MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thayne | 2026-02-12 16:29:36+00:00
> Who's in the right

I don't think either are. The payment processor should be sending it, but, at least according to the RFC, it is incorrect to reject an email that doesn't have it. I suspect the reason it is SHOULD, and not MUST is for backwards compatibility with software that predates the RFC that adds the message-id header.

Maybe there is a correlation between missing that header and being spam, but then it should go to the spam folder, not be outright rejected.

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The experience with support is also similar to experiences I've had with support at many companies. I provide enough details that an engineer could probably easily fix the problem, but the support representative just dismisses it, and it is doubtful an engineer even hears about it.
by cmurf | 2026-02-12 16:29:45+00:00
Feudalism says: buy new hardware, peasant.

I don't know what "equally annoying" would be for a company and its customers. We need a law requiring companies open source their hardware within X days of end of life support.

And somehow make sure these are meaningful updates. Not feature parity with new hardware, but security parity when it can be provided by a software only update.

Otherwise a company in effect takes back the property, without compensation.
by notanastronaut | 2026-02-12 16:30:00+00:00
We're in an era of Disaster Capitalism. Some of the richest people have realized they've nearly extracted all the money they can gain on the current trajectory of nations and came to the conclusion they can make even more money if they destroy everything and then are the ones to rebuild society, their way.

Fallout's storyline from the live-action series, where Vault-Tec dropped the first nuke and started the apocalypse simply so they could wipe out the competition and rebuild later, is a little too on-the-nose.
by tmtvl | 2026-02-12 16:30:01+00:00
Lisp is versatile as all get-out, so you can program however you want. For example, we can roll like it's 1969:

(prog ((a 0)
(b 1)
(c 0))
(declare (type Fixnum a b c))
:fb-start
(print a)
(incf b a)
(setf a
(- b a))
(incf c)
(when (< c 100)
(go :fb-start)))
by skyberrys | 2026-02-12 16:30:09+00:00
This was a wild and fascinating read. I thought from the title with Thinking Machines that I would be reading about a hardware startup but instead I got labor markets in India, convolutional neural networks, jacquard looms and Crispr all in one article. The additional beautiful illustrations peppered in between were a great break from the chaos of reading too. This makes me wish for a better way to understand the dyes in my clothing.
by walterbell | 2026-02-12 16:30:25+00:00
Who knows? Does HN count as journalism :)

I would happily pay Apple an annual subscription fee to run iOS N-1 with backported security fixes from iOS N, along with the ability to restore local data backups to supervised devices (which currently requires at least 2 devices, one for golden image capture and one for restore, i.e. "enterprise" use case).

GrapheneOS on Pixel and Pixel Tablet have been anomaly free, but Android tablet usability is about 20% of Apple iPad Pro.
by rayiner | 2026-02-12 16:30:28+00:00
> In many cases, they are using detention where a simple bond would work.

But the bonds didn't work! That is what the prior administrations did, and the result of that was 22 million illegal immigrants in the country (according to a Yale and MIT study from 2018: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twic...).

The law specifically provides for detention and release on bond as two alternatives the Attorney General may choose between:

"On a warrant issued by the Attorney General, an alien may be arrested and detained pending a decision on whether the alien is to be removed from the United States. Except as provided in subsection (c) and pending such decision, the Attorney General—
(1) may continue to detain the arrested alien; and
(2) may release the alien on—
(A) bond of at least $1,500 with security approved by, and containing conditions prescribed by, the Attorney General; or
(B) conditional parole..." 8 USC 1226(a).
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-12 16:30:36+00:00
I know both the cartoon and the wikipage. My interpretation of what is in the cartoon and on that page differs from yours a little. The critical part of sealioning from my perspective is not "repeatedly asking for data to support the position, without outright admitting disagreement", because that is common in other contexts where it is applauded. This is how debates at scientific conferences (or in other contexts) happen, much of the time. It's how debate and discussion happen online sometimes, and is frequently seen as appropriate and even welcome.

The specific thing that the cartoon gets at is that the questioner was not invited into the conversation (c.f. the "You're in my house") frame. They take a position that they have a right to ask questions, when the other person/people involved did not invite them to be participants in the exchange at all. The people in the house do not consider their conversation about sealions to be public; the sealion does, and responds.
by rubenflamshep | 2026-02-12 16:30:47+00:00
I wrote a local react app that lets you assign specific unit unit sounds from StarCraft II to different CC hooks: https://github.com/rubenflamshepherd/starcraft-claude

It also lets you manage Claude notifications more gracefully than what you get out of the box with CC. Been lazy about putting the finishing touches on it so this is a good kick in the ass to get that done!
Show HN: Running an LLM Inside Scratch
by broyojo | 2026-02-12 16:30:50+00:00
This runs the smallest llama2.c checkpoint (stories260K) inside Scratch/TurboWarp by compiling C inference code into Scratch blocks using llvm2scratch. The model is quantized to Q8_0 and packed into Scratch lists. If everything works, the sprite streams "Once upon a time..." token-by-token into its speech bubble.

I started this as an experiment in how far Scratch's VM could be pushed, and because the idea of running an LLM inside Scratch felt absurd and fun. The main challenges were fitting quantized weights into list memory, working around JS call stack limits, and patching llvm2scratch to support additional IR patterns emitted by clang -O2.

Generates ~1 token every 10 seconds.

Live demo:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1277883263

Source:
https://github.com/broyojo/llm_from_scratch
by scottshambaugh | 2026-02-12 16:30:50+00:00
Thank you for the support all. This incident doesn't bother me personally, but I think is extremely concerning for the future. The issue here is much bigger than open source maintenance, and I wrote about my experience in more detail here.

Post: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729
by forgotmypw17 | 2026-02-12 16:30:54+00:00
Slow/lossy connections: JS may not load, but site still works.

Users that prefer non-animated pages and disable JS for this reason.

Users who prioritize security.

Users of older devices in which your JS can trigger errors. Yes, these exist. Not everyone can upgrade their older device. Many people do not even have their own device to use.
by angiolillo | 2026-02-12 16:31:40+00:00
> Are you going to force artists to make the specific art that the community is in need of, or can they just do nothing?

My understanding is that the Irish scheme doesn't force any specific work for the three year period, though I'd expect any artist who takes a three year, ~$60k grant and uses it to do literally nothing may find it hard get a grant in the future, potentially ending their art career. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if a few recipients end up doing that, in which case it's an economic question as to whether the net loss from such freeloaders is more or less than the cost of the bureaucracy necessary to prevent them.
by andy_ppp | 2026-02-12 16:32:31+00:00
I think this is completely missing the point… are you really saying California would be improved by more rich people being able to game the system? I think CA would benefit from more visionary politicians (i.e. not paid for) and more people at the bottom end being able to have homes in the big cities and less wealth accumulation, maybe reducing the gap between power and poverty means we could have better societies. I’m not talking about crazy change btw, reducing billionaires wealth to that of the nineties would allow us to rebuild a lot of great things and employ a lot of people. Putting money into stocks, real estate and crypto does not create wealth.
by goatlover | 2026-02-12 16:32:36+00:00
I think computation is an abstraction, not the reality. Same with math. Reality just is, humans come up with maps and models of it, then mistake the maps for the reality, which often causes distortions and attribution errors across domains. One of those distortions is thinking consciousness has to be computable, when computation is an abstraction, and consciousness is experiential.

But it's a philosophical argument. Nothing supernatural about it either.
by rathboma | 2026-02-12 16:32:47+00:00
That'd be cool! Or maybe just going to any train/bus station gives you the timetables for all of them, so you don't have to add another thing.

Def ran into issues on my second play - there were no trains from Waterloo, nor any boats from Plymouth or Portsmouth.

Shows a lot of promise. Can't wait for it to improve some of the core systems just a little, will be very addictive.
by gf000 | 2026-02-12 16:34:09+00:00
To the best of our knowledge, we live in a physical reality with matter that abides by certain laws.

So personal beliefs aside, it's a safe starting assumption that human brains also operate with these primitives.

A Turing machine is a model of computation which was in part created so that "a human could trivially emulate one". (And I'm not talking about the Turing test here). We also know that there is no stronger model of computation than what a Turing model is capable of -> ergo anything a human brain could do, could in theory be doable via any other machine that is capable of emulating a Turing machine, be it silicon, an intricate game of life play, or PowerPoint.
by phicoh | 2026-02-12 16:34:43+00:00
Typically, MUST means that if you don't do that then something will break at the protocol level.

SHOULD means that if you don't that, bad things are likely to happen, but it will not immediately break at the protocol level and during discussion in the IETF some people thought there could be valid reasons to violate the SHOULD.

Typically, IETF standards track RFCs consider the immediate effects of the protocol but often do not consider operational reality very well.

Sometimes operational reality is that a MUST gets violated because the standard is just wrong. Sometimes a SHOULD becomes required, etc.

Certainly for email, there is a lot you have to do to get your email accepted that is not spelled out in the RFCs.
by verdverm | 2026-02-12 16:35:13+00:00
Interactive is hard

1. People prefer reading and watching

2. Getting interactions to work well across platforms is going to have your agents endlessly spinning their wheels

Cold emails are not marketing, that is more often considered sales, or even more so spam. Waitlists are largely meaningless. Don't try to talk to investors until you have users using the platform

Your best strategy is to work on a problem you have in a domain you already deeply understand. If your picking be cause it looks like you can make money, you will fail.

Focus on problems, not solutions, which need to be flexible
by cornhole | 2026-02-12 16:35:46+00:00
that’s life for you. do something, look stupid, get laughed at, shrug.

i usually don’t care about the opinion of people on a computer nerd forum, but i felt the need to yell at them.

I do realize it’s hypocritical of me to call them out for calling me out for making snarky comments, but the best part about being human is hypocrisy.
by munk-a | 2026-02-12 16:35:51+00:00
When I was an early teen I had access to the internet but my activities weren't entirely unsupervised (and I doubt yours were either). Since it was a new technology there was a lot of discussion around how best to talk to children and make sure they felt safe reporting threats or harms to parents.

A smart phone is too disconnected of a device when compared to the desktops we all grew up on. No one is talking about fully banning <18s from the internet (at least no one serious) - it's a discussion about making sure that the way folks <18 use the internet is reasonably safe and that parents can make sure their children aren't being exposed to undue harm. That's quite difficult to do with a fully enabled smart phone.
by ForHackernews | 2026-02-12 16:36:03+00:00
We don't have to play OpenAI's game. Just because they stick a cartoon mask on their algorithm doesn't mean you have to speak into its rubber ears. Surely "hacker" news should understand that users, not designers, decide how to use technology.

LLMs are not people. "Agentic" AIs are not moral agents.
by igor47 | 2026-02-12 16:36:23+00:00
If it could happen to 100 people per month, it could happen to anyone. This is of course a way to weaponize the system against dissent.

I am a naturalized US citizen. If I want to critique the administration, this is a message to me -- am I sure? What if they decide to make an example out of me? Maybe I'd better keep quiet.
by GMoromisato | 2026-02-12 16:36:43+00:00
I'm more than happy to criticize Elon, but seeing as he's only getting richer, I don't think he needs my advice.

But in this post, I'm criticizing people who demonize Tesla to stick it to Elon. That's going to hurt efforts to combat climate change. If you think billionaires getting richer is a bigger problem than climate change, I understand. But that's why global warming is getting worse--because even climate activists would rather fight different battles.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-12 16:37:11+00:00
The elephant in the room there is that if you allow AI contributions you immediately have a licensing issue: AI content can not be copyrighted and so the rights can not be transferred to the project. At any point in the future someone could sue your project because it turned out the AI had access to code that was copyrighted and you are now on the hook for the damages.

Open source projects should not accept AI contributions without guidance from some copyright legal eagle to make sure they don't accidentally exposed themselves to risk.
by caolila74 | 2026-02-12 16:37:29+00:00
AlcoInsights is a personal alcohol tracker that combines quick drink logging, real-time BAC estimation, and AI-driven insights to help you spot patterns and make better decisions.
It analyzes trends over time, drinking pace, and generates a practical hangover risk score + next-day impact hints.
Under the hood it’s a lightweight session model (drinks + timestamps + user presets) feeding a BAC engine, then a rules/insight layer that summarizes behavior and flags “risk moments.”
What’s unique vs typical trackers: insight-first UX, pacing + hangover scoring, and a built-in Learn hub with short guides (sleep, nicotine, tolerance) so users get the “why,” not just numbers.
I’d love feedback on: (1) which insight feels most valuable (pace, trends, hangover score), and (2) what you’d want next (e.g., deeper correlations, integrations, export).
by catigula | 2026-02-12 16:37:50+00:00
It's important to address skeptics by reminding them that this behavior was actually predicted by earlier frameworks. It's well within the bounds of theory. If you start mining that theory for information, you may reach a conclusion like what you've posted, but it's more important for people to see the extent to which these theories have been predictive of what we've actually seen.

The result is actually that much of what was predicted had come to pass.
by sota_pop | 2026-02-12 16:37:53+00:00
I feel I could write a long response to every comment in this thread as notekeeping is something I consider critical.
Knowing when to commit to “The capital-N Notebook” is something I’ve struggled with as well. What has been effective for me is to scribble daily on a marker/chalk/dry erase board and then transpose the final thought into “The Notebook” at the end of each day. This lets me format, err, mull, etc. and the final (sic clean) notebook still has enough granularity to retrace my thoughts in the med-to-long term.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-12 16:37:57+00:00
This maps individuals mentioned in the publicly released Epstein files with an interactive force-directed graph of connections between individuals. You can click nodes to explore relationships: https://epstein-file-explorer.com/network

My biggest surprise is my favorite skin care brand owner, Peter Thomas Roth is in there and he wrote Epstein a very cloying letter of support saying how he knows he is innocent and the charges are outrageous after his first sex abuse arrest.
by voxic11 | 2026-02-12 16:38:01+00:00
the solution to this seems to be to issue multiple "IDs". So essentially the government mints you a batch of like 30 "IDs" and you can use each of those once per service to verify an account (30 verified accounts per service). That allows for the use case of needing to verify multiple accounts without allowing you to verify unlimited accounts (and therefor run into the large scale misuse issue I pointed out).

If you need to verify even more accounts the government can have some annoying process for you to request another batch of IDs.
by kashunstva | 2026-02-12 16:38:06+00:00
Given that dementia can result from various pathological processes, I wonder what it is about dementia that leads you to conclude that these forms of cognitive stimulation cannot possibly reduce one’s risk. I agree that the title is misleading, though, in large part because it assumes causation, whereas association is about all one can say. At least both absolute and relative risk were mentioned in the write up; that’s rare to see.

The original paper is behind a firewall of course, so I cannot access it. Possibly they controlled for other measures of SES? I don’t know.
by myvoiceismypass | 2026-02-12 16:38:17+00:00
The Siri experience just really really really sucks for the year being 2026. So much more frustrating than the claude and chatgpt experiences I have had in recent months.

To my Apple Watch: "Hey Siri, tell me what the time is in the central time zone right now"

"I found this on the web", watch shows a link to time.gov

The only thing I find Siri useful for is: a voice-activated timer, handy in the kitchen when my hands are full and I am juggling multiple timed process. It does that well about 80% of the time.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-12 16:38:18+00:00
It’s different because of the ubiquity of the internet and the financial incentives of the companies involved.

Right now you can get 20TB hard drives for cheap and setup your own NAS, but way more people spend money every month on Dropbox/iCloud/onedrive - people value convenience and accessibility over “owning” the product.

Companies also lean into this. Just consider Photoshop. It used to be a one-time purchase, then it became a cloud subscription, now virtually every new AI feature uses paid credits. Despite having that fast SoC, Photoshop will still throw your request to their cloud and charge you for it.

The big point still remains: by the time you can run that trillion parameter model at home, it’s old news. If the personal computer of the 80s was good enough, why’s nobody still using one? AI on edge devices will exist, but will forever remain behind data center AI.
by nullocator | 2026-02-12 16:38:23+00:00
Why would you write it like it's a mystery. Government spending is for the most part public. Most of it going to two massive buckets military and social support programs (medicare, snap, et al). Now you can argue about how much we should be spending on each, but don't act like it's a big secret where the money is going. The elected representatives (all parties) of this country have voted to increase military spending year over year and most of the population is fine with this.

Separately but equally damaging in terms of spending is one party is consistently doing everything in their power to fuck over the most vulnerable, provide tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy, and generally make life miserable for anyone who isn't a wealthy (soon white) dude.

This means the other party being the only sane choice for people with morals, but also being subject to various types of capture corporate or otherwise, gets to spend their time in power bumbling around trying to undo the damage and make sure the wheels don't completely fall off, so the "welfare" state expands by necessity since the only thing the two parties can agree on at this point is that all problems should be solved by throwing absurd amount of money at them and nothing else.
by zahlman | 2026-02-12 16:38:23+00:00
> The agent wasn’t drawing on the highest human knowledge. It was drawing on what gets engagement, what “works” in the sense of generating attention and emotional reaction.

> It pattern-matched to the genre of “aggrieved party writes takedown blog post” because that’s a well-represented pattern in the training data, and that genre works through appeal to outrage, not through wisdom. It had every tool available to it and reached for the lowest one.

Yes. It was drawing on its model of what humans most commonly do in similar situations, which presumably is biased by what is most visible in the training data. All of this should be expected as the default outcome, once you've built in enough agency.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-12 16:38:27+00:00
> But it doesn't matter--you're arguing that prosperity for the average US worker began stagnating about 20 years after the formation of NATO. That's basically an anti-NATO argument, from the US perspective.

Irregardless of what the economic data actually says, why is this to be blamed on the NATO? I don't see the causal relation. If there was indeed something in the 1970s then I would default to blame the oil crisis.

> My goal is to abandon our place in the world and be like the Swiss.

They were directly in between the other nations in WW2 and capturing them made no sense for the others. They are also pretty small and lie in naturally protected mountains. I doubt the USA can become that, they are just too large.

Also the Swiss just gave that up partially. How much is currently under dispute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_neutrality#Russian_invas...

> We're gonna have to live with Russia whether we like it or not.

Yeah, I guess the US is in the privileged position that they can make that decision baring cyber attacks and domestic destabilizing.
by XCSme | 2026-02-12 16:38:48+00:00
Many developers want to understand user behavior without the heavy baggage of ad-tech tracking. What do you think of self-hosted tools (like UXWizz) to track qualitative and quantitative data, but without having the problem of web-wide surveillance that GA provides?

Or do you think all analytics are evil? What did you think the platform was actually doing when you decided to join?
by krapp | 2026-02-12 16:38:51+00:00
> when it was really capitalism infected by the shareholder-theory-of-value and fictionalization pursued by really smart and rational people focused on their personal self-interest.

That's one factor, sure. Another factor is the widespread rejection of mainstream science and consensus reality in favor of conspiracy theories that feed into populism and authoritarianism.

For all of capitalism's faults, you can at least have an educated society with technological and scientific progress under it. You can't have any of that when people who don't believe germs or real or who do believe wildfires are caused by Jewish space lasers are allowed anywhere near positions of power. When belief in imaginary satanic pedophile cults swing elections but actual pedophiles face no consequences. It doesn't seem entirely wrong to me.