MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 23:04:54+00:00
> In 2004, the second President Bush set a goal of returning to the Moon by 2020 and going to Mars in the 2030s, starting the Constellation program. In 2017, Trump announced that astronauts would return to the Moon, with the Artemis III project now planning a landing no earlier than 2028

Between those two the economic effects of invading Iraq came home to roost. We “won” the invasion. But lost the board.
by ChuckMcM | 2026-02-03 23:05:06+00:00
Sadly the media calls the lawful use of a warrant a 'raid' but that's another issue.

The warrant will have detailed what it is they are looking for, French warrants (and legal system!) are quite a bit different than the US but in broad terms operate similarly. It suggests that an enforcement agency believes that there is evidence of a crime at the offices.

As a former IT/operations guy I'd guess they want on-prem servers with things like email and shared storage, stuff that would hold internal discussions about the thing they were interested in, but that is just my guess based on the article saying this is related to the earlier complaint that Grok was generating CSAM on demand.
by danans | 2026-02-03 23:05:15+00:00
> Could this lead to more software products, more competition, and more software engineers employed at more companies?

No, it will just lead to the end of the Basic CRUD+forms software engineer, as nobody will pay anyone just for doing that.

The world is relatively satisfied with "software products". Software - mostly LLM authored - will be just an enabler for other solutions in the real world.
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by i-wan | 2026-02-03 23:05:20+00:00
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Is "time-on-page" a metric you care about for internal docs or public templates?

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by tkb | 2026-02-03 23:05:39+00:00
The children's maths/puzzle book "Nut-Crackers" (John Jaworski and Ian Stewart, 1971) had a slide rule printed at the back of the book - two strips each numbered 1-50 - to cut out and try out.

The authors commented "If you get really interested you can make much more accurate slide rules, or you can buy them for about £1." I fear not any more...
by scarlehoff | 2026-02-03 23:05:50+00:00
The issue I see here is: what counts as social media?
Is this site social media? Will anything with a comment box be banned? If yes, what about online newspapers? If not, how will they prevent almost-social-media sites from popping up?

How will they deal with mastodon? If I have an instance in my home server at home, do I need to check people reading my posts are over 16 or is the onus on the servers where they are logged in?

For the record, I'm totally in favour of banning social media for kids and, contrary to other people here, I think it can be done without deanonymising anyone.
I just don't think it is possible. Ban facebook, x, and bluesky and tomorrow all the cool kids will be using facemagazine, y, and greensky.
by hrishii_209 | 2026-02-03 23:06:38+00:00
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by XorNot | 2026-02-03 23:07:04+00:00
Except generals get sacked all the time in actual wartime conditions, it's not even clear why this particular instance is notable.

China isn't in wartime, it is in a build up phase and there's perfectly good reasons to dismiss underperforming generals.

Which isn't to say that's what happened here, but China sacking a general as a data point doesn't mean anything without appropriate context.
by mhb | 2026-02-03 23:07:26+00:00
I looked at the beginning, but don't plan on going through 140 pages. You might find people on the Israel reddit who would be willing to do that.

Based on what I read though: Your fundamental assumption that it is significant that you're an atheist and this is a religious conflict on both sides is flawed. Many Israelis are atheists or cultural Jews. Jews have no notion of a caliphate or intifadah. It is confusing and unfortunate that Israel is a Jewish state, but that was forced on it by the numerous persecutors of Jews in the other places they have tried to live.

Here is Sam Harris on the topic of Israel: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/why...
by palmotea | 2026-02-03 23:07:32+00:00
> The unfortunate reality is that every generation has the power to change things if they want to.

That's an illusion. I think what you're really doing is putting unreasonable demands on the entire baby boomer generation, then blaming them for not succeeding at an impossible task. I mean, seriously, you really think, say, some boomer factory worker in Ohio is to blame for not foreseeing the effects of some 1980-era policy on 2026 or even 2006? They didn't have the benefit of the hindsight that we have.

It sounds like you're really holding tight onto blame, but what good does that do you? It solves no problems, and at best, alienates people from you.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-03 23:07:38+00:00
> It was at this point I truly began to appreciate Murphy’s law. In my case, anything not precisely specified and tested would without fail go wrong

After 20 years of system engineering, I just expected this to always be the case. Until my most recent job with a bunch of startups, where people fly by the seat of their pants, there's no communication, documentation, protection or testing, for anything. I am pissed off daily that things don't go wrong, because people now think this is normal, and it goes against everything I've learned from experience. It seems I stumbled onto the corollary of Murphy's Law: when you expect everything to go wrong, nothing does.
by cayleyh | 2026-02-03 23:08:15+00:00
I too feel this is a huge part of it, coupled with the fact that "basics" of last generation (a home you own, a stable job that doesn't overwork you on evenings and weekends, affordable options to have a family) are also being priced out of many peoples lives. You feel like you're not matching what your parents and cultural artifacts tell you you should be achieving at your age, and at the same time you're flooded with influencers on ski trips to Japan or snorkelling in Jamaica every other weekend, and it's a perfect recipe for feeling bad about your life no matter how well off you're doing compared to yesterdays median statistic.
by LAC-Tech | 2026-02-03 23:08:36+00:00
Rust also hides allocation, and both the standard library and community best practices encourage many smaller allocations, which makes it much harder to reason about performance characteristics of your code.

So what you say is definitely true if you do an allocation heavy, heap fragmenting, RAII style of programming. Which is the context Rust was born in, right? A kind of C++ app dev context where that was (is?) the prevailing meta.

You're also completely glossing over the incredible complexity you get in all thee weird intersection of rust features. And there are a LOT of features. Reasoning about those are not free from a mental overhead stand point.
by Pepp38 | 2026-02-03 23:09:10+00:00
Yeah, I’ve seen that too.

I always feel a bit uneasy with that pattern though. It kind of pushes the responsibility back to the user and adds friction, and it still doesn’t help when things go wrong accidentally (tab suspension, crashes, backgrounded apps).

Once that happens, there’s no warning and no signal that anything was lost.

Is that just something teams generally accept, or have you seen other ways people deal with it?
by alicexzhang | 2026-02-03 23:09:33+00:00
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by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-03 23:09:39+00:00
This is SO exciting to see!

One analogy to our current moment in software is to think of skyscrapers in cities. In the early days of skyscraper construction, most knowledge needed to build one was concentrated in Chicago and New York, so those were the only places really building serious skyscrapers. It took a while but eventually the knowledge diffused out into the industry and the world.

Now we take for granted that high quality skyscrapers are in every city, with the tremendous space efficiency they give.

So is the same diffusion happening to software? It really looks like it! Knowledge of building and operating large-scale software seems to have reached a point where countries and companies no longer need to rely on Silicon Valley companies (and Microsoft) for software. (Note this is less about location and more about capability level, the skyscrapers/cities analogy breaks a little there)

Anyway every country and company can now build its own complex software. It’s been like this for a bit, but current US circumstances did the world a favor when it nudged Europe to get serious.

Software is headed for an exciting and multi-color future and I’m so here for it.
by munificent | 2026-02-03 23:09:51+00:00
> Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad

It's all lighthearted hypotheticals until someone you love or you yourself in a moment of inattention make a catastrophic mistake.

In theory, we don't need guardrails on roads. Just stay on the fucking road and if you swerve off it, you'll get a lesson in why that's a bad idea.

In practice, we are primates whose cognitive systems are made of squishy grey goop and we make mistakes all the time. Building systems that turn predictable mistakes into catastrophic consequences is what we used to call "poor engineering".
by gnavadev | 2026-02-03 23:09:55+00:00
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by mbivert | 2026-02-03 23:10:06+00:00
> The only difference between a cult and a religion is popular acceptance.

That's typically caricature. I encourage you to study things more thoroughly before allowing yourself to form an opinion. One simply can't know a subject before having thoroughly studied it.

> It's just you PREFER the christianity bullshit.

I'm not Christian.

Regardless, Christian teachings are freely available. Anyone can practice on their own. You'd be right to critic the church − the institution: people have done it for a while, hence in particular the fair amount of subsects.

Scientology's "highest teachings" are kept private. Its primary purpose seems to be raising money by abusing people's naivety. Compare that to the Christ's « love thy neighbor as thyself. » Very distinct essences.

Which one promotes social stability?

> How is how or where I choose to live my life self centered? I am simply saying I prefer China's way. If you don't prefer it, then don't live there.

I think you've essentially said « I don't care whether people around me get slaughtered, because I'm not the target audience. » Allow me to find this self-centered. And still to find it okay-ish.

> Does beautiful architecture equate with truth?

Not what I was hinting at.

> Additionally all of the things you mentioned are not rational or logical

They actually are, but I haven't articulated the reasoning fully. Nor do I feel encouraged to articulate it. If you're truly in good faith, enough has been already said for you to do your own research
by squibonpig | 2026-02-03 23:11:25+00:00
Random objects floating in space do not have GPUs on them which generate heat. You need to move the heat from GPUs to a radiator, so you are describing the actual solution of radiators in a roundabout way. Radiators weigh an amount and cost money. The consequence of factoring this in with optimistic assumptions is that it's about 1/4 as efficient to build space compute as earth compute. It's hype bullshit.
by Andaith | 2026-02-03 23:12:25+00:00
Will some(most? a few?) state govts start publishing all the same data just for their own state?

I wonder if this will become a competitive advantage? States that publish nothing will get less FDI or local investment because the risks are harder to calculate?

Actually, will this affect different types of insurance?

It's such an insane problem for a developed nation to have, has anyone given serious thought to the long-term affects of this?
by rasz | 2026-02-03 23:12:44+00:00
American American or 'American' with account registered in Nigeria/India using VPN to post on social media?

"How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-in...

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-accidentally-...

or maybe VPN using Canadian secessionist from Thailand?

https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2025/12/04/rage-or-real-exp...

For Europeans ID is not as big of a deal as losing democracy thru foreign influence manipulating public opinion on a massive scale.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-03 23:13:23+00:00
> opinion

It's not an opinion-based claim. Maybe I missed something that would make me incorrect, but whether you made up details that make OP look bad is a factual matter. It's true or it isn't.

Also I said nothing about my opinion "outweighing" anyone else. Where did you get that from?

> hide behind some weird pretense

I'm sorry if it came off that way. I wasn't going for any weird pretense, and don't think most people would read the comment that way.
by danans | 2026-02-03 23:13:29+00:00
Not if they don't have access to capital. Lacking that, they won't be building much of anything. And if there a lot of people seeking capital, it gets much harder to secure.

Capital also won't be rewarded to people who don't have privileged/proprietary access to a market or non-public data or methods. Just being a good engineer with Claude Code isn't enough.
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by simonw | 2026-02-03 23:14:20+00:00
My experience is that coding agents as-of November (GPT-5.2/Opus 4.5) produce high quality, production-worthy code against both small and large projects.

I base this on my own experience with them plus conversations with many other peers who I respect.

You can argue that OpenAI Codex using Electron disproves this if you like. I think it demonstrates a team making the safer choice in a highly competitive race against Anthropic and Google.

If you're wondering why we aren't seeing seismic results from these new tools yet, I'll point out that November was just over 2 months ago and we had the December holiday period in the middle of that.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-03 23:14:31+00:00
Well written article that sums up what is happening.

Some of these tech billionaire oligarchs even proudly call themselves propagandists:

https://gizmodo.com/im-a-propagandist-palmer-luckey-on-the-f...

And you can see corporate alignment even bring this propaganda scheme further. The All In podcast is a MAGA podcast now. Amazon is bribing … I mean funding the Melania documentary. Tim Cook banned the ICE reporting apps. Etc.
by kcplate | 2026-02-03 23:14:37+00:00
I am sure how from my comments you could have any idea what my opinion about Don Lemon in this situation would be…

But if you must know, I think it’s a long shot that he will be convicted, but he damn sure didn’t make it easy on himself. He should have followed his own advice on his livestream when he was in the car and said “I don’t think I should go in…”
by milesvp | 2026-02-03 23:15:20+00:00
I would contact Facebook legal directly with documents showing the problem. Legal’s job is always to minimize liability for the company, and they have levers they can pull in any organization, no matter how “hyper scale” they claim to be.

Bonus points for figuring out the correct language to use to imply repercussions for failure to act without any actual threats. Patio11 has written about similarly worded letters with regards to debt collections and banking, and I know that there are all kinds of magic incantations in law for all kinds of transgretions.
by bojan | 2026-02-03 23:15:54+00:00
The home is the largest asset, but the one you're living in. I personally agree with the other guy, I'd happily support a housing market crash, artificially induced if needed.

However, it's more nuanced. I can support risking that my house gets less worth than my mortgage, because I consider the probability of not being able to pay off my mortgage very low. I am guessing that people who feel less secure financially do see a house as a last-resort asset, even at the price of their children not being able to afford a home. And that's the root cause that should be fixed with policy I think.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-03 23:16:51+00:00
Once you get your design polished, than consider partnering with a good Contract Manufacturer to do a trial run. Some will handle the ISO, CE, IC, UL and FCC paperwork for you. Make sure your Patents and Trademarks are locked down in both the manufacturing and marketed countries, or some ambitious folks will try to rip you off later. If your projected volumes attract profit sharing offers, than expect 10% to 14% of wholesale cost as a normal ask.

Tooling up a production line for even a toothbrush is well over $1.5m to get the first unit off the line. Building these factories is a different skill set, and everybody is bad at it at first.

Note hardware has a 1:6 success rate compared with service companies.

Best of luck, =3
by whh | 2026-02-03 23:17:24+00:00
I’ve been scratching my head on this one too. You’re probably right about the bitter lesson... at the end of the day, plain English instructions in the context window are what do the heavy lifting.

That said, I reckon that’s actually what this project is trying to lean into. It looks like it's just standardising where those instructions live (the SKILL.md format) so tools can find them, rather than trying to force a new schema.

Fair play to them for trying to herd the cats. I think there's an xkcd comic for this one somewhere.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-03 23:17:27+00:00
> lawfare is... good now?

Well, when everything is lawfare it logically follows that it won't always be good or always be bad. It seems Al Capone being taken down for tax fraud would similarly be lawfare by these standards, or am I missing something? Perhaps lawfare (sometimes referred to as "prosecuting criminal charges", as far as I can tell, given this context) is just in some cases and unjust in others.
by natoliniak | 2026-02-03 23:17:45+00:00
> (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia mostly) where they eat most of the EU funds

"Eat" the funds? whaat? Is EU really viewed as some kind of charity to the ungrateful "easterners" in France? does surrendering their market and massively adapting and opening their economies to the dominant western EU economies completely goes unnoticed in this context? The provision of cheap educated workforce to the western companies also never happened?

BTW, Poland probably has the most pro-EU population with a full awareness that soon we will likely become a net payer.
I am also starting to be convinced that this patronizing attitude from the "real" Europeans that is starting to drive EU skepticism in the eastern flank. peace.