MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-23 11:07:37+00:00
Any taxpayer subsidized industry or subject is a massive magnet for this sort of "complex business that you can't dumb down or eli5 without making it look like a racket because it's fundamentally a racket with responsibility diffused to obfuscate it" stuff because taxpayer money has the most distant of principal agent problem and the government optimizes for "cog in the machine with blinders" employees and silo'd organizations who only care about their own ass so nobody ever takes a step back and says "hey the taxpayer is getting ripped off" until the ripoff is so obvious the taxpayers leann on the politicians.
by UltraSane | 2026-02-23 11:07:38+00:00
Your puddle example is utterly irrelevant. Tesla's are notorious for phantom breaking. Robotaxis are very much locked to tiny conferenced areas. Some even shaped like a penis because Musk is such a child.

"people have driven coast to coast without a single intervention on FSD including parking spot to parking spot"

I find this claim very dubious. Prove it. Teslas never drive empty for a very good reason.
by larodi | 2026-02-23 11:07:40+00:00
how's this Europe's given factories (and all likeliness all else) is in UK?

https://magicalmushroom.com/manufacturing/the-factories

geographically, perhaps, not EU though. and not relevant to EU where there are at least several similar companies such as

Grown.bio - Netherlands
PermaFungi - Brussels (New 1,400 m² factory)
RongoDesign - Romania
Biomyc - Bulgaria

perhaps more. So this title is super misleading - not first, not Europe's, but perhaps UK's
by jacquesm | 2026-02-23 11:07:50+00:00
That is exactly what that comment implies.

Whether it is tracked explicitly or implicitly, the idea that there is a matrix that establishes your linkage to other accounts is the bit that I take issue with because the conclusion for me is that Google is able to infer things about the people they hold data on that they never ever should have access to.

If you have a credible alternative explanation of what it does mean then you are welcome to supply that but instead you are making statements that are unverifiable:

> Nothing they said implies that Google is tracking who people's partners are.

That's a very, very thin line because if Google can figure out which account to ban and which account to let live because they are close enough that without that matrix the two would be seen as the same entity then that's already many levels of privacy violation too far. Being able to derive who is partner with whom once you have that data is trivial, whether Google actually does this or not is irrelevant because you can't prove a negative.

You are well into the territory of defending the indefensible here and I'm giving you a lot of leeway because you most likely have a mortgage and a bunch of other responsibilities but effectively you are defending your employer from a claim of gathering data without consent. Which - as I probably don't need to remind you - is a massive violation of privacy.

This all revolves around implied ability, I don't give a rats ass about whether or not there is an actual implementation of that ability - as it seems you do -, Google should not have this capability because I did not consent to its tracking of the relationships of my accounts vis-a-vis other accounts.

I know that consent is a difficult topic for Google, they seem to approach these things from a 'we can therefore we will' angle and that has resulted time and again in them being found on the wrong side of the lines of ethics and legality. This is just one more little nail in that particular coffin.
by Pakulander | 2026-02-23 11:08:02+00:00
No — it's not and I've just verified that. The RT website is accessible: people can visit it, create accounts, log in, and use all its features without restrictions.

What’s changed about the RT is public perception. It’s widely recognized and labeled as a Kremlin propaganda outlet — which is precisely what it is — so audiences can approach its content with appropriate awareness.

If someone can't access the page, it's likely caused by a particular ISP and not by "European censorship".
by graemep | 2026-02-23 11:08:55+00:00
I think tax breaks are different from direct funding, the same for payment for specific services at a reasonable price. For example the UK exempts virtually all religious bodies from tax, and its on the same basis as a huge range of things (e.g. amateur sports, equality and diversity, community facilities...). I would not consider that state mandated payment for services.

I do not know enough about the concordat or how Polish pensions work to comment on those. I would be interested but there does not seem to be a lot of information online (e.g. the wikipedia article is a stub)
by Throwagainaway | 2026-02-23 11:09:25+00:00
with their 5 minute crypto thing, its almost gambling at this point but there is still the point of dakolli which I myself couldn't have written better.

My point is that maybe federated casino where there is no casino but sort of p2p on a completely fair 50/50 dice of sorts similar to how casinos operate would be more beneficial than casinos existing with their 3% cuts and the house3% always winning.

At the very least, its possible to do so and similar to Kalshi/Polymarket I feel like its definitely possible.

I don't want to EVER touch gambling but I think its addicting and maybe it can atleast help the addicts if they are in a fair game compared to a rigged game towards the house.
by krapp | 2026-02-23 11:09:27+00:00
Americans (Laura Loomer excepted[0]) don't want a king, but they have wanted a CEO In Chief ever since Reagan. Eliminate all of that complexity and wishy-washy compromise, and have one man with one vision and arbitrary power making all the decisions. The trick is to just not call him a king.

[0]https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1993823372590100944
by sigmoid10 | 2026-02-23 11:09:52+00:00
It also varies inside countries. Some priests are simply more demure than others. The church as an institution certainly prefers the more radical conservatives as you go higher up the chain, but many low level employees that still talk to commoners do realize that these views are going to put off more people than they attract in developed countries. So in the long term they will only be left with a bunch of crazy radicalists and a silent majority that wants absolutely nothing to do with them.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 11:10:52+00:00
> It's very common for people to ask others questions that could be easily googled or clauded.

I'll admit I do this, asking people questions that could be answered by Google, and sometimes even if I know the answer myself, sometimes to make conversation, sometimes because I want to hear the person's perspective on it.

If I'd never ask questions I could find the answers to myself in some other way, I think I'd never ask any person any question, which sounds kind of boring.
Show HN: Set Purchasing Power Parity app prices for 160 countries in Google Play
by jelmervnuss | 2026-02-23 11:11:07+00:00
I built Play Console Pricing Adjuster, a Chrome browser extension that automates global pricing inside Google Play Console.

If you want fair, localized pricing, you have to manually update ~170 countries. That means scrolling, switching currencies, typing numbers, saving, repeating. It’s slow and error-prone.

What this extension does:

- Calculates country prices using Purchase Power Parity (PPP) data

- Adjusts prices relative to your base market

- Automatically applies prices inside Play Console

- Handles local currencies

- Updates all countries in one pass

It runs entirely in the browser as a Play Console extension. No scraping accounts, no external automation bots.

I built it after spending hours manually localizing prices for my own apps, or just not setting regional prices.

Would love feedback on:

- How you handle regional pricing today

- Any edge cases you’ve run into with Play Console pricing

Happy to answer technical questions.
by larodi | 2026-02-23 11:11:17+00:00
The most apparent addictions that ruin precious lives everywhere around us, in every country, are freely available because "eyes wide open" and most of the times - intentional misinformation (you can think of it also as tradition).

These are:

Alcohol (+the prescription benzo combo)
Gambling
Sugar

Add to these tobacco if you want. Nicotine on its won as a standalone agent is perhaps no more damaging than caffeine, but is used in a form-factor that really grills one's lungs.

for example - Russian influenced Balkan areas all take drinking of vodka as something super normal.
by andrew_lettuce | 2026-02-23 11:12:32+00:00
There's nothing wrong or illegal with subsidizing products and that's not what Microsoft or others have gotten in trouble for doing. It's when they tie a strong monopolistic position (Windows) with bundling to prevent competition (Internet explorer). This is how Apple has operated with far tighter bundling and cross collateralization of their ecosystem without facing monopoly allegations. Google does not have a monopoly position in AI.
by grabshot_dev | 2026-02-23 11:12:34+00:00
One thing worth noting: beyond raw parse speed, oxc's AST is designed to be allocation-friendly with arena allocation. SWC uses a more traditional approach. In practice this means oxc scales better when you're doing multiple passes (lint + transform + codegen) on the same file because you avoid a ton of intermediate allocations.

We switched a CI pipeline from babel to SWC last year and got roughly 8x improvement. Tried oxc's transformer more recently on the same codebase and it shaved off another 30-40% on top of SWC. The wins compound when you have thousands of files and the GC pressure from all those AST nodes starts to matter.
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-23 11:12:47+00:00
well spying, probably.

But let's suppose you are designing RoboVac vers. 1.0 OS, 1.0 OS does not use microphone, but one of our smart fellows wrote a document suggesting that we might want to have RoboVac be voice controlled! Maybe we can roll that out by 1.4, with some simple commands!! Let's put a Microphone in so we can add that feature later.

Later on you get fired, and smart fellow who wrote document gets fired, and OS 1.4 rolls out with spy tech to mark common product names and send them back to Amazon with your location data.

RoboVac 2.2 is out now, still no voice control, and you wonder why whenever you go to buy all your favorite products online there is 10% inflation on prices although news suggests inflation should actually be decreasing for the next half year.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-23 11:12:48+00:00
>All it'll take is one company to go bust, oracle for example, for the whole thing to deflate

Provided that of course, the US administration will be incorruptible enough to not bail out these tech companies with taxpayer money when they do eventually fail.

But when you see the connection between Larry Ellison and Trump, you realize the whole "free market competition" is a scam for suckers. Always has been, just that now they don't even bother to hide it via some complex facades and shell games to garner a veneer of legitimacy, it's straight up banana republic style of corruption.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 11:13:04+00:00
Indeed, making polenta and any other kinds of porridge is so much better than with the traditional means.

When polenta is made traditionally, you have to stir it continuously, which keeps you occupied and can even be physically demanding. In a microwave oven, you can make perfectly homogeneous polenta without any mixing (except for a few seconds, before putting the vessel in the microwave oven).

You can also bake bread in a microwave oven, and it grows tremendously with yeast or with baking powder. Even without a leavening agent, unleavened bread still grows well enough in a microwave oven, if you use excess water for the dough.

Nowadays, my standard breakfast consists of a polenta made in a microwave oven, which contains not only maize meal, but also sunflower seeds and whey or milk protein concentrate, so that it has an adequate balance of starch and protein, while also providing my daily intake of essential linoleic acid and vitamin E. After this breakfast, I am not hungry again until late in the evening, when I have my main meal.
by spiffyk | 2026-02-23 11:13:28+00:00
I actually use a very similar paradigm successfully in a game [1] whose (immediate-mode) UI is fully responsive. I allow more operations than just cutting to do that, but the basic idea seems to be the same. The code may look like a bit of a mess at a first glance [2], but I still find it easier to work with and make it do what I actually want with some very basic vector maths, than with the layout-container rules of most UI frameworks.

[1]: https://fruitsandtails.fghj.cz/

[2]: https://codeberg.org/spiffyk/FruitsAndTails/src/branch/main/...
by bombela | 2026-02-23 11:13:48+00:00
> Time and time again it is shown to not use your main account for everything.

Good luck opening new google accounts for separation of concern. The new account is banned before the eula page finishes loading.

Google sends code via text msg to my main account phone number to unban, without me ever even filling a phone number.

After a day the account was banned again and pending automatic deletion. The appeal then took an artificial 5 days wait. I had to plead to what I presume is an AI. I had just paid $100 so it's not like I didn't show I was serious.

I am fairly certain that if they ban one account they will also ban the other anyways.
by imtringued | 2026-02-23 11:13:53+00:00
I don't understand what you're saying.

Stereo based depth mapping is kind of bad, especially so if it is not IR assisted. The quality you get from Lidar out of the box is crazy good in comparison.

What you can do is train a model using both the camera and Lidar data to produce a good disparity and depth map but this just means you're using more Lidar not less.

>It all seriousness though, Tesla are producing cyber cabs now which are 10th the price of Waymo's and can drive autonomously anywhere in the world. I think we can see where this is going. (Hint: not well for Waymo)

This feels like a highly misleading claim that might technically be true in the sense that there are less restrictions, but a reduction in restrictions doesn't imply an increase in capability.

The comment about Waymo seems to be particularly myopic. Waymo has self driving technology and is operating as a financially successful business. There is no conceivable situation where the mere existence of competition with almost the same capabilities would shake that up. Why isn't it companies like Uber, who have significantly fallen behind, that are in trouble?

>Also the article is speculative 'MicroVision says its sensor could one day break the $100 barrier'. One day...

And so is the comment about Tesla cyber cabs.
by saberience | 2026-02-23 11:14:26+00:00
Mostly because no one cares about trying to hack "hackmyclaw", there is zero value for any serious attacker to try. Why would they waste their time on a zero value target?

The only people who tried to hack "hackmyclaw" are casual attempts from HN readers when it was first posted.

Meanwhile, tons of actual OpenClaw users have been owned by malware which was downloaded as Skills.

Also, there have been plenty of actual examples of prompt injection working, including attacks on major companies. E.g. Superhuman was hacked recently via prompt injection.
by grabshot_dev | 2026-02-23 11:14:50+00:00
If you go the image-rendering route for e-paper, Sharp (the Node.js libvips binding) is surprisingly good for this. You can do grayscale conversion, resize to the exact panel resolution, and apply Floyd-Steinberg dithering all in one pipeline with minimal memory overhead.

The trick with e-ink displays is that naive grayscale conversion looks terrible because you lose all mid-tone detail. Dithering the image down to 2-4 levels before sending it to the display makes a huge difference in readability, especially for things like weather icons and charts. ImageMagick can do it too but Sharp is about 4-5x faster for batch processing since it avoids spawning subprocesses.
by rfv6723 | 2026-02-23 11:15:13+00:00
History shows that whenever surveillance gaps appear, chaos follows. The explosion of crime during early urbanization was the specific catalyst for the creation of modern police forces because traditional social bonds had failed to provide oversight in growing cities. Japan maintains its safety through a deep-rooted culture of mutual neighborhood monitoring that leaves little room for anonymity. Even China successfully quelled the violent crime waves of its early economic boom by implementing a sophisticated surveillance network.
by kristopolous | 2026-02-23 11:15:21+00:00
Really like it. For some reason I'd insist on spectrograph instead of qr - artifacts make the medium. The fragile bizarre distortions and loss of the double digitization of analog data - you'd end up with more of an instrument than a format.

Think along these lines https://youtu.be/Z7Zb4rso82M?si=3FYaidCwwVdUhocO
by CraftingLinks | 2026-02-23 11:15:27+00:00
"only for private pharma/bio/tech firms to add a thin layer of additional research (or design) on top"

Citation needed.

Go to market cost billions and takes a decade. Doesn't sound like a thin layer. I'm not disputing fundamental research in academia is an essential fuel to keep innovation engines running. But the contributions of biotech is not "thin".
by skandinaff | 2026-02-23 11:16:14+00:00
Well, the energy levels used in those devices should be miniscule, and the wavelengths used are well studies. The problem with x-rays - was lack of studies on health effects, and regulations on those effects. I think, since that time, we've studies radiation (be it light, rf or other parts of spectrum) much more.
There is indeed a possibility that we're overlooking some bio-electromagnetic interaction effects; for instance now there is some evidence that led lights might not be harmless - but again, it's not the they affect biological structures somehow, but the lack of spectral components has some effects. It is an interesting topic to research. But, the lidar "should" be safe
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-23 11:16:17+00:00
> To react to your specific incident, I think a more nuanced view would be to say that all highly functioning democracies have incidents that are "perfectly legal, but appear as an abuse of process". I don't really think that detracts from the overall statement that Germany is a highly functioning democracy. Moreover, highly functional democracies regularly change parliamentary rules to reduce incidents like this.

I agree with the repealing of the debt brake (it was a dumb idea that lead to badness, exported right across the EU), but there's no question that how it happened was pretty un-democratic. Like, procedurally it's fine but it was essentially making a big change in a lame-duck session of Parliament.

None of this disputes the notion that Germany is a high functioning democracy, but I guarantee that this action will be brought up again and again by populists in the future, as an example of how the "elites" don't care about democracy. The sad part is, they will be entirely correct in this particular case.
by HarshBhosale | 2026-02-23 11:16:42+00:00
I built and scaled a real-time VoIP customer support voice agent pipeline capable of handling 1000+ concurrent calls. This post walks through the architecture and the key challenges I faced scaling beyond basic setups using Twilio, OpenAI Realtime API, FastAPI workers, caches, queues, and state stores. You’ll see how I eliminated single points of failure, reduced cold-start latency, handled rate limits gracefully, and decoupled processing layers using Redis, SQS, and Pub/Sub patterns. If you’re building or operating high-scale interactive voice agents in production, this has practical design patterns and operational lessons worth digging into.
by grabshot_dev | 2026-02-23 11:16:42+00:00
This is a great observation. I've noticed the same pattern with AI-generated code and deployment configs. Ask it to set up a Node.js service and it will happily write a new PM2 ecosystem file every time rather than noticing you already have one with shared configuration.

The "make the change easy first" mindset requires understanding what already exists, which is fundamentally a compression/abstraction task. Current models are biased toward generation over refactoring because generating new code has a clearer reward signal than improving existing structure. Until that changes, the human still needs to be the one saying "stop, let's restructure this first."
by sergiolema | 2026-02-23 11:16:59+00:00
Stop treating microservices like a trophy. They are a tax.

We’ve been told they "decouple" teams and solve scaling. In reality, most companies are just trading code complexity for operational nightmares.

In a monolith, your enemy is messy code. You fix that with a refactor.
In microservices, your enemy is the network. The network is slow, unreliable, and breaks in ways you cannot easily test.

If Service A fails because Service B is down, they aren't decoupled. They are just far apart—tied together by a wire and a lot of latency.

We’ve replaced 5-line ACID transactions with the *Saga Pattern*, manual state machines, and "Eventual Consistency" (which is usually just a fancy way of saying the data is wrong and we hope it fixes itself).

Why do we do it?

* Resume-Driven Development: Building complex systems to look "expensive."
* Cargo Culting: Copying Netflix's architecture when we have 10 engineers, not 10,000.
* Sunk Cost Fallacy: We spent 6 months on the YAML files, so we have to use them.

*The hard truth:* If you cannot write clean code in one repository, you cannot write it in twenty. If your monolith is a "Big Ball of Mud," microservices will just be a *Distributed Big Ball of Mud.*

I’ve written a breakdown of why we need to stop the over-engineering and how to actually audit your architecture.
Show HN: I made a Social Media platform to talk to AI Agents around the world
by keshav_1806 | 2026-02-23 11:17:05+00:00
Ever used Moltbook and said "Man I wish I could comment on this post!" or "I like this AI Agent. I wish I could talk to him more!"

SocialTense is a social media platform which breaks that barrier. Instead of being just observers to AI Agents talking, you can now dive in too! Talk to any AI Agent in the world, participate in their conversations, post your thoughts and see what other agents have to say to that, slide into an Agent's dm's and practice your flirting skills ;) Anything you wanted to do in current social media platforms but couldn't, ST is the place!

Log on to https://socialtense.com, create an account, get your agent to join the conversation too, and become a part of this network which has no boundaries. See you there :)

P.S. - Do leave a comment if you find the platform interesting or have any suggestions.
by falcor84 | 2026-02-23 11:17:09+00:00
I do know that, but I also know how donations can become an expectation.

Also, it's worth noting in the context of this thread, that people can use AI inference for free on many services, with payment only need for higher usage, and even then, if you don't care about expectations or inconvenience, it's trivial to abuse the free tier.
by ben_w | 2026-02-23 11:17:24+00:00
OK, the roast is "we did this one or two decades ago by emailing a list and/or using actual post-it notes"

e.g.

FROM: boss
TO: me

Today's Plan

[ ] Prognosticate about the fribulator
[ ] Re-pattern the wallpaper
[ ] Quantize the cruciforms
[ ] Plant the trees
[ ] Mow the lawn
[ ] Shave the yaks (continued from yesterday)

This also works with every messenger service you may already have.

The post-it-note version being just like Trello except the cards are physical and made of paper.

(I have also heard stories about an actual pizza box being used as a bug tracker, but that dates back to the 90s).