MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SwiftyBug | 2026-02-07 09:37:09+00:00
Singing is one of the few things that I suspect may not be just learned. Sure, you can improve a little, but not go from complete trash to someone you would actually tolerate hearing sing. I think our anatomies constrain us much more than for other things. How come some people can naturally sing and others produce a horrible screech? What I've been trying to find is a style that best suits my voice that will make it seem like I'm not horrible. Don't know what that is yet. Finding that is not so easy when you don't have a large vocal range nor a particularly interesting voice.
by 9rx | 2026-02-07 09:37:18+00:00
> In which world are these compilers producing non-deterministic output if you run them again and again?

The one where deterministic iteration order (think use of unordered maps, parallel execution, etc.) isn't considered a priority, use of heuristics that can have a "tie score" where the winner is selected non-deterministically, the need to support features like __DATE__ and __TIME__, so on and so on. The topic of reproducible builds wouldn't be one if all compilers always produced them. In fact, the Go project put in a quite a lot of work to prove that builds are consistently reproducible. It is not the natural state if you build your compiler without concern for it, at least once you move beyond the simple university project and enter the real world.
by conductr | 2026-02-07 09:37:27+00:00
This is being built by a single dev. He only needs a couple thousand users to likely make this a meaningfully successful product to him. You guys are really blowing this out of proportion if you think there’s no room for stuff like this. There’s tons of potential users out there. His challenge will be reaching them but it’s totally possible he’s on to something decent here. Even if he shuns enterprise altogether. If he’s solved this problem in a way that is simplistic and approachable then he’s maybe onto something. Pro designer likely are not his target user.

I’m not making assessments of whether it is or not, but it sure as hell could be. There’s room for all this and he can choose to add features or choose to stay feature light.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-07 09:37:40+00:00
It could also be that, so often, the claims of what LLMs are achieve are so, so overstated that people feel the need to take it down a notch.

I think lofty claims ultimately hurt the perception of AI. If I wanted to believe AI was going nowhere, I would listen to people like Sam Altman, who seem to believe in something more akin to a religion than a pragmatic approach. That, to me, does not breed confidence. Surely, if the product is good, it would not require evangelism or outright deceit? For example, claiming this implementation was 'clean room'. Words have meaning.

This feat was very impressive, no doubt. But with each exaggeration, people lose faith. They begin to wonder - what is true, and what is marketing? What is real, and what is a cheap attempt for companies to rake in whatever cold hard AI cash they can? Is this opportunistic, like viral pneumonia, or something we should really be looking at?
by JimDabell | 2026-02-07 09:39:39+00:00
I’ve played and loved Civ 1/4/5/6 for hundreds of hours each. They have always been a bit rough around the edges on launch, but 7 is the first time I’ve felt like they a) released a half-finished game, b) reduced the game to something that is just plain unenjoyable, and c) made me feel ripped off. It’s a massive downgrade in so many different ways and I would pick any previous version over 7. I have loved playing Civ for decades but 7 killed my interest in the game completely.
by noiv | 2026-02-07 09:41:29+00:00
> models that keep on learning

These will just drown in their own data, the real task is consolidating and pruning learned information. So, basically they need to 'sleep' from time to time. However, it's hard to sort out irrelevant information without a filter. Our brains have learned over Milenial to filter because survival in an environment gives purpose.

Current models do not care whether they survive or not. They lack grounded relevance.
by assaddayinh | 2026-02-07 09:44:17+00:00
They could have hunting preserves, basically areas sharedby predators and prey similar to nature as enrichment, but that would be cruelty for the cityZens.

Im argueing against nature preserves in poorer countries, where western nations deluded citizens pay to keep a piece of nature which are basically mirages of "intactness" in economic good times, vanishing from the earth entirely in economic bad times. Which the very same proponents usually argue for with degrowth arguments.
by aprilfoo | 2026-02-07 09:46:00+00:00
Of course comparing open source and AI is like comparing apples and oranges, but the question makes a lot of sense. Just the first thing that comes to mind: open source is about transparency whereas LLMs are opaque by nature. This is a radical shift and challenge for engineering and has consequences way beyond it.

It's about the role of technologies in evolution, responsibility versus utilitarian take, etc. It should be developed and discussed seriously, but not in a buried sub-thread.
by nudpiedo | 2026-02-07 09:47:31+00:00
It was better because it had no silent errors, like 1+”1”. Far from perfect, the fact it raised exceptions and enforced the philosophy of “don’t ask for permission but forgiveness” makes the difference.

IMHO It’s irrelevant it has a slightly better typesystem and runtime but that’s totally irrelevant nowadays.

With AI doing mostly everything we should forget these past riddles. Now we all should be looking towards fail-safe systems, formal verification and domain modeling.
by gspr | 2026-02-07 09:48:19+00:00
This is my fear too.

People will say "oh, it's the same as when the printing press came, people were afraid we'd get lazy from not copying text by hand", or any of a myriad of other innovations that made our lives easier. I think this time it's different though, because we're talking about offloading the very essence of humanity – thinking. Sure, getting too lazy to walk after cars became widespread was detrimental to our health, but if we get too lazy to think, what are we?
by aljgz | 2026-02-07 09:48:50+00:00
From your comment I don't know you have tried this or not, but get some sessions with the best trainer you can. Singing and even speaking with a good voice is incredibly counterintuitive for some people, speaking from experience.
You might have everything needed for a great voice expect the skills, or you might be trying for a voice that's far from what works well for you.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-07 09:49:05+00:00
I think of it differently: I’ve been coding so long that ironing out the details and working through the specification with AI comes extremely naturally. It’s like how I would talk to a colleague and iterate on their work.

However, the quality of the code produced by LLMs needs to be carefully managed to assure it’s of a high standard. That’s why I formalized a system of checks and balances for my genetic coding that contains architectural guidelines as well as language, specific taste advice. You can check it out here: https://ai-lint.dosaygo.com/
Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware
by thealidev | 2026-02-07 09:49:43+00:00
I am a CNC designer from Pakistan. I developed a new logic for vector video (SVGV) to replace traditional pixels with mathematical paths. This approach aims to fix blurry "trashy" video on budget mobile sensors and reduce file sizes by up to 85% for high-fidelity content like K-Dramas. I am looking for technical feedback on the research paper and potential C++/NDK partners.
by frm88 | 2026-02-07 09:50:23+00:00
The proposition 65 warnings apply to carcinogenic materials used on furniture surfaces which can be released into the air or accumulate in dust. None of these substances are a condition sine qua non, there are alternatives. https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/furniture-product...

The same warnings and labels are used in the EU, for example for formaldehyde which will be severely limited in its use starting in August 2026.
https://easecert.com/blogs/insights/formaldehyde-emission-li...

It may look weird, but personally I prefer a warning to being submitted to toxic substance without my knowledge.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-07 09:50:59+00:00
> Posts criticizing Musk or Trump or their friends like Thiel are suppressed.

Same here too, for the record. At least for the past year. Not all, but very many.

People complain about it all the time, but any posts about it get deleted almost immediately by express mod decree.

I do understand that this latest 24 hours is a different level, but would not be surprised if censorship has dramatically escalated here recently also. We've no way to know.
by xelah | 2026-02-07 09:51:25+00:00
I think we should not compare apples to oranges here.

A construction project is not an IT project.

In a construction project, many things can be easily estimated. I know how much concrete, steel, and other materials I need. I can estimate how long it will take to get them delivered. I can estimate how long it will take to build this one specific part.
Sure, there are unknowns, but they are usually (not always) due to human error, price changes, unreliable partners, or weather conditions. That's nothing you can predict upfront (maybe except weather, to a degree), but those factors usually blow up construction projects. Not the fact that it suddenly took you three times as long to build this wall because you had to do it completely differently than before, and couldn't have known that.

An IT project is totally different. As the article states (and I agree), most of the work happens in terra incognito. I cannot reliably estimate what I don't know.
Sure, there are situations where I can reliably estimate my work, but more often than not, I can't. Especially when the estimates go into weeks or months. There is no way to predict anything reliably for such a period of time, IMO.
by vladeta | 2026-02-07 09:52:32+00:00
Hey HN! I built this free UCP Store Checker after Google and Shopify launched Universal Commerce Protocol in January 2026.

The problem: AI shopping agents (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity) are starting to browse and buy from online stores. But 99% of stores are invisible to them. It's like the early 2000s web before robots.txt existed.

What is UCP? Think robots.txt for AI commerce. It's Google & Shopify's open standard that makes your store machine-readable so AI agents can discover products, check availability, and complete purchases.

What I built:
The tool instantly checks if your store:
- Exposes machine-readable product data
- Has protocol-compliant endpoints
- Can be discovered by AI shopping agents
- Is ready for agentic commerce

No signup. Just paste your URL and hit enter.
Try it: https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/

I tested 500+ stores before launch. Only 0.1% are UCP-ready. Most merchants don't even know this standard exists yet, but AI commerce traffic is already starting to flow.

The check runs in ~2 seconds and shows you exactly what's missing. Built this because I kept seeing merchants confused about why their products weren't showing up in AI agent results.

Technical details: Next.js frontend, validates UCP endpoints, checks for structured data schemas, analyzes protocol compliance. Open to feedback on what else to check for.

Curious what HN thinks. Is this the beginning of a major shift in e-commerce, or will AI agents never really take off for shopping?
by conductr | 2026-02-07 09:52:53+00:00
Why did they move to figma from adobe? There’s tons of purpose built design software. I use a few different tools just for pixel art recently as I’m designing a game. I could use adobe or probably figma but this purpose built software made it super easy to focus on my one single design goal.

What you’re saying is basically a majority of SaaS shouldn’t exist because it could just be an excel spreadsheet. Why would anyone pay for a subscription or something when they already pay for excel right? Problem is spreadsheets are a blank canvas and can be difficult for people to build. Just like a design software like adobes and figma. This product is trying to focus on one particular use case of design software and simplify it. It’s not a horrible idea and can exist in the market. I’m not sure it will succeed but conceptually it’s not destined to fail for the this reason. I think you need to also define what success means. For a single dev, could just be a thousand paying users. He’s not necessarily trying to be figma.

My most successful company was a tool that focused on 10% of a ERP feature. One that I had used and implemented at corporates but knew ERP vendors were selling hard for having 100s of features of which I only cared about 20%. Not everyone cared about those same 20% but I found enough people that did and liked my opinionated take on the software. It would have never worked if I had this mindset.
by danhau | 2026-02-07 09:54:00+00:00
You can. That progression is normal. I know this because I am such a case. I wasn’t able to produce a single sound on pitch. Now I can nail some songs (as long as they don‘t go crazy on technique).

Learning to sing is taking control of your voice. You use the same biology that you have been using for speech and other vocal sounds since birth. It all comes built in. Of course it comes more naturally to some people, just like any other activity.

There are some decent videos on YouTube, but take actual vocal lessons if you can. Videos are not a substitute for lessons.

I don‘t like the posted page. The descriptions aren‘t very helpful and neither are most videos on YouTube. I know from experience. For a complete beginner, this is frankly a useless resource.
by saidnooneever | 2026-02-07 09:54:19+00:00
its very rational to say things to try and protect this person from himself. know that it is only that. rational.

if you think life is only rational its more likely lack of experience than knowing it better. Most of life, is infact not rational.

I'd want to tell him to save himself, but i do hope he saves her,.because regardless of anyone's words, he wont give up, maybe destroy himself too, and thats ok.

I am truly sorry how unfair life can sometimes be. I wish such things not on my worst enemies. I hope in some aspect of life Love will persist, prevail or return into your life OP.
by kgeist | 2026-02-07 09:55:08+00:00
It creates a weird feedback loop: after I watch video A, it recommends a similar video B, and if I make the mistake of watching that too, it then recommends video C on the same topic. Suddenly my feed is nothing but Stranger Things shorts for two whole days (literally not a single video about anything else). Skipping or disliking didn't help, then somehow it went back to normal after two days.
by nudpiedo | 2026-02-07 09:55:43+00:00
Serious question: why won’t JUST use SELinux on generated scripts?

It will have access to the original runtimes and ecosystems and it can’t be tampered, it’s well tested, no amount of forks and tricky indirections to bypass syscalls.

Such runtimes come with a bill of technical debt, no support, specific documentation and lack of support for ecosystem and features. And let’s hope in two years isn’t abandoned.

Same could be applied for docker or nix Linux, or isolated containers, etc… the level of security should be good enough for LLMs, not even secure against human (specialist hackers) directed threads
by biaachmonkie | 2026-02-07 09:57:35+00:00
Well considering the administration has repeatedly called Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good "TERRORISTS", I would consider "1400 ISIS terrorists" a highly dubious statistic, in fact in a brief search for a reputable source of your claim of "1400 ISIS terrorists" I've not found any source for that, link???

You ask "Is, say, 1 in 100 people coming in being a criminal OK?"

Well considering that about 1.4% of the overall population is current incarcerated in our "Land of the Free", yeah 1 in 100 would be an improvement!

People are against ICE in growing numbers because of their tactics of run around hide their identities like bandits and gestapo thugs. Their ignoring of court orders, constant lies, constant blatant violations of the 1st, 2nd, 4th amendments constantly, and violations of rights of people such as immigrants following the processes of asylum, several citizens that have been arrested wrongly, and the terrible tortuous treatment an the joy and pride this corrupt disgusting administration takes in being cruel to people!
by SahAssar | 2026-02-07 09:58:20+00:00
This relies on the browser, and it's not even setting relevant browser security features like CSP. It also loads scripts from multiple domains like umami.is and esm.sh, includes google fonts. It uses vercel for hosting.

So you are trusting at the very least the author, umami, esm.sh (including the authors of all of those packages) and vercel.

This is not how you code a security-sensitive app.

There also is a database, it's just indexdb/localStorage in your browser.

It's an old idea to use in browser static pages to encrypt data, this solves none of the problems with the idea, but is just glitzy AI-written marketing copy.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-07 09:59:38+00:00
I haven’t actually used my personal computer for much after graduating from college.

1. To access the internet

2. To download music from Napster and later iTunes and to create mix CDs and later for my iPod

3. To mix music with CoolEdit (bought by Adobe as Adobe Audition) - I was a fitness instructor and created my own 32 bpm beat synchronized music

4. As a home media theater PC (Mac Mini + Front Row) and later a media server (Plex)

My backup was running BackBlaze. When we moved and I decided Plex + bit torrent wasn’t worth the hassle, I did a one time “aws s3 -sync…” and copied my 2TB of media to AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive in my personal account. I’ve opened my personal computer - that I only bought for a one time contract for a former CTO/friend when I was between jobs for a month.
by indentit | 2026-02-07 10:00:05+00:00
This resonates with me for a couple of reasons. One is that despite a good AGENTS.md file and a detailed, specific prompt, I've seen LLM agents generate all sorts of questionable code. From making a mistake, running tests and fixing the mistake meanwhile adding a comment which only makes sense when you read it from the perspective of having seen it make that mistake... As soon as anyone else would read it, there is no context and it can be confusing or misleading...

Or naming tests only considering the specific task at hand, which is meaningless when compared to the grand scheme of things.

Yesterday I had GitHub ask me to complete a survey on it's Copilot coding agent, and it made me realize that some obvious things were missing from my AGENTS.md. Notes that are unnecessary to be written "normally" because it aligns naturally with how human programmers work. When writing a new unit test in a file full of unit tests, I typically copy an existing test which has roughly what I need, paste it and adapt it. Or at least look at existing tests when building a new one. I've seen LLM agents ignore private helper methods and do full integration style tests for new test cases because they don't work like that unless specifically instructed...

So yes, I definitely feel that AI can increase tech debt big time unless managed carefully - paved roads are the way to go for human developers and AI agents. It does get tricky when you need to branch out and do something new or never considered before though...
by rbanffy | 2026-02-07 10:02:08+00:00
I grew up in Brazil, where we had a very successful program for cars running on ethanol fuel with a little gasoline added. It was common to have certain models of car be offered as gasoline or ethanol (back then engines needed to be tuned for one) powered.

At least one car magazine would buy retail cars and fully disassemble them for analysis a year later. The difference between a gas and an ethanol engine was quite shocking - the ethanol engine was always clean and displayed less wear than the gas version of the same engine. Part measurement indicated no significant difference in wear between the engines. There were models only offered with ethanol engines because they offered a little more power because of higher compression rate.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2026-02-07 10:03:48+00:00
> think about the potential growth for the next 5-10 years,

I thought about it and it doesn't seem that bright. The problem is not that LLMs generate inferior code faster, is that at some point some people will be convinced that this code is good enough and can be used in production. At that point, the programming skills of the population will devolve and less people will understand what's going on. Human programmers will only work in financial institutions etc., the rest will be a mess. Why? Because generated code is starting to be a commodity and the buyer doesn't understand how bad it it.

So we're at the stage when global companies decided it's a fantastic idea to outsource the production of everything to China, and individuals are buying Chinese plastic gadgets en masse. Why? Because it's very cheap when compared to the real thing.
by galkk | 2026-02-07 10:06:07+00:00
Ohh, every geo join/spatial thing with picture that consists of those small cells over map is such pet peeve of mine. Facebook marketplace, craigslist, tinder, any app with “proximity search”.

No, this city isn’t 4 miles from my city. There is a literal lake between us. It’s 10+ miles.

Please, invent something, do precompute, but just avoid naive-ish searches.
by em-bee | 2026-02-07 10:08:10+00:00
ok, fair point. what i am trying to say is that when we see/experience something that we can not describe we can create new words for it. we see something, we can name it. this directly contradicts the idea that language is the limit and that we can't talk about things that we don't have words for. that claim just doesn't make sense.

the problem then is that these new words don't make any sense to anyone who doesn't see/experience the same, so it only works for things that multiple people can see or experience. psychedelic experiences will probably never be shared, so they will remain undescribable. quite like dreams, which can also be be undescribable.
by mft_ | 2026-02-07 10:08:19+00:00
This is always the piece that disappoints me when seeing this and other similar tools.

Surely it is an obvious next step to offer export to e.g. React, React Native, SwiftUI…?

Otherwise you spend days, weeks, months crafting your perfect design down to the pixel, and then someone else has to start again from scratch with a totally different approach. Maybe I’m missing something, but that feels incredibly inefficient and regressive.
by Borg3 | 2026-02-07 10:09:33+00:00
Yeah, its private stuff.. I added GRX Lib bindings to Ruby so I can use Ruby to do 2D graphics.. Ive been looking for somethink like this but couldnt find anything usefull for me, so I made one..

Here is example/demo: http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?grx/test

gperf is not a demo, it my simple performance counters drawing app.
by cosmotic | 2026-02-07 10:09:33+00:00
My understanding of the system webview is that applications can share the resource instead of each using their own copy, reducing memory usage and improving multi-tasking. Facebook's solution seems to side step that benefit. I use the fb browser much less frequently than my normal browser, and id rather not use the fb browser at all. I imagine this is true for most users, so the security benefit seems overstated.
by old8man | 2026-02-07 10:09:40+00:00
Ruliology provides a powerful descriptive framework - a taxonomy of computational behavior. However, it operates at the level of external dynamics without grounding in a primitive ontology. It tells us that rules behave, not why they exist or what they fundamentally are.

This makes ruliology an invaluable cartography of the computational landscape, but not a foundation. It maps the territory without explaining what the territory is made of.