MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LAC-Tech | 2026-02-22 19:57:36+00:00
I dont think reading will be much easier. A modern English speaker - assuming he is well read, will know things like "sooth", "quoth", "art thou", "ere", "sayeth"... I feel knowing this stuff helps me a lot more than cognates of high german "schön" or "wohnen".

Actually knowing Tolkien well has been helpful because the way he writes is very anglo-saxon, not so even his word choices but just the rhythm or syntax.

But yeah I went into Old English thinking it would be more like German, but really it is much more like English than people think IMO.
by don_esteban | 2026-02-22 19:58:39+00:00
I do not understand what point are you making.

Are you comparing Iran to Hitler?! That does not make sense whatsoever.

If you mean 'At some point, you have to step in and make the change by force. Like we did with Hitler'.

I will say: Yes, at some point it is justified to step in. But, there must be a realistic chance that you will make things better, and low chance that you will make things much, much worse. International consensus would be highly desirable, as well.

In case of Iran: How sure are you that you can make a positive change in Iran by bombing only? If you kill (directly or indirectly, e.g. starvation/ruined water supplies) much more Iranians than Iranians killed themselves (like we did with Saddam), are you really helping?

I don't think there is a will (and maybe not even a capability) for boots on the ground. So, you are just hoping that the new regime would be a better one. Not many positive historical examples there.

Last, but not least: There are serious escalation dangers. What if China/Russia provided Iran with targeting data and/or missiles (not that Iran does not have their own) and Iran hit/sunk a carrier and some destroyers? Are you now in war with China/Russia? At what moment do you cross that line? Will you retreat with the tail between you legs, like from Afghanistan? Or will Israel decide to toss a nuke or two?

The idealism of helping the poor protesters is a noble one, but the road to hell is paved by good intentions.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-22 20:01:43+00:00
It's not about incentives; it's just bad management. As you said, the business just wants trees on trucks, so good management would realise that you need to spend some time sharpening axes to get trees on trucks quickly. It just seems to be something that a lot of software managers don't get.

I don't think every company is like this though. E.g. Google and Amazon obviously have spent a mountain of time sharpening their own axes. Amazon even made an axe so sharp they could sell it to half the world.
by dangus | 2026-02-22 20:01:56+00:00
Yeah a bit of some odd analysis in the article with who won those console wars.

Speaking of graphics, it’s still worth pointing out that the PS2 was the weakest console of its generation in most respects save for its unique data streaming capabilities, but it did beat the GameCube and Xbox by a year. (We aren’t counting the Dreamcast here)

The PS2 sold itself easily with the integrated DVD capability.

The GameCube had very strong capabilities, but I think it was hamstrung by smaller disc capacity and Nintendo’s difficult developer situation. Sony had the customer and they were easy to work with.

I also think from a marketing standpoint, the small size and toy-ish appearance of the GameCube made it look less appealing to older demographics. The controller didn’t look as serious, either, and the C-stick was a dumb move.

Nintendo wouldn’t give in and make the normal standardized controller that we all agree is the end-state until the Switch, although you can’t fault them for the massive success they enjoyed with the Wii.
by zdragnar | 2026-02-22 20:02:17+00:00
The nice thing about a factory built house compared to an independent contractor is you don't have to wait weeks between job types, your plumbers are on hand as soon as it's ready for them to get started.

With that said, the advantage disappears compared to national builders- the guys who buy up big farm fields and build entire subdivisions all in one go before they even have buyers. They can keep crews rotated between jobs in a fairly predictable schedule, so the only thing holding anyone back compared to the factory is bad weather preventing digging out room for foundations.
by Bender | 2026-02-22 20:02:37+00:00
I think this is a good example of what CSS can do and probably was not easy to make but I will likely stick with Mahjong that comes with most Linux distributions as they follow rules that people I may end up playing against would know and they have many layouts. I could see this being applied to other things however such as games that require building or repairing something. Or something similar to Minecraft?

Impressive work!
by nicbou | 2026-02-22 20:02:47+00:00
I'm quite happy with Markdown. It powers the website I live from. I like that it's human-readable, supported by so many editors, and generally easy to work with.

I have made a few extensions to make my life easier:

- Constants like {{ current_year}} to set things in one place and repeat them in multiple places

- Custom elements like {% tableOfContents %}. I just use Jinja inside markdown.

That has served me well for 5 years or so.
by cloverich | 2026-02-22 20:02:57+00:00
reddit lacks consistent moderation and the worst is location based subreddits, where all dissenting takes are effectively hidden.

Yet one can imagine a limited set of filters that could in theory fix this:

- eliminate obvious bots
- eliminate low content / metoo / naysaying
- eliminate memes
- detect and promote high quality controversial posts equally to unilaterally upvoted ones

And perhaps let subreddits conditionally opt in or out of each of ^, but have to declare which. We know at least half of ^ is easy, and now LLMs open new doors to potentially new automations, but its likely not cost effect yet.

still i suspect the largest barrier is merely that all the popular social media sites are actively captured by ad-driven development / leaders. That cant last forever, people are sick of it.
by panick21 | 2026-02-22 20:04:13+00:00
> , and thus at some point green hydrogen would be too cheap to meter.

Even if you assume that is true. It will always be more expensive then straight electricity.

> The more sensible project were the green steel project.

Not sure I agree. I think Boston Metal solution is better long term carbon free steel solution.

> natural gas with bio fuels

There was a huge 'bio' fuels hype around like 15-20 years ago if I remember correctly. Huge amount of controversy and false claims with politicians support.

Funny how this now comes back again and nothing was learned.
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-22 20:04:28+00:00
>Why do you want the EU to be more like China

I don't want to, but if people like you represent how Americans think, with nothing but contempt for Europe and only obsessed with power, then the Chinese were right about who Americans are and we were naive.

Then achieving autonomy quickly is necessary. And it's not about isolationism, just different priorities. The Chinese aren't isolated either. It's the US that's isolating itself right now as other countries see how they're treated.
by localuser13 | 2026-02-22 20:04:39+00:00
They do. I honestly believe personal email is not a problem. I use maddy nowadays (instead of suffering through postfix), but I believe it's not maintained anymore and I will switch eventually.

When it gets hard is when you onboard other people onto your email server. I never did this, but a friend of mine hosted a server for a small group of people (~20 members), and at some point we had problems with deliverability. For example people set up automated forwards to their personal gmail. Gmail hated that, since everything - including incoming spam - was forwarded. We also had a "broadcast" email that was equally hated by email servers.

One obvious issue is that maintaining anything is work. Last year my email server was down a total of 15 minutes (because of load problems on the host) and this was the exact time when an important client decided to send me an email (I only know because he complained using another channel). And that was in a summer, when I was on holidays, and I fixed that as soon as I received a monitoring alert, while sitting on a bench in a park using a mobile hotspot. And that was still too slow. People are really used to reliable email nowadays.
by xphos | 2026-02-22 20:04:42+00:00
I saw acoup and preceded to read the 11,000 word essay in full. It gave an excellent overview of Clausewitz theory of war and how it maps to the civil rights movement and the modern non violent anti ice protests. Highly recommend to passerbys as regardless of your political affiliation it makes understanding why protests like the one these students engage in are so prevalent
by ryandrake | 2026-02-22 20:05:00+00:00
The concept of Grokipedia reminds me of the old (now defunct? won't load) "Conservapedia" project that basically only had detailed pages for topics where observable fact was incompatible with political ideology--so for these topics, the site showed the Alternative Facts that conformed to that ideology. If you looked up something non-political like "Traffic Light" or "Birthday Cake" there would be no article at all. Because being a complete repository of information was not an actual goal of the site.
by epgui | 2026-02-22 20:05:06+00:00
> Other commodity traders, more well-versed in the theory of commodity trading, scoffed at Joe’s lack of what they believed to be “essential knowledge”. But while these academic style traders (many of whom went bust) obsessed over semantics and theories of what caused lumber prices to change, Joe did what he does best: trade lumber. It appears that knowing the origin of the term “green lumber” is irrelevant to becoming a successful green lumber trader, no matter how much theoreticians want to believe otherwise.

Uhmmm... I'd describe what happened there as lucky. I find the argument that understanding what you're trading is unnecessary pretty difficult to take seriously.
by stopbulying | 2026-02-22 20:05:18+00:00
My understanding is also that impeachment for "Treason, Bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors" does not preclude the state or the states from criminally prosecuting for the same offense. There is double jeopardy for impeachable offenses that are also criminal offenses.

Where is our moral outrage at Trump with Miss Daniels while his wife was at home with the baby? Where is our moral outrage at them employing a tabloid to keep that in our faces?

Recently I learned that Mr Epstein was well acquainted with Ken Starr, prosecutor of Clinton for lying about non-duty-related infidelity.

Isn't there an interview with one of them about how Epstein and Trump have this need to "cuck", shame, and otherwise sexually humiliate others?

(While infidelity is technically still a crime per UCMJ for persons who have signed a UCMJ contract, my understanding is that infidelity is very rarely prosecuted.)

Clinton was impeached for perjury about infidelity, but not for perjury about not inhaling.

Trump hasn't yet been impeached for lying to the public about when he ended his relationship with Mr Epstein, but he was not under oath at that time?

Aren't there a number of available prosecutors for congressional impeachment given the turnover and resignations at DOJ of late? Congress should hire former prosecutors in order to become adequate at impeachment.

Apparently it's practically impossible to prove quid pro quo. But then why would they have specifically cited Bribery as an impeachable offense in the Constitution?

People sell burgundy "Make Lying Wrong Again" hats that contrast with political "Make America Pray Again" hats and executive seal bibles.

God Bless the U.S.A. Bible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Bless_the_U.S.A._Bible :

> The Bible translation was intended to be the New International Version,[13] but Zondervan, the division of HarperCollins which owns the rights to the New International Version, withheld them after multiple public complaints, and the King James Version was used instead, as it is in the public domain in the United States
by BloodyIron | 2026-02-22 20:05:39+00:00
YouTube recommendations are very well tuned for me. You need to mark videos "not interested" and downvote stuff you don't actually like, as well as stopping videos when you've decided you're not interested. This and other aspects WILL improve your recommended feed. So if your recommended feed sucks, well that's on you there bud, you can influence it completely.
by uncanny2 | 2026-02-22 20:05:49+00:00
If you aren’t prepared to admit the “voices” in our heads are real, you will not accept the American Thought Control elite have been in protection of this secret.

These are not accountable to the United States government, however the intelligence communities involved have been looted by this administration.

I provide a link to my account as to why we are not friends. Publicly revealed CIA sources throughout time corroborate my “wild crackpot” claims.

I am a first hand correspondent with our Earthly habitating “Greys”. They have been here for 10,000 years, many were born “upon the Earth”, and they aren’t going anywhere.

https://pastebin.com/42dTemNe
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-22 20:06:14+00:00
That poll is not published. But if you doubt the veracity of Psychology Today, it's easy enough to verify that Time/CNN sponsored it and published on the results: https://time.com/archive/6666859/should-we-all-be-vegetarian...

You can find other Time articles that cover their methodology, which involves paying a polling (or consulting) firm to run the poll.

> It links to several studies but not the one they're writing about.

Which one do you think is "the one they're writing about"? The Psychology Today piece opens with a description of the current state of affairs.

You might or might not have noticed that immediately after the mention of the Time poll, Psychology Today links to a survey published by the USDA finding that, among self-described vegetarians, 64% reported eating meat within the last 24 hours. Why do you doubt the Time poll?
by harshdoesdev | 2026-02-22 20:06:38+00:00
Lima can do a lot of what shuru does if you set it up for it. the difference is mostly in defaults and how much you have to configure upfront. with shuru you get ephemeral VMs, no networking, and a clean rootfs on every run without touching a config file. shuru run and you're in. Checkpoints and branching are built into the CLI rather than being an experimental feature you have to figure out.
Lima is a much bigger and more mature project though. Shuru is something I am building partly to learn and partly because I wanted something with saner defaults for this specific use case.
by FergusArgyll | 2026-02-22 20:07:08+00:00
I don't have links. I'm a yeshiva student and many of my friends study in Israel and/or fly back and forth and I know multiple people who used polymarket to make flying decisions.

> questioning the fundamental basis of this.

Empirically, you can look at https://calibration.city/ (among other such trackers) look at polymarket, filter by market midpoint and you'll see that if a market resolves in a year, and 6 months in it's at 30%, the actual event happens at (remarkably close) to 30% of the time.

Theoretically, it relies on standard market theories, like efficient markets hypothesis etc. Basically, however corn comes ot be valued correctly, much of the same mechanisms are present here
by saalweachter | 2026-02-22 20:08:06+00:00
So you know the "bock bock" sound?

Hens make it occasionally when laying eggs, but it's also the rooster alarm sound. The "cock-a-doodle-doo"/crowing sound is more the all-clear/I'm-a-rooster-here-I-am/flock-assemble cry.

When there's a threat, the rooster switches to a loud, BAWK BAWK BAWK alarm.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-22 20:08:36+00:00
Something I found useful is to "just figure it out" the first part (usually discovery, or library testing, new cli testing, repo understanding, etc.) and then distill it into "learnings" that I can place in agents.md or relevant skills. So you get the speed of "just prompt it" and the repeatability of having it already worked in this area. You also get more insight into what tasks work today, and at what effort level.

Sometimes it feels like it's not dissimilar to spending 4 hours to automate a 10 minute task that I thought I'll need forever but ended up just using it once in the past 5 months. But sometimes I unlock something that saves a huge amount of time, and can be reused in many steps of other projects.
by don_esteban | 2026-02-22 20:08:52+00:00
If you have traveled a bit around the world, and first hand experienced different cultures, you will recognize that Russia of Moscow/Petersburg and other big cities is much closer to 'west' than to 'east' of China/India/Japan/Mongolia/Indonesia.

Maybe not western enough for you, it does have a distinct flavour (but then Sicilia is also distinctly different from Sweden), but still much closer to Europe than to Asia proper.
by crote | 2026-02-22 20:09:04+00:00
The faster fill-up time of hydrogen was mostly a lie. It could fuel a single vehicle at that speed, but then the filling station would need a significant time to build up enough pressure for the next one.

Turns out having to fill vehicles at 350 to 700 bar (5,000 to 10,000 psi) is a massive pain - especially when you can't keep it cryogenically cooled as a liquid in your storage tanks.
by panick21 | 2026-02-22 20:09:11+00:00
> trucks, buses or trains

Trains no, electrify everywhere is clearly better. Maybe for really old legacy branch lines, batteries.

Trucks should as much as possible move to rail, much better solution.

For the rest, the waste majority of short-haul trucking, should be electric. In Europe, the amount of stopping trucks have to do already can be used to charge.

Only ultra long haul trucking has to stay on traditional fuels, and that a small %. And then you might as well just use conventional fuels.

Some aircraft is the only really good application. But I think not hydrogen, and instead syn-jet fuel.
by xphos | 2026-02-22 20:09:12+00:00
I'm sitting waiting for my hotel room to be available in Glasgow Scotland today next the a giant BBC headquarters where I read a bunch of anti BBC protest art on the connecting bridge. There is a certainly a visible anger with BBC reporting. But I agree with you that while being funded this is incredibly factual reporting.

This students are brave and deserve a government free from the regime but a government also of there own making
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-22 20:09:21+00:00
> Why is there such a big gap in test scores between whites and asians when economically the two groups are similar? There must be some additional sociological factor at play behind poverty in and of itself. One might hypothesize that selective immigration plays a role. The majority of the U.S. asian population is foreign born, and is in the U.S. as a result of skilled immigration. That might have an effect on their kids test scores that’s not accounted for by household income alone. That’s the kind of additional sociological factor that countries like Japan and Korea don’t have.

OK, So I've just actually read your fordham institute link, and you realise that it doesn't argue for this point, instead arguing that it's two parent households and expectations around college that create the gap (which is pretty small, to be fair). This is basically the point that I'm trying to make here, in that parental and broader cultural expectations drive these differences, not selective immigration.

Additionally, for your point to be true, you'd need to observe these kinds of effects for 3-4th generation Asian immigrants, which both seems pretty unlikely to me and difficult to collect data around (as there probably aren't enough Asian americans in this group).

I really think that cultural expectations and poverty provide a more parsimonious account of this data, tbh.

> The majority of the U.S. asian population is foreign born, and is in the U.S. as a result of skilled immigration.

On this point specifically, the percentage for ESL (which normally correlates with 1st generation immigrants) is about 12, which means 88% of the Asians in your sample speak English natively. Again, this article really doesn't support your point.
by ipv6ipv4 | 2026-02-22 20:09:40+00:00
That's because it is a cop out.

When talking about Israel, it's always couched in terms of universal human rights. When confronted with their lack of advocacy for the human rights of practically anyone else, their cognitive fallback is that they only care for what they feel the U.S. government is responsible for, and that it's not really about universal human rights, and never was. Then, when no one is paying attention anymore, they swing back to being avowed universal human rights activists who just happen to be condemning Israel.
by theptip | 2026-02-22 20:09:42+00:00
> I'm curious why this isn't getting much attention from larger companies

I would be shocked if Google isn’t working on this right now. They build their own TPUs, this is an extremely obvious direction from there.

(And there are plenty of interesting co-design questions that only the frontier labs can dabble with; Taalas is stuck working around architectural quirks like “top-8 MoE”, Google can just rework the architecture hyperparameters to whatever gets best results in silico.)
Ask HN: Share your workflow with AI developer tools
by fsto | 2026-02-22 20:09:48+00:00
I mainly use Cursor:

* Big fan of the Plan, Debug and Review

* Often use parallel agents for ideation and getting multiple perspectives

* Should probably use sub agents

* Models: Opus 4.6 Max for the most important tasks, Sonnet 4.6 or Gemini 3.1 Pro for the rest.

* Great MCPs: Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Context7, DeepWiki, Exa

Would love to hear if I'm missing some great opportunities.
by k310 | 2026-02-22 20:10:31+00:00
I live in a double-wide 3-bedroom manufactured home in the Sierra Foothills.

It cost me less than half the median CA home price, with 7 acres, most of which I made walkable. I just had a nice morning walk through my "arboretum" of mostly manzanita plants. Real pretty ones, and I took some nice photos.

I could't move the home, nor place a new one in most locations, including the vicinity of my local downtown area. I checked, just for jollies.

Land costs drive CA housing. Look at charts or ask ... you know who.
by Izkata | 2026-02-22 20:10:38+00:00
> In Russia and Ukraine pretty much every child can read by the time they enter the first grade.

In the US too, reading is generally handled in Kindergarten, the year before first grade. If your parents didn't teach you before that, like mine did.

> Meanwhile, when I was learning English there basically was one spelling rule: memorize.

There are rules though, that we're ad-hoc taught as kids, or just absorb through exposure. Just because there's a lot of exceptions doesn't mean they don't exist. Here's an attempt at listing them out: https://www.zompist.com/spell.html
by vel0city | 2026-02-22 20:11:43+00:00
Looking at 2021 Mach E Premiums around me in good shape and normal mileage, most are ~$22k. The car was originally $49k MSRP. So ~45% retained value, I rounded. Mea culpa. But when you factor in that the original owner really got it for $7,500+ in rebates that's more like 52% of retained value. So the truth is really somewhere in between.

2024's around me are listed around $34-36k. MSRP was $47k. Didn't qualify for federal rebates. 34/47 is 72% of retained value, a loss of 28%. Also a 2024 model year is two model years old not one. That's far from 65% lost value.