MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beeflet | 2026-02-06 01:41:53+00:00
What difference does it make if it's a foreign or domestic terrorist on a domestic flight? If you're a foreign terrorist and you get can get in the USA, you've probably have some excuse to be in the US, whether that's as a tourist or with a work visa or something. So you can probably board a domestic flight either way.

The justification for all of the security theatre after 9/11 was that it would stop terrorist attacks. Makes no difference what passport they have as long as you can determine they're not smuggling a bomb up their ass.

Not to mention that you can't take down a plane with a box-cutter anymore. The only way the 9/11 hijackers were successful is that the remaining passengers thought that the hijackers were pirates. It's a burned 0-day.

You could just enact a policy of shooting down all planes within a certain radius of large buildings. I wouldn't be surprised if the annual cost would be orders of magnitude less than the annual cost of TSA. As long as you could ensure that aircraft couldn't be weaponized against major infrastructure, hijacking a plane would be no more dangerous than hijacking a train.
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-06 01:43:05+00:00
thinking more about, I don't think its a terrible thing that they prevent scraping. Their listings are already suffering from being flooded with garbage applications and having to sift through tons of noise. allowing scraping would just amplify that and make the platform almost entirely worthless.

I "scrape" linkedin in a roundabout way for personal use, and really what Ive found is that i should just maybee not bother at all. I can't get through the noise even when im applying at places that heavily match my skillset, and just get automated rejection emails.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2026-02-06 01:43:40+00:00
its quite simple.

if you are a profitable company paying taxes, you 100% want to defer taxes (part of EBITDA) thus trade earnings for market share.

This is exactly what TCI did [1] with cable

[1] https://www.colinkeeley.com/blog/john-malone-operating-manua...
Show HN: Lytok – A binary format with 44% fewer tokens than JSON
by joguel96 | 2026-02-06 01:44:25+00:00
I’ve spent the last year building Lytok, a binary data notation format born out of a personal obsession with data density and infrastructure efficiency.

While JSON is the standard, its verbosity becomes a bottleneck in high-throughput systems and AI pipelines. Lytok focuses on four key pillars:

Token Efficiency: Up to 44.80% fewer tokens than JSON, significantly reducing LLM inference costs.

Storage Density: Up to 60% reduction in disk space usage.

Bandwidth Economy: Smaller payloads for faster, cheaper network transfers.

Strong Typing: Native support for complex data types without the overhead.

This is a project of passion I’ve been refining since last year. I’ve built a web-based Lab so you can test these claims with your own datasets.

Check out the Lab: https://lytoklab.netlify.app/ I'd love to hear your technical feedback.
by pclmulqdq | 2026-02-06 01:45:03+00:00
Postgres on modern hardware can likely service 100 million users unless you are doing something data intensive with them.

You can get a few hundred TB of flash in one box these days. You need to average over 1 MB of database data per user to get over 100 TB with only 100 million users. Even then, you can mostly just shard your DB.
by nine_k | 2026-02-06 01:45:51+00:00
I suppose it's relatively easy to make a compact OS which has barebone hardware capabilities: VGA / VESA framebuffer graphics, SATA, 1-2 NICs, USB2, x64 only. Early versions of Unix were tiny by modern standards. NeXT's GUI worked well on hardware which would be considered a toy today. They all already contained the key features which MenuetOS has. I suppose it's the support of a large number of advanced features (many CPUs, various filesystems, virtual memory + page cache, advanced IP stack, a ton of drivers) that makes a modern Linux kernel large.
by krapp | 2026-02-06 01:46:00+00:00
The TV was evil?

I feel like people forget that so much of what they blame on social media now existed with television. Propaganda, misinformation, addiction, emotional manipulation, mind rot, overstimulation, excessive advertising, even moral panics blaming it for violence and deviant behavior.

Television didn't create self-reinforcing bubbles of hyperreality because it represented a corporate model of reality applied to an entire culture. It could only do so much being a one-way means of communication, but bear in mind all most people do with social media now is consume. The more social media becomes like television, the worse it becomes.
by mbil | 2026-02-06 01:46:20+00:00
It's possible to use opencode with the plus subscription using this plugin for auth [0][1]. Just tested this and it appears to work.

[0]: https://opencode.ai/docs/ecosystem/#:~:text=Use%20your%20Cha...

[1]: https://github.com/numman-ali/opencode-openai-codex-auth
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-06 01:47:06+00:00
There's more than enough credible reports of CSAM in the Epstein Files dump - more than enough for me to not go and download even a single file of them myself, simply because German law does not care about why you are in the possession of CSAM, even if you took the picture yourself.

The legal situation regarding CSAM is very strict no matter which country, and I better hope no one here will actually be dumb enough to provide actual links.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-06 01:47:11+00:00
“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
― George Orwell, 1984
by ChocMontePy | 2026-02-06 01:48:09+00:00
You can use the justice.gov search box to find several different copies of that same email.

The copy linked in the post:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA004004...

Three more copies:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02153...

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02154...

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02154...

Perhaps having several different versions might make it easier.
by zamadatix | 2026-02-06 01:48:40+00:00
Hmm, I don't get a hit for "slugulus" or "eructo" (case insensitive) in any of the 7. Interestingly two mentions of "vomit" are in book 6, but neither in reference to to slugs (plenty of Slughorn of course!). Book 5 was the only other one a related hit came up:

> Ron nodded but did not speak. Harry was reminded forcibly of the time that Ron had accidentally put a slug-vomiting charm on himself. He looked just as pale and sweaty as he had done then, not to mention as reluctant to open his mouth.

There could be something with regional variants but I'm doubtful as the Fandom site uses LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 as the citation of the spell instead of a book.

Maybe the real LLM is the universe and we're figuring this out for someone on Slacker News a level up!
by logicprog | 2026-02-06 01:48:41+00:00
I will say that one thing that's extremely interesting is that everyone laughed at and made fun of Steve Yegge when he released Gas Town, which centered exactly around this idea — of having more than a dozen agents working on a project simultaneously with some generalized agents focusing on implementing features while other are more specialized and tasked with second-order tasks, where you just independently run them in a loop from an orchestrator until they've finished the project where they all work on work trees and, you know, satisfy merch conflicts and stuff as a coordination mechanism — but it's starting to kind of look like he was right. He really was aiming for where the puck was headed. First we got cursor with the fast render browser, then we got Kimi K2.5 releasing with — from everything I can tell — actually very innovative and new specific RL techniques for orchestrating agent swarms. And now we have this, Anthropic themselves doing a Gas Town-style agent swarm model of development. It's beginning to look like he absolutely did know where the puck was headed before it got there.

Now, whether we should actually be building software in this fashion or even headed in this direction at all is a completely separate question. And I would tend strongly towards no. Not until at least we have very strong, yet easy to use concise and low effort formal verification, deterministic simulation testing, property-based testing, integration testing, etc; and even then, we'll end up pair programming those formal specifications and batteries of tests with AI agents. Not writing them ourselves, since that's inefficient, nor turning them over to agent swarms, since they are very important. And if we turn them over to swarms, we'd end up with an infinite regress problem. And ultimately, that's just programming at a higher level at that point. So I would argue we should never predominantly develop in this way.

But still, there is prescience in Gastown apparently, and that's interesting.
by nayroclade | 2026-02-06 01:49:03+00:00
Telling people to only run OpenClaw in a full isolated sandbox kind of misses the point. It's a bit like saying, "gambling fine so long as you only use Monopoly money". The think that makes OpenClaw useful to people is precisely that it's _not_ sandboxed, and has access to your email, calendar, messages, etc. The moment you remove that access, it becomes safe, but also useless.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-06 01:49:13+00:00
>Phantomderp and I

>Furry avatar

>"About Me
I am Aria Desires, Gankra, and a cat."

I seem to recall reading this before, I must have not noticed this furry stuff because I would have ignored it.

My take was that this is a rustacean who was having trouble porting something to C and then went in a deep rabbit hole of C traiditional software, and instead of recognizing that perhaps they are in way over their head, they concluded that the issue was in the C, that it's all wrong and therefore their mission of porting stuff to Rust is even more virtuous.
by FeteCommuniste | 2026-02-06 01:52:07+00:00
AI adoption is being heavily pushed at my work and personally I do use it, but only for the really "boilerplate-y" kinds of code I've already written hundreds of times before. I see it as a way to offload the more "typing-intensive" parts of coding (where the bottleneck is literally just my WPM on the keyboard) so I have more time to spend on the trickier "thinking-intensive" parts.
by halfcat | 2026-02-06 01:52:28+00:00
> given the proper framing

This sounds like never. Most businesses are still shuffling paper and couldn’t give you the requirements for a CRUD app if their lives depended on it.

You’re right, in theory, but it’s like saying you could predict the future if you could just model the universe in perfect detail. But it’s not possible, even in theory.

If you can fully describe what you need to the degree ambiguity is removed, you’ve already built the thing.

If you can’t fully describe the thing, like some general “make more profit” or “lower costs”, you’re in paper clip maximizer territory.
by MaskRay | 2026-02-06 01:52:47+00:00
I want to verify the claim that it builds the Linux kernel. It quickly runs into errors, but yeah, still pretty cool!

make O=/tmp/linux/x86 ARCH=x86_64 CC=/tmp/p/claudes-c-compiler/target/release/ccc -j30 defconfig all

```
/home/ray/Dev/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:44:184: error: expected ';' after expression before 'pto_tmp__'
do { u32 pto_val__ = ((u32)(((unsigned long) ~0x80000000) & 0xffffffff)); if (0) {
__typeof_unqual__((__preempt_count)) pto_tmp__; pto_tmp__ = (~0x80000000); (void)pto_tmp__; }
asm ("and" "l " "%[val], " "%" "[var]" : [var] "+m" (((__preempt_count))) : [val] "ri" (pto_val__)); } while (0);
^~~~~~~~~
fix-it hint: insert ';'
/home/ray/Dev/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:49:183: error: expected ';' after expression before 'pto_tmp__'
do { u32 pto_val__ = ((u32)(((unsigned long) 0x80000000) & 0xffffffff)); if (0) {
__typeof_unqual__((__preempt_count)) pto_tmp__; pto_tmp__ = (0x80000000); (void)pto_tmp__; }
asm ("or" "l " "%[val], " "%" "[var]" : [var] "+m" (((__preempt_count))) : [val] "ri" (pto_val__)); } while (0);
^~~~~~~~~
fix-it hint: insert ';'
/home/ray/Dev/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:61:212: error: expected ';' after expression before 'pao_tmp__'
```
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 01:53:01+00:00
If you're only reading the stories of the false positives or the abuses of power, you're making your judgements on only a fraction of the available information.

I think the suffering/abuse is able to be reasonably controlled through increased/better oversight, more publicly available information, and more strict regulations around the use of the data produced by these devices.

I also think they're able to impart a whole lot of good on their communities. If they contribute to an increase in the number of arrests and convictions for crimes, that might end up being a net good.

I think starting from the assumption that they are net bad, and then telling me I should only look at the negatives is an uncompelling argument.

I need not look further than the testimony of people who used to commit crimes in areas with increased surveillance (i.e., San Francisco), and I see a compelling argument for their upsides. Now I have to weigh the positives and negatives against each other, and it stops being the clear-cut argument you're disingenuously presenting it as.
by trebligdivad | 2026-02-06 01:53:43+00:00
I've got 9.0 running self built on Fedora 43; it's working OK, I have had a couple of crashes (which I can't figure out how to report);
a seg:
#1 0x00007f5085ea1663 in jack_port_type_to_ardour_data_type (jack_type=0x0)
at ../libs/backends/jack/jack_portengine.cc:71
#2 0x00007f5085ea346a in ARDOUR::JACKAudioBackend::port_data_type (this=0x1ac84ad0, port=...)
at ../libs/backends/jack/jack_portengine.cc:465
#3 0x0000000000e3c719 in PortGroupList::gather

which I think is a lack of cast check in port_data_type?
(from IOSelector::setup_ports -> PortMatrix::setup_global_ports )

I also got an assert in;
#5 0x00000000011fa927 in StartupFSM::check_session_parameters (this=0x3dcf00a0, must_be_new=true)
at ../gtk2_ardour/startup_fsm.cc:740
#6 0x00000000011f80d2 in StartupFSM::dialog_response_handler
(this=0x3dcf00a0, response=-3, dialog_id=StartupFSM::NewSessionDialog) at ../gtk2_ardour/startup_fsm.cc:267

I think this was opening an existing ardour project that I'd copied onto this machine and was the first run of ardour on this machine.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-06 01:54:17+00:00
He's literally one of if not my favorite senator right now. Oregon is an extremely based/wonderful state, and so are its brothers in Washington. The politics of the region is wonderful and most who hate them hate them cus they ain't them.

Now, if we could just get its population to stop hating AI and being luddities, they could ride the GenAI wave up forever. Unfortunately, "everyone in seattle hates AI"
by ISL | 2026-02-06 01:54:23+00:00
As noted above:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ38/pdf/PLAW-... : the Attorney General was to have produced the entirety of the Epstein files, with very narrowly-enumerated redactions, in December. She has not done so.

Furthermore, there are numerous allegations that the documents that have been released contain CSAM, which (referencing the PDF above) may fall afoul of 18 U.S.C. 2252–2252A.

In addition, one need only glance at the action in US courts to see egregious violations of the Constitution and valid court orders playing out daily.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26513988-trorder0128...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230...
by cannonpr | 2026-02-06 01:54:40+00:00
Having just finished renovating a 140-year-old home with solid brick walls that was slowly collapsing and deteriorating due to the aforementioned professionals’ application of modern and chemically incompatible materials to it… I’m not sure I agree. It’s also why a lot of the UK’s building stock is slowly rotting with black mould right now. Literally none of the professionals I hired, before I trained them, knew how to properly repair a type of home that represents 30% of the UK building stock.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-06 01:54:43+00:00
I skimmed over it, and didn’t find any discussion of:

- Pull requests
- Merge requests
- Code review

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Are SWE supposed to move away from code review, one of the core activities for the profession? Code review is as fundamental for SWE as double entry is for accounting.

Yes, we know that functional code can get generated at incredible speeds. Yes, we know that apps and what not can be bootstrapped from nothing by “agentic coding”.

We need to read this code, right? How can I deliver code to my company without security and reliability guarantees that, at their core, come from me knowing what I’m delivering line-by-line?
by polarbearballs | 2026-02-06 01:55:25+00:00
How are more people not obsessed with knots?

It's the purest form of human creativity! It's nothing but a strait line and humans have figured out how to twist and turn it into a million different objects and endless uses. Our entire species has propelled itself into a realm of knowledge built on the fundamental twisting of a simple lines and observing those properties.

The clothes you wear are knots. Every surgery you have ends in knots. The combined effect of knots on our technology and understanding of the world is fascinating.

Only humans can see a rope, have a picture in their heads of what it should look like and then set forth on creating it. It's just such a precious nugget of what it means to be human and have the urge to fuck around with shit.
by insiderllm | 2026-02-06 01:56:16+00:00
Been tracking OpenClaw security issues since the early Moltbot days. The zero-moderation marketplace was always the biggest risk — 42,000+ exposed instances and now a full supply chain attack through fake skills.

Wrote a practical hardening guide covering how to audit installed skills and lock down your setup if anyone needs it: https://insiderllm.com/guides/openclaw-clawhub-security-aler...
The Data Pipeline for Superintelligence Starts with Your Screen
by Nadav--Shanun | 2026-02-06 01:56:30+00:00
The Data Pipeline for Superintelligence Starts With Your Screen

There’s a question that’s been haunting AI research for decades: how do you build a system that truly understands the world?

Not one that predicts the next token. Not one that passes benchmarks. One that actually models reality — the way a human does, the way an ecosystem does, the way a city does.

I think I know where the answer starts. And it’s not where most people are looking.

The Densest Data Structure on Earth

The human brain stores approximately 2.5 petabytes of information. That’s 2.5 million gigabytes packed into 1.4 kilograms of tissue. A Salk Institute study found that each of the brain’s 125 trillion synapses can hold about 4.7 bits of information across 26 distinct levels — ten times more than scientists previously believed.

To put that in perspective: Yahoo’s entire data warehouse, processing 24 billion events per day, holds less data than a single human brain. The IRS database tracking 300 million Americans? About 150 terabytes. Your brain holds roughly 17 times that.

You almost don’t see this kind of information density anywhere else in nature. A rainforest is staggeringly complex, but the data per cubic centimeter doesn’t come close. A coral reef, a city, a desert — all contain extraordinary information. But none of them approach the compression ratio of the three-pound organ sitting between your ears.

This matters enormously for the future of AI.

If You Want to Model Everything, Start With the Brain

Here’s the thesis: the best data pipeline for superintelligence is, first, a data pipeline for the human brain.

Think about it. If we could create a true digital twin of human cognition — not a language model trained on text, but a living model of how a specific human thinks, decides, and acts — we’d have cracked the hardest data problem on the planet. The densest, most complex information structure in the known universe, digitized.

And once you’ve built the infrastructure to model that, the same technology extends outward. Digital twins of teams. Of organizations. Of supply chains and cities. Eventually, of ecosystems — jungles, oceans, deserts, entire countries. Each one is a system of interacting agents making decisions under uncertainty. The brain is just the one with the highest data density per unit of space.

So if you’re serious about building toward superintelligence — or even just toward AI systems that truly understand the world — you don’t start with more text data. You start with the human brain.

The Screen Is the Window Into the Brain

Now here’s the practical question: how do you actually observe a human brain in action?

You could try neuroimaging. fMRIs, EEGs, brain-computer interfaces. They’re promising but limited — expensive, invasive, low-resolution for everyday use.

Or you could look at what’s already sitting in front of the brain for most of its waking hours.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-06 01:56:36+00:00
>makes the human race seem quite easily hackable.

If the human race were not hackable then society would not exist, we'd be the unchanging crocodiles of the last few hundred million years.

Have you ever found yourself speaking a meme? Had a catchy toon repeating in your head? Started spouting nation state level propaganda? Found yourself in crowd trying to burn a witch at the stake?

Hacking the flow of human thought isn't that hard, especially across populations. Hacking any one particular humans thoughts is harder unless you have a lot of information on them.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-06 01:56:51+00:00
Those events and times inspired those books, but they didn't actually happen in those countries.

There is a core message about the nature of not just ingsoc but the other governments of the world as well, and their relationship with each that gets left out when talking about 1984. The overbearing surveillance capital state is all people think about, that's part of it, but why that state exists, the motivations of it's leadership, the sheer and terrifying brilliance of the architecture of their government. in many ways, I'm glad the leaders of major countries and political movements don't grasp 1984 well (or at all).

But I agree that in 1948, Orwell's frustration and experience was not just that there was a world war, but that it was the second one in his life time. War-time mentality does approximate the levels of repression he mentions in the book, but in any country, it doesn't quite get there. But it could!

That's the scary part, things like "facecrime" weren't possible in 1984, now not only is it possible, it can be done without humans being involved too much. We have all the surveillance, more than he could have even imagined. But not only that, we have the means to analyze all the surveillance data in real time and do something about it. The capability to implement a world much worse than the one in 1984 exists. The villains of our times and the people they rule over just haven't managed to negotiate the imagination and sophistication of a strategy to abuse it yet.

EDIT: Coincidentally, I just stumbled on this timely piece: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rexy9y3no

This is what I mean. just random people are doing the spying parts already. [SPOILER] a very similar scene is in 1984, except with the government behind the cams.