MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsheard | 2026-02-18 16:10:37+00:00
> You can treat both SVE and RVV as a regular fixed-width SIMD ISA.

Kind of, but the part which looks particularly annoying is that you can't put variable-width vectors on the stack or pass them around as values in most languages, because they aren't equipped to handle types with unknown size at compile time.

ARM seems to be proposing a C language extension which does require compilers to support variably sized types, but it's not clear to me how the implementation of that is going, and equivalent support in other languages like Rust seems basically non-existent for now.
by KittenInABox | 2026-02-18 16:10:39+00:00
I think this is an interesting conundrum, because I feel it is also important to critically consider the people who are making points because it can also inform you about why these points are being made. I don't consider this a tacit ad hominem per se, because we must acknowledge the open internet is full to the brim of bad actors and bots and we cannot equally engage with all comments. It is fine and appropriate to identify comments one doesn't want to engage with, not even with the brainpower of reading. This has increasingly forced people to make concessions to avoid misunderstandings due to other people's need to filter comments.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-18 16:10:50+00:00
Oh hey, if only html was text based.

Oh, wait, it is.

I'm rapidly developing grumpy old man habits about this gulf between "web" and "terminal". Imagine a world where we do `ls | grep .files.size` or something.

I mean, I get why we're here, but it feels so close to giving us all the power of html/css/etc while also having pipes and shells.
by claytongulick | 2026-02-18 16:10:51+00:00
This, of course, is the problem.

There's a really painful Dunning-Kruger process with LLMs, coupled with brutal confirmation bias that seems to have the industry and many intelligent developers totally hoodwinked.

I went through it too. I'm pretty embarrassed at the AI slop I dumped on my team, thinking the whole time how amazingly productive I was being.

I'm back to writing code by hand now. Of course I use tools to accelerate development, but it's classic stuff like macros and good code completion.

Sure, a LLM can vomit up a form faster than I can type (well, sometimes, the devil is always the details), but it completely falls apart when trying to do something the least bit interesting or novel.
by argee | 2026-02-18 16:10:52+00:00
When you say "notes", "community notes" is definitely not the first thing that comes to my mind. On your landing page one either has to scroll down the length of three folds or read some very small print for the first mention of community notes, I think even watching the video doesn't make it entirely clear what the "notes" part of your app really is. I think the fact that this is community notes should be made instantly apparent. It'll probably help your conversions, because the value prop is easier to grok.

Perhaps notes is just an unfortunate name for this kind of thing. I much prefer Twitter's original "Birdwatch".

Is this for very large servers? I'm curious to know why community notes was chosen as the lever for better moderation.
by Kiboneu | 2026-02-18 16:11:27+00:00
> Notably still the only AI provider that demands this kind of check.

Right, the plan is to eventually use it as a launch point for worldcoin.

If you don’t have an orb, it links you to the orb shop. You buy it with money, but registering your face gives you an equivalent number of worldcoin tokens and access to chatgpt (or some elite version of it). They will offer it as a more “privacy conscientious” option to persona, eventually replacing it and making it mandatory within 5 - 10 years.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-18 16:11:32+00:00
This all makes for fine hand wringing but is pretty much irrelevant at hobbyist project scales. The workplace standards that everyone tries to apply in bad faith to personal use are mostly designed to solve problems that aren't there. You're not gonna have distracted drywallers or rebar guys trying to take a shortcut and schlep materials through the excavator's range of motion in a personal use setting. You're not gonna have a boss yelling at someone who doesn't know better hop in an unstable trench or unstable latter and git'r'done when you're your own boss.
by rapnie | 2026-02-18 16:11:48+00:00
> Decentralization is a great idea in theory. But open networks can't keep you safe. There's no gate, no accountability, no way to guarantee that the person on the other end is real.

Decentralization is just a word. It all depends on how the social networking environment is designed. For instance the Bonfire decentralized fediverse project [0] develops specifically for small and inter-connected communities, and they also support Circles, Boundaries and other functionality that helps create safe social environments.

It is ultra-hard to launch social networks from scratch and be successful with them. You may consider benefitting from the growing ecosystem of the fediverse, and align with Bonfire and similar projects. Be stronger together.

[0] https://bonfirenetworks.org
by Aurornis | 2026-02-18 16:12:53+00:00
Why would it have to be a single country or hemisphere? If it's happening globally we'll stop thinking of it as a regional think and start thinking of it as a global problem.

It is weird to see all of these HN comments demanding such regulations and the continued belief that it won't impact us, it will only impact sites we don't like. Even after the Discord fallout from last week.
by sampleSal | 2026-02-18 16:13:33+00:00
We're building AI agents on OpenClaw and were burning $1,100/week on Anthropic API calls.

No idea if our prompting strategy was inefficient or if everyone was paying this much.

Built a quick benchmarking tool: https://local001.com/tokens

Submit your weekly spend + provider + use case → see your percentile + comparisons.

The dataset is early — it gets more useful the more people submit. But here's why I built this:

We're spending $1,100/week on Anthropic for a mix of coding agents and personal assistant tasks. I have no idea if that's normal or insane. Specifically:

Are we overspending by use case? Our coding agent burns ~$700/week and the assistant tasks burn ~$400. But I don't know what "good" looks like. Is $700/week for an agentic coding workflow competitive? Are teams doing similar work at $200? $2,000? There's zero public data on this.

Are we overspending on Anthropic? We're all-in on Claude right now. For coding tasks, maybe that's the right call. But for assistant/chat workflows — should we be routing half of that to GPT-4o or Gemini and cutting costs 60%? I genuinely don't know, and I haven't seen anyone publish real cost comparisons by task type, not just benchmark scores.

That's what this tool is for. Submit your weekly spend, provider, and use case → see where you land. If 50 teams submit data, we'll finally have a real answer to "is Anthropic worth the premium for X?"

Open questions:

Should we track tokens/$ instead of just $?

Should we separate o1/reasoning models vs base models?

How do you benchmark "efficiency" vs raw spend?

Built with Next.js + Cloudflare Workers + D1. Submissions are anonymous (just hashed IPs).

Long-term goal: use this data to negotiate bulk API rates with Anthropic/OpenAI/Google.

How would you improve this?

https://local001.com/tokens
by evanelias | 2026-02-18 16:13:37+00:00
> So many quotable moments. Vantasner Danger Meridian. Structural Dynamics of Flow. The attaché badge.

My friends and I have found that Patriot phrases make excellent team names in pub trivia, even if no other teams get the references. (Also "double great", "disgraced veterinarians", "pin-flam-fastened pan traps", more I'm forgetting... clearly I need to rewatch the show yet again!)

> I’m not surprised it didn’t get more traction with the general public

I suspect the show would have had a larger audience if it had a better title. That seems to be an instant negative whenever I try recommending it to someone. Hopefully Steven Conrad's new hbo show will raise his profile enough to let more people rediscover Patriot. It's an absolute gem.
by bwestergard | 2026-02-18 16:14:07+00:00
Despite all of these policies that improve workers' overall quality of life, Germany's output per hour worked was still 96% of the U.S. figure in 2023. So color me skeptical that key the reform needed is greater "labor market flexibility" (i.e. employer discretion in termination).

Germany and the U.S. alike have historically important internal combustion engine -based auto manufacturing that are in great danger of being marginalized by Chinese electric auto manufacturing. Industrial policy to force manufacturers to abandon sunk costs is politically fraught but necessary.
by ryanmcbride | 2026-02-18 16:14:13+00:00
It's the line that facebook, and functionally every platform based on user content always tries to walk. They want sexual content because it drives engagement, positive and negative, more than almost anything. But they don't want to be held liable for the content, so they put weak policies in place so that they have the appearance of doing something to prevent it.

This makes almost every current social media and content platform this weird middle ground of generally acceptable content, and porn if you look for it hard enough.

I'm obviously ignoring the giant societal can of worms around "what is sexual content, what is art, what is porn". Because we can be pretty sure that Zuck doesn't care what's art and what's porn, and we know he doesn't care about protecting _anyone_ from _anything_. It's always about the bottom line and always will be.
by jeffwask | 2026-02-18 16:14:45+00:00
This, the only times I have used this were to patch over other bad decisions like maintaining 3-4 active releases of a SAAS product simultaneously or other decisions that forced us into a complex branching scheme. If you fix the downstream and upstream issues, you can usually simplify down to an easier branching model but if you are managing hotfixes and releases across many versions this works and keeps it sanish.
by lkbm | 2026-02-18 16:15:20+00:00
It's amusing, but when it comes to doing actually work, I just don't care if my LLM fails things like this.

I'm not trying to trick it, so falling for tricks is harmless for my use cases. Does it write quality, secure code? Does it give me accurate answers about coding/physics/biology. If it gets those wrong, that's a problem. If it fails to solve riddles, well, that'll be a problem iff I decide to build a riddle solver using it.
by 4ggr0 | 2026-02-18 16:15:37+00:00
or the Charles-Henri Sanson method.

> brief couple-week spasm

maybe we have to start systematically hunting these people instead of one-off events :D

who am i kidding. consider myself a pacifist, talk instead of fight, find common ground and all that cute jazz. i feel powerless. murdering people will not change the system, too global and interconnected for this.

maybe us commoners really should start living like hippies. stop consuming from corporations, grow your own crops, start solarpunk societies. repair stuff. reuse. i don't know.
by true_religion | 2026-02-18 16:15:40+00:00
Why wouldn’t they be? The easiest way to start a guild is to grandfather all existing tradespeople as legacy, and begin enforcement on rising juniors who have no connection to seniors in the industry.

Your children get to inherit your position, other people children have to beg you to apprentice them, and serve at your bidding.

Trying to squeeze out existing makers is doable, but it’s more logical to freeze the status quo to prevent immediate infighting or the creation and lobbying of competing guilds.
One Year of Building After Work: Lessons from Shipping 4 Apps
by beratbozkurt0 | 2026-02-18 16:15:59+00:00
In the last year, I built and released 4 small apps while working full time. I did this in the evenings and on weekends. It was exciting, but also very tiring. I learned many real lessons from this process. I want to share some of them as a simple story.

First, I learned that it is very hard to do everything alone.

When you work solo, you are the developer, designer, tester, support, and marketer at the same time. At the beginning, this feels possible. After some time, it becomes heavy. You move slower because you are always changing roles. One day you write code. The next day you try to design. Then you answer emails. It is possible, but it takes a lot of energy.

Second, I learned that the real challenge is not building. The real challenge is reaching people.

I spent many hours improving features and fixing small details. But if no one sees your product, these things do not matter much. A good product is important, but people must know it exists. Sharing, writing, and talking about your app is as important as coding. This was a big mindset change for me.

Another important lesson was about time.

If you work full time, your free time is limited. Some days I only had 1–2 hours to work on my apps. Because of this, I had to use my time carefully. I stopped trying to build big features in one night. Instead, I focused on small steps. Small progress every day helped more than big plans.

I also learned that avoiding overload is almost impossible.

There is always something to do. A bug to fix. A feature to add. A new idea to try. After some time, you can feel very tired. Sometimes I felt like I was always behind. I started to accept that I cannot do everything. Some weeks I build more. Some weeks I rest more. This balance is important.

In the end, shipping 4 apps in 1 year did not make me perfect. But it made me more realistic.
I learned my limits. I learned what matters and what does not. And I learned that finishing and sharing something is better than waiting for it to be perfect.

I am thinking about writing a longer and more detailed blog post about this journey, with real examples and mistakes I made.
by hnbad | 2026-02-18 16:16:21+00:00
Sure, and so is Stockholm Syndrome - except in that case we know the concept was made up by a criminologist working with the local police to help them come up with a psychological explanation for why the hostages stopped trusting them after they had horribly mishandled the hostage crisis and endangered their lives.

Note that most "well-known" examples of "hybristophilia" are parasocial or only exist as distance relationships, especially when the subject of attraction is incarcerated. Being incarcerated literally limits the potential for abuse and especially violent abuse which further contributes to an illusion of safety and control which the abuser can take advantage of by engaging in psychological manipulation tactics like lovebombing.

You don't have to subscribe to pseudoscientific explanations like evopsych or some inherent trait in women making them naturally predisposed to seeking out people who harm them in order to figure out what can cause these phenomena. In fact, I find just-so "explanations" (like you seem to imply by pointing at a term like this as if it in itself holds explanatory power) extremely unsatisfying because they're little more than thought-terminating clichés.

It's also worth pointing out the term was coined by the guy who is best known for promoting chemical castration (which aside from having motivated Alan Turing to take his own life is still a contested issue in the scientific community due to studies showing serious side-effects and the efficacy being questionable as it may heavily suffer from selection bias) and the one time he forced sexual reassignment surgery on a male infant (David Reimer) after a botched circumcision. Reimer later "detransitioned" upon learning of what had been done to him. Incidentally Reimer also accused him of having forced him - when Reimer was a child - to engage in pretend sexual activity with his brother and to watch pornography. Oh, and the guy also considered relationships between children and full adults morally defensible in principle, while also dismissing critics as "right-wing" despite much of the criticism coming from intersex and transgender people.
by elliotbnvl | 2026-02-18 16:16:22+00:00
Thanks for the feedback, I really like Bonfire, I'll check it out.

...but I am probably not going to be able to get my mom to use it. And no joke a big part of why I'm trying this out is for something my parents and my family can grab and use easily and quickly.

And yeah it's definitely going to be really hard, I agree. I guess I'm not trying to build something huge (but economies of scale challenge that).
by EdNutting | 2026-02-18 16:16:30+00:00
In the UK, yes there are apprenticeships available (generally at the bigger companies like Arm) but not a huge number of them.

The new UK Semiconductor Centre has recently been asking (among many other questions) why the industry hasn't taken up the govt apprenticeship schemes more given the lack of engineers. The answers as to why are ultimately "it's complicated".

Your view on the salary during an apprenticeship will depend a lot on where you're coming from and expectations. They're generally lower than UK Median Salary (for any type of job; April 2025 it was £39k) at around £30kpa, but you're being paid to learn (rather than university studies, where you spend to money to learn). Also, god knows why, but the apprenticeships aren't always in the most in-demand areas (though if I had to guess, it would be because there already aren't enough employees to do the in-demand work, let alone spend some of that time training new people... which in the long-term is a disaster but we're in a short-term-thinking kind of world).
by exceptione | 2026-02-18 16:16:34+00:00
This sounds like almost the best business environment for criminals.

"I am sorry judge, yes, it could be that we are involved in crime, but we have been too busy counting billions of dollars each year. As you might understand, businesses are not part of society, they should only be judged on their shareholder value. We reap the profits, society pays for the collateral damage, that's only fair."

Yes, you mentioned leeway. That would only make sense in the context of an entity understanding it's role. It does like in the way above.
Show HN: The Fuse – Booking platform for streamer/content creator collabs
by iCeGaming | 2026-02-18 16:17:01+00:00
Hey HN,
I posted an ultra-early version of The Fuse a while back and it sank without trace, fair enough, it was basically a landing page with big promises and nothing to see.
Since then I've rebuilt it around a simple marketplace for streamer/content creator collaborations and brand bookings:

* Creators set rates, availability, link socials/platforms
* Brands browse/search publicly (no sign-up needed: https://the-fuse.app/explore), book slots, pay via Stripe (held in escrow until collab done, no Venmo/invoice chasing)
* Built-in reviews, one professional link to share (e.g. https://the-fuse.app/streamer/b1dc8243-7a98-48c8-bb50-69f8bb... )

Right now it's very early: public directory live so you can poke around. No fake scale claims, we're building in public and want honest feedback before pushing harder on marketing.
Pain points I'm trying to solve:

* Streamers: endless DMs, awkward rate negotiation, payment delays
* Brands/small studios: hard to find reliable micro-influencers without agencies taking huge cuts

Try exploring the directory here: https://the-fuse.app/explore
Would especially love input from:

* Streamers/creators — does this flow fix any collab/brand-deal headaches you've had?
* Brands/marketers — what sucks most about sourcing creators today?
* Anyone who's used similar tools (Fiverr for creators, Collabstr, Upfluence lite versions, etc.): what's missing?

Repo isn't public yet (messy code), but happy to answer tech questions.

Thanks for any eyes/feedback!
by bravetraveler | 2026-02-18 16:17:13+00:00
I don't care about backing up unfinished hobby projects, I just write/test until arbitrarily sharing, or if I'm completely honest, potentially abandoning it. I may not 'git init' for months, let alone make any commits or push to any remotes.

Reasoning: skip SCM 'cost' by not making commits I'd squash and ignore, anyway. The project lifetime and iteration loop are both short enough that I don't need history, bisection, or redundancy. Yet.

Point being... priorities vary. Not to make a judgement here, I just don't think the number of commits makes for a very good LLM purity test.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-18 16:17:42+00:00
I was actually thinking the opposite. I sent my wife this text message:

Nonsense world when a comedian doing a late night show is the person willing to say something

It's not his job I'm glad he's doing it, but this is like watching the McDonald's workers Narcan people as part of their daily tasks

For reference she worked in Oregon as a manager at McDonald's and would regularly have to deal with people ODing in the drive through and there was a "serious" discussion between managers, corporate, etc. about it they should be doing this or if they should be instructing everyone to stay indoors and let them die.

Corporate had to say that they must stay inside and eventually it became grounds for suspending employees that didn't want to sit and watch people die.

Contact me if you want her information for journalism purposes we have the receipts.
by PantaloonFlames | 2026-02-18 16:18:21+00:00
You can invest a lot and get minimal results, OR, it’s possible they invested in 71-odd tools and only 17% produced results, but those results were as desired or expected so they didn’t actually need the other 83% of the tools they tried.

The number of tools that were deemed effective is not proportional to the “the effect”.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-18 16:18:34+00:00
> The uproar was specifically about the implemented ID checks.

I disagree. The uproar was clearly that ID checks were going to be required at all. All of the "Discord alternative" articles were about platforms that didn't require ID checks.

> To imply that KOSA includes some kind of ID check or that the only way to provide any type of protections is via an ID check is ignorant.

KOSA has specific language about minors and children under 13.

How do you think platforms are expected to comply with these requirements without identifying their userbase? This goes right back to the Discord situation last week.
by some_random | 2026-02-18 16:18:40+00:00
The key there is "ideological mission", which is immediately abandoned in all but name in favor of slinging money around the non-profit industrial complex.

Edit: A great example that comes to mind for me is Wikimedia. They beg for money every year telling you that it's to keep Wikipedia running, but not only do they have enough money to keep running for years, not only is running Wikipedia not their main expense, but they redonate some of that money to other nonprofits. Even if you agree with the missions of those other nonprofits (which are not in line at all with the mission of Wikimedia), you're trusting that an organization that already lied to you about where the money is going is making good choices with that money.
by nancyminusone | 2026-02-18 16:18:51+00:00
YouTube must be absolutely flooded with this stuff.

I clicked on one about Henry the 8th, which is a story Ive heard heard 100 times but whatever. It started out normal enough, then claimed he started carrying around a staff with a human skull on the top near the end. Made up artifacts and paintings.

The most egregious has to be the "World War II mechanic fixes entire allied plane arsenal with piece of wire" category. I've come across a couple dozen of these. Completely fabricated events and people that never seem to have existed.