MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pear01 | 2026-02-10 18:38:54+00:00
Are they going to stop because a company fights a subpoena? Or perhaps in the case of some touted alternatives, even if a subpoena were acted upon, no data would be intelligible?

Maybe they'll just show up to your house next time. I'm not sure why people complain about US companies complying with US government subpoenas. Isn't that how it is supposed to work? Imagine if the opposite were routine, would you like that?

People want to stop using Gmail to feel agency in a situation where the real problem is their own government. The real answer thus lies in deeply reforming a federal government that really both sides of the aisle (in their own way) agree has gotten too powerful and out of control.
by gdulli | 2026-02-10 18:38:54+00:00
Credit cards provide convenience and cash back benefits. Some might prefer to pay cash for everything for ultimate privacy, and that's fine. But credit cards are the compromise I make. I can still pay cash when I think it's appropriate for a given transaction.

Using Google or Apple Pay so I can tap my phone instead of my card gives me no extra benefit that I care about and complicates my ecosystem with another party.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-10 18:39:42+00:00
I just point to Covid lockdowns and how many people took up hobbies, how many just turned into recluses, how many broke the rules no matter the consequences real or imagined, etc. Humans need something to do. I don’t think it should be work all the time. But we need something to do or we just lose it.

It’s somewhat simplistic, but I find it get the conversation rolling. Then I go “it’s great that we want to replace work but what are we going to do instead and how will we support ourselves?” It’s a real question!
by linkregister | 2026-02-10 18:39:48+00:00
According to this article, it is treated as a request and often denied by the company. The target of the warrant did go to court to quash it, but that was already after Google declined to share the information.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/hom...

edit: it appears that either 1. the Washington Post is printing misinformation, or 2. I have made a grave misinterpretation.
by mamonster | 2026-02-10 18:39:50+00:00
They contribute to GDP spend, but from the fiscal point of view they are a drag. As for actual percentages per country, I think it heavily varies. In EU i think family spending is like 3% of GDP.

The hope is that this drag will either generate higher cash flows later (i.e money spent on education now will allow them to create value for economy later) or reduce outflows later (i.e a child that gets braces and dental health care now won't spend their whole adult life dealing with teeth issues on taxpayer's dime).
by sReinwald | 2026-02-10 18:39:57+00:00
One thing I have noticed on Mounjaro is a (at least subjectively) significant decrease in impulse spending / buying random crap off Amazon. I have ADHD and that has been a real problem for quite a while - even with ADHD medication (Elvanse/Vyvanse in my case).

The part of Mounjaro that regulates the craving side of the weight loss equation (like reducing 'food noise' and the desire for sugary and fatty foods) seems to also affect other behaviors due to Mounjaro's effect on the brain's reward circuitry. I believe there are also early preliminary studies that indicate it can help with addictions like alcoholism.

Those drugs really are quite something. Shame they're so damn expensive. Insurance here in Germany is unfortunately legally prohibited from covering GLP-1 class drugs for weight loss unless you have a diabetes diagnosis.
by Atlas667 | 2026-02-10 18:40:06+00:00
You are displaying your ignorance with pride.

Just because you don't know what capitalism is, doesn't mean other people do not know.

Just because you only read sources from capitalist media platforms doesn't mean there isn't a lot of "how" or "why" capitalism doesn't work.

My main message was about the profit motive incentivizing the creation of addictions for the profit of tech companies. The invisible hand may expand the development of tech, but the visible hand needs to make people addicted and unhappy.

Think a little before you speak, please. Or read a little more.
by nwienert | 2026-02-10 18:40:07+00:00
It's a miracle drug for reducing immune overreach, like better than anything we know of. This is also completely outside of the weight loss effects. My lower back is improved by it.

It'll come to be known that these drugs are far better for people in a broad way than even thought today. They seem to have at least 4 effects that individually should be considered a "miracle."
by claudiulodro | 2026-02-10 18:40:25+00:00
Looks like Forsyth County is the richest county in Georgia and has a median household income of apparently $140k/yr (and median home price of ~$500k), so ballpark something close to that hourly rate does seem necessary if you want to have a median life *within that county*.

But nobody is advocating for setting the minimum wage equal to what it would cost to comfortably live in the wealthiest part of a state.
by t0bia_s | 2026-02-10 18:40:40+00:00
Total Fertility Rate (births per woman) un US:

2015 | 1.83

2016 | 1.80

2017 | 1.75

2018 | 1.71

2019 | 1.68

2020 | 1.62

2021 | 1.63

2022 | 1.67

2023 | 1.62

2024 | 1.62

2025 | 1.62

2026 | 1.61

Politizacion of long term trend wont help here.
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-10 18:40:42+00:00
The goal is to eliminate humans as the primary actors on the planet entirely

At least that’s my personal goal

If we get to the point where I can go through my life and never interact with another human again, and work with a bunch of machines and robots to do science and experiments and build things to explore our world and make my life easier and safer and healthier and more sustainable, I would be absolutely thrilled

As it stands today and in all the annals of history there does not exist a system that does what I just described.

Be labs existed for the purpose of bell telephone…until it wasn’t needed by Bell anymore. Google moonshots existed for the shareholders of Google …until it was not uselful for capital. All the work done at Sandia and white sands labs did it in order to promote the power of the United States globally.

Find me some egalitarian organization that can persist outside of the hands of some massive corporation or some government that can actually help people and I might give somebody a chance but that does not exist

And no mondragon does not have one of these
by aeuropean12 | 2026-02-10 18:40:54+00:00
Well yes it has changed. But look at everything that can be accomplished with these abstractions/libraries/frameworks that exist.

Why reinvent the wheel.

Yes, there might be less room for the Wild Wild West approach, as mentioned in the article: But that is the structure of compounded knowledge/tooling/code available to developers/others to create more enriched software, in the sense that it runs on what is available now and provides value in today's age of computing.

I also had a 486DX2-66. And I recall coding in Assembly, Pascal, C etc.

I do not miss it. These days I can create experiences that reach so many more people (a matured Interneet with realtime possibilities - to simplify) and with so much more potential for Good. Good in the sense of usefulness for users, good in the sense of making money (yeah, that aspect still exists).

I do understand your sentiment and the despairing tone. There have been times when I was struck by the same.

But I do not miss 1995 and struggling with a low-level formatted HD and Assembly that screwed up my floppy disks, or the worms that reached my box, or the awful web sites in terms of UX that were around, or pulling coaxial cables around for LAN parties.

It's just a different world now. But I get what you are saying, and respect it. Stay optimistic. :)
Show HN: Update UK Butchers Meat Price Tracker
by wolfer | 2026-02-10 18:41:30+00:00
Hey all!

Following up on a previous post (had a bit of a hug of death) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255827

Have made a lot of improvements to make it actually useful and move to a stable domain (desktop still best, but it at least works now on mobile):

Butcher list - Lots more butchers added to the scraper.

Browse by Cut - This is the big one. Instead of scrolling through 1000+ individual products, you can now browse by standardised cut (Ribeye, Brisket, Lamb Leg, etc). I've mapped products from a selection of popular butchers to ~154 canonical cuts. Click a cut and see every matching product across all sites, sorted by price/kg. Looking to improve taxonomy over time with ongoing missed matches/remaps where the automation was wrong.

90-day price ratings - I've been collecting price data for a while now, so the site can tell you if a product is at its lowest price in 90 days () or within 5% of that low (). Handy for spotting whether a "sale" is actually a good deal.

Fresh vs Frozen indicators - Shows up on both the cut list and product detail pages. Filter by storage type if you only want one or the other.

Table layout - Ditched the card grid for a proper table. Much easier to scan prices when everything's lined up in columns. Sortable by name, protein, type, price, number of options, or number of sites stocking it.

Full row click - Click anywhere on the row, not just the tiny product name link. Small thing but it was annoying me.

Looking for as much feedback as I can get, please share!
Show HN: I built a Burger Week map for my city using Claude Code in an hour
by samgutentag | 2026-02-10 18:41:43+00:00
Hey HN! I built this map for Santa Barbara Burger Week, a local event where ~40 restaurants each offer a $10 burger.

The local paper publishes a list of participating restaurants but not a map, so I built one!

The entire app was built using Claude Code in one session. The stack is intentionally minimal: a single index.html, vanilla JS, Leaflet with MarkerCluster, and restaurant data in a plain JS file hosted on GitHub Pages.

Wrote up a blog post about my (very simple) Claude Code workflow and what worked/didn't: https://www.gutentag.world/blog/2026-02-10-let-claude-cook-b...

Source: https://github.com/samgutentag/sbburgerweek
by rayshan | 2026-02-10 18:41:46+00:00
This is one Chrome Extension I can't live without.

I've been using this ever since Manifest v3 killed Hacker News Extension Suite (HNES). HN comment threads are getting longer over time. Top links often have 1k+ comments now. The AI summary saves me a ton of time. I also use the extension with the new sorting function, sorting frontpage links by points, so I can focus on what's important.
by cubefox | 2026-02-10 18:41:52+00:00
A similar idea occurred to the Austrian-Americam cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster in a 1960 paper, titled:

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026

There is an excellent blog post about it by Scott Alexander:

"1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled"
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-sing...
by upmostly | 2026-02-10 18:41:57+00:00
First of all, Homeworld was an iconic game for me growing up, so as other people have said, thank you for being apart of its creation.

I could not agree more. It feels like the creativity is back. I grew up building fun little websites in the 90s, building clan websites for Quake 2.

That creativity died somewhere between Node.js, AWS, npm, and GitHub.

Some might say, well, that's growing up and building serious apps.

Maybe. But it doesn't change that I spent the last 15 years doing the same frontend / backend wiring over and over again to churn out a slightly different looking app.

The last 2 years have been amazing for what I do. I'm no longer spending my time wiring up front ends. That's done in minutes now, allowing me to spend my time thinking about solving the real problems.
by prasoonds | 2026-02-10 18:42:13+00:00
Great question. Basically, you would change your billing.config.ts and update the price.

Then, you run the `sync` command - it matches prices by a composite key: `productId:amount:currency:interval`. Since the amount has changed, it won't find a match for the old price. So, it will create a new price in Stripe and update the Price ID. Your new customers automatically get the new price in the Pricing Table component.

Your old subscriptions stay on the old price - which is still active in Stripe. We haven't added support for migrating these customers to the new price yet but it's in the roadmap!

I would like to add that we've tried making the porcelain / user API for the library to best fit today's commonly uses SaaS pricing models so most actions usually do what you would expect (like this price update) but, it's hard to strike a balance between customizability and the _just works_ factor.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 18:42:32+00:00
> I also wonder about the extra burden of some of the over the top car seat rules in US (up to 12 years old!?) also causing challenges for parents. Both parents probably need a bigger car, especially if you have 2-3 kids. If you have grandparents that help out, they need the same.

If nothing else, it's yet another area of increased expense.

In the early 90s when I was a child, it was pretty normal to shuttle 3 kids + parents around in a cheap little late 80s used sedan or station wagon. These days 3 kids + parents looks more like a big expensive 4Runner or Highlander.
Show HN: Self-hosted MCP server for SQL, SSH, and FAISS indexing
by mattv8 | 2026-02-10 18:42:37+00:00
RAGtime is a self-hosted MCP server and FAISS/PGVector manager that lets AI assistants run real operations on your infrastructure: SSH commands, SQL queries through SSH tunnels, git repo indexing, filesystem searches. It connects Claude, OpenAI, or Ollama to your environment via both MCP protocol and OpenAI-compatible chat completions API.

I originally built this over Christmas break as a "self-serve business intelligence" tool to stop fielding repetitive coworker questions ("write me a query for X," "where's the logic for Y?") but now it's morphed into a dev tool as well. I couldn't find anything that centralized these tools and served them over chat in one place.

I've been using it daily (via MCP) for work and it's been such a huge development accelerator for me. I want to share what I've built with the community, get feedback, or if you wish, contributions. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or use cases.

(You can stop here, unless you want more technical details...)

Tools: The agent gets access to configurable tools you define: SSH connections to servers (run commands, check logs, restart services), database queries via SSH tunnels (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL) with parameterized queries to prevent injection, and vector search over your indexed content. Each tool is defined in a config with connection details, and you can enable/disable them per use case. The database tools return structured results the LLM can reason about. SSH tools stream output for long-running commands. There's also a Python REPL tool for data manipulation when the LLM needs to transform query results.

On the RAG/indexing side: Chunking uses Chonkie's CodeChunker with Magika (Google's ML model) for automatic language detection, then tree-sitter for AST-aware splitting that respects semantic boundaries (functions, classes, blocks). Each code chunk gets a header with file path and import context so the LLM knows where it came from. Retrieval uses MMR (Maximal Marginal Relevance) to reduce near-duplicate results, balancing relevance with diversity via a configurable lambda parameter. FAISS indexes are portable and can be exported.
by tardismechanic | 2026-02-10 18:42:40+00:00
See also (the confusingly named) playwright-cli

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

Different from the cli used for running tests etc that comes bundled with PlayWright

Sample use:

playwright-cli open https://demo.playwright.dev/todomvc/ --headed
playwright-cli type "Buy groceries"
playwright-cli press Enter
playwright-cli type "Water flowers"
playwright-cli press Enter
playwright-cli check e21
playwright-cli check e35
playwright-cli screenshot
by ericmcer | 2026-02-10 18:42:43+00:00
Great article, super fun.

> In 2025, 1.1 million layoffs were announced. Only the sixth time that threshold has been breached since 1993. Over 55,000 explicitly cited AI. But HBR found that companies are cutting based on AI's potential, not its performance. The displacement is anticipatory.

You have to wonder if this was coming regardless of what technological or economic event triggered it. It is baffling to me that with computers, email, virtual meetings and increasingly sophisticated productivity tools, we have more middle management, administrative, bureaucratic type workers than ever before. Why do we need triple the administrative staff that was utilized in the 1960s across industries like education, healthcare, etc. Ostensibly a network connected computer can do things more efficiently than paper, phone calls and mail? It's like if we tripled the number of farmers after tractors and harvesters came out and then they had endless meetings about the farm.

It feels like AI is just shining a light on something we all knew already, a shitload of people have meaningless busy work corporate jobs.
by JMKH42 | 2026-02-10 18:43:19+00:00
I have a bad disc, and while its still bad, a couple weeks of freestyle swimming workouts makes it not hurt for a year or two and lets me mountain bike comfortably again. Something to try if the usual stuff doesn't work, as it tends not to!

This was the disc between lumbar and sacrum. 1,000 ways to have a bad disc so results will vary a lot!
by ajross | 2026-02-10 18:43:44+00:00
> I like to hang out on fertility twitter.

I'm gonna assume that "fertility twitter" has about the same gender distribution as HN, and posit that you're all probably wrong. It's the mothers, not the dudes, who make the calls here. And to be blunt the dudes don't want to make it worth their while.

We've built a society that offers wealth and lifelong happiness through work, and offered that to everyone. And as a result doing things other than working is less attractive. As long as the aggregate value to an individual uterus (in salary, self-actualization, prestige, whatever) of having a child is less than, say, a six figure tech career, we're going to see less kids.

Want more kids running around to fill seats in your wealthy tech startup? Share the wealth. I'm serious here: if the answer isn't isomorphic to "you can make six figures having a kid" then it won't work.
by neutronicus | 2026-02-10 18:44:13+00:00
I don't join massive servers, but I use Discord almost exclusively with strangers.

All my IRL group chats are WhatsApp. Discord is for the local board game bar, various regional tabletop gaming scenes, my favorite basketball podcast, my favorite miniatures game, etc.

When I want to get into a community, these days I get a Discord link (which I guess I prefer to the Facebook Groups of a decade ago).
by ericmay | 2026-02-10 18:44:14+00:00
Cash can get misplaced or stolen, you have to keep going to an ATM to get more of it which for most costs money (my bank pays for ATM withdrawals globally for any fee), it's not nearly as convenient as a credit/debit card though it's cheaper. Though maybe it's not since merchants never lower prices and even if everyone switched to cash prices wouldn't go down. Also there are costs for the merchant to carry cash.

I think your everyday credit/debit card is still objectively better overall, even moreso for tourists which was the main topic.
by hoten | 2026-02-10 18:44:20+00:00
Do any of these support migrating the content of a Discord server (from some 3p archive tool)?

Can anyone suggest a good archive tool? The open source project I help run has ~10 years of conversations, bug reports, feature requests, etc. sunk into Discord, and obviously I want to preserve all that (not sure we'll end up leaving the platform, but it's good to have backups anyhow).

Our bug reports / FRs are in forum channels, and I've written a script to extract those and potentially import them into some bug-tracker. But I'd like something good that can archive the entire thing in a reasonable format.
by alexgarden | 2026-02-10 18:44:24+00:00
The skybox with texture maps was our original plan too. The problem was that GPUs didn't have enough RAM to hold anything high-res, so the universe looked like pixel-soup.

Rob Cunningham (lead artist) had the idea of "painting with light" using giant polygons and spicing them up with pixels to create a convincing distant galaxy that you got closer to with each mission. Genius.
by bitwize | 2026-02-10 18:44:30+00:00
Going from programming language to LLM is not the same kind of abstraction as going from assembler to Fortran or Algol.

With programming languages, there is a transparent homomorphism between the code you write and what the machine actually executes. Programmers use this property of programming languages to execute considerable control over the computational process they're evolving while still potentially at a high level of abstraction. With LLMs, the mapping between your input and the executable output is opaque and nondeterministic. This drives people like me batty.

A while back I wrote a Lisp koan:

https://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/Some-AI-Koans.html

Mine goes like this:

"A student travelled to the East to hear Sussman's teachings. Sussman was expounding on low-level development in Lisp, when the student interrupted him. 'Master Sussman,' said he, 'is not Lisp a high-level language, indeed perhaps the highest-level of all programming languages?' Sussman replied, 'Once there was a man who was walking along the beach when he spotted an eagle. Brother eagle, said he, how impossibly distant is the sky! The eagle said nothing, and flew away.' Thus the student was enlightened."

The story is in some sense true: I did meet Gerald Sussman and was in some sense enlightened by him. Another hacker was talking about working in a "low-level language" like Lisp, and I corrected him telling him that Lisp was in fact very high level. He said "Uh... I need Jerry to explain this to you. Jerry? Can you come here a minute?" "Jerry" was Gerald Sussman, who proceeded to explain to me that Lisp was a virtual machine, one which he implemented in silico for his Ph.D. thesis:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5731

Thus I was enlightened. If Lisp is a virtual machine, so are all programming languages. And even a buck JavaScript kiddie fresh out of boot camp, working in React, is working in machine code for the JavaScript+browser+React VM. An abstraction is a point of view, and the programmer working in a "high level" programming language is really just working in the same medium as machine code: computation itself. But with a point of view that offers more convenience.

LLM work is different. LLMs are enormously complicated algorithms that give probabilistic interpretations of loose, informal human languages. So instructing a computer through the filter of an LLM is inherently probabilistic, not to mention damn near inscrutable.

This is why LLMs are being met with more resistance even than compilers were. They're not the same thing. Compilers scaled the work, which remained essentially the same. LLMs are changing it.
by bearfox | 2026-02-10 18:44:41+00:00
I'm in the enjoy writing code camp and do see merits of the hybrid approach, but I also worry about the (mental) costs.

I feel that for using AI effectively I need to be fully engaged with both the problem itself and an additional problem of communicating with the LLM - which is more taxing than pre-LLM coding. And if I'm not fully engaged those outcomes usually aren't that great and bring frustration.

In isolation, the shift might be acceptable, but in reality I'm still left with a lot of ineffective meetings - only now without coding sessions to clear my brain.