MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lrvick | 2026-02-01 23:54:52+00:00
> That said I’d be lost in five minutes if I tried to drive somewhere without gps

I used to be that way, but MRI brain scan studies have proven that regular use of GPS actually atrophies the parts of your brain responsible for navigation. You likely need a GPS because you make too much use of a GPS.

I weaned myself off by regularly printing directions or writing them down before I leave. Eventually I finally learned to navigate the san francisco bay area on my own but I always keep a map in the car just in case, though I almost never use it.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-01 23:55:11+00:00
I'm always put off by the incredibly low limits on yubikeys. What's the point of having a security key if you can only have 25 accounts in its lifetime? What are you supposed to do, buy tons of keys and then figure out a system to remember which key each account is? Like fucking hell just let me use passkeys in iCloud Keychain. My bank's mobile app specifically supports only security keys and explicitly not passkeys for literally no reason because passkeys are practically just as secure as any security key. It's actually harder to specifically exclude passkeys and allow only security keys than it is to just use passkeys which automatically include security keys.
by PaxSubChristo | 2026-02-01 23:56:09+00:00
Built this after being pretty unhappy with the current landscape of selfhosted options. I wanted a Bible web app that actually does what I need: Strong's numbers, interlinear views, global search, commentaries, dictionaries, dyslexia friendly fonts, and more.

I have been using it myself for the last couple of months and just wrapped it up to release to the world. Hopefully others can take it and have fun with it. Maybe someone in one of the 51 nations where owning a Bible can still land you in jail(or worse) can use this as another tool to get around the tyranny over the minds of man[1].

Completely static, no database, no backend- nothing. You can host this thing on a raspberry pi or a cell phone. (Building the assets will need a linux system, tested MX Linux which is a debian flavor) I deployed the source without assets since the static html flavor of the site is like 1GB by itself.

Bitbucket link to fork or clone at bottom of the linked page.

[1] See my favorite Jefferson quote: "For I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Carved into marble inside the top of the Jefferson Memorial in DC.
by brutus1213 | 2026-02-01 23:56:17+00:00
Apart from the actual exploit, it is intriguing to see how a security researcher can leverage an AI tool to give them an asymmetric advantage to the actual developers of the code. Devs are pretty focused on their own subsystem and it would take serendipity or a ton of experience to be able to spot such patterns.

Thinking about this more .. given all the AI generated code being put into production these days (I routinely see posts of anthropic and others boast how much code is being written by AI). I can see it being much, much harder to review all the code being written by AIs. It makes a lot of sense to use an AI system to find vulnerabilities that humans don't have time to catch.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-01 23:56:29+00:00
>The program prioritized underrepresented populations.

Do you know why they did this? Transgenderism or being a woman is an orthogonal concept to homelessness. Whatever demographic you're in, if you are homeless, you are suffering and I assume are exposed to the same gender neutral dangers that arise from being homeless.

What exactly is the greater danger that would need such prioritization?
by nsoonhui | 2026-02-01 23:57:47+00:00
I write civil engineering software and am familiar with this kind of dongle. Yes, even today there are users who want this kind of dongle instead of, say, cloud-based validation. They feel secure only if they have something tangible in hand.

Since we sold (and still sell) perpetual licenses, it becomes a problem when a dongle breaks and replacement parts are no longer available. Not all users want to upgrade. Also, you may hate cloud licensing, but it is precisely cloud licensing that makes subscriptions possible and, therefore, recurring revenue—which, from a business point of view, is especially important in a field where regulations do not change very fast, because users have little incentive to upgrade.

Also, despite investing a lot of effort into programming the dongle, we can still usually find cracked versions floating online, even on legitimate platforms like Shopee or Lazada. You might think cracking dongles is fun and copy protection is evil, but without protection, our livelihood is affected. It’s not as if we have the legal resources to pursue pirates.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-01 23:57:56+00:00
Nope, because we already could have had that with VR/AR glasses, and while there are some (even impressive) options now, they aren't mainstream. Neither are the 'apps', nor the content interoperable, exchangable.

Furthermore I see nothing wrong with the desktop metaphor, it's just that we mostly only had a miserable magnifying glass, giving only a small viewport into a crammed childs toy, instead of real large high-resolution screens as can be had now, or sensible virtual desktops for more common sizes. To be expanded by "Metisse", an early 2.5D extension for FVWM, and later "User Interface Faćades". Maybe with some Zoomable UI sprinkled on top, like in https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/ or whatever the clandestine weirdos from https://arcan-fe.com/ may come up with. (IF. EVER.)
by internet2000 | 2026-02-01 23:58:07+00:00
This Douglas Adams quote is still undefeated:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-01 23:58:27+00:00
I see siblings can steelman this, but your take is right (source: maintain a llama.cpp client)

No way MiniMax works on an iPhone, its way too big. It is likely they are over-interpreting number OOMs and observing a graceful failure mode.

If HN was a bunch of people who knew nuts and bolts of LLM inference, it'd be a chef's kiss example of "instead of asking a question on IRC, write up a wrong answer, and people will jump to correct you."
by Tade0 | 2026-02-01 23:58:27+00:00
I also can't stand noise and in my case the solution was to find a two storey apartment at the top floors. They're fairly common in my city.

Another thing that happened by itself was my neighbour with whom I shared several walls moving out. His landlord put the apartment up for sale, but a year later there are still no takers.

I'm seriously considering buying it if only to keep it empty and my place peaceful.
by pron | 2026-02-01 23:58:38+00:00
There's no aliasing in the messy C sense in Java (and no pointers into the middle of objects at all). As for other optimisations, there are traps inserted to detect violation if speculation is used at all, but the main thrust of optimisation is quite simple:

The main optimisation is inlining, which, by default, is done to the depth of 15 (non-trivial) calls, even when they are virtual, i.e. dispatched dynamically (and that's the main speculation, i.e. that a specific callsite calls a specific target). Then you get a large inlined context within which you can perform optimisations that aren't speculative (but proven).
by jedberg | 2026-02-01 23:58:40+00:00
> I must say, this copy protection mechanism seems a bit… simplistic? A hardware dongle that just passes back a constant number? Defeatable with a four-byte patch?

Nowadays we don't bother with copyright protection other than a license key, because we know enterprises generally will pay their bills if you put up any indication at all that a bill is required to be paid.

This was basically the 80s version of that.
by codethief | 2026-02-01 23:59:17+00:00
But the font design typically doesn't influence or change the meaning of the text. With emojis it does.

…and that's precisely why I complained that emojis have been standardized as Unicode code points, with their design being left to font designers. You just re-iterated that this is a consequence of using (abusing) the charset, which I had already acknowledged.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-01 23:59:47+00:00
I am sure every single generation has something like this to say about a decade that was meaningful to them. But I feel the 90s are special because it was a period where you got to experience two worlds - the pre Internet one and the post Internet one. You had all the promise of the early Internet without the downsides of what came later with social media, monetization, etc. And people were still generally … normal. They had lives offline that were authentic and I think that made them happier and healthier.
by bri3d | 2026-02-02 00:00:32+00:00
Can you read the article a little more closely?

> - MiniMax can't fit on an iPhone.

They asked MiniMax on their computer to make an iPhone app that didn't work.

It didn't work using the Apple Intelligence API. So then:

* They asked Minimax to use MLX instead. It didn't work.

* They Googled and found a thread where Apple Intelligence also didn't work for other people, but only sometimes.

* They HAND WROTE the MLX code. It didn't work. They isolated the step where the results diverged.

> Better to dig in a bit more.

The author already did 100% of the digging and then some.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-02 00:01:28+00:00
Many professionals, not even necessarily in IT prefer the "green screen", because it enables them to do things faster with a few key-strokes, instead of having to click around in laggy menues.

I guess, maybe because you don't know it any better(systems and device form factors), you're trying to correct an already dumbed down(for mass acceptance) interface paradigm, with one which is even more indirect and imprecise.
by j-conn | 2026-02-02 00:01:41+00:00
100% agree, many people don’t realize just how harmful wood smoke is. It’s also the main source of pollution in the Bay Area during the winter. Unfortunately energy costs are high enough here that people resort to burning wood to save money, so collectively beneficial policies are likely to face resistance (understandably).

The purpleair map has been awesome to at least make the problem visible. I hope they are using it to aid enforcement on spare the air days.
by theamk | 2026-02-02 00:01:48+00:00
You missed MR2Z's argument: there are more people in the world than luddites and factory owners.

During industrial revolution, the clothes (and other fabrics) were getting dramatically cheaper. A family that could only afford cheapest clothes could now get a higher quality stuff. A family that could not afford any clothes at all, could now get cheap stuff.

This is what the luddites wanted to stop. It's not "luddites starving to death" vs "factory owner get no profit", it was "luddites starving to death" vs "many many more people can not afford clothes"
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-02 00:02:05+00:00
Having to put a physical device on your parallel port at the back of the computer is kind of annoying, especially if every software you use has one.

More common for games was to use the media itself for copy protection, using a variety of tricks to make copy more difficult. Other techniques involve printing some keys you have to enter using colors that don't render well in photocopies, or have you look at words a certain page of a thick user manual, the idea being that it is more expensive to go through the effort of copying this material than to buy the software legally.

One of my favorite is from Microprose games, for which the manual was a pretty good reference book on the subject of the game, that alone is worth buying. And the copy protection is about asking you about information contained in the book, for example, it may be some detail about a particular plane in a flight simulator, which means that a way to bypass copy protection is simply to be knowledgeable about planes!

Dongles were common, but mostly for expensive enterprise software. Also, dongles don't make cracking harder compared to all the other techniques, so for popular consumer software like games, it is likely to be a lot of inconvenience and a waste of money for limited results.
by dyauspitr | 2026-02-02 00:02:05+00:00
>No, the analogy would be a kid walking into the liquor store to order beer with their mom’s ID and the system allowing you to do it because the store operator isn’t allowed to look at their face or the name on the ID.

The difference here is meaningless. Mom’s ID in this case is her personal password which is a lot harder to get. I would bet 99.9% of folks don’t know their parent’s email password.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-02 00:02:10+00:00
Emptied out post, thanks for the insight!

Fascinating the claim is Apple Intelligence doesn't work altogether. Quite a scandal.

EDIT: If you wouldn't mind, could you edit out "AI rage enthusiast" you edited in? I understand it was in good humor, as you describe yourself that way as well. However, I don't want to eat downvotes on an empty comment that I immediately edited when you explained it wasn't minimax! People will assume I said something naughty :) I'm not sure it was possible to read rage into my comment.
by mikewarot | 2026-02-02 00:02:39+00:00
The next big OS leap is a capabilities based security with a microkernel. The old model of assuming you wanted to share your authority with everything you run is unsustainable. It should have been a thing at least 20 years ago.

>>Please elaborate. How does this resonate with the average user who doesn't know anything about infosec?

Elaboration, with too much pop culture... ;-)

When you use cash, for example, you're using capabilities. You can hand out exactly $3.50 to the Loch Ness Monster[1], and no matter what, he's not going to be able to leverage that into taking out your entire bank balance, etc.

The current "ambient authority" system is like handing the Loch Ness Monster your wallet, and HOPING he only takes $3.50.

Another metaphor is power outlets, which limit how much of the power from the grid makes it to your device. The current system is much like the electric - i - cal, at the Douglass house in Green Acres.[2]

The point is, you can run any program you want, and give it only the files you want, and nothing else, by default in such a system. For the user, it really doesn't have to seem that different, they already use dialog boxes to select files to open and save things, they could use a "power box"[3] instead, which looks the same, except then the OS enforces their choices.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Loch-Ness-monster-want-3-...

[2] https://youtu.be/EnGyq2JYrHk?si=c2iTB9BYxB0VwZ9u&t=184

[3] https://wiki.c2.com/?PowerBox
by dghlsakjg | 2026-02-02 00:03:30+00:00
iPhones in the US have an estimate ~55% market share depending on source. Owning an Android wasn't unusual in the least when I lived there, and appears to be pretty popular.

I don't think its unusual that a country with high median income and higher average income will tend to gravitate towards more expensive phones. Given that Apple doesn't make a cheap phone, it kind of follows that wealthier countries will buy more iPhones.

Of course the opposite is true as well, In a country where an iPhone is measured in months of salary, they won't sell well, but I'd be willing to bet that Androids in that price tier sell like shit in those countries too.

Is it a status symbol? arguably. But it also correlates pretty strongly with median income.
by blueprint | 2026-02-02 00:05:02+00:00
What people hope 'AGI' is would at least be able to make confirmations of fact and know what verification means. LLMs don't have 'knowledge' and do not actually 'reason'. Heuristic vs simulation. One can be made to approach the other, but only on a specific and narrow path.
Someone who knows something can verify that they know it. An "intelligence" implies it is doing operations based on rules, but LLMs cannot conform themselves to rules that require them to reason everything through. What people have hoped AGI would be could be trained to reliably adopt the practice of reasoning. Necessary but maybe not sufficient, and I'm just gonna blame that on the term "intelligence" actually indicating a still relatively low level of what I will "consciousness".
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-02 00:05:17+00:00
None of the autoscaling solutions presented in the post address the database issue either.

I agree that in general the database is always going to be your bottleneck and autoscaling appservers is generally bullshit.

But let’s assume your DB is fine and you do actually need to scale appservers beyond what your provisioned capacity can allow, you can trivially spin up VMs at AWS or your provider of choice, Wireguard to your “VPC” at your bare-metal provider (or just SSH tunnel the ports) and run your appserver binary/container/etc on it.

Hell in a pinch you can do the above with your dev laptop and serve traffic from it. It will work and your customers won’t even be able to tell.
by dceddia | 2026-02-02 00:05:27+00:00
This look nice! I was curious about being allowed to use a Claude Pro/Max subscription vs an API key, since there's been so much buzz about that lately, so I went looking for a solid answer.

Thankfully the official Agent SDK Quickstart guide says that you can: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/quickstart

In particular, this bit:

"After installing Claude Code onto your machine, run claude in your terminal and follow the prompts to authenticate. The SDK will use this authentication automatically."
by Redster | 2026-02-02 00:05:42+00:00
This is thoughtfully done!
I use canonreader.com on the web and The Literal Word bible app as an actual app that has one of the best UIs for reading. AndBible is really good for breadth and quality of resources.

I will add this to my rotation.

Also, I love to see a variety of fonts and the WEB version here.

Thanks for making this!
by Tade0 | 2026-02-02 00:06:52+00:00
Humans are more complex than that. If they become aware that someone is applying such conditioning, they will defy it.

For the same reason corporal punishment doesn't work even on an average intelligence child. They quickly figure out that probability of getting punished again is not 100% and even if, that's just cost of doing business - sometimes it's worth it.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-02 00:08:03+00:00
> None of your examples is what is meant by "Shouting fire in a crowded theatre."

Which is exactly the point, because they nevertheless literally are "shouting fire in a crowded theater".

> The quote with more context is clear: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic..."

Which is likewise why the people trying to use the quote all but universally omit the qualifiers -- it would otherwise be clear that, even in the context of Schenck, the constraint was intended to be narrow.

And even with the qualifiers, the original quote still doesn't do well with the first example or the third, because imposing a prior restraint under the hypothetical argument that people could get confused and panic is going to be a weak case when the reason someone is doing it is it to criticize the government, and it's quite objectionable to punish people for speech when they genuinely believe something to be true just because they've made an honest mistake.
by theamk | 2026-02-02 00:08:42+00:00
I am not sure at all how would we stockpile 10 years of food for each American - most of the kinds of food cannot be kept for that long. And what can be kept is unlikely to make a balanced diet.

Moreover, I am not sure how long will it take to re-build the farm industry if most farms will close. I think "10 years" is too optimistic, given how many farms will need to be spun up.
by anon291 | 2026-02-02 00:08:46+00:00
Yes of course I am. This is the best possible time quite literally. Barely any conflict. The entire world, including 'poor' countries, are getting richer. Like the world of 2100 is going to be F'ING amazing.

We are making our way to a post scarcity world and it's amazing.

All the negative news you hear everyday are just distractions from what's actually going on.
by hebejebelus | 2026-02-02 00:11:42+00:00
Wow, thanks for posting that, news to me! In this case I don’t understand why there was a whole brouhaha with OpenClaw and the like - I guess they were invoking it without the official SDK? Because this makes it seem like if you have the sub you can build any agentic thing you like and still use your subscription, as long as you can install and login to Claude code on the machine running it.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-02 00:11:45+00:00
> Fascinating the claim is Apple Intelligence doesn't work altogether. Quite a scandal.

No, the claim is their particular device has a hardware defect that causes MLX not to work (which includes Apple Intelligence).

> EDIT: If you wouldn't mind, could you edit out "AI rage enthusiast" you edited in? I understand it was in good humor, as you describe yourself that way as well. However, I don't want to eat downvotes on an empty comment that I immediately edited when you explained! People will assume I said something naughty :) I'm not sure it was possible to read rage into my comment.

Your comment originally read:

> This is blinkered.

> - MiniMax can't fit on an iPhone.

> - There's no reason to expect models to share OOMs for output.

> - It is likely this is a graceful failure mode for the model being far too large.

> No fan of Apple's NIH syndrome, or it manifested as MLX.

> I'm also no fan of "I told the robot [vibecoded] to hammer a banana into an apple. [do something impossible]. The result is inedible. Let me post to HN with the title 'My thousand dollars of fruits can't be food' [the result I have has ~nothing to do with the fruits]"

> Better to dig in a bit more.

Rather than erase it, and invite exactly the kind of misreading you don't want, you can leave it... honestly, transparently... with your admission in the replies below. And it won't be downvoted as much as when you're trying to manipulate / make requests of others to try to minimize your downvotes. Weird... voting... manipulating... stuff, like that, tends to be frowned upon on HN.

You have more rep than I do, even, so why care so much about downvotes...

If you really want to disown something you consider a terrible mistake, you can email the HN mods to ask for the comment to be dissociated from your account. Then future downvotes won't affect your karma. I did this once.
by nntwozz | 2026-02-02 00:11:48+00:00
I have no electricity except solar. It works well for all my needs, technology has solved this depending on your needs and how much money you have.

I have no water except the one I bring when I buy food weekly/every two weeks. I'm still renovating/building so I'll have a well in the future.

I heat my home with wood that I cut on my own property, I enjoy this very much. It's a workout that also produces something of value.

The drawbacks can be many depending on what kind of lifestyle you're after.

Sartre said "if you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company".

I do mountain biking, nordic skating and I have a dog; it works for me. A lady friend might be nice eventually :]

It's silent, I can hear my own heartbeat; civilization is 30 min away.

This is in Sweden.
by SecretDreams | 2026-02-02 00:13:02+00:00
> which, from a business point of view, is especially important in a field where regulations do not change very fast, because users have little incentive to upgrade

This take is diametrically opposite to what end users need. In a world where "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is perfectly fine for the end user, buying a one off license for a software seems much more sane then SaaS. SaaS is like a plague for end users.

I don't condone piracy, but I also don't condone SaaS.