MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iso1631 | 2026-02-10 00:02:12+00:00
Switzerland has a wealth tax while people like you wring their hands and the wealthiest see their wealth increase far beyond anyone elses.

In From 1965 to 1995 the richest man in the world had about $30-40b in today's money. This was more than the 1945-1965 era, but way less than the mess pre-war thanks to aggressive action to limit wealth.

Today the richest man in the world has $300b, Rockefeller levels before the 1929 crash.
by fennecbutt | 2026-02-10 00:02:13+00:00
>People don't realize that all of our problems lately are stemming from lack of truly representative government.

Hard disagree.

I fully believe that we are collectively responsible for all of our problems because we are a shitfuck tragically tribal species who, in a world of ever expanding tribe sizes, desperately cling onto tribe sizes that our tiny brains can handle, hence becoming tribal about a myriad of trivial and pointless things like sports, racism, which bathroom someone uses or which policy on immigrants one supports. Dunbar's number.

And we're so tied up in these micro tribal problems that we completely ignore the macro tribal problems that affect every single one of us. We're shit out of luck we literally evolved to act like this and there's nothing we can do to stop the behaviour; it's innate.

Global temperatures are still rising and will continue to do so. We can try to stop it but we won't be able to.
by leprechaunne | 2026-02-10 00:02:15+00:00
Hey our small company is making a privacy focused alternative to discord, it launches on Sunday and if you’re interested you can join the waitlist here

Even if you don't want to use the beta, your support to show it's a valuable use of our time would be great

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScL0ZVwWu8K-hJWrloq...
by mncharity | 2026-02-10 00:02:36+00:00
As confusion elsewhere on this page illustrates, one also needs to clarify absorption. "It's just blue" sky and "it's just blue" stained-glass have quite different behavior. Both side scatter some blue, but while one mostly transmits the rest, the other mostly absorbs the rest, for very different experiences peering through it.

So perhaps "clear with a blue tint"?
by bloomingeek | 2026-02-10 00:02:38+00:00
Very true and it's the reason I will always leave several car gaps in front of me in heavy traffic. Just because I have electric brakes on my travel trailer, it doesn't mean I can slow down normally, they just assist. Most people really don't think about that, of course, so they ignore the trailer and just weave in and out.

Speed is a very dangerous thing when pulling any type of trailer and it always amazes me when I see a truck pulling one at break neck speeds and somehow thinking they can maneuver normally when someone causes a situation where they have to make a split second decision.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-02-10 00:02:48+00:00
Another issue the author didn't mention, but I sometimes encounter, is that when you copy richly-formatted tables to paste in Excel or some other software, it often includes unwanted HTML tags. I usually have to use regex or at least a search and replace to make the table sortable and filterable.

I imagine this could similarly be an issue with screen readers, but haven't tested it.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-10 00:02:57+00:00
> We do not keep any information around like your name

But they might be sending a copy to the NSA, similarly to how Alphabet, Yahoo, Apple, Meta etc. have been doing (PRISM program, part of the Snowden revelation [1]). The US has the legal mechanisms of requiring this to happen, secretly, such as NSLs [2].

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
by LeoPanthera | 2026-02-10 00:03:16+00:00
In the 2000s British presenter Adam Hart-Davis did a TV series called "How London Was Built". The whole thing is on YouTube now, I highly recommend it.

This episode covered markets and shops. It's fun stuff:
https://youtu.be/1vX70fmD_7o

The whole series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxZAPogJjW_gywFGgM61y...
by MrCharismatist | 2026-02-10 00:03:21+00:00
Because ntfy doesn’t, at least not in a way that detaches you from a central authority.

On its own notification to your device will happen eventually when the ntfy app on your phone wakes up and polls. Pull, not push.

My ntfy server has a config line for an upstream, which is a service that then uses push. Basically it’s self hosted and handing off push.
by susiecambria | 2026-02-10 00:03:44+00:00
If from menhaden, there's a raging debate on the one hand about trout, the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland and Virginia), the ecology and environment more broadly, and the other hand a Canadian company based in a small rural county in Virginia (Omega Protein, which, BTW, does not provide year-round benefits to all of its employees which creates a drain on already super limited services and supports. Omega Protein is not alone in this.).

I don't know enough about any of this to have an informed opinion, but I do understand that menhaden put Reedville, VA on the map.
Show HN: Hybrid Orchestrator – Reliable AI agents for finance
by pavelsukhachev | 2026-02-10 00:04:16+00:00
I built AI systems for banking and insurance. They failed too often. So I created a framework for human-AI teams.

The Hybrid Orchestrator has four patterns: (1) session state that survives context window limits, (2) multi-channel communication routing, (3) activity monitoring with triggers, and (4) human escalation pathways.

These patterns come from a production voice AI system for insurance applications. The code is Python, 97 tests, Apache 2.0.

I also published a research paper on TechRxiv (IEEE) describing the architecture.

Feedback welcome. What patterns do you use for reliable AI agents?
by Quarrel | 2026-02-10 00:04:46+00:00
Great work and thanks for the write up.

Sorry to be pedantic, your longest view is not from the Hindu Kush, but from the mountains to the south of the Tarim Basin which are the Kunlun mountains.

The Hindu Kush are largely in Afghanistan, but also Pakistan, running in an arc from Kabul to the north east. They aren't in China.

The Hindu Kush range then gives way to the Karakoram, as you cross Kashmir, which is then bordered to the north by the Kunlun which form the arc of the southern Tarim Basin.

I suspect you're just mixing it up with the Hindu Tagh pass, just to the south of the peak your point is looking from. Hindu Tagh seems to be about as good a name as the line-of-sight community has come up with for that peak.
Show HN: Insurance AI Benchmark – 510 scenarios from production
by pavelsukhachev | 2026-02-10 00:04:49+00:00
We published the first public benchmark for insurance AI agents on HuggingFace.

What it contains:
- 510 real insurance scenarios
- 10 categories across 9 insurance lines
- Train/val/test splits (357/76/77)
- 4 routing decisions per scenario: AI handles, AI with verification, human handoff, hybrid collaboration
- 3 evaluation metrics: intent accuracy, routing accuracy, action completeness

Why it matters:
Insurance is precision work. A wrong routing decision costs money and trust. Most AI benchmarks miss this. They don't test what matters in production.

This data came from a real voice AI system. Years of customer calls. Actual insurance decisions. The scenarios are messy. They're real.

Open source: Apache 2.0 license. Ready to use.

Implementation: https://github.com/pavelsukhachev/hybrid-orchestrator
Paper: TechRxiv (IEEE) - "The Hybrid Orchestrator: A Framework for Coordinating Human-AI Teams"
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-10 00:05:05+00:00
People can appreciate others for their work but... Minsky is not just named several times in the Epstein files: he went to Epstein's island after Epstein had already been charged several times with sex offenses. And one of the main witness, Virginia Giuffre, said Epstein instructed her to have sex with Minsky.

> "minds are what brains do"

And "a man is what he does".
by qingcharles | 2026-02-10 00:05:18+00:00
LLMs have made a huge transformative change in my coding. For some projects 95% of the code is written by LLMs. This is all on internal projects and internal tools right now, though, because on the external projects I'm still easing into using it in a very carefully curated way, e.g. a method or an algorithm at a time, rather than a 10KLOC folder full of class files. These internal products are 95% of the work being done, though. It's just that they are under tight control when they are running locally and bugs and crashes are immediately visible and it's easy to debug and deploy fixes, unlike with say web-based stuff on a remote server.

So, I've very little to publicly show for all my obnoxious LLM advocacy. I wonder if any others are in the same boat?
by loeber | 2026-02-10 00:06:05+00:00
I wrote about something very similar a long time ago.[0]

The key problem is that most contemporary web design does not follow any idioms. Idioms are conventions of design that are universally understood. Skillful use of idioms makes it much easier to parse what is going on on a given page.

Where we are with most applications is that they try to define their own idioms, i.e. their own icons, their own navigation patterns, etc. But this is very arrogant because they're assuming that the user has the time to build that familiarity with all those idioms. This is never the case.

Every day I use web applications from nominally mature companies, and they have totally different icon sets for the same actions. This is immensely distracting and hard to read. Every company sees an opportunity to define their own icons, when what they should be doing is using the exact same ones as everyone else because that makes it easy to understand.

https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-desig...
by asadjb | 2026-02-10 00:06:10+00:00
I tried out Codex over the past few days. It's good, and the one feature that I really liked was the ability to review the diff inside the app and leave inline comments. No more referring to code by file name and line number, or saying "change this variable inside this function."

But I like using Amp Code more. So I built review-for-agent: a local web UI that shows your uncommitted changes as a diff, lets you leave inline comments, and exports a structured Markdown file you can paste straight back into your agent's chat.

It's a single Go binary that runs locally and works with any agent.
by voxl | 2026-02-10 00:06:38+00:00
Yes, American Hitler is in fact Hitler perhaps you're cool with:

1. Extrajudicious execution of US citizens
2. Construction of concentration camps
3. Openly saying that you'll interfere with state elections
4. Openly saying you'll take away guns and dimish gun rights

Let's just be honest with ourselves. No one. And I mean no one, can support Donald Trump and be a principled decent human being, conservative or otherwise.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-10 00:06:53+00:00
I think by definition any group supporting an armed political uprising in a stable country is considered a terrorist group. Should we consider armed groups in America or Belgium to not be terrorists?

And considering the Syrian civil war ended with a guy from Al Qaeda (famous terrorist group) becoming president and the country now having massacres under his watch, yeah, I think it's correct for groups that support armed uprising to be considered terrorist groups. Because they are. That armed uprising in Syria led to hundreds of thousands being killed, millions displaced, for what? A guy no better than the predecessor took his place, and he ruined countless lives to get there.
by WhiteOwlLion | 2026-02-10 00:06:55+00:00
What about HashCash, where proof of work increases with more pull requests from a user ID? Beyond typical submission frequency, proof-of-work would become exponentially more difficult to prevent spam, helping to keep the riff-raff out.

Doesn't require money, just computing power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

If HiveCoin were still around, we could donate the hashing power to some tech-related non-profit.
by WillPostForFood | 2026-02-10 00:06:56+00:00
Dude, I literally posted a link to the numbers. 12k public. 2.5k private, 14.8k total per person public plus private.

Here is another link to the OECD numbers directly. Is is 12k public, 14.8k Public plus private.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/health-at-a-glance-2025...

Can we agree on the 12k and move on now?
by crabmusket | 2026-02-10 00:06:57+00:00
But you will expose them to Discord's nagging popups for random quest thingies, animated emojis, disorganised channels, etc.? It sounds like you've already decided it's a foregone conclusion.

I am not arguing from a particular desire to get your jock friends on Zulip. Like I said in another subthread, I consider Zulip to be mainly for people who want to achieve things together, not just hang out. It's a productivity app. I wouldn't recommend it as a social app. Why I'm replying is because I feel your approach to the discussion is a little... uncharitable?
by simoncion | 2026-02-10 00:07:36+00:00
> I don't see the interface changing much in 3-6 months, and definitely not fundamentally.

This is as insightful as a fellow noting that both a caulk gun and a shotgun have a fixed handle and movable trigger and genuinely wondering why an expert user of the former would ever have even a moment's trouble learning to use the latter.
by dwd | 2026-02-10 00:07:56+00:00
They're working on it.

Invested in an Australian tungsten miner late last year. Has an operating profitable mine in Spain and active Government support to restart the large Mt Carbine mine in Queensland.

Antimony is another critical mineral. A number of smallcap Antimony/Tungsten miners are exploring potential deposits in Idaho and Tennessee and Australia, but timelines are long.
by bichiliad | 2026-02-10 00:07:58+00:00
I don’t think these ends justify the means. It sounds like the government failed early on in what seemed like a benign infraction, and now it is deciding to punish him for it. That’s like getting away with not returning a library book, and then being arrested and taken to prison for thousands in overdue fees when I try to return it later. That’s arbitrary and excessive, hopefully found to be a violation of due process, and should not be defended.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-10 00:07:59+00:00
I don't buy anything in bulk, that isn't a prerequisite.

There is no getting around the fact that $12/day buys a lot of good groceries even in expensive cities. Cooking is trivially learned, especially these days with the Internet. The people claiming that eating on $12/day is challenging are really saying that they can't support their affluent lifestyle on $12/day. Which is true! But it reeks of learned helplessness.

As someone who lived decades of their life in real poverty, I find most of the discourse around a "living wage" to be deeply unserious. Things that are completely normal and healthy in low-income communities across the US are presented as unachievable despite millions of examples to the contrary. Living well as a low-income person is a skill. It is obvious that many people with strong opinions on the matter don't have any expertise at it.

The only reason I still regularly eat the same kind of food as when I was poor is that it is objectively delicious and healthy, cost doesn't factor into it. I can afford to eat whatever I desire.
by rramadass | 2026-02-10 00:08:10+00:00
> Driving is a fascinating ritual with vastly differing norms across regions. It would be interesting to learn if anthropologists have studied this

And Psychologists!

Reading the comments in this thread is quite amusing.

As a driver in India, i can tell you anything goes as long as you don't get into an accident (which may/may-not kill you) or get caught by the police.

No rules matter and the only goal is to "one-up" everybody else on the road and if they are trying to "one-up" you, then prevent it by any means possible. It is a "game of chicken" in its purest form; game theory in action. Rules are mere suggestions only followed by the meek and the weak.

You have no idea how invigorating it is to drive in India.
by anukin | 2026-02-10 00:08:22+00:00
That’s totally orthogonal to what the OP is responding to though.
Military software can be bleeding edge as well as extremely susceptible to error prone code which means you need to test more. Similar are the cases with financial softwares which are usually written in ocaml etc.
observing your ability to comprehend, the places where you work must be “bleeding” profusely.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 00:08:34+00:00
My gut feel (personal experience, not research) is that the whole of the icons' nature is important. Them having simple shapes doesn't necessarily solve the problem and could in some cases make it worse.

Imagine for example a set of icons that are monochrome, open-ended glyphs comprised of a single stroke with line weight similar to that of the text. This could complicate visual parsing greatly due to high visual similarity to text.

On the other hand, a 16px checkbox control with subtle gradients, shadows, and depth cues looks absolutely nothing like text and is filtered out by the brain almost automatically (unless of course the checkbox state is pertinent to the user's intent). Same goes for a 16px colorful icon with shading like used to be ubiquitous in desktop operating systems.
by skue | 2026-02-10 00:08:48+00:00
You’re confused. If you know of ANY US state that has a flow of traffic law that allows cars to exceed the speed limit so long as they are keeping up with other traffic, I’d love to see a link to their traffic codes. Speeding doesn’t suddenly become legal because two or more drivers do it together.

This has nothing to do with the expectation that slower traffic stay in the rightmost lanes, which is what GP is addressing.
by cj | 2026-02-10 00:08:51+00:00
okay, another example:

You hold Enron stock. You’ve been taxed 5% annually on the holdings for the past 5 years. To pay the tax, you decided to take out a loan instead of selling shares to pay the tax (you want to stay invested).

Someone discovers Enron is a fraud, the stock goes to $0 and you go bankrupt because you can’t repay the loans you took out to pay the tax on a (now worthless) asset.
by lukan | 2026-02-10 00:09:24+00:00
" You may idealize the religious tolerance of their polytheism, but what that matter if it isn't actually serving the spiritual needs of the people?"

Rome in the end was a decadent, but brutal empire full of slaves. And to a slave christian salvation sounds great.

But before there was a empire with emperors taking up the idea of becoming gods themself, there was a republic. And also after it became an empire, they did not have a institution like the inquisition shaping thought and banning heresy baked into their system.

This is the fundamental difference that I see.

In medieval times being expelled from the church was pretty much a death sentence. In roman and greek times for most of its existence not really.
by jltsiren | 2026-02-10 00:09:26+00:00
You are missing the point.

This was about households rather than individuals and housing units instead of homes, and privacy is unrelated to the discussion. For example, longhouses typically had internal subdivisions that functioned as housing units. A household that cannot afford a baseline housing unit is unusually poor, regardless of its size.

In a developed country, the baseline housing unit most households can afford is typically an apartment or a house. Households that cannot afford one are unusually poor.

Someone who forms a single-person household and doesn't earn enough to rent an apartment is poor.

Single-person households are often poor, especially when the person is young. Living wage estimates for such households tend to be higher relative to typical wages than for larger households, as the idea of a living wage is largely about rising above poverty.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-10 00:10:05+00:00
> So even if I store my wealth in cash, you want it to deflate by 5% annually?

Generally speaking, that's the point. The wealth tax is trying to combat wealth inequality and the only way for such a policy to be effective is if those with considerable assets wealth decreases with time.

> How do you handle your neighbor who discovers he has a $2m Pokémon card in his closet?

Usually that's handled by having a minimum asset requirement before the wealth tax kicks in. 100M is what I've seen. It'd be a pretty easy tax to make progressive.

> It’s a messy proposition. I’ve yet to hear a clear proposal that doesn’t have sticky edge cases.

I've given the proposal I've seen in a different comment. Perhaps you didn't see it? But in any case, taxes are always messy. It's not as if you can't refine them with more and more amendments to address different scenarios as they come up. I don't think the "messiness" should be what keeps us from adopting such a tax system. There will almost certainly be a game of cat and mouse between the regulators and the wealthy regardless the proposal.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
by rrherr | 2026-02-10 00:10:10+00:00
The title is misleading. The message is really:

Stop using unlabeled icons in data tables.

It says, "Norman Nielson argues that text + icon has the highest cognitive recall and lowest error rate"

Here's what the Nielsen Norman Group says about Icon Usability:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/icon-usability/

The conclusion: "Always include a visible text label. As Bruce Tognazzini once said, 'a word is worth a thousand pictures.'"

Here's the quote in context: https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html

"In 1985, after a year of finding that pretty but unlabeled icons confused customers, the Apple human interface group took on the motto 'A word is worth a thousand pictures.' This still holds true."
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-10 00:10:29+00:00
This is plainly false. China bought the refining companies doing the extraction for rare earth in the US, extracted knowledge, then shipped the tooling to China and closed the US factories. Having no environmental regulation probably helped as well cost-wise, but that's not the fault of the USA.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2006/04/07/the-saga-of-magneque...
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-10 00:10:49+00:00
You're not really refuting his point.

Cities aren't pulling out of Flock contacts because Flock isn't effective at clearing crimes. They're pulling out because Flock has garbage security, lies about who has/had access to the data, and generally argues in bad faith about all of it.

These are separate concerns.

I think ALPRs with proper access controls, short retention periods, and strict auditing/oversight are a net good. Flock... Not so much.
by mcpherrinm | 2026-02-10 00:11:06+00:00
The current PKI system was designed by Netscape as part of SSL to enable secure connections to websites. It was never independent of the web. Of course PKIs and TLS have expanded beyond that.

"WebPKI" is the term used to refer to the PKI used by the web, with root stores managed by the browsers. Let's Encrypt is a WebPKI CA.
by toephu2 | 2026-02-10 00:11:12+00:00
But Flock doesn't ask for this nor does it gather this information. I know what you are trying to do. You are trying to say this is just the first step to a full invasion of privacy. Except it's not. They are trying to make America safer. They don't want full control of your life. You are taking this example too far to the extreme.

Also Flock cameras just record license plates. Have you ever been to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore or any other democratic nation with lots of CCTVs? Have you seen the crime rates there? basically 0. I wish we could have those levels of crime in the U.S.
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-10 00:11:36+00:00
Ivanti is a necrotic acquirer of things. Kind of like a poor version of Microfocus or Broadcom pre-VMware and pre-AI hype. (Broadcom even bought CA, which was the ultimate company of this type.)

This product was MobileIron, which was actually a pretty decent MDM platform, except like most acquisitions like this I'm sure they purged anyone with a clue. Unlike something like Pulse VPN, MDM is a sticky product and difficult/time-consuming to transition from.