MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by subscribed | 2026-02-17 20:48:18+00:00
I wish I could stop using them for these rare occasions I need a transport.

Taxi across the town is £20, Uber usually 5-10. There are no other providers.

Taxi from my airport (some 15 miles away) is £60-80, Uber usually £30-ish. Public transportation (2 trains + 2 buses) over £50.

I wish I had an option.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-17 20:48:20+00:00
True. I remember there was a window of time in which the PS2 was the cheapest DVD player you could get, or at least the cheapest in most stores. That was about the time when most consumers were feeling pressure to drop VHS. It was also pretty common for people to have CD binders full of pirated movies on DVD, very popular in colleges then, and kids bringing home those huge stashes of movies also motivated a lot of people to replace their VCRs. The PS2 with it's DVD playing functionality was well timed and well priced.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-17 20:48:43+00:00
We're seeing with Mamdani, who was elected with a massive mandate, that he can get things done despite a hostile state government that clearly didn't want him to get elected. Obama had a mandate, yet he didn't use it. Looking back, we should have seen this coming when he was mentored by people like Joe Liberman, and we immediately saw the results when he was tested in one of his first goals (healthcare). He dropped the public option immediately and implemented a Heritage Foundation plan(Yeah the Project2025 heritage foundation).

You can do a lot when you have a mandate and you are determined to get things done. How to determine if a candidate is like this? After many cycles of election in my experience there is only one reliable barometer. The only determining factor seems to be money in politics. If your candidate has corporate contributions, you can pretty much guarantee that nothing is going to get done. On the other side, we've seen non‑corporate‑backed candidates actually try, at the very least.

Now, talking about the actual specifics of how you get past a gridlocked Congress and a hostile Supreme Court: with the advantage of being at the top of the party, you have the ability to whip your party into falling in line. We saw this with FDR. He wasn't pulling any punches. If someone got in his way, including the Supreme Court, he made their lives miserable. One of the reasons bernie people feel fond of him.

A lot of these politicians are only there for the corporate donations and in hopes of a job afterwards. So a very low‑hanging fruit is to go after the corporations that are donating to the politician who is holding things up. Make the public aware that this SOB is the one holding up plans that are very popular. Do what Trump did: go into that person's district and get his voters to realize that this is the person that's holding everything up.

For example, paid family‑leave polls show ~71% overall support, including Republicans, Independents, and Democrats. Yet when Biden campaigned on it and then immediately dropped it at the first sign, it showed that he didn't even try.

A lot can be done if the candidate actually tries.
by neogodless | 2026-02-17 20:49:02+00:00
I'm one of those edge cases who uses Messenger.com a lot.

My facebook account is deactivated but I can keep on messaging. But... facebook.com/messages requires you to log in to your facebook account (which reactivates it).

So Mobile app would be my only option. Right now a lot of family members use Messenger, so it's not trivial to move away entirely.
by rowanG077 | 2026-02-17 20:49:02+00:00
That applies inside a single warp, notice the wording:

> In SIMT, all threads in the warp are executing the same kernel code, but each thread may follow different branches through the code. That is, though all threads of the program execute the same code, threads do not need to follow the same execution path.

This doesn't say anything about dependencies of multiple warps.
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-17 20:50:19+00:00
Russia is a glimpse into the future of America if nothing changes substantially in American political system. It’s a digital surveillance state, an oligarchy which co-opted technocratic elites into a ruling class and exploits mildly oppressed population without going to extremes. It has the technology and resources to maintain status quo for a very long time and absorb moderate shocks like this war.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-17 20:50:47+00:00
Which one lets them hoover up more data? Probably the desktop app.

Which one lets them display more ads? Probably the site.

For my money, I've always felt like they've tried to force me to use their messenger app on my phone. A while back, desktop/web started asking for a PIN to restore messages. It doesn't always prompt, and sometimes messages are there which you'd think shouldn't be, based on the description of E2EE and the role the PIN plays in it. I did not set any PIN, so I of course don't know it. Resetting the PIN deletes my entire message history.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-17 20:52:03+00:00
Yet that is the modus operandi of governments worldwide that need to secure the votes of the old. There is no reason the US explicit has different rules for taxpayer funded and non taxpayer funded defined benefit pensions. They are the same liabilities, the same cash flows, the same probabilities, just different political entities on the hook.

Even some non taxpayer funded defined benefit pension plans are more privy than others, depending on the political power of their beneficiaries.

https://archive.is/CJefA
Comparing Shunting Yard and Pratt Parsing
by cdelmonte | 2026-02-17 20:52:26+00:00
Short comparative note on Dijkstra’s Shunting Yard (1961) and Pratt’s Top-Down Operator Precedence (1973), walking through both on the same expression.

Link: https://cdelmonte.medium.com/two-algorithms-one-intuition-shunting-yard-and-pratt-parsing-f561a1dad6ac
by verdverm | 2026-02-17 20:52:55+00:00
Walking around the Hermitcraft world download is a pretty cool experience. Desire to hang out where your favorite creators did is not surprising. I wonder if there will be a catchall site (like zillow here) or if it will be more game specific (because integration complexity)

And will tools like Genie 3 be good enough that direct integration is no longer necessary?
by strcat | 2026-02-17 20:53:18+00:00
GrapheneOS has the same camera features and quality as the stock Pixel OS within the same apps. You can use Pixel Camera on GrapheneOS even without sandboxed Google Play in the same profile if you want the full feature set. If you want extremely good cameras, the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL are the best choices. Those provide the highest quality image sensors among the available supported devices and the Pro mode in Pixel Camera. See https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones/ for how those compare to other devices. Our own Camera app will be heavily overhauled to narrow the gap more with the Pixel Camera app but you can already use that especially if you care a lot about this.
by mustaphah | 2026-02-17 20:53:21+00:00
Yeah, I got your point when I read the paper. You're essentially controlling for "latent domain knowledge."

I might have been a bit blunt with the title - sorry about that, but I still think it was a good title. From what I've observed, a lot of Skills on GitHub are just AI-generated without any feedback or deliberative refinement. Many thought those would still be valuable, but you've effectively demonstrated otherwise.
by nurettin | 2026-02-17 20:53:25+00:00
Intelligence is about acquiring and utilizing knowledge. Reasoning is about making sense of things. Words are concatenations of letters that form meaning. Inference is tightly coupled with meaning which is coupled with reasoning and thus, intelligence. People are paying for these monthly subscriptions to outsource reasoning, because it works. Half-assedly but it works.

What you probably mean is that it is not a mind in the sense that it is not conscious. It won't cringe or be embarrassed like you do, it costs nothing for an LLM to be awkward, it doesn't feel weird, or get bored of you. Its curiosity is a mere autocomplete. But a child will feel all that, and learn all that and be a social animal.
Show HN: Distillate – Zotero papers → reMarkable highlights → Obsidian notes
by rhl | 2026-02-17 20:54:12+00:00
I read a lot of research papers for work. My workflow evolved around an ever-growing inbox of bookmarked papers from arXiv et al. Great for exploration, but hard to keep track of what I read.

Distillate bridges the tools I already use: Zotero (literature management), reMarkable (reader + highlighter), and Obsidian (notes). It automates the whole pipeline:

$ distillate

save to Zotero ──> auto-syncs to reMarkable

│

read & highlight on tablet
just move to Read/ when done

│

V

auto-saves notes + highlights

It polls Zotero for new papers, uploads PDFs to the reMarkable via rmapi, then watches for papers you've finished reading in your Read folder. When it finds one, it:

- Parses .rm files using rmscene to extract highlighted text (GlyphRange items)
- Searches for that text in the original PDF using PyMuPDF and adds highlight annotations
- Enriches metadata from Semantic Scholar (publication date, venue, citations)
- Creates a structured markdown note with metadata, highlights grouped by page, and the annotated PDF (I keep mine in an Obsidian vault)

The core workflow just needs Zotero and a reMarkable — no paid APIs, no cloud backend, your notes stay on your machine. Optional extras if you plug them in:

- AI summaries via Claude (one-liner + key learnings from your highlights)
- Daily reading suggestions from your queue
- Weekly email digest via Resend
- Obsidian Bases database for tracking your reading

Stack: rmapi for reMarkable Cloud, rmscene for .rm parsing, PyMuPDF for PDF annotation. Python 3.10+, pip installable.

The trickiest part was highlight extraction: reMarkable stores highlighted text as GlyphRange items in a scene tree, and matching that text back to positions in the original PDF required fuzzy search with OCR cleanup, plus special merging logic for e.g. cross-page highlights. Happy to say it works well ~99% of the time now.

Install: pip install distillate && distillate --init

Code: https://github.com/rlacombe/distillate

Site: https://distillate.dev

I built this for myself but would love feedback, especially from other reMarkable + Zotero users. What's missing from your workflow? What else should I add?
by zahlman | 2026-02-17 20:55:00+00:00
I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make, but it seems like you might be distinguishing between keeping out substandard work versus keeping out the submitters.

In which case, I kinda disagree. Substandard work is typically submitted by people who don't "get it" and thus either don't understand the standard for work or don't care about meeting it. Either way, any future submission is highly likely to fail the standard again and waste evaluation time.

Of course, there's typically a long tail of people who submit one work to a collection and don't even bother to stick around long enough to see how the community reacts to that work. But those people, almost definitionally, aren't going to complain about being "gatekept" when the work is rejected.
by davidjoy | 2026-02-17 20:55:25+00:00
This is honestly so cool

I love how you turned the whole “AI coding adoption” into a journey.

Super creative idea. This is the kind of thing that helps people laugh at themselves while also thinking more intentionally about how they use AI. There are levels to this game and I think it helps learn what else can be done.

Largedatabank strikes again :)
by strcat | 2026-02-17 20:55:27+00:00
The portions of SailfishOS specific to it including the user interface and application layer are nearly entirely closed source, unlike the open source Android Open Source Project (AOSP). SailfishOS has far worse privacy, security, functionality and usability than the Android Open Source Project. It isn't possible to make a fork improving it due to it not being open source like AOSP.

You can run desktop apps on GrapheneOS including on a desktop monitor via the desktop mode with free form windows. There's support for non-native apps via hardware-based virtualization. These features are experimental but already work pretty well.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-17 20:55:35+00:00
I suggest that dogs are not a good comparison.

Interaction with language models involves a significant use of language and thought. Is not repetitive. And many users (myself included) continually find new ways to use them.

Others may take their time adopting language models, or be slower to branch out into many kinds of use, but young people in particular will be very fast adopters and adapters. That will be the place to watch.

"Even faster" with respect to inference learning, wasn't an attempt to undersell changes happening now. Teachers are experiencing a lot of new issues with how students respond to the availability of models today. One being the potential for students to put less effort into their own communications. If that continues, it won't just be a "dumbing" of literacy, it will have its own impact on vocabulary and grammar.

But looking forward is unavoidable. Models are not going to stay still long enough to say what stage impacted what changes. Model changes are too fast and fluid.

Well, this era is just getting started, so a diversity of expectations makes sense.
by jltsiren | 2026-02-17 20:55:58+00:00
I don't think doubling the support would have been nearly enough to ensure Ukrainian victory.

The fundamental issue is that Russia has not fully committed to winning the war either. While losing the war would be an existential threat to the Putin regime, not winning it is not. As long as the war drags on, there are more effective uses for Russian resources to ensure the stability of the regime. But if the war becomes an existential threat, Russia could mobilize its entire economy.

A regime change in Russia is the only way Ukraine could win the war. Maybe by a coup or by military force. Or maybe by an arrangement, where the current regime can retire comfortably in a third country without having to answer for its crimes.
by ericmay | 2026-02-17 20:56:09+00:00
> huge reserves of carbon fuel that it can afford to sell under market rates,

Under market rates sure, but it must still be profitable. China and India know that, so they're going to drive down the price to the extent they can so that it's just barely profitable. But you can't just profit from the oil and gas, you need to profit enough to buy fighter jets and tanks, and all sorts of other things.
by xdotli | 2026-02-17 20:56:25+00:00
We collected 86 tasks from 105 domain experts across 11 domains, every task is verifiable, human created and has verified Skills. SOTA model without skills score ~30% without skills.

We found a few interesting things:
1. Skills substitute for model scale — Haiku 4.5 with Skills (27.7%) beats Opus 4.5 without (22.0%).
The right procedural knowledge can be worth more than a bigger model.
2. Skills' improvement has nothing to do with LLMs' internal knowledge. We have an ablation where no Skills provided for the agent, but the agent is prompted to generate relevant procedural knowledge before solving the task. This isolates the impact of LLMs' latent domain knowledge. The result is:
Curated Skills: +16.2pp average improvement across all 7 agent configs
Self-generated Skills: -1.3pp: models can't write their own procedural knowledge pre-trajectory feedbacks. This is used to isolate the impact of LLMs' latent domain knowledge.
by susam | 2026-02-17 20:56:27+00:00
Codeberg is one of my favourite Git hosting services. It is (to me) what GitHub should have remained like. I have been mirroring most of my GitHub projects to Codeberg as well. Someday when I can afford the time, I might decide to make Codeberg my primary repository hosting service and GitHub the mirror.

If you haven't seen it already, Codeberg is seeking donations here: <https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/>. A good way to support a product you like rather than becoming the product yourself.
by hedora | 2026-02-17 20:56:54+00:00
I’ve noticed the opaque weekly quota meter goes up more slowly with 4.6, but it more frequently goes off and works for an hour+, with really high reported token counts.

Those suggest opposite things about anthropic’s profit margins.

I’m not convinced 4.6 is much better than 4.5. The big discontinuous breakthroughs seem to be due to how my code and tests are structured, not model bumps.
by alex1138 | 2026-02-17 20:57:00+00:00
I suggest you take another angle than "Facebook researcher". I've seen enough to know how much we were lied to. All the stories coming out of Children's Health Defense, VAERS, doctors like McCullough and Cole and Malone (but I'm sure you don't care, they're all discredited to you)

Shut your mouth. Your contributions are worthless
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-17 20:57:24+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...

https://americandeposits.com/insights/brief-history-us-bank-...

I do not have a comprehensive list of every time depositors have been bailed out, but I have read about it multiple times in my adult life of the last 25 years.

>And you can't think of any way that the federal government providing retail banking services could possibly go wrong?

The federal government already controls all the banks. What could go wrong that they already do not have the power to make go wrong?

The act of maintaining a central database of funds so that individuals can transfer money to one another is a relatively simple and cheap problem, one perfectly suited to be provided by the government. It should be infrastructure, just like printing money is infrastructure under the purview of the government.
by IgorPartola | 2026-02-17 20:58:06+00:00
I mean enshittification has not begun quite yet. Everyone is still raising capital so current investors can pass the bag to the next set. Soon as the money runs out monetization will overtake valuation as top priority. Then suddenly when you ask any of these models “how do I make chocolate chip cookies?” you will get something like:

> You will need one cup King Arthur All Purpose white flour, one large brown Eggland’s Best egg (a good source of Omega-3 and healthy cholesterol), one cup of water (be sure to use your Pyrex brand measuring cup), half a cup of Toll House Milk Chocolate Chips…

> Combine the sugar and egg in your 3 quart KitchenAid Mixer and mix until…

All of this will contain links and AdSense looking ads. For $200/month they will limit it to in-house ads about their $500/month model.
by snowwrestler | 2026-02-17 20:58:22+00:00
I think it’s funny that while GOP supporters are investing tens of $billions to take over popular broadcast and social media brands to privilege their point of view, Brendan Carr threatens to invoke the equal time rule, which would completely negate their structural advantage.

This is kind of like when conservatives spent years wrapping their advocacy in the banner of free speech, and then Brendan Carr announced that free speech is over, actually, because Jimmy Kimmel was mean. Oops! Nevermind.
Show HN: I built an interactive LSM Tree simulator
by saiprakashreddy | 2026-02-17 20:59:16+00:00
I built a simulator that models:
• The full write path (WAL, Memtable, Immutable Memtable, L0 flush)
• Leveled compaction with cascading merges
• Read path with real bloom filter checks (not mocked)
• Live write, read, and space amplification metrics
by sfRattan | 2026-02-17 20:59:24+00:00
> I had a Pixel 6a with Graphene OS for a year before the phone started to glitch and eventually die. It ran pretty hot; sometimes it was hard to even hold the phone in my hands without burning myself.

This sounds like your phone may have been one of the Pixel 6a models with a defective battery[1]. It was a major problem for which Google pushed out an update that nerfed the battery life. There is a tool online where you can check if your particular 6a was one with a battery from the bad production batch[2].

But that unfortunately doesn't help if you are in Brazil where, as you say, Pixels aren't officially sold and import/export controls tend to make tech warranties useless in practice.

[1] https://www.lifewire.com/pixel-6a-battery-overheating-warnin...

[2] https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/16340779?hl=en
by palata | 2026-02-17 21:00:35+00:00
> What is "its alternative"?

I meant alternativeS, sorry. Well, anything AOSP-based that is not Android.

> The manufacturers aren't blocking the installing of GrapheneOS...

Of course they are not. But they produce hardware that is not secure enough for GrapheneOS to consider. I wish they saw value in GrapheneOS and produced hardware that met their requirements.

It's actually weird, because I'm convinced that it's completely worth it: just add those requirements to the design of one new model, and a potential of hundreds of thousands of people may buy it just for GrapheneOS.
by nova22033 | 2026-02-17 21:00:36+00:00
He going to fix this by having grok redefine "widespread"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/musk-tesla-robotaxis-us-expa...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the company’s robotaxis will be “widespread” in the U.S. by the end of 2026.
by rjh29 | 2026-02-17 21:00:43+00:00
AI art is massively downvoted here and on Reddit, but boomers on facebook seem happy to share it. So I think you'll do better on other platforms. The opinion of AI generated creative work is just very low here. I personally agree, I've never seen an AI generated story that was interesting and I don't want to expose my children to it. I'd rather they get real stories written by real people.
by Dig1t | 2026-02-17 21:00:50+00:00
“Top tier programmer”

Apple employees thousands of H1Bs, many of them literally push buttons and file bug reports all day and don’t know how to code or barely know how. I know this because I’ve worked with teams of them for a decade at Apple.

These are not top tier talent type people, this is work that my mom could do, but Apple can pay much less by bringing people over from India, Pakistan, China to do this work instead of finding Americans to do it.
by rkagerer | 2026-02-17 21:00:52+00:00
I'm annoyed at everyone who shares my name, phone number and any other details with Meta. I never consented to it. The behavior of their app slurping up your contacts database is despicable.

This doesn't answer your question, but in case it helps for others out there: it's possible to use WhatsApp with no access whatsoever to your contacts and I used it that way for years. Connecting with people is slightly jankier but it still works.
by tim-star | 2026-02-17 21:01:09+00:00
i think i sort of skimmed the hit piece but what exactly was so shitty about it?

im not saying this dude is histrionic but he sure is generating a lot of front page HN posts about something i was ready to forget about a week ago.

obviously AI has become such a lightning rod now that everyone is upset one way or the other but this seems a bit like small potatoes at this point. forest for the trees.
by Arifcodes | 2026-02-17 21:01:34+00:00
The core mechanic described here is real. RLHF does optimize toward the mean, that is just what happens when you train on human preference ratings and raters consistently reward clear, inoffensive, "polished" output.

But the damage is not uniform. For code comments, API docs, commit messages: low-entropy output is often fine. The problem is people using LLMs for things that require a distinct voice and then wondering why the result sounds like everyone else on the internet.

The part nobody talks about: you can partially fight this if you know what you lost. Prompts like "preserve unusual word choices" or "do not normalize my rhetorical structure" help, but only if you have a strong enough baseline to catch the drift. Most people using AI for writing assistance do not have that baseline, which is why the ablation goes undetected. They see polished output and ship it.