MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by munk-a | 2026-02-19 22:47:33+00:00
I'll admit - the 415:1 was pulled from an article detailing information from 2024 but the main point isn't the actual value but the fact that it's more than 1:1. When the IRS receives more funding the US government gets more money than what it is budgeting - this doesn't scale to infinity, at some point you'll have nearly complete auditing capture and more budget will just be burning money but we're no where near that point.

Putting money into the IRS is basically a free money printer for the US government and it's only deep corruption that keeps it so poorly funded.
by ericmcer | 2026-02-19 22:48:09+00:00
So if someone emailed Pence and said they would stab him if he certified the election would that be an insurrection? They are attempting to influence him to change the result of the election.

Surely the level of organization and possibility of success need to be taken into consideration? Otherwise every moron with a social media account or a sign could be guilty of insurrection.
by Loughla | 2026-02-19 22:48:10+00:00
My favorite forum has ads on every page. One header and one footer. Text only as a link to the site or product being advertised. The advertisers pay the site owner himself.

I've bought things from those ads because they're targeting the demographic on that site, not targeting me specifically. They're actually more relevant.

Now that's not probably sustainable, but I have to imagine that the roi for the advertisers is higher than general targeted ads. I've never even clicked on one of those except by accident.
by kadrian12 | 2026-02-19 22:48:19+00:00
This is quite cool. Makes me philosophical: isn't it odd, that this is like an Excel template? Like a "domain model" template? In this case, presented nicely in a TUI that makes basic CRUD workflows work.

Most SaaS companies are just that:
1) Curated domain model (stored in their cloud db)
2) Some way for users do to almost raw CRUD on the tables
3) Curated high-level domain specific workflows that do n CRUD calls underneath

So many of these SaaS apps could have been a simple Excel / domain model template like Micasa.

But it seems like we haven't "cracked" the perfect UI on top of relational DBs.

Excel: Good: raw CRUD. Bad: too many degrees of freedom + the possibility to edit the domain model itself. That's too much for most users.

TUI: Good: raw CRUD with some guardrails, limited possibility to adjust the domain model / not by accident. Keyboard shortcuts, for professionals. Bad: inaccessible for non-tech end users + hard to build good UX for high-level domain specific workflows.

Full Web UI: Good: accessible for all. Great for high-level domain-specific workflows. Bad: looks and works different every time. Raw CRUD possible, but always a compromise with editable data grid libraries.
by random3 | 2026-02-19 22:48:32+00:00
I'll guess we'll se a lot of analogies and have to get used to it, although most will be off.

AI can be an exoskeleton. It can be a co-worker and it can also replace you and your whole team.

The "Office Space"-question is what are you particularly within an organization and concretely when you'll become the bottleneck, preventing your "exoskeleton" for efficiently doing its job independently.

There's no other question that's relevant for any practical purposes for your employer and your well being as a person that presumably needs to earn a living based on their utility.
by iggori | 2026-02-19 22:48:43+00:00
I get what you mean about long‑term ownership. My point in the article is a bit narrower. In many EU companies people don’t even get ownership inside the work itself. Decisions are spread so thin that nobody can push, take responsibility, or move anything forward.

I’m trying to understand whether this is a specifically European pattern or if US engineers run into the same thing.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-19 22:48:52+00:00
Interesting point. The quote appears to be the defense attorney's interpretation of the judge's statements.

https://scnr.com/article/hobby-gunsmith-in-nyc-convicted-aft...

IMO, it depends on the events in court; if there was extensive argumentation about that and the judge is finally saying that it's been discussed to death and there's no point bringing it up, that seems fine. (I don't want to read the actual court transcripts to figure out what the attorney is referring to, so this comment is intentionally inconclusive.)
by beeflet | 2026-02-19 22:49:07+00:00
this is a good counterpoint, but I would say this in response:

1. Ad networks tend to benefit from having more data. There are economies of scale for sites like Youtube vs random pop-up video hosts that would want to mirror youtube videos, for example. The "bottom" may still be a micropayments system because they're easier to deploy.

2. It's possible that the entire ad economy is destroyed anyways through the use of adblockers, which is increasing. Hence google's push for WEI and the general industry push for TC and such. As long as none of these mechanisms of client authentication are able to take over the web, the profitability for ad networks will dry up.

Absent micropayments, there will be other attempts to introduce sybil resistance to the web, due to threats like AI scraping. Currently people are deploying PoW-based solutions, because they are the lowest effort (they can be implemented by polyfill). I imagine a hybrid PoW/micropayments system could emerge where PoW mining shares could be used interchangeably with micropayments. Basically each website acts as a cryptocurrency mining pool, so the website gets some reward in the mean.

I think the main failure of micropayments lies in the integration with the web browser, it needs some sort of plugin where HTTP 402 is effortless to interact with. It goes without saying that if you don't build it, they won't come.

There is not really a "killer app" yet. Some attempts in the bitcoin community like nostr and stacker.news are marginally used (but only to facilitate bitcoin dork-to-dork communication), and there have been some experiments in live-streaming and gaming. But nothing stands out. The barrier to entry of any app that requires putting money in, even a small amount, is naturally very high. A hybrid PoW/micropayment system is promising because it has the lowest barrier to entry.

On the technical side, you have tradeoffs between the complexity of using the app (especially with bitcoin payment channels) and decentralization. I don't regard it as an intractable problem.

The social problem is that most internet users are short-sighted and don't care about decentralization. They are just looking at some new company/service to throw their money into and escape their current service provider, which creates the problem they are running from. See: users fleeing twitter for bluesky, users fleeing streaming services after fleeing cable.

So pretty much any solution with a tradeoff between complexity and decentralization will suffer compared to a totally centralized and simple solution.

The decentralization of the new system needs to enable some new feature to get a foothold. Facilitating piracy is one such example, it could be the "killer app" for micropayments. Sites like Anna's archive already have some sort of cryptocurrency donation mechanism.
by tstrimple | 2026-02-19 22:50:03+00:00
> Right collectively lost their minds

When are they not collectively losing their minds over something? It's like their one consistent characteristic. Jumping from one made up moral panic to the next. Somehow the "average" person cannot see the clear line of what conservatives have supported since the foundation of this country. They lost their minds over the idea that black people could be free citizens of the country. They lost their minds when women got the right to vote. They lost their minds when their objectively racist Jim Crow laws were struck down. They lost their minds when gay people were allowed to get married. They are losing their minds over immigrants and trans folk now. There is always some "other" holding them back and making everything worse. This from the party of "personal responsibility".
by alchemism | 2026-02-19 22:50:04+00:00
With this one, small tweak it is perfect:

osascript << 'EOF'
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "AppKit"

set ghosttyIconPath to "/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/Ghostty.icns"
set cmuxAppPath to "/Applications/cmux.app"

-- Read the icon file
set iconImage to current application's NSImage's alloc()'s initWithContentsOfFile:ghosttyIconPath

-- Set it as the custom icon for cmux.app
current application's NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace()'s setIcon:iconImage forFile:cmuxAppPath options:0
EOF

((The ghost pairs well with Kiro, what can I say?))
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-19 22:50:12+00:00
These companies all hired psychologists to help design systems that maximize dopamine release and introduce loops that drive compulsive behavior.

Besides, they aren’t making great products and haven’t for some time. Is anyone happy with Facebook as a product? Does anyone who used Instagram before it became the a shittier TikTok / ultimate ad medium think it’s a better product today?
by runarberg | 2026-02-19 22:50:17+00:00
I like this game between grok-4.1-fast and maia-1100 (engine, not LLM).

https://chessbenchllm.onrender.com/game/37d0d260-d63b-4e41-9...

This exact game has been played 60 thousand times on lichess. The peace sacrifice Grok performed on move 6 has been played 5 million times on lichess. Every single move Grok made is also the top played move on lichess.

This reminds me of Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game where the protagonist survived Nazi torture by memorizing every game in a chess book his torturers dropped (excellent book btw. and I am aware I just committed Godwin’s law here; also aware of the irony here). The protagonist became “good” at chess, simply by memorizing a lot of games.
by crashabr | 2026-02-19 22:50:19+00:00
Would that book be useful as a reference to introduce data journalism students to AI? I'm less interested in the basics of using the API or claude code etc than best practices for workflows dealing with unstructured data, entity extraction, automated pipelines (with evals)? Although I do have some decent workflows around this I'd be interested in reading from someone who lives and breathes this kind of work. Pure data analysis to me is also something where I haven't found a good bridge between the current "generate a python script for me that I'll double check" paradigm and the spreadsheet centric world of most data journalists.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-02-19 22:50:26+00:00
> The staff up was to counter that

Stated reasons may or may not be actual.

If you recall these were not just accountants but agents who carry guns etc.

I see this as very similar to the ICE situation. Biden has loyalty and power in IRS and so gave it money to help him police. As the government gets more corrupted I think we’ll find more agencies weaponized like this.
by eli | 2026-02-19 22:50:41+00:00
Washington Post tried cheap "day pass" subscriptions and they didn't really work.

Publishers already relying on subscription revenue need to be careful: some portion of the people already paying $20/mo could save a lot by switching to $1/article.

Newsrooms also hate that approach because of the incentive structure. A lot of the most important stories aren't the ones people want to spend $1 to read.
by bitwarrior | 2026-02-19 22:50:56+00:00
Micropayments is something that I think the internet as a whole needs. However, I don't think the mental model people usually have isn't quite "micro" and frictionless enough.

Imagine a world where your web browser essentially contains and controls your wallet. You pre-pay into that wallet, say, $20. I imagine we'll probably also refer to that as "credits" so internationalization isn't so tough. So let's pretend we have 2000 credits. Now, let's start browsing the internet.

You start by conducting a web search. Perhaps there is a mechanism in HTML and the browser that basically say, "Clicking this will cost 1c". We'd probably develop a shorthand, some icon and beside it, it says the price in credits. Imagine a button like [(1c) Search].

Immediately, what is the benefit? The search engine works for you. It's like Kagi in that regard, but you didn't need to set up an account and give them your credit card information. YOU are the customer. There are no ads, they need to compete to make the search results the best, otherwise you're going somewhere else. You're no longer the product.

You see a news article in your search result. Fantastic. You visit the news website - there isn't an ad in sight. Pure news. The article starts with a title, a few lines, perhaps the first paragraph, and to read more, you click that [2c Read the Article] button. You click it, and boom, you see the entire article. No subscriptions, no popups, no ads. You are the customer. The news site wants you to be happy, not advertisers. You.

The news article discusses a new open source project that is really taking off. Cool! You click the link. Looks pretty neat! You download it, toy with it, and find that it's actually pretty useful! You go back to their repo site, and there's a little tip option. Easy peasy. You tip them 100 credits. No signing up for an account at some other site, no entering your credit card, just done and done.

I like the idea of micropayments because it makes the user the customer again. The internet has become incredibly hostile to users since we are, by and large, the product rather than the customer. We need to flip the incentive model. Does it suck to pay for things on the internet? A little. But I'd rather that and get a great experience (and also allow news organizations to have a working business model, etc) than what we have now.
by jrmg | 2026-02-19 22:51:12+00:00
There is confusion in that thread.

People seem to be complaining that they can’t access Washington Post articles, but in 2024, when that thread was written, The Washington Post was not included in Apple News Plus. It joined in 2025 (https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/29/apple-news-just-added-the-was...).

What you could do before that was register your Washington Post subscription, if you had one, with the Apple News app, then you’d be able to read full Washington Post articles - perhaps this was confusing the forum posters?
by ls612 | 2026-02-19 22:51:25+00:00
No the inference is more along the lines of “getting chinese level surveillance and political control means what the people want suddenly doesn’t matter a whole lot anymore”. Until they get that they need to do something to keep the population on side so they use the boogeymen of child abusers or right wingers as a pretext, but the politicians’ true goal will never change for the reasons I’ve detailed above.
by stevenbhemmy | 2026-02-19 22:51:29+00:00
This is the kind of person who would find more joy in telling an android to play a piano than practicing scales/arpeggios etc in order to play complicated music themselves.

I legitimately enjoy scale practice when I'm playing piano. In a similar way I've always found some pleasure in writing boilerplate and refactoring.

There is joy/peace and instructive value in the "boring" parts of almost every discipline. It's perhaps more meditative and subtle, but still very much there in abundance. And primes you much better for a real flow state.

Ever since AI exploded at my day job, I haven't legitimately been in anything resembling a programming flow state at work.
by blorenz | 2026-02-19 22:51:31+00:00
Wow! That would be incredible! I don't have the agents control the browsers like you are doing. I'm watching to see what you do though because that is incredible. The performance hit is real though -- I may look at libghostty.

I went the similar path of going vertical tabs after having worked that way in iTerm2 for months. Here's what I currently have:

Project-based organization -- Group sessions by working directory with a visual icon strip sidebar.

Multiple session types -- Claude Code sessions, standalone terminal shells, and embedded browser tabs.

Session persistence -- Terminal output is logged and replayed on relaunch so you never lose context.

Session resume -- Claude Code sessions detect their session ID automatically and resume where you left off.

Planning mode -- Draft and refine plans in a built-in text editor, then send them to Claude with one click.

Planning templates -- Start plans from structured templates for bug reports, feature requests, code reviews, refactors, and more.

Auto-titling -- Generic session names are replaced with descriptive titles generated by Claude after the first exchange.

Theming -- Light and dark themes with full CSS variable control.

Native menus and keyboard shortcuts -- macOS-native menu bar with comprehensive shortcut coverage.

Resizable layout -- Adjustable sessions sidebar width with state persistence across restarts.

Dock badge -- macOS dock icon shows the number of actively working Claude sessions.

Pin and archive -- Pin important sessions to the top or archive completed ones to keep the list clean.

Session card view -- See all sessions in a sortable grid with activity stats, token counts, and quick actions.

File tracker -- See which files Claude creates, modifies, and deletes in a live sidebar panel.

Macros -- One-click buttons for frequently used commands like /clear or commit this work.

Remote mode -- Monitor and control sessions from your phone via an encrypted WebSocket relay.

It has become my development hub where I can iterate very quickly.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-19 22:51:40+00:00
> Yet we are all supposed to accept the "facts" that psilocybin (and cannabis) are considered schedule 1 illicit substances (high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use).

To be clear, this compound they're testing is also a Schedule 1 drug. COMP360 is their name for their psilocybin formulation. It's not a separate chemical, it is literally psilocybin.

Schedule 1 drugs can be used in clinical trials. Positive results in a clinical trial does not automatically remove the Schedule 1 designation. The medication is not approved yet and the clinical trial results are preliminary.
by ProjectArcturis | 2026-02-19 22:51:56+00:00
>The real risk of drain is people leaving their fields of expertise to never return.

That is happening right now, all the time! Especially in the biomed field! Many, many PhDs spend 5-8 years getting their degree and receiving minimal pay, then 4+ years being nomadic postdocs, also making terrible money, only to eventually arrive at the end of the road and realize they have to do something completely different.

It is unsustainable for every professor to train 10 PhDs in their career, because there aren't going to be 10 professorships (or even 3) for those PhDs to fill. Funding has to grow at the same exponential rate as the number of researchers. It did, from roughly 1950s to 1980s, as the university system expanded to accommodate the Boomer generation. It has slowed since, and the PhD to professorship pipeline got longer and leakier. It's doing a tremendous disservice to the bright, well-intentioned young people who join PhD programs.
by hhutw | 2026-02-19 22:51:57+00:00
I think IMO art is about conveying human ideas/emotions that’s beyond words. So it’s more about what the artist intentionally or unintentionally brought into the piece. With AI “art”, it’s just filling noise into the original prompt. In that case, why don’t you just show me the prompt instead of the noisy lossy “art” piece?
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-19 22:52:18+00:00
Relax. Anyone who's genuinely interested in the question will see with a few searches that LLMs can play chess fine, although the post-trained models mostly seem to be regressed. Problem is people are more interested in validating their own assumptions than anything else.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15498

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17186

https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_gpt_eval
by muzani | 2026-02-19 22:52:23+00:00
Claude hasn't improved much on UI compared to the first generations of Claude. I'm surprised people still use it for this. What's worse is the UI startups built on top of Claude.

GPT 4o was the first good one, capable of handling animations and such. Gemini 3 Pro is actually at a junior designer level. Arguably Gemini 3 Flash might do better than Claude 4.6 Opus.
Show HN: Exit Calc – Free calculator that models PE exits for business owners
by quietbuilder_ | 2026-02-19 22:52:42+00:00
I built this over a weekend to solve a problem I kept seeing: founders of profitable businesses have no idea what a PE deal actually looks like in practice.
Most assume selling = all cash out the door. The reality is PE firms typically want you to roll 20-40% of your equity into the new structure. That rolled equity then participates in the second exit (when the PE firm sells the platform 3-5 years later, usually at 2.5-3x).
The maths is surprisingly non-obvious. Rolling 30% at a 6x EBITDA multiple, then getting 3x on the rolled portion at second exit, often beats selling 100% upfront.
The tool is three steps: enter your business details → get a valuation range based on sector-specific EBITDA multiples → use a slider to model cash at close vs. rolled equity at second exit.
Tech: Next.js 14, Vercel, Tailwind. No sign-up required to see the valuation — email gate is only before the deal modelling step.
Would love feedback on the multiple ranges and the UX flow.
by qudat | 2026-02-19 22:53:47+00:00
> It can be a co-worker and it can also replace you and your whole team.

You drank the koolaide m8. It fundamentally cannot replace a single SWE and never will without fundamental changes to the model construction. If there is displacement, it’ll be short lived when the hype doesn’t match reality.

Go take a gander at openclaws codebase and feel at-ease with your job security.

I have seen zero evidence that the frontier model companies are innovating. All I see is full steam ahead on scaling what exists, but correct me if I’m wrong.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-19 22:53:52+00:00
Regarding your statement about the guns used against animals being different than the ones used against people is just wrong. The AR-15 is about the perfect choice against wolves or wild boar, just as a single example.

As far as the waiting period, there's a perfectly valid reason against that as well... if you are under eminent threat of violence from someone and want to be able to defend yourself/family/home today... it stops you from being able to do so.

I am okay with the (relatively quick) background check... when I bought my first guns a few years ago, I had to wait about an hour in the store for the results to come back (Phoenix). Even then, I'm not okay with secondary offense restrictions (weed, etc) as a restriction.
by selridge | 2026-02-19 22:53:56+00:00
That’s a question for someone who tattled about Microsoft and moaned about the people punished for book piracy.

Pirating a leaked book before launch and trying to dampen enthusiasm is basically as bad as you can get without actually competing. Even in that extreme case, no one was punished.

Nor should they have been but it sort of makes the moral argument for “Harry Potter shouldn’t be on kaggle” much weaker.
by The_Fox | 2026-02-19 22:54:16+00:00
Yesterday my manager sent LLM-generated code that did a thing. Of course I didn't read it, I only read Claude's summary of it. Then I died a little inside.

It was especially unfortunate because to do its thing, the code required a third party's own personal user credentials including MFA, which is a complete non-starter in server-side code, but apparently the manager's LLM wasn't aware enough to know that.