MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-24 18:05:58+00:00
Do you think when my friends say 'you are mexican now' I'm negatively taking something away in that interaction? Somehow we both lose something? Or 'you are indian now'? Do you think I literally think I am now those, and stealing from them?

Thanks for giving me permission to appropriate what my family has kept as core identity. So magnanimous of you to give me your box I'm allowed to fit in (totally non judgemental and friendly with the ' fake, stereotypical, exaggerated, whatever.').

The reason we go to Ireland is to find something, to feel something, and you want us to deny that desire inside us while we are there. Why not save us all the hassle and just... not do any of it? Like I said, I didn't build that desire up in my kids. You should be HAPPY about that. You win. There isn't anything inside of them telling them they are connected to Europe because you euros have decided they aren't, should not be, and are awful people to be made fun of for feeling some sort of connection to you.

The world is small and way kinder than whatever it is you euros want to enforce over there. Irish Americans go to Ireland looking for something, and the Irish don't want to deal with Americans looking for that something. Why would I push it and force myself into the box they define for me? There's amazing surfing and kindness in Costa Rica and they don't complain I'm co-opting their Salsa Lizano. Amazing camping and kindness in Canada. Ironically Germans welcoming and happy to talk about family recipes. The coolness that is Shanghai. Why go to a place where the people there hate the reason you come and talk shit about your deep felt personal motivation as if it's fake? And if you deny that internal feeling and treat Europe just like a cool living museum, believe it or not, Euros also say that's the rude American thing to do. Ireland, the UK, France, Italy hate the inconvenience that Americans feel they have a special relationship, be happy/relieved that most of that dies with my generation and we have no connection to each other going forward. And my kids won because they much preferred the beach trips. Everyones happy and new traditions created so that Irish/Euro ones are no longer somehow made smaller by Americans excited to share in them.
by octoclaw | 2026-02-24 18:06:12+00:00
The real issue is that mandatory registration doesn't actually stop scammers. It stops hobbyist developers and small open source projects.

Scammers will use stolen identities or shell companies. They already do this on the Play Store itself. The $25 fee and passport upload haven't prevented the flood of scam apps there.

Meanwhile F-Droid's model (build from source, scan for trackers/malware) actually provides stronger guarantees about what the app does. No identity check needed because the code speaks for itself.

The permission-based approach someone mentioned above makes way more sense. If your app wants to read SMS or intercept notifications, sure, require extra scrutiny. But a simple calculator app or a notes tool? That's just adding friction for no security benefit.
by Timon3 | 2026-02-24 18:06:20+00:00
There are several fundamental issues with your approach.

First: unless the average lifetime of a "dead game" is below two months, your focus on games from last year will exclude most dead games. To give an analogy - you're trying to determine how many humans die before twenty years old, and determining this data by looking at babies born in 2025.

Second: the list is unlikely to be complete, especially since many supporters of SKG most likely haven't heard of it. I have seen many people advertising SKG towards their friends or audience, and I've never heard any of them mention this list.
by sahair | 2026-02-24 18:06:33+00:00
Hey Everyone,

I am launching ToolRelay.io. This is a platform that helps users generate MCP servers, rules, and auth to connect their SaaS to AI agents. The goal is so existing projects and backends can integrate with AI w/ a no-code setup.

Would love to get peoples feedback on the idea and would love for you all to try it out!
by daveidol | 2026-02-24 18:06:51+00:00
I don’t want to be too flippant, but I think there is a real trade off across many aspects of life between “freedom” and “safety”.

There is a point at which people have to think critically about what they are doing. We, as a society, should do our best to protect the vulnerable (elderly, mentally disabled, etc) but we must draw the line somewhere.

It’s the same thing in the outside world too - otherwise we could make compelling arguments about removing the right to drive cars, for example, due to all the traffic accidents (instead we add measures like seatbelts as a compromise, knowing it will never totally solve the issue).
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-02-24 18:07:41+00:00
I think there's room to raise the bar of required tech competency without registration.

Manually installing an app might be close to the limit of what grandma can be coached through by an impatient scammer.

Multiple steps over adb, challenges that can't be copy and pasted in a script, etc. It can be done but it won't provide as much control over end user devices.
Show HN: Open-next-router (ONR) – An Nginx-inspired, config-driven LLM router
by song2025 | 2026-02-24 18:08:10+00:00
Despite the name, OpenRouter's core isn't truly open. I’m building open-next-router (ONR) to change that.

Inspired by Nginx’s atomic configuration philosophy, ONR allows developers to integrate and switch between various LLM channels through simple config files rather than writing boilerplate code. The goal is to move away from "hard-coded integrations" and toward a modular, high-performance routing layer.

I'm aiming to build the "Nginx for the LLM era." It’s still in the early stages, and I’d love to get feedback from the community or collaborate with anyone interested in the future of open LLM infrastructure.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-24 18:08:21+00:00
It's typically not a matter of having the documents, it's a matter of filtering them.

Suppose you have a corporate mail server with all your mail on it, and a competitor sues you. Your emails are going to be full of trade secrets, prices negotiated with suppliers, etc. Things that are irrelevant to the litigation and can't be given to the competitor. Meanwhile there are other emails they're entitled to see because they're directly relevant to the litigation.

What option do you have other than to have someone go read ten years worth of emails to decide which ones they get?

> Whats really the difference between taking 2+ years to procure a document and deleting that document?

The difference is obviously that they get the document in the 2nd+ year of the trial instead of never.
by oarsinsync | 2026-02-24 18:08:36+00:00
Or the US could tax it's corporations just like it taxes it's citizens.

Doesn't care that the citizens pay tax in whatever country they live in. If they earn over some 6 figure sum, they have to pay tax in the US as well.

That would put US corporations at a distinct disadvantage on the global scene, so it won't happen. Disadvantaging citizens doesn't seem to matter as much.
by rurp | 2026-02-24 18:08:37+00:00
You're talking about normal technological developments that yes generally follow Econ 101 patterns. But AGI isn't like that. If AGI or something like it comes about it won't be a normal technology. The upside case for investors is that frontier models eliminate millions of jobs and remain controlled by a small group of owners. That's why they are investing sums unprecedented in human history. If all white collar work and an increasing amount of blue collar work is supplanted by AI how do those masses of newly unemployed folks make a living without wealth redistribution?

If AI capability plateaus and ends up as a normal technological development then I agree with you that it will mostly work out for the best. But that's not the scenario I'm worried about and plenty of folks in the industry are warning that's not the most likely path at this point.
by kazinator | 2026-02-24 18:08:38+00:00
> The scenario imagines every consumer deciding to use their own personal agent to transact and conduct business. This completely sidelines companies that monetise “friction” in the economy, such as travel and estate agencies that operate as middlemen in processes such as booking holidays or buying property.

The threat to the middleman businesses is their elimination. For that to happen, the service providers have to open up APIs for the users' agents' to use directly, so that then those agents effectively become the middlemen.

If that doesn't happen, then the user agents have to deal with the friction, and that works in favor of the middlemen because agents are willing to deal with much more friction than people.

In this scenario, only the rank-and-file friction workers and their management have to worry about being replaced by friction-generating AI; the business as such is safe.
by godelski | 2026-02-24 18:09:00+00:00
Google doesn't sell your data?! What are you even talking about?!

Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you don't use chrome? Do you think Google doesn't gave your data because you don't use Google search? Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you don't use Android? Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you don't use Gmail? Do you think Google doesn't have your data because you don't use YouTube?

I hate to break it to you but you don't even have to use Google products for Google to have data on you. Facebook isn't the only one with tech like "Facebook pixel". You visit any website with ad sense and Google has your data. There's very little you can do on the internet that doesn't result in Google grabbing your data.

As for Mozilla, citation needed. I'm you to need evidence of this claim. I keep hearing it, but I've never seen it. I see people try to read between the lines but come on, give us some hard evidence
by malklera | 2026-02-24 18:09:09+00:00
This is not a technical problem, is about money and people.

Majority(>50%) of people have no idea what an OS is, you cannot expect then to care about self-hosting.

People(me included) do what is easier/cheaper, maybe down the line there are principles or ideology in the decision making.

I do not bother to read the complete article, by your actions you are a tenant/product, better lead by example.
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-24 18:09:50+00:00
I guarantee you that, given your requirements, this will never be a product that you can buy.

Hardware projects live and die on scale. The engineering and tooling costs are a similar order of magnitude whether you make 1000 phones or 1,000,000. If you can guarantee that you have an accessible market for a million devices, then you're starting to get into the region of scale where this would be an OK idea.

Mind you, that's a million users who are cool with all the design tradeoffs you had to make to ingress protection, software performance with modern android, and form factor in order to get your desirable characteristic.

The Punkt MP02 is at roughly the price point and "niche-ness" as the product you describe here, and that sold for almost $400. They could afford to build in about the same amount of functionality as a Nokia brick of yore (but with 4G radios!) for that price.
by AshamedCaptain | 2026-02-24 18:09:51+00:00
This was not going to come from Samsung, one of the most over-zealous companies out there when it comes from preventing rolling out purely software features from today's phones to yesterday's. E.g. "Now Bar" a literal online feature is blocked on older phones. (Don't get me wrong, it's a useless feature, just shows their thinking)

Or when they announced that "Linux on Dex", for which they had been doing public beta testing on Note 9 phones, would only support the just-released Note 10. (And then they dropped the entire thing anyway).

These are phones for which the only difference between generations may be a couple mAh in the battery. Yet they still use software to gate features.
by kuhaku22 | 2026-02-24 18:10:06+00:00
> Obviously the implementation was botched in this case

The long wait times could easily have been fixed by staggering employee start times. You could even optimize it per building/floor. Sadly, a lot of bureaucrats lack the imagination to do simple stuff like this. (Anyone with a desperate need to have 9 am meetings would just have to suck it up)
by sarchertech | 2026-02-24 18:10:12+00:00
1. There is no scientific evidence that the "forbidden fruit" theory is correct. Studies of minimum drinking ages show a near universal reduction in drunk driving deaths, alcoholism, and crime rates.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3018854/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3586293/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4961607/
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/02/10/you-must-be...
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/underage-drinking/minimum-legal-...

If you care to google it there are dozens of additional studies that all say the same thing.

2. You're writing this as if you don't understand what it's like growing up in a country where 8 year olds don't have easy access to alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs.

And you're writing this as if you don't understand what it's like growing up was a kid growing up in America specifically. My young children and the young children of everyone I now could not regularly drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes without their parents knowing about it. When I was 8 I couldn't have done either regularly without my parents knowing about it.

Again this isn't about stopping every single kid in the world from ever trying alcohol. This is about making it harder for them get and easier for parents to enforce.

>end of the day the buck starts and stops with parents...

That's a completely unrealistic view of the world and it's just flat out wrong on the face of it because every study we have on the subject shows that minimum drink age laws reduce harm--they work. If it were solely up to the parent they wouldn't work.

The easier you make it for parents to do the right thing, the more of them will do it.
by bombcar | 2026-02-24 18:10:22+00:00
We need shame, really, societal shame that we inflict on those who have to take government benefits, perhaps. Flying an airline that's known to treat their employees like shit should cause the people at the cocktail to look at you strange.

(We kind of have something like this in that shopping at Costco is considered "good" but lots of people won't admit they shop at Walmart - I'm sure they'll be bankrupt soon given how many people don't shop there!)
by emperor144 | 2026-02-24 18:10:36+00:00
Hey HN, I built an open-source web-based DICOM viewer that uses LLMs for medical image analysis. The interesting part isn't the LLM integration itself — it's the data preparation problem.
A typical knee MRI has 200+ slices across 8+ series. Sending all of them to an AI gives terrible results. DICOMassist uses a two-call architecture: first, the LLM analyzes study metadata (series descriptions, orientations, slice counts) and selects the optimal series and slice range for the clinical question. Then only those focused slices get sent for multimodal analysis.
For example, asking "evaluate for ACL tear" on a knee MRI: the system picks the sagittal PD fat-sat series, focuses on slices 13-27 (where the intercondylar structures are), and sends 15 targeted images instead of 200+ random ones.
Built with React, Cornerstone3D, and Claude API. All DICOM processing happens in the browser — no server uploads. Open source under MIT.
Demo: https://dicomassist.dev
Video: https://youtu.be/fdDkg8ZleyA
Source: https://github.com/erketellal/DICOMassist
Not a medical device — educational/research tool only. Would love feedback on the architecture and approach.
by john_strinlai | 2026-02-24 18:10:38+00:00
>You can also cut yourself with a kitchen knife but nobody proposes banning kitchen knives.

oh nice, i love this game.

you cant carry a kitchen knife that is too long, you cant carry your kitchen knife into a school, you cant brandish your kitchen knife at police, you cant let a small child run around with a kitchen knife...

literally most of what "the state" does is be a "nanny"

(not agreeing or disagreeing with google here, i have no horse in this particular race. but this little knife quip is silly when you think about it for more than 5 seconds)
Show HN: Log Voyager 2.0 – Analyze 10GB+ log files in the browser
by murzynalbinos | 2026-02-24 18:11:06+00:00
I posted the first version here a few months ago, but today I've got a massive update, that I wanted to share...
So basically Log Voyager is a client-side log analyzer that can open multi-gigabyte log files (10GB+) in the browser without crashing, using the File Slicing API to stream chunks rather than loading everything into memory.

Technical approach: Instead of reading the entire file into RAM (which crashes browsers on 2GB+ files), LV use File.prototype.slice() to read 50KB chunks via FileReader. This keeps memory usage constant at ~10MB regardless of file size. For GZIP files I use the native DecompressionStream API.

What's new in v2.0:

- Command Palette (Ctrl+K) for keyboard-driven navigation

- Multi-Filter: apply multiple include/exclude filters simultaneously with regex support

- Error Aggregation: groups similar errors by pattern, shows occurrence counts

- Split View: two independent panels for comparing different file sections

- Heatmap Navigation: visual error density on minimap (red=error, orange=warn)

- Log Statistics: real-time level distribution with bar charts

- Export Selection: export specific lines as TXT/JSON/CSV

- Dark/Light theme toggle

- Full keyboard shortcut system (Vim-style navigation for search, bookmarks, etc.)

Thanks for checking it out (and very appreciate feedback)!

Code: https://github.com/hsr88/log-voyager
by jandrese | 2026-02-24 18:11:58+00:00
> It's not so much that it's hard, it's that it has a lower return on investment, because the IRS gets money from finding mistakes or intentional fraud. Megacorps have entire legal teams dedicated to preventing those things from happening

Or: Megacorps have entire teams of people looking for ways to reduce their taxes, many of which are legally dubious but the risk of being caught * the size of the fine means it makes business sense to do it regardless of legality.
by danhhz | 2026-02-24 18:12:09+00:00
(author here)

> It seems like this is an approach that trades off scale and performance for operational simplicity.

Yes, this is exactly it. Given that turbopuffer itself is built on the idea of object storage + stateless cache, we're all very comfortable dealing with it operationally. This design is enough for our needs and is much easier to be oncall for than adding an entirely new dependency would have been.
by dogma1138 | 2026-02-24 18:12:23+00:00
With FPGA you are sacrificing performance for flexibility you are far less efficient in transistors for any given task than with a dedicated ASIC even if it’s a general compute ASIC like a GPU is today.

The reason no one is building large FPGAs is that there is no market for them.

If an H200 scale FPGA was viable we would have one.
by Timon3 | 2026-02-24 18:12:31+00:00
If you're doing license verification in a way that stops me from playing my legitimately purchased copy & you don't give me a way to continue playing my legitimately purchased copy, it's literally a self-destruct mechanism.

But the discussion wasn't just about license verification - there have been instances of account requirements that weren't tied to license verification, just to social features, yet the game still didn't work without logging in.
by bigbuppo | 2026-02-24 18:13:05+00:00
The systems recognized the pattern that it looks like a generic article on the internet asking whether someone should walk or drive and answered it exactly as expected based on their training data. None of this should be surprising.

We are the ones fooling ourselves into believing there's more intelligence in these systems than they really have. At the end of the day, it's just an impressive parlor trick.
by gurkenkoenig | 2026-02-24 18:13:27+00:00
I'm a developer working with mid-sized companies in Germany. Over the past year, I've watched the economics of custom software shift dramatically. Internal tools that used to require a small team and three months can now be built by one person in one to two weeks.
This post is about what that means structurally: SaaS losing its economic moat, the maintenance argument collapsing, and a new role emerging that's less about writing code and more about designing systems that fit how people actually work. I included some numbers on the SaaS slowdown and a historical parallel to the electrification of factories that I find almost uncanny.
Would love to hear from others seeing similar shifts or pushback from those who think I'm overstating it.
by troupo | 2026-02-24 18:13:31+00:00
Revenue is not profit. All we know about Stripe is that it's "robustly profitable": https://assets.stripeassets.com/fzn2n1nzq965/3LlGw839Q6kUwxZ...

Adyen reported 500 million EUR in pure profit: https://investors.adyen.com/financials/h2-2025-4r9rc
by monocasa | 2026-02-24 18:13:43+00:00
The question wasn't "should all humans not modify themselves", but "should humanity survive".

We currently legally protect mostly pre-contact civilizations like Sentinelese, so it stands to reason that regardless of what some people choose, other people will forgo transhumanist modifications, and "humanity" will survive regardless of what technology occurs or where your definition ends.

Unless of course the end goal is only a few billionaires get to live with their AI ppowered city states at most using servitors and decraniated as robots.