MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by machardmachard | 2026-02-18 19:10:35+00:00
The Reboot - Streaming Meets Ethereum

Revolutionary comeback: Popcorn Time rebuilt on R3 architecture with integrated EVM wallet

From Post 860 R3 Architecture: DHT + BitTorrent + EVM = Stateless distributed system

From Post 861 Ethereum R3 Validator: Proven at scale on Ethereum mainnet

Result: Decentralized streaming with creator payments, content discovery via EigenDHT, and zero platform fees
by MichaelRo | 2026-02-18 19:10:39+00:00
>> The dream of running my own company got me to learn programming. 20 years later I'm an employee at a company still dreaming of running my own company. But now I can realize that reality and dreams are not the same and that's ok. As in, I probably really don't want to run my own company. We'll see =P

To me having one own's company was just a means to the end: making enough money to live comfortably without the need to get a job ever again for the rest of my life. I too learned programming as a means to achieve that end but eventually realized that I don't need a company if I can short-circuit the path to money. By switching to the right domain - finance, where what I learn might be eventually put to use directly by investing capital into profitable trading strategies.

Back to OP's article, if there's a domain where money as a moat is not a problem, that's definitely finance: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and...

I work in this domain since almost 20 years and can tell you, noone's gonna risk a billion dollars on crap vibe coded by AI. I wrote before, I don't know what crack these AI people are smoking but when there's real stakes at play, they don't play around with toys. And AI in programming is a toy. The unlikely triumph of "Can I haz teh codez?" CTRL+C / CTRL+V "prompt experts" (mocking it, lol) strategy on Stack Overflow, along with the people who employ it.

I'm not worried about MY particular future in this industry. I'm not worried that AI is gonna replace me, us, or write anything significant here at all in the foreseeable future until it fucking evolves into AGI which is somewhere 5000 years from now, optimistically.

The party's gotta come to an end really soon along with the figures on how much money AI makes versus it's real utility - which is, simply stated, "a toy".

Not necessary but here's my mood while writing this comment: - listening to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EWqTym2cQU&list=RD6EWqTym2c...
by Henchman21 | 2026-02-18 19:11:31+00:00
> but perhaps with more proactive action taken to free up resources by removal of masses who are no longer producing enough value to justify their expenses.

How bout we remove the heads of the wealthy and hoist them on petards outside their former dwellings instead? We don't need to justify the removal of these cancerous lumps of flesh we call "the elite". We don't need them. THEY NEED US.
by m4nu3l | 2026-02-18 19:11:47+00:00
It's not just about intentions. To convince me that the Government can improve things through regulations, you'd need to do a few things:

1) You must convince me that optimising for some utility function you defined is the right thing to do.

2) You must convince me that the Government can effectively estimate the utility function.

3) Finally, you must convince me that the Government can predict how the utility function will change after the policies are implemented.

For 1) I'd have problems with any utility function you could come up with. If you want to maximise total utility, for instance, does it mean that I get to assault someone as long as I gain more utility than the other person loses? What about the "Utility Monster" thought experiment?

For 2) and 3), I'm pretty sure the Government has no idea of how to measure and/or predict the result.
Does the scrolling addiction of a teenager cause more loss in utility than the loss of friends to a teenager with disabilities?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/06/ive-l...

Because of these basic philosophical principles, the burden of proof that some regulation is required is always on the Government side, and the standard of proof should be much higher than it is today.

I don't believe that the concept of utility is entirely useless, though.
I believe that by respecting people's individual freedoms and allowing for voluntary arrangements, you'll also get more utility in the long term, whereas if you try to force your utility optimisations, you might, maybe, get utility increases in the short term, but much worse utility in the longer term.
by dsego | 2026-02-18 19:11:50+00:00
We've been using feature flags but mostly for controlling when things get released. But feature flags carry their own issues, they complicate the code, introduce parallel code paths, and if not maintained properly it gets difficult to introduce new features and have everything working together seamlessly. Usually you want to remove the flag soon after release, otherwise it festers. The production branch is also ok, but committing out of order can break references if commits are not in the same order as master, and patching something directly to prod can cause issues with promoting changes from master to prod, it requires some foresight to not break builds.
by bccdee | 2026-02-18 19:12:27+00:00
Power is a zero-sum game. We all live in the same space, exist in the same media ecosystem, and have the same number of hours in the day. The media consumed by the public, the structure of our cities, the investments we make in science, the sources we use for energy, the laws we pass and the way they are interpreted, stewardship of our environment, and the degree to which our tax money is used to drop bombs on civilians are ALL zero-sum.

I am so sick of the pretense that GDP growth means inequality is somehow illusory. Yes, TVs used to be expensive and now they are cheap. Big whoop.
by nyrikki | 2026-02-18 19:12:28+00:00
This is exactly why I moved to self hosted code in 2017.

While I couldn’t have predicted the future, even classic data mining posed a risk.

It is just reality that if you give a third party access to your data, you should expect them to use it.

It is just too tempting of a value stream and legislation just isn’t there to avoid the EULA trap.

I was targeting a market where fractions of a percentage advantage were important which did drive my what at the time was labeled paranoia
by anthk | 2026-02-18 19:12:40+00:00
No, it's the opposite. in order to send commands to a hosts you shouldn't need a terminal emulator (twice or thrice, depending on the SSH, tmux and the VTY subsystem under Unix) and even sending baud information. 9front just gives you the graphical window and the shell. Mosh? Ok, 9p and more can be almost stateless in order to not drop the connections. Still, you aren't bound to neither escape codes nor to crude hacks as SINWINCH and horrors to copy and paste text under Tmux/Screen. Don't get me started on trying to do such tasks with URL's.

Text? I do that under 9front, too. Heck, rc it's simpler there than sh itself.
I can bind remote machines and use their scripts as if they were my own. I can import remote devices. I can do stuff without resorting to crude hacks with openssl and nc. C itself it's far simpler. Text, you say? No locales, and UTF8 everywhere. I can freely resize the windows and still cut and paste stuff like nothing. It's 2025. The closest workflow under Unix would be Bitlbee + any client for it, msmtp and mbsync for Email and any graphical client against the SLRN cache in order to be as usable.

Rio can use different fonts just fine, you know. There are several users using 24 px fonts on HD screens without no issues. With riow you get 'virtual desktops' a la cwm/i3 and the like.

>Three button mouse.
I don't do mouse chords, but I get more universal copy and paste as I stated that the old Unix itself, with shorter and easier scripts again... than Unix.

On snarf/paste instead of the menu, modyfing rio/sam and the like for a keybinding can be something done under an afternoon. Riow can already manage windows and close then with keybings among the mentioned virtual desktops.

Oh, and BTW... for vi users... I consider the Sam regular expresions far more powerful than the vi keys themselves. I can highlight the text with the mouse and write a sam command (on acme too) which affects the selection and in an easier way than the old syntax. The best of both worlds. RSI? Well, that's a point for Unix, but with the Windows key + 1-4 the mouse usage can be reduced a lot.

And, again, the 9front API it's dumb simple; I'm pretty sure doing stuff like mapping the Windows key +j-k-l to mouse button 1-2-3 would be something relatively easy, even setting sticky menus. With that small patch tons of usability issues would go away. Meanwhile, under X.org, Wayland, evdev and the $toolkit of the day... good luck.
by gjk3 | 2026-02-18 19:13:02+00:00
Why do you people trust what he has to say? Like omg dude. These folks play with numbers all the time to suit their narrative. They are not independently audited. What do you think scares them about going public? Things like this. They cannot massage the numbers the same way they do in the private market.

The naivete on here is crazy tbh.
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-18 19:13:29+00:00
> It's not really debatable.

Very weird for you to start a reply like this when we are literally debating it.

> You say "all of us"

Yes, I mean those of who don't use git-flow. That's what I meant by "all of us".

> ignore the primary branching model the vast, vast majority of people use on Git.

Do you live in a git-flow bubble or what? I've been using VCS since the dark ages of CVS. Moved to SVN. Mercurial. Git. Never worked in a team using git-flow. Never used git-flow myself. Never met anyone IRL who uses git-flow. I only read about these things on HN and blogs.

What kind of stats do you have to claim that this is the primary branching model. If I go by my experience, it's a minority branching model that only people living within the bubble care about.

> it's just a historical fact that's not really debatable.

What is a historical fact? That people use git-flow. Nobody is contesting that. What I am contesting is that the success of Git is not connected to git-flow like the grand-grand-parent comment said.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-18 19:13:49+00:00
Much to the disappointment of the combustion apologists, electric heavy vehicles are the future [1] [2]. They win simply from a total cost of ownership perspective, and the technology will continue to rapidly advance. No need to polish a turd with a heater.

In this situation, the product was not fit for purposes because it was not a requirement [4]. This is a procurement and contracting issue, not a technology issue. Another subthread indicates this piece is astroturfing fossil fuel interests [5]. The lesson is to select a vendor who doesn't suck next time. I suggest BYD.

[1] https://www.wri.org/insights/countries-electrifying-bus-flee... ("There are about 780,000 electric buses on the world’s roads as of 2024. Electric buses include battery electric buses, plug-in hybrid electric buses and fuel cell electric buses. So far, 94% of all electric buses are battery electric, which are expected to continue to dominate the industry. More than 90% of the world’s electric buses are located in China — nearly 700,000 in total. China experienced massive growth in electric buses from 2014 to 2018, a time when other countries had barely started deploying them. In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to electrify its entire bus fleet (16,000 buses). By 2023, the top 10 global cities with the most electric bus sales were in China, with Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu and Beijing leading the way. Outside of China, Santiago, Chile is the city with the highest electric bus sales. The European Union is home to 17,000 electric buses, with most of the sales growth taking place after 2018. Several European countries such as the Netherlands, Finland and Switzerland have achieved very high rates of electric bus adoption. India, South Korea and the United States are each home to more than 10,000 electric buses.")

[2] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/trends-in... ("Sales of electric buses, comprising all medium- and large-sized buses, are far ahead of those of other heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) segments (including medium- and heavy-duty trucks). Several European countries (such as Belgium, Norway and Switzerland) and the People’s Republic of China (hereafter "China") achieved sales shares above 50% in 2023, and more than one-fifth of bus sales were electric in Canada, Chile, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Sweden. Globally, almost 50 000 electric buses were sold in 2023, equating to 3% of total bus sales and bringing the global stock to approximately 635 000 in total. This relatively low share is primarily due to the limited sales shares in most EMDEs, as well as the low market penetration of electric buses in some larger markets such as the United States and Korea.")

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064734

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064724
by adityaathalye | 2026-02-18 19:13:58+00:00
Just past page 281 of Becky Chambers's delightful "the galaxy, and the ground within".

Received Message
Encryption: 0
From: GC Transit Authority --- Gora System (path: 487-45411-479-4)
To: Ooli Oht Ouloo (path: 5787-598-66)
Subject: URGENT UPDATE

Man I love the series.

Looks like this multispecies universe has centrally-agreed-upon path addressing system.
by general1465 | 2026-02-18 19:14:04+00:00
> Framing it as addiction is popular now but it removes user agency:

You can use the same reasoning on smoking too. Or any other drugs.

I am currently trying to get rid of my dependence, almost an addiction on Reddit. And nothing has been working, except blocking Reddit on DNS level in my router for all devices and all browsers equally. And even then I will write "reddit" into address bar several times a day to get no response from browser. Like a gambler pulling a slot machine which is not connected to power.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-18 19:14:08+00:00
No, it's not. When people try to "drain the swamp", several things push them to become authoritarians, even if they weren't before.

1. The definition of "the swamp" drifts from "open, blatant corruption" towards "everyone who opposes me". That's a much larger set, so you need bigger guns.

2. Some people agree that "the swamp needs drained", but disagree on what "the swamp" is, and/or disagree on how to drain it.

3. People don't agree with everything you're doing. (Maybe this is the same as #1 and/or #2.) Some people oppose you because they're corrupt, some people oppose you because they dislike change, and some people oppose you because they dislike your methods. The more force you use, the more people oppose your methods. But as opposition grows, you need more force to get anywhere.

The result is that anybody who sets out to do something like "drain the swamp", if they stick with it as an objective, gets pushed toward more and more authoritarianism to try to make it happen.

Look, Bernie isn't Trump. He's been consistently pushing in the same direction for decades. He actually cares about his issues; he's not just using them as a cover for seeking power. But I think that, if he got actual power (president, not just senator), the dynamics of the situation would also push him to become more and more authoritarian.

(Would he become equivalent to Trump? Hopefully not.)
by mfrye0 | 2026-02-18 19:14:11+00:00
Relevant data point on AWS - GCP is giving out a ton of cloud credits to startups. On average $100k in comparison to $10k-20k from AWS.

Before Claude Code, a full cloud migration could easily be a couple months. We migrated our whole stack to GCP in about a week. It's trivial to switch clouds now with K8 stack and Claude Code.
by beagle3 | 2026-02-18 19:14:28+00:00
Is there a simpler system for a small local network? For my home lab use case, it is almost sufficient to rsync /etc/{passwd,group,hosts,…..} - I manually sync them because changes are few and far between.

I wanted to set up a central authority - i don’t care about multi master or even resilience to failure in that central authority.

But even a small setup is relatively complicated. I remember yp setup in the early ‘90s looked complicated but it is a piece of cake compared to modern systems. They provide a lot, but they don’t scale down - and it feels to me that they are complicated much more than is required for their feature list.

Take LDAP, for example - it is only “lightweight” compared to the thing it replaced. But it is ridiculously complicated for what it is. It is designed for a bandwidth-scarce, intermittent connection world; for a modern world, I’d just put it all in an SQLite database and rsync it all over the place (and use remote queries, the replicas only used for offline validation).
by generj | 2026-02-18 19:14:53+00:00
Regardless of if there ought to be some sort of consequences for a civil (not criminal) infraction, the consequences shouldn’t fall on a 9 yo girl. I have no idea how the operators of the for profit detention center sleep at night.

Usually receiving a green card forgives any visa overstays. Because she married a US Citizen she would almost assuredly have received the green card. The months of suffering of a little girl are just due to a delay in a bureaucracy approving some paperwork.
by allears | 2026-02-18 19:14:54+00:00
Yes you do. Are you a techie? Do you have an inkling of how LLMs work, how they are put together?
You are anthropomorphizing a computer system that cannot "think." It (definitely not "she") simply uses statistical techniques to create a plausible response to a prompt.
Apparently in your case, the responses were so plausible that they fooled you entirely into imagining that you are conversing with 'someone' who has philosophical 'thoughts.'
If I were you, I'd do a whole lot of reading about the technical side of LLMs, to better understand what they actually are. (And no, don't ask an LLM to tell you.) And maybe a little introspection to see why you're so ready to believe the hype.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-18 19:15:56+00:00
To the extent that’s true it has much, much more to do with AWS, open source libraries, and collective knowledge, than it does LLMs.

But I honestly can’t think of anything you could do in a week that a company in 2015 would have paid billions for unless it’s something like tweaking an LLM. But in that case it’s the original model, not the 1 week or work you put in.
by bigfatkitten | 2026-02-18 19:16:09+00:00
You also won’t typically find C/C++ developers blinding yolo’ing the latest version of a dependency from the Internet into their CI/CD pipeline.

They’ll stick with a stable version that has the features they need until they have a good reason to move. That version will be one they’ve decided to ship themselves, or it’ll be provided by someone like Debian or Red Hat.
by iJohnDoe | 2026-02-18 19:16:14+00:00
This is just insane to treat children and people like this.

It has always been nearly impossible to comprehend how the Nazis could put children on trains and send them to concentration camps. How could those actions be tolerated by the world and how could the Nazis be so cold and heartless. It's hard to wrap you mind around how it all happened. Well, you're seeing it happen before your eyes right now.

You have a president that is ordering this to be done. You have people that have been put into positions with unlimited power and no repercussions. You have elected officials that blatantly lie (propaganda system). You have a fear based system that prevents people from resisting. You have people of power and wealth (e.g. Tim Cook) that benefit from what's taking place, which further supports and enables the president's actions.
by j-pb | 2026-02-18 19:16:15+00:00
Great insights, I build a whole database around the idea of using the smallest plausible random identifiers:

https://triblespace.github.io/triblespace-rs/deep-dive/ident...

https://triblespace.github.io/triblespace-rs/deep-dive/tribl...

To me the ship of theseus question is about extrinsic (random / named) identifiers vs. intrinsic (hash / embedding) identifiers.
by qurio_dev | 2026-02-18 19:16:41+00:00
I understand your apprehensions and I fully respect them. Be assured I have updated the resend link functionality and also given a try demo session link without any login in case you want to give it a spin.

Rest assured, chat logs are encrypted and saved as per regulatory standards.

We Use industry-standard AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS encryption in transit. We use Row Level Security to ensure that your data is logically isolated—even to myself
We do not sell your data. We do not use your chat logs to train our own models. Your "thinking journey" is yours alone.

but still I respect your decision. Thank you:)
by networked | 2026-02-18 19:17:02+00:00
Classic Xerox PARC-derived GUIs are very useful but not a replacement for the terminal. I also connect to my workstation over RDP, then use a terminal emulator.

Windows is a good example of what I mean. Windows system administration has become unmistakably more text- and console-centric over time with the rise of PowerShell. Windows has started shipping an SSH service and made its graphical interface optional on the server.

The web has avoided falling into the same trap. Web UIs are, for the most part, delivered to the user as hypertext rather than rio-style pixels. They rarely hard-require a mouse and have adapted well to touchscreens. Graphics in new web UIs is usually vector (SVG).
by shj2105 | 2026-02-18 19:17:11+00:00
I’m so confused. What is the difference between a peer relay and a DERP server that is self hosted?

The issue I have is I’m trying to connect two devices where one is behind a CGNAT that always causes the connection to be relayed even though the other one is not behind a cgnat with proper port forwarding. Would a peer relay solve this but is it like a DERp where I have to host it on a VPS separate from my existing two networks or is this something different where I can host the peer relay on the network not behind a CGNAT and somehow it will link the two networks through it?
by swynx | 2026-02-18 19:17:14+00:00
I built a tool that detects dead code across 26 languages.

The honest answer is most people aren't catching it. The code works, the tests pass, and nobody reviews what the LLM left behind. You end up shipping unreachable functions, duplicate logic, and unused imports that sit there unreviewed and unpatched.

Dead code isn't just technical debt - MITRE catalogued it as CWE-561, a security weakness. A duplicated goto fail; once bypassed SSL on 500M+ Apple devices. It's a hidden attack surface that never gets looked at.

If you're vibe-coding regularly, I'd treat every LLM output like a junior dev's PR. Assume it works, assume it's not optimal, and run static analysis as a baseline. For dead code specifically check out my tool at swynx.io - plenty of free options.