MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by siriusastrebe | 2026-02-25 20:33:44+00:00
This looks very promising. There's a need for persisting game state in a central place, but also have that data streaming in.

I'm wondering about temporary gamestate that doesn't need to persist. Things like terrain or destructible voxels, where the size could be prohibitive to keep in a databases, but would work well in memory or with a cache.
by Loughla | 2026-02-25 20:34:25+00:00
I am not aware of any college that uses reports like US News and World Report rankings in the compensation packages of their executives.

I agree with your main point, but see a different cause, though. The problem is that parents and students use these reports as a bellwether for identifying prospective schools. Campus visits (short visits) where you see what the campus looks like, but don't actually learn what its about is the second problem.

There is too much PR and not enough focus on substance in higher education, just like there is in many, many, many areas of life in the United States today.
by hyperman1 | 2026-02-25 20:34:27+00:00
I've read somewhere how the English people industrialized because they had problems that could not be fixed by human or animal power. Mines became too deep, pumping too hard. The ancient greek knew about steam engines, but had no use for them. The English did, in their mines. Necessity as mother of invention. Then machines freed us from hard labour and gave us free time.
by amluto | 2026-02-25 20:34:48+00:00
What’s the point of making this dynamic? Go find a city where people are out, having fun, and not buried in their phones, and where the city isn’t full of strip malls and parking lots. There will be people who want to be picked up during busy hours, and having a shelter from the sun or rain is nice, and having a place where there isn’t a parked car or an uber in the way is nice. Lots of Asian capitals are like this.
by throwup238 | 2026-02-25 20:34:52+00:00
Whether it's unique IDs or names, the problem is the same: topology changes destroy the things you’re identifying. When you have a box and you assign ID face_007 (or a generated unique ID) to its top face, that works fine until you fillet an edge adjacent to that face. Now the kernel has to recompute the geometry and depending on the operation, face_007 might still exist in a different shape, might split into multiple faces, or be destroyed completely.

The geometric kernel is doing boundary representation operations so when you do a boolean or a fillet, it doesn’t “edit” existing faces, it computes an entirely new b-rep from scratch. The old faces, edges, and vertices are gone and new ones are created to replace then. There’s nothing to hang a persistent ID on because the entities themselves are ephemeral.

There are solutions to the problem but they all break down eventually. I think freeCAD uses topological tracing and naming schemes so it encodes a face’s identity by how it was created. e.g., “the face generated by the intersection of extrude_1 and the XY plane.” The problem then is that parameter changes or operation insertions in the history can destroy those too, creating a new feature that can’t be easily mapped to the old ones. That’s where all the heuristics come in.

Unique IDs are used internally, but they only last for the lifetime of one evaluation. The hard part is establishing the equivalence between entities across re-evaluations when the topology itself may have changed.
by CreakHat | 2026-02-25 20:35:09+00:00
I’ve been working on a macOS app called App Feedback Hub, built to make handling App Store reviews less painful for developers who spend a lot of time in App Store Connect.

This started as a personal utility because I was tired of the slow UI, constant tab‑switching, and the general friction of replying to reviews through the web interface. I wanted something native, fast, and focused.

What it does

Fetches all reviews for every app in your App Store Connect account
Reply directly from the app using your ASC API key
Filters by rating, territory, date, read/unread, keywords, reviewer name
Automatic translation for non‑English reviews
Background sync + macOS notifications when new reviews arrive
Negative‑review alerts so you can respond quickly
Stats dashboard (rating trends, territories, response rate, etc.)
CSV/JSON export for anyone who wants to analyze or archive feedback
Local‑only processing — ASC keys stored in Keychain, no external servers
Under the hood

Uses the App Store Connect API for fetching and replying to reviews
Built with Swift + SwiftUI, fully native
Uses Keychain Services for secure credential storage
Background sync implemented with App Refresh + async workflows
No backend — everything runs locally on the user’s machine
Why I built it

App Store Connect is powerful, but the review workflow is slow and not optimized for day‑to‑day monitoring. I wanted something that feels like a proper developer tool rather than a web portal.

What I’d love feedback on

Does this solve a real workflow pain point for you
Any features you’d want before adopting something like this
Thoughts on the ASC API integration approach
Pricing feedback (currently $19.99 one‑time)
Any rough edges in onboarding or UX
If you want to check it out, here’s the App Store link:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-feedback-hub/id6759007525

Happy to answer questions or hear honest feedback from people who live in App Store Connect more than they’d like.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-25 20:35:11+00:00
> It’s certainly not because of Texan politics either. It’s just cold hard reality.

one of the few good things Rick Perry did for TX was upgrade the grid so West Texas wind power can reach the main cities. Once West TX showed renewables could make a profit then there's not much anyone, left or right, could do to stop it. The lobbyists made sure of that.

Southwest Texas, where all the fracking took place, also turns out to be good for solar. It's very flat, sunny, and has pretty stable weather. I guess the grid is beefed up and accessible in that region because of the oil/gas industry, I've seen solar farms out there that are so big it's hard to describe. Imagine seeing a shimmering blue that looks like a lake on the desert horizon but then you get to it and it's just miles of solar panels. Again, the moment solar turned a profit there was no stopping it.
by rickydroll | 2026-02-25 20:35:22+00:00
Yeah, ADHD does affect one's ability to drive safely. On the other hand, I've been driving for over 50 years. I've had one accident that I was responsible for. Various other vehicles have been involved in five other accidents where the other driver backed into my parked car.

I think the reason I've been hypervigilant about safe driving practices is that my father owned a rigging company, and I was driving forklifts and stake trucks in the yard from about 13. I understood the impact a vehicle could have on other things, people included. Living in that world from about age nine on teaches you to be obsessive about properly securing a load (Molding machines, air handling units, lathes, etc.).

I've often thought people would be better drivers if they started their driving experience with the motorcycle safety training course curriculum and drove for a year on motorized two wheels, taking up the lane and keeping up with traffic.
by Lucasoato | 2026-02-25 20:35:35+00:00
> it wouldn't be the "end of humanity" or anything even remotely like it

It's very likely that a nuclear conflict between major nuclear-armed states (US, China, Russia, but it could be starting in India or Pakistan as well) would bring an end to humanity as we mean it today.

I really hope that behind all the today's communication bullshit there are deep state masterminds that do not have personal interest in dominating a doomed world.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-25 20:35:55+00:00
It is convoluted but very few people recognize this as well as you do, regardless of how obvious it is:

>war simply made everyone a slave

The same thing in my message, from almost the reverse point of view, how the way some factory-working slaves were turned into employees by the same war in the 19th century.

What's the difference anyway?

The difference between wage slave and fully-owned has been based mainly on freedom-of-movement and payment for labor, which have always been big enough to destroy a republic.

But not big enough for any difference in tasks or financial considerations to be the major thing for something like a government or corporation.

In some ways not much more modern than the Romans.

For the elites, they have always benefited most from a majority of subjects whose wages, if wages were involved, were not that much more significant than zero when it comes to the bottom line.
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2026-02-25 20:36:08+00:00
I have always disliked the := as assignment operator convention. In these declarative languages, assignment is done frequently. There is little cognitive load to using '=' as assignment, although perhaps a bit jarring for math folk.

<- is somewhat better, but, again, for such a common operation, a single character is just more convenient. Sure, we could have editors that turn "=" into := or <- but now we're getting too fancy especially for something pedagogical.

I also don't mind the -> for C pointers; and certainly don't mind the <= >= or even == conventions (although at least today's compilers warn when they see "if (a=b) ...".

Ultimately, humans won't be writing code anymore anyway ( ;-) ?) so maybe the issue is entirely moot.
by svat | 2026-02-25 20:36:58+00:00
Would that satisfy most commenters here?

Prediction: Android will roll out a flow for “experienced users” that they promised in November with “in the coming months” (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-de...), which will allow “experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified”. And even then people will still complain Google is being too controlling by making the warnings too scary / the process too onerous, etc. (I don't expect installing apps from source via adb connected to laptop to go away!)
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 20:37:20+00:00
> I was responding to that bit. It isn't accurate.

You think it's likely that the US will manage to create a stable enough government in Venezuela for foreign investment to be successful? What in the history of American regime change efforts gives you this idea?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/05/venezuelan-...

> The gamble is a long game, with no guarantee of success. Returning Venezuela’s crude production to 3m barrels of oil a day would require 16 years of work and investment totalling $185bn (£137bn), according to figures from Rystad Energy, a global consultancy.

> At least $30-35bn of international capital would need to be committed in the next two to three years to make this scenario plausible, Rystad said. “This could only be financed by international oil companies, which will consider investments in Venezuela only if they have full confidence in the stability of the country’s systems and its investment climate for international oil and gas players,” it added.
by cortesoft | 2026-02-25 20:37:22+00:00
You have a lot of valid criticisms to his online retailers treat employees and communities.

However, I think there are some flaws in your argument.

> That delivery driver might be making rounds too but randomly and likely far less efficient, bouncing around various suburbs.

They are absolutely not making rounds randomly. Delivery routes are meticulously crafted for maximum efficiency. The drivers are going the absolute most efficient route for what they are delivering, and the companies spend millions of dollars to make sure, because that has a huge effect on their bottom line.

> most delivery vehicles, aside from the nice rivian EDVs, are gross polluters

All the Amazon and fedex trucks near where I live are electric. Again, these companies have strong incentives to maximize their effeciency.

> The benefactors of that efficiency are the billionares.

While it is true the billionaire owners capture an outsized share of the gains, I think it is disingenuous to say that consumers don’t get any benefit. I grew up before online retail, and I would never want to go back to having to buy everything at a store. It is INSANELY convenient to be able to order things in 30 seconds on Amazon, for as cheap as I can buy it anywhere, and have it delivered to my house in a few hours or the next day. Now, there are certainly costs to this convenience as you laid out, but it is absolutely a benefit that I have enjoyed.

> Costco is my model for a good local warehouse, not Amazon or Newegg.

I absolutely HATE our local Costco with a passion. It is always so crowded, and the parking lot is a zoo with people driving around trying to find spots and creating gridlock, plus having to walk around the crowds to find stuff and carry it to my car, etc. My experience is way better just pulling out my phone and placing an order. I even have my normal household items set to be delivered on a schedule, meaning I don’t even have to think about buying toilet paper, it just shows up at my house at the rate I need it. It is impossible to get easier than that, why would I want to give that up?
by jedberg | 2026-02-25 20:37:58+00:00
Interesting. My team just went through this to plan offsite. Took about 1/2 a day of one person's time. So I asked your tool to help me:

"I want to have a two day offsite for a team of 12 in Cambridge in April."

It then started pulling up results in Cambridge UK. I meant Massachusetts. I didn't say that in the prompt, but I figured since there are two equally famous Cambridges, it would ask me for clarification.

I redid it specifying Massachusetts and it worked pretty well (although all the options it found were about double the price of what we actually booked).

An interesting idea!

BTW I didn't continue, but I assume you manage the whole booking process? How do deal with questions from the venue and other human in the loop issues?
by jithin_g | 2026-02-25 20:39:14+00:00
I’ve been seeing a lot of people using Remotion to generate motion graphics with code. It’s powerful, but it also feels a bit far from how I like to work.
So I tried a different angle.
Instead of generating animations with code, I’ve been experimenting with an agent that actually edits with an engine I created. It’s fast, but the important part is that everything it does stays fully editable and I can still export to After Effects and keep refining there.
Right now I’m using it mainly to prototype motion pieces quickly, then doing the detailed polish by hand.
by kkfx | 2026-02-25 20:39:38+00:00
While on one hand I suggest revisiting the old Ironies of Automation by Lisanne Bainbridge on the other I've noticed that what's really missing everywhere is IT education. I come from a Computer Engineering background and I saw absolutely NOTHING regarding IT except for a few mentions here and there; I had to teach myself. Those coming from CS see even less (at least speaking for EU universities, I don't know about the US but I suspect it's not much different).

There's an attempt to deny the need for IT knowledge and expertise at every level, Big Tech does it out of self-interest, while most others do it out of ignorance. They often claim, "Oh, it only takes a few minutes or days on your own; just a couple of clicks and you can do everything." Yet, those who say this don't actually know what they're talking about and refuse to even try to prove their own theory.

The outcome is even worse: nowadays, doing it yourself is a struggle even when you have the right skills. All recent software is built to be unmanageable because there's no operation/infra vision. Don't even get me started on documentation; everyone talks about the need for a "documentation culture" yet what actually gets documented ranges from nothing to total garbage (basically text that's useless unless you feed it to an LLM and hope it can make some sense of it).

To make matters worse, standard hardware is getting more and more expensive, first it was graphics cards, then RAM, and now NVMEs, with the result that many people simply don't want to or can't afford to buy, so they're literally living on someone else's computers even if they don't like it. This is especially true for students, who are at the best stage of their lives for learning and who won't have the time or energy to do it later on.

To complete the picture, the business model just isn't sustainable; no matter how much is invested, a real digital evolution isn't possible while living on the computers of four giants limited by their own services, and this implies that a social collapse awaits us regardless.

For me, the solution is managing to have enough leverage so that we can push for mandatory FLOSS and open hardware de jure in response, in order to limit the damage and geopolitical upheavals who push anyone to relocalize, which necessarily implies starting over on a small scale. I see something coming: Nostr, Meshtastic, the Fediverse, the rise of self-hosters and their average age show that there's still an active group of people who want a different world. But they are few and far between, burdened by significant technical debt in a world that's becoming increasingly hostile,and that's exactly where things need to change.

The problems caused by centralization, from various companies getting burned by relying on giant third-party providers, to banking scandals driving crypto (not stablecoins), to the need for resilience that requires cutting down on SPOF might actually make a difference. I hope it'll be enough, and I hope anyone who gets it does their part to spread that understanding while we still can.
by GiovanniP | 2026-02-25 20:39:52+00:00
I use it for all of the pedagogical material I distribute to my high school pupils. It allows me to type quickly and accurately math and explanation with exquisite typography. It allows me to edit freely and with total ease what I have already written: I don't have to look for the point where I have to edit because it is WYSIWYG.

I do not have to collaborate with anyone in writing so it does not matter that there are no users among my colleagues.

In my opinion it is superior to all other systems I tried (I tried many and a lot, and all of the main ones). And, importantly, it is equal or superior to the other systems in _all_ respects.
by dyauspitr | 2026-02-25 20:39:58+00:00
> Enjoying more leisure has a nasty habit of not making people richer in the end.

Human slavery might be one of the few exceptions to this. People can reproduce and create more people provided they are given the bare necessities of life. As long as you could keep the enslaved under control, you would have new slaves you could constantly sell and they mostly took care of themselves.

Honestly it sounds like a great life for an unambitious, lazy person. Maybe we’ll all be able to experience something similar when humanoid robots are commonplace in the future. Find an isolated piece of land with a few robots. Make them grow food and commercial crops. Raise some animals. Live a life of relative self sufficiency and leisure.
by 2c0m | 2026-02-25 20:40:13+00:00
My writing style is influenced a lot by what I read. Because I read a lot of LLM output I use more - phrasing in my writing.

I'm also influenced by the email style of my colleagues, books I'm reading, X, etc.

My literary diet really does show in my writing, so I'll keep up reading the classics to balance out all the LLM content :)
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-25 20:40:19+00:00
America has become China in the eyes of the world.

Everyone banned Huawei products despite the ability to pass laws saying Huawei must respect data sovereignty. They didn't ban US firms, because unlike China the USA was championing the rule of law at the time. Data sovereignty only works if the USA respects the laws of other countries, even though, just like China, they could coerce / bribe citizens and firms to bypass them. Such activity would be largely undetectable. Who is going to know if someone peeked at a secret document stored in Azure? There was a huge amount of trust involved in the arrangement.

The USA has now denounced the rule of law, is withdrawing the the institutions set up to champion it, and has shut down the ICCC's access to some services. The trust has gone.
by Bender | 2026-02-25 20:40:37+00:00
They have no real stake in any decision they make.

And they are not human. Not even a sociopath or psychopathic human. At best they might be able to estimate casualties. LLM's probably can't even reach the logic conclusion of the fictional WOPR Joshua from the movie Wargames [1].

Make LLM's win every game of tic-tac-toe and see if it reaches the same conclusion of WOPR. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKnY [video][6m][tic-tac-toe]
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-25 20:41:18+00:00
"Oxen? Paid laborers? "

In other words, animal and human muscle, we agree on that.

I didn't claim that all human labour was non-free, far from that. Every classical civilization had paid artisans and employees as well.

But the paid professions tended to be the skilled ones, and the non-free ones tended to be the arduous, backbreaking ones.

"The South was notable in clinging to slavery long after it had been abolished elsewhere."

Elsewhere where? If I look at the timeline of slavery abolition on Wikipedia, it seems that the South was not even the last holdout in the Americas, much less worldwide.

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

They were about as delayed as Russia. (Serfdom in Russia was not quite slavery, but brutal and backward nonetheless.)

And the timeline of slavery abolition seems to dovetail with the expansion of the Industrial Revolution across the globe quite tightly, or not?

"it was at least in part cultural."

Chicken, egg. This is a system stretching over millennia with endless feedback loops. Runaway slaves may become the masters (such as the Aztecs) and vice versa, developing their own justifications why it happened.
by pianom4n | 2026-02-25 20:41:39+00:00
There are times when an em dash can be used in place of a semicolon, but I don't think that's the usual LLM usage. Instead it's replacing a replacing a comma, colon, or period.

Unless you're talking about restructuring your sentences to allow for a semicolon; that's fine.

For example that semicolon could have been an em dash, but I don't think it's the type that LLMs over favor.
by VladCovaci | 2026-02-25 20:41:42+00:00
I am writing this because I just got my second paying customer on http://founderspace.work just by writing about it on hacker news

while building has become easy through vibe coding, distribution and marketing have become hard

what I want to say is: once you have a working MVP, start writing about it on every social media, blogs, or wherever you can. Shout about your app. Nobody will care, but it's that 1% who will try it and make you feel that all your hard work was worth it.

Spam social media about your ideas :)
by insane_dreamer | 2026-02-25 20:41:46+00:00
Exactly. The AI just does the math based on the goals you've given it. AI would have happily nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki because it would have estimated that doing so would save the lives of X number of US soldiers in a land invasion, and given a goal of achieving "unconditional surrender now", it wouldn't have considered that a land invasion wasn't imminently necessary and therefore killing 200,000 civilians wasn't the right moral choice.