MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Onavo | 2026-02-20 19:40:21+00:00
They are a todolist combined with a dependency tracker and a Cron job.

E.g. you own an old school Japanese car with no fancy computers. You only have a paper manual.

With something like Maximo, you can turn your maintenance into a DAG and routine stuff is tied to cron. Each Todo is called a "Work order". E.g. tire rotation every 10 000 miles, oil change every 15 000 air filter swap every 2 years.

Each day after you finish driving you enter into the Maximo GUI (or have an Arduino IoT sensor do it) your current mileage.

The timing chain also needs to be swapped every 5 yeard, but due to a quirk of engineering, it can only be done so after the oil had been changed.

Maximo automatically tracks everything, and after you are done, you have to upload a photo as proof that you have done the work.

It's a very simple system at its core, basically a glorified Todo list but entire industries run on it.
by microtonal | 2026-02-20 19:40:39+00:00
That is not how the European Union works. One of the core goals of the EU is to guarantee the European single market. One of the core principles of the single market is the Freedom to establish and provide services [1]. The Apple/Google duopoly have effectively created a market within the single market where the core principles of the single market do not apply anymore.

Tech has a strong tendency to favor outcomes with only a handful large players that make competition impossible due to network effects, etc., distorting the market. The Digital Markets Act was made to address this problem.

IANAL, but Google's Android changes seem like a fairly clear violation of the DMA.

This is typically hard for people from the US to grasp (I saw that you are not originally from the US though). In Europe, capitalism is not the end goal, the goal of capitalism is to serve the people and if that fails, it needs to be regulated.

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As an aside, the lengths people go to defend a company with $402.836B yearly revenue :).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_single_market#Four_fr...
by samiv | 2026-02-20 19:40:57+00:00
Nah this isn't right. We also have access to a ton of information even regarding arcane things such as writing x86 boot sequence in real mode or writing boot loaders. More now than ever before.

In fact today on GitHub alone you can find hobbyist OSs that are far far more advanced what Linuses little weekend turd ever was originally.

Their success is not gated by technical aspects.
by mothballed | 2026-02-20 19:41:35+00:00
There must be a mind boggling amount of profit going to these importers to get basically all of the tariff proceeds back on already completed transaction with zero expectation that it be paid back to the people bearing the cost.

I can't imagine their margins are usually very high, the tariff rates are astronomical compared to their usual margins. Hopefully someone here has more information than me because to my naive mind this basically absolutely explodes the free cash reserves of importers from high volume high tariff countries creating a lottery winnings for a business sector of epic proportions rarely seen.
by lhopki01 | 2026-02-20 19:41:52+00:00
I can understand your point in terms of negative liberty but I tend to hold positive liberty to be just as important. It is not sufficient to me that there is no law preventing me from having healthcare, I expect that the government should ensure I have the ability to have a healthy life.

The 10th amendment isn't clear. Too many areas are dual responsibility. That's never going to be clear.
by mkehrt | 2026-02-20 19:42:13+00:00
My facebook page, which is where I have friended everyone I met between like 2004 and 2017 is absolute garbage.

But I have a secondary account where I follow a few specific niche groups on a specific topic that are only on facebook. This page is actually fine, and is pretty good at suggesting related pages.

Not sure what the takeaway is for facebook though.
by moreice | 2026-02-20 19:42:25+00:00
I agree with you. This generation of LLMs is on track to automate knowledge work.

For the US, if we had strong unions, those gains could be absorbed by the workers to make our jobs easier. But instead we have at-will employment and shareholder primacy. That was fine while we held value in the job market, but as that value is whittled away by AI, employers are incentivized to pocket the gains by cutting workers (or pay).

I haven't seen signs that the US politically has the will to use AI to raise the average standard of living. For example, the US never got data protections on par with GDPR, preferring to be business friendly. If I had to guess, I would expect socialist countries to adapt more comfortably to the post-AI era. If heavy regulation is on the table, we have options like restricting the role or intelligence of AI used in the workplace. Or UBI further down the road.
by conductr | 2026-02-20 19:42:38+00:00
I think a lot of time Congress being stuck is a feature, not a bug.

What happens when things aren't stuck, they change too much, in both frequency and magnitude. Kind of like when one person in the executive branch gets to make the rules. It's utter chaos and uncertainty on the business environment, even on the consumer environment, they have no idea what anything costs anymore. Am I paying double from a year ago because of tariffs or because it's easy for the seller to say tariffs, I'll never know. As a business, should I charge more now in anticipation for future uncertainty, has seemed simultaneously unfair and prudent. Now, should I reduce prices to go back to pre-tariff or just pocket it and call it inflation. Uncertainty is chaos, it's hard to plan for anything or make big decisions. This is why high(er) rates didn't hurt the housing market but all the Trump related uncertainty did.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-20 19:42:48+00:00
It doesn't help that most Democrat politicians are happy to maintain status quo. Or they're completely feckless, like Chuck Schumer, who is the absolute King of bringing a strongly-worded letter to a gun fight.

People that are actually leftist don't vote because there's nobody that represents them. Most Democrat politicians are centrist.
by kkfx | 2026-02-20 19:43:05+00:00
Are our institutions more "legal" or "reliable"? Honestly, it doesn't seem that way to me. Oh, let's be clear, the less I have to do with the GAFAM, the happier I am; Hetzner has shown itself to be a good company so far, as have several others, but if we don't start to understand what "ownership" means in the digital world, we'll never get out of the current sorry state of things.

The average Joe understands the concept of owning versus renting a physical good, whether it's a car or a fork, but in the digital realm, they think "if I see it on my screen, it's mine", they just can't grasp it. If we don't start teaching this, we won't be able to have a society built for digital sovereignty and technical rationality.

We'll keep having "communication services" that only talk to themselves, like WA, Slack, Discord, etc instead of those where everyone can talk to everyone else, from email to XMPP. Most people won't realise how absurd it is that WA only talks to WA, whereas even a basic telephone can call from any phone company to any other. Making people understand this is the foundation, which is currently missing even for many techies who get it because they have the knowledge, but only with a somewhat vague understanding, without really caring how to do things differently.
by salawat | 2026-02-20 19:43:31+00:00
Nope! That's the fun part! All the misery from the downsides, none of the upside! But imagine how much worse it could be! /s

There's a reason I'm doing anything possible to avoid going back into finance. I never developed the knack to just sit back quietly doing stupid things that don't work for the purpose everyone says it's for.
by vharuck | 2026-02-20 19:44:01+00:00
>Your neighbor is still not allowed to defame you.

Anyone can defame anyone else on the US. The only time the libel or slander laws apply is when the defamed person can prove real harm in court. Not harm to dignity, but monetary loss, personal loss, or physical injury. These are very high bars to clear.

If people could sue and win just for proving willful or negligent defamation of character, a lot of extremist influencers would be in the poor house.
by exe34 | 2026-02-20 19:44:11+00:00
> Party B owes you nothing. You are free to not use their products or start a company to compete.

When 99% of government/banks/etc require you to use a certain service to access basic services, you need some way of ensuring you don't have to sell your soul to use it. Alternatives would be really great, but Google is part of a duopoly.

Just because you build the rails doesn't mean you get to decide who gets to use the trains.
by stayallive | 2026-02-20 19:44:16+00:00
It’s not all bad. I hope you don’t mind tooting my own horn. But there are providers who try to keep prices reasonable: https://domain.chief.app/pricing (disclaimer: this is mine)

I must say though that this (at this stage) is mostly only possible because a few (also Dutch) reseller titans that allow me to be affordable.

The cost of entry as registrar into ICANN TLDs is pretty high
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-20 19:44:19+00:00
> Of course it's your phone, but the whole point of using Android is that it makes a lot of choices for you. It forces a billion things on you, and this is really no different than any of the others. Everything from UI colors, to the way every feature actually works.

There is a difference between making a choice because there has to be something there (setting a default wallpaper, installing a default phone/sms app so your phone works as a phone) and actively choosing to act against the user (restricting what I can install on my own device, including via dark patterns, or telling me that I'm not allowed to grant apps additional permissions).

> For instance, should you be able to text message one million people at a time? You might want to, but Android doesn't offer that feature.

There's a difference between not implementing something, and actively blocking it. While we're at it, making it harder to programmatically send SMS is another regression that I dislike.

> Do you want to install spyware on your girlfriends phone? Maybe that's your idea of complete freedom, but the fact that Google makes it harder, is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Obviously someone else installing things on your phone is bad; you can't object to the owner controlling a device by talking about other people controlling it.

> If you don't like their choices, you should be able to install other software you do like. There should be completely free options that people can choose if they desire. But the majority of people just want a working phone, that someone like Google is taking great pains to make work safely and reliably.

Okay, then we agree, right? I should be able to install other software I like - eg. F-Droid - without Google getting in my way? No artificial hurdles, no dark patterns, no difficulty that they wouldn't impose on Google Play? After all, F-Droid has less malware, so in the name of safety the thing they should be putting warning labels on is the Google Play.
by EchoReflection | 2026-02-20 19:44:34+00:00
Who dissented in the Supreme Court tariff ruling?

The dissenters were Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh, with Kavanaugh authoring the principal dissent.[1][2][3]

Citations:
[1] Supreme Court strikes down tariffs - SCOTUSblog https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/02/supreme-court-strikes-dow...
[2] Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (Tariffs) - SCOTUSblog https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/learning-resourc...
[3] Northwestern experts on SCOTUS decision in tariff case https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/02/northwestern-e...
[4] Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump: An Empirical Breakdown of the Court’s IEEPA Tariff Decision https://legalytics.substack.com/p/learning-resources-inc-v-t...
[5] Live updates: Trump vows new tariffs after 'deeply disappointing' Supreme Court ruling https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/live-blog/-tr...
[6] Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump | 607 U.S. - Justia Supreme Court https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/24-1287/
[7] [PDF] 24-1287 Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (02/20/2026) - Foxnews https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2026/...
[8] Why a Republican Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs - Vox https://www.vox.com/politics/479919/supreme-court-trump-tari...
[9] Learning Resources v. Trump - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Resources_v._Trump
[10] The Supreme Court has struck down Trump administration's use of ... https://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/comments/1r9y4z8/the_supr...
[11] Supreme Court Strikes Down Use of Emergency Powers for Trump's ... https://www.agweb.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-use-em...
[12] Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs - NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/02/20/nx-s1-5672383/supreme-court-t...
[13] Supreme Court Invalidates Executive Tariffs Under IEEPA https://www.currentfederaltaxdevelopments.com/blog/2026/2/20...
[14] Live updates: Trump pans tariffs ruling, warns he can impose ... https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5746060-live-upd...
[15] Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow ... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court...
by celsoazevedo | 2026-02-20 19:45:20+00:00
I don't see the point in doxing anyone, especially those providing a useful service for the average internet user. Just because you can put some info together, it doesn't mean you should.

With this said, I also disagree with turning everyone that uses archive[.]today into a botnet that DDoS sites. Changing the content of archived pages also raises questions about the authenticity of what we're reading.

The site behaves as if it was infected by some malware and the archived pages can't be trusted. I can see why Wikipedia made this decision.
Hacked my chess ELO ranking as a beginner, went from 0-700 in 12 sessions
by smanna92 | 2026-02-20 19:45:26+00:00
I wanted to learn chess but never started because the feedback cycle took too long. Play on chess.com, go study moves somewhere else, come back, and you probably wont even see those moves in your next game. The loop never closes.

So I built Chess Rocket to hack that. It connects Claude Code to Stockfish through MCP, and Claude becomes your coach in real time. Every move gets evaluated while your playing. Blunders get full explanations, good moves get a nod. The depth of teaching scales with how bad the move was.

The key pieces: adaptive difficulty that adjusts to your level, spaced repetition (SM-2) that creates flashcards from your mistakes automatically, 3500+ openings from Lichess with live identification, and 280+ curated puzzles. The repetition and behavioral analysis is all handled by the system. You just play chess and talk to Claude, thats it.

I've been using it for 12 sessions, went from ~400 to ~700 Elo. The SRS cards do alot of the heavy lifting honestly.

Open source: https://github.com/suvojit-0x55aa/chess_rocket

Happy to answer anything about the teaching methodology or architecture.
Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions
by arashvakil | 2026-02-20 19:45:40+00:00
I have been dealing with a Reddit Ads account issue over the last week, and it has quickly escalated into a severe privacy and security red flag. It appears their customer support tools (or the agents themselves) are actively bleeding PII and crossing user sessions entirely.

Over the last week, I have experienced three separate incidents in their live chat:

Incident 1: Account Cross-Contamination (Feb 14)
While chatting with an agent (Sonam B), they managed to associate my personal email to a completely unrelated, bizarrely named ad account ("No Panties Games Ad Account"). When I pointed out they were pasting data related to someone else's account alongside my email, they tried to brush it off as an "error" and told me to "kindly ignore."

Incident 2: Direct PII Leak (Feb 20)
Today, while following up on the issue with a different agent (Naheeda M), they inexplicably dropped the email address (info@REDACTED.com) and the full legal business entity name of an entirely different advertiser into our chat.

Incident 3: Total Session Confusion and Misattribution (Feb 20)
Just minutes later in that same chat, things got much worse. While I was clearly logged into my own account, the agent told me: "The ad account you're currently signed into is u/TeorREDACTED, and ads are getting published with this username. Is that correct?"

This is no longer just a clipboard issue. This strongly suggests a severe backend mapping failure in their support dashboard (Zendesk/Salesforce or an internal admin tool) that is completely misattributing active sessions, user accounts, and ad publishing data.

If their support agents are seeing me as logged into someone else's account and claiming ads are publishing under that username, it raises massive questions:
1. Are agents making changes to other people's ad campaigns thinking it's my account?
2. Is ad spend being billed to the wrong accounts?
3. Who is currently seeing my billing details, legal name, and campaigns?

Given how broken their Tier 1 tools appear to be right now, I wanted to raise the flag here immediately. Has anyone else running Reddit Ads noticed their support agents leaking data or confusing accounts recently?
by heliumtera | 2026-02-20 19:45:43+00:00
Yep, this is the most exciting demo for me yet. Holy cow this is unbelievably fast.

The most impressive demo since gpt 3, honestly.

Since we already have open source models that are plenty good, like the new kimi k2.5, all I need is the ability to run it at moderate speed.

Honestly I am not bullish on capabilities that models do not yet have, seems we have seen it all and the only advancement have been context size.

And honestly I would claim this is the market sentiment aswell, anthropic showed opus 4.6 first and the big release was actually sonnet, the model people would use routinely.
Nobody gave a shit about Gemini 3.1 pro, 3.0 flash was very successful...

Given all the recent developments in the last 12 months, no new use cases have opened for me.
Given this insane speed, even on a limited model/context size, we would approach IA very differently.
by dunham | 2026-02-20 19:45:46+00:00
My little language Newt is 7 kloc. Dunno if it's worth including, it's mostly an exercise to learn how these things work and is not as polished as I'd like.

- Self-hosted

- Compiles to javascript

- Bidirectional typechecking with NbE (based on elaboration zoo)

- Dependent type checking

- type classes

- ADTs with dependent pattern matching

- TCO (trampoline for mutually tail recursive functions)

- Erasure of compile-time only values (0, ω quantities, but not linear)

- Web playground

- LSP (added this month)

- Syntax is similar to Agda / Idris / Haskell

https://github.com/dunhamsteve/newt
by mooreds | 2026-02-20 19:46:03+00:00
Fair point. As the author, I was explicitly looking at it in the context of technology or technology companies building communities around them. I was working in developer relations at that time, so building a community of practitioners around our software was a priority for me.

I didn't mean "community" in the general sense, though I have thoughts on how to build that too:

* show up

* be kind

* try to meet people where they are at, but have minimum engagement standards

* follow up and meet regularly

* leverage existing groups and communities (organizations like Rotary or friend groups) where possible
by dmschulman | 2026-02-20 19:46:15+00:00
One thing I've noticed is a large difference between what's served on Facebook's desktop site and what's served on their mobile version. I don't use the app, I just log into facebook.com on my phone, but the mobile version is serving 100% more of this AI slop than on desktop.

I think it's obvious why given the way users interact with sites/apps on their devices vs on desktop (they want to make FB mobile as TikTok-like as possible), but it's really striking how much of Facebook on mobile is just a bunch of AI slop at this point. I see some creep in on desktop too, mostly within the Reels/Shorts section (same creators/videos on both platforms, that is), but to see my recommended feed content be so vastly different indicates a lot to me about how the algorithm interprets user behavior and a lot of Meta's thinking about mobile audiences.

EDIT: mind you I don't follow a single topic or favorite anything on the platform, the content being served/recommended to me is purely based (as far as I can tell) on gender/demographic info they know about me and user behavior.
by lhopki01 | 2026-02-20 19:46:21+00:00
>Bureaucracies have diseconomies of scale. There is a point past which "larger" is no longer getting you significantly better amortization of fixed costs and is instead just increasing communication costs, adding layers of middle management, exacerbating the principal-agent problem and making you a more attractive target for corruption.

You write this as a self evident truth but it isn't. In what way is having a single trucking standard for the entire country less efficient than having 50? In what way is having a single currency across the entire country less efficient than having 50? In what way is having a single standard for approval of medication less efficient than having 50?

The US's advantage is precisely because of it's scale. It provides a massive addressable market allowing companies to scale rapidly.
by zeeveener | 2026-02-20 19:46:37+00:00
Both groups will operate on a wide spectrum, but if we're already generalizing...

Perhaps there's a matter of competing priorities?

Programmers are usually quite cynical overall, but in this case I see it as a "My CEO is telling me _out loud_ that they want to replace me, so why would I help them speed up that process?"

Investors likely want what they're invested in to appreciate, so I imagine they're likely over-leveraged and are doing what they can to get their bag.
by joecool1029 | 2026-02-20 19:46:46+00:00
> It seems like they will still allow installs, just hide it behind some scare text.

This was already the case for enabling sideloading at system level: it warned you. Nobody really says having this toggle is a bad thing, basically the user shouldn't get an ad network installing apk's just browsing around the web without their informed consent (and android has been found to be vulnerable to popunder style confirmations in the past).

They also already had the PlayProtect scanning thing that scans sideloaded APK's for known malware and removes it. People already found this problematic since what's to stop them pulling off apps they just don't like, and no idea what if any telemetry it sends back about what you have installed. There have been a handful of cases where it proved beneficial pulling off botnet stuff.

Finally, they also have an additional permission per-application that needs to be enabled to install APK's. This stops a sketchy app from installing an APK again without user consent to install APK's.

The question is: How many other hurdles are going to be put in place? Are you going to have to do a KYC with Google and ping them for every single thing you want to install? Do you see how this gets to be a problem?
by zb3 | 2026-02-20 19:47:07+00:00
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I was talking about the whole permissions system where the user is a third class citizen. Device manufacturers are second class citizens (restricted by Google via CDD/CTS) and the only true winner on that system is Google.

Regarding some concrete examples - Google can deeply integrate Gemini, but a competitor can't do this and users get no final say here either. Competitors are restricted by the permission system, Google is not restricted at all.

While rooting can alleviate this to some extent, Play Integrity is there to make sure the user regrets that decision to break free..