MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alex43578 | 2026-02-11 09:45:31+00:00
Sure, and I'm saying that under that same justification, we should extend the same requirements to these other public health crises that President Biden tried to create for COVID vaccination.

Federal worker? BMI needs to be below 30, because otherwise you're costing the system too much. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7990296/

Private sector business with 100 more employees? Nobody is allowed to smoke on premises because of the risk of second hand smoke, just like the OSHA justification for vaccination requirements.

>In what universe is the US not trying to enforce laws around fentanyl?

Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalizing heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl, only backtracking because the policy was so bad. California has Prop 47, knocking possession down to misdemeanors on par with jaywalking. New York has safe injection sites, and I'm going to guess this isn't for safe injection of insulin.

Enforcement of laws around these drugs would mean arresting and prosecuting the flocks of fentanyl users bent over in Philly's Skid Row, SF's tenderloin, or basically all of Portland: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9372555/Philadelphi...
by newswasboring | 2026-02-11 09:45:56+00:00
> But if you didn't make the decision about where to place the function, about which order you want to call them, if you're gonna do error handling deep down as close to the error as possible,

I still make all those decisions. I decide what my error handling structure is, and I have it finally exactly the way I like it in python. I usually discover the "right" way for a piece of software while writing it, then it is a chore to refactor to make it consistent across the code base again. Now I just make a spec (edit: for the refactor which defines this new abstraction and its interfaces), let it run and go grab a coffee. Yes I dont decide anymore exactly which line number the function is in, but that never mattered did it? What matters is how your objects compose and how you handle edge cases. I still do that.

Edit: Regarding the last paragraph, I don't care. You don't want to give me credit? I don't really care. All I care about is this thing I wanted to exist, exists and if you like the thing.
by northerndev | 2026-02-11 09:46:19+00:00
I built Sigilla because bookmarking articles felt like throwing them into a black hole. I wanted a way to actually use what I read, not just hoard links.

Sigilla is a "reading companion" that lets you save articles, highlight key insights, and then use AI search to find them later based on meaning, not just keywords.

The Stack:

Frontend: Vite (Vanilla JS/React?) + Tailwind

Backend: Supabase (PostgreSQL in EU)

Search: AI/Vector embeddings for context-aware search.

Privacy: No tracking pixels. Full export to Markdown/JSON (obsidian-friendly).

It's currently in beta and free. I built it to scratch my own itch for a privacy-first research tool.

Check it out: https://www.sigilla.net/
by BiteCode_dev | 2026-02-11 09:47:55+00:00
Not against us. Against some of the nerds will. The rest cheered. That's why it worked.

Humans hate friction, they don't want to pay for maintenance and have short term thinking.

Even on HN there are plenty of voices saying they won't even bother using firefox because it inconvenience them.

Can we blame then the normies for choosing integrated easy systems to use?
by ajb | 2026-02-11 09:48:31+00:00
I don't think slack or discord are optimised for completers. They are optimised for dopamine stimming. Sure, not every chat has much value. But it all has a cost.

I don't know zulip, so I can't comment on whether it's better. The most effective org I worked for didn't use messaging: email, or in person only.
by l1am0 | 2026-02-11 09:48:59+00:00
I don't get this. Isn't this the same as saying "I taught my 5 year old to calculate integrals, by typing them into Wolfram Alpha"...so the actual relevant cognitive task (integrals in my example, "seeing" in yours) is outsources to an external API.

Why do I need gpt-oss-120B at all in this scenario? Couldn't I just directly call e.g. gemini-3-pro api from the python script?
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-11 09:49:04+00:00
>easy half-day trip out of Edinburgh

Another way to think about it is to stop somewhere outside of Edinburgh. Edinburgh is an easy half-day trip away. Walk 200 yards of the Royal Mile from the castle. It just repeats with the same kind of tourist shops for the rest of it. Now get back in your car and go and see some of Scotland!
by NekkoDroid | 2026-02-11 09:49:33+00:00
I get the following when I use `--list --online`:

The following is a list of valid distributions that can be installed.
Install using 'wsl.exe --install <Distro>'.

NAME FRIENDLY NAME
Ubuntu Ubuntu
Ubuntu-24.04 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
openSUSE-Tumbleweed openSUSE Tumbleweed
openSUSE-Leap-16.0 openSUSE Leap 16.0
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-16.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0
kali-linux Kali Linux Rolling
Debian Debian GNU/Linux
AlmaLinux-8 AlmaLinux OS 8
AlmaLinux-9 AlmaLinux OS 9
AlmaLinux-Kitten-10 AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10
AlmaLinux-10 AlmaLinux OS 10
archlinux Arch Linux # Arch found here
FedoraLinux-43 Fedora Linux 43
FedoraLinux-42 Fedora Linux 42
eLxr eLxr 12.12.0.0 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu-20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu-22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
OracleLinux_7_9 Oracle Linux 7.9
OracleLinux_8_10 Oracle Linux 8.10
OracleLinux_9_5 Oracle Linux 9.5
openSUSE-Leap-15.6 openSUSE Leap 15.6
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6

Ontop of that I also use it as my main distro for WSL2 for a few months (before I used the unofficial one).

The bug tracker for WSL specific issues is also here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-wsl
by zdc1 | 2026-02-11 09:49:51+00:00
I agree with this.

1. Moats and products have already been built, so it's really about startups that are racing to get products/features to market.

2. I've slowly learnt in my own career that you need to really be careful with picking what you build. It doesn't matter if it's waterfall or a quick agile "experiment", it all takes time and focus. So the more you can design/refine/roadshow/validate your ideas before any code is touched, the better off you'll be.
by rorylaitila | 2026-02-11 09:50:05+00:00
Luckily we work for ourselves in our studio, and I have no one to answer to except my business partner and customers, and tech is my domain. But I have concluded "we already build fast enough." Really how much faster do we need to build? Deployments: automated. Tests: automated. Migrations: automated. Frameworks: complete. Stack: stable. Scaling: solved. OKAY so now with AI we can build "MORE!" More of WHAT exactly? What makes our lives better? What makes our customers happier? How about I just directly feed customer support tickets into Claude and let it rip.

I'm increasingly thinking either people were terrible developers, used shit tools to begin with, or are in a mass psychosis. I certainly feel bad for anyone reporting to "the business guy." He never respected you to begin with, and now he literally thinks "why are you so slow? I can build Airbnb in a weekend."

For someone who previously could achieve nothing, these tools are magical, as they can now achieve something. It feels to them like infinity because their base was 0. That alone will create a lot of things they wouldn't have been able to, good for them. However for people who already know what they're doing, I only feel slightly pushed along some asymptote. My bottlenecks simply are not measured in tokens to screen.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-11 09:50:11+00:00
I'm agreeing that the current implementation of our public health system is a worst-of-all-worlds option.

Weigh 500lbs, don't work, and drink a six pack a day? You get free healthcare via Medicaid, making the taxpayer shoulder your burden.

Self-employed, 35, and can run a 7 minute mile, but broke a bone? Expect outrageous healthcare costs, deductibles, etc.

The current approach to public health is the epitome of a moral hazard.
by ETH_start | 2026-02-11 09:50:22+00:00
The source of the addiction is that an amount of effort is highly likely to result in a fulfilling outcome. That makes you want to make more effort. In the past, a lot of work was very futile, very tedious and often felt hopeless and that made people essentially give up. So this is a very good problem to have. I guess people should monitor their own output and try to pace themselves. But also be grateful that we have these capabilities that allow us to solve so many problems and achieve so many of the things that we want in life.
by sublinear | 2026-02-11 09:50:26+00:00
> all your complaining about AI not being useful for real-world tasks is obsolete... let’s not quibble about the exact productivity boost from AI

No, that's exactly the purpose of this ending up on HN.

> if you give an engineer Claude Code, then once they’re fluent, their work stream will produce nine additional engineers’ worth of value. For someone.

Nope.

> you decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison.

Pure junior dev fantasy. Nobody cares about how many hours you "really" work, or what you did as long as you meet their original requirements. They're going to ignore the rest no matter how much you try to talk a big game. This has been true since the beginning of employment.

> In that scenario, your employer captures 100% of the value from you adopting AI. You get nothing, or at any rate, it ain’t gonna be 9x your salary. And everyone hates you now.

Again, nobody cares.

> Congrats, you were just drained by a company. I’ve been drained to the point of burnout several times in my career, even at Google once or twice.

Pointless humblebrag that even we the readers don't care about.

> Now let’s look at Scenario B. You decide instead that you will only work for an hour a day, and aim to keep up with your peers using AI. On that heavily reduced workload, you manage to scrape by, and nobody notices.

This isn't a thing unless you were borderline worthless and junior to begin with.

> In this scenario, your company goes out of business. I’m sorry, but your victory over The Man will be pyrrhic, because The Man is about to be kicked in The Balls, since with everyone slacking off, a competitor will take them out pretty fast.

Hard disagree. Author has clearly never worked outside of a startup or silicon valley where the money is more mature.

Flagged for what is at best extreme ignorance, or more likely ragebait and bad faith hype for a ship that sailed several years ago. I don't know what else to do with these blog posts anymore.
Show HN: dullnote – Markdown Storage for Claude MCP
by thedizzyhub | 2026-02-11 09:50:33+00:00
Notion's MCP connection kept dying on me. Lost files. Failed syncs. Context gone mid-session.

So I built dullnote. It's a hosted markdown editor that Claude reads and writes via MCP. You store project notes, decisions, logs. Claude accesses them across sessions.

Version history tracks every change. Diffs show if you made the edit or Claude did.

Stack: React, FastAPI, Supabase, Hetzner VPS.

Free tier available. Signup required because files are private by default and need auth to sync with MCP.

Been using it a month. It's changed how I work, but I'm too close to it now.

Would love feedback:
- Is this useful outside my own workflow?
- What would stop you from using it?

Be brutal.

dullnote.com
by porknbeans00 | 2026-02-11 09:51:08+00:00
yeah I been at this a while I know a bunch of techniques... but sometimes you work on stuff that's... worth the burn. but also brutal in ways you can't expect until you experience it.

anyways... thanks for the kind words. in 2026 we need more kindness and empathy in our comments. =)

And I think folks sharing good design patterns is always worth reading. Mentally healthy work is a good design pattern.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-11 09:51:13+00:00
Deindustrialization, triggered by depletion. The thing about mines is they don't last forever, and if you build your industry near the mines that supply it it becomes uneconomic once the mine is depleted.

Also, the world got a lot bigger, to the extent that a tiny canal was no longer meaningful.

The population of Scotland as a whole has grown slowly and continuously - nothing comparable to the mass depopulation of Ireland, even when you consider the Highland Clearances. It has however mostly concentrated in the economic centers of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
by tim333 | 2026-02-11 09:51:14+00:00
The enforcement is patchy. There are loads of cameras and they pick up some things like speeding or driving in bus lanes but not others live those you mention. I drive and cycle and driving in central London is an odd experience these days that seems almost stationary - wait at lights for a minute, roll a few yards at 15 mph, wait again.

Most actual cycle deaths seem to be people crushed by lorries when turning at junctions which seems more an engineering issue - the drivers can't see etc. than bad driving.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-11 09:51:49+00:00
Not sure about her dismissal but I'm glad to see that erotic uses are being opened up for users that want that. It's frustrating that chatbots constantly close up at the slightest hint of sexuality.

Here in Europe we don't really have this puritan attitude. A toggle similar to 'safe search' would suffice for users who want to keep it above the belt.
Show HN: Εἶδος – A non-Turing-complete language built on Plato's Theory of Forms
by proletarian | 2026-02-11 09:51:59+00:00
I've been reading Plato text and picking up some ancient Greek, and I had a useless thought experiment: what would a programming language look like with 4th century Athens constraints?

Εἶδος (Eidos — "Form") is one result. It's a declarative language called Λόγος where you don't execute code — you declare what exists. Forms belong to Kinds. Forms bear testimony. A law of correspondence maps petitions to answers. There are no loops, no conditionals, no mutation. It's intentionally not Turing-complete, aligned with Plato's rejection of the apeiron (the infinite).

It governs a real HTTP server (Ἱστός) where routes aren't matched by branching — they're recognized as Forms and answered according to law. An unrecognized path returns οὐκ ἔστιν ("it is not") — not an error, an ontological statement.

The project includes a parser that recognizes rather than executes, static verification expressed as philosophical propositions (Totality, Consistency, Well-formedness), Graphviz ontology diagrams, and a Socratic dialectic generator that examines the specification through the four phases of the elenchus.

The Jupyter notebook walks through everything interactively — from parsing the spec in polytonic Greek to petitioning the live server to watching Socrates interrogate the ontology.

https://github.com/realadeel/eidos
by freetime2 | 2026-02-11 09:52:29+00:00
There are reasons to buy a PHEV even if you never plug it in. Their electric motors tend to output more power than gasoline/HEV versions of the same model, leading to more performance and a quieter drivetrain (even with the engine running, it doesn't have to work as hard). You can also run climate control and infotainment while parked without having to idle the engine, which is nice when waiting around on a hot day. Or you can remotely start the air conditioner with your phone.

Basically you can get EV quality-of-life features on a gasoline-powered vehicle.

I probably wouldn't recommend a PHEV to someone who doesn't have a place to plug it in every day. But there are reasons to buy a PHEV beyond just fuel efficiency.
by IvanK_net | 2026-02-11 09:52:39+00:00
It should be enough to make it mandatory for banks to let people send money to each other for free, even abroad (within the EU). Then, at the shop, you can simply pay by making a bank transaction through the internet banking (which can be a phone app, a website, etc). The payment details (account number of the receiver, the amount, etc) can be transferred through NFC or a QR code.

Money would go directly bank-to-bank, nothing in the middle.
by jtrn | 2026-02-11 09:52:39+00:00
I try to make it a point to acknowledge when I am wrong. And after some time, and maybe after the release of Codex 5.3, the Codex App is a VERY good agentic coder.

I stand by my initial impression, so far as the claim that it did piss me off, but I completely retract my prediction that Codex/OpenAI is going down the Nokia death spiral based on the performance of the current Codex App paired with the Codex 5.3 model.

I think a combination of the new model version, and me having maximum bad luck in my first test (it truly didn’t do that great), made me come to the wrong conclusion. Codex App is actually pretty good. Thanks for pushing back.
by jmiskovic | 2026-02-11 09:53:25+00:00
This is engine for HL1 while OP talks about HL2.

I'll add, if you have a VR headset, modded HL1 runs beautifully on it with full hand controller support for gun aiming and crowbar smashing. I've also heard lots of praises for HL2 VR mod bringing the game to new levels, I have yet to try it myself.
by imtringued | 2026-02-11 09:53:36+00:00
The chain for GPU driver updates on Android phones is incredibly long.

Google > Phone Vendor > SoC Vendor > Arm > SoC Vendor > Phone Vendor > Android Update

and that is the happy case. The general case looks more like this:

Google > Phone Vendor > SoC Vendor > "Have you considered buying a new SoC?"
by vidarh | 2026-02-11 09:53:52+00:00
> I don’t know how to respond to that other than to ask you to quote the part of the blog post where the author described the language model running into a problem that it could not fix and then described the details of how he manually intervened to fix the problem that the language model could not fix when you elaborate on your definition of “nothing” in that sentence.

I suggest you re-read that and pay attention to how they're describing addressing these things by fixing the harness rather than solving the problems.

You conveniently quoted the part that doesn't support your claim.

> This is an answer to “why do you want someone to do that?” You have already established that you would like that to happen. It doesn’t answer “why would a real human being (who is not you) that isn’t impressed by the compiler that doesn’t work put their time into making Anthropic look good?”

My bad for assuming the naysayer care about learning something or understanding the technology rather than looking for excuses to ignorantly bash it.

> It is pretty common for tech companies to release free useful software. For example pytorch, react, Hack/hhvm etc. from Meta

You entirely failed to address my question.

> I saw that they put a bunch of resources into making something that is not useful and asked why they did not put a bunch of resources into that was useful. Surely they could make something that is both useful and made their model look good?

They made something that made their model look good to the people who are actually likely to want to use their model. Aka, the customers actually providing the vast majority of their revenue.

> I was asking if anyone had any substantive knowledge or informed opinion about whether it was one or the other but it seems like you’re saying it’s… both? They don’t want to make and release a useful tool and also they can not make and release a useful tool because this compiler, which is not useful, is the limit of what their model can achieve.

No, I've said there's no value in it for them to spend money on tools that'd just get dismissed and that at the same time wouldn't provide useful data to their actual customers.

> Like you want us all to know that they cannot and do not want to make any sort of useful tool.

I've said nothing of the sort. Stop lying about what I've said.

> That is your clearly-stated opinion about their desires and capabilities.

Another lie.

> And also you want these “naysayers”, who are not you, to put their time and effort into… also not making something useful? To prove… what?

I'd like them to stop being blatantly intellectually dishonest and make trite unjustified claims because they don't understand why this project had value, and actually try to learn and inform themselves.

It's naive to assume there's any honest curiosity lurking behind these shallow dismissals, I know, but I try to think the best of people until they prove their intent.
by artk42 | 2026-02-11 09:54:36+00:00
> A coalition of 16 banks thinks it has the answer.

Oh! That's exactly what we all needed - 16 banks suggest their own "system", even more crude and clumsy imitation of the surveillance standards of payment systems and marketplaces, which shielded banks from snitching clients' consumption patterns.

They don't need anything advanced like Apple Pay layered tokenizations that at least respects a little of privacy. Everything is linked to a single phone (the article states that the focus is on Bizum and those pathetic peer-to-peer payment systems). The banks are in good shape to capture data, the tax authorities have a clear picture of how to squeeze the plebs even more - nice.

How about stablecoins with native yield from ECB treasuries? It solves everything and costs nothing. But we see what happens in US - "treasuries spread is not for plebs", - banks say.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-11 09:55:42+00:00
Originally spinners and weavers were quite happy. One spun, the other weaved, and the cloth was made.

Then along game the flying shuttle and the weavers were even happier - producing twice as much cloth and needing half as many spinners.

The the spinning jenny came along and spinners (typically the wife of the weaver) were basically unemployed, so much so that the workers took to breaking into the factories to destroy the jennys.

But the weavers were on the same track. They no longer owned their own equipment in their own home, they were centralised in factories using equipment owned by the industrialists.

Over the entire period first spinners, then weavers, lost their jobs, even with the massive explosion in output.

Meanwhile lower skilled jobs (typically with barely paid children) abounded (with no safety requirements)

Fortunately in the 1800s English industrialists had some amount of virtue, and the workers organised into unions, so economic damage wasn't as widespread as it could have been.

This power imbalance between the owners and workers was only really arrested after the world wars - first with ww1 where many owner's sent their children to battle and lost their heirs, then later with strong government reacting to the public post ww2.
by StingyJelly | 2026-02-11 09:55:52+00:00
This is about control, not sovereignty.

I hate having to use visa or mastercard when better options exist but the solution is to allow competitive solutions and make surcharge mandatory so customers bear the cost of their payment choices.

In the begining of this year, they basicly banned EU merchants from using confirmo (crypto payment gateway), when it was finally getting traction.
by repelsteeltje | 2026-02-11 09:56:02+00:00
I'm frankly amazed that the majority of new laptops still come with Microsoft Windows.

To be fair, over the years there have been sincere efforts to re-architect the OS with a security, privacy, reliability for peristent storage, graphics, multi-tasking, multi-user, networking etc. But those efforts never caught up with the speed at which bloat was added.

At the heart, its design still has remnants that have the naivety of a stand-alone, stateless microcomputer that boots straight off a floppy after BIOS POST.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-11 09:56:40+00:00
The British canal system became largely obsolete when the Railways came. Partly because the railway companies bought the canals and closed them to strengthen their monopoly. The canals were restored and reopened by enthusiasts for leisure boating, and in this is still going on. This is strengthened by the tow paths being legal rights of way, and walking them is very popular.