MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by belter | 2026-02-06 21:45:20+00:00
"I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal hanging," Dr. Baden tells Alfonsi on the broadcast. He added: "Going over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40–50 years, no one had three fractures."

"Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy: A closer look" - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-a-close...
Show HN: Stik – Instant thought capture for macOS (open source, Tauri and Rust)
by massi24 | 2026-02-06 21:45:49+00:00
Hi, I built Stik because every note app wanted to be my second brain. I just needed something to catch a thought before it disappeared.

How it works:
Press [Cmd+Shift+S] from anywhere. A floating post-it appears. Type. Close. Back to work in under 3 seconds. Notes are saved as plain .md files in ~/Documents/Stik/.

What makes it different:
- No account, no cloud, no sync setup, no onboarding
- Notes are plain markdown files, open them in any editor
- On-device AI (Apple NaturalLanguage framework) for semantic search and folder suggestions, nothing leaves your Mac
- Built with Tauri 2.0 (Rust backend + React frontend), ~8MB binary
- DarwinKit sidecar handles NLP via a JSON-RPC bridge to Apple's ML frameworks

Tech stack:
Rust, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind, Tiptap editor, Swift (DarwinKit sidecar)

Install:
brew install --cask 0xMassi/stik/stik

Source:
https://github.com/0xMassi/stik_app

I'd love feedback on the architecture, especially the Tauri + Swift sidecar pattern for accessing Apple-only frameworks from a cross-platform runtime.
by tmpfs | 2026-02-06 21:46:11+00:00
We care about this porblem and are actively working on it, like the OP we also settled on shamirs secret sharing with a time lock mechanism.

However, there is still the issue of the service provider going offline or out of business which we don't have a solution for yet.

We have started with a good password manager and will be adding digital inheritance/social recovery soon! [0]

Take a look, thoughts and feedback welcome.

[0]: https://saveoursecrets.com
by throwaway894345 | 2026-02-06 21:46:15+00:00
> The right leaning person, just based on these facts…

To be clear, those aren’t facts, that’s delusion. Pretti objectively did not interfere at all. He was carrying a gun—that’s a fact—but he didn’t interfere. The federal agents approached him and pushed him back, and he retreated the entire time.

Moreover, a right leaning person wouldn’t delude themselves in this way except that they had previously coded the federal agents as “their side” and Pretti as “the other side”—if Pretti was a J6er and the ICE agent was a Capitol Hill police officer, our hypothetical right-winger would have been outraged at the killing as would everyone else (assuming it was equally as unjustified as the Pretti murder). We don’t even need a hypothetical, because the right was outraged that the J6ers were prosecuted and sentenced, and then jubilant when Trump pardoned them.

I’m also obligated to point out that I’m painting with a broad brush here. A small share of the right have, however reluctantly or timidly, spoken out against the mainstream right-wing claims that Pretti was doing something wrong. For example, Rand Paul gave an interview stating that Pretti was clearly retreating and there was no cause for the killing, and even MTG said that the right would be up in arms (no pun intended) if the roles were reversed. Kudos to those on the right who have the bravery to say obvious truths in times such as these, I guess.
by fastThinking | 2026-02-06 21:46:42+00:00
I think you’re missing the point a bit. Not every tool needs to be Figma, and honestly, that’s a good thing.

I’ve been using Figma for a while, and true, it’s powerful. At the same time it becomes increasingly complex, difficult, bloated overall. Simple tasks now require navigating through multiple menus, and the learning curve for new users is steep (took me a while to understand it, and the same experience had it acquaintances of mine). Sometimes I just want to sketch out an idea or make a task without dealing with all that overhead.

The no plugin support thing actually makes sense to me. I’ve had Figma slow down or crash because of poorly maintained plugins. Having a tool that just works, consistently, without worrying about plugin compatibility or security issues? That’s valuable.
And yeah, it’s a solo developer versus a massive company (that’s my understanding) but that is why it’s beautiful. Also it’s an uneven comparison if you ask me (but didn’t :)) ).

However, the fact that this is even being compared to Figma shows the quality of what’s been built. Not everyone needs enterprise features. Some of us just want a clean, fast canvas without the friction. Every new feature of Figma feels like an attempt to monopolize the entire market.

I think he did an incredible job. Good work. This has value.
by hungryhobbit | 2026-02-06 21:47:38+00:00
Please, Google was terrible about using the tech the had long before Sundar, back when Brin was in charge.

Google Reader is a simple example: Googl had by far the most popular RSS reader, and they just threw it away. A single intern could have kept the whole thing running, and Google has literal billions, but they couldn't see the value in it.

I mean, it's not like being able to see what a good portion of America is reading every day could have any value for an AI company, right?

Google has always been terrible about turning tech into (viable, maintained) products.
by phil21 | 2026-02-06 21:47:56+00:00
It’s just hyper-local nimby vs regular nimby.

Everyone where I live wants a corner store or corner bar 2 or 3 blocks away from them. Close enough to walk to conveniently but far enough they never have to know it exists unless they are personally interacting with the establishment in the moment.

No one wants such a thing a few houses down. So the local neighbors get their friends who live close by to join the local neighborhood meetings and rail against the noise/traffic/crime/etc. And of course the ever-present “property values” boogeyman. Houses directly next to a corner shop I guess are worth a bit less than the same house a block away. There also might be traffic!

Sitting through local neighborhood association meetings is exhausting. Anyone who actually desires to get things done burns out pretty quick.
by doctoboggan | 2026-02-06 21:48:10+00:00
> they (1) don't actually charge enough maintain the variable cost of operations

Why do you expect them to make money? Roads don't make money and no one thinks to complain about that. One of the purposes of government is to make investment in things that have more nebulous returns. Moving more people to public transit makes better cities, healthier and happier citizens, stronger communities, and lets us save money on road infrastructure.
by tjr | 2026-02-06 21:48:18+00:00
I think that's the question. Is a programmer expected to ever touch the source code? Or will AI -- and AI alone -- update the code that it generated?

Not entirely unlike other code generation mechanisms, such as tools for generating HTML based on a graphical design. A human could edit that, but it may not have been the intent. The intent was that, if you want a change, go back to the GUI editor and regenerate the HTML.
by hibikir | 2026-02-06 21:48:55+00:00
The surprise was not that they existed: There were chatbots in Google way before ChatGPT. What surprised them was the demand, despite all the problems the chatbots have. The pig problem with LLMs was not that they could do nothing, but how to turn them into products that made good money. Even people in openAI were surprised about what happened.

In many ways, turning tech into products that are useful, good, and don't make life hell is a more interesting issue of our times than the core research itself. We probably want to avoid the valuing capturing platform problem, as otherwise we'll end up seeing governments using ham fisted tools to punish winners in ways that aren't helpful either
by spockz | 2026-02-06 21:48:57+00:00
Apple has this thing called Legacy Contact which allows the same but then built in to the whole Apple account. This includes devices as well as the iCloud ~~and attached keychains. Granted, it is another hoop to jump through compared to presharing keys with each other.~~

It would be nice if your Apple account could be unlocked with some other keys as well apart from the primary one, but I guess that is what Apple calls the “Legacy Contact Key”.

Edit: okay so the keychain is excluded from this. So back to storing each others passwords in eachothers keychain…
by derefr | 2026-02-06 21:49:21+00:00
Doesn't necessarily need to be online. As long as:

1. there's a way to take many transcripts of inference over a period, and convert/distil them together into an incremental-update training dataset (for memory, not for RLHF), that a model can be fine-tuned on as an offline batch process every day/week, such that a new version of the model can come out daily/weekly that hard-remembers everything you told it; and

2. in-context learning + external memory improves to the point that a model with the appropriate in-context "soft memories", behaves indistinguishably from a model that has had its weights updated to hard-remember the same info (at least when limited to the scope of the small amounts of memories that can be built up within a single day/week);

...then you get the same effect.

Why is this an interesting model? Because, at least to my understanding, this is already how organic brains work!

There's nothing to suggest that animals — even humans — are neuroplastic on a continuous basis. Rather, our short-term memory is seemingly stored as electrochemical "state" in our neurons (much like an LLM's context is "state", but more RNN "a two-neuron cycle makes a flip-flop"-y); and our actual physical synaptic connectivity only changes during "memory reconsolidation", a process that mostly occurs during REM sleep.

And indeed, we see the same exact problem in humans and other animals, where when we stay awake too long without REM sleep, our "soft memory" state buffer reaches capacity, and we become forgetful, both in the sense of not being able to immediately recall some of the things that happened to us since we last slept; and in the sense of later failing to persist some of the experiences we had since we last slept, when we do finally sleep. But this model also "works well enough" to be indistinguishable from remembering everything... in the limited scope of our being able to get a decent amount of REM sleep every night.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2026-02-06 21:49:35+00:00
Thank you for the effort.

You mention the years a few times- the claim I was asked to cite was in the past tense and I deliberately sought sources from before the current regime. This is your sole criticism of the deBoer article. Antifa was still called Antifa and it was still short for anti-fascist in 2017 and 2021.

Wiki says:

>Some on the political left and some civil rights organizations criticize antifa's willingness to adopt violent tactics, which they describe as counterproductive and dangerous, arguing that these tactics embolden the political right and their allies.

>Both Democratic and Republican politicians have condemned violence from antifa

>CNN describes antifa as "known for causing damage to property during protests."

Among many other similar statements; I think your summary is inadequate.

I can't argue with false flag conspiracy theories, so I'll leave it at that.
by Flemlord | 2026-02-06 21:50:14+00:00
This is nothing - I can't believe AI music hasn't hit the mainstream yet. It's the most amazing thing I've seen since my original ChatGPT 3.5 wtf experience.
https://suno.com/playlist/fe6b642c-f4a8-4402-b775-806348640e...

This song was generated from my 2-sentence prompt about a botched trash pickup:
https://suno.com/s/Bdo9jzngQ4rvQko9
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-06 21:50:22+00:00
Consider systems that require continuous active stabilization to not fail because the system has no naturally stable equilibrium state even in theory. Some of our most sophisticated engineering systems have this property e.g. the flight control systems that allow a B-2 bomber to fly. In a software context you see these kinds of design problems in large-scale data infrastructure systems.

The set of system designs that exhibit naturally stable behavior doesn't overlap much with the set of system designs that deliver maximum performance and efficiency. The capability gap between the two can be large but most people choose easy/simple.

There is an enormous amount of low-hanging opportunity here but most people, including engineers, struggle with systems thinking.
by gamesbrainiac | 2026-02-06 21:50:27+00:00
This is the same guy that forced XBOX to increase profit margins to 30% and therefore destroyed any hope that Xbox would be a legitimate choice for gamers going forward.

This is the same guy that shoved AI down the throats of millions of Windows users that forced me to just turn off Windows updates and add bazzite in dual boot.

I remember a long time ago I was talking to an executive that worked at a startup that was eventually acquired by Cisco. After the acquisition, the executive team got coaches to train them to be "inspirational" leaders. One thing that was common was adding a quote from say Marcus Arelius in the signature of their emails to make them sound wiser.

We need to stop this hero worship. Microsoft built a moat, and capitalized on it. They used their connections to block others from coming into the fray.

I don't care what their theory of success is, their definition is cancerous; a malignant one.
by mothballed | 2026-02-06 21:51:34+00:00
Not thrilled about it, and I personally would rather see them repealed. I will concede compelled speech impositions have been interpreted more generously when they are commercial. I don't necessarily agree with it, but even if we concede they can happen, I hope that distinction is made for commercial vs non-commercial content. Though I'm not thrilled with it happening for either.
by falloutx | 2026-02-06 21:51:52+00:00
Its only revolutionary if you think engineers were slow before or software was not being delivered fast enough. Its revolutionary for some people sure, but everyone is in a different situation, so one man's trash can be other man's treasure. Most people are treading both paths as automation threatens their livelihood and work they loved, also still not able to understand why would people pay to companies that are actively trying to convince your employer that your job is worthless.

Even If I like this tech, I still dont want to support the companies who make it. Yet to pay a cent to these companies, still using the credits given to me by my employer.
by jweir | 2026-02-06 21:52:04+00:00
Remember having to write detailed specs before coding? Then folks realized it was faster and easier to skip the specs and write the code? So now are we back to where we were?

One of the problems with writing detailed specs is it means you understand the problem, but often the problem is not understand - but you learn to understand it through coding and testing.

So where are we now?
by vecti | 2026-02-06 21:52:53+00:00
Thanks for your input. I'm happy that Figma works for you, and I'm not trying to put Figma out of business :)
I’m sincerely humbled to be compared to such an iconic product as Figma.

I started this project as a personal endeavour to scratch my own itch during the pandemic, out of a personal desire to contribute to the field of UX design that I’ve always been passionate about, but at the same time I don’t intend on working as a solo developer for much longer.

Some of the features you’ve listed, are currently being worked on, which are going to be launched very soon.
by secretballot | 2026-02-06 21:53:05+00:00
I can 100% guarantee you that most Americans have no clue whatsoever how hard it is to "come in legally".

People from cosmopolitan well-educated world traveler tech-connected circles are common on HN, but are extreme outliers. I would agree that the overwhelming majority of those sorts are aware of it. The general public? No.

It's true that many don't want anyone (or certain anyones) to come in at all and are saying those kinds of things as a deflection or smokescreen, but plenty of others saying "they should just come in legally" don't realize what a feat they're demanding. They don't know what any immigration process anywhere looks like, in the US or elsewhere. They don't know what ours has been like in the past, either, at all (in fact I bet many think it's been trending less strict and difficult over time, which, LOL). But they're still comfortable suggesting people should simply find a legal route to come in (while, again, having no idea what that actually means).
by comex | 2026-02-06 21:53:06+00:00
> Your premise is that a YouTube video published Dec 26, 2025 somehow motivated a federal law enforcement action that commenced on Dec 4, 2025.

The surge of ~2,000 officers only happened around Jan 5-6, 2026. And this happened after the video in question was reposted by J.D. Vance and referenced by Kash Patel.

It's true that Operation Metro Surge as a whole started a month earlier. But, zooming out from that specific video, the operation was from the start motivated by the fraud scandal, according to reliable sources [1]. Official statements around this time of the later surge also referenced the fraud scandal [2]. Meanwhile, Trump delivered several speeches during this time complaining in racist terms about Somalis in general.

It's also true that the actual activity of Operation Metro Surge is mostly unrelated to the fraud. But that's the whole point! The administration seized on the fraud, and later seized on that specific video, as an excuse to send in ICE and CBP agents to do something completely different. As the parent said, this probably did not "make it more [..] likely that we'll be able to investigate and resolve the fraud situation in MN". Or if it did, it did so very inefficiently compared to other possible approaches such as getting the FBI to focus on it (which also happened). The surge did focus public attention on the issue, which might encourage local officials to resolve it. But it also massively poisoned the well. How much you want to talk about the fraud issue is now a proxy for how much you _don't_ want to talk about what liberals see as the much larger issue of abuses by ICE/CBP.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/ice-somali-mi...

[2] https://x.com/KristiNoem/status/2005687345895645204
by wongarsu | 2026-02-06 21:53:17+00:00
If it was only network effect, then how did TikTok grow in a space where Instagram and Youtube were already much bigger players? How did they gain that user base?

Network effect helps, but it only explains why they stay big, not how they got big

There really isn't that much making TikTok unique. Yes, their app is well designed. Yes, stitches and video replies make for great social/parasocial features because creators are actually interacting with each other and the community, almost like tumblr. But in my opinion those are reasons number three and two why TikTok is successful. Their recommendation algorithm is number one, by a wide margin.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-06 21:53:29+00:00
The XP era security was a joke. I used to open notepad, bring up the dialog to open a file, right click on an executable that was "blocked" and run it from there.

I was once using a public library computer that was loaded full of malware despite all of the "security" software, and I asked the library staff if they were okay with me working around it, to could uninstall the malware. I was expecting that they'd defer to some policy only allowing the county IT department to mess with the computers, but instead they were excited that I new how to do so and had no complaints.
by patio11 | 2026-02-06 21:53:48+00:00
FoF claimed to supply meals at the same physical locations as CCAP and paid the same owners. As mentioned, one of nine of the operators profiled, who was previously raided in an investigation into alleged overbilling of CCAP, received $1.5M from FoF. FoF is in fact not a federal nutrition program but actually the name of a non-profit which received grants from a federal nutrition program for forwarding to third parties. CCAP is also funded by federal block funding.
by nickjj | 2026-02-06 21:54:12+00:00
I'd still classify what they're doing as DevOps type of work. It just happens to be a wider spectrum of things vs their usual "write YAML" in that 1 role. Sounds like the original poster found a more enjoyable role with the same title?

I do a ton of different things every day and have been for the last ~10 years, all in the neighborhood of DevOps'ish type of tasks. I've written about 120+ of those tasks at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/120-skills-i-use-in-an-sre-pl.... I do agree, it is fun to mix it up in your day to day (IMO).
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-06 21:54:33+00:00
The history of the Jacquard loom is being misused here.

The loom did not erase weaving as a profession, nor did it cleanly replace skilled labor with a small class of abstract “engineers.” After its adoption, textile employment in France increased as production scaled and demand surged. What disappeared was a narrow form of manual pattern threading, while new roles multiplied: pattern card designers, loom mechanics, machine adjusters, quality specialists, and weavers who understood how to intervene when the machine failed. The most successful workers were not removed from the process.

The blog treats automation as a one-way ladder away from hands-on work. Jacquard looms still required constant technical judgment, maintenance, correction, and redesign. Pattern cards encoded decisions made by experienced weavers, not by people detached from production. Productivity gains lowered cloth prices, expanded markets, and increased the total amount of textile work done. The lesson of the loom is that automation concentrates skill and raises the bar for competence. It rewards people who understand the system deeply and can shape, correct, and extend it. That is the historical pattern the blog overlooks.

I guess it really depends on what you consider "programming" but the overall blog is pretty disengenuous in what it's trying to represent.
by seb1204 | 2026-02-06 21:54:47+00:00
I think this is when you need to evaluate your thread scenario.
A) self-made crypto accessible through web or browser that any cracker can find through www and use machine clusters to run on or AI to work on etc.
B) physical home invasion that are interested in one of your A4 papers with some random words that have only meaning to you and few trustees.
by cynicalkane | 2026-02-06 21:54:54+00:00
OP didn't claim you of misrepresenting facts in the document directly; OP claimed you of grossly mischaracterizing those facts in order to support claims the document does not support. The document is cited as supporting massive fraud "beyond intellectually serious dispute" while the scale of the fraud is disputed in the cited document.

But, on the other hand, I suppose intellectually serious dispute requires both sides to be intellectually serious. One good step in that direction would be to arrange one's citations such that they are supporting the claims you are citing them for.

I will also remark, as others have, that it's odd to make a big deal about this particular fraud when there's a lot more fraud happening a lot more obviously in a lot more of the nation. This is not to question Minnesota officials who are, rightly and appropriately, investigating suspected fraud in their -- nontrivial and important -- corner of America; but it is worth questioning voices who have, apropos of nothing I can discern, made decisions about what's important to talk about and what isn't.