MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-09 22:47:36+00:00
> vehicle changes lanes in front of you;

I will never understand why this is so rage-inducing for people.

Changing lanes is a necessary part of navigating, even during busy traffic. People on an on-ramp will need to get in front of somebody. People needing to move back to the right because their exist is coming up will need to get in front of somebody.

Your lane is not a birth right. Let people merge.

> you slow down to maintain a safe following distance, another car sees a gap and changes lanes in front of you. Repeat for your entire commute.

This happens because literally everyone is tailgating each other so hard that the gap in front of you is the only gap that exists for people to change lanes to either get on or off the highway.
by hannahstrawbrry | 2026-02-09 22:47:48+00:00
Few things will make me choose against using a tool/framework/software faster than seeing that I need to join a discord server to get necessary information to use or install it. If Discord is the primary method of user support I am greatly apprehensive but if documentation is locked inside a server, I'm out. There is no software or tool I have seen that's good enough to make me brave the headache that comes with that knowledge all being locked inside of a discord community.
by tavavex | 2026-02-09 22:48:16+00:00
I feel like asking someone working IT about the average technical literacy of the people they work with is similar to asking an EMT about the health of an average person. Not to discredit your experience, but you should account for the fact that a lot of the people you helped were the ones who were already filtered out by their inability to fix trivial problems.

I'm not saying this issue doesn't exist. But I want to reframe it as the low bar for using tech dropping through the floor. Previously, you had to have at least somewhat of an idea for what you're doing, but nowadays most people who don't care about tech are reliant on using the "grandma school of thought" in memorizing basic patterns and relationships without having a bigger model of what's going on. This mostly affects newer generations and older people who only started using technology recently, because this strategy didn't fly in the past. But technical literacy is falling for everyone.

But the absence of the low bar doesn't mean that everyone's chasing it. In high school, I was surrounded by peers who were interested in tech, sometimes being far better than me. The average level of understanding was pretty alright. In university, lots of people did just fine. I know countless people my age who are highly skilled in computer science. We're not in the majority, but there's plenty of us. I'm tired of it always being framed as an issue stemming from some kind of unique lack of personal responsibility and low intelligence related to age, used to apply stereotypes to hundreds of millions of people. Every average user will optimize actually understanding anything out of their brain if given an opportunity, it's just that that opportunity had only appeared fairly recently.
by bityard | 2026-02-09 22:48:17+00:00
I like this in principle. More managers should be in tune with how their people are doing because happy people lead to better work. I'm skeptical about the accuracy of wellbeing metrics when they are self-reported, though. And also whether people will just reflexively click the highest rating for each metric after the first few weeks. Managers will see "line went up" and think they fixed their team, when in reality the employees just got bored of the answering the same questions every day.

Not saying I have answers to these, but thanks for trying to move the needle the right way.
by zukzuk | 2026-02-09 22:48:50+00:00
Glad to hear E2EE is coming soon, but it’s been “soon” for probably a year now. It’s a bit odd that encrypted notifications still don’t work, and I’d argue it’s a very big caveat with regard to privacy and security.

Our main reason for using Zulip is that we work in a highly regulated space (healthcare) and would like to be able to safely talk about things. I suspect this sort of situation is a major motivator for Zulip adoption, so it’s weird that transit encryption was left as an afterthought.
by alexsmolen | 2026-02-09 22:49:04+00:00
I'm working on TrailTool, which aggregates CloudTrail for analysis in both UI and AI contexts. I've always found it tough to tie together CloudTrail logs into meaningful narratives useful not only for security investigations but also "role engineering" (i.e. reducing privileges on human-operated IAM roles). The idea is to make this info available via MCP for agent workflows as well, so you can get high quality, low latency, manageable context size CloudTrail data.

If you want to kick the tires, you an deploy a CloudFormation stack to a Sandbox AWS account - see https://trailtool.io/install.html
by D-Machine | 2026-02-09 22:49:09+00:00
> "LLMs cannot backtrack". This is exactly wrong.

If it wasn't clear, I am talking about LLMs in use today, not ultimate capabilities. All commercial models are known (or believed) to be recursively applied transformers without e.g. backspace or "tombstone" tokens, like you are mentioning here.

But yes, absolutely LLMs might someday be able to backtrack, either literally during token generation if we allow e.g. backspace tokens (there was at least one paper that did this) or more broadly at the chain of thought level, with methods like you are mentioning.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-09 22:49:32+00:00
It's more like,

"computer, search the entire flock database, which in partnership with ring also includes everybody's doorbell and security cameras[0], for this person and plot a map of their whereabouts over time[1]"

0: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-safety-and-ring-partn...

1: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-nova-smarter-investig...
by ajross | 2026-02-09 22:49:32+00:00
A client cert can be stored, so it provides at least a little bit of identification certainty. It's very hard to steal or impersonate a specific client cert, so the site has a high likelihood of knowing you're the same person you were when you connected before (even though the initial connection may very well not have ID'd the correct person!). That has value.

But it also doesn't involve any particular trust in the CA either. Lets Encrypt has nothing to offer here so there's no reason for them to try to make promises.
by xve | 2026-02-09 22:50:08+00:00
Unfortunately, almost any phrase can become a thought terminating cliche, the phases in the Wikipedia page are just the easiest ones to spot. Counterintuitivly, I've heard people say things like "let's just think about this", "how about we take a step back", "let's pause and come back to this", etc. as a thought terminating cliches. This leads me to conclude there's something more going on here. On the surface these types of statements imply reflection, carefull consideration or a call for thoughtfulness but somehow the way they get used does the opposite. Maybe it's the tone, or maybe it's the intent of the speaker. Maybe it's when someone just wants to end the conversation they use whatever phrase is necessary to just end it, while preserving some degree of plausible deniability (not wanting to reveal that they simply want to end the conversation).

The opposite might be true as well, maybe the example you used can be a way to start a conversation and not end one.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-09 22:50:11+00:00
I am not mixing up the 2

First row, for https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06075

| 1 adult | 2 adults (1 working) |
| 0 Children | 1 Child | 2 Children | 3 Children | 0 Children |1 Child | 2 Children | 3 Children |
| $29.31 | $61.37 | $83.72 | $107.95 | $41.83 | $50.47 | $54.77 | $63.97 |

1 adult + 0 children = $29.31
2 adults + 0 children = $41.83

The only way these numbers make sense if if you assume one income. Then

1 adult + 3 kids = $107.95
2 adults + 3 kids = $63.97

Given the first example was one income, this 2nd one makes no sense. 5 people cost more than 4. These numbers are wrong.
by duncangh | 2026-02-09 22:50:16+00:00
Driving and living in Atlanta after living in Charleston and Raleigh felt like transitioning from a modern cooperative society to an island of cannibals. The amount of aggression needed to change lanes largely regardless of attempts to signal good faith and politeness is baffling. Driving is a fascinating ritual with vastly differing norms across regions. It would be interesting to learn if anthropologists have studied this
by stickfigure | 2026-02-09 22:50:38+00:00
* The US has the largest military logistics system in the world and regularly uses it to fight wars. It's a well exercised muscle.

* Being close to the front lines is as much of a liability as an asset. China's ports and shipbuilding facilities will be bombed out, the US' will not.

* This will be a naval and air war. You can't march troops across the strait, and as we've seen in Ukraine, flying them is a no-go either.

* China hasn't fought a war within the living memory of anyone of fighting age.

* You have a weird way of trying to diminish what represents most of the economic power of the world. Let's also add the Philippines and Vietnam to those "oddballs". China will be alone. And don't forget that China's population is shrinking.

* War fatigue is not an issue here when it comes to Taiwan. Adventurism in Venezuela was emboldening. We'll see what happens with Iran. I live in the generally pacifist part of the US, and I think most folks would demand that we intervene.

The most likely start to hostilities will be if China declares a blockade. Someone in the US will call their bluff - with warships. If China starts shooting, we're in a war. Moral outrage is an (often unfortunate) American trait.
by bumby | 2026-02-09 22:50:58+00:00
I’m not against that idea but there are some knock-on effects we should be careful of. For example, it will make it hard for younger people to get a job. If I have to pay a teenager the same as someone with a decade or more of work experience, that teenager probably won’t get a job.

With a lot of these discussions, we need to be careful about the seductively simple solutions.
by overgard | 2026-02-09 22:51:07+00:00
I think you're ignoring how much poor people rely on each other and relatives to get by. That's our societies "safety net". That doesn't mean they're "thriving" or even comfortable, nor is it even sustainable (what happens when mom/pop die or require assistance and can't help their kids anymore?).

9000/yr for a car alone isn't crazy at all, just look at average car prices. I just had to do my vehicle renewal today and it was $500 for a 5 year old car that's not particularly expensive! If I look at insurance and car payments, I easily spend over 700 a month. This is on a 30k car, so it's not like I went and bought the biggest luxury vehicle possible.
by cj | 2026-02-09 22:51:07+00:00
The main counterargument:

You buy 1 BTC at $60k in 2024. In 2025 it’s valued at $100k, so you pay taxes on $40k gain.

Now it’s 2026 and you finally decide to sell the BTC for the original price of $60k.

Except you’ve paid taxes on $40k in paper gains that disappeared before you sold the asset.

How do we solve that?

(Replace “bitcoin” with “startup stock option” if you really want to illustrate the problem - imagine having to pay taxes on stock options you decide to never exercise)
by yakkomajuri | 2026-02-09 22:51:27+00:00
I've honestly been looking for this -- a modern slick db management app, both for local dbs and remote (just for me though, no collaboration). Existing tools are solid but they feel outdated.

Downloaded and onboarding was nice. A couple of things:

- The initial schema for my local Postgres table was showing public but there were a bunch of tables showing that clearly were not tables in my public schema. Changing the schema to something else and back worked.

- Limiting the free version on number of tabs feels... annoying. I appreciate that a lot of stuff out there doesn't even have a free version but the software automatically opened with a few tabs (or I accidentally clicked on it?) and then as soon as I clicked on my first table I was paywalled. I feel like I'll accidentally open more tabs (even though I really just wanna work on one at a time) and get frustrated, which is more likely to drive me away than to pay at this point.

Note btw that ofc you have to make money and this is a product that I feel I'd be willing to pay for but I got frustrated within 2mins of using it so it wasn't like oh I've felt the value let me pay, it was more like I haven't even gotten to value yet.

Great work anyway and I'll keep trying and provide feedback as it comes! Thanks for building this
by xg15 | 2026-02-09 22:51:36+00:00
It seems reasonable for server-to-server auth though? Suppose my server xmpp.foo.com already trusts the other server xmpp.bar.com. Now I get some random incoming connection. How would I verify that this connection indeed originates from xmpp.bar.com? LE-assigned client certs sound like a good solution to that problem.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-09 22:51:41+00:00
This is nothing new; business gotta pay for itself after all.

But ads don’t have to ruin a great company.

A century or more ago, top tier journalistic institutions created norms of putting strong barriers between the reporting and advertising sides of the house. That kept trust with customers and made journalism a sustainable long term business.

So, It’s mostly Google that couldn’t keep its hands out of the cookie jar (not solely Google, but they’re an industry leader.) It really doesn’t have to go south, it’s not the default, but Google did set the tone for Silicon Valley in exactly the way wise journalism company leaders did for their industry in the late 1800s. If OpenAI has a long term view on this they’ll follow a journalism industry model instead of a cookie jar model - but they have to believe deep down that customer trust is worth more than ad dollars long term.

There are reasons to hope: OpenAI has more and fiercer competition than Google; including Chinese competitors that can’t be lobbied away. Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral and Kimi all have free chat UIs!

I remain stubbornly optimistic.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-09 22:53:16+00:00
It's more that police will use it for their own personal inquiries- to track their girlfriends, potential girlfriends etc. This happens enough already with license plate readers:

- Sedgwick, Kansas (2024): Former Police Chief Lee Nygaard resigned after it was discovered he used Flock cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her new partner 228 times over four months, according to The Wichita Eagle and KAKE.

- Menasha, Wisconsin (Jan 2026): Officer Cristian Morales was charged with misconduct in office for allegedly using the Flock system to track his ex-girlfriend, WLUK-TV reported. Morales admitted to using the system due to "desperation" and "bad judgment".

- Orange City, Florida (2025): Officer Jarmarus Brown was charged with stalking after reportedly running his girlfriend's license plate 69 times, her mother's 24 times, and her brother's 15 times over seven months, the Miami Herald reported.

- San Diego, California (2021): Sergeant Mariusz Czas was arrested for stalking his ex-girlfriend using police resources

https://fox11online.com/news/crime/menasha-police-officer-ac...

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/police-chief-gets-caug...
by its_magic | 2026-02-09 22:53:50+00:00
> I think theft is a poor answer

Theft? HA! Nope, they attempted to rob me, on multiple levels. Categorically refused.

> Even worse is that you can't know what it may cost you in the future. My friend couldn't open a business account the other day. After many phone calls he was lucky enough to find someone that told him it was because he left a bank account $67 overdrawn when he was younger.

Oh no! How will I ever conduct business without the government or bank's permission? I guess the only alternative is slavery to some giant corporation, or death! What should I do?

As an American, I would probably like to consult with Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Smedley Butler, Lysander Spooner, Mark Twain, etc and get their thoughts on this matter.

> That's in New Zealand

Ah! Found a serious problem. Not the problem, mind you, but a problem.

> I strongly suspect he never would have found out the reason in many countries.

Yes, I agree, there are many shithole countries in the world. I live in one, too. One learns to adapt.

> His only recourse was to use a more expensive provider (maybe $600 per year).

Yes, this corrupt country tried to screw me in a similar type of way, years back. I refused to play ball and just did what I wanted instead, very carefully and quietly. Now that problem is permanently resolved, for a fraction of what it would have otherwise cost.

> Please don't assume I am tolerant of abuse. I vindictively avoid some brands (and even all products from some countries).

One time, I went to the local Wal-Mart a couple days before Christmas. I parked at the back of the lot as the place was packed full. No problem, I don't mind walking. But then imagine my displeasure to observe that some complete asshole in a giant lifted pickup truck has double parked near the front of the lot.

That guy was way more important than anyone, in his own mind, clearly. Someone just had to educate him about how so very wrong he was. The job fell to me, as I was the closest warrior at hand.

So I sent a shopping cart sailing at warp 11 into his truck. ("Engage!") It just so happened to impact right on the corner of the cab, behind the door (the worst spot possible--thanks, God), and fucked it all up. Mission Accomplished. I returned home and celebrated.

I know of another funny incident where a similar type of person was similarly unimpressed by some douchebag in a Maserati (this is hillbilly country, home of Chevys and Fords) who likewise felt entitled to take up two parking spots on a busy main street where parking was limited. In this case the guy dumped a tractor bucket load of wet hay into his open convertible top.

The "victim" of that incident was raging on Facebook, offering a reward for whoever turned the guy in, etc, but everyone was just laughing at the SOB.

You'd be surprised what you can get away with, when everyone around you is quietly wishing somebody would do just that thing.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-09 22:53:55+00:00
Might help to have a companion app that uses the same embedded webview that is nearly indispensable at least for gui distros... something akin to MS Compiled Help (CHM) ... which I always thought was a pretty great idea.

I mean... it'd be a trip down the MS route, but maybe working with the Cosmic devs on this one... getting a baseline webview in place at the core, tooling support for help, email, etc. Getting Cosmic, Gnome and KDE all on board would be a massive boost and cover most users.
by agwa | 2026-02-09 22:54:18+00:00
XMPP identifiers have domain names, so the XMPP server can check that the DNS SAN matches the domain name of the identifiers in incoming XMPP messages.

I've seen non-XMPP systems where you configure the DNS name to require in the client certificate.

It's possible to do this securely, but I agree entirely with your other comment that using a public PKI with client certs is a recipe for disaster because it's so easy and common to screw up.
by carrozo | 2026-02-09 22:54:22+00:00
I just released 'elsewheres', a trio of short films that I wrote, directed, shot, edited, and produced.

It's free-to-watch (with a voluntary donation model) on my site, but was made for the Big Screen, so I'm also planning a DIY pop-up cinema tour across Europe in the months ahead.

https://www.carrozo.com/elsewheres
by nh2 | 2026-02-09 22:54:31+00:00
What about 1:1 chat?

I'm using Element X and there seems to be no search button for messages at all.

So I cannot even search for "shopping" to find the shopping list, or "address" to find the address a friend sent me some days ago.

It is simple to see why the normal user will have a bad everyday experience.

The app uses 160 MB user data on my phone which fits a lot of text, why cannot I just search it?
by exabrial | 2026-02-09 22:55:04+00:00
I had this experience with an app called Copilot Money. Wonderful native osx app, with a nice dark mode, but between the non-optional-emojis-burning-in-your-retinas in everywhere plus a few missing key features I couldn't take it. I asked their customer service if they could be made optional and they referred me to the suggestion tracker of course.
by tabbott | 2026-02-09 22:55:18+00:00
You can do everything with the keyboard, and we do write everything with screenreader accessibility and colorblindness accessibility in mind.

But we don't have a dedicated accessibility tester on staff, so we're reliant on people reporting issues that bother them in actual use.

I should also mention there's a nice TUI app: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal, which can be helpful for some people.
by wqaatwt | 2026-02-09 22:55:33+00:00
Yet somehow the scientific method as we know it evolved in (and only in) Christian universities.

Of course there were significant regressions but the Roman world wasn’t exactly some pro-science utopia. Where do you think Christians got the idea of burning witches?

Climate change, the plague and extreme political instability (that already was ripping the Roman world apart for centuries) and the resulting societal, economic and demographic collapse pretty much made the dark ages inevitable (and the church was the only thing keeping the lights on however dim they were).
by cloudfudge | 2026-02-09 22:55:59+00:00
Also, it really doesn't happen that often. I'm that guy following at 3 or 4 car lengths in rush hour traffic and people aren't constantly funneling in front of me. It's a hypothetical "problem" that is bigger in your head than in reality.

Sometimes I think it's just people's reflexive scarcity mindset that tells them "that spot must not be that desirable or someone would be in it."

Regarding the broader topic of hitting your brakes, I find that I can commute 20 miles in stop and go traffic and only tap my brakes a couple of times. Helps to pace yourself behind the car 3 cars ahead of you instead of the guy right in front of you.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-09 22:56:04+00:00
The premise of advertising is that it's manipulation to trick you into spending money you wouldn't otherwise spend. We know this because companies pay for ads with the intention you spend more money.

Every ad you see materially makes you a little bit poorer and cuts off a small amount of your life. Think of it this way - every ad is a few seconds lost, maybe a few minutes, and a few cents down the drain.

But this isn't understood because it's so abstracted. The link between your personal shopping habits and advertising is not understood, and, in fact, cannot be understood, because it's fundamentally brain hacking.

If you believe you are immune to ads, you are not. Or, at least, you can never prove it.

Cumulatively, this adds up. If you never saw ads, how much longer would you live? A year, maybe two? If you never saw ads, how much richer would you be? 200%, 500%? Who knows.