MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epsilonsalts | 2026-02-09 19:09:05+00:00
Mobile app to generate and share keys over BT/WiFi direct; wotkees for web-of-trust. Use keys from meatspace meetups for 1:1 sharing over whatever protocol, HTTP, SSH, rsync, etc

Also; a Vulkan powered canvas/viewport to replace the desktop metaphor, render 3D worlds from my own photos and videos. The canvas will be paired with a model trained from image data, and further tuned via use. Applying all kinds of concepts; segmentation, depth maps. I am converting text files to images to extract text into entities to render too. Driving idea is it's all just geometry. Think "boot to Blender" and running the desktop metaphor inside or change modes to 3D worlds.

And finally, a local only agent framework in Go with a twist. Most code is defined as Go AST in JSON and leveraged like tools, with handcrafted artisanal code limited to just enough to make it work. It also leverages bpf for event driven generation of sched_ext schedules and has system telemetry observation to load balance itself. It's designed to generate a JSON data model first to constrain code and then check both against a hosted LLM, other local models.

Still dialing in exactly what the Vulkan canvas and agent framework are. The key chunks are there, but they are not quite to a complete POC/MVP state.
by 0x3f | 2026-02-09 19:09:32+00:00
Well you could have government-run cryptographically signed tokens. They're already in the business of holding ID data (i.e. they don't need to collect it and this wouldn't increase the attack surface).

But assuming it has to be a private solution, you could do the same thing but make it a non-profit. Then at least _new_ services you wish to use don't need to collect your ID.
by ck2 | 2026-02-09 19:09:54+00:00
No way LA Olympics can happen

Right now ICE hasn't opened any of their human warehouse "internment camps"

and their quota is "only" 3000 souls per day

Now scale that out 1,000 more days and predict what's going down

Every tourist will be a viable target, there are no consequences for arresting people with paperwork, it just meets quota

Heck they could be grabbing athletes, there were some events this year in US where athletes from various countries in Africa could not get visa permits
by pixl97 | 2026-02-09 19:10:17+00:00
>Binary code is not "language" in this sense

Any series of self consistent encoded signals can be language. You could feed an LLM wireless signals if until it learned how to connect to your wifi if you wanted to. Just assign tokens. You're acting like words are something different than encoded information. It's the interconnectivity between those bits of data that matters.
by jackcviers3 | 2026-02-09 19:10:18+00:00
I mean, I grew up with AOL AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC... yet I switched every time a new tech came out with more of my friends on it. Why do we think discord will be any more sticky than Digg or Slashdot, or any of the above?

People will migrate, some will stay, and it will just be yet another noise machine they have to check in the list of snapchat, instagram, tiktok, reddit, twitter, twitch, discord, group texts, marco polo, tinder, hinge, roblox, minecraft servers, email, whatsapp and telegram, and slack/teams for work.

Absolutely exhausting to be honest.
by its_magic | 2026-02-09 19:10:28+00:00
In fact the Yankees, Californians, and city slickers of all sorts are FLOODING into the southeast USA, and have been since they suddenly decided all at once in 2020 this is where they need to be for some reason. I've never seen so many foreigner plates in my life here in Alabama. (New York, California, etc.) Between them and the half of Mexico/Guatemala who already lives here, it's getting pretty crowded out here in rural nowheresville these days.

At least I can be thankful it's not as crowded here as East Tennessee, North Carolina, etc are getting to be. Yet. The very bad reputation of Alabama among a certain crowd seems to keep more of those types away.
by gamesbrainiac | 2026-02-09 19:10:34+00:00
We have seen many stories like this. Some doubt the authenticity, but what is evident is that these things are happening again and again with impunity. Perhaps you don't think the situation is bad enough, or the details are exaggerated.

However, the fact that a man can be pulled of the street despite having legal status should be alarming. You don't need to care about the Irishman, but you should care about justice.
by grog454 | 2026-02-09 19:10:36+00:00
> You said it correctly with "would've been safer to start building a distance buffer", that is the proxy the insurance companies want to use for risk assessment.

Then use it? Mandate reaction speed tests or other driving mechanics competency evaluation (not road sign comprehension) and watch insurance margins explode.

The driver in my example did poorly and scored top marks in the heuristic.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-09 19:10:37+00:00
Observations:

1) Poking around our local peaks I find that the calculation appears granular, it's offering me things I could see from the summit that I could not see from where I clicked.

2) It's offering me one I never even considered looking at (peeking just beside another mountain, the terrain appeared flat, I never realized there was a distant peak there) and one I knew about--and know I have no hope of actually seeing.
by jpadkins | 2026-02-09 19:10:38+00:00
Even if you know how the compiler and OS constructs work, you might not know how the hardware circuits work. Even if you know circuits work, you might not know how the power generation or cooling work. Even if you know how the power generation works, you don't know how extracting natural gas works or solar panels are created. etc,etc

My takeaway is that modern system complexity can only be achieved via advanced specialization and trade. No one human brain can master all of the complexity needed for the wonders of modern tech. So we need to figure out how to cooperate if we want to continue to advance technology.

My views on the topic were influenced by Klings book (it's a light read) https://www.libertarianism.org/books/specialization-trade
by spaceoperareadr | 2026-02-09 19:11:15+00:00
ISFDB has tens of thousands of self-published books listed. Since it's a volunteer project, and since specific self-published books are not necessarily easy to find if you don't know the title or the author name, they only get added when an editor there runs across them somewhere. And if something isn't listed there, you can always create an account and add publications yourself.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-09 19:11:23+00:00
This idea was the explicit business proposition of my college scholarship program. It included "summer internships" which turned out to be selling undergrads for $30 an hour while paying us $9 an hour.

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how many hours you hire someone who doesn't actually know what they are doing, even though they teach themselves new things sometimes, because writing a few hundred lines of TI-BASIC is not a foundation that you can build a "Turbotax for end of life care planning" service out of.

Unfortunately, I was charismatic and good at meetings and sounding smart and confident, so they loved my work even though I never delivered a single thing other than the barest of mockups.

I can't help but find terrible similarities in AI slop.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-09 19:11:33+00:00
Just so people know, the reason these are called elliptic is you can write the general form of a conic as

Ax^2 + Bxy + Cy^2 + Dx + Ey + F=0,

...for some constants A, B, C, D, E, and F, then an ellipse is where

B^2 - 4AC < 0.

Well, you can write the general form of a second order linear pde in two variables x and y as

Au_xx + Bu_xy + Cu_yy + Du_x + Eu_y+Fu = G.[1]

Where A, B, C, D, E, F, G are constants or functions of x and y. An elliptic PDE is where

B^2 - 4 AC < 0.

eg Laplace's equation (u_xx+u_yy=0) or the Schrodinger equation.

[1] In this notation, u(x,y) is the unknown function of x and y and u_xx denotes the second partial derivative of u with respect to x and you can extrapolate for the others.
by pipes | 2026-02-09 19:11:37+00:00
This is an odd coincidence, I went back to Linux recently because win 11 driving me nuts.
Unfortunately I've got two problems that just seem unsolvable.

Unstable wifi network connection and temporary image retention if I use variable refresh rate.

I'm on mint Linux, Nvidia 1660 super, tp link usb WiFi. Other users reporting the same. Back in 2010 on another pc I had the same issues with WiFi on mint.

I don't have the time to mess with this stuff.

I'm considering win 11 lts. I really would prefer not to.
by exogen | 2026-02-09 19:11:53+00:00
Somewhat familiar with them, but can't say I've ever built anything with them. I'm curious though: are you aware that people already consider React and its cousins to be immediate mode style APIs for the Web? At least, as close as you can reasonably get when your rendering target is the DOM? That's why `UI = f(state)` is so often cited in React literature; components are functions that don't know anything about the "widget tree" or "instances" or anything like that, you always just return the latest output that you want with the data/input you receive, as if you are rendering "from scratch" each time. Components don't really know whether they're "initializing" or "updating" or anything like that, they just know they're "rendering"; React takes care of reconciling that output with the actual DOM.

So, if that's not good enough for you, what would an even more faithful immediate mode API even look like? (And if your idea includes ditching the DOM as the render target, which is inherently "retained mode" and could never be otherwise due to performance and DOM state (like focus), I'm afraid it's a nonstarter.)
by gibspaulding | 2026-02-09 19:12:45+00:00
I’ll be curious to go through your tutorial later as book binding is something I’d like to learn. I was really excited recently when I was able to get Claude Code to write me a python script to generate a custom weekly planner since I haven’t found a commercially available one laid out like I’d like. Unfortunately I haven’t found anywhere that can print something pocket sized for me, so for it to be actually useful, I’m going to have to print and bind it myself.
by sp33der89 | 2026-02-09 19:12:50+00:00
All metaphors break down at a certain point, but power tools and generative AI/LLMs being compared feels like somebody is romanticizing the art of programming a bit too much.

Copyright law, education, just the sheer scale of things changing because of LLMs are some things off the top of my head why "power tools vs carpentry" is a bad analogy.
by cyberax | 2026-02-09 19:13:14+00:00
I find that these reductive stereotypes are... actually true.

Not all the Middle Ages were really Dark, but some of them were.

> It assumes people in very different places for 1,000+ years did the same thing and had the same views

But that was true, wasn't it? The Dark Ages started when Christianity spread through most of Europe. And really completely ended only when the Reformation fractured it.

And sure, the Reformation was made possible by internal forces within the religious institutions, slowly building ideological foundation for it.
by 4corners4sides | 2026-02-09 19:13:50+00:00
This article is a really good summary of current thinking on the “world model” conundrum that a lot of people are talking about, either directly or indirectly with respect to current day deployments of LLMs.

It synthesizes comments on “RL Environments” (https://ankitmaloo.com/rl-env/), “World Models” (https://ankitmaloo.com/world-models/) and the real reason that the “Google Game Arena” (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go...) is so important to powering LLMs. In a sense it also relates to the notion of “taste” (https://wangcong.org/2026-01-13-personal-taste-is-the-moat.h...) and how / if it’s moat-worthiness can be eliminated by models.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-09 19:14:27+00:00
One data point - in my local Simon Property shopping mall, the Eddie Bauer store closed down a few months ago. A new LL Bean store is "coming soon".

In retail, a certain rate of chain/brand churn is what you'd expect. If the public feels that some chain or brand is iconic, or has been around forever - that does not magically protect the underlying corporation from missing the boat on marketplace changes, or having its management go downhill, or the founder selling out to PE, or whatever.
by twistedpair | 2026-02-09 19:14:55+00:00
In the age of Claude Code et al, my honest biggest bottleneck is GH downtime.
I've got a dozen PRs I'm working on, but it's all frozen up, daily, with GH outages.

Are the other providers offering much better uptime GitLab, CircleCI, Harness?
Saying this as someone that's been GH exclusive sicne 2010.
by leeoniya | 2026-02-09 19:15:20+00:00
i used something like this in unstructured technical interviews all the time.

"you type a phrase into google search, you press enter, get some results. tell me, in technical detail, what happened in that chain of actions"

the diversity of replies is fascinating, you learn a lot about a "full stack" candidate this way.

Feynman's classic "Why?" chain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
by cheschire | 2026-02-09 19:15:39+00:00
Perhaps you may have not read about how Iran is moving to a whitelisted internet. Or perhaps you believe this will not happen in your country.

However, “think of the children” will always result in more restriction in western countries, not less. We are watching countries prove that it works to isolate from each other. Europe is not isolating from America in exactly the same way, but is isolating business processes from American services.

We are not on the cusp of the end of the internet, but the cliff sure seems in view to me.
by vardalab | 2026-02-09 19:15:54+00:00
I don't know you can find that traffic always bunches up. And if one is content to sit in the gaps in between, almost never anybody cuts in. I drove twice 1000 mile trips each way last year and it kind of worked. It's more of a mindset than anything else. Fastlane is not that fast or it would be empty, lol.
by legitster | 2026-02-09 19:15:57+00:00
Also, to add to this - the "dark ages" were kind of a misnomer. The center of culture and science in the West packed up and moved from Rome to Constantinople. What we think of as the "dark ages" were really the "barbarian" tribes of Europe (starting with the Franks), slowly becoming educated and cultured within the shadow of the old Roman empire.

Also, the monks and scribes creating palimpsest were not thoughtless. In the West we enjoy a very wide collection of ancient texts specifically through the diligent work of making and distributing copies. They were remarkably literate and intentional in their work.

A lot of these palimpsest were not entire books, but fragments or loose pages that had built up over centuries and then bound and repurposed. They were not any more sentimental with them than you would be with a pile of old journals from a thrift shop. A collection of celestial observations done by the eye were certainly not of particular interest to them.
by angelina200 | 2026-02-09 19:16:01+00:00
We recently automated a task that used to take some manual hours and was pretty boring itself - documentation and user how-to guides creation, since before the ability to use AI technology, this was pretty time-consuming thing to do. Now it takes around 15 minutes.

The workflow is simple: record your screen of a task, workflow or feature walkthrough (even without audio) -> get a step-by-step guide with titles, descriptions, and contextual screenshots out of it automatically, auto-translate, and edit the output if needed as in a regular doc before final export for help center or sending it to the user.

This automates the process and makes documentation much less painful, because you can start with a solid base and refine if needed instead of a blank page. We built our own tool based on this workflow, maybe will be useful for others, too.
by yial | 2026-02-09 19:16:34+00:00
I wouldn’t relate this directly to cognitive performance.

But my anecdotal experience working with younger employees / interns has been an uptick in situations where they become “paralyzed” by a fear of making a mistake, coupled with the inability to ask questions / seek out help.

They’ll google, or use ai, but if that doesn’t deliver an answer instead of asking a co worker, they will sit on an issue until someone follows up with them.

There also seems to be a huge fear of submitting “something” that’s not good enough where the preference seems to be “nothing” if they’re worried it’s not good enough.

I notice this in organizations I’ve been in leadership roles, but also have had this expressed to me by a half dozen peers in other organizations.
by srean | 2026-02-09 19:16:34+00:00
I have always wondered about this. The verb for the first person is to 'see'. To a third person you 'show'

For the first person there is 'listen' (or 'hear'). Does English not have a corresponding word for the third person ?

What about Germanaic or Nordic languages ? Do they have a third person analogue of 'listen' ?
by Anon1096 | 2026-02-09 19:16:41+00:00
> It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services

That's not at all how you measure uptime. The per area measures are cool but the top bar measuring across all services is silly.

I'm unsure what they are targeting, seems across the board it's mostly 99.5+ with the exception of Copilot. Just doing math, 3 (independent, which I'm aware they aren't fully) 99.5 services brings you down to an overall "single 9" 98.5 healthy status but it's not meaningful to anyone.
by greygoo222 | 2026-02-09 19:16:43+00:00
GLP-1s are the greatest medical innovation of the past decade. Top three, at least, mRNA might give them a run for their money.

There are known side effects, mostly gastrointestinal issues, and they don't work for everyone. That being said, I'd recommend you make your own risk assessment and consider getting on GLP-1s if you have the cash to spare. You might find that GLP-1s increase your quality of life so much that it's well-worth it (or that you get terrible nausea and immediately quit, and then you no longer need to wonder).

Potential risks have to be weighed against potential benefits. There are robust RCT results showing GLP-1s reduce all-cause mortality, major cardiovascular events, and stroke among patients with obesity or T2D by 13-14%, and suggestive evidence that some of these benefits apply to non-overweight people, though this hasn't been confirmed in RCTs and is likely smaller in magnitude.

"Cardiovascular and renal outcomes of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists among patients with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus: A meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266666772...

One reason to believe that cardiovascular benefits might apply to non-overweight people is that among the available evidence on overweight and obese people, weight loss doesn't seem to explain all benefits. See Figure 1 or the analysis section of the SELECT trial.

"Semaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes by baseline and changes in adiposity measurements: a prespecified analysis of the SELECT trial": https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

The main plausible long-term risk is thyroid cancer. Data from a meta-analysis of RCTs suggests a 55% (large error bars) increase in thyroid cancer risk.

"GLP-1 receptor agonists and the risk for cancer: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials": https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/do...

This is concerning, though it's worth noting that thyroid cancer is rare (1% lifetime incidence) and unlikely to kill you (98% 5-year survival, 99.9% when caught early). No studies have linked GLP-1s to a statistically significant increase in cancer-related mortality. I don't want to be too confident because RCTs have not yet shown this and I'm not an Eli Lilly shill, but cohort studies suggest GLP-1s are associated with reduced risk of other cancers. This is a good overview:

"Glucagon-like peptide-1 medicines and cancer": https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-025-01110-1
by lassejlv | 2026-02-09 19:16:45+00:00
I couldn’t find a database studio that met my needs, so I built my own. QueryStudio is an open-source, cross-platform tool developed with Rust, React, and Tauri. It has a built-in native AI agent, requires no login, and is completely free to use. Check it out on GitHub and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/querystudio/querystudio
by tavavex | 2026-02-09 19:16:56+00:00
> This is about as logical as saying people should just drive safely, so we don't need guardrails and seat belts.

This is a terrible analogy. Regulations related to driving only apply to drivers, if you're a pedestrian then you're not subject to basically any regulations that licensed drivers have to abide by. On the other hand, internet regulation like this punishes absolutely everyone to safeguard a small group, that being parents. It's like legally forcing pedestrians to wrap themselves in bubble wrap while outside so the careless drivers who couldn't behave don't dent their cars and get hurt when a pedestrian flies in their windshield, when they inevitably collide with one of them. Why is any of this their responsibility?

The fact that there is absolutely zero effort in pursuing any non-punitive options (like forcing ISPs to put networks of clients with kids in child-friendly mode, where the adult has to enter a password to temporarily view the unrestricted internet on their network, which should cover 90%+ of cases; or doing any of the proposed non-identifying proofs of age, like a generic "I'm an adult" card you can buy at the convenience store) should tell you that this has very little to do with actual concern for children. They went out of their way to enact the least private, most invasive, most disruptive option, which will not even work better than any privacy-friendly options, unless you expect literally every website on the internet to be compliant. Teens are smart, they'll be able to find any holes in that system, just like the generations before them.

> For that matter, I'm surprised that HN automatically always accepts the "slippery slope" fallacy while lambasting it everywhere else.

Slippery slope arguments are not automatically a fallacy. They can be if the causative relationship is weak or if the slope is massively exaggerated. But if neither of these things are true, "slippery slopes" is just looking at the trends and expecting them to continue. You can't look at a linear graph and say "well, I think there's no most likely option from now on, it could go any way really" without an argument for why the trend would suddenly deviate. The internet had been tightening up and the walls have been closing in for a long time, why would that change?
by kube-system | 2026-02-09 19:17:19+00:00
A common misconception.

First, the insurance company incurs costs just processing the claim. If things escalate with the other party, they may even incur legal and court costs.

Additionally, there are some costs that are incurred regardless of fault -- like personal injury protection.

Even defining "who was at fault" is a complicated situation. A lot of people presume that it is as simple as: whoever the police issues a citation to at the scene is 100% at fault. But that's not the way things actually work. The way liability is assigned depends on the state, but in a comparative negligence state you could be proportionately liable for as little as one percent of the fault of the accident. Maybe someone else ran a red light, you entered the intersection on green, and hit them. You could end up sharing some of the cost for that, if it is found that you could have avoided the accident but decided not to.

And even after all of this, if the other party runs out of money, doesn't have insurance, or runs away at the scene, your insurance company is stuck paying the costs under their uninsured/underinsurred motorist coverage.