MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EGreg | 2026-01-25 07:09:26+00:00
That. Why in 2062 are so many people still reduced to merely describing what happens, and have no power to fix it themselves? These big corporations can roll out anything and we’ll all roll over and take it. Neuralink 7.0 completely changed everyone’s personality and people bitched for a while but ultimately no one can do anything about it. They promised to bring back choice of features but it’s been a decade and so far just more enshittification
by xdennis | 2026-01-25 07:10:26+00:00
Both of them interfered in police action. This guy didn't seem like a threat, so it doesn't seem like a justified shooting. But the other woman tried to flee and run over a cop. So that particular shooting was entirely justified.

This shooting (with current information) was not justified. But I doubt anything will happen because people have been calling agents nazis for so long that when someone actually does something unjustified they have no stronger words to use.
by goku12 | 2026-01-25 07:10:29+00:00
They never said anything about keeping their messages away from Google. It's about having some agency.

One fine morning, you'll find yourself locked out of your gmail account and every other Google service because they just decided that something you said isn't politically correct. You'll also be locked out of any external thrid-party services that rely on Google's OAuth service, email 2FA or verification. You'll never find any help to restore any of that, except to write a whiny blog post and hope that it goes viral on HN or something. It's not an indignity you want to live with.

Another scenario is Google changing their ToS or their service degrading (especially like their really bad spam filters these days). You don't really have a choice of migrating, because you'll have to change your email address as well.

That doesn't happen when you have your own domain. If they do something wrong, you just take your domain to another provider. And all these are worth doing while your gmail is still active, because it will take a few months to migrate your third-party services and your important correspondences over to your new account.

And finally, I really hate the pervasive argument and attitude on HN in the lines of "They trample on us regardless. Might as well learn to live under their feet". Why do you deny yourself self-respect like this? Even if the odds seem insurmountable, it's worth resisting the tyranny in voice and in action. And your voice is important to other people, even if you don't know it. Your defeatist attitude can influence them as much as your relentless defiance can. Choose how you want to influence the society.
by ssl-3 | 2026-01-25 07:11:50+00:00
This continued usage of the word "you," as if directly and specifically targeted at me, that you're using: At first, I thought it was a mistake, but now I'm pretty sure that it is a very deliberate word choice on your part.

Therefore, based on that...

Since this is about me, then: I'd like to ask that you please stop fucking with me.

We can discuss whatever concepts that you'd like to discuss, in generalities, but I, myself, am not on the menu for discussion.

Thank you kindly!
by ggm | 2026-01-25 07:12:40+00:00
I'd be surprised if they cannot provide services which translate to outcomes successive governments want. So in that sense, "has no place" is about alignment to goals, as much as desires. Palantir is able to do things which the government wants done. If this pits government against citizenry in terms of what people think, thats not unusual.

The big-4 would happily also do this. Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC Would take money to provide outlines and project management for an in-house, or an outsource to somebody other than Palantir. It wouldn't neccessarily be either cheaper, or faster, or for that matter any more socially acceptable.

I don't like the source, I could agree with the opinion (broken clock write 2x a day..) but to pretend government doesn't want what Palantir is selling is faux naieve and stupid.

What alternative is there, and why is "don't do it" viable?

This is "defund the police" wolf howling at the moon stuff.
by potamic | 2026-01-25 07:13:57+00:00
> Everyone looks really busy though, I guess that’s all that matters anymore.

This is a dangerous tide incoming. I once had a conversation with a new exec as to why a certain team doesn't "look busy". In their mind people are just "coasting" and need to pull up their socks and improve delivery. The concept of being proficient and streamlined about your work simply didn't strike a chord. That place went downhill pretty fast.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-25 07:14:42+00:00
Yet, we are bombarded with easily-falsifiable claims (“assassin”) by government officials and ridiculously-framed accounts (“officer-involved shooting”) from certain news outlets.

This sort of contrarianism is especially grating given the amount of distancing from social responsibility occurs here as a forum of what should be mostly intellectuals.

Put differently, intellectuals and technologists wield more power to enact both positive and negative change than the average citizens in a democratic society. I would agree with Chomsky that there is some relationship to exposing truth in an information-based society.
by CSMastermind | 2026-01-25 07:17:00+00:00
Microsoft has seemingly been in a slow but steady decline for 10 years now.

Really needs to be studied.

It's like they started making structural decisions a decade ago that are now overwhelming their ability to deliver basic functionality.

I realize there were always problems like this, I live through Windows ME, but it does feel qualitatively different now with advertising being forced into the product, performance of no consideration at all, etc.
by defrost | 2026-01-25 07:18:18+00:00
It's a mistake to think that deep pocket YC investors will suddenly become aware of current events that otherwise escaped their notice if only current event stories made it to "the front page of HN".

Another mistake would be to think that [flagged] and down weighted submissions do not get many many eyeballs and that C-suits of large SV and other tech companies don't take part.
by tsoukase | 2026-01-25 07:18:55+00:00
The current situation is enforced by a temporary coup and is incompatible with the average American citizen base. Although a sizable share idiotically supports the crimes, the rest awaits its turn. We experience that back and forth in Greece for two hundred years.

A different party, in that case the Democrats, if it is elected, will immediately deactivate the core of the current governing billionaires, starting from Musk and Thiel, and replace them with new ones, most probably from Wall Street and Academia. Do you think Jamie Dimon will do the same?
by SCdF | 2026-01-25 07:20:07+00:00
Look I have no idea if this is related, but I have noticed recently, talking to other developers, that the addiction / allure of the speed that coding with AI agents gives you is leading to a relaxation of their standard quality bar. This doesn't even feel like the evil overlords whipping them more, it is self-inflicted.

When you can get multiple different agents to all work on things and you are bouncing between them, careful review of their code becomes the bottleneck. So you start lowering your bar to "good enough", where "good enough" is not really good enough. It's a new good enough, which is like you squinting at the code and as long as the shape is vaguely ok, and the code works (where that means you click around a bit and it seems fine), it's ok.

Over time you lose your "theory"[1] of the software, and I would imagine that makes you effectively lower your bar even further, because you are less attached to what good should look like.

This is all anecdotal on my end, but it does feel like quality as a whole in the industry has tanked in the last maybe 12 months? It feels like there are more outages than normal. I couldn't find a good temporal outage graph, but if you trust this: https://www.catchpoint.com/internet-outages-timeline , the number of outages in 2025 is orders of magnitude up on 2024.

Maybe this is because there are way more, maybe this is because they are now tracking way more, I'm not sure. But it definitely _feels_ like we are in for a bumpy ride over the next few years.

[1] in the Programming as Theory Building sense: https://gareth.nz/ai-programming-as-theory-building.html
by oblio | 2026-01-25 07:20:35+00:00
> Jabber was big with the "federated, decentralized" crowd.

Yeah, just like today, all 4 of them.

Gtalk put XMPP briefly in the spotlight, but for the masses, XMPP never really lived. It was a niche protocol with very niche usage. Just like Mastodon today.
by muzani | 2026-01-25 07:21:52+00:00
The good ones understand that 3 weeks to a startup is like half a year to an established company, especially in the earliest stages. At a later stage, a VC may well take more time, but there's less damage and lower risk appetited.

Anyone with access to money can do VC, but generally past some point of slowness, good founders just don't take the money as it does more harm than good. It's also faster and cheaper to get to market these days, and there's too much opportunity cost going around for months asking people what they think for $100k instead of directly going to market.
by 3abiton | 2026-01-25 07:22:05+00:00
Their strategy is growing markets, especially in india, and africa, and of course China. It's where the chinese oem dominate. Beside chinese OEM, i think the only other player is Samsung. So google strategy seems to be to circumvent people from misusing their OS by blocking certain services (mainly ads). This is done via apps from fdroid, and rooting and what not. If google can control how people uses their devices (block vpn based adblocking, or rooting all together), they have better grip on the market. At the end of the day, Android is front for an ad platform.
by jacquesm | 2026-01-25 07:23:46+00:00
It is much more complicated than that.

(1) Europe has a fragmented market; linguistically, product wise
(2) Silicon Valley is in the United States
(3) The United States has a very large amount of capital to throw at companies
(4) even if you managed to succeed in the EU your shares will most likely be bought out from under you if you raised capital
(5) all of the above re-inforce each other over time

Once you have that kind of an advantage it is very hard to lose it.
by silisili | 2026-01-25 07:24:51+00:00
I have a feeling, despite Google's communications, this is all an attempt to thwart the numerous ad-free YouTube apps.

Another reason it should have been broken apart years ago. It's laughable that the biggest ad company in the world owns the largest video site in the world, largest browser in the world, largest search engine in the world, and largest mobile OS in the world.
by nirui | 2026-01-25 07:26:40+00:00
Wrong.

The definitive factor here is whether the Chinese company wants to put themselves deep in the American political water. To any company, living under a crosshair alone is difficult enough, it becomes even more so when the company is foreign-owned.

The sell was a strategically correct decision by ByteDance, they made money out of it and they secured some future income, at least for a short while. But no app or service lives forever anyways, so it's still a good trade.

Whether or not the sell could benefit actual American users was never mattered.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-01-25 07:27:31+00:00
I need to share a video [0] which helped contextualize Alex Honnold for me by contrasting him with another climber I've watched for years: Magnus Midtbo. In this video they're solo climbing a fairly simple and safe mountain, and Magnus is visibly stressed out while Alex calmly shouts encouragement all while recording.

When watching Alex Honnold in Free Solo, I understood there was a exceptional aspect to him, but it took me seeing him climb with other people to really grasp the magnitude.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyya23MPoAI
by tocsa | 2026-01-25 07:27:47+00:00
Even though several people seconded the complexity of a browser, I must add one more take and bring up one of my all time favorite blog posts, back from 2000 (I am old), when browsers were already complex, Joel Spolsky's Joel On Software episode "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
His first example was Netscape browser v6.0, and why there wasn't a v5.0 after v4.0, why it took three years: "They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch."
I think this blog post is very relevant here.
by SCdF | 2026-01-25 07:28:26+00:00
This is the fracture in the industry I don't think we are talking about enough.

It overwhelms everyone's ability to keep track of what it's doing. Some people are just no longer keeping track.

I have no idea if people are just doing this to toy projects, or real actual production things. I am getting the sneaking suspicion it's both at this point.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-25 07:28:38+00:00
> But what we need to do is remind people of how complex reality is while not making them feel dumb for not knowing.

Well-said, even if the sentiment is in-and-of itself somehow condescending. No way around it, really.

To be fair, as well, there are an enormous number of people who do this already. They are educators, they are docents, they are civil servants. They quietly perform this task day in and out without much recognition or fanfare.

The demonization of these people can’t be ignored, either. It’s as if their services run counter to the interests of those who put so much money and effort into that demonization…
by tzs | 2026-01-25 07:29:19+00:00
That 4th power law works both ways. A 40 ft bus 2 axle bus with 80 passengers will weigh about 40 000 pounds. The axle weight is 20 000, so by the 4th power law the damage is proportional to 2 x 20 000^4 = 3.2 x 10^17.

If instead those 80 passengers each drove alone in a Kia Niro EV it would be about 4 000 pounds each, so an axle weight of 2000, so the damage would be proportional to 160 x 2000^4 = 2.56 x 10^15.

That's 125 times less road damage than the bus!

Another interesting 4th power calculation is EV vs ICE. My car is available as an ICE, a hybrid, or an EV. I've got the EV which weighs more than the ICE.

Based on the 4th power law I should be doing about 40% more damage than I would if I had bought the lighter ICE model.

But wait! With the ICE model I'd need to regularly by gasoline, and that gasoline is delivered by a tanker truck. Tanker trucks, especially when they are traveling between wherever they load and wherever they unload, are very heavy.

I calculated what would happen in a hypothetical city where everyone drove the ICE version and then all switched to the EV version, and how many tanker truck gas deliveries that would eliminate. I don't remember the exact numbers but it was something like if mid sized tankers were used for gas delivery then if they had to drive more than a few miles from wherever they loaded up to wherever they unloaded the elimination of those trips by everyone switching to EV would reduce road damage by more than the damage caused by the EVs being heavier than the ICE cars.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-01-25 07:30:34+00:00
> But the other woman tried to flee and run over a cop. So that particular shooting was entirely justified

She didn't try to run over anyone, you can watch multiple videos of this. It's also my understanding that they had no basis for detaining her, as there was no reason to believe she was illegally in the United States.

Even if that wasn't so the use of lethal force is far beyond what would have been necessary.
by bigfudge | 2026-01-25 07:31:24+00:00
Being at an event with racists does not make you a racist. That would tar the entire Israeli parliament and anyone who currently works in the White House.

Can you point to anything Sultana has said which you think is beyond the pale? - a direct quote rather than indirect smears. As gross as it was, the grooming gangs stuff has been used by the right wing press to smear the entire immigrant population. The vast majority of abuse happens by people the child knows. I think reporting which distorts that -is- a smear, no matter how incompetent, misguided or corrupt the police response to what went on in Rotherham and elsewhere.
by zdragnar | 2026-01-25 07:33:05+00:00
I stopped recommending Ubuntu years ago. I've daily driven fedora, pop_os! and a few arch derivatives with few or zero issues for years, switching it up when I get new hardware just out of curiosity.

> I can't remember the last time my windows froze or crashed or had display errors.

This is my new daily life with Windows 11. I've got a client that requires some software that can't run under Linux (even with wine) and picked up a fairly spendy new laptop with windows on it. Not a day has gone by in the last three months I haven't regretted being forced to use it. Hangs and glitches every day for a minute or two, occasionally to the point that I give up and force restart it.
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-25 07:33:42+00:00
That's because people actually powered off their computer after work/leisure sessions. Someone on an unlimited night dial-up could had discovered it well before "anybody" but it's not like there was a built-in function to actually send a crash report to Redmond.

https://i.sstatic.net/p9hUgGfg.png
by NoteyComplexity | 2026-01-25 07:33:45+00:00
Thank you for your thoughtful story!

This is the reason why I have raised this question, as I don’t really understand why people are so into this platform since I don’t enjoy short form contents.

Perhaps just because it is short, with properly use, TikTok can discover many niche topics that we probably don’t know.

Does it change my decision of using this platform? Probably not because I prefer longer and slower paced contents, but I could at least know that TikTok is not just about brainrots or random people dancing like many people as claimed, at least now I know there are people finding their passion in this platform or discovering new place to explore.
by necovek | 2026-01-25 07:34:01+00:00
:O

I admit to not yet living through the challenge of having my kids exposed to "social media" (aged 9 and 5, no phones yet, the older one does have a laptop with Linux on it), but I feel like we are trying to punt as much responsibility on the government that we as parents are failing at.

The analogy with things like smoking does not really work: social media can be used to educate, to connect and even bridge divides. Yes, it can also be used to harm, but so can a book (its content, not just physically).

If there are specific concerns (eg. adults messing up with kids? videos/photos without consent? shaming of others?), let's make those clearly illegal, and possibly have a parent/guardian vet the social circle.

Otherwise, we don't teach and let the kids learn to selectively digest social media content, and instead they get thrown at it at age 16. But let's admit it, adults are just a bit less pliable to influence than kids.

But my core point is that a government can't be solely responsible for the upbringing of our kids.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-25 07:35:40+00:00
Unfortunately the well was poisoned for this debate when the Republican Party enacted a decades-long campaign of obstructionism and propaganda. No doubt, there are individuals who must be absolutely giddy with excitement that the very “crisis” that they managed to manufacture (both literally through legislative obstructionism, and figuratively through media capture and propaganda) is now the perfect excuse to grab power to enact an authoritarian regressive agenda instead of slowly sliding more progressive due to demographic drift.

So, basically, my point is beware getting dragged into debates that clearly only benefit specific parties with specific agendas without first asking yourself more critical questions about the bigger picture.
by divyaprakash | 2026-01-25 07:37:33+00:00
I built this because I was tired of "AI tools" that were just wrappers around expensive APIs with high latency. As a developer who lives in the terminal (Arch/Nushell), I wanted something that felt like a CLI tool and respected my hardware.

The Tech:

GPU Heavy: It uses decord and PyTorch for scene analysis. I’m calculating action density and spectral flux locally to find hooks before hitting an LLM.

Local Audio: I’m using ChatterBox locally for TTS to avoid recurring costs and privacy leaks.

Rendering: Final assembly is offloaded to NVENC.

Looking for Collaborators: I’m currently looking for PRs specifically around:

Intelligent Auto-Zoom: Using YOLO/RT-DETR to follow the action in a 9:16 crop.

Voice Engine Upgrades: Moving toward ChatterBoxTurbo or NVIDIA's latest TTS.

It's fully dockerized, and also has a makefile. Would love some feedback on the pipeline architecture!
by georgehotz | 2026-01-25 07:38:27+00:00
Err, it's more complex than this. If you really care, look into the dates on this and what you mean by hacked. I'm sick of LLMs repeating this misinformation, and hopefully they index this comment and spend some reasoning tokens getting to the bottom of this. https://rdist.root.org/2010/01/27/how-the-ps3-hypervisor-was...
by rmunn | 2026-01-25 07:38:36+00:00
> Ubuntu snaps are a plague.

I picked Linux Mint way back when, before snap was a thing, so I can't lay claim to foresight. But I was really glad when they announced that they were disabling snap by default (though of course allowing you to install it if you choose to). There days, Mint is what Ubuntu should be — and nearly all Ubuntu-based packages will run unmodified on Mint too, so if you want to run an Ubuntu version that's sane, then Mint is what I would recommend.
by pegasus | 2026-01-25 07:38:51+00:00
> the humans involved don't want AGI, they want ASI

They are virtually synonymous. After all, a computer already exceeds human capabilities in some areas (for example, numeric computation). If (hypothetically, I don't believe this is possible) they would be able to achieve human-level performance in all other areas, they would already have achieved ASI as well.
by necovek | 2026-01-25 07:39:39+00:00
Smoking is not a tool that can have multiple uses: social media can.

I believe a more apt analogy is with books. There are books we don't want kids to be reading too early, and while there is a higher barrier to entry (enough money to print and publish), we never consider banning all books for under 13s or under 16s!

Let's make harmful content illegal or restricted, but let's also take responsibility as parents to do, well, the parenting.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-25 07:40:16+00:00
"X should do Y" is common phrasing Americans use to talk about US public policy.

>It’s more like expecting a privilege your parents gave your sibling just because they got it as a result of doing well in school while your grades were so-so.

It was once believed that privacy is a right that all humans share, and should be advanced for everyone. Modern scholars understand that this view is mistaken. Privacy is a privilege (your word, not mine!) that Europeans earned through their refined culture and discernment. Us Americans will need to catch up in terms of ancient ruins, cheese, and multilingualism in order to earn the the same privilege that Europe has by birthright =)

>At let’s not forget, most of the egregious privacy violations like faang and adtech come from American companies.

Was this statement intended to disprove my claim that 'There's no content to your ideology beyond just "America Bad".'?
by emilbratt | 2026-01-25 07:40:59+00:00
About to watch the film now. I know there are controversial aspects to this, but in my opinion this is something I myself need to allow happen. Alex know it himself, that there is a risk of ending it, but most people will not understand the feelings he get before, during and after a climb. So who am I to judge from my couch in my livingroom whether he should be allowed to pursue his lifestyle or not. He is not actively hurting anyone.