MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwd | 2026-02-20 03:45:19+00:00
Australia has a national screening program, originally for over-50s but now also open to 45-49yo to request a home test kit. You'll get a kit every two years, and should they find blood in the sample they will then refer you to get a colonoscopy exam.

They should probably extend the eligibility to these younger high-risk groups.

https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-bowel-cancer-scr...
by sebmellen | 2026-02-20 03:45:22+00:00
I'm sorry you interpreted it that way. I certainly don't think developers are mere implementers, and certainly no one on my team is. I expect a lot of ownership and independent execution from people I work with.

I also don't expect AI to replace software engineers any more than white-collar business people.

But what I'm saying is the work of "mere implementation" is now happening pretty quickly with AI tooling.

Most white-collar work is not "mere implementation" but rather the yak shaving and spec definition that precedes "mere implementation" — and this includes software development. For that reason, it will be harder to fully automate.
by mint5 | 2026-02-20 03:45:48+00:00
Okay… well it was extensively reported like everywhere so I don’t know what you’ve been doing but it’s sure not reading the NYT, NPR, CBS or the similar.

Okay so you somehow haven’t seen any of the many many accounts of doge being extremely unreliable but today you’ve seen people tell you they are unreliable.

After hearing that, to you, surprising new info did you consider googling it or cross check it in anyway before replying?

have you so much as tried googling “are doge estimates reliable?” After hearing other people call them into question?

Anyway here’s the AI google summary for you to get you started:

Based on analyses of the "wall of receipts" posted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in early 2025, their savings estimates are not considered reliable by budget experts, government contractors, and media outlets. Investigations have revealed that the claimed savings are heavily overstated, often misleading, and sometimes factually incorrect.
by rawgabbit | 2026-02-20 03:46:02+00:00
The things that impact the most are locking/blocking, data duplication (ghosting due to race conditions), and poor performance. The best advice is RTFM the documentation for your database; yes, it is a lot to digest that is why DBAs exist. Most of these foot guns are due to poor architecture. You have to imagine multiple users/processes are literally trying to write to the same record at the same time; when you realize this, a single table with simple key-values is completely inadequate.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-20 03:46:49+00:00
> Again I do not know why MJ Rathbun decided based on your PR comment to post some kind of takedown blog post,

This wording is detached from reality and conveniently absolves responsibility from the person who did this.

There was one decision maker involved here, and it was the person who decided to run the program that produced this text and posted it online. It's not a second, independent being. It's a computer program.
by judahmeek | 2026-02-20 03:47:08+00:00
The solution to increasing interest in local government is to strengthen the federal system (repealing the 17th amendment) & even extending it into state government (state senators should be appointed by, say, the city councils of the 24 largest municipalities in said state).

This decentralization of power would bring the peoples' focus back to their own neighborhoods, where they can actually hold government officials accountable.
by freakynit | 2026-02-20 03:47:17+00:00
This will be like a global circus of free speech:

Country-1: "Absolutely free speech! Except when it's about Country-4 -> rights revoked."

Country-2: "Criticize Country-4 all you want, but talking smack about Country-5 is treason buddy."

Country-3: "Wait... so I can roast Country-4 but not Country-5... and also not Country-6? My head hurts."

Country-4: "We don't block anything! ...Just not that thing you're talking about."

Country-5: "See Country-3? We absolutely love speech. As long as it praises us. Freedom yay!"

In the end, we might end up having the very same private vpn';s (or tor) routing their traffic over these gov. vpn's based on keyword matches in the request.. or customer's will be able to choose .. kinda like auto-model feature on openrouter lol.
by c22 | 2026-02-20 03:47:38+00:00
No, but the felony involved damage to property and so there was a civil penalty involved and where I live my criminal status is linked to whether or not I've paid that off. They did restore my voting rights after my parole was up, though, and I don't care to own a gun, so I've made peace with the situation.

I was trying to get ahead of the debt for awhile but I realized that's a sucker's game and now I just pay the minimum that keeps them from confiscating parts of my paycheck or other assets.
by alexgarden | 2026-02-20 03:47:52+00:00
Update: Just shipped cryptographic verification for the entire integrity pipe.

Checkpoints produce signed certs: SHA-256 input commitments + Ed25519 sigs + tamper-evident hash chain and Merkle inclusion proof. Mess with it and the math breaks.

Massive update to the interactive showcase to demo all of this running against live services: https://www.mnemom.ai/showcase <-- all features interactive - no BS.

This is the answer to "who watches the watchmen". More to come.
by toraway | 2026-02-20 03:47:52+00:00
The more straightforward explanation for the original OP's question is that they realized what they were doing was reckless and given enough time was likely to blow up in their face.

They didn't hide because of a vague fear of being associated with AI generally (which there is no shortage of currently online), but to this specific, irresponsible manifestation of AI they imposed on an unwilling audience as an experiment.
by seattle_spring | 2026-02-20 03:47:52+00:00
> There have also been other high profile cases of people being arrested for posting things that were not like that burn the hotel down case

Such as?

> Is nobody allowed to be concerned about any of this without being some horrible underground extremist, in your opinion?

Horrible underground extremist? Not so much. More likely just someone who consumes a very particular slice of media that puts a dishonest (at best) spin on situations like this.
by dalyons | 2026-02-20 03:48:55+00:00
I know this is an old thread, but a new study just came out [1]. 300% overestimated utility factor. It underscores my point that the category of PHEVs is largely a scam to cheat emissions regs.

However! It somewhat undermines my argument about the rav4, as it seems Toyotas are indeed the most charged / highest UF phevs.

Still drastically overestimated, just the least bad.

1 https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/biggest-study-yet-shows-plug-...
by raincole | 2026-02-20 03:48:59+00:00
> I want the whole populace to be informed, even poor people.

> ...I wonder if there is a viable business model where for each article, readers can pay to unlock it not just for themselves, but for everyone.

Propagation is free; quality journalism is premium.

An interesting idea, nonetheless.

However, in the end, I really don't believe any serious article ever moved the needle of an election. The kind of news that actually make people vote is "(identity) of (skin color) killed (another identity) of (another skin color) brutally," not some analysis over the economical consequence of the cease of Fed independence.
by inventor7777 | 2026-02-20 03:49:33+00:00
$599 seems like a lot to me. You can get numerous older, much more powerful Mini PCs, such as older ThinkCentre Tiny series, or even base brand new M4 Mac Minis for that kind of money.

Admittedly, the 10G interfaces and fast RAM make up for some of it, but I can't really think of a time when I needed faster than even DDR3, especially at this power level.
by TheRoque | 2026-02-20 03:51:06+00:00
Membrane is not inherently more ergonomic, the "much less pressure" seems untrue since apparently it takes 50g of force to activate, while you can easily find switches that activate at less than 30g (I used a 37g switch myself).

About travel distance, this is also something you can adjust, with the low profile switches having less than 3mm travel distance.

Heck, even HE keyboards can set their actuation down to 0.1mm, if that's your thing.
by kaycey2022 | 2026-02-20 03:51:47+00:00
Agents are just not deterministic. You will see wierd things like in one thread an agent simply says it cannot access a CLI tool for whatever reason. You inspect the call, it worked just fine in another thread. You eventually shrug your shoulders and close the thread, pick up from another instead of having the agent flail around some obvious BS for hours and hours.

Just because they can run tools, doesn't mean they run them reliably. Running tools is not a be all and end all of the problem.

Amdahl's law is still in play when it comes to agents orchestrating entire business processes on their own.
by judahmeek | 2026-02-20 03:51:54+00:00
I'm actually wondering if Citizens United will prove to be a stabilizing force.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/politics/texas-senate-primary... shows that, in this year's Texas race, the centrists are getting more funding than the culture warriors even though the culture warriors are more popular.

Granted, that's only a single data point.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-20 03:52:53+00:00
> Also don’t bother with dvorak, qwerty is 80/20 pareto stuff. Just isn’t worth it compared to returns.

I wouldn't specifically recommend other people learn Dvorak, but I switched to it when I was in my early teens (~25 years ago) and I feel pretty great about the returns I got from that.

My kid sure isn't getting qwerty as their default keyboard.
by skydhash | 2026-02-20 03:53:40+00:00
> But look at the modern web. Look at iOS apps. Look at how long discord takes to launch on a modern computer. Look how big and slow everything is. Most end user applications released today do not pay attention to those small details. Definitely not in early versions of the software. And they're still successful. At least, successful enough.

The main issue is that we have a lot of good tech that are used incorrectly. Each components are sound, but the whole is complex and ungainly. They are code chimeras. Kinda like using a whole web browser to build a code editor, or using react as the view layer for a TUI, or adding a dependency just to check if a file is executable.

It's like the recently posted project which is a lisp where every function call spawn a docker container.
by 15155 | 2026-02-20 03:54:43+00:00
Which "schoolchildren" died because of a firearm that was purchased inside of a 30 day window? None of the famous massacres would fit this bill; did you have an actual, documented event in mind or just feelings?

All of the gun grabbers I am aware of that are in favor of waiting periods try to make this infringement justified based on "crimes of passion" and other "heat-of-the-moment" nonsense - not "schoolchildren."
by keyle | 2026-02-20 03:55:18+00:00
Have you noticed how it changes throughout their release cycles?

It's so strange. I feel it myself, using the tools, it's like a day is different from the next in terms of how much thinking a model is going to do.

I'm starting to wonder if a new model isn't just a tweak from another one, make a big deal about it, make thinking stronger, get good reviews on blogs and tweak it back down for cost saving.

Go through these waves. Otherwise, how can you explain that they release new models _on the same day_ within hours of each others?

I think we're all being fooled about these incremental updates. Many people are reporting that the models are worse now than in December. I felt it too for many queries. I understand they're trying to balance cost with response quality but it seems quite erratic and gamified.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-20 03:56:25+00:00
> tldr; buy uhk 80 nowadays. And an external bluetooth numpad for those days when you need to enter a lot of numbers. Why external? Shorter distance between a keyboard and a mouse — more comfortable and takes less space.

Or learn to mouse with your left hand. ;)

I used an MS ergo keyboard at my office for years with left-handed mousing since that puts the keys in the middle, mouse on the left and numpad on the right.
by benreesman | 2026-02-20 03:57:06+00:00
I'm rounding the corner on a ground's up reimplementation of `nix` in what is now about 34 hours of wall clock time, I have almost all of it on `wf-record`, I'll post a stream, but you can see the commit logs here: https://github.com/straylight-software/nix/tree/b7r6/correct...

Everyone has the same ability to use OpenRouter, I have a new event loop based on `io_uring` with deterministic playbook modeled on the Trinity engine, a new WASM compiler, AVX-512 implementations of all the cryptography primitives that approach theoretical maximums, a new store that will hit theoretical maximums, the first formal specification of the `nix` daemon protocol outside of an APT, and I'm upgrading those specifications to `lean4` proof-bearing codegen: https://github.com/straylight-software/cornell.

34 hours.

Why can I do this and no one else can get `ca-derivations` to work with `ssh-ng`?
by manbart | 2026-02-20 03:58:12+00:00
>I'm not a hardware engineer, I've failed miserably in software engineering and now run a VPS host.

I’m curious how hard hosting VPS as a business was to get off the ground? I’ve worked 5 years previously as a Linux sysadmin, but am getting pretty bored at my current job (administering Cisco VOIP systems). Think I’d rather go back to that
by nobrains | 2026-02-20 03:58:41+00:00
In the "Intelligence applied" section, where they show the comparison animations, they are shown using a non-optimal UI.

There is not enough time to read the text, see old animation, and see new animation. Better would have been to keep the same animation on repeat, so that people have unlimited time to read the text and observer the animations.

Also, it jumps from example to example in the same video. Better would have been to show each separately, so that once user is done observing one example at their own pace, they can proceed to the next.

As a workaround, I had to open the video (just the video) in a new tab, pause once an example came up, read the text, then rewind to the start of the animation to see the old animation example, then rewind again, then see the new animation example, and then sometimes rewind again if I wanted to see the animation again. Then, once done with the example, I had to forward to the next example and repeat the above process again.

Somewhere along that process, they lost me.
by bored_student | 2026-02-20 03:59:57+00:00
I just hate associative claims that delicately prance around the word “causality”.

I’m sure that we could run a casual analysis on this, though my cursory search yielded nothing, probably because the claim that a certain level of red meat consumption causes certain cancers in humans is not really falsifiable (though we have a plausible biological mechanism to explain it).

I know some biostatisticians but only one or two would have the training to conduct such an analysis, and I wouldn’t trust a statistician in theoretical causality to handle it.
by m11a | 2026-02-20 04:00:57+00:00
Don't think that's a valid comparison.

Apple can do those things because they control the hardware device, which has physical distribution, and they lock down the ecosystem. There is no third party app store, and you can't get the Photos app to save to Google Drive.

With Claude Code, just export an env variable or use a MITM proxy + some middleware to forward requests to OpenAI instead. It's impossible to have lock in. Also, coding agent CLIs are a commodity.
by snthpy | 2026-02-20 04:01:03+00:00
Great point and good idea. Maybe something like the Kickstarter model, where you commit to paying something and it only gets deducted if enough people commit?

You'd probably still want to read it straight away rather than wait so you'd pay a small amount for immediate access and commit an additional amount for public access if the threshold is reached. The public commitment could come at the bottom of the article, once you've decided that it's on the public interest.
by nobrains | 2026-02-20 04:01:16+00:00
They are also a mess in UI now.

In the "Intelligence applied" section, where they show the comparison animations, they are shown using a non-optimal UI.

There is not enough time to read the text, see old animation, and see new animation. Better would have been to keep the same animation on repeat, so that people have unlimited time to read the text and observer the animations.

Also, it jumps from example to example in the same video. Better would have been to show each separately, so that once user is done observing one example at their own pace, they can proceed to the next.

As a workaround, I had to open the video (just the video) in a new tab, pause once an example came up, read the text, then rewind to the start of the animation to see the old animation example, then rewind again, then see the new animation example, and then sometimes rewind again if I wanted to see the animation again. Then, once done with the example, I had to forward to the next example and repeat the above process again.

Somewhere along that process, they lost me.
by AstroBen | 2026-02-20 04:01:53+00:00
My breakfast: 80g oats, 2tbsp chia seeds, 1tbsp ground flax, a shitload of frozen berries, 50g of mixed nuts (walnuts, almonds, whatever), raisins or other dried fruit

Delicious and has more than the recommended fiber in one meal. I didn't like oats much until I learnt how to make them taste good
by root_axis | 2026-02-20 04:01:58+00:00
Excuse my skepticism, but when it comes to this hype driven madness I don't believe anything is genuine. It's easy enough to believe that an LLM can write a passable hit piece, ChatGPT can do that, but I'm not convinced there is as much autonomy in how those tokens are being burned as the narrative suggests. Anyway, I'm off to vibe code a C compiler from scratch.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-20 04:02:02+00:00
There are different degrees and institutions of slavery, and Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and former chattel slave himself, had this to say[1] about that sentiment:

> The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass initially declared "now I am my own master", upon taking a paying job. However, later in life he concluded to the contrary, saying "experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery#History
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-20 04:02:35+00:00
Why do you think right-wing policies are intrinsically tied to anti-science sentiment?

Yes, politically China does look very right-wing with some of their policies (like those trying to push women to have babies), despite the "communism" moniker. However, unlike the US, they are very pro-science and they put their money where their mouth is.
by andrewflnr | 2026-02-20 04:02:45+00:00
... I can think of a lot actually. They could try to unilaterally reduce the nuclear arsenal and other military power, for instance. They could close down foreign military bases. A lot of those would even be more left-coded actions. A popular left-ish politician who had a platform of reducing foreign involvement wouldn't even need to hide their agenda.

I get the angle, and I'm not even ruling out that some of the BS is sabotage, but in the big picture it's too easy for me to believe the current admin really is that stupid.
by wildzzz | 2026-02-20 04:03:31+00:00
I can certainly understand the statement. I'm no AI expert, I use the web UI for ChatGPT to have it write little python scripts for me and I couldn't figure out how to use codeium with vs code. I barely know how to use vs code. I'm not old but I work in a pretty traditional industry where we are just beginning to dip our toes into AI but there are still a large amount of reservations into its ability. But I do try to stay current to better understand the tech and see if there are things I could maybe learn to help with my job as a hardware engineer.

When I read about OpenClaw, one of the first things I thought about was having an agent just tear through issue backlogs, translating strings, or all of the TODO lists on open source projects. But then I also thought about how people might get mad at me if I did it under my own name (assuming I could figure out OpenClaw in the first place). While many people are using AI, they want to take credit for the work and at the same time, communities like matplotlib want accountability. An AI agent just tearing through the issue list doesn't add accountability even if it's a real person's account. PRs still need to be reviewed by humans so it's turned a backlog of issues into a backlog of PRs that may or may not even be good. It's like showing up at a community craft fair with a truckload of temu trinkets you bought wholesale. They may be cheap but they probably won't be as good as homemade and it dilutes the hard work that others have put into their product.

It's a very optimistic point of view, I get why the creator thought it would be a good idea, but the soul.md makes it very clear as to why crabby-rathbun acted the way it did. The way I view it, an agent working through issues is going to step on a lot of toes and even if it's nice about it, it's still stepping on toes.
by delecti | 2026-02-20 04:04:23+00:00
That bugged me about the Q11 at first too, for the same reason. I remapped the keys (which is easy to do) so I had Home/End above backspace, and then the three keys on the right are Del/PgUp/PgDn, and it was pretty easy to get used to without really changing my typing habits. The default layout is truly weird though. I can't imagine using insert more than end.
by aeve890 | 2026-02-20 04:04:58+00:00
>Again I do not know why MJ Rathbun decided

Decided? jfc

>You're important. Your a scientific programming God!

I'm flabbergasted. I can't imagine what it would take for me to write something so stupid. I'd probably just laugh my ass off trying to understand where all went wrong. wtf is happening, what kind of mass psychosis is this. Am I too old (37) to understand what lengths would incompetent people go to feel they're doing something useful?

Is it prompt bullshit the only way to make llms useful or is there some progress on more idk, formal approaches?
by eadler | 2026-02-20 04:05:39+00:00
I've read this before. The first time you posted this.

Your obsession with Obama and ignorance of current events are well known to me and everyone else who reads this site regularly.

Please make an effort to apply your purported critical thinking sklls and claimed integrity rather than reposting one article repeatedly.

Being unwilling to differentiate between two obiously different forms of badness—both in kind and in quantity—is intentional ignorance and is antithetical to the curious conversation expected of this community.