MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-01-28 06:20:53+00:00
Banks don't use these things because they provide any real security. They use them because the platform company calls it a "security feature" and banks adds "security features" to their checklists.

The way you defeat things like that is through political maneuvering and guile rather than submission to their artificial narrative. Publish your own papers and documentation that recommends apps not support any device with that feature or require it to be off because it allows malware to use the feature to evade malware scans, etc. Or point out that it prevents devices with known vulnerabilities from being updated to third party firmware with the patch because the OEM stopped issuing patches but the more secure third party firmware can't sign an attestation, i.e. the device that can do the attestation is vulnerable and the device that can't is patched.

The way you break the duopoly is by getting open platforms that refuse to support it to have enough market share that they can't ignore it. And you have to solve that problem before they would bother supporting your system even if you did implement the treachery. Meanwhile implementing it makes your network effect smaller because then it only applies to the devices and configurations authorized to support it instead of every device that would permissionlessly and independently support ordinary open protocols with published specifications and no gatekeepers.
by cxplay | 2026-01-28 06:21:04+00:00
Let's look back at 2023:

Welcome to Wildebeest: the Fediverse on Cloudflare
https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-wildebeest-the-fedive...

Wildebeest ceased maintenance one month after the article's publication, adding a similar comment several months later[1]:

> :warning: This project has been archived and is no longer actively maintained or supported. Feel free to for this repository, explore the codebase, and adapt it to your needs. Wildebeest was an opportunity to showcase our technology stack's power and versatility and prove how anyone can use Cloudflare to build larger applications that involve multiple systems and complex requirements.

[1]: https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest/commit/b1be6a5c49be...
by js4ever | 2026-01-28 06:21:39+00:00
Overhead? None
Your real concern is: will potential customers run the model by themselves and skipping us?

Answer is no because you will eventually release a subpar model not your sorta model.

Also people don't have infrastructure to run this at scale (100-500 concurrent users) at best they can run it for 1-2 concurrent users.

This could be a good way for peoples to test it then use your infra.

Ah but you do have an online demo, so you might think this is enough, WRONG.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-28 06:21:42+00:00
> I'd agree, if my goal was "to be a great and complete coder."

> I don't. I want just enough to build cool things.

That's great, but that wasn't the point I was responding to. I was specifically addressing your specific point of:

>>> I don't believe much is lost "intellectually" by my use of a mech suit, as long as I observe carefully.

I still think that's nonsense; no one learns much by observing.

Paraphrasing the old joke, you aren't going to get to Carnegie Hall by observing violinists.
by s20n | 2026-01-28 06:21:50+00:00
But the article says "our human ancestors" which implies they are not talking about other hominins."

Edit: Okay I just found that Human can also refer to other hominids

from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/human

- a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) : a person

- broadly : hominid
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-28 06:21:53+00:00
I just threw in SIMD processing on a whim to an existing library.

It wasn't a regular structure that needed one operation or two again and again, it was this irregular object that needed each field each operation to be carefully picked. Assessing what instructions were going to help me do which fields how would have been hard hard hard. Hours of analysis, would have gotten stuff wrong. Would have been so frustrating.

I could just ask for, and I got it.

This is a very specific kind of example. But smart people who know what they want but don't have endless time to go chase every idea themselves will, I think, find great joy getting the AI to go out and land some amazing improvements.

And there's so many projects like zerobrew that just would never be attempted. We can make whole systems, see their performance, and if it's not good, change the stack and generate a new version of the app, a new attempt, with far less effort. We will try many more things.

Kinda all very very obvious to the actual excited doer folks.
by idle_zealot | 2026-01-28 06:22:06+00:00
> Isn't this the exact scenario those arguments were talking about? Have all the second amendment supporters been employed by ice/agree with what they're doing, or was it just empty talk?

It was never really a practical idea, more a sort of latent threat that has proven to be ineffective. Also, yeah, the "don't tread on me" folks mostly aren't very principaled and don't mind authoritarian actions so long as they're dressed up right. Obama wants a public healthcare option? How dare the government institute Death Panels to decide who live or dies! ICE shoot random protestors? That's what they deserve for "impeding" and "assaulting" law enforcement.

The Second Amendment was written so that the US could avoid having a standing federal army and quickly gather up defense forces from States as necessary when attacked. It was thought that having a standing army would lead to bad incentives and militarism. Just like the Executive branch only has enumerated powers, with all main governing functions belonging to Congress. The founders were worried about vesting too much power in one man, so made the President pretty weak. Of course, we've transmogrified ourselves into a nation primed for militarism and authoritarianism by slowly but surely concentrating power into one station. Exactly what the Constitution was written to prevent. I guess they did a bad job.
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by water9 | 2026-01-28 06:22:44+00:00
What are you talking about? You said

“but a large enough majority of other people feel differently.
In other words, it’s a you problem.”

Ignoring the enormous strawman, you just made, how do you know what the majority opinion is on this topic?. you don’t. You’re just arrogant because what you actually did is conducted a strap hole in your own mind of people in your echo chamber and said yeah the majority of people think my opinion is right.

that that’s called mob rule.

Next time I’ll speak slower so you can keep up that’s why it seems scattered you’re having trouble connecting the dots.

“The only thing worse than an idiot is an arrogant idiot.” you’re the dumb one here you just are too dumb to know it.
by missinglugnut | 2026-01-28 06:23:57+00:00
The left wing mob justice mentality was taking hold in university admissions, corporate HR, science, and media. Speaking positively about controversial social initiatives was becoming necessary to please the gatekeepers of our society, and as a result a lot of people lost trust in our institutions.

Don't underestimate how corrosive this really was. The backlash to it is the whole reason Trump's anti-establishment campaign messaging worked.
by repstosb | 2026-01-28 06:24:55+00:00
The "founding engineers" behind Facebook and Twitter probably didn't set out to destroy civil discourse and democracy, yet here we are.

Anyway, "full control over your keys" isn't the issue, it's the way that normalization of this kind of attestation will enable corporations and governments to infringe on traditional freedoms and privacy. People in an autocratic state "have full control over" their identity papers, too.
by trhway | 2026-01-28 06:25:37+00:00
Why change? I've just randomly clicked through, and it is a good law, for example :

(1) Right of counsel
The alien shall have a right to be present at such hearing and to be represented by counsel. Any alien financially unable to obtain counsel shall be entitled to have counsel assigned to represent the alien. Such counsel shall be appointed by the judge pursuant to the plan for furnishing representation for any person financially unable to obtain adequate representation for the district in which the hearing is conducted, as provided for in section 3006A of title 18.

When you're saying that ICE is executing that law, are you saying that the guys sent to that Guatemala prison were afforded that right of counsel and were given a lawyer? Or anybody else in those mass deportations.

I also couldn't find in that law where it makes it legal to randomly catch dark skinned people on the street, including citizens.
by aix1 | 2026-01-28 06:26:18+00:00
Functionality aside, I'd find it very interesting to see a security audit of a code base like this.

I searched for "security" and "vuln" in both the article and this discussion thread, and found no matches.

I guess the code being in Rust helps, but to what exent can one just rely on guarantees provided by the language?

(I know practically nothing about Rust.)
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-01-28 06:26:38+00:00
> It shows you what society really thinks about men with those

I think you're missing a rather big part of what's actually happening, which is that it says nothing about the insulter's feelings about dicks and everything about the insultee's feelings about dicks. The entire reason it's viewed as an effective insult is because it's the sort of thing that the ICE members themselves, who appear in every moment to be of the most fragile-in-their-masculinity caliber, would feel insulted about. What the dick chuckers believe about dicks is quite unrelated.

> it‘s a-ok to insult...as long as the recipients are evil

Um. Is this in question?
by a99p | 2026-01-28 06:27:03+00:00
VeraCrypt has been tried and tested but it appears to perform poorly on modern NVME devices due to inherent limitations in its TrueCrypt based architecture. As a Windows FOSS alternative, you can consider DiskCryptor. However, unlike VeraCrypt, it has not been audited (to my knowledge) and lacks many QoL features. Use at your own discretion.

It is being maintained here: https://github.com/DiskCryptor/DiskCryptor
by vict7 | 2026-01-28 06:28:29+00:00
Nope. You apparently are incapable of distinguishing the massive gulf between an e-bike that enables the elderly, differently-abled, commuters, and less fit people to enjoy cycling at reasonable speeds. And an e-moto which is an illegally souped up vehicle that can reach closer to highway speeds. The latter is indeed a danger and should not be used in bike lanes or multi use paths… or really at all.

E-biking is only gaining popularity, so I’d suggest you educate yourself and adjust your ignorant perspective rather than digging in :)
by vga42 | 2026-01-28 06:31:08+00:00
I have used this for a few hours now, and it's pretty great! I'm quite thirsty for replacing American tech with European tech, so it's pretty cool that Mistral is this good now.

It has broken editor integration (Zed) though at least for the time being. But the CLI works. Hopefully that's just a temporary thing -- as much as I like working in the terminal, this is a bit awkward.

Vibe keys seem to be somehow different from other API keys: I wasn't able to create a working key manually, but when navigated via a link that Mistral Vibe gave me, things started working. Or at least I think that was the reason.
by teiferer | 2026-01-28 06:31:47+00:00
> the problem is two fold

No, the biggest problem at the root of all this is complexity. OpenSSL is a garbled mess. No matter AI or not, such software should not be the security backbone of the internet.

People writing and maintaining software need to optimize for simplicity, readibility, maintainability. Whether they use an LLM to achieve that is seconday. The humans in the loop must understand what's going on.
by bulbar | 2026-01-28 06:32:17+00:00
Regarding general politics / economics, the damage has been done. The western world has now started to create a western world that's not centered around the US as it was the case before. It is yet to be seen if the US will again be or remain being part of the western world.

It's a bad development but necessary, sadly. We can only hope that Europe rises and comes out as a new strong center eventually, because we need one to counter all those powerful and evil actors in the world.
by i2km | 2026-01-28 06:32:43+00:00
This is going to be the concrete block which finally breaks the back of the academic peer review system, i.e. it's going to be a DDoS attack on a system which didn't even handle the load before LLMs.

Maybe we'll need to go back to some sort of proof-of-work system, i.e. only accepting physical mailed copies of manuscripts, possibly hand-written...
by HNisCIS | 2026-01-28 06:33:56+00:00
That's the thing people are missing, the models plateaued a while ago, still making minor gains to this day, but not huge ones. The difference is now we've had time to figure out the tooling. I think there's still a ton of ground to cover there and maybe the models will improve given that the extra time, but I think it's foolish to consider people who predicted that completely wrong. There are also a lot of mathematical concerns that will cause problems in the near and distant future. Infinite progress is far from a given, we're already way behind where all the boosters thought we'd be my now.
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-28 06:34:08+00:00
I feel like this describes most companies anywhere. It’s easy to fantasize about work culture looking like big tech companies in America. But most companies have difficult situations, lots of ambitious employees, pay that’s not great, and it ends up creating various problems as everyone tries to look out for themselves. Only the very richest companies in the richest countries can afford to be something different.
by Herbstluft | 2026-01-28 06:34:08+00:00
I will put some trust into these people if they make this a pure nonprofit organization at the minimum. Building ON measures to ensure that this will not be pushed for the most obvious cases, which is to fight user freedom. This shouldn't be some afterthought.

"Trust us" is never a good idea with profit seeking founders. Especially ones who come from a culture that generally hates the hacker spirit and general computing.

You basically wrote a whole narrative of things that could be. But the team is not even willing to make promises as big as yours. Their answers were essentially just "trust us we're cool guys" and "don't worry, money will work out" wrapped in average PR speak.
by conz | 2026-01-28 06:34:23+00:00
From the fine article: "$12.2 million, representing a 149 percent increase."

One wonders just how much of a price hike - or how much of a digital sovereignty threat from the Trump regime - it would take to have the Australian government public sector shift to alternative solutions, like this one:

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

[EDIT] Formatting
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-28 06:34:41+00:00
Good morning from Ostrava! Yeah, misunderstanding travels fast and efficient over TCP/IP... especially around midnight.

I am not Prague based anymore, but I travel there quite often, so sure, let's grab something to drink when we are both there. My Prague office is actually in Karlín and Karlín was "my" neighbourhood since 1996, when I started studying there. (Back then, it was a veritable dump. Gentrification in action.)

" Czech pragmatism is refreshing after dealing with Germans."

LOL, that is a common observation I heard often enough, but then again, even the local embassy of Hell would likely feel refreshing after dealing with the Germans :)

I will be in Prague from Feb 1 to Feb 5, then again later in February. Looking forward to meet you. Have a mliko if you fancy it, I can't, my body stopped liking it when I was twentysomething. I still like the taste, but the consequences are nasty.

"It's not that difficult. Most VC/PE funds have a roster of a couple dozen (VC) to couple hundred (Megacap PE) operators we can poach to manage investments. This is why the recent boom in Indian American C-Suites and VPs happened."

Sure, if you can rely on this sort of infrastructure, it won't be hard for ya.

But in the context of the EU-India deal that is being discussed here, plenty of us continentals will find that without such infrastructure, it is hard. Just a few weeks ago I sat with a friend from Charles' University who described various funny incidents when dealing with postdoc applications from distant countries, India prominently included.

From our local point of view, Western Ukraine is the edge of "intuitive" cultural understanding and anything east of the Dnipro river and south of Bulgaria really needs dedicated people with cultural competence to work.

In case of India, the Anglo-Saxons can rely on three centuries of mutual interactions. That helps a lot.
by jzymbaluk | 2026-01-28 06:36:19+00:00
I live right down the street from an Amazon Go store, and I like it because it's convenient when it's open, but the hours on this store stunk: it closed at 4pm sometimes. I found it very funny that this store advertised itself as a fully automated experience, when in fact there needs to be a worker/manager there all the time for it to be open. If it were actually automated, it could've been open 24/7
by simianwords | 2026-01-28 06:37:15+00:00
its tragic what happened but lets be clear. Pretti was not just some random guy, he was taking part in the protests actively. it is not like ICE agents are just going around killing people randomly!

unless GDM staff are actively taking part in the protests, i don't think they have to worry about this. plus the numbers matter - a couple of people were killed (unfortunate) but in a massive country over some period of time.
by idle_zealot | 2026-01-28 06:37:25+00:00
> to follow federal agents around, harass them, and prevent them from doing their jobs. That’s textbook Obstruction of Justice. It is illegal to prevent an officer from doing their job.

Filming officiers performing their jobs is not obstruction, even if it does make them uncomfortable. If it makes their jobs harder that's only because they know what they're doing is unpopular and don't want to be known to have done it.

> If you don’t like the job that an officer is doing then the right thing to do is to talk to your Congress–critter about changing the law. Keep in mind that ICE is executing a law that was passed in 1995 with bipartisan support in Congress and signed by Bill Clinton. No attempt has been made to modify that law in the last 30 years. If Democrats didn’t like it, they had several majorities during that time when they could have forced through changes. They didn’t even bother.

Yeah, there's a massive disconnect between politicians and their voters. This is pretty strong evidence of that disconnect. Even now Democrats refuse to support abolishing ICE, despite majority support among their constituency. Who are voters who want immigration reform supposed to cast their ballots for? There hasn't been such a candidate since ICE was created in the wake of 9/11. Conservatives got to let out their pent up frustration with an unresponsive government by electing Trump. Liberals have no such champion, only community organizing.
by CMay | 2026-01-28 06:39:08+00:00
What you are basically saying is that justice is unjust and vigilantes are the solution, because the legal system operates under the principle that you are innocent until proven guilty.

You don't want to live in a world where you are guilty until proven innocent, because you might like it when you're the one wagging the finger, but you'll be crying for the old ways once it's turned on you.
by drdaeman | 2026-01-28 06:39:15+00:00
Can you (or someone) please tell what’s the point, for a regular GNU/Linux user, of having this thing you folks are working on?

I can understand corporate use case - the person with access to the machine is not its owner, and corporation may want to ensure their property works the way they expect it to be. Not something I care about, personally.

But when it’s a person using their own property, I don’t quite get the practical value of attestation. It’s not a security mechanism anymore (protecting a person from themselves is an odd goal), and it has significant abuse potential. That happened to mobile, and the outcome was that users were “protected” from themselves, that is - in less politically correct words - denied effective control over their personal property, as larger entities exercised their power and gated access to what became de-facto commonplace commodities by forcing to surrender any rights. Paired with awareness gap the effects were disastrous, and not just for personal compute.

So, what’s the point and what’s the value?
Show HN: Captura – free open source screenshot app and API
by DigitalSea | 2026-01-28 06:40:49+00:00
I needed something for screenshots but with some of the same features that screenshotapi.net has and embarked on a journey to build something and open source it. It's pretty fully featured with support for proxies, removing ads, cookie banners, returning a webpage as a PDF, image and more. Might be some bugs and things I haven't tested lurking, but it seems to be working well and worked for my needs.
by microtonal | 2026-01-28 06:42:38+00:00
Does it matter?

Yes, we have been on the receiving end of AI generated bug reports and in the vast majority of cases they are really bad. But you still need humans to sift through them. And when you ask the submitter questions, it’s often clear that they just give the questions to an LLM again to answer.

It costs a huge amount of human manpower, so if the company who made this had an AI based solution with a far lower false-positive rate, that would be great.
by tptacek | 2026-01-28 06:43:06+00:00
I have no idea what you're talking about or who you're arguing with. You brought up the "cold winter theory". "Cold winter" is very funny. It's just a very funny theory put forth by a huckster white supremacist. Where do you hope to go from there?

Whatever the rest of these arguments are, I'm not invested enough in this thread to drag this out.

Cold winters. Tell it to the Abbasids!
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-28 06:43:50+00:00
I see a lot from the left about how right-wingers are supposedly hypocritical on gun control. However, concrete examples of hypocrisy are rarely provided. In terms of actual concrete statements, what I'm seeing from gun rights people like Thomas Massie and the NRA is consistent with previous stances:

https://xcancel.com/NRA/status/2015227627464728661#m

https://xcancel.com/RepThomasMassie/status/20155711073281848...

I'd say the left is actually much more hypocritical. Just a few years ago they had essentially no issue with the government taking everyone's guns. Now suddenly they understand the value of an armed citizenry as a final last resort against tyranny, something the right has understood for years, and then they start calling the right "hypocritical"...
by chneu | 2026-01-28 06:44:10+00:00
It's pretty wild how "normalized" it got within my generation.

What's more wild is how much of the US believes that the other party would be much worse.

To be clear, Republicans are absolutely the current cause of this insanity that's going on. The two party system doesn't help, but Republicans have committed insanity while claiming everyone else is doing worse. Trump is a literal pedophile who openly admitted to hating immigrants his entire life. We all saw this coming.