MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrv | 2026-01-18 19:39:36+00:00
Exactly. Anything that's ever been public on the internet is never really gone anyways, and it's unsafe to assume so. This is similar to publishing a website or a blog post. Plus, from a practical (non-opsec) point of view, you can delete items (posts, likes, reposts, etc.) on ATProto, and those items will disappear from whatever ATProto app you are using - usually even live. You need to dive into the protocol layer to still see deleted items.
by dang | 2026-01-18 19:40:25+00:00
This is standard HN moderation. The title was linkbait, so we changed it.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". Note the unless.

When we do this, we try to find a representative phrase from the article itself that accurately and neutrally represents what the article is about. There is nearly always one of those if you look for it. In this way, we (mostly) avoid having to make up wording of our own, which is something we don't like to do.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by Chris2048 | 2026-01-18 19:41:00+00:00
> if you don't accept the premise that ... is at least legally questionable.

The premise was that this is so obvious that my naivety is funny. But no, you don't want to debate that point - Why would you care to consider otherwise, it's not you losing face if correct.

Here's an uninvited counterpoint anyway:

https://blog.archive.org/2024/03/01/fair-use-in-action-at-th...

You'll also notice that the link in this post (https://archive.is/TajtJ) shows a 'log in' button, implying that log-in credentials where not used (or abused) to get/share this snapshot.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-01-18 19:41:12+00:00
There’s another reason developers will never be replaced.

Expectations always go up. People expect more. Whoever can give it to them will reap the rewards. And that is whoever works out how to do better than the baseline of capability available to all, eg. AI code tools or no-code. Human expertise adds value above a baseline of capability that’s universally available, even if that baseline is rising all the time.

You need better experts than the next mob to even have a chance. And with near-zero distribution costs even marginally better software will trend toward winner take all.
by geoka9 | 2026-01-18 19:41:42+00:00
"European hostility" is not going to matter when there's no EU. No matter how weak, Russia will always be stronger in terms of the number of warm bodies they are ready to throw into the meat grinder than any country in Europe.

UPD: If you don't believe me, look at the European right-wing leaders (including a sitting head of state, Meloni) currently banding up behind Orban, a widely known Putin's shill in Europe.
by sureglymop | 2026-01-18 19:42:09+00:00
Related, I believe Supabase already had bad defaults in the name of convenience way before this.

In the PostgREST docs schema isolation is explained in detail: https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v12/explanations/schema_isolat...

By default, Supabase exposes the public schema directly. This means tables created in the standard public schema are immediately accessible as API endpoints.

The truth is there's just no way around learning about the underlying technology or building up the necessary experience if one wants to create robust and secure software and products. No amount of AI will solve it, sorry, it's a harsh truth.
by roughly | 2026-01-18 19:42:40+00:00
> What's the "salient feature" that's missing?

As it sits, all of the members of your coconut economy are going to be dead of malnutrition or exposure in relatively short order, so maybe address that and then we can work our way up to the flaws in the economic theory that drove the greatest wealth expansion and boom in consumer spending the world has ever seen.
by adefa | 2026-01-18 19:42:58+00:00
I ran a similar experiment last month and ported Qwen 3 Omni to llama cpp. I was able to get GGUF conversion, quantization, and all input and output modalities working in less than a week. I submitted the work as a PR to the codebase and understandably, it was rejected.

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/18404

https://huggingface.co/TrevorJS/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-GGUF
by F7F7F7 | 2026-01-18 19:43:21+00:00
ASAP Rocky has a fervent fanbase who's been anticipating this album. So I'm assuming that whatever record label he's signed to gave him the budget.

And when I think back to another iconic hip hop (iconic that genre) video where they used practical effects and military helicopters chasing speedboats in the waters off of Santa Monica...I bet they had change to spear.
by nkalupahana | 2026-01-18 19:43:33+00:00
The product is SHAPE brand Sheet Glass, and the product description says it is "for use in picture frames, replacement window panes, painting, and other crafts and household projects", which I figured was enough of an endorsement for this use case. Not safety glass, but maybe I'll swap it out if the whiteboard ends up getting a lot of use and I keep it around longer term. This is essentially a prototype, so definitely open to changing things as time goes on.
by moron4hire | 2026-01-18 19:44:14+00:00
This is... I don't know. I don't get why I would care to sling SQL over a file system versus a network socket.

I mean, Postgres could offer an SSH interface as a dumb pipe to psql to just have you push text SQL queries in your application. But it doesn't, it offers a binary protocol over a network socket. All the database engines have had the same decision point and have basically gone down the same path of implementing a wire protocol over a persistent socket connection.

So yeah, I don't get what doing things this way would give me as either a service provider or a service consumer. It looks like video game achievements for OS development nerds, "unlocked 'everything is a file'." But it doesn't look like it actually enables anything meaningful.
by dhumph | 2026-01-18 19:44:36+00:00
This is interesting, and I keep waiting for figma to release prompt to design without going thru Make. It must be touch to crack-or it will hurt their business model. The plug-ins in the space don’t respect components in the toolkit. Curious how far you can push this
“Make a login form using my component library “
“Create no new design layouts of the selected frame”
Can’t wait to try this out!
by phailhaus | 2026-01-18 19:45:05+00:00
I do not understand why this is a big deal. There is no world in which ads are embedded in LLM answers, because you'd need another LLM to determine whether the "placement" was correct and included all the information that the advertiser wanted. They are putting ads on the side, like they've always done, leveraging all the tech that already exists to do this. This is pretty much a no-brainer for OpenAI and any AI company.
by toss1 | 2026-01-18 19:45:19+00:00
The problem discussed in the article was NOT insiders trading on secret information — it is the nearly opposite problem of manipulators trading and skewing the odds.

Insider trading seeks to trade with secret information and minimally obvious trades to avoid moving the markets until their position is locked in, in order to profit when the previously secret information becomes public and the market finally moves to a different price level.

Manipulators seek to move the market to create a false narrative that market-moving info exists when actual market-moving does NOT exist; the expectation is that people will see the price change and ASSUME there is information behind it, when there is actually just a manipulator willing to lose money to create that impression.

In a small market, such manipulation can be more cost-effective (make more of an impression for the same cost) vs buying advertisements.
by beej71 | 2026-01-18 19:45:20+00:00
To quote the article:

"To be clear, we do not believe the solution to these issues is to avoid using LLMs, especially given the undeniable benefits they offer in many contexts. Rather, our message is that people simply need to become smarter or more strategic users of LLMs – which starts by understanding the domains wherein LLMs are beneficial versus harmful to their goals."

And that is also our goal as instructors.

I agree with that study when using an LLM for search. But there's more to life than search.

The best argument I have to why we should not ban LLMs in school is this: students will use it anyway and they will harm themselves. That is reason enough.

So the question becomes, "What do instructors do with LLMs in school so the LLM's effect is at least neutral?"

And this is where we're still figuring it out.
And in my experience, there are things we can do to get there, and then some.
by linsomniac | 2026-01-18 19:45:23+00:00
Somewhat unrelated: If you use epoxy for repairs, particularly of plastics (though I just used some for a wood repair), get yourself some fiberglass tape/fabric to use with it. Sometimes I'll lay the tape over the repair, sometimes I'll cut it up into little fragments and mix it directly in the epoxy (depending on if the epoxy is the bulk of the repair, like filling in a hole, or if I'm trying to repair a crack.

Also, if you are repairing plastic, consider "hot staples". A friend of mine just educated me on that 6 months ago, and I'm using them all the time, a starter kit costs around $50 though. This is a good, quick demo of them: https://youtube.com/shorts/43TDecNqTco?si=xsDJ3n7KMjpg8NVw
by sowbug | 2026-01-18 19:45:38+00:00
But, one silver lining, maybe, is gamblers are a little less likely to fall for fake news. Maybe?

Only in a truth-agnostic sense. Good gamblers in player-banked games (poker; rock, scissors, paper) vs house-banked games (slots) are good at figuring out what the other guy is representing. The actual truth is much less significant.
by danabramov | 2026-01-18 19:45:45+00:00
I'd say some of the worldview is shared but the architecture and ethos is very different. Some major differences:

- AT tries to solve aggregation of public data first. I.e. it has to be able to express modern social media. Bluesky is a proof that it would work in production. AFAIK, Solid doesn't try to solve aggregation, and is focused on private data first. (AT plans private data support but not now.)

- AT embraces "apps describe on their own formats" (Lexicons). Solid uses RDF which is a very different model. My impression is RDF may be more powerful but is a lot more abstract. Lexicon is more or less like *.d.ts for JSON.
by gretch | 2026-01-18 19:45:53+00:00
> it is a disastrously poor use of resources

For it to be a poor use of resources, you have to have some goal you are optimizing against.

And I think you'll come to find that the assumed goal in your head is not one that's widely shared across what people in society actually want.

Okay, maybe the digital ad is a waste of resources. But is it any more of a waste than the gender reveal confetti that it was advertising? How about even the idea of a gender reveal party.

What about an enamel pokemon fridge magnet?

After a very low bar (for 2026), human essentials are taken care of and people mostly want luxury/leisure consumer goods for entertainment.
by enneff | 2026-01-18 19:46:41+00:00
You might consider why this article which has nothing to do with AI as you know it (except for the machine learning aspects of Gaussian splatting), and was produced by a huge team of vfx professionals, has made you think about AI democratising culture (despite the fact that music videos and films have been cheap to make for decades). Don’t just look for opportunities to discuss your favourite talking points.
by moron4hire | 2026-01-18 19:46:52+00:00
From what I've seen, Plan 9 fans turn their noses up at FUSE. They say FUSE is not "it", but don't really seem to explain what "it" is to differentiate it from FUSE.

And as Feynman said, you don't truly understand a thing until you can teach it. So that leaves us in a weird predicament where the biggest proponents of Plan 9 apparently don't understand Plan 9 well enough to teach it to the rest of us.
by Flundstrom2 | 2026-01-18 19:47:07+00:00
For Canada and the Nordic countries, the weather on Greenland is business as usual, for all branches of the military.

My guess is as yours - the US military's focus on middle east and east Asia is of great disadvantage for them. Do they even get below -20 C for any longer periods at any base located on US mainland? Alaska, and some regions close to Canada, perhaps, leaving them with only some 10.000 personnel having anything near arctic experience, majority of which are based at the bases, not trained for front-action in artic climate.

For some real-life insides:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Msfrit12u0M&lc=UgwDlvf-UEzzhBzZJ...

https://youtu.be/DygiGQPGDPY?si=qxE5-7X8PC2eIeZS

https://youtu.be/3pwcZx1_KTA?si=d92vf4kqdDow0a-m
by Jamesbeam | 2026-01-18 19:47:11+00:00
Those people placed their lives in the hands of the U.S. President when he promised that help was on the way. Help never arrived, and they were slaughtered like cattle.

https://time.com/7347090/iran-protesters-trump-help/

For a commander‑in‑chief, as well as the military leadership, I find this behavior dishonorable.

I will always be a friend of the American people, but it gets harder each day to watch the irreparable damage unfold the president is unleashing on the whole planet. Midterms will show what Americans are made off, you still have a choice and a voice. Use it wisely.
by mindslight | 2026-01-18 19:47:13+00:00
If you'd like to understand, there are two things here.

The first is the primary system. Most people inclined to see Trump as extra-bad were prohibited from voting in the Republican primaries, as they were voting in the Democratic primaries (or even worse, because they weren't registered Republicans in states without "open primaries").

The second is that everyone was basically bored and upset with mainstream status-quo politicians. The Republican party specifically had been growing and grooming the monster that would become Trumpism for decades on reactionary talk radio. They'd get people all riled up about immigration, globalism, racial tension, sellout politicians, etc. But then they'd cool them down enough to show up and vote for more status quo Republicans on a vague remnant feeling of Republicans being "better". If you want some discrete datapoints to see the progression of this monster manifesting in popular politics: Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul [0], the Tea Party.

Trump, the New York con artist Democrat, basically just channeled and took personal ownership of all of that reactionary tripe - "saying the quiet part out loud". So how could Rubio defend against that? Rubio was likely often a target of that reactionary talk radio for failing to take some hardline stance, in favor of the pragmatic American status quo.

And so here we are, an entire tribe of the country with no idea how the country actually functioned or what made us a world leader, frustrated and now overrunning the place as an angry mob hell bent on destroying anything they don't understand, which is everything.

[0] I myself was a Ron Paul supporter, but I have to be honest and admit that the energy behind him - rather than staying true to "right-Libertarianism" fundamentalism, transformed into the simplistic populist answers of the Tea Party.
by rpiguy | 2026-01-18 19:47:26+00:00
Oh yeah the coup where no one brought firearms and the only person shot was a protester? The cop who shot Ashley Babbit was given “de facto immunity.” She literally died at the hands of a federal officer. Where was your outrage?

Half the country is outraged that leftists think just because they don’t like immigration law, as it is written and voted for, that it’s okay to obstruct deportations and drive vehicles into innocent ICE officers doing their job.

If Oklahoma declared itself a sanctuary state from unions and declared it didn’t have to adhere labor law would you agree with their right to do so? If Salt Lake City decided to be a sanctuary for polygamy and underage marriage and started obstructing the FBI when they came in to arrest people would you be cheering?

There is no such thing as a sanctuary state or sanctuary city. Imagine the chaos if every city just ignored the laws they don’t like.

Calling each other facists and nazis is just lazy, inaccurate, and an excuse for elevating oneself over ones political opponents.
by b65e8bee43c2ed0 | 2026-01-18 19:47:53+00:00
>I catch myself starting to comment there and then deleting it because I’m worried about going too much against the acceptable narrative for each topic on the site, no matter how gently worded and hedged I make the comment.

but it's exactly the same here. hell, even reddit is less bad - even a thousand other people can't silence you there. how many terminally online powerusers does it take to get a comment [dead] and/or [flagged], three? five? and there are dozens of them in every controversial thread, where the approved opinions are expressed with as much low quality vitriol and snark as they please, while the wrong opinions get shut down no matter how civil and/or factual they might be, silently downvoted or flagged out of existence. I could find a hundred examples from my numerous throwaways, but without being as vague as this, I know I'll just get flagged.

now I often find myself doing the same thing you do - not bothering - and I hate what that means.
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-18 19:48:18+00:00
Individual vigilante action is not the answer. Collectivization, political organization is. Guns are for self-defense and armed conflict. I can't solve this problem on my own, until there is mass collectivization then I'm only an individual and cannot just go around taking on a rogue authoritarian government. That's absurd. Besides, I personally have physical handicaps, I'm not Batman. And I spoke for leftists. I cannot control what other people do. But divisive crap like this is not helping to unify anything.

> I just wish gun owners were honest. You're not here to defend anyone or anything. You just like to make small holes in paper targets.

You literally know nothing about me and are making assumptions about how I think and operate based on a single fact you think you know about me. That is textbook prejudice. All you're doing is showing that you don't understand the point of the Bill of Rights or what checks and balances it takes to uphold a fair government.

I'll pull the Karl Marx quote for you.

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

You have some deprogramming to do.
by dgreensp | 2026-01-18 19:48:22+00:00
I always interpreted cathedral vs bazaar as being about the architecture of large things. Do you build to a master plan? Or does everyone do whatever they want? (Within some kind of framework, of course.) Like the cathedral of the Java SDKs vs the flea market of NPM.

This author seems to have some kind of attitude about organization in general—anything with people and process, that happens to exist around some project, that might require at least a small commitment to be a part of. Like complaining that a flea market has a form to sign.

The ability for people to functionally collaborate, with some kind of structure, is the key thing that enables building large things together.
by ben_w | 2026-01-18 19:48:58+00:00
> I support the US assuming control of Greenland because it would be incredibly economically beneficial to the US, militarily beneficial to the US

You immediately lose all of your NATO allies, and have the potential for an immediate war with not only all of them but also all the non-NATO members of the EU, which includes two independent nuclear powers, and who hold enough assets to cripple your economy both by fire-sale of bonds and even just by ceasing trade with you.
by perfmode | 2026-01-18 19:49:04+00:00
It seems the numerous leaks and trials took their toll.

I don’t disagree with you—I felt “Tailor Swif,” “DMB,” and “Both Eyes Closed” were all stronger than the tracks that made it onto this album.

But sometimes you’ve gotta ship the project in the state it’s in and move on with your life.

Maybe now he can move forward and start working on something new. And perhaps that project will be stronger.
by bvisness | 2026-01-18 19:49:17+00:00
The point is that as a 501(c)(6) we are directly allowed to act in the interests of the software industry, without having to invent a tortured explanation for why benefiting a very lucrative industry is Charity, Actually.

The hope is that people will sponsor us because we directly boost the creation and publishing of high-quality software, and give some measure of benefits to our paying members, which is typical 501(c)(6) stuff.
by Vinnl | 2026-01-18 19:49:32+00:00
Ah, I think you're referring to the account menu, which has been there for a while (indeed with links to Relay, VPN, and Monitor), and to which the profile switcher got added. If you're signed in to your Firefox account, it also includes menu entries to send tabs to different devices, access your tabs from other devices, and update sync settings.

I guess that's true, and that the profile switcher is in a submenu of that menu, so that's one extra click. Still a lot better than the old one though. But I agree that I wouldn't mind the profiles being in the top level menu, especially if you have, say, max. three.
by ricardolive | 2026-01-18 19:49:38+00:00
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Vertical ergonomic mouse (Logitech Lift in my case). My wrist pain disappeared within a few weeks after years of problems (knock on wood).

Kindle Paperwhite (used for < $100).

Drowsy silk sleep mask. It's truly a "buy it for life" item, and it's made a huge difference in my sleep quality.
by EastLondonCoder | 2026-01-18 19:49:39+00:00
“Optics” is the wrong frame: this is about legitimacy and consent. A referendum demanded by outsiders under pressure is just coercion with a procedural costume. Imagine Cuba proposing a referendum on Puerto Rico joining Cuba and calling it “bad optics” if people won’t play along, the absurdity is the premise, not the lack of voting.
by danabramov | 2026-01-18 19:49:45+00:00
>that the bluesky org can quickly get all of these filthy users off of their own servers (which costs money)

That's not correct, actually hosting user data is cheap. Most users' repos are tiny. Bluesky doesn't save anything by having someone move to their own PDS.

What's expensive is stuff like video processing and large scale aggregation. Which has to be done regardless of where the user is hosting their data.
by toss1 | 2026-01-18 19:50:29+00:00
It beats polls for elections ONLY until someone notices it is being used as the basis of news stories and figures out it will be four orders of magnitude cheaper to manipulate that small market and make the news idiots broadcast that opinions have changed than to actually deploy all the adverts needed to change the opinions.

The very low stakes you point out make this even easier to put a thumb on the scales.

Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

The point of the article is that as soon as the "news" started reporting on prediction markets or corporatized gambling as if it was a measure of sentiment, it ceased to become a good measurement. That point has long passed.
by tbrownaw | 2026-01-18 19:51:09+00:00
> Gambling isn’t a new problem, but apparently we thought it would turn out differently this time, for some vague unclear reason.

The things I've seen have been either "it's not right to tell me not to" or "non-participants can get useful information by observing the odds". What I haven't seen is claims that it won't be net-harmful to participants.