MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-23 04:06:42+00:00
> But the reality never changed and never will: the vast majority of people are not very bright

Nature vs nurture, the old argument...

Of course, you got what one might flippantly call "the inbreds from Alabama", or those whose parents suffered from substance abuse or other issues (obviously, for the mother the risk is much higher, but also the father's health has a notable impact on sperm quality). These kids, particularly those suffering from FAS (fetal alcohol abuse)? As hard as it sounds, they often enough are headed for a life behind institutional bars. FAS is no joke, and so are many genetic defects. That's nature, no doubt - but still, we as a society should do our best to help these kids to grow to the best they reasonably can (and maybe, with gene therapy, we can even "fix" them).

But IMHO, these kids where "nature" dominates are a tiny minority - and nurture is the real problem we have to tackle as societies. We are not just failing the kids themselves by letting them grow up in poverty, we are failing our society. And instead of pseudo elite tech bro children and nepo babies collecting millions of dollars for the x-th dating app, NFT or whatever scam - I'd rather prefer to see people who actually lived a life beyond getting spoiled rotten to have a chance.
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-23 04:07:00+00:00
Sybase SQLAnywhere implements (or at least did) strict serialization by taking an exclusive row lock on all rows... which you can imagine scales horribly for a table with a reasonable row count.

I found out the hard way at work. I had assumed it took an exclusive lock on the table level only, the documentation didn't really spell out the details of how it enforced the serialized access.

I changed it to a retry loop which worked fine and was fairly easy to implement all things considered. Not gonna reach for strict serialization again unless I have to.
by anon84873628 | 2026-02-23 04:07:35+00:00
I don't understand step 1. OAuth client applications have to be registered in GCP, right? They have to request specific scopes for specific APIs, and there is a review process before they can be used by the public. Did none of that happen for the Open Claw client? How is it the users' fault for clicking a "Sign in with Google" button? And if there was a mistake, why not ban the whole client?

I could see a problem with logging into Antigravity then exfiltrating the tokens to use somewhere else... But that doesn't sound like what happened. (And then how would they know?)

I haven't used Open Claw, so what else am missing to make this make sense?
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-23 04:07:39+00:00
> insight that he's missing in so many words is that you need to crack the door open just enough for a foreign (super)power to want to come barging in for some reason

No foreign superpower barged into the Civil Rights or the Indian independence movement. Not directly. (If we’re counting hypothetical foreign involvement that’s a geopolitical constant.)

> sounds like a cop-out to the original blanket statement

And no excerpt from an article will do a full reading justice. The article makes no blanket statements, its entire thesis is armed insurgency and protest are strategic twins.
by Xerox9213 | 2026-02-23 04:09:14+00:00
I have been enjoying building a CD and vinyl collection recently. IMO there is no better listening experience than putting a disc on a reasonably high end sound system, and sitting down with the liner notes and reading about what you are hearing. No screens, just music. It’s really quite something these days.

My 2 year old son is also enjoying this process. There is something magical about him asking to “see” the music, and getting excited about the album art. Some of his music requests are based on the album art — usually ones that actually depict the musicians.
by dataflow | 2026-02-23 04:09:43+00:00
There's a very critical bit in my comment that is missing in your response unfortunately -- I'm not sure if I'm communicating it poorly, so I'll try again, with more emphasis.

> I'm not sure how meaningful it is to try to discern the exact percentage of "Iranians not living in Iran are upset the media isn't covering the regime murdering its own people". This would be par for the course, no?

I'm lost here, because that was not at all the percentage I was talking about -- and it didn't need to be even remotely exact, either. I was asking what percentage of Iranians (whether local or expat, although local would be even more relevant here) you see/hear about that compare the global reaction to their situation to the global reaction to Palestinians' situation.

This comparison bit is absolutely critical. It's one thing to be upset the media isn't covering some situation you feel deserves more coverage. It's a whole 'nother thing to be pointing toward the Palestinians as if whatever is happening regarding them has any bearing on another case. (And, let's be clear, it carries an implicit accusation of bias/hypocrisy/etc. in the media and/or public.)

> So, what does it matter if the percentage of Iranians complaining about this issue is high, or low?

Assuming "this issue" refers to what I meant and not what you described:

It matters a ton because my entire point is that for the argument to stand on its merits, Iranians themselves would have to agree with you. And yet I have not even heard of one single Iranian (and I assure you I know n > 1) who has even brought up Palestine in the discussion, let alone drawn a comparison between the two. Given the conflation above in your comment, it's not even clear to me whether your n = 1 data point was doing so either, but perhaps they were.

Again: this could be my bubble, but your experience seems to confirm what I'm saying too.

If hardly anyone in the population itself finds such a comparison apt enough to draw, then I'm sorry, that means it simply isn't. At that point, you have a perfectly sufficient explanation of why "all [one's] friends who posted non-stop about supporting Palestine have NEVER made one mention of supporting the Iranians protesting that regime": because they the situations aren't comparable to begin with, regardless of any biases one may allege.
by DaveCharlieLen | 2026-02-23 04:11:05+00:00
> the viral GPL licence

this was the key part for Linux success, but also it was a network effect thing, if you want users for a unix they likely would use Linux, so give them a driver on Linux and redirect people. Then having the kernel binding be malleable led to more people just opensourcing the drivers if they had an actual product or just vendor the linux kernel otherwise.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-23 04:11:28+00:00
> all of them are for piracy/copyright infringement and illegal betting

Does that include all of the sites that share the same IP addresses as those sites?

For that matter, you're posting a reply to an article about a European country blocking the website of a generic US government VPN service, and the service isn't even operating yet. So not only have they graduated to censoring VPNs, they're now censoring a website whose only content is political criticism of their other censorship.
by pdh | 2026-02-23 04:12:24+00:00
Agreed, this doesn't pass my smell test. November 2026 reports layoffs in NJ (with past tense) https://warnfirehose.com/blog/2026/11/week-1

The layoffs in the report are not listed in NJ's own warn notice
https://www.nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/2026_WARN_Notice_A...
by dgently7 | 2026-02-23 04:12:56+00:00
I think you are right, it's more fast food, or maybe to extend the metaphor its like processed or ultra-processed food. Systematically prepared with lots of ingredients to give you something that is "food" but has been modified to amp up the sugar and salt to levels that make it basically impossible to stop eating. It also loses almost all of its nutritional value and is often cheaper than real food. Just like social media is cheap because its been infused with ads and data tracking sales. A "free range organic" social network would have to cost more.

We do have gov. mechanisms for controlling what can be sold as food so it seems plausible, but those only happened after we went through a period of time
where companies would literally put poison into bread as a filler, and the whole rotten meat packing industry thing. Maybe we are in that phase now but even so i dont expect there to be enough of a social
movement to control these things (and as you say... how is tricky)

still "real food" might not have the reach of mcdonalds, but it does exit and thrive. maybe there is market for a healthy network? based on the comments here and a lot of anecdotes, I suspect there is some latent demand.
by rramadass | 2026-02-23 04:13:04+00:00
Absolutely! Any person willing to study and think can understand the above books. As i mentioned, they cover a broad swath of mathematics and are meant for the general reader. You can checkout reviews on Amazon and elsewhere on the web.

Mathematics can be approached in two ways; 1) For understanding 2) For techniques of usage.

The above books help with (1). Textbooks focus on (2). A very good succinct (< 150 pages!) introductory text for (2) is George Simmons' Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry. It is available at https://github.com/enilsen16/The-Math-Group

One word of advice; most people's phobia of mathematics arises from not knowing/understanding the notation. It is just a shorthand language which you need to get familiar with. When you come across a formula, just expand and read it out aloud in your own version of easy English. You will understand better and lose your fear of mathematics. A book like Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists by Edward Scheinerman is of great help here. There are of course lots of free resources for this on the web starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbo... and https://mathvault.ca/hub/higher-math/math-symbols/
by apsurd | 2026-02-23 04:13:32+00:00
tossing you a head nod: i stumbled upon this book at a children's toy store during xmas shopping https://www.labyrinthbooks.com/the-bad-seed/

made me cry. i bought the hard cover and im saving it for when my niece is a little older to understand the depth, just a little more. it's been a few years. she still needs to learn how to read!
by rescbr | 2026-02-23 04:14:08+00:00
Yeah, I now need a pyroceram skillet too!

But as the solo meat-eater human in my apartment, I ended up buying a gas-canister camping grill to barbecue steaks on my terrace on weekends and then I reheat the rare steaks through the week in the microwave. They get the Maillard reaction and flavor, they get to the correct doneness point when blasted with RF later on.

Cats get happy with the barbecuing, I also grill mushrooms and tofu for my wife and it’s very easy to clean afterwards.
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-23 04:14:20+00:00
> I have no problem supplying my real name online - it's trivially attached to this account via my resume, and I use this account name all over. I also have several other account names, some disposable and some not.

You’re aware and made a choice, that’s good. Most people are not aware and have not elected to make this choice. This is a heavily-conversed topic on this and many other sites.
by dakolli | 2026-02-23 04:14:53+00:00
I approve of this schiz'd response, its on haqq as far as I'm concerned. Its funny to see everyone constantly arguing about "how can I optimize context and improve reliability, ect ect"

What they want is a deterministic process.

The problem is they, like most humans are lazy and want a stochastic parrot to create this solution for them. Even if it means atrophying their brain, and paying a billionaire for access to their thinking machine. Humans are lazy, its the same reason people drive 3 blocks as opposed to walking, or pay a billionaire for this rent-a-serf service to pick up your food for you instead of getting off the couch. LLMs are no different here, but the stakes are just much higher if your brain "muscles" atrophy as opposed to your leg's.

They are also addicted to the gambling mechanics baked into these LLM powered tool's UX. "If I write this prompt this way, I'll get better results" is the equivalent of a gambler being superstitious about how people behave while the cards are being dealt, or in which order they press the buttons on a slot machine.
by cyberax | 2026-02-23 04:14:54+00:00
An analog fallback is a good idea, to be sure your house doesn't freeze when you're away.

> EDIT: Digging around a little more it seems that Mitsubishi H2i minisplit systems don't speak zwave or zigbee, neither does Haier Arctic

There are no mini-splits in the US that speak anything remotely standard. If you want to go with ducted systems, TRANE and others have smart AC units that use "communicating thermostats". The protocol is based on Envirocom system and it's pretty basic.

Good news is that you can still control them by shorting the wires with a traditional thermostat, so you still can have an analog backup in case the regular digital thermostat fails.
by Pramit_2002 | 2026-02-23 04:15:36+00:00
Fair roast. You are 100% right.

I let an LLM "polish" my professional summary and it completely over-indexed on the corporate LinkedIn jargon. Reading it back now, it definitely sounds like slop.

I'm batching my deployments right now to save on build minutes, but stripping that out and replacing it with plain English is the first thing in the next commit.

I appreciate the callout. Lesson learned on letting the AI write the copy!
by MilkMp | 2026-02-23 04:15:43+00:00
Hi there, I have located the root and sent out a bug fix.

Root cause: The CIA World Factbook, published by the Central Intelligence Agency, uses the U.S. Government's FIPS 10-4 country codes, which differ from the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 codes used by the rest of the world. Of the 281 entities in our database, 173 have different FIPS and ISO codes. Our lookups matched FIPS codes first, so when codes collided between the two systems, the wrong country was loaded. Fixed all 13 queries and 6 templates to always prefer ISO over FIPS.

Examples fixed:

Australia (ISO=AU) was loading American Samoa (FIPS=AQ, but Australia's FIPS=AS collides with American Samoa's ISO=AS)
Singapore (ISO=SG) was loading Senegal (FIPS=SG)
Germany (ISO=DE) was loading Gambia (FIPS=GM = Germany's FIPS, ISO=GM = Gambia)
Bahamas (ISO=BS) was loading Burkina Faso (FIPS=BF = Bahamas' FIPS, ISO=BF = Burkina Faso)
by MilkMp | 2026-02-23 04:15:55+00:00
Hi there, I have located the root and sent out a bug fix.

Root cause: The CIA World Factbook, published by the Central Intelligence Agency, uses the U.S. Government's FIPS 10-4 country codes, which differ from the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 codes used by the rest of the world. Of the 281 entities in our database, 173 have different FIPS and ISO codes. Our lookups matched FIPS codes first, so when codes collided between the two systems, the wrong country was loaded. Fixed all 13 queries and 6 templates to always prefer ISO over FIPS.

Examples fixed:

Australia (ISO=AU) was loading American Samoa (FIPS=AQ, but Australia's FIPS=AS collides with American Samoa's ISO=AS)
Singapore (ISO=SG) was loading Senegal (FIPS=SG)
Germany (ISO=DE) was loading Gambia (FIPS=GM = Germany's FIPS, ISO=GM = Gambia)
Bahamas (ISO=BS) was loading Burkina Faso (FIPS=BF = Bahamas' FIPS, ISO=BF = Burkina Faso)
by stevefan1999 | 2026-02-23 04:16:16+00:00
The comforts, you mean soma? Well, besides from the fentanyl and tranq that turns people into almost-literal zombies since they can't get high from oxycontin and from codein no more, now instead we have all the free dopamine hits from gacha game lootboxes, endless attention seeking short videos, that is, tiktok/youtube shorts and instagram reels. Sometimes you feel high in the ups and lows of stock market and crypto bro doing rug pulls too. I have to unfortunately say I also fell into some of those lately, mostly in gacha games and opening weapon cases in CSGO, and for some reason I got rid of instagram which is a good thing I guess?

After all, "attention is all you need". Although it is nothing but just a title of the paper who introduced us to "transformers", and enabled all this AI slop lately (note: I'm not against LLM "AI" but I'm against using it in an irresponsibly, e.g. vibe coding without knowing your domain knowledge in the first place is one), but it is quite a dark humor to me that we can actually use this title literally to describe a lot of real world phenomemon.

All of that to make you feel numb in the rat race to the bottom. I don't think your argument that we are closer to BNM than 1984 is wrong, just that the antifa and all the ICE, and the politics fiasco makes me feel like it is more 1984 than BNM. Or maybe we have a super deluxe package to have both.
by karakoram | 2026-02-23 04:16:18+00:00
> AI arrived at a time when the shine has worn off the tech. Google got evil, Twitter was eviscerated by a clown who likes to make nazi salutes, Facebook plumbed depths of enshittification previously unknown to science.

Perhaps the most underrated point here. To add to this point, people think Gen Z love tech by default, they were first generation to make Facebook accounts as kids etc. but I actually believe they have grown up to be the most tech skeptic generation.

All those kids that made their Facebook accounts faking their age, deleted those accounts before actually turning 18.

Tech industry and tech founders are not seen as hip and cool anymore.
by raihansaputra | 2026-02-23 04:16:43+00:00
man this is cool. this is what i want since i read about fly.io's sprites.

slightly related to this, and i'm not familiar with linux sandboxing/containerization in depth, but any similar turn key solution for linux desktop/server? ideally i have something like sprites/shuru but on my own linux/ubuntu server instead of in the cloud.
by TheJoeMan | 2026-02-23 04:17:36+00:00
As a former student using Chomebooks in Highschool (9-12), a K-8 laptop is a major “ew”. Paper textbooks have tactile reality, room for exploring/reading out of order. Paper exams you can skip around the questions easily, and if the teachers are really that backed up to grade them, good ole’ scantrons are doable. An assigned laptop has 0 attachment from the students and just get neglected to pieces, and no one is “learning computer skills” by clicking around Canvas lectures.
by echelon | 2026-02-23 04:17:42+00:00
Chinese engineers are knowingly surveilled by the state with no recourse. Commercial offerings of all shapes and sizes have cameras and microphones. It's just new tech.

In the US, Five Eyes, and abroad, there is at least some ceremony around calling this bad even though a similar apparatus is installed. (Supposedly with "checks and balances", but who knows?)

People in Western countries almost unanimously find corporate spying creepy. (Though ad tech has snuck in via convenience and invisibility.) We find cameras a hard line.

The TikTok and Twitch generation has different attitudes about always-on cameras, though.
by with | 2026-02-23 04:17:45+00:00
Pretty cool! Some questions about security, because the Github and website make a lot of claims about being fully "secure" by default:

1) What exactly does "encrypted" protect against if there's no passphrase being used? The key sits in IndexedDB right alongside the encrypted data.

2) Why can Claude POST any data it wants to any URL on the internet without any user confirmation?

3)Why is the Telegram bot token stored in plaintext when the Anthropic is protected by AES256? Telegram bot token isn't as sensitive, or what?

4) The javascript tool runs eval() in a Worker that has fetch(), so doesn't that make any fetch_url restriction pointless? The javascript tool can just do the fetch it wants inside of the eval.
Show HN: Clocktopussheets generated from your Git commits
by allanclempe | 2026-02-23 04:17:53+00:00
I run a small dev consultancy and got sick of the end-of-week "what did I actually work on?" timesheet reconstruction. So I built Clocktopus.

It generates timesheets from your git commits. The idea is simple: if you follow good development practices: focused work, regular commits, proper git hygiene, accurate time tracking becomes a natural side effect.

Works with default working hours/timezone settings that Clocktopus uses as a baseline, but if you have flexible hours, you can send a signal from the CLI when you start/finish your day. No browser tabs, no context switching.

It's built for developers and small consultancies who bill hours but hate tracking them. Currently in free beta.

For more information: https://clocktopus.app/docs

Happy to answer questions about the approach or the edge cases (there were many).
by anon84873628 | 2026-02-23 04:19:40+00:00
Can you help me understand which of these happened?

1) Open Claw has a Google OAuth client id that users are signing in with. (This seems unlikely because why would Google have approved the client or not banned it)

2) Users are creating their own OAuth client id for signing themselves into Open Claw. (Again, why would these clients be able to use APIs Google doesn't want them to?)

3) Users are taking a token minted with the Antigravity client and using it in Open Claw to call "private" APIs.

Assuming it's #3, how is that physically accomplished? And then how does Google figure out it happened?
by mmooss | 2026-02-23 04:20:35+00:00
> It's a bunch of garbage, but if you know what you're looking for, you might find something useful.

If you mean an LLM can be a brainstorming and hypothesis machine, and you have prior expertise to evaluate the proposals, then I can see that value. (Maybe that's what you meant, of course.)

But prior expertise is absolutely necessary. Otherwise we make ourselves victims of mis/disnformation. People say the Internet is a cesspool of mis/disinfo, yet nobody thinks it could affect them - we're all too smart, of course (no really, I'm the exception!). [0]

> This doesn't seem to work at all for stats-related apps/sites though, since you can't judge the accuracy of what's being presented.

I don't see the difference. If it's obvious nonsense, in numbers or in text, it's detectable. Everything else, see above.

[0] Research shows that thinking is a big reason people get fooled, and better educated people are easier to fool.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-23 04:20:45+00:00
fair, the $2 is marginal cost. thats why we need people to open-source stuff like this so nobody else has to spend hundreds of hours building it

on ken burns not being "real AI video", the narration, sfx, and music drive most of the story. visuals support it. you only need 10-20% of scenes actually animated for key moments, the rest is ken burns and the audience cant tell. for instance thebiblestoryofai (1M subs), getsleepypod (700k) are all doing exactly this and people love the content.
by sandeepkd | 2026-02-23 04:21:18+00:00
The data is more or less correct, however the comparison's are flawed. There are tons of US based companies that pay on the similar scale to all their employees regardless of visa status. Instead of tying the visa with the employer, giving it for a certain duration can go as a long term fix to address both abuse and supply shortage. Its takes preparation, skill and the mindset to make it to companies like google and meta.
by throw10920 | 2026-02-23 04:21:21+00:00
> Many geek hobbies like 3D printing and home automation are becoming full of unnecessarily smug evangelization if you're not using hivemind approved software and tools, even if it requires a lot more work to do.

A mix between gatekeeping and tribalism. Reasonable people realize that others who want to enjoy a hobby do not have to do the hobby the same way as they do, or make the "right" choices.