MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by subscribed | 2026-01-20 00:10:37+00:00
You really don't want /e/ on Fairphone. That's frankly worst of both worlds.

Insecure hardware with limited patches and updates, running insecure software with much patches skipped or delayed.

Most recent fairphone is based on Android 15, while 16 is available from mid-2025. Yes, that matters, releases is not only eyecandy, but also some security patches (ie: not many patches are back ported from 16).

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/244637136412...

Features: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Historic security updates : https://web.archive.org/web/20241231003546/https://divestos....

So, I'd rather have second hand debloated midrange Motorola thank /e/, even less so on Fairphone.
by zahlman | 2026-01-20 00:10:38+00:00
> Safety alignment relies almost entirely on the presence of the chat template.

Why is this a vulnerability? That is, why would the system be allowing you to communicate with the LLM directly, without putting your content into the template?

This reads a lot to me like saying "SQL injection is possible if you take the SQL query as-is from user input". There's so much potential for prompt injection that others have already identified despite this kind of templating that I hardly see the value in pointing out what happens without it.
by trueno | 2026-01-20 00:10:39+00:00
I really like the nano texture display. But I occasionally like to dabble with my camera, sometimes pushing things around in editing apps and after seeing how an unedited photo rendered on a coworkers macbook with the nano texture, I sadly went for the gloss on my own purchase. It's not a huge difference and probably not even a dealbreaker to most, but it's already hard enough to find a best fit for varied color spaces out there who I share photos with and I didn't want to add another variable to the equation. When you're trying to deal with shadows it does get annoying when you're nerfed even just a little bit trying to determine how much detail is in the shadows.

It's admittedly a very obvious tradeoff, but part of me was hoping some new magic existed with the nano texture since everyone was ranting and raving about it on its release. Figured maybe just maybe it could've given me the best of both worlds. Nope. As it turns out people who make "review videos" often times don't know what the hell they're talking about. I've learned to tune those out and just source my purchasing info from people who do things im also interested in doing. In practical application it was an easy decision to make. For my use case glossy display just made more sense, I dork with photos/videos many times a year whereas I sit outside in the sun with my laptop maybe once a year if I'm traveling. And even in those scenarios the glossy display is fine.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-20 00:13:52+00:00
My stance has been the same long before prediction markets, long before sports gambling moved to prediction markets, and the landscape has been the same the whole time

The states regulate gambling and the feds only protect the state's rackets by restricting online gambling, and the feds regulate financial markets that are not considered gambling, we get it, its two different governments that don't see the silly user experience they've created and are both very passionate about what they do. The people regulating the financial markets think they are doing a noble good by protecting people from losing their money, and now, fast forward to the present, neither are the regulators of sports betting

I didn't write this about sports gambling or event markets and I don't care about that particular subset. There are many many many markets and financial products either accessible or not, in this paradigm

The user experience is stupid when the dumbest trades are still available after the investor has been protected

The capital wants to move so let it move

The regulators should continue mandating transparency and keeping markets operating predictably, but they need to get out the way of approval or denials of financial products or access to them, because its redundant and silly
by simonw | 2026-01-20 00:14:34+00:00
Yeah, I think you're right about that.

The thing that really unlocked it was Claude being able to run a file listing against nanolang/examples and then start picking through the examples that were most relevant to figuring out the syntax: https://gisthost.github.io/?9696da6882cb6596be6a9d5196e8a7a5...
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-20 00:15:23+00:00
>So many places run Agile so it feels like software engineering for noisy extroverts but, to me, it just makes it so hard to get anything done, and I see others struggling the same way.

Interesting. I'm very introverted too, but I worked at one Agile place, and it was like a dream for me. Maybe it was just the way they implemented it. What I liked was that I didn't need to talk to people much, outside of the bi-weekly planning meetings (which were large enough that I didn't have to actually speak up much). Instead, we used Jira to track everything: tasks were broken down into tickets, and I could see at a glance what everyone on the team was working on at the time, what work remained to be done, etc. When I finished a task and put it up for review, I could just go find another unassigned ticket and grab that and start working on it, instead of having to talk to anyone (like the boss). We did a lot of code review too, but here again, it was all through Jira/Gitlab/etc., not in person. So I could spend time reviewing other people's merge requests, writing my comments, etc.

The only time I really needed to talk to team members was 1) during the morning stand-up, which was quick, 2) during the bi-weekly sprint review and sprint planning meetings, and 3) if someone was stuck and wanted to work together in-person on a problem (not often).

By contrast, I'm now stuck in a poorly-run place doing waterfall development, and it's awful. I don't know what anyone is working on usually, because everything is verbal (we do use Jira, but I can only see my own pre-assigned tasks), I don't have a good idea of what the group is doing, the timeline for anything, how anything is progressing, if there's other things I could help with or add input to before someone goes the wrong direction, etc. The manager just runs thing in a completely authoritarian manner. I wish I could just go back to my old Agile workplace.
by jasonm23 | 2026-01-20 00:15:54+00:00
Hey, at least it lowers expectations enough that Linux Desktop is good enough with the latest KDE Plasma and to a some extent Gnome.

Apple lost it's broken but incessant leader, and Tim Cook is lets' face it a chair warmer in comparison.

Say what you want, but the disillusionment is sat there, in your view, or you simply never knew Apple when it was "good".

Hey, maybe people will actually understand why proprietary software is, if not immoral, it's the on-ramp for mass control and manipulation that makes the TV central broadcast propaganda soup era, nothing at all in comparison to the manipulation of people by software.
by fizlebit | 2026-01-20 00:16:03+00:00
Looks a bit like Rust. My peeve with Rust is that it makes error handling too much donkey work. In a large class of programs you just care that something failed and you want a good description of that thing:

context("Loading configuration from {file}")

Then you get a useful error message by unfolding all the errors at some point in the program that is makes sense to talk to a human, e.g. logs, rpc error etc.

Failed: Loading configuration from .config because: couldn't open file .config because: file .config does not exist.

It shouldn't be harder than a context command in functions. But somehow Rust conspires to require all this error type conversion and question marks. It it is all just a big uncomfortable donkey game, especially when you have nested closures forced to return errors of a specific type.
by bsder | 2026-01-20 00:16:07+00:00
And parents of the time also got that Foghorn Leghorn was a parody of Senator Claghorn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn

Edit: Apparently, Foghorn goes even further back and is a parody of the sheriff from Blue Monday Jamboree as the first Foghorn episode predates Claghorn:
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-origin-of-foghorn-...
by Atlas667 | 2026-01-20 00:16:47+00:00
Industrialization killed slavery not morality.

The reason for abolishing slavery was that it was a backwards system that prevented the super exploitation that came naturally for the proletariat.

The abolition of slavery was the proletarization of slaves. It absolutely was economic in nature. There was no economic need for slavery anymore, it didnt end racism tho, which was the ideological weapon that permited slavery.

Racism was simply repurposed for the black (and other) proletariat.

Industrialization killed slavery not morality.

Where is the goodness?

You have an idealist conception of history.

How would this allow superexploitation?

When capitalism becomes more productive than the market can handle it just shuts down the factories or when it gets more efficient it just gets rid of workers. Try doing that with slaves.

Proletarization created a pool of unemployed and a labor makret that benefited capitalists.
by cal_dent | 2026-01-20 00:16:56+00:00
FWIW one of the things about advice on job hunting (and a lot of other things in life tbh) is that no one ever seems to acknowledge that, more often than we like to think, it's just luck.

Yes reaching out to your network is good, putting yourself out there through direct contact where possible is good (early in my career two jobs which were real stepping stones came from emailing a head of and ceo directly after a conference), spending time trying to find your edge relatively to others is good. But there are so many points in the whole process where it's simply luck of the draw that spray and pray within reason isn't a completely ridiculous route.

Unless you're already in a role, try what you have to. It's no fun in it but things are always easier once you don't have anything to fall back too.
by Zigurd | 2026-01-20 00:17:13+00:00
It's not just how well the language is represented. Obscure-ish APIs can trip up LLMs. I've been using Antigravity for a Flutter project that uses ATProto. Gemini is very strong at Dart coding, which makes picking up my 17th managed language a breeze. It's also very good at Flutter UI elements. It was noticeably less good at ATProto and its Dart API.

The characteristics of failures have been interesting: As I anticipated it might be, an over ambitious refactoring was a train wreck, easily reverted. But something as simple as regenerating Android launcher icons in a Flutter project was a total blind spot. I had to Google that like some kind of naked savage running through the jungle.
by shiroiuma | 2026-01-20 00:17:57+00:00
>McDonalds and Taco Bell tried to get rid of their "soft skills" (AKA customer service} and look how they're doing right now... Endless stores that all look & feel the same -- uncomfortable seats, no happy families around for longer than 10 minutes, longer drive-thru lines, and impersonal & impatient staff that avoids customers like the plague.

How's their profitability? Long drive-thru lines sounds like business is doing well.

This reminds me of people complaining about Windows, with its ads and AI and tracking and such. They don't like it as users, but the company is making plenty of money, so of course it's the right thing to do.
by myself248 | 2026-01-20 00:18:04+00:00
Pray for clear skies and go out and watch the beautiful aurora, silly!

Depending on the kids' ages, you can teach them quite a lot about the Earth's magnetic field and why the aurora concentrates at the poles, how the high-energy particles light up the sky (it's a lot like a neon light), and how the atmosphere shields us from any danger despite the spectacular show.
by sksnzbz | 2026-01-20 00:19:30+00:00
Regarding not reviewing the output: AI works great when you’re trying to sell it.

That being said, after seeing inside a couple YC backed SaaS companies I believe you can get by without reading the code. There are bugs _everywhere_, yet one of these companies made it years and sold. Currently going through the onerous process of fixing this as new company has a lot of interest in reducing the defect count. It is painful, difficult, and feeling like the company bought a lemon.

I think the reality is there’s a lot of money to be made with buggy software. But, there’s still plenty of money in making reliable software as well (I think?).
by defrost | 2026-01-20 00:20:38+00:00
Sure, there are also a number of cold water long distance swims - the English channel is famous, the Tasmanian ones less so .. but they're cold, long, and have some wicked currents depending which one you take.

* https://www.iswimhappy.com/tas

* https://www.derwentriverbigswim.com/

The Rottnest swim is just a long warm bath for those that like to dip a toe in and start easy.

To the best of my knowledge few ever attempt the horizontal falls even at slack tide - the waters are warm but the salties and the sharks can be off putting .. come tide change the stoppers will eat people.

> than the water off the coast of Australia.

I should note that Australia is a large continent with an area equal to that of mainland contiguous USofA .. it's not all Gold Coast Qld, just as the US is not all Florida.

Eg: the current water tempreture in San Francisco ( 12.5°C / 54.5°F ) is on par with the September water tempreture when surfing offshore breaks in southern Western Australia (not Perth, the south coast where all the fun is).
by gambiting | 2026-01-20 00:20:51+00:00
Imagine you have no religion, but are feeling spiritual and want to find something real. Do you go to the church of a religion that claims it has the actual remains of their saints, or the one that only has pictures and empty walls?

Actually, maybe that's a stupid question as people absolutely do both. But there is an element of "look how great we are because we have a splinter from the holy cross in our church".
by 0xWTF | 2026-01-20 00:21:09+00:00
So, a friend of mine happens to be a very senior high energy laser engineer in the Valley and knows way more about optics than any reasonable person. If I shared his bone fides, it would out him, but suffice to say we had a chat about the XDR screen one time, mainly in comparison to the Dell, and he uses Windows while I use a Mac or Linux. With the utter confidence of someone who has better things to think about he said "Oh, the texture is created by exposing it to hydrofluoric acid. That's just the only way you do this." And then went back to talking about the lack of physical controls, which is what ultimately led him to buy the Dell.

All that to say, this Jon.Bo statement "Basically, it’s a coating" is false. It's not a coating. When you're looking at a nanotexture screen, you're just looking through glass.

Since I'm sure someone will challenge me, I looked it up. Here's Apple's patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220326413A1/en

and the key section from paragraph 0117:

"The surface of the glass cover member may then be chemically etched. Chemical etching techniques for glass cover members may involve using a suitable acid or base (e.g., a hydrofluoric acid-based etchant)".

I love their little redirections, like "a suitable acid or base".

Also: don't try this at home kids. Quick notes from our friend Gemini:

Safety & Dangers of HF Vapor

* Extreme Hazard: HF vapor is highly corrosive, toxic, and can cause severe burns, blindness, and systemic poisoning, even at low concentrations.

* PPE Required: Full protective gear, including chemical suits, respirators, and face shields, is essential.

* Ventilation: Must be done in a dedicated, high-flow chemical fume hood with water access.
by cebert | 2026-01-20 00:22:48+00:00
It will be interesting to watch whether regular users actually utilize these voice-enabled AI features. Using physical buttons to control vehicle functions would be quicker than engaging in voice conversations with a LLM. If you wanted to converse with an LLM, you can do it today with apps like ChatGPT voice and Bluetooth, even if your car doesn’t have built-in AI functionality. I don’t see the value proposition here.
by ratg13 | 2026-01-20 00:22:51+00:00
As a person who is uneducated on this, I’ve always wondered if it isn’t also something to do with large objects that have collided into in the past .. these things would essentially wipe out most everything on the ground planet and force things to re-evolve again and that is why we see similar patterns .. like Carcinisation [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
by tialaramex | 2026-01-20 00:22:55+00:00
Late in the C++ 20 timeline P1881 Epochs were proposed. Similar to Rust's editions, which at that time had been tried in anger only once (2018 Edition) this proposed that there should be a way for C++ to evolve, forbidding obsolete syntax in newer projects rather than just growing forever like cancer.

Epochs was given the usual WG21 treatment and that's the end of that. Rust shipped 2021 Edition, and 2024 Edition, and I see no reason to think 2027 Edition won't happen.

The current iteration of Bjarne's "Profiles" idea is in a similar ballpark though it got there via a very different route. This time because it will aid safety to outlaw things that are now considered a bad idea. If this goes anywhere its nearest ship vehicle is C++ 29.

Now, Python 2 to Python 3 did take a few years, maybe a decade. But just shipping the mechanism to reform C++ looks likely to take at least nine years. Not the reform, just the mechanism to enable it.
by kxbnb | 2026-01-20 00:22:56+00:00
The MCP Server integration is a great addition - being able to have Claude manage VMs directly opens up interesting sandboxing patterns for agent workflows.

One thing I've been thinking about with agents running in isolated environments: how do you handle visibility into what API calls the agent is making from within the VM? Right now we rely on proxying outbound requests to see what's actually happening. Does Lume expose any of that through the MCP interface?

Nice work on the unattended setup - that's usually the painful part.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-01-20 00:23:36+00:00
My understanding is that if she was corrected to the proper understanding of Tariffs, she would not change her support of the tariff. Therefore debunking what "dumb people think" is still pointless. Because they aren't really advocating for a particular policy, they are advocating for a direction which is well represented by a whole family of policies - in particular the strong form.
by xp84 | 2026-01-20 00:23:37+00:00
If there's one thing I know about Google search, it's that there's never one behavior you can rely on. De-indexed? It's been decades since Google started drawing a complete distinction between allowing the Googlebot to crawl and presence in the index. Last time I needed to make a page disappear from the index, I learned that crawl permission had nothing to do with keeping a page in the index or not. In fact, disallowing it in robots was actually the worst thing I could do, since it wouldn't let the bot show up to find my new "noindex" metatags, which are now the only way to make your page drop out of the index.

Having a shortcut like 403ing the robots would actually be useful. LOL
by xg15 | 2026-01-20 00:23:49+00:00
By that logic, everything humans do is per definition result of natural selection. Everything is a sphere if you zoom out far enough.

However your starting definition was more limited. it was specifically about "creating candidates at random, then just picking the one that performs best" - and that's definitely not how airplanes are designed.

(It's not even how LLMs work, in fact)
by perihelions | 2026-01-20 00:24:05+00:00
There's not that much they can do. It's often discussed that if the extreme August 1972 solar storm had overlapped with an Apollo mission (it didn't), it would have acutely sickened the astronauts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1972_solar_storms#Human...

> "Had a mission been taking place during August, those inside the Apollo command module would have been shielded from 90% of the incoming radiation. However, this reduced dose could still have caused acute radiation sickness if the astronauts were located outside the protective magnetic field of Earth, which was the case for much of a lunar mission. An astronaut engaged in EVA in orbit or on a moonwalk could have experienced severe radiation poisoning, or even absorbed a potentially lethal dose."

The Orion capsule's contingency plan looks something like this:

> "To protect themselves, astronauts will position themselves in the central part of the crew module largely reserved for storing items they’ll need during flight and create a shelter using the stowage bags on board. The method protects the crew by increasing mass directly surrounding them, and therefore making a denser environment that solar particles would have to travel through, while not adding mass to the crew module itself."

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/orion/scientists-and-e...
by zugi | 2026-01-20 00:24:29+00:00
True, but multiple security layers help both through redundancy and because they protect different things.

Cell encryption is not end-to-end, so even with cell signal encryption I'm susceptible to snooping by:

- the phone company

- the government if they serve the cell phone company with a warrant or other legal proceding

- malicious downstream actors

I'll use HTTPS for browsing to mitigate the damage of course, but even so without cell signal encryption, I'm susceptible to all of the above, plus any physically nearby actor can:

- see my text messages and possibly inject fake messages

- hear my phone calls

- see which IP addresses I'm communicating with (though not the contents of that communications if I'm encrypting with HTTPS)

- If app store security is inadequate or has flaws, they could force-feed me a malicious app disgused as an "update".

- I don't control the communications used by individual apps, so they can see any data passed in the clear, and trigger and exploit vulnerabilities in those apps via MITM.

So cell signal encryption helps a lot, though certainly it's not sufficient by itself.
by dpforesi | 2026-01-20 00:24:50+00:00
I am a professional LLM code tester. I cannot say much more due to my NDA, but if you are very concerned I would run it in a docker container at the very least. That being said, I highly suggest reviewing the code carefully before running it. Even a look at say python imports might tell you what the code can potentially do if you see it importing the os module. I've run advanced code agents in vs code using their unrestricted access settings while in a docker container. At first it was scary, then I started using that time to refill my coffee. My computer is still running fine.
by kxbnb | 2026-01-20 00:24:56+00:00
The escalation logic (lightweight fetch → full browser only when needed) is a nice optimization. That's exactly the kind of thing that's painful to build yourself.

Curious about debugging: when an agent's request fails or returns unexpected data, how do you surface what actually happened in the browser? We've found that visibility into the actual request/response chain is often the missing piece when debugging agent behavior.

Good call on the ethics stance with robots.txt and User-Agent identification.