MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aromasin | 2026-02-10 17:53:52+00:00
Michael Sandel's "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets" covers it quite well.

Markets create unfairness by systematically disadvantaging the poor when money becomes necessary to obtain certain goods or quality of goods. Market values corrupt non-market spheres by changing the meaning and value of goods being exchanged (e.g., paying for grades undermines intrinsic desire to learn). Monetary incentives crowd out altruistic motivations and civic duty (e.g., fines becoming fees people willingly pay rather than norms to uphold). Commodification degrades human dignity (e.g., treating drug-addicted women as "baby-making machines" in sterilization-for-cash programs). Markets increase wealth inequality and create segregation in previously egalitarian spaces (e.g., luxury skyboxes in sports stadiums). Market exchanges under severe inequality or economic necessity become coercive, not truly voluntary. Purchased tokens of friendship and personal expressions (apologies, wedding toasts) lose their authenticity and dilute social bonds. Wealthy individuals and countries can pay their way out of moral obligations (e.g., carbon offsets instead of reducing emissions). Markets have infiltrated areas traditionally governed by ethical considerations - medicine, education, personal relationships - without public debate about whether this is desirable. The economic approach treats everything in an ethical vacuum, ignoring morality in favor of purely analyzing incentives.
by em-bee | 2026-02-10 17:53:53+00:00
wasn't slack initially built on top of IRC? they had at least support for IRC clients, much like google message or however it was called at the time used to support jabber/XMPP clients.

well, there is another alternative, namely the EU laws forcing interoperability. i don't know if they have passed yet, or how likely it is that they will pass, but i seem to remember a recent announcement of one system going to be interoperable with whatsapp.
by aadi42 | 2026-02-10 17:54:01+00:00
I’ve been contributing on the integrations side — recently added a native HubSpot CRM integration with OAuth2 support, credential handling, and full test coverage . The goal was to make it easier for Hive agents to interact with real-world sales and customer workflows in production.

Excited to be contributing more and learning from the Hive community

Thanks very much Vincent , Richard, bryan and again thank you to everyone who contributed !!
by rayiner | 2026-02-10 17:54:04+00:00
> That being said, the leaders in Singapore are not corrupt and truly do focus on what's best for the country. As a result decisions are made quickly, for the greater good, and are not politically driven.

But what makes them act this way, lol? That's what every country wants out of its leaders. Why is Singapore able to do it? I know that's a hard question to answer...
by pja | 2026-02-10 17:54:06+00:00
These days the world assumes that all parts of emails are case-insensitive, even if RFC5321 says otherwise. If it’s true for Google, Outlook & Apple mail then it’s basically true everywhere & everyone else has to get with the program.

If you don’t want to lose potentially important email then you need to make sure your own systems are case-insensitive everywhere. Otherwise you’ll find out the hard way when a customer or supplier is using a system that capitalises entire email addresses (yes, I have seen this happen) & you lose important messages.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-10 17:54:24+00:00
Have you looked lately?

I buy small parts with "Choice" shipping on AliExpress sometimes, because it's cheap and [usually] quick and they take care of all of that pesky tariff and customs business in ways that never have an opportunity to surprise me.

For years now, the shipping process has worked like this for me: They gather it up on their end and send the stuff on a cargo plane to a sort that is at or near JFK airport in New York.

If the order includes things from several different sellers, then at some point they generally get combined into one bag.

From there, they just mail it -- using regular, domestic USPS service. It shows up in my mailbox on my porch in Ohio a few days later.

Although it certainly was a thing I've experienced in the past, at no point does the process I've described exploit the "Developing County" loophole. They just send things to the other side of the world (at their expense), and then pay the post office the same way as anyone else does to bring it to my door.
by peter_d_sherman | 2026-02-10 17:54:47+00:00
>"The abstraction tower

Here’s the part that makes me laugh, darkly.

I saw someone on LinkedIn recently — early twenties, a few years into their career — lamenting that with AI they “didn’t really know what was going on anymore.” And I thought: mate, you were already so far up the abstraction chain you didn’t even realise you were teetering on top of a wobbly Jenga tower.

They’re writing TypeScript that compiles to JavaScript that runs in a V8 engine written in C++ that’s making system calls to an OS kernel that’s scheduling threads across cores they’ve never thought about, hitting RAM through a memory controller with caching layers they couldn’t diagram, all while npm pulls in 400 packages they’ve never read a line of.

But sure. AI is the moment they lost track of what’s happening.

The abstraction ship sailed decades ago. We just didn’t notice because each layer arrived gradually enough that we could pretend we still understood the whole stack.

AI is just the layer that made the pretence impossible to maintain."

Absolutely brilliant writing!

Heck -- absolutely brilliant communicating! (Which is really what great writing is all about!)

You definitely get it!

Some other people here on HN do too, yours truly included in that bunch...

Anyway, stellar writing!

Related:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/entities/publication/3e2850f6-c...
by westurner | 2026-02-10 17:54:49+00:00
How does this work with WASM sandboxing for agents?

Should a (formally verified) policy engine run within the same WASM runtime, or should it be enforced by the WASM runtime, or by the VM or Container that the WASM runtime runs within?

"Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents" (2026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825026 re: eWASM and costed opcodes for agent efficiency

How do these userspace policies compare to MAC and DAC implementations like SELinux AVC, AppArmor, Systemd SyscallFilter, and seccomp with containers for example?
by kllrnohj | 2026-02-10 17:55:04+00:00
WebGPU has the problem of needing to handle the lowest common denominator (so GLES 3 if not GLES 2 because of low end mobile), and also needing to deal with Apple's refusal to do anything with even a hint of Khronos (hence why no SPIR-V even though literally everything else including DirectX has adopted it)

Web graphics have never and will never be cutting edge, they can't as they have to sit on top of browsers that have to already have those features available to it. It can only ever build on top of something lower level. That's not inherently bad, not everything needs cutting edge, but "it's outdated" is also just inherently going to be always true.
by Gagarin1917 | 2026-02-10 17:55:10+00:00
Anything can become cool and desirable if enough people think it is.

The acceptance of LGBT was largely won this way. Same with women’s rights and environmentalism (although that one is still in the midst of fighting for success).

You just have to settle for a long road ahead before reaching any tipping point.

“A man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
by coffeefirst | 2026-02-10 17:55:24+00:00
The first time I walked into a casino I wanted to vomit. I hated everything about it. The lights, the smell, the sound, every sensory input rubbed me the wrong way. If hell exists, this is it.

And yet some people have the opposite response. They get hooked.

I suspect it’s the same here. The tactics that are wildly addictive dopamine pumps for their largest cohort actively repel you and me.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-10 17:55:27+00:00
It really is cultural.
The economics don't help at all, but in the US kids are largely seen as some sort of annoyance, burden, interruption, etc.

I barely know my coworkers kids names half the time. I certainly don't see photos of them or see them popping into zoom backgrounds. Growing up my dads company had picnics and his coworkers had parties and I'd meet his coworkers & their kids.

And while theres obvious things children limit.. like 4am clubbing on a Tuesday... a lot of public spaces are less child-friendly than in the past.

Parenting has become increasingly a home-bound activity over time, with a reduced social life for both parents and children. Or the outside-home activities involving kids are specifically kids focussed and a time commitment, like spending all your weekend mornings at children's sports leagues.

There's very little overlap in 20-30 something singles & family public spaces anymore. It's like the entire world has self segregated.

I also wonder about the extra burden of some of the over the top car seat rules in US (up to 12 years old!?) also causing challenges for parents. Both parents probably need a bigger car, especially if you have 2-3 kids. If you have grandparents that help out, they need the same.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-10 17:56:12+00:00
I understand where you're coming from, but these terms seem fine to me:

This is exactly what, for example, Rust's str::parse method is for. The documentation gives the example:

let four: u32 = "4".parse().unwrap();

You will so very often have text and want typed information, and parse is exactly how we do that transformation exactly once. Whereas validation is what it looks like when we try to make piecemeal checks later.
by phkahler | 2026-02-10 17:56:13+00:00
To the ones objecting to "choosing a value of i" I might argue that no such choice is made. i is the square root of -1 and there is only one value of i. When we write -i that is shorthand for (-1)i. Remember the complex numbers are represented by a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1. We don't bifurcate i into two distinct numbers because the minus sign is associated with b which is one of the real numbers. There is a one-to-one mapping between the complex numbers and these ordered pairs of reals.
by bigyabai | 2026-02-10 17:56:15+00:00
In case it wasn't clear, my answer to your original question is "no" with a nice bit of set-dressing to help you feel better.

FWIW, the Super Tucano and Gripen are more "morally acceptable" in that they are not power-gap level planes. The F-35 was basically designed from the ground-up to molest denied airspace and violate every rule of diplomatic exchange. The Super Tucano is useless outside COIN operations, and the Gripen is decidedly a defensive fighter and not a strike fighter.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-10 17:56:42+00:00
> If you do not accept Visa and Mastercard you are not going to accept payments from all sorts of travellers (tourists, business people

Who all stop in chain hotels, who will accept whatever you bring.

> Xenophobic or anti-tourism?

Anti-American tourism. I would say it is a mainstream opinion in Europe that American tourists are very annoying. Each country has its stereotypes about each other, usually stemming from WW2, but the feelings against American tourists have the wonderful effect of uniting Europe. Then America elected a president that threatened us first with economic sanctions, then war. Perhaps it is a fault in our characters, but we tend to take against people that threaten us with military action.
by NOpderbeck | 2026-02-10 17:56:49+00:00
We’re excited to announce the new Last30Days skill, a hosted API that synthesizes the last 30 days of discussions from X/Twitter, Reddit, and the web into actionable, research-grade briefs. The API returns structured insights with patterns, gotchas, and source attribution, making it ideal for integrating recency-aware intelligence into dashboards, agents, or research workflows. It’s built to put the freshest practitioner signal at your fingertips, beyond what static search results can offer.
by mwillis | 2026-02-10 17:56:56+00:00
I truly believe psychology is at the root of this. People start families when the optimism they feel about the future outweighs the pessimism. Even if this evaluation is done subconsciously.

At some point, in first-world society - averaging across different societies and social support systems, and considering the numbers in aggregate - we flipped. Pessimism about the future outweighs optimism. Downstream of that flip, the prevailing trend changed. Here we are.
by secabeen | 2026-02-10 17:57:05+00:00
> A server like Marvel Rivals has literally millions of users. Players join that discord to socialize with all of those players and build a community around the game.

That is totally true, but is that server really going to be one with NSFW content or channels? Those huge servers are great spaces, but every one I've been on is fully functional if you are on a "teen account" without doing ID/Age verification.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-10 17:57:06+00:00
Usually to sue someone for causing harm, they have to actually cause the harm, it can't help hypothetical. So you see lawsuits that are like "I saw this CEO speak on TV and then I relied on this information when deciding to buy the product"

Why aren't you asking: why is it possible for an iPad to raise a child? Why is the iPad keeping the child's attention for so long? Is it not because it was designed to? Why was it designed to?
by onion2k | 2026-02-10 17:57:25+00:00
Peter Thiel talks about the difference in progress between bits and atoms. Progress in atoms (physical things) moves incredibly slowly, and has done for centuries. Progress in bits (software) moves astonishingly fast. We all work in software. We should not expect things to remain the same for very long because change is easy.

I think it'd be pretty incredible if we hit on the best way to write software 40 years ago when people had only been doing it seriously for a couple of decades. It's no more surprising that we find better approaches to coding than farming improving when the tractor replaced a horse.
by autoexec | 2026-02-10 17:57:34+00:00
> Advertising is just companies saying "This is what you can purchase from me - it's awesome - please consider purchasing it".

This is such a naive view of advertising that if you're really this unaware of how manipulative ads are, you can't possibly have defenses against them. You should seriously spend some time looking into the secret magic of dark psychology they use to manipulate people because while knowing about their tactics won't make you immune to them, it really can help to be aware of how they work and to train yourself to recognize when they're being used against you.
by segmenta | 2026-02-10 17:57:54+00:00
Thanks. Obsidian and Logseq were definitely an inspiration while building this. What we’re trying to explore is pushing that a bit further. Instead of manually curating the graph and then querying it, the system continuously updates the graph as work happens and lets the agent operate directly on that structure.

Would love to know what kind of scripts or plugins you’re using in Logseq, and what you’re primarily using it for.
by lordnacho | 2026-02-10 17:58:00+00:00
It's not that easy to block someone. It's easy to block a particular account, sure.

But there are now people who purposefully make a bunch of accounts to spread lies.

> that unless social media has a mechanism to promote civilised behaviour

We need more Dangs.

He is maybe the major reason this forum is still decent. Tasteful moderation is really hard, I'd say the vast majority of Reddit subs don't have good moderation.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-10 17:59:03+00:00
I think in atomic families in the US, more and more people are brought up without really interacting with children much once they are a teen and stop being a child themselves.

What used to be normal teen rights of passage like hanging out with your younger extended family, holding a baby, babysitting the neighbors kids, being a summer camp counselor, helping with youth sports, etc.. are less common.

Teens are busy cramming SATs, doing homework, and polishing up their resume for college.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-02-10 17:59:08+00:00
You can do this in multiple steps. Start with a credit card usable only with Canadian merchants, which will cover a great majority of transactions of a great majority of Canadians. I'll have an MC for travel and the ordering from non-Canadian merchants, and this Canadian credit card for the other 95% of my expenses. If a significant percentage of Canadians have such a card, major non-Canadian services will add it as a payment option (e.g. ChatGPT or Claude). Then you branch out by either joining or co-branding with the EU credit card company if such a company succeeds.

A world with a patchwork of payments processing options will look different for travel and business, in some ways worse, but such is life in a "multipolar world" which the Americans elected their leadership to conjure up.
by miroljub | 2026-02-10 17:59:09+00:00
I don't know for France, but in Germany, they did everything they could to reduce Girocard usage. Today, every bank offers Visa debit, but if you want Girocard, it's difficult to find a bank that offers it.

There's nothing wrong with having national cards, since >90% of transactions are national anyway. That's how German Girocard worked for decades until the coordinated push to switch to Visa Debit happened.

And the government did nothing to protect domestic payment systems. As if they value foreign dependency more than the independence.
by echelon | 2026-02-10 17:59:36+00:00
It's not that being a parent is harder - it's actually easier (excluding the post-WWII American boom years which were a fluke).

It's that the floor of being single has risen to stratospheric highs.

Being single used to be: boring (no internet, tv, constant dopamine drip. Having kids was an escape from mundane boredom.)

Being single used to be: lonely (now we have dating and hookup apps, online games, tons of in-person events - cities are filled with concerts and music festivals, you name it, more Michelin Star restaurants than anyone could visit, etc. etc.)

Being a woman used to be: limited choice (now we fortunately have tons of options for women - careers, etc. They can enjoy the same freedoms, fun, and personal investment as men.)

Not to mention that parents have all kinds of new social stigmas.

Having children used to be: free labor, send them off to do whatever (now you'd be accused of child abuse)

Basically, the problem is single life is too good now. We have smartphones, internet, and the economy revolves around the single experience.

The minute you have kids, you lose access to the exciting single life that the modern society has built itself around and catered itself to.
by kingstnap | 2026-02-10 17:59:43+00:00
It depends on what you mean, specifically on your distance metric.

If you mean nearest neighbours search like autocorrect then LLMs are extrapolative.

You can easily generate combinations not seen before. I mean you can prove this with parametric prompting.

Like "Generate a poem about {noun} in {place} in {language}" or whatever. This is a simplistic example but it doesn't take much to come up with a space that has quadrillion of possibilities. Then if you randomly sample 10 and they all seem to be "right" then you have proven it's not pure neighbour recall.

Same is true of the image generators. You can prove its not memorizing because you can generate random varients and show that the number of images realizable is more than the training data possibly contains.

If you mean on the underlying manifold of language and ideas. Its definitely interpolation, which is fundamentally a limitation of what can be done using data alone. But I know this can be expanded over iteration (I have done experiments related to this). The trick to expanding it actually running experiments/simulation on values at the boundry of the manifold. You have to run experiments on the unknown.
by FillMaths | 2026-02-10 17:59:46+00:00
You say that i is "the square root of -1", but which one is it? There are two. This is the point in the essay---we cannot tell the difference between i and -i unless we have already agreed on a choice of which square root of -1 we are going to call i. Only then does the other one become -i. How do we know that my i is the same as your i rather than your -i?

To fix the coordinate structure of the complex numbers (a,b) is in effect to have made a choice of a particular i, and this is one of the perspectives discussed in the essay. But it is not the only perspective, since with that perspective complex conjugation should not count as an automorphism, as it doesn't respect the choice of i.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-10 17:59:49+00:00
> Parenting has become increasingly a home-bound activity over time, with a reduced social life for both parents and children. Or the outside-home activities involving kids are specifically kids focussed and a time commitment, like spending all your weekend mornings at children's sports leagues.

This isn't bad if there are other parents doing the same thing too. Increasingly there are not (or at least not among the demographic who uses HN).

> I also wonder about the extra burden of some of the over the top car seat rules in US (up to 12 years old!?) also causing challenges for parents. Both parents probably need a bigger car, especially if you have 2-3 kids. If you have grandparents that help out, they need the same.

I don't think so. I'm from around that generation, and that didn't stop Asian, Eastern European, and Israeli American parents from having multiple kids here in the Bay Area when growing up in the 2000s.
by mg | 2026-02-10 18:00:08+00:00
I don't think we have seen "all functionality" yet.

We have not seen iterative AI use for example.

The use case, where you tell the model "Solve this task. Then solve it again. Keep the better solution, then solve it again. On and on. Tomorrow, show me the best solution.".

And also not the "Run a company on your own" use-case.

Those might make people and companies use models full-time. The cost of that is huge. The TCO of a single instance of a SOTA model is on the order of $100k per year.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-10 18:00:11+00:00
I left google search for duckduckgo a few years ago due to all the marketing drivel returned. I guess there are yet another, better reason, to avoid google.

As for gmail, it joined my old yahoo mail as a dumping ground. If some site wants an email, they get my gmail address, which I never go to these days.

But how did google get this person's info ? Are they spying on their emails, or worse yet, are they scraping data for apps you installed on your android phone ?
by rkevingibson | 2026-02-10 18:00:12+00:00
Yes, you can get very close to that API with this extension + existing Vulkan extensions. The main difference is that you still kind of need opaque buffer and texture objects instead of raw pointers, but you can get GPU pointers for them and still work with those. In theory I think you could do the malloc API design there but it's fairly unintuitive in Vulkan and you'd still need VkBuffers internally even if you didn't expose them in a wrapper layer.
I've got a (not yet ready for public) wrapper on Vulkan that mostly matches this blog post, and so far it's been a really lovely way to do graphics programming.

The main thing that's not possible at all on top of Vulkan is his signals API, which I would enjoy seeing - it could be done if timeline semaphores could be waited on/signalled inside a command buffer, rather than just on submission boundaries. Not sure how feasible that is with existing hardware though.