MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bodge5000 | 2026-02-12 11:09:20+00:00
Absolutely agree, I do use notebooks but like you say I dont think I need to at all, for some reason I just have some natural drive to write things down (plus I like notebooks). But I've often had experiences of reading through old notebooks and finding that the things I care about in there I instantly remembered without having to read the page, and the things I'd forgotten about I didn't care about anymore.
by ninalanyon | 2026-02-12 11:09:30+00:00
You can get a usable smartphone for well under 100 USD on AliExpress or a reasonable secondhand one from a reputable brand for about the same price here in Norway on online trading sites. Don't teenagers get pocket money or do weekend jobs any more? My sons were grown up by the time smartphones were affordable but No. 2 son bought his own Siemens C65 with saved up pocket money when he was in his early teens.
by philipwhiuk | 2026-02-12 11:11:10+00:00
While Northrop Grumman will have extensively tested the nozzle and design following the issue on the Cert-2 flight this probably points to either a condition only seen with one or more of the following:

* vertical

* with lower atmospheric pressure

* due to a harmonic induced by being attached to the rest of the vehicle

all of which are not practical for them to replicate with the current test stands.

The nozzle split location was different which maybe incidental or a result of the changes made after Cert-2. It also could mean it's unpredictable which might mean they were just lucky a couple of times.
by o8vm | 2026-02-12 11:11:36+00:00
Here is an example of how a protocol defined in Hibana can confine even an AI agent’s behavior within an explicit interaction flow.

https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana-agent

From an AMPST perspective, the key idea is this: one global choreography is projected into role-local protocols (Agent/Browser/Human), with affine progression (each step is consumed exactly once).

const LOOP_BODY: g::Program<LoopBodySteps> = g::seq(
g::send::<Agent, Browser, BrowserAction, 0>(),
g::send::<Browser, Agent, BrowserObservation, 0>(),
);

const ADD_TO_CART_APPROVAL: g::Program<AddToCartApprovalSteps> = g::seq(
g::send::<Agent, Human, RequestApproval, 0>(),
g::seq(
g::send::<Human, Agent, ApprovalDecision, 0>(),
g::route::<0, _>(
g::route_chain::<0, AddToCartArm>(ADD_TO_CART_ARM)
.and::<SkipAddToCartArm>(SKIP_ADD_TO_CART_ARM),
),
),
);

So even AI-agent behavior is confined by protocol structure: illegal traces (skip/reorder/reuse/wrong branch) are unrepresentable, not merely blocked by ad hoc runtime checks.

As another example, we’re also preparing `hibana-quic` (a QUIC implementation built with Hibana) for public release. It already passes interop tests with neqo.
by CGamesPlay | 2026-02-12 11:12:19+00:00
If you want this to work over SSH, you'll need a different approach. I wrote an article about getting sounds from iTerm2 over SSH a while back: https://cgamesplay.com/post/2020/11/25/iterm-plugins/#playin...

Then it's just a simple Claude code hook to play whatever sound: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/0fd07aea4863b581...
by 0x4e | 2026-02-12 11:12:28+00:00
Of course they jumped into the race as soon as possible by mentioning ‘Apple Intelligence’ and working on it. But, I think this was more peer pressure than anything else.

Apple’s reliably late to the party most of the time, but they also reliably steal the show. I’m doubtful about OpenAI’s hardware just taking over.

I rather wait and keep using 3rd party models that keep leap frogging themselves and adding features every once in a while, than them just publicly beta testing a bunch of things on my iPhone. If this was the case, we’d see a bunch of people complaining about how terrible the product is and how Claude or GPT or OpenClaw is so much better.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-12 11:12:31+00:00
There are some pretty revealing comments here. People seem to think only money has value.

Then there are people who see art only as a rich person's pursuit. It can be, but it doesn't need to be.

I am reminded of Daniel James also known as Gwyrosydd, his bardic name. He was a Welsh language poet, who wrote probably the greatest Welsh language song, Calon Lân (means 'a pure heart'). People throughout Wales sing this song 130 years later. It is a proud continuation of a bardic tradition in Wales going back probably thousands of years. It also encompasses the Welsh culture of choral singing, noted in early recorded history.

Daniel James spent his life slaving away in an ironworks, making crucible steel. John Hughes, who wrote the tune worked in an office there.

I like to imagine what they could have done had they been at leisure to work and perform all day.

Go Ireland, great scheme. I wish we had it over here in the UK.
by worldsavior | 2026-02-12 11:13:18+00:00
It was new and advanced back then.

AI is not only software but also hardware. Apple were the first to develop a (good) chip specifically for AI computation (ANE), and their MacBooks are very good for running AI models locally.

Apple are not like Google or Facebook (they're mainly software, and Apple are titled more towards hardware), their vision isn't the same as theirs, but their vision will hold for a very long time.
by hobofan | 2026-02-12 11:13:22+00:00
Anecdotally I've heard from my biochem circle of friends, that many institutions (at least in Germany) are still quite particular when it comes to lab notebooks. Especially ones that strongly monetize on patents, e.g. Frauenhofer. They usually also provide electronic lab notebooks which can either be used directly or into which you have to store copies of the original physical lab notebook.

I suspect that this may be due to different copyright mechanisms in different jurisdictions. e.g. in Germany employees have stronger protections that may allow them to still patent stuff developed in their free time, so companies might want to have a stronger papertrail to prove that outcomes tie back to something done during working hours.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-12 11:13:26+00:00
Yes, supporting en-masse stuff is important. Artsy or not - playgrounds, parks, football pitches, and other things count. Or spaces for civic choral groups and painting clubs, repairing old church organs, ...

For the arts, free studios & such are both en-masse support, and a wider part of the talent funnel (vs. basic incomes).

Biggest problem that I see with basic incomes is in selecting who gets those. The article notes they'll pick randomly from 8,000 applicants - but there's judgement and selection somewhere. Otherwise, the scheme would implode politically after giving money to folks whose "art" was offensive graffiti, or appreciating expensive whiskey, or whatever.
by ben_w | 2026-02-12 11:14:06+00:00
It may be a joke, but I think this is correct.

For reasons, I have tried to get Stable Diffusion to put parrots into spacesuits. Always ended up with the beak coming out where the visor glass should've been, either no wings at all or wings outside the suit, legs and torso just human-shaped.

ChatGPT got the helmet right, but their wings and tail (and sometimes claws) were exposed to vacuum, still very much closer to a human in either a normal or scifi space suit that happens to also be wearing a parrot head inside the space suit, and has tacked some costume wings on the outside.

Essentially, it's got the same category of wrong as fantasy art's approach to what women's armour should look like: aesthetics are great, but it would be instantly lethal if done for real.
by arcadia_leak | 2026-02-12 11:14:21+00:00
> D/C#/Java are valid options I'm never picking D

This is perfectly fair.

> D was in the perfect spot to fill if it did not make the GC decision

I just find it hard to believe that the GC is the one big wart that pushed everyone away from the language. To me, the GC combined with the full power of a systems language are the killer features that made me stick to D. The language is not perfect and has bad parts too, but I really don't see the GC as one of them.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-12 11:14:27+00:00
> "Award-winning journalist on Fox News" and the padlock with an American flag really sells it for me.

About 20 years ago I worked on backend stuff for the sales site for a well-known UK retailer that advertised their spiffy new web store on TV.

Part of the TV ad had a couple of smiley young people with Techie Girl typing on a computer, and a big animated padlock swooping in and clicking shut and Mumsy Middle-Aged Manager smiling happily, and cut to Hacker Guy typing furiously in a darkened room as a big padlock pops up on the screen and "SECURITY LOCKED" popping up, as he scowls at the screen. The VO was something like "and it's safe to buy online - our site has Security Built In" <fx: heavy padlock clunks shut>

This sequence - the animation and filming this part right their in our own web dev office - cost over five grand of mid-2000s money to make, most of which being the padlock animations. The clunk was my bike lock.

£5000. Five Thousand Pounds.

I can tell you they spent well under 1/20th of that in developer time to actually write the security code for the site. It didn't even use HTTPS, which was kind of a requirement even in 2006.
by lossyalgo | 2026-02-12 11:14:28+00:00
Also cancelled my Nitro after 5 years.

This whole thing being "for the safety of kids" is obviously a farce just to get more user data because Nitro users supposedly will have to do the ID check as well, but if you're paying with a CC/Paypal, you are obviously of sufficient age to not require an ID check.
I built an AI that explains what your developers did this week
by inferno22 | 2026-02-12 11:14:53+00:00
My cofounder used to ask me every Monday: "So... what did the team actually ship?"

I'd pull up GitHub, scroll through PRs, and translate engineering jargon into plain English. Every single week.

So I automated myself. Gitmore connects to your repo and sends you a human-readable summary: features shipped, bugs fixed, what's in progress. No code knowledge required.

Here's what a report looks like: https://www.gitmore.io/example.html

Quick demo: https://demo.arcade.software/5tZyFDhp1myCosw6e1po

Free to try. Would love thoughts from anyone who's been the "translator" between devs and stakeholders.
by sherry-sherry | 2026-02-12 11:14:54+00:00
The app has always followed the masOS design language, because the app is built using the native macOS tools. It makes sense for it to match the OS it's on, apps built with stand UI components migrated to 'Liquid glass' much easier.

The app is open source (https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire), feel free to back-port any features or bug-fixes you would like to spend your time on.
by jraph | 2026-02-12 11:16:07+00:00
> "instead, it sends a bunch of metadata about your face [...]"

"The metadata includes in particular the approximate red, green and blue components of pixels of the photo of your face that we swear we transmit in a lossy format that doesn't allow building a highly accurate 3D model of you face."

Yeah... which metadata? That sentence doesn't mean much.

(not an actual citation, of course, that's sarcasm)
by Hikikomori | 2026-02-12 11:16:08+00:00
Valorant and Battlefield 6 does require secure boot and they do not sell their cheat for those games. Though there are still cheats available for those games, in particular using DMA hardware.

You connect the DMA PCIe card to a laptop/pc with USB, then it can read any memory on the game PC and display a radar on the laptop screen. They even sell mouse and hdmi/dp mergers, these allow the laptop to show an ESP overlay over your game and aimbotting by sending mouse inputs.
by uyzstvqs | 2026-02-12 11:16:35+00:00
Economics apply the same way to art. It can be one of the most profitable solo-endeavors, when your art is generally accepted as good or meaningful.

All the government-subsidized art that I've come across is straight up awful, and nobody ever actually cares for it. Typically it's weird abstract stuff.

By these standards, should I be paid an income from your tax money for my 5 side-projects on GitHub that nobody uses?
by s_dev | 2026-02-12 11:16:40+00:00
I'm 38, I was fully aware of this when I was 15 years old in Economics class. This is simply a problem for people who go around measuring everything with GDP and demand the world adjust to that. You've run in to the limitations of GDP.

There is no single indicator of wealth, measuring wealth requires a number of measures to provide context and contrast. The Irish economy is largely comparable to the Danish economy. I'd say the Danes sneak in just ahead of us but well behind Norway and Switzerland.

Ireland for example is wealthier than either the UK or France on a per capita basis. The GDP of Alabama and Bavaria, Germany per capita is largely the same, yet you would be insane to think Alabama was in anyway wealthier than Bavaria.

I stand by my comment.

The Irish economy is competitive and your little 'gotcha' that is a common trope across various shallow sub reddits, increasingly at an alarmingly peevish rate simply doesn't persuade me or others who are interested in understanding these things at a deeper level. There is a time and place for that discussion and it really isn't this thread.
by retsibsi | 2026-02-12 11:16:44+00:00
Sometimes, though, it's a question of retaining actual power vs. sending a message that won't be listened to by the people who need to hear it. Jan 6-7 2021 could have ended very differently if Mike Pence and the other relatively normal Republicans in Trump's first administration had resigned in protest at some earlier point and been replaced by loyalists.
by pwatsonwailes | 2026-02-12 11:16:53+00:00
It's what always happens when there's a disconnect between the product built and the actual thing people want to do. In marketing, we differentiate between Jobs-As-Activities (the task of "changing a background") and Jobs-As-Progress (the user trying to go from something being unsatisfactory to something better).

When UI feels dumbed down to that level, or hidden behind advanced settings, it’s often because the product team ends up treating users as a gestalt persona, rather than thinking about their constraints around time and attention. The most meaningful innovations occur when customer insights influence development before launch; sadly, that frequently doesn't happen. People launch the thing, come up with features they could add, ask what people want from that list (and potentially don't even do that) and then add stuff like barnacles accumulating on a ship.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-12 11:17:28+00:00
Ireland currently has a population of approximately 5,501,000 people. There is great news: Bono and the rest of his band have agreed to provide subsidies for the 5,499,000 citizens who aren't receiving the BIA funds, and they'll brand this supplemental program as U2BI.

The website will be established shortly as https://ww2.u2bi.ie:212/ as soon as the registrars can correct the typos.

/s
Show HN: SC-NeuroCore – Rust neuromorphic compiler, 512× speedup
by anulum | 2026-02-12 11:18:08+00:00
SC-NeuroCore is a verified Rust-based neuromorphic compiler that translates Python SNN definitions into optimized, bit-true stochastic bitstream logic for CPU/FPGA.

Key highlights:
- 512.4× real-time speedup on LIF neuron updates (vs. legacy Python)
- Bit-true equivalence with FPGA hardware (verified co-simulation, 8/8 tests)
- Polymorphic engine: HDC/VSA (AVX-512), Petri Nets, fault-tolerant logic
- Sub-10 µs inference latency, 40%+ bit-flip resilience
- Install: pip install sc-neurocore-engine
- Quick start: see notebooks/01_hdc_symbolic_query.ipynb (HDC demo)

GitHub: https://github.com/anulum/sc-neurocore
Rust API docs: https://anulum.github.io/sc-neurocore

Built to bridge Python simulation and hardware deployment for neuromorphic computing. Happy to answer questions about the compiler, benchmarks, or verification.
by jpc0 | 2026-02-12 11:18:24+00:00
Where is the extensive tooling support for this use case if that is where you think it fits?

Apple is all in on Swift, so you will not be writing native MacOS or iOS code for UI in D, best case you put your business logic in D but you can do that in any language which has bindings to swift/Obj-C.

Android is all in on Kotlin/Java, not D again

Microsoft is all in on C#, again not D.

Linux your two best options for UI is GTK and Qt, C and C++ respectively.

So the only place where you could bave seemless integration is Linux through FFI.

Here's the thing though, for building a core layer that you can wrap a UI around, Rust has insanely good ergonomics, with very good third-party libraries to automatically generate safe bindings to a decent amount of languages, at least all those listed above and WASM for web.

None of those uses cases are painless in D.
by DeathArrow | 2026-02-12 11:18:59+00:00
>My (likely unfair) impression of D is that it feels a bit rudderless: It is trying to be too many things to too many people, and as a consequence it doesn't really stand out compared to the languages that commit to a paradigm.

My (likely unfair) impression of D is that it feels a bit rudderless: It is trying to be too many things to too many people, and as a consequence it doesn't really stand out compared to the languages that commit to a paradigm.

Nim kind of does that, too.
by close04 | 2026-02-12 11:19:24+00:00
The warranty/guarantee is different from the average lifetime of the device, which is defined in the law as the average period a device must maintain its working parameters as defined by the manufacturer.

For example in some countries a fridge is expected to have a lifetime of 10 years but a warranty of 2 years. So in theory if you could prove that the fridge cannot meet the expected average lifetime, the cooling ability of the decreases below the stated parameters much earlier, then it becomes the manufacturer’s responsibility.
by dns_snek | 2026-02-12 11:19:49+00:00
That's approaching the problem from the worst possible angle. If your security depends on you catching 1 message in a sea of output and quickly rotating the credential everywhere before someone has a chance to abuse it then you were never secure to begin with.

Not just because it requires constant attention which will eventually lapse, but because the agent has an unlimited number of ways to exfiltrate the key, for example it can pretend to write and run a "test" which reads your key, sends it to the attacker and you'll have no idea it's happening.
by piampiam | 2026-02-12 11:20:08+00:00
I’ve been working on a small tool for managing live event agendas in real time.

The problem I kept running into while organizing meetups and workshops is that once the event starts, the agenda drifts. Speakers go over, breaks shift, and there’s no clear "source of truth" for what’s currently happening.

Most smaller events rely on countdown timers, shared Google Sheets, or manual updates. Larger conferences use full event platforms, but those tend to be heavy (and priced for big conferences), which feels like overkill for a 50-300 person meetup.

I'm experimenting with a lightweight approach focused just on live agenda control and visibility, ideally something much more affordable and simpler than the big all-in-one platforms.

Still figuring out whether this is a niche annoyance or a real recurring pain. Curious how others here handle live schedule drift during events.

Releasing in a few weeks.
https://pleanar.com

Would appreciate any feedback.
by fedeb95 | 2026-02-12 11:20:23+00:00
Companies are the same that both give salaries to consumers and can up prices. More taxes on companies means higher prices, job cuts, less salary increases.
It's not necessary to point out that your quote of the post-war economy is cherry-picking. Plus, after a war it's very easy to get a recovery, especially if you win it.

You talk about the US, but look at countries where the state is both heavy on taxes and inefficient. The point is that you delegate decisions on what do do and how to do it to very few people. They can be good, or be bad. Diversifying on an entire market is better.

The only thing that can save middle/low class consumers is the hope that the state won't increase taxes faster than we can save money. A culture of proper saving, of not falling for luxury items presented as necessary by our peers (or companies selling them), is the only way out. Focusing on what matters.

Most of us are instead living in the illusion that we can live a luxury life.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-12 11:20:32+00:00
I think the rest of the comms was triggered by me just signing up. But I would deem that negative, I didn't sign up because I wanted to personalise or deepen my interaction, just to send some cash their way.

For example: On the guardian website when I created my account it defaulted me to on for sending me communications my post, phone and SMS about their products and services and for marketing research. I find that unacceptable.

They offer an "Unsubscribe from all email" button but this is only available in their online settings, if you click on an unwanted email and unsubscribe there, the above settings remain on.

And it was just an example. It's just every time I sign up for something it's not just that, I also have to unsubscribe for a bunch of mailing lists and surveys I never asked for. And go through all the privacy settings and turn off all the crap where they use my information. Sometimes even periodically like on LinkedIn where they keep adding new settings that default to on.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-12 11:21:38+00:00
> use paper as a data processing medium

I also do the same thing.

> I don’t want all that mess in the capital-N Notebook, but it is hard to know when to switch from backs of envelopes to the Notebook.

On the contrary, I want and enjoy recording my failures, false starts in these notebooks. These are important lessons. A culmination of "what not to do"s, or "Lessons Learnt" in NASA parlance.

My engineering notebooks are my messy garages with working things on the workbench and not working things in a pile at the corner, recording how I think, what I think, and what works / what not.

The code is the distilled version of what's working, the "second" prototype, and the polished product.

Creation is messy, and there's no running away from that. Keeping the mess in its own place allows incubation of nice things and diving back into the same mess to find parts which works beautifully elsewhere.

I prefer to embrace the suck and document it too.
by dspillett | 2026-02-12 11:21:41+00:00
> The very fact that UTF-8 itself discouraged from using the BOM is just so alien to me.

One of the key advantages of UTF8 is that all ASCII content is effectively UTF-8. Having the BOM present reduces that convenience a bit, and a file starting with the three bytes 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF may be mistaken by some tools for a binary file rather than readable text.
by eddyg | 2026-02-12 11:21:44+00:00
Obsidian with the (core) Daily Notes⁽¹⁾ plugin plus Jump-To-Date⁽²⁾ and Daily Note Navbar⁽³⁾ is a powerful combo for me.

Everything is still searchable (or can be fed into an LLM) since it’s all Markdown text files behind the scenes. (And I can type my thoughts much faster than I can write.)

⁽¹⁾ https://help.obsidian.md/plugins/daily-notes

⁽²⁾ https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-jump-to-date

⁽³⁾ https://github.com/karstenpedersen/obsidian-daily-note-navba...
by re-thc | 2026-02-12 11:22:03+00:00
> An independent Mac business that doesn't have such tie-ins, would sell much less.

For businesses and pro users, it isn't the Apple ecosystem that's the main driver.

Since Apple silicon a lot of laptops are just so far behind in battery life, speed and usability that you wouldn't get it. Often Apple ecosystem was a net negative since most things worked better on Windows but that has shifted.