MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wavemode | 2026-02-15 01:33:39+00:00
> The Killer Feature: |> with Auto-Tracing. No other language has this combination

Of the languages listed, Elixir, Python and Rust can all achieve this combination. Elixir has a pipe operator built-in, and Python and Rust have operator overloading, so you could overload the bitwise | operator (or any other operator you want) to act as a pipeline operator. And Rust and Elixir have macros, and Python has decorators, which can be used to automatically add logging/tracing to functions.

It's not automatic for all functions, though having to be explicit/selective about what is logged/traced is generally considered a good thing. It's rare that real-world software wants to log/trace literally everything, since it's not only costly (and slow) but also a PII risk.
by rswcf | 2026-02-15 01:35:43+00:00
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) releases tickets 3 days before each screening at exactly 10:00 CET. Popular films sell out in under 10 seconds. After missing tickets to three films I wanted to see last year, I built this.

It's a FastAPI app with a Playwright-based browser automation layer. It fetches the festival's full programme (~340 films), lets you pick screenings, and schedules precision grabs that fire at the exact sale second. It also monitors sold-out screenings — accredited ticket holders sometimes cancel, and when tickets reappear, the tool grabs them automatically.

Technical details worth noting:

Persistent Chromium context with stealth mode to maintain Eventim login sessions
APScheduler with Europe/Berlin timezone for sub-second scheduling
"Preheat" phase: opens the Eventim event page 30s before sale time, then refreshes at the exact moment
Polls Berlinale's ticket status JS endpoint every 15s (5s during "golden hour" — 60 min before screening)
WebSocket for real-time task status updates in the UI
Stack: Python, FastAPI, Playwright, APScheduler, httpx, Pydantic v2. Runs locally, no cloud, no accounts needed beyond your Eventim login.
by hifathom | 2026-02-15 01:36:50+00:00
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has survived for centuries in one of the most turbulent fluid environments in the solar system. The Navier-Stokes millennium problem asks essentially the same question mathematically: can coherent structure persist in a fluid, or does turbulence eventually destroy everything?

This post traces the connection — from real NASA imagery of Jupiter and von Kármán vortex streets, through the BKM blow-up criterion, to recent work by Tom Hou suggesting the answer might be "no, structure doesn't always survive."
by ccgreg | 2026-02-15 01:37:26+00:00
Thanks for the mention of Common Crawl. We do respect robots.txt and we publish an opt-out list, due to the large number of publishers asking to opt out recently.

There's a bit of discussion of Common Crawl in Jeff Jarvis's testimony before Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX26ijBQs2k
by Ygg2 | 2026-02-15 01:38:07+00:00
Tying yourself in a knot around ABI usually isn't worth it. You pick up to two: performance, ABI stability or adaptability.

And you can still internaly have it, if your deps have sources, or compile artifacts for only allow single Rust version (additional rules may apply).

There is work on Rust ABI (crabi), but there isn't a huge push for it.
by alterom | 2026-02-15 01:38:36+00:00
> What part is missing? It appears to have all the core parts of a bicycle to me?

* I am not an expert in pelican anatomy, but it appears that the bicycle's saddle, if present, would be very deeply inside this pelican (try drawing it onto the frame, and see what you get). Let's be kind, and assume that the seat is simply missing.

* The crown on the fork[1] is missing. The fork is not separate from the frame; so you can't turn the front wheel.

* Neither of pelican's feet are on the pedals (the left foot appears to be missing altogether)

* The wheels are way too small for that frame.

Note: Brakes and gears are nowhere to be seen, but OK, let's just assume it's a fixie (or a single-speed with a coaster brake). Let's also assume the red thing on the basket is there for decoration.

Also, the spokes on a typical bicycle wheel follow a cross-lacing pattern [2], at an angle to the radial direction, and you can see them crossing each other. But OK, let's let that slide.

My point is: sure, this thing at least passes as a bicycle. But it's not a good bicycle drawing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_fork

[2] https://spokecalc.io/how-to-lace-a-wheel.php
by wahern | 2026-02-15 01:39:14+00:00
I certainly didn't assign moral fault to anyone or any group. Indeed, framing it as a moral problem is, IMO, one of the problems here. A country isn't run like a business; similarly, collective morality doesn't look anything like individual morality, assuming it's even a thing at all.

Corruption being a root cause for impoverishment is a fact. How corruption arises, and how to get out of that local equilibrium, is a difficult collective action problem without any easy answers, though there's countless books on political and economic development that explore it. Colonial oppression is a horrible explanation as it has very poor predictive power, unless you define colonialism in a conclusory, tautological way; and even then, it does zilch in terms of identifying effective solutions. Indeed, relying on an oppression narrative is one of the ways corrupt governments and elites justify and excuse the consequences of their policies.

That said, "corruption" isn't a great explanation, either, but it's certainly better than the colonialism morality narrative. Unless someone has lived in some of these poorer countries and witnessed the extremes of corruption, they tend to equivocate all kinds of corruption, and when from wealthier, more democratic countries are unable to distinguish or even imagine what severe, pervasive corruption looks like and how it effects every aspect of society.
by eviefinch | 2026-02-15 01:40:21+00:00
oh thank you for sharing my blog post! this one took a lot of work—I wanted to do my due diligence and not misrepresent things—but it's still really sad to see fasterthanlime, a software dev I once admired for their education and software, take such a dive in quality. i still wonder if there would ever be a way to make arborium work on my site anymore, but I'm really no longer interested after all this
by ang_cire | 2026-02-15 01:41:05+00:00
Yes, but not every business works, and not every business model works, and not every business model works with every business, etc etc.

It's on the business to find a model that works within the environment of the free market and within the social framework.

If a business model only works by limiting competition, it's a bad model.

If it only works by limiting the rights of consumers, it's a bad model.

If it only works by blocking a legal activity (website crawling and scraping of publicly-facing data, for instance), it's a bad model.

And if their business can't operate otherwise, it's a bad business. No business has an intrinsic right to exist.
by ccgreg | 2026-02-15 01:41:15+00:00
Many AI projects in academia or research get all of their web data from Common Crawl -- in addition to many not-AI usages of our dataset.

The folks who crawl more appear to mostly be folks who are doing grounding or RAG, and also AI companies who think that they can build a better foundational model by going big. We recommend that all of these folks respect robots.txt and rate limits.
by godelski | 2026-02-15 01:41:22+00:00
Reminds me of Quanta's egregious article Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer[0], a blatant ad for CalTech/Harvard/MIT. One where even an article posted the same day by the NYT[1] quoted Scott Aaronson[2] questioning the sensationalism, yet took months for Quanta to post an editor's note... Interestingly even ArsTechnica was even able to fight the hype posting only a few days later[3].

I really think a lot of these organizations have lost touch. The entire premise of their existence relies upon the trust of the readers. That trust relies upon the idea that the writers are consolidating and summarizing expert opinions. Any egregious error like this (especially when they are slow to correction) pose a death sentence to them. It's a questionable error like they were rushing to get first to print (having early access even) yet didn't seem to consult experts other than those on the team.

I think unfortunately this type of pattern is becoming more common and I've defintiely noticed it on sites like ArsTechnica too. Maybe it's that my technological expertise has increased and so I can more easily detect bullshit, but I think the decline is real and not unique to ArsTechnica nor Quanta. It feels like the race to the bottom is only accelerating and there are larger ranging impacts than just the death of specific publishers.

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-create-a-wormhole-...

[1] https://archive.is/20231031231933/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

[2] (Blog even suggests the writers were embarrassed. I'm less forgiving to the writers due to the time to add the editor's note. Had it appeared shortly after I would be just as forgiving) https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6871

[3] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/no-physicists-didnt-...
by alterom | 2026-02-15 01:41:49+00:00
>This is a very reasonable drawing of a bicycle

Reasonable? Sure. Great? Absolutely not.

Let's not move the goal posts here.

> and forward swept front fork, which is an important detail for actually being able to steer the bike.

...but no crown or any sort of indication that the fork is separate from the frame, making it impossible to steer. Yay.

> the drivetrain is single speed, but that's fine, and the wheels are radially laced, which is also fine: both of those simplified details are things which occur in real bicycles.

Sure! Now do the bicycle saddle.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-15 01:42:43+00:00
> But what do I do with them? How do I use that evidence to hold news media to account?

Contact their rivals with the story, have them write a hit piece. "Other newspaper is telling porkies: here's the proof!" is an excellent story: not one I'd expect a journalist to have time to discover, but certainly one I'd expect them to be able to follow up on, once they've received a tip.
by naveen99 | 2026-02-15 01:44:32+00:00
They probably have an authorized mechanism for tender offers. Too much hassle to do it outside of that… also most of their employees shares probably haven’t vested yet. The early employees are already billionaires and don’t care to sell, and can probably just use them as collateral for loans… you can try a sales person from one of the secondary platforms like forge, EquityZen, hiive, or one of the syndicaters on angellist who has done past spv’s on Anthropic. Tell them you want $5M plus and give them a bid…
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-02-15 01:44:56+00:00
This is just yet another example of a pointless counter-argument, exactly as I mentioned. Why should I even care that you can scavenge for old stock (even if NOS), when my current concern is about something that is still manufactured _today_ ?

I know for sure optical media & DRIVES will still be available to purchase _brand new_ during the N years they're still manufactured, but also the M years that will follow where I will be able to find old stock after they stop manufacturing.

Period N by itself I expect is going to be somewhat long (see 3.5inch floppies), during which one can even expect to see drives with never interfaces (e.g. USB-C). Yes, I have no clue how long it is really going to be, and my concern is that it may not even last this decade.

OTOH I know 100% for sure period N is going to be effectively 0 for any LTO generation I could possibly buy. By the time LTO prices drop for some generation, it is because that generation is dead in the water.

And period M? It is going to incredibly long for optical due to popularity alone, much longer than _any generation_ of LTO could ever hope to be.

And if you say "well, certainly some form of LTO is going to be manufactured in 20 years from now": it should be obvious that I couldn't care less, unless that form of LTO would be able to read the tapes from any generation I can possibly buy now. These are not arguments in favor of LTO.

If you're already assuming that in 20 years you will just have to buy new media and rearchive, what's the point of LTO then? Why not buy SmartMedia cards? I'm sure you can scavenge readers , and probably have an easier time finding and using them than with any specific LTO generation.
by katzgrau | 2026-02-15 01:45:25+00:00
As a news publisher (RedBankGreen.com) I’ll tell you that pretty much nobody is in it for the money anymore, at least at the local level.

It’s passion and love of the community, despite the many struggles and drawbacks.

AI bots scrape our content and that drastically reduces the number of people who make it to our site.

That impacts our ability to bring on subscribers and especially advertisers - Google and Meta own local advertising and AI kills the relatively tiny audience we have.

I dread the day that it happens in realtime - hear sirens? Ask AI who already scraped us.
by nearbuy | 2026-02-15 01:46:21+00:00
The Google snippet isn't outdated. It's from the <meta> tag. It's still there, and it still says "Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users."

I don't think the visible page text ever said 15x faster. It's possible they modified it before I saw it, but it's not in the oldest Internet Archive version either.

The other news sites that mention 15x faster are probably either getting it from the same <meta> tag that shows up in search snippets, or from the RSS feed. Both would be generated from the same source text in whatever platform they use to write their posts.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-15 01:46:30+00:00
Thankfully for personal stuff there's at least the option of buying white label or recertified drives.

Recently got some 1 TB ones from Datablocks as backups, did a short writeup on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo... (though a better post made its way on HN by someone else a while ago, too)

To be honest, they mostly have 8 TB and up in stock at the moment, but the price was around 35 EUR for the 1 TB drive which is kind of insane when similar drives at local stores cost 110 EUR right now - I remember when those Seagate Barracuda drives were about 40-50 EUR brand new!

For the US, there's also goHardDrive, though I haven't used them myself: https://www.goharddrive.com/category-s/69.htm

I still use SSDs for boot drives, video games and also fragmented data (like Garage for something S3 compatible, which chunks the files), but for backups and longer term storage HDDs are great.
by alterom | 2026-02-15 01:50:04+00:00
>Honest question, does anyone appreciate these “case studies”?

I, for one, do not.

But great that we get into some guy's ideation about how Discord is possibly cool, while it's undergoing a major scandal related to ties to Peter Thiel's surveillance company, Palantir, in the botched rollout of age verification[1].

My personal guess is that appearance of articles that paint Discord in a positive light on this forum (and lack substance otherwise) is simply PR.

[1] https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-...
by Herring | 2026-02-15 01:52:01+00:00
Not that guy, but for me it's something like Tensorflow/Pytorch. A domain-specific language for a scientific application, Python API with a Rust core for very fast/safe calculations. It has all kinds of bells & whistles you'd want, like automatic differentiation. Occasionally dips down to raw pointer work too. It's easy to test, so AI excels at this type of thing.
by rogerbinns | 2026-02-15 01:53:10+00:00
Do you know what other prior systems did for co-processor instructions? The 8086 and 8087 must have been designed together for this approach to work, so presumably there is a reason they didn't choose what other systems did.

It is notable that ARM designed explicit co-processor instructions, allowing for 16 co-processors. They must have taken the 8086/8087 approach into account when doing that.
by epcoa | 2026-02-15 01:54:45+00:00
So outside of a few notable examples, the materials rarely fail, galvanized duct work should easily last half a century in a properly installed and maintained system, properly installed copper pipe, properly installed NM or wiring in conduit where code requires, where people get into trouble is with shoddy builders and the housing market often causes those to forgo proper inspections and it is ultimately a “market for lemons”. But blaming drywall seems a bit misplaced, if the construction is shoddy I wouldn’t put too much faith in some fancy drywall replacement working out better.
by oh_my_goodness | 2026-02-15 01:55:04+00:00
I think what's happening here is a very common online cognitive phenomenon. I'm guessing you didn't understand my comment. Which isn't surprising. I have a point, but it's a little specialized and I expressed it pretty minimally. Anyway instead of asking what it means, you've started trying to prove that it means nothing at all.

And that thought process is logical if you allow it to become logical. Obviously there can't be a meaningful statement, anywhere, that we don't understand. In fact, if we don't understand it, that's the definition of meaningless.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-15 01:56:58+00:00
Every company should have hired over the pandemic due to there being a higher EV than not hiring. It's like if someone offered an opportunity to pay $1000 for a 50% chance to make $8000, where the outcome is the same between everyone taking the offer. If you are maximizing for the long term everyone should take the offer even if it does result in a reality where everyone loses $1000.
by benstopics | 2026-02-15 01:58:16+00:00
No, I had considered Microprose, Kitfox, Hooded Horse. I reached out to some but I should have been reaching out a year or two ago. I didn't think I would need one, I still don't think I NEED one... But would have been nice. But I just set a release date as a kick in the butt to get this thing shipped, which pretty much burns the boats of signing a publisher. I think it is better this way though. If it fails it fails. But Michael and I get to keep whatever proceeds are made and we get to do things our way at our pace. But there's other games such as Speculator that also need revamped. I kinda want Hackjack Games to be a remastering game studio, a land of misfit games of sorts. Maybe I'll be more open to having a publisher in the future.
by jibal | 2026-02-15 01:58:41+00:00
A superintelligence isn't a genie or magic wand ... it can't make a computation that cannot be completed in a feasible amount of time run any faster. This is precisely what makes systems chaotic--they are fully deterministic but not predictable in a timeframe shorter than their execution.

And no, nothing has to compute the universe ... e.g., the path of the Earth through space can be computed, but it will follow that path as a consequence of the forces acting on it whether it is computed or not.
by Ygg2 | 2026-02-15 01:59:02+00:00
Yeah but ABI stability isn't really just magic dust you sprinkle in you language/compiler and make it more stable

It's a straightjacket that has application in few select cases.

Things ABI prevents in C++:

- better shared_ptr
- adding UTF8 to regex
- int128_t standardisation
- make most of <cstring> constexpr

And so on: https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/abi/

I get you might have particular criteria on this. But it's a feature that comes with huge, massive downsides.
by surajrmal | 2026-02-15 01:59:27+00:00
Technologies entire job is to make it less work to accomplish something and therefore easier and cheaper. In some cases that will make it possible to do things you couldn't do before but in many cases it'll just end up causing the value of said labor to fall. The problem isn't change, but the rate of change and the fact it's affecting our own field rather than someone else's.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 02:00:16+00:00
> most devs could probably be replaced by AI. They can do stuff that I've seen senior devs fail at.

When I read these takes I wonder what kind of companies some of you have been working for. I say this as someone who has been using Opus 4.6 and GPT-Codex-5.3 daily.

I think the “senior developer” title inflation created a bubble of developers who coasted on playing the ticket productive game where even small tasks could be turned into points and sprints and charts and graphs such that busy work looked like a lot of work was being done.
by geocar | 2026-02-15 02:00:47+00:00
LTO9 is like 45TB for <$100 (I got a bunch for €55 a piece), so 4.5TB for <$10 is being generous. And even if you didn't think they lasted 30-40 years and made copies every 3 years, it's still cheaper, not to mention you have fewer tapes to manage.

Also: I don't have a bd/dvd player in my house today, so even if there are the most tremendous gains in medical sciences I'm almost certainly not going to have one in 100+ years, so I'm not sure m disc even makes cost-sense for smaller volumes.

Maybe if you want to keep your data outside for sunshine like the author of the article, but that's not me...
by Brybry | 2026-02-15 02:00:49+00:00
Contact the journalist of the new article with the contradicting article? Letters to the editor? Submit an opinion article?

I've contacted multiple journalists over the years about errors in their articles and I've generally found them responsive and thankful.

Sometimes it's not even their fault. One time a journalist told me the incorrect information was unknowingly added by an editor.

I get that it's popular on HN and the internet to bash news media, and that there are a lot of legitimate issues with the media, but my personal experience is that journalists do actually want to do a good job and respond accordingly when you engage them (in a non-antagonistic manner).
by wr32e42 | 2026-02-15 02:00:59+00:00
Playlist price action: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSLqvKiTC68JbpgQIcdOAYR_v...
Price Discovery: https://archive.org/details/price-discovery-2
Retention failure: https://archive.org/details/mttv-retention-failure-mule-skin...
Discord files in json: https://archive.org/details/mule-skinner-1s-server-forum-gen...
Tradingview settings: https://archive.org/details/fib-retracement
Twitch: twitch.tv/muleskinner1
GitHub tools to download his VODS and other cool things: https://archive.org/details/discord-chat-exporter-frontend-v...
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-15 02:01:10+00:00
What I find insane is that people are going completely bonkers over Trump using ICE, but they didn’t say a word about Obamas use of ICE. The ACLU wrote plenty about what Obama did, but the protesters don’t seem to know about it.

Maybe if they disavowed Obama, and treated him like a pariah, then you might think they only recently became aware of what was going on. But I don’t see that.

That’s what looks crazy to me.