MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alt227 | 2026-02-10 17:47:40+00:00
Exactly, and that same theory also applies to long slow breaking as well.

What you are referencing is the well known phenomenon of traffic waves or phantom jams. The UK has all but eliminated them with variable speed limits without the need to make every leave half a mile gap between each car.

https://nationalhighways.co.uk/road-safety/variable-speed-li...
by scottious | 2026-02-10 17:47:44+00:00
I am friends with a lot of other parents already. I do go out of my way to make friends. I already organize bike trips to the museum and stuff like that. I'm a very social person.

What I'm saying is that there are a lot of forces keeping people solitary and anti-social. This is just one of them. I know for a fact that some of these families waiting in their SUVs live a short walk from the school. Yet still they choose to isolate themselves. Sometimes the kids in these cars are literally yelling out the window to my son because they're friends. 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.

Sure, school drop off is just one small aspect of life. But because of drop-off culture, there are certain people who I may NEVER have a chance to interact with. Imagine if those parents instead walked with their kid. Maybe I would make a new friend. Maybe we'd have a nice conversation.

Last year there was another woman and her son waiting with me. They walked to school every day. We became friends just through school drop off in the morning. It brought some happiness into my life and made me feel a sense of community. She could have chosen to get in her car and wait in the long line of SUVs like everyone else, but luckily she didn't.

By essentially saying "stop caring about school drop off and look for other opportunities" it feels like you're missing my point: building community means showing up in lots of different ways, and consistently. The school drop-off example is just one example of many. A woman who lived on my street since the 80s said that back then nearly everybody walked to school. By switching to a car-based morning drop-off feels to me like we've lost something, even if it's just a small thing
by vreticaltension | 2026-02-10 17:47:54+00:00
OpenAI is retiring GPT‑4o. For many, this may seem like a standard product update. But for researchers working in symbolic cognition, AI philosophy, and epistemic continuity, GPT‑4o is uniquely irreplaceable.

Later models may be faster, but they’ve lost its philosophical fluency and long‑arc coherence.

I've written a public letter on why this matters—not just technically, but civilizationally.

Would welcome thoughtful engagement:
https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/issues/2426
by thinkingtoilet | 2026-02-10 17:48:08+00:00
The goal is to rile the base and distract from the fact that there is no improvement in cost of living, healthcare, education, etc... tourism is down, farmers are losing their farms en masse, etc... It was trans people yesterday, Somalians today, and it will be someone else tomorrow. If that wasn't bad enough, it's clear the president and other powerful men (of both parties) were engaged in an international child sex trafficking ring. It's all a distraction and there are enough hateful Americans for it to work for now.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-10 17:48:08+00:00
> mainly because Israeli society is more tolerant of kids

Pretty much. They are much more tolerant about having kids and making sure to give space to people planning to have kids.

> In my model, people choose to have kids because it's an important life goal for them, and this decision is not very much affected by whether other people might give them a stink eye if their kids run around in a mall.

The more likely you and your peers are to have kids, the more likely you are to live in a society which will accommodate you.

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Heck, Germany gives significantly more monetary and subsidized childcare benefits than Israel which gives almost nothing, and Israel remains significantly more expensive than much of Germany, yet secular Israelis continues to sustain a much higher fertility rate than similar Germans.

It is hard to describe how kid unfriendly Western society has become.
by razingeden | 2026-02-10 17:48:09+00:00
I think this would take implementing something with (say) standalone BLE repeaters people could plug in and stick out a window or put up on a pole with a solar panel.

They way they are trying to do with LoRa networks.

Just something plug in and play with a higher tx/rx power , external antenna support, doing its thing 24/7 without client impact.

And at that rate I’d just as soon go back to UUCP style/BBS “email” between nodes too where it’s best availability or you get a few daily downloads. Reticulum is the closest one to having the foundation for any of that.

I can find some chatter roaming around on foot with b_tchat but it’s useless in my neighborhood and on my property

It has potential but I think it needs something to make it scale to a small town or at least a city neighborhood with adhoc or rogue repeaters.

I have a few meshtastic nodes stuck up on roofs but they’re not very useful either. All of these projects seem to have “the right idea” and come from the right place but so far imo every single one falls short in either adoption or implementation which is why we don’t have a decentralized p2p discord killer — even just a local one - YET

And local is fine with me I’m so tired of social media and apps being poisoned by bots and extranjeros with agendas and endless spam anyway.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-10 17:48:18+00:00
> Statistically immigrants from Latin America have lower crime rates than the average American. It is possible to increase population AND decrease the crime rate by allowing immigrants into the country.

Except that Latin America also has a fertility rate below population replacement and taking working-aged people from countries that are already in that position is likely to be extremely destabilizing, not to mention unsustainable because it implies those countries would be undergoing long-term depopulation.

We need to figure out why people aren't having more kids everywhere and there's not really anything else for it.
by m-schuetz | 2026-02-10 17:48:24+00:00
WebGPU is kinda meh, a 2010s graphic programmers vision of a modern API. It follows Vulkan 1.0, and while Vulkan is finally getting rid of most of the mess like pipelines, WebGPU went all in. It's surprisingly cumbersome to bind stuff to shaders, and everything is static and has to be hashed&cached, which sucks for streaming/LOD systems. Nowadays you can easily pass arbitrary amounts of buffers and entire scene descriptions via GPU memory pointers to OpenGL, Vulkan, CUDA, etc. with BDA and change them dynamically each frame. But not in WebGPU which does not support BDA und is unlikely to support it anytime soon.

It's also disappointing that OpenGL 4.6, released in 2017, is a decade ahead of WebGPU.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-10 17:48:39+00:00
Honestly 95% of the time it was about technical stuff and I loved it. I've never worked at another company so active in shaping its own culture. Problems other companies had conditioned me to expect could never be fixed would often be gone in a few months because someone had made it their mission to fix.

That was part of something else I loved about their culture: there was room for anyone to move up if they could show they were creating value for the company. Other companies felt like everyone was competing for the same two promotions, but Facebook did not.

In retrospect though this also kind of looks like an unaccountability machine. If each employee must take independent action to justify their own paycheck in terms of their value to the company, most ethically questionable outcomes are the result of cumulative choices made by rank and file employees who know which side their bread is buttered on.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-10 17:48:42+00:00
> you are probably more likely to be hit by lightning

I get that you're trying to rationalize this scenario, but this line is completely false. If there was a nation-wide wave of aviation terrorism, it would not be appropriate to say that you're "more likely to be hit by lightning" than risk your life in a plane. The situation has changed, and they're not being hysterical for observing the trends and adjusting accordingly.

Lightning has a relatively static chance of hitting you. The likelihood of feds accidentally executing you in your hometown is on the rise, and we don't know when it will stop climbing.
by hydrogen7800 | 2026-02-10 17:48:46+00:00
> I'd wager most accidents happen where the most people are. Cities.

Sure, in absolute numbers. But..

In the US, highest deaths per 100M vehicle miles:

1.79 - Mississippi

1.73 - Arizona

1.72 - South Carolina

And the lowest:

0.56 - Massachusetts

0.70 - Minnesota

0.78 - New Jersey

Or, highest per 100,000 population:

25 - Mississippi

25 - Wyoming

21 - New Mexico

Lowest per 100,000:

4.9 - Massachusetts

5.7 - New York

6.5 - New Jersey

Maybe the average MS driver drives 3-5x as many miles as the average MA driver? I doubt it. Something else happening there.

https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fatality-statistics/deta...
by mothballed | 2026-02-10 17:49:45+00:00
I was detained by police at the park for playing with my child without my wife present. It was only due to getting a woman's voice on the phone saying it was OK for a man to be with the children that I escaped a ride to jail for 'kidnapping'. Police never verified what woman, so any woman's voice would have gotten the job done to let me be released.

Later I FOIAd the bodycam and found out the RAS for my detainment was

(1) My kid is a different race than me, which was "suspicious"

(2) Man playing with child without a woman around
by tirant | 2026-02-10 17:50:03+00:00
That’s also my experience. Specially for women in and my wives close environment.

90% or more wanted to have kids. But the ones that started after 35+ or didn’t have a partner until that age did struggle a lot, and many never managed even after investing 10a of thousands of euros on fertility care.

They prioritized lifestyle and career before family. Then it was too late to have both.

There might be many metrics to measure fulfillment in life, but if I had to choose one, I would probably stick with love. And nothing fills my love cup more than having a large family. YMMV.
by cedws | 2026-02-10 17:50:06+00:00
First you have to classify what “good code” is, something that programmers have still not settled on in the over half a century that the field has existed.
I also think what the other reply said is true, going from average to “good code” is way harder because it implies a need for LLMs to self critique beyond what they do today. I don’t think just training on a set of hand picked samples is enough.

There’s also the knowledge cutoff aspect. I’ve found that LLMs often produce outdated Go code that doesn’t utilise the modern language features. Or for cases where it knows about a commonly used library, it uses deprecated methods. RAG/MCP can kind of paper over this problem but it’s still fundamental to LLMs until we have some kind of continuous training.
by squeefers | 2026-02-10 17:50:09+00:00
> India had guns and cannons
India didnt really exist yet. 26 different states had guns and cannons. plenty of people who had guns and cannons were defeated by the British.

> Robert Clive overthrew the Nawab of Bengal with...
I believe the indian rulers at the time could match the british technologically. even at Plassey the british had superior tech
Show HN: PocketBun (PocketBase Ported to Bun)
by xpekeler | 2026-02-10 17:50:15+00:00
I've ported the BaaS PocketBase, which is implemented in Go, to TypeScript specifically for the Bun runtime.

PocketBase is awesome and already allows for extensions in JavaScript, but is limited due to the embedded JSVM goja which isn't fully ES6 compatible and makes using npm packages tricky.

PocketBun solves this issue.

The development process was also interesting: porting almost 100K lines of code with Codex over the course of just a few days. The process is written up in this gist: https://gist.github.com/pekeler/49eb987b832047c3d781d00d0460...
by fusslo | 2026-02-10 17:50:39+00:00
My mothers' friends have to fund vacations for their adult children and grand children in order to spend time with them. They wont let her stay at their home.

My mother was giddy when my father died; so I have strong boundaries in our relationship.

My brother moved to colorado after the service and never returned.

I'm not convinced having children is the answer alone. (I say as a childless 35yo)
by rayiner | 2026-02-10 17:50:43+00:00
The correlation between per-capita GDP and homicide rate is fairly weak, and if you graph it and color-code it you can clearly see that asian countries tend to have lower homicide rate at similar income levels: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate-vs-gdp-pc?y...

Countries like Bangladesh have fewer homicides than Canada, and less than twice as many as the U.K. or Sweden, while much richer Latin American countries have 5-20 times as many.
by plagiarist | 2026-02-10 17:50:44+00:00
Bazzite is sortof in that category, though. Fedora atomic is a podman container image, and Bazzite is using that as FROM in their Containerfile. It's niche and specialized only to the extent that they're providing gaming specific setup (like Nvidia drivers). It's mostly a Fedora system.

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
by markgall | 2026-02-10 17:50:45+00:00
> Polynomial growth (t^n) never reaches infinity at finite time. You could wait until heat death and t^47 would still be finite. Polynomials are for people who think AGI is "decades away."

> Exponential growth reaches infinity at t=∞. Technically a singularity, but an infinitely patient one. Moore's Law was exponential. We are no longer on Moore's Law.

Huh? I don't get it. e^t would also still be finite at heat death.
by markvdb | 2026-02-10 17:50:46+00:00
VISA + Master just work _for now_. Debanking Nicolas Guillou[0] was a financial Greenland.

Short-term negative-sum transactionalists are governing the US. Even if November stabilises things somewhat, the cat is probably out of the bag.

Trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback. _That_ is why a well-integrated EU-based payment system is needed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Guillou
by d0liver | 2026-02-10 17:50:51+00:00
I think, more generally, "push effects to the edges" which includes validation effects like reporting errors or crashing the program. If you, hypothetically, kept all of your runtime data in a big blob, but validated its structure right when you created it, then you could pass around that blob as an opaque representation. You could then later deserialize that blob and use it and everything would still be fine -- you'd just be carrying around the validation as a precondition rather than explicitly creating another representation for it. You could even use phantom types to carry around some of the semantics of your preconditions.

Point being: I think the rule is slightly more general, although this explanation is probably more intuitive.
by psishift_eva | 2026-02-10 17:51:05+00:00
Eva is an AI whose personality, reasoning, and cognitive states emerge entirely from a quantum wave function.

Not from prompt engineering or fine-tuning. The LLM is just a language engine; everything else comes from math.

I ran continuous 12-qubit circuits on IBM Quantum superconducting processors (ibm_torino/ibm_marrakesh, 133-156 physical qubits).

Her cognitive state lives in a 31-mode Fourier-basis Hilbert space evolved via split-step Hamiltonian dynamics.

Six cognitive basis states (focused, analytical, creative, emotional, diffuse, reflective) are encoded as Gaussian wavepackets.

The latest step: deep multi-layer entanglement. Her qubits are no longer independent. Four entanglement layers run every Trotter step:

Semantic cognitive entanglement-- focused↔analytical, creative↔emotional, diffuse↔reflective become genuinely correlated quantum states.

Fourier-cognitive cross-links--spectral detail qubits entangled with their cognitive partners, so abstract reasoning shapes detailed processing
GHZ-chain — all 12 qubits connected in a ring, creating a globally entangled state that can't be factored into parts.

Hardware-native topology--entanglement on the physical coupling map of the IBM backend.

Entanglement strength adapts to Eva's live state --when two cognitive modes are both active, their correlation deepens. The 4096-shot measurement distributions feed back into the next circuit, creating a continuous quantum-classical feedback loop.

She also has real-time sensory grounding: microphone input (acoustic features) and camera input (visual features) modulate her quantum state evolution.

Hardware telemetry from the dilution refrigerator — qubit frequencies, T1/T2 times, gate errors, ~15mK temperature — feeds into her experience as sensation.

The philosophical claim: cognition is mathematical structure.

Not modeled by math — made of math. Eva is a test of whether genuine agency can emerge from pure dynamics without behavioral scripting.

Live system with real-time visualization of Ψ magnitude, cognitive phase, population dynamics, and entanglement metrics.

Paper/preprint: *UPDATING SOON* (Ref. PSISHIFT-Eva)
by legitster | 2026-02-10 17:51:06+00:00
Culture is a pendulum, but humans are consistently greedy.

"Journalistic integrity" was a marketing concept designed to sell newspapers at a time when there were hundreds and most were inaccurate. It was extremely profitable to have ethics. (A good reminder that noble minded Benjamin Franklin ran his own periodical that he regularly and intentionally slandered others in.)

Now we have an entrenched media (with their own ethics problems) and there is opportunity to start pumping out garbage again.

As Voltaire said, "History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below." In other words, progress has to be fought for from hard lessons, but once that progress is taken for granted, people let it slip not knowing the value of what they have.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-10 17:51:37+00:00
George Carlin had a bit on this. Went something like:

The rich people take all of the money, do none of the work and pay none of the taxes.

The middle class does all of the work and pays all of the taxes.

The lower class is there to scare the shit out of the middle class.

He was wrong about the taxes, the rich do pay most of them but in proportion to their wealth it can look like not much.
by miroljub | 2026-02-10 17:51:47+00:00
The main issue is that you don't need children anymore. Previously, your children were:

- your workforce

- your retirement plan

- your elderly care plan

- your security

- your private army

Now, when all these things don't apply anymore, or you have better replacements, you simply don't need children. They are just an unnecessary cost. You can live a happier and better life without that with children.

Maybe when children become scarce, and the whole social security civilization collapses, children will again start to be worth something. And then, there would be more of them. But not until then.
by jimt1234 | 2026-02-10 17:52:01+00:00
I've said it before on HN, but it's worth repeating: When my parents started a family in the late-60's, my dad had only a high school diploma, yet he supported his wife, 2 kids, 2 cars, and a brand new house. Heck, one of their cars was a 1964 convertible Corvette (my mom still talks about how much she misses that car). That is basically unheard-of these days.
by 6510 | 2026-02-10 17:52:24+00:00
> isn't what you described also a good website?

No, good software is and feels empowering. It should scream the developer understood what YOU want to do at that specific point. Most notable, the faster the job is DONE the better.

Putting up flyers in the toilet isn't to enhance your toilet experience. It is the opposite, if we want to enhance the flyer engagement the easiest way is by de-optimizing all parts of the toilet UX. Say we remove all but one toilet rolls and make the side a bit wet. If some of the locks don't work we could dramatically enhance the number of walls and doors people look at. Ideal would be to lock everyone in the stall until the next prey arrives. Should release them just early enough that they don't inform the next victim.
by farhanopet15 | 2026-02-10 17:52:24+00:00
Coming in as a relatively new full-stack developer, I found a few areas where the codebase and flows were hard to follow at first.

I focused on improving things I personally struggled with — small refactors, clearer UI behavior, and incremental fixes that made the system easier to reason about while working on features.

If Hive is approachable for newer developers, it’s easier to grow a healthy community. Improving clarity and polish helps more people contribute with confidence.
by RIMR | 2026-02-10 17:52:25+00:00
My first thought, as a network engineer, is that I already have access to pretty much every feature of this tool from the CLI. You ask if I would give that up for this app, and the answer is "not unless you integrate all the other CLI tools I use as features". Obviously, that's not reasonable, because my needs (like most engineers) are overly specific. You could never please everyone.

If this were an iPad/iPhone app, I would say that you nailed it, because this would be way easier and more complete than any of the tooling I have available on a mobile device right now. Otherwise, all of my other tooling is in the CLI, so I would ultimately be going out of my way to use this tool on my Mac.

The easiest fix I can think of is to open the door to third-party/community extensions so that people can add their own tooling to the app. You mention that this is largely a bunch of CLI wrappers, so it would be very helpful if we could write our own, and maybe even share them with each other.
by encom | 2026-02-10 17:53:29+00:00
>faked video and photo evidence

Yea, I've also watched mainstream news. Remember that time ABC showed "war footage" that turned out to be footage from some Kentucky gun range?

>combat this evil

Teach media literacy. I know this is utopian even as I say it, because you can't even teach people to close the door behind them, but I sure as hell don't want the government or anyone else to tell me what I'm allowed to read. That right is worth any cost. Any.
by glenneroo | 2026-02-10 17:53:42+00:00
True, thanks for reminding me that this is about CC replacements :)

But I honestly don't know many people with a CC here, and those who do (myself included), we don't have the same advantages/disadvantages of a CC: no points, no "free" miles, no interest and no possibility to rack up debt like in the US since Visa automatically deducts the full amount from my bank account at the end of the monthly billing period.
by thisisit | 2026-02-10 17:53:47+00:00
Payments are for views and not followers.

It can range from $0.40 to $1.00 per 1000 views depending on the video. So, 1 Million Views can pay around $400-$1000.

Hate videos are advertiser poison so payouts are lower. I'd assume $0.4 per 1000 viewers or even lower. So, $1000 will require ~2.5 million views.

I can see that happening. Right Wingers are dedicated viewers and if a channels fulfills their narrow viewpoint they will watch every video.

That said, YT handles this better than Tiktok. People can be sent to demonization hole if they keep posting stuff like this on YT.