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by calmworm | 2026-02-10 03:21:01+00:00
I was speaking of the “face scan” option listed as #1 option on Discord’s “How To Complete Age Assurance”. It’s well known minors are using and/or gaming the face scanning on other platforms. Some adults are even having their accounts downgraded to a minor level restricted account based on their face scan. All around it’s a terrible implementation for age verification.
by qouteall | 2026-02-10 03:21:46+00:00
Normally the database and message queue is decoupled from the backend service. This decoupling makes managing simpler and make cross-language things easier.

But if the type system need to cover all these components, then they start coupling again.

Coupling is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it gives good developer UX. If the database is tightly coupled with programming language, then it looks like ORM but better. And it probably can also reduce CRUD biolerplate or N+1 issue etc.

Related, there is SpacetimeDB that make backend run within database, and the backend code is highly coupled with SpacetimeDB's own API
by gravis | 2026-02-10 03:22:25+00:00
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Show HN: I make Designgud to help founders with wide scope design needs
by vinzdg | 2026-02-10 03:22:44+00:00
So, this idea maybe looks like DesignJoy.

I was freelancing on some platforms like Upwork and Fiverr to help my clients with their web design and UI/UX design needs.

What i noticed was interesting:
Some clients having lot of issues with their design needs, not about the quality of the design. But they feels like they need a quick deliverables designs.

The real issues was continuity.

They struggled to find new freelancers who had the same mindset, communication style, understanding of their product. As their products grew, they need more designs needs, especially brand design, blog thumbnail design, OG Images, etc.

Brand works usually meant higher costs,
If they switched on who specialized in branding, it would be more expensive and re-adapt with the freelancer. And if they stayed with me, they insist to have the predictable costs.

I tried to do add-on services instead of charging per project. This maybe has lower profit for me as a designer, but i'm happier since i can help my clients with their works.

After few months, i found out DesignJoy. The model make sense, so i build my own called Designgud, i tried to improve things out a bit more the pricing etc. And optimized it based on what my existing clients actually needed.

After launched few weeks, i got a few clients that still contribute with me until now. Interestingly, few clients came from Fiverr and Upwork. I don't understand how they can get my contacts, i think they found me on my X.
by tzs | 2026-02-10 03:22:47+00:00
If you compare similar widely sold cars across decades prices are fairly level in constant dollars in the US, at least in the low to maybe mid range. For example when I was buying a new car a little under a year ago I looked at 2025 models of some of my earlier cars.

A 2025 Nissan Sentra was pretty similar in constant dollars to my 1982 Datsun Sentra. A 2025 Honda Civic was pretty close to my 1989 Civic. A 2025 Honda CR-V was pretty close to my 2006 CR-V.

The average new car price now is quite a bit higher in constant dollars than the average new car price decades ago, but that is because preferences have shifted to cars that are at more expensive places in the lineup.

My 2006 CR-V for example was more than my 1989 Civic in constant dollars, but CR-Vs are at a higher price point that Civics. If I had gotten another Civic in 2006 it would have been about the same as my 1989 Civic.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-10 03:23:09+00:00
> Can we stop bikeshedding and agree that telcos are critical infrastructure and need to be highly secure in general?

Yes, because the solutions to both are the same. Decentralized and trustless systems solve both problems is my opinion. I agree the pathway from where we are at now and there is complex, but it's not "bikeshedding" to believe there are fundamentally different and better ways to organize and secure a network that change the attack surface entirely.

(Think of IP layer being replaced with a PKI as a small example)
by kmeisthax | 2026-02-10 03:23:10+00:00
What stops the government from doing the same thing as private industry?

My (insane) personal opinion is that resource extraction is inherently politically corrosive and we should start seriously thinking of a plan to sunset it. Resource wealth is inherently feudalist, the incentives it offers run contrary to any sane economic system, and any resource wealth that is extracted distorts the market.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-10 03:23:38+00:00
Also note that the proton is not an elementary particle so it is really a question of "are the various quarks really 1/3, 2/3 of an electron charge".

Crackpots have found thousands of formula that try to explain the ratio of the proton to electron mass but there is no expectation that there is a simple relationship between those masses since the proton mass is the sum of all sorts of terms.
by Alicia156 | 2026-02-10 03:23:38+00:00
GPT-4o has been an irreplaceable creative partner for many of us in the arts. Unlike models optimized for speed or coding, 4o offers a unique blend of emotional intelligence, imaginative expression, and contextual nuance that’s vital for writers, artists, and storytellers. Yes, GPT-5 may be more efficient for data analysis or programming, but creative professionals don’t just need speed—we need soul. Replacing 4o without a comparable creative alternative feels like asking an artist to swap a brush for a calculator. Some of us can’t do our work without that brush.
by delichon | 2026-02-10 03:24:08+00:00
There is a silver lining to this particular catastrophe. A large fraction of the abandoned tankers are a result of sanctions on Russia. It means they're working. Ukraine cares very much about these ships, having damaged a dozen tankers with their "kinetic sanctions" in the past year. They care because the oil is both a war material and a major source of Russian revenue. More abandoned tankers means a weaker Russia.
by zug_zug | 2026-02-10 03:24:11+00:00
What did I just read? I liked the bits explaining the basics of the difficulties of versioning data, well known points but explained in a simple way. But then it just kept going without any clear central thesis.

Was the central thesis supposed to be that it's impossible for any tools to ever represent complex migrating systems with well-defined data? Because that's not true. Or that it's not practical or cost-effective to do so? Or was there a central point?
by theLiminator | 2026-02-10 03:24:56+00:00
> The second one is also stupid but you had to be there in the very very beginning to have stopped it. The inception of the concept of databases should have been created such that any query you run on it needs to be compiled to run on the database and is thus statically checked. This is something that can easily be done but wasn’t done and now we all just make do with testing.

This is a good point, I've never really thought about this carefully before, but that makes so much sense.
by ZetsuBouKyo | 2026-02-10 03:25:17+00:00
to take control of your own content while preventing it from being harvested for ai training, there’s a straightforward method.

- use a browser extension to encrypt comments sent to any social media platform. - by sharing your public key with intended recipients via a third-party channel, the platform only sees gibberish.

this makes ai training impossible, keeps corporations in the dark about your conversations, and ensures that any government surveillance only yields encrypted strings.

however, the platform might ban you as a bot, since this effectively prevents both the company and the government from snooping on your data.
by zzo38computer | 2026-02-10 03:25:22+00:00
I think that it can sometimes be helpful to have some protective functions, as long as it is not excessive. It should not be mandatory and should not be too difficult to avoid. I program in C, and I do not use most of the warnings since they are excessive (in my opinion), but the warning about implicitly using a integer as a pointer is sensible (and should be an error) since you can easily explicitly override it (with the specific pointer type that you need) if that is really what you meant.

Tests are good regardless of what the programming languages tries to do, since not all bugs can be avoided by the programming language, and not all bugs should be avoided by the programming language. It should let you to write the program, instead of to stop you.

However, there are situations where due to the working of the implementation, there is no reasonable way to compile it when it specifies something which is then violated, or there might be certain extra things that may be required in the compiled code (making it bigger and/or slower in certain circumstances) when certain things are open. For example, consider if a different calling convention is needed for functions that can throw an exception (although in this case it should not require a try block if the function that calls it is also says it can throw an exception), or if some things in functions in a open class will need to be compiled in a special way to consider the possibility that other parts of the class will be overridden (both of these examples are hypothetical, I do not know whether or not any of this is actually true). It is also possible that certain optimizations are possible or not possible depending on if a class is open or something is nullable etc. Due to such things like that, specifying such features in the program might sometimes be necessary in order for the compiler to work correctly.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-10 03:25:39+00:00
Counterpoint: Tungsten is about $1100/ton, so if demand averages 10k tons/year the annual US spend is about $10-12 million. That's peanuts in economic terms. If relations with China deteriorate the US could just set up a front company in some third country, buy tungsten, and re-export it.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-10 03:25:51+00:00
These headers are quite exhausting:

> Message queues are version time capsules

> Event sourcing: the version problem as a way of life

> Temporal and bitemporal databases: time as a first-class citizen

> Semantic drift: the type didn’t change, but the meaning did

> Knowing what’s running changes everything

> What if the old code just kept working?

> The right tools, pointed at the wrong level

Presentation matters as much as content. Particularly if you want somebody to read 10,000 words, making that reading go down smoothly is a good thing to strive for. If this was by chance written by a human who happened to have absorbed LLM-like writing tendencies, I would still find fault in this article for how it is written, and would suggest they spend more time revising it rather than publishing a 5k-10k word technical article daily. Much like writing code, sheer lines written is not the goal; the actual goal is to succinctly and clearly represent your ideas in as refined a form as possible. This article dragged on and on and on, with fatiguing prose, for an idea that can be well expressed without such length.
by promptfluid | 2026-02-10 03:25:57+00:00
In CMPSBL, the INCLUSIVE module sits outside the agent’s goal loop. It doesn’t optimize for KPIs, task success, or reward—only constraint verification and traceability.

Agents don’t self judge alignment.

They emit actions → INCLUSIVE evaluates against fixed policy + context → governance gates execution.

No incentive pressure, no “grading your own homework.”

The paper’s failure mode looks less like model weakness and more like architecture leaking incentives into the constraint layer.
by mcmcmc | 2026-02-10 03:27:28+00:00
Lmao you can’t. Eugenics is evil and denies reproductive rights, bodily autonomy at the most basic animal level. It is literally the idea of creating a master race and culling off anyone who doesn’t conform.

If you find yourself in a situation where you want to do something Nazis did — just not that way — you are halfway there.
by akoboldfrying | 2026-02-10 03:27:29+00:00
Outstanding piece. It articulates the actually fundamental correctness problem of most software development:

> “given the actual set of deployments that exist right now, is it safe to add this one?”

This problem has been right in front of our faces for decades, but I haven't ever seen it laid out like this, or fully realised it myself. Which is surprising, given the obvious utility of types for program-level correctness.

I think the next big leap forward in software reliability will be the development/integration of both the tooling to accomplish this, and the cultural norms to use them. Automating this (as far as possible -- they do note that semantic drift is immune to automatic detection) will be as big a deal as the concept of version control for code, or CI/CD.

There's lots here that I need to dig into further.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2026-02-10 03:29:40+00:00
It's hard. Particle physics faces the problem that in order to dig down to ever smaller scales, ironically, ever larger experiments are needed. We've pretty much built large enough colliders for our current understanding. No one really knows how much more energy would be needed to expose something new - it might be incremental, within current technical reach, or it might be many orders of magnitude beyond our current capabilities. The experiments have become expensive enough that there isn't a lot of appetite to build giant new systems without some really good reason. The hard part is coming up with a theory to justify the outlay, if you can't generate compelling data from existing systems.

Physics advances have been generally driven by observation, obtained through better and better instrumentation. We might be entering a long period of technology development, waiting for the moment our measurements can access (either through greater energy or precision) some new physics.
by wlesieutre | 2026-02-10 03:31:26+00:00
When I was street parking in New England winters I was not exactly an EV target customer. I'm sure that's very nice if you have a driveway and home charging though.

Absolutely heated seats are a luxury feature. That doesn't change the fact that if put heated seats in a car and then have touchscreen only controls, you have created a stupid product that's made to be comfortable in cold temperatures but not usable in cold temperatures.

Of course they should be making cars usable in cold temperatures whether or not it has cold weather luxury features, but the addition on heated seats in a car that you can't operate with gloves on just highlights the stupidity of the screen interfaces.

The manufacturer is considering "what would be nice for a car in cold temperatures" and then skipping over "it would be nice if you could turn the heat or defogger on."
by derf_ | 2026-02-10 03:33:27+00:00
In particular, the central bank, charged with controlling inflation, cannot use taxation to reduce the money supply, because banks do not get to set tax policy. That leaves raising interest rates as its only policy tool.

As the political arm of the government chooses to run deficits in excess of growth plus inflation, then (a) that causes more inflation, and (b) the central bank raises rates, increasing the cost of government borrowing, causing bigger deficits.

This escalates as a result of the central bank trying to control the effects of high government spending by applying a mis-matched policy tool (interest rates) in place of the politicians who have abdicated their responsibility to use a matched policy tool (taxation). Either it spirals out of control, or more and more of the government budget is devoted to interest expense (direct government transfers of wealth paid exclusively to the debt holders) and less of it is spent on providing actual government services (that benefit all taxpayers).

If the central bank does not raise rates, of course, things go even more badly.
by cozzyd | 2026-02-10 03:33:30+00:00
As soon as charge is quantized, this will happen. In any quantization scheme you will have some smallest charge. There are particles with charge +2 (the Delta++, for example), but ... anything that can decay while preserving quantum numbers will decay, so you end up with protons in the end. (ok, the quarks have fractional charge but that's not really relevant at scales we care about QED)

If the question is, why is quantum mechanics the correct theory? Well, I guess that's how our universe works...
by robocat | 2026-02-10 03:34:47+00:00
> Perhaps these constant restrictions will finally spur us to create our own spaces again

We had forums using forum software but moderating the spam got too hard. If you create your own space using any common software platform then you'll be pwned (a la PHP-Nuke et al). I presume even pure custom web pages would end in tears these days (DoS complaints seem to be a more recent reason; also Bot form submission is pretty good at being bad).
by state_less | 2026-02-10 03:34:50+00:00
> The way the US government funds deficit spending is not by increasing money supply (though it could) but by issuing debt in the form of US Treasury bonds.

Sure it does. That Treasury debt is often bought up by the FED in huge tranches by increasing the money supply, they call it things like "unlimited QE (quantative easing)". For example, the FED announced unlimited QE on March 23rd, 2020 causing the stock market and real estate market to bounce. Trillions of new dollars were created in these last 5-6 years, and that's why everything costs more. The USG continues to overspend, and too often on dumb shit too (e.g. tax breaks for the ultra wealthy).
by kbenson | 2026-02-10 03:34:54+00:00
Perhaps this is just a form of technical writing you're unfamiliar with? Those titles are pretty standard for what I consider good technical writing section headers. LLM writing tendencies are tendencies LLMs have integrated by encountering those tendencies. If your assessment standard for AI is just "common best practices for a subset of good writers", then I think perhaps you need to adjust how you assess to be a bit more nuanced.
by tamimio | 2026-02-10 03:35:35+00:00
> Mr Culleton said he would like Taoiseach Micheál Martin to mention his case to President Donald Trump when he visits the Oval Office next month.

Wow, so basically a banana republic, any matter should be resolved by one person, literally the president himself!!

> "To this day we still don't know why he was picked up by ICE.

I think they are thinking of “criminal records”, and they see there’s nothing so it should be ok, but I suggest they dig deeper, it’s not about crimes anymore, he probably said something in social media criticizing XYZ and that’s enough to flag him for deportation, that’s the reality now.
AI Agents That Execute Business Workflows (Claude Code for ERP)
by mrswiftly | 2026-02-10 03:35:39+00:00
TL;DR: Built an ERP where AI agents execute workflows like procurement and invoice processing. Uses Cases (workspaces) and Tasks (sessions) like Claude Code. Agent completes one task, automatically triggers the next. Mac app live, looking for early users.

Mac App: https://apps.apple.com/be/app/swiftly-ai-native-erp/id6755155607?mt=12

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/aYc16FmA

THE PROBLEM

After 8 years implementing ERPs across Europe, I kept seeing the same issue: ERP systems store data but can't execute processes. Employees still manually click through forms for invoicing, procurement, onboarding.

WHAT WE BUILT

AI agents that execute multi-step business workflows autonomously.

Example: Vendor Procurement

Case: "Source Steel Pipes - Q1 2026"

Task 1: Research Suppliers → finds 3 vendors
Task 2: Compare Pricing → creates comparison
Task 3: Negotiate → drafts proposal, waits for approval
Task 4: Create PO → auto-triggered after approval

Each task has specific instructions. Status changes trigger next tasks. You approve key decisions. Everything is auditable.

HOW IT'S DIFFERENT

Workflow engines (Zapier): Rigid rules that break
RPA tools: Brittle scripts
AI chatbots: Just answer questions

Swiftly: End-to-end execution with approval gates

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Full ERP/CRM underneath: AP/AR, Projects, Time Tracking, Contracts, Inventory, Customer Management. The AI workflow layer sits on top.

Tech: SwiftUI apps, Swift/Vapor backend, PostgreSQL, Anthropic Claude.

We are looking to expand to all 8 major AI providers:
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Perplexity, xAI Grok, Cohere, Mistral, DeepSeek

WHAT WE NEED

We have our first paying customer. Looking for:

- Early users willing to define 2-3 workflows with us
- Feedback on the Case/Task system
- SMEs (1-10 employees) in service businesses

7-day free trial. €10/seat/month after.

Links:

Production: https://apps.apple.com/be/app/swiftly-ai-native-erp/id6755155607?mt=12

Beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/aYc16FmA

Question: What business workflow would you want an AI agent to execute end-to-end?
by dwd | 2026-02-10 03:36:29+00:00
My foray into rare earths, critical minerals and some defense stocks was initially as a hedge against Trump starting a trade war with China, the increasing risk of military confrontation and the rearming of Europe. All three concerns have occurred to some degree, but it's a long game and actually took a lot longer to play out than I had expected in some cases.

And I get your lack of confidence, I did miss some quick opportunities that I felt were there but I wasn't confident at the time.

The only way to really gain confidence is do your research; read the presentations of each company, particularly their JORC-compliant estimates, time frames to production, how far along the funding path they are, etc.

Use your preferred LLM for deep dives. Whatever you're question, just ask and you'll be surprised at what you learn. For example asking for a cost/effort comparison of the metallurgic processes required for each type of rare earth host material really helped me understand what they were doing, and how each company differed in their approach.

If you like learning random things on Hacker News, deep diving into any technology or industry will not be an issue.