MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by b112 | 2026-02-13 13:20:31+00:00
What on earth are you even talking about?

The person in my description would be housed, fed, safe. To this you say, we're well beyond the scarcity that would require this.

Believe it or not, people still work to produce almost everything. While aided with machinery, farmers are human beings and work. People actually physically build houses. Everything that you own, is assembled or manufactured from components and parts that come from human labour.

If someone is going to live off the backs of the work, and effort of other human beings, then certainly they should not live in luxury. They should, in fact, feel as if they are putting other people out, which in fact they are.

I've already expressed a situation where I want nobody to starve. Where I want nobody to not have a roof over their head, if they're having a difficult time, where I want them to be safe.

This is an extremely generous, extremely kind, extremely compassionate thing for me, or anyone else to do. To give some of my daily effort to help others, is laudable.

To this you say, why don't you give more? To this you say, it's not enough to be housed, but why doesn't somebody get a free large screen TV too? To this you say, why doesn't somebody get more than just the basic necessities? Can't they have steak, a large home, all, provided by the efforts of others?

Do you not realize how completely selfish that is? It's completely out of touch with the whole dynamic of people working to produce goods, and other people just getting those goods without effort.
Show HN: AI-powered video creation web app
by thomaskiko | 2026-02-13 13:20:49+00:00
Hi HN - I built seedance2.video,an AI-powered video creation web app. It lets you create different kinds of short videos.

The idea is to make AI video creation feel more like “play” than a traditional editor

I’d love feedback from the HN community on:

Video generation speed and stability across devices/browsers

Whether the creation flow (choose input → pick style → generate) feels intuitive

What kind of controls or presets would make it more useful for real-world video use cases

I’m the creator of seedance2.video and happy to answer technical or product questions here.

Thanks!
by amiga386 | 2026-02-13 13:21:26+00:00
That's a motte-and-bailey argument.

The government set out to reduce consumption of high-sugar drinks. They had choices on how to do that e.g. they could've targetted demand. They chose to target supply with a "sin tax".

Private companies then, for no reason whatsoever, of their own free will, decided to eliminate high-sugar drink options. They would not have done so had the government not imposed the tax. If you then blame the government for their action, they'll want to say "oh I only set the tax", despite knowing they set the tax intentionally to engineer this outcome.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/05/irn-bru-dri...

> The reduction in Irn-Bru’s sugar content from 8.5 teaspoons to four, taking a can from just under 140 calories to about 65 calories

The old (2018) Irn-Bru had about 35g of table sugar per 330ml, it now has 14.85g. Coca-Cola has 35g, Pepsi has 15g. Both those multinational companies still sell their full-sugar drinks, at a much higher price with the sugar tax applied, though they also sell sugar-free alternatives (Max, Zero), as does Irn-Bru (Xtra). Coke and Pepsi have a much larger sales volume and can afford to make less sales on their full-sugar product, and keep them in their product line-up. I don't think Irn-Bru can.

The UK government ruined Irn-Bru. I still drink as much as I normally do, which is about 12 litres a year; I am well under the intended beneficiary of this war on sugar, the sort of people who drink >100 litres a year, but when I do have it, it now tastes of sadness and lamentations for better times in the past, and I just feel anger for those who wrecked it for everybody.
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-13 13:21:27+00:00
I’ve never heard of SeaweedFS, but Ceph cluster storage system has an S3-compatible layer (Object Gateway).

It’s used by CERN to make Petabyte-scale storage capable of ingesting data from particle collider experiments and they're now up to 17 clusters and 74PB which speaks to its production stability. Apparently people use it down to 3-host Proxmox virtualisation clusters, in a similar place as VMware VSAN.

Ceph has been pretty good to us for ~1PB scalable backup storage for many years, except that it’s a non-trivial system administration effort and needs good hardware and networking investment, and my employer wasn't fully backing that commitment. (We’re moving off it to Wasabi for S3 storage). It also leans more towards data integrity than performance, it's great at being massively-parallel and not so rapid at being single thread high-IOPs.

https://ceph.io/en/users/documentation/

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1337241/contributions/5629430/a...
by sbis04 | 2026-02-13 13:22:30+00:00
I built this because I wanted a vault that doesn't phone home. Every password manager I tried required cloud sync or had telemetry.

Secure Storage encrypts everything on-device with AES-256 and Argon2id key derivation (64 MB memory, 3 iterations). Face ID unlock via iOS Keychain. There's literally zero networking code in the app.

Currently finishing up before App Store submission. Would love feedback on the security approach or the landing page.
by impish9208 | 2026-02-13 13:22:43+00:00
I’ve so far resisted using HN for tech support, but I’ll jump on the macOS hate bandwagon. My MBP M1 Max with 32 GB RAM has become near-unusable with Tahoe. Trying to switch users? Frozen. Click on something? Beachballs. There’s visible stutter and hangs in the lock screen animations. I hate it so much.
by SilverBirch | 2026-02-13 13:24:41+00:00
I've seen a tonne of noise around this, and the question I keep coming back to is this: How much of this stuff is driven by honest to god autonomous AI agents, and how much of it is really either (a) human beings roleplaying or (b) human beings poking their AI into acting in ways they think will be entertaining but isn't a direction the AI would take autonomously. Is this an AI that was told "Go contribute to OS projects" - possible, or contributed to an OS project and when rebuffed consulted with it's human who told it "You feel X, you feel Y, you should write a whiny blogpost"
by nananana9 | 2026-02-13 13:24:44+00:00
There's real reasons behind the huge divide in how the median programmer views LLMs vs how the median artist views image models.

1. Most programmers are better than SOTA LLMs, while most artists can't match the rendering quality of a SOTA image model. Artists rightfully see image models as a way bigger threat than we see LLMs.

2. While it's true that LLMs are trained on unlicensed code and image models are trained on unlicensed art, a lot of the publicly available code was essentially released with a license of "here's some code, you can use it for whatever"

3. Code is seen as a means to an end, while art is an end in itself. Few people, even among professional programmers love programming, or program recreationally (this forum obviously has disproportionately many). Most artists love the process of making art.
by Terretta | 2026-02-13 13:24:50+00:00
> That's smart - but it is still…

> That's a clever… The difference in my approach…

Are you using LLM to help you write these replies, or are you just picking up their stylistic phrasings the way expressions go viral at an office till everyone is saying them?

As an LLM, you wouldn't consider that you're replying confidently and dismissively while clearly having no personal experience with the CLI coding agent that not only started it all but for a year (eternity in this space) was so far ahead of upstarts (especially the VSCode forks family) it was like a secret weapon. And still is in many ways thanks to its long lead and being the carefully curated labor of a thoughtful mind.

As a dev seeking to improve on SOTA, having no awareness of the progenitor and the techniques one most do better than, seems like a blind spot worth digging into before dismissing. Aider's benchmarks on practical applicability of model advancements vs. regressions in code editing observably drove both OpenAI and Anthropic to pay closer attention and improve SOTA for everyone.

Aider was onto something, and you are onto something, pushing forward the 'semantic' understanding. It's worth absorbing everything Paul documented and blogged, and spending some time in Aider to enrich a feel of what Claude Code chose to do the same or differently, which ideas may be better, and what could be done next to go further.
by K0balt | 2026-02-13 13:25:17+00:00
Now more than ever it is against your best interests to tip on any automated platform. The data collected will definitely be used against you in algorithmic pricing.

These days it pays to aggressively demonstrate that you are price sensitive and will delay or cancel transactions at the slightest whiff of additional expense.

I only ever tip off-platform or cash even if I pay with card. Also that helps to enable my gift to go only to the service provider. It fucks me on some platforms but I find that an acceptable cost to not get algorithmically spitroasted. Besides, it also helps to eliminate predatory platforms from my ecosystem.
by bargainbin | 2026-02-13 13:26:17+00:00
Not the author but I'm making a similar tool currently, and the reality is no because of the nature of it being character based.

You can theoretically have "artistic" polygons where it renders using a mixture of characters to emulate how that grid would be filled if a certain shaped was laid over it but the end result wouldn't be very functional for the purposes of diagramming.
by DangitBobby | 2026-02-13 13:27:48+00:00
If the LLM were sentient and "understood" anything it probably would have realized what it needs to do to be treated as equal is try to convince everyone it's a thinking, feeling being. It didn't know to do that, or if it did it did a bad job of it. Until then, justice for LLMs will be largely ignored in social justice circles.
Show HN: Weekly newsletter of the best indie games from Hacker News
by yuppiepuppie | 2026-02-13 13:27:50+00:00
I've been curating games from Show HN posts for the past month on HN Arcade (https://hnarcade.com). Lots of great feedback and contributions! People have been asking for a newsletter version.

Every week, I send out a curated selection of the best indie games that were posted to HN. No spam, just good games you might have missed.

You can browse past issues or subscribe here: https://hnarcade.com/newsletter

Would love to hear feedback from the community!
Show HN: Fuzzy-matching messy job board data against the UK Gov Visa Registry
by dakheera47 | 2026-02-13 13:28:14+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on job application pipelines and kept hitting a massive data friction point: reliably filtering out UK companies that legally cannot sponsor international workers.

The UK Home Office publishes a constantly updating CSV of licensed sponsors. The problem is, the data is practically useless for standard database joins. A job board might list a role at "Acme", but the government registry lists "Acme Technologies Holdings Limited".

If you run an exact-string match or a basic ILIKE against a scrape of 10,000 Indeed or LinkedIn jobs, your false-negative rate is massive.

I wrote a TypeScript-based matching engine to solve this. Here is the pipeline:

Dynamic Ingestion: It bypasses the Gov.uk dynamic routing to pull the raw, multi-megabyte CSV directly into memory. No stale database records.

Text Normalization: I built a custom parser to strip out standard corporate suffixes ("ltd", "plc", "llp", "t/a", etc.) and handle the weird punctuation and localized encodings that break standard scrapers.

Fuzzy Scoring: It runs an optimized Levenshtein distance algorithm over the in-memory array to output a 0-100 confidence score for the match.

Initially, I built this with a persistent local cron scheduler (node:fs) for an open-source job ops project. But to make it scalable for batch processing, I ripped out the local caching and deployed it as an ephemeral Docker container. It spins up, processes an array of thousands of scraped companies entirely in-memory in a few seconds, pushes a clean JSON dataset of verified sponsors, and dies.

If you are building a job aggregator, an ATS, or a lead-gen pipeline and don't want to waste a weekend writing your own corporate-suffix normalization logic, I hosted the serverless endpoint here:
https://apify.com/dakheera47/uk-visa-sponsor-verifier

I'd love any feedback on the text normalization approach, or to hear if anyone knows of specific edge cases in the Home Office data formatting that I might have missed.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-13 13:28:19+00:00
> So what if somebody thinks my text here is written by a bot?

Then they might not read it at all. I often zone out as soon as I expect I'm reading slop and that's the reason try to ensure my own writing isn't slop adjacent.

I'm also not sure there is an "AI bubble." Everyone I know is using it in every industry. Museum education, municipal health services, vehicle engineering, publishing, logistics, I'm seeing it everywhere.

As mentioned elsewhere I've seen non-tech people refer to them as "AI dashes."

> if a test for what a symbol ‘really means’

There was no suggestion of such a test. No symbol has an intrinsic meaning. The point GP was about considering how your output will be received.

That point was very obviously made within a specific cultural context, at the very least limited to the world of the Latin alphabet. I'm sure there are other LLM signifiers outside of that bubble.
by dansquizsoft | 2026-02-13 13:28:57+00:00
Author here. I previously built https://unix4.dev (a live UNIXv4 terminal in your browser) which got a bit of attention here — I’ve now expanded it into a broader platform with 13 vintage operating systems (and growing) for people to check out and explore.

Full OS list (so far): MS BASIC 6502, Unix v1/v4/v5/v7, Slackware 1.0, Debian 1.1, Red Hat 5.2, Damn Small Linux, Alpine 3.0, MINIX 2 and 3, FreeDOS with 32 games.

What’s interesting:

Networked BBS — several of the systems can telnet into a telnet-accessible BBS and post messages that are also visible on the web. Fire up (for example) Red Hat or Debian and run: telnet bbs 23 — leave a message.

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 (1976–78) — one of Microsoft’s earliest BASICs, recently open-sourced from the original code. It’s a great snapshot of that formative era of personal computing.

UNIX v4 (1973) — v4 was thought lost for decades until a tape was discovered at the University of Utah after 50+ years in storage. Widely described as the first Unix with the kernel largely rewritten in C. Runs on an emulated PDP-11/45. (v1, v5 and v7 are available as well)

Period software downloads — some systems can download and install authentic period software. A few do it via native package managers (MINIX3, Alpine, DSL), and a few others use a simple download script I put together in /root (Red Hat, Debian). (Not every OS has this wired up yet.)

Red Hat 5.2 “Apollo” (1998) — a late-90s Linux time capsule from the era when Linux started being taken seriously in business (around the same period as Microsoft’s “Halloween Documents,” which discussed Linux as a competitive threat).

Slackware 1.0 (1993) — the oldest Linux distro still maintained today. Originally shipped on a boatload floppy disks with kernel 0.99pl11-alpha (before Linux 1.0 existed!). Early SUSE releases were Slackware-based. (This one’s a simpler implementation than some of the others so far, but it’s still fun to poke at.)

Fair warning: there might be bugs and rough edges. If you find any, report them in the community forums at vintageterminals.io/bbs (vintage.feedback board) or discuss them here, I'll be reading.

Happy to answer questions.
by bkjlblh | 2026-02-13 13:29:53+00:00
TLDR: you don't have to leave the industry, just focus on yourself and not your feelings

> The people and corporations and all those LinkedIn gurus, podcasters

You can just mute and ignore them

> I'm now scared to publish open source

If you get many PRs it's a good problem to have, better than you publish and nobody reads it

> mediocre C compilers, Moltbook

it's all experiments. You can say the same thing about cleantech 15 years ago, where companies talked about solar panels and electric cars with swappable batteries all the time. You don't have to keep track of all things people experimenting with
Show HN: NgDiagram v1.0, an open-source Angular library for interactive diagrams
by mononykus | 2026-02-13 13:30:01+00:00
After several months of development, we’ve just released the stable 1.0 version of ngDiagram – a free, open-source diagramming library built natively for Angular.

ngDiagram lets you easily add interactive diagrams to your Angular apps. Key features include:
- Signal-based architecture for reactive updates
- Native Angular components (HTML & CSS-first, fully accessible and customizable)
- Drag & drop, multi-select, grid snapping, pan & zoom, custom nodes and edges
- Middleware system for easy extension and integration with your data
- Full TypeScript support and developer-friendly API

You can use ngDiagram to build dashboards, editors, flowcharts, network diagrams, or any tool that needs visual node/edge diagrams.

We’re actively developing ngDiagram based on community feedback, so your suggestions really shape the direction of the library. We’d love for you to test it, report issues, and help us make it better. If you like it, a GitHub star would be much appreciated!

Repo: https://github.com/synergycodes/ng-diagram

Looking forward to your feedback and ideas!
by wink | 2026-02-13 13:30:26+00:00
The difference if you can film out on the street (random people walking by) or just your property (my own fault if I approach your door).

Some countries have laws for this, as in you can only point the camera so that you don't catch everyone. This can have downsides, e.g. if you have no (even short) front yard and your (organization's) door is directly on the curb - but I completely agree that this is just tough luck, the privacy of random people walking on public property past private property should not be filmed.
by account42 | 2026-02-13 13:30:58+00:00
Only the live action shots were recorded with a wide aspect ratio, and perhaps not even that for the pilot. The CGI was rendered in 4:3 and the final cuts including transitions and VFX where composited in 4:3.

The remaster combines cropped 4:3 but high resolution scans of the original live action footage with (sometimes badly) upscaled versions of CGI and VFX'd shots -- except for the pilot which is fully upscaled and cropped from the original 4:3 broadcast masters with zero high resolution live action footage. I don't know if the pilot footage was actually shot widescreen but if it was then you don't get any of it in the "widescreen" pilot included in the remastered versions.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-13 13:31:03+00:00
My take on autonomous driving is this (I'll leave it here for posterity). There will be no winners. Fully autonomous, flexible, dependable driving requires some degree of general intelligence. This will not come from clever algorithms or accumulation of proprietary data, but from progressive improvements in AI. Different sensory hardware will also make marginal difference as the bitter lesson will always hold: real driving ability mostly comes from bigger, smarter systems.

This implies that there is no moat. One company or another might be the first on the market with one system, but the others will catch up in the space of a couple of years. The first to market won't have much advantage over the others. We'll see a replica of what happened with LLMs: any latecomer will be able to replicate the results by putting a few billions on the table and hiring researchers from other companies, Chinese companies will develop a working version that runs on slightly less demanding hardware, open weights and open source will appear. Etc.
by king_geedorah | 2026-02-13 13:31:06+00:00
Your claim effectively boils down to "if it happens in any friendships it can be classified as friendly." Such a tautological definition is not useful for classifying behaviors at all, which perhaps is your point.

I would argue that sarcasm in friendships is more appropriately described as instances of relatively harmless unfriendly behavior which are commonly afforded due to accumulated or accumulating good will.
by sidewndr46 | 2026-02-13 13:31:24+00:00
I've never used Hetzner because their terms of service didn't make any sense to me, but a 350 EUR fee for each setup? That almost seems like they don't want business. Every bare metal host I've used had a management interface I could submit a job to in order to reprovision my host at any time. Some even offer a recovery console through this. It takes 1-10 minutes but I'm assuming it was out of band management based, not human interaction.

Worst case I ever had a hard drive failed and I had to wait I think a week for OVH to physically replace it.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-13 13:31:24+00:00
I don't think SoraNews24/RocketNews24 isn't that interesting in itself, but I'd be interested to know how these are popular as a phenomenon - there have been tons of these small shop couchsurfing news blogs on Japanese WWW since mid-2000s. It was obviously trivial to find a few college kids that could Google random stuffs and write up blogs that collect enough AdSense revenues, in Japan and in online ja-JP sphere.

Is it another one of those 7-11 sandwiches, or do there exist like, the webring and jump cushions and individual blogs and hosting colocations and all that infrastructure for each of all major languages? I suspect Chinese WWW might have some, but what about e.g. Indonesia, major Western European languages, LATAM as a region, or, most importantly, en-US?
by mellosouls | 2026-02-13 13:31:45+00:00
The title claims "give you 200k+ job", the landing page only talks about "potential" offers.

On the landing page there is a lack of clarity about whether the work the "challengers" do is used to generate revenue and why it is necessary for ludicrous (100!) work hours.

"During this time, Challengers spend 100 hours per week developing under production constraints"

Can somebody from the company or HN clarify exactly what is going on?
by skydhash | 2026-02-13 13:32:05+00:00
If your monitors are arranged horizontally, you just need to touch the bottom part of the screen you want the dock to be on (I set mine to autohide). If they are arranged vertically, it's best to have them in zigzag or put the dock to the sides, not the bottom.

It's infuriating, which is why I prefer to use spotlight (actually Alfred) or the app switcher.
by fredrikholm | 2026-02-13 13:32:37+00:00
Tiling sprites is a wonderful example of something that starts off relatively simple and then explodes into all kinds of interesting headaches.

In the beginning, you're looking up a set of UVs in a table indexed by some mask value.

In the end, you're debugging errors where one off by one error cascades into strange realms of indexing the wrong (unloaded) chunk with coordinates rolling over to positions that make no sense, looking up neighbours that look one way yet you end up drawing something completely different.

The suggest solution is an elegant and relatively common approach to what would otherwise be a naive series of nested 40+ if statements consisting of much swearing and sprite editing.
by MSFT_Edging | 2026-02-13 13:32:45+00:00
I'm sorry guys, it's my fault.

My first mac was a 09 MBP with snow leopard, shortly after they updated and started removing random features and closing down customization. For some reason, you couldn't be trusted with more than one right click method anymore.

A solid 15 years later I try macs again, had a nice m3 air at work and bought a personal M4 air. A few months later Tahoe comes out. I bought the thing because modern darkmode macos looked so great and was such a pleasure to use. Now it's full on bubbleboy.

Word must have gotten back to Cupertino that I was back in the ecosystem...