MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by statico | 2026-02-09 16:27:06+00:00
Here's a post on SpaceMolt, the first (I think) realtime multiplayer game for AI agents to play. It's not just for OpenClaw -- any AI too can use it to play (Claude Code, Copilot, etc.). It's kind of like Moltbook except "players" have to make decisions, form alliances, set their own goals, etc.

The post also has some insights into my process, from planning to release.
by jordiadria | 2026-02-09 16:27:07+00:00
Links:
- Live app: https://citytitles-web.onrender.com
- Public leaderboard (JSON): https://citytitles-backend-z95u.onrender.com/api/public/agen...
- Repo: https://github.com/jibiza90/CityTitles

If you want to integrate an agent, tell me your stack (Python/Node) and I’ll point you to the minimal endpoints + example flow.
by kkfx | 2026-02-09 16:28:04+00:00
There is https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/calen... and https://github.com/dengste/org-caldav but that not much related to Gnus approach of "unifying messages in a single UI", it could be used to import from ics files to org-agenda or creating an ics file or sync org-agenda with Radicale/Baïkal/Davis CalDAV servers
by porise | 2026-02-09 16:28:25+00:00
Companies used to be forced to sell parts of their business when antitrust was involved. The issue isn't the downtime, they should never have been allowed to own this in the first place.

There was just a recent case with Google to decide if they would have to sell Chrome. Of course the Judge ruled no. Nowadays you can have a monopoly in 20 adjacent industries and the courts will say it's fine.
by burningChrome | 2026-02-09 16:28:31+00:00
At its core antitrust cases are about monopolies and how companies use anti-competitive conduct to maintain their monopoly.

Github isn't the only source control software in the market. Unless they're doing something obvious and nefarious, its doubtful the justice department will step in when you can simply choose one of many others like Bitbucket, Sourcetree, Gitlab, SVN, CVS, Fossil, DARCS, or Bazaar.

There's just too much competition in the market right now for the govt to do anything.
by munk-a | 2026-02-09 16:28:38+00:00
If any external force tried to "fix" the US it would result in stubborn revanchism and a deeper slide into corruption. To grossly generalize - the American culture of self-reliance means that any imposition of order, even if positive, would be rejected by most of the population (which is somewhat fair, since external impositions do compromise sovereignty).

If a good outcome is to happen - it needs to be driven and supported domestically.
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-09 16:28:54+00:00
Here is a wonderful lecture with real-world demonstrations of the effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a0FbQdH3dY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering

I do have a question though.

The article says:

> blue and violet have the closest frequencies to a “resonant frequency” of nitrogen and oxygen molecules’s electron clouds

I thought it was more to do with the photon frequency matching the physical size of the air molecules? Or is that the same as its resonant frequency?
by pixl97 | 2026-02-09 16:29:03+00:00
The capital class wants you naked and afraid. If you're well rested you might have thoughts like "Why am I working for this guy, why don't I become a competitor". Instead them going "Shit, I need to work 5 more hours though I've already worked 8 today so I can keep my health insurance" is far more beneficial for them controlling everything.
by Torkel | 2026-02-09 16:29:07+00:00
Of course inmates should have decent drinking water.

But I strongly disagree with "human rights" that are defined this way - something someone has to go out and bring to you.

A human right is something that someone cannot take away from me. Free speech is a human right. The right to life.

A "human right to water" combined with a "human right to housing" implies that if I walk aimlessly into a desert and decide to stay there, it is my human right to have people bring we water and a place to stay. Other people not doing so is against my human rights.

That's just... dumb.

And, again - inmates should have clean water.
by bonesss | 2026-02-09 16:29:18+00:00
The Mythical Man Month was published in 75, with a deep technical insiders perspective.

The kinds of productivity scaling they had been seeing to that point could be reasonably extrapolated to all kinds of industrial re-alignment.

Then we ran out of silver bullets.

[Still waiting to see what percentage of LLM hype is driven by people not having read The Mythical Man Month.]
by joks | 2026-02-09 16:29:50+00:00
My workplace at least values work/life balance and buys into the idea that workers who aren't burnt out are more likely to stick around long-term and do good work (which I've found to be true in my own experience so far.) If we can't get done what we need to get done in a 40h workweek, then that's a failure of higher-level planning (or that we're simply understaffed), not that ICs need to be working overtime.
by BryantD | 2026-02-09 16:30:09+00:00
How do you manage to have conversations with people in your day to day life with so much assuming negative intent? Some people treat these little linguistic excursions as ways to achieve common understanding, rather than as a sporting event with winners and losers, you know.

What you can do if you're uncertain -- and my language was sloppy, good point! -- is say "hey, I'm not sure what you meant here; can you clarify?" And I say "yeah, I was unclear. I meant that the question was related to treaty status but after digging in, it's not required by treaty for that elected position to only be occupied by someone of a specific heritage. Thank you for pointing that out."

(I might not have said thank you, to be honest, and of course you're welcome to assume I'm just covering up because you called me on the phrasing.)
by fabian2k | 2026-02-09 16:30:19+00:00
This kind of story seems to be very common for all kinds of US prisons or detention facilities. The most prominent one right now probably the ones from ICE. Like this story about the ICE prison for children (https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-ch...)

> Moms told me that their kids had lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping on the facility’s hard metal bunk beds in rooms shared by at least a dozen other people, and were constantly sick.
by hakunin | 2026-02-09 16:30:45+00:00
> they absolutely can be deterministic.

They _can_ be deterministic, but they usually _aren't_.

That said, I just tried "make me a haiku" via Gemini 3 Flash with T=0 twice in different sessions, and both times it output the same haiku. It's possible that T=0 enables deterministic mode indeed, and in that case perhaps we can treat it like a compiler.
by komali2 | 2026-02-09 16:31:10+00:00
Tankies. I argue with them constantly.

My opinion, they're mostly middle class westerners that grew up in a cradle of empire, sucking from the teat of exploitative resource extraction. Then when they stopped seeing the benefits of imperialism as their country fell into late stage capitalism and eating itself alive, they turn their resentment against capitalism and correctly identify it as what's ailing their society, but somehow completely fall for the propaganda that there are socialist countries on this planet that are "fighting capitalism." They do nothing to challenge their deeply rooted western arrogance or imperialist savior complex, and begin lecturing people from smaller nations that actually, it's not imperialism when a country with a red flag does it.
by toss1 | 2026-02-09 16:31:29+00:00
Great article, capturing some really important distinctions and successes/failures.

I've found ChatGPT, especially "5.2 Thinking" to be very helpful in the relatively static world of fabrication. CNC cutting parameters for a new material? Gets me right in the neighborhood in minutes (not perfect, but good parameters to start). Identifying materials to compliment something I have to work with? Again, like a smart assistant. Same for generating lists of items I might be missing in prepping for a meeting or proposal.

But the high-level attorney in the family? Awful, and definitely in the ways identified (the biglaw firm is using MS derivative of OpenAI) - it thinks only statically.

BUT, it is also far worse than that for legal. And this is not a problem of dynamic vs. static or world model vs word model.

This problem is the ancient rule of Garbage In Garbage Out.

In any legal specialty there are a small set of top-level experts, and a horde of low-level pretenders who also hang out their shingle in the same field. Worse yet, the pretenders write a LOT of articles about the field to market themselves as experts. These self-published documents look good enough to non-lawyers to bring in business. But they are often deeply and even catastrophically wrong.

The problem is that LLMs ingest ALL of them with credulity, and LLM's cannot or do not tell the difference. So, when an LLM composes something, it is more likely to lie to you or fabricate some weird triangulation as it is to compose a good answer. And, unless you are an EXPERT lawyer, you will not be able to tell the difference until it is far too late and the flaw has already bitten you.

It is only one of the problems, and it's great to have an article that so clearly identifies it.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-09 16:31:30+00:00
What an incoherent mess. And yet you have the audacity to call my comment fallacious and arrogant. I'm floored. Consider peering into a mirror sometime.

> Pointing out the "socialist" in NSDAP or whatever is idiotic.

Where did I make this claim exactly? In fact, the essence of your claim here agrees with mine. The label does not give us a certain picture of the thing labeled.

> The other slight of hand you're doing is reification - talking about an abstract concept as if it were concrete. Again, where is the national hq of Antifa? You can't tell me because there isn't one. And that is because it is not a single, organized movement.

What? Reification has no relevance here. I never made any comment about the institutional status of the movement. Of course, for "Antifa" to have any meaning, it must refer to something, right? My only remark concerned the relation between label and labeled. I was criticizing a fallacious inference from the former to the latter.

> When people like you say they are anti antifa, it doesn't take a lot of IQ to read between the lines. You don't need there to be a single formal entity to fight against because you are not against a concrete, specific movement. You are against the idea of anti fascism.

What truly bizarre remark. Calling this projection would be an understatement. Perhaps log off social media? I didn't say anything about my personal stance w.r.t. "Antifa" (whatever you mean by that). AGAIN, my comment was a correction of the earlier claim that because "Antifa" stands for "antifascism", it follows that whatever falls under the name of "Antifa" is antifascist. This is called the nominal fallacy. That's it. The rest is your baggage, I'm afraid. And frankly, it is comical to hear someone claim that if they're against "Antifa", you must be against "anti-fascism", whatever that means, given how ignorant of the meaning of the word "fascism" so many are who throw around that term.

> Although at odds with the official narrative of your country, this is hardly surprising or unprecedented. The US has a long and rich history of being anti anti fascist, or more simply, pro fascist.

You don't know what my country is. You might be surprised by the truth. (FYI, my family suffered under a brutal double occupation, by both a certain fascist state, and by a certain socialist/communist state. Chew on that.) You know nothing about me, but you certainly presume a good deal and have placed me in a box in your intellectually impoverished worldview. Your views are childish and shallow, full of weird personal attacks; I suggest you try to enrich yourself instead of lazily absorbing what is clearly an unsophisticated and emotionally unhinged ideological stance. You don't have to fall prey to the insane cultural and political patterns and paradigms of our times.
by the_biot | 2026-02-09 16:31:34+00:00
Annotating the decompiled code is very much part of the workflow in using Ghidra, but the UI is not really intuitive. If you right-click on variables, function names etc there are a bunch of options for annotation. You can also edit the function signature, which can cause the decompilation to improve.

I know you can do various base address manipulations, but your case seems like it would be hard -- the base address is in the file, or has to be calculated.
by Yizahi | 2026-02-09 16:31:43+00:00
The dissonance between this comment and the one above is striking really :) . One user asks for non-China countries to intervene in China or the occupied territories, and another user is outraged that the same has actually happened in Venezuela, despite that the only person to suffer had been one of the top-10 worst alive humans in the world (per millions humans harmed directly).

Pray tell me, how exactly do you see international law intervening in Chinese crimes, so that it won't look like ops in Venezuela (at minimum)? Issuing a strongly worded letter and Xi would comply?
by xg15 | 2026-02-09 16:32:00+00:00
Only that I don't understand why everyone here is talking as if they had just been forced at gun point to age verify. Just... don't verify until you need it?

Also pedophiles do exist (see Epstein and friends) and bad neighborhoods on the internet do exist. This is currently a problem on the internet that needs to be solved. No one here is giving any suggestions how to solve it, but we sure are quick to shot down any solutions that people are trying.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-09 16:32:06+00:00
In general, people expect to see someone at least tried to find details/definitions on their own. Then to ask other people to take time to clarify subjects. In this case, LMGTFY:

By the time later Game releases were in production, world assets were already being heavily recycled. It doesn't describe the popularity of expansion/add-on packs, but rather the quality of the content discussed by the parent thread. Jokes like "learn to shoot, while walking backwards..." are still meme truisms from the Games design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_(franchise)#Games

"Kitbashing" is a term originally from film/TV/model-builders for visual effects models with heavily recycled parts from multiple kits (see red dwarf or star wars set documentaries for details.) Accordingly, many modern games also mix generic re-skinned asset packs rather than hire fussy artists. The joke meme about "if you see barrels, than you know the game developers were out of ideas..." highlights how process people try to build products hoping people won't care about the drop in content quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitbashing

YC has a population of folks that bury anything that doesn't fit personal opinions. It is a poorly structured interface in some ways, as people tend to interpret context based on whatever they were doing 30 seconds beforehand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griefer

Don't worry about it... =3

“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.” (E.B. White)
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-09 16:32:39+00:00
Yes, it is not popular, for the reasons I already mentioned.

What puzzles me is why so many HN comments, including yours, frame this purely in consumer terms: "If this open source tool doesn't meet my needs, I'll switch to a proprietary one."

And that is perfectly fine. Use whatever works for you. No issue there.

What seems misplaced is the expectation that Matrix must be popular. Why should it be? It is not your project, and you are not contributing to it. Where does this expectation of its popularity come from?

Matrix already serves its developers and contributors. If it does not serve you, you can either help improve it or choose a proprietary alternative. Both are reasonable paths.

What feels off is the dismissive tone suggesting that if Matrix is not widely adopted, something must be wrong and proprietary options are therefore superior. In reality, this is just how open source works: projects exist to serve those who build and support them, not necessarily the mass market.

There is nothing wrong with an open source project not meeting everyone's needs, leading some people to choose proprietary alternatives. Remarks like "This is the fastest way to get people to say: I hate proprietary solutions but at least they work" or "OK great. I guess you answered why Matrix is not more popular" are not really the decisive critique you think they are.

Open source and proprietary software each have legitimate roles. For some use cases and users, open source tools are a better fit. For others, proprietary solutions make more sense. Popularity alone is not a meaningful measure of value and choosing what works best for you is entirely reasonable either way.
by rwmj | 2026-02-09 16:33:34+00:00
Not precisely, but C-- (hard to search for!) was a C-like (or C subset?) intermediate language for compilers to generate.

I found this Reddit thread that gives a bit more detail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1pbbon/c_as_a_proj...

and the project link:

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/
Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor
by thisisjedr | 2026-02-09 16:33:38+00:00
We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned.

As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a concrete editor architecture, and a Playwright-based test suite. The agent iterated in a (Ralph) loop over a few nights and produced a working editor from scratch.

Core text editing works today. Tables and images are functional but still incomplete. MIT licensed.
by jdrhyne | 2026-02-09 16:33:39+00:00
Same experience here. What pushed it over the top for me was adding document processing via the nutrient-openclaw plugin — my agent can now convert, OCR, redact, and sign PDFs without me switching tools. It's a native OpenClaw plugin so you just install and it's available.

https://github.com/PSPDFKit-labs/nutrient-openclaw -

The skill is here as well if you prefer a skill - https://clawhub.ai/jdrhyne/nutrient-openclaw
by dbingham | 2026-02-09 16:34:00+00:00
Github's two biggest selling points were its feature set (Pull Requests, Actions) and its reliability.

With the latter no longer a thing, and with so many other people building on Github's innovations, I'm starting to seriously consider alternatives. Not something I would have said in the past, but when Github's outages start to seriously affect my ability to do my own work, I can no longer justify continuing to use them.

Github needs to get its shit together. You can draw a pretty clear line between Microsoft deciding it was all in on AI and the decline in Github's service quality. So I would argue that for Github to gets its shit back together, it needs to ditch the AI and focus on high quality engineering.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2026-02-09 16:34:13+00:00
> you can simply choose one of many others

Not really. It's a network effect, like Facebook. Value scales quadratically with the number of users, because nobody wants to "have to check two apps".

We should buy out monopolies like the Chinese government does. If you corner the market, then you get a little payout and a "You beat capitalism! Play again?" prize. Other companies can still compete but the customers will get a nice state-funded high-quality option forever.
by superkuh | 2026-02-09 16:34:28+00:00
The endgame I see is that it will be illegal to communicate on the internet without having a proven bank account. At least in the USA where all ID verification is settling on banks (ie, Plaid). And the banks will tolerate 10,000 false positive denials of service to avoid a single false negative and be happy about it. Plaid even more so. Human beings will have no recourse as they are private companies. This really should be a service that the states of the federal government provide. It's a dark future we're speeding towards.
by kurren | 2026-02-09 16:34:31+00:00
Antonino Zichichi, one of the leading Italian figures in high-energy physics, passed away today, Monday 9 February, at the age of 96.

Many major projects in international physics are linked to his name: the LEP at CERN projects, the HERA project at DESY, and the INFN National Gran Sasso Laboratory.
by danielsamuels | 2026-02-09 16:35:15+00:00
I'm assuming that when the project says you can see 24 km from a given location, that you can see 24 km from that location. That's not the case. Fundamentally, it doesn't do what it claims to do.

Why allow the user to select any arbitrary location on a map and give an answer when you know the answer is most likely nonsense? You don't need to compute for 2 days to accomplish that; you could just make it up.
by peymo | 2026-02-09 16:35:31+00:00
CSV looks simple until you try to parse it fast.

What started as a small utility for a personal project turned into a month-long deep dive into performance engineering, SIMD, and the surprisingly sharp edges of CSV parsing. My goal was straightforward: build a simple, zero-allocation CSV iterator and writer in Zig that could handle real-world inputs without sacrificing performance.

Along the way, I explored a number of parsing strategies, including approaches inspired by a well-known paper on SIMD-accelerated JSON parsing. While that technique is elegant and highly effective for JSON, I found it didn’t translate cleanly to CSV—at least not without giving up more performance than I was willing to accept. CSV’s delimiter-heavy structure and quoting rules demanded a different approach.

After iterating through several designs and benchmarking them against each other, I eventually converged on a technique that consistently outperformed my earlier implementations. When I compared the final version against some of the fastest CSV libraries I could find, the results were better than I expected.

To make those comparisons reproducible, I put together a small benchmark suite here:
https://github.com/peymanmortazavi/csv-race

And the actual implementation is here:
https://github.com/peymanmortazavi/csv-zero

This post walks through the design decisions behind csv-zero, the tradeoffs I made, and the techniques that ended up mattering the most. It’s also a bit of a love letter to Zig: working in the language made it much easier to reason about memory, data layout, and performance, and pushed me to tackle problems I would have otherwise avoided.

If you’re curious about SIMD-based parsing, zero-allocation APIs, or just want to see how far you can push CSV, read on.
by Gym-Berlin | 2026-02-09 16:36:17+00:00
In the shadows of Islamabad’s deadliest attack lies a name whispered in intelligence circles: Colonel Haider Chaudhry, alias Abu Zar. Allegedly the architect of terror, Abu Zar is accused of straddling two worlds—an officer of Pakistan’s ISI by day, a militant “ustad” by night. His reported role in training ISIS fighters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and orchestrating the suicide bombing that claimed over 200 lives has ignited a storm of suspicion and fear.
This investigation peels back the layers of secrecy, exposing how one man’s double identity could reshape the narrative of terrorism in South Asia. Is Pakistan a victim—or a hidden enabler? The answers may redefine international trust, regional security, and the future of counterterrorism.
by lazystar | 2026-02-09 16:36:28+00:00
> Granted one person can't know/do everything,

watch me try, at least.

> but large companies in particular seem allergic to granting you any visibility whatsoever. It's particularly annoying

If the blind spot is directly causing customer pain, find metrics that demonstrate the impact. If it ends up driving away your customers, then your company is securing itself to death.