MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryan_j_naughton | 2026-02-09 19:50:13+00:00
>From my understanding on this issue, spouses of US citizens are handed a green card after paperwork is shuffled, there is no pursuing it.

This is incorrect. You do need to pursue it. Just because your friends did pursue it once they were able to, doesn't mean it is automatic. One needs to decide if they want to get their green card or not once they are married to a US citizen.
by kube-system | 2026-02-09 19:50:51+00:00
If you think people are going to cut in front of you, provide a safety cushion large enough to account for that. Aggressive drivers almost universally will consume the forward part of the space cushion you leave. At most you will simply need to lift the accelerator to maintain space. The only time someone cutting in front of you should require hard braking is if they also brake hard.

It does require patience to do this, because all aggressive drivers will use the space you provide. But ultimately the travel time difference in flowing traffic is negligible.
by srean | 2026-02-09 19:51:17+00:00
Ah! That's not bad but it's not the same thing. Good nevertheless.

I can 'show' (or point someone to a) a sight that I am not myself creating in anyway. The word I am looking for would mean to 'make you hear' in the same may to show is to make you see.

I showed him the distant tower.

I ??? him the faint sound.
by Morromist | 2026-02-09 19:51:17+00:00
Sure, social media is bad for kids. Why can't their parents regulate them though? Isn't keeping kids away from dangerous things a basic requirement of being a parent?

I propose passing laws that make parents who let their kids on social media pay fines and risk having social media sites blocked by their ISP rather than just making all adults have to get an "internet license".
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-02-09 19:51:19+00:00
> The story here isn't private equity doing the normal private equity thing, it's that shopping malls are dying.

That's true, but to me the more interesting question is: Why?

In Europe and Asia, indoor shopping malls are thriving. They're all over the place, and very popular. This place is a stone's throw from where I live, and it's always crowded: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_City_Seiersberg

When I go to the US, indoor malls are either depressing ghost towns, or they're luxury-only complexes with a heavy security presence and a seemingly-intentional lack of amenities. (Like a Starbucks that only has three tables despite ample interior space, nowhere else to eat, etc.)

What's driving the weird variance in shopping patterns? Naively, I'd expect shopping malls to be more popular in the US, as Asia and Europe also tend to have "shopping districts" inside their (usually walkable) towns that often function, effectively, as open-air malls.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-09 19:51:22+00:00
> Next time Putin will kidnap Zelenskyy with the exact same reasoning.

Putin DID do that. He ordered him kidnapped. And it wasn't international law stopping him, it was the Ukrainian army and apparently some regular Ukrainians.

Putin has tried to kidnap him at least twice, and sent out murder squads for him probably several dozen times now.

Putin did not face consequences for this, in fact a number of countries that profess to respect international law protected him against International law: South Africa, China, Mongolia, Belarus, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Azerbeidjan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and India.

Also, as I pointed out, "international law" didn't stop Maduro from committing warcrimes, he also sent out murder squads that even killed children, it didn't stop Putin from doing the same. Nothing at all changed for international law at all.

The only thing victimized is people's illusions about international law. Maduro is himself a war criminal! So using international law grounded arguments to protect him ... fuck that, even if you're technically right.
by mlhpdx | 2026-02-09 19:51:47+00:00
In a perfect world, yes. But mechanisms aren’t perfect and it’s entirely possible if not likely that steps will be missed as friction increases over time and things wear.

I’m not saying these things matter much in this context.

The clock will still be far more accurate than purely mechanical version. And, re-synchronizing it is as trivial as turning the knob, just as you would for the all mechanical mechanism.
by dietr1ch | 2026-02-09 19:52:30+00:00
The balance between safe following distance and letting people cut in varies a lot by city. Maybe he learnt to drive elsewhere?

I remember being too aggressive when I got to the Bay Area, and learning how nice it was to be let into the lane I needed to avoid being forced on a 5mi U-turn. When visiting back home I was too nice and people told me so.

I've reached a balance. Aggressive enough not to be taken advantage of, but being nice to drivers in need, specially when it doesn't really change things for me, like when letting a driver in costs me nothing because of how bad traffic is.
by post-it | 2026-02-09 19:52:39+00:00
> Agent harnesses have not improved much since then. There are things Sketch could do well six months ago that the most popular agents cannot do today.

I think this is a neglected area that will see a lot of development in the near future. I think that even if development on AI models stopped today - if no new model was ever trained again - there are still decades of innovation ahead of us in harnessing the models we already have.

Consider ChatGPT: the first release relied entirely on its training data to answer questions. Today, it typically does a few Google searches and summarizes the results. The model has improved, but so has the way we use it.
by chrisandchris | 2026-02-09 19:53:35+00:00
An interesting thing I notice now is that people do not like companies that only post about outages if half the world have them ... and also not companies that also post about "minor issues", e.g.:

> During this time, workflows experienced an average delay of 49 seconds, and 4.7% of workflow runs failed to start within 5 minutes.

That's for sure not perfect, but there was also a 95% chance that if you have re-run the job, it will run and not fail to start. Another one is about notificatiosn being late. I'm sure all others do have similar issues people notice, but nobody writes about them. So a simple "to many incidents" does bot make the stats bad - only an unstable service the service.
by tenthirtyam | 2026-02-09 19:53:54+00:00
> "AI" will probably lead to some kind of "digital cancer"

Gosh I've just imagined someone asking an AI agent to code a computer virus to infect software "X". The virus' code will be wonderfully complex and therefore so will the response of the AI responsible for keeping "X" uninfected and in good working order.

I was imagining code becoming awesomely complex even without the adversarial element in play.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-09 19:54:30+00:00
In countries like the US and UK with FPTP voting systems, proportional representation would help a lot. As it would make it a lot more viable for candidates outside of the main two parties to stand (and actually have a chance of winning).

(although in a UK context, it's looking highly likely that we'll have a "changing of the guard" in the next election with both Reform and Green party making significant inroads at the expense of the more established Conservative and Labour parties)
by casey2 | 2026-02-09 19:54:33+00:00
The city-state of California was playing with fire when they made undocumented workers a political class. The governments only willing to play legal games for so long.

It wasn't the federal government that broke the law first. You can disagree with a law and still follow it. Sanctuary cities don't exist out of the goodness of someones heart. Sanctuary cities exist because they make money at the expense of Americans. (and it's no coincidence these cities have major homelessness problems)
by generallyjosh | 2026-02-09 19:54:48+00:00
That mirrors my experience so far. The AI is fantastic for prototyping, in languages/frameworks you might be totally unfamiliar with. You can make all sorts of cool little toy projects in a few hours, with just some minimal promoting

The danger is, it doesn't quite scale up. The more complex the project, the more likely the AI is to get confused and start writing spaghetti code. It may even work for a while, but eventually the spaghetti piles up to the point that not even more spaghetti will fix it

I'll get that's going to get better over the next few years, with better tooling and better ways to get the AI to figure out/remember relevant parts of the code base, but that's just my guess
by post-it | 2026-02-09 19:55:26+00:00
> Maybe I'm just lucky that my colleagues all have Uni degrees in CS and at least a few years experience.

That's why. I was using Claude the other day to greenfield a side project and it wanted to do some important logic on the frontend that would have allowed unauthenticated users to write into my database.

It was easy to spot for me, because I've been writing software for years, and it only took a single prompt to fix. But a vibe coder wouldn't have caught it and hackers would've pwned their webapp.
by rob74 | 2026-02-09 19:55:38+00:00
I think you've got that quote backwards. In full it reads:

> Unequally or unjustly, perhaps, as these laws sometimes operate, and imperfect as they appear to the Idealist, they are, nevertheless, like the highest type of man, the best and most valuable of all that humanity has yet accomplished.

Or (to shorten it a bit): "These laws (of capitalism) [...] are nevertheless [..] the best and most valuable of all that humanity has yet accomplished". So this is only an unlimited belief in the virtues of capitalism, not in the virtues of rich people.

From the introduction:

> Carnegie believed in giving wealth away during one’s lifetime, and this essay includes one of his most famous quotes, “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” Carnegie’s message continues to resonate with and inspire leaders and philanthropists around the world.

I really wonder what Carnegie would think about his successors dismantling USAID?
by kristjan | 2026-02-09 19:55:49+00:00
Sponder - Filter and transform RSS feeds or Podcasts (https://sponder.app)

Different RSS clients provide different filtering options, and lots of them limit you to a few keywords and/or put them behind a $7-12/mo subscription. I'm building Sponder so you can curate what you see, and it just presents another RSS feed, so you can keep using your favorite client but fill in the feature gaps.

Right now it can merge and filter by string or regex, and next I'm building (because it's what I want) history replay and smarter podcast rerun detection. it's new and I'm very open to feedback and feature requests.
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-09 19:56:04+00:00
[warning/apology - this comment regards USpol specifically]

Our media landscape has people focusing on basically everything except what we need to be. I am not sure that liberal democracy will survive the information age. So much effort goes into the process of argument, we aren't as a whole really thinking about how to solve our very real problems.

China's technocratic rule, after some, shall we say, growing pains (hunger pains? Is it fair to say that when millions of people starved to death?), seems a lot better at creating a coherent strategy for economic growth and international soft power.

One of my great fears is that democracy was the right model in the past decades and centuries, but that it won't keep up with the laser focused technocratic rule that a competent bureaucracy can potentially muster.
Show HN: A forced ranking exercise to stop priority inflation
by anticlickwise | 2026-02-09 19:56:06+00:00
In many planning meetings, everything sounds important. So everything stays.

Weeks later, progress slows not because people aren’t working hard, but because attention is split across too many “priorities.” I kept seeing the same pattern: teams avoid prioritization not out of laziness but because it forces uncomfortable trade offs.

So I built a small tool called What Comes First. It removes scoring frameworks and debate and forces a single constraint: if only one thing can be first, what actually comes first?

This started as an internal exercise. I built it solo and used Notion heavily to stay organized and recall decisions while iterating.

Would love feedback from people who’ve dealt with priority inflation in real teams.

Link: https://www.cognu.app/what-comes-first
by avidiax | 2026-02-09 19:56:06+00:00
I assume you are referring to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpHyMtDcPY

> building a distance buffer", that is the proxy the insurance companies want to use for risk assessment.

The cam car did not need to have a hard braking event (HBE) to start building distance.

Even if they did, the insurance companies are looking for a pattern of HBEs to assess risk. I agree that there is a theoretical high-risk driver that never has a HBE because they always try to maneuver instead of breaking. There are other heuristics for this (high lateral acceleration, high jerk). And the ultimate heuristic: failing to avoid accidents, thus having a claim history.
by jon-wood | 2026-02-09 19:56:19+00:00
Are you (and the other’s going all Pikachu face here) really that naive? Have you looked around lately? News is a race to the bottom for clicks and ad revenue, photo sharing sites are turning people into extremists because it results in more ad revenue than just showing your friend’s holiday photos, and search engines prefer giving malware laden installers over the legit version of open source software.

So yeah, the assumption unless shown otherwise is that things will get worse, and the user is just there to be sold whatever shit is paying most.
by csa | 2026-02-09 19:56:24+00:00
> reasonable policing

Policing SOPs in East Asia (incl. Singapore) is different than policing SOPs in the west. Typically people are warned, often multiple times, that they are in danger of experiencing the less kind side of local law. Once the switch is flipped, this gentle hand becomes an iron fist.

I will bet dollars to donuts that the person who was held without charge for decades (mentioned above) was completely not surprised that they were severely punished. They may not have liked the punishment, they may not have agreed with the opaque process, but they almost certainly can’t say that they didn’t know it was coming.
by fragmede | 2026-02-09 19:56:37+00:00
We decided that getting people to pay for software was a fool's game. Open source was the bait. "Figure out a different business model"
they said. If open source as a concept had come from Wall Street and not academia, it would have been rejected. Charging people money for things has been how things worked since the concept of money was invented. The real conversation is that we, as software developers, are not good at money. The best software gets taken over by money and business folk. Oracle, VMware, Splunk, and Datadog all come to mind as companies charging huge amounts of money for software that don't sell ads (but are too expensive). But they do not make money by selling ads.
by malux85 | 2026-02-09 19:56:49+00:00
And now it's become an anti-signal. If I search for a hotel the top N results are for other hotels, and then results for travel agents, and buried somewhere in this sea of uselessness is the result I searched for. The managers at Google have become self interested promotion hunters, and the programmers weak sycophants. It wasn't like this in the early days when I was there, the best ideas won, but then the B player managers were hired and the rot started.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2026-02-09 19:56:49+00:00
So, they basically say: we cannot pay back in a timeframe that's longer than our whole existence.

Sounds like somebody tries to get a lot of money for AI and won't be able to ever really deliver.

Proper German phrase: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/jemandem_geht_der_Arsch_auf_G...
And the translation of a similar spirit (but not literally):
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jemandem_geht_der_Arsch_auf_G...
by einr | 2026-02-09 19:56:56+00:00
The iMac Pro is a 2017 computer, although it was sold until 2021. So given that it runs Sequoia, that's anywhere from six to ten years of OS support. OCLP will probably figure out how to patch Tahoe for the iMac Pro soon enough, but until then, you can rejoice in the fact that you don't have to run Tahoe.

It could be worse -- at least you didn't spend tens of thousands on a 2019 model Intel Mac Pro in 2023. (Yes, they still sold them, and owners of those will be SOL in 2028. That's probably the worst OS support story in recent Apple history, and it's for some of their most expensive machines)
by sathish316 | 2026-02-09 19:57:51+00:00
Some of the hardest problems with Remote Personal Agents from a Security perspective are:

1. Persistent id

2. Ephemeral credentials to access API keys

3. Periodic rotation and expiry of keys

4. Prompt injection and Lethal trifecta attacks from other untrusted users

5. Supply chain attacks from marketplace skills

This 3 actor system where OpenClaw is treated as an untrusted internal threat actor that can’t be trusted, OpenClaw attackers as malicious actors and you as the root user is not solved well by many Password managers.

Hashicorp Vault solves these problems by giving you fine-grained access to keys and expiry of each token
by jrflowers | 2026-02-09 19:57:51+00:00
>without a human babysitting it.

From the original blog post:

>Every agent would hit the same bug, fix that bug, and then overwrite each other's changes. Having 16 agents running didn't help because each was stuck solving the same task.

>The fix was to use GCC as an online known-good compiler oracle to compare against. I wrote a new test harness that randomly compiled most of the kernel using GCC

The blog post used the word autonomous a lot, which I suppose is true if Nicholas Carlini is not a human being but in fact a Claude agent.

>I'd challenge anyone who are negative to this to try to achieve what they did by hand, with the same restrictions (e.g. generating full SSA form instead of just directly emitting code, capable of compiling Linux), and log their time doing it.

Why would anyone do that? My point was that why does the company _not_ make a useful tool? I feel like that is a much more interesting topic of discussion than “why aren’t people that aren’t impressed by this spending their time trying to make this company look good?”

>This is the new floor.

Aside from the notion that they maybe intentionally set out to create the least useful or valuable output from their tooling (eg ‘the floor’) when they did not say that they did that, my question was “Why do they not make something genuinely useful?”. Marketing speak and imaginary engineers failing at made up challenges does not answer that question.
by Applejinx | 2026-02-09 19:57:53+00:00
I don't believe that is true, but if it WAS true that human technology was covertly pushed to this end: there are people out there who are demanding that this technology come up with social manipulations (using language) to reduce the human population to a SPECIFIC 500 million.

Or less.

And I don't think it's collar color they're going to be checking against.

So I guess I'm saying I agree that this is powerful and dangerous. These are language models, so they're more effective against humans and their languages. And self-preservation, empathy, humanity do not play a role as there is nobody in there to be offended at the notion of intentionally killing more than 9/10 of humanity… for some definitions of humanity, ones I'm sympathetic to.
by johndaskovsky | 2026-02-09 19:58:09+00:00
I'm migrating ~150 components from the legacy CMS. I started by planning the work in OpenCode and OpenSpec, but hit a wall. As context accumulated across a long session, things got progressively slower and eventually stalled out entirely.

So over the weekend I built a framework to solve this: Nightshift.

Nightshift is a batch processing system that breaks long-running work into discrete items and delegates each one to specialized subagents. Three agents with strict role separation handle the work:
- A manager that reads the queue, delegates tasks, and tracks state
- A dev agent that executes the steps for each item
- A QA agent that independently verifies the results

Each agent invocation starts with fresh context (no accumulated bloat), and the dev agent self-improves its own step definitions as it goes — meaning it actually gets faster and more reliable as it processes more items, not slower.

I tested it on the component migration and it worked great. It ran independently (while I watched the Olympics), processing items through the queue without intervention. The self-improvement loop meant later items completed faster than earlier ones.

The tool is general-purpose — it's not specific to CMS migrations. Any batch of similar tasks that can be defined as steps with validation criteria can be run as a "shift." If you've got an idea for how to use this on one of your projects, let me know!
by WillAdams | 2026-02-09 19:58:17+00:00
My solution for this is to rate-limit political contributions --- they may only be made in an amount equal to what a minimum-wage worker might reasonably be expected to donate from a week's wages (say 10% of hourly min. wage * 40), as a physically written out check or money order physically signed by hand (at least an "X" mark) and mailed in a first-class envelope with at least a similarly signed cover letter explaining the reason for the donation.

If this causes the extinction of the political lobbyist, I'm fine with that.
by noodlesUK | 2026-02-09 19:59:12+00:00
Can someone in GitHub senior leadership please start paying attention and reprioritise towards actually delivering a product that's at least relatively reliable?

I moved my company over to GH enterprise last year (from AzDO) and I'm considering moving us away to another vendor altogether as a result of the constant partial outages. Things that used to "just work" now are slow in the UI, and GH actions fail to schedule in a reasonable timeframe way more than they ever used to. I enjoy GH copilot as much as the next person, but ultimately I came to GH because I needed a git forge, and I will leave GH if the git forge doesn't work.
by robocat | 2026-02-09 19:59:28+00:00
Do you know any links about whether successful founders learn about failures or not?

From my limited experience, founders concentrate on their current risks.

I also think they are good at filtering out the deluge of failure porn that is mostly irrelevant to their business: there's millions of ways to fail. Yes, it helps to learn the patterns. But I'm unsure learning even famous examples like "The Osbourne effect" helps a founder. (reëdited)

What was your emotional drive for creating this?
by nickwrb | 2026-02-09 20:00:08+00:00
Currently building https://auth-email.com

Many mainstream email providers have switched to require OAuth for login, but there are tons of clients and apps that don’t (or can’t) support OAuth.

Auth-Email is a secure, private relay that takes out the need to worry about OAuth: authorize mail accounts one time in our dashboard, then use an ordinary username and password for IMAP, POP, and SMTP via our server.
by boothby | 2026-02-09 20:01:02+00:00
I thought I was going to look at a car when I clicked that link. I scrolled the last 80% of the way out of morbid curiosity. This secondary quest was not disappointing: no car photos. So weird. Perhaps this is a complaint about the title.

But since it's all about the interface, I must say, the idea of a sports car with a touch screen is still rather terrifying.