MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dkarras | 2026-02-04 19:19:28+00:00
>No, you did something fake to avoid doing what you were asked to do.

Yes, that is what plausible deniability is.

>But there are very effective ways to find hidden encrypted volumes on devices. And then you’ll be asked to decrypt those too, and then what?

I emphasized "done right". If existence of hidden encryption can be proven, then you don't have plausible deniability. Something has gone wrong.

My point was: OP claimed plausible deniability does not apply in legal cases which is a weird take. If you can have plausible deniability, then it can save you legally. This does not only apply to tech of course, but encryption was the subject here. In all cases though, if your situation is not "plausible" (due to broken tech, backdoors, poor OPSEC in tech, and / or damning other evidence in other cases as well) then you don't have plauisble deniability by definition.

Having ways of definitively detecting hidden encrypted volumes might be the norm today, might be impossible tomorrow. Then you will have plausible deniability and it will work legally as far as that piece of "evidence" is concerned.
by dist-epoch | 2026-02-04 19:19:35+00:00
That $9.6T is mostly back and forth non-directional HFT.

Otherwise it would not take a day to swap $500 mil for commercial reasons (think buying a couple Boeing plane with Euros) to avoid too much market impact as documented in multiple interviews with currency dealers stating it takes them 1 day to "work" a $500 mil order.

Retail can move FX, if it piles into one pair. But unlike the Boeing order they will also need to exit the trade at some point, which makes them vulnerable.
by pfannkuchen | 2026-02-04 19:19:40+00:00
There are a number of ways to get to a high trust society. Europeans aren’t the only ones who achieved it.

I think people want to move to European derived places because of a) the positive long terms side effects of a society being high trust and b) a greater openness to outsiders among high trust societies, compared to e.g. East Asians, probably due to Christianity being a universalist religion. Like Japan is as nice if not nicer than most European derived places in terms of high trust-ness, but historically they haven’t really allowed people outside their ethnic sphere to move there in large numbers.
by Multicomp | 2026-02-04 19:19:59+00:00
I'm so amazed to find out just how close we are to the start trek voice computer.

I used to use Dragon Dictation to draft my first novel, had to learn a 'language' to tell the rudimentary engine how to recognize my speech.

And then I discovered [1] and have been using it for some basic speech recognition, amazed at what a local model can do.

But it can't transcribe any text until I finish recording a file, and then it starts work, so very slow batches in terms of feedback latency cycles.

And now you've posted this cool solution which streams audio chunks to a model in infinite small pieces, amazing, just amazing.

Now if only I can figure out how to contribute to Handy or similar to do that Speech To Text in a streaming mode, STT locally will be a solved problem for me.

[1] https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
by linkjuice4all | 2026-02-04 19:20:13+00:00
Philadelphia is blessed by several feet of sub-street layers (stone fill, belgian block, concrete backfill, and terrible asphalt), embedded rail, pipes, and utilities that are all owned and managed by different local, state, and private entities. Oh and fairly wide temperature swings throughout the year, generous precipitation, salt, and let's not forget the drivers themselves. It's a miracle the roads are in as good a shape as they are - but it does have a traffic calming effect :)
by consumer451 | 2026-02-04 19:20:26+00:00
Four months ago, I was playing with basically the same framework to explore the idea of "consciousness," using Claude Agent SDK as the harness and Opus 4.5 as the LLM.

I was thinking: wake up every hour, look at some webcams and the weather forecast (senses, change), maybe look at my calendar, maybe read my personal emails for important things, proactively chat with me for work or just fun via email invites.

I played with it for a bit, then got back to "serious work."

I am such an idiot for not seeing the broader value. One thing is that I was sure some multi-billion dollar company was already doing this, and I am super paranoid about the Lethal Trifecta.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-02-04 19:21:49+00:00
At the end of the day, the choices in companies we interact with is pretty limited. I much prefer to interact with a company that at least pays lip service to being 'good' as opposed to a company that is actively just plain evil and ok with it.

That's the main reason I stick with iOS. At least Apple talks about caring about privacy. Google/Android doesn't even bother to talk about it.
by joquarky | 2026-02-04 19:22:18+00:00
> That's because the loudest voices don't really get how the technology or the science works. They just know how to shout persuasively.

These people have taken over the industry in the past 10 years.

They don't care anything about the tech or product quality. They talk smooth, loud, and fast so the leaders overlook their incompetence while creating a burden for the rest of the team.

I had a spectacular burnout a few years ago because of these brogrammers and now I have to compete with them in what feels like a red queen's race where social skills are becoming far more important than technical skills to land a job.

I'm tired.
by ashdksnndck | 2026-02-04 19:22:34+00:00
I had a kind of visceral distaste for all of this rules, skills etc stuff when I first heard about it for similar reasons. This generalized text model can speak base64 encoded Klingon but a readme.md isn’t good enough? However given the reality of limited context windows, current models can’t consider everything in a big repo all at once and keep coherent. Attaching some metadata to the information that tells the model when and how to consider it (and assisting the models with tooling written in code to provide the context at the right time) seems to make a big difference in practice.
by supernalai | 2026-02-04 19:22:37+00:00
Given how 'simple' it is, I'm very impressed. With it, we built www.clawx.ai over the weekend, helped fix/repair other projects like interface.supernal.ai (used in testing), launched www.computationrights.org. All while I was doing family things.

It certainly is not perfect. Not completely autonomous. It is much faster than Claude or Cursor.

It's already getting better. We're re-architecting its memory, pulling in research, notes from open source, trial-error it ourselves too.

backlog.md has been nice to help with organization but it is not sufficient for complexity or multiagents etc.
by ingenieroariel | 2026-02-04 19:22:56+00:00
I like Nix as well, you can use this one liner in OSX or Linux to try out arcan/durden/cat9, as it matures you can expect arcan applications to be made available the way html pages/apps and this kind of nix derivation would let you run the "browser":

nix run --impure 'git+https://codeberg.org/ingenieroariel/arcan?ref=nix-flake-buil...'
by juujian | 2026-02-04 19:22:58+00:00
Not that I can speak from personal experience or anything... But somebody on an email chain may have requested a scanned version of the document to ensure there is no metadata and the employee might have found it easier to just flatten the pdf and apply a graphical filter to make the document appear like a scanned document. There might even be a webtool available somewhere to do so, I wouldn't know...
by gigatexal | 2026-02-04 19:23:08+00:00
At anywhere from 9-12k euros [1] I’d be better off paying 200 a month for the super duper lots of tokens tier at 2400 a year and get model improvements and token improvements etc etc for “free” than buy up such a card and it be obsolete on purchase as newer better cards are always coming out.

[1] https://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/2063285...
by shadowgovt | 2026-02-04 19:23:17+00:00
I know what you're referring to, but this one is well-documented. When Tunney and I were last in overlapping circles, she self-described as techno-fascist. It's pretty well-documented (though I apologize for assuming it was common knowledge; since I was there and knew of her to only one or two degrees of separation, it's easy for me to forget she's not necessarily a well-known name).

https://www.salon.com/2017/08/19/who-gets-fired-for-being-a-...

Zhang, Zhexi. 2019. "The Aesthetics of Decentralization." p.68

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/libertarians-sometime...

... also, my intent was not to cast aspersions. When last I heard the name, I had a particular political leaning associated to the name and I was wondering if it had changed.
by serjester | 2026-02-04 19:23:35+00:00
The vast majority of people don't need smarter models and aren't willing to pay for a subscription. There's an argument to be made that ads on free users will subsidize the power users that demand frontier intelligence - done well this could increase OpenAI's revenue by an order of magnitude.

This is going to be tough to compete against - Anthropic would need to go stratospheric with their (low margin) enterprise revenue.
by seydor | 2026-02-04 19:23:46+00:00
They made an ad to say that they won't have ads, i dont know if they are aware of the irony.

https://x.com/ns123abc/status/2019074628191142065

In any case, they draw undue attention to openAI rather than themselves. Not good advertising

Both openAI and Anthropic should start selling compute devices instead. There is nothing stoping open-source LLMs from eating their lunch mid-term
by knuckleheads | 2026-02-04 19:23:47+00:00
Thank you for another example of why Occupy was doomed to fail, I had not considered that you had control over the donation flow. Instead of working together as a group and finding somebody more responsible than yourself to manage the incoming capital, you diverted it away from the movement and dispersed it to the winds. Was that decision made collectively by the group? Or did you take it upon yourself to do so? Control over the domains and twitter account, along with the incoming flow of donations are the resources that you had and Occupy let you squander.
by wilkommen | 2026-02-04 19:24:56+00:00
The entire stock market basically functions as a funnel of wealth from the middle class to the rich right now. When OpenAI and Anthropic IPO, they'll be megacap stocks and 401ks and pension funds the world over will invest in them. Then insiders will cash out, and the AI bubble will collapse. USD will have transferred from the retirement accounts of middle-class people to the rich. This is how all stock market crashes work. This one is especially interesting because the middle class is already so squeezed - how many more times can they pull this trick off? Seems like it can't go on many more times.
Show HN: Template for real-time agentic web apps using Convex
by ohstep23 | 2026-02-04 19:25:20+00:00
I've been building agent-based apps and kept running into the same problem: wiring up real-time state updates is annoying. Agents do things, state changes, and you want the UI to reflect that instantly without writing a bunch of sync logic.
So I built a template using Convex as the backend. Convex handles state, live updates over WebSockets, and auto-generates most of the env vars. The template includes a visualizer so you can watch agent state changes as they happen, which is useful for debugging and demos.
The example app is a todo assistant where you can add or complete tasks in plain English and watch the UI stay in sync in real time. But the real point is the pattern: it's a clean starting point for any agentic app that needs real-time feedback without fighting infrastructure.
Built with Subconscious for the agent layer and Convex for the backend. You can get it running in a couple minutes:
npx create-subconscious-app my-project-name -e convex_app
by wtcactus | 2026-02-04 19:25:22+00:00
> Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?

Yes, you got a president democratically elected by the clear majority of the people in the USA on a clear platform to deport all illegal immigrants (as impossible as that might be in practice), and you - the minority - are flooding the streets, harassing the law enforcement forces and committing crimes to stop the law from being applied even after the majority of the electors told you that they indeed want the law to be applied (in case you had any doubts that the law - that already existed - should indeed be applied).

If that's not rampant authoritarianism, nothing is...

P.S. If you know so much about Marx, you should probably also know that Communists are standing in a long time honored tradition of calling fascists to anyone that's in their way. Stalin was already denouncing Trotsky (you know, the guy that was actually even more ideologically pure about communism than Stalin himself) and his supporters as "fascists" back in 1928.

Just 2 more years for LWNJ to be using the same tactic for 100 years straight... at least they know how to keep traditions, I give them that much.
by epsters | 2026-02-04 19:26:03+00:00
*purported officials

I am very skeptical tbh seeing all this unfold. The propaganda push from media over this is off the charts on this.

A counter-perspective on these figures and their sources :

https://x.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/2017089536686211440#m
https://xcancel.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/20170895366862114...
by kazinator | 2026-02-04 19:26:22+00:00
> The attempt to introduce units like KiB isn't revisionism

Yes it is; it is literally asking people who call 1024 bytes "kilobyte" to stop doing that and say "kibibyte" instead, and to revise the meaning of "kilobyte" to 1000 bytes.

Some people have not stopped doing that, so there is more confusion now. You no longer know whether a fellow engineer is using powers of 1000 or powers of 1024 when using kilobyte, megabyte or gigabyte; it depends on whether they took the red pill or the blue pill.
by titzer | 2026-02-04 19:26:23+00:00
> There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them.

> ...but including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking.

Sadly, with my disillusionment with the tech industry, plus the trend of the past 20 years, this smacks of Larry Page's early statements about how bad advertising could distort search results and Google would never do that. Unsurprisingly, I am not able to find the exact quote with Google.
by ge96 | 2026-02-04 19:26:30+00:00
Really I guess I don't know what that is then as I buy the Teensy since it has so much IO, multiple UART, multiple I2C busses, sd card reading, etc...

edit: interesting

(Teensy | Pico)

Special Features: CAN Bus (3x), SDIO, S/PDIF | PIO (Programmable I/O) (8 SMs)
by sevenzero | 2026-02-04 19:27:08+00:00
Yea I never had real mentorship and I am responsible for 6 projects as solo developer. I am heavily against using LLMs for my tasks as thats just passionless mind numbing back and forth with a machine trying to get it to spit out stuff I actually understand.

I also learned that I absolutely hate most programmers. No offense. But most I've been talking to have a complete lack of ethics. I really love programming but I have a massive issue with how industry scale programming is performed (just offloading infra to AWS, just using random JS libs for everything, buying design templates instead of actually building components yourself, 99% of apps being simple CRUD and I am so incredibly tired of building http based apps, web forms and whatnot...)

I love tech, but the industry does not have a soul. The whole joy of learning new things is diminishing the more I learn about the industry.
by input_sh | 2026-02-04 19:27:55+00:00
Was I the one to shift the conversation into "incompetence" or did someone else do that thinking it absolves Thiel of any blame? Which I've proven it doesn't and you just agreed with me that it doesn't?

We can go back to my original claim if you want to, but my stance would remain the same as it did it in my first comment: if on one side of the argument we have a company directly funded by Thiel and on the other side we have literally anyone else, I personally don't need any strong evidence to believe that other side, as I am well-familiar with Thiel.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-04 19:28:16+00:00
Actually, there is historical precedent for that: Gen X.

The defining feature of Generation X is the latch-key kid population. Children arriving home to empty houses for hours after school without any kind of social interaction whether in person or online. This would be before the internet, so there was no online social activity. This behavior may have applied to as many as 30-35 million US households where for the first time in US history both parents were expected to work full time outside the house. These children had to learn to entertain themselves, do their own chores, and possibly prepare their own meals. Imagine an entire massive population learning to become largely fully self-sufficient, from an emotional development perspective, as children. They had no substitute solution or alternative activity.
by throwaw12 | 2026-02-04 19:28:28+00:00
exactly. you cant compete morally when cheating, doing illegal things and supporting bad guys are norm. Hence, I hope open models will win in the long term.

Similar to Oracle vs Postgres, or some closed source obscure caching vs Redis. One day I hope we will have very good SOTA open models where closed models compete to catch up (not saying Oracle is playing a catch up with Pg).
by mindslight | 2026-02-04 19:28:32+00:00
I would characterize that as a patching of some of the problems that arise from the system, not a changing of the system's underlying semantics.

By my lay reading of that, it doesn't even actually necessitate recording the deed sooner for it to have those effects - rather it just means that the deed needs to have been recorded some time before you get to court.
by BadBadJellyBean | 2026-02-04 19:28:41+00:00
Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies don't have a value assigned like normal currency. That means you almost never pay in bitcoin but in the bitcoin trading value of some currency. Instead of $5 you pay the current trading value of $5 in bitcoin. That is why it doesn't work as a currency and people are complaining about how they struggle with crypto volatility. No one really thinks about how many bitcoins they have just how much that is worth in "real" money.
by hmry | 2026-02-04 19:29:09+00:00
Feb 1: receive monthly paycheck Feb 2: spend all of it on strippers/drugs/alcohol/twinkies/etc. Feb 3: I'm hungry.

Unless you are prepared to let the wagies starve to death, wages will never work.

Or to put it in less sarcastic terms: Why would UBI payments be more likely to be squandered than any other monthly payments? Especially by people who can't afford food without it. Are there any studies that show such behavior?
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-04 19:29:31+00:00
Doesn’t the “third world” (maybe better referred to as the “Global South” now that the Berlin Wall has fallen) has very high marriage rates? Models of home ownership are probably different enough to be incomparable to what it is the US. Nevermind mortgages, but things like running water as well. I would almost imagine “apprenticeship” is much more common and healthy (“junior roles”) in a lot of the more prosperous places in the Global South as well.
by georgeecollins | 2026-02-04 19:29:37+00:00
When it was created DirectX was a really useful thing for game makers. It made it easier to write hardware accelerated applications that were also consumer friendly. Contemporary Windows is full of anti-patterns. MSFT just can't seem to resist sticking things into it that make it less pleasant to use in support of MSFT's ecosystem. It's no wonder Valve invests into trying to be independent of that.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-04 19:29:39+00:00
>of how many deaths he will have caused as a result of DOGE so abruptly cutting off assistance to so many vulnerable people around the world

The US taxpayer has no moral obligation to send welfare "around the world". If you personally find this frustrating, you're welcome to donate that money yourself, directly. No one will stop you. If the world wishes to partake in the benefits of the American government, it should apply for statehood.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-04 19:29:44+00:00
The Gaza war is a war with the side with the superior army trying to avoid killing. In Iran's war on it's own people, the superior army is trying to kill "as a punishment" (their words).

The same is true for the Russia-Ukraine war, btw. There have been 1300 victims per day for over 3 years. Russia is not trying to minimize casualties.

Why is it surprising that it results in an extreme difference in death toll? Or at least, in the rate of killing.
by johnvanommen | 2026-02-04 19:29:46+00:00
> It appears they've been associated with a lot of hype/fear copy-paste companies that offer highly inflated monthly access to their trades and research. Note that they were named "Game of Trades" before rebranding.

I really wish that people would wake up to the danger posed by meme stock BS “leaking” into the general markets.

Just as voters are responsible for changes in society, uninformed investors can impact society too, especially when they’re amplifying their purchasing power via leverage.

For instance, I’ve been buying real estate forever, and I’ve enjoyed the Reventure app.

But I’ve REALLY noticed that his YT videos are exclusively doom and gloom.

This ceaseless negativity moves markets, just as the irrational exuberance for real estate in 2005 moved markets.

But the exuberance for real estate was driven by people who were buying real estate.

The endless doom and gloom of YT finance videos is for a much different reason:

It drives page views.

That’s not a good thing. Because it’s really easy to get swept up in the negativity. And that negativity has a downstream effect, where it’s often used to convince people to invest in things that the YouTuber is promoting.

Basically, I don’t know if we need an “SEC for YouTube,” but we might.

Yes, I know we already have an SEC for YouTube (it’s the SEC), but nearly none of the people doling out financial advice on YT are trained professionals. It’s the fundamental defect of internet advice; who to trust?
by davnicwil | 2026-02-04 19:29:47+00:00
yeah I think this is exactly how the analogy breaks down.

As humans we need to specialise. Even though we're generalists and have the a priori potential to learn and do all manner of things we have to pick just a few to focus on to be effective (the beautiful dilemma etc).

I think the basic reason being we're limited by learning time and, relatedly, execution bandwidth of how many things we can reasonably do in a given time period.

LLMs don't have these constraints in the same way. As you say they come preloaded with absolutely everything all at once. There's no or very little marginal time investment per se in learning anything. As for output bandwidth, it also scales horizontally with compute supplied.

So I just think the inherent limitations that make us organise human work around this individual unit working in teams and whatnot don't apply and are counterproductive to apply. There's a real cost to all that stuff that LLMs can just sidestep around, and that's part of the power of the new paradigm that shouldn't be left on the table.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-04 19:30:05+00:00
It’s so hard to succeed without selling ads. There’s an exponential growth aspect to these endeavors and ads add a lot of revenue, which investors like, so those who don’t can find that the lost revenue “multiplies” due to lower outside investment, lower stock price growth, etc.

I wish the financial aspects were different, because Anthropic is absolutely correct about ads being antithetical to a good user experience.