MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scrubs | 2026-02-21 06:51:53+00:00
You can thank Billy Grahm, a major US preacher, for that under God [1] in which the GOP and religious right started to get more aligned around 1950.Indeed, Graham could often be seen later with Regaen (US president 1980-88).

I think it's decently accurate to write US founders were religious except:

(1) church private and state public was more of a thing even though the majority shared similar private values

(2) God was away/apart more so in a static background way

[1] https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/pledge-alleg...
by pests | 2026-02-21 06:51:55+00:00
JSYK, Venmo and Paypal support a Visa+ Payname (configure it in each app). The Visa+ Payname thing is Visa's attempt to allow cross-app payments but AFAICT only Paypal and Venmo support it....

But if you ever need to send money to a Venmo account from Paypal, or receive money from a Venmo account in Paypal, you can do so with the Visa+ Payname.

I have some friends who are unbanked and banned from a lot of apps, this little work around has saved a few on occasion.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-21 06:51:56+00:00
I’ve read all of these articles, they are entertaining!

> Evidence: This type of attack had not happened before. An early study from Tsinghua University showed that estimated 54% of moltbook activity came from humans masquerading as bots (though unclear if this reflects prompting the agent as in (2) or more manual action).
My odds: 5%

I like the “the study I’m referencing says this happens more than half of the time, that is why I think that this is evidence that it almost never happens”

As for justification, sure. If I say I’m a bot would you believe me?
by foo12bar | 2026-02-21 06:52:10+00:00
This is "think of the children/grandma" logic. There is a different between maintaining a company store where everything is verified, and forcing everyone to use it.

Google shouldn't be able to hold a vertical monopoly, on what apps can run, what os's are allowed and what hardware can be used on devices that run Android, rest solely on this weak excuse that someone might harm grandma.

Oh, and of course, if grandma gets scammed by a app in the Google store, Google isn't in any way held responsible. Such garbage, two-faced bs.
by JasonADrury | 2026-02-21 06:52:30+00:00
Depop is so good. It's incredible how many pieces of clothing worth thousands of dollars you can find for just $100 or less!

I mean just look at all these totally authentic clothes being sold at less than 10% their usual value! https://www.depop.com/search/?q=vetements

With other brands you'll find that most of the products on depop are from super secret completely unreleased collections, and have never been seen anywhere outside of depop https://www.depop.com/search/?q=loro+piana It's just an incredible opportunity!
by tw1984 | 2026-02-21 06:53:54+00:00
> someone demanding networking (of all things) in the standard library

> what happens when we try to add extraneous, hard to define problems to the STL? Do you really want to add something way more complicated than a regular expression engine to C++ (networking)

"they have millions justifications on why the stdlib doesn't need networking. but in the same time, some bureaucratic "committee members" struggling with their midlife crisis want you to waste your life on stuff like Std:Is_within_lifetime in the era of AI."

totally as expected.

> Are you next going to demand a GUI toolkit too? Maybe an entire game engine and Vulkan/WebGPU implementation too while we're at it

please keep such extremely stupid ideas to yourself, you are the only person here suggesting having GUI and WebGPU stuff in C++.

your entire skillset could be replaced by a 7B LLM model if you can't even tell the difference of networking & GUI for a general purpose language like C++.
by jrflowers | 2026-02-21 06:54:55+00:00
“The author has repeatedly admitted that despite the popularity of his blog posts that there is a very real possibility that he is not, in fact, the first person to experience an historical brand-new type of harassment that no other human has been documented to have had before or since” isn’t a conspiracy theory. That is a summary of the text of these posts. Dude both openly concedes that maybe none of this happened, but does not think that if that were the case that this is not a newsworthy event.

I feel like the burden of proof for someone claiming “I am the first person to ever experience harassment from the computer with no user intervention” is on them rather than “Seems like people have been rude to each other online with whatever software was available to them for half a century”

Shambaugh’s thesis is that a person was not mean to him online and this fact is worthy of everyone’s attention.
by elcritch | 2026-02-21 06:55:04+00:00
> We need robustness in the global economy more than some megajillionaire needs another half cent per customer in profit.

Exactly this.

Economies follow the same general principles of our distributed products. There’s good reasons you pay extra and lower efficiency (a bit) to have redundancy and resilience. We saw that we need more of it during COVID lockdown chaos.

Generally lowering tariffs has been a good thing overall, but there’s a point where it stops being beneficial.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-21 06:55:19+00:00
When you have a feed with a million posts in it, they are. There is no practical difference between removing something and putting it on page 5000 where no one will ever see it.

Likewise, if you have a feed at all, it has to be in some order. Should it show everyone's posts or only people you follow? Should it show posts by popularity or something else? Is "popularity" global, regional, only among people you follow, or using some statistics based on things you yourself have previously liked?

There is no intrinsic default. Everything is a choice.
by okoddcat | 2026-02-21 06:56:30+00:00
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by jasonjmcghee | 2026-02-21 06:56:59+00:00
It's interesting because this is a solved problem with collaborative docs.

CRDT or OT will work great but are even overkill. But so many of the edge cases you'd usually need to think about just disappear.

(I've built an agent / chat that used CRDT to represent the chat. You can have an arbitrary number of tabs, closing/opening at any time. All real time, in sync.)
by jwrallie | 2026-02-21 06:59:22+00:00
It has been happening in other platforms too. I had a tough time creating a new LinkedIn account after deleting mine around 10 years ago. At one point one day in the new account I got banned, then I submitted my ID and got in only to be banned again within the same timespan. All the same accusations that the profile information I submitted was not “correct”, translation: I was not me according to someone else’s idea of what being me is, even though I was able to show them a proper ID.

I only got it working stable after finding an obscure email on Reddit and re-sending my ID to a completely different confirmation system.
by drysine | 2026-02-21 07:02:21+00:00
>In this war strategic victory is not the destruction of the state, but the control over development trajectory of the rival for the foreseeable future.

No, it wouldn't be victory, it would be compromise. And the Ukraine isn't Russia's rival, it's just cannon fodder for the West.

>they are surprisingly content with Ukraine joining EU

Kremlin says that. Doesn't have to be true.

>which is unacceptable to Ukraine

Why is it unacceptable to the Ukraine?

I see why it's unacceptable for current regime in Kiev because they can't just say "we actually don't need Donbass, never mind hundreds of thousands lives we wasted defending it".
by flamedoge | 2026-02-21 07:02:27+00:00
I have a gut feeling, huge portion of deficiencies we note with AI is just reflection of the training data. For instance, wiki/reddit/etc internet is just a soup of human description of the world model, not the actual world model itself. There are gaps or holes in the knowledge because codified summary of world is what is remarkable to us humans, not a 100% faithful, comprehensive description of the world. What is obvious to us humans with lived real world experience often does not make it into the training data. A simple, demonstrable example is whether one should walk or drive to car wash.
by p1nkpineapple | 2026-02-21 07:02:35+00:00
we struggle with a similar problem at my workplace - vuln alerts from GCP container image scans put a ton of noise into Vanta which screams bloody murder at CVEs in base images which we A) can't fix, and B) aren't relevant as they're not on the hot path (often some random dependency that we don't use in our app).

Are there any tools for handling these kind of CVEs contextually? (Besides migrating all our base images to chainguard/docker hardened images etc)
by zknill | 2026-02-21 07:03:03+00:00
Assuming the traditional stateless routing of requests, say round robin from load balancers; how do you make sure the returning UI client ends up on the same backend server replica that's hosting the conversation?

Or is it that all your tokens go through a DB anyway?

It's fairly easy to keep an agent alive when a client goes away. It's a lot harder to attach the client back to that agents output when the client returns, without stuffing every token though the database.
by avadodin | 2026-02-21 07:03:09+00:00
Main factor is genetics.

I was gaming on a blurry CRT and reading on a dim light while hardly ever going outside during my teens and I only have light myopia on one eye.

I don't know if it has ever been studied, but I suspect eye socket morphology from my own family anecdata.

large eyes + small socket = squashed eyes.

It could be different genetic factors for different populations too.
by denuoweb | 2026-02-21 07:03:20+00:00
First of all, the British don't need a visa to come to America as tourists. Second of all, it says her husband overstayed his work visa as he didn't renew.

Reporters these days seem to ignore truth and just write based on their ideology. Personally I'd like to see a "ratemyreporters" website similar to a "ratemyprofessors" style so we can quickly look up how much on the side of truth each reporter is actually on. Semi-fictional writers masquerading as news reporters is an epidemic.

https://ground.news/ is a nice start.
by happymellon | 2026-02-21 07:03:59+00:00
> Many of the clowns who throw shade on us from across the pond live in dystopian hellscapes...

Rose tinted much?

These are all fucking awful. The UK is bad because it took leaking of state secrets before Andrew proper action, being a paedo and involved in trafficking just means you have to move to an "out of the way mansion". At least now its getting the attention.

But the US ignores the sitting president involvement.

And shoots unarmed people in the street.

Most of the clowns throwing shade from the US ignore their hypocrisy.
by altairprime | 2026-02-21 07:04:11+00:00
A paintball gun might not invoke the federal government to hunt you down; an over-powered laser absolutely will. The FAA has a very low tolerance for that sort of thing. Do not ever, ever, ever use lasers in open air that are capable of damaging the human retina without the appropriate licenses. The last thing cities need right now is another federal agency going on a witchhunt. Firing eye-damaging lasers into the air would just serve them that excuse on a silvered platter.
by undergracelabs | 2026-02-21 07:05:05+00:00
MBC (Model Backend Controller) flips the MCP pattern: instead of AI calling your backend, your backend orchestrates AI agents as autonomous workers with tools.

Demo: 3 AI agents build a complete website in 34s for $0.34 — https://youtu.be/A_GiAqIWJxE

Features: multi-provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter), tools via PHP Attributes, multi-agent patterns (Pipeline, Orchestrator, Shared Memory), real-time WebSocket monitoring, REST API.
by sourabhrakhya | 2026-02-21 07:05:09+00:00
Launching Delta IQ

Every new amendment forces credit teams to reread the agreement across prior versions - just to confirm earlier approvals still hold.

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Upload the agreement and its amendments → it shows exactly what changed across versions, what breaks,
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by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-21 07:05:21+00:00
I'm struggling to accept that anger (or in particular, but not particularly, "moral injury") is a symptom of deep cowardice.. because that struggle seems to promise all upside:)

The biggest trick the devil^W classic liberals ever pulled was to convince themselves that anger(/distrust) can ever be moral^W sensible? No wonder they are easily gaslighted :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_despotism#:~:text=Soft%20...

Lagniappe
https://youtu.be/GfYyBpQP6fU
by scrubs | 2026-02-21 07:05:39+00:00
I agree. Culture wars have distorted, then corrupted a lot to the point where Christains think the state is their personal PR guy, bouncer, and front man ... with an undertone of entitlement to pursue while state is obligated to comply.

To me it smacks of desperation.

Wanna get more adherents? Live your life right, and keep stronger boundaries between personal and private. People will see and respect that.

When things cross, stop already with seeing public comments as an opportunity to evangelize, and blabber on about holiness.

Good example: there's a guy rusty (US state secratary) I believe got caught in the middle of Trump's 2020 election nonsense on the issue of alternative electors. He testified Jan 6 saying cooperation was against his faith and morals whatever the outcome.

Man, I had big respect for his actions and explanation. Short, factual, backed up by action.
by aragilar | 2026-02-21 07:06:15+00:00
I'm aware of the different periods involved (I have a degree in astronomy), my point is that because the Russian Empire put off the switch for so long the difference became a historical joke. Similarly, I would suggest that it is generally best practice to make small changes quickly rather than large changes slowly. So why is it in the case of leap seconds (given we can and do perform measurements below the second scale to take account in variations in local and global gravity) are we seemingly unable to handle something so trivial?
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-21 07:06:20+00:00
It was a bad thought exercise.

from another comment you made> The way I see it, those who can't see through my statement to the true meaning with some form of EQ, are the ones downvoting.

Nah.

Does it feel good to say the people that disagree with you have lost the ability to reason? I hope you don't actually believe that flamebait self-aggrandizing nonsense.
by tgtweak | 2026-02-21 07:07:15+00:00
I've ran into this even in my limited advertising on meta - they actaully want you to use the actual individual's facebook account to manage the ads accounts, even on behalf of the clients through the agency.

This is kind of insane behavior but when you remember that google actually supports enterprise domains and SSO and facebook has very little of that - or relatively little - it makes sense. If you are personally banned from facebook for whatever reason, you cannot have a business account under another email - once you validate your identity it regurgitates the ban.

Despite this being an obvious antipattern to security it is very much by design for meta.
by LAC-Tech | 2026-02-21 07:07:50+00:00
This is a textbook case of German Schuldstolz - you feel having been militaristic and having mass human right abuses entitles you to lecture others.

All you learned in the last centuries and a half is that you dont have the logistics to fight massive wars. You did not abandon anything due to your own enlightenment, you abandoned it because of massive foreign military interventions, where every single one of your newspaper, radio and television stations were replaced by your military occupiers.

The worst part about your Schuldstolz is that... the regime who did the most to end yours was even less moral and killed even more people than your own. Meaning you aren't even the best at being awful.

So no, I do not care what you have to see about freedom "as a German". You were militarily, ideologically and mentally conquered. Lecturing Anglos is this is just reflecing back our own beliefs but distorted with a German mindset that has no history or tradition of freedom of speech.
Show HN: HN Showcase – I rebuilt my 2011 Show HN gallery with AI curation
by ssong | 2026-02-21 07:07:57+00:00
I built HN Showcase as a weekend project in 2011 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843490) - a thumbnail gallery for Show HN posts. It got some love (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053755, 158 pts), then went offline like all side projects do.

Fourteen years later, Show HN gets hundreds of posts per day and it's harder to find the interesting stuff. So I rebuilt it from scratch.

Every post gets a Playwright screenshot, then Claude Haiku analyzes the screenshot + page content + GitHub README to classify it into tiers (Gem → Banger → Solid → Mid → Pass) with a one-sentence editorial take and vibe tags like "Wizardry" or "Dark Horse."

The whole rating system was built by iterating with AI — I gave it the objective (surface interesting projects, don't inflate scores) and had it design the tier rubric, pick real posts as calibration benchmarks, and tune itself until the distribution had teeth. I didn't hand-label a single example. Out of a couple thousand posts analyzed, under 1% got "Gem."

Open source: https://github.com/InsipidPoint/showhn

Would love feedback — are the ratings reasonably calibrated? Any projects rated unfairly?
by psgdev | 2026-02-21 07:09:41+00:00
I’ve been trying to sell my old iPhone and AirPods on Facebook Marketplace. Since I wanted them gone quickly, I priced them a bit lower than similar listings but Facebook instantly flagged them as “counterfeit.”
I thought maybe the issue was my photos, so I relisted with clearer pictures… same result. Every appeal just gets an automated rejection with no real explanation.
Now I’m getting warnings that I’m “at risk of losing access to Marketplace.”

It honestly feels like their AI is using a hard, oversimplified rule: “iPhone 8 listed for $80? Must be counterfeit.”
by crvdgc | 2026-02-21 07:09:48+00:00
In theory, it's possible to have a third party (other than Google or Apple) to provide attestation on third party hardware.

You can have a separate core and kernel to run such code. They don't have to be powerful, but they'll need to be small enough to be verified by the said provider. For most of the code that doesn't need attestation, they can be executed on normal hardware.

The provider also has to convince the regulator or banks to trust them. However, if that's solved, the user should feel no difference between pure Android and alternative platform plus attestation.
by Maxious | 2026-02-21 07:13:10+00:00
nice username... I was going to say, we warned about this with the google+ real name policy "nymwars" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars and the cloudflare AI bot blocking that blocks humans

Yes it's potentially good for reducing spam and terribly good for collecting personal information for advertisers. Both at the expense of making social networks inaccessible to real people.
by tbrownaw | 2026-02-21 07:15:39+00:00
> I don't have an application that requires ten thousand years of storage but I'm sure someone out there does!

A) record (a representative cross-section of) "everything" and leave multiple copies where future archeologists might find it. To avoid things like how present-day archaeologists apparently have holes in the kinds of things they can find, due to different social classes not leaving equally-robust trails.

B) this is "at least as long as I could possibly care about" storage. If I need to retain say financial records for seven years, and then later the government retroactively increases that to 20 years, there's no need to re-archive it all onto new media.
by aiauthoritydev | 2026-02-21 07:16:45+00:00
It is more complicated than that.

Seller sold forward contracts to recoup tariffs at a lower price and passed on the benefits to the consumers already. E.g. For every $1 seller paid as tariffs, seller sold a contract to someone for $0.25 saying if government ever refunds the buyer of the contract can keep it. The $0.25 already passed to consumers as benefits.

> Seller gets to keep the returned tax money as pure profit (no refund to customer)

Not to the specific customer but this benefits will now get passed to future customers as prices will be lowered than usual (lower than pre-tariff prices) due to competition.

Note that consumers who paid more were not necessarily paying the tariffs. Stores like Costco, Walmart increased prices across the board and socialized the impact of tariffs. Even if there was some mechanism to return tariff money to consumer, there is no way you could return it to someone who paid higher due to this socialized nature of price increase.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-21 07:17:07+00:00
> Fine, I'll pay for a new workspace account...

That's bad for you don't have the account yet but at Google, once you're a paying customer --and hence you're not the product anymore--, there are actual people helping you on the phone when you call them. Of course the catch-22 here is that you don't have the Workspace account yet, so you may sorry out of luck.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-21 07:17:11+00:00
In many countries you are only allowed to call yourself a Software Engineer if you actually have a professional title.

It is countries like US where anyone can call themselves whatever they feel like that have devalued our profession.

I have been on the liability side ever since, people don't keep broken cars unless they cannot afford anything else, software is nothing special, other than lack of accountability.
by microtonal | 2026-02-21 07:18:22+00:00
Still, you are stopping the extraction of analytics, which probably bring Google the much more revenue over the longer term, and it is not possible to disable on regular Android phones.

Remember that on every certified Google Android phone, Google Play Services runs with system-level privileges. On GrapheneOS, it is sandboxed like pretty much any other app (if you choose to install Play Services) and you can make it 'blind' by revoking most privileges.

Same for Pixel Camera, etc., I just block network access.
by menaerus | 2026-02-21 07:18:24+00:00
As if asking someone to support their pretty substantial claims is all of the sudden called entitled attitude? No, that's just how people reason about different views. You should understand that when you say something you should be able to stand behind your words. C/p a link that supports your view would have taken you 2 seconds. Yet you chose the ad-hominem strategy. Pretty telling for anyone reading this conversation.
by devsda | 2026-02-21 07:20:44+00:00
Does a business have right to produce whatever it wishes even if it affects the environment ?

Does a business have right to pay literal pennies per hour if it manages to find people willing to work at that pay ?

Does a business have right to lace food products with addictive substances for repeat customers and profit ?

All these cases are already happening today at some level depending on who you ask. But they don’t tilt to extremes because we have laws in place to maintain balance between business needs and collective good.

This move by Google will tilt that balance forever towards absolute duopoly in mobile computing space. It is time for legislation to avoid that.