MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by culi | 2026-02-04 18:35:03+00:00
The article contradicts what you said. It cites "two [unnamed] senior officials" and then goes on to say:

> The 30,000 figure is also far beyond tallies being compiled by activists methodically assigning names to the dead.

The official government estimate is still 3,117 btw.

The truth is we'll likely never know for sure the real number and any outlet reporting anything else without qualifications is being dishonest.
by pdonis | 2026-02-04 18:35:22+00:00
> the point is that this is actually not true

It is in Florida, which is where I live. Florida Statutes section 695.01:

"No conveyance, transfer, or mortgage of real property, or of any interest therein, nor any lease for a term of 1 year or longer, shall be good and effectual in law or equity against creditors or subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration and without notice, unless the same be recorded according to law"

I can't say whether every US state has similar law in place, but I suspect most of them do, since both the State and the county clerks get revenue from the recording fees.
by popinman322 | 2026-02-04 18:35:37+00:00
I've found that Gemini models often produce pseudocode that seems good at first glance but is typically wrong or incomplete, especially for larger or more complex functions. It might produce pseudocode for 70% of the function, then silently drop the last 30%. Or it might elide the inside of switch blocks or if statements, only including a comment explaining what should happen.

Alternatively, Claude Opus generally output actual code that included more of the original functionality. Even Qwen3-30B-A3B performs better than Gemini, in my experience.

It's honestly really frustrating. The huge context size available with Gemini makes the model family seem like a boon for this task; PCode is very verbose, impinging on the headroom needed for the model's response.
by matt-p | 2026-02-04 18:36:01+00:00
I don't think I ever said it reduced capital cost. I agree (though you might be willing to take more risk on reducing redundancy e.g instead of 2+1 cooling towers you may be more willing to just buy 2).

You cannot put a power station in the middle of a city centre, you can put a datacentre there. The main reason this isn't done more is that it's expensive to build heat network between the 'far out of town industrial area' where they put the heat sources and the city centre where the heat consumers are.

I don't know why a municipality is involved, but regardless you can simply install a backup heat source and/or add a mix of heat suppliers to the network. Backup gas boiler or similar is not that problematic or expensive to add particularly because you don't need to add redundancy as it's just there for a backup scenario.
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-02-04 18:36:35+00:00
No it isn’t. Writing the code was never the issue with making software, it was designing it.

You can shit out an app with AI, just like you could with Indian workers. But that doesn’t mean it will work properly or that you’ll be able to maintain it.

And most importantly, it only works for code they could steal from GitHub. It has no idea how to replicate sensitive systems which aren’t publically documented, and those are some of the most valuable contracts.
by ndiddy | 2026-02-04 18:36:41+00:00
I'm sure that many Iranians would support the regime being toppled, and so would the Iranian diaspora (understandably, since most of them were either forced out of the country or chose to leave due to the revolution, so of course they would be in favor of regime change). However, it would be extremely unpopular in general in the West. One recent poll indicated that 7 out of 10 Americans don't want the US government to take military action against Iran for killing protesters who demonstrate against the Iranian government. https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3945 You barely see that kind of consensus on any political polling in the US, and what voters think actually matters for a few months because the midterm elections are coming up.
by bdavbdav | 2026-02-04 18:37:08+00:00
Then curate those apps. My wife doesn’t run the social media apps on the phone, forcing her to make a conscious decision to pull out an iPad. The Apps I use are largely work, browser, email, Strava(/garmin/athlytic), maps, music and smart home control / network tools. It’s just about being conscious of what you put on it and what you use it for.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-02-04 18:37:19+00:00
> In September 2022, Robertson allegedly posted online, "The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!"[3] He also allegedly posted a picture of a rifle captioned, "My democrat eradicator!!!"[14] Robertson also allegedly threatened New York attorney general Letitia James and had "patriotic dreams" of shooting Governor of California Gavin Newsom with "my S&W M&P 9mm" and shooting US attorney general Merrick Garland "dead center in his forehead".[3][15][16] In November 2022, he indicated he had nine firearms including at least three rifles and intended to buy an additional three for "getting ready for the 2024 election cycle."

Wow, there's something really wrong with this guy. This goes beyond "criticism" but I admit I don't know where the line falls before you consider a death threat to be worth taking action on.
by klaff | 2026-02-04 18:37:19+00:00
I'm curious. I think the whole thing (space-based compute) is infeasible and stupid for a bunch of reasons, but even a class-A amplifier has a theoretical limit of 50% efficiency, and I thought we used class-C amplifiers (with practical efficiencies above 50%) in FM/FSK/etc. applications in which amplitude distortion can be filtered away. What makes these systems be down at 10%?
by adolph | 2026-02-04 18:37:39+00:00
> I've read some stuff which says the cost of 5 SBC boards with pre-applied SMD is now so low, you might as well order 5 so you get at least 1 which works. That means they will wind up working out your tolerance for failure, and produce goods to meet that: if 1 in 5 is viable, thats what they'll target.

That is very rational. Each 9 in uptime or quality represents expense. The expense of moving to the next level up can't always be "shift left", but instead done at the point in the process where money can be applied.

Lets say you have a process that goes right at a minimum of 20% of the time for cost of 100. The manufacturer can add QA that makes the cost 120. Is it better to trust the manufacturer at the cost of +20? Or is it better to do your own QA for 20 and gain any correct pieces above the 20%?
by overfeed | 2026-02-04 18:38:06+00:00
It's single, self-contained shell script. If it's not packaged for one's distro, amd they don't know how to replace a command and keep it updated, then this shim is not for them, and that is ok.

For the technically inclined who like challenges, creating a distro package of this shim is the "hello world" equivalent for packaging.
by dang | 2026-02-04 18:38:08+00:00
Yes, that's definitely a bad idea because the community picks up on it and dismisses the entire comment set as generated. Generated comments aren't allowed on HN, and readers are super-sensitive about this these days.

The non-native speaker point is understandable, of course, but you're much better off writing in your own voice, even if a few mistakes sneak in (who cares, that's fine!). Non-native speakers are more than welcome on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by the_real_cher | 2026-02-04 18:38:40+00:00
These are good questions.

You have found three outliers out of 193 countries.

It still really doesn't disprove the theory that 100% of white western civilization founded countries have people trying to immigrate to them whereas outside of a tiny handful the rest of the countries have zero immigration problems.

All of these countries need to be studied for what behaviors and cultures create high trust first world style societies.
by graemep | 2026-02-04 18:38:41+00:00
> And I think this is part of the issue – xAI's executives are likely focused on compliance with US law on these topics, less concerned with complying with non-US law

True, but outright child porn is illegal everywhere (as you said) and the borderline legal stuff is something most of your audience is quite happy to have removed. I cannot imagine you are going to get a lot of complaints if you remove AI generated sexual images of minors, for example so it seems reasonable to play it safe.

> That's less of an issue for Anthropic/Google/OpenAI, since their executives don't have the same "anything that's legal" attitude which xAI often has.

This is also common, but it is irritating too as it means the rest of the world is stuck with silly American attitudes about things like nudity and alcohol - for example Youtube videos blurring out bits of Greek statues because they are scared of being demonetised. These are things people take kids to see in museums!
Show HN: Csvdb – Git-friendly CSV directories that convert to SQLite or DuckDB
by jeff-gorelick | 2026-02-04 18:39:07+00:00
I built csvdb because I kept running into the same problem: I had small relational datasets (config tables, rate tables, seed data) that I wanted to version control, but SQLite files produce useless git diffs.

csvdb converts between a directory of CSV files and SQLite/DuckDB databases. The CSV side is the source of truth you commit to git. The database side is what you query.

csvdb to-csvdb mydb.sqlite # export to CSV directory
vim mydb.csvdb/rates.csv # edit data
git diff mydb.csvdb/ # meaningful row-level diffs
csvdb to-sqlite mydb.csvdb/ # rebuild database

The key design decision is deterministic output. Rows are sorted by primary key, so identical data always produces identical CSV files. This means git diffs show only actual data changes, not row reordering noise.

A few details that took some thought:

- NULL handling: CSV has no native NULL. By default csvdb uses \N (the PostgreSQL convention) to distinguish NULL from empty string. Roundtrips are lossless.
- Format-independent checksums: csvdb checksum produces the same SHA-256 hash whether the input is SQLite, DuckDB, or a csvdb directory. Useful for verifying conversions.
- Schema preservation: indexes and views survive the roundtrip, not just tables.

Written in Rust. Beta quality -- the file format may still change.

https://github.com/jeff-gorelick/csvdb
by munificent | 2026-02-04 18:39:36+00:00
> No, your favorite movie is not crap because the creators didn't grind their own lens.

One of the reasons Barry Lyndon is over 50 years old and still looks like no other movie today is because Kubrick tracked down a few lenses originally designed for NASA and had custom mounts built for them to use with cinema cameras.

https://neiloseman.com/barry-lyndon-the-full-story-of-the-fa...

> Popular and highly acclaimed games not at crap because they didn't write their own physics engine (Zelda uses Havok)

Super Mario Bros is known for having a surprisingly subtle and complex physics system that enabled the game to feel both challenging and fair even for players very new to consoles. Celeste a newer game also famous for being very difficult yet not feeling punishing does something similar:

https://maddymakesgames.com/articles/celeste_and_towerfall_p...

> or their own game engine (Plenty of great games use Unreal or Unity)

And Minecraft doesn't, which is why few other games at the time of its release felt and played like it.

You're correct that no one builds everything from scratch all the time. However, if all you ever do is cobble a few pre-made things together, I think you'll discover that nothing you make is ever that interesting or enduring in value. Sure, it can be useful, and satisfying. But the kinds of things that really leave a mark on people, that affect them deeply, always have at least some aspect where the creator got obsessive and went off the deep end and did their own thing from scratch.

Further, you'll never learn what a transformative experience it can be to be that creator who gets obsessive about a thing. You'll miss out on discovering the weird parts of your own soul that are more fascinated by some corner of the universe than anyone else is.

I have a lot of regrets in my life, but I don't regret the various times I've decided I've deeply dug into some thing and doing it from scratch. Often, that has turned out later to be some of the most long-term useful things I've done even though it seemed like a selfish indulgence at the time.

Of course, it's your life. But consider that there may be a hidden cost to always skimming along across the tops of the stacks of things that already exist out there. There is growth in the depths.
by dragonwriter | 2026-02-04 18:39:36+00:00
No, if it was maximizing suppression bang for the buck it would be the Democratic precincts in swing states, not “swing precincts and states”, because electoral votes (except for 5—out of the 9 in Nebraska and Maine—that are determined by Congressional district) are decided by statewide (not precinct level) outcomes, so you get the maximum effect on the outcome by suppressing the vote in Democratic-leaning areas of swing states, not by targeting precincts that are near parity in the same states.
Show HN: TabChop – AI parses receipts into shareable, realtime itemized splits
by ydumpeta | 2026-02-04 18:39:37+00:00
We built TabChop because splitting a bill still feels weirdly painful. Someone downloads an app, the receipt scan is off, the UI is clunky, and half the table gives up.
After one too many dinners where the “solution” turned into unresolved requests and Venmo chaos, we wanted something that simply worked.

TabChop starts with the receipt. Take a picture, share a short code, and everyone claims what they ordered. You can watch the receipt update live as people grab their items in real time, so there’s no “who got what?” confusion.

We also store each person’s Venmo, Cash App, or Zelle info, so when the split is done it’s one click to pay. No awkward questions about who to pay or how much.

The goal is simple. No friction, no math, no awkwardness. Just a painless way to split a tab.
by derektank | 2026-02-04 18:40:04+00:00
I would object to ads across the board in this case (though I’m generally fine with even targeted ads). It would create a customer-client relationship between companies paying to advertise and the AI company, creating an incentive for Anthropic to manipulate the Claude service on their behalf. As an end user that seeks input from Claude on purchasing decisions, I do not want there to be any question as to whether or not it was subtly manipulated.
by rao-v | 2026-02-04 18:40:10+00:00
I think it maybe time for us to think about what the sensible version of these capabilities are.

Short term hacky tricks:

1. Throw away accounts - make a spare account with no credit card for airbnb, resy etc.

2. Use read only when it's possible. It's funny that banks are the one place where you can safely get read only data via an API (plaid, simplefin etc.). Make use of it!

3. Pick a safe comms channel - ideally an app you don't use with people to talk to your assistant. For the love of god don't expose your two factor SMS tokens (also ask your providers to switch you to proper two factor most finally have the capability).

4. Run the bot in a container with read only access to key files etc.

Long term:

1. We really do need services to provide multiple levels of API access, read only and some sort of very short lived "my boss said I can do this" transaction token. Ideally your agent would queue up N transactions, give them to you in a standard format, you'd approve them with FaceID, and that will generate a short lived per transaction token scoped pretty narrowly for the agent to use.

2. We need sensible micropayments. The more transactional and agent in the middle the world gets, the less services can survive with webpages,apps,ads and subscriptions.

3. Local models are surprisingly capable for some tasks and privacy safe(er)... I'm hoping these agents will eventually permit you to say "Only subagents that are local may read my chat messages"
by everdrive | 2026-02-04 18:40:18+00:00
>dual parent working households; lack of social services in state provision;

These two feel interrelated :)

> I think there's a non-trivial probability that concern over social media is a moral panic, and it's being used as a scapegoat for larger social forces.

Do you know if there are countries where the causes you laid out are not the case? (given demographics, I'm not sure if there are too many strict counter examples)
by input_sh | 2026-02-04 18:40:39+00:00
Let me re-iterate this one more time: he invested in Qonto, he invested in Wise. Therefore, whether the actual reason is incompetence or a personal vendetta or both, he deserves some of the blame. He is the one that funded them. He is the reason they exist, as (in)competent as they are.

Shifting the blame to "incompetence" does not absolve him of any guilt, he is equally to blame for that as well.
by munchler | 2026-02-04 18:41:13+00:00
> Anxiety is the second leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide.

I think this comes from WHO, but isn't consistent with other information from WHO, so it's pretty debatable.

I believe the source is this[0], which says "Mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression are highly prevalent in all countries and communities, affecting people of all ages and income levels. They represent the second biggest reason for long-term disability, contributing to loss of healthy life."

However, elsewhere on their site[1], WHO lists the top 3 global causes of death and disability in 2021 as heart disease, COVID-19, and stroke.

[0] https://www.who.int/news/item/02-09-2025-over-a-billion-peop...

[1] https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/theme-details/GHO/m...
Show HN: K8s clusters on macOS using Apple's containerization framework
by willswire | 2026-02-04 18:41:15+00:00
Hey HN!

This is a super early work-in-progress but I wanted to share with larger community to gauge interest.

I’ve forked Apple’s container CLI project and added a new build target for a CLI tool called cluster. You can visit the fork here: https://github.com/willswire/cluster

To get started, just run: make cli

And then: ./bin/cluster create

You will need the upstream container CLI installed and the container system running beforehand.
by streetfighter64 | 2026-02-04 18:41:35+00:00
Very interesting. That document in particular seems to be an interview of A. Acosta by the DoJ from 2019. But what reason would the FBI have for pretending it's a scanned document, if it is genuine? Perhaps there's some aspect of Epstein's deal with Acosta that they'd rather not reveal to the public?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%207/EFTA000092...
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-04 18:41:49+00:00
> Edit to add: Also, Israel was actually attacked, and civilians were raped, kidnapped, and murdered. Did any of the protestors in Iran kill, rape, or murder any of members of the regime who subsequently slaughtered them?

So you're not saying that what Israel is doing is less bad due to the fact that it was attacked? So what are you saying then?

I guess that no, I can't find a more charitable way to interpret what you said.
by secretballot | 2026-02-04 18:41:56+00:00
A very high proportion of seats in any given election are, for "natural" or gerrymandering reasons, regarded as "safe seats" for their incumbent or (if the incumbent isn't running) party. These can all be ignored, unless you're just wanting to mess with a few polling places in safe Democratic districts to further a narrative of election chaos. For actually directly changing outcomes, they're irrelevant.

A seat that is likely to flip is probably going to be a relatively close race.

There are a bunch of public and private sources you can use, and databases both parties have already compiled, to find out which polling places are likely to be overwhelmingly visited by one party's voters over the other.

A majority of one in the House, and a tie in the Senate, is all the White House needs to mostly prevent Congress from messing with them much (though larger margins are better).

Combine all these facts and they have more than enough ICE agents to have a huge effect on the outcomes. They only need to show up in a handful of specific places to completely change the course of the next couple years.
by kmeisthax | 2026-02-04 18:42:15+00:00
From moot's perspective, it can be as simple as being convinced by some rich guy you've never heard of to bring back the politics board. He doesn't need to have an intent to start a fascist coup, that's Epstein's job. GamerGate is just the point at which moot realized he'd fucked up and destroyed 4chan imageboard culture by letting /pol/ fester.
by thinkcontext | 2026-02-04 18:42:32+00:00
The problem you are encountering is how you are discussing superconductors. If you want to convince people that they are relevant you should explain how they would be used. You haven't done that at all, you just keep repeating "superconductors".

And it would be helpful if you showed some uses of superconductors in space similar to what you propose and not some vague proposal for research that would take decades to realize. I'm not familiar with any use of them relevant to this application and I take the other people responding to you are not either.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-04 18:42:51+00:00
This does not resolve the issue of how to ensure that the "module" system is itself sound and has no unforeseen escape hatches. You have to assume that it is, or else include a complete programming language implementation as part of your TCB. If your system generates proof objects (possibly allowing for some kind of reflection, with the proof objects merely specifying some kind of computation) you can skip this and simply prove that the kernel itself is correct.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-04 18:42:54+00:00
Personally I think Microsoft's stock is crashing less about any of this (though it is a hell of a theory IMO) and more to do with the fact that:

* They are investing in AI, both financially and by corporate communication, over and above everything else and pissing off damn near everyone in the process

* The XBox brand is tanking

* Windows is an utter disaster, according to Microsoft themselves, and Valve is so dispirited with it as the future for gaming that they've invested millions into a linux-based framework to run Windows games
by caminante | 2026-02-04 18:42:56+00:00
Thanks for the articles. I'm not disputing that Macron got lobbied for favors.

That said, the articles don't really address the discussion topic whether they committed illegal obstruction DURING raids.

To summarize, I'm separating

(1) Uber's creative operating activities (e.g., UberPop in France)

(2) from anti-raid tactics.

It looks like #1 had some fines (non-material) and arrests of Uber France executives.

However, I don't see a clear case that Uber anti-raid obstruction established. Uber had other raids in Quebec, India, the Netherlands,... with kill switches allegedly deployed 12+ times. I don't think there were ever consequences other than a compliance fine of 750 EUROS to their legal counsel in the Netherlands for "non-compliance with an official order". I doubt that's related to actions the day of the raid, but could be wrong.
by zahlman | 2026-02-04 18:43:04+00:00
> I like the Raspberry Pi RP2040 a lot. It's relatively cheap (around $1 USD) and has tons of on-board RAM - 264 KB in fact! It also has what is called Programmable IO, or PIO.

I wonder how benchmarks would compare between the RP2040 and, say, a Z80.