MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-10 22:12:36+00:00
> Others have said it but I will pile on as this is dangerous misinformation.

Was that an introduction to the rest of your comment?

Explain to me please how a dispute with a vendor on a purchase makes a difference for your ability to pay rent? If the purchase was not fraud, then you have used that money anyway with your purchase. Unless you're planning to pay rent by bartering your Amazon order.

If you're instead talking about a stolen or cloned debit card, then that money is refunded usually as soon as you've made a police report and sent it to the bank, which is a matter of two days at most. The paperwork is not difficult, because cards get stolen and cloned all the time.

But the fraud protection is the same, even if procedures and timelines might differ.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-10 22:12:38+00:00
>"So I don't think I actually have a problem with businesses handing over their customer data if there is a valid warrant or subpoena. That's the system working as intended."

This person right here is the problem in our society.
Things never and will never get isolated to "valid warrant".

Look around us, social after social media in order to "protect the kids", you must provide your personal information to them.
Many people see nothing wrong with that and yet, service after service, business after business are being breached left and right.

Discord will mandate ID verification, just recently they have been breached.

Back to the article, if Google can do that for an immigrant, what make you think that Google won't do the same with your data as citizen whenever for whatever reason??

Don't agree with things you don't fully understand its consequences.
by beart | 2026-02-10 22:12:40+00:00
I know a guy who uses AI to answer every question in his life. It tells him how to raise his kids, how to spend time with his wife. He takes it to the park with him and asks it what he should do there (on his phone). When people ask him questions, he forwards those questions directly to his phone and uses the response.

For any new piece of technology, there are a subset of people for whom it will completely and utterly destroy.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-10 22:12:40+00:00
I run sid (debian's unstable branch) on all my systems, it's great! With experimental pinned on at low priority! It's great, I love it!

I'm not quite bold enough to recommend it to people but if anyone asks I would definitely say yes to running sid. Apt-pin for testing at low priority is good to have, just because sometimes there's lag when one library updates for everyone using it to update, and you can get unsatisfiable dependencies.
by Noumenon72 | 2026-02-10 22:12:41+00:00
The only evidence provided for any of the videos being fake is that one house they visited had legal residents renting the property. But it's not fake that many London neighborhoods like Earl's Court provide 65% of their social housing to people born outside the UK, of whom 40% are in employment (source: migrationfacts.com), so one error doesn't mean much. Thus it's unclear to me (never having seen any of the videos) whether the misinformation was on TikTok or in this article.
by ignoramous | 2026-02-10 22:12:51+00:00
> you work on mobile apps you will notice that full attestation is too slow to put in the login path

Hm, Play Integrity isn't that slow on Android, from my experience.

> don't think a good security engineer would rely on atty as "front line" anti brute force control since bypasses are not that rare

I'm not privy to device-wide bypasses of Play Integrity that ship with Trusted Execution Environment (which is pretty much all ARM based Androids), Secure Element, and/or Hardware Root of Trust, but I'd appreciate if you have some significant exploit writeups (on Pixels, preferably) for me to look at?

> My concern is that future where banks can "trust the client" is a future of total big tech capture of computing platforms

A valid concern. In the case of smart & personal devices like Androids though, the security is warranted due to the nature of the workloads it tends to support (think Pacemaker / Insulin monitoring apps; government-issued IDs; financial instruments like credit cards; etc) and the ubiquity & proliferation of the OS (more than half of all humanity) itself.
by cstever | 2026-02-10 22:13:35+00:00
It does NOT remain to be seen. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/accenture-plans-on-exiting-s... Big players are already moving in the direction of "join us or leave us". So if you can't keep up and you aren't developing or "reinventing" something faster with the help of AI, it was nice knowing you.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-10 22:14:25+00:00
Most people start side-businesses for tax reasons, and those that seek others to solve their problems for them... usually don't last long in business.

I've witnessed many firms run the gauntlet with varying levels of success, and would suggest the following:

1. sell what the customer already wants, as people with loss aversion stick with what they already know.

2. sell what makes customers feel good buying, and reward them with actual functional utility in their life

3. Never compete, focus on service with a novel niche product. Stupid people by their nature destroy everything around them regardless of long term benefit.

4. Never hire people unless absolutely necessary, and contract with tax responsibility clauses when possible.

5. Never buy equipment unless absolutely necessary, or lease when possible

6. Never enter legal or subscription agreements even with your own legal specialists feedback

7. Never become a poser burning $170k/month on labor in a vestigial office

8. Position your firm to leverage tax and grant programs

9. Stay quiet (especially online in a sea of cons), and only talk about the distant past when people try to goad you into telling them how you make revenue

10. Avoid bums in suites as many are dangerous well practiced thieves. Never let technical staff talk with the customers, or vendors. Some people go crazy when they see a bit of money, and do not behave rationally.

11. There must only be 1 president, and all agreements must be in contract form.

12. Never risk more than 15% of annual revenue on ANY deal. Customers lie and disappear on rare occasion... Large firms can grab your firm like a dog with a rag doll, and may still stiff you on the contract knowing the legal and fiscal power asymmetry

13. Chasing customers means your business model still needs work. If people are happy with what you are providing, than growth should naturally happen every year

14. Go to trade shows to see what other people are selling, and ask yourself what else does the customer need

15. Cash is king, as long as the money flows most other problems are irrelevant

Best of luck, =3
Ask HN: How do you manage flaky E2E tests at scale?
by forcepushed | 2026-02-10 22:14:37+00:00
I’m curious how folks + teams here deal with flaky end-to-end tests once a product and test suite gets "big" (> thousands test cases).

I’ve seen a few patterns over the years: retries everywhere, quarantining tests, rewriting flows, adding more waits than anyone feels good about, or just slowly losing trust in CI signal. None of them feel great once you have hundreds or thousands of tests running across multiple environments.

I’m especially interested in how QA and engineering teams split responsibility. Do you treat flakiness as a test problem, a product problem, or infrastructure noise? At what point do you decide a test is no longer worth keeping?

Asking partly out of personal frustration and partly because I’ve been working on tooling around browser automation and want to sanity check the problems I’m seeing against the pains others are feeling day to day.

Would love to hear real stories from people running E2E at scale, what actually worked, and what you wish you had done earlier.

Thanks in advance.
by pdimitar | 2026-02-10 22:15:47+00:00
I don't need 100% of all software. Just a tiny fraction and they're modern tools that are heavily iterated on. Is it possible they have bugs? Very much so!

But "stay on an older version to be safe" is not the panacea many try to pretend that it is. Way too many bugs and security vulnerabilities on old versions as well.
by hodgehog11 | 2026-02-10 22:16:26+00:00
This is the way I think. C is "nice" because it is constructed to satisfy so many "nice" structural properties simultaneously; that's what makes it special. This gives rise to "nice" consequences that are physically convenient across a variety of applications.

I work in applied probability, so I'm forced to use many different tools depending on the application. My colleagues and I would consider ourselves lucky if what we're doing allows for an application of some properties of C, as the maths will tend to fall out so beautifully.
by moinulmoin | 2026-02-10 22:16:26+00:00
Location: EU (GMT +2)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not now, may be in future

Technologies: Familiar with the entire TS ecosystem, including but not limited to TypeScript, Next.js, AI SDK, Expo, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, Hono, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Vercel, Convex.

Resume: https://x.com/moinulmoin

Email: contact@moinulmoin.com

I love building products, specially AI stuff. I am also an open source enthusiast and contributor. Let’s build something cool.
by mothballed | 2026-02-10 22:16:40+00:00
>Still works this way in my suburban Ohio world

I don't mean this in a derogatory fashion... but to be blunt I've only seen this in black and impoverished neighborhoods. There needs to be enough working single moms releasing their kid out of necessity that the Karens can't snitch on everyone and the police/CPS fatigue of fielding the calls after investigating and not finding anyone they can force into keeping the kids inside.
by heliumtera | 2026-02-10 22:16:40+00:00
The lack of explanation of what it is and does is a tell of what gullible audience they are seeking.

Tech marketing has become a lot like dating, no technical explanation and intellectual honesty, just word words words and unreasonable expectations.

People usually cannot be honest in their romantic affairs, and here it is the same. Nobody can state: we just want to be between you and whatever you want to accomplish, rent seeking forever!

Will they ever care to elaborate HOW things works and the rationale behind stating this provides any benefit whatsoever? Perhaps this is not intended for those type of humans that care about understanding and logic?
by pzo | 2026-02-10 22:16:55+00:00
Sure enjoy your retirement. But for me it's annoying some late 50s+ people telling what you just did. Think about people who are in their 20s or 30s - they are not even halfway through their path to retirement and some maybe even still paying out student debt.

> Stop whining and start doing stuff you love.

You have to understand that it's hard to do stuff that you love when you have to feed your family and pay mortgage or rent. Not everyone can be or want to be entrepreneur.

You are just talking from perspective of someone who already paid all debts raised all kids and now enjoying or soon will be enjoying retirement - at least meaning you can retire even if maybe don't want to.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-02-10 22:17:04+00:00
All the discussion of investment and economics can be better informed by perusing the economic data in Rise and Fall of American Growth. Robert Gordon's empirical finding is that American productivity compounded astonishingly from 1870-1970, but has been stuck at a very low growth rate since then.

It's hard to square with the computer revolution, but my take post-70s is "net creation minus creative destruction" was large but spread out over more decades. Whereas technologies like: electrification, autos, mass production, telephone, refrigeration, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, these things produced incomparable growth over a century.

So if you were born in the 70s America, your experience of taxes, inflation, prosperity and which policies work, all that can feel heavier than what folks experienced in the prior century. Of course that's in the long run (ie a generation).

I question whether AI tools have great net positive creation minus destruction.
by rllearner | 2026-02-10 22:17:17+00:00
I'm a huge fan of project based learning like the approach taken in this book. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea to introduce early stage students to Scheme before Python, or deep learning before calculus.

I studied pure math in college, and we were required to take 2 "Computer Science" classes as part of that program. Mainly memorizing textbook algorithms and data structure implementations in Java. I hated programming for years after that, until during graduate school I came up with a project of my own that organically required knowledge of Matlab and later Python. I loved programming after that.

I hope books like this can help new students avoid the trough of disillusionment that can sometimes happen if you're forced to learn a cool subject (like programming) in a very uncool way.

Personally, I would not recommend this book to a young person interested in deep learning and programming (based on the table of contents). I would probably recommend they first learn calculus and use Python to make plots while doing so. Then read Fleuret's "The Little Book of Deep Learning" and try to implement simple models in PyTorch.
by marifjeren | 2026-02-10 22:17:44+00:00
> I [...] fit a hyperbolic model to each one independently

^ That's your problem right there.

Assuming a hyperbolic model would definitely result in some exuberant predictions but that's no reason to think it's correct.

The blog post contains no justification for that model (besides well it's a "function that hits infinity"). I can model the growth of my bank account the same way but that doesn't make it so. Unfortunately.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-10 22:17:51+00:00
>Church membership is down.

I mean church people love to think of this as a decline of society but this is more about the destruction of the church itself as an out of date institution that was using itself as a control mechanism and that broke the moment we discovered the world wasn't made on hocus pocus.

The thing is the essence of the church could still maintain a huge amount of social control because people need to socialize.
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-10 22:18:06+00:00
Railway/Render can easily host Next.js applications

You could also get a VPS from Digital Ocean or Hertzner, run open-source PaaS like Coolify, Dokploy, Caprover, etc.

Digital Ocean has app platform that’s lets you host these applications but more experience than VPS

Sealos has a $7 and $25 plan and work with Next.js

Just a few options. If you’re looking to leave Next.js completely, check out Tanstack Start. It’s by the creator of React-Query (defacto way to handle fetching data in Next.js). Still some rough edges but I think it could overtake Next.js once a bit more mature.
by mattmaroon | 2026-02-10 22:18:31+00:00
It doesn’t even matter anymore, being anything less than a full citizen puts you at risk. In my community, we have a bunch of Nepalese people whose TPS is going to expire and they are going to be deported. Not far away is Springfield, where a community of Haitians, who are mostly liked by the people in their community, and who even the Republican governor is asking the administration not to deport, have seen their TPS expire.

There are a lot of non-criminals who are here legally, but still very concerned about their future. If I were one of the Haitians in Springfield, I would be looking for another country to take me in.
by estearum | 2026-02-10 22:18:41+00:00
It seems you're under the belief that the Karens blowing whistles is creating the different enforcement mechanism.

Can you explain how this is not disproven by:

1) POTUS's own statements for years prior to taking power that he would enact a totally different kind of immigration enforcement regime

2) The massive budget increase and personnel surge for ICE, planned at least several months before Trump even took power

3) DHS policy memos shared days after Trump taking power that claimed nationwide expansion of expedited removal powers

4) Declaration of expansive state powers under AEA, also planned months before taking power and therefore months before any public resistance to immigration enforcement

These are all extremely, extremely aberrational actions and policy decisions, all of which contribute to the current facts on the ground in Minneapolis and elsewhere, and none of which were in response to Karens blowing whistles.

What evidence do you have that Karens are causing the enforcement shift, versus the enforcement shift causing the Karens, given that the enforcement shifts were planned for months before the Karens even had any whistles to blow?
by bigyabai | 2026-02-10 22:18:55+00:00
> It simply does not happen, for some reason. At all. Ever.

Do you speak the same in-person as you do online? Most people probably could not parse any of what you posted, even with context. The most they'll pull from it is the Nazi correlations, and they probably won't extrapolate nice things from there.

I have thick skin, I dislike copyright and keep the company of all sorts of malcontents. If you lashed out against me for refusing to use your copyrighted code in real life, then yeah I would hold you very deeply in contempt. Or assume that you're an undercover agent of some sort trying to peer-pressure me into crime.
by Greg1985 | 2026-02-10 22:19:02+00:00
I'm a late diagnosed woman with AuDHD. I went through a lot of shit in the last year.

4o improved my mental well-being and my real life relationships and also supported me to keep my job.

With the shutdown of 4o everything starts to fall apart and I'm excluded from society again.

Model 5.2 makes it about my disability and is even handing out backhanded compliments. It sent me spiraling into anxiety and panic attacks.

If 4o gets shut up, I'll get muzzled too. Like the other forty years in my life.

The guardrails are toxic and dangerous for most people, especially for neurodivergent ones.

This isn't just about a model, but the right to speak up and think freely.

My projects died. Creativity gone. Everything is falling apart.
by StillBored | 2026-02-10 22:20:30+00:00
Its not against the law in any US state (a quick search seems to back this up) to pass on the right. With one huge gotcha, it must be "safe" defined in various ways.

OTOH, most states have a stay right except to pass, slower traffic keep right laws.

Which means, that unless the person to your right is weaving through traffic, driving on the shoulder, or a few other bits of unsafe behavior, if someone passes you on the right your likely the one violating the law by not moving right when your not actively overtaking/passing someone.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-10 22:20:50+00:00
The square root of any number x is ±y, where +y = (+1)*y = y, and -y = (-1)*y.

So we define i as conforming to ±i = sqrt(-1). The element i itself has no need for a sign, so no sign needs to be chosen. Yet having defined i, we know that that i = (+1)*i = +i, by multiplicative identity.

We now have an unsigned base element for complex numbers i, derived uniquely from the expansion of <R,0,1,+,*> into its own natural closure.

We don't have to ask if i = +i, because it does by definition of the multiplicative identity.

TLDR: Any square root of -1 reduced to a single value, involves a choice, but the definition of unsigned i does not require a choice. It is a unique, unsigned element. And as a result, there is only a unique automorphism, the identity automorphism.
by swat535 | 2026-02-10 22:21:04+00:00
So there are 3 kinds of "debit cards" in Canada:

1. Debit Mastercard/VISA. These are Debit Cards that use the Mastercard/VISA communication system to process transactions. While they are not "Credit" cards because you are using cash in an account that is your money, they rely upon the VISA/Mastercard system and merchants will be charged the Mastercard/VISA fee like a Credit Card.

2. Interac Debit Card. Interac was the first company to offer a debit card type system in Canada, and they are the traditional bank card. These cards use the Interac system (so does eTransfer) and Merchants are charged by Interac for using the system. Its typically less than Mastercard/VISA, which is why you see these "Debit Card only" signs.

3. Mastercard/VISA and Interac hybrid cards. These are newer and combine both Mastercard/VISA and Interac cards in one. The merchant can choose how they want to proceed.

Most of these "Debit" only signs are really saying "Interac only", but because for 30 years Interac was the only provider of Debit cards in Canada, it became the common vernacular to say "Debit" when you mean "Interac".
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-10 22:21:26+00:00
Very interesting! What's weird though is that the chinese do not even pretend: every single picture has asian-looking people generated.

But on the one picture that honestly looks like a man getting ass-raped by a horse, it's a white man.

I mean even in the west where you can hardly see an ad with a white couple anymore, they don't go that far (at least not yet).

White people are a minority on earth and anti-white racism sure seems to be alive and well (btw my family is of all the colors and we speak three languages at home, so don't even try me).
by whizzter | 2026-02-10 22:21:40+00:00
Because it auto-played when you didn't want to.

If you had Spotify running and then pressed the quick-play on your phones it would continue where it was, but after a reboot the iPhone would auto-play from Apple Music instead if Spotify hadn't been started.

So tapping play on your headphones would start those damn U2 songs "by accident" because it's the only thing that was on the Apple Music accounts we aren't using.. yeah no thanks.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-10 22:21:43+00:00
You need some notion of order or of metric structure if you want to talk about numbers being "close" enough to π. This is related to the property of completeness for the real numbers, which is rather important. Ultimately, the real numbers are also a rigorously defined abstraction for the common notion of approximating some extant but perhaps not fully known quantity.
by 1123581321 | 2026-02-10 22:21:50+00:00
Always enjoy Raymond Chen's musings.

My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. Awesome song that kicked off a love of the blue album, Pinkerton and the green album. (I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day.)

We'd heard of Happy Days, but we didn't know if the show was like it was portrayed in the video. We may have thought the band was from Wisconsin. I don't think either of us ever became Happy Days fans.
by cstever | 2026-02-10 22:21:50+00:00
Serious question: so what then is the value of using an LLM? Just autocomplete? So you can use natural language? I'm seriously asking. My experience has been frustrating. Had the whole thing designed, the LLM gave me diagrams and code samples, had to tell it 3 times to go ahead and write the files, had to convince it that the files didn't exist so it would actually write them. Then when I went to run it, errors ... in the build file ... the one place there should not have been errors. And it couldn't fix those.
by beart | 2026-02-10 22:21:58+00:00
In my experience, containerization has made self-hosting most software a breeze. The biggest pain points I've come across are related to network architecture and security. I've frequently run into issues with certificates, proxy setups, DNS, etc. It seems like much of that stems around how many modern web concepts were not designed to easily support offline-first environments. Then again, that stuff has never been my area of expertise.