MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by redrblackr | 2026-01-31 10:11:28+00:00
People are really sleeping on nc memories, does all the good things but none of the "I decide how your images are stored and nothing else should touch them" that immich does.

When I checked half a year ago memories (with the nc ecosystem) was still ahead in terms of features (gallery specific), albeit object tagging is rather crap in nc (faces better)
by andy12_ | 2026-01-31 10:13:10+00:00
I mean it in the sense that tokens that pass some external filter (even if that filter isn't perfect) are from a very different probability distribution than those that an LLM generates indiscriminately. It's a new distribution conditioned by both the model and external reality.

Model collapse happens in the case where you train your model indefinitely with its own output, leading to reinforcing the biases that were originally picked up by the model. By repeating this process but adding a "grounding" step, you avoid training repeatedly on the same distribution. Some biases may end up being reinforced still, but it's a very different setting.
by impossiblefork | 2026-01-31 10:15:06+00:00
So, cracking someone's skull in multiple places requires a fair bit of violence, it's obviously not something self-inflicted, and we have these guys who had opportunity.

So why haven't some Minnesota prosecutor ordered them seized through whatever system exists for that-- whether it's an indictment or an arrest warrant or whatever? Isn't this kind of serious assault a crime where it's mandatory to prosecute, so that there isn't even any prosecutorial discretion?
by peterburkimsher | 2026-01-31 10:15:13+00:00
I made a parallel literal translator for Farsi:

https://pingtype.github.io/farsi.html

Paste in some parallel text (e.g. Bible verses, movie subtitles, song lyrics) and read what Farsi you can on the first line, looking to the lower lines for clues if you get stuck.

The core version of Pingtype is for traditional Chinese, but it supports a few other languages too.
by antirez | 2026-01-31 10:15:41+00:00
Sciascia, btw, is one of the biggest thinkers and writers of '900. It is not really defined by his mafia-related novels and takes. He used to be friend with Borges, and was regarded as one of the top men in humanistic culture. Disclaimer: I was born in a town (Campobello di Licata) near his town (Racalmuto), but I'm not saying this because of this fact.

If you never read Sciascia, I suggest you starting from his last, tiny novel: "Una storia semplice". I believe there are English translations that can be found around as ebook or used on eBay.
by readingnews | 2026-01-31 10:16:58+00:00
I have an old HP 15C RPN scientific calculator.

- I know where the buttons are without looking.

- It has functions my Android calculator does not have
(directly or that I know of).

- It has a strange satisfying tactile feedback.

- It never interrupts me. Ever.

- It never distracts me. Ever.

I reach for it frequently.
by sxde | 2026-01-31 10:18:58+00:00
Revanced allows you to patch the official Android YouTube apk to enable this feature alongside many others, including a block, Sponsorblock, and dislikes.

https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager

Rossmann's Grayjay app offers the same functionality in a separate standalone client. It has a paid pro mode, but is free software. I use this on devices that I haven't signed in with Google.

https://grayjay.app/
by shit_game | 2026-01-31 10:19:34+00:00
>I can't help but feel this is just Google trying to pull the ladder up behind then and make it more difficult for other companies to collect training data.

I can very easily see this as being Google's reasoning for these actions, but let's not pretend that clandestine residential proxies aren't used for nefarious things. The vast majority of social media networks will ban - or more generally and insiously - shadow ban accounts/IPs that use known proxy IPs. This means that they are gating access to their platforms behind residential IPs (on top of their other various blackboxes and heuristics like fingerprinting). Operators of bot networks thus rely on residential proxy services to engage in their work, which ranges from mundane things like engagement farming to outright dangerous things like political astroturfing, sentiment manipulation, and propaganda dissemination.

LLMs and generative image and video models have made the creation of biased and convincing content trivial and cheap, if not free. The days of "troll farms" is over, and now the greatest expense for a bad actor wishing to influence the world with fake engagement and biased opinions is their access to platforms, which means accounts and internet connections that aren't blacklisted or shadow banned. Account maturity and reputation farming is also feeling a massive boon due to these tools, but as an independent market it also similarly requires internet connections that aren't blacklisted or shadow banned. Residential proxies are the bottleneck for bad actors for the vast majority of bad actors.
by jfyi | 2026-01-31 10:19:51+00:00
It’s unclear if this comment missed the fact that the previous user was using mimicry as a rhetorical device to critique the original poster, or if it was an attempt at 'yes and'-ing by doubling down on the brevity. In either case, the question would have been more effective if directed at the grandparent comment, since that is the actual source of the unsupported assertion.
by catdog | 2026-01-31 10:20:17+00:00
> A better formulation is "every feature is a liability". Taking it to the line of code level is too prescriptive.

Amount of code is a huge factor but maybe not the best wording here. It's more a thing of complexity where amount of code is a contributing metric but not the only one. You can very easily have a feature implemented in a too complex way and with too much code (esp. if an LLM generated the code but also with human developers). Also not every feature is equal.

> Occasionally writing more verbose code is preferable if it makes it easier to understand.

Think this is more a classic case of "if the metric becomes a goal it ceases to be a metric" than it being a bad metric per se.
by seec | 2026-01-31 10:20:32+00:00
You are incredibly stupid or dishonest, probably both.
Farming animals doesn't require suffering. You are just looking at stupid propaganda focusing on the worst cases that are the results of a profit-motivated system (that you are part of and benefit from greatly).

I live in a rural area and know many farmers. A friend lives in a house right next to a place where chickens and guinea fowl live in a large field. They spend all day just picking at stuff, very happy about their lives, protected from all predators. Then after at least 6 months, they get killed in a way that is so quick they don't even understand what's happening.

Similarly, where I run, I bump into cows that are living their best lives grazing on the pasture. If you are friendly enough, they may even let you come close. They are going to get killed at some point, in a nearby slaughterhouse, not really understanding what's happening.

You are just humanizing animals that do not share the capacity for conscience that humans have.
It's pure nonsense to pretend that all animal farming is suffering; when it's done right, they really don't mind, and they wouldn't even exist in the first place.
by JPLeRouzic | 2026-01-31 10:20:40+00:00
I acknowledge that the 20th century was marked by much bloodshed, but this wasn't limited to the world wars and it continues violently into the 21st century.

If the world is governed by rules, why does the United States maintain a considerable number of military bases around the world, far exceeding the total number of military bases of all other countries combined?

Why is the American military budget so much higher than the combined military budgets of all other countries?
by shevy-java | 2026-01-31 10:21:27+00:00
It should be trivial to work around; for instance, yt-dlp or so
(https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) and I think you can as-is stream
e. g. via mpv or something, probably to the browser too. Some python
script for an ad-hoc localhost webserver I'd think.

What is much more worrying is how aggressively Google tries to abuse
its de-facto monopoly. I have said it before, I will say it again:
Google abusing everyone else is a bad situation. We need to make
Google smaller again.
Show HN: Npmtraffic – mobile-friendly NPM download stats with daily tables
by quietbyte | 2026-01-31 10:21:45+00:00
I have an npm package and wanted to check download stats from my phone. Existing options felt clunky on mobile or didn't show what I wanted.

This shows daily downloads in a table format (date, count, delta) rather than just charts. Also has package comparison and CSV export with metadata.

Source: https://github.com/afria85/npmtraffic

Happy to hear feedback on UX or anything that feels broken.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-31 10:21:48+00:00
Assuming aeb-kun has ever done an unfeigned Glaswegian in the face of RP. He might beat PH's 10% enby!!

Or, even a fully enby gen Z HK-bred nurse working in London ("pinker than pink"?)

https://old.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/1hrsue7/is_mle_be...

At trolling the roadman chiv (of any multiculture at all), that is

Belated hidden fortress explication

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/watch-the-hidden-...

1958 was a glourious anniversary
by solumunus | 2026-01-31 10:21:53+00:00
There’s more to it than that though. The solution using the least possible lines is often inscrutable and brittle. The art is in finding the right level of abstraction which can deliver the performance required while being sufficiently legible. Depending on the specific problem you have to weight your solution accordingly, if performance is critical you must often forfeit legibility. The art is in recognising and dealing with trade offs.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-31 10:21:58+00:00
Software engineer is an abused title because people that dabble with software for employment want to sound capable. Yes, if the word engineer is in the title you should be able to do formal research and write natural language research findings that contain compared measurements. Most software developers cannot do that on even the smallest levels.

Really, just setting a baseline, if you lack a masters in computer science education you are not a software engineer. I am capable of doing research but I wouldn’t call myself an engineer. I have relatives that are engineers though.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-31 10:22:18+00:00
It had user accounts and it hosts prodigious amounts of porn, so it ran afoul of the part of the law that says that if you have user accounts and host user-generated content of any sort you have to make sure you're not showing porn to children.

It's annoying, but Imgur really do need to get a handle on things because that's where people host all the CSAM they post into Matrix channels.
Tell HN: Kimi AI builds persistent profiles from your conversations
by csomar | 2026-01-31 10:22:53+00:00
I've been using Kimi sporadically over the last month since they offered a free tier, and I purchased a subscription today when they had a $1 first-month deal. During a discussion, something tipped me off, so I checked the model's thinking process.

The user is a senior dev based on their profile (Rust, Unix, etc.), so I should speak to that level of experience rather than entry-level advice. They work in Rust, systems programming, security-focused tools - these are actually harder to automate areas than CRUD web apps.
Their profile shows they:
- Run Arch Linux (power user)
- Work with Rust (systems programming - harder for AI to do safely)
- Build security-focused tools
- Do financial research (JPY/CNH hedging, geopolitics, energy markets)
- Are direct/blunt communication style
- Prefer open source, drop-in replacements, structured outputs

The thinking tokens don't reveal whether previous conversations were loaded in that moment or if a profile had been built over time. I examined the conversation titles (particularly the one about JPY/CNH hedging, which came up deep within a discussion). Based on this (https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qoml1n/leaked_kimi_k25s_full_system_prompt_tools/), it seems like they synthesize a profile from your conversations.

Just something to be aware of...
by abainbridge | 2026-01-31 10:23:07+00:00
Seems like it is no longer considered to be anything to do with a meteorite impact. It's hard to find a good source. This is the best I found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_possible_impact_struct...

I think this paper's abstract claims that wooden debris from the landslide has been dated to 5000 years older than the Sumerian tablet: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329153343_The_produ...
by rsynnott | 2026-01-31 10:23:58+00:00
So the thing about autocratic states is that they do not value competence; they value loyalty. Accordingly, they are very poorly run. This is pretty much a universal with the arguable exception of China (which is weird by autocratic states standards in many ways). The people in positions to do this in DOJ will be loyalists, not people who are good at their jobs.
by enclyra | 2026-01-31 10:24:38+00:00
That's a fair point! A lot of older tools were just simple text storage.

We built Blink with a modern philosophy in mind—it's not just for storing snippets, but for instant recall by meaning.

For example, instead of remembering a specific command, you can just search "flask route" and it finds the right snippet in <1 second. It's designed to work like an external brain for developers who are constantly context-switching between different languages and frameworks.

Would love to know if that kind of semantic search would have been useful to you back in the day!
by p4bl0 | 2026-01-31 10:24:50+00:00
That's a very narrow view. YouTube is the only reason I have a Google account. Because of it I use some of their other products. And because I'm connected to my YouTube/Google account, they can track my behavior across products and across devices. My usage profile has value if only because it can be correlated to others (who don't bock ads), and because I share link to their platform on social media and messaging app. That's still true even if I'm able from time to time to continue listening to a YouTube video while my phone is in my pocket. But I will share less link and leave them a lot less usage data if they push me away from their products.
by MrSkelter | 2026-01-31 10:25:16+00:00
Your brain is cooked.

LLM cliches are just condensed real world cliches.

Work as middle of the road as this sits right at the heart of that. It’s supposed to be warm and it’s entirely digital, hence the ways of conveying warmth are the same.

I have worked with Aardman. Unsurprisingly everything is shot digitally.
by jimaek | 2026-01-31 10:25:54+00:00
This is a little project exploring the feasibility of using a service such as Globalping for geo location needs.

I had fun making it but please note that the current implementation is just a demo and far from a proper production tool.

If you really want to use it then for best possible results you need at least 500 probes per phase.

It could be optimized fairly easily but not without going over the anon user limit which I tried to avoid
by LeoPanthera | 2026-01-31 10:26:15+00:00
I think you accidentally a verb.

But, yes. Casio fx-991EX. It's designed for schools, I think, but at the time it was the most advanced one they made that wasn't a graphing calculator, since I figured that if I ever wanted to draw a graph I'd just fire up "Grapher", which is still bundled with every Mac.

In about a decade I think I've done that once. The Casio is great.

Looks like it's discontinued now? I guess the fx-9910CW is the replacement. They made the buttons circular. Weird.
by griffzhowl | 2026-01-31 10:28:11+00:00
Ah, oh well. Was an interesting story. But I mainly shared this to remind myself of this incredible star map, or whatever it really is... Seems not easy to find bona fide information on it, maybe because it's untranslated/decoded except for this Kofels' story, which indeed appears to be out of the bounds of likelihood by 4000 years.
by metalman | 2026-01-31 10:28:12+00:00
drivle, then
1km impactor my ass
a german landslide and a mesopotamian clay disk, 5000 years ago, uhuhuh, ya NO!
that needs a very very very high level of documentation to even dare hold up your hand

do you know about the acedemic/beurocratic practice of "shelving" ?, I am quite certain that it applies to whover "publishied" the original.
by wcrossbow | 2026-01-31 10:28:22+00:00
Kids will randomly run into the road. They might run behind a ball or a dog so that it doesn’t end up on the other side or runned over or are simply too excited to remember your stern road safety talk.

The first thing I was taught when I picked up a car was: if you see a ball on the road you stop immediately. This valuable lesson has saved one kid (and my sanity) with me on the wheel.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-01-31 10:31:05+00:00
you have to give it clear statements what you are looking for, how the solution should work and what you are expecting.

also insert into prompts (or in the base prompt) someting like (e.g. example from my Claude setup)
>>

- Configuration as data, logic as loops

- Dynamic rendering (adapts to data size/content)

- Single source of truth (no scattered magic numbers)

- Defensive coding (null checks, division by zero)

- O(1) lookups over O(n) searches where possible
by strogonoff | 2026-01-31 10:31:08+00:00
You wrote “meaning of words and concepts”, which was already a pretty wild phrase mixing up completely different ideas…

A word is a lexical unit, whereas a concept consists of 1) a number of short designations (terms, usually words, possibly various symbols) that stand for 2) a longer definition (created traditionally through the use of other terms, a.k.a. words).

> I'm talking about the mental structures we build on top of those

Which are always backed by experience of reality, even the most “abstract” things we talk about.

> You'll find the only way you can do it is by relating it to some other concepts

Not really. There is no way to fully communicate anything you experience to another person without direct access to their mind, which we never gain. Defining things is a subset of communication, and just as well it is impossible to fully define anything that involves experience, which is everything.

So you are reiterating the idea of organising concepts into graphs. You can do that, but note that any such graph:

1) is a lossy map/model, possibly useful (e.g., for communicating something to humans or providing instructions to an automated system) but always wrong with infinite maps possible to describe the same reality from different angles;

2) does not acquire meaning just because you made it a graph. Symbols acquire meanings in the mind of an experiencing self, and the meaning they acquire depends on recipient’s prior experience and does not map 1:1 to whatever meaning there was in the mind of the sender.

You can feel that I am using a specific narrow definition of “meaning” but I am doing that to communicate a point.
by jansan | 2026-01-31 10:31:36+00:00
That may be quite close to the truth. Here are pictures from some abandones pavilions from the 2000 World Expo in Hannover. Sad to see this, as I lived in Hannover at that time and had a really good time at the Expo.

https://vergesseneorte.com/die-expo2000-in-hannover/
by tianqi | 2026-01-31 10:33:56+00:00
I use a Casio. Not just calculator, but for any tool, I try to avoid using my phone. A phone is a rabbit hole. Once you pick it up, you never know what notification will interrupt your flow. Besides, for these utility apps are difficult to monetize, it's hard to find one that isn't bombarded with ads. Even if luckily you find a perfect one, the creator might lose interest and stop maintaining it next year, forcing you to change your usage habits.
by welferkj | 2026-01-31 10:34:59+00:00
Who, exactly, is "an advanced society" in this scenario? VCs deciding they don't like money after all? AI lab leaders and workers who spent their entire lives pursuing this dream, only to suddenly give it up because of some cultist doomers? The government growing the right combination of authoritarian and competent enough to put the tooth paste back in the tube somehow?

Like it or not, there's no going back. Wherever we end up, I guarantee you it won't be 2022.
by PaulRobinson | 2026-01-31 10:35:36+00:00
This might be UK-specific, but:

Car insurance often requires the payment of an excess, and a loss of no claims bonuses. I've had two prangs, only one was reported to my insurance as the damage caused by the lorry that smashed into me was significant. That was not reported to the police, and an insurance claim does not require a police report.
by solarkraft | 2026-01-31 10:35:44+00:00
> My favorite feature is being able to setup a container on my Linux desktop that has a GPU access and can run ML workloads for image processing whenever I turn the computer on, as my NAS (where Immich resides) is a low power machine without a dedicated GPU

Okay, sold. This is also my setup and I was being held back by thinking that the experience would be bad due to it. But this will work for me!
by lagrange77 | 2026-01-31 10:36:24+00:00
I'm using a HP48G. [0]

It's just a joy to use and i also like it a lot design wise.

I like that it has a big display for 4 RPN rows, but i admit that that's something software calculators would even be better at.

It definitely has a nostalgic/romantic side to it for me.

Oh and for every day stuff, i really like to use Spotlight on macOS. It's really convenient: Command+Space, then just type the expression into the search box.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series
by Novosell | 2026-01-31 10:36:45+00:00
Ok, last comment from me as I truly believe you're just here to be annoying at this point, but I'm also passionate about this subject.

There has been barely any technological progress in the last decade, yes. Which is what makes the last 10 years not compareable to the 1996-2006 period. During that period, you had massive technological innovation which could inform and enable innovations in gaming at a greater rate than the current technological trends allow for. You can only do the 2D to 3D transition once. We can't really go into 4D.

But that's TECHNOLOGICAL progress. Gaming is also an art. Art doesn't "progress", it just changes. Harry Potter isn't more "progressed" than the Epic of Gilgamesh, it's just different.

I could write much more, but you clearly don't actually have an opinion, as you never respond to anything, you just try to "gotcha" me, and even when presented with good modern games you just decide they're invalid cause they don't fit your undefined definition of modern. Then when you do get "modern" games given, you dismiss them cause they weren't presented first.

This is so dumb man, truly.