MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by betty_staples | 2026-01-20 04:21:11+00:00
I will say I am strongly against what social media algorithms do.

But I am fascinated by the black mirror element. They said "hey algorithm what gets likes, what gets views - look into human nature and report back" - "human nature shows polarization does! emotional charged divisive content!" - that's just fascinating. Not learning, philosphophy, growth, education, health, no, the naughty stuff, the bad stuff. That's not to exonerate social media companies, no, such would be the same as exonerating big tobacco for what they do.
by theamk | 2026-01-20 04:21:59+00:00
What if your computer, which runs your password manager, is compromised? If the malware has system access, it can often export all the passwords. Depending on level of protection and OS, this could require kernel access, root access, a regular user access or maybe just a hijacked browser extension.

This leaks every single password in the vault, including any TOTP keys - so if you were storing your TOTP password here, you are now screwed, and attacker has a full access. On the other hand, if your TOTP was a separate device, your TOTP-protected accounts are fine. And even if it's just an app on your phone, you are likely still fine, as phones have much stronger isolation, and people don't usually "npm install" random stuff on them.

(And that's Google Authenticator adding cloud backup functionality is such a bad idea.. If you enable it, then all your 2FAs are leaked once Google password is leaked)

(You could argue that your password manager stores TOTP secrets in secure enclave and it's impossible to extract from there... but those same secrets have to be stored in your account as well, and they could be extracted from there)
by nl | 2026-01-20 04:24:19+00:00
One of the interesting things to me about this is that Codex 5.2 found the most complex of the exploits.

The reflects my experience too. Opus 4.5 is my everyday driver - I like using it. But Codex 5.2 with Extra High thinking is just a bit more powerful.

Also despite what people say, I don't believe progress in LLM performance is slowing down at all - instead we are having more trouble generating tasks that are hard enough, and the frontier tasks they are failing at or just managing are so complex that most people outside the specialized field aren't interested enough to sit through the explanation.
by popalchemist | 2026-01-20 04:25:10+00:00
Agreed with everything you said! Somewhere in the last 10 years, Silicon Valley has gone full swing in support of "say whatever gets you the result you need, even if it's outright misleading, propaganda, or a lie" (I'm looking at you Sam Altman). Corporations always tend toward fascism, their agendas are aligned.
by phs318u | 2026-01-20 04:25:47+00:00
GDP per capita is irrelevant to the benefits of being the world's reserve currency. You could search for it yourself but I'll do you a favour. Having the US$ be the world's reserve currency means the US government can borrow far more and on more favourable terms than other countries. It's why your country seems immune to the consequences of an ever-spiralling debt burden.

In addition, having the world's trade be denominated in US$ makes it incredibly easy for the US government to apply economic pressure to bear on other countries.

This is a privilege that few other countries share in any meaningful way.
by roncesvalles | 2026-01-20 04:26:08+00:00
What we need is a programming language that defines the diff to be applied upon the existing codebase to the same degree of unambiguity as the codebase itself.

That is, in the same way that event sourcing materializes a state from a series of change events, this language needs to materialize a codebase from a series of "modification instructions". Different models may materialize a different codebase using the same series of instructions (like compilers), or say different "environmental factors" (e.g. the database or cloud provider that's available). It's as if the codebase itself is no longer the important artifact, the sequence of prompts is. You would also use this sequence of prompts to generate a testing suite completely independent of the codebase.
by raybb | 2026-01-20 04:26:31+00:00
Do you know if this, or any other launcher for that matter, works well on the latest Android for Pixels? Ever dang launcher I try (Nova included) has this horrible problem where at some point during the day the app launcher becomes a wasteland of blanked out apps with no names and no order. Only fix is to restart the phone. It got a little better with Android 16 but not much.
by nl | 2026-01-20 04:26:55+00:00
> My understanding/experience is that LLM performance in a language scales with how well the language is represented in the training data.

This isn't really true. LLMs understand grammars really really well. If you have a grammar for your language the LLM can one-shot perfect code.

What they don't know is the tooling around the language. But again, this is pretty easily fixed - they are good at exploring cli tools.
by etempleton | 2026-01-20 04:27:38+00:00
Porsche / Audi are selling a lot more cars then they were 10-15 years ago. I think they will be okay. Chinese brands will cut into all establish automaker sales, but the German cars have strong brands that symbolize luxury. Look at Land Rover. There are cars are completely unreliable and they are selling more than ever at increasingly ludicrous prices.

I agree with you, but luxury car manufactures largely sell leases. So they are designing their cars for that market.
by piccirello | 2026-01-20 04:28:12+00:00
The docs explicitly describe this cloud's independence from the US.

> The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be capable of operation without dependency on global AWS systems so that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will remain viable for operating workloads indefinitely even in the face of exceptional circumstances that could isolate the AWS European Sovereign Cloud from AWS resources located outside the EU, such as catastrophic disruption of transatlantic communications infrastructure or a military or geopolitical crisis threatening the sovereignty of EU member states.
by cellis | 2026-01-20 04:28:42+00:00
The “hard enough” tasks are all behind IP walls. If it’s a “hard enough” that generally means it’s a commercial problem likely involving disparate workflows and requiring a real human who probably isn’t a) inclined and/or b) permitted, to publish the task. The incentives are aligned to capture all value from solving that task as long as possible and only then publish.
by colechristensen | 2026-01-20 04:28:44+00:00
The "radical left" stayed home in the presidential election, 9 million of them decided Harris wasn't radical enough for them so they would rather not vote, giving Trump the 2.3 million vote popular margin. Of course electoral analysis would be a lot more complex, I'm not doing that.

Elected democrats are stuck between trying to appease the radical left and trying to actually govern along with republicans and those two are very incompatible goals because the radical left knows very little about actual government policy and just has a couple of very narrow issues that most of the country opposes that their social bubble convinces them are the only important issues in this country.

Democrats lost the last election because of the radicals AND didn't get any of their goals done. Democrats needed a more centrist charismatic leader and instead they keep nominating candidates who "deserve" the nomination opposed to the actual will of the people OR continue nominating ancient relics who needed to retire a decade earlier... 6 of whom died in office over a period of 13 months in a period where every vote counted.

In short, I blame stupid leftist radicals and corrupt self-interested Democratic cowards in office for our current situation.
by reed1234 | 2026-01-20 04:28:46+00:00
"The gpt-audio model is our first generally available audio model. It accepts audio inputs and outputs, and can be used in the Chat Completions REST API."

gpt-audio pricing (1M):

text input $2.50, text output $10.00

audio input $32.00, audio output $64.00

gpt-audio-mini pricing (1M):

text input $0.60, text output $2.40

audio input $10.00, audio output $20.00
by tw1984 | 2026-01-20 04:29:13+00:00
> There is (so far) nothing 'open' about RISC-V.

with the majority players being Chinese vendors (those you can buy, not including those building RISC-V for their own in-house applications), RISC-V is far less open than ARM or x64.

expecting openness from Chinese vendors is like trying to hook up with some virgin bar girls in your favourite gogo bar in Bangkok.
by protocolture | 2026-01-20 04:30:14+00:00
>Then I think you see an early indication not just of electric car dominance, but of the (very potential) rise of China as the premier automotive super power.

I thought we were there already tbh. Chinese cars have gone from laughably bad to quality parity in less than a decade. Like even 2 years ago, I was still hearing "the paint the paint" as the last remaining issue. But I dont hear that anymore.
Show HN: Saile – credential once, work anywhere for clinicians
by mayoub1 | 2026-01-20 04:30:57+00:00
I’m a neurocritical care physician building Saile, a platform that turns repetitive hospital credentialing into a reusable, verified profile.

Today, every hospital separately verifies a clinician’s licenses, training, and work history. Even if you’re fully vetted at one site, you usually redo the 60–120 day process at the next, which stalls staffing and keeps patients waiting for care.

Saile lets clinicians create a reusable profile (licenses, documents, work history) that facilities can re-use across gigs. The goal is to cut onboarding time, reduce reliance on slow/high‑markup staffing agencies, and make it easier for hospitals to fill gaps while clinicians keep flexible, multi‑site careers.

Would love feedback on:
– What you’d need to trust a “credential once, work many places” model
– Any obvious technical/privacy pitfalls in this approach
– Ideas for bootstrapping the first hospital + clinician pairs

Happy to answer any questions about credentialing pain, staffing, or the product.
by triceratops | 2026-01-20 04:31:31+00:00
> In any case in the context of US civil rights, the Indians (native) are a far more reasonable conclusion than Indian (Asian)

Why? There's a very direct link between India and the US civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_visit_by_Martin_Luther_Ki...

I understand your confusion and I didn't downvote you. But the answer to "Which Indian?" is at the very least a coin flip in this context.
by cml123 | 2026-01-20 04:31:45+00:00
Classical Chinese had a much larger phonemic inventory than modern Mandarin, and notably no tones. Below are a collection of Classical Chinese reconstructions in IPA that are all pronounced yì in Mandarin today. (like "ee" for English speakers). The creation of tones and other sound changes were fairly predictable, so as you say, the hints often still help today.

- ŋjajs 議; 'discuss'
- ŋjət 仡; 'powerful'
- ʔjup 邑; 'city'
- ʔjək 億; '100 million'
- ʔjəks 意; 'thought'
- ʔjek 益; 'increase'
- ʔjik 抑; 'press down'
- jak 弈; 'Go'
- ljit 逸; 'flee'
- ljək 翼; 'wing'
- ljek 易; 'change'
- ljeks 易; 'easy'
- slek 蜴; 'lizard'
by randerson | 2026-01-20 04:32:53+00:00
The E-GMP Hyundai/Kia EV platform is also unreliable. Around 1 in every 50 of these cars will suddenly lose power while driving due to ICCU failure. Search any forum for the EV6 or Ioniq 5 and this is all over. Mine broke down and got towed back to the shop so many times, where it sat for ages because my dealer was sharing a single EV-qualified tech with 2 other dealers. I eventually had the car Lemon Law'd. As far as I know this issue is still unsolved after 4+ years. (The software recall made no difference.) I loved the car when it was working though.
by zozbot234 | 2026-01-20 04:33:42+00:00
Being the world's reserve currency just means that institutional investors around the world perceive U.S.-based assets as inherently more reliable, which leads to extra demand for these assets. That can degrade a lot quicker than you might expect when you see things like the current administration pressuring the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to lower rates and create more inflation, in direct violation of a very clear Congressional mandate.
by jkh99 | 2026-01-20 04:34:12+00:00
Thanks for all of the comments!

Quick reaction:

1. Nanolang is a total thought experiment. The key word its description is "experimental" - whether it's a Good experiment or a Bad experiment can be argued either way, especially by language purists!

2. Yes, it's a total Decorator Crab of a language. An unholy creation by Dr Frankenstein, yes! Those criticisms are entirely merited. It wasn't designed, it accreted features and was a fever dream I couldn't seem to stop having. I should probably take my own temperature.

3. I like prefix notation because my first calculator was an HP calculator (the HP 41C remains, to this day, my favorite calculator of ALL TIME). I won't apologize for that, but I DO get that it's not everybody's cup of tea! I do, however, use both vi and emacs now.

Umm. I think that about covers it. All of this LLM stuff is still incredibly young to me and I'm just firing a shotgun into the dark and listening to hear if I hit anything. It's going to be that way for a while for all of us until we figure out what works and what does not!

- jkh
by protocolture | 2026-01-20 04:34:46+00:00
No its the other way. In 4x4 They cannibalised the GM-Holden Colorado chassis production line in Thailand when GM exited that market, have refitted it with chinese made electronics and shell, and have complete quality parity. Actually a few people think the engine is better, and I am forced to agree. One of the colorado downstream models I tested had a better turning circle. They also tend to pack in all the "extras" other brands put on as standard. Consumers face a choice between cheaper and better vs tried and true brand loyalty. And brand loyalty has a limit tbh.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-20 04:35:08+00:00
> A court cannot put a CEO in jail just because partner businesses do not follow his orders.

In the US, rule of law does not matter any more in practice. That is the problem. You can't even say it's "rule by mob" - at least the mob had an honor codex, the current administration doesn't give a single flying fuck about anything any more. Might makes right.
by zahlman | 2026-01-20 04:35:33+00:00
> Everything the user account posts immediately gets marked as dead

Yes, that's one of the standard ways that HN deals with troublesome users.

Seeing that sort of thing is the price you pay to see everything, when you turn showdead on.

In general, this sort of thing is probably better dealt with by email. My experience has been that the mods are very polite and well-reasoned in that channel.
by intended | 2026-01-20 04:35:36+00:00
Having moderated both PHP forums and SM sites, quantity is its own quality.

Not to mention we have adversaries to contend with now. I still remember seeing Palantir slides for sock puppet management tools way back in the day. That was the SOTA at one point. Today?

SM pushed connected humanity past a critical connected mass that Usenet and IRC never could.
by sevenseacat | 2026-01-20 04:36:39+00:00
UI libraries are hard :(

(and that's not sarcasm)

This makes me want to go back to the Tailwind days of `@apply` - usually we end up with crazy overcomplicated HTML markup because we want every part of the styling to be customizable, so you need to add in a way to add user classes to every HTML element. Or you could just define a reasonable HTML structure and let users go wild with `@apply`
by spookie | 2026-01-20 04:36:51+00:00
Adding source for this:

Transcribed (not translated): https://www.senat.fr/compte-rendu-commissions/20250609/ce_co...

Video: https://videos.senat.fr/video.5460497_6847c70b82594

Reports by third parties:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_c...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/micro...

Edit/note: The main point AWS makes is indeed by whom/where this offering is operated. But, Microsoft stated that even though they made an environment so that the data lives entirely within the EU they may be compelled to transmit the data back.
by James_K | 2026-01-20 04:36:53+00:00
RSS is signed because it's served over HTTPS which involves an SSL certificate exchange. It is also real time. You fetch the feed and get the most up to date content on it. You can host any XML document you want on your website and there are W3C recommended standards that allow the integration of rich data structures within web pages.

The sole interesting part of ATProto is the aggregation part, which can also be solved in the same way with existing web technologies, that is a web indexer. Google allows you to set up notifications whenever a link is created to your website, which is essentially the unique offering of AT. None of the ideas it presents are new, but they are all incompatible with existing Web technologies. That is why I dislike it. I already have a website. I already have a set of RSS feeds that I follow. I do not want another website hosted on a strange and convoluted service in a bajillion different JSON records when there is a folder of XML on my computer called “my-website” which I can copy to any server and have all I need. Yet, in the name of a federated internet, the BSky folks have herded people away from the real distributed internet and into a crappy Twitter knockoff. Perhaps there are some business-unaware programmers very passionate about the idea of a distributed web and I commend them for that but it already exists and, in every real aspect, they are harming it. If this ATProto thing is successful in its goals, it will cause much inconvenience to me and greatly diminish my ability to publish my works on the internet.
by csomar | 2026-01-20 04:38:03+00:00
China's 2025 numbers are out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_veh...

They're up roughly 10% over last year and will likely hit 35% of global production. The big shift over the last decade (beyond their growing market share) is that their overall quality has caught up to (and in many cases surpassed) the traditional incumbents.

Barring a global war, I think they're unstoppable at this point.
by brunoborges | 2026-01-20 04:38:15+00:00
> None of them are using voice assistants.

Rich people will literally just talk to their executive assistants and just ask what they want. They may use phone calls, voice mails, emails, and text. But you'd be crazy to argue that they never use just voice with their IRL assistants.

Your point is that voice is a terrible interface to get something done.
My point is that some people have the privilege to use voice to get something done.

Some companies are just trying to remove the human who is taking the voice command and replacing with AI.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-20 04:39:11+00:00
Sure, you are likely correct, but I didn't really say anything about that.

All I did was try to see past all the nonsense in the news and try to observe actions.

In a way they have forced EU to do part of what they wanted: take security more seriously and signing some sort of "deal" allows everyone to walk away.

This was a really dumb way to go about it but Trump does not do smart politics. The long term mess will be inherited by his successor and they will be blamed for it.
by mednosis | 2026-01-20 04:40:02+00:00
Hi HN, Author here.

We've been building a routing engine for NYC that treats "Safety" as a cost function similar to "Traffic" or "Distance."

To do this, we had to ingest and normalize about 2M+ crime data points and correlate them with the NYC LION street grid.

One of the most surprising findings from the data was this "Last Mile" risks for logistics: 33% of auto thefts happen when the car is running. It turns out that standard optimization algorithms often inadvertently route expensive assets through high-risk corridors that local drivers would instinctively avoid.

The post details our data sources (NYPD, OpenData) and the visualization. Happy to answer any questions on the data pipeline!
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2026-01-20 04:41:31+00:00
They haven't been solved on the web. Mobile phones have to authenticate themselves with the carrier to ensure someone is paying for their connectivity. Therefore they can't be anonymous. On the other hand, indeed, most of the time you don't have to identify yourself to connect to a web server — but once you have connected, you may face a paywall that requires authentication! Also, you are certainly authenticating yourself somehow with your ISP for your home internet connection.
by kcplate | 2026-01-20 04:41:34+00:00
> Let's say you live in an apartment building and your landlord locks you out and keeps you belongings. Police say it’s not their problem. Courts decide that they don't aare either. So now you have no recourse or body to complain to.

If all of the enforcement bodies and normal legal peaceful channels available to you don’t agree with your assessment there is probably a “why”. If the reason that your property was seized is because you chose to not pay your rent, then I am not sure understanding, sympathy, or joining in violence would be an appropriate response.
by nulone | 2026-01-20 04:41:41+00:00
Solid primitive. Two questions:

1. Crash edge case: If an agent executes a side-effect and dies before signing the receipt, is that action orphaned? Any WAL-style intent/completion model?

2. Multi-step workflows: Do receipts chain natively (parent pointers/Merkle) or via external linking? (I see storage/ledgers are out of scope, but curious about the linkage design.)

The negative proof angle (proving AI didn't touch prod) is compelling for compliance.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-20 04:41:54+00:00
It's instructive to compare the wealthiest nations in Europe, with the largest colonial-era European empires. There is not much overlap.

Wealthiest countries in Europe: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, San Marino, Sweden...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu...

Largest European colonial empires: Britain, Russia, Spain, France, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Belgium...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires#Empire...

Some historians believe that once you account for the costs of subjugation and development, empire is not usually net profitable for the sovereign. Basically just a gigantic monument to the ruler's ego.

As Carl Sagan put it: Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
by greatgib | 2026-01-20 04:44:44+00:00
What you say doesn't make any sense.

The ad appears in search result. So "search by title". Not like having fun "wandering randomly" in the app store...

Probably not the best place to troll iphone vs android, but you are probably mind fucked by apple coolaid because so far there are both good and bad sides of both android and iOS. But iOS has a lot of things really fucked and missing or broken features compared to Android.

Just recently you had this nice "liquid glass" making apps unreadable/unusable with semi transparent buttons on top of random UI elements...

Still they clearly can charge whatever they want, that is not the question, the point is that nowadays you can buy the product with the highest margin and still not expect an experience without ad and fucked up interface dark patterns.

In the same way, whatever price you pay for a tv set, it is becoming harder and harder to get one from a major brand that we not screw you with hidden telemetry or forced ads or unwanted features...