MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hulitu | 2026-02-02 06:23:23+00:00
> I realized the whole time most of the streaming services I used barely even gave me 4k content, and when they did it was so low bitrate it was basically comparable to 1080p.

That is also my experience. You get a mashed, distorted, rescalled resolution (being UHD or FHD) which makes original MPEG promotion videos (320x240 pixels) look sharp.

Streaming is all about lies. They want to use the lowest possible bitrate while promising you the moon.
by lirik | 2026-02-02 06:23:49+00:00
Zush analyzes images and renames them from IMG_8374.jpg to a description of what's in the photo. Adds Finder tags and Spotlight comments so search actually works.

Three modes: folder monitoring (FSEvents, renames in background), batch drag-and-drop, and a global hotkey for Finder selection.

25+ formats including RAW (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, ORF, RAF). Uses Llama 4 Scout via Groq, Gemini as fallback. Sends a compressed 512px JPEG thumbnail for analysis. BYOK mode supports Gemini, Groq, OpenAI, and Claude — keys stored in Keychain.

Stack: Swift 6, SwiftUI, GRDB/SQLite, Supabase Edge Functions. ~14MB, ~50MB RAM.

Free: 30 renames, no expiration. PRO: $10 one-time, 10K renames + BYOK for unlimited.
by slowmovintarget | 2026-02-02 06:23:56+00:00
It is not an unreasonable take.

It also depends. Do you mean protesting by holding up a sign on the sidewalk and chanting. That's absolutely protected. Do you mean "protesting" where you obstruct ICE officers, throw things at their vehicles, create an "autonomous zone" and vandalize businesses? Because none of those things are actions that a reasonable citizen who is a low risk for reentry takes.

Global Entry is a fast lane because they've evaluated the risk an individual poses. Someone who shows they're angry with the authorities also shows that the risk profile has changed. The fast lane at Immigration and Customs is not a right.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-02 06:23:57+00:00
> Any idea why ethernet stagnated in terms of speed? There was a time it was so much faster compared to usb. Now even wifi seems to be faster.

wifi is not faster.

However ethernet is not as critical as it used to be, even at the office. People like the conveniency of having laptops they can move around. Unless you are working from home, having a dedicated office space is now seen as a waste of space. If the speed of the wifi is good enough when you are in a meeting room or in your kitchen, there is no reason to plug your laptop when you move back in another place, especially if most connections are to the internet and not the local network.
by Corrado | 2026-02-02 06:25:17+00:00
I've known this for quite a while and have advocated for removing 3rd party A/V stuff from our fleet of macOS devices. Unfortunately, A/V software is listed as "required" from our SOC2 auditors and convincing them otherwise is not worth the effort. I wish NIST would recognize that OS vendor A/V is generally enough and to not worry about the 3rd party stuff.
by Dev_Master | 2026-02-02 06:26:00+00:00
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by anon291 | 2026-02-02 06:26:12+00:00
I mean. By token cost, it costs less to scan a document and pass it to chatgpt as an image for a text summarization of the text than it does to ingest the text. I gave a talk on this at an AI meetup based off of my own experience.

When tokens were expensive I actually had a python script that stuck my text into an image for chatgpt to process lol.
by Spivak | 2026-02-02 06:26:26+00:00
I don't think it's the admissions office's fault. This is one of the lessons I will have to impose on my future kids once they get to high school age. Being, like, really really good at school is cool and all but if what you have is a 4.25 GPA, fifteen AP classes all with 5's, a 35 on your ACT, a school sport and chess club or whatever I'm very smart extra curricular then you're competing with the other thousand identical applications. You're likely to stand out and be interesting with literally anything else, even if it makes you look less good at school.

The world you occupy at that age makes it seem like being good at school is the formula to looking impressive meanwhile once you leave the bubble and enter adult world you realize that making an angsty punk band with your friends and playing at shitty dives sounds way more impressive than got an A in chemistry.
by eric2675 | 2026-02-02 06:26:45+00:00
The author is here.

I'm writing this purely out of curiosity about a "flaw" in DeepSeek-R1. It solves the AIME problem (loop closure) perfectly, but seems to confidently produce illusions when the domain is open.

My background is applied topological modeling. I wanted to see if it was mathematically possible to prove that when the "real-world anchor" (which I call Delta_Phi) is removed, "insight" (fast convergence) and "illusion" (local minima) are actually the same function.

I know the notation here is a bit abstract, but I'm curious: how do you think we can reintroduce "pain" or "grounding" into a purely reinforcement learning model?

I'd love to discuss the underlying mathematical principles or philosophical ideas.
by schiffern | 2026-02-02 06:26:54+00:00
In this work the authors use a ceramic-coated extruded aluminum heat spreader to improve thermal conductivity through the bulk PCM, but I wonder if the graphite flake+powder additive demonstrated recently by Tech Ingredients[1] would be a viable alternative? It might need a stabilizer (thickener) to prevent the ingredients from separating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-41UF02vrU
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-02 06:30:01+00:00
> You’re the one claiming smoking cigarettes don’t give lung cancer

Care to quote me on that? You can't, because you just made that shit up.

What I said in fact is that I personally have not been harmed by smoking cannabis, and even tobacco too at times. A provable fact. I'm way healthier than you are. Another provable fact. You want to challenge me on this? I could literally run you down and break you in half.

I also said it's not necessarily the tobacco that's harmful, but the adulterants. Which is correct. And guess what has the most adulterants? Cigarettes of course. So you literally put the exact opposite words into my mouth. But I'm the idiot of course, so no worries.

The problem here is you don't know how to fucking listen. None of you do. You've spent way too long in an echo chamber, breathing your own farts, convinced of your own haughty superiority. So yeah, maybe in a roundabout way, air pollution really is the problem.
by bigbuppo | 2026-02-02 06:30:53+00:00
They actually have this solved with iLok... You can move the license to new dongles at will. And they have a relatively inexpensive annual service where they'll issue you temporary licenses for what was on the ilok while you ship it back the defective dongle to them. Mostly used for DAW software and plugins, but apparently a few other things have used it for licensing.
by bitwize | 2026-02-02 06:31:59+00:00
The Mass Effect universe distinguishes between AI, which is smart enough to be a person—like EDI or the geth—and VI (virtual intelligence), which is more or less a chatbot interface to some data system. So if you encounter a directory on the Citadel, say, and it projects a hologram of a human or asari that you can ask questions about where to go, that would be VI. You don't need to worry about its feelings, because while it understands you in natural language, it's not really sentient or thinking.

What we have today in the form of LLMs would be a VI under Mass Effect's rules, and not a very good one.
by PythonicNinja | 2026-02-02 06:34:26+00:00
I argue that we’re thinking about the singularity wrong. Instead of one superintelligent AGI, we’re already seeing swarms of stochastic LLM agents coordinating online, cross‑validating each other, pursuing goals, and even resisting shutdown. This post makes the case that emergent, unpredictable swarm behavior is the real threshold and that we may have crossed it without noticing.
Ask HN: Would you use a tool that auto-adds telemetry to your code at PR time?
by chiehminwei | 2026-02-02 06:34:42+00:00
I keep running into the same pattern: incident happens, go to debug, realize there’s no logging for that code path. Add it after the fact, wait for it to happen again.

Thinking about building an open source tool that runs on PRs and automatically adds structured logging, metrics, and tracing. It would analyze your existing codebase to match your conventions.

The thing I find interesting: if a tool is adding all the instrumentation, it has a model of your entire system. From that you could generate service maps, dashboards, alerting — stuff that’s useful but nobody maintains.

Before I build this: is this actually a problem people have, or do mature teams already have this solved? Would love to hear how others handle this.
by stuxnet79 | 2026-02-02 06:35:41+00:00
If you are storing your data in a filesystem like ZFS then the risk is lower since you'll know you have a bad sector long before you attempt to deduplicate. But I otherwise share your same concerns and I'm eager to hear from others how to mitigate this. I've lost a volume due to poor practice while encrypting so I'm understandably reluctant to overcomplicate my backup strategies in the name of space compression or privacy.
by anticodon | 2026-02-02 06:35:47+00:00
What really do Americans know about Ukraine or Taiwan? E.g. can even 1% of US population show Ukraine on the world map (without using Google Maps)? Could they do it before 2022? Before 2014? Do they know anything about Ukraine or Taiwan history? How many Americans know a single foreign language?

If tomorrow there would be a war or protests in, say, Burundi. Will Americans stay with Burundi or against it? Or with the country the media will tell them is "good" because their interests align with US interests?

I think answers to all these questions are obvious.
by efilife | 2026-02-02 06:36:17+00:00
I will go insane if I read more reddit.

> Have you thought about moving into a house with no neighbors? Otherwise, have some respect for others IMO

What about the smoker having respect to the person he forces to smoke? (you can't be quick enough to close your window, the smoke has already invaded your home once you smelled it). Your rights end where my rights start. You have no right to invade my personal space with your toxic smoke
by theptip | 2026-02-02 06:36:39+00:00
> AI-native. No installation wizard; Claude Code guides setup. No monitoring dashboard; ask Claude what's happening. No debugging tools; describe the problem, Claude fixes it.

> Skills over features. Contributors shouldn't add features (e.g. support for Telegram) to the codebase. Instead, they contribute claude code skills like /add-telegram that transform your fork.

I’m interested to see how this model pans out. I can see benefits (don’t carry complexity you don’t need) and costs (how do I audit the generated code?).

But it seems pretty clear that things will move in this direction in ‘26 with all the vibe coding that folks are enjoying.

I do wonder if the end state is more like a very rich library of composable high-order abstractions, with Skills for how to use them - rather than raw skills with instructions for how to lossily reconstruct those things.
by green7ea | 2026-02-02 06:38:03+00:00
I made a time sync library over local network that had to be more precise than NTP and used i128 to make sure the i64 math I was doing couldn't overflow.

I32 didn't cover enough time span and f64 has edge cases from the nature of floats. This was for Windows (MACC not GCC) so I had to roll out my own i128.
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-02 06:38:22+00:00
As a piece of software it’s pretty awful frankly. Here’s an example : memories are written using the write function but the write function truncates files. There is an edit function but it requires substitution and can’t append. There is no append function.

It also really depends heavily on large models. It’s not practical so far to run on anything that fits into a 4090 because the tool calling semantics are complex, and the instructions pretty vaguely grounded by default. It requires a lot of prompt tuning to get to work marginally. Probably with a clearer semantic in the tools and some fine tuning things would be better on this front. I’ve tried a variety of quantized high tool following models and it’s pretty hit or miss. The protocols around heartbeat and stuff are unnecessarily complex and agentic when they could more reasonably be imperatively driven. It seems to depend on token burning for life more or less.

I frequently see sessions get confused in its internals and general flakiness.

It however has made me consider what a system like this might look like with a better hierarchical state machine, management interface, hierarchical graph based memory, etc. It’s too bad I’ve got a day job and a family at a time like this! It’s a fun time in computing IMO.
by AngryData | 2026-02-02 06:40:39+00:00
Yeah the reddit mod system is just ripe for abuse. They have little to no accountability, the people acting as police were the same people you appealed to and who acted as judge, there was a clear reddit mod political class with certain users or groups of users controlling significant swaths of subreddits, and with it judgements in 1 sub might get you banned from other subs. And if someone got enough mod shills in a sub they could oust original or well liked mods. And there is clear financial gains and benefits to doing all of that. Meanwhile regular users that built the site and made it a place people wanted to visit had basically zero say or influence on any of it.
by mrandish | 2026-02-02 06:40:45+00:00
Well said. When I read stuff like this implying 'consciousness studies' can be a hard science, the undefined and ill-defined terms just keep piling up until I nope out. I'm lucky if I make it past the abstract to maybe the third paragraph. No reproducible science can be built on so many subjective vagaries.

I think consciousness studies can be interesting but they need to stay in the philosophy department between Searle's Chinese room and the P-Zombie lounge until they're ready to experimentally test falsifiable hypotheses with neuroscientists. And until they have a rigorous, consistent definition of what human consciousness is and is not, they really need to stop pretending AI has any relevance to human consciousness. There's no evidence AIs are conscious, and even if there someday is reproducible evidence - there's no reason to think it might be similar enough to human consciousness to make useful predictions about either (and that's assuming humans are conscious, which is still a matter of some debate in the field).
by defrost | 2026-02-02 06:40:46+00:00
> a full 1/3 of lifelong smokers never develop any kind of cancer,

That's "true" in the sense that it's the CVD (Cardiovascular disease) and COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that are way more likely to take them out first.

Lifetime Smoking History and Cause-Specific Mortality in a Cohort Study with 43 Years of Follow-Up

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4824471/

Sure, you absolutely can be 98 years old sucking back on a deathstick, just like you might find yourself screaming "suck it" as you take home that giant lottery cheque with some winnings.

Pachinko's a hell of a game .. but still the house wins.
by anazarian | 2026-02-02 06:41:09+00:00
I built this because I was spending more on social media than actually being social.

IRL is like Instagram, but your friends can only be people you've met in person (Bluetooth verifies proximity), and posts can only be made when you're physically together.

There's a Hardcore Mode that permanently deletes your account if you don't meet someone within 3 days. It sounds insane but it actually works as motivation. Free, no ads. iOS only for now, Android coming soon.

Would love any feedback!
by treetalker | 2026-02-02 06:41:22+00:00
Brain, calendar, or Reminders / task-management app.

But c'mon, do people not know how to use calendars anymore?

I don't mean to be rude or sarcastic. Still, it's no wonder people can't remember to take care of stuff like this: they're too busy trying to find, manage, and juggle dedicated apps for everything — a contact-lens replacement app, a medication reminder app, a recipe app for grocery lists, an app to tell me when garbage day is, an app to track brushing my teeth every day, a timer app specifically to tell me when to move my laundry from the washer to the dryer, another timer app to alert me when my water should be done boiling, an app to track my period …

Surely we could be channeling our excess energies and brilliant talents toward solving one of humanity's many important challenges instead.
Show HN: Blockrand – Verifiable randomness API with a double-blind threat model
by rishi_blockrand | 2026-02-02 06:41:51+00:00
Hi HN,
We built Blockrand, a randomness API for applications where “trust us” is not good enough (games, lotteries, simulations, on-chain/off-chain hybrids).
Most “provably fair” RNGs fail under closer inspection:
The server can influence outcomes
The client can brute-force seeds
Or verification only works after you already trust the operator
Blockrand uses a double-blind model:
The client commits to a seed hash (unknown to us)
The server commits to entropy (unknown to the client)
Final randomness is derived only after both are locked
Anyone can independently verify the result later
No party can bias the outcome, even if malicious.
Why we built this
We couldn’t find a randomness service that:
Works off-chain
Is cryptographically verifiable
Doesn’t require trusting the operator
Is simple enough to integrate into existing systems
So we built one.
What’s live today
Simple REST API
Deterministic, replay-verifiable results
SDKs (JS, more coming)
Open verification logic (no black boxes)
What we’d love feedback on
Threat model assumptions
Attack vectors we may have missed
Whether this solves a real problem for you
API ergonomics (especially for game devs)
This is early and opinionated.
Happy to answer questions...
https://blockrand.net
GitHub: https://github.com/blockrand-api/blockrand-js
by paul_h | 2026-02-02 06:42:38+00:00
For a while, I've been thinking that open source package portals will at some point take over making of binaries that get released. Dev teams will run their own CI with whatever automated test pipelines they think is appropriate. For a tests-pass situation and will pass the git hash to the portal system for release, which just runs compile and making the binary. Well, not all CI runs would result in a release, of course. Then the package portal's own software kicks in to calculate an independent since-last-release report that's attached alongside the maintainer release notes.

All such portals upgrade their hash/sig noting of binaries, and keep those in a history retaining merkle tree of sorts. Of nothing, else a git repo. Something like this https://github.com/hboutemy/mcmm-yaml/blob/master/aws/sdk/ko... but with SHA256s, and maybe not the entire world on one repo.
by mcv | 2026-02-02 06:43:17+00:00
I never mastered the most common single loop method; it never made sense to me to have an asymmetrical way to tie a symmetrical knot, so I used the bunny ears with two loops, until I learned about the Ian knot with zero loops, and it's a very easy and quick way to tie your shoes.

The resulting knot is the same with all of them, however. Either the regular knot or the granny knot, depending on how you do them.
by maxglute | 2026-02-02 06:43:31+00:00
Yes, comports with my numbers.

>A majority of countries (119 or 62 per cent of UN member states) have endorsed Beijing’s one-China principle, which entails that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China.

I was being generous bucketing 20 mixed signallers with 40 status quoist. 120 agree TW inalienable part of China, as in TW can never be independent from one China construct (PRC's position). 20 agree it's part of China but not necessarily inalienable, i.e. TW/ROC should have pathway to independence but until they formalize, still part of China. AKA 75% is in recognize tier.
by farathshba | 2026-02-02 06:44:00+00:00
Reactive patching is dead. Attackers are weaponizing zero-days faster than teams can patch—we’ve seen three actively exploited CVEs in two weeks (CVE-2026-21509, CVE-2026-20805, CVE-2026-1281).
The real insight: teams moving fastest aren’t patching first. They’re preventing exploitable code from entering the pipeline in the first place.
SAST catches vulnerable patterns during code review. SCA flags known-bad dependencies before they ship. DAST/IAST surfaces runtime behaviors that static tools miss. Together, they create friction that forces attackers to work harder.
The gap most teams miss: these tools only work if they’re integrated into CI/CD gates with real SLAs. A SAST warning at code review that takes 3 weeks to resolve is just noise.
I’ve been covering DevSecOps in enterprise environments for 11+ years. The difference between teams that stay ahead vs. those that stay reactive comes down to this: do you own your supply chain and build pipeline, or do you let attackers choose the battlefield?
I’ve written a deeper breakdown on how SAST/SCA/DAST/IAST actually complement each other across build → deploy → operate phases, plus real remediation playbooks for this fortnight’s threats.
https://open.substack.com/pub/farathappsec/p/faraths-biweekl...
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by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-02 06:44:39+00:00
> widely popular Shah

This is strongly contested.

> we can easily find someone who is able and willing from the army or even an IRGC figure who would eagerly jump on the opportunity

This is not the history of nation building.

> Even among the minorities--let alone the majority--you specified, it is not clear that separation is the predominant preference

They have insurgencies for a reason. Many of these groups were also promised some level of self governance, promises which have been trotted back.

> why would United States prefer to hand over such important region to arguably as bad or worse governing bodies like Pakistan, Taliban, or Iraq, and questionable partners like Turkey

Never said Taliban. We have influence over Iraq. And even Pakistan isn’t really fucking with American interests that much, and giving them Balochistan might help them with their anti-terror mission. (It would also piss off India. So maybe skip that, too.)

> to keep Iran intact and does not mess with the balance of power in the region as much as possible

I’m not suggesting this is currently U.S. strategy. I’m saying there are advantages to it over trying to do the Shah again. Namely, it shatters a regional problem more evenly and protects choke points around the Caspian and Strait of Hormuz.