MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Gabriel_h | 2026-02-03 12:41:20+00:00
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by sylware | 2026-02-03 12:44:16+00:00
I am french, and I don't understand what is doing our government regarding their 'digital policy'.

They look like completely hypocrit or completely incompetent, what's this?

If they don't agree with X, don't use it/ban it and/or create a simple local alternative (it won't be financed by the US thousands of billions of $ from their investement funds... keep that in mind): the whole governement is using X all the time.

Not to mention, they went full throttle on breaking web sites (noscript/basic (x)html, simple web engines) for web apps completely dependent on whatng cartel gigantic-enormously-huge web engines.

To tell you the truth: I don't understand anything on what's going on. But on the ground, people _inside_ the french gov/administrations are pushing really hard to increase the dependency on non-EU/non-french "tech" (it has been several years). Those guys are probably brain-washed properly, or seriously malicious.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-03 12:45:50+00:00
Fair enough.

Typically what I call Social Media is akin to things such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Anything that has a personalized "feed" generated by an algorithm.

Old moderates forums had no personalized anything.

Incidentally, as much as I despise Reddit, this would exclude Reddit from being banned. Last time I used it, it didn't really have a personalized feed (unless things changed ever since).

I could subscribe to subreddits and see the activity on what I subscribed, but anyone with the same subscription list (fully controlled by the user) would see the same activity, so it was not a personalized feed per se.
by miki123211 | 2026-02-03 12:45:58+00:00
TBH, "use a package manager, don't specify versions manually unless necessary, don't edit package files manually" is an instructions that most agents still need to be given explicitly. They love manually editing package.json / cargo.toml / pyproject.toml / what have you, and using whatever version is given in their training data. They still don't have an intuition for which files should be manually written and which files should be generated by a command.
Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?
by kldg | 2026-02-03 12:46:05+00:00
I've been working on an SMTP/email server lately, and while Google and some others imply a lot of frowny-faces and put quotation marks around tests "passing" for not using a corporate relay, does at least let me communicate with the broader ecosystem.

Phone calls, however, seem like a tougher nut to crack. SIP URIs would let me kinda-sorta communicate with the broader ecosystem, but many phones and software seem to have dropped support for it; only a tiny % of those typically using the PSTN (that is, a "normal phone") would be able to call or receive calls to/from my addresses -- but it would be able to be directly and neatly integrated into the email server, which is a big plus.

I will probably still implement SIP URIs and VOIP support into the email server on principle, but I wonder if anyone has any alternatives to consider. Ideally, I would be able to communicate on the PSTN, but this seems like a lost cause.

Also curious about anyone using VOIP for work whether or not they allow or block SIP URIs from external networks. I maintained our VOIP server at work more than a decade ago, but it was a "side-project" due to working at an SMB where I wore many hats and couldn't specialize in anything; I wasn't even aware of SIP URIs at the time.
by jaapz | 2026-02-03 12:46:08+00:00
> But storing the heat they produce has not been possible

Many heat pumps are installed with a large insulated buffer of water (for ex. 300L), which stores heat pretty well?

And homes that use underfloor heating in concrete can store heat pretty well too. Many people use that to heat up the home when energy is cheap and disable the heat pump when it is expensive.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-03 12:46:09+00:00
What does "recover" even mean?

Are we supposed to back to the good ol' days when the <pick federal agency> could hold a press conference announcing some grand new plan with <pick industry group> key person and <pick billionaire> standing in the background smiling because they know their people ghost wrote it to their benefit and the press would unanimously gush about how good it is if not copypasta the press release entirely?

Institutions are basically bankrupt of trust in the eyes of the public. Between that and the modern information distribution landscape the status quo circa like 1930something-2010something where the administrative parts of the state could "just do things" without organized resistance by the parts of the public that were on the losing end is likely never coming back.

Whatever you, and everyone else, wants to use state power to accomplish will likely have to dial back their ambitions and prioritize in accordance with the new reality of how much you need to fight for each thing, basically realign policy targets to be closer to the fat part of the "what everyone wants" bell curve. Maybe from there there will be a decades long re-accumulation of trust, but we don't know what the world will look like in the future and that may bring us to a very different status quo than the one we're exiting.

I know we all like to whine and screech about billionares and moneyed interests, but I think the new status quo is probably a bigger problem for them and other "string pullers" than the median member of the public who's getting shafted by it. Remember, the "status quo" of the last 100yr is what created the problems we have to clean up today and in the future.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-03 12:46:13+00:00
> Are you from Sweden?

No. I used this interweb thing to fetch that document from Sweden, saving me a 1000-mile walk.

> Why do you think the definition was clear across the world and not changed "before AI"?

I didn't say it was clear. I said there was no disagreement.

And I said that because I saw only agreement. CSAM == child sexual abuse material == a record of child sexual abuse.
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-03 12:46:47+00:00
Surely this should be for parents to decide? Even if the infra is in place for social media services to check IDs.

It seems quite bizarre to ban it since the vast majority use it safely.

Social media is the double edge sword I avoided MySpace, Facebook etc entirely. But I can understand people finding communities online they can't access in their location.

Oh well. I'm sure those that want to will be able to bypass it, and I've also no doubt that social media at a population level is a net harm. Even if this feels like overreach.

What seems truly harmful is the 12month old who is handed a tablet with YouTube running constantly depriving their brain of the big early exposure to the real world.
by Gormo | 2026-02-03 12:47:26+00:00
The Amiga had huge success outside of "teenage gamers", even if in niche markets. Amigas were extremely important in TV and video production throughout the 1990s. I remember a local Amiga repair shop in South Florida that stayed in business until about 2007, mainly by servicing Amigas still in service in the local broadcast industry -- all of the local cable providers in particular had loads of them, since they were used for the old Prevue Guide listings, along with lots of other stuff.
by oefrha | 2026-02-03 12:48:47+00:00
I’m at 19186/233259, about 0.082, and I’m pretty sure most of my higher upvoted comments are on the shorter side, and my wall of texts tend to not deviate much from 1 karma, sometimes even negative. Don’t put too much stock into fake internet points.

And I really need to waste less time here, didn’t expect to be top 1500…
Show HN: 7min.ai – no-BS AI news aggregator curated by AI
by fabioperez | 2026-02-03 12:49:14+00:00
I built a no-BS AI news website (and newsletter) that uses AI to curate the best AI-related stories for me: 7min.ai.

I'm subscribed to many AI newsletters. I think they are useful, but they have some issues: emoji walls, useless AI-generated images, "tech-bro" lingo ("HUGE if true" energy, everything "insane" or "game-changing"). Each also had its own opinion (which can be good for some people, but I prefer a more factual format).

So I built 7min.ai. Here's how it works:

It pulls news from many trustworthy sources, deduplicates stories, and prioritizes news according to how hot they are (I know this can be subjective, but it's working well so far). A "heat" indicator shows 'hotness' based on the AI's take on the stories importance, plus how many sources covered it. I can read the high-level summary of each story, and open the source if I need to know more.

The name comes from this: it limits the news for 7min (180 WPM) each day. The newsletter is limited to 7min, and the website is limited to 7min by default. You can read more if you want, just click the read more button.

Current limitation: it's focused on news, so it's not getting cool open-source projects or other tools that can be useful to try (unless they make the news). I'm thinking of adding some coverage for those.

Happy to hear any feedback and answer questions! How do you think it compares with traditional AI newsletters?

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by logicchains | 2026-02-03 12:49:16+00:00
>but I do really like a heterogenous cultural situation, so I think it's interesting and probably to the overall good to have a country pushing on these matters very hard

Censorship increases homogeneity, because it reduces the amount of ideas and opinions that are allowed to be expressed. The only resilience that comes from restricting people's speech is resilience of the people in power.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-03 12:50:07+00:00
Not that hard. Ban any social media that has a personalized algorithmically generated feed. Those things can be gamed for engagement and are poisonous both to the individual and to society.

HN, Reddit, PHPBB forums would be excluded. There's no personalization outside the user control on those as far as I am aware.

Last time I used Reddit, I could aee the activity on the boards I was subscribed to, but anyone with the same subscriptions would see the same activity. There's o dark pattern there.

And just to be clear, I absolutely despise Reddit. I don't even like HN all that much to be frank. I would be the last person that would try to protect Reddit. I am just being coherent with my thoughts on the matter.
by ralferoo | 2026-02-03 12:50:14+00:00
> Sent a completely calm, even sympathetic report to the powers that be, got put on the DNF list for my troubles.

What were you hoping to achieve by sending that report?

Most people would have just thought "wow, lucky I wasn't caught with that", taken it out of the bag so it didn't happen again and carried on with their lives.

Deviating from that normal response makes it look like you're just trying to cause trouble.
by watwut | 2026-02-03 12:50:23+00:00
> its important to understand the arguments being made if we are honestly interested in engaging in discussion and improvement.

Yes. But making their arguments into different, milder, sanitized and whitewashed ones is NOT understanding them. It is carrying water for them. As of now, both their rhetorics and actions match perfectly. There is zero reason to think this is about crime levels.

> The fact that the rate is lower for native-born or legal immigrants is immaterial to the argument advanced by those seeking more enforcement of immigration laws

When the deportations are done in an orderly manner and without visible abuses, these people are unhappy. When they are done with visible abuses, then they feel like they are getting what they wanted. They do not particularly like the focus on lawbreakers either, their own rhetoric casts violent law breaking as something good - if done by the right side. In fact, when only illegal immigrants are deported, they act like something was missing.

If we are honest to ourselves about what they want and openly talk about, they want white ethnostate. They have issue with legal migrants and with non white citizens too. They have issue with EU having non whites in it. Somehow, their primary targets are cities with relatively low illegal immigration rather then ... Texas with much higher illegal immigration.
by eatonphil | 2026-02-03 12:50:31+00:00
Great educational project! I'm curious why you are using Raft and also 2PC unless you're sharding data and doing cross-shard transactions? Or is Raft only for cluster membership but 2PC is for replicating data? If that's the case it kind of seems like overkill but I'm not sure.

Few distributed filesystems/object stores seem to use Raft (or consensus at all) for replicating data because it's unnecessary overhead. Chain replication is one popular way for replicating data (which uses consensus to manage membership but the data path is outside of consensus).
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-03 12:50:31+00:00
Very different charges however.

Durov was held on suspicion Telegram was willingly failing to moderate its platform and allowed drug trafficking and other illegal activities to take place.

X has allegedly illegally sent data to the US in violation of GDPR and contributed to child porn distribution.

Note that both are directly related to direct violation of data safety law or association with a separate criminal activities, neither is about speech.
by sega_sai | 2026-02-03 12:51:07+00:00
Basically the core of the issue is that the UK govermnent yearly expenditures on various facilities like 'Diamond source' synchrotron, payment for the CERN membership etc are higher due to inflation, exchange rates, electricity costs, and the STFC/UKRI's answer to this is to cut the grants for researchers by 30%. A particularly idiotic solution given that many people from US are looking for other places. Also what's the point of having facilities without people to use them.
by logicchains | 2026-02-03 12:51:30+00:00
The point of banning real CSAM is to stop the production of it, because the production is inherently harmful. The production of AI or human generated CSAM-like images does not inherently require the harm of children, so it's fundamentally a different consideration. That's why some countries, notably Japan, allow the production of hand-drawn material that in the US would be considered CSAM.
by lawn | 2026-02-03 12:52:18+00:00
In Swedish:

https://www.regeringen.se/contentassets/5f881006d4d346b199ca...

> Även en bild där ett barn t.ex. genom speciella kameraarrangemang
framställs på ett sätt som är ägnat att vädja till sexualdriften, utan att
det avbildade barnet kan sägas ha deltagit i ett sexuellt beteende vid
avbildningen, kan omfattas av bestämmelsen.

Which translated means that the children does not have to be apart of sexual acts and indeed undressing a child using AI could be CSAM.

I say "could" because all laws are open to interpretation in Sweden and it depends on the specific image. But it's safe to say that many images produces by Grok are CSAM by Swedish standards.
by thedevilslawyer | 2026-02-03 12:52:22+00:00
Have you worked with a professional architect. Cost adds up fast, and you get 1-2 iterations?

I'd love to work and vibecode the house to my full liking, assuming that the agent harness will take care of all the nonfunctional things (stable design, zoning etc). Same for car if I could customize it I would.

(I definitely don't like the ramifications of it on the economy/jobs, but the above are pure consumer wins, no doubt)
by donatj | 2026-02-03 12:52:27+00:00
The new Alexa is always cracking jokes about things I ask her. Sometimes pretty complex or off the wall jokes. They're rarely funny but usually competent, unlike other AIs in my experience. I wonder how much work went into that.

That said, I absolutely hate it. I want the tersest response possible from you, wiretap. I don't have time for your sass.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-03 12:52:42+00:00
Most paywalls just allow search engines to read their content just fine. Because they do want discoverability, they want their cake and eat it.

There's a few publications that don't even do that though and archive.is is very good at bypassing them so I do imagine they use logins for those, but for the masses of sites it's not currently necessary.
by mkjs | 2026-02-03 12:53:25+00:00
How is that relevant? Are you implying that being a US military contractor should make you immune to the laws of other countries that you operate in?

The onus is on the contractor to make sure any classified information is kept securely. If by raiding an office in France a bunch of US military secrets are found, it would suggest the company is not fit to have those kind of contracts.
by latexr | 2026-02-03 12:53:53+00:00
> not the lack of profitability

What “lack of profitability”? They just reported a record quarter. Adobe shoves full Creative Cloud subscriptions down everyone’s throats; buying one tool, especially when it’s not one of the flagships, is uncommon. They’re not losing anything by not adding features to Animate.

> And if it's written in an interpretable language

I have never ever ever had to change shell, Ruby, or JavaScript code because “the underling interpreter/runtime are EOL”. Never. That code keeps happily running, doing its work, with whatever version of the interpreter I have available in whatever box.

> And a lot of the time finished software becomes unused because it sticks to scopes that don't match up with reality/user needs anymore.

So what? That’s perfectly fine. Do you drink milk out of a baby bottle? Do you ride a bike with training wheels? It’s perfectly fine to build a tool for a purpose and a time and place and let it exist there for the people who care for it. That’s also true of video games (which, lest we forget, are software). In a world where people are constantly complaining about software updates moving shit around, removing features, and adding crap they don’t want, plenty of people appreciate that the things they like continue to work as they always have.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-03 12:54:17+00:00
When I read the original article it doesn't really feel like the Finnish guy is even an activist. He seems to be just a curious nerd who wrote one article about this topic (who's behind this big site that everyone uses) and about a whole load of completely unrelated and non-activist topics like why did Japan stop building subway lines. Then his blog gained some traction because of the reporting around the FBI threats.

The article is also really appreciative of archive.today. It doesn't feel like a hit piece at all.
by shrubby | 2026-02-03 12:54:54+00:00
Animal fat/milk with the hormones of a different mammal seem to be causing a lot of problems. Planetary and health related.

And the low fat milk in the carton is pretty far from natural, where oat milk in example seems to be pretty simple process based on quick googling:

https://www.loveandlemons.com/oat-milk/

Of course any industry can make anything ultra processed, like oat milk, but the generalization was wee bit hefty here.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-03 12:55:31+00:00
This is such a ridiculous point that some of you are arguing. Reads like typical internet heel digging tbh. The point is that lots of people will pay this fee and it will equal a large amount of money and it does nothing of value. It’s just a fee for the fee’s sake. It serves no practical purpose, it’s just punitive. You still get to fly. There’s no safety element, there’s nothing the RealID enables that costs something without it, there is no clear reason here for this.

What is the actual legitimate purpose of this fee that millions will likely pay?
by Mordisquitos | 2026-02-03 12:56:12+00:00
What do they hope to find, specifically? Who knows, but maybe the prosecutors have a better awareness of specifics than us HN commenters who have not been involved in the investigation.

What may they find, hypothetically? Who knows, but maybe an internal email saying, for instance, 'Management says keep the nude photo functionality, just hide it behind a feature flag', or maybe 'Great idea to keep a backup of the images, but must cover our tracks', or perhaps 'Elon says no action on Grok nude images, we are officially unaware anything is happening.'
by danso | 2026-02-03 12:56:50+00:00
That makes much more sense tbh. I believe Musk predicted in 2021 that we would land humans on the moon by 2024 [0]. That obviously has been deprioritized but how many Starships have delivered 50+ tons of payload to the moon so far?

[0] https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/spacex-boss-elo...
by pitched | 2026-02-03 12:58:49+00:00
The part that takes time in UI isn’t wiring up components, it’s the small changes like something is a pixel to the right or that gap is two pixels wide. Changing those in a C++ project means recompiling and that adds up to significant overhead over a day of polishing the UI. If C++ was able to get builds out in less than a second, this wouldn’t be an issue. People value performance in their own tools more than the tools of their customer.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-03 12:59:20+00:00
A healthy state is an oil tanker - slow to steer, predictable in its direction, and it's broadly steered by public opinion rather than voting. With a large mandate you get to push a few polices through. Ideally if you get a leader pushing through a policy against his party's natural proclivities it's more likely to stick.

If you have a jetski which changes direction every 5-10 years that's terrible for long term investment, and terrible from a personal point of view too. Legalise gay marriage, then 5 years later it's oh no, lets make that illegal again.

Best to move to a stable country which isn't run by the whims of a dementia-laden madman.
by pydry | 2026-02-03 12:59:21+00:00
>half is vaguely in alignment with the vague directional gestures of expert consensus

Their beliefs are driven by a different set of oligarchs and imperial mandarins who have their own set of self serving reality distortion fields.

The companies which donate to both sides and the countries which collect enough komptomat are often able to set up bipartisan reality distortion fields.