MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rapatel0 | 2026-02-11 00:32:23+00:00
I don't understand what is sensationalist with my comment.

- I didn't make an outrageous or extrordinary claim.

- I didn't paint either side as crazy, broken or evil.

- I'm not leveraging charged language like racial slurs, or historical tragedies (nazi-ism).

- I'm not personally attacking anyone or encouraging any violence.
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 00:33:00+00:00
The law is both in wording and spirit pretty clear that

- any civilian has a right for free speech, and protests count as that

- any civilian has a right for due process

There is nothing murky about that.

There are just people pretending it's murky (in this and many other cases) to systematically undermine the US constitution.

Which is a huge problem (beyond this specific case and made much worse by the state of current supreme court).
by icedchai | 2026-02-11 00:33:13+00:00
I don't like it, either. I hear people ranting about doing "everything with AI" on one meeting, and what a productivity boost it is, then I get tagged on a dumpster fire PR full of slop and emoji filled log statements. Like did you even look at your code at all? "Oh sorry I don't know how that got in there!"
by woah | 2026-02-11 00:33:23+00:00
I have an agent write a file with this template each run:

```markdown
# Run NNNN

## First Impressions
[What state is the project in? What did the last agent leave?]

## Plan
[What will you work on this iteration? Why?]

## Work Log
[Fill this in as you work]

## Discoveries
[What did you learn? What surprised you? What should the next agent know?]

## Summary
[Fill this in before committing]
```

This is surprisingly effective and lets agents easily continue in progress work and understand past decisions.
by mediumdeviation | 2026-02-11 00:33:42+00:00
We went out and used our editor against our and customer's documents. The Open part of OOXML makes as much sense as the Open in OpenAI. Microsoft made OOXML available to fend off an antitrust lawsuit, there is no incentive for them to make it actually easy to build competing editors off their specification.

FWIW the bug I found is that your comment parser assumes the w:date attribute represents a useful timestamp of when comments are made. It does not - a bug in Word causes it to save it as ISO8601 local time but _without timezone_, rendering it useless if more than one user across different timezone edits the document. Instead, you need to cross reference the comment with a newer comment part and find a dateUtc attribute. The above is, of course, completely undocumented.
by bityard | 2026-02-11 00:34:01+00:00
Our family's Packard Bell in 1996 came with a full-motion video game called Silent Steel. Coming from a 486, FMV video games sure felt like the future.

It was pretty much Choose Your Own Adventure, but with video. You had to know the exact sequence of actions to get to a "good" ending, and apparently there were several endings. For the mid 90's, the script, acting, and sets (and CGI) were actually not half-bad. But mapping out all the choices that didn't kill you while watching the same set of clips over and over was not as much fun as it sounds.
by simonask | 2026-02-11 00:34:39+00:00
That’s not the slow part. The slow part is moving any data at all to the GPU - doesn’t super matter if it’s a megabyte or a kilobyte. And you need it there anyway, because that’s what the display is attached to.

Now, the situation is that your display is directly attached to a humongously overpowered beefcake of a coprocessor (the GPU), which is hyper-optimized for calculating pixel stuff, and it can do it orders of magnitude faster than you can tell it manually how to update even a single pixel.

Not using it is silly when you look at it that way.
by coryrc | 2026-02-11 00:34:51+00:00
Are the children allowed to sit and study all day on the topic they're currently interested in? No. https://cantrip.org/gatto.html They're required to submit to authority at all times. How could it be otherwise in our system -- one teacher, 20 random kids of varying personalities and education level.

It's not a "local sports win" -- it's a profitable, billionaire-owned corporation stealing public tax money by brainwashing everyone into thinking it's "local". The majority of the players aren't from the area either and will leave after.
by AngryData | 2026-02-11 00:35:01+00:00
For me its optimization and scale. Make resources farther, recipes 8x or whatever scale, try and make a factory that can eat and spit out insane amounts of materials. Try to keep up with the expanding need for raw ore and power against the increasingly powerful biter raids. Also there are some achievements for like not using lasers or using mostly solar, or go all out with the technically optional nuclear power plants.
by deltaburnt | 2026-02-11 00:35:02+00:00
For pretty much every single person you or I personally know, that would be the equivalent of the end of humanity.

Let’s not nitpick here. Worldwide human suffering and tragedy is equivalent to the end of humanity for most.

We can sit here and armchair while in the most prosperous, comfortable era of human history. But we also have to recognize that this era is a blip of time in history. That is a lot of data showing humanity surviving sure. But it’s also a very small amount of data showing any kind of life most would want to live in.
by cbeach | 2026-02-11 00:35:59+00:00
Unlike traditional vaccines, mRNA injections cause the body’s own healthy cells to express disease markers. This causes the immune system to attack its own cells.

The effect is extremely pronounced if the mRNA injection hits a blood vessel and becomes intravenous, as opposed to intramuscular. Without the “aspiration” safety measure, about 1 in every 1000 intramuscular injections ends up being an accidental intravenous injection.

In the heart, lungs and other critical tissue, the resulting scar tissue and inflammation causes permanent damage and shortens one’s lifespan. Multiple studies of the covid mRNA injections shows a correlation with inflammation around heart tissue, with serious health impact.

> The Global Vaccine Data Network cohort study included 99 million vaccinated people from 10 sites across eight countries. Researchers compared the observed with expected rate for 13 neurological, blood, and heart related medical conditions. The study, published in Vaccine, confirmed previously identified rare safety signals for myocarditis and pericarditis after a mRNA vaccine (Pfizer and Moderna)

> The study also confirmed significantly higher risks of myocarditis following the first, second, and third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as well as pericarditis after the first and fourth dose of Moderna vaccine,
and third dose of AstraZeneca vaccine in the 42 days following vaccination.

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/384/bmj.q488.full.pdf (British Medical Journal)
by davepeck | 2026-02-11 00:36:02+00:00
CEOs have many audiences; great CEOs communicate capably with each.

FWIW it's not entirely clear to me who Entire's long-term customer is, but the (interesting!) CLI that shipped today is very much for developers who are busy building with agents. To the extent that this blog post was trying to reach them, I feel it's more of a miss than a hit.
by deepsun | 2026-02-11 00:36:44+00:00
> My thoughts keep running to two other geniuses: Isaac Newton (Wolfram’s predecessor in revolutionizing science) and Donald Knuth (another contemporary computer scientist). ... But both were also gracious and modest, something that Wolfram is not.

Uhm, Knuth -- yes, but Newton was pretty arrogant, vindictive, obsessive about his reputation, and unable to tolerate criticism. Some even claim he stole ideas, like the inverse-square law.
by realityfactchex | 2026-02-11 00:37:17+00:00
There are at least two distinct AGI definitions. Thus, people use AGI to mean two different things today.

I suspect one def. is "plain language" and one is "jargony". Or one is imprecise and one is specific.

Maybe the gap is closing at some rate; that is arguable.

There are probably other definitions elsewhere. Possibly more concise, more codified.

The idea is to post a blog post as revised, clearer, more correct definitions become available over time and get updated to the microsite homepage at https://sites.tnyrl.com/agi-defined/
by fhub | 2026-02-11 00:38:01+00:00
Even with automated tests you'd need to think of this exploit right? Perhaps fuzzing would have got it. The mailing lists says they proved it successful on

- OpenIndiana

- FreeBSD

- Debian GNU/Linux

So not complete YOLO.

See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2015-03/msg...

FWIW, a well known LLM agent, when I asked for a review of the patch, did suggest it was dodgy but didn't pick up the severity of how dodgy it was.
by stickfigure | 2026-02-11 00:38:04+00:00
It sounds like you're looking for something more than the simple reality that the math is what's going on. It's a complex system that can't simply be debugged through[1], but that doesn't mean it isn't "understood".

This reminds me of Searle's insipid Chinese Room; the rebuttal (which he never had an answer for) is that "the room understands Chinese". It's just not satisfying to someone steeped in cultural traditions that see people as "souls". But the room understands Chinese; the LLM understands language. It is what it is.

[1] Since it's deterministic, it certainly can be debugged through, but you probably don't have the patience to step through trillions of operations. That's not the technology's fault.
by saithound | 2026-02-11 00:38:22+00:00
> My advice to everyone feeling existential vertigo over these tools is to remain confident and trust in yourself. If you were a smart dev before AI, chances are you will remain a smart dev with AI.

We replaced the chess board in the park with an app that compares the Elo score of you and your opponent, and probabilistically declares a winner.

But don't worry, if you were a good chess player before we introduced the app, chances are you will remain a good one with the app. The app just makes things faster and cheaper.

My advice to the players is to quit mourning the loss of the tension, laughter and shared moments that got them into chess in the first place.
by mothballed | 2026-02-11 00:39:10+00:00
Cars, no, but truckers have been damned for not just sacrificing themselves when their brakes failed. There was a recent incident where a truck had its brakes fail on its way into Denver from the Rockies and killed several people. They should have taken an off ramp, but IIRC, both in public opinion and in court it was argued that failing that they should have just committed suicide by going off the road before they hit a family.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-11 00:39:19+00:00
Complex numbers are the inevitable and uniquely determined result of exploring the closure of <R,0,1,+,*>.

Starting with:

1. a directed "increment" relation

2. The direct composition of increments, and

3. The repetition composition, i.e. compositions performed for each increment traversed across a composition of increments,

...we inevitably get complex numbers, algebraic numbers, and the complex field as follows (listed in one possible logical, not historical, progression):

• "Natural numbers" the elements generated by repeated compositions of increment.

• "Decrement", new notation, not a new relation, for the directed relation of increment from x to y, when written from y to x.

• "Zero", as the inevitable generated element from composing an increment with a decrement. Expands our elements to "Whole numbers".

• "Addition", c = a + b, a generator composed of increment traversal, applying increments. c = a + b, is: a, with as many increment compositions as are increments traversable in b.

• "Subtraction", as with decrement, the same relationship as addition, with opposite element ordering (a + b - b = a).

• "Negative" numbers, the inevitable generated elements of subtracting a longer/larger whole number from a shorter/lesser whole number. This expands "Whole numbers" to "Integers".

• "Multiplication", a new generator composed by adding a number, for each increment traversed in another number. I.e. c = a * b, where c is zero, with an addition of a, for each increment in b.

• "Division", the term for the reversely ordered multiplication (a * b / b = a). Together with multiplication, we have expanded our elements to "Rational numbers"

• "Imaginary" numbers by defining i, as the solution to the expression ±i = sqrt(-1). (Note all square roots are ±y = sqrt(x), and require a choice to get a unique root.) This new element is irreducible to previous elements, so expands numbers again to complex numbers.

Unlike the assumption of a "choice" problem in the article, "i" does not need to be signed. The square root has two solutions, but the choice is not associated with "i", but with the choice of sign for any square root. So there is no need to choose +i or -i, and i is uniquely determined. Of course, having defined i, we know based on multiplicative identity that +i = (+1)*i = i. (And -i = (-1)*i, is not reducible beyond that.)

So, given i itself is unsigned, it is the unique solution to the constraint that defines it, and there is only the unique identity isomorphism.

• "Exponent" and "Log" are new generators, composed from multiplications of one number, applied repeatedly according to the traversal of another number. And now we have "Algebraic numbers".

And at this point, we have exhausted the ability of increment, increment composition, and increment traversal generated compositions, to generate new elements. We have closure. Exploration and expansion is done.

To get to full closure, every step in between had to be taken, with the structure of the closure unique and fully pre-determined, regardless of order of exploration and element and composition expansion.
by creature_x | 2026-02-11 00:39:29+00:00
Not sure if I completely agree with this. Since time immemorial the world has been going to hell in a hand basket. My own grandparents were born and braised in poverty in one of the most poverty-stricken countries on Earth. They had lots of kids. Those kids grew up and started their own families. It was rocky, but we are all doing fine, and doing extremely well compared to our grandparents.

I don't have a complete answer for this and I think this is an extremely complicated and multi-faceted problem. From my vantage point, I know a lot of people who can afford to have kids but their mantra has been "Now is just not the right time" as they spent their 20s imbibing in casual flings and evanescent relationships. I was one such person. Now that I am in my mid 30s, the desire for casual sex has been replaced by attaining financial freedom. My desire for wanting more and more is something I am not proud of, but I am not doing anything to change, so what does that say about me ?

Some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice,
from what I have tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire
by hdivider | 2026-02-11 00:39:38+00:00
This is a good counter in my view to the singularity argument:

https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/

I think if we obtain relevant-scale quantum computers, and/or other compute paradigms, we might get a limited intelligence explosion -- for a while. Because computation is physical, with all the limits thereof. The physics of pushing electrons through wires is not as nonlinear in gain as it used to be. Getting this across to people who only think in terms of the abstract digital world and not the non-digital world of actual physics is always challenging, however.
by moate | 2026-02-11 00:40:19+00:00
No, this is absolutely the system working as intended: The State exists to protect large monied interests and their power, and those entities in exchange will sell out individuals to the State that seek to undermine their power. The State will never not do this.

Like, I realize I'm the rambling anarchist up in here, but show me ANY government ever that didn't Murder and Pillage, two things that we all hate when perpetrated by individuals. There's no amount of democracy that can be injected into a hierarchy responsible for controlling hundreds of millions of people that will inhibit authoritarianism, the best people can hope for (and what many white/middle class citizens thought they had for the last few decades) is not being the target of that authoritarianism.

Cat's out of the bag now and we're doing that thing we do every few decades where we weaponize the State against the citizens.
by esseph | 2026-02-11 00:40:22+00:00
Any breach of the daemon will still give access to a system that can approve/deny user logins. Breaching the daemon therefore allows permission escalation, because you can simply jump to an account. Chain with any local vuln of your choice to completely own the box.

It doesn't matter what user it is running as.

If this was so easy to deal with, someone would have done it. Instead, we get endless HN comments about people that act like they can do better but never submit a PR.
by cthalupa | 2026-02-11 00:40:34+00:00
> I haven't seen anyone arrested for having GLPs yet either-- although I have seen plenty of US based vendors have to close up shop due to legal pressure.

If you google "med spa arrest glp-1" you can find a good amount of occurrences, e.g. https://www.wsaz.com/2025/09/19/woman-arrested-selling-black...

> I do that believe that risk can be (mostly) mitigated, mainly by sticking with longstanding vendors and by trying to minimize risk with the actual substances (researching proper dosing protocol, batch testing, not assuming dosing, starting out on lower dosing with new kits etc)

Bunch of longstanding vendors have had issues. SRY was one of the biggest names for direct-from-China, shipped peptides contaminated by disinfectant, caused severe reactions for some people. Nexaph is one of the biggest names now in the US, has tons of testing, etc., but got a batch a while back from whoever their manu is in China that had some unknown excipient that got played off as a "test formulation," etc.

Batch testing helps, but it requires the original lab to have actually adhered to the batches in a way that others can track, which isn't always the case. Sometimes top colors span multiple batches, tests on the vendor spreadsheet don't necessarily correspond to the batch being sold if you're trusting their testing, etc.

> Are there any testing/safety protocols that you follow?

Not much. I use a 22um PES filter into a cartridge and inject from it for a few weeks and call it a day. I don't even bother with my own testing at jano unless I have reason to believe something is off and need to confirm.

But I never got my LSD or DMT or anything tested before either so my risk tolerance is basically "eh, send it." I just can't in good conscience recommend people follow that same risk tolerance (though I won't begrudge adults the right to make informed decisions to inject basically anything they want into themselves, either.)
by hutao | 2026-02-11 00:40:48+00:00
This is my point of view as someone who learned WebGPU as a precursor to learning Vulkan, and who is definitely not a graphics programming expert:

My personal experience with WebGPU wasn't the best. One of my dislikes was pipelines, which is something that other people also discuss in this comment thread. Pipeline state objects are awkward to use without an extension like dynamic rendering. You get a combinatorial explosion of pipelines and usually end up storing them in a hash map.

In my opinion, pipelines state objects are a leaky abstraction that exposes the way that GPUs work: namely that some state changes may require some GPUs to recompile the shader, so all of the state should be bundled together. In my opinion, an API for the web should be concerned with abstractions from the point of view of the programmer designing the application: which state logically acts as a single unit, and which state may change frequently?

It seems that many modern APIs have gone with the pipeline abstraction; for example, SDL_GPU also has pipelines. I'm still not sure what the "best practices" are supposed to be for modern graphics programming regarding how to structure your program around pipelines.

I also wish that WebGPU had push constants, so that I do not have to use a bind group for certain data such as transformation matrices.

Because WebGPU is design-by-committee and must support the lowest common denominator hardware, I'm worried whether it will evolve too slowly to reflect whatever the best practices are in "modern" Vulkan. I hope that WebGPU could be a cross-platform API similar to Vulkan, but less verbose. However, it seems to me that by using WebGPU instead of Vulkan, you currently lose out on a lot of features. Since I'm still a beginner, I could have misconceptions that I hope other people will correct.
by ajb | 2026-02-11 00:40:51+00:00
Yeah, I've seen someone get strung along and then finally hired. What happened was that it was a bit of a downturn so there was a limit to the hiring. Another dept somehow convinced the division head that their role was more urgent, so our department was left without approval even though we wanted the guy. It was a poor job market so he didn't land anywhere else even though it was a few months before the approval finally arrived. Everyone felt kind of shit about it. The guy was quite jittery to start with.

That sounds like it was a terrible place, but it was a good department in a somewhat hard nosed company. He ended up staying there 10 years.
by downut | 2026-02-11 00:40:54+00:00
LC 200: 381HP V8 lol! Holy shit they are expensive used. It kinda looks like the updated version of the FJ-80 public "Mall Cruiser" actual knower "Land Crusher" concept, where the thing that looks like yer regular suburban kid hauler has got some serious off road chops. Used "Mall Cruiser" FJ-80s were considered a steal for many years.
by nunez | 2026-02-11 00:41:06+00:00
Those levels bake in the expectation of "codez real gud" at FAANG/MANGA/whatever style tech companies since the technical complexity of their operations is high and a high skill bar needs to be hurdled over to contribute to most of those codebases and make impact at the scale they operate at.

One's ability to reverse a binary tree (which is a BS filter, but it is what it is) hasn't been an indicator of ability in some time. What _is_ though, is the wherewithall to understand _when_ that's important and tradeoffs that come with doing that versus using other data structures or systems (in the macro).

My concern is that, assuming today's trajectory of AI services and tooling, the need to understand these fundamentals will become less important over time as the value of "code" as a concept decreases. In a world where prompting is cheap because AI is writing all the code and code no longer matters, then, realistically, tech will be treated even more aggressively as a line item to optimize.

This is a sad reality for people like me whose love for computers and programming got them into this career. Tech has been a great way to make a wonderful living for a long time, and it's unfortunate that we're robbing future generations of what we took for granted.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-11 00:41:25+00:00
I don't follow how that's relevant? In terms of the information yielded by an administrative subpoena of an account will that even appear? I'm not clear how the result of the scan is being used.

Suppose the data is retained in association with your pseudonymous account. So now in addition to my IP they have, what, the internal IPs and device names from my LAN? How does that lead directly to me without significant additional effort? I think their best option is still hitting up my ISP to get the billing info and service address of the account.