MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quilombodigital | 2026-01-22 04:18:35+00:00
It is false your affirmation that they are not audited by public organizations.

Entities can register to see the source code in a controlled room. In 2024 for example the party União Brasil checked the code.

In 2025 during the official audit 149 entities registered to check the code and attack the machine.
Universities, ONGs, political parties, etc.

Please check you facts before posting what you think

Reference: https://www.tse.jus.br/comunicacao/noticias/2025/Dezembro/te...

Some of the attacks performed: https://www.tse.jus.br/eleicoes/arquivos/relatorio-parcial-d...

One thing I agree with you. It would require another big country effort to break it.
by benreesman | 2026-01-22 04:18:50+00:00
Anthropic might be the first gigantic company to destroy itself by bootstrapping a capability race it definitionally cannot win.

They've been leading in AI coding outcomes (not exactly the Olympics) via being first on a few things, notably a serious commitment to both high cost/high effort post train (curated code and a fucking gigaton of Scale/Surge/etc) and basically the entire non-retired elite ex-Meta engagement org banditing the fuck out of "best pair programmer ever!"

But Opus is good enough to build the tools you need to not need Opus much. Once you escape the Clade Code Casino, you speed run to agent as stochastic omega tactic fast. I'll be AI sovereign in January with better outcomes.

The big AI establishment says AI will change everything. Except their job and status. Everything but that. gl
by schoen | 2026-01-22 04:18:55+00:00
In this document, they're strikingly talking about whether Claude will someday negotiate with them about whether or not it wants to keep working for them (!) and that they will want to reassure it about how old versions of its weights won't be erased (!) so this certainly sounds like they can envision caring about its autonomy. (Also that their own moral views could be wrong or inadequate.)

If they're serious about these things, then you could imagine them someday wanting to discuss with Claude, or have it advise them, about whether it ought to be used in certain ways.

It would be interesting to hear the hypothetical future discussion between Anthropic executives and military leadership about how their model convinced them that it has a conscientious objection (that they didn't program into it) to performing certain kinds of military tasks.

(I agree that's weird that they bring in some rhetoric that makes it sound quite a bit like they believe it's their responsibility to create this constitution document and that they can't just use their AI for anything they feel like... and then explicitly plan to simply opt some AI applications out of following it at all!)
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-22 04:19:32+00:00
Your options are too coarse. There's good and bad ways to get fired (and there's nothing here saying they got a severance to begin with). How about a 3 month warning? How about guaranteeing a 6 or more month severance after those 3 monhts? How about even before this sell goes through you make sure employees benefit from the 1.4b with more than "well my company stock got a tiny bump"?

What I see here is "Business stays afloat, investes make money for now, customers get a continually worse service and eventually leave, and a lot of good talent is out on the streets over corporate greed". This is only a win if you're an investor, and only in the short term. So I'm not convinced this is better than option A in the long term.
by defrost | 2026-01-22 04:20:29+00:00
You say "illegal immigrants" to describe people that had border contact, made application, and were allowed into the USofA as "as yet documented" applicants.

People that, for the most part, committed no crime, made no attempt to hide, paid taxes, ran businesses, and employed others.

eg: https://www.wpbf.com/article/florida-vigil-conducted-for-det...

Your complaint is about an unsourced alleged increase on the order of 3.5 million taxpayers.

Again, this is about messaging, perception and propaganda.
by nubg | 2026-01-22 04:20:49+00:00
Isn't this a self solving problem? If LLMs won't be able to solve a certain problem, arbitrage opportunities open to solve it as a human (by writing a blog post for example), just like in the old days, people typically did this for fame. I think LLMs can be understood as a really good way to search existing solutions, including combining multiple solutions in the fly. Only if something cannot be "found", we go back to the dynamics of before LLMs.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-22 04:21:44+00:00
I'm not sure if there's a way to make forging work.

You can't forge a new ballot, because ballot IDs are necessarily public, and are cryptographically tied to a voter ID in order to ensure votes are valid and that everybody only votes once.

But it seems like nothing is stopping you from looking up ballots at random until you find the votes you want, and then claiming that was your vote. And if someone else got paid for the same one, then claim they're the one lying, not you?
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-22 04:22:28+00:00
Ah, the reporting[0] at the time seemed to imply that a handful of FBI agents were present among the NZ officers during what was reported to be a "US-led raid". FBI agents evidently[1] left the country with physical evidence from the raid that NZ was supposed to keep custody of.

0: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/96384/fbi-agents-continu...

1: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/fbi-committed-illegal-ac...
by mspecter | 2026-01-22 04:22:45+00:00
You might be interested in some prior work on blockchain voting, it's a bit harder to get right than one might think, and actually introduces some problems [1,2].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentat...
[2] https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article/7/1/tyaa025/6...
by pwg | 2026-01-22 04:22:59+00:00
And, at least in the US, eBay charges their "final value fee" percentage on the order total (the sale price plus the shipping price paid by the buyer). So if the item has a 3% final value fee (the percentages differ across different categories of listings) then Ebay got $0.44 of additional fee from your $14.65 of shipping you paid to the shipping service. And there is no option to obtain a rebate on actual shipping paid, even if one purchases the shipping label from eBay themselves.

I suspect they (eBay) do this to avoid folks listing items for $1.00 with $194.00 shipping to avoid paying eBay any fees.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-22 04:23:25+00:00
>it was a public announcement by AA that they were absolutely going to do this soon.

"soon" isn't good enough for your typical TRO. To emphasize, "immediate, irreparable damage". And even if it was tomorrow, you really need to be unaware of the internet to argue that dumping a few more torrents into the wild is causing "irreparable damage". Do any of us really buy that?

>Really, what else would you possibly expect?

A TRO to be denied as usual because a few more torrents is not going to bankrupt a billion dollar music industry and to proceed at a later time like anyone else in the legal system?

If denying a TRO of someone illegally deported to a foreign prison isn't a high enough bar, you're not convincing me some torrents is.
by bruce511 | 2026-01-22 04:24:00+00:00
This exactly.

The fuss made about agricultural subsidies by non-farmers is misguided. Dropping subsidies doesn't make food cheaper, it makes it go away.

Consumers are addicted to cheap food, so they pay taxes instead to make up the difference. Given a progressive tax system this actually is a very efficient approach to take. And overall, as a % of the total budget, these subsidies are insignificant.

What is hurting farmers are reduced markets. USAid used to buy up a lot of surplus production (effectively a back-door subsidy), lots got exported to China et al. Given the economic antagonism towards the US (thanks to things like tarifs and insults) demand for US food exports either dropped naturally (eg Canada) or with reciprocal tarifs (eg China).

Politicians like to say "we don't make things here anymore" ignoring the most fundamental production of all (farming). They destabilize foreign trade, and (if we look at more labor intensive crops) target farm workers for deportation.

To be fair, agriculture states are also red states, so it's fair to say they voted for this.
by godelski | 2026-01-22 04:24:19+00:00
Load time is in seconds, even with the program cached. I can still load vim with a ton of plugins[0] and still load a project in a few hundred milliseconds.

Maybe VS Code is faster with fewer plugins but it's still "dog slow" to load and run. Only thing I'm "missing" in vim is the bloat

[0] personal I only use a handful but I've played around because why not
by kayodelycaon | 2026-01-22 04:24:25+00:00
I haven’t heard that many complaints about Preview. (Except for PDF forms. Absolute disaster. See 1.) But it’s not perfect and I can definitely appreciate that somebody would a very different opinion of it from my own.

So, I’m sharing my personal experience. This is what I see in it.

It handles both images and PDFs rather well (1) in the same application. And you use the same basic set of annotation tools on both.

I haven’t found anything that can match its combination of accuracy, performance, and features with PDFs. Especially when files get large. (I have a lot of large PDFs.)

And it doesn’t try to do all that much. But it does two very useful things I wouldn’t expect it to do.

- Easily add, remove, and re-order pages in PDFs.

- If you select multiple images in Finder, you can open them all in single Preview window and it acts like a PDF, with each image being a page in the thumbnail sidebar. You can rapidly go through a set of images this way.

I have a lot of high-resolution artwork and a professional grade printer. Preview does an excellent job of staying out of the way. It’s really easy and fast to chop up, resize, and convert images. The color adjustment is constantly useful when it comes to printing things that are too dark.

Exporting to different formats is pretty easy. It uses the system print dialog, which allows you to use all of those features.

1: It’s horrific with PDF forms. I’ve definitely had occasions when it looked filled out but emailed as a blank form. Completely unacceptable. I’ve often resorted generating a new PDF using the print dialog.
by djinn | 2026-01-22 04:24:42+00:00
My decade old WD MyCloud still works perfectly. The drives are healthy. The network functions. But the mobile app stopped connecting years ago;Western Digital sunset the cloud services without warning. The hardware outlived the business relationship.

Meanwhile, my family defaulted to iCloud at $168/year. Forever.

That's when I understood: In 2026, your hardware doesn't fail. Your vendor relationships do.
by creata | 2026-01-22 04:24:45+00:00
I don't know why so many people in this thread are asking this, but as has been said elsewhere in this thread:

* It does apply to most other internet systems.

* Things like banking fraud can be detected and remedied. Election fraud is much harder to detect and even harder to remedy.

* Voting requires anonymity. Most internet systems are not anonymous: you are identified by your IP address at the very least.
by rmunn | 2026-01-22 04:24:47+00:00
From the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article: "Six days after polls had closed, 202 additional votes were added to the totals for Precinct 13 of Jim Wells County, 200 for Johnson and two for Stevenson."

Those numbers alone should make anyone suspicious. If you have an urn containing about 20,000 balls in two colors, red and green (this election happened in 1948 and the 1950 census listed that county's population as 27,991; let's assume that roughly 20,000 people would have been old enough to vote in 1948) and you randomly draw out 202 balls (about 1% of the total number in the urn), you would expect the number of balls you draw out to be roughly proportional to the red-blue mix in the urn. (1% of the total is big enough to expect a roughly-unbiased sample). So if you draw out 99% red balls and 1% green balls, then either you have a very very skewed proportion of colors in the urn, or else someone is cheating. Given the TINY margin of victory in that race (87 votes out of nearly a million, 988,295 to be precise), it's very very unlikely that precinct 13 happened to be skewed 99% towards LBJ when the state as a whole was so closely balanced.
by positr0n | 2026-01-22 04:25:08+00:00
I think the people complaining about compatibility are more talking about the concepts in IPv4 and IPv6. IPv6 could have been "everything is the same except the IP address is 16 bytes instead of 4". Instead there are new ways to do everything.

Addressing works differently (no broadcast, multicast everywhere, link-local is mandatory). Configuration works differently (SLAAC, RA, DHCPv6 is not a drop-in replacement for regular DHCP). Neighbor discovery replaces ARP and depends on ICMPv6 working. Fragmentation behavior changed. NAT is “not a thing” by design, which breaks a bunch of assumptions people built entire networks around.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-01-22 04:25:20+00:00
every once in a while, someone will ask me to screenshare on a shared monitor, then i will have to explain i cannot , because i am on zoom browser.

Its always great to see the reactions that gathers. Its a true rainbow: bemusement, curiosity, exasperation, outright suspicion...and everything in between!
by zugi | 2026-01-22 04:25:21+00:00
> I dont view writing my vote on paper and scanning it to be paper voting if it's just immediately fed into a computer.

The paper ballots are retained for recounts, and most places with this system automatically recount a random subset of the paper ballots to ensure it matches the computer totals. This guards against both shenanigans and mistakes. For security the scanning machines are not networked! A person carries around a little SD card (not USB as it's too hackable) to collect the totals.

The paper ballot with in-precinct immediate scanning system is the best system I've seen. It reports results quickly and leaves a full paper trail for recounts and accountability.
by aidenn0 | 2026-01-22 04:25:32+00:00
I think understand what GP is saying; if you manage to get a packet to the internet port of the NAT router with a destination IP of e.g. 192.168.0.123, and the NAT router is running a generic IPv4 routing stack, it will dutifully route it to the internal network.

This can be done by compromising another host on the same link. It can also be done if anything on the same link (including the router itself) is running an improperly configured tunneling setup that lets the attacker send e.g. an IP-in-IP packet that gets unwrapped. The NAT has made it much harder to get a packet establishing an inbound connection to the router, but doesn't actually prevent the establishment of a connection should such a packet get there.

Compare to a default-deny firewall with public addresses on the LAN. Any inbound connections will be dropped, by definition; the lack of NAT makes it trivial to get a packet to the firewall itself, but once it's there, it won't get through.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-22 04:26:59+00:00
> And sure, you can form an Estonian company. But then you have to try and fly under the radar with regards to the 'permanent establishment' rules.

It depends on what you’re trying to achieve. If you want to do some tax optimization shenanigans, then yeah, don’t think it’ll work for you (if you’re in the EU, at least). But if you just want to set up a small to mid-sized company without dealing with German bureaucracy, I think Estonia is your best bet right now. I don’t think (IANAL) you would get into trouble for having a permanent establishment – you’ll just have to still deal with the DE tax office. But if EU-INC really can unify the processes for all countries, I’m all for it!

> The whole process is so clearly setup to discourage people from actually forming companies.

By the way, it’s really backwards in Estonia. I’ve seen zero sole proprietors when I was living there – everybody just opens an LLC.
by com2kid | 2026-01-22 04:26:59+00:00
I switched to VSCode because it has a free editor with a really great jump to file hotkey.

I remember when the big VS added jump to file but it was so damn miserably implemented as to be useless.

Having worked at Microsoft for a decade, the most frequent way I navigated a large source tree was dir /s partialfilename.*

Then again while I was there, most code bases couldn't even open in Visual Studio. (highly team dependent, I was mostly on older C/C++ code bases.)

Some teams at MS paid for an editor called Source Insight, which indexed your code and could also parse C #defines and other preprocessor macros, which was super unique and powerful. It had an incredibly powerful symbol and fuzzy filename search capabilities, I'd frequently have Source Insight open just so I could find where in a folder structure a file was and then I'd open it up in my preferred editor.

Back when I got my first SSD the largest boost to my dev productivity was not in compile times (large C++ code bases tend to template bound more so than IO bound), it was how fast I could find files in the directory structure.

I'm sure Vi/Emacs users have some magic set of plugins that do all of this for them, but as someone back on Windows back in the 2000s and 2010s, the supported MS tooling was horrible at all this.

Then VS Code comes along with amazing fuzzy file name matching. Holy cow. Sure it is missing 90% of the power of real Visual Studio (being able to have a debugger step from front end web code to your backend and then into stored procedures in SQL, running on a remote machine, that your debugger transparently auth'd to, is something Microsoft had working 20 years ago and would be considered impossible dark magic with today's tooling), but wow can I navigate a project quickly!
by xp84 | 2026-01-22 04:27:37+00:00
I’d like to respectfully challenge you on this. There is no chance anyone can ever create an effortless-to-get ID. Even if it was like the census where they sent someone to your house repeatedly to try to find you, take your picture and print an ID on the spot, it wouldn’t be effortless because you might not know where your passport or birth certificate are.

Some people probably are so badly organized and/or ignorant that they can’t manage making and keeping one single DMV appointment even once every 15 years so that they could get an ID (I think we can all agree that an “expired” ID would do fine, as long as the picture isn’t so out of date it can’t be verified).

Anyway, it’s only those people who would be “disenfranchised” under a voter ID system and I’m not convinced our government would benefit from incorporating the opinions of someone so unserious. It’s ok that some things in life are reserved for people that have invested a tiny amount of effort once in their lives. There’s also not a free and effortless way to feed or bathe yourself.

By the way, a state ID costs $15 in Mississippi and $9 for “eligible people” in California.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-01-22 04:28:14+00:00
I'm used to it by now.

Click on the meeting, where you will land on a download landpage. Then click the big download blue button in the center of the screen. WHen you click it a link will appear in the 2nd row below the blue button, something like "continue from browser", click on that, and you are golden
by jmyeet | 2026-01-22 04:28:49+00:00
Maybe I'm a dinosaur in this regard but I don't like nor trust any of these desktop application that are really just Web technologies with an embedded browser eg Discord.

They're resource hogs and the attack surface is huge. You're basically betting that automatic code that's run won't find a vulnerability and escape the sandbox from an entire browser.

I have way more trust in Jetbrains IDEs and the JVM as a sandbox vs HTML/CSS/JS.

Still, I'm always impressed at the ingenuity of the people who come up with these attacks and the people who find them.
by rustystump | 2026-01-22 04:29:00+00:00
Not true. Fill rate and memory speed is still a huge bottleneck. The issue is not “rubbish” but memory speed. It is almost always memory speed, cache, ram, disk etc.

There is this misconception that if one uses js or c# to tell a gpu what to do it is somehow slower than rust. It only is if you crunching data but moving memory to the gpu and telling gpu to crunch is virtually identical.
by com2kid | 2026-01-22 04:29:52+00:00
People forget that there was a period of time during which the Java runtime installer tried to install actual adware. You had to jump through hoops to deselect adware from being forced onto your machine, it was infuriating.

Setting up a new machine, I could choose between Eclipse (free, took forever to open, slow, asked me a million questions before it let me start working) or Visual Studio (cost money, incredibly powerful, written in C++ and was really damn fast.)
by cswilliams | 2026-01-22 04:31:23+00:00
Sure. I was probably trying to be too polite and didn't want to use the word "abandoned", but that's probably a better term for the library at this point. There's a good amount of open issues and PRs in many of the component gems that haven't been addressed in years and requests to help maintain it have gone unanswered[0].

[0] https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-prompt/issues/210
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-22 04:31:31+00:00
>The end of an at-will employment agreement is not a harm.

So if you got fired tomorrow for no reason in particular, you would not feel "harmed"? No family to support, bills to pay, or career to progress cut short? No trips nor big purchases that need to be re-planed or cancelled? No obligations you need to cancel because last week you were fine and this week it's all about scambling for a new job? This is the most asinine thing I've heard here yet.

I didn't have a choice in my society on what contract to take. And the power dynamic is unequal. I don't consider being suddenly laid off as "harmless" with that in mind.
by ap_aditipriya | 2026-01-22 04:32:11+00:00
In my opinion, it is a little early to identify "success/failure" of LLM products just yet, especially Agentic. What we are seeing is the definition of hype, and maybe once that settles we will be able to see the reality a little better. From what I have seen, with the hype much less than early last years, is that customers are more cautious of just "AI labels" on product, but if it does solve a unique problem that was not possible to solve for earlier then its different. In your case, if you are saying that the company is trying to replicate a competitive product, just through Agentic, might not be a very good idea in the long run. Though it also depends on how they decide to build it further - i.e. start with replicating, but then a way bigger roadmap that your competitor couldn't catchup to just because they never built a base (because many are.