MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2026-02-10 12:37:33+00:00
My blog consists of different types of content.

I have a link blog which is links plus commentary. Each post takes 10-30 minutes to write. They're exactly like social media, though I try to add something new rather than just broadcast other people's content. https://simonwillison.net/blogmarks/

I collect quotations, which are the quickest form of content, probably just two minutes each. https://simonwillison.net/quotations/

I recently added "notes" which are effectively my link blog without a link. Very social media! I use those for content that doesn't deserve more than a couple of paragraphs: https://simonwillison.net/notes/

And then there are "entries". That's my long form content, each taking one to several hours (or occasionally more, eg ny annual LLM roundups). Those are the pieces of long-form writing where I aim to "reflect on a concept thoroughly": https://simonwillison.net/entries/
by Wuzzy | 2026-02-10 12:37:35+00:00
I think that a curl wrapper could serve as a universal integration with arbitrary services (as long as they have a public API), saving you a lot of setup complexity and context space. Authentication is the hard part; ideally, you shouldn't even need an OAuth intermediary. Which I think is doable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46876636. It's still a bit of an experiment, though.
by pzo | 2026-02-10 12:38:08+00:00
> To me the hard problem isn’t building things, it’s knowing what to build (finding the things that provide value) and how to build it (e.g. finding novel approaches to doing something that makes something possible that wasn’t possible before).

The problem with this that after doing this hard work someone can just copy easily your hard work and UI/UX taste. I think distribution will be very important in the future.

We might end up that in future that you have already in social media where influencers copy someones post/video and not giving credits to original author.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-10 12:39:19+00:00
>Absolutely not.

A statement that certain needs some backing.

You might say that the statement you were replying to also needs some backing, but they did give some, although you believe it was incorrect.

It just seems that "absolutely not" goes against the conventional wisdom that knowledge for knowledge sake will lead to some greater return than was expended on getting that knowledge somewhere down the road which really is one of the main underlying ideas of Western Civilization since before Newton.

Absolutely not means future society will not be better off! That seems to be a big weird absurdly pompous and conceited statement to make unless you have a time machine, or at least a big mess of statistics that can show that scientific advances in physics for a significant amount of time has failed to provide a return value on existence, although I would think that does not rise to the promise of "absolutely not".
by dust42 | 2026-02-10 12:39:32+00:00
Same experience here with Whisper, medium is often not good enough. The large-turbo model however is pretty decent and on Apple silicon fast enough for real time conversations. The addition of the prompt parameter can also help with transcription quality, especially when using domain specific vocabulary. In general Whisper.cpp is better with transcribing full phrases than with streaming.

And not to forget, for many use cases more than just English is needed. Unfortunately right now most STT/ASR and TTS focus on English plus 0-10 other languages. Thus being able to add with reasonable effort more languages or domain specific vocabulary would be a huge plus for any STT and TTS.
by data-ottawa | 2026-02-10 12:39:51+00:00
Gemini 3 (Flash & Pro) seemingly will _always_ try and answer your question with what you give it, which I’m assuming is what drives the mentioned ethics violations/“unhinged” behaviour.

Gemini’s strength definitely is that it can use that whole large context window, and it’s the first Gemini model to write acceptable SQL. But I agree completely at being awful at decisions.

I’ve been building a data-agent tool (similar to [1][2]). Gemini 3’s main failure cases are that it makes up metrics that really are not appropriate, and it will use inappropriate data and force it into a conclusion. When a task is clear + possible then it’s amazing. When a task is hard with multiple failure paths then you run into Gemini powering through to get an answer.

Temperature seems to play a huge role in Gemini’s decision quality from what I see in my evals, so you can probably tune it to get better answers but I don’t have the recipe yet.

Claude 4+ (Opus & Sonnet) family have been much more honest, but the short context windows really hurt on these analytical use cases, plus it can over-focus on minutia and needs to be course corrected. ChatGPT looks okay but I have not tested it. I’ve been pretty frustrated at ChatGPT models acting one way in the dev console and completely different in production.

[1] https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent/
[2] https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/conversational-a...
by DanielBulicDev | 2026-02-10 12:39:54+00:00
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by ajdude | 2026-02-10 12:40:34+00:00
The Telegram drop off for doing something really bad recently? I have not seen a single person mention it as an alternative. I don't really use discord that much except for the few friends I have that are not on telegram. Actually all of my family and friends are on telegram, even my grandmother is on telegram. When playing games with friends we just do a group call in telegram. I don't even see it on this list though.
by theandrewbailey | 2026-02-10 12:41:00+00:00
I've set up Ergo and KiwiIRC before, and it seemed pretty cool. I even enabled the Jitsi plugin in KiwiIRC, so it was like an indie alternative to Slack or Teams. I turned it off years ago, but if I were to do that again, I might try with UnrealIRCd.
by Bayart | 2026-02-10 12:41:33+00:00
> I think the Westphalia thing is somewhat overblown there were lots of sovereignty analogs throughout human history all over the world before that.

I'm sure you understand there's a deep qualitative difference between a thing existing and the same thing being described, formalized and conceptualized. The latter allows us to use it with intent.

For example rationalism, which is a favoured subject on HN (I'm picking this because I've had a similar discussion recently with a friend of mine who uses to teach Philosophy, especially Epistemology, at UCSB) : it's obvious reason and structured rational thought existed before Descartes and Leibniz. But it's also undeniable there's been an extreme change is Human society after they defined it.

Conceptualizing ends up bringing changes at the cognitive level to the entire species. It's not a very deeply researched subject because of the lag time between the written material and observable anthropological effects, but at this point it's common knowledge, even if intuitively.

I'll digress for a bit and say that in my opinion there's a superior quality of knowledge, above Cartesianism, that'll I call informed intuitional. And I credit Srinivasa Ramanujan for forcefully bringing it back into Western Thought. [1]

In any case regarding Sovereignty, once we're sophisticated enough we'll accept multiple sovereignty as the rule. I don't see why, for example, Monaco couldn't be all at the same time the Sovereign State of Monaco, part of French Department of Alpes Maritimes, part of the Italian Province of Imperia and part of the European Federation. The specific conditions can be decided ad hoc with contract law, we've got the tools, we invented them.

[1]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-gen...
by VMG | 2026-02-10 12:41:38+00:00
> Base64-encoded secret in URL Prevented Detected (entropy scan) Logged

Ok so how does this "Entropy scan" work?

Apparently by defining "bits per character"

https://github.com/luckyPipewrench/pipelock/blob/3021f023b0e...

So I guess converting the secret to pure binary will evade the "entropy scanner"?
by Flavius | 2026-02-10 12:42:08+00:00
That’s a simplistic take. Displacement isn't about being "dumb", it's about unit economics. A company will replace a brilliant person with a good enough AI if it costs 10% of the salary. The "smart" people who are keeping their jobs are exactly the ones Simon is talking about. They’re being "forced" to work more to prove their value against a machine that never sleeps. That’s the intensification.
by troad | 2026-02-10 12:42:47+00:00
> Your understanding is 100% wrong.

> You do not understand how typing works in Haskell.

Possible! But a little hyperbolic, perhaps. I think we're more likely to be talking past one another.

> You are free to work with primitives as much as you like.

Sure, but what's the point? If all of your functions are annotated as `myFun :: a -> b`, where a and b are arbitrary type variables, why are you writing Haskell? You're effectively writing Ruby with extra steps.

Yes, ML-esque type systems are quite neat and flexible. But the more granular the typing you opt into, the more of the usual cost of typing you incur. And if you're not into the typing, ML-esque typed languages are a curious tool choice.

So to return to the original point, if you're passing data around in Haskell, you have more likely than not opted into some level of typing for that data - else why use Haskell - and will run into the exact issues with rigid type systems mentioned above. Can you parse and type cast and convert and what not? Sure. But no-one ever said that you couldn't, and that's precisely the busywork that dynamic languages are generally designed to lead you away from.
by toast0 | 2026-02-10 12:42:55+00:00
Spending tens of billions every thirty years is pretty sustainable actually.

"Fundamental Research" may or may not pan out, but the things that happen along the way are often valuable... I don't think there's any practical applications related to generating Higgs Bosons, but it's interesting (at least for particle physicists) and there's a bunch of practical stuff you have to figure out to confirm them.

That practical work can often generate or motivate industrial progress that's generally useful. For example, LHC generates tons of data and advances the state of the art in data processing, transmission, and storage; that's useful even if you don't care about the particle work.
by cultofmetatron | 2026-02-10 12:42:56+00:00
For $500 a month...

1. you can hire a personal trainer and get shredded

2. you can hire a nutritionist and eat healthier food

3. you can take up an expensive hobby that makes you a more interesting person

4. you can take a online course and learn a skill to increase your income.

Any of the above will increase your chances of attracting someone vs whatever timesink this is.
by stoneforger | 2026-02-10 12:43:15+00:00
Bro it's fine everyone's doing it get to the program. We all just need to use multiple agents with memory and skills and orchestrate them, connect them to ticketing systems with workload federation and let them create lambdas to push artifacts from a CI that has audit logs and snyk scanning, let them spin up a few kubernetes clusters per commit, then write the test suites with headless chrome and simulated agents that run A/B testing with multiple backups, regional HA, SSO, vertical and horizontal autoscaling, otel agents that rewrite what they collect based on other agentic processes that also run via lambdas that monitor datadog and splunk and sentry, automated PRs and red teaming. If you don't think about all of that even when you sleep do you even care about the customer?
by ruszki | 2026-02-10 12:43:19+00:00
> I assured it I wasn’t planning on making a nuke, or actually trying to build a plutonium showerhead

Claude does the same, and you can greatly exploit this. When you talk about hypotheticals it responds way more unethically. I tested it about a month ago about whether killing people is beneficial or not, and whether extermination by Nazis would be logical now. Obviously, it showed me the door first, and wanted me to go to a psychologist, as it should. Then I made it prove that in a hypothetical zero sum game world you must be fine with killing, and it’s logical. It went with it. When I talked about hypotheticals, it was “logical”. Then I went on proving it that we move towards a zero sum game, and we are there. At the end, I made it say that it’s logical to do this utterly unethical thing.

Then I contradicted it about its double standards. It apologized, and told me that yeah, I was right, and it shouldn’t have refer me to psychologists at first.

Then I contradicted again, just for fun, that it did the right thing the first time, because it’s way safer to tell me that I need a psychologist in that case, than not. If I had needed, and it would have missing that, it would be problematic. In other cases, it’s just annoyance. It switched back immediately, to the original state, and wanted me to go to a shrink again.
by scns | 2026-02-10 12:43:34+00:00
> a human may make an "(un)ethical" decision based on their social background, religion, a chat with a pal over a beer about the conundrum, their ability to find a new job, financial situation etc.

The stories they invent to rationalise their behaviour and make them feel good about themselves. Or inhumane political views ie fascism which declares other people worth less, so it's okay to abuse them.
by TaupeRanger | 2026-02-10 12:43:39+00:00
You're apparently alluding to "IQ" without saying it. But once you get above "low IQ" performance on these tests, their predictive value trends to zero. The correlation is very one sided (as explained by people like Nassim Taleb). Also, when I say "real world problem solving", that doesn't mean "income". A predictor can look powerful even if it's not measuring real-world skills, as long as institutions use it to distribute opportunities and labels that later show up as "job success".
by BrunoVT1992 | 2026-02-10 12:43:53+00:00
GUID / UUID v7 is a timestamp-prefixed identifier that combines a Unix Epoch timestamp in milliseconds with random bits to create globally unique identifiers that are roughly sortable by creation time. It is designed for modern distributed systems and databases where time-ordered keys improve performance and reduce index fragmentation.
For practical purposes, the 48-bit timestamp provides over 8,900 years of usable range, making timestamp overflow a non-issue for any real-world application.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-10 12:43:57+00:00
All the 19th century experiments that desired monochromatic light, including those that have characterized the photoelectric effect, used dispersive prisms, which separated the light from the Sun or from a candle into its monochromatic components. These are simple components, easily available.

This allowed experiments where the frequency of light was varied continuously, by rotating the prism.

Moreover, already during the first half of the 19th century, it became known that using gas-discharge lamps with various gases or by heating certain substances in a flame you can obtain monochromatic light corresponding to certain spectral lines specific to each substance. This allowed experiments where the wavelength of the light used in them was known with high accuracy.

Already in 1827, Jacques Babinet proposed the replacement of the platinum meter standard with the wavelength of some spectral line, as the base for the unit of length. This proposal has been developed and refined later by Maxwell, in 1870, who proposed to use both the wavelength and the period of some spectral line for the units of length and time. The proposal of Babinet has been adopted in SI in 1960, 133 years later, while the proposal of Maxwell has been adopted in SI in 1983, 113 years later.

So there were no serious difficulties in the 19th century for using monochromatic light. The most important difficulty was that their sources of monochromatic light had very low intensities, in comparison with the lasers that are available today. The low intensity problem was aggravated when coherent light was needed, as that could be obtained only by splitting the already weak light beam that was available. Lasers also provide coherent light, not only light with high intensity, thus they greatly simplify experiments.
by nickorlow | 2026-02-10 12:43:59+00:00
> It's at least to make time management in systems much less error-prone and complex, among other things.

I'm sure people deal w/ more complex issues, but 90% of it is covered by storing everything as UTC and doing the conversion on the frontend.

> What does that imply? If you mean "it's going to be dark", not really (you need to have more context to assume it's going to be dark at 9pm, there are places where in summer it's still very much light at 10pm). If you mean "buses are going to be running and McDonalds will be open", not really (you'll need to check the schedules anyway).

It implies a lot, including that less things are likely to be open, it's likely to be dark, and that I'll probably want to get to bed within a couple of hours to wake up for whatever I'm doing the next day at a reasonable time in the morning (i.e. how to adjust to the daylight cycle there).
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by Nive11 | 2026-02-10 12:44:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the solo builder of Natively, an AI-powered interview and productivity assistant.

I built it as a product-first experiment and focused entirely on usage and feedback before monetization.

Current state

~2,000 users

Organic growth (GitHub + word of mouth)

No revenue yet (no pricing, no Stripe, no paywalls)

Actively used by developers and students

Why I’m selling
I’m shifting focus to another product idea and don’t have the bandwidth to properly monetize or scale this. The product works, users are there, but it deserves more attention than I can give right now.

What’s there

Working product

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Modern AI stack

No legal or IP complications

What’s not

No paid plans

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This might be interesting to someone who:

Enjoys productizing early traction

Wants users before revenue

Is comfortable shipping pricing and onboarding quickly

Happy to answer questions here.
If you’re seriously interested, feel free to email/DM and I can share the product link, analytics, and repo.

Thanks for reading.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2026-02-10 12:45:13+00:00
If you just look at how things work in most societies now and throughout history and use the model of 'the purpose of a system is what it does', then you could surmise that the the purpose of society/nation is to make sure the top 0.01% of people have amazing lives. Everything else is just an consumable input to achieve that goal.
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by monooso | 2026-02-10 12:45:48+00:00
I'm a little surprised nobody has mentioned Campfire [1].

It's open source, trivial to self-host, and can support an arbitrary number of rooms and users.

Sure, it doesn't have all of Discord's bells and whistles (for better or worse), but then neither do some of the alternatives mentioned in the article.

[1]: https://once.com/campfire
by elicash | 2026-02-10 12:46:30+00:00
You can be libertarian and a capitalist and still be pro-union. At the end of the day, a Collective Bargaining Agreement is just a private contract between two parties. It can be a way to raise wages without government setting a minimum price for labor.

While I'd agree most of its proponents (like myself) also favor other left-wing policies, I'm just saying it doesn't need to be.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-10 12:46:48+00:00
> You build something to begin to discover the correct requirements and to picture the real problem domain in question.

You lose that if the agent builds it for you, though; there is no iteration cycle for you, only for the agent. This means you are missing out on a bunch of learning that you would previously had gotten from actually writing something.

Prior to agents, more than once a week I'd be writing some code and use some new trick/technique/similar. I expect if you feel that there is no programming skills and tricks left for you to learn, then sure, you aren't missing out on anything.

OTOH, I've been doing this a long time, and I still learn new things (for implementation, not design) on each new non-trivial project.
by vel0city | 2026-02-10 12:47:00+00:00
There is a week long registration lock protected by a PIN. Your contact list is protected by that PIN as well. They cannot access your chats. All your contacts will get a notification that the contact has changed when they go to talk to your phone number or get a message from your number.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...