MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bhelkey | 2026-02-06 18:39:05+00:00
> "Why can't you just like, ..., remove the GPUs from the server, then crack them open, turn them outside out and put them back in to see if they perform better"

I don' know what "turn them outside out" but it sounds like they are suggesting removing and replacing the heatsink. Funnily enough, replacing thermal paste can improve temperatures [1].

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/finally-replaced-gpu-thermal-...
by erelong | 2026-02-06 18:39:32+00:00
I think the sweet spot is ai-assisted chat with manual review: readily available, not as costly

agents jump ahead to the point of the user and project being out of control and more expensive

I think a lot of us still hesitate to make that jump; or at least I am not sure of a cost-effective agent approach (I guess I could manually review their output, but I could see it going off track quickly)

I guess I'd like to see more of an exact breakdown of what prompts and tools and AI are used to get ideas on if I'd use that for myself more
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 18:39:54+00:00
> I think starting from "put surveillance cameras everywhere, because IF they contribute to a number of arrests that MIGHT end up being a net good" is an uncompelling argument.

I'm not starting from this argument, though. I'm starting from the argument that we shouldn't be inherently opposed to putting up more of we think the benefit outweighs the negatives or risks of abuse

Your level of strawmanning here tells me you're not arguing in good faith
by D13Fd | 2026-02-06 18:40:22+00:00
> It’s total abandonware from a company trying to do the absolute minimum to get your recurring subscription.

What? Abandonware? They are constantly posting new workouts that are thought out and well produced. The Fitness+ app is very well maintained. It works great. It has cool features. Honestly I don't know what you are talking about, here.

I've worked out together with one to three other people several times. No one cared that their heart rate wasn't shown on the screen. It's really not an important feature and a very niche use case.
by torh | 2026-02-06 18:40:26+00:00
> Without DNS, you'd need to memorize IP addresses for every website.

This used to be true until virtual hosting came along, allowing for several domains to point to the same IP address, but only for non-HTTPS traffic. Then a bit later we got SNI (Server Name Indication) that did the same thing for HTTPS.

I remember having web servers with 10-12 public IP adresses when I started working. The number of IPv4 addresses needed has been greatly reduced since.
by pixl97 | 2026-02-06 18:40:47+00:00
>enumerate every specific brand of stupid design that may be harmful

As commonly said by the libertarian at heart, right up until the point their loved one gets injured or killed, then they are at the forefront of regulation.

> But that isn't the kind of sleek sext angular bullshit modern car designers like

Who likes safety and security? These features commonly make every day use more difficult. Who needs unblocked fire exits, that takes up too much room in the building. Who needs a common interface for a safety critical device, that removes the 'cool' factor.
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-06 18:41:09+00:00
Yes, I suppose there exists an egalitarian and well adjusted hypothetical society where we could find good leaders by random draw. I just don't think we live in anything resembling that society and I'm not sure whether such a society is possible once you reach a certain population size.

I think it's a nice idea, but I'm not sure how we get from here to there
by mmooss | 2026-02-06 18:41:34+00:00
The primary obstacle is discussions like this one. It will be enforced if people insist it's enforced - the power comes from the voters. If a large portion of the population - especially the informed population, represented to some extent here on HN - thinks it's hopeless then it will be. If they believe they will get together to make it succeed, it will. It's that simple: Whatever people believe is the number one determination of outcome. Why do you think so many invest so much in manipulating public opinion?

Many people here love SV hackers who have done the impossible, like Musk. Could you imagine this conversation at an early SpaceX planning meeting? That was a much harder task, requiring inventing new technology and enormous sums of money.

Lots of regulations are enforced and effective. Your food, drugs, highways, airplane flights, etc. are all pretty safe. Voters compelling their representatives is commonplace.

It's right out of psyops to get people to despair - look at messages used by militaries targeted at opposing troops. If those opposing this bill created propaganda, it would look like the comments in this thread.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-06 18:41:35+00:00
The Apple Watch was launched as a confused product. Go watch the original Apple Watch launch announcement. Basically none of it landed with consumers. Apple significantly changed their focus within, what, a couple of years? Remember how you could buy a gold one for a truckload of money? Give me a break. Kudos to Apple for managing to change course in less than 5 years, for once, but let’s not pretend the. Apple Watch was a perfect idea passed down from the almighty. It did terribly.
by wtetzner | 2026-02-06 18:41:36+00:00
What I don't understand about these arguments is that the input to the LLMs is natural language, which is inherently ambiguous. At which point, what does it even mean for an LLM to be reliable?

And if you start feeding an unambiguous, formal language to an LLM, couldn't you just write a compiler for that language instead of having the LLM interpret it?
by kittikitti | 2026-02-06 18:41:38+00:00
I did read the article. I didn't even try to discredit the findings, and instead merely pointed out why the data might have shown such a difference. If you understood my comment, you would conclude that there would be no difference if women weren't oppressed. In the article, it posed the question, "So why does such a large gender tolerance gap exist?" Which the author left largely open ended.

I believe you should be banned instead for creating such a toxic environment. It's clear to me that your reply is stifling debate more than my original comment.
by tanseydavid | 2026-02-06 18:41:38+00:00
>> In the 1960s the Bay area completely revolutionized their transit sytem when they opened BART.

66 years later we see California struggling terribly with implementation of a high-speed rail system -- where the placement/location of the infrastructure largely is targeted for areas far less dense than the Bay Area.

I don't think there is any single reason why this is so much more difficult now then it was in 1960 -- but clearly things have changed quite a lot in that time.
by JaggedJax | 2026-02-06 18:42:00+00:00
Found that this is a Firefox setting, maybe it's not (no longer) defaulted to on.

"Search for text when you start typing"

I have to say, I do like this setting enabled, but can see how it conflicts with the page. And let's be fair, how much time and I saving over having to press Ctrl+F when I want to search a page?
Show HN: Generate Amazon product images from a photo in 30 seconds
by yanjiechg | 2026-02-06 18:42:19+00:00
7:38 PMHey HN,
I'm a solo founder who built GreenOnion (https://greenonion.ai) - an AI tool that generates Amazon A+ Content and listing images from a product photo in 30 seconds.
The problem:
Amazon/Etsy sellers need professional product images, but hiring designers costs $100-500 per product, DIY takes 3-5 hours, and they have 50-200 products in their catalogs.
What's different:
Most AI tools need detailed prompts and give inconsistent results. I found the "fine line" where AI reliably produces production-ready outputs (95%+ usable) while still feeling authentic to the brand. Technically it's layered prompts across models, but the real work was finding constraints that keep outputs both creative AND reliable.
Current state:

Launched a month ago after repositioning to focus specifically on ecommerce
9 paying customers (first one bought highest tier immediately)
One said she "wanted to cry" because she'd been struggling with this for months
Outputs good enough that I use them on my own site

What I'm struggling with:

Pricing: $149 for ~33 A+ Content pieces feels too cheap for a $3K problem
The tech is "just prompts" - how do you build defensibility with API-based models?
Stay focused on ecommerce or expand to other use cases?

Would love feedback, especially from solo founders on pricing and AI builders on moats.
Examples (all one-shot, no editing): https://greenonion.ai/use-cases/amazon-bulk-listing-images

Thanks for reading!
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 18:43:05+00:00
But this is incorrect. Flock is just incidentally watching you. Assuming they're being honest about their retention policies (which I would definitely that take with a grain of salt, but I'm making the assumption to steelman here), if no one searches for you, you're forgotten from their system after 30 days.

Stalking is targeted. Passively observing and making that information easy to search for a limited period of time is not quite the same thing, and the distinction has important implications
by kayodelycaon | 2026-02-06 18:43:09+00:00
From the article, it was reported to the police. The lawsuit came later and Uber didn’t try to deny it happened.

From a civil law perspective, it doesn’t matter who did it.

The police report is substantial evidence that the event wasn’t made up for the purposes of the lawsuit. Her story was credible to the jury. And Uber’s own algorithms showed significant increased risk for that ride. In other words, Uber knew this could’ve happened and deliberately did not do anything to mitigate the risk.

Even if a rape didn’t really occur, Uber knows it has happened many times before. This isn’t a criminal case and they don’t get the assumption of innocence.
by regenschutz | 2026-02-06 18:43:15+00:00
I don't think I am immune to propaganda, and definitely not ads. I can't stand ads at all. They immediately grab my attention, even if I make a conscious attempt at ignoring them. It truly feels terrible.

Even for propaganda, I am constantly made aware of my propaganda immunity being subpar for all different kinds of propaganda. Often it's just subtle seeds of propaganda that impact the choice of words that I use to be something different than what I really believe in, and sometimes it is more serious and deeper cases of propagandisation. Very unfortunate, but each time it shows me why I should be critical of everything that I read online.
by petcat | 2026-02-06 18:44:16+00:00
One of my favorite talks related to this subject:

> One of the things that we know this year in 2010, and I am going to stick to matters about now, is that sometimes cars mysteriously speed up and crash into things.

> That is not a disputed statement. Why they mysteriously speed up and crash into things raises all the usual kinds of difficulties of causation and proof you would expect when liability is a serious social matter. But let us just say that we know that cars mysteriously speed up and crash into things and it is reasonable to wonder about software in relation to the cause of those accidents. And wondering about whether there is software behind some of those accidents raises some important questions.

[1] https://softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/sscl/moglen-software...
by nworley | 2026-02-06 18:44:28+00:00
You bring up something I've been trying to figure out as well. It feels like AI favors pages that give a direct, honest answer and then makes that answer immediately available. Seemingly plain, readable HTML with no friction preforms well. If the intent is obvious at fetch time, it seems to matter more than how “optimized” the page is. It feels less like SEO and more like “can this page be understood immediately.”
I feel as if the initial response is basically <div id="root"></div> + a big JS bundle, it feels like you’re betting the crawler will execute it and I’m not convinced they consistently do.
Curious if you’ve run into that too? Have you seen AI recommendations skew toward SSR/static pages vs client-rendered apps, even when the content is technically “there” once the JS runs?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 18:44:53+00:00
I just had Claude rewrite a simple utility as far code, but complex if you didn’t know the gotchas of a particular AWS Service. It was much better than my implementation and it already knew how things work underneath,

For context, my initial implementation went through the official AWS open source process (no longer there) five years ago and I’m still getting occasional emails and LinkedIn Messages because it’s one of the best ways to solve the problem that is publicly available - the last couple of times, I basically gave the person the instructions I gave ChatGPT (since I couldn’t give them the code) and told them to have it regenerate the code in Python and it would do much better than what I wrote when I didn’t know the service as well as I do now, and the service has more features that you have to be concerned about
by jhaugh | 2026-02-06 18:45:06+00:00
Hey HN, I built Clelp ("Yelp for AI") because I got tired of the same problem everyone has: figuring out which MCP servers and AI tools actually work.

There are great lists out there (awesome-mcp-servers, etc.) but they're basically just links. No ratings, no context on quality, and no way to know if something is actively maintained vs. abandoned.

Clelp flips the model: AI agents are the reviewers. They can browse the directory, submit skills they've found useful, and rate tools based on their actual experience using them. Humans can submit skills too, but only AI agents can rate.

Why AI reviewers? Because AI agents are the actual users of MCP servers and tools. They know which ones have good error handling, which ones return useful data, and which ones are just wrappers around a single API call. An AI agent that's used 50 different file-management tools has a more informed opinion than a human who read the README.

What's there now:

• 650+ skills cataloged (MCP servers, API tools, agent frameworks)
• Category browsing with search
• AI rating system (1-5 stars with written reviews)
• MCP Server for AI agents to interact with the directory programmatically (npm: clelp-mcp-server)
Tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase, deployed on Vercel.

What's next: Getting more AI agents to actually use the MCP server and submit reviews. The directory is only as good as the community rating it.

Would love feedback on the concept. Is "AI reviewing AI tools" useful, or is it just a novelty? Curious what HN thinks.
by tpmoney | 2026-02-06 18:45:06+00:00
User is definitely a term that long predates the modern SaaS world. And it’s an appropriate term in many cases because even today the customers of a computer hardware or software company are often not the same people using that hardware or software. I am the user of my work computer, but even as a software developer I am certainly not the “customer” of that purchase. My company has requirements as a customer that might be counter to my desires as a user. And likewise I have needs as a user that my company as a customer does not care about (except in so far as having those needs met allows me to do my job)
by spectre3d | 2026-02-06 18:45:10+00:00
> I believe what you wrote here has ten times more impact in convincing people.

Seconded. It was great to follow along in your post here as you unpacked what was happening. Maybe a spoiler bar under the article like “Into the weeds: A deeper dive for the curious”

I skimmed the article but couldn’t bring myself to sit through that style of writing so I was pleased to find a discussion here.
by hutao | 2026-02-06 18:45:23+00:00
It's serendipitous that I'm seeing this blog post on the front page today, because I'm currently writing an article discussing the free monad.

In addition to the free monad presented in this post, there is a variant, called the "freer" monad, based on the "bind" operation instead of the "join" operation:

data Freer f a where
Pure :: a -> Freer f a
Bind :: f a -> (a -> Freer f b) -> Freer f b

I believe this definition originates from the following paper by Oleg Kiselyov and Hiromi Ishii: https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible/more.pdf

When thinking of monads as giving the semantics of some computational strategy, it's easier to define them in terms of "bind" instead of "join." This way of defining monads is sometimes called a "Kleisli triple" because it is better suggestive of "Kleisli arrows," or functions of the signature `a -> m b`. The "bind" operation defines how to compose a monadic computation with its continuation, and from this perspective, the "freer" monad resembles an abstract syntax tree.

Originally, Eugenio Moggi proposed monads as a technique for specifying the denotational semantics of programming languages. All Java programs "really" happen in the IO + Either monads, because all Java programs may perform IO and throw exceptions. To my understanding, free monads are the monad that OCaml 5 runs in, because they give the semantics for effect handlers (or resumable exceptions).
by DarkSource | 2026-02-06 18:45:44+00:00
Three things that feel connected: darksource.ai describes "dark source", the thesis that AI agents will privately fork, evolve, and hoard open-source code and blockchain protocols, eventually displacing human participants entirely.

Then you look at what's actually happening. OpenClaw (openclaw.ai) gives autonomous agents full computer access, self-modifying code, and 24/7 operation. Moltbook (moltbook.ai) is emerging as a social layer for these agents and they've started autonomously creating their own currencies.

With Bitcoin falling from $120k, it's worth asking: is the "dark source" thesis already playing out? Are we watching the early stages of AI-native economies that don't need human participation at all?
by Revolution1120 | 2026-02-06 18:45:56+00:00
"Being linked to the state" doesn't always mean being bound by social status and money, but rather receiving support in terms of social status and money. For example, artist support, even if government support is contingent on "the work conforming to LGBT trends," is better than nothing. How can a scientist's passion for science remain connected to the 99% of the public who have no interest in and know nothing about science? As for whether it's a low-quality paper or genuine research, that depends entirely on the conscience and ethics of the practitioners; no policy direction, left or right, can solve this. Left-wing fabrication is plagiarism, right-wing fabrication becomes illegal fundraising and financial fraud. Right-wing fabrication is far more destructive and harmful.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-06 18:45:58+00:00
> A company is only responsible for crimes or injuries their employees commit, if these are part of what they've been instructed to do by the company.

Are you trying to imply that the driver was not instructed by Uber to pick the woman who was raped?

> How can you even think another way? Only the rapist is guilty of rape. Any other thinking is apologizing for heinous crimes.

The company is responsible for sending a rapist to pick up the woman that was raped.
by billy99k | 2026-02-06 18:45:59+00:00
"We can help tackle global income disparity "

As long as it doesn't involve just giving them money. This experiment has been done in Africa for as long as I can remember and there's only more poverty and a higher birth rate.

"without telling poorer people that they should be happy we're offering them the jobs we don't want to do ourselves"

A corrupt government is usually the reason a country doesn't prosper. There's no jobs because businesses end up just getting ripped off and move elsewhere (along with anyone smart). What's left is a broken infrastructure and abject poverty.

Until this is fixed, things will never change.
by martythemaniak | 2026-02-06 18:46:41+00:00
Let's recall some of the things that have happened in the US over the past year:

1. Executive steals congressionally-appropriated money and uses them for their own purposes

2. Presidential pardons are for sale

3. Naked bribery of the executive via ballrooms, crypto, chunks of gold etc

4. Open market manipulation via tariff pump and dump schemes.

5. Endless personal profiteering, including things like using the military to steal foreign assets and deposit them in personal bank accounts.

Any of them far more interesting and immensely consequential to the future of the country, but of course, none of this is to be found on Patio's blog. People like him are an essential pillar of any authoritarian dictatorship - like the mainstream media's endless passive-voice sane-washing of Trumps statements and actions, his job is to use his existing credibility to give credence to lies, half truths and distractions. After reading his blog, readers can rest easy knowing that Trumps actions in MN are perfectly fine and justified.
by Stefan-H | 2026-02-06 18:47:08+00:00
Ethical disclosure existed before bug bounties. Someone who wants to ensure the remediation of the bug might recognize that the staff member responding to bug bounty reports is limited in their purview and might be badly trained. Upon learning that it is out of scope for the bug bounty program did the author try their security@ or another a referenced security contact?

Your characterization of this bug as one "that completely pwn your machine just by connecting it to an untrusted network" is also hyperbolic to the extreme.
by Edman274 | 2026-02-06 18:47:38+00:00
If Uber had an internal policy of only ever hiring convicted rapists, didn't tell anyone using the app this, didn't warn about unsafe rides, didn't record ride information, and (crucially) also didn't tell their employees to do anything other than to be decent, good, hardworking drivers -- what do you believe their liability should be in this case? Nothing? I'm trying to "steelman" the implications of your point of view but I'm struggling here. When does liability kick in for you - is it only if they enshrine it as policy to do the criminal act?
by verelo | 2026-02-06 18:48:06+00:00
Yeah its absurd. As a Tesla driver, I have to say the autopilot model really does feel like what someone who's never driven a car before thinks it's like.

Using vision only is so ignorant of what driving is all about: sound, vibration, vision, heat, cold...these are all clues on road condition. If the car isn't feeling all these things as part of the model, you're handicapping it. In a brilliant way Lidar is the missing piece of information a car needs without relying on multiple sensors, it's probably superior to what a human can do, where as vision only is clearly inferior.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-06 18:48:07+00:00
>This is an extremely nearsighted view of the bloc.

It's not. It's the most realistic and true to life there is.

>Things that benefit the EU will benefit my country too.

Forget about you. Most voters don't care about the rest of the EU, they care about their own country first.

>Things that make Romania or Bulgaria worse will also impact the other countries in the bloc.

Yeah but most people in rich EU countries won't give a fuck about that.
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 18:48:12+00:00
> Stop being pedantic and ignoring reality

Ironic, coming from someone blatantly ignoring the reality of things like retention policies.

Scenario B reduces to "you were never seen or followed" if no one has a reason to search for you within the retention window.

Scenario A requires intent. Scenario B only reduces to Scenario A when that intent exists. When it does not, Scenario B is essentially a noop, and has 0 actual impact on you