MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-23 02:46:44+00:00
Oh now this is the new pivot?

>Can you begin to imagine losing access to all your emails, accounts, every photo you ever took? Because what they didn't like how you used one unrelated product tied to your account?

What are you talking about? He didn't lose access to Google, in fact, he is using his Google account to make the post. He lost access to the service they are claiming that he is misusing.
by deaux | 2026-02-23 02:46:59+00:00
> is often viewed not through a partisan lens, but as a tangible constraint on their mobility and agency.

Obvious tell.

> This demographic shift feels less like a temporary swing in sentiment and more like a fundamental realignment

Obvious tell.

> like its not just this but also that.

The above two are just that.

Along with the cadence, as mentioned by someone else.
by davidee | 2026-02-23 02:49:19+00:00
Irrespective of the tool itself, which feels like just another "some hidden prompt" tool (sorry author!), one of the things I can't stand about these tools (there was a recent movie recommendation one shared here with the same behaviour) is the almost cloyingly patronizing response noise:

- "Ah, great taste my friend."

- "Ah, great pick to start with."

- "Ah, a lovely choice..."

You're absolutely right! But I don't need you to tell me that. ;)
by bob001 | 2026-02-23 02:50:12+00:00
Let's see what this study actually says, shall we?

> Students who spent up to one hour per day on digital devices for learning activities in school scored 14 points higher in mathematics than students who spent no time, even after accounting for students’ and schools’ socio-economic profile, and this positive relationship is observed in over half (45 countries and economies) of all systems with available data.

That sounds like school laptops to me.
by echelon | 2026-02-23 02:50:31+00:00
Google needs to be dismantled. A lot of us on HN have been calling for this for years now.

Can we start saying it in unison to legislators and the press? Please?

If you're in the EU, do your part too.

This company taxes the URL bar. It owns 92% of them and turns trademarks they don't own into forced bidding wars. There's no way to access any brand without paying Google extortion fees.

This company removed AdBlock.

This company controls 50% of mobile - the most important device category and devices we own and pay for - and now they're removing our ability to use them as we please. More taxation, more Google services, every app and search through the Google troll toll. You can't even order from a restaurant anymore without one of these things and Google lords over it.

They own your digital life. They own infrastructure. They own discovery. They own every touch point.

They are too big.

Anthropic and OpenAI are having to pay out the nose for 60% of users to even access them, meanwhile Google sings "lalalala" and forced their AI products onto users at no cost.

Break them up now.

Do it horizontally, not vertically: instead of splitting off Chrome and Search and YouTube, create Google A, Google B, Google C ... Make them split all the same pieces and make them all compete with each other.

That is fair for the consumer. That is fair for competition.

That is the most capitalistic friendly thing to do. Because right now Google is an invasive species in every market destroying the entire competitive ecology.
by saulpw | 2026-02-23 02:51:47+00:00
The limit should not be a fixed dollar amount, but rather relative to what it gets you. We want to allow people to earn the luxury of retirement at a young age, including healthcare costs (not included in the US), children's higher education, etc etc. $1m is nowhere near enough for that. So let's not try to figure that, say, $3.6m is the appropriate wealth cap for 2026. Let's speak in terms of orders of magnitudes. $1m is not enough. $10m is. Let's let the minimum wealth maximum be $10m.
by wps | 2026-02-23 02:51:53+00:00
Author here. I've used KDBX as my primary password store for coming on 5 years now. Although I believe it is the current best local solution, I've had to deal with lots of minor issues that other password managers just don't have. I wrote this article to try to consolidate the major pain points, and to explain how an SQLite backend would alleviate them.
by recursivecaveat | 2026-02-23 02:53:25+00:00
I don't think having the small minority of swing states repeatedly determine the elections is doing anything for balance. The notion that the electoral college exists to balance rural and urban interests is a total fiction. Urban populations were at 5% in 1790, it wasn't on anybody's mind. The present effect is totally arbitrary and inconsistent. You may as well define a college where every religion gets an equal say: why should the atheists and Christians get to impose their will on the Sikhs and Druze? Just because there are more Christians who are nothing like them?
by pwg | 2026-02-23 02:53:34+00:00
Cory Doctorow:

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing

Jan 10, 2012

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

The article does reflect the issue at the time (the media mafia's boogeyman "piracy") and the thought that to prevent piracy, users must be restricted from access to "general purpose computers".
by beloch | 2026-02-23 02:53:51+00:00
Cloudflare has become so ubiquitous that they've become a major vulnerability for non-U.S. governments. The recent outages offered a small taste of what might happen if the U.S. government, on one of their random whims, ordered Cloudflare to block everyone and every site within a target country.

This in no way excuses what Spain is doing, but its important to recognize that the internet is becoming more of a battlefield every day.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-23 02:53:59+00:00
> and there is a documented pattern of employers paying WARN Act penalties retroactively rather than filing -- especially in fast-moving situations where 60 days advance notice is operationally inconvenient.

Oh, I got a solution for that. Don't just go for WARN Act penalties. Go after offenders with the hammer called SEC and market manipulation regulations. That kind of stuff really hurts.
by tempaccount420 | 2026-02-23 02:54:10+00:00
I'm guessing at least 50% of the "users" of Antigravity are actually OpenCode users exploiting the oauth and endpoint. Must be infuriating to them if they're subsidizing it.

The OpenCode plugin (8.7k stars btw!) even advertises "Multi-account support — add multiple Google accounts, auto-rotates when rate-limited"[1]

[1] https://github.com/NoeFabris/opencode-antigravity-auth/blob/...
by mapt | 2026-02-23 02:54:12+00:00
Studies of the 20th century manufacturing learning rate suggests that creation of arbitrary goods drops on the order of 15-20% every time you double production volume. This is before general purpose robotics and AI! Just interchangeable tooling, Taylorism, Ford style assembly lines, Toyota's supply chain ideas.

Selling at a modest loss and making the volume happen eventually means you're not selling at a loss anymore.
by stephenr | 2026-02-23 02:54:18+00:00
I'm not a lawyer, or a licence/copyleft expert.

Plenty of people who know lots more than I do about those subjects specifically recommend any reliance on AGPL projects/tools/libraries/what have you, because of the viral nature of *GPL licences that don't have the linking exception of lgpl.

Google's lawyers have a pretty clear-cut take on it: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-23 02:54:59+00:00
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but I'll respond as if it isn't. Having worked my entire career to date in the SaaS business, it is well known in some verticals that a large portion of revenue comes from companies that literally do not know they have purchased your product. And when you have a large customer like that, people are very careful to walk quietly and not do anything to notify them. I've seen it happen quite a few times.
by Morromist | 2026-02-23 02:55:07+00:00
I don't agree with them but many people now say that in 10-20 years computers will become magical thinking machines that can do pretty nearly any cognitive task. At that point I wonder what the point of learning technology will be? Perhaps it would be best to learn about logic and how the world works so you can interact with these magical machines more effectively, and not learn much about how the machines actually work - you won't be tinkering with their insides anyway.

So yeah, if that comes to pass why not go back to paper. Have the kids study science, logic, history, etc and forget about technology, except for the few weird ones who just can't keep away from it.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-23 02:55:49+00:00
>whiny parents who rage when their children are told they can't be playing video games in class

you have stats on that? It seems like an outlier.

>teachers who are using computer programs to teach the kids instead of actually teaching.

before laptops there were bad teachers who used books to teach the kids instead of actually teaching - as in: "read chapter 7, there will be a test!"

if after laptops there is a worse result then it seems to argue that laptops in the hands of bad teachers are worse than books in the hands of bad teachers, at least.
by throwup238 | 2026-02-23 02:55:56+00:00
Local liquidation firms and those in nearby metros like Baltimore where the biotechs are might also be able to help. I’ve seen entire palettes of Chromebooks sell relatively cheap at auction. I doubt the liquidator will be able to do it for free but they can ask clients if they want to donate certain lots instead of auctioning them off or if you find a sponsor they might be able to notify you and give you first dibs when a lot shows up.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-23 02:56:16+00:00
Utter rubbish, designed as clickbait for older folks. Every generations dunks on the next one, right up until it's time to change the clock on the VCR and only the kids can do that.

Kids are growing up in a different world than we did. They need different skills, and probably a different cognition. Teaching them to deal with rapid attention shifts is probably going to equip them better for their actual lives than trying to make them focus on one subject for hours.
by Morromist | 2026-02-23 02:57:36+00:00
Totally. We can't really measure the effect on people graduating from college right now but I'm pretty sure the value of the average college education is down since the advent of AI due to mass cheating and professors having to tailor their classes away from things AI can take advantage of. The students who love to learn will still be doing just fine, but the others - I doubt it.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-23 02:57:57+00:00
The world runs on Excel. It is the largest development environment by far and no fancy language/framework can come close to touch it. The reason is because it acts as the glue to get real life things done in everything from large governments, militaries, large corporations all the way down to the small bed and breakfast operation across the entire world. Normal people have gotten real processes built by just twiddling around in Excel.
by Topgamer7 | 2026-02-23 02:58:04+00:00
Hello internet friend. I may be able to make your life easier for 4.

You can use aws vault to open the aws console using roles:

aws-vault --help
usage: aws-vault [<flags>] <command> [<args> ...]
...
login [<flags>] [<profile>]
Generate a login link for the AWS Console.

Which when combined with this plugin: https://github.com/blimmer/zsh-aws-vault

You can just to `avli some-role` and it will pop up in the browser in a new profile.

The only downside here is that you can't combine them into one window.

But it takes the pain out of logging in, and 2 factor, etc.
by muzani | 2026-02-23 02:59:31+00:00
I saw a reel of Ghibli's The Wind Rises, and it was just full of haters confidently exclaiming that it's AI slop. If you run it through a standard detector, it would probably trigger them too - the yellowed background, the distorted animation and exaggerated facial expressions.

There's the famous 4 second crowd scene which took a year to draw. This looks incredibly AI now. It's highly unlikely studios will manually draw things like this in the future.

A lot of people have just given up separating them. A friend only searches for images made before 2021 because they're not AI made.

I think it's really sad, because it hurts the artists most of all.
by mohan589 | 2026-02-23 02:59:33+00:00
CatchKit – Form backend + webhook debugger in one tool

I built CatchKit because I was tired of using Formspree for forms
and Webhook.site for debugging webhooks separately. They're the
same thing — catching HTTP POSTs.

Point your form at catchkit.dev/f/abc123, done. Send Stripe
webhooks to catchkit.online, inspect live, replay failures.

https://catchkit.online
by peter422 | 2026-02-23 02:59:35+00:00
It’s clearly AI generated when you see 3 comments of similar style posted in the same minute.

Anyways ignore the people downvoting you, I don’t want to read AI generated comments even if they are seemingly reasonable. I appreciate you flagging the comment for me, I didn’t even suspect it. I can make my own AI generated content if I want it, I want to read thoughts and ideas from actual humans.
by atomicfiredoll | 2026-02-23 03:00:42+00:00
I don't have a Loops account, but check multiple sites for news and information, landing on the loops homepage several times. I haven't needed a login to see videos appear for some time.

If it's anything like the rest of the Fediverse applications, it's meant to give you a full chronological feed of people you subscribe to. While several of these sites seem to have a simple trending page, one of the themes of the Fediverse seems to be getting away from overly predatory algorithms and leaning into letting people curate their own feeds and interactions again.

It sounds a lot like a "be the change" situation. If you want to see other stuff, follow people you like instead of drinking from the hose. It's still a small site, so if you don't see the content you want, then make it or build the community there.

These sites can also have basic interoperability. I don't know if the Loops UI supports subscribing to people in other Fedi networks yet, but I've seen people say Loops videos have started trickling onto Mastodon.
by mannanj | 2026-02-23 03:00:59+00:00
It's unfortunate though that they lie and deceive by having a name called "Open"AI when they are in fact "Closed". And the whole non-profit to profit and Microsoft deals are just untrustable and unethical.

They also actively employ dark strategies in cooperation with CIA and who knows when they will pull the rug under you again.

Do you really trust a foundational rotten group of people who avoid accountability?
by dyauspitr | 2026-02-23 03:01:47+00:00
All tech out is too drastic but I agree it must be severely curtailed. There need to be computer labs and an emphasis on research which shouldn’t go back to asking the librarian for printed material in a library. Research online is supercharged and should not be done away with.

Other than that though, paper textbooks, paper notes, written on premises examinations should all be bought back.
by pipeline_peak | 2026-02-23 03:02:37+00:00
Let’s not forgot the emerging deity-esque “content creator” and “influencer”. A far stretch from the humble “vlogger” or “YouTuber”. The latter two sound like a jolly guy with a camcorder and a backpack.

I remember when social networks were at the very least portrayed in the interest of “connecting people from around the world”.

I’ll often hear something along the lines of these services being engineered to pin us all against each other. Jaron Lanier’s “ Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” likes to claim this, but I never see any actual evidence.

Either way, when I visit social media site these days, people are definitely nastier. There’s more snark, a need to ridicule others for not knowing niche little factoids. “You still use tea bags?” something something cast iron pans and dish soap.

There’s a lot more capitalizing through hoarding trivial information. They know something you don’t, and they love it.

It’s like joining an MMORPG and realizing you have to put more time in to reach the same level as everyone else.
by mannanj | 2026-02-23 03:03:07+00:00
I feel like it's about data quality. They want humans using the tools because that data is valuable and helps them improve the product. AI's using their product like OpenClaw makes their training missions harder. And even if you opt-out of training, they are still using your data for non-training purposes (you can't open out of that) and that human data is valuable.
by j16sdiz | 2026-02-23 03:03:22+00:00
We have three (including this) FreeBSD posts in the past two days.

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 (hypha.pub)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108989

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic (hayzam.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113527
by anon-3988 | 2026-02-23 03:04:02+00:00
We should treat phones on kids the same we treat alchohol. "What the fuck, is that a phone? Give me that!" The only other solution involves evaporating our privacy. Fuk 'em kids. I guess they don't get to use phones, we survived, why can't they?

In fact, it is probably better for them to "struggle" and figure out by themselves how to find a way to circumvent it. Make them think instead of having thoughts feed into them.
by dangus | 2026-02-23 03:04:38+00:00
This seems highly prescriptive and absolutist.

There’s a big difference between “having a tool available” and “using it all the time for everything.”

We are not talking about replacing writing and reading on paper.

I was fortunate that my middle and elementary schools had computers. They weren’t used all day long. We used them to do things like learning typing skills and look up references on library computers. I remember using an old Apple II program (old even back when I was in school) in an applied technology class where we designed a car and tested its performance. Yes, before 9th grade. The whole class was kind of like an introduction to some engineering concepts, which involved a rotation of different stations we would go to where we did some interactive assignments. It was both fun and inspiring, and, dare I say, a computer was involved.

I’m now just remembering that we even learned BASIC programming in 8th grade!

One of my most fond memories of middle school was a mock publishing competition where students wrote essays and stories and pitched them to other groups of students acting as publishers with a budget. I remember using interesting fonts on the titles of my typed out stories to try and stand out and market myself.

Later in high school (admittedly, after the grade 9 cutoff you prescribed, more on that later), we used them in a multimedia class to learn to do basic graphic design as well as writing proper business letters to request permission from magazines to use their covers for a multimedia project. (Of course, with fair use, we didn’t have to ask, but the whole point was to learn to properly contact and communicate with business professionals).

I can’t imagine what it would be like if my school didn’t have the funding to have these tools available to teach what we now know are essential life skills. I probably wouldn’t have ended up making well above median income in the technology industry.

I think your 9th grade cutoff is particularly silly. You can start subjects like algebra before high school. You really think there are kids doing formal classes like programming and digital design/art before high school? Go look into some of the curriculum course list for some of the top middle and high schools in the country.
by wasntitlower | 2026-02-23 03:06:29+00:00
I thought we were in the middle of a tech literacy downturn. I might be wrong, and I don't want to necessarily google "is X happening" because that looks like it yields articles that affirm it, and I don't know what a trustworthy source would be.

Either way, I don't live in a place where laptops were pushed to teens, but I do know uni teachers who told me some horrifying tales about freshmen, like ones who could not understand how to submit a doc on moodle, as in they would write it on google docs, take a photo on the phone and submit that.
by mannanj | 2026-02-23 03:06:31+00:00
However someone else said this, and I agree, if I have an AI use my claude-code CLI how is not valid first-party app use? It would be different if they would disallow others to use your claude-code account, and I think most including these AI companies would argue AI is supposed to replace and augment humans. So they aren't banning AI's from using the CLI, right- though thats what some of them are seemingly wanting to do.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-23 03:06:58+00:00
And on top of that, in many countries (not just the US) teachers, school and the students themselves don't have anywhere near the financial resources that they need.

Schools are (literally) falling apart, here in Germany it became apparent during Covid that a ton of schools had windows that rotted so far they couldn't be opened, in the US there are states that introduced 4 day school weeks due to budget constraints [1], way too many school children live in utter poverty meaning they get their only warm meal at school [2], with that meal sometimes being of even lower quality than prison food to the tune it was a recurring joke in The Simpsons, class sizes are too huge, teaching material is outdated or censored to the point of being useless [3], students are too poor to afford basic supplies meaning teachers step in [4], teachers lack the time and budget to actually educate themselves and keep up with modern development, teachers lack the budget, room and/or political backing from their superiors to actually use what they learned in university or in after-graduation continuous training in practice, students lack the privacy at home (and often enough: a safe home or EVEN A HOME AT ALL [5]) to learn in peace and safety.

And on top of that comes the deluge of ChatGPT slop, sexual abuse both domestic and amongst students, bullying, domestic violence, "parents" using their kids as weapons to hurt their ex partners, stalking, gang violence, in Europe you got traumatized kids coming from war torn countries with zero support structure, in the US you got kids scared to hell and beyond about ICE.

Honestly, I'm not surprised that both students and teachers are checking out into the dream world of their phones.

We are failing our children, but hey, the stonk number goes brr!!! And taxes are lower!!!!!! (Education budgets is usually the first thing that gets slashed because it takes about 10-20 years to show a noticeable negative effect)

[1] https://www.nctq.org/research-insights/amid-budget-and-staff...

[2] https://thecounter.org/summer-hunger-new-york-city/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta...

[4] https://19thnews.org/2025/08/teachers-spending-school-suppli...

[5] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/12/28/numb...
by ceonyc | 2026-02-23 03:07:18+00:00
Sixteen years ago, I wrote that, “Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world.”

I meant that you can mimic all the movements of a startup without any of the real risk-taking or building. My criticism then was that we were teaching students to pitch without teaching them to build.

Fifteen years later, that gap matters even more. In a world where AI can help anyone ship a working product in a weekend, and where entry-level jobs are disappearing, the ability to actually build something—even something small—isn't just a nice skill to have.

It might be the whole ballgame—and I’m curious how many universities are thinking this way about their entrepreneurship programs.