MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jabbs | 2026-02-10 17:27:00+00:00
I'm building out some interesting features on my app (UnlistedJobs). Basically I have job seekers as paying customers (not employers) so I can do things with the job listings that others can't - like tag a job posting if it is 1 standard deviation below the avg salary or "this job has been posted N times already." These things wouldn't fly if the employer paid for the listing. I am wondering what else would be most helpful to job seekers that you couldn't do if the employer paid for the listing
by Aurornis | 2026-02-10 17:27:02+00:00
This person wasn’t anonymous to TikTok. They were doing this for payments.

TikTok had their information! Voluntarily, too.

Forcing everyone to ID themselves to companies would not have changed anything about this story

> In a fantasy world where I were king, the person who ran this tiktok would be in jail.

Now take this thought one step further and imagine if the king was someone you disagreed with, putting people in jail for posting things they didn’t like. Imagine if the king disagreed with you. Straight to jail?
by bpt3 | 2026-02-10 17:27:03+00:00
Oh good grief, parents with SUVs aren't that complex, and they are often purchased to carry around their kids' friends as well (negating your first point).

People do what works for them within their budget, which often is a larger vehicle when you have kids. If you want to translate that as "speed and comfort is of the essence", then fine. I could say the same about someone with no kids who prefers living in a highly urbanized area because their definition of speed and comfort is different.

And virtually no one is thinking "I need to demonstrate my belief that traveling on foot is only for weirdos OR exercising" when purchasing a vehicle, both because not many (to be generous) people think that in an area with sidewalks and because it's just not relevant.
by achierius | 2026-02-10 17:27:25+00:00
Stuff like constant folding won't take place until you hit an optimizing compiler tier. For the interpreter and baseline/template-compiler tiers, there's just not enough time to do that sort of dataflow optimization. So yes, it would help at least somewhat, esp. if you don't think the code is likely to tier up much for whatever reason (no one part is all that hot, or perhaps it's too polymorphic).
by masklinn | 2026-02-10 17:27:37+00:00
Only if you ignore the billion cases where it doesn't work, such that half the standard library explodes if you try to use it with zero values because they make no sense[0], special mention to reflect.Value's

> Panic: call of reflect.Value.IsZero on zero Value

And the "cool" stuff like database/sql's plethora of Null* for every single type it can support. So you're not really avoiding "wrapping values in Option types", you're instead copy/pasting ad-hoc ones all over, and have to deal with zero values in places where they have no reason to be, forced upon you by the language.

And then of course it looks even worse because... not having universal default values doesn't preclude having opt-in default values. So when that's useful and sensible your type gets a default value, and when it's not it doesn't, and that avoids having to add a check in every single method so your code doesn't go off the rail when it encounters a nonsensical zero value.

[0] or even when you might think it does, like a nil Logger or Handler
by rootusrootus | 2026-02-10 17:27:51+00:00
I do not know how they came up with the 2-4 second following distance recommendation. As you point out, this is in line with what the UK recommends as well. Probably it is a compromise between safety and practicality.

> It would have to be further than braking distance to be at least as safe?

Other way around. Following distance can be less, because the guy you are following cannot stop instantly unless he hits an immovable object or gets into a head-on crash. If he panic stops, then as long as your car performs similarly in braking you just need to have enough distance to allow for your own reaction time.

AFAIK braking distance for most cars is around 5 seconds at highway speed. Few people routinely set their following distance that long.
by forgotaccount3 | 2026-02-10 17:27:51+00:00
> A server like Marvel Rivals has literally millions of users. Players join that discord to socialize with all of those players and build a community around the game.

Going back to something you said earlier:

> Rocket chat is a Slack alternative for people wanting to host a server for a community. It's not a platform, you need to register and login to each server manually.

So the primary thing is that there is no SSO for each server? No centralized auth system? Because everyone I know that uses discord 'found' the discord via some official means of those million person discord's like the official Marvel Rivals one. If the only purpose of the centralized system is not requiring a new login for every server, then a centralized auth system could be implemented by relying on people's other social media accounts. Login with Google/Facebook/Apple etc.
by glasss | 2026-02-10 17:27:52+00:00
I have the same dilemma. Privacy and anonymity has always been a top priority for me, but we can't excuse malicious actors, we shouldn't even accommodate people with good intentions but misguided means if the outcomes are so clearly detrimental to society.

I don't think there is a good answer without limiting freedoms in either direction, and I don't envy the people in government that are earnestly trying to do good for their constituents but are struggling with a solution.
by joewhale | 2026-02-10 17:27:59+00:00
One factor is that people are obsessed with removing any friction in their life that stands in the way of whatever they believe makes them happy at the end of the day. Which for a lot of the US is just being alone and unbothered with a TV or a phone.

Having responsibilities and caring for others is actually good for the human soul. Being inconvenienced is a part of real life.

I’m not trying to convince everyone that they need to have a kid. But from my experience, having kids provides a very deep and satisfying purpose. Not the only purpose. But it does provide one. And it helps cut through the craziness and hurt and vanity of this world.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-02-10 17:28:05+00:00
I feel like these types of pages are less geared towards actual users of the product and more towards the investors who love the vague and flowery language. We're no longer in a world where the path to profitability was the objective goal anyway, it makes sense to me that the marketing of software is becoming decreasingly detached from reality..

It's almost like an extension of the "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" idea. If you're assessing a tool like this and the marketing isn't even trying to communicate to you, the user, what the product does, aren't you also kind of "the product" in this case too?
by frank_nitti | 2026-02-10 17:28:25+00:00
So perhaps this is just semantics - when we say that “coders have been completely replaced”, to me that means all humans capable of reading/writing code are replaced. In the bridge analogy this is the Licensed Engineer who actually understands and can critically evaluate a system design/implementation in depth.

If the only point being made by “all coders are replaced” is that humans aren’t manually typing the code from their keyboard anymore, I don’t think there’s much interesting to argue there, typing the code was never the hard part.
by DHolzer | 2026-02-10 17:28:33+00:00
I would feel embarrassed, yes. But that's 5 times my current salary for a 'similar' position. I am not sure it'd be 5 times worse in terms of societal effect. And even if it were, I am not sure I would be 5 times as embarrassed, if we are considering a linear conversion rate.

What I am trying to say is that I am on your side - as of this moment it is incredibly unlikely that I would ever see this kind of money. That makes it an easy position to take in a online conversation. But I have seen decent people throw out morals for a 100th of what we are talking about.
by mig39 | 2026-02-10 17:28:34+00:00
I'm with you. Low-tech works just fine. I hate the idea of having to depend on a working phone just to pay for things.

But isn't the promise of Apple Pay that you never expose your real credit card # to the merchant? So they can't track you? I know Walmart in Canada really resisted Apple Pay for a few years because it would mean no more ability to track people by their payment methods.
by bri3d | 2026-02-10 17:28:36+00:00
> Didn't companies historically own their own compute?

As group-of-cats racks, usually, which is a totally different thing. Way "back in the day" you'd have an IT closet with a bunch of individually hand-managed servers running your infrastructure, and then if you were selling really oldschool software, your customers would all have these too, and you'd have some badly made remote access solution but a lot of the time your IT Person would call the customer's IT Person and they'd hash things out.

Way, way, way back in the day you'd have a leased mainframe or minicomputer and any concerns would be handled by the support tech.

> I thought the whole point of the cloud was that the hardware had been abstracted (and moved) away and you just got resources on demand over the network.

This idea does that, but in an appliance box that you own.

> And then if the machine is designed, set up and maintained by a third party, why even go through the hassle of hosting it physically, and not rent out the compute?

The system is designed by a third party to be trivially set up and maintained by the customer, that's where the differentiation lies.

In the moderately oldschool way: pallets of computers arrive, maybe separate pallets of SAN hosts arrive, pallets of switches and routers arrive. You have to unbox, rack, wire, and provision them, configure the switches, integrate everything. If your system gets big enough you have to build an engineering team to deal with all kinds of nasty problems - networking, SAN/storage, and so on.

In the other really oldschool way: An opaque box with a wizard arrives and sometimes you call the wizard.

In this model: you buy a Fancy Box, but there's no wizard. You turn on the Fancy Box and log into the Deploy a Container Portal and deploy containers. Ideally, and supposedly, you never have to worry about anything else unless the Big Status Light turns red and you get a notification saying "please replace Disk 11.2 for me." So it's a totally different model.
by dataviz1000 | 2026-02-10 17:29:28+00:00
I lived in South Florida for 12 years working on mega yachts. We were all aware of the criminals raping children then. We were aware of the 14 and 15 year old child prostitutes from Russia trafficked into St Martin. The girls were in the hot tub on the third deck on the yacht in the next slip over and nobody said anything. We were all aware of the hard working immigrants from South America too busy providing for their families and sending money home to be committing crimes.
by afandian | 2026-02-10 17:29:30+00:00
I had a relatively recent graphics card (5 years old perhaps?). I don't care about 3D or games, or whatever.

So I was sad not to be able to run a text editor (let's be honest, Zed is nice but it's just displaying text). And somehow the non-accelerated version is eating 24 cores. Just for text.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/23623

I ended up buying a new graphics card in the end.

I just wish everyone could get along somehow.
by hiire | 2026-02-10 17:29:53+00:00
Wero is expanding around Belgium, France and Germany while Bizum has "joined" the European Payments Alliance with Bancomat and SIBS from Italy and Portugal respectively, not sure how these work exactly as I'm also located in Spain.

My point being, if these payment systems start becoming more interconnected and join within a standard, I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually saw Bizum cards around here, Wero cards in other places, and many more.

At least that's my take on it. Of course there's still a long way to go, such as developing the system, banks adopting it, businesses adopting it, then customers (which would probably take years, many people wouldn't bother switching at least until their current card expires)
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 17:30:00+00:00
I would agree if it weren’t almost everything that must be sacrificed in some capacity. Sacrifice of some things are unavoidable, but when no aspect of life remains untouched it’s too much.

It’s worth noting that such a degree of sacrifice wasn’t always associated with raising children. It used to be much more hands-off and less financially burdensome — responsibilities were split between grandparents, other relatives, and the town/neighborhood, and after the youngest years kids could (and were expected to) spend their time outside unsupervised doing kid things. This gave parents much needed breathing room that no longer exists, thanks to the ongoing stranger danger panic that was kicked off in the 90s, people needing to move around to have a shot at getting a decent job, systematic destruction of safe third places for kids and teens, and pressure to control and structure every moment of each child’s life.

So I don’t agree that it’s individualism, but rather a natural response to financial and societal forces pushing ever more of the burden onto the parents’ shoulders. We’ve created a world that is actively hostile to children and asking parents to just eat the resulting vastly increased costs.
by Vasu_ai123 | 2026-02-10 17:30:03+00:00
Congrats to the team on the launch

I’ve been contributing to Hive over the past couple of weeks, mostly around agent design patterns, integrations, and production-readiness.

What was the issue?
Hive has powerful agent primitives, but early on there were few concrete reference patterns showing how to apply them to real-world, multi-step workflows.

How did I address it?
I contributed by proposing and designing reference agent pipelines (e.g. multi-agent content research workflows) and scoped integrations focused on production use cases like security automation, scheduling, and external systems.

Why does it matter?
Clear reference agents and narrowly scoped integrations make it much easier for teams to move from experimentation to real business workflows, which is where agent frameworks tend to break down.

Happy to answer questions or dive deeper into any of the designs.
by mbesto | 2026-02-10 17:30:07+00:00
This is incorrect.

Visa's processes ~$14T in transactions. At 0.2% thats roughly ~$28B in revenue (VISA posted ~$40B in revenue in 2025) versus 2% is $280B in revenue.

EDIT: The 2~3% you're talking is the payment processor fees which get divvy'd out to acquiring processors, acquiring banks, gateways, merchant processing, etc. etc.
by volkl48 | 2026-02-10 17:30:19+00:00
Literally just got back from a trip there and didn't find a single business or transaction that I couldn't pay for with various US-issued (Chase + BoA) Visa credit cards via tap.

Even more surprisingly to me - a pretty decent chunk of businesses even would accept AmEx. By no means all, but I recall it being basically nonexistent not that long ago.

And to be clear - much of my time was not in areas that get a ton of foreign tourist visitors.

Not saying your experience didn't happen, but given our very different experiences it might be something with your particular bank/issuer/card?
by _bohm | 2026-02-10 17:30:28+00:00
I think it's clear that the reduction in teen pregnancy is indeed a big contributor to the decreasing fertility rate. I would guess the reason this doesn't get brought up in discussions about how to _increase_ the fertility rate is that reversing the trend on teen pregnancy is just really not a palatable solution to many people. Although there are some, usually on the religious right, who advocate for banning contraception, teaching abstinence-only sex education, etc., which would most likely have the effect of reversing the teen pregnancy trend.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-10 17:30:33+00:00
10% capture seems highly unlikely. That level of capture is only possible for b2b high touch sales, aka "call-me" pricing.

For call-me pricing to work, you have to ensure that any sort of public sticker price is not a suitable alternative. You can not have a sticker price, make the sticker price so high essentially nobody will buy it or by finding a feature like oauth that makes the public version infeasible for businesses.

And then you also have to maintain enough of a monopoly / oligarchy to sustain that level of pricing.

I don't think either of those two conditions will apply in the future.

AI providers now have a sticker price that provides basically all functionality, almost completely eliminating the opportunity for extremely high-margin b2b. They've decided a small slice of a large pie is bigger than large piece of a smaller pie. I suspect that's true and will continue to be true in the future.

An oligarchy is difficult to sustain with more than 3 global players. Right now we seem to have 3 frontier models for coding that can and will charge more than commodity prices. However there are open source non-frontier models that you can use for inference costs only and even if those don't keep up it seems likely there will be enough non-frontier models available that their pricing will also be at the commodity level. Those cheaper models will provide significant downward pressure on frontier pricing.
by maxloh | 2026-02-10 17:30:44+00:00
From Allen AI's Discord:

Introducing *How2Everything*—an open framework for benchmarking & improving how LLMs generate step-by-step procedures.

LLMs constantly produce instructions for everything from filing taxes to plans for AI agents, but improving this capability is challenging. Outputs can sound fluent while describing steps that don't actually work, surface-level metrics miss critical mistakes like omitted prerequisites or contradictory instructions, and manual verification doesn't scale.

How2Everything closes this gap with a practical loop: mine real procedures from the web → benchmark LLM outputs → detect critical failures (missing steps, wrong order, omissions) → use that signal to train better models.

It has three main components:

*How2Mine*—a pipeline that extracts & standardizes procedures from web pages covering 14 topics

*How2Bench*—a 7,000-procedure benchmark built from How2Mine

*How2Score*—an evaluation protocol powered by How2Judge, an open 8B judge model trained to flag critical failures

How2Judge agrees with human judgments ~80% of the time and is cheap enough for large-scale eval, making it practical as both a benchmark scorer and an RL reward signal.

RL training with How2Score yields >10-point gains on Qwen3 4B, Qwen3 8B, and Olmo 3 7B Think, with no regressions across 12 standard benchmarks covering knowledge, reasoning, chat, math, and code. How2Bench also scales cleanly, remaining informative from early 1B pretraining checkpoints through frontier LLMs. And we stress-tested two shortcut explanations (format compliance and memorization); neither accounts for the improvements, pointing to real gains in procedure generation.

The full How2Everything framework, including How2Judge, is available now.

Blog: https://allenai.org/blog/how2everything

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08808

Code: https://github.com/lilakk/how2everything

HF: https://huggingface.co/collections/how2everything/how2everyt...
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-10 17:30:52+00:00
You seem very passionate about your opinions, but are you happy?

The fact remains LLM can't reach comparable human error rates without consuming 75% of the energy output of our entire local galaxy.

While I find true Neuromorphic computing topics more interesting, the emergence of the LLM "AI" true believer is deeply concerning to those that understand how they are actually built. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx4Tpsk_fnM
by jacekm | 2026-02-10 17:30:53+00:00
Like the article mentioned many EU countries have their own payment systems. The challenge is not to build something from the scratch but rather to make existing solutions interoperable. The first talks about cross-border integrations started many years ago but they went very slowly. However, some work is being done, just a week ago a first transfer was done from Spanish Bizum to Polish Blik.
by squeaky-clean | 2026-02-10 17:31:37+00:00
The easiest and most robust way to deal with email is to have 2 fields. string email, bool isValidated. (And you'll need some additional way to handle a time based validation code). Accept the user's string, fire off an email to it and require them to click a validation link or enter a code somewhere.

Email is weird and ultimately the only decider of a valid email is "can I send email to this address and get confirmation of receipt".

If it's a consumer website you can so some clientside validation of ".@.\\..*" to catch easy typos. That will end up rejecting a super small amount of users but they can usually deal with it. Validating against known good email domains and whatnot will just create a mess.
by jorvi | 2026-02-10 17:31:49+00:00
Isn't the idea that 99% of people use a toolkit atop of Vulkan?

Like, these days game devs just use Unreal Engine, which abstracts away having to work with the PS5 / PS4, DirectX 12, and Vulkan APIs.

I imagine unless it's either for A. edification or B. very bespoke purpose code, you're not touching Vulkan.
by libertine | 2026-02-10 17:32:15+00:00
A lot of hateful content is boosted by Russian bots, there were also instances of bot accounts that went silent with Iran internet blackout.

Another example are conspiracy theory content, and some far right channels - like the case of Tenet Media being funded by Russia.

This is the reality we're dealing with, a constant undermining flow of lies and hate to destabilize western democracies.

The result is in sight, and will only get worse because one of the consequences is that these account gradually give permission to be racist, xenophobic, etc. And LLMs are making this worse.

Of course that there's a sentiment that comes with migrants for example, but it's the disinformation that turns up a notch and blows it out of proportion.

At some point comments on social media will have to be disabled.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-10 17:32:59+00:00
They aren't explicitly, but, if you ever find yourself in a position where you're part of the hiring decision, it's best to categorize vibes as protected for anything written or otherwise recorded.

SCOTUS has found non-protected categories can still be protected because they are "proxies" for protected categories. One of the classic examples of this are zip codes[0], which was found to be a proxy for race, because it has a "disparate impact" on people of particular races.

For some people, the 'wrong vibes' are often proxies for cultural things - all kinds of body language contribute to vibes and it's easy to accidentally (or on purpose...) discriminate against a whole categories based on vibes. If you tell a candidate "Hey we just didn't like your vibes as much as this other guy", it could affect your exposure to claims that you discriminated against them based on their race.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Department_of_Housing_an....
by codyb | 2026-02-10 17:33:06+00:00
Sounds like you should build a competitor if that's literally all it is...

I suspect there's quite a few other things you have to consider when you're managing trillions of dollars of transactions a year. Fraud, settlement times, up times, security, customer service, debt collection, interest rate calculation, reach, KYC, record keeping, legal inquiries.

But I'm sure we're just a couple grok comments away from a competitor