MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SanjayMehta | 2026-01-24 03:24:52+00:00
Biden was clearly just a dementia patient. He was only coherent while the meds were working.

Trump is a highly functional dementia patient.

From the comedic value, I prefer Trump.

He blurts out whatever nonsense is in his head, it's hilarious. I also appreciate his straightforward criminality, he's not playing the usual "rules based order" games, just a real estate thug in power. It's so refreshing to watch.
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by molozey | 2026-01-24 03:25:31+00:00
Is anyone else interested at LinkedIn API service for automation?

I’m thinking about to start building an API that can be plugged into any common tool like n8n.
Right now, I’m trying to understand is this a common problem?

I tried to find a clean, API-based solution, but couldn’t find one. Seems like them all are really expensive or simply unpleasant to use

I also know there are many LinkedIn outreach tools but looks like they don’t offer a gateway for low-level or manual actions.

I also have a small idea how to turn it into MCP server to create tools zoo for example for chat interface
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-24 03:26:01+00:00
I have a car with smart cruise, but there's plenty of room for improvement. It isn't very smart at determining when it can avoid braking, such as when a car well ahead has slowed for a right turn. It also brakes too aggressively when someone cuts in front of me on the highway, in situations where just lifting off the gas would be better.

It also times out very quickly when traffic comes to a complete standstill, requiring manual intervention to get going again, and it doesn't give any indication to the driver when that occurs.

If these things bothered me much more than they do, I'd be interested in comma.ai as a possible solution. As it stands, the OEM radar cruise control is "Eh, good enough, I guess."
by ahf8Aithaex7Nai | 2026-01-24 03:26:46+00:00
> The complexity about XML comes from the many additional languages and tools built on top of it.

It's not just that, is it? There are also attributes versus child elements, dealing with white space including the xml:space attribute, namespaces, schemas, integration of external document fragments with xinclude:include or &extern;. Each of these is a huge can of worms in its own right. There are probably more that I'm not even aware of right now.

A few years ago, I wrote a fully functional parser for JSON that is easy to verify for correctness and that isn't just lying around somewhere as a toy, but is actually used (by me) in various projects time and again. Overall, building this parser was almost trivial. With XML, I'm not even sure I would be able to write a correct and complete parser.

But I agree with you that XML-based languages and XML tools make things even worse. I had to work with XML a lot over ten years ago. I still get annoyed when I think about XSLT, or dealing with schemas, or the challenge of finding usable tools that are reasonably compliant with standards.

You can only have a positive view of XML when you think of something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<booklist>
<book>
<title>Example Book</title>
<author>Max Mustermann</author>
<year>2025</year>
</book>
<book>
<title>Second Book</title>
<author>Erika Musterfrau</author>
<year>2026</year>
</book>
</booklist>

And at that level, I have (almost) no problem with XML. But as soon as things get more demanding and you really take the various aspects of XML's value proposition seriously, you enter a world of pain and despair. At least, that's how it was for me back then. Maybe I would see things differently today, but I'm not really interested in finding out.
by vpShane | 2026-01-24 03:27:03+00:00
They made themselves 'Guardians of The Internet' then gave up. If they cared, these things wouldn't happen. How many more outages, accidents, incidents that effect millions of customers and millions of customers for other services are needed before they 'care'?

They don't, because at the end of the day it's not their problem, the money rolls in regardless.

It's sad, but it's how it is. If they cared, these things wouldn't happen. They have a lot of responsibility, but show none whatsoever.
by smallerize | 2026-01-24 03:28:48+00:00
They don't have a single person listed as CEO. It was Ricardo Biasini for a while. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/02/george-hotz-aka-geohot-is-... More recently he was part of DOGE. https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/riccardo-biasini-doge-ag...

Maybe they meant Harald Schäfer (CTO), Alex Matzner (COO), or Adeeb Shihadeh (CPO).
by MoltenMan | 2026-01-24 03:29:33+00:00
Just to be clear: bitlocker is NOT encrypting with your login password! I could be a little fuzzy on the details but I believe how it works is that your TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is able to decrypt your laptop, but will only do so if there is a fully signed and trusted boot chain, so if somebody gains access to your laptop and attempts to boot into anything other than Windows, it will ask for the bitlocker key because the TPM won't play ball.

The important bit here is that ~*nobody* who is using Windows cares about encryption or even knows what it is! This is all on by default, which is a good thing, but also means that yes, of course Microsoft has to store the keys, because otherwise a regular user will happen to mess around with their bios one day and accidentally lock themselves permanently out of their computer.

If you want regular FDE without giving Microsoft the key you can go ahead and do it fairly easily! But realistically if the people in these cases were using Linux or something instead the police wouldn't have needed an encryption key because they would never have encrypted their laptop in the first place.
by sealeck | 2026-01-24 03:30:12+00:00
It's not just about performance: having an in-process MVCC engine would simplify the implementation of many single-machine concurrent applications. Currently you usually have to combine SQLite with some kind of concurrency primitives; this is extremely painful because most OS-level concurrency primitives are really easy to misuse (e.g. it's trivial to accidentally add deadlocks, and very hard to spot and remove these ahead of time: example hard to spot concurrency bugs https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/, https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/400)
by vee-kay | 2026-01-24 03:30:18+00:00
The trick is create a filter to weed out such junk. And if a company sends me marketing fluff without unsubscribe option, then it goes in the junk/spam folder, and I may eventually discontinue my account with that service provider altogether.

Because I periodically check my sp/junk folder to see if legitimate emails got dumped there, so I eventually know who's a spammer and who's not.
by Ethee | 2026-01-24 03:31:10+00:00
I think that most of the anecdotal and research experiences I've seen for AI agent use so far tell us that you need at least a couple pass-throughs to converge upon a good solution, so even in your future vision where we have models 5x as good as now, I'll still need at least a few agents to ensure I arrive at a good solution. By this I specifically mean a working implementation of the design, not an incorrect assumption of the design which leads the AI off on the wrong path which I feel like is the main issue I keep hearing over and over. So coming back to your point, assuming we can have the 'perfect' design document which lays out everything, yeah we'll probably only need like 5 agents total to actually build it in a few years.
by gros_pigeon | 2026-01-24 03:31:14+00:00
Hello there!

I've created yet another HTTP proxy analyzer. I was unhappy about the subscription models of available products for basic features like replay and saving as HAR... so here is another way in a GPL license.

I know better tools aimed at security exists, but I needed a simpler one.

It is an electron app (yeah I know) for making it multi-platform and not yet signed for releases, so I suggest to use the dev install for now.

Cheers

gros_pigeon
by davidzweig | 2026-01-24 03:31:16+00:00
I've got the first boards on my desk for a media player based around the Sifli 58 chip. 1.8" amoled display and 16 buttons.

https://imgur.com/a/45GuaEA

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55419.0.html

Anyone want to help with porting Rockbox?
by DivingForGold | 2026-01-24 03:32:36+00:00
Russia mines approximately 300 to 330 metric tons of gold annually, so it's the world's second-largest gold producer after China.

Production in 2024 was estimated at 310–330 tons, with significant output from Siberian and Far Eastern regions like Krasnoyarsk Krai and Magadan Oblast.

So in a couple of years or so that amount of ~395 tons sold off can be replaced.
by consumer451 | 2026-01-24 03:32:38+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I mentioned tech, but forgot about time. Yeah, that makes solid sense.

> Or locked up in an app...

I believe you may have at least partially meant Discord, for which I personally have significant hate. Not really for the owners/devs, but why in the heck would any product owner want to hide the knowledge of how to user their app on a closed platform? No search engine can find it, no LLM can learn from it(?). Lost knowledge. I hate it so much. Yes, user engagement, but knowledge vs. engagement is the battle of our era, and knowledge keeps losing.

r/anything is so much better than a Discord server, especially in the age of "Software 3.0"/)
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-24 03:33:15+00:00
> Without denying the Commission’s allegations, Ellison, Wang, and Singh consented to the entry of final judgments, subject to court approval, in which they agreed to be permanently enjoined from violating the antifraud provisions of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder and Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, and to 5-year conduct-based injunctions. Ellison also consented to a 10-year officer-and-director bar, and Wang and Singh consented to 8-year officer-and-director bars.

That’s a really light sentence for someone who defrauded people out of billions. Meanwhile many languish in prison for a lot less. It’s a two tier justice system, and the wealthy can get out of consequences with the right connections or donations.

Next up, Elizabeth Holmes - once her family donates enough to the MAGA PAC.
by OutOfHere | 2026-01-24 03:35:24+00:00
The problem with New Zealand is that it's not a nuclear power, and its neighbor Australia isn't either. Being in a remote corner of the world is its main allure. Even so, any such country is completely at the mercy of those that are nuclear powers with a global reach. This is why even Scandinavian countries and Switzerland fail, as they are dependent on an increasingly shaky NATO. I guess he could have moved to France since it has a deterrent.
by comex | 2026-01-24 03:36:00+00:00
It is the same project, but my impression is that HN exaggerated many of the issues with it.

For example:

- They did eventually get it to build. Unknown to me: were the agents working on it able to build it, or were they blindly writing code? The codebase can't have been _that_ broken since it didn't take long for them to get it buildable, and they'd produced demo screenshots before that.

- It had a dependency on QuickJS, but also a homegrown JS implementation; apparently (according to this post) QuickJS was intended as a placeholder. I have no idea which, if either, ended up getting used, though I suspect it may not even matter for the static screenshots they were showing off (the sites may not have required JS to show that).

- Some of the dependencies (like Skia and HarfBuzz) are libraries that other browsers also depend on and are not part of browser projects themselves.

- Other dependencies probably shouldn't have been used, but they only represent a fraction of what a browser has to do.

However…

What I don't know, and seemingly nobody else knows, is how functional the rest of the codebase is. It's apparently very slow and fails to render most websites. But is this more like "lots of bugs, but a solid basis", or is it more like "cargo-culted slop; even the stuff that works only works by chance"? I hope someone investigates.
by codedokode | 2026-01-24 03:36:58+00:00
Cooperating with law enforcement cannot be a fraud. Fraud is lying to get illegal gains. I think, it's legally ok to lie if the goal is to catch a criminal and help the government.

For example, in 20th century, an European manufacturer of encryption machines (Crypto AG [1]) made a backdoor at request of governments and never got punished - instead it got generous payments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
by albert_e | 2026-01-24 03:37:06+00:00
Offtopic but --

The "Listen to article" media player at the top of the post -- was super quick to load on mobile but took two attempts and a page refresh to load on desktop.

If I want to listen as well as read the article ... the media player scrolls out of view along with the article title as we scroll down ..leaving us with no way to control (pause/play) the audio if needed.

There are no playback controls other than pause and speed selector. So we cannot seek or skip forward/backward if we miss a sentence. the time display on the media player is also minimal. Wish these were a more accessible standardized feature set available on demand and not limited by what the web designer of each site decides.

I asked "Claude on Chrome" extension to fix the media player to the top. It took 2 attempts to get it right. (It was using Haiku by default -- may be a larger model was needed for this task). I think there is scope to create a standard library for such client side tweaks to web pages -- sort of like greasemonkey user scripts but at a slightly higher level of abstraction with natural language prompts.
by doanbactam | 2026-01-24 03:39:05+00:00
Solid list. The bit about avoiding the preprocessor as much as possible really resonates—using `static inline` functions and `enum` instead of macros makes debugging so much less painful. What's your take on using C11's `_Generic` for type-generic macros? It adds some verbosity but can save you from a lot of runtime type errors.
by ltbarcly3 | 2026-01-24 03:40:10+00:00
Codex is extremely bad to the point it is almost useless.

Claude Code is very effective. Opus is a solid model and claude very reliably solves problems and is generally efficient and doesn't get stuck in weird loops or go off in insane tangents too often. You can be very very efficient with claude code.

Gemini-cli is quite good. If you set `--model gemini-3-pro-preview` it is quite usable, but the flash model is absolute trash. Overall gemini-3-pro-preview is 'smarter' than opus, but the tooling here is not as good as claude code so it tends to get stuck in loops, or think for 5 minutes, or do weird extreme stuff. When Gemini is on point it is very very good, but it is inconsistent and likely to mess up so much that it's not as productive to use as claude.

Codex is trash. It is slow, tends to fail to solve problems, gets stuck in weird places, and sometimes has to puzzle on something simple for 15 minutes. The codex models are poor, and forcing the 5.2 model is expensive, and even then the tooling is incredibly bad and tends to just fail a lot. I check in to see if codex is any good from time to time and every time it is laughably bad compared to the other two.
by themafia | 2026-01-24 03:41:09+00:00
> who had no idea their drive was encrypted

I think you just identified the problem clearly.

> Now the police don't even have to ask!

Security is not a switch you can turn on and forget about. Plus the police have extraordinary real world powers to compel you to disclose the necessary information anyways. Unless you're holding state secrets, which, c'mon, you're almost certainly going to give in and cooperate at some point. It wouldn't make for a great Hollywood movie but it would accurately reflect day to day reality.

> unreadable to everyone except you, Microsoft, and the police.

That's two too many. It should either be unreadable to everyone but me or readable by anyone with physical access. Does it not occur to people that you can still rely on physical security even in computing?

> Apple does the same thing

The two corporate computing giants do the same thing? I am not surprised but I also don't see it as a worthwhile data point.
by cthalupa | 2026-01-24 03:44:47+00:00
There was a front page post just a couple of days ago where the article claimed LLMs have not improved in any way in over a year - an obviously absurd statement. A year before Opus 4.5, I couldn't get models to spit out a one shot Tampermonkey script to add chapter turns to my arrow keys. Now I can one small personal projects in claude code.

If you are saying that people are not making irrational and intellectually dishonest arguments about AI, I can't believe that we're reading the same articles and same comments.
by sathackr | 2026-01-24 03:45:18+00:00
It's infinitely better than HDA2 at tracking and maintaining lanes.

HDA2 cuts out if there is a break in lines more than 50ft or so.

Openpilot can track the slightest of roads, even able to follow off-road the tracks in grass from a leading car.

It does basically everything HDA2 does and then some, and does it much better.

It has a driver-monitoring camera that you control, that monitors for inattentiveness which is much more effective than simple wheel-torque based sensors.
by Nursie | 2026-01-24 03:45:41+00:00
I didn’t claim that Chinese biotech isn’t great. I am sure that like most Chinese research, engineering etc it is world class.

But there is evidence from all around the world that the Chinese government is actively pushing TCM, that they push it with the WHO, and that they are actively trying to open up markets for TCM “pharmaceuticals” and practice in African and other nations.

I put links in some of the sibling comments.
by UnlockedSecrets | 2026-01-24 03:46:05+00:00
My car judges it if I have put in any manual inputs over the past 10 or so seconds then it starts complaining. Which is seemingly reasonable however there's plenty of nearly perfect straight aways where there's nothing to do for it or me.

It would be nice if it had a system where if it isn't doing anything, it doesn't think I'm not doing anything either.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-24 03:46:36+00:00
Outside competition allows progress because we have been shown time and time again that the US will just not solve its problems without outside pressure. I'd also argue that any other country in its position would act the same. For example when the USSR was actively competing with the US, they could easily lob a major criticism of the US in capturing 'hearts and minds' of other nations: "Look at how they treat their minorities. Do you really want to work with those people?"

Yes there were very active causes and groups in the US to correct this issue, but that outside pressure forced leadership to be nudged towards corrective action and I wonder if the USSR hadn't been there would we have gotten Civil Rights legislation passed when we did?

Maybe the same will happen with China showing the US how fast they can get stuff done and what they provide as benefits to their citizens vs a declining US. Already TikTok has helped Gen-Z realize how Israel gets so many benefits (universal healthcare, college tuition, benefits for birthing kids etc.) while the US is in massive debt and continues to send money to Israel. That continued propaganda may lead to an eventual backlash and subsequent reform.
by positron26 | 2026-01-24 03:46:40+00:00
Anyone who hates driving, being stuck in traffic, anyone who benefits when the cost of transportation is cheaper, anyone who hates insurance, all of society benefits. In some parallel universe self driving and fusion are both crash projects receiving well administered social scale funding. Lots of things are. It is somewhat miraculous that we don't all live in this conclusion, realizing these huge value creation opportunities by investing aggressively in the upstream tech. There is a horse I would very much like to drown for only a few million USD.
by AngryData | 2026-01-24 03:47:00+00:00
Why not? You are free to modify your vehicle in almost anyway you want as a consumer. Should someone putting some rain shields on their window require licensing and government testing for it because it might break off? Should generic brake pads or tierod ends require independent government testing or approval to be purchased and used?

Regulations don't exist to save people from their own stupid mistakes, they exist to prevent systemic abuses and dangers to the public in the pursuit of profit. And we already know from endless examples that corporations will knowingly let people die if their decision will increase profit margins. Not to mention the public doesn't have the ability to properly test or verify corporate designed and sold devices. Unless corporations provide all documentation related to the design and materials and code used, they should have special restrictions and regulations beyond what the average person does.
by omoikane | 2026-01-24 03:47:36+00:00
> they're not even charging you for it

The github repo says to use openpilot, you will need to buy a comma device[1], which they sell at $999.[2]

[1] https://github.com/commaai/openpilot?tab=readme-ov-file#usin...

[2] https://comma.ai/shop/comma-four
by cthalupa | 2026-01-24 03:48:52+00:00
> Isn’t that the whole point of publishing?

No, obviously not. You're confusing a marketing post by people with a product to sell with an actual review of the work by the relevant community, or even review by interested laypeople.

This is a marketing post where they provide no evidence that any of these are hallucinations beyond their own AI tool telling them so - and how do we know it isn't hallucinating? Are there hallucinations in there? Almost certainly. Would the authors deserve being called out by people reviewing their work? Sure.

But what people don't deserve is an unrelated VC funded tech company jumping in and claiming all of their errors are LLM hallucinations when they have no actual proof, painting them all a certain way so they can sell their product.

> Don’t publish things that aren’t verified and you won’t have a problem

If we were holding this company to the same standard, this blog wouldn't be posted either. They have not and can not verify their claims - they can't even say that their claims are based on their own investigations.
by charcircuit | 2026-01-24 03:49:14+00:00
>We can imagine a social media that doesn't play games with the "attention economy", trying to "increase retention"

A social network where no one is there is not that valuable. Incentivizing people to "socialize" more has exponential value to a social network.

>As a result, these major companies no longer need to create better products so that you will use them instead of a competitor,

I feel like this person is regurgitating old arguments. With the recent AI boom, it should be obvious that companies are still trying to build better products. And it is fully possible for new players like OpenAI to get a billion users.
by arwt | 2026-01-24 03:49:58+00:00
Reminds me of the Tailwind situation.

I feel bad for Jeff and more importantly all of the staff members who are now out of a job. Laracasts was the first ever sort of online course I paid for, and I got immense value out of it at that time.

But times change. This is more true now than ever.

It is a brutal world. Good luck to them.
by nebula8804 | 2026-01-24 03:50:01+00:00
Its been a while now and I've wondered if anyone has recorded any hard data in how the acquisitions has shifted the platform. I just hope that someone is collecting hard records so we can see the damage after everything has played out over time.

As far as I can tell at least among the American left, criticism of israel has become so commonplace and part of the culture that its become a "memeable" event at this point.

I wonder how the Israel lobby will manage to turn that ship around at this point?