MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarecrowbob | 2026-02-05 21:24:22+00:00
A willingness to break norms could be genius, or it could be a sign that the person doing that simply doesn't understand why those norms are in place.

I think you're both correct to note that attacking the intelligence of a person is both meaningless and a pretty normal liberal tactic.

At the same time, one way of understanding the shift from hard to soft power is the same as understanding Trumps "intelligence":

he's funny and knows how to work a crowd, but it doesn't functionally matter how smart he is because he has so much organized power and thus resources that he doesn't -have- to be smart. Being rich and sociopathic is probably way more effective than worrying about the long games, and everything in sir hoss's life probably makes that fact obvious.

In that same way, my horrors about this shift in power could also be stated as a worry that the folks running the US gov don't feel like they need to have any subtlety or mask on their power because they are more comfortable using dumb, brute force.

And they might be correct in that assessment- they might not need to be intelligent if they can be brutal enough.

Good luck to them and "game on" I guess; 3k troops versus 150k activated but as yet non-violent folks in Minneapolis will be an interesting bit of data for sure.
by simoncion | 2026-02-05 21:25:23+00:00
> It sounds like the blog author gave the NAS direct access to the internet

FTFA:

Every time you load up the NAS [in your browser], you get some clown GCP host knocking on your door, presenting a SNI hostname of that thing you buried deep inside your infrastructure. Hope you didn't name it anything sensitive, like "mycorp-and-othercorp-planned-merger-storage", or something.

Around this time, you realize that the web interface for this thing has some stuff that phones home, and part of what it does is to send stack traces back to sentry.io. Yep, your browser is calling back to them, and it's telling them the hostname you use for your internal storage box. Then for some reason, they're making a TLS connection back to it, but they don't ever request anything. Curious, right?

This is when you fire up Little Snitch, block the whole domain for any app on the machine, and go on with life.

I disagree with your conclusion. The post speaks specifically about interactions with the NAS through a browser being the source of the problem and the use of an OSX application firewall program called Little Snitch to resolve the problem. [0] The author's ~fifteen years of posts demonstrate that she is a significantly accomplished and knowledgeable system administrator who has configured and debugged much trickier things than what's described in the article.

It's not impossible that the source of the problem has been misidentified... but it's extremely unlikely. Having said that, one thing I do find likely is that the NAS in question is isolated from the Internet; that's just a smart thing that a savvy sysadmin would do.

[0] I find it... unlikely that the NAS in question is running OSX, so Little Snitch is almost certainly running on a client PC, rather than the NAS.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-05 21:25:28+00:00
> What makes you think h is smart instead of a blubbering idiot that Mr Magoo his way through life?

The fact that he's President. Twice. He maneouvred himself into the most powerful seat in the world. Twice. I'm tremendously sceptical that someone stupid can wind up there like that. (Again, not necessarily intelligent. You don't need to be intelligent to clear the Republican field in 2016. You do need to be crafty.)
by khaliqgant | 2026-02-05 21:25:50+00:00
Been waiting for this to drop and excited to test it out. We've been building something in this space - https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay, a real-time messaging layer that lets AI coding agents talk to each other across any CLI.

Assign roles to different models and have them coordinate: Claude as the lead, Codex on backend, Gemini on frontend, etc.

I wrote about my experiences with multi-agent orchestration here: https://x.com/khaliqgant/status/2019124627860050109?s=46
by tptacek | 2026-02-05 21:25:52+00:00
I still haven't worked out for myself where my career is going with respect to this stuff. I have like 30% of a prototype/POC active testing agent (basically, Burp Suite but as an agent), but I haven't had time to move it forward over the last couple months.

In the intervening time, one of the beliefs I've acquired is that the gap between effective use of models and marginal use is asking for ambitious enough tasks, and that I'm generally hamstrung by knowing just enough about anything they'd build to slow everything down. In that light, I think doing an agent to automate the kind of bugfinding Burp Suite does is probably smallball.

Many years ago, a former collaborator of mine found a bunch of video driver vulnerabilities by using QEMU as a testing and fault injection harness. That kind of thing is more interesting to me now. I once did a project evaluating an embedded OS where the modality was "port all the interesting code from the kernel into Linux userland processes and test them directly". That kind of thing seems especially interesting to me now too.
by cxr | 2026-02-05 21:25:53+00:00
"The code" here you're referring to (fetch_extension_names.js[1]) isn't and doesn't claim to be LinkedIn's fingerprinting code. It's a scraper that the researcher behind this repo wrote in order to themselves create the CSV that they're publishing.

LinkedIn's fingerprinting code, as the README explains, is found in fingerprint.js[2], which embeds a big JSON literal with the IDs of the extensions it probes for. (Sickeningly enough, this data starts about two-thirds of the way through the file* and isn't the culprit behind the bulk of its 2.15 MB size…)

* the one (on line 34394) starting:

const r = [{
id: "aacbpggdjcblgnmgjgpkpddliddineni",
file: "sidebar.html"

1. <https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting/blo...>

2. <https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting/blo...>
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-05 21:25:59+00:00
> False, he is forcing Flock on EVERYONE

> No one has permitted themselves to be surveilled

As much as I dislike Flock, this is bad logic. There's no such thing as opting out of surveillance in public spaces. Public spaces are defined by being public, in that everyone (even governments/corporations!) is free to observe everyone else in that same setting.

So in reality, everyone has permitted themselves to be surveilled, purely through the act of being in public.

This idea that there's some kind of difference between me watching you in public and Flock watching you in public is, quite frankly, bogus.
by jorvi | 2026-02-05 21:26:11+00:00
Okay, so you code the features that dnsmasq is missing that resolved has. Or pay someone to do it. I promise you systemd does not have special verification protocols that stop you from interfacing with certain features. This isn't Apple.

Think about it, you can't obligate the systemd folks to maintain codebases that aren't theirs.. would be madness.
by themafia | 2026-02-05 21:26:19+00:00
> They're just gaming the system

The "system" is not hapless or ignorant here. In fact, this company would not exist, if the "system" didn't have specific desires to effectively enslave the entire population.

Who wouldn't want to become a new age digital pharaoh? Wouldn't this be precisely the type of panopticon they would try to create?
by kazinator | 2026-02-05 21:26:31+00:00
I use a greymarket service for Japanese TV.

The channels I watch are free, broadcast channels you could catch with an antenna in Japan --- except that TV users are legally required to pay a license which goes to fund the NKH (many natives don't).

I didn't buy anything like the SuperBox; I use an their app installed on a mainstream Android box.

There is simply no other way to get meaningful Japanese TV outside Japan, period.

Oh, sure, some cable providers in North America offer a premium Japanese channel which you can pay for if you get their cable box and pay for their basic channel package. That Japanese channel is locally developed; it contains a smattering of programming scooped from various Japanese channels like NHK, TV Asahi and whatnot: their curated choices, not yours. It's an expensive way to get very limited content, requiring renting or buying a really crap piece of hardware with its own garbage remote: a complete nonstarter on multiple fronts.
by gedy | 2026-02-05 21:26:42+00:00
That's reasonable in many cases, but I've had situations like this for senior UI and frontend positions, and they: don't ask UI or frontend questions. And ask their pet low level questions. Some even snort that it's softball to ask UI questions or "they use whatever". It's like, yeah no wonder your UI is shit and now you are hiring to clean it up.
by phatfish | 2026-02-05 21:26:57+00:00
Revanced YouTube app, turn off all the crap. Sometimes I open the official YouTube app to check my subscriptions and wonder how anyone uses it. If Google wasn't so ghastly and YouTube Premium had all the features of Revanced I would happily pay for it.

I use the Revanced patched app logged out so Google doesn't decide to ban my account on a whim. Yes, one day I will dump Gmail, its getting closer with the state of things at the moment.
by Vicinity9635 | 2026-02-05 21:27:30+00:00
>The Many Occasions Joe Biden Took Credit For Writing The Patriot Act

>"I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing," Biden was quoted as saying by the New Republic in 2001.

>"And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill," Biden continued, referring to the Patriot Act. The act broadened the surveillance capabilities of U.S. law enforcement agencies as it relates to identifying potential terrorists, and many of its provisions have been opposed by liberal Democrats and civil libertarians.

>"That has nothing to do with you all, but just to set the record straight. Almost the same thing that got passed, the Patriot Act, was introduced by me in 1994, and it was the right-wing that defeated it. You guys tried to help get it passed, including the wiretap changes and the rest."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveil...
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-05 21:27:39+00:00
Jeffrey Epstein ran a child sex slavery operation for rich people.

There is nothing at all you can do that could ever overcome the harm of helping that man, participating in his business, and calling him a friend.

I don't care if Jesus Christ himself comes down and says Bill Gates is solely responsible for the ending of all suffering.

Raping kids is Bad. Enslaving kids to rape is Bad. This is as clear as you can get in real human society to being The Bad Guy, and Bill Gates spent his precious, limited time on this earth helping him, legitimizing him, and participating in his influence peddling and child rape and slavery

Bill Gates is a piece of shit.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-05 21:27:51+00:00
The Cloudflare OAuth thing is a good example of exactly this. Someone wrote new code for a solved problem, introduced a vulnerability that wouldn't have existed if they'd just used a well-tested library. Now scale that up to every vibe coder reimplementing auth from scratch because the LLM made it look easy.

The "not many copies" angle is interesting too - these bugs are harder to find with traditional scanning because there's no known signature. Each one is a unique snowflake of broken security.
by sfink | 2026-02-05 21:28:00+00:00
You still can't get more surface area than a sphere without crumpling things up. And given the thermal insulation, you can only lose heat via radiation. Radiating heat from a crumpled boundary means radiating it towards another part of the boundary. If there's an "inner side", then it's a sphere (or some other convex shape, all of which have at most the surface area of a sphere).

I don't think you'd want any vacuum at all between the radiator and the heat sources! Thermal insulation is the problem, not the solution. You want the radiator as thermally close to the heat sources as possible, probably via some highly heat conductive metal.

Though the optimal approach might be to ditch the vacuum and use a more terrestrial configuration with circulating air or water or mercury to conduct the heat away. Space is a horrible place to do this in all ways except for... well, space. You do have plenty of room up there. (Well, and power. Lots of solar energy to play with. Which in turn causes its own problems with heat and radiation.)
by scarecrowbob | 2026-02-05 21:28:17+00:00
I mean, my hope is that the kids at the CIA read all my dumb postings here, report them to their old-men quattos, and try and flip me :D

But I'd think that the folks with their hands on the big levers probably care less and less about that kind of thing; I'd imagine it's harder and harder to find the Foucault readers who might even care to collect and monitor dissident views because the newer folks figure all us stupid nerds will show up on flock and get nabbed once they've run out of brown folks to kidnap.
by shagie | 2026-02-05 21:28:27+00:00
What is the power budget for that DGX. The power budget for ISS is 75–90 kW. If your DGX fridge needs more power, it will need similar capacity of solar and radiators.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/rising-power-...

> In 2027, the unified approach will almost certainly be taken to new levels as NVIDIA's “Kyber” system will launch, with 576 GPUs in a single rack requiring a whopping 600 kW, equivalent to delivering enough power for 500 US homes into the space of a filing cabinet.

That fridge needs 600 kW of power. That will require 6x more solar panel space than the ISS and 6x more radiators. It's not about the volume of the object but rather its power and heat budgets.

If that fridge can reject all of the heat from the rack in space, it will work much better on earth and all the data centers would be using that fridge instead of their cooling towers and AC.
by realityfactchex | 2026-02-05 21:28:30+00:00
That's easy. Would you rather have your coworkers working with an artificial handicap, or not?

Some people give regular users too little credit. A major reason they are such terrible users is because the software they are given is terrible.

Fix the software, and the users' ability is, to a measurable degree, fixed.

Existing familiarity is nothing compared with the daily additive benefits of better tools.
by codeulike | 2026-02-05 21:28:42+00:00
Lets look at diversification of revenue:

meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertising

google $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% other

apple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% other

amazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% other

microsoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% other

I'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd
by HAL3000 | 2026-02-05 21:28:45+00:00
> Can you point me to a human written program an LLM cannot write?

Sure:

"The resulting compiler has nearly reached the limits of Opus’s abilities. I tried (hard!) to fix several of the above limitations but wasn’t fully successful. New features and bugfixes frequently broke existing functionality.

As one particularly challenging example, Opus was unable to implement a 16-bit x86 code generator needed to boot into 16-bit real mode. While the compiler can output correct 16-bit x86 via the 66/67 opcode prefixes, the resulting compiled output is over 60kb, far exceeding the 32k code limit enforced by Linux. Instead, Claude simply cheats here and calls out to GCC for this phase (This is only the case for x86. For ARM or RISC-V, Claude’s compiler can compile completely by itself.)"[1]

1. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
by Havoc | 2026-02-05 21:29:23+00:00
And then you hand it to your boss who takes a 20 second look at it and asks why you made a projection that assume massive revenue growth and 3 years of perfectly flat utilities, insurance, G&A - no inflation etc.

It does look really promising as a skeleton starting point though. Like generate it, delete numbers and populate by hand.

Not unlike the boilerplate start we saw in AI coding a couple years back
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-05 21:29:50+00:00
We don't care much about "full preemption" because the only threads that have time-critical behavior are all scheduled in the SCHED_FIFO and/or SCHED_RR classes. If you had other workloads that could benefit from preemption without using realtime scheduling, then full preemption could be the way to go.

We haven't really tested this sort of thing for quite a few years.
by runarberg | 2026-02-05 21:30:23+00:00
I don’t understand the logic. Without training the marginal cost of each token goes into nothing. The more you train, the better the model, and (presumably) you will gain more costumer interest. Unlike R&D you will always have to train new models if you want to keep your customers.

To me this looks likes some creative bookkeeping, or even wishful thinking. It is like if SpaceX omits the price of the satellites when calculating their profits.
by reconnecting | 2026-02-05 21:30:35+00:00
Interview With Ville Turjanmaa, the Creator of MenuetOS (2001) (1)

Ville Turjanmaa: The current distribution fits to a single floppy and I plan to keep the basic OS functions that way.

— Man of his word!

1. https://www.osnews.com/story/93/interview-with-ville-turjanm...
by mindslight | 2026-02-05 21:30:45+00:00
That's a weird tangential rant. There is a difference between tax codes and general principles of accounting. I feel pretty confident that if a state tax authority agrees with the deed date being the transfer date, then the IRS would as well.

Also no, state tax codes can be pretty complex as well. On this particular issue, I had trouble finding an attorney who would represent me for less than $10k (while still equivocating about the merits of my position!), so I represented myself. It took a twenty minute phone call with two state tax agents to come to an amicable agreement. A++ would get taxed again.

I've previously been one to echo negative sentiment about government bureaucracy, but the times I've had to deal with it (not the IRS thankfully but rather a few other federal agencies) the agents have been generally helpful and empowered to act authoritatively. They're still part of a bureaucracy of course, with some of the laughable things that entails, but ultimately still human beings with some leeway to act.

For the most part I think the negative narrative has been informed by corporate bureaucracies getting really bad (IVRs, offshoring, bottomless ticket systems, now LLMs, etc) and so we're all assuming that the government simply must be worse. But it's not. (well maybe it is now after the DOGE arsonists brought so-called "corporate efficiency", I don't actually know)
by alphazard | 2026-02-05 21:30:55+00:00
This statement essentially boils down to "The only right way to fight me is in an environment where I expect to win"

That's how you know the DeFlock strategy is effective. They aren't playing the game that the CEO wants to play, they are playing the actual game.
The actual game is minimizing the impact of cameras that are now everywhere.

Some individuals may take it upon themselves to vandalize the cameras, which can't be planned via conspiracy (that would be illegal), but those radical individuals can be "set up for success" through information.
This strategy of creating an environment where effective vandalism is easy, is also part of the actual game.
by SR2Z | 2026-02-05 21:31:36+00:00
Stolen cars are often sold for low amounts of money - like $50 - and then used to commit crimes that are not traceable from their plates. It hasn't really been possible to steal and resell a car in the United States for many years, barring a few carefully watched loopholes (Vermont out-of-state registrations is one example that was recently closed).

When Kia and Hyundai were recently selling models without real keys or ignition interlocks, that was the main thing folks did when they stole them.
by ambonvik | 2026-02-05 21:33:16+00:00
Yes, I did actually look at Bunki as well before building this. Liked the imagery. :)

What did not quite fit for my purpose was having the asymmetric coroutines as the fundamental layer, meaning that the dispatcher also is tied to that layer. Building the next level dispatcher on top of that is probably possible, but seemed a bit complicated.

I instead started with symmetric coroutines as the fundamental building block and built the dispatcher at the next (process) layer where it can deal with the event queue to determine who goes next. The process level resume() call is always made from some event executed by the dispatcher on the main stack, making the processes asymmetric coroutines even if the lowest level coroutines are symmetric with transfer() calls.

Making asymmetric coroutines from symmetric ones is easy, just yield(void) { transfer(parent); } and resume(target) { transfer(target); } in slightly abbreviated code, while going the other way around requires an extra context switch via the dispatcher on the way there.
by sfink | 2026-02-05 21:33:34+00:00
Then they also don't get the only advantage of being in space, namely free solar energy.

You'd need to have solar collectors in a sunny spot, beaming energy to the shady spot, or something. (Beaming because they don't get to be in the lagrange point, so cables aren't going to work.) But then you're just inefficiently moving sunlight around (and shifting/narrowing its frequencies, but still).
by sobkas | 2026-02-05 21:33:45+00:00
>They've admitted the US education work was a mistake. They are hardly alone in making that mistake, improving education in the US is hard.

It's only hard if you don't want to help anyone and your only goal is to push charter schools(by any other name) by any means necessary.

>Their work to clean water and cure diseases has saved millions of lives. They know what they are good at and they've decided to double down on that.

They helped so many people by not allowing them getting covid vaccine or by fighting generics?
Also their "good" deeds weren't without negative consequences that could be avoided if someone actually listened to people they were "helping".
by 0xCMP | 2026-02-05 21:34:26+00:00
I challenge anyone to try building a C compiler without a big suite of tests. Zig is the most recent attempt and they had an extensive test suite. I don't see how that is disqualifying.

If you're testing a model I think it's reasonable that "clean room" have an exception for the model itself. They kept it offline and gave it a sandbox to avoid letting it find the answers for itself.

Yes the compression and storage happened during the training. Before it still didn't work; now it does much better.