MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by egypturnash | 2026-02-20 00:25:06+00:00
yeah, I am a trans lady who was kinda tempted to give this guy six bucks for this insanely overproduced version of a primitive video game, and now I am not gonna do that. <3

> I'm old enough to remember what it was like Before: whoever your people are, for good or for ill, you'll be able to find them.

it's still like this, you just have to look a little harder, and be more wary of nazi recruiters than you used to.
by chillfox | 2026-02-20 00:25:12+00:00
Having used AI to write docs before, the value is in the guidance and review.

I started out with telling the AI common issues that people get wrong and gave it the code. Then I read (not skim, not speed, actually read and think) the entire thing and asked for changes. Then repeat the read everything, think, ask for changes loop until it’s correct which took about 10 iterations (most of a day).

I suspect the AI would have provided zero benefit to someone who is good at technical writing, but I am bad at writing long documents for humans so likely would just not have done it without the assistance.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-20 00:25:50+00:00
> Almost 80% of communications go through a data center in Northern VA

Nobody who understands the scale of the internet could possibly believe this is true.

Routing internet traffic through a geographical location would increase ping times by a noticeable amount.

Even sending traffic from around the world to a datacenter in VA would require an amount of infrastructure multiple times larger than the internet itself to carry data all that distance. All built and maintained in secret.
by bolangi | 2026-02-20 00:26:03+00:00
For a screening procedure recommended as a mass conducted preventative measure in otherwise healthy people, harms must be regulated to a better standard than "doesn't happen often". The study that I read of was about serious issue occuring something like one in 120 procedures. It was done at Kaiser. Next time you're enjoying a sausage, take a moment to look at the sausage skins. If I understand correctly, our intestinal walls are quite thin, and even the colon vulnerable.
by tjohns | 2026-02-20 00:26:04+00:00
Yes, though that's separate from the flight plan.

There's also several different ways to transmit the passenger manifest to CBP - including over a CBP-provided VPN and IATA "Type B" messages sent through ARINC/SITA.

The network for Type B messages is also independent of the Internet (it was developed 60 years ago).
by xenadu02 | 2026-02-20 00:26:20+00:00
Do things that don't scale.

No one built a business by starting out with huge email blasts. At least not anytime recently.

You start by finding individuals and addressing them as individuals. When you find one such person who finds your product extremely useful they will often generate leads for you to others who need to solve the same problem. Keep doing that high-touch direct contact.

In other words: sow the seeds.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-20 00:26:58+00:00
The comment I made was explicit that this works for Let's Encrypt, you replied that it doesn't, apparently without checking the logs because if you'd glanced at them it's like 1:1 pre-certificates to actual certificates from Let's Encrypt and I explained that you're wrong.

I'm not disputing that there could be a world where you're correct, but, it's not this world, which is why I even made that comment. That doesn't make relying on the logs for this a brilliant idea, it's just an observation that in fact it could work.
by OldSchool | 2026-02-20 00:27:29+00:00
This is particularly true of a deep psychedelic experience "inside" with IV Ketamine.

Your own internal processing will still determine how you perceive a perspective change, but specific to this idea in particular, you may for example, within, suddenly find it obvious to think of things as being made of something different than in the outside world reality (and this sort of "change of bases" may reveal some kind of truth not otherwise visible.) You may see something as formed of language instead of molecules and atoms, or vice-versa.
by Sparyjerry | 2026-02-20 00:27:29+00:00
Most things are clearly linked to the contracts themselves with descriptions. Waste is a broad term and things like DEI or many more definitely fall into that category. Imagine spending billions of dollars on your HR department for the specific purposes of DEI without any tangible return on the investment. Its definitely wasteful and at most corruption. Discretionary funds for things like 'payroll' were being used to fund a very specific political ideology that aligned with one political party and congress did not authorize the use in that manner, which is why they were able to cut it so easily.
by abetusk | 2026-02-20 00:27:39+00:00
2600 is locked into a format that was relevant 30-40 years ago and is nearly irrelevant today. In my opinion, 2600 is pantomiming a hacker aesthetic and have long since abandoned any commitment to an underlying hacker ethos.

I'm surprised that they're now offering a digital format as, at one point, they were taking a hard stance to not provide one. I guess they changed their mind within the last 10 years or so.

Notice how Paged Out is libre/free licensed, making sure that they provide a CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA for their articles. 2600 is locked under copyright.
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-20 00:27:39+00:00
Not sure what you're even talking about. You said something I was curious about since I thought you knew something about it I didn't but then you told me to look it up myself, for some reason, and I did. I don't know how you construed that as a "sick burn" or that you're "supposed to steer clear of Lattner," both of which I never said or implied.
by eru | 2026-02-20 00:28:13+00:00
> SS is different mostly in that you’re not really loaning money to the government. The money coming in today mostly goes right back out as payments.

That's only a difference in accounting, not in reality.

They could 'fully find' SS tomorrow, by just creating a bunch of T-bills for it.

> There’s also an upper limit on SS taxable income. I forget what it is, but basically the entirety of the top quintile isn’t paying SS on their entire income. I want to say it’s like 90k, but it’s been a while since I looked.

How's that different from CPF? See https://www.cpf.gov.sg/employer/infohub/news/cpf-related-ann...
by ainch | 2026-02-20 00:28:21+00:00
Mandarin is weird, because I don't think it's that hard to speak at a passable level, mostly because the grammar is so simple. Many people are spooked by tones, but I think their importance for simple communication can be a little overstated.

But then, learning to read and write requires enormous additional effort. When I learned in Beijing, I'd spend a couple hours a day working on grammar/speaking/listening - and then like 6 hours a day of rote practice to get familiar with characters.
by advisedwang | 2026-02-20 00:28:38+00:00
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6819207/

> Compared to non-/occasional drinking (≤1 g/day), light/moderate drinking (up to 2 drinks/day) was associated with a decreased risk of CRC (OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.88–0.98, p=0.005), heavy drinking (2–3 drinks/day) was not significantly associated with CRC risk (OR: 1.11, 95% CI: 0.99–1.24, p=0.08), and very heavy drinking (more than 3 drinks/day) was associated with a significant increased risk (OR: 1.25, 95% CI: 1.11–1.40, p<0.001)... These results provide further evidence that there is a J-shaped association between alcohol consumption and CRC risk.

I guess these sites don't bring up drinking because except for very heavy drinking the data says it's not a factor.
Ask HN: Why does it feel like qualifications are irrelevant to hirers?
by hdhdhsjsbdh | 2026-02-20 00:28:58+00:00
I’m not talking about the job hunt grind, sending your perfect resume into the void of online job postings and getting no responses.

I’m talking about inbounds from recruiters, for senior level roles, where you have a long trail of quantifiable accomplishments and a good network. I am not looking for a job, but I do often take calls just to see what’s out there, and I am rejected every time. It makes me curious (and also sympathetic to people actively seeking).

I have numbers to back up my accomplishments, too. GitHub stars, citation counts, exits, etc. I talk to hiring managers who are leading tech areas that I have direct, quantifiable impact in from past experience. They might even be building on tech that I developed! I have a screen and maybe don’t answer a pop quiz perfectly, but you can look at the numbers and see I’m not bullshitting.

Is the hiring process really so detached from reality now that no other factor but your interview performance is the determinant?

I know what they say about every room smelling like shit… but I have never had bad relationships with my colleagues. So I’m not sure if that’s it.
by r1chardnl | 2026-02-20 00:30:13+00:00
A1: I don't think so now, but good idea. I haven't thought of it because well it depends entirely on how you interact with things. I tried many alternatives in the past from Magit to shell scripted vimdiff setups and now I usually just use VSCode or git from the CLI. I didn't want to open up another slow VSCode instance for every directory so this is mainly my motivation for making this. I just add an alias t='path/to/tuide' to .bash_aliases and type 't' in the repository I want to see.

A2: No it doesn't support that now. I did think of just having it be like a opionated visual git diff and using it in that way at first.

A3: Not sure. Couldn't you already do this with git reset and branches? I do have some features in mind to make some things easier like selecting multiple commits and then combining them for a rebase, but wait ah if that fails or something goes wrong the above snapshot feature might come in handy.

Thanks for the suggestions.
by p-e-w | 2026-02-20 00:30:41+00:00
China has a global reputational problem that will take decades to fix.

The US has a global reputational advantage that will take decades to fall behind China, regardless of what any US administration does.

Nobody sane is going to believe rhetoric claiming that the US is somehow worse than a country that keeps 1.5 million people in concentration camps, and where people work 70 hours per week, no matter how many times Reddit tells them so.
Stripe closed our account over upsell transaction architecture, not fraud
by JohannesSchip | 2026-02-20 00:30:43+00:00
I run a DTC ecommerce business selling physical massage devices. We've been processing ~$10K/day through Stripe with a 0.3% chargeback rate and 140K+ total customers.

Stripe shut down our account citing "unauthorized payments" and is holding ~$50K with plans to auto-refund customers who already received their products.

After investigating, we identified the root cause. Our checkout platform (CheckoutChamp) was processing post-purchase one-click upsells as separate Stripe charges, using the stored payment token without 3D Secure. About 64% of our customers accepted upsells, meaning the majority of orders generated multiple charges on customer bank statements. Customers who didn't recognize these separate charges likely triggered Early Fraud Warnings (Visa TC40/Mastercard SAFE) — which Stripe's Radar system picked up as "unauthorized" activity.

This is a transaction architecture issue, not fraud. The same upsell flow works fine on Shopify because Shopify's post-purchase API adds the upsell to the existing order rather than creating a new charge. CheckoutChamp creates separate charges.

We've already fixed this: disabled all post-purchase upsells, canceled all recurring subscriptions, and restructured the flow so future add-ons consolidate into one transaction.

We submitted 33+ documents through the dashboard (EIN, Articles of Organization, 6 months bank statements, supplier contracts, 3PL invoices, inventory photos, customer order confirmations). We offered a 15% rolling reserve. We showed them the customer emails proving full transparency.

Every support case gets auto-closed with a template response. No one has told us which specific transactions are "unauthorized." One response even referenced a completely different company name ("Greg Misc LLC" — we are JS Commerce Group LLC).

Today we received what appears to be a final rejection — again a template, with no acknowledgment of the root cause analysis we submitted two days ago. Stripe is now starting automatic refunds within 5 days to customers who have their products in hand.

We emailed Patrick Collison directly. We're running out of options.

Has anyone dealt with a similar situation where Stripe flagged legitimate post-purchase upsell charges as unauthorized? Interested in hearing what actually worked to get a human review.
by briHass | 2026-02-20 00:31:18+00:00
Though ostensibly supportive of your claim, the first article says it best a few pages in (surprisingly honest):

"To date, there are no clearly established biological mechanisms that could explain the role of red and processed meat in the process of CRC carcinogenesis."

In other words, we see some small signal in epidemiological studies, and we want to speculate about mechanistic causes, even though this has been tried before to no success.
by Grimburger | 2026-02-20 00:31:32+00:00
Woodlands is the busiest immigration checkpoint on the planet and it's only 1 of 2 crossings. It's fairly seamless for regulars apart from Friday afternoons when it gets clogged up by escaping Singaporeans keen for the weekend and the quality/value offered by their poorer neighbour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlands_Checkpoint
by kouru225 | 2026-02-20 00:31:35+00:00
What you’re talking about is found object art so I’m confused. These objects are not created by the artist at all. In fact, they were created in a factory by machines. You’re responding to the story behind it, which is also something a LLM could’ve created. I understand if you’d feel betrayed if someone put a found object piece in a museum with a fake story created by an LLM, but let’s not pretend like a LLM is not capable of doing exactly that and getting the exact same response out of you provided that they can convince you it’s real. You might be tempted to argue that what’s real matters and what’s not doesn’t, but now you’re just stuck having to figure out what the hell is real or not. A lot of human biography is arguably fake already.
I fw found object art in general, but let’s be clear: found object art is a great example of exactly what I’m talking about. It argues that art doesn’t need to be handmade with intention by an artist. Instead, it can be a random object, created by an environmental process that the artist has little control over
by tonym128 | 2026-02-20 00:31:55+00:00
This entire game fits into a 64 KB executable - including all textures, levels, models, animations, sounds, music, and code.

It’s a retro shooter with 3 levels, 1 boss fight, 4 unique enemies, 4 weapons, and a handful of power-ups.

Minimum specs
Intel i5 or equivalent
GTX 770 or equivalent
8 GB RAM
64 KB disk space
by hintymad | 2026-02-20 00:32:02+00:00
I assume that new business scenarios will drive new workflows, which requires new work of software engineering. In the meantime, I assume that computer science will drive paradigm shift, which will drive truly different software engineering practice. If we don't have advances in algorithms, systems, and etc, I'd assume that people can slowly abstract away all the hard parts, enabling AI to do most of our jobs.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-20 00:32:18+00:00
New laser welders from xTool lower the barrier to entry for welding to nearly the floor. They basically automatically push the welder tip along at the perfect rate for excellent welds, and get super deep penetration / full fusion welds every time with very little skill.

It will be difficult to know what career is ‘safe’…especially if everyone floods into it because it’s one of the last decent-paying jobs left (it wont pay well for long if everyone else loses their jobs).
by eru | 2026-02-20 00:32:38+00:00
> I know this may sound like a shock because you are privileged but 7% yoy return on capital is NOT the norm for the rest of the world. Just look at any other index not called the S&P or the Dow. Look up US exceptionalism.

I have sympathy for your general position, but this particular one is a bit silly: I live outside the US (in Singapore, in fact), and I can invest in US equity just fine.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-20 00:32:42+00:00
people are sheep mate... in 2026 with the social media at politicians disposal you can convince most people of just about anything you want. current politics in the US is basically cultism. if trump says that Russians are now great guys, 99% of people who grew up during the cold war that are "maga" now are going "oh, what a turnaround, love them Russians now."

same goes the other way, Germany can return to 1930s in the time one political campaign starts and ends given the state of society at the moment.

I am not advocating for limits on free speech, I am a free speech absolutist. and with that come the consequences we see not just in the united states but around the world. but to think that allowing anyone to say anything cannot lead to absolute catastrophies/hatred/... in the year of our lord 2026 is very misguided...
by sublimefire | 2026-02-20 00:33:42+00:00
Irish infra is not great if you compare it to many advanced European countries. I hate they still do not have a train/tram connection from the airport to the city. Taxes also make you weep. Not to mention an immense risk of losing all those corp taxes and industry if US pushes ahead and creates barriers for companies to trade. It is great at many things but also has some downsides.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-20 00:34:00+00:00
"Users typically don't read code, developers (of the software) do."

"Typical" is boring (IMHO)

I read the source code of the programs I use that are written by others

I compile them myself

I like to try to understand how they work

Sometimes I modify them

Sometimes I learn from them

There is no shortage of this source code to read
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-20 00:34:37+00:00
(Most) vaccines work by letting your immune system know to watch out for particular things. That's an information advantage. Likewise, antibiotics are chemical agents that the body lacks the genes to synthesise. Betting that the immune system's parameters are generally well-calibrated is entirely compatible with taking antibiotics and vaccines, where indicated.

You wouldn't want to get vaccinated for smallpox in the middle of a plague epidemic, because that would waste your immune system's resources on an extinct-in-the-wild disease, when it really needs to be gearing up to stop the plague killing you.
by SauntSolaire | 2026-02-20 00:35:02+00:00
It's also the incentive structure that's different. E.g. I can choose to buy cheaper LED lights to reduce my electricity costs because the interests of lightbulb companies are mostly orthogonal to the (usage-based) interests of the utility providers.

Micro-payments are more akin to a hypothetical world in which the lightbulb company gets paid via my electricity bill; now they have an incentive to sell incandescents over LEDs. Similar to how micro-payment (and advertising) based news companies have an incentive to sell click-bait, because they're getting paid based on usage rather than a flat fee.
by Henchman21 | 2026-02-20 00:35:18+00:00
Never tapped a port, eh?

Edited to not be so flippant: I work in HFT/finance where recording all traffic is required I think by law and definitely for one's own sanity. We're able to maintain nanosecond trades while capturing ALL the traffic. It has zero impact on the traffic. This is normal, widely used tech. Think stuff like Ixia passive taps and/or Arista Metamako FPGA-based tap/mux devices.
by tjohns | 2026-02-20 00:35:21+00:00
FileMarker Pro had a dedicated server product (FileMaker Server) that you could use for multi-user access. Claris still sells it: https://www.claris.com/filemaker/

Microsoft Access was strictly file based. You could drop the .mdb/.accdb file on a SMB share and it would support basic concurrency via lock files. However, you could also swap out the internal database engine (Jet) with anything else via ODBC, so your Access database could connect to a remote Microsoft SQL Server instance - or even MySQL/Postgres.

Back in high school, I even wired up an Access database to give a graphical frontend to an accounting app running on an IBM AS/400 mainframe. ODBC made it easy, and Access itself didn't really care where the data lived.
by black_puppydog | 2026-02-20 00:35:29+00:00
Sorry, but whatever you think about the laws that lead to these blockages, how else are european governments supposed to take that than a direct attack on their executive powers by a foreign government?

This being besides the fact that the folks crying wolf over "censorship" regularly conflate flat-out lies with valuable and protected speech.

Edit: I mean, I love tor as much as the next person, but imagine the reaction you'd get if an EU state (say, Germany) was to launch an official page with the express goal of allowing access to information censored by the Chinese government, targeting it directly to chinese citizens.

Could you make a moral case for this? Probably.

But would you be surprised or offended if the Chinese government took any measures they saw fit to strong-arm Germany into shutting that site right back down? Probably not. And the crowd here would probably go "bruh what did you expect?"

... Now waiting for examples of exactly that having happened already. :D
by lawrencechen | 2026-02-20 00:36:10+00:00
> a cron or hook that runs tmux capture-pane on each agent pane and checks for the idle prompt is enough to know when one needs attention.

Curious why you aren't using Claude Code's stop/notification hook

> Separate Chrome profiles per agent is the brute-force fix, but it's expensive. The better pattern is treating browser access as a serialized resource — one agent gets it at a time, with the others queued.

Ports could also be another serialized resource. Another direction we're exploring is to give agents VMs that have Chrome + VNC preinstalled [1]. Prompting Claude to use Docker also goes a long way there.

[1] https://cloudrouter.dev/
by anitil | 2026-02-20 00:36:21+00:00
This was really interesting. Man pages are at the same time really useful, while being arcane and frustrating to use. I still never remember is it 'man 1 read' or 'man 2 read' for libc vs the bash 'read' command (checking now 1 is the builtin, 2 is libc). Yes I know about 'man man', but it won't stick in my brain which is which.

They also lack discoverability, I just checked man 1 through 5 of 'open' and 'man 3 open' is a random perl pragma, which is not what I'd expect
by hn_acc1 | 2026-02-20 00:36:31+00:00
What are you smoking? My parents are in their 80s, both 15+ and 20+ years cancer free. At least in my mom's case (colon), not having surgery + chemo probably WOULD have been a death sentence. In Canada, their total out-of-pocket costs (other than transportation to/from the hospital) was like $15 for some painkillers.
by robszumski | 2026-02-20 00:36:38+00:00
Thanks for sharing, really helpful to see your thinking. I haven't fully embraced FaaS myself but never regretted it either.

Curious to hear more about Renovate vs Dependabot. Is it complicated to debug _why_ it's making a choice to upgrade from A to B? Working on a tool to do app-specific breaking change analysis so winning trust and being transparent about what is happening is top of mind.

When were you using quay.io? In the pre-CoreOS years, CoreOS years (2014-2018), or the Red Hat years?