MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chickensong | 2026-02-22 10:39:20+00:00
Thank you for creating such a wonderful site! Woodblock printing is one of my favorite art forms.

My grandparents visited Japan long ago and gifted me two wooden boxes, one with this print on the lid: https://ukiyo-e.org/image/aic/99027_512658 and the other with https://ukiyo-e.org/image/honolulu/8277. They're secret boxes with no hinges or hardware, but if you press on certain locations in the correct order, sections will slide and the lid unlocks and can be opened.

Is there a way to stay informed of when your new print site launches?
by yellowapple | 2026-02-22 10:41:31+00:00
Calling that collapse page “nerd-prepper material” is a bit reductionist; there's very clearly a solarpunk/left-libertarian bent to it (even ignoring the broader context of the rest of the site) that contrasts pretty starkly with the typical prepper “my house is my castle” right-propertarian mentality. The prepper seeks to survive and rule over the ashes, assuming the throne of the same legacy socioeconomic systems that produced the collapse in the first place; the solarpunk seeks to survive and build something better than ashes, learning from the mistakes of those legacy socioeconomic systems and hopefully preventing history from repeating itself. The prepper centers on the individual, or maybe one's family; the solarpunk centers on the community.
Show HN: Brevoir The due diligence infrastructure that angel investing never had
by nabuhad | 2026-02-22 10:41:34+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Brevoir after watching an angel investor I know closely make five figure decisions off a 15 minute pitch and a gut feeling. No research infrastructure, no analyst, just vibes and a deck. Turns out this is basically everyone's problem in early stage investing.

The individual investor market exploded over the last decade. The tooling never kept up. What exists was built for institutions with research teams and analyst budgets. Nobody built the infrastructure layer for the person writing their own checks.

Brevoir is that layer. Drop in a pitch deck or company URL and the platform runs a full due diligence report across 7 sections: founder background, market validation, competitor mapping, traction signals, risk flags, comparable analysis, and a Brevoir Score. Under 2 minutes. Parallel research agents, best in class OCR and web crawling, and a lot of investment specific logic built on top to make the output decision grade, not just a summary.

We also just shipped a full deal management platform on top of it. Kanban pipeline, deal rooms, tags, CSV import. Brevoir is the operating system for how an individual investor runs their entire deal flow from first look to decision.

First report is free, no credit card. Would love feedback from anyone who evaluates startups.
brevoir.com
Show HN: Screenix, a Screen Studio Alternative for Ubuntu
by femtobusa | 2026-02-22 10:41:57+00:00
Mac has Screen Studio, Windows has FocuSee but Ubuntu had nothing comparable

I built Screenix to fill that gap. It does smooth cursor-following zoom effects during recording, 60fps capture, no post-processing needed. The kind of tool that just works without spending an hour in OBS settings.

X11/Xorg only for now. Wayland cursor position is restricted at the protocol level so I focused on getting Ubuntu X11 right first before expanding.

screenix.studio
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-22 10:42:42+00:00
The submitter said:

> I’m now at a company building a deeply distributed systems product

You can’t do a side project that helps you learn how to distributed systems at scale.

The best way to learn that is by working on systems that run at scale and by asking a lot of questions to the more experienced people.

The second best way is be responsible for designing a system that needs to run at scale and fail miserably the first time…
by HauntingPin | 2026-02-22 10:43:09+00:00
I thought the same but when I googled, the results disagreed with this point of view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

All the laws listed there define dumping as something being sold below the "normal price" and there being some quantifiable harm being done to local industry of the country being exported to.

So it has nothing to do necessarily with the cost of production, and based on this it could be considered price dumping.
by kristopolous | 2026-02-22 10:45:03+00:00
it's the 20th or so implementation of an old idea but it's the one that was done when the models got good enough to make it useful. [1]

Just like youtube was the 20th or so online video site but it's the one that was done when ehttps://github.com/MrAliHasan/Sophia-AI-Assistantnough people had high speed internet.

and that is literally it.

[1] see https://github.com/simular-ai/Agent-S or https://github.com/trycua/cua or https://github.com/bytebot-ai/bytebot or https://github.com/microsoft/fara or https://github.com/e2b-dev/open-computer-use or https://github.com/777genius/os-ai-computer-use or https://github.com/MrAliHasan/Sophia-AI-Assistant or https://github.com/OthersideAI/self-operating-computer... I mean there's dozens.
Show HN: Horizon – My AI-powered personal news aggregator and summarizer
by gg_equal_G | 2026-02-22 10:45:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Horizon because I was drowning in information overflow. I follow dozens of RSS feeds, subreddits, GitHub users, and, of course, HN itself. I found myself spends hours "doomscrolling" just to find the 3-4 things that actually mattered to my work and interests.

Horizon is a personal intelligence agent that automates this. It doesn't just aggregate; it filters and enriches.

How it works:

Scrape: It pulls from GitHub (releases/events), Hacker News, Reddit, and any RSS feed.
Score: It uses LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or DeepSeek via OpenAI-compatible APIs) to score content based on your specific interests/criteria.
Enrich: For high-scoring items, it performs a web search to add context that may not be in the original snippet.
Summarize: It generates a clean, daily Markdown report and optionally deploys it to a static site (GitHub Pages).

Demo: https://thysrael.github.io/Horizon/
by bambax | 2026-02-22 10:45:07+00:00
I've been maintaining a fake LinkedIn profile for over 10 years (in addition to the real one). It has a significant amount of connections (people with the "open to work" badge tend to accept connection requests from total strangers).

This fake profile often receives offers from recruiters; it's quite fun.

I wonder if I could get it verified using a fake passport photo? I'd try it but I'm afraid of being found out and losing it.
by ifwinterco | 2026-02-22 10:45:13+00:00
What I mean is two things are true at once:

1) Iran's government has not done a good job of running the country and is therefore genuinely unpopular among a significant percentage of the population.

2) Iran's current government has powerful enemies (US, UK and of course a country in the Middle East all really hate the Iranian regime) and those enemies are actively trying to destabilise it.

So it's really hard from the perspective of being in a western country to work out how much of the protests are genuinely endogenous to Iran and how much is an intelligence operation, because it's clearly not 0%
by casey2 | 2026-02-22 10:46:11+00:00
Value? The market itself values having Google insiders ("Wow I can now ask questions about Googles' internal affairs") and Google values knowledge of leaks.

Aside from those tertiary effects, perhaps people would pay Google to know this information ahead of time but previously lacked the coordination to make a deal directly.

I'm sure people with business (plans) in country X question your sanity too. Markets create value, not postitve force. Only people can do that.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-22 10:47:03+00:00
That's kind of a mean and not very relevant response.

The point is that if anyone wanted to reform English spelling, they would have to choose a particular dialect to standardize around.

There is no standard English dialect. There is a relatively standard version of American English ("Walter Cronkite English"), and there is Received Pronunciation in England, but then there are all sorts of other dialects that are dominant elsewhere (Scotland, Ireland, India, etc.).

Which one should we choose to base our orthography on? Or should we allow English spelling to splinter into several completely different systems? Yes, there are already slight differences in British vs. American spelling, but they're extremely minor compared to the differences in pronunciation.

And after this spelling reform, will people still be able to read anything written before the reform, or will that become a specialized ability that most people don't learn?
by aitchnyu | 2026-02-22 10:47:30+00:00
Now that code is cheap, I ensured my side project has unit/integration tests (will enforce 100% coverage), Playwright tests, static typing (its in Python), scripts for all tasks. Will learn mutation testing too (yes, its overkill). Now my agent works upto 1 hour in loops and emits concise code I dont have to edit much.
by yogthos | 2026-02-22 10:47:40+00:00
I find people tend to miss the productive aspects of Chinese state led investments because they don't consider their value at scale. Take the HSR system, it has been derided time and again as being wasteful, and too expensive, and so on. Yet, now it's become a key artery for trade and commerce across China. It allows goods to move at an incredible speed, boosts tourism, and helps overall development of many regions which otherwise wouldn't see much economic activity.
by torginus | 2026-02-22 10:47:51+00:00
My favourite 'thing' in the modern world is that 'we don't process and store your data' has taken to mean - 'we don't process and store your data - our partner does'.

Which might not even be stated explicitly, it might be that they just move it somewhere and then pass it on again, at which point its outside the legal jurisdiction of your country's ability to enforce data protection measures.

Even if such a scheme is not legal, the fact that your data moves through multiple countries with different data protection measures, enforcing your rights seems basically impossible.
by MarcLore | 2026-02-22 10:49:08+00:00
The form factor discussion is fascinating but I think the real unlock is latency. Current cloud inference adds 50-200ms of network overhead before you even start generating tokens. A dedicated ASIC sitting on PCIe could serve first token in microseconds.

For applications like real-time video generation or interactive agents that need sub-100ms response loops, that difference is everything. The cost per inference might be higher than a GPU cluster at scale, but the latency profile opens up use cases that simply aren't possible with current architectures.

Curious whether Taalas has published any latency benchmarks beyond the throughput numbers.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-22 10:49:08+00:00
The reading is the done with a high-resolution video camera and the image is processed to extract the data.

This can be easily done many times faster than the writing, which is why the article is focused on the progress that Microsoft has achieved in increasing the writing speed, in comparison with their prototypes from a few years ago. It is also easy to make separate readers that are much cheaper and smaller than the writers.

The most important limitation of this device is the current very high cost of the lasers used for writing. Had they been cheaper, the writing speed could be increased by adding more lasers.

Microsoft argues that if this kind of short-pulse lasers would be mass produced, they could become much cheaper, like it has happened with the many lasers that are used now everywhere in optical fiber communication and with optical discs.

For now. this is a chicken-and-egg problem. This kind of optical storage cannot be converted into a commercial product because the lasers are too expensive and the lasers are too expensive because there is no high-volume market for them.

Even the current level of performance would be enough for myself. If I could afford such a device, I would buy it instantly, to stop worrying about having to buy periodically new HDDs, to migrate my data from old HDDs and to buy periodically new tape drives, to migrate my data from tape formats that become obsolete.
by MarcLore | 2026-02-22 10:49:23+00:00
The separation of planning and execution resonates strongly. I've been using a similar pattern when building with AI APIs — write the spec/plan in natural language first, then let the model execute against it.

One addition that's worked well for me: keeping a persistent context file that the model reads at the start of each session. Instead of re-explaining the project every time, you maintain a living document of decisions, constraints, and current state. Turns each session into a continuation rather than a cold start.

The biggest productivity gain isn't in the code generation itself — it's in reducing the re-orientation overhead between sessions.
by MarcLore | 2026-02-22 10:49:38+00:00
Bypassing CPU for NVMe-to-GPU transfer is clever. The bottleneck for running large models locally has always been the memory hierarchy — this essentially treats NVMe as extended VRAM with direct DMA.

I wonder how this compares to Apple's unified memory approach on M-series chips for similar workloads. The M4 Max can fit 70B models entirely in memory without any offloading tricks, though at lower throughput than a 3090.

Would be interesting to see comparative benchmarks: this NVMe approach on a 3090 vs M4 Max native, especially for batch inference where the NVMe latency might be amortized.
by Delk | 2026-02-22 10:50:26+00:00
> Remember, a hash is a "one way function". It isn't invertible (that would defeat the purpose!). It is a surjective function. Meaning that reversing the function results in a non-unique output.

This is a bit of a nitpick and not even relevant to the topic, but that's not the reason cryptographic hashes are (assumed to be) one-way functions. You could in principle have a function f: X -> Y that's not invertible but for which the set of every x that give a particular y could be tractably computed given y. In that case f would not be a one-way function in the computational sense.

Cryptographic hashes are practically treated as one-way functions because the inverse computation would take an intractable amount of time.
by throwa356262 | 2026-02-22 10:51:17+00:00
What I need is an emacs with more lisp and less javascript.

If you want a really lean emacs-like editor, there is always mg and microemacs.

Edit: not trying to be a dick or a gatekeeper. This is HN, all ideas should be welcome including the one that dont make sense to some people. Anyway, always great to see contributions from Japan.
by orwin | 2026-02-22 10:52:23+00:00
That's _very_ unlikely. The AI craze cured me from my imposter syndrome. Since I only saw marginal gains (~20% increase in velocity on average, if we don't count the increased in PR reviews and production bugfixes), I participated to a few 'AI is the new stuff' presentation with 'ai professionals' that presented my already existing workflow (still improved it a bit, but not much). However, listening to them, I found out that they just aren't very good devs and work on rather easy subjects.
by kkfx | 2026-02-22 10:53:29+00:00
It doesn't work for I2P due to its design, but for things like Nostr, it works well. Essentially, the goal is to build up a list of "known" reliable relays over time, while simultaneously blacklisting anyone who joins and proves to be unreliable relying on the statistic that collaborative individuals outnumber hostile ones in any sufficiently large cohort.

Of course, it's far from being 100% effective, but it mitigates the issue significantly.
by nikolay | 2026-02-22 10:53:41+00:00
Well, that's already done by Amazon's Kiro [0], Google's Antigravity [1], GitHub's Spec Kit [2], and OpenSpec [3]!

[0]: https://kiro.dev/

[1]: https://antigravity.google/

[2]: https://github.github.com/spec-kit/

[3]: https://openspec.dev/
by maximedupre | 2026-02-22 10:54:33+00:00
Hey, I'm Maxime. I run ChampSignal, a small competitor monitoring tool.

One of the paid features is a news tracker for competitors. I wanted to make a free lite version that anyone can try without signing up. Paste a company URL and get their recent press mentions from the last 30 days. No signup.

How it works: enter something like "figma.com", the tool grabs the company name and runs a deep search across news sources. It crawls them live and makes short AI summaries for each hit. I filter out Reddit and the company's own domain so you only see third-party coverage.

Built with SvelteKit + Tailwind, deployed on Vercel.

Curious what results you get for companies you follow :D
by dakolli | 2026-02-22 10:56:01+00:00
You will never convince me that this isn't confirmation bias, or the equivalent of a slot machine player thinking the order in which they push buttons impacts the output, or some other gambler-esque superstition.

These tools are literally designed to make people behave like gamblers. And its working, except the house in this case takes the money you give them and lights it on fire.
by ThatPlayer | 2026-02-22 10:56:51+00:00
Yeah, that's why I'm saying games are doing auto-combos instead.

I also enjoy rhythm games, but they're different combos. Especially for the learning process: you're really not punished for dropping combos in rhythm games, and you can keep playing as if you didn't drop it (unless you're going for the full combo of course). That's really not the case for fighting games, requiring you to restart to the beginning of the combo each time. And in a multiplayer game, it gives your opponent an opportunity each time.
by graemep | 2026-02-22 11:00:06+00:00
> But what I've noticed consistently is that any group on FB that has more than 1000 members will end up surfacing so much toxic sentiment that I have to unsubstantiated.

It depends on the group and how well it is moderated.

I live in an area where everything depends on Facebook. There are multiple FB groups for the town, the largest of which has 80k members. Not perfect, but not toxic. The same in other similar groups.

I am an admin of another with 30k members. It has a tight focus (exams and qualifications for home ed kids in the UK - GCSEs/IGCSEs mostly, but other things too), membership is only for parents of such kids, posts require approval, irrelevant comments get deleted, repeat offenders get kicked out. We do not have a lot of problems (some attempts at spam by tutors, but they get kicked out).
by adrian_b | 2026-02-22 11:01:18+00:00
They report now significant progresses in writing speed and density, in comparison with their prototypes from a few years ago.

Unlike before, at the current performance this kind of optical storage could have actually been used in practice, had the writing lasers not been so expensive.

For a given amount of data, such glass slabs, which have the size of CD cases, would occupy a volume of about half of that required for the highest-capacity HDDs and about the same as tape cartriges.
by folex | 2026-02-22 11:01:33+00:00
this is exactly how I work with cursor

except that I put notes to plan document in a single message like:

> plan quote
my note
> plan quote
my note

otherwise, I'm not sure how to guarantee that ai won't confuse my notes with its own plan.

one new thing for me is to review the todo list, I was always relying on auto generated todo list
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-22 11:02:38+00:00
What I've read is that even with all the meticulous planning, the author still needed to intervene. Not at the end but at the middle, unless it will continue building out something wrong and its even harder to fix once it's done. It'll cost even more tokens. It's a net negative.

You might say a junior might do the same thing, but I'm not worried about it, at least the junior learned something while doing that. They could do it better next time. They know the code and change it from the middle where it broke. It's a net positive.
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-22 11:03:00+00:00
> Overall, I think block bloom filters should be the default most people reach for.

I think this depends on how big your filters are. Most people think of Bloom filters as having to have hundreds of thousands of elements, but I frequently find them useful all the way down to 32 bits (!). (E.g., there are papers showing chained hash tables where each bucket has a co-sited tiny Bloom filter to check if it's worth probing the chain.) In the “no man's land” in-between with a couple ten thousand buckets, the blocking seems to be mostly negative; it only makes sense as long as you actually keep missing the cache.
by irthomasthomas | 2026-02-22 11:03:00+00:00
the first link was from a simple request with fewer than 1000 tokens total in the context window, just a short shell script.

here is another one which had about 200 tokens and opus decided to change the model name i requested.

https://x.com/xundecidability/status/2005647216741105962?s=2...

opus is bad at instruction following now.
by nigger238 | 2026-02-22 11:03:09+00:00
Anyone can. The DA code is open source and is used whenever you run a testnet. You can also run a DA on the mainnet - how do you think the 10 primary DAs exist? They're not 10 computers owned by a single organization - they're 10 mutually trusting individuals. However, most of the network won't trust you.
Ask HN: How do new blogs break the backlink–indexing loop?
by lilcodingthings | 2026-02-22 11:04:14+00:00
We run a small coding blog sharing our learning experience and I keep hitting the same loop: Google won't index most of our pages because the site has no authority. Authority comes from backlinks. But nobody links to a site that doesn't show up in search results.
110+ posts and almost nothing showing up on Google. Bing has started indexing them, but Google won't budge. Google indexed us in the beginning, just a bit, then after one of their updates we were destroyed and never re-covered.

We've tried long-form guides, short tutorials, long-tail keywords, competitive keywords, niche topics with zero competition. I'm not sure anymore if content is the problem.

We have no noindex issues, no missing sitemaps, no crawl errors — all the basic SEO boxes are checked. Site is submitted to Search Console, PageSpeed Insights performance is good (99% desktop, 85+ mobile).

We started cross-posting to Medium, Dev.to, and Hashnode but we can't even be sure that's the right path. We've been posting consistently, thinking consistency was the key — but it doesn't seem to be enough on its own.

It truly feels like we're fighting an invisible monster without knowing if what we're doing is correct.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ranting — I still have patience left in me. Just thinking out loud here in case someone has been in the same shoes and found a way out.

What actually moved the needle for you? We'd appreciate any guidance.
by Tor3 | 2026-02-22 11:04:35+00:00
Interesting. Down through 1300 was pretty straight forward. 1200 slowed me down a lot. 1100 I could only get a couple of sentences from, at first straight read-through, but it looks like I should be able to read it by going carefully through it.

Background: Fully understands Scandinavian languages (native), can read a bit of German and Dutch, proficient in English, and can read a fair bit of Icelandic. All of this seems to help.