MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimrandomh | 2026-02-18 06:43:09+00:00
Yeah, when you point it out, this makes complete sense and every terminal should probably add this feature. I think I would generalize this to 24-bit color as well; 16 colors isn't enough to identify a unique tonemap, but if you fiddle with the parameters a bit I think it shouldn't be too hard to come up with something hacky that works.

Although, this should probably be optional (both as an option for terminals to have in their own settings, and via an escape sequence that opts out), because some users will have configured some programs with a color scheme that they don't want transformed. For example, if your terminal uses the Solarized color scheme, and your text editor _also_ uses the Solarized color scheme, then this could lead to double-applyig a color transform and getting something odd.
Show HN: A Structured CBT Orchestration Engine Built on Top of LLMs
by sucharithan | 2026-02-18 06:44:22+00:00
I built a structured CBT engine that sits on top of LLMs and enforces cognitive workflow logic before generating responses.

Most AI tools in this space are purely conversational. This system instead:

Extracts cognitive distortion signals

Calibrates emotional intensity

Applies rule-based risk-tier logic

Separates deterministic detection from generative drafting

Enforces tone presets and word caps to avoid generic output

It runs in two modes:

Reflect → structured self-guided reframing
Assist → structured signal extraction + constrained response drafting for coaches/therapists

The goal wasn’t to build another chatbot, but to explore whether LLMs can be constrained inside a deterministic cognitive architecture.

Would love feedback from people building structured AI systems or workflow-constrained LLM tools.
by cwal37 | 2026-02-18 06:44:30+00:00
LinkedIn is also a great example of this stuff at the moment. Every day I see posts where someone clearly took a slide or a diagram from somewhere, then had ChatGPT "make it better" and write text for them to post along with it. Words get mangled, charts no longer make sense, but these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting.

It's not like LinkedIn was great before, but the business-influencer incentives there seem to have really juiced nonsense content that all feels gratingly similar. Probably doesn't help that I work in energy which in this moment has attracted a tremendous number of hangers-on looking for a hit from the data center money funnel.
by hola-tamale | 2026-02-18 06:44:48+00:00
Whether something sounds like a human, a book, or a language model doesn’t really affect whether the behavior it describes exists.

The claim is simple: in creative orgs, disagreements often escalate into identity conflicts because people map ideas to self-worth. Halt and Catch Fire portrays that escalation pretty clearly.

If that doesn’t resonate, what has your experience looked like instead?
by alex_suzuki | 2026-02-18 06:45:46+00:00
From TFA:

> the diagram was both well-known enough and obviously AI-slop-y enough that it was easy to spot as plagiarism. But we all know there will just be more and more content like this that isn't so well-known or soon will get mutated or disguised in more advanced ways that this plagiarism no longer will be recognizable as such.

Most content will be less known and the enslopified version more obfuscated... the author is lucky to have such an obvious association. Curious to see if MSFT will react in any meaningful way to this.
by raihansaputra | 2026-02-18 06:46:29+00:00
i agree that is annoying but seems like anthropic's stance is that the task/agent should be provided an environment to write the file in the output you provide or provided a skill.md description on how to do that specific task.

personally it's a blurry line. most times i'm interacting with an agent where outputting to a file makes sense but it makes it less reliable when treating the model call as a deterministic function call.
by yehat | 2026-02-18 06:47:19+00:00
Amazing (not) how the sales data is represented LOL
I don't have any sweetspot for EVs anyway, but here the title and the comments are not even related to EVs! It's all "ahahaha TESLA/Elon sucks" LOL
Fine, but why pretend anything else - the "story" picked data like a cherrypicker - those that make the biggest number in negative. Anyone ever cared to look at the data? 2024 to 2026, or 2023 to 2026 whatever is greater (downwards)... what a joke of stats.
by maxdo | 2026-02-18 06:47:25+00:00
Is it responsible to let users do auto speed and auto lane on a high speed highway without other autopilot features ?

Rollout both technologies at scale , and try to guess with one will cause more harm giving th fact there will be users in both cars trying to put legs on a steering wheel :

A stupid tech that will not even try to do safe things

Or software that is let’s say 4x less safe vs avg human but still very capable of doing maneuvering without hitting obvious walls etc ?
by Maxion | 2026-02-18 06:48:38+00:00
Where I live right now, there is no washing of cars as it's -5F. I can want as much as I like. If I'd go to the car wash, it'd be to say hi to Jimmy my friend who lives there.

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My car is a Lambo. I only hand wash it since it's worth a million USD. The car wash accross the street is automated. I won't stick my lambo in it. I'm going to the car wash to pick up my girlfriend who works there.

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I want to wash my car because it's dirty, but my friend is currently borrowing it. He asked me to come get my car as it's at the car wash.

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The original prompt is intentionally ambigous. There are multiple correct interpretations.
by simonebrunozzi | 2026-02-18 06:49:35+00:00
I loved this game so much. There was a "deluxe" version with small improvements.

I would love to play a modern version of this. Probably true for other strategy classics like Master of Magic, Master of Orion 2, Colonization.

Edit: ha, I remember that I used a really good tactic of playing with competitors' stocks, gaining majority, siphoning tons of money from them, and then selling the stocks. More profitable than running actual railroads.
by entrox | 2026-02-18 06:49:35+00:00
I feel different: the last line is very important in this context, since it communicates the underlying thoughts and values of the poster.

Asking for "amazing" open source projects in this case is not asking out of genuine curiosity or want for debate, it is a rhetorical question asked out of frustration at the general trajectory of AI and who profits off of it -- namely the boot-wearers.
by woctordho | 2026-02-18 06:51:44+00:00
Major players in China don't play like that. MooreThreads, Lisuan, and many other smaller companies all have their own porting kits, which are basically copied from HIP. They just port every piece of software and it just works.

If you want to fight against Nvidia monopoly, then don't just rant, but buy a GPU other than Nvidia and build on it. Check my GitHub and you'll see what I'm doing.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-18 06:51:49+00:00
Elon Musk is a fascist sympathizer who is currently being investigated in at least one European country for election interference, a known lier who has promised level 5 self driving by the end of the year every year since 2018 or so, landing people on Mars by next year since 2022, Tesla electric truck cheaper than rail, "today", in 2020, and many others.
by anthk | 2026-02-18 06:52:34+00:00
And bear in mind KDE3 was considered the bloated DE, as XFCE (even the GTK2 build) could snappily run with 64 MB of RAM and maybe less with a light GTK engine (yes, choosing the GTK2 engine mattered a lot back in the day).

And, yes, choosing Pidgin and a light window manager such as Fluxbox/Openbox could make run machine run well with 64MB at really fast speeds.
by cperciva | 2026-02-18 06:53:04+00:00
There seems to have been a spike of interest in BSDs on Hacker News lately; BSDCan is the leading BSD conference and has been held annually (pandemic excepted) since 2004. I'm on the organizing team and will be delivering a talk about FreeBSD 15.0 release engineering this year.

Happy to answer any questions here! And I'll be even happier if we get a large HN cohort showing up -- the conference is open to everyone, including people who are simply BSD-curious; you don't have to be a kernel hacker.
by rlonn | 2026-02-18 06:53:10+00:00
The comment is a bit misguided: the operations Watsi helps perform would not have been possible without for-profit companies and for-profit innovators building the infrastructure of modern medicine. It's not one or the other: both for-profits and non-profits make the world a better place and I think they complement eachother. Sure, there are for-profits that do NOT make the world a better place, just like there are non-profits that fail in their mission to do good things. They just typically fail to do good things for different reasons.
by SatvikBeri | 2026-02-18 06:53:18+00:00
At work I'll buy a max subscription for anyone on my team who wants it. If it saves 1-2 hours a month it's worth it, and people get that even if they only use the LLMs to search the codebase. And the frontier models are noticeably better than others, still.

At home I have a $20/month subscription and that's covered everything I need so far. If I wanted to do more at home, I'd seriously look into the open weight models.
by stoneforger | 2026-02-18 06:53:27+00:00
Of the games you mention it's civilization that's kind of hard to replay for me. RR tycoon had fewer, worse, iterations. All Xcom games are super replayable with the exception of Xcom 3. Colonization is super replayable and it's only reiteration based on Civ 4 is not worth it.
by cyberax | 2026-02-18 06:54:01+00:00
Battery is not the issue. NMC li-ion batteries have fallen down to $100 per kWh on the _pack_ level (not cell). And LFPs are around $80.

CyberTruck battery is around 130kWh, so that's just $13k for the more pricey NMC chemistry. This is what makes the Ford fumble with the electric F-150 so comical.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if there are any Chinese brands selling batteries of this capacity. And there are plenty. You can buy a 200kWh, with a home delivery today. https://lithiumbattery.en.made-in-china.com/product/kEDRHjlV... Sure, it'll likely explode if you put it in a car. But it's only a matter of time before some enterprising Chinese company makes a compelling truck.

US automakers are sooooo screwed.
by majormajor | 2026-02-18 06:55:24+00:00
Coding is a relatively verifiable and strict task: it has to pass the compiler, it has to pass the test suite, it has to meet the user's requests.

There are a lot of white-collar tasks that have far lower quality and correctness bars. "Researching" by plugging things into google. Writing reports summarizing how a trend that an exec saw a report on can be applied to the company. Generating new values to share at a company all-hands.

Tons of these that never touch the "real world." Your assistant story is like a coding task - maybe someone ran some tests, maybe they didn't, but it was verifiable. No shortage of "the tests passed, but they weren't the right test, this broke some customers and had to be fixed by hand" coding stories out there like it. There are pages and pages of unverifiable bullshit that people are sleepwalking through, too, though.

Nobody already knows if those things helped or hurt, so nobody will ever even notice a hallucination.

But everyone in all those fields is going to be trying really really hard to enumerate all the reasons it's special and AI won't work well for them. The "management says do more, workers figure out ways to be lazier" see-saw is ancient, but this could skew far towards "management demands more from fewer people" spectrum for a while.
by mrsmrtss | 2026-02-18 06:55:45+00:00
C'mon, this is a bs "research".

Fore example, is this Java (65.72% dryness)

if (condition){
Blah();
}

really more dense than this C# (58.4% dryness)?

if (condition)
{
Blah();
}

Now, does this Clojure 77.91 dryness) really beats them both to that margin?

(if (condition)
(blah)))

This metric measures formatting more than anything else. I don't even go to other more nuanced details.
Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code
by paraschopra | 2026-02-18 06:57:37+00:00
Hello HN,

Recently an amazingly beautiful explainer was shared on HN: https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/

I loved it so much that I wished more topics were explained that way. So, I decided to stress-test today's frontier models (Opus 4.6 in Claude Code) to generate similar explainer on any given topic WITH (almost) one shot and minimal nudging.

I'm launching with four topics: Fourier transformation, scaling laws in bio, cellular automata and LLMs.

I would let you be the judge, but I'm quite liking them.

Some things I learned:

- Prompting CC to test what it builds using headless chromium is essential
- There are subtle bugs in explanations (like in one animation human lifespan is 40 years)
- Asking CC to verify its plan via codex works really well

I do want to reiterate that the pages generated were mostly one-shot, which amazed me given how detailed the pages + animations are.
by stackghost | 2026-02-18 06:58:56+00:00
>Elon Musk is a great businessman and develops great products for general consumers.

The only thing he's great at is creating the illusion of genius.

He didn't found Tesla, despite his title. He's not an engineer at SpaceX, despite his title. He spent 44 billion on Twitter which is most certainly losing money hand over fist. The Boring Company is a flop. Tesla is famously anything but a car company because their cars are mediocre in every way except the battery range.

SpaceX is his only real success, but then again SpaceX only succeeded because of massive government funding, which Elon would happily decry as communism if the money went to anyone else.

He's not a genius and not a particularly good businessman. He's just a normie with Daddy's emerald mine money, who got lucky with a large severance package when he was fired from Paypal for being terrible, and now uses his wealth to create a cult of personality.
by 3rodents | 2026-02-18 06:59:02+00:00
My predictions:

1. Tesla does not dominate robots or autonomous driving, it fades away
2. Tesla’s stock price exceeds $10T after it is shoe-horned into being a part of SpaceXAIBoringTesla

Musk is almost certainly too big to fail at this point. The cult of personality and SpaceX give him a lot of room for financial engineering, he doesn’t need Tesla.
Show HN: Browser-based hand gesture T9 keyboard (YOLOX and ONNX Runtime Web)
by huang4fun | 2026-02-18 06:59:13+00:00
I built a small experiment over a 3-hour vibe coding session: a real-time T9 keyboard controlled by hand gestures, running entirely in the browser.

It uses:

YOLOX for gesture detection

ONNX Runtime Web for in-browser inference

Plain JS for the UI

The original goal was simple:
Could I make real-time gesture-based input usable inside a browser without freezing the UI?

A few observations:

In-browser ML performance is better than I expected on modern laptops

Subtle gesture distinctions (e.g. similar seals like Tiger vs Ram) require stronger detection than MediaPipe provided — YOLOX performed noticeably better

Lighting consistency matters more than hand size

It’s obviously not production-grade, but it was an interesting exploration of browser-based vision input.

Curious what others think about gesture interfaces as alternative input systems.

Demo:
https://ketsuin.clothpath.com/
by mathisfun123 | 2026-02-18 06:59:37+00:00
> Is HIP a drop in replacement? No.

You don't understand what HIP is - HIP is AMD's runtime API. it resembles CUDA runtime APIs but it's not the same thing and it doesn't need to be - the hard part of porting CUDA isn't the runtime APIs. hipify is the thing that translates both runtime and kernels. Now is hipify a drop-in replacement? No of course but because the two vendors have different architectures. So it's absolutely laughable to imagine that some random could come anywhere near "drop-in replacement" when AMD can't (again: because of fundamental architecture differences).
by injidup | 2026-02-18 07:01:45+00:00
Maybe the take is that those reports that people took a day to write were read by nobody in the first place and now those reports are being written faster and more of them are being produced but still nobody reads them. Thus productivity doesn't change. The solution is to get rid of all the people who write and process reports and empower the people who actually produce stuff to do it better.
by alterom | 2026-02-18 07:01:59+00:00
>Left wing boogie man words. You’re telling me he’s Soros backed and studies Frankfurt school rn.

No, I am telling you that he is actively involved in global politics at the highest levels, and wields influence over both the executive branch of the US government as well as the Congress.

>[Palantir] is a company he invested in which does surveillance for the government.

No, it's not a company he "invested in".

It's a company in which Peter Thiel is a central co-founder, the chairman of the board, and a major shareholder.

You are deliberately downplaying his involvement in Palantir here. You won't say that Meta is a company that Zuckerberg has "invested in", or that Google was a company Page and Brin "invested in". It's silly.

>Does PayPal manage his money

No, because:

1. He's not involved with PayPal anymore, and

2. PayPal has never been a money management company. They're a money transfer company.

When he was involved in a money transfer company, however, it would be in his interest for every money transfer in the world to be take place via PayPal.

Now that he is in surveillance business, it is in best interest that everyone person in the world would be surveilled by his company.

>It doesn’t do surveillance for him

You're funny. It does surveillance for whoever has access to the data. Which he does.

>Have you stayed in Thiel backed housing in the past year? Are you using Thiel’s internet or taxis?

No, no, and no. (Own house, own car, and Comcast has no connection to Thiel).

I am consistent.

>Ok then let’s hear arguments against those.

Google is your friend, nobody here owes you an argument. You asked what the parent comment meant, and I explained this to you clearly enough.
by ncallaway | 2026-02-18 07:02:07+00:00
I gotta give Musk credit. I continue to think his grift has reached the end of the road, and I'm always shocked at how credulously the market follows him onto the next grift while immediately forgetting the prior one.

The market is far more naive and credulous than I anticipated, and Musk seems to understand much better than I just how fucking moronic most market participants are.
by pas | 2026-02-18 07:02:52+00:00
nowhere near enough, unfortunately

> For example, EU pension funds allocate just 0.02% of total assets to VC, compared with almost 2% for US pension funds. And this percentage is applied to a much larger asset base: over 140% of GDP in the United States compared with around 30% in the EU.

> In Europe, approximately €11.5 trillion is held in cash and deposits. This is one-third of households’ total financial assets. In the United States, the figure is around only one-tenth.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp241...
by plugger | 2026-02-18 07:07:12+00:00
No it's not, it's a car company. It may be moving to robots, but for companies to survive they require products and profits, neither of which seem to be real when it comes to Optimus. According to Musk commercial sales may begin in 2027 with wider consumer availability in 2028.
I don't know about you, but when I hear Elon Musk state that something will be real in 2 years I don't believe it at all. This is the exact same playbook with FSD, Mars, etc.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-18 07:07:28+00:00
Seems like a win for governments/corpos against the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, and maybe they'll get their blood here in Spain possibly.

But I just can't imagine this state control over the net actually happening at scale. The courts even when they are entirely lopsidedly on the side of information control can't find enough places to try to squeeze. This might cause some shift and shuffle, but LaLiga has made access incredibly difficult to deal with and them and all the state's powers are not going to come mildly close to forcing people into trying to figure out which services they need to pay for to see their games. It's not happening, and you are losers, and you suck, and you've made it awful, and the internet will route around your dumb damage you inflict on everyone.
by globular-toast | 2026-02-18 07:08:06+00:00
No technology so far has reduced the amount of time we spend working. If anything it's increased. A few decades ago it was common for a household to have only one adult in the labour market, now it's common to have two. The work around the house hasn't gone away, of course.

People are already at the point they could be working a fraction of the time they do, but they continue to work full time, producing shit they don't need, like ever growing vehicles and incremental smartphone upgrades etc.
by rmunn | 2026-02-18 07:09:15+00:00
Similar story. I'm American but work and live outside the US, so I don't know how likely this would be if I had ordered from Amazon. But I ordered a rug for my sons' room from this country's equivalent to Amazon (that is, the most popular order-online-and-we-ship-to-you storefront in this country), and instead of what I ordered (a rug with an image showing the planets, with labels in English) I got an obviously AI-generated copy of the image, whose letters were often mangled (MARS looked like MɅPS, for example). Thankfully the storefront allowed me to return it for a refund, I ordered from a different seller on the second try, and this time I received a rug that precisely matched the image on the storefront. But yes, there are unscrupulous merchants who are using AI to sloppily copy other people's work.
by japanuspus | 2026-02-18 07:09:37+00:00
Or just a long pipe where the inertia of the water resists change in motion.
This is what causes the "water hammer" effect which is a problem for plumbers, but a great thing for all kinds of fun experiments, e.g. creating predictable cavitation [0].

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321225042_A_novel_w...
by zephen | 2026-02-18 07:10:02+00:00
On the one hand, I feel for people who have their creations ripped off.

On the other hand, it makes sense for Microsoft to rip this off, as part of the continuing enshittification of, well, everything.

Having been subjected to GitFlow at a previous employer, after having already done git for years and version control for decades, I can say that GitFlow is... not good.

And, I'm not the only one who feels this way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744059
Show HN: Rick Voice – Give any bot Rick Sanchez's voice (Python, open source)
by mattzzz9000 | 2026-02-18 07:10:13+00:00
I’ve been messing around with voice models and decided to make a Rick-style voice generator.

Plug it into your own AI assistant if you want.

And the repo if anyone wants to break it:
https://github.com/mattzzz/rick-voice

Open to feedback or cursed lines to try.
by josephg | 2026-02-18 07:10:25+00:00
> Both of those are fixed, unchanging, closed, full information games. The real world is very much not that.

Yeah but, does that actually matter? Is that actually a reason to think LLMs won't be able to outpace humans at software development?

LLMs already deal with imperfect information in a stochastic world. They seem to keep getting better every year anyway.
by lolive | 2026-02-18 07:10:36+00:00
We made an under-the-radar optimization in a data flow in my company. A given task is now much more freshData-assisted that it used to.

Was a LLM used during that optimization? Yes.

Who will correlate the sudden productivity improvement with our optimization of the data flow with the availability of a LLM to do such optimizations fast enough that no project+consultants+management is needed ?

No one.

Just like no one is evaluating the value of a hammer or a ladder when you build a house.