MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-17 23:25:15+00:00
It does not seem all that problematic for the most obviously valuable use case: You use an (web) app, that you consider reasonably safe, but that offers no API, and you want to do things with it. The whole adversarial action problem just dissipates, because there is no adversary anywhere in the path.

No random web browsing. Just opening the same app, every day. Login. Read from a calendar or a list. Click a button somewhere when x == true. Super boring stuff. This is an entire class of work that a lot of humans do in a lot of companies today, and there it could be really useful.
by epistasis | 2026-02-17 23:25:32+00:00
> creates some issues with efficiently allocating land resources, especially bad with the fact that it can wipe out land speculators which perform an important role in doing time-allocation of land

Interesting, I have always thought the opposite. My undertsanding/reasoning: It's extremely difficult to find land for good purposes because speculators maintain land banks, preventing better uses of it. The speculator causes a ton of market friction, and the tendency for people to hold onto land because of limited supply are a fundamental hindrance to so much economic activity.

If there's a high carrying cost to land, a lot more of it will be on the market and available for people to use when they need it. Especially as land values rise, which is the most important time to reallocate land. Rising land values are exactly the time that the land speculator holds tightest, because they want to sell at the peak, not on the way up.
by MPSimmons | 2026-02-17 23:25:40+00:00
There's probably a term of art for it, but that Family Guy style cut to some previous reference hadn't really been done before, certainly not to the extent that Seth McFarlane did it. Simpsons copied it, but it never felt good when they did.

If you watch The Simpsons DVD commentary on the very first season DVDs, they talk about how Matt Groening's team would draw the key frames and then they would ship them to an asian animation studio to provide the animation frames. The very first time they did this, they got an animation style that was all over the place - not just the quality of drawing, but the actual animation style was jello-y and way more wobbly than they wanted. You can see it on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-wjF5AMmk

The main reason that they sent it back was that the style and physics represented in the cartoon wasn't the one they were going for, and it changed how the show felt. I feel like the rapid cut references they adopted from Family Guy did a very similar thing. It changed the flow of the show, which, maybe (?) is actually more of a sign of the times and attention span than animated show style, but still, I wasn't a fan and I didn't feel like The Simpsons did it naturally or that it fit, and it takes me out of the narrative every time they do it.
by Keyframe | 2026-02-17 23:25:45+00:00
what's the print like on amazon ones (.de)? I ordered two books once from lulu and woved never to do that again. Print was unreadable, and I'm not _that_ picky. They blamed it on the authors prep and offered a refund though. I was so mad, and still am that it turned me away from them completely though, unless someone tells me they worked at least some QA in their process.
by orwin | 2026-02-17 23:26:51+00:00
Yeah, it's the same for me, I'm in Europe but I have places to sleep in the US. I was supposed to go this summer with my family but the uncertainty on how we'll get treated at the border (last time wasn't great for those of us who struggled with English already, I can't imagine what would have happened under this admin).

It's sad because WV might have like 15 European tourist every year and we're 5-9 of them depending on the year, but we'll take a year off, that's OK.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-17 23:27:02+00:00
This is a short-sighted construction of cheating. These situations aren't simple 1-to-1 relationships between students and their university.

When someone lies about having a disability to get priority housing access, they're competing against students who have real disabilities.

When someone cheats on exams, they throw the curve off for students who aren't cheating.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-17 23:27:12+00:00
> how much of a given it was that they own a house on a single income. Homer has a stable job

It isn't - especially if you watch the original first season of the Simpsons [0] (Homer's Odyssey - the 3rd episode of the Simpsons written right as the 1990 recession was kicking off) as well as that Frank Grimes episode back in 1997 [1].

The older Simpsons episodes weren't that common on syndication from what I can remember growing up - at most you might see an episode from 1994 in the early 2000s.

Simpsons in it's original iteration during it's golden age (1989-1999) was essentially lampooning the 1960s-70s American dream being punctuated by the harsh realities of America at the time.

What I've noticed from the comments on HN (as well as the viciousness of the community when I point this out) is most HNers grew up middle and upper-middle class households in the 1980s-90s that in most cases weren't representative of the lives the median American would have lived then, and a lot of the rose tinted glasses appear to betray that upbringing.

For example, from 1989 to 1994, household incomes in the US dropped at the same rate as they did during the Great Recession and the COVID Pandemic [2], but because most HN users today weren't the head of a household during that period they view the 1990s as a golden age.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu1W8O-CKNw

[1] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNj2nlFttCM&t=71s&pp=2AFHkAIB

[2] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
by OJFord | 2026-02-17 23:27:20+00:00
> There is a running joke in the U.S. version of The Office where Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), who is “Assistant to the Regional Manager” keeps insisting that he is “Assistant Regional Manager”, which sounds a bit better. When he is officially promoted to the title he prefers, he is delighted

As with so many of them, the joke is more subtly, brilliantly, and originally from The Office; not The Office (US).
by xklondon | 2026-02-17 23:28:33+00:00
Informal obligations (“I’ll return the tool next week”, “I’ll send the money later”, “I owe you a favor”) often default without but is it bad intent or a systemic issue?

In our white paper we argue that the failure mode of informal peer-to-peer obligations is mostly structural:

no persistent shared record
ambiguous recall over time
reminders feel socially costly
settlement has logistical barriers

The hypothesis: default isn’t primarily moral — it’s structural fragility.

We built an early version of a system to test this in practice.

Core mechanics:

Bilateral acknowledgment (“virtual handshake”)
Both parties explicitly confirm the obligation.
Persistent shared state of terms
underwriting by personal integrity
Integrated settlement rails (for monetary obligations)

The system is intentionally positioned in the high-trust / low-enforceability space (as opposed to centralised and trustless networks).

It uses integrity for underwriting, not through institutional or trustless enforcement.

We’re interested in real-world feedback:

Do you think there is a use for such tool?
We are using a virtual agreement for Acceptance and Settlement in the process, is that comprehendible?

White paper:
https://iou-wallet.com/IOU%20Wallet%20-%20White%20Paper.pdf

It’s still early.
Would appreciate people trying it, any friend owing you a bit of money or hasn`t returned a tool?
by Traster | 2026-02-17 23:28:42+00:00
I don't know if it's different in the US, but in the UK "Took responsibilty" meant resigned (or used to). Like if something really bad happens and you're the one taking responsibily- you're the one falling on your sword. It doesn't actually have to be your fault even, something could happen that you thought was below your pay grade, but that's why you're paid - to take responsibility. The reporter taking responsibility is... whining about COVID? Ok and next week is he going to fabricate quotes because he was hungover? or tired? Why didn't he resign? Since he didn't resign, why wasn't he fired? It's almost like he was doing what he was meant to be doing, but wasn't meant to be caught.

I actually disagree with Shambaugh. I think Ars is already breaking the way our media is meant to work, they know the steps to go through and so they cynically go through them in the full knowledge they haven't actually put in place any mechanisms to stop it happening again. It's a theoretical risk that Ars' reputation suffers, but it's a financial risk this week if they get fewer page views by publishing fewer higher quality articles and Conde Nast isn't in the business of making smart long term decisions about digital media.
Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM
by elijahcham | 2026-02-17 23:29:15+00:00
I created a free, open-source browser game inspired by Factorio.

You place "Input" machines that produce streams of bytes. You use conveyor belts to feed those bytes through other machines which produce transformations, and then to "Output" machines which produce audio or visual effects.

The game uses v86 to run a real Linux VM in the browser. I use the 9p filesystem to enable IPC via FIFO pipes, so shell commands can stream data continuously rather than just running once.

Features:
- 30+ machine types (sources, filters, routers, packers, audio synthesis, displays)
- "Command" machines that pipe data through real shell commands
- Streaming mode for persistent processes
- Shareable factories via URL
- Chiptune audio engine (oscillators, Game Boy noise channel) + additional 808 drum machine

Try the presets in the menu bar (top left) to see what's possible. Requires WASM and may take a moment to load on slower connections.

Live: https://bashtorio.xyz
Source: https://github.com/EliCunninghamDev/bashtorio
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-17 23:29:15+00:00
I've been using GOS for 3years give or take on a Pixel 7 PRO. Yes, GOS also stops you from buying new phone every year and personally, I am hopping Pixel 10 PRO is worth the upgrade, doubt it.

In Australia, everything works, from banking to gov services, they do not block or have limited function. CommBank App supports NFC payment via its app for example.

Dual profiles is silly and utterly unnecessary.

List of my open-source applications:

- Aurora Store: Should be avoided, it like F-Droid have broken security in place. You have a high risk of installing crappy on your phone via those stores. That is why I still use Google Play and download apk once here in there from GitHub project.

- Organic Maps: Dead project, a lot of things have happened and that is why CoMaps was created/forked.
It is a beautiful and mega lightweight offline GPS map with tons of features.

CoMaps replaced Earth Magic that got completely destroyed to greedy, and Sygic which I have an old lifetime premium license which now is somewhat limited unless you pay for premium plus :)

OP didn't mentioned but GOS + Android Auto works like a dream wirelessly, GOS provided is Google-free dependency version and it just works.
by quinncom | 2026-02-17 23:29:16+00:00
I've got it installed with Qwen3-VL-4B running in LM Studio on my MBP M1 Pro. (Yes, the fans are running.) GLM-OCR didn't work because it returns all text on the screen, despite the instructions asking only for a summary.

Screenshots are summarized in ~28 seconds. Here's the last one:

> "The user switched to the Hacker News tab, displaying item 47049307 with a “Gave Claude photographic memory for $0.0002/screenshot” headline. The chat now shows “Sonnet 4.6” and a message asking “What have I been doing in the past 10 minutes?” profile, replacing prior Signal content. The satellite map background remains unchanged."

The satellite map background remains unchanged message appears in every summary (my desktop background is a random Google Maps satellite image that rotates every hour).

I would like to experiment with custom model instructions – for example, to ignore desktop background images.

Earlier in my testing it was sending screenshots for both of my displays at the same time, which was much slower, but now it's only sending screenshots of my main screen. Does MemoryLane only send screenshots for displays that have active windows?

Here's the first test of the MCP server in Claude – https://ss.strco.de/SCR-20260217-onbp.png – it works!
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-17 23:29:25+00:00
I believe during a certain age range your eyes determine they've grown to the correct size based on how well they focus, and ancestral humans mostly focused at far away things. When we spend lots of time indoors and looking at screens, our eyes adapt to this as the default focus. Since they're also evolved to look at things nearer than the default focus but not farther (since it's meant to be at infinity), this creates myopia.
by scythe | 2026-02-17 23:29:49+00:00
>Adding to this: Even back when I was in college (not that long ago) it became known that registering as having ADHD qualified you for extra time on exams.

In sixth grade I was frustrated focusing on exams because I'm easily irritated by noise (misophonia). So, I asked for a separate room, or, as I remember putting it, a closet. They sent me to a different room and offered me four hours. I couldn't seem to explain that I don't need more time, I just want it to be quiet. I never asked again.
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-17 23:29:57+00:00
Surprisingly many things seem to be spoiled by the "too many of the people being studied were actually other researchers trying to study the same thing" (or even more commonly, students being taught about the thing).

I suspect the ability to post/apply for jobs with AI "to study ___" has played a part in getting us into our present predicament. If only one researcher did it, the results would be negligible, but if a significant number try it, all those negligibles add up.
by ag8 | 2026-02-17 23:30:14+00:00
Watsi seems to be doing great work, but the title—"you helped save 33k lives"—reads as incredibly misleading to me. I guess "helped" could be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but I would be incredibly surprised if the counterfactual number of lives saved was more than 3000. (But don't let this dissuade you from donating; concretely improving someone's life is totally a worthwhile goal, and Watsi seems very good at effecting this)
by tamimio | 2026-02-17 23:30:39+00:00
The government already takes enough taxes. I am sure they can figure it out. In fact, you are already double taxed: once on income tax (which was temporary and only paid on corporate profits, not yours, but that's another story) and then taxed again on what was already taxed through GST, sales tax, VAT, you name it.

>finite

You think land is finite? You do realize you can fit the entire human race - both the ~8 billion people currently alive and the estimated ~100 to 117 billion people who have ever lived- inside the Grand Canyon? We have enough land that every single person could have an entire farm of their own, not to mention the "land isn't enough" argument makes no sense in a country with giant parking lots, and no exceptions are made for people living in apartment blocks.

The solution is simple for what you mentioned at the end: make houses a depreciated asset, not an investment. Investment by concept must always go up, scale, and grow, making it inevitably unsustainable. Japan did it and fixed the entire housing issue for the next generations to come. I am sure we are smart enough to do the same. Housing and land are made to live in, not to invest in, and keeping them empty to gauge prices up.
by 201984 | 2026-02-17 23:31:04+00:00
Are you certain using AES is still faster? Let's say for a 32-bit block size and 64-bit key.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher), that Speck combination would use 22 rounds, and using the instruction timings for Zen 5 from https://instlatx64.github.io/InstLatx64/AuthenticAMD/Authent..., it looks like each round would take at most 3 cycles. (Dependency chain for each round is 3 instructions long, ror+add+xor). 22*3 = ~66 cycles.

Using AES with a pshufb to take out the ShiftRows step would be 2 cycles for the pshufb and 4 cycles for each aesenc, and at 10 rounds, you have ~60 cycles.

It's quite close, and to say which one wins, we'd need to actually benchmark it. One is not clearly much faster than the other.
Show HN: NadirClaw, LLM router that cuts costs by routing prompts right
by amirdor | 2026-02-17 23:31:18+00:00
I use Claude and Codex heavily for coding, and I kept burning through my quota halfway through the week. When I looked at my logs, most of my prompts were things like "summarize this," "reformat this JSON," or "write a docstring." Stuff that any small model handles fine.

So I built NadirClaw. It's a Python proxy that sits between your app and your LLM providers. It classifies each prompt in about 10ms and routes simple ones to Gemini Flash, Ollama, or whatever cheap/local model you want. Only the complex prompts hit your premium API.

It's OpenAI-compatible, so you just point your existing tools at it. Works with OpenClaw, Cursor, Claude Code, or anything that talks to the OpenAI API.

In practice I went from burning through my Claude quota in 2 days to having it last the full week. Costs dropped around 60%.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/doramirdor/NadirClaw/main/... | sh

Still early. The classifier is simple (token count + pattern matching + optional embeddings), and I'm sure there are edge cases I'm missing. Curious what breaks first, and whether the routing logic makes sense to others.

Repo: https://github.com/doramirdor/NadirClaw
by dfxm12 | 2026-02-17 23:32:14+00:00
There seems to have been a big turnover of writers in 98-99. As in very few people who were there in the beginning were left by that point. You're not considering that the original charm of the show was lost with the original creative force.

Family guy debuted in 1999. It's hard to say Simpsons tried to copy family guy's style. Family Guy is really known for its cutaways (usually to some non sequitur) & somewhat crude humor. A lot of the jokes at this time hinged on Stewie not being understood by anyone but Brian, Brian himself being a dog. There were also a lot of references to musical theater. The Simpsons was different from this.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-17 23:32:23+00:00
> The Biden admin were actually sued for their relationship with social media companies. The suit failed but the conclusion was still that the administration was involved in pushing social media companies to take specific actions. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/murthy-v-...

That's an misleading description of the "conclusion" (and incorrect if by "involvement" or "pushing" you meant unconstitutional behavior). The conclusion of Murthy v. Missouri is that the plaintiffs lacked standing to seek a preliminary injunction against the federal government's (under the Biden administration) requests/"demands" to social media companies to remove users' speech [1]. Why was there no standing? Because the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a minimum of evidence that the Biden administration had coerced or threatened social media companies to censor users' speech [1]:

> To establish standing, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a substantial risk that, in the near future, they will suffer an injury that is traceable to a Government defendant and redressable by the injunction they seek. Because no plaintiff has carried that burden, none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction.

Or rather, the plaintiffs did not demonstrate sufficient evidence that, in the period leading up to the original lawsuits, the social media companies' decisions to remove the relevant speech been anything other than the social media companies' voluntary choices with respect to the Biden administration's involvement.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/603/23-411/#tab-...
by EA-3167 | 2026-02-17 23:32:33+00:00
My first reflexive thought, and I suspect possibly yours too, was "Oh wow it's the same pattern I've seen here for years every time the new get-rich-quick career path drops!" Remember when people would look you dead in the eye and swear to God that you'd have your OS "running on the chain" and PoW would solve the energy hogging problems of crypto? It would be the new money, goodbye fiat, everything would change!

Well a lot of the same players are cashing in on AI, but I'm sure the UFO will show up any day now.
by largbae | 2026-02-17 23:33:05+00:00
It isn't about hatred of the human drivers for me. Waymo's service is so safe and consistent that I would trust my 10-yr-old to take a ride in it solo if it were permitted by the ToS. Most Uber/Lyft/etc. rides are just as safe, but due to the inconsistency I would never reach that level of trust.

I don't live in a covered area, but when I am in range I will gladly pay 10-20% more for a Waymo ride than an Uber/Lyft/etc.
by 0x38B | 2026-02-17 23:33:09+00:00
Key quote from The Time's article (1) linked in the OP:

"I often think back to that conversation with my upperclassman friend. She wasn’t proud of gaming the system and she wasn’t ashamed either. She was simply rational. The university had created a set of incentives and she had simply responded to them.

That’s what strikes me most about the accommodation explosion at Stanford and similar schools. The students aren’t exactly cheating and if they are, can you blame them? Stanford has made gaming the system the logical choice. When accommodations mean the difference between a cramped triple and your own room, when extra test time can boost your grade point average, opting out feels like self-sabotage. Who would make their lives harder when the easiest option is just a 30-minute Zoom call away?"

1: https://archive.ph/RPegw#selection-1853.0-1857.496
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-17 23:33:23+00:00
The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

--Theodore Roosevelt
by TrueFluency123 | 2026-02-17 23:33:25+00:00
I’ve been building a small language learning site to help me study Arabic. Since I grew up learning French in Canada, I also decided to add a full French section. I’m learning as I go, and my learning pace is slower than my website development pace, which is why I added French and Spanish.

If anyone has a few minutes to look around and share what feels off, what’s confusing, or what you’d change, I’d really appreciate it.

Here’s the site
https://truefluency.org
by mmooss | 2026-02-17 23:33:35+00:00
I think it must be awful to carry that around; it's awful to hear. You are important and I really hope you come to see that it's you that matters, not these outside events and people who you don't even know and who are fodder for HN and social media.

When we devalue ourselves then things and people on the outside become relatively much more powerful and more significant. If we love ourselves - and you do deserve that - then they really don't matter. It's not that the world and life and events don't matter at all, but it's only a fraction of how it may feel now; it's a whole different perspective and experience. People have survived decades of oppression, prison and worse on that basis.

Turn off the social media and the news if it will help - that stuff is not important; you are. I could care less about all this stuff on HN if you, a real person, is ok. And talk to a professional, a therapist; you don't have to feel this way and it can change your life.

I really hope that helps you some.