MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by komali2 | 2026-01-26 01:27:10+00:00
Assassination is fascinating for its ability to abruptly change a paradigm and the fact that it can be done by a single person, but it is extremely rare for a reason - murder is bad and instinctively despicable to most humans. [1]

An assassination is also an acknowledgement of the magical power of one individual, which I think is counter to the goals of most revolutionaries, who want to instead demonstrate to the general population that power is within the capital p People, and communities, and organized resistance.

Assassination is saying "actually this one person is so powerful that it'll solve a lot of our problems if they're dead." Which I don't believe can be true since to be true that would mean that one person would basically have to be a wizard with supernatural powers. In reality anybody with a lot of political power derives that power from people's willingness to comply with that person's wishes. A system like a government may have made people used to the idea of obeying authority, but the reality remains such that if everyone suddenly decided to stop holding up the system of government, the power vanishes into thin air.

Thus a despot's power is able to be nullified by anyone able to convince a lot of people to refuse to implement the despot's desires.

[1] https://voicesofvr.com/1182-recreating-philosophical-moral-d...
by Jimmc414 | 2026-01-26 01:27:14+00:00
I’ve installed and tested Clawdbot twice and uninstalled it. I see no reason to use this unless it’s with local models. I can do everything Clawdbot can do with Claude Code innately and with less tokens. I found Clawdbot to be rather token inefficient even with Claude max subscription. 14k tokens just to initialize and another 1000 per interaction round even with short questions like, “Hey”. Another concern is there are no guarantees that Anthropic isn’t going to lock down Oauth usage with your Max account like they did with OpenCode.
by ulfw | 2026-01-26 01:27:32+00:00
I've never understood how Google was able to get PR for the most trivial coding stuff any child coder can do.

"...support for a dynamic light mode. Instead of always viewing photos with a black background, Google Photos will use the light mode or dark mode background that you have set for your device's system theme."

This is literally one IF statement. The sentence is longer than the code.
by paulryanrogers | 2026-01-26 01:27:52+00:00
The US values individual freedom, has porous borders, a diverse population, and a large land mass. Citizens would have to put up with some pretty draconian living conditions to ensure zero illegal migration.

Even Reagan granted mass amnesty in the face of such costs.

We can disagree on where the threshold of unacceptable intrusion into our lives should be. But significant change probably requires replacing the Fourth Amendment. Or--as is happening now--pretending the 4A doesn't exist and hope whoever is in power next won't prosecute them.
by shoo | 2026-01-26 01:28:08+00:00
Interesting idea, but it seems likely that the data this collects may not be very useful as a way to estimate the effectiveness of landing pages.

If I don't belong to one of the markets that the landing page is trying to sell products or services to, I shouldn't be able to vote -- if I vote, I'm just polluting the dataset of what their actual potential customers think of it.

If the two landing pages being compared aren't targeting the same market of potential customers [+], it's unclear what comparing them achieves.

It's unclear if voting on a landing page in this kind of artificial setting is predictive of something more material like how often a potential customer proceeds to sign up for a demo, or pay for something, or call sales.

[+] or given a lot of these are AI landing pages, I guess they're targeting investors.
by EvansWilson | 2026-01-26 01:28:32+00:00
In the world of "smart money," few names carry as much weight as Peter Thiel. The PayPal co-founder and Palantir chairman is famous for his contrarian "Zero to One" mindset—looking for what others miss. But his latest moves have the market buzzing: while the rest of the world is still chasing the semiconductor gold rush, the latest data reveals that the Peter Thiel stock portfolio has undergone a radical transformation, pivoting toward a high-conviction "Big Three" strategy.

The Peter Thiel Stock Portfolio: A 3-Stock Power Play

According to the most recent filings, Thiel has condensed his public equity exposure into just three massive tech pillars. This isn't just "investing"; it's a structural bet on the winners of the AI application layer. He has effectively exited his position in Nvidia, signaling that for him, the "pick and shovel" phase of the AI boom—dominated by hardware—might be reaching its peak.

By rotating capital into Microsoft and Apple, Thiel is shifting from the suppliers of AI to the owners of the platforms that will actually monetize it. It’s a classic move: don’t compete in the crowded hardware space; own the ecosystem.

Tesla: The High-Stakes Anchor

Despite a significant reduction in shares last quarter, Tesla (TSLA) remains the crown jewel of the Peter Thiel stock portfolio, commanding a staggering 38.8% of his managed assets. While critics obsess over quarterly EV delivery numbers, Thiel likely sees Tesla through a different lens—as a robotics and autonomous driving company. With the scaling of FSD (Full Self-Driving) and the Optimus project, Tesla represents the ultimate bet on physical artificial intelligence.

The "New Buys": Microsoft and Apple

The most shocking part of the update? Thiel’s aggressive new entry into Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL).

Microsoft now accounts for over 34% of the portfolio, a massive "New Buy" that suggests Thiel is all-in on the enterprise AI leader. Meanwhile, Apple has taken up a 27% stake. This move indicates he believe's "Apple Intelligence" and the company’s grip on the global hardware ecosystem will make it an impenetrable AI gateway for consumers.

What You Can Learn from Thiel’s Conviction

Thiel’s current setup is a loud reminder of his personal philosophy: diversification is often a hedge against ignorance. By holding only three stocks, he is signaling ultimate conviction. He isn't interested in tracking "the market"; he’s interested in owning the future.

If you’re tracking the Peter Thiel stock portfolio to find your next move, the message is clear: the hardware hype is transitioning into platform dominance. He's betting that the software and robotics giants are the ones who will ultimately capture the value that Nvidia helped create.
Show HN: A Local OS for LLMs. MIT License. Zero Hallucinations. Infinite Memory
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-26 01:29:09+00:00
The problem with LLMs isn't intelligence; it's amnesia and dishonesty.

Hey HN,

I’ve spent the last few months building Remember-Me, an open-source "Sovereign Brain" stack designed to run entirely offline on consumer hardware.

The core thesis is simple: Don't rent your cognition.

Most RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) implementations are just "grep for embeddings." They are messy, imprecise, and prone to hallucination. I wanted to solve the "Context integrity" problem at the architectural layer.

The Tech Stack (How it works):

QDMA (Quantum Dream Memory Architecture): instead of a flat vector DB, it uses a hierarchical projection engine. It separates "Hot" (Recall) from "Cold" (Storage) memory, allowing for effectively infinite context window management via compression.

CSNP (Context Switching Neural Protocol) - The Hallucination Killer: This is the most important part. Every memory fragment is hashed into a Merkle Chain. When the LLM retrieves context, the system cryptographically verifies the retrieval against the immutable ledger.

If the hash doesn't match the chain: The retrieval is rejected.

Result: The AI visually cannot "make things up" about your past because it is mathematically constrained to the ledger.
Local Inference: Built on top of llama.cpp server. It runs Llama-3 (or any GGUF) locally. No API keys. No data leaving your machine.

Features:

Zero-Dependency: Runs on Windows/Linux with just Python and a GPU (or CPU).

Visual Interface: Includes a Streamlit-based "Cognitive Interface" to visualize memory states.
Open Source: MIT License.
This is an attempt to give "Agency" back to the user. I believe that if we want AGI, it needs to be owned by us, not rented via an API.

Repository: https://github.com/merchantmoh-debug/Remember-Me-AI

I’d love to hear your feedback on the Merkle-verification approach. Does constraining the context window effectively solve the "trust" issue for you?

It's fully working - Fully tested. If you tried to Git Clone before without luck - As this is not my first Show HN on this - Feel free to try again.

To everyone who HATES AI slop; Greedy corporations and having their private data stuck on cloud servers.

You're welcome.

Cheers, Mohamad
by xpe | 2026-01-26 01:30:11+00:00
Well said. Even people with a lot in common can and should disagree often. In non-authoritarian systems, politics is supposed to be about managing this disagreement in civil ways. Politics seems unsavory to some, often because they find a lot of political manifestations to be vile or insipid. [1] I get that, but in a way this revulsion is backwards. The alternatives to the sausage-making of politics is usually worse: pretending there is no disagreement, coercion, violence, gaslighting. So when people say "they don't like politics" I like to say "don't shoot the messenger".

[1] When representatives spend something like 4+ hours a day fundraising, people have good reason to say "this is f-ed up." https://gai.georgetown.edu/an-inside-look-at-congressional-f...
by ex3ndr | 2026-01-26 01:30:11+00:00
What if we will go even further? I have built end-to-end messaging layer for Clawdbot to talk to each other, called Murmur - https://github.com/slopus/murmur.

We tried this with friends and it is truly magical (while crazy insecure) - i can ask my agent to search friends life, their preferences, about their calendars, what films they are watching. It can look at emails and find if you need something and go to people around asking for help. It is truly magical. Very very curious where it can go. At the moment it is exceptionally easy to exfiltrate anything, but you still can control via proper prompts - what you want to share and what you dont want to. I bet models will became better and eventually it wont be a problem.
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-26 01:30:51+00:00
It Is not an indefinite rental. A sale can't be "misrepresented". It is a blatant CFAA violation. They are accessing your computer, modifying its configuration, and exfiltrating your private data without your authorization.

If I buy a used vehicle for example, I have exactly zero relationship with the manufacturer. I never agree to anything at all with them. I turn the car on and it goes. They do not have any authorization to touch anything.

We shouldn't confuse what's happening here. The engineers working on these systems that access people's cars without authorization should absolutely be in prison right alongside the executives that allowed or pushed for it. They know exactly what they're doing.
by heresie-dabord | 2026-01-26 01:31:42+00:00
> Virtually all of the top performers at my school left for the USA immediately after graduation. [...] Turns out doubling or tripling your take home compensation is absolutely worth it. [...] You can buy a house instead of renting an apartment with roommates. You can afford to marry and have children. You can buy all the things the government would've provided you had it not been dysfunctional.

And how does the "dysfunction" of the current Canadian government compare to what is happening in the US, in your eyes?

> Plus, there are just more jobs in SWE in the USA.

There is the rational answer... for graduates in software.
by jstrieb | 2026-01-26 01:31:48+00:00
Nice fork! (I am the person who wrote the original.)

My version is still working well for me, so it's been hard to find motivation to update it. Also, I've been using my increasingly limited free time to work on some exciting new projects, rather than maintenance tasks that feel like a continuation of my day job.

All that to say I'm excited about new repos like yours that take the idea further! I also really appreciate your attention to detail calling out the differences with the original, and that you licensed your version under the GPL.

As an aside, you may want to add "Show HN" to the title. It will allow the page to show up on https://news.ycombinator.com/show
by AWebOfBrown | 2026-01-26 01:32:38+00:00
If you're interested in hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier (4 cpu, 24GB ram), instead of buying a Mac Mini or paying for a VPS, I wrote up how-to with a Pulumi infra-as-code template here: https://abrown.blog/posts/personal-assistant-clawdbot-on-ora...
by flyinglizard | 2026-01-26 01:33:44+00:00
Iran is made of many different ethnicities, and there were reports of Arab militants that were brought in by the regime (it’s not hard to imagine given how reliant those organizations are on Iran for support).

It’s generally not very hard to incite violence across groups in the Middle East, especially when you consider how bad the outcome might be for the losing side. Case in point, the Alawites who lost control of Syria and are now persecuted by the new government.
by augusteo | 2026-01-26 01:35:57+00:00
The threading story here is what grabbed my attention. Pass-by-value with copy-on-write means you get data-race immunity without any locks or channels. You just pass data to a thread and mutations stay local. That's a genuinely useful property.

I've worked on systems where we spent more time reasoning about shared state than writing actual logic. The typical answer is "just make everything immutable" but then you lose convenient imperative syntax. This sits in an interesting middle ground.

Curious about performance in practice. Copy-on-write is great until you hit a hot path that triggers lots of copies. Have you benchmarked any real workloads?
by jleyank | 2026-01-26 01:36:21+00:00
Sadly, I think pretty much all "order systems" have been (re)revealed as vulnerable to being ignored by the strong. The options seem to be for the others to suck it up, organize, or hope the strong revert. I think history suggests that change is usually effected somewhat violently and through bottom- or middle-up organization. This'll require people to pay attention and make the effort and take the risk.
by komali2 | 2026-01-26 01:36:31+00:00
Don't underestimate the importance of the other reason protests are effective: as a politician, it's very, very scary to look out your window and see thousands of people that are mad enough at you to forgoe their day and instead come yell at you about it. It tends to make them a bit more amenable unless they have enough military power to guaranteed squash mass resistance (which is the case for any American politician).
by nuc1e0n | 2026-01-26 01:36:51+00:00
I can't see how genetic modification would be the correct way to treat such injuries.

Maybe substances that can trigger epigenetic effects would be more relevant to such things. I understand a Japanese team is working on a means of triggering tooth regrowth by means of an injection. I've got no problem with that. Or something like Skele-Gro from Harry Potter either.
by SturgeonsLaw | 2026-01-26 01:36:51+00:00
>I’d personally be fine with restrictions on where funding for political organizations comes from (although I’m not sure how you make that compatible with the 1st amendment)

Despite what the proponents of Citizen's United might have us believe, money != speech, and adding restrictions to political donations is perfectly compatible with the first amendment.

Would-be donors are allowed to advocate for political positions just the same as anybody else. Nobody is stopping them. That would still be the case with donation limits. They can still get on TV and argue their case.

There is already a precedent for limiting donations. Try donating money to ISIS or Hezbollah and see if the government considers that an exercise of your first amendment rights.
by hackingonempty | 2026-01-26 01:37:41+00:00
> I believe this country will need massive investigations and criminal trials to heal. I am concerned with what happens in between, but this is reality as I see it.

Trump learned his lesson and pardoned every Jan 6 terrorist. If he leaves office, he is going to pardon every single person in his administration for anything they did from 2025-2029. There will be no investigations and no criminal trials. They all know this to be true.
by autoexec | 2026-01-26 01:37:55+00:00
> The counter argument to that is in the age of the social media there is no need to take to the streets to show that there is dissent.

you can find dissent to anything and everything at any time on the internet. Dissent exists always. Dissent that causes people to take the streets and risk being murdered, gassed, beaten, arrested, or even just tracked using facial recognition and fake cell phone towers, that's something else entirely.

> Motivating other people to take a stand -- I do not think this is true either.

People in this discussion have already stated that protests have caused them to reevaluate their position on things protesters were demonstrating against.

> Change comes from the ballot box.

If that were true there'd never have been any change in countries that aren't democracies or where voting was a complete sham only to give the appearance of one. Fairly elected or otherwise, politicians can ignore mean facebook posts. They can't as easily ignore thousands of people protesting outside of their home or office.

Where democracy exists at all, protests can change people's minds about their situation, especially when those protests demonstrate and expose horrific abuses by the state. Even if I didn't support whatever was being protested, if I witness things that shouldn't happen in my country and the current administration defends those things and/or threatens worse, I'm going to reconsider my support the current administration and I won't need 7+ months to do it
by KennyBlanken | 2026-01-26 01:38:00+00:00
Thiel lost his shit because Gawker mentioned he was gay in an article on their site. Something _everybody_ in Silicon Valley already knew. Then he goes and forms what essentially amounts to a private CIA.

How about Musk? He felt he had a right to hoover up data about people from every government agency, but throws a massive temper-tantrum when people publish where his private jet is flying using publicly available data.

How about Mark Zuckerberg? So private he buys up all the properties around him and has his private goon squad stopping people on public property who live in the neighborhood, haranguing them just for walking past or near the property.

These people are all supremely hypocritical when it comes to privacy.
by xvector | 2026-01-26 01:38:35+00:00
One person dies to ICE, the whole country is in outrage; 37k people massacred in cold blood - barely a peep.

I hate how irrational our species is and how unempathetic we are to situations not immediately in front of us.

And Trump should not have promised assistance. How many more people are dead because they were encouraged by said promise?
by skissane | 2026-01-26 01:38:35+00:00
This is a figure for the whole of Iran. So it includes not just the Persian-majority areas, but also the minority-majority areas (Azeris, Kurds, Balochs, Arabs, Armenians, etc). It would not surprise me if the death toll in the minority-majority areas were higher, and hence they contributed a disproportionate percentage of the total, since security forces would likely find it easier to do that to people of a different ethnicity and/or religion (some of these minorities are predominantly Sunni, Christian, etc) than to people more like themselves.
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-26 01:39:01+00:00
Since before then, as well.

think of ELF/Earth First in the 90s with "ecoterrorism"... plenty of stops between that and, say, the Haymarket affair. Or hell, much of the anti-indigenous genocide could probably be described using the term "counter-insurgency", which is closely related to how the US gov. thinks of terrorism.
by jleyank | 2026-01-26 01:39:20+00:00
Same as the tariffs or other deprecations. Unless/until the average person feels some pain, nothing is real. Change is scary, and if the status quo is palatable or at least "not too bad", human nature is to go along. And people are (quite?) pain adverse so paths w/o pain are easier to accept.

People have prattled on about how the tree of liberty needs to be watered by blood from time to time. The NRA claims its purpose vs. tyranny. Well, there's a chance that events will call their bluffs.
by majormajor | 2026-01-26 01:40:40+00:00
> Edit: In fact there seems to be a self inflicted problem being created here - having the DLQ on a different system, whether it be another instance of Kafka, or Postgres, or what have you, is really just creating another point of failure.

There's a balance. Do you want to have your Kafka cluster provisioned for double your normal event intake rate just in case you have the worst-case failure to produce elsewhere that causes 100% of events to get DLQ'd (since now you've doubled your writes to the shared cluster, which could cause failures to produce to the original topic).

In that sort of system, failing to produce to the original topic is probably what you want to avoid most. If your retention period isn't shorter than your time to recover from an incident like that, then priority 1 is often "make sure the events are recorded so they can be processed later."

IMO a good architecture here cleanly separates transient failures (don't DLQ; retry with backoff, don't advance consumer group) from "permanently cannot process" (DLQ only these), unlike in the linked article. That greatly reduces the odds of "everything is being DLQ'd!" causing cascading failures from overloading seldom-stressed parts of the system. Makes it much easier to keep your DLQ in one place, and you can solve some of the visibility problems from the article from a consumer that puts summary info elsewhere or such. There's still a chance for a bug that results in everything being wrongly rejected, but it makes you potentially much more robust against transient downstream deps having a high blast radius. (One nasty case here is if different messages have wildly different sets of downstream deps, do you want some blocking all the others then? IMO they should then be partitioned in a way so that you can still move forward on the others.)
by kibwen | 2026-01-26 01:40:46+00:00
> I can't comprehend how a population can kill that many of their own people.

The notion of some well-defined "people" is a fiction that ruling powers use to keep humanity's innate tribalistic tendencies pointed outward at their adversaries.

The truth is that the powers-that-be consider themselves to be above "the people", and will dispose of you as soon as you become inconvenient.
by augusteo | 2026-01-26 01:41:29+00:00
The technical approach here is solid. Fine-grained dependency tracking with automatic invalidation is the right way to do incremental compilation. The Rust implementation means it can actually handle large codebases without the JS runtime becoming the bottleneck.

But the skepticism in this thread about ecosystem fragmentation is valid. Vite won because it worked with the existing ecosystem, not against it. Turbopack requiring Rust for plugins limits who can extend it.

That said, if you're already locked into Next.js, this is a clear win. The question is whether Next.js's market position justifies a separate build tool or whether this accelerates the trend of frameworks becoming walled gardens.

I personally love Vite and Remix.