MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hackingonempty | 2026-02-06 17:32:41+00:00
...and his widow, Harriet Fell, is a CS Professor (emerita) at Northeastern[0], and an accomplished cyclist who completed Paris-Brest-Paris (a 1200km ride and to qualify you have to complete 200km, 300km, 400km, and 600km rides in the 8 months leading up to it.)

0: https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/fell/
by simoncion | 2026-02-06 17:32:42+00:00
> - mailing lists are even worse usability-wise because these by design leak your email address...

So does git and GitHub. Last I checked, authoring a git commit with an email address associated with your GitHub account is what makes GitHub attribute that commit to your account. I assume Gitlab works in a very similar way.

"But 'git clone' is soooo much harder than reading through mailing list archives!" Nah.
by keithjl | 2026-02-06 17:32:49+00:00
This website is such a treasure. When I was first getting into bicycles in 2013, it was a mix of Sheldon Brown and the local volunteer-run co-op that taught me everything I need to know. He is himself a generous spirit, advocating for DIY tooling, repair, and reuse.

I would highly recommend anyone into bicycles to try building their own wheel using his article.
by epistasis | 2026-02-06 17:32:57+00:00
Communities are fully in control how they manage themselves, as long as they do it within the law of the state.

Rancho Palos Verdes should comply with the law, or face the consequences of not being able continue that control of their land management.

A great value of democracy is that a "random activist" can petition the government to enforce the law, that's how we keep the whole thing in check. The idea that random activists could not be a check on illegal behavior of the government is a very, well, authoritarian idea that is not compatible with any of the values embodied in the US or California constitutions, our legal system, or the very character and culture of the US.
by Night_Thastus | 2026-02-06 17:33:07+00:00
Whether you're filtering it, or it's subconsciously working is a bit hard to say. Plenty of people think they're 'immune' to advertising - but the goal is often very simple. Just putting the name of a brand in your head can pay off months or years later when going to buy something. That associating of X brand with Y product is already there, even if you've long forgotten the source.
by quentindanjou | 2026-02-06 17:33:29+00:00
Sorry, I wasn't saying you should split, I wanted to say that depending on what type of apps you are more leaning into one makes a bit more sense than the other. Render with their own CDN is quite good for frontend apps. In comparison, the whole config and auto scalling/provisioning of Railway makes it easier for backend app.

Of course you can do both with both of these services.
by joriJordan | 2026-02-06 17:33:30+00:00
He can be out of touch too.

Shortly after Trump started to screw up the economy, Wyden stated Trump had ruined an economy that was the envy of the world.[1] The problem is that envy of the world economy was built entirely on decades of deflation of the average persons buying power.

Other world leaders were envious alright. They wanted the secret to how US leaders convinced the public to accept runaway inequality, where it now takes $800k/yr to have the buying power of $200k/yr in 1980.

He’s doing well with the whole investigating Trump angle
but like the rest of the Dems he's signed off on looting workers.

[1] https://fortune.com/2025/04/10/ron-wyden-us-economy-envy-lau...
by wk_end | 2026-02-06 17:33:30+00:00
The beginning of Apple’s backslide far predates any (thus far fairly limp-wristed) attempts by regulators to pry open their iOS walled garden.

At least in North America - their biggest market I think? - the iPhone is still utterly locked down. Far more locked down than, say, their Macs were when OS X was at its best. Meanwhile macOS continues to get more locked down and yet still worse. Your theory just doesn’t match reality.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-02-06 17:33:47+00:00
> Look up property taxes, cost of living expenses, and overheads like parking, schools, etc.

I currently live in an arguably not very dense city, in the suburbs. I pay thousands of dollars in property taxes. I must own two cars to serve the whole family, for things as basic as going grocery shopping. My HOA is almost a thousand dollars a year. A couple years ago I had to replace the roof, at a cost of several thousands of dollars.

I had none of these problems when I was living in a more dense city, and on top of that, I could actually walk to the nearest coffee shop.

> Is NYC the cheapest place to live in the country?

NYC is dense because it appeals to more people, and the more people that move to the city, the more expensive it gets, precisely because there are not enough homes.

Are you assuming that less dense cities are more desirable to live in? Is Anchorage a more appealing city to live in than NYC?
by amarant | 2026-02-06 17:33:55+00:00
False equivalence. Unless you can point to an instance where tiktok claims to cure cancer or erectile dysfunction with their recommendations.

To be clear: I don't like these addictive recommendation engines. That's why I avoid them. Some people do like them. I don't want to take their fun vice away from them. I also don't want them to take my fun vices away from me!

Yes it'd probably be better for my health if I stopped with a few of them. I don't care. I like it. It's my health, and I'm an adult. If I can choose my vices, why shouldn't others be allowed to? Will they make choice I wouldn't have? Of course! That's the point! It's THEIR choice!

This logic does not apply to scams or firearms, there's no informed consent in getting shot. It also doesn't apply to asbestos baby powder(wtf?)

Getting scammed is not a choice. Scammers lie to you. Recommendation engines never claim to do anything other than recommend stuff you're likely to interact with based on previous behaviour. They give you exactly what's on the package label. I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would want something like that, but I also don't understand why people eat surströmming. I say let them, anyway. I can put up with the stink, it's not the end of the world.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-06 17:34:49+00:00
> now threatening to seize Cuba (he's already stopped all oil going to it, in order to cripple this struggling nation that CIA destabilized since decades), Greenland, Columbia, Canada and whatnot.

Interesting you don't mention Iran. Trump has been building up forces in the region for a few weeks and is on the verge of invading, in an exact mirror of Russia invading Ukraine.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-06 17:35:08+00:00
Talked about back in the Vista days publicly (I cannot find the articles now) - Microsoft has commitments to their hardware partners to help keep the hardware market from collapsing.

So they are not incentivized to keep Win32_Lean_N_Mean, but instead to put up artificial limits on how old of hardware can run W11.

I have no insider knowledge here, just this is a thing which get talked about around major Windows releases historically.
by j1elo | 2026-02-06 17:35:30+00:00
Question about the license choice: now that we're past so many projects that started up as FOSS but with a longer-term plan of monetization and/or corporate-tier support level, which saw their choice of license allowing other bigger players to just get the code and run a competing service with proprietary extensions (which is what something so exceedingly open as MIT allows), isn't there any worry that this could happen again here?

I'm curious if AGPL shouldn't be more common (even though it's not a silver bullet), but MIT projects with foreseeable needs of some monetization to survive long term never ceased to show up, despite so many FOSS drama in the last couple years.
by zahlman | 2026-02-06 17:35:37+00:00
As far as I can tell, you responded to someone literally saying "The situation is more complex." and attempting a refutation of your absolutist view, by accusing that this is a "very simplistic view" — and then generalizing "rich people" as a group without considering strata of wealth at all nor considering more than one possible strategy for accumulating real estate wealth.
by innagadadavida | 2026-02-06 17:35:44+00:00
A key issue that often gets missed is that job growth and housing supply are tightly linked. When cities add office jobs without adding enough housing, the results are predictable: longer commutes, overcrowded housing, or both.

In that sense, it makes little sense to approve large amounts of office space without considering the housing capacity needed to support it. If the jobs-to-housing ratio grows too high, the costs are pushed onto workers and surrounding areas rather than being addressed directly.

This problem is compounded by limited public transit and inadequate road infrastructure. Framing the issue solely as NIMBY opposition misses the structural imbalance at the core of the problem.

Instead of treating symptoms or assigning blame, governments should focus on correcting the underlying mismatch between employment growth and housing supply.
by Jensson | 2026-02-06 17:36:03+00:00
> I just don't like blaming capitalism in the abstract because it doesn't have to be like this. We can change it.

But saying that Facebook or Myspace wasn't that bad does nothing to support this position, so why did you bring those up?

> So simply saying "capitalism bad" with an implication that we need to tear down the system isn't good enough for me

Read my post, I didn't say "capitalism bad", I said its good from the start. Its you that never understood why I objected to you and not the other way around.
by jonathanyly | 2026-02-06 17:36:08+00:00
So OpenAI recently opened their new /translate page and they somehow leaked that you can actually add a custom system prompt to the request that you make to chat with the model. I thus builded a small tool that did let you override the whole /translate page and make it a custom ChatGPT, i os'ed it here. They fixed it after 1 day...

However it is still possibe to add custom system prompts in the normal chat (premium, free and no accounts). This goes way beyond the current settings that you can set in your chatgpt settings. It intercepts into the request and adds the system prompt. You can find the tool here. Also need to say that this does not override the master system prompt but already changes the model completely.

I also opensourced it here, so you can have a look. https://github.com/jonathanyly/injectGPT
by kaicianflone | 2026-02-06 17:36:33+00:00
This feels like a symptom of a deeper issue: we’re treating AI outputs as if they’re authoritative when they’re really just single, unaccountable generations. Disclaimers help, but they don’t fix the decision process that produced the content in the first place.

One approach we’ve been exploring is turning high-stakes AI outputs (like news summaries or classifications) into consensus jobs: multiple independent agents submit or vote under explicit policies, with incentives and accountability, and the system resolves the result before anything is published. The goal isn’t “AI is right,” but “this outcome was reached under clear rules and can be audited.”

That kind of structure seems more scalable than adding disclaimers after the fact. We’re experimenting with this idea on an open source CLI at https://consensus.tools if anyone’s interested in the underlying mechanics.
by dandaka | 2026-02-06 17:36:34+00:00
I'm working on building a personal assistant concept. One test I've been running is asking different AI assistants to use a browser to check available appointment slots for my hairstylist. None of them has managed to do it successfully yet, but I'm going to keep trying.

https://n694923.alteg.io/company/656492/personal/menu?o=
by happytoexplain | 2026-02-06 17:37:01+00:00
Assuming there's nothing wrong with it technically (scam, mishandling, whatever), then yeah, nothing wrong your take. It's just the obvious meta-problems: His name being on it creates trust issues and reluctance (and inversely: blind trust on the other side). Even just regarding image and principles: Most people justifiably hate the idea of a prideful asshole putting his name front and center on a government service - they want the comport of a president to be the opposite of a cartoonish car salesman. They might tolerate it if the guy in question doesn't cultivate that image (e.g. Obamacare), but even then, they don't want the guy to officially name it that (e.g. ACA) because that would again contribute to the image of petty self-advertisement. Of course this "normal" human psychology gets short-circuited with enough hate ("I don't like that behavior. Oh wait, my enemies also don't like? Now I like it.").
by Night_Thastus | 2026-02-06 17:37:05+00:00
Your life will be perfect if you just buy [[PRODUCT]]. You will be happy. You will be envied by your neighbors. You will be rich and powerful. You will have a perfect loving relationship. If you don't buy it you will never have any of these things.

Whether they say it explicitly or not, that's what they push through careful imagery and wording.
by lubujackson | 2026-02-06 17:37:17+00:00
I agree LLMs shouldn't be "compilers" because that implies abstracting away all decisions embedded in the code. Code is structured decisions and we will always want access and control over those decisions. We might not care about many of those decisions, but some of those we absolutely do. Some might be architectural, some might be we want the button to always be red.

This is why I think the better goal is an abstraction layer that differentiates human decisions from default (LLM) decisions. A sweeping "compiler" locks humans out of the decision making process.
by syx | 2026-02-06 17:37:25+00:00
Last month they had a rerun of the movie at the cinema in Dublin (IE) and went to see it with a friend. It was such a surreal experience because after watching it on my laptop so many times I could hear the laughter and the jokes of the audience on the cheesy hacking scenes, it was like watching the movie in 4D, I enjoyed it a lot!

I even brought my PowerBook Duo 280c along with me
by ghaff | 2026-02-06 17:37:32+00:00
Because everything about real estate is insane if you peel back the covers. I've just been going through this and I couldn't tell you how many pages of documents I've had to go through. And this isn't even a new purchase. It's just trust and neighbor agreements (in part because the guy I bought the property from 25 years messed up some stuff).
by autoexec | 2026-02-06 17:38:36+00:00
> Unfortunately the "beast" is the Internet content itself.

The idea that the internet couldn't exist without ads is a myth that needs to die. The internet existed, thrived, and was awesome long before it became infested with ads. An ad free internet would be different in some ways, but it'd still be great and filled with endless amounts of content. Your example of youtube kind of proves the point. It was so much more fun before youtube became all about profit and people just posted videos for fun, or out of genuine passion. Not having obnoxious youtube ads doesn't even stop creators from getting paid since they can still take donations or sell merch.
by salehh | 2026-02-06 17:38:48+00:00
They've already given away too many pro subscriptions, hell to renew I was proposed $100 for an annual subscription, 50% off. My theory for why they're doing this, they're about to aggressively advertise Perplexity during the super bowl and in case there's sudden bump in usage they've limited everyone but max subscribers to make costs sustainable. And they need sustainable costs or significant profitability ASAP because IPO or series F will be the end of 2026 / early 2027.

I still dislike this because if I knew I was going to be limited this much and with such poor UX of not knowing the monthly research limit was approaching until I just consumed it, I would not have paid the $100/yr right now and would have tried using an alternative. I'm sticking around for the next couple of weeks to see if they pivot and if they don't I'll request a prorated refund for my annual subscription.
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 17:39:21+00:00
> Socially, constant monitoring creates a chilling effect on free behavior in public spaces, undermining individual liberty.

I was skeptical from the first sentence, but I stopped here.

This "chilling effect" is a favorite of privacy advocates, but it's purely a hypothetical. I have asked for and received no evidence of its practical effect in the real world, and can find plenty of evidence to the contrary.

New York City, for example, is one of the most highly-surveilled cities in the US, and yet turnout for things like protests is seemingly unaffected.

This is one of the centerpieces of your entire argument, yet is literally taken on faith.
by tolugenius | 2026-02-06 17:39:55+00:00
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Github: https://github.com/ColonelToad

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by arjun810 | 2026-02-06 17:40:39+00:00
Our results on our rails app surprised us. Codex 5.3 far and away the best — much faster and cheaper (though cost isn’t relevant yet, since you can only access this model via a ChatGPT plan).

https://x.com/sergeykarayev/status/2019541031986032925?s=46
by Etheryte | 2026-02-06 17:41:07+00:00
You could make the same argument about sugary beverages, that you can't legislate intelligence, yet every country that has imposed a considerable sugar tax has seen benefits across the board. This of course omits a lot of nuance, but the main takeaway remains the same. We all have that monkey brain inside us and sometimes we need guardrails to defend against it. It's the same reason we don't allow advertising alcohol and casinos to kids, and many other similar examples. (Or at least we don't allow it where I'm from, maybe the laws are different where you're from.)
by zahlman | 2026-02-06 17:41:43+00:00
> Okay, so what are product engineers? They are software engineers empowered to handle some responsibilities of PMs and Designers, balancing the roles.

> Product engineers assume traditional PM roles, including owning the roadmap, engaging with users, analyzing data, framing opportunities, and determining what to build. However, they do not replace a PM. The PM still provides context but is no longer the main driver of implementation.

How is this different from a "lead"?
Show HN: Latch – Open-source security middleware for AI agents
by cblovescode | 2026-02-06 17:41:53+00:00
Latch is an open-source proxy that sits between AI agents and the tools they use. It intercepts all tool calls and applies security policies in real-time:

• Safe operations pass through instantly
• Risky operations require human approval via dashboard or Telegram
• Dangerous operations are blocked completely

I built Latch to address the growing security risks of AI agents accessing critical systems. There have been 1,800+ exposed agent gateways discovered in the wild and recent security audits showing multiple vulnerabilities in agent frameworks, so this was motivated by the clear urgent need for better controls.

Implementation is simple: a CLI wrapper around MCP servers that takes a few minutes to set up. You can do it through your dashboard or with quick command (npx @latchhq/cli wrap)

Key features:
• Policy engine using natural language rules, or create rule-based policies by tool name, action class, or domain
• Audit logging
• Telegram integration for mobile approvals
• Self-hosted architecture

The project addresses what security researchers call the "lethal trifecta" - when AI agents have access to private data, process untrusted content, and can communicate externally. This creates a new attack vector traditional security tools don't address.

I think the space is wide open and looking for contributors!

GitHub: https://github.com/latchhq/latch
Docs: https://latch.mintlify.app
by lysace | 2026-02-06 17:41:58+00:00
Yes, but the lack of clear pricing probably makes people think it's more expensive than it actually is. (It did so to me.)

There is nothing quantifiable here: https://claude.com/pricing

Pro: "Everything in Free, plus: More usage"

Max: "Choose 5x or 20x more usage than Pro"

Wow, 5x or 20x more of "more". That's some masterful communication right there.
by runjake | 2026-02-06 17:42:33+00:00
LoD and MoD's heydays were more in the 1980s. By the first year or two of the 1990s, both were pretty much defunct, if my memory serves.

I was acquainted with several members of both groups, and I don't remember them really resembling the Hackers movies in appearance or personality. But I lost touch with them in about 1989-1990 or so, due to the next phase of my life kicking off.
by myrmidon | 2026-02-06 17:42:37+00:00
Your primary point is "the study harmed participants, and Gates is responsible"

But your own report contradicts this, and finds the deaths unrelated.

You also argue that Gates is suspect, because HPV vaccine trials were only done in India. This is also false, I sourced that already in the previous response, you did not comment on it.

You keep coming back to the same Indian Parliamentary committee report, which explicitly finds that the girls deaths are completely unrelated or "unlikely related" to the vaccine, and then keep accusing the study of "killing schoolgirls".

You are either arguing in bad faith or lying to yourself here.

Unless you can actually state with a straight face what kind of evidence would change your outlook ("Gates responsible for harmful study"), I see no point in continuing this argument.
by tjr | 2026-02-06 17:43:04+00:00
Delegation, yes.

I do not see LLM coding as another step up on the ladder of programming abstraction.

If your project is in, say, Python, then by using LLMs, you are not writing software in English; you are having an LLM write software for you in Python.

This is much more like delegation of work to someone else, than it is another layer in the machine-code/assembly/C/Python sort of hierarchy.

In my regular day job, I am a project manager. I find LLM coding to be effectively project management. As a project manager, I am free to dive down to whatever level of technical detail I want, but by and large, it is others on the team who actually write the software. If I assign a task, I don't say "I wrote that code", because I didn't; someone else did, even if I directed it.

And then, project management, delegating to the team, is most certainly nondeterministic behavior. Any programmer on the team might come up with a different solution, each of which works. The same programmer might come up with more than one solutions, all of which work.

I don't expect the programmers to be deterministic. I do expect the compiler to be deterministic.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-06 17:43:30+00:00
> Kernel and low level stuff are actually very stable and good.

In their intended applications, which might or might not be the ones you need.

The slowness of the filesystem that necessitated a whole custom caching layer in Git for Windows, or the slowness of process creation that necessitated adding “picoprocesses” to the kernel so that WSL1 would perform acceptably and still wasn’t enough for it to survive, those are entirely due to the kernel’s archtecture.

It’s not necessarily a huge deal that NT makes a bad substrate for Unix, even if POSIX support has been in the product requirements since before Win32 was conceived. I agree with the MSR paper[1] on fork(), for instance. But for a Unix-head, the “good” in your statement comes with important caveats. The filesystem is in particular so slow that Windows users will unironically claim that Ripgrep is slow and build their own NTFS parsers to sell as the fix[2].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/785430/

[2] https://nitter.net/CharlieMQV/status/1972647630653227054