MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-06 07:20:45+00:00
> My point is saying if it's so complex you have to get a lawyer involved, how do you expect your LLM&system to cover all its own shortcomings.

Every feature is lawyered up. Thats what general counsel does. Every feature I worked on at a FAANG had some level of legal compliance gate on it, because mistakes are costly.

For the team that launched the chatbots, loads of time went into figuring out what stupid shit users could make it do, and blocking it. Its not like all of that effort stopped. When people started finding new ways to do naughty stuff, that had to be blocked as well. Because other wise the whole feature had to be pulled to stop advertisers from fleeing, or worse FCC/class action.

> These folks are jailbreaking nearly asking to modify using neutral terms like clothing

CORRECT! people are putting effort into jailbreaking the app. where as on x grok they don't need to do any of that. Which is my point, its a product choice.

None of this is "hard legal problems" or in fact unpredictable. They are/have done a ton of work to stop that (again mainly because they want people to pay for "spicy mode")
by spacemarine1 | 2026-01-06 07:21:02+00:00
One EGG studio is wiring LLM’s to npc’s in a hilarious way. We’ll be curious to see everyone’s feedback when they make a playable available.

However, I’ll say that as a result of their AI integration they are also doing way more human writing in the form of prompts and other procedural elements than if they just used old fashioned dialog trees.

I think AI can only be used as an enhancement in certain specific and controlled ways.

One mistake I see a lot right now is the assumption that you can delegate design and creative direction to AI. I think that generally yields slop. In fact I think the Creative Director/design role at a game studio may be the hardest digital job for an AI to replace. I had the opportunity to express that idea to Sam Altman once and he did refute it.
by avazhi | 2026-01-06 07:23:39+00:00
> Might be illegal to break someone else's proprietary software, no matter how abandoned it is.

Oh no!

Anyway

Snark aside, what you do locally on your own PC in your own home is kinda nobody else’s business, especially when you aren’t cracking it to share it with others. Pretty sure all the arguments were already hashed out in the ‘80s when VCR companies tried to block recording television to cassette tapes.

Literally nobody cares.
by rkeene2 | 2026-01-06 07:23:42+00:00
I've had some additional time to reflect on this thread and I think I can spot the core disconnect.

Do you believe that the Vienna Convention requires that countries treat their diplomatic representatives in some special legal way ? For example, do you believe that the Vienna Convention obligates the US to extend diplomatic immunity to the US Ambassador to France ?

If so, that's backwards. It doesn't obligate one country to treat their own diplomats specially inside their own legal system, it defines how participants of the treaty will treat FOREIGN diplomats. The benefit of being part of the treaty is that your diplomats are treated specially when they are in foreign lands, and the cost is you treat foreign diplomats specially when they are in your land.

The currency of treaties is reciprocity.

A treaty can never be binding, there exists no superior entity for which to bring your appeal which can then ultimately use their monopoly on force to extract justice -- each nation is sovereign and a peer in that respect.

Finally, I didn't address your last paragraph but I will now: It does not matter if the USA calls it a law enforcement operation and not invasion, it was still an invasion. It was an invasion because it meets the definition of the word. But ALSO it wasn't a law enforcement operation because the laws of the US do not apply in Venezuela. Also, it's illegal in the US to use the US Military for enforcing US laws except in times of invasion... although it sadly specifies that the US must be the entity being invaded, not just there be an invasion.
by dm808 | 2026-01-06 07:24:12+00:00
Yes, it is from Nordic Nano.

It is nanoprinted and trivially scalable. Free of lithium, cadmium, lead, and cobalt. Uses abundant raw materials free from geopolitical constraints.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20118784

Factory in Finland, started around Q3/2025.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20180376

Verge Motorcycles bike with the new battery at CES, apparently at West Hall 5658.
Video: https://youtu.be/vmsxYznW9Fs

Donut Lab booth here: https://www.ces.tech/events/ces-unveiled-las-vegas/exhibitor...
by Grimblewald | 2026-01-06 07:25:24+00:00
You'd have to be a little thick yourself to think that's clever. If you think that's clever, let me recommend you sell your car for extra fuel money, chop off your legs for rapid weight loss, and perhaps abuse methamphetamine to not have to sleep, boosting productivity 3 fold. Perhaps you'd like to add robbing banks as a faster way to get your cash out.
by r14c | 2026-01-06 07:25:28+00:00
Every white person comes from a specific ethnic background, be it German, British, Swedish or whatever. These are all high caste cultures in western European imperial tradition. A common identity among the various ethnic groups in the northern kingdoms. Idk how anyone would think German and British are the same ethnicity just because they are neughbors.

Idk why that's upsetting, this is your culture.
by sbinnee | 2026-01-06 07:27:19+00:00
I was referring to this paper a lot when it was hyped, when people cared about architectural decisions of neural networks. It was also the year I started studying neural networks.

I think the idea still holds. Although the interest has been shifted towards test-time scaling and thinking, researcher still care about architectures like nemotron 3, recently published.

Can anyone give more updates on this direction of research, more recent papers?
by ryandrake | 2026-01-06 07:27:22+00:00
I'm not sure what benefit any country outside of the USA gets for honoring trade agreements that bind them to enforce US anti-circumvention, US copyright, and US DRM. A fortune awaits any country who has the guts to say "you know what, USA, we're going to allow blatantly copying your shit--what are you going to do, tariff us? Oh, wait, you already are!"
by tempodox | 2026-01-06 07:28:04+00:00
Microsoft -> Microslop -> Megaslop.

So many things have happened in the last 12 months that made reality indistinguishable from satire. This is Megaslop making their best effort to win the prize in that category.

Also, never trust a statistic you haven’t faked yourself: Now Megaslop can claim a drastic surge in the number of “Copilot” users.
by mellosouls | 2026-01-06 07:33:34+00:00
Where's the evidence for this?

Note the lack of links and that all of these Maduro reports originate from X which is rampant with polymarket grifters claiming secret insights into how the big bets are made.

Perhaps somebody here can provide a Polymarket link (not screenshots) to the proof?

I'm not saying the BBC has been scammed here but the only link I've found to the alleged account 404s. Perhaps its been taken down by Polymarket?

Anyway for anybody new to this, even if this checks out please - as ever - be cautious about the claims of easy money.
by anu7df | 2026-01-06 07:33:39+00:00
This is pretty much how I use LLMs as well. These interactions have convinced me that while the LLMs are very convincing with persuasive arguments, they are wrong often on things I am good at; so much so that I would have a hard time opening PRs for code edited by them without reading it carefully. Gell-man amnesia and all that seems appropriate here even though that anthropomorphizes LLMs to an uncomfortable extent. At some point in the future I can see them becoming very good at recognizing my intent and also reasoning correctly. Not there yet.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-06 07:34:31+00:00
> I'm not sure what benefit any country outside of the USA gets for honoring trade agreements that bind them to enforce US anti-circumvention, US copyright, and US DRM.

Sanctions?

> ircumvention, US copyright, and US DRM. A fortune awaits any country who has the guts to say "you know what, USA, we're going to allow blatantly copying your shit--what are you going to do, tariff us? Oh, wait, you already are!"

What does the target country do if Microsoft and Apple stop sales and support with immediate effect?

That's the effect of sanctions. Overnight their systems are all bricked.

The petrodollar may not be relevant anymore, but almost all governments in the 1st world have to bend the knee for Microsoft.

On one hand, I kinda think they deserve it, having ignored competing systems that are both cheaper and better.

Any government threatening the US can be easily cut off at the knees overnight at the behest of the US government.
by Anamon | 2026-01-06 07:34:51+00:00
Speaking as someone who doesn't really like or do LLM-assisted coding either: at least try Gemini. ChatGPT is the absolute worst you could use. I was quite shocked when I compared the two on the same tasks. Gemini gets decent initial results you can build on. ChatGPT generates 99% absolutely unusable rubbish. The difference is so extreme, it's not even a competition anymore.

I now understand why Altman announced "Code Red" at OpenAI. If their tools don't catch up drastically, and fast, they'll be one for the history books soon. Wouldn't be the first time the big, central early mover in a new market suddenly disappears, steamrolled by the later entrants.
by yuchtman | 2026-01-06 07:35:47+00:00
The idea of Apple and/or Google just stop selling phones in the EU seems ... unlikely. A quick search tells me something between a fourth and a third of Apple revenue is in the EU, you really think they'd just stop selling in the EU?

Gotta also remember, that even if the EU would allow this, your average phone user would not use it. Just like your average phone user doesn't root their android smartphone or installs Lineage/Graphene/eOS/whatever. Even if it were made easier (or possible) for more phones, the vast majority would not use it and Apple and Google would still make a lot of money.
by lukan | 2026-01-06 07:35:50+00:00
"A metal songwriter doesn't subconsciously absorb the entire global corpus of music; they draw from the artists who shaped them"

They also draw from the people around them. The music they hear when they are in public spaces. Etc.

Out of curiosity, have you ever done composing?

Anyway, one can create very shallow songs by hand. One can also give empty vague prompts.

Or one can make a complex music arrangement, manual editing of tracks, have some AI generated mixed in, very detailed prompts etc. If that ain't creative to you, that is your opinion. I think different.
by mwapinska | 2026-01-06 07:36:22+00:00
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by watwut | 2026-01-06 07:37:54+00:00
I think it genuinely does not matter whether it is legal or not. No one will prosecute them. Legal system was berarely capable of prosecuting rich people crimes and generally unwilling to do so. And the capable parts were dismantled last year.

It would take years to rebuild them. And even if they do by some miracle, next republican president will issue pardons like Trump did.

This sort of activity is illegal only in theory.
Show HN: Yeet – CLI tool to find and reclaim disk space
by sohanmanju | 2026-01-06 07:39:08+00:00
I kept running out of disk space and never knew where it all went. Paid apps exist for this, but paying $10-30 just to see what's eating your disk felt wrong. So I built an open-source alternative.
Yeet finds stale coding projects (detects by package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, etc.), scans for large files, clears caches (browsers, npm, pip, cargo, Docker, Homebrew - 60+ locations), cleans up Xcode on macOS (simulator runtimes are sneaky - 5-10 GB each), and has an interactive disk explorer with vim keybindings.
Technical bits: uses native du instead of Python's os.walk for ~5x faster size calculation, parallel scanning with ThreadPoolExecutor, and moves to trash by default so you can recover mistakes. Had a fun bug where sparse files (VM disk images) showed 16 TB instead of actual size.
Install: pip install git+https://github.com/sohanmanju/yeet.git (or uv tool install if you use uv). Requires Python 3.10+. Works on macOS, Linux, Windows. MIT licensed.
Found about 40 GB on my machine I didn't need.
by Anamon | 2026-01-06 07:39:25+00:00
Then you write a comment, maybe even figure out the correct solution and fix the answer. If you're lucky, somebody already did. Everybody wins.

That's what LLMs take away. Nothing is given back to the community, nothing is added to shared knowledge, no differing opinions are exchanged. It just steals other people's work from a time when work was still shared and discussed, removes any indication of its source, claims it's a new thing, and gives you no way to contribute back, or even discuss it and maybe get confronted with different opinions of even discovering a better way.

Let's not forget that one of the main reasons why LLMs are useful for coding in the first place, is that they scraped SO from the time where people still used it.
by eru | 2026-01-06 07:41:16+00:00
If you've ever moved any furniture at all, you'll notice that it's often much easier to get around corners (or through doorways), if you can turn them sideways.

That's especially easy to imagine with tables, but sofas also count.

There are also sofas that can be easily taken apart. Eg one of our sofas at home, an L-shaped sofa, comes apart into two pieces.
by Cr8 | 2026-01-06 07:41:43+00:00
unfortunately disabling temperature / switching to greedy sampling doesn't necessarily make most LLM inference engines _fully_ deterministic as parallelism and batching can result in floating point error accumulating differently from run to run - it's possible to make them deterministic but does come with a perf hit

some providers _do_ let you set the temperature, including to "zero", but most will not take the perf hit to offer true determinism
by osakasake | 2026-01-06 07:41:58+00:00
Google’s lack of support is a directly correlated to their monopoly. They are able to not pay for proper support staff because they don’t have any competition. They should be regulated to spend a certain portion of their revenues on support given how critical they are to people’s lives. You can’t rake in hundreds of billions while being a monopoly and then claim you can’t afford proper amount of support staff.
by anu7df | 2026-01-06 07:42:40+00:00
You are ignoring the obvious difference between errors introduced while translating one near-formal-intent-clear language to another as opposed to ambiguous-natural-language to code done through a non-deterministic intermediary. At some point in the future the non-deterministic intermediary will become stable enough (when temperature is low and model versions won't affect output much) but the ambiguity of the prompting language is still going to remain an issue. Hence, read before commit will always be a requirement I think.
A good friend of mine wrote somewhere that at about 5 agents or so per project is when he is the bottleneck. I respect that assessment. Trust but verify. This way of getting faster output by removing that bottleneck altogether is, at least for me, not a good path forward.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-01-06 07:42:56+00:00
Downvoted for a factual comment, I see the usual denial on the basis of party lines is still as strong as ever in the US. Here is a bunch of sources for the few who might be interested:

[1] Eager for Credits, BMW Breaks Ground on SC Battery Plant https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a44361301/bmw-ba...

[2] Inflation Reduction Act 'super aggressive,' Macron tells his US hosts (https://www.euractiv.com/news/inflation-reduction-act-super-...)

[3] Michelin's US investments won't affect Europe, CFO says https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/michel...
by phendrenad2 | 2026-01-06 07:43:03+00:00
"Freedom exists in the tension between equals" - TFM (one of those "self-described libertarians" this article speaks of).

Simply by being powerful, the US became the weapon of choice by the worst people to censor and block anyone they didn't like (socialists, libertarians).

Now that there is a multipolar world, with competing principles and goals, it's a lot more work to evict your enemies from the entire internet.
by scotty79 | 2026-01-06 07:43:41+00:00
> Apple could easily block this, and in the situation described here of a complete rupture with the US, they would no longer operate and sell phones in the EU. If Google decided to do the same, that essentially leaves Europeans without smartphones. Microsoft could "brick" the rest of the EU's digital infrastructure overnight if they so wished, or were compelled to do so.

All the more reasons to go scorched earth on American companies. There's a point in every blackmail where the only way forward is through.
by flohofwoe | 2026-01-06 07:43:41+00:00
> Except it doesn't offer the safety alternatives that C++ has, thus it is a big unsafe bunch of code.

C++ adds more new unsafe concepts on top of C than C ever had though ;) (see std::view, std::range or good old iterator invalidation - at least in C the unsafety is in your face and not hidden under layers of stdlib code)
by octoberfranklin | 2026-01-06 07:43:52+00:00
Laptop names are even worse:

> Are ZBooks good or do I want an OmniBook or ProBook? Within ZBook, is Ultra or Fury better? Do I want a G1a or a G1i? Oh you sell ZBook Firefly G11, I liked that TV show, is that one good?

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/11/29/bikes...
by BOS1980- | 2026-01-06 07:43:55+00:00
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by tlb | 2026-01-06 07:45:17+00:00
Given that inside information makes prediction markets more accurate, why do you believe it doesn't make stock markets more accurate?

If, say, Enron insiders could've shorted their own stock, that would have improved accuracy and thereby diverted more funding to more productive enterprises.

I guess there could be second-order effects when insiders can actually change the outcome, which is why athletes aren't allowed to bet on their own games.
by klardotsh | 2026-01-06 07:45:18+00:00
Nearly all modern SOCs have built in RAM now. Apple Silicon does it, AMD Strix Halo and beyond do it, Intel Lunar Lake does it, most ARM SOCs from vendors other than Apple do it…

Now, unified memory shared freely between CPU and GPU would be cool, like Apple and AMD SH have, if that’s what you meant.
by nurettin | 2026-01-06 07:45:34+00:00
EU fines of up to 100s of millions of USD haven't stopped these companies from operating overseas. It is unlikely that they would exit a trillion dollar market because of some self-imposed security laws. Rather the opposite, the hardware would have to be free of whatever invasive security measure there is if EU wanted it. But they are rather xenophobic, so the incentives align.
by chrismorgan | 2026-01-06 07:48:12+00:00
> I assume 9 is better than 7 right? Right?

Oh, the number of times I’ve heard someone assume their five- or ten-year-old machine must be powerful because it’s an i7… no, the i3-14100 (released two years ago) is uniformly significantly superior to the i7-9700 (released five years before that), and only falls behind the i9-9900 in multithreaded performance.

Within the same product family and generation, I expect 9 is better than 7, but honestly it wouldn’t surprise me to find counterexamples.
by nawgz | 2026-01-06 07:49:22+00:00
You are right, as someone who has watched Trump run roughshod over US institutions for a decade, I should use my significant power as a working class non American to fight back, by… not posting comments acknowledging the reality of a US with a kangaroo scotus, absentee congress, and captured law enforcement and intelligence apparatus!

I should resist more by saying, wow guys, this fascist action described in this BBC article sure shows how immoral Hegseth is! I should believe in the power of someone arresting the Secretary of War for his crimes, and I should list all the notable examples of party members being ostracized for loyalty from the current administration to emphasize how silly any viewpoint saying otherwise is! It would be grossly apathetic to comment that loyalty is clearly the most valued “virtue” any member of the current US leadership can exhibit, and I am just so privileged to say how it seems bad the most powerful military of all time is doing nothing to stop itself from being utilized however that glorious leadership desires!

Thanks so much for educating me!
by Anamon | 2026-01-06 07:49:23+00:00
> Cloudfare has to block so many more bots now precisely because crawling the public, free-to-everyone, internet is legally not theft.

That is simply not true. Freely available on the web doesn't mean it's in the Public Domain. The "lawfully obtained" part of your argument is patently untrue. You can legally obtain something, but that doesn't mean any use of it is automatically legal as well. Otherwise, the recent Spotify dump by Anna's Archive would be legal as well.

It all depends on the license the thing is released under, chosen by the person who made it freely accessible on the web. This license is still very emphatically a legally binding document that restricts what someone can do with it.

For instance, since the advent of LLM crawling, I've added the "No Derivatives" clause to the CC license of anything new I publish to the web. It's still freely accessible, can be shared on, etc., but it explicitly prohibits using it for training ML models. I even add an additional clause to that effect, should the legal interpretation of CC-ND ever change. In short, anyone training an LLM on my content is infringing my rights, period.
by LunaSea | 2026-01-06 07:50:26+00:00
> Agents as LLMs calling tools in a loop to perform tasks that can be handled by typing commands into a computer absolutely did.

I think that this still isn't true for even very mundane tasks like "read CSV file and translate column B in column C" for files with more than ~200 lines. The LLM will simply refuse to do the work and you'll have to stitch the badly formatted answer excerpts together yourself.