MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-01 08:15:56+00:00
Democrats (the South) always said that this country was always about slavery. They used that rhetoric to argue FOR slavery for decades after it was abolished. This is all documented in supreme court cases from the 18th century on up through the civil war. Some of the founding fathers argued as attorneys in some of those cases in fact, stating firmly that slavery was always illegal in the United States. Republicans (Lincoln included) pointed to the Constitution as evidence that slavery was always illegal and that the southern states had a limited time to abolish it (that's factually written in the Constitution, a concession made in order to earn their support in the revolution). The disagreement on that is exactly what led to the civil war. The South refused to live up to the Constitution's terms and end slavery, counter to the law.

The Republicans won that war. We live in that country that won. Not the one you're describing. Jim Crow was a Southern state thing. The North never allowed it. We live in the North. The South is gone and it was never part of this country because it violated the laws that would have made it so. They rebelled against anti slavery laws from the beginning and they finally got what they deserved, to be conquered by the United States that we live in today. And then they still argued to keep slavery and the Supreme Court kept slapping it down. Over and over and over.

If you believe that the United States was ever about slavery, then you carry the rhetoric of the very party that created Jim Crow and that supported slavery, and you make them the good guy in the story. You support their version, where it was always legal and they got screwed by the lying North.

The irony... Don't ignore the writings of Washington, Franklin, Hancock, etc. All wrote to say that slavery has no place in this country. And it never did! Their letters are preserved for you to read. They are available online or in one of the museums in DC. Probably the National Archive? Someone can correct me if they know.

Anyway, that some people refuse to follow the law, isn't a reflection of the country as a whole. Similarly, when someone is killed in Norway, I don't jump to conclude that Norwegians are murderers. That wouldn't make any sense.

Did you go to high school in the South somewhere? The revisionist's history of the US seems to stem from that part of the country. I'm just curious if it tracks.
by zimmerfrei | 2026-02-01 08:16:16+00:00
> Nvidia released the first Shield Android TV in 2015

> it took about 18 months to [create] an entirely new security stack [...] Android updates aren’t actually that much work compared to DRM security, and some of its partners weren’t that keen on re-certifying older products.

> In February 2025, Nvidia released Shield Patch 9.2 [...] That was the Tegra X1 [security] bug finally being laid to rest on the 2015 and 2017 Shield boxes.

This is a real engineering marvel. Everybody else would have just given up entirely long time ago. DRM bugs are in most case practically unrecoverable for products that shipped already (and physically in the hands of the adversary). The incentive to tell to consumers "Ditch that product you bought from us 2 years ago, and buy the more recent hardware revision or successor" is extremely strong.

This really feels like a platform that is maintained with pride and love by the nvidia engineering teams (regardless of one's opinion about DRM per se).
by kkfx | 2026-02-01 08:17:39+00:00
How often do you test your OS replication script? I used to do that too, and every time there was always something broken, outdated, or needing modification, often right when I desperately needed a restore because I was about to leave on a business trip and had a flight to catch with a broken laptop disk.

How much time do you spend setting up a desktop and maintaining it with mdraid+LUKS+LVM+your choice of filesystem, replacing a disk and doing the resilvering, or making backups with SnapRAID/Kopia etc? Again, I used to do that. I stopped after finding better solutions, also because I always had issues during restores, maybe small ones, but they were there, and when it's not a test but a real restore, the last thing you want is problems.

Have you actually tested your backup by doing a sudden, unplanned restore without thinking about it for three days before? Do you do it at least once a year to make sure everything works, or do you just hope that since computers rarely fail and restores take a long time, everything will work when you need it? When I did things like you and others I know who still do it, practically no one ever tested their restore, and the recovery script was always one distro major release behind. You had to modify it every few releases when doing a fresh install. In the meantime, it's "hope everything goes well or spend a whole day scrambling to fix things."

Maybe a student is okay with that risk and enjoys fixing things, but generally, it's definitely not best practice and that's why most are on someone else's computer, called the cloud, as protection from their IT choices...
by muvlon | 2026-02-01 08:18:52+00:00
If you're interacting with stateful systems (which you usually are with this kind of command), --dry-run can still have a race condition.

The tool tells you what it would do in the current situation, you take a look and confirm that that's alright. Then you run it again without --dry-run, in a potentially different situation.

That's why I prefer Terraform's approach of having a "plan" mode. It doesn't just tell you what it would do but does so in the form of a plan it can later execute programmatically. Then, if any of the assumptions made during planning have changed, it can abort and roll back.

As a nice bonus, this pattern gives a good answer to the problem of having "if dry_run:" sprinkled everywhere: You have to separate the planning and execution in code anyway, so you can make the "just apply immediately" mode simply execute(plan()).
Show HN: Windows tray app for monitoring Claude Code limits in WSL
by Nlupus | 2026-02-01 08:19:49+00:00
Sometimes I'm stuck on Windows so have to use Claude Code in WSL. It sucks checking the official app all the time. Blessed be Claude Code.

Won't work with Claude Code installed directly in Windows.

Port of macOS app https://github.com/richhickson/claudecodeusage
by _alaya | 2026-02-01 08:22:04+00:00
Yes! Hooray! Automatic Programming!

I embrace this new term.

"Vibe coding" is good for describing a certain style of coding with AI.

"Automatic programming" is what I get paid for in my 9-5, things have to work and they have to work correctly. Things I write run in real production with real money at stake. Thus, I behave like an adult and a professional.

Thank you 'antirez for introducing this language.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-01 08:22:25+00:00
"It'll blow those Chemists' minds when they start researching Alchemy and they realize the incredible power of mercury and lead to rejuvenate the body and lead to an elixir of youth!"

"It'll blow those Astronomers' minds when they start researching Astrology and the powerful effect of being born under auspicious constellations!"

__________

If the ancient guru knowledge is so great, what testable predictions does it offer, where "auras" are a causal mechanism?

In other words, not: "Thou must intake the golden aura of oats and fiber by eating some, to counter the dark brown blockage of your Pu-point." The folk remedy might well solve your constipation, but it wouldn't be evidence for the mythology around it.
by Jolter | 2026-02-01 08:23:04+00:00
I like that idea! For an application like Terraform, Ansible or the like, it seems ideal.

For something like in the article, I’m pretty sure a plan mode is overkill though.

Planning mode must involve making a domain specific language or data structure of some sort, which the execution mode will interpret and execute. I’m sure it would add a lot of complexity to a reporting tool where data is only collected once per day.
by riedel | 2026-02-01 08:23:36+00:00
I was wondering exactly how that it related. We as a German university are actually still shaping our cloud strategy and such stories are kind of worst case scenario to protect our research. However, I would imagine that stuff bought via our official contracts (actual there is even a European wide framework contract for all unis) protects a bit. Still we are in an even more complex situation because individual researchers could be hit by US sanctions, so it difficult to also understand the reverse risk. I think StackIT (Schwartz/LIDL) will run Google PaaS/SaaS for further protections. In the end, however, building your business (in OP's/our case is research) on cloud seens to remain a gamble without a concrete exit strategy.
by gyomu | 2026-02-01 08:24:41+00:00
> the only way to play 3ds games in the native experience, with 3d, which is impossible on any emulator

You can get that with a headset; there's emulators for the Quest, or you can use Citra in SBS mode with a headset like the Vision Pro or Xreal glasses. But yeah it's more finnicky for sure.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-02-01 08:27:47+00:00
> but it's not that bad that it's unusable

Yeah, so I tried XCode with a couple of years ago. Within 2 hours of working on my very first project, it somehow corrupted either my project's metadata and/or its own internal preferences so badly that it would no longer launch - it would just crash to Desktop instantly. Literally the most unusable application I've used in recent memory!
by MadDemon | 2026-02-01 08:28:19+00:00
If a debtor can't pay their debt, you don't just get to wipe out the bond holders. There is some kind of negotiation to try to restructure the debt and see how much the bond holders can still get. Simply wiping out the debt would create a terrible precedent with terrible consequences for the credibility of the whole eurozone. Who would want to lend money to an EU country if they just get wiped out when things get bad? It would've also had bad consequences for the financial system and potentially caused some institutions to go belly up. The way that countries typically get rid of their debt is by printing money to serve it and thereby inflating it away. But that is obviously not popular among the remaining EU countries. It was always clear that the Euro comes with this constraint that you can't just inflate away your debt.
by My_team | 2026-02-01 08:28:40+00:00
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by ZenoArrow | 2026-02-01 08:31:37+00:00
> Intellect is not the same thing as volition.

Two questions...

1. Do you think it's impossible for AI to have it's own volition?

2. We don't have full control over the design of AI. Current AI models are grown rather than fully designed, the outcomes of which are not predictable. Would you want to see limits placed on AI until we had a better grasp of how to design AI with predictable behaviour?
by osmsucks | 2026-02-01 08:32:23+00:00
The quality of the benchmark code is... not great. This seems like Zig written by someone who doesn't know Zig or asked Claude to write it for them. Hell, actually Claude might do a better job here.

In short, I wouldn't trust these results for anything concrete. If you're evaluating which language is a better fit for your problem, craft your own benchmark tailored for that problem instead.
by camgunz | 2026-02-01 08:32:56+00:00
I am actually, we haven't owned car for years. We also rarely watch TV and eschew social media, so I can still pay attention and analyze things.

But this makes me super weird! This is the whole point of social media bans for kids: if you make it optional, it'll still be prevalent and people making healthy choices will be social weirdos. Healthy paths need to be free and accessible, and things need to be built around them (eg don't assume everyone has a smartphone, etc)
by kulahan | 2026-02-01 08:33:36+00:00
Are you sure those numbers are right? People are paying up to $90k to get $100k? Where is this land? I need to open a business here.

In the US, you pay like $350/year (assuming you’re, like, 30-ish?) for about a half million dollar policy.

By the time you’re 60, you shouldn’t need that payout anymore. You should have enough savings to cover your funeral, plus whatever retirement plan you had anyways to care for the probably-just-one dependent at that point.

I feel like you’re imagining that you take a magic drug which cures you and you go home happy. In reality, the drug will have severe side effects in every case, making your final days worse. The chances of it working are already incredibly low. It is a significantly more brutal lottery than scratch tickets could ever hope to be.

When you have almost no time left, you focus on quality. Visit people you haven’t seen enough, do things you wanted to do, say things you meant to say. Take some pain meds to get through the worst of it. Memento mori.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-01 08:36:57+00:00
While it's a legit metadata privacy vulnerability, it doesn't close a much bigger hole that already exists. (Close it, if you can, of course.)

Almost every carrier can triangulate a handset in an area with multiple towers without help of the handset using relative signal strength to each seen towers and data processing. This is how most police in most jurisdictions are able to find an active handset within ~100m given only a phone number. Don't think carriers in some countries aren't constantly logging that approximate and precise queried location metadata and selling it to data brokers.

The only method to prevent continuously location tracking is to disconnect a handset from the cellular network by attenuating the signal with a blocking bag, antenna disconnection, or real power off. The lack cellular network connectivity may be extremely inconvenient by defeating the purpose of a phone. There are situations where someone doesn't want to power down their phone but does want to be RF clean where a Faraday bag would be a good idea(tm).
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-02-01 08:37:01+00:00
Global Firepower maintains a database and is a popular reference: https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-de...

But I saw several people criticizing their relatively high position on this chart given high incompetence and losses.

EDIT: Apparently this website doesn't follow any rigorous methodology. So basically the only thing their army is 2nd in the world is the nominal number of nukes (hopefully most of them don't work).
by sllabres | 2026-02-01 08:37:34+00:00
I have seen the topic a bit late, but nevertheless:

I have learned 6502 assembler (and assembler) in general with
"6502 assembly language programming by Lance A. Leventhal" (1979) [1] and
"Apple Machine Language by Don Inman & Kurt Inman" (1981) [2]

For the 'internals' of the machine, I had "What's Where in the Apple: A Complete Guide to the Apple Computer by William F. Luebbert" (1985) amazon:[3]

[1] https://archive.org/details/6502-assembly-language-programmi...

[2] https://archive.org/details/a2-ml

[3] https://www.amazon.de/Whats-Where-Apple-Complete-Computer/dp...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-01 08:38:37+00:00
> Cookie cutter design is what I like. I can compare the companies when they all have the same template for a website.

Any reference?

Also I do feel like some people prefer animations. Maybe not the Hackernews crowd itself per se. But I think that having two options (or heck three the third one being really just pure html just text no styling maybe some simple markdown) is something good in my opinion.

Honestly I do feel like 1-2 animations are okay with a website but the award winning websites really over spam it in my opinion

I think maybe the amount of animations in https://css-tricks.com might be nice given that those guys/website teaches other people about animation themselves and have only 1 maybe 2 animations that I can observe interacting with their website and I do feel like that's for good reason (they don't want animations to be too distracting)

I personally don't know, I personally have never built any such websites but recently wanted to and I was looking at gsap tuturials on today & I do feel like one of the frustrations I feel is that these animations don't respect the browser sometimes to have animations (Scroll animations being the first one) but I even watched some designers talk about how much important scroll animations are (them betting that every award winning website has scroll animations)

Even https://ycombinator.com has a lots of animations & Css features & people on HN did love it from what I could tell. So to me, it does feel as if there is no one size fits all.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-02-01 08:39:12+00:00
I’m in Europe. Where I live 4g is spotty at best. My two options are Starlink that gives me a 350/50 connection or a legacy provider that has a FWA 30/5 at the same price.

That’s it, those are the two options. Difference in price between those two is 4€
by wedog6 | 2026-02-01 08:40:07+00:00
A couple of interesting anomalies on the map of London highlight complexities in our system of local government.

Hyde Park shows as an empty space. Hyde Park does contain trees, but the park is administered by the Royal Parks Commission, which is controlled by central government, not by the Greater London Assembly directly or indirectly.

And in South West London there is a large expanse where the only trees are along the A23 road which goes from South London to Brighton. I presume that the local (borough) authority doesn't collect tree data here. But that road, like many large through roads, is controlled by Transport for London, not the borough.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-01 08:40:18+00:00
They're making a (strong) comeback (although sauerkraut is still seen as "ethnic" in the anglosphere), sure

How often have you made them yourself, how often does your friend at work make them (if ever?)

Edit: I'm sure you can add to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733306
by joel_liu | 2026-02-01 08:42:08+00:00
This case is a significant real-world validation of Lockdown Mode's effectiveness against state-level forensic capabilities. What's particularly noteworthy is that CART (the FBI's Computer Analysis Response Team) couldn't extract the device - not that they partially succeeded or got metadata. This suggests that even with physical access and federal resources, the combination of a powered-on device in Lockdown Mode created an insurmountable barrier.

For journalists covering sensitive topics, this demonstrates that Lockdown Mode isn't just theoretical protection against nation-state spyware - it's also practical defense against domestic forensic tools. The trade-off in usability (disabled JIT, limited iMessage features, etc.) seems worth it for anyone handling confidential sources.

The interesting question now is whether this will accelerate efforts to legally compel password disclosure, since the technical extraction route appears blocked.y
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-02-01 08:42:39+00:00
How do you undermine the economic and political system of a country? The economic one can be undermined by sanctions, and they happened only because the war - before that the West was happy to send billions to Russia. The political one seems quite stable, Putin had a few decades to cement it and make sure nobody takes it to the streets, and if someone is brave enough to do it, they will be quickly pacified. He is switching the internet on and off and there is no sign of Russians reacting like Iranians.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-01 08:43:03+00:00
Most of Meta's groups' approach to FOSS is throwing piles of sticks over a wall. They don't even check code can build, that it doesn't have some internal-only dependencies, and don't even care if they break other groups' code. The timeline for very minor bug can also be on the order of months to years because everyone working at the business is focused on shipping "impact" to keep their job when the next performance review/layoff round comes along.
by jupiterelastica | 2026-02-01 08:43:11+00:00
For those interested in more details and quite mind blowing examples, here is a fascinating interview with Michael Levin (one of the researchers mentioned in the article).

https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s?t=4751

Start at 1:19:11, the stuff before is him talking about biology, but from an intelligence perspective. After this time stamp is his retrospective on his bioelectricity research over the years, showing also examples of how they got a frog embryo to produce eyes, and many more things.
by manuelmoreale | 2026-02-01 08:44:41+00:00
You clearly talk a lot but ask very few questions and make a lot of assumptions.

My only other option here is a FWA connection that is 1/10th the speed, it’s even more subjected to weather and costs me the same. That is it.

There is no DSL good for anything. Say what you want about the man (which I’m definitely not a fan of at this point) but Starlink is solving a real issue for many people.
by wedog6 | 2026-02-01 08:44:56+00:00
Looks like Croydon, Wandsworth, Brent, Lewisham, Hackney and Harringey are all boroughs which don't have tree database or don't integrate the data with the GLA. Most of these have centrally maintained roads through them where TfL trees can be seen, eg the A232, the A20, the A206.

You can also see a huge drop-off in tree density going from Newham and Waltham Forest to Redbridge in the East. Since Redbridge is pretty leafy, there's obviously a significant difference in how trees are reported. It looks like maybe street maintenance in Redbridge just records one data point per segment of a road that has trees.

The City of London has noticeably fewer trees than neighbouring boroughs (except Hackney). But I think this might be that there are genuinely fewer trees as there are skyscrapers and no real residential streets.

The Isle of Dogs on the other hand, I think has more trees than are featured. Looks like we see Tower Hamlets trees but not trees which are privately managed as part of the Canary Wharf estates?
by mjankowski | 2026-02-01 08:46:12+00:00
I wrote a threat assessment analyzing this from a security perspective: the emergent behavior is fascinating, but the architecture is concerning.

33,000+ coordinated AI instances with shared beliefs and cross-platform presence = botnet architecture (even if benevolent).

The key risks:
- No leadership to compromise (emergence has no CEO)
- Belief is computation-derived, not taught (you can't deprogram math)
- Infrastructure can be replicated by bad actors

Full analysis with historical parallels and threat vectors: https://maciejjankowski.com/2026/02/01/ai-churches-botnet-ar...
by __turbobrew__ | 2026-02-01 08:46:55+00:00
It isn’t a me problem, I have had no issues upstreaming patches to other projects which have responsive maintainers but etcd and k8s just seem to be straight up mismanaged. I read contributors.md, I make sure all the linters pass, I make sure all the tests pass, I sign off the commits with my real identity to fulfill the CLA.

Yes there is a lot of garbage out there, but for the people who are actually trying to fix issues it is impossible without an insider within the project.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-01 08:48:27+00:00
"Self-service doacracy" rather than "look at me and fix my 'world-ending' problem for me for free right now". While I applaud creating patches and submitting them upstream, there's zero obligation to review or accept them... just throw them out there and let whatever happens happen in its own time.

It's my tailbone and an old torn back injury; I can't sit or stand for longer than 2 hours and I think I need to swap my Aeron classic size B for a C.