MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2026-02-11 20:40:23+00:00
The major ice storm I remember might have been 2012 or 2013. There was also a different snow storm (maybe that was 2010?) at the end of October when all the leaves were still on the trees. My parents lost power for something like 6 days (so much damage the crews were swamped). I had been visiting them, and gtfo as the snow was falling, and never lost power 2 hours away.

I think this comes back to the framing of the article, stated as universal truths when it's really just someone who was woefully unprepared for a snow storm and subsequent power outage. Life threatening and horribly inconvenient for them yes, but nowhere near a universal experience.

Prepare a few days ahead getting groceries, gas, etc. Make sure firewood totes are full. It starts snowing. Do a little shovel work to keep fire fed, if power goes out (rare, but always possible of course) a little more shovel work to set up generator. Wait for snow to stop, clean up with snowblower/tractor/etc, length of time depending on how much snow fell.

The main lesson is "be prepared", not all the little things the author got surprised by due to a wholesale lack of preparation.
by eitau_1 | 2026-02-11 20:40:36+00:00
True runaway (i.e. oceans boiling / Venus) cannot happen on Earth unless you significantly increase incoming radiation stream (or alternatively halve the planet's albedo).

The runaway effect is scary b/c at certain temperature (~400K) atmosphere consisting predominantly of water vapor looses its ability to radiate out more heat up until 1600K.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1892 (see fig. 2b) (edit: the figure: https://imgur.com/a/ytoEXzd)
by metalman | 2026-02-11 20:40:55+00:00
while I cant quite articulate exactly how I would impliment safeguards for minors or vulnerable persons, I strongly belive that rights and responsibilitys must be intrinsicly linked and that society can never drop it's guard against the cunning and clever types who cause the worst harms.
And as it stands, someone who is convicted of harming children, is encarcerated and then perhaps has requirements to "register" etc, ie: loose rights and freedoms, is it realy so far to suggest that we will have certain taboos?, but at the same time have inner city free for all zones where concenting adults can get as freeky as phisiology will permit.
by Toutouxc | 2026-02-11 20:41:15+00:00
> image "noise" or "grain" that is introduced into a picture as you increase the ISO

Not this absolute shit again. This is not how photography works or how physics actually work. Image noise does NOT come from high ISO, it comes from low exposure (not enough light hitting the sensor). ISO is just a multiplier between a number of photons and the brigthness of a pixel in your photo. The implementation of the multiplier is (usually) half-analog and half-digital, but it's still just a multiplier. If you keep the exposure the same, then changing the ISO on a digital camera will NOT introduce any more noise (except for at the extremes of the range, where, for example, analog readout noise may play a role).

This "simulator" artificially adds noise based on the ISO value, as you can easily discover: Set your shutter to 1/500 and your aperture to F8, then switch between ISO 50 and ISO 1600 and look at the letters on the bulb. ISO 50, dark but perfectly readable. ISO 1600, garbled mess. Since the amount of light hitting the simulated sensor stays the same, you should be seeing slightly LESS noise at ISO 1600 (better signal to noise ratio than at low ISO), not more.
Show HN: Open-source React Native templates (trading, messaging, AI chat)
by alexmngn | 2026-02-11 20:41:35+00:00
I built and open-sourced a collection of 20 production-ready React Native templates

Each template is a single, self-contained screen. All built with React Native New Architecture, TypeScript, and 4 core libraries: Reanimated, Gesture Handler, Unistyles, and React Native SVG. No UI framework, no heavy dependencies. Framework-agnostic, works with Expo Router, React Navigation, or custom navigation.

I started this project before AI got good at writing UI code. The plan was different then. But building UI screens is becoming a commodity, AI makes it cheaper every day, and the trend is clear.

Developers can move much faster now — no need to rebuild the same onboarding flow every time. So these are more useful as open reference implementations, showing what's achievable with a focused, minimal stack, than as a gated product.

Templates also include some basic documentation to help AI coding assistants understand the structure if you want to use them for customization.

Demo app available on TestFlight and Google Play if you want to see the animations and interactions before looking at code (see documentation).
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-11 20:41:39+00:00
The reality is that many if not most had apprentices who did a lot of the actual work. Art historians spend a lot of time arguing about whether a given Leonardo was really a product of Leonardo's hand, for example.

This quick-and-dirty prompt returns results in line with my own understanding (which of course doesn't necessarily mean the figures are correct): https://chatgpt.com/share/698ce93b-b66c-800b-9e41-91ccab8eba... The artist I was primarily thinking of when I wrote that comment was Chihuly, whose workshop is famously more like a factory than a studio.
by spease | 2026-02-11 20:42:17+00:00
A gigabyte!?

You shouldn’t need any dedicated RAM. A decent microcontroller should be able to handle transcoding the output from the camera to the display and provide infotainment software that talks to the CANbus or Ethernet.

And the bare minimum is probably just a camera and a display.

Even buffering a full HD frame would only require a few megabytes.

Pretty sure the law doesn’t require an electron app running a VLM (yet) that would justify anything approaching gigabytes of RAM.
by SeekHack_Dev | 2026-02-11 20:42:20+00:00
Hi HN, author here.

I built this tool because I needed to sanitize server logs before pasting them into ChatGPT, but I didn't want to upload sensitive data to any 3rd party server.

It runs entirely in the browser using Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
It uses a streaming parser, so it can handle huge files (tested with 10GB+) without crashing browser memory.

Happy to answer any questions about the Rust/Wasm implementation!
by SJC_Hacker | 2026-02-11 20:42:26+00:00
> Renewable energy technology is ready, right now today, to replace fossil fuels. All we have to do is start doing it, but the Oil lobby is just too strong apparently. There is no political will. I wish I was wrong, but I just don't see humanity pulling together to solve this one.

Sorry, but its really not. Perhaps in some sectors such as ground transportation, but definitely not in air and sea transport and fertilizer production, and many industrial processes. At least not at scale, where would have to make massive lifestyle sacrifices which are not politically acceptable outside of extreme authoritarian states who have no reason to do this anyway.
by robomartin | 2026-02-11 20:42:29+00:00
Product management --and managers-- can be, shall we say, interesting.

I was recently involved with a company that wanted us to develop a product that would be disruptive enough to enter an established market, make waves and shock it.

We did just that. We ran a deep survey of all competing products, bought a bunch of them, studied absolutely everything about them, how they were used and their users. Armed with that information, we produced a set of specifications and user experience requirements that far exceeded anything in the market.

We got green-lit to deliver a set of prototypes to present at a trade show. We did that.

The prototypes were presented and they truly blew everyone away. Blogs, vlogs, users, everyone absolutely loved what we created and the sense was that this was a winning product.

And then came reality. Neither the product manager nor the CTO (and we could add the CEO and CFO to the list) had enough understanding and experience in the domain to take the prototypes to market. It would easily have required a year or two of learning before they could function in that domain.

What did they do? They dumbed down the product specification to force it into what they understood and what engineering building blocks they already had. Square peg solidly and violently pounded into a round hole.

The outcome? Oh, they built a product alright. They sure did. And it flopped, horribly flopped, as soon as it was introduced and made available. Nobody wanted it. It was not competitive. It offered nothing disruptive. It was a bad clone of everything already occupying space in that ecosystem. Game over.

The point is: Technology companies are not immune to human failings, ego, protectionism/turf guarding, bad decisions, bad management, etc.

When someone says something like "I am not sure that's a good idea for a startup. There's competition." My first though is: Never assume that competitors know what they are doing, are capable and always make the right decisions without making mistakes. You don't always need a better product, you need better execution.
by worksonmine | 2026-02-11 20:42:33+00:00
> "Dont trust google" imo is the wrong response here.

Straw man. The argument is that by installing random extensions you trust anonymous developers *because* Google doesn't audit. I'll cite the parent to spare you the effort of reading it again:

> The Chrome Web Store is basically unregulated and Google doesn't care.

Yes, I trust the contents of the medicine I buy at the drug store more than I trust the drug dealer on the corner. That's why they hand out test kits for free at raves.
by cyode | 2026-02-11 20:42:41+00:00
Pulled from IMDB, Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox voices the consternation perfectly:

> Batman: [seeing the wall of monitors for the first time at the Applied Sciences division in Wayne Enterprises] Beautiful, isn't it?

> Lucius Fox: Beautiful... unethical... dangerous. You've turned every cellphone in Gotham into a microphone.

> Batman: And a high-frequency generator-receiver.

> Lucius Fox: You took my sonar concept and applied it to every phone in the city. With half the city feeding you sonar, you can image all of Gotham. This is wrong.

> Batman: I've gotta find this man, Lucius.

> Lucius Fox: At what cost?

> Batman: The database is null-key encrypted. It can only be accessed by one person.

> Lucius Fox: This is too much power for one person.

> Batman: That's why I gave it to you. Only you can use it.

> Lucius Fox: Spying on 30 million people isn't part of my job description.
by sanswork | 2026-02-11 20:43:13+00:00
Yes, easily. Paying for Claude would be investing that money. Assuming 10% return which would be great I'd make an extra $1200 a year investing it. I'm pretty sure over the course of a year of not having to spend time doing low value or repetitive work I can increase productivity enough to more than cover the $13k difference. Developer work scales really well so removing a bunch of the low end and freeing up time for the more difficult problems is going to return a lot of value.
by searls | 2026-02-11 20:43:22+00:00
LOL, no, dumbing down was when I paid two months of subscription with the model literally struggling to write basic functions. Something Anthropic eventually acknowledged but offered no refunds for. https://ilikekillnerds.com/2025/09/09/anthropic-finally-admi...

I care A LOT about the details, and I couldn't care less that they're cleaning up terminal output like this.
by drnick1 | 2026-02-11 20:43:25+00:00
Fair point, but security cameras, despite their name, do very little for your security as evidenced by the news. Most people don't need one, and only have Rings/Nests and other similar spyware because of a combination of fearmongering, aggressive marketing, and pricing subsidized by data collection (spyware). If you truly fear for your safety, you should purchase a shotgun, not a Nest camera.

In any case, when you don't have the skills required to do something, you can hire someone who does. I pay a plumber because I don't have plumbing skills and tools, so it's not unreasonable to pay someone to set up a local camera system for you if you want one.
Show HN: Brood,image-first AI visual canvas for devs
by kshowkat | 2026-02-11 20:44:11+00:00
Brood is a promptless, reference-first AI visual canvas for developers.

Instead of wiring node graphs or writing long prompts, you import 1–3 reference images and run visual “abilities” directly on canvas. Brood keeps the workflow image-first and model/provider-flexible.

What it does now:

- Single-image actions: diagnose, recast, variations, background edits, crop
- Two-image actions: combine, swap DNA, bridge, argue
- Ambient intent discovery: background intent classification while editing, with subtle visual nudges
- Reproducible runs: artifacts + events written to disk for traceability

Why I built it:
I wanted a faster “think with images” loop for product/creative workflows without heavy graph setup, while still keeping reproducibility and provider routing first-class.

Tech:

- macOS desktop app (Tauri)
- Python engine + CLI
- Multi-provider model routing
- Open source (Apache-2.0)

Repo:
https://github.com/kevinshowkat/brood

I’d love feedback on:

- where this beats/loses to node-based tools
- highest-value workflows to prioritize next
- what would make this a daily tool for you
by bayindirh | 2026-02-11 20:44:12+00:00
Nope. Some aminoacids and compounds are only present in meat. These aminoacids and compounds are the ones which boosted our brain capacity and allowed us to evolve to that point.

I eat (and like to eat) tons of veggies, yet I feel my brain capacity declines and I crave esp. meat if I don't eat it for a long time (for two weeks or whatnot). As I said, I don't need two ribeye steaks per week. My body is very good at signaling what it needs, and I prefer to listen to it.

What I eat is Mediterranean cuisine 99% of the time, and it's pretty well balanced, yet eliminating meat is not possible for me. So, my diet is not junk food peppered by meat. It's mostly veggies and legumes (beans, lentil, whatnot), peppered with meat. Yet, I need it, and this is something I tested over and over more than two decades.

On the other hand, my wife is completely opposite of me. She can go a month or so without meat. So, not every person is the same, and assuming that every human being works the same is a big mistake made by modern medicine. For example, my brain chemistry is also different and I consume B12 much more than a typical human, so I need to use B-complex supplements more.
by azebasse | 2026-02-11 20:44:13+00:00
weak post mortem: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026

Repeating “~3% impacted” three times? Damage control. Got wrecked. DB SIGTERM’d, app dead for hours, before they even posted a status update. 3% is 100% outage when it’s your stuff: broken dashboards and zero warning.
by viking123 | 2026-02-11 20:44:27+00:00
It still cannot solve a synchronization issue in my fairly simple online game, completely wrong analysis back to back and solutions that actually make the problem worse. Most training data is probably react slop so it struggles with this type of stuff.

But I have to give it to Amodei and his goons in the media, their marketing is top notch. Fear-mongering targeted to normies about the model knowing it is being evaluated and other sort of preaching to the developers.
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-11 20:44:35+00:00
> they need to be synchronized to the level that audio matches up correctly, which is much more precise than video as audio uses sample frequencies in the 48Khz-96Khz range, whereas video of course is typically just 60Hz

Typically video equipment expects the individual pixels to line up, save for some buffering (~1–10µs), not just the individual frame. So your synchronization requirement for video is in the gigahertz range (or about megahertz, if you take the buffering into account), not 60 Hz. (Of course, what matters is normally the absolute offset, not the frequency, but they tend to be somewhat inversely related.)
by qwertox | 2026-02-11 20:44:42+00:00
I absolutely love reading thoughts and see the commands it uses. It teaches me new stuff, and I think this is what young people need: be able to know WHAT it is doing and WHY it is doing it. And have the ability to discuss with another agent about what the agent and me are trying to archive, and we can ask them questions we have without disturbing the flow, but seeing the live output.

Regarding the thoughts: it also allows me to detect problematic paths it takes, like when it can't find a file.

For example today I was working on a project that depends on another project, managed by another agent. While refactoring my code it noticed that it needs to see what this command is which it is invoking, so it even went so far as to search through vs code's user data history if it can find out more about that command... I stopped it and told it that if it has problems, it should tell me. It explained it can't find that file, i gave it the paths and tokens were saved.

Why dumb it down?
by almosthere | 2026-02-11 20:45:02+00:00
Remember there are no moats in this industry - if anything one company might have a 2 month lead, sometimes. We've also noticed that companies paying OpenAI may swiftly shift to paying Google or Anthropic in a heartbeat.

That means the pricing is going to be competitive. You may still get your wish though, but instead of the price of an engineer remaining the same, it will cut itself down by 95%.
by netsharc | 2026-02-11 20:45:36+00:00
Fear and egoism is probably causing the rise of the far-right, fear of not having enough, and egoism of "Why do I have to share?" (and being dumb enough to believe "make it great again" lies). And then the idiotic "center" who doesn't want to lose voters start moving to the right. With the decaying planet less capable of producing food, there'll be less, and there'll be more of that scarcity mindset (although do we even have scarcity, maybe it's just the uneven distribution, with billionaires eating cows that's been fed grass that's grown with the purest glacier water flown by helicopter from the Swiss alps...).

In one aspect, the autocratic rule of Xi Jinping has a positive: "We're going to cover the whole mountain with solar panels, and force electrification of cars." and there's no busybodies protesting and threatening to vote his party out of office.
Show HN: Matching people based on their saved places, not their profiles
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-11 20:45:49+00:00
I exported my Google Maps saved lists, compared them with a friend's, and realized our overlapping
places said more about compatibility than any bio. So I built Common Ground — paste two list URLs, swipe through your places, and see what you share. No signups, runs in your browser. Vibe-coded in an
hour

https://anupamchugh.github.io/placematch/
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-11 20:46:04+00:00
This sounds pretty cool. I have a couple of old DELL 630s that were automotive diagnostic computers, due to them being the last model with a real hardware serial port. Now I am thinking of reviving them with Linux, but just to host old windows VMs (all the auto diag software is windows only). Maybe I should give netbsd a try here.
by aed | 2026-02-11 20:46:04+00:00
There's an endpoint for that!

https://api.hallucinatingsplines.com/reference#tag/cities/GE...

You can also pull the map tiles as an array: https://api.hallucinatingsplines.com/reference#tag/cities/GE...

Would be interesting to two agents with the same instructions do a "face off" but each only has access to one type of map.
by derefr | 2026-02-11 20:46:12+00:00
> I also balk at how much extra computing power is needed to generate effects I find no value in and would prefer to disable.

I mean, "computing power" in a literal sense maybe, but does that matter if it doesn't translate to either "workload contention" or "electrical power"?

I think the Liquid Glass effects, similar to smooth scrolling, are mostly just running as pixel shaders on a spare tile of one of the SoC's GPU's Streaming Processors — a tile that likely likely would have been idle-but-burning-power-anyway, given that GPU power management occurs on the level of entire SPs. It's the same reason that ProMotion "smooth viewport scrolling" doesn't really cost anything.
by entropyneur | 2026-02-11 20:46:14+00:00
Emacs is an interesting analogy. I've switched from IDEs to Emacs at some point in my career, and inertia obviously wasn't the reason. Then another 15 years later I went back to using IDEs (inspired by Carmack's interview). 2 years in I realized it destroyed my ability to generate and maintain mental maps of the codebase and generally remember things about it, although I think it's still a net gain so I stick with it. Agentic coding poses the exact same problem and the exact same tradeoff. And I think the jury is still out on whether it's worth it. At the very minimum you need to take proactive measures least you end up with a codebase no one can maintain (other than maybe future AGI).
by nikcub | 2026-02-11 20:46:35+00:00
> In what world is public opinion not universally against the cartels? It's hard to take you seriously after that.

They definitely care about not ratting the cage with the US - they don't harm US federal agents, or take US hostages, and the last incident of Americans being killed in Mexico by cartel-affiliated gunmen in a case of mistaken identity - it was the cartel who handed the perps over and apologised[0]

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/09/us/mexico-matamoros-ameri...
by tdb7893 | 2026-02-11 20:47:19+00:00
The issue with quibbling over impact is my experience is that people end up doing neither. I recently started a Master's in ecology so I don't have a good idea of what's cost effective right now but I know the field is pretty shockingly underfunded (both for general research and conservation projects). I learned the "fun" fact recently that bird populations in the US are down ~30% in the last 55 years.
by figmert | 2026-02-11 20:48:16+00:00
> Open-source is not a value statement. It’s a strategy.

> The only question that matters is this: Does open-source structurally help this product win?

> A hard filter first: Only technical users are emotionally sensitive to open-source.

> Important framing shift: OSS is not the product. OSS is the entry point.

> Open-source is powerful. But only when it is deliberate.

Finally, the random bolded bits of text.

This article is literally copy pasted directly from some LLM, and I'm fairly sure it's ChatGPT.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 20:48:19+00:00
The Nest footage is conclusive and unambiguous.

Nancy Guthrie was apprehended by ICE agents and deported to Australia.

=======

Irishman at Sydney airport: “Greetings, here is my passport and visa”

Customs agent: “G‘day sir. Have you got a criminal record?”

Irishman: “M‘Lord, no! I didn’t realise that one was still required!”