MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 05:23:56+00:00
During WWII, Italians were interned in the USA, and all Italians were deemed "enemy aliens", but broad exceptions were, understandably, made for US citizens.

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

Let's not forget that a belligerent at war could round up all of their Americans as "enemy aliens" and intern them too.

Obviously, even before 1939, Italian-Americans were upstanding citizens, legitimate businessmen, and loving family guys who wouldn't hurt a flea. Italians had always been accepted as members of the White race and they got along with the Irish and the Chinese like peas in a pod. It would've been excessively cruel for American authorities to go into their communities, round them up and put them in camps. Those poor unarmed fellas would've suffered so much in the lockup. Terrible prison conditions in those days. Unthinkable. Many of us would've starved with nobody to serve us pizzas and pasta and cannoli!

There will not be a hot war in Mexican territory. The problem with Americans is that they see this international border as a bright line and a defining point of jurisdictional change. Latinos do not see it that way. Chicano nationalism exists wherever there are Chicano communities. If Chicanos live in Los Angeles, they belong to família and la raza. Likewise if they live in Florida, or Minnesota or Seattle. They maintain their cultural ties and their allegiance is clear by the flags that they wave.

Territory is only an accident of history. Presidente Sheinbaum said that thousands of Mexican soldiers were marching to the border, but the reality is that her soldiers have been crossing to El Norte for hundreds of years, and immigration laws won't stop them.

No, Latinos are not a monolithic people. There are Borriqueños and Cubanos and Peruanos and the mestizos vs. los Indios all remember where they came from. But can Americans tell them apart? Do you know what a gang member looks like? Is he different from a father/husband/restaurant manager?

The Gadsden Purchase, Southern California, and Texas are occupied territory, and the United States thinks we're occupying it, but who is really in control? The idea that a U.S. military force would "invade" south of our border is laughable with the US trying to mitigate the situation in Minnesota (for example), and non-Chicanos are defending on the side of the recolonizers.

The U.S. is trying to remind the Chicanos who has jurisdiction and who has territorial control, and the the Chicanos are tactfully trying to do the same to us.
by PlunderBunny | 2026-02-12 05:24:14+00:00
(Edit: Didn't see your last paragraph before writing the response below)

I think there is a distinction between Siri misunderstanding what was said (which you can see/hear), and Siri understanding what you said but hallucinating an answer. In both cases, you strictly have to check the result, but in the first case it's clear that you've been misunderstood.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-12 05:25:54+00:00
> Yes and do billion dollar corporations really need that much government subsidies? Turns out yes they do, but sure enjoy your plastic trinkets from China I guess. Hopefully you thank a tax payer that pays for the welfare and medicaid of those Walmart workers, and the local town for cheaper property taxes and utility rates at Walmart.

This is not the case.

Walmart doesn't have the lowest prices because they are efficient, yes conventional wisdom might dictate that but you are forgetting wholesalers exist from which conventional retailers buy from and the margin definitely tilts towards walmart but there was a time where they could easily compete against walmart and set their prices.

Now what's happening is that walmart has these special deals (in this case with pepsi) where pepsi would literally surveil all marts and see which is selling cheaper than walmart (FoodLion did that) and then what Pepsi did was cut off all the promotional money of FoodLion and increase their wholesaler prices.

Is this legal? Hell no. It's all completely illegal but the govt. stopped enforcing the law

Then when it was released by FTC, the whole document was almost redacted and Trump signed an executive order essentially trying to stop it from going out but some journalists dug/pressured for its release.

So walmart isn't the base because they are price competitive, hell-no. It's because they set the floor & have special deals with other companies to maintain that floor artificially.

Which actually leads to small retailers/chains shutting down because they can't compete on price and this essentially leads to a monopoly of walmart where it can dictate prices & increase them and the people are forced to STILL go to them.

And all of this while being immensely govt subsidized as you say too while paying their employees peanuts.

Actually Walmart when it was launched in germany was sued quite a lot for such practices that iirc they had to take an exit. No country wants a walmart because they know that they might use their american profits (which we discovered how come from shady practices themselves) and then use it to run marts at losses until the competition dies which is still immensely bad long term for the average consumer of whole world but particularly the americans in my opinion as all other govts are more protective of such industries for this good reason and walmart fails to measure up to those standards in other countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhVF_xLIQA : We Uncovered the Scheme Keeping Grocery Prices High [More Perfect Union]

A lot of my points were heavily influenced by this video so I would recommend you to watch it to help understand more as well about what I am talking.

The deception of walmart actually fools a lot of people but the economical margin is actually quite low. It's the artifical floor that they set which gets unnoticed by many and this is why other retailers aren't able to compete, all of which is highly illegal but once again, the govt. stopped enforcing this law.
by jinus7949 | 2026-02-12 05:26:07+00:00
Hello Boris. First of all, I apologize for replying unrelated to your post or comment. The reason I'm leaving a comment is because there's a critical issue currently going on regarding new accounts, with over 100 people commenting. This issue has been open for over three weeks. I'd appreciate it if you could look into it.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/19673
by CalRobert | 2026-02-12 05:26:09+00:00
The frustrating thing about this program is that it is not possible to avail of this unless you are ALREADY an artist. So if you gave up art because you had bills and kids and needed to support yourself or a family, you're SOL.

The only person I know getting this money was already semi-retired after selling their house in London and retiring to the Irish countryside, and basically just noodles around on the guitar now and then.
Show HN: Self-updating engineering blogs repo with GitHub Actions
by break_prod | 2026-02-12 05:26:13+00:00
Hi HN,

There’s a great engineering blog aggregation repo on github kilimchoi/engineering-blogs that I’ve used for a while. It’s an excellent resource, but it hasn’t been actively maintained in a few years — and many links have moved or broken.

That made me wonder: why do most “awesome engineering blogs” lists eventually decay?

So I built an open-source repo that aggregates engineering blogs and keeps itself updated automatically using GitHub Actions.

On a schedule, it:

> Checks blog sources for new posts
> Detects broken or moved URLs
> Validates links
> Updates the index automatically

Basically - CI/CD for engineering blog aggregation.

I’d love feedback on:

> Any high-quality blogs I should include - specially from individuals or you
> Better ways to detect canonical/moved content reliably
> Whether RSS-only aggregation is enough

Thank you!
by AuryGlenz | 2026-02-12 05:26:26+00:00
It's not a bug, it's something politicians don't want to touch because nobody wants to be the person that is soft on anything to do with minors and sex. Of course our laws are completely illogical - the fact that you could be put in prison and a sex offender registry for life for having a single photo of a naked 17 year old (how in the hell were you supposed to know?) on your device is ridiculous.

But, again, who is going to decide to put forward a bill to change that? It's all risk and no reward for the politician.
by reddozen | 2026-02-12 05:28:11+00:00
Cool. Yeah but the topic is that it's currently not working when you have a president that doesn't want to respect rule of law.

Just like Roberts schizo-rambling about the federalist papers and inventing new terms like "Core constitutional powers" while not addressing any of the dissents. Roberts pens in that the president gets broad immunity for "core" (defined nowhere) powers and ignores the public's interest in not having a criminal president.

Originalists like senile Roberts must have forgot the framers were literally escaping a monarchy with no judicial accountability. Maybe him and Alito can figure out the mental gymnastics needed to ask his wife to take down the stop-the-steal flag outside his house.
by testaccount28 | 2026-02-12 05:28:33+00:00
if walmart unfairly used its monopolistic position to steal from consumers, then of course i support serving justice.

is the point of this conversation just to proclaim you don't like some guys? what is your claim here? what action do you desire the collective to take? what is the rule that society should follow?

why do you expect that rule to lead to a more prosperous, thriving society?
by cratermoon | 2026-02-12 05:29:05+00:00
Every time you look up something on StackOverflow, refer to the API docs, or refer back to the ticket, use case, or requirements document, make a note of your question and the answer. Even when you stop typing to take a break for a moment, or after pushing code while you wait for the ci/cd pipeline, note down where you are and your last action or change.

Every time you start to write a TODO comment, make a note instead, or also.

Consider Kent’s Beck’s recommendation to write down every decision you make.
by joegibbs | 2026-02-12 05:32:15+00:00
And you could say that the difference is that high-level languages are deterministically transformed down, but in practice the compiler is so complex you'd have no idea what it's doing and most people don't look at the machine code anyway. You may as well take a look at the LLM's prompt and make an assumption of the high-level code that it spits out.
by acuozzo | 2026-02-12 05:32:23+00:00
> You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup

I downloaded a shit-ton of anime over 56k via CuteMX in 2000. I used to start the download before bed and then watch the episode the next day after school.

Little 12fps postage-stamp-sized RealPlayer/RealMedia video files. I still have them if you want to check them out.
Show HN: Motivé – AI-generated cover letters tailored to job descriptions
by joelkapuku | 2026-02-12 05:32:32+00:00
Hi HN,

Motivé is a small app that generates personalized cover letters based on your experience and the job you’re applying for.

The goal is to remove repetitive writing while keeping letters specific and professional.

It’s early-stage and I’m looking for feedback on:
- Output quality
- UX
- Whether this actually saves time

Thanks for taking a look.
by skissane | 2026-02-12 05:32:32+00:00
The biggest remaining production use of telnet is IBM mainframe and midrange systems. tn3270 which is a telnet extension implementing support for 3270 block mode terminal data streams is still in widespread use, and there is also tn5250 which does the same for 5250 terminals (used on IBM i / AS/400)

This use case is perfectly secure, because IBM mainframe/midrange telnet servers support telnet-over-TLS, and that’s what people run in production

For connecting to mainframes, SSH has no real advantage over TLS, and its major disadvantage is that there is no standardised way to transmit 3270/5250 data streams over it

But people looking for telnet traffic over the public Internet probably won’t even notice this, because they aren’t looking for telnet over TLS - which is difficult to distinguish from whatever else over TLS - and because almost all of it goes over VPNs not the public Internet
by mym1990 | 2026-02-12 05:33:34+00:00
I didn't say anything about your beliefs in AI, my statement was general. You're projecting.

It is still possible to write code with AI AND educate yourself on what the codebase architecture is. Even better, you can educate yourself on good software engineering and architecture and build that into making better specs. You can understand what the code is doing by having good tests, observability, and actually seeing it work. But if you're after peeping what every character is doing, I am not going to stop you!
by computerex | 2026-02-12 05:35:07+00:00
I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted, but VS Code integration really does stink. Often times it will just simply not send the API request and just say reconnecting and I've had it simply freeze where the VS Code OpenAI Codex plugin has frozen, but all the other plugins like Cline or Roo are working perfectly fine. So the VS Code integration is almost unusable in my experience.
by jannyfer | 2026-02-12 05:37:39+00:00
> What Apple does best lies at the combination of hardware, software, physical materials, and human-computer interface design.

This was true maybe a decade ago, but not so now (under the watch of Tim Cook).

You listed Mac hardware becoming popular in the age of AI as examples of "unexpected wins". Maybe that's true (I don't know if it is) - but Macs were only 8% of Apple's 2025 revenue. Apple has become an iPhone company (50% of revenue) that sells services (26% of revenue).

And AI can eat away at both. If Siri sucks so hard that people switch away, that would also reduce Services revenue from lost App Store revenue cuts. If Google bundles Gemini with YouTube and Google Photos storage, people might cancel their iCloud subscriptions.

I think the parent comment was making the point that Tim Cook's Apple has missed the boat and it doesn't show signs that it's going to catch the next wave.

I have an iPhone 16 and I'm locked in because of all my photos being on my iCloud subscription. But in 2030, if my colleague can use their Pixel phone to record a work meeting, have it diarized, send out minutes, grab relevant info and surface it before the next relevant meeting, and Siri can still only set a timer for 5 minutes, then I might actually switch.
by keeda | 2026-02-12 05:37:49+00:00
The thing is, there are many interplaying dynamics here that are impossible to unravel. This is why I called it "napkin math", because figuring out the full ramifications of this change is a pretty large economic problem that nobody has figured out!

For instance, I think operating at this level of productivity is unsustainable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938038). As discussed in detail by the recent "AI vampire" blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972179 -- most humans are not designed for that level of cognitive intensity.

But even then, the productivity per human will explode, and we will still have the problem of "too many humans." Cynically, if most knowledge workers get laid off, it's good from an environmental perspective because that means much less commuting and pollution! But then they're starving and we will have riots!

This is where I foresee the near-term problems with GenAI: social turmoil rather than resource consumption. I suspect it's not all bad news though. While it's impossible to put numbers on it, it helps to think about the first-order economic principles that are in play:

1. This is hand-wavy, but knowledge work boosts economic growth. If this is massively accelerated, we should be creating surplus value that compensates for a lot of costs.

2. However a huge chunk of knowledge work is busy work which will be automated away. People can try upskilling but the skill gap is already huge an growing quickly and they will lose jobs.

3. The economy is essentially people providing and paying for services and goods. If people lose jobs and cannot earn, they cannot drive the economy and it shrinks.

4. The elite, counter-intuitively enough, do NOT want that because they get richer by taking a massive cut of the economy! (Not to mention life in a doomsday bunker can get pretty dull if starving people start rioting -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896066)

There are many more dynamics at play of course, but I think an equilibrium will be found purely because everyone is incentivized to find a solution (UBI?) that keeps both the elites and the plebes living long and prospering. I expect some turmoil, but luckily, the severe resource crunch of GPUs gives us time to figure things out.
by mikewarot | 2026-02-12 05:37:55+00:00
Beta blockers got my heart rate down into the normal range, which really helped with the fatigue Long Covid causes. (Was 90 bpm resting, now it's about 60) (I'm old... 62)

Now I have to lose all the weight I gained while I was too tired to do anything, but at least it's possible now.
by kirubakaran | 2026-02-12 05:38:40+00:00
I agree 100%. And like insisting that sentences shouldn't end with a preposition, or "you should say GNU/Linux, not Linux", it's no way to make friends and influence people.

Whenever someone says "actually", it's hard not to think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGvw-E4OtOA
by nishant_b555 | 2026-02-12 05:38:45+00:00
’ve been exploring the Hive repo over the past few days. One thing I found interesting is the OODA-loop inspired control flow and the idea of topology emerging at runtime rather than being statically defined.

I opened an issue (#3905) proposing built-in performance metrics and monitoring, since observability seems especially important when execution graphs aren’t deterministic.

Curious how others approach monitoring in dynamic agent systems — do you treat them more like distributed systems (tracing, spans, structured logs), or something closer to workflow DAG monitoring?
by staplung | 2026-02-12 05:39:51+00:00
This has been possible with the zlib module since 1997. You even get similar byte count outputs to the example and on my machine, it's about 10x faster to use zlib.

import zlib

input_text = b"I ordered three tacos with extra guacamole"

tacos = b"taco burrito tortilla salsa guacamole cilantro lime " * 50
taco_comp = zlib.compressobj(zdict=tacos)
print(len(taco_comp.compress(input_text) + taco_comp.flush()))
# prints 41

padel = b"racket court serve volley smash lob match game set " * 50
padel_comp = zlib.compressobj(zdict=padel)
print(len(padel_comp.compress(input_text) + padel_comp.flush()))
# prints 54
by peekyou | 2026-02-12 05:40:09+00:00
My digital workspace is a complete mess. Tabs keep piling up, whether in Chrome, Notepad, or other apps. I don't even know why I still have so much old stuff open, I'm thinking I might need it one day, but that day never comes...

But in contrast, my physical workspace is completely empty, I might be a bit schizophrenic.
by klausa | 2026-02-12 05:40:10+00:00
That's... partially true.

If you use the _digital_ MyNa card (e.g. the one in the Wallet.app; not the plastic one); the iOS SDK lets you only request the "is user more than XX years old" flag; without getting the actual identity: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/passkit/requesting...

Now, AFAICT nobody actually does this, but the technical ability is there.
by notpushkin | 2026-02-12 05:41:36+00:00
Or with the newsgroup20 dataset:

curl http://qwone.com/~jason/20Newsgroups/20news-19997.tar.gz | tar -xzf -
cd 20_newsgroups
for f in *; do zstd --train "$f/*" -o "../$f.dict"; done
cd ..
for d in *.dict; do
cat 20_newsgroups/misc.forsale/74150 | zstd -D "$d" | wc -c | tr -d '\n'; echo " $d";
done | sort | head -n 5

Output:

422 misc.forsale.dict
462 rec.autos.dict
463 comp.sys.mac.hardware.dict
464 sci.crypt.dict
465 comp.graphics.dict

Pretty neat IMO.
by kaicianflone | 2026-02-12 05:44:17+00:00
I’m working on an open source project that treats this as a consensus problem instead of a single model accuracy problem.

You define a policy (majority, weighted vote, quorum), set the confidence level you want, and run enough independent inferences to reach it. Cost is visible because reliability just becomes a function of compute.

The question shifts from “is this output correct?” to “how much certainty do we need, and what are we willing to pay for it?”

Still early, but the goal is to make accuracy and cost explicit and tunable.
by anonymous_user9 | 2026-02-12 05:46:04+00:00
If you go to the IGRA's website [1] and scroll down, you'll find the part of the definition that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism:

> Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

> Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

[1] https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitio...
by esfandia | 2026-02-12 05:46:28+00:00
This looks nice! Wish they had a no-credit-card-required version for educational purposes. For the course I teach we use Spring Boot, and life was good with Heroku till they discontinued the no-credit-card version, and then the only choice we had (with support for Spring Boot) was to move over to Azure, which works but is a bit overkill and complicated for our purposes. I guess we could just use Docker and then many more platform would become available, but I'd rather not add one more step to the pipeline if possible.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 05:46:31+00:00
This is, as far as I know, a completely accurate and factual take. It is also nearly irrelevant.

The two entities which have reported on this event are looking for tcp traffic on port 23, not TELNET protocol traffic. So indeed, as you say, if they are tunneled in VPN, or encapsulated or using an alternate port, tn3270 traffic will not be detect on port 23/tcp. Telnet over TLS is assigned to port 992, so any RFC-compliant implementation would be found there, and irrelevant, again, to the telnetd CVE reported this year.

There are two facets to January's incident: the vulnerability in the GNU implementation of telnetd, and the purported, widespread blocking of port 23. The original report went out because of the coincidence they perceived there, and especially because the latter preceded the disclosure of the vulnerability!

Mainframe tn3270 servers would not be subject to this vulnerability. If there had been a port filter in place, it only would've tripped-up the mainframes that still used port 23, which is evidently optional, and it says here that many admins want to keep AIX's telnetd bound to port 23 anyway.

So it is good to know that TELNET protocol, and its extensions, are alive and well. We may not actually know how many clients and servers implement the protocol itself, since MUDs made this a routine thing, but certainly the deployment of IBM systems is formidable, considering the sheer mass of the iron in their rack mounts.
by khimaros | 2026-02-12 05:47:48+00:00
i have been working on something similar, trying to build the leanest agent loop that can be self modifying. ended up building it as a plugin within OpenCode with the cow pulled out into python hooks that the agent can modify at runtime (with automatic validation of existing behavior). this allows it to create new tools for itself, customize it's system prompt preambles, and of course manage its own traits. also contains a heartbeat hook. it all runs in an incus VM for isolation and provides a webui and attachable TUI thanks to OpenCode.