MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmix | 2026-02-10 02:39:52+00:00
I've always said as a regular citizen I'm far less worried about Chinese spying than domestic commercial surveillance. I don't live in China so I care far less if they are collecting my social media metadata vs the stuff going into Five Eyes databases simply for crossing some 'foreign' pipe in the US/Europe/Canada.

Although I doubt much is different in practice with the US version as far as ICE is concerned. Much of this stuff ends up in commercial data brokers which the government buys, these TikTok posts are already public, private data was already subject to warrants, and TikTok has always deranked politically controversial stuff.
by pembrook | 2026-02-10 02:40:45+00:00
It wouldn't do that. But even if it did do that, this would not be a good thing.

The majority of leverage (debt) in the stock market is not people making wild bets, its just basic functions from institutions.

But even if we narrow the definition to the boogeyman image you have in your head about "leverage," if you remove it you've just made the market radically less responsive to information and arbitraging prices nearly impossible, and ultimately the economy less efficient in broad strokes.

You'll say "fine, who cares cause it'll stop [insert historical bubble example], and also I saw a reddit comment that said all economists are dumb!"

But most people have no idea how big a role leverage (aka debt) plays in just the basic functioning of the capital markets.

Putting a brake on the market might also sound good to you in theory. But the stock market is how the most important capital flows through the private economy, slowing this down is defacto slowing down the economy. Most people don't understand what slower economic growth means for your quality of life over the long term. Just 1-2% slower growth than the average, and the US's entire system collapses in 15 years (France is currently dealing with this reality in slow motion, their debt is now rated worse than Greek debt).

An easier example to understand: a pie that isn't growing is a zero sum pie. Ambition in a zero-sum world requires violence.
by learyjk | 2026-02-10 02:41:25+00:00
The creator of this is a friend of mine and just gonna chime in that he’s a fantastic and talented dude. Nice surprise to see his project listed here! I think he’s working on something new called Liftkit Studio too I’m looking forward to.

He has a cool YouTube channel too. Check out “The Secret Science of Perfect Spacing”

https://youtu.be/9ElrcTtAxzA?si=kbAzQDGQSCCqymTO

Party on
by Garrett_Mack | 2026-02-10 02:41:28+00:00
The CSS is in the github repo here: https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit

LiftKit's free forever to anyone. It's just early stages and bad.

The idea was that if a company wanted to hire us for direct support, we'd do that. But the problems are: [A] no enterprise in their right minds would use this thing in its current state and [B] "us" is me and I don't have time to do that anymore
by rayiner | 2026-02-10 02:41:29+00:00
Someone who came to the U.S. from a first world country on a 90-day visa waiver meant for tourism and business trips should be immediately deported if they overstay their visa. It’s actually the clearest case for deportation there is.

And you should be outraged at people who don’t follow the rules. One of the things that makes America a first world country is that cutting in line is considered a crime against society and carries heavy social consequences. Saying “don’t make noise when you see other people breaking the rules” is the mentality that exists in the third world country I’m from and it has no place in the U.S.
by somat | 2026-02-10 02:42:30+00:00
The real sin is that if they went with electron, they probably could have gone with a web app, and while web apps have downsides, they make fellow user buy in trivial, instead of "download this client" it's "go to this web page"

I am especially bitter because electron advertises as being "cross platform" by which they mean that it also runs on linux and as a openbsd driver I get to go "cross platform my ass" and then weep because of how close I am, if it were a web app it would probably be trivial for me to to run. What I really want is a method to unelectronify electron apps.
by jhanschoo | 2026-02-10 02:42:37+00:00
I agree, and I think that your claim is compatible with the comment that you are responding to. Indeed, perhaps it's turtles all the way down and there is systematic complexity upon systematic complexity governing our universe that humanity has been just too limited to experience.

For a historical analogy, classical physics was and is sufficient for most practical purposes, and we didn't need relativity or quantum mechanics until we had instruments that could manipulate them, or that at least experienced them. While I guess that there were still macroscopic quantum phenomena, perhaps they could have just been treated as empirical material properties without a systematic universal theory accounting for them, when instruments would not have been precise enough to explore and exploit predictions of a systematic theory.
by archagon | 2026-02-10 02:42:41+00:00
Which part is not working? Do you live here? I’ve been living in the Mission since 2023 and despite some problems, the city, overall, works… pretty well. Really.

“Super Bowl Visitors Find San Francisco Better Than Its Apocalyptic Image. Problems with homelessness and open-air drug use have been widely broadcast, but many visitors this week said they found the city surprisingly pleasant.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/san-francisco-super-bo...

Incidentally, reading some books on the history of SF illuminates that homelessness/poverty and drug use have plagued the city for almost a century, across all manner of governments. There is no easy solution here.
by tabbott | 2026-02-10 02:43:17+00:00
Most consumers don't know the difference between "encryption" and "end-to-end encryption".

Zulip uses standard TLS encryption, where the messages are encrypted in transit, but the server has access to the messages.

The server having access to the messages is extremely useful for many key features. Access control policies. Search. Markdown rendering that can make guarantees to clients about its behavior. Mobile notifications for mentions. And many more. There's options for all of these problems, but it's /hard/ and you end up having a lot of risk of nasty bugs where "all the message history become unreadable" and a lot of performance issues.

This is why why end-to-end encrypted messenger apps like Signal are extremely minimal with basically no chat features, and can take a while to load long conversations ... there's a lot of expensive cryptography happening in the background. AFAIK it's not realistic to use the Signal protocol with the volume of messages people do in high-traffic Discord or Zulip communities.

Some other E2EE chat systems have more features but fail to actually provide end-to-end security. (For example, the server provides the source code for the web app and can freely modify that code to steal all the messages the user can still read, or the server is still in charge of metadata like channel membership ... so a malicious server could just add a fake user to every channel).

You get almost all of the security benefits of these "E2EE" chat systems by having a trusted person self-host the server, and setting a message retention policy if you want messages in certain channels to be automatically be deleted after a period of time.

Our vision for Zulip is not billions of people on our Cloud service. People should own their own communities, not corporations. And in that world, usually the person who runs the community can be trusted to host it.
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-10 02:43:17+00:00
> Like, the Silicon Valley is the US' biggest cluster of Superfund sites by far

Source? My understanding was that NJ was the worse.

Wikipedia shows 94 SF sites in CA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Cal...

And 115 in NJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_New...

And of course, CA is _much much_ larger. If we look at the entire bos/wash corridor, it's huuugely than CA.
Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986
by benstopics | 2026-02-10 02:44:58+00:00
Hello my name is Ben Ward for the past 3 years I have been remastering the financial game Wall Street Raider created by Michael Jenkins originally on DOS in 1986.

It has been a rough journey but I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just recently redid the website and thought maybe the full story of how this project came to be would interest you all. Thank you for reading.
by robocat | 2026-02-10 02:45:01+00:00
I'm suggesting creating history is fun.

Maybe a meat fed on something that flavours the meat? Similar to Jamón ibérico de bellota. Preminted lamb?

Unfortunately where I'm from is a bit culturally sparse and we don't really have many dishes to call our own. I could pick something from the Hokitika Food Festival... Say Fried Huhu Grubs or Possum? Although recently that festival seemed to have been taken over by food trucks.

If I wanted to be controversial, maybe I could start a more secret society for Hector's steak, Seal soup, or Kererū Pie. I'd like that rare please.

If I wanted to steal a recipe, Biltong, or maybe rotted crayfish (a favorite of my friend's grandad).

> did you even OPEN the article?

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Jesus

A quick search implies the bible don't really say much about what he ate. And 2000 years of selection and husbandry will have radically changed the genetics and flavours of most modern equivalent foodstuffs.

And I just discovered that a poached egg topping a Caesar Salad is something we do in NZ...

My best bet would be to create a new dish at the same time as creating an appreciation society with me as the grand master, to be venerated in future millennia.
by xvxvx | 2026-02-10 02:45:17+00:00
I had an AI class in college 30 years ago that centered on the medical field. It was pretty exciting but never went anywhere. Patient gives symptoms, softwares asks questions… seemed so straightforward. Quite strange to me that, 3 decades later, not much has changed on that front, aside for my realization that good doctors are few and far between IRL.
by komali2 | 2026-02-10 02:45:29+00:00
The crime of "conspiracy to publish seditious materials" is an unethical law and should be abolished. We can argue that point if you'd like? Furthermore, promoting self rule is not seditious, it's anti imperialist. We can argue that one as well?

The charge of colluding with foreign governments is blowing his actions way out of proportion so as to artificially inflate the severity of his "crime" for political reasons. We can argue that?

We could also argue that the reason the CPC is doing this is to suppress any Hong Kong self-determinist agitation?

Is anything I've said disagreeable on the premise of them being strawmen?
by nextaccountic | 2026-02-10 02:45:46+00:00
I wish more people used git-bug. It stores issues and PRs in git (not as branches or tags but as special refs that don't pollute the output when you list branches), and have bridges from/to github and other sites

It's like the fossil model, but on Git

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

If everyone used it, it would eliminate this specific form of lock in
by stubbi | 2026-02-10 02:46:16+00:00
Yes, good point. I think OpenClaw actually helps here by making a broader audience aware of the security risks of using "unchained" LLMs. Securing a probabilistic system is a fundamentally different challenge than auditing kernel code, and we're all still figuring that out.

I am optimistic that OpenClaw will actually drive a lot of security tooling around the use of LLMs from here
by JohnTHaller | 2026-02-10 02:46:28+00:00
Hi Tim. For pricing, it would seem that large, public-facing, Discord-style organizations would have to go with the free plan to avoid the pricing being prohibitive. Think something like the new Limewire community on Discord which has 2 million members. Or am I missing something about what a 'user' is considered in terms of being billable or not?

On a related note, I'm gonna check out Zulip for PortableApps.com. Any interest in having the Windows desktop app be portable? (We'd love to do that if we wind up using it)
by estearum | 2026-02-10 02:47:42+00:00
No, including illegal immigration. There are people who have immigrated fully legally within the boundaries of the laws of our nation and still gotten targeted, detained, arrested, and even deported.

There are American citizens getting stopped and harassed for their papers.

It's always hilarious hearing the "America can't become one of those shithole countries!" while advocating for policies and attitudes that are pervasive in said shithole countries.

Here are a few examples of said violations by our government: https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/...
by curiousObject | 2026-02-10 02:48:25+00:00
Your comment hints at another problem, which is that allowing the cargo into a port possibly could be exploited as a loophole to break sanctions.

Yet another big problem is that cargo might be too low in value, or even undesirable. Like the cargo of Ammonium Nitrate that exploded in Beirut a few years ago (it had been taken off the docked ship which then sank in the port. The cargo was stored in the port, then stuck in legal and payment disputes, and the result was horrific).
by crazygringo | 2026-02-10 02:48:59+00:00
I don't think you're understanding. The point is that 20 people in a row will take advantage of your buffer to slow you down again and again and again, which makes you get to your destination later... because they're being selfish to get somewhere faster, and you're not so you get to where you're going slower.

We're not talking about where they're changing lanes to take the next exit. We're talking about where your lane happens to be moving faster, so they merge in front of you to take advantage of that and just stay there. Why should you be expected to give them space, as you suggest? How is that fair, that they should get to their destination faster instead of you? Do you not see how that's going to rightfully make someone angry?
by amarant | 2026-02-10 02:49:01+00:00
I'd add the hugely successful studios to that list. Even after ms acquisition, to the best of my knowledge neither of the 2 studios I worked at had any layoffs.

But they boast the most sold video game in the history of videogames (Tetris a close-ish second), and most downloaded free mobile game, respectively. Each have player bases larger than the population of the country they're from!

Here's to hoping ms is hesitant to gut either!
by AppleBananaPie | 2026-02-10 02:49:03+00:00
I like the alcohol comparison it's interesting in how accurate it is and yet society does it.

I also think it's obvious your comparisons of parents limiting time of things like this in the 90s is not apples to apples.

Being the person to start a new trend (in your local bubble) is non-trivial and hard to explain to a child growing up around nearly all their peers having access.

Doubly so if it's something that (I think science supports this?) is far more addicting than it was in the past.

I'm not saying folks get a free pass but I'm not sure we had a global drug crisis that 90% of the population was participating in before which from your analogy is what's happening.

Thanks again for the alcohol comparison I'm going to phrase it like that in my head to hopefully get all of my brain on board with the seriousness of the topic for my kids :)
by carshodev | 2026-02-10 02:49:04+00:00
Both social media and chats need a truly open decentralized protocol that is accessible and usable by the general public. It feels like with clawbot becoming popular that people are open to the idea of self hosting something if it has an easy enough interface.

The same thing could be done for social media and messaging. People should hold control over their own content and the application layer should just be content organizers and consumers.
by bluGill | 2026-02-10 02:49:29+00:00
A helmet can make a big difference in saving your brain if you are hit by a bike. Or if you hit a slippery spot and fall off your bike. Or - hundreds of other things that happen.

cars are too big and heavy for a helmet to make a difference - but they are not all that can go wrong. Even in car heavy US there is more than a car that can harm you.
by Garrett_Mack | 2026-02-10 02:50:23+00:00
I didn't know what web components were until after I'd released it for React. I was working in a complete vacuum until I put this out there, and then I started to get involved with the community. Before that I was pretty much the only designer/techie I knew. I'm not a professional developer. I'm just a designer who knows enough TS to piece things together.

So having it for React/NextJS isn't an affirmative decision. It's just the only thing I knew how to do at the time. After the first launch last summer I had a couple folks reach out to help port to SvelteKit and Vue, but you know how it is. People get busy.
by ETH_start | 2026-02-10 02:50:33+00:00
My view is that we need a good micropayment system to enable low-friction payments for per page access. Pay walls that can be bypassed with a $0.01-$0.05 payment effected by a single click would be much better suited to digital media consumption patterns. Building out the infrastructure for such a system is not trivial though. It requires significant development (as well as adoption and legal acceptance) across an entire stack of technologies:

• a scalable open financial system at the base. The best candidate is the blockchain, but it is still not ready in terms of being capable of providing sufficient scalability, and its privacy gaps (the activity of every account is public) are still not solved due to highly aggressive AML/KYC policies that make even decentralized protocols that provide strong financial privacy (e.g. Samourai Wallet's CoinJoin, Tornado Cash) legally suspect

• broad adoption of open e-wallets, like cryptocurrency wallets

• wide adoption of digital cash that is not confined to a proprietary platform. Stablecoins are furthest along in this category
by danielodievich | 2026-02-10 02:50:38+00:00
My fireplace has 1" cubes of tungsten, aluminum, and magnesium, plus a cube of selenite and quartzy-style synthetic prism, all arranged on little stands really close to the floor, so reachable by children. Neighbor 2.5 year old last year was very put out when he couldn't lift the W cube. It is really a lot of fun to hold. Dropping it on one's foot is ill-advised, particularly if you are 2.5 years old.
by tiny-automates | 2026-02-10 02:50:41+00:00
the async framing maps cleanly if you think about it in terms of control flow rather than latency. the real distinction isn't "runs for a long time", it's whether the orchestrator yields control and gets notified via callback/event vs. polling a status endpoint.

most things people call "async agents" today are really just synchronous RPC calls with a long timeout. the agent blocks the caller's context window the entire time. true async means the calling agent can spawn the task, context-switch to something else, and resume when it gets a structured completion signal - basically await semantics but for agent-to-agent or agent-to-human handoffs.

the hard engineering problem isn't the async dispatch, it's state serialization: how do you snapshot enough context that the agent can resume coherently after an arbitrary pause without re-reading the entire conversation history?

that's where most implementations i've seen fall apart.
by Garrett_Mack | 2026-02-10 02:51:20+00:00
Thanks! Yep, super gimmick. I picked golden ratio because I thought it was a good eyecatcher.

To be clear; You don't HAVE to use the golden ratio. You can set your global scale factor to anything you want in /liftkit-core.css. I just use 1.618 because I like it.
by vetrom | 2026-02-10 02:51:28+00:00
What is Zulip's position on speech they/(you?) disagree with -- if someone is paying for non-selfhosted Zulip, are you going to delete/shutdown/dox users/operators that you politically disagree with?

If say the hyprland people were using a Zulip instance and someone astroturfed/brigaded/massreported a campaign to shut them down because they didn't agree to some external code of conduct and external enforcement of such, what would Zulip's response, as a company, be?
by frogulis | 2026-02-10 02:51:32+00:00
Driving in Melbourne -- I won't generalise to the wider Australia -- is often much the same.

Comparing to the experience of being a passenger on a bike in Saigon, the level of cooperation there is way higher, possibly due to a sort of necessity.
I had this feeling while observing traffic there, that, while the latency and throughput of the roads during high traffic times are still kinda awful, at least for bikes there's a slow continuous progress that simply wouldn't exist without cooperation.

Funnily enough, my experience driving in Los Angeles was distinctly not terrible. Traffic was usually good enough to drive in, though there was very little regard for the speed limit on the freeways! I suspect I may have just been lucky to miss the worst of the traffic.
by adolph | 2026-02-10 02:51:51+00:00
Very true in that "living standards" is very subjective. When I wrote that I was thinking of London's population loss, not achieving a similar population until the 1300s. And I was thinking of claims that European literacy rates likewise took a long time to recover.

I don't think it is right to say that population loss usually results in higher living standards due to more land per capita. For one, in a pre-industrial society agriculture is labor intensive and the amount of land that can be worked by a person does not scale with land availability. The Black Death [1] economic section works out some of the less than positive impacts.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londinium

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
by troad | 2026-02-10 02:51:54+00:00
What's the benefit of this?

Say I am writing a transpiler to C, and I have to choose whether I will target C89, or some arbitrary subset of C23. When would I ever choose the latter?

The only benefit I could think of is where you're also planning to write a new C compiler, and this is simplified by the C being restricted in some way. But if you're doing this, you're just writing a frontend and backend, with an awkward and unnecessary middle-end coupling to some arbitrary subset of C. What's the benefit of C being involved at all in this scenario?

And say you realise this, and opt to replace C with some kind of more abstract IR. Aren't you now just writing an LLVM clone, with all the work that entails? When the original point of targetting C was to get its portability and backends for free?
by tiny-automates | 2026-02-10 02:52:13+00:00
"background job" is actually the more honest framing.

the interesting design question you're pointing at, what happens when it wants attention, is where the real complexity lives. in practice i've found three patterns:
(1) fire-and-forget with a completion webhook
(2) structured checkpointing where the agent emits intermediate state that a supervisor can inspect
(3) interrupt-driven where the agent can escalate blockers to a human or another agent mid-execution.

most "async agent" products today only implement (1) and call it a day. But (2) and (3) are where the actual value is, being able to inspect a running agent's reasoning mid-task and course-correct before it burns 10 minutes going down the wrong path.

the supervision protocol is the product, not the async dispatch.