MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by silisili | 2026-02-10 07:36:12+00:00
This is what most frustrates me about driving in Florida. The right lane is nearly always the fast lane, yet is the lane with most 'events.'

When asked, they'll say they feel safer in the left lane because they don't feel safe having to deal with people turning out and merging. So you get instead people driving fast in the lane meant for pulling out and merging.
by bryanhogan | 2026-02-10 07:36:22+00:00
The title is about "Discord alternatives", the major core metric is:

> Functionality: can it do everything required of a platform for building, organizing, and sustaining a community?

Feels like these are two different things.

What I expect from a Discord alternative is text messaging, voice and video call with screensharing, both possible on community spaces and with personal contacts in a way that is extremely easy to setup.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-10 07:36:28+00:00
If you need a server, AWS is much more expensive over said server's lifetime.

We don't need to debate this that much longer. You need expertise to setup, maintain, troubleshoot, back up real servers. These things aren't free. While the physical server is cheaper, most companies will never scale enough to hire their own 24/7 physical server admin(s).
by andrewflnr | 2026-02-10 07:37:40+00:00
You imply your view "matches REALITY", then fall back to "Either way this is also opinion based." Nicely played. But the actual reality is that scientific discovery is proceeding at least as fast as it ever has. These things take time. 20 years is a laughably short time in which to declare defeat, even ignoring the fact that genetic and other biological tech has advanced leaps and bounds in that time. There's important work happening in solid state physics and materials science. JWST is overturning old theories and spawning new ones in cosmology. There's every reality-based reason to believe there will be plenty of big changes in science in the next 20 years or so.
by ozlikethewizard | 2026-02-10 07:37:40+00:00
You can have multiple instances of signal on a mobile device, and you can use VoiP or eSIMs to register. Signal with an online persona revealing no identifying information, registered to a cash purchased eSIM on an ungoogled android is as good as your getting. Why do you think so many jurisdictions are trying to ban both GrapheneOS and Signal.
Show HN: Business card scanner with frame selection, dedupe, and vCard export
by vassilbek | 2026-02-10 07:38:28+00:00
Hi HN, I built BizCard AI Scanner, a small web app that digitizes business cards.

You can upload multiple photos or a single video of cards. For videos, it extracts frames in the browser, lets you select/deselect frames, then uses Google Gemini (schema-constrained JSON) to extract structured fields (name/title/company/email/phone/website/address). Results are editable, deduplicated, and exportable to Excel, CSV, and vCard (.vcf).

Repo: https://github.com/vassiliylakhonin/bizcard-ai-scanner

Notes:

Runs locally with Vite/React/TS.
There’s an optional minimal Node backend proxy so you don’t have to ship an API key to the browser if you deploy it.
by Sabinus | 2026-02-10 07:39:27+00:00
>IMO, these industries need to be heavily taxed if not owned by the government.

The problem with this is that it adds cost to the commodity and now you can't properly compete on a world stage against extraction that comes from other jurisdictions that are paid enough to not care. The world free trade regime really needs a rethink if we are going to have proper standards for extraction like this. Say, a trading bloc of ethical commerce. If countries don't play ball then they're out, and unannounced compliance inspections should occur all over the trading bloc ran by an independent member-state multinational institution.
by Mashimo | 2026-02-10 07:39:32+00:00
IRC does not even have offline messages, unless you pay / host a bouncer. Which you first have to know about.

I'm not sure if any client has solve this, but what about image / video / file hosting? You can't just drag 'n drop a image into a chat. You have to host it on a 3rd party site and link it.

I do wonder how server management is now adays. In Discord you can host your own server with a few clicks and make it easy to adjust permissions and controls invites. I would assume IRC is also lacking behind. But would love to hear more about the current state.

Discord has invite links, where people without the app or account can quickly join. In IRC you have the IRC:// link, but that does not work for people who don't have a client installed. Then you can do a web client link, but that is not optimal for people who already have their favorite client set up :)
by anthk | 2026-02-10 07:40:03+00:00
In Spain in 'ancient' times it used to be UHF/VHF channels. Two of them. First, THe only channel, a la BBC, but from a dictatorship, TVE, Television Española, and later, TVE2, in a different band (I think it requiered a separate antenna and/or tuner) which was depicted as more culture bound (the regime opened up a little in the early 70's) and with less hour per day that the main channels.

The new channel appeared when my parents were kids, around the late 60's.

But, for incredible stuff happening in the 90's, I remember watching the MTV illegally in very early 00's due to a semi-pirate really local TV channel. They used to broadcast chiptune videos at late night too, it was really weird.
Even some early Flash videos and animations too.

Good times to own a TV tuner in your PC among the teletext when you had to go to a cybercafé to basically work offline and batch-send/downloaded everything within an hour while you chatted with your friends and some potential GF.
If you knew how to pirate the Nagravision cypher from paid TV channels (something lame to decode with an Athlon in real time) you often could watch (and dump) movies with, well, VHS quality (MPEG2 was just a thing for cable TV and DVDs) but at least after the long rip (13h per hour, and then the encoding to XVID/DIVx) you could watch a good movie months after being displayed in the theaters.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-10 07:41:02+00:00
We had to write two certified letters to all the previous owners, then we either filed that reply or the returned unsigned certified mail after 45 days (for each previous owner) we were able finally file a title transfer application with the Department of Wildlife and the DMV, then we had to wait for two letters to clear the title with those organizations and then finally we applied for a new title from the DMV. It was like 3 years of my life. We finally sold it!
by incr_me | 2026-02-10 07:41:13+00:00
> human cognitive labor per unit time and cost

This seems like a proxy for socially necessary labor time ("cognitive labor"?). To that end I disagree that the scientific project can be totally measured in terms of the organic composition of capital; I think there's more to science and scientific progress. But as far as capital's evaluation of science (as opposed to science's own evaluation of science), you very well may be right that we are in a period of "scientific" crisis (a crisis of production).
Show HN: Seedance2 – Stop "prompt guessing" and start directing AI video
by echoadam | 2026-02-10 07:42:14+00:00
We’ve all seen the viral AI video clips: stunning, surreal, but ultimately... random. As developers and creators, we noticed a frustrating pattern. Using current AI video tools feels like playing a slot machine. You put in a prompt, pull the lever, and hope the "AI gods" give you what you envisioned. If you need a specific camera movement or a consistent character, you're stuck in a loop of "regenerate and pray."

We built Seedance2 because we believe the future of AI isn't just about generation—it’s about direction.

The Story Behind the Workflow In traditional filmmaking, a director doesn't just give a vague description; they use storyboards, reference clips, and specific audio cues. We wanted to bring that level of precision to AI. Our goal was to create a "Control Studio" where every input serves a functional purpose in the creative pipeline.

What makes this different? Instead of relying solely on text, Seedance2 introduces a Multi-Modal Timeline. This allows you to anchor your creative intent using various signals:

Camera Motion Transfer: You can upload a reference clip from sites like vibecreature.com or your own library, and our engine will "extract" the camera's soul—the pans, tilts, and zooms—and apply them to your generated scene.

Frame Anchoring: Tired of AI videos that start and end in total chaos? You can lock the first and last frames to ensure narrative continuity, making it actually usable for professional editing.

@Reference Prompting: This is our favorite feature. In your prompt, you can use @mentions to tell the AI exactly which uploaded asset to use for what. For example: "A cinematic shot of @image1 moving with the energy of @video_ref." * Beat-Synced Logic: By analyzing audio tracks, the engine can align visual transitions with the rhythm, a workflow we’ve been refining at seedvideo.net to help creators ship music-driven content faster.

Why we’re sharing this now The feedback loop in video production is currently too slow. Whether you are building e-commerce ads or pre-visualizing a feature film, the bottleneck is always "control." We’ve optimized our engine for speed and precision, allowing for a 3-step loop: Upload -> Direct (@mention) -> Ship.

We are a small team of engineers and artists obsessed with making AI a tool, not just a toy. We’d love the HN community to stress-test our studio. What’s missing in your AI video workflow? How can we make the "Director" experience more intuitive?

Check it out here: Seedance2 Studio
by Garrett_Mack | 2026-02-10 07:43:34+00:00
Unfortunately I've already ported in all the radix primitives. I actually found out about Base literally the exact day I finished it. Then I saw shadcn just upgraded to Base. So it looks like shad once again proves the gary oak in the completely one-sided rivalry that lives entirely in my own head. except instead of Ash I'm like youngster joey with a copilot subscription
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-10 07:43:48+00:00
>You imply your view "matches REALITY", then fall back to "Either way this is also opinion based." Nicely played.

Oh fuck off. Opinions exist in reality do they not? Pessimism implies biased opinions that are biased towards negativity. My opinions bias towards reality, aka what I observe, not what is negative.

There , clear?

>But the actual reality is that scientific discovery is proceeding at least as fast as it ever has.

No it's not. Space is the best example of this. Computing speed is another example. We are hitting physical barriers to technology and discovery in every practical dimension.

>There's important work happening in solid state physics and materials science. JWST is overturning old theories and spawning new ones in cosmology. There's every reality-based reason to believe there will be plenty of big changes in science in the next 20 years or so.

Astronomy? Give me a break we're trying to infer what's millions of light years a way of course we're going to be stumbling and getting shit wrong all the time. A step function in Astronomy is actually going to the stars. I guarantee even your great great great grandchildren won't go to one.
by Pansy3 | 2026-02-10 07:44:14+00:00
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by AIorNot | 2026-02-10 07:44:27+00:00
Curious what everyone thinks about this physicists idea

- the universe as a Neural Network (yes yes moving the universe model paradigm from the old Clockwork to machine to computer to neural network)

I found it interesting and speculative but also fascinating

See video here:

https://youtu.be/73IdQGgfxas?si=PKyTP8ElWNr87prG

AI summary of the video:

This video discusses Professor Vitaly Vanchurin's theory that the universe is literally a neural network, where learning dynamics are the fundamental physics (0:24). This concept goes beyond simply using neural networks to model physical phenomena; instead, it posits that the universe's own learning process gives rise to physical laws (0:46).

Key takeaways from the discussion include:
• The Universe as a Neural Network (0:00-0:57): Vanchurin emphasizes that he is proposing this as a promising model for describing the universe, rather than a definitive statement of its ontological nature (2:48). The core idea is that the learning dynamics, which are typically used to optimize functions in machine learning, are the fundamental physics of the cosmos (6:20).
• Deriving Fundamental Field Equations (21:17-22:01): The theory suggests that well-known physics equations, such as Einstein's field equations, Dirac, and Klein-Gordon equations, emerge from the learning process of this neural network universe.
• Fermions and Particle Emergence (28:47-32:15): The conversation delves into how particles like fermions could emerge within this framework, with the idea that useful network configurations for learning survive, similar to natural selection.
• Emergent Quantum Mechanics (44:53-49:31): The video explores how quantum behaviors, including the Schrödinger equation, could emerge from the two distinct dynamics within the system: activation and learning. This requires the system to have access to a "bath" or "reservoir" of neurons.
• Natural Selection at the Subatomic Scale (1:05:10-1:07:34): Vanchurin suggests that natural selection operates on subatomic particles, where configurations that are more useful for minimizing the loss function (i.e., for efficient learning) survive and those that are not are removed.
• Consciousness and Observers (1:15:40-1:24:09): The theory integrates the concept of observers into physics, proposing a three-way unification of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and observers. Consciousness is viewed as a measure of learning efficiency within a subsystem (1:30:38).
by vasco | 2026-02-10 07:44:49+00:00
If the input is "give ID", what the software claims to do is almost meaningless since you cannot prove that software was running. What do I care that someone can tell me they built a privacy-first way of validating IDs/age if I cannot be sure that is the software they are running?

They can just as easily save the ID to disk and return "all good" for all I know.
by rzerowan | 2026-02-10 07:45:48+00:00
So the more things change - themore they stay the same ala LLMs will be this gnerations Mechanical Turk , and people will keep getting oneshotted because the hype is just overboard.

Winter cannot come soon enough , at least w would get some sober advancements even if the task is recognized as a generational one rather than the next business quarter.
by fainpul | 2026-02-10 07:47:10+00:00
I agree with the article. What the author doesn't answer is why we're seeing so many visually noisy tables. He seems to imply that designers don't know any better.

In my opinion the issue is that there are two different "modes" of looking at a table. One is just "superficially glancing" (like you look at a picture), the other is more like reading, because you look for some specific piece of information. When glancing at a table, the one with more colors and icons looks more pleasing, while plain text looks boring. But when reading the table to get information out of it, the "boring" one (if it's well done) is probably more efficient and a better experience.

And here is the problem: when presenting designs to stakeholders, 100% of stakeholders just glance at the table and always prefer the more colorful table with many icons — they don't realize that actual users, who need to get information from the table, would be better off with the "boring" table.
by anthk | 2026-02-10 07:48:31+00:00
Read again, I used slrnpull's cache. Mail was fast with Mu4e and Mairix. GNUS with slrn, not much. I have tons of articles from comp.* and some alt.* related groups. People loves to talk at comp.misc and comp.arch.

Also GNUS' caching it's really slow compared to slrn. Yes, I know, Elisp vs C, but even with native compilation it was excruciatingly slow. I've seen bytecoded TCL back in the day running really fast for these tasks.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-10 07:48:48+00:00
As CERN Alumni, this isn't easy, the data is endless, processing it takes take, usually everything is new technology, and also needs to be validated before being put into use.

Thousands of people have worked on bringing LHC up during a few decades before, Higgs came to be, across all engineering branches.

This stuff is hard, and there is no roadmap on how to get there.
by Sabinus | 2026-02-10 07:49:01+00:00
Russia. They asked for a 'spheres of influence' world and forgot the USA's sphere of influence is the world's oceans (and South America).

Pressuring Russia's oil exports is the way the Trump admin is motivating Russia to come to the negotiating table. They apparently want the war wrapped up in time for the mid-terms.

That, and Trump likes being a strong king and wielding US might, right into the history books.
by TheChaplain | 2026-02-10 07:49:28+00:00
What most people here seem to forget, is once a social platform gains traction and especially attention from the main masses, it undoubtedly require checks and balances.

Predators, racism, gore, pedophilia, harassment, stalking and so on..

No matter how high you value security, these are matters that hurt real people today. If you attract the mainstream, you must deal with it.
by concinds | 2026-02-10 07:49:33+00:00
> Claude refused to build me a news scraper that would post political hot takes to twitter

> Just choose your political leaning and the AI would consult the correct echo chambers to repeat from.

You're effectively asking it to build a social media political manipulation bot, behaviorally identical to the bots that propagandists would create. Shows that those guardrails can be ineffective and trivial to bypass.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-10 07:49:48+00:00
Local models are decent now. Qwen3 coder is pretty good and decent speed. I use smaller models (qwen2.5:1.5b) with keyboard shortcuts and speech to text to ask for man page entries, and get 'em back faster than my internet connection and a "robust" frontier model does. And web search/RAG hides a multitude of sins.

"Using anything other than the frontier models is actively harmful" - so how come I'm getting solid results from Copilot and Haiku/Flash? Observe, Orient, Decide, Act, Review, Modify, Repeat. Loops with fancy heuristics, optimized prompts, and decent tools, have good results with most models released in the past year.
by indymike | 2026-02-10 07:51:49+00:00
I'm not sure the crackpot is what we're talking about here. We're talking about something tht violates the prevailing opinion in a way that can be verified, and results a change in what we know to be true. The crackpot is mostly the result of a very aspirational world view, and usually under the hood has bias and error that is often quite obvious.
by gary_0 | 2026-02-10 07:52:01+00:00
Einstein laid the theoretical foundations for lasers in 1917, and it took over 40 years of "impractical" scientific work before the first functioning laser was built. It took decades more for them to become a cheap, ubiquitous technological building-block. The research is still continuing, and there's no reason to assume it will stop eventually bearing fruit (for the societies that haven't decimated their scientific workforce, anyways). Look at the insanity required to design and build the EUV lasers in ASML's machines, which were used to fabricate the CPU I'm using right now, over a century after Einstein first scribbled down those obscure equations!
Show HN: MCP App Template designed for coding agents
by sebderhy | 2026-02-10 07:52:22+00:00
Hi, author of the repo speaking here!

When I tried building MCP Apps [1], the official repos (https://github.com/openai/openai-apps-sdk-examples, https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps/tree/main/e...) were great starting points, but they're designed for human developers. When I used them with Claude Code, I ended up in the usual loop: agent writes code → I manually test the app on ChatGPT → describe errors back → repeat. Plus, we didn't know what the best practices are, and struggled to enforce them.

So I built an MCP App template designed for coding agents to work as autonomously as possible on an MCP app.

The key idea: orthogonal testing. 450+ tests parameterized across 12 widget modules that verify infrastructure (protocol compliance, best practices grade, browser rendering), not business logic. Modify widgets, change data, add features — the tests should still pass. Agents iterate freely and get feedback without a human in the loop.

Other features:
- Hierarchical documentation that includes the MCP-App & OpenAI Apps SDK official llms.txt files
- Local chat simulator app that works even without API keys via Puter.js
- Visual testing of every widget: pnpm run ui-test --tool show_carousel → screenshot at /tmp/ui-test/screenshot.png
- 12 working examples (QR codes to 3D solar system) gathered from the official repos mentioned above.

The repo includes an unedited ~15 min video of Claude Code building an app autonomously which worked directly within ChatGPT.

I'd love to hear how it goes if you try it. Or even better: ask for a feedback to your agent, and post it here!

[1] MCP Apps (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/extensions/apps) let you build interactive widgets that run inside Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, and other AI hosts. In contrast to smartphone apps, the same code can deploy to all platforms.
by zaptheimpaler | 2026-02-10 07:52:27+00:00
I don't know anything about these models, but I've been trying Nvidia's Parakeet and it works great. For a model like this that's 9GB for the full model, do you have to keep it loaded into GPU memory at all times for it to really work realtime? Or what's the delay like to load all the weights each time you want to use it?
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2026-02-10 07:52:29+00:00
I dabbled into literate programming and wrote C basically in reStructuredText. Used '#line' to specify the correct file name and line number in my reStructuredText sources. Worked as advertised, no complaints.

In my case I had long-ish fragments, so I only put '#line' at the start of a fragment. The compiler counted subsequent lines itself.

It was a cross-platform project and worked equally well with GCC, Clang and MS Visual C++.
by uludag | 2026-02-10 07:52:31+00:00
I try to avoid LLMs as much as I can in my role as SWE. I'm not ideologically opposed to switching, I just don't have any pressing need.

There are people I work with who are deep in the AI ecosystem and it's obvious what tools they're using It would not be uncharitable in any way to characterize their work as pure slop that doesn't work, buggy, untested adequately, etc.

The moment I start to feel behind I'll gladly start adopting agentic AI tools, but as things stand now, I'm not seeing any pressing need.

Comments like these make me feel like I'm being gaslit.