MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-01-02 03:05:41+00:00
Among my favorite Paul Graham essays:

<https://www.paulgraham.com/heresy.html>

>For example, when someone calls a statement "x-ist," they're also implicitly saying that this is the end of the discussion. They do not, having said this, go on to consider whether the statement is true or not. Using such labels is the conversational equivalent of signalling an exception. That's one of the reasons they're used: to end a discussion.

>If you find yourself talking to someone who uses these labels a lot, it might be worthwhile to ask them explicitly if they believe any babies are being thrown out with the bathwater. Can a statement be x-ist, for whatever value of x, and also true? If the answer is yes, then they're admitting to banning the truth.

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Please don't try to end our constructive discussions, mmoose; people (men and women sure fine) have a tough enough time without having to get the language police involved.

[this will be my last response to this thread, as I continue hoping somebody learned anything, today]
by westoncb | 2026-01-02 03:05:48+00:00
That depends on the content of the SVGs.. Of course you can write a script to do a very literally kind of conversion of regardless, but in practice a lot of interpretation would be required, and could be done by an LLM. Simple case is an SVG that's a static presentation of a button; the intended React component could handle hover and click states and change the cursor appropriately and set aria label etc. For anything but trivial cases a script isn't going to get you far.
by novok | 2026-01-02 03:06:27+00:00
I play a lot of dota 2 and never really notice anything that is obvious cheat wise. IMO league would probably be fine to do valve level anti cheat, it's even a less twitchy of a game than dota.

FPSs can just say 'the console is the competitive ranked' machine, add mouse + keyboard support and call it a day. But in those games cheaters can really ruin things with aimbots, so maybe it is necessary for the ecosystem, I dunno.

Nobody plays RTSs competitively anymore and low-twitch MMOs need better data hiding for what they send clients so 'cheating' is not relevant.

We are at the point where camera + modded input devices are cheap and easy enough I dunno if anti-cheat matters anymore.
by throw0101a | 2026-01-02 03:06:41+00:00
> WH1000-XM6

These (and others?) actually have a wired option (even provide the cable) for listening. Sadly the built-in microphone doesn't work in 'wired mode' (though ANC does).

You could get at at "cable boom microphone", e.g.:

* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W3GGRF2

* https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BJ17WKK

Maybe the XM7 will have it (along with wired audio controls) via a CTIA/AHJ TRRS plug:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#TRRS_s...

or via USB audio.
by com2kid | 2026-01-02 03:07:21+00:00
It is huge around Seattle. Nothing else exists for selling goods. There are also private sales groups on FB as well for specialized interests, including illicit home meal delivery services. It seemed like shef.com was going to enter that space and win it but they seemingly abandoned parts of it and pivoted primarily towards weekly Indian meals. Sad, they used to have some amazing West African food.
by ineedaj0b | 2026-01-02 03:07:22+00:00
those articles were written a plenty about the Davos Elite - even precovid. It’s a tad lazy now.

Sure there was some evidence of wealth concentration mattering. But there was also evidence against it (like Jack Ma). Power is still the ring to kiss.

And hopefully it’s very understood to the parent comment and agreers, wealth creation is not zero sum. When something new is created the pie gets bigger. All wealth inequality discourse is driven by that misunderstanding and a lack of building more homes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429212...

Maybe your brick wall is the singularity instead and I misread you but I don’t think so.
by left-struck | 2026-01-02 03:07:37+00:00
Your enemy is not the people of the country you hate, it’s the government. If you believe it’s the people then you are a victim to propaganda, or some other source of highly biased information.

Think about what war really is, it’s almost always a bunch of powerful people who have a disagreement with a bunch of other powerful people, who then have to trick a bunch of less powerful people to fight on their behalf. If you feel like fighting you’ve been tricked.
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
by sillywalk | 2026-01-02 03:08:02+00:00
Solaris is still supported until 2037 apparently.[0]

And UnixWare[1].

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/29/oracle_extends_solari...

[1] https://www.osnews.com/story/141690/unixware-in-2025-still-a...
Show HN: Sentinel Shield – Pure C DMZ for AI Security (23K LOC, <1ms latency)
by Chgdz | 2026-01-02 03:08:21+00:00
I built a security layer for AI systems in pure C after realizing most AI security tools (Python-based, 50-200ms latency, dozens of dependencies) were adding attack surface rather than reducing it.
Shield: 23K LOC, 0 dependencies, sub-millisecond latency, 194 Cisco-style CLI commands, 20 enterprise protocols, 6 specialized guards.
Part of SENTINEL (80K LOC AI Security Platform).
GitHub: https://github.com/DmitrL-dev/AISecurity
by phs318u | 2026-01-02 03:08:56+00:00
The future “super”-ness of anything, is always framed in relation to the pedestrian un-“super”-ness of the current state of that thing.

The same question of “why super intelligence” could’ve been asked by our simian ancestors. We don’t ask that about ourselves because we don’t think we’re collectively particularly super (with notable individual exceptions).
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-02 03:09:00+00:00
If you think about it, 2nd law* is the most relevant one because, after all, CO2, being so stable, is one of homo sapiens "favourite" waste materials (partition function yada-yada)

How did plants evolve to use it as nutrients. Solar power. since humans don't need to make fuel from air these days, maybe all of that solar power should go into compute?

.. I'm not saying any laws are broken, just that there are much better (=more efficient, more promising) ways to reduce global warming, like

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

It already works now (no airquotes), except for DAC entrepreneurs who try to hoard attention without having paid their "attention dues" first.

*And the one humans like to ignore because there seems to be so much wiggle room
by not_a9 | 2026-01-02 03:09:16+00:00
Anticheat has very different requirements to antimalware.

Some interesting reads on what modern anticheats do:

https://github.com/0avx/0avx.github.io/blob/main/article-3.m...

https://github.com/0avx/0avx.github.io/blob/main/article-5.m...

https://reversing.info/posts/guardedregions/

https://game-research.github.io/ (less in detail and less IDA pseudo)
by simfree | 2026-01-02 03:10:24+00:00
There is plenty a browser could do to compete, from blocking modern popups (which now occur within the window, putting a gradient over the content forcing you to interact with their "subscribe to our mailing list" or "join our site to socialize" prompt that you would have to waste time clicking past, auto-pausing looping videos in unfocused tabs, throttling crypto mining tabs, providing uBlock Origin, handling WiFi Terms of Service click through, etc.

Think of the plethora of instances where you wish your browser made minor changes to make browsing easier
by sbondaryev | 2026-01-02 03:10:33+00:00
Nice project — it makes long HN threads much easier to revisit.

Interesting to see the edge cases, like "Tell HN: Happy New Year":
https://hn-discussions.top/happy-new-year-2025/

Basically everyone just saying "Happy New Year" so it's fun to see how the LLM tries to interpret that.
For example, my comment was summarized as: "gratitude – celebratory – looking forward: celebratory greeting for the new year"
by hparadiz | 2026-01-02 03:10:34+00:00
Tpm isn't designed for this use case. You can use it for disk encryption or for identity attestation but step 1 for id attestation is asking the tpm to generate a key and then trusting that fingerprint from then on after doing a test sign with a binary blob. The running kernel is just a binary that can be hashed and whitelisted by a user space application. Don't need tpm for that.
by sxp | 2026-01-02 03:10:44+00:00
The AI bits look interesting, but the laws appear vague and toothless. E.g, "identify every specific artificial intelligence program used" means all the reports will say “This report was written either fully or in part using artificial intelligence.” without any useful details.

> Artificial Intelligence
The popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) has grown rapidly in the last several years and the widespread use of generative AI, or AI that can create original content, presents new legal considerations.

> With the passage of AB 316, a defendant may not say artificial intelligence that they developed, modified, or used that is alleged is to have caused harm to the plaintiff did so autonomously.

> Additionally, law enforcement agencies will need to identify when artificial intelligence was used in official reports and the type of program they used (SB 524).

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB316/id/3223647
by tonyhart7 | 2026-01-02 03:10:49+00:00
"Hardly a logical reason for the stock to go up"

I think its because Elon would continue to be CEO of tesla , Elon is a brand at this point

its well known "brand", Yes there is a lot to hate but you cant ignore his huge follower

I mean Elon can come to Saudi and Saudi can invest in his company because they like him, that is just the way it works
by umanwizard | 2026-01-02 03:11:44+00:00
What I mean is: on a normal laptop, when you scroll with two fingers on the scroll wheel, the distance you scroll is nearly a continuous function of how much you move your fingers; that is, if you only move your fingers a tiny bit, you will only scroll a few pixels or just one.

Most VM software (at least all of it that I've tried) doesn't properly emulate this. Instead, after you've moved your fingers some distance, it's translated to one discrete "tick" of a mouse scroll wheel, which causes the document to scroll a few lines.

The VM software I use is UTM, which is a frontend to QEMU or Apple Virtualization framework depending on which setting you pick when setting up the VM.
by rented_mule | 2026-01-02 03:11:53+00:00
What many startups need to succeed is to be able to pivot/develop/repeat very quickly to find a product+market that makes money. If they don't find that, and most don't, the millions you talk about never come due. They also rarely have enough developers, so developer productivity in the short term is vital to that iteration speed. If that startup turns into Dropbox or Instagram, the millions you mention are round-off error on many billions. Easy business decision, and startups are first and foremost businesses.

Some startups end up in between the two extremes above. I was at one of the Python-based ones that ended up in the middle. At $30M in annual revenue, Python was handling 100M unique monthly visitors on 15 cheap, circa-2010 servers. By the time we hit $1B in annual revenue, we had Spark for both heavy batch computation and streaming computation tasks, and Java for heavy online computational workloads (e.g., online ML inference). There were little bits of Scala, Clojure, Haskell, C++, and Rust here and there (with well over 1K developers, things creep in over the years). 90% of the company's code was still in Python and it worked well. Of course there were pain points, but there always are. At $1B in annual revenue, there was budget for investments to make things better (cleaning up architectural choices that hadn't kept up, adding static types to core things, scaling up tooling around package management and CI, etc.).

But a key to all this... the product that got to $30M (and eventually $1B+) looked nothing like what was pitched to initial investors. It was unlikely that enough things could have been tried to land on the thing that worked without excellent developer productivity early on. Engineering decisions are not only about technical concerns, they are also about the business itself.
by jheez3 | 2026-01-02 03:11:55+00:00
"that have not fully manifested yet"

This is not true..

"I find it utterly maddening how divorced STEM people have become from philosophical and ethical concerns of their work. I blame academia and the education system for creating this massive blind spot, and it is most apparent in echo chambers like HN that are mostly composed of Western-educated programmers with a degree in computer science. At least on X you get, among the lunatics, people that have read more than just books on algorithms and startups."

Steve Jobs had something to say about this. Shame hes gone.
by nutjob2 | 2026-01-02 03:11:57+00:00
Something people don't really think about much is how Tesla had a huge head start in the EV business. It did well and people saw that as success, but really Musk has squandered that lead with really poor management.

Tesla could have more or less owned the US car industry if it had pushed its advantage aggressively. If Musk had used the SpaceX model and appointed someone competent to run Tesla while he was a figurehead of sorts Tesla would be many times its size.

Instead we had a chaotic Tesla expansion, the '"pedo guy" guy' and Musk hiding in the K-Hole from his apparent childhood traumas.

With Musk now pretty much fully off the reservation and into far right politics, Trump neutering of the EV transition (also Musk's doing) and pushing fossil fuels, Tesla has a grim future and may end up in the dustbin of history sooner than later.
by wincy | 2026-01-02 03:12:18+00:00
I had said I wouldn’t upgrade from my RTX 3080 until I could run “true 4K”.

I finally got the 240hz 4K uncompressed but it required buying a $1300 Asus OLED monitor and the RTX 5090. It looks amazing though, even with frame gen. Monster Hunter had some particularly breathtaking HDR scenes. I think it uses DisplayPort 2.1? Even finding the cable is difficult, Microcenter didn’t have them in April and the only one that worked was the one that came with the monitor.
by Brian_K_White | 2026-01-02 03:12:30+00:00
I no longer remember all the exact steps I did but I only googled them in the first place so presumably they are there to be googled still. But it's possible to fully remove snapd and all snap support and then taboo it so that it never comes back. Or at least, it's been a few years and it hasn't come back. FF has remained a real .deb from the mozillateam ppa. It was a few different steps though not just uninstalling a few packages but also editing some apt config files I think. Sorry that sounds useless but like I say I just googled it up at the time, did 15-20 minutes of reading and poking, and never had to touch it again since then. It's been several version bumps.

..edit..
I installed a dummy package that displaces the nagware about the pro version too so I never get those messages during apt update any more.

Taking a quick definitely incomplete look I see at least:

/etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla.pref

Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 501

Package: thunderbird*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 501

/etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref

Package: snapd
Pin: release a=*
Pin-Priority: -10

and removed ubuntu-pro-esm-apps and ubuntu-pro-esm-infra from that same dir

but also there is a mozillateam ppa in sources.list.d, and I don't see any installed package name that looks like it might be that dummy ubuntu-pro-esm thing, so maybe it got removed during a version upgrade and I never noticed because ubuntu stopped that nonsense and it isn't needed any more? Or there is some other config somewhere I'm forgetting that is keeping that hole plugged.

Anyway, it WAS a little bit of fiddling around one day, but at least it was only a one and done thing so far.

I kind of expected to be off of ubuntu by now because once someone starts doing anything like that, it doesn't matter if you can work around it, the real problem is that they want to do things like that at all in the first place. Well they still want what they want and that problem is never going away. They will just keep trying some other thing and then some other thing. So rather that fight them forever, it's better to find someone else who you don't want to fight. I mean that's why we're on Linux at all in the first place right? But so far it's been a few version bumps since then and still more or less fine.
by cududa | 2026-01-02 03:12:34+00:00
I came across this the other day. If you go to the photos tab on the @grom account, it’s an endless stream of women in bikinis or in explicit poses.

Apparently all anyone has to do is reply to any photo anyone posted of themselves, is something like “@grok put her in a bikini” — or more obscene demands, and it just spits out the image. It’s kind of disturbing how simple it is
by pilaf | 2026-01-02 03:12:57+00:00
https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/comparison-to-asdf.html

> mise can be used as a drop-in replacement for asdf. It supports the same .tool-versions files that you may have used with asdf and can use asdf plugins through the asdf backend.

> It will not, however, reuse existing asdf directories (so you'll need to either reinstall them or move them), and 100% compatibility is not a design goal. That said, if you're coming from asdf-bash (0.15 and below), mise actually has fewer breaking changes than asdf-go (0.16 and above) despite 100% compatibility not being a design goal of mise.

> Casual users coming from asdf have generally found mise to just be a faster, easier to use asdf.
by umanwizard | 2026-01-02 03:12:59+00:00
> In his talk a few days ago, one of the main Asahi developers (Sven) shared that there is someone working on M3 support.

Thanks, I guess I stand corrected.

> There are screenshots of an M3 machine running Linux and playing DOOM at around 31:34 here

That is encouraging! Still, there is no way for a normal to user to try to install it, unless something changed very recently.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-02 03:13:26+00:00
>but not a single mention of a global system that is reaching a singularity in wealth concentration

that's not the case though and Dan is implicitly addressing this given that China is the subject of a decent chunk of the letter. Wealth in the global system is much more evenly distributed these days. We're much closer to a multi-polar world than we used to be in a long time. A lot of the emerging economies are building middle classes of serious size, it's a whole other world compared to 20 to 30 years ago. The developed world's been mostly stable inequality wise, the only outlier being tech oligarchs in the US but that's hardly a defining feature of the global system.

But globally we're likely living now in the first time in human history when the median human is going to see a drastic increase in their fortunes.

https://ourworldindata.org/the-history-of-global-economic-in...
by jmward01 | 2026-01-02 03:13:51+00:00
Range due to obstacles is greatly overcome with altitude. My point about the 13yo is that -you- think it is unworkable, but a country that doesn't mind the word 'genocide' thinks it is a fine definition. Camera tech quickly went this route right? 'you could mount that camera but we haven't done it and therefor won't' turned into multiple cameras covering every square inch of a city from multiple angles once the tech was easy enough. The 'easy enough' trend is clear here. Miniaturization, precision, ease of maintenance, etc make the reasons this hasn't been done rapidly fall away and make it clear that it will be done. There is a clear argument that is isn't, yet, realistic to be done but this is a clear step in that direction.
by schnetzlerjoe | 2026-01-02 03:16:28+00:00
Yeah I know and agree. I use like dozens of tools with same names, many very similar products. But those that are genuinely confused and provide feedback I appreciate. Those that are hostile that just seem to follow "misery loves company", I like to be sarcastic with. Seems to be a win win with both sides (I can be a smart ass).

Appreciate it!
by idonotknowwhy | 2026-01-02 03:16:28+00:00
100% agreed, and I've been explaining this to people for the past year.

I have an iPhone now and miss Firefox for Android (with Ublock, sponsorblock, etc). But this painful restriction is the only thing stopping Chrome from becoming the new IE6.

At a few startups I've worked for, the devs all use chrome exclusively, and only test in chrome during development.

The only reason they consider other browsers, is because of Safari on iOS. Sometimes it's driven by support calls / complains from iOS users after a release. If Chrome's engine is allowed on iOS, that means support can just tell the users to install Chrome (like they do now if anyone has issues on Windows in other browsers). This means Firefox will usually work as well.

Many years ago, I was able to swap banks when my bank's website stopped working in Opera 12. If all the major banks / websites target Chrome-only, we'll have no choice but to use it. And then we'll have no control as Google push new restrictions into Chrome.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-02 03:17:10+00:00
You're severely misinformed if you think the cradle-to-grave footprint of BEVs is higher than ICEs today. Feel free to pick the study of your choice. They're pretty unanimous at this point and the comparison isn't particularly close. Here's a particularly comprehensive study from Argonne:

https://greet.anl.gov/publication-c2g_lca_us_ldv
by drewsski | 2026-01-02 03:17:28+00:00
Oh, and here I was thinking it was because I has multiple browser tabs open! Our company product is based on Stripe Connect, so I spend a good deal of time on the Stripe Dashboard. I can't for the life of me figure out why it takes ~15 seconds to switch from the Products tab to the Coupons tab, all of which have about 20 records! They have great API's for sure, but their skill on the front end leaves a lot to be desired.
by abeyer | 2026-01-02 03:19:23+00:00
According to the details in their whitepaper, firmware is signed, but the management protocol allows reading arbitrary memory, so you can read out the keys and sign your own payload.

I'm not sure anyone intentionally did this, but there were several poor decisions involved. It sounds like the upstream vendor shipped sample code without auth, assuming implementers would know they needed to secure a privileged device management interface, and said implementers just copied the sample and shipped it.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-02 03:19:36+00:00
I had my finger over the buy button for various Strix Halo machines for weeks.

I ended up going with the Asus GB10 because if the goal is to "learn me some AI tooling" I didn't want to have to add "learn me some only recently and shallowly supported-in-linux AMD tooling" to the mix.

I hate NVIDIA -- the company -- but in this case it comes down to pure self-interest in that I want to add some of this stuff to my employable skill set, and NVIDIA ships the machine with all the pieces I need right in the OS distribution.

Plus I have a bias for ARM over x86.

Long run I'm sure I'll end up with a Strix Halo type machine in my collection at some point.

But I also expect those machines to not drop in price, and perhaps even go up, as right now the 128GB of RAM in them is worth the price of the whole machine.