MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cbarrick | 2026-02-15 19:18:45+00:00
Quite an unhinged take.

The claim that malware "makes a ton of money" for Apple definitely needs a citation. I certainly don't believe it.

Obviously, Apple understands that the reputational damage from malware is more costly than any cut they might get from the miniscule sales of it. Apple might be evil (for some definition of "evil"), but they're not dumb.

Occam's Razor and Halon's Razor are aligned here. Apple would prefer this app not exist, but somehow it slipped through the review.
by belorn | 2026-02-15 19:18:53+00:00
The Snowden files showed in great details how European countries used US intelligence to spy on EU citizens and then request that data through intel sharing, thus bypassing local and EU law. It was an effective way to get the benefits of spying on your citizens with a plausible deniability that it was the Americans who did it, and that the fact that data was shared is simply a fact of Nato and other deals between EU and US.

Obviously this is not something EU citizens want. If we wanted it, we would issue laws that gave the military and police the right to do it themselves. The only reason that this roundabout way came to exist is that such surveillance would not pass unnoticed by voters.

There are some "more local" alternatives. Sweden for example can (and as rumors goes, do) use neighboring countries like Denmark to spy on Swedish citizens by looking at network traffic that goes over the border. People have argued however that this is a bit worse of an deal since you don't get access to the larger intelligence network that US has, and you also have to trust your neighbors with possible sensitive data.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-15 19:18:56+00:00
Thanks for that.

> As I said in that Berlin speech:

>> Enshittification names the problem and proposes a solution. It's not just a way to say 'things are getting worse' (though of course, it's fine with me if you want to use it that way. It's an English word. We don't have der Rat für englische Rechtschreibung. English is a free for all. Go nuts, meine Kerle).

Unfortunately, I just think that Cory is wrong in the sense that ... while it's true the English is a free for all (most languages are, really) ... there's an actual cost to the sloppy usage which diminishes the utility of ever even coming up with the word. It's obviously fine for Cory to be fine with it (along with anyone else being fine with it), but at a point in time where it actually is the theory that matters, I think the cost ought to be considered more seriously.

Somewhere in the not too distant future, the theory/concept that enshittification identifies will be of less importance for a variety of reasons, and loose use of the word won't matter, because the theory/concept will be either irrelevant or widely known or both. But right now, when someone wants to talk about Cory's idea about how internet services are deliberately degraded over time, it's incredibly helpful to have a "unique" term for that.
by gorpy7 | 2026-02-15 19:19:00+00:00
Programming is hard, even for someone who has an interest in it. i know some c# just for selenium work- honestly im quite terrible and have too little concentration or innate skill to get anywhere. i’ve made attempts but they fizzle. Those barriers of esoteric knowledge are folding like card castles now. would it be helpful to understand perfectly the underlying principles, heck yeah, but i want to see my visions for different programs come to life! apps that i believe don’t exist. I sincerely don’t mean it as jab to the author but programmers tend to be rigid thinkers and it’s totally practical to do PoC on golf but yeah, rigid thinking doesn’t always result in novelty. let’s let things play out and see what happens when this sort of capability reaches other creatives/types of people. and as the tools strengthen and expand.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-15 19:19:06+00:00
Right. L3 caches, i.e. SRAMs of tens of MB or greater sizes have a latency that is only 2 to 3 times better than DRAM. SRAMs of only a few MB, like most L2 caches, may have a latency 10 times less than DRAM. L1 caches, of around 64 kB, may have a latency 3 to 5 times better than L2 caches.

The throughput of caches becomes much greater than of DRAM only when they are separated, i.e. each core has its private L1+L2 cache memory, so the transfers between cores and private caches can be done concurrently, without interference between them.

When an SRAM cache memory is shared, the throughput remains similar to that of external DRAM.

If the Cerebras memory is partitioned in many small blocks, then it would have low latency and high aggregate throughput for data that can be found in the local memory block, but high latency and low throughput for data that must be fetched from far away.

On the other hand, if there are fewer bigger memory blocks, the best case latency and throughput would be worse, but the worst case would not be so bad.
by messe | 2026-02-15 19:20:37+00:00
> Oidce sa Coill = The class/lesson/teaching in the woods/forest

> Oidce tar Oidceanta = Lesson upon lesson

I suspect these are actually mistranscribed by the project. That looks more like it should be "Oiḋċe sa Coill" or "Oidhche sa Choill" without the ponc séimhithe, and in modern spelling "Oíche sa Choill" - "A Night in the Forest". Comparing the transcription of the first chapter with the source in the PDF they're missing a fada (an acute accent for non-Irish speakers) in "ná".

Similarly, I'd probably render the second one as "Night upon Nights".
Show HN: DoScript – Automation language with English-like syntax
by server-lab | 2026-02-15 19:20:41+00:00
I got frustrated with bash/PowerShell syntax for simple automation, so I built DoScript - an automation language that reads like English.

Example:

make folder "Backup"
for_each file_in "Documents"
if_ends_with ".pdf"
copy {file_path} to "Backup"
end_if
end_for

Built in Python. Includes a visual node-based IDE for building workflows graphically. Only 8.5 MB installer, works cross-platform.

I designed the syntax and language structure (~90%), used AI to help with the Python implementation. Currently v0.6.6 - I use it daily for file organization, backups, and system monitoring.

Features: file ops, JSON/CSV handling, HTTP requests, time-based conditionals, system monitoring, and more.

Would love feedback from the HN community!
by YZF | 2026-02-15 19:21:09+00:00
You got this all wrong.

First of all Netanyahu is not a war criminal. He has not been convicted of any war crimes. Even if for a microsecond we entertain the idea that the ICC has any relationship to justice or morality then people are still innocent until proven guilty. At least in the world we want to live in, i.e. not China or Russia or most other countries where freedom and human rights do not exist. And the ICC is a political circus not a real court.

The US is going after the ICC because it perceives the ICC to be working against its interests and for the interests of the non-free/non-democratic world. If the spinless Europeans weren't, eh, spineless, then they would be working with the US here.

It is also totally antisemitic to say Israel has a stronghold over the US. Just because you make a disclaimer doesn't make it less so. Israel has no hold over the US. Last I checked the Saudis and the Qatari have a lot more influence. It just happens that there is an alignment of interests here. The US doesn't wish to yield any sovereignty to these fake and corrupt institutions serving autocratic regimes any more than Israel does. Israel carries its weight in its alliance with the US far more than other so called allies.

Every decent person and country should be standing with other countries that support democracy and freedom.
Yes, the current US president and administration are not great, and the current Israeli government ain't great either, but at least in democracies we can replace them. Unlike most of the world that's a) much worse b) people have no voice. So between the option of our imperfect western democracies and the likes of Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, I know what I'm picking. And those are the forces seeking to divide and destroy the west so that they can take over.
Show HN: GPU Perpetual Futures Prototype
by ozzymandiaz96 | 2026-02-15 19:21:17+00:00
GPU rental prices are super volatile but there's no
derivatives market to hedge. I built a perpetual futures platform to see what
this could look like.

The idea is airlines hedge jet fuel, starbucks hedges coffee beans - as GPU
compute becomes critical infrastructure the same hedging tools should exist.
Not sure if anyone actually needs this but it was interesting to build.

How it works:
- Pulls live H200 spot prices from Vast.ai every 15s into a tradeable index
- Full perp mechanics: funding rates, mark price calc, real-time P&L
- Event-driven Rust backend with supervisor pattern and circuit breakers
- Next.js frontend with TradingView charts, real-time WebSocket updates

What's real vs simulated:
- Real: Index construction, funding rate engine, forward curve, state persistence
- Simulated: Order book depth and trade matching (its a single-client demo)

The backend is the part I'm most proud of - isolated tasks coordinated by a
supervisor, each has it's own state machine so if one component fails it doesn't
take down the others. Tried to build it with production patterns in mind even
though its just a demo.

Also made a 15-page derivatives pricing doc that covers the economic model and
hedging scenarios. Basically: rental prices = f(CAPEX, utilization, depreciation)
so futures pricing reveals market expectations about GPU supply/demand.

GitHub: https://github.com/zacharyfrederick/compex

Would love feedback on the architecture or if the market mechanics actually
make sense. First time building something like this.
by icegreentea2 | 2026-02-15 19:21:27+00:00
Yeah, the initial comments are pretty glazey, but go to the second and third pages of comments (ars default sorts by time). I'll pull some quotes:

> If there is a thread for redundant comments, I think this is the one. I, too, will want to see substantially more followup here, ideally this week. My subscription is at stake.

> I know Aurich said that a statement would be coming next week, due to the weekend and a public holiday, so I appreciate that a first statement came earlier. [...] Personally, I would expect Ars to not work with the authors in the future

> (from Jim Salter, a former writer at Ars) That's good to hear. But frankly, this is still the kind of "isolated incident" that should be considered an immediate firing offense.

> Echoing others that I’m waiting to see if Ars properly and publicly reckons with what happened here before I hit the “cancel subscription” button
by einpoklum | 2026-02-15 19:21:45+00:00
Hopefully, what this should motivate is the emphasis on products which can be _disassembled_, taken apart, other than through destruction.

It may also become less costly to take products with flaws and fix them up: Right now, it's not profitable; but if one can't just chuck them away, then the cost-benefit analysis changes.

Less throw-away fashion hopefully.
by wackget | 2026-02-15 19:21:58+00:00
Yeah, it is shocking. And that's why it needed to be legislated. Companies prove time and time again that they will take the easiest route to minimise losses and maximise profits, even if that means destroying the environment or wasting perfectly good merchandise to do so.

They're not destroying clothing because it's inherently unsellable, or hazardous, or damaged beyond repair. They destroy it because it's easier to dump excess stuff than it is to set up responsible channels to get rid of it.

Many "high fashion" shithouses intentionally destroy excess stock so that their precious branded status symbols can't get into the hands of the filthy proles, which would dilute their brand recognition.

These "regulatory burdens", as you call them, are the only thing holding back companies from further messing up the planet and I welcome them with open arms.
by trilogic | 2026-02-15 19:22:04+00:00
WOW such a great work. Myself I have been struggling with Mingw just to compile from source. Of course it works much cleaner then the hated visual studio, but then when it comes to cuda compile, that´s it.
Visual studio or the magority our there, It is invasive and full of bloatware like you say.
Same struggle with electron.

How to match it with cuda to compile from source the repos?
by alterom | 2026-02-15 19:22:30+00:00
>Yes, because the post isn’t about Discord.

I love the mental gymnastics it takes to say that an article titled "Discord: A case study in performance optimization", which describes what Discord is, talks about Discord's architecture, and lauds it as "a finely-tuned system that delivers speed, scale, and reliability" isn't aKsHuAlLy about Discord.

>Hacker News always devalues generic comments like those

First: you are not Hacker News, please don't speak for others. Some people did find my comment relevant. They are just as much Hacker News as you are.

Second: my comment wasn't generic. It pointed out that the timing of this article is conspicuous given the news that, at the moment of writing that comment, were not discussed widely on HN.

Since then, someone has posted the exact link I mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021421

So, sorry, but reality disagrees with your assessment of it.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-15 19:22:59+00:00
People here are making arguments about what should be. Either as interpretations or created laws.

We all know that the actual interpretation is up to 5 republicans on the supreme court and whatever they feel on a given day will increase their side's power/ideology.

No one is going to be making arguments about that because there's no point, you can't logic someone out of a position that they didn't use logic to get to in the first place.

So again, when someone on a forum says "this is wrong and something should be done about it" replying that it might technically be legal at this moment in time is incredibly useless. It's completely missing the point.
by Soocile | 2026-02-15 19:23:05+00:00
First of all, it's great to receive such feedback from a system architect like yours! Thank you for that. I'm trying my best; it will be a long-term project, and I'm considering a serious EDR platform. As you said, I'm planning endpoint cloud systems and even custom sandbox - AI integrations for these cloud systems, but these require money, and I can't afford them right now. Also, the product is still in its early stages and has a long way to go, but I will definitely try to add them in the future. As someone familiar with EDRs, I know them inside and out. I'm also thinking of adding systems like threat management dashboards, but if I do that, I'll probably have to release it as an Enterprise version of ShadowStrike, but as I said, these are things that will happen over time. This year, I'm completely focused on Shadow Sensor; it's a really challenging area, and I'm learning a lot while trying to do a good job. Let's see how things go.
by int0x29 | 2026-02-15 19:23:22+00:00
Last I checked the license for the headless toolchain requires that a full licensed copy of Visual Studio be installed somewhere. So I think this violates the license terms.

A bug got opened against the rustup installing the headless toolchain by itself at some point. I'll see if I can find it

edit:
VSCode bug states this more clearly https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/95745
by runarberg | 2026-02-15 19:23:38+00:00
To clarify, this is a consumer protection law which is set in all EEA countries. Discounts are regulated to prevent stores from tricking their customers into thinking they are getting a product at a lower then usual price. You can only claim a product is on discount if the price has been lowered from a previous price less then x-days ago (I think 2 weeks is not uncommon), after which this discount becomes the new price.

As a European immigrant to the USA, it infuriates me to no end that American stores are allowed to use the words “price” and “discount” interchangeably. When I get things “on a discount” I expect to be paying lower then usual price.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-15 19:23:46+00:00
Purchase? You're misunderstanding how government consultancy works (this is what EU states use consultancy firms for, and that's what Palantir really is)

A purchase works as follows: I like ice cream. I give you 5$. You give me an ice cream. I enjoy ice cream.

This is: government likes private health data. Hospital gives Palantir 5$, and your health data, repeat for 1 million patients. Palantir gives the health data to government, employs the nephew of the head of the healthcare regulator. Your unemployment gets denied because the doctor said you could work.

Buying means exchanging money for goods and services. This is exchanging money AND goods AND services for nothing. It's highly illegal for private companies, if you try it you'll get sued by the tax office the second they see it and find all company accounts blocked "just in case", but of course if you are the government, directly or indirectly, it's just fine and peachy.

And you might think "this makes no sense". But you'd be advised to check out who appoints the head of the hospital first. It does make sense. (In fact just about the only break on this behavior in most EU countries is that the Vatican still has control over the board of a very surprising number of hospitals. Needless to say, the EU governments really hate that, but there tend to be deals around this. For example, in Belgium the hospitals get 50% less per resident. These sorts of deals were made, but they now mean that if the government wants the Vatican out of the board ... they have to increase spending on that hospital, often by a lot. I'd call them "Vatican hospitals" but one thing government and the Vatican really agree on is that they do not want patients to know the underlying financial arrangements around hospitals, and in many cases it's quite difficult to find who controls a hospital even though it's technically public information)
by jpetry26 | 2026-02-15 19:23:48+00:00
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P.s: I’m interested in part-time jobs as well.
by linkregister | 2026-02-15 19:24:35+00:00
Software engineering as a field has exceptionally low worker solidarity. This is largely because the talent and productivity is so stratified that even the median engineer produces an order of magnitude less value than the p95. Furthermore, a sufficient amount of opportunities exist —for engineers to become capitalists by founding, joining, or investing in an enterprise early enough to capture its upside— to credibly convince individuals that they may achieve this.

Software engineers in aggregate will happily automate themselves out of a job. Legal cartels like the AMA and the ABA will persist. It would take years of strong threats to software engineers' livelihoods to compel them to support a cartel of their own. Even the first step for their regulatory capture, credentialization, is rejected, as enough autodidacts without degrees practice in the field.

Essentially, too many software engineers view themselves as temporary embarrassed millionaires, rather than workers who need to band together. Automation in the field is happening faster than individuals' minds will change.
by snowpid | 2026-02-15 19:24:49+00:00
" The US is going after the ICC because it perceives the ICC to be working against its interests and for the interests of the non-free/non-democratic world. If the spinless Europeans weren't, eh, spineless, then they would be working with the US here. " Why? What are the interest of the free world?

"Every decent person and country should be standing with other countries that support democracy and freedom." Netanyahu has some problems with the constitutional court in Israel + corruption allegations. If he succeeds, Israel might become authoritarian and though there is a growing antisemitism some Israel consider leaving Israel because of him.
by wackget | 2026-02-15 19:25:57+00:00
I think some people here on Hacker News are semi-deluded free market fundamentalists who believe they're going to be future billionaires, so they naturally gravitate towards protecting the rights of big business to do whatever it wants, even if it hurts people and the planet.

The only people who think that destroying useful items is a good idea are those who would stand to lose money from it; either by having to pay a tiny fraction of their massive annual revenue for responsible recycling services, or by having their brand's reputation diluted by having their wares sold or (even worse) donated to the needy.
by neya | 2026-02-15 19:26:13+00:00
It's not that hard to find out. Copy paste the text into any AI detector online. I pasted it into Grammarly and it says it's AI content with a 99% accuracy.

Easiest way, however - any article that uses em dashes instead of regular hyphens is most likely AI. Normal bloggers, particularly in casual tech circles don't use em dashes. When was the last time you ever used an em dash? Me? Never.
by babybjornborg | 2026-02-15 19:26:32+00:00
Apparel firms exist not to clothe people as common sense would suggest but to make a profit, and this practice of erring on the side of overproduction is more profitable than under production. The perfect solution would be to produce exactly the number of goods they will sell, but forecasts aren't perfect so they overproduce. Firms are already incentivised by profit to not waste, so this adds another incentive and removes the pollution externality they have been enjoying. So now either they err closer to under-production and risk missing out on sales or secondary market supply of their goods increases leading to possible brand dilution. So in the end the value of these companies ends up lower than before, less pollution, and apparel is cheaper. I'd like to know more about the equity and carbon effects of the process they will need to now follow. So they trade destruction with shipping a crate to Africa. What is the difference? Firms will be less profitable, manufacturing is reduced, who is impacted by that?
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-15 19:26:50+00:00
There are residential jurisdictions within USA that require metal conduit between jboxes (e.g. Chicagoland) — initially more expensive, but much easier to modify/update. Flexible plastic conduit doesn't seem to offer barely any more protection than a standard US NM sheathed cable.

As an electrician of two decades, my commonest USA gripes are these:

•) grounding wires should always have insulation, too (instead of just bare)

•) modern NM isn't protected enough (neither physically nor chemically)

•) jboxes should have better wire anchoring inside, and bigger in general

•) oldwork cut-in jboxes aren't substantial enough even perfectly installed for long-term use (if you screw them to an adjacent stud they're great, but this is against code for grounding reasons).
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-15 19:27:22+00:00
For me the interesting alternate reality is where CPUs got stuck in the 200-400mhz range for speed, but somehow continued to become more efficient.

It’s kind of the ideal combination in some ways. It’s fast enough to competently run a nice desktop GUI, but not so fast that you can get overly fancy with it. Eventually you’d end up OSes that look like highly refined versions of System 7.6/Mac OS 8 or Windows 2000, which sounds lovely.