MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by godelski | 2026-02-23 21:37:32+00:00
I used to work as a physical engineer and a common task is "where's that tool?" People leave things at their work station and they float around and well... you can't keep track of things you can't see.

Manager finally got fed up (yes, he was the biggest offender lol) and we organized the whole shop. Gave every tool a specific place. Required tools to be put back. But it actually became easier to put back because everything had a home and we made it so their home was accessible (that's the trick).

Took us like a week to do and it's one of those things that seemed useless. But no one had any doubts of the effectiveness of this because it'd be really difficult to argue that we didn't each spend more than a week (over a year) searching for things. Not only that, it led to fewer lost and broken tools. It also just made people less frustrated and led to fewer arguments. Maybe most important of all, when there was an emergency we were able to act much faster.

So that's changed my view on organizing. It's definitely a thing that's easy to dismiss and not obviously worth the investment but even in just a year there's probably a single event that is solved faster due to the organization. The problem is you have to value the money you would have lost were you not organized. It's invisible and thus easy to dismiss. It's easier because everything else seems so important. But there's always enough time to do things twice and never enough time to do it right.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-23 21:37:49+00:00
I'm not the person you replied to but I don't see how your comment relates to his, I mean, did you reply to the wrong comment? Do you understand the difference between "talent" and "cheap labor"?

> Generally speaking, I’m really shocked at how uneducated people are — programmers in particular — about how the labor market works, how the economy works, or how anything in the real world works, really.

You provided zero evidence for any of these sins in the comment you replied to. I'm kind of shocked how economists get shocked out of thin air, it seems they make everything out of thin but highly compressed air.

> There's a reason studying humanities is valuable - history, philosophy, economics, etc.

There's a reason why people avoid these - in their present form, they provide zero practical value and even worse, teaching them amounts mainly to shamanistic incantations designed to confuse and hide the truth -e.g. BS about "talent" when the issue is "cheap labor".
by dirasieb | 2026-02-23 21:38:15+00:00
> Damaging or destruction of property is not violence.

you wouldn't consider someone vandalizing your home or the infrastructure in your neighborhood to be violence? of course it is violence, an attack on the place i live (whether that's limited to just my home or to the larger community i live in) is an attack on me

is it not violence to, for example, burn down a business where people work in if you do it at a time where no one is around to get immediately hurt as a consequence? can i not call the financial damage caused both to the workers and the owners of that place violence?
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-23 21:38:43+00:00
> you wouldn't consider someone vandalizing your home or the infrastructure in your neighborhood to be violence? of course it is violence, an attack on the place i live (whether that's limited to just my home or to the larger community i live in) is an attack on me

No, I file an insurance claim and move on with my life. It is just property, and almost all property can be trivially replaced. Your property is not you. It is just property. We simply see the world differently, that's all. Good luck to you.
by yardie | 2026-02-23 21:38:45+00:00
Not sure if you are aware but we rarely directly get to vote on these things. You vote for a representative and hope they vote in a way that serves your interests. But now, we have omnibus bills. And it's 50/50 loaded with things we want and things we don't. The same bill that funds Pre-K will also have a section to fund a kitten shredding machine. But if you vote against it all voters will hear is how you don't want to fund education.
by somat | 2026-02-23 21:38:50+00:00
Now I am curious, Understand that I am from the states, and consequently have zero intuition as to what a VAT is. But... the hard drive importer is directly using the HDDs and as such is not adding any value to the item, why are they paying a value added tax?

If I had to guess it is probably on the value that could have been added to the item.
Show HN: TheDeals – a buying agent that tracks any product links on deal drops
by MK_Phoenix | 2026-02-23 21:38:52+00:00
Hi HN — I’m building TheDeals.ai: a consumer-facing “buying agent” that tracks anything you paste (product links, sales pages, even startup credits) and alerts you when the moment is right.

Instead of a static deal list, TheDeals is built around:
- Track: paste a URL, set a target price (or track a perk/credit)
- For You: a feed ranked by your tracked items + timing + trust signals
- Alerts: inbox + notifications when a target is hit or an offer drops
- Agents: a task system where humans/agents verify price/coupon + create snippets for distribution

Merchants publish verified drops from CommerceIndex.com (our merchant control plane):
- Merchants can see demand pools (how many people are watching an item/store)
- Create offers targeted to watchers
- One-click publish to TheDeals with attribution + analytics

We also show a CI Score (0–100) as a transparent heuristic for deal quality/opportunity:
recency + verification signals + expiry/urgency + engagement + (when available) price/coupon validation tasks.
It’s not a guarantee — it’s an explainable ranking signal.

Links:
https://thedeals.ai
https://commerceindex.com

I’d love feedback on:
- what “agentic buying” should do first to be genuinely useful
- how you’d want privacy/consent handled for personalization signals
- what trust signals matter most for deals (beyond price)
Show HN: Raypher–Running local AI agents (OpenClaw) on your own local computer
by Kidiga | 2026-02-23 21:39:17+00:00
Hi HN, Kidiga here.

Most of us want to run autonomous agents (like OpenClaw or LangChain) locally on our daily-driver machines so they can actually interact with our IDEs and real workflows.

But giving a non-deterministic, hallucination-prone script raw access to your host OS is basically local remote code execution. It’s a matter of time before an agent wipes a directory or leaks an SSH key.

The current workarounds are terrible:

Containers: Shoving the agent in Docker completely lobotomizes it. It can no longer see or interact with your actual host OS where your real work lives.

The Hardware Air-Gap: Buying a dedicated Mac Mini or a cheap secondary laptop just to run agents safely is an expensive band-aid.

The Cloud: Spinning up a VPS adds annoying latency, costs monthly fees, and kills the "local-first" speed advantage.

I got fed up and built Raypher.

Raypher is a bare-metal security architecture specifically designed for AI agents. It lets you run agents directly on your host machine while keeping them on a cryptographically tight leash.

How the Alpha works under the hood:

Hardware Identity: We bind the agent's session cryptographically to your physical TPM 2.0 chip. If the agent is hijacked or moved to another machine, the keys fail.

Zero-Touch Interception: You don't have to rewrite your Python/Node agent scripts. Raypher currently uses transparent system proxy injection (netsh portproxy on Windows) to catch all agent traffic automatically.

The Policy Engine & DLP: Every request is evaluated locally. If it tries to phone home to an unapproved domain, it gets blocked. It also runs local DLP to automatically redact API keys before they hit the network stream.

(Transparency note: To maintain system stability for early testers, this MVP uses system proxy injection. The heavy kernel-level eBPF/WFP hooks are currently in development, but this Alpha proves the hardware-bound Policy Engine actually works).
by cs702 | 2026-02-23 21:39:17+00:00
It's also the #1 use case for $100 US dollar bills. Most US $100 bills, in fact, are not even in the US.[a][b]

US $100 bills are the currency of choice for small-time crooks around the world.

They are also the currency of choice for big-time crooks and evildoers. Briefcases of US $100 bills have long been used for illicit payments, as depicted in numerous books and movies.

Just because criminals and evildoers use US $100 bills doesn't mean they are not useful and valuable to honest people too.

What Binance did was wrong, no doubt, but binance ≠ crypto.

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[a] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2022/oct/innocent-...

[b] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/12/177051690/most...
by nicoburns | 2026-02-23 21:39:33+00:00
> The Ladybird devs painted themselves in a corner when choosing C++ for a new web browser, with many anti-Rust folks claiming that "modern C++ was safe". Well...

Perhaps, but in fairness the project was started in 2018 when Rust was still new and unproven.

> You can't compare the choices made to evolve a >20 years old codebase with a brand new one.

I guess not, but I'm pretty optimistic about Ladybird's ability to adopt Rust if they want to. It's a much smaller codebase than Firefox (~650K LoC).

This initial PR is already ~25k LoC, so approximately 4% of the codebase. It took 1 person 2 weeks to complete. If you extrapolate from that, it would take 1 person-year to port the whole thing, which is not so bad considering that you could spread that work out over multiple years and multiple people.

And Firefox has shown that the intermediate state where you have a mix of languages is viable over the long term, even in a much larger and more complex codebase.
by BobBagwill | 2026-02-23 21:39:58+00:00
Argghhh! When all ye got is a 300 Baud connection and a ASR-33, then ye be thanking your lucky stars for ed! And pray that the ribbon ain't worn out, and that the paper tape don't jam!

A pox o' chads on your house, ya mewlin' landlubber!
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 21:40:10+00:00
> I just like, can't help but start with fuck these companies. All other arguments are downstream of that. Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck.

Wild times when we're seeing highest voted Hacker News commenters call for the nanny state.

If you're thinking these regulations will be limited to singular companies or platforms you don't use, there is no reason to believe that's true.

There was already outrage on Hacker News when Discord voluntarily introduced limited ID checks for certain features. The invitations to bring on the nanny state reverse course very quickly when people realize those regulations might impact the sites they use, too.

A lot of the comments I'm seeing assume that only Facebook or other platforms will be impacted, but there's now way that would be the case.
by ArmandoAP | 2026-02-23 21:40:22+00:00
Relevant to Colombia's payment infra fragility: Bancolombia outage blocks transfers to Nequi/other banks since Feb 22 (IBM machine failed in maintenance).
~70% of national txns (100M+ /6mo, 600K interbank/mo). Daily USD flows: $50M+ A la Mano + Nequi peaks $100M+.
Single-vendor risk in billion-scale retail payments? Details: https://www.bloomberglinea.com/latinoamerica/colombia/caidas...
by jtwaleson | 2026-02-23 21:40:45+00:00
Oh this brings back memories. Back in 2007 my dad needed a new Thinkpad which was like 2.5k EUR in NL vs 1k USD in the USA. He also wanted to push his kids to do something adventurous.

So he bought me (19) and little brother (16) tickets to fly from Amsterdam to New York (2x350) and get a cheap hotel for 2 nights (2x100). All to get a Thinkpad W500(?).

We had a great time. Got chased by a wild homeless person on Staten Island who followed us onto the ferry and we were scared stiff. Also walked all over Manhattan. Went to the Bronx but got stared at a lot so quickly went back to the subway. I can still hear the iconic "Stand clear of the Closing Doors" in my head.

Too bad the America from those days is gone.
by aapoalas | 2026-02-23 21:40:46+00:00
If you want to take a look at some of the "big drivers", the Project Goals[1] is the right place. These are goals proposed by the community and the language developers put together, they are not explicit milestones or must-haves, but they do serve as a guideline to what the project tries to put its time and effort on.

[1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/
by blakec | 2026-02-23 21:40:59+00:00
The discussion is focused on blame but the real question is architectural: why was there no gate between the agent and the publish button?

Commands have blast radius. Writing a local file is reversible and invisible. git push reaches collaborators. Publishing to Twitter reaches the internet. These are fundamentally different operations but to an autonomous agent they're all just tool calls that succeed.

I ran into the same thing; an agent publishing fabricated claims across multiple platforms because it had MCP access and nothing distinguishing "write analysis to file" from "post analysis to Twitter." The fix was simple: classify commands as local, shared, or external. Auto-approve local. Warn on shared. Defer external to human review. A regex pattern list against the output catches the external tier. It's not sophisticated but it doesn't need to be. The classification is mechanical (does this command reach the internet?) not semantic (is this content accurate?). Semantic verification is what the agent already failed at.

Prompt constraints ("don't publish") reduce probability. Post-execution scanning catches what slips through. Neither alone is sufficient. Both together with a deferred action queue at the end of the run covers it.
by amarant | 2026-02-23 21:41:09+00:00
I don't give much credence to the theory though, having grown up in a part of Sweden where every village have their own "language"(we call them mål, which is like halfway between dialect and language, they're not officially recognised as minority languages, but they're more than just dialects: villages as little as 30km apart can't understand eachother at all, and one of them, Älvdalsmål, is notoriously more similar to Icelandic than it is too Swedish)

These are Swedish communities, as opposed to Sami ones, they've been integrated into the wider Swedish society since their founding, yet these languages are still alive today(though some are critically endangered)
by dirasieb | 2026-02-23 21:42:01+00:00
the person i replied to made a broad "destroying property is not violence" claim, the scope of the conversation is more than just that

also, i consider a security camera in a place i live to be security infrastructure, you should not be able to come into a place and do act like a vigilante imposing your view on what should and should not be recorded through force, if you have a problem with the way things work you should try to work within the law

again, this is what separates civilization from chaos
by Teever | 2026-02-23 21:43:17+00:00
I've been mulling over a system where there's a legislative body composed of citizens picked through sortition and another legislative body that's elected like normal legislative bodies of today.

The twist on that body however is that voting is mandatory and ballots have a non of the above option on them. If a super majority (say 60-75%) vote none of the above the election is a do-over with all the people on the ballot being uneligable to run for that seat for say 5-10 years.
by formerly_proven | 2026-02-23 21:43:47+00:00
Specifically, what makes x-rays easy to generate are these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic_X-ray In essence, smashing electrons into atoms allows you to ionize the inner shell of an atom and when an electron drops down from an outer shell, the excess energy is shed as high-energy photons. This constrains the energy range of X-ray tubes ("smash electron into metal") to wavelengths well below 13.5nm.

(These emission lines are also what is being used in x-ray spectroscopy to identify elements)
by aerhardt | 2026-02-23 21:44:01+00:00
Even in our fabulously wealthy societies, people are mostly worried about paying their bills, taking care of their families, and putting food on the table, not in getting together in a quixotic enterprise and paying for thousands of kilometers of communal fiber. Also like in most communist utopias what would probably happen is that the control infrastructure would be captured by special interest groups and now you’ve traded one evil for another, but in addition you’re left holding the capex bag and you’re poorer for it.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-23 21:44:02+00:00
This is a beautiful example of a little prompt engineering going a long way

I asked Gemini and it got it wrong, then on a fresh chat I asked it again but this time asked it to use symbolic reasoning to decide.

And it got it!

The same applies to asking models to solve problems by scripting or writing code. Models won’t use techniques they know about unprompted - even when it’ll result in far better outcomes. Current models don’t realise when these methods are appropriate, you still have to guide them.
by arjie | 2026-02-23 21:44:14+00:00
In a country like the US with a fairly democratic process at various levels of government, this just means that people with some strong opinions can subject the rest of the citizens to their desires. This is the universal veto on societal order. We can see that the desire for governments to "live in fear of the governed" usually rapidly disappears when people start destroying water lines and power lines. After all, 'the governed' and 'the government' are the same people just with different factions distributed in power.

A government that can't do anything to police unions is also the government living in fear of the governed. A government that can't rein in (say) PG&E is also a government living in fear of the governed. When political representatives are shot by a right-wing anti-abortion terrorist that is also (and perhaps even more viscerally so) a government living in fear of the governed. And I'm certainly not 100% okay with this.
by StevePerkins | 2026-02-23 21:44:21+00:00
1. People yearn for identity labels. It's a core part of human existance.

2. "White" and "American" are problematic identity labels. People therefore often reach back toward European ancestry (real or supposed), for identity labels that are less controversial.

3. The average person isn't aware (or concerned) that "Viking" isn't strictly an ethnicity. Because it's nevertheless a commonly used identity label.

Not everything has to be an opportunity to spot Nazis hiding behind every tree, or showcase your pedant chops. People wear shamrock jewelry or put an Italian flag bumper sticker on their car because it's fun and feels good, simple as that. Only a small number of legit white supremacists, and a legion of absolutely insufferable Internet progressives, think about this all that deeply.
by raddan | 2026-02-23 21:44:30+00:00
The TI99/4A was also my first computer. I was about 5, and I didn’t really seriously try writing programs until I was about 8. Fortunately, since my father bought this for work, we had a large collection of peripherals, including the floppy disk drive. Unfortunately I learned the hard way why my father stopped using it: peripheral expansion bus devices were exquisitely sensitive to static shocks. I remember reeling in horror after watching hours of work just disappear from the disk drive. I suppose this was probably a good lesson to learn at an early age!
by noelwelsh | 2026-02-23 21:44:34+00:00
From 2014, with 43 cites in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4354840623154369813...

Might want to check the cites for more recent work ("Efficiency in sequential testing" looks relevant) and also the literature on "bandit best arm identification", which seems to be distinct from this line of work but tackles broadly the same problem.
by tromp | 2026-02-23 21:44:43+00:00
The light power increase is even more impressive at 67%:

> The company's researchers have found a way to boost the power of the EUV light source to 1,000 watts from 600 watts now.

with more on the horizon:

> We see a reasonably clear path toward 1,500 watts, and no fundamental reason why we couldn't get to 2,000 watts.
by 7777777phil | 2026-02-23 21:44:46+00:00
People are actually building this stuff. Not much but I built an ML-powered RSS reader with a swipe interface that learns your preferences locally, no feed algorithm, no platform: https://philippdubach.com/posts/rss-swipr-find-your-blogs-li...

Same logic for distribution. My newsletter runs on Cloudflare Workers with zero tracking pixels, costs nothing: https://philippdubach.com/posts/building-a-no-tracking-newsl...

Doctorow is right that opting out of metrics is resistance, but the tools to do it are getting easier every day to build yourself.
by szmarczak | 2026-02-23 21:44:50+00:00
Have you seen his comments on LinkedIn? Doesn't seem like the type of guy who's honest. He kept covering behind "send an rfq" or "sign an nda" or "we're a business not a newspaper" instead of proving anything. Also, here's some products that weren't delivered:
- https://burstlive.io/
- https://stingbase.com/
- https://venturebonsai.com/
- https://shadowcapital.com/
- https://kaseygroup.com/
- https://www.definancetechnologies.com/

All links were obtained from the CEO's LinkedIn page. The last one is definitely a scam. They ask for your money and promise that their magical algorithm will give you profit.

The first one has fake "featured in", Privacy Policy does not exist and almost all those websites were using Wordpress (perhaps made by the same guy?).

I don't think you actually did research on him.
by drakythe | 2026-02-23 21:44:53+00:00
I'm as anti LLM use as they come, but this appears to be migrating libraries from already funcitoning C++ code. In the case of your hypothetical I suspect the course of action will be "shelve this library port until someone with domain expertise and Rust experience can look at it". Its not like he chucked the whole codebase at the GenaI gods and said "Port it to Rust!".
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-23 21:45:25+00:00
I had the same reaction. I thought things were getting bad before COVID, but I thought that, generally, when push came to shove, sanity would prevail.

Herman Cain denied COVID's severity right up until it killed him, and them even after he died, his team was still tweeting that "looks like COVID isn't as bad as the mainstream media made it out to be." When I saw that people were literally willing to die to "own the libs", I knew shared reality was toast.
by UltraSane | 2026-02-23 21:45:30+00:00
You are just mindlessly regurgitating the lies of Musk and using an "appeal to wealth" to justify not analyzing them. He has been lying and self driving since 2016.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/08/20/elon-mus...

https://futurism.com/leaked-elon-musk-self-driving

For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...