MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by nemild | 2026-02-04 17:13:19+00:00
Fast, cheap money movement globally (compared to wire or ACH in US).

At this phase, stablecoins are largely best for easy money movement, but the money ends up in fiat.

We are seeing some examples of teams using it for payouts, e.g., Gusto and Deel both support stablecoin payouts. Expect that to grow, but still very early days.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-04 17:14:37+00:00
Credit cards never generally required identity verification (especially not for the cost of a restaurant dinner; anti-fraud measures might kick in for larger purchases, though), that was always a "feature". (Credit card companies want people to spend money and have always prioritized that over fraud detection.) Even the whole "I'm going to write Check ID on the card signature line" thing was never officially recognized by credit card providers, and explicitly was against the Terms of Service of most of them. The signature line was never meant to be an anti-fraud tool, it was your acknowledgement that you had read your Card's Terms of Service and accepted that contract, a holdover from the days before software invented shrinkwrapped/clickwrapped/SaaS contract acceptance and contracts still generally needed an explicit signature of acceptance. (That's the reason signature lines are just now disappearing, the Credit Card industry is finally following the software industry on "any and all possible uses of our services is acceptance of all of our contracts"; nothing to do with how much more NFC and EMV chips are secure against fraud.)
by skissane | 2026-02-04 17:14:58+00:00
> It wouldn't be called CSAM in France because it would be called a French word. Arguing definitions is arguing semantics.

The most common French word is Pédopornographie. But my impression is the definition of that word under French law is possibly narrower than some definitions of the English acronym “CSAM”. Canadian law is much broader, and so what’s legally pédopornographie (English “child pornogaphy”) in Canada may be much closer to broad “CSAM” definitions

> The point is, X did things that are illegal in France, no matter what you call them.

Which French law are you alleging they violated? Article 227-23 du Code pénal, or something else? And how exactly are you claiming they violated it?

Note the French authorities at this time are not accusing them of violating the law. An investigation is simply a concern or suspicion of a legal violation, not a formal accusation; one possible outcome of an investigation is a formal accusation, another is the conclusion that they (at least technically) didn’t violate the law after all. I don’t think the French legal process has reached a conclusion either way yet.

One relevant case is the unpublished 2007 Court of Cassation decision 06-86.763 dated 12 septembre 2007 [0] which upheld a conviction of child pornography for importing and distributing the anime film “Twin Angels - le retour des bêtes célestes - Vol. 3". [0] However, the somewhat odd situation is that it appears that film is catalogued by the French national library, [1] although I don’t know if a catalogue entry definitively proves they possess the item. Also, art. 227-23 distinguishes between material depicting under 15s (illegal to even possess) and material depicting under 18s (only illegal to possess with intent to distribute); this prosecution appears to be have been brought under the latter category only-even though the individual was depicted as being under the 15-suggesting this anime might not be illegal to possess in France if one has no intent to distribute it.

But this is the point - one needs to look at the details of exactly what the law says and how exactly the authorities apply it, rather than vague assertions of criminality which might not actually be true.

[0] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/juri/id/JURITEXT000007640077/

[1] https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38377329p
by riemannzeta | 2026-02-04 17:15:35+00:00
Neat result. The symmetry exploitation here reminds me of recent work connecting neural network training dynamics to renormalization group theory.
Charles Martin's SETOL paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17912 shows that well-trained layers converge to something like an RG fixed point—the eigenvalue spectrum of the weight matrix develops power-law tails with exponent α ≈ 2, which is the signature of scale invariance. At this fixed point, the "effective correlation space" is low-dimensional: you can truncate the SVD aggressively and recover nearly identical test accuracy.

I wonder if there's a connection to your Taylor truncation order. In RG terms, higher-order polynomial interactions are "irrelevant operators"—they get suppressed as you flow toward the fixed point. If trained attention heads are sitting near this fixed point, that might explain why modest truncation orders work: the network has already learned to concentrate its computation in the lower-order terms.
A testable prediction: layers with α closer to 2 (measurable via weightwatcher https://github.com/CalculatedContent/WeightWatcher) might need fewer Taylor terms for accurate approximation than layers with α far from 2. If true, you could potentially use the spectral statistics to adaptively choose truncation order per-head.
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-04 17:15:38+00:00
Microsoft's fumble here is pretty spectacular.

Back in early 2023, the state of google search was abysmal (despite that their leaders insisted it wasn't, it had become nearly unusable for me and I don't think was that unfounded of an opinion). Microsoft rolled out a new version of bing, which became bing chat - search worked for me again for a very brief window of time.

They could have pounced on this opportunity to take a big chunk out of google's search, because google didn't really catch up there til the AI overview was rolled out, and even that is notorious for having issues. Eventually chatGPT seems to have carved out some of this search space with web-search being native to the tools now.

But microsoft was way ahead of everyone here for a brief period! Instead they just rolled everything into bloatware vaguely called "Copilot" and called it a day.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-04 17:15:42+00:00
I’m reminded of Lord Haw-Haw, an English-speaking Nazi propagandist during WW2 that garnered quite a bit of attention for his radio broadcasts.

There’s an interesting tidbit that he gained quite a few listeners when he started releasing casualty information that the British government withheld to try to keep wartime-morale high.

Lord Haw-Haw then tried to leverage that audience into a force of Nazi sympathy and a general mood of defeatism.

Anyway, fun anecdote. Enemy propaganda during wartime (or increased tensions) is harmless until it isn’t.
by joshdevon | 2026-02-04 17:15:56+00:00
As we all know, OpenClaw is awesome precisely because it gives us Simon Willison’s lethal trifecta: Access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to externally communicate.

While extremely risky, it gives us a glimpse of the future we can have if we actually could trust agents.

To date, sandboxing (or buying mac-minis) has been the approach to reducing risk. While necessary, sandboxes also make the agent less useful because they ultimately contain and restrict the agent's helpful capabilities.

To wrangle OpenClaw, we took a complementary approach. Instead of just a perimeter, we built an open source OpenClaw extension that creates deterministic lanes for the agent using Cedar (AWS's policy as code language).

For example, we created a policy that forbids OpenClaw from using rm. We aren't trying to stop the LLM from thinking about deleting a file or stop it from being prompt injected to delete a file. Instead, the extension catches the tool call and blocks it before execution.

We are shipping with 3 policy packs (103 rules):

-Baseline pack: Protections for sudo, rm, credentials, etc.

-OpenClaw System Protection: Protects SOUL.md, identity files, etc.

-OWASP Agentic Pack: Based on the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications.

Just like OpenClaw, this is experimental and hasn't been rigorously tested, so please don't use the extension to protect anything valuable or sensitive. We hope this project is a strong proof of concept for how we can put agents in risky situations and still trust them with deterministic rules.

For more details and the link to the repo, please check out our write-up. Would love to hear what others think of the approach and what policies you think would be useful to add.
by nemild | 2026-02-04 17:16:00+00:00
(On the small team that helped create x402)

To start, it's great for micropayments globally. There are examples where you want an API once and not again, and you don't want to create an account or link a credit card.

Cloudflare was one of our earliest partners, and they saw a critical need for it for web scraping by AI.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-04 17:16:30+00:00
I think the plain ordinary chatbot behind the Copilot on the desktop is fine, it seems like a skin around ChatGPT-5 in the "Smart" mode and in the "Search" mode it compares to Google's AI mode.

When it comes to anything multimodal it is an absolute disaster. Show it a photo of a plant for a plant id? Forget about it, just take a picture of the screen on your phone with Google Lens. If you ask it to draw something or make a Microsoft Word document you'll regret it.

For advice about how to do things on the command line or how bootstrap works or how to get out of a pickle you got yourself in Git it is great. It writes little scripts as well as anybody but you can't trust it to get string escaping right for filenames in bash scripts which is one reason I'd want help. For real coding I use Junie because I'm a Jetbrains enthusiast but other people seem to swear by Claude Code.

I do dread the day though when Microsoft decides to kill Copilot because I will miss it.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-04 17:16:39+00:00
What I especially enjoy is seeing those people accuse AI of being a "parrot" or a "mindless next-token predictor." Inevitably, these accusations are levied in comments whose every thought and token could have been lifted verbatim from any of a thousand such comments over the past few years, accompanied by the rusty squeak of goalpost wheels.
by Levitz | 2026-02-04 17:16:47+00:00
>Yes, if you don't follow EU laws prepare to not do business in Europe.

Sure, that's what laws are for. Surely we can still point at those laws and question their motives though.

Spanish PM plainly stated a sort of editor framework of responsibility for platforms. This is the same country that strongly advocates for Chat Control within the EU, also looking for a similar under-16 ban on social media.

So the same government is at once looking to deanonimize social media users, revoke their privacy regarding communications, and to enforce moderation standards never seen before. This is, supposedly, a center-left + left coalition mind you.

Same country that blocks a chunk of the internet when a LALIGA football match is on, too. Lawfully of course. All of this is preposterous, making it the law doesn't make that better it makes it far far worse.
by davydm | 2026-02-04 17:17:06+00:00
the very first example runs counter to the argument:

which do you think requires more craftsmanship:
1. the guy who flips a switch and watches the machine implement the design, or
2. the guy who implements the design by hand

it's an easy answer: which one would cost more? which one would be sought-after? which one would be at the local walmart?

and the machine can arguably do better than a human - but we still treasure the craftsmanship of the human who produces such things far over the outputs of a machine, most especially far over outputs that are based on dated techniques, resistant to improving, and clearly derivative.

you could make other arguments about ai codegen, but this one - sorry bub, you shot yourself down in the first section - at some point, you're not an artisan wielding a better tool - you're just a monkey pushing a lever, and honestly, a lot of software these days doesn't really need a craftsman, so go ahead and be an honest blue-collar worker.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-04 17:17:13+00:00
Original article: "Population attributable fractions of a wide range of peripheral diseases for the burden of dementia" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02392-2

Abstract: "Growing evidence suggests that peripheral diseases serve as risk factors for dementia, but the population-level burden of dementia associated with various peripheral diseases has remained unknown. Here, by conducting a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analyses to estimate the relative risks of 26 peripheral diseases across 9 systems with dementia, including 202 articles searched from the PubMed until 6 September 2024, we identified 16 peripheral diseases as associated with increased risk of dementia. With the relative risks estimated from meta-analyses, prevalences extracted from the Global Burden of Disease Study, and communalities among these 16 peripheral diseases derived from the UK Biobank, we analysed the population attributable fractions (PAFs) of these 16 peripheral diseases for dementia, stratified by sex, age, sociodemographic index level, world region and country, and trends from 1990 to 2021. Globally, these peripheral diseases collectively were related to a combined PAF of 33.18% (95% confidence interval (CI) 16.80–48.43) of dementia burden, corresponding to 18.8 million prevalent cases. The leading ten PAF contributors were periodontal diseases (6.10%, 95% CI 0.95–10.28), cirrhosis and other chronic liver diseases (5.51%, 95% CI 1.77–8.86), age-related and other hearing loss (4.70%, 95% CI 3.51–6.06), blindness and vision loss (4.30%, 95% CI 3.43–5.05), type 2 diabetes mellitus (3.80%, 95% CI 3.06–4.53), chronic kidney disease (2.74%, 95% CI 1.53–4.02), osteoarthritis (2.26%, 95% CI 0.41–4.12), stroke (1.01%, 95% CI 0.86–1.17), ischaemic heart disease (0.97%, 95% CI 0.69–1.29) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (0.92%, 95% CI 0.34–1.54). This study revealed that a series of peripheral diseases were associated with increased risk of dementia and collectively were related to about one-third of the global dementia burden, highlighting the need for targeted public health strategies."
by magneticnorth | 2026-02-04 17:17:28+00:00
I was just this morning reading one of those navel-gazing moltbook posts where the agent describes their "soul.md", and one of its few instructions was all-lowercase (which it was doing).

That early sentence "i’ll be vulnerable here (screenshots or it didn't happen) and share exactly what i've actually set up:" reads pretty clawdbot to me.
by lbrito | 2026-02-04 17:18:19+00:00
That's a warm and cozy way to look at things but its not true.

LLM-aided coding is not a higher level tool. It is not writing in C vs writing in assembly. It is closer to asking other people to do something for you and (supposedly, hopefully, although how many people really do it?) reviewing the result.

The thing is, some people already disliked the thinking involved in programming and are welcoming these tools. That's fine, but you don't get to equate it with programming.
by kimixa | 2026-02-04 17:18:54+00:00
Yup - my example of the Sahara wasn't really a specific suggestion, so much as an example of "The Most Inconvenient Inhospitable part of the earth's surface is still much better than space for these use cases". This isn't star trek, the world doesn't match sci-fi.

It's like his "Mars Colony" junk - and people lap it up, keeping him in the news (in a not explicitly negative light - unlike some recent stories....)
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-04 17:19:15+00:00
I can only imagine you already cut out a lot of material :)

The way I see it, the original problem, which stands the test of time, is when copies are made and/or sold by somebody who is taking credit for the original work without giving credit to the actual creator.

Anything less needs to be much more realistically reflected as very minor by comparison.
by claaams | 2026-02-04 17:19:38+00:00
The benefit is to siphon US tax money into billionaire pockets. It's insanely obvious and this has been Musk's MO for like 15 years now. Hyperloop? That was a grift to stop public transit from expanding. Tesla robo-taxis? Still waiting. FSD? Still waiting. Everything he does is a monumental grift to make himself richer and more powerful. The man is a hollow shell of a human being and the only thing that makes him feel anything is more money and power.
by hangonhn | 2026-02-04 17:19:48+00:00
From the article, "its productivity software is used by hundreds of millions of corporate users, a captive audience to whom it can easily promote new AI products."

Their end users are what they ultimately sell. They are captive audiences. This is what monopolies/platforms do. It's never been part of MSFT's DNA to care that much about end user experience. Who they really cater to are the IT decision makers, etc. These people can then show some numbers about "AI adoption" and "productivity" gains on their Power Point slides presented to their bosses. MSFT's value is delivering that to them.
by d_watt | 2026-02-04 17:20:29+00:00
I think one of the interesting things here is that AI doesn't need to be able build B2B SaaS to kill it. So much of the overhead of B2B SaaS companies is thinking about multitenancy, intergrating with many auth providers and mapping those concepts to the program's user system, juggling 100 features when any given customer only needs 10 of them, creating PLG upsell flows to optimize conversions, instrumenting A/B tests etc...

A given company or enterprise does not have to vibe code all this, they just need to make the 10 features with the SLA they actually care about, directly driven off the systems they care about integrating with. And that new, tight, piece of software ends up being much more fit for purpose with full control of new features given to company deploying it. While this was always the case (buy vs build), AI changes the CapEx/OpEX for the build case.
by Sp1ersy | 2026-02-04 17:20:40+00:00
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by michaelzixizhou | 2026-02-04 17:21:03+00:00
I built Codag because I kept getting lost in my own AI code.

You're chaining 3 LLM calls across 5 files. A prompt change breaks something downstream. Which call? Which branch? You grep for "openai.chat", open 8 tabs, trace the flow manually.

Codag automates this:
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by JasonADrury | 2026-02-04 17:21:29+00:00
>The article is also really appreciative of archive.today. It doesn't feel like a hit piece at all.

That's why it's all so bizarre. The OP claims to be supportive of archive.today, but simultaneously publishes an article detailing his attempt at doxing the owner.

It's hard to see how OP could be acting in good faith here, if they truly meant no harm and were as appreciative of archive.today as they claim to be, they'd just have taken down the article.
by troyvit | 2026-02-04 17:21:56+00:00
There's pro-AI censorship and then there's pro-social media censorship. It was the X offices that were raided. X is a social media company. They would have been raided whether it was AI that created the CSAM or a bunch of X contractors generating it mechanical-turk style.

I think the HN crowd is more nuanced than you're giving them credit for: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=chat+control
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-04 17:22:14+00:00
Over and over Microsoft kills products with mis-marketing.

One scenario is the product is good (OneNote) but they put three icons on the taskbar for it and spam the rest of Windows for ads for it that just make people scream "take it away!"

Another scenario is that the product is bad (OneDrive) and they push you into having a traumatic experience (Microsoft Office uses it as the default save location and when it is down you can't save your work!) that makes sure you'll never use it again -- even though now OneDrive seems to be basically reliable.

Today is it the dominant playbook for marketing of AI experiences. Mostly people are sick and tired of hearing about it, the master Unique Selling Point of 2026 is products that don't interrupt you when you are trying to get work done.