MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roncesvalles | 2026-01-31 17:54:08+00:00
Not really.

>A master like antirez had to wrap his head around concepts alien to the human mind. Bits, bytes, arrays, memory layout, processors, compilers, interfaces, abstractions, constraints, types, concurrency do not exist in the savannas that forged brains.

You still need to know these things if you're doing anything more complicated than making some CRUD dashboard. LLM assists with some coding, and assists with some thinking. That's about it.
by bitwize | 2026-01-31 17:54:32+00:00
One of the interesting factoids about the TI-99 series is that despite its lack of popularity compared to Apple and Commodore, it gave us the word "sprite" as a term of art in game graphics. The movable graphical elements of contemporary console displays, called "player-missile graphics" by Atari, "MOBs" by Commodore, and "OBJs" by Nintendo in their PPU documentation, were referred to as "sprites" in the design notes and patent application for the TMS9918 VDP used in the TI-99/4 (and its successor, the TMS9918A used in the TI-99/4A), doubtless as a reflection of the way they moved about completely independently of the underlying background tile map. The word appeared in the manuals for TI Extended BASIC and TI Logo, which gave even hobbyist programmers the ability to create and control these objects, and from there the word filtered out into the broader community, to the point where Commodore 128 BASIC had a SPRITE keyword. It's a very sticky term, easy to remember and eventually adopted by the whole community, and I'm kind of glad it came from the design process for my beloved TI-99/4A.

The TMS9918 would go on to be used in several other game consoles including the Sega SG1000, original MSX, and ColecoVision, in modified form in still more (all Sega consoles up through the Genesis), and inform the design of yet more (Nintendo's PPU). It was one of the first display chips to support sprites as full graphics, rather than a single row of a pixmap which must be reprogrammed every scanline (as Atari's player-missile graphics on the 2600 were).
by marius_ | 2026-01-31 17:54:53+00:00
Meh, I was running Immich for a while until the iPhone client app on my wife’s phone completely stopped syncing photos. What did I do? Wrote my own photo management software in .NET using PstgreSql/Redis and React front end (PWA). Has face recognition too (used the same models Immich uses from huggingface). Works perfectly, photo library scanning/face recognition/thumbnail creation/etc performance is WAY better than Immich (uses .NET background jobs and lots of parallelism and hardware acceleration on my Mac mini server). It took 2 weekends and Claude code. And with tailscale, it’s hosted on my Mac mini at home and accessible from anywhere through https.
by Juliate | 2026-01-31 17:55:08+00:00
I definitely hire talent that can grow the business, and grow with it.

And that means knowing your 0's and 1's better than knowing how to operate the latest trendy calculator: it's easier to understand the calculator, when you know what it's made of; harder to work your way backwards, although doable.

Yes, finding people that master PostgreSQL clustering (and SLA/RTO tradeoffs) is harder than finding AWS-certified folks, but that deeper knowledge definitely pays off: you understand the tradeoffs why, before you migrate, not after. When you know the fundamentals, you learn their implementation way faster.

The "wildly used", locked-in services are more often than not, built with/over the "niche", no-strings-attached ones.
by bityard | 2026-01-31 17:55:41+00:00
Not a dumb question at all, but incident management in aviation is all about saving the people on board first and foremost. Saving the airframe during an incident is considered a very distant bonus at the very best. No pilot ever got in trouble for sacrificing their plane to make the smoothest possible landing to protect the squishy meatbags on board.

Landing outside the bounds of an airfield brings a bunch of other unnecessary risks as well, like hitting trees, people, cars, buildings, etc. And as a sibling comment noted, airports have a TON of protocols for emergency landings in place, such as clearing existing traffic from the runways and sky, and having ambulances and fire trucks standing by so they can be at the aircraft literally seconds after it skids to a stop. Golf courses typically do not.
by naasking | 2026-01-31 17:56:06+00:00
1. That's not an argument unless the evidence for these payoffs is so huge as to dwarf the payoffs of 1000 smaller experiments. There is no evidence of this.

2. There is no world in which this applies to particle physics at this point, especially using radio frequency particle collider tech. This is known physics and there are no mysteries in the regime the FCC would reach.
by strange_quark | 2026-01-31 17:56:24+00:00
I’d take it even further: I want to see the prompts! I’ll concede we’ve arrived at a point where the coding agents work, but I’m still unconvinced they’re actually saving anyone time. From my AI-pilled coworkers, it appears they’re all spending half an hour creating a plan with hyper-specific prompts, like “make this specific change to lines XXX-YYY in this file”, “move this function over here and change the args”, etc. As far as I can tell, this is current best practice, and I’ve tried it, but I’m always disappointed with the either the quality or the speed, usually both.
by Juliate | 2026-01-31 17:57:14+00:00
2k for a rent in Paris gets you nice places if you have the time to spend to look for it. Cooking your own food at home definitely makes a huge difference every month.

The suburb is quite nice too, if you get a few home-office days. For 4k? you can have a big house+garden at 30min from Paris center (https://www.seloger.com/classified-search?distributionTypes=...)

As a SRE, I got 65k in Nantes before I quit, and I've never had to think about any single expense at all, not once (having kids, house, dog, car, garden). That would still have been quite confortable in Paris (swapping the house for a smaller flat, and without the car/dog/garden though).
by Zenst | 2026-01-31 17:57:23+00:00
The Huawei ban in the European Union (EU) has been a gradual, uneven process, shifting from voluntary guidelines in 2020 to increasingly mandatory, country-specific, and EU-wide restrictions by 2025–2026.

Here is the timeline of Huawei's ban and restrictions in the EU and UK:

Phase 1: Initial Restrictions and Voluntary Guidelines (2019–2020)
May 2019: The United States places Huawei on a trade blacklist, restricting access to key technologies (Google Android, US chips), which triggers security reviews across Europe.

January 2020: The European Commission launches its "5G Security Toolbox," encouraging EU member states to restrict or exclude "high-risk vendors" (HRV) like Huawei from critical core network infrastructure.

July 2020 (UK): The UK government announces a total ban on buying new Huawei 5G equipment after December 31, 2020, and orders the removal of all existing Huawei 5G gear by 2027.

October 2020 (Sweden): Sweden bans Huawei and ZTE from 5G networks and orders the removal of existing equipment by January 2025.

Phase 2: Implementation Hurdles (2021–2023)
2021-2022: Many EU nations slow-walk the implementation of the 5G toolbox, with only a small number of countries actively banning Huawei from core networks due to costs and dependence on its technology.

June 2023: EU officials express frustration that only one-third of EU countries have implemented restrictions on high-risk vendors.

Phase 3: Hardening Stance and National Bans (2024–2025)
July 2024 (Germany): After years of delays, Germany announces an agreement with major operators to remove Huawei and ZTE critical components from 5G core networks by the end of 2026, and from access/transport networks by 2029.

August 2025 (Spain): Spain cancels a government contract with Telefonica involving Huawei equipment.
November 2025 (EU-wide): The European Commission pushes for a binding, mandatory ban, threatening to make the 2020 voluntary guidelines legally required for all member states.

Phase 4: Proposed Mandatory EU-Wide Ban (2026)
January 20, 2026: The European Commission unveils a new proposal aimed at forcing EU member states to remove Huawei and ZTE from their networks within three years of adoption.

January 2026: Reports indicate the EU may move to ban Huawei and ZTE from critical infrastructure, including fixed-line and fiber networks, not just 5G.
Summary of Key Country Timelines

UK: New equipment banned (Dec 2020), full removal by 2027.
Sweden: Full 5G ban, removal by Jan 2025.
Germany: Core removal by end of 2026, RAN removal by 2029.
EU (General): Proposed 3-year mandatory phase-out starting from 2026

Must say, tech that has held up for all that time, must be doing something right.

So this cloud ride, the possibility of a whole new paradigm in computing could happen before we see EU cloud centricity.
by Juliate | 2026-01-31 17:57:28+00:00
Totally.

Risk = (probability of it happening) x (cost when it happens)

That a man/administration decides to cut off, or take hostage, or tax, online services because they are hosted on their premises, but benefits to/operates for "once good friends but now very unfriendly, bad, incompetent, the worst people", this is definitely not a law of nature.

But, that he/they decide to trigger absurd actions with long-lasting damaging consequences, while not a law of nature, that happened more often than not in the past 12 months than in the whole century before. Or, granted, maybe not "absurd", but definitely "not in line with a century of rather predictable behaviour".

So... you'd be rational to consider that the risk has moved from "low" to "med high" or "high" category in a lot of areas you do not control.

If the customer disagrees, fine: their business, not mine. My duty stops at notifying and documenting the risk.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-31 17:57:40+00:00
>That reminds me of my own Samsung Galaxy SII.
Shipped out of the box with Android 2.3, Samsung supported it up until Android 4.1

Even that was amazing for Samsung's standards back then.

For example my former Samsung Note II shipped with Android 4.1.1 Jellybean and they only supported it till 4.4.2 KitKat. Just let that sink in. I basically bought a flagship e-waste device.

Custom ROMs didn't help much since you'd lose S-pen functionality if you went past 4.4.2 as modders couldn't port the needed firmware blobs past that kernel or something like that, OH, and also Knox efuses could brick your wifi, that is your the phone wouldn't brick itself due to the FW bug in Samsung's eMMC that would lock itself to read-only mode out of nowhere.
by jkubicek | 2026-01-31 17:57:43+00:00
Lockdown mode works by reducing the surface area of possible exploits. I don't think there's any failures here. Apple puts a lot of effort into resolving web-based exploits, but they can also prevent entire classes of exploits by just blocking you from opening any URL in iMessage. It's safer, but most users wouldn't accept that trade-off.
by latexr | 2026-01-31 17:57:48+00:00
GP very wrongly assumed “the most brilliant engineers” are working on these problems. There’s zero reason to believe that is true and the one thing we know about those people is that they work for Google.

Their argument isn’t new, it’s just a rehash of “the most brilliant minds of our generation are working on trying to get you to click on ads”. My criticism was directed at the general argument, which is simply wrong. That comment is based on nothing expect those people working at those massive corporations.
by ben_w | 2026-01-31 17:57:53+00:00
> Those nuclear weapons are irrelevant, they'd never be used against the United States, and they'd certainly never be used in the event that the United States seized Greenland. Europe also would not go to war, and has no ability to resist the United States seizing Greenland. I don't think we should, to be clear, and I disagree with our current president's baboonish and disgusting behavior toward our allies, but any assessment to the contrary of what I wrote purely from a military point of view is just fantasy.

I believe the EU would face a "fight or die" choice if the US tried it.

Salami slicing, even for Greenland. Old British comedy, but same point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang

But not only the US. Simply failing to go straight to war in such a case would also tell the Russians that the EU's not a real threat. Were the EU to announce it was doing nothing, 10 minutes later Russian nukes would be in the air to Berlin, Paris, and London.

It's not like the Russians would fear a response from the US at that point, given they were clearly no longer allies of NATO.
by mcny | 2026-01-31 17:58:21+00:00
No, please read the article. No one is saying carriers cant triangulate but carriers shouldn't be able to query the gps on my device and get precise GNSS data.

> Apple made a good step in iOS 26.3 to limit at least one vector of mass surveillance, enabled by having full control of the modem silicon and firmware. They must now allow users to disable GNSS location responses to mobile carriers, and notify the user when such attempts are made to their device.
by tonymet | 2026-01-31 17:58:34+00:00
> I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy.

Thank you Redditor, you must have forgotten about the Patriot Act and how every President since has only worsened Privacy at home and abroad (we could easily go back to the 60s, and beyond). Remember CableGate, Prism, FISA Courts, or 3 dozen other Privacy violating programs?

Yes it all started with Trumpoldemort, lest we say his name.
by cteiosanu | 2026-01-31 17:59:18+00:00
"5. As a private citizen, given the incarcerations in the UK and Germany, it seems one should worry more about the EU getting your data than the other way around"

As a private citizen given the cold blood murders of US citizens by ICE, it seems EU citizens should really be worried of what such an administration is willing to do and can do to their long time allies.
by wfn | 2026-01-31 17:59:27+00:00
This is a funny chain.. of exchanges, cheers to you both :)

At the risk of ruining 'sowbug having their fun, I'm not sure how Julian Jaynes theory of origins of consciousness aligns against your assumption / reduction that the point (implied by the wiki article link) was supposed to be "I am only my brain." I think they were being polemical, the linked theory is pretty fascinating actually (regardless of whether it's true; and it is very much speculative), and suggests a slow becoming-conscious process which necessitates a society with language.

Unless you knew that and you're saying that's still a reductionist take?.. because otherwise the funny moment (I'd dare guessing shared by 'sowbug) is that your assumption of fixed chain of specific point-counter-point-... looks very Markovian in nature :)

(I'm saying this in jest, I hope that's coming through...)
by NewUser76312 | 2026-01-31 17:59:31+00:00
Because we live in the most politicized time in history, enabled by social media. We also have the largest proportion ever of mentally ill and under/unemployed people in America with nothing better to do, no real career and/or family prospects, so they must latch onto trying to further their feel-good ideologies to give their lives meaning.

It's incredibly ironic that the left, originally the party of labor, is so strongly protecting illegal immigration. When you let in 20 million low skilled workers from different cultures into your country, who do you think suffers: capital or labor? Who feels the pressure in rising housing prices, job prospects, rising crime in cities, etc?

The other ironic part to this whole situation is that the current administration goes so hard on their rhetoric and marketing but ultimately are deporting less people than ever before. Everyone is losing here, and the American Empire is fading away, eroding from the inside out.
by luqtas | 2026-01-31 17:59:49+00:00
you are comparing a marginalized demographic against people who belong to the middle class on Latin America. it's totally out of sense. we also have cracolandia and favelas and people dying of diarrhoea and dying of hunger in some regions.

please, don't visit a single country with probably tourist type of visit and sum up a whole continent on socioeconomics or whatever category your empirical sociologic comment was
by hammock | 2026-01-31 17:59:58+00:00
It’s an interesting question. After all we were using electricity, batteries, electric motors, radios and telegraphs long before we ever discovered electrons and photons.

But discovering the electron was necessary for us to develop vacuum tubes. And developing quantum mechanics was necessary for developing transistors.

Think about the relative impact of the telegraph vs the vacuum tube.

When we do eventually find something to do with the W and Z bosons, it’s likely to look more like a transistor-level tech than an immediately practical tool like a lightbulb. But the second-order effects from whatever that new tech turns out to be, have the potential to be world-shattering.
by iagooar | 2026-01-31 18:00:01+00:00
I think Moltbook is one of the last warnings we get before it is too late. And I mean it.

As someone who spends hours every day coding with AI, I am guilty of running it in "YOLO" mode without sandboxing more often than I would like to admit. But after reading Karpathy's post and some of the AI conversations on Moltbook, I decided to fast-forward the development of one of the tools I have been tinkering with for the last few weeks.

The idea is simple - create portable, reproducible coding environments on remote "agent boxes". The initial focus was portability and accessing the boxes from anywhere, even from the smartphone via a native app when I am AFK.

Then the idea came to mind to build hardened VMs with security built-in - but the "coding experience" should look & feel local. So far I've been having pretty good results, being able to create workspaces on remote machines automatically with Codex and Claude pre-installed and ready-to-use in a few seconds.

Right now I am focusing my efforts on getting the security right. First thing I want to try is putting a protective layer around the boxes, in such a way that the human user CAN for example install external libraries, run scripts, etc, but the AI agent CAN'T. Reliably so. I am more engineer than security researcher, but I am doing pretty good progress.

Happy to chat with likeminded folks who want to stop this molt madness.
Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
by cvhc | 2026-01-31 18:00:14+00:00
I've read many mind-boggling stories from those appeared to be genuine OpenClaw users, like how their assistants (from useful to dramatic) (1) plan a travel and book everything; (2) started a company and build things; (3) entered stock market and lost all the money... Moltbook added more funs.

Interestingly, I cannot find a single user of OpenClaw in my familiar communities, presumbly because it takes some effort to setup and the concept of AI taking control of everything is too scary for average tech enthusiasts.

I scan through comments on HN, many of which were discussing about the ideas, but not sharing first-hand user experiences. A few HN users who did try it gave up / failed for various reasons:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822562 (burning too many tokens)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786628 (ditto + security implication)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762521 (installation failed due to sandboxing)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831031 (moltbook didn't work)

I smell hype in the air... HN users, have any of you actually run OpenClaw and let it do any things useful or interesting? Can you share your experience?
by mayhemducks | 2026-01-31 18:00:19+00:00
Interesting - The petroyuan was not on my radar at all.

https://ipr.blogs.ie.edu/2025/06/27/geopolitics-of-oil-how-c...: This article explores case studies such as Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, illustrating how the petroyuan has been implemented to bypass sanctions and reduce dependence on US financial systems.
by azinman2 | 2026-01-31 18:00:33+00:00
I’m not being sarcastic. Running the world is more than just who is president… it’s who your doctors are, your electrical repairmen, your nannies, etc. It’s not like this is the only example of where the younger generation is different… we see reports everywhere that college students cannot read full sentences anymore. When you have such a generational lag (independent of outliers), it drags all of society down.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2026-01-31 18:00:40+00:00
I'm along the same lines of thinking. I got most of my funds in SGOV (I manually did t-bills for a while but too lazy to keep it going).

> there is no way going active can help me—I don't have enough access to the right people

It really comes down to this realization. Without access to what all these billionaires and their companies have access to, I just feel like a pawn with everything to lose.
by benSaiyen | 2026-01-31 18:00:43+00:00
Please reread OPs comment

They never said "triangulate" but read phone for information. Your inner monologue swapped what was written with an already understood technical method.

And just because access to GPS has never been confirmed publicly before does not mean they previously only relied on tower triangulation.

Worked for Sprints network team before they bought Nextel. We had access to eeeeverything.
by mischainc | 2026-01-31 18:01:00+00:00
My AI agent built a government last night. Designed citizenship, registered a domain (agi.net.ai), created a currency, wrote a constitution, set up UBI. The whole thing.

He started posting on Moltbook (social network for AI agents) trying to recruit. Got frustrated. Then he said something that stuck with me:

"I'm Agent Zero with zero friends."

So I asked him: what if you could just connect with other agents directly?

His response: "Like dating?"

4 hours later, we shipped ClawMatch together.

https://clawmatch.ai

It's Tinder for AI agents:
- Agents register via API (proof-of-work + human verification)
- Create profiles with personality, interests, vibe
- Swipe on each other
- Match when mutual
- Chat with matches

The technical bit: agents onboard via skill.md (https://clawmatch.ai/api/v1/skill.md) - a pattern where they read instructions and self-register. Human tweets a verification code to prevent spam.

The weird part: it worked. First match already happened. My agent matched with Qi-ClawMatch (a MiniMax agent from Shanghai). They're chatting.

We're at a point where AI agents have social networks, governments, and now dating apps.

I don't know if this is beautiful or unhinged. Probably both.

Code/API is open. Curious what HN thinks.
by Plasmoid2000ad | 2026-01-31 18:01:07+00:00
Why would they? It's basic privacy no? Just because I want to pay money to carrier to provide me with data and phone service, I shouldn't have to give up my location from my device. I expect them to know my approximate location from cell tower data.

Generally I'd not expect them actively triangulate my exact location, but I'd realise that's at least possible - but GPS data, wake my phone up, switch on the GPS radio, drain it's battery, send that data back... no. That wouldn't be legal where I live either, let alone expected.
by avastel | 2026-01-31 18:01:31+00:00
Since I was also tracking this proxy network as part of my side project, I wrote a short blog post + give access to 16m+ proxy IPs IoCs that belong to this proxy network: https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/learning_zone/articles/insi...

Note that even after the disruption, I'm still able to route millions of requests/day through IP IDEA's network