MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nneonneo | 2026-01-24 01:15:04+00:00
Don’t worry! According to the White House, it’s just a meme! Making up fake news is totally fine as long as you can say you’re memeing!

The WH using social media (X, Pravda Social) for official communication is highly deliberate - they get to declare post-hoc what is actually real communication and what is “just memes”. Of course it won’t make any difference to people amplifying the content. If the WH had to stick to traditional outlets for news they wouldn’t have this fig leaf to hide behind.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-24 01:15:06+00:00
You should also have several large random blobs with incriminating filenames on your hard drive. Attackers won't know which one is encrypted and which one is random. If you like, you can have an encrypted blob of decoy data next to your random blobs and your actually incriminating encrypted blob, and if you're duressed, you reveal that one as the real one.
by _bent | 2026-01-24 01:15:39+00:00
Wero is a land grab by the banks who fumbled building a PayPal alternative for 20 years, now desperately trying to stop the digital Euro.

Sure I'd rather use Wero than PayPal -if it was decent- and building it on top of SEPA instant transactions is neat. But the lack of buyers protection is a deal breaker for me!
And quite frankly I'd rather use a digital Euro governed by the ECB than some rent seeking hobby project by a bunch of private banks. Especially because they will inevitably enshittify it with ads and hostile BNPL like PayPal.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 01:16:45+00:00
One time, I was in a shopping mall and I had filled my cart at Target. I checked out, and proceeded to the parking lot where I was supposed to meet a Waymo. I had arranged for it to pick me up in the designated "Ride Share/Taxi Pickup Area" which was quite near the Target, but across the "street" and next to the cluster of bus stops.

I passed an obvious and ominous sign that indicated the border of the "shopping cart zone" and immediately my cart's wheels locked up! I was mortified, because I knew it'd do that! But my Waymo's over there, man! What was I supposed to do about it?

Obviously, Target has every right to corral their carts in places where they can go retrieve them. Theft is a huge, huge problem. But I was also constrained in pickup areas and I had figured, innocently, that the "Designated Ride Share" zone was the correct place to meet a Waymo with groceries.

So I had to bail everything out of the cart, and carry by hand. I learned my lesson. Only drop the Waymo pin someplace where my cart won't be kill-switched!
by HaZeust | 2026-01-24 01:17:47+00:00
"Mechanics lien" are a thing, and the government has plenty of machinations to avoid someone from registering their car or updating a registration, which does have case law for being an action prior to taking someone's vehicle as an asset seizure. Civil asset forfeiture also has extensive case law for being used with vehicles.

When it comes to brass text and if the chips are down, your right for vehicle ownership is HEAVILY skewed state-side if they don't want you to have one. Whether it should be or not, and regardless of how much an individual's mobility and freedom is reliant on them owning a car in modern America, it's still a de-facto "privilege" rather than a "right".
by measurablefunc | 2026-01-24 01:17:52+00:00
They are constantly trying to reduce costs which means they're constantly trying to distill & quantize the models to reduce the energy cost per request. The models are constantly being "nerfed", the reduction in quality is a direct result of seeking profitability. If they can charge you $200 but use only half the energy then they pocket the difference as their profit. Otherwise they are paying more to run their workloads than you are paying them which means every request loses them money. Nerfing is inevitable, the only question is how much it reduces response quality & what their customers are willing to put up with.
by throwaway89201 | 2026-01-24 01:20:06+00:00
This sounds like a good idea on its face, but it will have the effect of both legitimizing altered photos and delegitimizing photos of actual events.

You will need camera DRM with a hardware security module down all the way to the image sensor, where the hardware is in the hands of the attacker. Even when that chain is unbroken, you'll need to detect all kinds of tricks where the incoming photons themselves are altered. In the simplest case: a photo of a photo.

If HDCP has taught anything, it's that vendors of consumer products cannot implement such a secure chain at all, with ridiculous security vulnerabilities for years. HDCP has been given up and has become mostly irrelevant, perhaps except for the criminal liability it places on 'breaking' it. Vendors are also pushed to rely on security by obscurity, which will make such vulnerabilities harder to find for researchers than for attackers.

If you have half of such a 'signed photos' system in place, it will become easier to dismiss photos of actual events on the basis that they're unsigned. If a camera model or security chip shared by many models turns out to be broken, or a new photo-of-a-photo trick becomes known, a huge amount of photos produced before that, become immediately suspect. If you gatekeep (the proper implementations) of these features only to professional or expensive models, citizen journalism will be disincentivized.

But even more importantly: if you choose to rely on technical measures that are poorly understood by the general public (and that are likely to blow up in your face), you erode a social system of trust that already is in place, which is journalism. Although the rise of social media, illiteracy and fascism tends to suggest otherwise, journalistic chain of custody of photographic records mainly works fine. But only if we keep maintaining and teaching that system.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-24 01:21:07+00:00
It's a lot deeper than an apparent lack of conviction. Mentioning the possibility of a pivot completely changes the dynamic of the investment. 'No pivot' is asking "please invest in this startup; here's why it's a good idea". 'Pivot possible' is asking "please invest in me; I will find a way to get you a return on investment regardless of the means". Asking someone to invest in you as a person requires a certain level of egoistic thinking. Is the ego warranted? Maybe, but the investor won't know unless they build an extremely close rapport with you. Something like YC does with a 3-month on-premise bootcamp is that exact opportunity for investors to build a close rapport, so investing in people makes sense for YC. But a lot of investors are investing without building that rapport, so investing purely on the merits of business ideas makes more sense for them.
by coldtea | 2026-01-24 01:21:26+00:00
>China can (and has) manipulate the hearts and minds of the American public—skewing their biases in a way that creates internal chaos and dissent, disrupting institutional order, and sewing distrust of thy neighbor

Nothing a tin-foil hat can't prevent

As if the public needed any manipulation. You can just read what actual public figures, journalists, and such have been openly saying for the last 15-20 years...

When a long-time political player, wife of a President, and presidential candidate calls a big chunk of the population "deplorables", when opposing candidates call for the jailing or even shooting of their opponent, or when the current President is saying what he says and doing what he does, you need more to get "chaos" and "distrust of the neighbor"?
by adrianwaj | 2026-01-24 01:21:46+00:00
Is there a way to see all the inactive companies? Some have great names and addresses. I wonder if there's a way to efficiently use them - even keeping all the paperwork intact.. like buying a shell company and saving a lot of the overheads and registering/signups.

Brands are resurrected in fashion all the time with new designers, CEOs and owners while keeping the name, heritage (codes/motifs/archive,) goodwill and stores intact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentino_(fashion_house) is 70% owned by the Qatari royal family.

You could even have the ex-founders sit on a steering committee or advisory board for the switcheroo mob who could be their new bosses.

With all the unemployment around, startup musical chairs could be a solution. Isn't founders' equity the only valuable thing left in the startup world? No chance in getting rich as an employee - and with AI, who is/will not be replaceable? Also, finding the right people from the get-go is another significant challenge, and users of course.

Why don't those inactive companies share their failure stories to find some value-add? It's 2026: they could be mere hours away from an IPO horizon :)
by SafeDusk | 2026-01-24 01:22:42+00:00
These can also be observed through OTEL telemetries.

I use headless codex exec a lot, but struggles with its built-in telemetry support, which is insufficient for debugging and optimization.

Thus I made codex-plus (https://github.com/aperoc/codex-plus) for myself which provides a CLI entry point that mirrors the codex exec interface but is implemented on top of the TypeScript SDK (@openai/codex-sdk).

It exports the full session log to a remote OpenTelemetry collector after each run which can then be debugged and optimized through codex-plus-log-viewer.
by ajross | 2026-01-24 01:22:42+00:00
Drive Pilot cannot perform a single one of the maneuvers I listed above.

It's just a stunt. They took a machete to the feature set to find Just One Thing that would meet the requirements. All it does is use radar to follow another car on a selection of fixed, geofenced limited access highways. It can't handle the leader changing lanes, or going too fast (won't even get to the speed limit). It won't navigate, it won't change lanes. It can't even operate on an open road.

But it's "L3V31 THr333", so otherwise rational nerds get to yell about it on the internet. No one actually shows this thing off in their cars, it's not useful for real driving. FSD drives me around literally every day.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-24 01:23:19+00:00
Etymological pedantry: Falloon
is roughly Gaelic for "son of a leader", so granfalloon is ... An apt label for the Kennedys?

Functional pedantry:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

Satisfies my cognitive dissonance needs (from afar :)

Somewhat in the same reactionary progressivism bracket as PH. I.e. have to occasionally delve into their code to see how it's working out for them so far :)

(American Gen-Z[0] are the new hipsters (middle-middle class formal-education-shunning rebels[1], I hope the HN DAU agrees with me!!)

[0]both geohot and PH's son

[1]James Dean, Marlon Brando, James Franco..
by vbezhenar | 2026-01-24 01:23:26+00:00
You don't need "OS" to play some music, drive display and talk via USB/BLE. It's trivial task and could be done with a few event loops. A lot of firmwares is being written without OS. May be FreeRTOS/Zephyr to somewhat simplify the programming, but that's definitely not "OS" in a commonly accepted sense. You don't need team of engineers, one hobbyist could easily do that. I wrote firmware for a device of similar complexity (work with ADC, implements USB, BLE, some UI with buttons and leds) and I'm not even a professional.
by hwillis | 2026-01-24 01:24:52+00:00
> skewing their biases in a way that creates internal chaos and dissent, disrupting institutional order, and sewing distrust of thy neighbor.

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

IMO influence over real concrete choices is much more alarming. Someone with household-level information has an insane amount of advantage in an election. You can target politcal messaging street by street to play up the worst aspects of your opposed candidate and the least repulsive aspects of your own candidate.

But if you're in china, the most you can do is try to push towards whatever of the two candidates is least bad for you. And spoiler, zero american politicians are pro-china.
by idibiks | 2026-01-24 01:25:33+00:00
Your phrasing of the reality of democracy and voting is basically a less-polite version of where political science has been on the topic for 80ish years. The first half or so of that they spent trying to figure out some way that the stupidity and ignorance naturally balances out into… something that’s not scary. Law of averages, wisdom-of-the-crowd sorts of stuff.

They eventually (more or less) gave up, finding all their efforts at comfortable explanations unsupportable. Nope, it’s just luck, momentum, and the difficult of intentionally directing large chaotic systems keeping things tolerably sane. It’s, in fact, very scary and it’s astounding it works at all.
by krapp | 2026-01-24 01:25:46+00:00
People use social media to consume news and entertainment and to curate and communicate with people and accounts using an interface that allows them to read and share multiple media types.

My mother used it to communicate with her COPD support group and chat with in-laws in Australia. I use it to follow up on work groups and authors and developers I'm interested in. Most people's usage of social media is banal and mundane, little different than watching television in the 1990s. They use social media because it provides value for them, not because they're addicted to dopamine.
by radicality | 2026-01-24 01:25:59+00:00
Nice, thanks. What are the different options (log streams?) you can select? I read the info box but it isn’t super clear. I figure the numbers are a year - how come there are 2027 ones with data being populated ?
And how come something like ‘Argon2025h2’ also has data from ‘1h’ ago? I would expect data only on the 2026h1 - or are these some kind of shards but with weird year naming ?
by photochemsyn | 2026-01-24 01:27:02+00:00
“A formidable founder is one who seems like they’ll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way.”

I guess that's why you went all in on SBF?

Sigh. You guys can't build robust infrastructure under Trump or Biden, if you had been capable of that we wouldn't be hearing about AI datacenter energy demands disrupting local electricity rate issues, because we'd have a China style UHV grid in place before it became an issue.

I don't spend much time here anymore, talking to LLMs is more fun... good job on the censorship though, now you've got your preferred audience of retards - oh yes, we can say retard again, isn't that great.

P.S. change the name from Hacker News to Corporate Tech News, at least be honest.
by gerdesj | 2026-01-24 01:27:20+00:00
I'm not a fan either (and don't bother with it) but TikTok and co try to prey on your ... sorry try to show you stuff that they think you want to see, indexed on advert spend and a few other factors that will maximise advert spend return. That is their entire raison d'etre.

So, why on earth are they displaying stuff that you say is disturbing? There is no profit in that and TikTok is all about profit, ideally from abroad, ie market share.

I'm sure that the American population is incapable of being dumbed down any further.

Log a bug.
by cweagans | 2026-01-24 01:27:49+00:00
That's a really neat solution. Does that mean one of the constraints you'd have to impose is that a given customer can only have as many VMs as there are addresses in the block of IPs that you own? If they tried to create another one past that, it seems like you'd have a bit of a problem on your hands - but then again, maybe that number is so high that you're not likely to run into that edge case?
by jalapenos | 2026-01-24 01:28:24+00:00
My theory is that anti-vax sentiment is ultimately caused by democratic thinking.

To a neutral mind, it's obvious that it's a case by case matter. Some vaccines are not worth taking, and some are stupid not to take.

That nuance is intolerable in a democratic society. Instead, everyone is expected to take a position, and then dig in on it - magnifying it into absurd absolutes - and then fight the other side to the bitter end.

The result of this is that people who were really just "I don't like needles" now turn it into a sophisticated and defiant movement against vaccination as a concept.

And on the other side, people who were just annoyed that others were not contributing to herd immunity end up wanting the other side vaccinated by force.

And this just makes the whole thing worse because why care about herd immunity if you basically hate your fellow citizens as "usually enemies".
by litbear2022 | 2026-01-24 01:28:41+00:00
> The Russian military is taking chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix their military hardware, because they ran out of semiconductors.

> Russia's industry is in tatters and its economy on life-support.

> This is the price for Putin's trail of death and destruction.

LMAO

- https://x.com/EU_Commission/status/1571454007683428352?lang=...

- https://time.com/6226484/russia-appliance-imports-weapons/

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/01/20/is-russia...
by austinshea | 2026-01-24 01:29:49+00:00
A lot of people, who are on their way to doing truly professional work, have this epiphany.

The place you need to get to is understanding that you are being asked to ensure a problem is solved.

You’re only causing a larger problem by “solving” issues without both becoming an SME and ensuring that knowledge can be held by the organization, at all levels that the problem affects (onboarding, staff, project management, security, finance, auditors, c-suite.)
by austinjp | 2026-01-24 01:29:50+00:00
The "before" pictures occasionally hint at what might be optimism and individuality.

The "after" pictures display a uniformly grim corporate homogeneity.

Maybe this is because the "before" pictures are unguarded, taken before the kool-aid sank in. But they still show people who queued up to drink that kool-aid.

It's a "no" from me.
by FloorEgg | 2026-01-24 01:29:54+00:00
I really want to switch from Windows to Linux but it's not an easy transition.

For one, I am in a season of heavy workload and little free time. So I need to wait for my next period of reduced workload.

Second, I am not desperate for a new PC yet and it's hard to justify spending the money at this time.

Roughly my plan is to get a new PC this summer and start with a dual boot approach. So at first it will be more like going from 100% Windows to 80% Linux 20% Windows or something. Over time as circumstances afford maybe I can do away with windows altogether.

Just one data point - I am someone who has been using windows for over 30 years but Microsoft pissed me off so much in 2025 that I have a committed to switching even if it takes me years.
by rgovostes | 2026-01-24 01:30:32+00:00
I had eSIMs get screwed up on my iPhone a year or two ago when I deleted an expired eSIM. It asked me "Do you want to update contacts to use <the SIM I just deleted>?" and I knew I was in trouble.

I did successfully use a backup editor, iMazing, to exclude the telephony data from a backup in order to fix it, but it cost me $30 and hours (transferring my Signal data to a second device and back). For 99.999% of their customers this would require a total erase-install. All because Apple has an off-by-one error somewhere.
by lostmsu | 2026-01-24 01:30:46+00:00
As a well off person your most significant purchase is going to be a house, and in Seattle they are 3x cheaper.

I just left Seattle Greater Area and my 350sqm admittedly old house + a small ADU with an outdoor pool went for $2M (at the moment it was a downturn, so maybe $2.5M tops now). What can you get for that money in Greater Zurich Area? A 100sqm flat?
by oldmanhorton | 2026-01-24 01:31:15+00:00
In C#, you would normally implement rules like this with a custom Roslyn Analyzer or with https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/src/RoslynAnalyze.... It’s fair to say C# projects tend to have smaller denylists than mature C++ projects, but banned APIs definitely exist in mature C# projects.
by kjellsbells | 2026-01-24 01:31:35+00:00
This is very elegant, but is treading some ground that for various reasons never got commercial traction.

- Cisco tried distributed BNG about ten years ago, their "cnBNG" running on their x86 UCS server line. See [0]

- A UK company called Metaswitch tried doing this with eBPF and some home-grown tech (VPP meets fd.io and special sauce) in about 2018. Interestingly they pivoted the tech to work on 5G where blazing fast user plane is essential [1]. They got bought by Microsoft, ground into glass, and wiped out five years later.

- There was a lot of talk in ~2020 about whether wireline (fiber) and wireless (5G cellular) infrastructures could converge, with the BNG becoming another node in the system, like an AGF, and authenticating users against a UDR. 5G was already very distributed and it made a lot of sense at least on market-techture slide decks.[2]

Looking back, the difficulty making this commercial was not splitting up the function, making it performant, or running it disagg on commodity hardware. The difficulty was finding a set of anchor customers who were experiencing such pain on their existing BNG that they would be prepared to jump ship from their big iron to something new knowing full well that the new system would only support 10% of what their old Lucent 7750s or Ericsson boxes could do.

Taking disagg as an example, it makes little sense unless your network is above a certain size. But if you run a big network, like DT or AT&T, say, then you will demand hundreds of features be present before you will look at an alternative. Does it work with my OSS. Does it support all the features of RFC XYZ and the special tweaks that only we have. Will it keep the three-letter agencies happy when they serve a warrant. Can it pass muster with my security people. Can the developer survive working with my procurement people long enough to make enough money to fund development.

No disruptive vendor --none-- has ever made it past this barrier into the network core, despite operators saying for years that they want to work with disruptors. That's why Nokia, Ericsson, and Huawei reign supreme and telcos haven't innovated in decades.

[0] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/cnBNG/cnBNG-CP...

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-new-approach-pure-softwar...

[2] https://www.broadband-forum.org/pdfs/tr-470-2-0-0.pdf
by akerl_ | 2026-01-24 01:31:41+00:00
I think we just fundamentally disagree about the quality of the “assessment” FIPS is doing.

Choosing to use FIPS is basically choosing to tether yourself to the finest decision-making that government agencies could muster based on the technology that existed decades ago.

You’re choosing to ride a horse to work because somebody whacked an “approved” brand on it. I’m sure it’s a very reliable horse, but unless somebody is paying me a lot of money to hold the reins, I’m going to opt to use the advances we’ve made as an industry since then