MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breppp | 2026-01-12 20:03:01+00:00
That has been a case of "the enemy of my enemy" as the Al Nusra Islamists had still considered Israel as infidels that need to be eventually be dealt with.

Israel more pressing Islamist threat, Hezbollah, was the focus back then and therefore these organizations were given medical help in turn for agreeing not to kill Druze and to stay away from the Israeli border.

It was quite evident Israel's position as it hasn't tried to fight for Al Nusra when Assad recaptured that area even though it could easily make the Syrian regime forces retreat.

Also, the repeated bombing of the current syrian government forces are probably not due to some outbursting friendship
Tell HN: I found the article that is the cause of the YC/HN Swartz blackout
by ypsilon | 2026-01-12 20:04:09+00:00
A lot of accounts have been banned in the past 24 hours for mentioning Aaron Swartz and the circumstances leading to his death.

Since this isn’t a traditionally blacked-out topic, I dig around a bit and I believe I found the cause. I archived it here. It’s an opinionated essay for sure: https://archive.ph/UA7aD

I’m not saying I agree or disagree, but I can’t get on board with the suppression of discussion.
by strobe | 2026-01-12 20:04:58+00:00
maybe some combination of visual representation with text. For example it's not easy to come up intuitive with names of operations which could be applied to some surface. But if you could say something like 'select top side of cylinder' and it will show you some possible names of operations (with illustrations/animations) which could be applied to it then it's easy to say back what it need to do without actually knowing what actually possible. So as result it maybe just much quicker way to interact with CAD that we are using currently.
by carshodev | 2026-01-12 20:05:08+00:00
Opus 4.5 seems to be a step above every other model in terms of creating SVGs. Before most models couldn't make something that looked half decent.

But I think this shows that these models can improve drastically on specific domains.

I think if three was some good datasets/mappings for spacial relation and CAD files -> text then a fine tune/model with this in its training data could improve the output a lot.

I assume this project is using a general LLM model with unique system prompt/context/MCP for this.
by porphyra | 2026-01-12 20:05:11+00:00
I am for moderation and strong penalties for users that use it in that manner. Anyone who uses grok to generate an undressing image of someone without their consent within 5 seconds should probably go to jail or whatever the penalty is for someone spending 5 hours to create revenge porn with photoshop.

But I'm not sure if the tool itself should be banned, as some people seem to be suggesting. There are content creators on the platform that do use NSFW image generation capabilities in a consensual and legitimate fashion.
by ack_complete | 2026-01-12 20:05:12+00:00
This shows up in a lot of other areas, like small game companies that have a devoted following. It can get pretty nasty because these types of people are able to be condescending just short of ToS, while baiting other people into crossing the line. A common thread is weak moderation or biased moderation.

As a developer, it's easy to be blind to this because they're on "your side", but it's bad for the health of your support forums.
by pizlonator | 2026-01-12 20:05:17+00:00
> The C pointer provenance is still in TS form and is largely constructed by trying to retroactively justify the semantics of existing compilers

That's my understanding too

> I'd have to double-check, but my recollection is that the current TS doesn't actually require that you be able to implement user-written memcpy, rather it's just something that the authors threw their hands up and said "we hope compilers support this, but we can't specify how."

That's also my understanding

> In that sense, byte type is going beyond what C does.

I disagree, but only because I probably define "C" differently than you.

"C", to me, isn't what the spec describes. If you define "C" as what the spec describes, then almost zero C programs are "C". (Source: in the process of making Fil-C, I experimented with various points on the spectrum here and have high confidence that to compile any real C program you need to go far beyond what the spec promises.)

To me, when we say "C", we are really talking about:

- What real C programs expect to happen.

- What real C compilers (like LLVM) make happen.

In that sense, the byte type is a case of LLVM hardening the guarantee that it already makes to real C programs.

So, LLVM having a byte type is a necessary component of LLVM supporting C-as-everyone-practically-it.

Also, I would guess that we wouldn't be talking about the byte type if it wasn't for C. Type safe languages with well-defined semantics have no need for allowing the user to write a byte-copy loop that does the right thing if it copies data of arbitrary type

(Please correct me if I'm wrong, this is fun)
by burntsushi | 2026-01-12 20:05:29+00:00
Why should they though? To me it seems like a niche of a niche. I think there is plenty of room for scientific datetime libraries to service this need in a way that is likely better than what a general purpose datetime library would provide. (And indeed, there are many of them.)

I say this as someone who had leap second support working in a pre-release version of Jiff[1] (including reading from leapsecond tzdb data) but ripped it out for reasons.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff

[2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff/issues/7
by twosdai | 2026-01-12 20:05:51+00:00
> but it definitely has some bias.

to be frank though, I think this a better way than all people's thoughts all of the time.

I think the "crowd" of information makes the end output of an LLM worse rather than better. Specifically in our inability to know really what kind of Bias we're dealing with.

Currently to me it feels really muddy knowing how information is biased, beyond just the hallucination and factual incosistencies.

But as far as I can tell, "correctness of the content aside", sometimes frontier LLMs respond like freshman college students, other times they respond with the rigor of a mathematics PHD canidate, and sometimes like a marketing hit piece.

This dataset has a consistency which I think is actually a really useful feature. I agree that having many perspectives in the dataset is good, but as an end user being able to rely on some level of consistency with an AI model is something I really think is missing.

Maybe more succinctly I want frontier LLM's to have a known and specific response style and bias which I can rely on, because there already is a lot of noise.
by LastTrain | 2026-01-12 20:05:54+00:00
Your intuition about this is wrong. Reagan's approval among Republicans averaged about 83%, Trump's numbers are typically over 90%, although currently he's down to an all-time low of around 85%.

You are quite wrong about GW as well. While he had a mandate, at first, for Iraq, he was deeply polarizing in pretty much every other regard.
by wan23 | 2026-01-12 20:06:59+00:00
That's not how it works - in the case of impeachment the Senate holds a trial, and they are allowed to use their own definitions of treason, bribery, etc. The Supreme Court is in charge of what the regular courts do and can make rulings that bind them, but they can't bind Congress in the same way. After all, the justices of the supreme court are also subject to the impeachment process like the President is and it'd be weird if they could make rules about how that works.
by cptaj | 2026-01-12 20:07:06+00:00
You know the answer to this but I'll just say it: Its different in that it requires no skill and can be done by anyone instantaneously at scale.

You know this but somehow are rationalizing this game changing fact away.

Yes, people can draw and photoshop things. But it takes time, skill, dedication, etc. This time cost is load bearing in the way society needs to deal with the tools it has for the same reason at the extreme that kitchen knives have different regulations than nuclear weapons.

It is also trivially easy for grok to censor this usage for the vast majority of offenders by using the same LLM technology they already have to classify content created by their own tools. Yes, it could get jailbroken but that requires skill, time, dedication, etc; And it can be rapidly patched, greatly mitigating the scale of abuse.
by arcfour | 2026-01-12 20:07:43+00:00
I absolutely believe that humans would drive on train tracks. There is no shortage of terrible, insane, ignorant, and purely self-interested drivers on the road. Just look at any dashcam video compilation!

The difference, of course, is that when a human does it we just say "what an idiot!" But when a machine does it, some people say "well, obviously machines can't drive and can never drive as well as a human can," which is silly.
by Y-bar | 2026-01-12 20:09:10+00:00
> But how is it different from other tools like doing it manually with photoshop?

The scale of effect and barrier to entry. Both are orders of magnitude easier and faster. It would take hours of patience and work to mostly create one convincing fake using photoshop, once you had spent the time and money to learn the tool and acquire it. This creates a natural large moat to the creation process. With Groom it takes a minute at most with no effort or energy needed.

And then there is the ease of distribution to a wide audience, X/Groom handles that for you by automatically giving you an audience of millions.

It’s like with guns. Why prevent selling weapons to violent offenders when they could just build their own guns from high quality steel, a precision drill, and a good CNC machine? Scale and barrier to entry are real blockers for a problem to mostly solve itself. And sometimes a 99% solution is better than no solution.
by Morromist | 2026-01-12 20:09:12+00:00
I'll bet he would do a lot more illegal stuff if only his morality were stopping him. He also has to think about what happens after he's out of office/dead, or if he upsets the supreme court enough that they tell him to stop. The more egregious his acts the more likely the people carrying them out will be prosecuted by outraged people after he's gone so it might be difficult to find competant people to do his dirty work.

OTOH Even if he did send immigrants and liberals to deathcamps there's no way hard core trump voters would turn on him so he never has to worry about getting removed from office through impeachment with a 2/3rds majority after the midterms.
by eightysixfour | 2026-01-12 20:10:01+00:00
> But how many humans drove on train tracks?

I have seen this twice in my life. One person who freaked out because they stopped in the tracks and then turned onto them, the second I still have no idea how they got there.

I think there are two really big issues with the roll out of self-driving cars that are going to be hard for us to overcome:

1. Their mistakes are going to be highly publicized, but no one is publicizing the infinite number of dumbass things human drivers do every day to compare it to.

2. They're going to make mistakes that are extremely obvious in hindsight or from a third party perspective, that most humans will say no human would have ever done. It is likely that a human has and would have made similar and worse mistakes, and makes them at a higher rate, and we will have to accept these as a reality in a complex world.
by giardini | 2026-01-12 20:10:06+00:00
Your question is essentially "X was in the USA legally, so why was X deported for being in the USA illegally?"

Answer1: Your assumption is incorrect: X was in the USA illegally.

Answer2: You're astroturfing, you have no "friend" and this is a fake post.

Plenty of other answers.

My point is, other than politicking, why post this on HN? HN is not an appropriate forum for such questions.
by mort96 | 2026-01-12 20:10:23+00:00
That's not how audio works. PCM data at some sample rate with infinite precision samples perfectly encodes all the audio data of all frequencies up to half the sample rate. Resampling is a theoretically lossless operation when the frequency content of the audio fits within half the sample rate of both the source and the destination sample rates (which will always be true when resampling to a higher sample rate, FWIW).

The issues are that 1) resampling has a performance and latency cost, 2) better resampling has a higher performance and latency cost
by immibis | 2026-01-12 20:10:23+00:00
Maybe they could promise to make the rent lower. Or to make abortion legal. Or to stop bombing 2 million brown children in the Middle East. Or literally anything people actually want, instead of running on the singular platform or "obviously they'll vote for us because we're not the Republicans". People are getting really tired of the latter. Notice every time a candidate comes out who actually promises things people want he wins by a landslide?
by legitster | 2026-01-12 20:10:26+00:00
It's pretty clear that constitution implies some sort of immunity, and that it is necessary to protect successive presidents from throwing each other in prison.

The problem is not really with presidential immunity - it's that the check on presidential powers was supposed to be Congress. But Congress is clearly powerless and has slowly been gutted of its power.

America so far has been incredibly lucky - we have the oldest constitution in the world. Yet nearly every government that has tried to copy it has failed. And it's fairly telling that when we successfully rebuilt countries after WWII, we largely pulled from other government models and established parliamentary systems.
by netsharc | 2026-01-12 20:11:06+00:00
Not criticism, just explaining a problem I noticed and would make a fun exercise in CSS, or JS:
When a letter appears at the end of the line, the reflow (to make sure the whole text is centered) is not smooth, of course it isn't because the text is now n+1 characters wide and the rendering engine has probably been instructed to center it without any fancy delays. I wonder how to achieve a smooth "growth" of line.

I suppose one could render the text off-screen or in an invisible DIV, measure how many letters it has on the target display, find the time to render the line (if the text shows at 2 chars/sec, 20 chars takes 10 seconds to render), measure how wide the element is with the 20 chars, and then make it a DIV where the text within it is left-justified, and the DIV's left margin shrinks at a constant rate per animation frame.
by WesleyLivesay | 2026-01-12 20:11:22+00:00
Really like the look of this. I use Claude Code (and other CLI LLM tools) to interact with my large collection of local text files which I usually use Obsidian to write/update. It has been awesome at organization, summarization, and other tasks that were previously really time consuming.

Bringing that type of functionality to a wider audience and out of the CLI could be really cool!
by treebeard901 | 2026-01-12 20:11:29+00:00
The entire reason the markets give the response wanted after a rate cut is because of the decision being made independently of politics. A politically enforced rate cut may still boost the economy in the short term, over the longer term the interest rate mechanism will not be trusted. This will defeat the entire purpose for very limited gain.

Behind all of this is another fact that the conditions around the U.S. reserve currency are changing quickly. This is happening with just interest payments on existing debt being the largest cost every year.

No matter who controls the Government, soon they will all be forced to cut spending in a large way and be forced to try to inflate themselves out of this coming debt crisis.
by fhennig | 2026-01-12 20:11:30+00:00
Interesting! I'm not sure how severe the consumerisation really is, but yeah I can totally see the whole home-automation thing playing into it too.

I don't think mainstream tech media is deliberately omitting co-ops in their reporting due to them challenging the status quo. I think it's rather that actually, there aren't really many initiatives in the space.

And I think that is due to a lot of tech people thinking that if only the technology becomes good enough, then the problem will be solved, then, finally, everyone can have their own cloud at home.

I think that's wrong though, I think the solution in this case is that we organize the service differently, with power structured in a different way. We don't need more software to solve the problem. We know how to build a cloud services, technically. We know how to do it will. It's just that if the service is run for-profit, counter to the interests of the users, it will eventually become a problem for the users. That's the problem to fix, and it's not one to fix with technology, but just with organizing it differently.

It works for housing, in some areas it also works for utilities like internet, there are also co-ops for food. Why shouldn't it also work for modern-day utilities like cloud storage and email?

As a techie, don't be content with just running your own self-hosted service. Run it for your family, run it for your friends, run it for your neighborhood! Band together!
by simonw | 2026-01-12 20:11:37+00:00
I was hoping for a moment that this meant they had come up with a design that was safe against lethal trifecta / prompt injection attacks, maybe by running everything in a tight sandbox and shutting down any exfiltration vectors that could be used by a malicious prompt attack to steal data.

Sadly they haven't completely solved that yet. Instead their help page at https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13364135-using-cowork... tells users "Avoid granting access to local files with sensitive information, like financial documents" and "Monitor Claude for suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection".

(I don't think it's fair to ask non-technical users to look out for "suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection" personally!)
by Youden | 2026-01-12 20:11:50+00:00
You're missing the point. There were only two possible outcomes: Democrats or Republicans. Both were bad and unappealing. Both are too dependent on the status quo to serve as vehicles for real change (so primaries are pointless too).

"More parties", through elimination of first past the post, absolutely changes things. It allows you to vote for someone who truly represents you and your interests without "throwing away" your vote. That's impossible today.
by iLemming | 2026-01-12 20:12:01+00:00
> Can Org do more than those things? Surely. But so can Markdown.

It just cannot, because THAT'S THE POINT - it is by design. You guys with little or no exposure to Org-mode keep arguing that Markdown somehow can be replacement or be a "better" version of Org-mode. Well, IT CANNOT. Period!

That is because they have different design goals, different applications and different use-cases. I would love to use Markdown if it was clearly sufficient for the things I do - well, it is not! Do I then curse and abandon Markdown? No, of course - I would not. It still useful for certain tasks. Just because it's used for a variety of tasks, it doesn't mean it can replace Org-mode anytime soon. Just like MS Word format can't and never would replace LaTeX or PDF.
by minimaxir | 2026-01-12 20:12:25+00:00
Claude Opus 4.5 can understand images: one thing I've done frequently in Claude Code and have had great success is just showing it an image of weird visual behavior (drag and drop into CC) and it finds the bug near-immediately.

The issue is that Claude Code won't automatically Read images by default as a part of its flow: you have to very explicitly prompt it to do so. I suspect a Skill may be more useful here.
by Closi | 2026-01-12 20:12:32+00:00
A human is effectively turning complete if you give the person paper and pen and the ruleset, and a brain clearly stores information and processes it to some extent, so this is pretty unconvincing. The article is nonsense and badly written.

> But here is what we are not born with: information, data, rules, software, knowledge, lexicons, representations, algorithms, programs, models, memories, images, processors, subroutines, encoders, decoders, symbols, or buffers – design elements that allow digital computers to behave somewhat intelligently. Not only are we not born with such things, we also don’t develop them – ever.

Really? Humans don't ever develop memories? Humans don't gain information?
by Cyph0n | 2026-01-12 20:12:54+00:00
1. Give me a call when the repression of local protests escalates into a 2 year long Western backed campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against a blockaded population.

2. Agree that it’s hard to tell for certain.

3. The truth is somewhere in between. My reading is that Mossad is definitely operating on the ground in some capacity.
by mtlynch | 2026-01-12 20:13:09+00:00
Thanks for sharing this! I've been experimenting with something similar.

It would be helpful if the README explained how this works so users understand what they're trusting to protect them. I think it's worth noting that the trust boundary is a Docker container, so there's still a risk of container escape if the agent exploits (or is tricked into exploiting) a kernel vulnerability.

Have you looked into rootless Podman? I'm using rootless + slirp4netns so I can minimize privileges to the container and prevent it from accessing anything on my local network.

I'd like to take this a step further and use Podman machines, so there's no shared kernel, but I haven't been able to get volume mounting to work in that scenario.
by mystifyingpoi | 2026-01-12 20:13:17+00:00
In Poland, OLX (basically equivalent eBay) commonly has promotional campaigns, where you can buy something from a select category with 1 PLN shipping to box machine (around $0.30).

So people figured out, that you can abuse it to send anything to anyone in the country. Just create a fake listing for 1 PLN, let the receiver "buy" it (there is some extra service fee, but like $1) and there you go - probably the cheapest shipping possible, much cheaper than regular ~$5-7 box machine package.
by nyrikki | 2026-01-12 20:13:55+00:00
To add to this,

The concept of connascence, and not coupling is what I find more useful for trade off analysis.

Synchronous connascence means that you only have a single architectural quanta under Neil Ford’s terminology.

As Ford is less religious and more respectful of real world trade offs, I find his writings more useful for real world problems.

I encourage people to check his books out and see if it is useful. It was always hard to mention connascence as it has a reputation of being ivory tower architect jargon, but in a distributed system world it is very pragmatic.
by Waterluvian | 2026-01-12 20:13:57+00:00
I think intent probably matters and that this gets into the "you know it when you see it" definition realm where we debate the balance between freedom of speech and security of person. ie. just how easy Photoshop, a VCR, a DVD burner app, etc. makes it for you to crime and how much are they handholding you towards criming?

I think this is an important question to ask despite the subject matter because the subject matter makes it easy for authorities to scream, "think of the children you degenerate!" while they take away your freedoms.

I think Musk is happy to pander to and profit from degeneracy, especially by screaming, "it's freedom of speech!" I would bet the money in my pocket that his intent is that he knows this stuff makes him more money than if he censored it. But he will of course pretend it's about 1A freedoms.