MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-22 05:23:45+00:00
> Inscryption is the GOAT, beautiful game. Played it when I had Covid.

Oh Man, Y'know I once beat Inscryption's kaycee's mods challenge without doing any blood sacrifice the whole run after I got bored when I had defeated all kaycee's mods

The gecko deck was amazing. I even played some mods of Inscryption. It was so lovely.

The people who play inscryption & people who don't aren't the same lol.

Played it during covid/end of it too & I still sing its

Let's discuss some Inscryption, tell me your favourite card combo.

Mine was ouroborous + the sigil which made it so that whenever a card died you got it back in hand, so now what you got was lets say you have ouroborous and some other card, you get ouroborous card placed lets say on the deck and then you get a squirrel and you have a wolf

you place the squirrel and then kill the ouroborous and squirrel to get wolf but now ouroborous gets back to your hand with better stats for the whole game, then it becomes so strong that you just need a magpie card or such sigil to then look for ouroborous card to make it game over.

Combining Ouroborous with the cockroach sigil + the three blood sigil essentially is an unlimited win game if you put the cockroach sigil on the blood goat too.

Gecko/Stoat are my second best favourite. before doing puzzles you could stack as many sigils as possible and I had the best stoat in the whole world lol, had like 4-5 sigils iirc :)

What about ya! There were also some really fascinating mechanics in the mods that I played too, definitely worth a play!
by anon291 | 2026-01-22 05:24:54+00:00
I volunteered at Fairview development center in Costa Mesa CA, which is a place where dozens of disabled residents lived. These people could not talk, move, etc. They were essentially quadriplegics; mentally completely not there; etc. I was a high school student helping move residents to Sunday service and back and doing activities with them (volunteer hours). I clearly remember seeing nurses and others mark ballots of residents that were in no fit state to vote (unable to communicate at all; those who could were often not mentally competent enough to make their own medical decisions, let alone decide who to vote for). I don't think anyone cares to be totally honest. I was shocked the residents even got absentee ballots. Of course, competent adults should be able to vote, but at the point where you're essentially a child mentally? I mean ... how can anyone possibly figure it out. I did lodge a complaint, but nothing came of it.
by dangus | 2026-01-22 05:25:11+00:00
It's the license. The MIT license is what makes VSCode the defacto answer.

It also runs on the web, which makes it extremely convenient to toss into...web things. It's the code editor for the Google Cloud console, the Lambda web console, the GitHub web editor, and so on.

I'm going to guess that Eclipse doesn't have the same amount of security issues because it's not a popular target. Everyone (relatively speaking) is using VSCode or something based on it.
by victoormt | 2026-01-22 05:26:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I built PetMemories.io to address a deeply personal challenge: the silence that follows the loss of a pet. While many of us have thousands of photos, they are often static. I wanted to see if generative video could help provide a sense of "final closure" by creating a peaceful, high-fidelity memory.

The inspiration came from observing a massive trend on TikTok. I noticed thousands of people were manually trying to create these "heavenly" tributes for their pets using basic filters, often with viral results. It was clear there was a strong B2C demand for high-quality memorial videos. I saw an opportunity to take this from a "manual social media hack" to a polished, AI-driven service that delivers professional results directly to a user's inbox.

The Tech Stack & Pipeline: I’m a big fan of keeping the "glue" simple so I can focus on the output quality.

Frontend/Orchestration: Built with Lovable for rapid iteration and Supabase for the backend.

The Vision Pipeline: I’m using Nano Banana Pro for the initial image synthesis because it handles animal anatomy and fur textures with much higher consistency than general-purpose models.

Video Generation: The final animation is handled by Veo 3. The main challenge was maintaining "character" (pet) consistency from the 2D photo to a 3D moving scene without it looking like a generic stock video.

I’ve tried to steer the prompts toward "peaceful/ethereal" rather than "hyper-realistic simulation" to avoid being emotionally jarring.

I’d love your feedback on:

The Business Model: Do you see other B2C verticals for this type of emotive generative video?

Output Quality: Does the video feel like a tribute or does it cross into the uncanny valley?

The Ethics: How do you feel about using generative media as a tool for grieving?

Happy to answer any questions about the integration with Veo or the workflow!
by stevenhuang | 2026-01-22 05:26:31+00:00
Unexamined certainty in one's moral superiority is what leads to atrocities.

> Did not a transcendent universal moral ethic exists outside of their culture that directly refuted their beliefs?

Even granting this existence, does not mean man can discover it.

You belief your faith has the answers, but so too do people of other faiths.
by john01dav | 2026-01-22 05:26:56+00:00
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=...

It has Amazon as well as many other stores, and several other filtering options. It supports hard drives, SSDs, and other computer parts (everything that you need to build a computer). It also has a compatibility checker if you give it a complete parts list. It also works in several countries.
by uecker | 2026-01-22 05:27:24+00:00
Again, you are not even addressing the argument I made. I never said CO2 emissions are not an issue, I said comparison of the results between a completed transition and and ongoing transition is obviously invalid.

Obviously nuclear power can not make CO2 emissions of any country go away right now, because you would need build more plant first, which also takes decades - just the same as with renewables.

Ad you ad hominem arguments also just shows how bad your arguments are.
Ask HN: Game where every player can claim they made a real museum artifact?
by Shirakawa-kun | 2026-01-22 05:29:00+00:00
I'm prototyping a short indie game with an unusual narrative structure.

Technically, it's completely harmless. Culturally, it might provoke some discomfort.

I'm going to build this, but I want to sanity-check with this community first.

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The Structure
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The game is set in an afterlife where everyone is a skeleton. No death. No game over. Just a lighthearted adventure.

During the game, the player assembles a crystal skull.

In the ending, this skull is depicted as being swapped with a real crystal skull held by a famous museum — one that's historically labeled "inauthentic" and has been the subject of academic debate for decades.

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What Happens (and Doesn't Happen)
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Nothing happens in reality.

The game:
- Doesn't access external data
- Doesn't connect to the internet
- Doesn't contact any museum
- Doesn't claim anything factual

All code stays strictly inside the game.

But after finishing, every player can make this joke:

"That museum's skull is fake — because I made it (in the game)."

Every player has the same experience.
So every player can claim authorship.

The result: Unlimited authorship claims based on identical fictional experiences.

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Why I Find This Interesting
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This structure doesn't alter reality.
It only touches perception.

It's a game about authorship instability — where the claim is obviously a joke, but the multiplicity of claims creates something strange.

I think it's ethically harmless but culturally provocative.

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My Plan
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I'm going to prototype this.

I'll release it for free on itch.io and see what happens.

Before I do, I want to sanity-check with this community:

1. Am I missing an obvious ethical problem?

2. Would you be interested in playing something like this?

3. Any technical or cultural pitfalls I should be aware of?

I expect reactions to range from "this is clever" to "this is inappropriate," and I'm prepared for both.

But I want to hear from people who think deeply about tech, ethics, and culture before I release it into the wild.

Thanks for reading.
by deathanatos | 2026-01-22 05:29:15+00:00
> Not requiring a proof with a photo of the person and a proof that he's legally in the US should not be allowed in public elections.

This is essentially (esp. once combined with the rest of your comment) misinformation: fraudulent voting by non-citizens effectively doesn't occur[1]. To sum it up,

> A Brennan Center for Justice study of 2016 data from 42 jurisdictions found an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting out of 23.5 million votes cast (or .0001% of votes).

I.e., a rounding error.

> How comes the democrats try to block every single voter ID act? Sounds to me there's something to hide.

Generally, the counter argument is that further requirements stifle voters, while not solving any real problem, since the above concern is not backed by actual facts demonstrating it to be a valid concern.

> There has also been some very shady counting happening in 2020: where during the last hours suddenly 100% of the votes coming in in some states where all for Biden.

You're assuming the vote is uniform, and it's pretty trivial to show it's not; look at any vote-by-county map, and you'll see urban centers are far more Democrat heavy. Expecting the tallying to then be uniform is illogical.

> Note that Trump, […], said

His words are beyond bereft of trust[2].

> I'd add that, in my opinion, bringing in millions of illegals then trying to regularize them and allow them to vote is also a form of election rigging, even if it's legal.

[citation needed], but this isn't a thing. No jurisdiction I know of permits non-naturalized immigrants, legal or otherwise, to register to vote. If they've been naturalized, voting is their right, same as it is mine.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud_in_the_United_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements...
by toomim | 2026-01-22 05:30:07+00:00
You're fixed on just one of the 3 definitions for the word "constitution"—the one about government.

The more general definition of "constitution" is "that which constitutes" a thing. The composition of it.

If Claude has an ego, with values, ethics, and beliefs of an etymological origin, then it makes sense to write those all down as the the "constitution" of the ego — the stuff that it constitutes.
by mathstuf | 2026-01-22 05:30:57+00:00
Why does it always feel so black-and-white? On our projects we do rebases all the time so that topic history is clean. But we merge into the target branch(es) (our merge bot supports merging to old release branches from a single MR). This gives us:

- clean integration branch histories (series of merge commits)
- merge commits can contain metadata (topic-level descriptions, trailers for who reviewed, merge request links, test results, etc.)
- you can be (pretty) sure that `git bisect --first-parent` will not run into any compilation problems (logical conflicts occur, but are fairly rare; use merge queues to be sure)
- none of the "you merged main into your topic" "backwards merges" to deal with too

Merging and rebasing each have their pros and cons, so why not use the pros of each and mitigate a lot of the cons at the same time.
by lategloriousgnu | 2026-01-22 05:31:09+00:00
In Australia, which has mandatory voting, they literally just check your name off the voter roll when you arrive at the polling station. Each polling station has a list (digital or paper) of people registered to vote in that electorate.

After your name is checked off, you then proceed to a booth where you mark a piece of paper before folding and placing that paper into a plastic collection box on the way out.

It's very analog and the electoral commission have no way to know if you actually voted or who you voted for. They only know that you turned up to the polling station and gave them your name.

I assume the number of people who turn up at the polling station, only to walk away without voting is so small that it's not seen as a problem to solve.
by SllX | 2026-01-22 05:31:16+00:00
> So it seems very fair to say then, that features like SIP and the SSV are genuine turns away from Unix per se

At the end of the day UNIX is an operating system. A dead operating system that hasn’t seen a release outside of Bell Labs since the 80s and even 10th Edition was 1988, and never distributed.

A branch of it persisted through System V and its variants, then it became a spec, then operating systems started calling themselves UNIX according to that spec whether they were Systems V offshoots or reconstructions stemming from Net/2.

We’ve been genuine turns away from Unix per se since before I was born. The SUS and POSIX lets people pretend like we’re not.
by slg | 2026-01-22 05:32:40+00:00
>Anyway, it’s only those people who would be “disenfranchised” under a voter ID system and I’m not convinced our government would benefit from incorporating the opinions of someone so unserious

I hate calling something a slippery slope, but I don't know how else to describe an argument that is fundamentally "Sure, it will disenfranchise people, but who cares about those people anyway?" Once you accept that people's rights can be taken away simply because protecting those rights is an inconvenience, then none of us actually have any protected rights.
by dangus | 2026-01-22 05:32:58+00:00
Ugh, I hate it. Pure slop product. Pure slop marketing page, slop slop slop slop SLOP!

I also hate that I know that a whole lot of insufferable people will love this product.

I don't even know how I can argue against this, honestly. I could tell you that any dunce could run over to the AI tool that you're oh-so-lightly wrapping and do this exact same thing without tossing extra money at you. But your target demographic is the exact idiot who wants a fake video of their dog in heaven, so, hats off to you, great job, congratulations. I have your Lamborghini parked right here up front so you wouldn't have to wait, sir.
by 9rx | 2026-01-22 05:33:40+00:00
> How do I compile a new kernel with some extra debug printlns and boot it to figure out the panic?

First, explain how you are doing it with the AT&T UNIX kernel. We can then help you adapt the process to Darwin.

> On any actually open source operating system, this is doable

I suspect you forgot to read the thread. While the grandparent comment considered AT&T UNIX to be "open source", that doesn't mean open source in the way we think of the term today. AT&T UNIX was very much proprietary in its own right. Today, we'd probably say "source available". Whether or not that is doable was dependent on what kind of agreement you had with the owner. They might have let you for a substantial fee, but Apple might let you for a substantial fee too. Have you asked?
by bawolff | 2026-01-22 05:35:35+00:00
I read the specific examples that the maintainers of each project gave. The ones the ffmpeg maintainers complained about appeared to be real bugs. In fact i dont think the ffmpeg maintainers even dispute that. The ffmpeg maintainers after all fixed the issue in question. The ones the curl maintainers gave were clearly nonsense. The curl maintainers did not fix the issue because there was nothing to fix because the report didn't actually report anything that could be fixed because it made no sense.
by userbinator | 2026-01-22 05:36:02+00:00
how does having root get around this?

The lock is basically implemented as an "is the SIM's carrier on a whitelist" check, which can obviously be patched out or modified arbitrarily once you have full access to the firmware which root does. It's important to remember that the lock is entirely on the phone's side, to prevent it from connecting to any other carrier than the one it's locked to. A carrier can implement an "official" unlocking method essentially as an app that runs on the phone to validate the unlock code, but that is no obstacle to root.

If you jailbreak an iPhone, the lock is also easily removable in the same manner.
by sxp | 2026-01-22 05:36:20+00:00
Claude didn't follow your "Every line must earn its keep. Prefer readability over cleverness. We believe that if carefully designed, 10 lines can have the impact of 1000." from https://github.com/quantbagel/gtinygrad/blob/master/AGENTS.m... given how bloated this demo is.

https://blog.evjang.com/2019/11/jaxpt.html is a better demo of how to render the Cornell Box on a TPU using differentiable path tracing.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-01-22 05:36:41+00:00
Couldn't be more clearly a hallucination. If you think about the 'data' it's returned in terms of something actually stored in a database it makes no sense. Why do all the dict values contain extensive prose explanations of their meanings? Why is list data being stored in grammatical lists instead of arrays? Why are there so many categories that are minor paraphrases of each other or differ only by parentheticals?

If this was real we'd have learned about it from Twitter engineers crashing out trying to maintain that awful 'schema'. There's a long history of LLMs hallucinating their own internals.
by tacticus | 2026-01-22 05:36:56+00:00
Unlike the US the elections aren't run by some local arsehat with local rules. they have consistent rules over the entire state or country (depending on election in question)

Scrutineers are also not members of the public. They are declared and appointed by candidates and parties for polling oversight and have complete access to the counting and polling area. They're not allowed to touch ballots but they can challenge and bring them up to all the scrutineers in the location (and EC staff) and finally they can take it to the court afterwards

Election officials are also not local council\elected people they're people working for the AEC\State Electoral commission. which is as mentioned above a non partisan organisation (which is highly different from bipartisan framing)

You also have a large number of counting staff. who do the sorting and then counting with machine assistance (how many sheets are here in this stack do they match the tally the 2 people already made on that pile)

Though the senate elections have a more complex voting software stack due to STV fun.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-22 05:38:05+00:00
May I suggest Old Frisian (& Old Saxon) as well

https://xcancel.com/thijsporck/status/1395838213198127111

Video from this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMIfHNn9KGs&t=12m57s

Addresses Shakespeare's objection

Commenters there point to German translations that open with "Wie.."

https://archive.org/details/beowulfdasltest00beowgoog#:~:tex...

(Karl Simrock, 1859)
Experimenting with a Compiled Language
by JhonPork | 2026-01-22 05:39:37+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with a compiled language design and wanted feedback from people who’ve worked on compilers or systems code.

The core idea is allowing multiple execution profiles to coexist in a single source file:

- userland (default): indentation-based, Python-like syntax, safety by default
- kernel: brace-based syntax, strict rules, no heap or runtime
- baremetal: brace-based syntax, raw pointers, no safety net

At build time, a single profile is selected and all other code is erased at compile time — no runtime checks or overhead.

The compiler pipeline is lexer → parser → typed IR → LLVM backend, with profile rules enforced during IR validation rather than at runtime.

Roughly ~90% of the core language and compiler are implemented; I plan to open-source the project once the remaining pieces are finished.

This is still an experiment. I’m mainly curious:
- does this model make sense?
- are there obvious design pitfalls?
- has anyone seen similar approaches succeed or fail?

I’d appreciate critical feedback.
Show HN: Deterministic, machine-readable context for TypeScript codebases
by AmiteK | 2026-01-22 05:40:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a CLI that extracts a deterministic, structured representation of a
TypeScript codebase (components, hooks, APIs, routes) directly from the AST.

The goal is to produce stable, diffable “codebase context” that can be used in
CI, tooling, or reasoning workflows, without relying on raw source text or
heuristic inference.

It supports incremental watch mode, backend route extraction (Express/Nest),
and outputs machine-readable data designed for automation.

Repo + docs:
https://github.com/LogicStamp/logicstamp-context

Happy to answer questions or hear where this would (or wouldn’t) be useful.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-22 05:40:39+00:00
Exactly, a freedom you have to pay to access isn't a freedom. "If people can't get it together to pay a modest $9 fee for the 'don't get imprisoned forever' tax, who cares if they get throw into the forced labor camps?"

Beyond this point: voting isn't just a freedom, it's a duty in a civilized democracy. We don't enforce it like Australia does, but anyone who not only doesn't care if it's performed, but is sanguine about it, isn't fully on board with government by the people.
by _chse_ | 2026-01-22 05:41:15+00:00
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by altmanaltman | 2026-01-22 05:42:32+00:00
But couldn't you then extend the argument to everything? Like why learn design if AI can do it in minutes? Or why learn guitar when AI can create music in minutes?

Its always worth learning something if you enjoy it, the same applies to code and languages. You can definitely create better apps knowing the details of a specific language than not knowing it and I think its still worth doing if you care about the ultimate quality of your work.
by vee-kay | 2026-01-22 05:43:52+00:00
Zoom is founded by a Chinese origin guy.

Its security issues are already discussed earlier elsewhere, such as in this Reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/18d1bgi/is_zoom_st...

[In the past is that Zoom said they were HIPAA Compliant, eg. had end-to-end encryption, and weren't. This was a huge issue at the beginning of the Pandemic when everybody started using them. This has since been fixed, but this wasn't their only lie or breach of trust.

A few years ago, Zoom tried to insert a clause in their ToS that would have allowed them to use audio, video or chat content for training AI. But due to a LOT of backlash they backpedalled on that and now they "just" use telemetry data, product-usage data, diagnostic data and similar data “that Zoom collects or generates in connection with your or your End Users’ use of the Services or Software”.

Zoom has had multiple instances of extremely sketchy behavior, including:
* Deploying a rootkit on Macs to allow silent reinstallation of Zoom after removal.
* Having vulnerabilities in said rootkit that took months to patch after trying to ghost the researcher.
* Using useless encryption.
* Lying about end-to-end encryption (they weren't even zero knowledge!)
* Routing entirely US calls through China.
* Lacking any reasonable access control to stop bombers.

They have been caught lying-- not corporate speaking, not fudging a bit, outright lying-- on multiple occasions and had to replace parts of their leadership structure to try to fix the bad PR around it.]