MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lukan | 2026-02-14 16:15:10+00:00
Then maybe actually check places yourself?

I am looking at a 4 room apartment in a very nice villa next to a small national park right now, for 560€, with a train going twice an hour 15 minutes ride to the town with my potential next job. (In germany)

So salaries there are lower, but so is apparently rent. Way less than 40%, more like 20%.
by victorgk_ | 2026-02-14 16:15:27+00:00
The AI-native agency model is emerging across three major verticals of professional services. Each represents a multi-billion dollar market where AI can fundamentally transform how services are delivered, priced, and scaled. These three pillars — sales, marketing, and back-office — represent the broadest opportunity for AI-native disruption, and they share a common thread: labor-intensive work that follows repeatable patterns, making it ripe for automation. If you are exploring how to build or invest in an AI-native agency, understanding these verticals is essential.
by gcanyon | 2026-02-14 16:15:33+00:00
In the space of fifteen years we went from Battlestar Galactica, which used those same shots of Cylon ships swerving and getting blown up over and over and over; to Star Trek: The Next Generation, which used models for the ships and was therefore extremely limited in the scale and maneuvers they could portray; to Babylon V which used digital effects, allowing them a freedom of scale, angle, motion, and number of ships that nothing had managed before -- at the cost of being on the cutting edge of computer graphics, leading to a shininess, over-sharpness, and other telltale computer artifacts.

You can say they were too early, but not that they didn't lean in on technology and use it to their best advantage. It had weaknesses, but also strengths.
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-14 16:15:41+00:00
The Nala bot reminded me of the guys at Felipe's in Cambridge MA. When they're building burritos during dinner rush, you'd swear to god that multiple different ingredients were following a ballistic trajectory toward the tortilla at any given time. If there was a salsa radar it would show multiple inbounds like the Russkies were finally nuking us.

ETA: It didn't remind me of this because the robot is good at what it does. It reminded me of just how far away from human capabilities SOTA robotic systems are.
by happytoexplain | 2026-02-14 16:16:50+00:00
You're stating this option like it's obvious and simple, but this all just amounts to choosing which of multiple ways to make one's country worse. While growth/immigration has macro-economic positives, it's not infinitely positive, so it doesn't justify ever-denser housing and ever-increasing cultural sub-dividing forever - and as people become less happy, they care less and less about "how the economy is doing".

Of course, nobody can agree on where the line is, or escape the shoulder-rubbing with racism and classism while trying to argue where the line is.
by allanmacgregor | 2026-02-14 16:17:32+00:00
Watching how a lot of people are using and deploying AI and Agentic coding made think about the Tommyknockers, a series/book from Stephen King; there is a quote in particular that really fits.

"As I say, we've never been very good understanders. We're not a race of super-Einsteins. Thomas Edison in space would be closer, I think."

-- Bobbi Anderson, The Tommyknockers (Stephen King, 1987)
by philgyford | 2026-02-14 16:17:56+00:00
Hi, it’s my site. I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process. The process is: I add blogs that are interesting, recently-updated, etc, when I have time. And there’s only so much of that in life.

Another problem is that I like to add a variety of sites so that people following what’s recently added don’t get swamped by loads of blogs on one topic. And last time the site got on HN the suggestions (not “submissions”) were swamped with mostly men with rarely-updated blogs about computers. I’m expecting more now :)

I also enjoy searching for blogs that I find interesting and adding those, rather than relying solely on the suggestions. Honestly, I’ve been thinking of removing the suggestions form entirely, because it results in exactly this level of expectation and uncertainty about what gets “approved”.

And, yes, of course lots of blogs are missing! Look how many blogs are in there and try to guess how many blogs there might still be out there!
by _diyar | 2026-02-14 16:18:12+00:00
Context as a Swiss person: One of the strongest political parties in Switzerland today is the SVP (german acronym) which is right-wing. It has won a strong plurality in national elections for easily a decade.

This vote, however, does not stem from the federal (or even state-level) government, but instead is an initiative launched by a group of conservative politicians which happen to be part of the SVP party. The Swiss Federal Council (executive body) has come out against this initiative.

Switzerland has a form of direct democracy, where any group of individuals can propose a change in laws and if they collect 100k signatures (within 18 months) this proposed text will be voted on by the whole country. Here is a list of all referendums, a subset of which are these initiatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swiss_federal_referend...

These initiatives are a frequent feature in Swiss politics, and not necessarily indicative of broadly popular legislation. In fact, whether or not an initiative is accepted is heavily correlated with the support it receives form the federal government. Give that they oppose it, I would bet against this passing.
by rvz | 2026-02-14 16:18:17+00:00
Not only the site is gen'd by AI, this feels religiously utopian and full of make believe fanaticism. All I can expect is that this is yet another warning that we are due for another financial market crash.

The SaaS correction was nothing. But a repeat of the dotcom crash will occur for AI soon which won't be a surprise, especially before 2030.

A hint of this is three questions:

What does "abundance" actually mean?

Who is it (abundance) really for?

Who gets to decide and is trusted to deliver this "abundance"?

It depends on who you ask, even if you replace "abundance" with "democratization" or "AGI".

"Abundance" does not mean what you think it means to the author(s), VCs, AI researchers, CEOs and common man because just like "AGI", it is about to become meaningless.
by subpixel | 2026-02-14 16:18:33+00:00
Two possibilities could be true at the same time.

There might be a population limit that a country wants to set, based on effects of population visible in employment, housing , transportation, and social services.

There might be a motivation to curb immigration from certain parts of the world, based on cultural factors and aligning more with one side of the political spectrum than the other.
by Culonavirus | 2026-02-14 16:18:52+00:00
A bunch of bureaucrat * * * * suckers. The union is one populist blowout election away from breaking and they still come up with utter bull only them and other champagne socialists care about.

It's not the union's business what adults spend their time on. Porn, for example, is far more addictive than TikTok, are we going to see porn bans next?

Dirty little dictators.

The union had YEARS to invest into renewables, nuclear, modern arms (cheap drones and cruise missiles built inside the union in new, purpose built factories, not bought in pitiful numbers from the US) after Russia invaded Ukraine and what did they do? Fucking nothing. Individual countries dumped the little of their aging stocks they had and that was about it. The EU could be totally independent from russian energy and swarming with hundreds of thousands of drones by now, just by reallocating the existing funds from nonsense into action.
by throw0101c | 2026-02-14 16:19:14+00:00
> You could also say that because Switzerland wasn’t war raged they had a had start.

The Nazis may have found the Swiss more useful as a 'neutral' country than they would have as conquered territory:

> No, the controversy in Swiss conduct comes from three major factors. The trade in gold, Nazi banking, and Jewish banking.*

> When the war began, Germany had less than 50 million dollars in gold in their national stores. Yet, during the war, the Allies claimed that the Swiss purchased over 300 million in gold from the Germans. Where did the extra gold come from? Well, the obvious answer is that Nazi Germany stole it from the countries they invaded. With most powers unwilling to accept what was obviously stolen gold as payment for goods, the Swiss didn't have the same scruples. They bought the gold for Swiss francs, which Germany than could use to purchase stuff they needed from other neutral powers such as Turkey. When confronted after the war, the Swiss only would admit to 58 million of French and Belgian gold, which they compensated the respective national banks for. Investigations couldn't prove the rest, and when suspiciously new, gold 20-Fr pieces began appearing in the late 1940s, bearing dates from the 1930s, no one seemed able to prove that the Swiss had melted down the gold and was trying to secretly pass it into circulation.

> Gold wasn't all they got though. The Allies also believed there to be hundreds of millions in assets from Nazi officials stashed in Swiss bank accounts. As the occupying powers of Germany, the Allies claimed that ownership of these accounts defaulted to them, while the Swiss not only disagreed, but also claimed near total ignorance, as their strict banking laws prevented any disclosure verifying the claims. […]

* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4rciqp/why_d...

> The Swiss helped transform almost four-fifths of all German gold into highly convertible Swiss Francs. As a result, Germany was able to buy strategic raw materials from Spain and Portugal.

> Switzerland as a nation was immensely important to the German military machine and economic planning. In 1941, for example, Hitler received a billion Swiss francs as credit for the Russian campaign.

* https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/nazis-neve...
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-14 16:19:51+00:00
To read using Firefox, or any browser/HTML pager, without Javascript or CSS:

(
printf 'GET /blog/tuis-are-easy-now HTTP/1.0\r\n'
printf 'Host: hatchet.run\r\n\r\n'
)|busybox ssl_client hatchet.run \
|(echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";grep -o "<p.*</p>") > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
by Mountain_Skies | 2026-02-14 16:20:05+00:00
It's amazing how quickly globalists were able to get the ideological left to switch from having riots protesting against globalism to declaring it racist to have any anti-globalist thoughts. Even more amazing are the intellectual knots they'll tie themselves up into when explaining how this came to be. The participants of the Battle of Seattle in 1999 now would be considered Nazis.
by lumirth | 2026-02-14 16:20:09+00:00
The assumption that “rewiring” means something like “clean engineering where parts can be cleanly replaced” seems a little faulty to me. Maybe I spend too much time around wires, but “rewiring” to me means “a lot of time, a lot of difficulty, and a lot of effort to wrangle a complicated mess of interconnected things.” Which seems about how the brain is.
by estearum | 2026-02-14 16:20:12+00:00
True of academic research which has built systems and conventions specifically to achieve this, but very very little of what we know — even the most deeply academic among us — originates from “research” in the formal sense at all.

The comment thread above is not about how people should verify scientific claims of fact that are discussed in scientific formats. The comment is about a more general epistemic breakdown, 99.9999999% of which is not and cannot practically be “gotten to the bottom of” by pointing to some “original research.”
by a4isms | 2026-02-14 16:20:13+00:00
Doesn't disclosing this to the world at the same time as you disclose it to the company immediately send hundreds of black hats to their terminals to see how much chaos they can create before the company implements a fix?

Perhaps the author is not a coward, but is giving the company time to respond and commit to a fix for the benefit of other owners who could suffer harm.
by egonschiele | 2026-02-14 16:20:22+00:00
> The DHS asked Meta for their names and details on September 11, and the users were notified about it on October 3

Wow, so this was before all the ICE activity in MN blew up. My paranoid brain is wondering what they are doing with the data. Anyone here working on something like this (maybe at a company like Palantir) and willing to tell your story in a throwaway account?
by guiambros | 2026-02-14 16:21:19+00:00
Dr Dobbs was pretty good until almost the end, no? If memory serves me well, I recall the magazine got thinner and more sparse towards the end, but still high signal-to-noise ratio. Quite the opposite of Ars T.

Huge debt of gratitude to DDJ. I remember taking the bus to the capital every month just to buy the magazine on the newsstand.
by acdha | 2026-02-14 16:23:39+00:00
The bigger story is the way tech companies sucked the oxygen out of journalism. This started with capturing a growing chunk of ad revenue but then became editorial control as everyone started picking headlines, writing styles, and publication schedules to please the tech companies which control whether they receive 80% of their traffic.

Everyone writes like Buzzfeed now because Twitter and Facebook made that the most profitable; Google/Twitter/Facebook need a constant stream of new links and incentivize publishing rapidly rather than in-depth; and Facebook severely damaged many outfits with the fraudulent pivot to video pretending they’d start paying more.

Many of the problems we see societally stem back to people not paying for media, leaving the information space dominated by the interest of advertisers and a few wealthy people who will pay to promote their viewpoints.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-14 16:23:53+00:00
SVP "which is right-wing" may not convey the degree and nature of that alignment. Just search for "SVP propaganda posters" or read https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-party-violated-anti-racism-l.... When I lived in Switzerland I was pretty shocked by how "out" the hard right was. It was as if having been neutral in WW2 not enough of their homegrown fascists got shot, and they still had plain old Nazis kicking around, holding offices and passing laws.
by brokencode | 2026-02-14 16:24:23+00:00
I feel like the only upside of the downvote is to act as sort of a mob moderation system, allowing offensive comments to naturally sink to the bottom.

Maybe in the future, platforms can have high quality auto moderation using AI to read every post and delete/flag those not following community guidelines.

I’m sure this would work well today, though not sure about the cost.
by Mountain_Skies | 2026-02-14 16:24:29+00:00
"Line must go up" is such a death wish and I don't see how people who consider themselves "green" can also preach the line must go up mantra. Yes, there are consequences from a shrinking population. There are also consequences from a growing one, especially one that is cultivated with no regard to anything other than maximizing the absolute number. But I guess if you're one of the people who can benefit from the line going up while alive, it doesn't matter what happens to the world once you're gone. Just make sure that line is doing the right thing while you're breathing and that's all that matters.
by dnw | 2026-02-14 16:25:22+00:00
I would love to see the prompt history. Always curious how much human intervention/guidance is necessary for this type of work because when I read the article I come away thinking I prompt Claude and it comes out with all these results. For example, "So Claude went after the app instead. Grabbed the Android APK, decompiled it with jadx." All by itself or the author had to suggest and fiddle with bits?
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-14 16:25:41+00:00
Newer houses can have issues with mold if the HVAC is not designed or operated correctly due to the building envelope being wrapped in a vapor barrier, trapping moisture inside. Most of the housing stock is not from this time period, older houses do not have vapor barriers so they breathe a lot better.

All that being said, I’d be skeptical as hell about buying a Lennar or similar tract house built in the last 30 years for the same reasons you stated. I run union electrical work and trust my electricians to do good work, but residential construction is a whole different ballgame, lower skill levels and lots of corner cutting. I will lose money on a job to complete a project correctly, if that’s what it takes. My company has to compete locally and our reputation matters. I don’t trust the people working at home builders to make the same choice, they shit out a bunch of houses and move on, while I have to maintain my reputation and keep customers coming back for a couple decades if I want to keep my job.

Let’s just say if I was having a house built, I’d GC it myself and conduct frequent site visits, probably daily.

My main point was a well-constructed stick built house can last a long time if it’s maintained, but determining if a house is well-built is not particularly easy without cutting walls open and so on.
by listenfaster | 2026-02-14 16:26:01+00:00
+1 for Kari. You’ll find smaller, less SEO’d sites favored in their search results.

From https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/noads.html:

“Kagi Search is an ad-free search engine that will actively down-rank sites with lots of ads and trackers in the results and promote sites with little or no advertising”
by GlacierFox | 2026-02-14 16:26:19+00:00
For some people perhaps. For me personally, I find some sites purposefully interject their 'agenda', either left or right into their journalism to the detriment of the piece. You're not going to a get a truely subjective view on things anywhere but some places are skewed to the point that you can't tell if vital information is being witheld or under reported.
by hypeatei | 2026-02-14 16:26:22+00:00
> Did I ever said it was helpful or are you just putting words in my mouth?

No, I think you're misreading. I said it would be helpful instead of distracting.

> Nobody remembers Bush doing anything specific the way we all here remember Lavabit

Yes, that's what I'm saying: you're extremely biased and it shows. In one stroke, you simultaneously say that unchecked intelligence apparatus is too powerful (true) and that Obama, specifically, did a bad thing that the goverment (hand wavey deflection) is merely taking advantage of now with no criticism of the current admin. It comes across like you're just a partisan hack who wants to dunk on Obama. There's no substance here. At least this time you mentioned Bush who started all of this, but still no mention of he who shall not be named.

> When I was 18 I emptied my bank account to fly my cousins to the US from Venezuela

What does that have to do with anything we're talking about now?
by Hikikomori | 2026-02-14 16:26:30+00:00
>How about when Amazon engineers colluded with the federal government to shutdown Parler? It would be like Trump working with hosting servers for Blue sky and getting it shutdown.

Private companies can't choose their customers anymore? Interesting.

>Twitter and Facebook were caught colluding with the Biden administration to censor Americans. There weren't 10 posts a day on HN about it, and it was pretty quickly ignored and forgotten.

The laptop? They didn't. FBI warned facebook etc about possible russian fake stories and they decided to suppress it own their own until it was fact checked. Biden did ask Twitter to take down nudes of his son as it was against twitters revenge porn rules.

You are deluded if you think this is anywhere close to what trump is doing.
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by segbedji | 2026-02-14 16:26:42+00:00
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by hananova | 2026-02-14 16:27:10+00:00
I'm honestly also not worried about AI job loss. But for a far darker reason: I think it's a self-solving problem.

Once techbros take it too far where an actual significant amount of people face job loss and thus face hardships in housing and feeding themselves, society as a whole is going to wish it nipped AI in the bud when it still could. Knowing techbros though, their moment of introspection, if it ever comes, will come far too late.

To me, actively trying to cause mass job loss in a country with essentially zero social security sounds, actively trying to get as many people in the "nothing to lose" state as possible, sounds genuinely suicidal.
by philgyford | 2026-02-14 16:27:49+00:00
You do seem particularly offended or annoyed that some blogs you suggested have not yet appeared on the site.

You can read the FAQ article to see the criteria for what’s accepted, and also reasons why suggested blogs haven’t yet appeared.

Ultimately it’s my own hobby site and so I decide what is “good” or “interesting” - so long as it meets the other criteria.
by sejje | 2026-02-14 16:28:04+00:00
The Average Joe reads at an 8th grade level. 21% are illiterate in the US.

LLMs surpassed the average human a long time ago IMO. When LLMs fail to measure up to humans, it's that they fail to measure up against human experts in a given field, not the Average Joe.

We are surrounded by NPCs.
by lukan | 2026-02-14 16:28:17+00:00
Yes, most cities are not cheap, but I am also not a city person so the place is in a remote village, but well connected. And no, not naming that concrete place as I really like to move there (again), but it is in western saxony so not that far from chemnitz (a town I don't like so much, the job itself is in a small town).
by stickfigure | 2026-02-14 16:28:31+00:00
I think this wave of guilt-by-association is starting to go a bit too far. There were some douchebags around Epstein, for sure. But knowing a douchebag, taking donations from a douchebag, or even going to parties hosted by a douchebag does not automatically make you a douchebag. Social people go to a lot of parties, and money is just money.

Call out the miscreants and bad behavior in the Epstein files, sure. But be specific. I don't like these articles insinuating "the world is full of douchebags". It isn't.
by watwut | 2026-02-14 16:28:56+00:00
Weird take considering Epstein was literal rightist, racist and sexist to the bone for whom feminisms was the biggest enemy. (I mean, of course, he was abuser and the woke idea that abuse is something wrong was the primary danger to him and his associates.)

Politically, both side are in the files, plenty of supposed centrists, but the hell more right wing and billionaires and soft right wing is on it more.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-14 16:29:23+00:00
Fun fact: the AMD64 patents have expired, with AMD-V patents expiring this year, so there really isn't a need for an x86 license to do anything useful. All that's still protected is various AVX instruction sets, but those are generally used in heavily optimized software, like emulators and video encoders, that tend to be compiled to the specific processor instruction set anyway.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-14 16:29:24+00:00
What a surprise, IIRC in Hong Kong there was a platform that was fully decentralized. HK protesters used it on their phones during their uprising and China could not block it.

Maybe it is time people move to that. Sadly I forgot its name or where to get it. Of course the app stores could block that too.

There is always USENET I guess. I wonder if there are apps on Cell Phones that can access USENET and format the posts to work with the small screens. And of course reformat posts to comply to USENET formatting requirements (ie: wordwrap at Col 70).