MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vunderba | 2026-02-23 03:25:42+00:00
Honest feedback time. I've seen at least a half a dozen of these AI Bedtime story teller programs on HN in the past year. (probably since the days when DALL-3 was launched).

This one suffers from the same image and curation related issues as all the other ones. (though I will profess I smirked at the unintentionally amusing inadvertent generation of a three legged white rabbit on page 2)

https://lyra.kids/stories/alices-wild-wonderland-adventure

Show HN: AI Storyteller

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42280345

Show HN: Kids Tell Tales – interactive bedtime stories for your kids with AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585311

Show HN: Storyteller – AI Assisted Book Writer and Illustrator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34710023

Show HN: AI-powered storytelling coach for kids

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061470

Show HN: Adel – AI Powered Storytelling

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012238

Show HN: StoryStory – AI-generated illustrated and narrated children's stories

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024743
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-23 03:26:18+00:00
I think "liberty and justice for all" is actually the norm in the US, at least within fairly ordinary bounds. We can only have liberty up to a point being under a government. A human living in the wilderness, in anarchy, would also have liberty limited by other humans.

You can say "oof" to "under God" but most of the founders believed in the divine and cited it as a reason for granting "god-given" rights to the people. I am an atheist and I kinda don't like the religious aspect of the pledge, but I'm not so upset about it either. Most people believe in a deity, even in 2026, and on the whole I've been treated better by those people than by fellow atheists. Regardless of whether God exists, Christian moral standards are mostly beneficial and too often abandoned when people give up religion. It represents hard-won cultural knowledge and survival strategies for civilization.
by userbinator | 2026-02-23 03:27:11+00:00
I think we expect users to do a bit more work here in posting their comments, such as trimming off the obvious tracking shit, but apparently AI users (or more like "the used") have outsourced their thinking so much that they don't even notice or care.

Finding a single crystal sheet of diamond for sale on Google would have taken 3x as long.

Took me a few seconds. Even found some on Amazon.
by adamddev1 | 2026-02-23 03:28:15+00:00
I hate to pile on the criticism here but this gives me uneasy futuristic vibes.

My dad recently passed away but some of the sweetest things we remember as kids was how he would always tell us "make up stories." They were silly little stories that were probably lame, but we could feel his love for us as he took the time to spin up some silly little story. I would never trade that for the best LLM creativity.
by nekshavs | 2026-02-23 03:28:21+00:00
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by roysting | 2026-02-23 03:28:30+00:00
Hi. Nice project. One issue though; if you go to the Factbook for any year[1], the link to the entry for “Germany”[2] will take you to the entry for the Gambia for every year I have checked. I have not noticed any other countries where that happens.

[1] https://cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev/archive/2002

[2] https://cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev/archive/2002/GM
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-23 03:29:37+00:00
> Wonder if its feasible to reverse the old version using LLMs, vibecode it to run on modern platforms and then shorehorn in support for modern XLS format.

Oh no it won't. Photoshop PSD and the legacy Office file formats have one thing in common... they are raw dumps of the C in-memory structs representing the contents. That's how they save and load so fast [1], in contrast to the modern formats which are a bunch of XMLs in a ZIP in a trenchcoat. Unfortunately, that makes reverse engineering them not just a challenge in itself, but also reimplementing because you have to reimplement Microsoft's original engines piece by piece, quirk by quirk.

And that's before wading into the mess that is OLE or, yes, the older people will shudder, ActiveX. Or the wonders that VBA macros could achieve, including just running stuff directly from kernel32.dll. I'm reasonably sure you could import the DirectX DLLs into an Office VBA macro and implement a full blown 3D shooter engine with DirectX instead of Excel.

And that's also why conversion in either direction almost always carries loss potential, simply put, not each quirk of the legacy format has been carried over to the "new" XML storage format, and certainly not into OpenOffice XML.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
by mystraline | 2026-02-23 03:29:53+00:00
I AM in the USA. And yes, we are heavily censored, but not simply in content. Its a financial censorship, or cut off from banking, or payment processing. And being the "Home of the (everything costs so damned much) Free", starves all initiatives that threaten companies or government.

Wikileaks is one such. Operation chokepoint, another. OFAC sanctions. Holder v Humanitarian Law Project. Knight First Amendment Institute.

But thats the point - USA speech says you can say "Hitler did nothing wrong" and its legal. But you infringe on Powers that Be, and money is involved, your speech via money will quickly be eliminated.
by evolve2k | 2026-02-23 03:30:02+00:00
Drill into the current news cycle. Zuckerberg is pitching an 'age verification required' internet. LinkedIn and now Porkbun are both falling in line, pre-emptivley. No this is not a done deal. We need to squark if we dont want this.

Legislation is one thing, this is a bad faith move, just dressed up as normal business. It's not.
by deaux | 2026-02-23 03:30:17+00:00
Just based on my comment the search query "Ireland compliance haven" would work, but for a more specific one, "ireland DPC big tech before:2026". The "before" is needed because else you'll only get news from a week ago exuberantly claiming that they're changing their behaviour.

Handling of their cases [0]. Suing the EU when it instructs them to investigate Meta's breaches, rather than doing the investigation [1].

> Former Meta lobbyist Niamh Sweeney will co-lead the Irish Data Protection Commission from mid-October. [2]

> A corporate lawyer who has worked for Big Tech played a key role in picking [her].

The DPC is the one responsible for going after GDPR violations. On the level of "Saudi Aramco lobbyist will co-lead the Environmental Protection Board". A lobbyist for the single worst offender in the entire world. You couldn't make it up. If you put it in a movie people would say it's too on the nose.

[0] https://noyb.eu/en/project/dpa/dpc-ireland

[1] https://iapp.org/news/a/court-upholds-edpb-s-authority-after...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/big-tech-lawyer-key-in-picki...
by userbinator | 2026-02-23 03:30:40+00:00
That bullshit excuse? I thought GNU was beyond such persuasion, especially RMS himself.

(Hint: the ones proliferating that argument are the ones doing the DDoS'ing themselves or hosting those who are --- and helping the rest of Big Tech in their authoritarian dream of locking down computing to a highly restricted and "attested" set of platforms with zero freedom.)
by anarticle | 2026-02-23 03:31:27+00:00
Exactly this, if you stay on the ship you only get everyone else's job. It sounds like you're more valuable which is the trap, because there is no more money in the banana stand.

I'd rather make -20% less and work with people who don't drive me crazy while having an equity stake in the company. It may not pay off, but I'll tell ya what, my blood pressure is a lot lower!
by atomicfiredoll | 2026-02-23 03:31:35+00:00
Decentralized as in not needing a central server.

I don't know about Loops specifically, but generally [Fediverse][0] projects tend to:

- Not rely on a central server.

- Allow you to set up your own server.

- Connect to a web of other servers through the Activity Pub protocol.

- Allow you to modify policies on your server (including restricting which other servers information is shared with.)

Many are also open source.

The creator of Loops also built a different project called [Pixelfed](1) with a focus on decentralized photo sharing (although it can also host video.) Because all these projects speak the same protocol, it's possible that at some point, Loops could show content from Pixelfed. Apparently Loops content is already appearing in Mastodon.

Meta's Threads also has Activity Pub support. Hypothetically, Threads content could appear on Loops and vice versa, if the UI is built to accommodate that style of content and a server admin doesn't block the Threads server (many servers block Threads specifically.)

TL;DR: A web of servers using different pieces of open source software to share social media, without a centralized server.

- [0] https://fediverse.info/

- [1] https://pixelfed.org/
by gck1 | 2026-02-23 03:32:31+00:00
I don't know what it's called when something becomes an irony and then this irony becomes an irony itself, but that's what's up with OpenAI today. On one hand, they started this 'we're closing things down because safety' line, they normalized $200/mo subscriptions, but now they're becoming the most open AI company between the big 3. Their tooling is open source, they're lenient on their quotas on lower plans, and their allowance of third party integrations is also unique.

I would still consider OpenAI naming incorrect, but between the 3, they kind of are, open.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2026-02-23 03:33:03+00:00
">whiny parents who rage when their children are told they can't be playing video games in class
you have stats on that? It seems like an outlier."

I know several teachers who retired because over the last decades student discipline has declined and teachers don't get support from either parents or principals. Basically teachers have no tools for discipling students while on the other hand parents demand all kinds of things from teachers but demand nothing from their kids. And principals almost always side with the parents against the teacher. It seems teaching has become an impossible task.
by stevefan1999 | 2026-02-23 03:33:32+00:00
At this point, running Chinese model like GLM-5 or Kimi K2 would be far more safer than risking off your LLM subscriptions. Quite the irony that our AI techno-feudal corpo overlords doesn't want to see their LLM take off with curious and useful open source ideas. Just like Microsoft, they deliberately buried it for some reason.

Oh, maybe not, they did it in the name of "terms of service abuse" and "risk assessment".

Thus it would be far better if we can just have SOTA open weight model to run OpenClaw/Clawdbot/Molt at least we are under control. And as you see the two Chinese models I mentioned are indeed open weight, albeit taking atrocious amount of resource to really self host, and you probably need to have abliterations to remove their political guardrails.

Sigh. We can't have great things with those big tech corpos and CCP politics. Big question: Why has this world gone to shit lately.
by DaveCharlieLen | 2026-02-23 03:33:59+00:00
> I need an ARM64 machine. Period.

>After spending time on Apple’s M1/M2 Macs (coming from a large x86_64 desktop), going back to x86_64 feels like a regression, both in performance and battery life. Unfortunately, there’s currently no FreeBSD-supported (or even Linux, as far as I can tell) ARM64 laptop that truly rivals Apple Silicon. I really hope Framework or someone else changes that in the coming years.

I thought the parent maybe was off base, but that is literally all the reasoning.

For guidance the arch doesn't impact battery life or performance as much as a specific process node and model. There are slow as shit x86 chips from VIA(maybe? I just retired a node that ran on one.) and fast ARM64 chips, but any high end Ryzen will blow an ARM64 chip out of the water on most real benchmarks I run(HPC stuff, lotsa matrix multiplications and such(CUDA and double float performance is too much premium and yes I have done alot of profiling and benchmarking.))
by rramadass | 2026-02-23 03:35:21+00:00
This will never happen. I think you need to re-read Orwell's 1984 and understand the Nature of Power. Our current Technologies have made it orders of magnitude easier to gain/amass/seize/monopolize and hold "absolute power".

As Lord Acton said - “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

O'Brien from 1984;

'Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?'
by agnishom | 2026-02-23 03:35:49+00:00
> standard bedtime stories didn't always capture their unique imagination

If you really mean this, I invite you to reflect on whether the LLM generated stories will be any better. Good art including stories, even those for children, have the power to move people, and are so much more than what AI slop can offer.

Would you like to read some LLM generated novels before bedtime? If not, why not extend the same grace to your daughters?
by eibrahim | 2026-02-23 03:36:23+00:00
cool concept. the million dollar homepage model is clever for bootstrapping initial attention.

interesting that you mention this is your first vibe coding project. curious where you plan to list it long-term for discovery. product hunt gives you a day of visibility but then what? feels like theres a gap in the market for a place where vibe-coded projects can live and get discovered organically.
by userbinator | 2026-02-23 03:37:37+00:00
The robot in question is the DJI Romo, an autonomous home vacuum that first launched in China last year and is currently expanding to other countries. It retails for around $2,000 and is roughly the size of a large terrier or a small fridge when docked at its base station.

Unfortunately it doesn't fly.... although if it did, that would've made this even scarier.
by DaveCharlieLen | 2026-02-23 03:38:18+00:00
I want to love FreeBSD I have run it for multiple years on my servers. But there is always something off. The linuxulator works okay, but not great, and not great isn't good enough. Like WSL1 worked better than Linuxulator at least as of last Jan when I tried. The WINE story was even worse(do a jail for x32 things and run x64 normal). I do love FreeBSD but it is hard to take seriously as a desktop OS when some regular things are way too hard to get working.
by zmgsabst | 2026-02-23 03:38:59+00:00
Late reply, but it’s not about mind games so much as rhetorical artifacts to actuate the levers of power.

When the US issues reports saying the EU is actively working against US values both within the US and globally, that report can be elevated by later US administrations to justify military drawdowns, exiting NATO, etc. The EU should produce counter artifacts demonstrating they do align with US values, but instead they responded as if this was a power struggle.

Your comment about “mind games” suggests too simple an interpretation:

This isn’t about what people believe is true, but what facts are available to the machinery of government policy making — much like litigating semantics and debating evidence inclusion within a court case.

This is about constructing the sentence:

“The EU’s widespread blocking of the freedom.gov free speech platform for the past decade demonstrates a divergence from American values that means NATO no longer functions as an effective vehicle for American vision on the global stage.”
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-23 03:39:19+00:00
> Like 80% of the world is smartphone-only

Ok, but you still can't get actual work done on a smartphone with any efficiency.

> In my (wealthy, Boston area) suburb most high school students do all their work - including writing multi-page papers - entirely on their phone. They think laptops are for old people.

Kids are stupid. We were stupid when we were their age too. They will learn eventually that to get serious work done, you need an actual computer.
by cyberax | 2026-02-23 03:40:43+00:00
> This seems highly prescriptive and absolutist.

And why exactly is this bad?

> There’s a big difference between “having a tool available” and “using it all the time for everything.”

Not really, when the tool ends up just pushing everything out.

> We are not talking about replacing writing and reading on paper.

Yet this is EXACTLY what has already happened. A lot of laptop kids literally can't write. Not even in block letters.

> I was fortunate that my middle and elementary schools had computers.

That's the thing. You had computers for CS classes. I had a somewhat similar experience, starting with ZX-Spectrum. I think this is actually great, especially if you start with something basic like Apple II.

But you did not have them on your desk at all times. You had to learn math and language by actually writing things in a physical notebook with a pen.

> I think your 9th grade cutoff is particularly silly. You can start subjects like algebra before high school.

Why the heck do you need computers for algebra?!? School-level algebra is something that is literally better done without any calculating tools.

> You really think there are kids doing formal classes like programming and digital design/art before high school? Go look into some of the curriculum course list for some of the top middle and high schools in the country.

Formal classes with desktop computers that STAY IN CLASS after the lesson are fine. Having access to a computer _after_ school is also fine.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-23 03:40:50+00:00
>I'd rather they pledge allegiance to the values rather than to the country. I can see defending those values as part of the social contract, but not the country. If the country and the values are aligned, then sure.

The "values for which we stand" are quite numerous and too lengthy to reiterate on a daily basis, in a short pledge. The pledge may inspire more interest in finding out more about those values, and that is worthwhile.

>Otherwise, you can wind up with something like Nazi Germany where people have to go along with it because "my country".

Funny you should mention this. Most Germans, even Nazis, had no idea what their government was actually up to and would have never supported anything more than deporting those they saw as troublemakers.

>If you think about it, the main reason for the Bill of Rights, and especially the 2A (I vehemently disagree with guns in today's world but I understand the original purpose of the 2A), is because they understood that governments can be subverted away from the country's values and citizens need protection from the government in such cases.

Today's world needs the 2A and the Bill of Rights more than any other time. Idk why you think 2A doesn't apply now. Guns did not go away. The government is bigger than ever. The founders were not only worried about "subversion" but governments going rogue in overt and shameless ways. There was no standing army back then, and the founders did not want one. That is one thing that isn't practical anymore... We need professional soldiers. But we ALSO need people armed and ready to defend the homeland if necessary. We let in way too many people and grant citizenship way too easily. There are 1.5 million Chinese coming of age soon who never lived in the US but will be eligible to vote here due to birthright citizenship tourism! It's insane that we allow this, or any of the BS asylum claims. If a war pops off, I expect that thousands of operators who were let in under false pretenses will spring into action and sabotage everything. If you tell most people this, they will look at you like you're the crazy one.
by SideQuark | 2026-02-23 03:41:00+00:00
They’re wrong. Lyndon Johnson imposed the 25% Chicken Tax during trade skirmishes with Germany to make Volkswagens more expensive, and later tapes surfaced showing this was actually done for political favors. It had zero to do with national security. As a result Americans pay about 25% more for light trucks of inferior quality ever sense, as a giant handout to the car industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tariffs_in_the_Unit...

So as usual, tariffs cost the country imposing them, returning less net goods, and moves money into the protected class at the expense of the wider public.
by oenton | 2026-02-23 03:41:41+00:00
Precisely. In fact I remember a story similar to this, so I Googled "did Sprint get sued for using 'unlimited' in their marketing?" Lo and behold, yes, they did. And for good reason.

It would be an understatement to say I am ashamed to work in the same industry as many of the commenters here do--commenters who are completely ignorant of antitrust law and why it exists, or for whatever reason, are completely unconcerned with the absurd market power these mega conglomerates (ab)use.