MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0x1ch | 2026-02-18 20:46:59+00:00
Just hit my mid twenties. Want to say I started having some shoulder issues around 20 years old. Although correlation =! causation, I largely think this is because of my lifelong computer usage and PC gaming. It doesn't bother me all the time, but every few months something will change up and it comes back. Surprisingly, my wrists and hands are completely fine, no carpal tunnel or anything similar.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-02-18 20:47:02+00:00
Maybe we're seeing the same events under different motivational lenses.

I find it very difficult to believe that there is not an ethinic component to the events we are witnessing. Groups are not homogenous in their beliefs or desires. It's kind of telling when we start treating groups like South Texas or South Florida Latinos as if they have some homogenous view.
by frikit | 2026-02-18 20:47:26+00:00
The best way to solve this is not to, and just giving up on the idea of identification.

If you have an infinite multiverse of infinite universes, and perhaps layers on that, with different physics, etc., you can’t have identity outside of all existence.

In Judaism, one/the name of God is translated as “I am”. I believe this is because God’s existence is all,
transcending whatever concepts you have of existence or of IDs. That ID is the only ID.

So, the cosmic solution to IDs is the name of God.
by leflambeur | 2026-02-18 20:47:27+00:00
I think the comparison with the Netherlands is generally appropriate, but we must recognize that what they did in Brazil was exceptional (meaning not comparable to their former possessions in Asia and Africa, a difference from the mere trading nodes) and the NL never did achieve anything like it.

The Portuguese managed to maintain territorial integrity and make their religion and language dominate it entirely, in what's today the 5th largest nation state by area. They also had to defend the longest coastline.

The Portuguese Empire did exist but AFAIK never did aspire to world hegemony like the U.K. Their idea of empire was best represented by something they briefly had which was the combined union with Brazil after its promotion from colony in 1815.

So, not an empire like the U.K. and never wanting to be an empire like the U.K. but also not a total failure to achieve some version of it, however short lived that was.
by apsurd | 2026-02-18 20:47:37+00:00
Yes, your message is coming from the pov of economics and business, as makes sense in this thread! That's my mistake, I took your message more sentimentally. I've used tailoring probably 5 times in my life, with the only recurring need being to hem pants.

"There is no money in tailoring" seems right. It's the "not all things need to make maximum $$$" that I speak to. You didn't pick this fight though, I did heh.

My (successful) friend tells me all about how amazing it is to collect very expensive watches. I just need to be a "watch guy" and I'll come to understand. Once my eyes returned from rolling out of my head, I did concede a great point he made: there is no reason for watch makers to exist anymore. The fantastically amazing history and evolution of time-keeping and personal time-pieces is now purely supported by rich people that care to subsidize the art form. And so, maybe I really do aspire to be a watch guy after all... hmm.
by qwertox | 2026-02-18 20:47:54+00:00
This will make things so much easier.

Here, certbot runs in Docker in the intranet, and on a VPS I have a custom-built nameserver to which all the _acme-challenge are redirected to via NS records.

The system in the intranet starts certbot, makes it pass it the token-domain-pair from letsencrypt, it then sends those pairs to the nameserver which then attaches the token to a TXT record for that domain, so that the DNS reply can send this to letsencrypt when they request it.

All that will be gone and I thank you for that! You add as much value to the internet as Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap.
by cudgy | 2026-02-18 20:48:34+00:00
> You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.

How many human managers actually do that, though? How many websites performed satisfactorily before AI arrived? How well has technology matched what consumers really need or want? Maybe, as a society we have underperformed and nescient AI performs well enough (or even better) in comparison.
by itintheory | 2026-02-18 20:48:35+00:00
I'm really excited for this. We moved 120+ hand renewed certs to ACME, but still manually validate the domains annually. Many of them are on private/internal load balancers (no HTTP-01 challenge possible), and our DNS host doesn't support automation (no DNS-01 challenges either). While manually renewing the DCV for ~30 domains once a year isn't too bad, when the lifetime of that validity shrinks, ultimately to 9 days, it'd become a full time job. I just hope Sectigo implements this as quickly as LE.
by piloto_ciego | 2026-02-18 20:48:46+00:00
Yeah, this was always the play looking back in hindsight. Like, I didn't get it, "why would you pay that kind of money for a web forum?!" It wasn't the forum that was important, Twitter (for better or worse) has wormed it's way into the fabric of American discourse. He was basically buying the ideological thermostat for the country and turning the dial to the right.
by josephg | 2026-02-18 20:48:56+00:00
I’m not claiming I know the exact timing. I’m just seeing a trend line. Gpt3 to 3.5 to 4 to 5. Codex and now Claude. The models are getting better at programming much faster than I am. Their skill at programming doesn’t seem to be levelling out yet - at least not as far as I can see.

If this trend continues, the models will be better than me in less than a decade. Unless progress stops, but I don’t see any reason to think that would happen.
by tcgv | 2026-02-18 20:49:01+00:00
That’s fair at the “adopt AI at scale / restructure orgs” level. Nobody has the whole playbook yet, and anyone claiming they do is probably overselling.

But I’d separate that from the programmer-level reality: a lot is already figured out in the small. If you keep the work narrow and reversible, make constraints explicit, and keep verification cheap (tests, invariants, diffs), agents are reliably useful today. The uncertainty is less “does this work?” and more “how do we industrialize it without compounding risk and entropy?”

I wrote up that “calm adoption without FOMO, via delegation + constraints + verification” framing here, in case it helps the thread: https://thomasvilhena.com/2026/02/craftsmanship-coding-five-...
by InexSquirrel | 2026-02-18 20:49:08+00:00
I think that delivery services give you bigger market, but not intrinsic scale. You're still limited by kitchen size, staff numbers, and raw hours you can put into the food.

You can scale the system (say Subway, or even smaller chains like Burger Fuel), but also reasonably choose _not_ to scale and still do incredibly well (like Michelin star restaurants, or the myriad of hyper-famous-locally Japanese eateries, or Fergburger in Queenstown).

Someone scaling their own restaurant on the other side of the world won't necessarily out compete out (and in the overwhelming majority of cases with have no impact at all). Despite fast food joints all over the place, I still see small cafes, individual eateries, etc performing well (I mean, as well as hospitality can be).

Maybe it's worth expanding the definition of > make sure it is NOT scalable < to include 'make sure it's not automatable'?
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-18 20:49:21+00:00
> Information was fed back into a central hub, the India House in Lisbon, where everything was stored under the crown's direct control to inform the next cycle of voyages. This system of feedback and adaptation was highly effective. It was accompanied by a rapid expansion in cartographic knowledge.

This almost feels like state-sponsored R&D, 500 years ago.
by almostdeadguy | 2026-02-18 20:49:53+00:00
I don't care about the "positive" uses. Whatever convenience they grant is more than tarnished by skill and thought degeneration, lack of control and agency, etc. We've spent two decades learning about all the negative cognitive effects of social media, LLMs are speed running further brain damage. I know two people who've been treated for AI psychosis. Enough.
by SecretDreams | 2026-02-18 20:50:03+00:00
Is this the result of a feedback loop from musk joining or did they just accelerate the overall decline of the platform with him joining? Some might say it was going this way even before he picked it up, but it was certainly an inflection point when he joined either way.

All modern social media is pretty toxic to society, so I don't participate. Even HN/Reddit is borderline. Nothing is quite as good as the irc and forum culture of the 2000s where everyone was truly anonymous and almost nobody tied any of their worth to what exchanges they had online.
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-02-18 20:50:10+00:00
partially related..

the Minotaur is one of the main "characters" in Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov.

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Sorrow-Georgi-Gospodinov/dp/1...

https://losangelesreview.org/book-review-the-physics-of-sorr...
by fluoridation | 2026-02-18 20:50:23+00:00
I honestly don't understand how or why people are using Twitter to keep up with the news. The only thing I use it for is to follow artists, and even that has been going down in recent weeks with most of my favorites moving over to BlueSky. Maybe I'm just a long-winded idiot, but the character limits barely let me have a conversation on either platform. How are people consuming news like this?

It just baffles me how different my experience of using the platform is. I literally do not see any news. I'm not entirely convinced that it's Twitter being biased and not just giving each person what they most engage with.
Ask HN: Options for single-button media remote control for smartphones?
by huhtenberg | 2026-02-18 20:50:51+00:00
I'm going through a Language Transfer course [1] and it requires pausing lesson after Mihalis asks a question and before his minion gets a chance to answer it.

I'd like to go through the course while running, so looking for a simple one-button remote control for the phone that can pause/resume the playback.

There are some shutter controls of this sort for taking selfies, but they don't seem to be re-programmable for media control.

Are there any ready-made options for this?

[1] https://www.languagetransfer.org
by iamnothere | 2026-02-18 20:51:17+00:00
Fortunately your opinion doesn’t trump the Constitution or settled law. Anonymous (or at least pseudonymous) speech has been a feature of American discourse since before the Revolution.

Without anonymity, you lose whistleblowers, effective criticism of the powerful from the weak, and “public interest” leaks like the Snowden revelations. You lose outlets where the abused can ask for help and advice in escaping bad situations. You lose any/all criticism of employers current and past; who wants to hire a complainer? You silence people who are afraid to give their opinion because of their employer or parent.

So no thanks.
by Edman274 | 2026-02-18 20:51:25+00:00
Well, I actually had two interrelated thoughts and because of proximity I think I confused things. I guess what I was thinking was "garments are constructed not of "panels" but of threads of a given material which can be abstractly thought of as being panels when woven or knitted, but ..." and from there I thought of failure modes, like the fact that this doesn't have a way of specifying straight vs zigzag stitches, which doesn't have a way of specifying things that are not joined together via stitching panels together, etc. Like, I don't think this can specify a pair of jeans, because the hem of a jean requires a chain stitch at the bottom, which isn't unambiguously defined. This project feels like it devalues the complexity of something that is one of the defining features of civilization.
by spicyjpeg | 2026-02-18 20:51:35+00:00
Solutions based on zero-knowledge-proofs would solve the privacy aspect at the massive cost of killing general purpose computing as we know it today, by mandating the use of remote device attestation (as that is the only way to guarantee an otherwise fully anonymous token is not being sniffed and passed onto someone else). That would be in my opinion significantly more dystopian than every service having a copy of my ID, as it would lay the groundwork for corporations and governments to be able to dictate what you can and cannot do exactly with any internet-connected device.

It's not hard for instance to imagine that once every computing device available to the general public is locked down and cannot be jailbroken without also losing the ability to log into any online service, a law would be introduced requiring client-side scanning of all files to check for CSAM, evidence of political dissent or even just plain old movie piracy. The technology to implement this exists (see what Apple tried to do a few years ago) and the exact same legislation is currently being pushed in the 3D printing space, so these fears are not unfounded.
by Bjartr | 2026-02-18 20:51:35+00:00
How did you determine the author is a PoC? Even now that you mention it I can't find anything in the repo that tells me anything about the author's demographic. That X profile does appear to be the author's, but I'm not sure how you made that connection since there isn't a link to it in the github repo, or the author's git profile page.

Are you suggesting that most people commenting on this, on a site where people often don't even read the linked content are doing more than skimming the github page and saying the first few things that come to mind by taking time to track down the author's posts on other sites to determine their demographic?
by moritzwarhier | 2026-02-18 20:51:53+00:00
Yeah the "message" part is still the only difference to running a cronjob with a prompt to some local or remote model with file access then, or am I missing something?

Most certainly I am, regarding the orchestration of tools that provide Web APIs?

Dunno. It's really true that a lot of real-world office tasks could be imagined done as a sequence of mostly bot interactions on the web, with some human intervention interspersed.

But apart from imagination, when I hear from people working in office jobs, I'm not sure if we aren't overestimating the amount of work that we can already automate.
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-18 20:52:01+00:00
Related - this insane project to build the "most 3D printed" 3D printer [0]. The author has 3D printed mechanical components, motor windings, and a complicated electomechanical "motor controller".

The whole thing is intended to work from 3D printed punch cards.

I'm not sure how much of this project actually works, but it is interesting.

0 - https://clickprintchem.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/self-replica...

I'd probably also pick some kind of "punched" card; a print of some kind with holes in one place and not in another. The presence of a hole could be checked with a bed probe if everything was lined up correctly. I doubt the plastic would be intact for centuries like you want, but it would certainly outlast the printer you use to read it. A paper card would probably last longer though.

For high density, your best option is probably microfilm.
by ASUfool | 2026-02-18 20:52:21+00:00
Since I'm in AZ, I had to look about the sponsor. Here's what Michael Way has on his campaign website :

"Michael is NOT a politician. He has spent his career in business, not government. We need bold, conservative outsiders to shake up business-as-usual."

https://michaelwayforaz.com/about/

The bill sure sounds contradictory to his campaign statement.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-18 20:52:48+00:00
I've changed my mind about the short lived cert stuff after seeing what is enabled by IP address certificates with the HTTP-01 verification method. I don't even bother writing the cert to disk anymore. There is a background thread that checks to see if the current instance of the cert is null or older than 24h. The cert selector on aspnetcore just looks at this reference and blocks until its not null.

Being able to distribute self-hostable software to users that can be deployed onto a VM and made operational literally within 5 minutes is a big selling point. Domain registration & DNS are a massive pain to deal with at the novice end of the spectrum. You can combine this with things like https://checkip.amazonaws.com to build properly turnkey solutions.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-18 20:53:16+00:00
>I honestly don't understand how or why people are using Twitter to keep up with the news.

Because the MSM news stations themselves pick up the stuff from twitter and just add their own spin flavor. A dozen phone videos from random citizens on-site is always quicker than the time CNN/FOX can send a reporter there. On twitter you at least get the raw footage and can judge for yourself before MSM try to turn it political to rage bait you.
by cherioo | 2026-02-18 20:53:17+00:00
It’s like money laundering, but now responsibility laundering.

Anthropic released Claude saying “hey be careful. But now that enables the masses to build OpenClaw and go “hold my bear”. Now the masses people using OpenClaw had no idea what responsibility they should hold.

I think eventually we will have laws like “you are responsible for your AI’s work”. Much like how driver is (often) responsible for car crashes, not the car companies.
by LambdaComplex | 2026-02-18 20:53:17+00:00
Personally, I'm diametrically opposed to the idea of letting Google dictate how web browsers must function, which is what happens if everyone uses Chrome (or a fork) and web developers start targeting features that are only supported by Chrome (and its forks).

The question is not "Is Opera a valid choice instead of Chrome?"

The question is actually "Is Chrome, or anything that's based on it, a valid choice?" and the answer is "no."
by mindslight | 2026-02-18 20:53:26+00:00
> There's no point in free speech if the only free speech is from bots and propagandists. Social media platforms aren't free speech platforms either, you're subject to their terms and conditions.

You're absolving the social media companies of why they continue choosing to amplify bots and extremist content.

That is the core perverse incentive here that actually needs to be addressed, and by sidestepping that you're going off into the weeds with a mistaken idea that you can approach the problem by purifying what goes into such websites.
by SetTheorist | 2026-02-18 20:53:38+00:00
I think it's unfortunate that this anonymous and careless person refuses to acknowledge the harm done, their culpability in this, or real lesson.

For example,
"Sure, many will argue I was irresponsible; to be honest I don’t really know myself. Should be criticized for what I unleashed on parts of the open source community? Again maybe but not sure. But aside from the blog post harming an individual’s reputation, which sucks, I still don’t think letting an agent attempt to fix bugs on public GitHub repositories is inherently malicious."
by crazygringo | 2026-02-18 20:54:07+00:00
On the one hand, that's the point of the article. That it ceases to be a useful diagnostic indicator.

On the other hand, if there are 100 places in the shoulder where you can have an abnormality, and most people have just one or a couple but the other 98-99 are normal, then each one individually really is abnormal.

So it's complicated, and then it becomes important to figure out which abnormalities are medically relevant, in which combinations, etc.
by batrat | 2026-02-18 20:54:07+00:00
It happened to others but there are also some very good examples like Veeam community edition which, IMO, is the best backup software. They had lots of discussions and even pressure from management to terminated, but the numbers made a lot of sense and they kept it. Tailscale is in disadvantage here because they are in a very crowded market and it will be very easy to slip into one corner and let way for others like netbird, netmaker, nebula(?), wireguard (like u said), etc.
by JoshTheNerd | 2026-02-18 20:54:40+00:00
Thanks! Yes, more natural voices are actually already on the roadmap. I'm working on it right now, and they'll be rolling out in the coming days as part of the Pro plan.

An AI news site sounds like a great fit for this. Would love to hear how it performs on your content once you've had a chance to test it, especially curious how the voice handles technical terms and proper nouns. Feel free to reach out directly on Twitter/X if anything feels off or if you have questions: https://x.com/JoshTheNerd_
by zihotki | 2026-02-18 20:55:49+00:00
Limited range of motion on one side could cause some deviations in scapulohumeral rhythm, so your force application won't be optimal and may cause injuries, or even cause uneveness and side effects in gait cycle. And with time it tends to get worse since the body would be trying to adopt to execute the function. But suboptimal force application eventually would cause joint injuries if a convex (humerus) is rolling without gliding or vice versa or doing it in suboptimal rhythm.

That's my personal take, not a doctor, study kinesiology as a hobby.

All such minor mobility issues could be addressed by body conditioning excercises including simple isolated mobility drills to learn range of motion of joints.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-18 20:56:05+00:00
"actually read the case" includes reading the judgement ("the conclusion"), which overrules your personal judgement (and mine, whatever it might've been).

> Read the dissenting opinion

Dissenting opinions are often irrelevant, equivalent to a loser shouting into the void because they lost. By definition, dissenting opinions are incorrect, because to be correct, they would need to be shared by the majority.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-18 20:56:55+00:00
See... this is kinda how I know you have a political axe to grind. You are not arguing principles, which makes your outrage.. shall we say less potent. You are arguing your favorite outcome.

Allow me a quick rewrite of your breathless response in a more reasonable language.

<< This was in a literal war zone against a man who literally declared war on the United States.

Was he targeted? Was he targeted willfully? Was he target ted willfully, while administration knew he was an American citizen? When did they know it? Did they stop their plans once they did?

And that is before we get into: do you stop being a citizen when president says so? Seems pretty apt given how we are about to cover Good.

<< Didn't answer my question. This law targeted terrorists, not mothers of two, driving home from dropping their kids off at school.

You are apparently cool with president determining, who the terrorists are. If so, ICE shooting a mother of two ( who was clearly not watching those two kids m ind you ) is just an expansion of powers Obama gave himself. Thanks Obama!

<< Didn't answer my question (x2).

You can barely answer yours. (x2)

<< I can't find any evidence that this was a legitimate leak investigation done in accordance with the law.

I literally laughed. Try harder. Maybe consult an llm? Maybe all those arguments about AI effectively being here already because the floor is so low are not that far fetched.

<< Reminder, we are talking about domestic surveillance and illegal detainment for political purposes.

Sigh, we are talking about what we are talking about. It is cute that you think you can control this conversation though. In a way, it is almost like watching a toddler walking for the first time. Don't get me wrong, it is adorable, but it doesn't change much.
by pheggs | 2026-02-18 20:57:13+00:00
I know it's a sensitive topic for a lot of people, but as I said, I love rust. I don't know a lot of rust projects though that don't use any dependencies. In my humble opinion, disregarding the risks of such supply chain attacks is at least as bad as people disregarding the risk of memory unsafe code. But keep in mind, I'm not saying don't use rust.