MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Reason077 | 2026-02-21 12:33:27+00:00
It’s pretty difficult to do that. iPhones are known to potentially lose some of their water resistance after a battery swap, as it’s hard to guarantee the replaced waterproof seal is as good as the factory one.

The EU battery regulation has exemptions for IP67-rated devices which retain 83% of original battery capacity after 500 charge cycles, which most modern smartphones will qualify for.
by ndiddy | 2026-02-21 12:34:08+00:00
They did edit archived pages. They temporarily did a find/replace on their archive to replace "Nora Puchreiner" (an alias the site operator uses) with "Jani Patokallio" (the name of the blogger who wrote about archive.today's owner). https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1634-10/https://archive.ph:44...

They also tampered with their archive for a few of the social media sites (Twitter, Instagram, Blogger) by changing the name of the signed in account to Jani Patokallio. https://megalodon.jp/2026-0220-0320-05/https://archive.is:44...

I think Wikipedia made the right decision, you can't trust an archival service for citations if every time the sysop gets in a row they tamper with their database.
by 47282847 | 2026-02-21 12:34:34+00:00
> European law enforcement agencies have the same powers.

No they don’t, not in the way that is implied here. A German court can subpoena German companies. Even for 100% subsidiaries in other European or non-European countries, one needs to request legal assistance. Which then is evaluated based on local jurisdiction of the subsidiary, not the parent. Microsoft Germany as operator is subject to US law and access. See Wikipedia “American exceptionalism” for further examples.
by chuckadams | 2026-02-21 12:35:06+00:00
The List-Unsubscribe header was pioneered by Dave Rolsky, one of the more notorious spammers of the early 2000's. His reasoning was that most people were just going to hit delete, but anyone who went out of their way to unsubscribe was a squeaky wheel that would cause more problems for him if they got angry about their request being ignored. So he really did honor unsubscribe requests ... at least until adding them to the next spam campaign on a different list.
by sigwinch | 2026-02-21 12:36:00+00:00
I wager he’ll:

1. Claim to refund the money to each taxpayer with a Trump-signed check.

2. The number of checks will not total $200 B. Any reporting to the contrary will take up space from the truth about Epstein.

3. Before 2028, a loyal SuperPAC will form with hundreds of billions in dark money.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-21 12:36:57+00:00
Very neat. I built an agentic web DAW last year. Models were pretty crap at producing anything good, but that's changing rapidly.

I forked anthropic's MCP at the time to use it in the browser, but it was just too much trouble and I wanted to wait for something like WebMCP to appear before fiddling with it more.

Planning on dusting off the DAW and releasing it very soon.
by gurkenkram | 2026-02-21 12:37:00+00:00
It is indeed about the sunset and especially the last phases of it.
It's also why red light is recommended for night feeding when breastfeeding.

Works for me, both reducing the blue light and worked for my baby, too, using only deep orange and red light of a cheap LED color change lamp. Apparently works for many, since red nursing lights are suddenly sold everywhere.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-21 12:37:07+00:00
As I already said, management ultimately is the root of the blame. But what you don't seem to get is that at least some of their blame is from hiring dumbasses into that security review role.

Why did the security team initially give the okay to checking signatures on plugin jars? They're supposed to be security experts, what kind of security expert doesn't know that a signature check like that could be modded out? I knew it when I implemented it, and the modder at the partner corp obviously knew it but lacked the tact to stay quiet about it. Management didn't realize it, but they aren't technical. So why didn't security realize it until it was brought to their attention? Because they were retarded.

By the way, this application is still publicly downloadable, still easily modded, and hasn't been updated in almost 10 years now. Security review is fine with that, apparently. They only get bent out of shape when somebody actually tries to make something more useful, not when old nominally vulnerable software is left to rot in public. They're not protecting the company from a damn thing.
by nananana9 | 2026-02-21 12:37:10+00:00
Yeah, no. The actual solution is

1. Stop requiring computers/phones for everything. Your 91 year old grandma isn't going to make her way through your super cool very intuitive 2FA magic link email confirmation system, and I don't WANT to make my way through your super cool very intuitive 2FA magic link email confirmation system.

2. teach the people who need to use computers, how to use them.
by peterfirefly | 2026-02-21 12:37:32+00:00
Some of my early phones had spare batteries. They most certainly did NOT have weeks of standby time or 20 hours of talk time. We are talking late 90's.

Later, as phones and batteries got better, the spare batteries became unnecessary. They still degraded fast enough that there was a market for replacement batteries and they could indeed easily be replaced. We are talking things like the Nokia 3310.

Even later, the need for user replaceable batteries pretty much disappeared.

These days, it is entirely gone.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-21 12:38:19+00:00
Yes, I get those as well. Happens everything I've been looking a lifting videos for a day or two. Give it a bit more time and you'll get videos of right wing women explaining why modern women can't get dates.

It is fairly concerning and there's not real good way of telling YouTube that you're not interested. The dislike button does little and blocking the channel is also pretty ineffective as there are a myriad of channels with the similar content which you'll just be served instead.
by carefulfungi | 2026-02-21 12:38:29+00:00
> cigarettes never threatened democracy

Off topic, but I bet a book on tobacco cultivation/history would be fascinating. Tobacco cultivation relied on the slave labor of millions and the global tobacco market influenced Jefferson and other American revolutionaries (who were seeing their wealth threatened). I've also read that Spain treated sharing seeds as punishable by death? The rare contrast that makes Monsanto look enlightened!
by latexr | 2026-02-21 12:38:56+00:00
A bit of a meta topic, but this type of writing style irks me to the point I almost always either close the tab or am so distracted for the rest of article I don’t pay attention to the point. Let’s look at the first five blocks of text:

There is a title, then a short introduction, then an unnecessary image, then three more paragraphs where it’s repeated with the exact same words what was already in the first two blocks.

What’s the point of that? Why are you making me read the exact same thing twice in succession? Who does that appeal to?
by dizhn | 2026-02-21 12:39:18+00:00
I don't like any of the libreoffice/openoffice behemoths. I only ever used them because there wasn't anything better/comperable, so I will stay away from that discussion.

I like OnlyOffice. Their desktop apps are much lighter and better looking. They work fine for my light needs. They also do have a LOT more than just desktop apps.

The last time I mentioned them I was informed they are Russian. If that matters to you. It is actual open source software though. Perhaps the EU should fork it. :) (By the way I hadn't checked last time but, wikipedia says Latvian with Russian origin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice. This page does say they are Russian, https://www.en-zdv.uni-mainz.de/2023/05/30/software-onlyoffi... and that they are switching to the open-source version.)

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/desktop-apps

EDIT: Some more context. A cryptpad developer says

> we consider the OnlyOffice code upstream as "untrusted".

https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/232-onlyoffice-concerns-vendor-...
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-21 12:39:35+00:00
a) Yes they do:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-give-fee...

https://veroniiiica.com/how-to-use-the-feedback-tool-in-micr...

b) they have automated crash report and usage telemetry to tell them what isn’t working
by nevertoolate | 2026-02-21 12:40:00+00:00
My summary: openclaw is a 5/5 security risk, if you have a perfectly audited nanoclaw or whatever it is 4/5 still. If it runs with human-in-the-loop it is much better, but the value is quickly diminishing. I think llms are not bad at helping to spec down human language and possibly doing great also in creating guardrails via tests, but i’d prefer something stable over llms running in “creative mode” or “claw” mode.
by lukan | 2026-02-21 12:40:01+00:00
I really hope, that before I will get old and fragile, I will get my smart robotic house, with an (local!) AI assistant always listening to my wishes and then executing them.

I rather have the horror of being old and forgotten in a half care like most old people are right now. AI and robots can bring emporerment. And it is up to us, whether we let ad companies serve them to us from the cloud, or local models running in the basement.
by realdanigil | 2026-02-21 12:40:09+00:00
Built this as a side project, it pulls live data from GNews, RSS OSINT feeds (Bellingcat, BBC, etc.), X/Twitter, Polymarket prediction markets, and USGS seismic data into a single military-style C2 dashboard.

The nuclear impact simulator (sigact.live/nuke) lets you drop any of 7 warhead presets on any city and see Glasstone & Dolan blast radii overlaid on a real map.

Stack: Next.js, Leaflet, d3-geo, Vercel. No database yet — all API-cached serverless.

Looking for feedback on the threat scoring model and what data sources to add next. ACLED conflict data integration is built but waiting on API access approval.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-21 12:40:22+00:00
Which, to be fair, isn't technically dead. Apache OpenOffice, the rotting corpse of OpenOffice.org now maintained by Apache, released 4.1.16 just a few months ago.

What should have happened was that ten years ago Apache should have "retired" OpenOffice. That's Apache's terminology for projects which are abandoned. But instead it has limped on for all these years, sucking up valuable effort by users with Apache claiming that it'll be fine somehow.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-21 12:40:27+00:00
It doesn't matter the margin by which Clinton lost. The point of trying to turn the electors is that the US constitution requires a candidate receive a majority of electoral votes. If nobody does, then the House of Representatives gets to determine who becomes President. And they came far closer to overturning the election than some guys rioting around the Capitol did, since there was a viable path towards the goal.

Your perception of the electoral college is somewhat biased. The college itself serves a practical purpose - elections in the US are extremely decentralized by design. States can do pretty much whatever they want, only later constrained by various constitutional amendments. So when a state A gives you a number, that number does not necessarily mean the same thing as when state B does the same. The electoral college normalizes election results by requiring each state to convert their numbers into a common format. And instead of relying on the Federal government trying to deal with millions of votes, it's only 538.

Similarly, the scheme in support of Trump was not only not illegal, but even anticipated by the electoral count act which made it such that if the House/Senate disagreed with votes included or excluded by the Vice President, then they were free to overrule it by a simple majority vote. The VP's role was then later changed to a purely ceremonial one in a new law passed in 2022, largely to prevent this angle in the future.
by mettamage | 2026-02-21 12:40:39+00:00
> Admittedly, I'm getting old, but for the first couple years I used git professionally ~2008-2011 we just pulled from each other's machines. Directly over SSH. We worked in an office, all had each other's machines as remotes. "Hey, is that feature done? Cool, I'll pull it". It worked really well.

Haha I'm jealous.

We used Airdrop.

And then I was like "shouldn't we use git?"

"Nah, this works fine, you have the code you need now, don't you?"

I was still in my second year of my information science bachelor and he was +60 years old and had programmed for over 2 decades. I was not going to argue with someone that experienced. In retrospect, I should have. But I'd probably been shot down with being "that youngster that always wants to use new technologies" (despite git not being that new anymore).
by Reason077 | 2026-02-21 12:40:41+00:00
Standby times were indeed great in those days because those phones weren’t doing very much when they were idle. (Weeks may be an exaggeration, though!)

You might also be misremembering talk times, unless you had a phone with an exceptionally large battery.

A typical device like the Nokia 3210 had 3-4 hours talk time, which is far less than modern smartphones.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-21 12:40:45+00:00
> There was no punishment for not following the government's recommendation or reward for following it.

You don't know that, and it's not reasonable to assume that. They all mostly caved, hence the letters of regret and the Twitter files etc.

> You're desperate because you claimed that the government had censored COVID speech, and I showed that it had not

You certainly did not. You showed that you don't even know what happened, couldn't be bothered looking into it, and yet are happy to pronounce 'the truth' as if it didn't contradict well known and documented reality.

That's called 'arguing in bad faith' and it's highly discouraged here.
by ajdude | 2026-02-21 12:41:04+00:00
> Fifteen years ago, we started work on the Dark Sky weather app.

I will never forgive them for selling out to Apple.

Dark sky was the greatest weather app I've ever used, it had features such as considering the pressure of the atmosphere when predicting rain using crowd sourced phones, and it was the only app I've ever used that was as accurate as it was during a time when my job relied on quickly leaving the office and running across town multiple times a day.

it was sad watching the API get killed off but even worse was that a lot of the features that dark sky had never really made it into Apple weather, and the rain predictions at Apple Weather had were never as accurate as dark sky. There were several times where it was actively raining and Apple weather never even knew. Dark sky always knew.

Nope nope nope fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me, I'm not touching this with 39 1/2 foot pole.
by enderforth | 2026-02-21 12:41:21+00:00
It's been my experience that there are 2 types of security people.
1. Are the security people who got into a security because it was one of the only places that let them work with every part of the stack, and exposure to dozens of different domains on the regular, and the idea of spending hours understanding and then figuring out ways around whitelist validations are appealing

2. Those that don't have much technical chops, but can get by with a surface level understanding of several areas and then perform "security shamanism" to intimidate others and pull out lots of jargon. They sound authoritative because information security is a fairly esoteric concept and because you can't argue against security like you can't argue against health and safety, the only response is "so you don't care about security?!"

It is my experience that the first are likely to work with you to help figure out how to get your application past the hurdles and challenges you face viewing it as an exciting problem. The second view their job as to "protect the organization" not deliver value. They love playing dressup in security theater and their depth of their understanding doesn't even pose a drowning risk to infants, which they make up for with esoterica, and jargon. They are also unfortunately the one's cooking up "standards" and "security policies" because it allows them to feel like they are doing real work, without the burden of actually knowing what they are doing, and talented people are actually doing something.

Here's a good litmus test to distinguish them, ask their opinion on the CISSP. If it's positive they probably don't know what the heck they are talking about.

Source: A long career operating in multiple domains, quite a few of which have been in security having interacted with both types (and hoping I fall into the first camp rather than the latter)
by skeledrew | 2026-02-21 12:42:09+00:00
They're commodities to an appreciable extent. They all do generally the same thing, with the differing factor being output quality.

People can still use their model without using their CLI. Use the API that they've provided for such. They didn't break the agreement that they made; they clarified the terms of their existing agreement.

There's nothing morally disgusting here. They're providing a service that they've poured a lot of effort into, in a way that's (hopefully) sustainable while being valuable to users. There's significant cost involved, which must be footed by those who value and use the service. They found a way to offer a discount for some of that cost, providing even greater value, but it has a condition which is possibly directly connected to their ability to provide that discount. And you want to benefit from that discount and avoid that condition.

I have no horses here; heck I wish they could offer it all completely free. But the reality is that there's ongoing cost to them in research, hardware, electricity, etc that has to be paid. And unlike many other large companies out there, they're providing something seriously valuable (you wouldn't be complaining so passionately if it wasn't), and they haven't enshittified it (unlike what the other large player is increasingly doing, but that's actually also understandable to a point). What I see here is you - as in all who want discount without condition - acting in a way that, if allowed, will very likely lead to the detriment of the service, which I definitely don't want to happen as that'll leave the market worse off. If you like the value so much that you find it next to impossible to stay away, then you should be happily following their agreement to the letter, and lean toward paying the full amount to help ensure their continued sustainability. It's well worth it.
by luckys | 2026-02-21 12:42:18+00:00
There is a funny, deep observation made by The Good Place character Michael (a non-human) that has stuck with me since. He says that humans took ice cream, which was perfect, and "ruined it a little" to invent frozen yogurt, just so they could have more of it. There's supposedly a 'guilt' angle there somewhere but I never felt guilty for eating "too much" ice cream so can't relate.

Still, this "making something worse so you can have more of it" shows up pretty much everywhere in human experience. Sometimes it's depressing, other times amazing to see what was achieved with that mentality, and it seems AI is just accelerating it.
by cmptrnerd6 | 2026-02-21 12:42:21+00:00
I don't get it, AI does some impressive things but I don't trust it to write any code that goes to production. I've used AI for many one off python scripts for visualizing some log files that mostly worked, which was convenient. Maybe AI is just bad at embedded C but the other day I had it write some code that resulted in a subtle error because the AI didn't account for C truncating, not rounding, when doing math with integers. It makes me wonder if most errors are going undetected since reviewing code can be harder than writing code.

So articles like this that someone is using AI in finance scare me. Maybe the big 4 are using AI as an excuse to put pressure to get lower rates, it doesn't mean they actually think AI is capable of it. Or maybe auditing was already a racket that is easily disrupted by another racket.
by TurboSkyline | 2026-02-21 12:42:25+00:00
I'm only a light user of office programs, both at work and at home. I have access to M365, but for my personal usage I prefer LibreOffice over MS Office, especially when it comes to spreadsheets. I generally don't mind the UI of the MS suite, but I find it's getting increasingly bloated and slow, and sometimes updates move UI elements around for no benefit that I can perceive. I haven't experienced the same with LibreOffice; it's lighter than MS Office I find it easier to find the options I'm looking for, which I know exist but don't always remember _where_ they live, because of the low frequency with which I use them.

With Excel in particular, there is something I can't put my finger on that I just don't get along with. It's unintuitive in a way that I can't describe, but which I notice about half the time I use it. Sometimes clicking doesn't do what I expect it to do, clipboard contents are lost all the time, scrolling resets or jumps around for reasons I don't understand. I don't have the same issues with LibreOffice Calc, which is why I choose it for my personal work. In fact, I think Google Sheets is the most pleasant to use of the options I've tried, which is something I thought I'd never say about a web-based alternative to a native app...
by ms_sv | 2026-02-21 12:42:49+00:00
This is a real insight "finding the most skilled candidate but rather the most compatible candidate", thank you very much, this is the kind of feedback I am looking for from engineers. I never looked at it from this perspective.

I talked to hiring managers and most of them say skills is good but what we want is a personality because skills can be taught and personality cannot be. Personality I have experienced that, very skilled teammate exceptional, but personality was not a fit, so the management was not happy.

"The best way to determine the right candidate is to ignore the nonsense on their resume and just talk to people.", that is true and this I have tried with when I was playing the role of hiring manager trying to find a team member to work with me in the company I worked for. I imagine the peer-to-peer verification framework like this talk to people and ask them personalized questions, this is how exceptional talent will be flushed out I think.

Given that, if you were to imagine a tool that helps surface those 'quietly exceptional' people—the ones who are highly skilled but won't self-identify—what would that tool look like? Does it even need to be a tool to begin with?
Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?
by penguin_booze | 2026-02-21 12:42:53+00:00
With AI infesting and eating into all kind of crafts--and I being one of those faceless "craftsmen"--I'm rather forced to consider alternative jobs. Setting the monetary rewards aside, I was thinking of jobs that could give me a sense of agency, purpose, and satisfaction (however limited). The few I think of are:

- Parcels delivery driver

- Train driver

- Electrician or plumber

- Mechanic (with auto-mobiles hardly repairable these days, maybe this doesn't qualify)

Surely, I can't be alone in thinking along those lines. What else have you thought of?
by kunley | 2026-02-21 12:43:00+00:00
Does not compute.

You seem to think I will be unhappy because I don't have unhealthy obsession about tech celebs - and yes they are ephemeral, because in said 10 years these personas will be substituted in terms of celebrities by other personas, all of them with pretty much zero impact on my real life.

So, the reality is precisely the opposite: I will be more happy by not having described obsession, thus, I don't see how I should have hard time. The repetition of your false claims in more languages doesn't make them more true.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-21 12:43:17+00:00
And the cohort most likely to vote well when they do.

The 18 year olds who vote less but vote for good parties are doing good, overall. The 60 year olds voting Tory their whole lives - not so much.

It's very easy to blame the young for all the problems earlier generations created and exacerbated. Not too wise though.