MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exodust | 2026-01-09 12:51:02+00:00
It's just manipulated photos. No need to panic.

Everyone knows photos can be easily faked. The alarmist response serves no purpose. AI itself can be tasked to make and publish fake photos. Will you point pitchforks at the generators of the generators of the generators?

Fake content has a momentary fizz followed by a sharp drop-off and demotion to yesterday's sloppy meme. Fading to nothing more than a cartoon you don't like. Let's not, I hope, go after "cartoons" or their publishers.
by sylware | 2026-01-09 12:51:07+00:00
linux started as a hobby project...

I am curious to know which RISC-V design they'll go for in this SOC.

M. Wren getting real hard experience on RISC-V is going only to help RP to select and audit more seriously any RISC-V design which would make its way in their SOCs.

I just don't want to contribute to arm IP racketering (and we have mpeg and hdmi to take into account too with avX and eDP/DP).
by lelanthran | 2026-01-09 12:51:34+00:00
> So "200 lines" captures the concept but not the production reality of what is involved.

How many lines would you estimate it takes to capture that production reality of something like CC? I ask because I got downvoted for asking that question on a different story[1].

I asked because in that thread someone quoted the CC dev(s) as saying:

>> In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed.

My feeling is that a tool like this, while it won't be 200 lines, can't really be 40k lines either.

[1] If anyone is interested, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46533132
by Findecanor | 2026-01-09 12:51:58+00:00
> WASI, meanwhile, is just a very small subset of POSIX but with a bunch of stuff renamed so nothing works on it.

WASI fixed well-known flaws in the POSIX API. That's not a bad thing.

> the major downside that no CPU vendor uses it so it has to be JIT compiled at great expense.

WASM was designed to be JIT-compiled into its final form at the speed it is downloaded by a web browser.
JS JIT-compilers in modern web browsers are much more complex, often having multiple compilers in tiers so it spends time optimising only the hottest functions.

Outside web browsers, I'd think there are few use-cases where WASM couldn't be AOT-compiled.
by rlpb | 2026-01-09 12:52:10+00:00
> That doesn't take an LLM to accomplish, I don't think. After all, a car has a limited number of functions. It should be mostly a matter of broadening the voice recognition dictionary and expanding the fixed logic to deal with that breadth.

I think the most effective way to get this accurate and effective is to give an LLM the user’s voice prompt and current context and ask to convert the user’s request into an API call. The user wouldn’t be chatting with the LLM directly.

The point is that it doesn’t require a static dictionary to already have your exact phrasing and will just work with plain English.
by azath92 | 2026-01-09 12:52:20+00:00
My understanding is that modern mobile phone cameras do heaps of "stacking" across multiple axes focus, exposure, time etc to compose a photo that saves onto your phone. I believe its one of the reasons for the multiple cameras on most flagship phones, and then each of them might take many "photos" or runs of data from their sensors per "photo" you take. id love to see a good writeup of the process, but my gut says exactly what they do under the hood would be pretty "trade secret"ie.
by jennyholzer4 | 2026-01-09 12:52:51+00:00
Because you have.

This is the register LLM marketing will shift to when it becomes clear that the push to replace software developers with chatbots has been a complete and total failure.

edit:

Someone who is green, gullible, pliable enough to think that eating food is an engineering problem to be solved is exactly the sort of person who is perfectly suited to joining your "AI" cult.
by jstanley | 2026-01-09 12:53:35+00:00
Doesn't this just put the stress on the other pane of the window? I don't see how it helps.

EDIT: Oh. It helps because otherwise the bit between the panes would be at a different pressure to both the interior and exterior of the plane. It would work just as well if the bleed hole were on the outside, as long as both panes are equally strong.
by throw0101d | 2026-01-09 12:53:50+00:00
In July 2025 Reuters re-upped the claim of the shutdown:

> KYIV - During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service the billionaire provided early in the war to help Ukraine’s military maintain battlefield connectivity.

> “We have to do this,” Michael Nicolls, the Starlink engineer, told colleagues upon receiving the order, one of these people said. Staffers complied, the three people told Reuters, deactivating at least a hundred Starlink terminals, their hexagon-shaped cells going dark on an internal map of the company’s coverage. The move also affected other areas seized by Russia, including some of Donetsk province further east.

[…]

> After the book was published, Musk denied a shutdown, saying that there had never been coverage in Crimea to begin with. He said he had, rather, rejected a Ukrainian request to provide service ahead of Kyiv’s planned attack. Isaacson later conceded his account was flawed. A spokesperson at Isaacson’s publisher declined to comment or make him available for an interview.

[…]

> As Ukraine’s counterattack intensified, Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 21, 2022, ordered a partial mobilization of reservists, Russia’s first since World War II. He also threatened to use nuclear weapons if Russia’s own “territorial integrity” were at risk. Around this time, Musk engaged in weeks of backchannel conversations with senior officials in the administration of President Joe Biden, according to three former U.S. government officials and one of the people familiar with Musk’s order to stop service. During those conversations, the former White House staffer told Reuters, U.S. intelligence and security officials expressed concern that Putin could follow through on his threats. Musk, this person added, worried too, and asked U.S. officials if they knew where and how Ukraine used Starlink on the battlefield.

> Soon after, he ordered the shutdown.

* https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown...
by athrowaway3z | 2026-01-09 12:55:25+00:00
Public discourse on this is a dumpster fire. But you're not making a meaningful contribution.

It is the equivalence of saying: Stenotype enthusiasts claim they're productive, but when we give them to a large group of typers we get data disproving that.

Which should immediately highlights the issue.

As long as these discussions aren't prefaced with the metric and methodology, any discussion on this is just meaningless online flame wars / vibe checks.
by raducu | 2026-01-09 12:55:26+00:00
> I think people get into a dopamine hit loop

I also think that's the case, but I'm open to the idea that there are people that are really really good at this and maybe they are indeed 10x.

My experience is that for SOME tasks LLMs help a lot, but overall nowhere near 10x.

Consistently it's probably.... ~1X.

The difference is I procrastinate a lot and LLMs actually help me not procrastinate BECAUSE of that dopamine kick and I'm confident I will figure it out with an LLM.

I'm sure there are many people who got to a conclusion on their to-do projects with the help of LLMs and without them, because of procrastination or whatever, they would not have had a chance to.

It doesn't mean they're now rich, because most projects won't make you rich or make you any money regardless if you finish them or not
by syrusakbary | 2026-01-09 12:55:51+00:00
WASI in their first attempt has been a success (what now is called wasip1). wasip2, p3, are tied into the component model.

I'd say that wasip1 has been successful, but not any future version.
You can check which version is the most popular just by looking at the Rust WASI crate versions and how much downloads each one has:

wasip1:

https://crates.io/crates/wasi/0.11.1+wasi-snapshot-preview1
https://crates.io/crates/wasi/0.10.2+wasi-snapshot-preview1
https://crates.io/crates/wasi/0.10.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1
https://crates.io/crates/wasi/0.9.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1

wasip2, p3:

https://crates.io/crates/wasi/0.14.7+wasi-0.2.4
https://crates.io/crates/wasi/0.13.3+wasi-0.2.2
https://crates.io/crates/wasi/0.12.1+wasi-0.2.0
by ZaoLahma | 2026-01-09 12:57:48+00:00
Spread the risk and reduce the probability of extinction.

We know for a fact that earth is doomed, on top of our own continuous efforts to kill ourselves off. No not recent climate change type of doomed, but the evolution of our sun is continuously pushing the habitable zone outwards. We might be able to deal with that particular annoyance by hiding underground when it becomes an emergency in half a billion years or so, but our utopia won't be as utopic anymore.

Eventually however, the sun will balloon to a red giant at which point we better have a plan in place other than staying on this planet.
by yoavm | 2026-01-09 12:57:56+00:00
Except none of these statements are part of the Zionist agenda. You putting them in quotes does not make them a quote.

I already explained why your first "quote" is false: Hertzel didn't think Jews should move to Israel because it was promised to them.

The second one is also completely wrong: He never called for expelling the native population, and he actually advocated for close and good contacts with them and the surrounding countries.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-09 12:58:01+00:00
So can image gen systems.

As a former VFX person, I know that a couple of shows are testing out how/where it can be used. (currently its still more expensive than trad VFX, unless you are using it to make base models.)

Productivity gains in the VFX industry over the last 20 years has been immense. (ie a mid budget TV show has more, and more complex VFX work than most movies that are 10 years old, and look better.)

But, does that mean we should allow any bad actor to flood the floor with fake clips of whatever agenda they want to push? no. If I as a VFX enthusiast gets fooled by GenAI videos (Picture area done deal, its super hard to stop reliably) then we are super fucked.
by palata | 2026-01-09 12:58:43+00:00
> The problem is bureaucracy; too many regulations and massive hidden corruption

I keep hearing the "too many regulations" argument, and I totally disagree. Too few regulations (or rather no enforcement of them) resulted in the TooBigTech monopolies we have today. Of course, they got so successful because of the lack of regulations, but now it's simply impossible to compete with them. Removing regulations (assuming that there are regulations that impact them today, which I doubt) would help them, not the competition.

And we have precedents:

* Whenever the EU tries to do some antitrust, it impacts TooBigTech (which is almost exclusively US), and as a result the US bullies the EU to stop it. If regulations were weakening the EU, why would the US government fight them?

* Let's continue with the US as the example of fewer bureaucracy in this case (the complaint is that the EU cannot compete with the US because of the EU's bureaucracy): look at examples where a non-US company takes over a market (or threatens to take it over). Huawei smartphones (not the infrastructure like antennas, this is different), TikTok, DJI. What do US companies do to win against them? They lobby like crazy to add regulations that will stop the competition.

The US hasn't managed to compete with TikTok: they made it illegal instead.

When Huawei was becoming very big in smartphones in the US, they got banned.

The US hasn't managed to compete with DJI, and the biggest US drone companies are spending a ton of resources trying to get DJI banned. DJI is so superior that even banning them is tricky: it has to be done slowly because banning them right away would disrupt entire industries for lack of viable alternatives. That's how far US drones are from DJI drones.

"Too many regulations" is wrong. The successful players get protection from their government (be it the US or China), and it's high time the EU protected its own players, too. With regulations, just like the US and China does (when they don't abuse their dominant position to bully the EU).
by ablob | 2026-01-09 13:00:09+00:00
I think it can be a reasonable assumption that the government has access to the code, while it is not being open to the public.
There is a difference between "visible to everyone" (i.e. open source) and "visible to selected parties".

Having a different company do contract work does not require the source to be open, it just requires that the government owns it (as they get to choose what to do with it then).

Also, if no company is on a payroll because they are stuck with better projects, what makes you think someone that is not familiar with the code base would accept a merge request from an unknown party? Or if it was accepted, what makes you think this wouldn't immediately be abused to create loopholes and vulnerabilities?
by nirvanist | 2026-01-09 13:00:23+00:00
Modern web pages are cluttered with tracking scripts, analytics, styling, ads, and interactive elements that waste tokens and dilute semantic meaning when processing content for AI systems. This library strips away the noise to give you clean, meaningful HTML that:

- Reduces token count by 60-90% (fewer API costs)
- Improves embedding quality (less noise = better semantic search)
- Speeds up processing (smaller payloads = faster inference)
- Preserves structure (headings, paragraphs, links stay intact)
- Zero dependencies (pure JavaScript, no bloat)
by yoavm | 2026-01-09 13:00:31+00:00
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but if there are other groups who are being discriminated against, and have a strong connection to a specific place on earth - be it Romany, Palestinians or whoever - I definitely wouldn't be the one objecting their right for self-determination. The way I studied Zionism as a child was clear: through our (Jews') right to a land we can understand the right to land of others.
by yipbub | 2026-01-09 13:00:33+00:00
I think it's taking things too literally and pointedly ignoring the subtext while unintended or not having subtext of their own.

feels like sophistry

the article connects the two, so they are not orthonogonal either:

> But even as things got noisy in public, Masad met eerie silence professionally. “My calendar was suddenly empty, because I was talking about Palestine,” he said. “Replit was not a hot company anymore. We did a layoff. And at the same time, a lot of my friends were no longer my friends. I was no longer invited to parties.”

> Potential partnerships dried up. Masad became a frequent topic in pro-Israel tech groupchats, a source said, where some investors accused him of being antisemitic.

> A Replit investor who requested anonymity to speak candidly told me Masad’s public persona has been “really challenging,” and he’s had to defend the founder in investor circles. I asked if Masad had lost business because of his views. “I’m sure the answer is yes,” the investor said.
by immibis | 2026-01-09 13:00:33+00:00
So, the problem with anticheat on Linux is there's no "safe" reference version of Linux that you can enforce to be running. This is a good thing. It's supposed to be modifiable. This fundamentally conflicts with the goal of anticheat which is to stop you modifying it.

I predict they won't allow all Linux but only the specific version Valve puts on the Steam Deck/Machine, and if you modify it then your games won't run again.
by luke5441 | 2026-01-09 13:00:40+00:00
I think you are just decribing one factor that caused the problem. There is many a detailed analysis, the most respected being the one by Draghi.

Previously this also wasn't much of a problem. The US tech companies were international companies and less "US" companies. Now they aligned themselves with the US regime and are e.g. a supply chain vulnerability.
by timvdalen | 2026-01-09 13:00:50+00:00
Is it? If you're not interested in limited liability it's 85 euros to file for a company. If you do want limited liability, you have to visit a notary to found, but even that's only like 500 euros.
Sure, you have to do your taxes every year and that's annoying, but it's not _that_ hard.
by immibis | 2026-01-09 13:01:51+00:00
Proving my device's integrity is for me. If I want to modify the code on my device and don't want you to know that I did, that's my right.

Allowing third parties to measure it is a security violation, and a freedom violation if there's no way for me to spoof what I'm running on my device and they block me based on that.
by srean | 2026-01-09 13:02:16+00:00
People go all dopey eyed about "frequency space", that's a red herring. The take away should be that a problem centric coordinate system is enormously helpful.

After all, what Copernicus showed is that the mind bogglingly complicated motion of planets become a whole lot simpler if you change the coordinate system.

Ptolemaic model of epicycles were an adhoc form of Fourier analysis - decomposing periodic motions over circles over circles.

Back to frequencies, there is nothing obviously frequency like in real space Laplace transforms *. The real insight is that differentiation and integration operations become simple if the coordinates used are exponential functions because exponential functions remain (scaled) exponential when passed through such operations.

For digital signals what helps is Walsh-Hadamard basis. They are not like frequencies. They are not at all like the square wave analogue of sinusoidal waves. People call them sequency space as a well justified pun.

My suspicion is that we are in Ptolemaic state as far as GPT like models are concerned. We will eventually understand them better once we figure out what's the better coordinate system to think about their dynamics in.

* There is a connection though, through the exponential form of complex numbers, or more prosaically, when multiplying rotation matrices the angles combine additively. So angles and logarithms have a certain unity, or character.
by etothet | 2026-01-09 13:02:29+00:00
They had 8 people total: 3 founders (who is still there), 1 businessy/partner program person (who is still there) and 4 devs, 3 of which were laid off.

They now have 5 people total - 3 founders, the business person, and 1 other dev, which according to Adam’s podcast was the first dev they hired.
by gr4vityWall | 2026-01-09 13:04:08+00:00
After reading the, I don't feel convinced abtout the runtime performance advantages of WASM over asm.js. he CPU features mentioned could be added to JS runtimes. Toolchain improvements could go both ways, and I expect asm.js would benefit from JIT improvements over the years.

I agree 100% with the startup time arguments made by the article, though. No way around it if you're going through the typical JS pipeline in the browser.

The argument for better load/store addressing on WASM is solid, and I expect this to have higher impact today than in 2017, due to the huge caches modern CPUs have. But it's hard to know without measuring it, and I don't know how hard it would be to isolate that in a benchmark.

Thank you for linking it. It was a fun read. I hope my post didn't sound adversarial to any arguments you made. I wonder what asm.js could have been if it was formally specified, extended and optimized for, rather than abandoned in favor of WASM.
by palata | 2026-01-09 13:04:20+00:00
> IMO, this is fraud, of a criminal nature. People should go to jail.

I have been in companies getting money from government programs. It's not fraud from the government side, at least not for what I've seen.

The problem is that companies see government programs as a way to make easy money. If the government pays a company for X, that's because that company has expertise in X. So it's easy for the company to bullshit the government employees and sell them crap.

Companies abuse the government funding as much as they possible and legally can, and then we blame the government. And on top of that we would want fewer regulations? If you want to be able to punish abuse from companies, you need regulations, and you need to apply them.
by sehansen | 2026-01-09 13:05:40+00:00
Happily, this wasn't actually the case. Canaries faint long before they die and miners would carry small resuscitation chambers where the canaries could be reawakened in an oxygen-rich atmosphere. The Science and Industry Museum in Liverpool has one in their collection: https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscit...
Show HN: CAML-Lint – a linter for narrative/quest JSON used in game design
by KoeppyLoco | 2026-01-09 13:06:49+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small open-source CLI called CAML-Lint that validates and explains
JSON adventure / quest data used in games and simulations.

It’s meant to catch practical issues like:
- duplicate IDs
- broken references
- unreachable content patterns
- name/type mismatches (e.g. “negotiation” marked as combat)

The goal is to help tool builders and indie devs debug narrative logic
without replacing Ink/Yarn/Twine, Unity, VTTs, or existing pipelines.

Repo + examples:
https://github.com/<you>/caml-lint

npm:
npm install -g caml-lint

Happy to answer questions or take feedback.
by adastra22 | 2026-01-09 13:06:51+00:00
New users now have to opt-out of training on their data - it is enabled by default. For existing users, during the transition they updated their terms and let you know about the change in policy, giving you an option to opt-in or opt-out. Opt-in was the default selection. Just today they AGAIN updated terms, presenting a click-through form on first load that looks like a permissions check (e.g. the standard dialog to enable access to the file system that we're conditioned to click-through). It was actually a terms-of-service update with opt-in selected by default, even if you already explicitly opted out. So if you hit enter to dismiss as you're used to doing, you just switched your account over to opt-in.
by WoWSaaS | 2026-01-09 13:07:00+00:00
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by palata | 2026-01-09 13:08:36+00:00
> stuff like Electron.", so I guess you still might need to use those

Yeah, stuff like Slack for work. But there it's a bit different: they chose Electron because it makes them more productive even though it ends up in a worse product. It's sad, but it is rational to produce crap that makes more money.

That would be a reason to use React for a mobile app, maybe. But writing a mobile app in Qt is not more productive :-). I am very convinced it costs more money and results in a worse product.