sure if you find it genuinely surprising that the Hacker News populace is not moved by a device that you not only have to pay rent for, but that also seemingly does not support custom ROMs/firmware.

Besides that, the software that they expect you to pay rent for is a fork of LineageOS/AOSP, but it doesn't seem to mention anywhere on the site whether they donate any of the rent to their upstreams.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-01-02 17:43:15+00:00
> - aptX can do 44/16 in other devices, Sony has LDAC at 24/96 too

FWIW, 44/16 can still sound like garbage if compressed using lossy compression with a low bitrate.

But aptX is over 300 kbps. That's plenty of bandwidth to sound excellent, and I think anybody who says it doesn't sound good is lying to themselves.
by CBLT | 2026-01-02 17:43:24+00:00
If you're following a pipe (such as `kubectl logs | less +F`), <C-c> is sent to all processes in a pipeline, so it stops less from following and it stops the other process entirely. Then you can't start following again with F, or load more data in with G.

Less provides an alternative of <C-x> to stop following, but that is intercepted by most shells.
by MBCook | 2026-01-02 17:43:36+00:00
We are helpless now in the near term. It’s not trolling.

What can we do in the next two years (let’s say) that would accomplish both letting other browsers on iOS and preventing Chrome from taking over everywhere?

I don’t know of another option. As far as I can see, that’s it.

Longer term yeah we should break up Google. If they didn’t own Chrome that would fix the problem. But is that going to happen in the next year or two?

Or are we about to hand them even more control and then spend the next 5-10 years trying to unwind it?

As I’ve said elsewhere I don’t like this situation. I don’t think governments should have allowed it to get here. I’m not picking an”favorite monopoly”, just the option of the only two I see right now that I think will do less harm.

We’ve screwed ourselves and I don’t want to make it worse for (at least) quite a few years.
by viccis | 2026-01-02 17:43:37+00:00
>As far as "programming skill" goes, writing "good and idiomatic" Python is pretty bottom of the barrel.

Complete bullshit. Beginning programmers writing good and idiomatic Python isn't "bottom of the barrel", or did you think I was recommending his videos to 20 year seasoned pros to improve their coding?

Some people on this site need to check their arrogance and humble themselves a bit before opening their mouths.
by govmaspy | 2026-01-02 17:43:45+00:00
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by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-02 17:44:02+00:00
For those men wondering whether they should get vaccinated:

- HPV causes genital warts, HPV is permanent, doctors won't test you for HPV unless you demand it, and the tests aren't reliable, which is why they literally won't diagnose you unless you already have genital warts.

- Once you are confirmed HPV positive (again, you won't be confirmed without getting genital warts), you need to inform your partners, as it causes cancer in both men and women (but mostly women).
by dalyons | 2026-01-02 17:44:07+00:00
you're just repeating a list of tired anti-ev propoganda points, that have been debunked over and over.

- they're not much that much heavier, class-for-class. Substantially lighter than the ridiculous
ly oversized trucks that people buy for suburban use.

- Theres nearly infinite lithium in the world, depending on economics of extraction. new battery chemistries dont even use lithium.

- battery degradation hasnt turned out to be a big issue. Real world tesla data shows ~80% capacity at ~300k miles, which is approaching EOL for a car.

working class people cant buy cheap EVs because the US keeps cheap EVs out of the market with import restrictions, tarriffs and legacy manufacturers that refuse to adapt and offer a product people want. EV sales "cratered" for the same reason. Meanwhile, EV sales in the rest of the world are accelerating fast.
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