MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-23 01:37:05+00:00
Great site thank you. Just curious, I looked up my company(more than 40k employees across the world including many US states) and it seems like I am not seeing the layoffs that colleagues have experienced. This is probably expected as im probably missing some criteria. Do all layoffs have to have a WARN notice or are there mechanisms/criteria that allow companies to lay people off without filing these noticies?
by VVertigo | 2026-02-23 01:37:07+00:00
I used a Blackberry Classic up until last year when my provider dropped 3G coverage. It's probably a good thing as I never got phone addiction since the browser was unusable and didn't have the apps. I did get in the habit of carrying an iPad with me though for that: but at least then you only pull it out when necessary. I might have to check out the Zinwa retrofit kits mentioned in the article: I do miss the hardware keyboard when using the Android I replaced it with.

The Pinephone with the keyboard accessory was tempting too, but the software readiness (and older hardware) didn't seem practical as a daily driver.
by BrenBarn | 2026-02-23 01:37:12+00:00
I agree that distance is not a great metric. The maximum travel distance on a smartphone screen is already tiny. I'd say the best metric is accuracy or lack of amibiguity, something like average confidence level that any given swipe means a particular word and not another. (This is assuming swipe-based word entry, which I much prefer to anything tap-based.)
by WSSP | 2026-02-23 01:37:42+00:00
> The Google admin tools and process haven’t quite been able to cope with this situation and people have been overly banned with poor information sent to the users.

I can’t recall any success story of Google’s support team or process coping with a consumer’s situation, many have been posted here. this isn’t a new outcome, just a new cause

I do want to understand what’s happening with the $250/mo fees of users caught in this. will it be automatically cancelled at some point?
by michaelsalim | 2026-02-23 01:37:55+00:00
While this is true in many places, i believe it is also quite untrue in many more. For example where I live, it was snowing last week. Quite cold but you can't tell csuse the snow already disappeared by the morning. And then suddenly it was sunny a few days after. Today, it was as sunny as the past few days, but the temperature was quite warm. Couldn't tell just by looking outside.
by effcorpmedia | 2026-02-23 01:38:02+00:00
I made a new media platform where users can share and discuss things. I made it because I was sick of reddit and other major social media hiding content related to the Epstein files. On my site, nothing ever gets deleted, there are no mods, and absolutely no bots. Please try it out and let me know what you think. If you like it, spread the word. Thanks!
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-23 01:39:02+00:00
Yep it sounds like Google is charging too little, and taking losses that would be unsustainable for other companies, to try and win the market on AI coding products. Which is a violation of anti trust law, I think. Now that people are using their pricing in an unexpected way where their product isn’t the one winning from their anti competitive practices, they’re punishing the users. Classic monopolistic behavior. And why we need to tax mega corp more and break them up.
by merlindru | 2026-02-23 01:39:34+00:00
claude -p is allowed as far as I'm aware.

if i understand correctly, they even have a wrapper around it to make it easier to use: the Claude Agent SDK

the thing that's disallowed is pretending you're the claude binary, logging in through OAuth

in other words, if you use some product thats not Claude Code, and your browser opens asking you to "give Claude Code access to your account", you're in hot water

as for how they detect it: they say they use heuristics and usage patterns. if something falls wildly out of the distribution it's a ban.

my take is that the problem is not the means of detection. that's fine and seems to work well. the problem is that its an instant outright ban. they should give you a couple warning emails, then a timeout, etc.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-23 01:39:50+00:00
I don't think that's an accurate characterization of Zuckerberg's testimony. His primary argument for avoiding liability is one the article writer explicitly agrees with: the science of "social media addiction" is highly contested, and it's not clear that it's real nor that the plaintiff had it if it is real.

Nor is "passing the buck" a fair characterization of the article author's criticism; he clearly does not think that Apple or Meta should be in the business of age verification.
by fesens | 2026-02-23 01:40:50+00:00
Apple recently released https://github.com/apple/container, a CLI tool for running Linux containers natively on macOS with Apple Silicon. It's fast and lightweight, but it's terminal-only.

I built Container GUI — a native SwiftUI app that wraps the CLI and gives you a proper desktop interface for managing containers, images, volumes, networks, and more.

Features:
- Containers: list, inspect, start/stop/kill/delete, live log streaming
- Images: browse, inspect (config, platform, history), pull with streaming progress
- Volumes & Networks: full CRUD
- Builder & System: status, start/stop services, disk usage

Tech: Pure SwiftUI + AppKit (for the log viewer), MVVM with @Observable, Swift 6 strict concurrency, zero dependencies. Wraps the CLI via Foundation.Process.

Install: brew tap FeSens/tap && brew install container-gui

Would love feedback!
by kelipso | 2026-02-23 01:41:57+00:00
There very likely is existing research into evaluating political bias in LLMs, not too sure, but I do think it's very possible to have an evaluation framework that could test LLMs for political bias and other biases. Once we have such a test and an LLM that passes it, we can be certain (to some confidence, for some topics, for some biases, etc etc) that the LLM won't be biased.

For humans, there is no such guarantee. The humans can lie, change their mind, etc. See Wikipedia, where they talk about how they are not biased, they have many processes that ensure no biases, blah blah blah, and it turns out they are massively biased, what a surprise.

Of course, who evaluates the evaluators/evaluation frameworks comes into play but that's a much easier problem.
Show HN: Debugger MCP for VS Code
by indybonez | 2026-02-23 01:42:06+00:00
A VS Code extension that exposes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, allowing AI agents like Claude Code and Claude Desktop to control VS Code's debugger. Language-agnostic — works with any debug adapter (Node.js, Python, C++, Go, Rust, Java, etc.).
by jmward01 | 2026-02-23 01:42:42+00:00
I'm a dreamer, and a bit of a sucker for the underdog story. This checks all the boxes for me so I am rooting for them for many reasons. If this is real then the world just jumped 10 years ahead in battery development overnight. If not then we will probably remember this in the same way we remember cold fusion and superconductor claims. There is a place for hope with skepticism, and right now this story is it in that place!
by stopbulying | 2026-02-23 01:42:45+00:00
The President is not prohibited from pardoning themself for UCMJ offenses.

Infidelity that requires people at work to lie for you is the military's problem.

Apparently exoneration by one's partner for example in an open marriage does not change whether infidelity is an offense per UCMJ.

On a standard DNA paternity test, one's parents will test positive.

Wouldn't keeping DNA on file (and other biosignatures like heartbeat at a distance) make it easy to identify actual.

That person didn't remember their wife in a deposition. And, "I thought he was pretty good at what he did."

Deposition video featuring Trump not remembering his ex wife:
https://youtu.be/lonTBp9h7Fo?t=1028

It turns out that orders are nullifiable in cases of usurpation, but what about fraudulent use of likeness by one's own kids on bibles and beer pong sets, for example.
by aseipp | 2026-02-23 01:43:17+00:00
"PAYGO API access" vs "Monthly Tool Subscription" is just a matter of different unit economics; there's nothing particularly unusual or strange about the idea on its own, specific claims against Google notwithstanding.

Of course, Google is still in the wrong here for instantly nuking the account instead of just billing them for API usage instead (largely because an autoban or whatever is almost surely easier).
by elcritch | 2026-02-23 01:43:41+00:00
This is a fascinating idea IMHO. A couple years back I was toying with the idea of whether multiple gyroscopes could be combined to make extraction easier aboard a vessel. The limit I see is how difficult / practical the mechanism to convert procession to usable energy would be. I'll have to dig into the paper itself.

The tunable frequency adjustments would make wave energy much more useful for a range of applications!
by gmerc | 2026-02-23 01:43:57+00:00
It's the old playbook again. They're using massive money to distort the market until the competition is bled dry while also operating the platform and using signal from the platform to target their competitors, classic DMA violation really. This all boils down to Chinese vendors getting banned from the market for "national security reasons" because if not, this all dies in a fire for Google investors. Nothing a gold pixel phone to the right places can't fix
by keepamovin | 2026-02-23 01:44:06+00:00
I like this but want to marry it with real world, too. How would you do that? LinkedIn would verify biometrics and then sign your DID? ANd you'd use that biometric-attested ID to prove to who you want?

I guess from a psychological and UX point of view tho, large platforms like LI have lots of "trust" in people's eyes (accurate or not) and so if LI says "verified" we can trust that. It's not just a conspiracy for linkedin to intermediate themselves, it's human sociology. I would just like LI to remove the "self-dox pwn" from verified badges, attest but let me redact.
by strix_varius | 2026-02-23 01:45:51+00:00
When our first child was born, we wanted to share photos with family. So I set up a Google photos album and shared it with parents, aunts, grandparents, etc.

It supports general chat plus comments and reactions linked to posted media. It's exactly what I wish social networks became... Something like the "circles" idea that Google abandoned years ago.

Now with several thousand images and videos and comments we're hitting the limits of what Google seems to have designed for with however shared albums sync.

This community feature though is the only reason I haven't self hosted all this stuff...
by dietr1ch | 2026-02-23 01:46:25+00:00
So, the complaints against USB coming from PS/2 were around the switch from pushing inputs to polling with a relatively low rate on vastly slower CPUs. Nowadays CPUs are much faster and parallel; and the polling rates are in the 1-8 kHz as opposed to 100-400Hz.

I don't see any pro gamers carrying in any kind of PS/2 device, they even moved to wireless so the differences are likely meaningless these days.
by dddgghhbbfblk | 2026-02-23 01:47:21+00:00
I said "thinking about"... I have been thinking about many other things I wish I had time for too, like "getting eight hours of sleep" or "responding to a growing pile of emails that need attention".

And while your rude, completely unnecessary comment displays a lack of the basic human empathy that may be necessary to understand this, it is precisely during a time when my life and home are so busy and chaotic that I would most appreciate having them be better organized, yes.

But how dare I simply leave a comment saying I liked a project that someone shared.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-23 01:47:39+00:00
> the end of the reading of full, original documents

That's one that always gets me: people who use LLMs to summarize everything. It's like, bro, how lazy are you that you can't be bothered to read a handful of paragraphs of text? That takes all of 30 seconds. I can understand trying to get a computer to summarize a document which is dozens of pages long (though I would be concerned about hallucinations), but a lot of the tasks people use LLMs for are really easy already.
by ageedizzle | 2026-02-23 01:47:44+00:00
> 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.

This is why it's a good idea to make the switch to federated alternatives like Lemmy/Piefed. The more people who do this the more people will see it as a viable alternative, making it easier to get away from the ad-driven model of social media.
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-23 01:48:04+00:00
The direct answer is their clients play extra nice with their backend.

Specifically all optimize caching.

The indirect answer is for everyone using third party tools to play about there are 10x using it to spam or malicious use cases hammering their backend far cheaper than if it was by API.

These people are the false positives in this situation, but whether Google or Claude care is unlikely. They're happy to ban you and expect you to sign up for the API.

This has always been a worry when you use a service like Google.
by cyberax | 2026-02-23 01:49:57+00:00
Laptops are NOT useful for any reason in a school classroom below the 9th grade or so. No, not even for test taking, educational videos, or interactive demos.

Maybe for computer science classes, but even there I'd prefer to use shared desktop computers.

There is a lot of research that shows that the depth of understanding the material directly depends on the amount of effort you put in. Or that actually writing down things by hand increases the amount of recall.

And to add to this, it looks like fine motor skills also directly influence brain development and may improve the IQ. The association of higher IQ with better fine motor skills is now well-established, but it also might work in reverse.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-02-23 01:50:31+00:00
> No it isn't.

Yes it is.

> For example in my EU country I can see the list of all websites blocked, and all of them are for piracy/copyright infringement and illegal betting (legal betting is allowed, but must register and pay taxes). That and rt.com.

You provided a counter-example that disproves your claim in the next sentence. I'm just flabbergasted.
by anonym29 | 2026-02-23 01:50:36+00:00
>Then maybe they should charge for that instead of banning accounts?

Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Apple, Facebook/Meta - all eagerly colluded with an unconstitutional and illegal mass surveillance program to violate the privacy of their entire user base, starting almost 20 years ago, revealed 13 years ago.

Facebook was conducing experiments to psychologically abuse users to artificially boost platform engagement. This was widely reported on over a decade ago.

All of these companies are proud partners of the US intelligence community, and have helped develop software used to murder innocent civilians, aid ICE and DHS, and several even openly cooperate with the US DoD.

Were these the same people you were expecting to treat you, the user, fairly and judiciously?

They're deceptive, manipulative predators, and they have been publicly known as such since Obama was just starting his second term. The best time to stop trusting them was over a decade ago. The second best time to stop trusting them is now.
by pwython | 2026-02-23 01:51:02+00:00
Coincidentally, I was asking Claude today if something existed that could identify the key, chord progression, tempo, etc from a playlist of my favorite songs to see if there was any pattern that stood out so I could find similar songs with that vibe. Like a more music theory approach to discovering new songs versus the "people who liked this song, also liked these songs" way.

Even more coincidental, earlier today my wife was saying we should take our "Skylight Calendar" screen device that is hardwired into our wall with us when we move. I said I could just make a DIY one... and then I open HN and see the top post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113728

Spooky.

Oh by the way, all of the "Open on Bandcamp" links I clicked were 404 pages.
by obsidianbases1 | 2026-02-23 01:51:09+00:00
I was looking into org-mode after yet another system-collapse trying to manage everything in kanban (trello) + docs.

While it seemed like exactly what I needed, I was turned off by the
TUI. So I kept looking and found something that, instead of running in a terminal, was effectively a Chrome browser, enabling all the "luxuries" of modern web apps while living on my local system.

Org-moders were definitely the OGs, but it's 2026 and the TUI novelty nostalgia, recently in full swing thanks to Claude Code, will wear off.
by ordu | 2026-02-23 01:52:04+00:00
> I have been using Emacs non-stop for >20 years and my .emacs is just 20 LOC. It's been shrinking, not growing.

Me too. I mean I'm using Emacs too, and it is 20+ years. I hate it deeply, and I cannot stop hating it because I cannot get away from it. I regret deeply choosing emacs 20+ years ago and spending 20 years to wrap my habits around it.

BTW my .emacs is still growing. I don't know how you manage to have 20 LoC of .emacs, I have a directory .emacs.d and a couple of dozen of files there. They are not large, some of them can be as small as 1 line. The last one I've wrote was dealing with indent of lua code. lua-ts-mode have some relatively simple rules that mostly work, but I was not happy with the result, there are some quirks that just are very inconvenient, and in some cases lua-ts-mode just fail to indent properly. So I fixed them to my taste. This one file is longer than 20 LoC.

Though, I should note, that LLMs make this much simpler. It is very simple to reverse-engineer what there is, and if you can explain the idea how to change the code, LLM can write all the elisp needed. It doesn't work out of the box, of course, and needs to be debugged, still LLM can save an hour or two.

> My goal is to bring it down towards 0 LOC.

You cannot. If you use lua you just cannot, because lua-mode uses indent of 3 spaces. Not 2, not 4, but three. So any lua sources you can find on github and try to edit will not be indented like lua-mode does. I cannot imagine what was going on the mind of the person who had chosen this value. The only possible explanation I have is something like "I want to be not like the others", but it doesn't seem right.

So you need at least to change lua-indent-offset (or lua-ts-indent-offset if you use treesitter), and it will be more than 0 LoC.
by cobertos | 2026-02-23 01:52:37+00:00
Interesting, though a lot of the UI seems broken. For my state I see some notice dates in the future (it's not explained why, if this is when the filing will be executed or if it's an incorrect filing date, as the column is just "Notice Date")

Some of the entries pull up a page that says "Failed to load company data: No company name provided in URL" from the state specific view (e.g, any link on https://warnfirehose.com/data/layoffs/california ). Has a vibe-coded feel to it.

I saw a lot of "Purchase dataset for city details" in places which was annoying. Wondering how much processing is being done on the base dataset to justify the pricing. Could you explain a bit on the normalization/cleaning process?
by candiddevmike | 2026-02-23 01:54:05+00:00
You're a 1 hour old account making a lofty claim about engineers needing "AI skills". What are those skills, and what do you think will happen with them in 5-10 years?

IMO, anyone who thinks the current twisting of English into "prompt engineering" is going to remain a necessity is at odds with the claim that AI will continue to improve.
by rkagerer | 2026-02-23 01:54:13+00:00
I tend to err on the side of discretion as well. It's more professional.

Though over the years, I've learned to calibrate that discretion proportional to how much of a good-faith effort the counterparty involved seems to be making. If they clearly don't give a shit that they're incompetent, they can expect my megaphone to blare.
by gck1 | 2026-02-23 01:54:38+00:00
But the question is - why is the -p flag fine? It hits the same endpoints with the same OAuth token and same quotas.

Comments section here and on related news from Anthropic seems to be centered around the idea that the reason for these bans is that it burns tokens quickly, while their plans are subsidized. What changes with the -p flag? You're just using cli instead of HTTP.

Are the metrics from their cli more valuable than the treasure trove of prompt data that passes through to them either way that justifies this PR?
by masswerk | 2026-02-23 01:54:49+00:00
Granted. I guess, unless it's applied very aggressively, assessing the existence of rate limiting may require some sort of automation (and probably some heuristics – how much data points do you actually need? do you have to retrieve any data at all, while looking for a single signal? The article doesn't tell.) Same goes for lockout.

On the other hand, as mentioned already, all that's required is really looking for a return code and not for any data. Is accessing an API endpoint the same as retrieving data? Is there proof or evidence of intent of the latter? I guess, there remains much to be defined. Especially, if it's not so much about protecting reputation than it is about protecting data and ensuring trust, and the intent is to protect and secure this in the first place.
by sigmar | 2026-02-23 01:54:53+00:00
> Suspending customers for using a fairly expensive subscription plan -- especially forfeiting an annual prepayment for a day or two of coloring outside the lines

they're being suspended for using a private api outside of the app for which the api was intended. If you make a clone of the hbo app, so that you can watch hbo shows without ads by logging in with your discounted ads-included membership, your account will also be suspended.
by antdx316 | 2026-02-23 01:56:59+00:00
Account ban?

I just use Gemini 3.1 Pro (High) on Antigravity.

GPT-5.3-Codex is the best on OpenClaw.

Sonnet 4.6 uses 50x more session tokens than GPT-5.3-Codex on OpenClaw.
by rglynn | 2026-02-23 01:57:20+00:00
I like guns and cars, but not sports. How exactly is it performative? Both are engineering marvels and fascinating to watch videos about, and they also happen to be a load of fun.

I watch hours of videos on both with nobody else around and don't really talk about those topics with others much. So in the spirit of HN, I'm actually curious to know what about those interests is performative?
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-23 01:58:16+00:00
Seems like a mix of AI slop and right wing racism.

> But here's what most people don't know: their average salary is under $105,000 — nearly 40% below what tech giants pay for similar roles.

Why would you compare random software positions with “tech giants”? Would you compare the pay for a local race track driver with an F1 driver?

> This isn't a story about hard-working immigrants. It's a story about a business model that exploits the H1B system.

Is it being exploited? The article doesn’t prove that at all.

> When 28,000+ positions pay 40% below market, it drags down wages for everyone in the field.

No, you’re just describing the market. “When the average is X, the data points below the average are below the average”. See how useless this observation sounds?

> The $90,000 gap isn't because the work is different.

The software work at big tech is absolutely different than software work at a random client of consulting companies. The fact that they both have a similar degree requirement is completely irrelevant.

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Conclusion: This is a propaganda website
by qsera | 2026-02-23 01:58:28+00:00
>move this line to the end of the scope

Where it is invisible! What is so hard about this to understand?

>operator overloading..

Yes, but if we go by your argument, you can say it gets executed exactly as it is written. It is just that it is written somewhere else ie "at distance"...just like a defer block that could be far from the end of the scope that is trigerring it