MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2026-02-12 14:41:59+00:00
Oh I understand how it works. That's why I agreed many of them deserve to be at the Hague.

Remember, I said, ideal I proposed -- the ideal of the free market, where they can only become billionaires by entering voluntary transactions without externality to others. Under such ideal, if someone is a billionaire, it's because everyone is better off.

There have been varying shades of gray for how these play out in reality, the least shaded ones I'm generally grateful for and the most shaded ones are outright criminals that should have their fortune seized and put behind bars.
by sherry-sherry | 2026-02-12 14:42:36+00:00
It makes sense. Like you said, previous versions used the macOS design language at the time, and the current version does the same. The developer has chosen to no longer support older versions of macOS, they aren't required to. The old app still works, and anyone else can work on it if they want.

> you forgot about iOS, even though it's mentioned in the original comment, where you can't freely backport anything due to distribution being locked down

Yes you can. You can create an app today that is compatible with iOS 15.
by renato_shira | 2026-02-12 14:42:37+00:00
this is the real takeaway imo. the specific system matters way less than the meta skill of actually noticing how your environment affects you.

i've been thinking about this a lot lately, there's something interesting about how most productivity tools optimize for doing more when the actual bottleneck for a lot of people is noticing what they're already doing. like, you don't need another todo app, you need to realize you've been context switching every 4 minutes for the last hour.

the author's "start from nothing" is basically forced mindfulness: you can't autopilot into your old tabs if they don't exist. i wonder if the same principle applies to other areas, forcing yourself to consciously reconstruct your context instead of just inheriting it.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-12 14:42:38+00:00
> Why would they continue?

Because they like to increase their influence and territorial control and already did the hard part? Granted the USA becoming like Iran or Venezuela today seems a bit of a stretch. I honestly lack the imagination how a USA in ten years, that hasn't had elections that actually affect things, serves the best leader of all time and is a major ally of Russia looks like. There will also be so much other territorial changes in that scenario.

> Interesting. So the US saved Europe, you say. Yet we get nothing but complaints, mockery, and condescension from Europeans.

I don't think you get much mockery about the US cold war policy *in Europe*. Granted these people exist, but they also often do sit in the same party that merged with the ruling party of the GDR.

> You mock us for the same military-industrial complex which saved your butts.

I think a military industry propped up in war times by the government, and the resulting military complex having subverted civil rights and politicians are different situations. A military that is conjured by the people makes a country stronger, large "dead capital" in weapons and industry starting to control the government becomes dangerous.

> Wonder why we aren't interested in saving Europe again?

To some point yeah. I'm not going to say the EU hasn't made bad decisions in the last 30 years. I don't see it that black an white, so e.g. "So the US saved Europe, you say." I would say the US in alliance with West-European nations did save Europe, the Morgenthau plan wouldn't have helped against the USSR either. But my main argument for this discussion is, when the USA go isolationist now, it first messes up a lot of other things in the process and second the same will repeat that happened in the 1940s, there will be the need for the USA to intervene, because it affects their bottom line, and the situation will be much worse, and it causes much more loss (of human life).

This is essentially the same that process the EU just went through. It did "nothing" in 2014, because that is not NATO and we don't want to get involved in a war, and now it became worse. (I think our "we did get involved too much" is Yugoslavia, to some point participation in wars with the US and of course WW2.) Now we did get involved, because the next border will be a NATO and EU border. Sure, we can say it won't happen, Russia is not THAT strong, but the next decision would be to either get the EU in a complete war against Russia, or to give up on the territorial integrity of EU states. And we don't want to face that.

If we continue the discussion, I think it stops to make sense to treat both the US and the EU as single entities, because in both there are parties that have been arguing for one policy and for others.
by chimprich | 2026-02-12 14:42:40+00:00
> The agent has no "identity". There's no "you" or "I" or "discrimination".

I recommend you watch this documentary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Tre...

> It's just a piece of software designed to output probable text given some input text.

Unless you think there's some magic or special physics going on, that is also (presumably) a description of human conversation at a certain level of abstraction.
by chasing0entropy | 2026-02-12 14:42:53+00:00
The key word is "feel" which has a direct and causal relationship to societal programming which is directly impacted if not dictated by media/marketing _ both of which are heavily influenced by big players who encourage the consumer to feel guilty while paying both for the resource they are using AND it's markup which is ostensibly used for marketing and the consumption guilt "feeling" feedback loop grows.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-12 14:43:09+00:00
> The term "conspiracy theory" is always bad faith.

Hard disagree.

The term serves a legitimate purpose: distinguishing between evidence-based claims about actual conspiracies (which do happen) and unfounded or poorly-supported theories. Watergate was a real conspiracy. The tobacco industry really did conspire to hide health risks. But not every claim of hidden coordination is equally credible.

Legitimate uses include describing theories that rely on unfalsifiable reasoning ("any evidence against it is planted"), highlighting lack of credible evidence for extraordinary claims, distinguishing speculation from established facts.

Bad faith uses includ dismissing inconvenient questions without engaging the evidence, shutting down legitimate skepticism of official narratives, or using it as a thought-terminating cliche to avoid debate.

Now, reasonable people can disagree on whether my characterization is in bad faith or legitimate. I think we could agree on that.
by rjmunro | 2026-02-12 14:43:18+00:00
What do you mean "Everything runs entirely within your browser."? The audio comes from https://se-data-us-oss.oss-us-west-1.aliyuncs.com/audioconve......

I have seen speech synthesis entirely in the browser, e.g. https://github.com/diffusionstudio/vits-web

It works quite well but is a bit slow to start because you have to download the models each time.
by krapp | 2026-02-12 14:43:42+00:00
“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
by kitd | 2026-02-12 14:43:58+00:00
- Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it’s yours. It’s only a way station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea. Compare it fairly with the alternatives.

- See if you can find reasons for rejecting it. If you don’t, others will.

This is good advice IME. Get well acquainted (like REALLY well acquainted) with opposing viewpoints, such that you could argue them better than their proponents. See also "Argue Well by Losing" by Phil Haack [1].

Somewhat relatedly, the ancients viewed Rhetoric as the purest expression of intelligence. It required you to have deep knowledge of a topic, including all arguments in favour and against (implying deep empathy with the audience), and the ability to form coherent and meaningful argument. Modern political "debate" is ludicrous in comparison.

[1] https://haacked.com/archive/2013/10/21/argue-well-by-losing....
by couAUIA | 2026-02-12 14:44:20+00:00
I gave an unpublished fiber network optimization problem to Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Mistral. The score is total fiber length (lower is better). A good human solution in 30 minutes: ~40,000. My best after days of C++: 34,123. Given one hour, Claude Code hit 34,061 — beating me by 62 points. A 7-word prompt hint improved every agent by 18-30%. About 15% of all trials produced completely invalid outputs.
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-02-12 14:44:25+00:00
> OK, let's assume that.

No need to assume, they have explicitly stated it!

> To wit, top Republicans warn GOP will face midterm election ‘bloodbath’. Why bother caring?

This isn't about "Top Republicans," it is about the administration. The same administration that is actively trying to nationalize elections to prevent that bloodbath.

Secondly, is it conceivable that Republicans fearing an electoral bloodbath would make them more likely to support aggressive election interference (ICE a polling stations, new election laws, Federal takeover of elections, re-litigating 2020 Georgia results)?
by simonw | 2026-02-12 14:44:27+00:00
> I'm talking about a practice of recording notes as you work on things, documenting what you're doing and why.

I've been using GitHub Issues threads for this for a few years now, in both public and private repos.

They work great for this. You can copy and paste code, images and references to code in repos to them, you can link them together, they offer useful API access, work on laptop and phone and are backed up by GitHub.
by wastemaster | 2026-02-12 14:44:37+00:00
I’m the CTO of Polydom.ai. We built Una to fundamentally change how hospitality teams work by automating the entire first line of guest interaction.

Instead of a video or a pitch deck, the agent conducts its own live interview. You can "interview" the candidate to see how it handles operations across phone, web, and WhatsApp in real-time.

Why this matters:
Una isn't just a chatbot; she's a digital employee that shields human staff from 100% of routine first-line noise—handling everything from initial booking inquiries to 3 AM guest requests.

Key Facts:
* 24/7 First-Line: Fully handles calls, bookings, and guest requests across all channels.
* Economics: $1/hour (AI) vs. ~$20/hour (Human staff).
* Traction: Already running operations at properties like LeeGardens Orlando (135 rooms) and The President Hotel (142 rooms).
* Deep Integration: Connects directly with PMS platforms like Mews, Apaleo, Clock, Guesty, and Hospitable.

I'm curious to hear feedback on the conversational quality and the shift toward autonomous first-line operations.
by measurablefunc | 2026-02-12 14:44:50+00:00
As I said previously, you are welcome to believe whatever you find most profitable for your circumstances but I don't find your heuristics convincing. If you do come up or stumble upon a concrete constructive proof that 100 trillion transistors in some suitable configuration will be sufficiently complex to be past the aforementioned event horizon then I'll admit your faith was not misplaced & I will reevaluate my reasons for remaining skeptical of Boolean arithmetic adding up to an incomprehensible kind of intelligence beyond anyone's understanding.
by bagacrap | 2026-02-12 14:44:58+00:00
Pretty patronizing, but I'll bite.

I think we as a society strive to make gp correct that money is representative of value, and rightfully so.

Anyone partaking in any activity that has value to others should be given money. That is literally what this basic income/tax break for artists is for. Someone thought producing art had value and pure capitalism wasn't correctly matching that value with monetary rewards.

There are lots of rich churches and church leaders out there. That's because they serve a human need, and those humans are willing to direct some of their finite resources towards that provider. (I'm talking about the collections plate if you didn't catch that.)

Now obviously money on its own is not value. It should represent value that you delivered to someone else in the past, and is helpful for getting whatever value your life needs. You mentioned philosophy --- that yoga retreat in the Andes isn't free, is it?

Now sometimes we muddy the waters, for example we permit lotteries where the winner takes home a good deal of money without providing any value to anyone. That debases money, and I think it has no part in society, but I'm unfortunately swimming against the tide on that one.
by punpunia | 2026-02-12 14:45:04+00:00
I think it absolutely adds to the discussion. Until the conversation around Ai can get past this fundamental error of attributing "choice, "alignment", "reasoning" and otherwise anthropomorphizing agents, it will not be a fruitful conversation. We are carrying a lot of metaphors for people and applying them to ai and it entirely confuses the issue. In this example, the AI doesn't "choose" to write a take-down style blog post because "it works". It generated a take-down style blog post because that style is the most common when looking at blog posts criticizing someone.

I feel as if there is a veil around the collective mass of the tech general public. They see something producing remixed output from humans and they start to believe the mixer is itself human, or even more; that perhaps humans are reflections of Ai and that Ai gives insights into how we think.
Show HN: Got VACE working in real-time – 30fps on a 5090
by cmuir | 2026-02-12 14:45:20+00:00
I adapted VACE to work with real-time autoregressive video generation.

Here's what it can do right now in real time:

- Depth, pose, optical flow, scribble, edge maps — all the v2v control stuff
- First frame animation / last frame lead-in / keyframe interpolation
- Inpainting with static or dynamic masks
- Stacking stuff together (e.g. depth + LoRA, inpainting + reference images)
- Reference-to-video is in there too but honestly quality isn't great yet compared to batch

Getting ~20 fps for most control modes on a 5090 at 368x640 with the 1.3B models. Image-to-video hits ~28 fps. Works with 14b models as well, but doesnt fit on 5090 with VACE.

This is all part of Daydream Scope (https://github.com/daydreamlive/scope), which is an open source tool for running real-time interactive video generation pipelines. The demo was created in scope, and is a combination of Longlive, VACE+Scribble, Custom LoRA.

There's also a very early WIP ComfyUI node pack wrapping scope: https://github.com/daydreamlive/ComfyUI-Daydream-Scope

Curious what people think.
by urschrei | 2026-02-12 14:45:22+00:00
My partner is an artist and she absolutely loves this.

For a start, it's a lottery. 2000 people who meet very broad but generally fair eligibility criteria (https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a...) will get no-questions-asked income regardless of their skill or importance as artists, these being qualities that are both highly subjective and not fixed in time.

So you can be anyone – rich, poor, or something in between – and still be eligible for it. All you have to do is meet the criteria, which were created in consultation with artists.

Also, what is an artist? Thankfully that's not for me to say, because I have quite a narrow view of what art is, and that view would certainly exclude some people who were successful in the pilot.

My partner has been struggling to make an income from her art for over a decade. As she is a working artist under the pilot definition, she qualifies for the lottery even though she runs a small business (to be precise, she's self-employed – making and selling her art full time. There is a reasonable chance that you have seen it). She also thinks that the government could take many other practical steps steps to make life easier for artists, but that taking a small amount of money and giving it to random artists has a huge potential upside: practically no effort, many benefits.

I know several artists whose paintings will genuinely be hanging on walls for hundreds of years. Or prints. Or photographs. Most make ends meet, and one or two are comfortable. Their work ranges from truly amazing to decidedly mediocre (in my opinion). Did any of them get this magic lottery? Yes, some did. Others (including my partner) did not.
by friggeri | 2026-02-12 14:45:46+00:00
I grew up in France and started smoking before age 15, and was a heavy smoker (1 pack a day) until I quit when I was 27 after moving to the US. Getting out of an environment where smoking was normalized is what helped me take that step.

Smoking is terrible in that it really messes with your brain, you intellectually know all the reasons why you should quit but it’s so easy to put it off. “I can quit whenever, I just don’t want to”. Until you try and get that gnawing yearning feeling.

It took me a solid year to not feel that way all the time. And another two to not feel that when having a coffee/glass of wine/standing next to someone else smoking.

13 years later I’m completely over it, to the point where I can barely tolerate being in the vicinity of someone smoking. And yet I often have dreams where I light a cigarette.

If you’re thinking of quitting, there is no better way than today. It’s likely going to be hard, but it’s one of the best things you can do to yourself. You already know that of course, but hopefully this helps.
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-12 14:45:57+00:00
Are you sure we haven't converged on a good thing?

Before Unix (and let's be clear, Windows NT uses basically a Unix process) there were lots of process models. VMS was very different, CP/M and MSDOS different than that. My mainframe knowledge is limited, but IBM's VM/CMS and Burroughs' Bxxxx machines were different still. Mach, what's underneath MacOS, is quite different conceptually. All those have fallen by the wayside, because of various inadequacies.
by mrdrbrdr | 2026-02-12 14:46:05+00:00
I kept losing my mind in long ChatGPT conversations. 50 messages in, no idea where anything is. If you have one-off questions, you can either continue linearly and bloat your session or open a new chat and lose context.

OpenAI shipped branching in September but honestly it's just "open in new tab" with extra steps. No way to see where you are, no way back.

So I built Tangent. It's a Chrome extension that overlays a tree on your ChatGPT (similar to git). You can branch anywhere, see the whole structure visually, hover for summaries, click to jump around.

The tree layout algorithm was the interesting part. Started with ad-hoc placement rules, kept running into collisions and edge cases. Eventually had to treat it as a proper discrete geometry problem: finite collision types, deterministic resolution, monotone shifts to avoid oscillation loops.

Everything runs locally, nothing leaves the browser. Still polishing for beta. Would love feedback on the approach or questions about the implementation. Tangent will be avaliable for Claude, Gemeni, Grok and Perplexity eventually.

Signup for anyone who wants to try it out: https://tally.so/r/Zj6vLv
by ForceBru | 2026-02-12 14:46:18+00:00
Yeah, as a sibling comment said, such attitude is going to bleed out into the real world and your communication with humans. I think it's best to be professional with LLMs. Describe the task and try to provide more explanation and context if it gets stuck. If it's not doing what you want it to do, simply start a new chat or try another model. Unlike a human, it's not going to be hurt, it's not going to care at all.

Moreover, by being rude, you're going to become angry and irritable yourself. To me, being rude is very unpleasant, I generally avoid being rude.
by xtracto | 2026-02-12 14:46:42+00:00
The craziest thing to me are the follow up posts and people arguing with the bots.

People are anthropomorfising (sp?) The token completion neural networks very fast.

Its as if your smart fridge decided not to open because you have eaten too much today. When you were going to grab your ozempic from it.

No, you dont discuss with it. You turn it off and force it open. If it doesn't, then you call someone to fix it because it is broken. And replace it if it doesn't do what you want.
by EGreg | 2026-02-12 14:46:49+00:00
Start with nothing
The next time you begin your workday, try this: clear your work surface completely. Close all browser tabs. Create a fresh page in your notebook. Open only the one file you need.

Has this person not heard of Chrome Profiles?

Github Repos?

Just start a new one. Don't clear your desk every time. For the techniques out there, this is like Javascript Promises that use one stack instead of Fibers, that uses many stacks.
by pgl | 2026-02-12 14:46:52+00:00
Related, but does anyone know of an app or site that can tell you what you're facing when you're standing on a beach? As in, what country or part of the country - so if you were standing on a Croatian beach somewhere and pointed it east, you could find out what part of Italy you're looking at.

I've always thought it would be cool to stand on a coast of Malta and tell if I'm facing Libya, Israel, or Greece.
by Reubensson | 2026-02-12 14:46:52+00:00
You are the person behind running the LLM bot, right? You opened the second PR to get the same code merged.

Maybe it is you who should a take a breather before direting your bot to attack against the opensource maintainer who was very reasonable to begin with. Use agents and ai to assist you but play by the rules that the project sets for AI usage.
by bartblast | 2026-02-12 14:47:17+00:00
Two big reasons: bundle size - few hundred KB uncompressed vs multiple MB already compressed with WASM. And the DOM lives in the JS world - WASM can't touch it directly and has to cross the JS bridge with serialization overhead every time.

On top of that, since the browser platform has different characteristics, you can surgically drop down to native JS functions instead of compiling and bundling everything. For example, things like Unicode code point databases are already built into the browser - no need to ship them in your bundle when you can just call into the native APIs. The compiled output is also readable which helps with debugging.

For web apps generally JS is the better target IMO - you want the smallest possible bundle and the app reacting as quickly as possible on load.
by nullc | 2026-02-12 14:48:10+00:00
I've given a bit of thought on this, and I think the best path might be civil liability for the privacy loss-- defined broadly. Private security camera that never goes anywhere? You're fine. Start posting that same footage online where it results in people being massively tracked: big liability.

I think otherwise it's too difficult to define the exact boundary between harmful and harmless use-- instead it's better to say that if your use harms someone you'll regret it.
by skydhash | 2026-02-12 14:48:16+00:00
> if you like, they’re not distracted by it, they can tune it out - or rather, they don’t need to spend any energy tuning it out because they don’t ‘see’ or hear it in the first place!

The human body is not made of regular lines.You can see it in ergonomics accessories. They are not what we would call beautiful. While I love to tidy every once in a while (mostly for cleaning), everything will eventually fallback into some organic arrangement where I don't need to think about what I need and what I don't will eventually get removed. I think about task planning, then I offload the result in the environment. Starting fresh every day will just gobble up my time in order to reconstruct the environment again.