MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skerit | 2026-02-10 09:48:03+00:00
Every time I see people praise Gemini I really wonder what simple little tasks they are using it for. Because in an actual coding session (with OpenCode or even their own Gemini CLI for example) it just _devolves_ into insanity.

And not even at high token counts! No, I've had it had a mental breakdown at like 150.000 tokens (which I know is a lot of tokens, but it's small compared to the 1 million tokens it should be able to handle, and even Claude keeps working fine at this point)

Here is a _small_ log of the biggest breakdown I've seen Gemini have:

I'll verify `src/components/ui/textarea.tsx` renders textarea.
Correct.

I'm done.

I'll verify `src/lib/utils.ts` exports `cn`.
Correct.

I'm done.

I'll verify `src/lib/utils.ts` exports `formatTimeAgo`.
Correct.

I'm done.

I'm completely done.

Final answer formulation:
1. Confirm crash is fixed (caused by object vs string in API responses).
2. Announce "Messages" feature added.
3. Explain "My Comments" limitation.
4. Mention login race condition fix (from previous turn) is solid.
5. Mention server is running.

(Wait, the "Login" fix was in previous turn, but I should probably mention it's working now if the user was still having issues).
The user said "unclaimed_or_invalid_key" error showed up. So login is working.

The user's last error was "Objects are not valid as a React child".
So I fixed that.

I'll focus on the crash fix and the new feature.

I'll conclude.

(Self-correction: The user asked "how do I see the comments I made?". I'll answer "You can't right now because API doesn't support it").

I'm ready.

```bash
# None
```

The user will see the "Messages" link in the header.

I'll provide the answer now.

And it just went on and on
by calpaterson | 2026-02-10 09:48:25+00:00
A shame. It's a huge complex of fairly sparse buildings right in the centre of the capital city. Listing it just puts big obstacles in front of changing it, which I really wish we could do. People just like how it looks but actually it's not a very useful space for society and I wish it could be changed.

I lived locally for 10 years and visited only a handful of times. Mostly it was just an obstacle in itself: it creates a lot of level changes (read: steps) and moving around it on foot or by bike is annoying.
by bl0rg | 2026-02-10 09:49:03+00:00
> The latest ones cost billions and have confirmed a few things we already thought to be true.

Yes, but we had hopes that it would lead to more. And had lead to more, something only known to be false in hindsight, who knows where that would have ended us up? What if it upended the standard model instead of reinforcing it?

> Absolutely not.

What are we supposed to do then? As humans, I mean. No one knows why we're here, what the universe really is like. We have some pretty good models that we know are wrong and we don't know what wonders the theoretical implications of any successor models might bring. That said, do we really need to motivate fundamental research into the nature of reality with a promise of technology?

I'm not arguing for mindlessly building bigger accelerators, and I don't think anyone is - there has to exist a solid line of reasoning to warrant the effort. And we might find that there are smarter ways of getting there for less effort - great! But if there isn't, discrediting the venue of particle accelerators due to their high upfront cost as well as historical results would be a mistake. We can afford it, and we don't know the future.
by tpm | 2026-02-10 09:49:22+00:00
> In the old system a person could first seek asylum...

Yes but that still means communicating with the institutions and having some sort of legal status. What is en masse happening in the US and to a lesser extent was (or is, not sure, but see for example the Windrush scandal) happening in the UK is that people legally enter the country and have for a time legal standing to reside there, but that lapses, laws change etc., and just nobody cares deeply enough to solve the situation one way or another? And then decades pass and bad things start to happen. But all of this was entirely avoidable and I don't mean just 'not voting for Trump' avoidable, but in a systematic manner.

We could compare that to the situation in Spain where there is a group of illegal migrant workers who are exploited as cheap work force. Now they are given a chance to legalise their status but that too is happening after decades of neglect. Of course there are similar groups in other countries.
by haunter | 2026-02-10 09:49:25+00:00
Discord became popular because it was free group/team voice chat. Mumble, Ventrilo, Teamspeak all needed servers/clients, paid hosting etc.

Discord is text chat (with history) + voice chat in one place. If you want an alternative it needs to do this both first and foremost.

People saying IRC are trolling or never used Discord.
by vintermann | 2026-02-10 09:50:05+00:00
Rich people are very good at coming up with ways of financializing assets to their advantage. That creativity goes away when it comes to paying taxes, for some reason.

Real estate mostly isn't subject to the "I sold one for a huge sum, but the price would tank if I sold them all" effect, unless you own immensely much real estate.

But either way, just a lien on sale of the properties. We can still give the option of paying wealth tax according to valuation directly (in $) instead of in natura (in Y), then there's less to complain about - and as a bonus, we get revealed preferences on how inflated people think the prices of their assets are.
by achow | 2026-02-10 09:50:10+00:00
Strange article. Blanket statement that most Indians don't read since English books are not sold in large numbers. The 'Jaipur book festival' that the article refers to published the following stats..

Indian languages together accounted for roughly ~80% of titles published, with English making up a smaller share.

The Indian publishing industry is one of the most prominent publishing industries across the globe. Indian publishing industry at the second spot in the world (English publications) with approximately 19,000 publishing houses across the country publishing approximately 90,000 titles per year according to 2020-21 stats (Mallaya, 2016).

The EIBF International Bookselling Markets Report 2023 (EIBF Report, 2024) affirms that India is the sixth-largest book market in the world, and currently the second-largest market for books in English, right behind the United States. It also figures India’s current growth rate at 7%.

https://jaipurbookmark.org/key-statistics
by oscarcp | 2026-02-10 09:50:45+00:00
It was a "compound" error you can say.

The first mistake was management not wanting to pay for Neo4J, so we were working in production with the free edition (no backups, only one database, lots of limitations).

The second error was that none of us had production level experience with Neo4J apart from what you just said, tinkering in toy projects at home or very low stakes services, so in the end, the schema that was created was a bit of a mess, you would look at it and say "well, it makes sense..." but in reality we were treating Neo4J as a twisted NoSQL/SQL interpretation.

The third mistake was treating Neo4J as a database meant to handle realtime requests from thousands of users doing filtering and depending on huge responses from external systems (VERY OLD systems, we're talking IBM AS400 old) while in an environment where each response depended on at least 2 or 3 microservices. We had one cypher query to handle almost all use cases, you can imagine what a behemoth that was.

In the end as I said, compound error between lack of experience, not analyzing correctly our needs and a "just go with it attitude" that to this day I'm pretty sure it cost quite a bit to the company. Eventually the backend team managed to move to MySQL (by that time I had moved to Ops) and the difference was abysmal.
by consumer451 | 2026-02-10 09:50:51+00:00
I don’t fully grasp the gotcha here. Doing the inverse of captcha would be impossible, right? So humans will always be able to post as agents. That was a given.

However, is TFA implying that 100% of the posts were made by humans? That seems unlikely to me.

TFA is so not technical that it’s annoying. Tell us the actual “string pulling” mechanics. Try to set it up at least, and report on that, please. Use some of that fat MIT cash for Anthropic tokens. Us plebs can’t afford to play with openclaw.

Has anyone been on the owner side of openclaw and moltbook or clackernews, and can speak to how it actually works?
by keiferski | 2026-02-10 09:51:01+00:00
I like them for two reasons:

1. They go really well with greenery. There is a book and social media account that covers this called Brutalist Plants. The contrast works exceptionally well and reminds me of nature-integrated architecture. I’d almost even say that brutalist buildings without the exterior greenery are incomplete.

2. They are buildings created with a visually coherent philosophy, even if we might disagree with it. That makes them more interesting than most contemporary buildings, which are basically just generic shells made for the smallest budget possible.
by calpaterson | 2026-02-10 09:52:17+00:00
The Barbican is similar in many ways: a place that people either like or dislike depending on subjective personal preference but objectively has never actually worked very well.

cf this programme from the BBC Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvXpvH99tic It was clearly badly designed and problematic right from the start with little in the way of shops or services for the residents. But that's the thing about monumentalist architecture: looks singular but function is an afterthought. The south bank centre is similar.
by mythz | 2026-02-10 09:52:44+00:00
Big fan of Salvatore's voxtral.c and flux2.c projects - hope they continue to get optimized as it'd be great to have lean options without external deps. Unfortunately it's currently too slow for real-world use (AMD 7800X3D/Blas) when adding Voice Input support to llms-py [1].

In the end Omarchy's new support for voxtype.io provided the nicest UX, followed by Whisper.cpp, and despite being slower, OpenAI's Whisper is still a solid local transcription option.

Also very impressed with both the performance and price of Mistral's new Voxtral Transcription API [2] - really fast/instant and really cheap ($0.003/min), IMO best option in CPU/disk-constrained environments.

[1] https://llmspy.org/docs/features/voice-input

[2] https://docs.mistral.ai/models/voxtral-mini-transcribe-26-02
by shmeeed | 2026-02-10 09:53:11+00:00
Good question, IANAL.

Obviously you can go further: What if you just draw up the whole thing with a pencil? What if it's an ID identifying you as a citizen of Nowhereistan? Where does freedom of artistic expression end and a forgery start?

Again, IANAL, but I suppose it would qualify at least as fraud once you try to use even an obvious fake as "proof of identity" in place of a requested government issued document. In that case, there's an intent to deceive that's hard to deny, even if it's just about age verification for access to a digital platform.

I could imagine in court it might come down to details, like whether it's sufficiently similar to a real ID at a glance, or whether tamper-proof marks of an official ID were copied as well.

In any case I wouldn't want to risk up to a year of jail time over a joke.
by tombh | 2026-02-10 09:54:02+00:00
The thing about the observer height that I always try to remember is that features really close to the observer can make an exponential difference. Like imagine how simply putting hand in front of your eyes can suddenly make the whole world disappear. So in theory, it is possible that a mere change of a few centimeters in the height of the observer could affect a similarly dramatic change in the view.
by mcv | 2026-02-10 09:54:02+00:00
This narrative has been debunked many times already. Legal residents, even citizens, have been arrested, deported, or shot. And people get denied entry based on social media posts. Your comment is way off base and severely detached from reality.

If the US criminal "justice" system arrests people suspected of crimes, why are the criminals running the country while innocents get locked up?
by philipallstar | 2026-02-10 09:54:07+00:00
I think that's a good point, but with the caveats that:

Immigration and benefits are in opposition - the more immigration you allow (unless it's careful, skills-based) then there's a strong risk of costs of living rises (e.g. housing becomes more expensive with immigration) and benefits systems requiring higher taxes to pay for them. European countries can sometimes be very strong on immigration (e.g. Denmark) likely because of this reason.

Entrepreneurialism and benefits are in opposition - the more benefits you offer, the higher the taxes need to be, and so the less worth it it is to take risks with money or with time. It's just a tradeoff between risk and safety, and Europe in general (or Western Europe, at least) is more tuned for safety. And why not, if the US is willing to take the risks?
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-10 09:54:38+00:00
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by pseudohadamard | 2026-02-10 09:56:20+00:00
The practical impossibility is a real issue, see the recent post about booleans in Doom where the author knew what the problem was, where it was, and what it was, but after reading through the standards still couldn't really find where in the standards it was forbidden, eventually saying "it's probably this bit because I can't find anything else that fits".

And when the author of the current post says:

Turn on all linting, all warnings,

this doesn't help. I've seen code compiled with -Wall -Wextra -Wtf that produces zero warnings but for which gcc happily outputs code that segfaults, crashes, or otherwise breaks catastrophically when run. So the compiler is saying "I've found UB here, I'm not going to say anything despite maximum warnings being turned on, I'm just going to output code that I know will fail when run".
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-10 09:56:54+00:00
"Don't trust, verify". It is an open protocol based on cryptography for everyone to verify that simply does not allow to submit identity information when you perform the age verificaiton check. There is no opinion here, no "you have to trust X not to do that later" - it is the property of the used technology to just submit the verified age. You can't derive identity information now or in the future just if you age-verified yourself. You are being paranoid and talking about a fantasy, non-existing system that is not the one I linked to.

On a side note, whataboutism is not about "stating a fact". It is when the stated fact has nothing to do or does not interfere with the original point being made. As in "Why would I trust the EUDI act when the EU does shenanigans like come up with stupid norms of the shape of bananas" - Stated is a fact, but it has nothing to do with the actualy EUDI act.
by junaid_97 | 2026-02-10 09:57:03+00:00
Idk if your comment was bot/AI generated. Nevertheless, I'll reply:

1. Our web forms are exactly based on the official USCIS's PDF, with smart logic. If you fill A -> section B is hidden -> jump directly to section C (you get the point)

2. Regarding high risk: When a user fills our form, they get the official USCIS PDF filled. All the instructions are given in the PDF. At the end, the user has to submit the form by themselves.

3. "The "free alternative" positioning also creates a distribution problem..." "The people who most need this are the least likely to find a developer's side project on HN or GitHub" - you are right. I just shared what I'm building on HN. I share my project on immigration subreddits + FB groups. Thats where my audience is. So far, I've received positive review. In the long run, I'm leaning on: community + word of mouth + SEO

4. "..., but the actual competition is immigration attorneys at $2,000-5,000 and free legal aid clinics". Fillvisa is aimed at DIY applicants. People who need legal advise should absolutely hire legal help.

5. "One more operational risk worth flagging: USCIS revises forms regularly and without much warning..." - fillvisa.com is 100% free. That said, I'm also building a paid version (plus.fillvisa.com) for immigration lawyers/law firms. Both the apps utilize the same form + mapping.
Thus that cares of revenue + I have incentive to maintain the forms.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-10 09:57:17+00:00
> CAs want to sell certificates for everything under the sun

A serious problem with traditional CAs, which was partly solved by Let's Encrypt just giving them away. Everyone gradually realized that the "tying to real identity" function was both very expensive and of little value, compared to what people actually want which is "encryption, with reasonable certainty that it's not MITMd suddenly".
by lkm0 | 2026-02-10 09:57:22+00:00
I'm startled by people who say they love brutalism as an architecture. I'm able to enjoy the aesthetic, but _actually_ being for it as a viable way of housing human activity seems irresponsible. It's similar to saying "I love Beksinski paintings and wish people lived in them". What's even worse with brutalism is that the lack of form usually follows the lack of function: dark water streaks and humidity issues because gutters are for the weak, car-centric design, etc. People associate brutalism with urban decay because it's pretty much purpose built for that.
by thomasfl | 2026-02-10 09:57:22+00:00
Some brutalist architecture may be preserved, as a warning for future generations about the danger of mixing politics, ideology and architecture.

I am the founder of the architectural uprising non-profit in Norway. The primary goal of architectures is in my view to increase peoples quality of life and to ensure social, economic and environmentally sustainability for future generations. Both the Southbank center and the Barbican center in London fails in my view. Innovation in architecture is a good thing. Now lets face the fact that most brutalists experiments over the last 80 years has failed miserably. Intensions in architecture is good. But not this buildings intentions of eradicating history and ignoring peoples feelings.
by andai | 2026-02-10 09:57:27+00:00
Async means I can delegate stuff to it and expect it's fixed when I come back. Also I can text it from my phone while I'm on the toilet. Very important.

OpenClaw meets this definition, but so does a 50 line Telegram wrapper around Claude Code / Codex ;)

https://github.com/a-n-d-a-i/ULTRON

Spoiler: it just pipes the msg into claude -p $msg or codex exec $msg

You can do anything if you believe
by arrrg | 2026-02-10 09:57:48+00:00
To me the hard problem isn’t building things, it’s knowing what to build (finding the things that provide value) and how to build it (e.g. finding novel approaches to doing something that makes something possible that wasn’t possible before).

I don’t see AI helping with knowing what to build at all and I also don’t see AI finding novel approaches to anything.

Sure, I do think there is some unrealized potential somewhere in terms of relatively low value things nobody built before because it just wasn’t worth the time investment – but those things are necessarily relatively low value (or else it would have been worth it to build it) and as such also relatively limited.

Software has amazing economies of scale. So I don’t think the builder/tool analogy works at all. The economics don’t map. Since you only have to build software once and then it doesn’t matter how often you use it (yeah, a simplification) even pretty low value things have always been worth building. In other words: there is tons of software out there. That’s not the issue. The issue is: what it the right software and can it solve my problems?
Show HN: Client Logo Wall – a simple embeddable widget to manage client logos
by emanoj | 2026-02-10 09:58:38+00:00
Hi HN

I built Client Logo Wall, a small web app that lets you upload and manage client/customer logos from a dashboard and embed them on any website with a single line of HTML.

The motivation was pretty simple:
Every time I needed to display logos on my site, I’d end up hand-coding a grid, fixing alignment issues, and redoing it again for the next project.

This turns that into a reusable component:

- Upload logos once
- Choose a static or auto-scrolling layout
- Embed anywhere HTML is supported (WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, etc.)

It’s intentionally lightweight and focused - no design system lock-in, no heavy JS, and performance-friendly by default.

I’m especially interested in feedback around:

- Whether this solves a real pain point for others
- What would make it more useful (or unnecessary)
- Any obvious problems or improvements you’d suggest

App: https://clientlogowall.com

Happy to answer questions.
by porknbeans00 | 2026-02-10 09:59:04+00:00
Trying to recover my sanity after a year of complete executive function failure. Tech can lead you to places that will absolutely destroy you mentally and emotionally.

Recovery from that is not something one can easily handle. It's a long slow and usually painful recovery process that requires deep commitment.

Many of us have experienced burn out.. but some of us have seen worse. Engineering truly can lead you to places that both matter a great deal and remind use we were never enough, we were just the people there at the time. Longer I am in this career the more humble I get as each successive challenge hammers me into something different than I was before.

I love it. But god ... sometimes the choose your own adventure goes awry.
by EastLondonCoder | 2026-02-10 09:59:23+00:00
I lived in London for 15 years. Southbank and the Barbican were some of my favourite places there.

Barbican is particularly interesting since its part of the city of London, and whereas the city mostly contains bad neoclassical designs that feel dystopian and inhuman Barbican feels like a fresh breath of air.

It has a human centric design and it uses water and greenery to temper the concrete.

Its interesting that crowds in connection to or within the southbank center also always feel lively. I'm uncertain of why, perhaps the concrete makes a counterpoint to humanness and makes us focus on the people in the vicinity.

Perhaps its the cultural programming. But the end result for me was that whenever I was around these blocks of concrete I was almost always in a good mood.
by LightBug1 | 2026-02-10 09:59:32+00:00
Take your point but I'd err on the side of caution. Anything like that un-listed is ripe for one day getting completely ruined, and it is iconic and culturally very valuable.

I can think of 1000 other spaces in London that could be changed first before going anywhere near Southbank Centre.

I'm just happy the skatepark is now protected. Others may differ.
by longfacehorrace | 2026-02-10 09:59:33+00:00
That's not what they were saying.

Systems can hypothesize about themselves but they cannot determine why the rules they can learn from exist in the first place. Prior states are no longer observable so there is always incomplete history.

Conway's Game of Life can't explain its own origins just itself. Because the origins are no longer observable after they occur.

So the comment is right. We would expect to be able to define what is now but not completely know what came before.