MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalman | 2026-02-20 21:41:44+00:00
America had the best talent, because they grew there own, from the best educated and funded research institutions and paid them well, and there were many large companys founded and run by engineers and scientists.
Also they educated foriegn students, the brightest of the bright who were happy to stay and contribute as it was by far the best personal option to stay and enjoy the results of high tech society, safe, clean, prosperous......sane.
Now there are more better options everywhere else, and as america is very strongly tilted towards maximum profit at any cost to society,so they are getting a lot of people comming who think thats great, and have lots of ideas and energy to put into maximising the money, now, right this very second, more money!,aaaaaand now,more!
by DonaldFisk | 2026-02-20 21:41:45+00:00
Here's Trump's claims debunked in detail: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/08/recapping-trumps-deceptive...

"But we found that Trump’s so-called “reciprocal” tariff rates weren’t based on tariffs that other countries charged on goods coming from the U.S. Instead, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative came up with the rates by dividing the size of a country’s trade imbalance with the U.S. in goods by how much America imports in goods from that nation. "
by electroly | 2026-02-20 21:42:04+00:00
It worked! I was able to drop the Windows install on a standard GitHub Actions worker from 1 hour to 27 minutes. Here's what worked:

ARG JULIA_CPU_TARGET="generic;skylake-avx512,clone_all;cascadelake,clone_all;icelake-server,clone_all;sapphirerapids,clone_all;znver4,clone_all;znver2,clone_all"
ARG JULIA_PROJECT=[...]
ENV JULIA_PROJECT=[...]
RUN julia -e "using Pkg; Pkg.activate(\"[...]\"); Pkg.instantiate(); Pkg.precompile();"

What I got wrong the first time: I failed to actually export JULIA_CPU_TARGET so it would take effect in the "Pkg.precompile()" command. In reality, I hadn't correctly tested with that environment variable set at all. I was only correctly setting it when running PackageCompiler.

Thank you so much for this! It's too late for me to edit my original post, but cutting the install time in half is a major win for me. Now it only needs to precompile, not also compile a sysimage.
by underlipton | 2026-02-20 21:42:09+00:00
>The net result is a growing schism of resentment by those who do the work towards those who get the credit, glory, and reward, versus those who bask in stardom and truly believe they can replace the perceived entitlement of labor wholesale with an instant gratification machine and somehow survive the resulting societal collapse such a device would bring about.

Naturally, unmentioned are those shut out of reasonable opportunities for meaningful productivity, regardless of technical potential (but largely in line with (lack of) social capital). A few years of this maybe encourages an entrepreneurial spirit. Two decades is quite convincing that there's no place for them in the current order.

The upwardly-mobile opportunity hoarders need to understand, much as the wealth hoarders ought to, that the whole thing falls apart without buy-in from the "losers".

Tang ping bai lan.
by mikepurvis | 2026-02-20 21:42:15+00:00
This advice makes most sense for tools that have a clear linear flow from beginner to expert. As soon as something is complex enough to have multiple different personas or desired outcomes for the novice user it's considerably harder to structure docs pedagogically.

The extreme case of this is something like Nix, which is notorious for terrible docs, and I think that's in large part because even the basic "install my first package" could involve profiles, environments, flakes, whatever; there's like five ways to do everything and which one you want depends a lot what your "real" eventual goal is.
by NikolaNovak | 2026-02-20 21:42:26+00:00
>"Autopilots do a lot more than that because flying an aircraft safely is a lot more complicated than turning a steering wheel left and right and accelerating or breaking."

Can you elaborate? My very limited knowledge but of very real airplane autopilots in little Cessna and Pipers is that they are in fact far easier than cars - they are a simple control feedback loop that maintains altitude and heading, that's it. You can crash into ground, mountain, or other traffic quite cheerfully. I would not be surprised to find adaptive cruise in cars is far more complex of a system than basic aircraft "autopilot".
by selridge | 2026-02-20 21:42:38+00:00
It doesn’t default to class, people just pretend class doesn’t apply at all.

Taste is often advanced as this subjective yet ultimately discriminating notion which refuses to be pinned down. Insistent but ineffable. This idea that you and I know what good software is due to having paid dues and they don’t, and the truth will out, is a common one!

My argument isn’t that it’s class. It’s that this framework of describing taste is PURPOSE BUILT to ignore questions like status, access, and money in favor of standing in judgment.
by andai | 2026-02-20 21:42:45+00:00
So, OpenClaw is literally a meme. It existed for months and didn't get much attention until it became a meme. And every day, you see people fell for the meme wholesale: "I bought a Mac Mini for OpenClaw, now how do I run GPT-5 on it locally?"

The technical characteristics appear to be entirely irrelevant. (I'm not sure if taste even enters into the picture.. it appears to be a third category!)
by password4321 | 2026-02-20 21:42:57+00:00
Yes, I run something like this (PowerShell borks out unless there are double quotes inside the single quotes) in a short script when I need to review available branches:

git fetch --all --prune --quiet
git log origin/main --date=format:%m%d%H%M --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%ad-%h%C(auto)%d %s (%cn)' -n1
git log --tags --date=format:%m%d%H%M --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%ad-%h%C(auto)%d %s (%cn)' -n1
echo ''
git for-each-ref --count=10 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(color:yellow)%(committerdate:format:%m%d%H%M)-%(objectname:short) (%(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:yellow)) %(color:white)%(contents:subject) (%(authorname))'

I include a [month][day][hour][minute]-[git hash] prefix as enough info to see when branches were last updated and grab them when I make a mistake creating the branch from the wrong parent or want to cherry-pick.
by themafia | 2026-02-20 21:43:18+00:00
Points are often presented as a proxy for trustworthiness. They're even implicit on sites like HN where certain features only become available once you've crossed a threshold.

It's a bad tool. I always think of the Bill Bur joke talking about Netflix going from 1-5 stars to thumbs up/down. "It's like.. stubbed my toe.. thumbs down. Hitler.. thumbs down. There's too big of a gap in 'thumbs down.'"
by sp1nningaway | 2026-02-20 21:43:19+00:00
Hahah, I had the same thought. My eyes rolled out of my skull after the second paragraph.

This assumption is remarkably out of step with the people who actually inhabit the city’s public space. At a bus stop, I saw a poster that read: today, soc 2 is done before your ai girlfriend breaks up with you. it’s done in delve. Beneath it, a man squatted on the pavement, staring at nothing in particular, a glass pipe drooping from his fingers.

I'm fascinated by hackernews' etiquette, both explicit and implicit, that think 10,000 words of turgid prose that reek with dismissiveness and contempt "(Rationalists, like termites, live in eusocial mounds.)" are valuable, but your curt dismissal of it is rude.
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-02-20 21:43:37+00:00
"feels good to me" and "helps me sleep more easily" are about the same thing: flimsy and almost non-quantifiable personal experiences. About the same level with "I dream of nicer things".

> And many, many other people have written that it does the same for them.

So people write for homeopathy. Homepathy actually is the precursor for using this type of "evidence" for development and study of new "drugs" (hint: this evidence ends up going nowhere useful, quickly).

> Or soothing music. Or bedtime stories. Because the funding usually isn't there to perform the kind of large-scale studies required to establish these things, because it's just not a priority or even a good use of our dollars.

Oh, there is. There are way more studies about this than you can possibly think of. There are medical journals reporting clinical experiences about this daily. You are saying this on an article about study about one of these, ironically enough.

> And lack of evidence for, is not the same as evidence against.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

> My point is, nothing in this article does establish that it is "actually bullshit".

Why not?

> But for some reason, low amber lighting to help with sleep makes you and the article author upset? Why? Why does that make you upset, but not hot tea or lullabyes? Or do those make you upset too?

You are the one who suddenly claims this makes people "anti-science", when this particular bullshit is not even 20 years old, and it was already known to be suspect 20 years ago. It is just ridiculous that it is now suddenly such a core belief of your persona that even being reminded that it is most likely bullshit is going to drive you to reject science outright.

As I said, I could at least _understand_ (but not justify) much older claims, such as ancient chinese practices or whatever. This makes they make me upset indeed (this is pseudoscience, after all), but what makes me even more upset is the creation of new pseudo-scientific or even anti-scientific "popular wisdom" _in this age_.
by ge96 | 2026-02-20 21:43:55+00:00
Tangent but reddit allows people to hide their post/comment history which is fine I guess but it's not great for that reason, trying to see if an account is a bot or not. Other than age can't tell anything about that account.

I notice more and more accounts use it, particularly the spicy commenters. Which is whatever, I try to stay away from social media now, this is SM here but at least it's more technically oriented/useful.
by DesaiAshu | 2026-02-20 21:44:38+00:00
The biggest surprise I had in attempting to distribute my first Android app is how difficult it is to get beta-testers through the "standard" channels. It requires a 1 week review and 25 beta-users invited by email addresses

In contrast, Apple has a ~48 hour turnaround for reviews before you can upload to TestFlight and distribute a beta with a link

Not sure if I am in some "trusted developer" cohort on iOS but not Android - but the difference was enough for me to stop trying on Android
by rileymichael | 2026-02-20 21:44:52+00:00
successful how? the only metric i see is # of pull requests which means nothing. hell, $dayJob has hundreds of PRs generated weekly from renovate, i18n integrations, etc. with no LLM in the mix!

we know nothing of the contents of those PRs. they could be 10 kloc or 1 loc, production code or purely internal tooling, etc.
by andai | 2026-02-20 21:45:42+00:00
I'd say taste-as-subjective-something is largely irrelevant. If something "looks good" but hurts to use, that's not much help. If it looks like ass, but is a delight to use, that's not good either (because most people won't reach the point of actually experiencing it). So you need "looks good" and you need "actually delightful to use". Taste seems to be orthogonal to both of those. Or perhaps (two kinds of?) taste is involved in each one.

At which point we define taste as two unrelated things: skill in aesthetics, and skill in ux.

I've seen apps that looked amazing (Taste #1, aesthetics) but made me go, "Okay, did they actually try using this thing?" (Taste #2, usability). I think these tastes are completely orthogonal, from personal experience. I think the vast majority of designers suffer from Total Usability Taste Blindness.

(And, though it feels a bit mean to point out, the vast majority of FOSS suffers from a total absence of both. The winning projects only win because they have no competition, they're the only free option available.)
by cyanydeez | 2026-02-20 21:46:06+00:00
This ruling like most of the kleptocracy, will show the kleptocrats who is willing to lick boot and who will not. The goal, whether extrinsic or intrinsic, is to find the fascist threats and harm them.

This specifically will happen when businesses request the legal refund and the "deep state" gets to decide whether they deserve a refund.
by tsegratis | 2026-02-20 21:46:22+00:00
i mean, well done

> using direct mutual recursion instead of array-stack machinery

the reason for array-stacks is using recursion can "blow the stack" i.e. has almost arbitrary failure on deeply nested pathological inputs

using recursion is going to be faster, to about the degree you bench, but there is a reason the parser you bench against doesn't use it!
by selridge | 2026-02-20 21:47:14+00:00
Lmao. I love Kant. He’s great. I love dead white guys. One I’ve been banging on about in this thread is Bourdieu, who wrote a whole book on taste in France, Distinction. Here Bourdieu has the matter rightly and Kant doesn’t. Sometimes that happens. When you read a lot of dead white guys you find lots of them said very wise shit and also stuff that’s harder to find the wisdom in.

Here I don’t know what the trouble is. I’m sorry for calling your phrasing the equivalent of “hafalutin” (a word Marx has used more than twice—he’s dead and white), but what do you expect having come in to cloud the waters with 2 extra syllables to little end?
by IAmBroom | 2026-02-20 21:47:19+00:00
I am aware that meta-studies of glucosamine chondroitin show No Significant Gains in joint pain. I would never waste my money on it.

But my newly adopted dog had hip issues, and I bought a few months worth of a diet supplement in the hopes of doing something meaningf... dammit, it's glucosamine.

They claimed double-blind studies showed decreases in limping in just two months.

Two months, more or less, I stopped seeing him limp by the time we left the dog park. He still does sometimes, but it's rare - not every damn day, by any means.

We aren't that fricking different biologically from dogs in our skeletal attachment system. Maybe it's still a placebo, but it seems to defeat that idea. Maybe enough human issues are based on things that don't translate to dogs - sitting at a desk all day, eating junk food, walking upright... - that it helps them, but not enough of us.

Don't know. These GC supplements have convinced me it's worth my money, and he loves eating them, so he votes 'yes', too.
by webXL | 2026-02-20 21:47:29+00:00
In October, I bought a $250 product from a Canadian company + about $30 shipping & taxes and thought I was good. A few weeks later, FedEx sends me an $92 bill for the duty that they had to pay. I just ignored it since I was never given that notice up front. If they really wanted it, they could have had the vendor contact me. But at least they're not getting that bit of profit now.
by tolerance | 2026-02-20 21:47:46+00:00
You know I had a thoughtful comment written in response to this that wouldn’t post because your comment got flagged to death when I tried to submit it!

Your firebrand attitude is doing a disservice to everyone who takes vibe hunting vibecraft seriously!

The intended audience doesn’t even care that this is LLM-assisted writing. Whether the narrative is affected by AI is second to the technical details. This is technical documentation communicated through a narrative, not personal narrative about someone’s experience with a technical problem. There’s a difference!

What are you in this for?!
by wolrah | 2026-02-20 21:48:12+00:00
> Are you seriously implying that flashing phones doesn’t risk bricking them or you’re not aware of that risk are you serious?

Yes, that is generally the case. As a general rule with an Android phone reflashing the OS itself or the bootloader carries no risk of bricking the device (meaning making it impossible to recover without specialized hardware and/or opening up parts that were not intended to be opened).

There are plenty of ways to "soft-brick" a device such that you might need to plug it in to a computer, and adb/fastboot can definitely be a pain in the ass to use (especially on Windows), but if you have a device with an unlocked bootloader it's very rare to be able to actually brick the device while doing normal things.

Now, if you're doing abnormal things like reflashing the radio firmware you can absolutely brick some devices there, but you don't have to do that just to boot an alternative OS and generally shouldn't be doing it without very good reason and specific knowledge of exactly what you're doing.

I'm not going to say there are no devices where the standard process to flash an alternative OS is dangerous, but none of the relatively common ones I've ever owned or used have been built that way because OEMs don't want their own official firmware updates to be dangerous either.

tl;dr: It is sometimes possible to brick a device by flashing the wrong thing incorrectly, but the risk of doing that if you are just installing an alternative OS through a standard process is basically zero.
by hbrav | 2026-02-20 21:48:26+00:00
This is extremely disappointing. The insurer in question has a very good reputation within the dive community for acting in good faith and for providing medical information free of charge to non-members.

This sounds like a cultural mismatch with their lawyers. Which is ironic, since the lawyers in question probably thought of themselves as being risk-averse and doing everything possible to protect the organisation's reputation.
by plorkyeran | 2026-02-20 21:48:36+00:00
That was not at all the universal response to the iphone. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone is a (nsfw) contemporary article that I agreed with at the time, and I knew a decent number of people who got an early iphone and then switched back to a blackberry.
by FloorEgg | 2026-02-20 21:48:53+00:00
For what it's worth, most of the pennies I've earned definitely came from my ability to think and communicate well.

I can't help but wonder whether the person who gave you advice "to think critically wasn't for [you]" didn't have YOUR best interests at heart, and/or wasn't a wise person.

I also worked jobs where I was actively discouraged to think critically. Those jobs made me itchy and I moved on. Every time I did it was one step back, three steps forward. My career has been a weird zigzag like that but trended up exponentially over 25 years.

We all have our anecdotes we can share. But ask yourself this: if you get better at making decisions and communicating with other people, who is that most likely to benefit?
by baby | 2026-02-20 21:49:02+00:00
As a founder of an auditing firm, I definitely feel the heat of the competition when big LLM companies push products that not only compete with us an auditors but also with our own AI-based offerings (https://zkao.io/).

If I were to venture a guess, there's different world in which we might exist in the next 5-10 years.

In one of these futures, we, as auditors, seize to exist. If this is the future, then developers seize to exist too, and most people touching software seize to exist. My guess here is as good as any developer's guess on if their job will remain stable.

In another one of these futures, us auditors become more specialized, more niche, and bring the "human touch" needed or required. Serious companies will want to continue working with some humans, and delegating security to "someone". That someone could be embedded in the company, or they could be a SaaS+human-support system like zkao.

On the other hand, vibe coders will definitely use claude code security, maybe we should call it "vibe security"? I don't mean it as a diss, I vibe code myself, but it will most likely be as good as vibe coding in the sense that you might have to spend time understanding it, it might make a lot of mistakes, and it will be "good enough" for a lot of usecases.

I think that world is a bit more realistic today, than the AGI "all of our jobs are gone in the next years" doom claim. And as
@zksecurityXYZ
, I don't think we're too scared of that world.

These tools have been, and are making us stronger auditors. We're a small, highly specialized team, that's resilient and hard to replace. On the other hand large consultancies and especially consultancies that focus on low hanging fruits like web security and smart contracts are ngmi.
by Tima_fey | 2026-02-20 21:49:08+00:00
Author here. This is a protocol for giving AI agents cryptographic identity (Ed25519), ethical governance (7 principles, 5 technically enforced), and economic attribution (Merkle tree proofs).

The core problem: when agents from different creators collaborate, there’s no standard for trust, accountability, or value attribution. Google’s A2A handles communication. Anthropic’s MCP handles tools. Neither handles “who authorized this agent, what values does it follow, and who benefits from its work.”

Design decisions worth discussing:

• Attestation over enforcement — agents attest to values; compliance is verifiable against receipts

• Logarithmic spend normalization — 1000x spend = ~3x attribution, not 1000x

• Configurable scope weights — protocol provides mechanism, communities provide values

• Zero consensus overhead — Ed25519 is self-verifying, no blockchain needed

49 tests including 23 adversarial. TypeScript. MIT license.
Co-authored with Claude.

GitHub: github.com/aeoess/agent-passport-system
by mattmanser | 2026-02-20 21:49:32+00:00
Did he pick Excalidraw as the project to work on, or did the audience?

It's easy to be conned if you're not looking for the sleight of hand. You need to start channelling your inner Randi whenever AI demos are done, there's a lot of money at stake and a lot of money to prep a polished show.

To be honest, even if the audience "picked" that project, it could have been a plant shouting out the project.

I'm not saying they prepped the answer, I'm saying they prepped picking a project it could definitely work on. An AI solvable problem.
by Tharre | 2026-02-20 21:50:04+00:00
> And that's objective.

I don't think you understand what that word means.

Regardless, your opinion (and mine) is irrelevant. People want at least some of the features of modern android, and any alternative lacking those is not going to be adopted by most people. Just look at how many people try GrapheneOS and find the minor things to be dealbreakers for them.

And as long as that's the case you can't expect people to vote for a scenario where they'll end up with a, in their eyes, worse product.
by overgard | 2026-02-20 21:50:36+00:00
You know, before AI, one of the things that always kind of puzzled me about software development was that people thought it was super hard, or something only certain people can do. And I mean, the evidence seems to point to that being the case. But as a software dev, I always kind of thought that most people COULD do it, they just didn't really want to invest the time/effort to learn it (which is fair -- it is a considerable investment of time and effort, to be sure; it takes years, even decades, to become good)

Anyway, there seems to be this vibe recently that software developers are "gate keepers" keeping the unwashed masses out or something. But nobody was keeping anyone out -- basically all the tools and knowledge are free! That's how these AI's got built in the first place. But I think what we're really seeing with a lot of these "I'm just an idea guy" people is when they get a magic genie to make their idea.. it's not actually very good. Because good ideas often come from struggling and creating, not just from passively consuming, and if you're struggling and creating you're going to pick up skills needed to create even if they're not coming from formal education. And so I kind of distrust a lot of the "vibe" bros because I'm skeptical of people that think they can get to the destination without going on the journey