MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2026-01-24 19:35:58+00:00
So, where’s the payoff?

Now you can’t be paid to do that task and you’ve made yourself unemployed or paid lower in the future.

Meanwhile, mountains of additional energy is being comsumed to do that task, and a small handful of companies like Nvidia collect all the profit that used to go to people like you paid to do that task.

You don’t own a data center and your labor is on an express train to being worthless.
by B1FIDO | 2026-01-24 19:36:03+00:00
I must protest that this kind of announcement belies the stupidity of proprietary chat protocols.

Remember when IRC was king, and basically, anyone could write an IRC client? Anyone could write a MUD client, or even a Telnet client. Those are open protocols.

When Pidgin came out, it was like a breath of fresh air for me. In the early 90s I had multiple IM accounts (starting with ICQ!) and unifying them, especially under a Linux client, was a dream come true.

But of course, AIM purported to use Oscar at the time, but they really hated F/OSS and 3rd-party clients, and so did the other proprietary guys, so it became cat-and-mouse to keep the client compatible while the servers always tried to break their functionality.

Now this dumb announcement comes out that a 3rd party has (apparently legally) established interop with a Meta property with (I am guessing) a completely proprietary, undocumented, secret protocol underneath.

I am not impressed. I am McKayla Maroney unimpressed.

I want open protocols and I want client devs who are free to produce clients in freeform, as long as they can follow the protocol specs. Now we have email clients who speak SMTP, IMAP, and POP3, including the "secured, encrypted" versions of those protocols. We should ask for nothing less when it comes to other communications.
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-24 19:36:10+00:00
> This app helps you find a crew and meet up for work and get that crew feeling.

How?

This just seems like a database?

I feel you're missing the key point of why a lot of people LIKE remote work. It doesn't tie you up into making forced relationships with others that you don't have to and can just focus on getting things done.

Now, you might say, but what if you are making genuine relationships with others that you do like? Then I would say it's just friendship 1.0, not something inorganic like this.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-24 19:36:12+00:00
Also created my own version of this. Seems like this is an idea whose time has come.

My implementation was slightly different as there is no shared state between tasks, and I don't run them concurrently/coordinate. Will be interesting to see if this latter part does work because I tried similar patterns and it didn't work. Main issue, as with human devs, was structuring work.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-01-24 19:36:22+00:00
Then they should go to Reddit to argue about it. It's not what this site is for. Spare us the "muh democracy" lecture.

> by people who'd rather be talking about the latest in B2B AI or something

Because that's what this site is for.

It's for the same reason you don't take a bullhorn into a grocery store or biker bar to talk about "the future of democracy".
by pregnenolone | 2026-01-24 19:36:36+00:00
I’m not trying to defend Microsoft, but I think people are being a bit dramatic. It's a fairly reasonable default setting for average users who simply want their data protected from theft. On the other hand, users should be able to opt out from the outset, and above all, without having to fiddle with the manage-bde CLI or group policy settings.

With Intel Panther Lake (I'm not sure about AMD), Bitlocker will be entirely hardware-accelerated using dedicated SoC engines – which is a huge improvement and addresses many commonly known Full Disk Encryption vulnerabilities. However, in my opinion some changes still need to be made, particularly for machines without hardware acceleration support:

- Let users opt out of storing recovery keys online during setup.

- Let users choose between TPM or password based FDE during setup and let them switch between those options without forcing them to deal with group policies and the CLI.

- Change the KDF to a memory-hard KDF - this is important for both password and PIN protected FDE. It's 2026 - we shouldn't be spamming SHA256 anymore.

- Remove the 20 char limit from PIN protectors and make them alphanumerical by default. Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 anyway so there's no point in enforcing a 20 char limit.

- Enable TPM parameter encryption for the same reasons outlined above.
by YZF | 2026-01-24 19:36:52+00:00
The title seems pretty click-bait. If you read the article the argument isn't that vaccines don't work or that not vaccinating may increase disease and deaths. It's that our personal freedoms should still win. The example the Dr. gives with alcoholism seems quite relevant, many more people have negative health outcomes due to alcohol consumption:
"Alcohol is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with harms related to both acute and chronic effects of alcohol contributing to about 4.3 million emergency department visits and more than 178,000 deaths in the U.S. each year."

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/health-professionals-communities/c...

Should we ban alcohol?

While it's true that there are different externalities here (e.g. you're increasing other people's risk by not vaccinating and losing the herd effect) there are also externalities to alcohol consumption (e.g. drunken drivers).

The question is where does that line go between freedom and health factors and other externalities. We should be able to have this discussion without political tribalism.
by thisisit | 2026-01-24 19:37:00+00:00
Until someone comes for them.

It is basically equivalent to "First They Came".

First they came for the Immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because they were not Immigrants (hell they were stealing jobs so fck them)

Then they came for the US citizens who were Socialist/Leftists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist/Leftists (hell they dare protest the government so fck them)

so and so forth..
by jmward01 | 2026-01-24 19:37:08+00:00
I think what is missing from every debate about 'freedom to...' is that choices should have consequences. If your unsafe operation of your body (no vaccines when you could have gotten them) injures or kills another person then you should be held accountable. This basic principle, freedom requires responsibility and accountability, is rarely ever brought up. In the US 'freedom' just means freedom from consequences which is wrong. I am more than willing to let someone tote a gun or fail to be vaccinated, but if they do so in a way that actually harms someone then they should be held accountable and the more obvious the danger, and the more reckless the behavior, the more severe the penalty. You think not vaccinating is the right choice despite the mountains of evidence otherwise? When you get sick your insurance can deny all claims. If you infect someone else they can claim damages or criminally prosecute you for assault. That is actual freedom.
by ninkendo | 2026-01-24 19:37:09+00:00
I wouldn’t say they’re ignoring it’s so much as cheering it on, and falling over each other to voice their support for it. It’s liberals getting killed after all, and they’re not Americans like republicans are Americans.

No, there’s people that love what ICE is doing, people that hate it, people who try and stop it, and the rest of us who look on in horror at the trainwreck and collapse happening in front of us…

But I can’t think of a single group of people who are ignoring it. Other than maybe for a lack of perceived other options and to keep from going insane.

Myself? I’m basically a coward. I have two young children. I don’t want to go protest ICE and get killed by one of these wannabe gestapos. I’m in a real state of fear for my children and the world they’re going to grow up in, but I literally don’t know what else I can do. Maybe I’ll help join the campaign if a democratic candidate this year and help them get elected.

But I’m not ignoring it. I can’t think of anyone who is.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-01-24 19:37:32+00:00
> Or they disagree with your views so intensely that they want you silenced. That's what happened with https://spinster.xyz defederation.

You're referring to an instance in which nobody was silenced, and all that happened was that some people chose not to interact with other people. That's totally okay! You don't have to interact with someone you think is insufferable.

> This was on top of misogynistic attacks

Unfortunately, most social networks are full of misogynists, racists, etc. As the size of the network grows, the probability of it including a jerk approaches 100%. In fact, this is one of the reasons someone might choose to run their own network in which they don't have to associate with said jerks. Based on a cursory search of your example, it looks like a lot of folks felt that spinster.xyz wasn't worth voluntarily associating with, perhaps because there was a high proportions of jerks.
by Hikikomori | 2026-01-24 19:37:40+00:00
Neither is true.

He was on his knees with two officers holding his arms, another beating him in the head with some hard item while the one on grey disarmed him.

Only after the person in grey moved a few meters away can you hear a gunshot and then they unload 10 or so shots.

Seems like an accidental discharge or they thought he got his gun in his hand since it wasn't in the holster anymore. Either way, extreme incompetence shown once again by aggressive and untrained white supremacist thugs, which is exactly what they want.
by hinkley | 2026-01-24 19:37:57+00:00
My ex didn’t go to her own father’s funeral because the company said she couldn’t have that much time off. Six months later when she talked about it at work they were horrified she hadn’t felt she could go, but how could you possibly make that up to someone? I think they might have actually worried she would sue them.

I told her to go and we’d sort out her work situation when she or we got back.

It kinda came out of the blue so we didn’t have time to hypothetically it out so we could just operate on autopilot.

Since then I’ve had bosses who heard of a death/critical illness in the family just say, “Go.” No discussion or details needed. Just go. Because being petty or precious about the whole thing just makes you public enemy. And when clever people work for you they don’t always come at you straight on. They come at you sideways and you don’t even know it’s revenge. They just passive aggressively let something slide that made your life miserable.
by thomascgalvin | 2026-01-24 19:38:01+00:00
The anti-vax movement was built entirely on a foundation of fraud [1]. That leaves us with two main categories of people who are anti-vaccination:

1. People who are ignorant
2. People who are using anti-vax propaganda for some kind of gain

In the US, category two have gone all-in on using category one to gain political power. The "health official" in this post is clearly in category two, and might be in category one as well, but he is absolutely deserving of invectives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
by starkparker | 2026-01-24 19:38:21+00:00
First, you're certainly lucky. Secondly, the emphasis should be on "by default"; managers can, and some easily and quickly do, prove that they aren't adversarial. But companies (especially tech companies with high stress on unsustainable growth) don't often incentivize that, and sometimes disincentivize it whether they mean to or not.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-24 19:38:24+00:00
This is what I find amusing, we're in tech, how can you ask that? We've been rubbing stones to start fire too, but if you stick to that and refuse to use electricity, that's self-harming because you lose out on all the benefits.

You can't keep doing things the same way, that's now how technology as an industry works, the whole point is to come up with newer and better things. If you're a user of technology, then you can think like that and keep using old tech until the natural balance of things forces you.

I fully expect LLMs to be obsolete in a few decades, and I'm now wondering if people then will say how LLMs have been serving them fine for a few decades.

"just fine" isn't good enough in tech, "better" is always the goal.
by MetaMonk | 2026-01-24 19:38:42+00:00
The first pre-release for Docker Swarm came out a decade ago, the first release of OpenAI swarm came out only a year ago, I guess I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

https://github.com/docker-archive/classicswarm/releases/tag/...

https://github.com/openai/swarm/commit/e5eabc6f0bdc5193d8342...
by mitchellst | 2026-01-24 19:38:49+00:00
Ok actually you sound kind of awesome. The article is about how thoughtless, petty slights demotivate employees. You are talking about the opposite of thoughtlessness: doing something that takes effort for you, going out of your way to stretch out of your default for their benefit. They see you making the effort. And on a team that size, you’re not fooling anybody—they know it’s effort. I imagine they appreciate that quite a lot.

People like dazzling conversation from their manager for like two weeks. Manager who will flex against their own instincts out of respect for my needs? I’ll line up behind that person every time, even if they’re a little awkward here and there.
by skippyboxedhero | 2026-01-24 19:39:22+00:00
It isn't sub agents. The gap with existing tooling is that the abstraction is over a task rather than a conversation (due to the issue with third-party apps, Claude Code has been inherently limited to conversations which is why they have been lacking in this area, Claude Code Web was the first move in this direction), and the AI is actually coordinating the work (as opposed to being constantly prompted by the user).

One of the issues that people had which necessitated this feature is that you have a task, you tell Claude to work on it, and Claude has to keep checking back in for various (usually trivial) things. This workflow allows for more effective independent work without context management issues (if you have subagents, there is also an issue with how the progress of the task is communicated by introducing things like task board, it is possible to manage this state outside of context). The flow is quite complex and requires a lot of additional context that isn't required with chat-based flow, but is a much better way to do things.

The way to think about this pattern - one which many people began concurrently building in the past few months - is an AI which manages other AIs.
iCloud with Advanced Data Protection doesn't delete your files
by mnls | 2026-01-24 19:39:26+00:00
I discovered something concerning about iCloud's Advanced Data Protection (ADP) that Apple doesn't disclose: deleted files are never actually removed from their servers.
The Test:
I have a 5 Mbit/sec upload connection. I copied 6GB of my personal files (music, videos, photos) to iCloud Drive. They "uploaded" in 15 minutes— which is impossible at my bandwidth. The files were previously uploaded a long ago and deleted since.
To verify, I checked Activity Monitor: only 3.42GB total data sent since boot, including web browsing. The 6GB upload never happened.

Confirmation Test:
Created a 100MB file with random data: dd if=/dev/urandom of=randomfile.dat bs=1m count=100
Uploaded to iCloud: took 2-3 minutes, Activity Monitor showed 122MB sent (correct)
Deleted the file from iCloud Drive
"Permanently deleted" from Recently Deleted and emptied any files from Data recovery.
Re-uploaded the identical file: completed in 1 second
Activity Monitor: essentially zero data sent

Apple kept the encrypted blocks even after "permanent deletion."

The month-long test (in progress):
I'm keeping the random file and will attempt to re-upload it after 30+ days to see if Apple purges data on any schedule, or retains it indefinitely.

Why this matters:
ADP is marketed as giving users exclusive control over their data
"Delete" and "Permanent Delete" options imply data removal
Upload progress bars show fake "uploading" status for deduplication operations
Users cannot verify what data Apple retains.
To attempt permanent deletion, you must disable ADP web access

What's unclear:
Does this apply to Health data, Passwords, and other ADP-protected content?
How long does Apple retain "deleted" encrypted blocks?
Can users ever truly remove their data?

I'm not claiming the encryption is weak—it's probably fine. But Apple's lack of transparency about data retention and deduplication with ADP is concerning. "Permanent delete" should mean permanent delete.
Has anyone else noticed this behavior? I'll update this post after completing the 30-day retention test.
by throwaway150 | 2026-01-24 19:39:31+00:00
> You're like the other guy who jumped into a thread without following the context. Technical people know better than to do that. But I'm not here to teach people how to follow a thread.

Can you stop being so antagonistic already? I have been following this whole thread since afternoon. We both began commenting on this post at about the same time. I regret to say that I have wasted my whole afternoon and evening on this thread. So regrettably I have been following the context very closely actually.

Most of your subsequent comments make sense but they also keep moving the goalpost which is frustrating. I mean it is easy to be correct if you constantly keep moving the goalpost. But we must go back to where this nuisance began. It began at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743683 when you said:

> There is no HTML5.

Do you admit that your orginal claim "There is no HTML5." was incorrect? If you don't admit that do you also think HTML 4.01 standard has stopped existing? What about C89? Has that also stopped existing? Just because there are newer standards and living standards, it doesn't mean that the old standards have stopped existing.
by gosub100 | 2026-01-24 19:39:38+00:00
I hate MS as much as anyone else, but I don't have a problem with them doing this. Legally they have to comply if they have evidence in a legal action. Maybe they are at fault for not solely relying on the TPM, or not giving users informed consent about using the cloud, but I cannot fault them for not going to battle for civil liberties when they can't even implement notepad without screwing it up.
by sneak | 2026-01-24 19:39:38+00:00
Compare the security resources of the median OS publisher with the median go package publisher.

An OS update from Debian, Apple, or Microsoft is not the same thing as a new version tag on a random go CLI app made by one person (or even a team of people).

Furthermore, while it is becoming much more common for OS package managers to autoupdate apps, it still isn’t the default state of affairs for most apps. OS updates are a different matter.

In any case, even without these comparisons, handing RCE to 20 organizations/developers/publishers is worse than handing it to 1 or 2.
by fn-mote | 2026-01-24 19:40:18+00:00
> we make a disease-by-disease risk/reward determination and do a slower schedule once they're a little older

This was honestly the weirdest part of that whole post.

So after all that “not everything is safe”, it sounds like you … wait a little while and then do it anyway? Is it less risky because your kids are a little older?? This seems so unlikely to me.

Anyway, I think a lot of that post demonstrates a failure of an ability to have a dialog (radicalized positions don’t lead to understanding imo).
by rajman187 | 2026-01-24 19:40:51+00:00
i think it's worth revisiting this in a short while because, by and large, how the engineering craft has been for the last 40+ years is no longer the correct paradigm. it takes Claude Code a few moments to put together an entire proof of concept. engineers, especially experienced ones, will be less likely to produce (and hence be performance-calibrated on) code as output but rather orchestration and productionization of [a fleet of] agents. how do you guide an llm to produce exactly what is needed, based on your understanding of constraints, available libraries, various systems and APIs, etc. to accomplish some business or research goal?

in that sense, estimation should theoretically become a more reasonable endeavor. or maybe not, we just end up back where we are because the llm has produced unusable code or an impossible-to-find bug which delays shipment etc.
Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists
by lotusxblack | 2026-01-24 19:40:52+00:00
Basically was getting annoyed jumping between 5 different sites during this winter storm season, so I built "StormWatch". It's a no-fuss, mobile-friendly webpage (dashboard) that shows all the stuff I was looking for, but in one simple UI.

Features:

- Real-time NWS alerts with safety tips
- Snow/ice/precip accumulation forecasts (+wind)
- Dynamic preparation checklists based on your alerts
- Supply calculator for your household size
- Regional weather news

It's free, no login required, works on any device. Just enter your ZIP.

https://jeisey.github.io/stormwatch/

Uses NWS and GDELT APIs and open source. Feel free to fork and modify however you'd like.

For builders:
- Used an API-testing agent to verify all endpoints, response patterns, types, and rate limits
- Used a scope & validation agent to keep the slices simple, focused, and tested
- VS-code Copilot (Sonnet 4 for dev agents + Opus 4.5 for scope and validation)
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-24 19:40:52+00:00
> people will review your code,

I mean you'd think. But it depends on the motivations.

At meta, we had league tables for reviewing code. Even then people only really looked at it if a) they were a nitpicking shit b) don't like you and wanted piss on your chips c) its another team trying to fix our shit.

With the internal claude rollout and the drive to vibe code all the things, I'm not sure that situation has got any better. Fortunately its not my problem anymore
by iggldiggl | 2026-01-24 19:40:52+00:00
> Miles are great to estimate time of travel by car, take 1 minute per mile of distance on a highway and 2 minutes in the city and you will be pretty close.

That might be true where you live, but it's hardly a universal constant. 1 minute per mile might be sort-of-universal for long distance Interstate driving, but then again, you can just as easily phrase that as ~1 hour per 100 km in metric.

I'm rather doubtful about your 2 minutes per mile (= 30 mph average speed) figure for "city" driving, though – how's that even possible when urban maximum speeds are usually in the 25 – 40 mph range, and that's not counting time lost for traffic lights and other intersections, general congestion and parking?

Checking a few destinations around where I live in Germany, non-Autobahn cross-country driving is closer to 2 minutes per mile rather than 1 minute per mile (and highly variable depending on your exact destination, so no point trying to estimate driving times to the nearest minute, anyway), and never mind actual urban driving.
by boltzmann-brain | 2026-01-24 19:40:53+00:00
the propensity for fediverse admins to act like tiny dictators is extremely worrying. i haven't seen a good solution to this sort of thing honestly. ultimately it also means that you have to walk on eggshells and force yourself into an impossible shape lest you offend someone's very special interest that you didn't even know you were lightly brushing up against. one of the worst things about this is that you can't have a really strong disagreement with people who are popular on some instance because social inner circles form very easily on tiny instances, and all of them are tiny, especially compared to non-federated, centralized networks where brushing up against inner circles that have connections to admins is much much less likely.