MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nunez | 2026-02-11 01:28:00+00:00
Regulation and strong unions are the only thing holding airlines back from doing what the cruise lines did long ago: importing all of their labor from cheaper countries and paying them trash while working them to the bone.

In the meantime, captains at legacy airlines are the only ones getting paid well. Everyone else struggles to make ends meet. All while airlines constantly compain that they "can't find enough qualified pilots." Where have I heard this said before...

Also, every pilot is subject to furloughs, which happen every time economic headwinds blow a little too hard, which resets their tenure, and their payscales, if they switch employers.
by cstever | 2026-02-11 01:28:17+00:00
With the how AI companies are advertising we can just tell the AI what we want and it will be done with no additional human interaction needed, why do we need a new type of development platform? We shouldn't need to collaborate at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJUuJtGgkQg

* This is snarky. Yes. But seriously.
by telui | 2026-02-11 01:28:28+00:00
In the era of YouTube's bad moderation, Flicker fixes that, Flicker is a platform meant for you, without hype at all, it features interactive videos, because its actually a powerpoint presentation others can comment on, and a powerpoint presentation thats public, Flicker is meant to be fun, where you can express yourself without bad moderation banning you for no reason.

Screenshots:

https://joinflicker.pages.dev/cdn/design1.png
by kittikitti | 2026-02-11 01:29:00+00:00
I don't think the ideas linking immigration to population growth or decline are productive. It hides the root cause of potential population decline. Why aren't people who are raised in the US having children? I think it's because most of us are lonely and miserable.

Perhaps we can try and take care of each other, and many other things will show signs of improving? There needs to be more access to things like healthcare, childcare, education, entertainment, leisure, arts, recreation, and so much more. There needs to be more love in our societies and the numbers that indicate well-being will follow. After all, what is the point of all of this? To get a promotion?
by traes | 2026-02-11 01:29:30+00:00
I understand not watching a 3 hour video before leaving a comment, but this is a disrespectful reaction to a very well thought out video by a professional physicist giving a nuanced opinion about Feynman's legacy. She acknowledges many times in the video that Feynman was a great physicist who deserved his Nobel prize. The central topic of the video is dissecting his public image and the many books published under his name that he did not in fact write, including Surely You're Joking and indeed the Feynman Lectures, as well as criticizing misogynistic behaviors celebrated in those books that has left a negative impact on the culture of physics.

(And also, "cutting him a tiny bit of slack" is pretty lax language considering the behavior being criticized includes beating his wife.)
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-11 01:29:37+00:00
> Now, the pyramid has sort of been turned on its head,

It has, and the financial system enables that, the self-restraint that was promised at the time of gutting Glass-Steagall never materialized.

> But there are limits to this.

Yes and no.

Yes, because there are limits as there's a limit to the load placed on a ship, if you overload it with some cargo, something or somebody must be thrown overboard in order to preserve the ship.

No, because those who're responsible for loading and overloading the ship are the ones commanding and steering it. When they overload the ship they get to throw you overboard and keep your stuff too... there's nothing to compel them to stay within limits and everything to tempt them to do the opposite.

We've been already thrown overboard with regard to hardware purchases, that will spread to other areas with the BS AI excuse.

So many comments, other than yours, around here engage in deep thinking about the profits or losses of Captain Ahab... they miss the point entirely.
by shagie | 2026-02-11 01:29:45+00:00
While I knew that one off the top of my head... one of the neat "Show HN" that I recall from a bit ago: Show HN: Find the relevant Xkcd comic for your post using RAG https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799291

> How it works - Simply paste your entire message or post into the search box to get the most relevant xkcd for it. No need to search by keywords, etc.
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-11 01:29:50+00:00
I don't know the answer but it's an interesting problem to have.

Instant redistribution can be seen as a cost-center and entice strategic investors to work in the background for the firm. I am thinking like a Paid Advisory Committee.

It's really about getting the ball rolling sooner in terms of investor returns. If it's going to happen, why defer it? It could also be at the discretion of the investor.

Good points, though.
by nomilk | 2026-02-11 01:30:07+00:00
From a marketing perspective I'd argue it's good naming, since it sells the value of the library, rather than simply its feature/s. (i.e. its feature is 'handling webhooks' but its value is in allowing (the dev) to not have to deal with webhooks.

Steve Jobs once quipped about a similar thing he observed in the dairy industry's 'Got Milk?' marketing campaign, which focused on the absence of the product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzPwMguPasM
by kungfufrog | 2026-02-11 01:30:52+00:00
Hi Philip, have been following GlassKube and Distr for a while.

Have you considered the perspective that this could be used for internal deployments of product as well to multiple clusters/environments?

It puts a lot of pieces together end to end that are missing from building a deployment system around the defaults ArgoCD etc. There's a substantial gap between ArgoCD and getting to automated CI/CD with multi cluster support etc.
by headsman771 | 2026-02-11 01:31:27+00:00
> I don't want him going close to the cars because they've LITERALLY been pumping out pollution for 10-15 minutes (those early spots are very coveted). I have to tell my son to hold his breath when we bike on the empty sidewalk past these idling cars. It all just feels very anti-social and dystopian.

Yes, I'm sure there's absolutely nothing you're doing to engender the general atmosphere of distrust...
by merlincorey | 2026-02-11 01:31:50+00:00
"Flappy Bengt"[0] is broken at least on my browser it's not playable as a human (nor LLM) due to requiring too large of an APM for anything but TASbot or a special purpose mechanical robot to play.

[0] https://bengt-andon.github.io/bengt-website/game.html
by the_fall | 2026-02-11 01:32:17+00:00
35 years ago, a good chunk of the current EU was under a Soviet-imposed totalitarian rule. Spain was a dictatorship until 1975. And it's been just 80 years since WWII.

It always boggles my mind that most Europeans are absolutely convinced that nothing like that could ever happen again. Meanwhile, many people in the US are convinced that the government will be coming for them any minute now.
by loeg | 2026-02-11 01:32:23+00:00
> SCOTUS has found non-protected categories can still be protected because they are "proxies" for protected categories. One of the classic examples of this are zip codes[0], which was found to be a proxy for race, because it has a "disparate impact" on people of particular races.

This was probably wrong, both in terms of interpreting the existing law and as a statement of what the law should be. Sometimes bad facts correlate with race; that should not be a reason to deny using the measure for e.g. hiring or lending.
by 46493168 | 2026-02-11 01:33:03+00:00
>In practice, Japan seems to be fine

Japan seems to be fine? Japan, which created its own lost generation [0]? Japan, which has a word for "death by overwork" [1]? Japan, which has 9 million abandoned homes in ghost towns [2], the highest public debt in the developed world [3], and healthcare system under strain because old people are being left there for no other reason than there's no one to care for them? [4]

In what way is Japan doing fine?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

[2]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/15/in-japans-ageing-co...

[3]https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/123015/3-eco...

[4]https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7533196/
Early signals that EU AI Act compliance is becoming a sales blocker for AI SaaS
by rishe_s | 2026-02-11 01:33:14+00:00
Noticing a pattern where AI SaaS teams don’t think about the EU AI Act
until an EU customer or partner asks for documentation.

At that point, teams realize compliance isn’t just legal review,
but requires technical documentation they don’t have ready.

Curious if others are seeing similar signals or preparing earlier.
by gnabgib | 2026-02-11 01:33:18+00:00
A lot of gilpignol.substack.com and medium.com/gp2030 in your history, perhaps it's time you submitted something that isn't self-promotional.

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by walkersnice | 2026-02-11 01:33:47+00:00
The police officers operate autonomously 99% of the time, but 1% fall back to a remote worker in the Philippines, sometimes the same agent.

Scheduling overheads account for some of the latency.

This is all compounded with anything vaguely legal, at which point decisions are escalated to legal support.

This has led to a drop in legal disputes, keeps legal costs low, and keeps the courts clear.

Surge pricing in SF applies during periods of low agent availability, such as public holidays in the Philippines, or public discontent in other regions of the world.

Sorry about the intersection though.
by MrDrMcCoy | 2026-02-11 01:33:49+00:00
I personally find nothing about ComfyUI to live up to that name. Node-based workflows are unruly, and you have to know in advance what you need to do for anything to work. Just poking around and figuring stuff out is nearly impossible even for technically literate but AI-inexperienced folks.

You could argue that is what pre-made workflows are for, but that doesn't work super well for users that are off the blessed path in terms of not having Nvidia hardware like everyone assumes. I personally find using stable-diffusion.cpp on the command line to be considerably easier to figure out. Last I saw, it's even shipping a usable demo web ui for those that really want one (my workflow benefits from heavier scripting, so point and click is far too slow and clunky).
by eddythompson80 | 2026-02-11 01:34:32+00:00
I think there are 2 parts here. That persona you’re describing (startup cofounder or engineer being paid mostly in equity) is a good subset of the people here. If I had to pull a number out of my shiny metal ass, I’d say it’s 30%. Those people both loath big tech, and dream of the day they are acquired by it. It’s not really the contradiction you think it’s. Another 45% of people here are tech-savvy Reddit refuges who say Reddit things.

As to why would those company acquire a startup instead of having an agent generate it for them. Why has big tech ever acquired tech startups when they could have always funded it in house? It’s not always a technical answer. Sometimes it’s internal Political fights, time to market, reduce competition, PR reasons or they just wanna hire the founder to lead a team for that internally and the only way he’ll agree is if there is an exit plan for his employees. I sat in “acquire or build” discussions before. The “how hard would it be to just do that?” Was just one of many inputs into the discussion. Ever wondered why big big companies acquire a smaller one, not invest in it, then shut it down few years later?
by popcorncowboy | 2026-02-11 01:34:50+00:00
They'll raise at double that or more before the end of the year. The dynamics of the VC market right now are staggering to watch, but the money velocity is real, and this has "ex-CEO of Github" plus "AI".

It's legit mania in VC world even as they're looking at each going "is this mania? Is it mania if you're asking if it's mania". The only rule right now is the music is playing so no-one wants to grab a chair. There's a sense this might come crashing down, but what's a player gonna do, sit on the side while paper markups are producing IRR that is practically unprecedented?

This kinda has to end badly at this point.
by ranguna | 2026-02-11 01:34:58+00:00
Why would anyone use wero when the digital euro gets released?

The article briefly touches this point but dismisses it saying wero and the digital euro complement each other, but doesn't go into detail on how. I see no point in a privately run digital currency when we can have a public one. I guess whichever has good privacy, reliability, ease of use and speed will win.
by greatgib | 2026-02-11 01:35:55+00:00
Uk, France and European product are big historical producers of dairy products. So you can't tell me that ingredients have to be imported from China because they are not available locally, or because China would provide a better quality for them...
And the proof that it is not the case is that indeed the contaminated ingredients are coming from China.

The point is that somehow someone made the decision that there was a few cents of benefit to make to outsource the sourcing in China despite the risk, the environmental impact and the violation of customer trust about the safety of the product.
by zkitty | 2026-02-11 01:36:32+00:00
To use WebMCP, you need:
- Chrome: Version 146.0.7672.0 or higher, which means a next release.
- Flags: The "WebMCP for testing" flag must be enabled.

What is WebMCP?
WebMCP is a proposed web standard that exposes structured tools for AI agents on existing websites. This would replace "screen-scraping" with robust, high-performance page interaction and knowledge retrieval.
by Twisol | 2026-02-11 01:37:06+00:00
> [...] no, I am not confused, because I was giving an example of why the Telnet-implementation, the program, the client, was so inadequate for playing on MUD servers.

Then this is at the heart of our disconnect, because the post of mine that you originally replied to --- as well as, unless I drastically misread, the original article under discussion --- was concerned with traffic on port 23, the Telnet protocol port, and not with any particular implementation communicating on that port. The concern of my original comment was that this might affect MUDs that operate on port 23. Perhaps you can understand my confusion when you reply stating categorically that most MUDs do not use the `telnet` program, when that wasn't really what was at concern (and therefore implied that my question had no basis).

It is a true fact that many MUDs operate on port 23. Many do not, but you can skim a MUD aggregator like MudConnect [0] to see that it is quite common. Aardwolf, Discworld MUD, and the IRE games --- which consistently topped TopMudSites (when that aggregator was still running, anyway) all operate on 23, potentially in addition to an unreserved port.

> what surprises me is that it is mandatory, and your clients don’t seem to interoperate without it? That is a strange reversal!

All telopts are disabled by default, per Telnet RFC; the only things you must absolutely parse under the RFC are the standard complement of NVT commands (such as IAC GA "Go Ahead"), even if they are otherwise implemented as no-ops.

Any 7-bit clean input stream is treated as pure data -- with the incidental exception of bare `\r`, which must always be followed either by `\n` or by `\0`; but Postel's Law has turned that into more of a guideline. So as long as the standard NVT encoding is assumed (which is just 7-bit ASCII) and the NVT core escape sequences are avoided, a modern Telnet-based MUD client can interoperate with a 7-bit clean plaintext MUD server without issue.

Some MUD clients will eagerly send IAC DO / IAC WILL subnegotiations, but general practice is to let the server offer first -- probably precisely to ensure compatibility with MUDs that don't implement Telnet subnegotiations.

> Now as for the Diku, LP, and other “combat” type games, I’ve no idea

Diku-family MUDs are certainly the ones I have the most experience with. I understand LP MUDs also generally have Telnet support; or at least, I recall seeing a patch for them that MUD owners often sought to apply to their games.

[0]: https://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?mode=tmc_bigli...
by pedro_caetano | 2026-02-11 01:37:11+00:00
> The concept of a physical card is obsolete.

We have progressively absorbed single function items into a mobile computer.

Watch, notepad, calendar, phone, flashlight, camera, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.

The issue with declaring single function items as obsolete is that it removes redundancy and really sets us all up for an increasingly more critical single point of failure in our pocket.
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-11 01:37:17+00:00
I have been a champion of Apple's MacOS Migration Assistant workflow for well over a decade. My system is stable enough that I won't consider a "clean" start with a new machine. I've had to reinstall for disaster recovery outside of that.

But I also love Homebrew and I'm glad that will become an option going forward. I have a Launchd job update and run maintenance on all brew tools every night.
by Brybry | 2026-02-11 01:37:57+00:00
Do you have a citation for this? I can't find anything showing that 2022/0155(COD) has passed the EU Council or Parliament (nor can I find any scheduled votes). [1]

The most recent related information I could find was some movement to extend the temporary derogation of the ePrivacy Directive, which expires on 2026/04/03, to 2028/04/03 but even that did not seem to have passed yet. [2]

The very fact they're trying to extend the temporary derogation hints to me that they think it'll take some time yet to pass Chat Control (if at all).

[1] https://oeil.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?refer...

[2] https://oeil.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?refer...
by zdragnar | 2026-02-11 01:38:12+00:00
A friend of mine (in an entirely different industry) went through five rounds of interviews with a company and got passed over for someone internal.

A little while later, the same company reached out and encouraged him to apply again. Five rounds later, and he got passed over a second time.

Fast forward two years and they reached out to him a third time. He's basically convinced that because he's black he's their token DEI interview candidate to make them feel better about themselves while internally promoting the people they actually want, but of course they wouldn't actually say that.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-11 01:38:47+00:00
A footnote for those of the millenial or more recent persuasion: we take the full “vastness of the heavens” as given, as we’ve seen it described pretty confidently all the way back to the science books of our childhood. But cosmology, and frankly the entire field of astrophysics, is strikingly young. The idea that nebulae are in fact whole independent collections of stars, and that the observable universe is large enough to accomodate all of that, is younger than quantum mechanics and relativity both, and only got acceptance after a huge fight. The name “Big Bang” was originally a pejorative used in a similar, later fight. And so on. When Feynman said this, the idea of nebulae as galaxies was younger (~40 years) than the key idea of quarks (confinement/asymptotic freedom) is today (~50 years), and I’m guessing the latter still counts as new and arcane in your mind.
by spijdar | 2026-02-11 01:38:55+00:00
The modern MUSH forks do generally support telnet, but yes -- as a 29 year old who's been pathologically obsessed with "MUD archeology" off and on, I'll confirm -- historically, most MUDs did not do any sort of Telnet negotiation.

Further, most older clients did not anticipate any kind of Telnet negotiation from the server, and will print garbage to the screen if connecting to modern MUSHes that do. (I've tested tinywar, vt, and that one VMS client...)

MUCKs never, to my knowledge, implemented telnet, though. They barely support ANSI escapes, nevermind Telnet. :-)
by the_fall | 2026-02-11 01:39:16+00:00
Maybe I'm getting hung up on words, but my beef is with the parent saying they find real numbers "completely natural".

It's a reasonable assumption that the universe is computable. Most reals aren't, which essentially puts them out of reach - not just in physical terms, but conceptually. If so, I struggle to see the concept as particularly "natural".

We could argue that computable numbers are natural, and that the rest of reals is just some sort of a fever dream.
by skydhash | 2026-02-11 01:40:48+00:00
> what problem was it trying to solve, and how did it do it differently from alternatives?

Sounds to me like accidental complexity. The essential problem is to write good code for the computer to do it's task?

There's an issue if you're (general you) more focused on fixing the tool than on the primary problem, especially when you don't know if the tool is even suitable,
by SchemaLoad | 2026-02-11 01:40:49+00:00
I have the ikea home hub and it basically is maintanance free. There is no need or even a UI for updating/managing/reinstalling the OS. It just works and has been just working for years.

For other systems like photos and file storage the main complication would be around backups which fall back on the user. If your home automation hub dies, you just chuck a new one in and re-pair your lights. If your photo server drives die it's a disaster. Realistically you'd want to have a backup copy on the cloud, which would lead many casual users to wonder what the point of even hosting the server is if you still need to pay for the cloud backup.
by derefr | 2026-02-11 01:40:58+00:00
Oldschool telnetd didn’t actually run as root; rather, it just set up a PTY for the incoming socket to talk to, and then fork-exec’ed a /bin/login subprocess to live inside that pty. /bin/login is setuid-root, so it’s “where the security lived.”

I think we all collectively decided that that was a bad idea at some point — probably because /bin/login was never designed under the assumption that it would have to deal with arbitrary binary network traffic being thrown at it (it really only expects keyboard input.) So we switched to doing auth directly in our network daemons, since at least then “people who are aware the code is network-facing” would be maintaining it.
by metalman | 2026-02-11 01:41:07+00:00
children are not sexual.

sexualising THEM is a criminal perversion

persueing them and forceing/tricking/convincing them into any sexual activity must be prosecuted as pre meditated assult AND attempted murder as children who have survived such assults always have life long trauma and poorer out comes than others who were unharmed in this way

our duty is to catch and punish criminal perverts and mark them for life, second offences must have catestrophic consequences
for those criminals

as to free speach, I would concede this much,you can say what you want, but certain things may not be writen down and published, and advocating for criminal activity, is that crime.

and my god, look, actualy look , listen, and watch children, they are awe inspiring and marvelous little monsters, but they are not sexual, curious of everything, but with all the passion of an owl in a lab coat.

I have a strong suspiscion that the thrice killed bog bodys found all over europe may have been such perverts, clubbed, strangled, and there throates cut, kept as object lessons for bullies and other clever types.
by westurner | 2026-02-11 01:41:11+00:00
From https://github.com/pulp for example:

> All contributors must indicate in the commit message of their contribution if they used AI to create them and the contributor is fully responsible for the content that they submit.

> This can be a label such as Assisted By: <Tool> or Generated by: <Tool> based on what was used.

But which metadata is better stored in git notes than in a commit message? JSON-LD can be integrated with JSON-LD SBOM metadata