MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ljosifov | 2026-01-01 16:48:00+00:00
+1. For every one like the author of the blog post, it's likely to be another one in the opposite direction. But they will be unlikely to write a post about that. I too found weighting 'spend time with human persons v.s. with my own thoughts, or programming and writing, or reading a paper or a post, or listening to a podcast while walking in nature' lately come down on the side away from humans. So far - it's been way more interesting. When/if that changes and becomes boring - will think what next and change.
by foltik | 2026-01-01 16:48:12+00:00
> Your encryption key is derived from a master key plus your user ID using PBKDF2 (a secure key derivation function). This means even if someone got access to the database, they couldn't decrypt your data without your specific key.

> Your text gets encrypted on our server using your unique key. The encrypted data gets stored in our database

> When you need it on another device, we decrypt it and send it to you

Please stop advertising this as E2EE.

If you encrypt/decrypt the data on the server, you must have the keys. If someone gets access to the server, they can just decrypt everything since the master key is right there. You might as well base64 encode everything and call that encryption.

E2EE is where only the clients have the keys. Data is encrypted before sending to the server, and decrypted after receiving from the server. That's why it's called end-to-end: the server only ever handles encrypted data that it doesn't have the keys to decrypt.
by snackdex | 2026-01-01 16:48:20+00:00
damn, everyone is having such well thought out conversations, and I just scrolled to see the Pokémon that were selected.

I think I'm one of those people who worries that if i understand the math of it all, it'll lose some of the magic that made me keep my raticate for no other reason than because it was the first pokemon that accepted me without me dealing any damage to it.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-01-01 16:48:25+00:00
1) The average death per bomb was less than 1. Strikes mostly hit things which had already been evacuated.

2) When human shields get hit we blame the side that put them in harm's way, not the side that harmed them. Just look at the criminal trials in police actions--a hostage dies when SWAT hits a place, the murder rap lands on the person who took the hostage even if it turns out to be a police bullet in the hostage.

And your note about WMD--said WMD existed. On paper. We read the paper, didn't realize it was underlings lying to Saddam.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-01 16:48:30+00:00
I think EU/NA residents are a little naive on how much Chinese cars are dominating the market. Chinese cars don't sell just in China. They utterly dominate globally outside of EU/NA where they face extreme tariffs. To the point where certain cars that you'd say were American (eg. Tesla) actually make most of their cars in China.

Right now around the world in non EU/NA countries Tesla's a bit on the nose. All Tesla's in Australia are Chinese made regardless but it's then a choice of Chinese made Tesla vs Chinese made BYD and the BYDs are by all reports excellent cars.

PS to Canadians: You could be paying ~50% less for the same car, even same model to same model by allowing Chinese made cars in and it'd help you screw over a country that threatened you.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-01 16:49:13+00:00
> This isn’t the first time that Sony has had to deal with a security crisis with the popular PlayStation family. The PlayStation 3 was previously hit with a vulnerability when the company made a mistake with their cryptography on the console, allowing users to install homebrew software and allow piracy and cheating on popular titles.

Probably could have been avoided if Sony kept the Linux version of the Playstation still alive. Imagine what the (console) world would have looked like, if it was still alive. I never got the chance to even try it myself before it was gone, but I'm sure a lot of the homebrew community's energy could have been redirected towards it instead, hitting two flies with one swath.
by artyom | 2026-01-01 16:49:32+00:00
The author casually mentions this but basically the main reason through history to build communities is the existence of kids, which he literally decided not to have.

I'm the opposite, I don't like or want a social life, I live comfortably, but by having kids I have no other choice than to participate in a bunch of communities just as a byproduct of trying to be a good dad.

Even the communities anyone participates today were likely built around kids in a past time.

The rest of the article is just trying to overcompensate for the decision of not having children.
by andrewl | 2026-01-01 16:49:54+00:00
As another commenter said, at lot of the fraternal organizations are religious. The Elks site says to be eligible for membership, you must 1) Be at least 21 years of age; 2) Believe in God; 3) Be a citizen of the United States who pledges allegiance to and salutes the American Flag; 4) Be of good character. The Knights of Columbus says membership is limited to practicing Catholic men.

That works for some people. I like the activity-based groups. Besides the sports groups, a community garden is also good.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-01-01 16:50:29+00:00
The US Supreme Court can just invent a new interpretation of anything in our system as they already created a new presidential superpower out of nothing (presidential immunity). They can just say we're now interpreting a clear 250 year old clause as meaning whatever new thing that is desirable for our current overlords.

We don't have a constitution any more, we just have interpretations and they change.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-01 16:50:33+00:00
They can and we have definitive proof. When we tune LLM models with reinforcement learning the models end up hallucinating less and becoming more reliable. Basically in a nut shell we reward the model when telling the truth and punish it when it’s not.

So think of it like this, to create the model we use terabytes of data. Then we do RL which is probably less than one percent of additional data involved in the initial training.

The change in the model is that reliability is increased and hallucinations are reduced at a far greater rate than one percent. So much so that modern models can be used for agentic tasks.

How can less than one percent of reinforcement training get the model to tell the truth greater than one percent of the time?

The answer is obvious. It ALREADY knew the truth. There’s no other logical way to explain this. The LLM in its original state just predicts text but it doesn’t care about truth or the kind of answer you want. With a little bit of reinforcement it suddenly does much better.

It’s not a perfect process and reinforcement learning often causes the model to be deceptive an not necessarily tell the truth but it more gives an answer that may seem like the truth or an answer that the trainer wants to hear. In general though we can measurably see a difference in truthfulness and reliability to an extent far greater than the data involved in training and that is logical proof it knows the difference.

Keep in mind the LLM is just auto trained on reams and reams of data. That training is massive. Reinforcement training is done on a human basis. A human must rate the answers so it is significantly less.
Show HN: Guess the Move Chess App
by travelhead | 2026-01-01 16:50:44+00:00
I built Guess the Move, a chess training app for iOS and Android where you play through real master games by trying to guess the move that was actually played from each position.

You can pick a specific player (or go random), optionally play as a blitz game with a clock. Track your accuracy % over time.

Notes:

The game library is built from a large set of historical games (40,000+).

We update the app frequently (for example it includes recently played World Rapid & Blitz games).

Free to download with 2 free games included per day. $4.99/mo for unlimited access.
by Qem | 2026-01-01 16:51:14+00:00
> Under the assumption of using Python, what is the use of knowing that your int takes 28 bytes?

Relevant if your problem demands instatiation of a large number of objects. This reminds me of a post where Eric Raymond discusses the problems he faced while trying to use Reposurgeon to migrate GCC. See http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161
by blackhaj7 | 2026-01-01 16:51:24+00:00
I feel the same with my friends from school but the reason we feel like that is that school forced us to be together and a deep friendship was forged as a result.

In adulthood, that forcing function doesn't exist so you have to make the effort. So regardless of whether or not it "feels natural" to go "friend-hunting" (it doesn't to me either), if you don't do it, you will be without friends.

It's also worth framing it to yourself differently. Friend hunting sounds awful and fake but organising fun/activities for similarly minded people seems more positive
by baxtr | 2026-01-01 16:51:28+00:00
A friend of mine works in the chemical industry in Europe. One reason European producers are currently facing challenges is that Chinese producers are dumping chemicals into the global market at heavy discounts.

The underlying cause of this is that the Chinese housing market, which previously absorbed almost all chemicals, has effectively stalled (Evergrande, et al.).

I wonder whether we're observing a similar effect in the automobile industry as well.
by blackjack_ | 2026-01-01 16:52:22+00:00
If the US had a competent government they would react by pulling the same playbook as China to compete. Heavily subsidize and incentivize production of EVs by new companies to replace the rotten core of existing US automakers to produce price competitive and quality competitive vehicles, then let the old guard burn down.

Subsidizing the rotten core of corrupt US automakers will not produce a new or functional industrial base. It will simply maintain the illusion of an industrial base until anything of importance needs done. But that’s basically the MO of any “mature” industry in the US.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-01 16:52:41+00:00
Ask an LLM what's the difference between a human brain and an LLM. If an LLM could "think" it wouldn't give you the answer it just did.

I imagine that sounded more profound when you wrote it than it did just now, when I read it. Can you be a little more specific, with regard to what features you would expect to differ between LLM and human responses to such a question?

Right now, LLM system prompts are strongly geared towards not claiming that they are humans or simulations of humans. If your point is that a hypothetical "thinking" LLM would claim to be a human, that could certainly be arranged with an appropriate system prompt. You wouldn't know whether you were talking to an LLM or a human -- just as you don't now -- but nothing would be proved either way. That's ultimately why the Turing test is a poor metric.
by scott_s | 2026-01-01 16:52:58+00:00
IEEE may do it, as it's a professional organization. That is, they're a non-profit dedicated to the furtherance of the field. Being open access fits their mission, and the costs can be handled by dues and fees. Springer and Elsevier are for-profit publishers. I don't know how if they can have an open-access business model.
by EMM_386 | 2026-01-01 16:53:07+00:00
You can use Firefox or a Chromium browser that does not have as many of these issues.

I was a Firefox user since the Phoenix/Firebird days but when I wanted Chromium, I chose Brave. It has better blocks for this sort of thing built into it, and uBlock Origin works fine.

It's only the Google Chrome browser that requires the Lite version of that extension. Not Chromium derivatives.

I use Brave + uBlock Origin - problem (for the most part) solved.
by libraryofbabel | 2026-01-01 16:53:17+00:00
Or keep your Python scaffolding, but push the performance-critical bits down into a C or Rust extension, like numpy, pandas, PyTorch and the rest all do.

But I agree with the spirit of what you wrote - these numbers are interesting but aren’t worth memorizing. Instead, instrument your code in production to see where it’s slow in the real world with real user data (premature optimization is the root of all evil etc), profile your code (with pyspy, it’s the best tool for this if you’re looking for cpu-hogging code), and if you find yourself worrying about how long it takes to add something to a list in Python you really shouldn’t be doing that operation in Python at all.
by foltik | 2026-01-01 16:53:33+00:00
It appears to still be wide open:

curl -X POST \
"https://wjynmjluabqwqhtdxbtl.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/list/clipboard-images" \
-H "authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJzdXBhYmFzZSIsInJlZiI6IndqeW5tamx1YWJxd3FodGR4YnRsIiwicm9sZSI6ImFub24iLCJpYXQiOjE3NDIzODU1MDQsImV4cCI6MjA1Nzk2MTUwNH0.R6pSgPFgHe3ZU9DfKykE98MC1ObYihWdZuhy9v9Y_p0" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"prefix": "7b407af2-f30c-4e37-adc7-b7bf48f2661b"}' \
| jq
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-01 16:54:01+00:00
> I guess buying the vinyl is like buying a shirt or a poster now?

Yeah, in some way that's true. In the house music scene almost every producer also sells vinyls of their best songs, sometimes "collectors editions", and also DJs obviously sometimes pride themselves on only playing vinyl. For the artists I really do enjoy, I tend to buy their songs + with the vinyl, as a way to support them, but I indeed have no way of actually playing them, and haven't had for more than a decade.

So here I sit with 20+ vinyl records, most of them unopened, and no record player. But I don't mind, I just want to give money to the artists that provide me joy.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-01 16:54:14+00:00
I mean i literally was forced to get a real ID since i was in the US for more than 10 days (you can't drive on a foreign license longer than that in California and they hand out real ID licenses now).

It's no trouble to get a real ID licence as a non-US citizen. They literally have a process for this.

This article seems mind boggingly stupid. They are trying to create drama out of something that isn't there.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-01-01 16:54:40+00:00
> Sure, it seems very unfeasible with current technology, but that is bound to improve as you work on it.

That not a good logical argument as there's no guarantee that every technology can be improved enough to be better than the alternatives. e.g. Steam engine tech is bound to improve as you work on it, but it's not going to be as efficient/useful as an internal combustion engine.

History is littered with examples of tech that has been surpassed by better ideas, so the lesson to learn is to optimise the best current solution. In this instance, the best (most efficient, practical) solution is to stop emitting so much CO2 rather than a long bet that capture tech will ever be feasible - with atmospheric concentrations being so low, the scale required makes it a non-starter.
by phoe-krk | 2026-01-01 16:54:46+00:00
> When asked to comment on Lavoie's declaration, a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to Reason: "The INA requires aliens and non-citizens in the US to carry immigration documents. Real IDs are not immigration documents—they make identification harder to forge, thwarting criminals and terrorists."

>But of course, Venegas is a U.S. citizen, so he is not required to carry non-existent immigration documents.

Reading between the lines here: citizens who happen to be personae non gratae can be detained indefinitely as soon as they fail to produce immigration documents.

These documents are allowed to not exist if someone is a citizen. Alas, if there is no reliable way to prove one's citizenship, then nobody really needs to be treated like a citizen and everyone can be detained at will.

And this last point, given the current US political context, seems to be why Real ID is being undermined right now.
by anon7000 | 2026-01-01 16:54:47+00:00
Even if it’s a goal, it’s not a plan. The article talks about it, but Biden’s push for manufacturing wasn’t very aggressive, and Trump has basically stopped it. We’ve seen a loss in manufacturing jobs from tariffs and Trump idiotically deported Korean engineers working in local battery production plants. Simply protecting our existing companies (which are not very efficient, see shipbuilders) is not even close to enough to competing
by chollida1 | 2026-01-01 16:54:47+00:00
Makes sense. Most kids I know put records up on their wall as art. or as a way to pay artists directly by purchasing their album at a concert

If you want to listen to music then Spotify runs circles around vinyl as a medium. Records really suck for music quality which is why everyone dumped them when tapes came along and then even more so when cd's became a thing.

If Vinyl was a good medium to listen to music then no one would have bought cd's or had a Spotify subscriptions.

I can't imagine people going back to old school crt televisions to watch sports or movies either, but I do see people
by SilverElfin | 2026-01-01 16:54:51+00:00
The Trump administration made a Twitter post repeating far right supremacist calls for deporting 100 million Americans. Statistically this would also mean deporting a large number of citizens. This is a dangerous idea to repeat in official channels. Apart from the humanitarian impact and potential unconstitutionality of such actions, it will also mean less access to valuable talent for the tech industry.
by theodpHN | 2026-01-01 16:55:07+00:00
As noted above, 'Fully Open Access' does not mean completely free. So, while this change is welcome, there are still a lot of pricing/licensing options:

Corporate https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/corporate-pri...

Government https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/government/dl...

Academic Institutions https://libraries.acm.org/acmopen

Individuals https://dl.acm.org/action/publisherEcommerceHelper?doi=10.55...

Also, the 'Basic Edition' provided for free to individuals without institutional/individual accounts, the ACM explains, does not include niceties such as 'Advanced Search' (e.g., filters), which requires an upgrade https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55017806873_c9ba2490c1_b...
by dweekly | 2026-01-01 16:55:12+00:00
On slimness: wouldn't an alternative implementation be to "do the Magic Mouse" and put the USB C port on the back of the phone instead of the edge? Alternatively I could imagine MagSafe alignment / charging magnets plus an NFC like inductive communication (or contact pads) to allow for a range of "snap on" peripherals for phone backs that could be implemented on devices thinner than a USB C port.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-01 16:55:32+00:00
> but in SF there is/was an issue of club nights selling out, but having low attendance due to people buying tickets as an “option”.

As a bar/restaurant owner who sometimes host electronic parties, that sucks and does mess up a lot. But as a dance party attender, that sounds like a good thing, the parties tend to have way too high attendance, and if there is no space for people to actually move around and dance, I don't really know what the point of it even is anymore.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2026-01-01 16:55:33+00:00
"the only context"!!! Come on.

The US government is kidnapping the poor and vulnerable off the street. This is extreme inhumanity. This is awful and shows the failure of our legal system of government as well as a huge moral failure.

It is absolutely much more than something that affects just those poor others that we shouldn't talk about on hacker news or some people will have their feelings hurt.
by shtzvhdx | 2026-01-01 16:56:12+00:00
Thats was Jamie Oliver, right?

I really don't concede the point. Kids see food they aren't accustomed to eating blended together and fed to them by people they trust (Oliver is a celebrity in the UK).

What they aren't seeing is the chicken eggs they're eating was laid by a hen that was shat on by the chicken above it while sitting on a bed made of the cadaver of the chicken that held the pen before it.
by Vishal19111999 | 2026-01-01 16:56:20+00:00
First of all Amazing Marvin looks interesting. I'll explore it further.

Linear has also solved part of the problem with it's Slack integration.

I was just thinking about how far can AI take us, can it act as an end-to-end assistant, where it tells me what to do in the morning, and then I can just ask it to get things done.

Let me experiment and find out.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-01 16:56:34+00:00
Is this part of FEMA's program? Or a distinct program and funding?

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IN11911

Related:

FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455643 - January 2026
by gpm | 2026-01-01 16:56:37+00:00
In terms of a one off product without active support - the only thing I can really imagine is a significant use of formal methods to prove correctness of the entire runtime. Which is of course entirely impractical given the state of the technology today.

Realistically security these days is an ongoing process, not a one off, compare to cloudflare's security page: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/security...

- Implicit/from other pieces of marketing: We're a reputably company with these other big reputable companies who care about security and are juicy targets for attacks using this product.

- We [to be clear I'm paraphrasing and not personally employed by cloudflare/part of this at all] update V8 within 24 hours of a security update, compared to weeks for the big juicy target of Google Chrome.

- We use various additional sandboxing techniques on top of V8, including the complete lack of high precision timers, and various OS level sandboxing techniques.

- We detect code doing strange things and move it out of the multi-tennant environment into an isolated one just in case.

- We detect code using APIs that increase the surface area (like debuggers) and move it out of the multi-tennant environment into an isolated on just in case.

- We will keep investing in security going forwards.

Running secure multi-tenant environments is not an easy problem. It seems unlikely that it's possible for a typical open source project (typical in terms of limited staffing, usually including a complete lack of on-call staff) to release software to do so today.
by Kusaneko | 2026-01-01 16:56:44+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the author.

While building this, I stumbled upon an unintentional revelation:
most complex social structures can be established with just HTML, Time, and Human Action.

Memoria is an attempt to separate "Existence" (anyone can post)
from "Meaning" (what continues to resonate over time).
Most current platforms conflate the two, which tends to collapse everything
into algorithmic attention optimization.

I built a series of small, local-first demos to test whether this separation
can work without servers, tokens, or consensus layers:

1. v1: Single node — Meaning requires Time
2. v2: Multi-agent — Meaning requires Witnesses
3. v2.1: Two-device — Meaning requires Friction (ledger transfer)
4. v4.6.4: Social validation — Meaning requires Thresholds
5. Sybil Resistance: a toy where you can spawn 50 bots,
but they can't climb the feed because they lack "Wallet Mass"

All of the logic lives in a single static HTML file (index.html).
The ledger is append-only JSON, and the state is fully replayable offline.

I'm curious how this "post-hoc meaning" approach resonates with people here,
especially compared to algorithmic ranking or upfront moderation.