MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-30 00:32:34+00:00
On the contrary, it's impossible to trust Amazon not to be evil, because eventually some suit with an MBA is going to go "we can make 0.001% more money this year by having orphans hand-deliver packets across the freeway, frogger style. What are people going to do, leave? Where else will they host their application built around our proprietary FireHouse LightWave Message Comorbidifier?"

On the other hand, I can trust Gary. Gary's personally responsible for GaryHosting, and he obviously takes that role seriously, given he slapped his name on the front. And if Gary fails, I can just switch to a different provider. Gary doesn't have a moat, he sells a commodity. His only advantage in this world is treating his customers well enough that they don't leave.
by Muromec | 2026-01-30 00:32:43+00:00
>We're building around signed authorization artifacts instead. Each delegation is scoped and signed, chains are verifiable end-to-end. Deterministic layer to constrain the non-deterministic nature of LLMs.

Ah, I get it. So the token can be downscoped to be passed, like the pledge thing, so sub agent doesn't exceed the scope of it's parent. I have a feeling, that it's like cryptography in general -- you get one problem and reduce it to key management problem.

In a more practical sense, if the non-deterministic layer decides what the reduced scope should be, all delegations can become "Allow: *" in the most pathological case, right? Or like play store, where a shady calculator app can have a permission to read your messages. Somebody has to review those and flag excessive grants.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-30 00:32:46+00:00
I dunno if DSL-based ISPs were going to last in the US. I mean, in a big country the range limits of DSL make it hard to compete with cable. I get 20Mbps at my location with fiber-to-the-node, but people a few miles down the road get 10x that speed with Time Warner cable for the same price. In some place like the Netherlands or South Korea it might be different, but not here.
by leguminous | 2026-01-30 00:33:01+00:00
I disagree. There are some new (sub-) genres and great games since that period.

* Roguelites have proliferated: Hades is the most obvious example, but there are a variety of sub-genres at this point.

* Vampire Survivors (itself a roguelite) spawned survivors-likes. Megabonk is currently pretty popular.

* Slay the Spire kicked off a wave of strategy roguelites.

* There are "cozy" games like Unpacking.

* I don't recall survival games like Subnautica or Don't Starve being much of a thing in the PS2 era.

* There are automation games like Factorio and Satisfactory.

* Casual mobile games are _huge_.

* There are more experimental games, sometimes in established genres, like Inscription, Undertale, or Baba Is You.

Not to mention that new games in existing genres can be great. Hollow Knight is a good example. Metroidvanias were established by the SNES and PS1 era, but Hollow Knight really upped the stakes.

I'm sure I'm forgetting things and people will have some criticism, but I really don't believe games have stagnated in general.
by s0rce | 2026-01-30 00:33:55+00:00
Random events are the worst. I was driving through Bend, OR and planned to grab a hotel room but everything was completely booked. Ended up just driving up a random forest road (public land, legal to camp) and sleeping in my tent. Was walking around with my headlamp in the night and some cops came by and asked what I was up to since people are often doing drugs there. Great. They came by and woke me up during the night again and I asked them to please keep record that I'm not up to anything so I could sleep.
by thedufer | 2026-01-30 00:34:07+00:00
> Can't log in when standing up

This reminds me of a recent issue I had. I had just gotten a new laptop from IT. While picking it up from them, I had generated myself a password, put it in my password manager on my phone, and then entered it twice to set it on the laptop. Everything worked great. But when I got back to my desk, the password didn't work! I tried a bunch of times, watched myself hit each key to eliminate typos, etc.

I went back to IT and they asked me to demonstrate. But this time it worked! I walked back to my desk, thoroughly embarrassed. But a couple hours later I had to log in again and once again could not.

After thinking about it for awhile, I realized that I was typing at IT while standing over a sitting-height desk. Sure enough, typing in that position fixed my issue. I carefully watched what I was doing this time - something about the exact layout of the keyboard and the weird angle I was typing at ensured that I was making a particular typo I typed in that position - just a single letter switched to another, every time. Sure enough, making that one substitution to my intended password got me in.
by smrtinsert | 2026-01-30 00:35:39+00:00
Are people running into mismatched code vs project a lot? I've worked on python and java codebases with claude code and have yet to run into a version mismatch issue. I think maybe once it got confused on the api available in python, but it fixed it by itself. From other blog posts similar to this it would seem to be a widespread problem, but I have yet to see it as a big problem as part of my day job or personal projects.
by OJFord | 2026-01-30 00:36:52+00:00
It's not for that, the hype's not from SWEs, it's the next wave of tech savviness seeing some of what's possible (/riding up that peak before disillusionment trough).

There's nothing new, it's 'just' conveniently packaged for the gamers and /r/battlestation owners and distro-ricing crowd to install and run. There'll be similar hype waves where they too are confused because nothing's new when it's easy enough for our not-technically-inclined older relatives etc. to run somehow (not from GitHub!).
by siavosh | 2026-01-30 00:37:32+00:00
I’m not claiming CEOs are legally required to chase every conceivable revenue dollar or that they’d lose a lawsuit if they don’t. Corporate law doesn’t work that way, and no serious person thinks it does.

What does exist is a well-understood governance and incentive regime: boards evaluate CEOs on long-term shareholder value, compensation is tied to financial performance, and strategic restraint has to be justified in those terms. That doesn’t require lawsuits, and it doesn’t require explicit mandates. It’s how large public companies are run.

The fact that Apple could charge 50% and chooses not to doesn’t refute this — it just shows that extraction is constrained by regulation, backlash, and platform risk. But once those constraints weaken, dominant platforms reliably increase extraction. That’s an empirical pattern, not a legal theory.
by lmm | 2026-01-30 00:37:41+00:00
> Does it actually work though?

Yes. They have made steady progress over the previous decades to the point where they can now have years with zero road fatalities.

> And putting obstacles in the road so you cant see if someone is there? That sounds really dangerous and exactly the sort of thing that caused the accident in the story here.

Counterintuitive perhaps, but it's what works. Humans adjust their behaviour to the level of perceived risk, the single most important thing is to make driving feel as dangerous as it is.
by jmward01 | 2026-01-30 00:37:49+00:00
The ethics of life and death are murky at best. When is it acceptable? 6 months to live? 1 year to live? 5 years? What is the cut point? The answer is, there isn't a clear answer. Yes, that is a cop out, but it is also true. I agree with allowing people of sound mind to make informed healthcare decisions towards the end of their lives that involve high risk. but I would be wary of weakening the process too much. We should have a push-back because people in these positions are exceptionally vulnerable and therefore easy to take advantage of and, even worse, likely to be unable to defend against abuse for very long. Weakening this process would likely lead to drug companies doing what they always do, abuse their position for money. Why even go to expensive traditional trials? Just give some promising, cherry picked, results in a press release and now people are coming to you signing every waiver and paying their last penny to live next to the trial that will kill them because the drug wasn't even close to ready. I would likely feel very different if I was near death, but that is the point isn't it? Again, I'm not saying this shouldn't be an option. I just think it needs a lot of scrutiny and a high level of skepticism.
by zamalek | 2026-01-30 00:38:31+00:00
If you have trip insurance and your sleeping over is "an act of god", you have a high chance of qualifying for one of the in-airport bed businesses. It's been a few years so I forget the name, but an actual bed is really amazing. I can't remember what it would have cost us, but I do recall was on the very edge of what I would have considered paying myself - so worth looking at even if your layover was planned.
by jasonfarnon | 2026-01-30 00:39:20+00:00
I don't remember any of these being "driven" by porn. The first applications weren't porn-based. Maybe live video--a split second after seeing the tech for the first time, probably 99% of guys were thinking of _applying_ it to porn. But, even for the usual money-grubbing startups, there was plenty of money coming from non-porn sources. Probably no different than the invention of camera, tv, videocamera, etc. and you wouldn't say porn drove that.
by kulahan | 2026-01-30 00:39:47+00:00
You would destroy any inheritance your family might get, or which could be donated to a cause saving a dozen lives, over a 5% chance you don’t die from cancer specifically, which might make you feel unbearably bad until you DO die? Like much worse than you already feel? That’s insanely irrational.

Edit: and all of this is before the psychological implications of knowing your time is almost up. People would rather have burnt skin removed by a painful grinder than painless maggots because bugs and being eaten are so psychologically scarring most people won’t even consider it until they experience the pain of the flesh grinder work. People won’t think rationally anyways until it’s much too late.
by abustamam | 2026-01-30 00:40:06+00:00
These are one of those things that are hard to get statistics of due to the nature of the subject, but going to any website that features AI generated content like CivitAI will show you a lot more naked AI generated women than men, and that the images of women are greatly better in quality than the men. None of the people actually exist, of course, but some things stem from this:

1. There are probably AI portals that are OK with uploading nonconsensual sexual images of people. I am not about to go looking for those, but the ratio of women to men on those sites is likely similar.
2. The fact that the quality of women is better than the quality of men speaks to vastly more training being done on women
3. Because there's so much training on women it's just easier to use AI for nefarious purposes on women than men (have to find custom trained LORAs to get male anatomy right, for example).

I did try to look for statistics out of curiosity, but most just cite a number without evidence.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/women-face-new-sexual-hara...

https://verfassungsblog.de/deepfakes-ncid-ai-regulation/

https://www.csis.org/analysis/left-shoulder-worries-ai
by Sharlin | 2026-01-30 00:41:05+00:00
The phrasal verb "blow up" can be either transitive or intransitive.

"The bus blew up" is a perfectly active clause. "The bus" is the subject, it did its own blowing-up.

"The bus was blown up" is a passive clause. "The bus" is the object, some unnamed entity acted on the bus.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-30 00:41:21+00:00
> I don't remember any of these being "driven" by porn.

That's ok.

> The first applications weren't porn-based.

They most definitely were, it is just that you are not aware of it. There runs a direct line from the 1-900 phone industry to the internet adult industry, those guys had money like water and they spent a fortune on these developments. Not all of them worked out but quite a few of them did and as a result those very same characters managed to grab a substantial chunk of early internet commerce.
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-30 00:41:54+00:00
>If GM killed it to keep it from succeeding

They didn't, and this is just absurd.

Not only were electric cars available since the very beginning of cars, but they've always been available as niche options. There are tens of electric cars that postdate the EV1 and predate the Tesla. Do you even know their names?

We have stupidly cheap gas. An electric car has only ever been a curiosity for America. Even now, the primary driver of people buying electric cars is ideological, and a mild convenience of never having to go to a gas station.

Pre-lithium battery electric cars are a huge hassle, for very little gain, even outside the US. The history of cars is a global one, and no amount of conspiracy theory about GM can counter the fact that nobody else made electric cars either, even in places with drastically more expensive and unreliable gasoline.

They have always been a novelty, like hydrogen and LPG and compressed gas engines.

Hybrids were the closest anyone got to making older battery chemistries meaningful for car-style transportation, and even that was extremely limited.
by Arch485 | 2026-01-30 00:43:27+00:00
As someone who is currently looking for a job, I don't like this idea.

All this does is increase the effort and barrier to entry to apply for a job. This is not a good thing. Applying to jobs is already time consuming as it is; nobody wants more hoops to jump through.

I understand that recruiters/hiring managers/whatever get a lot of junk applications, but frankly, it is your job to sort through them. You are paid to do this.

Could the hiring/job seeking process be better? Yes, absolutely. Currently, it's terrible, and almost everyone involved is making it worse. But the solution is not mailing job applications.
by subscribed | 2026-01-30 00:43:47+00:00
Now can you explain how do you replace Service Now (service management tool cursed with the ticketing system) with a flat text file.

If it's a compelling proposal, I might share it in my company. I'll make sure to credit you in the document.

Of course in line with your radical complexity savings, I expect the comprehensive proposal to be at most one paragraph long :)
by clickety_clack | 2026-01-30 00:43:58+00:00
Engineers to a _lesser_ extent? Maybe software engineers, but for every other engineer, theres very tangible results and they absolutely get sued when things go wrong, and the governing bodies strip engineers of their licenses for malpractice all the time.

Source: I used to be a geotechnical engineer and left it because of the ridiculous personal risk you take on for the salary you get.
by etothepii | 2026-01-30 00:44:28+00:00
The sleepwear in First Class is by far the most bizarre thing about the whole experience.

I've never understood why First and Business Class that are so clearly mainly used by people travelling for work don't focus more on the business aspect. British Airways call it "Club" which I'm sure can only make it harder to be approved by finance. American call it "First".

In the main lounges provided by American Airlines there is often a person whose job it is to provide unlimited champagne but not a comfortable place to respond to emails.
by b1temy | 2026-01-30 00:44:29+00:00
I used to really like this software, and I still do. But there were a couple of dealbreakers for me.

1) As others mentioned, Wayland support. But it seems that it's gotten a lot better since I last used it. I resisted using Wayland for a long time because of several software breaking, but I've switched over now that most of the things I use now work (or because I've stopped using things that don't work).

2) it was broken for me with fractional scaling. This is the main reason why I switched, I started using fractional scaling on my second monitor and could not properly fix it for the life of me. I haven't tested it recently, but I just checked, and the github issue seems to still be open. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564
by waynesonfire | 2026-01-30 00:45:14+00:00
> with only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT‑4o each day.

LOL WHAT?! I'm 0.1% of users? I'm certain part of the issue is it takes 3-clicks to switch to GPT-4o and it has to be done each time the page is loaded.

> that they preferred GPT‑4o’s conversational style and warmth.

Uh.. yeah maybe. But more importantly, GPT-4o gave better answers.

Zero acknowledgement about how terrible GPT-5 was when it was first released. It has since improved but it's not clear to me it's on-par with GPT-4o. Thinking mode is just too slow to be useful and so GPT-4o still seems better and faster.

Oh well, it'll be missed.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-01-30 00:45:28+00:00
Ah, I'm always up for a tangent.

The boring answer from Capt. Obvious. Incentive alignment.

That said, WebAssembly might be the trojan horse. While it started as a browser compile target, WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) is extending it beyond browsers into filesystem, networking, etc. etc. etc.

Fingers crossed, we may get cross-platform standards by accident.
by bri3d | 2026-01-30 00:46:20+00:00
Yeah, at least in the case of most Naughty Dog games the main ELF binary is in itself a little binary format loader that fixes up and relocates proprietary binaries (compiled GOAL LISP) as they are streamed in by the IOP. It would probably be a bit pointless to recompile Naughty Dog games this way anyway though; since the GOAL compiler didn’t do a lot of optimization, the original code can be recovered fairly effectively (OpenGOAL) and recompiled from that source.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-01-30 00:46:57+00:00
VAT doesn't exist in the US (and sales tax, which we do have, is more like 5-10% of sale cost), so are you talking about something specific to tech companies in Germany or the UK or something?

Not that everything has to be about the US, but it's weird to make a claim about the tech market as a whole that doesn't apply to its biggest single region.
by niyikiza | 2026-01-30 00:47:06+00:00
Right, the non-deterministic layer can't be the one deciding scope. That's the human's job at the root.

The LLM can request a narrower scope, but attenuation is monotonic and enforced cryptographically. You can't sign a delegation that exceeds what you were granted. TTL too: the warrant can't outlive its parent.

So yes, key management. But the pathological "Allow: *" has to originate from a human who signed it. That's the receipt you're left holding.

You're poking at the right edges though. UX for scope definition and revocation propagation are what we're working through now. We're building this at tenuo.dev if you want to dig in the spec or poke holes.
by mattlondon | 2026-01-30 00:47:24+00:00
I think the humans in London at least do not adjust their behaviour for the perceived risk!

From experience they will adjust their behaviour to reduce their total travel time as much as possible (i.e. speed to "make up" for lost time waiting etc) and/or "win" against other drivers.

I guess it is a cultural thing. But I cannot agree that making it harder to see people in the road is going to make anything safer. Even a robot fucking taxi with lidar and instant reaction times hit a kid because they were obscured by something.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-30 00:48:45+00:00
I think you are missing one of the key point of the article. Some census are indeed fake, as in falsified not as in uncertain, because population is used to allocate resources and as a proxy for power and there is therefore a strong interest in falsifying them.

That's why somme statistics look weird. That's also why things heavily relying on demographic data need to be question. It's particularly significant when it comes to green house gas emissions for example and climate modeling.
by defrost | 2026-01-30 00:49:05+00:00
"We" (here in W.Australia) got sued by a US company for doing math once - took six years of legal back and forth to "win", eight years out of people's lives from disruption, and essentially destroyed a company that innovated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Reso....
by WillAdams | 2026-01-30 00:49:12+00:00
Given that if one has the G-code for two nested circles with a couple of tool changes and if run on a subtractive CNC machine in metric mode it could make a small metal washer, while if run on a machine w/ a tool changer in Imperial mode it might make a lamp base, I don't see how such a tool could work.

Moreover, in order to make the comparison, it will be necessary to have a compleat list of 3D models of parts --- who will assemble this list? How will it be secured and encrypted so that the 3D models are not used for making weapons? who will write the software which takes G-code and from it derives the 3D model of what is intended to be made --- the industry has been trying to arrive at this for decades and if someone could do this, it would involve the writing of multiple PhD dissertations, and I suspect be the subject of a Turing Award, and probably a Fields Medal --- and that leaves off the simple matter of intentional obfuscation, consider the G-code for a pair of nested circles with a couple of tool changes, on one machine in metric, it might make a washer, on another machine set to Imperial it might make a lamp base.

If these people wanted to pass a reasonable bit of legislation which actually achieved what they claim that they are trying to do, it would be worded something along the lines of, "Felons, or persons convicted of misdemeanor domestic abuse who are barred by statute from owning firearms are required to have an approval mechanism in place on their 3D printers and other CNC machines where before any part is made, their parole officer must review and then approve it for manufacture. In the absence of such a mechanism, they are not allowed to own such devices.", but they don't, they want to ban firearms en toto and don't understand the knock-on effects of this, witness Haiti trying to put a serial number on every plumbing fixture in the country.
by pornel | 2026-01-30 00:49:12+00:00
The safety bar is way way higher.

The C++ WG keeps looking down at C and the old C++ sins, sees their unsafety, and still thinks that's the problem to fix.

Rust looks the same way at modern C++. The std collections and smart pointers already existed before the Rust project has been started. Modern C++ is the safety failure that motivated creation of Rust.
Show HN: Cwt – Sandbox AI coding agents using Git Worktrees
by hahahacorn | 2026-01-30 00:49:33+00:00
My primary workflow now involves coordinating multiple, independent Claude instances to handle different parts of a codebase simultaneously.

The biggest friction point I found was context switching. I tried manual git worktree management, custom Claude skills, and various wrappers, but they all felt too heavy, slow, or restrictive. I wanted something that solved the overhead of worktree management without trying to "own" my entire development process.

I built cwt to bridge that gap. It is a lightweight TUI that makes it easy to spin up and tear down sandboxed environments for AI agents. It doesn't impose any new abstractions or workflows. It is just git under the hood, so there is zero overhead.

The project is written in Ruby using Ratatui. I’d love to hear how others are managing state when they have four or five different AI "sprints" running on the same repo.
by thenaturalist | 2026-01-30 00:50:49+00:00
People will migrate to Google in light of OpenAI's inability to build anything that makes people want to stay with OpenAI, wouldn't you say?

And, given we're here on HN, have we thrown words like "moat" and "risk" around?

If OpenAI is incapable of building anything that can't be easily copied by a third party, what's their justification for existing?