MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saintcya | 2026-02-22 20:59:21+00:00
We're launching Seagull, and I wanted to share the story behind it.

My wife and I speak different native languages. We kept running into the same problem: the things we wanted to watch together either had no subtitles, bad subtitles, or no translation at all.

Auto-captions are bullcrap in 99% of scenarios with real conversations...

So we asked ourselves what if we could just translate any audio playing on the computer, in real time?

That's what Seagull does. It captures system audio from any app: YouTube, Zoom, podcasts, games, lectures, whatever, and gives you translated subtitles as an overlay on your screen. 60+ languages supported.

Give us a look and maybe support our launch tomorrow in ProductHunt :)
by whstl | 2026-02-22 21:00:05+00:00
True, but... I get the feeling the job market is bimodal.

Anecdotal, but I see people out of a job for years on end, saying they applied for 2000 jobs in the meantime, while others still keep getting recruiter messages on LinkedIn and can get a new position in a matter of weeks.

Granted, people who quit because of a low raise are probably having other problems as well, which maybe is beneficial for companies. But I still feel like this is companies investing in mediocrity.
by jakub_g | 2026-02-22 21:00:21+00:00
The post talks only about checked-in files, but there are some files that are local-only inside .git folder that are worth knowing about.

Most notably, `.git/info/exclude`, which is a "repo-local gitignore", i.e. only for you and only for this repo.

Useful when you want to create a temporary file to help you e.g. with a bug investigation, and make sure it stays untouched while you switch branches, and to avoid accidentally committing it.
by ilamont | 2026-02-22 21:00:28+00:00
Another defunct site is Deletionpedia, which compiled articles that had been removed from Wikipedia for not meeting various criteria (usually relating to notability IIRC). The site is dead but the HN discussion lives on:

"Deletionpedia: Rescuing articles from Wikipedia's deletionism": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31297057
by nchmy | 2026-02-22 21:00:47+00:00
no, i think its almost universal that you can listen better than you can speak. To speak, you sort of need to be able to express a full thought (even if it has mistakes in it), whereas to listen you generally only really need to get the gist of it.

I think the parent comment was really just about finding it difficult to hear/distinguish words when spoken at a native speed. In which case, sure, you might find it easier to stammer out a few words. But once you get even a basic level of the language, listening is easier.
by themafia | 2026-02-22 21:01:07+00:00
> “that are even and spread thinly, like peanut butter would be on a sandwich,”

Corporate America apparently can't even make sandwiches correctly.

> There’s always a tension in organizations of how to how to balance the needs of your high performers while taking care of the entire group,”

I don't need you to consider my "needs." Consider your profits then consider my work. Pay me what it's worth.
by crote | 2026-02-22 21:01:12+00:00
The entire point of the European Union is to eliminate all of that friction. Most of the rules and regulations have been pushed to the EU level, just like the USA pushed most of its rules and regulations to the federal level. A car only needs a single type approval granted by a single member state, and it can be sold across the entire EU.

There are of course still some tax differences and importing from another member state might be slightly trickier for a consumer than buying it from a dealership in their own country, but I don't see how that is any different from dealing with different kinds of sales tax in the various US states, or having to transfer your car title to another state.

The European single market operates as, well, a single market.
by throwa356262 | 2026-02-22 21:02:00+00:00
In raw power x64 is still the king, has always been.

You can skew things by looking only at single core performance (where apples most expensive cpus might win because of their strategy of having fewer but more powerful cores + memory latency gains are much more visible with only one core).

With that said, things are changing in the PC landscape and some extremely powerful and power efficient ARM designs are coming soon. We have already seen a small glimpse of that with MediaTek.
Show HN: Desloppify – OSS agent harness to make slop code elegantly engineered
by peter942 | 2026-02-22 21:02:04+00:00
I didn't write a single line of Desloppify's 56K LOC codebase and, while I spent a lot of time designing the overall approach, I don't meaningfully understand a lot of its actual implementation.

Despite this, I'd invite any senior engineer to look at the codebase and tell me where the warts are — I think they'll have trouble finding many.

This is because I used Desloppify on itself: it combines subjective agent reviews (modern agents can genuinely understand high-level issues like abstraction quality, naming consistency, error handling patterns) with mechanical issue detection, then gives your agent a prioritised list to work through to get everything as clean as possible.

Combined with anti-gaming measures, this allows it to be run autonomously for extended sessions, chipping away at real issues across scans.

Deeply supports TypeScript, Python, C#, Dart, and GDScript with shallow support for 23 more languages.

Link: https://github.com/peteromallet/desloppify/tree/main
by usnelson | 2026-02-22 21:02:35+00:00
What surprised me the most was the fees that just piled on. I knew the land, labor and materials costs.

Just the sewer (the capacity only, no work done) was $11k. Then add on the park and school fees which both were over $10k. No wonder it a builder has to build something over 2000 SQFT to make it pencil out.
by cardanome | 2026-02-22 21:02:40+00:00
So the worst you could find is a story from 2007 where Hamas killed five collaborators?

Not to mention that it was in the context of a coup attempt against democratically elected Hamas.

Fatah decided to betray its own people. In the West Bank it is helping Israel to oppress their own people and actively fights against Palestinian resistance.

Hamas works perfectly well together with all Palestinian resistance groups from Islamic Jihad to secular ones like the PFLP.
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-22 21:03:10+00:00
Iran had good relations with Israel prior to 1979 and never persecuted or expelled its Jews after 1948 unlike every other country in the region. In fact there’s a great degree of very old cultural affinity between Persians and Jews. A secular Iran is likely to have very close ties with Israel if for no other reason than as a backlash to the excesses of the cleracy.
by mchaver | 2026-02-22 21:04:28+00:00
Great story and very nostalgic. I remember pre-ordering an N64 with my brother and getting it on launch day with Mario 64. We were blown anyway. Then Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, FFVII, Panzer Dragoon Saga and so on. Great time for a video game nerd to be growing up. What are some of your favorite games on more modern consoles?
by xd1936 | 2026-02-22 21:04:32+00:00
There are several ways to get all events for the day! The easiest one in my experience has been to write a simple Apps Script project and expose that as a published Web App[1]. That moves all of the oAuth logic and Calendar API plumbing to Google's server-side code, and gives you a simple long URL that contains exactly what data you want.

Something like:

```

function doGet(req) {

let start = new Date();

start.setHours(12,0,0,0);

let end = new Date(start);

end.setDate(end.getDate() + 3);

let events = CalendarApp.getEvents(start, end);

return ContentService.createTextOutput(events.map(x => x.getTitle()));

}

```

1. https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-22 21:04:56+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.

It beeps, on the other end of the house (or on another floor), where it's inaudible. (And, thankfully, where the loud sounds of it operating are also inaudible.)

> All these things are just managed in our heads subconsciously.

And when you remove the need to track that in your head, your head gets freed up for other things.

To be explicit, I don't like "smart appliances" that connect to a cloud server. I do like the idea of devices that can connect locally to something like Home Assistant.
by nchmy | 2026-02-22 21:05:10+00:00
i, indeed, had to learn english grammar in order to learn spanish. When they taught us french as kids in school, it was just an exercise in memorization and I had ZERO conception that the various verb tenses actually mapped onto something in english!

This book (English Grammar for Students of Spanish) was useful to me. I assume there's ones for other target languages as well

https://archive.org/details/englishgrammarfo0000spin_q0j9_05...
by sailfast | 2026-02-22 21:05:27+00:00
We do this with a raspberry pi and a decent lcd screen in a picture frame in our kitchen. I like the idea of e-ink but there isn’t a reason to go that route if you want to see everyone’s calendar color-coded while also saving a few bucks.

Love the artistry and dedication in this effort - getting something just right for your own tastes and honing it over time can be really fulfilling.
by themafia | 2026-02-22 21:05:54+00:00
> have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.

And they've gotten it. Build quality and durability is the poorest it's been in decades. Do you really think I want to live in a 200 unit timber framed apartment building with the thinnest walls legally allowed by code?

> Henry Ford, but for housing

Do these people not live in houses? Or do they just assume that the lack of luxury is something people /want/?

> Will the state step in?

Haven't they done enough damage already?
by lm28469 | 2026-02-22 21:05:58+00:00
There is no special sauce, it's mass hysteria driven by fake adoption metrics and people who don't know anything about computers who let "agents" run free on theirs. It's the equivalent of showing a magician cut a women in a box in half to a 5 years old kid... Put them in the same category as the neckbeards getting a hard on every 3 weeks for the past 2 years when they get to see the new version of ThE PeLiCaN On A BiCyCle... I wonder how long the circus will keep on going, at least it's funny to witness from the outside
by thisislife2 | 2026-02-22 21:06:08+00:00
> It's incredibly difficult to engineer a protest–particularly in a repressive regime–out of nothing.

No. It may have been difficult to do so in the past for the CIA (or other foreign powers) because they had limited avenues to directly influence foreign citizens as they had limited control over foreign media or foreign communication platforms (to control the flow of information).

Today, a large part of both communication and media in nearly all countries happen over the internet, a medium that has been usurped by western tech companies. The role of online social media (like Facebook and WhatsApp) in fomenting riots and genocide is well documented and researched (e.g. genocide in Myanmar).

Look at all the meaningless so called "youth protests" (youth who obviously have grown up consuming media and, communicating on the internet) that have happened in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh or the coloured revolutions in the middle-east. (India was the only exception where it didn't turn violent because its then leaders knew how to genuinely deal democratically with the protestors, but it still resulted in India's democratic fall as it allowed a right-wing authoritarian leader to capture power). In Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh the protests became directionless violent "revolutions" to overthrow an elected government, and illegally transfer power to a bunch of inexperienced "leaders". Then (like what has happened in Bangladesh) they seek to exclude and ban certain political leaders and / or political parties from participating in a new "democratic" election, ensuring an easy win for the opposition. It is then claimed what a success this "democratic" youth revolution has been (and used as fodder to brainwash the youths in some other country).

Youths are easy targets here because they are hooked to the internet and are politically naive.

China was quite astute in this aspect to ensure that their internet didn't fall into the hands on western tech companies. They made sure that their own tech companies dominated in China, and were ruthless in not allowing western tech companies to compete successfully. This is why the west has found it so hard to foment any similar "online social media" revolutions there. And why the west were so obsessed about getting control over TikTok. (Note that this has nothing to do with "democracy" - it's a political necessity that if you want to be a sovereign country and do not want a foreign power to have influence in your country, it is essential to ensure that foreigners don't control your media or communication platform. This is why everyone's talking about "digital sovereignty" and banning teens from social media).

(Sadly, it isn't just the "west" - every country is now using the internet against nations they consider hostile, and doing some form of information warfare to influence foreign elections).
by godelski | 2026-02-22 21:06:09+00:00
It's a pretty common threshold, like 10% is. Be it the 80/20 "Pareto" rule, it's the value of one finger on one hand, or if you really want you stretch the p-value of 0.05 is 1 in 20 odds but that's definitely a stretch though arbitrary anyways. But 20 is a very human number and very common. It's just a division of 5 rather than 4 (I'm assuming you wouldn't have questioned a cutoff at 25%)
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-22 21:06:24+00:00
> By any metric which takes into account minor availability requirements (eg. supplies electricity at night) solar badly loses its cost advantage. It gets even worse if the metric is the still important "deepest winter night" scenario.

This is wildly incorrect. Batteries have gotten cheaper, solar has gotten cheaper, and even accounting for storage solar now wins by a wide margin even in "wintery" climates.[0]

Ten years ago you were right, but the cost has been falling by a huge percentage every year for about 15 years straight now. There will never be another time when it makes sense to dig up fossil fuels, ship them all over the world, process them, and then set them on fire when we can just slap up a solar panel and store the power for something approximating free on a 20+ year timeline.

Even if we discount the tax breaks (which we should since Trump is a doofus) both the LCOE and LCOS (levelized cost of storage) of PV + battery are lower than for natural gas, coal, nuclear, etc. Wind beats it by a small amount but less of our land is suitable for wind.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/electricity_generation/pdf/...
by copirate | 2026-02-22 21:07:04+00:00
Making the model write a research file, then the plan and iterate on it by editing the plan file, then adding the todo list, then doing the implementation, and doing all that in a single conversation (instead of clearing contexts).

There's nothing revolutionary, but yes, it's a workflow that's quite different from other posts I've seen, and especially from Boris' thread that was mentioned which is more like a collection of tips.
by stared | 2026-02-22 21:07:21+00:00
To be honest, it is also our surprise. I mean, I used GPT 5.2 Codex in Cursor for decompiling an old game and it worked (way better than Claude Code with Opus 4.5).
We tested for Opus 4.6, but waiting for public API to test on GPT 5.3 Codex.

At the same time, various task can be different, and now all things that work the best end-to-end are the same as ones that are good for a typical, interactive workflow.

We used Terminus 2 agent, as it is the default used by Harbor (https://harborframework.com/), as we want to be unbiased. Very likely other frameworks will change the result.
by devrimozcay | 2026-02-22 21:07:21+00:00
’ve spent way too many nights at 3 AM trying to piece together what happened during a P1 incident. The hardest part isn't usually fixing the bug—it's writing the post-mortem report for the leadership 2 hours later while you're exhausted.

Generic LLMs usually hallucinate or lose technical context when you dump 10k lines of logs into them. So I built ProdRescue AI.

It’s specifically designed to:

Sanitize PII automatically from logs.

Correlate multi-service logs and Slack threads into a single timeline.

Map every claim in the report back to a specific log line [evidence-backed].

Generate '5 Whys' and action items based on SRE best practices.
by bpavuk | 2026-02-22 21:07:33+00:00
> When I went to concerts it was heavy metal.

> No one was dancing. Unless you consider banging heads a form of dancing. People did sing along though.

my point is that people were engaging and interacting with and within music, not observing and recording it for the sake of internet points. so, yeah, in this context...

> banging heads

...is definitely a form of "dancing" :D

I mostly went to EDM, raves, and pop concerts. there, dancing is a lot more appropriate and welcome :)

> I don't live in the US. Maybe this is a bit of cultural differences in terms of geography and in terms of demographic for the genre?

me neither, but I observed this in Ukraine and (through friends and acquaintances) Poland, US, and Russia. something definitely shifted
by sowbug | 2026-02-22 21:07:36+00:00
I bought a prefab backyard office after the pandemic for about $30K. I love it, even after the final price came to about $80K.

We figured out that overhead power lines would prevent it from being lifted in by a crane, so we decided to have it assembled onsite. Then the county decided -- after full approvals -- it needed a concrete foundation. We asked how to do that when the backyard already had a concrete foundation. Building department said pour it on top of the existing foundation.

I've mentally blocked my memory of the other ways the county came up with to make it hard to place this cuboid shape in my yard, but each time added another $10K. And the end result, other than being a foot off the ground because of the duplicate foundation, was nothing more than the $30K structure I originally bought. I can't point to where the extra $50K went and say at least I got value from it.

Like all home construction or remodeling, each misstep was outrageous, but tolerable because it was surely the last hiccup before completion. Only later do you realize it's Zeno's Paradox and you're always halfway from the finish line.
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-22 21:07:42+00:00
Not sure why this is being downvoted, it's a pervasive flaw across all these IoT products. See my description elsewhere here about how Haier "smart" controls work. It's completely insane, and pointless. For systems that can't fail--I include heating systems in the winter--this kind of "move fast and break shit" way of doing it is malpractice. The last thing in the entire world I want my furnace controls doing is an automatic OTA firmware update. Ever.
by TrailingArbutus | 2026-02-22 21:08:10+00:00
The problem is that a functional social network is a bad business model.

A chronological feed has a "stop" point. You catch up, you feel satisfied, and you close the app. Meta’s revenue depends on you never feeling caught up. That’s why the "Feeds" tab is buried three menus deep—it’s there so they can say it exists, but hidden so you stay stuck in the algorithmic slop.

Even if they made it the default, you’re still left with the trust issue. You aren’t the customer; you’re the data being mined. At this point, the brand is probably too far gone for a simple UI tweak to fix the underlying rot.
by rekabis | 2026-02-22 21:08:29+00:00
And this is where those in power are headed: to use AI to sow misinformation and disinformation across all forms of media until people trust nothing but what other people tell them to trust. They become trivially easy to lead in whatever direction is needed.

You can see this in how conservatism has evolved over the last two decades. The bottom-99% of all conservatives have been so badly brainwashed and gaslit that they actively vote against their own best interests, such that the oligarchs and other members of the Parasite Class benefit enormously.
by piratesAndSons | 2026-02-22 21:08:49+00:00
That is what you want. The harder and more difficult the moat, the higher the gate for these bottom-feeder product dumpers to clear. Once you clear that yourself, you would be in the promised land.

It is hard, it is expensive, and there is a lot of work, but anything worth $10M in yearly profit is. You want to avoid any product that a Chinese manufacturer can pump and dump on Amazon almost immediately, if Amazon itself doesn't, or a product an Indian teenager can create in a few hours thanks to LLMs and compete with. You want those paths to be impossible for them to clear.
by lich_king | 2026-02-22 21:08:51+00:00
Right, but the reason that Conservapedia fizzled out is that you can't really build a critical mass of human editors if the only reason your site exists is that you have a very specific view on dinosaurs and homosexuality (even among hardline conservatives, most will not share your views).

What's different with Grokipedia is that you now have an army of robots who can put a Young Earth spin on a million articles overnight.

I do think that as it is, Grokipedia is a threat to Wikipedia because the complaints about accuracy don't matter to most people. And if you're in the not-too-unpopular camp that the cure to the subtle left-wing bias of Wikipedia is robotically injecting more egregious right-wing bias, the project is up your alley.

The best hope for the survival of Wikipedia is that everyone else gets the same idea and we end up with 50 politically-motivated forks at each others' throats, with Wikipedia being the comparatively normal, mainstream choice.
by maccard | 2026-02-22 21:09:13+00:00
I'm in Scotland. Looking outside and seeing blue skies does not mean it's safe to leave without a rain jacket, or a thermal layer. Seeing fog in the morning doesn't mean you don't need shorts for the afternoon. It being 0 outside today doesn't mean it won't be 10 degrees tomorrow. Knowing it's going to rain between 10 and 2 is good motivation to take the dog out before 10. Knowing it's going to rain on Sunday but be clear on Saturday is a good reason to book outdoor activites (golf) on Saturday instead.
by crooked-v | 2026-02-22 21:09:33+00:00
Repealing Prop 13 would be good, but wouldn't fix the core problem, which is that CA (and most of the US) is literally decades behind on building sufficient housing units for population growth because of self-inflicted zoning and permitting problems. California isn't unique in this, Prop 13 just makes it even more painful because old people hang onto houses that are too big for them and so constrain the already-limited supply more.
by diputsmonro | 2026-02-22 21:09:39+00:00
I feel like this move is premature and playing directly into Trump's hands. "See how Europe flinched at even the suggestion of free speech, we haven't even started yet"

Surely whatever they eventually put up on there will be blatant and horrible propaganda, but I think judging the reactions are the purpose of the site, not the content itself.
by knallfrosch | 2026-02-22 21:10:36+00:00
My solution is based on 12.48 inch Magic Ink Calendar:

https://github.com/speedyg0nz/MagInkCal

A 12.48 Waveshare eink display costs $175.
Sadly haven't gotten it to work with the Raspi Zero and therefore can't use it battery-powered. Got an ugly cord right now. Running power to the right place through the walls is definitely dedication!