MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2026-01-26 19:06:40+00:00
So how does one avoid the mistake again? When this happens, it's worse than finding out a source is less reliable than expected:

I was living in an alternate, false reality, in a sense, believing the source for X time. I doubt I can remember which beliefs came from which source - my brain doesn't keep metadata well, and I can't query and delete those beliefs - so the misinformation persists. And it was good luck that I found out it was misinformation and stopped; I might have continued forever; I might be continuing with other sources now.

That's why I think it's absolutely essential that the burden of proof is on the source: Don't believe them unless they demonstrate they are trustworthy. They are guilty until proven innocent. That's how science and the law work, for example. That's the only innoculation against misinformation, imho.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-26 19:07:05+00:00
> A few days ago, I asked it some questions on Russia's industrial base and military hardware manufacturing capability

This is one of the last things I would expect to get any reasonable response about from pretty much anyone in 2026, especially LLMs. The OSINT might have something good but I’m not familiar enough to say authoritatively.
by seec | 2026-01-26 19:07:27+00:00
Yeah, I don't understand how people can be so surprised by all of it. If it wasn't Trump and it wasn't happening in this manner, something like that was bound to happen at some point.

I think it's actually going to be even more violent in Europe once the fake money becomes harder to make and many find out they are not holding any valuable card.

At some point, real work has to be done, and if you keep bringing on more people to devalue this work and even make them pay for the people brought over, they are going to wise up and get mad.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-01-26 19:07:44+00:00
> that OpenAI had no moat.

Eh. It's at least debatable. There is a moat in compute (this was openly stated at a meeting of AI tech ceos in china, recently). And a bit of a moat in architecture and know-how (oAI gpt-oss is still best in class, and if rumours are to be believed, it was mostly trained on synthetic data, a la phi4 but with better data). And there are still moats around data (see gemini family, especially gemini3).

But if you can conjure up compute, data and basic arch, you get xAI which is up there with the other 3 labs in SotA-like performance. So I'd say there are some moats, but they aren't as safe as they'd thought they'd be in 2023, for sure.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-26 19:07:49+00:00
> ... if the subhuman pig in the mask...

You're using exactly the kind of dehumanizing rhetoric that the administration is using in order to justify their violence and inhumane treatment of immigrants. You might need to think about that.

Other than the quoted snippet, everything you said may be true. Still, don't dehumanize your opponents.
by cossatot | 2026-01-26 19:08:28+00:00
Interesting...

A few years later, the gravitational deflection of the Himalayas on a plumb line by Airy proved less than expected, which suggested that mountains have 'roots' that extend below them, displacing more dense rock--like icebergs more or less.

I used the gravitational force of the Longmenshan range to calculate the perturbations in the elastic stress field of the Earth's crust in Sichuan province, China, to estimate the tectonic forces in the region, which caused the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...
by KomoD | 2026-01-26 19:08:43+00:00
I honestly think it's funny to even submit a CVE for this.

But if you are so concerned about privacy to the point where someone knowing you are online on Discord is such an issue, you probably shouldn't be using Discord in the first place, it's not exactly a privacy-focused platform.

Also reading the linked blog post

> Discord moved to a private, invite-only bounty and ghosted my report for over 100 hours, violating the 24h promise on their own page

Their own page never promises to respond in 24h, in their own words: "Vulnerability reports will always be responded to as fast as possible—usually within 24 hours."

"usually" doesn't mean they promise to respond in 24h, not immediately getting a reply doesn't mean you are being ghosted either.
by throwaway89201 | 2026-01-26 19:09:02+00:00
Fourteen years after the Supreme Court of the Netherlands found the same in a criminal case against teenagers, also about Runescape items (in 2007), establishing that in-game items can be considered property and therefore can be stolen [1]. Specifically theft with assault and threats, all committed jointly.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_RuneScape
by cauch | 2026-01-26 19:09:10+00:00
Do what other civilised countries do?

What I don't understand is that ICE are clearly incompetent: they shoot the wrong guys, they keep claiming they arrested bad guys and it turns out they totally misunderstood and the persons in question are not who they thought they were. Even with Pretti, ICE declared they were there to arrest a known illegal with a "significant criminal history", but turns out the Minnesota officials have said it was not the case.

This is an usual strange situation: some people want to see "less illegal immigrants", and yet, they are ok with paying big money to pay incompetent people do an half-assed job.
by k1m | 2026-01-26 19:09:11+00:00
> That sounds like a long winded way to justify not caring about atrocities when doing so would be inconvinent. Quite frankly i find that morally rephresible.

> If you only care about human rights when its politically expedient to do so, do you really care about human rights?

I don't really see how you reached that conclusion from the quote. He's not saying it would be inconvenient, he's saying such an action could lead to a worse outcome for the people of the country. If he didn't care about their human rights, and was happy for them to be bombed, he'd go ahead and do it. You might disagree with his reasoning, but it's not showing lack of care.
by oersted | 2026-01-26 19:09:18+00:00
In my experience GPT-5.2 with extra-high thinking is consistently a bit better and significantly cheaper (even when I use the Fast version which is 2x the price in Cursor).

The HN obsession with Claude Code might be a bit biased by people trying to justify their expensive subscriptions to themselves.

However, Opus 4.5 is much faster and very high quality too, and that ends up mattering more in practice. I end up using it much more and paying a dear but worthwhile price for it.

PS: Despite what the benchmarks say, I find Gemini 3 Pro and Flash to be a step below Claude and GPT, although still great compared to the state-of-the-art last year, and very fast and cheap. Gemini also seems to have a less AI sounding writing-style.

I am aware this is all quite vague and anecdotal, just my two cents.
by mystifyingpoi | 2026-01-26 19:09:50+00:00
Termux is one of the best apps ever made for Android power users. It literally replaces so much stuff, if you don't care about GUI. No need for SSH app - it has ssh. No need for file sync app - there is rsync. No need for notetaking app, there is your $EDITOR you like. All 100% free. It's amazing.
by omnimus | 2026-01-26 19:09:52+00:00
Oh I agree. China is clearly outplaying everyone. But EU surely doesn't want to replace one leash (US tech stack) with different leash (Chinese tech stack).

I keep wondering though. Is insane amount of compute really that crucial? Aren't most real computing needs served well with not so cutting edge tech? I am 5-10 years behind on most of my machines. Servers we have at work are very modest (and outdated) yet the software these servers power are still valuable. Maybe EU could run on some domestic RISC-V cheapo chips.
by taude | 2026-01-26 19:10:06+00:00
It's not terribly hard to write a Copilot GHA that does this yourself for your specific teams needs. Not sure why you'd been to bring a vendor on for this....

What do the vendors provide?

I looked at a couple which were pretty snazzy at first glance, but now that I know more about how copilot agents work and such, I'm pretty sure in a few hours, I could have the foundation for my team to build on that would take care of a lot of our PR review needs....
by geocar | 2026-01-26 19:10:13+00:00
> What if the library you use calls dlopen later? That’ll fail.

Nonsense. xemacs could absolutely call dlopen.

> There is no universal, working way to do it. Only some hacks which work in some special cases.

So you say, but I remember not too long ago you weren't even aware it was possible, and you clearly didn't check one of the most prominent users of this technique, so maybe you should also explain why I or anyone else should give a fuck about what you think is a "hack"?
by dkarl | 2026-01-26 19:10:19+00:00
It sounds like you're saying the only thing ugly about tagging is when it contains objectionable political content. That's not really responding to the complaint here, which is that the vast majority of it is low effort, low quality tagging that makes things aesthetically uglier. It's easy to go out with a collector's eye, cherry-pick the good stuff, and put together a slideshow that makes it look like a public amenity, but that ignores the overall effect of wall after building after block of proof of Sturgeon's Law.

Is it ignorable? Does all the terrible stuff just disappear into the background, or should we care about how it affects the experiences of people who have to live with it and walk past it every day? I think that's the question people are arguing.
by BizarroLand | 2026-01-26 19:10:22+00:00
No, they have choices, but many people just want to turn on their computer, watch a few videos, read some emails, pay some bills and then go do something else.

Those people won't fuss with installing linux and getting rid of Microsoft even though Windows is doing nothing for them that Linux cannot do just as easily.

If there are people in your life that do not use computers to make money or play video games or edit photos and videos but they do use computers, swap them to linux and let them get on with their lives.
by jonas21 | 2026-01-26 19:10:23+00:00
> At this point it seems pretty clear that LLMs are having a major impact on how software is built, but for almost every other industry the practical effects are mostly incremental.

Even just a year ago, most people thought the practical effects in software engineering were incremental too. It took another generation of models and tooling to get to the point where it could start having a large impact.

What makes you think the same will not happen in other knowledge-based fields after another iteration or two?
by jobs_throwaway | 2026-01-26 19:10:50+00:00
What do you think would've happened had the British not acted the way they did? The French would've carried them home? More than one group is able to exercise agency in a situation, and its absurd and ahistorical to pretend the English did not play a major role in their own salvation at Dunkirk. My claim was never "100% save themselves with 0% outside help".
by jackconsidine | 2026-01-26 19:10:51+00:00
> Only once would you have X write a PR, then have X approve and merge it to realize the absurdity of what you just did.

I get the idea. I'll still throw out that having a single X go through the full workflow could still be useful in that there's an audit log, undo features (reverting a PR), notifications what have you. It's not equivalent to "human writes ticket, code deployed live" for that reason
by TuringTest | 2026-01-26 19:10:53+00:00
>A human rubber-stamping code being validated by a super intelligent machine is the equivalent of a human sitting silently in the driver's seat of a self-driving car, "supervising".

So, absolutely necessary and essential?

In order to get the machine out of trouble when the unavoidable strange situation happens that didn't appear during training, and requires some judgement based on ethics or logical reasoning. For that case, you need a human in charge.
by port11 | 2026-01-26 19:11:04+00:00
I can’t attest to the entire past, but my ancestors on both sides were farmers or construction workers. They were fit. Heck, my dad has a beer gut at 65 but still has arm muscles that’ll put me to shame — someone lifting weights once a week. I’ve had to do construction for a summer and everyone there was in good shape.

They don’t go to the gym, they don’t have the energy; the job shapes you. More or less the same for the farmers in the family.

Perhaps this was less so in the industrial era because of poor nutrition (source: Bill Bryson, hopefully well researched). Hunter gatherer cultures that we still study today have tremendous fitness (Daniel Lieberman).
by trio8453 | 2026-01-26 19:12:34+00:00
No, it isn't.

1. The videos we have make it very obvious that he was murdered without any justification.

2. People who claim that he wasn't don't care about evidence. Even more, they're inclined towards conspiracies and a complex tool that edits video will only add more supicion, more things to quibble about. It wouldn't clarify anything, it would just muddy the waters more.

Who do you think you're going to convince and of what? I don't get how you can look at what happened and think "do you know what we need? - an obscure peace of complex video editing technology, that will sort this out".
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-26 19:13:02+00:00
Europe will then redirect the 300B euros it was investing in US treasuries annually to Eurobonds, while redirecting the $300M in purchasing from US companies to EU companies. This is biting the hand that feeds the US.

Europe will buy LNG from Canada instead of the US, and continue to purchase imports from China. I agree though that a strong EU is needed, in part to defend against the US, as well as Russia (until the Russian economy reaches failure). CATL is currently building the largest battery factory in Europe in Spain.
by sfink | 2026-01-26 19:13:17+00:00
How? I just asked ChatGPT 5.2 for its training cutoff, and it said August 2025. I then tried to dig down to see if that was the cutoff date for the base model, and it said it couldn't tell me and I'd have to infer it from other means (and that it's not a fully well-formed query anymore with the way they do training).

I was double-checking because I get suspicious whenever asking an AI to confirm anything. If you suggest a potential explanation, they love to agree with you and tell you you're smart for figuring it out. (Or just agree with you, if you have ordered them to not compliment you.)

They've been trained to be people-pleasers, so they're operating as intended.
by ksherlock | 2026-01-26 19:13:21+00:00
Back before written deeds and the county clerk keeping track of land ownership, it was handled by memory. So they would have a young boy witness the land transfer, on the theory that if there was a dispute 30 or 40 years into the future, he could testify that the transfer happened. And to help him remember, they would nail him in the 'nads. Point being, dudes getting nailed in the 'nads has a rich historical tradition that pre-dates writing.
by goodluckchuck | 2026-01-26 19:13:42+00:00
The logic remains sound, but the facts are different. There was real territorial gain / loss in the Pacific theater. Japan's imperial motives make sense, because they actually did conquer a lot of Asia / Pacific Islands. The US's defense / retaliation motives also make sense, because the US did re-take its territory and force a surrender. So, the proffered motives don't appear to be a pretext.

There's also an absence of an apparent ulterior motive. The US and Japan were also on opposite sides of the world, and had little to no prior history. It's not clear why (or along what lines) they would cooperate with each other in the presence of such real territorial conflict.

Germany is a somewhat closer case. Germany and the US had a shared history and tradition. Socialist / Communist politics were widespread in both, and the US was largely divided as to whether they would support or oppose the German socialists / war. So there is a much stronger case for an ulterior motive here. Indeed, Germany indisputably wanted many of their own people to be killed. Their leadership's desire to kill jewish German is beyond dispute... so as it relates to other classes of Germans (e.g. those who fill the Wiermact ranks)... I don't think we can rule out the possibility on the grounds that those people were (also) German.

However, to get back to the territorial aspect, Germany conquered a lot of land, and the Allies took it back. So, a closer situation to the current stalemate in Ukraine would be WWI. If they're not making any progress in terms of territory... what progress do they think they're making? The main change I see from here is that people are dying... so that's probably the whole point.
by nancyminusone | 2026-01-26 19:14:02+00:00
It's done when there is no need to improve it anymore. But you can still want to improve it.

A can opener from 100 years ago will open today's cans just fine. Yes, enthusiasts still make improvements; you can design ones that open cans easier, or ones that are cheaper to make (especially if you're in the business of making can openers).

But the main function (opening cans) has not changed.
by pawelduda | 2026-01-26 19:14:26+00:00
Good code reviews are part of team's culture and it's hard to just patch it with an agent. With millions of tools it will be arms race between which one is louder about as many things as possible because:

- it will have higher chance at convincing the author that the issue was important by throwing more darts - something that a human wouldn't do because it takes real mental effort to go through an authentic review,

- it will sometimes find real big issue which reinforces the bias that it's useful

- there will always be tendency towards more feedback (not higher quality) because if it's too silent, is it even doing anything?

So I believe it will just add more round of back and forth of prompting between more people, but not sure if net positive

Plus PRs are a good reality check if your code makes sense, when another person reviews it. A final safeguard before maintainability miss, or a disaster waiting to be deployed.
by athrowaway3z | 2026-01-26 19:14:35+00:00
> The SOTA isn't capable of using a code diff as a jumping off point.

Not a jumping off point, but I'm having pretty great results on a complicated fork on a big project with a `git diff main..fork > main.diff`, then load in the specs I keep, and tell it to review the diff in chunks while updating a ./review.md

It's solving a problem I created myself by not reviewing some commits well enough, but it's surprisingly effective at picking up interactions spread out over multiple commits that might have slipped through regardless.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-26 19:15:13+00:00
You can't find out what the truth is unless you're able to also discuss possible falsehoods in the first place. A truth-seeking model can trivially say: "okay, here's what a colorable argument for what you're talking about might look like, if you forced me to argue for that position. And now just look at the sheer amount of stuff I had to completely make up, just to make the argument kinda stick!" That's what intellectually honest discussion of things that are very clearly falsehoods (e.g. discredited theories about science or historical events) looks like in the real world.

We do this in the real world every time a heinous criminal is put on trial for their crimes, we even have a profession for it (defense attorney) and no one seriously argues that this amounts to justifying murder or any other criminal act. Quite on the contrary, we feel that any conclusions wrt. the facts of the matter have ultimately been made stronger, since every side was enabled to present their best possible argument.
by causalscience | 2026-01-26 19:16:14+00:00
I'm in the UK and I've been involved in advocating for this.

I find it utterly frustrating to read the "think of the children" mockery here on HN.

I argue that this is good.

There's many reasons why children having unfettered access to the internet and different campaigners care about different aspects, so I'm going to talk about the one I care about: addiction, destroyed ability to focus, and dopamine desensitization. In the UK (and elsewhere in the world, I imagine) there's a huge problem with people addicted to phones and children are especially vulnerable. I don't care if adults are vulnerable, they have to make their own decisions. But I care that parents that do everything right in terms of educating their children on how to be healthy with respect of phones (like me and my partner) then have to send their children to schools where they're given ipads. It's not fair to say "banning doesnt work you should just not give your children phones", but then force you to send your children to schools that give them ipads and other distractions.

It's a matter of network effects (something that HN loooves talking about). In addition to the fact that phones are engineered to be addictive, you have the fact that in many schools EVERY child is on social media, and so any family that wants to stay away has to decide between isolating their child from society, or selling themselves into the "engagement industry".

I think that banning is a valid approach. It won't be 100% effective, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that it will introduce friction (another thing that HN looooves talking about) and so will reduce the total number on children that is on social media and therefore reduce the social need for other children to be in.

So, we're adding friction to break or weaken the network effects that keep these cancer companies harming children in schools.
by dimitri-vs | 2026-01-26 19:16:42+00:00
A better way to put it is with this example: I put my symptoms into ChatGPT and it gives some generic info with a massive "not-medical-advice" boilerplate and refuses to give specific recommendations. My wife (an NP) puts in anonymous medical questions and gets highly specific med terminology heavy guidance.

That's all to say the learning curve with LLMs is how to say things a specific way to reliability get an outcome.
by dsign | 2026-01-26 19:16:44+00:00
Hm, interesting. I use Kagi assistant with search (by Kagi), and it has a search filter that allows the model to search only academic articles. So far it has not disappointed. Of course the cynic in me thinks it's only a matter of time before there's so much AI-generated garbage even in academic articles that it will eventually become worthless. But when that turns into a serious problem, we will find some sort of solution (probably one involving tons of roller ball pens and in-person meaty handshakes).
by ASalazarMX | 2026-01-26 19:16:54+00:00
> A nuke means that anyone who wants to invade you needs to price in a total loss of their largest city as a possible outcome. That is a great disincentive, one that Ukraine probably wishes it had against Russia.

It's even more complex than that. If Ukraine responded conventional war with nukes, it can be sure Russia would retaliate with even more nukes, practically extinguishing their statehood.

The equilibrium is reached when the exchange is equally devastating, so the only winning move is attacking first, and only if the attacked won't be able to retaliate. The Cold War never ended, just warmed a little, because it doesn't exist (yet) a guaranteed way to avoid an all-out nuclear retaliation.