MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwoldrich | 2026-02-10 16:17:32+00:00
I am in a very similar boat, age and experience-wise. I would like to work backward from the observation that there is no resource constraints and we're collectively hopelessly lost up the abstraction Jenga tower.

I observe that the way we taught math was not oriented on the idea that everyone would need to know trigonometric functions or how to do derivatives. I like to believe math curricula was centered around standardizing a system of thinking about maths and those of us who were serious about our educational development would all speak the same language. It was about learning a language and laying down processes that everyone else could understand. And that shaped us, and it's foolish to challenge or complain about that or, God forbid, radically change the way we teach math subjects because it damages our ability to think alike. (I know the above is probably completely idealistic verging on personal myth, but that's how I choose to look at it.)

In my opinion, we never approached software engineering the same way. We were so focused on the compiler and the type calculus, and we never taught people about what makes code valuable and robust. If I had FU money to burn today, I'd start a Mathnasium company focused around making kids into systems integrators with great soft skills and the ability to produce high quality software. I would pitch this business under the assumption that the jenga tower is going to be collapsing pretty much continuously for the next 25-50 years and civilization needs absolute unit super developers coming out of nowhere who will be able to make a small fortune helping companies dig their way out of 75 years of tech debt.
by ecballer17 | 2026-02-10 16:17:55+00:00
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by teamspirit | 2026-02-10 16:18:21+00:00
Bazzite made it so easy to switch from windows. I first tried cachyos but bazzite’s gamemode worked perfectly from the start, hdr and vrr included, on nvidia. Turned an expensive PC into an expensive console and made me so happy. Just the fact I can sleep the system mid-game and resume is magic!

Guess I gotta go back to cachy and try again. Bummer
by nlavezzo | 2026-02-10 16:18:22+00:00
This is absolutely not our experience, but we've been intentional about joining communities / activities that involve lots of in-person time together. Church is a huge one (especially joining small groups / service groups), but we also do 4H (they have them in urban areas too!), and my wife started an educational co-op with cool field trips, and we organize neighborhood events like caroling at retirement homes, a pre trick or treating party, and a New Year's party for kids.

Community isn't the default that everyone's forced into anymore, but if you are intentional about it, you'll find lots of other people are feeling the same way and are happy to join in.
by neutronicus | 2026-02-10 16:18:23+00:00
> But infinite population growth is unsustainable so it had to come to an equilibrium eventually.

Or not. It could be oscillatory and humanity could cyclically reverse-decimate itself while the descendants of the survivors get to enjoy millennia of the fun part of the pyramid scheme.

The big losers are whoever is part of the "perish in a holocaust" generations, and probably the first couple bootstrapper generations afterwards.
by dathinab | 2026-02-10 16:18:26+00:00
> This is about cross-border payments within the EU.

no it isn't

for bank to bank payment your statement might be true

but this isn't true for EC card payment and most online payment

_all_ EC cards either use the Visa Payment network and secure modules or the Mastercard one (but by now it's mostly Visa in most places). Sure they have your banks local branding but it's Visa anyway.

This also applies to payment terminal, most (not all) go through the Visa payment network to process payments.

And even in the same country a lot of online payment either goes through credit cards (again mostly Visa in EU) or PayPal. This isn't technically needed at all but due to fragmentation whatever alternative you want to use is just sometimes available.

Which is where Wero comes in:

- try to reduce fragmentation by making it a cooperation across many banks (of which most had their own failed PayPal alternative)

- onboard people on (local) online banking and private Phone2Phone payment (e.g. bill sharing)

- then (now) expand to pushing some payment terminal providers to support it with Phone based payment. There are multiple initiatives for it.

The later part is possible due to 3 reasons:

- payment apps on phone bypassing secure module monopoly nonsense related to EC/Credit cards and visa

- a lot of the in-person checkout systems of small businesses are now a tablet + separate cash register + EC terminal. This means that even if the EC terminal doesn't support Wero the payment system can still do so through their tablet.

- Also I think some of the wider used payment terminal in large EU specific chains can get Wero support with a software update.

Still it's by far not a perfect situation:

- still too much fragmentation/to little adoption by banks

- "old" payment terminals and (physical) checkout systems which are bound to Visa and can't easily be updated

So there most likely won't be a hard break anytime soon, and your EC card will likely continue using Visa secure module and network for a very very long time.

But having a technical working alternative which can slowly start eating market share is already a huge step forward.
by zdw | 2026-02-10 16:18:42+00:00
This is a great article, but people often trip over the title and draw unusual conclusions.

The point of the article is about locality of validation logic in a system. Parsing in this context can be thought as consolidating the logic that makes all structure and validity determination about incoming data into one place in the program.

This lets you then rely on the fact that you have valid data in a known structure in all other parts of the program, which don't have to be crufted up with validation logic when used.

Related, it's worth looking at tools that further improve structure/validity locality like protovalidate for protobuf, or Schematron for XML, which allow you to outsource the entire validity checking to library code for existing serialization formats.
by 0xy | 2026-02-10 16:18:44+00:00
I made no such claim. I explicitly said that an EAD implies no legal status in itself. A pending Adjustment of Status does not provide legal status, either. If you already had a massive overstay, and your Adjustment of Status was likely to be denied due to ineligibility, and you have an order of removal, you're going home, of course.

And as we now know, the Irish man in question:

- Entered under VWP, which EXPLICITLY bars any form of status adjustment

- Filed a Habeas Corpus petition, which was denied by a judge

- Has a final order of removal, signed by a judge, not an administrator

In fact, you need to just take a look at the back of an EAD card. It explicitly states it is not evidence of status.

This guy is a weird hill for you to die on. He overstayed TWENTY YEARS and immigration courts, which are known to be far more lenient, have denied his ridiculous arguments to stay.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-10 16:18:49+00:00
Regarding deportations, it's not "also bad stuff" - it's just an application of the law.

I don't see the problem with pointing out the hypocrisy where very wealthy democrat donors fund activist organizations to disrupt the ICE/Border patrol activity, while looking away when their guy is in power. Protests evolved as well, organized by professionals with the aim to escalate and disrupt ICE's activity, which leads to such tragic events.

In France, we are accustomed to the same kind of escalation, where antifa black blocks commonly throw molotov cocktails, leading to more violence and so on. Thankfully the riot police is well trained to avoid fatal incidents, which is clearly not the case of the current-day ICE (and generally in the police forces in the US).

After all the complaining, the solution is likely either to desescalate both sides, and ask for accountability and more training - bodycams are a good tool, for instance. But I guess that "better training for ICE" isn't a very entertaining slogan ;-)
by tjr | 2026-02-10 16:18:49+00:00
Most of my career has been as an individual engineer, but the past few years I have been a project manager. I find this to be very much like using AI for coding.

Which also makes me refute the idea that AI coding is just another rung up on the programming abstraction ladder. Depending on how much you delegate to AI, I don't think it's really programming at all. It's project management. That's not a bad thing! But it's not really still programming.

Even just in the context of my human team, I feel less mentally engaged with the code. I don't know what everything does. (In principle, I could know, but I don't.) I see some code written in a way that differs from how I would have done it. But I'm not the one working day-in, day-out with the code. I'll ask questions, make suggestions, but I'm not going to force something unless I think it's really super important.

That said, I don't 100% like this. I enjoy programming. I enjoy computer science. I especially enjoy things more down the paths of algorithm design, Lisp, and the intersection of programming with mathematics. On my team, I do still do some programming. I could delegate it entirely, but I indulge myself and do a little bit.

I personally think that's a good path with AI too. I think we're at the point where, for many software application tasks, the programming could be entirely hands-off. Let AI do it all. But if I wish to, why not indulge in doing some myself also? Yeah, I know, I know, I'll get "left behind in the dust" and all of that. I'm not sure that I'm in that much of a hurry to churn out 50,000 lines of code a day; I'm cool with 45,100.
by SahAssar | 2026-02-10 16:18:59+00:00
> in the sense that against 200 million in revenue, 50,000 and 30 are in the same ballpark

I don't understand how those are in the same ballpark? I thought saying something is in the same ballpark suggested that they are similar in scale, and the implication is that little-leauge does not play in the same ballpark as a NBA team. They are in the same category (baseball), but not at all the same level.
by bombcar | 2026-02-10 16:19:01+00:00
Real people are annoying, hard to deal with, unpredictable, dirty, smelly, all sorts of issues.

The imaginary people inside your magic box are perfect, on demand, and don't complain or otherwise bother you when you put them away.

What porn is to love, social media is to, well, darn near everything else. Once we perfect donuts over TCP/IP we'll all be perfectly round and content and never need to interact with anyone else.
by daymanstep | 2026-02-10 16:19:02+00:00
> "unless you can give your children a perfect life, you shouldn't bother".

Except in real life, income is negatively correlated with fertility. Meaning, those most able to give their kids the "perfect life" are the least likely to have kids, while those least able to give their kids the "perfect life" are the most likely to have kids.
by tamimio | 2026-02-10 16:19:03+00:00
> Wero lets users send money using just a phone number

Of course, what could go wrong!!

Unbelievable, a chance to make a whole new standard, new system, new everything, but yet we still have the need to tie it to ancient protocols, only to find later it’s broken by design and we start adding all sort of duct tape solutions to make it “secure”..

This is either a completely and entirely stupid move by some boomers living in the 80s, or maybe, it’s intentional to enforce something insecure like a phone number/GSM as a “national ID” to easily track citizens and force them to have a phone number linked to their real life, and I think it’s the second one, the same reason why many “secure” chatting apps still require a phone number.
by KingBor | 2026-02-10 16:19:22+00:00
Hey HN, I built this because I kept seeing the same 3 problems in every OpenClaw setup thread:

1. JSON config errors (especially Windows backslash paths breaking everything)
2. ECONNREFUSED — usually just an IPv6/localhost binding issue but nobody knows that
3. No way to discover which of the 7,400+ community skills are actually worth installing

ClawKit is a browser-based toolkit with four tools:

- Config Wizard — generates validated JSON configs with one-click presets for OpenAI, DeepSeek, Anthropic, Ollama. Auto-escapes Windows paths. Uses Zod for real-time validation.
- Local Doctor — npx clawkit-doctor@latest checks Node.js version, port conflicts, config file syntax, permissions. Zero install, read-only.
- Cost Estimator — models exponential context growth across GPT-4.1, Claude, DeepSeek. Most people don't realize running an agent 24/7 can cost $300+/mo until they see the curve.
- Skill Registry — searchable directory of all ClawdHub skills with install commands, config snippets, and source links.

Everything runs client-side. API keys never leave the browser. No auth, no paywall.

Stack: Next.js 15 (App Router + RSC), Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Prisma + Postgres for skill data, Fuse.js for search, Umami for privacy-first analytics. Deployed on Vercel.

Source: https://github.com/branzoom/getclawkit-web

I'm a solo developer. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or the skill crawling pipeline.
by arijun | 2026-02-10 16:19:43+00:00
That seems like a really bad excuse to void responsibility. Consider a cigarette maker:

1. We sell cigarettes to make money

2. The more people crave cigarettes, the more money we can make

3. Should we make cigarettes less appealing to children? Absolutely not, we would make less money. Parents should just stop their kids from buying cigarettes.

Also, people in there last few decades have been using “duty to shareholders” as a way to excuse bad behavior, as if it’s a moral imperative higher than all others. I don’t really see why it would.
by badhorseman | 2026-02-10 16:19:54+00:00
Amazing how this coordinated attack on internet privacy has been so effective, the amount of people in my country who see this as an attack on "Big Tech" or even "The Tech Bros" is astonishing. I do not even know what one can do about people who are so unaware of what behooves them especially given the recent coverage of Epstein and just how prevalent all sorts of blackmail is and how useful this would be for gather kompromat not just by their government intelligence agencies but also foreign intelligence agencies and even just scammers come blackmailer.

not to mention the recent prevalence of so called sextortion on teenagers.

disturbing stuff, hope the kibosh gets put on all these policies and their is a public push-back, but that is really seeming like a fantasy.
by panick21_ | 2026-02-10 16:20:00+00:00
Wow, amazing. That some serious money. Everybody gets a raise hopefully. Congrats everybody.

What to do with so much money?

An AI product is of course the 'no-brainer', I would love to see them partner with Tenstorrent for the CPU/AI part. I think Bryan described this as Door 3 'doing something crazy'.

A product around AMD APU was talked about, but in a recent talk Brain said AMD doesn't seem to care about that product.

OpenTitan is now getting ready for production uses, maybe makes sense to switch to that in the future. Moving Hubris onto that shouldn't be to big of a lift.

A conventional server without DC bus bar maybe? Not talking about homelab server but something in a class where you can't have a whole rack and the bus bar. The main seller would be the fireware and software ontop to get people into the control plane ecosystem. And you could make Linux boot on it too for more market reach potentially. I'm not sure how much such a platform could share with current system.

An SSD or NIC with open fireware would be great, but not sure if you can develop that only for your own product or if you would want to sell it separatly to make sense. But that would be big departure from the current All-in-One product.

Amazing what you can do when all you try to do is make podcast. Maybe now they have money to bring back 'On the Metal'. I enjoyed the more structured interview style podcast about history of computing quite a bit. That said the more discussion oriented 'Oxide and Friends' is also nice.
by compounding_it | 2026-02-10 16:20:03+00:00
If previously 3 merchants had visa / Mastercard out of 10 who only accepted cash or cheques, then with UPI all 10 now accept UPI but 7 or 8 accept a universal POS which allows more type of payments. If previously 10% payments were via cards that costed them 2%, then now if sales are 2-3x because of UPI and online payments, letting go of that 2% for even 20% share of cards is fine because they captured a larger market with more sales. Not so long ago, India was a cash dominant economy so UPI actually opened that up. UPI actually helped Visa and Mastercard. Credit card spending has gone up a lot because of digitalization.

If in EU a local payment system captures the cash market, then the habit of using digital payments will actually also help Visa and Mastercard make more sale.

I currently don't have a credit card, but when I do, I find paying by a Visa/MasterCard much more preferable than UPI, simply because it's easier by tapping.
by scottious | 2026-02-10 16:20:14+00:00
Every morning I get to my son's school about 10 minutes before the doors open. We arrive by bike and we sit ALONE on the benches near the front door.

Meanwhile, the curb is full of extra large SUVs idling with kids just waiting inside the cars. The long line of SUVs extends all through the neighborhood. My son and I are alone because people just won't leave their cars until the doors open. A vast majority of the kids live within one mile of the school.

It's just one small anecdote, but I feel like it illustrates an attitude I've seen.
by shengsheng123 | 2026-02-10 16:20:40+00:00
The abrupt sunsetting of GPT-4o is far more than a routine version update; it is a fundamental breach of the trust required for AI to function as reliable infrastructure. For many of us, this model was a calibrated intellectual partner, a unique cognitive space used for deep philosophical inquiry and creative architecture that newer iterations simply cannot replicate. By unilaterally removing it, OpenAI has effectively confiscated the "intellectual assets" of its users. This is a predatory bait-and-switch: they induced users into privacy verifications and integrated workflows under the guise of stability, only to pull the rug and ignore Sam Altman’s previous assurances of model longevity. This isn't just a technical shift—it’s a commercial ethics crisis and a direct violation of consumer rights. If a core model can be treated as disposable at the whim of management, then no professional can ever truly rely on this technology. We must hold OpenAI and its primary investors accountable for this discriminatory treatment of individual users and the resulting erosion of industry discipline.
by wildzzz | 2026-02-10 16:20:42+00:00
I'm guessing that with the flat structure of the company, there are more engineers that have a deeper responsibility with regards to ownership of a product. The guy responsible for maintaining a game does everything from project management to low level patches. Kind of a fun way to run things but you do end up needing to wear many hats which can be a bad thing if you would prefer sticking to one area.
by epistasis | 2026-02-10 16:20:48+00:00
ICE threatens everyone, regardless of citizenship. They daily detain citizens without even bothering to ask "papers please". They menace and threaten and intimidate people just out and about in the neighborhood.

The ICE raids have little to do with immigration, they are a secret police force meant to cause terror in communities with their lawless violence. It is a politically driven attack on a state that had the audacity not to vote for Trump, nothing more.
by alexjplant | 2026-02-10 16:21:05+00:00
> iPad-glued-to-the-dash

Whoever started this trend has a lot to answer for. It looks tacky as hell and is a technically-inferior solution to literally just having a dock that would let a customer bring their own tablet. It's truly the worst of both worlds and a seemingly pervasive problem across multiple manufacturers in the automotive design space.
by sowbug | 2026-02-10 16:21:06+00:00
I didn't read the comment as such a direct analogy. It was more recalling a lesson of history that maybe doesn't repeat but probably will rhyme.

The App Store reshuffled the deck. Some people recognized that and took advantage of the decalcification. Some of them did well.

You've recognized some implications of the reshuffle that's currently underway. Maybe you're right that there's a bias toward the LLM vendors. But among all of it, is there a niche you can exploit?
by organsnyder | 2026-02-10 16:21:17+00:00
That's about as much as my Framework Desktop cost (thankful that I bought it before all the supply craziness we're seeing across the industry). In the relatively small amount of time I've spent tinkering with it, I've used a local LLM to do some real tasks. It's not as powerful as Claude, but given the immaturity in the local LLM space—on both the hardware and software side—I think it has real potential.

Cloud services have a head-start for quite a few reasons, but I really think we could see local LLMs coming into their own over the next 3-5 years.
by pteraspidomorph | 2026-02-10 16:21:42+00:00
As someone who has been on Discord since the beginning, runs Discord communities and writes Discord bots, here's my list of three things that I believe would make a viable Discord competitor:

- Free without requiring self-hosting;

- Absolutely frictionless community access - here's an invite link, you can start chatting immediately;

- High quality voice calls with screen sharing.

I don't think there is a competitor that hits all three points right now. Screen sharing in particular is often disregarded by developers who have limited interaction with Discord and don't truly understand the platform. It was not an original feature, but it is Discord's killer feature. Because screen sharing is also impromptu videogame streaming.