MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2026-01-13 22:28:21+00:00
It's quite reasonable to assign blame to the "AI" here, because you'll get the same classes of problems if you drop an LLM into a bunch of other, narrower contexts.

At some point, you gotta blame the common factor, ex:

1. "I integrated an LLM into the web browser, and somehow it doxxed me by posting my personal information along with all my account names... But the real problem is the design of web browsers that let it happen."

2. "I integrated an LLM into my e-mail client, and somehow it deleted everything I'd starred for later and every message from my mother is being falsely summarized as an announcement that my father died last night in his sleep... But the real problem is the design of e-mail clients that let it happen."

3. "I integrated an LLM inside a word-processor, and somehow it sneaks horribly racist text randomly into any file that is saved with `_final.docx'... But the real problem is the design of word processors that let it happen."

Yeah, you can improve the design of the OS / browser / e-mail / word-processor to make it more secure... by never letting an LLM anywhere near the controls!
by bartread | 2026-01-13 22:28:31+00:00
> 1. People simply don't respect programming as a creative, human endeavour. Replacing devs with AI is viewed in the same way as replacing assembly line workers with robots.

Very reminiscent of the "software factory" bullshit peddled by grifters 15 or 20 years ago.

And I think, frankly, a lot of agile practice as I've seen it in industry doesn't respect software development as a creative endeavour either.

But fundamentally I, like a lot of programmers/developers/engineers, got into software because I wanted to make things, and I suspect the way I use AI to help with software development reflects that (tight leash, creative decision-making sits with me, not the machine, etc.).
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-13 22:28:42+00:00
i agree. but. there's something in the behaviour of these unicorns that should be examined.

the idea that an engineer can be a ninja, 10x or unicorn independent of the processes of their environment and working group is laughable. i have known several people who were identified as "highly productive" and they all had some individual traits like a) they were very good with individual time management, b) were not afraid to say when they didn't understand something and c) were all pretty smart. (and d, knew how to give good code review comments without pissing people off.)

but... they also needed an environment where they could push back and say things like "i do not feel participating in today's 1-on-1 meeting (or meeting with product management) is a good use of my time", where task design gave them chunks of work that were appropriate and they were given the freedom to identify (and avoid) "wicked" problems.

which is to say... i don't think the story of the ninja/unicorn is complete fantasy, but management has to understand how it's real and craft an environment where an engineer's inner-unicorn can emerge.
by tyre | 2026-01-13 22:28:42+00:00
I think by the time you are hiring people at 27 years old or whatever, there is a noticeable gap in motivation. A quarter century of lived experience (which is "inherent" to the person you're hiring) is a lot, especially at the beginning of one's life.

There are all sorts of things like depression, cynicism, past experiences, etc. that can lead to someone have a lower baseline of motivation. It's also highly contextual, which I think is what you're saying and I 100% agree with. Some people thrive in role A and would want to bang their head against a wall for 40 hours in role B. Others vice versa, others would be meh in either, etc.
by kjuulh | 2026-01-13 22:28:45+00:00
You can see my reply below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609044 I believe our setups are pretty equivalent.

I achieve load balancing by running native wireguard on a vps at hetzner, I've got a native wireguard mesh, I believe Talos can do the same, where the peers are manually set up, or via. tailscale etc. I then tell k3s that it should use the wireguard interface for vxlan, and boom my kubernetes mesh is now connected.

flannel-iface: "wg0" # Talos might have something similar.

I do use some node-labels and affinities to make sure the right pods end up in the right spot. For example the metallb annoucer always has to come from the hetzner node. As mentioned in my reply below, it takes about 20ms roundtrip back to my homelab, so my sites can take a bit of time to load, but it works pretty well otherwise, sort of similar to how cloudflare tunnels would work, except not as polished.

My setup is here if it is of help

https://git.kjuulh.io/kjuulh/clank-homelab-flux/src/branch/m...
by eieio | 2026-01-13 22:29:01+00:00
(I'm the author)

I think there's an annoying thing where by saying "hey, here's this neat problem, what's the answer" I've made you much more likely to actually get the answer!

What I really wanted to do was transfer the experience of writing a simulation for a related problem, observing this result, assuming I had a bug in my code, and then being delighted when I did the math. But unfortunately I don't know how to transfer that experience over the internet :(

(to be clear, I'm totally happy you wrote out the probabilities and got it right! Just expressing something I was thinking about back when I wrote this blog)
by cthalupa | 2026-01-13 22:29:10+00:00
Image generation is nothing like AI code generation in this regard. Copying artist style is one of the things that is explicitly quite easy to do for open-weight models. Go to civitai and there are a million LORAs trained specifically on recreating artist style. Earlier on in the Stable Diffusion days it even got fairly meanspirited - someone would make a lora for an artist (or there would be enough in the training data for the base model to not need it) and an artist would complain about people using it to copy their style, and then there would be an influx of people making more and better LORAs for that artist. Sam Yang put out what was initially a relatively tame tweet complaining about it, and people instantly started trying to train them just to replicate his style even more closely.
by arti88 | 2026-01-13 22:29:20+00:00
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by mindslight | 2026-01-13 22:29:25+00:00
You keep conflating the strict legal question with the moral situation.

I don't think there are too many people thinking that Ross has any worry about being held criminally or civilly liable, even if state isn't dissuaded from their prosecution, and even if the federal court where this inevitably gets bumped to actually deliberates impartially. There is a long history of police officers needlessly executing people and walking away. That's basically the problem, right?

But if we're talking about the moral situation, what ought to be in a country based on individual liberty and limited government? Then no, law enforcement officers should not be able to use "obstruction" as a pretext to demand an arrest in response to Constitutionally-protected protest, at which point they then needlessly escalate the arrest into an armed standoff, and then when the person still doesn't comply, they kill the person due to the "danger" of the situation they themselves created.

At a certain point you have to look at the realities of law enforcement agency not having a mandate or respect from the people it is working amongst. We saw how exactly corrosive this is to the rule of law with the "drug war".

Can we at least agree that it would have been easy to write down Good's vehicle's license plate, other identifying information, timestamps from bodycams, etc, deescalate the situation by ICE simply leaving, and then follow up later either with a federal arrest (FBI) or local PD?
by anematode | 2026-01-13 22:29:29+00:00
Hi, I work on Stockfish! Likely what's going on is that your Lichess instance is running in MultiPV mode, which displays the top N moves (5 by default, iirc). This can be useful for analysis, but it leads to more time exploring disfavored lines, and therefore lower depth. The desktop version defaults to MultiPV = 1.
by mmooss | 2026-01-13 22:29:49+00:00
Always a fair request. I don't know it well enough or have time at the moment, but afaik it's the medical consensus:

Obesity is a disease, (mostly) not a result of behavior. Eating less and/or more activity doesn't cure people; iirc bodies adjust to retain the same amount of fat, etc. under the new conditions.
by joe_mamba | 2026-01-13 22:29:50+00:00
Stockholm is not representative of entire Europe same how SF isn't representative of entire NA. There's too many variables and shades of gray to give a simple answer, with closest to a correct answer being "it depends" based on where you live, how good you are and how in demand your skill set is to the demand of your local market, but the market is pretty much fucked in many high-CoL locations worldwide due to offshoring to cheaper locations and many businesses in Europe seeing orders fall.
by nimih | 2026-01-13 22:29:54+00:00
That's a pretty lazy analysis. As an easy counterpoint, no one pays to look at Facebook or Instagram posts, but both Meta and (at least some) individual influencers are able to run profitable businesses based on that media consumption (and you could say the same of some bloggers in the late 00s/early 10s, for that matter). More speculatively, I think there is also an argument to be made that even gratis media consumption gives cultural weight to a work which is then available for monetization, especially in this age of tentpole franchises and granularly tracked personal behavior.
by LexiMax | 2026-01-13 22:29:55+00:00
> My chief complaint is not only that it's spitting into a headwind during a rainstorm, but also just the performative nature of it.

Would you have a different opinion if the "boycott" was less performative and actually worked?

A good example would be Kanye West - someone who is set for life based on his past success, but whose behavior was so universally reviled that it cost him money, endorsement deals, and even his position in pop culture.

I stopped bothering with him when he started singing the praises of Hitler - am I absolved of your judgement because of his current irrelevance?
by tucnak | 2026-01-13 22:30:20+00:00
I'm not trying to be facetious here, but I think it's very naive to assume you get to "profit from predicting an AI bubble." In theory, maybe, but in reality you will lose money. Shorting is never the solution... it's a very niche tool for very niche group of investors.

When retail guys talk shorting, it's very hard to take them seriously.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-13 22:30:45+00:00
If you’re using the circuit-switched mobile phone calls it’s unlikely you will be able to negotiate that; GSM compression is optimised for voice and not data.

If you have a phone or cellular dongle with a serial interface you might be able to initiate a “data” call which gives you a modem-like link at speeds much higher than running an actual modem on the audio path. Note that this kind of non-standard usage will stand out like a sore thumb so might not be advisable.
by hypfer | 2026-01-13 22:30:54+00:00
I understand that you have given up and trust me, I can see why one would do that.

That is fine. You can do that.

What is not fine however is discrediting the people that haven't given up as paranoid militant lunatics.

You can be nihilistic, disillusioned, <other adjectives> all you want, but it is not okay to pull other people down and attack them just because they still believe in something you do not appear to be doing (anymore?)

Apathy is okay. Sabotage is not
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-01-13 22:31:05+00:00
Agree about JIRA. It trends towards TPS Reports and form filling, substituting a workflow in the issue tracker for actual human processes and communication.

We just rolled out Linear, and I'm gauging how I feel about it. GitHub / GitLab issues I don't find useful. Linear seems like a middle ground. And it's nice and fast. It also doesn't seem to let PMs go apeshit with custom fields and workflows, so that's good.

I always crave for something closer to Buganizer we had internally at Google, which was just nice and minimal and not invasive. At least in its V1 form.
by kace91 | 2026-01-13 22:31:07+00:00
>Because we could read/listen to/watch stuff without paying the people who created it?

I can tell you I wouldn’t be anywhere close to where I am without this, yes.

First because I (/my parents) didn’t have the money, second because of pure geographical access.

I saw movies and shows from countries that would never sell near me, read books that would never be in my country’s libraries, took courses straight from scientists and engineers rather than a thrice translated work…

The barrier of entry was also useful, curiosity is much better fed when you can download a medicine textbook just to check rather than venturing into the library of a university you’re not part of.

That is the one thing the internet did right, spreading culture. It was over when they took boredom from us, that was the big evil.
by mbesto | 2026-01-13 22:31:20+00:00
> Inrush is exactly what it says it is, it's inrush current

These are not terms commonly used in the industry, thanks for the clarification.

> Lots of appliances in your home have a large inrush, much larger than the breaker they're on.

And inverters are designed to compensate for short term surges too fyi. The 18k provides 65A for a few seconds as an example.

> well, hell, how the hell you gonna charge ~40kwh of battery with solar array that nominally produces 20kwh a day on its best day, assuming all conditions are perfect?

Because you can't and don't need to...you should be asking the author of the original post, because they do what pretty much every other grid tied system which is that you pass through the power from the grid.

> Backfeed is what the inverter can push out from the battery to the home.

https://www.wartsila.com/encyclopedia/term/backfeeding huh?

> It's the size of the tube coming from the gallons of water reservoir. EG4 18k has a tiny tube, no matter how much battery you put on it.

1. The 18k can push 50A on each leg and most residential are sized at 150a or 200A, which are ridiculously oversized, so at most, even with two EVs and a 4 ton AC running in Texas, I max out at 150A. I can put 3 18k's in parallel if I really want to and its STILL cheaper than a powerwall battery/inverter combo.

2. There is no reason to have a "pipe" so large that it only is used for less than 5% of the overall runtime. This is why the powerwall setup doesnt make any sense.
by phil21 | 2026-01-13 22:31:23+00:00
Ah, I was talking about Blockclub Chicago.

I am on the fence with Meta. I recognize that I am missing out - and I rely on my wife far too much to keep me in the loop on things, but she has her own interests so I miss 90% of the stuff I would likely care about to be engaged with. Or I find out too late.

After 20 years of avoiding a Facebook account though, it's a large ask. I'd also love to use Marketplace to give away a bunch of stuff that is fairly esoteric (too unique for the scrappers to know what to do with) but not worth my time to sell on eBay.

Either way it's something I need to get around to doing. I went to my first neighborhood association meeting the other month to start to get my face known, and it was Community (the TV show) levels of insanity. The amount of anti-development people I never knew existed are crazy. Stuff like do not build a 5 story apartment building 2 blocks from an El stop (currently a strip mall) because it might ruin the view of the downtown skyline from a bike path bridge.
by ferguess_k | 2026-01-13 22:31:44+00:00
For me the late 80s - early 2000s was the peak. But I guess every generation has their own peak and I totally respect that.

That said, the later generations probably are going to have a more shitty life, because of economic downturn since 2008. I can't even imagine what kind of life my son (5Y) is going to live through whence the cyberpunk world falls.
by OhMeadhbh | 2026-01-13 22:31:56+00:00
we used to say "employees don't quit jobs, they quit managers." i was very happy at Amazon until they moved me under a sub-optimal manager. i quit less than a month later. that manager got promoted. this will tell you everything you need to know about working at Amazon.

maybe they were trying to get me to quit. maybe that area's director was incompetent. maybe both.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-01-13 22:32:22+00:00
For site-so-site ovelay networks, use wireguard, vxlan should be inside of it, if at all. Your "network" is connected by wireguard, and it contains details like vxlan. Even within your network, when crossing security boundaries across untrusted channels, you can use wireguard.

Others mentioned tailscale, it's cool and all but you don't always need it.

As far as security, that's not even the consideration I had in mind, sure wireguard is secure, but that's not why you should have vxlan inside it, you should do so because that's the purpose of wireguard, to connect networks securely across security/trust boundaries. it doesn't even matter if the other protocol is also wireguard, or ssh or whatever, if it is an option, wireguard is always the outermost protocol, if not then ipsec, openvpn,softether,etc..whatever is your choice of secure overlay network protocol gets to be the tunnel protocol.
by a4isms | 2026-01-13 22:32:25+00:00
> everyone was so okay with pirating movies, apps, music when it benefited them, but now they are the vanguard in enforcing other people's copyright on data they don’t even own.

You do not mention the perception of asymmetric legal and market power. Many people think that file sharing Disney movies is ok, but Google scraping the art of independent artists to create AI is not ok. That is not the same dynamic at all as not caring about copyright, and then suddenly caring about copyright.
by toyg | 2026-01-13 22:33:00+00:00
> They litterally removed their offline phone mode.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/ifseb3L17G

> buy a notebook. Install the os. Nice airgapped system to test with.

Whereas Microsoft provides testing images, so you don't need to kill the planet just to test if a link really looks blue.

Why are you trying so hard to apologise for one of the worst corporations in the world? They are all bad and they all want the same things from you (money and personal data); they just go about it in slightly different ways.
by lm28469 | 2026-01-13 22:33:17+00:00
It all comes down to building techniques, insulation, airtightness, eliminating thermal bridges, &c. There are also many low tech solutions for heating/cooling, such as air/air heat exchanger couples with ground/water or ground/air heat exchanger at a fraction of the price and a fraction of the maintenance.

Of course the average american living in a mcmansion which wouldn't pass regulations in 1992 Poland cannot use such solutions, but really it isn't a problem of climate, you'll find passive houses from africa to norway and everywhere in between, most of them without heat pumps
by belval | 2026-01-13 22:33:22+00:00
I get where the author is coming from, but (I promise from an intellectually honest place) does it really matter?

Modeling software in general greatly reduced the ability of engineers to compute 3rd, 4th and 5th order derivatives by hand when working on projects and also broke their ability to create technical drawing by hand. Both of those were arguably proof of a master engineer in their field, yet today this would be mostly irrelevant when hiring.

Are they lesser engineers for it? Or was it never really about derivatives and drawings, and all about building bridges, engines, software that works?
by tasuki | 2026-01-13 22:33:29+00:00
I'm very glad to hear all that! My goal was to make it easy to use, so the following part of your blog post (2019!) absolutely made my day:

> The software too pleasantly just worked, with no setup or install required: just clone the sample app, change the filenames and <base href="..."> in index.html as it mentions. It’s a joy when that happens.

Suffice to say, many people haven't had as much success as you: they fumbled around for 10-20 commits and ended up with something broken. I think requiring people to edit json is just too much :)
by DroneBetter | 2026-01-13 22:33:55+00:00
other people have a load of USB-C charging cables and are frustrated with having to buy Lightning ones and clutter their bags with more wires than necessary.

although Lightning was better-designed for being routinely used (pins on the outside of the wire end rather than inside the device, easy to clean and no protruding pieces in the device to damage/snap off), and the ideal scenario would have been making it an open standard
by TeMPOraL | 2026-01-13 22:34:35+00:00
> The problem is, so much of what people want from these things involves having all three.

Pretty much. Also there's no way of "securing" LLMs without destroying the quality that makes them interesting and useful in the first place.

I'm putting "securing" in scare quotes because IMO it's fool's errand to even try - LLMs are fundamentally not securable like regular, narrow-purpose software, and should not be treated as such.
by yakkomajuri | 2026-01-13 22:34:42+00:00
Hey, I'm sorry you had to go through everything you've described here.

I've never had to go through anything remotely similar.

I'd just want to point out what you've experienced is not love. There may have been some form of love from those people towards you, but the things you've described are not manifestations of that love, they're manifestations of something else.

I hope you can believe me. Sorry if I'm intruding.

My email is on my bio if you ever want to chat in a non-public setting.
by Aloisius | 2026-01-13 22:34:45+00:00
> Starlink terminals also require a clear view of the sky and they broadcast on certain frequencies

That's not quite true. You can conceal the terminal using a number of materials that won't significantly interfere with the signal like a thin piece of cloth or a thin plastic bag (like a garbage bag) as long as the cover doesn't get too wet.

https://edunham.net/2022/03/11/starlink_dressup.html
by rly0nheart | 2026-01-13 22:35:08+00:00
Hello, I'm the author of that article. I will reply to everyone properly. For now, I want to raise some awareness of someone impersonating me online using my handle:

https://xcancel.com/rly0nheart

https://about.me/rly0nheart

These aren't me. I'm no longer on X or about.me.
by raphman | 2026-01-13 22:35:23+00:00
My impression is that BandCamp is not inherently against using new technology to generate new sounds. This decision seems to be not about "what is art" but about "what is good for BandCamp right now".

As a small platform like BandCamp you do not want to be flooded by cheaply generated AI copies of existing songs / genres - this would alienate both artists and customers and could endanger the whole platform. You also don't want to expose yourself to internal complaints and external copyright claims because someone uploaded hundreds of "Popular work X in the style of popular band Y" songs.

The AI slop avalanche will pass by and probably leave behind some cool stuff. In the meantime, it seems like a sensible option for BandCamp to step aside and evaluate their position in a year or two.