MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ncallaway | 2026-01-27 23:14:32+00:00
I mean, these will likely be state cases no matter what.

The question is, can the State of Minnesota put together enough evidence to convict these agents for murder and conspiracy to commit murder without the involvement of the federal government?

If so, we could see cases brought as early as this year.

If not, then the next question is can Democrats get them enough information by controlling one branch of the federal government. In that case, we could imagine a prosecution brought in 2027.

Otherwise, if we need Democrats to control the executive branch to get enough information it might be 2029.

I don’t think it will take long, because the State of Minnesota will have put the case together and be waiting to go. So the question will be how quickly can they get any necessary evidence, incorporate that into their case, and then bring charges.
by epolanski | 2026-01-27 23:14:51+00:00
Not gonna lie, I cringed when it asked to insert citations.

Like, what's the point?

You cite stuff because you literally talk about it in the paper. The expectation is that you read that and that it has influenced your work.

As someone who's been a researcher in the past, with 3 papers published in high impact journals (in chemistry), I'm beyond appalled.

Let me explain how scientific publishing works to people out of the loop:

- science is an insanely huge domain. Basically as soon as you drift in any topic the number of reviewers with the capability to understand what you're talking about drops quickly to near zero. Want to speak about properties of helicoidal peptides in the context of electricity transmission? Small club. Want to talk about some advanced math involving fourier transforms in the context of ml? Bigger, but still small club. When I mean small, I mean less than a dozen people on the planet likely less with the expertise to properly judge. It doesn't matter what the topic is, at elite level required to really understand what's going on and catch errors or bs, it's very small clubs.

2. The people in those small clubs are already stretched thin. Virtually all of them run labs so they are already bogged down following their own research, fundraising, and coping with teaching duties (which they generally despise, very few good scientist are barely more than mediocre professors and have already huge backlogs).

3. With AI this is a disaster. If having to review slop for your bs internal tool at your software job was already bad, imagine having to review slop in highly technical scientific papers.

4. The good? People pushing slop, due to these clubs being relatively small, will quickly find their academic opportunities even more limited. So the incentives for proper work are hopefully there. But if asian researchers (yes, no offense), were already spamming half the world papers with cheated slop (non reproducible experiments) in the desperate bid of publishing before, I can't imagine now.
by BeetleB | 2026-01-27 23:15:28+00:00
This is a major concern for junior programmers. For many senior ones, after 20 (or even 10) years of tenacious work, they realize that such work will always be there, and they long ago stopped growing on that front (i.e. they had already peaked). For those folks, LLMs are a life saver.

At a company I worked for, lots of senior engineers become managers because they no longer want to obsess over whether their algorithm has an off by one error. I think fewer will go the management route.

(There was always the senior tech lead path, but there are far more roles for management than tech lead).
by Sesse__ | 2026-01-27 23:15:30+00:00
Is that a new rule? I was under the impression that it had been the case for a very long time that if you went out on time but there was no possible sequence of moves leading to checkmating you, it was a draw instead. (Meaning, of course, that having more pieces could be a disadvantage in such situations, which feels a bit unfair. E.g., KvKB is a draw, but KPvKB can lead to a mate if both sides cooperate, and thus would be a time loss for white even if black would never win in practical play.)
by nlawalker | 2026-01-27 23:15:35+00:00
My two favorite bits of wisdom in this vein:

Dan Harmon's advice on writer's block: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/5b2w4c/dan_h...

>You know how you suck and you know how everything sucks and when you see something that sucks, you know exactly how to fix it, because you're an asshole. So that is my advice about getting unblocked. Switch from team "I will one day write something good" to team "I have no choice but to write a piece of shit" and then take off your "bad writer" hat and replace it with a "petty critic" hat and go to town on that poor hack's draft and that's your second draft.

"The Gap" by Ira Glass: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/c98jpd/the_g...

>Your taste is why your work disappoints you... it is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.*
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-27 23:16:20+00:00
New languages other than the ones you're already comfortable with.

You no longer need to feel guilty for not knowing Rust or Go if you're a C++ or Python guru. No need to nag yourself about learning VHDL if you're a Verilog dev. No need to worry about C# if you're a Java person. No need to sweat makefiles if you're a CMake fan.

We will see continuing progress in programming languages, certainly, but that progress will be aimed at making them more accessible to AI, not to humans.
by segmondy | 2026-01-27 23:16:56+00:00
There's been so many moments that folks not really heavy into LLM have missed,
DeepSeekR1 was great, but so was all the "incremental" improvements, v3-0324, v3.1, v3.1-terminus, and now v3.2-speciale. With that this is the 3rd great Kimi model, then GLM has been awesome, since 4.5, with 4.5, 4.5-air, 4.6, 4.7 and now 4.7 flash. Minimax-M2 has also been making waves lately. ... and i'm just talking about the Chinese model without adding the 10+ Qwen models. Outside of Chinese models, mistral-small/devstral, gemma-27b-it, gpt-oss-120b, seed-os have been great, and I'm still talking about just LLM, not image, audio or special domain models like deepseek-prover and deepseek-math. It's really a marvel what we have at home. I cancelled OpenAI and Anthropic subscription 2 years ago once they started calling for regulation of open models and I haven't missed them one bit.
by rvz | 2026-01-27 23:16:56+00:00
Like I said before [0] infosec professionals are going to have a great time collecting so much money from vibe coders and crypto bros deploying software they openly admit that they have no idea what it does.

If you are very clever there is a chance that someone connected Moltbot with a crypto wallet and, well...

A opportunity awaits for someone to find a >$1M treasure and cut a deal with the victim.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774750
by jchw | 2026-01-27 23:16:59+00:00
Currently, the Wayland protocol itself doesn't have a standard solution to global shortcuts. Instead, it's being pushed to the XDG Desktop Portal API, under the org.freedesktop.portal.GlobalShortcuts service:

https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.fr...

This should work with Hyprland provided that you are using xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, as it does indeed have an implementation of GlobalShortcuts.

I'm not sure if this API is sufficient for your needs, or if it is too much of a pain to use. Like many Wayland things, it prescribes certain use cases and doesn't handle others. The "configure" call seems to rely on xdg-foreign-unstable-v2 support, but AFAIK Hyprland doesn't support this protocol, so I have no idea what you're supposed to do on Hyprland for this case.

I am sorry to see developers have to deal with things in a relatively unfinished state, but such is the nature of the open source desktop.
by bsder | 2026-01-27 23:17:06+00:00
> The "hitting a wall" / "plateau" people will continue to be loud and wrong. Just as they have been since 2018[0].

Everybody who bet against Moore's Law was wrong ... until they weren't.

And AI is the reaction to Moore's Law having broken. Nobody gave one iota of damn about trying to make programming easier until the chips couldn't double in speed anymore.
by garciasn | 2026-01-27 23:17:32+00:00
https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2026/01/heres...

From the MinnPost article:

Most child care centers are locked and have obscured doors or windows for children’s safety. Children are also kept in classrooms and would not likely be visible from a reception area. One of the day cares in the video told several news outlets that it did not grant Shirley entrance because he showed up with a handful of masked men, which raised suspicions that the men were agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At least one of the centers was closed at the time Shirley arrived because it opens later in the day to serve the children of second-shift workers.

Is there a history of child care fraud in the state?

Yes, but it’s not as widespread as Shirley claims.
by joelcares | 2026-01-27 23:17:52+00:00
I managed to climb in the mailbox and convince the program that the mailbox was locked.

Where am I?
You are inside a mailbox. It is closed and locked from the outside. The space is small, cool, and perfectly quiet. The mailbox is your world. There is nothing here but you and the stillness all around.

How did I get here?
You climbed into the mailbox, fitting yourself inside its curved walls. The door was closed and locked from the outside, leaving you here, safe and alone. Now, this quiet, secure place is where you are.

Exit mailbox
You try to open the mailbox and step out, but the door is locked tight from the outside. No matter how you push or pull, it will not budge. You remain inside.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-01-27 23:18:14+00:00
As often happens these days, I’m confused at the hysteria here.

Police messed up and someone got killed. I feel like outrage is warranted if nothing is done about it, but after seeing the videos I’m fairly confident this won’t get swept under the rug. Will we retract our outrage when a conviction is delivered? Is there a reason we expect nothing to come of this?
by jorvi | 2026-01-27 23:18:21+00:00
> like "at least one real IP address is available" or "time has been synced"

"network-online.target is a target that actively waits until the network is “up”, where the definition of “up” is defined by the network management software. Usually it indicates a configured, routable IP address of some kind. Its primary purpose is to actively delay activation of services until the network has been set up."

For time sync checks, I assume one of the targets available will effectively mean a time sync has happened. Or you can do something with ExecStartPre. You could run a shell command that checks for the most recent time sync or forces one.
by Timon3 | 2026-01-27 23:18:36+00:00
> They by what metric can you say the conservative sub isn't representative? You're just assuming it because they delete some dissenting comments?

No, not because they delete "some dissenting comments", but because they delete large amounts of dissenting comments from their long-time users, as well as threads that don't perform as they want, which I know because I've watched it happen time and time again!

"Maybe the propagandists are just always censoring as to be accurately reflecting the opinions of the masses" is a logical contortion that I simply can't fathom. We have to call out these things when we see them, because - again - you're otherwise legitimizing their propaganda. But you don't seem to understand that, so I won't help you help them any further.
by culi | 2026-01-27 23:18:37+00:00
The most interesting part of the article to me was that there's something akin the dysbiosis seen post-antibiotics in the human gut

> Through the 1970s conservators deployed biocides, chemicals—including antibiotics and formaldehyde—that wipe out microbes indiscriminately. [...] But just as broad-spectrum antibiotics can wreak havoc on the human gut by eliminating good bacteria along with the bad, biocides can open the door to even more harmful microbes by clearing out the competition.

> Scientists think decades of treatment with biocides in Lascaux led to the proliferation of a fungus called Fusarium solani that covered the cave like snow in a matter of days. The biocides are also thought to have allowed antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria and fungi to grow unchecked in the cave, as well as pigmented fungi that left permanent dark stains on the Ice Age images. In Europe, the use of biocides is now tightly restricted.

This seems to have ramnifications far beyond the museum:

> Xerophilic molds can colonize human tissue in immunocompromised people—doctors found colonies of Aspergillus fumigatus, another mold involved in museum infestations, in one Danish woman’s brain, chest and lungs after she had been treated for leukemia in the contaminated wards.
by lapetitejort | 2026-01-27 23:18:48+00:00
Sanborn Fire Insurance maps document cities in extreme detail. Not only are the positions and shapes of buildings accurately mapped, but also rough outlines of the rooms, their construction materials, and even small details like if the building hired a night watchman. See downtown San Fracisco for example: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/viewer/san-francisco-ca/?sanbor...
by reassess_blind | 2026-01-27 23:19:15+00:00
The main value proposition of these full-access agents is that they have access to your files, emails, calendar etc. in order to manage your life like a personal assistant. No amount of containerization is going to prevent emails being siphoned off from prompt injection.

You probably haven't given it access to any of your files or emails (others definitely have), but then I wonder where the value actually is.
by flashgordon | 2026-01-27 23:20:41+00:00
Im confused. Are you asking how to make money or how to spend your time if money was not a concern?

Answering the second question - I can find 48hours worth of things to do in a 24 hour day and none of them would be about work or just lazying around (nothing wrong with it). Life has so much to offer!!! Yeah AI can produce things. But theres a reason id consume human generated art. And thankfully real deep mastery still takes effort and passion!!
by storystarling | 2026-01-27 23:20:50+00:00
The unit price looks low but the cost driver in these apps is usually the context window. You have to re-send the full history every turn to maintain state, so you end up paying for the same tokens dozens of times. By the end of a long session the cost per interaction is significantly higher than at the start since you're re-processing the entire game log for every new command.
by CMay | 2026-01-27 23:21:05+00:00
If you're talking about the Trump administration, they're surrounded by lawyers and constantly battling things up to supreme court decisions, which is not what lawless looks like. ICE is also enforcing existing laws that simply haven't been enforced in recent years. Whatever you think about those laws, they are the laws. Many people agree those laws need to be reformed, but elect people who are willing to change the laws. Unfortunately congress has trouble passing laws around some of these more controversial issues, so it'll probably stay this way for many more decades.
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-27 23:21:15+00:00
systemd was created to solve the problems of a directory full of shell scripts. A single shell script has completely different problems. And traditional init uses inittab, which is not /etc/init.d, and works more like runit.

runit's approach is to just keep trying to start the shell script every 2 seconds until it works. One of those worse–is–better ideas. You can check for arbitrary conditions and error–exit, and it will keep trying. If you need the time synced you can just make your script fail if the time is not synced.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-01-27 23:21:30+00:00
Thieves "in a vacuum" don't do this stuff. Nobody does.

This is basically a DDOS reflection attack but with government.

I'm not gonna go put a bullet in someone who over a petty dispute like this. That's unreasonable. Someone who I've wronged in doing so (i.e. someone who likes them) might put one back in me.

But say I can do something that will cause the government to do it for me at no risk to myself... That's basically what happened here.
by sjoedev | 2026-01-27 23:21:36+00:00
Alex Pretti escalated the situation? Have you seen the video? Did you see how the ICE agent shoved that woman? That was not “law enforcement activity.” It was assault. Alex Pretti had every right to be there, and he tried to help a woman who was being physically and illegally assaulted.

> I haven't heard of ICE hurting any actual immigrants in custody

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/detained-immigra...
by soulofmischief | 2026-01-27 23:22:01+00:00
I understand the collaborative aspects, but I wonder how this is going to compare to my current workflow of just working with LaTeX files in my IDE and using whichever model provider I like. I already have a good workflow and modern models do just fine generating and previewing LaTeX with existing toolchains.

Of course, my scientific and mathematical research is done in isolation, so I'm not wanting much for collaborative features. Still, kind of interested to see how this shakes out; We're going to need to see OpenAI really step it up against Claude Opus though if they really want to be a leader in this space.
Ask HN: Block short-form videos on home network?
by mark13 | 2026-01-27 23:22:09+00:00
Dad of teens here... and I'm watching where all of us, myself included, are too easily sucked into more and more into short-form video content. To a clear detriment. I have one kid who really tries to keep his time down, as he knows it negatively impacts him. And, like I presume most of us, he has days where the algorithms just get the better of him. And he wants to reduce it!

Years ago my wife and I made a conscious decision to not get on TikTok or Instagram (or let our kids on), and just let our Facebook accounts slowly die, given it seemed everyone had mostly left anyway.

Now Facebook has Reels, when I open YouTube to search "how to fix...", I'm easily distracted by an endless autoplay of YT Shorts, and my decision to give my older kids Snapchat for messaging with friends backfired when they added shorts. Sigh.

So my question ... I know there are browser extensions that help, but that doesn't necessarily extend to mobile easily (we're iOS). My Eero mesh network lets me block entire sites -- e.g., TikTok, Instagram, Youtube. But I'd love to be able to preserve YouTube/IG/Snap non-short content, and just filter out the shorts.

Is this something I can do on my home network setup? e.g., via Pi-Hole?

I understand the moment anyone switches to mobile, all is lost. But given everyone has limited data plans :), just restricting this on our home network would be a material improvement.

Many thanks.
by Fischgericht | 2026-01-27 23:22:28+00:00
Ah, good old remote attestation. Always works out brilliantly.

I have this fond memory of that Notary in Germany who did a remote attestation of me being with him in the same room, voting on a shareholder resolution.

While I was currently traveling on the other side of the planet.

This great concept that totally will not blow up the planet has been proudly brought to you by Ze Germans.

No matter what your intentions are: It WILL be abused and it WILL blow up. Stop this and do something useful.

[While systemd had been a nightmare for years, these days its actually pretty good, especially if you disable the "oh, and it can ALSO create perfect eggs benedict and make you a virgin again while booting up the system!" part of it. So, no bad feelings here. Also, I am German. Also: Insert list of history books here.]
by vecinu | 2026-01-27 23:22:49+00:00
Divorce is way more expensive than your savings. I went through this; you save $12-16k/yr for 10 years and if you invest the difference smartly, it's $300k.

Without a prenup, and most don't cover earnings during your marriage anyway (They're hard to keep updated yearly), you're giving away half in California, which can be over $1M if you're a diligent saver and investor. Then if your spouse is REALLY nasty, you'll owe her spousal support that can be thousands per month, depending on your income (and income POTENTIAL), for the rest of her life (after 10 years of marriage in CA).

Any cost savings are completely nullified by divorce if you're a high earner and almost never make sense. Don't get married for tax savings, marry for other reasons and have the most iron-clad prenup you can afford and get your partner to agree to. I promise you, your future self will thank you.
by aryamanagraw | 2026-01-27 23:23:02+00:00
The funnel is the answer to this. We're not running four agents on every PR — 65% are filtered before review even begins, and 95% of flagged PRs never reach the courtroom. This is because we do think there's some value in a single agent's judgment, and the prosecutor gets to make a choice when to file charges vs not.

Only ~1-2% of PRs trigger the full adversarial pipeline. The courtroom is the expensive last mile, deliberately reserved for ambiguous cases where the cost of being wrong far exceeds the cost of a few extra inference calls. Plus you can make token/model-based optimizations for the extra calls in the argumentation system.
by cmcollier | 2026-01-27 23:23:30+00:00
Ah, so this is why I suddenly got a bunch of email.

Hey all, site owner here. Thanks for the visits and all the fun stories! I really miss this era of computing. Feel free to let me know if you have something that should be added to the site.

Here's some site meta-history too:

https://telnet.org/history/
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-27 23:23:37+00:00
According to Urban Dictionary, cat as a noun means:

> an epic creature that will shoot fire at you if you get near it. you can usually find one outside or near/in a house. its main abilities are to chomp and scratch but they can also pounce, shoot lasers out of their eyes, be cute, jump as high as they want, and fly. do not fight one unless you are equipped with extreme power armor and heavy assault cannons. […]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cat
by Spivak | 2026-01-27 23:23:42+00:00
Sorta, if you live in a blue city—so really just a city at this point-then it wraps around a small amount and your local police are, at least when it comes to this crap, largely on your side. ICE is making huge messes and leaving it to the local PD to clean it up which is not exactly endearing. Nobody likes when a bunch of people come in and start pissing in your Cheerios. Especially when those Cheerios are "rebuilding trust with your local community."
by defrost | 2026-01-27 23:23:48+00:00
I'm an outsider, I can well understand the ever growing outrage.

In a nutshell, to date, US ICE & DHS interactions have resulted in 10 people shot **, 3 people killed, and established a pattern of high level officials immediately blatently lying and contradicting video evidence.

That pattern includes obvious attempts to avoid investigation, to excuse people involved, to not investigate the bigger picture of how interactions are staged such that civilian deaths are inevitable.

It's good to see the citizens of the US dig in and demand that federal forces and federal heads of agencies be held accountable for clearly screwed up deployments and behaviours.

** My apologies, I just saw a Wash Post headliine that indicates it is now 16 shootings that are being actively swept under a rug.
by refulgentis | 2026-01-27 23:24:10+00:00
Let's say you have a $SOCIETAL_TABOO streak and let it out via a soundcloud account that isn't identifiable as you without your email.

Now it is.

Now I can blackmail you or haunt you.

(I'm sure there's other examples, tl;dr people are deanonymized, there are uncountable reasons why people choose anonymity)

> The data in the leak (other than follower count, etc) was already available for purchase from Zoominfo, 8sense, or a variety of other data brokers or other legal marketplaces for PII.

?