MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oezi | 2026-02-22 03:05:31+00:00
> Schuldstolz

Never heard that word before. And I don't think I am lecturing you about something you should do. I was just talking about why Germans in their own free country are choosing to make decisions about their own laws.

If you feel like we are missing something about freedom of speech, that's fair enough. You are entitled to your opinion. What is strange to me is that Americans (and you as somebody from NZ) are starting to lecture us on that we are being censored by our government. Which in itself is ridiculous and even when explaining why we are preferring the rules we have, we get attacked for it.

Germans aren't mentally conquered, this is just bullshit. We have the same freedom to think what we want as all other Europeans. Things are also evolving, the second world war is so long ago, that very few Europeans were first hand involved. What we considered American values (I don't think the Anglo sphere is very united in these) has also rapidly changed. Americans no longer believe in multi-lateralism and shared values, so not sure what reflection you are alluding to.

Your views on the war are also not very informed. West Germany and East Germany were vastly differently handled by the occupation forces. While for East Germany your talking points of a total replacement it true, in West Germany many of the old elites had to be put back in power to aid the western allies in propping up Germany against the Russians. It took a lot of counter culture to fight those brown remains.

Last, I don't know where you take the energy and insights to say that we have no history of XYZ, but it just isn't true.
by drdeca | 2026-02-22 03:05:36+00:00
Something which I found surprising is that it appears that a Gaussian random field in more than one dimension apparently has to be distribution valued, such that with probability 1 one can’t really evaluate it a particular point.

Even setting that aside, I wouldn’t expect the state to be an eigenstate for that even if the “value of the field at this location” was an actual observable rather than a like, operator valued measure, so, even then I wouldn’t expect the value to be determinate, no.

If spacetime turns out to be discrete, that would resolve the “the distribution over the values for the field are distribution valued, not valued in genuine functions” issue, (and the other reason for it not having a determinate value is actually normal) but it is hard to see how this would fit with our non-observation of violations of Lorentz invariance.

I don’t know what you are asking for when you ask about a mechanism. Do you mean a classical mechanism? Nature isn’t classical.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-22 03:07:25+00:00
> utterly ruin

I realize Intel has done some serious ball dropping over the past two decades but you do realize the US has on shore cutting edge fabs, right? It's only luxury consumer electronics and the highest end corporate gear that use cutting edge nodes to begin with.

Disruption of the cutting edge would certainly wreak havoc on the pricing and specs of high end luxury electronics but that would hardly be the end of the world. I still use a desktop with DDR3 on a daily basis (granted the GPU is much newer with GDDR6) and my laptop is from the early era of DDR4 ...
by denimnerd42 | 2026-02-22 03:07:57+00:00
yeah i experienced this the other day when asking claude code to build an http proxy using an afsk modem software to communicate over the computers sound card. it had an absolute fit tuning the system and would loop for hours trying and doubling back. eventually after some change in prompt direction to think more deeply and test more comprehensively it figured it out. i certainly had no idea how to build a afsk modem.
by defrost | 2026-02-22 03:08:37+00:00
Like the USofA, the British interned "enemy nationals" - this policy extended across the Commonwealth including Canada, Australia, India, and elsewhere.

During the Second World War, the British government interned several different groups of people, including German, Austrian and Italian nationals.

However, following Nazi Germany’s military successes in France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the spring and summer of 1940, there was increasing concern that ‘enemy aliens’ in Britain would form a ‘ fifth column ’.

These concerns were amplified by the British press. As a result of this growing fear, the British government interned approximately 27,000 ‘enemy aliens’, including those assessed as low risk, supposedly in the interests of national security. Those interned were predominantly men between the ages of 16 and 60, but 4000 women and children were also interned.

~ https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-c...

In Australia: https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-ci...

In India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet

Technically Heinrich Harrer was not a civilian as he held the "honorary" rank of a Nazi sergeant in the SS, kind of an early PR stunt rank given due to his status as a world famous mountaineer .. still it points to the internment of Germans and Austrians in India and references an interesting book
by gigatree | 2026-02-22 03:08:57+00:00
The few people I’ve asked who’ve been hypnotized said it was true and had no reason to lie or trick me, and it seems true. But if the lens is “we already figured out all biology and physics so we can ignore the possibility of actual hypnosis (putting someone in a trance stage) being possible” then it’s hard to see things that there’s actually immense evidence for (eg the telepathy tapes).
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-22 03:10:05+00:00
t=$(mktemp) && [ -w $t ] && curl foo.sh -o $t && echo "$t lksjdfkljshdkfljhdsklfjhslkdjfhsdlkjfhslkdjhf" | sha256sum -c - && bash $t

Uses standard tmp files, makes sure it's writable (tmp file creation can fail), checks cryptographic hash before executing
by EGreg | 2026-02-22 03:10:59+00:00
Can't you make a personal AI assistant in a bash loop of two lines?

1. Call your favorite multimodal LLM model
2. Execute command on terminal, piping command to LLM

In fact you can just have one line:

Call LLM > bash.sh

and the LLM can simply tell bash to call itself incidentally, or fan out to many "agents" working on your behalf.

Use your favorite programming language. Just as pwnable in any of them :)

$task = "Send pictures of cute cats";
$context = "Output a bash script to do $task.
The bash script should return the next prompt to you.
Keep going until task is done.
My keys to all my accounts: $keys.
Plz dont pwn me";
do {
$trust_me_bro_my_model_rocks_RCE = call_llm($context);
$context = exec( $trust_me_bro_my_model_rocks_RCE )
} while ($trust_me_bro_my_model_rocks_RCE && !$pwned)
by AutoJanitor | 2026-02-22 03:12:26+00:00
Honest Limitations

819K parameters. Responses are short and sometimes odd. That's expected at this scale with a small training corpus. The achievement is that it runs at all on this hardware.
Context window is 64 tokens. Prompt + response must fit in 64 bytes.
No memory between dialogs. The KV cache resets each conversation.
Byte-level vocabulary. The model generates one ASCII character at a time.

Future Directions

These are things we're working toward — not current functionality:

RSP microcode acceleration — the N64's RSP has 8-lane SIMD (VMULF/VMADH); offloading matmul would give an estimated 4–8× speedup over scalar VR4300
Larger model — with the Expansion Pak (8MB total), a 6-layer model fits in RAM
Richer training data — more diverse corpus = more coherent responses
Real cartridge deployment — EverDrive compatibility, real hardware video coming

Why This Is Real

The VR4300 was designed for game physics, not transformer inference. Getting Q8.7 fixed-point attention, FFN, and softmax running stably at 93MHz required:

Custom fixed-point softmax (bit-shift exponential to avoid overflow)
Q8.7 accumulator arithmetic with saturation guards
Soft-float compilation flag for float16 block scale decode
Alignment-safe weight pointer arithmetic for the ROM DFS filesystem

The inference code is in nano_gpt.c. The training script is train_sophia_v5.py. Build it yourself and verify.
by phantomathkg | 2026-02-22 03:13:26+00:00
Fixing the problem requires 2 resources, the knowhow and the money. People need to know how to execute it safely, and people need to have the disposable income to run their PDS.

Even for tech people in HN, not everyone will have the disposable income to self-hosted every digital life lands on. Somehow, somewhere one may need to use free services paid by VC money.
by jcurbo | 2026-02-22 03:13:44+00:00
This is pretty much my approach. I started with some spec files for a project I'm working on right now, based on some academic papers I've written. I ended up going back and forth with Claude, building plans, pushing info back into the specs, expanding that out and I ended up with multiple spec/architecture/module documents. I got to the point where I ended up building my own system (using claude) to capture and generate artifacts, in more of a systems engineering style (e.g. following IEEE standards for conops, requirement documents, software definitions, test plans...). I don't use that for session-level planning; Claude's tools work fine for that. (I like superpowers, so far. It hasn't seemed too much)

I have found it to work very well with Claude by giving it context and guardrails. Basically I just tell it "follow the guidance docs" and it does. Couple that with intense testing and self-feedback mechanisms and you can easily keep Claude on track.

I have had the same experience with Codex and Claude as you in terms of token usage. But I haven't been happy with my Codex usage; Claude just feels like it's doing more of what I want in the way I want.
by Analemma_ | 2026-02-22 03:15:26+00:00
The underlying data sources are not free, weather data providers charge per API request. Stock weather apps built into the OS eat this cost for you, but third-party apps can't do that, they either have to show ads (ugh) or have a subscription.

Of the $2.08/month this works out to, I don't know how much the devs have left for themselves after the weather API and Apple's 30% cut, but I can't imagine it's much. I don't think you're getting ripped off here.
by MaulingMonkey | 2026-02-22 03:15:47+00:00
(equivalent C file: https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/master/WOLFSRC/WL... )

> Was this translated automatically from C?

I'll note that when I convert code between languages, I often go out of my way to minimize on-the-fly refactoring, instead relying on a much more mechanical, 1:1 style. The result might not be idiomatic in the target language, but the bugs tend to be a bit fewer and shallower, and it assists with debugging the unfamiliar code when there are bugs - careful side-by-side comparison will make the mistakes clear even when I don't actually yet grok what the code is doing.

That's not to say that the code should be left in such a state permanently, but I'll note there's significantly more changes in function structure than I'd personally put into an initial C-to-Rust rewrite.

The author of this rewrite appears to be taking a different approach, understanding the codebase in detail and porting it bit by bit, refactoring at least some along the way. Here's the commit that introduced that fn, doesn't look like automatic translation to me: https://github.com/Ragnaroek/iron-wolf/commit/9014fcd6eb7b10...
by dredmorbius | 2026-02-22 03:16:23+00:00
It's possible to synthesise hydrocarbon analogues of petroluem-based fuels. The problem to date has been that this isn't cost-competitive with petroleum, though the difference is narrower than you might expect. Most famously, a Google X Project attempted this and succeeded technically, but the economics were unfavourable: Project Foghorn: <https://x.company/projects/foghorn/>. Both Germany and South Africa have performed synfuel production (from coal) at industrial scale since the 1930s / 1950s, respectively. Using non-fossil carbon is largely the same chemistry; the process does in fact scale.

Fischer-Tropsch and Sabatier process can both operate with scavenged CO2. There's been some work since the 1990s utilising seawater as a CO2 source, with CO2 capture being far more efficient than from atmospheric sources.

Whilst hydrocarbons have numerous downsides (whether sourced from fossil or renewable sources), they are also quite convenient, exceedingly well-proven, and tremendously useful. In some applications, particularly marine and aviation transport, there are few if any viable alternatives.

I've commented on this numerous times at HN over the years: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>.
by overgard | 2026-02-22 03:16:36+00:00
While I agree undefined behavior is annoying and a huge UX issue, end of the day the bug is in your code not in the compiler.

Also having an -O0 debug build is standard practice.

My point isn't that compilers are super easy to use and never frustrating, my point is that the notion that LLMs "compile" english to code is a bad analogy. Compilation is a translation from one formal representation to another. LLMs are an interpretation of informal language into a formal language. They just are not at all the same thing.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-22 03:16:53+00:00
> 2-1. Modeling the Data World with "Nouns" and "Verbs"

> Link type: The relationships between object types, supporting 1-to-1, 1-to-many, and many-to-many relationships.

Seems incredibly naive in terms of symbolic representation of knowledge. Maybe I spent too much time with OWL.
by TheSpiceIsLife | 2026-02-22 03:18:18+00:00
Yes yes, The Sky Is Falling™.

All the more reason to give our ounce great nation away to fuck wits who think shoot up Jews is a reasonable idea, making electricity expensive chasing a target that will have approximately no impact on global carbon emissions and further drive manufacturing out of the country, all the while making even my generation (Xillenials) worse off now than we were ten years ago.

Young people and the working poor? They can freeze in the dark on the streets, fuck them.

Turn up unannounced and utter the shibboleth asylum seeker and we roll out the red carpet. Low interest loans so they can start businesses, and priory social housing. Fuck the locals.

And you cum guzzlers keep voting for more of it.

There’s only so much ideology we can take. Check One Nations recently polling.

I’m encouraging young people to get in to the trades, especially brick laying and masonry because if things keep going they way they are…

We’re going to need more walls.

Know what I’m sayin’.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-22 03:18:43+00:00
do people generally dislike magic once they have formed an opinion, or is it just that people who dislike magic are more prone to voicing that opinion, why, if magic is disliked by people experienced enough to form opinions, does it keep coming back around?

I would suppose the people who create "magic" solutions have at least voiced an opinion that they like magic and the people who take up those solutions the same, for the record I too dislike magic but my feeling is that I am somewhat in the minority on that.
by xp84 | 2026-02-22 03:18:52+00:00
Using vim to do this seems silly. Nano is also nearly always present, and doing those “basic” things is 10x more straightforward in an editor that isn’t modal and just gets out of your way.

I’ve often in my career witnessed engineers who’ve cargo culted the need for vim, but they only know how to hit ESC !wq or whatever, and one errant keystroke puts them in modal hell of some sort that, often requiring they just close the terminal and try again.

I don’t begrudge those who want to become power-VIM-users, though it seems wildly awkward to me, to each their own. But if you just want to use it to do the “basics” on ssh sessions, using nano makes more sense. PGUP and PGDN and Home and End and arrows work just fine to navigate, and the bindings for most things are printed right on the screen (except Ctrl-S to save… for some reason, but it works).
by carbynelab | 2026-02-22 03:18:54+00:00
Hi all, would love to have your input on how this app is for personal trainers and trainees: app.carbynelab.com

Tried to include as many features as I could:
1) Ability for trainers to manage multiple trainees (group trainings) 2) In-app video and chat, with app notifications 3) 300 possible programs can be generated based on a user's schedule (to hit the gym) and preferences 4) Numerous built-in calculators 5) Motion analysis and AI nutrition camera (in development)

Just sign up for any account, it's currently on beta so is free for all plans!

Hope to hear everyone's thoughts:)
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-22 03:19:27+00:00
I've been making digital agents since the GPT-3 API came out. Optionally fully local, fully voiced, animated, all of that. Even co-ran a VC funded company making agents, before a hostile takeover screwed it all up. The writing has been on the wall for years about where this was headed.

I have been using and evolving my own personal agent for years but the difference is that models in the last year have suddenly become way more viable. Both frontier and local models. I had been holding back releasing my agents because the appetite has just not been there, and I was worried about large companies like X ripping off my work, while I was still focused on getting things like security and privacy right before releasing my agent kit.

It's been great seeing claws out in the wild delighting people, makes me think the time is finally right to release my agent kit and let people see what a real personal digital agent looks like in terms of presentation, utility and security. Claws are still thinking too small.
by rounce | 2026-02-22 03:20:24+00:00
> but not doing so is a choice

The workaround mentioned isn't a magic solution, it fails in a bunch of more complex cases too. Chamfers are a complicated operation and predicting valid values across of the operation in order to set a maximum value is, as far as I'm aware, in a similar region of difficulty. It would also be unfeasible in many cases to attempt the actual operation across a wide range of values. It's not so much a choice as just being hard to do.
by oldcigarette | 2026-02-22 03:22:11+00:00
Just s/AI/surveillance state/ and it reads pretty much the same. People in the US you should read NSPM-7 which is obviously simply targeted at this admin's out group. Things seem to be well in motion already from the outward indications we have about DHS spending and disregard for legal processes. People are just still in denial or not paying attention.
by klardotsh | 2026-02-22 03:22:21+00:00
You write that in italics as if to imply it’s a law that cannot be questioned. Quite a number of shops do not engineer software like that, or only engineer software like that where it fits the environment the software lives in, or otherwise sit at numerous points along the gradient between “software engineering as it has been known for decades” and “fully computer generated software”.
by AxiomaticSpace | 2026-02-22 03:22:31+00:00
Pretty much any SQL book will cover it those, and there's a bunch of online SQL tutorials. UDF means user defined function, so if there's some function you want to perform in SQL but that function doesn't come out of the box, you can just write your own. And those can be defined in non-SQL syntax, such as UDF's written in python or C++, which can be pretty handy.
by HillRat | 2026-02-22 03:23:03+00:00
I find myself distinctly unimpressed by the idea that slapping a nice UI and some TS/SCI controls on top of a graph database — the latter being something that NSA did, with considerably more sophistication, years prior in a Neo4J fork — is some kind of brilliant conceptual moat. Graph DBs are useful for certain kinds of problems, which happen to map well to counterterror social mapping strategies, this is nothing particularly new or noteworthy.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-22 03:23:31+00:00
https://medium.com/luminasticity/laborers-craftsmen-and-arti...

in my experience among personality types of programmers both laborers and artists are opposed to the reading of guides, I think the laborers due to laziness and the artists due to a high susceptibility to boredom and most guides are not written to the intellectually engaging level of SICP.

Craftsmen are naturally the type to read the guide through.

Of course if you spend enough time in the field you end up just reading the docs, more or less, because everybody ends up adapting craftsmen habits over time.
by adriel_d | 2026-02-22 03:24:00+00:00
One thing I didn’t expect when iterating on this was the impact on long-session listening. By de-emphasizing the ear-canal resonance region that tends to trigger the acoustic reflex, subjective fatigue drops a lot even when perceived impact stays high.

In practice this starts to look like a software-defined ‘comfort envelope’: you can keep somatic impact using virtual pitch / harmonic reconstruction, while keeping the most fatigue-sensitive bands under tighter control.

For always-on devices (TWS, smart glasses, phones), that suggests a different optimization target: not just ‘louder’ or ‘more bass,’ but maximizing time-to-fatigue and long-term listen ability under lossy codecs and tiny transducers.

The question I keep circling back to is why we still mostly try to solve ‘impact’ with bigger drivers and magnets, instead of treating it as a perceptual / signal-conditioning problem first.
by doodlesdev | 2026-02-22 03:24:16+00:00
Absolutely, but empirical evidence shows that IoT devices are far and large vulnerable way more often than other types of devices on most networks, because modern smartphones are pretty well secured and many users that are less tech-savvy are abandoning their bloatware-ridden Windows notebooks for Android-based or iOS-based tablets.

In my opinion, this shows a lack of accountability in the industry as a whole over security issues on devices. Ultimately, this won't change unless tight legislation is passed to punish or prevent insecure IoT devices (however you would like to measure that) or unless companies actually start to become accountable for releasing insecure software and hardware, losing out on future sales, which requires a cultural shift in how most people think about appliances and computing as a whole.