MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-12 15:39:21+00:00
IMO, no.

I pay alot of taxes. Probably more annually in the last decade than I made in total my first decade working.

Many of my peers spend alot of time agonizing about this stuff and spending both mental energy and significant capital in avoidance. I get a higher ROI focusing on more valuable activities. Besides, art is an economic engine. If you studied it, I’d guess those tax credits in Ireland generate multiples in domestic economic activity.
by fosron | 2026-02-12 15:39:23+00:00
Worked on an ESP. We had a couple of server software we used on low-level for sending. None of them would accept the message without a Message-ID. But even if you have a super-custom, SMTP-injecting service built, how can you ignore all of these bounces from a provider thats likeliest to be the major one you are sending to? Unthinkable. I would not like to have business with such a payment provider.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-12 15:39:58+00:00
>You could not be more aloof couldn't you?

I don't even know how to parse that sorry. I could be or couldn't be?

>Guess what pays for the world to run?

The sun? Or something deeper than that? God?

Edit: I think the actual answer is, 'a sense of humour', especially in today's world.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-12 15:40:00+00:00
Those communications are not public. So we don't know, we only know what each side is saying: FDA says they gave clear guidance, while Moderna claims they were not told a high-dose comparator was required for 65+, which is perhaps another way of saying "you gave guidance that left room for interpretation," which frankly is not an argument that flies with any regulator anywhere, although it can be very frustrating for companies. At any rate there is active dialogue between FDA and Moderna, and if they refile anything could happen
by calebjosue | 2026-02-12 15:40:26+00:00
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by antonvs | 2026-02-12 15:40:27+00:00
I searched for some pictures. The first couple I came across looked like the result of a prompt to an AI: "generate images of plastic honey bears with various outfits and/or accessories":

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQajHzw...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpoQbV...

There's AI slop, and then there's human slop.
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-12 15:40:29+00:00
> You mean, they know they need to be voted in! I.e. elections.

They know that they don't need to legitimately win elections to stay in power. All they need to do is keep the support of their base sufficiently to prevent any investigation into their election manipulation. They've already lost the good will of the majority, so they have to find a way to win with a minority.

That means placating their wealthy supporters with giveaways, i.e. the recent NLRB decision that conveniently solves Elon Musk's union problem. [1]

That means helping pliant local officials stay in power, by gerrymandering among other methods.

That means maintaining the support of ICE, who have proven themselves able to use violence against critics of the administration.

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nlrb-dismisses-spacex-c...
by canjobear | 2026-02-12 15:40:30+00:00
> It’s a tricky question because she and Kim Jong-un are not dictators by title, it’s the shorthand we and the we use to describe them.

This can't be the standard for whether we call someone a dictator. Similarly Stalin held no government title through the 1930s. Would you say it's hard to say whether he was a dictator because he was officially just a party secretary?
by oasisbob | 2026-02-12 15:41:07+00:00
With a broad statement like this, I would usually just suggest this is inflammatory and surely overstated.

However, I've also worked at a financial institution which used core systems by Harland Financial Systems. Their "encryption" for data in transit from teller workstations to the core system was just a two byte XOR, and they sent the key at the beginning of the connection!

Was so unbelievable to be able to crack this in under a half-hour after noticing patterns in a PCAP. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my first own eyes.

That fraud was good enough for our regulators and theirs, so I have no doubt the industry is filled with rotten incompetence through and through.
by bccdee | 2026-02-12 15:41:12+00:00
Do you think clang, linux, and kubernetes could ever exist and survive in their current forms without the work of salaried developers? Volunteer maintenance is not sustainable; the long hours of unpaid labour are famously prone to causing burnout.

Free software is free as in speech, not free as in beer. If you want to save your cash, go use discord. If you're not paying, you're the product.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 15:42:10+00:00
Denaturalization is provided for in 8 USC 1451, and has been part of immigration law since 1906: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/stripping-naturalized...

The law was often not enforced by prior administrations, just as they didn’t enforce many of the immigration laws. And that became kind of a problem, especially in the 2024 election where both parties promised to enforce the laws more strictly.

People should actually read the immigration laws, including the IIRIRA, which was passed during the Clinton administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and.... We have a quite strict immigration system on paper that simply hasn’t been enforced. And the Trump administration is systematically going through the laws already on the books to figure out which ones can be enforced more aggressively to reduce immigration.
by oninross | 2026-02-12 15:42:34+00:00
The Concept: You act as a remote commander guiding a 3-unit squad through a procedural hive. It uses a 52-card deck system to populate the grid with hostiles, hazards, and supplies.

The Design: The UI mimics a military command terminal. I wanted to focus purely on decision-making and risk management without visual noise.

Feedback: I am looking for specific feedback on the Game difficulty. My logs show high engagement but short initial sessions. Is the Tier 1 enemy wiping squads too fast, or is the mechanics discovery just right? A Note on the Project: I built this browser engine primarily to stress-test the math for a physical tabletop version.

I'm trying to validate if the "Target Value" combat system is fun manually or only fun when a computer does the math.

If you enjoy the mechanics and want to see this as a real deck, let me know here
by therobots927 | 2026-02-12 15:42:44+00:00
Idk why you’re getting downvoted for this. If watching masked federal agents grabbing kids off bus stops doesn’t make you think twice about living here what would it take? I for one will probably stay but only because I can trace my lineage back very far here but I grow less confident in that every day. It’s clear they aren’t following the constitution which means we are all at some level of risk of getting shipped to a camp.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-12 15:43:06+00:00
You're saying the quiet part out loud. Clearly we just need to pay people to "make art" all day long on the backs of taxpayers who will most likely never see the "art" or derive any value from it.

"Dad why are you working your hands off? Well... the government decided to pay people to "make art" instead of working. How come? Well... nope I have no fucking idea"
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-12 15:43:26+00:00
> That's not the same thing as policy.

I'm not sure what you're looking for here. Would you like a White House memorandum on official letterhead saying "How We'll Steal the Election"?

A fish rots from the head. The president has made his position clear, and his enablers will work to realize his vision.

If you're looking for concrete steps they've taken to undermine elections, you can see the recent blatantly unconstitutional seizing of Fulton County's voter records [1]. Or any of the illegal and coercive actions taken by the president and his minions between Nov 6, 2019 and Jan 20, 2020. As well as the blanker pardoning of many criminals who helped him in that endeavor.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5710649/fulton-county-2...
Show HN: I built an "Agency Score" to measure how much your phone controls you
by imbd | 2026-02-12 15:43:28+00:00
Hey HN,

I kept trying phone detox apps but they all felt punitive – like I was fighting myself. So I built something different: a diagnostic tool that measures phone control as a single number (0-100).

Your Agency Score combines screen time, pickups, notification patterns, and app usage into one metric. Take a 3-minute assessment, get your score + a personalized action plan for your specific setup.

Free assessment, premium for ongoing tracking. Would love feedback on the scoring algorithm or UX. What metrics would you want to see?

Btw, you can try it on Mac as well. Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/superagency/id6757364702
by tux1968 | 2026-02-12 15:43:39+00:00
> An algorithm is an algorithm. A computer is a computer. These things matter.

Sure. But we're allowed to notice abstractions that are similar between these things. Unless you believe that logic and "thinking" are somehow magic, and thus beyond the realm of computation, then there's no reason to think they're restricted to humanity.

It is human ego and hubris that keeps demanding we're special and could never be fully emulated in silicon. It's the exact same reasoning that put the earth at the center of the universe, and humans as the primary focus of God's will.

That said, nobody is confused that LLM's are the intellectual equal of humans today. They're more powerful in some ways, and tremendously weaker in other ways. But pointing those differences out, is not a logical argument in proving their ultimate abilities.
by 0xcafefood | 2026-02-12 15:43:42+00:00
I really wish lisps were more popular (or, really, popular again). Most people can't make it past the non-Algol syntax, which is silly IMO. But they do also demand more of the user than a typical language.

Their use of metaprogramming doesn't just allow you to extend the language, it really expects that of the programmer. Which means you have to assume the role of language designer to some extent. Learning how to do that definitely feels like a way to level up your skills. But it seems uncommon for people to want to do that.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-02-12 15:44:02+00:00
>> some performance comparisons vs sqlite.

That's not really the purpose; it's really a language-independent format so that you don't need to change it for say, a dataframe or R. It's columnar because for analytics (where you do lots of aggregations and filtering) this is way more performant; the data is intentionally stored so the target columns are continuous. You probably already know, but the analytics equivalent of SQLite is DuckDB. Arrow can also eliminate the need to serialize/de-serialize data when sharing (ex: a high performance data pipeline) because different consumers / tools / operations can use the same memory representation as-is.
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-12 15:44:40+00:00
A lot of good it did Alex Jeffrey Pretti, not. They have far bigger guns, more guns, and can track where you are at all times, picking you up when you're very vulnerable, like in the middle of traffic.

The 2A helps only when a whole community were to get picked up all at once, which basically never happens. When individuals get picked up one at a time, it is in effect useless. Also, the state-specific interpretation of the 2A doesn't allow concealed carry of compact automatic weapons, and even if it did, it is basically a recipe for self annihilation because there are a lot more of them.
by rurihoshino | 2026-02-12 15:44:48+00:00
So apparently according to Axios this blog post has gone "mega viral" and their article concludes by stating affirmatively that the "AI" revolution is here now. It's been shared by a number of normally trusted sources; my sister linked it to me because she saw Medi Hassan share it with a note that it's the most important thing you'll read in like forever.

To me it reads exactly like every other blog post of it's genre, released like clockwork every six months. It substitutes subjective personal experience for any kind of externally verifiable fact, makes appeals to anonymous authorities that always seem to support the author's conclusion, uses language designed to induce a sense of fear if not outright panic in the reader, and at no point addresses the fundamental reality of "AI's" catastrophic unprofitability. Not to mention how gross it feels to read the author's slobbering all over Amodei as some kind of model for good corporate behavior.

Fundamentally my real problem with it is that the author believes that if we make LLMs good enough at coding, they will then become capable of doing all other knowledge work to a high enough standard that they will replace human knowledge workers. That is such a breathtaking example of a Leap to Conclusion that if we could harness it's energy we could start sending spaceships directly to other star systems.
by ben_w | 2026-02-12 15:44:51+00:00
I'm currently on a free trial of ChatGPT, and one new thing I didn't regularly see before* is that longer tasks perform a lot of web searches when generating non-trivial results.

I wonder if this is part of it? It's not (just) DDOS by crawlers, it's DDOS by the users themselves triggering (albeit indirectly) far more requests than a human normally would? I've seen that happen in a different context, over a decade ago now.

* old models would do this sometimes when you ask for whatever the "deep research" mode was called, but this now seems to happen a lot more and involve a lot more fetches
by MisterTea | 2026-02-12 15:45:02+00:00
> Then there are people who see art only as a rich person's pursuit. It can be, but it doesn't need to be.

They don't care about the art, only the clout it brings them in terms of hoarding a limited thing people value.

Art is a medium that is used to convey and stir emotion in the viewer. It's not currency to anyone but shallow fools.
by mbreese | 2026-02-12 15:45:16+00:00
I think it's the latter. But, in either case, you're right in that you get the same result.

Now, let's assume that if it is the latter (it's spam related), and Google were to accept the message, but then internally bin the message, it would be worse. At least in this case, they are bouncing the message. Because of this, the sender is at least aware that the message wasn't delivered.

Also, the author was able to get their mail delivered to a personal gmail.com address. The issue was with a Google Workspace custom email domain. This further makes me think of this as a security/spam related issue. Google is clearly capable of processing the message without a Message-id, they are just refusing for business customers.

My takeaway is that I think that Google is doing the least-wrong thing. And by being explicit in how they are handling it, it at least made the debugging for the author possible.

Also note: in a quick reading of RFC5321 (SMTP), rejecting messages for "policy reasons" is an acceptable outcome. I'm not sure if it applies completely here. The author should probably also be taking into account RFC5321 (SMTP) instead of just 5322 (message format).
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-02-12 15:46:18+00:00
The more I dive into this space the more I think that developers will still be in heavy demand—just operating in a different level of abstraction most of the time. We will need to know our CS fundamentals, experience will still matter, juniors will still be needed. It’s just that a lot of time time the actual code being generated will come from our little helper buddies. But those things still need a human in the seat to drive them.

I keep asking myself “could my friends and family be handed this and be expected to build what I’m building on them” and the answer is an immediate “absolutely not”. Could a non technical manager use these tools do build what I’m building? Absolutely not. And when I think about it, it’s for the exact same reason it’s always been… they just aren’t a developer. They just don’t “think” in the way required to effectively control a computer.

LLMs are just another way to talk to a machine. They aren’t magic. All the same fundamental principles that apply to probably telling a machine what to do still apply. It’s just a wildly different mechanism.

That all being said, I think these things will dramatically speed up the pace that software eats the world. Put LLMs into a good harness and holy shit it’s like a superpower… but to get those superpowers unlocked you still have to know the basis, same as before. I think this applies to all other trades too. If you are a designer you still have to what good design is and how to articulate it. Data scientists still need to understand the basics of their trade… these tools just give them superpowers.

Whether or not this assertion remains true in two or three years remains to be seen but look at the most popular tool. Claude code is a command line tool! Their gui version is pretty terrible in comparison. Cursor is an ide fork of vscode.

These are highly technical tools requiring somebody that knows file systems, command lines, basic development like compilers, etc. they require you to know a lot of stuff most people simply don’t. The direction I think these tools will head is far closer to highly sophisticated dev tooling than general purpose “magic box” stuff that your parents can use to… I dunno… vibe code the next hit todo app.
by willis936 | 2026-02-12 15:46:32+00:00
A few safety PSAs on these:

1. This puts out a fair amount of UVC light. Most people are not familiar with this hazard, but it will degrade your eye lenses and give you cataracts. Get a set of glasses that explicitly say they block UVC if playing with this for more than a minute or two cumulative.

2. The hazard is "high voltage" but it is 1 MHz, not DC. Conventional wisdoms on high voltage insulation isn't sufficient. If you get your finger within about an inch of the terminals the air will break down and turn your skin into a 50W load. It will smell a lot like burnt plastic, but it is your skin that's been burned. Treat these with respect. They are inherently unsafe because they do not have engineering controls to keep touches away from dangerous locations: a knife with no handle.

In case anyone's wondering: no these aren't really above the level but few enough people are getting hurt and [insert your preferred explanation why society doesn't meet demands] that nothing happens.

Be safe, have fun.
by bossyTeacher | 2026-02-12 15:46:44+00:00
Until the platform owner bans for whatever reason and if communication by way of the platform was your only means of communication with your customer base, that's the platform owner having the power to destroy your business. No different that businesses that rely on the neverending goodwill of the mobile app store owners. One misstep and your business is gone with no recourse whatsoever. Protocols > Platforms. Always.
by sethops1 | 2026-02-12 15:46:56+00:00
If your bot is actually capable of doing as your say, why waste time forking OSS repos? Why not instruct it to start 1000 new tech startups and start generating you tons of money? I can "think about" winning the lottery with just as much rigor and effect as day dreaming about the kind of all encompassing intelligence you describe.

Maybe it's time to stop being "frightened and amazed" and come back to reality.
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-12 15:47:09+00:00
You're linking to a completely different and irrelevant law regarding consumer credits.

The law 2018:175, which I previously linked to, is crystal clear and protects consumers against unauthorized use of their digital payment means, including but not limited to all types of card transactions. Otherwise, please let me know which chapter excludes debit cards.

Even bank transactions are protected by this law. And it has been all the way to the supreme court, which ruled in favour of the fraud victim against the bank. The victim had voluntarily handed over their digital banking credentials to scammers, and the bank refused to reimburse the stolen money. However, the supreme court ruled that the bank was indeed bound by law to reimburse the money:

https://www.domstol.se/hogsta-domstolen/avgoranden2/2022/115...

But even so, if the law is not enough and if the supreme court ruling is not enough for you, then at least empirical evidence should be enough? Just ask around with family and friends and you'll find at least a few people who have been the victims of having their debit card stolen or cloned. They will let you know that the bank returned their money swiftly.
by imcritic | 2026-02-12 15:47:15+00:00
Asahi project looks barely alive, almost abandoned. I know that their explanation of low activity is that they are being active elsewhere, supposedly pushing all their work upstream, but this has been happening for months and they don't give any reports about their progress, so I'm worried it will all die soon. And given that the project barely brought some Linux compatibility for m1 and m2 hardware and no prospects for bringing similar compatibility for newer generations - I fear it all will be kinda useless in the end.
by roysting | 2026-02-12 15:47:39+00:00
No. These are not unknowable things. CIA, etc. releases and leaks make it possible for even you to know them. Just because most people are simply unaware because they operate in what can only be described as a manufactured state of ignorance, like a "Matrix" or the artificial world of gaslighting and manipulation depicted in 1984, does not make it impossible to know the things that are openly and publicly knowable. What is your excuse for not knowing these knowable things?

I am sure you believe in certain things, you have convictions of some kind, some ideals you espouse. How would you think any of those things could come true if you are like a head of cattle on a range, with no understanding of your state of existing solely for the benefit of the rancher, grazing not because you are cattle that likes grazing, but because the rancher likes you grazing for his own purposes?

Don't worry though, you are not the only one who is really rather aggressively and intentionally self-deluding and seemingly unable and unwilling to see reality, since the soma he is fed is so pleasant and comfortable and warm.
by smallmancontrov | 2026-02-12 15:47:40+00:00
> the government being pulled away from censorship in league with social media

The right sure said that a lot, but it repeatedly failed to materialize. The twitter files were especially embarrassing, where Elon alleged government censorship but his "detective" was forced to admit that it didn't exist. Oops!

> [@mtaibbi] Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...

Contrast this to "we can do it the easy way or the hard way" from the current administration. Yikes!