MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brailsafe | 2026-02-05 02:45:05+00:00
> Speaking from experience, children (generally) aren't very good at predicting how best to spend their time, which is why involved parents are so important.

I don't disagree, but adults aren't either, they just have clearer incentives. Disconnect the incentives from the desired behaviour, or make the reward any more ambiguous than not being rained on, getting more currency, or preventing their kid from being deceased, and adults are just as lost much of the time.

Case in point, the tendency for people to consider skateboarding an unoptimal use of time, but (often) simultaneously be confused about why they're lonely and fat in midlife. Kids look to their parents as models for success, but haven't yet had their judgement manipulated, and can see right through all the bullshit while they watch them rot away commuting by car and sitting in front of the TV. There's no convincing argument these people have against social media, because they're telling their kids not to poison themselves with degenerate laziness and addiction while engaging in degenerate laziness and addiction, in addition to not being able to offer the incentives otherwise that they'd have had not to do that.

"Don't play videogames, you'll get bad grades"

"What do grades mean?"

"They'll let you get into a good school"

"What will a good school do for me?"

"It'll help you get a good job"

"What does it mean to get a good job?"

"Well, back in my day, you'd eventually get a house and maybe have some kids"

"Ya but what about now or 10 years from now?"

"I guess... you'll be able to rent more videogames.. run along then"
by laristine | 2026-02-05 02:45:26+00:00
I think OP could be just as astute as you meant. They probably know that Altman is engaging in marketing, but still tried to make a case that it shouldn't be a good strategy and instead illustrates his character. Not that I disagree, as people could see the unnecessary drama as a sign of immature behavior and a negative net result in the long term, regardless if it generates press today. As many other commenters remarked, they will from now think twice about trusting Altman's ventures in the future in light of this long-winded tweet.
Show HN: I built an all-in-one API client, DB client and Data inspector
by anlac96_it | 2026-02-05 02:46:09+00:00
Switching between Postman and Dbeaver, then any random JSON viewer, PDF parser online is boring and frustrating - especially when you have to test the same case again and again.

So I built an all-in-one API client, DB client, and Data Inspector.

What you can do with it:

1. Data inspector tool

It all started as a simple web tool for running multiple JSON queries. When I work with REST APIs, I get tired of testing the same endpoint and searching for the same set of fields over and over with Ctrl+F.

Main features:
- Support JSON, XML, or base64 encoded JSON
- Search by key, value
- Format/minify
- Multiple JSONPath query
- Data preview (Image, PDF, Table)

2. API Client

Copying API responses into the Data Inspector manually was still a pain, so I added a built-in API client and integrated the Data Inspector right into it.

Now you can inspect responses instantly without switching tools.

3. DB client

Copying data (usually otpCode or some kind of secret you can't get from REST APIs) from a DB tool to the API client is boring.
Same thing when you need to copy an object ID from an API response and query it in the database.

So I added a simple DB client. Nothing fancy - just a schema explorer and SQL query support.

4. Shared variables

All parts of the app - API client, DB client, and Data Inspector - can extract and reuse shared variables, just like Postman.

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So yeah, what started as a small JSON tool slowly grew into a full dev tool.
The goal is simple - make daily dev tasks less annoying.

Small note on downloads: the app is still early and doesn't have many users yet, so you might see a security warning during download.
The Windows version is signed with my personal Individual Certificate, so you'll see "Lac Tran An" as the publisher.

It comes with a 14-day free trial (no credit card needed), and there's an early bird $40 lifetime license.

I'd really appreciate any feedback - especially what feels useful or annoying.
Hope it helps with your daily workflow.

Thanks for reading.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-05 02:47:20+00:00
Why, when there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris ?

Still ignoring the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_fornix es and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-spot and how they are interconnected, though.

I'd throw in some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantric_sex , or rather https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini for good measure.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-05 02:47:35+00:00
You probably have seen it by now, but there was a llama.cpp issue that was fixed earlier today(?) to avoid looping and other sub-par results. Need to update llama-server as well as redownload the GGUFs (for certain quants).

https://old.reddit.com/r/unsloth/comments/1qvt6qy/qwen3coder...
by keyle | 2026-02-05 02:48:04+00:00
Why do you think that's the future?

Isn't a waste to essentially reinterpret an entire program that may be run 5000 times a day?

AOT compilation, how is that different than make && run?

At some point, you have a compiled language, if it's quick to compile, you're doing the AOT yourself, the scripting is an illusion. Pun intended.
Show HN: AI ASMR Voice – Text to ASMR Voice Generator
by leoncos | 2026-02-05 02:48:05+00:00
I am building a small text-to-speech model specifically tuned for ASMR and relaxation content.

Most TTS models are designed for clarity and energy. To get that specific "tingles" effect, I fine-tuned this model on a dataset of ASMR recordings to capture the breathiness, whispering, and soft dynamics that standard models usually filter out.

Currently, the control is text-only (no speed or pitch sliders yet), but there is an interesting emergent behavior:

Because of the training data, the model sometimes "hallucinates" or generates ambient background sounds—like crackling fire, ocean waves, or soft static—along with the voice, depending on the context of the text you input. It’s not a background track mixer; the model is actually generating these sounds as part of the audio output.

I put up a simple web demo to test it out. I'd love to hear what you think about the voice texture and if you encounter any interesting ambient generations.

Check it out here: https://www.aiasmrvoice.com/en
by __float | 2026-02-05 02:48:38+00:00
That's part of my problem. I actually don't love how many billion options Anki has, and I'd love something with a more opinionated UI.

(I think the data model underneath Anki is...showing its age (and lack of explicit design) and building that on top of it would not be too easy. I've thought about it a few times.)
by MBCook | 2026-02-05 02:49:13+00:00
If you want games, you want Windows. Though Valve is finally chipping away at that.

But mostly it’s cost. It’s simply far cheaper to buy a Windows computer than a Mac if you just want a computer. There are no sub-$300 Macs brand new.

In so many ways, for so many reasons, people “must” use Windows.
by Spivak | 2026-02-05 02:50:24+00:00
For your actual production systems you might consider systemd-creds along with the LoadCredential= and LoadCredentialEncrypted= directives which do the* right thing. Nothing is exposed and credentials are placed in non-swappable memory. You can even have your credentials encrypted at rest with your system's TPM.

* Well, one of the correct ways of doing this.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-05 02:50:30+00:00
> In the morning I typically check my work calendar, my personal calendar, the shared family calendar, and the kids' various school calendars. It would be convenient to have these aggregated. (Copying events or sending new events to all of the calendars works well until I forget and one slips through the cracks...)

Why in the world would you use a non-deterministic system for something so banal but important?

LLMs regularly let things slip through the cracks in ways no human would ever do so.
Show HN: Dengen Shrine – A privacy-focused digital Shinto ritual
by yumeda | 2026-02-05 02:50:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I built "Dengen Shrine," a web-based experience of a traditional Japanese Shinto ritual.

Key Features:

Privacy by Design: Your "Kotodama" (messages/prayers) are never stored in any database. They exist only in the animation and vanish upon completion.

No Login Required: You can experience the ritual instantly without an account.

Digital Offering: For those who wish to support the project, I’ve integrated a "digital offering" (Osaisen) via Stripe. This is completely optional—you can experience the core ritual for free without any payment. It’s not a donation, but a paid digital experience that unlocks a unique "Completion Message" for supporters.

Why I built this: I wanted to explore how ancient traditions like Shinto can be reinterpreted in a digital, ephemeral way. In Shinto, words have spirits (Kotodama), and I felt that the "ephemeral" nature of the web was a perfect fit for this.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the UI/UX and the concept of "ephemeral digital rituals."
by pfranz | 2026-02-05 02:50:51+00:00
This page probably has the most detail: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

This article is a few years old, but has more of a plain-English, third party explanation: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/21/what-apple-surren...

Its fair not to trust Apple or any company, but Google and a lot of companies were scanning the cloud versions without the negative press Apple got. My understanding is Apple proposed scanning on-device because images were encrypted in the cloud. Uploading and have manual review process seems like a big ongoing cost.

Personally, I dont think Apple is doing anything with photos it stores in the cloud.

Like the first article says, technically they could, because they store the encryption key for user-convenience. Turning on Advanced Data Protection should take away their ability to decrypt photos. But there are a whole bunch of caveats if you're talking about all cloud their data and that has changed over the years.
by toast0 | 2026-02-05 02:51:53+00:00
> On the evening news parents or neighbors will often say “he seemed like a nice kid; I never saw him do anything bad.”

If you're ever interviewed by the news, you have a moral imperitive to say "They were always such a good kid. I would have never suspected this." regardless of if you know the kid, or you would have suspected it. A) who needs reporters in neighborhoods digging up dirt like this. B) if it were you, or your kids, you'd want people to say the same thing for you.
by willtemperley | 2026-02-05 02:51:53+00:00
I think there may be other factors killing SaaS, particularly data sovreignty.

"According to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey from June 2025, 45% of all organizations and 56% of “digital natives” cited data sovereignty and potential cloud changes as their greatest concern for 2026."

https://www.veeam.com/blog/saas-data-sovereignty-microsoft-3...
by itishappy | 2026-02-05 02:54:03+00:00
Imagine watching Netflix out of the corner of your eye. You wouldn't notice those transitions at all. Your eyes and brain are mind bogglingly good at making stuff up.

Do you know you have a big hole in your vision in each eye where the optic nerve is? It's about half the size of your fist at arm's length, and 35 degrees to the side. Your fovea happens to be roughly the same size. It's the HD part of your retina, and it's where essentially all of your vision happens. It's the only section of the retina that sees color, for instance. The periphery sees motion and that's about it.

Saccades top out at around 700 degrees per second. At 120 frames per second that's only about 6 degrees in either direction. Compared to the FOV, that's tiny. Overfill it!
by licyeus | 2026-02-05 02:55:34+00:00
We live in an era where attention matters more than reality. Chronically online CEOs are aware of this.

Om Malik has been writing about this recently, especially regarding OpenAI / Altman [1], but you can see it everywhere.

1 - https://om.co/2026/02/02/openai-and-the-announcement-economy...
by skybrian | 2026-02-05 02:55:47+00:00
It's a bit more complicated. On average, someone is paying, but averages can be misleading. As we see with free-to-play games, whales can subsidize a lot of usage by other people who don't pay a thing.

It seems like the same is true of advertising. Yes, some people are spending money but it doesn't necessarily follow that they're people who can't afford it.
by MBCook | 2026-02-05 02:55:56+00:00
The fact that Google grabbed a monopoly and now is making bank does not mean the product is good.

It was amazing.

Today it’s pretty terrible for me. I’ve switched to Kagi.

But Google has a MASSIVE advantage. They have the most used browser (they push the hell out of it). They get the most search traffic, so they can use that to tune results better than anyone (if they want). Thats part of how they took off so fast. Got so good. The rich get richer.

And everyone knows Google is #1 by 1000 miles. So that’s the engine they want to be in. That’s whose advice they follow.

Google gets the searches so it can get better faster. It gets the eyeballs to make the money to invest in other Google stuff. All of it pushes Chrome, which pushes Google Search.

Google is not the best. Google years ago was. They’re a shadow of their former self, destroyed by spam of their creation and AI slop they’ve helped make.

They’re still THE default. But as they say, “past performance is not an indicator of future success“.
by dmix | 2026-02-05 02:58:19+00:00
> What people are talking about doing with OpenClaw I find absolutely insane.

Based on their homepage the project is two months old and the guy described it as something he "hacked together over a weekend project" [1] and published it on github. So this is very much the Raspberry Pi crowd coming up with crazy ideas and most of them probably don't work well, but the potential excites them enough to dabble in risky areas.

[1] https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
by eric2675 | 2026-02-05 02:59:34+00:00
Author here.I've been analyzing the recent consensus on hybrid architectures (like Jamba/Mamba), which suggests a sparse 1:7 Attention-to-SSM ratio is optimal.I argue that this is a "Poverty Compromise"—a local maximum optimized for hardware efficiency, not intelligence. From a control theory perspective, the global maximum for intelligence exists at a symmetric 1:1 ratio ($T = \Omega$).However, my mathematical modeling suggests that a 1:1 system generates critical instability (divergence) unless it is coupled with a strong Grounding Manifold ($\Delta_{\Phi}$). Since current SOTA lacks this grounding, engineers are forced to retreat to the safer 1:7 ratio.I included a Python simulation in the Gist to visualize the thermal stability gap between the current SOTA (1:7) and the theoretical Singularity state (1:1). Happy to discuss the math.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-05 02:59:48+00:00
Indeed, LUKS + F2FS for /home with an external key file imported into initrd solves a lot of issues.

Primarily, when an SSD slowly fails the sector replacement allotment has already bled data into read-only areas of the drive. As a user, there is no way to reliably scrub that data.

If the drive suddenly bricks, the warranty service will often not return the original hardware... and just the password protection on an embedded LUKS key is not great.

There are effective disposal methods:

1. shred the chips

2. incinerate the chips

Wiping/Trim sometimes doesn't even work if the Flash chips are malfunctioning. =3
by dmix | 2026-02-05 03:00:32+00:00
> However this does not excuse Apple to sit with their thumbs up their asses for all these years.

They've been wildly successful for all of those years. They've never been in the novel software business. Siri though one could argue was neglected, but it was also neglected at Amazon Alexa and Google home stuff still sucks too (mostly because none of them made any money and most of their big ideas for voice assistants never came true).
by inheritedwisdom | 2026-02-05 03:01:20+00:00
In my experience this isn’t the case. SaaS systems, at the least the ones that are embracing this sea change seem to recognize that connectivity is key. They are opening APIs and partnering like we’ve never seen. They lack the domain expertise and resources to plumb the last mile. Companies can finally customize and integrate there core SORs at a reasonable price point and if you hire the right people decent technology. It’s a golden era, I do wonder if you’re correct medium/long term but the lack of skill sets to build, deploy, and maintain these solutions is very real. Many can vibe code a great looking app, very few can support it day two even for just a few hundred users.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-05 03:03:39+00:00
Sure its fun to (vibe) code some internal version for a SaaS, but maintain it month after month? Maintain SLAs, etc? That's not fun.

Vibe coding gives you that dopamine hit of creation, but does the internal dev really want to deal with the care and feeding of the random shitty timesheet app they created?

Do they want to take on the work of integrating random backend systems that timesheet system needs to talk to? Do they want to get called at 3AM when it's down?

Even AI assisted, living year after year with production systems is hard.
Show HN: Superfocus – Pomodoro timer and focus app for students
by Jcjimenez | 2026-02-05 03:04:10+00:00
Superfocus is a Pomodoro timer and time management app for students who need to focus. It has configurable time blocks, a task list so you never miss deadlines, ambient "cassettes" for study vibe, and a leaderboard. Web app – free tier, monthly or lifetime. I built it after struggling to stay focused during exam prep; would love feedback from other students or remote workers.
by hyruo | 2026-02-05 03:04:17+00:00
In China, there is only one way to deal with this situation: when the police summon you for the first time, do not bring your phone. Before the second summons, get a new phone or completely format your old one. However, this does not apply in cases of ongoing crimes or when someone is already wanted by the authorities, as they will not be given a second chance.
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-05 03:04:52+00:00
> Then why are you asking for legal advice on HN?

I didn't ask for legal advice. I was challenging my parent comment with a rhetorical question. With that rhetorical question, I meant that there is no way for the parent commenter to ensure that liabilities will be bounded, so I was implying that they were incorrect in saying that one can get very ver far. Please read the messages more carefully before jumping to incorrect conclusions.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-05 03:05:31+00:00
I see, so you're saying the file end of rsync is forced to wait for the network because the filesystem itself waits, not the network end of rsync. That makes sense.

Though I wonder what the actual delay is. The numbers in the post implied several milliseconds, enough to maybe account for 30 seconds of the 8 minutes. But maybe changing files resets the transfer speed a bunch.
by razodactyl | 2026-02-05 03:05:32+00:00
My opinion is it seems counter to what made Apple so successful in the first place: second mover advantage, see where everyone else fails and plug the gap.

You're right on the liability front - Apple still won because everyone bought their hardware and their margins are insanely good. It's not that they're sitting by waiting to become irrelevant, they're playing the long game as they always do.
by bsimpson | 2026-02-05 03:05:36+00:00
I wonder if there will be PIN support.

Security seems to be less considered on headsets, but I definitely don't want anything in unlocked SteamOS Game Mode to have access to my Google/Chrome credentials (which are also what logs you into YouTube).

I have a Legion Go, which has a touchpad on the controller. Any questions I can answer for you?
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-05 03:05:44+00:00
Oh, that hot-air blower...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533175 <- my complaint, a few years ago. Regarding Lex Fridman episode, featuring him. Wondering what the people like about them both? The interviever doing not much at all, the interviewhee talking shit, most eloquently. Yawn.

https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach-3-transcript/
by plagiarist | 2026-02-05 03:05:47+00:00
That subreddit was banned far too late. They had been urging for violence and hatred for quite some time. But action was taken only after the clowns inside of it were declaring they'd murder police officers executing a warrant (regarding legislators staying home to block quorum or whatever it was).

Of course in 2026 it is apparently fine to break into homes without a warrant and execute protesters. The same people are able to "believe" two literally opposite concepts.
by danpalmer | 2026-02-05 03:06:11+00:00
> Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed.

This goal was previously stated as "early 2026". I think they're retconning a bit here.

That said, they're in a very tough situation. Most other manufacturers are either: hedged, have long term supply contracts, past their peak sales, or haven't announced a product yet. Valve are in a particularly awkward spot having announced and (implicitly) extent set expectations about pricing, while likely not having all the contracts finalised to meet that pricing.
by nubg | 2026-02-05 03:06:26+00:00
People miss this a lot. Coding is just a (small) part of building a product. You get a much better bang for the buck if you focus your time on talking to the user, dogfooding, and then vibecoding. It also allows you to do many more iterations with even large changes because since your didn't "write" the code, you don't care about throwing it away.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-05 03:06:31+00:00
> Especially when that GPS system is guaranteed to be worse than Google maps and not as well supported.

I use my car's GPS nav over my phone's because I don't notice being appreciably worse for navigating, but I do notice the ads on Google Maps being appreciably worse than the lack of ads on my car's nav system.

Also doing nav on my phone thrashes my phone battery.
by fnordpiglet | 2026-02-05 03:06:36+00:00
I’m not sure I understand why creating the gradient is hard - use a phase transitioning heat pump to a high surface area radiator. The radiator doesn’t have to be hotter than the heat source the radiator just has to be hot, but given the fact we are talking about a space data center, you can certainly use the heat pump to make the radiator much hotter than any single GPU, and even use the energy from the heat cycle to power the pumps, but I imagine such a data center the power draw of the heat pump would be tiny compared to the GPUs.

To be clear I’m not advocating KSP as a reality simulator, or that data centers in space isn’t totally bonkers. However the reality is the hotter the radiator the smaller the surface area for pure radiance dissipation of heat.
by sien | 2026-02-05 03:06:48+00:00
One of the biggest things though is housing.

The US, Australia and probably most developed countries have declining productivity in construction.

(1985)
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w1555/w1555...

(2025)
https://www.nber.org/digest/202502/stagnation-us-constructio...

That shouldn't be tied to China. Indeed arguably China might help with cheaper materials potentially.