MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yosamino | 2026-02-24 23:04:34+00:00
here you go:

> The Israel Defense Forces believes that the Hamas-run health ministry’s death toll from the war in the Gaza Strip has been largely accurate, a senior Israeli military official acknowledged on Thursday.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-believes-70000-gazans-kill...

IDF claims 2/3 to 3/4 of killed are civilians. Now add in that around half of the population of Gaza is under 18 and also that half the population is female.

I know that I will not convince you, you are a person who thinks "lol" is adequate terminology when discussing the killing of humans, but you also don't get to lie about things on the internet that even the party you support does not lie about.

Please try and adhere to the standard of conversation that all of us on HN are trying have to elevate our discussion. Read it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by PaulCarrack | 2026-02-24 23:05:30+00:00
I'm often stuck at my desk for long hours, which made it difficult to maintain a healthy weight. I started using Manjaro a few months ago, and it's had a significant impact. It helped control my appetite and reduced the constant cravings I'd usually get, making it easier to make healthier choices. I've lost around 15-20 lbs so far, and I feel much more in control of my eating habits. I know it's a bit anecdotal but it's been an important part of my weight loss journey
by tombert | 2026-02-24 23:05:49+00:00
When I was thirteen I sent an email to Tom Fulp (creator of Newgrounds.com) telling him I wanted to make my own website with Coldfusion (which I had learned about through a pirated copy of DreamWeaver) and MySQL, and asked if would help me make it. [1]

He responded back extremely politely and said that my idea seems like a great idea, but he's far too busy running Newgrounds to build any other websites right now, but once I build it he would love to see it.

I never ended up building the website, but I look back and think it was cool how encouraging he was to some random kid who emailed him.

Kids will pick the weirdest people as "heroes" sometimes, and it's cool when your heroes turn out to be decent humans. Sometimes just responding to an email is all it takes.

[1] I honestly do not remember at all what the website was supposed to be and I don't have the email anymore. Knowing thirteen year old me, it was probably a forum about Donkey Kong Country or something.
by nailer | 2026-02-24 23:05:59+00:00
> I remember when folks here were shilling the "Israel promises they'd never bomb a hospital"

The pro-Hamas people, including the BBC, did lie about bombing a hospital. A PIJ rocket fell into the carpark.

There was a seperate hospital that the IDF did bomb - with the usual evacuation warning - that MSF recently admitted was filled with Hamas fighters.

Like the genetics disorder kids (touted as 'starving children' by pro-Hamas accounts), and the 'genocide' where the population increased, I suspect this will also be proven wrong.
by dang | 2026-02-24 23:06:00+00:00
Yes because we just add the things we need, at whatever layer it makes the most sense to add them.

This type of application stack that includes the language you're writing in and even, when convenient, its implementation, is really satisfying to work with. There is much less need for workarounds, arbitrary choices, and various indirections (e.g. what used to be called dependency injection, for example). All the plumbing is an order of magnitude simpler and it allows us to keep the codebase much smaller than it would otherwise be. I also spend basically zero time bitching about having to deal with software dependencies, making me realize how much of my former life as a programnmer was taken up with just that.

I think of this as sort of the unikernel form of application dev and of course it's a fine fit for a Lisp, since "write the language you want to write your program in as you write your program in it" is the natural style there. The tradeoff is that there's a lot of vertical coupling between the layers. If you want to factor out one layer for general consumption, e.g. to open source the language implementation so other people can build cool things with it, there's a fair bit of work to do.

Also, since the language implementation exists to run a specific application, we just don't bother supporting we don't need for HN. That too comes back to bite you when you want to open-source it!

HN has had 15+ years of work since the original news application was open-sourced; that's a lot of things-we-added at-some-point. Most of those are at the application level but some ended up in Arc and some in the Arc implementation it was convenient to put them there. This is especially handy when you have limited time to work on the code.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-24 23:07:07+00:00
> whoops i made the incorrect assumption that AZ was mrna.

Oddly, I've seen a few people stridently arguing against all vaccines say this just recently. You're right in saying AstraZeneca was rushed through. I think that was understandable under the circumstances. I sought it out when there were no other vaccines were available, but I am in the high risk group. It would have been madness for the younger population to do the same, but that would have been difficult as the government put age restrictions on it as soon as the side effects became apparent.

Until speaking with you here I didn't realise the general anti-vaccination sentiment it stirred up. That will cause far more deaths than the VITT it triggered.

Thanks for the chat.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2026-02-24 23:07:10+00:00
Hamas is a terror organisation funded, and quite possibly created, by far-right nationalist elements in the Israeli government to weaken the Palestinian authority and create a pretext for the occupation of Gaza.

Netanyahu is on the record funnelling money through Qatar. He said it was for "humanitarian aid" - which would be more credible if it wasn't such an extraordinary and unusual outbreak of concern for Palestinian wellbeing.

The occupation is straight out genocide, labelled as such by many Israeli scholars, as well as most of Rest of World.

This level of barbarism and entitlement has no place on a civilised planet.
by FarmerPotato | 2026-02-24 23:07:11+00:00
Oh, also "Programming A Problem Oriented Language: Forth - how the internals work" by Charles Moore, the inventor of Forth. It conveys his design philosophy: simplicity. Time and again he makes the point "You don't need it." Where a simple solution fits 90% of use cases.

Where I think Forth falls short: it encourages you to "write your own language" or vocabulary, where that can superficially resemble "noun [adjective] verb" syntax, but doesn't have polymorphism. Then, there are N+1 versions of message-passing object-oriented Forth, where N is us.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-24 23:07:20+00:00
The computer vision cat is too far out of the bag. I don’t know how you can feasibly legislate that people can’t own a camera and send its output to OpenCV. Police already read plates with their eyes and can record those observations. The state of mass surveillance is so much worse than road cameras. This feels like a waste of everyone’s time.
by nomel | 2026-02-24 23:07:22+00:00
Looking at this almost unanimously negative comment section, on a tech website, it appears you should be concerned about your safety while wearing anything that could be seen as being "smart". I imagine a non-tech crowd would be even more negative.

> for identifying creeps nearby

> I recently had to interact with an idiot wearing meta glasses.

> Would renaming to ”Nearby Glassholes” be acceptable as a PR?

> If you're wearing these glasses and recording people in public, you're asking for a sweet punch in the face.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 23:07:28+00:00
> There was a seperate hospital that the IDF did bomb…

There was more than "a" hospital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_health_facilities_d...

"By February 2024, it was reported that "every hospital in Gaza is either damaged, destroyed, or out of service due to lack of fuel.""

Are the satellites lying, too? https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/satellite-images-destruct...
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-24 23:07:40+00:00
No, US didn't lose it, we collectively decided that whenever we buy something, the price was the most important aspect.

It's like everybody forgot that their neighbour's job depend on them.

We're repeating the same pattern with online shopping, malls and stores everywhere are closing because of our collective actions, we're not losing them like I lost my keys.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-24 23:07:43+00:00
> Require unlock via adb connected to laptop.

Fine, just:

- Don't reset it every 5 days / 5 hours / 5dBm blip in Wi-Fi strength, because this pretty much defeats end-user automation, whether persistent or event-driven. This is the current situation with "Wireless Debugging", otherwise cool trick for "rootless root", if it only didn't require being connected to Wi-Fi (and not just a Wi-Fi, but the same AP, breaking when device roams in multi-AP networks).

- Don't announce the fact that this is on to everyone. Many commercial vendors, including those who shouldn't and those who have no business caring, are very interested in knowing whether your device is running with debugging features enabled, and if so, deny service.

Unfortunately, in a SaaS world it's the service providers that have all the leverage - if they don't like your device, they can always refuse service. Increasingly many do.
Show HN: Vigilo – Local audit trail and cost tracker for AI coding agents
by idanr3011 | 2026-02-24 23:07:49+00:00
I realized I'd spent $197 in a single day using Claude Code and Cursor without any visibility into what they were actually doing. No breakdown of which operations cost what, no record of what files were read or written, no way to audit what the agent executed on my behalf.

So I built vigilo.

It sits between your AI agent and your system as an MCP server, logging every tool call — file reads, writes, shell commands, git operations — to a local append-only JSONL ledger. For write operations it captures a unified diff. Every event gets a risk level (read/write/exec), timing, git context, model, and token count.

Nothing leaves your machine. No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud. Arguments and results can be encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM — the key never leaves ~/.vigilo/.

Works with Claude Code and Cursor. Claude Code uses MCP + a PostToolUse hook to capture both MCP tools and built-in tools (Read, Write, Bash, Edit). Cursor uses MCP + cursor.com's API for real per-request token and cost data.

The CLI gives you:
- vigilo view — full session history with collapsible events, diffs, costs
- vigilo stats — aggregate breakdown by tool, file, model, project
- vigilo watch — live tail as events happen
- vigilo dashboard — real-time web UI with SSE live feed, time-series charts, session explorer
- vigilo cursor-usage — actual billing data pulled from cursor.com

The ledger is plain JSONL, rotates at 10MB, optionally encrypted. You can export to CSV or JSON anytime.

Built in Rust.
by rayiner | 2026-02-24 23:08:00+00:00
According to the LA Times, that statistic is misleading: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-2014... (“A closer examination shows that immigrants living illegally in most of the continental U.S. are less likely to be deported today than before Obama came to office, according to immigration data… On the other side of the ledger, the number of people deported at or near the border has gone up — primarily as a result of changing who gets counted in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s deportation statistics.”).

I believe that the premise of the immigration laws is correct—that exceeding certain levels of immigration harms society for various reasons that have nothing to do with protecting sunscreen sales—just as Clinton and Obama claimed to do.

Again, you can disagree with the premise. But my entire life I saw presidential candidates promise to fix this particular problem, and Trump succeeded.
by grumple | 2026-02-24 23:08:08+00:00
> I remember when folks here were shilling the "Israel promises they'd never bomb a hospital" and "Hamas is lying about the death toll" lines.

The IDF has always said they will bomb anything used by Hamas. Hospitals have been widely used by Hamas for decades: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/gaza-palestin...

If you're referring to the "hospital bombing" which was actually caused by a Hamas rocket on 10/17/23, which set off the widespread genocide accusations, that wasn't the IDF: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/26/gaza-findings-october-17...

The IDF has also widely accepted the total death toll as an approximation. They have widely disputed the breakdown of those deaths, both number of militants and women and children killed.

This particular incident, however, was clearly an egregious error or war crime and the IDF clearly attempted to cover it up. There were absolutely some such incidents in this conflict.

It should be telling, however, that the majority of the attention of groups such as "Forensic Architecture" is on Israel, rather than say, reasonably distributed among state level participants in war at present or in recent history. There are something like 20x as many deaths in each of Ukraine and Sudan - yet even HN has more stories about Israel.
by slg | 2026-02-24 23:08:36+00:00
>the local indigenous people called Palestinians

While you have a valid point overall, I always hate this specific phrasing because it's either ignorant of history or implies there is a statute of limitations on being indigenous. And if it is the latter, you're actively being counterproductive to the cause because that is telling the Israelis that the land will be morally theirs if they can hold it for enough generations thereby encouraging continued occupation.
by joyeuse6701 | 2026-02-24 23:08:36+00:00
I’m not sure why the Palestinians and allies are complaining. Their stated aim is the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel. That’s Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Yemen. And they’ve tried but are too incompetent to succeed.

So when Israel meets them with the same energy, it’s all double standards and whining. That is beneath contempt, as some famous scorched earth general once said.
by krainboltgreene | 2026-02-24 23:08:42+00:00
> Stripe needs all that byzantine fraud prevention, on top of what they had a decade ago, because they are a huge concentrated target.

This is not true. Every payment processor needs this effort because as soon as you broadcast that you're a payment processor you're going to get about 3-5 scammers a day.

As an aside I really think Mercury bank should audit their onboarding process.
by snvzz | 2026-02-24 23:08:45+00:00
These are entirely different use cases. I already use IDE-SATA adapters, IDE-CF adapters, IDE-SD adapters, FlashFloppy and what not.

ATAboy is about accessing early IDE HDD on current computers.

My question was which usb-ide chipsets are known to handle CHS (and not just LBA).
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-24 23:09:51+00:00
Cheaper is very much not true if you value time. Devoting the entire workday of an adult to 1-3 children is a huge cost, much more expensive than having one adult handle 6-10 children.

And "higher quality" isn't guaranteed at all. Even with daycare the children are with their parents most of the time, and meeting up with other kids and a trained caregiver during weekdays has a lot of good effects.
by gritspants | 2026-02-24 23:10:22+00:00
Friction is the entire point in human organizations. I'd wager AI is being used to build boondoggles - apps that have no value. They are quickly being found out fast.

On the other side of things, my employer decided they did not want to pay for a variety of SaaS products. Instead, a few of my colleagues got together and build a tool that used Trino, OPA, and a backend/frontend, to reduce spend by millions/year. We used Trino as a federated query engine that calls back to OPA, which are updated via code or a frontend UI. I believe 'Wiz' does something similar, but they're security focused, and have a custom eBPF agent.

Also on the list to knock out, as we're not impressed with Wiz's resource usage.
by irjustin | 2026-02-24 23:10:28+00:00
This is just the part that you see. Having lived here for a while now.

1. At a young age, you're taught to follow the rules.

2. "Someone's always watching". Lots of CCTV. Community reports.

3. Plenty of police who have the ability and time to investigate even the most petty things.

Trust in the system really starts with 1 but is carried day to day by 3.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-24 23:10:33+00:00
It was "reported that", doesn't make it so. And note that one of the reasons noted was "lack of fuel". Gaza never ran out of fuel, it was an artificial shortage caused by Hamas.

Why do you say it's a lie that they lose their protected status? Read what Geneva actually says.

And I note yet another reference to "proportionality" as if it's some magic spell. Such usages imply the actions are not proportionate--but that is never actually addressed. Underwear gnome logic.

Citing chapters in Geneva is not a rebuttal. "Geneva" is yet another magic spell. I'm reminded of the repeated denials by Hamas of bunkers under the main hospital. And Israel came out and said there's no question they exist as we built them. Israel is very big on civil defense.

Night, not illuminated. And note that your summary of Israel's conclusions does not say whether the people actually were non-combatants.
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-24 23:10:35+00:00
> But I'm afraid that this is security theater and the true goal is to protect revenues by making it hard or impossible to install apps that impact Alfabet bottom line (eg third party YouTube clients.)

It's not just them. Every other SaaS, from banks to media providers to E2EE[0] chat clients to random apps whose makers feel insecure, or are obsessed with security [theater] best practices, just salivate at the thought of being able to check if you're a deviant running with root or debugging privileges, all because ${complex web of excuses that often sound plausible if you don't look too closely}. There's a huge demand for device attestation, remote or otherwise.

--

[0] - End-to-end Enshittified.
by alexpotato | 2026-02-24 23:11:30+00:00
Going to play devil's advocate and say that they make minimal to no revenue off of their website so it being down is not a huge deal.

It's exactly the opposite to what happens if the the main ad server for a company in the ad serving business looks at things.

Or another example:

From an inventory management perspective, it's ok to be out of stock for low margin items b/c the opportunity cost is low.
by woodruffw | 2026-02-24 23:11:31+00:00
I think I understand the two pretty well. And I've read both the 2017 and 1988 charters. The funny thing about charters is that you can put anything in them; the IDF's charter[1] is an exercise in frustration for anybody who knows literally anything about how the IDF actually behaves, and so for Hamas.

[1]: https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/our-mission-our-values/
by irishcoffee | 2026-02-24 23:11:51+00:00
> The nice part is that, when you do see that the code smells — you ask the agent to rework it, focusing on specific problems.

I think that is the crux of the problem. How do you know code smell if you don't write it, and you don't read it? I'm pretty confident the spdx header isn't correct even.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-24 23:11:55+00:00
> sort them by incredibly small amounts of manufacturing error and make those correspond with devices that have similar amounts of manufacturing error

I spent a little while unsuccessfuly trying to recall the jargon or the anecdotal company-name here, but IIRC there was an early pioneer in this where a company making radios (?) tried to develop a software system that would categorize non-conforming parts so that the flaws in different pieces would cancel out.

I don't think it worked for them, at the time it was far more efficient to just spend money on improving the quality and tolerances of the parts.
by awakeasleep | 2026-02-24 23:12:10+00:00
By the fact that they are made in China, it is axiomatic that they must be made from low quality parts, and be low quality themselves.

One can only marvel at how high-quality the parts and phone would be if it was made in the United States

Or, in a perhaps weirder permutation of the formula, the referents of words may have changed beneath us, and a “low quality, Chinese made” device is now what is materially desirable, and we should be suspicious of what is represented as “high quality, American made”
Ask HN: Do you use trading AI agents?
by alphathetaquant | 2026-02-24 23:12:44+00:00
I’m a retail trader and lately I’ve been overwhelmed by the number of trading AI agents out there.

I’m interested in how people here think about evaluating and trusting these systems before putting real money behind them.

Specifically:
• what methods do you use to evaluate trading AI agents?
• what trading AI agents have you tried, if any?
• how long did you run them live or on paper?
• what made you trust them enough to deploy, or what made you stop?
by selridge | 2026-02-24 23:13:17+00:00
I love posts like this because it’s just a knife fight between community members whose identities are built around curation VS. a company whose user studies all sound the same alarm “new users leave because their shit gets curated”

Same thing happens to Wikipedia. The people building the platform pay good money for user study that show, pretty clearly, that trying to contribute to SO/WP is like hitting a brick wall. User study after user study will show the same thing but not give any way to break the logjam.

So then something like the above happens, with identical results each time. It’s glorious. Meanwhile new questions trend to 0.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-24 23:13:28+00:00
Pictures of a basically untouched hospital. The destruction is way overstated.

And let's look at the numbers. Hamas numbers are fantasy but let's pretend they're accurate. ~70k. I have not seen anyone contesting the Israeli database being combatants. ~9k. Note that even granting the most extreme claims this is still better than what western powers typically do--and it's in an unevacuated urban environment which is the worst case.
by verdverm | 2026-02-24 23:13:38+00:00
It's a transformative technology, you should definitely try it at a minimum, and long enough to get a feel for it. It takes time to learn what/where they are good/bad at and how to interact with them to get the most of out them.

I saw a GameDev talk on Ai where they showed a virtual pile of trash. It cost more than $10k, what if we go photograph trash piles and use Ai to turn them into assets?

The Steam label, maybe it means something now, but longer I think it fades. For me personally, if there is a good game than looks nice, I'm not really going to care how much Ai they used. Be mindful of where you derice industry sentiment from, and that sentiments are changing.
by lurkshark | 2026-02-24 23:13:48+00:00
Yeah this standoff is worth at least 10 Super Bowl ads in good publicity. The Pentagon is saying "Claude is the best so we need to use it but you need to stop acting ethically". I'm almost wondering if someone in the administration has a stake in Anthropic because this is such a boost.

Their threat to label it a supply chain risk also feels toothless because they've basically admitted that using Claude is a benefit, so by their own logic they're be shooting themselves in the foot to ban contractors from using it.
by mcmcmc | 2026-02-24 23:14:21+00:00
I work in IT and can’t tell you the number of talented software engineers I’ve worked with who were just as bad (or worse) than the most tech illiterate HR person you could imagine. I’d add basic troubleshooting methodology to this list. So many engineers assume they know the problem and start headbashing a fix without bothering to evaluate the scope of a problem, form a hypothesis, or validate that their assumed fix actually worked.