MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pdimitar | 2026-02-09 20:01:12+00:00
Actually you are correct. I've been following the HN threads about Tahoe and even watched a few YouTube videos and could only facepalm.

But then again I'll get rid of the iMac Pro this year. I'll have technicians butcher it and salvage whatever they can from it -- I suspect only the SSD will survive -- and will them hollow it out and put a R1811 board inside it so I can use it as a proper standalone 5K screen. I don't care about Macs anymore, they limit me too much and I can't maintain multiple Linux machines just when I figure I would want to do something that Macs can't do (like experiment with bcachefs or ZFS pools and volumes and snapshots for my continually evolving backup setup).
by alexose | 2026-02-09 20:01:42+00:00
> A slight increase in average speed really only makes a significant difference over long drives.

Yes! I feel like I can't shout this loud enough. In addition to maintaining a safe driving distance, just leave a little earlier. The stuff I've seen people do in order to save 20 seconds boggles the mind.

Unfortunately, I think commuters fall into a gamification mindset. They're trying to set a new lap record each day, and you can see the results just by driving (or walking) during rush hour...
by kevmo314 | 2026-02-09 20:01:43+00:00
Really? I hardly think it's neglected. The Claude Code harness is the only reason I come back to it. I've tried Claude via OpenCode or others and it doesn't work as well for me. If anything, I would even argue that prior to 4.6, the main reason Opus 4.5 felt like it improved over months was the harness.
by BizarroLand | 2026-02-09 20:01:46+00:00
It's ok to have an actual criticism. It's a poorly written article that describes issues people have had but not taking a single step to actually fix them. They spend the entire article whining about computers being hard and not working perfectly, which is fine in my opinion, but then tries to imply that using Linux is a bad idea when, once again, they never tried to fix any of their problems, they put the bare minimum of effort into the entire article, and didn't even bring a conclusion to their article.

It's not AI slop, it's human writer slop.
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-09 20:01:48+00:00
I miss the era of Internet forums. They didn’t need to be federated, just simple deployments of MyBB, vBulletin, PHP, Xenforo and so on.

I made a lot of friends on those communities growing up, and it inspired me to go into software because I saw how it brought people together.

And I still sorely miss the WhatCD forums. While I didn’t make any friends there, it shaped my early experiences with music which still reverberates through me today.

Even with the reinvigoration of new ideas from LLMs, tech feels like it has been languishing for well over a decade at this point. The playbook is to disrupt traditional industry at a loss, then enshittify when competitors are gone. A lot of tech plays really feel like some form of: bring the yellow pages into the digital realm and overcharge for facilitating that access. Finding a firm that even uses AI outside of a chatbot UX is rare.
by avidiax | 2026-02-09 20:01:53+00:00
> Is the end result just a couple of minutes later in a 30 minute commute?

More like a few seconds.

Every car that merges in front of you only costs you their following distance. If the average following distance is 1 second, then you are simply 1 second slower than you'd have otherwise been. So unless this is happening continuously every 30 seconds on your 30 minute commute, you will lose less than a minute.

The "but if I kept reasonable following distance, people will keep merging in front of me and I'll lose time" excuse is pretty thin given this analysis.

And an insurance claim can easily eat 40 hours of time between the insurance companies, other lawyers, buying a new car, medical appointments and recovery. That's 19,200 minutes you won't get back, or about 52 years of driving 1 minute slower each day.
by jairuhme | 2026-02-09 20:01:56+00:00
I think this will be a pretty impactful moment for OpenAI. I mainly use ChatGPT and use the free plan, so I expect to start seeing these ads. If they become too annoying, I have no problem moving to Claude/Gemini. Sure I have stuck to ChatGPT, but I wouldn't say that I am too sticky of a customer. I personally think they are doing it sooner than they should (which probably points to internal financial struggles as they seek to go public) and will erode their active users. There is simply too many easy alternatives. It's not like Netflix where if you are annoyed with ads and don't want to pay for a higher tier, you're more stuck. Yes there are other streaming services, but you can't get the same content.
by darkteflon | 2026-02-09 20:01:56+00:00
People here in Tokyo follow at obscenely tight distance on the freeways and motorways. Drives me crazy. Don't have the data, but having driven here for over 20 years, I’d venture that short following distances must be one of the main causes of accidents on these types of roads. People are otherwise generally cautious and attentive drivers. When I’ve expressed frustration about it to locals in the past, the response is often “but if you leave more space, people will cut in!” To which I respond, “okay, and?!” I feel like a single big media campaign push to improve following distances could result in a big improvement. So frustrating.
by runjake | 2026-02-09 20:01:58+00:00
This is the kind of design I'd expect from Ive.

There's a lack of consistency on the wheel controls that make this look more like a UX showcase rather than a usable interface.

Case in point:

- A bunch of rotary knob that perform the same function: to select. But, they're all different and use different ways to represent the selection.

- Some have a lighted indicator, some have a notch, and some are completely ambiguous.

- The 2, 1, *, 0 switch has a hole in it to indicate the currently selected option.

- The plastic surrounding this is is mere millimeters of thickness and I would expect it to break off within a decade.
by epsilonsalts | 2026-02-09 20:01:59+00:00
Do we peak or are there fewer patterns than we want to believe and eventually accept and just quit looking?

Sure we can generate syntactic and semantic descriptions endlessly but to use software as an example, we made a lot of the same things that look different only in the symbols used.

Ansible and Chef. Terraform and Pulumi. Ruby and Python. Windows and Linux. Burger shack 1, burger shack 2. They all still solve the same problem.

Being able to generate semantics endlessly does not upend our daily patterns and routines. Life on Earth is pretty obvious.
by michaelsbradley | 2026-02-09 20:02:42+00:00
I’m very happy to see this development, it addresses a pain point with Nim that existed before and after the release of ARC/ORC (Nim v2, more or less).

I don’t want to even hazard a guess how many times folks new to Nim would ask “How do I work with ref across threads without running into SIGSEGV?”, and the answer might as well have been to become a Jedi master unless the use case fit very well with one/more (let’s be honest, experimental) structured concurrency libraries. Sometimes that would turn out to be the case, or could be the case if they would pretzel their mental model for the business logic, but generally it was a big turnoff.
by kylehotchkiss | 2026-02-09 20:02:44+00:00
Thanks for your support! I am happy to embrace LLMs to tackle a difficult problem without a team or funding too.

Toxic traits: Prosperity gospel, politics from the pulpit (explicit party affiliation/candidate endorsement - I've unfortunately been to a church that asked the audience to clap for Elon musk's DOGE stuff in service, cringe), celebrity pastor (can be indicated by people asking audience to clap for pastor excessively, like every Sunday), some of the NAR/Bethel type stuff.

I welcome any thoughts, sometimes my motivation comes from my own church hurt, and I'd like any future client of this data to reflect broader needs and not just my own frustration.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-09 20:03:11+00:00
May I suggest that what may appear obvious to you, is anything but obvious to others? May I suggest that other people may not share your values, your priorities, your constraints, or your willingness to engage. Just from those alone, you should be able to gather that telling people something is obvious is not the most endearing way to capture their attention. You might capture it, but not in the way you might imagine.

And all this is before we even to get to the meaty part as to whether the people you are trying to convince are convinced something is a problem. So far, all I really see is posture and hand-wringing.

You wanna say something? Say it.
by pibaker | 2026-02-09 20:03:12+00:00
Sorry but you sound exactly like that comic. "Our blessed homeland, their barbarous waters"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-ba...

More seriously, I have seen similar exchanges many times on this social media where one party tries to exempt what is clearly a social media from his anti-social media agenda because he finds it personally more palatable. Usually he tries to exempt Reddit or HN but in this case it is Bluesky, which has the same features as Twitter ten years ago and is notorious for being always politically charged. It makes me think whatever criticisms he may have against social media are actually less about social media but about people he does not like being on social media. Like a driver complaining about all the other cars causing a congestion while he sits in his own car.

But fear not, because our blessed regulators (totally different from their tyrannical censors) will save us from the Big Bad. Never mind when Nepal blocked WhatsApp in its social media ban or when UK came after Wikipedia!
by wtfHN26 | 2026-02-09 20:03:13+00:00
OpenAI has to do this if it wants to get big advertisers.

Ads need to be clearly marked as per FTC.

> According to guidelines from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. and similar regulatory bodies worldwide, online advertisements—including sponsored content, native advertising, and influencer posts—must be readily identifiable as paid content to prevent deceiving consumers.
by csours | 2026-02-09 20:03:14+00:00
Actual use: autonomous vehicles know to be "more careful" here, perhaps to do "Jersey left" turns - right turn and U-Turn or other risk compensation strategies.

I'd love to see them incorporate visual detection of vehicle crash debris as well. There are two intersections in my area that consistently have crash debris like broken window glass and broken plastic parts and license plates from crashes. I know they are dangerous, but I don't know if autonomous vehicles also know that they are dangerous.
"Building a Self-Sustaining Trading and Learning Ecosystem"
by MIKAxGSF | 2026-02-09 20:03:19+00:00
I built a platform where traders (mentors) bring their own students, users get verified real-time trading signals, feedback loops, and rewards. All money stays at the official broker — the platform just orchestrates learning, reputation, and automated incentives. Designed as a plug-and-play ecosystem that grows without me micromanaging.

Problem
Most trading/learning platforms fail because:
Users can’t verify mentor credibility
Feedback loops are weak → users disengage
Platforms hold funds → regulatory & trust issues
Solution: GSF Ecosystem
Mentors bring their own students → network effect
Transparent, non-financial mentor scoring → detect overclaim or toxic behavior
Event & feedback rewards → users get real incentives
Auto VIP / reward systems → engagement loop
No platform funds touched → all broker-compliant
Why It’s Interesting
Self-sustaining — system runs even if admin is “away”
Gamified but real — rewards, badges, VIP tiers
Transparent & low risk — revenue from small % fee, no custody of user funds
Plug-and-play — mentors, events, AI-driven engagement, birthday & feedback system

User → Mentor Room → Broker Deposit → Mentor Commission
│
▼
GSF Ecosystem
Rewards / Badges / VIP / Analytics

Call to Action / Discussion Prompt
Curious: How would you design a system where users bring their own mentors, yet the platform can detect toxic behavior and sustain engagement without touching user funds?
by fragmede | 2026-02-09 20:03:36+00:00
How do I transfer 3 years of memories over to Claude? Users really like the personalization they've gotten with ChatGPT. It knows about my pets and their names. I gotta teach all of that stuff to Claude or whomever again? sigh. I'll just stick with ChatGPT.

...is what OpenAI is betting on.
by dietr1ch | 2026-02-09 20:03:37+00:00
I don't think it's marginal since accelerating the car needs way more energy than fighting loses due to wind and tyre resistance.

Also, a bad driver mis-breaking trips the cars behind into breaking too, which multiplies the energy waste and may also cause accidents through fatigue.

Mare experienced drivers will give you more leeway to avoid tapping the brakes with you, or simply go for a staring overtake.
by daxuak | 2026-02-09 20:03:38+00:00
I think you missed my point. I do not deny the existence nor validity of the immigration questions, or whether certain implemented policy is questionable or not. What I tried to argue was that the Trump administration uses those issues, and people's discontent over them, to engineer a mass power consolidation that may do so much harm in the long run (or, probably, within merely a few years) that even if in the process it helps some Americans to gain jobs or whatever it still by no means worth the price yet to be paid.

Did border crossing drop? Yes. Is economy gotta improve? It is complicated like usual. Do these worth to give up a working democracy , i.e. the ability to replace a leader other than waiting for their natural death or committing a revolution? Absolutely not. Democracy's merit isn't that it's the most fair system to pick candidates, but the power to replace leadership without bloodshed and do so within people's lifetime.

What could be the better answer to immigration policy is out of the scope, therefore I would echo the other comment that says this is not about immigration. If this wasn't clear before, it should've been after the two Minneapolis murders and the arrest of Don Lemon, etc etc.
Show HN: GithubDownfall – Track GitHub incidents and downtime
by danscan | 2026-02-09 20:05:01+00:00
Hey HN,

I made a Github incident tracker in the style of Github's contribution graph.

We're all feeling Github's increasing issues lately, so I quickly threw this together today. It includes incidents since Jan 2025, trends, and current status.

Hosted on Fly, made with Astro, bun, bun:sqlite.
by wrs | 2026-02-09 20:05:25+00:00
Very important distinction here you’re missing: they don’t know things, they generate plausible things. The better the training, the more those are similar, but they never converge to identity. It’s like if you asked me to explain the S3 API, and I’m not allowed to say “I don’t know”, I’m going to get pretty close, but you won’t know what I got wrong until you read the docs.

The ability for LLMs to search out the real docs on something and digest them is the fix for this, but don’t start thinking you (and the LLM) don’t need the real docs anymore.

That said, it’s always been a human engineer superpower to know just enough about everything to know what you need to look up, and LLMs are already pretty darn good at that, which I think is your real point.
by stackskipton | 2026-02-09 20:05:30+00:00
So basically you played "Well Ackwually" card when you knew that path is not available to 99.9% of immigrants.

You can presume when you read the article and realize he was working in blue collar trade so your experience does not apply.

EDIT: And they would likely transition to Green Cards the second that their work visas expired.
by ragall | 2026-02-09 20:05:32+00:00
> Now you could say a piece of software completely written by a coding agent is just another abstraction

You're almost there. The current code-generating LLMs will be a dead end because it takes more time to thoroughly review a piece of code than to generate it, especially because LLM code is needlessly verbose.

The solution is to abandon general-purpose languages and start encapsulating the abstraction behind a DSL, which is orders of magnitude more restricted and thus simpler than a general-purpose language, making it much more amenable to be controlled through an LLM. SaaS companies should go from API-first to DSL-first, in many cases more than one DSL: e.g. a blog-hosting company would have one DSL for the page layouts, one for controlling edits and publishing, one for asset manipulation pipelines, one for controlling the CDN, etc... Sort of IaC, you define a desired outcome, and the engine behind takes care of actuating it.
by pllbnk | 2026-02-09 20:05:39+00:00
I have seen this written many times and can't shake off this feeling myself; I feel more productive using LLMs but I am not sure I really am. I even feel quite overloaded right now with all the ideas that I could do. In the past I also had many ideas but they were quickly set aside understanding that there's not enough time for everything. Now, it usually starts with prompting and I get into a rabbit hole. In the end, it feels like a lot of words have been exchanged but the results are nowhere to be found.
by wtfHN26 | 2026-02-09 20:05:45+00:00
This is working a lot like Meta/Facebook where they have got immense data about your interests.

Google Search OTOH has been using broad matched queries and is deciding which keywords to show your Ads.

I heard from many people that they don't like this approach of Google Search Ads now.
As they are blowing up more money for useless keywords they didn't want to target.
The only option they have is to add negative keywords - that mostly happens after the money is spent on junk keywords.
by netbioserror | 2026-02-09 20:05:52+00:00
Colossally awful take. Corruption is an intractable problem in human history. Power is a magnet for the worst people, and every system we invent can be exploited in innumerable ways. The only variable is how long the people of any individual society can remain free and prosperous before their decline. Temporary recoveries have only happened by lopping off massive chunks of empire, implementing extreme monetary reforms, and/or a switch to full autocracy. Every other outcome is terminal decline.
by sobjornstad | 2026-02-09 20:06:11+00:00
I second this. GitHub used to be a fantastic product. Now it barely even works. Even basic functionality like the timeline updating when I push commits is unreliable. The other day I opened a PR diff (not even a particularly large one) and it took fully 15 seconds after the page visually finished loading -- on a $2,000 dev machine -- before any UI elements became clickable. This happened repeatedly.

It is fairly stunning to me that we've come to accept this level of non-functional software as normal.
by colechristensen | 2026-02-09 20:06:31+00:00
You can't have truly representative government if the people voting don't understand or care that they're not being represented particularly well.

It is apparently not much of a risk to your seat if you don't represent the interests of your people because the people have become tribal and it is only their tribe they vote for with very little effective criticism of the leaders in their tribe. (it's not that complaints are nonexistent, they just don't result in anything)
by lanstin | 2026-02-09 20:06:36+00:00
Things that claude code/vibe coding is great at:

1. Allowing non-developers to provide very detailed specs for the tools they want or experiences they are imagining

2. Allowing developers to write code using frameworks/languages they only know a bit of and don't like; e.g. I use it to write D3 visualizations or PNG extracts from datastores all the time, without having to learn PNG API or modern javascript frameworks. I just have to know enough to look at the console.log / backtrace and figure out where the fix can be.

3. Analysing large code bases for specific questions (not as accurate on "give me an overall summary" type questions - that one weird thing next to 19 normal things doesn't stick in its craw as much as for a cranky human programmer.

It does seem to benefit cranking thru a list of smallish features/fixes rapidly, but even 4.5 or 4.6 seem to get stuck in weird dead ends rarely enough that I'm not expecting it, but often enough to be super annoying.

I've been playing around with Gas Town swarming a large scale Java migration project, and its been N declarations of victory and still mvn test isn't even compiling. (mvn build is ok, and the pom is updated to the new stack, so it's not nothing). (These are like 50/50 app code/test code repos).
by areoform | 2026-02-09 20:06:41+00:00
> this decision is more defensive

That is prioritizing internal politics than the realities of their product. The Discord userbase is young. And it serves a variety of use cases / the same account can be used to access open source communities, coordinate video game time with friends, interact professionally, and have a supercharged group chat for close IRL friends.

In other words, Discord is the app where maladjusted early 20-something leaked classified data to impress his teenage friends. https://www.washingtonpost.com/discord-leaks/

Any decision that isn't along the Apple's hard privacy stance lines, "we'll protect user privacy" is prioritizing the discomfort of that decision over the user base / use case.
by _virtu | 2026-02-09 20:06:45+00:00
In my spare time https://bookclub.cloud.

It’s a tool that leverages your drm free ebooks to help manage your book clubs. The epub file offers more rich info such as:

- word counts per reading

- chapter selection

- the ability to highlight sections and share

- ai summarization and spoiler free discussion about the contents of a given reading

I use it for my own book club right now. I doubt I’ll be able to monetize the app due to the need for drm free epubs which is a pretty high barrier for entry to most non-technical users.

My long term plans would be to have an agent help readers learn hand in hand while reading. I’d like to have the agent facilitate deeper analysis by prompting the users and clubs with questions that encourage more critical analysis of each section. I’ve been building all the infrastructure for running the club so that’s the next more interesting step I haven’t explored yet.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-09 20:06:47+00:00
Funny how I want to say bad things about a car I'll never afford.

Anyway, whether it's a Ferrari or other, I'm always disappointed by touchscreen in cars.

And as I said it before, it always seems and afterthought and just put there because someone forgot about it.

I'm guess I'm getting old but when I'm driving I usually look at the road and couldn't car less about a nice touchscreen.
by elevation | 2026-02-09 20:07:01+00:00
Compete with facebook in an area you can actually win. Don't try to be all of a mobile messenger, news feed, telephony platform, marketplace, forum, async messaging... just do one of those things well for a group of users (potentially around a focus.)

Piggy back off of an existing community that has already built trust -- for instance, build a forum for a local activity that often attracts 10+ years of participation and involves equipment. Your board will become the best place for users (who already trust one another) to swap used gear, discuss local venue closures, etc. Adopt moderation metrics that sustain your community (don't let bullies and spammers spoil everyone's experience.)

In 10 years, you can completely replace larger platforms as the community of choice.
by jancsika | 2026-02-09 20:07:10+00:00
Patagonia stopped doing custom logos on those pieces a few years back:

https://www.businessinsider.com/patagonia-no-longer-adding-c...

I'm not sure if that put a dent in the finance bros' style. Finance bros can of course still buy a bunch of the vests and have a third party do the custom logo for them.