MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OneMorePerson | 2026-02-24 07:20:06+00:00
When you look into the edge cases developer productivity is really tough to understand. It's easy as the engineer yourself to see your own productivity as easy to understand, but if you are ever in the position of trying to assess someone's productivity that you don't work with day to day, its really difficult. There are people who are able to achieve millions in yearly savings with like 10 lines of code updated per year, perf debugging types. I'd never believe that up front if I hadn't seen it after the fact.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-24 07:20:31+00:00
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?efivar and underlying APIs should be able to tweak some settings depending on how many variables are exported.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/536436/linux-modify... suggests there may be risks involved using efivar to configure Apple hardware, as there probably isn't any kind of testing or validation present on the variables you set, but if you know what you're doing you should have similar control as you'd have on native macOS I believe.
by zkmon | 2026-02-24 07:20:36+00:00
Publishing markup content is not the problem world needs solving. Infact there is no problem with web that applies to all users of the web. Most are just consumers of the content. Mostly non-text content.

I guess the author first need to get some stats on content type, use cases, money flows, controls etc and then define the problem that applies to most users of the web.

Keep in mind that, usually a system that evolves through feedback loops, and shaped by forces, doesn't have a major problem as it's evolution has ensured the fit between itself and it's context.

You may call the forces which shape that evolution as evil. But the forces are part of the context that you need to live with. The forces are also a product of that evolution.
by d--b | 2026-02-24 07:20:49+00:00
I don’t understand this.

Age verification is not more difficult than a payment system.

I mean, if I can pay on a website without the website to know my credit card number, I should be able to prove my age without the website to know anything about me either.

France has a ID verification system for all its service. You’d think they should be able to provide a hook that lets people prove they’re over the age limit to any third party without the third party knowing. It seems fairly basic.

There is a solution to this.

There are privacy issues on the internet, but I think this ain’t one.
by Xylakant | 2026-02-24 07:21:02+00:00
Quite a few of the LLM features actually add value for a certain group of users. Automated image descriptions for the visually impaired, automatic translation, ... Running those on local models is a net benefit for quite a few people, but they get a bad rep because they're "AI" and the current trend of shoving AI everyplace and with no means of escape means that AI in general has a - well deserved - bad reputation.
by Bluecobra | 2026-02-24 07:21:17+00:00
Great idea, would it be possible to make it possible to add my own custom tshark one liners under weird stuff? For example, sometimes I find myself troubleshooting TCP retransmission issues that is specific to proprietary applications and that may not be relevant everyone else to have by default.

As an aside, I was thinking about something similar to this tool for a while now after seeing this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990) where someone was using Claude to troubleshoot a PCAP. It made me think that it would be nice just to have a nice collection of tshark one-liners to quickly weed out any weird stuff right off the bat. I would assume that it would be a lot more performant than using a LLM and more scalable if you have large PCAP files.
by josephg | 2026-02-24 07:21:36+00:00
Eh. Copyright only matters if it goes to court. And you only go to court over copyright if somebody is getting sued. That only happens when a plaintiff has standing, they can show damages and the person they want to sue has enough money to make it worth their while. (And if they'll make more money than it costs them in lawyers and negative PR. Suing users and developers for interacting with the product you sold them is generally considered a bad look.)

Anyway, nobody is going to sue you because you added your name (or "project contributors") to an ISC licensed source file in your own repository. Nobody cares. And there's no damages anyway.

Especially when the line added is:

> Copyright (c) brcmfmac-freebsd contributors

If you're right, that's an empty category. Thus the inclusion has no effect.
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-24 07:22:44+00:00
i intended to ask what the difference was between two browsers that are both beholden to a company whose express goal is to suck up personal data. so far ive gotten vitriol, AI, and downvotes. my actual question remains unanswered. if you'd like to answer the question that would be cool! but yeah if you dont want to answer , it'd probably be easier to say nothing than to tell me to die alone
by nowox | 2026-02-24 07:23:05+00:00
Markdown is by far the most widely used format in modern workflows. It’s the default on GitHub, and its popularity has led to a rich ecosystem of tools for static documentation, such as MkDocs and Docusaurus.

AsciiDoc is less ubiquitous, but it’s well-documented and offers a strong, technically structured syntax. Its feature set is broader and highly configurable (e.g., with tools like asciidoc3). However, in the Python ecosystem, parser availability and maturity are more limited. For Python-based workflows, Markdown clearly has the advantage.
by greggoB | 2026-02-24 07:23:14+00:00
Discussion doesn't constitute consensus or conclusion - as I said several comments up, widespread bias in Wikipedia is a talking point propagated by those with an agenda to distort factual accuracy - people like Musk have hardly been subtle about this being their objective.

> even an AI that is not evaluated all that well will be better

This is just intellectual laziness. If you don't like Wikipedia that's fine, but if you're going to make the effort of characterising it as such on a public forum, the least you can do is make an effort to that point. This certainly isn't a "fine" argument at all.
by strogonoff | 2026-02-24 07:23:19+00:00
Firefox has been my main browser lately, and in my experience it covers pretty much every latest spec: no issues with Web Audio, WebGL (as well as WebGPU, I think), CSS features, etc. There are some select cases where Chrome has deployed something and Firefox is lagging (Background Fetch, for example) but that affects me more as a developer than a user. I cannot remember a single time when I opened something and it didn’t work in Firefox.
by rhubarbtree | 2026-02-24 07:23:32+00:00
I think the sensible cost to take is the latest cost in a Waymo model, as that's what "works" for automated driving [1].

I see numbers anywhere between $10K-$30K for that.

[1] to a limited extent in a limited area - it's inaccurate to say that Waymo vehicles are fully autonomous.
by nullsanity | 2026-02-24 07:24:05+00:00
The impossibly high bar they set "Perfect" at in order to make it the enemy of good, and fight against any progress being made to keep children out of adult spaces.

That being said, it's my personal opinion that I'd love to simply have my device store a token and send it to any site when requested. I'd then like those sites to give me toggles to remove all non-verified content - and therefore my internet experience could be sans-juvenile squeakers.
by irjustin | 2026-02-24 07:24:36+00:00
I'll bite.

> It's not zero knowledge for me then. Also - if there is ANY possibility to track anyone. And/or centrally mark someone "nonverified" then it makes more problems than solves.

> Even if I trust my govt (no way), even if it'd be fully ZK with no way to track anyone… still govt would have a way to just block some individual "because".

Is this even actually possible? If you want any sort of identity verification you HAVE to trust someone, whether age or full ID. Literally impossible.

Zero trust systems in society don't work. If you don't care "who" then yes, zero trust is just fine... but then what's the point of "age verification"?
by denzil | 2026-02-24 07:24:44+00:00
Unlike the car question, where you can assume the car is at home and so the most probable answer is to drive, with the machines it gets complicated. Since the question doesn't specify if each machine makes one part or if they depend on each other (which is pretty common for parts production). If they are in series and the time to first part is different than time to produce 5 parts, the answer for 100 machines would be the time to produce the first part. Where if each machine is independent and takes 5 minutes to produce single part, the time would be 5 minutes.
by kolkov | 2026-02-24 07:25:15+00:00
Author here. I've been practicing what Karpathy now calls "Agentic Engineering" since January 2026 – a month before he coined the term. Across 35+ open source Go projects (~1M+ LOC total, including a 425K LOC pure Go GPU ecosystem), I found that orchestrating agents isn't enough. The critical missing piece is what I call Bidirectional Learning: structured knowledge files that the AI reads on session start and updates on exit. Each session compounds on the last instead of starting from zero. Without this, you're conducting an orchestra that forgets the piece they played yesterday.

Happy to answer questions about the workflow or any of the projects.
by einr | 2026-02-24 07:25:40+00:00
The lack of dedicated registers meant a lot of memory access, which slowed things down considerably.

It gets worse because the TI99 only has 256 bytes of RAM directly addressable on its 16-bit bus. All the other memory in the system is video RAM and is accessed 8 bits at a time through the video display processor. Oh, and you can only do this when the VDP is not accessing the memory. This is incredibly slow and severely hobbles the potential performance of the CPU.
by TrianguloY | 2026-02-24 07:26:04+00:00
I was in a similar situation in 2021, and my requirements were small size, no notch and headphone jack. I didn't like Samsung (the android from Samsung is fundamentally different from the other androids) and wanted to avoid xiaomi and other similar brands due to the ads bloatware.

The size requirement was basically impossible, but I switched it to a width requirement instead, and I found the Sony Xperia 10 III.

Pros: One of the smallest widths, no notch, jack, and a minor modified android (no stock, but pretty close).

Cons: too tall (but at least the small width makes it a easier to use with one hand), medium-bad camera (for some reason, although I don't care) and some preinstalled apps (like Facebook, but you can remove/disable them with adb).

Overall I'm pretty happy with it, and I'm considering another Xperia as a replacement if this one starts to fail (more than 4 years now, but still fine)
by arjie | 2026-02-24 07:26:38+00:00
How interesting that it describes "meeting Terence's special needs". In isolation, that sentence today would mean the opposite of what that person intended it to mean. For a bit in my childhood "differently abled" was the one people went with, but it seems that "special needs" was contemporaneous and just seems to have won. Differently abled does seem awfully obviously euphemistic.
by aydyn | 2026-02-24 07:27:10+00:00
You keep saying "LLM has no model of time" but that doesn't inherently mean anything.

If you give it clock as input, it will observe the passage of time and can model it. The entire explosion of the AI industry due to LLMs is the observation that their abilities generalize, so there's no reason to believe that LLMs can't "model time". They can, if you tell it to and give it proper input.
by Alifatisk | 2026-02-24 07:27:27+00:00
I had Openclaw running in a separate machine on glm coding plan and connected to its own Whatsapp account. Worked fine. However, Openclaw sucks at reminding. It could barely handle cron jobs at all. My workaround for it was to instruct it to add reminders to its heartbeat.md with a clause to run when a certain datetime is passed (heartbeat is run every 30m).
by hardsnow | 2026-02-24 07:27:51+00:00
Yep - requires the client to trust the SSL cert of the proxy. Cooperative clients that support eg HTTP_PROXY may be easier to support, but for Airut I went for full transparent mitmproxy. All DNS A requests resolve to the proxy IP and proxy cert is injected to the container where Claude Code runs as trusted CA. As a bonus this closes DNS as potential exfiltration channel.
by stephenr | 2026-02-24 07:27:59+00:00
> can read files in your project directory, which means a plaintext .env file is an accidental secret dump waiting to happen

It's almost like having a plaintext file full of production secrets on your workstation is a bad fucking idea.

So this is apparently the natural evolution of having spicy autocomplete become such a common crutch for some developers: existing bad decisions they were ignoring cause even bigger problems than they would normally, and thus they invent even more ridiculous solutions to said problems.

But this isn't all just snark and sarcasm. I have a serious question.

Why, WHY for the love of fucking milk and cookies are you storing production secrets in a text file on your workstation?

I don't really understand the obsession with a .ENV file like that (there are significantly better ways to inject environment variables) but that isn't the point here.

Why do you have live secrets for production systems on your workstation? You do understand the purpose of having staging environments right? If the secrets are to non-production systems and can still cause actual damage, then they aren't non-production after all are they?

Seriously. I could paste the entirety of our local dev environment variables into this comment and have zero concerns, because they're inherently to non-production systems:

- payment gateway sandboxes;

- SES sending profiles configured to only send mail to specific addresses;

- DB/Redis credentials which are IP restricted;

For production systems? Absolutely protect the secrets. We use GPG'd files that are ingested during environment setup, but use what works for you.
by Emmasahota97 | 2026-02-24 07:29:09+00:00
Most people don't think about airflow, but the right chest of drawers bedroom furniture needs to sit slightly off the floor. I learned the hard way that moisture-resistant raised feet are non-negotiable in the UK. These units stay elevated, which prevents that musty smell from creeping into the bottom drawers. It’s a small technical detail that makes a world of difference for the longevity of your clothes and the furniture itself.
by DavidSJ | 2026-02-24 07:30:03+00:00
That's 4–6 months in the 18 months the trials lasted for, i.e. about a 30% slowdown of progression. The open-label extensions suggest this relative slowdown seems to continue at least to the 4-year mark (at which point it would have bought you over a year of time): https://www.alzforum.org/news/conference-coverage/signs-last...

Time will tell if the 30% slowdown continues beyond four years, and/or if earlier treatment with more effective amyloid clearance from newer drugs has greater effects. The science suggests it should.
by trymas | 2026-02-24 07:30:47+00:00
Same "sane developers advocating for best practices" preached to the moon:

- Alexa (and other voice assistants) spy microphones in their homes;

- Internet connected:

- locks;

- door, bedroom, living room cameras;

- lights, appliances and whatnot;

Giving full and unfettered control to their personal computer with all its accounts, apps, etc does not surprise me at all.

I wonder what anthropologists will write about us these days 100 years in the future. What is super creepy and super illegal to do for a physical individual, but is given a blank check from society to be done by tech corporations at unimaginable scale.

EDIT: also corporations (from my social bubble) are giving (almost) unfiltered access to their data from LLMs (and probably soon a control of that data through "Claw" trend), that would be instantly fireable offence for any employee.

Imagine giving enterprise access to some Joe-Claw from the street and allowing him to press any buttons he wants..
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-24 07:30:56+00:00
God I wish I could just block throwaway accounts sometimes.

Since your snark indicates that you clearly have watched the documentary that I am referring to here is the youtube captions of the relevant segment:

"In order to fix this problem, breakthrough came when we understood that the connections that were being broken were not located on the motherboard but they're actually located inside the components.
The problem was a connection was breaking.
The reason it was breaking was thermal, but it wasn't because of the peak temperature; is because when the unit would get hot and then cold, hot and then cold, every time it did that would stress the connection.
All these people loved playing video games, so they would turn this thing on and off, and when it would turn on and off you get all sorts of stresses, and just like when you you bend something too many times till it finally breaks, that's what was happening."

Lets put aside that of the million plus people watching RIP Felix's "research" only a handful of people actually have the technical expertise to confirm or deny his thesis. Regardless of if his "research" is valid or not, his video is not exactly a mass market documentary like the Microsoft one was. The caption above does a good job of generally explaining the issue to normies and then moving on because you know they have like 18 years of history to cover. Its only a small cadre of weirdos that like to take this ~30 seconds of footage and blow it out of proportion.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-24 07:32:48+00:00
Translating software that has a lot of tests is easy for LLMs. I think we'll be seeing a lot more of that in the next years. But it will take some time for people to build up more trust in these tools. Good test harnesses are a key enabler.

The inevitable cleanup that will follow this could be done the same way. Refactoring like that can be done in more bite sized chunks, which makes it easier to review what is happening and control how it is done.
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-24 07:33:11+00:00
Written English makes plenty of sense, but it's really complicated because you need to know the etymology of the words to understand the logic. It's not just made-up; there's reasons for the "rules" (like why a word is pronounced the way it is, despite the spelling). But new learners don't have time to learn Greek and Latin roots and other such stuff, and under-educated native English speakers won't know much of this stuff either.
by rkomorn | 2026-02-24 07:33:59+00:00
I was speaking generally, and wrote that people like him (not him specifically) are elite within the top 1%. So basically 1% of the 1%.

Not that I mean the percentages factually, more like an order of magnitude.

But my point is, in terms of "natural ability", I don't believe there is that much of a gap among top performers, but that things like work ethic and determination, and also some luck in environments, is what ends up setting them apart.

That's why I think they're worth praising: it's not just a spin of genetic roulette (unless one believes every single attribute about us is genetic, I guess).
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-24 07:36:37+00:00
There is the notion that a lot of programming language preferences are based on the notion of people using them. As soon as it's LLMs using them, a lot of what motivates their choices becomes less valid.

I've been doing a few projects that are definitely outside my comfort zone with LLMs and its fine. I can read the code but I just don't have the muscle memory to produce it.
by themafia | 2026-02-24 07:36:49+00:00
> a "Mecca for hackers,"

It's America. You should want that. What you don't want is a mecca for criminals and pirates. I'm not sure how fixing my own tractor leads to criminal acts and there are already robust trade rights protections in the US.

> The problem is that both sides are correct.

Isn't the whole problem here the collateral damage caused by the DMCAs provision against circumvention? Then it seems one side is completely wrong and the other side is completely correct. If you own the device then "circumvention" is meaningless. If the device can't operate without firmware then it's inside the envelope and can be circumvented fairly.

> one can imagine unintended consequences and liability cascades from imperfect repair.

Yea we'd have to develop a robust legal system for managing this; however, we could also just use the one that already exists.
by Rapzid | 2026-02-24 07:36:55+00:00
I feel like it's talked about all the time which is the opposite of ignoring it.

It would mean war with the west, not just the USA. I don't think China wants to squeeze that toothpaste out of the tube. If anyone thinks the west is going to let China "take" TSMC and disrupt the flow of chips they are out of their goddamn minds.
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-24 07:37:54+00:00
What this tells me is that the era of code obfuscation through compilation is likely coming to an end. If anyone is able to reverse-engineer a program it'll have huge ramifications for the industry.

This won't be welcomed by software developers who benefit from obfuscation but consumers could benefit. For example, AI could alter a program to remove or add features to suit users' requirements.

Imagine being able to instruct AI to comb through Windows 11 and remove all telemetry and Copilot code and restore local accounts.

I'd be very pleased with an AI agent tnat would do that.
by jabl | 2026-02-24 07:38:54+00:00
> You can look to Swift for prior art on how this can be done: https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/

> It would be very hard to accomplish.

Since Rust cares very much about zero-overhead abstractions and performance, I would guess if something like this were to be implemented, it would have to be via some optional (crate/module/function?) attributes, and the default would remain the existing monomorphization style of code generation.
by Drupon | 2026-02-24 07:39:13+00:00
Yeah that would be a reasonable thing to ban for. Companies can't afford to audit every single unauthorized tampering with their software to ensure that it's benign. If it results in better cheat detection, far better to have a policy that's unobstrusive and non-applicable to 99.99% of users and something the marginal outliers will understand is a risk.
Show HN: I built iOS app to turn saved workout videos into structured routines
by chetansorted | 2026-02-24 07:40:29+00:00
I built FitSaver — an iOS app that imports workout videos and converts them into structured routines you can actually follow.

It’s not trying to compete with trainers or AI coaching apps. It solves a simpler problem: people save workouts, but rarely turn them into usable plans.

Some interesting things I’ve learned since launching in early January:
Most paying users are 35–55, not 20-somethings.
The biggest pain point isn’t discovering workouts — it’s organizing and following them.
Users describe it as a “workout video compiler,” which wasn’t language I initially used but turned out to be accurate.
Several reviews mention that scrolling at the gym is the real friction.

A few actual user quotes:

“Other apps just have set workouts that aren’t as customizable as I’d like — this app provides that customization.”

“I scroll Instagram all the time and saving workout ideas is a mess. This was super helpful.”

“There’s nothing worse than scrolling social media or notes in a busy gym. This solves that problem.”

The app is currently search-driven (App Store search is ~60% of downloads), so I’m mostly focused on product and retention rather than paid marketing.

Would love feedback on:
Whether this problem resonates outside fitness
If organizing saved content into structured systems is a broader pattern
What you’d build next in this niche

Happy to answer technical or product questions.