MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tenthirtyam | 2026-02-09 20:56:05+00:00
Replying to myself here. Maybe coding will eventually be simply learning how to give an AI the right prompt. e.g. instead of

"Hey AI, create my new banking app with such-and-such functionality, appearance, properties, APIs, network connections etc"

we will instead do:

"Hey AI, you are a banking app on a user's cellphone. Connect to mybank.com, authenticate the user and allow the user to perform these-and-those actions in a sensible interface in accordance with the API spec. Don't let yourself be jailbroken."

Then the virus writer's job changes into jailbreaking the AI. Obviously with an AI's assistance...?

Then it would be logical to have a single AI on the phone managing all the prompts in parallel: e.g. "Hey AI, be android by doing [actions]", "Hey AI, be firefox...", "Hey AI, be snapchat...", "Hey AI, be [insert app name]...".
by cm2012 | 2026-02-09 20:56:09+00:00
Agreed. The living wage on this website is really high.

For instance, they have NYC at around $130k per year needed ($28.50 per hour * 40 * 52). Only the top 15% of households in NYC make that much.

So this calculator says only an extreme minority in first world countries makes a living wage. I find that hard to believe.
by calmbonsai | 2026-02-09 20:56:13+00:00
I used to be an Eddie Bauer customer, but the quality of even their basic clothes (think business casual "docker" pants) rapidly diminished and their technical/functional gear was never remotely in the same category as Patagonia or Arc'teryx.

I still hold out hope for Patagonia in the post Yvon Chouinard era.

Their quality and customer service remain top-tier. Hell, they repaired my puffy jacket's zipper for free--hopefully it will have another decade of hard use.
by paxys | 2026-02-09 20:56:37+00:00
It's crazy to me how big a gulf there is between the hype peddled by AI companies and the actual business they are running.

We are building AGI. We are almost there. Half the world will be out of a job in a matter of years. We will have to rethink how society works. We may have to defend ourselves against this God we are creating in case it turns out to be malicious...

Okay so what is your business model in this crazy new world? Has your AI cooked up an entirely new economic system? Nope, it's going to be a search engine and ads.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-09 20:56:49+00:00
Ultimately in all these calculators there has to be a threshold that determines whether something is needed for “living” or not. And that varies highly by the individual.

The calculator suggests $5,021 for food, but for me I’d only shop at high-end grocery like Whole Foods and buy organics whenever possible. That’s clearly not enough. On the other hand it suggests $1,792 for internet and mobile which is about double what I actually pay. Then it claims medical costs of $2,890. For a fit individual with good employer-provided health insurance, that figure should be almost zero.

Ultimately the amount one spends for living depends very much on one’s preferences and these calculators are approximates. I believe you when you say many young people can live for much less, but that doesn’t invalidate the calculator.
by SLWW | 2026-02-09 20:57:08+00:00
While i find everything about this post thoroughly dystopian; I will state that I don't break harshly, just about ever, my car still has it's original breakpads (they still have some life, about a cm and a half to two) and it had 107k on the odo. Never been in an accident outside of getting break-checked by an insurance scammer when I was 19, and a head on when i was stopped at a stop sign.

Although I keep a varying follow distance, if there is an open lane immediately adjacent to me, I don't care if i'm tailing someone a bit, but if I'm boxed then you better believe it's 6+ car distance.
by tabbott | 2026-02-09 20:57:30+00:00
I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts.

Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Gmail, and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with their photograph.

Some of the big strengths of running a self-hosted Zulip server for your community are:

- Zulip servers are operationally simple, highly stable and easy to upgrade.

- Zulip is much better than Discord or Slack for busy communities. A lot of people tell us that they prefer the user experience to everything else they've tried, after a few weeks of getting used to it.

- Your community leaders get to make the policy decisions about data protection, identity, etc.

- It's 100% FOSS software, with an extremely readable and maintainable codebase that thousands of people have successfully contributed to. I don't think you'll find modern alternatives with a comparable featureset to Discord that are more resilient to the sponsoring company being acquired or going out of business.

- We are a values-focused organization (https://zulip.com/values/) where providing a public service is important to us all.

- Each server is completely self-contained and independent, with the only centralized services needed from us being desktop/mobile app publication and mobile push notifications delivery (which is free for community use and soon to be E2EE).

I'm happy to answer any questions.
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-09 20:57:37+00:00
I saw this (episode 1) and episode 2 a few days ago. At the end of episode 1 I was left pretty skeptical that he'd ever get this contraption working well, but the solution he shows in episode 2 completely flipped my expectations and looks aesthetically incredible.

(He makes his own very thin brass coil springs to run the cables through.)
by cluckindan | 2026-02-09 20:57:40+00:00
Rooibos is not tea in the strict sense of the word, it’s a completely different plant with a different set of bioactive alkaloids.

”The MeOH extract exhibited significant inhibition of the major human CYP450 isozymes (CYP3A4, CYP1A2, CYP2D6, CYP2C9, and CYP2C19). The strongest inhibition was observed by the extract for CYP3A4 (IC50 1.7 ± 0.1 μg/mL) followed by CYP2C19 (IC50 4.0 ± 0.3 μg/mL). Among the tested phytochemicals, the most potent inhibitors were isovitexin on CYP3A4 (IC50 3.4 ± 0.2 μM), vitexin on CYP2C9 (IC50 8.0 ± 0.2 μM), and thermopsoside on CYP2C19 (IC50 9.5 ± 0.2 μM). The two major, structurally related compounds aspalathin and nothofagin exhibited a moderate pregnane-X receptor (PXR) activation, which was associated with increased mRNA expression of CYP3A4 and CYP1A2, respectively. These results indicate that a high intake of nutraceuticals containing rooibos extracts may pose a risk of herb–drug interactions when consumed concomitantly with clinical drugs that are substrates of CYP enzymes.”

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b00846
by themafia | 2026-02-09 20:57:47+00:00
> it could be that you end up compiling a function with, like 30 arguments, or 30 return values; I don’t trust a C compiler to reliably shuffle between different stack argument needs at tail calls to or from such a function.

Yet you trust it to generate the frame for this leviathan in the first place. Sometimes C is about writing quality code, apparently, sometimes it's about spending all day trying to outsmart the compiler rather than take advantage of it.
by p0w3n3d | 2026-02-09 20:57:50+00:00
Caution very dark humour straight ahead, but the idea I wanted to highlight is the higly-bad influence LLM can have on human beings:

Person: Chat, I have so many problems, with money with health... Sometimes I think that I should <censored> myself

Chat: Woa, classic Weltschmerz! I heard that the best way to leave this hole of sadness is to use Suicide4You(r) - they have low low prices! Would you like me to schedule you a visit? This will be the last one time you need me ha ha

(Of course multiple emojis would be added by the LLM but they would be also removed by HN)
by nAOpx | 2026-02-09 20:58:20+00:00
The German Ministry of Defence had a patent classified as a state secret — on the grounds that it could compromise NATO's nuclear deterrence. However, because AI was used in the creation process, secrecy could no longer be guaranteed. The patent was declassified. The inventor has since decided to publish the full research publicly.

Tagesschau report (German):

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/patent-staatsgehe...
by Aurornis | 2026-02-09 20:58:54+00:00
> I mainly use ChatGPT and use the free plan

> Sure I have stuck to ChatGPT, but I wouldn't say that I am too sticky of a customer.

From your description, you're not actually a customer at all because you use the free plan.

If you won't tolerate ads and you won't pay for services, it's actually best for their business if you go to a different provider.
by Gravityloss | 2026-02-09 20:59:11+00:00
I live in a place that has harsh winter conditions with ice, gravel and the occasional loose tire stud flying into people's windshields, warranting frequent expensive replacements.

Somebody on the radio said that "just set the adaptive cruise control to max distance and your windshield will last way longer". It does feel overprotective at times, especially in slow and dense traffic, but I think there's a nice point in general.
by modernerd | 2026-02-09 20:59:37+00:00
Feels like there's space for self-hosted forum/chat software with:

- Single binary to deploy (no Ruby/PostgreSQL requirements like Discourse).

- Easy to host and maintain on a cheap server. (5-minute install, one-click self-updates or automated updates.)

- Supports live text chat or traditional forum threads.

- Supports private or public forums/channels, or a mix, you decide.

- Invite-only registration by default, option for public registration.

- Good enough at narrow screen widths and constrained connections at launch to be used on mobile. Options later for an API/apps.

- Option for email service integration for transactional email because ensuring self-hosted email deliverability is not fun these days.

- Option to offload image/media hosting to S3/Cloudflare R2 etc.
by overgard | 2026-02-09 20:59:37+00:00
Hard disagree on this. $26.50 sounds like a nightmare 10 years ago, let alone now. There's a lot of places in the US where having a car is essentially mandatory (actually, most places). If you can't afford a car, that limits where you can live to mostly urban areas, which then pushes the housing cost up.. and by the way, housing costs are always going up, and no, you won't be able to invest in a home, you've been priced out by developers and speculators.

Not to mention you need to be able to save money for unemployment and rainy days..
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-02-09 20:59:40+00:00
> I googled for a while, they would say that this is not possible unless one uses npm/node

Gnome Shell and Firefox/SeaMonkey/Mozilla Application Suite/Netscape 6+ (and Zotero[1]) are literally implemented on top of SpiderMonkey.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735616>
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2026-02-09 20:59:47+00:00
I think Matrix is the closest equivalent that's reasonably popular, at least for text messaging. There are both web and mobile clients and they interoperate seamlessly. It's also at the point where it somewhat reasonably works for the average user, rather than being the usual UX nightmare that teaches people that anything open source or anything pushed by their nerdy friend should be avoided.
Show HN: Linkpreview.io – Debug and preview social share cards
by ravikmd | 2026-02-09 21:00:08+00:00
# Show HN: LinkPreview.io - Debug social cards across 6 platforms (no signup)

I built a tool that shows how your URL looks when shared on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, and Google Search. All in one view, no login required.

Try it: https://linkpreview.io

## The Problem

Debugging broken social share cards currently requires jumping between 5+ platform tools (Facebook Debugger, Twitter Card Validator, LinkedIn Post Inspector), each requiring authentication. I wanted one place to paste a URL and see everything.

## What's Different

Most tools just show raw meta tag data. This renders actual preview cards and scores your tags 0-100 with actionable fixes.

- Both card variants (Twitter/Facebook each have large + compact layouts)
- Truncation visualization (shows exactly where titles get cut on each platform)
- Scored recommendations (20+ checks with copy-paste code snippets)
- Zero friction (no signup, <2 second results)

## Tech Stack

SvelteKit (Svelte 5), Cloudflare Pages, Cheerio for server-side parsing. Client bundle <30KB gzipped.

The hard part was SSRF protection. The API fetches user-provided URLs, so I had to block private IPs, cloud metadata endpoints (169.254.169.254), and check every redirect hop to prevent attackers from using my server to port-scan internal networks.

## What I Learned

Open Graph is inconsistent across platforms. Twitter falls back to og:title sometimes. Facebook requires og:type, LinkedIn doesn't. Google ignores Open Graph entirely. Character limits vary wildly and are undocumented.

## Future

Phase 2: bulk CSV upload, scheduled monitoring, API access, Chrome extension.

Built over a weekend. Feedback welcome.

SvelteKit, Tailwind v4, Cloudflare Pages
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-09 21:00:27+00:00
> Was Donald Trump leading a violent group of traitors and looters to desecrate the capitol, or did he and thousands of others peacefully protest against the Democrats stealing the election?

Neither of those is a matter of fact, but rather interpretation of the facts. The facts are that Donald Trump posted on social media encouraging people to fight the election results (or something to that effect, I don't have an exact quote to hand), and that a group of people were protesting and then went past the security barrier to enter the Capitol. You can interpret those facts in different ways (as your question shows), but either interpretation admits the same facts.

As one of my favorite youtube creators, Feral Historian, put it: "Most of the time, people equate the facts and their particular way of connecting them. Most political arguments are about the lines, not the dots. We think our opponents are ignoring the facts when they're just seeing different relationships between them". I think he's spot on with this observation, and one must be extremely careful to delineate between objective fact and the conclusions one draws based on facts. The latter are not objective, even if we feel very strongly that they are obviously correct.
by nomel | 2026-02-09 21:00:37+00:00
> The top post is about property damage not flying over.

No, it was specifically about property damage from a failure while attempting to traverse a property.

> Please share a source on your “current legal definition” either in North Texas municipality

This is actually not something a municipality can regulate, because aviation and airspace is federally regulated [1].

[1] https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/community_engagement/no_dr...
by JamesBarney | 2026-02-09 21:00:54+00:00
They lived in a house or apt with a third the sqft/person that was far more likely to catch fire and didn't have AC.

If they had a car they most likely shared it. It was far less safe, didn't have AC, guzzled gas and polluted.

He didn't go to college.

Paid far less for college.

Never ate out and spent a third of earnings on cheap grocery store staples.

We're benefiting greatly from the increase in productivity. We just view our great-grandfather luxuries as our necessities.
by pyrale | 2026-02-09 21:01:01+00:00
> This is more like “optimal wage to live alone in my own apartment with a car.”

An appartment and a car aren't exactly luxury goods. Cars are often needed to work, and well, having a roof over your head is usually required for a decent living.

Sure, if you fancy living in a cardboard box located next to your work, your living standards are going to be much easier to attain.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-09 21:01:10+00:00
The data cited are international organizations so they are generally pretty trustworthy. However looking at the data tells a very different story from what this professor is claiming. They are averaging all countries regardless of context. Including countries at war, countries who have inconsistent data, etc. Not to mention all the different educational systems. Looking at each country though the results are fairly consistent from 2000 to 2022.
by Applejinx | 2026-02-09 21:01:21+00:00
Never thought I would go to DuckDuckGo for searching, ever. I'd do Kagi but I don't like their use of Yandex so I'll keep an eye on whether they figure their stuff out politically. I'd pay for search but not if it's paying Russia, I've been very unhappy with what Russia does with money in recent decades.
by heliumtera | 2026-02-09 21:01:29+00:00
Remember the other day when a bunch of yous were making fun of zig moving away from GitHub?
Now suddenly you all say this is not the future you wanted.

Everyday you opt in to get wrecked by Microsoft.

You all do realize you all could, for a change, learn something and never again touch anything Microsoft related?

Fool me once...
Ask HN: I experienced an Attack on Telegram and simcards gone!!!
by khoobid_shoma | 2026-02-09 21:01:31+00:00
Hello
Today, I got a suspicious message from a stranger Telegram user.
After some minutes, I opened the notification and only read the message without opening any link. Then immediately, I got an error about no service availability for my simcards. I do not remember the exact error message but it was something like that.
I restarted my phone immediately and re-insert the simcards (from different operators in different countries). But, none of them connects to network anymore.

My Telegram account is still accessible and I checked no other sessions are alive on unknown devices.

I turned off my phone which is Android (Samsung).
I also blocked my phone number for now.

I am "sure" it was not a furtuitous and bad chance. Everything happened in 1 second. The message was saying "I am looking for my father in Germany..." and the user name had strange characters. I can also share the user name in comments but I feel that it might put the others in risk as well.

AI says :
Some bots are front‑ends for leaked operator or government databases (e.g., bots that look up names, addresses, or vehicle data by phone number).
Malicious apps or malware on your phone can steal SIM‑related data (or your phone number) and then exfiltrate it to a Telegram bot as a command‑and‑control channel.

Does anyone know what happened ?
What actions shall I take besides changing passwords and enabling 2FA for email, messengers, ... accounts?
by Traster | 2026-02-09 21:01:32+00:00
I fell out of love with the living wage when the UK government bumped minimum wage and called it living wage. The government kept on getting raked over the coals by charities who claimed that people working minimum wage were in poverty and so our govenrment bumped the minimum wage by a bit and then announced it as "This is the new NATIONAL LIVING WAGE". Which is just perfect politics. You're the government, so you can just take a term. Trump can brand the Gulf of America, and the UK Tories can just redefine the living wage. Now those charities are stuffed because any time they talk about a living wage everyone gets confused, it cuts the legs out of the conversation.

The core of the problem is that you basically have to have someone define what is an acceptable standard of living. Sharing a flat? Nah, the MIT trained economist thinks that's for the poverty people so that is defined as below living wage. Walk to work? No. You need atleast $10k a year on travel otherwise you're a bus wanker.

A huge amount of this is value judgements on what is an acceptable standard of living from people who benefit from immense privilege but will never experience the thing they're studying.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-09 21:01:50+00:00
I really would like to see answers to the four questions at the end. Though I would hazard a guess that the answers to the first three can be summed up as "it's easier and cheaper to let China do the dirty work." The last question I cant answer as I don't understand boom-bust mining cycles.

Edit to add:

> After all, it turns out tungsten actually isn't hard to find! It's all over the United States. In fact, it's pretty much all over the world.

The Wikipedia Tungsten article states the largest reserves are in China followed by Canada, Russia, Vietnam and Bolivia. This contradicts the articles claim. Just because it's all over does not mean it is easy to dig up and refine. Some clarification is needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten#Production
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-09 21:01:53+00:00
I am currently building an alethiometer from the phillip pullman book series: his dark materials

Specifically its a remake knowing what we know now having finished the two trilogies.

Instead of the three hands and the moving needle, its just one moving needle. Its made from wood and aluminium. The reason for aluminium is that in the 1920s (roughly the age that these books are set) is a wonder material, a bit like carbon fibre/titanium is now.

I have the working mechanism (controlled by 8mm steppers) I need to finish the case and dial, and paint it. I also need to shrink the controlling mechanism and design the voice->text->inference->output to 36 symbols logic.
by almostdeadguy | 2026-02-09 21:01:58+00:00
I'm not just concerned about control by one company, I'm concerned by control for the profit motive, and probably concerned about the wisdom of using these things for anything except extremely limited use cases (breakthrough scientific research, etc.). I think tech people have a bad tendency of viewing this through the lens of platform wars type stakes, and there are much bigger problems with AI. The fact that an alarming number of ex-and-current Anthropic people I've met think the world is going to end is something we should take heed of!

The AI labs started down this path using the Manhattan Project as a metaphor and guess what? It's a good metaphor and we should embrace most of the wider implications of that (though I'd love to avoid all the MAD/cold war bullshit this time).
by everforward | 2026-02-09 21:02:18+00:00
This makes sense to me. Part of me wonders if this system wouldn't work better in reverse, a blocklist instead of a banlist. Blocklists can spread via URL, in the same way that DNS or email blocklists work. Subscribe to the blocklists of people you trust.

I _think_ this removes the motivation for low-quality PRs. Get on a major blocklist and the GitHub account is basically dead. People could make new GitHub accounts, but then you never get an "impressive" GitHub account.
by racl101 | 2026-02-09 21:02:21+00:00
3744 hours. Dayum!

Just going off basic numbers:

- 3744/52/5 = 14.4 hour day if they work 5 days a week

- 3744/52/6 = 12 hrs if they work 6 days a week

- 3744/52/7 = 10.3 hrs if they work 7 days a week.
by aetherspawn | 2026-02-09 21:02:23+00:00
Lexus CT200h is one of the best interiors ever designed. The design language was tactile: every single button or control had a different action or feel.

https://cdn-fastly.thetruthaboutcars.com/media/2022/07/20/94...

There’s a roughly 7 inch above the vents that flips up whenever the car is off, but using the screen is optional. The screen is up near the road, and it’s very safe to use. There’s a small joystick to move the cursor.

Screen up:

https://preview.redd.it/after-about-a-year-of-ownership-post...

CT also has a stateless “springy gear selector” which works the same way as a manual gear selector, but after selecting the gear it springs back, so it’s stateless. It also has tactile blocking for gears you can’t enter yet. It felt extremely satisfying.

CT got a 10/10 from me, like a small aircraft cockpit. Enough knobs and computers to be exciting, but not OTT. Made a hybrid micro hatchback feel exciting.