MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gsb | 2026-02-13 02:52:31+00:00
> A version of this that uses tree sitter grammars to map a codebase, and does it on every startup of an agent, would be awesome.

This was a key feature of aider and if you're not inclined to use aider (or the forked version cecli) I think a standalone implementation exist at https://github.com/pdavis68/RepoMapper
by torton | 2026-02-13 02:52:34+00:00
NotJustBikes doesn't have a particularly great reputation among transit enthusiasts. A lot of his videos have become repetitive and focused on complaints rather than specific ways of making things better. Understandably, few people are willing to spend an hour listening to someone complain on the Internet.

> "Autonomous cars will clog up existing cities..."

Congestion charges. Limited licensing for TNCs. Dedicated public or private holding areas rather than "milling about". All of these have solutions.

> Meaning fewer "difficult" intersections, straighter roads, no bike lanes or pedestrian sidewalks.

It is already best practice in urban design to separate cars that need to quickly transit an area without interacting with it into completely independent routes where there are no bikes or pedestrians, and combine transit/bikes/walking into livable mixed mode streets where cars are not allowed. NotJustBikes has many examples of this, most commonly around Europe.

> To get anywhere one will need to hail one of those autonomous taxis and then zoom in it to a destination where it's again safe to walk in whatever pocket of human activity.

This is what already happens in places that don't have usable, safe, or car-competitive transit, modulo autonomous, including currently most of North America. The solution to needing fewer cars -- self driving or not -- is investment in transit and in ground-up overhaul of existing cities to optimize for transit and deprioritization of cars.
by cyberax | 2026-02-13 02:54:02+00:00
People being forced by economic forces to move into uncomfortable and unaffordable dense cities. This in turn creates disadvantaged underclass with no hopes for a better future. And even European social safety nets can only do so much.

While just hours away from dense cities, the apartments are often literally free. With copious space and easy access to basic services.

This results in rising crime. The downward trend that started in 90-s had been reversed. And the crimes of despair, mainly drug-related crimes, are rising faster than violent crimes.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 02:54:30+00:00
Thank you. I believe this is because it's not properly aggregating the story title, content, and comment hierarchy. There are going to be cases where the LLM does a poor job of understanding the conversation, but I think right now the information isn't being sent to the prompt.

Right now it seems to be only using one level of the parent comment hierarchy.

(Source: https://github.com/devrupt-io/ethos/blob/67670eb2855b84d389d...)
by georgemcbay | 2026-02-13 02:54:31+00:00
> Is anyone else worried at how easily Anthropic/Google/OpenAI can basically cut you off if you do something they don't like?

Yeah, had that thought here a few weeks ago on HN after reading about someone getting cut off from Claude:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723384#46728649

Though tbh I'm far more worried about the societal impacts of large scale job displacement across so many professional industries at the same time.

I think it is likely to be very, very ugly for society in the near term. Not because the problems are unsolvable, but because everyone is choosing to ignore the threat of them.

And I realize a lot of people will handwave my concerns away with stories of Luddites and Jevon's paradox, but we've never had a tidal wave this big hit all at once and I think the scale (combined with speed of change) fundamentally changes things this time.
by cleaning | 2026-02-13 02:55:23+00:00
I don't think this is a meaningful distinction. Most people here likely change more than just a 'few settings' and either download one of the debloat tools or generate an autounattend.xml before installing, and some replace the default search with Everything.

Unless you're working in an environment where absolutely no third party tools are allowed, it's expected for someone to spend at least a little bit of time adjusting the workspace to their preferences.

Additionally all of the tools I listed technically have paid plans but they're all free to use, I've never paid for Raycast yet even the free features blow out of the water any desktop management/productivity tooling I've used on Windows or Linux.
by iterateoften | 2026-02-13 02:56:40+00:00
Go look at the photos and tell me that everyone is overreacting. If anything people are under reacting.

After the 3-4th blacked out little girl showing her genitals so they can be sold, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if someone is connected to the island they need to be thoroughly investigated. That’s not a stretch.

Replies like yours are what’s sick downplaying the most prolific industrial child rape in modern America and only one person is sitting in prison. And none of the customers.
by zug_zug | 2026-02-13 02:57:34+00:00
"These people are bots?" Dude I've been on this site as long as you which is something about my account you could see...

TBH It sounds like this is a tremendously emotional topic for you if it's absolutely inconceivable that somebody could think that anybody could have a different opinion...

Also you're kinda a jerk ftr.
by cyberax | 2026-02-13 02:58:10+00:00
> You don't need tiny apartments to have density.

Sure, it starts with "just do row houses" and "missing middle" and in two generations it becomes "we should allow SROs".

> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

That's a propaganda channel that "conveniently" ignores everything against their narrative.

These kinds of density still require cars. Unless you want to have a stay-at-home spouse who can do full-time housekeeper duty (like in that Toronto neighborhood).
by Enginerrrd | 2026-02-13 02:59:14+00:00
To be honest, my working heuristic for over a decade now has been to assume that if someone openly admits to reading 4chan without any hesitation, caveats, or embarrassment, they can quite likely be lumped in with a general basket of deplorables.

Is it totally fair? No. Is it reasonably high probability? IMO, yes. Is there likely information value on 4chan that could be difficult to find elsewhere? Probably. Is it worth my time and aggravation to sort through it? No.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-13 03:00:45+00:00
Bot account. Last active with two posts in 2017, then started spamming today with the usual HN spambot formula. As usual, doing the weird thing that only the HN spambots do where it's almost always exactly three paragraphs of 1-2 sentences each. Not sure why they prompt for that formula but it makes it very easy to spot out.
by zug_zug | 2026-02-13 03:01:17+00:00
No I'm not saying we're no the cusp of anything necessarily.

I'm saying that the best current AI probably has an IQ of at least 60-70, and that is more impressive than getting a few people on the moon for a few hours. As far as I'm concerned we've made another thinking mind, it's not exactly creating life from nothing, but it's pretty close.
by wtallis | 2026-02-13 03:01:49+00:00
Whether that's true or false depends on what your hypothetical developer wants to do in the future. When an all-new driver is written in Rust, then working on that driver will require knowing Rust. But nobody's talking about trying to re-write all the existing drivers in Rust, so there will still be plenty of C code to work on even in the DRM subsystem.
by asdff | 2026-02-13 03:02:29+00:00
For me I want it to hang around longer actually. I will take the screenshot I want, open up mail or messages or something to dump it there. Right as my mouse is hovered over it and a milisecond before I can click it, it jumps away. I've resorted to sometimes giving it a partial drag which resets the counter while I am still getting situated over to wherever the screenshot is going.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-13 03:02:52+00:00
This is my complaint about many types of YouTube pundits.

I had tuned in to some channels for analysis and insightful commentary, for example, film and TV series.

But every one devolved into “Worst episode ever!” and “<studio> has RUINED <franchise>!”

So to sum up, the YouTube recommendations algorithm has ruined independent criticism and there is nothing on anymore. Join my Patreon, “UnJustLikes” for the deep dive!
by kevin_thibedeau | 2026-02-13 03:03:00+00:00
Institutional journalism has done everything in its power to kill this story for 7 years. You don't need a fast turnaround time when the fourth estate is also busy protecting the wealthy. Note how we have all the goods on Matt Gaetz and everyone just conveniently forgot about him because daddy knows who to buy off. DOJ has all the time to pursue rinky dink charges against Letitia James for what would be at best a losing civil case by her lender but we can't go after a known sex trafficker with good connections.
by int_19h | 2026-02-13 03:03:14+00:00
Yes, you're receiving UBI in that scenario.

The whole point is that paying everyone a fixed $X amount regardless of anything else is extremely easy to manage, so you can drop all the bureaucracy that builds up around welfare. But, yes, in practice it also acts as a progressive income tax of sorts even with an otherwise flat tax rate (which allows for further simplification) because delta between UBI check and taxes is going to gradually decrease as income rises and eventually becomes negative.

That said even with just personal income tax it's viable. I once crunched the numbers on what it'd take to have everyone in US receive the current federal min wage as UBI payment, assuming a flat surface tax (i.e. relying solely on that UBI check to make it progressive), and it was somewhere in the ballpark of 50%.

Of course, you can get there much easier if you go for the sacred cows such as capital gains. Raising that to the same level as regular income alone would bring a lot of tax revenue.

We could also start taxing AI, since it is (or at least positioned by those deploying it) the immediate cause why so many people are going to find themselves out of jobs.
by roninjin10 | 2026-02-13 03:04:15+00:00
I built Smithers to make long-running AI workflows deterministic, resumable, and observable.

The model is “plan mode as code”: you define the plan as a JSX tree. Each <Task> is a node in a DAG; control flow is a small set of primitives (<Sequence>, <Parallel>, <Branch>, <Ralph>, <Task>).

After each task completes, Smithers validates the output (Zod) and persists it to SQLite, then re-renders the plan with updated context. If the process crashes, it resumes from the last completed node — no duplicated work, no lost state.

A quick “hear me out” on React: I tried a bunch of workflow APIs (builder patterns, Python DSLs, Starlark/Bazel-ish rules, even Solid). The thing React gives me that none of those did as cleanly is this: re-rendering is planning. Every step updates durable state, then the “plan function” runs again and produces the next DAG. On top of that you get very readable composition: small reusable workflow components, normal conditionals, and a familiar mental model for evolving systems.

The part that’s been most useful in practice: I write Smithers scripts with AI, and then have AI monitor runs and iterate on the workflow while it executes (fix prompt/schema/logic issues, adjust steps, improve components). Because state is durable and the plan is declarative, the workflow can evolve without throwing away progress.

What I’d love feedback on is usability:

- Would you use this? For what kinds of workflows?

- Does the API feel natural (Task IDs, context access, retries/loops, composition)?

- What observability would you expect (why a node ran, plan diffs between renders, traces, run UI/CLI)?

- What’s missing for real-world runs (cancellation, rate limits, caching, backpressure, concurrency controls)?

Repo: https://github.com/evmts/smithers

Article I wrote: https://x.com/FUCORY/status/2021442919299940381
by cortesoft | 2026-02-13 03:04:33+00:00
I think you are confusing KW (kilowatt) with KWH (kilowatt hour).

A KW is a unit of power while a KWH is a unit of energy. Power is a measure of energy transferred in an amount of time, which is why you rate an electronic device’s energy usage using power; it consumes energy over time.

In terms of paying for electricity, you care about the total energy consumed, which is why your electric bill is denominated in KWH, which is the amount of energy used if you use one kilowatt of power for one hour.
by strictnein | 2026-02-13 03:07:45+00:00
> The amount of breathless conclusion jumping from citizen journalists has been completely bananas as well.

I saw a video on Instagram claiming (or at least insinuating) that Epstein had access to all of Lifetouch's photos, because "the company is in the Epstein files!". Turns out, it was a single line item for $109 in what looked like banking records. In comparison, that same selection of files mentioned Whole Foods ~250 times.

For those outside the US, Lifetouch does school photos for about half the schools in the US (or something like that) so you can understand how that's a thread that conspiracy theorists can pull on. But there's nothing there. Just a single payment to the company in a sea of thousands and thousands of normal, every day purchases.
by BobbyTables2 | 2026-02-13 03:07:51+00:00
Is nested VMX virtualization in the Linux kernel really that stable?

The technical details are a lot more complex than most realize.

Single level VMX virtualization is relatively straightforward even if there are a lot of details to juggle with VMCS setup and handing exits.

Nested virtualization is a whole another animal as one now also has to handle not just the levels but many things the hardware normally does, plus juggling internal state during transitions between levels.

The LKML is filled with discussions and debates where very sharp contributors are trying to make sense of how it would work.

Amazon turning the feature on is one thing. It working 100% perfectly is quite another…
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-13 03:09:05+00:00
> Unless you explicitly enable Advanced Protection mode for all your devices

This is very easy though, you just go to your iCloud account settings under the settings app and enable it. It should be on by default imo, but I understand the argument for why it isn't.

Either way, enabling it is not a barrier and ICE cannot be granted access once you do unless you yourself give them that access.
by rendaw | 2026-02-13 03:09:20+00:00
I agree, and I feel like this happened more vaguely before but it's coming more acutely into focus now.

E.g. music artists would happily post their music with unattributed cover art. I've seen graphic artists post video slideshows with unattributed music. Authors (books, blog posts) who think cover art or header images are a necessary evil.

I was talking with a lawyer who said that AI legal drafting would never happen because legal work requires high level reasoning and quality is critical, then told me that AI written software would be fine if you just sandbox it.

Edit: I think it's true, there is some amount of slop/coasting in every field, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to avoid that. But people take that too far and decide that everything in (adjacent field) is trivial when actually many fields today are just very complex.
by userbinator | 2026-02-13 03:10:26+00:00
What astounds me the most about this whole thing is that the sort of hit testing involved here is a solved problem in UI, and has been for decades, yet there are still plenty of others here and elsewhere arguing about how it isn't. Even with those horrid rounded corners it's not hard, as shown in the article, which makes me wonder whether there is some internal fight between those who didn't want rounded corners (developers?) and hence tried their hardest to make it buggier, and those who wanted them (designers?), with lots of back-and-forth that eventually gave us this outcome. A disturbing amount of time and $$$ was probably spent on it, as is usual for any bureaucracy.
by kathyxiao | 2026-02-13 03:10:29+00:00
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This capability helps user optimize complex code spanning Infrastructure, CUDA, Smart Contracts, databases, and AI/ML Ops. Do not need to code manually; instead, user simply utilize agents like Claude Code or Cursor to define reward signals and handle the integration logic. Performance just became automatic.
Show HN: Software Design – ADRs, arch tests, patterns
by qdenka | 2026-02-13 03:11:31+00:00
I kept collecting software design bookmarks for years — repos, articles, books — but never organized them. Most "awesome" lists for architecture cover the "monolith vs microservices" debate. I wanted something focused on the code-level side: how to actually structure modules, enforce design rules in CI, and document decisions.
I went through ~300 resources and kept 106 across 9 categories. A few sections I haven't seen elsewhere:

Architecture Decision Records — 14 real-world examples (Kubernetes KEPs, Rust RFCs, Spotify's practice, Flutter design docs)

Design Verification — tools that enforce architecture rules as tests: ArchUnit (Java), Arkitect (PHP), Konsist (Kotlin), arch-go

Real-World Architecture — case studies from Discord, Shopify, Figma, Stripe, not just theory

I also wrote a longer breakdown of what I filtered out and why: https://dev.to/qdenka/i-curated-106-software-design-resource...
Feedback and PRs welcome.
by MichaelZuo | 2026-02-13 03:13:11+00:00
By definition you will have access to things Apple wont publish or support at subsidized rates below the fully loaded hourly cost of a senior engineer.

Because you will be paying the full unsubsidized rate for any support needed for features not available to the mass market.

Its like how IBM will gladly send a team of senior engineers to help enterprise clients resolve every last possible request.

Edit: As compared to mass market features, where the economics dont work unless they’re close to 100% certain most users wont require any costly support.
by pteraspidomorph | 2026-02-13 03:13:16+00:00
And we're still getting passwords changed periodically or requiring a number, upper case letter, symbol...

I'm an European engineer and I can confirm that our tech is often broken and customer-reachable people are usually obtuse and hostile about it. We don't even seem to properly implement our own legal requirements. Sometimes, Americans implement the RGPD better than we do.
by iterateoften | 2026-02-13 03:14:17+00:00
I didn’t smear anyone. I said I stopped my rewatch.

After investigating Jerry further, yeah dating a 17 year old high schooler and picking her up after school is equal distressing.

So thank you for your astute analysis and defense of a person who drove to a high school to have a physical relationship 21 years younger but I’ll hold off on watching Seinfeld for now. If that’s not too controversial.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-13 03:16:11+00:00
I hate it!

But that seems far different to me than directly making their own products whose express purpose is to send data to the feds / local law enforcement.

Google is not a huge data broker selling your data to the world. They keep that inside, & sell ads based in data they have. But if they started trying to be a data seller or data provider, like Amazon has been, I think they realize that would almost surely be a huge crisis.

There's many good reasons for all the big tech hate. But I do think that Google and Apple have extremely strong incentives to not become a go-to everyday source for law enforcement, I think the person I was responding to has a level of suspicion that is wildly over critical & hyper rampant, and I think we would know if stuff was that bad, and I think we would all be a lot more pissed & many people would have found the door out by now.
by zapzupnz | 2026-02-13 03:16:55+00:00
Resizing windows is easier when you don't have to grab the corner. Some people are talking about holding a key to resize on Linux but I don't want to be forced to use the keyboard.

My favourite solution on macOS is an app called Swish which lets you do trackpad/Magic Mouse gestures to throw windows into corners, along edges, etc.
by exidy | 2026-02-13 03:17:38+00:00
As a non-American this seems very similar to what happened with Roe vs Wade.

> With a divided Congress unable to agree on legislation to tackle rising global temperatures, the EPA finding became central to federal efforts to rein in emissions in the years that followed.

Trying to get the right outcome via (arguably) the wrong process has left these policy initiatives sitting on wobbly foundations and subject to reversal. Moreover, it provides ammunition for those who would rally their base with criticism of the "technocratic elite."

Easier said than done, but Americans need to fix their democracy. If the majority of Americans want action on climate change then Congress must reflect and enact the will of the people.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-13 03:17:46+00:00
> Writing a hitpiece with AI because your AI pull request got rejected seems to be the definition of bad faith.

Well, for one thing, it seems like the AI did that autonomously. Regardless, the author of the message said that it was for others - it's not like it was a DM, this was a public message.

> Why should anyone put any more effort into a response than what it took to generate?

For all of the reasons I've brought up already. If your goal is to convince someone of a position then the effort you put in isn't tightly coupled to the effort that your interlocutor put sin.
by pizzafeelsright | 2026-02-13 03:18:36+00:00
I'm not on either side. I'm certainly not a fan of a company or government, both with the ability to negativity affect my life in considerable ways if I am unwilling to bow to the current whim of leadership.

Corporate life under a tyrant who demands prayers or pronouns were unthinkable not long ago. Today if enough leverage is used to press the buttons the demands on us workers may be unpleasant at best or deny us our livelihood.
by jitl | 2026-02-13 03:19:38+00:00
i use this. it’s not maintained so you need to manually enable its access to assistive control in Settings but besides that still works great:

https://github.com/jmgao/metamove

it does exactly what you want coming from Fluxbox-style window managers

here’s how i configure it (it has a settings ui, this just automates setting it up) https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/3d359f961b009478ef...

i didn’t notice the hideous corner grab areas for a few weeks after updating to 26 because i never tried to use the corner
by 0xcafefood | 2026-02-13 03:20:13+00:00
Google's product management and discipline are absolute horsesh*t. But they have a moat and its extreme technical competence. They own their infra from the hardware (custom ASICs, their own data centers, global intranet, etc.) all the way up to the models and product platforms to deploy it in. To the extent that making LLMs work to solve real world problems is a technical problem, landing Gemini is absolutely in Google's wheelhouse.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-02-13 03:20:53+00:00
Ooooh do the one where hitting ‘payment’ on the app buys $25 of store credit by default rather than just paying and deducts the 9.64 from that credit.

Then when you spend down the credit to $2 any attempt to buy something that costs more
refills the credit.

Starbucks app btw. You have to specifically pay with card on the payment screen to avoid buying credit and paying as above.