MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bananabiscuit | 2026-01-09 19:47:11+00:00
I would agree with this more if Renee was just a random person that ICE decided to give a hard time. But in this case, it was her decision to become involved and attempt to obstruct the officers from doing the job they explicitly have the authority to do [1]. Also in this case Renee is the one who made the first life threatening action. The fight-or-flight situation is her own doing.

People should protest but there are clearly very stupid ways of going about it.

[1] the streets are not the place to decide whether that authority is legitimate, ethical, moral, etc.
by CharlieDigital | 2026-01-09 19:47:23+00:00
I should be clear here that "moving off the platform" involved a re-write for various reasons. First and foremost was that the LLM generated code was in a bad state due to the fact that he started in late 2024 when coding agents weren't really quite there yet and he had accumulated a LOT of tech debt very quickly. But Replit allowed him to validate the business viability first with some absolutely trash tier code (hacked 3x; one time where the hacker event sent an email to all customers).
by dizlexic | 2026-01-09 19:47:26+00:00
I invite you to google for news articles reporting on his donations prior to his removal from Mozilla.

this is my favorite (mainly because they also call out donations to Ron Paul.) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controver...

While no politician commented directly, acting like it was just his peers and not part of national political conversation is silly.
by kbelder | 2026-01-09 19:47:54+00:00
>Meta measured a 6-12% uplift in productivity from adopting agentic coding. Thats paltry.

That feels like the right ballpark. I would have estimated 10-20%. But I'd say that's not paltry at all. If it's a 10% boost, it's worth paying for. Not transformative, but worthwhile.

I compare it to moving from a single monitor to a multi-monitor setup, or getting a dev their preferred IDE.
by RyanOD | 2026-01-09 19:48:24+00:00
I think it depends on your end goal.

I have a great ear and am terrible at reading sheet music. Fine if you aspire to be a rock guitarist. Not so fine if you aspire to be a classical pianist.

Funny, but I'm final tired of my poor sight reading and have set a goal for 2025 to average one hour of piano playing from sheet music per day.

And I agree...a "mess around" mode on the app would be great. Feels almost punitive when I make a mistake.
by epolanski | 2026-01-09 19:48:58+00:00
> But we have the best pizza in the world

There's italians all around the world. You can have a great pizza virtually everywhere.

I had a great one, and I mean among the best I had in my life (mind you I've been to the highest rated pizzas in Italy) even in Sangenjaya, Tokyo, Pizzeria Da Peppe - NAPOLI STA CA.
by tromp | 2026-01-09 19:49:20+00:00
> Either we have to say that the position does not dictate the possible moves, or that this does not fully capture the position.

It does not fully capture the history needed for determining future claims of draw by repetition. But by definition, the position fully captures the position.

The notion of position used by the FEN notation [1] includes the board diagram, side to move, castling rights, en-passant options, as well as the number of halfmoves since the last capture or pawn advance, and the total number of moves.
The last one or last two are often ignored in everyday notions of position.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth%E2%80%93Edwards_Notati...
by sshine | 2026-01-09 19:49:44+00:00
Fine, put "side jabs to strangers on trains" on the far right.

Whatever your idea of "least amount of actual violence" is.

The point is: It's a spectrum with very light offenses on the other end.

Imposing death penalty for generic violence shows there's absolutely no understanding of that.

Hard to argue with someone who can only see things from one side.
by bocadan | 2026-01-09 19:50:27+00:00
I’m exploring a new venture at the intersection of content provenance, fingerprinting, and AI usage attribution (audio initially, potentially expanding to voice, animation, and other media).
The problem we’re evaluating is how to reliably attribute creative works when they are used, transformed, or learned by AI systems not enforcement or takedowns, but provable attribution and auditability that could later support licensing or royalties.
Before building anything, we want to have a deep technical conversation with someone who has hands-on experience in areas like:
• Audio or media fingerprinting / perceptual hashing
• Robust similarity detection under transformations (compression, pitch/tempo changes, partial usage, synthesis)
• Watermarking vs fingerprinting tradeoffs
• False positives / false negatives in real-world systems
• What is actually feasible vs academic or marketing claims
This is not a job post (yet). We’re looking for paid consulting or advisory conversations to sanity-check an MVP approach before we pitch a pilot to talent agencies or studios.
If you’ve worked on fingerprinting systems (music, video, speech, ML training detection, etc.) and are open to a conversation, I’d love to hear from you feel free to email me @ dmschultz1964@gmail.com
Thanks in advance.
by lukan | 2026-01-09 19:51:25+00:00
I mean, it depends of course. Especially now that I have children, who depend on me. I do know, even with kids you can hitchhike, do work exchange, etc. but it is a whole different story than doing it on my own, so I would never claim I transcended above existential fears regarding money. But I do believe my base attitude is way more relaxed to always find a way somehow and that helps me a lot to not get a heart attack considering all the stress I do have to face.

About others I don't know I won't judge, but surely quite some like living in a illusion, no doubt about it.
by dabedee | 2026-01-09 19:51:36+00:00
Hey there! I find the idea super relevant and I think compliance tools that can be used like this are the way forward.

Given the timeline of the commits and some other tells (e.g. using forwardRef despite using React 19 which deprecates it), it seems like you used coding assistants extensively. That's a personal preference, but I would mention that explicitly (if that's the case), if only for intellectual honesty.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-09 19:51:37+00:00
White people getting shot by police [1], getting set on fire by "Chicago man" [2], stabbed in the face [3], suffocated under sand by future elected officials [4], killed on the road by illegals given driver's licenses [5,6], killed visiting their son's grave [7], journalists killed by a racially-resentful black former colleague [8], and a thousand other kinds of deaths caused by policy decisions, is completely normal.

But we're only supposed to care when it can be used to push more anti-white policies. In this case not enforcing the already ridiculously high immigration 'limits'.

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

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/chicago-man-accused-...

[3] https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/student-injured-app...

[4] https://nypost.com/2025/11/06/us-news/maine-elects-woman-con...

[5] https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-news/illegal-immigrant-truc...

[6] https://legalclarity.org/can-an-illegal-immigrant-get-a-driv...

[7] https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-couple-slain-at-delaware...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Alison_Parker_and_A...
by sqircles | 2026-01-09 19:51:55+00:00
I don't doubt that is certainly a motivator, but I also don't disagree that a formal study on the effects of flooding corn fields en-masse is in order.

If I put corn in a pond to hunt waterfowl, I go to jail.

If I put pond in the corn, I can charge $10k+/yr to hunt my personal duck park.
by venusenvy47 | 2026-01-09 19:51:56+00:00
I hate how everyone overlooks the fact that most "illegal immigrants" are committing a civil offense that is not supposed to allow for any detainment like a criminal offense. And the criminal offenses that are mentioned in the study are mostly state offenses that are supposed to be handled by state law enforcement. There are a very small number of people who have actually committed federal criminal offenses that justify any detainment at all by ICE.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-09 19:52:02+00:00
> and can pick up unfamiliar ones quicker

Do you tho? Does "picking up" a skill mean the same thing it used to? Do you fact check all the stuff AI tells you? How certain are you, you are learning correct information? Struggling through unfamiliar topics, making mistakes and figuring out solutions by testing internal hypotheses is a big part of how deep, explanatory knowledge is acquired for human brains. Or maybe, it's been always 10,000 kilowatt-hours, after all.

Even, if you would actually learn different tech stacks faster with AI telling you what to do, it's still a momentary thing, since these systems are fundamentally poisoned by their own talk, so shit's basically frozen in time, still limited to pre-AI-slop information, or requires insane amounts of manual sanitation. And who's gonna write the content for clean new training data anyway?

Mind you, I am talking about the possible prospect of this technology and a cost-value evaluation. Maybe I am grossly ignorant/uninformed, but to me all of it just doesn't add up, if you project inherent limitations onto wider adoption and draw the obvious logical conclusions. That is, if humanity isn't stagnating and new knowledge is created.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-09 19:52:23+00:00
re: hating the future

I grew up in a world where personal computers weren't strange things (the 1980s). I remember reading Levy's "Hackers" in my teens and not comprehending how people could think personal computers were such a big deal. The talk about "technical priesthoods" and mainframes, the inaccessibility of computers to "normal people", etc, didn't mean anything to me.

Now that I'm living through the twilight of the personal computer I understand.
by srameshc | 2026-01-09 19:52:33+00:00
I will speak from my experience. I have diabetes and I try to manage it well, with workout. But sometimes when the sugars are high for a while, I can feel it, the sadness, the hopelessness. It took me a while to understand that is high sugar levels and a mild form of depression. Now I will do some workout when I feel that and after a little workout, I can see how my mind also start to feel better. This is not a solution for everyone who is experiencing depression probably but might help some who are experiencing because of high sugar levels.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-01-09 19:53:02+00:00
> We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process.
I really couldn’t care less about your legal philosophy, mate.
I understand that you’re used to corporations setting the rules, and I’m sure that it brought you such great joy to write a little post where you got to flex about being well-connected with your country’s morally corrupt administration. However, your views on whether or not a country had a right to self-regulation, have zero impact on your obligation to comply. You don’t get to parachute in and set your own terms. Do you really think that your childish threats of ‘pulling your free plan’ and ‘not opening an office’ will have the intended effect? I genuinely can’t work out why someone didn’t tap this kid on the shoulder and suggest that he tone his rant down a bit.

The US is a sick, sick country. Nowhere else does anyone have the misplaced confidence to act this insanely stupid.
by vacuity | 2026-01-09 19:53:10+00:00
Before getting to research, I think a more honest attitude towards admitting motivated cognition in oneself and others is appropriate. I may give a spur-of-the-moment remark on a political situation, but at least if someone presses me, I will readily provide more insight on my biases and values. When I take the time to contemplate, I usually try to modify my eventual response to avoid undue bias altogether. Being reminded that motivated cognition is pervasive in all of us should reduce the unintentional-but-convenient faults in our cognition.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-09 19:53:33+00:00
Oh no worries. Just speaking for myself that isn't going to happen. Things were bad enough between 2000 and 2007 when I was living on the US border, since then they've gotten so much worse that I wasn't planning on it, even if I'm not required to put up a five figure bond.

Maybe one day the USA will rejoin civilization but there are enough countries to choose from as it is. For me the main yardstick by which I measure how civilized a country is is by observing how the authorities treat people who have little or no power within the system.
by tyre | 2026-01-09 19:53:44+00:00
1. Vance built a lot of support in Silicon Valley.

2. Tech donated to Vance (and Trump) under the understanding that they would be a protected class.

3. By tagging Vance publicly and directly, he’s calling a favor.

4. If Vance doesn’t take action, it’s a signal that he’s not worth investing in.
by sneak | 2026-01-09 19:53:59+00:00
It’s not an evil at all. For 99% of people who aren’t “computer people”, when we gave them that, we got the Bonzai Buddy and 47 other malware toolbars installed. Did we forget 2003 already?

App sandboxing and system file integrity is one of the most beneficial security features of modern computing, and the vast majority of people have no desire to turn it off. You can buy rootable phones. People overwhelmingly choose iPhones instead.

Even if Apple sold the SRD at scale, nobody would buy the weird insecure hacker iPhone except us and maybe kids who realllly want Fortnite.
by rdm_blackhole | 2026-01-09 19:54:22+00:00
Yes that is what OP is saying and OP is correct. If you are young, talented and you have a crazy idea that might just work and if you are given the opportunity then you go to the US every-time.

Why? Because it makes sense. Why stay in Berlin or Paris where you can make 50K to 70K euros a year at most and pay close to 40% or 50% in taxes when you can make double or triple that in the US or better yet, start your own company there and then expand in Europe after building it knowing that if you eventually sell it, you get to keep a lot of the sale price.

Talented people don't work for nothing. Motivated and ambitious people don't work for nothing.

If Europe wants to see it's own tech giants emerge, then it's needs to compensate founders and employees well. That's as simple as it is.

Unfortunately it's just not the case at the moment and until that changes, the most ambitious Europeans will continue leaving and building companies on the other side of the Atlantic.
by tadfisher | 2026-01-09 19:54:22+00:00
Of note is that there is apparently one single application licensed to play Blu-Ray disks on PCs, CyberLink PowerDVD. Anyone watching Blu-Rays through alternate means on general-purpose computers today, by using MakeMKV or similar, are likely breaking anti-circumvention laws.

As of November 2023, zero applications are licensed and capable of playing UHD Blu-Ray disks [0], and PC manufacturers are just not including the hardware necessary to do so.

0: https://www.cyberlink.com/support-center/faq/content?id=2834...
by coldtea | 2026-01-09 19:54:45+00:00
Better job prospects for more people, lower inflation, cheaper healthcare, cheaper housing (actually affordable housing), less obesity, better school programs, more distributed, less controled, and less corporate internet and web, higher fertility rates, less clouds of war and civil tension, more political legitimacy and better political climate, better nutricion (official stats show obesity at an all time high and rising - despite all the health influencer slop), less impacted rural areas and small towns, and many other stats besides. And a more stable global order too.

Most of those apply both here in Europe and the US.

And that's without even getting into more subjective QoL stuff, from cultural production to the widespread depression and the loneliness epidemic.
by pfisherman | 2026-01-09 19:55:27+00:00
Adding to this, the molecular mechanisms of psychiatric disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are not well understood. People prefer their brains and skulls intact so taking brain samples for study is not possible.

Diagnosis and grading is fuzzy - a cluster behavioral symptoms observed and reported by patients, family members, and clinicians.

Based on some of the genetic evidence, which can also be fraught, it is likely that something like depression is in fact a grouping of a bunch of separate underlying disorders / causes that all result in the same (easily) observable symptoms. Hence why some treatments work on a subset of patients, but are ineffective in others.
by deergomoo | 2026-01-09 19:55:42+00:00
I will never as long as I live understand the argument that AI development is more fun. If you want to argue that you’re more capable or whatever, fine. I disagree but I don’t have any data to disprove you.

But saying that AI development is more fun because you don’t have to “wrestle the computer” is, to me, the same as saying you’re really into painting but you’re not really into the brush aspect so you pay someone to paint what you describe. That’s not doing, it’s commissioning.
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by saad_DS | 2026-01-09 19:56:25+00:00
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by lilsquid | 2026-01-09 19:56:37+00:00
Anthropic Blocks Third-Party Access; xAI Raises $20B; NVIDIA Alpamayo

Breaking: Anthropic Blocks Claude Max in OpenCode

Anthropic has suddenly cut off API access for third-party IDE extensions like OpenCode. Users on premium $100–$200/month plans are being forced to use Anthropic's official terminal-based tool, sparking widespread subscription cancellations.

Report: https://byteiota.com/anthropic-blocks-claude-max-in-opencode...

Context: https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/09/anthropic-reportedly-block...

Major AI Model Releases & Technical Breakthroughs

NVIDIA Alpamayo: Open models for autonomous vehicles designed to "think like a human" during edge cases. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/nvidia-launches-alpamayo-o...

Alibaba Mai-UI: A GUI agent family outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro and UI-Tars-2. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/04/alibaba-tongyi-lab-r...

Tencent Hunyuan Hy-Mt1.5: A 1.8B translation model hitting the top of Hugging Face rankings. https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/2005908069239447988

Falcon H1r 7B: TII’s latest lightweight reasoning model. https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-h1r-7b

Bitnet.cpp: Microsoft’s tech allowing 100B parameter models to run efficiently on standard CPUs. https://x.com/simplifyinAI/status/2008195754092065050

New Features & Agentic Tools

Infinite Memory in Claude Code: Anthropic's official CLI tool gets persistent context. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

Genspark Image Agent: AI image generation shifts to iterative agentic workflows. https://x.com/genspark_ai/status/2008164340281835874

ByteDance Storymem: Solving "shapeshifting" characters in AI video via long-term temporal memory. https://the-decoder.com/bytedances-storymem-gives-ai-video-m...

Telegram Updates: Native AI summarization rolled out for all users. https://telegram.org/blog/january-updates-2026

Industry News & Milestones

xAI Funding: Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20B for Grok scaling and enterprise infrastructure. https://www.testingcatalog.com/news/xai-raises-20-billion-to...

Sakana AI Beats Humans: An AI agent has outperformed human programmers at an AtCoder competition for the first time. https://sakana.ai/ai-beats-humans-atcoder/

Boston Dynamics x DeepMind: A new partnership to merge advanced robotics with Gemini-intelligence. https://bostondynamics.com/news/boston-dynamics-and-google-d...

OpenAI Healthcare: Reportedly 40 million people now use ChatGPT daily for healthcare-related queries. https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/...
by throw310822 | 2026-01-09 19:56:37+00:00
Ok. So a man with a gun has the right to shoot you and kill you.
Then a policeman comes with a bigger gun and he has the right to kidnap the murderer.
Then comes a judge with an even bigger gun (the law) and has the right to lock him up in a prison.
But then the murderer gets hold of a weapon and he has the right to escape from prison.
Etc.

You see that this view doesn't go very far.
by FilosofumRex | 2026-01-09 19:56:41+00:00
> But the supreme leader elects the Guardian Council
No he doesn't... Half of are recommended by judiciary to be approved by Parliament, the other half are appointed by the supreme leader for six year term. This ensures all three branches of government have equal stakes. It's not unlike the House of Lords in England, half of whose members are appointed by the king or are hereditary.

The Assembly of Experts members are elected directly by the people every 8 years, and it operates independently of the Guardian Council once it's seated.

Who elects your king? Trump or Satanyahu
by elric | 2026-01-09 19:56:43+00:00
These practices are strengthening the Google/Apple hegemony and are ultimately damaging user freedoms and consumer protections. I'm sure that's not your employer's intention, but it is a negative thing that they're contributing to. And because of how essential banking is, banks have a big thumb on this particular scale, and I wish they'd use it for good rathet than for enriching and entrenching evil.
by vunderba | 2026-01-09 19:57:27+00:00
Yeesh. Personal attacks aside - there's plenty on my blog that I've written that has nothing to do with AI.

The Physiological Constraints of Free Will
https://mordenstar.com/essays/free-will

The Lost Art of Windows 95 Pranking
https://mordenstar.com/blog/win9x-hacks

The Q-Basic Continuum
https://mordenstar.com/blog/q-basic

The Infinite Wish Generator
https://mordenstar.com/blog/on-genies

Bible Stories
https://mordenstar.com/blog/bible-stories

They're all things I conceived of, thought of, and created. I do use GenAI for some of the related pictures - but its in the augmentation of my original ideas.

With all due respect, I'll stack up anything I've ever created against anything of yours at any time.
by Kelteseth | 2026-01-09 19:57:32+00:00
You're making it sound way more dramatic than it is [1]. And yes X is a far right echo chamber that twists the narrative so that the extreme right get the most support out of it. X is the biggest help for foreign power to sow discord among us [2]

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/crime-statistics-knife-crime-drugs-lif...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-09 19:57:33+00:00
I think you know precisely what I meant to say. There will come a time when the stain of having supported these murderers will be inescapable. At best you'll live in fear that your life will be ruined forever if anyone exposes the takes you were posting in 2026; at worst, you'll encounter people who seek to hold you personally accountable for the violence you supported. You still have a chance to escape that fate if you want to.