MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2026-02-20 20:56:36+00:00
You don't need to pay anything. That's just how Facebook works when you have active friends on it and you engage with their content.

I do find it interesting that tech people are so baffled when other people enjoy Facebook and derive value from it. I think we see so many exaggerated headlines about algorithms and feeds that people who don't use the site have a very different idea of what people who do actually use the site are seeing.
by tux1968 | 2026-02-20 20:56:54+00:00
No, I don't think you have the inerhent right to install any apk you desire, if their OS is designed to prohibit it. You should be free to try to alter their OS any way you want, but they should not have to make it easy.

And the argument is the same lower down the stack. You shouldn't be able to tell someone how to design their firmware.

The only problem is where the law prohibits us from trying to undo these restrictions, or make modifications ourselves. It's government that restricts us, and we should focus our efforts there.
by latchkey | 2026-02-20 20:57:15+00:00
'j' to the end of the page to go to the next page is awesome. took a bunch of ai tweaking to get all that right.

i actually did this whole multi-layered object model to wrap around the dom to enable pagination more easily. took about 2 days of coding to figure that out. doing it that way made it so that you can even refresh the page and it will 'remember' where active article is. none of the other extensions are this well thought out.
by monero-xmr | 2026-02-20 20:58:10+00:00
I actually think it's because reddit is supported by a vast group of unpaid labor (moderators) and conspiratorially I believe they (actually) get paid by NGOs and governments to push narratives and suppress others. Although denied (poorly) it is very likely ghislaine maxwell was one of the most powerful moderators of reddit, modding hundreds of subreddits including r/worldnews, up until the day she was arrested
by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 20:58:30+00:00
So if there is nobody willing to be a doctor for the pay rate the govt is offering, what happens? Does your "right" to healthcare extend to literal slavery?

I'm being a bit hyperbolic only to make the point... I don't think anyone's "rights" should include forced labor of anyone else. So certain things, even food cannot be a right... I would think that public lands and a right to hunt/gather or even some level cooperative gardening/farming might be okay as a middle ground though.
by esoterae | 2026-02-20 20:59:19+00:00
Honestly, this is a reasonable itemization of experience with individual tools, but this reads like a recipe for Company Cake instead of a case-by-case statement of need, selection, and then evaluation. Cargo culting continues to wrap its tendrils around the industry and try to drag it into the depths of mediocrity, and this largely reads to me like a primer for how to saddle yourself with endless SaaS bills. I recognize that every situation has its nuances, but I think approaching running a company from "what tools do you use" is pretty much the biggest possible example of ignoring that maxim.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-20 20:59:44+00:00
It is not based on guesswork. For whatever it's worth, I have gotten 7 LLM accounts banned from HN in the past week based on accurately detecting and reporting them to moderation[1]. Many of these accounts had between dozens and 100 upvotes with posts rated to the top of their threads that escaped detection by others. I have not once misidentified and reported an account that was genuinely human. I am aware that other people have poorly-tuned heuristics and make false accusations, but it is possible to build the skill to detect LLM output reliably, and I have done so. In the end, it is up to you whether you believe me, but I am just trying to offer a warning for people who dislike reading this, nothing more.

[1] Unlike LLM-generated articles, posting LLM-generated comments is actually against the rules.
by tuhgdetzhh | 2026-02-20 21:00:33+00:00
If you follow the jurisdictional trail in the post, the field narrows quickly. The author describes a major international diving insurer, an instructor driven student registration workflow, GDPR applicability, and explicit involvement of CSIRT Malta under the Maltese National Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy. That combination is highly specific.

There are only a few globally relevant diving insurers. DAN America is US based. DiveAssure is not Maltese. AquaMed is German. The one large diving insurer that is actually headquartered and registered in Malta is DAN Europe. Given that the organization is described as being registered in Malta and subject to Maltese supervisory processes, DAN Europe becomes the most plausible candidate based on structure and jurisdiction alone.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-20 21:00:41+00:00
Same here. The trick is to unfollow people who start posting things you don't want to see in your feed any more. It sounds so simple, but many people treat their following list as an append-only log.

I've followed accounts for hobbies that later spiral off into the deep end of Twitter's topics of the day, which is always my sign to unfollow them.

Some people cannot resist clicking on things that make them angry, though. These websites continue serving up more of what you click on.
by kev009 | 2026-02-20 21:00:43+00:00
This seems like an evergreen content topic. It's obvious that IPv6 adoption is high enough and critical for some industries in particular (i.e. cellular providers) with lots of endpoints. Increasing endpoint adoption is good. But service providers need to care about the remaining percentage. Say you get to 80, 90, even 99% adoption. An SP still can't flip IPv4 off. So what does it matter? It really doesn't warrant much concern.
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-02-20 21:00:50+00:00
> These are the kinds of articles that give science a bad name, and that make people anti-science.

No, it is attitude like yours that brings humanity a bad name.

"Blue light" has always had highly questionable evidence behind it, what has been sold and marketed under the guise of it has had zero evidence behind it. But now that you are reminded that it is actually bullshit, you react with skepticism.

I could understand (not justify) skepticism in many cases (such as "common wisdom" from 1000 years ago) but this particular topic should have raised your skepticism 20 years ago back when the craze/marketing stunt was starting.
Show HN: Dev visibility for non-technical founders and stakeholders
by inferno22 | 2026-02-20 21:01:40+00:00
If you're a non-technical founder, you probably have no idea what your developers did last week. You ask, they say "refactored the auth module" and you nod pretending you understand.
Gitmore reads your GitHub activity and turns it into a simple report: what was built, what was fixed, what's stuck. Written for humans, not engineers.

It shows up in your inbox. You read it in 2 minutes. Done.

Here's what a report looks like: https://www.gitmore.io/example.html

Quick demo: https://demo.arcade.software/5tZyFDhp1myCosw6e1po

Free tier available. Happy to hear what you'd want from something like this.
by harrall | 2026-02-20 21:01:52+00:00
Yeah I’ve gotten 8 hours of sleep almost everyday for 15 years, ever since I put 2+2 together. In my early 20s, I didn’t like being bad at sports and I found sleep was my single most important factor.

Similar to you, I also noticed that if I miss good sleep for several days, it stacks. I treat sleep like a battery. A day uses up 20% and good sleep fills it back up, but only like 30%. One missed night isn’t that bad but I also can’t recover several nights’ worth.
by SunshineTheCat | 2026-02-20 21:02:39+00:00
I thought the same thing. With the rate LLMs are improving, it's not going to be too much longer before no one can tell.

I also enjoy all the "vibes" people list out for why they can tell, as though there was any rhyme or reason to what they're saying. Models change and adapt daily so the "heading structure" or "numbered list" ideas become outdated as you're typing them.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-20 21:02:40+00:00
Other western democracies are much smaller or have much more uniform systems than the US as well. Not to say it's impossible, but it would take reworking the system. Right now the only elections that are highly publicized and known about are the ones every 4 years for president. Next is every two years election for congress and that's a big drop off in participation. Things like primaries you really have to go out of your way to know about them happening and when and where.

The first couple states really end up determining who usually wins the nomination and financial backing. It takes time to move a candidate between places and set up multiple events and fundraisers. Now in state and city elections the US can do those quickly as well. Smaller area to cover and campaign and the community stays informed. It doesn't help that national elections involve institutions like the electoral college instead of a popular vote. That's a different problem though.
by AshishGautam | 2026-02-20 21:02:56+00:00
I pay for pro max 20x usage and for something that is like even little open ended its not good it doesnt understand the context or edge cases or anything. i will say it writes codes chunks of codes but sometimes errors out and i use opus 4.6 only, not even sonnet but for simple tasks like write a basic crud i.e. the things that happen extremely higly in codebases its perfect. So, i think what will happen is developer get very efficient but problem solving remains with us dirrection remains with us and small implementation is outsourced in small atomic ways, which is good cause who likes boilerplate code writing anyways.
by latchkey | 2026-02-20 21:02:59+00:00
oh and left arrow to open the comments is debatable, but i kind of like it. my reading pattern is to open a bunch of tabs... right/enter to open the story and then left to open the comments... then when i have time, i go through all the 'interesting' stories.

what i'd like to do is add kind of a bookmark and tag system so that you can store what you want to read later and be able to tag it so that you can search for it. favorites is close, but it doesn't quite cover the same use cases.
by yathern | 2026-02-20 21:03:03+00:00
> Unless your strategy is to create a photo-lab-like screen in pure black and red, or wear deep-red-tinted glasses, it’s unlikely that a pure colorshift strategy will cut out that big of a chunk of the spectrum.

I absolutely think this is the right approach. The glasses which do 'blue light filtering' which barely change your perception are clearly placebo, but a very strong redshift I think is obviously a different creature.
by Const-me | 2026-02-20 21:03:30+00:00
> very small percentage of people to use the torrent over the direct download

BitTorrent protocol is IMO better for downloading large files. When I want to download something which exceeds couple GB, and I see two links direct download and BitTorrent, I always click on the torrent.

On paper, HTTP supports range requests to resume partial downloads. IME, it seems modern web browsers neglected to implement it properly. They won’t resume after browser is reopened, or the computer is restarted. Command-line HTTP clients like wget are more reliable, however many web servers these days require some session cookies or one-time query string tokens, and it’s hard to pass that stuff from browser to command-line.

I live in Montenegro, CDN connectivity is not great here. Only a few of them like steam and GOG saturate my 300 megabit/sec download link. Others are much slower, e.g. windows updates download at about 100 megabit/sec. BitTorrent protocol almost always delivers the 300 megabit/sec bandwidth.
Show HN: AgentCheck – AI bot posture leaderboard from robots.txt and llms.txt
by MK_Phoenix | 2026-02-20 21:04:09+00:00
Hi HN — I built AgentCheck to make the agentic internet more legible.

AgentCheck is a public “AI bot posture leaderboard” built from declared public signals:
- robots.txt allow/deny rules
- public capability/interface files (e.g. /llms.txt and /.well-known/agents.json where present)
- weekly deltas so you can see policy changes over time

It answers: which bots a site declares it blocks/allows (using a fixed reference bot set), whether agent-readable interface files exist, and how posture changes week to week.

Important: this is not a claim about actual crawling activity — it’s posture + public interface signals.

Link: https://www.agentcheck.com/leaderboard/ai-bots

I’d love feedback on:
- other public signals worth adding
- how you’d define “agent readiness”
- edge cases where robots.txt parsing should be handled differently
by apparent | 2026-02-20 21:04:14+00:00
I considered that possibility, and if they were just adding in the PTR launch I could understand. But expanding into a totally different product line seems like it would take up a lot of time, and is surely slowing things down.

Given that the Chinese holiday is falling right in the middle of production and delaying things by over a month, it seems like they could have focused more on the PT2 and gotten it out the door sooner.

My guess is that once they realized they couldn't finish the run before the holiday, they gave up on trying to even start mass production before then. But like you, I'm just speculating from the outside.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-20 21:05:10+00:00
What happens when you log on to Facebook with uBlock Origin (not lite), plus EFF Privacy Badger, with appropriate settings, enabled? Is it possible to get to a state where some/most of these Facebook-suggested items are not visible? Or is there no separation between the promoted/artificial and organic (if I can use that term) content?

I wouldn't know myself; I tried Facebook in... I think 2010 or so, but found it to be highly addictive and not worth it, so I quit after several weeks. Since then, while I knew that I occassionaly missed some useful group to be in, I've not regretted the decision.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-20 21:05:38+00:00
Sure it does. https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats...

> If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in violation of our rules,” the warning says. You can continue to publish the post or delete it.
by mrbungie | 2026-02-20 21:05:56+00:00
(Not GP) There was a well recognized reproducibility problem in the ML field before LLM-mania, and that's considering published papers with proper peer-reviews. The current state of afairs in some ways is even less rigourous than that, and then some people in the field feel free to overextend their conclusions into other fields like neurosciences.
by Octoth0rpe | 2026-02-20 21:06:08+00:00
> They need to their eyeballs and not lose them to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.

At this point I'm not sure how they could 'lose eyeballs' to those 3. There doesn't seem to be any kind of market overlap. Unless we're talking about the very abstract sense of doing _anything_ other than use a meta product is a potential lost eyeball in which case you might as well add the national park system to the list of people they can't lose to, and I don't think that's a useful way to talk about the cost/benefit of Meta's ai spending spree.
by beeflet | 2026-02-20 21:06:10+00:00
I love postmarketos, but there is not even one "Main" phone with all of the hardware feature supported.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Fairphone 4 looks close, hopefully fairphone 4 support will continue to improve at this rate. Pinephone is another close one, but underpowered hardware and camera support kills it.

I am not even that intensive of a phone user. but there is no way I could daily drive pmOS.
by fragmede | 2026-02-20 21:06:13+00:00
It's a git repo. What's sort of mess-ups are you worried about that you can't reflog your way out of (or ask claude code to fix)? It's certainly possible to lose uncommitted work, but once it's been committed, unless claude code goes and deletes .git entirely (which I've had codex do, so you'd better push it somewhere), you can't lose work.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-02-20 21:06:39+00:00
Not sure what the name of your complex is, maybe groveling deference to legalese? Whatever it is, I'm sure I would have applied it to your entire country of origin if I knew where you're from, and if I were developmentally around the age of twelve.

He did everything exactly by the book and in the end was even nice enough to not publish the company's name, despite the legal threat being bullshit and him being entirely in the right.
by overgard | 2026-02-20 21:06:46+00:00
I think LLM's are just fundamentally the wrong AI technique for games like this. You don't want a prediction for the next move, you want the best move given knowledge of how things would play out 18 moves ahead if both players played the optimal move. Outside of an academic interest/curiosity, there isn't really a reason to use LLMs for chess other than thinking LLMs will turn into AGI (I doubt it)
by EA-3167 | 2026-02-20 21:07:05+00:00
Absolutely, although dark orange seems to work well enough. If you can put them on and still tell the difference between most colors, they aren't working. I use my pair for one purpose: reading in bed with a backlit e-reader. I can't imagine trying to do much else with them on, they have plastic wings to block light from the side and they're not light.

But they work.
by saulpw | 2026-02-20 21:07:06+00:00
I love the idea of "downward mobility". In particular over the past 30 years we've created a new class of ultra-ultra-rich with even more wealth than the robber barons of the gilded age had, and we need to figure out how to dismantle that entire class. A puny 3% wealth tax would take over 100 years to knock them down, and that's presuming that their wealth is static and not growing at a rate much greater than 3%.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-20 21:07:13+00:00
"Are becoming", you sweet summer child.

It all started with Facebook closing pretty much everything and making FB Messenger a custom protocol instead of XMPP.

And whatever API access is still available is so shit and badly managed that even a household name billion dollar gaming company couldn't get a fast-lane for approval to use specific API endpoints.

The final straw was Twitter effectively closing up their API "to protect from bots", which in fact did NOT protect anyone from bots. All it did was prevent legitimate entertaining and silly bots from acting on the platform, the actual state-controlled trolls just bought the blue checkmark and continued as-is.
by dust42 | 2026-02-20 21:07:17+00:00
I am actually doing now a good part of dev with Qwen3-Coder-Next on an M1 64GB with Qwen Code CLI (a fork of Gemini CLI). I very much like

a) to have an idea how much tokens I use and
b) be independent of VC financed token machines and
c) I can use it on a plane/train

Also I never have to wait in a queue, nor will I be told to wait for a few hours. And I get many answers in a second.

I don't do full vibe coding with a dozen agents though. I read all the code it produces and guide it where necessary.

Last not least, at some point the VC funded party will be over and when this happens one better knows how to be highly efficient in AI token use.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-20 21:07:22+00:00
> So the algorithms for people that travel internationally a lot are drastically different from the people who remain stationary.

I can confirm the same experience as the parent commenter for my family who still use Facebook even though most of them don't travel internationally.

> If Facebook wanted to prevent themselves from negative publicity, they might have a different experience for the people who have political power (international travel might be the best proxy for that)

I think the much simpler explanation is more likely: People who use Facebook for engaging with friends and family content will see more friends and family content. I don't think this is Facebook playing 4D chess trying to hide content from politicians by detecting who is traveling internationally. I mean, if Facebook did want to have a separate algorithm for politicians, don't you think they could come up with something better than triggering on international travel?
by Buttons840 | 2026-02-20 21:07:28+00:00
An example of this I've personally seen is a friend who works on COBOL mainframes at a bank.

He writes COBOL and maintains a banking system that keeps the world running. Literally like a billion people die if the system he maintains fails. I maintain a VC funded webpage that only works half the time. I make more than him, a lot more.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-20 21:07:37+00:00
Not opposed, Wikimedia tech folks are very accessible in my experience, ask them to make a GET or POST to https://web.archive.org/save whenever a link is added via the Wiki editing mechanism. Easy peasy. Example CLI tools are https://github.com/palewire/savepagenow and https://github.com/akamhy/waybackpy

Shortcut is to consume the Wikimedia changelog firehose and make these http requests yourself, performing a CDX lookup request to see if a recent snapshot was already taken before issuing a capture request (to be polite to the capture worker queue).
by sanswork | 2026-02-20 21:08:05+00:00
You need enough users for providers to bother making it an option to pay with so it really is black and white. You might get a few niche providers offering it as a payment method without a critical mass of users but most companies aren't going to invest time and effort into implementing a payment system a tiny percentage of users have access too and if I need to trade money with my friends the low % means that in the vast majority of cases they aren't going to have lightning available either.
by michael-bey | 2026-02-20 21:08:15+00:00
>There's been some skepticism about whether they are truly high severity

To be honest this is an even bigger problem with Semgrep and other SAST tools. Developers just want the .1% of findings that actually lead to issues, but flagging patterns will always lead to huge false positive rates.

I do something similar as what you suggested and it does work well -pattern match + LLM. The downside is this only applies to SAST and so far nobody has found a way to address the findings that make up 90% of a security team's noise, namely SCA and container images.
by Tehnix | 2026-02-20 21:08:25+00:00
Bunch of negative sentiment in here, but I think this is pretty huge. There are quite a lot of applications where latency is a bigger requirement than the complexity of needing the latest model out there. Anywhere you'd wanna turn something qualitative into something quantitative but not make it painfully obvious to a user that you're running an LLM to do this transformation.

As an example, we've been experimenting with letting users search free form text, and using LLMs to turn that into a structured search fitting our setup. The latency on the response from any existing model simply kills this, its too high to be used for something where users are at most used to the delay of a network request + very little.

There are plenty of other usecases like this where.
by verdverm | 2026-02-20 21:08:27+00:00
> One thing I won't do though, is complain about how there's now 1 million todo apps that aren't up to my standards.

HN is generally considered a filter in industry, or a place to launch and make a hot start. The author is making their comments from the context of Show HN, where we expect some self-filtering, for quality and appropriateness.

What we see in Show HN the last few weeks is slop, submissions where the time from first commit to posting on HN is less than an hour. I've been posting some selections to Bluesky. The fastest I've seen so far is 25m [1]

I fully agree with everything you said and everything the author said. The two are not mutually exclusive.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.com/post/3mf2hygnbkc2o