MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zokii0 | 2026-02-10 11:29:30+00:00
Monocles chat is best one for Android, it is the most complete chatting app for todays standards, unlike Conversations it has swipe to reply, last seen, emoji reactions etc. The only issue is making account there, need to use other homeserver like @conversations.im if you don't want to pay for their @monocles.eu .
For IOS the only option is Monal.
For web I find conversejs better than mov.im as movim doesn't encrypt sent pictures in chat at all, and encryption of text messages is sometimes broken depending on how you set it up in settings of account and in chat, as it needs to be activated on both places, so conversejs is better, but less enjoyable UI than movim
by bckr | 2026-02-10 11:29:50+00:00
Labor organization yes! I don't quite know how to achieve it. I also worry that my desire to become a manager is in direct conflict with my desire to contribute to labor organization.

On a separate note, I have the intensification problem in my personal work as well. I sit down to study, but, first, let me just ask Claude to do some research in the background... Oh, and how is my Cursor doing on the dashboard? Ah, right, studying... Oh, Claude is done...
by Gud | 2026-02-10 11:29:54+00:00
I can’t believe his implementing this!

This is one of my pet ideas to equalize and redistribute wealth.

Fundamentally I believe one of the worst aspects of capitalist societies is the tendency of capital to concentrate to already well off capital owners.

I believe the best way to beat this inherent defect in capitalism, is for the state to manage a fund for every child born and slowly hand over control to the individual.
by whiteboardr | 2026-02-10 11:29:57+00:00
What a letdown.

After having spent (way too much) time in automotive interior and UI-design and leaving the field based on the realization that classic car design organisations across almost all manufacturers are mostly driven by "aesthetics" and gimmicky "tech"-quirks but do not seem to care about actual usability and utility, i had high hopes that Ive would be the one to come up with an interior that actually makes sense.

This might be harsh, but I'm afraid, this will have the same effect on the car industry as Liquid Glass will spill nonsensical decoration for effect's sake across software outside of Apple, taking years to clean up.

Starting with the Steering wheel - Indicators as buttons, really? Then the control modules on the wheel: Good luck figuring out how to use the ACC. Zero buttons for Volume, Prev/Next or even OK/Cancel to navigate anything - meaning you'll have to take your hands off the wheel for almost everything.

Plus, it's a very thin rim and for a performance car not the best choice IMHO.

Good thing though there's ginormous paddles for "torque control". 


The instrument cluster is a giant housing for three display areas that are anything but modern, aka Retrobore and in some cases not very good or clear - eg. tire pressure or the three scales in the power dial per mode that are very similar and probably too technical for most users.

I hope there's going to be some customization.

For the head unit itself, while it's nice having the option to swivel the unit it seems overengineered for a secondary feature.

While I'm happy to see physical switches and a rotary dial, the choice for what is being used as switches seems not ideal since the length of the switches might make it hard to use. People won't feel a shape/form and press it, but rather have to put in some muscular effort to hit the switch from the top or bottom and at the right angle - even if you can rest your palm on the handle of the unit.

As for visual design within the UI it almost seems unfinished and not very polished, let alone "luxurious" - especially the climate control screen.

Overall a missed opportunity that carries on the clutter we see today coming out of car manufacturers and neglects core utility in the automotive context.

It's neither focused and clean like most Apple products have been designed nor very emotional or even close to being "Ferrari".

It's the same problem as with everything automotive interior today (and for way too long already):

Decisions driven by automotive-/industrial designers who are caring for sculptural appearances first.

I sincerely hope that at some point we can see this as a chapter from the past - at a point in time where the DRIVER/passengers and ACTUAL utility are paramount and developed with software (and it's established rules about usabililty and affordance) being an integral part.

To add some more snark: Maybe Ive should care less about being chauffered in a Bentley and spend some actual time behind the wheel.

Showing myself out now.

</rant>
by Xarovin | 2026-02-10 11:31:07+00:00
I like working on my own projects, and where I found AI really shone was by having something there to bounce ideas off and get feedback.

That changes if you get it to write code for you. I tried vibe-coding an entire project once, and while I ended up with a pretty result that got some traction on Reddit, I didn't get any sense of accomplishment at all. It's kinda like doomscrolling in a way, it's hard to stop but it leaves you feeling empty.
by srean | 2026-02-10 11:31:31+00:00
Yes this exactly.

The Ptolemaic system is an adhoc form of Fourier analysis (circles upon circles). These are universal approximators (another universal class are the neural networks) of (preferably smooth) periodic functions. So with enough epicycles one can fit any complicated periodic motion. But it will not help extrapolate the motion of Pluto from the motion of Jupiter, it's a data fit description, not a causal description.

This is also why I worry about the recent trend of using DNNs in astronomy. We may go Ptolemaic with them.
Show HN: Deterministic linguistic enrichment pipeline for Node.js
by svenschaefer | 2026-02-10 11:31:37+00:00
A deterministic linguistic processing pipeline for Node.js that incrementally enriches plain text into a single structured document (canonical text, segmentation/tokenization, POS, MWEs, chunks, heads, token-level relations). Library-first and schema-driven - same input/config yields the same output. Optional lexical signals can be sourced from a local Wikipedia title index service.
by dev_l1x_be | 2026-02-10 11:31:46+00:00
> to do great stuff in the name of efficiency; for example, when browsing through some parts of the UI, it's now much more capable of just updating the part of the page that's changed

Are you implying that this only doable with React? I mean just for the fun of it you can look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GObi93tjZI
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-10 11:32:07+00:00
Solar installer costs are broadly comparable as Australians are better qualified and even if they weren't comparable the fraction of the cost isn't enough to explain the total difference.

There's various studies comparing the two countries, Tesla did one and found various technical approach changes and permitting reforms. It suggests labor is 7% of the cost in the US. Soft costs around acquisition, sales and marketing can be 18%.
by watwut | 2026-02-10 11:33:52+00:00
> The Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments are the most obvious examples.

BOTH are now considered bad science. BOTH are now used as examples of "how not to do the science".

> The idea that corporate employees are fundamentally "not average" and therefore more prone to unethical behaviour than the general population relies on a dispositional explanation (it's about the person's character).

I did not said nor implied that. Corporate employees in general and Forbes 500 are not the same thing. Corporate employees as in cooks, cleaners, bureaucracy, testers and whoever are general population.

Whether company ends in Forbes 500 or not is not influenced by general corporate employees. It is influenced by higher management - separated social class. It is very much selected who gets in.

And second, companies compete against each other. A company run by ethical management is less likely to reach Forbes 500. Not doing unethical things is disadvantage in current business. It could have been different if there was law enforcement for rich people and companies and if there was political willingness to regulate the companies. None of that exists.

Third, look at issues around Epstein. It is not that everyone was cool with his misogyny, sexism and abuse. The people who were not cool with that seen red flags long before underage kids entered the room. These people did not associated with Epstein. People who associated with him were rewarded by additional money and success - but they also were much more unethical then a guy who said "this feels bad" and walked away.
by emiliobumachar | 2026-02-10 11:34:49+00:00
This is conflating two entirely different claims pretty hard:

- The old point that AI speech isn't real or doesn't count because they're just pattern matching. Nothing new here.

- That many or most cool posts are by humans impersonating bots. Relevant if true, but the article didn't bring much evidence.

That conflation brings an element of inconsistency. Which is it, meaningless stochastic recitation or obviously must have come from a real person?
by pyb | 2026-02-10 11:35:04+00:00
Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/)

"There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had 2 9s of reliability last time I checked..."

Now it's 2026, and customers are grudgingly accepting zero 9's of reliability.
by mnw21cam | 2026-02-10 11:35:07+00:00
This assumes that a 2 second interval is appropriate for all travelling speeds.

This assumption is untrue at very low speeds, particularly when it takes longer than 2 seconds for a car to pass a point. For instance if we assume cars are 4m long, then with an interval of 2 seconds the cars would be touching at 4.47mph

The assumption is also untrue at very high speeds. You'll want a larger gap. That's partly because at such high speeds the ability of a vehicle to decelerate differs - if a vehicle with good brakes does an emergency stop and the car behind it has a respectable 2 second gap but has worse brakes then they can end up colliding. It's also partly because a 2 second gap at very high speeds means the car in front is further away, and that can cause a greater delay before the driver realises what is happening. As a third reason a greater margin needs to be used at very high speeds simply because the consequences of a crash are that much greater and should therefore be avoided even more than at lower speeds.

Therefore there is a kind of U-shaped curve in the "safe" following interval, and consequently a speed at which safe throughput is maximised.

That's why variable speed limits have been introduced in various places. For instance, in the UK which normally has a 70mph speed limit on motorways, in very high traffic conditions this can be lowered using electronic signs to increase the safe throughput of the road. It's commonly reduced to 50mph, though it does get lowered further in sections approaching a queue of vehicles that has actually stopped.

There's also the issue of speed oscillations. With a high speed limit and vehicles following too closely, a little variation in speed in one vehicle can turn into a larger variation in the following vehicles, causing a backwards-travelling wave of braking (sometimes to an absolute halt) and speeding up again. Lowering the speed limit reduces this.
by digikata | 2026-02-10 11:36:34+00:00
A couple of historical notes that come to mind.

When washing machines were introduced, the number of hours of doing the chore of laundry did not necessarily decrease until 40 years after the introduction.

When project management software was introduced, it made the task of managing project tasks easier. One could create an order of magnitude or more of detailed plans in the same amount of time - poorly used this decreased the odds of project success, by eating up everyone's time. And the software itself has not moved the needle in terms of project success factors of successfully completing within budget, time, and resources planned.
by K0balt | 2026-02-10 11:36:41+00:00
Exactly this. Their characteristics are by design constrained to be as human-like as possible, and optimized for human-like behavior. It makes perfect sense to characterize them in human terms and to attribute human-like traits to their human-like behavior.

Of course, they are -not humans, but the language and concepts developed around human nature is the set of semantics that most closely applies, with some LLM specific traits added on.
by bartread | 2026-02-10 11:37:18+00:00
This website:

> There are no confusing time zones ordaylight savings time shifts to worry about.

Also this website (and in the very next sentence - emphasis mine):

> There are exactly 1,000 .Beats in a day, making each .Beat precisely 1 minute and 26.4 seconds long.

Having a laugh.

I'm assuming this cannot be serious, otherwise get thee hence!
by zsoltkacsandi | 2026-02-10 11:37:51+00:00
I didn’t mean the Agile Manifesto prescribes individual productivity measurement. I meant what often happens in “agile in the wild”: we end up tracking throughput proxies (story points completed, velocity, number of tickets closed, burndown charts) and treating that as success, while the harder question (“did this deliver user/business value?”) is weakly measured or ignored.

Also, agile isn’t really “removing managers from the picture” so much as shifting management from command-and-control to enabling constraints, coaching, and removing impediments. Even in Scrum, you still have roles with accountability, and teams still need some form of prioritization and product decision-making (otherwise you just get activity without direction).

So yeah: agile ideals don’t say “measure dev output.” But many implementations incentivize output/throughput, and that’s the misconception I was pointing at.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-10 11:38:08+00:00
Here's a different presentation:

1. Imagine a conceptual sunbeam originating from the sun and passing through the sky high over your head.

2. This sunbeams low-frequency components ("reds") continue on in their straight path, making them invisible to you.

3. The high-frequency components ("blues") are scattered by the atmosphere, going in random directions. When you look at the sunbeam, you can see these scattered blues, making the sky blue.

4. A cloud floating up in the atmosphere is illuminated by some direct sunbeams, which are "red".

5. It's also illuminated by the scatter from the atmosphere, which is "blue".

6. Do those two sources balance out exactly such that the light exiting the cloud has the same profile as light exiting the sun?
by ptman | 2026-02-10 11:38:14+00:00
Room addresses/aliases (like #matrix:matrix.org) must point to a single room (in fact, they point to a room version, so when rooms are upgraded, addresses must be pointed towards the new room). But for communities, a better way to organize the rooms would be spaces. Spaces can be joined. Spaces can contain rooms and other spaces. Like discord "servers" (guilds), but more flexible.
by cykros | 2026-02-10 11:39:07+00:00
Keep an eye on Whitenoise. It's basically taken the technology behind Signal and placed it atop Nostr, so rather than signing up with a phone number, you do it with an npub (pubkey). Still in very early days so the features aren't all there yet, and battery use could be better, but they've got the basics of it working already.
by paintbox | 2026-02-10 11:39:20+00:00
I used to be an occasional MR reader, but stopped visiting lately because of this.
When it became obvious how the US presidential race will end (basically after assassination attempt) Cowen's tone heavily shifted.
Even the facade of objectivity went through the window. Now most of his writing is spent on defending the indefensible. Shame, his early takes helped shape my world model.
by co_king_3 | 2026-02-10 11:39:22+00:00
> So everything stays exactly the same?

No, we get applications so hideously inefficient that your $3000 developer machine feels like it it's running a Pentium II with 256 MB of RAM.

We get software that's as slow as it was 30 years ago, for no reason other than our own arrogance and apathy.
Show HN: Snapfridge–vision-based grocery assistant built with Lovable and Gemini
by lmangiag | 2026-02-10 11:39:42+00:00
Hi HN,
I noticed that me and my wife were spending time every week to plan meals and prepare the shopping list. I thought this could be a great application for an AI agent.

I realized there was a cold start problem so I added a functionality to start from a fridge photo.

You can try the app without registering, but the agent can keep track of preferences of the user of registered.

I built this MVP using Lovable. As a dev, I wanted to see how far I could push "AI-assisted development" for a full-stack PWA.
It allowed me to skip the boilerplate and focus entirely on the prompt-engineering for the Gemini vision logic and the Supabase integration. I was skeptical about "generated code," but the speed at which I could iterate on the UI while maintaining a clean React/Supabase architecture was a game-changer for this specific project.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-10 11:39:54+00:00
The way you avoid losing your job to an AI agent is not 'intensifying' its use, but learning to drive it better. Much of what people are calling 'intensification' here is really just babysitting and micromanaging their agent because it's perpetually running on vibes and fumes instead of being driven effectively with very long, clearly written (with AI assistance!) prompts and design documents. Writing clear design documentation for your agent is a light, sustainable and even enjoyable activity; babysitting its mistakes is not.
by bobnarizes | 2026-02-10 11:40:00+00:00
Building https://floxtop.com, a native Mac app that organizes and rename your files with reliable AI.

It looks inside each file to see what it’s about, then suggest the right folder for you.

Everything happens on your Mac, so nothing leaves your computer. No clouds, no servers.

It works in 50 languages (including English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish) and with images (OCR and object recognition), PDFs, Microsoft Office, ePubs, text, Markdown, and many other file types.

For messy folders anywhere on the Mac, Floxtop can help.
by pwatsonwailes | 2026-02-10 11:40:36+00:00
Not sure where you get that for Milgram. That's been replicated lots of times, in different countries, with different compositions of people, and found to be broadly replicable. Burger in '09, Sheridan & King in '72, Dolinski and co in '17, Caspar in '16, Haslam & Reicher which I referenced somewhere else in the thread...
by cyanydeez | 2026-02-10 11:40:55+00:00
> 2012, Australian psychologist Gina Perry investigated Milgram's data and writings and concluded that Milgram had manipulated the results, and that there was a "troubling mismatch between (published) descriptions of the experiment and evidence of what actually transpired." She wrote that "only half of the people who undertook the experiment fully believed it was real and of those, 66% disobeyed the experimenter".[29][30] She described her findings as "an unexpected outcome" that

Its unlikely Milligram played am unbiased role in, if not the sirext cause of the results.
by anileated | 2026-02-10 11:43:36+00:00
I don't think global time would be a problem like many people suggest. If you talk to somebody in Australia you will quickly develop an intuition that time @X is night (or whatever it happens to be) over there, just like our other intuitions about how many things (weather, season, how long are sunsets, etc.) are different in different places.

Timezones are failing at all of their jobs. Getting time to correspond to sun position? It can be 7pm here and 7pm there but here it will be fully dark and there it will be still mid-evening. Knowing working hours of shops and government? Everything is all over the place. Everything is fluid and changes with seasons.

Plus, there is this unfair specialness that some countries are at UTC and others have offsets. With global time, everybody gets @0, just for different places it will be at a different sun position. (As long as we find a political way to pick something neutral, instead of saying "that's when the sun is highest in London".)
by bartread | 2026-02-10 11:43:39+00:00
I mean, you've never used the desktop version of Deltek Maconomy, have you? Somehow I can tell.

My point here is not to roast Deltek, although that's certainly fun (and 100% deserved), but to point out that the bar for how bad software can be and still, somehow, be commercially viable is already so low it basically intersects the Earth's centre of gravity.

The internet has always been a machine that allows for the ever-accelerated publishing of complete garbage of all varieties, but it's also meant that in absolute terms more good stuff also gets published.

The problem is one of volume not, I suspect, that the percentages of good versus crap change that much.

So we'll need better tools to search and filter but, again, I suspect AI can help here too.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC | 2026-02-10 11:43:39+00:00
> Starting around 2015, paleogenomic studies revealed a dramatic genetic turnover across Europe around 3000 BCE. In many regions, 70-100% of male lineages were replaced within just a few centuries. The Yamnaya and their descendants didn't just rule; they moved in enormous numbers. The debate isn't fully settled, and both mechanisms likely operated in different places and times, but the DNA evidence has shifted the balance decisively toward mass migration as the primary driver in Europe.

They killed all the males and enslaved the women.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-10 11:44:09+00:00
There are many ways to do anonymous proof of age. E.g. go to a physical store and buy a proof of age token, the store will ID you as much as they would for buying alcohol or cigarettes.

But that doesn't meet the requirements which is proof of identity.

As a parent I pay for my child's phone and sim, and thus I have parental controls and I can limit access to discord, or youtube, or porn sites, both on the device level, on the sim card level, and on the home internet level.

I'm all for making parental controls easier to use, if you want to pass laws, enforce minimum standards on companies, encourage or mandate pan-company cooperation (why can't I control my child's microsoft account from my apple parental control page, or an EA account from a steam control page). I'd even be happy with sites being mandated to add say a DNS record saying "this is a site for over 18s only due to $reason", and then I, as the bill payer, can choose to allow that or not.
by samus | 2026-02-10 11:44:31+00:00
A combination to some degree. Scientists yearn to stumble upon something hitherto unexplainable that requires a new theory or validates or definitely rules out some of the more fringe theories.

While other natural sciences often suffer from an abundance of things that "merely" need to be documented, or where simulation capability is the limit, particle physics is mostly based on a theoretical framework from the middle of the 20th century that has mostly beth explored.

Getting ahead in particle physics comprises measuring many arcane numbers to as high precision as possible until something doesn't line up with existing theories or other measurements anymore. More people could help with brainstorming and measuring things that don't require humongous particle accelerators.