MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 21:52:23+00:00
We generally aren't in the habit of using "random" scripts to do anything. They're usually carefully developed to do exactly what we need them to do, precisely, and nothing more. Not the giant pile of buggy ass code and security nightmare that is systemd.

By the way, you don't seem to be aware that you can use any language you want to create startup "scripts" including compiled binaries, if you hate shell scripting so much.

Do you even know any shell script? Serious question. Many 'bash' haters know nothing about the language--starting with calling it 'bash' instead of 'shell script.' There are several different flavors just of shell scripting languages, and bash is only one.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-03 21:52:48+00:00
>America’s founding is steeped in moral principles, from its very founding document.

The same founding documents that insisted that all men were created equal, and that America was for, of, and by those men

but not THOSE men?

The same document that spent a significant quantity of it's rather short length handing out provisions to literal slaveowners?

Those same founders thought it would be better to split off the whole list of inalienable rights to a separate document that possibly could have failed to be adopted?

Nothing is more American than ignoring the history of what actually happened in favor of some totally rose tinted propaganda.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-03 21:52:52+00:00
Nobody has been saying they'd be dethroned. We're saying they're often "good enough" for many use cases, and that they're doing a good job of stopping the Big Guys from creating a giant expensive moat around their businesses.

Chinese labs are acting as a disruption against Altman etcs attempt to create big tech monopolies, and that's why some of us cheer for them.
by jauws | 2026-02-03 21:53:04+00:00
If you look at similar live benchmarks like LMArena or Design Arena, there's an extremely large number of unique annotators, with a low number of annotations per person - which is normal. However, since this platform is designed to generate fiction catered to individual interests, my hypothesis is that it'll be an added boost of novelty that will help aggregate enough usable data over time.
by j_maffe | 2026-02-03 21:53:13+00:00
The poll you reference didn't ask a single country in the middle east (except Israel, of course!) or most of South American countries (half of which puppet governments were placed). I wonder why. And you really argue with a straight face that this is representative of "People globally"?
I'd be more insulted by your attempt of slight if PEW wasn't doing the same.
by careign | 2026-02-03 21:54:03+00:00
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by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-03 21:54:10+00:00
Administrative warrants aren't real warrants. We've seen a supreme court that tears down anything not in the strictess interpretation of the constitution, but somehow giving judicial powers to whatever agency feels like it wants them is ok? This is always the worst of all worlds from the GOP state.

If the cloud providers give in to this extra judicial bullshit, it will absolutely be a strong compelling reason to abandon big cloud entirely. These dime store badges these losers award themselves aren't worth the tin they are printed with, their illegitemate authorizations not worth the paper they'd be printed on.

Super key story, super super sad seeing the cloud come under legal attack by such lowlifes.
by TOMDM | 2026-02-03 21:54:51+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't.
The number of times I've heard the notification sound, gotten a toast while in the middle of something, and then been unable to find what the hell that notification was for, because some other device I'm logged in on has helpfully marked it read.

Then begins the hunt through chats, meeting chats, group chats, channel chats and the notification pane (which doesn't show every type of notification!?) to find what it was.

Absolutely maddening.
by Lammy | 2026-02-03 21:55:21+00:00
> If you have the right to turn off PRs

Joke's on you; I already do shut down every PR automatically on my projects with the repo-lockdown bot: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/repo-lockdown

Making my code public at all is what costs me nothing. I am already writing it. I am already versioning it with Git. Giving you access to it is either a no-op or is some amount of public good. It can never be a negative. This is what Free Software is. Read Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-03 21:55:27+00:00
You can run plenty of models on a $10K machine or even a lot less than that, it all depends how much you want to wait for results. Streaming weights from SSD storage using mmap() is already a reality when running the largest and sparsest models. You can save even more on memory by limiting KV caching at the cost of extra compute, and there may be ways to push RAM savings even higher simply by tweaking the extent to which model activations are recomputed as needed.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-03 21:55:40+00:00
>People in genuine cults are suffering and being abused.

Not true at all. The only difference between a cult and a religion is popular acceptance. That's it. Some people suffer in christianity, just like how some people suffer in scientology. Many people in both religions don't suffer at all.

Tibet is a country with a religion that believes in serfdom and slavery. That's why China doesn't like them.

>There are many, way healthier and efficient alternatives than vicious crackdowns, especially if your intent is to protect the people.

It's called a tradeoff. You can eliminate the disease now by excising it with some collateral damage or you can try to slowly excise it which can basically be completely ineffective. For example the US in order to avoid collateral damage of trampling on peoples freedsoms allows bullshit religions like scientology to exist.

>I don't know; the most beautiful architecture, all forms of arts, etc. all were rooted in religions. All great men in the past were quite spiritual.

Does beautiful architecture equate with truth? Does being great equate with reality? Scientology is bullshit as much as christianity. It's just you PREFER the christianity bullshit.

Additionally all of the things you mentioned are not rational or logical. Being a great man is orthoganol to religion, beautiful architecture is orthoganol to religion. Think critically.

>Well, it's fair enough, but it is − no offense − a rather self-centered view.

How is how or where I choose to live my life self centered? I am simply saying I prefer China's way. If you don't prefer it, then don't live there.

I think the problem with you, is that you think I'm self centered, but I'm not. You are. Think about what you're asking for. You're saying that my OPINION on China is wrong and self centered and that my thinking needs to be adjusted and you imply all of China and it's government must adjust themselves to the same style of governance as the west. You are imposing your view on others and declaring that if one doesn't hold YOUR view, they are self centered. Ironic.

>Perhaps it doesn't affect you directly again. But indirectly, or in the long run it might.

Well it depends. Cults are responsible for mass genocide in the US, so one positive way the crack down on religous bullshit will affect me is that there is less mass genocide from cults. Scientology just won't exist in China. But it does in the US and it's the long term consequence of many freedoms.

>Yup, it's a bit quick, I'll give you that. The numbers in 2025 were higher than in 2024, and in 2023, which could indicate that "it's not very effective" in actually reducing corruption.

Or it can indicate corruption is massive and pervasive and that the clean up will need to be equally massive and pervasive.
by bdbdbdb | 2026-02-03 21:57:11+00:00
> EU citizens have elected ineffective leaders for decades -- leaders that ignored the potential to set up homegrown cloud providers, software suites or tech companies.

It's not like there are people out there on the campaign trail every election saying "if I'm elected, I'll ensure we build homegrown cloud alternatives". Nobody campaigns on issues like that. The reality is you have to choose between people who want to kick the immigrants out and people who don't, people who want to enact green policies and people who don't. People who want a European army and people who don't. These big issues are what people vote on, even if we care that there should be a homegrown cloud industry. I really do care, but it's not something I can do anything about at the ballot box
Do you think .md domains will become popular?
by hiveindex | 2026-02-03 21:57:23+00:00
With the recent surge of collaboration with AI via markdown files (heartbeat.md, memory.md, etc), could this be the next popular TLD? It's impossible to find a good .com these days and even .ai is getting so competitive. But there's still even one-word .md (Moldova) domains around. What do you think?
by Nik_26 | 2026-02-03 21:57:37+00:00
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by leflambeur | 2026-02-03 21:57:44+00:00
That’s not what we’d have to assume.

I don’t know about religions in the general sense, and you’re right to point out that I very much have the “Abrahamic world view”, though my case is much much more specific than that but that’s not relevant here.

What we might more safely assume is that the Creator is revealed through history and a group to whom it he’s not revealed might pursue him more ignorantly (I appreciate the language might sound offensive or condescending but that’s not the intention) but in that pursuit they’re still better off than someone who willfully rejects him.

This I believe is relevant to the post, as these societies have not gone from one god to another, but to none.
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-03 21:58:50+00:00
> I suspect it's only a matter of time until the content industries start trying to restrict what code LLMs are allowed to produce so that you can't use an LLM to bypass DRM.

I don't think this is a possibility anymore for multiple reasons. As others have already pointed out there are already "open models" available to use and that genie can't be put back in the bottle, restricting the commercial models wouldn't fix the issue.

And secondly, I think the state of commercial LLMs show that the big tech companies behind LLMs have already become far more politically powerful than the traditional content industries. (I don't think this is good thing, but I think it is a thing).

If you had explained the LLM situation to 15-years-ago me in terms of how they are trained (on almost entirely copyrighted material) and what kind of output they could generate and told me Disney hadn't managed (or really even tried) to sue various players out of existence I wouldn't have believed it, yet here we are.
by carsoon | 2026-02-03 21:59:03+00:00
Fully sandboxed VMs are more secure but not everyone is looking for the most secure option. They are looking for the option that works the best for them. I want to be able to share my development environment with the agent, I have a project with 30 1gb and one 30gb sqlite database. I back it up daily and they can all be reconstructed from the code but it takes a long time. When things change I don't want to have to copy them into a separate vm bloating my storage and using excess resources and then having to rectify them, I want to be sharing the same environment with my agent so I can work side-by-side.

I would rather just have the agent not accidentally delete files outside of its working environment but I am not worried about malicious prompt injection or someone stealing my code.

For me I see the LLM as a dumb but positive actor that is trying to do its best but sometimes makes mistakes, so I want to put training wheels on it while still allowing it to share my working space.
by jMyles | 2026-02-03 21:59:06+00:00
> The behavior of these auditors is not speech in any meaningful sense;

I didn't suggest it was speech; it's press, no?

Again, I don't have enough context to cast judgment about them being assholes or violating some other law (like harassment, etc), but obviously the basic right to document one's surroundings in public is absolutely essential to liberty, especially now.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-03 21:59:22+00:00
Yes, I agree, and these statements do not refute anything I've written in this thread. Besides, what do they even have to do with the ad hominem point we've been discussing? Anyway, we can just move on from that, I guess.

> the first amendment

In this case, the first amendment, as a matter of law, isn't relevant in the context of those who had their religious service interrupted: the service in question was not interrupted by the government. The first amendment concern in this case is whether or not Don Lemon's right to journalistic freedom is being infringed since he's the one who's actually facing criminal prosecution for actions which seem a lot like journalism.

> the FACE act

It appears that Don Lemon did nothing which violates this Act. I guess if you disagree with the judge who found there was no probable cause of such a violation for an arrest warrant, you're more than welcome to explain why. (I mean, surely it's not simply because you disagree with Don Lemon's politics, that would be embarrassing.)
by Retr0id | 2026-02-03 21:59:26+00:00
The "Wait, what does “SQLite-compatible” actually mean?" subheading didn't answer my question to be honest. They're using (forked) libSQL under the hood - ok, cool. But how do I interface with it?

They don't elaborate, but apparently libSQL has an HTTP API called "Hrana": https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/blob/main/docs/HRANA... - if that's what they're exposing, wouldn't it make more sense to call it libSQL-compatible or something?
by codazoda | 2026-02-03 22:00:07+00:00
I can't get Codex CLI or Claude Code to use small local models and to use tools. This is because those tools use XML and the small local models have JSON tool use baked into them. No amount of prompting can fix it.

In a day or two I'll release my answer to this problem. But, I'm curious, have you had a different experience where tool use works in one of these CLIs with a small local model?
by elemeno | 2026-02-03 22:00:32+00:00
They’re one of the two big names in legal data - Thomson Reuters Westlaw and RELX LexisNexis. They’re not just search engines for law, but also hubs for information about how laws are being applied with articles from their in house lawyers (PSLs, professional support lawyers - most big law firms have them as well to perform much the same function) that summarise current case law so that lawyers don’t have to read through all the judgements themselves.

If AI tooling starts to seriously chip away at those foundations then it puts a large chunk of their business at risk.
by BizarroLand | 2026-02-03 22:00:33+00:00
His billions of "value" mean literally nothing if he cannot convert them to cash. Let's see what happens if Musk tries to cash out his $700bn.

Best guess would be he gets ~$10-$20bn, all of the companies collapse, their value driven to possibly sub-billion dollar ranges, and it triggers the Great Depression pt 2, electric boogaloo, and within a year he's "fallen out of a window".
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-03 22:00:35+00:00
>once the Democrats are back in control of at least one house of Congress

"Are the democrats magically going to be able to have 100% control of the government despite only holding a tiny majority in the lower house? If not, I'm going to yet again blame them for a failure that is actually just the constitution working as it clearly states"

The US system is not designed to give democrats any power by holding a small majority in a single house. The power granted in such a case is the power to prevent change.

FDR was able to reform and change things the way he was because Democrats had something like 80% control of both houses, and that's how the threat to pack the Supreme court carried weight: Because he could actually do it.

You want democrats to have power? You want them to be able to put these criminals in jail? You want to be able to reform the system to reduce the chance of this horseshit happening again?

Then you need far more than a small majority in one house. You need actual control.

It's much easier to obstruct and prevent and destroy, so Republican policy of tearing shit down and stopping normal legislative progress and ensuring our congress passes no laws to deal with obvious bullshit like rampant corporate fraud that would make Enron blush is just naturally advantaged.
by int0x29 | 2026-02-03 22:01:16+00:00
Ironically for gaming usage that electron slopware can get you VAC banned (I think you need to have used certain features not merely have it installed). I should probably find the OSS alternative that allows me to turn it off.

It's also getting to a point where I wind up paying a price premium for non capital g gamer hardware. Fortunately opaque cases are still a thing and can hide some of it.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 22:01:39+00:00
It actually does or at least did, until at least a few years ago. When you opened the audio mixer (alsamixer or pulse audio control?) on XFCE, you could still see MS Teams labeled as Skype there. Not sure how it would be now, because I only ever use MS Teams isolated in a separate Ungoogled Chromium browser now, and have given up on the client for GNU/Linux.
by Animats | 2026-02-03 22:01:41+00:00
> If China gets bogged down in Taiwan...

Look at the geography.
Taiwan is a long, narrow island. All the important parts are in a narrow plain on the west side, facing China. There's only about 20km of depth from the sea.

The war in Ukraine is like fighting over Iowa, one farm at a time.
Taiwan is not like that.
by PKop | 2026-02-03 22:01:52+00:00
Of course this is true but seems to be one of the most underrated facts of modern society. Always it is proposed without question to expand access to things, to "democratize" them, open barriers, open borders. But this invariably lowers quality while crowding out those already enjoying them. Think of any quality club, park, vacation spot, restaurant, online forum whatever: none of these are improved for your own usage of the thing by adding more people to it at least beyond some threshold. A lot of this is zero sum, and quality is in tension with quantity.
by mittensc | 2026-02-03 22:02:07+00:00
If Trump was referring to them he would have mentioned them.

Here is what he said word for word, where did he mention those?

"The Republicans should say: 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least 15 places.' The Republicans ought to nationalise the voting," Trump said during an appearance on the podcast of his former deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-03 22:02:08+00:00
Yes, actually. I could (in Eudora) add an IMAP account and drag individual messages into it, and then later launch Thunderbird to pull from the same account. I am less-certain about issues around nested folders, which seem to be a magnet for oddities when it comes to e-mail clients and servers.

One of the reasons I kept looking for other approaches is due to how Eudora handles attachments. In this case, many of them had been "detached" from the message they came from. In other words, the message bodies no longer contained the data, but instead a placeholder pointing to a real file in a massive Attachments folder. (Not sure exactly how it handled name collisions.) Uploading such a message to IMAP would leave the attachment(s) behind.

The linked version of Eudora2Unix (unlike the Sourceforge version) tries to reverse this process and reconstruct the original messages, encoding and inserting attachments back into the body. It doesn't always work, but I suspect some of the failures I see are because the file content was deleted over the years by the user to free up disk space, without removing the e-mail trace.

Another plus is that I could just grab all the files for the user and then promise to come back with something better, as opposed to babysitting the upload/download process.
by torginus | 2026-02-03 22:02:34+00:00
I don't know about frontier, I code nowadays a lot using Opus 4.5, in a way that I instruct it to do something (like complex refactor etc) - I like that it's really good at actually doing what its told and only occasionally do I have to fight it when it goes off the rails. It also does not hallucinate all that much in my experience (Im writing Js, YMMV with other languages), and is good at spotting dumb mistakes.

That said, I'm not sure if this capability is only achievable in huge frontier models, I would be perfectly content using a model that can do this (acting as a force multiplier), and not much else.
by darth_avocado | 2026-02-03 22:02:45+00:00
> It's is exceedingly unhelpful the blame an entire generation for the actions of a few.

The unfortunate reality is that every generation has the power to change things if they want to. Shifting the blame to the actions of the few is an easy way to absolve yourself of the blame. Who allows the few to take those actions? How did those few come into power to be able to take those actions? Once the actions were taken, why were they not corrected if the entire generation disagreed with them?

Maybe in the future the generations will blame my generation for a bunch of wrongs, even if I personally may not have contributed to those wrongs, I will still share the burden of not doing enough to prevent it.
by sidewndr46 | 2026-02-03 22:03:25+00:00
This definition doesn't make any sense. Virtually anything not a solid or gas is a lubricant under atmospheric conditions. Water is one of the best lubricants you can find.

"lubricant mixed with a solvent" - doesn't make sense. A solvent is a lubricant. Acetone for example, is a phenomenal lubricant. I'm not sure how you're going to stop it from evaporating, but it's a lubricant. Water is a solvent as well, for example.