MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2026-02-11 15:19:44+00:00
The protest was 1989.

Interestingly GLM4.7-flash has no problem talking about it.

Here's the output when I asked about it.

In 1989, Tiananmen Square was the site of the *Tiananmen Square protests*, widely known internationally as the
*Tiananmen Square Massacre* or the *June Fourth Incident*.

Here is a summary of the events:

*Causes and Beginning*
The protests began on April 15, 1989, following the death of *Hu Yaobang*, a former Communist Party leader known for
his relative openness and support for economic reform. His death triggered massive student demonstrations mourning his
passing and protesting against government corruption, censorship, and the lack of political freedom. The movement
quickly grew to include workers, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens.

*Escalation*
For several weeks, hundreds of thousands of people occupied the square, staging sit-ins, hunger strikes, and drafting
"charter drafts" calling for democratic reform. On May 13, hundreds of students began a hunger strike in the square.
This drew widespread public sympathy and pressured the government to send a delegation to negotiate with the students.

*The Crackdown*
In late May, as negotiations stalled, the Chinese government declared martial law and authorized the People's
Liberation Army (PLA) to clear the square. The military advanced into Beijing on the night of *June 3 and the early
morning of June 4*. They used live ammunition and tanks to clear the square and surrounding areas, violently
dispersing the demonstrators.

*Casualties*
There is significant disagreement over the death toll. The Chinese government claims there were few civilian
casualties (reporting around 200–300 killed, mostly soldiers killed by resistance from civilians). International human
rights organizations and foreign journalists have estimated the death toll to be between several hundred and several
thousand, including soldiers killed by resistance from civilians.

*Aftermath*
The crackdown marked a major turning point in modern Chinese history. The leadership of *Zhao Ziyang* (who favored
negotiating with the students) was removed and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. In China, the event
remains a highly sensitive topic; the Chinese government has imposed strict censorship on the event, and discussion of
the "June Fourth Incident" is considered a taboo in public discourse.

*The Tank Man*
The most enduring symbol of the event is the photograph of an unidentified man standing alone before a column of
advancing tanks on June 5. This figure became a global icon of nonviolent resistance.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-02-11 15:19:59+00:00
>> The obvious is of course luck through one's social network.

I'd really counsel you to pursue this but not focus on the luck piece of it (which really is a big part). Just like hiring works best when it's a recommendation of a known good hire, look to your 2nd (and possibly 3rd) degree network. Force yourself to attend events, programs and communities (irl & virtual) outside of your direct sphere of expertise. Economic development orgs in your city/region might work too. Maybe you can do it with some help/practice and don't need a partner? You could be looking for a support network more than business expertise; the good news is IME that's easier to find than a partner.
by ricardo81 | 2026-02-11 15:20:11+00:00
The problem with extremely smart people is not many people understand them. They're typically going to be non-conformist in any event, and may come across as arrogant if they have an intricate belief system that you may not take the time to understand. I'd think one of the greatest scientists of a generation would have the kind of depth of thinking that few would understand. Having listened to many of his interviews (unfortunately I'm too young to have witnessed these things in real time) he comes across as one of the most eloquent people I can think of.

While reading through that I was suspecting it was perhaps a peer that was envious of Feynman, but an ex (scorned?) partner is extremely plausible.
by rirze | 2026-02-11 15:20:41+00:00
It's a common trope. (Some) artists will often convey the same message; art should be judged on how hard it was to create. Hence why some artist despise abstract art or anything "simplistic".

We forget that human consumption doesn't increase with manufacturing complexity (it can be correlated, but not cause and effect). At the end of day, it's about human connection, which is dependent on emotion, usefulness, and availability.
by bonsai_spool | 2026-02-11 15:20:43+00:00
> and the underlying natural product (eg. beetroots)

Ah, I'm reading that as the process of extracting the color—and not also extracting the pesticides and herbicides-requires processing that may itself be similar to what happens with the 'artificial' dyes.

That seems defensible, and it's a process that only occurs for the dye and not the associated natural product.
by graybeardhacker | 2026-02-11 15:20:58+00:00
I see a lot of people saying "We never lose power, what are you talking about?"

I've lived in several places in New England, some more rural than others. Some places you lose power often, other you don't. Even within the same town. Even if you are not in a rural area. It just so happened where I lived previously, we rarely lost power while friend across town lost it all the time. Many times I loaned them my generator.

I now live in a much more rural place. We lose power more now. Not often, but it happens. Trees fall, cars skid into poles, shit happens. It's good to be prepared. Ver bad things happen to your pipes without heat.
by kotaKat | 2026-02-11 15:21:01+00:00
Of note: They all basically run off the backs of 1099’d “contracted” “doctors” (nurse practitioners and other low-to-midlevels that can rubber stamp scripts).

Do they actually make a proper assessment? Questionable, they’re going based on the lies you tell them over text and video. Here’s your script for your dick pills, come back soon!
by visafreenomads | 2026-02-11 15:21:17+00:00
I am a third-country passport holder with a Schengen residence permit. I built this tool to instantly check where I can travel visa-free by combining my passport and permits.

It supports Schengen, US, UK, Canada, UAE, and more across 200+ destinations with an interactive map.
Built with Next.js and Supabase.

Feedback welcome.
by marcosdumay | 2026-02-11 15:21:22+00:00
Just to put another perspective there. In Brazil, chip and pin took off immediately (from non-existent to ubiquitous in about 6 months) after the government decided that the bank and card issuer were responsible for all the fraud risk.

I have no idea what policy made the US hold into signatures for that long. But the seller and the buyer are the least powerful people on that entire chain, so I don't think it reasonable to look at them.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-11 15:21:32+00:00
As much as a bunch of people on HN want to attribute this to European superiority or tax rate or investment or whatever, it's not. It's just a willingness to maintain things and not let idiots with no real problems roadblock the process.

I live in a formerly industrial city in the US that gets serious snow every year and probably a multi foot storm every couple years. My power outages in the past decade consist of several seconds long blips and one 1hr outage at 8am on a national holiday when a transformer on my street went bang.

My extended family lives hundreds of miles away in the same state, in a lesser snow climate in a city within spitting distance of the same population and density. They have power outages out the wazoo because the utilities can't cut trees and can't update infrastructure without the towns acting as a roadblock at the behest of a bunch of Karens who don't wan't their decorative 100yo trees losing limb and don't want construction activity to maintain or improve anything (not just utilities, they're actually less burdened but burdened nonetheless) performed without intentionally prohibitive and expensive environmental study this and approval that and so of course less gets done proactively.

I'll leave assuming the demographic makeup of these cities and relative wealth levels up to the reader but I assure you it tracks stereotypes.
by datadrivenangel | 2026-02-11 15:21:33+00:00
In most organizations, critical path time and effort spent on coding is probably 10-20% of overall time. Overall software development effort for a software development project is probably ~50% total, and if you're lucky half of that is coding, so if coding is now 1.5x to 5x as productive, then we'd expect software projects to take up to ~40% less overall time and regular project to be ~3-8% shorter for the same output...
by rssoconnor | 2026-02-11 15:21:42+00:00
Not that I'm disagreeing with your main point, but I will say that Toyota's hybrid design is one of the best ICE engines out there. The transmission is replaced with planetary gears and the starter and alternators are replaced with a pair of motors to control the throttle and continuously variable transmission, making it one of the gentlest engine designs out there.

But yes, there is engine oil to be replaced and whatnot.

And also, to your point, my experience with my PHEV is my short range driving is electric, but it turns out most of my miles is consumed by annual long range trips. If I commuted to work, things would tip more in favour of EV driving. All to say how much EV you get out of your PHEV will depend highly on the type of driving one does.
by 542354234235 | 2026-02-11 15:21:43+00:00
How are they not rational? Violence is a tool. They operate an illegal business so they can’t sue other parties for breach of contract. They can't call the police if they are robbed or file an insurance claim for what was taken. Even the over-the-top violence has a rationale. They aren't punishing the victims as much as they are attempting to broadcast that there is a higher price to be paid than any gain from giving information, to reduce their future losses and enforcement efforts. It isn’t moral or ethical, but I wouldn’t say it is irrational.
Show HN: Onlybots.cam
by m0rtyn | 2026-02-11 15:22:09+00:00
Hi HN — I'm Martyn and I built this.

A few years ago I interviewed with the company behind Stripchat. I would
have taken the offer if I'd passed. At the time I figured the webcam industry
was sleazy but functional. Then someone wrote a comment to my favorite social platform, that laid out what
the industry actually looks like from the inside — contracts that change
after signing, studios making tens of thousands a night while models get
hundreds, performers who looked happy at 25 but had no family and no way
back at 40.

I came up with the domain name first. Then I bought it. Then I used AI
to pull every relevant study I could find — Human Rights Watch reports,
ICIJ investigations, peer-reviewed papers. The research that would have
taken weeks took about an hour. I verified every source by hand.
What you see on onlybots.cam is the result.

The site looks like an AI companion platform. Click any button and it
flips — every fake metric becomes a real statistic. Average creator earns
$180/month while the platform owner took home $1B in dividends. 48% of
sex workers report lifetime suicidality. 7 of 50 models in HRW's Colombia
investigation started before age 18.

Every number links to its primary source. Nothing is made up. I wish some
of it were.

Tech: Astro 5 static site, one React island, Tailwind CSS, GSAP for the
transition (single timeline, 14 animation steps). Zero cookies. Full source
index: https://github.com/m0rtyn/onlybots.cam/blob/main/docs/RESEAR...

This isn't aimed at viewers or the people on camera. It's aimed at the
platforms and studios that take most of the money and look away when things
go wrong.

Happy to answer questions about the data, the tech, or the concept.
by tristor | 2026-02-11 15:22:38+00:00
As someone who is often late replying to emails and feels compelled to put in an apology, it's because my experience is that most of the folks emailing me (that aren't cold emails, e.g. things related to actual work/activities) are generally expecting a reply within one or two business days, so when it takes me a month to get back to them a brief apology is in order. The apology isn't because I feel I've done something wrong, per se, it's because I know that my timeliness didn't meet their expectations and they may have had to move forward without my input. Sometimes that's fine, sometimes I'm an SME that they need input from and they may have been waiting and my lack of reply was a blocking action.

The quantity of apologies I write in email replies is directly correlated to how overworked I am from existing in a reality where the existence of unproven tooling causes more work to be put on my plate without any realistic avenues to manage it. When everything is urgent, it can be impolite to be explicit about your priorities, but waiting to reply implicitly makes the point that something else was more important, and that is something which has political consequences, especially in business. Ultimately, like any element of etiquette, it's about smoothing over the rough edges so we can all get along and to assuage any feelings that the other person may have that they got stiffed.

I wish things worked the way the author thinks things work, and maybe it does in the world of academia or wherever this person is insulated from the consequences of late-stage capitalism and the gnat-like attention span that social media has inculcated into the global population. But in the business world, especially in the US, and especially in 2025 onward, there is an expectation that every individual person can do the job of a team of 6, and that responses need to be done with urgency to every missive. That's clearly an unrealistic and unfair expectation, but because all of us want to avoid being starving and homeless, we do our best to meet that expectation anyway, hence why burnout is epidemic and we all hate the current timeline.
by mikemarsh | 2026-02-11 15:22:40+00:00
> A sanctuary from AI and vibe coding, focused on human engineering

Big fan of this project for this reason alone. I hope over the next few years we'll see this more and more not just as an implementation detail, but a public branding sentiment that like-minded coders, consumers or even (if we're living in fantasy-land) business clients can rally behind.
by srean | 2026-02-11 15:22:40+00:00
The stuff that the material in Feynman's book is not his is just made up nonsense. They follow his course lectures very very closely. The minutiae of writing may not be his, but the material certainly was his.

Regarding domestic abuse charges, this was before we had no fault divorce. It was common at that time to make up charges of abuse, often in concert with the lawyers of both parties just to ensure that divorce is granted.

So it is not a clear open and shut case at all.
by unethical_ban | 2026-02-11 15:22:41+00:00
What kind of government would use their statutory authority to shut down an airport when there is a risk to the planes?

Why do you think the FAA doesn't have this authority? Or, why do you think the FAA shouldn't have this authority?

In other words: This may have been needed but poorly executed; this may have been incompetent planning and response. But I wouldn't call the FAA shutting down an airport "police state".
by the__alchemist | 2026-02-11 15:22:54+00:00
> I believe real numbers to be completely natural, but far greater mathematicians than I found them objectionable only a hundred years ago

I suspect, as you may as while, that this quote is at the core of the matter. Identifying what you find the difference between real and complex numbers are. You are inclined to split them into separate categories. I suspect you must identify the platonic (Or HTW, if that is your metaphor) property of the real numbers which the complex lack.
by IAmBroom | 2026-02-11 15:22:55+00:00
To point out how confusing this is: If you add a knife tip to a cow carcass to extract the steak, that is adding a highly artificial substance to the food at some point.

Likewise if you use steel balls to tumble-crush shells into calcium carbonate powder (don't know if they do, or if it's even a product, but neither are the point here).

"We are required to inform this table that your naturally wild-caught salmon had, briefly, at one time, a small hook inserted into its mouth. It was otherwise wholly without artificial feed nor other additives."

How do you write a law that slices between those ideas and hexane, clearly?
by jqpabc123 | 2026-02-11 15:23:12+00:00
At this point, the US government had an incentive to issue dollars, even if they weren’t really backed by gold

At this point, providers have an incentive to issue stable coins, even if they aren’t really backed by dollars.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The bugaboo in this whole argument is liquidity.

At some point, stable coins must be converted to fiat in order to be used in real world finance. You can't pay rent or buy food with stable coins.

No one is going to do this conversion to fiat for free. It takes time, effort and money (the *real* kind) in order to make this happen. There will always a gatekeeper just waiting to be paid.

So the idea that there is 1:1 equivalence is not exactly true. It may make sense for some cross-border transactions when the rates being charged by fiat gatekeepers are high. But not in most other *ordinary* situations as a universal way to transact.
Show HN: Z-Image Base – Fast AI Image Generator (Open-Source, Free Tier)
by chengai1106 | 2026-02-11 15:23:27+00:00
Z-Image Base is an AI image generator built on Alibaba Tongyi Lab's open-source 6B-parameter S3-DiT (Scalable Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer) architecture. It achieves state-of-the-art results among open-source models on Elo-based human preference evaluations.

Key features:
- Text-to-image and image-to-image generation
- Native bilingual understanding (English & Chinese) — true semantic comprehension, not translation
- Full CFG (Classifier-Free Guidance) control and negative prompt support
- Runs on consumer hardware with 16GB VRAM for local deployment
- Apache 2.0 licensed — all generated images are free for commercial use
- Free tier includes 10 credits

Would love to hear your feedback!
by TZubiri | 2026-02-11 15:23:48+00:00
I played with the preinstalled languages in windows before, but the legacy stuff dizzied me before llms existed.

now that llms exist I am learning with dotnet, that now comes with windows, (or at least it comes with winget, and you can install a lot of kosher software, which is almost as good as having it preinstalled.)

If I ever hop onto an older machine I'll use the gpt to see what I get, i recall there's vbscript, apparently a .net compiler+runtime, and I saw a js interpreter in very old OS too.

A big inspiration in this realm is FogBugz historical "Wasabi". Their idea of compiling to PHP and c# i think it was, because it's what most OS come with, and their corpo clients can use it as it. It's in a joel spolsky blog post somewhere.
by ordu | 2026-02-11 15:23:50+00:00
> Any port below 1024 signifies that it is a "privileged port". This is an archaic distinction that developed in high-trust R&E networks, but it did signify that the listener on the port had administrative/root access to spawn a service there, so it was kind of a signal that you could "trust" the remote server with your login credentials.

If something is running on a privileged port is not enough to trust it. Firstly you need to trust to a host, you need to know where are you connecting to. If you connect to a random host with a privileged port and pass it your credentials you are doing stupid things.

This thing with privileged ports is protecting you from users who could run arbitrary code on a server. From them and not from anyone else. So for MUD there is a lot of reasons to run on 23 port, it is a signal for users of MUD that they are connecting to a process hat was started by the owner of the machine having the root.

> If your favorite MUD runs on port 23 today, such as nethack or something, then I am glad for this change, which will force the administrator to select a unique port that does not imply privilege, TELNET protocol, or shell login credentials. It is totally RFC-compliant to select an unassigned port above 1023, and MUD conventions have popularized several numbers that are still recognizable to players today.

If I was running a MUD, I would find some way to get around. I could use 22 for example, though it could cause me problems with logging in with ssh. But it is not an issue really, there are 1k privileged ports, I could choose one from them.
by OJFord | 2026-02-11 15:24:10+00:00
Hear such mixed things on that though, often it's oh academics love to hear someone wants to read their paper, just email them, they'll be only too happy to provide you with a pdf.

So I tried it once; no reply. (A month or two after it was published too, not something that might've been difficult to dig up.) Probably straight to spam.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-02-11 15:24:48+00:00
>> I found that my customers were much more interested in paying a higher price for a pre-made device than saving money with a DIY solution

This could have been a 50-yr-old comment about the Apple I computer! Lol

>> Wozniak intended to share schematics of the machine for free; however, Jobs advised him to start a business together and sell bare printed circuit boards (PCBs) for the computer, without any components soldered on.

...

Terrell told Jobs that he would order 50 units of the Apple I and pay $500 each on delivery, but only if they came fully assembled – he was not interested in buying bare printed circuit boards with no components.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I
by budududuroiu | 2026-02-11 15:24:54+00:00
> The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed a district court ruling that human authorship is a bedrock requirement to register a copyright, and that an artificial intelligence system cannot be deemed the author of a work for copyright purposes

> The court’s decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter,1 on March 18, 2025, supports the position adopted by the United States Copyright Office and is the latest chapter in the long-running saga of an attempt by a computer scientist to challenge that fundamental principle.

I, like many others, believe the only way AI won't immediately get enshittified is by fighting tooth and nail for LLM output to never be copyrightable

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/03/appell...
by abtinf | 2026-02-11 15:25:02+00:00
> The problem with extremely smart people is not many people understand them. They're typically going to be non-conformist in any event, and may come across as arrogant if they have an intricate belief system that you may not take the time to understand.

This is the bucket Ayn Rand falls into. Her philosophy is radically different, revolutionizing the entire field, to the point that most people can’t even grasp that the things she questions are open to debate.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-11 15:26:07+00:00
I got another interesting idea from this and another comment but what if we combine this with ssh git clients/websites with the normal ability.

maybe something like https://ssheasy.com/ or similar could also be used? or maybe even a gotty/xterm instance which could automatically ssh/get a tui like interface.

I feel as if this would for all scrapers be enough?