MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sejje | 2026-02-10 15:40:25+00:00
The problem with those opinions is they add next to nothing, and they often have the least experience with the things they're critiquing.

Those of us who want to explore what people are doing have to wade through piles of comments saying the same thing, with very little difference from comment to comment.

That said, the opinion is quite valid. I think many people will continue to have no use for agents.
by cowpig | 2026-02-10 15:40:27+00:00
No, man.

> when time comes to vote on policies, having read everyone, you may consider their point of view a bit more.

Trying to be impartial, trying to understand all the points of view, is a noble effort. It's impossible to do, but the process of trying is how you can achieve the best version of truth. Seems like I agree with you here.

And that's what the best newspapers do.

I need people to be making an honest effort to understand all the perspectives and distilling them down for me.

If nobody is doing that, then it makes my job (the job of understanding everyones' perspectives) a lot harder, because it's an exercise in multi-player adversarial thinking.
by dgacmu | 2026-02-10 15:40:33+00:00
I think the Oxide computer LLM guidelines are wise on this front:

> Finally, LLM-generated prose undermines a social contract of sorts: absent LLMs, it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken the greater intellectual exertion. (That is, it is more work to write than to read!) For the reader, this is important: should they struggle with an idea, they can reasonably assume that the writer themselves understands it — and it is the least a reader can do to labor to make sense of it.

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576#_llms_as_writers

The heavy use of LLMs in writing makes people rightfully distrustful that they should put the time in to try to read what's written there.

Using LLMs for coding is different in many ways from writing, because the proof is more there in the pudding - you can run it, you can test it, etc. But the writing _is_ the writing, and the only way to know it's correct is to put in the work.

That doesn't mean you didn't put in the work! But I think it's why people are distrustful and have a bit of an allergic reaction to LLM-generated writing.
by nightpool | 2026-02-10 15:40:45+00:00
Firstly, nobody is actually calling for authentication using client certificates. We use "normal" server certificates and validate the usual way

I'm not sure I understand this point. You authenticate the data you receive using the client's certificate. How is that "nobody is calling for authentication using client certificates"? Maybe there's some nuance I'm missing here but if you're authenticating the data you're receiving based on the client's certificate, then how is that "validating the usual way"?
by JPLeRouzic | 2026-02-10 15:40:50+00:00
Thanks for your insights.

I believe you might be a bit pessimistic. The USA studied nuclear ramjets in the 1950, as well as thermal nuclear rockets. Russia has a nuclear propelled missile [0].

India is studying nuclear propulsion [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

[1] https://www.indiandefensenews.in/2025/02/isro-successfully-s...
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-10 15:40:50+00:00
> Section 1255 generally requires a lawful admission before
a person can obtain LPR status. Sanchez was not lawfully
admitted, and his TPS does not alter that fact. He therefore
cannot become a permanent resident of this country.

Do you have any evidence this man entered the USA illegally? Seems to me he obviously had a 90 day tourist visa when he entered the country at least. Sounds like lawful admission to me.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-10 15:40:53+00:00
I always find it entertaining to hear people try to argue that what these companies do is soooooo difficult and that's why they're valuable. It's just multiple computers keeping a balance. It's not complicated.

No, these companies keep themselves in power not because they've solved such a difficult problem that nobody else can, but because they have a moat which they protect.

Time to do away with these foreign entities.
by myrmidon | 2026-02-10 15:41:01+00:00
I have no doubt that this has positive effects on the national economy as a whole (you get workers, on demand, without really paying for raising, educating, training them), but it is not really sustainable because population growth is low/negative pretty much everywhere, and it also leads to significant pushback from cultural friction and local workers (that dislike competition).

You could argue that the whole rise of somwhat radical rightwing parties all over Europe is mainly the result of policies like this during the last half century...
by mothballed | 2026-02-10 15:41:02+00:00
The Social Security system relies on creating a debt of unborn children to older people based on those older people having already paid now dead people, so keeping it solvent requires more meat for the tax machine.

A pyramid inversion means the old keep voting for OPM from the young, using their numbers to crush them, meanwhile there are fewer and fewer young to actually pay it. Eventually creating instability, couple this with entitlement "I paid that dead guy, so that kid owes me!" (of course, abstracted, as "the government owes me" to hide the kinetics) and you are in a bad spot.

---------- edit: reply to below since I am throttled -----

yes under any system youth are needed. But SS creates a tragedy of the commons. Because retired get benefit of children whether they have/adopt/foster the children or not. In most other systems, the link is more direct, so there is greater incentive to have or adopt child and provide investment in the child, as their success is directly linked to yours. In SS system you can reneg on most of the responsibility of creating the engines of the next generation but still simply scalp that investment off someone else, and indeed still get roughly the same share without making the investment. Obviously there is great moral hazard to simply scalp the benefit of children without having to make the investment yourself, and SS is all to happy to provide that.
by almosthere | 2026-02-10 15:41:06+00:00
11 and now 45. I am still interested in it, but I feel like in my 20s I would get a dopamine rush when a row showed up in a database. In my 30s I would get that only if a message passed through a system and updated on-screen analytics within 10 seconds. Thank god for LLMs because all of it became extremely boring, I can't stand having to get these little milestones each new company or each new product I'm working on. At least with LLMs the dopamine hit comes from being in awe of the code that gets generated and realizing it found every model, every messaging system interface, every API, and figuring out how to make it backwards compatible, updating the UI - something that would take half a day, now in 5 minutes or less.
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by mavenvik_ai | 2026-02-10 15:41:21+00:00
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by FuriouslyAdrift | 2026-02-10 15:41:37+00:00
Yeah, they're not going to go up against the nVidia NVL72, NVL144 or AMDs UAL systems

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb200-nvl72/
https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2025/amd-delivering-open-rack-s...
by toast0 | 2026-02-10 15:41:41+00:00
Facebook had a serious internal propaganda arm when I was there. Couldn't manage to get floor length stall walls in most of the bathrooms, but every stall had a weekly newsletter about whatever product stuff.

Every high traffic flat space on the wall would be covered with a poster, most of them with designs lifted from US WWII propaganda, many hard to tell if satire or not. I was surprised there was never one about carpooling with der füher.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-10 15:41:42+00:00
I know that it doesn't. Greed will be ever-present, yes, but that doesn't mean that it's a one-way ratchet. It's something we have to keep fighting against all the time. Greed starts out as a driver of progress, then eventually becomes an impediment to progress. The other constant there is progress! No dam will block a river forever.
by danbitengo | 2026-02-10 15:41:48+00:00
Try it now: https://localwrite-demo.fly.dev

Open in two tabs, join a room, start typing. That's the pitch.

SyncKit is an offline-first sync engine. Rust core compiled to WASM, TypeScript SDK, works in any framework.

What's new since v0.1.0 (which some of you saw here 75 days ago):

- Live demo (LocalWrite) - collaborative editor you can try right now

- Rich text CRDTs (Fugue + Peritext) not just LWW anymore

- Live cursors and presence

- React/Vue/Svelte adapters

- Multi-language servers (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#)

- 2,100+ tests, formally verified with TLA+

The demo shows character-level sync, slash commands, a community Word Wall, and offline editing. Disconnect your network, keep typing, reconnect - it merges automatically.

Known limitations:

- SDK undo/redo not yet wired into the demo editor (browser native works)

- No E2E encryption yet

Security note on the demo: LocalWrite is a public collaborative space with no authentication. Rooms are accessible to anyone with the URL and so don't share sensitive or personal data. The server sees all content in plaintext. Rate limiting and input validation are in place, but there's no content moderation or identity verification. Treat it like a public whiteboard.

GitHub: https://github.com/Dancode-188/synckit

npm: @synckit-js/sdk

Happy to answer questions about the CRDT implementation, architecture, or anything else.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-10 15:42:01+00:00
Your specific claim may indeed be true, but it's misleading. The relationship between income and children is U-shaped. From middle incomes to higher incomes, fertility rises. It is also important to point out that income is tied to other factors in America. You're going to disproportionately find your $500k earners in a handful of superstar coastal cities. Those things need to be controlled for if you want to isolate the effect of income on family size.
by badhorseman | 2026-02-10 15:42:06+00:00
Your posts this thread have been seemingly in bad faith and have taken rather blatant non-sequiturs made. The post by 'goga-piven' said that the pictures where embarrassing not actually one should feel shame and embarrassment. His meaning I believe is that the image is meant to embarrass a people and humiliate them or just portray them contemptibly that is to me clearly his meaning of 'embarrassing image'.

My comment was to try and highlight this is the point of various racist depictions and that if one is powerless then indeed this can become an embarrassing shame. Maybe it's the case that you do not see it that way, but in any kind of bondage that a group of people are subject to, shame, embarrassment will follow along with many other feelings. I was not say a white person should be embarrassed and I don't think 'goga-piven' was. rather they could be manifestations of contempt or other hostile emotions on the authors part.

>Why? I don't see that. Are black people embarrassed if a black person commits a crime, yet not embarrassed if a white person commits a crime? That sounds very contrived to me and not at all how things work in reality.

I did not make a point about black people being embarrassed at black people committing a crime, I was more thinking the kind of collective guilt some German people speak of for Nazism, I made not prescriptive claims on the shame or embarrassment only that these are ways that people do behave.

> I also don't understand this. Why would every white person feel any sort of embarrassment over images denigrating white people? Feel hate, anger or lots of other emotions, that'd make sense. But I still don't understand why "embarrassment" or shame is even on the table, embarrassment over what exactly? That there are racists?

You have subtly changed your position hear to one where it's not an absurdity to feel an emotional response to an image that denigrates your people.

of-course this was not the most pressing issue, the more important one would be the intent of the image. seemed to ignore that part entirely even though that is the main question. you made claims of missing context in other threads I made some preemptive counter arguments. Do tell me a more plausible context, if the one I provided is incorrect.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 | 2026-02-10 15:42:15+00:00
Is housing really that expensive? When you price out a loan on a starter house it really ain't that bad. I'm a recent first time homebuyer and I don't understand why people think they aren't affordable. There were plenty of cheaper homes that I looked at and even with rates at their highest would be cheaper than my rent.

Do people expect a palace? Are there more unmarried people today who can't afford it alone?
by seec | 2026-02-10 15:42:15+00:00
Well, those people are resistant to facts and logic.

But when you think about it, their survival depends on it, so it makes perfect sense.
Most of those making those arguments have cushy bullshit jobs, completely dependent on stealing the work of others to live. Funnily enough, you would pay them to do nothing; it would be preferable for society because it would cost less money, and they wouldn't be able to create insane bureaucracy to satisfy their power trip.

But it doesn't matter; reality has a way to always catch up and expose the liars. The system is clearly unsustainable, and enemies have been probing for weakness for a while now. It's unclear how long we have left until a full-strength attack happens but it seems hard to avoid now.
by yabones | 2026-02-10 15:42:26+00:00
I have great compassion for the people who sort these things out. It takes a lot of skill and experience to pick up the pieces of something like Github and get it working properly again. I'm sure it's exhausting having problem after problem, endlessly chasing down sev-0 bugs in production.

But I have nothing but disdain for the management that won't listen to those people.
by NickC25 | 2026-02-10 15:42:44+00:00
Upvoting you because all the Zuck worshipers and meta stockholders downvoted you for speaking the truth.

The guy is worth a quarter trillion dollars and doesn't seem intent on calling it a day, and insists on destroying society's youth so he can make more money. Intelligent or not, that's a mental disease.

Imagine having that sort of money where if 99% was taken away, you'd still have over 2 billion dollars to your name....and you refuse to just walk away and focus on things like your family, making the world a better place, or just enjoying your life. Tom took the money for MySpace and actually seems to enjoy time with his family, traveling, doing photography, etc.

For all his (many) faults, Gates took a look at the polio virus and said "I'm bigger than you" and pretty much spent until it was wiped out. Doesn't counteract the bad or the Epstein stuff at all, but wiping out polio has helped people.

Mark's done jack shit to genuinely help people besides his shareholders and his immediate family. One might argue that his whole bunker thing is an indicator that he's realized he's done tremendous damage to society, but instead of fixing it, he's insulating himself for when the proverbial bomb goes off.
by bawolff | 2026-02-10 15:43:31+00:00
While google did do a lot of work on making https by default be a thing, that is only a small part of what im refering to. Google did huge amount of work to make https high quality, so that sites using it were actually secure. They increased standards for CAs significantly, took a much tougher line on CAs who violated the rules, pushed certificate transparency hard (which is probably one of the most important developments for security of TLS ecosystem). Chrome was the first browser to support HSTS which is very important for https to work in practise. Google maintains the hsts preload list.

Google didn't just make TLS popular, they made it secure.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-10 15:43:39+00:00
Might there be an astronomer in the house, to roughly quantify the size & velocity breakdown of the 1.1 million tons of debris which an impact would throw into space?

Especially how much would fall back onto the moon. With no atmosphere, that stuff would have velocities up to ~2.4km/sec. Pretty unhealthy for lunar landers, equipment, habitats, astronauts...
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-10 15:43:53+00:00
I'm weird about this, I choose to use AI to get feedback on my writing, but refuse to just copy and paste the AIs words. I only do it if its a short work email and I really dont care about its short lived lifespan, if its supposed to be an email where the discussion continues, then I refine it. I can write a LOT. If HN has edit count logs, I've probably got the high score.
by ncruces | 2026-02-10 15:43:54+00:00
I have.

Just this month I've burned through 80% of my Copilot quota of Claude Opus 4.6 in a couple of days to get it to help me with a silly hobby project: https://github.com/ncruces/dbldbl

It did help. The project had been sitting for 3 years without trig and hyperbolic trig, and in a couple days of spare time I'm adding it. Some of it through rubber ducking chat and/or algorithmic papers review (give me formulas, I'll do it), some through agent mode (give me code).

But if you review the PR written in agent mode, the model still lies to my face, in trivial but hard to verify ways.
Like adding tests that say cosh(1) is this number at that OEIS link, and both the number and the OEIS link are wrong, but obviously tests pass because it's a lie.

I'm not trying to bash the tech. I use it at work in limited but helpful ways, and use hobby stuff like this as a testbed precisely to try to figure out what they're good at in a low stakes setting.

But you trust the plausibly looking output of these things at your own peril.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-10 15:43:55+00:00
>obacoo, I do not think these products are engineered for addiction,

Cigarettes were 100% engineered for addiction.

>I do not imagine these companies to build these products in a way that maximises their addiction.

Holy hell, you need to go watch the big tobacco trials of the past to see the CEOs knew exactly what they were doing. And then how much they spent on outright buying scientists to say bullshit so they could drag the matter on for years.

Tobacco set the stage for companies to use doubt of every kind to hide their intentional actions.
by eirpoeior | 2026-02-10 15:44:03+00:00
Is there any feasible way to implement search client-side on a database of this scale?

I guess you would need some sort of search term to document id mapping that gets downloaded to the browser but maybe there's something more efficient than trying to figure out what everyone might be searching for in advance?

And how would you do searching for phrases or substrings? I've no idea if that's doable without having a database server-side that has the whole document store to search through.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-10 15:44:07+00:00
Thank you for taking a moment to reply.

Firstly, I have met very few malicious people in my career. Most of the really destructive people are products of their environments. It is complicated, but it is normally an incentives problem, most commonly status/ power rather than monetary. Often they have created blocking processes that the company sees as some sort of control or policing. It tends to be rather easy to change that if you are their boss. It is harder, but not impossible as a colleague. Often the application of cold hard rigorous logic, an understanding of the real controls etc. Can unstick them.

I work in a 100k person company at the moment (admittedly I'm not in charge of that many of them), so I understand the problem of scale, but I would counter that the changes neede are rather subtle. I think much can be achieved by focusing on the 20 people at the top. Culture cascades. For example if you dig in over a KPI not being achieved, when someone explains that it is counterproductive, or conflicts with another KPI, how do you think they will manage their team in future?
by throw_a_grenade | 2026-02-10 15:44:14+00:00
This is good point. I think it would still be discounted in favour of suggesting another CAs that users can switch to, but you're right, the promise was that cert management would be hands off, and changing CAs is not hands off in any ACME client that I know of. Best Google could do would be to shift the blame to LE/ISRG, because it was ISRG that promised this automation.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-02-10 15:44:17+00:00
Yes, I think where we ought to point the microscope is important - that's the judgement. Let devs focus the microscope on the essential stuff, the business-existential stuff, and let the tools remove the burden of having to deal with anything that's not fundamental to the solution of the problem. The tools, now, are just not structured to make this problem easy. There's a lot of mixing of what's essential and accidental that becomes unmanageable quickly - spaghetti novo. It will be an interesting journey. It'll take humans and machines (directed by humans) to line up on an agreement on where the microscope should aim.
by varjag | 2026-02-10 15:44:23+00:00
High vacuum in enormous volumes maybe. Otherwise it was certainly a problem solved decades ago.

Not sure what role of EUV optics was in LHC. But Zeiss would develop you anything on the frontier of optics if you have deep enough pockets.

The rest I don't know enough to comment on, but as far as technology goes both LHC and EUV lithography are bespoke systems. Seriously doubt there is any path dependency. Huge part of LHC cost were earthworks and precision construction of complex machinery at enormous scale.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-10 15:44:26+00:00
>I think the "cost of living" explanation for low birthrates is just wrong

If you're demanding it be all-or-nothing, then sure it is "wrong". It obviously isn't the only reason. As countries get richer, people have fewer kids.

Is it a factor? Of course it is. Children are incredibly expensive if you subscribe to modern norms and expectations. There are many, many, many people who want kids but can't afford it, and if they do have a kid it's prohibitive having more than 1. Two is basically financial suicide for many. And to be clear, I have four children which is a luxury of being in a financially rewarding career at the right time, but even still it was unbelievably tough making it happen.

"anecdote: my grandmother had 17 siblings"

Standards change. You understand that, right? If you're middle class in 2026, the expectations around having and raising a child are very, very different from someone sixty years ago. People generally aren't keen on having six kids sharing a room these days. Even bunkbeds are considered poor by many. Now since both parents will have to work, account for childcare, massive vehicles, education savings, and so on.