MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2026-02-02 15:56:36+00:00
Contrary to what most people seem to think about the past, slavery was oft seen as naturally repulsive even thousands of years back. It required regular defense. In Aristotle's Politics [1], written some 2400+ years ago, he felt compelled to lay out just such a defense and it was, by far, his weakest argument. He clearly started at his conclusion and worked backwards from there, instead of working forward from first principles and he did in other topics. The reason it's relevant is that he did accurately predict the end of slavery:

"For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, 'Of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods.' If, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves."

There were thousands of years of efforts to end slavery, some countries would occasionally succeed at such only to see it spring right back. Yet following the industrial revolution it began rapidly disappearing everywhere that had gone through industrialization + urbanization. The issue in your mental model is that you're only considering local effects over very immediate time frames. Think about the bigger picture.

Industrialization drove big money away from farms and into factories, away from rural scarcely populated rural areas into densely populated urban areas packed with very poor potential workers. As soon as the necessity argument for slavery became plainly absurd, to say nothing of the issue of industrialization also reducing the need for so many workers even on plantations, slavery wasn't long for this world. This says nothing about actual slave holders who, as you said, did not just go quietly into the night. But as their economic might relatively waned, so did their influence.

[1] - https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.mb.txt
by goodburb | 2026-02-02 15:56:45+00:00
You can now run Docker images with Udocker/proot[0], the disk IO can be a bottleneck for large databases.

Tailscale works with "--tun=userspace-networking".

I had it running on an old phone as a frigate server with a solar powerbank in remote area, using the 4G as a failover. The uptime is almost a week.

[0]: https://github.com/George-Seven/Termux-Udocker
by kouteiheika | 2026-02-02 15:56:48+00:00
> I don't really get how VSCode got so popular. You can use a language server perfectly easily with Vim, Emacs, Helix, Sublime, etc.

You open it. It just works. And the learning curve is smooth.

Compare this to Vim where, if it's the first time you're opening it, you are forced to kill the process because you don't even know how to quit it, never mind actually do any productive work.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-02 15:56:52+00:00
By my work there is a nice clean sign at the main intersection that reads "NO RIGHT ON RED" with a separate smaller crusty looking sign below it that reads "4 to 5 PM" using a much smaller font. Of course the stark difference in signs means everyone just reads the shiny top sign and waits for the green at all times. I keep wanting to modify the sign to highlight the time.
by rainsil | 2026-02-02 15:56:58+00:00
We have quite a bit of insight into Indian scam centers thanks to the work of scambaiters like Jim Browning[1] who frequently hack into their CCTV cameras and desktops.

The big difference is that the workers in India are voluntarily employed. In fact they often work for companies that do legitimate customer support as well, so they maintain the facade of doing “service” for their “clients”.

It’s also worth noting that Indian call centers focus more on tech support scams rather than romance scams.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/JimBrowning
by clarionbell | 2026-02-02 15:57:07+00:00
>Trade group WindEurope said more European countries were now moving towards offering revenue guarantees to offshore wind developers as standard, after Denmark and Germany held subsidy-free auctions, which failed to attract any bids.

In other words, new wind farms will need subsidies, an those will have to be payed for by the populace. This isn't necessarily something specific to wind power, nuclear needs subsidies as well.
by garciasn | 2026-02-02 15:57:15+00:00
After reading the article:

It appears the whistleblower complaint against DNI Tulsi Gabbard, filed in May 2025, has faced an eight-month delay in reaching Congress, far exceeding the typical weeks-long (two to three is the norm) window for such disclosures. One side allegedes 'stonewalling' while the agency maintains the delay is due to the document's extreme classification and complex legal hurdles.

Regarding the merits of the case: a representative for the Intelligence Community Inspector General stated that specific allegations against Gabbard were determined to be, "not credible." However, the whistleblower’s attorney disputes any official credibility determination was ever reached, leaving the status of the complaint in limb. That said, there's absolutely no reason that this should not be shared w/Congress in compliance with the norms for this sort of whistleblower complaint.
by pseudalopex | 2026-02-02 15:57:21+00:00
> You're welcome to walk yourself down to Skid Row or your nearest homeless camp and conduct a detailed survey if you want the specifics.

What country is the subject of this discussion? I assumed the US because the article was about Oregon. Most homeless people in the US do not live in camps.[1]

> Or, a simple Google search will provide several studies including demographic details.

Simple searches found researchers couldn't agree how many homeless people used drugs. Never mind abused. Never mind abused before becoming homeless. Never mind became homeless because they abused drugs.

Simple searches found citations for the claim substance abused caused most homelessness failed to support the claim. A survey cited frequently asked mayors what they thought were the top causes of homelessness in their cities.

Simple searches found studies which said homelessness was economic primarily.

[1] https://aibm.org/research/homelessness-in-the-united-states/
by dotBen | 2026-02-02 15:57:31+00:00
They already will be selling your ride data and there is no way they could monitor conversations in the car for commercial purposes (at least in Western countries).

Ads in cars, partnerships with alternative destinations, etc. definitely would feel like enshitification for a demographic comparable to the hacker news one here. But these are all per session/user settings just like most of us have a paid Spotify account and never see advertising and those who don't get a very different monetized experience.

What is exciting about monetization like this is the possibility for rides to become very cheap or even free. If my dentist offers free rides to the office in return for my loyalty, I'm quite happy to take that.
by kolbe | 2026-02-02 15:57:50+00:00
He's talking specifically about Waymo's situation. Alplabet, a company who has $75bn of FCF, owns 80% of Waymo. A $16bn capital injection is meaningless to Alphabet, so he's wondering why they're going through the trouble.

He raises a good point, and the answer is likely that they can run into legal issues by either under or overvaluing the company in a capital raise where they're the controlling shareholder, then the IRS or existing investors have grounds for a lawsuit (or audit). They likely just want to bring the capital raise out in the open to get a fair market value, and then they will be 90% of the capital in the raise.
Show HN: Simple ACME v2 client for green certificates in POSIX shell
by lauriro | 2026-02-02 15:57:54+00:00
I published a small shell script to get and renew free HTTPS certificates via ACME v2 (Let’s Encrypt & co).

Single script, single conf file, DNS + HTTP challenges, written by human.

Homepage https://certx.sh/ and source https://github.com/lauriro/certx.sh waiting for feedback :)
by jmclnx | 2026-02-02 15:58:01+00:00
No offense to the author, a good article, but seems he may live outside of the US, or maybe works at a small company.

My experience as a developer, in the 80s and most of the 90s, there was a benefit to a promotion. Since about 2000, promotions means:

1. A fancier title (who cares).

2. No Salary Raise, a big issue for me and what I miss the most.

3. More responsibility.

Why bother push for a promotion these days ?
by skeptic_ai | 2026-02-02 15:58:11+00:00
They sent me to my usdt wallet. So i actually got it. Of course after I earned 30 USD they make it impossible to withdraw unless I “invested” 100 usd. Very weird scam to pay out 30usd.

So means 1 in 3 people must invest 100 in order for them to breakeven, which tbh doesn’t make sense.

Also note that came from a random telegram account from dubai.

They asked if I wanted to make money etc. I obviously thought was a scam. I never expected to really cash out the 30 USD.
by dirkc | 2026-02-02 15:59:13+00:00
Installing any 3rd party dev dependency without sandboxing should terrify you. These supply chain attacks are not hypothetical.

Trusting other devs to not write malicious code so far has led to a surprisingly small number of incidents, but I don't think this will extrapolate into the future.

With more lines of code being auto-written without deliberate intent or review from an accountable author things can only get worse!
by pulkas | 2026-02-02 15:59:45+00:00
This violates the Claude Code subscription terms of service, so please be careful.

This project violates Claude Code's Terms of Service by automating Claude to create an unattended chatbot service that responds to third-party messaging platforms (WhatsApp, and what you add ...).

The exact issues:

1. Automated, unattended usage - The system runs as a background service (launchd) that automatically responds to WhatsApp
messages without human intervention (src/index.ts:549-574)

2. Building a bot service - This creates a persistent bot that monitors messages and responds automatically, which violates restrictions on building derivative services on top of Claude

3. Third-party platform integration - Connecting Claude to WhatsApp (or other messaging platforms) to create an automated
assistant service isn't an authorized use case.

The README itself reveals awareness of this issue at line 41:

**No ToS gray areas.** Because it uses Claude Agent SDK natively with no hacks or workarounds, using your subscription with your auth token is completely legitimate (I think). No risk of being shut down for terms of service violations
(I am not a lawyer).

The defensive tone ("I think", "I am not a lawyer") indicates uncertainty about legitimacy. While using your own credentials doesn't automatically make automated bot services compliant—Anthropic's TOS restricts using their products to build automated chatbot services, regardless of authentication method.

The core violation: transforming Claude Code into an automated bot service that operates without human intervention, which is explicitly prohibited.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-02-02 16:00:04+00:00
> Everything is made out of or requires fossil fuels. From concrete, your clothes, to your food. Phasing out fossil fuels is complete insanity.

That's not true, but ok...

> Does China, Indonesia, Africa, South America, India give a crap about saving the environment?

Actually, they do. China is the biggest spender on investing in renewable energy-sources and moving away from fossil fuels. Africa and South America are continents, not Countries. And not sure why India or Indonesia are related here?

Other than that, I'm not sure if you are a troll, victim of poor sources or paid actor, but your quality of data really sucks.
by ksec | 2026-02-02 16:00:11+00:00
Not sure what is new here. It continues to baffles me most analyst still dont get it. ( They are usually not very good with commodity trading )

Actual cost of Apple Silicon is much lower than most expected. Apple has plenty of room to play with those Hardware R&D numbers. Not to mention Modem and Network Silicon.

Apple Services include R&D on Software, development cost of all OS and software shipped by default such as Numbers and Photos. That has been the case since 2014 and again has room for moving margins.

NAND and Memory price dont hit Apple (yet) because Apple sign early contract to ensure supply. Apple is the largest or 2nd largest Smartphone manufacture and if you include all computing devices they are likely number one. Smartphone, Tablet, MacBook and Servers. In commodity market such as NAND and DRAM, not having Apple as base load is equivalent to self destruction. They have a much higher leverage than most people imagine.

Judging from the increase of Active Devices, I would not be surprised if 2025 Google are paying even more to Apple on a per user Default Search engine price.

Apple has been steadily tightening up loops holes or grey area on IAP, especially in China with WeChat and Mini-Apps.

I have been wondering if Apple has increased the usage of Chinese Components for iPhone within China for import Tax deduction. Although no evidence so far have suggested China iPhone 17 are made with screens from BOE only.

I just wish Apple would spend more on fixing bugs.
by mprovost | 2026-02-02 16:00:41+00:00
In general TCP just isn't great for high performance. In the film industry we used to use a commercial product Aspera (now owned by IBM) which emulated ftp or scp but used UDP with forward error correction (instead of TCP retransmission). You could configure it to use a specific amount of bandwidth and it would just push everything else off the network to achieve it.
by adolph | 2026-02-02 16:00:56+00:00
Yes, in addition to inserts which are custom to the mask, there are small frames with a thin rubber band to keep them on you. They were great for roughhousing occasions as well as under mask. The key part is the thinness and impermeability of the band allows for a good seal.

https://eyeglass.com/products/criss-optical-collection-mag-1...
by plasticsoprano | 2026-02-02 16:01:26+00:00
How do you deal with how poorly rclone handles rate limits? It doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header and just adds an exponential back off that, in my migrations, has resulted in a pause of days.

I've adjusted threads and the various other controls rclone offers but I still feel like I'm not see it's true potential because the second it hits a rate limit I can all but guarantee that job will have to be restarted with new settings.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
by whoishiring | 2026-02-02 16:01:30+00:00
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
by whoishiring | 2026-02-02 16:01:30+00:00
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by jtor | 2026-02-02 16:01:36+00:00
Spiich Labs (Stockholm) | Founding GTM, Fullstack Engineer | Full-time | On-site | Visa Sponsorship

We're building Cursor for sales - an AI assistant doubling sales productivity by handling CRM updates, meeting prep, prospecting and follow-ups.

Backed by founders & operators @ Lovable, OpenAI, Neo4j, Creandum. Pre-seed. Shipping fast.

Founding GTM - Own revenue and customer success E2E

- B2B SaaS sales experience beating quota (2-3 years, or less if you're exceptional)

- Full-cycle deals from SMB → Mid-market (€10k–€200k ARR)

- Build pipeline and playbook from scratch

Fullstack Engineer - Work on the core product

- 1-3 years experience building at high velocity - TypeScript (Node + React), PostgreSQL, graph databases

- Own features E2E: voice/text AI interfaces, knowledge graphs, CRM integrations, real-time infrastructure

Comp: Flexible package (base + equity)

Apply: hello@spiich.ai - Include LinkedIn, why Spiich, proudest achievement, GitHub (engineering), and quota attainment (GTM)

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by markbao | 2026-02-02 16:01:40+00:00
Goody | Remote | $150–250K + equity and benefits | North/South America | Full-time

I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. We're building a gifting product that every business can use to recognize employees, retain customers, and accelerate sales. Despite being something everyone does, gifting is one of the areas of commerce yet to be disrupted, and we're working on building the best and most delightful product in this space.

Our product is used by Google, Stripe, Anthropic, Meta, NBCUniversal, Notion, and others, and we also offer a developer API for commerce. Tech stack is Ruby + React + TypeScript, though we're flexible on backend language if you know Python or Node.js better. All roles are full-stack.

We're coming off of a big year and planning for scale in 2026. We have a few new roles to accelerate our growth.

• Staff Software Engineer ($200–250K) — for those who ship at a startup pace and have a great eye for detail

• Senior Software Engineer, Customer Engineering ($150–200K) — if you like to hear a customer request in the morning and tell them it’s shipped in the afternoon. US and Canada only for this one

• Senior Software Engineer, Growth ($150–200K) — be the engineer who has the most direct impact on our growth

• Data Analyst ($80–140K) — build models to help power decision-making across our business (not a dev role but thought I'd include it)

We're looking for people who have great startup energy, want to win, and bring great vibes to our tight-knit team. Great time to join since our offsite in London is happening soon (we're US-based, this is our third international offsite).

https://jobs.ongoody.com/#hn

My email is open for any questions: mark@ongoody.com
by randycupertino | 2026-02-02 16:01:50+00:00
Not surprising, hardware demand is decreasing, subscriber churn is up and the trendiness of peloton during peak COVID hype has worn off. They've been on a cost-cutting spree including headcount, lower cost instructors, more repeated content, and cheaper, less-robust hardware. All of which is lowering experience and imo gonna cause even more of a death spiral.
by Stratoscope | 2026-02-02 16:01:52+00:00
Location: Menlo Park, CA

Remote: Yes, or possible hybrid if nearby

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/machine languages, Windows user code and kernel drivers, Google Maps and other map APIs, geographic and airspace data

Résumé/CV: https://www.geary.com/resume.html or https://www.geary.com/resume.pdf and https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeary/

Email: mike@geary.com

Hi, I'm Michael Geary. I've programmed in many languages and environments over the years. Some of my current interests are:

• Developer experience. I love helping my fellow developers solve problems, and building tools to make their jobs easier and more enjoyable.

• Aviation and geographic data. For example, airspace and obstacle data importers for Wing; election results and voter information maps for Google; many interactive maps for other companies.

• Hardware interfacing. In a way, I am a "full stack" developer, but my stack may involve a front end to a piece of hardware rather than the cloud. I first got into programming via ham radio, so RF hardware remains an interest.

• Designing and building APIs. Too often an API is designed by exposing the internals of whatever system provides the API. My philosophy is the opposite: start with the apps. I like to build a series of sample apps before starting on the API. This way I can imagine what API will make those apps and others like them easy to build.

• Talk with users! I don't like to sit in a back room cranking out code. I want to make sure it's the right code for what my users need, and that it's easy to maintain and improve as we learn more about what they want.

Open to full time or contract.

I look forward to talking with you!
by Tina-Fet | 2026-02-02 16:01:52+00:00
Head of Engineering & Infrastructure | Full-Time | Remote | $182k - $272k USD - https://fetlife.com/jobs/head_of_engineering_and_infrastruct...

Role: Fully own our engineering and infrastructure teams, keep FetLife fast and reliable for over 12 million members, and free the rest of the leadership team to focus on product and growth.

Perks: Paid time off (2 weeks vacation, 5 statutory holidays, 2 weeks at Christmas, 4-day summer workweeks), annual company retreat, anniversary gift ($200/year), monthly music subscription reimbursement, fully paid maternity & paternity leave.

How to Apply: Email jointheteam+hoei+hn@fetlife.com with a brief introduction, tell us about the impact you have personally made on an engineering or infrastructure team you have led, and LinkedIn or resume (PDF).

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Role: Develop and implement infrastructure upgrades, database tuning, Kubernetes and Helm orchestration, monitoring, and security. Help maintain and improve our large-scale Rails monolith, including CI/CD. Participate in on-call rotation and help automate daily DevOps tasks.

Perks: Paid time off (2 weeks vacation, 5 statutory holidays, 2 weeks at Christmas, 4-day summer workweeks), annual company retreat, anniversary gift ($200/year), monthly music subscription reimbursement, fully paid maternity & paternity leave.

How to apply: Email jointheteam+do+hn@fetlife.com with a brief introduction, 2–3 favorite projects, GitHub/GitLab link, and LinkedIn profile or resume (PDF).

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Stack: MySQL/PostgreSQL, ScyllaDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Terraform, Google Cloud, DataDog and more.

Applications: Rails, Vue.js/Typescript, Rust

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by stakent | 2026-02-02 16:01:58+00:00
Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.