MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlrtime | 2026-02-12 11:22:43+00:00
Who are you defining as "wealthy" here, billionaires? Or anyone with any wealth?

The system does provide protection against wealth because that is what we strive to work hard for our families. It's important that there is a system setup to protect it. Not just for "ruling class" but for everyone who works.

Otherwise we all end up with our own militia to protect it. And I'm not going to enter into any debate about capitalism itself.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-02-12 11:23:28+00:00
>Unless you have already prescribed to the acceptance of big countries swallow the small ones at whim, it is not only our problem.

The US is a big country. Why would it be affected by a problem of big countries swallowing smaller ones?

The Europeans always argue that the US only acts in its self-interest. But then when they explain why helping Europe is in the self-interest of the US, they always have the most nonsensical arguments.

>Also Russia gaining control means often the USA loosing.

I favor a policy of neutrality and world peace, not rivalry between major powers like the US and Russia.

>It is that China is seen as evil anyway, so nobody expects them to sanction Russia for real, while we didn't saw the USA that way.

Why is China more popular than the US in European opinion polls?

>You don't criticize enemies, you criticize friends.

That doesn't make any sense, you criticized Russia plenty. Furthermore, European "criticism" of the US is far too mean-spirited for it to be plausible that you are our friend. (That's been true for decades.)

>I think the criticism also was more that you create authoritarian countries, partnering was also done by European nations, that's called realpolitik.

Interesting how "realpolitik" can be used to explain European behavior but not American behavior.
by bartblast | 2026-02-12 11:23:44+00:00
Thank you! The Elixir -> JS compiler is currently coupled with the framework - it's a custom thing, not a separate dependency.

Re the Gleam comparison: I don't know Gleam's implementation in detail so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it - Gleam compiles to fairly readable JS with a minimal prelude, and deliberately treats the two targets as having different concurrency semantics. It doesn't try to replicate BEAM processes or OTP in JavaScript, instead using JS's native promise-based async. The upside is zero runtime overhead and clean JS interop.

Hologram takes the opposite approach - we're iteratively reimplementing the Erlang runtime in the browser, with the goal of having full semantic parity eventually. The tradeoff is a heavier runtime, but the benefit is that the same Elixir code can run on both server and client with consistent behavior.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-12 11:24:30+00:00
Hikkerl, your kind are hilarious fucking retards. You are so fucked in the head you think people saying you are a retard is censorship and intermarriage is violent murderous genocide. Who is murdering white people? No wonder with such utterly fucked in the head stupidity and psychotic mental retardation your fucked up kind are attracted to made up completely imaginary crap. Honestly I think your kind is so hilariously brainfucked you should be kept in pens for your own good. You are fine with it since you prefer antidemocratic systems. Answer or fuck off from here.
by 9cb14c1ec0 | 2026-02-12 11:24:55+00:00
It feels like Anthropic's models from 6 months ago. I mean, it's great progress in the open weight world, but I don't have time to use anything less than the very best for the coding I do. At the same time, if Anthropic and OpenAI disappeared tomorrow, I could survive with GLM-5.
by Schlagbohrer | 2026-02-12 11:25:23+00:00
When Nirvana first moved from their small Washington town to Seattle, they were able to pay their rent + everything else from working minimum wage jobs for 2 weeks a month. They had time to practice music and pursue their art.

In an era where working a full time job is not enough to pay the cost of living, arts and culture no longer exist except as hobbies for rich kids. Seattle successfully exterminated their entire arts, music, and culture scene by raising the cost of living sky high.
by ap99 | 2026-02-12 11:25:27+00:00
You can only tax people so much before it's too much.

effective tax rates

0% ... not realistic outside very unique circumstances.
25% ... feels fair to me.
33% ... still fair but yeah 1 out of every 3 days worked you start to feel that.
50% ... the border of fair and unfair. if i keep less than half of what i make, that feeling of fairness wears thin.

Now, when you are near that border of fair and unfair and then you see John Q Artist getting his whole list comped using tax money that pushes the somewhat fair into unfair territory real fast.

Now, we already have situations similar to this in most countries either from subsidies, gov't spending you don't agree with, corruption, waste, etc.

All of that should be reduced but when you see your neighbor living free while you slave away you feel that differently.
by nake89 | 2026-02-12 11:25:47+00:00
Slightly off topic. I had a hard time getting models to run with ollama, and I thought that my computer (32gm ram, GTX4070 12Gb vram) just couldn't do it. The I tried LM Studio and after fiddling with some settings, I got models running and quite fast. I didn't try GLM-4.7 flash but I did GLM-4.6v flash and it was amazing to see it be able to analyze all kinds of images (since it has vision support). I was simply stunned. I can't believe that a simple gaming machine can do many of the things I used cloud models for. It was absolutely strikingly good at guessing locations of photos. Even vague ones. Deducing landmarks, writings, types of traffic signs. I need to try 4.7 flash. Hopefully it can ran fast with my machine.
by throwaway77385 | 2026-02-12 11:26:16+00:00
I'm reasonably sure funding for the arts is globally as low as can be.

If we applied the rule of "it has to be good to be worth it" and money is the main indicator for "good", then what about the myriad products and services that are low quality / terrible, yet make tons of money because they can afford to shove marketing down everyone's throats and thus stay relevant?

Most popular music is downright awful to me. Do I want to take their money away because I don't think they deserve it? No. On the other side of that coin I'd like to see some kind of counter balance. How many artists were considered awful until they suddenly became the biggest deal ever? Often posthumously.

This tiny sliver of funding for some people you may not like won't take anything away from you.

The early internet was so great because it was full of weird things. We've lost ALL of it, due to commercialisation. We stand to lose even more if we don't do something to fund the people who dare to be weird.

This goes right back to the thing Bezos said about how we need to become interplanetary so we can inhabit the galaxy, because if we inhabit the galaxy we could have a thousand Mozarts. I think we could already have a thousand Mozarts if they weren't busy slaving away in Amazon's warehouses.

Once there's a trillion humans in the galaxy and they're still all slaving away in warehouses, we still won't have any Mozarts.

Not everything can or should be quantified by money and economics.
by throw1936827 | 2026-02-12 11:26:35+00:00
Legitimate criticism is about specific actions or behaviors. You could even say that you are opposed to certain laws, like the right of return.

Saying that a nation should just not exist, regardless of how they behave or what laws they have betrays a deeper irrational hatred. Especially if there’s only one state that must not exist, while there are many countries with laws you would disagree with.
by rubyn00bie | 2026-02-12 11:27:05+00:00
I don’t see how AI won’t end up running on personal devices. It’s like how mainframes were the original computing platform and then we had the PC revolution. If anything, I think Apple is uniquely positioned to pull the rug on a lot of these cloud models. It might take ten or 15 years, but eventually we’ll see an arms race to do so. There’s too much money on the table, and once cloud providers are tapped out the next logical step is home users. It also makes scaling a lot easier because you don’t need increasingly expensive, complex, and power hungry data centers.

It wasn’t that long ago (ignoring the current DRAM market shenanigans) that it was unthinkable to have a single machine with over terabyte of RAM and 192 physical cores. Now that’s absolutely doable in a single workstation. Heck even my comparatively paltry 96GB of RAM would’ve been absurd in 2010, now there are single prosumer GPUs with that.
Show HN: Commander, an opinionated yet powerful new tab page
by h4ch1 | 2026-02-12 11:27:22+00:00
Hi HN,

This is a new tab page I started building for myself close to 4 months ago, it started with a simple markdown editor with task extraction support and I kept expanding it depending on what I wanted.

I was sick of the current state of new tab pages, either they were very minimal (good morning, some quotes, etc) or were data collection agents.

I was also not really keen on downloading and using an electron note-taking app since my browser's already open and falling into configuration hell was a path I had taking numerous times.

There are quite a few features that people may find useful:

1. Timing functions: A clock and world clock with keyboard driven conversion - I was tired of Googling times in multiple timezones trying to co-ordinate between devs and clients.

2. Ambient Chaos: Upload your ambient sounds, use it as a central mixer - I usually listen to ambient music, nature sounds, fireplaces, etc while working. Having a youtube tab consume 400+MB while doing that wasn't very fun.

3. QuickLog: Not all thoughts need their dedicated note; a quick kb driven logging widget which rotates at the end of each day. Promotable to your main notes.

4. Notes & Tasks: A CodeMirror based Markdown editor with nested task extraction to a separate widget - parses all your notes, extracts all tasks and gives a tree view of tasks across files or per-file.

5. Tab Debt: A nested tab widget which tracks what links were opened from where and how long they've been open. You can select and close/save them.

6. Weather: Just a detailed weather widget with forecasts and a LLM summary (if you add a key)

7. Discussions and Bookmark Chat - You can chat with HackerNews and Reddit discussions & articles with the LLM of your choice (BYOK); supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Cerebras. It also has the ability to sync and parse your bookmarks with scraping support.

A little more on 7:

Sometimes when I use reddit to find product alternatives, the sheer volume of suggestions, often repeated with different usecases makes the process harder. The discussions chat supports proper backlinking to comments in the thread.
With bookmarks, I kept losing really cool stuff I had saved and never knew the gems I had just collecting dust. A quick "find me bookmarks on 3d postprocessing" really helps now.

It's up on the Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pgfpnakgiejllklfaam...

The Firefox version is a little buggy so the publishing is delayed there but if you'd like to test it out you can download it here: https://deepflowdata.tech/commander-0.1.0-firefox.zip

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqbmOT_6wk

This extension is something I personally use, doesn't collect any data and doesn't interact with the internet unless you use the LLM chat with your own key. Planning on making this OSS software after cleaning up the mess that the codebase is basically over 3-4 months of treating it like a sandbox.

Open to hearing feedback, critique and anything in between :) Have a great day/night!
by eviks | 2026-02-12 11:27:25+00:00
It doesn't make sense because the previous version also matches the OS it's on, liquid glass degradation isn't mandatory and "much easier" is still harder than doing the better nothing.

Your suggestion is just as senseless: among the many things wrong with such a "write the app yourself" approach, you forgot about iOS, even though it's mentioned in the original comment, where you can't freely backport anything due to distribution being locked down
by ffsm8 | 2026-02-12 11:28:14+00:00
Uh, are you sure you did? I mean it's just using the hooks API of Claude code to play a sound via the terminal itself?

Heck, they even outlined it in the readme

> peon.sh is a Claude Code hook registered for SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, and Notification events. On each event it maps to a sound category, picks a random voice line (avoiding repeats), plays it via afplay (macOS) or PowerShell MediaPlayer (WSL2), and updates your Terminal tab title.

Looking at the install script and peon.sh does not raise any over engineering flags for me. It's as simple as the functionally makes it necessary
Ask HN: How to truly sandbox AI tools on a Mac?
by shelled | 2026-02-12 11:28:21+00:00
Beyond the given macOS protections (say iCloud/Photos, Full Disk Access, etc.), what’s the best way to hard-sandbox AI tools to prevent unauthorized/unintended file or network access?

I am looking for ways to secure this proactively without depending upon the LLL/tool provider's promise or declared guidelines/ethics, but other than buying a second dedicated computer.
by timarits | 2026-02-12 11:28:37+00:00
I’ve been following the shift in B2B pricing models, and this episode covers a specific friction point I haven't seen discussed much yet: the death of the "per-seat" license.

If Salesforce is pivoting to a 50/50 human-agent workforce, the traditional SaaS revenue model effectively hits a ceiling. The move toward consumption-based pricing for "digital headcount" seems inevitable, but it raises new technical and business questions.

Is it the beginning of a massive shift?

On alternative thoughts; Salesforce seems to be killing their Agentforce efforts that have been overhyped for years, so maybe not everything they do signals permanent change.

Curious to read other people's thoughts...
by onli | 2026-02-12 11:28:46+00:00
Yeah, quite possible. You can construct the feed by some rules, mine are here: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes/blob/4243c9234ddab6a3... - but then you have to monitor whether it still works periodically. Being able to replace that by proper meta tags would be nice.

Using openrss.org as an intermediary might work as well, but not ideal to rely on a third party for that.
by Priset-AI | 2026-02-12 11:28:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Toni, a developer based in Brisbane, Australia.

We just released the Priset extension for JetBrains/IntelliJ.

The Problem: Like many of you, I found existing AI coding tools (like Claude Code or Devin) too "black box." They often hallucinate on complex legacy code, and for enterprise work, sending code to be trained on by LLMs is a non-starter.

We built Priset to be a 'Glass Box'—it keeps the human in the loop.

Key Features:

1. Privacy: We use Gemini Models (e.g. Gemini 3 Flash) via the Enterprise API. We don't store your code, and Google doesn't train on it.

2. Legacy Modernization: It specializes in the boring stuff—scaffolding, WCF to .NET migrations, and upgrading Java monoliths.

3. Context: It handles large context windows cheaply so you can dump in documentation or screenshots (multimodal) to guide the code generation.

We are trying to solve the 'Junior/Senior Gap' by automating the grunt work so devs can focus on architecture.

Would love feedback on the IntelliJ integration specifically—it's fresh out of the oven.

Link to docs/blog: https://docs.priset.ai/blog/bespoke-software-revolution
by Schlagbohrer | 2026-02-12 11:29:16+00:00
In Iceland, if a band can get an international tour scheduled, the Icelandic government will pay their tour costs. I believe Ireland has a similar plan of support for artists who can gain an audience abroad. Those nations know that the creativity of their people is a renewable resource and an economic engine as well as a source of cultural "soft power".

I absolutely do not expect sillycon valley libertarians to understand or appreciate any of this so probably a good idea to avoid the comment section here...
by franciscop | 2026-02-12 11:29:29+00:00
I've seen too many times in real life people who do arts and want to try to sell it not understand that once you switch from a hobby to a business, you need to spend at least 50% of your time on the business/marketing/logistics/etc side of things, hence failing miserably. The best possible outcome that I've seen is that they miraculously hit a nerve on the first hit, become famous, and at some point realize they need to pay taxes and do so in a decent timeframe.

So I found this article great to explain those things, and also how it's not just "you", but it's "the part of you that people need to buy" to make it into an actual business the thing that it's important. I'll be sharing it a bunch, I'm so happy fnnch wrote this!
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-12 11:29:33+00:00
Exactly. LLMs are really just an extension of the internet. You can use the internet to expand on what you know or you can use the internet to rot your brain.

We have agency to decide and if the majority decide on brain rot I really don't care.

I have been learning things from the internet for 30 years and LLMs are just the greatest gift. If someone isn't leveraging these tools to increase what they know good luck.
by arcadia_leak | 2026-02-12 11:29:44+00:00
It's true that there is no off the shelf tool that you can use right now to write your app, but it certainly doesn't prove that making such a tool is impossible or even complicated.

It makes sense for a complex productivity app (e.g. an office suite editor) to implement the UI from scratch anyway, and for that they may choose D. If Jane Street didn't pick OCaml, it would've died long ago -- in the same manner, some company might pick D to do UI or anything else really.
by Bayramovanar | 2026-02-12 11:29:48+00:00
We spend a lot of time debating whether AI is “smart” enough to replace us.

I think that’s the wrong target. AI doesn’t replace people. Incentives do.

Capital owners decides whether productivity gains mean:

– cutting the workforce to increase profitability

or

– keeping the workforce and scaling the business.

Throughout history, major productivity shifts also reduced working hours.

- 12-hour days became 8.

- 6-day weeks became 5 (at least in parts of the world).

Those changes weren’t automatic. They were negotiated.

If those decisions were left solely to capital owners, many of those quality-of-life improvements would likely never have happened.
by Joker_vD | 2026-02-12 11:30:04+00:00
Yeah, except you don't need to rewrite that code every time a new AVX drops, and also don't need to bother to figure out what to do on older CPUs.

IIRC libc for x64 has several implementations of memcpy/memmov/strlen/etc. for different SSE/AVX extensions, which all get compiled in and shipped to your system; when libc is loaded for the first time, it figures out what is the latest extension the CPU it's running on actually supports and then patches its exports to point to the fastest working implementations.
Show HN: BlockHost OS – Autonomous VM provisioning through smart contracts
by mwaddip | 2026-02-12 11:31:02+00:00
Requirements for testing:

- Metamask and some Sepolia testnet ETH (can provide, or use the faucet: https://sepolia-faucet.pk910.de/)
- An old PC (with virtualization support) you have lying around, or a VM if your setup supports nested virtualization.
- ipv6 connectivity

Will install Debian on boot on the first detected hard drive without confirmation, after finishing up a setup wizard can be accessed with a browser (link + OTP code on console).

On completing the wizard, the system will automatically deploy the needed smart contracts (point of sale + access credential NFT), and acquire a free ipv6 prefix at a decentralized tunnel broker. On reboot: a fully working VPS hosting provider, a signup page will be hosted on the public ipv6 address assigned to the Blockhost machine.

Customer flow:

- Connect wallet, sign message
- Choose package, amount of days, and submit
- Server picks up order, provisions VM, assigns ipv6, and sends access credential NFT to user containing encrypted connection info
- User decrypts info in the signup page
- On SSH login user is presented with link to signing page, and an OTP code to sign with their wallet.
- Paste resulting signature, server will verify if wallet address owns NFT tied to this VM and grant access if so.

Build steps:

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:mwaddip/blockhost.git
./scripts/check-build-deps.sh
./scripts/build-iso --testing --backend [libvirt,proxmox]

Still missing for now:

- Admin panel
- Health monitoring
- Limits
by retsibsi | 2026-02-12 11:31:28+00:00
I don't think people should be rude to you, but the comment was AI-generated, right? Lots of people dislike that as it feels kind of wasteful and disrespectful of our time; it can literally take you less time to generate the comment than for us to read it, and the only information you added is whatever was in the (presumably much shorter) prompt. If you'd written it yourself, it may or may not be interesting and correct, but I'd at least know that someone cared enough to write it and all of it made sense from that person's perspective. Sometimes I am interested in an LLM's take on a topic, but not when browsing a forum for humans.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-12 11:32:22+00:00
> For anything that requires taste and judgment, we've still got a long way to go. There are lots of great demos out there but few if any real examples of vibe coded (or whatever you want to call it) software standing alone as an alternative to project people wrote

Yeah, we still have exactly the same problem as before LLMs/agents, namely that we lack people with "Good Taste". I've outlined how I feel about before (https://emsh.cat/good-taste/) but the TLDR is basically that while LLMs can help you move faster, they won't suddenly mean you'll make better choices, probably the reverse is true, you'll move faster and make worse choices.

Having good taste and knowing how things actually should function is 80% of the work of building good software, and so far all these tools that are trying to replace human choices lead to worse software, and we need more tooling that puts the human and the LLM working together, instead of just outsourcing from the human to the LLM.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 11:33:09+00:00
Now that piques my interest. Could you be more specific?

Using Stellarium, set the location to Tres Zapotes, but not knowing how far off the calendar's reckoning would be, the closest I have come is a partial solar eclipse, after 9pm on September 1, -23.

Stellarium literally indicates a "Year 0" so BC years could be off-by-one, or off-by-Julian-and-equinox-precession, I just have no idea.

Wikipedia doesn't list any [Lunar/Solar] that are anywhere near 32 BC.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922610