MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by belorn | 2026-02-04 15:37:36+00:00
It is fairly lenient. The review board, assigned political, do hold a bit of moral responsibility and got no punishment.

The reason I mentioned that this occurred right after metoo is that the cultural environment in Sweden was a bit unstable. Some people felt they could not trust the courts, which include people who worked as inspectors for the government. The review board is also selected politically, which may add a second explanation for why they permitted the misconduct. It was a very political time and everyone wanted to be perceived as being on the right side of history.

The case has been debate in Swedish parliament but the reaction has been to not really talk about it. People ignored the law and rules, and they shouldn't have done that, and that is then that.
by afinlayson | 2026-02-04 15:37:41+00:00
I’d love to see the new cap table of this company. My guess is this will be terrible for spacex employees and gains xai a lifeline. My guess is this helps Elon get to trillion dollar status before any changes the tax structure…

My reasoning is xai has no moat … except in lawsuits, and spacex has one of the biggest moats in history. And they aren’t valued into this equation.
by stingraycharles | 2026-02-04 15:38:08+00:00
I’m not going to comment on the gateway drug part, but I definitely agree that - as someone who has consumed cannabis daily for about 30 years now - that I always smirks when only positives are being highlighted.

It definitely has negative effects long term. Concentration is impacted. In my case, it can cause anxiety. The impacts are subtle, but they’re there.

The negative side effects are definitely being underrepresented at the “non-scaremongering” parts of civilization.
by goalieca | 2026-02-04 15:38:16+00:00
> Musk is up to something here.

This is Musk, yet again, pulling themes from sci-fi books. He has that vision of ushering in the "future" which is good for dragging us forward but also he fails a lot. His open letter cited the Kardashev scale and his vision for getting us forward like in the novel accelerando.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-02-04 15:38:31+00:00
I think ERP providers should continue to exist. It's hard to vibe code financial/accounting specs and there's the IBM factor. There are a bunch of weird ways you can get things wrong.

An ERP has an established workflow that follows GAAP principles.

Hundreds of thousands of customers have cut their teeth on that workflow and improvements are metered out.

The last thing you want is to have to do PCI compliance or 1099 reporting, tax calculations for every jurisdiction. IFRS, Inventory valuation methods, SOX controls, revenue recognition rules, etc.

Not to mention if you get audited saying "Oh yeah we vibe-reconcilled all those statements".

Anything that touches the ERP? sure.

If you re-design ERPs for total AI? Maybe actual ledgers (no - not tables in MSSQL), imdepotency, rollbacks, maybe. still a bad idea.

Don't roll your own crypto. Don't roll your own ERP. Roll everything else around it.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-04 15:38:41+00:00
The sandbox-or-not debate is important but it's only half the picture. Even a perfectly sandboxed agent can still generate code with vulnerabilities that get deployed to production - SQL injection, path traversal, hardcoded secrets, overly permissive package imports.

The execution sandbox stops the agent from breaking out during development, but the real risk is what gets shipped downstream. Seeing more tools now that scan the generated code itself, not just contain the execution environment.
by tedsanders | 2026-02-04 15:38:54+00:00
Yes, independent of the API speedup, we also recently reduced the thinking effort in ChatGPT. Our intent here was purely user value, not cost savings. People have rightly complained about the slow speed of the Thinking models for a long time (myself included), so we recently retuned it to be faster by default.

I won't BS you that costs are never part of our decision making. If costs didn't matter, we'd have unlimited rate limits and 10M token context windows and subscription pricing of $0. But as someone in the room where these decisions are made, I can honestly report that our goal is almost always trying to figure out how to make people happier, not trick them or scam them. We're trying to fairly earn subscriptions, not trick people into them.

API model behavior is guaranteed to nearly stay the same (modulo standard non-determinism, bugs, etc.). ChatGPT is harder to promise, not because we pull more shenanigans there, but just because we might tweak system prompts, add/remove tools, run A/B tests, etc. that vary performance a bit. But we definitely don't do things like quantize during busy parts of the day or nerf models after publishing evals - that would feel pretty shady.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-04 15:39:07+00:00
Agreed. I will say that the 5 mg THC/10 mg CBD drinks don't have the same smell and I don't know if that is just the terpenes that ride along naturally or if they add flavoring to make the stronger drink stronger smelling. I'd say the 5/10 drink is really not worth the bother.
by staticman2 | 2026-02-04 15:39:13+00:00
>George is the family's breadwinner and works only two days a week for one hour a day in the show.

That really seems to go against the premise of the show as shown on the opening (typically modern day 1960s nuclear family but in the future).

I looked into this and Wikipedia cites this fact as being from the 1985 version not the original cartoon.

I suspect taking a joke about George's workday from the 85 version as "canon" kind of misses the point of the show.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-04 15:39:21+00:00
It's hold power+volume up (the "top two buttons" when reaching down into a pocket or purse and the phone) until the phone vibrates (~2s).

If you can see the screen, it's the fastest shortcut gesture to the screen that has "Slide to Power Off", "Medical ID", and "Emergency Call". Any other way to get to that screen also works to require a PIN before next unlock.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-04 15:40:16+00:00
This is such a terrible analogy. Hunted?

Alcohol in moderation is relaxing. Most drugs, OTOH, when used at the doses that make them attractive to recreational drug users, impair reason, and impairing reason is not just stupid, but immoral. We can debate the particular methods by which the state regulates or otherwise deals with drug use, but there is nothing intrinsically wrong with the criminalization of such drugs as such. No one has a right to take drugs (there is no right to immorality). This may seem alien to a culture whose emaciated understanding of morality is exhausted by the concept of consent. The law is a teacher, and it is good to teach people that recreational drug use (and drunkenness) is a bad thing. Like all immorality, it is an insult to one's dignity and humanity.

We can tolerate the impairment of reason as a proportionate side effect [0] (for instance, high doses of morphine given to terminally ill patients in extreme pain), but this is not recreational use.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/
by fer | 2026-02-04 15:40:27+00:00
Yeah, as someone who's been to Russia pre-war, and has worked and befriended Russians, the beam in the eye is quite strong in many. It's striking because the social contract there is basically that you're left alone as long as you don't become a thorn of the power, social network-mediated or not, and I'm not even talking about Putin and his entourage, but local administration in a remote village too. Zvyagintsev portrays it royally in Leviathan, as it's been portrayed by Dostoyevsky and Tosltoy before.

My most recent case: I went on holiday to a resort in Turkey, numerous Russians, families, retired, etc. I don't pass as a Russian-speaker (but I understand quite well) and once they hear me talking other unrelated language they naturally start to speak more freely in front of me (i.e. more liberal use of swearing, and even slurs if no other Russians are around).

While sunbathing, or at the restaurant, or the pool, they were talking about daily, mundane things, same in the restaurant, etc. But when floating in pairs 20-30m from the shore? Politics.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-04 15:41:26+00:00
That error message almost always means someone is using an extremely obscure browser that doesn't pass Cloudflare's not-a-bot-check.

Either the browser has Javascript disabled (Tor), or its Javascript engine is very outdated/broken (a couple of old Firefox forks) or doesn't support Javascript at all.

It doesn't necessarily mean the browser is vulnerable to anything, just that it's not a browser normal websites would expect to encounter so the bot check fails.
by FeteCommuniste | 2026-02-04 15:41:42+00:00
That's exactly it for me. Coming up with a solution using my own brainpower is a large part of the pleasure of programming for me.

A silly example to illustrate the kind of guy I am: when I'm watching a show or movie, I'll often wonder where I've seen an actor before. A "normal" person, like my wife, would just look it up on IMDB and be done with it. But I almost always insist on rifling through all the dustiest corners of my brain to figure it out. Even if it takes me a day or two of thinking about it off and on. Because to me, the satisfaction of doing it myself is worth it.
by adastra22 | 2026-02-04 15:41:54+00:00
None of the discussed designs include radiation shielding like that. Nobody is considering doing it that way, because the math really really doesn’t work out (instead of unshielded, where it just doesn’t work out).

A cosmic ray striking a chip doesn’t cause a bitflip - it blows out the whole compute unit and permanently disables it. It is more like a hand grenade going off.
by calvinmorrison | 2026-02-04 15:41:55+00:00
Not to mention Sage's midline - Sage100 is incredibly cheap and effective for it's cost. I mean it's ridiculous what a mature software can do. Everything under the sun basically for a pittance.

It's certainly not "SAP 10 million dollar deployments". we see implementation rarely run into 6 figures for SMB distributors and manufacturing firms. That's less than most of their yearly budget for buying new fleet vehicles or equipment
by KurSix | 2026-02-04 15:42:06+00:00
dockerd is a massive root-privileged daemon just sitting there, waiting for its moment. For local dev it’s often just unnecessary attack surface - one subtle kernel bug or namespace flaw, and it’s "hello, container escape". bwrap is much more honest in that regard: it’s just a syscall with no background processes and zero required privileges. If an agent tries to break out, it has to hit the kernel head-on instead of hunting for holes in a bloated docker API
by patrickk | 2026-02-04 15:42:08+00:00
> how’d you set it up?

I was disappointed by this section. He doesn’t mention which model he uses (or models split by task type for specific sub agents).

I tried out OSS-20B hosted on Groq (recommended by a YouTuber) to test it for cheap, but the model isn’t smart enough for anything other than providing initial replies and perhaps delegating tasks into expensive capable models from ChatGPT or Claude. This is a crucial missing detail to replicate his use cases.
by text0404 | 2026-02-04 15:42:16+00:00
- Concentration of power in the executive, dismantling checks and balances

- Hyper-nationalism and white supremacist messaging

- Scapegoating of minorities

- Attacks on the press

- Attacks on constitutional rights

- Militarization of police, violence normalized

- Expansion of surveillance state

- Combination of state and corporate power

- Strongman authoritarianism

- Historical revisionism

- Interference in elections

Cheers!
by sceptic123 | 2026-02-04 15:42:16+00:00
> … the main household survey used to estimate consumption in the UK has a low sample size, and there appears to be a growing problem of undercoverage of expenditure … the fact that undercoverage has grown over time means that it is not clear whether the relatively modest recorded changes in consumption inequality since 1991 are genuine, or just due to an increased inability to pick up the expenditure of high-spending households.

From: https://academic.oup.com/ooec/article/3/Supplement_1/i103/74...
by codingdave | 2026-02-04 15:42:24+00:00
Overly-polished real estate listings also can directly impact your long-term finances. In many jurisdictions, assessors will update your property value after a sale, and they will look at the listing to be sure the valuation matches the current condition and amenities. So if the real estate agent exaggerated on the listing, your property tax might be calculated based on those exaggerations.

That is also why your should read the letters that come from your county that tell you about property value changes. They typically also include information about how to meet with the assessor and negotiate whether or not their assessment was fair.
by kijin | 2026-02-04 15:42:58+00:00
Many of the software that people install on Windows are quite expensive. So if any package manager were worth calling a "store", one for Windows definitely would be.

It doesn't make sense to have one package manager for paid software and another for free software, so both types of software would be available in the same "store", with the unfortunate consequence that you need to log in with a Microsoft account in order to get free software.

But if I only used free software, I wouldn't even be using Windows.
by master-lincoln | 2026-02-04 15:43:33+00:00
How would it clearly be a gateway drug? I don't think this concept even makes sense.
Sure if contact to X also brings you in contact with Y, you could see X as gateway to Y. But what contact to other drugs you have depends on where you acquire the Marijuana.
If I home-grow I see none. In a pharmacy I need prescriptions to access their other drugs, so also not a gateway. It's only problematic when acquired via dealers who also sell other stuff. When I tried buying weed on the street, vendors didn't offer me other drugs.

I agree with your other points though.
Software engineer who scaled a startup from 10→500, seeking early-stage roles
by vampiregrey | 2026-02-04 15:43:38+00:00
I’m a software engineer who joined a startup early (~10 people) and worked
through its growth to ~500 employees.

I’m currently working in a large enterprise environment, which has given me
experience with scale, process, and long-lived systems - but I prefer early-stage
work where ownership and speed matter more.

My work has included:
– backend and infra-heavy systems
– scraping and automation pipelines
– AI-based outreach and enrichment pipelines
– shipping and operating production systems end to end

I’m looking for an early-stage startup (seed–Series A), ideally working closely
with founders and owning systems from zero to one.

Portfolio: https://zerobitflip.com
Email: shubham.maurya.co@outlook.com
by kaicianflone | 2026-02-04 15:43:46+00:00
Really enjoyed this. It’s one of the most grounded takes I’ve read on OpenClaw. You skip the hype and actually show what it looks like when someone lives with it day to day, including the tradeoffs. The examples around texts turning into real actions and the compounding value of context made the case way better than any demo ever could.

Quick question: do you think something like https://clawsens.us would be useful here? A simple consensus or sanity-check layer for agent decisions or automations, without taking away the flexibility you’re clearly getting.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-04 15:44:01+00:00
https://www.governance.fyi/p/yes-i-am-a-pro-natalist

> Q12: Conservatives have more children than liberals. Doesn’t that mean conservative values produce higher fertility?

> At the individual level, yes. At the system level, the opposite is true.

> Individual conservatives have more children than individual liberals. But countries with conservative policy regimes have lower fertility than liberal ones. The Nordics and France outperform Southern Europe. Catholic Italy and Spain have Europe’s lowest fertility despite cultural emphasis on family. So we have a situation where social conservatives thrive and live their best lives under generous welfare states.

> POSIWID resolves the paradox. What matters isn’t what a system values. It’s what it produces.

> Conservative values say family is important. Liberal systems remove barriers to family formation. Traditional societies say “have children” while their systems say “good luck.” People respond to the system.

> France and northern Western European countries have high fertility because their systems.

> That said, Western European governments are now dismantling these decades-old systems since the Great Recession, with lots of academic research confirming the results. Meanwhile in Eastern Europe, right-wing parties sometimes advocate for family spending, as Stone would gladly attest. In Poland, Slavoj Žižek notes it was the right-wing PiS who implemented universal healthcare, not the left.

> The question isn’t whether you value family. It’s whether your system removes barriers and risk that prevents family formation.
by james_r_h | 2026-02-04 15:44:12+00:00
I am working with ChatGPT, OpenAI, LLM, GitHub to try and create an AI Assistant: LLM Personality Matrix (End-User Generated) and I will be 100% honest, I have very little clue what I am doing but I am trying to create a resource for me to use in my personal recovery from PTSD/Anxity/BPD due to my service in the war and the conditions that I was raised in and enable myself to become security clearance cleared for employment. I already have a functioning product according to ChatGPT and all the files that go with it. However I have never received any formal training in these topics due to my disability, and I am having problems taking everything coded related from ChatGPT and getting it to work in both VSCode and Githut properly.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-04 15:44:40+00:00
There is a reason for this distinction. Alcohol in moderation is relaxing and can be enjoyable to the senses. Most drugs, and at the doses that make them appealing for recreational use, impair the exercise and function of reason and the sense faculties that inform it. (Drunkenness is bad for the same reason.) Given how central and essential to humanity reason is, that's an incredibly important distinction.
by KurSix | 2026-02-04 15:44:42+00:00
Unless you use --unshare-net, bwrap leaves the network wide open by default. The agent can not only accidentally delete a file, but also exfiltrate keys or download a malicious package

As a next step I'd add a network namespace (--unshare-net) and spin up a local HTTP proxy (mitmproxy) inside the sandbox to allow access only to Anthropic APIs and maybe PyPI/NPM, while blocking everything else
by rootnod3 | 2026-02-04 15:45:17+00:00
“Musk is on to something here”? Really?
Any high school student with a basic grasp of physics could explain that. But sure, the idiot billionaire nazi “is on to something”. That’s giving him too much credit.

Of course it doesn’t fucking make sense to put data centers into space. Even if heating were solved somehow magically, server disks are veeery prone to fail and need replacement. Shoot a rocket up every week to replace failed drives or absolutely burned through GPUs? Yeah, that doesn’t even remotely sound feasible.
by oenyawayneo | 2026-02-04 15:45:33+00:00
Windows 11 couldn't be more aggravating. User hostile is the term. Windows Explorer, move a file and the navigation pane jumps up and down at random. Excell, cannot locate anything on Find and Select. I wish I would have never bought this new computer. HP makes great laptops, but it won't last long if I throw it against the wall. I've been taking classes and using computers on jobs since the late 70s. My dad taught me to do key punch in 1972. My son has been working on computers his entire life to the point he makes me look like a novice. He yelled the same phrase at his computer that I do "STOP TRYING TO HELP ME! IT'S NOT MY FIRST DAY!!!"
by tedsanders | 2026-02-04 15:45:37+00:00
That's a fair suspicion - I'll freely acknowledge that I am biased towards saying things that are simple and known, and I steer away from topics that feel too proprietary, messy, etc.

ChatGPT model behavior can definitely change over time. We share release notes here (https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-...), and we also make changes or run A/B tests that aren't reported there. Plus, ChatGPT has memory, so as you use it, its behavior can technically change even with no changes on our end.

That said, I do my best to be honest and communicate the way that I would want someone to communicate with me.
by callmemryogurt | 2026-02-04 15:45:57+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a DevSecOps based in London. I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with the "black box" nature of current AI chat tools, specifically regarding data sovereignty and GDPR compliance (I work in RegTech, so I’m paranoid by trade).

I decided to build a European alternative that doesn't route prompts through US servers.

The Stack:

- Core: Rust

- Frontend: Leptos (WASM) - wanted to try something other than the usual React bloat.

- Infra: Cloudflare Workers (trying to keep it edge-based).

- Models: Strictly EU-hosted inference.

Current Status:

I have the auth flow and basic infrastructure up. I threw together a landing page (yes, the design is a bit "AI-vibed" while I work on the backend) to see if others actually care about this, or if I'm just shouting at clouds.

I’m looking for feedback from European devs/users: Does "Data Residency" actually matter to you for personal use, or only for B2B?

Link is above if you want to follow the progress.
by bitexploder | 2026-02-04 15:46:26+00:00
The case law on this specific topic is convincing. If you are ever in that situation it is usually going to be worth your time and money to assert the right and see it through. Case law supports this. The general maximum “penalty” is being held in contempt of court. And if the government is wrongly persecuting you, it is lose / lose if you divulge.
by netsharc | 2026-02-04 15:46:35+00:00
Ah, Germans and moaning.

The math isn't clear... but it seems all these sentences miss the phrase "over 5 years". I.e. earn 5 x 50K over 5 years, pay 58K extra taxes (in total) over those 5 years.

> The overall amount of taxes paid with additional income: 94k€

> The overall amount of taxes paid without additional income: 36k€

> The difference between the two scenarios: 58k€

> You pay additional 58k€ taxes on a 50k€ salary. Not neat!

Stop being so Protestant and take the [deity stopped existing 3 words ago]-damned sabbatical...
by epolanski | 2026-02-04 15:46:59+00:00
Will never understand why the US is so fixated with exports and trade balance.

All major export economies (Italy, Germany, Japan, China) have clearly shown in the last decades that being an export economy is a major weakness.

Also, the elephant in the room: the real exports of US, which are services, are not included in the very same trade balance. How much money flows to US through services? From google and meta ads to Netflix subscriptions to financial services and payments, from Hollywood movies to Amazon's/Cloudflare's cloud services, etc, etc?
by fwip | 2026-02-04 15:47:23+00:00
"is the idea in the post actually the writer's or was it entirely done by AI"

Look. If you don't want your readers to worry that your hard-written article is AI slop - just don't run it through the slopifier. Or at the very least, spend 5 minutes tweaking the output.

If you can't be assed to do that, then it's very likely that you don't have valuable insights to share.