MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geocrasher | 2026-02-09 18:46:14+00:00
I learned next-level defensive driving by bicycle commuting to work 5.5 miles each way on busy roads in rush hour traffic. On a bicycle you're invisible, and if you expect any less, you're going to get hurt. As it was, I had some very very close calls- at least one of them had the potential to be fatal. Ironically, the only time I ever crashed was my own fault.

But now even when in a car, I retain that "I'm invisible" mentality, which makes me much more aware of what other drivers are doing, and much more skeptical of their ability to make good decisions. This has saved me several times.
by navanchauhan | 2026-02-09 18:46:15+00:00
> What do you show to new folks when they join your team?

I think this is an interesting question because we have not fully figured out the best way to onboard people to our codebases. Each person is responsible for multiple codebases (yay microservices!), and no one else commits to a repository while they have dibs. We also have conventions for how agents write documentation around deployments and validations.

In theory, when a new person joins the team or is handed a repository, they can throw some tokens at the codebase, interrogate it, and ask questions about how things are implemented.

> But what is the result of your work?

The end result is a final, working codebase. The specs and sprint plans are also committed to the repository for posterity, so agents in a fresh session can see what work has been completed and the trajectory we are moving toward.
by tencentshill | 2026-02-09 18:46:38+00:00
The letter of the law is not black and white. Think critically - why did they turn a relatively blind eye to this issue in all past administrations? Immigrants of any kind are a net benefit to the wealthy and powerful. No billionaire obeys the law to the letter either. It would be nice if we enforced the written law with this level of zeal upon the rich. Pay taxes in "creative" ways? Hire an illegal? Straight to jail, no bail, maximum fine.
by 0x457 | 2026-02-09 18:46:47+00:00
I live in LA and ride Waymo, subway and trains often (decided not buy a car after u-haul rear-ended me on a red light...).

There is no way metro and trains will be a solid way of transportation in LA for at least a few more decades, even if people of Bel-Air stop fighting trains that go deep under Bel-Air and people of valley stop being unreasonable. Even if next president, rollbacks contingency requirement changes that trump did. Even America remember how to build large infrastructure projects.

It will never be the ideal "you're always at most 20-30 minutes of walking away from the station" density here in LA.

> Autonomous private cars is not the technological progress you think it is. We’ve had autonomous trains for decades, and while it provides us with a more efficient and cost effective public transit system, it didn’t open the doors for the next revolutionary technology.

There is a huge difference between going on rails and going on public roads. There are plenty of "dead end technologies" that we use to this day.
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-09 18:46:52+00:00
> The same doesn't apply to airpods.

It doesn't today because they don't have cameras on them, it won't tomorrow if they do. People will definitely need to justify (maybe legally), why they're pointing the camera on their AirPods at people changing.

> Is there any indication that you'll be able to get a video feed from airpods?

You're just repeating the same "internal processing" point you've made, and that I've already pointed out isn't a legal or practical difference in the real world.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-09 18:46:52+00:00
How reasonable is this expectation? All you do by intituting these draconian 'wont someone please think of the children' ID laws is make it marginally more difficult to access mainstream services where there's not much crazy bad stuff anyway. The rest of the internet is the wild west, and good luck controlling that.

The whole thing is security theater designed to conceal the fact that child security is not the objective, it's the justification.
by notatoad | 2026-02-09 18:46:59+00:00
i think calling this another victim of PE is missing the point a little bit. i guess Catalyst Brands is technically PE, but they're not just a finance company treating these brands as assets to be milked and stripped for parts before they're killed.

Catalyst is a joint venture of Brookfield and Simon Property, both of which are shopping mall companies. Their other brands are all shopping mall fixtures. The story here isn't private equity doing the normal private equity thing, it's that shopping malls are dying.
by nostrademons | 2026-02-09 18:47:30+00:00
The thing is that real security isn't something that a checklist can guarantee. You have to build it into the product architecture and mindset of every engineer that works on the project. At every single stage, you have to be thinking "How do I minimize this attack surface? What inputs might come in that I don't expect? What are the ways that this code might be exploited that I haven't thought about? What privileges does it have that it doesn't need?"

I can almost guarantee you that your ordinary feature developer working on a deadline is not thinking about that. They're thinking about how they can ship on time with the features that the salesguy has promised the client. Inverting that - and thinking about what "features" you're shipping that you haven't promised the client - costs a lot of money that isn't necessary for making the sale.

So when the reinsurance company mandates a checklist, they get a checklist, with all the boxes dutifully checked off. Any suitably diligent attacker will still be able to get in, but now there's a very strong incentive to not report data breaches and have your insurance premiums go up or government regulation come down. The ecosystem settles into an equilibrium of parasites (hackers, who have silently pwned a wide variety of computer systems and can use that to setup systems for their advantage) and blowhards (executives who claim their software has security guarantees that it doesn't really).
Show HN: Envoic – Find and clean up scattered Python virtual environments
by mahimai | 2026-02-09 18:47:30+00:00
I work across a lot of Python projects and kept losing track of virtual environments — old `.venv` directories sitting in project folders, eating disk. There's no built-in way to answer "where are all my venvs and how much space are they using?"

envoic scans your filesystem, detects Python environments using ground-truth signals (pyvenv.cfg, bin/python, conda-meta), and presents a utilitarian report.

uvx envoic scan ~/projects

The interactive `manage` command lets you select environments to delete with a checkbox UI.

Design choices:

- Two dependencies (typer + questionary). Dataclasses instead of Pydantic to keep the install under 3MB — important since `uvx` downloads on every invocation.

- Detection doesn't rely on directory names alone. It checks for `pyvenv.cfg` (the definitive marker), Python binaries, activation scripts, and conda metadata.

- Deletion requires typing "delete", not y/n. Symlinks are unlinked without following. Paths outside the scan root are rejected.

- Output style is inspired by USGC's TR-100 Machine Report [1] — monospaced, box-drawn, no colors. Information density over decoration.

[1] https://github.com/usgraphics/usgc-machine-report
by keithnz | 2026-02-09 18:48:01+00:00
lot of people complaining, but, seems like they rolled it out already in UK and Australia... no real complaints I know of, and I'm in NZ and are on NZ/Aussie discords. Also teen mode doesn't actually seem that restrictive. Seems an ok move to me. But for whatever reason people seem to froth at the mouth when it comes to discord on here.
by rayiner | 2026-02-09 18:48:01+00:00
He's already confessed! He admits he came here under the Visa Waiver Program, overstayed the 90 day limit, and that, as a result, he can be removed without proceedings for a determination of deportability: https://www.universalhub.com/files/attachments/2026/culleton...

"Thus, individuals that entered the country under VWP are removable 'without referral of the
alien to an immigration judge for a determination of deportability.' See 8 C.F.R. § 217.4(b)(1). Culleton concedes he is removable under the VWP. Reply 10."
by jama211 | 2026-02-09 18:48:10+00:00
Well said. It also causes a lot of bitterness among engineers too, not being able to follow the red string is maddening to some. This rage can prevent them from finding good prompting strategies also which would directly ease a lot of the pain, in a similar way to how it’s far harder to teach my mother how to do something on her phone if she’s already frustrated with it.
by LocalH | 2026-02-09 18:48:13+00:00
Untrue.

Let's suppose we fill odd fields with black, and even fields with white.

The end result when played back on a CRT will be the entire screen flickering between black and white with a lot of flicker, phosphor persistence notwithstanding.

If you simply average the even and odd fields, you will be left with the completely incorrect result of 50% gray and zero change between image frames.

You seem to be under the misconception that two consecutive fields contain image from the same moment in time. This is not necessarily true with proper interlaced video.
by wduquette | 2026-02-09 18:48:20+00:00
Many years ago I was fortunate to hear management consultant Peter Drucker give a talk aimed at budding management consultants. At one point he said, "Never work for someone you do not respect." The crowd laughed. He said, in a stern voice, "You laugh. You are wrong to do so." And went on to explain that he had only twice worked for clients he did not respect, and had regretted it bitterly each time.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-09 18:48:39+00:00
The newspaper industry has never been neutral. It has always been on the side of its owners. Whether that surfaced as warmongering, real estate hucksterism, flogging migration, reforming the entire nation to accommodate the car, or inventing white flight, newspapers always stood on the side of their owners' profits, not from the newspaper itself but from the owners' actual lines of business.
by Zambyte | 2026-02-09 18:48:48+00:00
I've flown across the US to meet what will likely be lifelong friends[0], and just went out to dinner and an escape room with some others, all of which I connected with through Bluesky. The worst of social media is terrible, but I would hate to lose the best of it by banning it outright. The really negative parts come are

- Underage people who do not have the emotional maturity to deal with digital public spaces

- Emotional manipulation through "algorithmic" timelines (chronological or bust)

- Waves of unwanted interactions

Social media seems like it can be a positive tool to me. I would love to be able to continue to use it as I am. I do think there is a conflict of interest issue between the mental health of the people that use social media, and for-profit corporations that provide social media services. Regulating social media in a sane way has become difficult due to how much financial sway social media companies have on legislation, but it's an important fight to fight.

[0] I have a thread on my bsky account with a bunch of group photos, if you're interested it shouldn't be hard to find. I'm not linking it because I'm not interested in people engaging in it from here.
by amiga386 | 2026-02-09 18:49:27+00:00
Truth or not, newspapers fund themselves by flattering their readers' opinions.

Paper 1, which prints only truthful and legally fact-checked stories about how X is fucking over Y and X is clearly evil, gets a lot of paid subscriptions from people who support Y.

Meanwhile, paper 2 prints only truthful and legally fact-checked stories about how Y is fucking over X and Y is clearly evil, getting a lot of paid subscriptions from people who support X.

The real truth is that X and Y both do good things and bad things, and always take the opportunity to fuck each other over, leaving plenty of factually correct material for the partisan journals, who just don't bother reporting all the skullduggery their "own side" gets up to.
by cogman10 | 2026-02-09 18:49:55+00:00
> Before the 1900s, we weren't able to build cities far from water because of their demand for transportation.

Incorrect.

In the 1800s the train took off as a primary form of transportation. By 1869, we'd completed the first intercontinental railway in the US which ultimately opened up the economy between the east and west.

Sears flourished as a company because of the train.

It wasn't roads which ultimately opened up mass transport, it was rail. It wasn't until the 1950s that rail was ultimately de-prioritized and roads were prioritized.
by 52-6F-62 | 2026-02-09 18:50:06+00:00
What could the "West" have accomplished? Perhaps in a religious zeal we only would have burned ourselves up long ago. A knowledge of math and science does not innately impart some higher wisdom.

As it is we have cabals of bankers and technocrats applying every mathematical and scientific advancement in attempting to construct their own version of global authoritarian priest classes. For now it stands they are only being held back by the other things learned from other humanist disciplines...
by yial | 2026-02-09 18:50:07+00:00
This is true - but it’s hard even for “good” drivers to always understand especially on roads they might not be familiar with.

Example: open space on either side of the road, tends to encourage people to drive faster.

Closing that space (whether by buildings, shrubbery, etc ) will slow the speed.

But I will say there are also “obvious” bad designs - the rare far to short on ramp to merge, where drivers don’t understand how to adjust.

Or the one I most frequently encounter are “blind spots” created by the speed of an intersecting road, where a mirror may be attached to a pole / tree, or a sign reminding people to look left right left, or even instructing where cars should be beyond for a safe pull out.

I know of one intersection near me that both has markers on the road(don’t pull out if cars are at or beyond this marker), and a reminder about looking, but still has a high frequency of accidents.
by chasil | 2026-02-09 18:50:31+00:00
I have photographs from the Poblado district of Medellín, Colombia of a man who had strung a tightrope between two lightpoles of a side street, and tightwalked them carrying hoops and bowling pins that he juggled while cars passed below.

Anyone trying this in the U.S. would be arrested, so it was surprising to see. I wonder how the insurance works.
by stackskipton | 2026-02-09 18:50:47+00:00
My opinion is probably not but this is ultimately a political conversation.

The article is extremely light on details but fact he doesn't have a Green Card/Lawful Permanent Resident yet would indicate that at some point of his time in United States, he was illegally present, probably for a while.

Sure, he's on path, MAYBE (that's up to immigration courts), to legal status but he's not quite there yet and it's one of those "Are we going to forgive past transgressions?"
Show HN: CodeGraphContext- An MCP server that indexes code into knowledge graphs
by shashankss1205 | 2026-02-09 18:50:57+00:00
An MCP server that indexes local code into a graph database to provide context to AI assistants.

Understanding and working on a large codebase is a big hassle for coding agents (like Google Gemini, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, Claude etc.) and humans alike. Normal RAG systems often dump too much or irrelevant context, making it harder, not easier, to work with large repositories.

What if we could feed coding agents with only the precise, relationship-aware context they need - so they truly understand the codebase? That’s what led me to build CodeGraphContext - an open-source project to make AI coding tools truly context-aware using Graph RAG.

What it does Unlike traditional RAG, Graph RAG understands and serves the relationships in your codebase:
1. Builds code graphs & architecture maps for accurate context
2. Keeps documentation & references always in sync
3. Powers smarter AI-assisted navigation, completions, and debugging

Plug & Play with MCP CodeGraphContext runs as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that works seamlessly with:VS Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor and other MCP-compatible clients

GitHub Repo → https://github.com/CodeGraphContext/CodeGraphContext
v0.2.1 released
~500 GitHub stars, ~300 forks
25k+ downloads
65+ contributors
by engelo_b | 2026-02-09 18:51:29+00:00
yeah the interesting part is that the carriers already have most of this data from telematics apps, it's just sitting in corporate silos.

if we could bridge that gap, the economic incentive for municipalities would be massive lower accident rates mean less property damage and fewer expensive liability lawsuits for the city. it's basically a potential safety feedback loop that just needs the right data sharing protocol to actually kick in.
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-09 18:51:31+00:00
> these companies have no role in the day-to-day, just introducing the contractor and just sitting back collecting money with no effort at all

The company is also responsible for the job getting done if you get hit by a bus or say "Fuck it" and disappear.

But in long-term customer contracts with the same personnel, there should absolutely be a decrease in the gap between billable rate and salary.

If the customer keeps someone around that long: they're working with that person, not the company.

The other legitimate reason for markup (on both sides) is optionality around immediate arbitrary filing. Even in the US / "right to work" states, firing can be messy. Severing contracts is much less messy / quicker.

So some of the premium is for being able to treat contractors like contracts rather than employees/people.
by gruez | 2026-02-09 18:51:38+00:00
>You're just repeating the same "internal processing" point you've made, and that I've already pointed out isn't a legal or practical difference in the real world.

You're not answering my question. Do you or do you not think that face id phones are facing legal obstacles because they also have cameras that randomly turn on for "internal processing"? If face id phones get a pass, why don't you think airpods would get a pass?
by otterstack | 2026-02-09 18:52:23+00:00
I disclosed AI because I think it's important to disclose it. I also take pride in the process. Mind you, I also cite Stack Overflow answers in my code if I use it. Usually with a comment like:

// Source: https://stackoverflow.com/q/11828270

With any AI code I use, I adopted this style (at least for now):

// Note: This was generated by Claude 4.5 Sonnet (AI).
// Prompt: Do something real cool.
by dchi04 | 2026-02-09 18:52:25+00:00
A lot of whining here about how this is an imperfect response to the issue of children being exploited on Discord / using the platform to engage with inappropriate content.

Until someone offers up something better, I take these types of initiatives from social media platforms as huge wins. Ignoring the problem will not make it better. We've been ignoring it for about 20 years now, and it's only gotten worse.
by killjoywashere | 2026-02-09 18:52:45+00:00
Possibly Bruno Villoutreix, but dropping this here to come back to later (and solicit help!)

https://www.pubmed.ai/blog/how-pubmedai-works

https://www.pubmed.ai/about-us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VipU6oC8EUw
by reedlaw | 2026-02-09 18:52:47+00:00
This is a fine and useful project, but my experience with newly printed classics is the quality is inferior for a number of reasons. Besides paper and binding, typesetting is something that older editions rarely messed up, but some new editions create a facsimile by scanning all the pages and then re-printing. That means that instead of getting the crisply defined letters of an old printing press, you get fuzzy letters and scan artifacts. This (https://printableclassics.com/harvard_classics) shows what I mean. Not only is the typesetting quality worse, but the price is much higher for the new edition. I don't have a problem with the price on Printable Classics ($885 for a new 50 volume set is reasonable), but you could often find the same thing cheaper used. A used set is $300-$600 on ebay. The value of these PDFs is that you could make a higher quality edition as long as the text is OCR'ed and properly typeset (which is true of the Moby Dick version on the site). For the scanned copies, it would be a big undertaking to re-typeset, but I'm sure LLMs could help.
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-09 18:52:50+00:00
I'd strongly suggest people read the article instead of discussing the title.

- Unsafe conditions in detention.

- Detained people fighting over food (due to insufficient amount).

- A fake signature(!). Violating a judge's orders.

- Multiple US Constitution violations (which, yes, does apply to non-citizens/work-visa holders/even illegal immigrants).

This is a "hero case," but if this is happening here, imagine what people with less financial means and interest from the media are going through.
by sridhar87 | 2026-02-09 18:52:50+00:00
Thanks for checking out.

Yes, it looks similar to XState. When I built it, I didn't know of XState, but of course, I did use a lot of AI to create this, so the configuration is similar to XState.

But my plan is to see if there is opportunity with this elsewhere, orthogonal to what stately seems to be doing.
by MattGrommes | 2026-02-09 18:53:06+00:00
The comment I read about this that I liked was that they want to push the idea of starting with an Issue and a discussion before going straight to a PR. That way you can build reputation by contributing to a discussion first. Maybe you could "earn" a temporary Vouch like this that lets you start submitting. Still open to attack but the attack is at least more difficult.
by yanhangyhy | 2026-02-09 18:53:39+00:00
i failed to understand the enthusiasm for politics memes.. it's a good point, i just dont undertand the fuss. in the end, you want to something changes in your life, not only something like 'i can joke about our system'. if it can change the system and the policy, i totally support them. but i dont see many cases. If i have to choose one, i will always choose the gum.

i read so many pepople complain the ICE on rednote and on reddit complain Trump and jokes about him, i just don't see the changes. Does Trump retreat any of his major polices? If not, are people just lives in the bubbles?
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-09 18:54:00+00:00
> Wrong. Journalists have an obligation to favor the truth.

I'm not sure why you think we're disagreeing on this part. I'm explicitly asserting that they need to seek truth rather than pushing an agenda.

> If a party is not being honest or truthful, they should disfavor that party very strongly.

Here though, we do disagree. I think they should call out the lies and provide explicit, verifiable evidence that they are in fact lies. The should counter lies with truth.

But they should be blind to "parties" and not favor or disfavor anyone. From that point on you're drifting into "and they should agree with me, and say so" thinking. They should not be helping "shape opinion" and "steer people" even in a direction you happen to like today.

If the facts don't do the job, they shouldn't put their thumbs on the scale.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-09 18:54:31+00:00
Out of the question. The higher up you are the farther the horizon, I wouldn't be surprised if the longest horizon is from Aconcagua. I have been at 18,000' on Kilimanjaro, the view was absolutely stunning. (But we were tourists, not mountaineers, and had no traction gear. At the time that meant progress became impossible very soon after sunrise. Now the ice has retreated so far that you can expect to summit by daylight without traction gear.)

But the longest possible view isn't to the horizon, it is to another point that can see the same spot of horizon on a reciprocal bearing. And ocean has no such points.