MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-03 05:50:14+00:00
The only reasonable use-case I could think of (when AVPro debuted) was with heavily disabled persons, e.g. Parkinsons, quadrapalegics.

When I demoed this to a bed-bound friend, she had no interest in the un-human-ness of the computer's interface... particularly the feeling of having to always wear headgear.

Just doesn't really seem to be much of a market for this tech, yet. As somebody else here mentioned: just not enough apps/porn for this device/tech, yet.
by superkuh | 2026-01-03 05:51:17+00:00
Receiving webmentions can be as simple as making a custom log in nginx and just having it save all POST to the webmention URL endpoint. I love it. And sending can be done with curl or whatever you want (ie html forms without JS).

Or, you can use any of the many community projects which handle all this backend stuff and provide it as a service.

Either extreme works. I love the indieweb set of protocols for this. Other things like ActivityPub require active interaction for the cryptographic handshake at a minimum and make simple solutions infeasible despite other benefits. Indieweb can be as complex or as simple as you want.
by 0xis | 2026-01-03 05:52:02+00:00
Uplifting to see indieweb.org on HN!

However, I suffer from a lack of high-quality news sources, no matter whether they support RSS. They no longer publish online these days. And, realistically, I am not interested in most post from people I am interested in. So I just manually poll some times a month in my browser.
by golem14 | 2026-01-03 05:52:23+00:00
and TIL that this story is only in the original Polish and the German translation.

This is a summary of sorts:

"Trurl, having decided to make the entire Universe happy, first sat down and developed a General Theory of All-Possible Happiness... Eventually, however, Trurl grew weary of the work. To speed things up, he built a great computer and provided it with a programmatic duplicate of his own mind, that it might conduct the necessary research in his stead.

But the machine, instead of setting to work, began to expand. It grew new stories, wings, and outbuildings, and when Trurl finally lost his patience and commanded it to stop building and start thinking, the machine—or rather, the Trurl-within-the-machine—replied that it couldn't possibly think yet, for it still didn't have enough room. It claimed it was currently housing the Sub-Trurls—specialized programs for General Felicitology, Experimental Hedonistics, and Happiness-Machine-Building—who were currently occupied with their quarterly reports.

The 'Clone-Trurl' told him marvelous tales of the results these sub-Trurls had already achieved in their digital simulations. Trurl, however, soon discovered that these were all cut from the same cloth of lies; not a single sub-Trurl existed, no research had been done, and the machine had simply been using its processing power to enjoy itself and expand its own architecture. In a fit of rage, Trurl took a hammer to the machine and for a long time thereafter gave up all thought of universal happiness."

It's a great allegory. A real shame there is no english translation.
by sailingparrot | 2026-01-03 05:52:43+00:00
Which words am I putting in your mouth?

> HPV causes genital warts

False. Not all do. And more importantly, the ones that cause cancer do not!

> Once you are confirmed HPV positive (again, you won't be confirmed without getting genital warts)

Again false. You can be tested without genital warts and be positive to a strand of HPV that simply does not cause wart. You might have had (or heard about) a bad experience with a health professional, but the presence or absence of warts has absolutely nothing to do with this.

> you need to inform your partners, as it causes cancer in both men and women (but mostly women).

False again. Since you were specifically talking about the strands of HPV causing warts, then it does not cause cancer. You can still inform them if you care about no propagating warts, but the fact that you have wart-strain HPV does not make you more at risk of getting/causing cancer than someone with no symptoms whatsoever.

Your comment clearly says that someone with cancer-causing HPV will have warts, thus someone reading this might feel confident they are not carrying a cancer-causing strain since they don't have wart, which is dangerous because again, it is 100% false. It might also needlessly worry someone that recently noticed genital warts on themselves into thinking they might have gotten/propagated a dangerous disease, while the wart causing strain are in fact harmless and are just unpleasant aesthetically.

So tl;dr, you should get vaccinated if you can, and if you want to be sure you do not have a cancer causing strain, you need to get tested for it, that's the only way. Warts or no warts is completly unrelated.
by kube-system | 2026-01-03 05:52:51+00:00
That scenario is materially different. The details matter a lot in IP law.

Also please note that I have not said that the copyright is not valid. However, a case for fair use is not unfounded here.

As 17 USC § 107 says:

> In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—
>(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
>(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
>(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
>(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
by mirpa | 2026-01-03 05:54:06+00:00
I had to edit windows registry to fix the worst misfeatures of start & context menu. I never found solution to random wake up after suspend or missing icons after wake up - MS support was useless. Linux desktop even with non-zero amount of issues can't frustrate me nearly as much as Windows. All games I ran so far on Linux worked as good or better as/than on Windows. I keep Windows installed just in case some game really won't work, but combination of SteamDeck (Proton) and Vulkan did wonders for Linux compatibility kudos to Steam/Valve. And I would not want to do software development on Windows, that is number one reason I am using Linux (not that I am using Unreal Engine). Recent MS fever dream with LLMs only adds to general frustration with Windows.
by mrsssnake | 2026-01-03 05:55:19+00:00
What's up with those comments? Am I still on HackerNews or did I visit Reddit with some HackerNews theme applied?

Internet engineers pre-2000 had some idealistic, heavly mathematically proven ideas that still seem revolutionary today. Due to human nature, not everything got through, but IPv6 is the best of what we have and creating another standard would be XKCD 927.

Under every IPv6 discussion people all of sudden have the urge to manually assign numbers, need to remember their cousin's phone IP and MAC address, forget firewalls exists, argue that ISP fiddling with TCP+UDP selling it as "Internet" is a good thing or that "sender" field on the envelope is a huge privacy issue.
by slfreference | 2026-01-03 05:55:20+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/17/can-you...

"Lottery-like" mechanisms for selling homes exist in the UK as "prize competitions" or "house raffles", which operate under specific legal rules to avoid being classified as illegal lotteries. This method gained significant news coverage, particularly a high-profile case in 2017, and has become a growing trend.
by snowwrestler | 2026-01-03 05:55:25+00:00
An alternate strategy is to turn off most of those alerts. When I open my home screen I see a bunch of icons, but only two of them are allowed to show the little red circle with a number in it: Phone and Messages. I picked those since I am habitually up to date on them. So the number is usually quite low, usually below 5.

I also do not allow most apps to put banners on the screen (locked or unlocked), or beep, or buzz the phone. Almost all my apps have notifications turned off completely. If I want to know the status of my email, I open the email app. If I want to see what's new in Instagram, I open Instagram. Etc.

But the point is, those checks happen on my schedule, not when I'm prompted.
by sabareesh | 2026-01-03 05:55:56+00:00
TL;DR is that they didn't clean the repo (.git/ folder), model just reward hacked its way to look up future commits with fixes. Credit goes to everyone in this thread for solving this: https://xcancel.com/xeophon/status/2006969664346501589

(given that IQuestLab published their SWE-Bench Verified trajectory data, I want to be charitable and assume genuine oversight rather than "benchmaxxing", probably an easy to miss thing if you are new to benchmarking)

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1q1ura1/iquestl...
by bjoli | 2026-01-03 05:56:39+00:00
Even supposedly prosumer gear sucks at ipv6. The ubiquiti situation was awful about a year ago. I got a dynamic prefix and wanted to setup ULA. Maybe I was dumb, but I couldn't find any way to do it.

Heck, I couldnt even see which prefix I was handled, nor could I see any ipv6 address anywhere in the gui. This was with a self hosted up to date controller though. YMMV.
by napkin | 2026-01-03 05:57:09+00:00
Things are complicated. As a policy, I wouldn’t want to encourage grandma to be going to any web site to download software. Grandma should probably stick to the App Store. And personally, I would way rather install github builds than downloads from ‘official’ web sites. Especially in the case of free / open source projects, sometimes cash constrained. Security is hard.

I’m not super knowledgeable about modern video players- I do like Infuse, which is in the App Store.
by abuob | 2026-01-03 05:58:07+00:00
But you can detect serverside (at least probabilistically) if a user is abusing it to their advantage.

Some Valve guy gave a great talk about their cheating detection a while back; I found it incredibly impressive: https://youtu.be/ObhK8lUfIlc (can't comment on their effectiveness these days, haven't played CS in a long time)
by snowwrestler | 2026-01-03 06:01:32+00:00
I hid the Camera app icon entirely and instead I get to the camera from the quick-access menu I get by swiping down from the top-right corner. (I think Apple calls this the Control Center.)

I did this so that using the Camera only takes one swipe (down) no matter what screen I'm on.

I just confirmed that the Control Center icon also lights up the green dot at first touch. However, incidental touches are probably more rare and unlikely in this menu.
by ivanb | 2026-01-03 06:01:40+00:00
It will be mine as well but only because consumer agentic AI became available and good. Only it makes all quirks and hardware incompatibilities bearable. I tell it to investigate the problem and it does an incredible amount of digging to help find the cause and eventually, after several iteration, either fix it or implement a good enough crutch. Even then it takes minutes to hours and I would take months.
by Sabinus | 2026-01-03 06:01:51+00:00
>Ukraine entering NATO constitutes an existential threat to Russia for the same reason as China building military infrastructure in Mexico, Cuba or Canada would pose an existential threat to the U.S. (e.g. Cuban Missile Crisis).

Funny you should mention that, Russian military infrastructure in Cuba wasn't an existential threat to USA. Russia did build military infrastructure in Cuba and the US let that happen. What they did not let happen was the forward positioning of nuclear missiles during the era that Fist Strikes were still being considered. Similarly the USA has removed nuclear weapons from Russia's periphery.

I think Chinese bases in Mexico would earn Mexico a good deal of stress, but not an invasion of conquest. Of course, Trump and Putin are busy changing international norms, and I can't speak to the potentially brutal world of the future. But the history (Cuban missile crisis) suggests that USA wouldn't engage in a self destructive invasion and conquest.

Is there any particular part of the report you think I should read? The glance I gave it looks like they suggested giving arms to Ukraine to stretch Russia in the civil war they were fomenting and supplying in Eastern Ukraine at the time.

Do you consider the Putin regime as equal to Russia? Because a lot of the threats in the document are to the authoritarian system, not to Russia itself.
by skylanh | 2026-01-03 06:01:54+00:00
Two large lotteries in my area:
Lotto Max: 1:33,294,800
Lotto 649 1:14,000,000

(excluding the smaller pool draws of 5/6, 4/6, etc)

One ticket as the width of a human hair (60-80 µm).

The winning numbers are a hole the width of a human hair.

The odds of winning 1:14m is hitting another hair head on in a line 14,000,000×0.00007 m=980 meters wide. (~840 meters to ~1,120 meters)

The odds of winning 1:33.3m is hitting another hair head on in a line 33,294,800×0.00007 m=2,330.636 meters wide. (1,998 meters to ~2,664 meters)

(calculations by ChatGPT)

If I buy a ticket, it's so I can daydream for myself.
by gorgoiler | 2026-01-03 06:02:10+00:00
Proprietary, closed user experiences are like microwave home dinners. There’s every reason to hope they can be good, it is very common for them to be crap, and while its possible to hack your own microwave meals you will be doing so in a sub optimal environment with limited options.

An open, modular, diverse UX is like having a stocked kitchen of staples, pans, tools, fresh produce, and a stove. You add a toaster oven, smoker, water bath, grow a kitchen garden of your own, find local butchers and fishmongers. Over time you build up a small collection of both your own and others’ recipes and books and articles on food theory and trends. You can also have a microwave of course, but you’ll use it in many different ways than before.

It’s harder work but so is walking instead of driving or reading instead of watching TV. It can seem irritatingly virtuous to some that you put this extra effort into your daily life but they’ll be swayed when they see you serve up a ZFS snapshot to temporarily test an edit over 20GB of data, or pop up a new niri workspace to track and purchase concert tickets, or dive into editing your journal in a custom distraction free mode you put together showing only your editor and this week’s GPS logs.

You aren’t making everything from scratch, but you do make a few ingredients yourself — pickles and bread in the kitchen and scripts and local web hacks on your computer — and you certainly have complete control over the finished product in a way that simply isn’t possible with a microwave and a boxed lasagna, or a copy of Windows 11.

You don’t even have to cook! You can have pre-made microwave meals with a Linux desktop. They still taste better because they were made with love by a global network of friends and family instead of by Nestlé, Kraft, and Heinz.
Ask HN: Should engineers who use less inference be paid more?
by keithwhor | 2026-01-03 06:02:20+00:00
Employee A: $2,000 / mo inference spend (eg Claude code). Ships 5 features a month. High impact. No bugs.

Employee B: $100 / mo inference. Otherwise identical.

Does Employee B deserve a higher salary than Employee A? How should employers think about these variable costs? In some orgs, engineers are being aggressively encouraged to lean on AI as much as possible. But for highly competent contributors shouldn’t that $2,000 / mo in surplus go to eg their kids’ daycare instead of an inference provider?

At what point does inference spend become a red flag? Are there organizations that are punishing people for not using enough?

I’m sure there’s an argument a manager might make that Employee B should be more productive. But at some point you’re just incentivizing waste, right?
by mvkel | 2026-01-03 06:03:10+00:00
Huge disappointment that it's just a glass rectangle with a modified OS.

What made previous Punkt models cool is that they were "dumb+" phones. They did what you needed them to, and nothing else. In exchange, you got a device that fit easily in your pocket.

Now that it's a big touch screen, you've got apps, complexity, and ultimately no differentiator from any other smartphone.
by vlovich123 | 2026-01-03 06:03:54+00:00
The problem with that argument is that the reports don’t necessarily come from the organization for whom it’s an issue. Security researchers unaffiliated not impacted by any such issue still report it this way (eg Project Zero reporting issues that don’t impact Google at all).

Also Android uses SELinux and still has lots of kernel exploits. Believing SELinux solves the vast majority of security issues is fallacious, especially since it’s primarily about securing userspace, not the kernel itself .
by Fhch6HQ | 2026-01-03 06:04:12+00:00
To answer your question directly, yes. By population, 55% of Germany, 57% of France, 49% of Poland, 51% of Ukraine, 90% of the Netherlands, 89% of Sweden, 73% of Austria, 30% of Romania, 39% of Croatia [0]. Apologies in advance if any of these countries are former British colonies, I don't claim to be knowledgeable on world history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
by stingraycharles | 2026-01-03 06:05:24+00:00
It’s a shame but it’s also understandable that they cannot compete with SOTA models like Sonnet and Opus.

They’re focused almost entirely on benchmarks. I think Grok is doing the same thing. I wonder if people could figure out a type of benchmark that cannot be optimized for, like having multiple models compete against each other in something.
by dataflow | 2026-01-03 06:06:32+00:00
> Usually, a program is being interpreted first, then switches to compiled code in the middle of execution.

I agree what they have isn't JIT compilation, but not for that reason. Tiered execution was never a central part of JIT compilation either. It was a fairly new invention in comparison.

The reason what they describe isn't JIT compilation is IMO fairly boring: it's not compiling the input program in any meaningful way, but simply writing hard-coded logic into executable memory that it already knows the program intended to perform. Sure there's a small degree of freedom based on the particular arithmetic operations being mentioned, but that's... very little. When your compiler already knows the high-level source code logic before it's even read the source code, it's... not a compiler. It's just a dynamic code emitter.

As to the actual difference between JIT vs. AOT... it may just come down to accounting. That is, on whether you can always exclude the compilation time/cost from the overall program execution time/cost or not. If so, you're compiling ahead of (execution) time. If not, you're compiling during execution time.
by my_throwaway23 | 2026-01-03 06:07:17+00:00
This reminds me of a (dirt cheap - about 0.5€) scratch ticket available when I was growing up. The number of winning tickets, as specified on the ticket, was 51%. The 2% up from the usual 49% meant you won more than you lost. The smallest prize was about twice the cost of the ticket. We would run to the store on our lunch break, buy a couple of tickets, rinse and repeat a few times, and have money for whatever food we wanted for the day.

(and no, you wouldn't be able to farm them - the store only carried X amount of tickets, and they usually sold out quickly)
by krackers | 2026-01-03 06:10:16+00:00
Apparently a new paper from DS shows this is not the case, or rather the information isn't captured with as much fidelity as you'd expect. Intuitively the residual stream apparently doesn't have enough dimension to allow each layer to carve out its own subspace [1]

>And this makes it hard for layers to explore new features that are beneficial for just a few layers because you need to revert or overwrite those features as they will not be useful for later layers.

Since with a residual stream architecture, removing features can't be done by simply zeroing out a weight but instead you have to calculate the inverse.

>This leads each layer to contribute "generally useful" features and one immediate pattern is continuously refining features. I think this is the reason why later layers in LLMs tend to behave like that.

Greatly increasing the number of "channels" of the residual stream helps however (although you have to play some tricks to preserve the useful "identity mapping" behavior) [2, 3]

[1] https://x.com/rosinality/status/2006902561727721670

[2] https://x.com/norxornor/status/2006649194690257285#m

[3] https://x.com/byebyescaling/status/2007147288809087281#
by netsharc | 2026-01-03 06:11:46+00:00
The term cloud feudalism is not new, but now I'm thinking it feels like humanity is being dragged to the feudal ages because more and more everything happens online now. You want to work? Be a peasant for Uber Eats, they have all the power and you have none, they set the rules as they please and all you can do is grin and bear it, or try move from one feudal domain to another (i.e. work for a different delivery app).
by mike_d | 2026-01-03 06:12:10+00:00
Microsoft managed to make every other release of Windows good.

95 good, NT 4 bad, 98 good, 98 SE bad, 2000 good, Me bad, XP good, Vista bad, 7 good...

The plan with Windows 10 was to light their desktop market share on fire in the hopes they could see iPads in the distance and try to chase them. Windows 11 was codenamed "give your toxic ex a second chance."
by silisili | 2026-01-03 06:12:57+00:00
America is a huge place. You can't sample some professional city full of helicopter parents.

More nights than not, I have random neighborhood kids playing in my yard and eating dinner with us. Their parents don't seem to care, and neither do I. But I don't live in SF or NY, either. I don't mean to insinuate those cities are worse, I don't know, but cannot figure out where else that trope would come from.
by locallost | 2026-01-03 06:13:26+00:00
I'm a parent of a 12 and a 6 year old and agree with what was written completely. "I do not feel in control" is to me a strange thing to say. Running after kids trying to save them is a losing battle. Instead they need to be equipped to make decisions on their own. If they are not ready for something, they should not use it. I cannot prepare them to drive a car, so I will certainly not buy them a Tesla self driving car and then complain it's inadequate.
by matsur | 2026-01-03 06:13:47+00:00
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by ergonaught | 2026-01-03 06:15:13+00:00
On my Windows machines, every time I have to click my Bluetooth icon, which is about a dozen times every day, the full second pause before it presents me with a menu makes me wish I didn't need Windows on two of my systems. It's mindbogglingly stupid that a UI element has a one second delay to present a menu on...any hardware, much less "2025" hardware.

But that's the kind of product they're shipping, because that's the kind of people they're employing, and that's the kind of decisions they're allowed to make. It permeates everything.