MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2026-01-19 03:47:05+00:00
Threatening violence*, even in this virtual way and encased in quotation marks, is not allowed here.

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines badly in other threads as well. (To pick one example of many: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601932.) We've asked you many times not to.

I don't want to ban your account because your good contributions are good and I do believe you're well-intentioned. But really, can you please take the intended spirit of this site more to heart and fix this? Because at some point the damage caused by poisonous comments is worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

* it would be more accurate to say "using violent language as a trope in an argument" - I don't believe in taking comments like this literally, as if they're really threatening violence. Nonetheless you can't post this way to HN.
by wjdp | 2026-01-19 03:48:19+00:00
Context: It's a paid mod but doesn't appear the guy was in it for profit, rather to support the time spent which covers multiple games.

The precedent here I find a little weak, a mod isn't facilitating piracy nor is it a replacement for the original product. You need to own the game, the mod is a layer that adds additional features.

When mapping the context to the real world it's more worrying, you don't get car makers suing accessory makers for selling phone mounts advertised to fit their vehicles.
by ehnto | 2026-01-19 03:48:19+00:00
It's just disappointing that this is the best society could come up with. Advertising is exploitive, this is well studied, but it is also just kind of a lame outcome.

I also wonder if the dollars and cents work out, the cost to provide the service to show the ads on is astronomical in comparison to other ad networks, but I don't have details enough to make any claims on that aspect.
by Animats | 2026-01-19 03:48:25+00:00
This looks familiar to people who have seen how the more elaborate NPC systems work in major multiplayer games. There are lots of semi-independent NPCs, with some degree of overall coordination. Groups of cops or soldiers may have a commander program for tactical coordination, and there may be a higher level system deploying units for strategic purposes.

In games, what the NPCs can do is usually rather dumb. Move and shoot is usually most of their functionality. This keeps the overhead down so the system is affordable.

Gas Town may be a step towards AIs which have an ongoing sense of what they're doing. I'm not going to get into the "consciousness" debate, but it's closer to liveness.
by Marsymars | 2026-01-19 03:49:07+00:00
> If you meant inside, some airlines already do this with ads that play on the entertainment system before the flight, a lot like how old movie theaters used to.

Air Canada did this once to me years ago with the audio piped over the plane PA system - I doubt I can personally take credit for them ceasing the practice, but I sent complaints to both Air Canada and each of the advertisers, and haven't seen that again since.
by sensusfounder | 2026-01-19 03:49:11+00:00
Hi guys, I finally launched a robust MVP for a social media website with eventual fintech elements. It lets users post and discuss ideas either publicly or anonymously, across everything from politics and technology to fun prompts like would you rather. I am really proud of the UI and overall design, and I would love for you to check it out if you have some time. I think it takes on the very hard problem of truth in the modern world, while also helping us better understand collective human sentiment. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
by chongli | 2026-01-19 03:49:18+00:00
I like the design of Discord but I don't like that it's owned by one company. At any point they could decide to pursue a full enshittification strategy and start selling everyone's data to train AIs. They could sell the rights to 3rd party spambots and disallow users from banning the bots from their private servers.

It may be great right now but the users do not control their own destinies. It looks like there are tools users can use to export their data but if Discord goes the enshittification route they could preemptively block such tools, just as Reddit shut down their APIs.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-19 03:50:21+00:00
Agents can complete an impressive amount of tasks with just this, but they quickly hit a bottleneck in loading context. A major reason for the success of agentic coding tools such as Claude and Cursor is how they push context of the problem and codebase into the agent proactively, rather than have the agent waste time and tokens figuring out how to list the directory etc.
by metalcrow | 2026-01-19 03:50:27+00:00
Question for people who are lawyers or lawyer adjacent: would you be able to reasonable argue against this in court, assuming you do not use any Cyberpunk assets or content directly, and instead just offer a dll mod of the game that writes memory at specific addresses and modifies code (i'm assuming that's what this mod is doing)? To me, if you're not using any of the actual game's content CDPR can't reasonably claim that you're infringing on their copyright, but ianal.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-01-19 03:52:12+00:00
> Discord is the 9,000lb gorilla of this form of social media, and it's actually quietly one of the largest social platforms on the internet. There's clearly a desire for these kinds of spaces, and Discord seems to be filling it.

The "former type" had to do with online socializing with people you know IRL.

I have never seen anything on Discord that matches this description.
by golem14 | 2026-01-19 03:52:23+00:00
the first and last link seem less trustworthy as they seem to be affiliated with industry orgs that benefit from EVs.

But link #2 seems solid, and a related search on Google Scholar points at a lot of interesting papers.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:B47EWn6YcDUJ:sc...

I looked at a few, and the overall consensus seems to be that at least EVs are not worse than ICEVs (and I suppose EVs will get efficient faster than ICEVs(.

Thanks!
by isodev | 2026-01-19 03:55:07+00:00
> At the same time we shoudl also watch out for companies extending/embracing/extinguishing standards

Is ATProto actually a standard? But regardless, nothing prevents Bluesky from enschitifying.

I’m somewhat concerned that the “file system” or the storage where all of our things are supposed to be stored is now suddenly in the cloud. We actually have a real file system … it backs itself up on iPhone even.

It feels like the entire pitch is based on some FOMO factor “oh but my posts” - do people really care that much about their short form outbursts? I mean the whole point of twitter was to post and forget but maybe not for everybody.
by mcmoor | 2026-01-19 03:55:25+00:00
Other has mentioned it, but I think it's worth quoting it directly for easier reference

> I previously felt bad for writing this essay after Adams’ death; it seems kind of unsporting to disagree with someone who can’t respond. These paragraphs cured me of my misgivings: after his death is by far the best time to disagree with Scott Adams.

Also I don't think this is a slander article only published after death so no one can answer. If anything I see this as a beautiful article from someone who (used to?) love him and it raises his image in my (not really cared about it before) mind.
by galaxyLogic | 2026-01-19 03:55:35+00:00
That depends a bit on whether you view and use unit-tests for

a) Testing that the spec is implemented correctly, OR

b) As the Spec itself, or part of it.

I know people have different views on this, but if unit-tests are not the spec, or part of it, then we must formalize the spec in some other way.

If the Spec is not written in some formal way then I don't think we can automatically verify whether the implementation implements the spec, or not. (that's what the cartoon was about).
by no-name-here | 2026-01-19 03:55:36+00:00
But we're against that, right? Or do we want a world where other companies' ToS also forbid open source software use if you use their product? After all, "it's their product", so if they want to say that you aren't allowed to use open source software, "they can enforce their ToS however they like". Or is it only Anthropic where we are OK with them forbidding open source software use with their product?
by GMoromisato | 2026-01-19 03:55:58+00:00
This is absolutely why LLMs are so disruptive. It used to be that a long, written paper was like a proof-of-work that the author thought about the problem. Now that connection is broken.

One consequence, IMHO, is that we won't value long papers anymore. Instead, we will want very dense, high-bandwidth writing that the author stakes consequences (monetary, reputational, etc.) on its validity.
by fsckboy | 2026-01-19 03:57:39+00:00
that sounds like one of the worst heuristics I've ever heard, worse than "em-dash=ai" (em-dash equals ai to the illiterate class, who don't know what they are talking about on any subject and who also don't use em-dashes, but literate people do use em-dashes and also know what they are talking about. this is called the Dunning-Em-Dash Effect)
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-19 03:58:15+00:00
The parent of your comment is only one of the many here who go by the following scheme:

"WE can dishonor any part of any agreement but YOU have to fulfill all of your obligations according to our interpretation and under our direction... OR ELSE"

I don't know if these are real people or bots but I pity them for their lack of basic reasoning abilities.

Once one side starts removing obligations from themselves they will never stop, especially if the other side keeps being in compliance, it's just an incredible opportunity to corner the compliant side and drain it completely... and then it'll experience the "OR ELSE" part anyway but at the most damaging time and in its worst form.

There's only one choice when an agreement is broken - act as if it never existed while positioning yourself for a fair renegotiation.
by wk_end | 2026-01-19 03:58:29+00:00
Right, so, mathing it out, the US has a population of around 340 million but Spain has a population of around 49 million. 340/49 is roughly 7, so the per capita equivalent in the US would be a single incident killing 21*7=147 people. So that'd be one incident killing 1.5x the average number of people usually killed across the rest of the country combined.

Like I said, a pretty bad day.
by nelkazzu | 2026-01-19 03:58:38+00:00
It’s interesting to see Gaussian splatting show up in a mainstream music video this quickly. A year ago it was mostly a research demo, and now artists are using it as part of their visual toolkit.
What I find most notable is how well splats handle chaotic motion like helicopter shots — it’s one of the few 3D reconstruction methods that doesn’t completely fall apart with fast movement.
Feels like we’re going to see a lot more of this in creative work before it shows up in anything “serious”.
by hobs | 2026-01-19 03:58:41+00:00
Putting your secrets in any logs is how you get those secrets accidentally or purposefully read by someone you do not want to read it, it doesn't have to be the initial corp, they just need to have bad security or data management for it to leak online or have someone with a lower level of access pivot via logs.

Now multiply that by every SaaS provider you give your plain text credentials in.
by Aerroon | 2026-01-19 03:59:08+00:00
>In a different world where there are higher wages, more people would have more spending power.

I don't think that's true, not for random goods. Rent scales with disposable income. If most people make more money, then rent becomes more expensive. Rent essentially vacuums up all the excess money people have available. (Rent = housing in this case)

Why would people want to live in these more expensive places rather than somewhere cheaper? It's because that's where all the (well-paying) jobs are.
by dtkav | 2026-01-19 04:00:01+00:00
I'm working on something similar called agent-creds [0]. I'm using Envoy as the transparent (MITM) proxy and macaroons for credentials.

The idea is that you can arbitrarily scope down credentials with macaroons, both in terms of scope (only certain endpoints) and time. This really limits the damage that an agent can do, but also means that if your credentials are leaked they are already expired within a few minutes. With macaroons you can design the authz scheme that *you* want for any arbitrary API.

I'm also working on a fuse filesystem to mount inside of the container that mints the tokens client-side with short expiry times.

https://github.com/dtkav/agent-creds
by jongjong | 2026-01-19 04:00:29+00:00
The author seems to stop at 'code' but it seems we could go further and train an AI to work directly with binary. You give it a human prompt and a list of hardware components which make up your machine and it produces executable binary which fulfills your requirements and runs directly on those specific hardware, bypassing the OS.

You could potentially also not list out the hardware; just tell it the OS with version number and it would use the OS as an abstraction.
by JSR_FDED | 2026-01-19 04:00:48+00:00
Looked at Lume before and it was already very impressive then. For this unattended use case this looks amazing.

Slight tangent - do the VMs have decent graphics performance? I live in fear of one day accidentally pressing the Update button and being forced into the GUI mess that is Tahoe. Knowing I could just use a VM with Sequioa as my primary desktop would dramatically lower my anxiety.
Show HN: Skyscraper – A Native iPhone and iPad App for Bluesky
by CameronBanga | 2026-01-19 04:00:58+00:00
Hey all, will spare the marketing copy, and just share that I've very proud for the initial launch of my new app, Skyscraper for Bluesky.

I've been hanging around Bluesky for the past year, but the standard experience wasn't doing it for me. I wanted something native on my iPhone, with a Liquid Glass design.

So this is my initial release. On top of the standard Bluesky experience you would expect of a client, I also have the following features I'm excited about:

• Post Drafts — Save ideas for later
• Account Backup — Export and archive your data
• OAuth Support - Login without creating an app password
• Thread Archival - Share popular threads with friends off Bluesky
• Safari Extension — Open bsky.social links directly in Skyscraper
• Trending Hashtags — See what's buzzing right now
• Unified Timeline — See replies in your following feed
• Mute Reposts — Silence repost-happy users without unfollowing
• Post Translation — Read posts in any language

Would be appreciative of any feedback if you are a Bluesky user. As a launch promo/thank you, I'm offering 50% off for the first year ($9.99 USD), for subscription membership that includes multiple account support, some app theme customization, account archival, and more. This URL should allow you to subscribe via the App Store on your device: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6754198379&c...

The app is going live globally right now, so if not available in your region, it should be within the next few hours. There's a ton to use for free, so give it a try and if you like it, feel free to use that promo code!
by perihelions | 2026-01-19 04:01:05+00:00
> "or someone sabotaged the rail"

There were attacks a few weeks ago on railways in Poland—saboteurs twice tried (failed) to derail trains. One of them endangered a passenger train.

> "[Prime Minister Donald] Tusk said that a military-grade C4 explosive device had been detonated on 15 November at about 21:00 (20:00 GMT) near the village of Mika."

> "The explosion, which happened as a freight train was passing, caused minor damage to a wagon floor. It was captured on CCTV."

> "Tusk said the train driver had not even noticed the incident."

> "A previous attempt to derail a train by placing a steel clamp on the rail had failed, he added."

> "The second act of sabotage, on 17 November, involved a train carrying 475 passengers having to suddenly brake because of damaged railway infrastructure, said Tusk."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gknv8nxlzo
by jibal | 2026-01-19 04:01:24+00:00
https://medium.com/@paulgannonbike/for-a-more-accurate-accou...

"John Bull

Jan 18, 2018

Hello Paul,
Thanks very much for your response! Goes without saying that I bow to your more expert knowledge. Your book has been on my Amazon wish list for a while, but I’d never seen it as anything other than “from other sellers” (and I’m always wary about doing that as I’ve never been sure how much money — if any — makes it to the author).
For the record, this piece was originally written in 2015 based on my notes from a series of public lectures I attended then on WW1 intelligence and how the telegram was broken. When I was cleaning out some stuff last night, I realised I’d never published it, so quickly cross-checked key bits against the various general histories of intelligence / WW1 / Dilly and Bletchley I had to hand and published it.
I now very much wish your own book had been on those shelves! Sounds like it would have caught a lot more things.
I’ll make some quick rewrites based on the info you provided here and that is on your blog tonight.
Do you have a preferred online retail source for your book? It sounds like there’s alot more about this I can still read, which is both depressing and exciting in equal measure! I can also then add a direct link to it within the main article."
by LexiMax | 2026-01-19 04:01:51+00:00
> Having been a longtime Windows user, an on/off Linux desktop user, and now primarily a Mac user, I really think it's just what you're used to

I've also used all three OS's in anger and largely agree.

I like to call that sort of attitude YOSPOS, named after one of the technology-oriented subforums on Something Awful. It stands for "Your Operating System is a Piece Of Shit."

Which OS? Your OS, whichever one (the royal) You happen to be using at the time. They all stink for different reasons, and it's just a matter of which OS's annoyances you decide to put up with.

That said, good lord, Windows 11 has been rough. I actually don't mind most of the UI changes, but the AI psychosis and the general lack of stability has made Windows 11 one of the only versions of Windows I can remember that started mediocre and kept getting worse with updates instead of better.
by voidfunc | 2026-01-19 04:02:43+00:00
Microsoft already has a Linux, it is known as Azure Linux or cbl-mariner depending on the variant. It is not setup for being a general purpose OS. It is what we are supposed to use as our OS for Linux based services in Azure.

I just dont buy what the author is selling. Windows NT kernel is _good_. The userland is what is fucked and hated by many. But also Windows is more than just an OS it is an entire enterprise ecosystem. Stuff like Active Directory is a big deal and intimately intertwined with Windows.

Also, if there was a push to replace Windows NT with Linux you would have heard about it nnow. That is going to be a huge project and almost impossible to keep under wraps and without leaks. Microsoft isnt Apple when it comes to leak secrecy.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-19 04:02:49+00:00
You appear to be arguing with someone who isn't here (or else you replied to the wrong post.) Your personal fallacy of choice appears to be, "LLMs aren't godlike and infallible only a few years after being invented, despite absolutely no one ever claiming they were, so it's all a bunch of empty hype."

No one cares about the state of the art. Only the first couple of time derivatives matters. You're not getting smarter, but the models are.

How are those examples coming along, by the way? The ones that prove that IMO-level models aren't reasoning, but just getting really, really lucky?
Show HN: I treated dating like a Seed Round. Here is the Term Sheet
by love-doctor | 2026-01-19 04:02:58+00:00
Dating lacks governance, vesting schedules, and exit clauses. After getting tired of ambiguous “situationships,” I drafted a Series Seed–style term sheet modeled on high-growth financing documents. This is provided for humor and experimentation only—you are solely responsible for how you use or interpret it.
by deaux | 2026-01-19 04:03:14+00:00
Don't worry, after a few years everyone will agree with me. 2 years ago I was talking about the "Not just X, but Y" slop marker and no one had an idea what I was talking about. Now even the average corporate marketer recognizes it as an immediate slop hallmark. Slop websites, and Lucide being one of their hallmarks, are now where that phrase was 2 years ago.
by keyle | 2026-01-19 04:04:33+00:00
Not the author, but I think there was some research and it's indeed better for you if you have head support, to be facing back towards the front. If prevents a whole range of injuries, from your neck, to becoming a projectile yourself.

But it's really theoretical, and does not account for the passenger in front of you headed head-first into your throat.

PS: I laughed hard that xlbuttplug2 is answering to deadbabe. The internet lives!
by wk_end | 2026-01-19 04:05:38+00:00
You're assuming it was the only incident in America that day, rather than an exceptional outlier stacked on top of the usual day in America.

Yes, a single car crash killing 150 people would make the news. It would be among the worst, if not the single worst, car accident of all time [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-vehicle_collision
by bitwize | 2026-01-19 04:06:09+00:00
Eric S. Raymond wrote the same erotic fanfic a few years back just before his blog went kaputski (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764). It won't happen, because the NT kernel is a massive improvement in architecture over Linux or any conventional Unix—and Microsoft has proven, with WSL1 and 2, that they can achieve Linux compatibility while still basing everything on the NT kernel. Switching the Windows ecosystem to the Linux kernel is harder, because Hyrum's Law applies and some Windows binaries operate by using NT syscalls directly, bypassing msvcrt and Win32. And Windows has something Linux doesn't have, and it would take enormous effort for it to get: a sane driver model. It is possible to ship a device with a binary Windows driver and have it Just Work, even on later versions of Windows; this is just not possible under Linux.

The future for Microsoft is doubling down on "security" by making the PC as a platform more restricted: requiring a signed boot path mandatory from power on down through the application level code. They can convince OEMs that this is necessary for compliance with internet safety laws in certain countries, some of which require safety checks (like age verification) even on end-user equipment. It looks to me like some of their moves point in this direction: Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 because the plan is for Windows 12 to be a completely closed platform. Xbox is being phased out because the thing that distinguishes an Xbox from a cut-down PC—the locked-down nature of the platform—is something Microsoft intends to bring to all PCs with Pluton.
by jumploops | 2026-01-19 04:08:14+00:00
I ran the Gas Town intro post through ChatGPT 5.2 Pro[0]

Based on my initial read, and a pass at this summary, it seems mostly right. YMMV

Did some further dives into the little public usage data from Gas Town, and found that most of the "Beads" are tasks that are broken down quite small, almost too small imo.

Super interesting project with the goal of keeping Claude "busy" however it feels more like a casino game than something I'd use for production engineering.

[0]https://gist.github.com/jumploops/2e49032438650426aafee6f43d...
by deaux | 2026-01-19 04:08:45+00:00
> And I think if you math it out with something per capita equivalent, this would actually be an exceptionally bad day/incident for the US.

This is now how I interpreted "bad day", think it would be clearer to remove "day" if that's what you meant. Of course you're right in that it would be awful as a car accident, they simply don't happen that many as a time. Which is why our monkey brain's lack of emotional response to "many small cuts" vs "one big cut" incorrectly causes the belief that cars and e.g. coal/gas are much safer than they are.