MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alentred | 2026-02-24 19:16:37+00:00
We lack basic education in fitness, really, we do! They don't teach it in schools, but really just walking your 8-10k steps a day + simple own-weight exercises at home do wonders! Gym is fine for those who like it and can afford it (time, money), but by far not the only solution. We need to educate ourselves better. Plus, better cities, I am with you on that one.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-24 19:17:08+00:00
Can't say enough good things about flickr. Those people nailed it in 2004 (I've been a paying subscriber since their first year) and everyone else has been making bad copies ever since. Tagging, friends (pretty much inventing social media without any of the diabolical dark patterns), full-resolution archival storage, a solid API, all over two decades ago. I'm frankly embarrassed for things like Instagram, it's like they're not even trying.
by gmd63 | 2026-02-24 19:17:30+00:00
Yep. The reason employees don't care about their work is that caring for their work is not valued. Box checkers and opportunists proliferate as loyal craftsmen get screwed over repeatedly.

> You could take the Kansai airport baggage handler team and drop them into any airline in the world, and they'd perform to the same high standard. Take any halfass United Airline baggage team and drop them at Kansai and they'd be breaking guitars, killing dogs, and all the other usual shenanigans just like back at home, and they wouldn't give a flying rat's behind about how their employer respects them or not. They're there for paychecks. Respect doesn't even enter into consideration.

The hypothetical of dropping one baggage team into another airport might be true in an immediate timeframe but it doesn't address the core issue - each team was formed in a completely different society, one values celebrity and quick-buck scamming, one values planting trees that cast shade long after you're dead. Pretending like the influential people who steer the most economic activity aren't to blame at all for that difference in culture is insane, especially when we have a felon president who has been pardoning many high profile fraudsters.
by notahacker | 2026-02-24 19:17:34+00:00
I hope they at least acknowledge that it was quite impressive for a six year old to understand the distinction between different types of engine and consider engine fires.

Anyway, YC's Heart Aerospace's intended commercial airframe design now does use a turboprop as a backup (for range extension beyond the capabilities of their battery electric engine), so six year old you was clearly onto something :)
by aed | 2026-02-24 19:18:05+00:00
I'm a 15+ year user of 1password and have been telling myself to move off of it for like 5 years now. It ain't the price... $72 is really fine for good software that just works.

But as mentioned throughout the thread it's really just too much. My goodness they really could have a nice, profitable, business with simple software. I'd happily pay $10/month for the version of 1password from 15 years ago! It's just all too much.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 19:18:32+00:00
That may change as they get more widely deployed; scale matters.

https://courthousenews.com/judge-holds-norfolks-license-plat...

> "Because rapid technological advances, such as the rise of artificial intelligence, make it impossible to predict how police surveillance will evolve, the Fourth Amendment analysis must remain nimble even as it remains grounded in founding-era traditions," the George W. Bush appointee wrote in a 51-page opinion. "Plaintiffs are unable to demonstrate that defendants' ALPR system is capable of tracking the whole of a person's movements."

> Davis drew distinctions from two significant precedents in determining that the pair's Fourth Amendment challenge lacked merit. In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the government violates the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a suspect's historical cell site location information without a warrant. The Fourth Circuit ruled in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department that the department's surveillance program, which captured and stored aerial images of nearly the entire city, violated the Fourth Amendment.

> Davis ruled that, unlike in cases where the government tracked people's movements through cellphone data and aerial photos, the collection of Flock data does not capture enough information to catalogue citizens' movements in their entirety. Davis reasoned that the 176 cameras, located in 75 clusters across the city, do not constitute a search.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-24 19:18:34+00:00
Sure, we can separate loops from clocking for the most part. But it doesn't really change the analysis. These loop. The stuff from several years ago didn't loop properly.

As a tangent though, the system is already powered, you shouldn't need a secondary power source to make your Turing machine go. Something there still feels incomplete, like it probably passes but with an asterisk. But that distinction doesn't matter for CSS since it can self-clock.
by zahlman | 2026-02-24 19:18:49+00:00
Yeah, I have to agree. Worth noting that deterministic "code-generation" systems have existed for quite some time. It's just that once you saw something like that being useful for your system, that gave pause to critique the existing system design.

Boilerplate is boilerplate, whether filling it in is purely mechanical or benefits from an LLM's fuzzy logic.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-24 19:19:14+00:00
I found it very interesting that Terence Tao also did not like doing mental visualizations and preferred non-visual analytic methods (page 225). This strongly matches my own experience. I am also not a fan of doing visualizations in my head. I was once asked to do a visual test that’s similar to tower of Hanoi, and I just can’t do it visually, even though I have studied this problem when learning recursion and could formulate a solution easily analytically.
by emptybits | 2026-02-24 19:19:21+00:00
> It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

Except the basis of that culture would not be honour, would it? A critical mass of people scrutinizing and reporting others' actions might lead to a compliance-based culture. It's different IMO. i.e. intrinsic motivation to behave well (honour, morality, decency) versus extrinsic motivation to behave well (fear of unpopularity, law enforcement, mob reaction, etc.)
by alephnerd | 2026-02-24 19:19:31+00:00
> The US auto market is like the UK in the 80's ... It's over for domestic automotive industries unless we are willing to accept higher prices via anti-competitive measures to keep some manufacturing domestic

That is what is happening. The reality is that the demographic that manufactures cars is different from the demographic that purchases EVs [0].

That said, American battery manufacturing has silently been booming despite public political consternation [1] thanks to defense against overproduction.

Also, it's hypocritical to demand American autoworkers lose their jobs while demanding tech bros be defended against the H1B program [2] and offshoring [3].

Protectionism for me, market forces for thee.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/16/georgia-ev...

[1] - https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2026/02/23...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44469669

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39909329
Show HN: Imsg-TUI – A Console App for Sending and Receiving iMessages
by zer0zzz | 2026-02-24 19:19:57+00:00
When I saw there were loads of tools made for automating everything from iMessage to Mail through OpenClaw, I decided it would be neat to have a brand new app that lets you send messages from an SSH console.

The work is based on steipete's imsg (https://github.com/steipete/imsg), and is a spiritual successor to things like CamHenlin's imessageclient (https://github.com/CamHenlin/imessageclient)).
by tptacek | 2026-02-24 19:20:03+00:00
They need a warrant to physically alter or attach things to private property to track them. They don't need a warrant to post monitors and record what they see in plain view in public spaces with no expectation of privacy. The entire concept of a license plate, universal around the world, works against the idea that the state can't monitor your car.

I'm not saying ALPRs don't pose new privacy problems and, in the long term, depending on how they're used, even constitutional problems. But clearly the Anti-Pinkerton Act doesn't get you anywhere here.
by Bender | 2026-02-24 19:20:05+00:00
I read it and I get it but I have never run into problems with KP using its existing schema. The only reason I could see this debate making sense would be if third parties want to integrate with it otherwise it works perfectly fine. And sure if it's worth doing then make it optional like I said. Have an export as SQLite, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, DB2 but keep it optional given there is no need otherwise. This is solving a perceived problem that does not exist or creating a problem where there isn't one.

As for scale this app is for one person doing one query at a time or saving one password at a time. One person will not be saving millions of passwords or if for some reason they are then they can export to a format that an enterprise solution could take it's place. People have written team / company password managers that can use Oracle, MySQL and Postgres that can track and audit user and team password changes. This is not something that should ever be expected of an individual personal password manager like KeepassXC.

This is just my take but I would rather have the maintainers of KP focus on bugs, usability issues, quality of life enhancements which they have been doing great thus far in my opinion. Forcing a schema migration is just asking for trouble and potentially causing bugs that turn some people away from using it or cause people to lose data if they do not have snapshots of their database. Or if forcing a schema change make for damn sure there are many backups in each format and encourage the users to back up all the files to many external encrypted drives and store some of the encrypted devices off-site.
by godelski | 2026-02-24 19:20:10+00:00
First off, guns aren't a subcomponent of a vast majority of modern items. The ESP32 was an example but the reality is anything with a radio. Be it WiFi, Bluetooth, or anything.

Second off, guns are incredibly easy to make. Easy enough that they make them in prisons and Japan. But you know what's a million times easier than that? Radio. It's a common first electronics project. You can literally make it out of a few resisters, capacitors, and some wire.

Literally the cost of fighting this type of technology is taking down all wireless infrastructure. ALL of it. And even then it's still a god awfully expensive thing to fight because anyone with a hot pointy object, an electricity source, and some things that are slightly bad at conducting electricity can make a radio
by zahlman | 2026-02-24 19:20:13+00:00
> If there's a known bug in an internal tool that would take the development team a day to investigate and fix - aka $10,000s - it's often smarter to send around an email saying "don't click the Froople button more than once, and if you do tell Benjamin and he'll fix it in the database for you".

How much will Benjamin's time responding to those calls cost in the long run?
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-24 19:20:24+00:00
>What option do you have other than to have someone go read ten years worth of emails to decide which ones they get?

This funnily enough sounds like the exact use case of AI in streamlining timely, tedious, but important matters. Now the that someone simply needs to verify that the filtered documents are relevsnt.

Of course, I'm assuming a world where AI works on this scale. Or a world where this slow walking discovery isn't a feature for corporations.

> The difference is obviously that they get the document in the 2nd+ year of the trial instead of never.

Yeah, after using that year to make billions of dollars. That's how the current AI litigation is going. Once again by design. Pillage until the cows come home in 5-6 years.
by conductr | 2026-02-24 19:21:25+00:00
That’s fair. I do think they’re some point where it gets too broad though. The definition part will be a tough balancing.

As an example, I’ve been a fairly strict parent with devices and content access. But, I do let my son play Switch games with his friends which requires the internet. I feel it’s ok in moderation, he plays no more than about 3 hours a week.
by keeda | 2026-02-24 19:21:31+00:00
Actually, no those are separate things, and you can see for yourself with this simple experiment. Just adding "Check your assumptions" to the prompt -- note, without specifying what assumptions! -- leads them to reason to the right answer.

You can try it with the free version of ChatGPT yourself (remember to ask the original question in a separate session to verify it hasn't been "patched" yet.)
by dylan604 | 2026-02-24 19:21:42+00:00
It's not like this is surprising, there have been plenty of sci-fi books/movies that have predicted this very thing. How many movies have the haves lived above ground/off planet, while the have nots have lived underground or stuck on a apocalyptic planet.

This is just furthering the previous history. Currently, the lords have just been able to keep the serfs appeased to a longer extent. Every time in history or in sci-fi, the serfs reach a breaking point and rise up.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-24 19:21:47+00:00
Systemd is just another init system. People said the same thing about how it can exist with other ones in a level playing field.

By the virtue of having some motivated backers, not only they have pushed everyone out from any distro which matters or acts as a root for others, they have formed a neat little company called Amutable which produces tech allowing anyone to lockdown any installation to an immutable, untouchable state.
by neilv | 2026-02-24 19:22:13+00:00
Around that age, I wrote a letter to Tandy (Radio Shack), proposing that I write a hobby electronics book.

In hindsight, I wasn't knowledgeable enough to write a printed book's worth of material (maybe a few modern blog posts, at best). But at the time, I knew more about electronics than the other 29 kids in my grade school class, and that constituted most of my worldview, so why couldn't I write a book.

I loved the Forrest Mims books, and, like any kid, wanted to mimic the things that I saw grownups doing.

Someone at Tandy might have realized that I was just an enthusiastic kid, but in any case, they wrote me a nice letter back. The company didn't wish to develop a book at this time, but if I did so on my own, they would be happy to review a copy off the press.

(Edit: I mean, there was a mailing address right there, on the back cover. In a kid's mind, why couldn't you simply mail a letter to that address. https://archive.org/details/gettingstartedin00mims/page/n131... )
by cs702 | 2026-02-24 19:22:15+00:00
Even a dog can vibe-code! And it kinda, sorta works most of the time, like the stuff vibe-coded by many people!

I'm reminded of the old cartoon: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."[a]

Maybe the updated version should be: "AI doesn't know or care if you're a dog, as long as you can bang the keys on on a computer keyboard, even if you only do it to get some delicious treats."

This is brilliant as social commentary.

Thank you for sharing it on HN.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
by paxys | 2026-02-24 19:22:30+00:00
> OpenAI is projecting that its total revenue for 2030 will be more than $280 billion

For context, that is more than the annual revenue of all but 3 tech companies in the world (Nvidia, Apple, Google), and about the same as Microsoft.

OpenAI meanwhile is projected to make $20 billion in 2026. So a casual 1300% revenue growth in under 4 years for a company that is already valued in the hundreds of billions.

Must be nice to pull numbers out of one's ass with zero consequence.
Show HN: Vis Pro – A Formula-Based Workout Program Editor
by strongpigeon | 2026-02-24 19:22:38+00:00
Hey HN,

About 5 years ago, I built a weightlifting app for 5/3/1 that got me on the front page of HN [0]. After that, life happened. I had kids and so decided to get a job and put that project on ice. Eventually I grew too disappointed with my job, and decided to try building something again.

The biggest feedback I kept getting from users was simple:
“Let me create my own programs.”

That’s how Vis started.

The initial idea was to create a B2B platform where gyms and trainers could build programs using formulas (e.g., percentages of 1RM) and reusable blocks instead of spreadsheets. I built what I still think is the best workout editor out there, but I quickly found out that B2B sales is hard (or maybe I just suck at it). It also just didn’t feel like a big enough sell for gyms.

So I pivoted. I focused on the iOS app for a while [1], and now re-packaged the editor so individuals can use it directly.

With Vis Pro, you can:

- Define programs using formulas (e.g., 0.85 * SQUAT_1RM, or even better: RPE(8, SET_REPS) * SQUAT_1RM)

- Build workouts by re-using pre-defined or even custom blocks

- Share your programs and workouts with others

The core idea is that programs are parametric instead of static. Change your 1RM and the entire program recalculates automatically.

You can try it out without an account at https://vis.fitness/pro/try/create-program

The whole thing is built with NextJS, using Chevrotain (surprisingly solid) for the formula engine.

It's been super interesting using Codex since late Dec. It's been a huge force multiplier, enabling me to ship really cool features like formula autocomplete and syntax highlighting in a couple of hours. I'm used to reviewing a lot of code from my time at Google, so that hasn't been a problem, but it's interesting to feel that the review speed is now the limiting factor. Though the codebase would become unmaintainable real quick without that.

The next step is building an MCP server to allow users to create programs using LLMs and have them show up directly in the editor (and your phone).

Would love feedback, whether you even lift or not!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508009

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vis-next-generation-workouts/i...
by hyperman1 | 2026-02-24 19:22:41+00:00
This article in Dutch gives a whole list of Trump USA ambassadors being trolls:

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/02/23/amerikaanse-ambassad...

Belgium, France, Poland, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Canada

It's clearly a pattern where the USA puts obnoxious people in an ambassador role.
by Tharre | 2026-02-24 19:22:45+00:00
I'm going to assume you're referring to auth codes, especially the ones sent via SMS? In which case yes, banks should definitely stop using those but that alone doesn't solve the overarching issue.

The next step is simply that the scammer modifies the official bank app, adds a backdoor to it, and convinces the victim to install that app and login with it. No hardware-bound credentials are going to help you with that, the only fix is attestation, which brings you back to the aformentioned issue of blessed apps.
by dang | 2026-02-24 19:22:47+00:00
You left out the parts about how and when we turn flags off, about how a certain amount of political overlap is both necessary and inevitable, but that it also can't be too much. All of those are important factors, and I've posted many explanations of them.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flags%20off%20turn%20by%3Adang...

We can't, however, turn off flags on threads we don't know about. You guys (I don't mean you personally!) unintentionally assume that we're omniscient. We aren't, so we need people to tell us about cases like this.

In this case, no one told us; I ran across it randomly. Randomness is only good for partial results. For guaranteed message delivery, someone needs to email hn@ycombinator.com, and please remember that it takes time to work through that (er) rather active inbox.
by simonw | 2026-02-24 19:22:56+00:00
Hopefully none, because your staff will read the email and not click the button more than once.

Or one of them will do it, Benjamin will glare at them and they'll learn not to do it again and warn their coworkers about it.

Or... Benjamin will spend a ton of time on this and use that to successfully argue for the bug to get fixed.

(Or your organization is dysfunctional and ends up wasting a ton of money on time that could have been saved if the development team had fixed the bug.)
by hamdingers | 2026-02-24 19:23:01+00:00
Seems like a lack of creativity, plus painting themselves into a corner by promising unlocked bootloaders.

Samsung owns SmartThings, a smart home platform. They could've come up with a suite of apps for turning your phone into a SmartThings-connected camera, or motion detector, or remote control, or button panel, or a dashboard, etc. Either charge a little for the apps, or trust that sucking people into the SmartThings ecosystem will cause them to buy hubs and other devices.

Users might be more willing to upgrade their phone if they can turn the old one into a baby monitor vs getting scammed on a trade-in or letting it sit in a drawer.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-24 19:23:09+00:00
Right like someone who can only afford a $100 phone can buy the cheapest iPhone which is 5x more expensive.

This is about like the geeks who hate the idea of ad supported service and think that everyone should just pay for every service they use.

FWIW: I do exclusively buy Apple devices, pay for steaming services ad free tier, the Stratechery podcast bundle, ATP and the Downstream podcasts and Slate. I also pay for ChatGPT and refuse to use any ad supported app or game.
by weatherlite | 2026-02-24 19:23:24+00:00
> Cardio is unpleasant and stressful

It can be, especially when you're only getting started and completely out of shape (I advise mostly walking and a bit of running if thats the case). But it can also be a beautiful, relaxing, meditative and totally addictive thing - which is why tens or hundreds of millions around the world do it. That feeling of unlpeasant stress means you probably went to hard; decrease the intensity. Walk if u have to, then run a bit, then walk some more. I agree that when you're starting out - feeling like you're suffocating / out of air is not a great feeling. There's really no reason to train like that.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-24 19:23:53+00:00
> They don't need a warrant to post monitors and record what they see in plain view in public spaces with no expectation of privacy.

They do if it's done to the point where you can track individuals around the city.

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/201495A.P.pdf

> The AIR program uses aerial photography to track movements related to serious
crimes. Multiple planes fly distinct orbits above Baltimore, equipped with PSS’s camera
technology known as the “Hawkeye Wide Area Imaging System.” The cameras capture
roughly 32 square miles per image per second. The planes fly at least 40 hours a week,
obtaining an estimated twelve hours of coverage of around 90% of the city each day,
5
weather permitting. The PSA limits collection to daylight hours and limits the
photographic resolution to one pixel per person or vehicle, though neither restriction is
required by the technology. In other words, any single AIR image—captured once per
second—includes around 32 square miles of Baltimore and can be magnified to a point
where people and cars are individually visible, but only as blurred dots or blobs.

> On the merits, because the AIR program enables police to deduce from the whole
of individuals’ movements, we hold that accessing its data is a search, and its warrantless
operation violates the Fourth Amendment