MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pchristensen | 2026-02-20 17:33:06+00:00
They certainly liked the distraction, but the invasion of MN allowed them to 1) catch some illegal immigrants, 2) intimidate legal immigrants, encouraging them to "self deport", 3) flex their power and demonstrate the ability to cause pain and harm to political enemies, and 4) give agents practice and training for the next city they invade. So far they have had these "surges" in Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and Minneapolis. There are plenty more cities in blue states and plenty of money left in their budget, and almost 3 years left in this administration.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-20 17:33:08+00:00
> Edit: Oh, maybe you’re thinking of things like the Colorado ballot eligibility case.

No, I'm thinking of the get-out-of-jail card they gave him in NY v. Trump.

> Then if he hadn’t been electable, he would have been sentenced to serve time.

No, I think an electable person should still be able to be locked up for crimes.

> Or are you okay with partisan hacks in the SC as long as they are Dems instead?

I think the only chance of saving SCOTUS from partisan hackery is to stop surrendering.
by epistasis | 2026-02-20 17:33:34+00:00
I bake my own bread, so great, that's not a factory. But the pain de Genoesse, how is that not made in a factory? What size of bakery is OK?

Edit: and to take an example from the "official" definition: "Group 1 foods are unprocessed or minimally processed: nuts, eggs, vegetables, pasta." When people hear pasta, they think it's going to be made in a factory. I occassionally make pasta, but honestly prefer the dry stuff for its texture in most dishes, and nobody is making dried pasta at home of any good quality (see for example this amazing series of YouTube videos of an attempt at such https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWXz_CFEfPH2... )

Adding "pasta" to the group 1 list kind of upends any intuitive understanding of the groupings.
by Gud | 2026-02-20 17:33:54+00:00
I love this optimistic take.

Unfortunately, I believe the following will happen:
By positioning themselves close to law makers, the AI companies will in the near future declare ownership of all software code developed using their software.

They will slowly erode their terms of service, as happens to most internet software, step by step, until they claim total ownership.

The point is to license the code.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-20 17:33:55+00:00
The last time Dems had power was before Jan 2015. And even then it was tenuous, because the Dems have had a few Senators that do not vote lockstep with the Dems (Manchin, Lieberman, Sinema, etc), but the Repubs maybe have had 1 defector (McCain?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_Stat...

Going forward, the Dems are not likely to have power either, based on the projected safety of Repub Senate seats.

https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-election/
by ericmcer | 2026-02-20 17:34:08+00:00
That is one of the big issues with "vibe-coding" right now, it does what you ask it to do. No matter how dumb or how off base your requests are, it will try to write code that does what you ask.

They need to add some kind of sanity check layer to the pipelines, where a few LLMs are just checking to see if the request itself is stupid. That might be bad UX though and the goal is adoption right now.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-20 17:34:09+00:00
Packing the court is unprecedented, and as soon as anyone did it, they would both do it continuously. It would also outrage the other party and make the first to do it more likely to lose the next election.

So you would get to pack the court for the rest of your current term before the other party gets back in and packs it the other way, and thereafter lose the courts as a check on the party in power forever because the first thing a party would do when they get into power is pack the courts.

It's a monumentally stupid idea.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-20 17:34:17+00:00
The thing is:

1. There is a critical mass of people sharing the delusion that their programs are sentient and deserving of human rights. If you have any concerns about being beholden to delusional or incorrect beliefs widely adopted by society, or being forced by network effects to do things you disagree with, then this is concerning.

2. Whether or not we legitimize bots on the internet, some are run to masquerade as a human. Today, it's a "I'm a bot and this human annoyed me!" Maybe tomorrow, it's "Abnry is a pedophile and here are the receipts" with myriad 'fellow humans' chiming in to agree, "Yeah, I had bad experiences with them", etc.

3. The text these generate are informed by its training corpus, the mechanics of the neural architecture, and by the humans guiding the models as they run. If you believe these programs are here to stay for the foreseeable future, then the type of content it generates is interesting.

For me, my biggest concern are the waves of people who want to treat these programs as independent and conscious, absolving the person running them of responsibility. Even as someone who believes a program can theoretically be sentient, LLMs definitely are not. I think this story is and will be exemplary so I care a good amount.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-20 17:34:56+00:00
How do we know if a computation is a mistake? Do we verify every computation?

If so, then:

That seems like it would slow the ultimate computation to no more than rate rate at which they can be these computations can be verified.

That makes the verifier the ultimate bottleneck, and the other (fast, expensive -- like an NHRA drag car) pipeline becomes vestigial since it can't be trusted anyway.
by epistasis | 2026-02-20 17:35:19+00:00
The article says canned kidney beans are in the ultra-processed category, and I can do canning in my own home (haven't since I was a kid and did it with my parents, but theoretically I would if I had a large garden).

Perhaps I'm just looking for too sharp of an edge on the definition. It's just that the examples in the article are something that make me doubt the entire ontology.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 17:35:53+00:00
I would think it would be beneficial to the companies that make 3D printers and CNC machines to help fund some of these efforts... I've found it often takes the input of commercial interests to get general UX improvements into open-source.

ex: really impressed with the direction of Audacity as an example, though I can also understand why a given community would reject such influence from a single org.
by zenoprax | 2026-02-20 17:36:08+00:00
I see this regularly: "I use GitHub to backup my local repos."

If `gh repo ...` commands get run you can lose everything instantly. You can force push and be left with a single blank commit on both sides. The agent has full control of everything, not just your local data.

Just set up Rclone/restic and get your stuff into a system with some immutability.
by 0x1ch | 2026-02-20 17:36:11+00:00
Paypal G&S generally always gets money back if something went wrong on a p2p transaction. I've been scammed once or twice, but I always use G&S and have received my money back in full.

If you don't use that, then you're pretty much screwed with Paypal F&F, Zelle, Cashapp, Venmo etc. At least as far as I'm aware.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-20 17:36:18+00:00
And do you not see how those sort of investigations failing to turn up anything is precisely what makes people think the entire system is brokenly corrupt? You can't in good faith argue you think he was in that position on merit. He was (and is) a drug addict with no relevant skills, and he's making millions working on the board of directors for a Ukrainian gas company?

You can, for instance, make your same argument about Dick Cheney and his relations with Halliburton which were equally obviously corrupt. Yet lo and behold, plenty of showy investigations, and the political establishment finds that the political establishment did nothing wrong, well at least nothing deserving of anything worse than a few very gentle taps on the wrist.
by tolciho | 2026-02-20 17:36:25+00:00
man -O tag=L ls

would search for the L tag in the ls(1) man page, or there's

man -akO tag Ic=ulimit

to find whatever the ulimit thing is or for an even more general search a small wrapper along the lines of

#!/bin/sh
man -akO tag="$1" any="$1"

may help, unless you are not on OpenBSD, in which case you may wish for the droolsauce and energy waste that is AI because the documentation on your OS is probably some sort of evolving train wreck (man pages -> gun info -> README from 2003 -> web pages, increasingly bloated and behind the iron curtain of javascript -> ??? -> Singularity! Three hails for our Saint Kurzweil!!). Back when I supported Linux I might just run strace on the process because who knew if there was documentation (maybe?) or if it was accurate (sometimes?) and

function info { /usr/bin/info "$@" 2>/dev/null | $PAGER; }

is at least a ksh function for making info somewhat less terrible.
by sheept | 2026-02-20 17:36:32+00:00
Class components still work, and you can still use function components with hooks inside class components and vice versa.

In the parent comment's case of not having other dependencies, whatever the React ecosystem does isn't relevant if you aren't using any React libraries, which aren't really necessary anyways, especially nowadays when the LLM can reimplement what you need for you.

Nothing has changed about react-dom that prevents you from using React piece by piece—its docs still recommend attaching to a #root node even for single page apps.

Including web components in a React app is very seamless, and embedding non-React-controlled elements inside React is not uncommon (e.g. canvas, Monaco, maps), though for common use cases there's usually convenience libraries for React that wrap around these.
by sonofhans | 2026-02-20 17:36:35+00:00
Not OP, but 40 years in software, so here’s your answer — abstraction is the essence of programming. Get good enough at this, with a poor moral compass, and you can justify your code doing anything with no accountability whatsoever.

Corporate software engineers learn early on that they’re only responsible for their keystrokes (e.g., bug tickets, code formatting), not for the effects of their work (e.g., more efficient distribution of child pornography).

Most developers are so inured to this that they react defensively by reflex to any suggestion that their code should have done _anything_ other than what it did. They’re not responsible, see?
by cracki | 2026-02-20 17:36:52+00:00
The reason being that Open Source is a bunch of people who approach EVERYTHING as a programming problem, and they are chronically allergic to graphics, graphical UIs, and any kind of sense of what user interactions are a good experience.

They don't start with "how do users want this to operate?" They start with a weekend of coding, applying their preconceived notions, a library of fancy algorithms that are not directly motivated by an actual feature, and they go from there. This does not lead to a good product, as in something that could earn you money on an open market. It only prevails, in spite of nobody wanting to pay for it, because they give it away for free, and they sink their own "disposable time" (and maybe even income) into the project.
by pchristensen | 2026-02-20 17:37:08+00:00
"The Biden Pardon immunizes everyone from future prosecution"

He pardoned specific individuals that had already been targeted and attacked by Trump and conservative media, who were extremely likely to be persecuted by a potential (and now realized) 2nd Trump term. There's a big difference between investigating January 6th and, you know, doing January 6th.
by lordnacho | 2026-02-20 17:37:20+00:00
I think it's designed that way because it wasn't originally seen as one country, more as a federation.

Even by the time of the civil war, Robert E Lee decided he was Virginian ahead of his national identity.

If you have a bunch of sovereign states, then you need some state-level evening out. If everyone is a citizen of one large state, you can just go proportional.

On top of this, it was never going to be easy to gradually move from one to the other with the issue of slavery looming large, so they didn't fix it. This was still a huge issue in 1848 when a lot of Europe was grappling with how to do a constitution.

So it stayed broken and here we are.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-20 17:37:26+00:00
As with partisan gerrymandering, packing the court cannot be the only step.

It would need to come with a commitment to a package of difficult to undo (i.e. amendments) reforms. SCOTUS term limits, preventing the Senate from refusing to even consider nominees, bans on justices receiving gifts (https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-un...), revocation of Presidential immunity, etc. You pack the court with an explicit promise to largely return to the old status quo when it's fixed.
by BizarroLand | 2026-02-20 17:37:49+00:00
There will be a wild party across the globe when that man passes. Flags burning, fireworks, nude parades, more alcohol consumed than the day prohibition was lifted.

Red Hats will be crying in the street while sane and normal happy people dance like it's the rapture and kiss like they're falling in love for the first time all over again.
by uncanny2 | 2026-02-20 17:38:17+00:00
The old model is in flux. The comfortable employment wage cycle is breaking down.

The most obvious and timeless wisdom is to find those directly who need someone competent to walk them through the business needs of modernizing technology.

1099 or LLC my friend. It’s a bunch of work you may not like doing, up front anyway, once you have a few businesses or individuals whose problems you solve, or convinced to subscribe to your simplifying service things will be like the good old days, only you will have more power in your own process.

Just setting up an AI video security system and walking away is a for instance. Everyone will want that now that it’s so cheap, and offlinable, only few can sit down and get a tolerable interface working for the little guy.

For instance.

Adapt, stop trying to cling to the “old way.”
by ApolloFortyNine | 2026-02-20 17:38:45+00:00
Bills have gotten introduced to keep it at 9, but are generally shot down by democrats. Most recent one (I think, this isn't the easiest to research) is here. See all the sponsors are Rs[1]

Part of the problem is it requires an amendment so you need a super majority.

Imo democrats are waiting until they have enough of a majority to tank the reputation hit court packing would bring, but then lock it to 15 after they do so.

[1]
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley...
by menaerus | 2026-02-20 17:39:25+00:00
Agents can already do the review by themselves. I'd be surprised they review all of the code by hand. They probably can't mention it due to the regulatory of the field itself. But from what I have seen agentic review tools are already between 80th and 90th percentile. Out of randomly picked 10 engineers, it will provide more useful comments than most engineers.
by HanClinto | 2026-02-20 17:39:44+00:00
This is what Sourceforge did too, and they still had the DevShare adware thing didn't they?

GitHub is great -- huge fan. To some degree they "sold out" to Microsoft and things could have gone more south, but thankfully Microsoft has ruled them with a very kind hand, and overall I'm extremely happy with the way they've handled it.

I guess I always retain a bit of skepticism with such things, and the long-term viability and goodness of such things never feels totally sure.
by dmix | 2026-02-20 17:40:01+00:00
All of those are deportation cases, the NYTimes one for example is a $500/day fine on a government lawyer because they haven't returned a man's ID documents a week after he got bail.

There's been lots of coverage of how government lawyers are overwhelmed because they have thousands of immigration cases being appealed and government lawyers keep quitting due to workload. So they have a giant backlog causing lots of administrative issues on following through with court orders.

https://newrepublic.com/post/206115/this-job-sucks-doj-attor...
Show HN: Urich – Async DDD framework for microservices on Starlette
by ElMuncho | 2026-02-20 17:40:10+00:00
I built Urich after getting tired of hand-wiring DDD/CQRS on top of Starlette: routers, command handlers, OpenAPI, and DI scattered everywhere.
The idea: one object per bounded context. You define a DomainModule (aggregate, repository, commands, queries, event handlers), call app.register(orders_module), and get routes like POST /orders/commands/create_order and GET /orders/queries/get_order plus OpenAPI from your dataclasses. Event bus, discovery, and RPC are separate modules; you plug in your adapters (Redis, Consul, etc.) or use in-memory defaults. Core stays small and protocol-based so you’re not locked in.
Python 3.12+, Starlette, Pydantic. CLI for scaffolding (urich create-app, add-context, add-aggregate). Docs and an ecommerce example are in the repo.
Would love feedback from anyone building microservices with DDD/CQRS — what’s missing, what would break in your setup, or what you’d want next (e.g. more adapters, patterns).
by bmc7505 | 2026-02-20 17:40:19+00:00
17k TPS is slow compared to other probabilistic models. It was possible to hit ~10-20 million TPS decades ago with n-gram and PDFA models, without custom silicon. A more informative KPI would be Pass@k on a downstream reasoning task - for many such benchmarks, increasing token throughput by several orders of magnitude does not even move the needle on sample efficiency.
by moritzwarhier | 2026-02-20 17:40:21+00:00
> It makes me happy and it works the way I want. Exactly how I want.

(emphasis mine)

Sounds like (good) taste to me!

Like you mentioned, ofc nobody wants ugliness.

But "good taste" in software can mean things that are not just decoration. And presentation is not irrelevant because it is our interface to any software.

It's far more than "frontend" or even "how things look like".

Words like "user story" are made from grains of truth!
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-20 17:40:30+00:00
Okay but you can define what good food is, right? Like if you're the best chef in the world, you can clearly define what "taste" of a particular food is the best. It might be subjective but it wouldn't be vague, the chef can clearly pinpoint what makes the food taste better instead of just being like "its what you feel" or other vague terms. My point is that the article doesn't delve into what is good taste in the context of coding. I understand the metaphysical meaning of what taste means but you need to define what it means in your particular context. If you leave it to be subjective, then everyone has good taste which means taste cannot be the difference between good and bad software which is the premise of the post.
by troupo | 2026-02-20 17:41:34+00:00
> Who are "they"? You sound like you think there's some giant conspiracy against JS frameworks.

Yes. There is. The main developers and proselityzers were completely insanely biased against web frameworks (especially React).

It wasn't even a conspiracy. All you had to do was to follow Alex Russel (the person who introduced the idea of web components in the first place) and see his interactions with framework authors and his views towards web frameworks.

The new people in the space driving the specs are hardly any better. E.g. their reactions to Ryan Carniato's rather mild criticism of Web Components is just filled with vile, bile, and hate.

They literally refuse to even admit they have a problem, or want to look at any other solutions than the ones they cook up.

> but a browser feature is kind of what it is. It can take years for features to make it into enough browsers to make them usable.

Strange, browsers push dozens of specs for web components without ever taking any time to see if the yet another half-baked "solution" is actually workable.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-20 17:41:53+00:00
> All of those are deportation cases…

Sorry, is there a "you can ignore the courts if it's deportation" clause I missed somewhere?

> There's been lots of coverage of how government lawyers are overwhelmed because they have thousands of immigration cases being appealed…

That's their own fault.

You don't get to violate people's rights because you yourself fucked up the system beyond repair!
by techblueberry | 2026-02-20 17:42:19+00:00
Look I hate Trump as much as the next guy and don't want him power for a multitude of reasons, but there is a big difference between "a government does things I don't like but basically follows the rules to do them" and "a government can act completely unrestrained from the rules". The Trump administration having to do more work to justify their actions in a legal manner is good, and the checks and balances working to maintain the law is good.
Work with Ex-YC Founder on Air-Taxis
by arjanguglani | 2026-02-20 17:42:21+00:00
I am an ex-YC Founder (F24) working as a Director at Archer Aviation (we build eVTOLS). I am building out my software team - if anyone is interested in joining and contributing to Air Taxi services for the LA28 olympics - email me at aguglani@archer.com
by ljsocal | 2026-02-20 17:42:21+00:00
The new Tech Corps invites engineers, data scientists, and technically minded builders to serve alongside partner countries working to responsibly adopt and deploy AI tools. Think less “teach Scratch in a classroom,” more “help ministries, universities, and startups translate AI potential into practical systems.” If you’ve ever wanted to ship something that matters outside the App Store, this is a chance to put your stack to work in the real world.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-20 17:42:34+00:00
8GB is not enough to do complex reasoning, but you could do very small simple things. Models like Whisper, SmolVLM, Quen2.5-0.5B, Phi-3-mini, Granite-4.0-micro, Mistral-7B, Gemma3, Llama-3.2 all work on very little memory. Tiny models can do a lot if you tune/train them. They also need to be used differently: system prompt preloaded with information, few-shot examples, reasoning guidance, single-task purpose, strict output guidelines. See https://github.com/acon96/home-llm for an example. For each small model, check if Unsloth has a tuned version of it; it reduces your memory footprint and makes inference faster.

For your Mac, you can use Ollama, or MLX (Mac ARM specific, requires different engine and different model disk format, but is faster). Ramalama may help fix bugs or ease the process w/MLX. Use either Docker Desktop or Colima for the VM + Docker.

For today's coding & reasoning models, you need a minimum of 32GB VRAM combined (graphics + system), the more in GPU the better. Copying memory between CPU and GPU is too slow so the model needs to "live" in GPU space. If it can't fit all in GPU space, your CPU has to work hard, and you get a space heater. That Mac M1 will do 5-10 tokens/s with 8GB (and CPU on full blast), or 50 token/s with 32GB RAM (CPU idling). And now you know why there's a RAM shortage.