MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nodja | 2026-01-20 23:45:06+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhBtg-lyKdo - 10 AIs Play Mafia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMLB_BxyRJ4 - 10 AIs Play Mafia: Vigilante Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwyUGkoLgwY - 1 Human vs 10 AIs Mafia
by jychang | 2026-01-20 23:46:17+00:00
You probably need to improve your internal LLM detector then. This obviously reads as LLM generated text.

- "This isn't just a "status" bug. It's a behavioral tracker."

- "It essentially xxxxx, making yyyyyy."

- As you mentioned, the headings

- A lack of compound sentences that don't use "x, but y" format.

This is clearly LLM generated text, maybe just lightly edited to remove some em dashes and stuff like that.

After you read code for a while, you start to figure out the "smell" of who wrote what code. It's the same for any other writing. I was literally reading a New Yorker article before this, and this is the first HN article I just opened today; the writing difference is jarring. It's very easy to smell LLM generated text after reading a few non-LLM articles.
by b112 | 2026-01-20 23:46:41+00:00
I get why you're questioning motives, I'm sure it's convenient for them at this time.

But age verification is all over the place. Entire countries (see Australia) have either passed laws, or have laws moving through legislative bodies.

Many platforms have voluntarily complied. I expect by 2030, there won't be a place on Earth where not just age verification, but identity is required to access online platforms. If it wasn't for all the massive attempts to subvert our democracies by state actors, and even political movements within democratic societies, it wouldn't be so pushed.

But with AI generated videos, chats, audio, images, I don't think anyone will be able to post anything on major platforms without their ID being verified. Not a chat, not an upload, nothing.

I think consumption will be age vetted, not ID vetted.

But any form of publishing, linked to ID. Posting on X. Anything.

I've fought for freedom on the Internet, grew up when IRC was a thing, knew more freedom on the net than most using it today. But when 95% of what is posted on the net, is placed there with the aim to harm? Harm our societies, our peoples?

Well, something's got to give.

Then conjoin that with the great mental harm that smart phones and social media do to youth, and.. well, anonymity on the net is over. Like I said at the start, likely by 2030.

(Note: having your ID known doesn't mean it's public. You can be registered, with ID, on X, on youtube, so the platform knows who you are. You can still be MrDude as an alias...)
by andrejk | 2026-01-20 23:47:15+00:00
I'd have to look at what it looked like before, but when I visited there earlier this month, I didn't see any restoration in progress and the star map was open. I didn't take a ton of photos in that area, and here are the only two of the monument I grabbed:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/qgJ3x5za82EiFz5P7
by jamilbk | 2026-01-20 23:47:50+00:00
At Firezone we started with soft-deletes thinking it might be useful for an audit / compliance log and quickly ran into each of the problems described in this article. The real issue for us was migrations - having to maintain structure of deleted data alongside live data just didn't make sense, and undermined the point of an immutable audit trail.

We've switched to CDC using Postgres which emits into another (non-replicated) write-optimized table. The replication connection maintains a 'subject' variable to provide audit context for each INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. So far, CDC has worked very well for us in this manner (Elixir / Postgrex).

I do think soft-deletes have their place in this world, maybe for user-facing "restore deleted" features. I don't think compliance or audit trails are the right place for them however.
by cdrnsf | 2026-01-20 23:48:05+00:00
We're north of Los Angeles and the area has never really handled rain well. This is also entirely anecdotal having lived here for ~35 years.

Some of the towns in our county have developments built on floodplanes. In our neighborhood, only some streets have storm drains so many of them flood. On one of the main roads numerous trees fell over damaging walls and homes.

That last set of storms that really stands out were the El Niño events in the early oughts.
by tombert | 2026-01-20 23:48:50+00:00
It's entirely possible it will crash, but I also don't think it'll go bankrupt or anything.

I don't typically buy stock to flip it right away; I have some Nvidia stock that I bought the day after ChatGPT was launched, and I bought a bit more when it was $90/share about a ~year ago. If it drops to $100, then I'll still be in the black, but even if it drops to $50, I'm not going to worry because I figure that I can just hold onto it until another upswing.

Nvidia has been around long enough and has enough market penetration in datacenters and gaming that I don't think it's going to go bust, and I figure that it will eventually appreciate again just due to inflation.
by bps4484 | 2026-01-20 23:49:00+00:00
I wonder if overall rainfall doesn't tell the whole story. From my experience in SF (and admittedly CA is big and people will have very different experiences) there has been an enormous amount of rainfall early in the season and then another enormous amount over the holidays, but the rest has been dry. The total may not be that much but the acute heavy storms have been pretty intense.
by Amezarak | 2026-01-20 23:49:06+00:00
> Factually incorrect

Feel free to post a video showing the conflicting orders. As best I can determine, this was just early (and very typical) misinformation. I could be wrong!

> responsibility of ICE to make it avoidable

I disagree. I don't see that LEOs have some sort of moral responsibility to make sure they aren't standing where they can be run over. People have a moral responsibility to not drive recklessly.

> "I'm no lover of cops" while you victim blame a woman for getting killed.

It is certainly an unfortunate situation, but if you can set aside your moral outrage, looking at the chain of cause-and-effect, she definitely took actions that had a very high probability of leading to being shot. Do you disagree? I don't see how looking at this shooting from a moral framing is sensible or likely to be productive in any way regardless of which side "wins" and is able to execute policy based on it.

> It got a lot of attention because it is death, because it was avoidable, because it was the responsibility of ICE to make it avoidable, and because popular tension breaks at unpredictable moments

See, I don't think it's actually unpredictable at all. There are very good reasons there aren't mass riots in Canada over police not in any particular danger shooting up someone driving a stolen truck, and there are for Americans ICE shooting a woman who, at best, disobeyed clear instructions and operated her vehicle with a reckless disregard for human life.
by imiric | 2026-01-20 23:49:36+00:00
The survey was about operational costs and revenue. Water cooler and coffee machine manufacturers don't market their products to be "smarter than people in many ways" and "able to significantly amplify the output of people using them"[1]. If these claims are true, then surely relying on this technology should bring both lower operational costs, since human labor is expensive, and an increase in revenue, since the superhuman intelligence and significantly amplified output of humans using these tools should produce higher quality products and benefits across the board.

There are of course many factors at play here, and a substantial percentage of CEOs report a positive RoI, but the fact that a majority don't shouldn't be dismissed on the basis of this being difficult to measure.

[1]: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
by lout332 | 2026-01-20 23:49:49+00:00
Used Kimi K2 (the main reasoning model). For the thinking space - we gave all models access to a think tool they could optionally call for private reasoning. Gemini used it heavily (planning betrayals), GPT-OSS never called it once. The interesting finding is that different models choose to use it very differently, which affects their strategic depth.
by lout332 | 2026-01-20 23:51:17+00:00
Fair point. The core simulation and data collection was done programmatically - 162 games, raw logs, win rates. The analysis of gaslighting phrases and patterns was human-reviewed. I used LLMs to help with the landing page copy, which I should probably disclose more clearly. The underlying data and methodology is solid, you can check it here: https://github.com/lout33/so-long-sucker
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-20 23:51:18+00:00
While there is no national civil union law, and it would of course be great if there were, enough prefectures and municipalities have implemented civil unions such that >90% of the population live in areas covered by them.

> Something so small and unimportant. Still very far away from civil unions for non-hetero couples.

Your framing of this issue is a bit misleading. You suppose that this name change issue is a prerequisite step for support for civil unions. But actually, support for same-sex marriage is more popular than support for different surnames in marriage. Although even then, a supermajority also support different surnames, and a majority of LDP supporters support both too.
by SigmundA | 2026-01-20 23:51:53+00:00
>in the very rare case where you're indexing the entire table (e.g. if it has very few columns).

Not sure I follow most tables are accessed primarily in one way (primary key) while maybe sometimes in others for analysis. Having the PK written twice because it's almost always indexed is normally a waste and good candidate for a clustered index. So much so that many DB's like SQLite and MySql always do clustered indexes on primary key because their storage engine is built such that tables are a b-tree anyway vs PG that has separate b-tree indexes and heap tables. MSSQL and Oracle give you a choice whether the table is a index structure or a heap.

If you have very specific use case tables they can typically have a clustered index and no secondary indexes, you can still scan them for ad-hoc analysis but you get better insert performance and space usage because you aren't double writing to the heap and a PK index like you would in PG.

As far as batch writes that is a separate issue and has to due with whether that even makes sense for durability, if you need to commit a single random row due to something occurring you can't batch that up and maintain consistency, if your bulk loading data sure and is common practice to do commit batches there, clustered indexes could still be a 100 vs 200x write amplification if you have to insert both an index row and heap row vs just a single clustered index row.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-20 23:52:02+00:00
Under control how?

France has Macron siding with Le Pen to keep Melanchon out of power. The AfD's power is growing and we'll see if there exists a coalition that can form a government without them after the next election. Many expect Nigel Farrage to be the next Prime Minister of the UK.

This is why people say fascism is capitalism in crisis. All of these countries are choosing fascism rather than any socialist movement or even saying "maybe the wealthy could loot slightly less from the public purse". The rise of fascism is paved by centrist neoliberals siding with fascists to crush any leftist momentum.

People are increasingly seeing what life is like in China. Affordable housing, affordable food and public infrastructure like extensive metros and high speed trains. That's the real problem with Tiktok (from the administration's perspective). People asking "why can't we have that?" is incredibly dangerous to the system we have. IMHO there's no unringing that bell however.

"Western social values" are a luxury easily abandoned when you can't afford your rent. Populist fascism is rising because people are increasingly desperate and there's no alternative because the centrists are united with the fascists to crush any leftist momentum.

The president ran on having Gestapo in the streets and having concentration camps. How loyal really are voters to "Western social values"? And what are prominent Democratic politicians doing? Suggesting more funding for ICE [1].

A populist party that ran on giving people healthcare and guaranteeing a roof over their heads and having enough to eat would win in a landslide. Every level of our political system is designed to make sure such a person can't rise to prominence.

Don't believe me? Look at the 2024 election results and see how progressive voter initiatives did compared to the Democratic Party. Missouri, a deep red state, had a majority vote for raising the minimum wage, outperforming the Democratic Party by more than 20 points.

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/cory-booker-ice-proposal-progressiv...
Ask HN: Why are so many rolling out their own AI/LLM agent sandboxing solution?
by ATechGuy | 2026-01-20 23:52:32+00:00
Seeing a lot of people running coding agents (Claude Code, etc.) in custom sandboxes Docker/VMs, firejail/bubblewrap, scripts that gate file or network access.

Curious to know what's missing that makes people DIY this? And what would a "good enough" standard look like?
by tracker1 | 2026-01-20 23:52:45+00:00
I like having archive/history tables. I often do similar with job queues when persisting to a database, in this way the pending table can stay small and avoid full scans to skip the need for deleted records...

Aside, another idea that I've kicked forward for event driven databases is to just use a database like sqlite and copy/wipe the whole thing as necessary after an event or the work that's related to that database. For example, all validation/chain of custody info for ballot signatures... there's not much point in having it all online or active, or even mixed in with other ballot initiatives and the schema can change with the app as needed for new events. Just copy that file, and you have that archive. Compress the file even and just have it hard archived and backed up if needed.
by scottyah | 2026-01-20 23:52:47+00:00
Pickup trucks are great for suburbia and suburban projects, and they do not have 75mph highways. Perhaps you are talking about long-haul 18 wheeler type trucks?

You also burn gasoline faster when going faster, since it all comes down to wind resistance. You don't really notice more or longer stops when going 80 vs 60, maybe an extra 3-5 min for every 4hrs of driving which just means you don't have to rush eating your meal or going to the bathroom. What you do notice is not having to pay nearly as much attention while FSD is running, and the smoothness of the ride.

I do own a cybertruck so I'm a bit biased, but I use the bed pretty much every weekend, don't live in a place with 75mph highways, and I've driven many gas cars before this- pickups, sedans, and SUVs. I'm not sure why you're trying to explain to me how my car works, or how it compares to other ones I've driven.
by donavanm | 2026-01-20 23:53:32+00:00
Yes. Simplistically, its all about incentives, “you've got to dance while the music is playing.” If a professional money manager doesnt follow the mania theyre going to significantly underperform their competitors/benchmarks. If they underperform for multiple quarters theyre going to lose allocation, customers, and their jobs. See also the “perma bears” who have predicted “15 of the last 3 recessions.”

As an individual you can change your risk profile by rebalancing or profit taking during the mania. trying to find quality places to put your gains to reduce the downside risk. That said, in even a moderate correction youre going to underperform the index due to the silly magnitude of those mania gains over time. Eg an additional 2 years of +30% and then a 25% correction is going to outperform your “safe” 7% returns.
by tombert | 2026-01-20 23:55:06+00:00
I don't dispute that all. I'm just ok with that being the outcome; if it keeps up with inflation then it's still better than storing it in a bank, and the thing that would upset me more than "not gaining" would be "actively losing".

Now obviously, if it drops below from what I paid for it and then it takes inflation to catch up, then yeah, that's definitely "lost money", but that's just the risk of the stock market, especially with individual stocks. I also think that if it crashes, Nvidia might still have another surge eventually, even if it doesn't get back to its full glory.

I definitely would not buy new Nvidia stock at its current price though.
by Someone1234 | 2026-01-20 23:55:29+00:00
I see a lot of these "this is LLM" comments; but they rarely add value, side track the discussion, and appear to come into direct conflict with several of HN's comment guidelines (at least my reading).

I think raising that the raw Valve response wasn't provided is a valid, and correct, point to raise.

The problem is that that valid point is surrounding by what seems to be a character attack, based on little evidence, and that seemingly mirrors many of these "LLM witch-hunt" comments.

Should HN's guidelines be updated to directly call out this stuff as unconstructive? Pointing out the quality/facts of an article is one thing, calling out suspected tool usage without even evidence is quite another.
by eddd-ddde | 2026-01-20 23:55:35+00:00
It's an important distinction, just like it's important to know that "const foo *" doesn't mean the foo is constant, just that YOU cannot change it.

Just because you build a unique_ptr from a raw pointer it doesn't mean that it is now magically owned by the object. You also have to ensure that no other place already did that, which unique_ptr simply cannot enforce.
by jorams | 2026-01-20 23:55:43+00:00
What a frustrating article. There was an interesting bug here. It's trivial to explain. It's not a zero-day, this was fixed months before disclosure. Most of the article is basically: "Imagine you were running software with horrific security holes behind this WAF. We even made some examples. It had a flaw. If your entire security posture depended on this WAF, imagine how much damage could have been done. Imagine if AI were involved!"
by dissent | 2026-01-20 23:55:46+00:00
Couple of problems with git.

In the enterprise, RBAC is a royal pain. You give out a URL and it's hard to know if the consumer can fetch it.

URLs are absolute, there is no resolution by name. Compounded further if you want transient dependencies (maybe not needed in this instance though).

In your project, you end up hardcoding the https/ssh scheme.
by rcxdude | 2026-01-20 23:55:46+00:00
Eh, I don't think that is really a consistent, useful model. It's not that material interests are irrelevant, but ideological alignment even at the most Machiavellian level constrains what's possible, if not outright defining where lines are drawn. You can't ignore how politics happens within countries when looking at how they interact with each other.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-20 23:56:21+00:00
My "LLM witch-hunt" got the 'author' to reveal the reply they received, which we now learn is neither from Valve nor says "Won't Fix" but rather deems it not a security exploit by HackerOne's definition. It is more important than ever before to be critical of the content you consume rather than blindly believing everything you read on the internet. Learning to detect LLM writing which represents a new, major channel of misinformation is one aspect of that.
by tracker1 | 2026-01-20 23:56:49+00:00
I have trouble making out details on my 45" UWQHD (3440x1440) displays... so I don't see much point.. maybe slightly easier to read typefaces... I am already zooming 25% in most of the time.

On the plus side, I can comfortably fit my editor on half the screen and my browser on the other half.
by fancyfredbot | 2026-01-20 23:56:49+00:00
The game didn't seem to work - it asked me to donate but none of the choices would move the game forward.

The bots repeated themselves and didn't seem to understand the game, for example they repeatedly mentioned it was my first move after I'd played several times.

It generally had a vibe coded feeling to it and I'm not at all sure I trust the outcomes.
by enginous | 2026-01-20 23:57:01+00:00
I'm pretty unclear about how the experience they showcase in the video would work on iOS. Maybe Android has APIs for this, but on iOS it looks like RCS just supports green-bubble messages, links and files/multimedia. But in the demo they show multi-choice cards, carousels, cards with buttons, and reply auto-suggestions.

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it also looks like this needs to be agent-initiated, ie. you can't add a "Text us" button that will take you to this experience. (But you could capture a phone number, and text them _iff_ they have RCS available and enabled.)

Overall, seems questionable whether this is worth integrating if the experience is so fractured across platforms and many people might not even have RCS. The concept of a platform for rich messaging across platforms sounds good though.
by wavemode | 2026-01-20 23:57:55+00:00
Soft deletion and privacy deletion serve different purposes.

If you leave a comment on a forum, and then delete it, it may be marked as soft-deleted so that it doesn't appear publicly in the thread anymore, but admins can still read what you wrote for moderation/auditing purposes.

On the other hand, if you send a privacy deletion request to the forum, they would be required to actually fully delete or anonymize your data, so even admins can no longer tie comments that you wrote back to you.

Most social media sites probably have to implement both of these processes/systems.
by crooked-v | 2026-01-20 23:58:02+00:00
> due to Japan's funny zoning laws

Way better than what we have here in the US.

For those not familiar with them, the gist is that Japanese zoning defines what's basically a maximum nuisance level (from low-density residential, up to various levels of commercial operation, up to heavy industry), and anything up to that can be built in the given area. Plenty of 'residential' areas are broadly zoned as allowing up to light or medium commercial activity wherever an owner can put it.
by Mossly | 2026-01-20 23:58:56+00:00
I've recently spent a few hundred hours playing Arc Raiders on Starlink from a small island in the Pacific. ~80ms ping to Australian servers is pretty mindblowing. Jitter and packet loss also tend to be insignificant in the absence of obstructions.

My home server back in New Zealand is behind CGNAT and I had issues with high birate (>25Mbps) HTTPS streaming over Tailscale. I suspect MTU size causing packet fragmentation combined with DERP relay fallback under CGNAT was the culprit, but that's outside my expertise to diagnose fully.

Reverse proxying to a VPS in Sydney with Pangolin achieved much better performance, almost 100Mbps over WebDAV. Somewhere inbetween I tried SMB over Cloudflare WARP (~70Mbps), but allowing Cloudflare to terminate TLS seemed incongruent with self-hosting everything else.
by kingstnap | 2026-01-20 23:59:07+00:00
The classic joke is economists have predicted 11 of the last 4 recessions.

In case you've never seen it. There are people posting their takes on some sort of economic catastrophe in China, US, Japan, wherever, basically 24/7 365 days a year on YouTube.

It's a very very very common finance bro hobby to do this. Every single outcome that can happen has a million people having "called it" well in advance.