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by RHSeeger | 2026-01-26 02:34:02+00:00
> >They arrest and deport US citizens

> This is systematically not true as citizens can not be legally deported.

And yet

> The true scope of U.S. citizens wrongfully deported is not known as the federal government does not release data on how often members of this group are mistakenly detained or even removed from the country. However, The Washington Post estimated that there are at least 12 well-known cases, drawing conclusions from court records, interviews and news reports.

-- A Look At The U.S. Citizens Who Have Been Deported By The Trump Administration So Far

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-look-at-the-u-s-citizens...
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-26 02:34:28+00:00
It only matters if any of those can promise reliability and either put their own money where their mouth is or convince (and actually get them to pay up) a bigger player to insure them.

Ultimately hardware, software, QA, etc is all about delivering a system that produces certain outputs for certain inputs, with certain penalties if it doesn’t. If you can, great, if you can’t, good luck. Whether you achieve the “can” with human development or LLM is of little concern as long as you can pay out the penalties of “can’t”.
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-26 02:34:47+00:00
that's because they weren't shooting crowds already assembled in the streets and going into hospitals nationwide to find the injured. Nazi Germany was aiming to maintain plausible deniability in the concentration camps for as long as possible, while parallel competing plans for what to do with the population were being explored and failing. (there were other solutions before and alonside the final solution)
by JoeDaDude | 2026-01-26 02:35:14+00:00
Making AI companions is becoming a widespread little hobby project. Many have created them and shared instructions on how to do it. My preference would be to use local resources only (say, with ollama), they can even be made with voice recognition, TTS, and an avatar character.

While I have not interfaced my AI with all the services that Clawdbot does (WhatsApp, Slack, etc.) I don't think that is too much of a stretch from my very simple build.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-26 02:36:21+00:00
I'd love to see this.

Bring back the "segmented" memory architecture. It was not evil because of segments, but because of segment size. If any segment can be any size the bad aspects fall away.

File handles aren't needed anymore. You open a file, you get back a selector rather than an ID. You reference memory from that selector, the system silently swaps pages in as needed.

You could probably do the same thing with directories but I haven't thought about it.
by augusteo | 2026-01-26 02:39:07+00:00
stackskipton makes a good point about authority. SRE works at Google because SREs can block launches and demand fixes. Without that organizational power, you're just an on-call engineer who also writes tooling.

The article's premise (AI makes code cheap, so operations becomes the differentiator) has some truth to it. But I'd frame it differently: the bottleneck was never really "writing code." It was understanding what to build and keeping it running. AI helps with one of those. Maybe.
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-26 02:39:24+00:00
I'm adding live web search & something I call "framework 50" which essentially turns the AI into a scientific research tool - No drift? No hallucination? Live web search capabilities? Unlimited memory? R1 reasoning frameworks? Causality chaining?

What's that spell?

It spells every average joe = PhD level researcher

Every Tom, Dick & Harry = World-class Lawyer

Righto. If I don't get some comments I'm just gonna delete this and sell it instead - Ungrateful maggots!

JK!

Or am I?
by tehwebguy | 2026-01-26 02:39:45+00:00
Are you talking about $30k or $10M though?

I think GP was talking about permanent, life altering injuries that require medical care until the (early) end.

The highest minimum injury coverage states in the US are still like $50k per person meaning complying with insurance law still leaves the most seriously injured victims (or their medical insurer) in the hole unless the at fault driver (if applicable) can pay.
by aniijbod | 2026-01-26 02:40:41+00:00
In the theory of the psychology of creativity, there are phenomena which constitute distortions of the motivational setting for creative problem-solving which are referred to as 'extrinsic rewards'. Management theory bumped into this kind of phenomenon with the advent of the introduction of the first appearance of 'gamification' as a motivational toolkit, where 'scores' and 'badges' were awarded to participants in online activities. The psychological community reacted to this by pointing out that earlier research had shown that whilst extrinsics can indeed (at least initially) boost participation by introducing notions of competitiveness, it turned out that they were ultimately poor substitutes for the far more sustainable and productive intrinsic motivational factors, like curiosity, if it could be stimulated effectively (something which itself inevitably required more creativity on the part of the designer of the motivational resources). It seems that the motivational analogue in inference engines is an extrinsic reward process.
by QuiEgo | 2026-01-26 02:41:47+00:00
It depends. Usually there are enough "knobs" that adding that many balls to the package would be crazy expensive at volume.

Most SoCs of even moderate complexity have lots of redundancy built in for yield management (e.x. anything with RAM expects some % of the RAM cells to be dead on any given chip), and uses fuses to keep track of that. If you had to have a strap per RAM block, it would not scale.
by tptacek | 2026-01-26 02:42:49+00:00
I think a useful litmus test for these kinds of stories is: do the people who most actively participate on them believe there's a conversation to be had, with multiple perspectives, not all of which agree with theirs? That's what this site is for.

If not, they're wrong for this site; more than wrong, corrosive. The stories themselves aren't bad (I have a lot of strong political beliefs too), but they're incompatible with the mode of discussion we have here: an unsiloed single front page and a large common pool of commenters.

(For the record: I don't believe there's a productive conversation to be had about ICE in Minnesota and wouldn't care to argue with anyone defending their actions. All the more reason not to nurture threads about it here.)

PS: I'm a longstanding "too-much-politics-on-HN" person, and even I'm a little annoyed that Jonathan Rauch's piece won't work here, if only so I can annoyingly noodle on the varying definitions of fascism. But flags are the right call here.
by free_bip | 2026-01-26 02:45:27+00:00
What benefit does it allow for, other than the ability to turn the country into a dictatorship in a matter of hours with a single phone call?

For anyone unaware, one of the main criticisms of that ruling is that the president commanding the military is always considered an official act, and this ruling means the president enjoys "absolute immunity for official acts within an exclusive presidential authority that Congress cannot regulate such as the pardon, command of the military, execution of laws, or control of the executive branch."[0]

The ruling made no carveouts or exceptions for blatantly illegal orders. The president could unilaterally eject or kill any member of opposing political parties and future administrations (if there are any) would be completely unable to legally hold them accountable for their heinous crimes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
Compiled Node.js 18 from source on jailbroken iPhone to run Claude Code
by BryanTheCynic | 2026-01-26 02:45:56+00:00
Built Node.js 18.20.4 natively on a jailbroken iPhone 12 Pro Max (iOS 16.5, Dopamine) to run Claude Code - no SSH to a server.

Key discoveries:
- Apple's -fembed-bitcode flag added 11MB overhead per .o file vs 58KB actual code, bloating V8 libraries to 6.8GB+4.5GB
- Removing the flag from common.gypi dropped the build from 29GB to under 8GB
- Required fake xcrun/xcodebuild scripts since iOS has no Xcode
- Every build tool (mksnapshot, torque, etc.) needs ldid signing mid-build
- Final binary needed --no-wasm-code-gc flag due to iOS memory management quirks

Final result: 71MB node binary with full WebAssembly + ICU support, Claude Code running interactively.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NXgqi1jgSq0
by atonse | 2026-01-26 02:46:08+00:00
Maybe this is the issue I’m facing. I’m already using Claude, Claude projects, Claude cowork, and Claude code a lot.

I used Claude projects for an entire proposal. That was one of the best proposals I think I’ve ever written.

I’ve been using cowork to help organize my downloads folder, which had 1500 files and I just didn’t have the patience to organize them.

So maybe the differences with Claude bought not as big because I’m able to vibe code my way into things like like integrations and other things that I’ve already been using?

For the app that I wrote to help manage my business, I exposed everything over MCP so I’m able to do things like timesheets and adding and removing people and purchase orders and all that stuff using MCP. So which is why I’m already kind of feeling the magic with my existing stuff maybe?

The one thing in ClawdBot’s favor is the scheduled stuff maybe?
by refurb | 2026-01-26 02:46:53+00:00
> Citizens would have to put up with some pretty draconian living conditions to ensure zero illegal migration.

I don’t agree. It’s a matter of incentives. If you know entering the US illegally means you stand a high chance of being deported, have almost no ability to be employed and no access to any social services, the problem mostly solves itself.

Lots of other countries ask why the US has problems other countries have already solved and immigration is a great example of it. It’s a solved problem, our leaders intentionally don’t want it fixed.

> Even Reagan granted mass amnesty in the face of such costs.

The amnesty was an agreement that substantial legislation would be passed later than would stop illegal immigration. That’s why Reagan agreed to it. But the changes never happened.

> But significant change probably requires replacing the Fourth Amendment

The Fourth Amendment can stay as is. Just stop people from staying illegally in the country and the 4th amendment becomes a non-issue.
by herewulf | 2026-01-26 02:46:55+00:00
You can run Nix packages on Guix if there isn't a "native" package for it. Look at nix-service.

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Miscellaneous...

I've never felt the need myself. If something is missing, I add it and I think that is the real fun in running Guix because creating your own well defined package or service is deeply rewarding.

Anyway, you can find people using it in the wild either by search engine[1] or with Toys[2] which is also handy for finding examples of missing packages too.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=%22config.scm%22+nix-servic...

[2]: https://toys.whereis.social
by LAC-Tech | 2026-01-26 02:46:59+00:00
https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-eight-of-the-protests-ar...

This is the organisation most commonly cited in news reports, they estimate ~5200 protestors confirmed killed (+ a few hundred more for security personnel killed)

They are a group of anti-regime Iranian dissidents based in the US. I don't know why they would seek to provide a deliberately low estimate.
by zb3 | 2026-01-26 02:47:18+00:00
I was talking about different keys and different fuses. I know about "avb_custom_key" (provisioned by GrapheneOS), but all this AVB is handled by abl/trustzone and I can't modify those because those need to be signed with keys that I don't own.

I know that all these restrictions might make sense for the average user who wants a secure phone.. but I want an insecure-but-fully-hackable one.
by inkyoto | 2026-01-26 02:47:25+00:00
> If I buy a used vehicle for example, I have exactly zero relationship with the manufacturer. I never agree to anything at all with them. I turn the car on and it goes. They do not have any authorization to touch anything.

Generally speaking and most of the time, yes; however, there are a few caveats. The following uses common law – to narrow the scope of the discussion down.

As a matter of property, the second-hand purchaser owns the chattel. The manufacturer has no general residual right(s) to «touch» the car merely because it made it. Common law sets a high bar against unauthorised interference.

The manufacturer still owes duties to foreseeable users – a law-imposed duty relationship in tort (and often statute) concerning safety, defects, warnings, and misrepresentations. This is a unidirectional relationship – from the manufacturer to the car owner and covers product safety, recalls, negligence (on the manufacturer's behalf) and alike – irrespective of whether it was a first- or second-hand purchase.

One caveat is that if the purchased second-hand car has the residual warranty period left, and the second-hand buyer desires that the warranty be transferred to them, a time-limited, owner-to-manufacturer relationship will exist. The buyer, of course, has no obligation to accept the warranty transfer, and they may choose to forgo the remaining warranty.

The second caveat is that manufacturers have tried (successfully or not – depends on the jurisdiction) to assert that the buyer (first- or second-hand) owns the hardware (the rust bucket), and users (the owners) receive a licence to use the software – and not infrequently with strings attached (conditions, restrictions, updates and account terms).

Under common law, however, even if a software licence exists, the manufacturer does not automatically get a free-standing right to remotely alter the vehicle whenever they wish. Any such right has to come from a valid contractual arrangement, a statutory power, or the consent, privity still works and requires a consent – all of which weakens the manufacturer's legal standing.

Lastly, depending on the jurisdication, the manufacturer can even be sued for installing an OTA update on the basis of the car being a computer on wheels, and the OTA update being an event of unauthorised access to the computer and its data, which is oftenimes a criminal offence. This hinges on the fact that the second-hand buyer has not entered into a consentual relationship with the manufacturer after the purchase.

A bit of a lengthy write-up but legal stuff is always a fuster cluck and a rabit hole of nitpicking and nuances.
by giantrobot | 2026-01-26 02:47:28+00:00
Sony's always had a very weird obsession with proprietary storage media. I think they resent the licensing model of CD-ROMs (essentially none) and desperately wanted formats they owned and could license out. At the same time their entertainment division would want to hamstring those formats with onerous limitations or DRM.

The end result was Sony always seemed so schizophrenic with storage formats. They'd come out with a format that looked cool on paper but then have some artificial limitation (including stupid prices) that made it unattractive.
by greycol | 2026-01-26 02:48:23+00:00
Voter registration gets names cross referenced to facebook gets you face recognition (Palantir can do this). Ice claims that facial recognition on their app is probable cause (Ice already claim this).

Ice goes down the lines at voting stations to "protect from undocumented aliens voting illegally". The government endorsed news stories will be about how many illegals were trying to vote. Meanwhile a bunch of US citizens were taken for processing due to false positives and unfortunately with such large numbers to process they aren't all released until polling stations are closed. (If only someone hadn't botched the facial recognition database update and contaminated it with a bunch of Dem voters).

If rioting against these actions occurs at a station, it's closed for safety and people in area are detained while it's sorted (the stations targeted had a tendency to vote D anyway as per voter roles).

Strange how that 'harassment' did stop US citizens from voting.

Results come in while the case for voter suppression goes to the Supreme court. Supreme court rules that while voter suppression did occur there is no legal option of redress within its permit and the peaceful transfer of power is more important than any one election A la Bush V Gore.
by sothatsit | 2026-01-26 02:48:45+00:00
This is fairly uncharitable. The goal is not to trick people into reading, it is to motivate them as to why they should read. It is more about highlighting the most interesting part of your article to tell people why they should spend the time. You still have to deliver on your promises.

I feel like Gwern’s example is quite illustrative of this point. Just framing the content differently makes you more motivated to jump into it, even if you’re reading about the same content as before.
by andersmurphy | 2026-01-26 02:48:51+00:00
I'd argue the opposite vertical scaling us a whole lot more effective than horizontal scaling if your using a language that has both real threads and green/virtual threads (go or anything on the JVM). You get such insane bang for your buck these days even over provisioning is cheap. Hell direct NVME can easily give 10-100x vs the crappy network drives AWS provides.

Zero downtime deploys have been solved for single machines. But, even then I'd argue most businesses can have an hour of downtime a month. I mean that's the same reliability as AWS these days.

Really, there are a handful of cases where you need multiple servers:

- You're network limited (basically you're a CDN).

- You are drive limited you need to get data off dirves faster than their bandwidth.

- Some legal requirement.

This is before we get into how trivial it is to shard sqlite by region or customer company. You can even shard sqlite on the same machine if you need higher write throughput.
by barbazoo | 2026-01-26 02:49:10+00:00
> Schleider says the ban is “very unfortunate” because while social media platforms are indeed designed in a harmful way, bans do nothing to make those platforms safer.

> “Social media is the first and often only place that young people seek out help and support, and cutting that off immediately with no warning has really adverse consequences,” she said.

This sounds like some cognitive bias I can’t quite pin point. Implement a ban and fast forward and you will have kids that have never been part of this addictive and abusive system. They won’t know what they’re “missing”. It was also hard for kids to no longer be allowed to smoke but that didn’t stop us to introduce an age floor regardless.
by avarun | 2026-01-26 02:49:18+00:00
It's because they're misusing the term. Jevons' paradox doesn't apply to the simple idea that "cheaper code leads to more demand for code", that's just the concept of price curves.

Instead, Jevons' paradox refers to a counterintuitive rebound effect: AI tools make engineers more productive, which you'd expect to reduce the marginal demand for additional engineers (since the same output requires fewer people). In reality, this efficiency lowers the effective cost of software development, sparking even greater overall demand for new features and projects, which ultimately increases total spending on engineering talent.
by LoganDark | 2026-01-26 02:49:22+00:00
To trust an Android device, I need to have ultimate authority over it. That means freedom to remove functionality I don't like and make changes apps don't like. Otherwise, there are parts of practically every Android that I don't approve of, like the carrier app installer, any tracking/telemetry, most preinstalled apps, etc.

I recently moved to Apple devices because they use trusted computing differently; namely, to protect against platform abuse, but mostly not to protect corporate interests. They also publish detailed first-party documentation on how their platforms work and how certain features are implemented.

Apple jailbreaking has historically also had a better UX than Android rooting, because Apple platforms are more trusted than Android platforms, meaning that DRM protection, banking apps and such will often still work with a jailbroken iOS device, unlike most rooted Android devices. With that said though, I don't particularly expect to ever have a jailbroken iOS device again, unfortunately.

Apple implements many more protections than Android at the OS level to prevent abuse of trusted computing by third-party apps, and give the user control. (Though some Androids like, say, GrapheneOS, implement lots that Apple does not.)

But of course all this only matters if you trust Apple. I trust them less than I did, but to me they are still the most trustworthy.
by tptacek | 2026-01-26 02:49:41+00:00
I remember that being true of early ChatGPT, but it's certainly not true anymore; GPT 4o and 5 have tagged along with me through all of MathAcademy MFII, MFIII, and MFML (this is roughly undergrad Calc 2 and then like half a stat class and 2/3rds of a linear algebra class) and I can't remember it getting anything wrong.

Presumably this is all a consequence of better tool call training and better math tool calls behind the scenes, but: they're really good at math stuff now, including checking my proofs (of course, the proof stuff I've had to do is extremely boring and nothing resembling actual science; I'm just saying, they don't make 7th-grader mistakes anymore.)
by rmunn | 2026-01-26 02:51:01+00:00
Thirty years ago, I read a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, in which he made very similar points about broadcast television. I don't remember all his points, but I vividly remember how talked about how you'll be watching a news story about something awful, maybe an earthquake in which hundreds of people died, and then with practically no warning you'll be hearing a happy jingle from a toothpaste commercial. The juxtaposition, he said, was bad for the human mind, and was going to create a generation that couldn't focus on important things.

I suspect that the rapid-fire progression of one one-minute video after another does something similar, and is also equally bad for you.
by atmavatar | 2026-01-26 02:51:16+00:00
I would point out that even had RBG retired early enough for Obama to appoint a replacement, the court would still have Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh in the majority.

Sure, there may be a case here or there that would go the other way, but the vast majority of cases before this hypothetical court would be decided the same way as they have been, merely with a thinner majority.
by pandaman | 2026-01-26 02:51:27+00:00
>Police or federal officers using riot dispersal techniques against a protest does not suddenly make the protest a riot.

I agree. Assaulting police or federal officers, harassing citizens and blocking traffic does though, and the police acts on that, not just randomly gassing people because Trump.

>ICE and CBP do not have the remit to behave like they are doing in these situations either - they do not have the same powers as local law enforcement.

Yes, they have different powers yet they employ sworn officers and those can arrest people who they believe are committing crimes in front of them.

>They explicitly are not allowed to force a US citizen out of their car.

Need a source for that, it's news to me.

>It doesn't matter if MPD is there.

It does though. Even in LA the mayor was not as dumb as to order LAPD to stand down and as the result zero people got shot by feds during more massive riots than in Minneapolis. Local police is more lenient and less likely to use deadly force even when met with violence, you'd imagine if mayor had any compassion for his constituents he'd sent the police to deal with them rather than leave it to feds.