MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanhunter | 2026-02-25 07:49:22+00:00
That is what I used to think, but if you dig a little deeper I'm not sure it's quite that simple. If you read the link I posted, all that work on alchemy was not printed after his death because people examined it and deemed it "not fit to print". So it definitely seems that even at the time, there may not have been a clear line, but people felt that his alchemical writings were on the wrong side of whatever line might in future be drawn.

Newton was also definitely in favour of an empirical/axiomatic basis for science in general. If you read principia he proves almost everything[1] and of course he famously deformed his own eyeballs with wooden gadgets to do his experiments in optics.

[1] In fact pretty much the one thing he doesn't prove is the calculus, which Alex Kontorovich once said in a lecture on youtube that he has a pet theory that the reason that Newton never published the calculus was not the one everyone says about his rivalry with Hooke etc but that he wanted a rigorous proof first (which of course didn't come about until much later with Cauchy, Weierstrass, Dedekind etc for normal calculus and the 1960s for non-standard analysis to prove Newton's fluxions rigorously).
by consp | 2026-02-25 07:49:22+00:00
At least in the past the sellers branded their whitelabel products correctly. These days you get some random "brand" when you order from an alphabet soup name. It's fun when you have to install apps with it as you have to get the right "brand" app without knowing what "brand" it is as the whitelabel manufacturer has locked it down (though usually only by obfuscation).

In my experience I've received a box for a different brand than the device inside with the wrong app listed in the box for a different unrelated brand. Fun times we live in. And don't bother getting a refund as the listing and company will be gone by the time you try.
by vintermann | 2026-02-25 07:49:28+00:00
Yes, I'll accept that it's a modern folk tradition. And I'm actually OK with cheesy too, as long as something doesn't pass itself off as more historically accurate than it is. As Farya Faraji pointed out, we don't know what Norse Viking music was like, but it's unlikely to have included throat singing, and we know they liked pan pipes. (Invading England to a George Zhamfir soundtrack?)
by payala | 2026-02-25 07:52:48+00:00
Yeah, for sure if I was perfect I wouldn't make mistakes, but I am not.

However, I have to disagree in one aspect, it is not basic electrical engineering practice to add filter capacitors on every node. Some nodes need it, some don't. This one, by the topology of the circuit didn't, but from the need for immunity did. This is not always obvious, but for sure I could have anticipated.

Hindsight is definitely 20/20 on this one.
by Thanemate | 2026-02-25 07:52:59+00:00
>billions of people will be empowered to spin up whatever software they need on demand

As long as:
1. They have access to a computer
2. They have affordable access to a capable language model
3. Someone will actually care about using their output instead of simply spinning up their own custom version of whatever idea they have

The number 3 is something many people miss, especially on HN: Why would I want to use YOUR software if it's easy for me to cook up my own? Perhaps out of efficiency or lack of time, in the same way I order pizza instead of baking my own when I'm tired or can't be bothered to bake pizza.

Then the software becomes truly throwaway, in the same way takeaway is, and everything is a greenfield project because rewrites are literally easier and faster to make than patching up existing stuff.
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-25 07:53:00+00:00
I'm not sure why it's a concern that the whole file needs a rewrite.

Naiively perhaps I thought that was helpful with solid state storage because it means that old data is trimmed faster?

It mentions it near the entire file being in memory but that seems a dubious concern. If the key is in memory the entire file can be comprised either way. Nothing can really stop that if you have access to the programs memory.
by dang | 2026-02-25 07:53:27+00:00
This crosses into personal attack, which is against the intended spirit of the site. Can you please not do that? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Show HN: RAgent – Claude Code on a VPS So Remote Control Never Drops
by chris-bzst | 2026-02-25 07:54:30+00:00
Anthropic shipped Remote Control for Claude Code yesterday. You type /rc in the terminal, scan a QR code, and pick up the session from the Claude app on your phone. Pretty slick.

One annoyance though – it runs on your local machine. If your laptop goes to sleep, the session dies.

So I tried pointing it at a VPS instead. I had this side project (RAgent) that wraps Claude Code in Docker and gives you a web terminal. Deployed it to Railway, ran claude login + claude remote-control inside the container, scanned the QR code from my phone – and it just worked. Session stays alive because the server doesn't sleep.

Now I can start a task from my desk, close the laptop, and keep going from my phone on the couch. The Claude app handles the UI so I don't have to deal with a terminal on a tiny screen.

It's pretty simple – Node.js + node-pty + xterm.js over WebSocket, with tmux for session persistence. Files live in a /workspace volume so nothing gets lost on restart. You can one-click deploy to Railway or throw it on any VPS with Docker.

GitHub: https://github.com/Chris-bzst/ragent

Remote Control needs a Pro or Max subscription. RAgent itself works with any API key.
by amunozo | 2026-02-25 07:55:02+00:00
I made some small tries to vibe code games in Godot, and I was surprised about how far you can go even in 3D. This was just a test of the bad kind of vibe code (you know, not even looking at the code, starting right away, and so on), but I believe that with some good practices there are a lot of things that can be done.
by hulitu | 2026-02-25 07:56:42+00:00
> By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools. By 2016, those numbers had multiplied to 66,000 laptops and tablets distributed to Maine students.

> King’s initial efforts have been mirrored across the country. In 2024, the U.S. spent more than $30 billion putting laptops and tablets in schools.

Companies taking advantage of public money.

Will be nice to know how many Apple employees work for Learning Technology Initiative.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-25 07:56:57+00:00
It's an interesting conundrum.. I've always viewed "the law" as something that doesn't really materialize until you're arrested, arraigned, tried, and sentenced. So "breaking" the law and "getting away with it" isn't actually "illegal" it's just... normal. The law only matters if some filthy rat narc catches you and summons the pigs. Not sure how any of that adjusts in this scenario, really.
by simoncion | 2026-02-25 07:57:37+00:00
> Don't people have rent/mortgages to pay anymore?

Are you too early in your working life to have catastrophe savings [0]? If you're not, is it seriously going to be a four-alarm fire if you suddenly got fired?

Related, like, do you have a plan for what happens if unexpected injury prevents you from doing the work you're doing ever again?

[0] let alone "fuck you" savings
by fragmede | 2026-02-25 07:57:47+00:00
How is it not an issue? The physics of hydrogen being one proton and one electron means it gets through everything, so something that's air tight and water tight still won't be hydrogen tight. So then you have to be extra careful with every coupling and fitting in order for it to be transferred. By "solved" you mean "if we do everything right, it works", which sounds like it'll be a total failure in the sloppy messy real world where things get kinda shitty but you still need them to work.
by defrost | 2026-02-25 07:57:53+00:00
"We" haven't settled anything .. neither of us is an expert or player in the domain of indigenuous land ownership.

Your "assertion" (weakly stated) was

> I’m pretty sure every tribe that’s considered indigenous now at any place has replaced some other group that lived there before them.

which is _false_.

A single counter example suffices, the Māori people of New Zealand are still in a shared treaty with European settlers and no prior humans were displaced by the Māori people when they first arrived circe 1320 or so.

Australia and that region offer up many many other examples.

> Who gets to stay in the different parts of Europe for example?

I cannot see how this is related to your global assertion nor can I see how I'm responsible to answer it.
by jp0001 | 2026-02-25 07:58:13+00:00
Hold on. Cell towers still know where the device is. If a group of people in an area have stable ismi’s and one person’s ismi is rotating daily, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who’s now using cape. Using it for travel makes sense, but again being a device that doesn’t a have an owner is as the kids say is sus.
by tovej | 2026-02-25 07:58:20+00:00
Holy misinformation.

1) Israel attacked Arab Palestine and the neighboring Arab states first, in plan Dalet.

2) Christians and Jews absolutely can live in Palestine. They were afforded that in the Ottoman empire (the Dhimmi) and they are afforded that now.

3) Muslims do not get to govern themselves in Israel. Every other religions can choose their own representatives in official matter, but Islam gets a token person selected by the Israeli state.
by simion314 | 2026-02-25 07:59:40+00:00
Oh, is the CIA at it again? brainwashing people to hate the good old Ruzzian empire and the tzar? If only those Georgians could travel to Ruzzia and Europe and make their own minds if they want to be like Ukraine and Belarus that sucked on Putin or they want to be like Poland or Romania ... /sarcasm

No idea dude why all this KGB attempts to pretend that Ruzzia is some kind of big nice brother to Georgia after they fucking invaded them and grabbed their lands , the big brother is a bit violent if he drinks too much and unfortunately he is always drunk on power and dreams of making the empire great again ?
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-25 07:59:51+00:00
OK, when I posted it wasn't and it isn't now. but a quote from the opening:

"For a while now I’ve been speculating about what would happen when AI agents started being able to write papers indistinguishable in quality from those that have been typical of the sad state of hep-th for quite a while. Sabine Hossenfelder today has AI Is Bringing “The End of Theory”, in which she gives her cynical take that the past system of grant-holding PIs using grad students/postdocs to produce lots of mediocre papers with the PI’s name on them is about to change dramatically. "
by lnsru | 2026-02-25 07:59:52+00:00
I am electrical engineer and electrician working in regulated areas. In both areas the frameworks limits my choices and obviously I am very authoritarian. There is no room for discussion. If I need a DC DC converter for 2 amps I will pick one rated for 4 amps. No discussions! If I need to install a heat pump 60 feet away I will pick 5x6 square millimeter cable and all the circuit breakers from installation manual. There are no options or opinions. I communicate this in polite way to the clients.

And this flows in other areas. If I need a functional vehicle with cheap upkeep I optimize for it. I invest in low risk products since the income is limited. I know that people with plan and confidence are scary, you don’t meet them every day.
by larodi | 2026-02-25 08:00:01+00:00
how is it a personal attack though? sorry I fail to understand. against whom - the dog being kept in addictive loop or against the OP or against the person who was rejoicing the fact that s.o. else was laid off. I beg your pardon, but this statement of yours seems is super subjective and truly vague. thanks for the attention anyways...
by moxifly7 | 2026-02-25 08:00:21+00:00
A Cuba style embargo on Israel until they stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing of an indigenous population would be the end of the current direction of the Israeli establishment.

Look at the size of the country, the natural resources and where they are positioned.

They are dependent on Western imports for pretty much everything, and only export technology that Europe and the US can easily replace with domestic or other foreign sources.
by buremba | 2026-02-25 08:00:23+00:00
Technically you're still using claude CLI with this pattern so it's not 3P app calling Anthropic APIs via your OAuth token. Even if you would use Claude Code SDK, your app is 3P so it's in a gray area.

Anthropic docs is intentionally not clear about how 3P tools are defined, is it calling Claude app or the Anthropic API with the OAuth tokens?
by dijit | 2026-02-25 08:01:05+00:00
> Attempting to use this as a defense requires conceding that the default assumption is that someone is a terrorist until proven otherwise

All other things being equal, if your opponent engages actively in hiding among medical and press workers as a type of guerrilla warfare, then the reality does become this.

I'm trying to say this dispassionately because I'm aware that people get defensive, but lets say that you have to fight some enemy but they present as the most vulnerable of a population, how can you fight them without looking awful?
by redbell | 2026-02-25 08:01:27+00:00
Thanks for sharing this unusual experiment, I love it! This is the type of content that makes HN, HN.

Now, I started considering hiring my three little kitties and their mom for a job like this. They spend the whole day sleeping and waiting for meals but now, they have to work, hard, in collaboration with Claude Code to pay for their rent and meals :)
by ReptileMan | 2026-02-25 08:02:07+00:00
>This isn’t just following orders. This was the government using its might to force a business to do what it wants.

You are saying it like it is something new or extraordinary. Wickard_v._Filburn gave the USG the power to bitch slap anyone unless it falls under some of the other amendments. And not as if they were not substantially weakened.
by serial_dev | 2026-02-25 08:02:33+00:00
At least, for me, the level of panic would depend on how long I can pay for rent / mortgage and covering the costs of having a family, diapers, food, heating, paying the bills, so basically everything that makes sure that a temporary change in employment status doesn't result in multi-decade negative effects on my family's life.

If I could cover these with my savings for 1y+, I'd give zero fs about getting laid off. Unfortunately, I can't, so time to focus on spending less, earning more, saving more.
by dijit | 2026-02-25 08:04:23+00:00
Pretty much all of them.

National Guard and HomeGuard in every allied country has a uniform.

The ones that don't are using what would be considered unlawful tactics these days.

You're an 'unlawful combatant' if you don't wear one: the Geneva Convention still technically applies to you, just not in any way you'd find comforting.
FinCrew: Multi-Agent AI Financial Intelligence
by adnan_builds | 2026-02-25 08:04:54+00:00
SMBs and mid-market companies ($10M-$200M revenue) spend 40-60% of finance time on manual data entry, invoice management and basic reconciliation. We built FinCrew AI to automate this entirely.

FinCrew is an AI CFO platform with multiple specialized agents (Data Ingestion, Transaction Recording, Invoice Management, Fraud Detection, CFO Orchestrator) using multi-agent orchestration with anti-hallucination safeguards.

Existing solutions don't serve the mid-market segment. They're either SMB-focused or enterprise-only. We're targeting the $150B+ TAM in between.

We're looking for feedback, beta users, and discussing investment. Happy to answer questions in the thread.
by yorwba | 2026-02-25 08:05:37+00:00
The problem is not the use of blackletter, but the narrow spacing and copious use of abbreviations to cram the text into two rectangular columns. That was certainly not an unusual goal to have, and you can see the same in handwritten manuscripts https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bible.malmesbury.arp... though executed less perfectly, but that doesn't mean it's not form-over-function.
by EvgeniyZh | 2026-02-25 08:05:52+00:00
Thanks for the answer (and what seems to be unflagging the comment). Having some experience moderating (of course, much smaller) communities I understand it's impossible to keep everyone satisfied.

I, of course, can't judge the intent or the effort. What I can say is that I read all captions of 150+ votes submission, rarely skipping any, and I saw 20+ pro-Palestine ones and zero pro-Israeli ones. I think this is quite objective measure.

At some point I thought it might be intentional but now I think it is just bias amplification: these submission are flagged too fast and upvoted too slow to get anywhere.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-25 08:06:37+00:00
I had a double take looking at the Houston map. I just got done driving that exact stretch of I45 last night and I don't know how a waymo would have safely navigated from SH288 northbound beyond I10 on I45 NB without getting stuck exiting on I10. TxDOT is considering tearing down a section of I45 in Waymo's map because it's so bad. The current negotiation protocol for a lane change on the piece elevated is threat of imminent violence during typical commute hours.

Waymo should start with the Houston burbs and work their way in from the outside. They don't have a lot of customers in this zone. Downtown Houston is pretty dead compared to most other major metros. All your customers are in pearland and the woodlands looking to visit adjacent shopping.
by bambax | 2026-02-25 08:06:44+00:00
Prettyness is important, but legibility is more important.

I don't know why we're still obsessed with right justification? In 1450 it made a lot of sense to try to squeeze the most text on a page, but today it isn't?

Justify is not only useless but it's also responsible for creating all those white spaces of various length, which are annoying enough by themselves, but which can also create "rivers" which become an incredible distraction.

The first thing I do with a new ebook is to modify it in Calibre so that it's left-align instead of justify.

Maybe "pretty" is a solution, but non-justify is simpler, and readily available.
by moxifly7 | 2026-02-25 08:06:47+00:00
This is so disingenuous, the poster clearly has no clue what he's talking about.

Local Christian communities have been living amongst Muslims there for centuries and continue to do so under Israeli occupation. About 25% of the population that calls themselves Palestinian are Christians, and are treated the same as Muslims by Israel, that is as second class citizens at best inside the Green Line and targets for ethnic cleansing outside of it.

Scores of foreign Christians and Jews go stay in Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank to provide some amount of protection to the Palestinian Muslims and Christians there. They are encouraged and welcome to come stay among them by Palestinians.
by fragmede | 2026-02-25 08:07:18+00:00
You don't have to work 996 to have an attitude of let's help the customer take their product to market. The American machine shop will laugh at you for not being a machinist, and tell you oh we don't do powder coating, we don't make cardboard boxes or styrofoam inserts. So then you, as the customer trying to get a product to market gotta run around town figuring it all out.

Meanwhile, you start talking to the Chinese machine shop guy, and he's all yeah my brother's does powder coating, his uncle does cardboard boxes and styrofoam inserts are another relative. The American attitude could go that and not work 996, but that's why it's not just about the money.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-25 08:07:27+00:00
> You shouldn't project unsubstantiated statements onto people's motives like this.

I am not criticising their motives, I am criticising the result!

Also, definitions are hard. It's why we have pro-choice/pro-life and not anti-choice/anti-life - using the positive spin is a good faith characterisation of a position.

In much the same way, I am using pro-user/pro-business; if my intention was to vilify one of those positions I would have used pro-user/anti-user or pro-business/anti-business to label those positions.

No reasonable interpretation of pro-user/pro-business can make the audience think that I am unfairly characterising either of two positions.

I say this to address the use of the word "unsubstantiated" in your assertion about my characterisations.
by kantselovich | 2026-02-25 08:10:18+00:00
I've glanced over the article - I think using SQLCypher makes sense if it benefits Keepass project internally, meaning makes it easier to implement new features or fix bugs.

I do not see how it would benefits end users in any significant way. Sure, you can look inside the database, how many people need that?

Dumping the database to CSV is not a good backup, schema changes over time, what was dumped from one version of the app would not work for importing into another version if schema changes. Backup it needs a versioned schema format, which would actually look like KDBX format if implemented in XML :-)
by kakacik | 2026-02-25 08:10:30+00:00
Was there ever a serious prosecution and serious punishments by IDF personnel? They always make PR circus how they investigate another war crime, but nothing ever happens from what I could find.

You are correct about others but it doesn't change anything here - war crimes and atrocities are the worst of human behavior. Whataboutism shouldn't diminish outrage, and every such person should be extremely severely punished and ostracized by rest of humankind till end of their days, no exception, doesn't matter what passport they hold. Basic morality and all that.
by karel-3d | 2026-02-25 08:10:45+00:00
I think the snake will eat its tail because it will be harder and harder to train on the new data, as they are already AI generated, and the model will collapse.

You already cannot train on YouTube data, for example, because it's now overwhelmed by AI slop.

We are not there yet though and we are still getting better at mining the pre-AI data.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-25 08:10:45+00:00
Demo.

As much I enjoyed Black Mirror I thought it's Season 1, "The Entire History of You" entertaining but was poorly conceived. It showed catching your partner cheating as a "would rather not know" thing and it ignored any possible positives. The episode wasn't really about the tech, it was about a failing relationship, a cheating partner, and an untrusting obsessive person.

In any case, in that world, which didn't have AI to review and catalog what you saw but only playback of recorded sight, positives they could have mentioned

* an end to almost all date rape - since it would be recorded - leaving only the ambiguous cases

* a likely decrease in various crimes - since they'd all be recorded

* harder for execs/government to make backroom deals - since they're be recordings of them

* might end gaslighting in personal relationships

* eyewitness reports/testimony would be way more reliable

* medical symptom checking - when did some symptom start would be recorded

* better performance review - like a pilot reviewing a training landing or an athlete reviewing their own performance.

* proof of abuse by customers or by staff.

* checking your actual time spent vs you're perceived time spent - I studied for 4 hours, checking though you studied for 45 minutes and kept getting distracted with non-study

* less lost items - check where you left your keys, etc....

* more accountable police - everyone is recording them

* no more need to take photos for memos, since you know everything you looked at is recorded

* all car accidents recorded - easier to determine blame

Of course adding AI to all of that would add orders of magnitude more usefulness.

I'm not saying there are no downsides. As one example, every bowl movement, shower, self pleasure, sex, cold, vomit, misspoke word, awkward situation, etc would be also recoreded.