MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qarl | 2026-01-13 20:13:57+00:00
> His earthly power is gone

Well... unless he has followers, right? I would argue that Jesus remains a powerful force today despite being dead for 2000 years.

I don't think people go out of their way to talk shit about everyday shitty people. It's the ones who remain influential that issue is raised.

> no tangible benefit

On the contrary, if his beliefs were especially toxic, it is extremely beneficial to speak against them. Do you really disagree?
by torginus | 2026-01-13 20:13:58+00:00
Majority of the world's battery manufacturing capacity is dominated by just a small handful of players:

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

Just 11 companies control 90+% of manufacturing capacity, I think they might need to adjust their ambitions in the face of demand, but I think most of them are too big to fail.
by jatora | 2026-01-13 20:14:23+00:00
Your snobbery will be short-lived as tools eclipse our "art", and creativity is revealed as nothing inherently unique to humans.

Creativity, fundamentally, is overlapping memories of what you have seen already. Literally no different than any diffusion or transformer model.

You painting a piece of art or composing a song was really the functional output of billions of cells coordinating in unison, 100% subconsciously, and the thoughts that arose out of your subconscious were entirely (or mostly, to avoid free will debate) out of your control. Your output was the product of billions of years of stellar and biological evolution on top of millennia of human history and influence. You created nothing.

Soon you will have to grapple with the reality of what really drives your enjoyment of media, and part of that will be realizing that the human-ness never mattered at all.

Is beautiful nature scenery not beautiful because it wasnt hand-crafted painstakingly by a creative human? Of course it is. There is no intuition for the vast swaths of time it took to form, that is a modern human conceptualization that came long after we already found nature to be beautiful.

We have a biological pattern recognition tuned for beauty regardless of its origin. And there is nothing inherently unbeautiful about elegant software that can produce beautiful "art". Nor is there any justifiable, defensible, or intellectually honest way to argue that the human/effort element in art matters in any way besides perhaps portraying and conveying social status.
by roywiggins | 2026-01-13 20:14:25+00:00
Similarly, people keep posting articles to HN that get upvoted which are substantially AI edited. They're never labeled as such, and it's unpleasant to find myself reading unlabeled ChatGPTese again. There's a Show HN up now that has an entirely generated readme, which is just... fine, I guess. I just don't want to engage with it.
by xorcist | 2026-01-13 20:14:33+00:00
What is the argument here? Does it still hold if you s/rebase/comments/g ?

Of course a readable code history aids in debugging. Just as comments and indentation do. None of these are technically necessary, but still a good idea.

Of course running the rebase command doesn't guarantee a readable commit history, but it's hard to craft commits without it. Each and every commit on linux-kernel has been rebased probably a dozen times.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-13 20:14:34+00:00
> I thought the reason for this to be a visa is because their fields' activities were in-person (acting in movies/plays/shows, academic life & research, sports training & leagues, etc). A streamer / OF worker is not like that as far as I know

An OnlyFans worker may make the bulk of her money by meeting fans in person for dates. That can't be done over the internet.
by Stefan-H | 2026-01-13 20:14:35+00:00
E2EE is usually applied in contexts where the message's final recipient is NOT the server on the other end of a TLS connection, so yes, this scenario is a stretch. The point is that in the context of an AI chat app, you have to decide on the boundary that you draw around the server components that are processing the request and necessarily need access to decrypted data, and call that one "end" of the connection.
by ramoz | 2026-01-13 20:14:42+00:00
Without diving too technically here there is an additional domain of “verifiability” relevant to ai these days.

Using cryptographic primitives and hardware root of trust (even GPU trusted execution which NVIDIA now supports for nvlink) you can basically attest to certain compute operations. Of which might be confidential inference.

My company, EQTY Lab, and others like Edgeless Systems or Tinfoil are working hard in this space.
by beepbooptheory | 2026-01-13 20:15:08+00:00
Cf. Holly Herndon's album Proto.

This is something people spent a lot of time on, is trained lovingly on only their own stuff, and makes for some great music.

It's "AI" but in an almost unrecognizable way to us now: its not attached to some product, and its not about doing special prompting. It is definitely pop/electronic music, but it follows from a tradition of experimentation between what we can control and what we can't, which is here their bespoke stochastic program.

https://youtu.be/sc9OjL6Mjqo

It is not about how the computer or the model enables us, which is so silly. (As if art is simply about being able to do something or not!) Its about doing something with the pieces you have that only those pieces can do.
by cameronh90 | 2026-01-13 20:15:09+00:00
Bad things can happen anywhere. A one-off incident wouldn’t make me leave.

I visit the US often and have been a victim of crime there more often than anywhere in Europe. That’s not to say I don’t love the US. San Diego is probably my favourite city in the world. But apart from one or two exceptions, large US cities suffer from far worse crime than anywhere in the UK. I got mugged at gunpoint by a crackhead in Philly. Quality of life can be fantastic of course. My aunt lives in a gated community in LA and drives to work so she never has to interact with the real world, so to speak, and her QoL is amazing. But large parts of the city are absolutely dystopian.

Try walking from Fashion District to Chinatown and tell me where you’d find something like that anywhere in London, let alone Z1. I don't even know if I've seen anything that bad in actual third world cities.
by bdangubic | 2026-01-13 20:15:29+00:00
I agree in principle but I would venture a guess that number of two-income families that can deal financially with a loss of one source of income is very low.

the very first financial discussion I had with my wife (fiance at the time) was that we will always live off a single salary and 2nd salary will always go into future bucket (we tap in for larger purchases or fancy vacation here and there). I don’t think many families are setup this way though - in my limited personal experiences a loss of one source of income leads to sale of the house/condo and move (rent or downsize)
by choeger | 2026-01-13 20:15:40+00:00
It starts by believing that there are distinct human races (which there are not). That alone makes most US Americans racist based on language alone. No (sane) German would nowadays speak of "Rasse" to describe someone with a different skin color.

Then, of course, racism consists of the believe that some races are intrinsically less valuable (in whatever sense) than others. I didn't see Scott Adams voice that part. But I might have missed it or it might have been implied.

But it's important to note that US identity politics of the last couple of decades looks increasingly weird to me as an outsider in any case.
by hmokiguess | 2026-01-13 20:15:58+00:00
I confess I am torn by your comment. I myself wouldn't choose AI for guitar, given that's where I have perfected my craft, and I am able to relate to what you said. However, not as an artist, but as a listener, I have no trouble with a guitar composition made by a machine.

John Dewey's famous book talks about shifting the focus from the maker to the experience and that the value of something is not about the artist's inner struggle but about the work's capacity to generate lasting experiences. This also ties well into Roland Barthes' essay about reading and how language is a living thing. He puts forward the notion that meaning lives in the reader, not in the writer. Audiences is what turns it into an experience.

Again, this isn't to devalue the effort or that the inner struggle isn't commendable, this is to say that artistic value can exist beyond that.
by mfinean | 2026-01-13 20:16:19+00:00
I built a security scanner that checks web apps for common vulnerabilities
in about 2 minutes.

It's non-invasive (read-only, no exploits) and covers:
- Security headers (CSP, HSTS, etc.)
- Known CVEs in detected technologies
- Exposed secrets and API keys
- Misconfigurations (Firebase, GraphQL, admin panels)
- Cookie security
- SSL/TLS issues
- And ~60 more checks

The basic scan is free. A detailed report with fix instructions is just $9.

I built this because so many people are shipping apps faster than ever with
AI coding tools - but often introducing vulnerabilities without realizing it.
Enterprise scanners cost thousands. This is meant to be a quick "security
smoke test" you can run before shipping.

Link: https://securemysite.io

Would love to hear your feedback if this is useful or anything you'd want to be different etc.
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-13 20:16:37+00:00
Digg (or Slashdot before it) wasn't Reddit in the same way that HN isn't Reddit: aggregators vs community discussions. 2/4chan or BBSs would have been the previous alternatives.

What was the scaled pre-existing topic-divided community-moderated discussion space?

It's difficult to say Claude Code has first mover advantage when these discussions are littered with people talking about their alternative preferred toolchains.

> The value that Reddit brings to its customers is directly proportional to how many customers maintains. The same is not true for Anthropic.

I'd question Anthropic's ability to fund Claude Code engineering vs their peer competitors, should they slip user count.
by sharkjacobs | 2026-01-13 20:16:40+00:00
I'm not ideologically opposed to making music with AI, but the dream would be new songs which which showcase the new sounds and musical forms that AI enables, like Believe for autotune, or Rumble for electric guitar, or Autobahn for synths.

I want a friend to message me like "Hey, there's some interesting stuff happening in the AI music scene, check out these tracks".

But everything I've seen is pastiche, either novelty songs (hit song as different genre, or famous monologue from popular movie as pop song) or generic background music meant for algorithmic streaming playlists.
by amluto | 2026-01-13 20:16:45+00:00
If I were designing a live audio workflow from scratch, my intuition would be to sample at a somewhat high frequency (at least 48kHz but maybe 96kHz), do the math to figure out the actual latency / data rate tradeoff, but to also filter the data as needed to minimize high frequency content (again, being careful with latency and fidelity tradeoffs).

But I have never done this and don't have any plans to do so, so I'll let other people worry about it. But maybe some day I'll carry out my evil plot to write an alternative to brutefir that gets good asymptotic complexity without adding latency. :)
by smkelly | 2026-01-13 20:16:54+00:00
This does not look like Braille to me. Braille is a system that uses cells composed of six (or eight) dots. This is just dots strewn all over the place.

Reminds me of this relatively new device in the space though: https://store.humanware.com/hca/monarch-the-1st-dynamic-tact...
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-13 20:16:58+00:00
The famine stuff I could write off as honest mistakes by a misguided but well meaning leader. Mao's role in kicking off the Cultural Revolution as part of his internal power struggle with the CCP can hardly be excused the same way, it was profoundly evil. The CCP today can recognize some of the faults with Mao, and even acknowledge that the Cultural Revolution was a disaster, but shy away from acknowledging Mao's causal role in that.
by qwertox | 2026-01-13 20:16:59+00:00
> And any solution like it is as well.

Depends. I think I would like it to have an observing AI which is only active when I want it to, so that it logs the work done, but isn't a running process when I don't want to, which would be the default.

But that should certainly not be bundled with the OS and best even a portable app, so no registry entries, no files outside of its directory (or a user-provided data directory)

Let's say you're about to troubleshoot an important machine and have several terminals and applications open, it would be good to have something that logs all the things done with timestamped image sequences.

The idea of Recall is good, but we can't trust Microsoft.
by whiddershins | 2026-01-13 20:17:02+00:00
I appreciated Scott Adams, and am sad he has passed away. I learned a lot from him and his perspective helped me through difficult times.

The comments here are very unfortunate. When someone dies, it is appropriate to speak of what you appreciated about them.

That's it. That's all you need to say. And you aren't required to say anything at all.

Apologizing for liking him because of x or y or explaining that you liked him despite z is in poor taste and, frankly, cowardly.

I appreciated Scott Adams, and am sad he has passed away.
by goatlover | 2026-01-13 20:17:03+00:00
The US isn't Norway, we're the world's largest economy and 4th largest in land area. Immigration has always been a net positive for the country (setting aside how negative European immigration was for the Native Americans). Migrants perform all sorts of work, and they offset declining birth rates. They also add to the cultural melting pot.

"Suicidal empathy" sounds like a far right talking point, because you don't want too many brown Muslisms in Europe.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-01-13 20:17:12+00:00
It's really funny that you said, "script kiddie". Before I edited my original draft of this post, I referred to them too :)

> "…Social engineering…"

I know Mitnick is synonymous with social engineering. This article in another post is right on the money with the kind of cyber attacks I had in mind, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605553
by arjie | 2026-01-13 20:17:15+00:00
The ultimate problem is that it's easy to fake stuff so you have to use heuristics to see who you can trust. You sort of sum up your threat score and then decide how much attention to apply. Without doing something like that, the transaction costs dominate and certain valuable things can't be done. It's true that Western universities are generally a positive component to that score and students under a professor there are another positive component to the score.

It's like if my wife said "I'm taking the car to get it washed" and then she actually takes the car to the junkyard and sells it. "Ha, you got fooled!". I mean, yes, obviously. She's on the inside of my trust boundary and I don't want to live a life where I'm actually operating in a way immune to this 'exploit'.

I get that others object to the human experimentation part of things and so on, but for me that could be justified with a sufficiently high bar of utility. The problem is that this research is useless.
by jabl | 2026-01-13 20:17:20+00:00
As TFA mentions, Unix/POSIX locking is insane.

Note that this page is slightly outdated wrt. flock(). From the manpage (online at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/flock.2.html):

>

Since Linux 2.0, flock() is implemented as a system call in its
own right rather than being emulated in the GNU C library as a
call to fcntl(2). With this implementation, there is no
interaction between the types of lock placed by flock() and
fcntl(2), and flock() does not detect deadlock. (Note, however,
that on some systems, such as the modern BSDs, flock() and
fcntl(2) locks do interact with one another.)

CIFS details
Up to Linux 5.4, flock() is not propagated over SMB. A file with
such locks will not appear locked for remote clients.

Since Linux 5.5, flock() locks are emulated with SMB byte-range
locks on the entire file. Similarly to NFS, this means that
fcntl(2) and flock() locks interact with one another. Another
important side-effect is that the locks are not advisory anymore:
any IO on a locked file will always fail with EACCES when done
from a separate file descriptor. This difference originates from
the design of locks in the SMB protocol, which provides mandatory
locking semantics.

Remote and mandatory locking semantics may vary with SMB protocol,
mount options and server type. See mount.cifs(8) for additional
information.

NFS details
Up to Linux 2.6.11, flock() does not lock files over NFS (i.e.,
the scope of locks was limited to the local system). Instead, one
could use fcntl(2) byte-range locking, which does work over NFS,
given a sufficiently recent version of Linux and a server which
supports locking.

Since Linux 2.6.12, NFS clients support flock() locks by emulating
them as fcntl(2) byte-range locks on the entire file. This means
that fcntl(2) and flock() locks do interact with one another over
NFS. It also means that in order to place an exclusive lock, the
file must be opened for writing.

Since Linux 2.6.37, the kernel supports a compatibility mode that
allows flock() locks (and also fcntl(2) byte region locks) to be
treated as local; see the discussion of the local_lock option in
nfs(5).
by pipo234 | 2026-01-13 20:17:28+00:00
Risk management is not my day job, but I'm aware of a cottage industry of enterprise services and appliances to map out, prevent and mitigate risks. Pentest are part of those as are keeping up with trends and literature.

So on the subject of something like Recall or Copilot what tools and policies does an it manager have at their disposal to prevent let's say unintentional data exfiltration or data poisoning?

(Added later:) How do I make those less likely to happen?
by cfreksen | 2026-01-13 20:17:45+00:00
That means that SSIMULACRA2 does not capture quality perfectly.

Note that in that figure the format are compared at the same SSIMULACRA2 score, not at the same file size. In the "very low quality" category, JPEG uses ~0.4 bpp (bits per pixel), while JPEG-XL and AVIF use ~0.13 bpp and ~0.1 bpp, respectively, so JPEG is roughly given 4 times as much space to work with.
In the "med-low quality" category, JPEG-XL and AVIF use around 0.4 bpp, so perhaps you should compare the "very low quality" JPEG with "med-low quality" JPEG-XL and AVIF.

After reading your comment, I assumed you had missed the bpp difference. Please excuse me if I assumed incorrectly.
by nomel | 2026-01-13 20:17:49+00:00
All of the "discoverability" algorithms are specifically and fundamentally about sifting through the millions to find the few that are preferred. That is their many-billion-dollar industry purpose. Spotify does a fantastic job with this, for me.

> will often just opt for whatever is popular.

Are you suggesting that people consume media they don't like? I'm not familiar with anyone that does this. I personally skip if I don't like a song even a little.
by tzs | 2026-01-13 20:18:02+00:00
It is interesting to compare to V2H systems.

I believe Chevy offers V2H on all 2026 Equinox EVs. Enabling this needs their V2H Enablement Kit and I believe you also need their PowerShift Charger. That would be around $38k for a 2026 Equinox EV LT, which has an 85 kWh battery, $6300 for the V2H Enablement Kit, $2000 for the PowerShift Charger. Installation via the company Chevy says to use is $2000-5000 according to the net.

That brings us to $51-52k, and would give 70ish kWh of usable backup capacity. That's around $750/kWh of capacity.

Getting that capacity with Powerwalls would require 5 of them and cost quite a bit more.

Plus, with the V2H approach when you aren't having a power outage you can use it as a car. :-)
by jacobian | 2026-01-13 20:18:10+00:00
> I'm sure you'd agree that the president of the board is ultimately "above" the chief executive if push ever came to shove, at least on paper.

That is not true of the PSF, nor of many (most?) other US nonprofits. Not on paper, and not practically speaking. The director reports to the board, but officers have little to no unitary power. You can go read the PSF’s bylaws if you like, and if you do you’ll see that officers, including the president, can do very little without a board vote. And because of aforementioned policy, that’s a max of two votes from people employed by a single company.

Also, like, do you know anything about Dawn? She’s been serving the Python community waaaay longer than she’s worked for Microsoft. Questioning her ethics based on absolutely nothing is unfounded and, honestly, pretty fucked up.

There’s this pernicious lie that Microsoft is somehow controlling the PSF. It’s based on about as much evidence as there is for Flat Earth, yet here it is again. At best, repeating this lie reflects profound ignorance about how the PSF actually functions; at worst it seems like some kind of weird disinfo campaign against one of the most important nonprofits in open source.
by sigmar | 2026-01-13 20:18:10+00:00
I've done audio engineering as a hobby. Even a decade ago, verbiage like "ai noise reduction" was very common. Of course that was RNNs, not transformers. But I think they have a valid point. I googled and found this 2017 post about iZotope integrating machine learning: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/what-the-machine-learning-i...
by shimman | 2026-01-13 20:18:11+00:00
This is an easy problem to solve, regulate the amount of profit you're legally allowed to make from renting land you did not create.

We do this in other industries all the time.

Health insurance is heavily regulated to ensure that there are profit caps (think 80/20 rule) this means that the company is legally compelled to actually spend a certain amount on customers of said product.

Imagine if landlords were compelled to spend 80% of their rent dollars in improving the space or helping the renters.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-13 20:18:16+00:00
We had two types of competition in the past that are much less common now:

- competition from new builds

- competition from different locations

The first was killed by restrictive zoning. The second still exists but is no longer useful. You can move to West Virginia for cheap rent, but you'll have to move to a location without jobs.

The combination of far less people moving across states and of jobs concentrating in expensive places to live is what killed that second type of competition.
by movedx | 2026-01-13 20:18:33+00:00
Please don’t take this as me saying you were wrong to ever trust Apple, however the best way to organise any data is usually just files on a disk.

That’s becoming a recurring theme for me and even some of my corporate clients now. Confluence, for example, is out the window for secure documentation around sensitive environments and Word Docs in One Drive are back in. It’s surprisingly refreshing and gets the job done way better.