MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ameliaquining | 2026-02-09 21:41:41+00:00
Google has recently imposed a rule that CA roots trusted by Chrome must be used solely for the core server-authentication use case, and can't also be used for other stuff. They laid out the rationale here: https://googlechrome.github.io/chromerootprogram/moving-forw...

It's a little vague, but my understanding reading between the lines is that sometimes, when attempts were made to push through security-enhancing changes to the Web PKI, CAs would push back on the grounds that there'd be collateral damage to non-Web-PKI use cases with different cost-benefit profiles on security vs. availability, and the browser vendors want that to stop happening.

Let's Encrypt could of course continue offering client certificates if they wanted to, but they'd need to set up a separate root for those certificates to chain up to, and they don't think there's enough demand for that to be worth it.
by ericmay | 2026-02-09 21:42:31+00:00
> Now that China has become more adversarial and also more established (you mean people want to actually get PAID to slave away in a mine, or even worse, refuse to even work in a dangerous and dirty pit mine?!) the US is facing some hard decisions.

There is an implication here that the United States is immune or afraid of doing “hard” or “dirty” work and so we outsourced refining and mining to China.

This doesn’t seem to be correct.

China has a national strategy to dominate refining of rare earth minerals and critical components and our entire society wants cheap products and China was the cheapest place for this stuff and environmental rules are more lax, and with an authoritarian regime supporting and fast tracking the business for strategic reasons, well there you have it.

Part of the strategy involves decoupling China from a weak link in the energy supply chain infrastructure: oil and refining rare earths, manufacturing products that use them, and more is how they are pursuing some level of energy independence from the USA which controls oil flows globally, for the most part.

With respect to avoidance of “dirty” jobs. The EU is far, far worse in this respect than the United States is or was.
by Huppie | 2026-02-09 21:42:51+00:00
> MyVisualRoutine
...

> All apps i found were either shit, real shit, or didnt solve my personal need.

Wow, what an amazing coincidence. I made something that looks pretty similar from the looks of it just a few weeks ago because I found the same thing. If I knew your app existed I probably wouldn't have made it. I wasn't even thinking of selling it, just made it for my kid because it makes following various daily routines easier.

It's a mostly vibe coded (well, I made tons of visual and technical decisions but didn't look at the code much except some spot checks) PWA that can run offline on an iPod Touch.

It has some quirks and hidden features for day schedules, timers, etc.

There's plenty of yank in there (yours is almost certainly built better) but it works pretty well for most daily routines.

You can check it out here: https://girls-routine-planner.huppie.nl/
by mindslight | 2026-02-09 21:43:00+00:00
You know the revanchist militias who would openly hate everything about our country, while claiming to be "patriots" ? You know how they've been awfully quiet lately ? Yeah them, at least as far as the bottom-up.

The top-down is something like destroying the United States and subjugating what remains, with many powers aligned here - Russia, China, Big Tech eager to create their surveillance society, religious fundamentalists who just want the world to burn so their ideologies regain relevance, etc.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-09 21:43:13+00:00
Wealthy people own assets, not money. Stealing their assets doesn't reduce the money supply. Elon Musk is "rich" mainly in paper wealth.

Taxes raise inflation as they increase the production costs. If you tax too much wealthy people, they will leave, and take their capital away to invest it elsewhere. This as a result will lead to inflation due to lack of available capital for production.
by andremarais | 2026-02-09 21:44:18+00:00
Author here. I'm a patent attorney who also builds with agentic coding tools.
The backstory: I used a fitness app I've admired for years as design inspiration and built a working app for a completely different vertical in about five hours. That made the defensibility question very concrete for me — if I can do that in an afternoon, what does "shipping faster" actually protect?
The article walks through why IP strategy (specifically: instructing your coding agent to surface patentable ideas during development and filing provisional patents quickly) becomes relatively more valuable as the cost of building software drops.
The practical piece is an inventions.md workflow — a markdown file your agent appends to when it spots something that might be patentable, with a lightweight weekly triage process.
by margalabargala | 2026-02-09 21:44:23+00:00
Cost to zero? Definitely not.

Solar in space produces 30% more power, and doesn't turn off at night, meaning you don't need batteries. That means power costs, say, 25% of what it currently does measured against terrestrial solar and batteries.

The 75% electricity discount needs to pay for launch vehicles, specially designed satellites, and the inability to service the hardware or resell it when it's EOL for the data center.

It's a gamble. Maybe it'll turn out to be a slight edge, maybe it'll turn out to fail, but it's not a sure thing and it certainly isn't going to hugely decrease the cost.

Especially since they're competing against Google and their custom designed hardware that's far more power efficient for AI. It's not clear that NVIDIA running at a 75% dollar discount beats Google's best TPU in compute per dollar.
by joyrexus-1 | 2026-02-09 21:44:24+00:00
fwiw, trying to sift signal from noise and place the overall thesis in a larger context and convo:

https://github.com/joyrexus/software-factory/tree/main?tab=r...

imo, even if you're sceptical of the token economics claims (which i certainly am), the suggested principles, practices, and techniques are well worth your attention and the attractor spec can function as a "seed" for your own pipeline if you know what you're doing and willing to iterate.
by dekhn | 2026-02-09 21:44:33+00:00
I just had to hard brake a few days ago. A driver a couple lanes over on 101 slammed on their breaks, rotated 90 degrees, and came to rest across a couple lanes (one of which was mine). Fortunately, I was alert, driving the speed limit, and in the right-most lane, with nobody following me close. The whole thing happened in less than 5 seconds.
by docjay | 2026-02-09 21:45:16+00:00
That would depend - is the input also capable of anything? If it’s capable of handling any input, and as you said the output will match it, the yes of course it’s capable of any output.

I’m not pulling a fast one here, I’m sure you’d chuckle if you took a moment to rethink your question. “If I had a perfect replicator that could replicate anything, does that mean it can output anything?” Well…yes. Derp-de-derp? ;)

It aligns with my point too. If you had a perfect replicator that can replicate anything, and you know that to be true, then if you weren’t getting gold bars out of it you wouldn’t say “this has nothing to do with the input.”
by afandian | 2026-02-09 21:45:19+00:00
That's exactly what I'm doing! Nothing grandiose.

https://blog.afandian.com/tags/harmonium/

By 'repaired' you mean closing a fracture? I'm interested to hear your experiences! Electronics solder or silver solder?

This one is 60 cents sharp across the board (not uncommmon), but I wanted a social instrument. So I brought them down with solder. The bottom two octaves have worked out well. The next two... we'll see. I now have the fear that I've weakened the brass by heating it. But it still sounds nice and speaks well. Fingers crossed.
by siavosh | 2026-02-09 21:45:40+00:00
If you enter in a US city, another takeaway from the rendered table is that U.S. living standards (measured economically) continued to improve for some time after the 1970s despite weak wage growth largely because *more households relied on two earners instead of one*. While productivity kept rising, the gains were increasingly captured at the top and not shared with the workers. Of course that buffer is now long gone, but wages haven't kept up.
by a2tech | 2026-02-09 21:46:23+00:00
The US has lots of tungsten and other minerals. The problem is mining them here--people really don't want to see huge holes in the ground, industrial run off, and ecological collapse.

If the fundamentals of international resource extraction changes (which because of the increase in wages and living standards and expectations in China is happening) then we might see wide spread and rapid mining happening in the US. My questions in that scenario are 1) who will work these mines? The US is running at very high employment right now, and mining is very hard work 2) where would our ore refinement equipment and skills come from? China has 50 years of ore refinement development behind them. They have infrastructure to BUILD the infrastructure for ore extraction and refinement. My understanding is that they're uninterested in selling that currently 3) then all the other local issues like where will they be able to sell locals on building giant mines, dealing with the heavy traffic, potential environmental concerns, etc.
by triceratops | 2026-02-09 21:47:20+00:00
A Reddit-style reply feels apropos here: "That's just like...your opinion man."

And in this case "local laws passed by voters themselves" are one of the causes of the state's housing crisis. I think the state has a legitimate interest in overriding local laws here.

Like if you don't want high density in your neighborhood, buy all the houses. Form a neighborhood association and buy every house that's put up for sale. When selling properties, include covenants restricting resale to a developer, or giving the association first right of refusal. Spend your own money. Don't use state violence to achieve private ends.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-09 21:48:04+00:00
> It is a great irony that the heavy handed push for "protect da kids" is all happening while we learn, day by day, that the richest and most powerful members of our society have no problem hanging out with a convicted child sex trafficker.

They are hypocrites. In the UK there are hundreds of thousands of girls who have been raped between the 1990s and now (17 000 cases of sexual exploitation in the UK in the year 2024 alone). At least one UK politician refer to the girls who've been raped as "white trash" and recently people are shocked because many are implying that these girls, who are typically mass-raped, have been considered to be consenting.

It's known for a fact they tried to bury the story once it's been revealed. Turns out the same method is used by these grooming gangs in countless cities nearly all across the UK.

It's not just that the richest and most powerful do frequent child sex trafficker: it's that many politicians and judges all over the west are totally fine closing their eyes on the mass raping of girls (some boys are victims of rapes too but it's mostly girls).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming_gangs_scandal

> Rules for thee, free love for me.

Rules for thee, free love for me and for my voters base.
by palata | 2026-02-09 21:48:33+00:00
I find the video codecs situation very confusing.

Without even getting started on the insane fact that there are multiple names for the same technology (H.264 a.k.a. AVC a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 10, related to H.265 a.k.a. HEVC a.k.a. ...).

I think that there being a patent on H.264 means that whoever manufactures a board that wants to support H.264 needs to pay royalties, which explains why some newer boards (like RPi) just let you use the CPU instead?

But then what does it mean that the patent of H.264 have expired in big parts of the world? Does anybody care?

Finally, there are open source alternatives to those. Why the hell don't we just all use them and forget about those patents?
by alnwlsn | 2026-02-09 21:48:52+00:00
I don't think it should be obvious. If you could measure spectra, that would tell you that starlight and sunlight are the same, but you could still think they were very tiny suns that were near. You would need to measure parallax to know they were far away. Neither of these are possible without precision technology, though you could probably argue that it could have been done in ancient times with enough effort.

Maybe if the solar system had more than one star, or there were other stars very close, people would have caught on a lot quicker.
by gambiting | 2026-02-09 21:49:02+00:00
Except that is clearly not how it works. Spend 5 minutes on facebook, and you will quickly realize that people have absolutely no problem spewing the most disgusting racist, xenophobic shit you have ever seen in your life, while their full names and pictures of them hugging their granchildren are there for everyone to see.

>> nobody should escape the consequences

There are no consequences whatsoever for this.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-09 21:49:17+00:00
It not being perfectly protected is by design. Security comes with trade offs.

>Before we manage to get it right (which we never will)

Keep in mind that modern encryption isn't perfect either. You can just guess the key and then decrypt a message. In practice if you make the walls high enough (requiring a ton of guesses) than it can be good enough to keep things secure.
by antonymoose | 2026-02-09 21:49:19+00:00
No one has the ability to monitor the frequency and volume of their children’s social contact on a platform like Discord or Roblox. It would be a full-time job for me.

Can we normalize “it takes a village” again? After all, we do let bars and liquor stores get a slap on the wrist for selling to minors. If you let a child into an adult movie theater you’d be in jail. Why do we pretend we don’t live in a world with laws and standard conduct the second we connect to a modem?
by svieira | 2026-02-09 21:49:25+00:00
This was in 2006 - digging around, I find things like https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA452289555&sid=googleS...

> Abstract:

> Several Italian judges, including the members of the Supreme Court, have defined begging with children as a "Roma cultural practice". In response, the Italian Parliament enacted law no. 94/2009, which severely represses the practice. The article contests that begging is a Roma cultural practice and claims, instead, that it is an economic practice which may sometimes connect to other elements of Roma culture. The article critiques both the cultural argument put forward by Italian judges, and Italian law no. 94/2009, neither of which serves to defend the rights of Roma children. It concludes by suggesting a different kind of legal approach to child begging, more respectful of the constitutional duty of solidarity and protection of the family, and based on social policies rather then criminal repression.

and references to Article 669-bis C.P. talking about this 2018 law "re-introducing" limits to begging, so I suspect that the "impersonating a gypsy" bit was a mis-understanding and it was really "impersonating a person in need".

> If I’m wrong, a sum that doesn’t matter to me was grifted.

"Give to anyone who asks" is a fine approach, one that I follow too.
by AstroBen | 2026-02-09 21:49:45+00:00
People think they should magically find out about new products without considering the macro effects of a world without advertising

Ads make the world a better place

They allow for innovation, giving new businesses a way to break in and reach customers

Lower cost to reach customers = lower product and service prices

For employees: do you think your employer has more or less budget for your salary if the cost to acquire a customer is higher?

People complain about the privacy invasion of tracking, and then in the next sentence get annoyed at the irrelevant products being pushed on them

We need better tracking! I should be able to show the exact people I built a product for that it exists

Imagine we were all able to create micro businesses for tiny markets to improve their life, and we had a cheap way to reach everyone in them

How many products or services out there could improve our experience in the world but we just don't know about them?

How is free video, written or audio content created without ads? People sure as hell hate directly paying for it

I love ads
by downrightmike | 2026-02-09 21:49:53+00:00
Not even that, they have CVE 10 from 2019 on their routers, which the hackers got root on then patched, so they wouldn't be kicked off by other hackers. All because IT upkeep wasn't done and hardening on Cisco devices is a distinct admin guide and not at all on by default. The days are long gone of qualified and careful network admins, now we just get the low-ball outsourced Cisco TAC and the like which DGAF
by guessmyname | 2026-02-09 21:50:09+00:00
I built a CLI years ago for the same purpose.

From what I can tell, your program treats files as duplicates if they share the same normalized filename and the exact same size; it doesn’t compare contents or hashes.

Mine samples bytes at specific positions, hashes those samples, and compares the hashes to produce a similarity score rather than a strict match. This works great for photos, two shots taken in the same second can differ slightly in pixels but still depict the same scene, so they’re considered duplicates. It also normalizes image orientation by rotating based on the brightest corner, so photos in different orientations are compared
using the same features.
by r0l1 | 2026-02-09 21:50:31+00:00
Quote: "you could lose data"

Quote from webpage: "The COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data"

Quote from webpage: "It's the job of the filesystem to never lose your data: anything that can be repaired, will be."

Quote July 2025: "I've been digging through the bug tracker and polling users to see what bugs are still outstanding, and - it's not much. So, the experimental label is coming off in 6.18."

I was a big fan of bcachefs and was looking forward to deploying it across ~100 machines in production. Unfortunately, the removal from the mainline kernel has seriously undermined its credibility for use within a company environment.

A filesystem needs time to mature, and that's fine — but the official webpage should clearly display a warning that this is still experimental and that its long-term support situation is uncertain. People evaluating it for production use deserve to know what they're getting into.

Would have loved to use it.
by tmp10423288442 | 2026-02-09 21:50:43+00:00
One reason is that Valley Fair is the closest there is in the Bay Area to a good East Asian mall. For example, their recent expansion brought in a good variety of restaurants, particularly Asian restaurants, that attract the wealthier Asian residents of Silicon Valley (plus Whites, who in the Bay Area are pretty Asian in habits). These bring in a crowd of regular visitors that will stick around to occasionally shop at the expensive stores, even if they don't love conspicuous consumption enough to buy there all the time. Also a decent number of more youth-focused stores that draw in all demographics - after all, everyone in the younger generations loves anime and K-pop.
by mpyne | 2026-02-09 21:50:58+00:00
When people learn to do things by reacting to inputs, they learn much better when the input comes soon after the action/inaction they are trying to train, rather than long after. When you can tie specific acts as a driver to a later financial penalty it helps you learn to avoid the specific acts, otherwise you'd stuck having to figure out in three weeks when the bill comes around what you were doing on the date the insurance statement flagged as a hard stop.
by bo1024 | 2026-02-09 21:51:11+00:00
Slack has basically one main hierarchy level (messages are grouped into channels) while Zulip has two, streams and topics. So you can create a stream for each project (say) and create a different topic for any given point that needs discussion about that project.

Kind of like if each slack thread discussion had a title and was discoverable from the left sidebar and didn’t get in the way of the other threads.
by pibaker | 2026-02-09 21:51:25+00:00
I don't disagree in general. I wouldn't call 4chan a social media, for example.

What I find hilariously objectionable is pretending that bluesky is somehow better than all the social medias out there. It's not. It was founded by jack dorsey and copied the UI and features of old Twitter. Its main selling point is "twitter but no Elon musk" and is, from my perspective, almost exclusively inhabited by politically antagonized people seeking a refuge which then resulted in US politics sucking the air out of everything else on that platform.

Can people forge constructive relationships on bluesky? I am sure they do, but they can also do it on X, Reddit, Facebook or whatever "bad" social media out there.
by kylehotchkiss | 2026-02-09 21:52:50+00:00
In John C. Baez "What is Entropy?" (A 122 page PDF best suited for reading on airplanes without wifi and in flight entertainment), he states:

> It’s easy to wax poetic about entropy, but what is it? I claim it’s the amount of information we don’t know about a situation, which in principle we could learn.

The entropy of a random integer being 1 makes intrinsic sense to me, given I didn't spend years in theoretical math classes
by a2tech | 2026-02-09 21:53:00+00:00
People in the US will do dirty jobs if thats what there are, but like people everywhere (in aggregate), would rather not.

We outsourced refining and mining to China because 1) it was cheap 2) it meant poisoning the ground and air and ripping up vast tracts of land somewhere else.

China's rare earth metals stratagem I believe grew out of this--it didn't happen immediately, but rather some bright bulb saw the growing reliance on access to the minerals and encouraged internal growth and acquisition competing resources. Absolutely, very clever.
by topaztee | 2026-02-09 21:53:00+00:00
My friend and I have been working on https://www.vespper.com
its essentially an ai-native word editor for long-form content.

it comes with a suite of tools (multi-agent tools to do search over many docs, RAG out of the box, prompt generation per section to reduce context drift, granular AI steerability, structured block generations for 100+ page reports ect.)
by jorl17 | 2026-02-09 21:53:00+00:00
Out of curiosity, what’s your flow? Do you have codex write plans to markdown files? Just chat? What languages or frameworks do you use?

I’m an avid cursor user (with opus), and have been trying alternatives recently. Codex has been an immense letdown. I think I was too spoiled by cursor’s UX and internal planning prompt.

It’s incredibly slow, produces terribly verbose and over-complicated code (unless I use high or xhigh, which are even slower), and missed a lot of details. Python/django and react frontend.

For the first time I felt like I could relate to those people who say it doesn’t make them faster,” because they have to keep fixing the agent’s shot, never felt that with opus 4.5 and 4.6 and cursor