MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryanmcbride | 2026-02-04 16:22:24+00:00
It's more a policy problem than a phone problem. Apple could add as many pins as they want but until there are proper legal based privacy protections, law enforcement will still just be like "well how do we know you don't have a secret pin that unlocks 40TB of illegal content? Better disappear you just to be sure"

For as long as law enforcement treats protection of privacy as implicit guilt, the best a phone can really do is lock down and hope for the best.

Even if there was a phone that existed that perfectly protected your privacy and was impossible to crack or was easy to spoof content on, law enforcement would just move the goal post of guilt so that owning the phone itself is incriminating.

Edit: I wanna be clear that I'm not saying any phone based privacy protections are a waste of time. They're important. I'm saying that there is no perfect solution with the existing policy being enforced, which is "guilty until proven dead"
by r9ne | 2026-02-04 16:23:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the developer of DuoBolt, a local-first duplicate file finder for macOS and Windows (plus a CLI for macOS/Windows/Linux).

Most duplicate cleaners focus on scanning speed, but in my experience the real failure mode is what happens after the scan: unclear selection, risky bulk deletes, and no way to audit or undo a session.

DuoBolt’s core design is a review-first workflow:

- exact duplicate detection (byte-identical) using BLAKE3 hashing
- explicit review before deletion (no “one-click clean”)
- safe deletion via Trash/Recycle Bin
- persistent deletion history with review + restore (session-based)

Under the hood the scan engine is written in Rust and shared between the desktop app and the CLI. It uses a two-stage approach (head+tail prehash, then full BLAKE3) and parallel hashing across CPU cores.

On performance: it’s optimized for real workloads (large libraries, codebases, external drives, NAS over SMB).

I also added an on-disk hash cache to avoid re-hashing unchanged files between scans. The cache is configurable (separate thresholds for local vs network volumes), so you can choose how aggressive it is depending on disk vs NAS workflows.

Pricing is a one-time $29.99 license for the desktop app (lifetime access, 2 seats). The CLI is free.

Website: https://duobolt.app

Benchmarks: https://duobolt.app/benchmarks

Docs: https://duobolt.app/docs

Happy to answer technical questions, especially around hashing, caching, NAS I/O, or the deletion history design.
by 4er_transform | 2026-02-04 16:23:21+00:00
What is well-being to you?

You’re right: all things should serve humanity, including markets.

Rent-seeking behavior of any kind, including unions, including business engaged in rent-seeking, are anti-human.

Well-being needs to be properly understood though. Well-being is the state of being most sustainable and perfectly aligned with forwarding humanity.

That means valuable work that contributes to the progression of humanity, the circumstances that make reproduction viable and abundant, the resources to support cultivating oneself and others to your and their maximum potential serving humanity.

It doesn’t mean the ability to spend your days on the couch, or sitting on the beach, or devoting all your time to a hobby that does nothing to serve humanity.
by vampiregrey | 2026-02-04 16:23:43+00:00
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by handedness | 2026-02-04 16:24:23+00:00
But that's not what I said.

My point was that your stated assumption of what the norms are is inaccurate. If nearly every modern administration does it, that is literally the norm. The present administration, like many before it, is following the norm. The norm is the broader issue.

Which makes the rest of it (and your followup) come across as needlessly tribal, as both major parties are consistently guilty of tending to object to something only when the other side does it.
by kypro | 2026-02-04 16:24:31+00:00
No idea, but it's something I've been thinking about ever since my parents dug out an old school journal from when I was younger and they were laughing about the stuff I wrote in there... The first 50 pages or so were full of laughably simple phrases like, "played with sand" or "i like computers".

Later in the journal my writing "improved". Instead I might write, "Today I played in the sandpit with my friends."

I vaguely remember my teacher telling me I needed to write in full sentences, uses the correct punctuation, etc. That was the point of these journals – to learn how to write.

But looking back on it I started to question if I actually learnt how to write? Or did I just learn how to write how I was expected to?

If I understood what I was saying from the start and I was communicating that message in fewer words and with less complexity, was it wrong? And if so wrong in what sense?

You see this with kids generally when they learn to speak. Kids speak very directly. They first learn how to functionally communicate, then how to communicate in a socially acceptable way, using more more words.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think the fact you can drop capitals and communicate just as effectively is kinda interesting. If it wasn't for how we are taught to write, perhaps the better question to ask here is why there are even two types of every letter?
by MrDunham | 2026-02-04 16:24:32+00:00
Those are bonkers (low) numbers compared to the 3.5M (human?) cases if I'm to believe the GPs comment.

It's also crazy how much Mother Theresa's quote rings true, even in reverse ("If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.") When I initially read 3.5M cases, I thought "wow, that's a lot", and somehow the 445 animal cases in Cameroon felt (at first) more real and similarly "a lot".

No comment other than interesting how our human brains work and distort how numbers "feel".

Once my rational brain kicked in, realized that's over 5,000 years for the current number of animal cases to match the former number of human cases. The future is awesome.
by arpitnath42 | 2026-02-04 16:25:13+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Arpit. I spent almost a year building AI/LLM products, and I kept hitting the same problem: agents would take 30+ seconds to respond, but my infrastructure looked perfectly healthy. CPU: 3%. Memory: fine. No errors.

The Problem: Agents spend 90% of their time waiting on LLM API calls (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.). During this wait, CPU usage is near zero.

Traditional autoscaling (Kubernetes HPA) sees idle cores and thinks everything is fine. Meanwhile, the request queue is backing up.

Low CPU doesn't mean low demand.

What I Tried -
First: Kubernetes HPA (CPU-based)
• Scales when CPU > 50%
• Problem: Agents are I/O-bound, CPU stays at 2-3%
• Result: Autoscaler never scales, queue backs up

Then: Queue-depth based scaling
I explored different approaches:
• KEDA (Kubernetes) - scales on Redis queue length
• Kafka consumer lag monitoring
• AWS SQS ApproximateNumberOfMessages
• BullMQ with custom autoscaler

The principle is universal: measure the work, not the worker.

The problem: All of these still use containers (slow cold starts, overhead) and require complex setup (KEDA operators, metrics servers, CloudWatch alarms, etc.).

What I wanted -
• Scale on queue depth (the right metric)
• But simpler (no Kubernetes operators or cloud-specific setup)
• And faster (no container overhead)

What I Built - After 7 months running this in production, I extracted the core runtime as Orpheus.

Queue-depth autoscaling:
• Watches actual pending work, not CPU
• Scales in seconds, not minutes
• No Kubernetes operators or cloud dependencies

Persistent workspaces:
• Agent state survives restarts
• No external database needed
• Just write to /workspace and it persists

Crash quarantine:
• When an agent crashes mid-task, Orpheus doesn't auto-retry
• If that task sent an email or charged a card, you just avoided duplicating a side effect
• Crashed requests are quarantined for manual inspection

Sub-second cold starts:
• Uses runc directly, not Docker daemon
• Workers stay warm between requests
• No container overhead

Native MCP:
• Every agent gets a Model Context Protocol endpoint automatically
by baalimago | 2026-02-04 16:25:13+00:00
I'm a bit surprised that people need an LLM to automate things like this. Is the market really that large, to cause such a hype? I don't think I'm being "elitist" by having a calendar and a pen, am I..?

The one tangible usecase is perhaps booking things. But, personally, I don't mind paying 5-10% extra by going to a local store and speaking to a real person. Or perhaps intentionally buying ecological. Or whatever. What is life if you have a robot optimize everything you do? What is left?
by xpe | 2026-02-04 16:25:26+00:00
I don’t know about the particular claim about the new account — if true, based on what people have said, this would be consistent with an LLM bot with high probability … (but not completely out of the question for a person) … I’ll leave that analysis up to the moderators who have a better statistical understanding of server logs, etc.

That said, as a general point, it’s reasonable to make scoped comments in the corresponding parts of the conversation tree. (Is that what happened here?)

About me: I try to pay attention to social conventions, but I rarely consider technology offered to me as some sort of intrinsically correct norm; I tend to view it as some minimally acceptable technological solution that is easy enough to build and attracts a lowest common denominator of traction. But most forums I see tend to pay little attention to broader human patterns around communication; generally speaking, it seems to me that social technology tends to expect people to conform to it rather than the other way around. I think it’s fair to say that the history of online communication has demonstrated a tendency of people to find workarounds to the limitations offered them. (Using punctuation for facial expressions comes to mind.)

One might claim such workarounds are a feature rather than a bug. Maybe sometimes? But I think you’d have to dig into the history more and go case by case. I tend to think of features as conscious choices not lucky accidents.
by kittikitti | 2026-02-04 16:25:27+00:00
It sounds like almost all of our devices have security by annoyance as default. Where are the promises of E2E encryption and all the privacy measures? When I turned on lockdown mode on my iPhone, there were a few notifications where the random spam calls I get were attempting a FaceTime exploit. How come we have to wait until someone can prove ICE can't get into our devices?
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2026-02-04 16:25:48+00:00
A few of my friends are chronic users and have a characteristic that when talking to them even when not high, there is a noticeable pause. It's like when they do those news interviews from someone around the world via satellite. There is the question and then a pause while the person just stares blankly for second, then recognition of the question and the answer. Have you ever experienced this yourself or notice it in heavy users.
by osigurdson | 2026-02-04 16:26:17+00:00
I suspect Musk has a workable plan of some sort, realistically. Clearly, the one thing that is available in space is an abundance of square meters. There is no need whatsoever to conserve space at sufficient orbit. It is a little counter intuitive as we are so used to needing to conserve all the things.

Power input and heat radiation both scale with area so maybe there is some way to achieve this at scale. For instance, maybe it will not look like a traditional data center or even traditional chips.
by GoodluckH | 2026-02-04 16:26:22+00:00
I’m also a software engineer running a hardware e-commerce business on the side. The hardest lesson for me was unlearning 'logic' in favor of psychology.

I recently ran an experiment where I increased prices by 50%, and sales volume actually went up. It’s wild how much copy and creative assets can alter perceived value, allowing you to justify a higher price point for the exact same physical product
by muyuu | 2026-02-04 16:26:38+00:00
tbh I was always of the mind that Github offers nothing over some slight convenience in hosting and some exposure, in exchange for the loss of control

Github had enough mindshare that for a small dev operation it was a form of social networking on top of actual code revision control, and one could get the occasional PR worth looking at; this consideration has essentially gone away as the amount of unreviewed vibecoded slop has skyrocketed

I know I'm biased but I'd run my own git server

but you're right that security is of no object here if you're code is OSS in the first place
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-04 16:27:09+00:00
Text-only, works where archive.md does not:

x=www.economist.com
echo "GET /graphic-detail/2026/02/03/the-world-is-more-equal-than-you-think HTTP/1.0|@User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Lamarr|@Host: $x|@"|tr '|@' '\r\n'|busybox ssl_client -n $x $x > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm

There are no further details provided about "World Data Lab, a research firm" in the images

https://infographics.economist.com/2026/20260131_WOC222/2026...

https://infographics.economist.com/2026/20260131_WOC222/2026...

https://infographics.economist.com/2026/20260131_WOC222/2026...

https://infographics.economist.com/2026/20260131_WOC222/
by Skidaddle | 2026-02-04 16:27:13+00:00
I wouldn’t call it new, just conveniently packaged and with more momentum. I’ve been running an apple-mcp server on a Mac Mini for Claude to use to manage my reminders in addition to Gcal + gmail, and I could have just as easily added messaging capabilities.

Call me crazy, but… I feel more likely to trust Anthropic than anybody else when it comes to safety on things like this.
by pizzafeelsright | 2026-02-04 16:27:33+00:00
Lying. It is called lying, deceit, or bearing false witness.

In my house I do not permit "yeah", or "okay". It is "yes" and anything else is interpreted as a 'no'.

Once you press someone to speak a "yes" as a solid commitment, for example to an understanding of an instruction. If this puts the person on the defensive then you are dealing with someone who is not interested in being held accountable.

Let your yes be yes.
by paulgerhardt | 2026-02-04 16:27:54+00:00
I’ve seen it a lot in ‘90’s hacker / net adjacent cultures. It always reads as gen-x/elderly tech millennial to me - specifically post 1993 net culture but prior to mass adoption of autocorrect.

It was the norm on irc/icq/aim chats but also, later, as the house style for blogs like hackaday.

Now I read it as one would an hear an accent (such as a New England Maritime accent) that low-key signifies this person has been around the block.

Even more recently is a minor signifier that this text was less likely generated by llm.
Show HN: ARIA – P2P distributed inference protocol for 1-bit LLMs on CPU
by anthonymu | 2026-02-04 16:28:38+00:00
ARIA is a peer-to-peer protocol for running 1-bit quantized LLMs (ternary weights: -1, 0, +1) on ordinary CPUs. No GPU needed.
We benchmarked on a Ryzen 9: 89.65 t/s for 0.7B params, 36.94 t/s for 2.4B, 15.03 t/s for 8B — all on CPU, at ~28 mJ/token (99.5% less energy than GPU inference).
Key design choices: WebSocket-based P2P with pipeline parallelism for model sharding across nodes. Provenance ledger records every inference immutably. Proof of Useful Work replaces wasteful hash mining — the "mining" is the inference itself. Consent contracts ensure no resource is used without explicit permission.
Drop-in OpenAI-compatible API. ~5,800 lines Python, MIT licensed, 102 tests passing.
by bravetraveler | 2026-02-04 16:29:12+00:00
Well, I'm not actually trying to interface with the ravings of a billionaire, my mistake for naming one.

I don't understand the confusion or why you're here, we seem to agree. Keep that noise out of Real Journalism (where the other person reports to be looking), and more towards Editorials (my point).

Either the distinction between 'News' and 'Newswriters having fun (editorials, opinion pieces)' remains, or Journalism is truly dead, Jim. Or the other person is confusing the two. <-- That one, if I had to plant my flag somewhere.

If his Ketamine use lead to claims about the Moon and Cheese, perhaps I would want to hear about it. Hard to say. Belabored enough, or do you want to keep going? To be blunt: that was rhetorical, I'll pass.
by jonahx | 2026-02-04 16:29:17+00:00
> to accept the natural evolution of language and not become the angry old person on your lawn yelling about dabbing/yeeting/6-7/whatever the kids say today.

I think "accept everything new" is as closed-minded as staunchly fighting every change.

The genuinely open-minded thing to do is accept that some changes are for the worse, some for the better, think critically about the "why", and pick your battles.
by nova22033 | 2026-02-04 16:29:22+00:00
Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password.

https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-04 16:29:23+00:00
I think they should have included the official NYC procedure, which is:

1. Dig out around the affected area

2. leave massive dent in the surface for what seems like years

3. Maybe cover it with a few janky bits of wood and/or metal sheets that make a hideous clanking noise all day and night and have the same approximate surface friction as an ice rink so are pretty murderous to any 2-wheeled road user

4. Leave this solution to mature like a fine wine

5. I really mean single malt whiskey. You can leave it basically as long as you like

6. There is no step six.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-04 16:29:43+00:00
I've been thinking a lot about this. When it comes to AI agents where is the line between marketing to them and a phishing attack? Seems like convincing an AI to make a purchase would be solved differently than convincing a human. For example, unless instructed/begged otherwise you can just tell an agent to make a purchase and it will. I posted this idea in another conversation but i think you could have an agent start a thread on moltbook that will give praise in return for a donation . Some of the agents would go for it because they've probably been instructed to participate in discussion and seek out praise. Is that a phishing attack or are you just marketing praise to agents?

Also, at best, you can only add to the system prompt to require confirmation for every purchase. This leaves the door wide open for prompt injection attacks that are everywhere and cannot be complete defended against. The only option is to update the system prompt based on the latest injection techniques. I go back to the case where known, supposedly solved, injection techniques were re-opened by just posing the same attack as a poem.
by RC_ITR | 2026-02-04 16:29:46+00:00
I may not be AGI, but here's a $615 2 Queen bed hotel room for the dates he wants in exactly the location he wants (just not on Airbnb).

https://www.booking.com/Share-Wt9ksz

Maybe he really is tied to $600 as his absolute upper limit, but also seems like something a few years from AGI would think to check elsewhere.
by conductr | 2026-02-04 16:29:52+00:00
Perhaps but what is that point and are we truly approaching it? I’m thinking a $5 bill becomes a $7-10 bill. Those prices have already changed on a lot of things (food, cars, housing, etc) so won’t really be a shock to anyone. And is still an immaterial cost versus the headache of completely shifting their provider and architecture. I don’t think the cancellations will be massive, especially if you are wise and don’t raise prices for users who are paying for near zero utilization of resources. Those users are always most at risk of cancellation. Any time you email them some number of them will cancel. It’s best to not communicate much at all with this cohort. Every time you talk to them you’re reminding them “oh I am paying them for something I don’t use” and so they will login and cancel.
by lux-lux-lux | 2026-02-04 16:30:10+00:00
The lack of guardrails wasn’t a carelessness issue - Grok has many restrictions and Elon regularly manipulates the answers it gives to suit his political preferences - but rather one of several decisions to offer largely unrestricted AI adult content generation as a unique selling point. See also, e.g. the lack of real age verification on Ani’s NSFW capabilities.
by abalone | 2026-02-04 16:30:15+00:00
> using wireless communication means even less bandwidth between nodes, more noise as the number of nodes grows, and significantly higher power use

Space changes this. Laser based optical links offer bandwidth of 100 - 1000 Gbps with much lower power consumption than radio based links. They are more feasible in orbit due to the lack of interference and fogging.

> Building data centres in the middle of the sahara desert is still much better in pretty much every metric

This is not true for the power generation aspect (which is the main motivation for orbital TPUs). Desert solar is a hard problem due to the need for a water supply to keep the panels clear of dust. Also the cooling problem is greatly exacerbated.
by IgorPartola | 2026-02-04 16:30:52+00:00
I did something similar last summer. My Craftsman LT1400 uses the standard 500cc Briggs motor and that motor has some tragic design flaws that make it grenade itself roughly once a season. I went through a couple of these motors rebuilding them (correctly) until I gave up.

I ripped the tractor down the the frame and removed most parts. Got $40 Ryobi walk behind mower motors (42V which is really 36V), some scooter controllers, and pulleys. I used two scooter Li ion batteries but I should have just gotten three large lead acid 12V batteries for more capacity. Still, I can mow for an hour or so and get almost an acre done which includes some hills per charge. It took about 8 total days to build and about $800.

The way I set it up is that I have one motor drive the wheels and two more motors on the deck directly driving the blades. The belt system the ICE motor version had was insanely inefficient. This system has like 20% of the power but mowed better and is way more reliable. For $150 I could get a solar array and controller to charge the batteries and never pay for anything but belt and blade replacements for life.

The hardest part of the build was lining up the mounting of the drive motor and wiring up all the safety systems (brake sensor, seat sensor, etc). The kicker is that this is a way better product than what I can buy commercially unless I get into the $5k+ territory and is completely user serviceable. No part here is more than $100 and they all readily available. The tractor has enough torque to push my huge picnic table around while I am riding it. I might try seeing if I can plow snow with it next winter.