MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davorak | 2026-02-27 19:17:54+00:00
> That sounds like an OS feature that parents would like to have. Probably has some market value. Maybe just let the market figure that one out.

If there was a competitive market for OSs this probably would work, but we do not really have that. Getting the market to be competitive likely either takes considerable time, or other forms of government intervention. If there really was a competitive market then this would have been a solved problem ~15-20 years ago since parents have been complaining about this for ~25-30 years at this point.

> Or, we could have an overbroad law passed that torpedoes every open-source OS in existence. If I were MS, Google, or Apple, that'd be a great side benefit of this law. Heck, they probably already have this functionality in place.

I do not think the law does that. Either a additional feature making age/birth date entry and age bracket query available, or indicated the os is not intended for use in California, both seem to let developers continue along like normal. edit Or, I think, indicate that it is not for use by children.

> The problem here is legally-mandated age verification, not where it is placed (although forcing it into all OSes is absolutely ...). The gains are minimal for children and the losses are gigantic for children and adults. I'm not keen to have children avoid blisters by cutting off their feet.

In this case the mandate is entering an age/birth date at account creation where you can lie about said age/birth date. The benefit is the ability of an adult to set up parental controls for a child account.

> Put control back with the parents. Let them buy tech that restricts their children's access. This law doesn't protect children from the mountains of damaging content online.

This puts control in the parents hands. When they set up their child's account they can put in their child's age, or not, they can make it an adult account.

> And let all the adults run Linux if they want to without requiring Torvalds to put some kind of age question in the kernel and needing `ls` to check it every single run.

So from the literal reading of the law the age checks are only required when "a child that is the primary user of the device". It does not need to effect accounts where the primary user is not a child. Nor does it seem like any application needs to run the check every time the application is launched.

The law unfortunately does require:

> (b) (1) A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.

So in the case where a child is the primary account/device user. The app needs to request the signal at least once when first launched, though it is not required to do anything with it. Delegating that to the package manager would make sense, but this part of the law should be modified, apps that can not use the signal for anything should not be required to request it, 'ls' for example.
Ask HN: Is Claude Code slow for you as well? It thinks a lot
by Gooblebrai | 2026-02-27 19:17:55+00:00
As per the title. Claude Code spends about 10 minutes thinking, and then it spits out the output, which, admittedly, is in many cases better than Codex. Still, it feels slow because of that much delay.

Codex output is worse, but the output in the CLI makes it think more things are happening
by magicalist | 2026-02-27 19:18:34+00:00
> it can still be tracked by any provider or person/group/government controlling that provider, even triangulated to a more precise location, 24/7.

Which as of 2018 requires a warrant to get access to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States

We want a government and law enforcement that can investigate wrongdoing, but we want that access to be checked and limited, and, most importantly, we want the government actually following the checks and limitations they're supposed to be subject to.

Which brings us back to data laundering companies like Flock.
by gamblor956 | 2026-02-27 19:18:50+00:00
There is plenty of lobbying in China as well. And there is plenty of corruption; the hundreds of ghost cities scattered across the country are a good example. Hell, the real estate bubble nearly destroyed the Chinese economy and took extreme efforts by the national government to contain.

The difference is that the PRC isn't bound by the same property rules and rights that apply in the U.S. or most of Europe. If the U.S. tried to do what China does when it wants to build something, people everywhere would be yelling their heads off about the extreme abuses of eminent domain.
by Windchaser | 2026-02-27 19:19:26+00:00
> Same with PhDs - is there a shortage of them? Does adding potentially infinite PhDs (whatever they are) to a project make it better, or does it just make... more?

Yes, there is still a large demand for people with analytical thinking, a deep knowledge base, and good problem-solving skills. This demand shows up broadly across STEM fields, and it's a major reason that these fields pay relatively high.

Even just thinking of R&D, there is an immense amount of work left to be done in basic science. Research is throttled partly by a lack of cheap graduate lab labor. (If that physical + mental labor became much cheaper, the costs of research would shift - what does it take to get reagants? What does it take to build more lab space, and provide water and light? Etc.)

The present issue is that current AI does not really offer the same capabilities as a good grad student or PhD. Not just physically, as in, we don't have good robotics yet, but mentally. LLMs do not exhibit good judgment or problem-solving skills, like a good PhD does. And they don't exhibit continual learning.

No clue on when these will change, but yes, a cheap AI with solid problem-solving skills and good judgment would absolutely upend our economy.
by MikeTheGreat | 2026-02-27 19:19:47+00:00
I saw a YouTube video where they said this was more-or-less the original backstory but then they changed it. I think it said that the People In Charge thought the 'living power source' would be easier for the audience to understand?

I don't have the link handy, and don't trust everything I read on the Internet, etc, etc.

But yeah - this makes so much more sense than breeding, raising, and feeding humans just to harvest their body heat.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-02-27 19:20:04+00:00
It's always best to geoblock all UK users from the start. We ban them from our servers, geoblock the web page, and plan to geoblock our apps for connections within or to the UK. However, it's technically not easy and in our opinion it is also the UK/Ofcom's responsibility to block Internet services not compatible with their laws.

On a side note, if all countries acted like the UK, the Internet would be gone very soon.
by ses1984 | 2026-02-27 19:21:29+00:00
You’ve never heard of this strategy before? If i tried to explain it, I would do a poor job, it’s happened a lot, enough that it is forbidden on most regulated exchanges.

In this case they buy slowly to avoid artificially propping up the price, then sell all at once to artificially drop the price, only momentarily. They don’t have to cause the entire price drop through selling everything they acquired, they just have to move the price down enough to trigger stop loss orders that they know about.

With this strategy they can accumulate assets while also taking profits on the shorts. It’s the retail investors who put in market orders or stop loss orders that get taken for a ride.

In their role as market maker they have all the information needed to minimize the risk of this strategy.
by bdcravens | 2026-02-27 19:21:39+00:00
It doesn't make for as good of a headline, but learning to look at solds (and even more importantly, sell through rate) is the first thing you learn (or should learn) if you do any reselling.

Additionally, you have to factor in free shipping. A rough way to do it is to multiply the % times the average shipping price and deduct that from the average sales price (so the "real" average sales price for the totes is closer to $14 or so)
by magicalist | 2026-02-27 19:22:00+00:00
> If the court finds for Anthropic, future DoD leadership will find itself constrained or at least chilled

Seems like a good outcome? The government should not be able to arbitrarily decide to make private citizens do things they aren't willing to do, whether the government thinks the action is legal or not, and its especially egregious when the government knew about those limits ahead of time, spelled out in a fucking contract.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 19:22:00+00:00
I wonder if this will shift over the next decade as Millenials start to become the voting bloc to appeal to, a generation that grew up with the internet (or at worst, started picking up the internet late in college/early in the workforce)?

Among other factors, boomers grew up in a time where it wasn't unusual to announce your home address during a televised interview. Their ideas of privacy and locality is so fundamentally different from a generation that was the test bed for factors like cyberbullying, doxxing, mass trolling/harassment for users all around the world.

And you know, spending your 30's/40's seeing blatant government overreach to harrass minorities and political opponents will help. Doubly so for Gen Z seeing this in their early adult years.
by datawars | 2026-02-27 19:22:06+00:00
Thank you for pointing out a problem that I had (which I do!), solving with Time Machine and trying to make myself commit more requently - and for providing a solution! Looks very cool, too. If I close the terminal I started --watch in, will the watch continue?

Writing this, I wanted to ask if the desktop app includes the CLI, but there it says it on your website :-) Thanks for thinking ahead so far, but then picking us up here and now so we can easily follow along into an unf* future!

Looking forward to try it.
by pacificmaelstrm | 2026-02-27 19:22:15+00:00
Our research suggests that current breakfast topology models utilizing flour, eggs, and milk as fundamental, decoupled dimensions are insufficient to account for the full spectrum of observed meal phenomena. We submit that flour is not a primary dimension but a specific vibrational state within a broader Carbohydrate Manifold. This manifold serves as a higher-dimensional bulk inclusive of ingredients like beans and potatoes to ensure global consistency across the breakfast landscape.

Furthermore, we identify a significant flaw in any model that does not recognize eggs as a member of a broader Meat Manifold. Such theories are hopelessly flawed and wholly unable to account for the almost equivalent presence of bacon in the observed data. Consequently, we propose that breakfast only be mapped in an eleven-dimensional superdelicous framework consisting of three primary D-branes: Carbohydrates, Meats, and Dairy. Within this M-theory (Meal theory) construct, Eggs are not a fundamental ingredient as is naively assumed in previous theories but rather an emergent property arising from the the non-perturbative intersection of these three manifolds. We think this is a is a theoretical breakthrough with profound and as yet unexplored recipes.

To demonstrate the predictive power of this framework, we submit the refried bean, smoked gouda, and steak omelette as a stable hyper-palatable worldvolume solution.

In this configuration, the beans must be fried extra to ensure proper thermal desiccation for optimal texturization. This case study confirms that a unified theory must account for these dense, multi-manifold intersections to remain empirically valid.
by realityfactchex | 2026-02-27 19:22:16+00:00
Cool concept. I tried six different old Windows executables from programs I wrote way back when.

FWIW:

* My old VB 6 .exe apps all fail with "Reason: Unimplemented API: MSVBVM60.DLL..."

* My old QuickBASIC .exe apps fail in various other ways ("Illegal function call", etc.).

Keep on hacking.
by altruios | 2026-02-27 19:22:19+00:00
Meh to this misanthropic disregard for other's experience. If you need external alignment to prevent you being evil your internal alignment is f'ed. Considering morality an arbitrary boundary is a major red flag for antisocial behaviors.

Structured interactions lead to better results, chaotic actions lead to chaos. Ethics/morality is part of that structure that lets us achieve more together than individually.

if you think living in that structure is enfeebling: I highly question what you desire to do that results in that feeling.
by asdff | 2026-02-27 19:22:31+00:00
Yeah and I think that extends to even trades we see as protected because they often work in novel and unknown setting, like whatever a drunk tradesman rigged up in the decades previous.

Eventually it will be more economical to just destroy all those old world structures entirely, clear the site out, and replace it with the new modular world able to be repaired with robots that no longer have to look like humans and fit into human centric ux paradigms. They can be entirely purpose built to task unlike a human, who will still be average height and mass with all the usual pieces parts no matter how they are trained.
by thenewnewguy | 2026-02-27 19:22:41+00:00
How would you find a government entity? This is just moving money from one government budget to another.

The USPS is like this because of the persistent belief that it's not enough for government entities (think USPS, Amtrak, etc) to provide a good service for the citizens - they must also (try to) turn a profit.

If we as a society considered it acceptable for the USPS to spend money to ensure everyone in the US had mail access without selling out to corporations to turn a profit, they wouldn't need to have products like EDDM blasting spam to entire zip codes.
by robocat | 2026-02-27 19:22:48+00:00
> parasite must stop sucking blood for the host to survive

Biology doesn't work like that. Biological units are too selfish. It is an iterated game so evolution could affect how a parasite's children act. However defection is usually a winning strategy (because there's rarely enough coordination nor enough signals for cooperation to win).

Biology has amazing metaphors, but unfortunately most writers and readers don't understand biology well enough to use those metaphors as part of an argument.

The same issue occurs with other disciplines too.
by rzerowan | 2026-02-27 19:22:53+00:00
Hmm i think at te moment its only Linux that has by default local only accounts except if being used in some sort of SSO environment .

Microsoft has been pushing aggressively to deprecate the local and funnel everyone to Microsoft online accounts , while Android and macOS/iOS are already in such a state by default.

Coupled with the same accounts being used for online login, looks like a feature creep panopticon in the making. With Linux lucking out be default.
by alfredoizjr | 2026-02-27 19:23:08+00:00
English isn't my first language — I'm a native Spanish speaker. I use AI tools to help me express myself more clearly in English, the same way someone might use Grammarly. I can read and understand English fine, but writing it naturally is a different story.

The project is 100% real. I built it, I use it every day, and I'm happy to talk about the technical details if anyone's interested
by krapp | 2026-02-27 19:23:14+00:00
>... okay? I'm not even from the US. I don't even pick a side.

You clearly have. You've made numerous comments taking the "conspiratorial" point of view you're describing while mentioning "cheese pizza eating billionaires" and the like. For whatever reason you want to be seen as a part of the Pizzagate group and as being vindicated with them. Don't get triggered because I'm responding to the persona you choose to project.

>Whatever it was that you were reading, you should re-read it when you're capable of emotionless, analytical, objective conscious thoughts.That way you might manage avoiding mindlessly projecting your clearly emotional nonsense into my words.

Your own comments reek of smug sarcasm and condescension, some peppered with ALL CAPS AND EXCLAMATION MARKS! You're anything but analytical or objective, and your comment is just a personal attack.

I'm only reflecting your nonsense back at you, fellow human.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-27 19:23:40+00:00
One key piece of financial information in those reports is that that their revenue growth fell off a cliff when ZIRP ended (months before ChatGPT came out) and never recovered to even pre-Covid levels. There's no indication that their core business is unhealthy, and I'm not claiming to rule out that AI is related, but it makes sense that a company transitioning to "maintenance mode" might find itself wanting to be a lot smaller.
by jesse_dot_id | 2026-02-27 19:23:47+00:00
Are prompt injections solved? If OpenClaw is only useful when it has access to your digital life, then why does it matter where it runs? You might as well be asking me to keep my dead man's switch safely on the moon. If you find this software useful, you are sharing a count down to a no good very bad day with everyone else who finds it useful. One zero day prompt injection technique, your e-mail on a distribution list, and that's all she wrote.
by steve1977 | 2026-02-27 19:23:52+00:00
Close, but not quite.

The first letter was the recorder used for initial recording, say a Studer A800 as an example of an analog multitrack or DASH as an example of a digital one).

The second letter was the recorder for the mixdown, i.e. usually some 2-channel system like an analog ATR-102 or Studer A80 or a digital DAT.

The third letter was the recorder for the master, which for CD by definition was always digital. In the early days usually a Sony U-matic, which funnily enough was an analog video tape format which got reused for digital audio (and is the reason for the odd 44.1 kHz sampling rate of the CD).

Edit:

The code was actually always considered a bit meaningless.

For example, you could record on a digital DASH, but mix on an analog SSL console and print the mix to a digital recorder. That would have been a DDD CD.

On the other hand, you could record on an analog A820, mix on a digital Studer desk, print the mix on an analog A80 and that would have been a AAD CD.

So, two codes indicating "pure" digital or "pure" analog, even though both processes used both technologies.

Or record on a ADAT and mix on a Yamaha 02/R, which would have been DDD but probably sounded worse than the AAD recorded on a Studer analog tape ;)
by elictronic | 2026-02-27 19:25:04+00:00
Each Expendable Starship Super Heavy launched costs less than a single engine on the Artemis program.

Every time you see a Starship launch what you aren't seeing is manufacturing processes corrected, issues in launch protocols and field issues resolved. All the little things that build up to make your system reliable. Do you want the doctor who has done a hundred successful surgeries, or the one who has done one or two but spent a long time in school watching videos.

The big difference is in the end, Starship gets built faster, costs much less, and can do more. It's not even close.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-27 19:25:12+00:00
By near definition, the lawmaking process mostly works on account of interested parties. There aren't a lot of issues that can get enough support merely by sheer mainstream pushback. That's why organizations spend time spreading awareness and lobbying (as well as coporate billionaire companies).

It'd be much nicer if privacy was one of those mainstream topics. But that's not the case thus far. It's mostly propped into legislature by smaller organizations.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-27 19:26:30+00:00
Devs' newfound ability to patch on the fly is absolutely being overleveraged. It's a wonderful capability to have that can do wonders in terms of disaster mitigation, but it's clearly become a crutch and has resulted in a situation where software has become a horrific amalgamation of haphazardly-developed panic-patches, taking the classic "ball of mud" problem and putting it into overdrive.
by shad42 | 2026-02-27 19:27:06+00:00
I agree, we automated in the Mendral agent what is time consuming for human (like debugging a flaky test), but it will need permission to confirm the remediation and open a PR.

But it's night and day to fix your CI when someone (in this case an agent) already dug into the logs, the code of the test and propose options to fix. We have several customers asking us to automate the rest (all the way to merge code), but we haven't done it for the reasons you mention. Although I am sure we'll get there sometimes this year.
by fangpenlin | 2026-02-27 19:27:07+00:00
There's an obvious theme with lawmakers in California—they pass laws to regulate things they have zero clue about, add them to their achievement page, cheer for themselves, and declare, "There! I've made the world a better place." There are just too many examples. For instance:

- Microstamping requirements for guns—printing a unique barcode on every bullet casing (Glock gen3 cannot be retired, thus, the auto-mode switch bug cannot be patched...)

- 3D printers should have a magical algorithm to recognize all gun parts in their tiny embedded systems

- Now, you need to verify your age... on your microwave?

At this rate, California should just go back to the Stone Age. Modern technology is simply not compatible with clueless politicians who are more eager to virtue-signal than to solve any actual problems or even borther to study the subject about the law they are going to pass. There will be more and more technology restrictions (or outright bans on use) in California because it's becoming impossible to operate anything here without getting sued or running afoul of some overreaching regulation.
by Windchaser | 2026-02-27 19:27:30+00:00
Early steam engines did not produce large amounts of power on demand, though. They produced small amounts of power, were a hassle to fuel and maintain, and broke often. It was reasonable that the engineers of the 1700s said "well, until someone improves on this, it's not worth using"..

.. which is not far off from what people said about ChatGPT in 2022.

I don't know how long it'll take for AI to be as broadly impactful as the steam engine was, but.. it's definitely coming. I expect the world to look radically different in 50 years.
by intalentive | 2026-02-27 19:27:44+00:00
I am going to steal this code and run a different analysis. The author mentions that skeptics avoid grifters without punishing them. I am curious how things play out in the Seven Samurai model, where instead of marks you have peasants and instead of grifters you have bandits. What happens if you have samurai not skeptics? Who both take rice from the peasants and protect them from greater exploitation by bandits.

This would be a simple governance model, and you could predict something like “revolution” when the cost of samurai exceeds their benefit.
Show HN: My iPhone notifies me about cloud outages before they blow up here
by Sayuj01 | 2026-02-27 19:27:50+00:00
I was sick of finding out a cloud provider was down when casually doomscrolling on X in the middle of work. So I built Pingy as a fun side project, it sends me a push notification whenever a cloud provider is experiencing an outage or a degradation.

AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Stripe, OpenAI, Supabase, Vercel, Cloudflare, and 50+ more are tracked. I just pushed it App Store yesterday and if you are paranoid like me, checkout Pingy on the App Store.