MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tracker1 | 2026-02-19 22:37:03+00:00
Until knife killings start to rise (UK). Beyond this, I've seen several interventions of armed citizens stopping a crime in progress, when the police are still in route. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

My dad was ex-army, retired PD (detective, undercover) and a heavy 2A advocate. I grew up with guns around so it wasn't some weird, scary thing to see. I have many friends who also are heavy 2A who also grew up with guns in the home. It's first a matter of familiarity and second a matter of civil defense. I'm not a fan of "must flea" laws, and not a fan of restricting gun rights at all.

And yeah, if you can afford a tank and the ammo for it, as far as I'm concerned, you should be able to own and operate it. I would draw the line at nuclear weapons and materials.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-19 22:37:47+00:00
Related previously:

Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827968

Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529257
by haruniriz | 2026-02-19 22:37:49+00:00
Tried to check it out after seeing this here, but the App Store page requires iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26+. That effectively blocks most people from even trying it right now.

Is there a specific framework or OS-level feature that requires such a high deployment target, or is this just the default Xcode setting? For a speech coaching app, supporting a wider range of OS versions might help more folks give it a try and provide feedback.
by Paracompact | 2026-02-19 22:37:50+00:00
Are you assuming the current landscape where engaging in a financial transaction, even if only for $0.01, is a tedious and unquantifiably dangerous gambit? (Sale of your info, leaking of your info, dark pattern subscription TOS's, etc.)

Or would you still hold your opinions even in a theoretical landscape where paying $0.01 is just consenting to that amount being deducted from your bank account, with no friction or danger?
by RachelF | 2026-02-19 22:37:51+00:00
I haven't used 3.1 yet, but 3.0 Pro has been frustrating for two reasons:

- it is "lazy": I keep having to tell it to finish, or continue, it wants to stop the task early.

- it hallucinates: I have arguments with it about making up API functions to well known libraries which just do not exist.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-19 22:38:41+00:00
That's great but it can't add stuff to your calendar unless you throw the master switch for "personalization" giving it access to your GMail, Docs, etc. I tried that and it went off the rails immediately, started yapping in an unrelated context about the 2002 Dodge Ram that I own, which of course I do not own, but some imbecile who habitually uses my email address once ordered parts for one. I found that to be a pretty bad feature so I had to turn it off, and now it can't do the other stuff like make calendars or add my recipes to Keep.
by munk-a | 2026-02-19 22:39:27+00:00
I wholly support drastically simplifying the tax code - I disagree with the extent to which you'd simplify it since there is a very good reason to have property taxes and some of the sin taxes have notable social benefits. Additionally, using tax rebates as an incentive to install home solar is an excellent initiative for the environment. Our tax code should be pretty simple - it shouldn't be a single line (or even multiple graduated lines).

Until we simplify the tax code, though, can we properly fund the IRS to actually audit it? I think my thing (funding the IRS) is a lot easier to do quickly than your thing (completely rewriting how the government garners revenue) and I don't want perfection to be the enemy of the good.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-19 22:39:28+00:00
<< There is no possible way this can be spun as being about "available resources". The grift is utterly, 100% transparent.

Eh, I mean if you put it that way, I suppose all those budgets are just a show and not at all an indication of how utterly fucked we are as a country unless we both:

a) massively reduce spending
b) massively raise taxes

In very real terms, there is only so much money. Some additional money can be borrowed, but we a slowly ( but surely ) reaching a breaking point on that as well.

The issue is: no one is willing to sacrifice anything. And I am sympathetic, but if hard choices are not made now, they will be kinda made for us anyway.
by ProjectArcturis | 2026-02-19 22:40:11+00:00
> many countries are increasing funding substantially (e.g. [1]).

This illustrates exactly my point. Canada is planning on spending up to CAD$1.7B over 12 years. That is equivalent to USD$100M per year, or 0.3% of the NIH 2026 budget. Maybe if Europe does something similar they can get to 2%!

> The US is also no longer safe

I agree that Trump's regime has made the US a less welcoming place for foreign scientists, and that budget cuts mean less research will be done. What I disagree with is the idea that "brain drain" is a significant threat to US science. We simply have such an incredible oversupply of biomed PhDs that we should welcome the prospect of other countries absorbing the supply.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-19 22:40:14+00:00
It's a myth that you need a novel molecule to get a patent on a medicine.

A company can develop a formulation of generic, off-patent compounds and get FDA approval for that patented formulation.

Even old off-patent drugs are often brought back in new, on-patent formulations that can't be sold generically until the expiration of the patents on the formulation that was approved.

So even if they used psilocybin, they would get a patent on their formulation and get FDA approval for that formulation.
by autoexec | 2026-02-19 22:40:32+00:00
> The strawberry thing has been solved

It seems like every couple weeks there's some embarrassing failure of AI that gets quickly patched, but just because AI companies scramble to hide the failures of their technology doesn't mean they haven't failed in ways that shouldn't have been possible if they were what they claim them to be.

> I don't think there exists such a question that can fool an LLM but not fool a reasonably smart person.

An example was on the front page here just a few days ago.

https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_at...

Until someone invents an LLM that has any actual understanding of the words it outputs (which doesn't seem likely to happen in my lifetime) these things are going to keep happening, just like how it's impossible to get them to stop hallucinating. The limitation is intrinsic to what they are. We call these chatbots AI, but there is no intelligence there that didn't come from the humans whose words were used to train them.
by hintymad | 2026-02-19 22:40:33+00:00
> I don’t believe people who have dedicated their lives to open source will simply want to stop working on it, no matter how much is or is not written by AI.

Yeah, hence my question can only be hypothetical.

> I wonder what all we might build instead, if all that time could be saved

If we subscribe to Economics' broken-window theory, then the investment into such repetitive work is not investment but waste. Once we stop such investment, we will have a lot more resources to work on something else, bring out a new chapter of the tech revolution. Or so I hope.
by landl0rd | 2026-02-19 22:41:12+00:00
No bundling model is going to work with the papers worth reading, with high-value ones. Look at that list: no FT, only partial WSJ, no Bloomberg (only Businessweek), no Economist, no NYT, no Foreign Affairs, no SCMP. I guess Foreign Policy and Puck bundled could be cool but most "high-value" publications are excluded. This is like netflix where it's never worth subscribing because it's ten thousand things you don't care to watch.
by bluGill | 2026-02-19 22:41:35+00:00
> even though it’s a relatively benign procedure.

Not completely. Every once in a while they accidentally puncture the intestine with the probes and that becomes a significant medial problem. It doesn't happen often, but that is still a risk that doctors need to consider. If you are over 50 getting one every 10 years is a good idea, and there is some consideration if younger might be worth it. However so few people get colon cancer under 40 that it isn't worth the risks for most - but if there are other signs of a problem (either family history or symptoms) that changes things and it may be worth it.
by munk-a | 2026-02-19 22:41:38+00:00
That's an excellent criticism of the parent and why we really do want a somewhat complex tax code even if it should be far simpler than what we have today.

We also want to balance regressive and progressive taxes, we do want to influence some behaviors through taxes that provide positive social outcomes - there are several really good complexities to have in our tax code. Just not as many as we do today.
by avadodin | 2026-02-19 22:41:42+00:00
What's up with the ginkgo hate on this story?

The roasted or cooked nut of the ginkgo tastes good and is filling. Not something to eat in volume anyways. You'd probably quit before any toxicity.

The fruit looks appetizing and at most smells a little funky when there are tons of them around a female tree.

I have always known it's inedible to humans so I have never tried but it could taste like custard given its color. Presumably whatever used to disperse it could eat it.

Other coniferous arils are tasty and sweet like yew for example even though the nut is supposed to be very poisonous.
by TrianguloY | 2026-02-19 22:42:04+00:00
I like this analogy, and in fact in have used it for a totally different reason: why I don't like AI.

Imagine someone going to a local gym and using an exosqueleton to do the exercises without effort. Able to lift more? Yes. Run faster? Sure. Exercising and enjoying the gym? ... No, and probably not.

I like writing code, even if it's boilerplate. It's fun for me, and I want to keep doing it. Using AI to do that part for me is just...not fun.

Someone going to the gym isn't trying to lift more or run faster, but instead improving and enjoying. Not using AI for coding has the same outcome for me.
by lawrencechen | 2026-02-19 22:42:17+00:00
> If two agents are working on the same local dev server, do they share the browser context or get isolated profiles

Currently they share browser context. Adding isolated profiles is a good idea. Do you often use multiple agents in a single project and have them both work on different pages? I personally use multiple checkouts, and the problem for me is that agents working in the same project want to spin up the same dev server. And the dev servers will conflict unless I make different instances of the same project listen in their own port ranges (perhaps via a PORT env var).

We want to solve the latter by bringing better SSH support where the WebView will proxy directly to a remote machine or Docker container, so different workspaces in the vertical tabs can talk to their corresponding dev servers. But I want to hear more about your use case.
by klangdon | 2026-02-19 22:42:29+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. Great that you are teaching your child to code. For education purposes, I think our first step will be exposing the code that the AI is generating and then next allowing editing it.

It is true we need to be more clear on the game credits.

Currently you can create 20 games with cost of the ball. Then it is $5USD to create 10 games and $6USD per month for unlimited games.

You can remix/improve any of those games for free. The cost of this component is a little unknown to us.

We really are only looking to only cover our AI token costs on game creation. This will likely change if we add text only ability to create games. Right now the realtime/voice part of it is like 80% of our cost.
by w10-1 | 2026-02-19 22:42:46+00:00
This is a summary of Reddit discussions and maker hacks, not of the actual market for ergonomic keyboards. Because the goal of those discussions and hacks is to be distinctive, the summary picture is fascinating but over-complicated.

Kinesis Advantage keyboards have been popular for decades and proven ergonomic benefit - mainly because the cup avoids wrist movement and the high-traffic keys are moved to the stronger thumb. Some users prefer the newer split Professional to avoid constraining arm position. These keyboards stopped my RSI cycle decades ago, and improved my speed by roughly half. (Also a US company, with fantastic support.)
by cogman10 | 2026-02-19 22:43:37+00:00
They changed, significantly.

We lost the pneumatic tube [1] maintenance crew. Secretarial work nearly went away. A huge number of bookkeepers in the banking industry lost their jobs. The job a typist was eliminated/merged into everyone else's job. The job of a "computer" (someone that does computations) was eliminated.

What we ended up with was primarily a bunch of customer service, marketing, and sales workers.

There was never a "office worker" job. But there were a lot of jobs under the umbrella of "office work" that were fundamentally changed and, crucially, your experience in those fields didn't necessarily translate over to the new jobs created.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qman4N3Waw4
by IshKebab | 2026-02-19 22:43:43+00:00
> There are two options, and folks tribally cling to one or the other without realizing that both are legitimate and well-suited for different situations.

No I disagree entirely. One is simply better.

> It's a hard thing to learn that way, so for the folks that have done so, it often becomes a point of pride and a shibboleth.

It is not hard. It's not better because it's hard-won knowledge. It's better because it leads to simpler, more elegant code. Simple as.
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-19 22:43:48+00:00
This paper is an incredible read: TESCREAL hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines

https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/7/S1/article-p22.x...

> "Researchers have called attention to the ways that the hype promoting psychedelics as miracle cures
replicates preceding claims about the efficacy of SSRIs and other antidepressants in prior decades.
As the drug historian David Herzberg articulated in conversation with UC Berkeley's The Microdose:

There’s been an enormous amount of money invested in psychedelics as people hope that they
can be the real Prozac in the same way that Prozac hoped it would be the real Valium and
Valium would be the real barbiturates, which would be the real morphine.
There’s a long history of hoping that maybe this time, it’s not so complicated;
maybe there is a simple switch to change people without having to change any [other] aspect of their [lives].

While others have noted similarities between the earlier SSRI hype and the ongoing hype for psychedelic medications,
the rhetoric of psychedelic hype is tinged with utopian and magico-religious aspirations that have no parallel
in the discourse surrounding SSRIs or other antidepressants. I argue that this utopian discourse provides insight
into the ways that global financial and tech elites are instrumentalizing psychedelics as one tool
in a broader world-building project that justifies increasing material inequality.
This elite project reveals how medicalized psychedelics can potentially undermine the very prosocial and
pro-environmental outcomes that the field's funders insist psychedelics will promote.
To understand the envisioned role of psychedelics within this elite project, this paper analyzes a different
parallel hype, revealing correspondences between the psychedelic industry hype and the concurrent
hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), including the Large Language Models (LLMs) that power ChatGPT.
The presence of these parallels is understandable when one considers their underlying affinities,
like two blooms from one plant: the same Silicon Valley and venture capital forces are investing
enormous amounts of capital to develop both as cultivars in their own image,
selecting for desired traits that further the existing socioeconomic order.
by warrenwhipple | 2026-02-19 22:43:59+00:00
On a possible concrete mitigation strategy. I wrote up a pattern that seems to be working for me as I push through a brownfield migration. It's a little mental model file. Always human edit. Agent checks for falseness only. I started calling it `HITL.md`
https://warrenwhipple.com/hitl
https://github.com/warrenwhipple/hitl
Curious if you've seen anything like it. Or whether you think it can scale to teams/PR workflows.
by bastawhiz | 2026-02-19 22:44:02+00:00
I think it's equally likely that the property management company here has an incorrectly configured S3 bucket (or something like it) that has unintentionally exposed a bunch of leases. It makes more sense to me that a directory of hundreds or thousands of nearly-identical leases would be exposed online and scraped than the possibility that someone uploaded enough lease documents to Claude for them to all be included in training data. I'd be really surprised, actually, if any major AI company was taking uploaded documents and using them for training, since they're very, very likely to contain extremely sensitive data.
by muzani | 2026-02-19 22:44:15+00:00
Healthy food as a service, but you have to cook it.

One for last mile. Maybe something like Blue Apron, but healthier. The stuff you can make without butter. Cleaned fish, ready to cook. Cut costs by cutting down on the expensive packaging, target market four servings and above.

Another startup for the distribution layer here, from the farms. This is basically your AWS. The farm to restaurant flow already exists, it just needs to be retrofitted.

The reason is it's a lot of work to create recipes that work every day, take photos, build up some fancy chef profile. Heck just prepping food saves enough work to charge 30% more.

There's probably room for a Heroku style layer as well. The user facing one takes orders, this layer handles distribution.

The margins today are already inefficient. These companies should be able to grow quickly.
by SetTheorist | 2026-02-19 22:44:18+00:00
77,302,580 people voted for Trump in 2024. That is not "half the country".

Nor does he or ever did have the support of "(over) half the country". His maximum approval level in 2025 was at the beginning of his term at 47% "approve" and is currently around 36%, according to the Gallup poll.
by AuthAuth | 2026-02-19 22:44:23+00:00
But how many people would really go to another site just to save 0.002? I can already go to the internet archive to read paywalled content. If needed and that option will still be available for the people that dont want to pay the 0.002.

Its a social problem and all it takes is one player breaking through. People have done this with far far worse things that people thought were unviable socially. Microbetting, microloans, gaming microtransactions, hardware subscriptions,
by dylan604 | 2026-02-19 22:44:26+00:00
"I believe with the advent of acid we discovered a new way to think, and it had to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. …

Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that—that is—scares people so deeply? Even the guy that invented it. What is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in, we might learn somethin' that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control"

--Ken Kasey
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-19 22:45:12+00:00
It's all so astroturfed so its hard to tell. I got the opposite impression though. Seemed like OpenAI had more fake positivity towards the top that i tried to skim, and this had way less and a lot of complaints.

Im biased I dont trust either of them, so perhaps im just hard looking for the hate and attributing all the positive stuff to advertising.
by xiphias2 | 2026-02-19 22:45:36+00:00
USA is still one of the top countries for scientists. Just as an example Europe had a few years of exporting the best GLP-1 drugs (finally something in which Europe was leader in science), Eli Lily quickly took it over.

In software San Francisco is still the top for AI research: even when Peter Steinberger didn't know what he will do with OpenClaw, it was clear to him that the only place to move to was USA.

Terrence Tao was a good example of what happens when an exceptionally smart person stops getting funded by an American University: not moving to another country, but got VC money and created a new company.

USA politics is looked at so closely, because it matters and changes and still more democratic than most countries in the world even though democracy is a mess (as it's supposed to be).
by Aurornis | 2026-02-19 22:45:50+00:00
> 6 plants are allowed to make it. Everyone else thought the licensing fee was too high

What licensing fee? It's an old, generic medicine. Anyone who wanted to set up an Ibuprofen manufacturing plant could do so relatively easily.

The reason more plants aren't coming online is that Ibuprofen is a couple pennies per pill at retail prices. There isn't money in making more ibuprofen.
by pjerem | 2026-02-19 22:46:19+00:00
> Go is a bit unique a it has a really substantial stdlib

It’s not that unique though. I can say that Python and hell, even PHP have pretty complete but also well documented stdlib.

Java is meh tier but C# is also pretty good in this aspect.

It’s totally a choice for Rust not to have a real stdlib and actually I feel like that would maybe make Rust maybe the best language overall.
by NicuCalcea | 2026-02-19 22:46:24+00:00
Who determines severity? What about investigations that take months or years to produce, who counts how many more tokens they should cost compared with a news story about Trump's latest tweet? Do you get a popup asking if you want to pay x tokens for each link?

Journalism micropayments have been tried many times before, and never worked. Things haven't substantially changed in the meantime, so what would be different this time? I'm genuinely curious, I'm a journalist, so I'd really love to find a working funding model for quality media.
by Garlef | 2026-02-19 22:46:37+00:00
Hmm... I don't know how serious this wants to be taken

- first example argues that syntax is interchangeable

- but then the author tries to sell me his semis

???

And who even cares in the time of LLMs and auto formatting?

"My hammer has this slight angle and if I hit the nail with just the right motion, it feels really good"
by Swenrekcah | 2026-02-19 22:46:40+00:00
It seemed like it was the past, but it might become so again.
Europe will never trust the US for defence again, which means it has to build up all defence capabilities internally.
This will take many many years, but it seems almost inevitable now that it will happen.

When enough time has passed with Europe self sufficient in defence, there might arise cases where US and Europe has a conflict of interest that results in an armed conflict. Perhaps at first via proxy states depending on the type of conflict.
by jgon | 2026-02-19 22:47:03+00:00
Based on your replies here, one thing it really doesn't seem like is a community of people trying to earnestly exchange ideas or points of view. It really seems like you're viewing this whole thing as some sort of debate contest or point sparring, and its both aggravating and disappointing to read.

What is your hoped for outcome here man? To come off like enough of a jerk or obtuse enough that people just abandon the thread and you can declare victory?
by andrewaylett | 2026-02-19 22:47:05+00:00
With the system as it existed in 2000, it was very much "free money". That was before the introduction of fees, which are still not applicable for Scottish students studying in Scotland, and in combination with the interest rate increase would very definitely tip the balance for me.

I have a decent career that means I've paid off my loan. I can easily imagine that many folk with fees and modern loans won't ever even cover the interest payments.