MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nis0s | 2026-02-05 15:09:03+00:00
The article is taking a simplistic take on the issues.

Yes, all generations have their unique references and fixations. But what’s different for generations growing up with the internet is that ads/marketing optimization has made it easier to create the same signals across different cultural mediums, so everything roughly becomes, looks and sounds the same. Gen AI is only going to make this worse, especially for music.

Nothing makes this more obvious than the fact that even the “alternative” culture is cookie cutter down to a set of ingredients and shapes. For example, black lipstick if you’re {type 1} {goth}, {makeup item} on men, etc. It’s not “alternative” if it’s an identity uniform.

The other disappointing thing is that even crossing international borders doesn’t change what you see and experience because there’s a checklist of experience optimization that filters out anything unique, different, or weird that may not be immediately accessible.
by trjordan | 2026-02-05 15:09:08+00:00
Having recently set up sentry, at least one of the ways they use this is to auto-configure uptime monitoring.

Once they know what hosts you run, it'll ping that hostname periodically. If it stays up and stable for a couple days, you'll get an alert in product: "Set up uptime monitoring on <hostname>?"

Whether you think this is valid, useful, acceptable, etc. is left as an exercise to the reader.
by jstanley | 2026-02-05 15:09:08+00:00
I don't know if it's fair to say he intentionally disrupted emergency communications.

He unintentionally disrupted emergency communications in the course of intentionally disrupting ordinary people's communications.

I doubt he ever thought "I've got a good idea, I'll disrupt emergency communications".

He did a thing, on purpose, that had a side-effect of disrupting emergency communications. I don't know whether you'd say that qualifies as "intentional".

If it qualifies as intentional, are we saying that all possible unintended consequences are de facto intentions? Or only in this case?
by mariuz | 2026-02-05 15:09:45+00:00
pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container that includes:

- PostgreSQL source code and build tools
- A debug build of PostgreSQL
- A pre-configured debugger for step-through debugging
- Sample extensions
- A brief guide on how to compile, install, and debug a simple extension

Via

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7417691...
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-05 15:10:05+00:00
The police who stopped him had their radios jammed during the interaction; so I'm not particularly sympathetic to the title's artificial framing:

> Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving

The person jammed 911, both on and off the freeway every single work-day for months. They also jammed legal usage of mobile devices on the freeway and in the surrounding area. They were rightfully fined, and if it discourages others then so much the better.
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-05 15:11:12+00:00
It is much, way too much. I wouldn’t mind this penalty if other obnoxious behaviour is equally investigated and punished, but I can think of plenty of way more obnoxious things to do that would never trigger even a reaction from law enforcement.

The real crime here, as usual, is that he inconvenienced a corporation. Had someone been obnoxiously interfering (in general - not radio-specific) with an individual or small business nothing will happen.
by jabroni_salad | 2026-02-05 15:11:17+00:00
> Adopted: April 23, 2014 Released: April 29, 2014

Well, here's another fun one I guess, where a trucker wanted to disrupt his log keeper but ended up interfering with an airport: https://transition.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2013/FCC-13-106A1.html
by knome | 2026-02-05 15:11:19+00:00
and they were doing that indiscriminate jamming as they drove around for two years.

if op is trying to cast someone making up rules in their head and going vigilante to enforce it on everyone else out of some sense of self-righteous indignation as some sort of heroic action the government is unfairly attacking, I doubt they're going to find many friendly to their perspective.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-05 15:11:30+00:00
> Why do you choose that single example, which I said was just that

Because we're looking for people saying borders should be completely opened. An example of people saying something else is irrelevant.

> Yes, people who use "no one is illegal" do also say "no more borders".

Ok but the conversation is about people saying the latter. It was you who brought the former into the conversation.

> Here a UK example

Which British parties are active in the United States?

> Another example, also showing this is an older movement

The claim was that "the left" has no response to emigration issues beyond "open all borders" and that this was the policy of "one party." The existence of an anti-borders movement is again irrelevant to the questions I raised in response to this assertion.
by D-Machine | 2026-02-05 15:11:37+00:00
> I want to offer some gentle push-back

Nothing you've said here is push-back or contradicts anything I've said, IMO.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying slop, junk food, fast food, camp, kitsch, low-brow entertainment, or any kind of mindless dreck or low-quality anything. The same goes for enjoying mediocrity. It would be hell to only ever spend time consuming tedious, difficult, challenging, or novel things.

What is wrong is pretending that a broad category like "books" is any kind of indicator of intelligence or meaningful cultural cachet. I.e. "'Americans are reading less books' is bad" suggests zero consideration of things like differences in value and depth, and that is what is anti-intellectual (or midwit) about such remarks.
by sebastos | 2026-02-05 15:11:46+00:00
But invoking No True Scotsman would imply that the focus is on gatekeeping the profession of programming. I don’t think the above poster is really concerned with the prestige aspect of whether vibe bros should be considered true programmers. They’re more saying that if you’re a regular programmer worried about becoming obsolete, you shouldn’t be fooled by the bluster. Vibe bros’ output is not serious enough to endanger your job, so don’t fret.
by jdmichal | 2026-02-05 15:12:03+00:00
It's about fitting your utilization to the model that best serves you.

If you can keep 4 "Java boxes" fed with work 80%+ of the time, then sure EC2 is a good fit.

We do a lot of batch processing and save money over having EC2 boxes always on. Sure we could probably pinch some more pennies if we managed the EC2 box uptime and figured out mechanisms for load balancing the batches... But that's engineering time we just don't really care to spend when ECS nets us most of the savings advantage and is simple to reason about and use.
by piltdownman | 2026-02-05 15:12:09+00:00
Is it not simply maintaining the basic TOS and tenets of the UN Charter of Human Rights, and the Rights of the Child, in the face of egregious civil and human rights violations driven BigTech's divine mandate to break things first (like criminal legislation) and apologise later?

What about that hot-topic in the GOP tent? Electoral interference?

//Irish and EU regulators aggressively “censored” social media coverage of Ireland’s 2024 general election and the recent presidential election, a panel of US politicians has claimed in a report.

//The report by the staff on the judiciary committee of the Republican-controlled US Congress alleges “harassment” against tech groups to undermine conservative and populist parties.

//It claims the European Commission and Irish media regulators in Coimisiún na Meán worked with “biased fact-checkers” and “left-wing” non-governmental organisations before the last two Irish elections.

Of course when European regulators do the bare minimum to prevent electoral interference, misinformation, and straight up electoral malfeasance to be propagated in opposition to our media and balance laws, it constitutes bigotry at the expense of the private American interests trying to control them!

Of course this is all a particular coincidence given its the week that French authorities raid X offices in Paris, summoning Musk in a cybercrime probe to determine his complicity in crimes including Holocaust denial and CSAM hosting, generation and distribution.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-05 15:12:42+00:00
This sort of comment occurs on almost any conversation that touches on road safety. A ridiculous "where there is chaos it is actually safer!" bit of nonsense.

Absolutely, unequivocally destroyed by actual metrics. These "chaos" places like India have absolutely atrocious road safety, with hundreds of thousands of deaths yearly. They only look good per capita because of the relative rarity of vehicles and miles driven, but driving is a perilously dangerous activity there and in similar countries.

The bit about obesity is just doubly weird nonsense.
by exogen | 2026-02-05 15:12:50+00:00
I'd give people the benefit of the doubt. Personally, having built UI with Win32, WinForms, VisualBasic, Cocoa/Interface Builder, Qt, Tcl/Tk, XSLT, vanilla HTML/JS, jQuery, Backbone, Ember, Knockout, Bootstrap, MooTools, YUI, ExtJS, Svelte, Web Components, and React (including Preact, SolidJS…)… I'll happily choose the React approach. The only other one I would even describe as "good" was Qt.

I also don't get why "XML-like syntax in the JS code" is even a point worth complaining about. If anything, we should be encouraging people to experiment with more DSLs for building UIs. Make your tools suit the task. Who the fuck cares, if it's clear and productive?
by richardlblair | 2026-02-05 15:13:13+00:00
Yes - the author's observations are not wrong. Companies, on paper, are logical. However, as one professor told us in college "All companies are perfect until you introduce the humans".

Humans are messy. Humans work outside of whatever system you create. You can codify all your things all you want, it simply will not capture the operational complexity of a business run by humans.

The problem needs to be flipped on its head. LLMs give us the capacity to do just that. It's far more accurate to analyze what the humans are doing, note deviations and follow up on those where regulatory compliance is required. This captures both written processes as well as their practical implementations.
by atrevbot | 2026-02-05 15:13:21+00:00
Thanks a lot for the detailed response. I see Tailscale pop up here often and have been meaning to better understand how it could fit into my typical hosting setup, so I appreciate that reference.

For additional context I usually host on a shared or dedicated VPS, and in this case am managing a WordPress site I inherited. It seems to me that if the SSH connection is restricted by IP and limited to keys, there are much larger risks involved in hosting a WordPress site publicly available on the internet w/ dozens of plugin dependencies.
by strogonoff | 2026-02-05 15:13:27+00:00
Developers in the past were strongly for copyleft. The promise of copyleft is how we got all the great software that underlies the Internet today, starting with Linux itself.

The fact to keep in mind is that, despite what the name might suggest, copyleft is not at odds with copyright! The core feature of copyright is having a degree of control over what you have authored, and copyleft is ingeniously using copyright to prevent corporations from just taking open code, volunteer contributions, and modifying and using it for profit without giving anything back to the community.

Death of copyright would be the death of copyleft.
by man8alexd | 2026-02-05 15:13:28+00:00
> So not being able to mark apps processes as kill me first and leave others like ssh bash up is a missing feature.

systemd OOMScoreAdjust has existed for at least a decade. /proc/*/oom_adj since Linux kernel 2.6.11 - two decades. cgroups are also two decades old. SSH by default has OOMScoreAdjust=-1000 and is entirely protected from OOM.
by lostmsu | 2026-02-05 15:13:32+00:00
Try Codex. It's better (subjectively, but objectively they are in the same ballpark), and its $20 plan is way more generous. I can use gpt-5.2 on high (prefer overall smarter models to -codex coding ones) almost nonstop, sometimes a few in parallel before I hit any limits (if ever).
by juancn | 2026-02-05 15:13:36+00:00
The usual argument is that the Jacquard's loom inspired Herman Hollerith’s tabulating machine, used to tally the 1890 census, and became the basis of IBM.

Essentially, the speedups in textiles, inspired a speedup in computing (tabulating initially), which kicked-off the modern information technology industry.

And even if there wasn't any computation, it still is automated data processing (albeit simple).
by insuranceguru | 2026-02-05 15:13:56+00:00
It's interesting that he did this to stop people from using phones while driving, but he ended up creating a bigger public safety hazard by jamming emergency comms.
From a liability perspective if that jammer had blocked a 911 call during a nearby accident his exposure would have been far higher than just the $48k FCC fine. Federal preemption on signal jamming is one of the few areas where the hammer drops consistently hard.
by maxglute | 2026-02-05 15:13:59+00:00
Europe wasn't breaking sovereign immunity / sovereign bank seizures when historically fighting each other, current actions historically unprecedented. So the answer is war is not sufficient excuse for RoW. EU extra delulu because RU/UKR not even over direct EU/NATO territory i.e. EU breaking sovereign immunity over "peripheral" interests. Like EU seize/sanction US when? Point of sovereign immunity is provide some semblance of neutrality for rest of world to do their thing while drunks fight, neutrals still want to buy from the drunks, EU has made things both hard not neutral.
by rmoriz | 2026-02-05 15:14:05+00:00
Cloud, in terms of "other company's infrastructure" always implies losing the competence to select, source and operate hardware. Treating hardware as commodity will eventually treat your very own business as commodity: Someone can just copy your software/IP and ruin your business. Every durable business needs some kind of intellectual property and human skills that are not replaceable easily. This sounds binary, but isn't. You can build long-lasting partnerships. German Mittelstand did that over decades.
by phil21 | 2026-02-05 15:14:08+00:00
It’s the legal definition of intentional. If you intentionally perform an act that reasonably can foresee an outcome, then it is by definition intentional.

If you rob a liquor store while armed and accidentally discharge your weapon - it’s an intentional murder. Doesn’t matter if you went in there thinking the gun was unloaded or if you told your friend in writing before you went in that you had no intention of hurting anyone.

Unintentional would be he had a jammer for hobbyist use and it somehow turned on by itself while it was being transported in his backpack. If he pressed the power button in an intentional manner and reasonably knew the outcome of what a jammer does it is intentional behavior.

He may not have had the explicit goal of disrupting emergency communication, but he absolutely knew he was doing so and intentionally performed the act anyways.
by toss1 | 2026-02-05 15:14:15+00:00
Facts always create problems for authoritarian regimes.

So they do everything they can do get rid of facts.

The primary reason they spread disinformation is not to get people to believe the nonsense (which is merely an occasional bonus), it is to get people to give up on finding the truth. Once people have no substantial quantity or quality of truth, they can be entirely manipulated.

This regime is following the standard path to authoritarianism.
by mothballed | 2026-02-05 15:14:24+00:00
I think there is a hesitation to downplay what the Jews experienced by using the same name, even if it accurate. Maybe some of the same things are happening but it's not the same as the Jewish experience in Germany.

Personally I have no issue with calling them concentration camps but it does feel there needs to be a word to distinguish them from the camps of the Holocaust.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-05 15:14:29+00:00
What is allocated but unused memory? That sounds like memory that will be used in the near future and we are scheduling in an annoying disk load when it is needed

You are of course highlighting the problem that virtual addressing was intended to over abstract memory resource usage, but it provides poor facilities for power users to finely prioritize memory usage.

The example of this is game consoles, which didn't have this layer. Game writers had to reserve parts of ram fur specific uses.

You can't do this easily in Linux afaik, because it is forcing the model upon you.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-05 15:14:30+00:00
I guess I don't see the big deal. Am I old (or am I an anarchist)?

I guess I drove for close to three decades before cell phones and I seemed to do fine without them. We listened to the radio. So, no, I suppose it doesn't seem crazy to me.

Clearly it would be ideal if it could discriminate—people distracted by their phones—but of course it cannot.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-05 15:14:32+00:00
Microsoft funded Simon Peyton-Jones (Haskell) and Don Syme (F#) and SP-J worked on Excel, but it would be inaccurate to say that their goal was to rewrite Excel, Windows, C#, .NET into functional programming. Yes, to an extent researchers "play around on a whim doing hobby projects for fun", or more formally as SP-J said in an interview "the mission statement that Microsoft Research had at that time which was to push forward the boundaries of knowledge; put Microsoft in a position to be agile when new stuff heaves over the horizon; provide a reservoir of expertise for the rest of the company to draw on".

- https://archivesit.org.uk/interviews/simon-peyton-jones/

Otherwise your position is that "blue-sky research" doesn't exist (it does) or that big companies don't fund it (they do). In particular, the LinkedIn in question said nothing about "Windows", that is something internet has hallucinated to maximise ragebait.
by eleventyseven | 2026-02-05 15:14:33+00:00
No, he inconvenienced every day potentially thousands of consumers of a company's service, which includes first responders.

And think about the direct effect. Yes driving using a cell phone is dangerous. But do you really think cell phone addicted drivers will be MORE attentive when their signal starts to go in and out depending on their proximity to this driver? They will just give up? No, they will be more frustrated, looking at their phones more to see what is wrong, trying to redial, becoming even more of a risk to themselves and others.

This man made the roads less safe. Full stop.
by pizzafeelsright | 2026-02-05 15:14:45+00:00
I live in a different world than most where the expectation is we speak the truth, stand behind our word, and in the event of failure we maintain the relationship after resolving the conflict.

As for saving face, I provide opportunities to walk back, restate, or take back something that was said. People get angry, misspeak, or respond with fear and that is understandable.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-05 15:15:25+00:00
The core requirement for “programmability” is a machine whose behavior can be changed by altering symbolic instructions without rebuilding the machine.

The Banu Musa automatic flute player doesn’t meet this bar. The flute player was mechanically configured, not symbolically programmed. It had no conditional logic or flow control. No stored symbolic instructions.

To contrast, the Jacquard Loom used an externally stored instructions (punch cards). It allowed arbitrary-length instruction sequences, which is a primitive form of control flow.
Show HN: I created an alternative to CapCut and After Effects: pikimov 5
by clementpiki | 2026-02-05 15:15:31+00:00
Pikimov is a web-based motion design video editor that received a lot of positive feedback on HN when its first release came out in 2024.

I’m back with a major update (v5) that adds a "classic editor", similar to what you’d find in CapCut.

Reminder: it’s free, requires no sign-up, and avoids unnecessary AI features. Enjoy!
Show HN: Omni Cache – friendly sidecar for CI caching needs
by fkorotkov | 2026-02-05 15:15:36+00:00
Hey HN — Omni Cache is a sidecar daemon for CI caching. It exposes multiple cache protocols on a local endpoint while storing blobs in S3‑compatible storage.

Instead of funneling traffic through a centralized cache proxy, each job talks directly to S3, avoiding a shared bottleneck as workloads scale. No extra ingress/egress traffic bills.

What it supports:
- GitHub Actions cache v2 (used by Docker layer caching)
- Bazel HTTP remote cache
- Gradle build cache
- Xcode/LLVM compilation cache
- Custom HTTP clients

How it works:
- Run it next to your CI job/runner; HTTP + gRPC on one local address
- All built‑in protocols enabled by default
- S3‑backed (AWS or any S3‑compatible storage)
- Built‑in cache metrics endpoint and `omni-cache stats`
- LocalStack dev mode for quick testing

This has powered billions of caching operations for Cirrus Runners/CI since 2017.

Repo: https://github.com/cirruslabs/omni-cache

I’d love feedback on:
- Protocols you want next
- CI/networking gotchas I should document
- Metrics/observability you wish caches exposed
by aaron_oxenrider | 2026-02-05 15:15:49+00:00
I was also curious. It says this in about the middle of the homepage:

"We love LibreOffice. We are privileged to be the largest code contributors to the codebase, Collabora employs several founders of The Document Foundation, and many of the top committers. We offer a Long Term supported product based on LibreOffice, branded as Collabora Office Classic, and are deeply grateful for and acknowledge many skilled community contributors we work alongside, as well as the incredible range of features that LibreOffice code enables."
by caminante | 2026-02-05 15:16:00+00:00
Seconds count for 911 calls, but really your odds are already bad if calling about...a heart attack. There's one study about non-runners having heart attacks during marathons due to road closures [0]. If they had a heart attack that day, they were 15% more likely to die within a month. Not good, but it's not that bad.

Going full SV utilitarian, I'm curious what's the net change in accidents between

(1) texting

(2) no texting?

I've read that texting is the equivalent of having 2 beers. Even "hands free" is distracting. I continue to see people sucked into their phones and oblivious that they're operating a 4,000+ pound machine.

[0] https://hms.harvard.edu/news/marathon-risk-non-runners
by alexjplant | 2026-02-05 15:16:14+00:00
> significantly reduce penalties for meme stuff "i.e. california stopping at stop signs"

That's not a meme. It's failing to obey a traffic control device at the expense of everybody around you. I've almost been hit multiple times as a pedestrian, cyclist, and motorcyclist by ignorant drivers pulling such shenanigans.

If you think that encouraging people to run stop signs is a good idea while harboring contempt for this guy then your worldview is, charitably speaking, inconsistent to the point of absurdity.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-05 15:16:19+00:00
> Why Would You Want AI to Forget?

> Fair question. Here's what decay gives you:

> Honest uncertainty - Instead of the AI confidently stating something it barely remembers, it can say "I think you mentioned..." when confidence is low. Less creepy, more honest.

That's not from decay. Its from honesty.

If you can add honesty for decay, why not add it for everything?
by AntonnyRises | 2026-02-05 15:16:19+00:00
Interesting read. This mirrors a lot of what we’ve seen with server-driven UI aging into something more complex than it was designed for. The lack of client-side JS tends to hurt once “content” screens start growing real interaction.

Lynx sounds promising if it really avoids the usual WebView tradeoffs while still letting teams reuse React knowledge. Curious how it compares in practice once screens get state-heavy or animation-heavy, and how painful debugging is across iOS/Android/Web.