MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m_rpn | 2026-01-27 11:20:44+00:00
It seems you are desperately trying to make a strawman without any sensible argument, i don't personally think it is "snarky" to call things as they are, plain and simple, you, as supposed expert and professional academic, post a blog on Nature crying that "ai stole my homework", it's only natural you get the ridicule you deserve, it's the bare minimum, he should be investigated by the institution he works for.

A reasonable amount of AI use is certainly acceptable, where "reasonable" depends on the situation, for any academic related job this amount should be close to zero, and no material produced by any student/grad/researcher/professor should be fed to third party LLM models without explicit consent, otherwise what even is the point? Regurgitating slop is not academic work.
by ekianjo | 2026-01-27 11:21:16+00:00
> common problem

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/08/26...

It's statistics at the end of the day. If you have 300 people carrying several batteries in the body of the airplane, and any of them has enough energy to cause an immediate fire, you are playing with odds.

> What we should do

Completely banning portable batteries (chargers) would be a start. You cut the risk by a lot already because they are rampant.
by dns_snek | 2026-01-27 11:21:31+00:00
I happen to think that's largely a self-delusion which nobody is immune to, no matter how smart you are (or think you are).

I've heard this from a few smart people whom I know really well. They strongly believe this, they also believe that most people are deluding themselves, but not them - they're in the actually-great group, and when I pointed out the sloppiness of their LLM-assisted work they wouldn't have any of it.

I'm specifically talking about experienced programmers who now let LLMs write majority of their code.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-01-27 11:21:31+00:00
Maybe this is about parsing the video? But still this should be done with OpenCV and then algorithmically...

A youtuber sentdex has a whole series on parsing the game's image and playing GTA https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeETZEOy4Vd...
by pghqdev | 2026-01-27 11:21:38+00:00
Built this because I wanted a notes app that:

1. Works offline (airplane, subway, spotty wifi)

2. Doesn't require an account

3. Keeps data on my device, not someone else's server

4. Something to take notes right there in the browser

Technical stack: Next.js static export, IndexedDB for storage, Web Speech API for voice dictation. Total infrastructure cost is ~$0/month for static hosting.

The architecture is intentionally simple. Notes live in the browser's IndexedDB. Voice dictation uses the browser's native speech recognition. No external APIs, no database, no waitlists, no sign-ups

Trade-offs I accepted:

- No sync between devices (considering E2EE sync as optional paid feature)

- Data loss if you clear browser storage (export to MD/PDF available)

- PWA only, no native apps

Who actually uses this:

- Quick capture when you don't want to open a full app

- Drafting prompts before pasting into ChatGPT/Claude (has token counter)

- Private journaling without cloud anxiety

- Offline notes on flights/commutes

- People with "account fatigue" who just want to write

Curious what HN thinks about local-first as a default architecture choice. The privacy angle resonates with users, but the no-sync limitation is a dealbreaker for many.

Happy to discuss technical decisions or answer questions.
by 0x3f | 2026-01-27 11:22:59+00:00
Right, but what do you think the alternative is? There is limited space close to the entrance of the terminal, it has to be rationed somehow. Also what happens in practice is people take advantage. A trust-based 30s wouldn't work. Even with the current fees you can hang around Heathrow drop off and see the police having to move people along, check unatended cars, etc.
by bartread | 2026-01-27 11:23:14+00:00
> get really tiring after a few years.

Yeah, completely exhausting. I get quickly worn out by environments where performatism (if that's a word) is too highly valued.

For me, I tend to work at my best when I've got a clear remit, and space to operate freely within that remit with my team without having to constantly seek approval and validation.

Whereas the need to perform/show off/be visible in order to deal with every tiny issue - which I've absolutely seen in one or two organisations - is just... no. No. That might work for some people but it is absolutely no way to get the best out of me.
by scotty79 | 2026-01-27 11:23:43+00:00
Depends on how you understand democracy.

It's a contradiction only if you understand democracy as a theoretical ideal. Practical democracies, as implemented in western countries, in recent decades proven themselves to be completely controllable by capital, both the democratic elites and democratic masses.

I think we should rather go with practical outcome not the stated theoretical ideas. It's also a good way of evaluating communism and probably other systems.
by ben_w | 2026-01-27 11:23:59+00:00
Trust is something you can give a price to.

The higher the risk of e.g. a loan, the more interest it has to pay out to be worthwhile. The exact amount* is, as I understand it, governed by the Black–Scholes model.

* probably with some spherical-cows-in-a-vacuum assumptions given how the misuse of this model was a factor in the global financial crisis.
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-01-27 11:24:02+00:00
They really don't.

Just the first thing that comes to mind: ChatGPT can act as an enhanced Jupyter notebook where you specify tasks in English. This isn't an analogy; they literally run Jupyter kernels in the backend with chat as the frontend.
There's also canvas mode for iterating on actual documents, and the search/retrieval features make it a genuinely useful research tool independent of generation.

And this is me defending OpenAI, which I've stopped using. Other systems are more capable.
by chimprich | 2026-01-27 11:24:57+00:00
> On top of which they have matching ICE issued vest with inscriptions.

It's a fascist theme to have paramilitaries not wearing uniforms. See for example the mukhabarat in Syria. It makes them more intimidating, because they look undisciplined, and adds confusion to protestors as to whether they are dealing with someone who is part of the legal system. Why on earth would they not be issued with uniforms?

> Yes, accidents like this will happen when you shove law enforcement officers with a gun on you.

Pretti did not shove any "law enforcement officers". The first physical contact is a shove on Pretti by one of them.

BBC did a frame by frame analysis: the first shove happens at approx 1:00 in this video.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/l0057wmt/bbc-verify-an...

If you disagree, please provide a source.

The first time they seem to be aware that he has a firearm is when they disarm him, and the execution happens after that, so I don't see how that is relevant.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-27 11:25:08+00:00
Yes, but those were not the standard kind of CRTs that are used in TV sets and monitors.

The CRTs with memory for early computers were actually derived from the special CRTs used in video cameras. There the image formed by the projected light was converted in a distribution of charge stored on an electrode, which was then sensed by scanning with an electron beam.

Using CRTs as memory has been proposed by von Neumann and in his proposal he used the appropriate name for that kind of CRT: "iconoscope".
by randysalami | 2026-01-27 11:25:36+00:00
A use case I’ve been working through is learning a language (not programming). You can use LLMs to translate and write for you in another language but you will not be able to say, I know that language, no matter how much you use the LLM.

Now compare this to using the LLM with a grammar book and real world study mechanisms. This creates friction which actually causes your mind to learn. The LLM can serve as a tool to get specialized insight into the grammar book and accelerate physical processes (like generating all forms of a word for writing flashcards). At the end of day, you need to make an intelligent separation where the LLM ends and your learning begins.

I really like this contrast because it highlights the gap between using an LLM and actually learning. You may be able to use the LLM to pass college level courses in learning the language but unless you create friction, you actually won’t learn anything! There is definitely more nuance here but it’s food for thought
by altmanaltman | 2026-01-27 11:26:48+00:00
"Expert system" running a company is never going to happen unless shareholders are okay with no accountability from the company. You'll always need someone to blame in case things go wrong. You could have an executive using such an "expert system" for literally all their decisions, but it has to be a human being signing off on those decisions. There is no way to prosecute code and unless these expert systems can become sentinent or appear in court, best of luck trying to let it run a company in the real sense of actually making those decisions with full autonomy and responsbility.
by lukan | 2026-01-27 11:26:55+00:00
"Which means that either there is no such an internal pressure or the regimes are extraordinarily good at selecting and incentivizing people to maintain the status quo."

Or there is pressure and discontent, but simply not enough to topple the regime as it needs way more than 50% support for a internal regime change.

I have childhood memories of such a succesful change in eastern germany. Most people had enough for a long time, but they knew the sovjet tanks would come if they revolted. After it seemed the sovjets were busy on their own and won't come but rather did democratic reforms themself, but the GDR refused and stayed stalinistic - then the people went to the streets. And at some point those in power just gave up. Not really a consciouss choice, but they were visibly insecure and confused, so weak and fell. (But it was a close call, some wanted to bring out the machine guns as well)

The iranian mullahs were insecure, but they choose the violent path of dominance.

Not the same situation, as they did not rely on a foreign power like in GDR, but it seems they lost majority support a long time ago, but have a loyal enough religious base to use the weapons.

And yes, military and police who have family members on the streets will defect at some point and it seems that also happened in Iran, just not enough.
by robinsonb5 | 2026-01-27 11:26:57+00:00
> In my experience error diffusion often gets muddy due to dot gain

Absolutely - there's a reason why traditional litho printing uses a clustered dot screen (dots at a constant pitch with varying size).

I've spent some time tinkering with FPGAs and been interested by the parallels between two-dimensional halftoning of graphics and the various approaches to doing audio output with a 1-bit IO pin: pulse width modulation (largely analogous to the traditional printer's dot screen) seems to cope better with imperfections in filters and asymmetries in output drivers than pulse density modulation (analogous to error diffusion dithers).
by calchiwo | 2026-01-27 11:27:01+00:00
Using IndexedDB as the only store moves the reliability boundary to the browser. That removes server risk but introduces quota limits, eviction, and “best effort” persistence, especially on mobile where storage gets reclaimed aggressively.

For a notes app, silent data loss is the critical failure mode. How are you handling quota errors and potential eviction before users discover missing notes?
by usrbinbash | 2026-01-27 11:27:08+00:00
> It sounds to me like you may not have used a lot of these tools yet

And this is more and more becoming the default answer I get whenever I point out obvious flaws of LLM coding tools.

Did it occur to you that I know these flaws precisely because I work a lot with, and evaluate the performance of, LLM based coding tools? Also, we're almost 4y into the alleged "AI Boom" now. It's pretty safe to assume that almost everyone in a development capacity has spent at least some effort evaluating how these tools do. At this point, stating "you're using it wrong" is like assuming that people in 2010 didn't know which way to hold a smartphone.

Sorry no sorry, but when every criticism towards a tool elecits the response that people are not using it well, then maybe, just maybe, the flaw is not with all those people, but with the tool itself.
by formerly_proven | 2026-01-27 11:27:10+00:00
ime Apple Watch often/sometimes produces conflicting trends. For example, every winter my VO2max will drop by 3-6 points. In part this could be because I genuinely do less sport in the winter, but maybe the bigger explanation is that I'm hauling around way more stuff on walks in the winter vs. the summer, so the load on the body is easily 10% higher (plus walking on e.g. snow) just from increased weight (heavy boots, heavier layers, heavy coat etc. adds up). Meanwhile cardio recovery will often go up (which purely from a measurement perspective makes sense, since I'll tend to go into recovery with a higher HR, so it's easier to drop it quickly).

In aggregate Apple Watch will report "your cardio fitness (as measured by our VO2max estimation) is dropping like a rock" while also saying "your cardio fitness (as measured by our recovery estimation) is increasing".
by stephen_g | 2026-01-27 11:27:33+00:00
A lot more people I've talked to about it say the theatre makes them feel uncomfortable and intimidated rather than making them feel safe. Airport security staff being so gruff and expecting people to know what to do (which casual travellers often don't), then not being able to properly explain what to do and shouting at people...

I really don't buy that the illusion of safety is high on anyone's priority list, it's more that a bureaucracy will grow as much as it can, employing more and more people who might not have better prospects, and no politicians want to be seen to be "comprimising people's safety" by cutting things back. Then "lobbying" from those selling equipment and detection machines probably helps everything keep going.

If it was actually cut back to a proper risk-assessed point of what's strictly necessary, people going thorugh would think "is this safe not having as much security" for about 30 seconds and then never think of it again.
by epsters | 2026-01-27 11:27:45+00:00
36,500 dead, 300,000 injured, In 2 days? People are buying this? Unarmed protesters tend to flee when the shooting starts and armed protesters shoot back. And all this without heavy weapons? Do people remember what Gaza turned into get to that toll?

The actual final toll number is certainly in the thousands But all the numbers being touted in the western press reek of desperation. Lot of the sources are western-backed anti-iranian ngos ( lot of them with cia, mossad and other intelligence ties) which themselves cite dubious sources. IranIntl is itself Saudi-backed and a Mossad asset according to Axios's Barak Ravid, who is himself worked for Israel's Unit 8200. Netanyahu seems to try rope the US into war in the short window before the US mid-terms and the Monarchists seem similarly desperate to show traction to the Trump admin. With Epstein and whatever else that is hanging over Trump's head this is a very dangerous trap.
by csomar | 2026-01-27 11:28:03+00:00
Sure, which is why roughly 2/3 of the world's desktops are still running Windows. I actually met an accountant the other day (from Germany) who still uses the desktop version of Microsoft Excel (not the 365 web edition) because the old version works fine for his needs while the web one doesn't.

> They literally went back to a paper bookings diary and just phone or whatsapp people if there's a problem.

I couldn't book a place the other day because their online booking system was broken. It made me realize why most places and hotels use Booking.com or Airbnb. It's not just about discoverability; getting a booking system to actually work is a really hard problem.

But look at these two examples: MS Access wouldn't help in either case. For a booking system to be useful, people need to access the calendar online. These are things only made possible with web or mobile apps. Booking.com and Airbnb have a combined market cap of around a quarter trillion dollars. That's how valuable a functioning booking system really is.
by pbmonster | 2026-01-27 11:28:47+00:00
> The problem is that european politicians don't want to kill the tech $$$. They just want to bring the revenue home. They don't understand that they will never make EU big tech and that their only feasible path forward to get rid of US tech is also the path that kills the goose.

Not necessarily. Red Hat is a billion dollar company just on FOSS support services and consulting. And if you put hundreds of thousands of clients on a completely novel FOSS stack, you're going to need several of those.
by inglor_cz | 2026-01-27 11:28:56+00:00
It matters less than before. The US is no longer the dominant force it used to be in the 1950s, and the UK (which was part of the anti-Mossadegh plot) is completely gone from the world stage.

The world of 2026 cannot be reduced to a CIA/Mossad theatre where everyone else is a NPC and must suffer whatever they cook up there. Other people have agency and do their things. EU, India, China, Iran, Russia, Qatar, all influential players.
by iberator | 2026-01-27 11:28:57+00:00
Russia had originally licensed Coca Cola (or Pepsi) like a decade before the fall of the Soviet union!

Stripping nation from nuclear deterrence is suicide: Ukraine did this in 1993. Both missiles, payloads and strategic bombers :/ They had it all... (Reverse engineering some command codes would be trivial as Ukrainians had top tier engineers in the entire Soviet Union).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-27 11:29:49+00:00
Y'know I ended up buying Kimi's moderato plan which is 19$ but they had this unique idea where you can talk to a bot and they could reduce the price

I made it reduce the price of first month to 1.49$ (It could go to 0.99$ and my frugal mind wanted it haha but I just couldn't have it do that lol)

Anyways, afterwards for privacy purposes/( I am a minor so don't have a card), ended up going to g2a to get a 10$ Visa gift card essentially and used it. (I had to pay a 1$ extra but sure)

Installed kimi code on my mac and trying it out. Honestly, I am kind of liking it.

My internal benchmark is creating pomodoro apps in golang web... Gemini 3 pro has nailed it, I just tried the kimi version and it does have some bugs but it feels like it added more features.

Gonna have to try it out for a month.

I mean I just wish it was this cheap for the whole year :< (As I could then move from, say using the completely free models)

Gonna have to try it out more!
by LinXitoW | 2026-01-27 11:30:28+00:00
I think it's actually a great example of very very important non-pedantry. The entire crux of their argument/issue is dependent on their definition of "chemicals". I would even go so far as to say it's just the nature fallacy in disguise.

With the nature fallacy, the definition (or more like the lack of) of what is natural is the entire crux of it. In both cases (natural and "non-chemical") it's the very non-defined-ness that reveals the problem with it: You cannot create a sensible definition.

For nature, what's the definition that puts "rape" and "artificial insulin" on the morally correct side?

For chemical, what's the definition that puts "fortification with iodine, flouride, or whatevers in flour" and "arsenic" on the right side?
by jonway | 2026-01-27 11:30:46+00:00
Got it. So in your case, here's what I would do:

Take the can of WD-40© out of your hand and replace it with the can of CRC© White Lithium Grease. All subsequent steps are the same.

I would then hide your screwdrivers so you don't disassemble anything. Just spray it with lube. :)
by adrian_b | 2026-01-27 11:31:13+00:00
DRAM memories made with special CRTs with memory have been used for a few years, until 1954. For instance the first generation of commercial electronic computers made by IBM (scientific IBM 701 and business-oriented IBM 702) have used such CRTs.

Then the CRT memories have become obsolete almost instantaneously, due to the development of magnetic core memories, which did not require periodic refreshing and which were significantly faster. The fact that they were also non-volatile was convenient at that early time, though not essential.

Today, due to security concerns, you would actually not want for your main memory to be non-volatile, unless you also always encrypt it completely, which creates problems of secret key management.

So CRT memories have become obsolete several years before the replacement of vacuum tubes in computers with transistors, which happened around 1959/1960.

Besides CRT memories and delay line memories, another kind of early computer memory that has quickly become obsolete was the memory with magnetic drums.

In the cheapest early computers (like IBM 650), the main memory was not a RAM (i.e. neither a CRT nor with magnetic cores), but a magnetic drum memory (i.e. with sequential periodic access to data).
by aa-jv | 2026-01-27 11:31:50+00:00
Pretty much the best resource available:

https://6502.org/

Check the books section and find something that compels you.

Also, don't forget the HUGE number of resources for 6502 assembly programming that are available in the https://archive.org/ magazine and book sections:

https://archive.org/search?query=6502

Rodney Zaks' books are great - I like especially "6502 Games", which taught me a lot back in the day:

https://archive.org/download/6502g/6502Games.pdf

I'm also especially fond of the easy6502 emulator - its a very handy tool to have while studying 6502 techniques:

https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

Its not absolutely necessary to learn BASIC before Assembly, but it will definitely help you understand the resources of the machine better if you can debug BASIC ROM code. My personal 6502 platform of choice, the Oric-1/Atmos machines, has a pretty great ROM disassembly available, from which a lot of great knowledge can be obtained - but it does of course first require an undersanding of BASIC.

In case you're curious, the Oric-1 ROM Disassembly:

https://library.defence-force.org/books/content/oric_advance...

(You can get an Oric emulator named Oricutron, or you can access a virtual Oric here: https://oric.games/ ..)

Good luck!
by koonsolo | 2026-01-27 11:31:52+00:00
Then tell us what powers does the Dutch NATO chief has to make a deal in name of Greenland and Denmark.

Trump got empty hands, he got totally played by the nice words of Rutte.

Edit: Your conversation is really mind boggling:

"Trump got a great deal on Greenland!"

"What deal?"

"How would I know?!?!?!"
by ako | 2026-01-27 11:32:00+00:00
I think we should embrace AI to craft better software. You have a lot of control over the code generated by AI, so all you designs, patterns, best practices can be used in the generated code. This will make us better software craftsmen.

A nice example is guitar building: there's a whole bunch of luthiers that stick to traditional methods to build guitars, or even just limit themselves to japanese woodworking tools.

But that is not the only way to build great guitars. It can be done by excellent luthiers, building high quality quitars. For example Ulrich Teuffel who uses all sorts of high tech like CAD systems and CDC machines to craft beautiful guitars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLZOxwmcFVo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLZOxwmcFVo

Unfortunately, craftsmanship does not come cheap, so most customers will turn to industrially created products. Same for software.