MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by r2vcap | 2026-02-12 02:44:54+00:00
Well, it’s a clever idea. Discord seems to have intentionally softened its age-verification steps so it can tell regulators, “we’re doing something to protect children,” while still leaving enough wiggle room that technically savvy users can work around it.

But in practice, this only holds if regulators are either inattentive or satisfied with checkbox compliance. If a government is competent and motivated, this approach won’t hold up—and it may even antagonize regulators by looking like bad-faith compliance.

I’ve also heard that some governments are already pushing for much stricter age-verification protocols, precisely because people can bypass weaker checks—for example, by using a webcam with partial face covering to confuse ID/face matching. I can’t name specific vendors, but some providers are responding by deploying stronger liveness checks that are significantly harder to game. And many services are moving age verification into mobile apps, where simple JavaScript-based tricks are less likely to work.
by jonjacky | 2026-02-12 02:45:17+00:00
There are none. It was not routine to make videos in 1961 - 1964.

The Feynman Lectures website does have links to recordings of almost every lecture, but no video. BUT there are thousands of photos --- many photos of each lecture, showing Feynman's blackboards.

Also, there are videos there of a series of 7 lectures at Cornell in 1964.
by moon2 | 2026-02-12 02:47:04+00:00
I don’t know if I follow. You mean to keep a fan moving, take pictures with all the different combinations (aperture and shutter speed). Then merge on an MP4 file that you can lookup somehow the setting combo with the frame?

Sounds… reasonable I guess! I guess it can be simpler than I imagined. The owner of the site just needs a fan :-)
Show HN: WinClaw – Windows AI assistant, Office automation, infinite Skills
by winclaw-dev | 2026-02-12 02:50:29+00:00
WinClaw is a personal AI assistant that runs natively on Windows as a standalone EXE installer (no Python, Docker, or WSL needed). It automates Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) directly, supports unlimited Skill imports for extensibility, and connects to all major messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, Teams, iMessage). Built on OpenClaw, MIT licensed.
Show HN: Run Apps Like DaVinci, Blender Even from a Chromebook
by Rounak2002 | 2026-02-12 02:50:41+00:00
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by contrarian1234 | 2026-02-12 02:51:16+00:00
The parent comment present a scenario where the law is ignored b/c the judge decides for himself it shouldn't apply. I'm pointing out that this kind of approach is fundamentally unjust and wrong.

"And sure you can say the laws should be written better, but so long as the laws are written by humans that will simply not be the case"

The obvious solution is dismissed
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-12 02:51:53+00:00
It is true, and it's a problem that only started with iOS 26.

I'm not in a minority, this is something that's a new and common complaint among iPhone users. The performance of iOS 26 is very bad.
Look at the huge recent spike in "iPhone battery problems" in Google Trends shortly after iOS 26 released, hitting its highest-ever in January 2026. The last peak was in 2011.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...

And look at how dramatic the graph for "iPhone slow" is. It's the highest it's ever been, by far, seven times higher than the previous highest peak:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...

Do you realize how tiny of a minority you are in not to complain about this, much less not to even notice it?
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-12 02:52:53+00:00
When I write book chapters I write, throw away, write, throw away. Mostly with no a-priori outline

But eventually I get to a point where all the failed attempts crystallize and it flows out of me start to finish in one sitting. Every piece of knowledge from those failed attempts crystallizes into one gestalt of how it’s supposed to be.

Those final “easy” 20 pages always come after 100 pages of discarded, frustrating, exploratory work that feels like it’s going nowhere.

Also a deadline helps.
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-12 02:53:07+00:00
I think what you're saying is conservatives should have support climate action (like a carbon tax).

Obviously, they did not, however. The question is what could we (people who care about climate change) have done differently to get broader political support? The problem wasn't getting liberals to support action, it was getting conservatives to support it. Therefore, we needed to do something to appeal to conservatives.
by hackingonempty | 2026-02-12 02:53:09+00:00
> The iPhone was only announced 6 months early to avoid it being leaked by compliance filing (or maybe it was patents).

Is there evidence of this? I think the phone and watch were announced early because Apples vertical integration strategy and quality standards require them to reveal the existence to the rest of the company so they can get everything else working well with the new product category on release. It wouldn't be possible to keep it secret after revealing it internally so they did a simultaneous internal/external reveal to control the message, to maximize impact, to deny rumor sites, etc...
by rramadass | 2026-02-12 02:53:19+00:00
Great comment.

As the OP, one of the reasons for (re)posting this well-known work is to elicit informative comments from physicists/knowledgeable people like yourself. What i was looking for is the pros/cons of this work, comparisons with other similar works, other authors whose texts that a student should study etc.

Another commenter also mentioned Sommerfeld/Landau/Schwinger's works. Would you mind posting details of the works of the authors you have listed and how students interested in Physics should read and navigate them?
by wowczarek | 2026-02-12 02:53:55+00:00
Today's broadcasting truly is a beautifully evolved piece of engineering. For a guy like me who dabbles in time / frequency synchronisation, this is a great example of a use case that physically malfunctions without sync.

...but the first time I learned about SMPTE, was from Frank Zappa's song "Baby Snakes" - interestingly it mentiones both SMPTE and sync. Every time SMPTE is mentioned, this plays in my head.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-12 02:54:40+00:00
Do you use a lot of electron apps or a Chromium-based browser? Ever since Liquid Glass, I've had to run this script at each boot:

#!/bin/bash
launchctl setenv CHROME_HEADLESS 1
defaults write -g NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false

It removes the drop-shadow from Chrome and removes an autofill context.
by tadzikpk | 2026-02-12 02:55:05+00:00
On page 13 you'll see _why_ the judges don't apply the letter of the law - they're seeking to do justice to the victims _in spite of_ the law.

"there is another possible explanation: the human judges seek to do justice. The materials include a gruesome description of the injuries the plaintiff sustained in the automobile accident. The court in the earlier proceeding found that she was entitled to [details] a total of $750,000.10. It then noted that she would be entitled to that full amount under Nebraska law but only $250,000 under Kansas law." So the judge's decision "reflects a moral view that victims should be fully compensated ... This bias is reflected in Klerman and Spamann’s data: only 31% of judges applied the cap (i.e., chose Kansas law), compared to the expected 46% if judges were purely following the law." "By contrast, GPT applied the cap precisely"

Far from making the case for AI as a judge, this paper highlights what happens when AI systematically applies (often harsh) laws vs the empathy of experienced human judgement.
by lanyard-textile | 2026-02-12 02:55:24+00:00
It's well meaning but I think this goes against somthing like the curb effect. Not a perfect analogy but, verbosity is something you have to opt into here: Everyone benefits from being able to glance at what the agent is up to by default. Nobody greatly benefits from the agent being quiet by default.

If people find it too noisy, they can use the flag or toggle that makes everything quieter.

p.s. Serendipitously I just finished my on-site at anthropic today, hi :)
by givan | 2026-02-12 02:56:39+00:00
I repeat, just like clocks, people can be of different makes. No matter how hard a man tries, even if he is put in a glass case, when his time comes the spring runs out. And once the mechanism is dead, no matter how clean and whole it is, no matter how much you try to warm it up, blow on it—if the spiral spring is missing—the man is gone.

Yet I can do something to live longer. Thoughts have a definite length. I can unwind them very fast—then the end comes quickly, or I may unwind them slowly, and the end will come more slowly. When we live as we do we think mechanically and quite unnecessarily. We very seldom think when necessary. So we could be much more economical.

The secret is very simple. If any man really succeeds in understanding and learning to spend only as much as is necessary he will be able to economize a great deal of energy.

Now look inwards at your thinking. You will see that you think all the time, associations flow on unceasingly. Now if you begin to think intentionally, you will find that you think very slowly, whereas when thoughts run on by themselves they flow very fast.

Compare the two states: one, when our thoughts flow fast and the other when they flow slowly. For example, we are impatiently waiting for someone. We are all the time occupied with the thought—when will the person we are waiting for come? What happened to him, why isn’t he here? Has he had an accident? It seems to us we have been waiting an hour at least. We look at the watch and find it has been only five minutes.

Another example. You sit in a comfortable chair. You are resting, nothing worries you. For the moment you do not want to think of anything important. Your thoughts flow slowly. It seems to you that you have been sitting thus for five minutes, whereas you sat for a whole hour.

Time is our thoughts. We can measure time by our thinking. If we spend many thoughts, time seems long to us. If we spend few thoughts—time seems short. Time stands in direct ratio to the flow of associations.

Just as in the thinking center, associations go on in other centers also.
The secret of prolonging life depends on the ability to spend the energy of our centers slowly and only intentionally. Learn to think consciously. This produces economy in the expenditure of energy. Don’t dream.

Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931
by rocing | 2026-02-12 02:57:52+00:00
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by GMoromisato | 2026-02-12 02:59:10+00:00
I think people who care about climate change should stop doing things that don't work (or even make the problem worse). Demonizing Elon, demonizing nuclear power, demonizing natural gas, forcing people to cut back, supporting de-growth: none of these things have worked to stop climate change. Maybe we should try something different.

Unless, of course, the goal isn't to solve climate change but to demonize Elon. In that case, well done!
by soared | 2026-02-12 02:59:41+00:00
So many bugs in this version of iOS, ive never seen anything like it. The UI for so many websites is mildly broken or misaligned now, keyboard randomly has a noticeable lag, audio does not return to normal volume if a background app makes a noise for a moment, and many more. Really awful, I’ve never wanted to downgrade iOS back to the old version until now.
by vgeek | 2026-02-12 02:59:59+00:00
There are many other considerations, too. Years ago I scraped Craigslist and Autotrader, grouping cars by generation/make/model/drivetrain to be able to predict longevity based on quantity for sale versus original sales figures. If a model sold 100k per year for 10 years and only 3 were for sale in year 13, that isn't a great sign. Cheap cars will tend to have cheap owners who are more likely to skimp on maintenance, typically leading to more accrued issues and a shorter lifespan for the vehicle. Some cars are just poorly engineered, and the markets are relatively efficient in pricing resale value. The definition of "high mileage" is going to vary by who you ask. Domestics 150k, German 80k, Japanese 200k, Korean 100k. These are subjective averages (some cars like Theta engines, Darts, even late model GM 6.2s have engine failures <40k), based on when they start disappearing due to repairs being more than the vehicle is worth, but based on what I saw then and kind of observe still.

Leaning on those prior mentioned product mixes, keep in mind that Japanese manufacturers weren't in the American market 60 years ago, so market mix would be wildly different. (Multiple 400k+ mi Toyotas in my family, along with 60 year old GMs, but with aftermarket or rebuilt engines.) The cost of vehicles (and repairs) relative to prevailing wages will impact the repair vs replace balance. Trade publications like Cox/NADA/Adesa/etc. are always cited by financial blogs when mentioning consumer spending/state of economy by average age of cars on the road. Why cars get junked or totaled has shifted drastically, too. Steel bumpers were easy to replace, modern bumper covers with styrofoam backing and aluminum crumple zones, not so much. Tolerances is a vague term in that veiled PR piece on that wiki article. Machining has improved. Tech like direct injection and improved lubrication (synthetics) have done much more in terms of efficiency and longevity. In a lot of cases, manufacturers try to get more and more horsepower from the same displacement by pushing tighter engine tolerances (crank/main bearings, pistons/rings, valvetrain) and things like higher compression ratios and revs, leading to more heat and earlier failure. So while you have better initial engineering, you are closer to the point of failure. For another example, interference engines will grenade themselves if you ignore timing belt maintenance, but in the meantime, you get more horsepower by getting more air into the cylinders.

A v6 Camry or Accord is going to be have more hp, be faster,more reliable at same age, be quieter and get 3x the mpg than nearly any muscle car of the past.
Unfortunately it seems that many Americans prefer giant vehicles that place more emphasis on their size (and status) than materially important factors like reliability engineering or fuel economy.

Obviously these are ancedotal examples, they can be confirmed by wasting hours reading about cars and watching mechanic review videos from people who work on them daily (I am partial to the CarCareNut on YT).
by kadabra9 | 2026-02-12 03:00:05+00:00
Of course its easy for you to say - its simple to just point the finger and claim you're entitled to your "fair share" of someone else's property simply because they have more than you. And my main point isn't even that "its hard" (which it is), its that governments cannot simply just tax and confiscate their way to a utopia.

Fortunately for sanity and common sense, this proposal, if it even passes, will surely be challenged on Federal and State constitutional grounds.
by the_sleaze_ | 2026-02-12 03:00:05+00:00
> relevant tech news

I'm subscribed to 5+ mailing lists only for AI news, all of which are summarized by AI.

For plain jane current event news, I don't even know where to go it's all so polarized, spun and flat out false. In all honestly I'd much rather a curated AI feed that pulls facts out of the hit pieces and hot takes and collates it all in one place...
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 03:00:36+00:00
Yes, the display will chime and indicate "We're working to help you get moving again" and "Sit tight and keep your seatbelt fastened." Support may call in if necessary. Or if you've reached out to Support, they'll explain that they're going to send a command to the vehicle or modify the route.

It's not unusual and it's quite a routine mode. It will happen if there's a jam in front of you, like a parking lot or narrow passage. You'll know it's coming when the car is hesitating, and the virtual reality may indicate multiple-choice paths.

It happened to me once today at a "valet parking" stand, in a very busy drop-off circle. (I traveled about 25 miles.) I was also cracking up, because it chose a lot of backroads for the routes, which could've been done on arterials. So I was treated to a real "scenic route" at no extra charge. But Support never called in, and the delay so brief, I am unsure whether their input was necessary to clear the way.
Show HN: AI-Powered Structured Data Extraction from Any Document (93%+ Accuracy)
by chaitanyavelaga | 2026-02-12 03:00:40+00:00
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by ticulatedspline | 2026-02-12 03:00:49+00:00
What's old is new again. Given it's absurdly contagious nature it's just going to be a thing from now on, again. Also given it's low morbidity few anti-vaxxers will likely learn much when their kids (or themselves) get sick from it.

"Present trends in the natural history of measles suggest that the disease may one day join rubella and mumps as no more than an accepted inconvenience of childhood."

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-journal-of-the-medi...
by GeekyBear | 2026-02-12 03:01:18+00:00
I'd say that after the Apple Maps launch, Tim Cook learned a lesson about allowing features that need additional work the time they need to fully bake.

Google just launched the Pixel 10 with several promised AI features broken, and could really stand to learn the same lesson.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-magic-cue-o...

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/google-pulls-daily-hu...
by tropdrop | 2026-02-12 03:01:25+00:00
What's interesting is that you don't realize how much of that stuff from Walmart had artistic processes embedded into it along the production line.

Did those shower curtains have a design? Did your sweater have a color and style? Probably so, but you never pay attention to how the world of "fine art" refracts into your daily life.

If the products were cheap, it's likely someone unpaid is responsible for the design. See, for example, the lawsuit against Zara over theft of ideas from small-time designers [1].

In any case, cheap Chinese brands do the same thing as Zara en masse (copying designs – note the "external suppliers" bit in its defense PR), and those products then end up in Walmart/on Amazon. The artists starve but you have your shower curtains and are happy with the price.

[1] https://www.grossmanllp.com/independent-artists-on-the-offen...
by WatchDog | 2026-02-12 03:02:01+00:00
Clicking the button sometimes displays an error:

Error: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Looking at the network tab, the POST request to the commit API returns a 409 error with the message:

Commitment already pending for Round 26020619. Please wait for settlement before starting a new round.
by albatross79 | 2026-02-12 03:03:16+00:00
I think probably in the past what one might have expected to find is akin to something like a magical material that couldn't be further probed. That would have been satisfying in a sense because it brings a wonder back into it while connecting you to the fundamental "thing".

What we have now is not that, it's still very much a mechanistic explanation where the "magic" is hidden within abstractions that make no sense to anyone, i.e abstract fields with properties but no material realty, instantaneous wave function "collapse", wave-particle duality, virtual particles etc. The reality of these things is glossed over.

But my point is that if that's what we've been driven to, why are we still engaged in this enterprise? We're just receding further into these abstractions. What are we going to find next year or next decade? A better mathematical model to fit the data? The mission has gone from finding out what the universe is made of to finding a better abstract model. Particles aren't real, they're excitations in a field, etc. It's an engineering enterprise now. So we're not going get a satisfying answer, were just going to get better lasers or whatever the next tech is.
by jared_stewart | 2026-02-12 03:03:20+00:00
I've been tinkering with it substantially and the most I can say is that it generally doesn't trigger automatically :( Claude has a really, really strong affinity for it's existing tools for exploring a code base.

I'd be happy to add support for scala and java - the current binary size is 11MB on my machine, so I think there's an opportunity to expand what this offers. At this time I don't know where I would draw the line of I'm not planning on supporting a thing. I think to some degree it would depend on usage / availability on my part
by arexxbifs | 2026-02-12 03:05:20+00:00
You're sort of right. This particular grant is extra curious because it's typically been given to already highly accomplished artists. Sweden is a small pond and although there are a few fun outliers in this crowd, most of them make out the upper echelons of the Swedish cultural societé. Some were born straight into it. Others, no doubt, had parents who could put them there and knew someone who knew someone. One, for example, is Swedish nobility and the son of a diplomat. Another was the son of a Swedish secretary of state.

While I'm sure there are some wholly self-made virtuosos on the list, it does give off an air of apparent nepotism.