MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway0123_5 | 2026-02-13 20:37:38+00:00
> Job loss is likely to have statistics more comparable to the Black Plague.

Maybe this is overly optimistic, but if AI starts to have negative impacts on average people comparable to the plague, it seems like there's a lot more that people can do. In medieval Europe, nobody knew what was causing the plague and nobody knew how to stop it.

On the other hand, if AI quickly replaces half of all jobs, it will be very obvious what and who caused the job loss and associated decrease in living standards. Everybody will have someone they care about affected. AI job loss would quickly eclipse all other political concerns. And at the end of the day, AI can be unplugged (barring robot armies or Elon's space-based data centers I suppose).
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 20:37:40+00:00
Despite being more accessible to EU migrants, there is more to gaining Dutch citizenship than just "asking". One needs to live in the Netherlands for five years (with limits on i.e. long holidays) to qualify and even then it takes months just to take the tests necessary, provided they can speak the language at all, which isn't a given in certain expat circles. Plus, they'd need to give up on their birth nationality.

It's not an impossible challenge to overcome and compared to what 99% of the world's population needs to go through for the same privilege it's a piece of cake for the author to get done, but it's not just a matter of paperwork.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-13 20:38:16+00:00
No, that's more capabilities than sandboxing. You want fine-grained capabilities such that for every "thread" the model gets access to the minimum required access to do something.

The problem is that it seems (at least for now) a very hard problem, even for very constrained workflows. It seems even harder for "open-ended" / dynamic workflows. This gets more complicated the more you think about it, and there's a very small (maybe 0 in some cases) intersection of "things it can do safely" and "things I need it to do".
by michelsedgh | 2026-02-13 20:38:21+00:00
I haven’t yet tried openclaw but can someone tell me how is this project different than that? Is this basically a different take on the same thing as openclaw? Dont get me wrong im not against it I just was wondering if theyre basically doing the same thing? If that’s the case I actually appreciate both projects, but idk what theyre doing and how theyre different?
by light_hue_1 | 2026-02-13 20:38:37+00:00
It's not misleading. I have no idea why people are voting this down. It's just a simple fact.

We have 3 parts of the federal government we can vote for: executive, senate, and house. Yet, the vast majority of people reading this have never cast a vote that mattered in any of those. I certainly have not.

Most states are not competitive when it comes to electoral votes. It doesn't matter if 100% of MA or CA comes out. Whoever is blue-colored will win those EVs. Beyond that, any other vote is worthless and won't change the outcome.

Most states are not competitive when it comes to the senate. Who wins in most races is predetermined by their color affiliation.

Most house races are the same. Many house races don't even have any meaningful opposition because everyone knows who will win.

It's even worse at the local level. Depending on the type of position 60-90% of races are uncontested.

Of course people don't turn out. For 85+% of people it doesn't matter.

> about 1/2 of citizens who are eligible to vote do not

I'm part that majority. No matter how many of me show up even if it was an unlimited number of people, there is literally nothing my vote can do to change the outcome. So yeah. Why waste the time pretending we're in a democracy?

We're in a rule by a tiny minority.
by DontForgetMe | 2026-02-13 20:38:53+00:00
'Lots of people say this, but I don't agree' really doesn't logically lead to

'therefore, the majority of people probably agree with me'.

Lots of people say they love in India, and that is not true for new. That doesn't make the likeliest fact that a majority of the world lives in the UK and, while India is an oddly vocal 'minority'.
by thrance | 2026-02-13 20:38:57+00:00
One step forward, two steps backwards. Anything good the Democrats may do (yes, it happens sometimes, rarely) will immediately get respelled by the death cult that are the Republicans. If for no other reasons that to "own the libs", they would destroy the whole world.

If this country is to have any future, it must get rid of the Republican party, try all its officials for treason to the American people and ideals of the US Republic and constitution, then disenfranchise their alienated voter base until they get back to living in material reality.
by LaurensBER | 2026-02-13 20:39:04+00:00
Very cool! I love the approach, OpenClaw is really cool but there's two major things holding me back for deploying it from friends a family;

- Cybersecurity (you can't expect a non-technical person to read a skill)

- Token usage (without a flat fee subscription it'll become expensive very fast)

I understand that security is a hard problem to solve but having a single binary + containers should definitely help! I'll definitely keep an eye on this.
by lamontcg | 2026-02-13 20:39:15+00:00
Not really. Pretty sure I read recently that Newton appreciated that his theory was non-local and didn't like what Einstein later called "spooky action at a distance". The Lorentz transform was also known from 1887. Time dilation was understood from 1900. Poincaré figured out in 1905 that it was a mathematical group. Einstein put a bow on it all by figuring out that you could derive it from the principle of relativity and keeping the speed of light constant in all inertial reference frames.

I'm not sure about GR, but I know that it is built on the foundations of differential geometry, which Einstein definitely didn't invent (I think that's the source of his "I assure you whatever your difficulties in mathematics are, that mine are much greater" quote because he was struggling to understand Hilbert's math).

And really Cauchy, Hilbert, and those kinds of mathematicians I'd put above Einstein in building entirely new worlds of mathematics...
by k310 | 2026-02-13 20:40:08+00:00
ios is hell to use. The desktop is infinitely more productive. (to an infinite power)

Things are wildly asymmetrical. I can transform/resize an image in Files, and not in Photos. And that's just the beginning. I can get an image URL on the desktop but no holding/clicking will get it on ios. I have to "share" the image via email to get its url and scrap the email draft.

Any ios device is an expensive self-torture device.
by maccard | 2026-02-13 20:40:30+00:00
I’m acutely aware I’m an edge case - I hoped I made it clear above that I am cognisant of it and that I think of it every time I exercise that privilege

> in this particular case the biggest difference is that you can’t get a UK passport as an Irish citizen.

Sure, but I’ve also been here long enough to naturalise - it’s a decision for me, not something I need to do anything more to be eligible for.
by lldougl | 2026-02-13 20:40:53+00:00
Built this because stock screeners show you numbers but none of them answer whether a business actually has a durable competitive advantage.

Moatifi screens 6000+ US stocks through 11 quantitative filters (ROE, ROIC, margins, debt, etc), then runs each passing stock through an AI analysis that writes a Buffett-style moat breakdown. It traces how the moat was built, names competitors who've tried and failed, and assesses whether the advantage is widening or narrowing.

Try NVDA or MSFT for good examples.

Tech: FastAPI + React, deployed on Fly.io. Analysis via OpenAI. Free, no login required.

Would love feedback on the analysis quality. Is it useful for actual investment research?
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-13 20:41:24+00:00
Don't lend much credence to a preprint. I'm not insinuating fraud, but plenty of preprints turn out to be "Actually you have a math error here", or are retracted entirely.

Theoretical physics is throwing a lot of stuff at the wall and theory crafting to find anything that might stick a little. Generation might actually be good there, even generation that is "just" recombining existing ideas.

I trust physicists and mathematicians to mostly use tools because they provide benefit, rather than because they are in vogue. I assume they were approached by OpenAI for this, but glad they found a way to benefit from it. Physicists have a lot of experience teasing useful results out of probabilistic and half broken math machines.

If LLMs end up being solely tools for exploring some symbolic math, that's a real benefit. Wish it didn't involve destroying all progress on climate change, platforming truly evil people, destroying our economy, exploiting already disadvantaged artists, destroying OSS communities, enabling yet another order of magnitude increase in spam profitability, destroying the personal computer market, stealing all our data, sucking the oxygen out of investing into real industry, and bold faced lies to all people about how these systems work.

Also, last I checked, MATLAB wasn't a trillion dollar business.

Interestingly, the OpenAI wrangler is last in the list of Authors and acknowledgements. That somewhat implies the physicists don't think it deserves much credit. They could be biased against LLMs like me.

When Victor Ninov (fraudulently) analyzed his team's accelerator data using an existing software suite to find a novel SuperHeavy element, he got first billing on the authors list. Probably he contributed to the theory and some practical work, but he alone was literate in the GOOSY data tool. Author lists are often a political game as well as credit, but Victor got top billing above people like his bosses, who were famous names. The guy who actually came up with the idea of how to create the element, in an innovative recipe that a lot of people doubted, was credited 8th

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83...
by tracker1 | 2026-02-13 20:42:23+00:00
Do you have any actual evidence to support that non-whites are specifically more targeted at any level other than the ratio of illegal entries or over-stays in the US? I've seen plenty of instances of white visa overstays also being deported.

Given than upwards of 20 million people walked across the southern border in the last administration that a disproportionate amount of those people are non-white... but that doesn't mean that deportations in and of themselves are driven by race at all.

Beyond any of that, you seem to have a level of bias that is well out of touch with reality and your paranoia seems to be highly unfounded by the reality of the levels of deportation of the current administration even compared to the administrations since the turn of the century, especially offset to the number of illegal entries released into the interior of the US over that same time period.
by yellowapple | 2026-02-13 20:42:44+00:00
Any firewall worth its salt (like PF) can measure which IPs are making more requests per minute than is reasonable and shove them into a list to be handled separately (whether by blocking them outright or by putting them in a slower / lower-priority queue). Putting all those thousands of IPs into a queue that only gets 1% of the available bandwidth would solve the issue quite nicely, I think.
by maccard | 2026-02-13 20:43:48+00:00
To throw it back at you- should a couple who have been together for 10 years be afforded the same rights as a married couple?

> you don’t think they’re committed at that point and should have a right to vote in the society they are contributing to

Honestly - no, I don’t. I think that voting in a GE is a huge privilege, and it should require an explicit declaration and an acceptance from the country they are part of.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-13 20:44:02+00:00
They can definitely vote in most local Dutch elections, though that ability differs per EU member state. As long as you have a valid registration with the municipality, you're eligible.

The example given wasn't about casting their own vote, though, but voting for someone else by proxy (volmacht). For that, you need to take someone else's voting pass, a copy of their ID (may be expired up to a certain amount of years), and a form of your own, valid, Dutch identification.

That last part is where it went wrong: they didn't have valid Dutch ID so the vote by proxy was rejected.
Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
by catapart | 2026-02-13 20:44:08+00:00
I had a thought about encoding a very small amount of data onto some kind of "disk" using 3D printing as the mechanism for filament-based storage. The assumption was that using common 3D printer measurement tools (like for bed-leveling) would provide a way to read back whatever data was encoded onto the surface.

Since that seems like a pretty well-known concept, crudely applied to a domain I haven't seen it in before - but is already large and growing fast - I'm assuming that others have thought of this? I was hoping maybe someone had implemented something like it?
And then, obviously, if that proof of concept exists, I'd wonder about some kind of advanced version that used specialized equipment for the reading (and possibly the writing/printing).

In any case, I'm just curious. I was thinking about long term (century +) archival storage, or encryption keys only stored as the print with no digital copies. Stuff that wouldn't need tons of storage, but would be crucial to maintain statically. It probably wouldn't be useful for that, which is why I assume I'm not finding much in my searches for it. But I was just wondering if anyone knew about it, in case there is stuff it's good for.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-13 20:44:32+00:00
There's reasons to make a distinction though.

Minimum wage is a lower class of violation than most worker exploitations.

Uber drivers are over the minimum wage a lot of the time, especially the federal one. Nowhere near this $1 hypothetical.

A big one is that the actual wage you get is complicated. You get paid okay for the actual trips, as far as I'm aware. But how to handle the idle time is harder. There are valid reasons to say you should get paid for that time, and valid reasons to say you shouldn't get paid for that time.
by londons_explore | 2026-02-13 20:45:35+00:00
My guess is that the 'wrong letter entered' bug is by design.

The keyboard animation happens on the touchdown event, whereas the letter is entered into the text box on the touchup event.

Between the two, more information might emerge about the touch - for example the exact shape of the touched area, and movement during the touch, etc.

I would guess the keyboard sees a down in one spot, and an up in a slightly different spot which falls into another letter.
by nphardon | 2026-02-13 20:45:38+00:00
Unfortunately, one of the struggles in old high tech (thats the only thing i know, are you also experiencing this?) is that the C-level people don't look at Ai and say LLM's can make an individual 10x more productive therefore (and this is the part they miss) we can make our tool 10x better. They think: therefore we can lay off 9 people.
by stemlord | 2026-02-13 20:45:41+00:00
you can't really fake the labor that goes into mastering a craft any more significantly than one can fake labor at a white collar job, let alone some level of institutional involvement that any professional pursuit would end up with (i.e., showing a work at the gallery on main st or giving workshops at the community center), so this isn't actually that challenging of a question in practice. even with highly conceptual work there's still an involved studio/research practice to audit

if your artistic practice is truly so abstract that you can't prove labor by any material means then you probably just won't get subsidized for it.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-13 20:46:28+00:00
Do I need to be credentialed to ask questions or point out the troubling trend of AI grift maxxers like yourself helping Sam Altman and his cronies further the myth of AGI by pretending a machine is a researcher deserving of a research credit? This is marketing, pure and simple. Close the simonw substack for a second and take an objective view of the situation.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-13 20:46:33+00:00
>If it doesn't have enough of the utility, performance, and positive UX, it will never gain enough market share to matter.

That's part of why billionaires will continue to screw people over. They will try and stay in bed with the familiar evil, rather than put up with the temporary inconvenience of freedom.

And it's a negative spiral. Less users means less money to bring in staff which means less means to improve. Discord didn't become discord in a month, but other competitiors don't get that grace period.
by delaminator | 2026-02-13 20:46:33+00:00
Consider yourselves lucky.

It was Conservatives ushered in most of the 19th C worker protections

The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 - limited pauper apprentice children to 12 hours of work a day and banned night work for them - radical at the time

The Factory Act of 1833 - banned employment of children under 9 in textile mills and, crucially, created factory inspectors (enacted by Whigs but due to pressure from the Torys)

The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 was the work of Lord Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury) under Robert Peel's Conservative government. It banned women and girls from working underground entirely, and boys under 10.

The Ten Hours Act 1847 limited women and young persons to a 10-hour working day — which effectively did the same for men, since factories couldn't run without them. This was driven by Shaftesbury and Tory backbenchers, and it passed against fierce opposition from free-market Liberals who called it an intolerable interference with liberty of contract.

The Chimney Sweepers Acts (various, 1834-1875) banning the use of children as young as 4 being sent up chimneys. (Lord Shaftesbury again)

Disraeli's Conservative government of 1874–1880 passed a burst of social legislation including the Factories Act 1874, the Artisans' Dwellings Act 1875 (slum clearance), and the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875, which effectively legalised peaceful picketing — a Conservative government giving trade unions legal protections.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-13 20:46:55+00:00
This is really reductionist. This isn't a bullying or in-group / out-group thing.

Someone who is not on iMessage will be excluded from iMessage group chats, just as someone who is not on Snapchat will be excluded from Snapchat group chats, just as someone who is not on Instagram will be excluded from Instagram group chats, someone who is not on WeChat will be excluded from WeChat group chats.
by btown | 2026-02-13 20:47:13+00:00
It bears repeating that modern LLMs are incredibly capable, and relentless, at solving problems that have a verification test suite. It seems like this problem did (at least for some finite subset of n)!

This result, itself does not generalize to open-ended problems, whether in business or in research in general. Discovering the specification to build is often the majority of the battle. LLMs aren't bad at this, per se, but they're nowhere near as reliably groundbreaking as they are on verifiable problems.
by surprisetalk | 2026-02-13 20:47:41+00:00
Ouch! Honestly, I'm probably all those things (and worse). But I found the concept of "metaprojects" helpful for shrinking the footprint of my ambitions. Instead of wanting everything, now I'm happier pursuing fewer things :-) At some point, I'll hopefully learn to let go even more. I hope other folks can learn/resonate from my particular brand of crazy
by stouset | 2026-02-13 20:48:03+00:00
When chess engines were first developed, they were strictly worse than the best humans. After many years of development, they became helpful to even the best humans even though they were still beatable (1985–1997). Eventually they caught up and surpassed humans but the combination of human and computer was better than either alone (~1997–2007). Since then, humans have been more or less obsoleted in the game of chess.

Five years ago we were at Stage 1 with LLMs with regard to knowledge work. A few years later we hit Stage 2. We are currently at Stage 3 for an extremely high percentage of knowledge work. Stage 4 will come, and I would wager it's sooner rather than later.
by darkwizard42 | 2026-02-13 20:48:10+00:00
Is this true now?

The models are better, the integrations are now in your email, search, youtube, docs, spreadsheets, slides, Gemini is now higher than ChatGPT in the App Stores

I think you are right with the timeline being Google was infinitely ahead in the beginning, did nothing, then fell behind, but right now, they feel ahead -- established even, and distributing AI into all their products
by staticassertion | 2026-02-13 20:48:13+00:00
This is pretty funny.

> the arguments vague

I gave both generalized and highly specific cases where I felt the UX failed. I referenced principles of UX as well as literal "here is what my experience was in a concrete story".

> , all about expectations based on years using a different OS

No? I mean, again, funny. I explained how I've been using MacOS for years. Actually a decade, now that I count it out.

> doesn't seem you want to give it a fair chance.

a decade lol
Show HN: ARA-Engine – Modeling the Alberta power grid transition in Python
by ada33934 | 2026-02-13 20:48:17+00:00
I am developing the ARA-Engine, a Python-based framework designed to quantify the Alberta electricity market transition.

In merchant power markets like Alberta’s, institutional desks have proprietary tools to map real-time grid volatility to equity valuations. Retail traders, however, often rely on lagging financial statements. This project aims to bridge that gap by building an automated pipeline that connects AESO (ISO) API data directly to asset-level SOTP (Sum-of-the-Parts) models.

Current Functional Scope:
- Real-time mapping of TSX-listed utility tickers to physical grid assets.
- Quantitative tracking of "Capture Price" vs. "Pool Price" to identify revenue cannibalization in renewables.
- Modeling the 2026 TIER carbon framework as a merchant margin indicator.

I’m looking for general advice on the architecture, but specifically: Is it viable to use these high-frequency grid indicators to inform medium-term equity trades? Or is the institutional advantage in this sector (via weather modeling and transmission forecasting) too wide for an open-source framework to bridge?
by fabienpenso | 2026-02-13 20:48:19+00:00
author here.

It's a different take and heavily inspired at first by OpenClaw, which is a great product and Peter the founder is an amazing human being. I'm adding features than I want, since I do Moltis for my own use but also try to add features than others will enjoy.

I think Rust makes a lot of sense security wise, it does add benefits like being a single binary and very easy to install. I also tried to make it easy to try with a 1-click deploy on the cloud.

I'm not sure this is convincing enough but I think you can only judge by yourself trying it out, and I'd love feedback.
by godelski | 2026-02-13 20:48:42+00:00
> I think this was all already figured out in 1986 though

They cite that paper in the third paragraph...

Naively, the n-gluon scattering amplitude involves order n! terms. Famously, for the special case of MHV (maximally helicity violating) tree amplitudes, Parke and Taylor [11] gave a simple and beautiful, closed-form, single-term expression for all n.

It also seems to be a main talking point.

I think this is a prime example of where it is easy to think something is solved when looking at things from a high level but making an erroneous conclusion due to lack of domain expertise. Classic "Reviewer 2" move. Though I'm not a domain expert and so if there was no novelty over Parke and Taylor I'm pretty sure this will get thrashed in review.