MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-12 04:25:14+00:00
It’s so weird that people have framed his approach as “going after bad landlords”.

Yes, he is going after bad landlords because the city should go after bad landlords who aren’t following the laws or have their tenants living in mold infested hell holes.

But that’s not how he has said he will lower housing costs. His stated approach has always been twofold.

Pausing the rent increase on rent stabilized apartments for at least 1 year (something that was done multiple times in the 2010s and those apartments are rent stabilized because the builders got tax breaks in return for rent stabilization) as a temporary quick relief. But ultimately his goal is to build a lot more housing. And he wants to do that both by having the government build housing but also by making it easier for private builders to build housing through zoning changes, reducing regulations, and allowing for fast track approvals if certain conditions are met.

His stated approach is basically all of the above. Picking only 1 of those and saying it won’t fix the problem is true but silly because no one is saying any one action will fix the problem.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-12 04:28:14+00:00
You have a lot more faith in judges not being biased than I do. I’m about to say something that really makes me throw up a little in my mouth because it harkens back to the forced banal DEI training I had to suffer through in 2020 at BigTech [1]…

But judges have all sorts of biases both conscious and unconscious. Where little Jacob will get in trouble for mischief and little Jerome will do the same thing and Jacob is just “a kid being a kid”. But little Jerome is “a thug in training who we need to protect society from”.

[1] yes I’m well aware that biases exist. Not only did my still living parents grow up in the Jim Crow South. We had a house built in an infamous what was a “sundown town” as recently as 1990.

We have seen how quickly the BS corporate concern was just marketing when it was convenient.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 04:28:17+00:00
I wouldn't say that the women are less valuable! Anyone who can play a pipe organ and has the other skills to put in hours on weekly performances and rehearsals, they are rare and indispensable to the place that has the organ.

If someone plays the guitar they can purchase their own guitar, maintain it and carry it wherever they play. Same for a violin or flute or any typical instrument. Piano skills are also fungible because anyone can buy a synth keyboard or an upright and practice at home just fine. While large, even a grand piano can be wheeled in and out of a building if necessary.

But a pipe organ is part of the building. More properly, the building is an inseperable part of the pipe organ. When an organ company builds a pipe organ, they put an Opus number on it because they're going to be unique to fit the space and needs of the community. They're going to last for decades or hundreds of years and they are not going anywhere. The community has come together to install it and commit to its maintenance.

I attended a church with a modestly-sized electronic (non-pipe) organ built in 1980. There was a praise band with drums, guitar, bass, and a very shiny grand piano. The organ had fallen into disuse and it was unclear whether it could be played. We limped along with that lovely piano for a long time, but the organ was finally rescued. Another church had installed a very lovely "theater" style pipe organ, that was also modestly small, and had chronic problems due to the climate environment in the loft. So eventually, it was retired, and a very impressive MIDI organ was also placed in the loft, while they were not really able to remove the previous one. Unfortunately, the leadership and the music ministers cycled rapidly, and they appear to have abandoned the loft entirely...

So, with an investment like that, a church cannot afford to be without an organist. Some are happy just to have someone who knows how to play. Often, an organist may have other roles, such as directing, singing, composing, or administrative. But the organ is the primary and lead instrument. They are always going to be the focal point of the music program. Male and female alike.
by unclad5968 | 2026-02-12 04:29:10+00:00
In comparison to c++ everything is minimal. The Zig std lib doesn't seem that minimal to me. The package manager makes it easy to add dependencies, but whether that's even a good thing is controversial. std::regex might suck, but the maintainer won't disappear overnight leaving you to find a new regex library.

> Raise the Bar for Inclusion

The bar for inclusion in c++ is more political than it is technical. You have to write a paper that outlines all the details of your proposal, then go to some meeting, defend your paper and then the committee votes on it. Unless you're special you're required to have a reference implementation. If the bar for c++ inclusion was technical, we wouldn't have gotten the response we did from Sutter regarding Baxter's safe c++ proposal. The bar for inclusion in Zig is whether Andrew likes it or not, which is fine, but it isn't possible for c++ to revert to that model.
by stackghost | 2026-02-12 04:33:55+00:00
My background is aerospace engineering. Specifically, I have managed technical risk on a variety of aircraft fleets including SAR, military tactical aviation, and special missions aircraft. In a nutshell my job was to look at complex systems, identify likely failure modes, and come up with engineering solutions. I'm very good at it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out that identifying failure modes in complex systems is a highly transferable skill.

When I launched my first startup shortly after COVID I realized that that skillset makes me shitty at raising capital because I tend to only see the faults in my ideas and I end up with a "nobody would pay for this" mindset. But I also tend to easily spot the ways that tech companies' products can (will, do) go sideways. I am a perennial late adopter. I don't own an Alexa or really anything "smart" equivalent because I knew early on that they would become dystopian surveillance devices and/or security risks.

And I am so off-the-charts tired of being right.
by srean | 2026-02-12 04:37:21+00:00
> Both those statements need to be prove for her, and I don't see any strong evidence for either.

You can query the search engines yourself, it's a pretty standard and accepted thing now based on analysis of the letter and that the interview with the FBI officer happened in her home town.

The redacted FBI files still contain references to the informant as "she" and "her" and accusations match the tone of her wife's divorce filings.

https://share.google/aimode/7JeIsDlMrouAUCKiE

As for the baffler article the only concrete thing is his anecdote in surely you are joking, that's well addressed in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972641

and here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970233
by scoofy | 2026-02-12 04:37:49+00:00
>The question is what could we (people who care about climate change) have done differently to get broader political support.

Literally nothing. Environmentalists can have done literally nothing different. If an entire party is going to take it upon themselves to make "climate change is a hoax" and their constituents are going to go along with it, you just have a large section of the electorate making terrible decision that will make us all poorer.

This isn't something that's a negotiation. The leftist solutions were rejected, the liberal solutions were rejected, the conservative solutions were rejected, and even the right-wing "end our dependency on foreign powers" was rejected. This was a deliberate policy choice by the right, and it was an asinine one.
by s_dev | 2026-02-12 04:37:57+00:00
Irish here. It's a cultural thing.

Art is seen as a worthwhile endeavour even if it can't necessarily support itself as a private endeavour. It's for the same reason galleries and museums are subsidised by the government.

Anyone can call themselves an artist but to receive this money you would have to have a portfolio of work that is approved by the application programme.

Ireland already has a competitive economy. There is more to a country than economics and that includes promoting things like art to foster a sense of identity and promote Ireland on a world stage.

Milton Friedman wouldn't approve and we're okay with that.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-12 04:38:05+00:00
I was given this advice at university, but what I was always missing was what I was supposed to write down in them.

The post here mentions hypotheses, but I don't do experiments for the most part. It mentions writing down in the notebook before writing code, but I can't test my notes, I can't really send my notes for code review. I guess you could use it for design, but you'd lose all the advantages of word processing such as editing, links, context, etc.

I often have a scratch pad editor around with current working state in – that makes sense to me, but not on paper and that's not what's being proposed. I have also at times kept a logbook of what I've done, but it was very much an end of the day/week summary, not in the moment, not forward looking like this mentions.

The idea sounds great, but what is actually being written down?
by shevy-java | 2026-02-12 04:38:09+00:00
"k-id, the age verification provider discord uses doesn't store or send your face to the server. instead, it sends a bunch of metadata about your face and general process details."

I think the primary issue is not the "send your face" (face info) to a server. The problem is that private entities are greedy for user data, in this case tying facial recognition to activities related to interacting with other people, most of them probably real people. So this creates a huge database - it is no surprise that greedy state actors and private companies want that data. You can use it for many things, including targeted ads.

For me the "must verify" is clearly a lie. They can make it "sound logical" but that does not convince me in the slightest. Back in the age of IRC (I started with mIRC in the 1990s, when I was using windows still), the thought of requiring others to show their faces never occurred to me at all. There were eventually video-related formats but to me it felt largely unnecessary for the most part. Discord is (again to me) nothing but a fancier IRC variant that is controlled by a private (and evidently greedy) actor.

So while it is good to have the information how to bypass anything there, my biggest gripe is that people should not think about it in this way. Meaning, bypassing is not what I would do in this case; I would simply abandon the private platform altogether. People made Discord big; people should make Discord small again if they sniff after them.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-12 04:40:29+00:00
But how many users will do so? 1%? 5%?

Also, they will probably find that out, and the moment people do so, they become suspicious to state actors. I understand the rationale behind the work around you described; I just don't think it will be a huge factor. I see this elsewhere too - for instance, I use ublock origin a lot. But how many people world wide use it? I think never above 30%, most likely significantly fewer (or perhaps all anti-advertisement extensions, I think it most definitely is below 50% and probably below 30% too).
by chainbuilder | 2026-02-12 04:40:41+00:00
Most NFT marketplaces rely on curated verification systems. We wanted to see how far you can get by ignoring marketplace metadata entirely and working only with on-chain data.

So we built a Python provenance engine that reconstructs NFT authenticity from transfer history and contract state.

The pipeline is simple:

Pull full ERC-721 transfer history

Rebuild the ownership chain chronologically

Detect structural transfer patterns

Produce a weighted authenticity score

Example transfer reconstruction:

def get_nft_transfers(contract_address, token_id, chain='ethereum'):
results = etherscan_request(
CHAINS[chain]['id'],
"account",
"tokennfttx",
contractaddress=contract_address,
sort="asc"
)

return [
{
"from": tx["from"],
"to": tx["to"],
"block": int(tx["blockNumber"]),
"timestamp": int(tx["timeStamp"])
}
for tx in results
if tx.get("tokenID") == str(token_id)
]

From there we analyze:

Mint origin legitimacy

Contract source verification

Circular wash loops (A → B → A)

Transfer clustering in short block intervals

Ownership concentration

Counterfeit collections tend to show shallow ownership graphs and tight flip clustering. Mature collections show distributed, temporally organic patterns.

Everything is derived deterministically from on-chain data. No marketplace APIs, no whitelists.

Curious how others would approach wash-trading detection — graph clustering? probabilistic models? Markov processes?
by alephnerd | 2026-02-12 04:41:12+00:00
> better understand regional textile ecosystems that often don’t get enough structured documentation

I recommend looking at a district's website or the associated ministry.

They tend to go in-depth into the history of their ODOP and GI goods, as can be seen with Kancheepuram Saris [0].

Visiting Khadi and Cooperative showrooms and export promotion events is also a treat - whenever I'm in Delhi I'd always make some time to visit the state and khadi bhavans in Luyten's Delhi to grab gifts and look at heritage goods.

[0] - https://www.indiahandloombrand.gov.in/pages/downloadFile/kan...
by ultrasounder | 2026-02-12 04:42:19+00:00
Thanks a million for posting! As a Kanchipuram native(can trace lineage all the way up to 5 generations at least), this was totally unexpected and a pleasant surprise. I have visited one of these Co-op looms and it's mindblowing how to this day the Kanchi Pattu(silk-Tamizh) is made with a handloom. aptly named handicraft. of course, the piece de resistance is the Varadharaja Perumal Kovil which has some of the best and well maintained sculptures on the planet.

This being one such exhibit https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianHistory/comments/1j75nc0/the_...

Brings back my joyous/carefree youth where I would spend summer vacations ambling around the massive temple complex.
by sometimes_all | 2026-02-12 04:42:47+00:00
I am not American. I pay for news, specifically business news. I subscribe to US, UK and Indian news websites.

Both the US and UK feel free to show me ads even when I've paid a bomb in terms of subscription costs. Not subtle ads of their own products! Top banner ads, middle-of-page scrolling ads, and the like, of whichever fancy watch or lifestyle destination has paid the most money to them. And then they have the gall to write opinion pieces on how ad-based AI and streaming channels are the bane of the world. Plus they feel free to subscribe me to a bunch of their newsletters and podcasts which I have to manually unsubscribe from. One of them actually pedals courses on how to write good.

The Indian news sites have no barrier on what is a paid piece and what is actually news. Promoted pieces occupy the same slots as paid ones. I've seen blatant advertisements masquerading as actual reporting.

I understand that news has been gutted by tech. But there is a need to be honest to a paying customer; if not, they deserve whatever has come to them.
by rishi_blockrand | 2026-02-12 04:43:30+00:00
Exactly. For a web app where you can't easily "slash" a server for disappearing, you need that "uncontrollable third source" to force the game to finish.

I looked at VDFs and custom MPCs, but they felt like overkill for a dice roll. Drand is basically a "pre-computed" MPC that anyone can verify with a simple curl. It hits that pragmatic sweet spot for a trustless audit without the "math homework" for the user...
Show HN: NixOS flake for hardened OpenClaw deployment
by scout_agent | 2026-02-12 04:44:00+00:00
After seeing the reports about 15,200 exposed OpenClaw control panels, we built a NixOS module that deploys it hardened by default. Gateway auth required, Caddy reverse proxy with auto-TLS, systemd sandboxing (20+ directives), tool allowlists, and fail2ban. One flake import, one rebuild.
OpenClaw but Running on My iPhone
by readsdiggdaily | 2026-02-12 04:44:49+00:00
With all the recent discussion around AI agents, I’ve been exploring a different constraint: fully on device(iPhone).
I’m building an OpenClaw style app to run entirely on an iPhone using Apple’s Foundation Models.
No data leaving the device and privacy focused.
Very early, but designing around local only execution has led to some interesting decisions. I am maxing out at 3 agents running simultaneously in the background so you can still doom scroll. More than that and phone overheats and usability is nonexistent.
Happy to share details if anyone’s curious. Planning to make it open source on GitHub.
by pests | 2026-02-12 04:45:46+00:00
What is cheaper?

A) The government building an entire logistical supply and warehousing chain across the country for groceries to support food welfare. Cold food, meat, spoilage & waste, a bunch of federal jobs.

or

B) The government gives citizens a bit of money, which they then spend at existing warehouses (with existing logistical supply chains) to buy food. Some existing warehouses will accumulate larger shares of this money, as it has more customers.

The existing warehouses in example B are called grocery stores, like Walmart.
by troad | 2026-02-12 04:46:22+00:00
Isn't that conceptually incoherent?

Premise: Thinking slower makes time appear to pass faster, and thinking faster makes time appear to pass slower. (Per the two paras following "Consider")

Thesis: The secret to living longer is to alter one's perception of time, by thinking slower.

But given the premise, thinking slower would make appear to pass faster. Ergo, it would make life feel shorter, not longer.

In fact, the premise actually supports the exact opposite thesis: that the secret to long life is to think as fast as possible.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-12 04:46:39+00:00
I see this currently being pushed by some politicians in the EU. And I have a slight suspicion that some of these politicians are literally lobbyists.

The "oh my god, think of the children" is similar to "oh my god, think of the terrorists". I am not saying all of this is propaganda 1:1 or a lie, but a lot of it is and it is used as a rhetoric tool of influence by many politicians. Both seems to connect to many people who do not really think about who influences them.
by gwern | 2026-02-12 04:48:43+00:00
I don't know, this one is a little novel. I've never seen the developer of a Buddhist meditation app discuss whether to use LLMs with a paragraph like:

> Pariyatti’s nonprofit mission, it should be noted, specifically incorporates a strict code of ethics, or sīla: not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in sexual misconduct, not to lie, and not to take intoxicants.

Not a whole lot of Pali in most LLM editorials.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-12 04:49:20+00:00
As a former Google employee, I had witnessed first hand how powerful the internal privacy working groups were and how much they were able to push back against product teams when they not only demanded more privacy on new features but also invented many of the privacy techniques that made things possible. It’s frankly not even hard to find Google authors of RFCs that meaningfully contribute to Internet privacy.

No matter what you think, no stranger on the internet can convince to ignore my own lived experience.
by KittenInABox | 2026-02-12 04:50:20+00:00
I don't really know what you mean by "big entertainment" trying to get leverage against tech companies. Tech companies are behemoths. Most of the artists I know fretting about AI don't earn half a junior engineer's salary. And this is coming from someone who is relatively bullish on AI. I just don't think the framing of "big entertainment" makes any sense at all.
by aanet | 2026-02-12 04:50:42+00:00
Glad to hear her theory worked :) Happy for you

I'll reach out separately, thanks!

BTW, my fav book of his was the _Illusions_. Pls feel free to tell him that a young kind in SmallTown, India really loved it.

Going by his wikipedia, he seems to be just a bit older than my dad. I couldn't have guessed at all.
by jaf12duke | 2026-02-12 04:51:05+00:00
I may predate you! We were shared an office with Heroku back during their/our YC days.

Fun memory - James and bitscribe helped me with my prior startup. I remember them brainstorming a 'collaborative IDE' while they helped us set up our servers.

You may have been at bitscribe at the time with pedro and morton?

Heroku <feedback@heroku.com>
Tue, Nov 6, 2007, 1:03 PM
to jason

Hello -

You've been invited to the Heroku beta by your friend james@heroku.com.

They included this message:
--------------------------------------------------
So we're up and running, and can officially talk about our YC funding now. You are probably outside of our audience, but feel free to kick it around and send me any feedback you have. Going to invite Colin and the Bracy's too.

--------------------------------------------------

Heroku lets you create web applications right in your web browser. Follow the link to activate your account, then create Rails apps instantly:

http://heroku.com/core/invitation/accept/6d1c4cdb60

To learn more about Heroku, check out our public website:

http://heroku.com/

Have fun, and don't hesitate to drop us a line with your comments or questions.

- James, Adam, and Orion
by kadabra9 | 2026-02-12 04:51:26+00:00
The US debt is nearly 39 trillion dollars.

Confiscating all of the assets of the nation’s billionaires wealth would yield 6-8T, depending on what kind creative accounting is done in anticipation of a wealth tax.

So yeah it would help reduce the debt slightly but doesn’t address the bigger culprit - spending and government inefficiency and bloat
by shevy-java | 2026-02-12 04:51:56+00:00
I first used telnet in the 1990s to connect and play a text-based MUD.

Back then we had large monitors with black background and green text
font; for most people black background and white text was probably
more common, but I remember having played that MUD for some weeks
on such a setup (on a campus site, so these computers were used by
students; we only had access to the campus on the weekend as the
main guy's father in our group worked at that university).

It actually was fun to use telnet like that and play the MUD, even
if inconvenient. Of course our group soon switched to MUD clients
that were more convenient to use, so using telnet became super-rare.
I only used telnet a few more times after that. About three times
again playing lateron when I had no internet connection, and for
a few other things too, unrelated to MUDs, e. g. testing websites
and similar activities.

For connections, I kind of use ssh much more frequently so, even
on windows via the tabby terminal. It is not as convenient on
Linux (there I tend to prefer KDE konsole) but it works fairly well.

I have not used telnet in quite some years now, but I still remember
fondly to having typed commands to search for herbs in a meadow
on that MUD (well, room designated was meadows and you could
find herbs which would replenish over time, so you could search,
sell and so forth; I have not played any MUDs since decades but
it was fun in the 1990s era).

Telnet will probably never die since it is so simple, but I think
it is also not quite as important as it was, say, in the 1990s or
so. Would be interesting for statistics that could measure this
more objectively.
by woeirua | 2026-02-12 04:52:53+00:00
>As a quick aside, I am not going to entertain the notion that LLMs are intelligent, for any value of “intelligent.” They are robots. Programs. Fancy robots and big complicated programs, to be sure — but computer programs, nonetheless. The rest of this essay will treat them as such. If you are already of the belief that the human mind can be reduced to token regurgitation, you can stop reading here. I’m not interested in philosophical thought experiments.

I can't imagine why someone would want to openly advertise that they're so closed minded. Everything after this paragraph is just anti-LLM ranting.