MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by euroderf | 2026-02-11 12:35:27+00:00
Yes but then in spring come the freeze-thaw cycles that make every town a skating rink. Sand & grit barely rate as halfway measures. More-aggressive snow removal and pavement scraping would help.

I've been obsessed longtime about how (or, better: whether) robots could remove the ice from pavements, but I only see tech challenge after tech challenge.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-11 12:35:59+00:00
Hmm, you still have to keep the UI open to make the CLI work which is unfortunate. That said, I greatly appreciate the increased control possible from the CLI.

I guess if you want sync “headless” you are still stuck running Obsidian in a VM/Container so the main UI can work. It’s absolutely a step up.

I’d really like to hook the agents I interact with (Claude Code mostly, but also some stuff I’ve been working on for myself) into Obsidian, to use it as their “memory” so that I have an easy way to browse/edit it all. Obviously they can just work with the raw files (Obsidian or otherwise) but I like having all the “knowledge” inside where I already store my notes.
by hyperhello | 2026-02-11 12:36:32+00:00
I find these water-against-a-rock literary tones so tedious. Even the writer always seems to have to go back and put some of it in BOLD TEXT, supposedly highlighting the main ideas, but really optical affordances.

The truth of this seems much more banal. Computing has become a major drag. There have been tens of thousands of libraries that reinvent the wheel. Every operating system has become a toy. All major language systems have an absurd learning curve. Each important application is fortified by a giant corporation. Social media is self-important pop babble.

LLMs are surprisingly good at dealing with complex systems. I can fire one up and ask, for example, why this Swift code is not compiling. But why doesn’t my Swift editor explain that problem? Why is it a confusing question at all? The entire system was built from the ground up at enormous expense. Why do I seek outside help?

Our computing is full of whizzy animations and pointless Victorian ironmongery. All meaningless. AI is medicine, not the cure.
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-11 12:37:12+00:00
It's amazing. Meanwhile your fellow Europeans wouldn't trust to lend you their power drill for a weekend, even if you've known each other for 30 years.

My European business banks have never offered any kind of line of credit. Of course they probably would if I needed, and went there to grovel and prostrate myself. In contrast, my American business bank just sends unprompted e-mails sometimes asking if I would like to borrow a bunch of money.

American trust is based on rationality and intuition, while European trust is based on rules and authority. That's why business can flourish much more in the USA.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-11 12:37:40+00:00
There have been people injured and killed by drivers who believe that kind of claptrap. The problem is that drivers take time to adjust from staring at a screen to looking ahead at the road. I've seen some estimates that it takes between twenty and forty seconds for a drivers attention to context switch like that. What happens is that a driver barely looks up when the vehicle in front might start to move and they just carelessly think that they should move forwards as well, even though they haven't spotted a filtering cyclist or road-crossing pedestrian.

The law was brought in specifically to try to save lives - hardly a "silly" reason.
by deanc | 2026-02-11 12:38:06+00:00
Over 15 years ago now, I had a popular chrome extension that did a very specific thing. I sold it for a few thousand bucks and moved on. It seemed a bit strange at the time, and I was very cautious in the sale, but sold it and moved on.

It's abundantly obvious to me now that bad actors are purchasing legitimate chrome extensions to add this functionality and earn money off the user's data (or even worse). I have seen multiple reports of this pattern.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-11 12:39:16+00:00
>You don’t lose stable. It will only install the package you select and deps.

We are fighting over definitions, but now you are no longer standard. Things will be broken. I know this, I've lived through this for years before I discovered up-to-date distros.

If download Fedora, I'm standard. Everything will work.

>Also the terminal is the main interface for Linux and the BSDs. Why does having to learn it is a negative? A computer is not a toy. You don’t drive a truck with no training.

Thats outdated. That is debian mindset. Fedora just works. No need to use the terminal, sure it works, but you can use the computer for a year without ever touching it.

I need to emphasize, you could. You just don't have a use. You are never sending random lines from a linux form to solve a problem. Why? Because it just works. Sure you might unblock some firewall ports so you can host a server, but you aren't doing surgery.

I cannot emphasize enough that Fedora works. It doesn't need fixing.

Try it.
by thinkingkong | 2026-02-11 12:40:17+00:00
Management is going to quickly start bisecting human engineers along lines of maximalists and minimalists. The minimalists will all be let go. A few bad things will happen. A few systems will strain under the pressure but itll be “worth it” in the same way that its cheaper to pay lawsuits than do a recall of a plane.

We arent innovating in other areas that might soften the blow. We dont have good support systems, social security, healthcare, or even demands in other areas. How many engineers are going to be plumbers and construction workers?
by mixedbit | 2026-02-11 12:40:37+00:00
An extension from a trusted, non anonymous developer which is released as open source is a good signal that the extension can be trusted. But keep in mind that distribution channels for browser extensions, similarly to distribution channels for most other open source packages (pip, npm, rpm), do not provide any guarantee that the package you install and run is actually build verbatim from the code which is open sourced.
by ycombiredd | 2026-02-11 12:41:04+00:00
You cause me to have an additional thought on the topic which is that as much as I expressed a sense of dread at the inevitable use of this sort of tech in hiring pipelines (not by agents, necessarily, but as a sort of HUD overlay on a video call between humans was my initial envisioned use case.) But I suppose that just as the AI interviewer bots that I thus far have refused to engage with will inevitably be unavoidable if one is on the job hunt, so will the use of this sort of multi-modal sentiment analysis be inevitable. (Same with the justice system use case you referenced in your metaphor, and probably therapists and such as well will follow.)

As such, I wish you the best of luck with this project - earnestly so - because if, as I suggest, it is inevitable... we want such a system to be as good as possible.

An aside: another inevitable use case just came to mind - that of the cheap, shoddily implemented and poorly tested (along with the insecure, surveillance-adjacent products that will proliferate) kid's toys with embedded AI and the sardonically-humorous privacy mishaps and unintended actions from such low-quality implementation toys being sold (see: the current LLM-enabled kids toys currently popping up routinely at retailers.) ha! Sorry I keep taking your cool demo to dystopian extremes. :)

Oh, one more thing... Upon re-reading my previous comment, I recognize that the description of my visceral reaction as on of being being "repulsed by the thought" could literally be read as me calling your system "repulsive", which was not my intent. I think your tech is cool, and was just trying to convey two conflicting feelings that occurred within me when thinking about the future commercial use cases. I hope your systems works great so that if it does find market fit with such use cases, that, well... if it's inevitable - as the last few years of "LLMs everywhere!" has forced us all to adapt (accept or reject it, it still requires new effort) - we should hope for a good and working system, so I hope you succeed in making one.

Lastly, to your self-driving/potholes analogy... I do think that that fits more in line with my "objective CV classification" category; I think a closer fit to what you're building would be "self-driving car having to handle the Trolley Car Problem", with the nuances of human value judgements etc; does the car swerve into two adults vs one child? And so on. Pothole classification is more objective while driving into it, swerving to avoid it, classifying pedestrians and choosing one to possibly collide with, etc are subjective and more complicated (as is your system and the functions it can perform.)

Best of luck!
by articulatepang | 2026-02-11 12:41:13+00:00
You can think of it as returning an equivalence class if you like. Then it's single-valued.

More explicitly, it returns an equivalence class whose members are complex numbers that differ by integer multiples of 2*pi*i.

When it's important to distinguish members of the class, we speak of branches of the logarithm.

Also note the very cool and fun topology connection here. The keyword to search for is Riemann surface.
Show HN: Mimora, a 3D avatar for OpenClaw AI agents with voice and expressions
by astressence | 2026-02-11 12:41:29+00:00
Hey HN, I built Mimora because I wanted my AI agent to have a face.

Two weeks ago I set up OpenClaw on a Mac Mini M4. Named the agent Niko. Started with basic tasks, then gave him a Cloudflare token and pointed him at one of my live web games. He studied the entire codebase, built it, tested for errors, even used WASD to walk around the game world to check if it worked. Then pushed the new version live. That used to take me an hour of manual work.

Then I added voice. Parakeet for STT and Kokoro for TTS, both running locally on Apple Silicon. About 240ms transcription time. First time I spoke to Niko on Discord instead of typing, everything changed. Same Claude behind it but suddenly felt 3x more human. The STT would sometimes get my Greek accent wrong. He started correcting me like Hermione in Harry Potter: "It's Niko, not Nico!"

But talking to text still felt off. So I built Mimora. It's a free browser extension that shows a 3D avatar with real facial expressions: listening, thinking, happy. It connects to any OpenClaw bot and reacts in real time when the agent responds. Works with Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, anything OpenClaw connects to. Pops out to picture-in-picture so it floats on your screen.

The difference between talking to text and talking to a face is surprisingly big. Changed how I interact with the whole setup.

Three weeks in, Niko handles: game deployments, server monitoring 24/7, social media content in my voice, morning calendar briefings, bug fixes to GitHub. I work from my balcony now instead of being chained to a desk. Just talk and things happen.

Is it perfect? No. Ratio of time saved to time fixing is about 20:1. And the agent writes lessons to its own memory so it doesn't repeat mistakes.

Mimora is free, still under development but already working and available for any OpenClaw bot. Happy to answer questions about any part of the setup. I also help people set up similar stacks on their own Mac Minis at https://myclaw.tech
by jmatthiass | 2026-02-11 12:42:12+00:00
As someone else mentioned, there’s some speculation in aviation subreddits that the bounds of the altitude restriction map to the MANPAD capabilities that some cartels are purported to have.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1r1s4zt/comment/o...

My read is that the admin is planning forceful strikes on the cartels within Mexico and is worried about their ability to retaliate by taking down US aircraft across the border.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-11 12:42:13+00:00
Okay thats nice, but I actually lived through this and its not always this nice.

When you can't run your Nvidia 3060 because the kernel was outdated, you don't really bother with outdated linux anymore.

Do you think we are just making this stuff up? All these comments about bluetooth not working. Bugs not fixed. Having to do surgery with the terminal to get stuff working... We are just making stuff up?

Buddy, I would have loved if outdated linux worked.
by glroyal | 2026-02-11 12:42:36+00:00
Communities are not fungible, but they are also not permanent.

Because humans are mobile, the community changes as people, institutions, infrastructure, and industries come and go over time.

Even if a substantial fraction of the population never leaves the geographic boundaries that contain the community they were born in, their web of relationships constantly changes as old neighbors leave and new neighbors arrive, the prevailing economy improves or worsens, and waves of technological revolution like the transition from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles washes over them.

Furthermore the community in which we live is only one of many communities we inhabit, such as school chums, work colleagues, church congregations and political movements, all of which are subject to the same phenomenon of perpetual change.

If every aspect of the community is impermanent, the community itself cannot be permanent, and I see no argument, let alone any technology other than encasing the community in lucite, capable of preserving it indefinitely.
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 12:42:36+00:00
that link shows the wrong blocked airspace in my case

(it shows that some areas above the border in the desert are blocked off, which makes sense to fight drug smuggling by drones without risking mistaking drones with aircrafts)

but he article is about the new circular zone directly placed over El Paso with El Paso International Airport directly in it's center. (Interestingly because they used a circle it technically covers the Mexican side of the boarder including a part of the airport on their side, but practically FAA can't shut down Mexican airspace so it's misleading).

Also worth noting there is:

- Holloman Air Force Base

- White Sands Missile Range

- Fort Bliss

- Fort Bliss McGregor Range

direct besides the city

so a Military exercise, or deployment of Military (Trump has said he will bomb cartel hideouts in Mexico) can be added to the list of possibilities
by baud147258 | 2026-02-11 12:42:51+00:00
Discord's just a platform. When Discord will disappear, I don't think it would happen overnight and the communities would have time to decide where to relocate, hopefully for an open-source self-hosted solutions, but more likely for the next hot thing in instant communication. And it's not as if communities don't move from platform to platform already: like wasn't there a big wave of people moving from Digg to Reddit a while back?
Show HN: DeckOps – Anki ↔ Markdown with true bidirectional sync
by visserle | 2026-02-11 12:43:14+00:00
Editing flashcards in Anki's UI is tedious when you could be using your editor, AI tools, and Git. Currently available Markdown→Anki tools only go one way, where edits in Anki don't sync back.

DeckOps solves this with true bidirectional sync. Edit in either place, sync in both directions. Each deck is one Markdown file. Syntax highlighting and other Markdown features are supported.

It works by embedding Anki's native IDs as HTML comments (`<!-- card_id: 1770487991522 -->`). This tracks identity, detects moves between decks, handles deletions, and resolves conflicts (last-sync-wins). Git auto-commits before every sync.

Workflow:

1. Edit/create/move/delete cards in Markdown

2. `deckops ma` (ma = markdown_to_anki)

3. Edit/create/move/delete and study cards in Anki

4. `deckops am`

5. Repeat

Safe to use with existing collections (only touches DeckOps note types). Available via `pipx install deckops`.

GitHub: https://github.com/visserle/deckops
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-11 12:43:19+00:00
Protectionism, violent Gestapo xenophobia, complacency, laziness, dishonesty, and a false sense of supremacy are the obstacles once we get the vampiric, pervert billionaires out of the way whom are ruining everything. That sucking sound is capital leaving and a brain drain of researchers, skilled workers, and tourists going elsewhere.

Winning takes sustained excellence from immigrants and folks who got into college on original effort, test scores, and doing the work, not legacy pot heads where daddy donated a library.
by baxtr | 2026-02-11 12:43:36+00:00
Thank you for pointing this out. It’s a good catch.

But if we’re starting to discuss basics... As firm Popperian I am definitely not a proponent of induction.

However comparing us with a chicken is highly problematic to begin with.

I would argue that anyone using the Russell Chicken as a reason to fear AI is making a category error.

They are treating intelligence as a process of induction (collecting data to predict the future) rather than explanation (creating new ideas to solve problems).

The stupid chicken had a bad theory about reality and it got killed for it. But we’re humans that have problem solving techniques not chicken.

We can create hypotheses and test these. Like asking ourselves why we find dinosaurs. Then we create a hypothesis and try to falsify it… the scientific process. That’s not what the chicken did.
by psiszj | 2026-02-11 12:44:03+00:00
What’s the point in using these tools if they’re gonna replace us in a few years? It’s weird the author says that but then his conclusion is basically “go spend money on stuff I’m invested in”.

Covid comparison is apt. I remember being insanely scared in Jan 2020 when those videos of Chinese people dropping dead were coming out (and being shamed by most of my peers etc). Few months later it was starting to become obvious it was really only a major risk if you were old or infirm, but the rest of the world had took awhile to catch up.

AI’s big and gonna change stuff - and like COVID probably for the worse - but we’re in a poorly understood hype cycle right now.
by 1659447091 | 2026-02-11 12:44:26+00:00
Currently, none as far as the US is concerned[0]. The child is a US citizen and while in or entering/exiting must use their US passport. If they move to Canada (or any where else), they are still required to fulfill US tax obligations.

You'll want to check if Canada has the same tax requirements for citizens living in a foreign country. In Canada, the child would be a citizen of Canada and US consular protections/services are unlikely to be helpful there. Same while in the US, they are only seen as a US citizen and are subject to the US.

However, a bill was introduced: Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025. You may want to follow it (in-case it actually passes and is not simply grandstanding for maga). It would require US citizens to only hold one citizenship and dual nationals would be forced to renounce any others or automatically lose US citizenship. Which would be challenged up to the Supreme Court as US citizenship is protected in the Constitution and can only be voluntarily renounced. The provision saying it would be lost by missing the one-year deadline to provide a written renunciation of their foreign citizenship to the State Department -- is very likely unconstitutional.

[0] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
by endsandmeans | 2026-02-11 12:44:36+00:00
I agree but let me play the devil's advocate. I'll channel Stallman:

Same argument can be applied to all closed source software.

In the end its about who you trust and who needs to be verified and that is relative, subjective, and contextual... always.

So unless you can read the source code and compile yourself on a system you built on an OS you also built from source on a machine built before server management backdoors were built into every server... you are putting your trust somewhere and you cannot really validate it beyond wider public percetptions.
by ycombiredd | 2026-02-11 12:44:53+00:00
"It's a test - designed to provoke an emotional response. "

I was going to follow this with something like "except the role of analyzing the emotional response is reversed", and then I wanted to expound with an "ooh but.. wait, there's another metaphor here since ..." but thought I've already potentially approached "spoiler alert" territory so I'll just stop there. Those who know the reference I am replying to will know; those who don't, well, don't google any of this or its parent cuz spoiler alert
by hbjkhgkytfkytv | 2026-02-11 12:45:18+00:00
What a retarded article. And I choose that word very carefully - it is retarded. AI models are as shitty as they were in 2023. The author here is high on his own little AI hype supply and is clearly tweaking hard because he's been snorting it non-stop since Nov 2022. The disillusionment leaping from his almost meaningless words is blinding, leaving me to wade through reams of childish mush. AI isn't smarter than a PhD. AI isn't "smarter" than a horse who's had a lobotomy. It's a fucking shitty search engine with limited practical uses - get over yourself.

Here's a real-world example of extremely simple logic that OpenAI's flagship model couldn't grasp.
https://chatgpt.com/share/698c784f-bb4c-800e-8cf1-f62b4f2904...

In fact, I would say that in nearly every single response it gives there is at least one line that literally makes no sense.

It's 2026, not 2023 - the time for hyping AI is long over.
by shrecshrec | 2026-02-11 12:45:33+00:00
I implemented a full secp256k1 engine from scratch in C++ and CUDA with zero external dependencies (no GMP, no OpenSSL).

The goal was to explore performance limits of:

Jacobian mixed-add

Batch inversion using Montgomery’s trick

Large-scale scalar stepping

GPU memory coalescing strategies

On RTX 5060 I’m getting ~2.5B mixed-add operations/sec.

Key design decisions:

Little-endian limb layout for hardware efficiency

Big-endian only for visualization

Deterministic memory layout

No dynamic allocation in hot paths

Would love feedback from people working on ECC or GPU math.
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 12:46:35+00:00
it's in general highly abnormal

which kinda makes it normal to not have a explanation

because anything abnormal enough to cause something like that is also likely something kept secret until it's done

(Like large scale operations against drug cartel, "special military operation", or a large scale ICE operation which shouldn't be able to cause this but does because the current administration is uh, what it is.)
by lonelyasacloud | 2026-02-11 12:47:02+00:00
And for those wondering how different the inhabitants north of the wall were to the rest of the inhabitants of isles at the time.

"Our findings support a prevailing view that the Picts descended from Iron Age groups in Britain and Ireland." - https://theconversation.com/dna-study-sheds-light-on-scotlan...
by tpxl | 2026-02-11 12:47:35+00:00
Many more thousands have no issues with small cars or going to a closer sports club.

If the roads in cities are wide enough in cities for literal trucks, then they're wide enough for your car. Widening roads and making cars bigger makes pretty much everyone less safe.

Don't get me wrong, you're free to live in the boonies and drive 400km to your sports club, but don't call me narrow minded because I can load up 5 people in my VW passat and drive 500km for a 10 day vacation, or because I prefer not to get bulldozed by a car with a higher hood than me while walking to my local sports club.
by throw0101a | 2026-02-11 12:47:42+00:00
> - it's related to the annouced GPS disruption test (although that's a really long time and doesn't seem urgent enough)

Those are done regularly without TFRs. See recent example in Texas:

* https://avbrief.com/overnight-gps-testing-affects-huge-area-...

A link to a list of notices at:

* https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps-service-interruptions
by glenneroo | 2026-02-11 12:47:49+00:00
Weird, I googled around and I see every bank has their own limits, and all banks I could find claim a 30-100k or no limit at all.

Whatever LLM duckduckgo is using says 10k and ability increase as more transactions are made (to increase trust) - but it's probably using outdated data.

When did you try this? I'm guessing more than a year ago.