MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2026-02-10 16:47:12+00:00
> Because at a minimum you want American tourist dollars and Europe isn't going to start issuing European credit cards to Americans or other citizens around the world.

It could be handled similarly to how tourists in Brazil can now use Brazil's Pix payment system.

One way Brazil handles it is with 3rd party digital wallets that tourists can install on their phones such as Wallbit [1]. Another way is with 3rd party services that let you pay from your own digital wallet or bank app and the service makes the Pix payment [2].

[1] https://www.wallbit.io/en/blog/brazilian-pix-and-a-payment-a...

[2] https://www.pagbrasil.com/lp/pix-for-international-travelers...
by waisbrot | 2026-02-10 16:47:22+00:00
I would still recommend trying Bazzite today.

If we take the post as truth (it's not clear to me whether we can), then Bazzite will get iffy kernel updates that will particularly break handhelds. But desktop will be more stable and you could even turn off automatic updates for 6months and see how things look after.

I think Bazzite has a very smooth experience for Windows gaming and even if you decide that you don't like it or that the distro really is falling apart, you'll have gotten the best Linux-gaming experience and can evaluate other distros more clearly.
by scrollop | 2026-02-10 16:47:25+00:00
If a different architecture to LLMs is invented (that could actually "think", that could potentially reach AGI), then perhaps it would be more efficient than LLMs. Perhaps LLMs can make themselves more efficient. They can't even remember "properly". Hallucinations cripple them for serious, professional uses. If they may hallucinate 5% of the time and you are asking mission critical queries, that's a problem.

Perhaps all of these data centers won't be needed. At least not by some of the current AI companies that won't keep up. If that happens to OpenAI, that would be quite a shock to the financial system (and GDP).

With the talk of Nvidia backtracking and saying they won't invest 100 billion in OpenAI, Oracle in a poor financial position with the loan's for it's upcoming data centres becoming more expensive and dubious (they could fail to pay them)- the picture isn't as positive as you make it out to be. Which makes me think that you have an ulterior motive.

Microsoft's changes to windows have alienated some of their userbase. Copilot is poor compared to it's rivals. There's a reason they are down 20%
by shafoshaf | 2026-02-10 16:47:27+00:00
[55yo] My sense is that those problems we worked on in the 80s and 90s were like the perfectly balanced MMORPG. The challenges were tough, but with grit, could be overcome and you felt like you could build something amazing and unique. My voxel moment was passing parameters in my compilers class in college. I sat down to do it and about 12 hours later I got it working, not knowing if I could even do it.

With AI, it is like coding is on GOD mode and sure I can bang out anything I want, but so can anyone else and it just doesn't feel like an accomplishment.
by fcanesin | 2026-02-10 16:47:31+00:00
My experience trying LanceDB has been abysmal. It worked great on dev and small testing environments but as soon we tried production workloads it would get extremely slow. We shifted to PostgreSQL + pgvector and had absolutely no issues, even if it is not "engineered for multimodal data". Maybe we were doing something wrong but we did put effort in trying to make it work - it is this hard to get it performant?
Show HN: I just want *one page* to see all investments, so that's what I built
by stedwick | 2026-02-10 16:47:47+00:00
I wasn't able to find any other app that successfully combined TradFi and DeFi into a single page. So I built this for myself, and I hope you folks can find it useful as well!

My app supports anything in the Yahoo Finance API or in a Bitcoin, Ethereum & EVM, or Solana wallet. Can you think of anything else it should track?
by sarchertech | 2026-02-10 16:47:49+00:00
I think we need reforms and I’m very much against the accumulation of power that we’ve allowed the billionaire class.

But the French Revolution is nothing to emulate. If you’ve read the history of the French Revolution you know that it quickly moved on from rich parasites to murdering and imprisoning people over minor philosophical differences and real or lack of perceived lack of enthusiasm for continued murder. And it eventually led to global war and attempted global conquest.
by sriram_malhar | 2026-02-10 16:47:58+00:00
I'm curious about what you mean by "telling". What is the tell that you perceive? I would like to understand whether I misrepresented myself.

I agree with you, that none of it is easy. It is precisely why I used to doodle, to craft small projects to understand the core essence of what is going on: building an entire TCP/IP stack, writing a compiler, writing a database, an editor etc. That practice has allowed me to deploy into production a fair amount of efficient code.

But now, I find myself in the role of a project manager telling my highly capable coding buddy what to do, a role that I do not relish.
by conartist6 | 2026-02-10 16:48:06+00:00
The value of AI output only decreases day to day as people do what there is to do with it. Soon if it can make something it will be making it for the 10th time instead of the 1st.

So yeah, we will hit rock bottom for sure. Eventually the value of anything that is genuinely new will rocket back up because we've spent so many years imitating imitations.
by SamerAttrah | 2026-02-10 16:48:12+00:00
I've been contributing heavily to Hive/Aden recently to help bridge the gap between "research framework" and "production platform."

My recent PRs have focused on improving Developer Experience and safety:

- Goal Decomposition Preview: I noticed a lot of "blind generation" in agent frameworks. I implemented a CLI feature (hive preview) that performs a lightweight LLM pass to decompose a goal into a directed graph structure (nodes & flow logic). It explicitly flags risks (e.g., ambiguous success criteria) and provides cost/complexity estimates before you generate a single line of scaffold code.

- Simulation Mode: To tighten the dev loop, I added a simulation harness that allows for dry-running agent logic against mocked inputs. This lets you test decision trees and retry mechanisms without burning real API credits or triggering side effects (like actually sending an SMS or writing to a DB).

- Enterprise Integrations: I’ve been fleshing out the MCP (Model Context Protocol) layer to support actual business workflows, including Microsoft SQL Server, Twilio (SMS/WhatsApp), Google Maps, n8n, and Zendesk.

- Persistent Memory: Just shipped integration with Memori to solve the statelessness problem, giving agents long-term context retention across sessions.

Happy to answer any questions on the implementation details.
by phil21 | 2026-02-10 16:48:13+00:00
The richer a country gets the more individualist you can become, is my basic theory.

Raising a kid as an atomic couple apart from extended family and community is a horrible experience for the parents. It takes a village and all that. Parenting is utterly exhausting if you are doing it alone with a partner and responsible for every waking moment of childcare.

You see this in immigrant communities in the US. The demographics with the most children universally are those with "old world" style family and community situations. More or less communal child care without the weirdo expectations that the "richer" parts of society has on parents. Parents are allowed to actually be adult human beings with real lives that are not hyper-scheduled to death. Kids tend to be more independent and "roam" between family and friends without official activities being scheduled every day for them. Ironically this typically results in more engaged parenting overall.

That's my theory at least - it's not much better than anyone else's though.
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-10 16:48:31+00:00
You do, but if you leave so much that 20 cars are pulling in front of you, you’ve either driving too slow or misjudged and left unnecessary space. At 15-20 mph traffic speeds, you need 8-20 feet. Ideally, cars in a multiple lane to one lane exit scenario should be zipper merging when congestion reduces speeds. Engineers model this behavior and try to design roads to encourage it.

If you do that and get angry when people change lanes in front of you, you have consciously or subconsciously decided you own that 20 foot gap. That reaction impairs judgement and causes accidents.
by treis | 2026-02-10 16:48:38+00:00
Companies spend an eye watering amount of money on AWS relative the underlying hardware cost. There's definitely a market for something like a mainframe that runs K8s, Postgres, Redis, and the like where you buy once and then run forever.

I don't know if it's true or not but it seems like our AWS bill is something like paying the full purchase price of the underlying hardware every month.
by seanwilson | 2026-02-10 16:48:39+00:00
> All the functions taking a string that might end up being a PhoneNumber need to be highly defensive

Yeah, I can't relate at all with not using a type for this after having to write gross defensive code a couple of times e.g. if it's not a phone number, return -1...throw an exception? The typed approach is shorter, cleaner, self-documenting, reduces bugs and makes refactoring easier.
by billyhoffman | 2026-02-10 16:48:46+00:00
Congratulations on shipping! Looks awesome.

Minor bug: I tried opening the WebP screen shots in another tab to I could zoom and see them more clearly, and it does not work. Chrome renders the WebP image data as text, and Safari prompts you to download it. This appears to be because the web server is not returning a `Content-Type` header for these URLs:

curl --head https://www.netviews.app/_astro/ss7.D8bYvHF6_1awjYx.webp

EDIT: Fixed! I see a Content-Type header now
by andrewla | 2026-02-10 16:48:55+00:00
What can I say, I contain multitudes.

I think that yes, they should be deported. This is not a punishment.

If your solution is that they should not be deported, but employers should be prosecuted, then you're saying that you want the immigrants to starve.

If your solution is that they should not be deported, but we should extend labor protections to them and force employers to hire them legally, then I think there is some merit to this. This is closer to the libertarian open borders argument, and I think there is some merit to it.
by daveguy | 2026-02-10 16:49:29+00:00
And only recently could be optimized in real time, individually, for each target. I remember when there was a big moral scare about "subliminal advertising". People were appalled that an ad on TV could manipulate you without your awareness. That is 100% the business model of modern social media advertising.

It's not embedded in a specific ad, but the entire operation of the promotion algorithms.
by superactro | 2026-02-10 16:49:31+00:00
Honestly, not yet — unless you're willing to spend a weekend on setup. The Docker install is rough, skills break, and you'll hit config issues.

That said, there are now pre-built hardware options specifically for people who don't want to tinker. I've been running OpenClaw on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano — it came pre-configured with everything (Telegram, browser automation, cron jobs) working out of the box. Draws about 15W, completely silent, sits on my desk 24/7.

The "transformative" part for me isn't any single feature — it's having a persistent assistant that remembers context across sessions and can act on things while I'm away. But yeah, the DIY path is definitely not there yet for non-technical users.
by a_tartaruga | 2026-02-10 16:49:41+00:00
> Wouldn't it be simplest to just legalize the people who are here

I recently went down this rabbit hole a bit thinking this was the obvious solution and was surprised to learn that the Reagan administration legalized all illegal immigrants in the USA in 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control....

State control over employment and borders in the US is just too weak to prevent people coming over and so 30 years later this leads right back to the initial state.
by rldjbpin | 2026-02-10 16:49:49+00:00
so many parties peddling AI related services should also agree with the sentiment (so do i). a lot of people in the stack are acting as wrappers. most of their tools are always changing (e.g. see the commit counts in openclaw project), often full of breaking changes and while forcing to migrate to newer version regularly.

if you want something specific without ever-changing needs, it makes sense to do it with fewer dependencies as possible. this should be even more ideal if you believe the code made is of high quality, as it reduces the pain of updating the project for non-functional reasons.

this sentiment ironically goes against the existence of these services, as they themselves are always working on matching the ever-changing dependencies to give the impression of a stable platform.

only if it was possible to have the cake and eat it too
by aeturnum | 2026-02-10 16:50:06+00:00
Tho I also disagree with you, I just want to point out the many HN guidelines[1] you are violating:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

I don't think downvoting your comment is super useful either but there are elements of how you are interacting that are not related to your argument that you could change to be less likely to be downvoted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by vikasg7 | 2026-02-10 16:50:09+00:00
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2. Autochess, Chess Highlights Generator Web App, which takes annotated chess script as text input and generate youtube shorts/videos from it with audio commentary. It uses ffmpeg for video-gen and piperlib for audio gen.

3. Blazedrop (https://github.com/zrx-org/blaze-drop) - a peer to peer file shareing application based on Mesh Algorithm. Built a decentralized file sharing app using WebRTC and VanillaJS, enabling direct P2P transfers without servers. Designed a mesh-based discovery and routing system with chunked file sharing and IndexedDB caching.

4. Youchord (https://github.com/Vikasg7/Youchord) - a discord bot that plays youtube music with support for playlist and all the media player features.

Checkout my https://github.com/vikasg7 for my other project and works.
by dismalaf | 2026-02-10 16:50:09+00:00
One immediately noticeable thing is the lack of gestures on X11. Touchpad and touchscreen gestures just work in Wayland, most DEs implement them OOTB, even Hyprland has them.

Imagine going from a modern OS to one that doesn't have touchpad gestures in 2026. Yeah there's workarounds but having to config that isn't a good user experience.
by ndiddy | 2026-02-10 16:50:28+00:00
I watched this video a while ago that said something similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispyUPqqL1c

The decline in birthrates isn't related to growing living standards, as poorer countries also have declining birthrates. Turkey has a lower birthrate than the UK, and Mexico has a lower birthrate than the US. Places like North Africa and South India have seen declines in birthrates comparable to the West.

He makes the argument that declining birthrates are due more to a fall in coupling than a fall in people in relationships choosing to have kids. He brings up that birthrates would actually be increasing if marriage rates remained constant. This means that all the incentives countries push such as subsidized childcare or tax breaks to have kids are putting the cart before the horse, as a growing share of young people don't have a partner to have kids with to begin with.

He then brings up that the fall in coupling a country experiences is roughly correlated to the rate of mobile internet usage in that country. 46% of American teens say they use social media "almost constantly" vs. 24% a decade ago. People would rather use social media than go out and meet others. He points to South Asia as an example, as it's experienced a relatively smaller decline in marriage rates, and mobile internet usage there is lower than in the rest of the world.

I suppose it's yet another way that cell phones are impacting society.
by Gagarin1917 | 2026-02-10 16:50:35+00:00
Yep. Birth control made it so women can choose how many times they get pregnant. Pregnancy is not exactly a walk in the park, so it’s no surprise it’s decreasing as birth control increases.

To override this, society needs to make having kids be “cool.” It’s that “simple,” but there’s no real way to coordinate that in society from the top down without being authoritarian.

So it’s a problem that can only be solved by individual change and convincing others one on one that it’s desirable. And people don’t like that.
by gambutin | 2026-02-10 16:50:41+00:00
Let’s be honest: children are usually forced on people. It was simply an expectation of your family and society in general for you to have children. This pressure is gone in western societies.

"How dare you asking me when I will have children?"

It’s also not necessary to have kids for retirement anymore.

Look at the top 3 countries with the highest fertility rates over the last 10 years:

- Chad
- Somalia
- DR Congo

Outside of Africa it’s Afghanistan and Yemen.
by galangalalgol | 2026-02-10 16:50:44+00:00
Yes, that is where I get stuck. Of there was a deterministically harmful book, like the play ,"the king in yellow", which drove every reader violently mad, then I would want it banned. There are unquestionably books and ideas that are statistically harmful to the society most of us want to live in. I just don't trust anyone to be the arbiter of what gets included in that category. But I live in a low trust society, so maybe it is a solvable problem?
by array_key_first | 2026-02-10 16:50:45+00:00
This is untrue, there have been studies done that discovered the primary cause of traffic is following too close. Following further away really does reduce the amount of traffic. It seems unintuitive, but consider: every time you brake, the person behind you has to brake a teensy bit longer. And then the person behind them, and behind them. That little bit of extra time accumulated quickly and grinds the highway to a halt.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-10 16:50:49+00:00
> Being a few generations behind is kinda par for the course for any server hardware that's put in production

No it’s not. Normally if you’re buying server hardware you don’t start with a CPU that’s already 5 years old and last-generation RAM that isn’t even manufactured at scale any more.

CPUs have advanced a lot in recent years. The jump from Zen 3 to Zen 5 is very substantial.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-10 16:50:57+00:00
> Then please explain why birth rates throughout human history, when life was vastly more difficult and dangerous than it is now, were so much higher?

> The birth control pill decoupling sex from pregnancy.

Boom. Done.

You really need to interpret the comment you're replying to in the context of here and now, not 100 years ago before people had a choice about whether to get pregnant from sex. Doing otherwise is misleading.

Within the context of people having more choice about pregnancy, the critical remaining piece is that the world is economically and societally absolute shit for people to have children in. Women don't just have the option of entering the workforce, they increasingly need to because a dual income household is now the market expectation in relation to cost of living in developed cities and especially cost of living with children in developed cities. Not to mention the environment, climate, justice, and social wellness being gradually destroyed by plutocratic christofascists on a grand scale for the past several decades.
by bombcar | 2026-02-10 16:50:59+00:00
That's always been my deep unsettling feeling about the whole idea of "mass-market social security nets" of the type Americans call "social security" - it's one thing to provide for those who literally have nothing and nobody; it's another to blanket everyone with it and disrupt natural processes that are as old as time.

Of course, many actual families do NOT go to extremes, and in fact USE the social security they get to help fund the grandchildren, in all sorts of ways. But you have to actively fight against the status quo to do so.

It's interesting to note that even though everyone 'knows' you don't pay SS payments into some account somewhere that is drawn from later, it's transfer payments now - it is still marketed and sold as the former.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-10 16:51:07+00:00
Total fertility rate is the correct metric for comparing how many kids a woman or couple is deciding to have. The birth rate is just boosted by Haredi Jews having outlier amounts of kids, presumably because its a cult where women don’t have many rights.

https://www.taubcenter.org.il/en/research/israels-exceptiona...

> Among Jews, the TFR among Haredim has fluctuated around 7 children per woman since the 1980s, and around 2.5 children per woman among the secular and the traditional who identify as not religious. However, Haredi fertility in the 2007 to 2013 period was lower than in the 1990s, while fertility in the non-Haredi Jewish population has increased since then.

>Even among Jewish women who self-identify as secular and traditional but not religious, the combined TFR exceeds 2.2, making it higher than the TFR in all other OECD countries.
by skydhash | 2026-02-10 16:51:13+00:00
> you should propose the change first and ask the AI about a good, detailed plan for implementing

Why ask though?

If I’m familiar with a project, more often than not, I usually have a very good idea of the code I have to write within minutes of reading the ticket. Most of the time taken is finding the impact of the change, especially with dependencies that are present in the business domain, but are not reflected in the code.

I don’t need to ask what to code. I can deduce it as easily as doing 2+2. What I’m seeking is a reason not to write it the way I envisioned it. And if those reasons are technical, it’s not often a matter of code.
by pengaru | 2026-02-10 16:51:18+00:00
> kids have freedom to go outside, good friends with lots of neighbors and parents, my social life is busier than it was when i didn’t have kids

Don't have kids myself, but this aspect seems incredibly obvious just reflecting on my childhood in suburbs of Chicago through the 80s-90s.

But the causes for what's keeping the kids indoors now instead of literally running the neighborhood are manifold. In the 80s there were far fewer indoor forms of entertainment to occupy the kids without driving mom batshit insane and making a mess of the place. Now the kids have tablets and gaming consoles, the outdoors is such a scary place when it's not full of gangs of children who know all the backyards better than the parents ostensibly owning them.

It's all rather depressing and the longer I live the more convinced I am that not adding my own kids to this state of affairs was the right move.