MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fwirt | 2026-02-24 09:17:25+00:00
And PICK is still kind of around! Today the “multi value” database torch is in the hands of Rocket Software, which licenses it as “UniData” and “UniVerse”. Most of the logic for the higher ed ERP software Colleague relies on the BASIC flavor “UniBasic”, which is heavily tied to the MV database, for application logic.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-24 09:17:47+00:00
Overall, I'm pretty happy with my Intel Arc B580, if framegen helps me squeeze out a little bit more life out of that card before it becomes more or less obsolete, then I'll gladly take. Though, to be honest, with the amounts of UE5 slop out there, I'll probably need to give an unreasonable amount of my money to Nvidia or AMD sooner or later (since many games don't exactly let you turn off Lumen and Nanite). It's just unfortunate that Intel themselves won't provide the much needed market competition in the form of a B770.
by nunobrito | 2026-02-24 09:17:53+00:00
This is being solved with https://geogram.radio

Every phone/device is their own server, they connect with a web socket to the preferred station which is typically a server online serving as bridge.

There is no need to be always connected to a server, you can also connect locally on the WiFi, BLE or even USB-C cables (discovery is automatic).

From there are internal apps for sharing static websites, chat, blogs, files and so forth.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-24 09:18:18+00:00
I understand the optimism, but after being burned by what Microsoft did to the Linux community for the last 20+ years, I'll just distance myself more from Ubuntu ecosystem.

When you put Snaps, Juju, uutils, etc. as a list, it all smells like a path to lockdown, not dissimilar to what RedHat did with their "unbranded" patches recently (IBM being IBM, which was unsurprising).

Also, remembering how Canonical worked together with Microsoft on some projects like WSL, which felt like "Surrender servers to Linux, and save the Windows desktop by allowing Linux run as a slave inside a VM" type of deal, I do not trust them a bit.

So, Linux is maturing, but it'll also bring a couple of very big cracks through ecosystem, and it'll be noisy and painful. Personally, I'm on Debian for the last 20+ years, and not planning to move anywhere for now.

I understand that there needs to be an economy, but money is not more important than destroying what we're standing on. Let it be physical like our planet, or virtual like the free software and the culture we built around it.
by streetfighter64 | 2026-02-24 09:18:36+00:00
My point is that just because there's no practical reason to ask the question, that doesn't make it a weird question or make the answer anything other than obvious. You'd never ask somebody "Is the sky blue?", but that doesn't mean the answer is anything other than "Yes". The answer is clearly not "Well, is it night? Is it sunset?" etc.
by godelski | 2026-02-24 09:18:50+00:00
> My code editor has a built-in chat bot sidebar that I use every day.

Even as a vim user I don't get why an AI chat bot shoved into an IDE is endlessly praised while an optional hidden chatbot in a browser is treated like some grave insult. Last I checked, OpenAI was the 5th most visited website. No one complained that browsers made it easier to interface with the most popular website (Google) by directly typing into the url bar. FFS you can also do that with the 8th most popular website, Wikipedia.

I seriously don't understand why everyone is upset about that. Do what I do and just don't open it or interact with it. No one is making you use it. It's trivial about if bytes because it's literally just a wrapper. So it doesn't affect you, why let it live rent free in your head and make you angry? Just sounds like you're looking for things to complain.
by alexhans | 2026-02-24 09:19:08+00:00
We won't be able to be sure of 100% with LLMs but maybe proper engineering around evals get us to an acceptable level of quality based on the blast radius/safety profile.

I'd also argue that we should be pushing towards tracer bullets as a development concept and less so prototypes that are nice but meant to be thrown away and people might not do that.

The clean room auto porting, after a messy exploratory prototyping session would be a nice pattern, nonetheless.
by yard2010 | 2026-02-24 09:19:11+00:00
In Amsterdam 1850 the municipality kept track of people's names, address, age, gender and religion (bevolkingsregister). It meant nothing at this time, but 90 years later the Nazi used these lists to murder jewish people going house by house. Thanks for the partisans setting this archive ablaze, life were saved.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, you tell me, I just want to point at this random timeline.
by Cyphase | 2026-02-24 09:19:42+00:00
> It seems to me that in order to obtain the ability to build things that other people like, you need to go through the process of creating things they won't.

Okay, granted. What does that have to do with how the code is written? Do people generally care if a web app is running from nicely formatted JS or minified JS? Is a product manager not getting better at building things people like because they're not iterating on the code themselves?

Without agreeing or disagreeing with the premise, I think a relevant metaphor* here is that the painter can practice and iterate and go from creating crappy paintings to creating good paintings, without needing to make their own paint and canvas and brushes. If they're particular, they can have their assistant go to the supply shop and get just the right things they want, with increasing specificity as needed, but they don't need to manufacture them by hand.

* Like most metaphors, it's not perfect; please try to understand the intent.
by guerby | 2026-02-24 09:19:47+00:00
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8755961/

"A narrative review on the effects of a ketogenic diet on patients with Alzheimer's disease"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S127977072...

"Effects of ketogenic diet on cognitive function of patients with Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis"

And anecdotes from the field:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86CFw0qhVc

Revolutionizing Assisted Living: Hal Cranmer's Ketogenic & Carnivore Approach to Senior Wellness / Metabolic Mind
by mort96 | 2026-02-24 09:20:08+00:00
The AI boosting from the likes of you is the reason Mozilla is sinking Firefox by turning it into an "AI browser". I don't want anything to do with that.

I would've been equally outraged about Windows becoming an "agentic OS" if I had been a Windows user. I don't like what Apple is doing to my phone and laptop, but at least they haven't promised to make the iPhone an "AI phone".

More than one thing can be bad at a time, and right now, this conversation is about Mozilla. We can have a conversation about other bad things some other time.
by Markoff | 2026-02-24 09:20:38+00:00
I find it amusing the author with OnePlus 5T is looking for small phone since 5T was never a small phone even back in the days, so when there were much more small phones available author clearly didn't care and chose big phone - 156.1 x 75 x 7.3 mm, but suddenly now 9 years later when there are almost none small phone he requires significantly smaller phone.

> Size. I've always felt like my OnePlus 5T was slightly too wide to use in one hand, so if my next phone was a little narrower, that would be great. Certainly I wouldn't want to get something larger.

You can certainly buy plenty of phones which are narrower than 75mm other than S24 /S25 and Xiaomi 15, but you can't really buy small phones anymore.

I just upgraded last year from Honor 10 (149.6 x 71.2 x 7.7 mm) to Pixel 6a (152.2 x 71.8 x 8.9 mm), basically the same width and it's funny screen:body ratio in Pixel 6a is better than following generations and hardly newest models finally match it again with hardly any improvement.

Btw. author is wrong Xiaomi phones are nowadays extremely difficult to root/unlock bootloader, so your only options are pretty much Samsung S series with bad slow camera or Pixels infamous for their battery/display issues in almost every generation. Sony phones have even worse camera than Samsung and let's better not talk about the value for money.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-24 09:20:53+00:00
The "issue" isn't that these new tools from Ubuntu is in Rust, that's almost irrelevant. The issue is that they are not the "standard" tools.

If Ubuntus Rust replacements aren't adopted in other distributions, or only in some of them, we get an even more fragmented Linux ecosystem. We've already seen this with the sudo-rs (which really should be called something else). It's a sudo replacement, ideal a one to one replacement, but it's not 100% and for how long? You can also think of the Curl provided by Microsoft Powershell, which isn't actually Curl and only partially provides Curl functionality, but it squats the command name.

Ubuntu might accidentally, or deliberately, create a semi-incompatible parallel Linux environment, like Alpine, but worse.
by ItsBob | 2026-02-24 09:21:03+00:00
Maybe it's just me but why is it on by default? Why is this shit not off in the first place? Why can't Firefox just be a browser with great html, css, js rendering and then have a bunch of toggles for extra crap that people want? Do they actually have metrics that show "When we enable this crap by default we make an extra $X Million per year"? I'd put money on that being untrue. I bet it's like the data-driven ad spend - I've yet to see anything that proves that hoovering up bajillions of data points on each person moves the needle on spending beyond just showing a context-relevant ad, e.g. An ad for fishing gear on a blog post about fishing gear!

Honestly, I feel more and more every day like old-man-shaking-fist-at-clouds! Can we not just have something that works without spying, without engagement-driven shit switched on all the fucking time?

I think of the Simpsons Mr Brown meme where he's asking "Is it me that's wrong?".

I can't be the only person that thinks this way!
by Kuinox | 2026-02-24 09:21:03+00:00
> The American and French revolutions originated in the middle classes.

I don't know about the american revolution, but that's wrong for the french revolution.
I'll link to french wikipédia pages since they are far better on the subject.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tats_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9raux_...
Here we can see the first National Assembly was half nobility and clergy.
The third estate was the other half.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiers_%C3%A9tat
> Par ailleurs, les députés du tiers état aux états généraux représentaient essentiellement la bourgeoisie[2].

Which indicate that the majority of the third estate representative were bourgeois.
by Antibabelic | 2026-02-24 09:21:06+00:00
This bar only seems high because the bar in most companies is already unreasonably low. We had decades of research into functional programming, formal methods and specification languages. However, code monkey culture was cheaper and much more readily available. Enterprise software development has always been a race to the bottom, and the excitement for "vibe coding" is just the latest manifestation of its careless, thoughtless approach to programming.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-24 09:21:16+00:00
Yes, and these days both AMD and Intel have announced that their next generation of desktop CPUs, Zen 6 and Nova Lake, which are expected to have very significant improvements over the current CPUs (including much more cores for both and AVX-512 for Intel), have been postponed for next year, instead of being launched this year, as originally planned.

This delay is presumably caused by both the lack of production capacity at TSMC, which is busy with AI, and by the fear that any launch of a new CPU would be crippled by the impossibility to buy DRAM and SSDs for new computers.
by ozlikethewizard | 2026-02-24 09:21:28+00:00
I'd flip this on its head and say this is why the US isn't in the same Galaxy as the EU when it comes to every metric beyond line on graph go up, gun crime, and military spending.(And thats even if you treat the EU as whole, which well, you shouldn't)

There are already competitors, hundreds if not thousands of excellent indie games are made every year. This doesn't mean we shouldnt regulate actors who are mis-selling products, particularly when that mis-selling is purely for the purpose of extract maximum value from consumers. The barrier to AAA game entry is large enough that the existing firms are essentially a cartel, meanwhile smaller devs already manage to ensure their games can be played forever, but its not in shareholders interests to not rugpull. Which is frankly exactly what the state exists for, to ensure the rights of the general public.
by alexhans | 2026-02-24 09:22:06+00:00
I think the prototype thing is absolutely true but breaks down like all prototypes at the level of collaborating, sharing and evolving while handling entropy throug simplicity UNLESS you know what you're doing or the agent steers you with very opinionated tooling customized to your context. I'm thinking about empowering people to be builders and less so a software developer who can make the right tradeoffs.

Empowering people to work Tracer bullet style after they've selected their prototype of choice and thrown it away might be a powerful pattern that actually gets us into a nice collaborative space.
by utopcell | 2026-02-24 09:22:42+00:00
From the article:

Karpathy’s main points:
Extra sensors add cost to the system, and more importantly complexity. They make the software task harder, and increase the cost of all the data pipelines. They add risk and complexity to the supply chain and manufacturing.
Elon Musk pushes a philosophy of “the best part is no part” which can be seen throughout the car in things like doing everything through the touchscreen. This is an expression of this philosophy.
Vision is necessary to the task (which almost all agree on) and it should also be sufficient as well. If it is sufficient, the cost of extra sensors and tools outweighs their benefit.
Sensors change as parts change or become available and unavailable. They must be maintained and software adapted to these changes. They must also be calibrated to make fusion work properly.
Having a fleet gathering more data is more important than having more sensors.
Having to process LIDAR and radar produces a lot of bloat in the code and data pipelines. He predicts other companies will also drop these sensors in time.
Mapping the world and keeping it up to date is much too expensive. You won’t change the world with this limitation, you need to focus on vision which is the most important. The roads are designed to be interpreted with vision.
by phtrivier | 2026-02-24 09:23:09+00:00
So, the next version of Jurassic Park will have a talking velociraptor ?

(More honest question: is there enough info in the skeletons / fossils that we have to exclude the possiblity that birds ancestors could modulate sound enough to have "something" like a language, which would have been "lost" after extinction events ?)
by cubefox | 2026-02-24 09:23:11+00:00
Interesting that GPT-5.1 and 5.2 (0 of 10 correct) are a lot worse than the older GPT-5 (7 of 10 correct).

But unfortunately the article doesn't mention whether they used the reasoning model or not.

Even more interesting: Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite got a perfect score (10/10) despite being a quite small and old model.
by producttube | 2026-02-24 09:24:03+00:00
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by defrost | 2026-02-24 09:24:27+00:00
> I don't think it would matter if they were software developers because that mostly means front end and back end web development.

Really?

I've been a software developer since 1980 or so, never ever touched web development .. horses for courses I guess.

Interfacing with machines and instruments, no worries.

Circling back, the farmers I know want to be able to maintain everything they can within their local circle (state and federal) without being forced to reach out overseas to foreign companies such as John Deere.

Eg: Our local farmers co-op run their own rail networks and bulk handling facilities.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBH_Group

* https://www.cbh.com.au/

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131063

> Software for farm equipment is very specific field.

Meh - there's a lot of overlap with avionics, GIS data aquisition, mining equipment (autonomous trucks, trains, processing circuit control), general industrial applications, etc.

I'm a farmer, but I've messed about with geophysical data aquisition across entire countries, industrial control, abstract algebra systems (Cayley / Magma), sheep shearing robotics, and other fun stuff.
Show HN: Markdown in the Middle – proxy to convert HTML to Markdown
by crawdog | 2026-02-24 09:24:34+00:00
I read Cloudflare's "Markdown for Agents" article and thought this would be really powerful if it could support internal websites, JSON content and dynamic Javascript sites.

I built this on my 35-minute BART ride to SF using my phone as the IDE (and a couple of hours of feature creep/testing). It's a combination MCP server + HTTP proxy that converts web content to markdown on-the-fly.

Key features:

* HTTP/HTTPS proxy with automatic HTML to markdown conversion
* Token counting and caching to stay efficient
* Content negotiation (only converts when Accept: text/markdown)
* MCP server
* JavaScript rendering for dynamic sites

Let me know what you think!
Show HN: An RPG in the Windows file explorer
by juhrjuhr | 2026-02-24 09:25:38+00:00
Hello,

This is my game, it's a tiny dungeon crawler played in the Windows file explorer. Your player character is a folder that you drag and drop into other folders to move, items are equipped by dropping them into your equipment folder, some items are used by deleting them, and monsters can be looted for their files.

I got the idea to do something in the file explorer after I saw this version of Flappy Bird in the Mac finder:
https://github.com/nolenroyalty/flappy-dird

It was fairly straight forward to make, using just a file watcher, shortcuts, and (optionally) Window's explorer API to detect whether the player folder is open in an explorer window (to delay renaming the folder until it's not used). It only uses files and folders it creates itself, and doesn't look outside of its executable's folder.

The project lent itself very well to TDD, especially since there are a lot of interactions that are quite tedious to manually test again and again.

It's also available on Itch (no account required):
https://juhrjuhr.itch.io/directory-dungeon
Show HN: Vim-Claude-code – Use Claude directly inside Vim
by rishi-sharma | 2026-02-24 09:27:23+00:00
Hello Everyone,

I built vim-claude-code, a lightweight Vim plugin that lets you interact with Claude directly inside Vim through a split window.

The goal was to avoid leaving the editor to ask questions, refactor snippets, or generate code. I wanted something that feels native to Vim instead of context-switching to a browser or separate app.

What it does:

Opens a split window for Claude's responses

Sends selected code or custom prompts

Displays responses directly in Vim

Supports normal Vim navigation and scrolling

Minimal setup with no heavy UI layer

It’s still early and intentionally simple. I’d really appreciate feedback from Vim users, especially around workflow, keybindings, and split behavior. Happy to discuss tradeoffs and improvements.

GitHub: https://github.com/rishi-opensource/vim-claude-code

Thanks!
by robbomacrae | 2026-02-24 09:27:51+00:00
This is amazing. I agree with your take except "You’re not actually zeroizing the secrets"... I think it is actually calling zeroize() explicitly after use.

Can I get your review/roast on my approach with OrcaBot.com? DM me if I can incentivize you.. Code is available:

https://github.com/Hyper-Int/OrcaBot

enveil = encrypt-at-rest, decrypt-into-env-vars and hope the process doesn't look.

Orcabot = secrets never enter the LLM's process at all. The broker is a separate process that acts as a credential-injecting reverse proxy. The LLM's SDK thinks it's talking to localhost (the broker adds the real auth header and forwards to the real API). The secret crosses a process boundary that the LLM cannot reach.
by kakacik | 2026-02-24 09:28:30+00:00
I don't think anybody here is losing their sleep because JD or some other corporation cannot capture more market and regulators.

Heck, if they put in losing of warranty after tinkering BUT made their devices tinkerable farmers would still go for them.

Another point to all those apple apologists claiming how its more moral company than literally any other mega corporation. I take those posts in good faith as simple paid PR (and not utterly clueless folks who need some dumbed down black&white version of reality to survive in it), which should be forbidden here but we all know how upholdable such rule could be.
by theodric | 2026-02-24 09:28:50+00:00
Consider the car analogy: if you want to drive on public roads, you need to drive an attested, unmodified vehicle that complies with the relevant regulations. If you want to play around and modify the car, that's fine, but then you don't get to use it around other people. You're also not allowed to buy some random, unknown Chinese or Indian car and drive it on the road. People already accept this when framed as a safety issue. I suspect they care more about their cars than their phones, and won't care about the requirements on the phone anyway because they're not planning to modify it, and as long as WhatsApp and Instagram keep letting them exchange shopping list additions and pictures of vacation cocktails, then what's the problem?

To be clear, I'm not in favor of a participation-in-society ban for jailbreaking your phone, but there's already precedent for it.