MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SketchySeaBeast | 2026-01-31 13:27:15+00:00
You're right, we must be accurate in our terms, but that misclassifcation isn't worse than the act itself. The generation of deepfake non-consensual sexual images isn't revenge porn, because the woman in the image didn't even given initial consent. It being used to harass women is still a problem and is the sort of thing that requires moderation. It's not "sophomoric", it's exploitative and, in some states, illegal.
by simianwords | 2026-01-31 13:27:53+00:00
Honest question: why is this not enough?

If the code passes tests, and also works at the functionality level - what difference does it make if you’ve read the code or not?

You could come up with pathological cases like: it passed the tests by deleting them. And the code written by it is extremely messy.

But we know that LLMs are way smarter than this. There’s very very low chance of this happening and even if it does - it quick glance at code can fix it.
by dbuxton | 2026-01-31 13:27:56+00:00
I played this in my head a few times and don’t get it.

I assume we are talking

- China
- maybe South Korea?
- US (or is US not one of the 4?)
- Russia (ok this is explicit)

I think there might be an interesting idea in here but there is some confusion that’s stopping it coming out

Can someone enlighten me?
by kergonath | 2026-01-31 13:28:04+00:00
> For instance, if you are a French entity then sovereignty means your data stay in France. Moving things to de facto EU control is the opposite of sovereignty.

It’s something that crops up fairly often and I think most of the time from people who are profoundly misguided or just cannot understand that other people might see things differently. Germany is never going to annex parts of France while the EU is a thing. It’s on purpose. The whole construct is full of feedback mechanisms that make it physically impossible.

So yes, for a French company using Hetzner is a bit more risky than OVH, but not that much, and either of those are much better than Azure or AWS.

The big countries all have projects for national infrastructure for things like defense and taxes. In these cases everything needs to be directly controlled by the state and it makes sense to use a local company. Most of the time that would be companies you’ve never heard of.

For random users in the EU, it does not matter because all big service providers will be following the same regulations.
by throwaway10948 | 2026-01-31 13:28:33+00:00
> The vast majority of social media networks will ban - or more generally and insiously - shadow ban accounts/IPs that use known proxy IPs. This means that they are gating access to their platforms behind residential IPs (on top of their other various blackboxes and heuristics like fingerprinting)

Social media will ban proxy IPs, yet gleefully force you to provide your ID if you happen to connect from the wrong patch of land. I find it difficult not to support any and all attempts to bypass such measures.

The fact is that there's now a perfectly legitimate use for residential proxies, and the demand is just going to keep growing as more websites decide to "protect their content", and more governments decide to pass tyrannical laws that force people to mask their IPs. And with demand, comes supply, so don't expect them to go away any time soon.

This really just sounds like a rehash of the argument against encryption. "Bad people use it, so it should go away" - never mind that there are completely legitimate uses for it. Never mind that using a residential proxy might be the only way to get any privacy at all in a future where everyone blocks VPNs and Tor, a future where you may not even be able to post online without an ID depending you where you live, a future which we're swiftly approaching.

It's already here, in fact. Imgur blocks UK users, but it also blocks VPNs and Tor. The only way somebody living in the UK can access Imgur is through a residential proxy.
by Yokohiii | 2026-01-31 13:28:38+00:00
Well I guess we could even take a step back and say "hustle culture" instead of crypto bubble. Those people act like they are they are hard working to create financial freedom, but in reality they take every opportunity to get there asap. You just have to tell them something will get them there. Instant religion for them, but actually a hype or scheme. LLMs are just another option for them to foster their delusion.
by bullen | 2026-01-31 13:28:43+00:00
What is the advantage over just using this:

var source = new EventSource('pull?name=one');
source.onmessage = function (event) {
document.getElementById('events').innerHTML += event.data;
};

http://talk.rupy.se/event.html

> If you need bi-directional communication, then you should consider using WebSockets instead.

Or you just do a HTTP request?
by dmurray | 2026-01-31 13:29:07+00:00
"You can't do X" is a much different experience from "you can do X, but you need to spend a year and thousands of man-hours of paperwork applying for permission to do it".

In China, if the five-year plan prioritizes something, businesses will be up and running in months. In France, if the French parliament enacts a law prioritizing something, businesses still have to fight individual departments or local governments that have their own ideas about how they should regulate it.

Don't confuse bureaucracy for authoritarianism.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-01-31 13:29:12+00:00
That was a good article, I don’t usually read The Register.

Even as a US citizen, I say: good for Europe!

The world is simply a better place when countries have independence and can be as self reliant as possible.

In the US media there is an ongoing rhetoric that everything in the US is wonderful and everything in the rest of the world is much worse. I am privileged to have travelled widely so I know what a mostly wonderful and friendly world we live in.

I just use a few EU tech products (Hetzner, Proton, Mistral) but they seem good enough to me.
by esskay | 2026-01-31 13:30:33+00:00
Did the exact same thing for a client who's ops we managed on AWS. I was pretty against ditching RDS and a load balanced setup for hetzners load balancer and 3 instances (2 web, 1 db) but honestly, it's been pretty smooth sailing. The sites faster, and costs dropped massively, saving the client approx €900/mo for a better service.
by samus | 2026-01-31 13:30:34+00:00
LLMs and other IT applications have the distinct advantage that they require no other raw materials as input, aside from initial setup, extension, and maintenance. Under these conditions the requirements essentially boil down to real estate and high bandwidth internet connections. Also, demand for AI is currently so high that the solution can be scaled up far enough to be viable.

All the other concerns require more subtle approaches because human requirements are much more messy.
by Hendrikto | 2026-01-31 13:31:15+00:00
Whether you like it or not, we are burning a lot of electricity on datacenters. That is a fact. And energy consumption is likely going to significantly increase in the near future. If we can reduce that energy usage, that is a good thing and a big improvement.

I do not think I even understand your complaint. Different people can work on different problems. We do not have to pick only one.

> My improvement is more important than yours.

We can just do both.
by bborud | 2026-01-31 13:31:53+00:00
Yes, modern cars are superior when it comes to safety. But the daily experience is orthogonal to this since most people have serious accidents very infrequently. In your daily experience reliability and economy is more important.

And in computing, having a bit of downtime 1-2 times per year is often a price worth paying if avoiding it requires 90% more cost and effort. (Of course, people end up having downtime anyway because they have something so complex that they have 100x the number of ways something can fail).
by rimunroe | 2026-01-31 13:32:29+00:00
I keep my ~25 year old Ti-83 or 84 from middle and high school in my shop because I find using it while working on stuff with dirty hands much easier than my phone or tablet. I just need something which basically never needs new batteries and lets me use parentheses to group expressions and the occasional trig function. I think the current batteries are almost ten years old now.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-01-31 13:32:32+00:00
It is possible to run locally though ... I saw a video of someone running one of the heavily quantized versions on a Mac Studio, and performing pretty well in terms of speed.

I'm guessing a 256GB Mac Studio, costing $5-6K, but that wouldn't be an outrageous amount to spend for a professional tool if the model capability justified it.
by thibaut_barrere | 2026-01-31 13:32:35+00:00
Having used both worlds: a lot of the provided features come with strong vendor lock-in, and in most cases that not, with slightly stronger “local” engineering you can reach the same targets and needs locally.

The more I work (started coding 40 years ago, and data engineering 25 years ago), the more I favor designs that are less coupled to cloud features.

If you do so, the offering in the EU just as it is now is well enough to scale.

In short: more computer science, less delegating to cloud operators, stronger designs.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2026-01-31 13:32:55+00:00
> Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance.

That is not a reminder, that is just, like, your opinion, man. Many countries with robust safety nets in Europe have far right parties rising in popularity significantly or already in the government/ruling coalition (Italy, Sweden, Germany, etc.).
by shantara | 2026-01-31 13:33:07+00:00
Immich iOS app supports backing up photos directly from iCloud in original resolution, with the all EXIF data included. I had 230 GB of photos myself, and I left the phone on the charger overnight with the app running in the foreground and screen locking disabled. In the morning everything was imported.

Some people have instead set Photos app on a Mac to download original photos from the iCloud library and then moved the files directly into the server. I have not personally tried this method though.
Show HN: AI Battle Arena – Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini
by sigmoid-kr | 2026-01-31 13:33:22+00:00
Built this over the weekend because I was tired of switching between three AI chats.

Ask any question, get three anonymous answers (one from each AI), pick the best. Live voting shows which AI people actually prefer.

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* You can check all the questions
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by zahlman | 2026-01-31 13:33:47+00:00
> If you use an open source license, you could forbid LLM training

Established OSS licenses are all from before anyone imagined that LLMs would come into existence, let alone train on and then generate code. Discrimination on purpose is counter to OSI principles (https://opensource.org/osd):

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

The GPL argument you describe hinges on making the legal case that LLMs produce "derived works". When the output can't be clearly traced to source input (even the system itself doesn't know how) it becomes rather difficult to argue that in court.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-31 13:33:58+00:00
I was also wondering how the image got 16k+ views (as of now) (the stat was on imgur)

I was wondering what/how many HN users clicked on the image (not knowing it was uploaded to reddit too)

But now I seriously wonder out of those 16k (as of now), how many were/are from the hackernews community and how many from reddit.
by convolvatron | 2026-01-31 13:34:01+00:00
Ok, so the notion that one can spin up and down resources and be billed by the time unit without having to source components and provide power and cooling and hands on is an unqualified win.

but the resulting 'hyperscaler' systems are built around lockin and loss of sovereignty. rather than bemoan the cost of replicating the US environment, wouldn't it make sense to come with a different spin? maybe one thats not so tightly integrated and siloed? isn't AWS just a mirror the the same US dominance that you're trying to avoid?

for example, despite the amount of snark thrown towards the development of open standards, wouldn't it be really quite useful is there weren't 3-4 hyperscalers with different APIs for the same basic services? couldn't we design an EC2-lite that allowed for real commoditization and competition?

ignoring that, consider the value of rethinking things a little bit so that the important part - easy and incremental access to compute are preserved and all the sleazy business practices aren't.
by singpolyma3 | 2026-01-31 13:34:19+00:00
You pre suppose that output is derive work (not a given) and that training is not fair use (also not a given).

If the courts decide to apply the law as you assume the AI companies are all dead. But they are all betting that's not going to be the case. And since so much of the industry is taking the bet with them... The courts will take that into account
by sekai | 2026-01-31 13:34:21+00:00
> Educate us, tell us when did we vote for the commission and the likes of von der Leyen. (If your answer is "you didn't vote for it, but you voted for someone who voted for someone who voted for it in a secret ballot" I am going to chuckle)

Voters place their trust in representatives who then act on their behalf during the EP voting process and other legislative matters, such as electing the President of the European Commission
by esskay | 2026-01-31 13:34:24+00:00
What makes you think I'll move the goalpost - the original question was pretty clear; EU cloud providers who offer services like AWS does.

What you've linked to is a broad scope site listing a multitude of EU based products and services, making it look like you cant even list ONE let alone a few .

Don't pull the 'moving the goalpost' nonsense, the original post you replied to made it very clear they were talking about an AWS comparison, and a cursory glance at the 'cloud providers' section of that site shows a bunch of EU hosting providers offering general VPS hosting, which isn't remotely close to being the same kind of thing.
by misir | 2026-01-31 13:34:27+00:00
All aws is selling a web gui on top of free software. You still have to know ins and outs of the software to manage it properly.

Heck their support is shit too. I have talked to them to figure out an issue on their own in house software, they couldn’t help. My colleague happened to know what was wrong and fixed the issue with a switch of a checkbox.
Show HN: SpellRush – A new kind of word challenge game
by timenotwasted | 2026-01-31 13:34:39+00:00
Like a lot of people I love word games so I always wanted to have a go at creating my own. I went through a lot of iterations to create something that was unique from many of the games I had played. What I've finally landed on feels like it is a good combination of both challenge and fun.

I'd love any feedback you have to offer if you get a chance to try it out. Thanks!

Try it here: https://spellrush.com/
by armcat | 2026-01-31 13:34:47+00:00
there is no european cloud operator able to offer what AWS/GCP/Azure offer

That's true right now, yes. But things are changing rapidly, e.g. there is evroc [1], Mimer [2] and others are popping up too.

it took Google about 15 years of pouring money into Google Docs to be almost as good as the MS offering

I know, and I'm not saying that EU will do any different, but this is not necessarily an absolute gold-standard benchmark, things in principle can be done much faster if you are smaller, nimbler and more focused. The solution to EUs problems is less paperwork and meetings, and more smaller bespoke companies that are laser focused on solving a specific sub-problem. Can they do it? Probably not if they try to create their Google or Microsoft.

[1] https://evroc.com/
[2] https://mimer-ai.eu/
by sibellavia | 2026-01-31 13:35:01+00:00
> That said, if vibe coding is the process of producing software without much understanding of what is going on [...], automatic programming is the process of producing software that attempts to be high quality and strictly following the producer's vision of the software [...], with the help of AI assistance.

He is absolutely right here, and I think in this article he has "shaped" the direction of future software engineering (which is already happening actually): we are moving closer and closer to a new way of writing code. But this time, for real. I mean that it will increasingly become the standard. Just as in the past an architect used to draw every detail by hand, while today much of the operational work is delegated to parametric software, CAD, BIM, and so on. The architect does not "draw less" because they know less, but because the value of their work has shifted. This is a concept we've repeated often in recent months, with the advent of Opus 4.5 and 5.2-Codex. But I think that here antirez has given it the right shape and also did well to distinguish it from mere vibecoding, which, as far as I'm concerned, are two radically different approaches.
by jdjdjssh | 2026-01-31 13:35:12+00:00
Yep, this is the big sticking point. Reviewing code properly is and was the bottle neck. However, with humans I trusted, I could ignore most of their work and focus on where they knew they needed a review. That kind of trust is worth a lot of money and lets you move really fast.

> I need time to sit with it

Everyone knows doing the work yourself is faster than reviewing somebody elses if you don’t trust them. I’d argue if AI ever gets to the point where you fully trust it, all white collar jobs are gone.
Show HN: BazaarBound – A marketplace for digital product and ondemand services
by BAZAARBOUND | 2026-01-31 13:35:51+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Shihan, the founder of BazaarBound.

BazaarBound is a hybrid marketplace that combines digital products with on-demand professional services. I built it because creators and digital-first businesses often switch between multiple tools and platforms to complete simple tasks.

Users can:

• Download digital assets (templates, graphics, illustrations, audio/video files, e-books)
• Order professional services (SEO, design, content, technical setup)
• Use a structured delivery system instead of ad-hoc freelancers

My goal is to reduce fragmentation and make digital workflows more efficient.

I’d appreciate feedback on:

1) UX and navigation
2) Category structure
3) Service workflow
4) Anything confusing or unnecessary

Website: https://www.bazaarbound.com
by matt-p | 2026-01-31 13:36:17+00:00
I think it depends, honestly. As a startup you could be using civo or katapult as clouds and be getting almost everything you need. I think the main issue is actually network effect; easy to hire people who know AWS, easy to explain AWS architecture to a auditor who's seen it 100x before and it's easy to explain to customers that you use AWS like them, so easy to do VPC peering, or BYOC with them if needed..

If you just want dedicated servers/VPS the choice is much wider still and plenty of providers on comparison sites and so on.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-31 13:36:33+00:00
Well to be fair Hackernews posts can get flagged too by the community itself where people then later talk about how or why a particular post gets flagged and discussion starts moving about the moderation/flag issues in HN.

(But this isn't to say that the fault's within the moderation community of HN which are great but just the issue which to me is imo that if many users flag a post, it can get flagged and the friction of getting it back is hard or a post typically ends up dying usually if it gets flagged in general imho)
by pjmlp | 2026-01-31 13:36:54+00:00
Because of the engineering effort required to build such systems, that no one has built before, means there is a gigantic amount of R&D discoveries that can be eventually applied in other fields outside particle physics.

Mechanical, electronic, informatics, chemistry, physics,...

Hence why CERN eventually created an industry collaboration office, responsible for finding business partners that would like to make a business out of such discoveries.

https://knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/activities-services/co...
by ralferoo | 2026-01-31 13:37:45+00:00
No, I'll blame systemd. I've been using Debian for 25 years and we've only had systemd forced on us in the last maybe 5. OK, yeah, you're right. I'll blame Debian for forcing systemd on us, which is exactly the problem that Devuan is fixing.

Actually, I've been using SunOS and Solaris even longer than Debian. Putting scripts in /etc/init.d / /etc/rc.d isn't "new". It's been standard for at least 30 years. Actually, maybe making /etc/rc.d symlink to the /etc/init.d is early 2000s, I can't remember, but it's certainly not new.

But also, I've written many startup scripts in my time. And no, I absolutely wouldn't find its PID using ps and killing it. In my startup script, I'd save $! in a file, standardised in /var/lock for at least 20 years, and kill that.

And no, I wouldn't manually edit /etc/rc.local - because for decades it's run everything in /etc/rc*.d specifically to prevent the need to manually edit /etc/rc.local. None of this is new.

> umount “popping a warning” would break so many things

I mean, would it really? They've modified mount to pop up a warning to tell you that you manually changed /etc/fstab and what extra steps you need to do to placate systemd just to be able to mount your filesystem. Why can't unmount also do the same, e.g. gated on being run from an interactive tty? Having filesystems randomly mount themselves after you have deliberately unmounted them is actually dangerous.

> Consider quitting the technology business.

How about you consider having some manners?

Somebody responding to a question about why people don't like X with an explanation of how exactly X has changed their workflow for the worse doesn't mean that they should leave the technology business.

I'm sorry for you that your self-worth is so tied up in systemd that you can't bear to hear any criticism of it.
by input_sh | 2026-01-31 13:38:04+00:00
Yeah this is just circular reasoning. You don't go from zero to AWS the same way AWS didn't go from zero to what it is today. They started with a few basic features and built up from there. There are plenty of EU alternatives that have those same basic features AWS had a while ago, but until it makes economic sense to replicate all of it, no EU company is going to do so.

Whether you can switch from AWS to an EU alternative depends solely on how deep down the rabbit hole you are. If you're just looking for basics to host your stuff, you can. If you want to never have to touch Linux but to rely solely on proprietary abstractions on top of Linux, you can't.