MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clearleaf | 2026-01-18 22:27:25+00:00
It's been really sad to see reddit go like this because it was pretty much the last bastion of the human internet. I hated reddit back in the day but later got into it for that reason. It's why all our web searches turned into "cake recipe reddit." But boy did they throw it in the garbage fast.
One of their new features is you can read AI generated questions with AI generated answers. What could the purpose of that possibly be?
We still have the old posts... for the most part (a lot of answers were purged during the protest) but what's left of it is also slipping away fast for various reasons. Maybe I'll try to get back into gemini protocol or something.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-18 22:27:30+00:00
许其亮同志作为党和国家的领导人，在多个场合就国际关系和战略安全等问题发表过重要论述。关于您提到的“修昔底德陷阱”相关内容，经核查，2021年他在相关会议或讲话中确实涉及对美国及大国竞争的看法，以下是根据公开报道整理的核心观点（具体表述以官方发布为准）：
许其亮同志在2021年关于美国与“修昔底德陷阱”的相关论述要点：

他指出，当前国际战略格局深刻演变，美国等西方国家固守冷战思维，推行单边主义、霸权主义，刻意制造意识形态对立和地缘博弈，试图通过“印太战略”等手段围堵遏制中国发展，本质上是将“修昔底德陷阱”的陈旧逻辑强加于大国关系，这是对历史规律的误读和对时代潮流的逆动。

他强调，中国始终坚持走和平发展道路，坚定奉行防御性国防政策，无意也不会与美国搞“国强必霸”的零和博弈。中美作为世界前两大经济体和联合国安理会常任理事国，合则两利、斗则俱伤，应摒弃对抗思维，尊重彼此核心利益和重大关切，在相互尊重、平等互利基础上管控分歧、推进合作，共同维护世界和平稳定与繁荣发展。

他还指出，“修昔底德陷阱”并非历史必然，关键在于大国能否超越“国强必霸”的逻辑，树立正确认知、构建新型国际关系。中国愿与美国一道，推动构建不冲突不对抗、相互尊重、合作共赢的中美关系，为破解“修昔底德陷阱”提供新思路。
说明：

以上内容为基于公开报道的概括整理，具体原文需以新华社、《解放军报》等官方媒体发布的讲话全文为准。如需查阅完整讲话，建议通过以下途径获取权威信息：

访问中国军网（http://www.81.cn）或国防部官网（http://www.mod.gov.cn）搜索2021年相关会议报道；

查阅《习近平谈治国理政》第四卷及当年全国两会、军队重要会议的新闻通稿；

关注新华社、人民日报等中央媒体的专题报道。

如需进一步核实，可提供更具体的会议背景（如全国人大解放军代表团会议、中央军委扩大会议等），以便精准检索。
by Aurornis | 2026-01-18 22:28:35+00:00
> These posts definitely contribute to the declining morale among employees. Nobody goes "above and beyond" anymore - we just strictly doing the tickets and nothing more.

I think those posts exist in a bubble. They only escaped the bubble because someone wanted to use them once over to unite a different group of people against a different set of bad guys, ironically continuing the cycle. This time it’s devs loathing management instead of management loathing devs.

All of the great people I’ve worked with don’t play any of these games at all. They know it’s a sideshow of engagement bait and content generated with a goal of being controversial, not truthful.
by dang | 2026-01-18 22:28:58+00:00
As I read or rather hear it, "The A in AGI stands for Ads" has two things qualifying it as linkbait in the HN sense. One is snark, the other is the mammoth meme ("AGI"). Both those things stick to the Big Ball of Mud that rolls chaotically over most of the internet.

The objection here isn't to wit, it's to predictability. I'm not sure what the equivalent of internet snark was in 1968, but I doubt that "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" embodied it.

Of course, interpretations differ. No two people would agree on all these classifications, including me and tomhow. The important point isn't that we always make the correct call (we don't, plus there's no such thing as the correct call), but that we try to apply that principle from the guidelines, even though doing so involves interpretation and is therefore uneven.

On the bright side, it means that objections to titles and/or title edits, always good for firing up an HN thread, will always be with us!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8770124 (Dec 2014)
by zipy124 | 2026-01-18 22:29:23+00:00
It is based upon context, you are correct that it is ambiguious, as is the problem of most natural language.

-I believe that <inference systems not using the Python stack> (which I do not appreciate) are a way to free open models usage and make AI more accessible.

This reading of the text would lead one to believe they don't appreciate inferences systems not written in python. Given the inference system produced by the author is also not using the python stack (it is in C), we can assume this is not the correct reading.

-I believe that inference systems not using the <Python stack> (which I do not appreciate) are a way to free open models usage and make AI more accessible.

This reading says that the author does not like the python stack for inference, which given the author has produced this inference in C, would support the statement.

That is we have to take both readings and think which one fits the context around it, hopefully this helps :)
by Yokohiii | 2026-01-18 22:30:05+00:00
I don't do AI coding at that level, so anyone please correct me.

Usually bulk of the AI coding is done via python libs building on pytorch. So if you release anything, you want to get it running on that ecosystem. But the whole ecosystem is really heavy. My python folder is almost 6GB, for ComfyUI, a generative image AI Web GUI. This also has some models in in, so it's not just raw python code and it's much more then you need then just for raw inference. But you can see that it's messy and huge. Maintaining these installs usually comes with quite some complaints.

The model itself also cannot generate images without some code and you need to plug a few individual components together like text encoding, a VAE and the model to get everything working. Most of the components will live on the GPU but you need code to prepare the data and send it to the GPU to process it.
Pytorch is fairly efficient, but python as an ecosystem can have some blind spots or bottlenecks, so if you want to minmax efficiency you'd prefer native solutions.

Just in case, the author is the guy who made Redis. Even if it's an AI project, you can expect some baseline quality.
by danabramov | 2026-01-18 22:30:23+00:00
I still don't think this is correct. The Bluesky app always processes video, whether you're self-hosting or not. The personal data serves stores the original blob, but the Bluesky's video service will have to pick it up and transcode it (to serve it from CDN) either way.

Also, this:

>let them profit from a technical "innovation" that is 6 levels of indirection to mimic activity pub.

is also wrong because AT solves completely different problems. None of the stuff I wrote about in the post can be solved or or is being solved by ActivityPub. Like, AP is just message passing. It doesn't help with aggregation, identity, signing, linking cross-application data, any of that.
by frizlab | 2026-01-18 22:31:00+00:00
Wow I did not know this thing that was a bit hard to implement in my project[0] had a name!

Basically you can, with my lib, define the tokens `*` and `_` (or anything else) to resp. make text go bold and italic, and use it as such:

This text is *bold _and* italic_!

[0] https://github.com/Frizlab/XibLoc (Readme is lacking…)
by einpoklum | 2026-01-18 22:31:27+00:00
> those random bazaar vendors would like to have a respectable church-sized building.

I believe the analogy breaks down here some. That is, actual bazaar vendors may want this (I suppose), but FOSS maintainers may or may not want an organization to form around them. They may be content with the way things are; or they may just want a co-maintainer.
by MomsAVoxell | 2026-01-18 22:31:53+00:00
I too used to lust after these computers in my youth, at least until actual 8-bit machines started turning up in the city shops and neighborhood parties were had whenever someone got something new running .. the 80’s were a fantastic time to be a computer nerd. Apple and Atari annd Oric and Sinclair and Amstrad and Commodore and TI and BBC and .. so many other systems .. were competing in the 80’s markets.

So many different kind of systems, each struggling to find their own user base and differentiate.

Magazines were key to the process of discovery of what and how to use your computer of choice. I had stacks and stacks of magazines, and became adept at reading LIST’ings at the news-stand and learning deep secrets that I eagerly re-implemented once I got back home. Because I had to, anyway, my computer didn’t have much software market-wise.

For many of us, the computer revolution came at a sweet spot of adolescent development. As a young early computer user of the 70’s/80’s, I learned a lot of stuff that is simply taken for granted today, by having to do it myself on various systems.

The standardization of platforms back then was for sure, not a certainty. The sheer variety of ideas about how computing systems should be built and used, industry or personal, was actually kind of astonishing.

This is why I am heartened by the very, very thriving retro-computing scene. Computers don’t grow old - their users do!
by oblio | 2026-01-18 22:32:00+00:00
The thing is, Twitter is stuck. It's not growing, most likely it's shrinking. We also have no idea if it's profitable or not.

Twitter had a lot of engineers on its payroll to look for the next big thing.

If you give that up and keep a skeleton crew, sure, that works.

Most businesses don't want to become husks of their former selves.
by tzs | 2026-01-18 22:32:08+00:00
Good. Countries the size of the US don't need bold change. They need stability with change accomplished by a gentle shift in direction.

What bold change looks like is Trump. An anti-Trump government implementing bold change in the other direction would be bad too. Not as bad because more of their change would at least be toward things that would be good in the long run, but there would still be a lot of harm on the way by taking it too fast.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-18 22:32:12+00:00
If you want to have the whole thing, it'd probably take dozens of hard drives each of which needs several hours to copy. For scale, individual chunks of the archive are several gigabytes, and there are thousands of chunks. It's not like that torrent with 1000 books you got in the day. There are millions of books and god knows what else in the archive.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-18 22:33:31+00:00
Die Europäische Union prüft Vergeltungsmaßnahmen gegen die USA. Geplant sind Strafzölle in Höhe von 93 Milliarden Euro oder Einschränkungen für amerikanische Unternehmen auf dem europäischen Markt. Die Krise gilt als die schwerste in den transatlantischen Beziehungen seit Jahrzehnten. Zuerst berichtete die »Financial Times«.

"berichtete die »Financial Times«" --> Original source, in English --> https://www.ft.com/content/b2872a49-3d43-4a55-a483-de7b19e8e...
by nl | 2026-01-18 22:33:41+00:00
Isn't this just an awkward way of adding an extra layer to the NN, except without end-to-end training?

Models like Stable Diffusion sort of do a similar thing using Clip embeddings. It works, and it's an easy way to benefit from the pre-training Clip has. But for a language model it would seemingly make more sense to just add the extra layer.
by MentatOnMelange | 2026-01-18 22:34:46+00:00
I agree completely, the game would get boring if things didn't constantly change. It was more-so the way they'd go about it, not the general sales strategy. Perhaps I should have said overpowered, typically they'd intentionally overcorrect so a unit would go from too weak to way too strong.

It didn't help they had 2 very different philosophies in the creative/design department. For example if an army was getting a revamp, competitive players would pray Gav Thorpe wasn't in charge of it. Whereas other people loved how he made the game more fun and goofy.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-01-18 22:35:29+00:00
Small countries would be hurt worse than the US if they choose to ignore US IP law. The US has far more IP than they do, and represents most of their market, and possesses unique capabilities to retaliate. Tearing down IP law would also hurt consumers of IP because authors and artists would have limited means to get paid. It's a losing proposition on four fronts.
by einpoklum | 2026-01-18 22:36:28+00:00
Yikes :-(

This makes me wonder - is there some platform on which people who maintain important (or arguably-important) facilities can post Wanted ads for volunteer co-maintainers?

I realize that the number of people who would actually be crazy enough to browse that platform and answer such ads is pretty small... but - it may be noticeably above Zero.
by leptons | 2026-01-18 22:36:57+00:00
I use Preact for a very lean build for a front-end that lives in a small embedded MCU flash ROM. Gziped the whole front-end is about 25KB, including SVG images baked-in to the preact gzip file. I'm very careful about the libraries I include and their impact on the overall payload size.

I had started with a simple front-end that was using jQuery to quickly prototype the device controls, but quickly exceeded my goal of keeping the front-end at under 40KB total gzipped. The problem is needing more than just jQuery, we also needed jQueryUI to help with the front-end, or build out similar complex components ourselves. And as soon as the jQuery code became non-trivial, it was clear that Preact made much more sense to use. Our payload is quite a bit smaller yhan the jQuery prototype was.
by rolph | 2026-01-18 22:37:04+00:00
yes, the present national guard is very much a government entity, and held to the same training standards as federal armed forces. they regularily hold joint training.

the people at large however are not prevented from forming a militia or a posse, or volunteering to be deputized by a local police force.

the common element is that they are responding to a domestic threat originated from government activities.

the original conception of american government insists that the government exist at the consent of the governed, in service of the governed, and this consent is revoked when that government fails to colour inside the lines when interpreting the constitution of the USA
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-18 22:37:32+00:00
I don’t assume that at all and I’m not sure what I said that implies otherwise. I’m saying that they just need to capture the vast majority of people, which has happened many times. For instance, Linux is available to everyone and would end a lot of frustrations and headaches they currently experience with macOS and windows. But for many reasons it still remains in the lowest single digit percentages when it comes to adoption, a lot of which is inflated by the steam deck.

It’s the same reason people pay to get their oil changed rather than doing it themselves. We are willing to compromise for convenience. And for a lot of people, that means just not dealing with it. Accept the ads, pay a small fee, whatever is the quickest way to make the thing work again or to get where they need to go.
by nl | 2026-01-18 22:37:33+00:00
There's an update from Tao after emailing Tenenbaum (the paper author) about this:

> He speculated that "the formulation [of the problem] has been altered in some way"....

[snip]

> More broadly, I think what has happened is that Rogers' nice result (which, incidentally, can also be proven using the method of compressions) simply has not had the dissemination it deserves. (I for one was unaware of it until KoishiChan unearthed it.) The result appears only in the Halberstam-Roth book, without any separate published reference, and is only cited a handful of times in the literature. (Amusingly, the main purpose of Rogers' theorem in that book is to simplify the proof of another theorem of Erdos.) Filaseta, Ford, Konyagin, Pomerance, and Yu - all highly regarded experts in the field - were unaware of this result when writing their celebrated 2007 solution to #2, and only included a mention of Rogers' theorem after being alerted to it by Tenenbaum. So it is perhaps not inconceivable that even Erdos did not recall Rogers' theorem when preparing his long paper of open questions with Graham in 1980.

(emphasis mine)

I think the value of LLM guided literature searches is pretty clear!
by jrowen | 2026-01-18 22:37:41+00:00
The data is not transferring, but the user is. When I sign up for e.g. Twitter, I don't want to sign up for Mastodon, or Bluesky, or Truth Social, or whatever other platform someone might create later. Thus I would not choose to put my data in a PDS. I feel like that would actually leave me with less ownership and control than I have now.

My point is that I don't believe the separation of frontend and data is desirable for a social network. I want to know that I am on a specific platform that gives me some degree of control and guarantee (to the extent that I trust that platform) over how my data is represented. I don't really have to worry that it's showing up in any number of other places that I didn't sign up for (technically I do since everything public can be scraped of course, but in practice there are safeguards that go out the window when you explicitly create something like a PDS).
by throwaway81523 | 2026-01-18 22:40:06+00:00
> I enjoy the "what if we're the baddies" just as much as anyone else. But are there big stories with these exciting concepts where we aren't the baddies in the Anglosphere?

Was about to post some examples that I liked, but then realized that anything from the previous century (1900's) probably can't be called "modern" any more. And after that, realized that I don't think I've read any "modern" corporate-published SF by that standard. I'm getting old.

If fanfiction counts, I'm enjoying this: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3516793
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-18 22:40:25+00:00
> Who do you think is behind this?

You’re saying the Iranians are hunky dory with Khamenei?

Like yes, the protests align with Israeli geopolitical goals. (Also American and Saudi ones. Probably, too, to some degree, every oil exporter.) That doesn’t mean they’re the root or even dominant cause of the current events, even if their bombings are a proximate cause.

Speaking more broadly, this American obsession with Israel when it comes to the Middle East is belittling to the region’s people. (And recognized as such more broadly, e.g. across Asia.) It’s also destructive to the causes those activists purport to represent—aligning with the IRGC is not helpful to Palestinian independence. (If I have to choose between an independent Palestine and free Iran, I’ll choose the larger population. Granted, Gaza isn’t my pet war. But recognize that turning everything into a single dimension also means rejecting support along tangential, albeit non-parallel, paths.)
Show HN: DownloadStuffs – Fast UI for Browsing and Downloading Internet Archive
by dawitworku | 2026-01-18 22:41:02+00:00
Hi HN

I built DownloadStuffs, a fast, modern interface for exploring the Internet Archive.

The default IA UI is powerful, but I often found it:

slow on mobile

hard to preview multi-file items (series, playlists)

unreliable when downloading large files (CORS, broken links, unclear “best file”)

So I made a cleaner, opinionated alternative.

What it does:

Fast search with real server-side pagination

Filters by media type + sort by relevance, downloads, views, recency

In-page video/audio preview with playlist queue

⬇ Reliable download proxy (avoids browser/CORS issues)

Batch/playlist ZIP downloads for series & collections

Live demo:
https://downloadstuffss.vercel.app/

Tech stack: Bun + TypeScript + Vite + Vercel
Uses only public Internet Archive APIs (not affiliated with IA).

I’d love feedback, edge cases, or ideas to improve the UX for large public archives.

Thanks!

— Dawit
by pintxo | 2026-01-18 22:41:09+00:00
But that's a political thing, not a technical.

> SWIFT’s data centers, located in the United States, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, act as the network’s central hubs, processing and routing messages across the network. The centralization at these data centers is critical for swift (no pun intended) and secure data transmission. These data centers are designed with redundancy and failover capabilities, so if one center is disrupted, the others take over, ensuring no interruptions to the SWIFT service.

[https://ahrvo.substack.com/p/how-does-swift-really-work]

To me, this sounds like SWIFT would posibly be split into 3-parts, without any redundancy. A US and a EU datacenter handling "local" business, with Switzerland possibly be able to interact with either?
by jeffrallen | 2026-01-18 22:41:18+00:00
I'm gonna throw the NAS with the family backups out the back window while running upstairs to get my son.

But yeah, with a bit of planning you can turn it into a yes-and situation.

Also: 48 hours. Can you provide for yourself and your neighbor for 48 hours without any help from the authorities? Does the Kanban card for pasta and tomato sauce always leave 10000 calories in the pantry? Got firewood, matches, and know where the nearest spring is? (This is easier in a culture where we still have running fountains with dates like 1780 on them.)
by jaredklewis | 2026-01-18 22:41:41+00:00
Wasn’t Cathedral and the Bazaar originally published in 1999? Who was paying thousands of dollars a year for an OS in 199? And I think GCC was already widespread by then, no?

I didn’t start programming until a few years later, but for sure by 2002, it seemed to me a given that compilers were free. It was my impression that stuff like Borland was niche and that serious stuff like Java and C were free.

Not saying you are wrong, just your comment surprised me. Maybe I have a revisionist memory or maybe those intervening 3 years were quite transformational in the industry.
by catapart | 2026-01-18 22:41:51+00:00
yeah, tangled seems like a pretty well-designed piece of tech. I've never used it, myself, but I did an audit and found that it's not only analogous to github as far as UX, but it also includes features like CI/CD, which other public/social repo servers have struggled with.

only reason I backed away from it is that when the bsky team had a big "fuck the users" moment, the user purporting to be the tangled founder was happy to cheer them on. so between having to use AT proto, and assuming that the tangled dev doesn't really disagree with bsky's "fuck the users" sentiment, I moved on. but, obviously, whiny moral grandstanding is irrelevant to whether or not someone made a good product. if you've got a use for it, I'd certainly recommend giving it a try!
by einpoklum | 2026-01-18 22:42:58+00:00
Your post may be insinuating that you put ESR and RMS in such boxes, although you did not actually say that. You might want to clarify that point. (And I say that as someone who has neither upvoted or downvoted you.)

I'll also say that there are enough aspects of our personality and behavior that you might use to justify placing someone in the "bad box" that almost everyone would be in one; and if you were to relax the criteria so that you "average badness" along multiple axes, that comes with its own problems.
by Retr0id | 2026-01-18 22:43:16+00:00
I mostly use the square pins from SIL headers, bent into an appropriate shape. I use a pointed tip but I don't think it matters much, as long as it can transfer heat into the pin.

I most recently used this to repair a snapped headband on some sony headphones. I'd previously tried to superglue it, but the glue eventually came undone - but my "staples" are still going strong.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-18 22:43:20+00:00
I mostly do normal React crap, ostensibly the easiest thing for these tools to do, and these tools cannot do a considerable portion of my work. Yes I've used the latest model. Yes I've used the latest agentic IDE. Yes I've tweaked my prompts and added repository rule files. Yes I've done this approximately every three months for the last two years. This shit does not work. Nobody ever posts proof of it working well in any <great project>.

I am at the point where if I read something from a software developer like, "these tools can do a considerable portion of my day to day work", I have to just assume that person's day to day work was garbage. And this is not terribly surprising, because a lot of software developers I have personally worked with did produce mostly garbage. Some amount of those people are surely using AI and posting about it, and that explains what we continually see online. Sorry to any offended.
by metalman | 2026-01-18 22:43:32+00:00
the known consequences of polluting the the entire base of the planets food web isn't existential?
"scientists", politicians, beurocrats, lawyers, and the mega wealthy have kept moving the agread upon limits to environmental exploitation, with zero sign that they have any other intent, than to take more³
what you are missing is that no one will ask for permission, to fix that.