MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2026-02-12 03:42:39+00:00
Hiring specifically in Texas or Arizona because you heard it's lower cost-of-living than the Bay Area, and not being willing to offer Bay Area salaries to people there... that's still exploitation.

If you were instead hiring from anywhere (because you'd be happy with a remote worker, and they have the same employment rights) and willing to pay the same as you'd pay your Bay Area workers, i.e. it's about the hunt for talented/capable employees whereever they might be, rather than a hunt for cheap ones, that's no longer exploitation.
by mmooss | 2026-02-12 03:42:40+00:00
> It’s government’s fault for not regulating it properly.

Who is government responsible to and responsive to? Individuals.

> You can’t give individuals choice and then blame them.

That is exactly how the world and responsibility works. You have the choice to do right or wrong, and are responsible for the consequences - in Abrahamic religions, it goes back to Eden.

You personally have endless choices every day where you can do wrong with no penalty to you. Unless you are sociopathic, you generally do the right thing.
by meerab | 2026-02-12 03:43:22+00:00
This is a greatly researched article, and the site is just awesome!

Kanchipuram Saree has a rich history, and I learned so much more by reading this article.

I am intrigued by the Kanchipuram saree and have dreamed about owning one. The digital ledger is a unique idea – if authenticity is established, it would be easy to invest in this as art piece.
by chriddyp | 2026-02-12 03:44:32+00:00
This is really cool. And timely! Check out the recent paper by Google et al re "Societies of Thought": https://arxiv.org/html/2601.10825v1. It goes into how different conversational behaviors (raising questions or just say "but wait..."), perspective shifts, conflict of perspectives, tension, tension release (jokes!), asking for opinions) and different personalities (planner, expert, verifier, pragmatist) is both a sign of and can result in much higher performance reasoning.

So I'd be curious to see if encouraging certain conversational behaviors might actually improve the reasoning and maybe even drive towards consensus.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-12 03:45:10+00:00
I kinda agree with them. I'm not in the US and I don't normally pay for news but I recently signed up to the guardian because they had a promotion.

But they started spamming my mailbox immediately with stupid stuff like cooking apps. And they ask all sorts of stuff about my interests. I don't want any of that. But once they know who I am it opens the door to their marketeers to try and extract more money from me.

It's better if I visit the site not logged in with all adblockers active. I do have to agree to tracking then but the adblocker blocks most of that.

It's just weird that I have a better experience if I don't pay than if I do. And it's really expensive, the promotional thing is 6€, and that's a limited time only, the normal price is 12€. I don't read it that much, I just like their take on things sometimes. I read the front page a couple times a week maybe. And sometimes open up an article.

I'll probably cancel when the 6€ thing stops. To be honest I hate reading the news these days anyway. I'd rather not keep up.
by bonoboTP | 2026-02-12 03:46:15+00:00
One use I have for seeing what exactly it is doing is to press Esc quick when I see it's confused and starts searching for some info that eg got compacted away, often going on a big quest like searching an entire large directory tree etc. What would actually wish is if it would ask me in these cases. It clearly know that it lacks info but thinks it can figure it out by itself by going on a quest and that's true but takes too long. It could just ask me. There could be some mode settings of how much I want to be involved and consulted, like just ask boldly for any factual info from me, or if I just want to step away and it should just figure everything out on its own.
by jettfu | 2026-02-12 03:47:16+00:00
Nice execution. The local-first approach is a smart call for this kind of data — most people won't trust a cloud service with their exact location history across countries.

One nuance I've run into working in this space: the 183-day rule gets treated as universal, but the reality is messier. Some countries count partial days, others don't. Some have "center of vital interests" tie-breakers that override day counts entirely. And for US citizens, the day count is almost irrelevant — worldwide taxation applies regardless of where you sleep.

The Schengen rolling window is genuinely confusing for people and a strong feature to nail. Curious how you handle the edge cases where someone holds a residence permit in one Schengen country but travels freely across others — the 90/180 rule doesn't apply the same way in that scenario.

Congrats on the launch.
by Daub | 2026-02-12 03:47:21+00:00
Artist speaking. A similar scheme was employed by Holland for many years. The state committed to buy at least one artwork from each artist per year and predictably their warehouses became filled with crap art that no one wanted.

That being said, wise governments recognize the value of some kind of support of the arts. One reason for the incredible esteem that Korean culture is held in within Asia is the Korean government's active support of its filmmaking, TV and music industry. This was also true in Renaissance Italy (courtesy of the Medici family) and in 17th Century France (courtesy of Louis XIV). It was even true of the CIA's active support of abstract expressionism. The payoff of such support is soft power, which is a very real force.
by nl | 2026-02-12 03:47:39+00:00
> Given that LLMs are just lossless compression machines, I do sometimes wonder how much better they are at compressing plain text compared to zstd or similar. Should be easy to calculate...

The current leader on the Hutter Prize (http://prize.hutter1.net/) are all LLM based.

It can (slowly!!) compress a 1GB dump of Wikipedia to 106Mb

By comparison GZip can compress it to 321Mb

See https://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html for the current leaderboard
Show HN: Floating-Point JPEG Decoder
by rsaxvc | 2026-02-12 03:48:10+00:00
I modified STB-Image's JPEG codec to render JPEG files directly to 32-bit floating-point pixels to reduce color banding when editing images.

Coincidentally, this can recompress JPEGs much more consistently, eventually stabilizing when the recompression gives an image the exact same compressed file.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-02-12 03:48:23+00:00
- My gripe with posts like this is when you write stuff like this, you sound like a person who has never seen the outside of a tech circle

- My neighbor is a non tech guy. I want you to create this magic chat interface and make him use it

- He has to sit and think what to type first and he always has this fear what if I dont get an answer back

- Vast majority of the people in the world fall in this category

- Your AI replaces UI stuff aint happening for 20 yrs at the minimum. You ll need 2 to 3 full generations of people to adapt before making statements like these
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-12 03:48:25+00:00
Most US States have "at will employment" meaning they can dismiss you for whatever reason barring a few protected ones like racism.

So yeah they can do that there, there are no protections. Maybe they can't force you to sign a new contract but then they'll just end your current one and let you go.

We really have things good here in Europe. Unions are only part of it and I personally prefer legal protection because it applies to everyone, not just industries that are unionised. In Holland the unions are kinda compromised anyway in the neoliberal "poldermodel" which means they rub shoulders with the execs and work together. I don't think opposing forces should do that.
by nullocator | 2026-02-12 03:48:46+00:00
Not sure that would be enough given the regime and specifically the current supreme court. Such amendments to the constitution would be met with interpretations like "ackshually this country has a long and honored tradition of protecting pedos and the major questions doctrine (a thing we kinda just made up) says that we gotta ignore the text of the constitution and instead just vibes decide that pedos are a-okay in our book" [applies to literally any subject]
by rpdillon | 2026-02-12 03:49:01+00:00
For fellow HN'ers reading this epically long back and forth:

sig appears to be taking the more mainstream stance that Starship Troopers is satire. This is reinforced my popular interpretations from, say, Wikipedia, but refuted by others, like say, IMDB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/

mrob is part of the coalition (that included many critics when the film was released) that asserts the film has no elements that are satirical. I admit pointing to specifics that show the satire is tough. "Do you want to know more?" was the biggest tipoff to me.

But my point is that this argument is still going on in wider society. Lots of people say satire, and lots don't. But the balance say it is:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/-e...

https://screenrant.com/starship-troopers-movie-meaning-fasci...

From Wikipedia:

> Since its release, Starship Troopers has been critically re-evaluated, and it is now considered a cult classic and a prescient satire of fascism and authoritarian governance that has grown in relevance.
by nytesky | 2026-02-12 03:49:51+00:00
We have a strong culture of engineering notebooks in my org. I tried for a good 5 years — i carried one and probably filled up 5 of them.

But i went back to them maybe 5 times in all those years. And the effort of writing actually distracts me more than the effortless action of typing. Plus the search and backup functions.

Even in high school in the early 90s I typed up all my class notes because the act of transcribing my written scratch to typed notes cemented it in my memory — i remember the sensation of recalling something for a test by air typing.

I guess with this history, its just how Ive trained myself so I carry laptop every where I go and type on that, but I al jealous of some of the well crafted and illustrated notes of some peers — especially the ones with multicolor pens for differentiation.
by mmooss | 2026-02-12 03:51:30+00:00
The Taliban control what they and the US and allies fought for. That's winning. Your personal requirement of how it must be won is not important - nobody cares how it was done and it doesn't change the outcome. The Taliban don't care and the US and its allies don't care.

It's also a perfectly common, expected way to win a war: First, wars always end with political solutions. The most well known principle of warfare is that it is 'politics conducted by other means' (i.e., by violence rather than by law or diplomacy). If there is no political solution, the war never ends. That's why the US didn't win the war in Afghanistan after decades - they couldn't create a stable political solution because they were unable to impose one on the Taliban, who in the end imposed one on the US and its allies.

Victory by outlasting enemy resources, including political will, is fundamental to warfare; wars end when resources to fight (for the political outcome) run out, but few end in total kinetic destruction of those resources - someone runs out of money or political will. It's also the explicit strategy of insurgencies. Enemies of the US know it very well and have used it for generations - that is how North Vietnam won, for example. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, the Afghans famously told them, 'you have the clocks (the technology), we have the time'.
by sheepscreek | 2026-02-12 03:51:52+00:00
I bought the Gemini Ultra to try for a month (at the discounted price). I have been using it non-stop for Opus 4.6 Thinking, which is much better than Gemini 3 Pro (High) and it's been a blast. The most I've managed to consume is 60% of my 5 hourly quota. That was with 2-3 instances in parallel.

I hope too many of us won't be doing this and cause Google to add limits! My hope is Google sees the benefit in this and goes all in - continues to let people decide which Google hosted model to use, including their own.
by ojame | 2026-02-12 03:52:10+00:00
I'd like to agree with this, but I sadly don't. I'd like to agree because we've been Heroku customers for about 18 years - which is wild to think about. I've used Heroku both personally and professionally day-in, day-out for over a decade.

We've been on self service and we've been on enterprise contracts. In the last 2 years I believe we've cycled through about seven account managers. Heroku as a concept might not be dead, but if you release an incredibly empty announcement saying there's no new enterprise contracts and existing ones may be renewed, enterprise Heroku is absolutely dead and I'd suggest it means Heroku as the current product is dead too.

Any Heroku user that has been at the level of an enterprise user before, or who currently is, would be ringing alarm bells at the current situation. It doesn't matter about the internal good will of employees - if you have a blog post hanging your enterprise customers out to dry (ironically as enterprise customers we have received zero communication from Heroku about this) after a year of terrible stability - you're really doing a great job of killing the whole thing.

> Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence

Anyone that has used Heroku for a while will know that it is far less reliable today than it has been at nearly any point in its history (it's the least reliable since its first year of existence, imo). There is very little "operational excellence" left as an organization. All you need to do is look at how they communicated (or extreme lack-thereof) a critical outage that lasted for hours last year[1]

As an organization, we've put up with terrible reliability over the last couple of years, and swallowed cost increases every renewal and we've always been committed. That's changed in the last few days - we've tried out Railway and Northflank, and we'll continue to try out a few other services until we find the one that fits. We're lucky, we have about 9 months left on our contract and that gives us enough time to move.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44233923
by hackingonempty | 2026-02-12 03:52:45+00:00
> The only way to get a trust-less random value is to have it distributed and time-locked three ways, player, server and a future-entropy.

Are you sure? The protocol described in Chuck Norris book Applied Cryptography seems to work fine without a randomness beacon. Once you get the commitments from all parties they reveal the nonces and everyone verifies they match the commitments and extracts the same random bits.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-12 03:53:58+00:00
Indian State and Local Governments are promoting this - most craftspeople are doing so as part of a cooperative as Khadi and MSME Cooperatives is a major pillar for Indian politics and economic development, along with One District One Product [0] in order to build a heritage consumer goods industry similar to what Japan did.

It's also something that is deeply personal for Narendra Modi and Amit Shah [1] as they started their political careers climbing up cooperative ladders [1] - they were able to turn Gujarat from being a Congress only state to a BJP only state by co-opting cooperatives in the dairy industry [2].

[0] - https://www.investindia.gov.in/one-district-one-product

[1] - https://theprint.in/opinion/politically-correct/rahul-gandhi...

[2] - https://scroll.in/article/858585/amul-is-now-a-congress-mukt...
by kadabra9 | 2026-02-12 03:54:36+00:00
You’re discussing raising corporate or individual income tax rates.

I’m discussing a proposed broad wealth tax on unrealized gains and assets.

The tax rates of the 50s were high, but were filled with loopholes and deductions in that the effective tax rate that was actually paid was much lower.

There are arguments to be made how much those policies contributed to the boom of that decade, but those are separate arguments about the practical, legal, or efficiency concerns with just imposing a 5% levy across all assets and net worth
by mapace22 | 2026-02-12 03:55:45+00:00
Hi there,

As someone working at the intersection of Finance and Data Science, the "Exceptions as Observations" approach isn't just a clever dev trick—it’s a massive shift in Risk Management.

In accounting, we don't aim for a "likely" correct balance, we need precision. Traditional bots fail here because they lack the "common sense" to fix a broken path. By treating a python error as a feedback signal to trigger a self/correction loop.

Hive bridges the gap between AI flexibility and the rigid accuracy required in ERP environments.

From a data science perspective, this creates a "Synthetic Audit Trail". If an agent spends $1 in tokens to autonomously resolve an edge case that would have cost $5000 in human auditing time or accounting errors, the ROI is immediate.

It's moving the needle from "AI as a chatbot" to "AI as a resilient financial infrastructure" that actually prevents fraud and internal irregularities through tighter, automated oversight.

Best regards
by snowwrestler | 2026-02-12 03:56:58+00:00
Google is not really a competitor to Apple in devices. I mean, they sell devices, but at a way lower volume. The Pixel phone is essentially a tech demo that exists to push their Android partners into making more competitive devices themselves.

The corporate strategies are not directly comparable. The entire Android project is essentially a loss leader to feed data back into Google’s centralized platform, which makes money on ads and services. Whereas Apple makes money directly from the device sales, supported by decentralized services.

Apple never produced a differentiated experience in search or social, two of the largest tech industries by revenue. Yet Apple grew dramatically during that time. Siri might never be any better than Google’s own assistant, and it might never matter.
by sp527 | 2026-02-12 03:57:29+00:00
The cynical pessimist in me agrees with you that the odds are somewhat bleak. The slightly irrational optimist in me says "rage against the dying of the light".

Also, there has never been a better time to learn about philosophies that get at the essence of being human and that elucidate precisely how and why our baser characteristics (acquisitiveness, status-seeking, ego, etc) hold us back from being happy. The world we're heading towards will convert desire into suffering more readily than ever before, even as our basic needs are easily met. Philosophy is the cure. And I strongly believe happiness will remain accessible to those who embrace it.
by karlitooo | 2026-02-12 03:58:06+00:00
Seems weird to comment on delayed new features from Apple. Obviously if it doesn't meet the quality bar it would get pushed back, that's just how they do things.

But I wonder how much of the problem is due to trying to minimise data processing off-device. Even with Open AI as a last resort, I don't imagine you get much value choosing betwixt the local model or a private cloud that doesn't save context.

Meanwhile the average user is yeeting their PII into Altman's maw without much thought so Siri is always going to seem rubbish by comparison.
by germandiago | 2026-02-12 03:58:46+00:00
LLMs are not reliable to fix bugs and when they do they often introduce new ones in my experience.

In fact, humans do targetted bug fixing reasonably well and knowing they did not change the structure of other code better than LLMs currently do in my experience.

I do not find them reliable enough TBH to leave such delicate tasks in a production system in their hands.
by ChStark | 2026-02-12 03:58:47+00:00
Location: Apodaca, México

Remote: true

Willing to relocate: false

Technologies:

- frontend: livewire, vue; little bit of react and svelte but not enough

- backend: java, golang, php; little bit of js and ts but not enough

- databases: postgresql, redis

- orchestration: kubernetes, docker

- cloud: aws, digitalocean, vultr, raw linux

- agentic programming: claude code

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tqCRKfAn8Xtrx1Zf_HL2KooO...

Email: jorge.gs at yandex dot com
by wlesieutre | 2026-02-12 03:59:05+00:00
So with the AI is doing more of the work and you need less humans, what are you doing with the extra humans to eliminate their no-longer-productive resource consumption?

Saying “we can do the same work with less resource use” doesn’t mean resource consumption is reduced. You’ve just gone from humans using resources to humans using the same resources and doing less work, plus AI using more resources.
by bayarearefugee | 2026-02-12 03:59:18+00:00
> LLMs will always be plagiarism machines but in 40 years we might not care.

40 years?

Virtually nobody cares about this already... today.

(I'm not refuting the author's claim that LLMs are built on plagiarism, just noting how the world has collectively decided to turn a blind eye to it)
by sixo | 2026-02-12 04:00:58+00:00
Even in the US we see cities becoming desirable place to live when they successfully cultivate a film scene, or an art school, and being dead when they don't. But this feels like a better approach than a basic income (which is an invitation to idleness)--make it easy to use the environs for film, streamline permitting, provide cheap capital, solicit locals for public installations.
by BrendanEich | 2026-02-12 04:01:25+00:00
Rewards has always been opt in, so you don't need to get past it to use Brave. We would not be here without it, but use Chrome or Firefox if you prefer. IMHO "really gross" applies to the Google spyware embedded in Chrome, and Firefox has had its share of "gross mistakes" since I left.

For those who don't want to free ride, we will offer Brave Origin soon. One time payment for stripped down Brave, no opt-in UX of any kind.
by neilv | 2026-02-12 04:01:35+00:00
Three problems with this:

1. Removes the pain of age verification, encouraging some people to stay in the proprietary walled garden when everyone would be better served by open platforms (and network effects).

2. Provides a pretext for more invasive age verification and identification, because "the privacy-respecting way is too easily circumvented".

3. Encourages people to run arbitrary code from a random Web site in connection with their accounts, which is bad practice, even if this one isn't malware and is fully secure.
by Paracompact | 2026-02-12 04:02:21+00:00
PhD math guy here. Personally, I don't think this is a great article for a lay person to approach or appreciate. You might be able and interested to follow along with the various constructions of C, but without appreciation for formal logic and category theory it'll seem like distinctions without a difference (and to working mathematicians, they are). The model theory I found quite interesting, but was high effort even for me. And the philosophical points are also rather specific.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2026-02-12 04:02:39+00:00
True, it's the reason why most items aren't recycled. By far most items are buried or burnt rather than recycled. Our economic system is setup to minimize the manufacturing costs without considering disposal cost unless it's mandated. I don't think recycling will every be a real thing unless disposal costs become part of the overall price of manufacturing an item. Something that's mostly impossible unless it's mandated and people decide that trash is unacceptable or at least needs to be greatly minimized. Thinking about it, maybe at some point disposal cost will become so expensive that people won't buy new items unless sellers pay for trashing them.
by lelandfe | 2026-02-12 04:03:09+00:00
Same, the old sayings are dying off: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22greetz+out+to%22&udm=14

One from '03: https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.security/c/IpR2...

> p.s. greetz out to X, R, S, F, and the "bastards across the river"....see, McLean, it depends on your point of view as to who is the 'bastard' and what side of the 'river' you're on.....see you on the wires, chumps....

God, so good.