MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FunnyUsername | 2026-01-01 09:40:49+00:00
I think you have it backwards. Israel tolerated something like ~30k rocket attacks from Gaza (between 2005-2023) before finally launching a major military campaign that sought to remove Hamas from power.

It would normally be absurd to expect a state with military superiority to tolerate ~30k rocket attacks from its weaker neighbor. That was only tenable because Israel's air defenses mitigated the bulk of the damage.

If Israel's air defenses and bunkers suddenly disappeared, Israel would be forced to respond far more aggressively to each terrorist attack.
by duchef | 2026-01-01 09:41:36+00:00
The usefulness of mobile phones was identifiable immediately and it is absolutely not 'post hoc rationalization'. The issue was the cost - once low cost mobile telephones were produced they almost immediately became ubiquitous (see nokia share price from the release of the nokia 6110 onwards for example).

This barrier does not exist for current AI technologies which are being given away free. Minor thought experiment - just how radical would the uptake of mobile phones have been if they were given away free?
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-01 09:44:11+00:00
> As I understand it, this rule isn't because we have shown it's dangerous to do the pig -> insect -> pig chain but rather because we haven't shown that it's safe.

We banned all kinds of such "forced cannibalism" after BSE, yes. And for good reason, I think - not just is it highly unethical IMHO, but because even a minuscule risk of a repeat of the BSE crisis of the late 90s/early 00s just isn't worth it. The destruction that BSE brought upon the European agriculture industry, the public outrage - I doubt non-Europeans could even understand the impact it had.
by zwnow | 2026-01-01 09:45:11+00:00
> Our society has become moralistic

Which is extremely important. It's important to call out highly immoral behavior and lifestyles. Being a billionaire by itself is highly immoral. These people sleep like babies while people starve to death.

> He consistently communicated with shareholders of Berkshire in a straight-forward and transparent way in his letters and annual reports.

We praising for the bare minimum now?
by shaky-carrousel | 2026-01-01 09:45:20+00:00
PostNord AB is a private company and has been for some years, so the idea that this is a government service being withdrawn is untrue.

Danish law requires everyone to have access to postal services for letters. Therefore another private company, DAO, will provide postal delivery to everyone in Denmark and the ability for everyone in Denmark to send letters from DAO service points (in shops, etc).

A significant subsidy is being provided to DAO to enable a universal delivery service.

DAO will be the national postal service for international treaty (UPU) purposes, enabling letter and small parcel post between Denmark and other countries according to UPU agreements.
by kristopolous | 2026-01-01 09:45:36+00:00
Our obligation is to personal profit at the expense of everything else.

This is empirically the default operational behavior. It should always be assumed as opposed to our current strategy of always being baffled and shocked that it happens.

We could be serious about this and restructure incentives away from naked kleptocracy to avoid it.

I mean we never will, but we could...
by localhostinger | 2026-01-01 09:46:04+00:00
In IT school back in 2008 (with 14). I had absolutely no idea about the school or programming, I was just knowing my way around computers, so I signed up for it. We started with C and I remember the first couple of weeks and exercises just doing stuff with printf. Then reading user input with scanf. It clicked pretty early for me, and I loved it.

From there on I was always learning faster and more at home as a hobby, I was mostly ahead in school. A friend and classmate and I coded so many different projects during that time (2D terminal game, PHP forum, PHP CMS that was actually productive for a few years, thereby also learning how the internet worked).

It's just crazy how lucky I got to be interested in this thing at the right time. "Back then" I feel you got so much more time to learn something well, mostly because things weren't changing at crazy speed.
by flyinglizard | 2026-01-01 09:46:32+00:00
No, the misinformation is yours. Israel pulled out Jews from all of Gaza, going back to the pre-1967 line. Gaza shared a land border with Egypt (Rafah crossing) which Israel did not - and could not - control.

While Israel retained air and sea passage control, the blockade as we know it only came after Hamas was elected as the Gaza government and not before.

(this is the opportunity to note that after the Israeli pullout from Gaza, Gazans could have chosen many different paths but they chose Hamas to lead them into the catastrophe they've become)
by Roark66 | 2026-01-01 09:47:19+00:00
Good to hear you decided to self publish. Don't let people online put too much pressure on you (is it done yet?)

On the subject of AI. I'm a great believer in that AI is a huge force for good (gives a single individual a huge power). I've been using every popular commercial and open weights models there are. I know their strengths and weaknesses.

But I think there will always be a need for human book writers. Just like there will be a need for human programmers. Although for different reasons. With software, humans are needed, because AI is still very, very far from being able to grasp actual, overall architecture of even modest sized hobby class projects (there is a special "trick" that is used to convince us otherwise, notice all very impressive examples are almost always "one shot" small prompts, with not a lot of refinement later. That almost never happens in real projects. In fact the opposite.)

With books, the AI is good explaining small chunks of knowledge. But an entire book, that is fun to read, consistent, and has a plan of "reader advancing in capability" through chapters and has some of the author's personality? No way.

Will I buy the book? I don't know. I have built a small library of physical books over the years (maybe about 200 books). But I also have about 50 of them on my kindle. I tend to buy an ebook first. If I really like it I buy a physical copy.

But I'm definitely reading a lot less than i used to. I've been working from hone exclusively since 2016. Before that I did a lot of commuting and that provided an opportunity of time to read loads of books. I certainly do not miss the airports, the budget airlines, the crowded trains and underground, but the reading took a big hit.

I imagine I'm not the only one. So the market for books probably shrunk substantially in the last decade.
by user____name | 2026-01-01 09:47:29+00:00
Lol.

CRINGE LEVEL: 3/67
ANALYSIS: Bro, who even is Ishmael? Sounds like some ancient-ass boomer who peaked centuries ago. "Watery part of the world"? Is this dude discovering oceans for the first time? Did he just crawl out of a dusty crypt? The whole vibe is giving "grandpa telling me about his glory days when he had to walk uphill both ways to, like, not get hit by a horse carriage." And apparently, "spleen regulation" is his flex? My guy, get a therapist, not a boat. "Damp, drizzly November in my soul" is a straight 67 for poetry readings at awkward family gatherings. And the whole "knocking people's hats off" thing... Sir, this isn't 1850s TikTok. You'd get canceled faster than you can say "philosophical flourish." The sheer audacity of comparing himself to Cato throwing himself on a sword? My man, you're literally just taking a boat trip. The delusion is real. This isn't deep, it's just dusty. Get cooked.

AURA IMPACT: -15 Aura Points. The sheer lack of modern slang and the overwhelming "I'm so profound" energy just drains the battery. Needs a hard reset and a dose of reality.
by encom | 2026-01-01 09:47:50+00:00
This newsletter pest is puzzling me. Why would I want more crap in my email? If I'm on your website, why not just put the content there, instead of sending it out-of-band via email?

Maybe it's some fingerprinting/tracking nonsense? I notice nearly all links in any email I get, actually links to some Sendgrid/Mailchip/etc. bullshit with a page of base64 looking noise in the URL. I'm never clicking any of that, and if the unsubscribe link is obfuscated like that, I'm feeding the email to spamcop.

It's all so tiresome.
by itake | 2026-01-01 09:48:21+00:00
I don't know the details, but large personal residences tax your brain (as well as your bank account).

Instead of spending hours of his life negotiating RE purchases, maintaining his properties, cutting checks to plumbers, doing renovations, etc. (that I hear many other billionaires do), he was practical with his (luxury) purchases focusing on time saving (living near work, fast food, private jet) and the experience (luxury vacation).

If you don't appreciate that, I think you're missing the point of his frugality.
by pierrec | 2026-01-01 09:48:46+00:00
Jeskola Relativion does exactly what you describe. Relatively obscure because it's exclusively a Buzz plugin and it's not documented anywhere. I believe it comes with Buzz, it's mentioned in the changelog here: https://jeskola.net/buzz/beta/files/changelog.txt

That said, it's a fairly simple thing to develop, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch of other implementations.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-01 09:49:12+00:00
The number "e" itself is never needed in any application.

It is not used for computing the value of ln(2) or of log2(e), which are computed directly as limits of some convergent series.

As I have said, there is no reason whatsoever for knowing the value of e.

Moreover, there is almost never a good choice to use the exponential function or the hyperbolic logarithm function (a.k.a. natural logarithm, but it does not really deserve the name "natural").

For any numeric computations, it is preferably to use everywhere the exponential 2^x and the binary logarithm. With this choice, the constant ln 2 or its inverse appears in formulae that compute derivatives or integrals.

People are brainwashed in school into using the exponential e^x and the hyperbolic logarithm, because this choice was more convenient for symbolic computations done with pen on paper, like in the 19th century.

In reality, choosing to have the proportionality factor in the derivative formula as "1" instead of "ln 2" is a bad choice. The reason is that removing the constant from the derivative formula does not make it disappear, but it moves it into the evaluation of the function and in any application much more evaluations of the functions must be done than computations of derivative or integral formulae.

The only case when using e^x may bring simplifications is in symbolic computations with complex exponentials and complex logarithms, which may be needed in the development of mathematical models for some linear systems that can be described by linear systems of ordinary differential equations or of linear equations with partial derivatives. Even then, after the symbolic computation produces a mathematical model suitable for numeric computations it is more efficient to convert all exponential or logarithmic functions to use only 2^x and binary logarithms.
by scrollop | 2026-01-01 09:49:52+00:00
Don't doubt.

Tried Linux around 5 years ago - took many issues, had to learn various commands.

Tried again a few months ago and used various llms to configure everything well, troubleshoot etc

Eg when waking from standby and your mouse isn't working, do you want to troubleshoot and learn various commands over an hour or ask an llm and fix it within a few minutes?

When creating an on demand voice to text app for Linux do I learn various commands and dependencies etc that may take one/many days or use an llm to make it within 30 min?

No brainer
by edmundsparrow | 2026-01-01 09:50:07+00:00
Author here. Quick demo walkthrough:

The video shows SignalTower running inside GnokeStation, then demonstrates the app installation system - I install Photopea (a web-based Photoshop alternative) via terminal, then uninstall both apps.

This proves GnokeStation can run any web app as a native-feeling application just by typing "install [url]" in the terminal. No app store, no complex packaging - just URLs.

For the industrial use case: imagine a factory floor where workers can instantly deploy new control interfaces by pasting a URL. No IT approval, no vendor negotiations, no waiting.

Happy to answer technical questions about signaltower or gnokestation.

Congratulations we're in 2026
by kennywinker | 2026-01-01 09:50:10+00:00
> If something enables aggression, because it makes counter attacks unreasonable, that seems like a fairly nice thing to have more of

You’re imagining a world where this kind of tech is equally distributed. It’s not. Israel spends something like $30b/year in defense (in part due to ~$7b/year from the US). Gaza has something like $0.3b to spend. The consequence of that asymmetry is one of them has a missile shield, the other has more than 80,000 dead citizens, famine, and virtually no infrastructure left standing.
by nehal3m | 2026-01-01 09:50:55+00:00
> If you are time-constrained and do a lot of kitchen work, though, it's worth paying attention to these optimizations.

Absolutely. However, lately I've been going at humdrum daily stuff at a pace so slowly it's just a tad shy of ridiculous. Things like making coffee, walking the dogs, vacuuming, driving (not obstructing anyone, just a relaxed pace) and also cooking. I've found very little downside; if you relax while you're doing your dailies you don't need to rush through so you can plop down on the couch.

I don't have children though, not sure how that factors in.
by XorNot | 2026-01-01 09:51:12+00:00
Defensive weapons technology is how you get less conflict though.

When some idiot in the ME decides to shoot something at Israel, the character of the response demanded by the population depends heavily on whether any Israelis die or property is destroyed.

Israel didn't aggressively bomb Gaza till October 7 killed a lot of Israelis, even though they were regularly shooting down Hamas launched rockets with Iron Dome.

There is a practical gulf in political and diplomatic options depending on if an attack lands or does not, so much so that whether or not someone can shoot down incoming weaponry is a factor in some diplomatic decisions (I.e. Iran firing missiles at US bases in Qatar).
by Freak_NL | 2026-01-01 09:51:35+00:00
> That said, the sites that employ the “spin the wheel” approach to winning a discount are too much, I bounce.

I get the impression that that stupid wheel is some kind of feature of one or several large e-commerce platforms shops can enable. If the shop is genuinely stocking useful products in some niche I make it a point to e-mail them and tell them how scammy it makes their site look.
by woodpanel | 2026-01-01 09:51:44+00:00
Good riddance. Like the beyond meat implosion that was foreseeable from the far, it is another elitist dystopian dream getting smashed by the harsh reality of people's natural instincts.

These initiative's will be back though. Likely armed with their lessons learned, like making the government compulse us into eating it. Sugar coat it by telling us it's only once per week, or how affordable it is since we increased the prices of proper food through red tape and taxes.
by NlightNFotis | 2026-01-01 09:51:45+00:00
I’d invite you to reconsider the kind of language you’re using to interact with other forum members here.

Dropping to profanities is not conducive to maintaining an environment that’s facilitating dialogue between its members.

I’ve seen you at least twice call other members here “you idiot”, “get lost”. Etc. Have a hard think as to whether you could rephrase that without the name calling, and if at worse you can’t manage to, you can always ask an LLM to do it for you.
by brabel | 2026-01-01 09:52:35+00:00
I agree with most points but as a tech enthusiast, I was using a smart phone years before the iPhone, and I could already use the internet, make video calls, email etc around 2005. It was a small flip phone but it was not uncommon for phones to do that already at that time, at least in Australia and parts of Asia (a Singaporean friend told me about the phone).
by 9dev | 2026-01-01 09:53:05+00:00
That’s the deep irony of technology IMHO, that innovation follows Conway's law on a meta layer: White collar workers inevitably shaped high technology after themselves, and instead of finally ridding humanity of hard physical labour—as was the promise of the Industrial Revolution—we imitate artists, scientists, and knowledge workers.

We can now use natural language to instruct computers generate stock photos and illustrations that would take a professional artist a few years ago, discover new molecule shapes, beat the best Go players, build the code for entire applications, or write documents of various shapes and lengths—but painting a wall? An unsurmountable task that requires a human to execute reliably, not even talking about economics.
by businessmate | 2026-01-01 09:54:46+00:00
This paper presents two realistic 2026 case studies involving AI-mediated representations: one in financial services product communication and one in healthcare symptom triage. In both cases, harm arises not from overt malfunction but from reasonable-sounding language, normative framing, and omission of material context. Internal model reasoning remains inaccessible, yet responsibility attaches to the deploying organization.
by lulzx | 2026-01-01 09:56:12+00:00
That's good to know, I wasn't aware of it, I have updated to using a github action they recommend (https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-zig-compiler)

For the copyright thing, I understand that there's legit ongoing debate around all this AI-assisted coding and copyrightability.

In this case of zpdf, while Claude Code did a lot of the heavy lifting on implementation, there was a real effort in architecture decisions, iterative prompting/refinement, debugging, testing, benchmarking.

My intent is zero restrictions: use it, fork it, sell it, whatever. WTFPL captures that spirit perfectly for me. It's as permissive as legally possible while being upfront about not caring.

The goal is just to make a useful tool freely available.
by sokoloff | 2026-01-01 09:56:58+00:00
> specifically paying into a ubi fund whenever human jobs are replaced by ai

Without agreeing or disagreeing with this idea, I’m left wondering how you’d write such a law.

If company A fires Bob and says “Bob’s job is now done with AI”, that’s a clear case.

What if Bob was on a team of 8 and they just go without backfilling Bob? Maybe AI was the cause; maybe it was the better coffee they got for the office.

Or company A fires Bob and his whole team and outsources to company B. Maybe company B is more efficient at that business process. Maybe they were more efficient before using AI. Maybe they don’t even use it. Maybe they were more efficient before but are even more efficient now. In which cases were “jobs replaced by AI”?

Maybe I start a company C and do that business process with 4 people that would take other companies 25 people. A new company D starts and uses my company C instead of hiring a team to do it. Were any “human jobs replaced by AI”? Which ones?
by swiftcoder | 2026-01-01 09:57:03+00:00
> Bitflips are waaay more common than you think they are... Over the course of about seven months, 52,317 requests...

Your data does not show them to be common - less than 1 in 100,000 computing devices seeing an issue during a 7 month test qualifies as "rare" in my book (and in fact the vast majority of those events seem to come from a small number of server failures).

And we know from Google's datacenter research[0] that bit flips are highly correlated hard failures (i.e. they tend to result from a faulty DRAM module, and so affect a small number of machines repeatedly).

It's hard to pin down numbers for soft failures, but it seems to be somewhere in the realm of 100 events/gigabyte/year - and that's before any of the many ECC mechanisms do their thing. In practical sense, no consumer software worries about bit flips in RAM (whereas bit flips in storage are much more likely, hence checksumming DB rows, etc).

[0]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
by elcritch | 2026-01-01 09:57:33+00:00
That the US contributes doesn’t take away from the billions Israel did and does invest. The US defense contractors also get a big chunk of that aid.

The US also gives similar levels of military aid to Egypt as well. The EU and US give billions to Ukraine.

Gaza also receives billions in aid; substantial amounts of which has been hihacked and looted. For example this lady summer the UN reported that 88% of their aid trucks in Gaza were looted [1].

1: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/08/05/un-reports-88-percen...
by GordonS | 2026-01-01 09:58:48+00:00
> It is a nuclear state, but so are France and Britain. What makes it anymore rogue than them?

The fact that Israel refuses inspections, something that no other country on Earth is permitted to do.

> Well the number of people in Gaza increased during the war.

This is just absurd holocaust denial. Israel has murdered almost 400,000 under the age of five https://x.com/i/status/1968772985227010398
by tstrimple | 2026-01-01 10:02:12+00:00
Literally the only thing I've encountered regarding LLMS and AGI is morons stating that LLMs will never become AGI. I literally have no idea where the AGI arguments are coming from. No one who I've ever worked with who uses LLMs is talking about AGI. It's just a fucking distraction from actually usable tools right now. Is there anything except a strawman for LLM AGI?
by brabel | 2026-01-01 10:02:40+00:00
I disagree. MCP will remain the best way to do most things for the same reason REST APIs are the main way to access non local services: they provide a way to secure and audit access to systems in a way that a coding environment cannot. And you can authorize actions depending on the well defined inputs and outputs. You can’t do that using just a bash script unless said script actually does SSO and calls REST APIs but then you just have a worse MCP client without any interoperability.
by DarkFuture | 2026-01-01 10:03:07+00:00
They must have meant LibreWolf.

I've used it as a 2nd browser for past 2 years although on Speedometer benchmark it constantly gets a much lower score than Firefox. You can feel LibreWolf slower it on heavy sites like YouTube.

https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

I also notice Chromium browsers get lower score than official Chrome binary. Apparently Google make further modifications to Chromium before compiling (that they don't make public).
by webRunes | 2026-01-01 10:04:42+00:00
I spent a few months analyzing YouTube comments for my SaaS channel.
Manual process: 10+ hours/week.

So I built an AI tool to automate it:
- Sentiment analysis (95%+ accuracy)
- "Truth Gap" detection (Video claims vs Audience feedback)
- Top questions extraction

Example: "How to automate workflows" video
- 10K comments
- Truth Gap found: "You said 'no coding' but examples have code"
- Top question: "Does it work with Pipedrive?"
→ Next video addressed this, 2x engagement

Free tool: https://wr.io/wrio/youtube-analyzer
Tech: Cloudflare Workers + Gemini 2.0 Flash

Open to feedback!