MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tim-tday | 2026-02-27 18:39:39+00:00
You can illustrate how stupid UBI is by describing it to a child.

Dad: UBI means just giving everyone money.

Precocious 5 yr old: neat! What do they have to do to get it?

Dad: nothing.

Precocious 5 yr old: Why would we do that?

Dad: Because ai destroyed all paying jobs and allowed billionaires to own everything.

Precocious 5 yr old: Why did we do that?

Dad: We weren’t paying attention.

Precocious 5 yr old: Ok But where does the money come from?

Dad: I don’t know, the government?

Precocious 5 yr old: How does the government get money?

Dad: Taxes

Precocious 5 yr old: How can people pay taxes if they don’t make money?

Dad: Well billionaires will make money.

Precocious 5 yr old: Do those guys pay taxes?

Dad: Sadly no.

Precocious 5 yr old: So where does the money come from again?

Dad: …
by tibbydudeza | 2026-02-27 18:39:50+00:00
Way more safety and rigid testing procedures and a better understanding - the Apollo program was all done by the seat of the pants engineering that somehow worked all based on the ideas of the team that built the German V2.

Each F1 rocket engine was hand tuned by drilling holes into the "plate" so it would not cause the combustion mixture to vibrate the engine into smithereens.

Such an approach would never be tolerated today by NASA.
by steveBK123 | 2026-02-27 18:40:14+00:00
Yes, at a fairly large company that should otherwise know better.

The problem with all these orgs hiring "AI experts" is the adverse selection of finding the people who "know AI" but can't get a job at AI lab, startup, big tech, or literally any other job using AI that is better than "making excel do AI more good".

It's like Big Data / Cybersecurity / DevOps / Big Agile / Cloud Evangelist / Data Science grifter playbook all over again.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-27 18:40:15+00:00
Given that SLS is the part of Artemis that has actually shown it works, and Starship is the part that is nowhere near schedule, and doesn't work, it's very funny to suggest that NASA should learn from SpaceX and not the other way around.

SpaceX hasn't even had the confidence to put Starship in LEO yet, and has not carried 1kg of real payload (and barely a few kg of test payloads) - while SLS did an orbit of the Moon, with real payload satellites.
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-27 18:40:35+00:00
That’s just not grounded.

ICE absolutely goes to Republicans led cities.

Per Google: “ The Dallas ICE Field Office is experiencing a sharp increase in enforcement, with over 12,000 arrests between January and October 2025, marking over 100% growth and the second-highest volume nationwide.”

Also per Google: “ Mesa is the only municipality in the state with a contract agreement with ICE. We gladly welcome ICE into Mesa.”

Again, for Bakersfield: “ Based on recent reports, Bakersfield and Kern County are currently major hubs for U.S. immigration enforcement, with high levels of activity from both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol. ”

I quit looking after that one.

The ‘murder’ comment is false as well, of course. Hyperbole doesn’t help discussions of this type.

Can you somehow justify what you wrote?
by shimman | 2026-02-27 18:40:59+00:00
I agree, this is why I'm a big fan of enforcing workplace democracy [1] onto problematic industries like finance, media, advertising on a legislative level; these things can't be trusted with individuals, all workers should share in the company process.

Have no doubt that workers at these companies could do a better job than an out of touch executive + board team that more resemble communist dictatorships than sound business practices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy
by F3nd0 | 2026-02-27 18:41:09+00:00
My reading is they were simply trying to comply with regulations. It wasn't about what ideas they believed the religious texts were trying to convey, but whether their content met a certain definition set by law. The law could be poorly written, or it could be poorly and over-cautiously interpreted by F-Droid maintainers. But I didn't get the feeling they were acting on any kind of moral judgement or own belief about what's appropriate for children.

Does the Bible encourage violence or promiscuity? Not really, no. Does it mention and describe those things in some detail? Yes, absolutely. If that's the kind of content you need to remove from your store, then obviously you need to remove the Bible from your store. Whether that was really the case seems questionable at best, but the stated logic seemed pretty coherent to me.
by RandallBrown | 2026-02-27 18:41:16+00:00
When SpaceX launches a rocket, they think it will work.
When NASA launches a rocket they know it will work.

The cost of going from "I think this will work" to "I know this will work" is really expensive. It might be cheaper/faster to fail a few times and fix those problems than it would be to verify everything up front.
by MichaelDickens | 2026-02-27 18:41:31+00:00
> Yes it was a pragmatic change, no it was not a change in their values. The commentary here on HN about Anthropic's RSP change was completely off the mark. They "think these changes are the right thing for reducing AI risk, both from Anthropic and from other companies if they make similar changes", as stated in this detailed discussion by Holden Karnofsky, who takes "significant responsibility for this change":

Can you imagine a world where Anthropic says "we are changing our RSP; we think this increases AI risk, but we want to make more money"?

The fact that they claim the new RSP reduces risk gives us approximately zero evidence that the new RSP reduces risk.
by Arthurian | 2026-02-27 18:41:50+00:00
2cents from a kid who grew up in a NASA family during the shuttle years -
As others have commented, NASA’s baseline objective is to not kill astronauts.
My understanding of their ethos growing up was that there was absolutely no excuse not to pursue excellence and prioritize safety when people’s lives were on the line.
One would have to think that goal is fundamentally incompatible with SpaceX’s way of doing things (see the many exploding rockets - who wants to get in that?).
And from what I’ve read and heard through the grapevine, working with SpaceX as a contractor on Artemis has certainly had pain points related to these mismatched priorities.
by nasretdinov | 2026-02-27 18:41:53+00:00
Nice to see common and natural patterns to have their performance improved. Theoretically appending to a slice would be possible to handle with just stack growth, but that would require having large gaps between goroutine stacks and mapping them lazily upon access instead of moving goroutines to the new contiguous blocks as it's implemented right now. But given how many questionable changes it requires from runtime it's certainly not going to happen :)
by iainctduncan | 2026-02-27 18:42:08+00:00
I think the worse situation is the bad AI summaries from search on health issues.

We had a potential pet poisoning, so was naturally searching for resources. Google had a summary with a "dose of concern" that was an order of magnitude off. Someone could have read that and thought all was fine and had a dead cat.

(BTW cat is fine, turned out to be a false alarm, but public service announcement: cats are alergic to aspirin and peptobismal has aspirin. don't leave demented plastic chewing cats around those bottles, in case you too have a lovely but demented cat)
by sershe | 2026-02-27 18:42:11+00:00
Not at all, the Russian ban was an outright speech restriction (I'm originally from Russia). This only applies to schools taking federal money. This is much more similar to pressuring institutions taking federal money to do things, by both parties, like adding or removing diversity programs, mandating wage levels, curtailing due process for sexual assault investigations, investigating alleged fraud, etc. There are actually colleges that are very careful about not taking federal money where it would affect them.

The approach that most people in the US seem to favor is "this is totally fine that the right-thinking government can do this, the problem is that the other guys occasionally get to rule".

The real solution is to remove the levers, or the federal spending, so that neither side can do it.
by LaurensBER | 2026-02-27 18:42:18+00:00
It's amazing how quickly Anthropic is turning into the "bad" guys.

First we couldn't use our Claude subscription with anything but Claude code, then the limits seemed to change every week without any communication, then they banned a bunch of people (including some prominent names). Then they complain about the Chinese distilling using their API (which I'm partly sympathetic to but let's not pretend that Antrophic invented their training data from scratch).

Then there's this half-baked offer. I mean sure, it looks nice on paper but given how incredibly valuable opensource has been for them and given their budget it does seem a bit tight.
by w10-1 | 2026-02-27 18:42:24+00:00
To this model I would add the transaction costs for vetting a transaction, the cost of identifying and engaging transaction partners, and the relative sensitivity to a negative outcome (the stake as a percentage of total stake).

I believe that would enable you to identify more or less corrupt industries.

Unfortunately, both stakes and information costs make governance prone to abuse. To see why it’s not nearly as corrupt as one might expect from this model, you’d need reputation cost and benefit, where trusted governments and leaders attract higher functioning citizens and industries.
by 5o1ecist | 2026-02-27 18:42:25+00:00
"you guys" ... "you" ... "you" ... etc etc.

... okay? I'm not even from the US. I don't even pick a side.

Whatever it was that you were reading, you should re-read it when you're capable of emotionless, analytical, objective conscious thoughts. That way you might manage avoiding mindlessly projecting your clearly emotional nonsense into my words.

Thanks! :)
by simpvert | 2026-02-27 18:42:31+00:00
Actually, to give a more accurate answer to 4: we just shipped a public-key identity system, so yes, clients can now be identified by keypair.

Each client generates an ECDSA P-256 keypair locally (IndexedDB, private key non-extractable, never leaves the device). The client authenticates with Keycloak once and sends their public key to the Gryt Identity Service, which issues an identity certificate: a CA-signed JWT binding the public key to the user's Gryt ID. This isn't a bearer token; it only proves key ownership.

When joining a server, the flow is challenge-response: the server sends a nonce, the client signs a short-lived assertion JWT (bound to that server + nonce, 60s TTL) with their private key, and sends it along with the certificate. The server verifies the certificate against the CA's JWKS, extracts the public key, and verifies the assertion signature.

So servers never see the Keycloak token or password. They only verify the CA-signed certificate and proof-of-possession via the signed assertion. The identity system is now fundamentally key-pair-based.
by aziaziazi | 2026-02-27 18:43:12+00:00
Thanks for that.

> each additional alternative meat

As a side note, for many vegetarians and vegans, “alternative meats” actually mean hundreds of different legumes (fresh, dried, milled, split, fermented…) and other delicious plant foods. They’re packed with macro and micronutrients that can replace[0] those found in meat.

Taste is a bit trickier: nothing will ever taste more like flesh than… flesh — and taste is subjective anyway. Meat substitutes can be tasty, but they’re not the same. Which brings me to this:

the masses are not going to give up meat and eggs

That’s true. At first, giving up meat just to eat “fake meat” can feel like a downgrade. But the real key to change is curiosity. There are so many ingredients and recipes to explore. Classic egg-and-milk pancakes are great — but why eat the same thing all the time when there are so many combinations of plant milks and oils to try? I used to love pig and chicken. Now my favorite staples are fried tempeh and lentils with nutritional yeast.

0: I like to joke that meat replace beans, you get the idea. Fun fact: meat is viande in French, from latin vivenda which mean "which sustains life" and used to describe any edible. I think english meat have a similar etymology from mete.
by fhd2 | 2026-02-27 18:43:43+00:00
I got curious as well, because the craziest party poor me can imagine would clock in at maybe half that, including travel. All I could find:

> The three-day festival in downtown Oakland featured performances by Jay-Z, Anderson .Paak, T-Pain, and Soulja Boy, and brought 8,000 employees from around the globe.

So that'd make it 8.5k per person. Building stages, paying permits, hiring acts like these, I bet that's where it mostly went.
by selridge | 2026-02-27 18:44:08+00:00
What do you expect that it’s gonna announce itself in a modal dialogue when you run the software?

This isn’t like AI image generation where you’re going to convince yourself that you can tell the difference based on how you think it looks. Do you really think no one in the production chain of any of the software that you use picked up copilot in the last two years?

What signal are you hoping to receive that this is happening?
by jfengel | 2026-02-27 18:45:14+00:00
They may be the top stories, but they have never appeared on any list of voters' top concerns. It's always crime, jobs, the economy, inflation, and health care.

People can say whatever they want to journalists, but they say different things to the politicians. Standing up for privacy does not get you elected and so we will continue to get anti-privacy laws and Attorneys General who won't enforce what we do have.

The best you can hope for is a judge deciding how they want the Constitution to read, and that's far from the slam dunk you'd expect.
by beej71 | 2026-02-27 18:45:37+00:00
> The goal in my mind is to have an account a parent can setup for their child. This account is set up by an account with more permissions access. Then the app store depends on that OS level feature to tell what apps are can be offered to the account.

That sounds like an OS feature that parents would like to have. Probably has some market value. Maybe just let the market figure that one out.

Or, we could have an overbroad law passed that torpedoes every open-source OS in existence. If I were MS, Google, or Apple, that'd be a great side benefit of this law. Heck, they probably already have this functionality in place.

The problem here is legally-mandated age verification, not where it is placed (although forcing it into all OSes is absolutely ...). The gains are minimal for children and the losses are gigantic for children and adults. I'm not keen to have children avoid blisters by cutting off their feet.

Put control back with the parents. Let them buy tech that restricts their children's access. This law doesn't protect children from the mountains of damaging content online.

And let all the adults run Linux if they want to without requiring Torvalds to put some kind of age question in the kernel and needing `ls` to check it every single run.
by mmustapic | 2026-02-27 18:45:44+00:00
The Apollo program budget was immensely large, and the objective was clear: put people on the moon before the Soviet Union.

Artemis objectives are less well defined, more ambitious and with way less money. The big budget is being allocated to brutes killing people in the streets and a decadent ballroom for the emperor. The difference in importance between the two is the cause of all the failures.
by bluSCALE4 | 2026-02-27 18:46:07+00:00
Personally, I think the value in ChatGPT in health is not that it's right or wrong but that it encourages you to take an active role in your health and more importantly to try things. I've gone through similar issues with ChatGPT where it's convinced me that if A is true, therefore so must B though that may not be the case.

In the future, I think I'll likely review things with ChatGPT and have an opinion and treat the doctor like a ChatGPT session as well--this is opposed to leading the doctor to what I believe I should be doing. I was dismissive about the doctor's advice because it seemed so obvious but more and more, I feel that most of our issues are caused by habitual, daily mistakes--little things that take hold seasonally or over periods of stress that appear like chronic health issues. At least for me.
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by jqpabc123 | 2026-02-27 18:46:25+00:00
Actually that's not the case with Infimobile $75/year is their standard pricing, not an introductory rate.

Really? So if it is "standard", why do they label it "promotional"?

https://infimobile.com/plan-details/10GB-12-months

Note: Promotional pricing is subject to device compatibility verification.

No promo period, no price jump after 3 months.

Of course not, you're paying for 12 months of service up front.

Also, read the fine print in the contract.
by theamk | 2026-02-27 18:46:28+00:00
I wonder what performance of that thing is.

From one side, large hand-written assembly programs don't usually have much optimizations - neither compiler-induced micro-optimizations, nor LTO optimization, nor high-level optimizations from complex algorithms. So normally, I'd expect large hand-written assembly to be slower.

From the other side, despite having lots of code, most of the time is spent in the main loop, so maybe that part is optimized tightly? It does not seem to be super tight at the first sight, but I did not look too closely..

Would be very interesting to see benchmark of this vs regular CPython vs pypy.
by aforwardslash | 2026-02-27 18:46:53+00:00
Coding is just one of many possible skills you use as a maker; do you think everyone into 3d printing is a stm32 programmer or designs and manufactures their own pcb's? Of course not. Software is just a component. If your kick is software, great; but it doesnt need to be. Also, just because you use an LLM it doesnt mean one is not learning; how do you think you learned how to speak?
by Freak_NL | 2026-02-27 18:47:02+00:00
The Hyperion Cantos is a masterpiece which every scifi fan ought to have read, but I would like to recommend a lesser known title of Simmons for readers who have read at least some works of Charles Dickens (self-explanatory) and Wilkie Collins (such as The Woman in White or The Moonstone).

Simmons wrote Drood (2009), which takes these two classical authors and places them in a mystery novel. What struck me as particularly masterful is that Simmons managed to write his prose in such a way that as a reader you soon forget that this book was not written in the 1900s — his tone and style match that of Dickens and Collins so convincingly.
by aadivar | 2026-02-27 18:47:04+00:00
For us this is less about shielding forever and more about restoring friction. VHS-era TV at least had natural boundaries — episodes ended, tapes ran out. Infinite scroll never does. we are basically trying to bring back stopping cues.

re: On the echo chamber point — yeah, that’s something we’re thinking about. The intent is to target mechanics (infinite scroll, counters, autoplay), not viewpoints.

re: browser vendors eating our lunch — totally possible. But there’s also an inherent conflict for engagement-driven platforms to aggressively reduce engagement.

Appreciate your thoughts!
by getnormality | 2026-02-27 18:47:40+00:00
I agree. One way to sum up what you've said: love in any substantial sense is a commitment of effort, and all such commitments are economic in nature - that is, inherently limited and subject to tradeoffs. And these commitments will follow a natural order favoring family and kin, according to our nature as evolved organisms.

The key here is that favoring doesn't need to mean excluding anything else!
by aluzzardi | 2026-02-27 18:48:20+00:00
Mendral co-founder and post author here.

I agree with your statement and explained in a few other comments how we're doing this.

tldr:

- Something happens that needs investigating

- Main (Opus) agent makes focused plan and spawns sub agents (Haiku)

- They use ClickHouse queries to grab only relevant pieces of logs and return summaries/patterns

This is what you would do manually: you're not going to read through 10 TB of logs when something happens; you make a plan, open a few tabs and start doing narrow, focused searches.
by selridge | 2026-02-27 18:48:44+00:00
I’ve never heard of in my entire life a doctor failing to recognize a medical emergency. /s

One of the things that people need to come to grips with is that like Wikipedia people will use ChatGPT because it is there. And the alternative is to be rich and have a primary care doctor that you can reach out to at a moments notice. Until that is different people will use these web services. It’s the same thing as Wikipedia or WebMD.
by bananamogul | 2026-02-27 18:48:50+00:00
I really hate this new world where one jurisdiction - California, Europe, wherever - makes a law and suddenly every other jurisdiction has to comply because the law-making jurisdiction is big enough that tech companies can't abandon it.

And since it doesn't make sense to have dozens of different versions of their apps, they write to the strictest jurisdiction's laws.

If everyone has the power to make laws that apply to everyone...it's chaos.
by tliltocatl | 2026-02-27 18:49:00+00:00
For Linux it will be way more problematic because:

- A lot of of corporate contributions comes from SV.

- Linux Foundation is incorporated in CA.

- Linus himself is CA's resident AFAIR.

So there is zero chance of claiming no jurisdiction. The only hope is whoever is enforcing this batshit wouldn't go after what is essentially not an OS for the purpose of the bill, but rather an internal component (it would be like going after a vendor of bolts and nuts for noncompliance of a toaster).
by aibuildersdig | 2026-02-27 18:49:11+00:00
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