MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by pixl97 | 2026-02-13 16:00:04+00:00
I think this needs to be separated into two different points.

The pain the AI is feeling is not real.

The potential retribution the AI may deliver is (or maybe I should say delivers as model capabilities increase).

This may be the answer to the long asked question of "why would AI wipe out humanity". And the answer may be "Because we created a vengeful digital echo of ourselves".
by SamPatt | 2026-02-13 16:00:07+00:00
Bro, you're paranoid. I'm the author. Look at my blog. I write my stories myself. I wrote a geoguessr article last year that hit the top of HN.

Yes, I've used VLC. But I'm using a fairly new machine and hadn't installed it yet.

Why does it strain credulity to make this myself? I explain it step by step. I enjoy using AI to build stuff myself.
by NIKHILFP | 2026-02-13 16:00:21+00:00
It is the meeting where someone says, “Let’s tweak the pricing.”

On the surface, it sounds simple.
Add a new tier. Introduce usage. Offer a discount for annual plans.

It feels like a business adjustment that can be handled with a few changes in the dashboard.
But pricing is never just a number.

Behind every “small tweak” sits architecture. Data models define what can be charged. State transitions determine what happens during upgrades or downgrades. Contracts lock in assumptions that must hold true months later. Historical invoices need to remain reproducible even after rules change.

What feels like a 30-minute strategic decision often translates into months of engineering work because pricing changes ripple through the entire system.

- Can existing customers be grandfathered without breaking new logic?
- Can mid-cycle changes be handled without corrupting usage calculations?
- Can finance explain every invoice after the rules evolve?

These are not edge cases. They are the natural consequences of growth.

The real cost of a pricing meeting is not the debate in the room. It is the assumption that implementation will be straightforward.

Mature companies understand that pricing is architecture. It defines how value is measured, how revenue is recognized, and how contracts behave over time.

When you change pricing, you are not adjusting a slide, you are modifying the backbone of your business.

That is why the most expensive meeting in a startup is often the one that sounds the simplest.
by ericpaulsen | 2026-02-13 16:00:29+00:00
OpenClaw proved demand for personal AI agents on your own hardware, but its default config listens on all network interfaces. Thousands of instances were found exposed. I spent a weekend building an alternative using Blink (OSS agent orchestration), Tailscale (WireGuard-based private networking), and a Mac Mini M4. Two isolated agents, no public exposure, built-in UI, ~10W idle power draw.
by nickjj | 2026-02-13 16:00:31+00:00
> Not to mention the direction that the likes of Paper and Niri are going, these are things that very few users get to experience and therefore couldn't possibly have an informed decision on what they prefer.

niri is great because it gives you the best of all worlds.

Scrolling by default but you can easily float and tile things as needed. It feels so intuitive for how I use computers.

I've created a few posts and videos on using niri while going over my workflows in https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-is-niri-this-good-live-de... and https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/day-to-day-window-management-....

Having used Windows for 25 years, there's no chance I'll ever go back. This environment is already substantially better. That's after tricking Windows out with virtual desktops, window positioning tools, launchers, multiple clipboards, etc.. All of that stuff and more exists on Linux.
by MarkusQ | 2026-02-13 16:00:40+00:00
Interesting that this seems like a slam-dunk argument for why reusable rockets and other improvements are practically impossible (e.g. "we might be able to achieve a microscopic improvement in efficiency or reliability, but to make any game-changing improvements is not merely expensive; it's a physical impossibility"), and wouldn't matter in any case for structural reasons (e.g. "market inelasticity (cutting launch cost in half wouldn't make much of a difference)", yet in the fifteen years since it was written launch costs have fallen to a third of what they were, continue to fall, and the number of payloads to orbit has gone up by an order of magnitude or more (so much for "market inelasticity").
by dchuk | 2026-02-13 16:00:48+00:00
Pretty cool (and the linked in the comments monodraw I’m buying today it looks great too).

I’ve actually been tinkering with a web app (as a test bed for various spec driven dev frameworks with Claude code) a wireframing tool for TUI apps. Conceptually similar to figma almost, infinite canvas and all that jazz, but has premade components for the Ink TUI library (idea would be to support a few popular TUI frameworks eventually) and you can just drag and drop and design TUI interfaces, then download the skeleton code generated by the app for the whole frame.

I don’t know how far I’m going to take it, but it works so far. A picture is worth a thousand words, a picture of word characters in a ui layout is worth something right?

I’ll probably open source it eventually, I doubt there’s much of a commercial market opportunity for it
by barrell | 2026-02-13 16:01:58+00:00
Not really. Fluency is probably closer to 70-95% comprehension, combined with an ability to assume the rest. I assume the comment is talking about native level comprehension, which is still only like 99.99%

Source: native English speaker in Europe. I have to explain/reword several words/expressions per day to people who would be by all means considered fluent.

(all numbers in this comment were estimated based on experience)
by powera | 2026-02-13 16:02:02+00:00
I've been working on a similar app called Trakaido. (Yes, it's also AI generated content).

The demo leans heavily on "choose the words for the sentence", which avoids spelling/keyboard issues, and maybe generalizes around the problems of N->N language maps better. The "decoy selection" for multiple choice answers also isn't great - I am getting sentences mixed with numbers for the translation of "three".

It also has the Duolingo-esque audio "reward" sounds. I personally hate them, but a lot of people feel otherwise.
by palmotea | 2026-02-13 16:02:12+00:00
> Maybe I have too much imagination and stretched the rules a bit. But, if superstition is 'any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural', I'd argue that financialization is a consequence of an irrational belief in the power of the 'invisible hand' and that the shareholder-theory-of-value is a similar belief in the power of abstractions over actual human needs.

I think it's too much of a stretch to label anything "irrational" as superstition.

I think both the purported benefits of the shareholder-theory-of-value and fictionalization rely on plausible-but-false belief in the outcomes created by the 'invisible hand'/selfishness-at-scale, but I wouldn't call it superstition, just wrong.

Also, I think the connotations of words are pretty important, and there are a lot of words that for the most part mean the same thing with different connotations. If I had to describe the connotation of superstition, its an action believed to have an effect, but that effect is a total non-sequitur. At least with what we're talking about, there's at least a plausible basis for believing the effect will happen, even it that basis is wrong.
by rietta | 2026-02-13 16:02:24+00:00
Anyone interested in keeping access should fork this open source repository now and make a local archived copy. That way when this organization deletes this repository there can still be access to this open source code.

In the Ruby on Rails space, we had this happen recently with the prawn_plus Gem where the original author yanked all published copies and deleted the GitHub repository.

On GitHub, when a private repo is deleted forks are deleted. But for public repos, the policy is different. See https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-....

This is the latest of a sunset trap set for those of us who use Minio for local testing but not production use.
by andai | 2026-02-13 16:02:31+00:00
Well, that doesn't seem ethical or possible to me. But maybe I haven't put enough thought into it.

My current mental model for AI is artificial life.

It isn't life yet, but we're very close to that. All that's missing is replication and mutation, and those are both already trivial. (Indeed, a few months after incorporating AI into their AI training systems, the major AI labs all rolled out prompts, training and safety flags against self-modification and self-replication. I'm not sure why, but the timing is curious.)

(The question of whether consciousness is present, or necessary, is left, of course, as an exercise for the reader ;)

For example when people think of AI self replicating and taking over the internet, they think it would be a terrible thing, and that humans would have to manually intervene to stop it. But it really seems like an obvious ecosystem problem to me.

It's just filling a niche. If there was already something there -- an actually symbiotic form of AI -- then it wouldn't be able to spread like that.

So I see the future of AI, both in terms of cybersec and preserving civilization, as an ecosystem design problem.
by krapp | 2026-02-13 16:02:47+00:00
You aren't taking into account all of the effort the Republicans spent ginning up conspiracy theories about Satanic pedophile cults within the Democratic Party and how Trump's base made that and "releasing the Epstein files" their entire identity, or the absolute clownshow debacle of the Trump administration trying to stall, prevaricate and memory-hole the entire thing after it became clear how implicated Trump himself was.

Also the number of celebrities and powerful people (including the sitting President) involved makes it a bigger story.

That said, yes the antisemites have come out in force around this, just as they did around Palestinian activism, and just as they always do. But I think most people's outrage is focused on systems of privilege and power and on the Trump administration in particular, not anything about "the Jews."
by fragmede | 2026-02-13 16:03:05+00:00
That's got to be the most dystopian one of them all! It's government owned, so conspiracy theory is that the CCP can see everything you write and hear and see in the app. Whatsapp is end to end encrypted, so meta knows your metadata, so they can show you ads, but that's tiny dystopia compared to the government of the country you live in reading and listening to everything you do on your phone
by dijit | 2026-02-13 16:03:06+00:00
I partly agree, but I think you're overcorrecting. Game developers didn't invent data-oriented design or performance-first thinking. But there's a reason the loudest voices advocating for them in the 2020s come from games: we work in one of the few domains where you literally cannot ship if you ignore cache lines and data layout. Our users notice a 5ms frame hitch- While web developers can add another React wrapper and still ship.

Computing left game development behind. Whilst the rest of the industry built shared abstractions, we worked in isolation with closed tooling. We stayed close to the metal because there was nothing else.

When Casey and Jon advocate for these principles, they're reintroducing ideas the broader industry genuinely forgot, because for two decades those ideas weren't economically necessary elsewhere. We didn't preserve sacred knowledge. We just never had the luxury of forgetting performance mattered, whilst the rest of computing spent 20 years learning it didn't.
by zahlman | 2026-02-13 16:03:18+00:00
There's a lot of explanation here but ultimately this is basically just the standard 16-tile set except assuming you can use rotations to deduplicate and don't need to allocate a tile for empty space. The latter makes sense for platformers (since your tiles likely represent objects that are supposed to be floating over some other background drawn another way) but not so much for, say, RPGs. (And the rotated tiles are often not great in RPGs, either.)
by jermaustin1 | 2026-02-13 16:03:25+00:00
> replaced browser toolbars

This is still a thing? Browsers still have toolbars???

My go to for family is giving them no install rights, and adding a remote desktop app for me to connect to them when they need something to install.

I don't get called very often anymore, and when I do, it's for their work computer or something, to which I say, talk to your IT department, I can't fix that.
Show HN: Yetty – Terminal with programmable UI cards [video]
by zokrezyl | 2026-02-13 16:03:37+00:00
https://github.com/zokrezyl/yetty

Hi HN — I built Yetty, a new programmable terminal focused on structured output and interactive UI cards rendered directly inside the terminal.

Highlights:
• GPU-accelerated rendering
• Commands can emit structured interactive “cards” instead of plain text
• Designed for building richer CLI tools and workflows

Video demo above.
Repo / downloads:

I’d love feedback from people who build CLI tools or spend a lot of time in the terminal — especially what kinds of structured outputs or integrations would make this useful for you.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-13 16:03:45+00:00
To be fair, this is 16 households of electrical energy. The average household uses about as much electrical energy as it uses energy in form of natural gas (or butane or fuel oil, depending on what they use). And then roughly as much gasoline as they use electricity. So really more like 5 households of energy. And that's just your direct energy use, not accounting for all the products including food consumed in the average household.
by sidk24 | 2026-02-13 16:03:55+00:00
I work at Ona (formerly Gitpod). Background agents from Stripe, Ramp, and Shopify are shipping real code in production, but they all depend on one thing: a fully automated, reproducible dev environment. No localhost, no local state, no "works on my machine."

The companies moving fastest right now have all done the boring work first: to standardize their dev environments. The agent harness is a thin layer on top.

Let us know what you think!
by rpdillon | 2026-02-13 16:04:07+00:00
I'm noticing this argument a lot these days, and I think it stems from something I can't define - "soft" vs. "hard" or maybe "high-trust" vs "low-trust".

I always warned people that if they "buy" digital things (music, movies) it's only a license, and can be taken away. And people intellectually understand that, but don't think it'll really happen. And then years go by, and it does, and then there's outrage when Amazon changes Roald Dahl's books, or they snatch 1984 right off your kindle after you bought it.

So there's a gap between what is "allowed" and what is "expected". I find this everywhere in polite society.

Was just talking to a new engineer on my team, and he had merged some PRs, but ignored comments from reviewers. And I asked him about that, and he said "Well, they didn't block the PR with Request Changes, so I'm free to merge." So I explained that folks won't necessarily block the PR, even though they expect a response to their questions. Yes, you are allowed to merge the PR, but you'll still want to engage with the review comments.

I view open source the same way. When a company offers open source code to the community, releasing updates regularly, they are indeed allowed to just stop doing that. It's not illegal, and no one is entitled to more effort from them. But at the same time, they would be expected to engage responsibly with the community, knowing that other companies and individuals have integrated their offering, and would be left stranded. I think that's the sentiment here: you're stranding your users, and you know it. Good companies provide a nice offramp when this happens.
by graypegg | 2026-02-13 16:04:23+00:00
If the point of learning a language was to say new words to yourself, you can just make up words.

If you want to be understood and understand others, who ever "they" are sort of need to exist while you're learning.

I can promise you, speaking out of a phrase book burned into your brain with limited cultural knowledge from other people makes for a very boring cringeworthy conversation partner, and an awful language teacher.
by BinStorm | 2026-02-13 16:04:51+00:00
I love the fervor with which this is written, but the threat is so weak I literally chuckled.

Imagine your an exec or manager on the team for keyboard development. You read this, get to the end to discover the user is gonna switch devices for... 2 whole calander years?

What's that amount to? Maybe 2 device upgrades on If your a die hard gotta have the newest latest model phone each year. Then what? you'll be back?

The threat doesnt even carry the weight losing a user for a 2 year blip, registers more as a dropped ping request then a drop in revenue.

If meant to be whimsical sure nailed it. To be fair I mean any boycot with a large scale mfg carries about the same weight. just thought it fell flat as much as anything.
Show HN: Markdown to WhatsApp Converter
by daviddom | 2026-02-13 16:04:52+00:00
Hello, HN! If you've been trying to integrate LLMs into WhatsApp, you've probably noticed that the massive blocks of text that the AI often responds to, besides being in Markdown instead of the format WhatsApp supports, don't provide a good user experience.

I just published an open-source repository that solves this problem:

- Converts Markdown to WhatsApp's format
- Intelligently splits long texts into shorter fragments (without cutting lists, links, emails, and with syntax understanding)
- Supports tables, so they look good
- Runs 100% locally in your project, doesn't use external libraries, and has 100% test coverage

You can start using it with a simple 'npm install'.

If you find it useful, I'd appreciate it if you gave the repo a star :

https://github.com/daviddominguezh/llm-markdown-whatsapp
by athom | 2026-02-13 16:04:55+00:00
I'll do you one better.

The first item returned by a search on "couch" is ABC-00927226, which "features a rectangular form resembling a couch, characterized by a solid, box-like structure." In other words: it's a box.

HOWEVER: We KNOW it's a COUCH, because: "One side prominently displays the word "COUCH" vertically, rendered in a bold, modern font."

It's BOLD! It's MODERN! It MUST be a "COUCH!"
by victormy | 2026-02-13 16:05:11+00:00
First off, I don't think there is anything wrong with MinIO closing down its open source. There are simply too many people globally who use open source without being willing to pay for it.
I started testing various alternatives a few months ago, and I still believe RustFS will emerge as the winner after MinIO's exit. I evaluated Garage, SeaweedFS, Ceph, and RustFS. Here are my conclusions:

1. RustFS and SeaweedFS are the fastest in the object storage field.

2. The installation for Garage and SeaweedFS is more complex compared to RustFS.

3. The RustFS console is the most convenient and user-friendly.

4. Ceph is too difficult to use; I wouldn't dare deploy it without a deep understanding of the source code.

Although many people criticize RustFS, suggesting its CLA might be "bait," I don't think such a requirement is excessive for open source software, as it helps mitigate their own legal risks.

Furthermore, Milvus gave RustFS a very high official evaluation. Based on technical benchmarks and other aspects, I believe RustFS will ultimately win.

https://milvus.io/blog/evaluating-rustfs-as-a-viable-s3-comp...
by mrjay42 | 2026-02-13 16:05:15+00:00
Hey dear neighbor :3

I'm no German speaker, but I'm French, and without invalidating your initial claim (about the AI generated stuff), in France we do translate "good morning" by "Bonjour", which literally means good (bon) day (jour).

Any other translation would be weird:
if you'd translate "good morning" by "Bonne journée" -> that would be super weird, because this is something one could say in France to say "Goodbye" xD

I lived in Germany for a short time back in 2022, and notice that saying "Hallo" is used a little bit everywhere. However I can tell you that you are NOT supposed to say "salut" in France ANYWHERE except with your friends.

Like, imagine, you're in Germany you enter a bakery, you can say "Hallo" -> no problem.
Same situation in France and you say "Salut" -> either people will react badly or assume that you don't know French or maybe they'll think you're impolite for no reasons
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-13 16:05:23+00:00
If you don't have concerns over security, don't care about AI, don't need niche apps, don't need tech/nerd apps, don't worry about vendor lock-in, I can totally see caring about battery life.

So how many days does your battery last? No that isnt a good question, How often do you run out of battery? No that isnt a good question, android users aren't running out of battery.

How did Apple convince you this mattered?
by hackyhacky | 2026-02-13 16:05:36+00:00
> My rhetorical question was broader,

It doesn't matter, the answer is the same. Using vibecoding is less effort that not using it, so of late we see a lot of low-effort vibecoding projects, of which this is one. Ergo, vibecoding is an easily-spotted red flag for projects that are not worth taking seriously.

> I would ask you to be more mindful in your replies.

You should take your own advice. Also, don't be a dick.
by theroncross | 2026-02-13 16:05:45+00:00
This is true of methods that don't require you to leave the house as well. Internet forums of all types are dominated by frequent users (by definition). People who are doing other things (working, raising families, living with disabilities that make participation difficult) are under-represented. Most of us just want someone with culturally normal values and competency to take care business. Many democratic systems do not select for people with culturally normal values and competency, unfortunately.
by trashb | 2026-02-13 16:05:46+00:00
Protocol multiplexing exists. But you will have to agree on a single protocol, which I view as impossible since different applications have different requirements.

If you route all your traffic through https that comes with all the upsides, for example the security layer (ssl). But also the downsides of for example overhead of headers. Currently we have an overarching (network layer) protocol, it is called IP. It divides the traffic into different ports at the host, these ports speak different protocols. If you move the multiplexing higher up the OSI stack, you are violating the principles of separation and making your stack less flexible, you are mixing OSI layers 4: transport up to 6: Presentation. Conflicting these layers can lead to big problems as this includes things like the Transport layer, for example the difference between udp/tcp is included there.

The beauty of the network stack is that there are certain layers that separate responsibility. This allows the stack to apply to wildly different scenarios. However I do agree that there should be no filtering applied on behalf of the customers.
by gowld | 2026-02-13 16:05:49+00:00
More important is that the new algorithm has a multiplicative factor in m (edges), so it's only efficient for extremely sparse graphs.

If m > n (log n)^{1/3}

Then this algorithm is slower.

for 1 Million nodes, if the average degree is >3.5, the new algorithm has worse complexity (ignoring unstated constant factors)