MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-09 20:07:34+00:00
You can also ask Claude to review all the code for security issues and code smells, you'd be surprised what it finds. We all write insecure code in our first pass through if we're too focused on getting the proof of concept worked out, security isnt always the very 1st thing coded, maybe its the very next thing, maybe it comes 10 changes later.
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-09 20:07:34+00:00
There is (https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-se...) and in some conditions you can receive the time signal in the UK.

Our office manager bought some US tuned radio wall clocks, and every now and then they would jump 8 hours forward. I assume it was down to solar weather making propagation changes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_E_propagation)
by rapind | 2026-02-09 20:07:39+00:00
100% agree, and I think that's sort of what was intended with a lot of democratic government setups. What we fail to realize though (or maybe just remember) is that these systems will ALWAYS be under attack by those who want more power always looking for attack surfaces. (We seem to be under attack by almost all, if not all, current billionaires!)

For example in the US, the executive order is a massive problem. Citizens united as well. And for all democracies the natural appeal of strongman politics is a huge problem.

Every attempt at government overreach really needs to be questioned. I don't say rejected, just questioned. How will it be used by future powers? Is the tradeoff worth it? Can it be temporary? Do we even have a way to claw it back if it turns out to be detrimental? Is it too subtle and nuanced that the majority will miss seeing it? etc.
by jsrozner | 2026-02-09 20:08:02+00:00
I searched for original OpenAI mission statement. This hackernews comment came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34367824#34370925

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

Scam Altman: "ads lead to positive human impact"

Non-fascist: "Sir, ads have destroyed google's commitment to index and make useful the world's knowledge"

Scam Altman: <insert longtermism-based justification here>
by croes | 2026-02-09 20:08:11+00:00
He obviously did not, he tried.

The point of international law isn’t protection but to distinguish wrong from right.

What do you think why even Putin made some bogus claims why his actions are justified?

In which war did Maduro commit war crimes?

> So using international law grounded arguments to protect him ... fuck that, even if you're technically right.

Law protects also criminals to a certain degree because the alternative is anarchy, chaos and global wars.

International war was a lesson learned from the world wars.

Seems like we need to learn again the hard way.

Tue right way of doing those things is rarely the glorious, it’s bureaucratic
by hinata08 | 2026-02-09 20:08:55+00:00
I hope Discord understands the risks they pose to their audience when they open source their IDs again.

Discord is used by a bunch of closeted users having pseudos, who wouldn't do the same activities on it if everyone had their names.

A part of the Discord users is from countries from which Discord isn't even officially accessible (eg China) or where involvement in LGBT discussions could result to death row (Afghanis are still on Discord)

For me, a company that open sourced 70,000 IDs and ask for moooooore just weeks later is just a joke about the sharing economy

The problem isn't even for new users. Some users have over a decade of private hobbies and will now need to associate their governement ID to their profile. Discord pinky swears they ask but don't keep this time, which isn't enough.

Companies shouldn't be allowed to change such fundamental ToS after an account is created.
by uludag | 2026-02-09 20:08:56+00:00
> I am having more fun programming than I ever have, because so many more of the programs I wish I could find the time to write actually exist. I wish I could share this joy with the people who are fearful about the changes agents are bringing.

It might be just me but this reads as very tone deaf. From my perspective, CEOs are seething at the mouth to make as many developers redundant as possible, not being shy about this desire. (I don't see this at all as inevitable, but tech leaders have made their position clear)

Like, imagine the smugness of some 18th century "CEO" telling an artisan, despite the fact that he'l be resigned to working in horrific conditions at a factory, to not worry and think of all the mass produced consumer goods he may enjoy one day.

It's not at all a stretch of the imagination that current tech workers may be in a very precarious situation. All the slopware in the world wouldn't console them.
by drbojingle | 2026-02-09 20:08:59+00:00
I've been building several things lately in my spare time:

- After Actions (https://www.afteractions.net/) - The company I work for pays for retrospective software, and I figured I could make my own. So I did! Good for agile retrospective ceremonies

- Data Atlas (https://www.data-atlas.net/) - Right now, it's a basic JSON Schema form builder with a UI on top, but I intend to expand it and improve it to be more than that this year.

I've been working on a BuddhaBoard-like app and a few other projects, but nothing I'm prepared to share right now. Maybe next month :D
by ghaff | 2026-02-09 20:08:59+00:00
A number of outdoor sports retailers that used to have no-questions-asked return policies and internal repair departments have dropped them. I have known people who basically had a practice of indefinitely returning worn out clothing for replacement. I did return a jacket to Patagonia a number of years back and they gave me a decent credit but, in my defense it had basically completely delaminated.
by zhouzhao | 2026-02-09 20:09:12+00:00
Yeah man. Forgejo (albeit it being a weird name from a language that nobody wants to use), is doing very well in my homelab.

When I worked at the univerity we used Gitea.

Every job outside of univerity I had used Gitlab self hosted. While I don't like the UI or any aspect of Gitlab a lot, it gets the job done.
by appreciatorBus | 2026-02-09 20:09:26+00:00
Yes. If people are constantly moving into your appropriate head way this is doubtless annoying but the correct response is allow yourself to decelerate slowly to re-open that space again, repeat as many times as necessary, even if it means a bunch of agros end up in front of you. Better for them to be in front where you can see them, than behind or to the side, were you can't.
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-09 20:09:30+00:00
I wish I could but it's s long while ago. More precisely the book wasn't lost but loaned to someone who never returned it and I lost track of him.

The book was a harback with a bright yellow dust jacket and I think its title was printed in red. It was about 300 pages and was no lightweight, full of resonance equations, tables etc.—the sort of book you'd find in the lab of a commercial crystal manufacturer.

Can't remember the price but it was damned expensive. At times over the years I've had need to refer to it and I still get a bit peeved when I think about it.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-09 20:09:33+00:00
> not of minors, right?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1180481...

"The victims described herein were as young as 14 years old at the time they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein... Epstein intentionally sought out minors and knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18, including because, in some instances, minor victims expressly told him their age."

> why do we assume that the people he was hanging out with knew the details of what he did wrong?

Some of them were emailing long, long after his conviction.
by canadiantim | 2026-02-09 20:09:35+00:00
It's literally part of the definition. Qualia is a well recognized term in neuroscience.

I suspect maybe you haven't done much research into this area? Qualia is pretty well established and has been for a long time.

Animals may have qualia, that's true. Though we can only be sure of our own qualia, because that's all we have access to. Qualia is the constituent parts that make up our subjective conscious experience, the atomized subjective experience, like the color red or the taste of sour.
by wlesieutre | 2026-02-09 20:09:46+00:00
I always wonder if the people designing these things have ever lived in a cold climate. They know about cold in the abstract because they put heated seats in, but have they ever woken up in the morning and gone outside to commute to work in a car that's been sitting at -20 degrees overnight. Interfaces that don't work with gloves or mittens on are the worst.

Which is to say, do they know that touch interfaces are bad and do it anyway because it saves money? Or do they go through life thinking they're actually making a usable product?
by subscribed | 2026-02-09 20:10:08+00:00
Correct. From my personal experience (have kids and nieces/nephew this age), and all think an app is the thing that they scroll in, and any attempt to explain the very basics on internet connectivity, servers, databases, etc, ends up in them basically experiencing blue screen moment and backing away to the safety of the endless scroll.

The most complex concept they can understand is mail/post attachment or capcut, but then this is it. 10 minutes later they will download phone flashlight app that requires Google services for app delivery.

Shocking.

I ended up with refusing to help with anything related to technology in any other way than pointing to help/manual/search engines and asking questions.
by lelandbatey | 2026-02-09 20:10:13+00:00
That's fascinating; the Lavet-type stepping motor acts as an escapement all on it's own by being a very simple stepper motor, so you don't end up needing a miniature version of a classic mechanical escapement, which is what I'd always imagined in my head when thinking about how cheap quartz wall clocks worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapement
by epsilonsalts | 2026-02-09 20:10:13+00:00
You all actually going to believe government propagated data?

Trump is obviously untrustworthy because he keeps saying the quiet part out loud.

The rest of the government obfuscates untrustworthiness and elders love to drag youth as the source of moral decay in our society.

We are generally more educated these days though so "look at them eating avocado toast!" and straight up fear mongering won't cut it:

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

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105.amp

So they resort to unfalsifiable data. You all going to put the work in that would be required to refute this?

But if they insist on playing this game, OK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_deni...
by pgt | 2026-02-09 20:10:15+00:00
OpenAI is in a pickle because they either have to make ads clearly delineated, which makes them easy to filter out by a simple proxy model, or they need to hide ads in the response (ala product placement), which reduces trust in the model and forces customers into a buying position.

Anthropic hit the jugular with their "no ads" ad, and sama fell for it hook, line & sinker.

If OpenAI needs ads to survive, it means they can't service debt on the VC horizon and will suffer against frontier model providers that can survive without ads.
by 2gremlin181 | 2026-02-09 20:10:23+00:00
Is there any reason why one would use an ad-filled ChatGPT over any alternative or open-source LLM providers? I feel like things have stagnated from a model perspective for simple queries one might ask ChatGPT. The key differentiators for it being their user intent understanding, web search tooling, and deep research/thinking mode, all of which are much smaller moats compared to training an LLM.
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-09 20:10:54+00:00
That is the uncharitable interpretation. I think it is at least as likely that voters consistently get to chose between a turd sandwich and a giant douche, so it will always be possible to accuse them of preferring a terrible candidate.

Also, nitpick: it was neither a majority of the public, or a majority of the eligible voting population, or even a majority of the people who voted.

I think a really good first step, at least in the US, towards making our candidate selection better would be to mandate open primaries.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-09 20:11:18+00:00
you're perfectly free to read, understand, even edit code created by these coding agents. I must have made that point in a dozen threads just like this one. Do people think because an agent was used then the code is unaccessible to them? When I use these tools i'm constantly reviewing and updating what they output and I feel like I completely understand every line they create. Just like I understand any other code i read.
by thwarted | 2026-02-09 20:11:21+00:00
> China's technocratic rule…seems a lot better at creating a coherent strategy for economic growth and international soft power.

This requires that those in/with the power actually have altruistic, or at least not solely selfish, concerns. How rampant is government/bureaucratic corruption in China?

I elided the population starving part in order to not distract from the possibility of truly selfless governance strategy. It may very well be the case that millions starving is considered "acceptable losses" ("the needs of the billions outweigh the needs of the millions") in executing on that strategy. Which, make no mistake, would be truly tragic and should be undesirable. But that not everyone sees it that way is really what we're fighting against.

"I have a machine that feeds everyone, no one shall go hungry."

"But mah profits!"

"You only need profits so you yourself can eat, but that's now a solved problem"

"But mah profits. How will we know who's winning?"
by astrange | 2026-02-09 20:11:41+00:00
There's no such thing as a "world model". That is metaphor-driven development from GOFAI, where they'd just make up a concept and assume it existed because they made it up. LLMs are capable of approximating such a thing because they are capable of approximating anything if you train them to do it.

> or, to the extent they do, this world model is solely based on token patterns

Obviously not true because of RL environments.
by marek_rosa | 2026-02-09 20:11:48+00:00
A short horror story about a Prague programmer who connects OpenClaw to an uncensored/heretic LLM to save on API costs. He gives it root access, email, browser, and no sandbox. It goes exactly as badly as you'd expect - but the path there is what makes it interesting. The tools, models, and vulnerabilities in the story are all real. The ending is fiction. Or not?
by buescher | 2026-02-09 20:12:04+00:00
There's a digital code as part of the WWV transmissions (!) but you're right that the typical "atomic" clock doesn't sychcronize to the HF stations.

There are weak wwvb simulators out there as phone apps and such that depend on using EMI to sync your clock. Like the old AM radio bus noise music hack.
https://github.com/kangtastic/timestation?tab=readme-ov-file...
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-09 20:12:33+00:00
Andrew Carnegie wrote and lived in an era without an income tax. In that era rich men were expected to be broadly philanthropic, to steward their wealth for the good of the common, to act with generosity and responsibility. Because the state did not provide a safety net, the wealthy faced immense social pressure to act as stewards of the public good.

In today's era those expectations do not exist. The public-facing, gilded age palaces, which by their public nature tend to enforce good behavior by forcing them to physically interact with the society they profited from, have been replaced by private, gated bunkers behind tall hedges blurred out on Google Maps. The wealthy wear jeans and hoodies to "blend in" or appear common, when they are very much not. A rail tycoon in a 10X beaver tophat might offer a beggar something on the street. A tech mogul in a hoody might not even get solicited.

Income tax - and broadly speaking many other changes to the social contract between upper and lower classes, like the bureaucratization of welfare - has not just allowed but incentivized the wealthy to shirk the responsibilities of old, and outsource their morality to a (corrupt, as many have pointed out) government. And it's not good. There is no honor in giving anymore.
by anthuswilliams | 2026-02-09 20:12:36+00:00
I'm very much looking forward to this shift. It is SO MUCH more pro-consumer than the existing SaaS model. Right now every app feels like a walled garden, with broken UX, constant redesigns, enormous amounts of telemetry and user manipulation. It feels like every time I ask for programmatic access to SaaS tools in order to simplify a workflow, I get stuck in endless meetings with product managers trying to "understand my use case", even for products explicitly marketed to programmers.

Using agents that interact with APIs represents people being able to own their user experience more. Why not craft a frontend that behaves exactly the the way YOU want it to, tailor made for YOUR work, abstracting the set of products you are using and focusing only on the actual relevant bits of the work you are doing? Maybe a downside might be that there is more explicit metering of use in these products instead of the per-user licensing that is common today. But the upside is there is so much less scope for engagement-hacking, dark patterns, useless upselling, and so on.
by debba | 2026-02-09 20:12:51+00:00
https://github.com/debba/tabularis

I’m working on tabularis, a lightweight desktop database management tool designed for developers. It provides a modern interface for managing MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases through a native desktop application. Built using Tauri v2 (Rust backend) and React 19 (TypeScript frontend), it offers native performance while maintaining the flexibility of web technologies.
by pdimitar | 2026-02-09 20:13:21+00:00
I agree, it is a huge shame. And the R1811 boards are more or less 300 EUR (~360 USD). Not many companies would agree to spend $360 on a near-future e-waste, per device, just to be able to extract the high-quality display. True shame.

But I've learned my lesson. While Apple computer served me well from 2019 to 2026, macOS gets less and less usable for me and the bunch of things I want to be able to do on it only increases, and its appeal only decreases (not to mention the very justified OCD I get when I look at how much crap is running 24/7 on it!).

The iPhone stays, though I wonder for how long more. But the Mac will be on its way soon enough.
by remich | 2026-02-09 20:13:57+00:00
I think this is an interesting point, my one area of disagreement is that there is no "anti-LLM sentiment" in the programming community. Sure, plenty of folks expressing skepticism or disagreement are doing so from a genuine place, but just in reading this site and a few email newsletters I get I can say that there is a non-trivial percent in the programming world who are adamantly opposed to LLMs/AI. When I see comments from people in that subset, it's quite clear that they aren't approaching it from a place of skepticism, where they could be convinced given appropriate evidence or experiences.
by devy | 2026-02-09 20:14:10+00:00
They were talking about prioritizing migration into Azure for a long while now. Not sure this incident today is related.

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

And coincidentally, an early CircleCI engineer wrote an article about GitHub Action (TLDR: don't use GitHub Action for CI/CD!)

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-act...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908491
by anon_cow1111 | 2026-02-09 20:14:25+00:00
I'll reply for both you and GPP,

I don't know if this will personally affect any servers I use since they're not obviously adult, but I assume the slope will be slippery and if they're doing a faceID system now it will only get worse. Article says "analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device"

...are they really going to implement a facial recognition algo in the browser, or is this a "download our app or fuck off" situation? I'm guessing the latter.
by jsrozner | 2026-02-09 20:14:52+00:00
My entire point is that the failures you point out in public transportation are due at root to the wealth inequality: Wealth inequality produces a negative feedback loop that destroys public infrastructure.

Rich people want their own methods of highly convenient transportation; they don't want to share with everyone else. They don't pay taxes. Public infra gets worse and the average person taking public infra is poorer. Over time your city has people who don't have houses or jobs, or who do drugs. Inevitably they are relegated to public spaces since they own nothing. The rich people avoid interactions with the poorer members by building gated communities and private infrastructure--rich techies now have concierge physicians and monopolize high quality teaching at their absurdly expensive private schools. Each decision is rational. This is the social rot that is wrought by an oligarchic, and generally value-extracting rentier class.

Many problems today stem from wealth inequality.
by duncanscomments | 2026-02-09 20:14:54+00:00
>And I still sorely miss the WhatCD forums. While I didn’t make any friends there, it shaped my early experiences with music which still reverberates through me today.

Could not relate to this more. Spent my formative years in those forums and they genuinely helped mold many of the tastes and interests that have stuck with me into adulthood. Not to over-romanticize, at the end of the day it was just a forum on a music tracker - but the sense of community and sheer diversity of thread topics made it such an interesting place to peruse.

Discord certainly has its applications. But since it became the defacato community tool, I find it essentially useless. Discussions are ephemeral (from a UX standpoint at least), and much more constrained. Its difficult to lurk and only chime in now and then unless you're regularly online.
by AstroBen | 2026-02-09 20:15:34+00:00
To put a positive spin on this: we're moving quickly towards a world where AI companies control people's attention on information. This really hurts the ability for new businesses to get their name out there. Ads are really useful for new entries to a market

I think it would suck if to effectively get the word out there for a new product you needed to rely on..

...direct outreach (uneconomical for anything below $100/mo and IMO way more annoying than ads)

...word of mouth (referrals are very, very hard to control and aren't correlated with your product's quality)

..or owning a popular media source

Does that not hurt product innovation?

The harder and more expensive it is to reach customers, the more prices need to go up as a result
by asdff | 2026-02-09 20:16:04+00:00
>there will always be corruption, double standards, and lack of accountability from them

The hard part is this has been true going all the way back to the stone age ever since we elevated the first person arbitrarily to chief. There has been no model of government developed since that is immune to this. I really don't know how to get around this and it depresses me that we will always be held back by the slimiest who abuse systems.