MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kkfx | 2026-01-21 23:03:01+00:00
Dtrace essentially allows two things. The first is exploring a live system, similar to being in a debugger but without its overhead. The other is monitoring; it's possible to notice that something is wrong earlier and with less overhead than monitoring logs and testing services.

Both aren't strictly necessary/much used in practice for various reasons, but depending on what you're doing, it's very handy to have. In a way similar to ZFS vs Stratis: the first ready to go, well-made, convenient, while the second is an absurd mess made by people who don't understand operations and think they know better from their development machine.

On Solaris... In my opinion, the real problem is less about Slowlaris and more about having chosen to target the élite for so long instead of targeting students, who are the future technicians, managers, etc.

GNU/Linux succeeded IMVHO because it was aimed at this audience, which is much broader, with many who weren't interested, but it's also the group that shapes 100% of every future generation of decision-makers and technicians. When SUN realized this, first with SXDE/CE and then OpenIndiana, it was, yes, damn late.
by young_rutabaga | 2026-01-21 23:03:08+00:00
Snipers essentially convert the ascending-bid proxy auction used in eBay into a Vickrey second-price sealed bid auction, allowing a buyer to not reveal their preferences to other participants. In theory, with rational participants, this shouldn't have any effect on revenue. In practice, buyers do not always understand auction mechanics and delay setting the highest price they're willing to pay until they are outbid. If they're outbid 3 seconds before the deadline, they lost.
by tombert | 2026-01-21 23:03:13+00:00
Oh no argument there. I had a lot of fun reinventing scheduling systems and minimizing memory usage [1], and I have gotten Sway into a state that I really really like. I have customized modal Vim-style keystrokes, and I've created my own program program to look through currently opened windows. [2]

I probably wouldn't try to sell my parents on it though.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~tombert/swaybar3

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~tombert/rs-sway-prog-switch
by oliverjanssen | 2026-01-21 23:03:16+00:00
Advertising:
Zero paid advertising so far. All organic - App Store search, word of mouth, a few blog mentions. First HN post and review in German print Magazine helped a lot.

Subscription journey:
Started with one-time payment, but hard to justify ongoing development time. Switched to subscription. Not everybody was amused.

First model was freemium – one playlist with max 10 tracks for free. Felt too limiting for new users trying to understand the app.

In December I changed it: all features free to explore, unlimited playlists, all content. Subscription only kicks in when you open the audio player – with 1 month free trial. Since then, good numbers daily with users worldwide. Feels more honest and converts better.
by alistairSH | 2026-01-21 23:03:25+00:00
QI applies to civil cases. IIRC, Chauvin didn’t face a civil case and was not made to pay damages for violations of anybody’s rights. Nor did the other officers.

If a cop violates your rights, you just have to pray the DA will prosecute criminal charges. But you still won’t get an monetary
damages from the cop. You might talk the state into settling.
by pwg | 2026-01-21 23:03:38+00:00
This is most likely the reason. I could see a lot of "buy for me bot" users deciding that they really did not mean that color shirt (or some other reason) when they asked it to buy a "brand X shirt in size Y" and forgot to tell the bot what colors they would accept as options and did not realize the bot might buy an "electric purple" (or some other color they dislike) shirt because it was not constrained in color choice.
by aeon_ai | 2026-01-21 23:03:49+00:00
This is one of those fun "achsully" responses I get the privilege to refute.

It's a foundational principle of copyright law, codified in 17 U.S.C. § 102(b): "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery"

Now, we can quibble over what qualifies there, but the dichotomy itself is pretty clear.

This goes back to Baker v. Selden (1879) and remains bedrock copyright doctrine.

The Tetris case is overstated. Tetris v. Xio did not establish that The Tetris Company "owns the idea of falling-tetromino puzzle video games." The court explicitly applied the idea-expression dichotomy and found Xio copied specific expressive choices (exact dimensions, specific visual style, particular piece colors). Many Tetris-like games exist legally, and it is the specific expressive elements that were considered in the Xio case.

K.C. Munchkin is old and criticized. That 1982 ruling predates major developments like Computer Associates v. Altai, which established more rigorous methods for filtering out unprotectable elements. The Munchkin decision continues to be debated.

"Substantial similarity" analysis itself incorporates idea-expression filtering. Courts use tests specifically designed to separate protectable expression from unprotectable ideas, especially when considering the four factors of fair use (when applied as a defense.)
by ctoth | 2026-01-21 23:04:13+00:00
The "what would change my mind" criteria are all about AI succeeding within existing institutional forms. He's not considering whether those forms get outcompeted by smaller entities that don't carry the overhead, which to me seems obviously how it will go.

> If agentic systems start successfully navigating the illegible organisational context that currently requires human judgement, things like understanding unstated preferences, political sensitivities, and implicit standards, that would be significant.

How much of this is actually required for the actual work though and how much is legacy office politics "monkeys love to monkey around" nonsense?
by al_borland | 2026-01-21 23:05:04+00:00
I don’t see how people would tolerate a government bailout of trillion dollar companies making a bad bet.

That’s the game. If they want the reward, they have to be ready to accept the loss when the risk doesn’t work in their favor.

If they were dumb enough to bet the entire company on it and they go out of business, oh well. Let them go under and make sure the CEO walks away with nothing. No golden parachutes for tanking a company due to unchecked greed. That would serve as a nice warning before the next overhyped bubble.
by adeon | 2026-01-21 23:05:08+00:00
Yeah I agree. I think even if you block CSP images, attacker could still hide information, or attempted exfiltration.

The post got me now instead wondering how to not make people shallowly dismiss perfectly fine articles for dumb reasons, like I almost did. It's not even that unclear what the attack is, in the article's its opening when I look at it now again, and I now went around their posts to see how PromptArmor generally does their writing because I got curious about the writing part...

I've seen in the past vulnerabilities that were way overblown but hyped up, so this made me notice how that armor has made me be skeptical whenever some article like this feels it combines marketing + vulnerability reporting.
by huntergemmer | 2026-01-21 23:05:42+00:00
Update: Patched idle CPU usage while nothing is being rendered.

One thing to note: I added a toggle to "Benchmark mode" in the 1M benchmark example - this preserves the benchmark capability while demonstrating efficient idle behavior.

Another thing to note: Do not be alarmed when you see the FPS counter display 0 (lol), that is by design :) Frames are rendered efficiently. If there's nothing to render (no dirty frames) nothing is rendered. The chart will still render at full speed when needed, it just doesn't waste cycles rendering the same static image 60 times per second.

Blown away by all of you amazing people and your support today :)
by danhite | 2026-01-21 23:05:54+00:00
> AI constitutes a particular threat because no form of human cognition is more heuristic, more cue dependent, than social cognition. Humans are very easily duped into anthropomorphizing given the barest cues, let alone processes possessing AI.

Software is eating the World, so what are we doing to eat software?

Our Civilization d'Sapiens ecology will find balance, but can it, sans catastrophic collapse?
by jamesgill | 2026-01-21 23:05:54+00:00
Valid points about money, but they’re primarily talking about calorie restriction and how metabolic adaptation eventually leads to weight loss stopping, because metabolism adapts to less energy and you can’t just keep ‘eating less’.
If you’re familiar with the low carb community, this is what’s famously called the ‘Biggest Loser’ problem, referring to the TV show and how contestants lost a lot of weight through extreme calorie restriction—but their metabolism eventually slowed down and they couldn’t eat less, so—nearly everyone gained it all back.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-21 23:06:18+00:00
Consider cosmetics. Historically regarded as pure marketing, not technology. Lipstick and moisturizer. The kind of industry you’d expect governments to ignore entirely.

I don't know about that. I can think of a ~2000 year old Chinese story about an entrepreneur who came across a village where everyone had unchapped hands and faces despite it being winter. It turns out they had made an ointment from some local bush. The point of the story is that the guy guys as much of it as he can and then carries a few valleys away to where an army is encamped and they're suffering from the cold, and he trades the ointment for an estate.

I think a big reason other countries (and especially the US) keep underestimating China is neglecting the fact that they've had a more or less contiguously operating state for millennia.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-21 23:06:57+00:00
> Yet all those songs certainly have illegal copies already being distributed on the internet. So what was the actual harm being prevented here?

There's a huge difference between a ton of individual torrents or files you need to individually search for, identify, of varying quality, that may be mislabeled and have other sorts of quality issues, and which in no way approach "all" music...

...vs a single, shockingly comprehensive repository of uniformly high-quality music which does, in fact, approach "all" music.

If I wanted to start a pirate music service, it would become vastly easier with this particular repository. Many orders of magnitude easier. That's the actual harm.
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-21 23:07:11+00:00
>specialized uses that don’t fully fit this constitution

"unless the government wants to kill, imprison, enslave, entrap, coerce, spy, track or oppress you, then we don't have a constitution." basically all the things you would be concerned about AI doing to you, honk honk clown world.

Their constitution should just be a middle finger lol.

Edit: Downvotes? Why?
by Manuel_D | 2026-01-21 23:08:24+00:00
You can use the source code to build your own MMO, but not one that replicates BitCraft's servers. Since the assets themselves are not open sourced, it wouldn't really be possible to do that anyway.

It's much more permissive than source available: you can use the source code for nearly any of your own projects, just not one specific application.
by illiac786 | 2026-01-21 23:08:27+00:00
I think most of the comments on this thread crystallise two different conception of security: the intended one and the effective one.

The second one is messy to measure, it requires making statistics on how often NAT saved the day by accident, which is hard if not impossible.

I personally think that statistics always win, even if they are unexplainable. My bet (zero proof) is, IPv4 is statistically (maybe by accident) more secure than IPv6, just because of NAT.

I have seen so many horrors in terms of multiple NATs I will always prefer IPv6, also because I think the benefits outweigh by far the difference in _effective_ security.

Summary: yes, IPv4 is more secure, but the difference is so marginal that IPv6 is still way better. Security is not the only metric in my world and theoretical discussions obsessing about a single metric are pointless.
by just-the-wrk | 2026-01-21 23:08:28+00:00
After her quote about Christmas in Sacramento, I wanted to enjoy Joan so much. I discovered a scold instead. Her viewpoint is contempt, and its tiring (slouching). Sometimes its boring (a year of magical thinking). I found a guilty pleasure in her writing about Nancy Reagan, because I also despise Nancy Reagan.

The last time I tried to enjoy her was an essay criticizing the first carpool lanes in California.

I hope her work is lost to voices who see possibilities
by supoxblade | 2026-01-21 23:08:39+00:00
Here's the rub: Vimeo was profitable, and had no debt. Per their last public filing(s), in 2025 the company had:
- ~$400M expenses
- ~$420M revenue (therefore ~$20M profit for the year)
- ~$300M of cash in the bank (no debt)

Vimeo has not had major growth in recent years, but it was making progress, however slowly. Just nowhere near the 10x expectations out there. Nobody was going to lose anything.
by wahnfrieden | 2026-01-21 23:09:24+00:00
Preview canvas is unusable by agents.

Small views don't solve this for human use either. The only solutions for fast builds are to stop using SPM and also to adopt the "microfeatures" pattern with interface stubs and dependency injection so that very little must be rebuilt/linked. This is a huge change for many projects and carries ongoing development maintenance overhead so it is not a trivial decision to make.
by pwg | 2026-01-21 23:09:31+00:00
From what I've seen discussed, it seems some percentage of "sniping" is to attempt to obtain both "winning bid" and "lowest possible price" (note, not the same as "max willing to pay for the same item"). The sniper is trying to hide interest, so as not to attract other interested bidders, and therefore grab "a great deal" of a small increment above the starting bid price.

And this probably appears to work enough times in the snipers favor to trick them into thinking it is a winning strategy, whereas they likely would have won the same auctions in the end by just bidding that 'minimum' as their maximum bid. But as they can't easily (i.e., without expense) A/B test their strategy, they get no feedback that sniping isn't really helping them like they think it is helping them.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-21 23:10:57+00:00
> what‘s in it for spotify?

Honestly, Spotify itself probably couldn't care less, for the obvious reasons you say.

But the music labels sure do. Their contracts with Spotify surely require it to implement appropriate DRM, stop all attempted piracy, etc. If Spotify wants to be on good negotiating terms with labels, they have absolutely no choice but to take as much legal action as possible.
by PsylentKnight | 2026-01-21 23:11:28+00:00
I agree, but I don't know of a better place to discuss current events on the internet. I can at least expect that the people are educated and intelligent (relative to the average internet user) and there's a cultural of thoughtful discussion.

Every Reddit thread I see on politics these days is just... rabid seething. At this point they remind me of how my elderly far-right relatives posted on Facebook circa 2010. I broadly agree with them (orange man bad) but there's so much misinformation and sloppy thinking that it's useless. There are probably some smaller and more thoughtful political subreddits out there, but if so I haven't found them

EDIT: Now that I think about it some more, I disagree with your sentiment that we should leave the politicking to the politicians. Democracy requires a population that has some idea of what's going on. I think discussion and disagreement is a great way to sharpen one's thinking
by quotemstr | 2026-01-21 23:11:28+00:00
I'm calling for linguistic precision. What does it mean for a SOHO router to be "secure"? If we taboo this word "secure" for the moment and instead ask how effectively these devices, e.g. prevent unauthorized inbound connections to bottable IoT devices, we can start to get a concrete sense of the landscape and directions in which we can move across it. By focusing on the specific thing we want to accomplish, we can avoid getting distracted by considerations relevant only to other scenarios and better approximate a "meeting of the minds" on terminology and goals
by munificent | 2026-01-21 23:11:35+00:00
I broke my ankle nearly two years ago. I've had three surgeries already and will be getting a total ankle replacement in about a month. Even with that, I will never run again.

Sometimes in a dream, I'll start running. I'll notice how magically effortless it feels. How wonderful to be able to run again. Then a little voice in the back of my head reminds me that this can't be real. It wakes me up every time.

It was a rough day when I opened Strava to log one of my physical therapy walks and realized that if I scroll down a bit, I can find a record of the longest run I will ever do.

I'm mostly at peace with it now. I'm grateful that at least I was into running for a while before I lost it, so at least I don't regret never having done it. And I never really enjoyed it then anyway. I just did it for health reasons and the sense of accomplishment.

I'm sorry for your suffering. I know what this longing feels like.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-21 23:11:49+00:00
Yeah I thought about it for a few hours. I don't intend on creating lip service so I am gonna probably try to go with the more reasonable & economically sound approach of having an Indian company instead right now as an Indian. You are right instead of trying to build an EU first, I will instead try to build a privacy first and if the objectives still align, hopefully I have shown that if privacy first means to have an EU parent company or any other scenario, I am open/curious/willing to do for privacy for the average user.

https://news.ycombinator.com/view?id=46712907

I do believe that open source has its value. I love Open source and Privacy first is only possible with OSS-first. I have always been interested in how to monetize Open source (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558430) where the reason I found most people aren't interested or weren't (not sure if the mood changed now that the geopolitical wind has changed completely) but the reason I found was that people wanted OSS to almost be perfect but the rough corners in OSS were usually for the most part because of lack of funding.

So, I will probably try out some ways of funding OSS or at the very least have it be in a source available license. Proprietory just doesn't align with my idea of privacy first.

So yea hopefully it makes sense and we can all create or use privacy preserving services.

At the end of the day, I just hope that OSS can find ways to be funded. Much of what I want to do wouldn't be a problem or wouldn't even exist (As I got much of ideas that I want to implement because OSS wasn't funded and I had made that thread on HN) and honestly I hope that one day OSS can be funded the way it truly deserves.

have a nice day man!
by jackfranklyn | 2026-01-21 23:12:03+00:00
The onboarding lesson is one I had to learn the hard way too. When you build something for yourself, you forget that nobody else has the mental model you do. "Figure it out yourself" feels fine when you're the user, but it's death for retention.

Also resonates with the "product first" approach. Starting with a real problem you actually have - and then following where the tech decisions naturally lead - seems to produce better outcomes than starting with "I want to build something in X framework."

The QR sharing feature is a nice touch. Physical sharing had something going for it that we lost when everything went digital - that friction-free "here, try this" moment. Recreating that digitally is harder than it sounds.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-21 23:12:06+00:00
You've fully retreated:

You started by calling engineers "deadweight" that Bending Spoons correctly cuts. Now they're victims who were "conned" and given "illusions" and deserve sympathy for their "unpleasant wake up call."

These are incompatible framings. Deadweight is culpable. Victims of a con aren't. Which is it?

> I suggest taking a short position on Bending Spoons

Strip-mining is often profitable. That's not the disagreement. The disagreement is whether "profitable" validates your original framing that the workers being cut are deadweight rather than, by your new admission, ordinary people who were lied to by the actual decision-makers.

Note also the lack of understanding of finance, coupled to parroting pop-finance, continues. You're trying valiantly to hammer phrases we all know, into meanings they don't have. They sound epic, and are very "law of nature" feeling. I understand the appeal. Anyways, you cannot short a company without a stock.
by tzs | 2026-01-21 23:12:30+00:00
To pace off something in feet most people actually try to pace in yards and multiply by 3 if they want to express the result in feet. They could just as easily pace in meters.

What is better with metric is the consistent way to name multiples and divisions of the base units.

Metric uses power of 10 prefixes but another power could work fine. Power of 2 for example actually fits well with Imperial volume measurements, where a quart is 1/4 gallon, a pint is 1/2 quart, 1 cup is 1/2 pint, a fluid ounce is 1/8 cup, and a tablespoon is 1/2 a fluid ounce.

Just make some prefixes that mean 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64, 1/128, and 1/256 and use those with gallon instead of having separate names for everything, and use the same prefixes with yards when you need a unit smaller than a yard and you'd be off to a good start. Add some prefixes that mean 2x, 4x, 8x, etc too.

Yards and gallons don't have to be the base units. Could be feet and cups or anything else. The key is prefixes to get bigger or smaller units instead of naming those others units, and using the same prefixes across unit types.
by dandeto | 2026-01-21 23:12:33+00:00
I think the person you're replying to is saying that people use normative ethics (their views of right and wrong) to judge 'objective' moral standards that another person or religion subscribes to.

Dropping 'objective morals' on HN is sure to start a tizzy. I hope you enjoy the conversations :)

For you, does God create the objective moral standard? If so, it could be argued that the morals are subjective to God. That's part of the Euthyphro dilemma.
by simpaticoder | 2026-01-21 23:12:40+00:00
>we have yet to discover any universal moral standards.

The universe does tell us something about morality. It tells us that (large-scale) existence is a requirement to have morality. That implies that the highest good are those decisions that improve the long-term survival odds of a) humanity, and b) the biosphere. I tend to think this implies we have an obligation to live sustainably on this world, protect it from the outside threats that we can (e.g. meteors, comets, super volcanoes, plagues, but not nearby neutrino jets) and even attempt to spread life beyond earth, perhaps with robotic assistance. Right now humanity's existence is quite precarious; we live in a single thin skin of biosphere that we habitually, willfully mistreat that on one tiny rock in a vast, ambivalent universe. We're a tiny phenomena, easily snuffed out on even short time-scales. It makes sense to grow out of this stage.

So yes, I think you can derive an ought from an is. But this belief is of my own invention and to my knowledge, novel. Happy to find out someone else believes this.