MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mwwaters | 2026-02-24 19:24:13+00:00
There is some world where somebody scammed through sideloading loses their life savings, and every country is politically fine with the customer, not the bank, taking the losses.

But for regular people, that is not really the world they want. If the bank app wrongly shows they’re paying a legitimate payee, such as the bank, themselves or the tax authority, people politically want the bank to reimburse.

Then the question becomes not if the user trusts the phone’s software, but if the bank trusts the software on the user’s phone. Should the bank not be able to trust the environment that can approve transfers, then the bank would be in the right to no longer offer such transfers.
by tyre | 2026-02-24 19:24:33+00:00
It’s interesting that they felt the need to leak this to the press.[0] Some investors or partners (or LPs, board members, etc. of those) are getting spooked by the spending plans and rightfully questioning if the return is there. Putting it in public my feel like a stronger commitment (though I doubt it.)

Even with the revised numbers, I cannot believe that they’ll have $280bn in revenue by 2030.

[0]: You can tell by the reason the sources are granted anonymity: because the information is private, not because they aren’t authorized to speak on the matter
by godelski | 2026-02-24 19:24:44+00:00
> despite how clever people like Sam Zeloof may be.

You don't need to fabricate silicon chips to create radio. You need conductors, resistors, and electricity. Almost every person currently alive has several objects transmitting radio signals within arms reach.

> The power imbalance is not in favor of the individual citizen.

Yes it is. Because the cost is so fucking trivial that it costs magnitudes more to send someone to find a transmitter than it takes to make a dozen transmitters.
by uncanny2 | 2026-02-24 19:25:17+00:00
> psyop than it is that aliens are actually here on Earth.

To draft new executive powers with hidden budget discretions.

Post 9/11 everyone serious in the global intelligence game learned to bank on “debt cards.” These spend right off the national debt.

And there are those patentable discoveries looted from the ultra secret enclaves.

Besides, the world would not unite in this way for the sides as you have described them. Man is our enemy.
by cmiles8 | 2026-02-24 19:25:55+00:00
This is more complicated than just hand wavy spending expectation resets. Other companies were taking these “commitments” and gearing up for capital investments to meet all that demand which is now vaporizing. That creates a big mess as the hype AI hype machine starts to unravel.

This looks very much like a careful move to deflate the bubble without popping it, but we’ve likely passed that point.
by moomin | 2026-02-24 19:26:23+00:00
One of the things I’ve noticed is that when leftists say “capitalism” they often mean “the ability of capital to set the rules of markets” rather than just “markets”. This causes people who use the latter interpretation and leftists to talk past one another quite a bit. Which is one of the reasons that leftists have sounded this alarm bell for at least twenty years and no-one has paid attention.
by emptybits | 2026-02-24 19:26:38+00:00
Can we get a "(1999)" date on this, please? Only half joking becuase I see Common Lisp and, sure, I upvote ... but honestly, what's the purpose of this HN submission without context?

SBCL is obviously fantastic but let's contrast with another popular implementation: Embeddable Common Lisp. https://ecl.common-lisp.dev/

Top marks for SBCL performance but ECL can be a better fit for embedding into mobile applications, running on lighter weight hardware, and in the browser.
by E-Reverance | 2026-02-24 19:26:42+00:00
Car wash is 100 m from my house, should I drive or walk there if I need my car washed?

Mercury 2
Today at 11:25 AM

Walking is usually the better choice for a 100 m distance:

Fuel & wear: You’ll save a few cents of gas and avoid extra wear on your tires and brakes.
Time: A 100 m walk takes only about 1 minute, which is negligible compared to the time the car wash itself will take.
Convenience: If you’re already at the house and just need the car cleaned, walking eliminates the need to start, stop, and park again.
You might prefer to drive if any of these apply:

Bad weather (heavy rain, snow, extreme heat).
Heavy items you’re carrying (e.g., groceries, sports gear).
Physical limitations that make walking uncomfortable.
Follow‑up: Are there any specific factors—like weather, time constraints, or carrying items—that could influence your decision?
by morganf | 2026-02-24 19:27:06+00:00
I grew up a nerdy kid in the 80s that liked military airplanes, and on the island I grew up on, was the HQ and manufacturing facility of a local manufacturer of military aircraft, that at the time was named Grumman. They were like a local source of jobs and pride and prestige of something cool to come from the island (second only to Billy Joel, the most famous celebrity of that era from The Island hahaha.)

Anyhow, when I was about 10, I wrote the CEO of Grumman a letter about how great they were talking nerdy about my favorite planes of theirs. The CEO wrote back with a short message thanking me personally. I was so excited, my parents framed it and put it on the wall of my childhood room, etc etc. Only as an adult, well into my 30s, did I remember that and think "OMG, of course his secretary or PR firm wrote that", but I truly couldn't realize that when I was a kid.
by dheera | 2026-02-24 19:27:09+00:00
I won't miss the days I had to take a full day of meetings from my car in the Amazon parking lot because there weren't enough meeting rooms onsite, but the badge swipes at the main entrance in-between meetings were needed to not be labeled as an "inconsistent badger".

It was laughable how much effort and money Amazon invested into badge tracking and enforcement instead of directing funds at making the office a nice place that people would want to spend time in and an efficient place to get work done.
by armcat | 2026-02-24 19:27:33+00:00
I think you are spot on there, and I am not sure such things exist (yet), but I may be wrong. Some random thoughts:

1. Using the skills frontmatter to implement a more complex YAML structure, so e.g.

requires:
python:
- pandas>=2.1
skills:
- huggingface-cli@1.x

2. Using a skills lock file ;-)

skills.lock
Show HN: Selfie bodyfat % scan (offline, no server upload)
by logicallee | 2026-02-24 19:28:04+00:00
We've developed this "entertainment" bodyfat % scan from a selfie. (It's all in html, there is no server upload.) Look into the camera and it measures your bodyfat percentage based on the contours of your face.

For me it seems accurate. For those of you who have had a real DEXA scans, calipers, or hydrostatic weighing to scientifically estimate your bodyfat, how does it do?
by krick | 2026-02-24 19:28:06+00:00
Maybe it's irrational, and I cannot actually justify it (and of course safe writing is of primary importance), but somehow rewriting the whole file feels like a good thing for a secrets storage. Updating only part of a file obviously reveals something, even though it probably shouldn't matter if it doesn't reveal anything useful. But the default mode of thinking is we can never assume the leaked information cannot be used somehow.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-24 19:28:47+00:00
> I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they change it to GPL just to shut people up.

They don't and wont.

> I searched but couldn't find an answer.

Here's the answer: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/2757. This is a link I found long time ago and saved to reference when need arises.

From the (current) lead author:

The license has been decided way before my time. I am 0 interest in starting a license debate (I care if the license is DFSG - Debian Free Software Guidelines) and spend time on it. I would rather use my limited time to make rust/coreutils ready for production.

More debate: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/834

From what I understood, they don't "believe" in GPL and don't like the idea of "having to keep it open". They believe in Developer Freedom(TM), not User Freedom(TM), so they don't care whether their code is closed by others or not.

To summarize #834: We don't like GPL. We'll do MIT, thanks.
by gmueckl | 2026-02-24 19:28:51+00:00
The reality in South East Asia doesn't support that. You're assuming that the potential victims are able to either use Android alternative or that they are willing and able to educate themselves about scams. The reality in these countries is that neither is the case in practice. Daily lives depend a lot on smartphones and they play a big role in cashless financial transactions. Networking effects play a big role here. Android devices are the only category that is both widely available and affordable.

Education is also not that effective. Spreading warnings about scams is hard and warnings don't reach many people for a whole laundry list of reasons.

The status quo is decidedly not fine. Society must act to protect those that can't protect themselves. The only remaining question is the how.

Google has an approach that would work, but at a high cost. Is there an alternative change that has the same effects on scammers, but with fewer issues for other scenarios?
by grey-area | 2026-02-24 19:28:58+00:00
This phrase is definitely LLM generated. The false opposition of two sentences, odd phrasing, and unnecessary use of the 'quietly' adverb give it away.

One phrase isn't particularly important, but it's kind of annoying to read articles like this and realise half way through that it is just a blob of generated text, when the author could have said what they want in a paragraph and be done with it.
by snowwrestler | 2026-02-24 19:29:13+00:00
> what on earth could they be continuously doing for four years?

It’s not continuous. Court time in particular is a scarce resource. Many people are involved in complex litigation, and for almost all of those people it is not their only project / job.

> My guess is that it's like a poorly run software project: mostly empty, where Person X is blocked waiting on the output of Person Y for weeks, and so on.

Correct but the off times aren’t empty; the lawyers and staff simply pick up one of the other hundreds of tasks in front of them while they wait.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-02-24 19:29:18+00:00
I’m not sure I get why this is better. Something like Tailscale makes it trivial to connect to your own machines and is likely more secure than this will be. Tailscale even has a free plan these days. Combine that with something like this that was shared on HN a few days ago: https://replay.software/updates/introducing-echo

Then you’re all in for like $3. What about webRTC makes this better?
by drcongo | 2026-02-24 19:29:24+00:00
I despise what 1Password has become. They've spent the past 10 years removing everything that made it great, and becoming increasingly user hostile. And now this. Well they can fuck off. This is great timing though as only the other day I was researching the alternatives - current front runners are Passbolt [0], Hypervault [1] and Heylogin [2]. If anyone has personal experience with any of these I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[0] https://www.passbolt.com

[1] https://hypervault.com

[2] https://www.heylogin.com/en
by not_your_vase | 2026-02-24 19:29:32+00:00
Can't talk about wholesale mobile network capacity pricing, but what you experienced is quite rampant with pretty much all services. They count on you to be too lazy to look up the information, and too lazy to actually do the switch. (And it works, with vast majority of the people)

I had the same with my ISP - currently I pay about $60 for 10 Gbps connection. Before I switched, I paid about $130 for 200 Mbps, years ago...

A few months ago I reviewed my bills from Godaddy, and it turned out that they have hiked the price of my domain every single year since I've had it. I switched to Porkbun, and now I pay half (the same that I paid to Godaddy, when I bought my domain 10 years ago...)

Switching bank will be a bigger bite, but I'm preparing for that too...
by 8crazyideas | 2026-02-24 19:29:34+00:00
Sorry, but the test hasn't been shown to be 94.5% accurate. The study was structured as: 1. neurologist makes clinical diagnosis using usual tools and records most likely diagnosis and their confidence in it 2. new p-tau test is done. 3. neurologists reassess their confidence, and change their mind in many cases. There is no "gold standard" here (tough to have in AD) and not even a period of clinical follow-up to assess for any interval change. The study shows that patients got reclassified, but never showed that such reclassification was more accurate than the initial one, and by how much. There is an implication that because in a different, retrospective study the test did show some accuracy, that it would be helpful in this new situation. But that's about it, and different than directly showing this to be the case.
by bcorp | 2026-02-24 19:30:02+00:00
I built Writher because I was tired of voice tools that require subscriptions or send audio to remote servers. It runs fully local using faster-whisper and Ollama.
Two modes: hold AltGr to dictate text anywhere on Windows, or Ctrl+R for the AI assistant (notes, reminders, appointments). Works in any app – editor, browser, chat.
Stack: Python 3.11, faster-whisper, Ollama LLM, SQLite, Tkinter.
Happy to answer questions and welcome contributions!
by thaumaturgy | 2026-02-24 19:30:29+00:00
Here in Oregon, I very nearly managed to get some decent legislation drafted that would have required a number of strong data protections from ALPR vendors.

Axon interfered heavily with that process and -- after the legislative workgroup had well concluded and just a couple of hours before the Senate committee was to vote on it -- managed to neuter one of the key protections in the bill.

Axon is not "better" than Flock, they are just slightly less transparent about some aspects and slightly less radioactive.

Community groups that have formed and activated against Flock should continue to harass local governments that immediately switch to Axon as a replacement.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 19:30:44+00:00
> The decision you're citing explicitly cites precedent for the constitutionality of warrantless mounted pole cameras.

And explicity notes that it's the relative scarcity of them that matters.

> Decades later, in United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012), location-tracking
technology crossed the line from merely augmenting to impermissibly enhancing. There,
police used a GPS-tracking device to remotely monitor and record a vehicle’s movements
over 28 days. Id. at 402–04. Although the case was ultimately decided on trespass
principles, five Justices agreed that “longer term GPS monitoring . . . impinges on
expectations of privacy.” See id. at 430 (Alito, J., concurring); id. at 415 (Sotomayor, J.,
concurring). Based on “[t]raditional surveillance” capacity “[i]n the precomputer age,” the
Justices reasoned that “society’s expectation” was that police would not “secretly monitor
and catalogue every single movement of an individual’s car for a very long period.”

> Thus, Carpenter solidified the line between short-term tracking of public
movements—akin to what law enforcement could do “[p]rior to the digital age”—and
prolonged tracking that can reveal intimate details through habits and patterns.

Put enough of them up, and the software to track between them, and you're in "enables police to deduce from the whole of individuals’ movements" territory.
by em-bee | 2026-02-24 19:30:51+00:00
but we aren't animals. as humans we are not bound to our instinct. we have the capacity to overcome our nature. of course not everything is learned. breathing for example, but heck even properly latching on to a breast is learned, whereas for many mammals it is instinct. so using animals here as example is not evidence.

the point is that nurture is stronger than nature and every human behavior can be learned and override any instinct. what i am trying to say is that while by nature mothers may be more nurturing, males can learn to be just as nurturing and therefore the advantage women may have in nurturing is small enough as to be insignificant.

the only natural advantage is that the mother by default has more contact with the mother though pregnancy and breastfeeding. but take an adopted baby by a childless couple, and even that advantage disappears.

what remains is the raw difference between man and woman, most of which is governed by learned behavior, and not by nature. whether that can be proven or not is another question that we already addressed.
by Betelbuddy | 2026-02-24 19:31:06+00:00
quote from Tesla latest earnings call, at 04 min..

"Because we're really moving into a future that is based on autonomy and so if you're interested in buying a Model S and X, now would be the time to order it, because we expect to wind down S and X production in next quarter and basically stop production of Model S and X next quarter. We'll obviously continue to support the Model S and X programs for as long as people have the vehicles, but we're gonna take the Model S and X production space in our Fremont factory and convert that into an Optimus factory, which will... with the long-term goal of having 1 million units a year of Optimus robots in the current S/X space in Fremont."
by shimman | 2026-02-24 19:31:23+00:00
Why? Every country on Earth is capable of creating and maintaining software. There is nothing unique about America or Silicon Valley (outside of the massive amounts of corporate welfare), devs can be found anywhere and who better to write software for local citizens than the local citizens themselves?

We know how useful open source software is, there's no reason why this can't be replicated across the planet.
by tenthirtyam | 2026-02-24 19:31:41+00:00
I would much prefer to see a ZK system that, by design, CANNOT reveal info neither to the website nor to the authority. e.g. in the new EU system, it is (afaik) conceivable that the ID authority could collude with social network providers, or with government or with police etc. That's not great IMO.

How about a system like Google Authenticator in which google knows nothing about which websites I'm logging into. Except, obviously, it'd have to be some kind of cryptographically signed response. e.g., website puts up a QR code (according to some standard) asking "is the user 18+", I scan with the phone, and the ID app, without accessing internet (like google authenticator) responds.

I suppose that might need a secure computing environment, so no rooted phone etc. But, of course, there's a simple workaround. Any adult can give their phone to a child. As long as that vulnerability is there, there's no such thing as a guarantee on the responses no matter what way you build it.
by postalcoder | 2026-02-24 19:31:53+00:00
My first moment like this was writing to Bill Clinton on the White House's guestbook. I don't remember what I wrote, but somehow, months later, I received a thank you letter signed by Bill Clinton (presumably robosigned). I'll never forget about that. My parents and I were so proud about that.

I'm going to refrain from idealizing the old days because the cozy web is still alive – you just have to try. I have a 100% success rate on getting responses from music artists that I've sent emails to.
by qubex | 2026-02-24 19:31:55+00:00
In China the median hourly wage is somewhere between 4 and 6 USD, whereas in India where most employment is ‘informal’ estimates of the median wage vary from about 50 cents to 1 USD an hour.

So to cover those twelve dollars, the average Chinese worker will have to work three to four more hours a year just to have the same functionality, whereas the Indian average worker will have to work twelve to 24 more hours a year.

Does that help your struggle?
by luogary | 2026-02-24 19:32:06+00:00
Hey HN — I built this because I kept wondering whether my own skills were actually defensible in the current AI wave.

You paste your LinkedIn URL, it enriches your career data and runs it through a scoring model across four dimensions: technical skill obsolescence, AI adaptability, career moat, and market positioning. Outputs a threat level 0–10 with specific callouts tied to your actual career history.

No sign-up required. Takes about 30 seconds. Brutally honest by design — most people score between 5–7.

Happy to answer questions about how it works.
by gkbrk | 2026-02-24 19:32:18+00:00
Firefox has YouTube integration of course.

Here's a Firefox file [1] specifically for integrating YouTube videos into their picture-in-picture system. Your random video website won't get this treatment of course, need to be a popular one.

Here's a piece of C++ code [2] in the Firefox engine that specifically rewrites old YouTube embeds from their old HTML embed snippet to the new one. Again, your own video website will never be so deeply integrated into Firefox because it's not a top 10 website.

Firefox Readability mode makes pages more readable by removing useless stuff like videos. Unless it's a YouTube [3] or other top-N popular video website of course. YouTube videos are given special treatment because it's popular and having small integrations like this make the user experience better.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[3]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-24 19:32:19+00:00
> No government contracts (or super strict rules to get them)

Now you've created a disadvantage for corporations to bid on government contracts, reducing competition and causing the government to pay more for stuff. Meanwhile the companies that actually bid are then the ones that specialize in lobbying the government and register locally and other corporations still register elsewhere.

> tariffs

If you were going to use that you could just as easily use VAT to begin with.
by kccoder | 2026-02-24 19:32:46+00:00
> Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a majority of five conservative justices, said the federal law that generally shields the Postal Service from lawsuits over missing, lost and undelivered mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”

Sooooo the entire postal service could just decide to not deliver any mail at all and that's a-okay? How about stealing the contents of mail and keeping/selling them? How about opening mail and stealing valuable information and then not delivering it? How about deliberately not delivering mail ballots to/fro the voter (this is the real real this is happening, and destroying USPS)?
by jonahx | 2026-02-24 19:32:47+00:00
> People don’t do quadruple axels on the ice because they were somehow born with the ability, they can do it because they practice figure skating every day for years.

You've changed my claim. My claim isn't that world-class athletes, or even good athletes, don't have to work hard because of their talent to achieve elite levels. It's merely that talent is a huge determiner in success. It's also a huge determiner in how effective training is. An hour of training might improve a talented person 5 or 10x more than an hour of training would improve someone else.

This is all blindingly obvious if you've seen a sample of kids growing up. I remember the sister of one of my daughters friends, at age 3, was easily out-performing her brother and my daughter, who were a couple years older. This little 3 year could fearlessly climb up jungle gyms with ease, and kick around a ball, and swim fast. She hadn't practiced more. She could just do it.