MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by rablackburn | 2026-02-10 03:38:33+00:00
The flipping-between is a great hack -- as you said your eyes (really, brain) just do the work for you.

I learnt about it in Japan where proof-readers and editors would (or do) quickly lift a top page up and down to spot mistakes with kanji (pictographs). And sure enough, even from a page of dense script the dissonance of the error really does pop out at you.

I likewise tucked that little trick into my belt -- it comes in useful anytime you're trying to manually spot a pattern across complex data. This technique has the same "vibe" as FFTs to me: it's just neat feeling like you're getting computation from the universe for free.

Solar PV in a similar category: free electrons if you can arrange the magic rocks just right :)
by rramadass | 2026-02-10 03:38:37+00:00
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. -- Albert Camus

The ease/comfort of our so-called "Modern Civilization" is built on illusions constructed intentionally by people-in-power/govts-in-collusion. People are kept distracted and managed using techniques of propaganda and reflexive control.

The developed/richer countries take advantage of the developing/poorer countries by offshoring dangerous/poisonous/etc. industries/work onto them while mouthing platitudes and absolving themselves of all responsibilities.

If you start asking questions (and educate yourself) on how-a-thing-comes-to-be from first principles, what happens to it after its end-of-life, the effects on the people involved in the entire chain (from birth to death) you will rise up in arms to tear the system down and rebuild it all.

Here for example is a shocking article on waste tyres from around the world being sent to India to be disposed off and how the entire process literally poisons poor people forced to do that job; The Black Wind: How India is becoming the World's Waste Tyre Furnace - https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/india-is-becoming-wo...
by noleary | 2026-02-10 03:38:43+00:00
FYI, Tungsten prices are quoted in metric ton units (MTUs) [1], which surprisingly aren't metric tons. They're actually 1% of a metric ton -- or 10kg. [2] So the price of Tungsten is actually 100x that.

[1] https://www.fastmarkets.com/metals-and-mining/minor-metals/t...

[2] https://quoteddata.com/glossary/mtu/
by cfiggers | 2026-02-10 03:40:36+00:00
I really enjoyed this article—I meant to just read the first few paragraphs and skim the rest. I ended up reading every word.

The core thesis sticks with me: existing tooling that helps programmers think about and enforce correctness (linters, compilers, type systems, test suites) operate primarily (and often exclusively) on one snapshot of a project, as it exists at a particular point in time. This makes those tools, as powerful as they can be, unable to help us think about and enforce correctness across horizons that are not visible from the standpoint of a single project at a single point in time (systems distributed across time, across network, across version history).

I feel like the issue of semantic drift is a bigger topic that probably has roots beyond systems architecture/computer engineering.

Also I found the writing style very clear. It helpfully repeats the core ideas, but (IMHO, this is subjective) doesn't do so ad nauseum.

I'm interested in reading other writing from the same author.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-10 03:40:40+00:00
This may seem like hyperbole, but this is the reality for students and test-takers every day in virtual environments now.

I assisted as TA in a virtual learning environment. While we didn't make it strictly mandatory to keep the camera on, our learners were encouraged to do it, and we kept tabs on who was "engaged" and present, because at the very least, we needed to tabulate an attendance roll for every day.

If you're taking a standardized test, whether you're at home or in a controlled lab, the camera will always be on. Multiple ones. Not optional.

There is a large storm of controversy on college campuses about adapting young students early to surveillance cultures. I attended a community college about 7 years ago, and I felt I'd be a second-class citizen without a smartphone and an SMS'able mobile.

We weren't surveilled through smartphones at the time. But there was an app to receive campus alerts about public safety and other crisis events. And our virtual class sessions had various ways of ensuring we were human, and awake.

Taking finals and certification exams, I was often sat in a special-purpose testing center, and Step One was showing ID; Step Two was surrendering my watch, my phone, my wallet to place in a locker outside. So, students simply become accustomed to showing ID and being on-camera, and it becomes a fact of life before you graduate.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-10 03:41:06+00:00
The "true cost of labor" is set by the market. The cost to society of a person who can't find work because viable work opportunities have been destroyed by overregulation is unambiguously higher than that of the same person being gainfully employed, even for a "non-living" wage - because in the latter case it's easy for government to make up the difference in a way that's fair to everyone, whereas paying their full living costs is just that much harder.
by harshalizee | 2026-02-10 03:41:32+00:00
That's comparing Apples to tortoises.
If an investor wants to invest/gamble on a startup, it's their prerogative.
Same as if Bob's uncle wants to give him a small loan to buy into a franchise.
I still expect both of them to pay rightful living wages to their employees.
Owner's business problems are not the employees problem
by jimz | 2026-02-10 03:42:22+00:00
Singapore's immigration system is fundamentally different from what the modern American system have morphed into. It is far easier to enter Singapore without a visa when compared to the US, and while the EB-5 investor visa program caused an absurd moral panic in the US and ended up getting limited to such an extent that it basically is no longer a real viable path to gain legal permanent residency in the US, Singapore's government has broad discretion - which it exercises in reality, so it's not something written just for show - to significantly shorten residency requirements (from 10 years down to 12 months in some cases) and allows for highly skilled or investors to gain citizenship, not the convoluted visa-change-of-status-adjustment-of-status-naturalization train that privileges European countries first and foremost while making it extremely difficult for even skilled or even US educated nationals of Mexico, the Philippines, India, and China to gain permanent residency. On the lower-skilled side neither country allows a pathway for migrant laborers to stay regardless, although perversely the American system implicitly encourages not just marriage but consummation as proof of validity which is brought up in interviews for adjustment of status. The immigration system automatically equates marriage with sex and heavily privileges "family-based immigration" to such an extent that it basically incentivizes marital rape via official policy. Singapore doesn't do that, and countries that have marital-based immigration systems don't tend to be this explicit about it.

I don't know how you get "eugenic" out of the Singaporean nationality law, full stop. Income or skill is not genetically bound, after all. The US, in fact, does have explicitly eugenics-based criteria in its naturalization process in that it retains the quota that existed in some form since 1882 but simply added a step in front so that it can claim to have removed to quota from where it was while maintaining a de facto quota system that only affects four nations - one it once colonized, two it has a history of vilifying in overt racist terms. In addition, even though USCIS employees are not doctors and are not trained in diagnosing or determining mental illness and its potential impacts or lack thereof, one is frequently asked at the citizenship interview if one had been diagnosed with a mental illness, and since stating an untruthful answer is grounds for removal and also a minor but extremely easy to prove felony, even erroneous diagnoses or conditions that pose no danger like ADHD may result in rejection of otherwise eligible applications. Since there's no "cure" for many of these conditions it puts the applicant in a sort of limbo, and this is asked after background checks and a ridiculously thorough vetting process that essentially had been going on for 8-10 years had been passed. On that front, I think America has Singapore beat.
by colechristensen | 2026-02-10 03:42:28+00:00
You don't have to do anything. You're losing money if you don't move to solar. You don't have to do anything out of any kind of altruistic future world saving hopes and dreams.

You can just do it because you're cheap and greedy.

If you want to stand by and pollute the world with fossil carbon emissions... well you're paying extra for the privilege, and why?
by prussia | 2026-02-10 03:43:32+00:00
Discord also calculates a whole lot of (inferred) demographic information. Estimated age, gender, and surely much more. They also feed all the messages into a ML model, which guesses what people are talking about, and pushes a notification to other users. This is probably the culmination of all that, this is why they refuse to be e2e like every other reasonable messaging app...
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-10 03:44:15+00:00
> First put all your services in a monorepo have it all build as one under CI. That’s a static check across the entire system.

That helps but is insufficient, since the set of concurrently deployed artifact versions can be different than any set of artifact versions seen by CI -- most obviously when two versions of the same artifact are actively deployed at the same time. It also appears to rule out the possibility of ever integrating with other systems (e.g., now you need to build your own Stripe-equivalent in a subdir of your monorepo).

> Second don’t use databases.

So you want to reimplement your own PostgreSQL-equivalent in another monorepo subdir too? I don't understand how opting not to use modern RDBMSes is practical. IIUC you're proposing implementing a DB using compiled queries that use the same types as the consuming application -- I can see the type-safety benefits, but this immediately restricts consumers to the same language or environment (e.g., JVM) that the DB was implemented in.
by boca_honey | 2026-02-10 03:44:18+00:00
In 30 years using the internet not once have my ID has been leaked (or my CC stolen, etc). Even if it happens now, and then 2 more times during my lifetime... the benefits of the modern internet exceed the risk of that happening.

It's weird how everyone here have been giving their credit card at restaurants and show their ID at events, but DISCORD is where they draw the line, somehow.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-10 03:44:23+00:00
>Github Copilot is just a front-end

Yes, Copilot is often used to refer to both frontend and backend.

Also, the chatbot aka Copilot must have features on its own.
Like I say to Roo Code/Cline on VSCode: Write a python script to output hello world.

And they will do exactly that, Roo Code is pretty impressive.
Copilot on its own is dogshit and when using it the same way I would use Perplexity AI or ChatGPT, it is twice as much dogshit.
by blandflakes | 2026-02-10 03:45:30+00:00
> First put all your services in a monorepo have it all build as one under CI. That’s a static check across the entire system.

There are definitely benefits to this approach. My coworkers do fall into the trap of assuming that all the services will be deployed simultaneously, which is not something you can really guarantee (especially if you have to roll one of them back at some point), so the monorepo approach gives them confidence in some breaking changes that it shouldn't (like adding a new required field).
by mcmcmc | 2026-02-10 03:45:34+00:00
Unless you’re wild camping, campsites have addresses. So do marinas where a ship would need to be docked more or less regularly to establish residency.

As for being a nomad, you don’t need a driver’s license or any kind of ID to wander if you’re willing to sleep rough. If you want to drive on public roadways though, you better have a primary address where the courts can send someone if you kill someone in a traffic accident and bail.
by Curiositry | 2026-02-10 03:45:45+00:00
This was a breeze to install on Linux. However, I haven't managed to get realtime transcription working yet, ala Whisper.cpp stream or Moonshine.

--from-mic only supports Mac. I'm able to capture audio with ffmpeg, but adapting the ffmpeg example to use mic capture hasn't worked yet:

ffmpeg -f pulse -channels 1 -i 1 -f s16le - 2>/dev/null | ./voxtral -d voxtral-model --stdin

It's possible my system is simply under spec for the default model.

I'd like to be able to use this with the voxtral-q4.gguf quantized model from here: https://huggingface.co/TrevorJS/voxtral-mini-realtime-gguf
by xwolfi | 2026-02-10 03:46:00+00:00
In France, at a very young age, we're taught that journalism is not impartial: people must take sides to express interesting opinions. We simply need to read them all: the Humanite to understand the communist point of view, the Monde for the socialists, the Figaro for the conservatives, the Croix for the Christians, etc.

Once you mix all these perspectives of the same events, you get, if not "the truth", a view of the impact of the events on each sub group in the nation, what they propose to do about it, and put some water in your own wine whichever side you're on: when time comes to vote on policies, having read everyone, you may consider their point of view a bit more.

Thinking "The Washington Post" was "impartial" and "about the truth" before is a pipe dream: they were partial, rational within the confines of their choice ideology, and disagreeing with many subgroups in your country anyway. They just shifted sides but you can find other newspapers now to counter balance.

As long as no newspaper pretend to be impartial and is clearly identified, the national debate stays healthy, no ?
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-10 03:46:35+00:00
Honorable mentions worthy of your support:

https://wiki.bitmessage.org/index.php/Main_Page

https://vituperative.github.io/i2pchat/

Bring this back!, for sentimental reasons:

https://dcplusplus.sourceforge.io/webhelp/chat_commands.html
by Rury | 2026-02-10 03:46:47+00:00
It's just hard. I mean... it could very well be, that there's so many deeper layers underneath what we know in particle physics, but from our scale, also so infeasible to build something to analyze and decompose the nuanced behavior happening at that level, to the point that it's practically impossible to do so. Just like it is impossible to split an atom with your bare hands...
by jajuuka | 2026-02-10 03:46:53+00:00
The strawman is saying " legitimate to put a 78 years old from a former democratic city forcefully reintegrated to another state in jail for 20 years because he is saying that the will of the people should be heard?" That's not even close to reality.

I don't think anything you said is a strawman though. You can of course argue whether that's right or wrong or how it fits into the greater whole. That's showing nuance. You can come to it with your own opinions and feelings but it's another thing to approach with a predetermined idea of what happened that is nothing like what happened.
by drdaeman | 2026-02-10 03:47:54+00:00
We aren’t inherently competitive, we just want nice things. It takes a very special mindset to want others to have less, and society should actively discourage such lines of thought by countering them with examples of how things never end well.

This said, I wasn’t suggesting socialism or equality or anything like that - only minimizing long-term unhappiness. That’s the only thing that I could not think an argument against - like why would anyone rational ever want others to be long-term unhappy?
by SanjayMehta | 2026-02-10 03:48:23+00:00
It's the BBC. They're literally funded by the British regime using license fees.

To understand the connection between the British regime and Russophobia, refer to John Gleason's research captured in a book called "The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain."

https://archive.org/details/genesisofrussoph0000glea
FeedbackKit: A developer-first feedback platform for multi-platform apps
by mrswiftly | 2026-02-10 03:49:14+00:00
FeedbackKit: A developer-first feedback platform for multi-platform apps

Hi HN! I'm Ben, founder of Swiftly Workspace, and I'm launching FeedbackKit - a complete feedback management platform built for developers who ship on multiple platforms.

The problem: Most feedback tools are either abandonware side projects or enterprise solutions too complex for indie devs and small teams. I needed something actively maintained, truly multi-platform, and built for the long haul.

What FeedbackKit does:

Native apps for iPhone, iPad, and macOS (currently in App Store review, but you can access the full admin portal via web now). Soon you'll be able to manage feedback anywhere with native SwiftUI apps optimized for each platform.

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10+ integrations including Linear, Slack, Notion, Trello, Asana, Monday, Airtable, Basecamp, and Teamwork. Feedback flows directly into your existing workflow.

Coming soon: Integrations with Kit, Mailchimp, Mailterlite, and Hubspot. You'll be able to keep your users informed about feature progress through your existing email marketing tools and seamlessly integrate feedback loops into your app.

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I'd love to hear your feedback (meta, I know) and answer any questions about the platform, the tech stack, or the approach.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-10 03:51:08+00:00
Allow me to restate that I happen to find fault with how the article is written, and that I do not in any way to perceive this to be good writing. The flaws happen to manifest in a way that I would expect LLM flaws to manifest, which I also do not find to be good writing. I do not find LLMs to have absorbed good technical writing tendencies at all. Instead they absorb sensationalist tendencies that are likely both more common in their dataset and that are likely intentionally selected for in the reinforcement learning phase. Writing which is effective, in the same way that clickbait headlines and Youtube thumbnails are effective, but not good. I felt as though this article was, through its headers and overuse of specific rhetorical devices, constantly trying to grab my attention in that same shallow manner. This gets tiring at length, and good technical writing does not need to engage in such tendencies.

If you disagree and find this to be good writing, you are entitled to your opinion, but nonetheless this is my own feedback on the article.
by somenameforme | 2026-02-10 03:51:16+00:00
You're speaking of a hot war which isn't ever going to happen owing to nuclear weapons. And if it did happen it precludes many of your scenarios. For instance naval vessels are highly vulnerable to modern weapons technology. Aircraft carriers were constantly sunk in WW2. The main factor that shifted after WW2 is that nukes precluded direct war between major powers, so they ended up being exclusively used against places incapable of defending themselves. More generally Ukraine has provided many lessons in modern war, and among them is that experience in invading these sort of countries is not only useless but perhaps even harmful as it can contribute to flawed assumptions.

That 15% no longer has the majority of the economic power in the world, or anywhere near it. There's a great visualization of the G7 vs BRICS here. [1] That's obviously not all countries, but those omitted aren't going to change the result nor trend. Just as important is what "economy" means. When we speak of war we're referring to the ability to go from ploughshares to swords, but most of the 15% have neglected their core manufacturing competencies and transitioned to service economies where these large numbers don't really translate into economic might of the sort we might imagine. Again, yet another lesson from Ukraine.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1412425/gdp-ppp-share-wo...
by svpk | 2026-02-10 03:51:20+00:00
A fun fact, SCOTUS as a term predates POTUS by over a decade. So actually -OTUS was extended to POTUS from SCOTUS, not the other way around. Though both are well over 100 years old at this point. I think POTUS is probably the more well used term today, but in any legal context SCOTUS gets used more or less constantly.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/scotus-potus-flotus