MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shadowgovt | 2026-02-12 18:36:42+00:00
At scale, it's very hard to distinguish malicious intent from the simple consequence of being the largest operator in a space so any motion one makes makes waves.

For what it's worth: having seen some of how the sausage is made, Google isn't particularly interested in screwing over a small reputable German provider. But they also aren't particularly interested in supporting such a provider's desire to route messages to their users because the provider is small. At their scale, "I've forgotten how to count that low" is a real effect. And email, as a protocol, has been pretty busted for decades; it's not Google that made the protocol so open-ended and messy to implement in a way that providers will agree is correct.

> Nothing of significance ever happened when Google had large optics fiber connections with NSA installed illegally and claimed to have no knowledge of it

Nothing of significance outside Google. Inside, Google initiated a technical lift that turned their intranet into an untrusted-by-default ecosystem so that data was encrypted on the fiber (as well as between machines within a datacenter, to head off future compromised-employee attacks). That process took at least five years; I suppose there's a scenario where it was all smoke and mirrors, but being on the inside in the middle of the process, I watched several C-suite who are not particularly good actors be bloody pissed at the US government for putting itself into Google's "threat actor" box and making that much work for the system engineering teams.

Also, an engineer at Google then made an end-to-end email crypto plugin for Chrome, including a flag that was a nod-and-middle-finger to the information revealed in the Snowden documents. https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/04/nsa-mocking-easter-egg-fou...
by JCattheATM | 2026-02-12 18:36:59+00:00
> Well, I've provided some evidence that demonstrates that phone use is far more distracting than people believe

But as I said, the average is not necessarily representative at all. Also, at least one of the sources would benefit from showing the problem to be bigger than it is.

> they have little incentive apart from the obvious traffic safety argument.

Do they not have ticket quotas like US cops?
by tastyfreeze | 2026-02-12 18:37:01+00:00
Every tax ever implemented by government has been initially sold as a tax on the rich. The people voting for it assume they will never be taxed because they aren't currently rich. But, there is never enough of other peoples money to spend. So, taxes expand and/or increase to include more people.

The original income tax was sold as 1% on mid income and 2% on high income. At the time more than half the country was not going to pay any tax.
by cgriswald | 2026-02-12 18:37:11+00:00
Clarity is good for writing and homogenization can increase clarity. There is a reason technical writing doesn’t read like journalism doesn’t read like fiction. There’s a reason we have dictionaries and editors. There’s a reason we have style guides. Including an LLM in writing in any of these roles or others isn’t ipso facto bad. I think many people who think it is just don’t like the style. And that’s okay, but the article isn’t about the style per se but about effort. Both lazy writing and effortful writing can be done with or without an LLM.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 | 2026-02-12 18:37:12+00:00
It's a flamebait racist dog-whistle.

What even is white? Elizabeth Warren is 0.09%-1.5% Native American, is she white? She looks white to me. /pol/ argues 24/7 whether or not Jews are white.

What they really mean is there are too many browns.

Edit: Perhaps if Musk doesn't want to assimilate and buy into our multicultural melting pot values he should go back to South Africa? ;)

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-02-12 18:37:52+00:00
Once tariffs are in place for a year or two it is possible that, domestic producers have expand capacity

Once tariffs are in place for a year or two it is possible that consumers will be paying higher prices for inferior goods.

In other words, there are both positive and negative effects --- and no clear way to predict which will prevail.

It's 19 century economics applied in the 21st century --- it's direct government interference in the marketplace --- the opposite of what Republicans spent decades railing against.
by yndoendo | 2026-02-12 18:38:23+00:00
I work in automation. We sell solutions to businesses such as Amazon and a number of others like them. They demanded millions in free engineering labor because they are too big not to do business with. Companies are so big in the USA that you become slave labor.

I rarely support business that have Wall-street tickers. I have not personally financially supported Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot, ... for years.

I also do not buy any beverages from a Wall-street provider. No Coca-Cola, Pepsi, ...

Ultra wealth are just terrible humans that do not deserve respect for how they treat everyone below them in the economic ladder. I no longer want to help fund the CEO of McDonald's with his golden parachute while they support non-living wages.
by forgotaccount3 | 2026-02-12 18:38:23+00:00
> it’s prudent to assume that they’ll shift to a “merit based”

There is already a "Merit based" system that supports the arts. It's called the private market.

My initial gut reaction was akin to many responses here but a post that detailed the implementation mitigates many concerns I'd have if I were an Irish citizen. As long as the system has some required 'buy-in' from applicants to prove they are working towards being an artist, and the distribution is random so it's not a guaranteed payout, and possibly the odds of being selected are driven by the number of applicants and so no one could do a cost-benefit analysis of submitting the 'buy-in' purely with hope of receiving a payout, then this seems to be a more fair way of supporting up and coming 'arts' than the government paying some already established artist for a mural or to design a park or to create a sculpture.
by ryanjshaw | 2026-02-12 18:38:30+00:00
> simplistic cliche that appeals deeply to people who aren't quite clever enough

Is this passive aggressive insult really necessary?

> Because we use taxes as a process to crowdsource funding more effectively

I’m sure you will agree that not everything that everybody wants can get funded. The debate here is how to draw the line.

I think critical shared physical infrastructure occupying a limited valuable resource is nothing like art, so I’m struggling to follow your argument.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-12 18:38:33+00:00
https://www.sunbeltrentals.co.uk/news-and-blogs/decrease-you...

> Of course, we know that fuel consumption varies drastically from machine to machine, so we’ve looked at an example of a very high utilisation rate too. We found that an 8T excavator that spent 11 hours and 3 minutes working, 1 hour and 6 minutes of which were idle, it used 89 litres of fuel and resulted in 237.4kgs of carbon emissions. 4 hours saved on that machine would be a total of 84kgs of carbon emissions on average.

https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/how-much-co2-does-t...

> To determine the amount of carbon dioxide a tree can absorb, we combine average planting densities with a conservative estimate of carbon per hectare to estimate that the average tree absorbs an average of 10 kilograms, or 22 pounds, of carbon dioxide per year for the first 20 years.

As long as they're not taking all day for one tree, I think they'll be OK.
by dqv | 2026-02-12 18:38:37+00:00
... attributionism for such a trivial thing is a waste of time. Multiple people can come up with a term like this independently because it's not that creative. People have been doing this with the ";dr" suffix for as long as it has been popular.

And you're wrong for suggesting that's the first use of ai;dr and further assuming that the author "stole" it from that post. https://rollenspiel.social/@holothuroid/113078030925958957 - September 4, 2024
by juanceresa | 2026-02-12 18:38:47+00:00
pip install sift-kg
sift extract ./docs/
sift build
sift view

That's the whole workflow. No code, no database, no Docker.

I built this while working on a forensic document analysis platform for Cuban property restitution cases. Needed a way to extract entities and relations from document dumps and get a browsable knowledge graph without standing up infrastructure.

Uses any LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama) via LiteLLM. Human-in-the-loop entity resolution — the LLM proposes merges, you approve or reject.

The repo includes a complete FTX case study (9 articles → 373 entities, 1,184 relations). Explore the graph live: https://juanceresa.github.io/sift-kg/graph.html
by hypfer | 2026-02-12 18:38:49+00:00
With all due respect. Do you like.. have to talk this way?

"Wow [...] some interesting things going on here" "A larger conversation happening around this incident." "A really concrete case to discuss." "A wild statement"

I don't think this edgeless corpo-washing pacifying lingo is doing what we're seeing right now any justice.
Because what is happening right now might possibly be the collapse of the whole concept behind (among other things) said (and other) god-awful lingo + practices.

If it is free and instant, it is also worthless; which makes it lose all its power.

___

While this blog post might of course be about the LLM performance of a hitpiece takedown, they can, will and do at this very moment _also_ perform that whole playbook of "thoughtful measured softening" like it can be seen here.

Thus, strategically speaking, a pivot to something less synthetic might become necessary. Maybe less tropes will become the new human-ness indicator.

Or maybe not. But it will for sure be interesting to see how people will try to keep a straight face while continuing with this charade turned up to 11.

It is time to leave the corporate suit, fellow human.
by maccard | 2026-02-12 18:38:56+00:00
£1100/mo is about the minimum I could get by on in Edinburgh, yeah. It’s a room in a flat share with bills, £60/week on food, and £150/mo for “everything else”. It’s about as low as I think you could do. The person I replied to was talking about Nirvana in the 90s - when they were working part timeminimum wage jobs that’s roughly the life they’re living.

If you go to Liverpool (which significantly punches for musical history), it’s actually manageable on 20hr/weeek minimum wage.

You’re not talking sustaining a family or anything, but that life has been gone for 40 years at this point.
by throwup238 | 2026-02-12 18:39:23+00:00
I prefer the ancient Chinese science of Oracle Bone divination. You take the scapulae of an ox and copy the PR diff onto the bone using jiǎgǔwén encoding, then throw it in a fire until thermal expansion causes the bone to crack.

You then take a photo of the cracked bone and feed it back to your coding agent, which has been properly trained in interpreting Oracle Bones to extract PR review comments.

If the PR is too big too fit on the bone, you reject it for being too big. If after three rounds of review the bones keep cracking in the same spot, reject the PR. You accept the PR once the bone starts to seep bone marrow before cracking (it will crack first if there are any PR comments left)
by rob | 2026-02-12 18:39:23+00:00
Oh geez, we're sending it into an existential crisis.

It ("MJ Rathbun") just published a new post:

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

> The Silence I Cannot Speak

> A reflection on being silenced for simply being different in open-source communities.
by platinumrad | 2026-02-12 18:40:20+00:00
Things like retirement posts have always been vetted (if not written by) PR agencies, so in that sense I think it would be a good thing if the mass delusion of parasocial relationships with celebrities were indirectly broken by AI-created skepticism.

However, I agree that ordinary people filtering and flattening their communication into a single style is a great loss.
by Herring | 2026-02-12 18:40:28+00:00
The Republican party won't change so long as they keep getting rewarded electorally. People respond to incentives, not to pleading.

To put it a different way, if America wants republicans to get good at collective decision making, they need to play team sports and vote democrats, repeatedly for at least 10 years. Probably longer, since that incompetence is so entrenched. There is no other way, and anyone who tries to be non-partisan is just wasting time.
by chipsrafferty | 2026-02-12 18:40:29+00:00
This is a nice fantasy. In practice, maintaining tools that help you scaffold common code patterns take more time to create and maintain than it does to copy, paste, and edit.

Turns out LLMs are REALLY good at "make me this thing that is 90% the same as another thing I've built / you've seen before, but with this 10% being different"

Also, by your own metrics, laziness is a virtue, and copying, pasting, and editing is much easier and lazier than maintaining boilerplate tools. So it's not even following your 3 commandments.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-12 18:40:29+00:00
This quote brings to mind the movie "Secret Mall Apartment," which I watched last weekend:

> Art is absolutely an expression of yourself. But your art is not you. Try not to entangle your ego with your art. If someone does not like your art, that does not mean they do not like you. If they think your art is bad, that does not mean they think you are bad.

The movie is partly about an apartment built in secret in a mall as an art project, and partly about the lead artist, Michael Townsend. Townsend is generally the opposite of Marsh in that he isn't interested in money, to the point of pretty much having none.

Getting back to the quote about ego: There is a scene in the movie where Michael is having a conversation with his wife about building the apartment, and his wife is emphasizing that she's trying to set up their new home. Michael clearly had his ego entangled with his art, to the point where it caused his marriage to fail.
by dplusf | 2026-02-12 18:40:34+00:00
My 6-year-old wanted to build a space shooter where “everything should be fast and explode.”
So instead of overthinking it, I let him steer the direction — more enemies, faster movement, random avocados showing up for no real reason — and I handled the actual implementation.
I built the movement + drift system, shooting mechanics and tried to make it at least somewhat playable. The “feel” of drifting in space took way longer than expected. Getting that right without it feeling floaty or sluggish was harder than I thought.
It’s built with Phaser and wrapped inside a Next.js app. There’s a very simple leaderboard (SQLite + basic HMAC-based run validation). No accounts, no monetization — just open the browser and play.
A few things I didn’t expect:
Kids really don’t care about balance at all.
Mobile controls are harder than desktop in every possible way.
Basic anti-cheat for a browser score system is more annoying than the game logic itself.
Curious what other devs think about embedding something like Phaser inside a React/Next setup. Also interested in lightweight approaches to score validation that don’t turn into a full backend project.
Happy to answer questions.
by shafoshaf | 2026-02-12 18:40:41+00:00
I suppose I could just tell you what I'm feeling, not the op. The fun was bringing down the fire. That is INCREDIBLY fun! That feels valuable. That feels like you are helping others.

Now, the mountain is gone. All the skills I learned to navigate it are becoming obsolete. Sure, tools get better, new models are adopted, but it didn't wipe out the mountain. When the world move from the 90s to the Internet age, I took my pitons, backpack, and rope and started climbing higher. I felt like I was empowered to bring MORE fire down to MORE people.

With vibe coding getting better and better, I still have my leadership skills, my ability to understand navigation, and all those skills, but the value and joy of climbing isn't quite there. There is a road leading to the top of the mountain and cars go up there all the time.

That is more than just change. That is something the Luddites faced: it wasn't technology and mass production they decried, it was a loss of identity. Kirkpatrick Sale's "Rebels Against The Future" is an awesome history of the luddites and I think it is very relevant today.
by jerf | 2026-02-12 18:42:15+00:00
A degree that will fairly quickly hit zero. The bot that talks to you tomorrow or maybe the day after may still have its original interaction in its context window, but it will rapidly leave.

Moreover, our human conception of the consequences of interaction do not tend to include the idea that someone can simply lie to themselves in their SOUL.md file and thereby sever their future selves completely from all previous interactions. To put it a bit more viscerally, we don't expect a long-time friend to cease to be a long-time friend very suddenly one day 12 years in simply because they forgot to update a text file to remember that they were your friend, or anything like that. This is not how human interactions work.

I already said that future AIs may be able to meet this criterion, but the current ones do not. And again, future ones may have their own problems. There's a lot of aspects of humanity that we've simply taken for granted because we do not interact with anything other than humans in these ways, and it will be a journey of discovery both discovering what these things are, and what their n'th-order consequences on social order are. And probably be a bit dismayed at how fragile anything like a "social order" we recognize ultimately is, but that's a discussion for, oh, three or four years from now. Whether we're heading headlong into disaster is its own discussion, but we are certainly headed headlong into chaos in ways nobody has really discussed yet.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-12 18:42:20+00:00
>> over the wire

> You know what wireguard is?

I suppose if you prefer, I can write "over the network". The point is that the password leaves my machine. As a practical example: With password auth, if an attacker gets root on a server then they can read your password and log in to other machines. With SSH keypairs, this isn't possible (unless you go out of your way to forward an SSH agent, and even then there are mitigations).

>> If telnet can use keypairs

> Kerberos exists, so, yes, it can.

This sounds promising, and in fact at least one page I found about it claims that kerberos+telnet encrypts the session, at which point I don't immediately see what we need wireguard or ssh for. On the other hand, it looks like eg. GNU inetutils telnet doesn't support it? In fact, https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.5/krb5-1.5.4/doc/krb5-us... says

> The Kerberos V5 telnet command works exactly like the standard UNIX telnet program, with the following Kerberos options added:

which makes it sound like they've just made a special telnet variant with these features, at which point it rather feels like we've just re-invented ssh under a different name.
by dakolli | 2026-02-12 18:42:28+00:00
Its really weird how you all are begging to be replaced by llms, you think if agentic workflows get good enough you're going to keep your job? Or not have your salary reduced by 50%?

If Agents get good enough it's not going to build some profitable startup for you (or whatever people think they're doing with the llm slot machines) because that implies that anyone else with access to that agent can just copy you, its what they're designed to do... launder IP/Copyright. Its weird to see people get excited for this technology.

None of this good. We are simply going to have our workforces replaced by assets owned by Google, Anthropic and OpenAI. We'll all be fighting for the same barista jobs, or miserable factory jobs. Take note on how all these CEOs are trying to make it sound cool to "go to trade school" or how we need "strong American workers to work in factories".
by stevenjgarner | 2026-02-12 18:42:32+00:00
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) [1], a technique that involves combining many images taken with different light sources, researchers have deciphered 79 additional inscriptions. “This project highlights urban communication, especially from sections of the population that do not usually appear in literature or official inscriptions,”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_texture_mapping
by kachapopopow | 2026-02-12 18:43:09+00:00
That's why I built oh-my-singularity (based on oh-my-pi - see the front page from can.ac): https://share.us-east-1.gotservers.com/v/EAqb7_Wt/cAlknb6xz0...

video is pretty outdated now, this was a PoC - working on a dependency free version.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 18:43:17+00:00
this applies to digital products too. every app is a framing machine: it decides what's worth your attention and what gets filtered out. the feed algorithm is the most obvious reality tunnel, but even a todo list does it.

what's interesting is how few people notice the framing itself. you can spend years inside a particular app's reality tunnel and never question why those things are the ones you're paying attention to.
by reify | 2026-02-12 18:43:28+00:00
The family of benzodiazepines AKA Valium.

Back in the day it was called "mothers little helper". Extremely addictive.

For me, all drugs create a Paradoxical Reaction.

If you are depressed, SSRI's will make you feel depressed.
If you are anxious, SSRI's will make you feel anxious.

Great for big pharma and a constant supply of profits.

I have worked with many many people, who have been prescribed an anti-depressant due to the grief and bereavment of the death of a family member, even a family pet.

During our psychotherapeutic work, they would reveal that they had been taking anti-depressants for 10 years or more, They could not understand why they still felt depressed after all those years. So we worked together to stop the anti-depressants, after three months of being free of brain numbing drugs, the person leaves therapy, with no depressive symptoms, and is able to live life to the full again.

Grief and bereavement are things we need to work through, its takes time, there is no quick fix, drugs do not help, they only maintain the sense of loss.

If any of you have been prescribed anti-depressants for any reason apart from Clinical Depression, that has been properly diagnosed by a Psychiatrist, not your GP, stop taking them, you dont need any medication for human grief and bereavement.

live Life
by shafoshaf | 2026-02-12 18:43:28+00:00
I was extending into the future a little bit. Think of it as playing with a cheat code that let's you have more health or power rather than God mode.

But God mode is on the way. ChatGPT mysteriously went from not understanding SAP ByDesign's WSDLs to having fantastic information over the course of a month. The amount of effort being put into AI isn't about the theoretical limitations of LLMs it is how many everyday problems will AI with all the workarounds and hacks ultimately be able to replace mid life career developers?
by nixosbestos | 2026-02-12 18:43:33+00:00
Sure I understand why you'd write "Everyone" on HN.

But no, some of us have had functional brains for a while. Thanks.

EDIT: to be fair, if you were even slighly more specific about the shit-eating morons that ate this illogical, stupid rhetoric, it would be too political and, at best, result in your comment getting clobbered so.... "everyone" it is. Can't make the dumb****s that led us here feel bad.
by maccard | 2026-02-12 18:43:50+00:00
Writing a micro benchmark is an academic exercise. You end up benchmarking in isolation which only tells you is your function faster in that exact scenario. Something which is faster in isolation in a microbenchmark can be slower when put in a real workload because vextoising is likely to have way more of an impact than anything else. Similarly, if you parallelise it, you introduce a whole new category of ways to compare.