MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2026-01-24 04:20:18+00:00
>I wonder how the Israel lobby will manage to turn that ship around at this point?

The effect of popular criticism of Israel in the US has been the normalization of mass censorship and deportation, and nil on Israeli policy or American support for it (other than being the catalyst for killing Kamala Harris' campaign.) The ship doesn't need to be turned around, it continues on its course unabated.

Last I heard Trump intends to pave Gaza over and sell the land for data centers to the Saudis.
by JoeyPro | 2026-01-24 04:21:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the builder behind EchoDeck.

I built this because I was frustrated with the fragmentation of the internet. I love the depth of the Open Web (RSS blogs, news sites), but I also believe in the censorship resistance of the Sovereign Web (Nostr). Switching between Reeder and Damus felt like moving between two disconnected worlds.

EchoDeck is a "Dual-Core" social reader that attempts to bridge this gap.

*The Architecture:*
We use a hybrid approach to solve accessibility and performance:
1. *The Bridge:* We aggregate RSS feeds server-side (solving CORS/privacy issues) and normalize them into Nostr-compatible events. This lets you "Zap" (tip) a blog post via Lightning, just like a social post.
2. *The Tunnel:* To ensure access for users in restrictive regions (like behind the GFW), we deploy edge relay proxies that obfuscate WebSocket traffic, allowing connection to global relays without VPNs.
3. *The Stack:* Built with Next.js 14 (App Router), Shadcn/UI, and a custom Zustand store to handle the high-frequency "waterfall" of WebSocket events without re-render fatigue.

*The "Proof of Engagement" Experiment:*
To prevent spam and ensure high-quality initial growth, I've implemented a gamified invite system.
- New users start with 0 invites.
- You must complete "Quests" (e.g., Subscribe to 3 RSS feeds, Publish 1 Note) to unlock invite codes.
- This creates a "Proof of Engagement" layer—only active users can grow the network.

*Genesis Codes for HN:*
We are in Closed Beta. Here are 10 "Tier 0" Genesis Codes specifically for the HN community. These grant immediate invite privileges so you can bring your friends.

ECHO-GEN-38DBJ6
ECHO-GEN-38VEHE
ECHO-GEN-3MZBUE
ECHO-GEN-3QZGN2
ECHO-GEN-4WQV7Y
ECHO-GEN-4ZDN53
ECHO-GEN-4ZGFEN
ECHO-GEN-5UDBAF
ECHO-GEN-6BK8W3
ECHO-GEN-6C4V2D

If these run out, check out the repo or DM me your npub, and I’ll mint a fresh one for you.

github community:https://github.com/Zhaoyi0526/EchoDeck-Community

I’d love to hear your feedback on the "Hybrid" architecture approach!
by phaedrus | 2026-01-24 04:21:16+00:00
If we had super-smart AI with low latency and fast enough speed, would the perceived need for / usefulness of running multiple agents evaporate? Sure you might want to start working on the prompt or user story for something else while the agent is working on the first thing, but - in my thought experiment here there wouldn't be a "while" because it'd already be done while you're moving your hand off the enter key.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-24 04:22:21+00:00
In ossified companies like telcos there's also the issue that the limitations of the existing equipment are being worked around with people. Those people derive their salaries from it, their manager derives his salary + prestige from managing such a headcount, and so on.

While the top brass might indeed be interested and benefit from more automation and a network that mostly runs itself, it's a bad deal for effectively everyone else in the company, so any attempts in that direction will never end up anywhere.

That's why legacy companies have been talking about "digital transformation" for decades now, yet it never progresses past simply digitizing the paperwork (and often creating more of it due to reduced friction), because enough people derive their job from said paperwork to make actual digital transformation politically untenable and impossible to deliver due to constant sabotage.
by kijiki | 2026-01-24 04:22:51+00:00
I arguably owe a successful career in tech to my dad seeing a $99 deal on a TI-99 after they were discontinued in the mid 80's and buying it just because he had had a shortwave receiver as a child and saw some weird similarity. Unbeknownst to him, it turned out my mother had been a FORTRAN programmer in the 70's (though she described it as working as a lab-tech in a bio lab), and taught me how to program it in its weird BASIC dialect.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-24 04:22:56+00:00
>HN, Facebook before the timeline, the entire pre-Facebook internet, Reddit before the IPO path.

What is the counter point? None of those had more MAU than any of the big social media platforms of today. All of the big social platforms have experimented to find what kind of experience the average user actually prefers and has used that to improve their platform and continue growing. The Facebook of today is a much better platform to the average user than the Facebook pretimeline. Trying to win over people to a social media platform that takes measures to be worse and to avoid growing metrics is not a successful strategy.
by bz_bz_bz | 2026-01-24 04:23:14+00:00
Investors? No.
Customers? They were paid the cash value of their crypto holdings at the time of bankruptcy. Thanks to a massive bull run in crypto between bankruptcy and payout, customers were able to be paid back in “full” even with the fraud. However, when BTC is sitting at $60k and your missing BTC is being paid back at $17k, you’re not exactly going to be feeling giddy.
by theamk | 2026-01-24 04:23:15+00:00
That's a lot of words for a pretty basic explanation of how to exploit kernel that has a very specific kind of bug: "option length" parser error in TCP frames that leads to user-controlled stack overwrite.

Which kernel is it is unclear. There are zero details in the paper, not even which OS is this (Linux? Windows? Some BSD?). There are no mentions of ASLR, stack protectors or any other security mechanisms either.

In fact, there is nothing novel in the paper at all. I suspect author spent too much time with AI.
by consumer451 | 2026-01-24 04:23:22+00:00
In my comment history can be found a comment much like yours.

Then Opus 4.5 was released. I had already had my CC cluade.md, and Windsurf global rules + workspace rules set up. Also, my main money making project is React/Vite/Refine.dev/antd/Supabase... known patterns.

My point is that given all that, I can now deploy amazing features that "just work," and have excellent ux in a single prompt. I still review all commits, but they are now 95% correct on front end, and >75% on Postgres migrations.

Is it magic? Yes. What's worse is that I believe Dario. In a year or so, many people will just create their own Loom or Monday.com SaaS with a one page request. Will it be production ready? No. Will it have all the features that everyone wants? No. But it will do that they want, which is 5% of most SaaS feature sets. That will kill at least 10% of basic SaaS. If Sonnet 3.5 (Nov 2024) to Opus 4.5 (Nov 2025) progress is a thing, then we are mostly fucked.

"May you live in interesting times" - turns out to be a curse, I had no idea.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-24 04:23:24+00:00
It's not a negative emotion at all. It makes me feel great! I fully realize that many people won't do this, so it's not like I'm expecting my little 'mini boycotts' to have any meaningful material impact on the people engaging in dubious business practices. I do it because it makes me feel good. The fact that it's overall a good thing for society, even better if more people did it, is just a pleasant side effect.
by nikkwong | 2026-01-24 04:23:31+00:00
No tin-foil hat needed. There is published research documenting that this is happening [0] on certain topics and there is a lot of reason to believe it is happening in others. Yes, I'm not saying China is the only source of the state of our domestic discontent; but it's fuel to the fire and will be used against us at times in the future when we need national cohesion. See also [1] a 60 minutes episode on a related thread of China infiltrating the US in other ways.

[0] https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-Report_-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vxbytjDSM&themeRefresh=1
by EasyMark | 2026-01-24 04:24:09+00:00
The engineers who developed this developed it to a spec so that microsoft demanded that allows them to get into the system at any time. There was nothing lazy about it. This would be easily found by anyone who has the impetus to encrypt their drive. Don't put things on your work laptop that you don't want Dom down in IT reading all of it or Phil the police forensics dick
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-24 04:24:30+00:00
It would be smart but as I understand they are doing the opposite, taking measures to lock down the electronics in future vehicles. Many (most?) of them have already been thwarting owner access to certain diagnostics for years.

We badly need right to repair and right to tinker laws. Or better yet a "thou shall not employ DRM against the legal owner of a device" commandment.
by amadeuspagel | 2026-01-24 04:26:33+00:00
When I read this title I imagined active sitting to mean something like sitting in a rocking chair. To call sitting active because someone is using their brain seems even more stretched. We already know that you need to exercise your body and brain. Do we really need a term for different kinds of sitting to make us feel better about at least using our brain while our body decays?
by BurningFrog | 2026-01-24 04:26:36+00:00
I'm unimpressed. What they've concretely seen is black Teslas driving behind two robotaxis.

They spin that into a viral story that the safety monitor was just moved to a following car. That might be true, but like the story says, it makes no sense.

So maybe there just happened to be two other Teslas in Austin traffic. It is the most sold car model in the country.
by estearum | 2026-01-24 04:27:49+00:00
> The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances.

> The term [stupidity], he said, wasn’t a description of intellectual acuity, but of social responsibility. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person, or to a group of persons, while deriving no gain for himself, and possibly incurring losses.

https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%...
by mannanj | 2026-01-24 04:28:27+00:00
You misrepresented my position to make it easier to attack.

When I brought up the position(s) that people who asked questions or were curious about certain topics got shut down and labeled as having psychosis you responded with bringing is a representation of my position as vaccine skepticism.

I remember hearing about psychosis in popular mainstream media. Look I can see you have a strong opinion and belief system around what "reputable" means, and won't actually ever communicate it to me since you are the arbiter of truth and justice - You can look it up what the psychosis is yourself. You seem to like Wikipedia so start there.
by nikkwong | 2026-01-24 04:28:52+00:00
> And spoiler, zero american politicians are pro-china.

..Other than, well possibly, Trump. Maybe not directly, but the Tiktok deal, withdrawing from the TPP, the eventual outcome of the trade war, the praise for Xi—all stands to benefit China at the expense of the US.

> I don't really have respect for this idea; we do this to ourselves far more effectively than people who frankly have a pretty hamfisted cultural understanding- just as we have of china or russia.

The two need not be mutually exclusive.
by ripped_britches | 2026-01-24 04:29:26+00:00
speech to speech is not nearly as good as livekit IMO ("old school" sequence of transcribe, LLM, synthesize). depends on what you're doing of course, but this is just because the LLMs are just way smarter than the speech to speech models which are pretty much the worst (again IMO) at anything beyond basic banter. and livekit is just a framework so you can hook it up with any models in the stack. im not an expert on the local parts but i would assume this pretty easy to glue together.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-24 04:30:01+00:00
I have a great local assistant that works end-to-end with voice. It's built on local, web-first technologies, it fits small LLMs in memory and manages inference and TTS/STT without stuttering. I've been shaping it up over a couple years and constantly switching out new models.

If you want something simple that runs in browser, look at vosk-browser[0] and vits-web[1].

I'd also recommend checking out KittenTTS[2], I use it and it's great for the size/performance. However, you'd need to implement a custom JavaScript harness for the model since it's a python project. If you need help with that, shoot me an email and I can share some code.

There are other great approaches too if you don't mind python, personally I chose the web as a platform in order to make my agent fully portable and remote once I release it.

And of course, NVIDIA's new model just came out last week[3] but I haven't gotten to test it out just yet, and also there was the recent Sparrow-1[4] announcement which shows people are finally putting money into the problems plaguing voice agents that are rigged up from several models and glue infrastructure, vs a single end-to-end model or at least a conversational turn-taking model to keep things on rails.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/vosk-browser

[1] https://github.com/diffusionstudio/vits-web

[2] https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

[3] https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/

[4] https://www.tavus.io/post/sparrow-1-human-level-conversation...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-24 04:30:50+00:00
Sure, public transit can be nice. But so is owning my own vehicle that isn't subject to routes, schedules, and minimal luggage constraints. I'd much rather hang out and read a book or play a video game than babysit a vehicle in stop and go traffic for half an hour. Even if traffic is moving at a decent clip I'd still rather do something else.
by rmunn | 2026-01-24 04:31:20+00:00
> ... I don't think that AI needs to mirror our own brains very closely to work.

Mostly agree, with the caveat that I haven't thought this through in much depth. But the brain uses many different neurotransmitter chemicals (dopamine, serotonin, and so on) as part of its processing, it's not just binary on/off signals traveling through the "wires" made of neurons. Neural networks as an AI system are only reproducing a tiny fraction of how the brain works, and I suspect that's a big part of why even though people have been playing around with neural networks since the 1960's, they haven't had much success in replicating how the human mind works. Because those neurotransmitters are key in how we feel emotion, and even how we learn and remember things. Since neural networks lack a system to replicate how the brain feels emotion, I strongly suspect that they'll never be able to replicate even a fraction of what the human brain can do.

For example, the "simple" act of reaching up to catch a ball doesn't involve doing the math in one's head. Rather, it's strongly involved with muscle memory, which is strongly connected with neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine and others. The eye sees the image of the ball changing in direction and subtly changing in size, the brain rapidly predicts where it's going to be when it reaches you, and the muscles trigger to raise the hands into the ball's path. All this happens without any conscious thought beyond "I want to catch that ball": you're not calculating the parabolic arc, you're just moving your hands to where you already know the ball will be, because your brain trained for this since you were a small child playing catch in the yard. Any attempt to replicate this without the neurotransmitters that were deeply involved in training your brain and your muscles to work together is, I strongly suspect, doomed to failure because it has left out a vital part of the system, without which the system does not work.

Of course, there are many other things AIs are being trained for, many of which (as you said, and I agree) do not require mimicking the way the human brain works. I just want to point out that the human brain is way more complex than most people realize (it's not merely a network of neurons, there's so much more going on than that) and we just don't have the ability to replicate it with current computer tech.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-01-24 04:31:33+00:00
With the exception that cooks are actually less reliable (sometimes your steak comes out medium rare, sometimes well done). The human world is chaotic and unreliable, yet we wrangle it into a workable form. I think pretty soon we'll see that paralleled in the AI world, in the same ways we categorize and value human labor and businesses.
by sandworm101 | 2026-01-24 04:31:49+00:00
>> shoot the entire production without leaving California, and it’s hard to criticize them for not using authentic Yukon locations.

Yup. Everything on screen will be fake. No majesty. No detail. No grit. Nothing authentic. No presence. It will look like a marvel movie, a clean and sanitized version of "wilderness". I bet they will even add fake consensation so we know when a the scene is supposed to be "cold". Because the turbulance of a character's breath hitting a biting arctic wind and freezing to thier mask is so easy to model accurately in post.

Want to see a real yukon movie?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Cry_Wolf_(film)

"He also found the process difficult. "During much of the two-year shooting schedule in Canada's Yukon and in Nome, Alaska, I was the only actor present. It was the loneliest film I've ever worked on," Smith said."

THAT is what the real north is like.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-24 04:33:22+00:00
It might be the language he is looking for, but it might not, and more likely than not is not. D is one of those odd languages which most likely ought to have gotten a lot more popular than it did, but for one reason or another, never quite caught on. Perhaps one reason is because it lacks a sense of eccentricity and novelty that other languages in its weight class have. Or perhaps it's just too unfamiliar in all the wrong ways. Whatever the case may be, popularity is in fact one of the most useful metrics when ruling out a potential language for a new project. And if D does not meet GP's requirements in terms of longevity or commercial support, I would certainly not suggest GP adopt it too eagerly, simply because it happens to check off most or all their technological requirements.
by ksec | 2026-01-24 04:34:13+00:00
The article doesn't mention it but 10GBASE-T came out in 2006! And 20 years later we are only just reaching the tipping point.

I remember getting the 1Gbps in early 2000s and knowing 10Gbps approved but not yet for copper twisted pair cables I thought by late 2000s or early 2010s I should be upgrading again.

Cost never came down, you either pay huge premium for 10Gbps or you get 1Gbps x2 which is enough for most Home NAS.

And then in 2016, 10 years after the introduction of 10GBASE-T they decided to introduce 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T. We would have thought they will quickly fill the gap given that WiFi has a clear roadmap of Total throughput exceed 1Gbps and even 2.5Gbps. Didn't happen, some vendor choose 2.5Gbps but 5Gbps was largely ignored, those that support 5Gbps were actually newer 10Gbps Ethernet controller.

Finally 2026 we have Realtek, 10Gbps is finally affordable and will only get cheaper over time.
by EasyMark | 2026-01-24 04:35:44+00:00
A lot of them are not really legitimate though. There's a reason that 4th amendment needs a modern version to require a warrant for tapping of any sort for things people generally assume are private. Flock, palantir, etc need to all go bankrupt, starved of data to spy on. In an ideal world of course. Maybe someday we'll wake up from the nightmare.
by golem14 | 2026-01-24 04:36:53+00:00
More importantly, perhaps, are some exercises where a A SRE team creates likely problem (US/China/…) does bad things with DNS/BGP/…, submarine cables, starlink, GPS/GALILEO, Kessler effect etc, and SRE team B tries to keep the national infrastructure together. This may be happening already, but I have my doubts
Show HN: TempleOS Playground
by AlecMurphy | 2026-01-24 04:37:09+00:00
I noticed that Fabrice Bellard added x86_64 support to JSLinux, and I decided to do some work getting TempleOS up and running on it. Enjoy the fruits of my labor: TempleOS, running locally in your browser, completely unoptimized, with some convenient tools for debugging and playing around.
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-01-24 04:37:23+00:00
Interesting! I was just thinking about pinging the creator of simple-bench.com and asking them if they intend to re-benchmark models after 3 months. I've noticed, in particular, Gemini models dramatically reducing in quality after the initial hype cycle. Gemini 3 Pro _was_ my top performer and has slowly reduced to 'is it worth asking', complete with gpt-4o style glazing. It's been frustrating. I had been working on a very custom benchmark and over the course of it Gemini 3 Pro and Flash both started underperforming by 20% or more. I wondered if I had subtle broken my benchmark but ultimately started seeing the same behavior in general online queries (Google AI Studio).
by somenameforme | 2026-01-24 04:38:30+00:00
Exactly this. This is an issue where perception is 100% of the game. The problem I think in modern times is that parties are incapable of saying 'no' to anything that is politically beneficial in the short-run. For instance part of the official DNC platform involves putting more police out there and actively supporting them.

This is obviously intended to appeal to traditional liberals, yet in practice it falls apart because the party exploits every single crisis as an opportunity which, over time, causes those exploitations to shift how people, including myself, perceive their "real" ideology and agenda to be. At the bare minimum, this most certainly would not include expansion and support of law enforcement.

And so again I don't think this shift is being driven by social media or whatever. I do not partake in any social media whatsoever, besides this site and a handful of other fringe focus interest things, and my perspective of the parties, and one party in particular, has shifted radically - primarily because of their own actions.
by galangalalgol | 2026-01-24 04:38:46+00:00
We probably aren't that far off actually. Even taking asm with no symbols back into rust works well. You have truth, just have the agent repeat until the asm matches. Doesn't work on giant codebases, but on a few functions it absolutely does. And while the llm may get the algorithm wrong, the type system does seem to help it generate useful code in rust for a starting place v
by userbinator | 2026-01-24 04:41:46+00:00
Rounding that to 1 error per 30 days per 256M, for 16G of RAM that would translate to 1 error roughly every half a day. I do not believe that at all, having done memory testing runs for much longer on much larger amounts of RAM. I've seen the error counters on servers with ECC RAM, which remain at 0 for many months; and when they start increasing, it's because something is failing and needs replaced. In my experience RAM failures are much rarer than for HDDs and SSDs.