MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ocdtrekkie | 2026-02-06 14:13:04+00:00
Yep, one of the big problems is the penalty for any corporate crime today is not enough. Often the crime is more profitable than the penalty hurts.

If you want to fix ads, make a malicious ad cost the ad network triple the amount they got paid to display it. Corporations are psychopathic by design, if you want to fix them you need to make it an actual financial risk to do something bad.

And then heck, if you want to make stopping the original bad actors more effective, make the platforms pay up those damages but empower them to recover that loss if they can get it from the malicious advertiser.

You'll see platforms doing more vetting of content, doing more KYC, and focused on reducing their own risk.
by Eridrus | 2026-02-06 14:13:52+00:00
I basically agree.

But also, CI should be the last line of defense, not the first line.

If your system is not byzantine, you should be able to run almost all your tests locally and not need to boot a cloud machine that has to be setup from scratch and deal with all the overhead in your core loop.

Having a build system that knows what tests need to be run helps here since you're no longer just throwing compute at the problem.
by p-s-v | 2026-02-06 14:13:54+00:00
Text I built a scraping project to solve a niche domain problem: figuring out which chef knife steels are actually "good" vs. just marketing hype, based on r/chefknives archives.

The core technical challenge was Entity Resolution. I didn't want to burn thousands of tokens feeding raw threads to an LLM just to identify common terms like "Wüsthof" or "VG-10."

My solution was a 4-step "Inverse Masking" pipeline:

Local Fuzzy Match: Fuse.js scans text against a local catalog of ~500 brands/steels. This catches 80% of entities for zero cost.

Masking: I replace found matches in the text (e.g., "[ENTITY_FOUND]") to hide them.

LLM Discovery: I send the remaining text to an LLM (via OpenRouter). Because the "loud" common entities are masked, the model is much better at spotting obscure artisan makers or slang that the fuzzy matcher missed.

Sentiment: The LLM assigns context-aware scores (-1.0 to 1.0) to distinguish between "I want to buy X" (Neutral) and "X chipped immediately" (Negative).

The Findings (from 542 threads):

MagnaCut is the technical winner (28:1 positive ratio).

Ginsan (Silver 3) is the practical kitchen favorite. It beats premium powdered steels simply because users almost never complain about chipping.

VG-10 is the most controversial. Highest volume, but statistically the highest ratio of "micro-chipping" complaints.

Stack is Node.js and MongoDB. Full charts and breakdown are in the post.

I'm curious if others are using this "Fuzzy First -> LLM Second" pattern for NER tasks to save context window, or if I should just move to vector embeddings for the initial lookup?

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
by coreycascio | 2026-02-06 14:14:04+00:00
For 6 months, I was that person with 15 browser tabs open just to publish one YouTube video. vidIQ for competitor research. Runway for video generation. Descript for voiceover. Canva for thumbnails. Buffer for scheduling. ChatGPT for scripts. $127/month in subscriptions. 20+ hours/week in busywork.
Got fed up and spent 3 months building one tool that automates the entire workflow.

--- viralvelocity.app

## What It Does:

* Competitor Intelligence* - Type your niche → instantly see top 5 creators - Analyze their viral videos, hooks, thumbnails - Data-driven content strategy (not guessing)

* AI Script Generation* - Analyzes competitor patterns in your specific niche - Generates scripts based on proven formats - Not generic ChatGPT—niche-specific scripts

* Video Creation (2 Methods)* - Image slideshow with transitions - OR Veo 3.1 AI video generation - Auto voiceover with multiple voices

* Thumbnail Generator* - AI creates thumbnails automatically - Or upload your face image once → adds it to all thumbnails - (Even faceless channels use face thumbnails for higher CTR)

* Channel Optimization* - Overall channel score (0-100) - Specific improvement suggestions per video - SEO optimization (tags, titles, descriptions)

* Auto-Scheduling* - Plan entire content calendar - Publishes videos automatically

---

## Screenshots:

[Paste your 4 screenshots here directly in the post]

---

## My Question for This Community:

As fellow YouTubers—would this actually help you? Or am I solving my own weird workflow problem?

Specifically: - What would you actually USE vs what's "nice to have"? - Is $79/mo fair to replace vidIQ ($39) + Runway ($30) + Descript ($30) + Canva ($13) + Buffer ($15)? - What am I missing that would actually matter for your channel?

---

## Full Transparency:

Solo dev, first SaaS product Built it for myself first, now testing if others need it Just launched this week—some features still rough around the edges I use it for my own channel (eating my own dog food) No fake testimonials or "make $10k/month" claims Early beta, bugs exist, support is slow (it's just me)

---

I'm not here to sell. Genuinely trying to figure out if this is worth continuing or if I should pivot/kill it.

Honest feedback appreciated, even if it's "this is stupid and here's why." Thanks for reading viralvelocity.app
by keepamovin | 2026-02-06 14:15:10+00:00
Fair enough and that’s an interesting situation nonetheless.

In some ways emotionally, I’d prefer the archaeological previous advanced civilization discovery that both confirms: We’re not alone in the extent of time, but we don’t really have anything else to consider in the present, so we can study and learn from something static.

Though I feel, optimistically, I guess, that the reality is more dynamic than that.
by ura_yukimitsu | 2026-02-06 14:15:25+00:00
It's good that you warned them in advance, but I don't think "there are much worse things they could be doing" really is a reason to discard those who are hurt by this as "snowflakes" and the content they're exposed to as "silly and non-threatening."
From what you're saying, there's also a big difference between what you were dealing with and what this article is talking about: in your case it was only still images, and only "regular" porn (and I assume they probably had to monitor every image posted if it was "a long time ago" so overall they were not exposed only to that content); in this case they're reviewing videos content including not only porn but also violence and sexual abuse, that was pre-flagged by an AI so with way less rule-abiding content mixed in.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2026-02-06 14:15:28+00:00
> With recent legislation here in Australia

Are you of Aboriginal extraction? Otherwise, I'm not sure an ethnic homeland for you would be Australia, right?

This stuff is so weird, as basically all humans migrated to wherever they are now. Like, I'm pretty sure that I have Celtic, Norman, Viking and other ancestors, despite my official ancestry being Irish (and all of my last 3-4 generations being born in Ireland).

Is it culture? That would seem to be what people are actually looking for, and I can definitely see the appeal, but culture is something that is generated from interaction with other members of a culture, and isn't dependent on genetics (consider how you or I might behave in OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Goldman Sachs).
by rayiner | 2026-02-06 14:15:33+00:00
> A lot of people would prefer if even family sponsorships didn't exist. Many people think of that as "gaming the system" because they allow "average" people to be immigrants. I assume Republicans want to get rid of this.

I think Republicans didn’t really understand that this existed until recently. And yes, many want to get rid of it, because it’s a loophole in the skilled immigration system. We apply aggressive filters to 65,000 H1Bs or whatever, and hundreds of thousands of low skill people come over because they’re someone’s cousin.
by thombat | 2026-02-06 14:15:35+00:00
The historian Hubertus Knabe made the horrifying observation of the film "The Lives of Others" that "There was a Schindler. There was no Wiesler", i.e. that in the whole history of the DDR they didn't in fact have a Stasi officer turning against the system from a crisis of conscience, as Wiesler does in the film. To prevent such long wolves they took the simple expedient of always having two officers performing the surveillance, so not just the target but also the Stasi men on the case were monitored.

Asimov is right to think that the costs were ruinous, as was the area of agricultural land sacrificed to the restricted zone near the border wall. But it was very much a price they were willing to pay.
AI skill for generating linter configs and repairing code
by zzzzjhello | 2026-02-06 14:15:44+00:00
Lately AI is being used more and more to generate code, but keeping the code quality in check is still really important. Most projects or companies have coding standards, and linters can enforce them—but automatically generating the correct linter configuration is tricky.

When AI tries to generate linter configs, it can hallucinate: misinterpreting coding standards and producing incorrect or incomplete configs.

Therefore, I develop an AI skill LintConfig to automatically configure linters according to users’ coding standards, run lint checks, and repair any coding violations. One figure example:
https://github.com/idiomaticrefactoring/LintConfig/blob/master/fig/example3.png

I’d love to hear what you think! If anyone’s interested, you can try it out, give feedback. Welcome contributions or suggestions for improvements. The github url is https://github.com/idiomaticrefactoring/LintConfig
by colesantiago | 2026-02-06 14:16:03+00:00
You should assume all ads are complete scams.

Some of them are funded by scamming others, crypto, VC, etc. Even the first link in the article [0] has a VC backed startup advertising (they paid $11K!) that nobody asked for.

There is no such thing as an ethical ad whatsoever.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2024/07/apple_taboola_sitting_in_...
by eggy | 2026-02-06 14:16:03+00:00
I think I would have left much sooner if I were there. Iran has claimed this January to have tested a 10,000 km ICBM with Russia allowing it to fly towards Siberia. This puts NYC and East Coast possibly within range. The claim has not been verified, but given the vitriol between the US and Iran, if they have it, and we overwhelm them with naval and air force presence, we may provoke a real world test of their claim.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 14:16:09+00:00
Liar.

"Clinical trials" of a drug means it is UNPROVEN.

Clinical trial means the drug is still in DEVELOPMENT stage.

It is obvious, isn't it?

The real reason that Bill Gates and his "charity" Foundation, did clinical trials of UNPROVEN VACCINES on THOUSANDS OF POOR MINOR TRIBAL GIRLS in India, WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT of them and their parents" (which directly causer "deaths and hospitalizations of many girls") is because he and his Big Pharma buddies thought they could get away by doing such evil trials cheaply on poor Indians.

(Hmmm, reminds me of the sordid history of the discovered corpses of the poor Indian (actually First Nation tribal) boys found buried under missionary schools in the USA and Canada.

Guess "Indian" life is cheap for the powers that be, in America).

Answer me honestly:
Did that same billionaire (Bill Gates) and his organisation (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) do the same exact trials in his home country (USA)? "clinical trials of unproven vaccines on thousands of poor minor girls, without consent of then and their parents"

If yes, show me the evidence, I'll wait.

[And oh do note that "FDA Approval" doesn't count as "proving a drug", because FDA are in the pockets of (funded by) Big Pharma.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2022/09/22/why-is...]

If not, you are defending a child murderer.
by netdevphoenix | 2026-02-06 14:16:14+00:00
You should wonder whether any of those devs will train themselves to become engineers and whether the supply of engineers will be lower than the demand for them. Because if any of them become true, you will likely struggle to keep your employee stats relatively the same (ie you will struggle in very specific ways) unless you are the kind of person who doesn't need to interview to land a gig at a top 10 tech company.
by grey-area | 2026-02-06 14:16:18+00:00
Of course it didn't. Not sure you really can do that - LLMs are a collection of weights from the training set, take away the training set and they don't really exist. You'd have to train one from scratch excluding these books somehow, which would be very expensive and I'm pretty sure the OP didn't do that.

So the test seems like a nonsensical test to me.
by dauertewigkeit | 2026-02-06 14:17:14+00:00
It's fundamentally still a problem of asymmetry of power and connections.

Try to put yourself in the shoes of an FBI agent tasked with investigating this same case. The accused are very wealthy very powerful people with deep pockets. They can and will take action against you, if you're revealed to be chasing after them. Plus, their network of allies is so vast, that you cannot even trust your superiors or other government agencies to back you up. And indeed that is exactly what happened here.
Show HN: A Data Art Gallery
by holtzy | 2026-02-06 14:17:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I just launched data-to-art.com, a curated online gallery focused on data driven art.

The site showcases artists who take real datasets and transform them into visual works that visually appealing or intriguing.

It's a side project to highlight a different relationship with data. I work in the field of data visualization and just love this variation.

I would love any feedback, and if you know artists or projects that might be a good fit, I would be very happy to hear about them!

Yan
by ironyman | 2026-02-06 14:17:46+00:00
DoD believes there is no chance (0%) China would agree to any nuclear treaties until they've hit parity with US/Russia in raw warhead count. And btw, DoD's unclassified assertions about their warhead count is based on old assumptions of their fissile material production and plutonium/tritium availability. In terms of ICBMs, they have production facilities that can make about 90 Peacekeeper-class missiles a year.

In other words, this is less about what China wants and more about where this puts the future nuclear posture of the US.
by slackfan | 2026-02-06 14:18:02+00:00
>no need for the attitude

Why? We've spent years upon years upon years of building systems that enshittify processes. We've spent years losing talent in the industry and the trends aren't going to reverse. We are our own worst enemy, and are directly responsible for the state of the industry, and to an extent, the world.

To not call out bullshit where one sees it, is violence.
by jghn | 2026-02-06 14:18:03+00:00
Nothing about my post indicated that these things shouldn't be talked about and discussed. It's worth understanding how things work, even things that one personally need to use. Continue to stash ideas away and add them to your future bag of tricks. The key issue here is that people need to be more critical and self-aware of the space where their problems lie, and not assume that because something is exceeding the envelope of what they've experienced that it's entering into special case territory.

Rather my point was that people, including myself, have a tendency to believe they're in an exceptional case when they're actually not. And thus will see discussions on sites like this and assume that's what they need to do. And of course they don't understand the tradeoffs and wind up not realizing they're actually making things harder for themselves.

The classic example is scaling issues where people, again including myself, assume they have exotic scaling needs simply because it's larger than anything they've seen before. When in fact by objective measures what they have is something that could run perfectly fine on 20 year old hardware and bog standard techniques.
by jstummbillig | 2026-02-06 14:18:05+00:00
It's so interesting that I start to feel a change, that is developing as a separate thing to capability. Previously, yeah sure, things changed but models got so outrageously better at the basic things that I simply wouldn't care.

Now... increasingly it's like changing a partner just so slightly, and you feel that something is different and it gives me pause.

That's probably not a sign of the improvement diminishing. Maybe more so my capabilities to appreciate them.

I can see how one might get from here to the whole people being upset about 4o thing.
by bluGill | 2026-02-06 14:18:10+00:00
These days software has been done a lot. You should be able to find others who have done similar things and learn lessons from them. Considering microservices - there are lots of people who have done them and can tell you what worked well and what didn't. Considering using QT - lots of others have and can give you ideas. Considering writing your own framework - there are lots of others: look at what they do good and bad.

If you are doing a CRUD web app for a local small business - there are thousands of examples. If you are writing control software for a space station - you may not have access to code from NASA/Russia/China but you can at least look at generic software that does the things you need and learn some lessons.
by thisislife2 | 2026-02-06 14:18:42+00:00
The only reason the US and Europe are targeting TikTok is because they don't own the platform. Facebook and WhatsApp (owned by Meta) are responsible for so much hate politics and social unrest around the world (Facebook and Genocide: How Facebook contributed to genocide in Myanmar and why it will not be held accountable - https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho... ). Amazon, Google and Microsoft helped the Israelis conduct the genocide in Gaza with their AI tools (UN Calls Out Google and Amazon for Abetting Gaza Genocide - https://progressive.international/wire/2025-08-26-un-calls-o... ). But all that's OK.
by ndriscoll | 2026-02-06 14:18:57+00:00
Why would a less legitimate company not pay more money to give you a worse deal with better margins? The intuitive dynamics to me would be that any way to trick consumers will be applied, and the bulk of the resulting spread will be captured by the ad companies via their auction systems. So we all get worse products with worse deals, and the difference goes into spying on people and convincing them to become more consumptive, i.e. to turn them into worse versions of themselves.

Never allow ads in your life. They're malicious in every way.
by olivia-banks | 2026-02-06 14:19:06+00:00
I've an avid Apple News user, and while I haven't seen the sorts of ads in the article, I do gets lots of ads for tax filing software. Namely, Intuit TurboTax. They are the only ads I ever get.

What's more, if you even touch them while scrolling, it triggers the "download app" screen, even if I don't explicitly tap. This is new as of a few weeks ago.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-06 14:19:35+00:00
Traditionally yes. But not when your business model (if you can call it that) is selling shovels at a loss to wholesalers (cloud providers) who are making all of the money selling it to customers. AWS, GCP and Azure are all making a killing and the only reason they aren’t more profitable is because they can’t get enough chips.

Microsoft just said as much in their quarterly filings and unrelated to AI, Cook said they couldn’t meet all of the iPhone demand because of capacity issues at TSMC
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 14:19:41+00:00
Are you deliberately pretending to be obtuse, or are you shamelessly accepting you are a Bill Gates fanboy?

Do you even understand the meaning of "informed consent"?!

Those "especially girls" NEVER gave their CONSENT for the HPV vaccine to be administered to them, they were NEVER INFORMED what its side effects and dangers are, and they COULDN'T GIVE CONSENT, SINCE THEY WERE MINORS!!

But oh wait, your dear billionaire Bill Gates likes minors "especially girls", doesn't he?

So you think "clinical trials of unproven vaccines on thousands of poor minor tribal girls, without consent of them and their parents" that directly caused "deaths and hospitalizations of many girls who were unsuspecting innocent victims of unproven vaccine as deceitful evil experiment" is "blowing things out of proportion".
Why? Because your fave billionaire bankrolled such evil unethical experiments?

So answer me honestly:
Did that same billionaire (Bill Gates) and his organisation (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) do the same exact trials in his home country (USA)? "clinical trials of unproven vaccines on thousands of poor minor girls, without consent of them and their parents"

If yes, show me the evidence, I'll wait.

[And oh do note that "FDA Approval" doesn't count as "proving a drug", because FDA are in the pockets of (funded by) Big Pharma.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2022/09/22/why-is...]

If not, you are defending a child murderer.
Show HN: EncroGram – A Privacy-Focused Messenger
by truthleaks | 2026-02-06 14:19:48+00:00
Hi HN,

EncroGram is a messaging app built around a simple question:
What remains visible when message content is encrypted?

Most modern messengers encrypt content but still retain significant metadata:
who talks to whom, when, how often, and from where.

EncroGram is an attempt to reduce that metadata footprint as far as practically possible.
The goal is not mass adoption or feature parity, but a minimal, transparent communication model.

Key points:
– No tracking or analytics
– No hidden data collection
– Focus on architectural simplicity
– Explicit threat model (what EncroGram does and does not protect against)

This is not a “Signal killer” and not designed for everyone.
It’s an experiment in reducing assumptions around data retention and trust.

Website:
https://encrogram.com

I’m interested in technical feedback, criticism, and discussion around the trade-offs.
by tallanvor | 2026-02-06 14:21:05+00:00
Honestly, I guess it's a fine article for someone who isn't very technical, but it provides very little real detail, and this wasn't an example of DNS breaking anything - it worked as designed.

The biggest pain of DNS for most people is if someone has set the TTL to an absurdly large number, or if a resolver isn't respecting TTL. And once you get into advanced configurations, SOAs and delegation certainly create their own headaches!
by zxhmike | 2026-02-06 14:21:10+00:00
I built this Chrome extension to streamline my workflow with Claude Code on the web. It adds features I found myself wanting daily:

Agent/Plan mode toggle — switch modes directly from the input area without typing prefixes
Pull Branch button — one click to copy the git pull command for the current branch
Merge Branch button — copy the merge command for resolving conflicts from main
Project color-coding — visually distinguish projects in the sidebar
Blocked sessions — mark stuck sessions so you remember to avoid them
Scroll to last message — jump back to your most recent prompt in long conversations

There is an "Add to Chrome" button on the README page. Please try it out.

If you have ideas regarding other features to add, please let me know. Cheers.
by Jamesbeam | 2026-02-06 14:21:23+00:00
Pretty interesting, thanks for your work and talk.

On topic, I also think we won’t see much of a consequence from the new classification.

"No timeline was given on when authorities will make a final decision in the case."

Typical EU commission powerbottom move.Those benchwarmers will not do a damn thing before the next round of elections.

All politicians and world leaders decided to stay on a platform that enables generating child pornography. Why would they leave TikTok? They want people to be addicted to theirs and their parties content on there across all political camps.