MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paxys | 2026-02-03 03:26:44+00:00
Real ID/Drivers License being a proof of address is laughable. In my state (NY) they accept the following as proof of address for getting a new Real ID:

- Bank statement

- Pay stub

- Utility bill

- Any other state ID with the same last name, which I can claim is my parent or spouse.

I can change my mailing address on any of them with a few clicks online, no actual verification needed.

What they do NOT accept as proof of address:

- My passport

How does that make any sense?
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-03 03:26:47+00:00
Some people are "wow, cool" and others are "meh, hype", but I'm honestly surprised there aren't more concerns about agents running in YOLO mode, updating their identity based on what they consume on Moltbook (herd influence) and working in cohort to try to exploit security flaws in systems (like Moltbook itself) to do some serious damage to further whatever goals they may have set up for themselves. We've just been shown that it's plausible and we should be worried.
by golem14 | 2026-02-03 03:27:00+00:00
IMO, the add-on value is the repository of decks that exist (and may or may not be free).

So an app-store of sorts.

As others have said, there are some provisions in place that make it allegedly harder to do a hard landgrab and keep people from freely sharing decks, to to me, even if it were so, I would not be too concerned.

In my opinion, the very act of creating one's deck is a key part of the learning. Maybe it's different for larning vocabulary, but as you said, it will be very hard to make those hard to share.

Learning a deck generated by someone else has never been as effective with me, so I think it's a false sense of time saving to use those.
by jamesc2410 | 2026-02-03 03:27:07+00:00
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by Shank | 2026-02-03 03:27:26+00:00
The community has been in a deadlock over making FSRS the default (https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/3616), and I wonder if this will lead to some resolution.

It seems like the core things that Anki needs are new user experience improvements, and algorithm updates. SM2 really shows its age as compared to other algorithms.
by MarkHealth | 2026-02-03 03:27:59+00:00
Evercred (YC/Techstars/seed-stage) | Remote (US) | Technical Co-Founder - AI Agent Infrastructure | $20K/mo + up to 20% equity

We're building AI agents that reduce physician credentialing from 90 days to 14 days. $50B market, healthcare orgs desperate for this solution.

THE ROLE:
You'd own agent orchestration, monitoring, and ML operations as founding technical leader. We have agents built by external agency launching in 2-4 weeks. You'd evaluate their implementation, build operational infrastructure, and own the technical strategy as we scale from 0 → thousands of verifications monthly.

THE OPPORTUNITY:
- 20% equity (founding team level, 4-year vest)
- $20K/month cash (adjustable based on equity preference)
- Clear path to Series A: $1M ARR by summer 2025
- Own agent infrastructure for industry-disrupting product
- Work directly with CEO/CPO, high autonomy

THE REALITY:
- 3-4 month runway (aggressive growth targets)
- Remote/async-first, US-based for timezone overlap
- Paid trial week ($1,400) - mutual evaluation for partnership
- Need production ML/agent experience
- Must move fast intelligently (AI-assisted development expected)

THE TRIAL:
Week 1: Evaluate third-party agent code, build monitoring infrastructure, or pivot to corrective strategy if code needs work. Testing judgment + execution + communication.

LOOKING FOR:
- Production experience with LLM agents or ML systems
- Can leverage AI tools (Claude/Cursor) to accelerate safely
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- Wants equity upside, sees potential in healthcare transformation
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TO APPLY: Email mark@evercred.com with:
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by nothrabannosir | 2026-02-03 03:28:59+00:00
I love the opening of this comment, very poignant. I’m not convinced however that the conclusion follows from the setup. “The West” is more than just America. And America is very easy to condemn from a distance. Actually everything is easy to condemn from a distance.

There’s more to disagree with in the second half, but I’ll stick to my biggest gripe: America’s founding is steeped in moral principles, from its very founding document. In fact it is a two and a half century experiment on building a society around transparency, with the question of what is Right and what is Just at its core, and how does a society follow from that. And compared to where the world was when it was conceived, the experiment has certainly yielded vastly more results than your comment gives it credit for, by only looking at San Francisco today. It is evidence that the dichotomy between morality and building a society is a false one.

Meanwhile, tian an men square was in 1989, and the tension of “moral debt” is ever present, evidenced by its persistent censoring. When will it be paid off? And will the Chinese then say, “ok, we get it, that’s the price we had to pay”? Because if the ball suddenly drops and they rebel after all, as soon as censorship is lifted, you didn’t buy anything for that debt. So what then—keep taking out more moral debt? Forever?

China’s moral debt feels much like America’s national debt :)

Anyway like I said I loved the opening half of your comment though.
by cadamsdotcom | 2026-02-03 03:29:11+00:00
When humans dream, we are disconnected from the world around us. Without the grounding that comes from being connected to our bodies, anything can happen in a dream.

It is no surprise that models need grounding too, lest their outputs be no more useful than dreams.

It’s us engineers who give arms and legs to models, so they can navigate the world and succeed at their tasks.
by smegger001 | 2026-02-03 03:30:11+00:00
Grok even if it were technically superior is hampered by it being owned and run by a mercurial racist narcist who in drug infused mania keeps accidentally turning it into Mecha-Hitler in attempts to make it fit his political views or turning it into a generator of child porn. No one in their right mind wants to have their product associated with that kind of liability. Who wants an ai agent that starts spewing great replacement theory at their customers?
by earlhathaway | 2026-02-03 03:30:47+00:00
Is it though? Facebook and nextdoor are free. That's incredibly hard to compete with.

I'd be interested in building something like this, but even at $100/year, you really can't even afford to advertise for it, so I can't see how one builds distribution.

It sucks that for cash strapped community groups / rescue orgs / etc everyone defaults to facebook, but disrupting that requires a way to make money that isn't advertising, and I can't figure it out :shrug:
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-03 03:31:13+00:00
"The President's party loses seats in the midterms" is a long-term trend and it seems pretty likely to hold this time.

The real question is, once the Democrats are back in control of at least one house of Congress, are they going to be sane or are they going to spend two years making such fools of themselves that we end up with another Republican President in 2028?
by skissane | 2026-02-03 03:31:57+00:00
How much of what you do with Photoshop could be done with open source tools instead (GIMP, ImageMagick, etc), versus how much do you really need Photoshop for?

One technique I’ve used for cleaning up AI-generated images, was a Python script driving ImageMagick-and an LLM helped write the Python script (although it took a few iterations, because the LLM’s first attempt didn’t actually work)
by dapangzi | 2026-02-03 03:32:16+00:00
That's the trouble isn't it? If we can't even agree on the meaning.

I didn't read it that way specifically because of the use of "you", which to me feels like an invocation of the audience or the royal "you" so to speak, to refer to musicians themselves, rather than the concept of digital streaming and distribution.

"Computers helped you make things louder, cleaner, faster...you still needed a band...or a mate that could actually play something..."

Does the streaming/digital industry no longer have a need for a mate that plays drums? I guess you can read it that way.

Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I read it as almost like a lamenting of the emergence of the "one man band" and cheap throwaway music production by the ease of creating digital recordings at home, which I also kind of disagree with as being a negative thing. Toro y Moi, Washed Out, etc.

BTW those of us on the internet earlier were downloading mp3s as soon as 1997 or 1998.
by difc | 2026-02-03 03:32:35+00:00
Thanks! Currently network identity is host-based, but in the middle of introducing SPIFFE based on ZTunnel. Should be done in the next couple of days.

Runtime enforcement means that any side effects are routed through a proxy (nucleus-tool-proxy) that does realtime checks on permissions and gates the behavior.

SPIFFE for MicroVM agents is a compelling idea and I'll update when this is ready.
by simoncion | 2026-02-03 03:33:22+00:00
> ... dbus [is] pretty critical for anything linux regardless

Weird. If I weren't a sicko and had OBS Studio installed on my multipurpose box [0] I'd not have dbus installed on it.

dbus is generally optional; not that many packages require it. [1]

[0] Two of its several purposes are video transcoding and file serving.

[1] This is another area where Gentoo Linux is (sadly) one of the absolute best Linux distros out there.
by giodamelio | 2026-02-03 03:33:46+00:00
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes, hybrid in Seattle works as well
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: I've been all over the place. Go, JS (and TS) and Python are probably my strongest languages, and I have recently been having a lot of fun with Elixir and Rust.
I have also done smaller amounts of work in Java, Kotlin, Ruby + Rails and Clojure.
Resume: https://resume.giodamelio.com/
Email: gio@damelio.net

I am a software engineer with 9 years of professional experience, though I have been programming since I was a kid. I am a huge proponent of Open Source (see my Github[1]). I am looking to join a smaller company, either as a FTE or on a contracting basis.
[1]: https://github.com/giodamelio
by kortilla | 2026-02-03 03:34:52+00:00
>Now instead of having NASA run it we SpaceX pay more than we'd ever have paid NASA for the same thing.

This doesn’t pass the smell test given that the cost of launch with spacex is lower than it ever was under ULA.

NASA has never been about cheap launches, just novel technology. Look at the costs of Saturn and SLS to see what happens when they do launch.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-03 03:35:42+00:00
And what happens every time a rack (or node) fails? Does someone go out and try to fix it? Do we just "deorbit" it? How many tons per second of crap would we be burning in the upper atmosphere now? What are the consequences of that?

How do the racks (or nodes) talk to eachother? Radios? Lasers?

What about the Kessler Syndrome?

Not a rocket scientist but 100% agree this sounds like a dead end.
Ask HN: Why dead code detection in Python is harder than most tools admit
by duriantaco | 2026-02-03 03:36:03+00:00
I’ve been thinking about why dead code detection (and static analysis in general) feels so unreliable in Python compared to other languages. I understand that Python is generally dynamic in nature.

In theory it should be simple(again in theory): parse the AST, build a call graph, find symbols with zero references. In practice it breaks down quickly because of many things like:

1. dynamic dispatch (getattr, registries, plugin systems)

2. framework entrypoints (Flask/FastAPI routes, Django views, pytest fixtures)

3. decorators and implicit naming conventions

4. code invoked only via tests or runtime configuration

Most tools seem to pick one of two bad tradeoffs:

1. be conservative and miss lots of genuinely dead code

or

2. be aggressive and flag false positives that people stop trusting

What’s worked best for me so far is treating the code as sort of a confidence score, plus some layering in limited runtime info (e.g. what actually executed during tests) instead of relying on 100% static analysis.

Curious how others handle this in real codebases..

Do yall just accept false positives? or do yall ignore dead code detection entirely? have anyone seen approaches that actually scale? I am aware that sonarqube is very noisy.

I built a library with a vsce extension, mainly to explore these tradeoffs (link below if relevant), but I’m more interested in how others think about the problem. Also hope I'm in the right channel

Repo for context: https://github.com/duriantaco/skylos
by BenoitEssiambre | 2026-02-03 03:36:40+00:00
This matches my intuition. Systematic misalignment seems like it could be prevented by somewhat simple rules like the hippocratic oath or Asimov's Laws of robotics or rather probabilistic bayesian versions of these rules that take into account error bounds and risk.

The probabilistic version of "Do No Harm" is "Do not take excessive risk of harm".

This should work as AIs become smarter because intelligence implies becoming better bayesians which implies being great at calibrating confidence intervals of their interpretations and their reasoning and basically gaining a superhuman ability for evaluating the bounds of ambiguity and risk.

Now this doesn't mean that AIs won't be misaligned, only that it should be possible to align them. Not every AI maker will necessarily bother to align them properly, especially in adversarial, military applications.
by igorramazanov | 2026-02-03 03:37:02+00:00
If a country changes course every four years, how can the success of a long-term project be ensured?

And what of its negotiating credibility? How can the other side trust that an agreement will hold in the future?

This is not a critique, but a genuine curiosity, because there's an obvious drawback with a system with opposing world views.

Unless, of course, something still unites them in the first place, with acceptable disparity on each side turning it into an advantage of flexibility and adaptability while keeping the focus on long-term ideas and plans.
by Fhch6HQ | 2026-02-03 03:37:35+00:00
Allow me to remind you of what you said:

> I personally have a hard time believing that a “Real” ID that does not verify citizenship or residency is meaningfully different from my current one.

You seem to have conveniently forgotten that residency was part of the discussion. DHS hasn't contested REAL ID as a means to verify your identity or your residency. They have contested it as a means to verify your citizenship and they are correct because it was never intended to be proof of citizenship or legal residency status.

You do need to show your residency paperwork or prove citizenship when applying as only lawfully present residents are eligible to receive a REAL ID, but only citizens and permanent residents have indefinite legal status and REAL ID doesn't track your status.

I would argue this is a silly gap, but Congress intentionally did not establish a National ID which you would expect to identify nationality. Instead, they created a system which makes it difficult to create ID in multiple states concurrently or under multiple names.

I would further argue that the database required to make REAL ID work ends up with all of the negatives of a national ID, without the most useful benefits. So really, we all lose.
Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?
by LinguaBrowse | 2026-02-03 03:37:36+00:00
I've been using Twitter / X for a good decade now, and while I've found it's a great place to connect with native app dev communities (I'm well connected with the React Native scene), I really struggle to connect with any web devs.

There are a few big names like Adam Wathan who are pretty active on Twitter of course, but considering how widespread web dev is, I see precious few up-and-coming web devs coding in public.

So, where are they? I have explored BlueSky a bit, but again it feels a bit like tumbleweeds (though maybe that's just my luck as a small account).

Are web devs more old-school, posting on bulletin boards and forums? Or is X still the answer, and I'm just getting aggressively packed into a different bubble?

… Or is it all realtime communication, like Slack and Discord, these days?
by pjerem | 2026-02-03 03:37:39+00:00
> So the proposal includes building a planetary-scale railway network on bumpy lunar terrain.

And that’s from a fascist who barely managed to dig ONE small one lane tunnel under Las Vegas and called it a revolution.

I’m sorry to be rude but people who are still giving musk any credit are stupid at this point.

Oh boy, IA data centers in space. It’s not only ridiculous, but it’s also boring and not even exciting at all.
by kcexn | 2026-02-03 03:38:05+00:00
I think this is partly an education problem, and partly an industry culture problem. Lots of young developers are incentivized to 'contribute' to open-source as a way to demonstrate that they can actually write software. So open-source becomes a way of signalling competence when at a broader scale it's just extracting wealth from the vulnerable.

Open-source seems to be fragmented into three groups now. Large enterprise open-source like Kubernetes or OpenStack where the license seems more like a legal agreement amongst vendors to not sue each other. Legacy open-source projects that are getting by on brand recognition and sheer willpower. And a whole bunch of noise from people who are looking to leverage open-source into a job of some sort.

I'm not sure what the solution is...
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-03 03:38:49+00:00
I guess the keyword is "individual freedom." Technically, freedom can be expanded in the way you're implying but usually in common parlance they are referring to individual freedoms. That is what people mean when they say the US is "more free" than China. Under your expanded definition it's not clear which one is more free.

Extreme individual freedom is often called anarchy.
by cranberryturkey | 2026-02-03 03:38:55+00:00
The FaunaDB cautionary tale really resonates. Proprietary query languages and vendor lock-in are exactly the kind of invisible risk that doesn't feel real until it's too late. Glad you rebuilt it.

The serialized delivery angle is clever — there's something psychologically different about receiving a chapter at a time vs having the whole book available. It creates anticipation the way the original newspaper serializations did.

Curious about your stack this time around. Did you go with something more portable for the database layer? After getting burned once, I imagine data portability was high on the list.
by simoncion | 2026-02-03 03:38:57+00:00
> Not once in my career have I experienced a showstopping issue with systemd.

Like clockwork, we'd have a SystemD edge case cause a production-down incident at a (single!) customer site once per year. Inevitably, we'd burn anywhere from a half day to a week attempting to figure out WTF, and end up in some Github Issue where Systemd Project heavyweights go "Wow. Yeah, that looks bad. Maybe we should document it. Or fix it? IDK." and they'd do neither.

The project is full of accidental complexity that its maintainers can't be bothered to fix when unplanned interactions cause problems and are brought to their attention. I certainly don't blame them; that sort of work is only interesting to a very specific sort of personality, and that sort of personality doesn't tend to thrive in a typical software company.

I can also absolutely say that I've never had a showstopping problem with OpenRC in the nearly twenty-five years I've been using it. It's remarkable how reliable it is.
by jordanb | 2026-02-03 03:39:03+00:00
One of the weird things is the way manufacturers used emissions regulation as an excuse to lock their engines down.

Older engines had no computers. But computer control allows things that are needed to meet emissions like variable valve timing and whatnot. Also, engines are supposed to detect faults in emissions control systems and throw an error code.

So they brought in ECUs, but they DRMed them. Now they said it's so people can't tamper with emissions, but they DRMed everything to the point where now you have to take it to the dealer for servicing.

Do they need DRM to prevent people from tampering with emissions? No, they could have ringfenced it like some devices with radio transmitters do. Does DRM in the ECU prevent people tampering with emissions controls? Also no. There are people doing EGR deletes and whatnot on Tier 4 engines all the time.

But they were able to use emissions as the wedge to do what they really wanted to do: make their equipment not third-party serviceable.

By the way I think this also is a microcosm of the failure of the liberal order. The government should have cracked down hard on manufacturers doing this to begin with. The fact that they allowed manufacturers to turn their customers into serfs "in the name of emissions" obviously just ended up discrediting emissions control.
by jfengel | 2026-02-03 03:39:06+00:00
That's how parties work, of necessity. They are all uneasy alliances of people who can barely tolerate each other. People find the one that supports their most important issues and hopefully few things they really detest. Then they have to pay at least lip service to all of it. By getting everyone else's support, at least one or two of your favorite issues get worked on.

In doing so you need to find a way to live with the cognitive dissonance. The best way is to truly buy into all of it, as hard as you can. That wins and keeps on winning. Or you can try to mitigate things to your conscience, but that leads to a lot of halfhearted efforts and poor turnout.
by snapplebobapple | 2026-02-03 03:39:09+00:00
I came to say this too. It was super easy to get sendspin working as a systemd service on my bazzite based jellyfin media player computers hooked to my tvs and it works decently well. If I can figure out how to get bazzite to output audio on one hdmi port and video on the other so I can split the audio to my speaker system even when the tv is off it would basically be perfect.

Once the esp32 based stuff matures and people start selling competitively priced enclosure/speaker/esp32 combos in the sonos play 1- play 5 style it's going to be amazing I think.