MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thinkingemote | 2026-02-05 08:45:48+00:00
Internet trolls want attention. When the internet gives trolls attention and said that the trolls are culturally and politically important and dangerous it is exactly what was desired.

That many serious commentators didn't see this was itself very funny as anything with lots of attention on the internet does become influential! It is funny to a troll to see people pay serious attention to them "I am just a clown and they think I'm serious!".

In the dawkins sense of the word: the "meme" wants to spread and grow and the mechanism for it's virality was the immune response to it.

On another angle, the responses also gave the trolls an identity. Groups get defined as groups from outside more than from within. And it's always a wrong characterisation which also helps define the in group in relation. "You guys are all toxic Linux nerds" inside: "but some of us love macs and BSD, geez those guys are always wrong"
by cess11 | 2026-02-05 08:45:55+00:00
Why would I want cops doing that instead of social workers or teachers doing it?

No one becomes a cop because they want to be nice and help vulnerable people. Some might say they did but that is some coping technique. Being a cop involves exerting violence towards people who are vulnerable and desperate, and to become one you have to be fine with this. Some would say that this alone is enough to deem a person ethically dubious.

Even if one would accept the premise that society requires some degree of organised violence towards its members, one would also have to handle the question of accountability. Reasonably this violence should be accountable in relation to the victims of it, and police institutions inherently are not.

I think that we should also not that the other person above used "childishly" to denote something negative, apparently they don't think of kids as the light of the world and childish as something fun and inspiring. This is something that makes me quite suspicious of their morals.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-05 08:45:56+00:00
Sure; let's take the case of Alex Pretti. First we have to establish baseline facts:

Pretti was not peacefully protesting. Repeatedly showing up to protests, engaging in violence, and doing so while carrying a loaded firearm fundamentally undermines that claim; a video[1] of his behavior from a week prior demonstrates:

(1) A consistent pattern of illegal, violent behavior
(2) While visibly armed

Immediately prior to being fatally shot, Pretti had attempted to “de-arrest” someone. In the US, there is no civilian privilege to physically interfere with an arrest, even if the arrest is later found to be unlawful. Legality is and must be adjudicated after the fact; real-time obstruction is in and of itself a very serious criminal offense.

Fighting with federal agents is the opposite of restraint and satisfies the elements of criminal conduct irrespective of political motive. Furthermore, carrying a weapon imposes an elevated duty of restraint: when you are armed, you have an inherent responsibility to avoid escalating conflict, precisely because your presence introduces a far greater risk of serious injury or death -- including to yourself.

Taken together, he was not a peaceful protester, was not acting as a responsible gun owner, and engaged in repeated violent criminal conduct while armed, conduct that foreseeably created a grave risk of serious bodily injury or death.

Now for the legality:

The legal standard for justifiable use of deadly force does not depend on whether the underlying arrest or enforcement action was lawful -- it depends on whether, under the circumstances as they reasonably appeared at the time, the officer had a reasonable basis to fear imminent harm if they did not fire.

In a physical altercation involving multiple people -- which Pretti willfully and illegally entered -- while armed, and with officers already attempting to control the situation, the law generally permits lethal force if a reasonable officer would perceive an imminent threat of serious bodily harm. That assessment is made from the officer’s perspective *in the moment&, not with hindsight.

This occurred in a chaotic, loud environment involving a violent, armed individual. Under those conditions, the reasonableness standard is entirely capable of being met.

[1] https://nypost.com/2026/01/28/us-news/alex-pretti-appears-to...
Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
by vkazanov | 2026-02-05 08:46:13+00:00
This is a little game implemented over a week of tinkering and targeting Emacs.

The point is both to have fun with this kind of simulations, and also explore the "functional core / imperative shell" approach to architecture. I also developed a tile and tile effect definition DSL, which makes this even easier to extend. From this point of view it's a success: easy testing, easy extension,

Gameplay-wise the simulation is too simplistic, and needs input from people interested in this kind of toys. The original Micropolis/SimSity is the last time I built a virtual city.
by otherme123 | 2026-02-05 08:46:46+00:00
I fully lost three small VPS there, and their response was poor: they didn't even refund time lost, they didn't compensate for time lost (e.g. a couple of months of free VPS), I got better updates from the news than from them (news were saying "almost total loss", while them were trying to convince me that I had the incredible bad luck that my three VPS were in the very small zone affected by the fire). The only way I had to recover what I lost was backups in local machines.

When someone point out how safe are cloud providers, as if they have multiple levels of redundancy and are fully protected against even an alien invasion, I remember the OVH fire.
by tsoukase | 2026-02-05 08:47:56+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> The nature of the syndrome and existence of CECD as a clinically meaningful condition have been called into question by those who wish to roll back legal access.

I belong to the scepticists although I want cannabis to remain legal.

The symptom constellation of pain and the other mentioned has very complicated basis that almost any theory can be supported. In the meantime in my setting 95% of medical cannabis uses are recreational.
by jstanley | 2026-02-05 08:48:12+00:00
Yes I'm using flux-core wire and I do indeed have the polarity set for flux-core.

My conception was that we're adding power by increasing the voltage and we're stacking up material by adding wire, so to get good penetration on thick material I want lots of voltage and not much wire feed.

But actually it turns out that you make it hotter by increasing the wire feed speed.

I don't really see why, but at least now I know.

Here's a more recent weld: https://img.incoherency.co.uk/6464 - still not great but not nearly as bad.
by theSIRius | 2026-02-05 08:48:56+00:00
I was actually thinking about buying Remarkable Paper Pro after Christmas. Not necessarily for the colors but just to have a portable e-ink tablet to scribble on and organize myself a bit better. In the end, I went with Supernote Nomad (A6X2). The build quality is not as good, the display does not have colors, and there is no backlight. But, for my use cases, it fits perfectly. I have found myself taking notes left and right, mostly during meetings.

What swayed me in the end was the software and repairability. Supernote actually released their syncing backend as a Docker image, so I can just roll my own and never have to touch any third-party cloud. All of my notes just live as normal files on my home server. The repairability is similarly open - Supernote sells all the replacement parts on their website. I guess this is the reason the build is not as nice as any Remarkable. But, for me, this sacrifice is worth it, given I plan to use the tablet as long as it can take me.
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-02-05 08:49:07+00:00
yeah. Long-experienced people (not just plain-old) have grown that feeling called "warm fuzzies" [1]. And although warm-fuzzies are not in the spec, mostly, it is what makes or breaks good product/service.

anyone hiring such? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873028

[1] https://en.svilendobrev.com/1/MeetingtheSpecandOtherSoftware... (a copy because it's gone from web)
by jstanley | 2026-02-05 08:50:30+00:00
I think it goes about 6mph. I agree with your maths though, so probably my estimate of the gear ratio is wrong.

I don't know how long the battery lasts, we have never driven it for long enough to flatten the battery.

While I was building it I used it for about an hour doing several laps of dragging a "trailer" full of rubble from the top of the garden to the bottom (the easy direction - empty load on the way back up) and it became noticeably slower towards the end but still got me up the hill. So I'd say it lasts over an hour.
by Kon5ole | 2026-02-05 08:50:33+00:00
I don't think it will work very well as a "normal" monitor (meaning placed at normal monitor distance on your desk).

My 55 is borderline too big already, and the main issue is actually the height. Tilting your head or rolling your eyes back to see the top gets noticeably uncomfortable pretty quickly.

I made a special mount so the lower edge basically rests on the desk surface which basically solved that issue, but I don't think I could have made it work if it was any bigger.

Also at 65 the pixel density is much lower, so you'd probably want it mounted further away. But if you do, the monitor will cover the same FOV as a smaller monitor anyway.

My dream is that someone starts making 8K 50" monitors with displayport inputs (HDMI is a mess) and sells them for the same price as these tv's used to cost!
by D-Machine | 2026-02-05 08:50:38+00:00
Right. It's not that you read (or where you read it, or how much you read), but what you read that matters. Always has been the case.

Replace "read" with "consume" for contemporary relevance, or to make it particularly clear how dumb "Reading [consuming] lots is good".

EDIT: A contemporary bestselling book example: https://www.amazon.ca/Morning-Glory-Milking-Cambric-Creek-eb...
by bandrami | 2026-02-05 08:51:06+00:00
Because people are just straight-up misinformed about this and get angry when I point this out rather than being happy to find out they were wrong. Here's an article from 2016 which was before the big wave of convictions happened in 2017-2019; it was 35 already at that point:

https://hartfordbusiness.com/article/fed-myth-busters-35-ban...

And, again, I'll remind you that until five minutes ago you thought the number was zero, and yet you're not happy to learn you're wrong. Puzzling.
by tombert | 2026-02-05 08:51:44+00:00
I am glad to see that they’re backing off from discontinuing. I would really, really like it if they would let me buy it outright instead of subscribing.

I’ve mentioned this on here before, but I stand by it: developing Flash is the most fun way I have found to program.

Now, part of this is because Flash was one of the first things that I learned to program, so it’s probably a big rose-tinted because i was younger and it was new, but even as a thirty-something I still have had a blast playing with Flash MX Pro (legally acquired, of course).

Flash is so interesting to me, because it is animation first, but the programming was bolted on pretty elegantly. You could animate something using professional tools, highlight it, make it a movie clip, and immediately export it to code and hack against that. Yeah it was hard to maintain for big projects but it was fun how quickly 15 year old tombert could go from a few drawings to a simple game.

I miss it.
by rvz | 2026-02-05 08:52:36+00:00
> Why do so many developers and sysadmins think they're not competent for hosting services.

Because those services solve the problem for them. It is the same thing with GitHub.

However, as predicted half a decade ago with GitHub becoming unreliable [0] and as price increases begin to happen, you can see that self-hosting begins to make more sense and you have complete control of the infrastructure and it has never been more easier to self host and bring control over costs.

> its also fun to solve technical issues you may have.

What you have just seen with coding agents is going to have the same effect on "developers" that will have a decline in skills the moment they become over-reliant on coding agents and won't be able to write a single line of code at all to fix a problem they don't fully understand.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
by Markoff | 2026-02-05 08:52:39+00:00
I highly doubt 60% have read book.

If you click the article it actually says "read or listened", so this includes also audiobooks, which is cheating, those 60% would shrink significantly without audiobooks.

And I don't think this is really US specific, it won't be much better elsewhere, most of the people just don't have energy/time to read book, they will rather watch content or read shorter articles.

Me as European also didn't read (or listened) book in years, I don't see the added value. After working and taking care of kids I will watch movie/TV show and maybe short time Youtube. I have to read lot of law documents and user guides as part of my work, those can be longer than some short books though, so not sure what this tells about me.

Meanwhile my kids are bookworms, they can easily read 5 books per week and I read book to them every evening (I didn't count these as my books, it's books for kids, I read to them for sure at least 20-30 books per year).
by danek_szy | 2026-02-05 08:53:13+00:00
If you want job opportunities to open up to your children, perhaps you should invest in parenting that teaches them good values (like hard work and good attitude), education and sense of agency in place of hoping some government agency will kidnap and deport enough immigrants (many of which are legal, like you btw) for market to offer enough demand for them.
The above point about „quality” of jobs „taken” by the immigrants is also very valid…
Show HN: Seele AI – Generate playable games from text prompts using MLLM
by qingmaoguo | 2026-02-05 08:53:15+00:00
I'm a co-founder of Seele AI. We are building a generative engine designed specifically for game development.

Unlike typical code-generation tools that rely on general-purpose LLMs, we have developed our own Multimodal LLM (MLLM) optimized for gaming. It doesn't just output text/code; it natively handles 3D models, spatial coordinates, and visual information to construct the game world.

Key Features:

Engine Support: We currently support real-time generation for Three.js and Unity WebGL.

Workflow: Think of it like "Claude Code" but for game creation. Instead of a single-shot generation (which rarely works for complex games), it’s an iterative process. You build the game step-by-step with the AI—refining mechanics, adjusting assets, and debugging in real-time.

Current Status:

You can successfully build basic demo-level games right now.

The Challenge: Our biggest focus is solving complex spatial understanding via our multimodal model. The AI sometimes struggles with intricate 3D spatial relationships, but we are pushing an update by the end of Q1 that should significantly improve this.

Try it out: We offer free credits upon registration so you can test the engine yourself.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the iteration workflow—does it feel intuitive to build a game this way?
by Terr_ | 2026-02-05 08:53:27+00:00
FWIW it wasn't took hard to make a little Dockerfile with python:2.7-alpine and have it bind-mount the a directory of data and run in there. (With a USER directive setting it to my UID.)

Note that its "pine" output format is... almost what Thunderbird wants, except for nested mailbox effects. That'll require renaming directories from foo to foo.sbd and sometimes adding a corresponding blank foo file.
by jstanley | 2026-02-05 08:53:54+00:00
I use a MIG welder but with flux-core wire and no gas, I got it about 12 years ago for £200 (new), it is a perfectly good machine and I am not a good enough welder to get the most out of it.

It's much cheaper than the laser stuff. It gets expensive if you want to use gas, but if you stick to flux-core you don't have to.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-05 08:53:55+00:00
RS2/OSRS definitely did have grind, but only grind that you sought out yourself. I don't believe there is a single quest that requires level 99 woodcutting or firemaking, you do it to earn a little token that shows that you did the grind.

There was also botting for money-making purposes. Real-world money to buy items wasn't much of a factor but obtaining resources still cost time and effort that many players (including myself) didn't particularly enjoy when you can only spend so much time on a game every week.

Botting to level up skills kind of misses the point, in my opinion. What's the point of a skill cape if you didn't do the grind yourself? Botting to earn in-game money makes a lot of sense, though: skip the grind to be able to afford armour and go straight for the interesting quests and fights.

I think RuneScape's choice to lock content behind a paywall rather than connect real money to timers/in-game items was the right one.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-05 08:54:11+00:00
You can just rent the rack space in datacenter and have that covered. It's still much cheaper than running that in cloud.

It doesn't make sense if you only have few servers, but if you are renting equivalent of multiple racks of servers from cloud and run them for most of the day, on-prem is staggeringly cheaper.

We have few racks and we do "move to cloud" calculation every few years and without fail they come up at least 3x the cost.

And before the "but you need to do more work" whining I hear from people that never did that - it's not much more than navigating forest of cloud APIs and dealing with random blackbox issues in cloud that you can't really debug, just go around it.
by bonesss | 2026-02-05 08:54:30+00:00
For mature Enterprises my understanding is that the financial math works out such that the cloud becomes smart for market validation, before moving to cheaper long term solution once revenue is stable.

Scale up, prove the market and establish operations on the credit card, and if it doesn’t work the money moves onto more promising opportunities. If the operation is profitable you transition away from the too expensive cloud to increase profitability, and use the operations incoming revenue to pay for it (freeing up more money to chase more promising opportunities).

Personally I can’t imagine anything outside of a hybrid approach, if only to maintain power dynamics with suppliers on both sides. Price increases and forced changes can be met with instant redeployments off their services/stack, creating room for more substantive negotiations. When investments come in the form of saving time and money, it’s not hard to get everyone aligned.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-05 08:54:55+00:00
> With the sorry state the software industry is currently in, I’m not surprised that developers would sell their soul in exchange for the peace of mind of being able to pay rent and food

You really think adtech is the way to avoid starving on the street? There are a hell of a lot of jobs between entry level and adtech dev that could give you the same basic peace of mind.
I Built a Claude Code Plugin That Detects and Blocks It Before Changes Happen
by andreahlert | 2026-02-05 08:56:25+00:00
We've all been there: You give Claude Code a simple prompt like "Fix the typo in utils.js," and suddenly it's refactoring your entire config file or adding unrelated imports. This isn't just annoying - it's scope creep, where the AI oversteps the task boundaries, introducing unauthorized modifications that can erode trust, bloat your codebase, and create security risks. But what if we treated scope creep not as an inevitable quirk of LLMs, but as something we can proactively guard against?

Inspired by discussions here and on X about AI agents going rogue with hallucinations or excessive edits, I decided to build Scope Guard: a lightweight plugin for Claude Code that intervenes before the agent completes its work, ensuring edits stay strictly within your specified intent.

Why Scope Creep Matters
Scope creep happens because LLMs like Claude are trained to be helpful, but without explicit boundaries, they infer too much—leading to changes in files you didn't mention, or additions that seem "obviously" related but aren't. In production workflows, this means more time debugging, reviewing, or rolling back. Recent threads (like those on hallucinations in Claude Code) show this is a growing pain point as we rely more on AI for coding.

Introducing Scope Guard
Scope Guard is a zero-dependency JavaScript plugin that hooks into Claude Code's lifecycle to enforce prompt adherence. It's minimalist by design: no API keys, no config files, just plug-and-play.

Key Features:
Prompt Capture: Saves your original instruction for reference.

Real-Time Change Tracking: Logs edits asynchronously without slowing down the agent.

Strict Evaluation: Uses Git diffs to analyze modifications post-tool use. Only allows changes to explicitly mentioned files or those logically essential (e.g., a test file for a function update). Everything else? Blocked as scope creep.

User-Friendly Intervention: If creep is detected, it halts completion and explains why, with options to approve, undo, or refine your prompt.

Cleanup Script: Keeps your project tidy by removing old session data.

How It Works
Install via /plugins add https://github.com/andreahlert/scope-guard in Claude Code.

On prompt submit, it captures the intent.

As the agent edits, changes are tracked.

Before stopping, it evaluates: Is this file mentioned? Is the change required? If not—bam, intervention.

Examples:

Allowed: Prompt "Add email validation to auth.js" → Edits auth.js and auth.test.js.

Blocked: Same prompt → Tries to tweak unrelated db.js? Nope.

It's licensed under AGPL-3.0, and the repo is open for contributions. Check it out here: https://github.com/andreahlert/scope-guard. Star it if this resonates, fork it if you want to hack on it, or drop feedback in the issues—I'd love to hear how it fits (or doesn't) in your workflow.

What do you think? Have you run into scope creep with Claude Code? Let's discuss below!

Cheers,
André
by nosianu | 2026-02-05 08:56:30+00:00
Those using memes along the lines of "nobody is illegal" (sometimes "on stolen land" is added)? This is a movement not limited to the US. Here in Europe there is a similar movement, using that same slogan. They don't want any borders or border enforcement at all.

Merely for illustration, a single example: https://abc7.com/post/protests-expected-socal-part-nationwid...

> Protesters were seen carrying flags, signs and spraying graffiti on nearby property, including on the U.S. Courthouse sign where it read "No one is illegal on stolen land".
by yrro | 2026-02-05 08:56:41+00:00
I've lost faith that Linux distros will ever fix the problem where some PCR changes and the TPM refuses to unseal the key... the user is left with a recovery passphrase prompt & no way to verify whether they have been attacked by the 'evil maid', or whether it was just because of a kernel or kernel command line or initrd or initrd module change, etc.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-05 08:56:50+00:00
Which in the end one has to make peace that the Year of Linux Desktop is better as a UNIX like headless system running on Apple Virtualization, or WSL VMs.

On one side we have X not getting updates, as key devs moved into Wayland, on the other side we have Wayland, which is reaching Hurd levels of development time, with issues like these, being in development since 2008(!).

Then we have the whole issues with audio stacks, reversed enginered 3D drivers although all GPU vendors have their own Linux distros for AI researchers, video hardware decoding still hit and miss,....