MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-06 17:22:39+00:00
> What would targeting NYC help Iran?

I don’t think modelling Iran as a monolithic political actor works anymore.

Between the IRGC, President, clerical ranks and others, I’m sure, some groups may benefit from striking New York or even inviting American retaliation in ways that don’t make sense for the country as a whole.
by vikramkr | 2026-02-06 17:22:54+00:00
If you live near a community bio lab see if you can join up and take some classes to learn some basic lab techniques. And some sort of intro bio class via mooc/textbook/local college class whatever if you can but community lab is honestly a great place to start if you have one.

The main thing to keep in mind is that all the stuff that involves analogies between software and biology is almost universally a bullshit oversimplification that you can safely ignore. It's just that software is so profitable and there's so much vc money in it that there's a ton of pressure to be like "oh we can program biology like we program computers." We can't - we invented computers but didn't invent biology. Biology is the end result of 4 billion years of unchecked entropy - it's a chaos system, non deterministic in the wildest ways, impossibly complicated, and yet something we are getting astonishingly good at understanding and engineering.

Basically, all the biologists that started companies that were like "we can program biology like we can program computers" are bankrupt now.

On the other hand, the computer scientists that respected the nature of biology and pushed the limits of computing to develop Alphafold - giant models trained on the full complexity of biological data - finally created computer systems that could handle biological systems like protein folding at an extraordinary level of capability. They won a nobel.
by ginko | 2026-02-06 17:23:18+00:00
Not grandparent but I was rather thinking of medieval city centers in Italy or Spain.

edit: Case in point:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xxYQWHrzSMES8HPL8

This is an alley in Coimbra, Portugal. A couple years ago I stayed at a hotel in this very street and took a cab from the train station. The driver could have stopped in the praça below and told me to walk 15m up. Instead the guy went all the way up then curved through 5-10 alleys like that to drop me off right right in front of my place. At a significant speed as well. It was one of the craziest car rides I've ever experienced.
by the_af | 2026-02-06 17:23:25+00:00
> I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it.

I never managed to reach your third time. Once was enough for me, at the time, to decide it was an awful movie which didn't have anything to do with hackers or computers and which was terribly overacted, and that was that. Filed under yet another "Hollywood just doesn't get it", subsection "so bad it's embarrassing".

Much later I realized I had missed a cult classic. Oh well. I still think it's a bad movie, but I'm ok with other people loving it... maybe that's my growth moment.
by breckinloggins | 2026-02-06 17:24:22+00:00
I live in such an area. The route to my house involves steep topography via small windy streets that are very narrow and effectively one-way due to parked cars.

Human drivers routinely do worse than Waymo, which I take 2 or 3 times a week. Is it perfect? No. Does it handle the situation better than most Lyft or Uber drivers? Yes.

As a bonus: unlike some of those drivers the Waymo doesn't get palpably angry at me for driving the route.
by iamnothere | 2026-02-06 17:24:32+00:00
Yet that lobbying is legal under the first amendment, so the people have no ground to stand on. They can do their own lobbying in response.

If the voters did their job and elected good representatives, who respect the interest of the voters, then they have nothing to worry about: the forest will not be sold.

Voters could also try to establish a referendum system where public lands cannot be sold without a local vote, assuming this is not in conflict with state law.

Edit: The point I am trying to make:

- You said that the town owns the forest in your example. I presented points to explain why this is not an issue, as lobbyists cannot force the sale of public land.

- I wanted to clarify that YIMBYs cannot force property owners to build against their will, except in limited circumstances (eminent domain) that usually requires assent from local government.

- To be clear, I think that individual property rights should be respected. I can build on my land, I can’t force you to build (or not build) on your land unless you are voluntarily bound by some covenant.
by AreShoesFeet000 | 2026-02-06 17:24:38+00:00
I agree, but what would be the actual mechanism that would allow that? I believe we’re out of ideas. TikTok’s crime was just be firmly successful because of good engineering. There’s no evil sauce apart from promotional content and occasional manipulation, which has nothing to do with the algorithm per se.

And about whitelisting, I honestly don’t think you’re comparing apples to apples. The point of the algorithm is dynamically recommending new content. It’s about discovery.
by giuliomagnifico | 2026-02-06 17:24:52+00:00
KYIV — Two days after Elon Musk's SpaceX launched Starlink verification and blocked unverified terminals in Ukraine, the pace of Russia's offensive appears to be slowing, a Ukrainian military official told POLITICO.

“Currently, such a trend is indeed observed. But it will be necessary to monitor further whether it will continue, whether there will be other factors,” said the official, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

“However, at some places, Ukrainian military Starlinks which have not been registered yet have also been disconnected. But the registration process is ongoing,” the official added.

"In fact, they [Russian units] have problems now. They are like blind kittens," a Ukrainian General Staff commanders told POLITICO separately, also granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

On Friday, Russian military bloggers, who in the past have praised Musk for his anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, complained about the mass failure of terminals for the Starlink satellite service that began on the evening on Feb. 4 on the frontline in Ukraine.

“The Russian Armed Forces used gray Starlinks to organize communications at the front. The danger is that it was an easy way compared to doing something new, pulling an ever-breaking optical fiber, setting up 'bridges,' or even working en masse with digital stations to organize the transmission of small data packets,” Russian pro-war military Telegram channel Dva Mayora, said in a post on Thursday. "Gray" Starlink terminals are ones that are not authorized or verified.

“Now it's either the old-fashioned way, or they'll come up with something of their own urgently,” the bloggers added, blaming Musk for assisting the Ukrainian army.
by jonners00 | 2026-02-06 17:24:54+00:00
With social media, the cost benefit analysis doesn't deliver marginal results, just less stark/concentrated results. Drink driving is self evidently bad even though 99 times out of 100(?) it does no harm, because one time out of a hundred its consequences are catastrophic. Social media on the other hand is harming essentially 100% of the population in initially milder ways - even if you don't use it you're forced to live in a dumbed down society where wealth and power is becoming concentrated in the hands of those who pedal digital dopamine and in a democracy being undermined by disinformation. Of course 'initially milder harm' is step one in frog boiling.
by zahlman | 2026-02-06 17:24:59+00:00
Please speak plainly. It comes across like you allege that "free speech absolutists" would betray their principles due to aligning with NIMBYs (I read "protect" as "protect against", because otherwise it makes even less sense). But where on Earth does that assumption come from? If your intent is not to sneer at a political outgroup (based on a prediction, not even actual conduct) when why adopt this tone?
by runarberg | 2026-02-06 17:24:59+00:00
Autonomous private cars is not the technological progress you think it is. We’ve had autonomous trains for decades, and while it provides us with a more efficient and cost effective public transit system, it didn’t open the doors for the next revolutionary technology.

Self driving cars is a dead end technology, that will introduce a whole host of new problems which are already solved with public transit, better urban planning, etc.
by mangodrunk | 2026-02-06 17:25:46+00:00
Thanks for clarifying your position. I do see that model as only temporarily possible but eventually reality catches up with the propaganda, the Iraq war being a somewhat recent example. Also, as a citizen the previous model is also essentially requiring the government to lie to us, so I don’t think that as good either, because who will be benefiting from these “good guy” adventures?
by kiba | 2026-02-06 17:26:16+00:00
We really only practice it in one instance in modern democracy and that's jury duty, but that should be expanded into more roles and duties. That's one way to make society truly democratic.

In any case, you might be interested in Georgism, which is an anti-monopoly ideology most famously associated with very Strong Opinions on taxation of land and natural resources and untaxing production, along with taxation on pollution and negative externalities.

My impression is that sortition is very much in vogue within Georgist circles.
by herodoturtle | 2026-02-06 17:27:08+00:00
I’ve probably watched Hackers over a hundred times. My all time favourite movie. My first crush as a young teenager was Burn. It led to a career in software. So many kindred spirits on this thread - makes me smile.

And after 30+ years of watching Hackers, it only occurred to me recently that the biggest noob in the movie Joey beat the Gibson, twice. Sure he had assistance the second time, but still poetic imho.

Hack the planet <3

You’re in the butter zone now, baby!
by breckinloggins | 2026-02-06 17:27:15+00:00
Interesting question. If the Waymo was driving aggressively to remove us from the situation but relatively safely I might stay in it.

This does bring up something, though: Waymo has a "pull over" feature, but it's hidden behind a couple of touch screen actions involving small virtual buttons and it does not pull over immediately. Instead, it "finds a spot to pull over". I would very much like a big red STOP IMMEDIATELY button in these vehicles.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-06 17:27:49+00:00
The cross-domain check makes sense as the priority - that's where the real risk is. Injection making the agent do something dumb on the same site is bad, but redirecting to an attacker-controlled domain is way worse. Exfil via URL params, tokens in redirects, all that.

Your browser-native agent mode idea is interesting. Something like CSP but for navigation intent - "this agent can only interact with *.myapp.com" - and it's declarative so the injection can't social-engineer its way around it. Though browser vendors are probably 2-3 years behind on this stuff. Agent frameworks will have to solve it themselves first and then maybe Chrome picks it up later once there's consensus.
by whs | 2026-02-06 17:27:50+00:00
I think we ended up in this situation because of this outsourcing. Competitive games and MMO need comprehensive security solution, as cheating has a global lasting impact in matchmaking. Attackers may also have financial motivation to attack the anti cheat in these games.

Coop games might don't need as much security as competitive games, as some games do not have global state, or the global state is simply cosmetics. Since nowadays all the anticheat you can buy (except VAC) are kernel mode you'll have to accept the security risk just to have fun with your friends.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 17:28:44+00:00
And 95%+ developers aren’t writing performance sensitive code. In my career, most bottlenecks I’ve seen are because of bad database design, network latency, or other infrastructure related issuesor in the cloud days startup latency for anything serviceless.

Yes I know every millisecond a company like Google can shave off, is multiplied by billions of transactions a day and can save real money on infrastructure. But even at a second tier company like Salesforce, it probably doesn’t matter
by ddellacosta | 2026-02-06 17:29:03+00:00
Yeah this is such an important blog for Haskell.

A classic that everyone should read: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...

I attended a talk of his at Papers We Love at Strange Loop in 2018, I didn't really read the description and I was vaguely expecting something Haskell related, and instead got this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=766obijdpuU

I could barely understand it, but was impressed by what I could grasp. Dan Piponi's range is amazing, dude is brilliant
Show HN: AgentGate – Open-source human-in-the-loop approvals for AI agents
by amit_paz | 2026-02-06 17:29:07+00:00
AI agents are getting good at doing things autonomously, but "should this agent actually send that email / delete that file / deploy to prod?" is still an open problem.

AgentGate is a lightweight approval layer that sits between your agent and its actions. You define policies that auto-approve safe stuff, auto-deny dangerous stuff, and route everything in between to a human via Slack, Discord, email, or a web dashboard.

How it works:
- Agent calls agentgate_request (via MCP tool or TypeScript SDK)
- Policy engine evaluates: auto-approve, auto-deny, or escalate
- If escalated, a human gets a notification and approves/denies
- Agent gets the decision and proceeds (or doesn't)
- Full audit trail for every request and decision

It ships as 8 npm packages: server (Hono), SDK, CLI, MCP server (works with Claude Desktop), Slack bot, Discord bot, React dashboard, and a shared core with the policy engine.

Stack: TypeScript, Hono, SQLite/PostgreSQL, Docker Compose for self-hosting. 497 tests passing.

MIT licensed. Would love feedback on the policy engine design and the MCP integration approach.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-06 17:29:10+00:00
> At an individual level, for each person in the middle class, 90% of the social programs they pay for are negative EV for them personally. It would be better for each of them if they just kept what they earned, and didn't expect to get it back "later" or "when they really need it" whenever that is. This is an empirical, testable claim, and the math will be slightly different for each person. You should check for yourself.

This whole "expected value" concept when taken to the extreme is just rationalist patter. It's a useful exercise when you're running a business, but there is more to life than fiscal efficiency. Empiricism, when taken to an extreme, is as dystopian as anything else.

90% of those social programs are what keep us from being killed in the street for our watches and jewelry. They keep people less fortunate than us from becoming desperate. They level the playing field so our children aren't all victims of the circumstances of their birth. By those metrics, which are my preferred metrics and not the size of my paycheck, they are a huge benefit.

Also one could argue that the US military is the world's largest social service program in that it provides jobs for a large part of the country that otherwise has no prospects for a good life.
by lbrito | 2026-02-06 17:29:52+00:00
Huge can of fallacies mixed with arrogance, as is typical in HN.

Pointing out the "socialist" in NSDAP or whatever is idiotic. Just because they used the same word later used by other people doesn't equate both. You can't say the Spanish socialist party is racist because they happen to use the word also used by the Germans 100 years ago.

The other slight of hand you're doing is reification - talking about an abstract concept as if it were concrete. Again, where is the national hq of Antifa? You can't tell me because there isn't one. And that is because it is not a single, organized movement.

When people like you say they are anti antifa, it doesn't take a lot of IQ to read between the lines. You don't need there to be a single formal entity to fight against because you are not against a concrete, specific movement. You are against the idea of anti fascism.

Although at odds with the official narrative of your country, this is hardly surprising or unprecedented. The US has a long and rich history of being anti anti fascist, or more simply, pro fascist.
by zahlman | 2026-02-06 17:29:56+00:00
Which strikes me as bizarre, first because it requires that fallacious assumption and secondly because it requires mapping NIMBY onto the right wing. Which arguably tracks with what one would naturally expect from free-associating words like "conservative", but the evidence doesn't show me any strong correlations except possibly in the opposite direction (considering the evidence of new housing starts vs. local voting patterns).
by thesz | 2026-02-06 17:30:23+00:00
There is tinycc, that makes it three compilers.

There is a C compiler implemented in Rust from scratch: https://github.com/PhilippRados/wrecc/commits/master/?after=... (the very beginning of commit history)

There are several C compilers written in Rust from scratch of comparable quality.

We do not know whether Anthropic has a closed source C compiler written in Rust in their training data. We also do not know whether Anthropic validated their models on their ability to implement C compiler from scratch before releasing this experiment.

That language J I proposed does not have any C compiler implemented in it at all. Idiomatic J expertise is scarce and expensive so that it would be a significant expense for Anthropic to have C compiler in J for their training data. Being Turing-complete, J can express all typical compiler tips and tricks from compiler books, albeit in an unusual way.
by epistasis | 2026-02-06 17:30:40+00:00
> Rich people want to make more money by building expensive homes.

Rich people want to make more money by blocking homes from being built, thereby driving up their property values and making all housing in the area more expensive.

You present a very simplistic view that does not begin to capture the complexity of what's actually happening in practice:

> Rich people want to make more money by building expensive homes. In this case NIMBY is the correct solution.

Why would NIMBYism ever be the answer here? What values does it represent? Allowing rich people to build housing for rich people means that the rich in need of housing don't take away more affordable housing. And when rich people are forced to pay for more affordable hosuing, what used to be affordable becomes unaffordable.

Ensuring that rich people's money goes to new building that doesn't hurt less rich people is the correct solution, if one values keeping housing affordable. One should only block that rich housing if one wants the existing housing to become more expensive.
by Jensson | 2026-02-06 17:30:48+00:00
> I agree, but what would be the actual mechanism that would allow that?

Governments saying "if you are a social content platform with more than XX million users you have to provide these options on recommendation algorithms: X Y Z". It is that easy.

> And about whitelisting, I honestly don’t think you’re comparing apples to apples. The point of the algorithm is dynamically recommending new content. It’s about discovery.

And some people want to turn off that pushed discovery and just get recommended videos from a set of channels that they subscribed to. They still want to watch some tiktok videos, they just don't want the algorithm to try to push bad content on them.

You are right that you can't avoid such algorithm when searching for new content, but I don't see why it has to be there in content it pushes onto you without you asking for new content.
by tpdly | 2026-02-06 17:31:47+00:00
Lovely visualization. I like the very concrete depiction of middle layers "recognizing features", that make the whole machine feel more plausible. I'm also a fan of visualizing things, but I think its important to appreciate that some things (like 10,000 dimension vector as the input, or even a 100 dimension vector as an output) can't be concretely visualized, and you have to develop intuitions in more roundabout ways.

I hope make more of these, I'd love to see a transformer presented more clearly.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-02-06 17:31:49+00:00
> But Facebook and Myspace existed under much less regulated circumstances than exists today

sorry, what regulation are you talking about here? Afaik regulation in the US is pretty much the same back then as it is now. Worst case scenarios are usually slap on the wrists like when Snapchat lied to its users about ephemeral messaging and got fined a pathetic amount.

> No, your position earlier was wrong according to what you are saying here

or how about the idea that you've misunderstood my position and instead are shadow-boxing a monsterised impression of me that isn't real.

I just don't like blaming capitalism in the abstract because it doesn't have to be like this. We can change it.

Also on the off chance you lean considerably left, it might help to understand that I have experience of the USSR. So simply saying "capitalism bad" with an implication that we need to tear down the system isn't good enough for me. Been there done that, ancestors deported to Siberia. We could maybe try regulating first?
by notatoad | 2026-02-06 17:32:00+00:00
>because there's no buses, interstate, etc to service the area where all the growth is happening.

right, it'd be great if that stuff could be built to support the housing before the housing gets built. but you can't do that either without people having a fit about wasting money building a road to nowhere, or buses just being for homeless people. the NIMBYism doesn't just apply to housing, it applies to building literally anything. often because people think they can block new housing development by opposing the infrastructure that might support it.

nothing about YIMBY is about opposing infrastructure development. we need to build all the things that humans need to exist - housing, infrastructure, recreation, businesses. build it all.

"we shouldn't build any housing until there's a highway" is just another variant of "i support housing, just not here". opposing housing because there's no bus route is still opposing housing. those are fixable problems.
by bri3d | 2026-02-06 17:32:03+00:00
Looking more closely, it looks like there are some "North" sides (platforms) with ABI shims (currently Linux and OP-TEE), but others (Windows, for example), would still require recompilation.

> If you have to recompile, you might as well choose to recompile to WASM+WASI.

I disagree here; this ignores the entire swath of functionality that an OS or runtime provides? Like, as just as an example, I can't "just recompile" my OP-TEE TA into WASM when it uses the KDF function from the OP-TEE runtime?
by jaredklewis | 2026-02-06 17:32:16+00:00
This is so dumb. Name literally any problem caused by AI generated content (there are dozens to choose from) and I will explain why this law will make absolutely no impact on that issue.

Now articles from organizations with legitimate journalists and fact checkers like the NYT, WSJ, or the economist will need an “AI generated” badge because they used an AI assistant and they have risk adverse legal departments. This will be gleefully pointed out by every brain dead Twitter conspiracy theorist, Breitbart columnist, 911 truther substack writer, and Russian spam bot as they happily spew unbadged drivel out into the world. Thanks so much New York!

AI doesn’t make bad news content. Complete disregard for objective reality does. I’ll take an ai assisted human that actually cares about truth over an unassisted partisan hooligan every time.

If this is the best our legislatures can come up with we are so utterly fucked…