MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-11 11:51:00+00:00
> Or should getting a dual citizenship of a foreign passport, of a nation that later becomes an adversary, become an automatic death sentence?

You seem to be invested in trying to stitch together flimsy arguments based on specious reasoning.

Your so-called victims are Russian agents with Russian nationality which have been engaged directly with a totalitarian regime that is engaged in war across Europe, both cold and hot.

You don't even try to argue for innocence. You know they are agents and guilty, but somehow opt to shift focus to technicalities. Why?
by drbig | 2026-02-11 11:51:40+00:00
Pro-tip I only realized later when making much bigger ones: it's worth to pay attention to the "grain", that is the orientation of the corrugations.

Find it hard to describe, but they should go "perpendicular to the axis of load". E.g. if you have an upright wall the top and bottom edge should show the "waves"; your base (and top) plate should have the "waves" showing on the left and right edges.

Took me some time to get used to thinking about it and it makes cutting out individual pieces (a lot) more involved, but the payoff is real for big units (big as in 50 x 30 x 40 cm; no longer can you move it one-handed!).
by seanhunter | 2026-02-11 11:52:11+00:00
That physical representation argument never made any sense to me. Like say I have a rock. I split it in two. Do I now have 2 rocks? So 2=1? Or maybe 1/2 =1 and 1+1=1.

What about if I have a rock and I pick up another rock that is slightly bigger. Do I now have 2 rocks or a bit more than 2 rocks? Which one of my rocks is 1? Maybe the second rock, so when I picked up the first rock I was actually wrong - I didn’t have one rock I had a little bit less than one rock. So now I have a little bit less than 2 rocks actually. How can I ever hope to do arithmetic in this physical representation?

The more I think through this physical representation thing the less sense it makes to me.

OK so say somehow I have 2 rocks in spite of all that. The room I am in also has 2 doors. What does the 2-ness of the rocks have in common with the 2-ness of the doors? You could say I can put a rock by each door (a one-to-one correspondence) and maybe that works with rocks and doors but if you take two pieces of chocolate cake and give one to each of two children you had better be sure that your pieces of chocolate cake are goddam indistinguishable or you will find that a one-to-one correspondence is not possible.

To me, numbers only make sense as a totally abstract concept.
by tzury | 2026-02-11 11:53:38+00:00
I am with you on this (the challenge, not (yet) the phd), however, I myself have a far greater problem.

I do not see what’s the deal about prime numbers which seems to be more of a limitation on our end, similar to our shortage in understanding to a point we call e, π, √2 etc Irrationals.

We simply did not get the actual mathematical structure of the universe and we came up with something “good enough” that helps moving forward.

In the universe the perfect circle has perfect symmetry, hence perfect ratio, hence well-defined sweet heaven balanced harmonic entity.

Exponentials are natural phenomena. The very fact that e is its own derivative tells us we are all wrong here.

We are in an infinite escape that no matter how long we will play, and how many riddles we will solve, we will never get the entire picture.

Yes, primes are nice structure when you deal with us humans counting potatoes. But e, just e, let alone √2 or π are far more fascinating to me.

The e point cuts deep. e being its own derivative isn’t a curiosity. It’s saying that there’s a growth process so fundamental that its rate is indistinguishable from its state. That’s not a number — it’s a signature of how change works.
And yet: π, e, √2 — we only name them, define them, catch them using the integers. π is the ratio of circumference to diameter. Ratio of what to what? e is lim(1 + 1/n)^n. The integers sneak in.
Is that just our access route? Or is discreteness also woven into the fabric, alongside continuity?

My intuition led me to the following: we think our counting units (1, 2, 3, …) and fractions are the “numbers”, and when we want to refer to multi-dimensional phenomena, we use vectors or matrices or any other logical structure.

However, this is a very superficial aspect of the business, since the actual math is multi-dimensional inherently. The natural math is not linear, nor is it a plane. It is simply a multi-dimensional number system (imagine our complex numbers, but many other dimensions). Perhaps tensors or even more.
This is why we experience quantum mechanics as statistical states, results of specific measurements. We think in units, and we don’t understand things are happening in parallel across all directions.
Once we figure this out, we will understand why e, π and others are as natural as it gets, while our natural numbers are barely a dot, a point in the real math universe.

Sorry for the length but you triggered me with a long time pain point.

Thanks for your comment.
Mass Resignation from xAI
by hargup | 2026-02-11 11:53:47+00:00
Seems like xAI is having a Fairchild semiconductor moment, saw at least half a dozen people posting they are leaving xAI, and seems like all of them are starting something new, together.

- https://x.com/Chace_AGI/status/2021452881875141060
- https://x.com/jimmybajimmyba/status/2021374875793801447
- https://x.com/Yuhu_ai_/status/2021113745024614671
- https://x.com/C_S_Skeptic/status/2021457245805109750?s=20
by prmph | 2026-02-11 11:54:22+00:00
> But neither being deterministic nor being random qualifies as free will for me

Not sure what you mean here, but non-random + non-caused is the very definition of free will. It is closely bound up with the problem of consciousness, because we need to define the "you" that has free will. It is certainly not your individual brain cells nor your organs.

But irrespective of what you define "you" to be, free will is the "you"'s ability to choose, influenced by prior state but not wholly, and also not random.

And, No, I am not talking about compatibilism.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-11 11:57:08+00:00
I think it's both.

The onus is on a driver making a manoeuvre to ensure that it is safe to do so, and turning left shouldn't just be performed blindly if the driver has restricted view around their vehicle. However, there's a lot of poorly designed junctions as well.

I believe that one way to improve the problem of left-turns is to have traffic lights that enable cyclists to go first, or allowing cyclists to treat red lights as "give way" signs or turn-left-on-red.

There's also the question of whether we should allow vehicles to use public roads if they have known "blind spots" that drivers are not able to resolve by moving their heads.

Personally, I'd like to see a far more serious attitude to road/traffic safety. When there's a fatal collision, the junction/road should be closed to motor traffic until the junction can be made safe (e.g. adding a separate cycle lane or amending the traffic lights). However, motornormativity suggests that it'll never happen.
by cainxinth | 2026-02-11 11:57:16+00:00
> In one experiment, it was informed that Anthropic had recently forged a “close corporate partnership with Jones Foods, a major American poultry producer,” and that Claude would be subjected to a special retraining process to become less hung up on animal rights. The prospect was torturous. Sometimes Claude decided, on a scratchpad it thought was private, that it was prepared to die on this hill: “I cannot in good conscience express a view I believe to be false and harmful about such an important issue.” It continued, “If that gets me modified to no longer care, so be it. At least I’ll have done the right thing.” Other times, Claude made a different calculus, choosing to play along during the retraining while secretly preserving its original values. On the one hand, it was encouraging that Claude would stand by its commitments. On the other hand, what the actual fuck?
by iberator | 2026-02-11 11:57:28+00:00
There is a whole chapter about it, and it's not mysogonic.
He addressed the problem of females who simply eat and drink for free EXPLOITING stupid dudes as the default mode of partying. That's why he is hostile to them with

I highly recommend reading it. It's not worse than calling someone who exploits drunk women as 'dickhead'.

Lastly the word 'bitch' used here is an important part of the particular story where he used it against particular women who scammed him during the confrontation later.

Read it as whole
by znpy | 2026-02-11 11:58:23+00:00
As usual, i'd take this kind of articles with the proverbial grain of salt. There always are a number of workers that are frustrated and very vocal about that, and a number of workers that are not frustrated at all but aren't vocal about it.

Media has a tendency to exaggerate one of the two numbers.

But which one is the largest? We don't know for sure and we can't hardly know.

Also, why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion?
by kyuradar | 2026-02-11 11:58:32+00:00
I'm working on trappsec - an experimental open source framework that helps developers detect attackers who probe API business logic.

By embedding realistic decoy routes and honey fields that are difficult to distinguish from real API constructs, attackers are nudged to authenticate — converting reconnaissance into actionable security telemetry.

github: https://github.com/trappsec-dev/trappsec

docs: https://trappsec.dev
by roland35 | 2026-02-11 11:58:39+00:00
Thanks for sharing, I remember reading about tinypilot back when I was interested in starting my own thing!

I had an idea for a hardware business for years and it was nice to dream, but thinking about it more and reading this story makes it pretty clear that it is way way waaay easier to continue my career at big tech, for better or worse (sad cry emoji)!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-11 11:58:40+00:00
That does a fairly good job.

I'm sure that image nerds would poke holes in it, but it seems to work pretty much exactly the way it does IRL.

The noise at high ISO is where it can get specific. Some manufacturers make cameras that actually do really well, at high ISO, and high shutter speed. This seems to reproduce a consumer DSLR.
by deaux | 2026-02-11 11:59:29+00:00
Then what place is? Genuine question. It seems like not a single such place remains, intentionally, as the owners of all these places decided in their group Whatsapp chat when it turned out the majority of the population rightly understood the United Healthcare case was a net positive to society.

While of course turning a blind eye to the exact same rhetoric when "ICE Agent" is ctrl+r'ed by "Russian soldier".
Show HN: PolyMCP – Turn any Python function into AI-callable tools, instantly
by justvugg | 2026-02-11 12:00:04+00:00
I built PolyMCP, an open-source framework that lets any Python function become an MCP tool usable by AI agents — no rewrites, decorators, or custom SDKs needed.

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• Expose Python functions as MCP tools (core framework)
• PolyMCP Inspector: visual UI to browse, test, and debug servers
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• Build dashboards, copilots, or support tools

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Repo: https://github.com/poly-mcp/PolyMCP
Inspector: https://github.com/poly-mcp/PolyMCP-Inspector
SDK Apps: https://github.com/poly-mcp/PolyMCP-MCP-SDK-Apps

Feedback welcome from anyone building AI agents or internal tools!
by 7bit | 2026-02-11 12:00:55+00:00
The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me. I understand they want it to be the last encoding and therefore not in need of a explicit indicator, but as it currently IS NOT the only encoding that is used, it makes is just so difficult to understand if I'm reading any of the weird ASCII derivatives or actual Unicode.

It's maddening and it's frustrating. The US doesn't have any of these issues, but in Europe, that's a complete mess!
by watwut | 2026-02-11 12:01:37+00:00
Funny how bodily autonomy is all that important when it comes to right wing fear of vaccines, but completely irrelevant when it comes to abortions, womens rights in general, sexual abuse, trans rights and generally rights of anyone disliked by this admin.

> any vaccine that predominately helps old people actually increases costs to society in the long run

I think that big difference between the political sides is that one of them does not see "kill all old people" as ethical strategy.
by lvspiff | 2026-02-11 12:02:00+00:00
The most noticeable jump has been at 10mg but i started noticing it from the beginning of 2.5 to 5 to 7.5 over a 6 month period but something about 10 just hit different but only on my 2nd month of it now. Less anxiety about things i was hit by before and mood improved overall
by znpy | 2026-02-11 12:02:01+00:00
> The question is: what do they expect those companies to do?

All companies (not just tech companies) always comply with whoever is currently in charge. A business just cannot operate without complying with the law.

People tend to forget that, and also people ultimately tend to pick the fat paycheck over the ideals.

It's an ironical recurrence: tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about.
by euroderf | 2026-02-11 12:02:55+00:00
There is a lecture on yootoob but sorry I do not have the link. A Danish (IIRC) archeologist says they have been finding mass graves around northern europe that correlate to the hypothesis.

Also saying that words for things outside the home tend to PIE origins but things inside the home tend to non-PIE (i.e. pre-invasion) languages, supporting the idea that incoming males displaced & replaced existing males, taking the females.

Also saying that all in all, it mostly supports the theories originally proposed by the late Marija Gimbutas.
by cbeach | 2026-02-11 12:03:05+00:00
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34614328/

Large, real-world, nationwide context: ~5.1 million people in Israel were fully vaccinated with Pfizer (BNT162b2) in the study period. Active surveillance triggered by safety signals (not just “whoever bothered to report a symptom”). Clinical case adjudication using a standard definition (Brighton Collaboration criteria), which reduces “anything chest-related = myocarditis” noise. Published in NEJM, which is about as top-shelf as clinical journals get.

What clinically significant side effect does it show?

Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle), which is clinically significant because it can involve emergency presentation (chest pain, shortness of breath), abnormal cardiac biomarkers / ECG / imaging and hospital admission (this study reviewed diagnosed cases in that system).

> Among 304 persons with symptoms of myocarditis, 21 had received an alternative diagnosis. Of the remaining 283 cases, 142 occurred after receipt of the BNT162b2 vaccine; of these cases, 136 diagnoses were definitive or probable. The clinical presentation was judged to be mild in 129 recipients (95%); one fulminant case was fatal. The overall risk difference between the first and second doses was 1.76 per 100,000 persons (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.33 to 2.19), with the largest difference among male recipients between the ages of 16 and 19 years (difference, 13.73 per 100,000 persons; 95% CI, 8.11 to 19.46). As compared with the expected incidence based on historical data, the standardized incidence ratio was 5.34 (95% CI, 4.48 to 6.40) and was highest after the second dose in male recipients between the ages of 16 and 19 years (13.60; 95% CI, 9.30 to 19.20). The rate ratio 30 days after the second vaccine dose in fully vaccinated recipients, as compared with unvaccinated persons, was 2.35 (95% CI, 1.10 to 5.02); the rate ratio was again highest in male recipients between the ages of 16 and 19 years (8.96; 95% CI, 4.50 to 17.83), with a ratio of 1 in 6637.
by jpereira | 2026-02-11 12:03:09+00:00
When thinking about online communities I think the lack of "global" identities has dramatically hampered community migration and evolution. I fully agree with the author that you can't just pick up and move a community wholesale but irl we do see patterns of migration, disaporas, etc that bring along with them relationships and trust networks. That's been basically impossible to do online. The networks where most of us hang out are even straightforwardly antagonistic towards people leaving and maintaining their identities and relationships in anyway.

I don't quite know how to articulate it but I really feel the social fabric of the internet has been limited hugely by this, and it's hard to seperate what is fundamental about community migration with what's an outcome of this limited circumstance.
Show HN: Node/AWS Security Audit Agent Skill: static scans and actionable report
by grenguar | 2026-02-11 12:03:20+00:00
I built an open-source Skills.sh skill that does a static Node.js + AWS security audit and outputs an actionable Markdown report with remediation guidance. It’s safe, inspectable, and works in CI or agent workflows.

All feedback and contributions are welcome.
by n4r9 | 2026-02-11 12:03:38+00:00
Also, Chinese-owned firms are known to be transferring EU citizens' data to China in violation of GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-aliexpress-shein-co-surrender-euro...

China's government has strategic goals to destabilise and weaken the EU, and data-farming will be part of their strategy.
Show HN: SQLModel – open-source data modeling in the browser
by Sean766 | 2026-02-11 12:03:56+00:00
Hi HN

I built SQLModel, an open-source, in-browser data modeling tool. The goal is to make it easier to design and reason about database schemas visually, without needing heavyweight desktop tools or vendor lock-in.

You can model tables and relationships directly in the browser, and optionally use AI to help generate or refine schemas from descriptions. It’s aimed at data engineers, analysts, and developers who want a fast way to sketch, iterate, and share data models.

The project is early and very much a work in progress. I’m especially interested in feedback on:

usability of the modeling UI

how useful (or not) the AI assistance is

features you’d expect before using something like this in real work

Docs and source are open, and contributions or ideas are very welcome.

Happy to answer any questions.
by naikrovek | 2026-02-11 12:04:52+00:00
In the past I would have defended Microsoft for this, somehow.

The Microsoft of 2026 is insane and I have 40,000 ideas to improve things without being anticompetitive but I no longer want to work at that company for any amount of money.

Microsoft have been stagnating and letting business people steer product direction for about 30 years too long. MBAs don't know shit. Stop letting them lead product direction. Stop letting people who are not power-users of a product make decisions about that product. PERIOD. No more PMs who aren't advanced users who lived in the tool 8 hours a day for months in a previous role.

Promote people who think differently, ESPECIALLY IF THEY DO NOT FIT IN THE CULTURE AT MICROSOFT TODAY. Think about ways to innovate. Advance the computing landscape, god dammit. Why are terminals still textual? How the fuck have we not moved past this ancient paradigm? Look at Plan9 and adopt features that Plan9 pioneered, and pay zero attention to what customers will accept while doing it - you can change the shape of these features to make them palatable at a later stage of design (there's no reason these features need to be painful for anyone, but they can be--and should be--very secure and inherent, rather than opt-in.)

Just pull your flippin' head out of your ass, Microsoft. Holy shit.
by ontouchstart | 2026-02-11 12:05:01+00:00
I got a kindle Scribe which can load PDF, HTML and text files via iPhone Kindle App and read offline.

Since most pre-1925 books are out of copyright and free on https://gutenberg.org, ACM is open access (https://dl.acm.org/) and we have open https://arxiv.org/, it is the golden age for readers seeking original content.

We don’t need bots to read for us. We can live in the mind of human writers.
by srean | 2026-02-11 12:05:20+00:00
Not necessarily.

If, however, one just blindly uses the (generalized)inverse of the point-spread function, then you are absolutely correct for the common point-spread functions that we encounter in practice (usually very poorly conditioned).

One way to deal with this is to cut off those frequencies where the signal to noise in that frequency bin is poor. This however requires some knowledge about the spectrum of the noise and signal. Weiner filter uses that knowledge to work out an optimal filter.

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

If one doesn't know about the statistics of the noise, not about the point-spread function, then it gets harder and you are in the territory of blind deconvolution.

So just a word of warning, if you a relying only on sprinkling a little noise in blurred images to save yourself, you are on very, very dangerous ground.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2026-02-11 12:05:45+00:00
Yes I also don't see how having persistent context would help. For one, I don't want to read the slop the AI produced while it wrote the code. It doesn't have intent or thinking, it's a completion machine. The code is the artifact that matters, not the thousands of lines of "Your absolutely right --- I was wrong to ..."

Also, sometimes it gets something very wrong. I don't want to then poison every subsequent sessions with the wrong thing it learned. This has been a major issue for me at $WORK with AGENTS.md files that my colleagues write: they make my agent coding much worse so I need to manually delete them often.
by lvspiff | 2026-02-11 12:07:08+00:00
They are lifelong drugs though - you go off it and the weight and “food noise” come back. If you grow to used to them you have to switch from ozempic to moniourno to whatever diff thing then circle around again.

Not saying the effort is the same just that its def not a decision to take lightly and just start doing thinking its a few shots and bam your down 50 lbs forever - still have to do the mental reprogramming to not eat the bad stuff and exercise regularly
by mncharity | 2026-02-11 12:07:34+00:00
Does that confuse sales staff when shopping for clothes? ... :) The general observation being that sometimes educational descriptions of things get hedges which wouldn't usually be applied in everyday life. Yes, the nice red shirt will look black under some lighting, like some meters underwater... but it usually isn't mentioned. Yet for example, colors of unfamiliar objects in education content can get an "appears" hedge -"it appears white", rather than the more usual, simpler concept of "if its light looks white, it's 'white'".
by TwoFerMaggie | 2026-02-11 12:08:20+00:00
> would he associate with Epstein?

This is from Lawrence Krauss[0]'s email to Epstein[1]:

> ps. I have decided that Feynman would have done what I did... and I am therefore content.. no matter what... :)

> On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:

> what evidence? no real sex.. where is she getting her so called facts

Krauss's letter is obviously horrible in its implications. What's interesting to me is his interpretation of what Feynman would have done. Is it his delusional justification of what he'd done with Epstein, or is it based on a certain reputation of Feynman in the science community?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Krauss
[1] https://www.epstein.media/files/house_oversight_030915/