MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2026-02-20 00:58:40+00:00
Right. The problem is all the cooperation required. So then what's needed is an open platform that lets people put in their $10, and then sites can choose to implement it. It's a chicken and the egg problem. It hasn't worked in the past, but times change. Instead of looking at this like 3D televisions or VR, the counter example to think about is tablets — (note: human typed emdash) the Apple Newton was a flop, but the iPad is anything but. Or electric cars. The EV1 by GM was a flop and whatever you think about Elon Musk and Tesla, they do exist now. Video calling is another one. The 90's version just didn't work, but I use Facetime almost every day.

The rails exist for micropayments with cryptocurrency, it's "just" going to take the right person and the right software to implement it for it to happen. The problem is money. LEDs that come in blue are foundational to our modern society. Without blue, we'd only have red and green. Unfortunately for him, the inventor of the blue LED, the man who poured his everything into making it, isn't ridiculously wealthy. For micropayments to happen, some one selfless and not seeking to make a profit on it, need to come along and make it a thing. So I don't know if it'll happen, because ghostty's funding model can't be replicated, but a man can dream.
by Paracompact | 2026-02-20 00:58:48+00:00
This seems like a problem of perverse incentives independent of the medium of micropayment (cash vs. ad farming), no? I suppose the only way around that particular problem would be to decouple their revenue from the number of people actually accessing their content, which as far as I can tell precludes those people being the patrons. Instead the patron would be some larger corporate or public body auditing and funding them based on merit.

Curiously, there are still perverse incentives even in the case of lightbulbs and other consumable goods or technologies: planned obsolescence, delay of technology upgrades, and deliberate backroom deals from associated resource providers.
by laurieg | 2026-02-20 00:59:16+00:00
I make a new card in a folder called People whenever I meet someone. Then I add information like email address, phone number, connections to other people when relevant.

I find engaging like this helps my memory already on its own, but if I'm ever really stuck with a name I just take a quick look at my phone. The person is usually linked to the event where I first met them or similar.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-20 01:00:01+00:00
Your comment carries some major "Oh you know the ones" vibes.

https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744?lang...

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones
by marojejian | 2026-02-20 01:00:19+00:00
Found this research via the excellent episode of "Not Another Politics Podcast" (and adapted the title from them):

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-dishonest-people-se...
I suggest listening to it.

Now of course, I am shocked, shocked that politicians lie a lot. But moving beyond the cliche, I think is evidence is fascinating and important.

This research follows on from a tradition which supports that dishonest people self select into public service, in countries where it is more corrupt (so the rewards seem larger): e.g. India:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20150029

And select out of of public service where it is trustworthy (e.g. Denmark):
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170688

I don't think this is specific to China at all (not to say there isn't cultural variance). It just happens to be a place where we have good data.

This research adds great data, and interesting insights:

- Plagiarism 15 years ago correlated with dishonesty today, and for a small payout. This is consistent with the theory that that some people are predictably dishonest, and even when the rewards are small.

- People who plagiarize are more likely to be promoted in 5 years.

- In the subset of judges in the sample, they could detect that the judgements of plagiarists were more friendly to the high-status litigants, but only if the trial had not been live-streamed to the internet.

Spillover effects:

- people who work for the "dishonest" Judges end up emulating their mentor's ruling patterns over time.

- "Dishonest" Lawyers secure higher win rates when they face "dishonest" judges.

The author concludes: Institutions are only as good as the people inside them.

My experience supports this. There are always natural incentives to cheat, and thus it behooves society to construct costs to combat this. I don't think our modern society (private or public) does this well, and thus we are proportionally led by those who exploit the system, because they succeed by selection.
by rpdillon | 2026-02-20 01:01:21+00:00
The plan is not coherent. Some items to consider:

Who is verifying the documents? If the names have to match, what about people who change their names? What documents should they present to prove that that's their real name? How will the election worker actually verify that the documents are correct?

Women who have changed their names after getting married have a higher burden of proof than people that have not changed their name. The folks who wrote this act are aware of this.

The SAVE Act, in particular, puts in place criminal and civil penalties for election workers that fail to properly identify someone. But a random election worker is not equipped to make that judgment perfectly and is going to end up making mistakes, since document verification for things like birth certificates is completely manual.

Young voters are more likely to have the documents like a birth certificate back at their parents' house and they're not likely to yet have a passport. Likewise, poorer voters do not have the resources to easily obtain these documents. Passport costs over $100 in the United States and for someone that doesn't travel often is not a very good investment. Just because you can't afford an expensive government document does not mean you're not entitled to your vote.

If Silicon Valley has taught me anything, it's every time you add friction to a process, fewer people have the resources and/or are willing to go through it as they drop off the funnel. In this case, it's targeted at the young, the poor, and the women. We used to be a nation that would say: get out and vote! Participate in our democracy! Now we're looking for excuses to not let citizens vote if they can't prove on the spot that they're a citizen. Papers, please.

And all that for what? Multiple institutions, including the Cato Institute and the U.S. Department of Justice, have found no evidence of voter fraud at all. This is because identification is required during voter registration, which is effective in preventing illegal immigrants from voting. This is why we tie voter registration to things like getting a driver's license at the DMV. You already have all your documents prepared that you gathered for that visit, and so that's the right time to be checking all of them.
by DFHippie | 2026-02-20 01:01:38+00:00
I was sued. I was 19 years old working as a painter for a dishonest contractor that paid crap wages. I nosed out of a parking lot after work one day to see around a line of cars turning in and a big sedan ploughed into my little econobox. Several years later, as the statute of limitations was about to run out, the driver of the sedan sued me. My insurance companies first move, before doing any discovery, was to offer her $50k. She said no, so discovery began. It turned out she'd been mis-prescribed an anti-psychotic to create the symptoms she was suing me for having caused. The case was thrown out. The insurance company's legal bills ended up being much less than $50k, but the way it worked was they took a guess at the break even point, offered a bit less than that, and made an offer.

That's not to say this is how it works when Meta is on trial. I just thought it was useful perspective on the nature of settlements.
by sanswork | 2026-02-20 01:01:47+00:00
People have been debating the blocksize for a very long time now and there doesn't seem to be any large desire to change it so while the ability to increase it exists changing anything that fundamental about bitcoin seems to be a non-starter and while that is true lightning is pointless as a solution for the masses.

Even if you increase the block size 100x though you're still not improving the numbers much since my very generous numbers ignore activity outside of lightning and assume a single on chain transaction for every user and a perfect network.
Show HN: Arc Raiders companion – Quest tracker,maps,crafting and bots weaknesses
by wainguo | 2026-02-20 01:02:04+00:00
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Machine behaviors & weaknesses (Drones, Walkers, Titans)

Crafting recipes, weapon classes, Hideout upgrade paths

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by wat10000 | 2026-02-20 01:02:48+00:00
The point is just not to impoverish yourself in order to save more than you need. You don't have to spend, spend, spend, but don't eat rice and beans every night just so you can have more money than you'd ever need in retirement.

This is one of those things where generalized advice often makes little sense because circumstances are so different. If you make $500,000/year, you can save half of your take-home pay and still live very well, and have a ton of money when you retire. If you make $50,000/year, you might struggle to save at all if you're supporting a family, and there's going to be a lot of tension between saving for retirement and occasionally having some nice things before retirement. Living in poverty to save for retirement and then dying before you can enjoy any of it would be a sad outcome here. But if you're more towards the upper end of this spectrum, those cautionary tales sound a lot like "spend spend spend."
by almosthere | 2026-02-20 01:02:58+00:00
It is kind of crazy that a lot of those moves that are so massively successful is a social media and other actions to specifically destabilize the US. And it was only possible to do BECAUSE we're so open. In China you can't get past the firewall and you can't migrate there without being on watch lists and very easily removed in a way that would make ICE look like an Ice Cream parlor.
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-20 01:02:59+00:00
Sorry, I didn’t misremember but I wrote down without proof checking (see another comment where I got it right). I did indeed mean 80% of security vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety issues.

For EMV you had C connected directly to the network under a steady stream of attacks and only had an issue once? I find that hard to believe. What’s more likely is a Java websever frontend talking to some C processing / crypto code in which case again you’re less likely to encounter bugs in your code because it’s difficult to find a path to injecting unsanitized input.

For munitions there’s not generally I/O with uncontrolled input so it’s less likely you’d find cases where you didn’t properly sanitize inputs and relied on an untrusted length to access a buffer. As a famous quote states, it’s ok if your code has an uptime of 3 minutes until the first bug if the bomb explodes in 2
by bluegatty | 2026-02-20 01:03:11+00:00
You're right. It's funny because I kind of noticed that, but with all of these subtle model issues, I'm so used to being distraught by the smallest thing I've had to learn to 'trust the data' aka the charts, model standings, performance, etc. and in this case, I was under the assumption 'it was the same model' clearly it's not.

Which is a bummer because it would be nice to try a true side-by-side analysis.
by Paracompact | 2026-02-20 01:03:20+00:00
Indeed this is what I was getting at. I think you're far from the only one whose market behavior would change given such technology.

This is somewhat ironic to me, given that I normally despise everything about fintech. But this seems like a product/practice that could actually change the world for the better. The closest we have is crypto wallets and that's far from perfect.
by fruitworks | 2026-02-20 01:03:24+00:00
The difference is that in micropayments the debt is practicially nothing, a fraction of a cent. So there's basicially no risk. Pre-pay, post-pay, doesn't really matter.

With minipayments, you could still lose a dollar or something. It's like a vending machine. If I put in a dollar and don't get a cookie, I will be pissed. You can run a buisness of setting up fraudulent vending machines that scam customers on the first purchase and dont put out cookies.

I don't really care if I put a tenth of a cent in and don't get my crumb out. I just won't buy the rest of the cookie. The margin on selling me the whole cookie is greater than scamming me out of a fraction of a cent. So it's not feasible to scam.

So the distinction matters. It's a difference in kind because in one model there is enough risk to sustain a buisness model off of scamming, which requires all this extra infrastructure for fraud prevention.

The benefit of micropayments is you don't need all this overhead for for fraud. Anyone can set up a vending machine pretty much anywhere and sell to anyone else.
by recallingmemory | 2026-02-20 01:03:41+00:00
2025 study on the diet quality of ultra-marathon runners: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11820624/

From the discussion section, "It is important to note that inadequate intake in the athletes of the present study may carry significant negative health implications. Insufficient consumption of fruits and wholegrains has been linked to the development of chronic diseases, including CVD, cancer, T2D, and hypertension. Additionally, high intake of sodium, saturated fat and discretionary food items are correlated with higher incidence of obesity, T2D, CVD, dementia, and cancer. Paradoxically, despite exceeding the WHO guidelines for physical activity by a substantial margin, these athletes are not meeting dietary recommendations essential for long-term health, highlighting the potential risks posed by these inadequacies."
Show HN: Locus – AI agents that ship your code
by asgarovf | 2026-02-20 01:03:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Locus, an open-source project management platform designed for engineering teams that want to use AI coding agents.

The core idea: plan sprints and manage tasks in a cloud dashboard, but all code execution happens locally on your infrastructure. Your source code never leaves your machine.

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- locus plan: AI generates a sprint plan by analyzing your codebase. It uses multi-agent roles to break down directives into structured tasks with complexity estimates and risk assessments. You can reject and iterate on plans before approving.

- locus run: An agent picks up tasks from the sprint, executes them sequentially on a single branch, auto-commits after each task, and opens a PR when the sprint is done. Supports both Claude and Codex as backends.

- locus review: Review that understands your full codebase, not just diffs. Detects bugs, security issues, and performance problems. Posts review comments directly to GitHub PRs.

- locus discuss: Have architectural discussions with AI that has full project context. Insights and decisions are automatically extracted and saved.

- Telegram bot: Manage your agent remotely from your phone.

- VSCode extension: Chat with AI in your editor with full repo context.

The whole system is free, self-hostable, and works with your existing GitHub workflow. There's a one-command installation script for Ubuntu/Debian/macOS.

Tech stack: TypeScript monorepo with NestJS API, Next.js dashboard, and a Bun-bundled CLI.

I'm a solo developer building this because I was frustrated with the disconnect between planning tools and actual code execution.

Would love feedback on the approach and any features you'd want to see.
by Arainach | 2026-02-20 01:04:08+00:00
Who said anything about immigration?

Let's start with abandoning science funding, abandoning investments in and tax credits for renewable energy sources that are the future. Then there's applying political pressure to academic institutions to drive even more researchers away, abandoning the civil service and science/reason-based governance. Move over to the medical sector and put a dangerous anti-science nut in charge, kill off funding and research.

You pull out of international organizations, trade deals, and treaties. You throw temper tantrums and tariffs around, flip flopping day to day and making it impossible to predict the costs of doing business. You antagonize the rest of the world and give them a constant stream of reasons to stop doing business with you, leaving you isolated, weaker, and poorer.

Then, sure, let's go briefly to immigration. America has been great because it has been where all the smartest people want to be. Our political and academic environment caused the smartest people around the world to want to be here, and the US benefited massively from their contributions and inventions.

So you build a culture demonizing anyone not a specific shade of white. You destroy visa programs. You send thugs to universities to harass people and make them unwelcome. You tell students and researchers who went home to see family that they can't come back to the US. Then you send thugs into cities to terrorize and murder people. So you give all those brilliant scientists even more reason to leave the US, take their contributions with them, and never return.

That's how you kill America.
by wasabi991011 | 2026-02-20 01:04:20+00:00
Here's a source with some: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

> The January 14, 2016, edition of Weekly Disinformation Review reported the reemergence of several previously debunked Russian propaganda stories, including that Polish President Andrzej Duda was insisting that Ukraine return former Polish territory, that Islamic State fighters were joining pro-Ukrainian forces, and that there was a Western-backed coup in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital.11

> Sometimes, Russian propaganda is picked up and rebroadcast by legitimate news outlets; more frequently, social media repeats the themes, messages, or falsehoods introduced by one of Russia’s many dissemination channels. For example, German news sources rebroadcast Russian disinformation about atrocities in Ukraine in early 2014, and Russian disinformation about EU plans to deny visas to young Ukrainian men was repeated with such frequency in Ukrainian media that the Ukrainian general staff felt compelled to post a rebuttal.12

> Sometimes, however, events reported in Russian propaganda are wholly manufactured, like the 2014 social media campaign to create panic about an explosion and chemical plume in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, that never happened.15 Russian propaganda has relied on manufactured evidence—often photographic. Some of these images are easily exposed as fake due to poor photo editing, such as discrepancies of scale, or the availability of the original (pre-altered) image.16 Russian propagandists have been caught hiring actors to portray victims of manufactured atrocities or crimes for news reports (as was the case when Viktoria Schmidt pretended to have been attacked by Syrian refugees in Germany for Russian's Zvezda TV network), or faking on-scene news reporting (as shown in a leaked video in which “reporter” Maria Katasonova is revealed to be in a darkened room with explosion sounds playing in the background rather than on a battlefield in Donetsk when a light is switched on during the recording).17

> RT stated that blogger Brown Moses (a staunch critic of Syria's Assad regime whose real name is Eliot Higgins) had provided analysis of footage suggesting that chemical weapon attacks on August 21, 2013, had been perpetrated by Syrian rebels. In fact, Higgins's analysis concluded that the Syrian government was responsible for the attacks and that the footage had been faked to shift the blame.18 Similarly, several scholars and journalists, including Edward Lucas, Luke Harding, and Don Jensen, have reported that books that they did not write—and containing views clearly contrary to their own—had been published in Russian under their names.

I found that source on the Wikipedia page for RT after a couple of minutes. You can find more pretty easily.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-20 01:04:23+00:00
If you're writing true low-level code then you're most likely doing it for performance reasons, like ffmpeg. But ARM doesn't have the instruction set to make the best use of that, x86 does with its extensions. Otherwise, the compiler handles translation, so there's just no reason for you to care about the assembly unless you're writing assembly.

As for nice laptops, I think Asus and Lenovo makes some nice ones. I don't believe any are fanless, but most are quiet - Lunar Lake gen 3 is an SOC with a base TDP of 25 watts, and it can even go down to 15 watts. These CPUs are slightly faster in multi-core performance than M4, and they use similar wattage. I believe the Asus zenbook duo gets better battery life by a wide margin because of the 99 watt-hour battery. They still fall a little short of M5 in performance, but it's very close.

As for servers, it's a good point. But I think currently most servers are still using x86 CPUs, so it might not be relevant for a while.
by shimman | 2026-02-20 01:04:25+00:00
There are bloggers that can't even acknowledge that they're only invited out to big tech events because they'll glaze them up to high heavens.

Reminds me of that famous exchange, by noted friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Noam Chomsky: "I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting."