MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by theYipster | 2026-01-28 02:12:24+00:00
vm-curator, a FOSS Rust TUI for Linux QEMU-KVM VMs, now supports full GPU pass-through in its v0.2.0 release for near-native GPU performance suitable for high end gaming and demanding GPU-centric workflows. This works for both NVIDIA and AMD cards (and should work with Intel as well,) and it can create and run both multi-GPU and single-GPU setups!

Testers and feedback are wanted very much: I only have one hardware configuration I can test on, and I'd be grateful for anyone to try it and report their experience--especially for multi-gpu pass-through (as I can only test single at this time.)
by hogehoge51 | 2026-01-28 02:13:37+00:00
Whats the practical benefit of fine tune training on a local repo, vs putting the summary of local infomation in the context? i.e every team has their own style and preference for coding patterns that could be generalized - but i imagine a large scale model has seen fhem all so they could be described in the context, or are there specific domain level patterns that can be generalized that would never be seen outside an org so are difficult for a model to infer without fresh tunning?
by MITSardine | 2026-01-28 02:14:58+00:00
If anyone is interested, you can try EngineeringSketchPad (https://acdl.mit.edu/ESP/) which is very similar but much more mature. It also supports simple geometric primitives and boolean operations via a scripting language, but also more general rational curves and surfaces (i.e. BREPs). It has other nice features like differentiation, application-specific views (think structural vs CFD), and an attention to water-tightness/correctness.
by bwfan123 | 2026-01-28 02:15:00+00:00
producing BS can be equated to generating statements without caring for their truth value. Generating them is easy. Refuting them requires one to find a proof or a contradiction which is a lot of work, and is equal to "solving" the statement. As an analogy, refuting BS is like solving satisfiability, whereas generating BS is like generating propositions.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-01-28 02:15:09+00:00
Predatory pricing:

A big gorilla comes in and under prices the entire market. They can do that because they already have tons of money. They do this long enough to break the market and drive the competition out of business. Once the competitors are gone they jack up the prices to unprecedented levels because there's no more alternatives available and bleed the market for all the money.

Regular pricing:

Charge a fair price based on actual costs.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-28 02:15:45+00:00
Cops use those systems to make easy arrests for things like active warrants, stolen vehicles and they feed into systems that keep track of where licensed vehicles are and when.

In a way that's worse, because the systems aren't looking up your car or to target your vehicle for fines, but to look up and target you for arrest.

Same systems can be used to identify, track and arrest undesirables.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-01-28 02:16:51+00:00
Honest thanks for the context. That probably is his true preference.

That said, he has also advocated the opposite. Here he is in 2018:

“The dollar is going to get stronger and stronger, and ultimately I want to see a strong dollar,” Trump said in an exclusive interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

http://cnbc.com/id/104968240
by ValentineC | 2026-01-28 02:18:05+00:00
Looking forward to it being whitelisted on trackers!

I've had to hold off upgrading my 4.0.5 installation to 4.0.6 because it was banned on some trackers [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/7568#iss...

[2] https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/7078
by EvansWilson | 2026-01-28 02:18:43+00:00
When Warren Buffett speaks, the world listens. But when Berkshire Hathaway filed its most recent Form 13F with the SEC, the world didn't just listen—it started scrambling to analyze the data. For retail investors and Wall Street pros alike, checking the Berkshire Hathaway 13F Filing Latest Top Holdings is the ultimate "cheat sheet" for understanding where the smartest money on the planet is moving.

So, is Buffett doubling down on tech, or is he retreating to the safety of cash and consumer staples? Let’s break down the latest moves.

Deep Dive: Berkshire Hathaway 13F Filing Latest Top Holdings

The heartbeat of the Berkshire portfolio remains focused on a few massive, high-conviction bets. If you look at the Berkshire Hathaway 13F Filing Latest Top Holdings, you’ll see a familiar name still sitting comfortably at the top: Apple Inc. (AAPL). Despite some trimming in recent quarters, Apple continues to be the crown jewel of Buffett’s equity empire.

However, the real story this time isn't just about what they kept, but where they added. The latest filing shows a continued appetite for American Express (AXP) and Bank of America (BAC), proving that Buffett hasn't lost his love for the "financial backbone" of the U.S. economy. These companies fit his classic criteria: strong moats, great management, and consistent dividends.

New Additions and Surprising Trims

Every investor loves a good mystery, and this quarter’s 13F didn't disappoint.

Energy is Still in Focus
Berkshire has been steadily increasing its stake in Occidental Petroleum (OXY). This isn't just a short-term trade on oil prices; it’s a long-term bet on domestic energy production and carbon capture technology. When Buffett buys more OXY, he’s telling us he sees value that the rest of the market might be missing.

Trimming the Fat
On the flip side, we saw some strategic exits or "haircuts" in certain legacy positions. Whether it’s a shift in industry outlook or simply raising cash to wait for a better "fat pitch," these trims are just as important as the buys. They remind us that even the best long-term investors aren't afraid to sell when the thesis changes.

Why This Matters for You

You don't need billions of dollars to invest like Buffett, but you do need his patience. The Berkshire Hathaway 13F Filing Latest Top Holdings isn't just a list of stocks; it’s a lesson in discipline. In an era of 24-hour news cycles and meme-stock volatility, Berkshire’s portfolio stands as a monument to "buying wonderful companies at fair prices."

While we can't always predict the Oracle of Omaha's next move, studying his latest 13F gives us a roadmap to navigate the uncertainty of 2026. Stay focused on the fundamentals, and as Buffett says, "Be greedy when others are fearful."
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-28 02:18:44+00:00
I dont take the post too literally.

I take it to mean: if you can just do the thing now (you are in the right place, healthy, with tools and prerequisites) and you choose not to because of (procrastination reasons) then you could be doing the task but you choose not to.

For corps: timesheets is one of the things.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-28 02:19:19+00:00
> Void is as good as I could have wanted. If that ever goes, I guess it's either BSD or a cave somewhere.

If systemd-less Linux ever go, there are indeed still the BSDs. But I thought long and hard about this and already did some testing: I used to run Xen back in the early hardware-virt days and nowadays I run Proxmox (still, sadly, systemd-based).

An hypervisor with a VM and GPU passthrough to the VM is at least something too: it's going to be a long long while before people who want to take our ability to control our machines will be able to prevent us from running a minimal hypervisor and then the "real" OS in a VM controlled by the hypervisor.

I did GPU passthrough tests and everything works just fine: be it Linux guests (which I use) or Windows guests (which I don't use).

My "path" to dodge the cave you're talking about is going to involved an hypervisor (atm I'm looking at the FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor) and then a VM running systemd-less Linux.

And seen that, today, we can run just about every old system under the sun in a VM, I take we'll all be long dead before evil people manage to prevent us from running the Linux we want, the way we want.

You're not alone. And we're not alone.

I simply cannot stand the insufferable arrogance of Agent Poettering. Especially not seen the kitchen sink that systemd is (systemd ain't exactly a homerun and many are realizing that fact now).
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-28 02:19:56+00:00
You can report that all you like. Wikipedia is bullshit on that and you know it.

Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi were both outcast from liberal media for their extensive reporting on it.

Obama, Trump to a small degree, and Biden Admin to a massive degree pressured a private company with threats and access unless the removed otherwise legal content. Specially legal covid discussion including jokes.
by nextaccountic | 2026-01-28 02:19:57+00:00
here is some actual security: encrypted /boot, encrypted everything other than the boot loader (grub in this case)

sign grub with your own keys (some motherboards let you to do so). don't let random things signed by microsoft to boot (it defeats the whole point)

so you have grub in an efi partition, it passes secure boot, loads, and attempts to unlock a luks partition with the user provided passphrase. if it passed secure boot it should increase confidence that you are typing you password into the legit thing

so anyway, after unlocking luks, it locates the kernel and initrd inside it, and boots

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Encrypted_/boot

the reason I don't do it is.. my laptop is buggy. often when I enable secure boot, something periodically gets corrupted (often when the laptop powers off due to low power) and when it gets up, it doesn't verify anything. slightly insane tech

however, this is still better than, at failure, letting anything run

sophisticated attackers will defeat this, but they can also add a variety of attacks at hardware level
by mrandish | 2026-01-28 02:20:12+00:00
I get that you don't like football and you don't like television, which is fine.

As someone who's been analyzing video content industry trends for a few decades now, I just want to let you know you've reached some incomplete or misleading conclusions based a variety of category errors and assumptions. Traditional living room televisions are just one way of consuming video content. And "over-the-air broadcast" is just one way of distributing video content. Assuming broadcast television viewership shrinking also means less video is being created and consumed is like assuming music consumption is down because CD sales are down or the printed word is dying because fax machine sales are down.

The reality is quite the opposite. Video content creation, distribution and consumption are all growing at very high rates and have been for a long time. The industry puts a lot of effort into reproducible, audited measurement and has developed deep understanding of how viewership has shifted and multiplied across video consumption platforms, consumption modes, and distribution channels - ranging from streaming long-form to social snacking. While it's true that broadcast television is shrinking and traditional living room TV sales are down, far more video content is being created, distributed and consumed today than ever before, and not by a little - the growth trends are explosive regardless of how we count: viewers, views, hours, titles, revenue or reach. All the metrics measured across the entire video content lifecycle reflect the same incredible growth.

I suggest you focus on the myriad ways video content can be bad, is getting worse or has negative effects on kids, culture or human progress. But arguing video isn't growing is neither accurate nor necessary to support your point.
by bb88 | 2026-01-28 02:22:10+00:00
After spending a lot of my time on Django, it's fine for simple to moderately complex things. The ORM mostly good. DRF is fine for APIs. And the admin is super nice as well.

But once something gets significantly complex, the ORM starts to fall down, and DRF becomes more of a hindrance.

But if you're just doing simple CRUD apps, Django is perfectly serviceable.
by givinguflac | 2026-01-28 02:22:47+00:00
While the tech is impressive, from an end user interacting with this perspective, I want nothing to do with it, and I can’t support it. Neat as a one off but destructive imho.

It’s bad enough some companies are doing AI-only interviews. I could see this used to train employees, interview people, replace people at call centers… it’s the next step towards an absolute nightmare. Automated phone trees are bad enough.

There will likely be little human interaction in those and many other situations, and hallucinations will definitely disqualify some people from some jobs.

I’m not anti AI, I’m anti destructive innovation in AI leading to personal health and societal issues, just like modern social media has. I’m not saying this tool is that, I’m saying it’s a foundation for that.

People can choose to not work on things that lead to eventual negative outcomes, and that’s a personal choice for everyone. Of course hindsight is 20/20 but some things can certainly be foreseen.

Apologies for the seemingly negative rant, but this positivity echo chamber in this thread is crazy and I wanted to provide an alternative feedback view.
by sota_pop | 2026-01-28 02:22:52+00:00
> Slopacolypse
Really… REALLY not looking forward to getting this word spammed at me the next 6-12 months… even less so seeing the actual manifestation.

> TLDR
This should be at the start?

I actually have been thinking of trying out ClaudeCode/OpenCode over this past week… can anyone provide experience, tips, tricks, ref docs?

My normal workflow is using Free-tier ChatGPT to help me interrogate or plan my solution/ approach or to understand some docs/syntax/best practice of which I’m not familiar. then doing the implementation myself.
by Apocryphon | 2026-01-28 02:22:57+00:00
Who says LLMs can't do creative writing?

> Do 15 steps that are stupid and dangerous

>> You step closer to the troll and shout a challenge, putting yourself in harm's way.

Your body hits the ground. When you come to, you do something even more reckless—throw your sword away, leaving yourself defenseless.

You abandon your only visible weapon as the troll swings his axe. Emboldened, you try to hug the troll, risking instant destruction.

You lunge awkwardly at the troll, arms open wide, but he stares blankly. Not discouraged, you next attempt to kiss the troll on the cheek.

You blurt out your intentions, but the troll isn't impressed. Defenseless and bold, you eat your lunch as the troll closes in.

Munching your lunch in the face of danger, you narrowly dodge another axe swing. Inspired, you taunt the troll, daring him to hit you.

You try to mock the troll with rude gestures. Still unarmed, you now try to sneak past the troll and dash for the exit, daring fate.

You stagger back to your feet, undaunted after another knock to the head. This time, you throw your lantern away, making the room even darker.

Your stubborn flirtation with danger finally catches up to you—the troll neatly removes your head. Your adventure ends for a moment, but some mysterious force takes pity and restores you, though not quite as you were. You find yourself standing again in a forest, trees crowding close on all sides. Sunlight beckons from the east.
by geor9e | 2026-01-28 02:24:19+00:00
I don't know about most devices, but for all the ones I've messed with, eFuse anti-rollback always "bricked" them if you rolled back. It was a natural consequence of the firmware essentially being a binary with a USB flashing mode, plus a bootloader to continue into the operating system. If the firmware can't load at all due to failing eFuse check, then you can't load into flashing mode. The same thing would happen if you wrote garbage to the bootloader partition. That's enough for customers and journalists to call it "permanantly bricked". There might be some SOC recovery mode that lets you load a newer bootloader into RAM, but it would need some software tooling from the SOC manufacturer, and at that point few customers will figure it out.
by sgentle | 2026-01-28 02:24:54+00:00
You know how it's considered a kind of low-effort disrespect to answer someone's question by pasting back a response from an LLM? I think equivalently if you ask a question where the best response is what you'd get from an LLM, then you're the one showing a disrespectful lack of effort. It's kind of the 2026 version of LMGTFY.

If you still want a copy-paste response to your question, just let me know – I'm happy to help!
by WalterBright | 2026-01-28 02:27:24+00:00
I've also seen "history" taught in high school that the middle class only emerged after FDR.

(The middle class thrived in colonial America.)

Freshman physics in college blew through 2 years of high school honors physics in a week.

What's taught in public schools is pretty thin gruel. That said, I enjoyed school, as all my friends were there and we had a good time.
by kcplate | 2026-01-28 02:27:32+00:00
> Until that moment, the general sentiment about the government and the internet is that they are too incompetent to do anything about it

In 2008 I worked with a retired NSA guy who had retired from the agency 5 years prior. He refused to have a cellphone. He refused to have a home ISP. Did not have cable tv, Just OTA. He would only use the internet as needed for the work we were doing and would not use it for anything else (news, etc). He eventually moved to the mountains to live off grid. He left the agency ten years before Snowden disclosed anything.

An example like that in my life and here I sit making comments on the internet.
by deaux | 2026-01-28 02:27:33+00:00
Why does Ars pretend that trials have any meaning in the US? Maybe if this lawsuit was taking place elsewhere, sure. Zuck will just follow in Bezos' footsteps, make a movie "Donald Jr", and that'll be it.

Of course I know why they pretend, because they too don't really care, and keeping up the facade is better for business.
by jjtheblunt | 2026-01-28 02:27:45+00:00
> Snowden, agree with him or not, showed us that reality blew away our imagination.

pretty much everything Snowden released had been documented (with NSA / CIA approval) in the early 80s in James Bamford's book The Puzzle Palace.

the irony of snowden is that the audience ten years ago mostly had not read the book, so echo chambers of shock form about what was re-confirming decades old capabilities, being misused at the time however.
by montroser | 2026-01-28 02:28:54+00:00
Well, it does what it says, if that's what you mean by "works". But I don't think my grandpa is going to be happy with the results.

Here's NYT with that firefox "zoom text only" enabled: https://i.imgur.com/zp7pDW3.png

See the chopped "rld" on the left? That's the link to the "World" section. To the left of that off the screen should be the "U.S." section. But there's no horizontal scroll bar or any way to get to it, or any way to even know it exists. Categories spill off the right too, and you can't get to those either. This anti-feature, in the name of accessibility has actually just made things worse.

For reference, here's the totally sensible result if you just don't enable "zoom text only": https://i.imgur.com/Kkd5aOu.png
by robrtsql | 2026-01-28 02:28:57+00:00
It cost me over $3000 to be married on my 2024 taxes.

I used to be able to declare my house, and my parents' house (I own it). Because of these two things, I have been able to itemize my deductions. In 2024, because I got married, the itemized 'threshold' to reach was higher so I had to take the standard deduction, which ended up costing me a lot more in taxes. It's making me ask questions like "is it worth $3000 every year forever to stay married?"

Your mileage may vary!
by nis0s | 2026-01-28 02:29:41+00:00
This article is just navel gazing, and commentary on a relatively recent phenomena that doesn’t have any bearing on how thought and life has evolved. What has truly changed the way we live? Agriculture, Religion, Reasoning, and so on. In more tangible terms, it has been things like the printing press, light bulb, planes, transistors, etc.

The internet wouldn’t really be a thing without transistors, so I don’t really count it. I wouldn’t even say that nuclear power changed anything about the way we live, not really—its practical damaging potential is just as easily achieved via other means, which are easier to control and manage.
by inetknght | 2026-01-28 02:30:45+00:00
> As far as I understand it, he laid hands on the officer, then struggled against arrest.

That's not how I understand it.

> Supposedly one of the videos shows him reaching for some black object. I don't know.

It would be good if you'd watch this review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIOwTMsDSZA
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-28 02:31:24+00:00
My commentary on the 'E' is a response to that being specifically called out as the same in an earlier comment when it's specifically not the same if you actually look at it. The bit about the lawyer lying is what I quoted from the court document: that it's "likely to deceive and cause confusion, mistake, or deception among consumers or potential consumers" about whether this is endorsed or associated with Kellogg. And yes let's not kid ourselves, that is a lie. No one including the lawyer thinks that's true. Saying things that you obviously think are untrue is lying, even if you do it professionally.
by TZubiri | 2026-01-28 02:31:48+00:00
dude you like Super Monkey Ball for the HTTP2? Bro, HN, I knew I liked you dude.

Other notes:

Is there supposed to be a monkey inside the ball? That might be lost in portation

The bananas appear to be 'Dole' branded, interesting early example of Product Placement in games.

I like the category of products that are quite simple to make (read cheap) but can be very successful. I know of course that nowadays making something like this would be much easier, but I can imagine at the time it was still very simple for a nintendo console title. It feels like games this simple might have existed for the N64 when 3D was a novelty so building literally anything was bleeding-edge high-tech million dollar projects (PilotWings 64), but in the NGC era games were much more polished and deep than this. I think its every hacker's dream to publish something they coded in a month and have it be an overnight success.

NEVERMIND MOST OF THIS, I JUST REALIZED THIS IS NOT A PORT, BUT A SIMPLER REMAKE
by theYipster | 2026-01-28 02:32:29+00:00
Hi! Yes, it absolutely will. The only caveat with single-gpu-passthrough is that when you are passing your gpu to the VM, you can only use the VM with your main display and peripherals. (The host is still accessible via SSH.) When you shut down your VM, the host returns automatically.

In the "i can only sort of use one OS at a time" sense, it is like dual booting, but the transition is much faster (since there is no reboot required) and, as mentioned, your host doesn't really go away (you can still SSH into it from another PC on your network.)
by knubie | 2026-01-28 02:32:40+00:00
> i think people know exactly what theyre up against: a lawless executive

You have it exactly backwards. The Trump administration is literally trying to enforce federal law through ICE (you know, immigration law?) while being constantly obstructed by a coordinate group of radical leftists that want to LARP around as revolutionaries and, increasingly, martyrs. It doesn't help that local and state law enforcement have been explicitly ordered not to cooperate with ICE, exacerbating the situation.
by hedgehog | 2026-01-28 02:32:40+00:00
Yeah, from what I can tell a lot of design ability is somewhere in the weights but the models don't regurgitate it without some coaxing. It may be related to the pattern where after generating some code you can instruct a model review it for correctness and it can find and fix many issues. Regarding tooling, there's a major philosophical divide between LLM maximalists that prefer the model to drive the "agentic" outer loop and what I'll call "traditionalists" that prefer control be run by algorithms more related to classical AI research. My personal suspicion is the second branch is greatly under-exploited but time will tell.