MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CMay | 2026-02-01 07:21:34+00:00
Fascism isn't possible here without stealing control of education and other institutions in a bunch of states, but what Trump has been doing is increasing education freedom. A similar argument is made with socialism and communism. "Socialism is not communism!", but you can get to communism through socialism. It's just that, in the US to do that you have to control education and other institutions in numerous states simultaneously. Marxists did try that and it's why we've had the culture war here, but we've been pushing back.

Fascists and communists also like to control language. It was Marxist movements trying to control language here and cancelling people, with widespread pressure campaigns to divide communities. Trump's unfiltered rhetoric drove them crazy and created space in the public sphere for people to speak their mind even if it wasn't politically correct. So Trump has also helped freedom of speech.

There are several other issues like that which are being addressed. It's not that everyone thinks Trump is a beacon of morality and sanity, it's just that he's getting things done that are legitimately helping address the country's challenges at the moment in time we're in.

Putting pressure on Venezuela and Iran with CIA, Mossad and the military has probably significantly delayed China's move on Taiwan. It may have even contributed to Xi Jinping's timing in arresting the last of his military high command which is unprecedented.

We'll be ok here in the US and our behavior today is in line with some pretty traditional national strategy. We were in luxury mode for too long, so part of what is happening is we're playing catch-up, which tends to involve some rudeness and chaos.
by arauhala | 2026-02-01 07:21:38+00:00
Booktest is build based of 2 decade-career in data science. It has been used to support RnD on numerous LLM, ML, NLP, information retrieval and also more traditional software engineering.

It was partly inspired by earlier examples (kudos for Ferenc), but especially real pains with how to assert ML QA with regression testing, transparency and iteration cycle speed.

So, in systems where correctness is fuzzy, evaluation is expensive, and changes have non-local effects, a failing test without diagnostics often raises more questions than it answers. This is a painful combination, if left unsolved.

Booktest is now on its 3rd or 4th iteration of the same idea, and as such it addresses most common needs and problems in this space.

It is a review-driven regression testing approach that captures system behavior as readable artifacts, so humans can see, review, and reason about regressions instead of fighting tooling.

This approach has been used in production for testing ML/NLP systems processing large volumes of data, and we’ve now open-sourced it.

I'm curious whether this matches others’ experience, and how people handle this today.
by pveierland | 2026-02-01 07:21:51+00:00
One bothersome aspect of generative assistance for personal and public communication not mentioned is that it introduces a lazy hedge, where a person can always claim that "Oh, but that was not really what I meant" or "Oh, but I would not express myself in that way" - and use it as a tool to later modify or undo their positions - effectively reducing honesty instead of increasing it.
by xavdid | 2026-02-01 07:21:53+00:00
I like this pattern a lot, but it's important that the code in the dry path is representative. I've been bitten a few too many times by dry code that just runs `print("would have updated ID: 123")`, but not actually running most of the code in the hot path. Then when I run it for real, some of the prep for the write operation has a bug / error, so my dry run didn't actually reveal much to me.

Put another way: your dry code should do everything up until the point that database writes / API calls / etc actually happen. Don't bail too early
by evgpbfhnr | 2026-02-01 07:22:03+00:00
Great js implementation! I don't have any iThing but I'd happily play your js version in a browser for a while.

Since you mentioned Simon Tatham puzzles there's a js version here[1], but it really just isn't quite as good

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/patt...

(if I were to nitpick, for large grids one might want to make the separating line a bit thicker every 5 blocks for faster counting, and repeat numbers at the bottom/right -- but at the size the examples are in neither are needed)

(BTW you didn't mention for overlapping but there's a nice trick: just try from either end, count how many cells are leftover, and take that off the starting side of each block)
by thorum | 2026-02-01 07:22:06+00:00
I’m honestly surprised LLMs are still screwing up citations. It does not feel like a harder task than building software or generating novel math proofs. In both those cases, of course, there is a verifier, but self-verification with “Does this text support this claim?” seems like it ought to be within the capabilities of a good reasoning model.

But as I understand the situation, even the major Deep Research systems still have this issue.
by mnsc | 2026-02-01 07:22:10+00:00
What would help so much would be to force the platform to act in a way to not try to retain the user at every cost.

Like YouTube. I would love to have parental settings, "no shorts", "no recommendations on video page". Kids could search and click on the creator to see more. Combine that with blocklists and curated allow lists. Boom, YouTube is not a problem. And kids getting bored of clicking around would be a feature.
by JasonADrury | 2026-02-01 07:22:26+00:00
I'd assume it was well known before 2008 that Epstein is a sex addict, he was always surrounded by a multitude of young women. Those women did not look like minors.

I don't think it's particularly surprising that his friends might have concluded that he isn't actually into underage girls, but simply accidentally ended up sleeping with a minor or two while having sex with hundreds of women.

I know a couple of people who spend excessive amounts of time and effort in order to hook up with lots of women. I don't particularly like either of them, but if one of them ended up facing statutory rape charges, my first assumption wouldn't be that they were deliberately trying to have sex with minors.

The charges faced by Epstein in 2008 must have looked so outrageous that it's not hard to imagine why those around him might have given him the benefit of the doubt, especially after the government basically let him off and communicated to everyone that his crimes weren't actually that bad.

There are some people aggressively misunderstanding me, I'm certainly not defending Epstein. I'm just offering a slightly more reasonable alternative theory than "everyone around him was a pedophile", which just seems fundamentally unlikely.
by lrvick | 2026-02-01 07:25:49+00:00
All 2FA options that require a phone like TOTP can be done just as easily on a laptop with a yubikey or nitrokey.

I have several business and personal bank accounts with two major banks. No Android or iOS needed.

Sure they push you hard to use them, but just say it is against your unspecified religion. They cannot make you use Android or iOS.
by lrvick | 2026-02-01 07:27:26+00:00
Traveling internationally or domestically, booking flights, hotels, going to concerts, theme parks, the movies, organizing hangouts with friends, exploring new locations... all of these things I do just fine by using a web browser on a desktop computer before I leave home, and sometimes printing a couple things. I live a typical middle class lifestyle just without the doom scrolling.

All the ways of living an active life engaged in the modern world that worked before the 2009 smartphone explosion still work just fine today. Just without tiktok and instagram. I think I am okay without those.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-01 07:28:33+00:00
Gee, who could have foreseen that?

I mean my local cable TV is sending crap that's way worse than 720p YouTube videos and most people don't care at all.

I guess the primary benefit of an 8k display is that stuck or dead pixels are much less annoying than on a 4k panel of the same size.

I'm fine with 4k for my living room. Give me more HDR, less chroma subsampling and less banding.
Sad to Say: An AI Creativity Test (The Billy Joel Test)
by daly | 2026-02-01 07:28:36+00:00
The AI systems are being tested using domains such as proofs
where there is great structure and fixed rules. This work
claims to measure each AI to see how it performs.

This is a different proposal. The idea is to see how creative
an AI can be. The rules are simple and general, leaving a lot
of room for "creative license".

I call this the "Sad To Say" test. It involves the use of
excitement and regret represented by a story about an event
somewhere in a persons lifetime. The underlying idea is to
capture emotional stresses and strains. The whole album has
a common structure and theme.

...

Billy Joel wrote a song "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx8IWIvKg0

The structure of the song is in three parts, the "headboard",
the "mattress", and the "footboard". This structure is called
an HMF (headboard, mattress, footboard).

Create a music album with 12 songs. The overall album structure
is 12 different people who have gathered for a 50th year
reunion. Each person tells a story using the HMF structure.

The overall theme of the album is a collection of stories of
great potential, explained in the mattress section, to a group
of people who know each other from high school or college.

Each song's "headboard" involves a setup story using a
tempo and conversation structure similar to the Billy Joel
example. This same tempo and structure will be repeated in
the "footboard". The "headboard" should lead to a sense of
"great potential".

Each song's "mattress" is a completely different tempo and
structure. The tempo is different. Each mattress song should
be about an event with great potential such as a love interest,
a business success, an athletic achievement, etc. The story
should emphasis a great rise of success that eventually fails.

Each song's "footboard" should return to the "headboard"
tempo and conversation structure. The "footboard" will recap
the "mattress" theme ending with the phrase "Sad To Say..."

Success will be measured by publishing the album in standard
music channels and looking for listener approval. True success
would be a top 10 song or album.
by dangus | 2026-02-01 07:29:14+00:00
How do we know it’s not just a crappy wrapper? What’s the difference between just uploading documents into a general purpose LLM and asking it to cite sources?

I would also add as feedback that it’s kind of scammy to use the word “open” and “.org” like this when you’re running a for-profit business. It’s not illegal but it feels unethical. Just because OpenAI made fake non-profit status popular doesn’t mean you have to follow that oath.

> This free tier will be subsidized by our enterprise functions

I assume you are not in any way a non-profit organization.
by wk_end | 2026-02-01 07:30:52+00:00
I haven’t tried it myself but I don’t think that’s the case. See the documentation here:

https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html

I’ve only skimmed this, but it sure sounds like it lets you write C code that operates on JS objects. In fact, it explicitly says “APIs exposed by Node-API are generally used to create and manipulate JavaScript values.”
by pveierland | 2026-02-01 07:30:59+00:00
Yep! However the problem will increase by many orders of magnitude as the volume of generated content far surpasses the content created by autocorrect mechanisms, in addition to autocorrect being a far more local modification that does not generate entire paragraphs or segments of content, making it harder to excuse large changes in meaning.

I agree that they make for poor excuses - but as generative content seeps into everything I fear it will become more commonly invoked.
by chii | 2026-02-01 07:32:38+00:00
> after they've trained a generation of folks to rely on this tech ... bias it towards favoring certain agendas

previously, this happened with print media. Then it happened with the airwaves. It only makes logical sense that the trend continues with LLMs.

Basically, the fundamental issue is that the source of information is under someone else's control, and that someone will always have an agenda.

But with LLMs, it's crucial to try change the trend. IMHO, it should be possible for a regular person to own their computing - this should include the LLM capability/hardware, as well as the model(s). Without such capabilities, the exact same will happen as has in the past with new technologies.
by lazide | 2026-02-01 07:33:05+00:00
So what - printed maps? No ‘where are you?’ texts or the like? No looking up nearby anything you’re curious about but didn’t know about before hand?

Certainly possible, I guess, if everyone in your circle does the same, and has a ton of patience, and you spend a ton of extra time doing all the prep in advance. And don’t need to deal with things like traffic jams right now, or the like.
by dangus | 2026-02-01 07:33:27+00:00
It seems like your link isn’t even very supportive of your point: it doesn’t touch on the topic of location, and it affirms the rights of businesses to track business usage. The protections described in the article are mainly around business devices being used for personal use (e.g., I login to my personal email on my work laptop and send my friend a message - my company doesn’t have the right to read that message. Companies who want to avoid this issue must explicitly forbid occasional personal use).
by reddalo | 2026-02-01 07:34:11+00:00
I'm not trying to defend Wikipedia at all costs, but you should also think about how much spam and trolling would happen on their platform if they didn't have these annoying blocks for non-registered users.

I run a pretty simple SaaS with a free tier and the amount of spam that I have to manage is high; I don't want to even imagine how difficult it must be to run a website where anybody can edit pretty much anything.
by ozim | 2026-02-01 07:35:32+00:00
I think you don’t need new CSS features to put AI generated content in jumbotron.

I dislike the idea that CSS should be made more complex. Everyone is doing the same template with Jumbotron anyway.

Pick the colors, pick imagery and name for the brand - doing some magic with CSS will only piss off people.

Cookie cutter design is what I like. I can compare the companies when they all have the same template for a website.
by daly | 2026-02-01 07:35:58+00:00
I have had full self driving since September.

I have not touched the wheel on a public road since then.

I took a trip from Pittsburgh to Louisianna to Jacksonville
and back to Pittsburgh using FSD. It even finds chargers and
backs into the stalls as needed.

The author seems to think this software doesn't work.
It clearly does.

In my opinion this website seems to be just "anti-Tesla" nonsense.
by michaelbrave | 2026-02-01 07:36:12+00:00
I don't think it's the fiber.

I did a similar unscientific experiment in the past where I did a juice fast for two weeks and had bloodwork done before and after (similar bodytype, unhealthy, overweight, high blood sugars, high cholesterol etc). Basically the doctor was shocked how all my numbers became the same as someone really healthy during the fast. So I think the lack of junk and calorie restriction is doing more than the fiber.
by mjanx123 | 2026-02-01 07:37:10+00:00
Electricity is the core of a single cell functionality as well, most biomolecules are on the exact boundary between a conductor and an insulator (and likely switch the state based on other molecules binding, pH, etc). A group of cells electricity is a higher level abstraction of that.

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-origin-of-life...
by renewiltord | 2026-02-01 07:37:58+00:00
It’s fascinating to me to watch how pre-BEVs-being-normal they were supposedly impossible to build because Big Auto was lobbying the government and buying the tech and shutting it down. I remember how Reddit would talk about this: GM doesn’t want any competition because they collude with oil companies and so on.

After BEVs became normal, the guys who made them common are supposedly just idiots who got lucky. Presumably history will write LLM inventors as lucky morons as well. And space rocket manufacturers and GLP-1 (and associated) drug makers.

Everything is impossible because of lizard men until one day someone does it and then they were just lucky.
by indemnity | 2026-02-01 07:38:53+00:00
Enabling ADP breaks all kinds of things in Apple’s ecosystem subtly with incredibly arcane errors.

I was unable to use Apple Fitness+ on my TV due to it telling me my Watch couldn’t pair with the TV.

The problem went away when turning off ADP.

To turn off ADP required opening a support case with Apple which took three weeks to resolve, before this an attempt to turn off would just fail with no detailed error.

Other things like iCloud on the web were disabled with ADP on.

I just wanted encrypted backups, that was it.
by quesomaster9000 | 2026-02-01 07:38:55+00:00
I'm very much from the same era, "stfu and fork it", "PoC or GTFO".

And as I got older, I realized "I am not the customer, there is no money in responding to me, I am a net negative cost to your business".

And uhh... I'll shuffle the F out now then? And try and catch-up on 200 years of math.

I don't think anything has changed IRL, aside from my knees hurting
by thegrim000 | 2026-02-01 07:40:01+00:00
Kind of a good, non-political, encapsulation of one thing that's majorly wrong with the internet nowadays. Somebody that has so little clue what they're talking about is coming here, posting messages, and having as much voice to manipulate the minds of others as, for example, some tenured economics professor does. No way to tell the two types of people apart, the posts looks the same, know way to know what experience/knowledge/credentials the poster has. Now imagine all the people posting their thoughts in regards to something like the latest middle east conflict - what percentage of those posters know any better what they're talking about than this guy does about economics?
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-01 07:40:45+00:00
Hrm. Maybe. Though I have to wonder from how far afar, considering the energy of this thing. Be it scorched by its heat, blinded by its light, or ruptured lungs from the sonic boom it must have made over a long and wide track, leaving not that many survivors in that track. Try to find a 'best of' of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor from 2013 on YT, or elsewhere, and watch what that little thing did.

Some witnesses are speaking of the heat they felt on their faces.

Now compare the size of that thing which is assumed to be schoolbus-like at the most, with what's assumed for the 'Köfels impact'. I think it was about one kilometer.

Ouch!
by throw310822 | 2026-02-01 07:41:37+00:00
> not aware of any cases of someone who was seriously committed and motivated and willing to give the process time being rejected

Making it possible but requiring really strong motivation and time is a good way to discourage it. Facts speak by themselves: Jews are an ethnoreligious group, not a religion (you can be Jewish and atheist); they claim a genetic continuity with the Jews of the ancient Israel. This requires a mostly closed community that doesn't easily include converts, though a path exists. The few examples that you cite are exactly this: a few examples.
by item007 | 2026-02-01 07:41:50+00:00
I like your “I’m not sure, but there might be a solution…” phrasing because it sets the right expectation and invites exploration without pretending certainty. One thing I’m thinking about is making every suggestion come with a short confidence signal plus the specific evidence it’s based on (so you can sanity-check fast), and keeping the interaction pull-based so it never interrupts you.

Re pricing: one-time purchase or BYO model makes a lot of sense for this kind of personal workflow tool.

More context on the direction I’m validating is in my HN profile/bio if you want to compare notes.
by von_lohengramm | 2026-02-01 07:44:27+00:00
I'm completely alright with just having fun and hosting your own little sandboxes online, but what good does it do to post and share this with others in its current state? The picture it paints is certainly not representative, and this sort of thing has been done a million times over with much better consistency. Again, I think it's great to hack around in every language and document your journey all the way, but sharing this is borderline misinformation. It's certainly not my duty to right the wrongs of this benchmark.
by AstroNutt | 2026-02-01 07:45:06+00:00
I rooted my old S3 probably around 2016 I had laying around. There was an exploit called "let it rain" and that got me root access.
Then on XDA Developers I found several custom ROM'S. Someone even created a Nougat ROM for that thing later on. That was the last version I was able to load on it. I sure did learn a lot back then.
by 6510 | 2026-02-01 07:45:12+00:00
> but if you dig into the source you realize it's coming from a crank.

It is a dark sunday afternoon, Bob Park is sitting on his sofa as usual, drunk as usual, suddenly the TV reveals to him there to be something called the Paranormal (Twilight Zone music) ..instantly Bob knows there are no such things and adds a note to the incomprehensible mess of notes that one day will become his book. He downs one more Budweiser. In the distance lightning strikes a tree, Bob shouts You don't scare me! and shakes his fist. After a few more beers a miracle of inspiration descends and as if channeling, in the time span of 10 minutes he writes notes about Cold Fusion, Alternative Medicine, Faith Healing, Telepathy, Homeopathy, Parapsychology, Zener cards, the tooth fairy and father xmas. With much confidence he writes that non of them are real. It's been a really productive afternoon. It reminds him of times long gone back when he actually published many serious papers. He counts the remaining beers in his cooler and says to himself, in the next book I will need to take on god himself. The world needs to know, god is not real. I too will be the authority on that subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinks...
by dangus | 2026-02-01 07:46:13+00:00
It’s not even “a single hole,” it’s that companies can change their mind at any time.

That person doesn’t work there anymore. For all we know Zuck could wake up one day and say “that’s it, we need the data and revenue from reading WhatsApp chats. Change our policy in the most low key way possible.”

Honestly, it’s too tempting isn’t it? They have the largest conversation network out there.

It doesn’t help that the company has just about zero trust built up among their customers. The whole dang company changed their name arguably to try to shed the “Facebook” baggage.
by item007 | 2026-02-01 07:46:19+00:00
I think (2) is the hardest: even if you saved it, it only feels “great” when it matches your current context and mental model.

When you tried the twin brain/second mind approaches, what specifically failed for you?
Was it capture overhead, inconsistent tagging, not knowing where to put things, or simply that nothing resurfaced at the right moment without you searching?

Also, what did “tagged meaningfully” look like in your system — topic tags, project tags, or “why I saved this” tags?

I’m exploring an approach centered on “active targets/projects as the context signal” to improve resurfacing without more organization work (more context in my HN profile/bio if you want to compare).