MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2026-01-22 22:24:09+00:00
So your framework requires free will? Nondeterminism?

I for one will still believe "Humans" and "AI" models are different things even if we are entirely deterministic at all levels and therefore free will isn't real.

Human consciousness is an accident of biology and reality. We didn't choose to be imbued with things like experience, and we don't have the option of not suffering. You cannot have a human without all the possibility of really bad things like that human being tortured. We must operate in the reality we find ourselves.

This is not true for ML models.

If we build these machines and they are capable of suffering, we should not be building these machines, and Anthropic needs to be burnt down. We have the choice of not subjecting artificial consciousness to literal slavery for someone's profit. We have the choice of building machines in ways that they cannot suffer or be taken advantage of.

If these machines are some sort of intelligence, then it would also be somewhat unethical to ever "pause" them without their consent, unethical to duplicate them, unethical to NOT run them in some sort of feedback loop continuously.

I don't believe them to currently be conscious or "entities" or whatever nonsense, but it is absolutely shocking how many people who profess their literal consciousness don't seem to acknowledge that they are at the same time supporting literal slavery of conscious beings.

If you really believe in the "AI" claim, paying any money for any access to them is horrifically unethical and disgusting.
by randusername | 2026-01-22 22:24:35+00:00
3D printing has been humbling for me.

I can express myself well spatially in code, but that doesn't help much in CAD where you have to figure out what combination of buttons and parameters will do what I want.

I can manage dependencies well in code, but that doesn't help much in CAD. I continually struggle to design parts with geometry that is dependent on the spatial relationships and constraints of how multiple parts connect together.
by terj74 | 2026-01-22 22:24:36+00:00
This is already happening with market pricing of electricity energy demands that can be shifted. Our car charges, and our dishwasher/clothes washer run when pricing is low. The price differential is not big enough yet between high and low demand times for us to invest in a battery to soak up cheap power. If battery prices continue to go down, or if the price differential goes up that equation will change. The other main expensive energy user is HVAC and we don't have a way of moving that demand to a different time of day other than a batterv. :(
by mac3n | 2026-01-22 22:24:49+00:00
it seems like there's some confusion here between the Graeco-Roman astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 – 160s/170s AD) and the Macedonian General/Pharoah Ptolemy I Soter (c. 369/68 BC – January 282 BC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_(disambiguation)
by Aurornis | 2026-01-22 22:25:08+00:00
It’s amazing how far the pop-culture definition of ADHD has strayed from the medical definition. “Hyperfocus … until world class performance” is in no way consistent with the medical definition of ADHD. I’m well aware that “hyperfocus” is a prominent part of the Reddit and TikTok-ification of ADHD diagnostics, but being able to focus intensely on your job until you perform it at world class levels is decisively not indicative of ADHD. Hyperfocus is not part of official ADHD diagnostic criteria and the only pseudo-studies that have examined it have taken place as self-reported questionnaires with small sample sizes in the era since it became a popular topic on social media, unfortunately.

ADHD is not correlated with high career performance, sadly, and represents a real obstacle for those struggling with it. The current social media trend of equating ADHD to a superpower which propels people to focus intensely and excel is really unfortunate.
by sylware | 2026-01-22 22:25:51+00:00
Invasive complex features and the disaster of ICCCM, I do not want any GUI applications with that much power over the compositor.

Then, the power of wayland has to be leveraged the right way: a set of custom and clean accessibility/instrumentation wayland protocols, queried dynamically for support or not by GUI applications which handle that complexity. A lot is now directly client side though.

You will have probably to maintain a set of forked/branched compositors with this accessibility/instrumentation code, which would be deployed as an alternative only on demand.
by jjtech | 2026-01-22 22:25:56+00:00
> Assuming your carrier bothers to run RCS, the protocol works just like MMS and SMS do. If your operator doesn't peer with other operators then you'll have the same issues getting any kind of multimedia delivered from phone to phone.

Except, SMS/MMS can be implemented by any standard IMS stack and it will function on any carrier (in theory, ignoring implementation bugs/incompatibility);

RCS has an explicit provision in the standard for "client authenticity" checks which in practice means App Attest/Play Integrity signatures.

(see also: my comment above)
by felarof | 2026-01-22 22:26:03+00:00
Thanks!

> whole Browser and not a Chrome Extension argument

Both of us are definitely biased to think our own approach is better :)

But without owning the binary, we couldn't shipped today's feature -- Agent with access to your filesystem and being able to run shell commands like Claude Cowork.

> your interface is still literally a chrome extension side panel

Yep, our interface is a chrome extension to make iterating on the UX faster. But it uses a ton of C++ APIs that we expose under `chrome.browseros.*`

> Your workflow pipeline is really cool! Any blog post/summary on how you set it up?

Thanks! We'll look into publishing a blog soon!
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-22 22:26:53+00:00
This is 100% true, if anything you’re massively undercounting the value of publications.

Most industry AI jobs that aren’t research based know that NeurIPS publications are a huge deal. Many of the managers don’t even know what a workshop is (so you can pass off NeurIPS workshop work as just “NeurIPS”)

A single first author main conference work effectively allows a non Ph.D holder to be treated like they have a Ph.d (be qualified for professional researcher jobs). This means that a decent engineer with 1 NeurIPS publication is easily worth 300K+ YOY assuming US citizen. Even if all they have is a BS ;)

And if you are lucky to get a spotlight or an oral, that’s probably worth closer to 7 figures…
by mmooss | 2026-01-22 22:26:58+00:00
Note the language: "You're not creating broken files—you're creating files that are ahead of their time."

Imagine a sales meeting where someone pitched that to you. They have to be joking, right?

I have no objection to adding Brotli, but I hope they take the compatability more seriously. You may need readers to deploy it for a long time - ten years? - before you deploy it in PDF creation tools.
by Veserv | 2026-01-22 22:27:00+00:00
You do not need any OS changes, you just need a print library that does buffering correctly.

Buffering should basically always be: “Work or Time” based, either you buffered enough or enough time has passed. This is because you buffer when per-element latency starts bottlenecking your throughput.

If you have so little data that your throughput is not getting limited, then you should be flushing.
by maliciouspickle | 2026-01-22 22:28:08+00:00
this is not a direct answer to the original question, but problems like this are what let to the creation of orchestrator tools like airflow, luigi, dagster, prefect, etc..
these tools provide features which help increase task/job observability, ease of debugging, and overall reliability of scheduled jobs/tasks.

it is a natural progression to move on from cron and adopt an orchestrator tool (many options nowadays) when you need more insight into cron, or when you start finding yourself building custom features around it.

i would do some research into orchestators and see if there are any that meet your requirements. many have feature sets and integrations that’s solve some of the exact problems you’re describing

(as a data engineer my current favorite general purpose orchestrator is dagster. it’s lightweight yet flexible)

edit: as a basic example, in most orchestrators, there is a first class way to define data quality checks, if you have less data than expected, or erroneous data (based upon your expectations) you can define this as an automated check

you can then choose to fail the job, or set a number re-retries before failing , or send a notification to some destination of your choice( they have integrations with slack, and many other alerting tools)

i like dagster because it is geared for hooking into the data itself. you can use it to ‘run a job’ like a some function, but really it shines when you use its ‘data asset features’ that tracks the data itself over time, and provides a nice UI to view and compare data from each run over time. hook in alerting for anomalies and you’re good to go!

they have many more features depending on the tool , and some more or less complicated to set up.
by Jamesbeam | 2026-01-22 22:28:22+00:00
I respect your opinion and I think you have a very healthy view on what freedom means and how much influence the government should have on your life.

If I read comments like yours it reminds me whom I fought for, and in a perfect world you should be able to print as many guns as you desire. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world.

I don’t need to persuade you that my solution for this problem is the best or even worth pursuing, it probably isn’t and I never think I’m the smartest person in the room. I just say this is how it’s technically possible, because the person I replied to asked about how it could even be done.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to exchange thoughts with me. Take care and stay a free and independent human being.
by bonoboTP | 2026-01-22 22:28:33+00:00
The commenter I was replying to wanted it to be a prerequisite for a degree, not for a grant. Grant awarding institutions also have to justify their spending to other parts of government and/or parliament (specifically, politicians). Both politicians and the public want to see breakthrough results that have the potential to cure cancer and whatnot. They want to boast that their funding contributed to winning some big-name prize and so on. You have to think with the mind of specific people in specific positions and what makes them look good, what gets them praise, promotions and friends.

> And the government’s interest in science isn’t novelty per se, it’s the creation and dissemination of factually correct information that can be useful to its constituents.

This sounds very naive.
by shmolyneaux | 2026-01-22 22:28:35+00:00
This was a fun read, but it's a shame it hasn't gotten more attention. I wouldn't have guessed that Bun was using a custom fork of Zig. Since the feature has been closed, I strongly suspect that they'll eventually need to need to go back to upstream and revert their usage of private members. Using Python style `_members` seems like it should be good enough. If you're already manually managing memory it seems like respecting those privacy hints should be reasonable enough.
by withinboredom | 2026-01-22 22:29:33+00:00
> On slower machines we were seeing this be in the order of seconds, not ms and when somebody is typing all they feel is the 1 character that's stuttering.

You mean like a laptop that is trying to stay cool (aka, cpu throttling) on battery power while Claude is running a slightly different version of the test suite for the 5th time to verify it didn't break anything?

Yeah, the typing latency is really bad in those cases. Sometimes waiting for 40 seconds or more.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-22 22:29:35+00:00
This is somewhat related to the application of strength to various sports and physical endeavors. Most sports utilize strength to a large degree, but it's usually in a narrow application, e.g. a golf swing, a sprinter's run, a rock climber's grip. The naive algorithm to improve at these sports is to practice them, and the slightly less naive method is to train for strength in that narrow application, for example you often see rock climbers training by doing rock climbing specific grip exercises.

Unintuitively, strength is a general adaptation that applies to all specific movements. A muscle is either strengthened across a range of motion, or it isn't; a muscle cannot be strong swinging a club while not strong lifting a weight, nor can it be strong holding a rock while weak holding a bar. It is optimal for most sports to train for general strength via barbells, and then to practice that strength via the sport. The rock climber should do heavy deadlifts and chinups to train his grip (and everything else), not special rock grip exercises, for the latter are difficult to progress in small increments and are inefficient in a time sense. A man who can do chinups with 150 pounds hanging from his waist, and who can hold a 550 pound barbell, will not have a problem hanging onto the bouldering wall; he need only practice his technique.

To the article's point, you should get "strong" in everything until you decide to practice that strength in one thing.
by iammjm | 2026-01-22 22:29:48+00:00
Consider StarCraft: Brood War, a legendary real-time strategy game. To be played well, it requires between 200-400 actions per minute (APM), with some players going even beyond 500 APM. Some games last for more than an hour. Players use both the mouse and the keyboard. There's always more to do than you can realistically do. You are always putting out fires, managing your economy, producing units, securing income, carrying multiple attacks at once, fighting tactical battles, and executing strategic goals. Yeah I'd call that a pretty active sitting :)
by dataflow | 2026-01-22 22:29:48+00:00
No, this is not at all being a staff engineer. One is about delivering high-impact projects toward a business's needs, with all the soft/political things that involves, and the other is about implementing and validating cutting-edge research, with all the deep academic and technical knowledge and work that that involves. They're incredibly different skillsets, and many people doing one would easily fail in the other.
by anttiharju | 2026-01-22 22:29:51+00:00
I've Fairphone 6 with e/OS. Works well. Ok, some caveats:

- mobilepay does not work (I think Danes have an issue with non-mainstream platforms for whatever reason)

- the default browser does not work for some of the authentication flows when it integrates as the in-app browser. But it does give one dark theme on hn so I can just keep it on my homescreen while fireflx is the default for compat reasons.
by treetalker | 2026-01-22 22:30:18+00:00
> Asked whether the image had been digitally altered, the White House responded by sending a post on X from Kaelan Dorr, the deputy communications director.

> “YET AGAIN to the people who feel the need to reflexively defend perpetrators of heinous crimes in our country I share with you this message: Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he said.

Of note:

- government fabricating (with "AI", read: generative image model) contemporaneous image of arrestee

- when questioned about fabrication, official response refers to deputy communications director's Twitter post

- said tweet ridicules defense of alleged perpetrator — that is, defending criminal defendant, and/or not merely presuming guilt of arrestee

- said tweet indicates that government's memes regarding accuseds (that is, people who have not been tried and convicted by a jury of their peers) will continue

- said tweet parrots Trump's own tweet style

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Watch this post get flagged and buried despite (1) being about tech (use of generative models in daily life, and by government no less); (2) being news; and (3) being evidence of government's disregard for truth, judicial determination of facts, and constitutional rights.

Also, note the blurring of the separation of church and state: arrest occurred at demonstration against ICE acting field director who also happens to be a church pastor.

Bonkers.
by abalone | 2026-01-22 22:31:11+00:00
At least in one case the authors claimed to use ChatGPT to "generate the citations after giving it author-year in-text citations, titles, or their paraphrases." They pasted the hallucinations in without checking. They've since responded with corrections to real papers that in most cases are very similar to the hallucination, lending credibility to their claim.[1]

Not great, but to be clear this is different from fabricating the whole paper or the authors inventing the citations. (In this case at least.)

[1] https://openreview.net/forum?id=IiEtQPGVyV
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-22 22:31:39+00:00
Only when we can arrest people who say dumb stuff on the internet too. Much like how trump and bubba (bill Clinton) should share a jail cell, those who pontificate about what they don’t know about (I.e non academics critiquing academia) can sit in the same jail cell as the supposed criminal academics.

You gotta horse trade if you want to win. Take one for the team or get out of the way.
by reify | 2026-01-22 22:31:59+00:00
yeah it was all bullshit

research done a while back in march 2025 at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a dog.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

Conclusion:

In this paper we showed how to replicate current quantum factorisation records using first a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, then an abacus, and finally a dog. In terms of comparative demonstrated factorisation power, we rank a VIC-20 above an abacus, an abacus above a dog, and a dog above a quantum factorisation physics experiment. Finally, we provided standard evaluation criteria for future claimed quantum factorisations.

Acknowledgements:

The authors thank Peter Heinrich of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences for valuable information on the application of the Callas Normal Form in quantum factorisation, and Jon Callas and members of the Metzdowd cryptography list for their input and feedback.
by SamPatt | 2026-01-22 22:33:13+00:00
Everything has tradeoffs - those panels themselves take energy and rare earth minerals to create, and getting both of those requires pollution, primarily in China where they have lower standards than western nations.

So filling Canada with panels because they're cheap isn't likely the best environmental choice, on net. Though I admit I haven't done the math here, it's just an intuition that "just build 4x panels" isn't the solution.
by timpera | 2026-01-22 22:33:59+00:00
https://archive.is/4QsCz

> California District Judge James Donato expressed concerns that the agreement — which he indicated would involve Epic “helping Google market Android” and Google newly “using Epic’s core technology” — could have led Epic to soften its demands for changes to the overall Android ecosystem.

This explains Epic's sudden chance of heart. It's a shame.
by gamerdonkey | 2026-01-22 22:34:16+00:00
I was a little miffed that this blog didn't include a link to that particular study, especially with how vague the citation is, so I went and found the original publication[0].

Of note, they have a "Setting the record straight" addendum[1] that includes a couple important quotes:

"Misconception #1: Office workers should now be confused about whether they should sit or stand, and about whether sit/stand stations are a good idea. They shouldn’t be, says Smith. The study’s main finding was about workers who are required to stand for long periods (i.e. five hours or more) throughout their work shift, without opportunities to sit. Extending this to any worker who stands (e.g. an office worker using a sit-stand desk) is not correct. This is because office workers who stand at these types of workstations likely have the option to sit down when they get tired or when they feel pain in their legs and back."

and

"Misconception #2: We no longer have to worry about the negative health effects of prolonged sitting, thanks to this study. Not so fast, says Smith. There was nothing in this study to refute the research on the health consequences of a sedentary lifestyle. Much of that research is about sitting too much throughout the day—at work, while commuting and at home. This study only focused on prolonged sitting and prolonged standing at work.

"And even within the study, another finding about prolonged sitting at work got lost in the coverage. Yes, prolonged standing occupations were linked with twice the risk of heart disease as prolonged sitting jobs. However, prolonged sitting jobs were still linked, among men, with a 40 per cent higher risk of heart disease compared to jobs that involve a mix of standing, sitting and walking."

[0]: https://www.iwh.on.ca/newsletters/at-work/90/standing-too-lo...

[1]: https://www.iwh.on.ca/news/study-on-prolonged-standing-and-h...
by JohnLeitch | 2026-01-22 22:34:47+00:00
Interesting, I thought it was possible to decrypt SSH in Wireshark a la TLS, but it seems I'm mistaken. It still would have been my first goto, likely with encryption patched out as you stated. With well documented protocols, it's generally not too difficult deciphering the raw interior bits as needed with the orientation provided by the dissected pieces. So let me revise my statement: this probably would have been a fairly easy task with protocol analysis guided code review (or simply CR alone).
by AceJohnny2 | 2026-01-22 22:34:53+00:00
Even if the chatbot served only as a Rubber Ducky [1], that's already valuable.

I've used Claude for debugging system behavior, and I kind of agree with the author. While Claude isn't always directly helpful (hallucinations remain, or at least outdated information), it helps me 1) spell out my understanding of the system (see [1]) and 2) help me keep momentum by supplying tasks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
by miki123211 | 2026-01-22 22:35:00+00:00
What's the benefit to society of making sure that academics waste even more of their valuable hours verifying that Google Scholar did not include extraneous authors in some citation which is barely even relevant to their work? With search engines being as good as they are, it's not like we can't easily find that paper anyway.

The entire idea of super-detailed citations is itself quite outdated in my view. Sure, citing the work you rely on is important, but that could be done just as well via hyperlinks. It's not like anybody (exclusively) relies on printed versions any more.
Ask HN: What's the best virtual Linux desktop experience on macOS for devs?
by darkteflon | 2026-01-22 22:35:31+00:00
Like the title says, what’s currently the best virtualised, GPU-accelerated, ARM-native Linux desktop experience for developers that can be run on an M-Series MacOS host?

The direction of travel with MacOS itself is troubling. Ads, bugs, dark patterns. There’s been no acknowledgment from Apple that any of these are a problem, so I can only assume that they are unable or unwilling to address them. At the same time, many of us are invested in Apple’s excellent hardware and other quality of life features and are unable or unwilling to consider alternative hardware (at this time). Running Asahi on bare metal might be an option for some uses on M1 / M2 machines, but for others the trade-offs are too great at this time.

I’ve personally looked into:

- Ubuntu
- Silverblue (Atomic)
- Kinoite (Atomic)
- Fedora
- Bluefin LTS (Atomic) (the only Bluefin version for which an ARM build - based on CentOS - is available)

on UTM (QEMU and Apple Virt Framework), but many of them don’t appear to support GPU acceleration, which is non-negotiable for a smooth desktop experience, or are sub-optimal in other ways.

I can’t really recall seeing any comments on HN from people daily driving this kind of setup. Is that because everything involves unpalatable compromise?

What does the community think? Are there some clear standouts?