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Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•3m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•5m ago•1 comments

I replaced the front page with AI slop and honestly it's an improvement

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•9m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•11m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
2•oxxoxoxooo•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•21m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•26m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•28m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•30m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•33m ago•4 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•34m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•36m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•37m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•39m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•42m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•47m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•49m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•52m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•1h ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Violent crime plummets 36% in downtown Seattle, lowest since 2017

https://mynorthwest.com/crime-blotter/seattle-downtown-crime/4146723
28•consumer451•3mo ago

Comments

lta•3mo ago
I've a hard time understanding how this ended up on HN frontage. Maybe someone could enlighten me ?
rootusrootus•3mo ago
Not a lot of traffic, someone submitted and enough people browsing /newest upvoted it, so it will briefly be on the front page.
daave•3mo ago
HackerNews - aka local news for residents of the Bay Area, Seattle & NYC

I wonder what percentage of the world’s software engineers live in these 3 cities?

consumer451•3mo ago
Accurate, but as OP, I didn't post this as "local news."

I posted this because it is objective evidence against the arguments made by the current US federal government for sending troops into Seattle ~"to quell the violence."

I believe that this threat is unprecedented since the mid 1800's, has impacts on the tech sector, how other countries behave going forward, and world history in general.

If I am off-base here, I would genuinely like to hear the counter arguments.

prewett•3mo ago
The article pointedly does not go into why the decrease happened, or what the trend has been. It would be consistent with the facts in the article if the City of Seattle saw Trump's actions with other cities and said, "we don't want that, maybe we should re-fund the police." Or perhaps Seattle never actually de-funded them in the first place, and has just focused efforts on reducing violent crime, because they were wanting to do that anyway and/or because they wanted to avoid giving Trump any excuse to send troops to Seattle. I am appalled at Trump, but this article does not necessarily prove him wrong.
consumer451•3mo ago
> maybe we should re-fund the police.

When I first heard "de-fund the police" as a slogan, I figured that phrase must have been run by Frank Luntz, just to make sure it made progressives (this includes myself, to some extent) sound as dumb as possible. I mean, he could not have focus-grouped a better phrase. It's hilarious, if you think that dark humor is funny.

All that aside, the reality is:

> In one version of the story, yes-ish. Parking enforcement and 911 call center response were moved out of the police department. Restructuring the 911 system has become an important step in many cities' efforts to reduce armed police response to civilians. Dispatchers are the gatekeepers of the criminal justice system: They are tasked with identifying true public safety emergencies and deciding what resources—armed or unarmed—should respond. (Parking enforcement was later moved back into the police department.)

> But in another version of the story, no. While the police department lost a little over 10% of its budget between 2020 and 2021 (mostly because 911 dispatch and parking enforcement were moved), it has been closing that gap since.

> Tellingly, not a single sworn officer has lost their job or pay due to budget constraints. In fact, the department has consistently received more funding for hiring than it can spend. And yet, the myth that the police department was defunded persists, partly because budgets are convoluted and boring, and because it's an easy answer for the police departments' woes.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/did-seattle-defund-the-police

It's crazy how hard, under Biden, that NPR station had to dance around the simple objective fact that: No. Seattle did not "de-fund the police." Actually, SPD got more money than they could spend.

consumer451•3mo ago
I posted this. Why? Because I was sitting on the shores of Lake Washington three weeks ago at my parents' house. We were talking about the fact that I was flying back to Poland, and how worried they were about the Russian army.

I thought about it for a moment, while looking out the window of their house. I said:

"The chances of me looking out the window in Poland in the next year, and seeing the military, are lower than they are sitting here, in Seattle."

I stand by that assessment. It still blows my mind given the reality of the USA, and the objectively successful and peaceful city of Seattle.

The fact that this made it to the front page suggests that I’m not alone in believing this kind of thought is not entirely disconnected from reality.

Given the real threat of the US military being deployed to Seattle for 100% political reasons, if it doesn't stay on the front page... well.. what does that say?

___

edit: I will continue to assume that you all mean well, but we all suffer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

Please take this into consideration when you come across seemingly insane topics like this one.

righthand•3mo ago
This is an attempt to get ahead of Republicans deploying National Guard on Seattle? Or is that a city they like?

Republicans don’t use statistics or numbers. If the vibe is off they’ll get violent.

lazyasciiart•3mo ago
Of course crime is down, the city burned to ashes in 2020.
righthand•3mo ago
I was there in 2020 and after 2020 and it was perfectly fine city almost no traffic because it was recovering from the pandemic. Walked the city and didn’t run into any crime or homeless. The downtown area was vibrant with life.
consumer451•3mo ago
I read the parent as sarcasm.
lazyasciiart•3mo ago
yes, I have lived here the whole time. I forgot that there might still be someone who says it seriously.
consumer451•3mo ago
I just came back after a few years.

It would be super cool if I didn't have to potentially see the federal government beating up everyone in the 1AM cap hill Dicks line, and my other fave places.

Is this too much to ask?

What is happening? Why is this something I have to think about?

queenkjuul•3mo ago
That's why it's below 2019 levels?
ls612•3mo ago
Does the Seattle police department report uniform crime statistics to the FBI?
WarOnPrivacy•3mo ago
per Kagi Quick Answer

    Yes, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) reports Uniform Crime Statistics
    to the FBI. 3 2

    These reports are the standard crimes reported to the FBI and are useful
    for tracking historical data and comparing crime stats between cities 3 1

    1.https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/public-disclosure-requests/public-information-online

    2.https://www.seattle.gov/documents/departments/cityauditor/auditreports/gun%20violence%20audit/gmuinvestigationsreportfinal.pdf

    3.https://www.seattle.gov/police/information-and-data/data/public-data-sets
Chance-Device•3mo ago
Eh… that’s abrupt. What changed so suddenly? Or are the numbers faked?
WarOnPrivacy•3mo ago
article's source @ https://downtownseattle.org/programs-services/research/econo...

    Violent crime incidents in Seattle police’s M sectors
    (the downtown core) declined 36% between June–August 2025
    compared to the same period in 2024. 
    This was the lowest number of incidents for the summer
    period since 2017.
queenkjuul•3mo ago
Violent crime was down in practically every major city this summer. It's not really sudden--it's been trending down the last 2 years
blargthorwars•3mo ago
Reports of violent crime are 36% down from the recent COVID-19 era peak, but are still above 2018 rates.