MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-06 16:11:25+00:00
I mean, also not in my back yard if the people who don't own the land vote for a bunch of micro managerial laws that make it illegal to do things without jumping through hoops that are so expensive as to be a non-starter.

Nobody is gonna go through the "everything else" approval process that strip clubs and heavy industry have to go through just to expand their business parking or do $10k of environmental impact assessment to drop off a $1k garden shed. (literal examples from my town).

These evil people can't make things illegal outright so they make the process so expensive almost nobody can do it and it takes decades for someone to come along with a lucrative enough development that's worth expensively challenging it inn court over.
by antonvs | 2026-02-06 16:11:52+00:00
*superseded

It comes from the Latin "supersedēre", which taken literally, means "sit on top of". "Super" = above, on top of. "Sedēre" = to sit.

"Super" is already familiar to English speakers. "Sedēre" is the root of words like sedentary, sedan, sedate, reside, and preside.

The more metaphorical meaning of "supersede" as "replace" developed over time and across languages, but the literal meaning is already fairly close.
Show HN: Ruby-libgd – Native 2D graphics engine for Ruby (no CLI, no JavaScript)
by ggerman2025 | 2026-02-06 16:12:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I built *ruby-libgd*, a native Ruby binding to the libgd graphics library.

The goal is to provide a lightweight, in-process 2D graphics engine for Ruby — not an image manipulation wrapper, but a canvas-based drawing API with deterministic rendering.

Unlike tools like MiniMagick (which wrap ImageMagick CLI), ruby-libgd runs entirely in-process and exposes explicit drawing primitives: lines, shapes, text, fonts, colors, and pixel-level control.

Simple example:

```ruby
img = GD::Image.new(400, 300)
white = GD::Color.rgb(255, 255, 255)
black = GD::Color.rgb(0, 0, 0)

img.rectangle(20, 20, 200, 150, black)
img.text("Hello Ruby", x: 30, y: 40, color: black)

img.save("output.png")
by joshuaheard | 2026-02-06 16:12:43+00:00
Rancho Palos Verdes is a small established hillside community with equestrian 1 - 5 acre lots. The absurdity of adding 650 homes to this area is astounding. Right next door is Hawthorne which has plenty of space for such housing. Activists like this person, lobbying a city they have no relation to, to enforce an overreaching state law, are part of what is making people and companies leave California.
by prewett | 2026-02-06 16:12:44+00:00
Going around to municipalities that you are not a resident of and saying "we will sue you into obeying state law" is basically being a tattletale. Nobody likes that. I'm sympathetic to more housing, and I think state laws should be followed, but I'm not sympathetic to the author.

Also, I just dislike activism in general, which seems like it generally is trying to force people to do things they don't want to do through passing laws. I get that there is sometimes a need raise attention. But generally it seems like activists are very one-sided, agenda/ideologically driven. It also feels like they are trying to find meaning in activism (yeah, we forced other people to do what we think is Right), instead of healthier, more traditional forms of meaning.
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-06 16:12:44+00:00
They were sued by the current administration and recorded as domestic terrorists,held down and sprayed in the face by irregular paramilitary with extrajudicial powers, detained without probable cause or charges, investigated by the FBI in the dead of night, placed on no fly lists, post retirement rank demoted, fired, laid off, swatted, delivered pizza in the name of dead relatives, and all the wonderful stuff that’s making America great again.
by wordsunite | 2026-02-06 16:13:06+00:00
This is one of the reasons I’m so glad Anthropic (at least for now) is positioning itself away from ads in chats as a monetization strategy. It was so nice to see a company shifting AWAY from the enshitification of products. I’m disheartened to see the recent stumbles by Apple, this Taboola association just seems so sketchy. It’s quite a jarring juxtaposition when you see those types of ads next to important stories. Even on other news sites. I just don’t get it. I mean, I get it from they “hey more money for shareholders” angle, but not from a “this is worth cheapening our brand, making our products worse and not caring about what users/customers actually want” angle.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-06 16:13:23+00:00
Yes. Karl Popper's 'Paradox of Tolerance' applies. TL,DR: tolerating intolerance turns out to be a bad idea.

Glancing at your user page, this should be an exercise in preaching to the choir. You do understand that the only reason the Republicans in the US support Israel is because embracing fundamentalist Christian eschatology gets them votes they don't have to work for. Right?
by tracker1 | 2026-02-06 16:13:25+00:00
Of course... it's definitely interesting. I'm also thinking that there are times where you insource vs outsource to a SaaS that's going to do the job for you and you have one less thing to really worry about. Comparing cost to begin with was just a point I was curious about, so I ran the numbers. I can totally see a point where you have that power in a local developer workstation (power requirements notwithstanding), good luck getting that much power to an outlet in your home office. Let alone other issues.

Right now, I think we've probably got 3-5 years of manufacturing woes to work through and another 3-5 years beyond that to get power infrastructure where it needs to be to support it... and even then, I don't think all the resources we can reasonably throw at a combination of mostly nuclear and solar will get there as quickly as it's needed.

That also doesn't consider the bubble itself, or the level of poor to mediocre results altogether even at the frontier level. I mean for certain tasks, it's very close to human efforts in a really diminished timeframe, for others it isn't... and even then, people/review/qa/qc will become the bottleneck for most things in practice.

I've managed to get weeks of work done in a day with AI, but then still have to follow-up for a couple days of iteration on following features... still valuable, but it's mixed. I'm more bullish today than even a few months ago all the same.
Show HN: An iOS mileage tracker I built because I hate forced logins
by Akzid | 2026-02-06 16:13:26+00:00
I built this because I couldn’t find a mileage app that worked the way I wanted.

Most apps either force you to create an account, upload everything to their servers, or try to automate everything in a way that breaks real-world workflows.

I wanted manual start so I’m always in control, automatic stop so I don’t forget, no accounts, no backend, no tracking, and something that works even when I’m busy and not thinking about the app.

The app stores data locally and syncs via iCloud only. No servers, no analytics SDKs.

Happy to answer questions about the design choices or iOS implementation.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-06 16:13:35+00:00
I think the back yard in all of these initialism is not limited to the person’s private back yard property.

NIMBY seeks to prevent the development of nearby properties to preserve some sort of “neighborhood character,” so the “back yard” is actually the whole neighborhood (and I think part of the negative connotation of that phrase is that they are treating shared spaces like their own personal yard). Then, YIMBY seeks to allow their neighborhoods to be developed.

If we’re going to extend it to “YIYBY” and “NIYBY,” we should apply the same logic, right?

Rather, I think YIYBY mostly doesn’t make sense because YIMBY people are trying to convince people that they should allow development in their neighborhood. Zoning rules… I mean, they have difference policies for changing them, but YIMBY activists aren’t usually manually and unilaterally changing them for other people.

Ultimately the decision making process is probably (depending on local regulation of course) “yes or no in our back yards,” when you get down to the details.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-06 16:13:50+00:00
List the rational arguments in favor of the so-called "right-leaning" point of view (OP's term, not mine) with respect to the Pretti killing. Spoiler: there are no such arguments, effective or otherwise. To apologists it looks like a Rorschach test; to normal people it looks like a snuff film, brought to us by the same studio that is now distributing child pornography.

Meanwhile, it's possible to favor free enterprise, (genuinely) smaller government, low taxes, free trade, and other so-called "right-leaning" perspectives without joining a slack-jawed personality cult that demands that you deny the evidence of your own eyes.
by Quarrelsome | 2026-02-06 16:13:52+00:00
its not necessarily "capitalism". Think about how Myspace was, or early Facebook, that was capitalism but didn't have the same issues.

Its the "lean startup" culture as well as books like "Hooked, how to build habit forming products" - Nir Eyal.

The dark lean startup pattern is where you break down the big picture rationale for the company. You extract metrics that contribute to the company's success (i.e. engagement) and you build a machine that rewards changes to the underlying system that improves those metrics.

If done successfully, you create an unwitting sociopathy, a process that demands the product be as addictive as possible and a culture that is in thrall to the machine that rewards its employees by increasing those metrics. You're no longer thinking about purpose or wondering about what you're doing to your users. You simply realise that if you send this notification at this time, with this colour button, in this place, with this tagline then the machine likes it. Multiple people might contribute a tiny piece of a horrifying and manipulative whole and may never quite realise the true horror of the monster they've helped build, because they're insulated by being behind the A/B test.
by epistasis | 2026-02-06 16:13:54+00:00
For this to be anything like "so you hate waffles" there would have to somebody going around declaring to all that "all breakfast foods are good and can not be criticized" and them only showing up to defend pancakes on the basis of "all breakfast foods" but then deafening silence when waffles or bacon or scrambled eggs get trampled on in a far more prevalant manner.

Even the one reply to me from a self-proclaimed absolutist didn't bother to defend the political speech and petition of government, just said that they were present!
by runjake | 2026-02-06 16:14:15+00:00
I grew up hacking in the 1980s and I watched this movie and I totally hated it. Me and the hackers around me were more like War Games, but with skateboards and BMX bikes. On our best days, I likened us to the characters in the movie Sneakers, but no way, they were far more elite than us.

Then this Hackers movie came out and it seemed like a laughable clown caricature of hacker culture. It was insulting, like I imagine Big Bang Theory is to many.

Then I went to the Bay Area, and hung out at places like New Hack City and 2600 meetings, and I loved those people and the movie made more sense:

- War Games was a movie for 1980s hackers.

- Hackers was a movie about 1990s hackers.

So I re-watched the movie. I still hated it. But, I get it.

And no, I've no idea which movies are a similar anthem for 2000s/2010s hackers. Let me know.
by thesz | 2026-02-06 16:15:01+00:00
> Yeah, this is a bullshit article. There is no such degradation, and it’s absurd to say so on the basis of a single problem which the author describes as technically impossible. It is a very contrived under-specified prompt.

I see "No True Scotsman" argument above.

> My evidence is that RL is more relevant is that that’s what every single researcher and frontier lab employee I’ve heard speak about LLMs in the past year has said.

Reinforcement learning reinforces what is already in the LM, makes width of search path of possible correct answer narrower and wider search path in not-RL-tuned base models results in more correct answers [1].

[1] https://openreview.net/forum?id=4OsgYD7em5

> I have never once heard any of them mention new sources of pretraining data, except maybe synthetic data they generate and verify themselves, which contradicts the author’s story because it’s not shitty code grabbed off the internet.

The sources of training data already were the reasons for allegations, even leading to lawsuits. So I would suspect that no engineer from any LLM company would disclose anything on their sources of training data besides innocently sounding "synthetic data verified by ourselves."

From the days I have worked on blockchains, I am very skeptical about any company riding any hype. They face enormous competition and they will buy, borrow or steal their way to try to not go down even a little. So, until Anthropic opens the way they train their model so that we can reproduce their results, I will suspect they leaked test set into it and used users code generation conversation as new source of training data.
by seanieb | 2026-02-06 16:15:03+00:00
Built this after the FBI raided a Washington Post reporter's home last month. The search warrant had a section called "Biometric Unlock" giving agents permission to use her face and fingers to get into her devices.

On iOS you can squeeze the side buttons and Face ID's gone. Two seconds, works in your pocket. macOS has nothing like it.

PanicLock sits in your menu bar. One click (or keyboard shortcut)locks the screen but asks for a password. When you log back in Touch ID will still be active. Free, notarized and no data collection.

There's good reasons to keep Touch ID on day-to-day. It stops people watching you type your password, cameras catching it, that sort of thing. This is just for when you need it off sharpish.

More on the legal side of things (circuit split on compelled biometrics, border searches, etc.): https://paniclock.github.io

Happy to answer questions or hear what you think.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-06 16:15:07+00:00
That's a very theoretical argument, and there's nothing stopping people in region Y from building all the housing they could possibly need in region Y. If it's such a great idea, region Y will thrive and reap the rewards of this policy.

And my point is that there are limits on the impact region X has on region Y based on their proximity. Should someone in downtown LA be able to compel someone in Palo Alto to upzone based on this "impact"? What about someone in Kansas or Florida?
by ETH_start | 2026-02-06 16:15:11+00:00
Saying "investors with hundreds of billions decided it" makes it sound like a few people just chose the outcome, when in reality prices and capital move because millions of consumers, companies, workers, and smaller investors keep making choices every day. Big investors only make money if their decisions match what people actually want; they can't just command success. If they guess wrong, others profit by allocating money better, so having influence isn't the same as having control.

The system isn't mathematically perfect, but that doesn't make it arbitrary. It works through an evolutionary process: bad bets lose money, better ones gain more resources.

Any claim that the outcome is suboptimal only really means something if the claimant can point to a specific alternative that would reliably do better under the same conditions. Otherwise critics are mostly just expressing personal frustration with the outcome.
by ericmcer | 2026-02-06 16:15:31+00:00
It does feel sometimes like you can't escape. I got tired of the nonstop noise and loud cars of a big city and moved to a smaller suburb. Then I learned about Leaf Blowers. If every neighbor has gardeners come at ~7am once every two weeks, the odds are you will wake up to the soothing sound of a 2 stroke Leaf Blower almost every morning!
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-06 16:16:00+00:00
Sure. At this point, what matters more to me imho is in effect the Plan stage where I refine my crude specification, iteratively and repeatedly, until I work out all the flaws and minimally necessary details in it. This is hard to do and uses up a lot of tokens, and it is where a lot of my initial effort goes. I have literally repeatedly exhausted my token quota just in this stage alone. I can take then take this refined specification to even a dumb agent from a year ago, and it would have no trouble producing decent code for it. This refined spec is what is equally important to me as the code. Tests, both unit and integration, also go hand in hand with the spec, although they're less important to me if I am carefully reviewing every line of code, and more important when vibe coding instead.
by adolph | 2026-02-06 16:16:12+00:00
Yeah, to see the packages with multiple versions:

grep 'name = ' ms-litebox-Cargo.lock | sort | uniq -c | grep -v '1 name' | sort -n

Package windows-sys has the highest number of versions included, 3: 0.59.0, 0.60.2, and 0.61.2.

Edit: Also, beware of the unsorted uniq count:

cat <<EOF | uniq -c
> a
> a
> b
> a
> a
> EOF
2 a
1 b
2 a
by rmunn | 2026-02-06 16:16:13+00:00
Thing is, better food is available to the poor as well, you just have to be willing to put in the work for it. Buy vegetables and make salads instead of spending the same amount of money at McDonald's, for example. The price of fresh vegetables at Walmart has never been out of reach even for someone working 40 hours for minimum wage. Housing might be ridiculously expensive, and medical care if you don't have insurance? Good luck. But basic vegetables? Rice and beans? (Which make for a complete set of amino acids, BTW: there's a reason rice and beans is such a popular dish in Central America). Those have stayed affordable even when the price of other things has gone up.

Now, I'll grant that there are plenty of poor people who are drinking soda and eating junk food. Not going to deny that. But I have always been able to go to Walmart and buy lettuce and tomatoes for my salads, and I've never seen the price of those basics skyrocket like the price of eggs (at one point) or meat have. So the poor people who are drinking soda instead of water, and eating chips instead of salads? They're choosing those foods, not being forced into them by poverty.

There are plenty of areas where rich people have a big advantage over poor people in terms of access to things that provide longevity. But food, at least in America (the only country whose food prices I'm familiar enough with to talk intelligently about), just isn't one of them.

Now, you could argue that poor people didn't grow up with parents who taught them how to cook healthy food on a tight budget. Yes, that's true for many (not all) of the poor (again, at least in America, I don't know enough about other countries here). But there, it's not being poor that's keeping them from eating healthy, it's not being taught. Money isn't the limiting factor there.
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-06 16:17:06+00:00
I can say their interests don't meet a threshold of significance.

As an extreme example, I can say that hurricane victims have an interest in butterfly wing flaps across the world because there is some indirect causation.

Housing expansion advocates consistently describe the simplest of supply-demand mechanisms, whereas housing demand is heavily driven by local and national economic conditions as well. Gary IN doesn't have a housing shortage.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-06 16:17:09+00:00
So, based on this chart, only migrants from "MENAPT" countries are a net negative in terms of contributions irrespective of age?

It's difficult to evaluate on others.

For example "other non-western immigrants" are net positive during their work years, but net negative in their ols age. But people typically don't become migrants in their 70s, they become migrants mostly during work years.

This chart is bad for multiple reasons. It does not separate migrants by type of visa - are they on some sort of critical skills visa? Are they undocumented? It doesn't say.

It also does not indicate the proportions. If 99% of migrants are on their working years and only 1% of migrants in their old age, then in general it is a net positive even if some are a strain on welfare.

Any evaluation on migrants that don't account for the type of migration going on is very flawed. Are we talking about refugees? engineers? medical doctors? nurses? academic researchers? low-skilled undocumented migrants?

All of those will be dramatically different in terms of how they integrate into society, how they contribute to the welfare state, how mucch they pay in the taxes, etc.

Painting it with broad strokes sound to me way too much like fear mongering.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-06 16:17:26+00:00
> Everyone wants taxes to go up on everyone making more than them, and for their own taxes to go down.

That's not true at all. I make a good salary as a software engineer, I absolutely think I ought to be taxed a little more than I am, and would gladly pay that money to live in the better society I believe that would create.

I believe this attitude is pretty common in many parts of the world.

That being said, I do think the extremes of wealth (there is a big difference between a millionaire and a billionaire) have a particularly detrimental effect on society by completely distorting our economic system (there can be no such thing as a free market when such a small number of individuals control such a large proportion of the spending power).
by rglullis | 2026-02-06 16:17:36+00:00
It's not about the content, but the format and the economic pressure that corporations exert over everyone.

If you want to distribute short videos on a website that let's you choose what you want after search and deliberately clicking on a button to play it, by all means feel free to do it. But the current Tik-Tok mechanism removes all agency and are an extreme version of mind pollution.
by CodesInChaos | 2026-02-06 16:17:39+00:00
That's 238 dependencies (counting multiple versions of the same crate).

* Many of them are part of families of crates maintained by the same people (e.g. rust-crypto, windows, rand or regex).

* Most of them are popular crates I'm familiar with.

* Several are only needed to support old compiler versions and can be removed once the MSRV is raised

So it's not as bad as it looks at first glance.
by blindstitch | 2026-02-06 16:17:40+00:00
I learned a lot of the knots and hitches I use from this site. One of my favorites is the Beer Knot (https://www.animatedknots.com/beer-knot) which I use to make little loops out of paracord. They are one of the few things on the site that are not exactly a hitch or knot but an object that makes tying other knots easier. In my bike repair kit I carry a few in different diameters.

If you wrap it around a pipe or tube using a cow hitch or prusik, it creates an eyelet that is as reliable as if it were welded in place, but is also easily moved by loosening it slightly. On bicycle tours I use them to create ad hoc eyelets on my racks which make lashing oddly-shaped things on the rack easier. They also work great for converting a small diameter eyelet into a larger one.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-06 16:17:55+00:00
> If lobbyists were influencing my municipality from afar on the basis of laws that I disagreed with

Hah, they most certainly are! To such an extreme extent that I figure you'd probably reword this to something like "If I was aware of all the ways that lobbyists were influencing my municipality from afar". They are most certainly constantly and relentlessly influencing your municipality on every issue that is relevant to them.

To those downvoting, if you tell me your municipality I will provide you with evidence of corporate lobbying influencing decisions of governance at the municipal level.

https://www.govtech.com/archive/uber-encourages-voting-gets-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dkIiLWuXBE