MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by positron26 | 2026-02-01 20:05:51+00:00
> your comment sounds like American don't want to protest against Trump because it is too dangerous

At this time, we are still openly committed to the 2nd amendment in defense of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th and so on. I am encouraging others to participate in open-carry demonstrations to make it clear to the authoritarians that they will not get the intimidating optics of an unopposed crackdown against a helpless crowd that they want. Personally, I grew up shooting things, so handling bootlickers will be natural if it comes to it.

Technically enabled solutions to better communicate, organize, and represent the will of the people would help a lot. Bomb-shelter thinking will not help much. If the US devolves into a Russian style authoritarian state, one where I will no longer be welcomed off the plane, the EU will have more to worry about than Windows. My ideas on the technically enabled side are complex but sound, so I encourage any interested in doing full stack Rust to get a hold of me by clicking links. I'll be finishing up some shader programming and feedback rendering today as the next piece of my strategy.
by verdverm | 2026-02-01 20:05:59+00:00
You're crossing products with technology, also some cherry picking of personal perspectives

I personally think GSuite is much better today than it was a decade ago, but that is separate

The underlying hardware has improved, the network, the security, the provenance

Specific to LLMs

1. we have seen rapid improvements and there are a ton more you can see in the research that will be impacting the next round of model train/release cycle. Both algorithms and hardware are improving

2. Open weight models are within spitting distance of the frontier. Within 2 years, smaller and open models will be capable of what frontier is doing today. This has a huge democratization potential

I'd rather see the Ai as an opportunity to break the Oligarchy and the corporate hold over the people. I'm working hard to make it a reality (also working on atproto)
by sebastiennight | 2026-02-01 20:06:12+00:00
The only place where "reading" is mentioned in the entire report is on page 71.

In response to:

1. What hobbies or interests are you most passionate about? (ranked)

and

2. "Top seven habits attributing to success (ranked)".
Most of the principals approach their daily routines with intention, making purposeful choices with their time.

So at this point we have two hypotheses: the first is that there is a PDF report which states something rather clearly, and then Fortune Magazine wrote a puff piece around it which was picked up by Yahoo News, and then copypasted by this other writer in the OP with some filler added for good measure, and you're reading too much into it.

The second is that the Fortune Magazine guy "knows these 23 Wall guys", and the Yahoo News guy knows these guys, and the OP writer knows these guys, and you know these guys, and all you guys know that even though Barack Obama was never mentioned once in that report, it is absolutely obvious that we the readers should read between the lines that the questions asked are not the ones written in the report and the replies they got are not the ones written the report either, and OP writer just gets it.

I am afraid that my literacy is mostly limited here to the things that are written, since I do not know these guys.
by ajross | 2026-02-01 20:06:17+00:00
> I'm still angry they killed flash. There has never been a better platform for non-technical folks

Capcut and Roblox would like words. No, that's kinda just wrong. Content generation for non-technical folks has never been easier or more effective. Flash is just something nerds here remember fondly because it was a gateway drug into hackerdom. Some of us are older and might feel the same way about Hypercard or TurboPascal or whatnot.
by al_borland | 2026-02-01 20:06:28+00:00
I don’t think dropping legacy support is due to boredom. It what allows them to keep moving forward without being saddled by every decision from the past.

How long should they have kept PPC or Classic support?

Microsoft is in a funny position. Backward compatibility is seen as a competitive advantage, especially in the enterprise market. However, it’s that very compatibility that makes people avoid adopting new technologies, because why bother? We see Microsoft throw so many things against the wall, and almost nothing sticks. Meanwhile, Apple tells devs to jump and they ask how high. Devs know Apple is going to cut support, so its update your apps or be left behind.

To really make a change, a person needs to be all-in. Dual booting Windows and Linux/macOS, for example. This is a sign a person isn’t all-in and they don’t really make the change, or it takes significantly longer. When a person goes all-in and burns the boats, they are forced to find new solutions and make the changes needed to make the new thing actually work.
by alt227 | 2026-02-01 20:06:52+00:00
You are correct and as others have said, the phone can run functions while it looks like its off. This was one of the main reasons manufacturers killed removable batteries. You can put your phone onto standby, but you cannot power it off completely.

There are also conspiracy theories that claim the last 10% of battery is reserved for tracking, so that when your phone says its out of battery and wont turn on, it still has plenty of power left to ping tracking data say once per hour or something. I dont push those theories, but judging by what Snowden released all those years ago I wouldnt be surprised.
by kingo55 | 2026-02-01 20:06:54+00:00
Funnily enough about 10 years ago, I had noisy neighbours playing music late at night and after some fruitless attempts at politely asking them to turn the sound down, I found their wifi and ran a 'deauth attack'. Effectively flooding their wifi with packets disconnecting devices. Followed by a, "fuck!"

Safe to say we got peaceful nights sleep.
by epistasis | 2026-02-01 20:06:55+00:00
And for that I'm quite thankful, if all the stuff that apps could do were possible on the web it would make the web a far far scarier place than it is.

I avoid apps as much as possible due to all the nefarious tricks they play, even with all the sandboxing and review they go through. Without those constraints, I can't imagine the hell that we'd be in.
by trothamel | 2026-02-01 20:08:49+00:00
If I remember correctly, the original version of wordle used a word list that was run past the creator's wife, who had learned English later in life. The result was a really accessible game - none of the words felt like ones you wouldn't know. It probably makes sense to reuse words than risk losing that accessibility.

(I kept a copy of original wordle, and it seems to have 2,315 words that are possible answers.)
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-01 20:08:55+00:00
Yep. He’s all over the Epstein files. Here’s a compilation of the Thiel - Epstein connection, and it does appear he’s connected to the Russian government. Remember, these are from the DOJ’s own released files.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/1qsbifr/...

The new strategy from the tech alt right though is to keep denying and attack all of it as lies or fake news or legacy media manipulation. Elon Musk has been absolutely spinning this for a few days now, attacking journalism repeatedly. His X feed is also erased of replies challenging him, and mostly filled with bot-like accounts posting sycophantic replies:

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2017930408650772495
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-01 20:09:01+00:00
Yeah, that quote was "mere dicta" from the first day (the case wasn't about shouting fire in a theater, it was about distributing pamphlets opposing the draft), and the actual holding of the case the quote is from was overturned more than half a century ago.

Hasn't stopped every authoritarian from parroting the quote whenever they want to censor something.
by fvdessen | 2026-02-01 20:09:02+00:00
Have an AI track focused on how to use AI to improve OSS software instead of how to run LLama on RISC-V.

Invite the open source developpers behind popular OSS AI frameworks such as opencode, etc.

Invite talkers from large companies that produce open source software and models such as Mistral.AI

Invite talkers from companies that run OSS LLMs at scale such as groq

Invite the people who build drones in Ukraine, (probably the most succesful open hardware story to date). Have drone building workshops / drone piloting stands
by benou | 2026-02-01 20:09:06+00:00
> What is the FOSDEM community's answer to the real concerns that these changes pose ? Let's hand solder raspberry pis ! let's self host LLMS from 2 years ago on FreeBSD ! Look, i can run wasn linux on this risc-v cpu !

Maybe, just maybe, they're having fun? FOSS is not only about corporate open-source, but also genuine curiosity. Both can have their place.

> no wonder that nobody younger than 40 was attending the conference. The next generation is doing something else and rightly so.

I saw a lot of students at FOSDEM, attending, presenting and helping the at organization.
by trhway | 2026-02-01 20:09:36+00:00
>taxing prosperous states to benefit these poorer ones would be beneficial.

So red states don't want state income tax in their states. Yet when it comes to taxing somebody else for the benefit of the red states, the red states are all for it. It is just such typical conservative position that wealth redistribution is a bad thing, until the conservatives are the beneficiaries, and then they are all for it.

In this specific case what would be the point of additional money given that the state is actively suppressing reproductive healthcare?
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-01 20:09:38+00:00
Isn't that the core of how universities operate, in the first place?

Sure, you could get an education for cheap from a community college, or free from various online sources, or for the best education possible, get paid to learn on the job. If you attend a university though, you're getting prestige by showing how much of your money, or someone else's money, you can burn through.

It's not like anyone's taking undergraduate classes at Harvard or Stanford because the teaching assistants actually instructing are going to provide above-average instruction. They aren't even concerned with tenured professors teaching performance; they put publishing metrics first.
Comparing ChatGPT Apps, Claude Apps, and the Old Facebook Apps
by OttoZastrow | 2026-02-01 20:09:42+00:00
We're building integrations for both Claude and ChatGPT at Midpage (legal research platform), and want to share thoughts on the hosting model & sdks.

Facebook Apps (2007-2025)

Facebook embedded your app via iframe. You hosted everything on your servers—Facebook just framed it and passed user data via signed requests. This meant companies like Zynga could build standard web apps and run them inside Facebook with minimal integration work. When Zynga wanted to leave, the games were portable—they were never Facebook-native.

Sidenote: Early on when Facebook launched apps the entire friend list was shared with the developers. Hard to imagine nowadays.

ChatGPT Apps (Apps SDK)

OpenAI's Apps SDK builds on MCP. You build two things: an MCP server that defines tools, and a web component (React, vanilla JS, whatever) that renders in a sandboxed iframe. The iframe communicates with ChatGPT via `window.openai`—calling tools, reading theme/locale, managing state. Tools return `structuredContent` plus `_meta` pointing to your UI template.

- https://openai.com/index/introducing-apps-in-chatgpt/

- https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/quickstart/

Claude + MCP Apps

Claude also now supports MCP Apps (shipped last week). Same concept: tools declare a `ui://` resource, the host renders HTML in a sandboxed iframe, bidirectional communication happens via JSON-RPC over postMessage. The spec was jointly authored by Anthropic and OpenAI—same protocol, same SDK. Launch partners include Figma, Asana, Slack, Canva, monday.com.

- https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-01-26-mcp-apps/

- https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/extensions/apps

The convergence

Both platforms now use MCP. OpenAI adopted it in March 2025, and the protocol was donated to the Linux Foundation in December 2025. MCP Apps is the first official extension—jointly developed by Anthropic and OpenAI. Build once, deploy to both.

Key differences from Facebook:

Facebook apps had visual interfaces in an iframe wrapper around your whole app. AI apps render UI inline in conversation —small widgets, not full applications. The model decides when to invoke your tools and narrates around your UI. Your iframe talks to the host via a bridge API, not via page-level signed requests.

For us at Midpage, we can build one MCP server with tools (search, analyze, quote) and one set of UI components. That single integration works on both Claude and ChatGPT.
by hedora | 2026-02-01 20:09:44+00:00
It replaced expert with “people that know how to do that”, which probably makes sense for the target audience.

(If you’re illiterate in the US, it’s probably because of choices you made, and those choices are correlated to listening to news sources that vilify experts.)

But, yeah, it loses nuance.

Also, I’d argue that literacy is less tied to written language these days than language comprehension, and the ability to articulate yourself.

Back when books were precious those two things were highly correlated. Nowadays, not so much.
by GreenDolphinSys | 2026-02-01 20:10:19+00:00
I don't think your examples are comparable. DHH is (/was?) the face of ruby on rails and basecamp, whereas Cook is just the latest person at the helm of a tremendously large (personnel-wise) company someone else built. There are only 2 relevant phone types to consider, and please don't tell me Google/Samsung are morally superior to Apple. Even for ruby on rails, hundreds (thousands ?) of people have been contributing to it. It's not really "owned" by DHH anymore, and it's 21 years old, well before these rants.

And not to compare badness, but DHH is ranting publicly on his blog about the projected % of white people in Norway in 2096 and quoting white supremacists in his lamentation about the UK not being more white. Blaming the increasingly totalitarian actions the UK has been taking on immigrants and not the literal lawmakers setting those policies is certainly an opinion to hold. It's a whole lot more in your face.

I do agree about Omarchy linux though- that's still very closely associated with DHH and I'm not touching that with a 39.5ft pole, let alone before getting into technical issues. I was honestly pretty disappointed to see the typical dev personalities online cover Omarchy linux despite the crap DHH has been spewing on his blog.
by bschwindHN | 2026-02-01 20:11:43+00:00
That reminds me of my Xbox One. I could reliably turn it on by starting some heavy wifi traffic on my phone, typically by opening a YouTube video. The console lets you turn it on with the wireless controller, so I assume the wifi traffic was somehow recreating that signal.

I never solved it though, I moved and never really set up the Xbox again.
by kkfx | 2026-02-01 20:11:52+00:00
Nothing strange nor new: the average teacher is reactionary even at top universities, generally incapable of evolving, much like the stereotypical average vegetable seller.

We continue to teach children (at least in the EU) to write by hand, to do calculations manually throughout their entire schooling, when in real life, aside from the occasional scrap note, all writing is done on computers and calculations are done by machine as well. And, of course, no one teaches these latter skills.

The result on a large scale is that we have an increasingly incompetent population on average, with teaching staff competing to see who can revert the most to the past and refusing to see that the more they do this, the worse the incompetent graduates they produce.

The computer, desktop, FLOSS, is the quintessential epistemological tool of the present, just as paper was in the past. The world changes, and those who fall behind are selected out by history; come to terms with that. Not only, those who lag behind ensure that few push forward an evolution for their own interest, which typically conflicts with that of the majority.
by danaris | 2026-02-01 20:12:02+00:00
Then you're missing my point.

Yes, you, a hobbyist, can make that work, and keep being useful for the foreseeable future. I don't doubt that.

But either a majority or large plurality of programmers work in some kind of large institution where they don't have full control over the tools they use. Some percentage of those will never even be allowed to use LLM coding tools, because they're not working in tech and their bosses are in the portion of the non-tech public that thinks "AI" is scary, rather than the portion that thinks it's magic. (Or, their bosses have actually done some research, and don't want to risk handing their internal code over to LLMs to train on—whether they're actually doing that now or not, the chances that they won't in future approach nil.)

And even those who might not be outright forbidden to use such tools for specific reasons like the above will never be able to get authorization to use them on their company workstations, because they're not approved tools, because they require a subscription the company won't pay for, because etc etc.

So saying that clearly coding with LLM assistance is the future and it would be irresponsible not to teach current CS students how to code like that is patently false. It is a possible future, but the volatility in the AI space right now is much, much too high to be able to predict just what the future will bring.
by ajross | 2026-02-01 20:12:41+00:00
Which is fine, for the 90% of people that spend their time on the 70% of common features and interact only with the screen and headphones and internet.

But sometimes people like to do stuff like configure their QMK keyboards or load new firmware for their EdgeTX drone radios or make bootable USB sticks, all tasks that work just fine in easily deployed PWAs on every client platform in existence, except iOS.

For small developers of small-yet-oddball clients apps, PWA's are an absolutely magnificent platform. Write once, deploy once, run... everywhere-but-an-iPhone. It really sucks that Apple's devices are crippled like this.

Edit to reply to this bit:

> Without those constraints, I can't imagine the hell that we'd be in.

Again, that hell is literally every other platform on the planet. It's only Safari that is "protected". In point of fact browser permissions management on this stuff tends strongly to be stricter and less permissive than app permissions, which are much less visible.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-01 20:12:48+00:00
Pay them more. There is no labor shortage, simply a shortage of workers unwilling to accept jobs at this compensation. The complaint put forth in the piece is "we cannot compress the wages of these folks because there is no labor surplus to leverage." This arrives eventually due to working age cohort demographic compression (citations below), we're still in early days though.

The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/trump-imm... | https://archive.today/DranI - January 30th, 2026

Mapped: Every Country by Total Fertility Rate - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-countries-by-fert... - December 22nd, 2025

The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866621 - August 2025 (400 comments)

HN Search: labor shortage - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(~4M Boomers retire a year, ~11k/day, ~2M people 55+ die every year, about half of which are in the labor force; that means ~13k-14k workers leave the labor force every day in the US, ~400k/month)
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2026-02-01 20:13:03+00:00
> By the way, fossile fuels are partly responsible for the greatest uplift in human quality of life. Pesticides are essential in creating a sustainable food output.

Yeah, and they are not sentient beings we owe something in return to.

When they were useful we used them. Now that they’re more harmful than useful we stop using them.

I don’t understand the moralizing around that.
by josephcsible | 2026-02-01 20:13:20+00:00
> If this is the case you can install stop lights and traffic sensing at roundabout ingress points

But those options are a lot more expensive and need a lot more maintenance than just a regular roundabout or four way stop.

> you can also provide a "turn right" lane that bypasses the roundabout entirely.

How would that work? Consider a 4-way roundabout, where there's a constant flow of cars from west to east, and one car from the south that wants to go north but can't because of the starvation problem. None of the involved cars would want to use a "turn right" lane.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-01 20:13:29+00:00
Interesting to think that:

>If Microsoft never bailed Apple out, this wouldn't be on the front page today

>If Apple didn't have the greatest marketing team of all time and nail the ipod commercial, this wouldn't be on the front page today

>If Apple charged competitive prices for the iphone, rather than make it a veblen good, this wouldn't be on the front page today.

If I could only consider how much luck is involved in life, it might make setbacks feel better.
by toss1 | 2026-02-01 20:14:38+00:00
Good question, but needs to be worked through more.

Consider an average person's 72/min resting heartbeat. That will be (726024365.25=) 37,869,120 heartbeats per year or ~379 million/decade.

Now, add strenuous running or cycling 5 hours/week, maybe a 10mi run, and a bunch of 20-60 minute runs. Call that average 180 beats/minute. That adds ((180-72)30052=) 1,684,800 beats/year, or +16 million per decade.

The average person's 37,869,120 beats/yr divided by the exercising person's 27,349,920 yields a ratio of 1.3846. So, based on heartbeat count alone, the exerciser will live 38% longer.

BUT, this kind of training will dramatically reduce the resting heartbeat. Training far less than this, my resting heartrate declined into the high-40s-low-50s, and has remained consistent for decades of mostly maintenance training. Most recent six month average is 52 beats/min. with far less than 5hr/week training, but let's use that. That means the resting heartrate is 27,349,920 beats/year, plus the added 1,684,800 exercise beats, making it 29,034,720 beats/year or ~290 million beats per decade.

That means the exercising person 'spends' 8,834,400 FEWER* heartbeats per year, or saves 89 million heartbeats per decade.
by epistasis | 2026-02-01 20:14:59+00:00
Avoid it as long as possible. Mail search is broken 4 out of 5 days that I attempt a search, and I need to go to the webmail versions of my accounts to find anything. Fortunately it's only something I need to do about once a day, unlike in prior lives, but holy crap they took the best ruing about macOS and kids destroyed jt completely.

Plasma on Linux is looking pretty tempting these days, especially with almost all office software being web based these days.

Switching email clients is a big lift that I need to investigate, and have been hesitant to jump into until absolutely necessary, but another week of this BS...
by pests | 2026-02-01 20:15:16+00:00
> remember which changes I made vs which changes AI made..

They are improving this use case too with their enhanced blame. I think it was mentioned in their latest update blog.

You'll be able to hover over lines to see if you wrote it, or an AI. If it was an AI, it will show which model and a reference to the prompt that generated it.

I do like Cursor quite a lot.