MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adamcharnock | 2026-02-09 18:17:22+00:00
We've migrated to Forgejo over the last couple of weeks. We position ourselves[0] as an alternative to the big cloud providers, so it seemed very silly that a critical piece of our own infrastructure could be taken out by a GitHub or Azure outage.

It has been a pretty smooth process. Although we have done a couple of pieces of custom development:

1) We've created a Firecracker-based runner, which will run CI jobs in Firecracker VMs. This brings the Foregjo Actions running experience much more closely into line with GitHub's environment (VM, rather than container). We hope to contribute this back shortly, but also drop me a message if this is of interest.

2) We're working up a proposal[1] to add environments and variable groups to Forgejo Actions. This is something we expect to need for some upcoming compliance requirements.

I really like Forgejo as a project, and I've found the community to be very welcoming. I'm really hoping to see it grow and flourish :D

[0]: https://lithus.eu, adam@

[1]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/440

PS. We are also looking at offering this as a managed service to our clients.
by stego-tech | 2026-02-09 18:17:25+00:00
I quite like this paper. Does a great job laying out scientific support for things we already "knew" in our guts - like having retirement ages at around 65, for instance, being an ideal milestone to start transitioning folks from leading hard work to supporting activities.

Where I worry is that these papers will be used to justify ageism. Looking through these comments, there's quite a lot of positions being bandied around that I've heard justify some truly atrocious hiring/firing decisions before, and we need to be cognizant of the reality that age alone is not an indicator of success or failure for a given role or task. It's helpful to keep looking into this, but we also need to be aware of our own biases.
by dsign | 2026-02-09 18:17:51+00:00
> As someone well past "peak" fluid intelligence at this point, I always hate reading research like this. "Crystallized intelligence" and "emotional intelligence" are the consolation prizes no one really wants.

At the end, I agree with you, but for a different reason. My fluid intelligence is still doing well, but my newly acquired “crystallized” and “emotional” intelligence are just good to let me understand why people want to write existential horror stories. Hell, I now realize that some of the dark stuff I didn’t want to touch with a long pole three years ago are in fact escapism to a rosier parallel universe. I liked myself better when I was sixteen years old and I couldn’t understand that boy one year older than me who said he despised our prisons of flesh. May you be doing well Y.P., and if you happen to stumble upon this paragraph, know it took me 25 years to see what you saw so clearly.
by doubled112 | 2026-02-09 18:18:00+00:00
At one point in my life I rode a bicycle 40+ km per day. I see things nobody else seems to and I think that has a lot to do with it. I cannot win the collision.

Much of being a good driver is just awareness.

One time my light turns green, I don't go. As my wife asks what I'm waiting for, a pickup blows the light. We weren't the first car at that light, and years later she still talks about how there's no way I could know. Well, I didn't get us t-boned at 80 so I must have done something right.
Thank you HN
by kentf | 2026-02-09 18:18:01+00:00
If you are reading this, thank you.

Thank you PG.

Thank you Jessica.

Thank you YC.

Thank you to the devs and mods over the years.

I have been coming here everyday for 10+ years (god maybe even 20?) and it makes me feel alive, makes me feel like building and shipping more to keep up with this amazing community.
There is a lot of hate and snark sometimes, but it's all good.
Keep going, and thank you.

Thank you for daily inspiration and the fire to build something that you all think is cool and useful.

Much love,

Kent from Canada.
by jjice | 2026-02-09 18:18:03+00:00
I have a friend who would also follow too closely to the cars in front and got one of these. Her rates went up and she eventually got into an accident (no injuries to anyone) because she would follow too closely and still break too hard.

Now she still has the machine, still follows too closely, and still breaks too hard in her new car...

Good it worked for you though!
by __jonas | 2026-02-09 18:18:14+00:00
Every single forum I see now is using this:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like "Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads." or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.
by brendoelfrendo | 2026-02-09 18:18:20+00:00
There's a follow-up story from The Guardian that seems to have details relevant to this line of questioning: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-se...

First of all, back in November, a judge approved his release on bond, which he paid, but the government ignored that order and continued to detain him.

After his detention, he was asked to sign paperwork opting for voluntary deportation; he refused, but then the government proceeded to claim in court that he had signed documents to that effect, which he and his lawyer insist must be falsified or otherwise in error. However a judge allowed them to stand, which removes his ability to appeal. Now, either because the government is inept or malicious, he seems to be stuck in a legal limbo unless his lawyer can challenge the government's documentation or force an analysis of those forms.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-09 18:18:25+00:00
Not the primary use case for stickers, but what do you do when you're talking with someone for whom you're not literate in their language? Or someone who is not literate in any language?

Stickers provide utility beyond beyond a fun way to communicate. Stickers, emoji reactions, voice notes, etc. are things we tend to see denigrated here, but are also non-optional features for a messaging app in the year 2016.
by lukan | 2026-02-09 18:18:33+00:00
To me the difference is, there seems to have been way more freedom of thought in the pre christian societies. Polytheism is (usually) more open to new ideas than religios dogma of one god. This is for me what dark times means, and the age of enlightenment when it was possible again to dare to think in new directions and not be afraid of the inquisition anymore.

How to do real research, when you have to align every insight with some old book or face the stake? Only very restricted, in secrecy and not in open exchange.

So also in non christian societies people were killed for having the wrong ideas, but comparing greece or early rome with the christian empires, it seems obvious to me why progress was slowed down for so long.
by danudey | 2026-02-09 18:18:46+00:00
It doesn't look like injustice that he's been locked up in squalid conditions for five months with no trial or process? How long is he going to be there? Is he going to face a trial or tribunal? Is he getting deported?

If you think he should be free to stay in the US, fine; if you think he deserves to be deported, fine; what he doesn't deserve is to be corralled indefinitely in filthy conditions just because they need to meet their quotas.

If you don't think that's injustice then there's something wrong with your sense of morality.
by rayiner | 2026-02-09 18:19:27+00:00
This guy admits he entered under the Visa Waiver Program in 2009, then remained in the country illegally: https://www.universalhub.com/files/attachments/2026/culleton... ("Culleton concedes he is removable under the VWP. Reply 10.").

If he wants to go home, he can just go home under the DOJ's Voluntary Departure Program: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/1480811/dl
by johanyc | 2026-02-09 18:19:40+00:00
I believe you mis remembered it. He didn't rule out military intervention.

In an interview reported by Reuters, he said he’d impose 150%–200% tariffs if China “went into Taiwan,” and when asked about using military force against a blockade he said it “would not come to that” because Xi “respects me” and knows he’s “crazy.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-would-impose-tar...
by D-Machine | 2026-02-09 18:19:45+00:00
Obviously not. In actual thinking, we can generate an idea, evaluate it for internal consistency and consistency with our (generally much more than linguistic, i.e. may include visual imagery and other sensory representations) world models, decide this idea is bad / good, and then explore similar / different ideas. I.e. we can backtrack and form a branching tree of ideas. LLMs cannot backtrack, do not have a world model (or, to the extent they do, this world model is solely based on token patterns), and cannot evaluate consistency beyond (linguistic) semantic similarity.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-09 18:19:53+00:00
You’re not comparing the worst practicals to what is considered one of the single worst CG renderings of all time though. There is also a camp culture that the Daleks fit in to - they weren’t trying to sell it as “very real” even at the time, that was “the look” and the budget. CG in live action is generally either shooting for 100% realism or is for comedic purposes intentionally absolutely awful. There’s a lot less in between than with practicals.
by SoftTalker | 2026-02-09 18:20:24+00:00
A lot of them do. My wife's VW beeps an alert if you're too close to the car ahead of you. It might be that it only activates above a certain speed.

I think it will also back down the cruise control (if set) if it detects that you are gaining on the car ahead. That might be MILs Toyota though.

I learned the "two second rule" in Driver's Education 45 years ago and generally follow that. Nothing more annoying than having the car behind you riding your bumper.
by pdimitar | 2026-02-09 18:20:25+00:00
True, nobody is stopping anyone and that's why I am gradually moving my stuff from bash/zsh to Golang and might even further migrate it to Rust in the near future -- LLMs make these things almost trivial and my only hurdle was how verbose can Rust feel for a basic CLI app. That hurdle no longer exists.

But don't look at me, I never liked Perl, PHP, Ruby. They were, and still are, hacks. I was aiming at people who just accept the status quo and shrug.
by mountain_peak | 2026-02-09 18:21:06+00:00
Maintaining a safe following distance is incredibly challenging on busy freeways where hard braking is often 'required'. Most people have likely found themselves in this situation: vehicle changes lanes in front of you; you slow down to maintain a safe following distance, another car sees a gap and changes lanes in front of you. Repeat for your entire commute.

Incredibly frustrating, and I've driven all over North America - there's practically no major city where this doesn't happen. If you're not maintaining a safe following distance on city/residential streets, that's a different matter.
by danudey | 2026-02-09 18:21:11+00:00
I think the implication is that people from third-world countries want what the US has so they're likely to take more risks to come to/stay in the US, whereas visitors from other western countries are less likely to stay because they have less to gain and more to lose if they're caught.

It comes across as pretty racist the way they said it, but a charitable interpretation does make sense despite that.
by lostlogin | 2026-02-09 18:21:15+00:00
I was thinking exactly this. Having just toured Rome, the Christian history is considerably easier to access than the older Roman history, even for prominent sites like the Forum, Palatine Hill, the Colosseum. The quality of the Christian work was also far inferior to the older layers underneath.

Darkly amusing is the Vatican.
Reading about piety, service, generosity and kindness while beggars suffer at the entrance queue. The contrast between words and actions couldn’t be more striking.
by ARandomerDude | 2026-02-09 18:21:17+00:00
> Why hasn't gamification of safe driving habits been built directly into the car itself before now?

I am so glad it hasn't. Data point of one, but gamification now has the opposite effect on me: it's such a well-worn pattern that it just annoys me. It was great when it was novel. I wonder how many others feel the same but without sampling it's hard to know.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-09 18:21:20+00:00
There's no such thing as "coming to the US illegally" if you cross at a border checkpoint with a valid stamp or visa. There are only visa or stamp overstays, which is a civil matter. Your analogy to Australia is specious because the vast majority of people being rounded up and detained came here legally on a visa, and then stopped meeting the requirements of that visa. Australia's law is specific to people who bypassed our border checkpoints, since you would have needed a visa or a stamp to get through in the first place.

It is a matter of your opinion whether court proceedings are "frivolous." We have a common law system here in the US which allows a judge some latitude in their decisionmaking, up to and including issuing a ruling contrary to established precedent when the precedent doesn't make any sense in the specific situation we're in. If we want to continue having trials, we have to allow even trials which we consider cut and dried so that the truth may be examined and an informed judgement rendered. This is the heart of our civilization and if you throw that away then you will see how brutal things can get without our system.
by womod | 2026-02-09 18:21:38+00:00
There's quite a few clocks available that get their time over the air from the NIST WWVB radio station[0]. They usually have a little switch on the back if your area does/doesn't observe daylight savings.

[0] - https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
by guywithahat | 2026-02-09 18:22:14+00:00
Sure but the courts have ruled that a "speedy trial" can take years (I don't agree with this, it's just what the courts have decided). Additionally if you're not a US citizen you don't necessarily have all the same rights as a citizen, and your case is processed in civil court. Anyone can be detained, and a good judge won't release illegal immigrants from detention since they're just not going to return to court until after their hearing.
by drecked | 2026-02-09 18:22:20+00:00
And yet neither has he been removed nor has he been granted access to a trial.

I also like these parts:

> Culleton testified that he did not sign the Notice nor
did he write “I’m married to a citizen and have a work permit” on it.

> Secore testified that he
remembered serving the Notice on Culleton, but not watching Culleton sign it.

> Secore also testified that the paperwork was riddled with mistaken dates because of the
way ICE’s computer system operates.

> Secore testified that he should have caught those errors
when processing the paperwork, but that he “missed” them.
by palmotea | 2026-02-09 18:22:27+00:00
> Using "capitalism" as a pejorative is itself a thought-terminating cliche. Left unsaid is the proposed alternative which, given the historical record, is probably worse.

I actually think you just engaged in thought-terminating cliche. It doesn't have a stock phraseology, but it's the assumption that the only alternative to modern capitalism is Soviet-style central planning. The cliche has a name, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-09 18:22:55+00:00
You could print smaller booklets in half-page format and use stapled or sewn binding, for a more durable and higher-quality result. That could be done without needing a larger-format printer. It might be especially appropriate for shorter text such as individual articles, and this was often the historical practice with e.g. octavo books which were quite popular back in the day.
by phil21 | 2026-02-09 18:23:05+00:00
The way of teaching and testing has changed so much in just the 25 years since I’ve been in school it’s almost not recognizable for some subjects. At least for the public schools my friends and family’s kids attend.

The standards have also plummeted overall, along with expectations. This also seems to translate into parenting and home life as well for many. A neglectful parent likely is far more impactful on performance these days since the kid isn’t out roaming the neighborhood getting into trouble and learning how to get out of it - they are sitting in front of a screen of some sort simply consuming.

It certainly is not an unbiased opinion but I am totally unsurprised at the reduction in academic performance. The writing has been on the wall for an extremely long time. You can only reduce standards and game the numbers for so long before the real world impact is impossible to hide.
by olliepro | 2026-02-09 18:23:51+00:00
There’s a section of I-15 in Utah’s Salt Lake County which reliably has a crash on weekdays at 6pm. It was unfortunately at a pinch point in the mountains with no good alternate route… very annoying.

In a similar way that Google Maps shows eco routes, it’d be fun for them to show “safest” routes which avoid areas with common crashes. (Not always possible, but valuable knowledge when it is.)
by em-bee | 2026-02-09 18:23:52+00:00
i don't know if that makes sense but it could be interesting to split the views of any point into multiple segments, and then for each segment find the largest distance. next between two of these largest views find the shortest view. if the ends of each view are connected by lines the result would be a zigzag circle around the starting point that gives you a rough idea of the visible area.

most points would be on a slope so they would just have a half circle, only peaks themselves would have an all around view.
by rayiner | 2026-02-09 18:24:01+00:00
The statute is exceedingly clear. Subsection (a) first says: "An alien present in the United States who has not been admitted or who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival and including an alien who is brought to the United States after having been interdicted in international or United States waters) shall be deemed for purposes of this chapter an applicant for admission."

Subsection (b)(2)(A) then says: "Subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), in the case of an alien who is an applicant for admission, if the examining immigration officer determines that an alien seeking admission is not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted, the alien shall be detained for a proceeding under section 1229a of this title."
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-09 18:24:22+00:00
I agree that social media is a plague. Unfortunately, the legal definition of "social media" is likely to be so broad that it will include things like Hacker News or even old-school forums. The real plague is the infinite scroll, engagement-farming social media like Twitter, post-newsfeed Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok. I'm skeptical that laws addressing social media will target the right problem given how rich/powerful a company like Meta is vs. some guy running an Anime forum.
by AngryData | 2026-02-09 18:24:34+00:00
I support opening up copyright massively, but it might help getting it changed if AI companies were made to follow the same restrictive rules as humans and had the same incentive to push for changes copyright legislation/law.

Right now AI companies and investors have no reason to lend support behind opening up ip law because it doesn't help them while it bolsters non-AI competition.
by xp84 | 2026-02-09 18:26:51+00:00
I don't have real context here, but I can imagine that a platform where the hardware costs millions of dollars, will be booted up in "Production" exactly once, and is guaranteed to be physically destroyed before it hits 1 day of uptime, just "Give it 128GB of RAM and YOLO (literally)" is great advice!

Note: 128GB of DRAM may add another million dollars to the build cost by 2027 at the current derivative of the $/GB curve
Show HN: Claude Code from your phone via Telegram
by jcpy | 2026-02-09 18:26:59+00:00
I use Claude Code a lot. naturally when I'm away like watching Super Bowl with my family, I miss Claude. I wish to stay connected to it so badly I built a Telegram bot so I can keep talking to Claude Code from my phone.

Built entirely with Claude Code and it uses the Claude Agent SDK under the hood. Works with your existing Claude Pro/Max subscription, no separate API key needed.

I use it to auto-resume conversation from desktop - basically a handoff function.

Just remember to use /resume when you're back to IDE. They don't hot load, but the chat history is there.

Here's a really funny moment when Claude realized that it's talking with me in two places.

I asked "what was the first command I ran that threw an error?" in telegram. This is the response:

**
The first command you ran that threw an error was: npx tsx app/src/index.ts /Users/you/Code/active/vibeide

(blah blah blah)

But wait — I just realized something. That answer came from *me* (this session), not from the Telegram bot. Did the Telegram bot give you that same answer?
**

So meta. Enjoy.
by dismalaf | 2026-02-09 18:27:21+00:00
> Christian monastery in Islamic Sinai if the timing of the article is correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent

According to this article his writings pre-date the Islamic conquest (639).

Of course, there was also this:
https://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/history/mohammed

And St Catherine's is a fortress in the middle of the desert so who knows what it's status was, it was an interesting time (beginning of Islamic conquests).
Ask HN: What's blocking you from trusting AI agents with your real data?
by ryanrasti | 2026-02-09 18:27:47+00:00
With OpenClaw hitting >150k stars, clearly there's demand for personal AI agents. But I keep hearing the same hesitation: "I want this, but I can't trust it with my real data."

For those on the fence:

1. What's the specific fear? (data leakage, prompt injection, rogue actions?)

2. What would it take to trust an agent with your real accounts?

3. Are you running agents on burner accounts / sandboxed data instead?

Building something in this space and want to understand the actual blockers.
by mothballed | 2026-02-09 18:27:52+00:00
>>> lie too obviously.

>>>what a great example of the tired old trick of attempting to use social justice language as a rhetorical lever.

>... assuming negative intent?

You're not fooling anyone. You kicked off saying I was lying obviously and used tired tricks and rhetorical levers, then surprise pikachud when I received negative intent and following that called out your contradiction.

Don't pretend to be the victim here and that bit about me being a liar was just helpful clarification with positive intent. You know what you're doing, then blaming me for what you're doing.
by yial | 2026-02-09 18:27:56+00:00
This is accurate in many ways.
I use the auto cruise feature on my car frequently and I notice several things happen unless I set the distance as close as possible (which I don’t like to do. ).

1. In any amount of traffic above “a few cars” people will cut in front of me, sometimes two, negating the safe following distance. Regardless of speed.

2. If I have a safe following distance while waiting for someone to get over. (I e they’re going 60, I want to go 70), if I have my distance set at a safe following distance, people are much more likely to weave / pass on the right.
(My theory would be that the distance I’m behind the person in front of them signals that I’m not going to accelerate / pass when the person gets over ).

Disclaimer: I don’t usually have to drive in any significant traffic, and when I do (Philly, New York City), I’m probably less likely to use the automatic features because the appropriate follow distance seems to increase the rage of drivers around me.