MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by publicdebates | 2026-01-27 22:49:20+00:00
The main one is a deep sense of defeat. The app would keep me there longer than I want. I would waste money ordering doordash, or lose sleep, or get drunk, or all of the above. Each time, I'd feel like I set myself back a little too far. I'd try to ignore the feeling, but wouldn't know what to do. What's the default action? Keep scrolling. And of course I'd just keep missing more such personal deadlines. Then I'd feel more defeated, and keep scrolling. It just spirals further and further down, far past rock bottom. Maybe it's what advancing the Kola Superdeep Borehole felt like.
by in3tinct | 2026-01-27 22:49:32+00:00
Hi folks,

I'm the creator of See-SURF.
Excited to announce an update to See-SURF with v3.0, for detecting Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities! Earlier version was pattern matching based (tons of FPs as you know) but after experimenting with AI/LLM. I've just merged some major enhancements that bring AI context capabilities and Out-of-Band (OOB) / Blind SSRF detection to the scanner.

- AI-Powered Detection & Exploitation for Non-Blind/Reflected SSRF :

Leverages Google Gemini, OpenAI (GPT-4/4o), or local Ollama models to intelligently analyze web application responses.

Generates custom payloads to target internal services (e.g., AWS metadata endpoints, internal IPs) based on AI-driven fingerprinting.

AI validates the output to confirm sensitive data leakage, reducing false positives.

- Blind SSRF with OOB Detection (Webhook.site) :

For parameters that don't reflect directly, See-SURF now integrates with Webhook.site to detect out-of-band interactions as well.

Check it out - https://github.com/In3tinct/See-SURF

Feedbacks are very welcome!

Code does need improvement and to make it modular, wrote it in 2019 first.
by stareatgoats | 2026-01-27 22:49:53+00:00
Claude is likely talking to sub-agents, although I have yet to see the questions written out. But sometimes the agents do well, in which case you will see "Excellent research!" or similar printed to the conversation history. It's my guess these conversations that Claude has with various specialists agents will be hidden from users soon, but it's an interesting look behind the scenes, indicating that we don't manually need to set up specialist agents and orchestrate this as users, Anthropic is likely already doing it automatically.
by jgeada | 2026-01-27 22:50:29+00:00
At a previous company we used to joke that most of management was a "problem admiration society":

They'd love to talk about problems, investigate them from all angles, make plans on how to plan to solve the problem, identify who caused it or how to blame for it, quantify how much it costs us or how much money we could make from solving it, everything and anything except actually doing something about it.

It was never about doing the thing.
by api | 2026-01-27 22:51:52+00:00
Sometimes when I think about this it makes me wonder if we should take the dark forest hypothesis seriously (re: Fermi paradox).

Not only are we the only species to reach this kind of technology but among humans the first group to reach space was the Nazis. Today the innovation in that area seems driven by militaristic states and by people who seem ideologically adjacent. In other words it’s driven by very aggressive territorial members of one of the most aggressive territorial species.

We can’t generalize from one example of evolution, but if this is indicative of a common pattern then there might be some scary MFs out there. Our radio signals have been spreading for a while, so for all we know something is on its way to cleanse the universe of all forms of life that offend its god (or whatever its genocidal rationalizations is).

If this is true then we die. There is zero chance of resisting something with the technology to travel the stars and perhaps a million years or more head start on us. We’d probably never even see it coming or know what happened.

I had this thought when I saw the ideological turn (or mask removal) of certain people in the space industry. I found it metaphysically disturbing. Again… if there is other advanced life and if this is the pattern of how you evolve to become spacefaring, then we are doomed.
by unfitted2545 | 2026-01-27 22:52:12+00:00
I do believe in determinism.

I see what you mean by being able to consider the worth of harming something for your own gain. But doesn't this apply to all animals? If a bear was hungry I'm sure they would happily eat you, but they would probably think twice if they weren't. Same for early humans, it's just we have our technologies (which our intellectual nature has enabled) now to prop us up and not have to really think about survival.

The main thing I'm curious to hear your thoughts on is what are we if not animals? Gods? That's surely completely relative, like an anteater to an ant.
by llbbdd | 2026-01-27 22:52:18+00:00
If you search Google Trends for enshittification, half the results contain Doctorow as well [0]. Normal people have no idea who that is. And that's just Google, which everyone on HN hates to the point of vibrating angrily because there isn't an obvious part of the name to replace derogatorily with a dollar sign. Nobody uses this term outside of Hacker News, and even on HN it's code for "this site doesn't work when I disable Javascript", which is not a real requirement real customers have.

User experience does involve a lot of subjectivity [1] and that's part of what makes it hard. You have to satisfy the computer and the person in front of it, and their wants are often at odds with each other. You have to make them both happy at 60 FPS minimum.

[0] https://trends.google.com/explore?q=enshittification&date=al...

[1] https://emsh.cat/good-taste/
by root_axis | 2026-01-27 22:52:32+00:00
Not true. Bitcoin has continued to rise in cost since its introduction (as in the aggregate cost incurred to run the network).

LLMs will face their own challenges with respect to reducing costs, since self-attention grows quadratically. These are still early days, so there remains a lot of low hanging fruit in terms of optimizations, but all of that becomes negligible in the face of quadratic attention.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-01-27 22:52:37+00:00
Yeah I can't fathom what sort of technical issues would produce this result. I'd love to read a detailed article about it. Your move ByteDance or whatever org owns you now. The only thing that would make sense to me is a partial outage of some sort, but that would not be permanent and very rare for Tik Tok.

As an aside, if you check in on r/tiktok every time something major like this is happening with Tik Tok you can see how users feel about it. I've seen different waves of users flat out deleting their Tik Tok accounts in protest.
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-27 22:53:28+00:00
You’re technically correct, but

I ran through the list, Michigan Dome is the third largest sports venue on earth, for team sports, or better yet, the third largest sports venue that everyone in attendance can witness all of the events taking place.

Like the author of the piece we are discussing, I don’t consider auto or horse race tracks to be a singular, contiguous sports venue’, obviously you can fit a ton of people alongside a track that is multiple miles long, the seating areas aren’t always continuous, etc.

The stadiums in India and North Korea are similar to Michigan Dome, all spectators can see the same event occur the entire time it is occuring, auto racing doesn’t really allow this, not sure about horse racing.
by CMay | 2026-01-27 22:53:45+00:00
It's not illegal to track law enforcement, but if any of their still visible chats show intent it will hurt them. They'll also want to find out how many people in the group chat are outside of the US, if any money was being exchanged, etc.

Hopefully they can unwind these groups, because it's just pitting people against law enforcement who have no idea what they're up against. They don't seem to have a sense for when they have gone beyond protesting and have broken the law. There's this culture about them, like protesting means they are immune to law.

If this all ties back to funded groups who are then misinforming these people about how they should behave to increase the chance of escalatory events with the knowledge that it will increase the chance of these inflammatory political highlights to maximize rage, it won't surprise me.

If they want to follow ICE around and protest them, fine, but that's not what they're doing. These people are standing or parking their cars in front of their vehicles and blocking them. They'll also stand in front of the street exits to prevents their vehicles from leaving parking lots and so on. They refuse to move, so they have to be removed by force, because they are breaking the law. Some people are just trying to get arrested to waste ICE's time, and it's particularly bad because Minneapolis police won't help ICE.

A lot of video recordings don't even start until AFTER they've already broken the law, so all you end up seeing is ICE reacting.

Any time someone dies, there'll have to be an investigation to sort out what happened. Maybe the ICE officer made a mistake, but let the evidence be presented. Being that this is Minneapolis, hopefully they do a better job than the George Floyd case. I absolutely recommend you watch the entire Fall of Minneapolis documentary to get a better sense for what the country may be increasingly up against in multiple states: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFPi3EigjFA
by storystarling | 2026-01-27 22:54:08+00:00
3-8 t/s seems pretty sluggish for interactive coding. I guess it works for background agents but for a human loop that latency is tough.

Also hard to justify the $50k capex compared to just hitting the Anthropic API. You'd need massive volume to break even on that hardware especially with electricity costs. Seems like overoptimization unless you have strict data privacy needs.
by jll29 | 2026-01-27 22:54:18+00:00
I totally agree. I spend my whole day from getting up to going to bed (not before reading HN!) on reviews for a conference I'm co-organizing later this year.

So I was not amused about this announcement at all, however easy it may make my own life as an author (I'm pretty happy to do my own literature search, thank you very much).

Also remember, we have no guarantee that these tools will still exist tomorrow, all these AI companies are constantly pivoting and throwing a lot of things at the wall to see what sticks.

OpenAI chose not to build a serious product, as there is no integration with the ACM DL, the IEEE DL, SpringerNatureLink, the ACL Anthology, Wiley, Cambridge/Oxford/Harvard University Press etc. - only papers that are not peer reviewed (arXiv.org) are available/have been integrated. Expect a flood of BS your way.

When my student submit a piece of writing, I can ask them to orally defend their opus maximum (more and more often, ChatGPT's...); I can't do the same with anonymous authors.
by mrighele | 2026-01-27 22:54:34+00:00
> Section 230 protects the ISPs and websites from liability, not the posters.

I know. That's not what I am complaining about.

I am not an anarchist. I am fine with enforcement asking an ISP, a website, a forum, whatever to remove content because it breaks some law.

What I am complaining about is: it used to be that a platform would let you use it as you saw fit. If you were doing something illegal sooner or later law enforcement would come after you but then the platform wouldn't care much because it was YOUR fault not theirs.

The exception to this was very high level. e.g. phpBB forums with moderators. But those where not platform. They were quite small in size. I consided something like Youtube closer to an ISP or a Registar than a bulletin board. You cannot really escape them.

It used to be that those would only act after the fact (as you said). Only recently (past 10 years) they started to proactively censor their content. It is not completely their fault, they have been pressured to do so, but still they have.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-27 22:54:54+00:00
I'm pretty sure that if people are taking up arms to resist their government, things have already gone far enough down that path that they feel their lives are in jeopardy.

Just this week there were Catholic PRIESTS who were advised to draw up their last will and testament if they were going to resist ICE in Minneapolis https://www.npr.org/2026/01/18/nx-s1-5678579/ice-clashes-new...

How can you think it's a "game'?
by zamalek | 2026-01-27 22:55:46+00:00
> On Wayland, you in theory have to do a late more...

This is vaguely a double-edged sword. Yes, more code duplication across disparate projects - but that also allows people who _really care_ (such as the xfce team) to roll up their sleeves and do more. Any WM will only ever be as good as the X11 baseline, Wayland servers have the opportunity to compete on this front.

Although I'm probably permanently stuck with the Niri workflow, I am looking forward to seeing what the xfce developers come up with.
by alex1138 | 2026-01-27 22:55:55+00:00
I think too much gets made of addiction in a soft sense and not enough in a hard sense

If I log off Facebook and it starts spamming me with fake notifications, it's addictive in a way that's more than just "Facebook provides a great service! I'm on it all the time! It's so addictive! :)"

If feeds were chronological and they didn't blatantly lie to your face, or you got messages on time (they like not sending it to you by email) it wouldn't be addictive in a lab rat style

(This is Facebook, not TikTok, but still. And yes, I know TT tries to be addictive on purpose)
by Retric | 2026-01-27 22:56:21+00:00
> Add more or less value to the government than functions the government has chosen

Talking about average government spending isn’t a reasonable argument because you can only spend money once. If these people cost ~1B/year you aren’t paying for 100+B in spending by cutting them. Instead you get to add exactly 1B in government spending and thus the yardstick is the least efficient billion you’re paying out vs keeping these people.

Not that we actually balance the budget making the idea of short term saving meaningless. Instead it’s about long term consequences.
by niobe | 2026-01-27 22:56:30+00:00
True but every science headline is misleading, loaded or exaggerated. My pet peeve "X found where it should not exist". What they mean is "scientists are pleased because there's some new evidence that is not explained by their current models and that means they get to improve their models which is the goal of science anyway, so pretty much just another day for science but glad to keep you updated"
by PinkSheep | 2026-01-27 22:56:46+00:00
I don't understand why you think it'd be an issue?

Dumbed down understanding of mine: evolutionary theory predicts that graph goes from (0.1; 0) to (very high; in a million years). X axis: years, Y axis: progress or evolution. The only difference such discoveries make is to further refine the slope of the graph. Was the development linear or exponential? How fast did it progress? Obviously, in the past 500 years we didn't change as humans but our technological progress accelerated beyond belief.
by cameronh90 | 2026-01-27 22:57:30+00:00
It’s normal in London to live a few min walk to bakery, grocery, deli, so on but we still have supermarkets - from smaller ones to large hypermarkets. Everyone uses them and they sell good quality products.

The same is true in every European city I’ve been to. There’s a large hypermarket a short walk from the Arc de Triomphe and you can hardly say Parisians don’t have a good choice of local bakeries, cheesemongers and butchers.

It’s true you won’t usually get something like a Target or Costco in the central area, but in the slightly further out suburbs (e.g. Z2 in London) where most people actually live, Europe is full of supermarkets.
by Chechelpo | 2026-01-27 22:57:37+00:00
Built a small CLI tool for myself to extract archives inside bwrap sandbox, mainly to avoid accidental path traversal / weird archive behaviour. Published the alpha in case anyone else is interested.

Requires: (Installed by the user, not bundled)

-bubblewrap: for the sandbox

-bsdtar(libarchive): for zip, tar

-unrar: for .rar

This is my first published tool (and first post here) and very much alpha-quality, so there will be rough edges. Feedback, bug reports, and design criticism are welcome.
by NonHyloMorph | 2026-01-27 22:58:17+00:00
Reading recommendation: Sylvia Wynter - the ceremony must be found. -> on the origin and complexities of the founding of the studia humanitatis - and s loz more (e.g. cybernetic epistemics in the biologies) well worth a read. There is a full pdf circulating freely online.
Go make the best of your knowledge a bit better. You are not precisely wrong but the attributuion to christianity misses the important mutation in that the studia departed from christian orthodoxy
by chairhairair | 2026-01-27 22:58:18+00:00
Never trust Sam Altman.

Even if yall don’t train off it he’ll find some other way.

“In one example, [Friar] pointed to drug discovery: if a pharma partner used OpenAI technology to help develop a breakthrough medicine, [OpenAI] could take a licensed portion of the drug's sales”

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-futur...
by RIMR | 2026-01-27 22:58:34+00:00
This is what I don't understand about American authoritarians. Historically speaking, if you try to take away the liberty of Americans, they respond with lethal violence.

Britain tried to tax Americans without government representation, and they started sending the tax man home naked and covered in tar, feathers, and third-degree burns. These stories are then taught to schoolchildren as examples of how Americans demand freedom above all else.

If the powers that be keep doing whatever they want without consequence, eventually there will be consequences, and those consequences very well could be the act of being physically removed from their ivory towers and vivisected in the streets.
by dghlsakjg | 2026-01-27 22:58:42+00:00
There are carveouts for things like parody and fair use, but running a restaurant that uses wordplay of a very specific marketing phrase, the same colors and fonts, and branding
is the issue.

If you go look at pictures of the truck, the business branding, and other things it is very clear why Kellog’s has a good argument that their trademark is being used in a way that could damage the brand, or confuse consumers.
by kube-system | 2026-01-27 22:58:47+00:00
If you look at the court filings linked elsewhere in this thread, it isn't as simple as just a slogan. They copied the trade dress to the point that the truck looks like a Kelloggs waffle box.

Trademark law does have carveouts for people that are selling different products, doing parody, etc. But that isn't what this is.
by ncallaway | 2026-01-27 22:58:50+00:00
When the crime is murdering people in cold blood, I will take nailing the “lowliest of perpetrators” (e.g. cold blooded murderers) to the fucking wall.

Yes, I hope future administrators go up and down the chain of command looking at everyone who was involved in the cover-up, and charges them with conspiracy to commit murder, but a future Democratic administration will at least identify and prosecute the murderers themselves. While Republican administrations will conceal the identity of the killers and continue to have them out on the streets
by dylan604 | 2026-01-27 22:59:05+00:00
> The danger Trump represented was not obvious until well after he took office;

I just do not understand this sentence at all. The writing was clearly on the wall. All of the Project 2025 conversations told us exactly what was going to happen. People claiming it was not obvious at best were not paying attention at all. For anyone paying attention, it was horrifying see the election results coming in.
by TiredOfLife | 2026-01-27 22:59:37+00:00
On Windows i have used foobar2000 since i had a crt monitor that got too dark for winamp so about 20 years. In 2 years daily using Steam Deck as my main computing device and trying almost every linux music player. I settled on using a spare android phone running Symfonium + Navidrome on Raspberry pi. As nothing on linux comes close.
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-27 23:00:05+00:00
It seems to be a great agentic canvas for authoring latex. I used it to create a paper:

"Eight Leading Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics - A Comparative Survey (2026)"

https://prism.openai.com/?u=de087658-2d28-4dd2-9bc5-c43abb83...
by maxerickson | 2026-01-27 23:00:11+00:00
Small car towns are more or less the same. I drive 10 minutes to work, the stores are all on the way. It's easy to stop anytime.

The more local one is medium sized and I've been shopping there for years, so I don't really have to find anything.

I should go to the butcher that's a few blocks away more often though.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-27 23:00:35+00:00
> Just this week there were Catholic PRIESTS who were advised to draw up their last will and testament if they were going to resist ICE in Minneapolis

Episcopal (the US branch of the Anglican Communion), not Catholic, and it wasn't conditioned on going to Minneapolis, it was a statement about the broad situation of the country and the times we are in and what was necessary for them, with events in Minneapolis as a signifier, but not a geographically isolated, contained condition.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-27 23:00:49+00:00
AI slop security reports submitted to curl - https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d...

HN Search: curl AI slop - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by redox99 | 2026-01-27 23:01:14+00:00
> And you most likely do not pay the actual costs.

This is one of the weakest anti AI postures. "It's a bubble and when free VC money stops you'll be left with nothing". Like it's some kind of mystery how expensive these models are to run.

You have open weight models right now like Kimi K2.5 and GLM 4.7. These are very strong models, only months behind the top labs. And they are not very expensive to run at scale. You can do the math. In fact there are third parties serving these models for profit.

The money pit is training these models (and not that much if you are efficient like chinese models). Once they are trained, they are served with large profit margins compared to the inference cost.

OpenAI and Anthropic are without a doubt selling their API for a lot more than the cost of running the model.
Tell HN: JumpCloud 2FA appears to be down
by sgammon | 2026-01-27 23:01:40+00:00
It seems to me that authorization services like JumpCloud should always provide some way to contact support when you are locked out.

Otherwise, how can one obtain support? Or notify them of some issue?

Does anyone happen to know where I can send an email to let them know? JumpCloud's status page shows all normal, of course.
by fsckboy | 2026-01-27 23:01:49+00:00
according to urban dictionary, wolfenstein as a verb means

To kill or utterly destroy a large group of enemies with an extreme overabundance of weapons and items, including throwing knives to the head, poison, stabs to the neck or back, kicks to the chest, shoves off of high ledges, multiple headshots, artillery, panzer rockets, flames, dynamite, mines, construction pliers, airstrikes, or even slamming a door into someone's chest. Wolfensteining a group of enemies requires that every kill be performed using a different method

you are calling for extreme violence?
by unethical_ban | 2026-01-27 23:02:38+00:00
I consider the term to be a label of a bad-faith actor vs. someone who holds genuine conviction that the "agitating action" is a good thing.

A Chinese bot farmer who says we should be shooting each other? Agitator.

A neighbor who says "If I see LEO murder someone, I'm taking them on"? Not an agitator.