MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-06 23:56:57+00:00
I started exploring Christianity from an archetypal or psychological lens last year, and have found it really rewarding. I've put in thousands of hours of westernized Buddhist oriented meditation (I think "Pragmatic Dharma" is the term), and ultimately found it and the communities attached to it cultures of avoidance that loses something in its detachment of meditation technology from its larger context. I also grew up vaguely Presbyterian and hated it, so this was a great moment for me to reclaim my heritage on my own terms.

I started with various books of the Nag Hammadi collection, reading the excellent Meyer translations, and started noticing some metaphors that felt like "hidden signposts" in the text (and had some relevance to some ideas in Buddhism). Gospel of Thomas and especially Gospel of Philip felt like they map quite well to non-dual ideas in Buddhism.

I decided after some explorations of gnostic text to jump back into the gospels, wondering if I noticed the same kinds of hidden signposts there. I started this exploration during a trip to London with my wife, where I went and hunted down a copy of Bruce Rogers's amazing Oxford Lectern Bible at the Church of England reading room. What a beautiful bible -- it's so forward thinking that it feels like it was typeset last year, but while it is a beautiful piece, the King James translation of the bible is pretty incomprehensible. This little journey led me to the Sarah Ruden translations of the gospels, and as soon as I read them I felt the same kind of resonance.

This all eventually led me to Cynthia Bourgeault's amazing "The Heart of Centering Prayer," which explores the non-dual kind of ideas in esoteric Christianity and lays out the practice of centering prayer as a basis of Christian spirituality. And I would remiss if I didn't mention Jacob Needleman: Esoteric Christianity was good, but his "Money and the Meaning of Life," really helped me put my own relationship with money in perspective.

This is all a long winded way of saying: Christianity has a rich set of amazing spiritual resources, but they need to be consumed in a sort of non-literal way, where you're meeting the authors in the same mind as they were when they wrote the text. I'd also note that this kind of reading is not scholarly, the point isn't to find the right answer but to impute a larger meeting by meeting the author with your own struggles.

We live in a time that is committed to a materialist reductionist mindset, but I believe that humans are naturally mystical beings, and that we leave a lot of real meaning on the table when we reduce the world down into solely material order.

Rob Burbea explored these ideas (largely inspired by James Hillman's concept of "soulmaking") in his soulmaking dharma (https://hermesamara.org/), the idea being an extension of emptiness: if all is fabrication, why wouldn't we make meaning that is beautiful?

I'm sure I'm coming off quite a bit rambly, but it's very exciting to see such a resource on the HN front page. If you read my comment and feel any similar excitement, please check my profile and feel free to email me!
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-06 23:57:11+00:00
> The result was visually striking. Repeating tile patterns disappeared, and artists could paint unique detail across large environments without concern for reuse. The primary cost was not GPU throughput, but latency elsewhere in the system.

No, the primary "cost" was artists having to fill a world with unlimited textures instead of just filling memory and then having to make due.

The constraint of "limited texture memory budget" also puts a constraint on how much work the artists can do. Remove that constraint lets artists do unlimited work. It might sound like a plus because "freedom!" but it turns into a minus trying to actually ship on time and at budget.

I get that wasn't the point of the article's "cost", but thought it was worth mentioning.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-06 23:58:19+00:00
I lean Republican. Or at least I did, pre-Trump.

I condemn this. It's repulsive.

The only mitigating circumstance I can see is that Trump in fact may not have known all the contents. He's got people posting for him. (Given the rate at which he posts, he pretty much has to.) And given the rate at which "he" posts, even they may not have watched the video all the way through.

Or they may have, and decided that it did in fact match the tone that they thought Trump wanted to convey.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-06 23:58:25+00:00
Thanks for sharing your story. Those early days of using Heroku were really enjoyable for me. It felt so promising and simple. I remember explaining the concept to a lot of different people who didn't believe that the deployment model could be that simple and accessible until I showed them.

Then life went on, I bounced around in my career, and forgot about Heroku. Years later I actually suggested it for someone to use for a simple project once and I could practically feel the other developers in the room losing respect for me for even mentioning it. I hadn't looked at it for so long that I didn't realize it had fallen out of favor.

> That time coincided with the founders taking a step back, leaving a loss of leadership and vision that was filled by people more concerned with process than results

This feels all too familiar. All of my enjoyable startup experiences have ended this way: The fast growing, successful startup starts attracting people who look like they should be valuable assets to the company, but they're more interested in things like policies, processes, meetings, and making the status reports look nice than actually shipping and building.
by eth0up | 2026-02-06 23:58:28+00:00
I've a bone to pick with the title, which euphemises degradation.

If they evolved, one might assume they'd survive more than a few years.

My last two vehicles have been Toyota and Hyundai, both of them having multiple broken and malfunctioning door handles.

Every time I get into a commercial* or antique vehicle, I long for the solidity, surety and hardness of the dark ages when things were built to last.

Driving semis, I'm well acquainted with automobile 'evolution', and all but a few are worth entering. UPS trucks, Mac, some others still make stuff for adults, but International, Peterbilt, even Kenworth are using sillyputty for parts. Consumer vehicles, to me, are the antithesis of evolution. And for all the wondrous eco tech, their merit is contested by landfills, downtime and piles of repair receipts.

Not that eco couldn't work, but the way it's been introduced, in the US, has been replete with cut corners and outright scams. An old truck pre-DEF still runs far more reliably than anything new on the road. Volvo has done reasonably well with trucks, but no new truck can stand to the old ones. CAT!

Door handles are symptomatic of the disposable infrastructure we've built our new country on, and come hard times, when folks can no longer afford a new HVAC system every 8 years at 12 grand, coupled with everything else falling apart around us, we'll be longing for the dark ages again.

Thankfully it's not everything. I just bought a pair of Knipex pliers, which should make it well through the century.

For the young, or majority I presume, if you can suspend your contempt of a less fuel efficient steel monstrosity, hop into an old vehicle from the 70s or earlier. Close your eyes if needed, but just feel around a bit. You'll feel honest engineering. Not as safe, but there's something obnoxious anyway about being too safe and cozy trundling around in a big bulbous plastic bubble. We didn't always drive unaffordable fluorescent pillows.
by dlubarov | 2026-02-06 23:58:31+00:00
Going through the first several -

> his girlfriend was the daughter of a Mossad agent

Some have speculated that he could have been; that doesn't make it true. Anyway, not everyone copies the career track of their ex-girlfriend's father.

> one of his best friends was Israel's lawyer

Dershowitz? He never even represented Israel. Even if he had, I'm not sure what it would have to do with Mossad.

> another of his best friends was a former Israeli prime minister

He was on friendly terms with a lot of politicians. By this logic, he must have been a spy for several different countries.

> a senior Israeli spy would stay at his house for weeks at a time

"Spy" is being used very loosely.

> a friend invited him to bring his girls to Israel

He was invited to lots of places. What does this have to do with spying again?

> he fled to Israel when he was charged with sex crimes against a minor

It's not fleeing to visit somewhere before returning for a trial.

> he was pictured wearing an IDF shirt

This is like suggesting a MAGA hat makes someone a CIA agent.

> he was funded by pro-Israel fanatics

Too vague to refute, and irrelevant anyway.

> he worked for the Rothschilds

This is just false.

> he donated to pro-Israel student groups

Meaning Hillel? I'm not sure what it was to do with Mossad, beyond just being a Jewish organization.

To see how absurd all the Mossad spy arguments are, just replace Israel with the US. Most of the arguments get much stronger - Epstein was friendly with many American politicians, etc. By the same logic, Epstein was surely a spy for the CIA or other US intelligence.

Another way to see how absurd these arguments are is to substitute Epstein with some other wealthy, high-profile Jew. In most cases there are just as many Israeli connections, trips to Israel, donations to Jewish groups, etc.
by antves | 2026-02-06 23:59:32+00:00
it's interesting to see how things will play out, but I really believe that doing Claude Code (maybe with Opus 4.6) + click tool + move_mouse tool + snapshot page tool + another 114 more tools is definitely not the best approach

the main issue with this interface is that the commands are too low-level and that there is no way of controlling the context over time

once a snapshot is added to the context those tokens will take up very precious context window space, leading to context rot, higher cost, and higher latency

that's why agents need to use very large models for these kind of systems to work and, unfortunately, even then they're very slow, expensive, and less reliable than using a purpose-made system

I wonder if a standardized interface will organically emerge over time. At the moment SKILL.md + CLI seem to be the most broadly adopted interface - even more than MCP maybe
by palata | 2026-02-06 23:59:58+00:00
> So the government very well can be against 49%

I think you're confused.

First, it is not always the case that there are only two parties. You can totally have a government made by representants of all "relevant" parties (by "relevant" I mean that the party needs a minimum size, otherwise anyone could create a party of one person).

Second, your ship example is pretty weird. The people gets to elect representatives regularly. It's not embarking on a ship with complete strangers: you have been on this ship all your life. "Never have been on a ship" would mean electing a newborn baby... that wouldn't count as a functioning democracy :-).
by Guestmodinfo | 2026-02-07 00:00:01+00:00
Just yesterday I was thinking about it. Who will decide we are not using circular reasonings for these seemingly nonsensical things (to my non math loving brain).
I read a proof of why 2 is greater than 1 and I have forgotten about it but I just don't like such things. Why are we proving definitions and who will keep out the circular reasonings when math is being built from the ground up. I view math ppl with lot of suspicion because they have intuition and they don't explain but who would say that their collective intuition is wrong (if it is). That's tyrannical for the non math people
by tadfisher | 2026-02-07 00:00:05+00:00
At least it wrote a song, instead of stably-diffusing static into entire tracks from its training data. I can take those uninteresting notes, plug them into a DAW and build something worthwhile. I can only do this with Suno-generated stems after much faffing about with transposing and fixing rhythms, because Suno doesn't know how to write music, it just creates waveforms.

AI tools are decent at helping with code because they're editing language in a context. AI tools are terrible at helping with art because they are operating on the entirely wrong abstraction layer (in this case, waveforms) instead of the languages humans use to create art, and it's just supremely difficult to add to the context without destroying it.
by whynotminot | 2026-02-07 00:00:12+00:00
Anyone who’s been a developer for more than 10 minutes knows that best practices are hard to always follow through on when there’s pressure to ship.

But there’s more time to do some of these other things if the actual coding time is trending toward zero.

And the importance of it can go up with AI systems because they do actually use the documentation you write as part of their context! Direct visible value can lead people to finally take more seriously things that previously felt like luxuries they didn’t have time for.

Again if you’ve been a developer for more than 10 minutes, you’ve had the discouraging experience of pain-stakingly writing very good documentation only for it to be ignored by the next guy. This isn’t how LLMs work. They read your docs.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-07 00:00:16+00:00
Wake me up when OpenCiv4, but only when there's an option for smart AI rather than boosted fake AI.

I remember losing 6pm to 3am playing civ 4 one time. One more turn...

(But I'm not sure what I need openCiv for... the steam game is good. Maybe its just useful for the long term.)
by sd2k | 2026-02-07 00:00:54+00:00
True, but while CPython does have a reputation for slow startup, completely re-implementing isn't the only way to work around it - e.g. with eryx [1] I've managed to pre-initialize and snapshots the Wasm and pre-compile it, to get real CPython starting in ~15ms, without compromising on language features. It's doable!

[1] https://github.com/eryx-org/eryx
by zamadatix | 2026-02-07 00:01:10+00:00
Yeah I don't pretend to be able to interpret the law accurately or believe that if they did/can be shown to have used downloading tools the other arguments have much of a leg to stand on.

The interesting part to me is in more the circumvention claim towards the end, not the debate about what falls in the DMCA itself. The argument for dismissal was based around there not being any evidence such tools to circumvent the download protections were not use. This was not ruled an invalid argument in itself, just that opposing evidence is not a reason to dismiss a claim at this stage "As noted above, the Court does not consider and weigh
defendants’ opposing evidence when addressing a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss."
by krapp | 2026-02-07 00:02:35+00:00
> I think the religiosity of the US is an illusion.

I grew up in the Bible Belt around Baptists and Evangelicals and even a few Pentecostals. I assure you it isn't an illusion.

While there may be some outliers and grifters, particularly where religion intersects with politics (I doubt Trump believes in God half as much as Evangelicals believe in him) the vast majority of these people absolutely do believe what they say, and that they're right with God.
by wormius | 2026-02-07 00:03:22+00:00
When WSL/WSL2 was released and there was a big open source push I actually thought they were righting the ship, then this AI stuff came along (and Win11 UX departure and "Free" OS & ads everywhere) and realized it's the same old MS.

I laugh because if this guy had any foresight, he wouldn't have to beg users to love AI, it would sell itself.
by scottgl | 2026-02-07 00:03:24+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Scott. I built marktoflow because I reached my limit with the "node-spaghetti" and proprietary UIs of drag-and-drop automation tools.

marktoflow is a CLI-native framework that defines automation logic using Markdown + YAML. The goal is to move the "thinking" part of automation out of opaque web builders and into your local development environment.

Why this approach?

1. Markdown + YAML (Diffable & Version Controlled): Decisions are defined in plain text. This makes your workflows fully version-controllable, diffable, and incredibly easy for LLMs to generate. No more opaque "black box" logic hidden in a database.
2. CLI Native / BYO Interface: You don't need a heavy browser-based builder. You can build and manage your flows directly using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Codex. It fits into the tools you already use every day.
3. GUI Visualization: While it's CLI-first, it includes a GUI specifically for visualizing the flow logic, making it easy to audit complex decision paths at a glance.
4. AI-Native Decisions: Most tools are "pipes" (A to B). marktoflow is built for "decisions"—triaging data, drafting content, or analyzing context based on LLM rules defined in your Markdown.
I’ve found that the best "builder" for marktoflow isn't a website—it's Claude. I just describe the business logic I need, and Claude builds the entire Markdown/YAML workflow file for me.

It’s in early alpha and I'm currently using it to automate the triage and response drafting for my side projects. I'd love feedback on the framework structure and the text-first approach to AI orchestration!
by atleastoptimal | 2026-02-07 00:03:38+00:00
No matter what, people are going to still use cars because they are an absolute advantage over public transportation for certain use cases. It is better that the existing status quo is improved to reduce death rates, than hope for a much larger scale change in infrastructure (when we have already seen that attempts at infrastructure overhaul in the US, like high-speed rail, is just an infinitely deep money pit)

Even though the train system in Japan is 10x better than the US as a whole, the per-capita vehicle ownership rate in Japan is not much lower than the US (779 per 1000 vs 670 per 1000). It would be a pipe dream for American trains/subways to be as good as Japan, but even a change that significant would lead to a vehicle ownership share reduced by only about 13%.
by cykros | 2026-02-07 00:04:13+00:00
Gonna need to find a way to circulate this FUD further -- I'm annoyed the price is already jumping back up while I'm awaiting the glacial speed of the bank transfer of my paycheck this week to buy more.

The fact this is happening amid one of the smallest dumps from an ATH in Bitcoin's history is particularly amusing. 45%, compared to 80+ in prior cycles. And this time, while all major markets are melting down amid global liquidity hitting a wall.
by troupo | 2026-02-07 00:05:04+00:00
> But any compiler can be made nondeterministic if you ask for it. That's not something unique to LLMs.

Not unique as in: no one makes their compilers deterministic, and you have to work to make a non-deterministic one. LLMs are non-deterministic by default, and you have to contort them to the point of uselessness to make them deterministic

> If you are relying on a third-party service to run the LLM, quite possibly. Without control over the hardware, configuration, etc.

Again. Even if you control everything, the only time they produce deterministic output is when they are completely neutered:

- workaround for GPUs with num_thread 1

- temperature set to 0

- top_k to 0

- top_p to 0

- context window to 0 (or always do a single run from a new session)
by gdwatson | 2026-02-07 00:06:05+00:00
It’s interesting that they’re organized by date. On an intuitive level, that makes sense. But so many of the dates are hotly debated, and reorganizing the list would produce such a different impression, that it’s a surprising choice.

I am not a scholar of such things, but a quick glance at the documents I am familiar with suggests that the date ranges represent uncertainty within the compiler’s point of view. That’s reasonable, but when it’s linked out of context it’s not immediately obvious that it doesn’t reflect the range of debate in the broader secular scholarship, let alone secular and conservative religious scholarship taken together. So caveat lector.

That said, the breadth of documents linked here is really impressive.
by cykros | 2026-02-07 00:06:26+00:00
It doesn't make sense for Americans, or anyone with access to a dollar denominated bank account.

For the other 80% of the planet though, it's a game changer. Rough estimate, but feels fair, as outside the US most people can't have one without substantial access to capital.

At the end of the day, it's just another IOU, much like a bank deposit, except instead of getting the 0.1% yield and FDIC (IF you're in the US), you get the ability to transact 24/7 across borders in a much faster manner than even bank wires, let alone ACH payments.
by godelski | 2026-02-07 00:06:33+00:00
> I think that Oregon teacher salaries have gone up quite a bit more than the national average in the last 10 years, less so in the last couple.

Also let's not forget Covid.

Yeah, Covid is at the tail end of the time period but it would be an error to make assumptions about the rates of change being constant over these periods. We've all seen that El Nino graph that is used to misrepresent climate change by careful windowing...

But the article doesn't even cherry pick the window, but they do cherry pick the interpretation. How does anyone ignore the fact that from 2013 to 2020 is fairly flat in scores[0] and then sharply decreases after that. Similarly spending sharply increases.

It is so weird to do this because the main argument still exists when you account for Covid. It's the intellectual equivalent of taking a cookie, taking a shit on it, and then selling it for more because it has more chocolate. Who the fuck does that? It's manipulative and entirely unnecessary. From 2013 to 2020 scores are relatively flat and spending increases above inflation. It's still a lazy analysis since you don't analyze what the spending went to, but it's a million times better than pretending a shit cookie is made of chocolate.

But the title is also incredibly editorialized (against the guidelines[1]), but why are commenters not picking this apart? It's such an easy flaw to notice. This article contains zero evidence of their claims. You have to explain data, not just present it and conjecture.

[0] 2020 is as far down as 2015 was up. Normal variance?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-07 00:06:45+00:00
>why then do modern Christians, including evangelicals, dismiss other cultures so aggressively?

The vast majority of modern Christians doesn't, the influences of Greek culture are readily apparent in the conceptual language of the New Testament, John most obviously when he turns Christ into the Logos. Culturally many pre-Christian practices have been incorporated into for example, Latin American Catholicism. You can literally see it in the architecture of churches.

American Evangelical Christianity is a bit of a different beast and best viewed as a nationalist program that brings particular American tendencies to bear on the religion rather than the other way around.
by lucaspm98 | 2026-02-07 00:07:13+00:00
Are you suggesting libertarians believe the government should not build infrastructure?

I realize libertarians by nature have unique viewpoints but that feels like a bit of a mischaracterization. In general libertarians support a smaller government that increases focu on areas where societal collaboration is strictly necessary like roads, police, and firefighters while by default opposing government involvement in other areas beyond baseline rule of law (like NIMBY zoning).