MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buttyuknow | 2026-01-06 19:45:53+00:00
So the group synced a dumb bias. It must change. Not the author; they provided qualitative evidence that was not their intent. Update your opinion and perspective with that new evidence.

Imo it's on the individual members of the groupthinkers to realize a math term (negatives are a thing in math) applied to mathematical data is not a qualitative attack on anyone; they must accept the groupthink has lost the plot.

Consensus isn't always preferable. See religion.

The context is obviously a mathematical analysis and math comes with negatives.

If the critiques had actual substance to contribute to the world they wouldn't be so easily offended. Publishing low effort complaints that are little more than demands by far away randos to better to conform to their arbitrary standards is a laughable expectation. Internet randos can pound sand; they prop up nothing individually or collectively given most forums are a few thousand to tens of thousands of unique people with a platform but no real democratic power.

Social media hyper-normalizing sentiment is just empowering social bullying by pressuring people doing the necessary work to think include the bike-shedding of non-contributors. Whole bunch of farm animals want to eat bread while letting the rooster do the work.
by blindstitch | 2026-01-06 19:46:12+00:00
I had my directions reversed, so the extra reach doesn't really apply, I suppose, but I think aligned to the right side (when looking into the lens) is even worse. I maybe see what you mean about your hand hitting the body, but i actually want that; my grip has me resting the body along much of my left hand and cradled in my palm. That is really important to stability for me, it gives me an extra stop to work with.

All personal preference I guess!
by godelski | 2026-01-06 19:46:21+00:00
> iOS:

- uBlock Origin now exists
- Settings > Apps > Safari > (General) Extensions > uBlock Origin Lite
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698

- Alternatively, use Orion Browser (Kagi)
- Pros: a bit better ad blocking
- Cons: more buggy
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orion-browser-by-kagi/id1484498200

I'd also recommend installing Firefox, logging in, but use Safari. That way you can export a tab to Firefox where you can still get the send tabs feature.

> Firefox as a whole:

Also check out BetterFox
- https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox

Side Note:

Phones are also general computer systems. Fuck this bullshit of pretending they're anything less. If you don't have control over your computer, your computer is broken. You don't have to be forced to adhere to Big Tech's short comings.

> Andriod:

- Install Termux (from F-droid, not Playstore)
- It is trivial to write scripts to handle a lot of things that work through third parties. Less than 100 lines. I find these scripts *better* than many app alternatives and infinitely more trustworthy. We're on HN, everyone here should be able to write basic scripts. Hell, the AI could probably do these things easily (make it use functions! Bash needs functions!)
Some ideas to show scope of what you can do:
- Automated backups: just a fucking rsync to your folders (god fuck Apple, why can't I rsync my pictures on an iPhone!!!!)
- I have my script check for WiFi. If on my SSID I rsync locally. If not, I go through Tailscale. If not on WiFi I don't backup, minimizing my data usage. I'm lazy and just set the cron job to run once a day, making each backup usually pretty small but can cause larger backups when traveling
- rsync can also remove files from your phone if you're concerned about storage.
- You can backup to multiple locations! Even if you use google drive or whatever you should still rsync to your local machine. Remember, Google photos doesn't save full resolution.

- Loss Prevention: Your phone hasn't accessed a set of predetermined WIFI SSIDs in a set time period? Send a file to a known computer (Tailscale), email yourself, or something else with the device's coordinates. Add an easing function, check battery health, and whatever info you want. Hell, even take pictures. You can also make it play music or whatever to help find it.

- Replicate Apple's Check In:
- You can read GPS coordinates, SSIDs, and send SMS messages. This is a lot easier than you think

- Enforce the actual WIFI SSID you want!
- Phone sometimes jumping on the wrong SSID? Have no fear a few lines of code can tell it to fuck off!
- I had this issue living in graduate housing where a university AP was near my unit. My phone would randomly decide to join the uni's connection despite sitting a few feet from my router and having better signal strength...

- Install Tailscale and get access to your local machines remotely
- Setup a raspberry pi at home and make an exit node that uses pihole (suggestion: check out systemd-nspawn)
by Lammy | 2026-01-06 19:46:35+00:00
They've been planning this outcome for a long time. Here's Larry Ellison in 1997: https://youtu.be/Bk1_btV3oIk?t=402

“The personal computer was designed as a standalone device. There was no Internet around 1981 when the PC was invented. There weren't a lot of local area networks and corporations and schools and government agencies [online] back in 1981. The world has changed — there are networks everywhere; around the world and offices and schools and major governments and institutions. So why not have computer networks that are similar to television networks or telephone networks?

A television network is enormously complicated; it's got satellites and microwave relay stations and cable headends and recording studios, and you have this huge professionally-managed network accessed by a very low cost and simple appliance: the television.

Anyone can learn to use a television. 97% percent of American households have televisions. 94% of American households have telephones. They can have very simple appliance attached to enormously complex professionally-managed network. Why shouldn't the computer network be just the same?”
by Tallain | 2026-01-06 19:46:37+00:00
When I looked for a Plex alternative I settled on Emby. It still has some "premium" features but they're all just QOL, not necessary things. The base app is great and even has handy little features Plex doesn't, and so far, it runs on all the same devices with a much snappier UX on the client side.
by fooblaster | 2026-01-06 19:46:45+00:00
The versal stuff isn't really an FPGA anymore. The chips have PL on them, but many don't. The consumer NPUs from AMD are the same versal aie cores with no PL. They just aren't configurable blocks in fabric anymore and don't have the same programming model. So I'm not contradicting myself here.

That being said, versal aie for ml has been a terrible failure. The reasons for why are complicated. One reason is because the memory hierarchy for SRAM is not a unified pool. It's partitioned into tiles and can't be accessed by all cores. additionally, access of this SRAM is only via dma engines and not directly from the cores. Thirdly, the datapaths for feeding the VLIW cores are statically set, and require a software configuration to change at runtime which is slow. Programming this thing makes the cell processor look like a cakewalk. You gotta program dma engines, you program hundreds of VLIW cores, you need to explicitly setup on chip network fabric. I could go on.

Anyway, my point is FPGAs aren't getting ML slices. Some FPGAs do have a completely separate thing that can do ML, but what is shipped is terrible. Hopefully that makes sense.
by toast0 | 2026-01-06 19:46:54+00:00
Google gives me this for 3588 https://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/3/8/381-intern...

I guess giving up a life of computing and starting a life of vintage tractorring is pretty compelling, but I don't think they're making new batches of 1981 tractors; but who knows what VW is up to these days.

OTOH, DuckDuckGo gave me California tax forms. No thanks!
by kube-system | 2026-01-06 19:46:54+00:00
No, there are very few markets in which all of the buyers have perfect information.

It is extremely common in the science/technology sector that buyers aren't looking for a solution to a problem they have because they are under the impression that a solution doesn't exist.

The archetypal business-school case study for this is the story of Viagra. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/27/viagra...

But it applies to most new technology in a less dramatic sense.
by fusslo | 2026-01-06 19:46:57+00:00
It's kinda shocking to me how people are so willing to give tools to government agencies to track, spy, find, dox, and identify fellow citizens.

I guess I grew up drinking the 'American culture is one of mistrust of government' cool-aide, rather than 'American government has deep pockets' fruit punch.

I'm not sure if it's just an evolution of the times, or an actual erosion of principals (since when? 9/11?)
by iamnothere | 2026-01-06 19:47:11+00:00
Exactly, Popper recognized that the paradox was not a rule or even a suggestion, but was rather a problem without a clear solution. That’s why he named it as such.

Besides, Popper isn’t a god nor is he the only one with an opinion on this problem. Rawls for instance thought that only in exceptional circumstances should intolerance be suppressed. Popper’s paradox also isn’t anything special, literally every theory of human rights can be attacked by finding specific cases in which exceptions must be made for self protection. These exceptions do not invalidate those rights nor the necessity for them.
by jader201 | 2026-01-06 19:47:44+00:00
I think the argument is that they shouldn't be opt-out, but opt-in.

If I want to play a game and provide my feedback, the default should be that that doesn't happen unless I explicitly say it should.

Opt-out means that, by default, you're collecting metrics from my plays, until I find the means to opt-out.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-06 19:47:59+00:00
Valve changed its Steam Store's ToS, so officially it means Steam users no longer own the content they purchased in it, they merely bought a subscription to rent it for a while, until the game publisher decides to revoke the online content at any time they choose.

TakeTwo Interactive (2K Games, the makers of popular games series Borderlands) changed its ToS to allow it to spy on and capture anything on the user's machine, including browser behaviors (websites visited, bookmarks saved, etc.), payment information (credit card details, etc.), programs installed & usage, etc.

Gaming industry has moved on to become evil, by default. Most AAA games these days cannot even be played without an internet connection. And most AAA games demand intrusive DRMs, and same games demand the dangerous kernel-level DRMs like Denuvo which cannot be monitored by major antimalware.
by nkaz123 | 2026-01-06 19:48:05+00:00
I accepted the bugginess in the browser game as unavoidable, and probably had too much faith in the LLM implementations, but I did a bit more troubleshooting than mentioned. The progressive improvement over episodes (and intuitively that PPO > the others) gave me some confidence, and I've since used a similar setup on 2048 with more results showing improvement over episode: https://wandb.ai/noahpunintended/2048-raspberry-pi?nw=nwuser...
by codyb | 2026-01-06 19:48:44+00:00
Nobody builds anything modularly.

It's very weird. I've come into codebases at my current big co where 15 tables that all looked and acted exactly as terribly as one another (no sorting, no discernible sort, no filtering, limited page sizes, no search beyond CMD/CTRL-F)

And they were all built out one by one, every time.

What a mess, why! I consolidated everything down and am now bringing up both an App URL Param library other folks can use, a generic resource engine other folks can use, and a table engine which combines the two to give you most table functionality with a simple config and passing in the resources (We're internal tooling for small record sets so a lot can be handled on the front end since resource baseline can be assumed and customer count is low).

Even when you build things modularly people will give you grief. It's over engineered. Well, you say that, except it's testable at the unit level, easy to slide in to other use cases (which the test cases help ensure resiliancy for old and new), small, not nested, discoverable, flat, easy to read, and easy to maintain.

So sure, took a couple of extra hours of legwork up front compared to just dropping everything into a single React function as is the standard round these parts, but the benefits are clear.
by tristor | 2026-01-06 19:48:57+00:00
The camera they want is also the camera I want. I say this as someone who still regularly shoots with an Olympus Pen-F and also has a Fuji X100VI, and primarily shoots a Nikon Z8 but wishes there was a more compact entry into FF. I actually really like the m4/3/MFT format, especially for travel photography, but it's a struggle because the best lenses are Pana/Leica and the best bodies are OM/Oly, and neither has done much to really develop the technology in the last 10 years. MFT feels dead, but even as a dead format, nothing compares to the size/weight flexibility it gives you.
by roncesvalles | 2026-01-06 19:49:33+00:00
Some of it could also be a plain Darwinian numbers game. Facebook was neither the first nor the only social media of its kind. There were hundreds of failed attempts at similar social media, counting those that died in obscurity.

When Google attempted their Facebook clone, it was just one of the many who took a spin at the wheel. It was always more likely to have failed than succeeded.

Building a B2C with hysteric adoption is difficult because it's very mysterious what elements of the product will actually lead to success, because it's a psychological thing. E.g., if Facebook chose green instead of blue as their theme color (all else equal), it might've died in obscurity.
by apparent | 2026-01-06 19:49:36+00:00
When I was traveling in Asia I was sometimes on VPN and sometimes not. I noticed that when I was not on VPN I got a lot more unskippable youtube ads than when I was, even though I was using the same browser and adblockers.

Apparently Google knows how to circumvent adblockers, and they're testing these tools in certain markets.
by AnMakc | 2026-01-06 19:49:48+00:00
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I've been mostly working in startup-like atmosphere as engineering lead.
Love handling integrations with custom hardware and research teams, working on hardware products.
For 3 years have been at Google (infrastructure and Chrome).

Would prefer to be paid in crypto.
by engineer_22 | 2026-01-06 19:50:08+00:00
Maybe every advanced social system has a propensity towards totalitarianism. Similar criticisms can easily be foisted on feudalism, mercantilism, socialism, anarchism, etc. I think in Western Liberal Capitalism there's still space for a middle class. More, it appears the peculiar features of this system have enabled it to unlock tremendous social vigor and provide for the People historic material wealth. Perhaps what's missing in this system isn't material...
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-06 19:50:31+00:00
Hehe, my wife is from there, for the first few years she lived in Orlando I would crack jokes about how bad it is down there, noticed she was getting offended so I pulled back, but the last three times we've gone down there she swears up and down Miami drivers are the worst. Of course Orlando has I-4 as well, which is, its own special place.
by tgtweak | 2026-01-06 19:50:34+00:00
There is definitely a turn-based minigame here - get the most "distance" travelled by the horse, every turn the horse moves one block towards it's closest escape and you can drop walls to cause it to find a new path - in this one you actually lose when the horse can't get out but the goal is to get the horse to move as many blocks as possible using your limited number of walls (or apples which can attract it).
by voxleone | 2026-01-06 19:50:34+00:00
Regarding the “supersonic is now viable because LNG” argument, but for a different reason than usual.

Even if supersonic flight becomes cheaper via new fuels or propulsion, that doesn’t reset the baseline. The same advances (materials, engines, fuel handling, manufacturing) will also apply to subsonic aircraft, where the physics are already far more energy-efficient. So if supersonic gets “cheap,” traditional jets will get much cheaper. Airlines will always arbitrage toward the lowest energy-per-seat-km for most routes, and supersonic flight is structurally disadvantaged there (drag, noise, routing constraints).

Historically, faster transport doesn’t replace slower transport wholesale; it creates a premium tier while pushing the mass market down to a lower cost/energy equilibrium. Concorde didn’t kill widebodies, widebodies got cheaper. My intuition: supersonic may of course exist as a niche (time-sensitive, premium), but its biggest impact would be indirect, accelerating efficiency gains that make conventional aviation even more dominant and cheaper.
by dieggsy | 2026-01-06 19:50:35+00:00
Gmail is a product, but the comment wasn't saying "Gmail the product deserves to be shamed... ", more like "the Gmail team/devs/company deserves to be shamed...", which is why the plural still made sense to me (given the omission of an explicit "team"). The singular makes sense to me too.

In any case, I wasn't really interested in correcting or proving anyone right or wrong, just pointing out an interesting linguistic detail and where the grammar may have come from.
by 1shooner | 2026-01-06 19:50:42+00:00
>Why almost all traffic jams occur is distracted and poor driving.

Traffic jams most often occur during periods of peak usage (rush hour). How much of this is attributable to driver attention vs the inherent inefficiency of many independent vehicles attempting to coordinate speed, position, exiting, entering, etc? I don't take for granted that independent (vs synchronized) FSD would be significantly better.
by denizkavi | 2026-01-06 19:51:02+00:00
In this case the input to the model is the input structure of the protein target, i.e. you can define the whole search space for it to try to find a binder/drug against. We let you pick a preset recipe to follow at the top, which basically are common ways people are using this protocol for. The model itself can find a pocket, or the user can specify it if they know ahead of time. There is a very customizable variant for this tool, where you can set distances between individual atoms, make a custom scaffold for your starting molecule, but 90% of the time, the presets tend to be sufficient.

Runs vary significantly between models/protocols used, some generative models can take several hours, while some will run a few seconds. We have tools that would screen against DBs if the goal is to find an existing molecule to act against the target, but often, people will import and existing starting point and modify it or design completely novel ones on the platform.
by AlexandrB | 2026-01-06 19:51:03+00:00
> chartering your own jet

Honestly, this seems like the place to start with supersonic technology. The very wealthy are price-insensitive and would be ok paying 3-4x as much to get somewhere 2x faster. A good place to prove the technology, infrastructure, and market opportunity before cost-optimizing to try to get interest from mass-market travellers.
by 9rx | 2026-01-06 19:51:03+00:00
> and is not capitalism and communism in opposition.

Hard to say. The prevailing assumption, and basis for the Communist Party (on paper, at least), is that capitalists will try to block reaching a state of post-scarcity — the necessary precondition for communism. This is why they are sometimes considered to be at odds with each other.

They don't have to be. And thus far they don't seem to be. Capitalism, and especially American capitalism, has done far more to getting us closer to post-scarcity than anything else, with US-centric agriculture innovation being the shining example. We're almost there in that particular area.

But we're not there yet and things can quickly turn. It is apparent in that agriculture progress that the capitalists remain deathly afraid of losing control (see the tales of Monsanto, John Deere, etc.), which is exactly the foundation on which the assumption is built.
by seanhunter | 2026-01-06 19:51:13+00:00
This is a great example of persuasive, but superficial, analysis.

1) It may well be a dumb thing they do, but is this really "why big companies keep failing?" There's no real examination of this causal assertion which seems central.

2) Is it really the "stack"? That is to say, do people really assume that just the layer above them is trivial? I see engineers all the time assume that basically everything they don't understand is trivial. For example Elon Musk's famous assertion that the hyperloop is "Basically just like an air hockey table. It's not that hard". Well in turns out air hockey pucks don't need to transport people, g-forces aren't important for air hockey versus not murdering your passengers is quite important for a public transport system. Air hockey pucks don't need to breathe versus people do which makes the vacuum part quite critical and challenging especially since you have to figure out how to get people in and out without rupture. To think of it as like air hockey you are assuming that all interesting/challenging parts of the problem are trivial. To be clear: I think that this hubris is basically essential for innovation. I really don't think people would ever innovate if they worried too much about every small detail of things, but this is why a large proportion of experiments by everyone (big and small companies alike) fail. I don't think the layer above you in the stack is the important part here and the article doesn't examine whether that characteristic is important.
Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies
by silverrump | 2026-01-06 19:51:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I built DevicePrint after running into problems with
duplicate accounts and unreliable cookies in my own projects.

DevicePrint is a lightweight device fingerprinting tool
designed for developers. It helps identify devices across sessions
without relying on cookies.

Use cases include fraud detection, preventing duplicate signups,
and security-sensitive workflows.

I'd really appreciate feedback — especially around privacy
concerns or edge cases you’ve run into.

Link: https://deviceprint.io
by scottbez1 | 2026-01-06 19:51:30+00:00
It’s a simple idea but one that hadn’t occurred to me yet.

I spend hours each week riding transit, and use Claude for a bunch of side projects and have Tailscale set up already, so looks like I’ll be giving this a try this week!

Doom coding might be doomed while I’m in the transbay tube though, with awful cell service…

How’s the diff review? I rely heavily on the vs code integration for nice side by side diffs, so losing that might be a problem unless there’s some way to launch the diffs into a separate diff viewer app on the phone.
by ghaff | 2026-01-06 19:51:47+00:00
I don't love being on a plane for a very long stretch, even in business class. And IMO food is very mid-tier restaurant. But I don't necessarily disagree with your comment. Even with transport and airport conveniences that a relatively modest amount of money can buy, there's plenty that can go wrong and you can avoid all the other people to only a certain degree.