MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dathinab | 2026-02-25 00:04:11+00:00
the problem with your source is, that it treats all crime as equal. Like 1x pick pocketing == 1x homicide.

It also ignores tourist, which attacks crime but also mostly very "minor" crime stuff(in places with dynamics like London).

Then it ignores that in areas with larger amount of major crimes (like homicide) minors crimes with limited damages tend to be notoriously under-reported. Like if you police can't even resolve many homicide cases why bother reporting some pick pocketing?

Londons homicide rate 2025 is ~1.1 per 100,000 (97 homicides, with a population around ~9.0M)

Chicago is at 14.6~15 per 100.000 (411~417 homicides depending on source and if you count e.g. homicide in self defense, and ~2.7M population but also estimates differ in the 100_000s)

Chicago has a homicide rate of 2025 is at 14.6 homicides per 100,000.

So no Chicago isn't saver then London at all.

Like think about it it has over 4x the total number of homicides while having less then a third the population.

And sure homicides aren't all what matters, but given previous mentioned issues like minor crime often going unreported in very dangerous areas its a good point to get started with as it puts out a good "worst case bottom line".

What you post is a good example is how by over simplifying statistics you can trivially abuse "facts" to convey a completely wrong meaning.

EDIT: But yes, I'm also over-focusing on homicides here. Mainly due to lack of handling the rate of "unreported" crimes without any deeper research. If you aren't in a failed state or similar most homicides get reported. In addition crime isn't evenly spread over the city and the level of unevenness and placement of hot spots can also make a big difference to how safe it is in practice (as you can often avoid such hot spots).
by dsmmcken | 2026-02-25 00:04:28+00:00
fwiw, I just tried running the agent-skill they provide for fun to migrate an app-router based next 15 site and the end result is it entirely failed to start.

Vite just hangs when running vinext dev, with no output in logs whatsoever beyond printing`vinext dev (Vite 7.3.1)`.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-25 00:05:03+00:00
A lot of what you said in the second portion isn't at all true (for instance, Google definitely doesn't just ask the author if what they are uploading is malware as a sole check if an app is malware). But I don't think we can even continue the discussion until you prove the "obvious" assertion that there are apps in the Play Store that are malware. So I am going to ask again: give a single name of an app currently in the Play Store that is malware. We are not talking about Apple, but I will extend it so that you can give an app in the Apple App Store that is malware as well.

Let me know when you can provide a single specific name.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-25 00:05:18+00:00
You don't need to brand efficiency and structure-at-scale as "authoritarian"; how painfully American of you. I know it's a completely foreign concept for anyone that has grown up in America, but it's actually within the realm of human possibility for the government and the individual to be aligned and want the same thing. Typically this is evidenced by tremendous social progress, which we see in evidence with the rapidly rising standard of living in China over the last few decades.

It's easier when your government is proposing "hey, let's build all the factories the best way we can" and not "hey, let's impose illogical and continually-changing tariffs on everything and let Howard Lutnick's kids steal all the proceeds". You're right as an American to be skeptical of the government - it's not operating in your best interests unless you're one of the elite insiders. That doesn't mean it has to be that way.
by erezsh | 2026-02-25 00:05:19+00:00
It's a ridiculous argument. The Nazis went through a LOT of effort and resources to gather Jews from all the corners of Europe, and even more effort into exterminating them as fast as they could, within the logistical and economic constraints of fighting a 3 front war.

There's no comparison at all to the ease with which Israel could just drop a couple of bombs on Gaza, had it decided to do so.
by randallsquared | 2026-02-25 00:05:48+00:00
Not, even if you only consider between one and a hundred, it'll be strongly tilted toward low numbers, which means that prices, which are typically like X.49 or X.99 or more rarely X.00, will often float in the aggregate in the 40s or 90s before sales taxes in places that have them. So, if there is no sales tax, one would expect a strong band just under $1 or 50 cents, and if there are, it'll be more complicated, but still not evenly distributed across all possible cents.
by thenaturalist | 2026-02-25 00:05:54+00:00
Irish siding with a colonial terrorist power which flounders its genocidal ambitions freely financed by a petro state which also flounders its genocidal ambitions freely instead of the indigenous people of a land who's artefacts and scriptures are in the name of the land as well as dug up from the ground has to be the biggest moral confusion of the 21st century.
by imfing | 2026-02-25 00:06:16+00:00
A very recent frustration from them was this: https://x.com/youyuxi/status/2005904473332564339?s=20 - their Chrome extension was breaking code block rendering on a lot of websites for weeks.
The issue had already been reported in their community forum, but it didn’t seem to gain much traction until Evan You mentioned it publicly on Twitter. Only then did it feel like it was taken seriously.

That experience, combined with a ~33% price increase, makes the direction a bit concerning, and feels like it’s going in a down hill...

That said, it’s genuinely difficult to move my family off 1Password. I just wish there are stronger competitors.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-25 00:06:43+00:00
I know what you mean but there were so many other possible outcomes that would have resulted in banishment of slavery from North America just as well.

If the southern agricultural states didn't want to be with the free states in the Union any more anyway, it might have been the only opportunity to withdraw without a war.

Individually, without a confederacy, which instead quickly amounted to a large vengeful adversary where there didn't have to be.

It would have been a tough decision for each state to make, under non-emergency conditions, whether or not they wanted to remain with the country that possessed Wall Street or not.

After all it was Wall Street companies who were often financing the plantations to begin with, before stock traders escalated to funding the slave trade once its human cargo became more lucrative than most.

As it turned out, besides all the death & destruction suffered by all states, Washington itself went into such deep debt to Wall Street in order to fully vanquish the Confederate States, that it set the stage for untenable "permanent" debt where the lenders never got paid back real well for so many decades.

Wall Street has possessed Washington ever since.

Otherwise there would never have been a FED as we know it.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-25 00:06:45+00:00
Yes, I can elaborate. I'm not quibbling with you about whether Israel has been firing missiles at hospital buildings versus dropping glide bombs on them. I'm disputing the very foundation of your argument. You claim that Israel has "destroyed hospitals." It has not. This is a fact, little-known but true, and easily verifiable by simply trying to find a destroyed hospital (you won't be able to). What Israel has done, in rare and isolated instances, is fired tank shells at areas of hospitals with Hamas militants.

I don't blame you for making these mistakes, as the information space is poisoned, but if you're interested in being correct rather than ideological you owe it to yourself to (at bare minimum) show me (and yourself) which Gaza hospital has been reduced to rubble.

In terms of "sappers" it is true that Israel has sent special forces into hospitals with confirmed Hamas presence, but that is very different from "bombing and leveling hospitals," an alluring but ultimately false claim.

This is all occurring against a backdrop in which Hamas has weaponized hospitals. For example, they brought Israeli hostages to Gaza hospitals. They have killed an Israeli hostage in a Gaza hospital (and sent video to the family of the slain hostage). They have built tunnels under hospitals. They shoot from hospitals. They meet in hospitals. etc.
by dmix | 2026-02-25 00:06:46+00:00
Why Inertia.js? I quite enjoy not using JS heavy frontends in Rails by leaning on Turbo and light Stimulus JS controllers where needed. My experience going hard into Vue+Rails was full of pain and I've rediscovered why server first makes everything easier to reason about instead of duplicating tons of logic + dealing with constant async issues (particularly around automated testing and complex data loading).
Ask HN: Does anyone know how to register as a developer at Microsoft?
by gcanyon | 2026-02-25 00:07:10+00:00
I'm trying to distribute an Office Add-in. The Partner Center developer/company profile confirmation system is completely broken (trying to avoid flame bait) and Microsoft Support won't pick up the phone or chat. I've been stuck for over a month now, does anyone know the way through this process?
by magic_hamster | 2026-02-25 00:08:06+00:00
> This is the same mistake many made about Nazi Germany; convincing themselves that the Germans were uniquely evil. It stops people from having to examine themselves.

You seriously need to educate yourself about history, what the nazis did, and what is going on in the middle east, because only a person who has absolutely no idea about either of these subjects could draw this terrible comparison. Unless, of course, you're just interested in spreading disinformation bordering on blood libel.
by kodebach | 2026-02-25 00:08:36+00:00
Starting from their first announcement of this, Google has explicitly asked for comments and feedback from affected developers. They have a Google Form for exactly that linked on all the announcement pages.

The exceptions for students/hobbyist were always promised, but the "advanced flow" came later based on this feedback. AFAICT Google has, so far, only made things better after the initial announcement. I don't see why we shouldn't give them the benefit of doubt, at least until we have some specifics.

Pushing this open letter out just days/weeks before Google promised the next major update just seems off.
by sjaiisba | 2026-02-25 00:09:15+00:00
> Anthropic claims they solely use agents to code and don't modify any code manually.

Have you used CC? It shows. They did not make their fortune off this, and it’s at least lost me a customer because of how sloppy it is. The model is good, and it’s why they have to gate access to it. I’d much rather use a different harness.

I do think you’re on to something though. As societal wealth further concentrates among the few, we’re going to get more and more slop for the rest of us because we have no money (relatively speaking). Agentic coding is here to stay because we as a society are forced more and more slop. It’s already rampant, this is just automating it.
by joshuamorton | 2026-02-25 00:09:17+00:00
> You could also pay randos a $30 gift card to sign up for a developer account and share access. Enough people will do it.

This could work, but the issue here is that a lot of these scams rely on the "zero cost"-ness of turnup and use that as a asymmetry. If it costs you nothing to turn up new scam-accounts, and it costs me something to investigate and remove them, you win. If it costs you $10 to create new scam accounts then as long as I can get the EV of a scam account below $10, the scam isn't worthwhile.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-25 00:09:25+00:00
Germany invaded most of Europe and left much of it in rubble. You're picking a very weird, specific comparison (German vs. US cities) and leaving out the obvious comparison (German vs. Soviet or Polish cities).

Also, comparing Nazi Germany, a massively powerful industrial state, with a tiny, poor territory under foreign occupation by a vastly superior power is insane.
by walterbell | 2026-02-25 00:09:25+00:00
> I need to have the robotic arms

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/08/14/apple-moving-forw...

[Apple is] working on a device that uses a robot arm to move around a display.. [that] can spin around and tilt thanks to various actuators.. device to be introduced by 2026 or 2027.. price tag of $1,000.. "several hundred people" working just on that device
by seddonm1 | 2026-02-25 00:09:36+00:00
I have tried to post this here but it has not got traction.

I have a demonstrated process here on my blog (all hand written without AI).

This bit about how to brute force decompilation:
https://reorchestrate.com/posts/your-binary-is-no-longer-saf...

And this about how to do the conversion and address the LLM hallucination problem:
https://reorchestrate.com/posts/your-binary-is-no-longer-saf...

Yes, it is absolutely possible.
by logotype | 2026-02-25 00:09:54+00:00
You’re not alone. I’m a self-funded startup founder and I still buy Made in USA goods (clothes, appliances, tools, supplies, equipment, etc). For me the price isn’t the main factor, it’s simply that I want to support the countries I like. Been doing this for 10 years now. Based in London so I also buy Made in England things too. Never ever support authoritarian regimes!
by simonklitj | 2026-02-25 00:10:13+00:00
Depends on the firmware of the device. Latest firmware (anything after version 5.18.5.01 - which released in October 2025) is currently not jailbreakable.

Jailbreak of any firmware after version 5.16.2.1.1 (June 2023) requires the Kindle to be connected and registered.

Anything prior to, and including this version, can be jailbroken with no registration.
by yosamino | 2026-02-25 00:10:21+00:00
> I recall some time ago an Israeli strike--they hit with a roof knocker, Hamas responded by ordering the neighbors to rush to the roof. Too slow, the house was packed with people when the bomb fell. And somehow that's Israel's fault?!

I don't even understand what you are trying to tell me here. You are constructing a sourceless story that after the Israeli Army dropped a small bomb on a house ( "roof knocker" is a euphemism) Hamas ordered some civilians to go on top of the roof.

Hamas did this, in your telling, because they knew that the first small bomb, was the precursor to a large second bomb designed to explode the whole building.

What would be the military objective here? Hamas knows that human shields do not stop the Israeli army. So it was not to stop the Israeli army from blowing up the building.

Even worse, your logic is not even that Hamas ordered the civilians to go up on the roof not because they thought it would prevent the Israeli army from blowing up the house, you write

> Hamas deliberately gets people killed.

that means you think that Hamas sent these people on the roof to let the Israeli army execute them, not even to use them as a human shield.

That is such a confused story.

Can you explain what you are talking about ?

What probably really happened is that Israel did a double tap: attack once, wait for people to rush back to tend to the injured, attack them again.

While atrocious, there is at least a military tactic behind this.

Your story about Hamas sending people on a roof in order for them to be killed has no sense to it and it seems it's only purpose is to dehumanize Palestinians.

But maybe I am off here. Please explain what you were trying to tell me again.
by gcanyon | 2026-02-25 00:11:31+00:00
More info: the Partner Center Developer Legal Business Profile Verification at https://partner.microsoft.com/dashboard/v2/account-settings/...

Says you get 3 submission attempts, but doesn't say how many attempts you've made. It doesn't say why you were rejected, just that you were. Microsoft Support's phone lines literally hear the word "Office" and say that all support for office is handled online, give you the URL, and hang up on you. And they black list your phone number for the day: any calls after that go straight to a canned message and immediate hang-up, no alternative available.

Multiple people from MS support have called me back over the month I've been at this, and each of them says, in summary, 1. I can't help you 2. Call this number 3. Give another number like the above that does not actually help.
Habits to make sure you don't go insane
by nyxtom | 2026-02-25 00:11:33+00:00
*Attention Discipline*: Protect your ability to hold a single thought. Constant context-switching and dopamine-drip content degrades capacity to think clearly and erosion of this can surface as anxiety or depression before realizing what is actually root cause.

*Know and Be known*: Be in regular proximity with people who know you and care about you and you care about them. Reciprocal care and community.

*Prepare and eat real food*: Not just basic nutrition, but the act of cooking. This ritual is grounding and hands on and removing this entirely separates something so fundamental to life.

*Hydrate*: Cognitive function rapidly degrades with something that can be so simply addressed.

*Sleep rhythm* Constant circadian disruption can often induce symptoms that look like psychiatric disorders.

*Physical exertion*: Your body needs to be physically tired regularly or your nervous system will start misfiring. Anxiety, restlessness, racing thoughts is a lot of just an under-used body.

*Sunlight* Light exposure regulates so much downstream biology that being indoors for days starts warping your sense of time and mood in subtle ways.

*Use your hands* Build something, fix something, cook, play an instrument, do something tangible so you aren't fixated on knowledge work.

*Silence and stillness* Walk, sit, pray, meditate, - make this unstructured processing time without constant signal and input.
by LorenDB | 2026-02-25 00:11:38+00:00
> Enjoy unlimited high-speed data; after 50GB, speeds may slow to 256 kbps.

Last I checked 256 Kbps is not high speed. You can advertise this as unlimited data, or you can advertise it as 50 GB of high-speed data, but you can't call it unlimited high-speed data.
by Viliam1234 | 2026-02-25 00:11:46+00:00
> Also, the idea that chess is a good proxy for genius is a bit out of date.

He wrote that the reason he chose chess was because it was objectively measurable. You play the game, you either win or you lose; there is no way to dispute the outcome.

Imagine that you have dozen children, each of them genius at something different, and that you are surrounded by people who want to prove you wrong. Whatever the artistic genius does, the people who hate you can simply say "yeah, he did something technically impressive, but it's lacking the... nebulous artistic qualities that only we can judge... therefore, not a true genius". Now the chess genius comes and wins every tournament against the adults, there is no way to argue that "yeah, he won all the chess tournaments, but... for some reason we still don't consider him to be a chess grandmaster".
by jmward01 | 2026-02-25 00:12:00+00:00
The US is no longer a reliable partner. Once the current administration is gone the likelihood of US support is less than guaranteed. Even with this administration in place support is less than guaranteed. All it takes is the right moment to set off a tantrum and friends become enemies. Israel really doesn't have allies so much as accomplices and that type of friend only sticks around when it helps them.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-25 00:12:22+00:00
Pi makes GPT-5.3-Codex act about on par with Claude easily.

There's something in the default Codex harness that makes it fight with both arms behind its back, maybe the sandboxing is overly paranoid or something.

With Pi I can one-shot many features faster and more accurately than with Codex-cli.
by prmoustache | 2026-02-25 00:12:36+00:00
That is kind of a dishonnest take. You make sure to avoid mentionning that hamas is not only a terrorist organization. It is also an administrative body which has been bringing employment and services to a significant portion of the palestinian population while they have been constantly under strict embargoes, restriction and aggressions for decades.

You can't really criticize people to support the only org that pretend to care about them while the whole world seem to be against their own existence. Most palestinians would just want to live a peaceful normal life but have been expropriated and forced to live in a ghetto. How convenient to feign surprise and indignation that same people would have resentment against those that have been making their life difficult and at risk. Israel created Hamas.

You can draw a parallel to say, part of the colombian population that was supporting Pablo Escobar when the Medellin cartel was providing services that the government was failing to provide to the poorest classes.
by rfv6723 | 2026-02-25 00:12:51+00:00
Focusing exclusively on the physical decay and replacement cycle of hardware is a classic case of tunnel vision. It ignores the fact that the semiconductor industry’s true value lies in the evolution of manufacturing processes and architectural design rather than the lifespan of a specific unit. While individual chips eventually become obsolete, the compounding breakthroughs in logic and efficiency are what actually drive the technological revolution you are discounting.
by root_axis | 2026-02-25 00:14:16+00:00
I think it's always important to consider incentives when thinking about what institutional leaders are saying.

> In a productivity boom such as this, a rise in unemployment may not indicate increased slack. As such, our normal demand-side monetary policy may not be able to ameliorate an AI-caused unemployment spell without also increasing inflationary pressure

I'm not saying AI isn't impacting the employment market, but this statement isn't really about AI so much as it is an advance warning that inflationary monetary policy is unavoidable if all the people saying that software engineering is dead are correct.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-25 00:14:55+00:00
Hey, so I had a conversation with my wife last night about this. Really interesting. She challenged me on this, and pointed out that this is the exact same argument about trans folks, and that I was taking the same position as J K Rowling.

Now, while I think she made some good points at times, I don't agree with her, and it made me stop and think.

So, yeah, I've changed my mind on this. Go call yourself Irish if you want, or Saxon, or Viking, or whatever. Be whoever you want to be. Good luck to you.
by bb88 | 2026-02-25 00:14:55+00:00
If you lost someone, you might feel differently. And the people that lived that day, almost most certainly don't want to die like that.

That's the problem with those style of arguments. As logical as you want them to be, it doesn't remove the trauma burned into the psyche of the people who lived that day.

If you deny someone's humanity in your argument, you've lost.
by zahlman | 2026-02-25 00:14:58+00:00
It worked when I tried it. Upon investigation, this is because `basename {}` returns `{}`, which is interpolated; thus the exec just uses the full file paths; but as it turns out, `whatis` works fine with those paths.

It won't work with single quotes because `find` won't do that interpolation when it processes the `-exec` arguments; `whatis` ends up receiving a string with a literal dollar sign etc.

I think the kind of interpolation I originally had in mind isn't possible with `find`. Thankfully it apparently isn't needed (at least with my local `whatis`).
by geboss | 2026-02-25 00:15:11+00:00
Here's how I search for cars with AI agents in 2026

> no filters, no forms. just say what you want
> agents scan millions of listings 24/7
> curated list with deal breakdowns
> all automatic -- it even calls the dealer for you

one search. one tab. done.

you can try this your self.

what do you think? what can be better?