MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apatheticonion | 2026-01-25 04:14:02+00:00
I'm talking about provisions to increase competition in the free market - not classical "corporations bad" regulations.

Companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft thrive off competition barriers.

For example;

Why is Asahi Linux on the MacBook not daily drivable? Because we can't write drivers and require non-scalable geniuses to reverse engineer hardware from photos of circuit boards.

Why can't you install an alternative to Android or iOS on your phone? Because we can't write drivers and/or the hardware blocks you from even trying.

Preventing monopolies from ring-fencing empowers the free market through competition enablement. Ultimately, it's impractical to tell us non Americans that you need to build a hardware and software stack entirely from scratch and have that be competitive within a few years.

Without those barriers - perhaps the EU would have a homegrown mobile operating system. Perhaps Linux desktop adoption would be bostered enough to justify further investment in OSS initiatives.
by mwhite | 2026-01-25 04:14:23+00:00
Thanks, while not mentioning it in the original post, I was actually diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2015 and receive treatment for it, but I was actually told I would be told I had schizophrenia because the real condition was so rare or had no name. My mom has delusional disorder, which is non-schizotypal and supposed to be caused by a single recessive mutation.

The 15 or 16 companies other than GetchaBooks and MyGEDCOMs on the list, which contain some of the biggest tech companies in the world, and 11 or so technologies were actually founded by me in a few days, weeks or months at the age of 5 or 6 after creating the initial implementation of the Python programming language as a halo effect from my paper "A Self-Hosting Point-and-Click Editor for Any Functionally-Specified GUI-DB Application" and a few other pieces of writing, a completed version of which I emailed to a number of prominent individuals at the time and (this may be a secret) posted on LKML as a lark. The paper contains a high percentage of "magic". I'll PM you a link to a draft of the current version.

Edit: I think I am getting filtered so not sure if I want to email you at the address on your profile. Here is the draft, which is also linked from my CV on michaelawhite.net https://www.overleaf.com/read/ymsbmtwnydft#efbba5
by thelastgallon | 2026-01-25 04:15:44+00:00
The best solution is to build walking or biking environments.

This was discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672779

(saving a click)

We need to start taxing vehicles based on the damage they are responsible for. The 4th Power Law is a principle in road engineering that states that the damage a vehicle causes to a road surface is proportional to the fourth power of its axle load. This means that even small increases in axle load can cause exponentially greater damage to the road.

A Prius causes about 50,000 times more damage than a bicycle.

A truck causes 16 billion times more damage than a bicycle.

A truck causes 31,000 times more damage than a Prius.

The solution is to tax trucks 31,000 times more than cars. Improve walking/biking/trains/public transportation. Private cars should be a luxury which is made a necessity with zoning laws.
by al_borland | 2026-01-25 04:17:22+00:00
I’m constantly arguing for more slack in the system. Too many managers treat knowledge work like it’s a factory.

I ran a team for about a year and was constantly pushing them to do less. The team were the ones trying to pile on more work, a force of habit I think.

I noticed that when we planned less, people finished faster (probably due to greater focus and a quick finish in sight), then they pulled more into the sprint and ended up getting more done. We actually went faster when we tried to do less. I’m hoping that being told to slow down all the time meant it wasn’t actually stressful for them either. I always wanted to have slack in the system so we weren’t having to perform heroics and pull all-nighters to meet arbitrary deadlines. If something came up, we could fit it in, because we weren’t overloading ourselves. And when nothing came up, we flew.

I stepped back into an IC role, as I didn’t really enjoy running things. The person who took over was skeptical of how I had done things, but was told to try going with it, since we had been so successful. Overtime there was some regression. After a couple more management changes, we are the polar opposite. Everyone is stressed and it seems like very little actually gets done, because everyone is stretched so thin on too many projects at once. Everyone looks really busy though, I guess that’s all that matters anymore.
by moioci | 2026-01-25 04:17:52+00:00
from clinicaltrials.gov:

Eligibility Criteria

Key Inclusion Criteria:

Resectable cutaneous melanoma metastatic to a lymph node and at high risk of recurrence

Complete resection within 13 weeks prior to the first dose of pembrolizumab

Disease free at study entry (after surgery) with no loco-regional relapse or distant metastasis and no clinical evidence of brain metastases

Has an formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tumor sample available suitable for sequencing

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0 or 1

Normal organ and marrow function reported at screening

Key Exclusion Criteria:

Prior malignancy, unless no evidence of that disease for at least 5 years prior to study entry

Prior systemic anti-cancer treatment (except surgery and interferon for thick primary melanomas. Radiotherapy after lymph node dissection is permitted)

Live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of pembrolizumab

Transfusion of blood or administration of colony stimulating factors within 2 weeks of the screening blood sample

Active autoimmune disease

Immunodeficiency, systemic steroid therapy, or any other immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of pembrolizumab

Solid organ or allogeneic bone marrow transplant

Pneumonitis or a history of (noninfectious) pneumonitis that required steroids

Prior interstitial lung disease

Clinically significant heart failure

Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Known active hepatitis B or C

Active infection requiring treatment

Ages Eligible for Study
18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult )

Sexes Eligible for Study
All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
by anon-3988 | 2026-01-25 04:18:27+00:00
I think this is a paradox that AIs have introduced.

We write open source software so everyone can learn and benefit from it. But why do we not like it when they are being trained on them and allow normies to use it as well?

We want news, knowledge and information to be spread everywhere. So why don't we share all of our books, articles and blogs openly to any AI companies that want to use them? We should all want to have our work to be used by everyone more easily.

Personally, I don't have any fundamental refutation to this. There's a sense that it is wrong. I can somewhat articulate why its wrong in term of control and incentives. But those are not well formed just yet.
by defrost | 2026-01-25 04:18:34+00:00
In other tower climbing events, some things cannot be free climbed (too smooth, fingers aren't made for window cleaning tracks, etc).

The 1988 ascent of the Sydney Centrepoint was a technical climb with custom jumars for both the cables and the window tracks and a fun challenge for all, both the scouting, the climb, and the filming.

Originally titled The Only Building I Ever Wanted To Climb, later released as A Spire it's only 1,000 feet.

With a massive overhang.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Tower

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qch1Gd8VLK0
by hakfoo | 2026-01-25 04:18:41+00:00
Crypto is arguably among the worst assets for that threat model though.

When they called in the physical gold, people could squirrel away their $10 and $20 coins in wallsafes and shoeboxes to trade with trusted partners later. Declaring the coins illegal didn't cause them to disappear from people's hands directly.

Crypto doesn't have that physical anchor. If a major world government declared it illegal tomorrow, how would you, as a resident of that country, access the value in your favourite blockchain wallet?

Law enforcement could monitor the remnants of the network and trying to trigger transactions is obvious probable cause. That assumes the remnants still function-- they aren't being blocked by DPI/filtering, or just the functional destabilization caused by a large number of participants being unplugged from the network.

At best, you'd have to go off-ledger and trade talismans (handing over a document with the private keys for an existing wallet like a bearer instrument and hoping they didn't run off multiple copies, or just trying to keep records of transactions and balances elsewhere and hoping to resynch eventually)

This is also why the paper dollar is so important to its reserve-currency status. An enterprising bank in the developing world might say "we offer USD-denominated accounts, all digital, it's 20xx" for customers who don't trust the local currency, but those are a lot easier for the local government to deactivate than a coffee can full of greenbacks buried in their backyard.
by wincy | 2026-01-25 04:18:50+00:00
I declined the master data agreement when Toyota updated it, and my car hasn’t connected to the Internet since. They also wanted to charge me like $20 a month for stuff like bothering me with notifications that my wife has failed to lock the car when I’m halfway across the city after the first year of ownership.

I suppose they could still remote kill the car though, and have no idea what would happen if I hit the emergency button.
by TruePath | 2026-01-25 04:19:19+00:00
What is the usecase for using ssh at all where you don't need to be resistant against timing analysis? Either it's not sensitive and you can use telnet (if necessary after using ssh to authenticate) or the game (or other stuff on the connection) might be sensitive and you need traffic analysis resistance.

If you get clever and write a client to ensure sensitive data like passwords or email are sent in a burst you could just use an encryption library just for that data instead.
by wholinator2 | 2026-01-25 04:19:26+00:00
Yeah, it's definitely a small percent of people. But i do wonder how many there really has to be to have an outsized effect. One of those lifted kid killers blowing black smoke for the entire duration of the bicycle pack is definitely more than 3 of my tiny honda civics, i wonder how many it really is, and how much those modifications increase the "resting emissions rate"even when not blowing shit. Should be illegal, likely is.
by Ronsenshi | 2026-01-25 04:19:45+00:00
> that's self-harming because you lose out on all the benefits.

This is some big stretch in reasoning. Four years ago we were not harming ourselves by not having AI and writing code ourselves.

At most you're hurting your ability to compete with "vibe coders" whose metric so far has been lines of code and $ spend per day running agents, not successful products.

Have you considered how relying on AI affects your own programming skills?
by hahahahhaah | 2026-01-25 04:20:09+00:00
Everyone. Subscribe. Hit the 39.99. File a CC dispute. Then class action.

My theory. Apple not doing this for the money (as this is like me scamming a homeless guy for 0.001c) but someone working for Apple did it to hit an OKR for their promo.

The chargebacks and class action for Apple like me paying a 0.1c fine.

To stop this needs Brussels to sprout.
by invokestatic | 2026-01-25 04:20:16+00:00
Well, this project is literally about me circumventing/removing Boot Guard so I don’t know how it’s corporate authoritarianism. I’m literally getting rid of it. In doing so I get complete control of the BIOS/firmware down to the reset vector. I can disable ME. To me, that’s ultimate freedom.

As a power user, do I want boot guard on my personal PC? Honestly, no. And we’re in luck because a huge amount of consumer motherboards have a Boot Guard profile so insecure it’s basically disabled. But do I want our laptops at work to have it, or the server I have at a colocation facility to have it? Yes I do. Because I don’t want my server to have a bootkit installed by someone with an SPI flasher. I don’t want my HR rep getting hidden, persistent malware because they ran an exe disguised as a pdf. It’s valuable in some contexts.
by al_borland | 2026-01-25 04:21:24+00:00
Does Amazon have a number on the card to call for the balance, or is that only a thing with cards for brick and mortar shops?

For what it’s worth, if the gift card was purchased at a store, part of the back needs to be torn off for it to be scanned and activated, which makes all those cards look tampered with. Not sure if that’s what you’re seeing or not.
by skylurk | 2026-01-25 04:21:54+00:00
BMW has hardware and software bloat for sure, I hate driving them. But sedans, even the heavy ones, don't really hurt roads much compared to a lorry.

As your wikipedia link indicates, any road that is designed for lorry use should be able to take heavy sedans all day and not be worse for wear:

> Therefore, the resulting stress difference between truck and car is 15,000 to 1.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-25 04:22:16+00:00
The causation is in the other direction. Innovative entrepreneurs cause wealth to become highly concentrated, and cause their companies to distort the societies they're embedded in, by the act of producing goods and services that a large number of people want to buy.

Bezos is actually a great example, because he made almost his entire US$250B fortune from unrealized stock appreciation rather than salary or new awards. Even the most extreme wealth tax proposals I've seen wouldn't get him down to US$25B. The US could only have achieved that target by restricting how much Amazon is allowed to innovate and grow.
by compounding_it | 2026-01-25 04:22:20+00:00
Bloomberg like companies employ thousands of people who’s livelihood depends on their salaries. This in turn helps them pay rent and spend money. The economy is interdependent on a lot of such bad businesses. While on the outside we may think this is a scam it would be very difficult to crack them without having mass effects on the population. What happened in dot com bubble or 2008 when these scams collapsed is an example of what can happen when these unethical and illegal companies collapse.

This is of course a capitalist economy where the government cannot provide simple benefits like free healthcare and subsidized higher education in exchange for high competition and high churn rate of businesses and startups.

So the solution is to tame these beasts from time to time and use that as political agenda to win votes and try to keep things sane.

So far it has mostly worked.
by kmajid | 2026-01-25 04:22:50+00:00
We prevent discontinuities by using a Continuous Extended Kalman Filter where the physics model serves as the persistent baseline and telemetry acts only as a corrective update. When the buffer leaks, the system doesn't snap to a new position; instead, it continues propagating the state via physics while the uncertainty covariance grows smoothly. When fresh data eventually arrives, we use the innovation delta to gradually steer the state back to reality, ensuring a seamless transition rather than a coordinate jump.
by komali2 | 2026-01-25 04:23:42+00:00
He's spoken about it extensively in interviews. Watch his El Capitan movie or recent interviews before this climb.

He just finds it very peaceful and thrilling. "Just him and the climb" kind of language.

Also I suppose clout has to be involved: only person to free solo El Capitan, as far as I know the only person to climb Taipei 101 let alone free solo (did the spiderman guy ever make it or was he arrested?)
by indolering | 2026-01-25 04:26:25+00:00
Yeah, routing is still a major PITA.

It's just that almost anything is better than wifi in concrete/stone houses. I can see point-to-point outside with an unobstructed view being reliable enough. But point-to-point through 3ft of concrete is [HN is a neglected Xennial hobby and doesn't support emojis]!

Certainly worth reconsidering wired when that P2P hardware goes EOL.
by komali2 | 2026-01-25 04:26:26+00:00
I and some friends observed his climb from the base of Taipei 101. Thousands of people were present and it was very good fun how the crowd would react when he made it to another ledge, and when he made it to the top people were shouting and cheering. It was like a great big party.

I imagine Threads and Instagram just got hit with like ten thousand vertical video clips of the climb if you're interested in seeing for yourself.

For me it was almost scary how abruptly he started and made it up the first ledge. Dude just fuckin went for it. Made me realize, for the first time, how truly incredible the feat was to be.

The observation deck level is often so windy I worry about losing my phone if I take it out. I can't comprehend how he managed that wind while hanging on by his fingertips. Then he stood at the tippy top for quite some time, which must be unbelievably windy. At some point he was tethered in for the rapelle down though so maybe he clipped in right as he got to the top.
by westurner | 2026-01-25 04:28:00+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46433355 re: quickemu, LXD snapshots and live migration, virtio-gpu-rutabaga:

> IOMMU GPU passthrough with device selection would be a helpful feature: https://www.google.com/search?q=gpu+passthrough+qemu

rutabaga_gfx does GPU paravirtualization:
https://github.com/magma-gpu/rutabaga_gfx
by mmcclure | 2026-01-25 04:29:22+00:00
Oh really? I was looking at the Agent SDK for an idea and the docs seemed to imply that wasn't the case.

Unless previously approved, we do not allow third party developers to offer Claude.ai login or rate limits for their products, including agents built on the Claude Agent SDK. Please use the API key authentication methods described in this document instead.

I didn't dig deeper, but I'd pick it back up for a little personal project if I could just use my current subscription. Does it just use your local CC session out of the box?
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-25 04:29:39+00:00
CALEA and courts have compelled companies to install systems that allow them to track/record targets' communications and data, even if their own systems weren't designed with such abilities in mind.

From[1]:

> USA telecommunications providers must install new hardware or software, as well as modify old equipment, so that it doesn't interfere with the ability of a law enforcement agency (LEA) to perform real-time surveillance of any telephone or Internet traffic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-25 04:30:52+00:00
I strongly disagree.

foreach (apple in fruitbasket)
apple.Eat()

vs.

for (int i = 0, while i < fruitBasket.Count, i++)
fruitbasket[i].Eat()

Even as a low-level programmer, I truly loathe C-style for loops. It takes several seconds to parse them, while the C#-style foreach is instantly grokkable with zero mental overhead. When you're scanning over thousands of lines of codes, the speed and ease of reading constructs like these adds up and makes a huge difference. The desire to apply human-friendly syntax to low-level programming is among the greatest motivating factors for the language I'm working on. All of that being said, I think there is a huge advantage in having code that reads like natural language you understand, rather than have keywords that are foreign and meaningless to you.
by sathish316 | 2026-01-25 04:31:24+00:00
Pied-Piper is another Subagents orchestration system that works from a single Claude code session with an orchestrator and multiple agents that handoff tasks to each other to follow a workflow - https://github.com/sathish316/pied-piper

It has Playbooks for repeatable workflows using which you can model both generic SDLC workflows (Plan-Code-Review-Security review-Merge) or complex workflows like Language migration, Tech stack migration (Problem breakdown-Plan-Migrate-IntegrationTest-TechStackExpertReview-CodeReview-Merge)

Hopefully, it will have the least amount of changes once Claude Swarm and Claude Tasks becomes mainstream
by renewiltord | 2026-01-25 04:31:44+00:00
Western countries will never match the new East Asian cities. All cities decay as the residents begin to oppose change. All residents begin to oppose change as they age and become wealthier. So whatever you become before the population gets rich is what you will remain.

There will be no new fast subway in San Francisco and there will be no maglev in NYC. There will be no autonomous buses in Sydney and London will be entirely devoid of skyways.

This is the nature of growth. One grows then dies as one fossilizes. The next one grows past but no one will ever reinvent themselves.

This is why death is crucial to improvement.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-25 04:31:49+00:00
But he didn’t need to die. His was a needless death. He never needed to do any of that. He sacrificed his life needlessly. He could’ve stayed at home. Not “hiding” but just peacefully staying out of the fucking civil.unrest.

You somehow imply that this dude armed to the teeth, walking around with 2.extra.magazines concealed, was unaware of riots going on in the streets around him? It is to.laugh!
by al_borland | 2026-01-25 04:31:50+00:00
Yes, but it is still rather unnerving when part of the car goes dark. It also makes me question the QA on this stuff. If that is crashing, will the other systems be crashing at some point as well? Is there redundancy? These are the questions that went through my mind while hoping the screen would come back on before I missed my exit. Even knowing the systems are completely separate, it spoke to overall quality.
by grayhatter | 2026-01-25 04:33:23+00:00
a pet peeve of mine, (along with people brigading on issues/threads e.g. posting them to unrelated news sites... op....) is woefully incorrect language.

> at day 66 all our jobs started randomly failing

if there's a definable pattern, you can call it unpredictabily, but you can't call it randomly.
by dangus | 2026-01-25 04:33:35+00:00
Something that needs to be pointed out, especially for those who want to push back against findings like this and essentially defend ICE vehicles:

Really step back and imagine a world where the modern EV [1] was first to market and a gasoline combustion engine was second.

Who would actually decide to switch from a modern EV to gasoline on purpose of their own choice?

The downsides of gasoline cars are actually pretty crazy: complicated engines and transmissions with heavy maintenance schedules, emissions, more NVH, worse interior space and packaging, need to wait for HVAC rather than it being ready ahead of time, need to go to a special gas station to add fuel, worse/slower performance.

You would have this laundry list of downsides and your only potential plus sides are faster fueling on road trips over 4 hours long, lower curb weight, and lower cost.

And those three minor down sides are very likely to be resolved sometime within the next 10-20 years.

[1] Not talking about Baker Electric type of stuff that was quickly surpassed by internal combustion of its day
by wincy | 2026-01-25 04:33:45+00:00
Crazy, so if I understand correctly, something with B200s and nvlink is causing issues where after 66 days and 12 hours of uptime, nvidia-smi and other jobs start failing, timing out, then once you restart the cluster it starts working again.

They suspect jobs will work if you only use 1 B200, but one person power cycled so wasn’t able to test it. Hopefully they won’t have to wait another 66 days for further troubleshooting.