MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willis936 | 2026-01-02 23:37:14+00:00
I used to like the idea of an IPv4 replacement, but I've come around.

A large number of my devices and websites I visit use IPv6. Its success has highlighted the fact that I don't want it. Just today I disabled IPv6 on my router because I suspect it as a vector for tracking.

IPv6 offers nothing of value to the user. It might as well be shelved forever.
by aspenmartin | 2026-01-02 23:37:24+00:00
More like Yann had a long time to prove out his ideas and he did not deliver, meanwhile the industry passed Meta/Facebook by due to the sort of product-averse comfortable academic bubble that FAIR lived in. It wasn’t Zuckerberg getting swindled it was giving up on ever seeing Yann deliver anything other than LinkedIn posts and small scale tests. You do not want to bank on Yann for a big payoff. His ideas may or may not be right (joint predictive architectures, world modeling, etc), but you’d better not have him at the helm of something you expect to turn a profit on.

Also almost everyone agrees the current architecture and paradigm, where you have a finite context (or a badly compressed one in Mamba / SSM), is not sufficient. That plus lots of other issues. That said scaling has delivered a LOT and it’s hard to argue against demonstrated progress.
by ameliaquining | 2026-01-02 23:37:39+00:00
Does this story seem kinda…fake…to anyone else? Like, obviously companies do sometimes make decisions this stupid, but the way this is written seems a little too carefully optimized to make for a morality play of the kind HN enjoys. (And there's a potential motive, since there's a whole bunch of links to paid books and such, somewhat clumsily tied to the main narrative.)
by BeetleB | 2026-01-02 23:37:54+00:00
Don't knock it until you try it. 3 of the 4 games are highly rated, winning multiple awards. One frequently is mentioned on HN as one of the best games ever.

Games are a medium to tell stories. If you can conceive a TV show or movie tackling these themes there's no reason to think games should be exempt. In fact they are far superior in addressing these themes than movies are.
by gritzko | 2026-01-02 23:38:08+00:00
Probably, we need a formal data format, because JSON is just a notation. It does not mandate the bit width of numbers, for example, or whether ints are different from floats. Once there is such formal model, we can map it 1:1 between representations.

I am writing this because I work on a related topic https://replicated.wiki/blog/args.html
by throwaway74848 | 2026-01-02 23:38:50+00:00
Accounting generally wouldn't depict it this way, and it's quite confusing with the bubble diagram. I always found it easier when looking at things called "t accounts" [1]

Anyway, for the example you mention, it's supposed to mean that it takes 5k from the bubble on the left (founder) and gives to next bubble (bank)

Then each line again takes from left and gives to the new bubble on right. So each line is a transaction that balances out by adjusting both sides.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debits_and_credits
by prmoustache | 2026-01-02 23:39:42+00:00
Local business still also work with phone.

I still have whatsapp but some of my contacts don't even care to check it anyway so they can take 2 weeks to see your messages. How useful is that?

In the end I only really keep it to communicate with my family abroad and my in law's extended family in another continent. My own progeniture as well as my partner have conversation/xmpp setup on their smartphone + a laptop. While I haven't done a whatsapp suicide yet, I told them it was important to have other means of communication in case their phone died, a cloud vendor had issue or their account was suddently banned.

I used to be in a group of parents when my kids were in primary school but it was mostly useless and full of intense mums arguing against each other. I barely looked at it. My dance class supposedly has a whatsapp group but I didn't join it and I heard only a few annoying persons post random memes in it. I went once there only to see nobody there and heard it was cancelled afterwards , no big deal. I'd rather do the trip once for nothing than be spammed all year long with stupid memes.
by dazbradbury | 2026-01-02 23:39:51+00:00
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by morshu9001 | 2026-01-02 23:40:35+00:00
They taught us, they also taught ipv4 in the old "separate address per host" way instead of jumping to NAT, but I think ipv6 is inherently more complicated than ipv4 for the average use case. It's not just a thinking shift.

Separate from that, deliberate decisions were made to make it a "clean slate" without consideration for existing ipv4 hosts. Guess they were hoping the separate stacks would go away eventually, but in hindsight, no way.
by tolerance | 2026-01-02 23:40:46+00:00
No, no, perhaps you misunderstood me. I like how you link to your own writing in the discussions here. I don't suspect you to start automating that.

To tell you the truth I came to this actual submission to express my apathy toward the ‘POSSE’ concept but I saw you here and figured that I could somehow voice that feeling while simultaneously making mention of a sharing method that I do find worthwhile and more personable. And not an easy thing to pull off.

How much of your traffic comes from HN as opposed to the other platforms?
by throw310822 | 2026-01-02 23:41:13+00:00
> He's been saying something like this for a long time [...] it's increasingly looking like LeCunn is right.

No? LLMs are getting smarter and smarter, only three years have passed since ChatGPT was released and we have models generating whole apps, competently working on complex features, solving math problems at a level only reached by a small percentage of the population, and much more. The progress is constant and the results are stunning. Really it makes me wonder in what sort of denial are those who think this has been proven to be a dead end.
by krapp | 2026-01-02 23:41:18+00:00
>To which governments, courts, and populations likely respond "We don't care if you can't go to market. We don't want models that do this. Solve it or don't offer your services here."

No, they likely won't. AI has become far too big to fail at this point. So much money has been invested in it that speculation on AI alone is holding back a global economic collapse. Governments and companies have invested in AI so deeply that all failure modes have become existential.

If models can't be contained, controlled or properly regulated then they simply won't be contained, controlled or properly regulated.

We'll attempt it, of course, but the limits of what the law deems acceptable will be entirely defined by what is necessary for AI to succeed, because at this point it must. There's no turning back.
by ro_bit | 2026-01-02 23:42:03+00:00
I edit videos on a hobbyist level (mostly using davinci resolve to edit clips of me dying in video games to upload to a shareX host to show to friends). The big takeaway for
me was reading that for quality/efficiency libx264 is better than nvenc for rendering h264 video. All this time I’ve assumed nvenc is better because it used shiny GPU technology! Is libx264 better for recording high quality videos too? I know it will run on CPU unlike NVENC but I doubt that’s an issue for my use case.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-02 23:42:31+00:00
Drinking is taking a nosedive because larger segments of society are shut-in losers, who are not engaging in real-world social spaces which are lubricated with alcohol. That's 95% of the reason, the rest is people smoking when they would have been drinking.

The fall in alcohol consumption is directly tied to a fall in socialization writ-large. That isn't a win, it's a tragedy.
by 9029 | 2026-01-02 23:43:21+00:00
I think it could be interesting to explore Universal Blue based distros such as Bazzite for this kind of use cases. The OS comes from a standard OCI container image, which means you can create your own customized one by layering changes on top of an upstream base image.

I feel bad for the unsolicited distro plug though especially since you already have a solution that works well and you are familiar with, but I thought it might still be useful to mention it. I'm not sure if uBlue would even be better vs your current setup. Seems like netboot would still be needed to get the latest version without an extra reboot.
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-02 23:44:35+00:00
I don't use google accounts on my android phone. And yeah like you say whatever access they still have (not so much IMO) they have anyway regardless of which messenger I use. And yeah I do mind having facebook involved but it's just not really avoidable where I live. I really need whatsapp.

I do however have one mitigation: I don't run the whatsapp app on my primary phone. I use a matrix bridge. The app is still installed on another phone which is left at home. Because every month or so you have to enter the pin code (apparently meta thinks us users are retards that will forget it if we don't keep entering it).

On my phone I use the ElementX app then. I did get banned from whatsapp one time which was presumably to do with the bridge (I don't see what else it would be).
by srwx | 2026-01-02 23:45:07+00:00
I run an IPv6 only VPS as a side project to keep an eye on what doesn't work. My most recent discovery: I tried moving from `lego` to the new native ACME `nginx` support. `nginx` refuses to talk to letsencrypt on IPv6; it's not a letsencrypt flaw because it works perfectly on the same server with `lego`.
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-02 23:45:49+00:00
Almost all electronic music is synced to a sequencer and so obviously is going to have a very steady tempo.

Haha if only

Well the tempo is steady by human standards, but latency and jitter on timing signals are recurring issues in electronic music. Some devices put out very steady timing but don't like being slaved to another device, bugs can creep in at loop points or pattern switching (even on Roland's latest flagship drum machine, which costs most of $3000), things can get messy if there is too much note/controller data and so on.
by tgpc | 2026-01-02 23:45:50+00:00
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by VladVladikoff | 2026-01-02 23:45:56+00:00
I appreciated it for the tone and rage. I’m not so concerned with the actual technology being discussed here, but rather the overwhelming exhaustion that we are all subjected to in managing our household devices. Not just parental controls, but privacy and ad blocking, or self hosting, etc. it all takes so much work and effort that we rarely have the time for i. Our already exhausting lives. I feel the rant perfectly captured that feeling. It was a worthy post.
by wat10000 | 2026-01-02 23:46:07+00:00
Does the Bloomberg reporting distinguish between these cases?

One of their examples involves a driver who called 911 post-crash and reported they couldn’t open the door. Teslas have mechanical door handles on the interior of the front doors. It’s not hard to find. In fact, it’s so obvious that passengers unfamiliar with the car tend to use it rather than the button.

So what happened here? Did he never try the mechanical handle, or did he try it and it somehow didn’t work? Given how easy the handle is to find, I’d bet on the latter. And there’s nothing about this which makes me think your CR-V’s latch would have fared any better.

Did Bloomberg distinguish between “occupant would have been saved if there had been a mechanical handle” and “occupant would have been saved if the structure hadn’t jammed the door”? It doesn’t sound like it.

The basic fact is, people do get stuck inside crashed cars for all sorts of reasons. Electronic door handles add a new failure mode. But I’d like to know how the aggregate incidents compare, not just declare to be dangerous because it’s an additional failure mode.
by mrob | 2026-01-02 23:46:20+00:00
Classical labels were recording digitally even before CD players existed, to avoid the generation loss of recording to tape before transferring to vinyl. These recordings were later released on CD and mostly sound great.

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985 release, first CD to sell over a million copies) also sounds greats, and IMO better than most modern releases.

Some early CDs were recorded using pre-emphasis, similar to the RIAA equalization used with vinyl records. CDs using this have a flag set in the metadata to tell the player to apply a matching de-emphasis filter. I sometimes see people blaming digital production for early CDs sounding "thin". I think it's more likely they heard rips of CDs using pre-emphasis that didn't have the proper de-emphasis applied.

An average CD from the 80s sounds better than an average CD from any other era, because it pre-dates the loudness war, and because it's intended to be played on a good home stereo (which if you were buying CDs back then you could probably afford).
by lokar | 2026-01-02 23:46:47+00:00
Photoshop is fine, running a business where you produce CSAM for people with photoshop is not. And this has been very clear for a while now.

I did not see the details of what happened, but if someone did in fact take a photo of a real child they had no connection to and caused the images to be created, then yes, they should be investigated, and if the prosecutor thinks they can get a conviction they should be charged.

That is just what the law says today (AIUI), and is consistent with how it has been applied.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-02 23:46:48+00:00
To be honest, as a non-Christian person, I had no idea Christians used "the Church" in the way you describe. I don't think I've ever personally seen that usage, and I apologise for the miscommunication. As someone interested in historical research, the usage of "the Church" that I am familiar with is shorthand to describe the historical central institute of Christianity as an organized religion - the Catholic Church.

And the point I was trying to make was that "the collective believers of all Christianity" did not have direct access to the Bible for a long time - manuscripts were rare before printing, and they were even more rarely written in a language laypeople could read, if they could read at all. Therefore, anything they heard about the contents of the Bible and Christ's teachings would be subject entirely to the filtered interpretations of the Catholic clergy, and that would determine the shape of their beliefs rather than the writings themselves. Indeed it was specifically the advent of the printing press, when more people gained access to the Bible directly rather than the Catholic interpretation of it, that led to the Reformation and spread of Protestantism and other denominations.
by ben_w | 2026-01-02 23:46:48+00:00
> These models generate probably a billion images a day.

Collectively, probably more. Grok? Not unless you count each frame of a video, I think.

> If getting it wrong for even one of those images is enough to get the entire model banned then it probably isn't possible and this de facto outlaws all image models.

If the threshold is one in a billion… well, the risk is for adversarial outcomes, so you can't just toss a billion attempts at it and see what pops out, but a billion images, if it's anything like Stable Diffusion you can stop early, and my experiments with SD suggested the energy cost even for a full generation is only $0.0001/image*, so a billion is merely $100k.

Given the current limits of GenAI tools, simply not including unclothed or scantily clad people in the training set would prevent this. I mean, I guess you could leave topless bodybuilders in there, then all these pics would look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, almost everyone would laugh and not care.

> That may precisely be the point of this tbh.

Perhaps. But I don't think we need that excuse if this was the goal, and I am not convinced this is the goal in the EU for other reasons besides.

* https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2022/10/09-19.33.04.html
by troglo-byte | 2026-01-02 23:47:06+00:00
To zoom in on how toxic the brand has become, look at the European market. Sales were down 71% in Sweden and 66% in France for 2025[1], despite ~35% growth in European EV sales. The only "bright spot" was Norway, but that's partly because EVs increased to 96% of sales there (vs ~25% in Europe.)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2026/01/02/...
by hajile | 2026-01-02 23:47:08+00:00
> It's hard to believe that "Priority Delivery" does literally nothing.

That's not exactly what they said. They said normal orders get artificially delayed and priority deliver orders get sent right away. They were clear that the real issue is that priority only exists because they actively made normal orders worse (I'd guess they actually took a few months of slowly backing off normal order time to get customers accustomed to the extra wait).
by observationist | 2026-01-02 23:47:37+00:00
6 characters or fewer passwords, if there were passwords at all. Phreaking still worked into the 90s, and all sorts of really stupid things were done without really thinking about the security at all. They'd print out receipts with the entire credit or debit card number and information on it, or carbon copy the card with an impression, and you'd see these receipts blowing around parking lots, or find entire bags or dumpsters full of them. Knowing an IP address might be sufficient information to gain access to systems that should have been secured. It's pretty amazing that things functioned as well as they did, that society was as trusting and trustworthy as it was, that we were able to build as much as we did with as relatively a tiny level of exploitation that happened.

If the same level of vulnerability was as prevalent today as it was back then, civilization might collapse overnight.
by gnanagurusrgs | 2026-01-02 23:47:42+00:00
Update:

On New Year's Eve I announced NERD - a language built for LLMs, not for human authorship. The response was unexpectedly overwhelming. Questions, excitement, discussions, roasting - all of it.

But one question struck me: "What use case is this language built for?"

Fair. Instead of a general-purpose language covering all features - some of which may not even be relevant because we're not building apps the old way anymore - I picked one: agent-first.

What this means - you can now run an agent in NERD with one line of code:

-- Nerd code
llm claude "What is Cloudflare Workers?"

No imports. No boilerplate. No framework.

The insight from working with agents and MCP: tools are absorbing integration complexity. Auth, retries, rate limiting - all moving into tool providers. What's left for agents? Orchestration.

And orchestration doesn't need much:
→ LLM calls
→ Tool calls
→ Control flow
→ That's it.

Every language today - Python, TypeScript, Java - was built for something else, then repurposed for agents. NERD starts from agents.

Fully story here: https://www.nerd-lang.org/agent-first
by morshu9001 | 2026-01-02 23:48:36+00:00
Yep. Imagine every address along a major road is 3 digits. Your business is 845 Oak St. Some really bad post office code assumes 3 digits. One day they say hey, this road is getting too long, let's update that code to support 10 digits and we never worry about this again.

Oh and btw, we had no choice but to change your address to 9245593924 Oak St.
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by hnlmorg | 2026-01-02 23:49:11+00:00
You have it backwards, it’s not trying to catch my children doing bad things (though there is that benefit too). it’s more about ensuring that other people are not doing, or trying to do, bad things to my children.

I trust my own children but you’re right that I cannot guarantee that they’re not bullying others and deleting those messages. However I’d hope other parents are monitoring their children’s phone usage and would tell either me or the school if my child was causing issues. That’s how a healthy community of parents are supposed to work.

Also your comment has a tone of “kids can find a way to bypass parental oversight so why bother parenting in the first place?” I don’t if that is intentional or not. But it’s an attitude I have seen other parents adopt and, unsurprisingly, their kids are usually the little shits that cause trouble because they know there are zero repercussions.
by dboreham | 2026-01-02 23:49:11+00:00
Most computers did not exist in an adversarial environment at the time.

Perhaps the most "adversarial" context would be: undergraduate timeshare use. So the mainframes of the day, which would be the typical platform for undergrad programming (if timeshare was even offered to undergrads in 1973) might be expected to be somewhat hardened to attacks of various kinds since undergrads trying to hack their grade higher, get more CPU time, etc, was a known thing.

But Unix machines, and minicomputers in general, were not used for undergrad purposes. They were only available to be used by PhD candidates and other higher order beings. Those dudes had the root password anyway, so no need to harden the machine against their potential attacks. There was no networking to speak of, so no malicious traffic to worry about. The first worm didn't appear until the late 1980s.

So if you had talked to a Unix sysadmin in 1973 (all...1 of them) they probably would understand the general concept of someone running a program that crapped onto kernel memory with the result they could have root privileges, but there would have been no plausible adversary around with any reason to mount that attack. Plus every cycle and every byte counted, so there would have been many more fish to fry before worrying about buffer overflow problems.
by tedk-42 | 2026-01-02 23:49:41+00:00
I don't think this is how it would have played out at all.

I'm no expert on IPv4 or IPv6, but if they had designed IPv6 to be able to route fine to IPv4, we'd be OK.

It would at least give people an upgrade path where their old stuff that couldn't be patched / updated and were stuck on IPv4 could be slowly killed off in the path of least resistance down the dependency line.

This 'dual stack' approach doubled up on everything up front and meant we all had to do both during the transition (which has taken 30 years).