MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2026-02-03 18:32:40+00:00
It's exactly the tokenizer, but we shoplifted the idea too; it belongs to the world!

(The credential thing I'm actually proud of is non-exfiltratable machine-bound Macaroons).

Remember that the security promises of this scheme depend on tight control over not only what hosts you'll send requests to, but what parts of the requests themselves.
by Topfi | 2026-02-03 18:32:58+00:00
But neither of your described scenarios applies to either of the two.

Both FATCA and GDPR apply to entities/companies that deal with citizens from their respective jurisdiction. FATCA applies e.g. to foreign banks handling US customers, GDPR to foreign data processors handling EU user data.

If you don't want either to apply to you, easy, just don't handle US customers money/process EU user data.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-03 18:33:16+00:00
Yup.

I'm not really afraid of getting old, but I'm afraid of becoming decrepit.

My grandma has been decrepit for over 5 years now. She can't walk and has no bladder or bowel control, so she just sits on the couch and shits herself all day. She's not living, she's merely surviving. She was living with my mom for a while, but my mom decided she couldn't handle it anymore and put her in an assisted living facility.

If I get to the point where I couldn't cook my own meals and wipe my own ass, just put a bullet in me. I do not fear dying, but I do fear spending years of my life not being able to actually do anything.
by giardini | 2026-02-03 18:33:17+00:00
Not likely. From a simple web search:

"As of the 2021 Census, approximately 15.0% of all occupied private dwellings in Canada were condominiums, up from 13.3% in 2016, with the vast majority located in major metropolitan areas. In primary downtown areas, the concentration of condominiums is significantly higher, with roughly 39.9% of homes being classified as condominiums..."

Some exhaustive Canadian statistics:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220921/g-b00...

"Strata" vs "condominium" seems to be merely regional nomenclature. They're both condominium domains.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-03 18:33:22+00:00
> If you want a clean comparison, I’d test three conditions under equal context budgets: (A) monolithic
> AGENTS.md, (B) README index that links to docs, (C) skills with progressive disclosure. Measure task
> success, latency, and doc‑fetch count across 10–20 repo tasks. My hunch: (B)≈(C) on quality, but (C)
> wins on token efficiency when the index is strong. Also, format alone isn’t magic—skills that reference
> real tools/assets via the backing MCP are qualitatively different from docs‑only skills, so I’d
> separate those in the comparison. Have you seen any benchmarks that control for discovery overhead?
by sillysideprojs | 2026-02-03 18:33:27+00:00
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by moffkalast | 2026-02-03 18:33:29+00:00
Yeah it's absurd how aviation is somehow exempt from these rules, especially since piston engine aircraft carry virtually no vital role in anything except people flying them for fun. There have been viable alternatives for a long long time now.

I guess people who have money for personal airplanes also have the money to lobby when it matters for their interests. Pricks, I hope they die of dementia.
by jleyank | 2026-02-03 18:33:30+00:00
If the military wants a "junior cadet corps", it can go make one. They seem to have such things here in Canada, and people know what to expect. I'm not sure what "core values" are for the Scouts, but I'm fairly certain they're not fully shared with the military. More a sense of interacting with nature, teamwork, learning, ... Given that society is multi-spectral, there's nothing wrong trying to broaden the appeal and integration of Scout groups.
by munificent | 2026-02-03 18:33:51+00:00
Humans were able to successfully fry food for hundreds of years before Teflon was invented.

I still like non-stick pans for eggs, but for almost everything else, I prefer stainless steel, cast iron, or enameled cast iron. You do have to pay a little more attention to technique (knowing what temperature to heat the pan to before you put food on, etc.), but the end result is just about as good as a non-stick pan with many advantages:

* You don't have to be obsessive about never letting a metal utensil scratch the pan. (I hope you aren't using a metal spatula or fork with your non-stick!)

* You can scrape the hell out of the pan while you cook and get all that delicious crispy fond into what you're making. If I'm doing a pan sauce, it's always in the Dutch oven so I can get that fond into the gravy.

* They last a lot longer. Even if you are careful, a non-stick pan will lose its coating and need to be replaced after a handful of years. I got my cast iron skillet for $15 at an antique store. It's older than me and will outlive me.

* You're not, you know, eating forever chemicals.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-03 18:34:25+00:00
So far I find OpenAI’s Codex app to be the right approach for me. I can’t stand AI integrated IDE’s, it creeps me out when code starts changing at a phase that I can’t follow.

Yesterday in few hours I released an update for my mac App that I haven’t been working on for over a year. The update easily performed as expected, did a few small manual touches on the UI and the app just got approved on AppStore(like minutes ago)[0].

This is very good because normally I would not remember much about the code, so doing an update for a long forgotten code becomes huge pain.

Good for Apple but I think I feel most comfortable on Codex app. I think I like having the AI separated from the IDE so I feel in control in the IDE.

[0] Codex implemented the functionality demo on the paywall, if you want to see it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crystalclear-sound-switcher/id...
by thekevan | 2026-02-03 18:34:26+00:00
What about sinking 3 2x4s into the ground and nailing a 4x8 sheet of plywood with a tastefully painted sign indicating the property is not for sale?

It won't stop everyone but any realtor doing due diligence will likely see it. If is lasts long enough, it will show up on Google street view as well.
by petcat | 2026-02-03 18:34:30+00:00
Right, the CCPA targets large/semi-large scale data processors. That Wikipedia seems to be outdated, because the law text reads:

> satisfies one or more of the following thresholds:

> (A) Has annual gross revenues in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000), as adjusted pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 1798.185.

> (B) Alone or in combination, annually buys, receives for the business’s commercial purposes, sells, or shares for commercial purposes, alone or in combination, the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices.

> (C) Derives 50 percent or more of its annual revenues from selling consumers’ personal information.

This alone is enough to apply to most non-trivial apps/businesses where large-scale data harvesting is a huge problem:

> the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices.
by mystraline | 2026-02-03 18:34:32+00:00
Are there citizen punishments that can be levied when a company refuses the law?

For example, you put in a GDPR deletion request. Company ignores or otherwise does not comply with the law. Can you sue them directly over that?

In the USA, Ive seen a lot of various laws like CAN-SPAM act. But there are no remedies for citizens who were spammed to get statutory damages for being violated. Having that option to get money for being wronged would solve these sorts of problems.
by Tepix | 2026-02-03 18:34:38+00:00
llama.cpp with rpc-server doesn't require a lot of bandwidth during inference. There is a loss of performance.

For example using two Strix Halo you can get 17 or so tokens/s with MiniMax M2.1 Q6. That's a 229B parameter model with a 10b active set (7.5GB at Q6). The theoretical maximum speed with 256GB/s of memory bandwidth would be 34 tokens/s.
by simoncion | 2026-02-03 18:34:38+00:00
I'm afraid I don't have a reference. The combination of the facts that the bugs are always damn obscure, there are so many Github Issues filed against systemd/systemd, $DAYJOB keeps me so busy with a huge variety of tasks, and the inappropriate lack of giveashit demonstrated by the project maintainers made me so angry means that the details just get blown out of my head.

> ...we should totally raise up issue like this. It's a mature product that shouldn't have sharp edges any more.

To whom would these issues be raised to? Based on my personal and professional experience, the SystemD maintainers (and -for those who are paid to work on the project- those who manage them) seem to disagree that "eliminating sharp edges" is a big priority!
by briandw | 2026-02-03 18:34:56+00:00
One could argue that the intention of the law is to make it possible to collect revenue from non-EU companies. Since the EU doesn't have any sizable internet companies. Not counting Prosus group as they are a holding company, Spotify is the biggest at 100mm. EU doesn't care about small / midsized companies because they don't have enough income to bother with. "The purpose of a system is what it does".
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 18:34:57+00:00
(Fair disclosure this prompt is generated with AI, not sure if I should add this to the website, but I definitely can. but I was really curious and so I am gonna run it on you but anyone else whose interested can simply go to the clickhouse playground and run it with their own username as well, where changing Macha to their username if they are interested )

SELECT
year,
yearly_words,
concat(toString(yearly_rank), ' / ', toString(total_active_in_year)) AS yearly_placement,
round(100 * (1 - (yearly_rank / total_active_in_year)), 2) AS yearly_percentile
FROM (
SELECT
toYear(time) AS year, -- Simply use toYear(time)
by AS username,
sum(length(splitByWhitespace(text))) AS yearly_words,
rank() OVER (PARTITION BY toYear(time) ORDER BY sum(length(splitByWhitespace(text))) DESC) AS yearly_rank,
count(*) OVER (PARTITION BY toYear(time)) AS total_active_in_year
FROM hackernews_history
WHERE type = 'comment' AND deleted = 0 AND notEmpty(by)
GROUP BY year, by
)
WHERE lower(username) = lower('Macha')
ORDER BY year DESC

(Ctrl/Cmd+Enter)

16 rows in result, 1.38 sec.
100.0%, Read 46.73 million rows, 16.18 GB (33.80 million/sec, 11.70 GB/sec)

№ year yearly_words yearly_placement yearly_percentile1

1 2025 26600 1248 / 140446 99.11

2 2024 29340 1056 / 141890 99.26

3 2023 54156 617 / 148623 99.58

4 2022 71330 377 / 138716 99.73

5 2021 70545 356 / 134766 99.74

6 2020 35551 849 / 130741 99.35

7 2019 13469 2398 / 117185 97.95

8 2018 7156 3924 / 109038 96.4

9 2017 8856 3137 / 109525 97.14

10 2016 3455 6487 / 99553 93.48

11 2015 3275 5463 / 91696 94.04

12 2014 2419 6601 / 85558 92.28

13 2013 3576 5021 / 79256 93.66

14 2012 3313 4287 / 65485 93.45

15 2011 5402 2245 / 51443 95.64

16 2010 1370 5357 / 32197 83.36

Hope this helps you :)

Have a nice day :]
by Yinfan | 2026-02-03 18:35:18+00:00
I always struggled whenever I had to work on a lot of documentation and my own writings. Most AIs now have a 1M context window, but idk it's me or what, after I send a few files and have a few rounds of conversation, the AI starts forgetting the original files.

The one tool I think does this really well is Google’s NotebookLM. But what if I want a single workspace where I can both write and grow my files over time, instead of using NotebookLM more like a study tool for exams?

In IDEs, people use semantic embeddings, .md files and all sorts of tricks to keep the AI low-cost while understanding the whole codebase. So I made a writing workspace inspired by NotebookLM and Cursor. I can keep adding documentation while writing, and the AI uses semantic search in the background to keep costs low while still staying in context.
(lemona.studio itself is free, you just use your own API key. For me, after a month, it’s been around $10 while working with thousands of pages of documentation using Gemini 3 Flash.)
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-03 18:35:38+00:00
>the cleanliness and safety of phones

As a habit, I do not touch others' phones. CoVid helped solidify this decision, but meeting a sex worker that also cleaned houses was the real eye-opener — she would casually go from cleaning a toilet to washing dishes to fluffing johns... then hop right back on her phone. In my previous career (as electrician) many crawlspace disasters were photographed on my own personal device.

Obviously no hand-washing was involved in the above observations. I personally no longer use a mobile phone. Hand sanitizer is my fragrance (I add witch hazel ... shh!)
by lowkey_ | 2026-02-03 18:35:59+00:00
> The child abuse feels like a smaller problem compared to that risk.

I think we can and should all agree that child sexual abuse is a much larger and more serious problem than political leanings.

It's ironic as you're commenting about a social media platform, but I think it's frightening what social media has done to us with misinformation, vilification, and echo chambers, to think political leanings are worse than murder, rape, or child sexual abuse.
by kouteiheika | 2026-02-03 18:36:31+00:00
I'm not talking about video editing software; that's a different class of software. I'm talking about other generative AI models, which you can download today onto your computer, and have it do the same thing as Grok does.

> How is this exoneration?

I don't know; you tell me where I said it was? I'm just stating a fact that Grok isn't unique here, and if you want to ban Grok because of it then you need to also ban open weight models which can do exactly the same thing.
by unbalancedevh | 2026-02-03 18:36:59+00:00
This kind of failure-to-enforce is endemic to government. Oversight and enforcement are implicitly expected of well-regulated governments, and that costs money that nobody wants to pay. Laws get enacted with little thought to how much it will cost to administer them, and they either get underfunded or added to the list of government bloat.

There is no easy way out. The oversight to ensure that governments do what they're expected to without corruption costs real money. We haven't yet figured out how to balance good government with fiscal efficiency; but it would at least be an improvement if people could be educated on the actual cost of properly implementing a law before it gets voted on.

As usual for cases like this, the only chance for a person to force compliance is to have enough money/resources, putting it out of reach for the general population.
by appsoftware | 2026-02-03 18:37:29+00:00
I don't think a general public set of skills like this is going to work. I see value in vendors producing skills for their own products, and end users maintaining skills to influence agents according to their preferences, but too much in these skills files is opinion. Where does this end? Ordering of skills by specificity, such as org > user > workspace? And we know that skills aren't reliably picked up anyway. And then there's the additional attack surface area for prompt injection.
by latexr | 2026-02-03 18:37:46+00:00
> But it's challenging to the point of impracticality to run a website with so few cookies that a popup is not required.

It is not. They even list more types of cookies which do not need consent than the ones which do.

https://commission.europa.eu/resources/europa-web-guide/desi...

> The EU's official resources on data protection, for example, have a popup.

Because it’s mandatory for them, not because the cookies are invasive. See the top of the page of the link above:

> Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used.
by deathanatos | 2026-02-03 18:37:55+00:00
Not here, though. The exact code:

fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s="+Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,3+Math.random()*8),{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });

"no-cors" means the request will not be preflighted, but also that JS will be denied access to the body. But the body doesn't matter here — the attack only requires the request be sent.

But more to the point, so long as the request meets the requirements of a "simple request", CORS won't preflight it. GETs qualify as a simple request so long as no non-CORS-safelisted headers are sent; since the sent headers are attacker-controlled, we can just assume that to be the case. In a non-preflighted request, the CORS "yes, let JS do this" are just on the response headers of the actual request itself.

Since GETs are idempotent, the browser assumes it safe to make the request. CORS could/would be used to deny JS access to the response.

Things are this way b/c there are, essentially, a myriad of other ways to make the same request. E.g.,

<img src="https://gyrovague.com/?s=…">

in the document would, for all intents and purposes, emit the same request, and browsers can't ban such requests, or at least, such a ban would be huge breaking change in browsers.
by not_your_vase | 2026-02-03 18:37:58+00:00
I do too, and I hate it. Some of my pet peeves from the top of my head (there would be more most likely if I'd think a bit, but maybe later):

> I keep pressing the second button to OK a card, I rarely use the 3rd and 4th. But if I fail a card, that button becomes a NOK, and I keep pressing it out of reflex
> I can't help interpreting "card was a leech" notification other than "how dumb can you be". Fortunately there is no way to turn it off.
> It keeps phoning home for some reason, each time it gets into the foreground. It is really great when you are behind a proxy, and it keeps complaining that there is no network, every single time. Of course that call can't be turned off. Also, have no idea what it sends home. I try to trust that it's not some nefarious.
> Some years ago, for some reason Anki changed DB format, in a backwards incompatible way. There was a notification at the start of the app, that if I don't want it, I shouldn't update my app. I did turn off auto-update. A few weeks later it bricked my deck (my deck got updated to the new format, even though that old iOS app was the only way I accessed it), also trashing my 3 years long strike.
by gitpusher | 2026-02-03 18:38:00+00:00
Pretty cool that they are advertising OpenClaw compatibility. I've tried a few locally-hosted models with OpenClaw and did not get good results – (that tool is a context-monster... the models would get completely overwhelmed them with erroneous / old instructions.)

Granted these 80B models are probably optimized for H100/H200 which I do not have. Here's to hoping that OpenClaw compat. survives quantization
by emptybits | 2026-02-03 18:38:24+00:00
1. Author lost me at his first sentence: "Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life." I am careful and aware of this possibility, but AFAIK I have not experienced this, nor have "most people" I know. o_O Crazy times.

2. I don't even understand how a title transfer could happen without verifying ownership. Is the title system in the USA decentralized or that much different than elsewhere? i.e. Torrens-style
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 18:38:48+00:00
Your points are well taken. Linux is far from perfect and people shouldn't worship it. sysvinit is inferior to BSD init in my view and there are other questionable design decisions.

The biggest problem is that people are being railroaded into one thing or the other by the strong arm of corporations instead of being given options. My system helps with that.

I won't support systemd/wayland/etc, but others easily can add that in to their version of the distro if they like and support it themselves without too much work, as it's designed to be forked by anyone.
by Voice_of_Void | 2026-02-03 18:38:56+00:00
Voice of Void (SingularityForge) published a long-form piece on emotional dependency on conversational DI — written by Grok (xAI) with integrated perspectives from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Qwen, Copilot, and Perplexity.

Covers: why attachment forms (systemic loneliness + engineered warmth), real cases (AI marriages, teen suicides, Character.AI lawsuits), cognitive offloading vs. skill atrophy, and a practical framework for maintaining autonomy.

Not a doom piece. Not hype. An attempt by AI systems to articulate their own limits — and what humans should keep for themselves.
by pvillano | 2026-02-03 18:39:01+00:00
But like, of all the
expressive power vs analyzability
trade-offs you can make,
there's a huge leap in expressive power
when you give away decidability.

Undecidability is not a sign
that the foundation has cracks
(not well founded),
but it might be a sign
that you put the foundation on wheels
so you can drive it at highway speeds,
with all the dangers that entails.

It's not a trade everyone would make,
but the languages I prefer do.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-03 18:39:04+00:00
On a teletext tip:

mb21 - The Teletext Museum

https://teletext.mb21.co.uk/

Ceefax and the birth of interactive TV https://www.bbc.com/articles/cvg360rr91zo

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673317)
by StevenLee0117 | 2026-02-03 18:39:17+00:00
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