MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sandreas | 2026-02-17 11:50:54+00:00
I personally tend to own two Phones. One all-day carry GrapheneOS device (Pixel 8) and an older WiFi and at home only iPhone for all payment and ensurance stuff.

This is inconvenient in some ways, but at least it is sort of privacy as good as it gets while still being able to run official apps when I need them at home.

To de-google the phone, I use F-Droid as primary App store, Aurora as fallback for non-f-droid Apps and as a last resort Obtainium to install Apps that are not in these stores.

The only google App I really "need" (kind of) is the Camera App, which is sandboxed via GrapheneOS Storage Spaces and without Network permission (why would a camera need internet?).

To backup my phone, I use the integrated GrapheneOS Solution (seedvault!?) for storage and apps, immich for Photos and MyPhoneExplorer for Contacts.

Sometimes it is a bit hard to find good apps for specific purposes, so for everyone interested, here is a list of Apps that I personally use or have used.

Newpipe - Youtube Client
Audiobookshelf - Audiobooks
Voice (PaulWoitaschek) - Local Audiobook Player
Substreamer - Music
DSub - Music (alternative)
VLC - Video-Player
Organic Maps - Google Maps alternative (not as good)
PDF Doc Scanner - Open Source Document Scanner
Wireguard - VPN
Immich - Photo Backup / Viewer
LocalSend - File Transfer
K9 Mail / FairMail - Email Client
KOReader - Ebooks
Binary Eye - QRCodes and Barcodes
Pure Todo - Self hosted PWA PHP Todo List
Signal - Messenger
Open Camera - Open Source Camera App
by ozlikethewizard | 2026-02-17 11:51:08+00:00
GrapheneOS themselves dont pretend that their secure from that level of attack, but its about evaluating your own threat level. State sponsered actors aren't burning zero days on the vast majority of people, and you only need to look at how badly several european governments want to ban graphene and similar to see that such exploits aren't even being burned on organised crime. Realistically unless you're a journalist or considered a political target you're gonna be fine with graphene.
by panick21_ | 2026-02-17 11:51:08+00:00
Late-Stage capitalism is a term that socialist have been throwing around since 1960. Its completely meaningless, its just one of those terms that socialist use to throw literally anything into that they don't like. Because of course if you identified anything other then 'capitalism' as the problem, then anything other then 'socialism' could not be the solution. And its a-priority clear that socialism will be the solution. And using that terms also frees you from actually coming up with a solution other then then just talking about 'global revolution' or whatever socialist cliche you want to come up with.

Instead of getting your socialists credits up by calling anything that bad 'capitalism' we should be smart enough to understand that other technological and social factors are at play.

Then blaming everything, all the issues on some economic crisis rather then any long term forces is another typical lazy approach, ignoring trends that existed before the economic problems and persist long after the crash.

When we are talking about the nuclear family, lets be clear, it is the social state and government pensions that have a lot to do with that. And the availability of porn and other alternatives to getting married has a lot to do with the general liberalization of society and feminism. Giving everybody the freedom to pick their own partner when both partners are free of family requirements, free of economic pressure (woman can support their own lives) and with sex more available 'thanks' to dating app and general sexual liberation.

Of course on the far right they call all these things evil and wanting to go back to 'traditional values'. But even if we don't agree with the 'solution' it is true to some extent.

For example, in terms of how many kids woman have, if you only look at 'natives' and exclude immigrant backgrounds, the trend has been ongoing in a lot of places including in Europe (Italy or Spain). But in most Pop-Stars don't shave their heads, in the US its the opposite, a Pop-Star having a 'high-value' boyfriends (or many sexual partners) makes her more desirable. So example like this are always cherry-picked. I don't think Japan is showing the future here.

The overall drop in fertility in men is also universal, again something often cried about by right wing people. There are many other such trends that are global to some extend. And of course not sure how socialism would fix most of them.

> In late-stage capitalism these same milestones become financially punishing and logistically impossible.

Except of course that people used to be 10x poorer and did just fine in reproducing. The claim that 'late-stage capitalism' is so completely repressive that it is impossible and so much worse then the 1920 is just baseless nonsense. Coal minors in 1920 managed to have enough kids, do you want to switch with them?

PS:

> celebrity is necessarily a fictitious character in everyday life

Because celebrates in the past showed their true selves to people right? What even is this argument.
by palata | 2026-02-17 11:51:31+00:00
Agreed about NFC, I'm happy to scan a QR code.

> But even when/if they don't, it's not a big deal to use a card, isn't it (if you hate cash)?

Card is usually linked to the US. Some people would like to not depend on that. But the rational solution IMO is for the banking system to use QR codes instead of NFC. Some countries do that and it just works.
by b112 | 2026-02-17 11:52:21+00:00
We might presume that was the goal, yet it wasn't explicitly stated. And many have a goal of generic wealth redistribution, and will inject such into any conversation about large companies.

One might note the unrestrained concern about fluid capital acquisition, in the post I replied to. It's not having billions in infrastructure that was cited, nor having a large number of employees, both metrics of size, but instead having fluid, unused capital.

If we wish to constrain upon size, there needs to be nuance, conjoined with the specific industry, and even sub-industry. Some capital equipment costs can be enormous. Should we work to prevent financing such via stored profit? Should we work to force companies to finance, then pay off, just to feed the banks, rather than store and then spend?

Should we tax so that "big ideas" may never occur?

I think far more would be gained by ensuring taxation just stays fair between smaller and larger company structures. There's a lot of book-keeping that can be done as a large company, to hide profits, that cannot be done when you're a small mom and pop.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-17 11:54:02+00:00
If you think AI as the whole discipline, there are very useful applications indeed, generally in pattern recognition and regulation space. I'm aware a lot of small projects which rely on AI to monitor ecosystems, systems or used as nice regulatory mechanisms. Also, same systems can be used for genuine security applications (civilian, non-lethal, legal and ethical).

If we are talking generative AI, again from my experience, things get a bit blurry. You can use smaller models to dig data you own.

I personally used LLMs, twice up to this day. In each case it was after very long research sessions without any answers. In one, it gave me exactly one reference, and I followed that reference and learnt what I was looking for. In the second case, it gave me a couple of pointers, which I'm going to follow myself again.

So, generative AI is not that useful for me, uses way too much resources, and industry leading models are well, unethical to begin with.
by regularfry | 2026-02-17 11:54:18+00:00
So initially my thought was "why would this be better than existing infill patterns" but my second thought was that the reason Miura-ori patterns are interesting in the first place is because they fold. Not in this application so much, but in general, the way they flex is why they're interesting. The upshot here is that if you embedded that sort of pattern in a closed box, the degrees of freedom would try to transfer the force of a vertical load on the top to a horizontal stress in the outer shell of the base, in both x and y. A bit like a spherical dome.

I'm not sure that it's better than a dome; it might be for cases where you can't predict where on the top surface the load is going to be? I'm also not sure that a sheet of printed infill is sufficiently similar in its physical properties to a sheet of paper/card for this to transfer well, but it would be an interesting experiment to do.
by jimminyx | 2026-02-17 11:54:59+00:00
I get why you feel this way. There's this weird thing happening online where AI hype accounts dog pile on any hint of the beginning of a trend and will beat on it until the next trend comes around. They will make up claims and create endless content in the format that they discovered is effective.

This makes it really difficult to understand what's real and what's hype. It feels like everything that's trending is BS because of the obvious boosting and exaggeration.

But there are real, noteworthy things that are happening and they get mixed in with a lot of BS.

Coding agents being massive amplifiers of skilled developers productivity is not hype. There are countless 10s or maybe 100s of thousands of developers who have built things that they simply wouldn't have been able to do a few years ago. It doesn't matter what that MITRE study says if you've built something with your own hands that wouldn't have existed without AI.

Bringing the same coding agents to regular people on WhatsApp and Telegram, and connecting it with enough apps and data sources so it can do valuable work is a massive unlock of value. There is massive hype around it, but underneath all the hype there is something big and real. I am getting immense value from this. I recommend that you put your skepticism on hold for a short time and give it a real try. Real is key. If you go in trying to prove your skepticism right, you will be able to do that. But if you approach with curiosity you'll undoubtedly discover ways you can start extracting value from it
by raxxorraxor | 2026-02-17 11:56:29+00:00
Mods made asking questions a very hostile experience since they had a flawed ideal of SO becoming some form of encyclopedia. So no wonder people jumped on another train as quickly as possible, especially since it so often was a mistake to close a question whose next best answer was a long deprecated solution.

It still has some corners where people are better, but this is mostly the smaller niches.
by technothrasher | 2026-02-17 11:57:00+00:00
> my first home computer was a Timex 2068.

I don't know if the Altair 8800 would count as my first home computer, as I was too young to really understand what it was and mostly just liked to play with the paper tape feed on the Teletype attached to it. By the time we got the PET 2001, I was old enough to actually use it as intended.
by robtherobber | 2026-02-17 11:57:25+00:00
Very welcome and useful initiative. I deeply hate the fact that it's a next.js app (these apps simply should not be an option for the web unless HTML has somehow disappeared without a trace and humanity can't remember that it has ever existed) and not an HTML site with some JS where needed / useful. I suppose I understand the appeal and the convenience from a development point of view.

Open-sourcing the code is commendable and I'm happy to see this.

> Do you know of any additional countries public donation datasets that are actually machine-readable (CSV/JSON/API)?

I recently came across https://banipartide.ro/ but I'm not entirely sure whether they made all their data machine-readable. I found this: https://db.banipartide.ro/banipartide/Venituri+anuale+din+ra...
by drysine | 2026-02-17 11:59:07+00:00
>for a phrase that dates back a 100 years before WW2

Yeah, and then you genocide people of unwanted nationalities and smear it forever.

Swastika dates back much further, but still wearing it today tells you quite a lot about the Ukrainian "heroes" with such tattoos:

"Des saluts nazis, des croix gammées, des emblèmes de la SS… La cellule d’enquête vidéo du Monde en a identifié plusieurs centaines, arborés par des centaines de soldats ukrainiens sur les réseaux sociaux. Parmi les 350 soldats repérés, 200 membres de la 3e brigade d’assaut, l’une des unités fer de lance de l’armée ukrainienne."[0]

>such an educated, so organised rural youth

Your point? Nazis were educated and organized too.

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/videos/video/2025/06/18/guerre-en-ukr...
by SerCe | 2026-02-17 11:59:27+00:00
In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, While In Practice There Is.

In large projects, having a specific AGENTS.md makes the difference between the agent spending half of its context window searching for the right commands, navigating the repo, understanding what is what, etc., and being extremely useful. The larger the repository, the more things it needs to be aware of and the more important the AGENTS.md is. At least that's what I have observed in practice.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-17 11:59:46+00:00
I got better results with N=100, and the time and frames bars at the top in the middle. It reach the equilibrium in ~5 seconds, so it's easy to test and compare the different potentials. #ResearchInTheTikTokEra :)

With z^20, the problem is that when you change the number of particles, the ones are distributed randomly and the ones near the corners have a huge gradient and probably overflow and the inifinites/nans are viral and kill all the other particles. The trick is to switch to z^2, change N wait a moment and then change to z^20. Perhaps you can clip some values or try some trick like in stiff equations.

In 3D, I expected a z^2 potencial with a 1/z^2 force to generate an uniform distribution, for something something Gauss. (It's just bad hand-waving, I didn't have anything close to a proof.) It's interesting that it is so easy.
by subscribed | 2026-02-17 11:59:49+00:00
So no, their target is people who marginally care about privacy and security but don't want to use iOS. I don't think they target any particular demographic but I see security engineers and activists among users.

And it's not only security - simple stuff like USB data off unless the phone is unlocked, native call recording, much enhanced user profiles (to separate data mining apps like Uber or Instagram from your financial affairs), etc.

And yes, it's about reducing the attack vector. On most other handsets you'll get most of the fixes 6 months or a year later. At best.
by holistio | 2026-02-17 12:00:11+00:00
We never really have a complete mental map.

"Oh, this library just released a new major version? What a pity, I used to know v n deeply, but v n+1 has this nifty feature that I like"

It happened all the time even as a solo dev. In teams, it's the rule, not the exception.

Vibing is just a different obfuscation here.
by hypercube33 | 2026-02-17 12:00:48+00:00
Agreed. I'm over here working on Quake 2 mods and reverse engineering Off world trading company so I can finish an open source server for it using AI.

Thing is I worked manually on both of these a lot before I even touched Claude on them so I basically was able to hit my wishlist items that I don't have time to deal with these days but have the logic figured out already.
by DharmaPolice | 2026-02-17 12:00:51+00:00
>Going back to the specific example: the question is so nonsensical on its face that the only logical conclusion is that the asker is taking the piss out of you.

I would dispute that that matters in 99.9% of scenarios.

>The person you're asking doesn't understand the link between your question and the help you're trying to offer.

Sure I, get that and I do always explain why I need to know something but it does add delays to the process (either before or after I ask). When I'm on the receiving end of a support call I answer the questions I'm asked (and provide supplementary information if I think they might need it).
by sarreph | 2026-02-17 12:01:56+00:00
It's reasonably clear from the second sentence in the post that the uptick in submissions can be largely attributed to AI-assisted projects.

> The post quickly disappeared from Show HN's first page, amongst the rest of the vibecoded pulp.

The linked article[0] also talks at length about the impact of AI and vibe-coding on indie craftsmanship's longevity.

[0] - https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
by braza | 2026-02-17 12:03:34+00:00
> But everyone is out shopping, partying, drinking, eating out all the time. Onsens, arcades, karaokes, izakayas. Yes getting those services means someone has to work.

Spot on.

I really like Substack as media and I think has been a great complementary in terms of depth; but this article does not have any difference of any slop from mainstream media.

Pick one topic, place some term (like late-stage capitalism, social-democracy, democracy), pick-up 2 or 3 bad poins, and build a narrative, and sprinkle some ~hyperlinks~ references that sustain and voilà: now you have some in-depth analysis with a audience craving for it even when everyone knows that is super simplistic and reductionist, does not converge on what books and history says, and with a politically charged piece.

All those articles you will never see any kind point of positivity being conceived; it sounds always written by some hypercritical, rational, politically charged, and hyper-contemporaneous in a sense that is not space for nuance and understanding that no simple thing per se can explain a very complex phenomena.

For God sake, those guys received 2 nukes 80 years ago and they managed to raise again, and in the meanwhile my country during this time only have 55% of people with sewage.
by topocite | 2026-02-17 12:03:37+00:00
What happened last time is exactly what will never happen again because those were all specific one off, path dependent, moments in time.

I think what you are missing is that it might not be possible to stay in business if you can't use AI to solve problems.

Before the dot com bust, I was paid in college to file papers in file cabinets all day at an office. Ten years on from that, the paper was gone, the file cabinets were gone, obviously the paper filer job was gone and even that business that employed me as a paper filer was gone because they were a dinosaur who couldn't leverage technology well and were put out of business by competitors who could.

There is huge denial on this board that everything is going to be fine hand coding on the legacy systems of dinosaur companies. Seems more likely that if the company has so much technical systems debt that models aren't useful, those companies are not going to be competitive in their area of business.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-17 12:03:37+00:00
When you watch television, or television on your computer screen (that makes no difference) you get hypnotized by the tube into a passive state of consumption. Watch people when they watch TV. Watch their slack jawed faces when the commercials stay on and their attention stays glued to the advertisements pitching Alzheimer drugs. Critical though suspended, minds off in space.

In short, read a book.
by jeffreygoesto | 2026-02-17 12:04:17+00:00
I am old. This immediately triggered "Perl!?" in me...

Joke aside: Programming languages and compilers are still being optimized until the assembly and execution match certain expectations. So prompts and whatever inputs to AI also will be optimized until some expectations are met. This includes looking at their output, obviously. So I think this is an overblown extrapolation like many we see these days.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-17 12:04:46+00:00
> "is the US in a depression? 540$ for your first year to read FT!"

Honestly, if you want good information, you need to pay for it. I've been subscribed to the FT for almost a decade now, and it's definitely helped me a lot. For context, I also subscribed to all the other newspapers people suggest (NYT/WSJ/WaPo/Guardian etc) and find the FT to be the most useful for me.

I do agree that it's really expensive, but for me it makes sense.
Tell HN: Tips for (mostly) free agentic coding setup
by everlier | 2026-02-17 12:05:12+00:00
Hi

Agentic coding is rapidly changing our ways of developing software. Not everyone can afford a subscription, though, but they shouldn't be excluded from the process of learning these new tools.

Just wanted to share a few tips on running near-frontier agentic coding setup almost for free.

1. APIs. Most of the agentic coding tools use two types of APIs - OpenAI or Anthropic compatible. OpenAI is must more common, but Anthropic is associated with Claude Code ecosystem. There are also OSS adapters to convert between the two as needed. Essentially, you need to find providers that serve inference for free.

1. OpenRouter. They always have a few models that are completely free at the expense of storing and using everything you send to them. There are frequent promotional periods after new model releases. You need to top up your account by ~$10, though, to avoid rate limits as they are applied based on your balance. After that, ensure to use Model IDs with `:free` postfix and your balance will not be consumed, you can use those indefinitely.

2. OpenCode. This is a great agentic harness (albeit its heavily tuned for larger models), its parent company also provides inference APIs. Due to the popularity, many LLM providers offer free tiers of the models there. Same caveat applies - you data will be stored and used.

3. Local inference. If you happened to have a ~6-8GB VRAM and ~32GB RAM - then you should be able to run staple ~30B-sized MoE models. GLM-4.7-Flash is currently the best one for using inside a harness, it's even capable enough to drive simple tasks in OpenCode, but I recommend simpler harnesses for better results.

4. What to expect. Most of these offerings come with a compromise in terms of data collection and/or inference quality. For example, OpenCode's free Kimi 2.5 is clearly different from the paid one from official provider. In general - do not trust any claims that compare smaller open weight models with the cloud offering, they are not there yet. However you can get really far and models like Kimi 2.5 are still very capable.

Thanks!
by numdefined | 2026-02-17 12:05:23+00:00
Thanks that looks really nice.

I'll write them to ask if they're ok with me using their data.

I've previously found https://finantarepartide.ro/partidul-pro-romania-pro-romania... which should be the official romanian source. When attempting to integrate them I found some missing links tho and they never replied to my mail :D

Regarding next:

It was also a side project to start tinkering with next. I found it had a nice DX and allowed me to quickly build it.
Now I think it might also be possible to just use something like Astro as I don't need many dynamic SSR features.
by palata | 2026-02-17 12:05:46+00:00
The whole reason why GrapheneOS is superior to its alternative is because they do all that.

I also with they could support non-Google phones, but that's a problem coming from the manufacturers, not from GrapheneOS.

My understanding is that there are close to half a million GrapheneOS users. And many potential users don't want to buy a Google phone. So it feels like it is starting to become worth considering for manufacturers...

I don't get why Fairphone doesn't look into that. Is it because they are not aware, or is it too hard for them to make hardware that is compliant with what GrapheneOS requires? Hundreds of thousands of devices may not count so much for Samsung, but they must definitely count for Fairphone.
by emporas | 2026-02-17 12:05:52+00:00
> Destructive static charges are induced on nearby conductors, such as
human skin, and delivered in the form of sparks passing between
conductors, such as when the surface of printed board assembly is
touched by a person having a static charge potential. [..] It is important to note that usually the static damage level for components cannot be felt by humans. (Less than 3,000 volts.)

Less than 3000 volts cannot be felt by humans? Should be 3000 millivolts right? i.e. 3 volts...