MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Devasta | 2026-02-08 23:06:46+00:00
In the past, I could go onto Facebook and see what my friends were up to, and share updates with them about what I was doing. It was great for arranging nights out.

Today, it's a dumpster fire, I can't see what anyone is doing, it's just AI videos and engagement bait.

Discord is the replacement for my friends at least.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-08 23:07:05+00:00
It is a valid question. I looked at the author's profile and while he is not from US ( Amsterdam ), his studies focus[1] appears to be on subjects that would suggest he should be relatively well acquainted with politics in US along with how they differ in terms of terminology from EU or UK. Sadly, I can't seem to say for sure how term was intended in the article itself. That said, the author does seem to reference individual US parties.

[1]https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/t/o/p.tornberg/k.p.tornberg.ht...
by rekabis | 2026-02-08 23:07:13+00:00
Even MacTracker, the Apple specifications database gold standard, confirms this.

And they invariably point out where the official Apple specs fall short of real-world options, such as the RAM limit of the 2018 Mac Mini -- officially Apple says it’s 32Gb (and for the longest time even sites like Crucial.com offered only 2×16Gb sets for that model), but MacTracker very quickly pointed out that it can take 64Gb. IIRC this was right after iFixit did their teardown and realized that the CPU did not have a 32Gb memory limitation, and successfully booted that model with 64Gb.

Now, from what I understand the M1 only allowed 16Gb as the max addressable memory - I dimly remember a video where someone tried to resolder with 32Gb of performance-identical chips that had twice the capacity, and it could still only see 16Gb of it - so it appears to be a hard limit either in the memory controller or as a direct feature of the CPU cores themselves.
by ipython | 2026-02-08 23:07:58+00:00
More interesting is that they're claiming 248 miles (400km) on a 45kWh battery[0]. That calculates out to 5.5 miles/kWh, whereas the most efficient Tesla 3 right now only claims 4.5 miles/kWh - and even that is a very optimistic estimate (most people can't get 270 miles out of their 60kWh Tesla 3 standard range models) [1]

[0] https://cdn.motor1.com/images/custom/worlds-first-mass-produ...

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/719013/2024-tesla-model3-epa-rang...
by digiown | 2026-02-08 23:08:33+00:00
> right to be different without being refused service

You can check my comment history to see the arguments I have against attestation. That's exactly what I argue. It's not an open source problem, it's a user freedom problem, and this is exactly why corporate interests like "open source", but not "free software". Open source is freedom-agnostic: you can use it to hurt users just fine. The current iterations of remote attestation is especially egregious, because most of it is the government itself or an entity the government forces you to deal with (banks).

In general I believe remote attestation is actually fine, so long as it does not transcend ownership boundaries. A company can use it to ensure its own colo servers aren't tampered with, for example. But an external authority shouldn't be able to exert control over something I own. In particular there should be no expectation that my device is "trustworthy" in any way at all. Anything else ends privacy and freedom as we know it.
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-08 23:08:56+00:00
> and to all the lazy downvoters. argue with me ye bums ( name calling very much intended here ).

Sure. You can guess the "camp", but so what? Must we all use value-neutral language when discussing an issue? I take issue with centrism for centrism's sake. If your goal is to take two points of view and treat them as equals then that grants a systemic advantage to whoever has the more insane view. By not calling something what it is you legitimize atrocities. Fuck centrism. Believe in something, you coward.
by fragmede | 2026-02-08 23:09:01+00:00
The crazy pills you are taking is that thinking people have anything to prove to you. The C compiler that Anthropic created or whatever verb your want to use should prove that Claude is capable of doing reasonably complex level of making software. The problem is people have egos, myself included. Not in the inflated sense, but in the "I built a thing a now the Internet is shitting on me and I feel bad" sense. There's fundcli and nitpick on my GitHub that I created using Claude. fundcli looks at your shell history and suggests places to donate to, to support open source software you actually use. Nitpick is a TUI HN client. I've shipped others. The obvious retort is that those two things aren't "real" software; they're not complex, they're not making me any money. In fact, fundcli is costing me piles of money! As much as I can give it! I don't need anyone to tell me that or shit on the stuff I'm building.

The "open secret" is that shipping stuff is hard. Who hasn't bought a domain name for a side project that didn't go anywhere. If there's anybody out there, raise your hand! So there's another filtering effect.

The crazy pills are thinking that HN is in any way representative of anything about what's going on in our broader society. Those projects are out there, why do you assume you'll be told about it? That someone's going to write an exposé/blog post on themselves about how they had AI build a thing and now they're raking in the dollars and oh, buy my course on learning how to vibecode? The people selling those courses aren't the ones shipping software!
Show HN: NoFaceClips automatic Reddit to TikTok faceless video generator
by TallSession9532 | 2026-02-08 23:09:19+00:00
I built NoFaceClips, a tool that automatically turns Reddit posts into ready to publish TikTok videos without anyone needing to appear on camera.

Creating short form video content consistently takes a lot of time, especially if you do not want to record yourself or edit videos manually. NoFaceClips lets you select subreddits, configure posting frequency, and then handles the rest.

NoFaceClips combines:
- fetching popular Reddit text posts
- generating videos with voice narration and animated text
- customizable styles such as fonts, backgrounds, and voices
- automatic scheduling and publishing to TikTok

It is built primarily for creators, community owners, and anyone who wants to grow TikTok accounts using faceless content with minimal setup.

I am happy to answer questions about how it works under the hood, how posts are selected, or what tradeoffs I ran into when automating video generation and posting.

If you want to try the paid features, use the coupon “FEEDBACK”.

Thanks!
by Ygg2 | 2026-02-08 23:09:25+00:00
> It absolutely is.

It isn't. Coding is to software engineering, what calculation is to math. A necessary but insufficient condition.

> And then soon the boss demands more output, like the guys who left it all to Claude and even run 5x in parallel give.

You can get 100x output for 1/100x the price, if you replace the monthly Claude subscription with a Markov chain. Think of the efficiency gains.

Sure, it will be garbage, but think of the velocity.
by christophilus | 2026-02-08 23:09:36+00:00
I’m using it in a >200kloc codebase successfully, too. I think a key is to work in a properly modular codebase so it can focus on the correct changes and ignore unrelated stuff.

That said, I do catch it doing some of the stuff the OP mentioned— particularly leaving “backwards compatibility” stuff in place. But really, all of the stuff he mentions, I’ve experienced if I’ve given it an overly broad mandate.
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-08 23:09:45+00:00
Glibc has a bunch of tests throughout the codebase where it checks if there have been any threads started besides the main one. I don’t really know how effective they are from a performance perspective. (In principle, turning fgetc into getc_unlocked, for instance, could be quite beneficial.) Microsoft used to have a single-threaded C runtime, but it was done away with some time ago, I’m guessing because they started putting things into the platform that would start and manage random threads outside the programmer’s control.
by pfilehats | 2026-02-08 23:09:59+00:00
Easiest way to model this is from the cells impedance. Essentially think of the cold limiting ion motility in the electrolyte phase, and that resulting in a higher impedance, that works out as a voltage drop at the cells terminals, so the cell has a limited depth of discharge, vs at higher temperatures.

You can read about EIS here:
https://www.gamry.com/application-notes/EIS/basics-of-electr...
by rogutkuba | 2026-02-08 23:10:10+00:00
Building Pasture (https://www.usepasture.com)

Pasture takes each signup, enriches it (title, company size, funding, tech stack, and more), and scores it 0-100 against your ICP. Alerts go to Slack with full context. You can also track which channels bring quality vs. junk over time, which has been the most useful part so far.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-02-08 23:10:11+00:00
That's why people having normal weight are now the minority across the western industrialised world. Just not enough willpower and inspirational Instagram Quotes from some Life Coaches or Libertarian Idiots.

> It’s a personal choice to have that extra donut or cola.

It's food designed to be addictive and making you eat more than you need. It's a problem that needs to be solved with regulation.

But yes, blaming it on a character fault is as I said the intellectual bankrupt take, and also the take by the lobbyist of those companies
by bitwize | 2026-02-08 23:10:52+00:00
Remember the banner hanging at Initech that should be hanging at every for-profit corporation: "Is This Good for the COMPANY?"

The problem of adhering to open source values without giving the keys to the kingdom away to your competitors is yet unsolved. Do not be surprised if company strategists prioritize benefiting the company over sticking rigidly to open source dogma.
by foldor | 2026-02-08 23:11:35+00:00
I'm not aware of any cool homebrew, but there is a certain level of cool being able to compile the code for some N64 games using the original IDO compiler on original hardware. You can even compile one of the many decompiled games like Super Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie and more that all will produce the exact binary shipped on the cartridge byte for byte, all from reverse engineered work to create byte matching equivalent C code.
by Fogest | 2026-02-08 23:11:50+00:00
> - maintaining change consistency. This I think it's just better than humans. If you have stuff you need to change at 2 or 3 places, you will probably forget. LLM's are better at keeping consistency at details (but not at big picture stuff, interestingly.)

I use Claude Code a decent amount, and I actually find that sometimes this can be the opposite for me. Sometimes it is actually missing other areas that the change will impact and causing things to break. Sometimes when I go to test it I need to correct it and point out it missed something or I notice when in the planning phase that it is missing something.

However I do find if you use a more powerful opus model when planning, it does consider things fully a lot better than it used to. This is actually one area I have been seeing some very good improvements as the models and tooling improves.

In fact, I actually hope that these AI tools keep getting better at the point you mention, as humans also have a "context limit". There are only so many small details I can remember about the codebase so it is good if AI can "remember" or check these things.

I guess a lot of the AI can also depend on your codebase itself, how you prompt it, and what kind of agents file you have. If you have a robust set of tests for your application you can very easily have AI tools check their work to ensure things aren't being broken and quickly fix it before even completing the task. If you don't have any testing more could be missed. So I guess it's just like a human in some sense. If you have a crappy codebase for the AI to work with, the AI may also sometimes create sloppy work.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-08 23:12:00+00:00
So the idea is that if I want the agent to add, say, a testimonial, I can write somewhere that "Agents can add testimonials, but not remove them" and I wouldn't need to design the code so that testimonials are a separate file with append only rights given to the Agent User? Allowing me to move forward with a testimonials.html that has all the testimonials hard coded?

Did I get that right?
by troymc | 2026-02-08 23:12:13+00:00
For most cars driving through air, at sea level, on planet Earth, at normal speed, the drag force F is proportional to the square of the speed (v^2).

That's not exponential because the speed (v) is not in the exponent. In fact, it's quadratic.

Corollaries: The power required to push the car at speed v will be proportional to Fv ~ v^3. The gas spent over time t ~ energy spent ~ power time ~ v^3 * time.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-08 23:12:22+00:00
Thank you. This is more reasonable way of phrasing this. That said, it is almost completely irrelevant to the subject at hand. Is it acceptable for you if I simply do not engage or am I obligated to offer a personal value statement as if I were an embassy representative?

I am not making fun of you. I treat words very seriously. I also treat them seriously enough to not direct every conversation to my pet cause ( whatever it may be ).
by dcre | 2026-02-08 23:12:29+00:00
“Shrinking since the election”, while technically true, is misleading because the election is when bsky experienced a massive spike in usage that was well over double the average before the election. Usage has been gradually decaying since then to a steady level much higher than it was before the election.

If you zoom out to a few years you can see the same pattern over and over at different scales — big exodus event from Twitter followed by flattening out at level that is lower than the spike but higher than the steady state before the spike. At this point it would make sense to say this is just how Bluesky grows.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Besides that, the entire point of this project is to increase the barrier to entry for potential contributors (while ideally giving good new people a way in). So I really don’t think they’re worried about this problem.
by vbezhenar | 2026-02-08 23:12:50+00:00
The benefit is to not type encryption password on every boot. TPM stores the encryption key and Secure Boot ensures that the system is not tampered.

That said, I think that it's better to use alternative approach. Use unencrypted signed system partition which presents login screen. After user typed their username and password, only user home gets decrypted. This scheme does not require TPM and only uses secure boot to ensure that system partition has not been altered. I think that macOS uses similar approach.
Show HN: ParaGopher v1.3.0 – A retro Paratrooper (1982) clone written in Go
by ystepanoff | 2026-02-08 23:13:02+00:00
Hey HN! I've been working on ParaGopher, a clone of the classic 1982 IBM PC game Paratrooper, built in Go with Ebitengine.

You control a turret defending your base against waves of helicopters dropping paratroopers. Tilt, shoot, and prevent them from landing — simple to pick up, surprisingly hard to master. Everything is rendered procedurally, so no image assets at all. Sprites (turret, helicopters, paratroopers, parachutes) are all generated with vector drawing at startup.

Pre-built binaries for macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows are on the releases page. Otherwise it's just go run cmd/game.go.

Would love feedback (especially on gameplay feel and what features you'd want to see next).
Show HN: Emergent – Artificial life simulation in a single HTML file
by usernameis42 | 2026-02-08 23:13:31+00:00
I built an artificial life simulator that fits in one HTML file (~1400 lines ~50KB) with Claude Opus 4.6, interestingly, I didn't even ask it to build the game itself, I've requested to create the software that didn't exist before and not use any dependencies, third-party libraries or ask questions.

Firstly Opus 4.6 made photoshop clone that barely worked, but had nice and neat UI with all common features for the image editor, then I've called that crap and asked to really build someting that wasn't there, it made Emergent there. Please check it out and tell what you think, of course it's a Game of Life in a nutshell, but look at the rest of the UI, game stats, and other features like genome mutation and species evolvement.

Features:
- Continuous diet gene (0–1) drives herbivore/carnivore/omnivore specialization
- Spatial hash grid for performant collision detection
- Pinch-to-zoom and tap-to-feed on mobile
- Real-time population graphs, creature inspector, and event log
- Drop food, trigger plagues, cause mutation bursts

Amazes me in some kind of a degree, going to continue dig into the abyss of the vibes :)
by marcusdev | 2026-02-08 23:14:06+00:00
I've been working on a tool to solve a problem I keep seeing at my day job when handling large-scale deployments and migrations. The “plan” is always scattered across internal docs, spreadsheets, and Slack threads. Coordinating work across multiple teams becomes messy fast

So I'm building Taskplan (https://taskplan.run) - it's like Ansible, but for people. Build a plan, assign tasks to people or teams, and get a real-time dashboard to track progress as the work happens.

I'd love feedback from anyone who deals with the same issues or works on ops-heavy projects.
by saipal | 2026-02-08 23:14:09+00:00
I’ve been working on a developer-facing sandbox for AI agents that focuses on budgeting and cost control, not payments.

In multi-agent setups, we kept running into issues where agents either hoarded resources or exhausted shared budgets unpredictably. So we built a control layer where agents operate using virtual credits, can temporarily rebalance budgets or split shared API costs, but everything stays under explicit human-defined limits with full audit logs and kill switches.

It’s intentionally not real money and not a financial product — more like infrastructure for coordinating agent spend safely. Mostly exploring how much autonomy you can give agents before cost becomes the real bottleneck.
by jmalicki | 2026-02-08 23:15:40+00:00
In the same way in Rust you can download a package with Cargo and use it without reimplementing it, an LLM can download and explore all written human knowledge to produce a solution.

Or how you can efficiently loop over all combinations of all inputs in a short computer program, it will just take awhile!

If you have a programming language where finding an efficient algorithm is a compiler optimization, then your programs can get a lot shorter.
by ponyous | 2026-02-08 23:15:45+00:00
https://grandpacad.com/

Dimensionally accurate AI 3D modelling. My grandpa has a 3D printer but struggles to use any complex tools. So I am working on this chat interface to allow him to do some simple models.

So far he has triggered more than 150 generations. It’s getting better every model cycle and gives me something I enjoy working on.
by Fnoord | 2026-02-08 23:16:16+00:00
To people who don't like this, ask yourself the following: would you complain to someone who had a too strict spam filter or firewall? Or would you be like, we'll work it out? That is how I regard this function: as a (crowdsourced / WoT) spam filter or firewall. Can it be annoying? For sure. Will you work around it if needed? If it is worth the hassle, yes.

How many important emails have been lost due to spam filters, how many important packets have been dropped by firewalls? Or, how much important email or important packets weren't sent because "it wasn't worth the hassle"? I'm sure all of that happened, but to which proportions? If it wasn't worth it, the measures would have been dropped. Same here: I regard it as a test, and if it isn't worth it, it'll be stopped. Personally, I run with a 'no spam' sticker on my physical postbox, as well as a 'no spam' for salesmen the former of which is enforced by national law.

FWIW, it is very funny to me, the people who ignore it: 1) very small businesses 2) shady businesses (possibly don't understanding the language?) 3) some charities who believe they're important (usually a nice response: 'oh, woops') 4) alt-right spammers who complain about the usual shit they find important (e.g. foreigners) 5) After 10 years I can report Jehova's have figured out the meaning of the texts (or remember to not bother here)!

It is my time, it is my door, my postbox. I'm the one who decide about it, not you.

Same here. It is their time, it is their project. They decide if you get to play along, and how. Their rules.
by ericblue | 2026-02-08 23:16:49+00:00
I’ve been working on a lightweight workflow that sits on top of Claude Code and Vibe Kanban to make AI-assisted development more structured and less fragile over time.

It’s not a product or UI. It’s a set of slash commands that run inside Claude Code and use Vibe Kanban (via MCP) as the persistent coordination layer.

The core flow is:

- PRD review with clarifying questions (optional PRD generation)

- Development plan with epics, task dependencies, complexity, and acceptance criteria

- Bidirectional sync with Vibe Kanban (drift detection, dependency violations)

- Task execution with full context (PRD + plan + AC + codebase)

Most of this has been exercised heavily in a single-task, human-in-the-loop model.

Recently I started experimenting with parallel execution, using full agent sessions in isolated git worktrees (and optional delegation to VK workspace sessions). Early results are promising: small batches of independent tasks complete much faster, while still stopping on conflicts and keeping humans in the loop for merges and judgment calls.

The main idea is treating task systems as memory and governance for agents, not just tracking, and making parallelism dependency-aware rather than optimistic.

Docs include architecture notes, comparisons with other agent frameworks, and a cookbook with concrete workflows.

Repo:
https://github.com/ericblue/claude-vibekanban

Would appreciate feedback, especially from folks who’ve tried running multiple agents on non-trivial codebases and hit coordination or drift issues.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-08 23:17:20+00:00
Your property rights don't end at ground level.

They do go up into the air, but it's basically "dozens" of feet, as opposed to hundreds. Drones can't fly at 10 ft above your property, that's clearly considered trespass/nuisance. But at 300 ft it's totally fine.

There's no exact precise "hard" limit like 100 ft because there doesn't need to be, and it depends on the height of your home, etc. But drones already aren't allowed to just hover above your pool at eye level. But if it's just passing overhead with plenty of room to spare and not specifically bothering you, then that doesn't belong to your property. Nor should it.
by spijdar | 2026-02-08 23:17:52+00:00
Yes! I don't use my O2 a lot (I think the PSU is flaky, and I'm not super interested in IRIX), but I'm aware of at least https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php, among other similar sites, full of people porting/developing software for IRIX. It's a pretty active community for a 90s workstation platform, the most active one I'm aware of!
by naasking | 2026-02-08 23:18:12+00:00
I agree LLMs are inefficient, but I don't think they are as inefficient as you imply. Human brains use a lot less power sure, but they're also a lot slower and worse at parallelism. An LLM can write an essay in a few minutes that would take a human days. If you aggregate all the power used by the human you're looking at kWh, much higher than the LLM used (an order of magnitude higher or more). And this doesn't even consider batch parallelism, which can further reduce power use per request.

But I do think that there is further underlying structure that can be exploited. A lot of recent work on geometric and latent interpretations of reasoning, geometric approaches to accelerate grokking, and as linear replacements for attention are promising directions, and multimodal training will further improve semantic synthesis.