MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n4bz0r | 2026-02-14 21:09:39+00:00
I might be wrong, but I don't think people really care about the addictiveness in the first place. As I see it, the shorts were irritating to see, mainly because they were heavily out of tune with the rest of recommendations. But they seem to have tuned them to be more in line with the rest of the videos. Being not that different from the rest of the videos one gets recommended, there is not much point in hiding them? I'm not exactly protecting shorts here. My point is, you can, of course, cut some of the videos from the feed, but the rest would still be affected by the same algorithm. You still don't get to filter anything, really. So what's the point?

If addictiveness really is that much of a factor, I rest my case.
by drysart | 2026-02-14 21:10:28+00:00
The best solution for dealing with AI content slop flooding your eyeballs is to hang out in places small enough to be a community -- like a local area mesh network.

AI slop thrives in anonymity. In a community that's developed its own established norms and people who know each other, AI content trying to be passed off as genuine stands out like a sore thumb and is easily eradicated before it gets a chance to take root.

It doesn't have to be invite-only, per se, but it needs to have its own flavor that newcomers can adapt to, and AI slop doesn't.
by ueezed | 2026-02-14 21:10:53+00:00
I believe, at least now, there is no foolproof solution. It is ultimately a trade-off between speed and quality. I would suggest you chose wisely where you can afford to be less present and where you need to spend your time.
Is this for personal/pet projects or work "work"? In the latter case I might suggest that if you are forced to do this, then there is a workload problem to be solved. In general, context switching is a plague (meetings, colleagues) which predates ai agents.
I do believe though that people will become more and more accustomed to it.
by wellf | 2026-02-14 21:11:40+00:00
Imagine electicity in the home is made availiable but the deal is you can have it only if you don't use said electricity to exercise freedom of speech against the government, e.g. use a lamp to help you write the speech. And they have a way to track you if you do. And the alternative is no electrcity.

Online services like email and social media even are utilities.
by joezydeco | 2026-02-14 21:11:54+00:00
I pay an extra $60 a year to have my ophthalmologist take a digital image of my retina. It comes back as normal every year, but if something does change we can diff the image against the baseline.

Maybe I don't want to look for cancer right now but if I spend $1,000 every 5 years to take an image for later use... isn't that useful?
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-14 21:12:00+00:00
Weird, considering IA has most of its content in a way you could rehost it all idk why nobody’s just hosting a IA carbon copy that AI companies can hit endlessly, and then cutting IA a nice little check in the process, but I guess some of the wealthiest AI startups are very frugal about training data?

This also goes back to something I said long ago, AI companies are relearning software engineering poorly. I can think of so many ways to speed up AI crawlers, im surprised someone being paid 5x my salary cannot.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-14 21:13:32+00:00
Using HDDs for backup is also a terrible long term strategy, because you must have a lot of money regularly, to buy new HDDs to replace your old HDDs and this much more often than you need to buy a tape drive to migrate your tapes.

I have stored a lot of data on HDDs, and the only reason why I have not lost any of it yet is because I have always used duplicate HDDs. After 5 years or more, most HDDs had some corrupted sectors, but they were not in the same positions in the duplicate HDDs, allowing complete recovery of the data.

The reality is that both tapes and HDDs suck. What is really needed for long-term storage is a write-once memory with a lifetime of 100 years or more, based on an open standard that would ensure the availability of readers in the future.

If such a memory would use optical reading, it would have to use a great number of layers, filling a 3D volume, in order to achieve densities comparable with the magnetic media. While several research projects in this direction have been announced from time to time, until now none of them has resulted in a commercial product.
by dang | 2026-02-14 21:13:34+00:00
Related. Others?

A collection of 2,299 blogs about every topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40693787 - June 2024 (18 comments)

Remember to submit your blog to ooh.directory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36458877 - June 2023 (6 comments)

Ooh.directory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719983 - Nov 2022 (167 comments)
by tootie | 2026-02-14 21:14:52+00:00
I guess I'm in the minority but I haven't noticed a significant variance in quality and features on any chat app I've used in the past 20 years. It seems like a thoroughly solved problem. Slack's "killer feature" was that they really streamlined onboarding which is feels neat the first time you do it. Otherwise, chat is chat. The biggest obstacle has always been getting everyone you need to talk to to agree on which platform to use.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-14 21:14:53+00:00
> It’s certainly not full of amazing motivated athletes with excellent coordination. You’re lucky if most of them can show up to work on time more than half the time.

Every once in a while a 16-year old from Ukraine shows up and acts normal and all the other 16-year olds make up rumors about him being 30+ because "how he do that" - very amusing to watch.
by cueo | 2026-02-14 21:15:14+00:00
That's a good point. I don't know if not storing (just relay) on the server helps my case. I'll read up more on it.

Anyway, this is just a pet project at the moment. My wife wanted some file that was on my work laptop which has AirDrop disabled, so obviously instead of emailing her the files, I went ahead and built this app.

Thank you again!
by ninjagoo | 2026-02-14 21:15:18+00:00
Interestingly, this is a specific implementation of a more general idea - leverage social media to store encrypted content, that requires decoding through a trusted app to surface the actual content.

AI tools can use this as a messaging service with deniability. Pretty sure humans already use it in this way. In the past, classifieds in newspapers were a similar messaging service with deniability.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-02-14 21:15:22+00:00
Even if it was a "network connection" issue creating an overlay network on top of the Internet (with VPN tunnels and mesh routing, for example) would yield wildly better bandwidth and latency characteristics.

You can still make that overlay network geofenced and vetted. Heck, running it over a local ISP's last mile would probably yield wonderful latency.

We need vetted webrings on the existing Internet, not a new Internet.
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-14 21:15:45+00:00
> - There’s a difference. Users don’t see code, only its output. Writing is “the output”.

So how is the "output" checked then? Part of the assumption of the necessity of code review in the first place is that we can't actually empirically test everything we need to. If the software will programmatically delete the entire database next Wednesday, there is no way to test for that in advance. You would have to see it in the code.
by josephh | 2026-02-14 21:15:56+00:00
Much like there is 64-bit "code", there is also 32-bit "code" that can only be executed in the 32-bit (protected) mode, namely all the BCD, segment-related, push/pop-all instructions that will trigger an invalid opcode exception (#UD) when executed under long mode. In that strictest sense, "64-bit and 32-bit code can’t be mixed".
by simfree | 2026-02-14 21:16:22+00:00
Teams is shovelware. Force bundled, with questionably reliable messaging, okay video calling (if your organization policies don't break it), and a fairly useless Phone System component that misbehaves often.

Great for organizations that believe these forms of communication should be an afterthought that has rough edges and inconsistent reliability.

The recent changes to end webhook support, kill Linux desktop support and do yet another rewrite are inane. Don't expect features you use today in Teams to work in 2 years...
by buildbot | 2026-02-14 21:16:40+00:00
I bought a thunderbolt to FC adapter; works perfectly on Mac and Linux.

I mention LTO 4 because you can today, buy multi decades old LTO-4. Brand new. So in multiple decades from now, I assume you’ll be able to find LTO-7 or 8; brand new. A drive might cost a little more to obtain, but given the plethora of used multi decades old lto currently out there, it seems reasonable to expect that in a recovery scenario you’ll be able to shell out for the right drive.

But yes for most HDDs or the cloud are better. No need to get spicy about it.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-14 21:17:03+00:00
We used to have a local devs slack and any time someone came up with a random slash command one guy would add a new php script to power that command. I assume a lot of it is just an abandoned API that nobody cares about anymore because Microsoft forced Teams into Office so it took over corporate America in waves. I cant remember the last place I worked at that didnt just use Teams.
by avidiax | 2026-02-14 21:17:45+00:00
It would be in Google's ultimate interest to label AI-generated websites and potentially rank them lower in search results.

AI needs to be kept up to date with training data. But that same training data is now poisoned with AI hallucination. Labelling AI generated media helps reduce the amount of AI poison in the training set, and keeps the AI more useful.

It also simply undermines the quality of search, both for human users and for AI tool use.
by pwg | 2026-02-14 21:18:06+00:00
> when that page disappears after an acquisition or rebrand.

Sadly, it does not even have to be an acquisition or rebrand. For most companies, a simple "website redo", even if the brand remains unchanged, will change up all the URL's such that any prior recorded ones return "not found". Granted, if the identical attestation is simply at a new url, someone could potentially find that new url and update the "policy" -- but that's also an extra effort that the insurance company can avoid by requiring screen shots or PDF exports.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-14 21:18:46+00:00
I don't have a use for Rust on my daily work, and would rather see Java finally adopt the features it missed down from Oberon and Modula-3 for systems programming, however we will have to disagree on the "mediocre" adoption.

So many language designers would dream to have such adoption numbers by tech giants for their hobby language.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-14 21:19:21+00:00
Yeah when I was 10 someone told me not to believe everything I read too. But guess what, that's kinda useless advice because consulting reference material is a necessity and there are wide variations in the quality of reference material. This sort of 'don't trust anyone' heuristic can just as easily lead to conclusions that the earth is flat, the moon landing never happened, vaccinations are the leading cause of disease etc.
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-02-14 21:20:16+00:00
That is not that simple. There is a relationship between laser and media, most optical drives to this day have entirely separate lasers for different generations of media. At the very least, red vs blue lasers.

It is not as simple as claiming that optical drives have it easier technologically. If anything, I would claim that tapes have it simpler, definitely for reading at least. There is _nothing_ preventing LTO from retrocompatibility other than market forces.
by robot_advice_ | 2026-02-14 21:20:34+00:00
The simplest project that covers the basics of motors and controls is a self-balancing robot. 2 Motors, an h-bridge, a battery, an IMU, and a microcontroller.

A step above that I would say some kind of wheeled robot with more complex motors that have encoders, and ROS if you want to mess around with autonomy. If you have the budget for it, a stereo camera or $400 time-of-flight RGBD camera can get you pretty much full autonomy (if you configure all the ros nodes for it).

If you are into robot arms, LeRobot has a desktop robot arm kit that uses neural networks to control a robot arm with a camera for seeing the world.

If you want to learn the theory, I really like Probabilistic Robotics by Sebastian Thrun, and Modern Robotics by Lynch and Park. Those cover pretty much all of the foundational concepts for autonomous robots.

The most fun thing I think currently are drones. I have been designing and building a fixed-wing drone with autonomy and FPV capabilities. Started from zero information and just learned as I went. Plus flying drones is more fun than driving robots IMO.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-14 21:21:00+00:00
Some CD-Rs will certainly be readable after 30 years, but there have been plenty of bad CD-Rs that have become unreadable after less than 10 years.

I had several hundred CD-Rs. Most of them were OK, especially the gold archival CD-Rs from Kodak, so I have migrated the data from them mostly to save space and improve access speed, not for them being too old. Nevertheless there have been a few that have gone bad, but I had duplicates for all of them, so I did not lose the data. Had I not been cautious, I would have lost some of the data.

The main problem of optical discs is their much too low capacity in comparison with magnetic media. A small suitcase with tape cartridges contains as much data as a big cabinet full of the most dense optical discs.
by i_don_t_know | 2026-02-14 21:21:23+00:00
Chapter 9 and section 10.7 of this book show some interesting (and to me unexpected) uses of effects in Ocaml and how they compare to implementations based on monads:

https://lukstafi.github.io/curious-ocaml/new_book.html

The dscheck model-checker is another interesting application of effects: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/dscheck
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-14 21:21:29+00:00
> if the issue is that your privacy is being threatened

You're straw-manning here. The issue isn't privacy in a vacuum. The issue is very directly privacy in the context of the current US government being undeniably and intentionally malicious in a way that few countries anywhere in the world currently are. @YeGoblynQueenne indicates as much by saying "At the very least, in an EU country (and also the UK) you can ...".

The US government currently doesn't give a shit about the law or human rights in ways that are both completely unprecedented and very violent. People have concrete reason to fear the US government right now. That's what the article is about, not merely privacy on its own.

> There are many countries now that don't require a passport to enter - you can simply get a facial scan.

Name all the ones that violently assault and kill people in the street and imprison people for weeks or months or even years without formal charges and ignore court orders to release people who are being illegally imprisoned and then only later comply with the law after injurious delays with the most malicious interpretations if ever.
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by majorchord | 2026-02-14 21:21:55+00:00
There doesn't always have to be a monetary loss to win a copyright suit, perhaps unlike with a breach of contract ruling.

Copyright licenses are designed to support the right to exclude; money damages alone do not support or enforce that right.

A similar notion has been common even among cases involving open source licenses, where developers were able to claim non-monetary damages from violations.

From Jacobsen v. Katzer:

> Traditionally, copyright owners sold their copyrighted material in exchange for money. The lack of money changing hands in open source licensing should not be presumed to mean that there is no economic consideration, however. There are substantial benefits, including economic benefits, to the creation and distribution of copyrighted works under public licenses that range far beyond traditional license royalties. For example, program creators may generate market share for their programs by providing certain components free of charge.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-14 21:23:58+00:00
That’s anecdotal evidence demonstrating the wonders of simple probability. There’s so much opacity to refusals that claims like this (currently) can’t have enough rigor to be used to make an argument.

To strongly make the claim you’re making you’d have had to perform extensive before/after tests to be able to compare.

That said - the lack of transparency that’s making you feel uncomfortable with this whole thing, that is concerning.
by arjie | 2026-02-14 21:24:13+00:00
It is true that as the cost to construct fake content has gone to zero, we need some kind of scalable trust mechanism to access all this information. I don't yet know what this is but a Web of Trust structure always seems appealing. A lot of people are going to be excluded, but such is life, I suppose.

If I were to be honest, going to where the fish aren't is also going to help. Almost certainly there are very few LLM generated websites on the Gemini protocol.

I'm setting up a secondary archiver myself that will record simply the parts of the web that consent to it via robots.txt. Let's see how far I get.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-14 21:24:31+00:00
There’s a lot of debate under your linked comment.

My understanding is that people tend to cooperate in smaller numbers or when reputation is persistent (the larger the group, the more reliable reputation has to be), otherwise the (uncommon) low-trust actors ruin everything.

Most humans are altruistic and trusting by default, but a large enough group will have a few sociopaths and misunderstood interactions; which creates distrust across the entire group, because people hate being taken advantage of.
by jml78 | 2026-02-14 21:24:33+00:00
Yep, I have experience with both. It found cancer for my wife and she was able to treat it immediately. Fully recovered.

It found a weird spot on me that turned out to a pancreatic rest.

The only reason we did the scans were because we were making a significant life decision that we didn’t want to have to backtrack if either got diagnosed with cancer within a year . We knew nothing was guaranteed but we wanted to do some tests.
by dredmorbius | 2026-02-14 21:25:45+00:00
If you're referring to the United States, the answer is that yes, weapons manufacturers were being held liable for firearms-based violence, until passage of the "Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act" of 2005:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...>

(Note that the bill passed with significant Republican and Democratic support.)

Which is to say, conventional notions of contributory negligence and liability existed until sufficient political power was accrued by the arms industry to write itself out of same. The cited Wikipedia article names several such suits, notably by the cities of Chicago, IL, and Bridgeport, CT.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-14 21:26:11+00:00
> they'd rather vibe code themselves than trust an unproven engineering firm

You could cut the statement short here, and it would still be a reasonable position to take these days.

LLMs are still complex, sharp tools - despite their simple appearance and proteststions of both biggest fans and haters alike, the dominating factor for effectiveness of an LLM tool on a problem is still whether or not you're holding it wrong.
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-14 21:26:25+00:00
Especially direct quotes seems egregious - they are the most verifiable elements of LLM output. It doesn't make the overall problem much better because if it generates inaccurate discussion / context of real quotes it is probably nearly as damaging. But you really are not even doing the basics of our job as a publisher or journalist if you are not verifying the verifiable parts.

Ars should be truly ashamed of this and someone should probably be fired.
by wowczarek | 2026-02-14 21:26:34+00:00
The .com site serving malware aside, it's how people even get to downloading this. PC builder [...], USB stick [...], YouTube tutorial for a new build [...] instructed to download. Makes me wonder, is this how "PC builders" build PCs, or was this a regular user person. Archive managers are such basic software that I'd think surely someone would keep a stash of (trusted) installer files for the basic tools to be installed in a new environment. At least that's what we used to do, like, 25 years ago. Or use choco, winget or whatever. Malware hygiene habits remain almost unchanged - don't click that link.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-14 21:26:52+00:00
Neat!

The interface doesn't seem to "grow" to a 1440p display on the first page in the app. This leaves the "Add Friend" button floating in the middle of nowhere. I'm sure there is a better responsive design for this to at least avoid visual confusion. The interface looks correct once in an actual chat.

When I message someone it says "Unknown User" as their name in the message history.

I spoke with you briefly as a test, since the project was posted to HN and the domain name said `beta.echoed.gg` I assumed you wanted people to kick the tires of your product. Instead of testing the software or getting feedback the discussion became about it not being a product. This is very strange because your own website says "Product" in the footer. The response was "We are not a business" and then "If want a product go talk to a business".

Are you Open Source then? I can't find a GitHub link or anything similar from your site or by searching myself.

Very strange and I actually caution if this is a "real" project or some kind of data collection thing?

EDIT - Also there appears to be no email verification, so don't trust anything related to what a user says they are?
by jasonpeacock | 2026-02-14 21:27:00+00:00
C libraries have advertised "header-only" for a long time, it's because there is no package manager/dependency management so you're literally copying all your dependencies into your project.

This is also why everyone implements their own (buggy) linked-list implementations, etc.

And header-only is more efficient to include and build with than header+source.
by jtrn | 2026-02-14 21:27:32+00:00
The people to who take too much responsibility are not the one that "makes it other peoples problem", unless they are suffering from a dependent personality disorder.

And even then, consider rearranging what you just said in your reply. You are saying: You have to make it someone else problem to avoid self hatred and burnout.

There is a difference in relying and getting support from people, and being a jackass.
by cj | 2026-02-14 21:28:03+00:00
Your comment matches my experience closer than the OP.

A link disappearing isn’t a major issue. Not something I’d worry about (but yea might show up as a finding on the SOC 2 report, although I wouldn’t be surprised if many auditors wouldn’t notice - it’s not like they’re checking every link)

I’m also confused why the OP is saying they’re linking to public documents on the public internet. Across the board, security orgs don’t like to randomly publish their internal docs publicly. Those typically stay in your intranet (or Google Drive, etc).