MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NathanKP | 2026-01-26 22:49:43+00:00
So far in this thread the majority of Hacker News users have decided they don't like the tone of your comment, therefore they have downvoted your comment.

If you don't see the irony, let me point it out: this is a real time demonstration that your following statement is not an inevitable thing:

> eventually converges on the same thing in the end: a place to dump out ugly things

When a community has the tools for self governance, then it can resist influences that it does not appreciate. In the case of Bluesky in specific, you may not be familiar with how easy it is to subscribe to labelers and blocklists. This decentralized self governance model allows anyone to curate their Bluesky experience, and it allows sub communities to collectively govern in ways that filter the cesspool and remove the ugly things.

In short, the fact that you are complaining about downvotes while simultaneously saying that it is inevitable for communities to devolve into places to dump ugly things is highly ironic. One thing that you are complaining about, is the solution to the other thing that you are complaining about.
by cyanydeez | 2026-01-26 22:49:44+00:00
I think you're missing the reason LLMs work: It's cause they can continue predictable structures, like a human.

The surmise that compiled languages fit that just doesn't follow. The same way LLMs have trouble finishing HTML because of the open/close are too far apart.

The language that an LLM would succeed with is one where:

1. Context is not far apart

2. The training corpus is wide

3. Keywords, variables, etc are differentiated in the training.

4. REPL like interactivity allows for a feedback loop.

So, I think it's premature to think just because the compiled languages are less used because of human inabilities, doesn't mean the LLM will do any better.
by h4kunamata | 2026-01-26 22:50:07+00:00
AI can be good under the right circumstances but only if reviewed 100% of the time by a human.

Homelab is my hobby where I run Proxmox, Debian VM, DNS, K8s, etc, all managed via Ansible.

For what it is worth, I hate docker :)

I wanted to setup a private tracker torrent that should include:

1) Jackett: For the authentication

2) Radarr: The inhouse browser

3) qBitorrent: which receives the torrent files automatically from Radarr

4) Jellyfin: Of course :)

I used ChatGPT to assist me into getting the above done as simple as possible and all done via Ansible:

1) Ansible playbook to setup a Debian LXC Proxmox container

2) Jackett + Radarr + qBitorrent all in one for simplicity

3) Wireguard VPN + Proton VPN: If the VPN ever go down, the entire container network must stop (IPTables) so my home IP isn't leaked.

After 3 nights I got everything working and running 24/7, but it required a lot of review so it can be managed 10 years down the road instead of WTF is this???

There were silly mistakes that make you question "Why am I even using this tool??" but then I remember, Google and search engines are dead. It would have taken me weeks to get this done otherwise, AI tools speed that process by fetching the info I need so I can put them together.

I use AI purely to replace the broken state of search engines, even Brave and DuckDuckGo, I know what I am asking it, not just copy/paste and hope it works.

I have colleagues also into IT field whose the company where they work are fully AI, full access to their environment, they no longer do the thinking, they just press the button.
These people are cooked, not just because of the state of AI, if they ever go look for another job, all they did for years was press a button!!
by AgentMatt | 2026-01-26 22:50:45+00:00
Two years ago I did some cleaning up and finally sorted out the gaming PC from my youth. I believe I bought it around 2007. Ran some old AMD dual core (may have been an Athlon 64 4400), still had an HDD. Installed on it was Windows Vista, which wasn't exactly a crowd favorite. So as I went to backup the final remnants of those gaming days I was flabbergasted by the snappiness of the explorer. Folders just opened instantly! So snappy, it was actually fun just navigating through all the folders. I had been expecting this PC to run at snail's pace, yet the windows experience was much better than on my desktop PC built in 2021 running Windows 10 on an NVMe drive. I have no idea how that is possible, but since then with every interaction with modern Windows there's just this tiny tinge of sadness...
by Zathman | 2026-01-26 22:50:52+00:00
I just checked and yes, search inside of books with previews is still possible.

(a) when you search books.google.com and find a book with a preview, it opens their new book viewer - the search is at the bottom of the page. You can also click "View All" to see all references of your search in that book.

(b) if you go to the book homepage (clicking X in the top right of the book viewer if that opened), there's still a "Search Inside Book" next to the "Preview" button under the title.
by secretsatan | 2026-01-26 22:51:19+00:00
I think mostly here in switzerland, it’s tolerated in certain areas, and even directly sponsored, in Lausanne, nearly every pedestrian underpass is completely covered in pretty good work, every bit of street furniture has unique designs that seem to be left alone by taggers, areas that might otherwise be run down are covered in colourful murals that are regularly refreshed, i think this is the right approach.
by hecanjog | 2026-01-26 22:51:20+00:00
This makes the most sense to me too. My feeling is so-called AI is going to deliver on a lot of the things we're used to having shoddy versions of -- good natural language interfaces, good WYSIWYG type tools, all of this could turn the wix/squarespace/wordpress/etc landscape into something pretty good, rather than just OK.

In my most hopeful of futures, we've figured out how to do lightweight inference, and if the models don't run locally at least they aren't harming the planet, and all this AI tooling hydrates all the automation projects of the last 40 years so that my favorite tiny local music label can have a super custom online shop that works exactly the way they need without having to sacrifice significant income to do it.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-26 22:51:27+00:00
Of course they do: Youtube makes Google more money. Video is a crap medium for most of the results to my queries and yet it is usually by far the biggest chunk of the results. Then you get the (very often comically wrong) AI results and then finally some web page links. The really odd thing is that Google has a 'video' search facility, if I want a video as the result I would use that instead or I would use the 'video' keyword.
by xp84 | 2026-01-26 22:51:43+00:00
> weaponized against us

I take a more optimistic stance here. Trump can only live so long, and everybody except basically Trump and John Bolton knows that the majority of his idiotic tariffs (and nonsensical belligerence like pretending NATO control of Greenland doesn't meet all our defense needs) are wealth-destroying on net, as well as wealth-destroying for at least 10x the number of people than they help (many of them I'd say 100-1000x as many). When Trump leaves the stage, those who replace him will either be Democrats sprinting at full speed from all his policies to demonstrate how not-Trump they are, or Republicans who want to grow the economy. Either way, the stupidity in a lot of his policies is a temporary condition.

Note that I'm not saying everyone should give the US a pass or maintain as much economic and defense dependency on the US. But I think it's hyperbolic to make all your long-term plans assuming something as stupid and self-defeating as his worst anti-ally policies are a new normal, because they harm the US at least as much as they harm everyone else, and everyone but those two knows this.
by almosthere | 2026-01-26 22:51:45+00:00
I know y'all are holding your breath all day to wait for me to reply. If you wanted an actual discussion you would just reply and not downvote and flag.

ICE is closest to a SWAT team - look here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/5ivok5/w...

Answers this question from 9 years ago, so it predates (well probably when you were born)
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-26 22:51:46+00:00
I don't agree with this at all. There are fundamental tradeoffs, and the reason no one has added e2e encryption to email, while we did add it to the web, is not because of backwards compatibility, it's because there was no compelling solution to some of these trade-offs.

Matrix simply doesn't solve some of the problems that email solves, or at least not in an e2e encrypted manner. For example, I can't send a document to a public institution's Matrix account, not in a manner that either (a) isn't e2e encrypted with no realistic risk of a MITM, or (b) doesn't require an out-of-band pre-approval, such as someone from the institution adding my account to some encrypted room.

Also, even if Matrix did find a way to make it easy to send e2e encrypted data to someone else without out-of-band communication, it would then suffer from the problem of spam. Every client would have to filter all incoming messages for spam, instead of being able to centralize this work at the server level.
by parl_match | 2026-01-26 22:52:15+00:00
I'm sorry, but you're wrong, and wrong in a way that is dangerous. You're conflating two separate things.

> If the user's MacOS FileVault disk encryption key is "stored in iCloud" it resides in the users iCloud Keychain which is end-to-end encrypted.

First: Keychains synced to iCloud are encrypted end to end, as is iCloud Keychain.

However: when you set up FileVault, you are prompted to put escrow your keys in the cloud. If you do that, those keys are NOT end-to-end encrypted.

Further: this is an explicit user feature. It is how "cloud unlock" of a machine with FileVault works. Apple also offers Advanced Data Protection, which is more akin to what you're describing, but requires opting in.

> This creates a situation similar to the iPhone, where Apple does not have the ability to access the user's data and therefore cannot comply with a warrant for access

Another potentially dangerous statement: while this is true for a locked phone, if you use iCloud backups for your device with "standard" level of protection, Apple maintains key escrow.

You've made some statements that in an absolute form that go from beyond wrong and to being actively dangerous to users.
Please re-align yourself to reality here https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#standard and the services security section at https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...
by citizenpaul | 2026-01-26 22:52:17+00:00
Unrelated to this but I was able to get some very accurate health predictions for a cancer victim in my family using gemini and lab test results. I would actually say that other than one Doctor Gemini was more straightforward and honest about how and more importantly WHEN things would progress. Nearly to the day on every point over 6 months.

Pretty much every doctor would only say vague things like everyone is different all cases are different.

I did find this surprising considering I am critical of AI in general. However I think less the AI is good than the doctors simply don't like giving hopeless information. An entirely different problem. Either way the AI was incredibly useful to me for a literal life/death subject I have almost no knowledge about.
by originalcopy | 2026-01-26 22:52:45+00:00
I am still fascinated by how convincing the AI slop can be. I saw way too much code and documentation which made no sense. But it's often not obvious. I read it, I don't get it, I read it again, am I just stupid? I can grab some threads from it, but overall, it just doesn't make sense, it doesn't click for me. And that's when I often realize, it doesn't click, because it's a slop. It's obvious in pictures (e.g., generate a picture of a bike with labels). But in code? It requires more time to look at it than to actually write it. So it just slips reviews, it sometimes even works as it should, but it's damn hard to understand and fix it in the future. Until eventually, nothing can fix it.

For the record, I use AI to generate code but not for "vibecoding". I don't believe when people tell me "you just prompt it badly". I saw enough to lose faith.
by mblode | 2026-01-26 22:52:50+00:00
I built a blue noise generator and dithering library in Rust and TypeScript. It generates blue noise textures and applies blue noise dithering to images. There’s a small web demo to try it out [1]. The code is open source [2] [3]

[1] https://blue-noise.blode.co
[2] https://github.com/mblode/blue-noise-rust
[3] https://github.com/mblode/blue-noise-typescript
by causalscience | 2026-01-26 22:53:05+00:00
Yeah or worse like my boss. We don't have a style guide. But he always wants style changes in every PR, and those style changes are some times contradictory across different PRs.

Eventually I've told him "if your comment does not affect performance or business logic, I'm ignoring it". He finally got the message. The fact that he accepted this tells me that deep down he knew his comments were just bike shedding.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-01-26 22:53:05+00:00
Linux is not getting better in those respects, either. DE's are crazy bloated. For everyone bitching about control panels, tell me how is it done in Linux? In the WM control panel or the DE control panel? Or some obscure .conf file you must edit by hand? Your guess is as good as mine and it's beyond disorganized. If I want to change a font it's a game of three card monte.

Linux desktop environments remind me what TempleOS would look like if it was designed by committee.
by alittletooraph2 | 2026-01-26 22:53:06+00:00
Either become a platform or get swallowed up by one (e.g. Cursor acquiring Graphite to become more of a platform). Trying to prove out that your code review agent is marginally better than others when the capability is being included in every single solution is a losing strategy. They can just give the capability away for free. Also, the idea that code review will scale dramatically in importance as more code is written by agents is not new.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-26 22:53:11+00:00
And PC gaming. Despite the massive amounts of improvement to Linux gaming thanks to Wine & Valve, if you play games that rely on kernel anticheat, you have no choice but Windows.

I'm hoping now that Microsoft seems like they might get serious about kicking people out of the kernel after the cloudstrike incident, kernel level anticheat may go away which will pave the way for Linux to completely take over.
by tgq2915 | 2026-01-26 22:53:18+00:00
Congratulations. One insecure buggy code generator connected to an insecure packaging "system", PyPI.

We are eagerly awaiting Claude Launch, which will be connected to ICBM bases. The last thing humanity will hear is a 100 page boring LLM written mea culpa by Amodei, where he'll say that he has warned about the dangers but it was inevitable.
by freedomben | 2026-01-26 22:53:26+00:00
Touching one of those caps was a hell of an experience. It was similar in many ways to a squirrel tap with a wrench in the auto shop (for those who didn't do auto shop, a squirrel tap with a wrench is when somebody flicks your nut sack from behind with a wrench. Properly executed it would leave you doubled over out of breath).
by sidgarimella | 2026-01-26 22:53:49+00:00
where we draw the line on agent "identity" when the models being orchestrated are generally the same 3 frontier intelligences is an interesting question indeed

I would think this idea of creating a third-party to verify things likely centers more around liability/safety cover for a steroidal increase in velocity (i.e. --dangerously-skip-permissions) rather than anything particularly pragmatic or technical (but still poised to capture a ton of value)
by dns_snek | 2026-01-26 22:54:04+00:00
> I think the people making out that Cursor massively and dishonestly over-hyped this are arguing with a straw man version of what the company representatives actually said.

It's far more dishonest to search for contrived interpretations of their statements in an attempt to frame them as "mostly accurate" when their statements are clearly misleading (and in my opinion, intentionally so).

You're giving them infinite benefit of the doubt where they deserve none, as this industry is well known for intentionally misleading statements, you're brushing off serious factual misrepresentations as simple "lack of nuance" and finally trying to discredit people who have an issue with all of this.

With all due respect, that's not the behavior of a neutral reporter but someone who's heavily invested in maintaining a certain narrative.
by simonw | 2026-01-26 22:54:11+00:00
Yes, it depends on cssparser and html5ever from Servo, and also uses Taffy which is a dependency shared with Servo.

I do not think that makes it a "Servo wrapper", because calling it that implies it has no rendering code of its own.

It has plenty of rendering code of its own, that's why the rendered pages are slow and have visual glitches you wouldn't get with Sero!
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-26 22:54:23+00:00
Real life ain't abstract math. You have MSDS 'mulmen mentioned, but I also can't imagine any factory being able to just mix shipments of ingredients "A", "B", "C", etc. without the actual content being documented on purchase orders, OSHA reviews, etc. You may want to operate in secret, but at the very least, the taxman really wants to know if you aren't skimping on your dues, so there should be plenty of relevant documents in circulation.
by Veserv | 2026-01-26 22:54:24+00:00
Then you should have no difficulty providing evidence for your claim. Since you have been engaging in language lawyering in this thread, it is only fair your evidence be held up to the same standard and must be incontrovertible evidence for your claims with zero wiggle room.

Even though I have no burden of proof to debunk your claims as you have provided no evidence for your claims, I will point out that another commenter [1] indicates there were build errors. And the developer agrees there were build errors [2] that they resolved.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627675

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650998
by cyanydeez | 2026-01-26 22:55:11+00:00
I went to Wikipedia to better understand fascism.

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

>Corporatist economic system

The fascist regime created a corporatist economic system in 1925 with creation of the Palazzo Vidoni Pact, in which the Italian employers' association Confindustria and fascist trade unions agreed to recognize each other as the sole representatives of Italy's employers and employees, excluding non-fascist trade unions.[183] The Fascist regime first created a Ministry of Corporations that organized the Italian economy into 22 sectoral corporations, banned workers' strikes and lock-outs and in 1927 created the Charter of Labour, which established workers' rights and duties and created labour tribunals to arbitrate employer-employee disputes.[183] In practice, the sectoral corporations exercised little independence and were largely controlled by the regime, and the employee organizations were rarely led by employees themselves, but instead by appointed Fascist party members.[183]
by zahlman | 2026-01-26 22:55:15+00:00
Yes, I've been flagging a fair amount of them too.

Although generally I think the un-nuanced AI hype/doom articles are not nearly as damaging as the flood of one-shot LLM projects being presented under "Show HN" with apparently none of the framing text (HN post, project README, responses to feedback) being human-written.
Show HN: GPT-Erdos – the results of GPT 5.2 Pro on the Erdos problems
by nsomani | 2026-01-26 22:55:19+00:00
Hi HN, it seemed like there was broad interest in the previous Erdos problem that GPT 5.2 Pro solved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664631

I recruited a team of smart undergraduates to construct a dataset of ChatGPT responses to every open Erdos problem and verify the output.

They found:

- 3 problems with new proofs (though in 2 cases, historical partial results were found that could be extended to solve the same problem)

- 4 problems where 5.2 Pro or Deep Research found an exact solution in the prior literature that hadn't been documented

- 3 problems where 5.2 Pro or Deep Research were able to strengthen a prior result in the literature

- 3 problems where typos were identified in the problem statement

The most common failure case is that 5.2 Pro solves the problem as stated, but professional mathematicians understand there's an implicit constraint for the problem. For example, maybe the problem says integers, but they really mean only positive integers.

Happy to answer any questions about the dataset!
by CMay | 2026-01-26 22:55:22+00:00
Absolutely, because it is. Sometimes it's about X, because X is also related to freedom.

Let's set X = oil. Oil is a critical resource that is huge for transportation. If you are the one that controls it and people need it from you, that gives you leverage to encourage them to do what you want. An authoritarian country that engages in mass killings and torture of its own people could get away with a lot and even abuse other countries if it has enough oil.

You can apply this to nukes and many other things. Like maybe you defend an ally. Why defend an ally? Having them makes you stronger. Why do you need to be stronger? To defend the way of life you believe in.
by danpalmer | 2026-01-26 22:55:36+00:00
Yeah, so I tried again for Sydney and London, and all of the results are really bad.

"Drivers Triangle" appears to be a "park" so small it's not marked in green on Google Maps. It's also in Penrith which is like a 40 minute drive from the city. Rea Reserve is similar. Astrolabe park is... a park, but it's not in the top 10 parks in the city.

Same for London. Belsize Wood Nature Reserve is a very odd pick a long way on public transport or driving from the centre, and despite living in London for 10 years I've never heard of it. Meanwhile Hyde Park, Regents Park, St James's Park, Battersea, Greenwich, Green Park, ... there are so many iconic parks in London.

My advice would be to curate these per city. It's going to be much easier to just decide which the top parks are for any given city, and with a few hundred cities you'd get pretty good coverage of queries.
by estimator7292 | 2026-01-26 22:55:47+00:00
This is revisionist history to make things sound scary and evil. The term sideloading was first published before Google existed.

Go to the XDA forums and search for the word "sideload". You can filter for results before 2020 if you like, you get hits going back decades.

It's been in common use since the day we got smartphones. The term dates back to the 1990s. I remember reading the word when I bought my HTC Evo at launch. It's an industry standard term and has been for longer than Google has existed.

You know this is the internet and anyone can fact check anything at any time? Including you!
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-01-26 22:55:57+00:00
Do not use canola oil for most lubrication tasks. You should almost always be using lithium grease.

Spray on white lithium grease works for most "architectural" or furniture uses (ex: door hinges, gas springs on chairs, garage door rails and chain, etc).

For anything constantly moving (ex: gearboxes or bearings) you want a more viscous lithium grease (ex: red n tacky or lucas xtra/green).

But in pretty much every situation (on land) you want to be using a form of lithium grease if you want to actually keep the interface lubricated.