MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jerf | 2026-02-26 19:28:52+00:00
We will get an interesting effect if AI plateaus around where it does now, which is that AI code generation will bring "the long run" right down to "the medium run" if not on to the longer side of the short run. AI can take out technical debt an order of magnitude faster than human developers, easily, and I'm still waiting for it to recognize that an abstraction is necessary and invest into putting on in the code rather than spending the ones already present.

Of course if AI continues to proceed forward and we get to the point where the AIs can do that then they really will be able to craft vast code bases at speeds we could never keep up with on our own. However, I'm not particularly convinced LLMs are going to advance past this particular point, to a large degree because their training data contains so much of this slop approach to coding. Someone's going to have to come up with the next iteration of AI tech, I think.
by duxup | 2026-02-26 19:28:53+00:00
I run an Orbi system (although it cost far less than $1k like the one mentioned) and I like it.

I'm not sure I agree with the article about scoring and how people should make decisions. I don't think there's any magic in online reviews that actually means a router with a 90% score is objectively better than one with a 70% for anyone. I don't even much trust those scores...

>Most people buy a router once and ignore it until something breaks.

If that's true then most people are doing just fine buying their router and getting what they need.
by jamiecode | 2026-02-26 19:28:57+00:00
The specific gap side-by-side covers for me is reviewing changes on a remote box without firing up an IDE. Delta is great but keeps the unified format. icdiff does the split view but is pretty barebones. So there's definitely space here.

What nobody's mentioned yet is difftastic. Takes a completely different approach - parses syntax trees instead of lines, so indentation changes and bracket shuffles don't show up as noise. Worth a look if you're comparing options.

Main question I'd have: how does it hold up on large files? 5k+ line diffs are where most of these tools either choke or produce unreadable output. That'd be the test I'd run first.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-26 19:29:11+00:00
It's not just a guess.

Any decent sniffer (e.g. airsnort) can immediately identify all associations between all WiFi/Bluetooth devices. DD-WRT (router firmware/OS) has this WiFi-associations detector built-in ("local WiFi map"). There is no need to attempt any sort of hack — associations are publicly-broadcast information.

Then, just pick any authorized MAC and duplicate as your own.
by shehryarrr | 2026-02-26 19:29:42+00:00
I have for a lot of my own tools and personal stuff a slightly different approach with this that doesn't use MCP. If you combine skills, with a thin CLI for any API you get a dramatically cheaper version of an MCP and with all the benefits of it just being a simple CLI. Most of the time if I have something like Linear or Hubspot, I just point it at the actual API docs and ask the LLM to make a thin CLI for that API. That way I don't have to load tools for the CLI until needed by a slash command, but the definitions are also tiny so my context stays mostly free.
by godelski | 2026-02-26 19:29:45+00:00
I've had a similar complaint about publishing in machine learning conferences. They're putting in these "no LLM" rules but those are just idiotic. Proving LLM usage is really really difficult, but (one of) the underlying problem has always been bad reviews, or low quality reviews. So why write a LLM rule? Why not tackle the problem more directly?

I don't care if people use LLMs, I care about generating slop. The two correlate, but by concentrating on the LLM part you just let the problem continue. It's extremely frustrating. Slop is slop. Doesn't matter how it is generated or by who. Slop is slop. Doesn't matter if you dress it up and put lipstick on a pig. Slop is slop.
by palmotea | 2026-02-26 19:29:51+00:00
> Another thing is that the us and European countries build their wealth where they had los standards now other countries want to do the same but would be limited by us and European countries. It's very tricky

No, why would you say that? When America and Europe built their wealth, they were mainly (though not exclusively) producing and selling manufactured goods for themselves. This whole idea of a poor country developing by building polluting factories to make items for rich countries is a more recent and different thing.

Europe and America insisting on certain labor and environmental standards as a condition of trade wouldn't mean poor countries can't build factories for themselves. At worst, you just split the current one big market into two smaller markets: an expensive and clean one, and a dirty and cheap one.
by tenacious_tuna | 2026-02-26 19:30:08+00:00
this is one of the core conceits behind why Strong Towns / Not Just Bikes / urbanism discourse in general makes the disctinction between a "street", which is meant for people to walk along, go to stores/restaurants/etc, and "roads", which are meant to efficiently move traffic from one part of the city to another.

Combining them degrades the ability to address either point: efficiently moving traffic is inherently in conflict with being able to access businesses or having pedestrians nearby.
by brailsafe | 2026-02-26 19:30:10+00:00
Depends how far you want to go with reducing things down to consumption. Does going somewhere to hike, climb, or camp count as just consumption? I can't stand going somewhere to only look at things or eat things, it gets very boring very quickly, but I like meeting people and going on adventures, exploring nature in as physical way as possible regardless of viewpoint availability.
Show HN: Initium – A single Rust binary replacing scripts in K8s initContainers
by mikkeldamsgaard | 2026-02-26 19:30:22+00:00
We got tired of debugging shell scripts in initContainers at 2 AM. Missing curl, broken netcat flags, secrets leaking into logs — the usual.

Initium is a single static Rust binary (~5 MB, built FROM scratch) that handles the six things initContainers actually do: wait for dependencies, run migrations, seed databases, render config templates, fetch secrets, and exec commands.

What it gives you over bash:

Exponential backoff with jitter on all network ops (not sleep 5 && retry)
Automatic secret redaction in logs (catches token, password, api_key, auth patterns)
PSA restricted compatible out of the box — non-root, read-only filesystem, all capabilities dropped
Declarative database seeding with cross-table references and idempotency
Zero CVEs. No OS packages. No shell. Nothing to scan.
It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. Config via CLI flags or INITIUM_* env vars. Multi-arch (amd64 + arm64).

Apache 2.0. Written in Rust. https://github.com/KitStream/initium
by smalltorch | 2026-02-26 19:30:29+00:00
The problem is the UDP packets from the application will ultimately be in a TCP wrapper over tor. Which will add even more latency.

I know you can set up mumble over Tor but it's going to have the same latency drawbacks.

Another commenter noted the ability to configure only 1 hop instead of the standard 3. I wonder how much latency would be gained back. I want to play around with this.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-26 19:30:35+00:00
2025:

42 Percent of People Who Waited in Line To Meet Characters at Disney Parks Last Year Were Childless Adults

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3550984/never-grow-up-42...

2026:

Disney names parks boss Josh D'Amaro as its next CEO to succeed Bob Iger

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/disney-ceo-josh-damaro-succe...
by verdverm | 2026-02-26 19:30:38+00:00
> We do prioritize input from paid-up members ofc.

Pay-to-play, this reinforces the SV mindset underpinning all of this.

Strongly recommend you revise this if you are trying to present yourself as egalitarian. Feedback and suggestions for improvement ought to be considered on the merits, not who it came from, especially if money is the differentiator. (setting aside the natural reputation based weighting)
by goatlover | 2026-02-26 19:30:43+00:00
> I never heard that. It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it? Units per hour and dollars per unit was never its strength. It was always going to be small things (and if anything big grew out of it, those would naturally transition to the more efficient manufacturing at scale).

There were articles posted on HN hyping exactly that, with comments debating whether 3D-printing would eventually replace conventional manufacturing at scale, and how people would no longer shop at stores like Walmart for their cheap products.
by bigfatkitten | 2026-02-26 19:30:49+00:00
NATO RESTRICTED is not a particularly high classification. Its handling requirements are a very, very small step above unclassified.

What holds Apple back in the classified space is not security shortcomings in the platform per se, but the fact that there’s no way to initialise and manage a fresh iPad without public internet connectivity. That’s an absolute dealbreaker.
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-26 19:30:55+00:00
I think it's making sense. Many of my workflows involve e.g. multiple different repos that house different parts of something (e.g. deployment automation is over here, application itself is over there, sometimes a change needs to happen to both at once). I find myself having to work serially on tickets because two different issues might touch the same repos and so I manually maintain branches and switch around between them; this adds starting friction to my work.
by freejazz | 2026-02-26 19:31:03+00:00
Exactly. Neither firm would have been (successfully) sued by their shareholders for failing to make significant profits, so let's not blame on capitalism what is instead the individual greed driving these decisions. In fact, OpenAI is now going to trial because it gave up its non-profit status, reneging on the commitments it made to its shareholders (fraud, by another word).
by pessimizer | 2026-02-26 19:31:18+00:00
This website has no content at all. It doesn't mention a single regulation or law. It's just something for politicians to cite from the floor or in reports when they're demanding deregulation or subsidy, and a url that sounds like a slogan.

If this were real instead of dogshit lobbyist slop, you'd see the details, and there's be clear arguments and action plans.

But the action is that they're going to pay politicians off, and the politicians are going to give speeches that start "I went to a website the other day, and it was called Banned in California - you might like electric cars, think they're good, but because of bad regulation, we could never make them here." And that's going to provide cover as they vote for something horrible. And buy a boat with the money they made for doing it.
by tariky | 2026-02-26 19:31:27+00:00
This looks like a response to Seedream 5.0 lite that was published two days ago.

I use all those fancy image models editing capabilities for my fast fashion web shop. I must say: product photography for clothing and accessories product is dead. Those models are amazing at style transfering and garment transferring.

We will see how good will be Seedream 5.0 full version.
by ronaldluc | 2026-02-26 19:31:44+00:00
Good point. It's flaky, because the orchestration is fully Opus driven. It has tools, skills, multiple turns. I was inspired inspired by the OpenClaw system. The UX should improve the most by tuning the internal `.md`s, but I'm also thinking about adding stricter workflow for each type of physical product like https://github.com/obra/superpowers does. Toys, enclosures, statues, servo robots, all need different amount of user feedback and artifact refinement.

Yeah, ordering actually works, we just had the first order :)
by throwaway173738 | 2026-02-26 19:32:01+00:00
> .. if addiction is the only remaining problem with them, should we care that much?

I think we should because it’s undignified to have people who want to stop taking them but are unable to resist the compulsion. I feel the same way about basically every addictive substance. Even if it was freely available and risk-free I still think that being trapped in a cycle of use and withdrawal is such an affront to someone’s dignity that we should still try to prevent that.
by margalabargala | 2026-02-26 19:32:19+00:00
Sure it is. AI software development is here. It's not good enough for everything, but it's good enough for a majority of the changes made by most software engineers.

That's now. Right now, the tooling exists so that for >80% of software devs, 80% of the code they produce could be created by AI rather than by hand.

You can always find some person saying that it'll destroy all jobs in a year, or make us all rich in a year, or whatever, but your cynicism blinds you to the actual advances being made. There is an endless supply of new goalpost positions, they will never all be met, and an endless supply of chartalans claiming unrealistic futures. Don't confuse that with "and therefore results do not exist".
by jayu_dev | 2026-02-26 19:32:26+00:00
Nice!
I’ve come to similar conclusions recently, with the recent increase in code changes velocity, solid static analysis is more important than ever.

When it comes to the performance, I've learned that reading code from file system and parsing it takes most of the time. Then resolving modules takes a little also.

Once that is done, running different checks is almost instant - like miliseconds.
by fishpen0 | 2026-02-26 19:32:29+00:00
I think it stunted out. Outside of only the densest areas, maker spaces never really formed. The stuff remains accessible as a hobby only to the wealthy who can afford all these tools and machines in the majority of the country. I'm a nearly 40 minute drive to the closest maker space and I'm in one of the 10 densest populated cities in the country. The last city I lived in, the maker space was too popular and raised their fees so high that it is also impossibly inaccessible to most people.
by hollerith | 2026-02-26 19:32:36+00:00
The whole world decided in the 1970s not to pursue the technology of germ-line genetic engineering of humans, and that decision has stood.

People similar to you were saying in the 1950s and later that it was inevitable that nuclear weapons would be used in anger in massive attacks.

The people in charge are currently tentatively for AI "progress", but if that ever changes, they can and will put a stop to large AI training runs and make it illegal for anyone they don't trust to teach, learn or publish about fundamental algorithmic "improvements" to AI. Individuals and groups pursuing "improvements" will not be able to accept grant money or investment money or generate revenue from AI-based services.

That won't stop all research on such improvements (because some AI researchers are very committed), but it will slow it down to a rate much much slower than the current rate (because the current fast rate depends of rapid communication between researchers who don't each other well, and if communicating about the research were to become illegal, then a researcher can communicate only with those researchers he knows won't rat him out) essentially stopping AI "progress" unless (unluckily for the human species) at the time of the ban, the committed researchers were only one small step away from some massive algorithmic improvement that can be operationalized using the compute resources at their disposal (i.e., much less than the resources they have now).

Will the power elite's attitude towards AI change? I don't know, but if they ever come to have an accurate understanding of the situation, they will recognize that AI "progress" is a potent danger to them personally, and they will shut it down.

It's not a situation like the industrial revolution in England in which texile workers were massively adversely affected (or believed they were) but the people running England were mostly insulated from any adverse effects. In the current situation, the power elite is definitely not insulated from severe adverse consequences if an AI lab creates an AI that is much more competent that the most competent human institutions (e.g., the FBI) and the lab fail to keep the AI under control. And it will fail if it were to use anything like the methods and bodies of knowledge AI labs have been using up to now. And there are very bright people with funding doing their best to explain that to the elite.

So, those of you who want AI "progress" to continue need to hope that the power elite are collectively too stupid to recognize a potent short-term threat to their own survival. And in my estimation, that is not inevitable.
by jna_sh | 2026-02-26 19:33:10+00:00
> I dunno if the author realizes, but all the things they mentioned did materialize in one way or another, just not exactly how the hype described it.

From the post, which is not a very long one: "All of the above technologies are still chugging along in some form or other (well, OK, not Quibi). Some are vaguely useful and others are propped up by weirdo cultists"
by taeric | 2026-02-26 19:33:12+00:00
Apologies, I meant my point to be that navigating a place is more helped with AR techniques than it is VR ones. Which, as you say here, is less helped by 3D rendering than it is other things. Indeed, I meant that to be my point.

Do I think it could be useful if you rehearse navigating a place before getting there? Yeah. Ish. I can see obvious military style value adds for that. Average person, though? I still have a hard time seeing the value.

Reminds me when places were offering video tours of places. Is a neat idea. But ridiculously low in actual value.
by osculum | 2026-02-26 19:33:35+00:00
Years ago, I worked at Apple at the same time as Ian Goodfellow. This was before ChatGPT (I'd say around 2019).

I had the chance to chat with him, and what I remember most was his concern that GANs would eventually be able to generate images indistinguishable from reality, and that this would create a misinformation problem. He argued for exactly what you’re mentioning: chips that embed cryptographic proof that a photo was captured by a camera and haven't been modified.
by zhyder | 2026-02-26 19:33:40+00:00
Model card: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-...

Pretty close to Gemini 3 Pro Image (aka Nano Banana Pro) in most benchmarks, even without thinking+search, and even exceeding it in 2 most important ones of 'Overall Preference' and 'Visual Quality'. I'm excited about the big jump in Infographics/Factuality (even without thinking+search; I'm surprised that text+image search grounding doesn't make an even bigger dent).
by ringger | 2026-02-26 19:33:53+00:00
I built this to improve upon Whisper transcription accuracy by treating multiple transcript sources (Whisper models, YouTube captions, external transcripts) as independent witnesses and having an LLM adjudicate disagreements with anonymous labels. The approach borrows from textual criticism and my earlier work on multi-source OCR error correction. Runs locally with Ollama by default (free). Longer writeup with an example survival analysis showing how each source contributes to the final output: https://medium.com/@eringger/improving-whisper-accuracy-by-m...
by mikestorrent | 2026-02-26 19:34:27+00:00
I've gone and watched a video on this now and am impressed, it is a lot further along than I knew about.

Consider this as it scales up, though - I can get electricity from anywhere for my car, from a 120V socket in front of a building that a nice owner lets me borrow for an hour, to a 600VDC superfast charger. I can get gasoline anywhere. Heck, there are even hydrogen stations around here now.

I just don't see this kind of thing being scalable to anything other than small urban areas, which are exactly the place they're not needed, because you can charge a car with 300-400km battery range once a week or less and be fine in the city. Where I need my battery swap is more likely to be while I'm on a road trip going for distance. How could I be confident a full battery that's compatible with my car is going to be available for me, and that all the automation to replace it will be in perfect shape, and that the bottom of my car hasn't rusted to the point where this doesn't work anymore?
by computerdork | 2026-02-26 19:34:32+00:00
True, keeping a reader is engaged is important, but at least for me, don't want spin on the actual facts. Want to know what the actual facts are and so I can make an informed decision. Otherwise, it's just the writer using salesmanship to sell their own personal beliefs.

And, for the writer perspective, spin is definitely a powerful technique (seems to be changing America to being more polarized), but for me personal, would like to think I try to see though it as much as possible (in any form, coming from the politically left or right).
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-26 19:35:01+00:00
> Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that it's not possible for javascript to detect that you've muted the browser tab itself, at least. Doesn't solve the problem of them checking whether you have the tab focused, of course, but it should be mutable.
Show HN: Local Hours – Local-first time tracking app (macOS, iOS, open source)
by stinger | 2026-02-26 19:35:08+00:00
I built Local Hours because I needed a simple time tracker that doesn't require online accounts, send data to someone else's cloud, and lock me into proprietary formats.

Local Hours stores everything as plain JSON files in a folder you choose. Point it at an iCloud, Google Drive, or OneDrive folder and your data syncs across devices automatically — no docker, no backend, no accounts, no analytics.

How it works:
- Start/stop a timer from the macOS menu bar or iOS widgets
- Add a short description when you stop
- Generate weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly timesheets
- Email approvers with an embedded summary or CSV attachment

The storage format is intentionally simple so you can inspect, back up, or migrate your data anytime. Both the macOS and iOS apps point at the same folder, so cross-device sync just works via your cloud storage provider.

It's free on the App Store (iPhone, iPad, Mac): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/local-hours-simple-timesheet/i...

Built with Swift/SwiftUI. MIT licensed. No tracking, no telemetry, no in-app purchases.

I'd love feedback on the UX, the local-first approach, or ideas for what to build next. Android is planned.
by vintagedave | 2026-02-26 19:35:13+00:00
Hah, the idea is to have an example on the site that is not offensive -- we're not going to write something offensive down -- but where you can understand what it would be or could be. It lets you infer / understand the point without us actually writing something awful. (Maybe we can do it better, though.)

Bears seemed a pretty inoffensive target, plus our backend uses Python with beartype and that library is all about bear jokes.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-26 19:35:20+00:00
>that's the point, it's not an entitlement, it's paid for by taxes.

You're whitewashing subsidies. And you refused to answer my question, why should restaurant owners have their businesses subsidized by taxpayer so they can get away with more profits? Why not other businesses too?

>they make the city desireable and livable. which in turn attracts business, which brings in tax money.

Which businesses move to a city because of restaurants and the "vibe"? Why does Amsterdam or Berlin have way more tech, startups and business than vienna if the city is more desirable?

Maybe businesses investments and restaurants are a completely different things.

>vienna's housing policy is successful for a century now. and i expect it will continue to be successful.

Only for those who benefit from it. But what about the rest on the rest?