MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j45 | 2026-01-25 19:12:10+00:00
There will be because over time the lazy and passive copying will itself become lazy and bring in more of the ai patterns.

The better way to use ai is to get it to teach you to write the essay better and faster each time so it remains your voice and starts with how you write already and develop it from there.

Everyone generally speaks and writes different enough like a gait. Ai erases that both directly and indirectly.

People who think they’re clever with ai but won’t spend time developing any actual skills will always get exposed eventually.

Colleges are introducing rules that if they can detect AI after you graduate they will cancel your degree. Fun watches on YouTube showing it.

Have fun!
by LeFantome | 2026-01-25 19:12:19+00:00
In both of the cases people criticize the Ladybird founder for, he was explicitly asking to avoid conflict. If you do not have time to read up on it, maybe temper these accusations with that knowledge.

He was first branded as a fascist when a non-contributor to SerenityOS submitted a bug or a pull request to change male pronouns to something else. Kling asked to keep the project contributions and discussion technical and not political. That is it. His crime was the classic “asking me not to be political is political” drama.

Next, and admittedly worse, he said something related to Charlie Kirk like “I hope more people engage with words and not fists”. Since Charlie Kirk was a massive douche, people do not like implying that there was anything good about him. While I get this, the idea that this comment confirms Andreas Kling to be a fascist is, well, a bit fascist for my taste.

Kling is famous for starting his videos with “Hello friends”, he has hundreds of good natured videos online, he is very open and humble of his experiences with drug addiction, and he lives in a country that is almost exclusively left wing by US standards. He seems far better behaved than his critics. I am going to have to see a bit more evidence than the above to start boycotting Ladybird over his politics. But that is just me I guess.
by ndriscoll | 2026-01-25 19:12:20+00:00
Apps also auto update on Android. Frequently though, the updates reduce functionality or make it more annoying (basics like messages, calculator, photos, calendar, etc have been 'done' for a decade+ and can only really be made worse), so personally I've turned that off for most apps (and I suppose the other poster has too). Of course Google being aggressive assholes, they then have some of their apps start showing popups every time you open it telling you to update when the entire point was to have it not change in functionality and not introduce that sort of thing.
by exoverito | 2026-01-25 19:12:21+00:00
The US, UK, and Western powers have been waging information war for far longer than 2016. Look at Canadian PM Mark Carney's latest speech at Davos, he admits the 'Rules based international order' was a fiction, and the US has had a very long history of covert operations, 'enhanced interrogation', destabilization campaigns, funding of terrorists, propping up of dictators, bombing and invading of many countries...

To be specific consider how many lies have been told by the American mainstream media around the narratives of Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Syria, Libya, etc. Israel has the most surveilled and well defended border in the world, the Mossad is sophisticated enough to launch pager attacks to decapitate Hezbollah leadership, yet somehow they got caught with their pants down and Hamas combatants could raid their country for 12 hours without a response. The US also had funded Osama bin Laden in the 1980s, knew Al Qaeda was plotting another attack on the WTC, and the Neocons in the Bush administration wanted a new Pearl Harbor as outlined in the Project for a New American Century.

Russia is not uniquely or even particularly evil here, it's entirely rational for them to not want a major neighbor to join an enemy alliance. Look at how America has treated Cuba for decades. People should stop being so naive.
by gunsle | 2026-01-25 19:12:39+00:00
That is literally not true in any way. Let’s see your immigrant crime stats.

Crime is at an all time low because liberal DAs like the one here in Minneapolis let repeat offenders off constantly because locking them up (enforcing the law fairly) would be racist.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/17/hennepin-county-to-...

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/courts-news/hennep...

Literally their arguments are that these people are from a disadvantaged background so they should be allowed to run around harming innocents, repeatedly. These crimes are never fully prosecuted, so the police department and local governments can count them as “not crimes” meaning the crime rate they report stays low. Crime is visibly terrible here in Minneapolis - whole blocks of decent neighborhoods having their cars broken into, regularly shootings and violent crime even in commercial areas, the complete destruction of uptown, I could go on - and yet our police chief and mayor are out there touting historically low crime. On top of large scale fraud taking place that liberal female judges are throwing out after unanimous guilty verdicts.

Things like this

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1pconlj/hennepin...

are a literal lie. I’ve lived here my whole life. There is absolutely Somalian gang activity both in the twin cities metro and in St. Cloud.

If they don’t even look into Somali crime, or claim it doesn’t exist (lol) they can of course claim the crime rate is historically low.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-25 19:13:23+00:00
"Google's long term strategy with Android is baffling to me. "

How does one know there is a long-term strategy

History has shown that so-called "tech" companies often act in a reactionary manner^1

1. Often, the act is of one of copying what someone else has done. Other times it might be response to regulation

One could argue Android itself was a reaction to iOS

This is one example of the reactionary copying phenomenon but HN replies may choose to focus only on this one example and not on the overall "tech" company phenomenon of reactionism as exhibited through endless copying
by filoeleven | 2026-01-25 19:13:31+00:00
There are voting anomalies in electronic voting records in key states. There's an org looking into this, filing lawsuits for more records from counties and states. The trend is, "the more voters that voted in a polling place, the more that polling place's machine-counted votes skewed towards Trump." These trends are not present in the hand counts.

They have a YouTube channel too. If the charts in isolation don't make sense to you (they don't to me), watch any of their interviews on the channel to get a walk-through of the charts and their meanings.

Their findings for Minnesota:
https://electiontruthalliance.org/analysis/minnesota-hand-ve...
by SV_BubbleTime | 2026-01-25 19:14:14+00:00
Depends.

I have a vehicle in my personal shop right now. It needs a new battery, it is effectively totaled.

The battery costs more than the vehicle.

The effort for me to replace the battery modules (not even the cells inside of them) involves taking the entire suspension out, and then, you have the ACTUALLY FATAL issue of working on the battery pack. You need 1000V+ gloves that expire every six months, composite ratchets and sockets, and for me high voltage certification.

There is nothing on an ICE vehicle that can kill you while working on its parts.

I will be downvoted by people who need (literally) to defend their purchase. Always am on this topic.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-25 19:14:37+00:00
> Anyhow, either we do science or we just admit that we don't like the social implications of the evidence.

Right, right... Rehabilitation of eugenics in 3, 2, 1... Nothing new here, Hitler did follow the "social implications of the evidence"... after all, a whole bunch of esteemed scientists and Nobel laureates hailed eugenics as the best thing after sliced white bread, Hitler did quite a bit of slicing of that material himself. No, he didn't invent his theory, he simply followed accepted science.

> Trying to hide data and gaslight the public isn't science.

There isn't much that resembles science in social academia, data isn't science and the prediction of the so-called "social" sciences have been disastrously wrong all along.

Data isn't evidence ether - you have to have a theory within a science with a sound methodological foundation before you can treat data as evidence. We don't have that now and we've never had it, the few meager attempts were politicized and bastardized in their infancy.

> It's funny because this guy is center-left, he just happens to actually be intellectually honest.

Center-left? Like all Democrats in Congress who joined the fifty-odd Republicans to vote for letting the government remotely mess with your car while you drive?

At the time of a real shooting war in the streets in Minneapolis they seized the opportunity to put some more shackles around public's ankles.

There isn't left, right or center in US party politics - only Orwellian-left theater vs Orwellian-right theater in service of forces who view the public as sheep to be sheared.
by cratermoon | 2026-01-25 19:14:59+00:00
I'd like to counter the narrative that the Mars climate orbiter failure was caused by an engineering error.
Yes, there were errors in mixing up units, but the navigators and flight controllers discovered well in advance that the trajectory was off.
They wanted mission managers to approve a course correction burn,
but were denied.

"Far more was at fault with the Mars Climate Orbiter than a simple mixup in converting metric and British units"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-mars-probe-went-off-course

A better example might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
by PlanksVariable | 2026-01-25 19:15:26+00:00
Experienced police officers have also infrequently and unfortunately shot people. Is the conclusion we should halt all law enforcement? Or we just enforce laws you like?

The goal is to minimize such outcomes as much as humanly possible while also maintaining the law.

We could also save lives if we stopped politicizing the act of law enforcement. The left didn’t mobilize ordinary people to harass armed ICE officers when Obama was in office and deporting illegal immigrants, and naturally this preserved lives. The difference isn’t in the act of law enforcement then and now, which is essentially the same, but in its politicization from both the right and left.
by lpcvoid | 2026-01-25 19:15:34+00:00
The Play Store was riddled with scam apps last time I used it. Be it fake apps that pretend to do something while doing at best nothing ("system optimizers", "antivirus" apps) over user data mining apps (often targeted at children or young people) to hundreds of clones of commercial or open source apps - you do not have to search very long to find the real scams.

Making sideloading harder has only one goal - growing the wall around the garden a bit higher, piece by piece, layer by layer, while everything within slowly grows more toxic.
by arthurcolle | 2026-01-25 19:16:20+00:00
Since them I've acquired a 3D printer, so I've increased the surface area of expensive things I can break.

If I can ever figure out how to repurpose some of these electronics maybe for some kind of AI robot (yes, the gimbal + camera optics are so nice, it feels like a sci fi eyeball from 2037!) I will be back in business.

Some people sell exploits to "jailbreaks DJI drone firmware but with current US admin I don't think it is prudent to do too much "off-label" usage of this kind of tech.

But seeing this geofencing post.... I just had too much experience trying to get around these restrictions to actually believe that they'd drop the geofencing, especially after a consumer drone ban.

Thank you for the chain suggestion, that would have been intelligent to do. Matter of fact, my father may have made that suggestion at the time. Alas, that was a very move fast and break things period of my life.
by bradley13 | 2026-01-25 19:16:47+00:00
"We should distinguish the person from the deed"

No, we shouldn't. Research fraud is committed by people, who must be held accountable. In this specific case, if the issues had truly been accidental, the author's would have responded and revised their paper. They did not, ergo their false claims were likely deliberate.

That the school and the journal show no interest - equally bad, and deserving of public shaming.

Of course, this is also a consequence of "publish or perish."
by xorvoid | 2026-01-25 19:16:53+00:00
This. Watching Honnold makes your palms go clamy and makes you uncomfortable because you imagine how terified you'd be in that position. But for an athlete like Honnold, the experience is more similar to just a "hard hike". Strenuous, but just work. It's just normalized because he does it so damn much. He really seriously is not gonna fall off that building, just like you're not gonna get seriously injured on a class 3 hike.

(Source: I'm also a climber. Not remotely close to Alex's level. But frequent exposure significantly changes how your brain processes these situations)
by UltraSane | 2026-01-25 19:17:10+00:00
Iran's economic problems include massive resource diversion to IRGC enterprises, funding for foreign militias (Hezbollah, Houthis, Iraqi PMFs), and systemic corruption that predates the harshest sanctions. The Rial was already collapsing under Ahmadinejad's mismanagement. They have refused to invest in modern water distribution infrastructure. Attributing it all to sanctions is the regime's own preferred narrative.

Iran has cut internet access during every major protest 2017, 2019 (where they killed 1,500+ protesters in a week), 2022 after Mahsa Amini. The pattern correlates perfectly with domestic unrest, not with any "terrorist" incidents. The Starlink justification appeared after they'd already established the shutdown. You're taking their post hoc rationalization at face value.

You accused me of propaganda, then in the same breath presented the Iranian government's exact talking points as reasonable alternatives. That's the irony I was pointing out. You're not being skeptical you're being selectively skeptical, which is worse than being credulous because it masquerades as critical thinking.
If you want to argue the US has done bad things in Iran (1953 coup, shooting down IR655, etc.), sure. But "the regime isn't that bad, actually" requires ignoring their own documented behavior.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-25 19:17:37+00:00
Sort of an aside, but what's next now that Tiktok is deeply into end-stage enshittification? It'd dead now, a formerly fun app morphed into grotesque eyeball milking system owned by one of the worst people on the planet. I deleted the app this week after the feed ramped ad content up to being an ad every other video, frequently with ads back to back to back.

It's cooked.
by irl_zebra | 2026-01-25 19:17:53+00:00
They are very related concepts. Lack of remorse? Malicious act? Particularly heinous act? Both morally blameworthy and bad person! Isolated incident? Not a pattern? Morally blameworthy but not bad person.

This is pretty standard virtue ethics we all learned in school. Your statements that morally blameworthiness and badness are "[n]ot the same thing...[a]t all" and that we should "[n]ever qualify the person, only the deed" make me think your moral framework is likely not linked to millennia of thought in this area from Socrates on down, so it's unlikely we will get anywhere and should "agree to disagree."
by josephcsible | 2026-01-25 19:18:00+00:00
> What feels safe from the perspective of someone operating a vehicle can be quite different than what's actually safe when there are pedestrians and cars unexpectedly popping out of driveways.

That's all the more reason to raise speed limits on the major roads. Speed limits being more reasonable there makes it more likely that drivers would abide by them even on those smaller residential streets.
by einsteinx2 | 2026-01-25 19:18:12+00:00
I’ve had chronic back problems due to computer use and back posture for 20+ years. This past year I bought an adjustable height desk and an Aeron chair to try and help, but I still slouch constantly without realizing it.

I cloned this a few hours ago and started using it and it’s amazing how effective the blur is! And it’s frustrating to learn how quickly I start slouching the second I’m not paying attention.

I’ll echo what I’ve seen others saying about how cool it is to see something come about due to LLM coding that likely wouldn’t have otherwise. Glad to see you actively working on it, and I’ll be using it every day!

P.S. I’ve been an iOS and Mac dev writing Obj-C and then Swift for 16 years now, so if you run into any issues that Claude isn’t sorting out feel free to reach out to me, you can find my contact via my GitHub which is in my profile (same username as hear). Also as I’ll be using this regularly, if I come up with any improvements I’ll be sure to open a PR!
by baconbrand | 2026-01-25 19:18:22+00:00
From everything we are seeing, the tools are not actually that capable. Their main function is not their stated function of spying/knowing a lot about people. Their main function is to dehumanize people.

When you use a computer to tell you who to target, it makes it easy for your brain to never consider that person as a human being at all. They are a target. An object.

Their stated capabilities are lies, marketing, and a smokescreen for their true purpose.

This is Lavender v2, and I’m sure others could name additional predecessors. Systems rife with errors but the validity isn’t the point; the system is.
by tavavex | 2026-01-25 19:18:36+00:00
> Sorry but if you believe tailscaling home is a crime you're the enemy of society, your rules are a joke

Are you replying to the wrong comment? The person above said nothing about how good or bad privacy measures are. What they're saying that totalitarianism is a problem of governance, not technology. In a totalitarian world, when some new technological way to bypass oversight is conceived, the government or other powerful entities will always have the means to shut it all down, they just need to care enough. If people start using VPNs en masse, they'll start mandatory computer searches, develop increasingly sophisticated tracing and detecting tech, or as a last resort shut it all down by targeting the underlying infrastructure - you know, like Iran. If enough people start carrying devices with hidden filesystems, then they'll start equipping police, border guards etc. with devices that plug into phones and detect these hidden compartments, armed with mandatory manufacturer backdoors and all zero-days they'll ever need. The point is that crackdowns are inevitable, unless your movement aims at staying nearly irrelevant to the regime. They always have the means to win. Changing it requires a restructuring of society, not an increasingly elaborate and lopsided cat-and-mouse game.

> declaration of Independence of cyberspace

Please tell me you're joking.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-25 19:19:12+00:00
Does the IFR matter? The public thinks lives are infinitely valuable. Lives that the public pays attention to. 0.1% or 1%, it doesn’t really matter, right, it gets multiplied by infinity in an ROI calculation. Or whatever so called “objective” criteria people try to concoct for policymaking. I like Ioannidis’s work, and his results about serotypes (or whatever) were good, but it was being co-opted to make a mostly political policy (some Republicans: compulsory public interaction during a pandemic and uncharitably, compulsory transmission of a disease) look “objective.”

I don’t think the general idea of co-opting is hard to understand, it’s quite easy to understand. But there is a certain personality type, common among people who earn a living by telling Claude what to do, out there with a defect to have to “prove” people on the Internet “wrong,” and these people are constantly, blithely mobilized to further someone’s political cause who truly doesn’t give a fuck about them. Ioannidis is such a personality type, and as you can see, a victim.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-25 19:20:10+00:00
This. As much as I would like to say 'individual responsibility' and all that, the sheer amount of information that is designed to make one follow a specific path, react in specific way or offer opinion X is crazy. I am not entirely certain what the solution is, but I am saying this as a person, who likes to think I am somewhat aware of attempts to subvert my judgment and I still catch myself learning ( usually later after the fact ) that I am not as immune as I would like to think.
by 7777777phil | 2026-01-25 19:20:33+00:00
This week I started to create a "TIOBE Index" for AI Agents. I'd really like to run a regular poll on HN that keeps track of which AI coding agents are actually being used by this community, rather than just which ones are winning benchmarks. I hope the results will provide a high-level view of what people are using in production and how that shifts month-over-month.

In the last 12 hours we had 225 submissions (Margin of Error ±6.2%) and need ~160 more to reach statistical significance (n=385, MOE ±5%). No tracking, email optional (only for results). I will post the results + the "January Index" here once we hit the threshold.

It just takes one minute of your time. Thank you for participating!!
by einsteinx2 | 2026-01-25 19:20:47+00:00
> One could argue Android itself was a reaction to iOS

It quite literally was a reaction to iOS considering it was originally a copy of the BlackBerry OS (the older one in their keyboard phones) until the iPhone came out and they pivoted to copying iOS instead.

EDIT: to get ahead of any negative replies about them copying iOS, I’m fully aware that they work quite differently under the hood and Android has had various features before iOS, etc. I mean they were creating from a UI/UX standpoint a copy of the BlackBerry when Google bought them, and then when the iPhone came out they completely changed the UI/UX paradigm to match.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-25 19:21:04+00:00
> Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware

The PineBuds are designed and sold as an open firmware platform to allow software experimentation, so there’s nothing bad nor any economic failures going on here. Having a powerful general purpose microcontroller to experiment with is a design goal of the product.

That said, ANC Bluetooth earbuds are not menial products. Doing ANC properly is very complicated. It’s much harder than taking the input from a microphone, inverting the signal, and feeding it into the output. There’s a lot of computation that needs to be done continuously.

Using a powerful microcontroller isn’t a failure, it’s a benefit of having advanced semiconductor processes. Basically anything small and power efficient on a modern process will have no problem running at tens of MHz speeds. You want modern processes for the battery efficiency and you get speed as a bonus.

The speed isn’t wasted, either. Higher clock speeds means lower latency. In a battery powered device having an MCU running at 48MHz may seem excessive until you realize that the faster it finishes every unit of work the sooner it can go to sleep. It’s not always about raw power.

Modern earbuds are complicated. Having a general purpose MCU to allow software updates is much better than trying to get the entire wireless stack, noise cancellation, and everything else completely perfect before spinning out a custom ASIC.

We’re very fortunate to have all of this at our disposal. The groveling about putting powerful microcontrollers into small things ignores the reality of how hard it is to make a bug-free custom ASIC and break even on it relative to spending $0.10 per unit on a proven microcontroller manufacturer at scale.