MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frocodillo | 2026-02-10 19:36:37+00:00
I find it interesting that this is the conclusion you draw from this. I won’t go into a discussion on the efficacy of the various mandates and policies in reducing spread of the disease. Rather, I think it’s worth pointing out that a significant portion of the proponents of these policies likely supported them not because of a desire to follow the authority but because they sincerely believed that a (for them) relatively small sacrifice in personal freedom could lead to improved outcomes for their fellow humans. For them, it was never about blindly following authority or virtue signalling. It was only ever about doing what they perceived as the right thing to do.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-10 19:36:40+00:00
"Nazi", "Fascist", etc are words you can use to lose any debate instantly no matter what your politics are.

I think the sane version of this is that Gen Z didn't just lose its education, it lost its socialization. I know someone who works in administration of my Uni who tracks general well being of students who said they were expecting it to bounce back after the pandemic and they've found it hasn't. My son reports if you go to any kind of public event be it a sewing club or a music festival people 18-35 are completely absent. My wife didn't believe him but she went to a few events and found he was right.

You can blame screens or other trends that were going on before the pandemic, but the pandemic locked it in. At the rate we're going if Gen Z doesn't turn it around in 10 years there will not be a Gen Z+2.

So the argument that pandemic policy added a few years to elderly lives at the expensive of the young and the children that they might have had is salient in my book -- I had to block a friend of mine on Facebook who hasn't wanted to talk about anything but masks and long COVID since 2021.
by srean | 2026-02-10 19:37:11+00:00
Nope. (Just to imitate your style).

More pedagogically ...

Define a tuple (a,b) and define addition as pointwise addition. (a, b) + (c, d) = (a+c, b+d). Apples to apples, oranges to oranges. Fair enough.

How shall I define multiplication, so that multiplication so defined is a group by itself and interacts with the addition defined earlier in a distributive way. Just the way addition and multiplication behave for reals.

Ah! I have to define it this way. OK that's interesting.

But wait, then the algebra works out as if (0, 1) * (0, 1) = (-1, 0) but right hand side is isomorphic to -1. The (x, 0)s behave just like the real number x.

All this writing of tuples is cumbersome, so let me write (0,1) as i.

Addition looks like the all too familiar vector addition. What does this multiplication look like? Let me plot in the coordinate axes.

Ah! It's just scaled rotation, These numbers are just the 2x2 scaled rotation matrices that are parameterized not by 4 real numbers but just by two.

If add two of them I get back another scaled rotation matrix. If I multiply them together I again get back a scaled rotation matrix, neato!

And because there are really only two independent parameters one isomorphic to the reals, let's call the other "imaginary" and the tuples one "complex".

What if I negate the i in a tuple? Oh! it's reflection along the x axis. I got translation, rotation and reflection using these tuples.

What more can I do? I can do polynomials because I can add and multiply. Can I do calculus by falling back to Taylor expansions ? Hmm let me define a metric and see ...
by petercooper | 2026-02-10 19:37:17+00:00
I'm a driver, not a cyclist, and I'm behind those interventions. People are on the wrong side of the road at a blind corner. If I were turning out, I could end up with someone facing me head on.

On the phone stuff, I support him too, but that law needs a serious tweak to cover emergencies that require less than a 999 call. Stopped at lights, I saw a hit and run, instinctively reached for my phone for a picture, but stopped myself. That's not a net good for society IMO, but it's the law.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-10 19:37:43+00:00
Big capital is presently running the USA. Democracy no longer exists there as a factual entity - whether it is ICE agents gunning down US citizens or whether it is corporations run by the superrich spying on people and undermining their ability to e. g. protest.

There is too much a focus on Trump here - one should focus on the whole criminal entity. The whole network. It is true that the fish starts to rot from the head (well, not quite, but it is a common saying), but in reality there are numerous parts that are rotting away.

IMO there has to be a re-distribution of both wealth and power; as well as influence.
by bmitc | 2026-02-10 19:38:32+00:00
> My advice to everyone feeling existential vertigo over these tools is to remain confident and trust in yourself.

I do try to do that and have convinced myself that nothing has really changed in terms of what is important and that is systems thinking. But it's just one more barrier to convincing people that systems thinking is important, and it's all just exhausting.

Besides perhaps my paycheck, I have nothing but envy for people who get to work with their hands _and_ minds in their daily work. Modern engineering is just such a slog. No one understands how anything works nor even really wants to. I liken my typical day in software to a woodworker who has to rebuild his workshop everyday to just be able to do the actual woodworker. The amount of time I spend in software merely to being able to "open the door to my workshop" is astounding.
Show HN: OS Receipt reader with Subconscious agents and Reducto document parsing
by ohstep23 | 2026-02-10 19:38:49+00:00
Built an expense tracking agent that takes a photo of a receipt and extracts merchant, line items, totals, and date, then categorizes based on your past spending habits. It also flags prices as good, bad, or fair.

Stack is Next.js 15, Supabase, Reducto for document parsing, and Subconscious for agent orchestration. The actual integration between the two is around 100 lines of code.

Wanted to see what a practical AI agent looks like as a real product rather than a chatbot wrapper. Open to feedback on the agent architecture especially.
by cyberax | 2026-02-10 19:38:59+00:00
DHS/ICE is in a weird constitutional spot. Most immigration violations in the US are _civil_ violations. So the Fourth Amendment is less applicable. It's also why detained immigrants don't automatically get the right to be represented by a lawyer.

ICE/DHS technically are just acting as marshals, merely ensuring that defendants appear at court proceedings and then enforcing court decisions (deportations).
by ericmay | 2026-02-10 19:39:09+00:00
> There's a synergy here, eat healthier, reduce blood sugar spikes, lose weight.

I'm not a doctor, this isn't medical advice, I'm just bullshitting on the Internet. I know this is a controversial topic and the science doesn't appear to be settled.

My understanding about how artificial sweeteners work in part is that they don't have a caloric impact but still cause an insulin response. I've avoided them as best as I can. Some people believe there's a free ride to be had with them - drink Diet Coke and nothing happens, but I'm not so sure that's the case.

If a sugary drink causes an insulin response, and perhaps that response is different of course, but if it causes an insulin response, and so do "sugar-free" drinks - we seem to be in a world where a large number of people are still dealing with issues related to sugar that they maybe aren't expecting. I just have a hard time believe there's a free ride with "sugar-free" drinks. This response probably leads to more cravings for so-called empty calories. A lot of people I find viscously defend "sugar-free" drinks which leads me to suspect there's something there too.

If you grow up with an awful diet, like I did, not centered around so-called whole foods and actual cooking I think you wind up in a vicious cycle of sugar, sugar substitutes, and other empty-calorie style foods that all feed the same biological addiction mechanism. You get fatter and fatter and no amount of exercise will work (you can't outrun a bad diet) and then add in our modern lifestyle and of course we're all pretty dang sick.
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-10 19:39:32+00:00
> It always been thus for people at the margins

It's worth pointing out that "criminals" are generally "people at the margins"... If for no other reason than to point out that pithy comments like this are often so vague as to be worthless, or even counter-productive!

It's also a good thing that antisocial behavior is often isolated to "the margins", so your statement can even be considered a good thing, by the same metric!

TL;DR: Twitterisms like this are stupid.
by program_whiz | 2026-02-10 19:39:43+00:00
Yep this is 100% it -- my partner and I who stayed single and lived out our 20s and early 30s "experiencing life" only wish we could have met and settled down 10 years earlier. Its way more important and rewarding than all the shallow stuff that people talk about. Of course sometimes you miss the freedom, but sometimes I missed high school when I was in college -- didn't mean it was a step down. Sometimes I missed college and my old job when I got a "real job", of course, it was still a strict upgrade, but you can always look back and appreciate what was good about the old days.
by dang | 2026-02-10 19:39:50+00:00
You're welcome to share your work on HN, but for best results, you should do it in a way that fits the site's conventions. See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/show, etc., for examples, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 for tips.
by skrtskrt | 2026-02-10 19:40:16+00:00
We're on the forum where people are most capable of doing this for themselves.

And if your company uses GMail that is less than ideal for de-Googling, but it does not meaningfully impact the benefits of de-Googling your personal life.

Refusing to run all your search history, personal transactions, and correspondences through one of the fascist state's pet companies is still beneficial.
by eertami | 2026-02-10 19:40:16+00:00
> For the most part he's not making streets safer, but just costing people money.

It's not just a fine when caught using your phone while driving, it's also 6 penalty points (of a maximum 12). Being caught a second time (or if you are within 2 years of earning your license) results in a ban from driving for 6 months.

People who are caught once will likely think twice about using their phone again, not wanting to risk the ban.
by nfriedly | 2026-02-10 19:40:23+00:00
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by themaninthedark | 2026-02-10 19:40:41+00:00
No. Full stop.

Laws are supposed to be crafted to be as applied by anyone, anywhere and at any time. This is why lawyers and politicians are supposed to have foresight and be prudent.

You look at prior events and see them as justified due to the people involved and situations.

If the US government can, for example investigate Richard Spencer or some other extremist figure based on a web post, then they can do the same for someone else on the other end of the spectrum.

But even more terrifying is that they can do the same for someone not in the extremes.

When my friends on the left held power and used it to quash the speech of my friends on the right, I spoke up.

When my friends on the right are doing the same, I also speak up.

The sad irony is that those not in power protest only when it is not their side.
by api | 2026-02-10 19:40:51+00:00
This really looks like it's describing a bubble, a mania. The tech is improving linearly, and most of the time such things asymptote. It'll hit a point of diminishing returns eventually. We're just not sure when.

The accelerating mania is bubble behavior. It'd be really interesting to have run this kind of model in, say, 1996, a few years before dot-com, and see if it would have predicted the dot-com collapse.

What this is predicting is a huge wave of social change associated with AI, not just because of AI itself but perhaps moreso as a result of anticipation of and fears about AI.

I find this scarier than unpredictable sentient machines, because we have data on what this will do. When humans are subjected to these kinds of pressures they have a tendency to lose their shit and freak the fuck out and elect lunatics, commit mass murder, riot, commit genocides, create religious cults, etc. Give me Skynet over that crap.
by ElevenLathe | 2026-02-10 19:40:54+00:00
IMO this is a symptom of the falling rate of profit, especially in the developed world. If truly productivity enhancing investment is effectively dead (or, equivalently, there is so much paper wealth chasing a withering set of profitable opportunities for investment), then capital's only game is to chase high valuations backed by future profits, which means playing the Keynesian beauty contest for keeps. This in turn means you must make ever-escalating claims of future profitability. Now, here we are in a world where multiple brand name entrepreneurs are essentially saying that they are building the last investable technology ever, and getting people to believe it because the alternative is to earn less than inflation on Procter and Gamble stock and never getting to retire.

If outsiders could plausibly invest in China, some of this pressure could be dissipated for a while, but ultimately we need to order society on some basis that incentivizes dealing with practical problems instead of pushing paper around.
by tlogan | 2026-02-10 19:41:12+00:00
I have always wondered what kind of shenanigans Mastercard or Visa did to convince so many banks to use their networks for debit cards.

When did banks actually make that switch?

It must be relatively recent, because I remember not that long ago my credit union ATM card was not part of Mastercard. Now I have a new one and it suddenly has a Mastercard logo.
by gurjeet | 2026-02-10 19:41:15+00:00
> What they found across more than 40 “in-depth” interviews was that nobody was pressured at this company. Nobody was told to hit new targets. People just started doing more because the tools made more feel doable. But because they could do these things, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees’ to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

> As one engineer told them, “You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”
by tuhgdetzhh | 2026-02-10 19:41:24+00:00
One way to sharpen the question is to stop asking whether C is "fundamental" and instead ask whether it is forced by mild structural constraints. From that angle, its status looks closer to inevitability than convenience.

Take R as an ordered field with its usual topology and ask for a finite-dimensional, commutative, unital R-algebra that is algebraically closed and admits a compatible notion of differentiation with reasonable spectral behavior. You essentially land in C, up to isomorphism. This is not an accident, but a consequence of how algebraic closure, local analyticity, and linearization interact. Attempts to remain over R tend to externalize the complexity rather than eliminate it, for example by passing to real Jordan forms, doubling dimensions, or encoding rotations as special cases rather than generic elements.

More telling is the rigidity of holomorphicity. The Cauchy-Riemann equations are not a decorative constraint; they encode the compatibility between the algebra structure and the underlying real geometry. The result is that analyticity becomes a global condition rather than a local one, with consequences like identity theorems and strong maximum principles that have no honest analogue over R.

I’m also skeptical of treating the reals as categorically more natural. R is already a completion, already non-algebraic, already defined via exclusion of infinitesimals. In practice, many constructions over R that are taken to be primitive become functorial or even canonical only after base change to C.

So while one can certainly regard C as a technical device, it behaves like a fixed point: impose enough regularity, closure, and stability requirements, and the theory reconstructs it whether you intend to or not. That does not make it metaphysically fundamental, but it does make it mathematically hard to avoid without paying a real structural cost.
Show HN: OpenRun – Declarative Deployments to Docker or Kubernetes
by ajayvk | 2026-02-10 19:41:37+00:00
I have been building https://github.com/openrundev/openrun for the last few years and recently added Kubernetes support https://openrun.dev/docs/container/kubernetes. OpenRun is a declarative web app deployment platform, built for teams to deploy internal tools.

There are many tools which try to simplify application deployments, but not many support declarative deployments. Even if app sources are fetched from git, creating new apps or updating app config requires imperative commands. Kubernetes is the dominant declarative approach, but it takes too much YAML to manage an app with Kubernetes. OpenRun supports a limited use case, deploying web apps for internal users across a team. For that use case, it supports declarative deployments on top of Docker/Podman or Kubernetes, with a very simple config.

Some of the unique features of OpenRun are:

- All apps have a staging env, code and config changes are staged before being promoted to prod

- Supports OIDC/SAML integration, allowing you to control access to apps using RBAC policies

- Full solution which handles builds, CD and request routing. Does not require additional tooling like Jenkins/ArgoCD etc

OpenRun can run on a single machine, in which case it directly deploys the container to Docker/Podman. When deployed to Kubernetes, OpenRun builds the images using Kaniko and deploys apps as a Kubernetes deployment, using server side apply to make updates.

The whole Starlark based config for creating apps is just:

app(path="/streamlit/uber", source="github.com/streamlit/demo-uber-nyc-pickups",
spec="python-streamlit") # python-streamlit knows how route requests for Streamlit
app(path="/myapp", source="github.com/example/example",
spec="container") # container spec works for any app which has a Dockerfile

While mainly built for teams, OpenRun is the easiest way to deploy web apps and share them with friends and family https://openrun.dev/docs/use-cases/personal/. You can limit who has access to the apps using OAuth authentication.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-10 19:42:32+00:00
I dunno. I’ve written a bit of LaTeX but does it really shine in this context? IMO the real advantage it has is that it can allow the user to express more complicated intents than Markdown (weird phrasing—my natural instinct was to call LaTeX more precise than Markdown, but Markdown is pretty precise for describing the type of file that it is good at…).

Anyway LLMs don’t have underlying intent so maybe it is fine to just let them express what they can in Markdown?
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-10 19:42:37+00:00
Whenever people say Bitcoin has no usecase, this is exactly my usecase. Of course, only in conjunction with Lightning (a layer 2 solution building on Bitcoin with anonymity and instant transaction settlement). Censorship-free, no relying on third parties, free and open source software to make and receive payments. Yes, I know, bitcoin is too volatile. The reason that it is volatile, is because it has almost no adoption compared to the Euro. But lightning can also be used to transfer stable coins - i.e USDT works via bitcoin taproot asset management. Now I don't trust a El Salvador baed company and thus not USDT, but the EU could fix this by having a central bank issued stable coin pegged to the Euro. The entire software stack would be based around taproot asset management and lightning, done in the open by the people, for the people.
by mattlangston | 2026-02-10 19:42:45+00:00
Fair - that sounds hyperbolic. But my point is specific: if the weak mixing angle is shifted from the Standard Model value, one of the standard explanations is a heavier cousin of the Z boson mixing in.

Many of those models naturally include a dark matter candidate. I didn't mean to imply 'we found dark matter' — it's that the theories which could explain the discrepancy often come with one attached.
by markusw | 2026-02-10 19:42:51+00:00
That's actually one of the things that has kept me from using Claude Code web (that, and I often need a Chrome browser for the agent). But they must be working on it.

I saw an MCP I've set up on claude.ai show up in my local Claude Code MCP list the other day, it seems inevitable that there will be skills integration across environments as well at some point.
by sxzygz | 2026-02-10 19:43:02+00:00
Uuugh, graphics. So many smart people expending great energy to look busy while doing nothing particularly profound.

Graphics people, here is what you need to do.

1) Figure out a machine abstraction.

2) Figure out an abstraction for how these machines communicate with each other and the cpu on a shared memory bus.

3) Write a binary spec for code for this abstract machine.

4) Compilers target this abstract machine.

5) Programs submit code to driver for AoT compilation, and cache results.

6) Driver has some linker and dynamic module loading/unloading capability.

7) Signal the driver to start that code.

AMD64, ARM, and RISC-V are all basically differing binary specs for a C-machine+MMU+MMIO compute abstraction.

Figure out your machine abstraction and let us normies write code that’s accelerated without having to throw the baby out with the bathwater ever few years.

Oh yes, give us timing information so we can adapt workload as necessary to achieve soft real-time scheduling on hardware with differing performance.