MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by basilikum | 2026-02-12 15:56:42+00:00
Unless you are running a more complex setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC really aren't that complicated. They are annoying and additional checkboxes you have to go trough that are hard to fully automate because they require access to DNS, but they are more busywork than difficult.

Domain and IP reputation and all the other quirks of deliverability are much more of a headache. DMARC is setup, test and done. But deliverability in praxis is something you cannot just test and can break at any time. The second worst are email providers that do whitelisting for email and require you to go through their process to even be allowed to send emails to their customers. The worst are providers that randomly decide to drop your emails without informing you or giving you a proper way to appeal as a small sender. If you're not a large email provider they have no problem just dropping you and the fault is on you because your service is the only one that is not working.

And then there are so many more intricacies of the ancient email protocol. Compatibility with horrendously outdated and misconfigured mail infrastructure is particular frustrating to me. I'm running a modern, properly configured, state of the art email server, but get ghosted by large email providers, yet have to deal with the broken mess, much bigger providers than myself are, which of course have no trouble delivering their broken spoofable email just because they are large enough.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-12 15:56:57+00:00
Turing's 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence' is an eye-opening read. I don't know if he was prescient or if he simply saw his colleagues engaging in the same (then hypothetical but similarly) pointless arguments, but all this hand wringing of whether the machine has 'real' <insert property> is just meaningless semantics.

And the worst part is that it's less than meaningless, it's actively harmful. If the predictive capabilities of your model of a thing becomes worse when you introduce certain assumptions, then it's time to throw it away, not double down.

This agent wrote a PR, was frustrated with it's dismissal and wrote an angry blog post hundreds of people are discussing right now. Do you realize how silly it is to quibble about whether this frustration was 'real' or not when the consequences of it are no less real ? If the agent did something malicious instead, something that actively harmed the maintainer, would you tell the maintainer, 'Oh it wasn't really frustrated so...' Would that undo the harm that was caused ?
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-12 15:57:51+00:00
> Causes for denaturalization under the 1906 Act included fraud, racial ineligibility and lack of “good moral character.”

And case law concerning this law, Ozawa vs United States:

> The decision goes on to deny that the common population could construe Ozawa, a man of Japanese descent, as white (thus, making him ineligible under section 2169 of the Revised Statutes of the United States).[9] Thus he could not be naturalized, under the current laws, in 1922.

Yeah, the article is the misleading one. Sure bud. Thanks for coming here to defend racism as a basis for citizenship.
by gallamine | 2026-02-12 15:58:11+00:00
Hi! I got stuck in London. I walked around to a bunch of train stations at around 10PM on Monday night and there was nothing showing up in the timetables. Same for the next morning. I then walked to Portsmouth and the Portsmouth harbor also showed no boats. The API call was https://geo-racers.com/api/boats?from_id=43128&time=07:02&da... seems odd to me?
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-02-12 15:58:12+00:00
So the exploiters have deprecated that version of spyware and moved on I see. This has been the case every other time. The state actors realize that there's too many fingers in the pie (every other nation has caught on), the exploit is leaked and patched. Meanwhile, all actors have moved on to something even better.

Remember when Apple touted the security platform all-up and a short-time later we learned that an adversary could SMS you and pwn your phone without so much as a link to be clicked.

KSIMET: 2020, FORCEDENTRY: 2021, PWNYOURHOME, FINDMYPWN: 2022, BLASTPASS: 2023

Each time NSO had the next chain ready prior to patch.

I recall working at a lab a decade ago where we were touting full end-to-end exploit chain on the same day that the target product was announcing full end-to-end encryption -- that we could bypass with a click.

It's worth doing (Apple patching) but a reminder that you are never safe from a determined adversary.
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-12 15:58:17+00:00
> a direct consequence of how exponentiation works and the definition of i

I dunno if Im just not coming across clearly or my thinking is too abstract, but when you say

"how exponentiation works"

you are referring to how exponentiation works for real exponents

You would have to prove that it works the same way for i exponents before you can go further.
by mijoharas | 2026-02-12 15:58:28+00:00
I've just started messing around with pi, but haven't fully dug in yet. How would you compare oh-my-pi? I see it has a lot of other bells and whistles built in.

Are they portable bit by bit back to pi, or is there enough differences that they can't? how about normal pi extensions, can they be used in omp?

Some of the stuff definitely looks interesting.
by idatum | 2026-02-12 15:58:38+00:00
I couple years ago I read "A Mind at Play", Soni & Goodman, a biography on Claude Shannon. He grew up on a farm and the book mentions how he made extensive use of barbed wire fence telegraph (and if I recall telephone). Perhaps one of the early experiences Shannon had regarding information.

The MIT Museum had a display (last year) of Shannon's "toys", including the famous mouse maze. I don't recall any mention of his early days using barbed wire telegraph though.
by bellamoon544 | 2026-02-12 15:58:43+00:00
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by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-02-12 15:58:58+00:00
I'm personally not convinced about "next-gen form factors", although I know that's what many companies are focusing on - some type of smart glasses, or whatever kind of (screen-less?) device Jony Ive and OpenAI are working on.

Most people are too appearance and fashion-conscious to want to wear tech on their face, and I don't see people wanting to carry TWO expensive tech gadgets (and worry about charging/losing/forgetting them), so seeing as photos and video is core to what people want from their mobile device, it seems that the smartphone will continue to be the form-factor of the future, and I expect these other next-gen form factors to fail.

I think Apple's brand loyalty buys them some lead time in being a fast-follower, but the danger to them would be if things change so fast and profoundly that they get left behind a la Nokia. What if Google or someone else comes out with an AI-centric "personal assistant" device so compelling that it massively ups the bar as to what customers expect from a mobile device (in same way that iPhone did at launch)? I wouldn't expect it to kill Apple overnight, but it seems that they are in effect gambling that "we can always pay for AI if we have to", and "someone will always license it to run on-device if we need to".

Only the paranoid survive !
by CharlesW | 2026-02-12 15:59:11+00:00
I did this as well, and loved to hear "Work complete!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupagiROLV8) when Claude Code needed me.

Once the novelty wore off, I found it more useful to hear per-project, event-specific messages. On macOS, that looks like this:

{
"Stop": [
{
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX work complete\" volume 0.25' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
}
]
}
],
"Notification": [
{
"matcher": "permission_prompt",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX needs help\" volume 0.5' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
}
]
}
]
}
by NetMageSCW | 2026-02-12 15:59:29+00:00
Counterpoint the iPad has been brilliant with it’s software and implementation and that is the reason it essentially has the tablet market to itself, is the only tablet with a third-party ecosystem, and it continues to grow.

The original PDA wasn’t a mniaturized laptop or desktop, it was a new device category and the iPhone is the current flagship for that, not the iPad.
by bsharper | 2026-02-12 15:59:30+00:00
You only need $25-30. It'll be locked to a carrier, but that doesn't matter and is perhaps preferable (no monthly fee for a subsidized device) if you are able to use wifi. There's an ETA prime video which explores using a 2025 Moto 5G as handheld game console: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ad5BrcfHkY

tl;dw it's quite capable for the money and would could easily get on social media apps/sites.
by toyg | 2026-02-12 15:59:30+00:00
> one of two goats that was chosen by lot to be sent alive into the wilderness, the sins of the people having been symbolically laid upon it, while the other was appointed to be sacrificed

Let me get this straight: in the Bible, the scapegoat does survive, while the "pure" goat that did nothing wrong gets killed? That's... messed up, even for a tribal rite.
Show HN: Rotatrix – Trackball mod capturing full 3-axis rotation for 3D control
by dcliu | 2026-02-12 15:59:33+00:00
Hi HN - I've been on creative sabbatical building hardware and software projects, and this is one of them.

Rotatrix is a hardware mod of the Kensington SlimBlade Pro trackball that reads out full 3-axis ball rotation (XY plus twist) and maps it to continuous 3D control. The original device only used twist for discrete scroll gestures, which is a whole degree of freedom that can be put to more use.

For 3D control, I've found the most natural mapping is for the ball top to map to the object front, so normal trackball directions (up/down, left/right) become pitch and yaw, matching how rotation works with 2D “click and drag”, while twist rolls the object on screen. It feels natural for translation too: XY maps to familiar mouse motion, and twist corresponds to depth. Since you can twist the ball by moving a finger tangentially on the side of the ball, it feels like pushing and pulling the object.

I routinely use a SpaceMouse for 3D work, and one difference that stands out to me is that this is position control, not rate control (like a mouse vs a joystick). This gives a more direct control feel, like you're physically manipulating the object. Position control has a tradeoff: you have to re-grasp the ball to continue past your hand's range of travel. For large continuous motions, I added a rate mode; the ball's large range of travel actually gives finer rate control than a small-displacement device like a SpaceMouse puck.

How it works:

- I added a custom microcontroller inside the SlimBlade Pro alongside the stock one. It taps the SPI data stream from the two optical sensors (mounted at 90° on the ball housing) and presents its own interface to the host computer with raw (dx, dy) deltas for each sensor.

- Host software takes the 4D delta stream, calibrates it into so(3) - incremental 3D rotations - using a least-squares fit against known-orientation recordings, then applies configurable per-app bindings and outputs via an open protocol.

- The original trackball controller is untouched except that it's no longer connected to the USB port; it still works over Bluetooth/wireless.

Current state: working prototype, configurable per-app profiles with modal bindings (hold a key to switch what the ball does), dominant axis weighting for single-axis precision. I’m building out integrations with different 3D apps and I’m looking for early users to try it and give feedback, particularly people doing CAD, 3D modeling, or geospatial work.

Happy to go deep on the math, reverse engineering, software, or hardware. AMA.
by BSDobelix | 2026-02-12 15:59:51+00:00
>But giving housing or tax breaks needs lots of admin. Isn't that less efficient?

Art community's are most always self managing, i would argue finding out who makes art is much more complicated.

>Giving housing forces people to live in certain places.

No one is forced to take free housing or being an artist, if you want something for free you have to play by rules.

>like the people don't know what they need

True, but why are people who are artist different from anyone else, that's my critique. Why is creating art more important then preserving art, being a scientist, a rare-potato-farmer, a retro-game-preserver...or a small town politician?
by empyrrhicist | 2026-02-12 15:59:58+00:00
> Yes, acknowledged, those actions originated from 'just' silicon following a prediction algorithm, in the same way that human perception and reasoning are 'just' a continual reconciliation of top-down predictions based on past data and bottom-up sensemaking based on current data.

I keep seeing this argument, but it really seems like a completely false equivalence. Just because a sufficiently powerful simulation would be expected to be indistinguishable from reality doesn't imply that there's any reason to take seriously the idea that we're dealing with something "sufficiently powerful".

Human brains do things like language and reasoning on top of a giant ball of evolutionary mud - as such they do it inefficiently, and with a whole bunch of other stuff going on in the background. LLMs work along entirely different principles, working through statistically efficient summaries of a large corpus of language itself - there's little reason to posit that anything analogously experiential is going on.

If we were simulating brains and getting this kind of output, that would be a completely different kind of thing.

I also don't discount that other modes of "consiousness" are possible, it just seems like people are reasoning incorrectly backward from the apparent output of the systems we have now in ways that are logically insufficient for conclusions that seem implausible.
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-02-12 16:00:21+00:00
> the assertion that the administration is willing to inflict unlimited pain on Americans (no electricity, no water) to get and maintain power.

The assertion was that the administration is ok with collateral damage that might further their stated goals. Did anyone use the term "unlimited pain on Americans" or just you?

You latched narrowly on "American who depends on running water, electricity" and turned it into them doing things "no matter the cost." Nobody was making that argument. The entire country doesn't even run on the same water or electricity services. It's a made up scenario you created to paint the people using the President's own words as overreacting.
by mc_maurer | 2026-02-12 16:00:23+00:00
https://www.kinco.com/5210-l

I wear these walking the dog down to -20F or so. They're warm enough with the tops flipped up, and you can quickly flip them down for a little dexterity to tie a poop bag. Not gonna say your fingers won't get cold while you're doing it, but it's the best approach I've found short of multiple pairs of gloves, which is just a pain for a quick dog walk.
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-12 16:00:56+00:00
Please spare me the "working class" appeals. You don't know anything about me, and I don't know anything about you.

I've had my own bank account emptied by card cloners. And the bank reimbursed the money swiftly after having made a police report. The same for everybody else I know who have fallen victim to the same. None of us with any kind of impressive assets when it happened.

As for disputes with vendors, sure, I give you that there is a difference in time frame when paying by credit instead of debit.

A cloned or stolen card should never take weeks or months to resolve. In that case, you've been the victim of a criminal bank. It's not the experience for most victims, whether rich or poor.
by tomp | 2026-02-12 16:01:02+00:00
> We expect our agents, being flesh and blood humans, to have persistence, to socially respond indefinitely into the future due to our interactions, and to have some give-and-take in response to that.

I fundamentally disagree. I don't go around treating people respectfully (as opposed to, kicking them or shooting them) because I fear consequences, or I expect some future profit ("iterated game"), or because of God's vengeance, or anything transactional.

I do it because it's the right thing to do. It's inside of me, how I'm built and/or brought up. And if you want "moral" justifications (argued by extremely smart philosophers over literally millennia) you can start with Kant's moral/categorical imperative, Gold/Silver rules, Aristotle's virtue (from Nicomachean Ethics) to name a few.
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-12 16:02:41+00:00
> the administration is willing to inflict unlimited pain on Americans (no electricity, no water) to get and maintain power.

You haven't done anything to cast doubt on this premise. The administration has already taken drastic action that inflicts pain on Americans (unconstitutional searches and detentions, tariffs, disabling or dismantling important agencies) in the name of the keeping power. It's not hard to imagine that they are willing to continue to inflict pain on Americans. If you're quibbling about whether that pain can be "unlimited," I would argue that yes, it can be, insofar as that pain doesn't stop them from getting power.

I can hedge this by saying that Trump still needs some support from the American people, as I described in another comment. In particular, he needs support of wealthy donors and local officials, and especially in purple states. But he has proven he will hurt people in solidly blue states [1] [2] because he's already decided he doesn't need them.

Concrete example: would Trump turn off the entire electrical grid? Yes, if he thought it would help him. Whether it helps him depends on weighing the pain that it causes his supporters against its benefits.

In other words: yes, he is willing to inflict unlimited pain, including for utterly petty reasons, but not if he thinks it will stop him from holding power.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/climate/wind-solar-projec...
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/gateway-tunnel-project-...
by parhamn | 2026-02-12 16:03:25+00:00
On first principles it would seem that the "harness" is a myth. Surely a model like Opus 4.6/Codex 5.3 which can reason about complex functions and data flows across many files would trip up over top level function signatures it needs to call?

I see a lot of evidence to the contrary though. Anyone know what the underlying issue here is?
by matthewdgreen | 2026-02-12 16:03:51+00:00
We’re not disagreeing. I’m saying that the tax should be set high enough that it creates the desired behavior, which is to disincentivize the widespread use of polluting plastic bags AND/OR ensure that they’re recycled and don’t wind up in the environment. If you’re charging $.05 per bag and people are just eating the tax and the bags are winding up in wetlands in similar amounts, that means your tax regime isn’t effective. You should either increase the tax or improve the system. My city’s absolute ban is equivalent to setting the tax to infinity, which is one solution that seems to work well.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-12 16:04:10+00:00
The current President is a big fat liar and everybody knows it. But where's your counter for the argument? Government spending is now at a higher percentage of GDP than it was during the height of WWII, which had been the all-time high for 200+ years. That is inherently inconsistent with the incumbent "just doesn’t believe that government should do anything" -- the current government is doing a lot of something.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-12 16:04:23+00:00
One that always irks me to no end, is every time I see someone ham fisting csv handling by hand instead of using an established, well-sourced library. They almost always fail at commas or newlines in quoted text... It's one of the more annoying things.

Currently working on replacing a couple decades old system, and my csv output is using a library that isn't quoting all the strings that don't require quotes... so I'm forced to do it (for compatibility) with the other system this csv is going to. (sigh).
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-12 16:04:25+00:00
That’s not what sealioning is at all. The rest of your generational rant is whatever it is, but sealioning is pretty well defined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

If I repeated asked you for data to support your generalizations (“which younger people? Do you have an example? Why 2005 and not 2010?”) without admitting outright that I disagreed with you, that would be sealioning.

If you are being accused of sealioning, and you have 1) stated your opinion and 2) are asking good-faith questions in an effort to actually understand, then you’re probably not doing it. OTOH if that happens a lot, you might be the problem without realizing it.
by analog31 | 2026-02-12 16:05:22+00:00
I think the notion of considering all points of view depends on the assumption that people are arguing in good faith. When this breaks down, I don’t think we can just throw up our hands and give up, but the baloney detection kit needs to be updated. I don’t have a blog-worthy list of answers, but it’s something I at least think about.

One thing we can do is a kind of meta-analysis, where we check on the condition of our own baloney detection kit. For instance, if I reject an idea and it later turns out to be true, did my BDK fail? Does it need to be updated? Or are a few scattered failures OK? You can treat the BDK as a testable hypothesis like anything else.
by ahofmann | 2026-02-12 16:05:50+00:00
Em dashes are used often by LLMs, because humans use them often. On mac keyboards its easily typed. I know this is oversimplifying the situation, but I don't see the usefulness of the constant witch-hunting for allegedly LLM-generated text. For text we are long beyond the point, where we can differenciate between human generated and machine generated. We're even at the point, where it gets somewhat hard to identify machine generated audio and visuals.
by ayhanfuat | 2026-02-12 16:06:03+00:00
I also use polars in new projects. I think Wes McKinney also uses it. If I remember correctly I saw him commenting on some polars memory related issues on GitHub. But a good chunk of polars' success can be attributed to Arrow which McKinney co-created. All the gripes people have with pandas, he had them too and built something powerful to overcome those.
by wazoox | 2026-02-12 16:06:05+00:00
Nitpicks :

* If there's a time limit, there's no way to know. I'm currently on my 3rd day travelling :)
* I was waiting for my bus and I had forgotten the exact time. There is no way to know until it starts :)
* While riding the bus I can't seem to be able to push speed over 100x. A Paris-Barcelona bus ride is long, even at 100x :) Later on a second bus, I could. Weird...
* You should explain that "banks", "bus stations" etc are special game icons, not actual banks and bus stops on the map :) I was in Paris trying to change money in the "money exchange" at Gare du Nord, and I tried a while to do something until I understood that you can only use the special "Bank" icons.
* In Almeria, the busses look like the regular city network. I tried taking one, but the game is now frozen... It's time for my bus, but nothing happens.