MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by businessmate | 2026-01-29 00:26:05+00:00
This paper describes a structural property of AI-mediated information systems. Under decision-adjacent conditions, probabilistic systems produce authoritative narrative outputs that influence beliefs and actions while leaving no durable, attributable, or reconstructable record. This creates a reconstructability gap that becomes visible only after reliance has occurred. The phenomenon is independent of domain, correctness, or intent and arises from the interaction between conversational generation, uncertainty compression, and the absence of institutional recordkeeping. UPDATED SECTION: "In controlled prompt-replication tests conducted across three independent, production-grade frontier systems, convergence and uncertainty collapse were observed consistently at decision-adjacent turns".
by pezezin | 2026-01-29 00:26:17+00:00
On the other hand the Japanese economy has been quite stagnant since 1990, and the yen is right now on a downwards spiral, so I don't think it is such a good solution.

And as a gaijin living in Japan, I usually get extremely pissed off at the extreme inefficiency of Japanese companies, things that in any other country would take one month here take 5 years.
by arxari | 2026-01-29 00:26:34+00:00
I mean yeah, they're not "for" it but you can see how deploying the PD would be helpful as they're more inclined to be non-violent and also I'd reckon they have far more experience than ICE considering the mass requirements which results in many many ICE officers being pretty much just militarized citizens with lacking experience put into stressful situations.
by spacechild1 | 2026-01-29 00:27:36+00:00
Nice article! Yes, using spinlocks in normal userspace applications is not recommended.

One area where I found spinlocks to be useful is in multithreaded audio applications. Audio threads are not supposed to be preempted by other user space threads because otherwise they may not complete in time, leading to audio glitches. The threads have a very high priority (or have a special scheduling policy) and may be pinned to different CPU cores.

For example, multiple audio threads might read from the same sample buffer, whose content is occasionally modified. In that case, you could use a reader-writer-spinlock where multiple readers would be able to progress in parallel without blocking each other. Only a writer would block other threads.

What would be the potential problems in that scenario?
by crediblejhj | 2026-01-29 00:27:50+00:00
Hi there! I'm so glad to meet someone my age working on a similar path.

Your project sounds really fascinating as well. To be honest, I wasn't familiar with the concept of "porting" until I looked it up through Gemini just now—it's such an interesting approach! You mentioned that you couldn't quite get it to work despite countless efforts, but I believe that only proves how incredibly difficult and ambitious your attempt was.

During this project, I also faced constant failures and had to compromise on many things because of the sheer complexity. My engine doesn't support JS yet, and only handles a handful of CSS properties—and even those aren't perfect. But as people like us always do, we learn and grow through these failures. I truly hope you’ve gained a lot of growth and insight through your project as well.

About LLMs: I used Claude. The key was using it as a mentor, not a code generator:

-Asked WHY things work, not just HOW

-Got help understanding concepts

-Debugging assistance when stuck

But I designed the architecture and solved problems myself.

Thanks again for the star and your kind words! Let’s keep in touch and keep building.
by lazyeye | 2026-01-29 00:28:23+00:00
Nah just absolute commonsense.

Renee Good dropped her kids off in childcare so she could go and obstruct armed law enforcement officers in the course of their work using her car as a weapon.

If a close member of your family told you they were intending to do this, would you discourage them from taking this action?
If you cared about them, of course you would discourage this. And if you are honest you would admit this.

The Democrat party is encouraging people to do this.
by ryukoposting | 2026-01-29 00:28:26+00:00
If you had 16 GB of RAM, yeah Windows 10 was mostly fine. The laptop I had in high school was rocking 4 GB and a first-gen i5. Windows 7 was rock solid on that machine, but 10 brought it to its knees. Sandy Bridge fared much, much better, to be fair, but the jump from "4GB is enough" to "8GB is pushing your luck" was not pleasant, as I recall it.
by keernan | 2026-01-29 00:28:33+00:00
>>When we see accounts doing that, we usually take away their flagging rights.

I have observed that any post that is negative about Musk gets flagged. Almost 100% of the time. In that regard, it has certainly occurred to me that someone with Musk's wealth would find it trivial to hire millions of people to monitor and attempt to influence his image on social media - and imo it would be quite surprising if he didn't have massive numbers of people whose full time job was to do precisely that.

In that regard, I find it obnoxious someone of his wealth should be entitled to such personal privileges on HN. I don't mean to imply HN is actively supporting that - just that I believe HN should be taking affirmative steps to prevent the removal of 100% of things that would annoy Musk from ever reaching the front page.
by doctorpangloss | 2026-01-29 00:29:14+00:00
it's very difficult to have a conversation about this, because it would appear that sincere answers to your question will get downvoted. one POV is that, if you accept the bear case from Internet commenters that these guys are incompetent or stupid - blah blah blah, Cybetruck - the existence of their autonomous taxi product is extremely bullish. they managed to pull off something similar to Waymo despite being so much worse at it, yes? I'm not sure they will even need a diverse product line of premium cars, if they can sell an autonomous 3 for the price of a small house. on the flip side, the bear case there is, if they could figure it out, so will a lot of other car companies. and yet, Cruise ceased operations, and Tesla will seemingly pay a manageable amount of blood money for Autopilot and move on.

nobody really can predict the future, so unsurprisingly, "reading various articles about this doesn't make it more clear." but people on the Internet keep getting worked up about it. to me, people do not comprehend the meaning of "high risk, high reward."
by andy_ppp | 2026-01-29 00:30:15+00:00
The statistic of £29bn was taken from this article https://fullfact.org/online/37-billion-test-and-trace-app-sc...

I still think this is far higher than comparable countries and seems like a rip off. Any of the figures are extremely wasteful IMO. I wasn’t trying to suggest the app cost billions.

Test and trace is just the name of the UK programme (as used by fullfact and the NAO) so I’m not sure why you’re attempting to correct me on the naming.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-29 00:30:53+00:00
The 401k statute didn't actually grant any additional abilities to people: It set limits on a tax dodge you could already do. If I'm a CEO at $MEGABUCKS, and I make vastly more money than I need each year, I'm paying in a high tax bracket. I could instead strike a deal with my employer: cut my pay in half, and then keep paying me after I stop working here (pausing payments if I get another job), until the difference between what I would have made and have made is eliminated. All perfectly legal. But what I've done is taken money that was destined to taxed at a high tax bracket, and deferred it into a lower one (by spreading it across multiple years).

401k identifies this loophole and sets limits. Setting contribution caps, limiting withdrawals until retirement, etc. Then they incentivized offering it to the poors, too, because working out an ad-hoc agreement like that is the sort of shit only really high power people in a company have the opportunity to do.

In short, the primary purpose of 401ks wasn't to benefit the middle class, it was to slightly reign in the rich.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-29 00:31:38+00:00
>This however - I just don't understand what the need is for an app at all for Patreon. Isn't this a website/platform kind of thing? Wouldn't an app just be an additional window into the Patreon platform?

That's the other part of the surrogate war happening with mobile. The web was unregulated and hard to profit off of, so Jobs took great strides to push the "there's an app for that" mentality that overtook that age. This had the nifty side effect of killing off flash, but it's clear the prospects didn't stop there. Not to mention all the other web hostile actions taken on IOS to make it only do the bare minimum required to not piss off customers.

It very much could just be a website with no reliance on IOS as a dependency. But Apple clearly doesn't want that.
by michaelt | 2026-01-29 00:31:48+00:00
> Happy to discuss the technical approach or answer questions.

Netflix says "Ultra HD (2160p)" requires Microsoft Edge on Windows [1].

This is a "Netflix 4K Enabler" extension that spoofs being Microsoft Edge on Windows - but unless I'm misunderstanding, the extension only works on Microsoft Edge, on Windows.

Under what circumstances would a user want this extension?

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081
by marcus_holmes | 2026-01-29 00:31:49+00:00
This is pretty normal for government procurement, though. and in fact, most large organisation procurement. There's a whole wall of standards that the supplier must meet, e.g. ISO9000 that your little web-dev shop almost certainly doesn't. They won't buy from a supplier that is likely to go out of business. There's a ton of other criteria that you've got to meet to get the business. If there's any, even the slightest, chance that buying from a business might one day reflect badly on the civil servant in the procurement office, then they won't buy from that business. The civil servant has nothing to lose from saying "no" and runs a risk if they say "yes".

Businesses that do meet these criteria charge like wounded bulls. In part because they know that all the other businesses that the govt could turn to will also charge like wounded bulls.
by awesome_dude | 2026-01-29 00:32:39+00:00
I think that maybe the point isn't that the scams/distrust are "new" with the advent of AI, but "easier" and "more polished" than before.

The language of the reader is no longer a serious barrier/indicator of a scam (A real bank would never talk like that, is now, well, that's something they would say, the way that they would say it)
by ryukoposting | 2026-01-29 00:32:46+00:00
> Even on Linux they would varely play an HD Youtube video if it weren't for the hardware acceleration.

Video decoding has always been a brutal workload, but that isn't Microsoft's fault. I had to replace my Thinkpad X220 with an X270 for no reason at all except h.265. It's a ULV i5 too, so the perf is almost identical to the old laptop's... until you watch video on it.
by Retr0id | 2026-01-29 00:33:07+00:00
I've spent a long time wondering the same thing. The standard answer is that it's fallout from the anti-anti-piracy cat and mouse game. The more conspiratorial answer is that bandwidth is expensive and streaming sites will take any excuse to serve you a lower resolution than what you actually paid for, while still being able to say that they technically support 4K.

There are sensible-ish technical reasons why they can't deliver DRM'd 4K on linux, but when browser extensions can upgrade you to 4K there are no excuses on the technical level.
by lapcat | 2026-01-29 00:33:08+00:00
This is assuming that they want to avoid the violence, whereas it appears that they very much want to engage in the violence.

They want to portray Democratic cities as violent and chaotic. The easiest way to do that is to create violence and chaos.

Did you know that at many peaceful protests, right-wing agitators come in and deliberately burn the American flag, to make it look like the protesters are burning the American flag? These are the tactics they employ.

These ICE operations are all for show, and also for revenge against Trump's enemies. If immigrants and crime were such a problem for these cities, then the residents would be begging ICE to come in rather than protesting. But the cities overwhelming voted against Trump. It's not for the benefit of the cities but rather for the people who don't live in the cities and have no real clue about them, people in rural areas for example who vote for Trump and have crazy beliefs about big cities based only on what they're told by Trump and the right-wing media.

In this case the operation backfired a little, because ICE happened to kill the "wrong" people, individuals who were difficult to smear, but generally the big show works to support the propaganda.
by al_borland | 2026-01-29 00:33:23+00:00
> we’re really moving into a future that is based on autonomy,

How real is this? I know they showed off their cybercab, and it looks like they are piloting with Model Ys in Austin, but it still feels long a long way off for people outside of the pilot cities.

I also don’t understand the CyberCab. Making a 2 door coupe taxi makes very little sense to me. It seems to me you’d want to maximize interior space and seating, while keeping the cost low. It feels like Tesla is trying to prioritize “cool” over pragmatism, which might be great for a car you own, but less of a factor for a car you hitch a ride in for 10 minutes.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-29 00:33:43+00:00
> The fact that it didn’t actually solve the problem is inconsequential to PwC

You are mistaken. The fact it does not solve the problem is good for business, because follow up contracts to resolve any shortcomings will most likely also be awarded to PwC, since they are the only bidder to already have the in house expertise on this bespoke site...
by wlswo | 2026-01-29 00:34:09+00:00
Implementation Details: We currently use a hybrid polling approach rather than a pure event-driven one.

Mechanism: The Rust backend runs a high-priority background loop using AXUIElementCopyElementAtPosition to track the element under the cursor.

Optimization: To minimize overhead, the polling frequency is throttled and only ramps up when the overlay is active. We use CoreGraphics to first detect mouse movement delta before triggering the heavier Accessibility API calls.
by Grimblewald | 2026-01-29 00:34:10+00:00
I find people rarely have useful definitions for intelligence and the ontological units clustered around the term change significantly from person to person.

That said, LLMs have a single specific inductive bias: Translation. But not just between languages, between ontologies themsleves. Whether it’s 'Idea -> Python' or 'Intent -> Prose,' the model is performing a cross-modal mapping of conceptual structures. This does require a form of intelligence, of reasoning, just in a format suitable to a world so alien to our own that they're mutually unintelligble, even if the act of charting ontologies is shared between them.

This is why I think we’re seeing diminishing returns, it is that we’re trying to 'scale' our way into AGI using a map-maker/navigation system. Like asking google maps to make you a grocery list, rather than focusing on its natural purpose in being able to tell you where you can find groceries. You can make a map so detailed it includes every atom, but the map will never have the agency to walk across the room. We are seeing asymptotic gains because each extra step toward 'behavioral' AGI is exponentially more expensive when you're faking reasoning through high-dimensional translation.
by pstuart | 2026-01-29 00:34:44+00:00
If you think nuance is missing, you could add the nuance of agents swarming her vehicle with a high likelihood of violently extracting her from the car and detaining her.

This is the upgraded version of "you may beat the rap but you won't beat the ride" -- where that ride may take you halfway across the country and be detained incommunicado for many days before being ejected out of the holding center and on your own to get home.

This is well-documented and a legitimate concern of any legal protester being illegally detained.
by tombert | 2026-01-29 00:34:52+00:00
I think AI is the scapegoat for the massive overhiring that happened in 2021 and 2022. These corporations kept thinking that the nearly-interest-free loans were going to keep on going forever, and since no one really knows how to grow a business they spent the money the only way they know how: hiring more people. It didn't really matter if they were filling jobs that were "necessary", just as long as they were filled.

Now, this is extremely short-sighted and frankly it makes me question the intelligence of these BigCos' executives, because unless they're utterly incompetent at this whole "business" and "living on the planet earth" thing they should have realized that the economy fluctuates and this infinite free money wouldn't last.

Now that AI is around, these companies finally have a way to do these layoffs while not looking quite as idiotic.
by tyre | 2026-01-29 00:34:53+00:00
The benefit of having control is that they can adapt them to their priorities. Similar Apple designing its own chips when there were already viable producers in the market.

They won’t need to rely on others prioritizing their priorities, like low volume, high cost early investments in batteries designed for a market (humanoid robots) that doesn’t exist.

If they then scale them up, they also have the benefit that there is no 3p supplier who can turn around and sell those to a competitor.
by breve | 2026-01-29 00:35:00+00:00
> Why is it seen initially so negatively?

Because Tesla is being measured against the benchmarks they set for themselves. It's not a good look with cancelled models, declining sales, and a lot of self-inflicted brand damage.

Musk used to claim Tesla will sell 20 million vehicles per year:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

The new goal is to have sold 20 million in total by 2035. That target represents a further decline in sales. And, given that Tesla over-hypes everything, maybe they won't achieve it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/business/elon-musk-tesla-...
by johnnyanmac | 2026-01-29 00:36:14+00:00
>or the feeling that we really can’t do much.

We can do a lot if we pressure the company or the regulations around it. Maybe not right now in this current regime, but tides will shift.

The issue is that people's attention spans on this are much too short. The fervor around this may not even last to the end of this month, let alone until a change in power allows a new administration to properly go after the company.
by ryan_lane | 2026-01-29 00:36:21+00:00
Scammers are using AI to copy the voice of children and grandchildren, and make calls urgently asking to send money. It's also being used to scam businesses out of money in similar ways (copying the voice of the CEO or CFO, urgently asking for money to be sent).

Sure, the AI isn't directly doing the scamming, but it's supercharging the ability to do so. You're making a "guns don't kill people, people do" argument here.
by alsetmusic | 2026-01-29 00:36:50+00:00
I came across this last week when looking into how I'd run clawd (now Moltbot) on a Mac. I've been using their Lume cli for a few days to sandbox Claude and it's been reasonably good so far.

Expanding the VM's disk didn't propagate to the client; seems like it needs tooling like VMware-Tools to do some magic. I backed up the important stuff (I'd been using it less than a day) and created a new VM. That's been the only hurdle so far.

Anyway, I haven't used this, but thought it'd be useful to someone to hear that a related tool seems to be ok after ~five days of intermittent use. I've been an ESX (and recently Proxmox) fan in the past (and all the others cause I was curious), so I say this as someone who has kicked some VM rocks in my time.

As for locally run AI, this is the first time I've given one access to any data directly and I can't speak intelligently about any of that or this specific tool. Sorry.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-01-29 00:36:52+00:00
The point is, people usually pay because it is more convenient for them than getting it illegally.

But when I have to fiddle around for 30 Minutes to see a picture (it worked before until it suddenly didn't work anymore), pirating the movie is suddenly the better option. Because I certainly don't see a point in paying and wasting more of my time.

And the piracy cat and mouse game is stupid, as in the End it's always Available illegaly, except for the people developing and selling DRM
by rao-v | 2026-01-29 00:36:59+00:00
I'm really charmed by this project (I know there are a few like it).

In particular it's got a single ~600 line file (https://github.com/robitec97/gemma3.c/blob/main/gemma3_kerne...) with a clear straightforward implementation of every major function used in inferencing (google's models) from gelu to rope.

I'm curious how many more functions you'd need to add to have full coverage of every publically available LLM innovation (e.g. QK-Norm from Qwen3, SwiGLU etc.).

Obviously llama.cpp has a much bigger library but it's lovely to see everything in one clean file.
by jjwiseman | 2026-01-29 00:37:55+00:00
There are non-radar towers that don't have scopes. They may have a traffic display, or maybe not. They might choose to use a public ADS-B aggregator site because it gives them situational awareness, but they don't use it to provide radar services to aircraft. That's my understanding from listening to a lot podcast episodes with air traffic controllers, anyway. I think it's an unofficial, non-FAA approved kind of thing that can make their jobs easier.

See https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html... for non-radar ATC procedures.
by SloppyDrive | 2026-01-29 00:37:56+00:00
Its not that strange; normally manufactures are focused on volume and brand.
So you have the 3 and Y in numbers where they can compete in the mass market price range; and CT and FSD for brand notoriety.

S and Y are not special enough to do anything for the brand, they dont qualify as halo products anymore. Probably still wouldnt be that interesting even if refreshed.

CT is still interesting, it looks different and has some tech inside that seems worthwhile to iterate on.

And unlike traditional brands, tesla has FSD, Optimus, and Musk to do enough to keep the brand itself healthy.

My guess would be they are deciding what they can learn by iterating the CT, and might decide to drop it in a year or two when the roadster takes the halo role.

They will keep trying to improve on volume for 3 and Y.
by solid_fuel | 2026-01-29 00:37:57+00:00
LLMs are fiction machines. All they can do is hallucinate, and sometimes the hallucinations are useful. That alone rules them out, categorically, from any critical control loop.

After you eliminate anything that requires accountability and trustworthiness from the tasks which LLMs may be responsibly used for, the most obvious remaining use-cases are those built around lying:

- advertising

- astroturfing

- other forms of botting

- scamming old people out of their money
by nerdsniper | 2026-01-29 00:38:01+00:00
> Starting with the upcoming Milan Cortina Olympics, [Billionaire financier Ross Stevens] will give $200,000 to every U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athlete—even if they don’t win a medal. Per the Wall Street Journal, “Half will come 20 years after their first qualifying Olympic appearance or at age 45, whichever comes later. Another $100,000 will be in the form of a guaranteed benefit for their families after they pass away.”

I wonder if this will adjust for inflation / earn interest at all. If a 20 year old olympian dies 70 years later, then when their family gets $100,000 USD nominal, it will be the equivalent of getting $8,400 in today's money. Assuming the same average inflation from the last 70 years (1956->2026).