MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by balamatom | 2026-02-23 10:42:54+00:00
To be fair, sobriety has the same property; so does feature-length landscape-oriented cinema; so does involvement in religious and political affairs.

Many things that people get up to ostensibly "of their own accord" have these four groups of outcomes, in different proportions. Makes you figure.

I'm of the opinion that the main problem has always been the increasing powerlessness of the individual in the face of mass social phenomena that camouflage as "your life now" but are instead someone's viral PR campaign. In Germany this stuff passed in 10ish years, in Russia it passed in 80ish; California still countin'
by jaimefjorge | 2026-02-23 10:43:48+00:00
For me Cursor is unbeatable in going from 0 to fixing an issue. Claude code is great but the cold start problem of getting all the context first sometimes is annoying. I find cursor is a good choice in combination with other tools.

My 2 cents: cursor could also reproduce bugs leveraging things like playwright and other tools. That closes the loop somewhat.
by szszrk | 2026-02-23 10:44:22+00:00
In Germany it's not really true. AFAIK you pay those taxes only if you are registered follower of 3 main religions. You literally can opt out, they are a counter example.

Poland is the one I experience it. Church is funded in multiple ways. At least 3 billion PLN a year from concordat deal from 90's. Priests have pensions and annuities. Churches pay no taxes on (heating) fuels. Schools pay for Religious Education classes, very often run by priests or nuns. Uniformed services almost always pay for cleric's services or clerics fully in their services.

Of course church still gathers funds on their own, sometimes using dark patterns.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-23 10:44:27+00:00
> Another example of how private interests are offloading the risk and costs to taxpayers while privatizing all the rewards.

Another example of government leaders choosing to not spend taxpayer money to pay for the expensive trials to get medicine approved for use.

Another example of voters voting for government leaders that campaign on privatizing the rewards in exchange for the promise of lower taxes.
by mahrain | 2026-02-23 10:45:02+00:00
This explains a lot, American microwaves have these settings for different types of food etc, it seems most people throw something in and just 'nuke it'. European microwave ovens on the other hand, have a setting for different wattages (90W up to 720W 'Max' in my case), which, combined with instructions in the recipe or on the box, provide the right setting for this particular food.
by GlacierFox | 2026-02-23 10:46:14+00:00
Video editors using video models can replace entire studio production departments. Writer-directors who know how to direct are essentially now Hollywood studios in their own right. I know a lot about this in particular because I've been making films as a hobby for 15+ years and work with a lot of industry professionals.

This is soul destroying. Literally made my day worse thinking about this.
by re-thc | 2026-02-23 10:48:56+00:00
> I can replace an entire team just by myself. I'm literally shipping an entire week of features in half a day. I'm reviewing the code and planning the architecture - I am not dialing this in.

So you can review so much code so fast? Are you sure?

In many companies code reviews (properly) are the bottleneck. This was the case without AI. Now you're saying AI is giving you 10x more code reviews and you're even faster.

What am I missing?

p.s. I agree AI can make you and things faster just not suddenly god mode.
by munksbeer | 2026-02-23 10:48:57+00:00
I'm not an economist but you're just echoing a trivially shallow meme.

Research:

- Where does most money come from?
- What are these gazillion AI agents creating if no-one has any money to buy anything?
- What is this "wealth" of this small group of ultra-rich individuals? Who is buying the shares of their companies to make them wealthy? Who is buying their products?

The economy must be self balancing. There is no other way. If demand collapses, no-one gets rich.
by consp | 2026-02-23 10:49:22+00:00
I always assumed it to be a honeypot for ebay purchasers due to the "copy popular ebay search results and then lure them to a link" methodology of "users".

Pretty much the same with all AI slop sites (e.g. the first 10 search results) only usually they only care about serving adds instead of serving malware or scams.
by amai | 2026-02-23 10:49:46+00:00
„It's not magic just yet, models aren't purely performing context-based retrieval. They're leveraging their pre-training knowledge extensively. Always be careful when running retrieval experiments on items that might be well represented in the training data (read: the entire public Internet). Results for never before seen data might be much less impressive.“

This is a really important message regarding the power of LLMs.
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-23 10:49:56+00:00
IoT, internet privacy, spyware, etc. have been repeatedly in the news ad nauseam since about 2000. If they don't know by now where have they been for the past quarter century?

The first and most obvious question an owner should ask "why does a vacuum cleaner need to talk with the internet?" It's hard to have sympathy for people who go out of their way to act dumb.
by echelon | 2026-02-23 10:49:59+00:00
Given that 10x engineers cost in the millions and that movies cost in the hundreds of millions - this is okay!

Edit: HN rate limit won't let me reply, so here -

I'm saying that hiring ten senior engineer costs millions. (Not a single 10xer - that's such a debated thing anyway, Fabrice Bellard or not.)

AI companies will make bank when they've hooked us all on the tools and raise prices.

Companies would likely rather pay $500k/yr to Anthropic and $750k/yr to engineers than $2M/yr to an uneven team of humans with HR, taxes, and other expenses, attrition, etc.

Anthropic is going to make bank.
by munksbeer | 2026-02-23 10:51:45+00:00
I don't pretend to know how all of this will unfold but at the very least your argument has more depth and nuance than the average response to all this which is - only a few people will control everything and the rest will scrape around in the dust, if we're allowed to live.

Just no depth of thought to those sort of replies at all, on a site where curiosity and deeper thinking is encouraged.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-23 10:52:38+00:00
I mean if people are reverse engineering entire n64 games into its original code that can target the original SGI compilers, then it is possible to reverse this other code. I don't think there is a drive to do so though. Thats where I hope some future LLM could help lower that barrier to people already well experienced in reversing.

>And that's also why conversion in either direction almost always carries loss potential, simply put, not each quirk of the legacy format has been carried over to the "new" XML storage format, and certainly not into OpenOffice XML.

Can modern Office reliably open the old formats? If so they must have implemented the parsers correctly no?
by rob74 | 2026-02-23 10:52:51+00:00
> she is able to stroll through immigration without stopping because her P-Comm is dealing with the ID checks as she walks.

We're getting closer to digital ID. But outside of a few experiments, there's no international consensus. However, every modern passport has an NFC chip which can be read by most airports. You still need to hold your passport on the reader, but it's usually quicker than queuing for a human.

As far as immigration to the US is concerned (and I guess it is, because I haven't heard of the term "immigration" applied to business travelers or tourists anywhere else in the world), expecting to be able to "stroll through" it sounds increasingly naive after reports of various unsuspecting travelers being detained for weeks and then deported (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton...), and the current to-and-fro around TSA PreCheck and Global Entry (https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/22/politics/shutdonw-tsa-pre...).
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-23 10:53:05+00:00
How many 10x engineers paid millions are out there? How can you stay in business as an AI company by only charging those 10x engineers 200/month?

Edit: Fabrice Bellard is a 10x engineers because he invents cool and innovative tools that didn't exist, not because he can bang out code 10x faster. AI can't replace fabrice Ballard.
by account42 | 2026-02-23 10:53:28+00:00
Beware that not just any Blu-ray drive will work with UHD Blu-ray discs. There's both hardware limitations (100GB aka BDXL) and firmware restrictions (incl. copy protection) for with the drive needs support. Some drives with the hardware to support BDXL but without official UHD support can be patched to support UHD but check the MakeMKV forums before you buy such a drive.

I haven't come across any Vinegar syndrome releases yet (that I'm aware of) but lots of Shout! Factory or Arrow Video ones. From the Films that I'm interested in more have UHD releases now than not.
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-23 10:53:28+00:00
I have been buying older servers by the truckloads. Older being a year or so. It will be enough to host whatever outside AI that we need for the coming 15-20 years. And the all were great deals, will have them paid for within a month per server. I have my own cage full with empty racks bought from a bankrupt company in AMS.
by geocar | 2026-02-23 10:54:23+00:00
> you're putting yourself as a gate keeper to the means of production.

Liar.

I am only the gatekeeper of my own efforts.

If you had any clue how to code yourself you I could not prevent you from making your own code.

> If your focus is on making sure you have control over your work for things you think are moral, then the modern copyright system is in place for you to keep that control.

> My focus is [on preventing people from exercising moral judgement].

Good for you, and thank you for being a shining reminder of the reason I don't contribute to open source.
by graemep | 2026-02-23 10:54:57+00:00
I think that is a reasonable take with regard to Copernicus - and however you look at it he made a huge advance on any previous model.

Geocentric models may look silly with the benefit of hindsight, but Galileo’s claim that the Copernican model was proven was entirely unwarranted at the time. The evidence did not exist until much later.
by Conan_Kudo | 2026-02-23 10:55:27+00:00
It's pretty much rpm-ostree. Nobody bothered to make those workflows performant, so if you need to apply updates separately, it's going to suck. The OSTree download can be fast if you have a fast connection to the Fedora server, but it's not mirrored and there's no mirror network support (so no geographically close downloads). To be fair, bootc has this problem too because container tooling in general can't support mirror networks currently.
by pbmonster | 2026-02-23 10:55:57+00:00
If you want to compete with LIDAR, you need high resolution 4D (range, velocity, azimuth, and height) RADAR. Those are usually phased arrays with expensive phase sensitive electronics, and behind that a chip that can do a lot of Fourier transforms very quickly.

The cheap RADAR devices you're talking about usually only output range and velocity, sometimes for a handful of rather large azimuth slices. That doesn't compete with LIDAR at all.
by ggm | 2026-02-23 10:56:11+00:00
In 1985, a microwave was affordable and portable, if you had to do a rapid flit. If a house was set up for gas, then the stove (which typically was left in a house) was gas.

If you were illegally occupying a house scheduled to be demolished, with only electricity and a judges order to quit over your head, what would you do? Go and buy a full oven or cook in a microwave?
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 10:57:58+00:00
> For example the washing machine. You dont need real time information because you know how long it takes since you've done it 1000s of times and it beeps

I'm not sure this is true anymore, first you usually do different programs depending on what you put into it, and modern washing machines also automatically adjust the washing time depending on how much you throw into it, at least our ~2 year old one does, I'm sure others do too.

I basically never know how long time it will take, sometimes it takes 1.5 hours and sometimes 3 hours. Our washing machine is further away from where we can hear the melody, so having a notification appear on the phone when it's done is actually quite handy, at least for our situation.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-23 10:58:01+00:00
In the schools here kids don't even get the marked up test results to take home any more. So they get some mark but they have no idea what they did wrong and I can't help them without making my own tests and seeing how they are doing.

It's maddening how all this digitization is just a way to collapse the complexity of running an education system into a black box that can not be inspected.

At least the school shooting angle isn't a real problem here.
by albertnahas | 2026-02-23 10:58:30+00:00
TeamClaude lets you spawn an autonomous team of Claude agents inside any repository, with built-in sprint structure and observability. It adds a live dashboard, real-time task tracking, retrospectives, cost controls, and Git integration on top of Claude Code.

Run `npx teamclaude init`, start a `/sprint`, and manage multi-agent development with visibility and control.
by oohbkkb | 2026-02-23 10:58:38+00:00
10x AI speed up only happens when you stop reading the code (or start skimming it, etc). This is pretty obvious to anyone that uses the tools and many vibe coding proponents have said as much.

Sacrificing quality for quantity makes these tools much less impressive. I say this as I tab over to my bug ridden memory hog CC tmux tab.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-23 10:58:42+00:00
The numbers mentioned by Ed Zitron in his podcast Better Offline recently suggested that a $200/mo Claude subscription allows you to spend $2300 - $2700 worth of Anthropic tokens. That's pretty bad, but better than I expected.

I don't see it being unreasonable that models and infrastructure could improve enough to bridge the cost gap within five to ten years. It's just that the AI companies already spend so much money that it might not matter.
by sebastianmestre | 2026-02-23 10:59:21+00:00
> I would expect something more rigorous from verified code.

I think you just want the illusion of safety :p

A big advantage of verified code is that it enables you to write the sketchy and dangerous-looking code BECAUSE it's proven correct

In fact, skipping as many safety checks as possible is highly desirable. For performance, yes, but also because it's less code to maintain.

Our tools already do this to some extent. E.g. compilers that remove your bounds or type checks in the generated code when it can prove it's not needed.
by imtringued | 2026-02-23 10:59:36+00:00
Your autonomy scale is pretty arbitrary and encodes assumptions about the underlying technology and environments the vehicle is supposed to implement and operate in.

The SAE autonomy scale is about dividing responsibility between the driver and the assistance system. The lowest revel represents full responsibility on the driver and the highest level represents full responsibility on the system.

If there is a geofenced transportation system like the Vegas loop and the cars can drive without a human driver, then that is a level 5 system. By the way, geofencing is not an "SAE level 5" requirement. Geofencing is a tool to make it easier to reach requirements by reducing the scope of what full autonomy represents.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 11:00:10+00:00
> You can set an alarm on your phone

Not all washing machines have static wash times, some (like ours) adjust the time based on what you actually put into it. Not to mention there are like 5-6 different programs we use, who has time to remember kind of how long time each program takes? And it doesn't display how long it'll take until it measured the load, which takes 2-3 minutes.

So instead; chuck in the clothes and cleaning product, put the program, go do other stuff and await for Home Assistant to tell us when it's done. Over-engineered? Nah, just comfortable modern living.
by BrenBarn | 2026-02-23 11:00:53+00:00
What you describe is still a problem with the institutions, because it is ultimately the institutions that provide the incentives (in the form of jobs). You're right that they're using bad metrics, but it is the institutions who are making those bad decisions based on the bad metrics.

There are lots of better things, like people making hiring and firing decisions based on their evaluation of the content of papers they have actually read, instead of just a number. If someone is publishing so many papers that a hiring committee can't even read a meaningful fraction of them, that should be a red flag in itself, rather than a green one.
by manishmshiva | 2026-02-23 11:02:11+00:00
Yes, there are thousands of to-do apps, but nothing that lets me create a simple checklist and share it with my team (without ads, login and other distractions). So I created one myself to do just one thing - create a list of items (max 10 items) and share it with someone to say "Hey, these are your priorities for today". Check it out and let the roasts begin!
by silver_silver | 2026-02-23 11:02:17+00:00
The video models aren’t that good yet but for coding the utility is clear, yes. To be fair Darren Aronofsky also overestimates their quality.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but generating video is also much more resource intensive than equivalently productive text-only model use. It seems the industry could save itself a lot of hassle and infamy by simply avoiding artistic fields.
by Mordisquitos | 2026-02-23 11:02:20+00:00
> the equivalent of a $600 fine for somebody making 60k / year

I don't know about you, but on that income I would certainly not brush off such a fine as a "cost of doing business". Would it cause me financial trouble, or would it force me to sacrifice other expenses? Absolutely not. But would I feel frustrated at having to pay it, feel stupid for my mistake, and do my best to avoid it in the future? Absolutely yes.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 11:02:44+00:00
> At 11.30 CET it resolved for me on DIGI ES, but as a sibling comment pointed out, there's no soccer game on at the moment, so that's probably why.

Yeah, but if it's matching with the La Liga games, then it's just the typical "pirate-streams-using-cloudflare" block that kicks in, very different from the title which is "Spain's La Liga has blocked access to freedom.gov", which makes it seem like that website in particular is targeted.

If instead it's just about the general Cloudflare block we "enjoy" for match days, then this is way less interesting, it's just another collateral victim in the overly broad censorship.
by kkfx | 2026-02-23 11:02:53+00:00
That's because you haven't seen IT in action outside of your job yet, I'm talking about its true potential. It's not about the terminal or Emacs (the 2D shell), it's about the paradigm.

If you teach free software, you're teaching people how to know, not just how to follow the tracks someone else laid down. You're teaching them how to tell if a news is fake or not, how to use a feed reader to follow various sources instead of relying on whatever aggregator is popular at the moment, and how to communicate from their own home without depending on third parties, and so on. You're creating a population that understands the meaning of digital ownership/property and knows how to manage it, so they aren't slaves to the tech giants and instead have a hunger for knowledge. In other words, you're putting the gnoseological tools of the present into the hands of the masses.

With the GAFAM model, which is basically just mainframes made worse and expanded, you're creating dependency instead. You're creating slaves, not citizens; people who just comment under articles provided by some PR hack, who don't know how to start a thread on their own topic or write their own piece, people who don't have a domain name as their home address IRL, and so on. People who own nothing and, as such, not Citizens, but subjects of the few who do own everything.
by hulitu | 2026-02-23 11:03:53+00:00
> "The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents".

And what is wrong with it ? It is working as intended. Keep in mind that these are the next voters. And they take all their knowledge from those tablets and laptops. Win-win.
Reading random books might make some of them use their brains (i.e. think). This is dangerous: they might vote with the "wrong" candidate.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 11:05:41+00:00
> I don't see why units need pathfinding anyway.

I'm sorry but huh? It's a RTS game, aren't moving units around on the map kind of a fundamental part of the genre and this game?

> Realistically soldiers should head in the right compass direction and hope for the best

If you implement unit movements in a RTS like this, they'll get stuck half the time you ask them to move anywhere, unless you want micromanagement of unit movement to be 90% of the game, which I don't think anyone would find fun.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 11:06:10+00:00
What you say is true, but good microwave ovens have fine-enough power control to avoid any such problems caused by milk and also the problems caused by exploding eggs or exploding meat (which happens when you cook raw meat, instead of just reheating already cooked meat).

The great advantage of microwave ovens is that even if the first time when you cook something that you have not cooked before, you must experiment carefully to find the optimum time and power level for a given amount of food ingredients, once you have determined good values you can use them forever with perfect reproducibility and the food will be good every time and there will be no incidents with food exploding or overflowing in the oven.
Show HN: NanoMaker AI - my personal workflow combining Nano Banana, Sora2, Veo3
by mr_windfrog | 2026-02-23 11:06:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I built NanoMaker AI as a personal project because I wanted to work only with the top AI models, but couldn't find a platform that combined them.

For my creative workflow, I use:

Nano Banana for generating images

Sora2 Veo 3.1 for turning images into videos

Suno for generating music

Individually, these tools are excellent, but moving assets between them was tedious and disjointed. No single platform offered the flexibility to use these top-tier models in a unified way.

So I decided to build my own dashboard to integrate them. It's still rough around the edges, mostly for personal experimentation, but it lets me quickly produce content by combining high-quality AI images, videos, and music in one workflow.

You can try it here: https://nanomaker.im

I'd love feedback from anyone interested in multi-AI pipelines or creative automation.
by tolerance | 2026-02-23 11:06:53+00:00
I think that the difference may be whether the comment portrays the person as the cat or the mouse, or an ally to either.

For instance: the recent thread on student protests in Iran which last I checked (before the discussion propelled the actual submission off of the front page) was teeming with tacit appeals for foreign intervention, plausibly by the most vocal critics of the most likely interventionists.

Maybe not the best example for you. But I think it’s a matter of context. A comment is censurable on HN according to how it appears in relation to its more dominate and/or more well-received siblings.

It also may help to consider submissions here as belonging to something like a decentralized subreddits; drawing crowds all familiar with an approved narratives to convene around, for or against respectively. The trick may be to strategically posit your offensive remarks where they’re least likely to be received as such.