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Ask HN: How can I avoid the "It's not just X, it's Y" writing

Wed, 02/25/2026 - 10:49am

Every single blog post now. Half of news articles. All tweets over 140 characters. This sentence structure is everywhere and it's driving me absolutely bananas. It's so obvious to me when something is written by ChatGPT and I find it shocking that people are putting this work out there and thinking it's okay.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153145

Points: 2

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Vulnerability as a Service

Wed, 02/25/2026 - 10:45am
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Show HN: I got tired of writing Pandas scripts just to JOIN two CSV files

Wed, 02/25/2026 - 10:44am

Every few weeks I get 2-3 CSV files and need to run a quick JOIN or aggregation. The options are always the same: fire up pandas, import into SQLite by hand, or use some janky web tool.

So I built a plugin for Tabularis (my native DB GUI) that treats a folder of CSV files as a database. Drop your files in, every file becomes a table, column types are inferred automatically, and you get a full SQL editor.

No code. No imports. Just SQL.

Example: 3 CSV files (users, orders, products) → this query works immediately:

SELECT u.name, u.country, COUNT(o.id) AS orders, ROUND(SUM(p.price * o.quantity), 2) AS total_spent FROM orders o JOIN users u ON o.user_id = u.id JOIN products p ON o.product_id = p.id GROUP BY u.id ORDER BY total_spent DESC The plugin is ~170 lines of stdlib Python (zero dependencies). It works because Tabularis has an open plugin protocol — JSON-RPC over stdin/stdout — so any data source can be a database.

Plugin: https://github.com/debba/tabularis-csv-plugin Tabularis: https://github.com/debba/tabularis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153091

Points: 1

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Notes on Reinforcement Learning

Wed, 02/25/2026 - 10:43am

Article URL: https://mattlanders.net/about.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153072

Points: 1

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The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (Rags)

Wed, 02/25/2026 - 10:43am

Article URL: https://406.fail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153065

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

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Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?

Wed, 02/25/2026 - 9:55am

I understand there's a difference between the stated values and actual values of individuals and organizations, and so I want to ask this in the most pragmatic and consequentialist way.

I know that labs, institutions, and so on have safety teams. I know the folks doing that work are serious and earnest about that work. But at this point are these institutions merely pandering to the notion of safety with some token level of investment? In the way that a Casino might fund programs to address gambling addiction.

I'm an outsider and can only guess. Insider insight would be very appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152355

Points: 1

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