MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2026-01-13 19:27:58+00:00
The ID is cryptographically bound to a hardware security device you provide. In the EU system that will initially be an iOS or Android smart phone with a secure enclave, with support for other security devices like YubiKeys or smart cards coming later.

Briefly, your government gives you a digital ID that is signed with a key that is stored in the hardware security device. To demonstrate some fact to a site, such as "My ID says I'm 18+" your phone and the site use a ZKP to show to the site that (1) you have an ID that confirms that fact, (2) the you have the hardware security device that the ID was issued for, and (3) the hardware security device is unlocked.

You can use your ID to verify for someone else, but because the verification has to use your phone and it has to be unlocked this will be mostly limited to people helping a friend in person get around an age limit.
by alphazard | 2026-01-13 19:28:02+00:00
Microkernels lost "back in the day" because of how expensive syscalls were, and how many of them a microkernel requires to do basic things.
That is mostly solved now, both by making syscalls faster, and also by eliminating them with things like queues in shared memory.

> you still need to design everything from the ground up

This just isn't true. The components in use now are already well designed, meaning they separate concerns well, and can be easily pulled apart.
This is true of kernel code and userspace code.
We just witnessed a filesystem enter and exit the linux kernel within the span of a year. No "ground up" redesign needed.
by IAmGraydon | 2026-01-13 19:28:12+00:00
I think it would be very difficult for most people to tell that songs are generated by Suno 5. There are some interesting anomalies I can see in the spectrum and mid/side channels, like Suno music often has very little information in the side channel (what happens when you subtract the left and right channels from each other). You also commonly see the eq curve of the rhythm section shift over time throughout the song - like drums will sound normal at the beginning but end up sounding kind of under water by the end, but they are quickly improving these things. But to the layperson, many of these things are completely invisible. The most obvious tell, IMO, is the cadence of the lyrics.
by tom_0 | 2026-01-13 19:28:18+00:00
I agree, trying to save on costs early on is basically betting against things getting better. Not only that but in almost every case people prefer the best model they can get!

Not only that but I think our selling point is rewarding creativity with emergent behavior. I think baked dialogue would turn into traditional game with worse writing pretty quick and then you got a problem.
For example, this AI game here does multiple choices with a local model and people seem a bit mild about it.

We could use it to cache popular QA, but in my experience humans are insane and nobody ever says even remotely similar things to robots :)

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2828650/The_Oversight_Bur...
by bombdailer | 2026-01-13 19:28:29+00:00
A stonemason who creates pieces by hand gathers more respect than one who delegates their craft to a cnc machine. No person who respects their craft will use tools that devalue their relation to their craft. Only those who seek to maximize personal gain of wealth would use such tools. Such a person, who sees merit only in the ends produced, rather than in the means themselves, does not participate in the shared history of their craft, in artistry, or in their own personal development.

For a real musician, AI is already too much. For there to be meaning and soul in their music, is must be derived from the intersection of their skills and imagination, whereby the unconscious can make itself manifest in the utilization of ones virtues. Delegating this process to a black box deprives the art of its unique individual perspective that can only arise out of the finitude of human experience and learning. For though the black box may have superficial knowledge of generalizations of many such perspectives, it smooths out all paths into bland sameness. Thus no real artist of merit has any use for AI, for it is always of a lower degree than the more powerful tool that is their mind.
by thewebguyd | 2026-01-13 19:28:52+00:00
> If you want the AI to do anything useful, you need to be able to trust it with the access to useful things. Sandboxing doesn't solve this.

By default, AI cannot be trusted because it is not deterministic. You can't audit what the output of any given prompt is going to be to make sure its not going to rm -rf /

We need some form of behavioral verification/auditing with guarantees that any input is proven to not produce any number of specific forbidden outputs.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-01-13 19:28:53+00:00
I mean it in several senses.

In the labeling sense, it's a warning label, in that it serves to tell people who may wish to avoid something that it is present in the product, much like warnings saying "may contain tree nuts" on products that are potentially cross-contaminated. (As compared to a label that people are likely to seek out, like "100% juice", which is regulated differently to prevent people from using it when it doesn't apply.)

In the computing sense, it's a warning, in that it doesn't stop you from ignoring it if you want to, but some people may wish to `-Werror` / `-D warnings`.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-13 19:28:53+00:00
> LFP batteries are as likely to burn down your house as a stack of wood is.

LFP batteries are much safer than past chemistries, but this statement is way too broad.

High power batteries are always more dangerous than something like a stack of wood, because batteries will gladly dump their entire energy capacity very rapidly into a short.

Even if the battery itself [mostly] won't self-immolate, the entire installation can be a fire hazard.

Treat them with proper respect.
by d3rockk | 2026-01-13 19:28:55+00:00
Fear not- there is research in this area~

https://caniphish.com/blog/how-to-spot-ai-audio

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-modera...

even coded detectors exist
https://www.submithub.com/ai-song-checker?id=09f25ee7913a415...
by fidotron | 2026-01-13 19:29:07+00:00
> Everyone who works this out either leaves or, if they get enough money, move to safe areas of West London. Today's Londoners do not realise everyone has left, it is just a bunch of people who moved there in the last ten years telling everyone how brilliant it is and pretending they have lived there for years before being forced to leave too. Property prices suggest that actual long-term citizens are continuing to leave in large numbers.

Painfully accurate.

The fact even Lily Allen, of all people, made a music video about delusional Londoners telling themselves it's all fine, when it's not, speaks volumes, and they're still at it. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmYT79tPvLg )
by zaptrem | 2026-01-13 19:29:20+00:00
I’m a founder of one of these AI music companies and that noise you’re describing (it differs between co’s for us it’s loud vocals, for Suno it’s vocal aliasing/sandiness and mushy instrumentals, etc) is exactly why I think these songs should not be going on Spotify/etc.

We’ll have this (and the corny lyrics issue) mostly fixed in a month or so, then it mostly becomes a recommendations problem. For example, TikTok is filled with slop, but it’s not a problem - their algorithm helps the most creative/engaging stuff rise to the top. If Spotify is giving you Suno slop in your discover weekly (or really crappy 100% organic free range AI-free slop) blame Spotify, not the AI or the creators. There are really high effort and original creations that involve AI that deserve to be heard, though.

I suggest going back and listening to some of the first experimental electronic music. The tools have improved a lot since then and people have used them to do really cool things, even spawning countless genres.
by lenerdenator | 2026-01-13 19:30:10+00:00
I think back when it was just actors, musicians, athletes, etc. it was in a time when there were gatekeepers for whether or not those people had any actual talent in an art.

Whether or not those gatekeepers were right is another matter, but there was some guy in an office in a skyscraper who you had to impress, and if you did, you could get in.

Now, that guy's effectively gone. Aiden Ross, Jack Doherty - that kind of guy - couldn't have impressed a big wig. But now, they don't have to. They have to make people pay attention to them on YouTube/Instagram/TikTok/Twitch, and that's it. And they do that and they can get people to give them insane money to do so because they want access to that audience. Quality doesn't matter anymore.
by pcoz | 2026-01-13 19:30:11+00:00
Are we overusing neural networks for time-series analysis?

Neural networks are incredible tools.

But in many real-world time-series problems, they’re simply overkill.

If your signal is driven by a handful of rhythms, trends, decays, or saturations, training a model with thousands (or millions) of parameters can be like using a jet engine to stir tea. You’ll get motion - but also compute cost, power draw, latency, and deployment pain.

That’s why I built and open-sourced Time Series Formula Finder which takes a different approach:
• Find the simplest mathematical forms that explain the data
• Decompose signals into layers of structure
• Produce human-readable equations, not black boxes

Instead of “trust this model,” the output is:
“Here’s the equation that explains your signal.”

Why formulas often beat NNs in practice
1⃣ Edge deployment becomes trivial

A formula runs in a few operations per sample. No GPU. No heavy runtime. Ideal for microcontrollers, industrial devices, and battery-powered sensors.

2⃣ Interpretability is the feature
In engineering and operational domains, explanation matters. A formula exposes frequency, decay rates, drift, and saturation directly.

3⃣ Lower lifetime cost
Neural networks invite retraining cycles, monitoring pipelines, drift detection, and version churn. A good equation often stays valid far longer.

4⃣ Debugging is possible
If performance drops, you can ask which term stopped matching reality. With NNs, the answer is usually far less clear.

What the tool actually does is search for promising partial forms: expressions that explain part of a signal well, subtract them, then analyze the residual.

This produces a layered explanation rather than a monolithic model.

All feedback appreciated!
by seec | 2026-01-13 19:30:12+00:00
Ah yes for those use cases it makes perfect sense.

Apple excuse for stopping the big iMacs was that when you bundle up the display with the compute it makes it hard to upgrade and the whole thing become useless.
But in reality it just looks like some bad "reasoning" to force people to spend more on a less elegant solution that probably won't get upgraded that much.

At least an old school 5K iMac can have some secondary use case, like you demonstrated or even just to watch movies, do some light document editing and such.
And you can convert them to displays if you really want, but that should have been a built-in functionnality in the first place.

I guess this is why they still commend a relatively high-price, a good large display still has many uses even if the compute is weak.

The studio display is kinda useless outside of Mac use, so even though it's great quality its really not a good deal.

I really hope Apple finally release another big iMac because I won't get another Mac Mini or a Mac Studio. I like macOS (less so nowadays) but the whole point of the Mac was the integrated hardware for base/mid-range power. Their small desktop boxes that cannot take any upgrades are really pointless as a desktop because you end up with cable galore and not much space saved. This is so stupidly inelegant, I can feel Jobs rolling in his grave.
They added front accessible ports, so that's something I guess, but come on, they stink of greed and profit maximisation at all costs...
by nyrikki | 2026-01-13 19:30:25+00:00
There is a lot to blame on the OS side, but Docker/OCI are also to blame, not allowing for permission bounds and forcing everything to the end user.

Open desktop is also problematic, but the issue is more about user land passing the buck, across multiple projects that can easily justify local decisions.

As an example, if crun set reasonable defaults and restricted namespace incompatible features by default we would be in a better position.

But docker refused to even allow you to disable the —privileged flag a decade ago,

There are a bunch of *2() system calls that decided to use caller sized structs that are problematic, and apparmor is trivial to bypass with ld_preload etc…

But when you have major projects like lamma.cpp running as container uid0, there is a lot of hardening tha could happen with projects just accepting some shared responsibility.

Containers are just frameworks to call kernel primitives, they could be made more secure by dropping more.

But OCI wants to stay simple and just stamp couple selinux/apparmor/seccomp and dbus does similar.

Berkeley sockets do force unsharing of netns etc, but Unix is about dropping privileges to its core.

Network aware is actually the easier portion, and I guess if the kernel implemented posix socket authorization it would help, but when user land isn’t even using basic features like uid/gid, no OS would work IMHO.

We need some force that incentivizes security by design and sensible defaults, right now we have wack-a-mole security theater. Strong or frozen caveman opinions win out right now.
by nobody9999 | 2026-01-13 19:30:28+00:00
>...When he was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, he went to every dubious healer my grandmother could find...He was never right wing.

Desperation isn't partisan, friend.

My father was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer and died from its ravages too. He participated in clinical trials and did everything medically reasonable to save himself. None of it worked, and when the treatments came to an end, he faced his death with grace and dignity. I've often thought that if I was in a similar situation, I'd be happy to be half as courageous as he was.

Other folks I've seen have been more along the "freak out" axis and have fallen apart, sought out any treatment regardless of efficacy (or sanity), or both, in order to stave off their fear.

None of that is partisan. All of that is sad.

If Scott Adams died from his cancer's advance, he died a slow, painful (opioids notwithstanding) death which included numerous indignities and, at the end, a lack of awareness that, had he been conscious of it, would likely have driven him mad.

That's what's sad. No one, not even Scott Adams, should suffer and die that way. How folks meet death, especially one as grueling and painful as cancer eating your central nervous system, isn't a partisan thing.

And while I'm not a fan of his later incarnations, his brief cameo here[0] was quite amusing.

[0] https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Moments_of_Transition
by xattt | 2026-01-13 19:30:31+00:00
> You can use Tulip to make music, code, art, games, or just write.

Am I wrong to think statements like these are just aspirational warm-and-fuzzies about the product without any real substance?

You could do all those things on anything, but they are typically incongruent with one another. If you are a beginner or a pro, you’re going to be better off doing it on a “more-standard” device.
by ygjb | 2026-01-13 19:30:37+00:00
> A system that works 90% of the time but hallucinates or leaks data the other 10% isn't an 'agent', it's a liability.

That strongly depends on whether or not the liability/risk to the business is internalized or externalized. Businesses take steps to mitigate internal risks while paying lip service to the risks with data and interactions where high risk is externalized. Usually that is done in the form of a waiver in the physical world, but in the digital world it's usually done through a ToS or EULA.

The big challenge is that the risks that Agentic AI in it's current incarnation or not well understood by individuals or even large businesses, and most people will happily click through thinking "I trust $vendor" to do the right thing, or "I trust my employer to prevent me doing the wrong thing."

Employers are enticed by the siren call of workforce/headcount/cost reductions and in some businesses/cases are happy to take the risk of a future realized loss as a result of an AI issue that happens after they move on/find a new role/get promoted/transfer responsibility to gain the boost of a good quarterly report.
by Barrin92 | 2026-01-13 19:31:04+00:00
All the justified complains about housing prices aside, I want to focus on this part

"Some people are fine with getting a roommate, but what if you’re not?[...]Usually, people get to a certain stage of life, and they like their independence.”"

No usually it's the other way around. You get to a certain stage of life, your household size grows. There's exogenous factors like lack of construction but all other things being equal, housing used to be more affordable because the entire nation didn't consist of single person households. Multi-generational homes and large families were the norm because it saves resources. People who decide to want to live independently are going to take a financial hit.

If you're not interested in a traditional family I'd strongly suggest societies think about cooperative housing collectively and having a flat mate or two individually.
by observationist | 2026-01-13 19:31:10+00:00
>>> Do you have a source for these counter protests being organized and dictated by IRGC?

Basic logic and a pair of eyeballs.

They're about as brazen and blatant as these sorts of things get. No, I don't have recordings of the mullahs instructing IRGC what to do, but the pro regime protests are uniform and exactly what a mullah would want for pro regime propaganda, with none of the nuance or variability you'd expect with spontaneous, grassroots support.

As far as I know, there's no documentary proof, but the evidence implicit to the structure, timing, messaging, location, and demographics are more than sufficient to damn them as regime orchestrated agitprop as opposed to any genuine opposition to the anti-regime movement.
by sneak | 2026-01-13 19:31:18+00:00
i’ve actually read both of those WP
pages before.

right != far right

his conservative viewpoints and political support (which incidentally i do not share) do not automatically make his beliefs “far right”. i have not seen or heard a single thing he’s expressed or done that suggests “far right”. if anything, he appears rather centrist.

and can we stop already with the smearing? it clearly wasn’t intended to be a nazi salute, which both the ADL as well as the person who made the gesture have clarified. do we think he is lying about that? why would someone who wants to make nazi salutes on stage then go and lie about it later?

scott adams, however, has said and clarified his far-right viewpoints many times publicly. there’s no ambiguity there.
by robomartin | 2026-01-13 19:31:21+00:00
> What's missing from these parts which makes people reach for ESP32 by default instead?

I didn’t directly answer that question before.

Strictly speaking, nothing essential is missing from many of these other parts. In fact, in professional contexts they often have better documentation, support, longevity guarantees, or security features than ESP32.

One of the biggest differentiators is simply pricing strategy. Espressif has used aggressively low pricing (what many would reasonably call predatory pricing) to capture mindshare and market share. That playbook is hardly new; it’s been used successfully across industries for decades. Ultra-cheap silicon, combined with inexpensive dev boards, dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and makes ESP32 the default choice, especially for hobbyists and startups.

Price pressure also creates a feedback loop: more users means more tutorials, libraries, examples, and community support, which in turn makes the platform feel easier and safer to choose, even when alternatives might be technically superior.

For teams operating in cost-driven markets, this can become unavoidable. If your product lives or dies on BOM cost, reaching for the cheapest viable part may not be optional. I spent several years in that environment myself, and while it’s a valid constraint, it tends to push decisions toward short-term cost optimization rather than long-term engineering value.

So the answer isn’t that these parts lack features, it’s that ESP32 combines good-enough capabilities with exceptionally aggressive pricing and a massive ecosystem, which together make it the default choice in many contexts.
by dennis_jeeves2 | 2026-01-13 19:31:28+00:00
Thank you for saying that.

(It really takes a low IQ person to takes things out of content and call him a racist. I'm no fan of SA, but I did appreciate what he had to say about the race thing, somebody has to speak up against the politically correct nonsense out there. Not surprisingly many people who call him racist - haven't even heard him on the topic. Very similar to people calling the author of a book as bigoted - a book that they have never read)
by bluGill | 2026-01-13 19:31:34+00:00
Adam Smith observed in his "wealth of the nations" that when people get more money they almost always spend it on better housing. There is a limit to how large a house people will want before they decide not to (many rich are living in mansions smaller than they could afford - and in some cases the size of their mansion seems to be set because they want to be the biggest not because they want/use the space), but I don't know where that limit is.
by sunaookami | 2026-01-13 19:31:38+00:00
In the latest version they changed something AGAIN, when you drag a tab too far to the left it's pinned automatically. Literally nobody asked for it and it makes me so angry, god I hate Mozilla. I only use Fiefox because it's the last browser with Manifest V2 (I have a lot of these add-ons) and as an add-on dev they made me even more angry with having double standards regarding their shitty add-on review system.
by arjie | 2026-01-13 19:31:44+00:00
I did a quick Algolia search https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If I'm being honest, the combination of the HN audience and him is that he's just a dunk machine. It's all right. I get it. People here like this kind of content. I have to killfile the domain and users who post positively about it if I want to improve my personal feed. That's on me to curate rather than to post Yet Another Complaint Comment (the lesser known yacc).

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