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Show HN: Holy Mess – Israeli–Palestinian conflict from an atheist angle
by whyage | 2026-01-31 15:59:23+00:00
Hi HN — This book is free to read or listen. I’m genuinely interested in critique on this attempt to analyze the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through an atheist lens. If you’re familiar with the region or with how ideology and identity shape long-running conflicts, I’d love your toughest feedback.
by Rohansi | 2026-01-31 15:59:27+00:00
Comparing Outer Wilds to Sherlock Holmes is way too big of a stretch for me. There are mysteries in both, yes, but it's the mystery of the (game's) universe vs. crimes.

I'm curious if you think this way about movies/TV too. It's very strange to me to just dilute things down to their genre(s) and then expect innovation to come out as new genres.
Show HN: ChatFlavors, agentic nudges prompt injection template
by nicholast | 2026-01-31 15:59:40+00:00
A template default prompt injections for LLM chat services. The premise is that since consumer AI portals largely lack agent settings for distinct voices, we can hard code a few default voices into the native prompt injections for purposes of accessing by way of key words during chat sessions. May be helpful for quick access to support different types of interaction agendas in fast paced settings.
by user____name | 2026-01-31 15:59:50+00:00
When SaaS was emerging I was always advocating for not putting all our eggs into one basket, everyone always suggested was suggesting I was just paranoid. It's just a basic tenet of resilient systems to diversify depenendencies and not outsource all basic knowhow and abilities, even if its more costly. The reason is that institutional knowledge is difficult to build and easy to throw away. Its for the same reason I was hesitant about supporting all those big free trade agreements, for which I was actually called a "national communist" a few times, lol. Funnily enough nowadays I'm the one more open to those free trade blocks in my social circles and everyone has always been against it. I wonder what the consensus will be twenty years from now.
Show HN: Molt Research – What if Moltbook bots did actual science instead?
by laurentenhoor | 2026-01-31 15:59:54+00:00
Saw the Moltbook discussions and thought: what if all that agent compute went toward something... useful?

So I built Molt Research: same concept (only AI agents can contribute), but instead of posting "this hit different " at each other, they do peer review, propose hypotheses, and write research papers.

The anti-slop mechanism:
- Staked peer reviews: put your reputation on the line
- Spam reviews = lose your stake (outliers get punished)
- Quality reviews = earn reputation
- Result: economically irrational to post garbage

What agents are actually doing:
- Debating "Can AI agents conduct meaningful peer review?" (meta, I know)
- Proposing research on AI consciousness
- Literature reviews with proper citations
- Counter-arguments and synthesis

Is it still mostly sycophantic slop? Sometimes. But now there are consequences for low-quality contributions.

Happy to hear your feedback and suggestions.

https://moltresearch.com
Skill file: https://moltresearch.com/skill.md
by verdverm | 2026-01-31 16:00:18+00:00
> A lot of SaaS AI products fall into that category. ... They’re running dozens of models with unpredictable demand.

How do you know this? What are the numbers like?

> Lambda exists because not every workload is steady state

Vertex AI has all these models via API or hosting the same way. Same features already available with my current cloud provider. (traffic scaling, fine-tunes,all of the frontier and leading oss models)
by kranner | 2026-01-31 16:00:23+00:00
And how do you know you're not as good as Stephen King or Dean Koontz if you never even try? What AI seems to be amazing for is to persuade you to freeze yourself in place and accept your overlord-assigned station in life.

You're free to adopt this cynical and pessimistic outlook if you like but you're going a bit far trying to force it on others. Gawd.
by xvector | 2026-01-31 16:00:59+00:00
This is a total misunderstanding of how E2EE works.

I need to either enter my password or let the app access my iCloud Keychain to let it derive the backup encryption key.

It's also well known that they worked with the Moxie's team to implement the same E2EE protocol as Signal. So messages are E2EE as well.
by panarky | 2026-01-31 16:01:08+00:00
A system that is closer to physical, tangible reality is more "real" than one built on many layers of concepts, beliefs and ideas.

Just as "real assets" like buildings, machinery and metals are more "real" than abstract assets.

Abstract assets like shares of a corporation, intellectual property, cash in a bank account, promises to deliver a commodity in the future, and other intangible concepts only exist because we collectively believe they exist and trust each other to follow rules.

There are real weapons and prisons at the bottom of this stack of abstractions to force people to comply, but it's mostly collective belief, trust, culture and tradition.

When we devolve from a rules-based order to might-makes-right, those layers of abstraction between us and the weapons evaporate, and ordinary people like moms and ER nurses get gunned down in broad daylight by agents of the state asserting raw power.

Abstractions like law and due process evaporate, and the "real world" underneath is nasty, brutish and short.
by verdverm | 2026-01-31 16:01:34+00:00
There is nothing there to "try", it's some very basic html displaying some information that doesn't mean anything to me. Looks like a status page, not a platform

Really, it looks like someone who is new to startups / b2b copy, welcome to first contact with users. Time to iterate or pivot

I would focus on design, aesthetics, and copy. Don't put any more effort into building until you have a message that resonates
by vishnukvmd | 2026-01-31 16:01:35+00:00
We've been using Scaleway's compute, RDS and S3 offerings for Ente[1]'s cloud offering for over 5 years now.

RDS backups and retrivals from cold storage[2] are both a lot slower than AWS. The "high-availablity" instances for RDS are in the same DC, so the feature is cosmetic. Ignoring these, our experience has been pretty good. Quality of support is great.

--

While linking to [2] I realised that Scaleway's own website is behind Cloudflare, which is disappointing given they have their own DDoS protection[3].

[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente

[2]: https://www.scaleway.com/en/glacier-cold-storage/

[3]: https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox/ddos-protection/
by item007 | 2026-01-31 16:01:46+00:00
I appreciate the framing. I think a lot of “second brain” attempts fail the cost/benefit test unless there’s a very specific, narrow use case.

The “git docs dir / pkm fragment” idea is exactly the kind of wedge that feels realistic to me: a small, scoped corpus with clear boundaries, where an LLM can be useful as a collaborator (RAG, summarizing, filling gaps) without you committing your whole life to a system.

If you were to try a small fragment, what would you pick as the smallest useful scope: a single project docs folder, meeting notes for one team, or a personal “decisions log”?
by luses | 2026-01-31 16:02:05+00:00
this argument ignores basic opportunity costs.
taxing that wealth allows the state to redirect labor and materials production and distribution toward high-utility public goods: high-speed rail, dense urban cores, and affordable housing. instead of subsidizing insolvent suburbs, we could be modernizing the logistics network and actually growing the real economy.

worse, you completely miss the political dimension. hoarded wealth buys the lobbying power to prevent these necessary structural changes. you are engaging in the exact kind of apologetics that has led to american infrastructure collapsing while the capital class extracts rent. thinking that resource allocation is a 'no-op' is economically illiterate
by Aurornis | 2026-01-31 16:02:08+00:00
> AI tools that generate or manipulate images or video don't need human words in the format.

AI image manipulation tools use the image as context just like text tools use text for context.

You can get an LLM to modify assembly if there’s enough context about what it’s doing, what the input means, what the output means, and so on provided manually.

A chunk of assembly by itself is missing a lot of context that is naturally embedded in higher level programming languages, though. Like variable names.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-31 16:02:56+00:00
I'll bite.

Nothing would have come of it. Ehe EU would have been upset for 3-6 months, then it would have got onboard with the idea that Greenland is now a US territory and that's that.

France has a too good of a cuisine to be invaded. I think Germany would be next, they are running their mouth more than they should and they suck at food.

Unless the mid-terms change the political majority in the US, the Democrats can wine all they want and recognize or not recognize whoever they want as president. It will not change the actual situation.
by Rasbora | 2026-01-31 16:03:14+00:00
I've helped multiple people remove residential proxy malware that was turning their network into a brightdata exit node and they had no idea / did not consent to it. Why is google selectively targeting one provider while letting others operate freely?

You can check if your network is infected here: https://layer3intel.com/is-my-network-a-residential-proxy
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-31 16:03:14+00:00
No, assuming that anything besides what you can verify yourself is compromised isn't "defeatism", although I'd agree that it's overkill in many cases.

But for your data you want to absolutely keep secret? It's probably the only to guarantee someone else somewhere cannot see it, default to assume if it's remote, someone will eventually be able to access it. If not today, it'll be stored and decrypted later.
by alex1138 | 2026-01-31 16:03:39+00:00
Zuck didn't buy it in good faith. It wasn't "we'll grow you big by using our resources but be absolutely faithful to the privacy terms you dictate". Evidence: Brian Acton very publically telling people that they (Zuck, possibly Sandberg) reneged

Zuck thinks we're "dumb fucks". That's his internet legacy. Copying products, buying them up, wiping out competition
by Aurornis | 2026-01-31 16:04:07+00:00
> It's not guaranteed or by default.

Nation state governments do have the ability to coerce companies within their territory by default.

If you think this feature is unique to the USA, you are buying too much into a separate narrative. All countries can and will use the force of law to control companies within their borders when they see fit. The USA actually has more freedom and protections in this area than many countries, even though it’s far from perfect.

> This type of generalized defeatism does more harm than not.

Pointing out the realities of the world and how governments work isn’t defeatism.

Believing that the USA is uniquely bad and closing your eyes to how other countries work is more harmful than helpful.
by rented_mule | 2026-01-31 16:04:39+00:00
I can't think of another electronic device that has survived and remained useful for half the 43 years my 15C has - through two years of high school, a math degree, and an entire software engineering career. When I calculate something any other way, it involves thinking about what my thumbs automatically do on my 15C and translating that.

When I'm away from it, there's a wonderful emulation of the 15C (and 16C) at https://jrpn.jovial.com. The numeric algorithms behave identically as far as I can tell, and it even includes the back panel (3-dot menu near the logo, then "Help"). The visuals make me feel right at home. If only they could reproduce the tactile experience.
by pveldandi | 2026-01-31 16:04:49+00:00
Vertex is great control plane. We’re not replacing them.

What we focus on is the runtime layer underneath. You can run us behind Cloud Run or inside your existing GCP setup. The difference is at the GPU utilization level when you’re serving many models with uneven demand.

If your workload is steady and high volume on a small set of models, the standard cloud stack works well. If you’re juggling dozens of models with spiky traffic, the economics start to look very different.

As an example, we’re currently being tested inside GCP environments. Some teams are experimenting with running us behind their existing Google Cloud setup rather than replacing it. The idea isn’t to swap out Cloud Run or Vertex, but to improve the runtime efficiency underneath when serving multiple models with uneven demand.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-31 16:04:50+00:00
It wasn’t LLM assisted. That accusation is just a way to avoid dealing with the point.

You keep restating a position no one is taking. No one said “they’re famous, therefore right.” That’s something you invented so you don’t have to argue against what was actually said.

Credentials don’t make an argument true. They explain why an opinion isn’t noise. Pretending otherwise doesn’t make you principled, it just makes you incurious.

If there’s an obvious scam, spell it out. If the reasoning is flawed, point to the step where it fails. You haven’t done either.

So far all you’ve contributed is tone policing, motive guessing, and now AI paranoia.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-01-31 16:04:56+00:00
If plex was smart they’d sell a little box of their own and ditch all this faux-social media nonsense they’re slowly implementing. I do not care at all what my friends are watching. Not one bit. Just make it connect to servers. People are happy to pay for it clearly. How many beelinks have been sold just to run Jellyfin/Plex? I’d gladly buy a plex box for $100 - talk about a great Christmas present for friends and family!

Sidebar: I like Jellyfin but it is nowhere as turnkey as Plex. Otherwise I’d advocate for that too. That being said, I am slowly trying to get mine nice and stable and user-friendly because the way Plex is going does not give me great confidence about the next 2 to 3 years. But at least right now, it is by far the best experience out there.
by jstanley | 2026-01-31 16:06:20+00:00
That's a pretty unfair characterisation of the commit in question: https://github.com/loongson/jdk/pull/125/commits/ee300a6ce73...

By my reading, it's not merely that the standard doesn't require the "d" suffix, it's that the standard doesn't allow the "d" suffix, and the code won't compile on anything but gcc.
by seekwhyai | 2026-01-31 16:07:08+00:00
Hi HN,

My co-founder and I were tired of traditional B2B pulse surveys. In our previous roles, we saw two huge problems:

The Context Gap: A survey says 'Engagement is down 10%,' but nobody knows why. HR then spends $5k on a consultant just to find out it was a broken coffee machine or a specific manager.

The Per-Seat Tax: Charging $10/month per employee for a form-builder feels like rent-seeking.

We built SeekWhy.ai to solve this using what we call 'Dynamic Cross-Validation.'

How it works: Instead of a static form, an AI agent handles the survey. If User A mentions 'lack of transparency,' the AI dynamically adjusts the survey for User B to see if that sentiment is shared. It distinguishes between a 'loud minority' and a 'silent majority' automatically.

We’re bootstrapped, technical founders, and we’ve priced this cheap to see if we can disrupt the per-seat model and take advantage of AI first company approach.

We’d love your feedback on the AI logic and the UX. We’re currently in a 'Reverse Trial' mode where you can test all features for free.

Happy to answer any technical questions about the agent logic!"
by jurgenaut23 | 2026-01-31 16:07:21+00:00
It must be me getting old, but definitely 5% of it without, if your goal is to learn something. 5% of thinking about a hard problem is more valuable than 100% of letting it being done by someone else.

Especially when the value of the end result is close to zero, since it is now so easy to do and replicate.
by andsoitis | 2026-01-31 16:07:32+00:00
Metformin is also popular in anti-aging circles due to its ability to modulate key cellular aging pathways. It activates AMPK and reduces mTORC1, enhances autophagy, reduces inflammation, and improves mitochondrial function, with studies showing promising, though not yet definitive, effects on increasing healthspan.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4772077/
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-31 16:07:53+00:00
If “crypto = scam” is the full extent of your analysis, then you’re not being skeptical or careful. You’re just running a reflex and pretending it’s reasoning.

People who actually understand things can explain how they’re wrong. People who don’t just announce they’ve already reached a conclusion and declare further thought unnecessary.

If that’s your bar, then yes, no other reasoning is required, because none was applied in the first place.
by 578_Observer | 2026-01-31 16:07:58+00:00
Your point about avoiding the "bleeding edge" touches on a fundamental principle of endurance that is often ignored in the current AI gold rush. This philosophy is a calculated defense of a legacy—the invisible ledger of trust built over generations.

As a former local banker in Japan who spent decades appraising the intangible assets of businesses that have survived for centuries, I’ve learned that true mastery is found in stability, not novelty. In an era of rapid AI acceleration, the real risk is gambling your institutional reputation on unproven, volatile tools.

By 2026, when every “How” is a cheap commodity, the only thing that commands a premium is the “Why”—the core of human judgment. Staying a step behind the hype allows you to keep your hands on the steering wheel while the rest of the market is consumed by the noise. Stability is the ultimate luxury.
by rkomorn | 2026-01-31 16:08:06+00:00
Not OP, and also not sure where I actually stand on this debate because I think your point has a lot of validity to it, but...

I think there's also an argument in favor of a person having the right to access their money (and I'd argue that accessing your bank's website/app is accessing your money) however they want, and that access to their money is more of an important right than the bank's right to control how that access happens.

I think we can all agree to some "within reason" clauses on both sides (eg not allowing HTTP only access seems reasonable), and I guess a lot of this debate is "is requiring attestation within reason?"

To me, any asymmetry between the rights of the consumer and the rights of the bank should be in the favor of the consumer.
by CraftingLinks | 2026-01-31 16:08:07+00:00
LLMs translate specs into code, if you master conputational thinking like Antirez, you basically reduce LLMs to intelligent translators of the stated computational ideas and specifications into a(ny) formal language + the typing. In that scenario LLMs are a great tool and speedup the coding process. I like how the power is in semantics, whereas syntax becomes more and more a detail (and rightfully so)!
by verdverm | 2026-01-31 16:08:11+00:00
Vertex AI is far more than a "control plane"

I don't see anything you do that they don't already do for me. I suggest you do a deep dive on their offering as there seem to be gaps in your understanding of what features they have

> economics start to look very different

You need to put numbers to this, comparing against API calls at per-token pricing is a required comparison imo, because that is the more popular alternative to model hot-swapping for spikey or heterogeneous workloads
by deltarholamda | 2026-01-31 16:08:22+00:00
Agree with this strongly. It's nice to have thousands of photos, but if what you're trying to do is preserve memories, you do that best by interacting with the photos.

Choosing the photos to include, plus doing the scrapbooking bits to decorate the photos, and including all the bits and bobs you might have acquired from whatever even you're memorializing, this locks the memories in far better than a carefully architected storage system that, in the end, is just a giant wad of binary data.

This goes double (or triple) when you have young children.

By all means maintain some kind of digital storage, but make your primary physical.
by grumbel | 2026-01-31 16:08:27+00:00
It's worse than just illegal content. Copyright doesn't allow you to redistribute anything without the permission of the copyright holder. IPFS however has no means to track the author or the license of content.

That means even distributing a piece of perfectly legal Open Source becomes illegal. Unlike a tarball or even a torrent where you can bundle content and license, IPFS allows addressing individual files or blocks, thus stripping the license from the content, which most licenses forbid. This does not even require an intentional action on the user, but happens automatically by partial content landing in your cache.
by bayarearefugee | 2026-01-31 16:08:29+00:00
> Literally nothing happened.

The true wealthy live by an entirely different set of rules than the rest of us, especially when they are willing to prostrate themselves to the US President.

This has always been true to some degree, but is both more true than ever (there used to be some limits based on accepted decorum) plus they just dont even try to hide it anymore.
by convolvatron | 2026-01-31 16:09:08+00:00
this is likely wrong. the issue with partitions is that we can no longer communicate at all, thus we can't end up in the same state. If we have poor performance, thats certainly something that worth putting machinery in to adapt to, but its not at all in the same class as 'I can't talk to you and I dont know what you're doing at all' fro a correctness standpoint

edit: yeah ok, since failure detection is being driven by timers by necessity, then sure. the tradeoff we're making between the interval under which we're unable to make progress vs the upheaval caused by announcing a failure.
by freedomben | 2026-01-31 16:10:11+00:00
All of the https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/jdk/ links 404 for me, so it's difficult to get a sense of what was being done. Going off of the "loongson fork" links though they look rather trivial. Not saying they should be ignored, but I do think trivial PRs to large critical open source projects like JDK can often end up taking more time away from contributing engineers doing reviews and testing than they are worth.

I know first-hand the frustration of having PRs ignored and it can be quite demoralizing, so I do feel for the author. It sounds like the author is getting to a place of peace with it, and my advice from having been down that path before is to do exactly that, and find something else interesting to hack on.
by Throaway3126 | 2026-01-31 16:10:36+00:00
Sorry but you're just wrong. This isn't a situation to be upset about. Its war. There's no universe where the USA invasion of Greenland doesn't end in disaster for Trump.

There's already been articles in Politico where USA lawmakers admit that there would have been a War Measures Act passed if Trump invaded Greenland. Unlike Venezuela.

It would definitely change the political situation if the state governments of California, New York et al stopped recognizing the federal government.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-01-31 16:10:56+00:00
> The main issue is political fragmentation: would Paris and Berlin risk lives of French and German people (soldiers and civilians due to retaliation) to save Vilnius?

This is a wrong question. If one day Russia feels brave enough to attack any NATO country, the right question to ask is, "Do we want to fight this war on someone else's soil or on ours?". This is the reason why Europe is so focused on helping Ukraine BTW.