MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2026-01-23 15:05:45+00:00
> That said, I think "Trump's voters are all assholes" is a talking point NOT of liberal voters, but of the Democratic party, because it conveniently avoids any discussion of policy, particularly where the party and its typical voters may differ.

I agree with what you said, that's definitely a talking point meant to maintain a feeling of righteousness while avoiding self-reflection.

I disagree with distinction between the "Democratic party" and "liberal voters," if anything, I'd say it's the opposite. By and large, I'd expect the professionals of the party to not be so stupid to use "Trump's voters are all assholes" as a talking point (even if they think it). IMHO, it's a talking point of extremely polarized liberal voters, who are letting their emotions get the better of them, and themselves thinking and acting in a more Trump-like manner.

Both the party and its voters seem extremely reluctant to think about their role in this, and seem to prefer to continue to make the same mistakes, hoping luck or other-side incompetence brings them a better result next time. It's so stupid.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-23 15:06:23+00:00
>LLMs do not have that at all so the analogy fails.

I somewhat disagree with this. AI doesn't have to worry about any kind of physical danger to itself, so it's not going to have any evolutionary function around that. If the linked Reddit thread is to be believed AI does have awareness of information hazards and attempts to rationalize around them.

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1qjx26b/gemini...

>Horses can survive on their own.

Eh, this is getting pretty close to a type of binary thinking that breaks down under scrutiny. If, for example, we take any kind of selectively bred animal that requires human care for it's continued survival, does this somehow make said animal "improved automation"?
by londons_explore | 2026-01-23 15:06:29+00:00
For context for international readers, the UK has a lot of speed cameras and other automated ways to give out fines.

These get sent by snailmail to the 'owner'[simplification] of the vehicle using a government database. The owner must then, within a deadline, say who was driving the vehicle at that date and time.

If the owner fails to say who was driving, they have committed a criminal offence, and will be fined.

It looks like Tesla has in a bunch of cases not declared the driver on time. I'm willing to bet that's due to them just being slack with records in some cases - for example loaner cars, offences which occurred on the same day as a sale from person A to person B, etc.

18 offences across the whole fleet of >100k cars isn't much really, when you consider ~30% of motorists receive a fine in any given year.
by myrmidon | 2026-01-23 15:06:37+00:00
Having the government manipulate mass-media material is frankly insane.

Everyone involved in something like this should be sacked immediately, but I have very little hope that voters are going to punish egregious misbehavior like this as long as it's "their" side doing it.

If you had told republican voters in 2016 that within the decade, there were going to be widespread searches/arrests by federal agents without warrant or trial, unapologetic image falsification by the White House and even killings of unarmed civilian protesters: They would have gone absolutely ballistic- rightfully so.
by spicyusername | 2026-01-23 15:06:38+00:00
No disagreement.

I fear you're interpreting what I'm saying the wrong way.

Imagine you have two children. As with any loving parent, doing what you can to support your children is paramount.

One of your children has substance abuse issues and has been struggling to keep a job and the other is running a few successful bookstores in a vacation town and recently got married.

Of course you don't have favorites. And of course you will do what you need to do to make each child successful.

But one of those children you're going to spend a lot more time thinking and worrying about than the other. But that does not mean you're not taking your job supporting either of them seriously.

I'm saying I'm getting real tired of thinking about which rehab center is best and googling the effects of barbiturates, if you know what I mean.
by lorenzleutgeb | 2026-01-23 15:07:15+00:00
Yes. Radicle also makes it easy to run behind Tor, see https://radicle.xyz/guides/user#4-embracing-the-onion and there are people that use it via Yggdrasil, see https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/services.html#radicle-no...
by aeve890 | 2026-01-23 15:07:32+00:00
If you Google "modern c++" you will probably find ~c++11 tutorials and posts and less and less content on the latest c++ standards where some things considered "modern" a few years ago are already deprecated or not considered "best practices" anymore.

I'd check this[0] excellent mega rant about c++ and take the best parts to create a truly "contemporary c++" cheatsheet.

[0] https://youtu.be/7fGB-hjc2Gc?si=4bk2nKx2AXPYLJH7
by gnosis67 | 2026-01-23 15:07:43+00:00
United States of America baby. CIA has rented staycation hotels from these guys, all ex spooks and military junkies mind you. Now they love Jesus and are government contractors.

Let’s just say they are so off books sometimes agents check in and never check out.

What happened to that redhead woman who gave that CIA insider chat on YouTube about how other cultures see us as the technologically superior invader way back when?

My sources say she was incinerated for learning the paths of true Power.
by dspillett | 2026-01-23 15:07:46+00:00
> Hold up, does this mean outlook sends your full credentials to Microsoft when you try to set up an outlook account?

Not just an “outlook account” - any account in outlook, with default settings at least.

I run a mail server, mainly for me but a couple of friends have accounts on there too, and a while ago one friend reported apparently being locked out and it turned out that it was due to them switching Outlook versions and it was connecting via a completely different address to those that my whitelists expected sometimes at times when they weren't even actively using Outlook. Not only were active connections due to their interactive activity being proxied, but the IMAP credentials were stored so the MS server could login to check things whenever it wanted (I assume the intended value-add there is being able to send new mail notifications on phones/desktops even when not actively using mail?).

> but this feels like it breaks all sorts of security/privacy expectations.

It most certainly does. The behaviour can be tamed somewhat, but (unless there have been recent changes) is fully enabled by default in newer Outlook variants.

The above-mentioned friend migrated his mail to some other service in a huf as I refused to open my whitelist to “any old host run by MS” and he didn't want to dig in to how to return behaviour back to the previous “local connections only, not sending credentials off elsewhere where they might be stored”.
by curtisblaine | 2026-01-23 15:07:55+00:00
I'm a guesses. What is the correct negative response to the asker in the article?
1. "No", without further elaboration
2. "No", followed by a graceful excuse
3. "No, I don't want you in my house because I can't be bothered to share my space with you"
I always found that 3 is too aggressive, and 1 and 2 trigger the asker working around the issue (asking why not, or trying to "solve" the graceful excuse). Being aggressive is ok, but sometimes it's bad (for example, if the balance of power is skewed in the relationship)
by dugidugout | 2026-01-23 15:08:21+00:00
> But I'm out of the loop: in order to maintain popularity, are computers banned?

Firsrly, yes, you will be banned for playing at an AI level consecutively on most platforms. Secondly, its not very relevant to the concept of gaming. Sure it can make it logistically hard to facilitate, but this has plagued gaming through cheats/hacks since antiquity, and AI can actually help here too. Its simply a cat and mouse game and gamers covet the competitive spirit too much to give in.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-01-23 15:08:30+00:00
> But I don’t trust anything they produce, because there are no guarantees

> Did you test it systematically?

Yes! That is exactly the right way to use them. For example, when I'm vibe coding I don't ask it to write code. I ask it to write unit tests. THEN I verify that the test is actually testing for the right things with my own eyeballs. THEN I ask it to write code that passes the unit tests.

Same with even text formatting. Sometimes I ask it to write a pydantic script to validate text inputs of "x" format. Often writing the text to specify the format is itself a major undertaking. Then once the script is working I ask for the text, and tell it to use the script to validate it. After that I can know that I can expect deterministic results, though it often takes a few tries for it to pass the validator.

You CAN get deterministic results, you just have to adapt your expectations to match what the tool is capable of instead of expecting your hammer to magically be a great screwdriver.

I do agree that the SOLVE EVERYTHING crowd are severely misguided, but so are the SOLVE NOTHING crowd. It's a tool, just use it properly and all will be well.
by morgul | 2026-01-23 15:08:33+00:00
I did large-scale molecular data engineering with DuckDB and Polars (https://github.com/scikit-fingerprints/MolPILE_dataset, https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18353 for those interested). Both were amazing, but for large-scale JOINs, only DuckDB didn't result in OOM. Really a pleasure to use too.

I could also JOIN local CSV datasets, Postgres database, and even Excel files from chemists. All of this in Jupyter Notebook and really seamless Python integration. This also means that one can easily do heavy lifting in DuckDB, export to Polars variable, put into Plotly, and get an interactive plot. Neat stuff.
by fragmede | 2026-01-23 15:08:38+00:00
Clang manages to have way more useful error messages despite not solving three halting problem. You don't need to solve the halting problem to have caught this problem. Even if you don't solve it for the general case of the halting problem, solving it here for a levels deep and then collapsing the levels would have stopped this problem in its tracks. Sure, someone could just come in and cause the bug at N+1 levels deep because you've only solved it at N, but you can write different tests to mitigate that problem in practice, despite not having infinity RAM *2+1 to solve the general case of the halting problem.

Hilariously, the halting problem has been written in enough of the LLM training data that it can identify some cases where the code won't terminate.
by monooso | 2026-01-23 15:08:40+00:00
The answer you seek is right there in the article (emphasis mine):

> Tesla offers its vehicles on long-term leases, and in such a scenario the leasing company is typically the registered keeper of the car.

> Drivers of rented or company cars caught speeding have to be named before they can face prosecution and companies which fail to return paperwork to police can be prosecuted instead.

A company leases the car, and that car may then be available to multiple employees. The police need the company to confirm which employee was driving the vehicle at the time of the office.
by PeterAnderson | 2026-01-23 15:08:44+00:00
For those curious about the internals: I’m leveraging Next.js 14’s App Router and server-side data fetching to bypass the heavy client-side tracking usually found on IG. The main challenge was architecting a stable media proxy for high-res Reels and Tagged content without triggering rate-limits. Happy to discuss the backend scaling if anyone's interested!
by morgul | 2026-01-23 15:09:01+00:00
I did large-scale molecular data engineering with DuckDB and Polars (https://github.com/scikit-fingerprints/MolPILE_dataset, https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18353 for those interested). Both were amazing, but for large-scale JOINs, only DuckDB didn't result in OOM (tried Dask, DuckDB, Polars). Really a pleasure to use too.

I could also JOIN local CSV datasets, Postgres database, and even Excel files from chemists. All of this in Jupyter Notebook and really seamless Python integration. This also means that one can easily do heavy lifting in DuckDB, export to Polars variable, put into Plotly, and get an interactive plot. Neat stuff.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-23 15:09:05+00:00
When Docker was new I had a really bad ADSL connection (2Mbps) and couldn't ever stack up a containerized system properly because Dockerhub would time out.

I did large downloads all the time, I used to download 25GB games for my game consoles for instance. I just had to use schedule them and use tools that could resume downloads.

If I'd had a local docker hub I might have used docker but because I didn't it was dead to me.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-01-23 15:09:16+00:00
During France’s Reign of Terror, executions by guillotine were public. It was considered distinguished for victims to go stoically, and many did, which left the crowds to have their fun.

I recall, however, and this may be apocryphal, that one woman went to the stand screaming and crying and begging for mercy. This humanized her. The crowds, soured to their revelry, went home.

I am curious if her pleas were heard because those people were better than we are today, or because social media amplifies our cruelty beyond even that of our darkest modern histories.
LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Temporal: What breaks when you need governance?
by yaront111 | 2026-01-23 15:09:24+00:00
I wrote this comparison because I kept seeing “agents in prod” discussions collapse into prompt debates, while the real pain is governance: approvals, audit trails, and bounding risky actions.

https://cordum.io/blog/ai-agent-frameworks-comparison

If you disagree with any tradeoff in the matrix, I’d love a technical roast (especially on the Temporal comparison).

If you want to see what I mean by “governance before execution,” Cordum has a 2-minute guardrails demo + a local quickstart (policy decisions + approvals + audit timeline).

Repo + demo instructions:

https://github.com/cordum-io/cordum
by NickC25 | 2026-01-23 15:09:35+00:00
I mean, if the words "box only" are in the product descriptor, then it's on the consumer to read the descriptor...especially if they are going to drop a few grand on something. And doubly especially if a product looks vastly under priced in comparison to buying the same item brand new from the manufacturer.

Again, is this predatory? Yes, absolutely. But you can only prevent stupidity so many times....
by iamnothere | 2026-01-23 15:09:39+00:00
Normal person here, you can relate I am sure. Hello fellow normals.

What if the government says all FOSS developers must be rounded up and executed? What if you spill coffee on your laptop because you were tired while reading the documentation? What if you misunderstand the instructions and accidentally post a no no word on the internet?

One time when I was younger I downloaded something and it had a virus. Bad news!

Just some concerns, you know. Not taking a stance here, just saying I have questions...

Edit: just tired of seeing posts sowing FUD on every thread about decentralized tech. Don’t worry, the government isn’t going to break down your door because you host a Radicle node.
by Moto7451 | 2026-01-23 15:09:55+00:00
I believe you’re using royal-you but just to be clear I didn’t run these companies.

At one place there wasn’t and at the other it wasn’t well managed. I agree from a compliance point of view and have advocated for this but I was not on the IT/Ops side of the business so I could only use soft power.

The CTO at the first company had a “zero hindrances for the developers” mindset and the latter was reeling from being the merger of five different companies. The latter did a better job of trying to say the least but wasn’t great about it. Outcome was the same none the less.
by mickael-kerjean | 2026-01-23 15:10:15+00:00
> It started out relatively simple and easy to understand ....

when the specs for a data representation format evolved with XML bombs abilities, it has gone too far in trying to please everyone, and that is probably why JSON won in the long run, it's not perfect but stable and simple without crazy issues you have to worry about when parsing it. If XML had a Torvaldish kind of dictator who can afford to say no, I doubt JSON would have won
by epistasis | 2026-01-23 15:10:32+00:00
> “Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue.”

The Whitehouse thinks digitally altering photos of people it arrests is a "meme"?

That's just as perverted an understanding of a "meme" as their understanding of "law". Namely: the law protects but does but bind the in-group, and binds but does not protect those in the out-group. Thus the January 6 insurrectionists get pardons, and the killer of Renee Good has the automatic internal investigation cancelled.

"Meme" my ass.
by tech_tuna | 2026-01-23 15:10:44+00:00
Yeah, exactly. There is no way Claude could do that much work in one hour, starting from scratch. You can even ask Claude if it could do that and it will say the same.

The LLM/AI tools are powerful and have a ton of use cases unlike technologies like crypto, but the hype train is running full steam and no one really knows where things will land over the next 5-10 years.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-01-23 15:10:50+00:00
The police should have information on people who have broken the law (assuming the laws are reasonable and proportionate – for the moment, let's make that assumption). The police should not have information on non-criminals, except as far as it is genuinely necessary for an investigation. (To the extent that the police do things other than investigating crimes and making arrests, the relevant information should be compartmentalised and handled separately.) I am willing to tolerate large amounts of inefficiency, and even some bad guys getting away, if it ensures that the police do not begin to get results by looking only under the street light (which, if nothing else, will lead to sophisticated offenders getting away more easily). Pre-emptively requesting records just in case they're needed is a very, very bad practice, and we must oppose it if we want to live in a free society.

This is also why I tolerate the widespread use of CCTV cameras, but strongly oppose CCTV networks. Closed-circuit television needs to be closed-circuit, with friction of access requests proportionate to the amount of footage requested, or it goes from an accountability tool to a mass surveillance tool.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-23 15:11:20+00:00
I just thought of a crazy analogy. I was on the internet in the mid 90's, using gopher and usenet, etc. It was great then because only the smart people knew how to get on. Then in the mid 00's it all went to sht.

Now we come to graphic design. It used to be only smart people knew how to use photoshop to manipulate images, but now we have given any idiot the power to manipulate images with AI and this is where we are.
by Noaidi | 2026-01-23 15:11:24+00:00
I just thought of a crazy analogy. I was on the internet in the mid 90's, using gopher and usenet, etc. It was great then because only the smart people knew how to get on. Then in the mid 00's it all went to sht.

Now we come to graphic design. It used to be only smart people knew how to use photoshop to manipulate images, but now we have given any idiot the power to manipulate images with AI and this is where we are.
by fpoling | 2026-01-23 15:11:34+00:00
There are stories about bodies of Christian monks that did not decompose for a log time after the dearth. Modern take on it attributes it to the climate in caves where the body was put after the dearth. But another important part was diet. Often the well-preserved bodies were of those who had eaten only rough bread and water for months and years before the dearth.

So I suspect both of the factors are at the play here as well.
by kh_hk | 2026-01-23 15:12:04+00:00
Thanks! That kind of makes sense. It's always interesting to me when I see patterns that make videos work well, and I usually have a lot of questions about the production.

Another question that I hope is not disrespectful: does PCBWay and JLCPCB pay for brand placement during the video or was it just a tribute from your side?
by SCdF | 2026-01-23 15:12:09+00:00
The three examples you listed are implementation details, so it's not clear if this is a serious post. Which datacenter they deploy code in is (other than territory for laws etc, which is something you may wish to know about and pick from) an implementation detail.

A better example would be: imagine every single operating system and app you use adds spellcheck. They only let you spell check in American[1]. You will get spell check prompts from your Operating System, your browser, and the webapp you're in. You can turn none of them off.

[1] in this example, you speak the Queen's English, so spell color colour etc
by bzmrgonz | 2026-01-23 15:12:14+00:00
My sentiments exactly. Anyone at the low side of scale thinking about MS SQL, should seriously do a current survey of things in the dbms space.. there is absolutely no NEED to pay for dbms in 2026. Those old dinosours only still exist, because of the data hijacking nature of past db designs and coding. Everybody and their grandmother were obfuscating code and designs in order to bake in customer loyalty and repetitive patronage. Those old projects are keeping the lights on at proprietary DB Inc. AT the high end of things, you're gonna need db engineers, and if you get yourself Microsoftie hammersharks disguised as professional engineers, they gonna see everything as a nail.
by evv | 2026-01-23 15:12:15+00:00
Hey HN, hope you enjoy this idea!

LLMs are a game-changer, but they’re only half the story: probabilistic and fuzzy. The missing half is a universal formal language: something precise enough to translate cleanly between human languages and let anyone communicate with computers, without learning programming!

My dream is to remove barriers everywhere: culture, science, medicine, law, diplomacy. You don’t erase ambiguity, you encode it! Dialects, jargon, puns, inside jokes, social context.. we can build everything in.

Maybe this isn't possible, but now that we have language models to help... it might be!
by NickC25 | 2026-01-23 15:12:31+00:00
>They would have gone absolutely ballistic- rightfully so

Sadly, I disagree here. They would have qualified their reaction by asking who would be in power. If it was a GOP held white house, they'd probably rationalize it and say it's good.

Partisanship rot goes very deep on the republican side. Granted, the democrats suck, but the republicans fall in line every time without question.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-01-23 15:12:34+00:00
Things from docs making it into production is insidious. There were some early Sun docs that referenced a 129.9.0.0/16 network. Some helpful contractor in my locality, specializing in local government work, configured several police, fire, and city governments with that subnet internally back in the 90s. A few of them are still running that way today. I remember running into some oddball behavior with the Teredo adapter in Windows 7 that I traced back to it behaving differently because the PC's IP address didn't fall into RFC1918 space.
by radioradioradio | 2026-01-23 15:12:53+00:00
to the respondants above - you are right - that lacked nuance

Look at the maintainer lists of containerd and moby, which are used by loads of others, several docker employees on those lists - I didn't check what their amount of involvement is compared to other companies, nor whether they are even sanctioned by docker to do the work, but afaik those projects came out of OCI with Docker as one of the primary backers.