MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarecrowbob | 2026-01-29 02:25:29+00:00
"Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"

It's been this way for a while, though. It's just that the stakes of the things they are willing to tell folks to "2+2=5" about seem to have dropped substantially. It used to be about the goodness of US foreign interventions and, say, "imperial capitalism" in general, and they made plenty of fun propaganda to support it: "Red Dawn" or "First Blood"- quality and fun propaganda.

When they started kidnapping folks from our communities who've been peacefully chilling and being community members for decades, it got a lot less abstract, I think.

If it helps, understand that it becomes ever easier to get folks to disbelieve the government when they can see it; it's far harder to get the average brunch-enjoyer to care when they are doing a central american coup... much easier to care when they are shooting yt wmn in the streets.

Famously, there are plenty of stories in the west about eastern-bloc countries and propaganda, where everyone knows that that the papers don't tell the truth but the truth circulates regardless.

So maybe don't worry about the false narratives- worry about the recouperative powers of capital to pull all those radicalized liberals back into the fold instead of using a mass line of organization to force structural changes.
by ricksunny | 2026-01-29 02:26:07+00:00
Great initiative - so now let me throw a query:

* Why isn't the Lewis Terman OH https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265394...
showing up in the main link?

* Also, not related to Oral Histories, but could CHM update their historical narrative to include the Vannevar Bush-designed computers that the NSA's predecessor OP-20-g used? https://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.... ; In so doing, I feel CHM needs to further neutralized its Silicon Valley centered-ness. Fred Terman may be the godfather of Silicon Valley, but even godfathers once needed thesis advisors, and his had the initials 'VB'.
by nkurz | 2026-01-29 02:26:43+00:00
I like Herzog's work, but that's a really tricky one. Herzog only became involved after the film was completed, and then edited it down to make more salable. I liked Herzog's version, but I liked the original even more once I found it.

While Herzog certainly made it more popular, he lost a lot of accuracy by forcing it to tell the story he wanted it to tell. It certainly shook my faith in Herzog as a documentarian. He's a good artist, but you shouldn't trust him when it comes to facts.

The full original by Dmitri Vasyukov (Дмитрий Васюков) is available in four parts (one for each season) on Youtube. Here's the first quarter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttItxwzgbUs
by spopejoy | 2026-01-29 02:26:45+00:00
I had the thought of an AI-specific bytecode a while ago, but since then it's seemed a little silly -- the only langs that work well with agentic coding are the major ones with big open-source corpuses and SO/reddit discussions to train on.

I also saw something about a bytecode for prompts, which again seems to miss the point -- natural language is the win here.

What is kind of mysterious about the whole thing is that LLMs aren't compilers yet they grok code really well. It's always been a mystery to me that tools weren't smarter and then with LLMs the tooling became smarter than the compiler, and yet ... if it actually was a compiler we could choose to instruct it with code and get deterministic results. Something about the chaos is the very value they provide.
by Dev_Master | 2026-01-29 02:26:51+00:00
Built a small open-source desktop app in Python/Tkinter that generates “Number Snake” arithmetic puzzles (3×3, 4×4, 5×5) with step-by-step solutions.

Features:

Random solvable snake paths with + − × ÷

Easy/Medium/Hard difficulties

Single puzzle preview or batch generation

Export to combined or separate PDFs, or JPG worksheets

Includes full solutions for classroom/home use

Primarily intended for teachers, students, or anyone who likes printable logic/math puzzles. Feedback welcome.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-29 02:27:09+00:00
>GP is merely recognizing the parts of technological advance that they do find enjoyable.

Machine fabrication is nice. Machine fabrication from sweatshop children in another country is not enjoyable. That's the exact nuance missing from their comment.

>GP simply voiced their opinion, which IMHO does not constitute "impedance" of those trying to fight for those futures.

I'd hope we'd understand since 2024 that we're in an attention society, and this is a very common tactic used to disenfranchise people from engaging in action against what they find unfair. Enforcing a feeling of inevitability is but one of many methods.

Intentionally or not, language like this does impede the efforts.
by TheColorYellow | 2026-01-29 02:27:27+00:00
I'm not so sure thats correct. The Labs seem to offer the best overall products in addition to the best models. And requirements for models are only going to get more complex and stringent going forward. So yes, open source will be able to keep up from a pure performance standpoint, but you can imagine a future state where only licensed models are able to be used in commercial settings and licensing will require compliance against limiting subversive use or similar (e.g. sexualization of minors, doesn't let you make a bomb etc.).

When the market shifts to a more compliance-relevant world, I think the Labs will have a monopoly on all of the research, ops, and production know-how required to deliver. That's not even considering if Agents truly take off (which will then place a premium on the servicing of those agents and agent environments rather than just the deployment).

There's a lot of assumptions in the above, and the timelines certainly vary, so its far from a sure thing - but the upside definitely seems there to me.
by gizmodo59 | 2026-01-29 02:28:08+00:00
Nvda is not the only exception. Private big names are losing money but there are so many public companies seeing the time of their life. Power, materials, dram, storage to name a few. The demand is truly high.

What we can argue about is if AI is truly transforming lives of everyone, the answer is a no. There is a massive exaggeration of benefits. The value is not ZERO. It’s not 100. It’s somewhere in between.
by qingcharles | 2026-01-29 02:28:10+00:00
I was a professional game dev working on 3D engines and the scale of this task is significant for a single person.

I started a task yesterday looking into decompiling Elite PC version which runs on a 256Kb XT. My goal is to replace the math and rendering with more modern algorithms which should be able to improve the framerate. Weirdly Gemini isn't bad at writing 16bit x86 CGA code. It had me set up with a dev environment in 2 mins using DOSBox.
Show HN: Schema-first codegen for SQL, Rust, Go, Python and TS (single binary)
by hlop3z | 2026-01-29 02:28:33+00:00
AstrolaDB (alab) is a schema-first code generator for polyglot systems. Define your schema once and generate:

- SQL migrations (PostgreSQL, SQLite)

- Language-native types (Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript)

- API contracts (GraphQL, OpenAPI)

It's build-time only, with zero runtime dependencies. All outputs are explicit artifacts you can commit. The schema is the single source of truth across languages and APIs.

Links:

- Repo: https://github.com/hlop3z/astroladb

- Docs: https://hlop3z.github.io/astroladb/

- Comparison: https://hlop3z.github.io/astroladb/comparison/
by boh | 2026-01-29 02:28:55+00:00
It's interesting that the AI is taking job story is so prevalent in these sorts of posts even though there's zero indication of it in any financial analysis. Amazon and big tech companies like it are using AI as the smoke screen to cover up the obvious, which is these companies have lost their ability to grow exponentially. Since their stock price and debt demands this impossible growth, they are now starting the dying process. It will probably take years and maybe even decades, but they will continue to cut costs until they become the next Sears.
by mattgreenrocks | 2026-01-29 02:28:58+00:00
It’s wild to me that we both see people like Jensen as great while also tolerating public whining of the sort in the linked article. Don’t get me wrong, there are people who are far worse! But why do we put up with a billionaire whining that people are critical of what they make? At that scale it is guaranteed to have haters. It’s just statistics, man.
by lovich | 2026-01-29 02:29:00+00:00
If there are stipulations for receiving the money then it is a demand.

If you think the above example isn’t a donation then I don’t see the logic behind seeing this as a donation.

And to be clear, I view it as a donation that is still probably net good, but it’s not a selfless donation. The timeline as well also means it can be clawed back at some point in time.

I’d probably rate it a 2/10 for “goodness” where anything greater than 0 is still good.
by mercutio2 | 2026-01-29 02:29:03+00:00
Wealth taxes are very, very different from higher income taxes.

People are mad about buy-borrow-die, so they’re proposing extraordinary new measures.

Personally, I’d just make capital gains taxes apply at the “borrow” stage to actually fix the problem. That would have a host of compliance issues but they’d be localized in the finance industry which already has an army of people figuring out compliance.
by nunez | 2026-01-29 02:29:21+00:00
This is sad in that I was serious about finally getting one in two to three years (We have two Model 3 LRs already), but is fantastic in that no other car interests me and I now don't have this hyper materialistic goal distracting me.

If Tesla completely exits automotive and decides to license their FSD tech (or someone else catches up), then I'll probably just get whatever the equivalent of a Bolt is then with that and premium sound.

And they just might, too. Recall that the EV tax credit went away this year along with regulatory credits to other auto OEMs, which was a huge part of their business. This combined with the Cybertruck (unsurprisingly!) missing sales targets is problematic.
by gruez | 2026-01-29 02:30:11+00:00
>Open source models are available at highly competitive prices for anyone to use and are closing the gap to 6-8 months from frontier proprietary models.

What happens when the AI bubble is over and developers of open models doesn't want to incinerate money anymore? Foundation models aren't like curl or openssl. You can't have maintain it with a few engineer's free time.
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-29 02:31:36+00:00
Then this is either an exploit or more likely the mp4 file is virtual. You can find out if you are so inclined by grabbing it from two separate accounts using two separate devices (or keys) and then compare how many of the segments are identical.

Also, I assume the file in question is 4K content. Don't know about how they treat other types.
by db48x | 2026-01-29 02:31:38+00:00
> The AG doesn't have enough money, manpower, or time to find and deport every immigrant who's illegally staying here.

Sadly true. Traditionally most removals happen at the border where illegal aliens are easier to detect and where they can simply deny entry. Biden neglected to do that quite deliberately. He made speeches about it.

Trump did increase ICE’s budget though.

Anyway, https://www.dhs.gov/wow has twenty thousand examples of dangerous criminals who were insufficiently targeted by previous administrations if you’re interested.

> The protestors are against the way this administration chooses to carry out the law. They're also against the illegal or unconstitutional acts performed by immigration officers, such as warrantless entry and harassment of protestors.

This is the stated motive, sure, but the observed motive is different. Any time a “protester” sees what they think is an ICE operation their first actions are to try to save the people ICE is there to arrest. Yelling and blowing whistles to warn illegal aliens that ICE are present is just the start. Those Signal groups were training their members on how to surround officers and wrestle the arrestees away from them. They have no actual care at all for warrants; that’s merely an excuse for lawless behavior.
by simonw | 2026-01-29 02:31:55+00:00
Yeah, the "dark factory" thing is basically unproven right now. I reported on what I'd seen because it was genuinely fascinating, and a potential glimpse into how this stuff might work. I'm not ready to say that it's a good idea or that it's demonstrated to work outside of a demo I saw for an hour a couple of months ago that looked credible to me at the time.
by IggleSniggle | 2026-01-29 02:31:58+00:00
To me, you are describing a fluency problem. I don't know you or how fluent you are in code, but what you have described is the case where I have no problem with LLMs: translating from a native language to some other language.

If you are using LLMs to precisely translate a set of requirements into code, I don't really see a problem with that. If you are using LLMs to generate code that "does something" and you don't really understand what you were asking for nor how to evaluate whether the code produced matched what you wanted, then I have a very big problem with that for the same reasons you outline around prose: did you actually mean to say what you eventually said?

Of course something will get lost in any translation, but that's also true of translating your intent from brain to language in the first place, so I think affordances can be made.
by sizzzzlerz | 2026-01-29 02:32:17+00:00
This blows me away. I worked on systems that processed the signals from these satellites at the ground sites. At the time, these were highly classified, requiring background investigations and a polygraph to be granted access to know about these things. All our work had to be performed in a SCIF and we were forbidden to discuss our work with anyone not cleared to know. The form that we had to sign when being briefed stated that this was a lifetime commitment. I never would have believed that the NRO would declassify this system.
by ulfw | 2026-01-29 02:33:13+00:00
It's turning out to be a commodity product. Commodity products are a race to the bottom on price. That's how this AI bubble will burst. The investments can't possibly show the ROIs envisioned.

As an LLM I use whatever is free/cheapest. Why pay for ChatGPT if Copilot comes with my office subscription? It does the same thing. If not I use Deepseek or Qwen and get very similar results.

Yes if you're a developer on Claude Code et al I get a point. But that's few people. The mass market is just using chat LLMs and those are nothing but a commodity. It's like jumping from Siri to Alexa to whatever the Google thing is called. There are differences but they're too small to be meaningful for the average user
by hubber | 2026-01-29 02:33:21+00:00
Intergenerational concussion? That's a new one.

You're so caught up on "the cold winter theory". I'm telling you that you can completely let it go. It's one (pretty good) theory to explain one selection pressure that may have contributed to some of the aggregate divergence we see across races.

Even if you started with two seperate genetically-identical groups in identical environments, over enough generations you would expect at least some variation to emerge due to random chance (accidental deaths, mate selection, DNA recombination, cultural practices, etc). That is the point I would like you to take away from this exchange.
by FilosofumRex | 2026-01-29 02:33:32+00:00
US finances costliest weapons (fighter jets, precision munitions, air and missile defense systems such as Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, and Iron Beam) which provides the qualitative edge of Israel’s military, while Israel’s own budget covers personnel, operations, and much of the day‑to‑day war cost.

Without US tax dollars, Israeli part of military budget would have to shrink by 50 - 60% to pay for R&D, manufacturing, testing, deploying and maintaining of US provided advanced weapon systems.
by hrunt | 2026-01-29 02:34:33+00:00
If the problem with being a car company is that they'd have to compete with China, then I have some bad news about being a robot company. China is already farther ahead in both technology and volume of humanoid robots.[0][1][2][3]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/cnbc-china-connection-newsle...

[1]https://www.unitree.com/g1

[2] https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/limx-humanoid...

[3] https://www.bgr.com/2083491/china-agibot-humanoid-robot-us-c...
by neogodless | 2026-01-29 02:34:45+00:00
Yeah I hope I'm clear in that I'm not "against Linux" or "against people choosing to use Linux." I think Linux is awesome.

And I choose to use Windows for most of my personal computing, due to my gaming preferences, some needs (concussions + poor eyesight means things like scaling and brightness controls and refresh rate matter a lot to me), and my preference for DxO PhotoLab (which isn't Linux compatible.)
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-29 02:35:02+00:00
Well I don't have much to add to that point. I wasn't taking the position that the NRA is generally good. I'm glad you provided a concrete example, but I was more interested in concrete examples surrounding this incident in particular. I want accusations of hypocrisy to be paired with such concrete examples, if your accusation implies they should be readily available. It's a procedural point--if you accuse someone of hypocrisy it's always good to have some evidence to back it up.
by WillAdams | 2026-01-29 02:35:16+00:00
This project is currently seeking funds (and is funded) on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-com...

(and the super early bird rewards are all gone)

I might be interested if I weren't still waiting on the Soulcircuit Pilet to ship....
by tasty_freeze | 2026-01-29 02:36:14+00:00
Why not get rid of job titles and just have people do whatever needs to be done?

Because no one person is good at everything, and even if you managed to build a team of people who were good at everything, it is inefficient to make everyone keep up with all details of every aspect of the company so that they can be productive in an arbitrary role at the drop of a hat. Giving people a role allows them to specialize their knowledge and concentrate all their efforts into their area of expertise/competence.

Managers fill a role. Sure, some managers are bad, and some workplaces have seemingly mostly bad managers, and it leads to cynical opinions about how managers are busy-work-making dolts who don't understand anything. Some employers have mostly good managers and I feel sorry for you if you have never had the experience.

I'm 40 years into my EE career and I have always deflected efforts to make me a people manager or a project manager. I like being a grunt in the trenches solving problems at the bottom level, and a good manager increases their reports' productivity by shielding them from needing to deal with project management crap. I would have retired already except I've been blessed to have good managers for the past 20 years, while my managers have been attending umpteen resource allocation meetings and all the attendant report-making that requires.
by echelon | 2026-01-29 02:37:09+00:00
Trying to make a dent in the universe while we metabolize and oxidize our telomeres away is a constraint.

But to be more in the spirit of your comment, if you've used these systems at all, you know how many constraints you bump into on an almost minute to minute basis. These are not magical systems and they have plenty of flaws.

Real creativity is connecting these weird, novel things together into something nobody's ever seen before. Working in new ways that are unproven and completely novel.
by samrus | 2026-01-29 02:38:47+00:00
The harder it is to do, the more the targets guard will be down

In this case, sending your malicious image through a fake email might get flagged, or even not opened by someone whos been trained in infosec enough to be suspicious of these things. But a tracking pixel in an email that is verifiably from a trusted entity will be opened no problem. Type of thing that will look pretty slick if you read about it being used
by analog31 | 2026-01-29 02:39:36+00:00
Yeah, I remember trying to delete a fully loaded Python installation that had found its way onto a OneDrive-managed folder. After a chat with IT, I learned that OneDrive can only delete X number of files at once. We agreed that the most practical solution was for me to spend an hour deleting files by hand, and choose another drive next time. Fortunately I don't really depend on OneDrive as a backup, since GitHub does that job well enough.

The other thing is that both Git and OneDrive are in some sense fiddling with your file system at once.
by hubber | 2026-01-29 02:39:49+00:00
None of this is true if you just comply. I have zero fear of any of this happening to me. And I'll celebrate with my lawyer if it does.

There are tens of millions of people in the country illegally. They must go. The one time the government actually does its job and we have lunatics putting their lives on the line to interfere!? I don't understand it. Just let them get the job done.
by jnaina | 2026-01-29 02:39:50+00:00
have been hearing from several ex-AWS colleagues about the job losses within their teams and the number of people impacted since yesterday. it’s depressing, but also symptomatic of a much larger obvious shift already underway for some time now, now being further accelerated by new technology.

AI and automation are rapidly erasing roles across both white and blue collar work. this is now a present present reality in almost all sectors. extrapolating this, it is clear this ongoing displacement will drive successive waves of unemployment and underemployment, placing severe strain on social contracts and accelerating societal instability. countries with strong social compacts may weather the coming storm. but others, especially those with larger population that lack "cultural ballast" >cough USA< will likely to slide into chaos, if not outright anarchy.

harder question to ponder is this: in a world where human labor is no longer the primary allocator of income and resources remain finite, sustaining nearly half of today’s global population under existing economic models begins to look fundamentally untenable. china’s one child policy starts to feel less irrational and more prescient.

beginning to think that perhaps I should be advising my kids to learn a trade on the side, as a backup plan, even as they chart their budding careers in the corporate world.
by everybodyknows | 2026-01-29 02:39:57+00:00
Those who pay the tax will assume the "one-off" label is false: if it works once, it will be repeated.

On my block alone, are the houses of (at least) two "49-percenters". 183 or a few more days of the year the owners are at their second homes in Arizona or Nevada, and gathering gas station receipts to prove it, while their California houses sit empty -- all just to avoid our state income tax.

How about that as a poster-child for misallocation of physical capital?
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-01-29 02:40:55+00:00
Related:

Apple Workers Are Livid That Cook Saw "Melania" Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790365

Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761370
by int_19h | 2026-01-29 02:41:11+00:00
"AI detectors" are notoriously unreliable.

Perhaps more importantly here, when it comes to writing, "AI slop" is basically management speak - it's all about waxing poetically about simple things in ways that make you sound complicated (and useful!). And this guy is a career manager. So I bet this is actually human slop, the kind from which ChatGPT et al learned to speak the way they do.