MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dijit | 2026-02-02 12:26:53+00:00
The question assumes we know what someone believes before we've spoken to them. That's the actual problem here, people are being excluded based on assumed beliefs rather than demonstrated behaviour.

Opinions evolve through exposure to different viewpoints, not through isolation from them. The homophobes and racists of the 80s who changed their minds didn't do so because they were shut out of communities - they changed because they were forced to actually interact with the people they'd made assumptions about. That contact broke down the assumptions.

When you exclude someone pre-emptively because you've decided what they must believe, you've eliminated the possibility of that evolution happening. You've also replicated the exact mechanism that made 80s bigotry so pernicious: denying participation based on identity or assumed characteristics rather than actual conduct.

Everyone thinks they're right. The racists thought they were right. The homophobes thought they were right. You think you're right. I think I'm right. That's why behaviour-based boundaries matter more than belief-based ones. Judge people on what they actually do in the space, not what you assume they think.

If your moral framework requires everyone to already agree with you before they're allowed to participate, you're not building a community - you're enforcing an orthodoxy. And orthodoxies don't evolve, they just calcify.
by pixelpoet | 2026-02-02 12:27:06+00:00
> The question Microsoft should ask themselves is why they built them in the first place

It seems like everyone except MS themselves knows why: they got tunnel vision from Azure and AI, and completely forgot about what actually made them successful.

Hell they even burnt down one of the most famous brands in the world, MS Office, for zero reason other than to try and whitewash their Copilot name. The marketing guys who made that decision urgently need to find another line of work, because literally a Labrador licking his balls all day would have resulted in a better outcome.

The PMs are completely asleep at the wheel, when they aren't actively self-sabotaging.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2026-02-02 12:27:33+00:00
As another EU citizen I'm strongly against it. There is a reason one of the 5Ds of the Potsdam Conference was "Decentralization".

This is just way too close to the nationalist-wing ideology of the 2nd International. Combine that with the overall strong shift left during the last 30 to 40 years and the staggering unawareness of the ideologies of the Internationals (beyond buzzwords) and you've put yourself on a path for repeated history.
by epolanski | 2026-02-02 12:28:39+00:00
We definitely need more focus on creating a true single market.

It is difficult to scale across Europe.

Most countries will gladly fall back to "we do how we please in our country, Europe won't tell us what to do!" which is the usual nationalistic rally to which many fall prey not realizing how good it would be to start making small but steady steps into common regulations.

We really need a strong internal market.
by teekert | 2026-02-02 12:29:25+00:00
I agree. I just want to tell you that those people are an exceedingly small minority.

To deny another human being the rights you enjoy is imho the same as denying yourself those rights (because I, as a 3rd person, see both people as equal, and otherwise there is a paradox). This is the basis of our justice system, we "put people away" in cages, and in some places even kill them, because they believed their right to swing their fist does not end at someone else's nose. But presumably they would not enjoy a fist to the nose themselves.

But does it mean "100% open borders"? (notice the 100%) Should those rights pertain to (higher) animals? (notice the "higher")

There is nuance to explore, there are many ways to be a humanist. I.e., dumping mosquito nets in a mosquito rich area may be seen as helping, but not to local mosquito net makers (and thus you are not helping anyone in the long term, because the mosquito net makers are all bankrupt).

There is always nuance. And there are always exceptions, and your statements generalize exceptions to much larger groups, demanding action on a scale that is unwarranted, imho. Both sides are responding vividly to exceptions, to lack of nuance, to 160 character statements in all caps.
by thom | 2026-02-02 12:30:30+00:00
Juggling is one of hobbies with the highest ratios of being able to impress random people versus the actual effort you have to put in, and I generally find I never forget 3-ball stuff I learned as a kid. It's also as good as a long walk for getting you out of your head when needed.

Shout out to anyone that remembers the Mushy Pea juggling shop in Manchester many years ago, where I learned all sorts of circus skills.
by metalman | 2026-02-02 12:31:10+00:00
The modern versions of empire are showing off all of deviant proclivities of our species.
Humanity must find a way to move forward with individual soveriegnty, for which privacy, education, and financial freedom are keys, or live with the horrors of insane
people continiously gaining controll of state/empire aparatus and turning it to cults of genocide.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2026-02-02 12:31:26+00:00
> The pain of ripping this all out properly is likely too high.

That is just completely illogical and betrays a complete lack of understanding of how Windows works. Most problems people have with Windows are in the user mode, and not in the kernel. The pain of reverting straightforward UI/UX/vendor-provided application code that is probably version-controlled and tagged for specific historic Windows releases is 'too high', so, therefore, let's do something that's even higher cost, and...

> windows 13 or 14 will just be a linux distro

Ugh, not this again. It looks like this train of thought will never leave HN commenters who probably have never seriously actually used or programmed on Windows. Literally every week I see 'Windows should keep the same user mode and move to the Linux kernel'.

You guys know what another Linux kernel running a locked-down user mode stack is called? Android.
by aebtebeten | 2026-02-02 12:31:45+00:00
Ah trolling gone right (at least as long as I'm an HN orator instead of laborator?)

I'd originally heard it as "M— Ä— Heu?", which sounds even less like the source language, but invites the pedantically accurate reply that no one mows hay: one mows grass.

"Beg to report, sir," said Schweik innocently, "I can't be called upon to zombie properly to-day, as they were all out of B R A I N S in the K.u.K. canteen this morning."

(It's somewhat interesting reading a heavily bowdlerised translation of Hasek after having read Zweig; for instance, I know enough about the sorts of young women who provided —for a modest fee— photos to their fans to make an educated guess as to the suitability of Lt Lukash' album for mixed company)
by nickslaughter02 | 2026-02-02 12:31:51+00:00
> the European Union risks subordination, division and deindustrialision all at once

Whose fault is that? Who is constantly forcing regulations which hurt EU industries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Deal#Job_losses...

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/12/16/eu-carmakers-t...

Instead of fixing the problems they have created they are now placing taxes on imported heavy goods.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/01/eus-carbon-bor...
by metalman | 2026-02-02 12:32:00+00:00
The modern versions of empire are showing off all of deviant proclivities of our species.
Humanity must find a way to move forward with individual soveriegnty, for which privacy, education, and financial freedom are keys, or live with the horrors of insane
people continiously gaining controll of state/empire aparatus and turning it to cults of genocide.
by pvtmert | 2026-02-02 12:32:10+00:00
> That would be even worse than not being able to update macOS on the DFU port. I'm supposed to remember which of 3 ports I originally used, forever??

I simply use the port that is closest to the MagSafe. Haven't tried much with the M1 macs though, since because my M1Pro MBP was issued by the company and had lots of restrictions on it.
Show HN: Public domain classics delivered as weekly email installments
by pipnonsense | 2026-02-02 12:32:26+00:00
In 2020 I posted this, "Show HN: Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in your email" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24307752

It got front page for a few hours. I posted in the anniversary of when The Count of Monte Cristo first started to be published in serialized form. To celebrate it, I created a website called "Serial Literature" that allowed you to subscribe and read the book in a similar way, serialized, but in your email. I also added another famous work that was initially published serialized, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I later added about other 100 books to be read the same way (not all of them originally serialized).

I never posted about it anywhere else (maybe flopped on Reddit, I don't remember), but it got a lot of engaged subscribers. It never grew over that initial HN burst (I never advertised it again), but it got about 1,000 subscribers and, years later, a few dozens of those were still reading some book through Serial Literature.

That was until... a startup failed and my web app wouldn't work anymore.

At the time, I wanted to build something serverless and learn some new tech. I chose FaunaDB, learned their proprietary query language (FQL), actually enjoyed it a lot, and built the site with it. It was pretty neat and worked fine. But then, 5 years later, around June last year, their service stopped working (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414742). As it was serverless, the DB was also on their cloud, hosted by the failed startup, in a proprietary format. One day, Serial Literature stopped working overnight. I downloaded the data, but in their weird format, it was not very helpful.

I got a bunch of emails in the last months asking about it, people wanting to continue reading more through their email, where I explained what happened and promised it would come back in some form. This site I am showing now, Confabulists, is the come back.

I am a writer myself, indie, self-published, science fiction writer, and I missed a newsletter/blog platform more adequate for fiction writers, so I built one myself. And, yesterday, I finally completed bringing all those public domain books in English to Confabulists and now I am able to offer that same service of Serial Literature, again, still for free.

I hope this reaches everyone that loved Serial Literature, but just accepted it was gone and never contacted me (the ones who contacted me I am replying back telling them about Confabulists).

Thanks HN!
by tgma | 2026-02-02 12:32:31+00:00
Sure, it is a personal experience, but no, you cannot gaslight me out of my personal experience by citing your superior knowledge of Middle English. The existence of such construct is not germane here. Forcing people to use the language a certain way is. Anyone who has faced this knows exactly what I am talking about and they can judge for themselves. Since this subthread was adding precisely zero value, I am going to stop right here.
by rapsey | 2026-02-02 12:32:43+00:00
We have too many problems, we need more power to fix them, says the people who caused them.

The EU has through its policies made everything in their power to make the EU weaker. Now they want more power and
somehow this will in turn make the EU stronger. Farming and industry all being destroyed because of their net zero policies. Development programs that lead to nothing and waste hundreds of billions. Mass importation of third worlders, which are nothing but a burden on our social systems, with negative economic worth. Completely retarded energy policies.
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-02 12:33:43+00:00
How does Poland manage to be industrially active and growing? Despite having only 10 per cent of the total EU population and not being in a federalist relation with Malta, Cyprus and Portugal?

Partly by not importing Germano-French bureaucratic dysfunction (Papiere, Papiere über alles). Which would only grow more prominent with further integration.

Brute force does not matter nearly as much as quality of governance does. Qing China was a big, helpless monster eaten alive by smaller, more agile competitors.
by sfn42 | 2026-02-02 12:33:56+00:00
That's not normal. I'm sure your doctor's told you that too.

My first thought is that it may just be a severe case of being out of shape, I think you might be able to push through it. You didn't specify how long you kept it up but I would expect it to take at least a few weeks, maybe a few months before you really get up and running.

I would suggest that you keep trying, and taking it slower. Maybe instead of running and cycling just walk/hike. I find it much more comfortable to hike.

It's also useful to keep track of your pulse. There's a type of training called zone 2 training where the goal is to keep your pulse in "zone 2". That's quite low intensity training, but it's also very effective and much less taxing. Zone 2 depends on your resting and max pulse but it'll be something like 130-160.

I can also recommend rock climbing, particularly bouldering is very approachable. And of course weight lifting if that's more to your liking. You don't have to do cardio, there are many ways to be active.

I have had some issues with nausea while weightlifting, towards the end of a session I would get really nauseous. However that's just me being out of shape, after a week or two it subsides and it just feels good. I like the feeling of sore muscles.

Also, for me, activity is essential. When I'm not active I fall into a deep depression where everything feels harder. When I'm in shape I feel like myself, I have more energy, motivation and discipline, life feels easier. I don't think it's like this for everyone but I do think everyone benefits from exercise. Even if you have to fight through some bad feelings to get going.
by dxdm | 2026-02-02 12:35:31+00:00
Pressing a refund button is not why engineering gets involved. It's the cleanup of the related data, metadata and automatically generated documents, because these are not consistent anymore. Of course you can automate that, or make at least create more buttons for non-engineering people to push, but then we're back to spending effort to anticipate these problems and enabling the system to prevent and/or handle them.

You also need to think about what it means to double-charge your customers, what it means to them and their wallets, and to their relationship to you. Do you want their repeat business? What sums are we talking about? How do you find out about these double-charges, and how quickly? Do the customers have to complain to you first, or did you anticipate the problem and have things in place to flag these charges?

Yes, you can hire people in place of the code you didn't write, but that only makes sense if continuing to pay them is cheaper than writing the code once and then maintaining it, which also probably means the manual work generated should not scale in proportion with your business.

Finally, developing for more than the happy-path is not overengineering, it's plain old engineering. There is a point, a kind and size of business, where it makes sense to do these things properly, and then TFA comes into play. The cost of just winging it goes up and up, until you need to do something about it.
by okokwhatever | 2026-02-02 12:35:34+00:00
You can see the fear all around this thread. And, tbh, it makes total sense.
There is nothing we can do to stop this dropping ball, we can accept it or leave the room but the industry has changed for all of us. I mean, you can use it one way or another but the concept of critical thinking is our only survival tool if your relaying on a it job this days. How long it will last? Who cares, we're fucked anyways...
by promptfluid | 2026-02-02 12:36:19+00:00
I’ve been building something that doesn’t fit cleanly into agents, SDKs, or plugins, so I’m posting to get technical feedback rather than hype reactions.

Instead of shipping an AI product or “agent,” I built a system where AI functionality itself is packaged and sold as licensed, downloadable capabilities that run locally in your own infrastructure.

Each capability is a real artifact (JS, WASM, container, edge) that does one thing well—memory systems, reasoning pipelines, resilience patterns, security controls, optimization loops, accessibility tooling, etc. They’re versioned, removable, and composable. And I promise I have capabilities you’ve never seen before.

Some capabilities can be combined into multi-module pipelines, and a subset of them improve over time through bounded learning and feedback loops. When the system discovers a new high-value pipeline, it becomes another downloadable artifact.

A few design constraints I cared about:

Runs locally (no SaaS lock-in)

Capabilities are licensed individually, not hidden behind an API

Full observability, rollback, and governance

No chat wrappers or prompt theater

Capabilities can stand alone or be composed into larger systems

Right now there are 80+ capabilities across multiple tiers, from small utilities up to enterprise-grade bundles.

What I’m honestly trying to sanity-check:

Is “AI capabilities as first-class, sellable software” a useful abstraction?

Is this meaningfully different from agent marketplaces, SDKs, or model hubs?

Where do you expect this approach to break down in real systems?

Would you rather see this exposed as agents, or kept lower-level like this?

Not here to sell—just looking for real technical critique from people who’ve seen infra ideas succeed or fail.

Happy to answer questions or clarify how anything works.
by latexr | 2026-02-02 12:36:38+00:00
> you know, the ones where you claimed above people didn't have food

You are being dishonest. That was not the claim.

> My parents were hardworking blue collar workers

Did they pull themselves by their bootstraps? You’re engaging in what is called the hard work fallacy.

> guess what: they still managed to provide me all that was needed and put money aside for themselves so not to depend on any handouts.

What year was that again? Want to go check some housing prices and the wage gap between now and then? You sure were lucky one of your parents didn’t get sick with a fatal chronic illness as you were growing up, burdening the other with ever rising health costs which bankrupted them through no fault of their own. Tell me, were any of them ever racially profiled and were thrown in jail on a bullshit charge, making them lose their job and fall into ever increasing debt?

I have no doubt you faced some hardship. But make no mistake, you had advantages that many people did not have, and it was down to blind luck. Believing that other people deserve what they get because they are lazy is a selfish view that cuts your nose to spite your face. Your parents and yourself shouldn’t have faced any hardships, and neither should the people living in poverty now. You’re blaming the people with no money instead of the people hoarding all of it, as they get ever richer.

I’ll say it again: Capitalism’s most outstanding feature is that no matter how much mistreatment there is, we can always count on someone coming out to ask for more. That’s exactly what you’re doing. Break the cycle.
by cm277 | 2026-02-02 12:37:53+00:00
As an entrepreneur with businesses in both the US and EU, a federation is probably several steps too far from political will. Instead:

- Let banks operate and merge across borders, especially neobanks/fintechs. European banks are easily 10+ yrs ahead of the US in terms of tech and customer service but they lack scale and capital, especially in the credit side of things.

- Credit, again: we need the equivalent of D&B/Fico for Europe: a single credit bureau that can judge creditworthiness of people and organizations. Even the US has solved this through private companies, why can't Europe? Fellow Euros are shocked when I tell them that a 0-day LLC in the US can get $20k in credit card limits almost immediately.

The rest are easy, especially for web/internet companies. But if we have to raise credit/money based on the rules of the biggest (and slowest!) economies, then the EU is fucked.
by exceptione | 2026-02-02 12:37:57+00:00
Absolutely. One should just talk with people in the military about procurement. Europe wastes a lot of money and opportunity by having so much duplicated efforts. The innovation and manufacturing power in the EU is absolutely not the problem. But the lack of coordination means that countries inevitably favor local industry, resulting in overly expensive and incompatible systems, with gaps everywhere. There needs to be a central authority that is able to lead a defense program.

Just one example: I am hearing far too often that France is overly protecting their own interests and as such can't reach important deals with Germany about sharing burdens and profits. So it results in duplicated, incompatible systems. Germany is generally more open to share benefits and intel with other countries.

Such deal-making can drag on for decades, to only fall out. For industries to scale, they need long term planning and a guaranteed pipeline of orders.
I am talking about ships, planes, MBT's, air defence, missile tech--not riffles.

It is a shame, because both countries are powerhouses in engineering. Also, this costs EU taxpayers billions of dollars, and perhaps their safety even.
by sigmoid10 | 2026-02-02 12:38:22+00:00
The regulations mentioned there are not necessarily wrong though. Decarbonisation and renewables are no longer purely environmental concerns, they are key objectives for the European security strategy to remove dependence on foreign tyrants and dictators. These jobs would have disappeared sooner or later anyways. But lots of new ones will be created in these new industries. The EU is merely getting dragged down by the established traditional fossil industry that wants to delay the transition as long as possible to squeeze every cent out of the market while they can. But this is bad for literally everyone involved in the long term. The only thing that is benefiting are next-quarter based exec bonuses. If Europe actually allowed for a disruptive startup environment (which unfortunately has its own set of safety issues), these companies would have been handed their lunch by now.
by morgengold | 2026-02-02 12:38:36+00:00
I abadoned facebook since I couldnt stand the feed experience anymore. Recently learned about using https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr in combintation with extension https://www.fbpurity.com/ which give me a chronological feed of groups and people i actually want to hear from. The most astonishing experience is how calm I feel consuming this cleaned up feed. Almost all negative emotions seem to stem from the uncontrollable feed experience.
by ahoka | 2026-02-02 12:39:56+00:00
Isn’t that just serializing through a queue, aka. the producer consumer pattern? Which I think the correct solution for most common concurrency problems.

For something to be an actor, it should be able to:

- Send and receive messages

- Create other actors

- Change how the next message is handled (becomes in Erlang)

I think the last one is what makes it different it from simple message passing, and what makes it genius: state machines consuming queues.