MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-25 23:38:53+00:00
It is objectively a phrase, and not a word, because you can substitute the water for literally any other liquid and form a perfectly coherent phrase. boiling oil, boiling syrup, boiling coca cola. "Boiling" in this context is just a participial adjective, modifying the noun "water". If "boiling water" is a word, so are "six men", "good idea", "large rock", "7 year old boy", "Californian trees", "metallic flooring", etc.

Better yet, you can take advantage of English's adjective ordering to demonstrate this point. Would I describe the water I'm currently boiling for the purpose of cooking "cooking boiling water", or "boiling cooking water". Since purpose tends to be the last adjective we use, any native speaker would choose the later.
by avaer | 2026-02-25 23:38:55+00:00
The line mode [1] made me pause. Not because you can do anything too useful (most of the cool links are dead, or telnet) but because it seems like a really cool place to explore, learn, and hack.

No ads, no random tits, nobody trying to convert you to their politics, trying to scam you, or telling you to kill yourself. Just people sharing interesting things.

Really makes me excited for the internet until I close the tab.

[1] http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
by FpUser | 2026-02-25 23:39:41+00:00
>"All other electronic instruments, with the one exception being the Theramin, have a fundamental problem with human expression. There is an unsolvable disconnect between what the performer's actions and their audience."

Look at Roli Seaboard, it has insane amount degrees of freedom / expression

https://youtu.be/2fQbtp2BgY4?si=S52A-22A3GlXPajU

past the middle starts solo
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-25 23:39:49+00:00
It's a make work scheme. They don't give a crap. They'll rubber stamp just about anything. It's like $50. They just want to force you to use a licensed trade if applicable.

The trades themselves don't pull permits because it's not about the permissionn, it's about using them. The towns don't care unless you've cut them out so much that they feel slighted in which case they'll send you angry letters about violations, demand a million bucks and you'll hire a $10k lawyer (another licensed trade, lol) who'll get you off for $1k.

Needless to say compliance is pretty low outside of the rich neighborhoods because normal people can't afford to tack $4k of engineering onto a "repave my shitty 2-car driveway" project or a $3k panel upgrade onto a "renovate my 50yo bathroom and add a couple outlets".

It's all shit and should be replaced with a much lower touch system that's cheap enough people can afford to comply with it. But there's so many parties in on the racket that it'll come crashing down before that happens.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-25 23:40:05+00:00
Look, I'm obviously not saying that Hamas is stronger than all European countries in every metric, and I already did mention their lack of an air force. All I'm trying to say is that by some standard ways to judge military force (e.g., number of active soldiers) Hamas surprisingly is ahead, which gives lie to the idea that it's a small force. Your position has some nuance, which I appreciate, but another commenter in this very thread wrote "This is such an insane statement that you instantly disqualify everything else you say."

It's obviously not an insane statement, given that we can debate things like the accuracy of their munitions and the lack of air power. the other commenter probably simply didn't know how many active soldiers Hamas had and how few some developed European countries have.
by jey | 2026-02-25 23:40:19+00:00
I wonder if there's a law+econ analysis of comparing the current framework (regulations and upfront permitting) vs having the regulations but then enforcement via combination of randomized gov't inspections and private lawsuits. The motivation would be to allow things to move faster while also requiring the same degree of compliance, but without the massive red tape upfront with administrators having no real incentive to approve projects or move fast. One obvious downside is that it effectively creates an economic incentive to try and skirt the law and/or find loopholes, but that arguably exists to the same degree in the existing system.
by quietsegfault | 2026-02-25 23:40:20+00:00
I don’t think keeping the status quo of throttling caps will stop anyone from signing up. As long as it’s not any worse, I don’t think it would deter me due to the other features you offer. The main reason why I don’t change is my spouse and kids don’t care about privacy and I can get them service for cheaper!

I don’t really think about caps all that much except in theory. I would love speed tests to be excepted from caps, but I get why that isn’t always workable.
by mark242 | 2026-02-25 23:40:36+00:00
I love that "The Grandfathered In" section. Here's just one sample of a place that presumably this stupid website wants to keep up and running:

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-04/chevron...

The guy who made this site is selling a $7k stove? Good luck with that, my dude.
by vintagedave | 2026-02-25 23:40:59+00:00
Hi. Apologies for 'fetch failed' - we had 5-6 minutes of downtime where the SSL cert suddenly reflected our hosting provider, not us. Exactly what you want when you're getting attention on HN ;)

I tested your comment just now, and made some specific tweaks in response (we've done that with a lot of the feedback here.) In my testing it liked the comment.
by garciasn | 2026-02-25 23:41:33+00:00
This site is limiting its focus to environmental permitting concerns, it seems. The problem is that one of the biggest barriers to manufacturing in the US is labor: cost and protections of various sorts.

Don't need to worry about those pesky people and their rights in other countries where people are in desperate need for, or are coerced into, working in these industries.
by westurner | 2026-02-25 23:41:46+00:00
It is also possible to use a different application as the http and file: url handler at the os level;

Write an app to display the (URL) argument passed and require the user to confirm or reject before running the browser using any of one or more default and configurable command line templates.

Add a "Install as default http, https, file:// uri handler" button in the settings gui. Prompt the user to install the app as default handler on first run.

Add opt-in optional debug logging of at least: {source_app_path:, url:, date_opened: } to a JSON lines log file
by crawshaw | 2026-02-25 23:41:47+00:00
Lot of things could be added to this list. Good luck getting permission to start a hospital, or permission to mine/refine anything with a slightly messy process (e.g. rare earth metals). You can't build a new port. The California Coastal Commission won't let you open a new hotel anywhere on the water. You can't even keep a bar open late in San Francisco.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-25 23:41:54+00:00
I feel like you have completely mischaracterized the main thesis of this article, and thus I couldn't disagree more.

A primary issue of buses competing with other forms of transportation is simply that they're too slow, and the main thrust of the article is that intelligently reducing the the number of stops only increases walking time a very small amount but can reduce travel time significantly.

This is certainly my main issue with taking buses sometimes - I often think taking a bus would be easier than driving (e.g. no parking, I could read or do something else while traveling, etc.), and I'd be willing to do that is the bus took, say, 1.5x driving time, but often times it's just much slower than driving.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-25 23:42:17+00:00
Just to be clear: there are people who sat in a room and decided that it was normal to introduce a tax, at the end of each fiscal year, of 36% on unrealized gains.

In a country where the income tax rate begins at 35% too and quickly goes to 49%. Then on the money you have left you pay 21% VAT on every single thing you buy. I'm not going to list every single additional tax (inheritance tax 20% to 40%, etc.) but there are many.

And then they decided that should you invest some of what you have left, you'd have to pay 36% annually on unrealized gains.

It's pure insanity: thankfully they're rethinking this madness.
by jonahx | 2026-02-25 23:42:24+00:00
From gp:

> Forcing people into a way to think via software is fundamentally authoritarian and sad.

Completely agree.

I understand the problem, and while I see this as a good faith attempt to solve it, something doesn't quite sit right about the framing for me. Really, what's happening is just that certain rules of behavior and language being enforced. And that's fine! That's what communities are. You're allowed to do different kinds of things in different places.

I'd frame it that way rather than the current, more paternalistic framing. There isn't a universal way to be respectful, or to argue. People have different thresholds for aggression, sarcasm, and so on.

Just like signs at the library say "No talking" or "No eating", you might think of this as a way to put up certain signs for your particular community. Configurable knobs to create the kind of place you want. But it's not about "teaching" people anything. It's about saying, "Here, we do things this way. If you like that, come and play. If you don't, this place is not for you."
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-25 23:43:20+00:00
As a Californian:

1) They forgot to list Kid Rock (https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1969256868364095868)

2) Good, I'm glad this toxic shit is banned.

3) I wish people that constantly complained about California's regulations/taxes/politics would just quietly see their way out rather than obsessively whine about it. Enjoy Texas/Florida/wherever you go. We'll be ok without you.
by entrustai | 2026-02-25 23:43:23+00:00
The geometric approach is interesting precisely because it's
model-agnostic at the content level — you're detecting structural
collapse in latent space before it surfaces as text, which means
you don't need to know what a hallucination looks like semantically.

The 54% recall is the honest number to focus on. At 88% precision
you're catching real problems when you flag them, but you're missing
roughly half of all hallucinations entirely. For a suppression layer
in a regulated context that's a meaningful gap — a compliance team
can't tell a regulator "we caught most of them."

The complementary approach worth considering: deterministic
post-generation checks on the output layer. Geometric drift catches
structural collapse during generation. Rule-based output validation
catches semantic violations after generation — banned claims,
unattributed statistics, absolute guarantees. Neither approach alone
is sufficient. Together they cover different failure modes.

Good work publishing the raw_logs.csv. Reproducibility at this layer
is rare and matters.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-25 23:43:27+00:00
Here’s how this is going to work, in reality:

- 13 year old does video selfie

- 13 year old is flagged as too young, might be growing slower than their peers

- 13 year old has to upload an ID to prove they are of age

- Identity provider claims they delete the ID but oops they don’t actually do that and there’s a data breach
Show HN: Deff – Review AI-generated code changes
by flamestro | 2026-02-25 23:43:32+00:00
I built Deff because AI coding tools sped up writing code, but reviewing their changes became the new bottleneck.
Most of my time was going into checking noisy diffs, understanding intent, and making sure nothing subtle broke.
Deff is focused on one thing: helping you review AI-generated code changes faster and with more confidence.
It helps surface what changed and is allowing me to use it with some vim motions so I can easily jump from nvim to opencode to deff.
Would love feedback from people using AI coding assistants heavily — especially on review workflows, false positives, and what still feels slow.
by oblio | 2026-02-25 23:43:36+00:00
I've read your links and you're misreading them.

1. GDPR applies to EU residents in the EU. The protection does not apply to EU residents going on trips to the US.

2. Based on the examples they've presented, there is a SUPER clean solution to your concerns. Geo-blocking. Problem solved, bye bye GDPR. But don't go crying for EU citizen money, can't have it both ways.

Just read the examples they present, they're fairly well written.
by themanmaran | 2026-02-25 23:43:59+00:00
I understand the pitch, and the extra value add of having some existing relationship with the hotels / etc.

But the quality of the actual AI response is just worse than GPT 5.2. Which makes it feel like a tacked on thing and more of a gpt wrapper.

I asked about a retreat with our US team that could also include one engineer in Pakistan that needs a visa. And the response was something to the effect of: "Assuming your engineer has a US visa, you can go to Puerto Rico".

Whereas chatgpt gave a much more well researched answer.
by bsder | 2026-02-25 23:44:22+00:00
> Then they can put all their data in EU servers and not worry US authorities can look at it even with a valid warrant and a court order.

I have yet to see the EU ignore a valid judicial warrant except in the most extreme cases.

The point, however, is that you have to have a valid judicialwarrant and not some random-ass piece of paper generated by Adderall-addled sycophants of fascist South African nepobabies.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-25 23:44:27+00:00
I disagree with this timeline (the Jews got there in the first place with the precise, declared intent of colonising somebody else's land. That's the whole point of Zionism).

But more in general, there's no point in following a tit-for-tat that goes back 80 years or more with the intent of finding "who was the first". Each event further down the chain completely reverses the assessment, and you can't base any solid reasoning on such grounds. What you have to look at is the big picture: who is occupying someone else's territory? Who is oppressing the other with overwhelming force? Which side keeps taking and which keeps losing?
by daedrdev | 2026-02-25 23:44:54+00:00
Listen y’all, it’s not just that we aren't letting companies spew chemicals into the air. The permitting and regulatory process is so extremely hostile that even when you want to and are able to do so safely and without emissions, it’s impossible.

Instead you have to ship things from out of state and other countries, which generates emissions and pollution itself that might actually be more than local production.

Its the same issue as housing. Endless rules and regulations, many of which make no attempt at doing anything but block, cause the wealth of socirty to be siphoned away. An apartment project in LA with permits complete is worth twice as much as one without. How do we see this and expect our economy to do anything except drown in bureaucracy?

My advice is dont ever manufacturing anything in CA. They will try and kill your business for simply existing no matter how perfect you are.
by helterskelter | 2026-02-25 23:45:12+00:00
My impression was that there was a lack of fast moving rivers which were suitable for water wheels. You could make some elevation, or build a larger wheel, but that can become prohibitive for the volume needed for a real factory.

It looks like the south does have some suitable rivers, but you wonder why they exported their crops to the north just to buy them back again in their more processed form...that just doesn't make much sense from an economic standpoint. Clearly slavery wasn't a suitable replacement for the type of production work done in the north. It must have been a mix of social factors, combined with the fact that the north specialized in industry early on and you couldn't compete very well with the lack of expertise and lack of industry which supported the local industry in the south.

Anyway this is all just wild speculation. Take it for what you will.
by Emen15 | 2026-02-25 23:45:12+00:00
The interesting question is not "can LibreOffice replace Word" but whether Denmark is restructuring identity, device management, and procurement to avoid recreating lock in elsewhere. Office is visible, but AD or Entra, MDM, compliance tooling, and vendor tied workflows are the real gravity wells. The success metric is not feature parity. It is whether dependency risk is measurably reduced over a 5 to 10 year horizon without fragmenting operational continuity.
by nickysielicki | 2026-02-25 23:45:27+00:00
There never was a cohesive generic open source community. There are no meaningful group norms. This was and always will be a fiction.

I’m tempted to just start putting co-authored-by: Claude in every commit I make, even the ones that I write by hand, just to intentionally alienate people like you.

The best guardrails are linters, autoformatters, type checkers, static analyzers, fuzzers, pre-commit rules, unit tests and coverage requirements, etc. If you genuinely care about open source code quality, you should be investing in improving these tools and deploying them in the projects you rely on.

But if you can’t rephrase your criticism of a patch in terms of things flagged by tools like those, you don’t have a criticism at all. You’re just whining.
by olvvier | 2026-02-25 23:45:59+00:00
author here, quick update: the sensor code is now a standalone pip package

pip install macimu

from macimu import IMU
with IMU() as imu:
print(imu.latest_accel()) # Sample(x, y, z) in g
print(imu.latest_gyro()) # Sample(x, y, z) in deg/s

requires sudo. details: https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer
by bigyabai | 2026-02-25 23:46:45+00:00
> This whole incident, and what happens next, is all going straight into future training data. AIs will know what you are trying to do, even more so than all of the humans, and they will react accordingly. It will not be something that can be suppressed. You are not going to like the results.

Besides the fact that this is comically hyperbolic... isn't Mowshowitz wrong here? Training data and input data can be censored if the fed really wanted to, especially in the circumstances that they have the IP for Claude's foundation models.

> If you can’t do it cooperatively with Anthropic? Then find someone else.

This is way too little, way too late. The Pentagon has already offered their ultimatum, there's not any emotional appeal to make to them. The article's white-glove ethical and legal concerns are (unfortunately) not pragmatic, and it's idyllic vision of capitalism will not rescue Anthropic from the clutches of crony capitalism.

In the words of Dr. Breen, "You have chosen, or been chosen..."
by philipallstar | 2026-02-25 23:46:55+00:00
> You missed that bit about the war. If not for that who knows where we'd be today.

It's not just a war. The British Empire declared for moral reasons slavery illegal, and slavers could be hunted for bounty like pirates. The only place that remained in the Empire with slavery was India, because the British felt that the Indian culture could not be disentangled from slavery.

Because slavery was everywhere.
by eertami | 2026-02-25 23:47:05+00:00
I think it isn't as absolute as you suggest, and that it depends on city planning. I own a car but in the city I live it is not a better solution for everyday trips. Walking, cycling, or bus/tram are all far more convenient - it is only when leaving the city that the car becomes better.

(Even then, it depends on the destination - if it's to another city then the intercity trains are still better but for 2+ people it ends up being the premium/expensive option and the car is cheaper.)
by 201984 | 2026-02-25 23:47:25+00:00
> As opposed to something else, like a new shell extension or a new filesystem filter driver on Windows 11?

Ultimately, what difference does it make? The file explorer in Windows 10 is much faster than the one in Windows 11, and it's very noticeable. Turn on the old context menus, and try right clicking a file. Instant in Windows 10, visible delay in Windows 11.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-25 23:47:38+00:00
This conflict has nothing to do with "the Jews," and framing it in that way seriously distorts it.

It's a conflict between the native population of Palestine and people who came in from the outside with the goal of making Palestine their own. The outsiders won for a number of reasons (British backing, superior political organization, etc.). They now rule over the native population, most of whom they deny any rights to. They justify this by saying the native population deserves it because it hates them and resists them.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-25 23:47:53+00:00
>The people living in SFH don't want to move exactly because they're not generating enough tax revenue to keep the city afloat

So the kernel of the argument is that 1) someone bought a single-family home and based on ground truth (property tax, cost of living, etc.) and 2) that property tax isn't sufficient to fund the city?

Can you really blame someone for not sacrificing his position under these circumstances? If I'm meeting my obligation, what do I stand to gain from leaving my house and moving into an apartment? That's saying "I need you to move so that someone else can take your property." It's not going to go over well.
by mparkms | 2026-02-25 23:47:54+00:00
The creator of the website is the CEO of a battery-powered induction cooktop company. (https://x.com/sdamico)

He clearly has an agenda against what he perceives as onerous environmental regulations:
https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026536815902208479
https://x.com/sdamico/status/2026552845294792994
by sheepscreek | 2026-02-25 23:48:00+00:00
Are you guys affiliated with Meta’s ex-CTO in any way? I remember he famously implied that LLMs hyped. The demos are very impressive. Does this use an attention based mechanism too? Just trying to understand (as a layman) how these models handle context and if long contexts lead to weaker results. Could be catastrophic in the real world!
by jasonjmcghee | 2026-02-25 23:48:02+00:00
Harness is an appropriate name. It comes from reinforcement learning world where you need to build the proper scaffolding for it to optimize for the goal you want it to.

This is very similar to what the agent is doing. You are building the appropriate environment for it to be able to complete the task most reliably etc

Not just functions/tools and documentation available (which is similar to a library), also context and critically, enforcement of behavior.

This is probably the key thing that makes it a "harness". If the agent can do whatever it wants, it's not in a harness.
by bmelton | 2026-02-25 23:48:23+00:00
Are they only banned in the cities, or are they banned in the state, which -- even in California, should have rural areas far enough away from cities to be tenable?

It's an interesting conundrum though, because in many cases, the cities could not exist without the things that are being banned in the cities. It's a curious goal of populations to centralize, then ostracize all the things that enabled that centralization
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-25 23:48:26+00:00
From Toyota there are many greats: 1FZ-FE, 1HZ, 1HD-FT, 12H-T, etc

The Cummins 5.9L is excellent, particularly the 12 valve with P7100 pump. Awesome low end torque.

From Mercedes the M104 and OM606 are phenomenal. Powerful, efficient, incredibly reliable. The only drawback is the aging engine management software is not very well supported by aftermarket code readers anymore. In the case of an OM606 you can fix this by deleting the ECU entirely and installing an M pump from an OM603, or replacing the ECU with a DSL-1 standalone unit.