MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rabf | 2026-02-20 02:45:24+00:00
Very few people are using C for `quality-of-life features`. I'm fairly certain I've never even seen any C23 code, is it supported by many compilers or C tooling? One of the great things about C is that it is fairly easy to write code that runs everywhere and for a library that is especially important. There are many who just stick to C89.
by kace91 | 2026-02-20 02:45:30+00:00
The Middle East wars were a reputational hit. The current issues are personal risks. Wildly different.

Do you want to go be an immigrant to a country where the media shows masked agents rounding up suspected immigrants to disappear them in vans?

Do you want to depend on research grants in a country where scientific institutions are being dismantled? Where the administration openly opposes established science? (Medicine, carbon, etc).
by galangalalgol | 2026-02-20 02:45:31+00:00
The sad situation is that neither is stable. China could be the new hegemon, but they would have to make decisions leading to the creation of a domestic consumer middle class that is not directly or perhaps even indirectly dependent on the goodwill of the party. Not to mention it would make some ridiculously wealthy people less so. They will not do that. So we are going to have no hegemon. No deep safe sink to store value. If you want stability you will have to pay a premium for gold or Swiss francs because neither can handle the volume demanded. The world will get messy and who knows how long it will last.
by beeflet | 2026-02-20 02:45:50+00:00
I think that in the large, efficiency does matter. You are optimizing a three-variable problem of efficiency, decentralization, and configuration of the smart contracts.

The fact that AI agents are involved does not nessisarially tilt the scale towards the configurability of smart contracts. If you have extra cognition, you can probably spend some time thinking about what specialized protocol to use.

I am pessimistic on etherium and similar "open-ended" scripting cryptocurrencies because everything they can do can be replicated with a specialized cryptocurrency. So as soon as some killer app emerges (e.g. ENS) people will realize that it's more cheap/fast/decentralized to do this with a specialized system (e.g. namecoin).

The open-ended systems like etherium can only succeed if there is demand for constantly-novel open-ended scripting that interacts with other open-ended scripts all the time. I really don't think that's the case. If you can capture 90% of the use case with different specialized cryptocurrencies and do atomic swaps between them, that will always be better from a technological standpoint.

The fundamental limit of cryptocurrencies is bandwidth, and how much data you can sync between all nodes: either you have a few high-bandwidth nodes or many low-bandwidth nodes. Splitting different contracts across networks is naturally better than sharing a single blockchain and competing for gas.

People don't want this to be the case because you can't achieve vendor/cryptocurrency lock in, and "competition is for losers". If you have multiple independent blockchains, you pretty much must have multiple tokens. But it's true.

The moat for "utility" smart-contract systems is dependent on the cost of switching, which will be lowered by AI if anything. At the end of the day you can just fork the blockchain if you don't like the tokenomics or even just the fees. Some assembly required, but that is why stuff like litecoin can exist in this market.
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-20 02:46:33+00:00
I imagine micropayments for small sites to avoid DoS (e.g. from dumb AI scrapers) and maybe get decent profit if they become very popular, but mainly pay to keep the server running. They would be so small that someone who spends their entire day visiting different websites would pay less than their phone bill; and centralized scrapers with a decent amount of funding would still work.

Real funding would come in ways that don't depend on visitor count: patronage, government/industry grants, people running the sites having side jobs, UBI. Because:

- I'd rather avoid intellectual property and allow AI summaries, remixes, etc. without penalty to the main site

- Visitor count tends to benefit mainstream sites. Patronage and grants can support niche sites who expect few users that are willing to pay more, without gating mainstream visitors (via higher visitor micropayments) in case they become popular

- Visitor count benefits sites that have already been built. Patronage and grants support sites that look promising, but haven't been built and may fail. The latter include indie and experimental sites; the former only include sites that are easy to build, and sites whose success is predictable from people that already have money

- I'm skeptical that revenue from visitor count (even from ads or subscriptions) will remain sustainable long-term

The above doesn't only apply to traditional sites, but any digital product including ones people currently pay for, like books, movies, and video games. These creators need to make a living, but since their product is not physical, there is no need to tie revenue to copies sold, and I suspect tying revenue to patronage and grants would lead to better products.
by jacob_harris | 2026-02-20 02:47:07+00:00
Thank you for the feedback!

I decided to not tackle the lies about "savings" because the math was so bad and it was quite frankly being covered much better by other organizations and sites. I also don't want to perpetuate the idea that this was about efficiency, since that and "IT Modernization" were more like a cover for DOGE's other activities.

I would like to add more graphics and charts, but I have been struggling a lot with how murky and noisy the data is. Charts communicate a certainty that I don't feel entirely comfortable presenting. One possibility might be to use them for timelines (like I do for the CIOs on the Enablers page), but if you have other suggestions, I'm always open to hear them! Thanks!
by robotresearcher | 2026-02-20 02:47:17+00:00
If Celine Dion gives ten people singing lessons, we don't get an exponential diva explosion. Not all corporate vice presidents make CEO, and not all army colonels make general.

The juniors are in competition with each other for the senior gig. Don't confuse 'lots of people are disappointed' with unfairness or unsustainability.

PhD students are not stupid. They know they are unlikely to become professors. Most of them are in it for the interest, they want to give it a shot, and if they don't make it to run their own lab, they're not in a bad position in the industrial job market, or to become an entrepreneur.
by kube-system | 2026-02-20 02:48:50+00:00
Self-manufacturing is definitely federally legal by statute but I don't think it is entirely clear that a constitutional right to self-manufacturing is incorporated to states or localities. Heller never mentioned manufacturing.

And on top of that, there is no protected right to 3d printers.

Regardless, it is 1000% more clear that states can't ban you from sending around gun design files.
by jmalicki | 2026-02-20 02:49:37+00:00
I love Diesel for ORMs - it's very much in the same spirit as a type safe sqlalchemy, so it depends if you like that. The type safety is a great feature, it always saves me from writing incorrect queries (a huge one is nullability is represented as an option, so nullability mismatches are caught very early). It has an async version that is not as well maintained so it does lag behind, but I've never had an issue with it. To me personally, the Diesel ORM is the #1 reason to be using Rust for a web backend - it has saved me so much pain from having db/model mismatches since they're caught early.

The only other thing I've heard that is close in any language is C#/F# LINQ (I mean I'm sure there's random other projects, but haven't talked to other people about actually deploying backends with similarly type safe ORMs other than that).

There is axum OpenAPI at https://docs.rs/axum-openapi3/latest/axum_openapi3/, I haven't personally used it, I've mostly been doing GraphQL which I find works very well (including the N+1 problem etc).

And of course, I personally find cargo and the dependencies there to be roughly as ergonomic as python. Its dependency ecosystem for web isn't as deep as python or node.js, but it's pretty solid IMO. It may not have downloadable clients for a lot of pre-existing OpenAPIs etc., but that's also something Claude can port in 5 minutes.
by lawrencechen | 2026-02-20 02:50:10+00:00
No built in way to override new-pane actions right now, but `cmux --help` can automate all parts of cmux.

So you can make your own script that can make new panels/workspaces and just invoke it from the terminal:

git worktree add -b my-branch ../repo-my-branch
ws=$(cmux new-workspace 2>&1 | awk '{print $2}')
cmux send --workspace "$ws" "cd ../repo-my-branch && claude"
cmux send-key --workspace "$ws" Enter

I think we should make this easier though, open to suggestions!
by shakna | 2026-02-20 02:50:55+00:00
> I've never seen such advertising so I suspect you pulled that factoid out of your ass. Easy for you to correct me: laws have numbers, cite one.

More than one, but how about we have the FDA do the informing here, as I've apparently pissed you off:

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/labeling-and-warning-st...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-20 02:52:04+00:00
It's not easy to become highly proficient in english but it's quite easy to speak just barely well enough to communicate effectively in a professional context. Importantly, the written form follows naturally from the spoken. You won't get all the edge cases right (that's incredibly difficult even for native speakers) but getting in the ballpark can be done purely phonetically with a fairly small set of rules. Combine with modern spellcheck and I expect it's pretty difficult to beat for ease of practical use.

I think at least a few of the latin based languages are in the same ballpark but for inane historical reasons it's english that won out.

Compare with chinese where even if you sweep tones under the rug you've got a bunch of idioms (difficult) followed by one of the most difficult writing systems in existence. Don't get me wrong, I think the writing system is quite elegant and has a truly impressive history, but neither of those things has anything to do with ease of mastery.

A tangential thought is that if you intentionally set out to come up with a rule following yet maximally difficult language I think a reasonable approach would be to fuse the equivalent of latin grammar with chinese tones and then fuse a chinese style writing system with arabic style contextually sensitive ligatures.
by amluto | 2026-02-20 02:52:07+00:00
By that logic, G Suite should be funneled through GCP.

Also, are you sure you meant to mention Microsoft? Microsoft has this Copilot thing that they will gladly sell you, with generally inoffensive commercial terms, through more channels than you can shake a stick at. Got a $4 GitHub for Teams subscription? Add $20 or so and you will be swimming in Copilot outputs, and all you have to do is check the checkbox.
by squidsoup | 2026-02-20 02:52:30+00:00
I understand the historical and religious context, but what I am saying is that inevitably art reflects the creator, regardless of their intent. Whatever virtues may have been ascribed to the selfless or universal artist, those artists were still sought after for their individual skill and style. Julius II didn’t commission Michelangelo because he was the most pious and selfless artist.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-20 02:52:59+00:00
I probably don’t have such an exploit, since you’re probably running something up to date. There have been many in the past. I doubt the last one to be fixed is the last one to exist.

If your attitude is that getting exploited doesn’t matter because your software is unprivileged, you need some part of your stack to be unexploitable. That’s a tall order if everything is C.

You can get exploitable code out of any compiler. But you’re far more likely to get it from real-world C than real-world Rust.
by runako | 2026-02-20 02:53:59+00:00
> even when Peter Steinberger didn't know what he will do with OpenClaw, it was clear to him that the only place to move to was USA

We don't know how much OpenAI offered him, but I would bet big that it was enough to get most people to relocate across country lines. [To level-set: we know Meta was offering $100m pay packages to researchers who had not already released something like OpenClaw.]
by drnick1 | 2026-02-20 02:54:15+00:00
> As a former academic at a top US university, no, the US no longer has that strong reputation.

I find that hard to believe. Applications to top U.S. colleges and graduate schools are at an all-time high and acceptance rates keep falling.

No one that has an Ivy League offer or even a state school like UCLA or Michigan would go to Canada or Europe, except perhaps for Oxford and Cambridge.
by exidy | 2026-02-20 02:54:46+00:00
> The country effectively runs on a slave class.

I really wish people would not throw this word around so casually, it is disrespectful to the many millions of people over the course of human history (and today!) who were forced under threat of violence or death to labour without remuneration.

Of course Singapore's migrant worker system is open to criticism, but every single one of those workers can resign tomorrow and get a free plane ticket home, and the same applies to domestic helpers as well.

Migrant workers work in Singapore because it's their most rational economic choice. They pay no income tax, room and board is provided and the wages are sufficient to house, feed and educate their family back home, almost certainly to a better standard than would otherwise be possible had they remained in their home country.

tl;dr migrant workers have agency!

The comment about cars is unintentionally hilarious. “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.” and the public transportation in Singapore is very good indeed.
by orwin | 2026-02-20 02:55:32+00:00
Terraform/openTofu is more than OK. The fact that you can use to to configure your Cisco products as well as AWS is honestly great for us. It's also a bit like ansible: if you don't manage it carefully and try to separate as much as possible early, it starts bloating, so you have to curate early.

Terragrunt is the only sane way to deploy terraform/openTofu in a professional environment though.
by mitchbob | 2026-02-20 02:56:21+00:00
Immense wealth inequality and the erosion of democracy that results is a nationwide - nay, worldwide - issue, and Sanders, the most recognized and respected figure on the American left, is supporting people who are trying to do something about it. People everywhere have had it with Musks and Bezoses and Zuckerbergs, and I hope that when Newsom runs for president, his stance on this will help them see who he's really working for.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-20 02:56:30+00:00
I sort of agree with this but also keep in mind that (at least until tiktok) the social media companies doing the destabilization were all entirely home grown. And they actively pursued harmful practices. So rather than blaming outside actors I think we need to confront the fact that what we actually have is an underlying gross political failure directly leading to a lack of effective regulation.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-20 02:56:34+00:00
It may come as a shock, but mice are some of the closest animals to Humans genetically speaking [0].

One of the geneticists who worked on identifying this is also on HN and tried to explain this [1] but HNers think they are smarter than actual leaders in the fields of genomics.

[0] - https://www.mpg.de/10973923/why-do-scientists-investigate-mi...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41260651
by beeflet | 2026-02-20 02:57:10+00:00
The real innovation of cryptocurrency is that it allows people to think outside the box of AML/KYC.

Stablecoins, which not decentralized at all (and thus defeat the entire purpose of cryptopcurrency) are allowed to break the rules by wearing the label of "cryptocurrency", with the implication being that cryptocurrencies are just going to break the rules anyways.
by mmooss | 2026-02-20 02:57:43+00:00
> Terrence Tao was a good example of what happens when an exceptionally smart person stops getting funded by an American University: not moving to another country, but got VC money and created a new company.

That is the intent of these government policies: Shift power and resources to powerful, wealthy private individuals (and their companies). Is Tao doing research?
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-20 02:57:56+00:00
The headline is a pretty big clue about what's going to be in the article, I think. (Though maybe headlines will become more coy, to entice readers to pay for the full article? We already see this with questions-as-headlines.)

Most of the news I read comes from the same handful of familiar sites, so I have a good idea of what I'm going to get, especially if they include an author byline and I recognise it. "Niche" news sites would do well to continue offering a small number of freebie articles to entice those who chafe at the thought of spending $0.40 on something they're Not Completely Certain Is Really Worth It.
by stinkbeetle | 2026-02-20 02:58:04+00:00
I don't know what Joe Rogan says or who his ilk are, but this is a pretty extreme characterization of the situation that I don't think is accurate.

For example, UK police track what they consider to be undesirable "non-crime" speech, build databases of people, and intimidate them for these non crimes (knock on their doors, invite them to come to police station, advise them not to say such things, etc). This is quite a new thing, within the past ~10 years.

There have also been other high profile cases of people being arrested for posting things that were not like that burn the hotel down case. They arrested 12,000 people in 2023 and convicted 1,100 of those. For cases where the evidence is as cut and dried as posts made online, they could only secure convictions in 8% of cases, which seems staggering to me when UK's conviction rate generally is like 80%.

Even the conviction rate, even if you say yes there are laws to prohibit certain speech, how far is too far? Are these kinds of laws and convictions needed? Why don't all other countries need them? Why didn't UK need them 20 years ago when there was still internet and social media? Is it not concerning to you that we're told this kind of action is required to hold society together? I'm not saying that calls to violence don't happen or should be tolerated, but if it is not a lie that arresting thousands of people for twitter posts and things is necessary to keep society from breaking down then it seems like putting a bandaid on top of a volcano. It's certainly not developing a resilient, anti-fragile society, quite the opposite IMO.

Is nobody allowed to be concerned about any of this without being some horrible underground extremist, in your opinion?
by mmooss | 2026-02-20 02:59:01+00:00
> Fact-checkers and whatever you call people that gauge political biases aren't impartial sources of information. Someone pays their bills and those people typically have agendas besides delivering objective truth.

That's meaningless: It's like saying everyone is a liar or everyone is violent, or a potential murderer or everyone's partner is an adulterer. Yes, anyone can, everyone lies, nobody is perfect - but some people are 'honest' and some are 'liars' and there is all the difference in the world.
Show HN: Local TTS for OpenClaw on Apple Silicon (MLX-Powered, Zero Setup)
by ZacharyZZ | 2026-02-20 03:00:32+00:00
I built an OpenClaw plugin that runs text-to-speech entirely on your Mac. No API keys, no cloud, no pre-installed Python required.

It wraps mlx-audio and handles the full lifecycle: bootstraps its own Python environment via uv, downloads the model on first run, manages the server process, auto-restarts on crash, and exposes a standard OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech endpoint.

Installation:

openclaw plugin install @cosformula/openclaw-mlx-audio Four models out of the box:

• Kokoro-82M: ~400 MB RAM, fastest, good for English/Japanese
• Qwen3-TTS-0.6B: ~1.4 GB RAM, best Chinese quality, 3-second voice cloning
• Qwen3-TTS-1.7B VoiceDesign: generate voices from text descriptions
• Chatterbox: 16 languages, ~3.5 GB RAM

Works on 8 GB Macs with Kokoro or Qwen3-0.6B. A proxy layer injects model-specific parameters so OpenClaw's TTS client needs zero changes.

Why not just run mlx-audio directly? You can. This plugin removes the setup friction: no Python version juggling, no pip install, no manual server management. It also adds OOM detection, memory pre-checks, startup progress tracking, and hot config reload.

GitHub: https://github.com/cosformula/openclaw-mlx-audio
by DiabloD3 | 2026-02-20 03:01:39+00:00
I don't think this compiler makes the argument it thinks it does: the LLMs are able to statistically reproduce its source material, and you cannot copyright things that were not produced by a human hand, and you cannot copyright things that are covered under the phone book ruling.

The future of software, if it is to be filled with slop, will also be uncopyrightable and stolen without attribution.
by apinator-io | 2026-02-20 03:02:32+00:00
I built Apinator after getting frustrated with Pusher's pricing and Soketi going unmaintained.

It's a multi-tenant WebSocket server that's API-compatible with Pusher, so you can swap it in without rewriting your frontend. The backend is written in Go with multi-region support via Redis pub/sub.

What's included:
- Server SDKs for Node.js, Python, Go, and PHP
- JS client SDK (browser)
- Swift and Kotlin SDKs for mobile
- Private and presence channels

It's completely free. No credit card, no trial period.

Docs: https://apinator.io/documentation
SDKs: https://github.com/apinator-io
by dangus | 2026-02-20 03:02:38+00:00
As a counterpoint, I find our AWS super team to be a mix of 40% helpful, 40% “things we say are going over their head,” 20% attempting to upsell and expand our dependence. It’s nice that we have humans but I don’t think it’s a reason to choose it or not.

GCP’s architecture seems clearly better to me especially if you are looking to be global.

Every organization I’ve ever witnessed eventually ends up with some kind of struggle with AWS’ insane organizations and accounts nightmare.

GCP’s use of folders makes way more sense.

GCP having global VPCs is also potentially a huge benefit if you want your users to hit servers that are physically close to them. On AWS you have to architect your own solution with global accelerator which becomes even more insane if you need to cross accounts, which you’ll probably have to do eventually because of the aforementioned insanity of AWS account/organization best practices.