MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by btreesOfSpring | 2026-02-24 20:01:04+00:00
Would rather a more robust and distributed app store system that figures out how to police these edge cases of fraud rather than one vendor (Apple or Google) whose monopolies push developers into subscriptionware across the board. Something more akin to how internic moved from one domain name registrar to what we have today, chock full of competition and new top level domains.

It feels like independent development on devices has slowed in recent years. More stores appealing to different developer models/tools and monetization strategies please.
by psyclobe | 2026-02-24 20:01:59+00:00
> These are results for what is bev market auto industry
> Search instead for what is bev market auto industru
> AI Overview
> The Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) market involves vehicles powered exclusively by electricity via onboard battery packs, without any internal combustion engine. It is a rapidly growing, high-investment sector within the automotive industry aimed at zero-emission transportation. Key aspects include accelerating market share, intense competition, and improvements in charging infrastructure.
by quesera | 2026-02-24 20:02:05+00:00
In my mental model, the PDF is not a secret and can be stored anywhere; encrypted if that's your thing, but it sounds like a public document.

The safe combination is a secret, and should be in secret storage.

In this specific example, if I had trouble remembering whether the first digit was cw or ccw, I'd include it in the secret, e.g. "cw34-12-22-45".

(Some safe combinations require multiple passes. I unintentionally became the owner of one that is something like "cw3x34-ccw2x12-cw5x22-ccw2x45". I still can't open it actually, but that pattern is what the Internet tells me. :)
by nxobject | 2026-02-24 20:02:47+00:00
Which legislator were you working with? (I'm not going to look the bill up up on OLIS, if that's going to dox you.)

Funnily enough, Portland (apart from big box parking lots) seems to be empty of those. I remember them trying to push ShotSpotter and being slapped down by the city's progressive wing.
by kantselovich | 2026-02-24 20:02:59+00:00
I'm building an alternative called Lockstep: KeePass-like local-first password vault but with build sync https://github.com/lockstepvault-hq/lockstep

Sync requires a server, however server does not see any secret data, it is only used to relay encrypted hash-chained ops log between devices. It's intended to be self-hosting friendly - server is single binary backed by SQLite.

It's project is early-alfa, CLI app, Keepass import and sever/sync work for the most part, there is MacOS app in progress and plans for a iOS app and a browser extension.

Not ready for production and it's not audited.

I'm currently using KeepassXC/Keepasium with Syncting, but I want a better solution - something that supports trouble-free sync natively and allows me to own the system
by hinkley | 2026-02-24 20:03:19+00:00
Exponential back off with random jitter is the solution there. It can be a bit tricky though because the random jitter can reduce throughput if it’s too generous or not generous enough.

For instance backing off 53 ms is a lot of latency. Backing off 1 μs may still result in a collision, requiring two or three backoffs before it resolves, where a longer pause on the first backoff might have resulted in quicker recovery.

Optimistic locking is a statistical model just like bloom filters are, and scaling something 20 or 100 times higher is a hell of a lot of runway. Especially if the failure mode is a person sharing someone else’s account or using a laptop and tablet at exactly the same time.
by inib | 2026-02-24 20:03:59+00:00
Story time on the mobile proactivity.

I was buying a train ticket on Eurostar for my mother. I filled her name as the passenger. Scrolled down and used the 1Password data I have to fill my address and billing information. I proceed and pay. Later, when checking the ticket, I see it's on my name. 1Password changed the passenger details, and since the screen is small, I did not notice.

No 100% refund from Eurostar, but lesson learned.

I'm not leaving 1Password though. It's too convenient for my family.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-02-24 20:04:48+00:00
You'd need to amass 50% of the shares to kick out the founders. That'd be impossible for a hostile party to do if Stripe IPO's because they wouldn't release anywhere close to that number of shares.

The only way to kick out the Collison's would be for the VC's to do it. They currently own 80%. It's easier for the VC's to do that if Stripe stays private than if Stripe IPO's.
by mdasen | 2026-02-24 20:05:09+00:00
That doesn't seem to be the case across Europe based on current sales.

Looking at marketshare in the EU+EFTA+UK 2025 to 2026:

VW Group went from 26.8% to 26.7%. Stellantis went from 15.5% to 17.1%. Renault Group went from 9.8% to 8.7%. Hyundai Group 8.4% to 7.6%. BMW Group 7.0% to 6.9%. Toyota Group 8.0% to 7.2%. SAIC Motor was flat at 2.0%. BYD 0.7% to 1.9%. Tesla 1.0% to 0.8%.

So it doesn't really seem like BYD is eating into the sales of European manufacturers yet. VW + Stellantis + Renault + BMW + Mercedes + Volvo + Jaguar Land Rover was 66.9% in 2025 and it's 67.1% in 2026, an increase of 0.2 percentage points (looking at just VW + Stellantis + Renault, it was an increase of 0.4pp).

We'll see what happens going forward, but Chinese cars aren't killing it yet. SAIC Motor is flat. BYD is doing very well, but it's a lot easier to grow when you're small. I think that Chinese cars will present challenges, but I'm less sure that it's over for European automakers. Right now, European automakers are marginally increasing their marketshare (probably more noise than anything, but not evidence of decline).

I think BYD is a strong company and I think they'll continue to gain marketshare, but will others? SAIC has seen modest European growth since 2024, but nothing really threatening and they're sitting at 2% marketshare and their modest growth seems to becoming no growth. Chery is really small. Geely is ultra small without Volvo.

So it feels like it's really the BYD story. BYD is the company actually making inroads and growing at a significant rate. And I don't think that a single company can destroy the European auto industry. It's possible BYD could become 10-20% of the European market and that would be a major win for them and make a significant dent in competitors. But do you see them becoming more? Are there other companies that seem promising?
by bombcar | 2026-02-24 20:05:15+00:00
This is exactly it - most "security" isn't really built around actual threat models, nor is it ever verified. IT security is perhaps the weirdest in the world in that the security of your web server will be constantly probed, whilst your front door could go your entire lifetime and never be probed once.

Where people actually care about physical security, they develop things that do actually work; and often are so unobtrusive you never realize they're there.

Security theater necessitates that it be showy and in your face.
by KK7NIL | 2026-02-24 20:05:22+00:00
I'll have to look up that idea of the "nano assembler" that you're referring, but I'll just mention that there is significant additive manufacturing in a modern semiconductor GAAFET node, with the entire transistor being grown.

This video is a good summary of the main steps involved: https://youtu.be/xaKyDrWfHes

It's certainly not as powerful or universal as 3D printing and it might not even be "additive manufacturing" proper, but it is a lot more than just etching/subtractive manufacturing.
by dang | 2026-02-24 20:05:25+00:00
Here are some stories that flaggers of this submission also flagged. I have no idea why, except for the handful of obvious spam, but it illustrates the point I made in the parent comment.

The rise and fall of peer review - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123133 - Feb 2026 (0 comments)

Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899 - Feb 2026 (692 comments)

Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119210 - Feb 2026 (440 comments)

Music Discovery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114672 - Feb 2026 (56 comments)

The 7-Year Bug That Took 3 Minutes to Fix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47090261 - Feb 2026 (1 comment)

AI made coding more enjoyable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075400 - Feb 2026 (97 comments)

RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934499 - Feb 2026 (52 comments)

Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845567 - Feb 2026 (9 comments)

There is an AI code review bubble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766961 - Jan 2026 (249 comments)

Proof of Corn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735511 - Jan 2026 (307 comments)

XLibre XServer 25.1 Changes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46474846 - Jan 2026 (4 comments)

Python Data Science Handbook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120611 - Dec 2025 (61 comments)

NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995834 - Nov 2025 (228 comments)

Best shipping logistic aggregator in India - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924139 - Nov 2025 (0 comments)

WebDAV isn't dead yet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698070 - Oct 2025 (128 comments)

Unicode Footguns in Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689443 - Oct 2025 (20 comments)

AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627171 - Oct 2025 (124 comments)

Super Ace: Your PH Home for Jili Slots and a 300% Welcome Bonus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624939 - Oct 2025 (0 comments)

Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44730021 - July 2025 (42 comments)
by htx80nerd | 2026-02-24 20:05:37+00:00
Fun fact : there are poor people in America who need help. Some of which served in the military, or they come from families which several people served in the military. Do these people not come first?

Despite popular belief, it is not the job of the US Tax Payer to feed the impoverished world. How many billions have been sent to Africa? People need to make their own countries great instead of waiting for more Gibs from the USA.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2026-02-24 20:05:51+00:00
When a comment starts with "Even ignoring Y, there's also Z" or "Setting aside Y, there's also Z", it shouldn't be read as downplaying Y. It's a way of introducing a secondary issue Z without first needing to write a 1000 word essay that gives due weight to issue Y and any other issues that are more important than Z.

This is useful to do when issue Y is widely known and well-explored elsewhere, but issue Z hasn't received as much attention. It my no means is an attempt to downplay the importance of Y, merely to create a space for conversation about a more niche issue Z.

It's disappointing to see so much attention put into replies attacking the OP for not giving adequate weight to Y, when the very premise of their comment was to create a space to discuss Z.
by prithvi2206 | 2026-02-24 20:05:53+00:00
Funnily enough, one of our early users (a solo technical writer) told us that the biggest value he got from Promptless was just finding out when the engineering team forgot to tell him about a change that would impact docs. The drafts from Promptless were just the cherry on top for him.

So yes, there's a workflow where you really just use Promptless for the notifications. That being said, the drafting is now quite good, so it's probably at least a good starting point to get past writer's block!
by theodric | 2026-02-24 20:06:18+00:00
1. Nobody cares enough to do all this except some nerds on HN.

2. Spurious radio transmissions from your spark gap set will be tracked down in an afternoon by government foxhunters, and then you'll be in jail for breaking the law.

I don't understand why people think they can meaningfully kinetically resist. The discussion now needs to be convincing the random voter why this is a problem for them, or the game is lost.
by thaumaturgy | 2026-02-24 20:06:50+00:00
I think at this point getting doxed is an inevitability. ;-)

I worked most closely with Senator Floyd Prozanski. He's my local senator, and was in many ways an ideal fit for this. After we successfully kicked Flock out of Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County, he reached out to form a legislative workgroup. Over a few months of effort, we developed SB1516: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/Measures/Overv...

Depending on where you fall on the spectrum of opinions on ALPRs, this is either a sort of okay bill or a pretty terrible bill.
by michaelmure | 2026-02-24 20:07:07+00:00
> On CRDTs: I assume tools like git-bug adopted CRDTs primarily to avoid merge conflicts, but "last-writer-wins" via timestamps is risky

FYI, git-bug doesn't use timestamps to figure out the ordering. It first uses the git DAG topology (it defines ancestors), then Lamport clocks (increment for any changes on any bugs), then order by hash if there is still an ambiguity. Note that the git DAG could also be signed, which would also provide some form of reliance against abuse.

I had an interesting discussion recently about how to handle conflict for bug trackers. In my opinion it's a great use-cases for CRDTs (as it avoids data corruption), as long as all user intents are visibly captured in a timeline and easily fixable. It turned out though that there is an interesting middle ground: as the CRDT captures *when* a concurrent editing happen, it's 100% doable to highlight in the UI which event are concurrent and might need attention.
by ej88 | 2026-02-24 20:07:22+00:00
Really interesting updates to their 2025 experiment.

Repeat devs from the original experiment went from 0-40% slowdown to now -10-40% speedup - and METR estimates this as a 'lower-bound'

more devs saying they dont even want to do 50% of their work without AI, even for 50/hr

30-50% of devs decided not to submit certain tasks without AI, missing the tasks with the highest uplift

it also seems like there is a skill gap - repeat devs from the first study are more productive with ai tools than newly recruited ones with variable experience

overall it seems like the high preference for devs to use AI is actually hurting METR's ability to judge their speedup, due to a refusal to do tasks without it. imo this is indirectly quite supportive for ai coding's productivity claims.
by timcambrant | 2026-02-24 20:07:47+00:00
Don't you dads take any parental leave? Maybe that's why they don't find enjoyment from spending time with their kids. Kids and parents need time together to bond properly, regardless of gender.

And why would the mom even continue staying at home at all once the kids are past infancy? Just drop the kids off at daycare and go to work, have lunch with colleagues, do inspiring work (compared to doing laundry or sitting by the playground), plan your career, make some money, save for retirement. Most kids are fine playing and learning with other kids at daycare unless they get picked up too late. I don't get why having a kid and staying home means being doomed to take 5-10 years off work. Unless it's a money thing of course - I get that not everyone has the luxury of paid parental leave, basically free daycare, etc.
by paul7986 | 2026-02-24 20:08:06+00:00
I was a paying customer ($20 a month) until AI prompted a layoff in my dying field that is web design and front end design coding. Now everytime chatGPT yells at me about memory i tell it fine Im just gonna use Gemini! I bet a lot of ppl are doing the same thing as both sit at the top of the iPhone charts.
by tamimio | 2026-02-24 20:08:13+00:00
> 0x18 - betrayal

This is the most important section, as the above ones any privacy-conscious person would assume most anyway. I did mention before that we need an open-source platform that tracks the people who work and build such systems. Those are the enablers who have no morals or ethics - a greedy corporation is always greedy, but when the average employee is willing to work full time on building such systems, they need to be exposed publicly, just as they are working relentlessly on violating private people's privacy. It isn't about public humiliation; it's about basic human decency and maintaining a minimum ethical code to abide by. These individuals shouldn't be hired or dealt with, not even a simple connection on LinkedIn.

These individuals are dangerous. They are like rats among us and should be exposed, and I bet some of them are reading this as well.
by xg15 | 2026-02-24 20:08:24+00:00
> How many more broken social contracts can society endure before it crumbles?

Having any kind of agency in those things would be a start.

If <FAANG bigcorp of your choice> announces with great fanfare "We're building this totally awesome new technology that will make everything better! And the best thing? You won't have to do anything, we will auto-update all your devices/accounts/etc with it for free! Trust us!", then whether you personally believe their enthusiastic predictions or not doesn't really matter a lot - you will get it anyway, unless you spend a lot of energy to deliberately avoid the new technology.
by RyanOD | 2026-02-24 20:08:48+00:00
I second this. Is there anyone who actually believes Optimus is going to be a success and has any sort of data to back that up?

I'm not in robotics, but I look at humanoid robots and, while incredible examples of engineering know-how, they seem to be a long way from useful in commercial applications. Am I jhust ignorant of their true value? Seems like all I ever see them doing is parkour.
by tredre3 | 2026-02-24 20:09:01+00:00
> the massive popularity of run clubs and marathons

A few hundreds/thousands members in cities of millions doesn't equate massive popularity. Doing cardio is unpleasant to most people, I don't understand why it's so important to cardio enthusiasts to frame them as being liars or unaware? That's not convincing anyone and your energy would be better spent trying to find other ways to entice people.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-24 20:09:08+00:00
So just because they were bookkeepers we should let them hoard wealth when most Americans could not afford an unexpected expense? To a person with $100 in their checking account both a millionaire and a billionaire are impossibly far away.

I think what’s happening here is that a bunch of millionaires are complaining that there are people richer than them so they want the limit higher than them. But they don’t realize they’re the problem. They’re the top 3% while people are suffering.
by GeekyBear | 2026-02-24 20:09:08+00:00
> I think the community needs a better response to this problem than "nuh uh, everything's fine as it is."

People choosing between the smartphone ecosystems already have a choice between the safety of a walled garden and the freedom to do anything you like, including shooting yourself in the foot.

You don't spend a decade driving other "user freedom" focused ecosystems out of the marketplace, only to yank those supposed freedoms away from the userbase that intentionally chose freedom over safety.
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-24 20:09:19+00:00
Yes, because they make money selling the parts, and there are warranty requirements that are hard to fulfill if you don't have parts.

Often after a decade or so, companies will sell the designs to dedicated parts makers. For example, Volvo has Volvo Classic Parts, and they even have a reman program, and will even 3D print parts not available. Mercedes has Mercedes Classic Parts. Chrysler has MOPAR, etc.

Here you can browse parts for a 1968 Mercedes SEL:
https://classicparts.mbusa.com/c-280sel-223

If you are a business, the costs of designing the part has already been paid, if you can sell the design and get some royalty payments, why wouldn't you turn those old plans into cash?

And of course there is a huge industry of Chinese clones and other suppliers that will provide replacement parts that are not genuine.

Be prepared to pay, though :)
by philipkglass | 2026-02-24 20:09:28+00:00
Older HN users may recall when busy discussions had comments split across several pages. This is because the Arc [1] language that HN runs on was originally hosted on top of Racket [2] and the implementation was too slow to handle giant discussions at HN scale. Around September 2024 Dang et al finished porting Arc to SBCL, and performance increased so much that even the largest discussions no longer need splitting. The server is unresponsive/restarting a lot less frequently since these changes, too, despite continued growth in traffic and comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41679215

[1] https://paulgraham.com/arc.html

[2] https://racket-lang.org/
by barbazoo | 2026-02-24 20:09:36+00:00
> > In other news, the lack of demand makes them pretty cheap at the moment. You can find a 2023 HW4 Plaid Model S for <$50k.

> why? would you buy a used cellphone with 70% functioning battery?

Did you test that particular battery before making that statement or how do you know what percentage it's at?
by iamnothere | 2026-02-24 20:09:42+00:00
My condolences, that sucks that you’re stuck in such an authoritarian country. If you look at the PostmarketOS site, you may be able to find a legal phone (weird to type that phrase) that can be reflashed. Or you could buy one while on vacation, my guess is they don’t check models at the border if it looks like a personal device.
by DangitBobby | 2026-02-24 20:09:44+00:00
I believe you have a mistaken impression. First, the bottom has fallen out of the used market creating significant buyers remorse for early adopters. Buyers remorse also for the switch from the previous US charging standard to Tesla's. And people are generally waiting with bated breath for advancements in battery technology for charging speeds, longevity, and capacity. Accurate or not, people are waiting for the technology to mature so they don't have an EV that isn't worth what they paid for it.
Looking 4 open-source knowledge base and project management tool 4 personal use
by TheAlgorist | 2026-02-24 20:10:30+00:00
Apologies for odd title, character limits.

I manage my tasks with Taskwarrior and it's been incredibly productive for me. What it does, it does very well. But there's a lot it doesn't do, and that's the problem I'm facing.

I've realized I need proper project documentation and management features, but I don't want to replace Taskwarrior. Instead, I'm looking to *complement* it with some type of knowledge base that also has project management features (or vice versa). My ultimate goal is to integrate these systems together via automations.

In short, Taskwarrior is lacking when it comes to project documentation.

*My criteria:*

- Must be open-source
- MUST work in the browser (so no mention of Obsidian)
- Has basic project management features (interpret as you will)
- Rich wiki-like document interface (bidirectional links, nice editing UI, etc.)
- Supports iframes (to embed my Taskwarrior views or tables)
- Has an API for integration
- Not too heavy, I am not a business just a guy

*Tools I've been looking at:*
Odoo, Silverbullet, Blinko, Logseq, AFFiNE, Docmost, Trillium, Joplin, Dolibarr, Leantime, OpenProject, wiki.js, etc.

*Rejected (either not web-based or too restrictive with paid features):*
Appflowy, Logseq (local-first), Capacities, Obsidian, Anytype

Does anyone know if a tool like this exists? I feel like I'm looking for a sweet spot between a wiki and a project management tool, but the choices are overwhelming :'(