MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-20 03:14:01+00:00
Very accurate observation.

Similar to today, tax cuts didn't "trickle down" to the majority.

Whom wouldn't have ever accepted if if they knew that, but the voters' behavior was obtained through the work of what many of us instantly recognized as ordinary propaganda, the misdirection just wasn't completely on steroids like the communists were using.

Many knew at the time that the budget could be balanced if tax cuts were heavily applied to wage income, and only to incomes below a certain level, with the difference made up by taxing commerce.

Which is why it was so popular.

Even if that was to include tariffs.

As we have seen, if there is any chance that tariffs need to be as stupidly high as they are now in some cases, they should have started being increased back then, no more than something like 1% per year where otherwise there was nothing.

It would have made for a whole lot more prosperity along the way, and conformed to the theoretical advantage the garbage-faced economists think it's having right now. Most likely without having ever to rise to today's actual percentages.

If tariffs had been done correctly and gradually, there would have been no pain progressing all the way to zero income tax on average Americans a bit earlier in the 21st century than now, and it would have been worth waiting for. Especially as soon as the budget got balanced it was very stupid not to take this kind of action which could make it consistently be a bigger surplus every year after that.

And think how many decades of sending once-valuable dollars to China in exchange for low-value trinkets could have been avoided. Dollars used to be worth a whole lot more back then (don't ask me how I know), the Communists got in on the ground floor by allowing a mere sliver of free-enterprise, then took in huge amounts of dollars faster than US wage earners were doing. Look how the value of all that hard work by American wage-earners back then has grown for the CCP by now, at the expense of average working Americans who actually toiled for that same dollar in the first place. There is no excuse for anybody involved to ever let the US slip to less than 10x as "rich" a country as China. All the equations which were meaningful were based on more like a 100x factor, how do stupid people get to occupy such important positions?

And this is just one of the things where it's good to have checks & balances to curtail the possibility of doubling the stupidity overnight.
by jazz9k | 2026-02-20 03:14:06+00:00
This is true. AI won't replace software developers completely, but it will reduce the need for software developers in the long-run, making it harder to find a job.

A few seniors+AI will be able to do the job of a much larger team. This is already starting to look like reality now. I can't imagine what we will see within 5 years.
by koito17 | 2026-02-20 03:14:29+00:00
Even more importantly, there's just a lot of people in China. New York City's population is approximately 8.8 million; that is the scale of a mid-sized Chinese city. The population exceeds 1 billion, which is difficult to comprehend in terms of scale. The reference I like to use is: 1 million seconds is ~11 days, whereas 1 billion seconds is ~31 years.

To put it bluntly, China quite literally doesn't need (nor wants) the average software dev on HN. The immigrants they would likely want are those with expertise in much harder technical disciplines (semiconductor R&D etc.)
by mmooss | 2026-02-20 03:14:45+00:00
"Tempus-Word NG uses a generally different data structure than other text processing applications. Because of this, Tempus-Word NG can handle documents with more than 1000 pages with almost the same speed that it does with one with ten pages. The number of pages and speed are only limited by the available memory and processor speed. To achieve good results, you should use an ATARI with minimum 8 MB memory and 16 MHz, PC with 300 MHz and 64 MB, or comparable Mac. If you want to use huge dictionaries or many images, more memory is always useful."

Does anyone know what data structure? Why not use it in modern word processors?

The other features are impressive too:

* Tempus-Word NG is based on a frame orientated layout similar to DTP programs. But contrasted to the usual method of “draw frame - connect frames - flow text” you create a general frame layout that is used automatically during text input. The positions of all layed-out frames is repeated automatically on all pages with this layout. You can create as many layouts as you want.

* Integrated Database

* Document manager

* Page numbering of Contents and Index listings are always up to date.
by Snelius | 2026-02-20 03:15:15+00:00
> Load in latest db dump, may take as long as it wants.

400TB its about a week+ ?

> Then start replication and catch up on the delay.

Then u have a changes in the delay about +- 1TB. It means a changes syncing about few days more while changes still coming.

They said "current requests are buffered" which is impossible, especial for long distributed (optional) transactions which in a progress (it can spend a hours, days (for analitycs)).

Overwall this article is a BS or some super custom case which irrelevant for common systems. You can't migrate w/o downtime, it's a physical impossible.
by exidy | 2026-02-20 03:16:30+00:00
> Singapore has a regressive shock absorber model where something like half the country are immigrants that are ineligible for, say, public housing

Singapore has about 1.5 million foreign workers[0] of the population of 6.1 million or just under 25%. Of that 1.5 million, 75% are WP holders who pay no tax and have housing provided as a condition of their employment. Why would you expect social housing to be provided for them?

Only about 5-6% of the population are on EPs and SPs. They are definitely vulnerable during a downturn, but they are professionals and they know the rules coming in. At least while they're here they enjoy low tax rates and don't have to contribute to CPF. If they fell into the expat trap of living the high life and didn't save, that's on them.

[0] https://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-workforce-numbers
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-20 03:18:25+00:00
> I wonder if there is a viable business model where for each article, readers can pay to unlock it not just for themselves, but for everyone.

The thing that best approximates what you're asking for and is likely to work (i.e. doesn't need micropayments) is the "free to read" substacks. Anyone can read them, and anyone can pay to subscribe, and if enough people subscribe so that the authors can make rent, they keep writing.

The hardest part about either one is that it requires altruism and then people are often accosted by insufficiently schooled wannabe intellectuals who tell them that being altruistic is irrational. Meanwhile human beings would otherwise intuitively understand that once your basic needs are met, valuing the common good more than personal consumption of hedonistic luxury products is a perfectly rational thing to do, until someone comes along to lecture them on what they should want and try to make them feel stupid for wanting something better.
by Ferret7446 | 2026-02-20 03:18:49+00:00
Speeding without a seatbelt is two separate infractions so it should be double bad. Just like robbing a bank and shooting someone is double bad compared to either individually.

And intentional killing is generally considered worse because it means you thought about it and then did it, vs when it's due to acute emotional disorder. Intentional crimes are usually treated more harshly
by alephnerd | 2026-02-20 03:19:17+00:00
You can say the same thing about Phase 1 to 3 as well.

The reality is every theraputic has some kind of negative side effect, which may reduce the incentive for it to be productionized becuase the whole point about medicine is harm reduction.

Passing the hurdle of being viable in mice is a major hurdle because in most cases, experiments fail. And if it's efficacy is proven in mice, it shows viability in a specific approach and justifies investing the hundreds of millions of dollars in trying to bring something to Phase 3.
by sanswork | 2026-02-20 03:19:38+00:00
It's a clue of what its about but it's not the same as a recommendation that its going to contain something you enjoy.

So every click is a decision on an unknown and that's where the problem comes in. You read the headline now you have a decision to make, is it worth spending money to continue. For longer form media your return on good stuff is going to be at least an hour of entertainment. For news you will almost certainly be done the article in 30 seconds on less. So you decide to click, you read the article, it's good, it's now 30 seconds later and you read the next headline and you have another decision to make, do I pay for this? Thats where the decision fatigue comes in and why it's so quick with this model. Even if it's just a penny you're not thinking well clicking this will only cost a penny, you're thinking do I really want to pay to see what the other side says?

And if you're at the point where you're spending a lot of time on a single source even if it costs more it generally makes more sense just to subscribe since then you are making a single decision once a month.
by zbentley | 2026-02-20 03:20:19+00:00
> Do not enable container scanning, it just increases your bill, nobody ever looks at the scan results.

God I wish that were true. Unfortunately, ECR scanning is often cheaper and easier to start consuming than buying $giant_enterprise_scanner_du_jour, and plenty of people consider free/OSS scanners insufficient.

Stupid self inflicted problems to be sure, but far from “nobody uses ECR scanning”.
by josephg | 2026-02-20 03:20:49+00:00
> So we need to pay attention to every detail that doesn't have a single obviously correct answer

I really, really wish that were the case. But look at the modern web. Look at iOS apps. Look at how long discord takes to launch on a modern computer. Look how big and slow everything is. Most end user applications released today do not pay attention to those small details. Definitely not in early versions of the software. And they're still successful. At least, successful enough.

I'd love a return to the "good old days" where we count bytes and make tight, fast software with tiny binaries that can perform well even on 20 year old computers. But I've been outvoted. There aren't enough skilled programmers who care about this stuff. So instead our super fast computers from the future run buggy junk.

Does claude even make worse choices than many of the engineers at these companies? I've worked with several junior engineers who I'd trust a lot less with small details than I trust claude. And thats claude in 2026. What about claude in 2031, or 2036. Its not that far away. Claude is getting better at software much faster than I am.

I don't think the modern software development world will make the sort of software that you and I would like to use. Who knows. Maybe LLMs will be what changes that.
by rchaz | 2026-02-20 03:20:53+00:00
No proxies needed.

Claude Nonstop runs the official claude binary — it doesn't extract tokens, modify requests, or do anything detectable as different from normal CLI usage. It's the same as manually running claude with a different CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, which is how Claude Code's own profile system works.

That ban message is the same one Anthropic sends for a range of violations (third-party OAuth tools, VPN/proxy usage, chargebacks, account sharing). If you were using any other tools that access Claude outside the official CLI, that's the more likely cause.
by gyomu | 2026-02-20 03:21:01+00:00
> I’m guessing you don’t really know what your talking about here though and are knee jerking a response.

I'm not sure why you're getting so defensive; I indeed don't speak Chinese, hence why I'm asking a question.

A claim like "Chinese as a language is less technical and specific than English and slows progress" seems pretty grand; and if Chinese people failed to launch satellites in orbit or do brain surgery you could point to that; but they don't seem to be held back by their language when it comes to making specific, technical achievements, so I'm curious to hear actual, concrete details or examples about what makes Chinese a "less technical and specific" language.

It sounds like your answer is "it simply just is, because it's a courtly language" - which is not a very satisfying answer, intellectually speaking.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-20 03:21:02+00:00
It's unfortunate that we can't work up mechanisms to encourage and reward voter registration and participation as well as make the process a bit more dynamic, say have a 100 day window for primaries and caucuses, states/districts get to pick a day in order (with no two picking the same day, not picking adjacent days if possible to not) based on voter registration and turnout for the previous election.
Show HN: Codedocent – Code visualization for non-programmers
by clanker-lover | 2026-02-20 03:21:02+00:00
I'm a hardware engineer who reads schematics, not source code. I kept needing to understand codebases for projects I was managing but couldn't read the syntax. So I built a tool that turns any codebase into an interactive visual map with plain English explanations.

Point it at a folder, get nested colored blocks showing the structure (directories → files → classes → functions). Click to drill down. AI generates summaries written for humans, not programmers. Architecture mode shows a dependency graph so you can see how modules connect.

Built the whole thing in ~30 hours using a multi-node AI workflow: Claude for planning/decisions, Claude Code for implementation, five other models for adversarial security review (42 fixes across 6 rounds). I made every design decision; AI wrote every line of code.

Cloud AI (OpenAI/Groq) or local AI (Ollama) — your choice. pip install codedocent and run the setup wizard.

MIT licensed. Would love feedback from people who actually write code — does this help when onboarding onto unfamiliar codebases?
by tiew9Vii | 2026-02-20 03:24:00+00:00
It’s not great as a headless server.

With full disk encryption enabled you need a keyboard and display attached at boot to unlock it. You then need to sign in to your account to start services. You can use an IP based KVM but that’s another thing to manage.

If you use Docker, it runs in a vm instead of native.

With a Linux based ARM box you can use full disk encryption, use drop bear to ssh in on boot to unlock disks, native docker, ability to run proxmox etc.

Mac minis/studio have potential to be great low powered home servers but Apple is not going down that route for consumers. I’d be curious if they are using their own silicon and own server oriented distro internally for some things.
by Gustomaximus | 2026-02-20 03:24:01+00:00
That seems crazy to me I read news there occasionally as I like to view opposite sides. Go to BBC, RT, France24 ,Al-Jazeera type sites and see what each has as their focus stories.

You're aware news sites are used to push agenda, some more than others, but that's half the interest of seeing what they push. And sometimes the more fringe have stories on what should be news but don't make it to mainstream media channels.

...anyway I'm more a believer in assuming people have a brain and can figure stuff out vs banning sites, both have danger to them but censorship seems the bigger danger to me.
by crossroadsguy | 2026-02-20 03:24:28+00:00
Such an irony that there are two sides trying to control the Internet in their own lovely ways and in the end it's the people who will have to suffer one way or the other. But I do think countries around the world should have a hard look at how the Internet is, even today, de facto controlled by the US. Take ".com" and ".net" domains for example. Like there are efforts underway to get away from SWIFT (and hopefully one day USD as well), this should be independent. In a way, at least in the long term, this US administration might be a net positive for the world at least in the term of depolarisation. Or maybe the focal points will shift from existing ones to new ones.
by WillAdams | 2026-02-20 03:25:21+00:00
The irony is that the pi == 3 argument comes from failing to read correctly/follow directions accurately for 1 Kings 7:23 --- the ratio of 3 to the diameter is for the _inner_ circumference --- when one includes the thickness of the wall, then it comes out to 3.14 which is a workable approximation.
by rramadass | 2026-02-20 03:26:02+00:00
This is pure ignorance and an attempt to whitewash history.

The Gujarat and Deccan famine during mughal rule are well recorded - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_famine_of_1630%E2%80%93...

There were countless more which one can study from here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India#Ancient,_medie...

It is simply that there was no extensive record-keeping during the mughal rule that existed during the british rule.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-20 03:26:37+00:00
Reminder that Meta funds the Digital Childhood Alliance[1], an "anti big tech" PAC, consisting of 50 conservative groups that include Moms for Liberty, Focus on the Family and Morality in Media, that pushes age verification and the end of anonymity online[2].

The goal is to use the current moral panic to usher in identity verification systems that collect biometrics just to see or share user-generated content online, which very convenient for companies like Meta and Anthropic[3] who need mountains of biometric and identifying data to train their systems and monetize users.

The other goal is to force all user-generated content on the internet to go through Meta/Anthropic/OpenAI/etc's AI-powered moderation systems. That means the companies will get to train on the totality of all user-generated content on the internet into perpetuity and get paid to do so.

[1] https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/07/25/83...

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/opinion-the-child-...

[3] https://x.com/burgessev/status/2021921843192754583
by wat10000 | 2026-02-20 03:27:18+00:00
How can process architecture be a stronger guarantee than anything provided by a language runtime when it is enforced by software written in a language?

You have a process receiving untrusted, potentially malicious input from the outside. If there’s an exploit then an attacker can potentially take control of the process. Your process is isolated, that’s good. But it can still communicate with other parts of your system. It can make syscalls. Now you’re in the same situation where you have a program receiving untrusted, potentially malicious input from the outside, but now “the outside” is your subverted process, and “a program” is the kernel. The same factors that make your program difficult to secure from exploits if it’s written in C also apply to the kernel.

I’m not sure where those ideas as the end of your comment came from. I certainly didn’t say them.
by amarant | 2026-02-20 03:28:01+00:00
The first one I'm ok with, the second one I'm not sure what you're saying? Google suggests the largest library in the world is the US Congress library, but I couldn't find any sources saying it's banned in Germany? (Also, it's a physical place in the US... What?)

Closest thing I could find to library banned in Germany was a collection of pirated material, which was blocked at a DNS level, meaning many users bypass the ban accidentally, and anyone who wants to can trivially use a different DNS.

I mean I'm probably more in favour of digital piracy than the next guy, but I had completely missed that were calling copyright protection censorship now?
by kypro | 2026-02-20 03:28:34+00:00
People really need to start being more careful about how they interact with suspected bots online imo. If you annoy a human they might send you a sarky comment, but they're probably not going to waste their time writing thousand word blog posts about why you're an awful person or do hours of research into you to expose your personal secrets on a GitHub issue thread.

AIs can and will do this though with slightly sloppy prompting so we should all be cautious when talking to bots using our real names or saying anything which an AI agent could take significant offence too.

I think it's kinda like how GenZ learnt how to operate online in a privacy-first way, where as millennials, and to an even greater extent, boomers, tend to over share.

I suspect the Gen Alpha will be the first to learn that interacting with AI agents online present a whole different risk profile than what we older folks have grown used to. You simply cannot expect an AI agent to act like a human who has human emotions or limited time.

Hopefully OP has learnt from this experience.
by ctxc | 2026-02-20 03:28:54+00:00
Anecdotally, I'm a fan and generally pick the rarer ones. Eg I had a pair of socks and a few stickers made for my kid which had rarer pokemon.

If OP got a tattoo of Pikachu, it was interesting to me that he picked the most mainstream pokemon (I assumed he was a huge fan)

But from the response, my sample of 1 assumption checks out:
"When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one."
by jesterson | 2026-02-20 03:29:11+00:00
I am not sure where hyperbole is - if your believe it is "fake news", it's your choice.

Does chinese apps make use of all data they can access? Absolutely.
Does western app make use of all data they can access? Absolutely.

Both concepts are evil. Talking one is evil while dropping off the other is skew of discussion towards vilifying one side and omitting the subject.
by awithrow | 2026-02-20 03:29:20+00:00
Yeah, talking about grams without taking about what kind of mushroom is very out of date IMO. 2.5g could be anything from a light sensation to over the top potent. Just look at the results of the latest Denver Psychedelic Cup to get a sense of range.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAG4IrghoIg/inPxQbZk0XtnQU_lB92...
by blahgeek | 2026-02-20 03:29:31+00:00
I would always refer to Hanlon's razor on things like this: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I'm not trying to finding excuses for them, just saying that most likely there's no deep conspiracy theory involving government level surveillance here, they are just stupid. On average, Chinese software engineers are less educated and have no sense about privacy or how to implement privacy related features properly.
Show HN: CMV – strip up to 70% of Claude Code without losing any conversation
by CosmoSantoni | 2026-02-20 03:29:33+00:00
kept losing good conversations to /compact. you spend 40 minutes having claude map your codebase, it builds up real understanding, then context fills up and /compact crushes everything into a 3k token summary. "we discussed auth and decided on JWT." cool thanks.

dug into the actual session JSONL files and the breakdown is kind of absurd -- 60-70% is raw file contents from tool reads that claude already synthesized, another 15-20% is base64 thinking signatures. your actual conversation is like 10-15% of the window.

so i built cmv. it strips the junk and keeps every message verbatim. tool results over 500 chars become stubs, thinking sigs get removed, everything you said stays.

cmv trim --latest # trim and relaunch, 50-70% smaller

cmv snapshot "analysis" --latest # save a session state

cmv branch "analysis" --name "auth" # fork from it later

also has a TUI dashboard that shows the token breakdown per session so you can see what's eating your context before you do anything.

what it's not:

* not a token monitor (ccusage etc already do that)

* doesn't touch original sessions, everything creates copies

* local only, reads JSONL directly, no API calls

curious how others handle this. most people seem to just accept /compact but losing a deep architectural discussion to a bullet point summary felt wrong enough to build something.

https://github.com/CosmoNaught/claude-code-cmv