MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thisislife2 | 2026-01-27 19:20:25+00:00
I have indeed spent some time in Arab countries, and also know a few of them. They didn't spout any kind of antisemitism. (Some of them did warn me to be careful of Egyptians though :). They do have disgust towards Israel as a country because of the actions of the Israeli-right in power. But that's not antisemitism however much Netanyahu and his cohorts would like it to be. I however do know some religious fundamentalist muslims in my own country, who are definitely antisemitic and hate Jews for, well, being Jews. I also know some religious fundamentalists Hindus who hate muslims, again, just because they are muslims. But that's just how religious fundamentalists are - they aren't rational human beings and you can't use them as example to tarnish a whole community. Netanyahu and his ilks are right-wing religious fundamentlaists too, and that is why it is easy for them to slaughter Palestinian muslims and Christians. Does that mean all Israeli jews are horrible human beings too, like them? Ofcourse not.
by pasquinelli | 2026-01-27 19:20:36+00:00
good thing i can talk myself in a circle to pretend everything bad is good. yes, in years past i touted the fact that all the best minds in the world want to come to america as a reason america no. 1, but now thst that doesn't seem to be the case as much, america still no. 1 somehow. see how i'm moving around electons on the internet? i'm really thinking, aren't i?
by hearsathought | 2026-01-27 19:20:55+00:00
> What you're describing here (ironically) is unironically the basis for Western political thought.

It's not just "western" political thought if such a thing even exists. It's political thought.

For example, Japan's stated goal in ww2 was to liberate asia from european invaders. They portrayed themselves as the good guys. The liberators. That's true for every empire and war in history, "western" or "eastern" or "northern" or "southern". It was always the self-proclaimed "good guys" fighting self-proclaimed "good guys". The winner gets to keep the "good guy" handle while the loser gets assigned the "bad guy" handle.

Had japan won ww2, that's how history would have taught ww2. Instead, japan lost and the US won and hence we get to claim to be the good guys while japan does not.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-27 19:20:59+00:00
Hell knows they've got the budget for it, as last year Republicans voted to give them more money than many foreign militaries, and more than all other Federal law enforcement combined.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/34767/allocation-of-us-fe...

And now they're trying to pour even more of your tax dollars into the lawlessness:

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-statement-on-house-...
by jsheard | 2026-01-27 19:21:03+00:00
I might be behind on the latest counter-counter-counter-measures, but I know some of the leading AC solutions are already using IOMMU to wedge a firewall between passive DMA sniffers and the games memory.

e.g. https://support.faceit.com/hc/en-us/articles/19590307650588-...

Ultimately no solution is going to be bulletproof, but it only needs to be roughly on-par with what Windows offers.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-27 19:21:03+00:00
Knowing you browse HN quite a lot (not that I'm not guilty of that too), that's some high praise! Thank you :)

I think the focus with LLM-assisted coding for me has been just that, assisted coding, not trying to replace whole people. It's still me and my ideas driving (and my "Good Taste", explained here: https://emsh.cat/good-taste/), the LLM do all the things I find more boring.

> prove that no reference implementation code leaked into the produced code

Hmm, yeah, I'm not 100% sure how to approach this, open to ideas. Basic comparing text feels like it'd be too dumb, using an LLM for it might work, letting it reference other codebase perhaps. Honestly, don't know how I'd do that.

> And finally, this being the work product of an AI process you can't claim copyright, but someone else could claim infringement so beware of that little loophole.

Good point to be aware of, and I guess I by instinct didn't actually add any license to this project. I thought of adding MIT as I usually do, but I didn't actually make any of this so ended up not assigning any license. Worst case scenario, I guess most jurisdictions would deem either no copyright or that I (implicitly) hold copyright. Guess we'll take that if we get there :)
by psunavy03 | 2026-01-27 19:21:11+00:00
Citation is my professional network as a former Naval Flight Officer who flew off aircraft carriers, and it's not the deckplates, it's the nonskid coating that goes on top of them. It's expected to wear and be replaced every so often, but when you have to do it more often than that, it becomes a pain logistically and operationally.

And the entire point of the system is to counter the dispersion the ocean provides, much like a Naval Aviator is already required to in order to trap successfully. You are literally flying through a very narrow window that is moving in three dimensions.
Show HN: The Gallery – A collaborative 3D time capsule
by PUXABRIGA | 2026-01-27 19:21:27+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the developer.

I built a persistent 3D space inspired by the "Million Dollar Homepage", but multiplayer. The concept is a collective time capsule where every frame is permanently owned by a user.

Tech Stack:

Frontend: Three.js / React Three Fiber.

Backend: Firebase (Firestore + Cloud Functions).

Payments: Stripe (for claiming frames/auction).

It’s a social experiment without algorithmic curation. The community decides what the space looks like.

You can check it here: https://the-gallery-f51a8.web.app

Feedback on performance/loading times is appreciated!
by kaitai | 2026-01-27 19:22:23+00:00
Your phrasing "something more productive in the private sector" is taken from the DOGE emails to federal employees. Note that in this sense "productive" means "makes money for corporations". If your utility function is different, these jobs are no longer more productive.

For a very concrete illustration, I know a Veterans Administration physician who got the DOGE emails. He's been underpaid by $50k-100k per year compared to private market rates, for the last twenty years. He is happy to take that discount because the mission of caring for veterans is something he cares about, and because he feels he can practice better medicine if his goal is patient outcomes rather than billable procedures. He also values the education and research priorities of the VA.

It is absolutely true that he would make a lot more money for a private provider maximizing procedures and billing.

But is that what we should be optimizing for as a society? Is that what you personally aim for from your doctors?
by throwaway173738 | 2026-01-27 19:22:24+00:00
Tell me have you thoroughly researched where all of the NOAA or NIH products go? The private sector has given us AccuWeather for the former and nothing for the latter.

I rely on NOAA forecasts to stay safe a lot and no private company gives me the kind of volume of information about the weather, hydrology, and sea conditions that they do. Call me when the private sector maintains flood gauges on all the rivers where I live or weather stations on peaks or satellites overhead.

I’m just thoroughly sick of hearing people repeat Reagan like he’s some kind of prophet.
by 46493168 | 2026-01-27 19:22:36+00:00
If you're reading HackerNews and work for L3Harris, TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV), Clearview AI, Paragon Solutions, AE Industrial, RedLattice, Magnet Forensics, Grayshift, Penlink, Flock Safety, Ring, LexisNexis, or Palantir, you are a fascist. Full stop. If you are married to or friends with anyone who works at these companies, you are a fascist collaborator, and you don't deserve get off easy either. It's time for everyone to put their money where their mouth is: remove these people from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from TikTok. Do not associate with them.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-27 19:22:42+00:00
Awesome stuff. Output speed looks crazy fast too.

I wonder if this indeed will start prompting more language specific work.

Afaik training still requires not just looking at sample code but also being able to write loss functions being able to have problems the AI can work at. That seems hard.

One random thought, are there training styles of just deleting some code from "good" projects then making the AI make it work again?
by nickff | 2026-01-27 19:22:59+00:00
There were a variety of other discriminatory measures in most of the Middle-East; many applied to religions other than Judaism as well. Another notable one was the limited access to the legal systems, along with the inferior legal status non-Muslims were relegated to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world

I also think it’s absurd to pretend that taxing people who do not tithe to one’s favored faith or cause is non-discriminatory. Imagine Utah taxing non-Mormons because they don’t tithe to The Church or The United Way.
by quietsegfault | 2026-01-27 19:23:05+00:00
You’re confusing two different questions. ‘Should we have more STEM PhDs in government?’ is a reasonable policy debate. ‘Is losing 10,000 STEM PhDs in weeks a problem?’ has a clearer answer… yes, because institutional knowledge doesn’t rebuild quickly. Also, there’s no evidence this was performance-based attrition. Lastly, recruitment becomes harder after mass departures signal instability.

The burden isn’t on critics to prove some theoretical optimal number. The burden is on defenders of this exodus to show it improved government technical capacity rather than hurt it.
by jermaustin1 | 2026-01-27 19:23:09+00:00
burly - maybe, but I haven't done any hard labor most of my life. I ran track as a kid, and kept my high metabolism - (RMR: 2460kcal, TDEE: 3380kcal); well lost it when my thyroid failed, but medicated myself back to it. I eat what I want, but its a very high lean-meat diet (lots of chicken breast and turkey because my wife likes them), but I don't limit my carb intake either, as I mostly burn sugar for energy (according to my Respiratory Exchange Ratio).

Somehow my body is just amazing at working without any help from me. I don't even exercise much. Maybe a few pushups a day, up and down my stairs at my house a couple dozen times a day, and probably 5-10k steps a day max.
by retired | 2026-01-27 19:23:16+00:00
I’m not a PhD, just an engineer and I moved out of The Netherlands. It was no longer economical feasible to live there. I am very pessimistic about the future Western Europe. Right now it offers the one of the best QoL in the world for the average worker but who knows for how long. With the current brain and wealth drain there will no longer be enough people to support the social system.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-01-27 19:23:18+00:00
How can your limited experience make any claims about the government workforce as a whole.

It requires a decent amount of time to understand if someone is talented and that talent is being used to better their job.

>but is doing exactly what they want to do with their life in a role that generates measurable utility for the taxpayer is not packing up and leaving

How would you know? Some people have very strong convictions and as another comment stated if a person is talented it increases the chances they could find another job similar to their desired work
by wtcactus | 2026-01-27 19:23:49+00:00
I believe everyone here realizes there are several highly used media platforms (some bigger than TikTok, like Instagram), that are posting the videos without any issues. You also realize that there are US TV stations playing those videos almost non-stop, right?

People laugh at MAGA conspiration theories backed by Fox News, but their conpiration theories - backed by CNN - sound just as insane for anyone that didn't buy into any of the 2 extremes...
Generative AI failed to replace SaaS
by AIFairy | 2026-01-27 19:24:04+00:00
Satya Nadella & others preached about GenAI replacing the "Business Logic" or the "Middle Tier" layer of various SaaS services. The idea was that users would interact with a GenAI model (via a chat interface), and then the model would interact directly with a database. This would have obviously mooted the need for almost all SaaS applications.

What's been happening instead is that GenAI has been moving up the "stack," further and further away from the database. No one's talking about replacing SaaS anymore. Instead, GenAI has become a sort of garnish, something that you sprinkle ON TOP of existing SaaS applications without truly replacing any of their pre-existing features.

This shift "up the stack" speaks volumes to the impotence of our current models. They are so incapable and unreliable that they couldn't replace a single part of Excel, for example. Instead, all Microsoft did was "slap GenAI on top", placing the burden on users to "figure out" how to make it useful. We went from "replace it with a chat agent" to "just slap a chat agent on top and hope for the best." In other words, we actually made our SaaS applications MORE complicated instead of consolidating their features and therefore simplifying them.
by im3w1l | 2026-01-27 19:24:10+00:00
> Google’s head of security and risk operations responded to [a message about an incident] to clarify what had happened. They noted that an “officer arrived at reception without notice” and that the agent was “not granted entry because they did not have a warrant and promptly left.”

This seems like a very reasonable way to handle it.

Edit: Disclosure: I'm not an American.
by pinnochio | 2026-01-27 19:24:20+00:00
> Your argument, written here and As far as I understand it at the moment, goes along with the other argument that everything is a simulation,

What?

This isn't a mindbender. You're just drawing lines.

Edit: I slightly misread your comment as advocating that we're not animals. However, whether one describes us as not animals or able to be "unanimal like" is still a matter of drawing lines.
by iamnothere | 2026-01-27 19:24:27+00:00
That’s only for targeting. From what I understand ELITE does not include device compromise or eavesdropping. If feds want to compromise a device that has Signal, they would use something like Pegasus that uses exploits to deliver a spyware package, likely through SMS, Whatsapp, or spear phishing URL. (I don’t actually know which software is currently in use but it would be similar to Pegasus.)
by geminigemino | 2026-01-27 19:24:40+00:00
Thanks! Morphology does affect both movement and metabolism, but by design it’s modeled as biological abstraction rather than full physics.

Traits like spikes, tentacles, lobes, adhesion, and size add drag/weight, so complex or armored bodies are slower and less agile. Bigger bodies and complex structures also have higher metabolic upkeep. It’s not true fluid dynamics or area/volume math, but it’s tuned to produce the same evolutionary tradeoffs.

So you get: big and complex = strong but slow and hungry. Small and simple = fast and cheap but fragile.
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-27 19:24:41+00:00
Your comments continue to be more dismissive/insulting than productive. Most of your posting history has been this petty mostly one-sided discussion you insist on having with me, which isn't particularly useful for supporting your point. You've peaked my curiosity though, if you want to link to a previous discussion that supports your allegedly non conservative views, by all means, link it.
by sdenton4 | 2026-01-27 19:25:15+00:00
This doesn't match my experience at all.

Mid last year I helped run a workshop on AI explicitly for laid off federal science workers. The people involved were clearly extremely intelligent and knowledgeable, passionate about their research areas, and harboring an immense amount of institutional knowledge. They showed great curiosity and adaptability in the workshop. It was obvious that they were a set of very bad fires.
by jleyank | 2026-01-27 19:25:29+00:00
STEM people in science (used to) populate places like NIH, NSF and other granting agencies. Theh were project managers responsible for funding decisions, or actual researchers. Remember that people used think that pharma just did marketing with all the new drug ideas coming from academia or government labs? Well, these people were either the ones paying the academic labs or actually generating what pharma marketed.

They also were the project managers and researchers in places like NRL and ARL, the premier research labs in the Navy and Army. Guiding weapon development along with the blue/green suits. They staffed DOE labs doing funding and research for things that went bump in the night, cleanup, energy development, etc.

PhD's are the psychologists on staff in the VA helping glue veterans back together. They're also the -ologists (immune, endocrine, ...) who work with the MD's to diagnose and treat people. They also review new drug proposals to make sure they're tested for safety and effectiveness.

There's probably some salted through the other departments doing things like agronomy, geology, ... Things that help food and energy production. There's more than you think in the various security agencies - people were surprised why the government was hiring for computational linguistics back in the 80's. They also handle funding for things that turned into that Net/Web thingie you're using to read this.

Is it useful to have these kind of people on the public purse? Depends on whether you think funding research, regulating drugs, weapon research and cleanup, treating patients, ... are important. They're cheaper than the corresponding private individuals would be if they were contractors or being paid externally.
Show HN: We are building Git for data
by mmnb | 2026-01-27 19:25:51+00:00
Today you can easily adopt AI coding tools because you have git for branching and rolling back if AI writes bad code. We haven't seen this same capability for data and decided to build it ourselves.

Nile is a new kind of data lake, purpose built for using with AI. It can act as your data engineer or data analyst creating new tables and rolling back bad changes in seconds. We support real versions for data, schema, and ETL.

We'd love your feedback on any part of what we are building - https://getnile.ai/

What do you think?
by lynndotpy | 2026-01-27 19:25:51+00:00
This is a tale as old as time. Anyone who's followed AI research has seen this happen.

Take Geoffrey Hinton and his students, for one example. Moved from the USA to Canada in the Regan era. Hinton (and Canada in general) saw an influx of otherwise USA-bound students from 2016 on. And it's just happening again.

I was a PhD student in deep learning ("AI") in the US from 2018 through 2022. The "Muslim ban" at the time saw so many students who had their eyes set on the United States look elsewhere. During the 2020 election cycle, a fellow PhD student of mine (I was the only English student in an all-Chinese lab) thought Trump would win the election, and expressed that as, "I am so so so so so sad". (Anyone who has tried expressing their feelings in a language new to them will recognize this pattern of using intensifiers like this.)

But the Project 2025 changes we saw were unique. In my perspective as a former academic, I don't think people outside academia generally appreciate the extent to which the reputation the United States had for research has been damaged.
by pixl97 | 2026-01-27 19:25:52+00:00
In mainstream media, public consensus is bought by the highest bidder, or the whims of the board of the company.

In social media, general consensus is owned by those that control the best and most bots to direct the conversation.

Unfortunately most people are too lazy/busy to seek out trusted information, and many if not most have no ability to understand if the answer they get should be trusted or not.
by sanskritical | 2026-01-27 19:25:57+00:00
I think people who will leave as soon as they feel their work environment has become even remotely uncomfortable are likely sitting in a comfortable sinecure, and it isn't the role of the taxpayer to provide sinecures for people with doctoral degrees.

Government workers are meant to serve the government, and the government of the United States is By the People. The People voted for the administration and if someone can't work for the company because you dislike the guy running it, well, it sounds infantile to me. Someone so fragile as to not tolerate political disagreement and reasonable scrutiny and auditing should not be receiving a salary from public funds.
by rluna828 | 2026-01-27 19:26:59+00:00
This has been proven wrong again and again. My grandparents were subsistence farmers. They had much less material wealth than any working class American and the vast majority of unhoused Americans. Yet, I can assure you that back then they were much more satisfied with life than the vast majority of working class and unhoused americans today. Second point, no amount of material wealth can compensate for severe mental illness. When people have severe mental illness, medical interventions must be performed against their diminished "free will." For those of you of American descent ask your parents or grand parents how their grand parents lived. I am certain you will be shocked at their extreme poverty and general hopefulness. Conclusion: once basic needs are met, the perception of "material" is more important than the material.
by jeroenhd | 2026-01-27 19:27:02+00:00
Fully-featured DEs like Gnome and KDE work a lot worse when doing everything in software rendering. If you're working on a device with subpar/nonexistent GPU driver support (i.e. Nvidia hardware for years on end), the experience is absolutely awful.

Nvidia's driver do something weird on Wayland when my laptop is connected to HDMI, probably something funky with the iGPU<->dGPU communication. Everything works, but at the whims of Nvidia an update reduces the maximum FPS I can achieve over HDMI to about 30-45fps. Jittery and painful, even on a monitor that supposedly supports VRR.

That's not really Wayland's fault of course, but in the same way Linux is broken because Photoshop doesn't work on it, Wayland is broken for many users because their desktop is weird on it.
by touisteur | 2026-01-27 19:27:35+00:00
rust-vmm-based environment that verifies/authenticates an image before running ? Immutable VM (no FS, root dropper after setting up network, no or curated device), 'micro'-vm based on systemd ? vmm captures running kernel code/memory mapping before handing off to userland, checks periodically it hasn't changed ? Anything else on the state of the art of immutable/integrity-checking of VMs?
by JCattheATM | 2026-01-27 19:28:01+00:00
And for that you threw the entire country away? Based on mostly fear and misunderstanding? There was another user I saw on here who defended voting for T because, despite apparently having always voted D in the past, he "could not look his white teenage sons in the eye and tell them he voted for people that would make them the enemy" - what absolute nonsense.

DEI may have gone too far in some areas, but that would largely be corporations trying to cash in, not anything planned by the possible Harris administration, and nothing demonstrable by the Biden administration.
by microtonal | 2026-01-27 19:28:24+00:00
You won't believe how many hours we have lost troubleshooting SysV init and Upstart issues. systemd is so much better in every way, reliable parallel init with dependencies, proper handling of double forking, much easier to secure services (systemd-analyze security), proper timer handling (yay, no more cron), proper temporary file/directory handling, centralized logs, etc.

It improves on about every level compared to what came before. And no, nothing is perfect and you sometimes have to troubleshoot it.