MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-29 01:09:11+00:00
Check out videos of Chinese car company factories. They are far more automated and futuristic than Tesla’s. Most of the new ones have almost no humans in them at all. They have great supply chains and partners for everything that is an input into these factories, and they’re often just up the street from the car factories. The costs are rock bottom and the competition between car companies in China is absolutely bananas.
by tokioyoyo | 2026-01-29 01:09:26+00:00
Every country has their own problems. Honestly, there aren't a single large country where everything is perfect. Too many opinions, too many needs, increase median age of the politicians and the population, and etc. causes imperfect solution to every problem. At the end of the day, you have to prioritize and figure out what's important to you.

I agree with literally every point you made. Sure economy is stagnant, but I'd rather take stagnant economy than a collapsing one. I agree with a lot of things are slow, but also, most of things are just... not a big deal, at least for me? I lived in Canada, and have parts of my family living in NYC as well. For every slow government related slow things, you can find something that's also slow in the NA as well. I'm not going to mention Europe at this point, as from what I've witness from my European partner, you can find inefficiencies there as well. Again, pros and cons everywhere, just gotta pick and choose what matters to you.
by OisinMoran | 2026-01-29 01:10:19+00:00
An excellent 3 part video from Elyot Grant [0] introduced me to the term "fiero" for this conquering after a struggle, in contrast to a simple "aha/eureka". The difference being one is transmissible, the other is not. Thought it was a nice distinction. Highly recommend the videos!

[0] Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCHciE9CYfA
by jychang | 2026-01-29 01:10:29+00:00
Yeah. Example: stripper poles. Or hitachi magic wands.

Those poles WERE NOT invented for strippers/pole dancers. Ditto for the hitachis. Even now, I'm pretty sure more firemen use the poles than strippers. But that doesn't stop the association from forming. That doesn't make me not feel a certain way if I see a stripper pole or a hitachi magic wand in your living room.
by solid_fuel | 2026-01-29 01:10:40+00:00
> Just because you can cook with a hammer doesn't make it its purpose.

If you survey all the people who own a hammer and ask what they use it for, cooking is not going to make the list of top 10 activities.

If you look around at what LLMs are being used for, the largest spaces where they have been successfully deployed are astroturfing, scamming, and helping people break from reality by sycophantically echoing their users and encouraging psychosis.
by jaybrendansmith | 2026-01-29 01:10:41+00:00
So 2nd amendment yeah? I have a license to concealed carry in PA. You are saying I should be murdered in cold blood on the street? Again, this is PRECISELY what the bill of rights and our constitution is all about. Have you read Common Sense? Please try to get through it. It explains many things but chief among them is that the government exists only to ensure the maximum freedom of the people from fear. "Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid". That is what America is all about. If someone comes into my city to evict violent illegals, yes, I voted for that, and would again. If someone comes in to my city to a) Evict legal immigrants of color, b) Take children away from parents c) Murder good citizens in cold blood, e) Punish political enemies, or f) attack, beat, and tear gas nonviolent protesters? Well as an actual American who believes in and understands the US Constitution, I will be right there, next to those protesters, and looking to abolish and defund whatever godless and ethic-free agency is purporting to carry out the will of the People.
by callc | 2026-01-29 01:10:41+00:00
You can say the same thing as we invented the atomic bomb.

Cool science and engineering, no doubt.

Not paying any attention to societal effects is not cool.

Plus, presenting things as inevitabilities is just plain confidently trying to predict the future. Anyone can san “I understand one day this era will be history and X will have happened”. Nobody knows how the future will play out. Anyone who says they do is a liar. If they actually knew then go ahead and bet all your savings on it.
by dylan604 | 2026-01-29 01:11:24+00:00
Have you never heard of a trust before? They have all sorts of stipulations depending on what the person creating the trust wants. It's very common for a kid to only get access to their trust when they turn 18 with more access granted at other milestones. It also sounds like a free life insurance policy. Those also only pay out when someone dies.

This doesn't sound macabre at all to me. Sounds more like loophole finding to avoid directly paying the athletes to allow them to keep their amateur status to me.
by starkeeper | 2026-01-29 01:12:02+00:00
To Protect yourself, this is what I did and experienced:

I set windows update service to manual, and so far the updates have not reset it, and I have been able to choose to install when I want. I feel safer, but I KNOW microsoft will fuck this over probably on their next update.

Another trick is as a super-super admin you can make executables UNEXECUTABLE by anyone. Things like Edge, etc. They do not let us remove their TRASH, but we still can lock them out, at least for now.

Another thing I had to do with Windows 11 when I had to rebuild my system because of Microsoft's SSD bug they would not cop too... They got rid of the magic trick to disable to OOBE which forces you to login with a microsoft account.... I could not find a way to work around it, but as soon as I was in I created a local admin user and it works well, they only force logged me in when I had to run FUCKING TEAMS for a job interview.

I'm heading down the linux path very soon, I almost did last year. Dual boot for a while, to see if how well my Steam library plays (literally it's the only thing keeping me on Windows 11).... Looking at Bazzite for this but we'll see.

We must UNITE to fight this tryany!
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-29 01:12:04+00:00
Yeah, that makes sense on the hardware end. It's really hard to compete and even some large players like LG ultimately fell out because of that.

But I was more speaking on the software end. You can certainly piss off Google if enough people decided to buy an android phone but have it boot up Linux instead. Might even piss off Samsung, so that's a plus. I assume the infrastructure to get APK support on Linux is a herculean task, though (that's the only way I see as a middleground until native linux apps work on mobile).
by anonym29 | 2026-01-29 01:12:06+00:00
With kv caching, most of the MoE models are very usable in claude code. Active params seems to dominate TG speeds, and unlike PP, TG speeds don't decay much even with context length growth.

Even moderately large and capable models like gpt-oss:120b and Qwen3-Next-80B have pretty good TG speeds - think 50+ tok/s TG on gpt-oss:120b.

PP is the main thing that suffers due to memory bandwidth, particularly for very long PP stretches on typical transformers models, per the quadratic attention needs, but like I said, with KV caching, not a big deal.

Additionally, newer architectures like hybrid linear attention (Qwen3-Next) and hybrid mamba (Nemotron) exhibit much less PP degradation over longer contexts, not that I'm doing much long context processing thanks to KV caching.

My 4080 is absolutely several times faster... on the teeny tiny models that fit on it. Could I have done something like a 5090 or dual 3090 setup? Sure. Just keep in mind I spent considerably less on my entire Strix Halo rig (a Beelink GTR 9 Pro, $1980 w/ coupon + pre-order pricing) than a single 5090 ($3k+ for just the card, easily $4k+ for a complete PCIe 5 system), it draws ~110W on Vulkan workloads, and idles below 10W, taking up about as much space as a Gamecube. Comparing it to an $8500 RTX 6000 Pro is a completely nonsensical comparison and was outside of my budget in the first place.

Where I will absolutely give your argument credit: for AI outside of LLMs (think genAI, text2img, text2vid, img2img, img2vid, text2audio, etc), Nvidia just works while Strix Halo just doesn't. For ComfyUI workloads, I'm still strictly using my 4080. Those aren't really very important to me, though.

Also, as a final note, Strix Halo's theoretical MBW is 256 GB/s, I routinely see ~220 GB/s real world, not 200 GB/s. Small difference when comparing to GDDR7 on a 512 bit bus, but point stands.
by blks | 2026-01-29 01:12:21+00:00
So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

Claims of productive boosts must always be inspected very carefully, as they are often perceived, and reality may be the opposite (eg spending more time wrestling the tools), or creating unmaintainable debt, or making someone else spend extra time to review the PR and make 50 comments.
by AuthAuth | 2026-01-29 01:12:45+00:00
I'm not a visual designer but heres what I think is making it look so bad. The task bar is way to thick. The flat design of the icons needs some shadows or something to make them pop a bit. The rounding on the corners is way to much and needes to be dialed back significantly. There is both a top bar and a bottom bar, pick one ffs dont waste screenspace with both. Also top bar is transparent while bottom is fat and grey. I'd keep the top bar and scrap the bottom.

As far as OS's that look good, #1 KDE Plasma with breeze, MacOS snow leopard, Windows xp and vista.
by kalleboo | 2026-01-29 01:13:55+00:00
Patreon's whole shift away from the bulk billing never made sense to me.

I subscribe to like 10 patrons each at $1-$3/month. Right now they can just charge me once, $20/mo, pay 3%+30c card fee on that, they pay a buck in fees, get $19, great.

Instead they want to charge me $1, 10 times a month, hit with a 30c fee every time, instead paying a total of $5 in fees, getting way less proportionally.

They must really make their bulk on big patrons paying like $20+/month to a single patreon
by Larrikin | 2026-01-29 01:14:00+00:00
It's actually a fair question. There are software projects I wouldn't have taken on without an LLM. Not because I couldn't make it. But because of the time needed to create it.

I could have taken the time to do the math to figure out what the rewards structure is for my Wawa points and compare it to my car's fuel tank to discover I should strictly buy sandwiches and never gas.

People have been making nude celebrity photos for decades now with just Photoshop.

Some activities have gotten a speed up. But so far it was all possible before just possibly not feasible.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-01-29 01:14:23+00:00
> Google just apparently paid pocket change to settle out of court... If you're asking yourself why settle if they're innocent: it's cheaper.

It's much more likely that they aren't innocent because:

1. There's no evidence contradicting the eavesdropping charges

2. It's likely that Google paid to avoid court discovery of evidence for their wrongdoing, not because "it's cheaper"

3. While the settlement is cheap, the litigation costs for Google would hardly be higher if the won. Moreover, reputational gains from winning the lawsuit would justify paying a higher price for litigation even if it exceeded settlement costs (besides, almost any amount is "cheap" for Google).
by coppsilgold | 2026-01-29 01:14:32+00:00
They can trace a torrented 4K piece of content to the device (or private key) that ripped it using A/B watermarking.

See AWS offering: (and probably what they use for Prime Video, Netflix has their own)

For large-scale per-viewer, implement a content identification strategy that allows you to trace back to specific clients, such as per-user session-based watermarking. With this approach, media is conditioned during transcoding and the origin serves a uniquely identifiable pattern of media segments to the end user. A session to a user-mapping service receives encrypted user ID information in the header or cookies of the request context and uses this information to determine the uniquely identifiable pattern of media segments to serve to the viewer. This approach requires multiple distinctly watermarked copies of content to be transcoded, with a minimum of two sets of content for A/B watermarking. Forensic watermarking also requires YUV decompression, so encoding time for 4K feature length content can take upwards of 20 hours. DRM service providers in the AWS Partner Network (APN) are available to aid in the deployment of per-viewer content forensics.

<https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/streaming...>

They also use a traitor tracing scheme (Tardos codes) such that if multiple pirates get together to try and remove the watermark they will fail, you would need an unreasonably large number of pirates to succeed for some length of time.
by MarkSweep | 2026-01-29 01:14:41+00:00
I think some form of ads made it into the release channel. I recently did a clean install of Windows 11 25H2 and I could not figure out how to get App Store ads out of the search results in the start menu. That and a game working better on Linux than Windows was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me and I installed Ubuntu.
by echelon | 2026-01-29 01:15:19+00:00
> So instead of actually making films, thing you as a filmmaker supposedly like to do, you have some chat bot to do it for you? Or what part of that is generated by chat bot?

There's no chatbot. You can use image-to-image, ControlNets, LoRAs, IPAdapters, inpainting, outpainting, workflows, and a lot of other techniques and tools to mold images as if they were clay.

I use a lot of 3D blocking with autoregressive editing models to essentially control for scene composition, pose, blocking, camera focal length, etc.

Here's a really old example of what that looks like (the models are a lot better at this now) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVgNNJP6Vc

There are lots of incredibly talented folks using Blender, Unreal Engine, Comfy, Touch Designer, and other tools to interface with models and play them like an orchestra - direct them like a film auteur.
by defrost | 2026-01-29 01:15:31+00:00
I scrolled back a little.

There are a number of local citizens upset at two out of state vehicles blocking off a road while (?) executing warrentless invasions of homes in the community (?)

What is the appropriate action when Federal over reach is so blatent and unaddressed?

It's not as if people there are angry at ICE / DHS for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
by zahlman | 2026-01-29 01:15:40+00:00
McSweeney's is a well known Internet satire site that has been in operation for decades; while there are multiple contributors, the style here seems fairly standard for the site, the author has a submission history going back to at least 2020 and I see no LLM cliches. Suspecting AI here makes about as much sense to me as suspecting it on an arbitrarily selected LWN article.
by Retr0id | 2026-01-29 01:16:06+00:00
A DRM system is, abstractly, a black box that contains some initial static key material, which is used to identify+authenticate the device and load in more keys at runtime, typically over some network protocol. The DRM uses those dynamically provisioned keys to decrypt the content.

For hardware DRM schemes, the initial key material is typically provisioned during manufacturing.

Since the server-side is able to identify the client device, they can in theory fingerprint the content if they want to. That way if someone cracks and shares the content, they can look at the fingerprint and figure out which device (and which account) leaked it - and then ban them.

I've never seen direct evidence that Netflix fingerprints their 4K content (although I've never properly looked), so I suspect the device-burning thing might be a bit of an urban legend. But it is technically plausible.
by subjectsigma | 2026-01-29 01:16:20+00:00
When did you use a Mac last, 2010?

You can run nix on macOS now. You can also drag windows into corners or edges to tile them, it is almost exactly like Windows 7 or 10. You can even have tiling window managers on macOS that emulate i3.

Your complaints with the dock seem like a personal choice... I like the dock behavior but if you don't, probably not a lot that will fix that, it will always suck.

Sad to report that external monitor support is still terrible.
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by tekkie00 | 2026-01-29 01:16:41+00:00
Hey HN! I built a little side project I wanted to share.

Shelvy is a free, visual bookshelf app where you can organize books you're reading, want to read, or have finished. Sign in to save your own collection.

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Would love any feedback on the UX or feature ideas!
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-29 01:17:06+00:00
It depends. The most common reason is bitrate - the non-Netflix could have been ripped from another source (BD), or even from another service that has rights to the show in a different market (with higher bitrate).

The other trick some groups use is so-called hybrid releases. This involves combining video and audio from multiple sources to achieve the best possible quality. These are usually explicitly tagged as HYBRID, and afaik mostly applies to 4K remuxes.
by actuallyalys | 2026-01-29 01:19:03+00:00
I did notice that the writer says he was commissioned to cowrite a report that will be the basis for a lawsuit against the tax:

> Four Norwegian entrepreneurs have commissioned yours truly, Dr. Laura Melusine Baudenbacher and Professor Dr. Dr. Mads Andenas to write a comparative law study on the Norwegian wealth tax. This report will be the basis for a class action against the Norwegian state.

I assume the fact it’s submitted to a court will dissuade the authors from making totally unsubstantiated claims, but it still seems like there’s a strong financial incentive for them to reach negative conclusions about the tax.
by kshri24 | 2026-01-29 01:19:26+00:00
> just use my evil technology

Ridiculous to say the technology, by itself, is evil somehow. It is not. It is just math at the end of the day. Yes you can question the moral/societal implications of said technology (if used in a negative way) but that does not make the technology itself evil.

For example, I hate vibe coding with a passion because it enables wrong usage (IMHO) of AI. I hate how easy it has become to scam people using AI. How easy it is to create disinformation with AI. Hate how violence/corruption etc could be enabled by using AI tools. Does not mean I hate the tech itself. The tech is really cool. You can use the tech for doing good as much as you can use it for destroying society (or at the very minimum enabling and spreading brainrot). You choose the path you want to tread.

Just do enough good that it dwarfs the evil uses of this awesome technology.
by Mars008 | 2026-01-29 01:19:27+00:00
> I always thought that a manager should push product vision at their own level, get and organize resources, and assess the talent as fairly as possible.

LOL, reality is very different. Manager first of all is working to keep his position, second to get promoted. Most of them. For keeping he need to become irreplaceable. For that they create kill zone around eliminating competitors. Working against those with brain, not promoting, giving negative reviews, creating 'cases', taking credits for others job. Making those who can leave. I've seen a lot of this shit. This creates a local depressive shithole. It can go for decades in monopolies and in low competition markets.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 01:19:54+00:00
I guess yeah, Most of my concerns were with Privacy but yea looks like grapheneos is a tradeoff I might have to make some day

but honestly its also the fact that I love cli tools and yea I can and I have used termux in the past but I really wish for a more first class for cli tools as well and I don't know but I just really wish to support linux tools.

Like I am just not satisfied with the current options we have right now and you can look at fragmede's comment as to why I mean that. I mean I just want a cheap affordable linux phone with just decent specs nothing too fancy. By decent I mean that I used to be on a dumb phone for a year with 32 mb ram iirc so perhaps my specs can be considered to be minimal but I feel like 2-4GB ram might be a good start. (prefer the 4gb option as to favour both me anad the masses)

Can framework or some other company go ahead and create a linux phone too please?
by coffeemug | 2026-01-29 01:20:27+00:00
I still don’t understand why people oppose that rather than enthusiastically desire it. The end state you’re describing is the culmination of the enlightenment project. Automating labor is the point! Then you can paint, or play chess, or eat amazing food, or do whatever you want. Work isn’t the end, it’s the means. Products and services is the end. If we can achieve the end via technology, who cares about the work?
by OisinMoran | 2026-01-29 01:20:34+00:00
I had a very similar issue with Chants of Sennaar (another incredible game), where there were exactly 3 words I was missing, I knew what they were, but couldn't find them. I kept going anyway and found one (by a different method than usual), then eventually after scouring the whole map twice had to look it up and there was just a stairs down the edge of one section that I didn't see at all, but which also didn't respond to the "hint" button that normally shows you any direction you can go or thing you can interact with.

Also very glad I looked up the solution for the Obelisk puzzle in Fez as there was no way I was getting that (seemingly incredibly contrived, but apparently not correctly solved yet) solution.
by tjohns | 2026-01-29 01:20:40+00:00
It would be under the FCC regs, not the FAA regs.

Whatever transmitter you're using would not be type-accepted for operation on the 1080 MHz or 978 MHz band. (47 USC § 301)

Additionally, RF operation with the intent of willful interference is inherently illegal. (47 USC § 333)
by blibble | 2026-01-29 01:21:00+00:00
> I understand that one day this era will be history and society will be as integrated with AI as we are with other transformative technologies

I'd rather be dead than a cortex reaver[1]

(and I suspect as I'm not a billionaire, the billionare owned killbots will make sure of that)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egtkzqZ_XA
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-29 01:21:31+00:00
> I also am wearing machine-fabricated clothing and enjoying a host of other products of automation.

I'm not really a fan of the "you criticize society yet you participate in it" argument.

>I understand that one day this era will be history and society will be as integrated with AI as we are with other transformative technologies.

You seem to forget the blood shed over the history that allowed that tech to benefit the people over just the robber barons. Unimaginable amounts of people died just so we could get a 5 day workweek and minimum wage.

We don't get a benficial future by just laying down and letting the people with the most perverse incentives decide the terms. The very least you can do is not impede those trying to fight for those futures if you can't/don't want to fight yourself.
by themaninthedark | 2026-01-29 01:22:03+00:00
>> Context menus take a noticeable amount of time to appear.

>I can almost guarantee this is from some endpoint management software your company installed.

It seems to be a common complaint online, dating back to the launch of 11. I see some of the blame being put on extensions but what changed in the extensions between 10 and 11 to cause this?

I know on my work computer I was experiencing this plus I almost always have to click show more and wait for that lag to finish.

I was able to edit the registry to show all at the cost of 1 lag...so I guess a step forward?