MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by foltik | 2026-01-27 06:38:28+00:00
Reads like one of those typical sycophantic feedback loops where AI convinced itself and the prompter they were uncovering something profound.

Galois factory, matter protocol... all just technical jargon slop that sounds fancy but carries basically no semantic meaning. The repo’s readme is even worse [0].

As the cherry on top it even closes out with an “it’s not just X, it’s Y.”

[0]: https://github.com/calhoun137/Base-1
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-27 06:39:25+00:00
Because of climate change, there will be droughts, floods, mass famines, and extreme migration of billions of climate refugees across continents. It will be terrible.

These are the Tragedy of the Commons consequences of mostly the Global North using the sky as an invisible sewer without doing enough to address the destabilization except invite fossil fuel peddlers to COPs.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-27 06:40:28+00:00
In my case I need phytosanitary certificates, with the complexity and overhead varying by destination. It isn't hardware like electronics or manufactured goods, but sterile plant cultures in jars. The main requirement is having the products and pipeline inspected by the CFIA.

The primary tension and strain comes from deciding where your market is, I think. You can simplify your overhead in obtaining certificates and building your workflows by choosing to sell to a market where these factors are minimally taxing (like just selling in Ontario or across Canada), but in my case this limits my market too much. Not that many people in Canada are buying what I sell, but there are large markets in other countries that are underserved.

I have a feeling hardware is much easier. What you're developing is probably not illegal or considered high risk where you want to sell it. In my case, some of the products I sell are banned outright because the province or state it's going to considers it invasive. Even with the certificates, I can't sell some species in some locations. Figuring out all of these requirements and rules in advance is essential so your shipments don't end up rejected and destroyed at the border.

What kind of hardware are you manufacturing?
by rmason | 2026-01-27 06:40:42+00:00
When I was born my parents bought a TV. Back then it was sold as a way of enhancing the education of children. I remember the early days of the web when the same case was made. Pretty sure you could have predicted it would descend to the lowest common denominator ;<).

The family stayed with black and white until the late seventies. I remember the entire family watching the first moon landing. For the longest time I didn't know whether NASA was recording in color or not ;<).
by anigbrowl | 2026-01-27 06:40:53+00:00
I read the whole thing and you are smoking crack. They are calling for the overthrow of the Islamic regime and (explicitly) for the death of the supreme leader. As far as their theoretical argument goes, it's that the masses in IRan are ready to have a revolution but that they lack the organizational skills and roadmaps that communists beleieve themselves to have. They also argue that external support of a revolution is strategically bad because the incumbent regime will use it to portray the Iranian students/working class as tools of foriegn powers.
by aix1 | 2026-01-27 06:40:57+00:00
When I lived in London, I once came across an operation that was producing fake documents -- in what looked like substantial quantities -- from a bunch of European countries. Passports, ID cards, driving licences etc.

Try as I might, I could not get the Metropolitain Police interested. I even brought a stockpile of those docs to a police station that was literally across the street from the post office from which the criminals were sending the docs. The Met gave me a crime reference number, but that was the extent of their interest. They didn't even want to keep the docs (I guess extra paperwork and all that). Action Fraud were just as uninterested.

In Zürich, I once came off my bicycle. No one else involved, no damage to anything except myself. The police were on the scene six minutes later (they responded when a helpful passer-by called for an ambulance). Offered to take my bicycle for safekeeping, which was jolly nice of them. :)
by closewith | 2026-01-27 06:41:05+00:00
> My point is that security can never be strict enough to catch someone who's truly motivated and funded, without making it impossible to admit people at a reasonable pace, and the current rules don't really help with that except for cutting down on the riff raff terrorists.

This is the classic HN developer arrogance and oversimplification, but let's accept this as true for argument's sake. It turns out that "riff raff terrorists" are the only ones we needed to stop as there's been no successful bombings of Western airlines in 25 years, and there have been foiled attempts.

The existence of master locksmiths (and door breaching charges) doesn't mean you shouldn't lock your door at night.
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-01-27 06:41:16+00:00
If you look at actions and results the western alliance is the strongest it has ever been and going to be significantly stronger over the next decade.

Again my point is a theory that either EU and US found a way to make EU citizens get behind military spending or the US found a way to manipulate EU to do it.

You'll know if US and EU are actually not aligned if EU sides with China over USA (which would be suprising to say the least)
by troad | 2026-01-27 06:42:07+00:00
> That works until you get into a terminal and want to copy/paste/send signals without having to remember special keybinds that only apply when you're in the terminal.

I don't really understand what you mean by this. When a GUI app wants Ctrl, I hit Cmd. In a terminal emulator, I hit Ctrl for control sequences and Cmd for system shortcuts like copy and paste. This reflects how things work on a Mac. There's nothing special to remember.

> X should have never copied the IBM/MS binds. What a tragic mistake

Agreed!
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-27 06:42:22+00:00
To be honest I didn't find the historical parallels as convincing in this article. I'm glad the author did recognize that we are in uncharted waters, but I think another potential reason to believe that our current fascist government is a little bit more restrained than earlier ones is due to the same forces that allowed it to rise in the first place - that is, social media and instantly viral videos.

What has happened since the Alex Pretti shooting was simply impossible in previous fascist governments. The administration can tell all the lies they want about it, but most of us have eyeballs, and we can see the multiple videos with frame-by-frame analysis. In the past, government propaganda would have been more effective in cases like this - it would have been a case of "who do you believe, team A or team B?" I don't have to believe either team, I just have to believe my own eyes.
by groggo | 2026-01-27 06:43:14+00:00
we have them for our cats, they're great. Sometimes they're hiding in bushes and we don't realize they're 10 ft away. Other times they're down by the neighbor's house. It's not perfect but it tells us which direction more or less. And definitely more peace of mind if they ever got lost. They

They make breakaway collars so if they get caught on something it won't trap them.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-27 06:43:14+00:00
I routinely conceal large bottles of liquids on my person while going through airport security. I've probably gone through airport security in various places with a 1.5L bottle of water more than a hundred times now. Haven't been caught once, although of course the US-style scanners could presumably defeat this.

Same with hot sauces, perfume and the occasional bottles of wine. I really don't like to travel with a checked-in luggage, so this is a frequent problem.

Luckily I own lots of Rick OWens clothes with large hidden pockets.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-27 06:43:17+00:00
The wage difference for IT workers is often 3:1 or higher in the US economy, as Canada has 1/10th the population with higher ratios of university alumni.

Starting a business in the USA is often far more lucrative, but people usually still incorporate in both countries for tax and liability reasons.

Things like the Canadian youth tax-credits also mean anyone over 28 gets pushed down the list for entry-level positions. The US is far easier to find a reasonable job, and the cultural tradition of entrepreneurship is far better. =3
by woodpanel | 2026-01-27 06:44:45+00:00
He doesn’t need a list of people he can quote for his observation to be true.

And it’s not far fetched either: With a state‘s power structure ultimately resting upon (enough) support from society, there is an implicit legitimacy assumed in their actions.

The same can not be said about mass executions of citizens by an invading foreign power structure. Which is why you see the typical propaganda rush to make the victims look like perpetrators.
by fzeindl | 2026-01-27 06:44:47+00:00
> I know blaming everything on LLMs is in vogue right now; but this is much more to do with Microsoft very publically firing the QA department.

Yes, yes, "agile" everything...

I remember clicking on a perfectly honest button in Azure Dev Ops (Production) and it told me that the button is completed but the actual functionality will be probably delivered in Sprint XY.
by closewith | 2026-01-27 06:45:13+00:00
> they don't stop bombings (there are much better targets for that, which don't involve killing the bomber),

I think you should read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing_a...

The only reason you believe aircraft bombings aren't being stopped is because you live in a world where rigourous security has stopped all aircraft bombings.
by defrost | 2026-01-27 06:45:18+00:00
Dunno about that.

Not whether the photo was AI or not, and not whether he has fallen for it if it was.

It's still a strong comment on the situation likely formed from watching the dynamics of the situation in play on video from somebody that has experience in volatile policing of real and quasi war zones.

It's strength is from pushing back on the Miller-time obvious propaganda.

Where it falls down is engaging in fighting bald untruths and memes from the Whitehouse with likely more of the same.

In our part of the world, as in any part, we do bad things, our people do bad things, but we endeavour to hold their feet to fire when they do:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04en9wllpxo

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/kumanjayi-walker-inqu...

It's disapointing to see the official Whitehouse feeds being used for clowning about wrt serious events and the first response to tragedy being to obviously lie and deny.
by ako | 2026-01-27 06:45:38+00:00
Depends mostly on efficiency: GraphQL (or Odata as a REST compliant alternative that has more or less the same functionality) provide the client with more controls out of the box to tune the response it needs. It can control the depth of the associated objects it needs, filter what it doesn't need, etc. This can make a lot of difference for the performance of a client. I actually like Odata more than GraphQL for this purpose, as it is REST compliant, and has standardized more of the protocol.
by thedevilslawyer | 2026-01-27 06:46:13+00:00
I see you have a dockerfile.combined - is this built and served via gh artifacts? I can try it out.

Pros: Open source, and focus on lightweight. This is good.

Cons: "customers" - Ugh, no offense, but smells of going down the same path as "open" webui, with the services expanding to fill enterprise use cases, and simplicity lost.

LLMs.py seems to be focussing purely on simplicity + OK with rewriting for it. this + 3bsd is solid ethos. Will await their story on multi-user, hosted app. They have most of the things sorted anyway, including RAG, extensions, etc.
by mikkupikku | 2026-01-27 06:46:16+00:00
It's not. Maybe if you used old versions of stockfish that predate the neural net methods used by current versions, because otherwise you'd be comparing the hand-rolled (by an LLM) position evaluation functions against an NNUE and the results of that are a forgone conclusion; stockfish will stomp it every time.

Maybe that's the result you want for some sort of rhetorical reason, but it would nonetheless not be an informative test.
Notification Overload (Discussion)
by fractal618 | 2026-01-27 06:46:57+00:00
I'm looking for tools or methods to better curate the deluge and cacophony of notifications, emails, texts and phone calls I imagine we are all getting inundated with everyday with increasing entropy and volume.

The amount of "notifications" I get everyday is overwhelming to the point where I often decide to switch my phone to "silent", leave my phone in another room, and even turn it off for periods of time. The problem with this is that I miss important things and they often get buried.

I've spent hours and hours unsubscribing, deleting, uninstalling, toggling settings, but then I find myself reinstalling, resubscribing. It's just a mess, and exhausting to just think about.

The reason I'm writing this is partially to vent. I just realized that my closest friend's birthday was a few weeks ago. I had it in my calendar, but never saw the notification. Yes, I should be more organized and Yes, it's not the end of the world. but damnit, i get so much crap from this bionic appendage, and still I cant use this tool to help me with remembering important things.

It just seems like its getting worse every year.

Hopefully this is helpful to others.

P.S. can we please stop with the "would you like all or some cookies" popup on every friggin website?

P.P.S. can websites stop asking for permission to invade my OS?

P.P.P.S. does anyone else ever want to run away and be an off-grid hermit?
by solidsnack9000 | 2026-01-27 06:48:02+00:00
It really did not mean that -- it meant to increase spending to the targets set by NATO and to meet realistic defense needs.

A lot of EU weaponry was and is produced in the EU and the US has known that all along, cooperated and fostered it. The Leopard tank, the Eurofighter, the Rafale, the Lynx, the FV432, the Gazelle -- there is a long list of domestic weapons systems. I'm not sure if they still can do it, but the English made nuclear submarines. The US has at various times partnered with Europe on the development of these systems, and Europe has been able to produce almost all major weapons systems continuously since the end of World War 2.

Europe's much weakened defense posture -- and weakened defense industry -- are their own fault and the result of their own choices. At one time, European countries had much, much larger militaries and could sustain manufacturing of their specific weapon systems -- their own tanks, APCs -- but not after the military drawdowns following the end of the Cold War. There are at least 3 major domestic European tank types -- the Leopard, the Challenger and the Leclerc -- but only the Leopard is manufactured anymore. Europe should probably have consolidated on the Leopard a long time ago.

The US weapons are not "overpriced", and certainly not compared to European weapons, beyond the sense in which basically all western European weapons are overpriced. One reason we see consolidation on US weapons in Europe is that the US weapons are frequently very good, having received a lot of use, but also because the US still has some scale in its manufacturing capabilities.
by BrenBarn | 2026-01-27 06:48:08+00:00
Duplicating things is underrated. It's good for there to be multiple operators doing basically the same thing. Innovation can happen at the margins. It will be easier, not harder, for EU companies to innovate in meaningful ways after they've built their own systems and are no longer just following in the wake of big US companies. (Not to mention that half of what passes for innovation these days is actually bad.)
by user_7832 | 2026-01-27 06:48:14+00:00
The other HN comment already has some info, but from what I remember from r/android threads, it's because qualcomm doesn't allow unsecure (sic? unencrypted?) VMs, which, ironically, are needed to run nested Linux.

Disclaimer, my memory on the exact terminology is extremely fuzzy. But pixels with tensor can run it just fine. And it's purely a software thing too, btw.
by tombert | 2026-01-27 06:48:27+00:00
> They are also excellent phones.

I'm glad you had a good experience with it, but I had the Pixel 7 Pro and it was the single worst phone I have ever used. Utterly dogshit, to a point where I swore a blood oath to never purchase another Pixel ever again. I've heard that the later Pixels are better but I guess I'll never know.

It's possible that I had a defective unit, but regardless of the reason it was a laggy mess, that got terrible battery life, and sometimes simply wouldn't finish turning on (it would just stay on a black screen indefinitely). I bought it in July of 2023 and I ended up giving it to a family member and buying a refurb iPhone 13 Pro Max, which I still have and it has been considerably better.

It's not like I'm this huge Apple fanboy (feel free to look at my history complaining about my time working there), but if the Pixel 7 was 2023's flagship Android phone, then I have very little interest in using Android anymore.
by chii | 2026-01-27 06:48:50+00:00
You didnt calculate in the cost of failure. The success of someone being unreasonable might return good results for everyone else (but this is not known ahead of time - otherwise, it would not be considered unreasonable before the success!)

Therefore, you risk the loss resulting from a failure.

It's why you don't just use this argument to gamble or buy lottery tickets.
by ycombinatrix | 2026-01-27 06:50:26+00:00
I've never seen `split_off_mut` but I do use `split_at_mut` quite often to solve similar issues. Using a slice instead of using a Vec directly also tends to greatly simplify things.

I also don't fully understand the buffer reuse example. Why would you want to store references to a string after the string ceases to exist?
by grishka | 2026-01-27 06:50:35+00:00
Having just finished my software-defined analog video decoder[0], I've gotta say, my mind is thoroughly blown by just how much of an engineering achievement television must've been at the time when it was invented. It must have also been the first ever communication system to have backwards compatibility.

[0] https://github.com/grishka/miscellaneous/blob/master/AVDecod...
by degamad | 2026-01-27 06:51:05+00:00
> QA has to some how think of all the inane ways that a user will actually try using the thing knowing that not all users are technically savvy at all.

The classical joke is: (this variant from Brenan Keller[0])

A QA engineer walks into a bar.

- Orders a beer.

- Orders 0 beers.

- Orders 99999999999 beers.

- Orders a lizard.

- Orders -1 beers.

- Orders a ueicbksjdhd.

First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is.

The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

[0] https://xcancel.com/brenankeller/status/1068615953989087232?...
by materialpoint | 2026-01-27 06:53:12+00:00
How is that different from today's SA, like CodeQL and SonarQube? Most of the feedback is just sh*t and drives programmers towards making senseless perfections that just double the amount of work had to be done later to toggle or tune behaviour, because the configurable variables are gone due to bad static code analysis.
Clearly present intent and convience like: Making a method virtual, adding a public method, not making a method static when it is likely to use instance fields in the future --- these good practices are shunned in all SA just because the rules are opportunistic, not real.
by sanxiyn | 2026-01-27 06:53:38+00:00
Not really. Due to combinatorial explosion some path is hard to hit randomly in this kind of source code. I would have preferred if after 2M random battles the reference implementation had 99% code coverage, than 99% pass rate.

I don't know anything about Pokemon, but I briefly looked at the code. "weather" seemed like a self contained thing I could potentially understand. Looking at https://github.com/vjeux/pokemon-showdown-rs/blob/master/src...

> NOTE: ignoringAbility() and abilityState.ending not fully implemented

So it is almost certain even after 99.96% pass rate, it didn't hit battle with weather suppressing Pokemon but with ability ignored. Code coverage driven testing loop would have found and fixed this one easily.
by Tepix | 2026-01-27 06:53:56+00:00
Huggingface Link: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5

1T parameters, 32b active parameters.

License: MIT with the following modification:

Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works
thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have
more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars
(or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently
display "Kimi K2.5" on the user interface of such product or service.
by closewith | 2026-01-27 06:54:26+00:00
> You can't protect against an opponent who's motivated to learn the inherent vulnerabilities of our systems, many of which can't be protected against due to the laws of physics and practicality - short of forcing everyone to travel naked and strapped in like cattle, with no luggage. And even then, what about the extremist who works for the airline?

This is said as an axiom, but we have protected against the motivated terrorist, as shown by the safety record.
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-01-27 06:55:33+00:00
Or more obviously the US views China as an existential threat that is about to pop.

US has numerous public docs stating China is prepping for war and has WW2 levels of production. US knows it will be out manufactured in this conflict.

So the US needs:

1. Fully focus on China without distractions.
2. Allies able to handle their own security or help in the fight.
3. Weaken the smaller axis forces as much as possible now before the big event occurs.

Through this lens it alls lines up pretty nicely. Every single world event including US poking europe all work towards these goals.

As of now:

1. EU is finally spending on spending
2. Nato has expanded (sweden)
3. Russia is weakened
4. Iran is weakened
5. Oil production is secure (venuzuela, US internal, middle east)
6. East asia is also spending more on military and heavily aligning with the west (more bases in phillipines)

To me this is going about as smoothly as anyone would expect the buildup to WW3 would go. And it's all going pretty well for western forces. The west is now stronger than it has ever been and getting stronger and the axis forces are all weaker and getting weaker.

Words matter much less than action.
by justsomehnguy | 2026-01-27 06:55:53+00:00
It's not "less terrorism".

Back in the day you needed to get onto TV and into newspaper headlines to get any attentions besides your neighbours. Today you can do that with a Facebook page and send your ideas worldwide.

And that works the back way too: instead of the news of bombing in some remote country you can't even find on the map you can get a funny cat videos to fill in.