MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitpush | 2026-02-25 21:33:41+00:00
> Recently, though, Apple acquired a new startup for $2 billion: Q.ai.

> While we don’t know loads about this company, we do know one thing quite clearly – it specialized in machine learning systems for interpreting silent voice input.

> Right now, if you want to speak to a voice assistant, it has to be pretty audible. Even whispers can be hard at time for certain voice models, especially when you aren’t in a completely silent environment. This new acquisition could solve that.
by olalonde | 2026-02-25 21:34:24+00:00
I always setup my terminals to open a tmux session by default (or attach to any existing one). For example, in my ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml:

[terminal.shell]
args = ["-l", "-c", "tmux attach || tmux"]
program = "/opt/homebrew/bin/zsh"

tmux supports tabs so you can have multiple Claude Code sessions running concurrently. You do need to learn a few tmux keyboard shortcuts to use it effectively (e.g. opening/closing/switching tab).
by justpollen | 2026-02-25 21:34:27+00:00
This is a great breakdown. The $50 liability cap on your biometric data is almost comically dystopian.
What strikes me is that LinkedIn has made verification feel mandatory through social pressure, not actual necessity. I work in the LinkedIn ecosystem (building https://www.justpollen.com, an AI content advisor) and even among power users, nobody can articulate what the blue checkmark actually does for them beyond "it looks more legit."
Meanwhile you've handed a US company the mathematical geometry of your skull. The cost-benefit here is absurd once you read the fine print.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-25 21:34:29+00:00
I just want to point out that Ukraine has been fielding autonomous drones without a human in the loop for a while now. They can't be jammed because there's no remote control.

https://defenseopinion.com/lessons-from-ukraine-battlefield-...

skip down to the AI Scales Up section of this link
https://globalsecuritywire.com/military-terrorism/2024/12/09...
by Nition | 2026-02-25 21:34:37+00:00
There have some interesting keyboard input devices coming out which allow for more expression than normal piano keys, using a sort of hack to the MIDI system called MPE - MIDI Polyphonic Expression. For example the Seaboard Rise or the Osmose. Depending on the instrument it's possible to do per-note pitch bends, change pressure while holding notes, perform vibrato etc. Visually the physical movement is not as interesting as electric guitar though, so yours probably still wins.
by mattlondon | 2026-02-25 21:34:59+00:00
Yep this is a "problem" with buses in London. They stop all the time so you never get beyond about 15mph before you start slowing down again for the next stop. The 100% EV buses are better as they accelerate faster, but not by much.

They are starting to introduce "superloop" buses that interlink the more suburban "spokes" for tube & train so you can go "across" London without having to go to the centre and then back out again. I.e. basically express buses that only stop at tube & train stations and other major interchanges.

It is a great idea, but it has been done for political and ideological reasons. They have not introduced express buses for people who work in central London for example (so instead to get to central London on a bus from a suburb means stopping every hundred meters or so, so even with bus lanes progress is brutally slow). These buses going "across" are not actually that useful for most people I expect because people using transport for high-paying central London jobs will be going "in" not "across". It is the "working class" lower paying jobs that might benefit from sideways interconnects between the suburbs - this is the ideological/vote-buying reason they've introduced them.
by esafak | 2026-02-25 21:35:15+00:00
Muon is much more sophisticated than Newton's method. Neural networks have started to borrow techniques from statistical mechanics, and various branches of maths like invariant theory that were previously rarely used in engineering. CS is not dumbing down; its needs and focus are changing.

I've never needed or benefited from most of the EE curriculum. There is an opportunity cost in learning things you don't need.
by rurp | 2026-02-25 21:35:16+00:00
I think it's more likely we end up with a better software ecosystem. There will be plenty of companies for the foreseeable future willing to buy from either continent if one offering is substantially better. More competition will be better, as long as the US govt doesn't succeed in stifling it.

Microsoft for example has had a de facto monopoly in many areas for quite some time and I doubt many would argue that their software quality has flourished in recent years.
by econ | 2026-02-25 21:35:22+00:00
Everyone should really stop posting online unless their job requires it.

The platforms offer only castrated interactions designed not to accomplish anything. People online are useless obnoxious shadows of their helpful and loving self.

No one cares more what you say than those monitoring you and building that detailed profile with sinister motives. The ratio must be something like 1000:1 or worse.
by KennyBlanken | 2026-02-25 21:35:37+00:00
First off: they're not "AIs", they're LLMs.

Second: LLMs spit out what is crammed into them. Nuclear weapons dominated international politics and wargames/simulations and war college navel-gazing for what, 75-80 years or so? Political papers. Fictional works. Society has a TON of popular media about nuclear war.

Why is anyone surprised that LLM responses are very influenced by nukes?
by vasco | 2026-02-25 21:35:47+00:00
A lot of providers already have native CLI tools with usually better auth support and longer sessions than MCP as well as more data in their training set on how to use those cli tools for many things. So why convert mcp->cli tool instead of using the existing cli tools in the first place? Using the atlassian MCP is dog shit for example, but using acli is great. Same for github, aws, etc.
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-02-25 21:35:54+00:00
Somehow this article explains perfectly, visually, how AI generated code differs from human generated code as well.

You see the exact same patterns. AI uses more code to accomplish the same thing, less efficiently.

I'm not even an AI hater. It's just a fact.

The human then has to go through and cleanup that code if you want to deliver a high-quality product.

Similarly, you can slap that AI generated 3D model right into your game engine, with its terrible topology and have it perform "ok". As you add more of these terrible models, you end up with crap performance but who cares, you delivered the game on-time right? A human can then go and slave away fixing the terrible topology and textures and take longer than they would have if the object had been modeled correctly to begin with.

The comparison of edge-loops to "high quality code" is also one that I mentally draw. High quality code can be a joy to extend and build upon.

Low quality code is like the dense mesh pictured. You have a million cross interactions and side-effects. Half the time it's easier to gut the whole thing and build a better system.

Again, I use AI models daily but AI for tools is different from AI for large products. The large products will demand the bulk of your time constantly refactoring and cleaning the code (with AI as well) -- such that you lose nearly all of the perceived speed enhancements.

That is, if you care about a high quality codebase and product...
by eks391 | 2026-02-25 21:36:46+00:00
Notepad would render .md as plain text. Now it renders .md as rich text. The complaint is that people like notepad explicitly because it doesn't support rich text.
I personally write pretty much everything in notepad for this very reason unless I am making a document I need to share with someone.
The reasoning from MS for the update is because they added copilot to notepad, another feature that upset many people. Copilot returns answers as markdown, which is completely readable, but didn't itch the happy conclusion MS wanted. So now notepad supports enough rich text to not only read .md, but render it too
by NickHodges0702 | 2026-02-25 21:36:49+00:00
Nick Hodges here -- one of the developers.

I get that objection, and we are certainly very uninterested in that becoming the norm. The idea, of course, is to try to prevent comments that we want prevented and that aren't helpful.

Different bloggers and different communities are going to define that differently. That is why we are making a good-faith effort at allowing sites/people/groups to tweak this as desired.

Thank for your feedback.
by wk_end | 2026-02-25 21:37:01+00:00
I guess this is true in a professional context - you don't want your user's or company's data somehow becoming compromised because of your choice of text editor.

But, at the same time, that's exactly the sort of thinking that's killed off that feeling I'm sentimental for. As a free human being, I don't want to live in fear of expressing my political views; and as someone who wants to view the software I make as a form of art or expression, I don't want to be afraid to express my political views through my software either. Should a writer avoid being political for fear of becoming a target? For fear of their books or readers becoming a target?
by macmonkmode | 2026-02-25 21:37:16+00:00
I built MonkMode for Mac because I got sick of pretending I would "just check" YouTube or Reddit and then lose a couple of hours.

Most blockers I tried were either too soft (easy to bypass) or too dumb (just block a list of URLs and call it a day). I wanted something that treated my time like it actually mattered.

MonkMode is a native Mac app built around that idea.

You set up sessions where your Mac is either in "work mode" or "you’re allowed to wander". During a session, MonkMode can block the websites and apps that usually wreck your focus, or flip it and only allow the stuff you actually use to work.

There are different strictness levels. You can keep it light, or you can go all the way up to a mode where you literally can’t end the session early. There’s an emergency escape hatch, but it has a cooldown so you can’t just spam it every time you’re bored.

On top of that, there are "focus modes" that go after the addictive parts of the web instead of the whole site: YouTube home/shorts, Twitter/X For You, Reddit home, Instagram/TikTok/Facebook feeds, LinkedIn feed, etc. You can still open specific links, but the endless feed isn’t there to pull you back in.

It also tracks your time and shows you what you’re actually doing: which sites/apps eat your day, when you’re usually focused, how your streaks look, that kind of thing. The goal is to make it harder to lie to yourself about how you spent the last few hours.

Everything runs locally. The rules and analytics live on your Mac instead of some random server.

It’s a one-time purchase with lifetime updates. No subscription.

If you’ve tried to use blockers before and bounced off them, I’d be interested in where they failed you and whether this approach makes more sense (or where it’s still missing the mark).

Site: https://mac.monk-mode.lifestyle
by tclancy | 2026-02-25 21:37:22+00:00
The podcast "History of Rock in 500 Songs" (full disclosure: I am a devout, slavering fan) provides these on the regular. I was actually smiling when I heard a fairly new song that attempts a really flat, fuzzed out sound because it made me think, "Buddy Holly invented that by accident with a broken speaker". One of the episodes on The Who goes into the Marshall behind Marshall amps in similar detail.

I suppose if I were going to recommend a single episode to Hacker News though, it would be https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-146-good-vibrations-by-... which begins with at least a half hour on the amazing (if not happy) life of the guy who invented the Theremin, Lev Sergeyevich Termen.
by habinero | 2026-02-25 21:37:32+00:00
Sure it is, that's how the 1A works. Saying he was convicted of murder is not true, but calling him a murderer is an opinion. Your opinion doesn't even have to be reasonable. It just has to be based on facts that both you and I have.

1A rights are construed really broadly. The courts don't do the 'he wasn't legally convicted therefore it's illegal to call him one' thing.
by roenxi | 2026-02-25 21:38:06+00:00
> Adam Smith famously wrote that slavery was economically detrimental way back in 1776. It still took nearly 100 years to abolish slavery...

Slavery had basically been a thing for all of human history up to that point, and based on my discussions on HN many smart people don't believe a lot of what Adam Smith said. There are still a lot of basic economic ideas that would make people much wealthier that struggle to get out into the wild. With that perspective the near-total abolition of slavery in a century seems pretty quick. And it can't really be a social thing because it is clear from history that societies tolerate slavery if it makes sense.

And we see what happened to the people who tried to maintain slavery over that century - they ended up poor then economically, socially and historically humiliated.
by anthk | 2026-02-25 21:38:36+00:00
OpenBSD it's much easier to setup than NetBSD, on user friendlyness obsd beats nbsd, but as you said nbsd it's better on portability, I can literally run NetBSD 10.1 under simh/vax running under... 9front. No X, because the emulated ethernet in the port of simh here just simulates nat with no option to bind it outside, although I didn't test it further. But for sure it runs at decent speeds, almost like an emulated Pentium 90, enough to run Slashem under vt(1) (vt100/220 emulator for 9front).
by darqis | 2026-02-25 21:38:41+00:00
Definitely needed, especially in the Fediverse.
Holy crap the edgelords there or on Facebook.
You comment something neutral, skeptical, response is either straight insults or completely disagreement and then insults, ad hominem or strawman/gaslighting.

Yesterday I dared to write I like X now, it's clean of all the edgelords who went to Bluesky or the Fediverse. Cancel culture on Twitter was over the top.
Reaponse, Cancel Culture doesn't exist.
My response, it absolutely does.
His response, No it doesn't you Nazi something something or other.
Err, what?

X has the most up to date information for tech circles.

People on BS mostly repost and rage about posts on X.
Fediverse are the different kind of refugees.
Mastodon has critical design flaws.
It's not a future proof system. And Cancel culture is absurd.
BTW 5 people reported me for saying that Cancel culture absolutely exists, all from the same instance.
Lol. The hypocrisy is unreal.

In any case, I think people forgot or never learned how to respectfully disagree and have a conversation with people who don't agree with them.

Something like this is direly needed.
by judahmeek | 2026-02-25 21:38:43+00:00
> Sorry, but I'm too busy creatively exploring creative writing, engineering, medicine, therapy, fitness, bio-hacking, accounting, marketing, sales, ad copy, web site design, business strategy, and so much more with just Claude code.

> It is better than me and every professional I've met in my entire life.

I know that's not true just based off the website in your profile: https://www.adama-platform.com/
by Dwedit | 2026-02-25 21:38:52+00:00
Notepad was historically just a thin wrapper for the "EDIT" window class, along with file loading and saving.

And WordPad was built on top of the "RICHEDIT" window class, and exposed lots of the OLE features provided by the rich text control. "Insert Object" is a powerful and potentially dangerous feature with a lineage going back to the Windows 3.1 days. As long as your DLL is registered correctly, any document in an OLE-capable program can cause objects from that DLL to become instantiated and deserialized.

Getting rid of documents able to instantiate arbitrary OLE controls is a good reason to try to remove WordPad. It's not just some simple styled text editor.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-25 21:38:58+00:00
> belief that slavery was really ended by industrialization making abolition economically advantageous

On the contrary, historians broadly agree that industrialization (particularly the advent of the cotton gin) actually turbocharged the human trafficking industry in the US. The cotton gin moved the bottleneck for textile production onto enslaved people, since there was no automation available for planting, cultivating, or harvesting the cotton.
by Slow_Hand | 2026-02-25 21:38:59+00:00
Nice article for engineers to understand something that most guitar players will intuitively know.

One of the great things about a hi-gain setup like Hendrix's is how the feedback loop will inject an element of controlled chaos into the sound. It allows for emergent fluctuations in timbre that Hendrix can wrangle, but never fully control. It's the squealing, chaotic element in something like his 'Star Spangled Banner'. It's a positive feedback loop that can run away from the player and create all kinds of unexpected elements.

The art of Hendrix's playing, then, is partly in how he harnessed that sound and integrated it into his voice. And of course, he's a force of nature when he does so.

A great place to hear artful feedback would be the intro to Prince's 'Computer Blue'. It's the squealing "birdsong" at the beginning and ending of the record. You can hear it particularly well if you search for 'Computer Blue - Hallway Speech Version' with the extended intro.
by tick_tock_tick | 2026-02-25 21:39:04+00:00
I mean the other options are China and Europe but honestly it's probably way safer as a EU/European citizen to have your data in the USA vs Europe.

The last thing I want is Europe in control of any of my data they just fundamentally don't think privacy from the government should exist. Pair that with the frankly appalling lack of free speech I wouldn't want to risk it.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-25 21:39:13+00:00
Correct, one of those “fun facts” of public policy is that (at least in the US) taxes and other fees, including on fuel, paid by heavy commercial trucks don’t come anywhere near paying for the damage they do to roads. The rest of us subsidize shipping-by-road with our taxes.

(Whether this is a good idea or not is debatable, but it’s the way things work right now and the fact that we subsidize truck shipping to the tune of a large amount of money is not widely known)
by vintagedave | 2026-02-25 21:39:17+00:00
I get this.

There’s a line on our doc page:

> Respectify is not an engine for monoculture of thought, but in fact intends to assist in the opposite while encouraging in healthy interaction along the way.

We don’t want to monitor or enforce saying specific things. We want people to be able to speak, but understand how others will hear them.

All those times people talk past each other. Or are rude but don’t realise it. Or are rude but don’t care (and should because it’s a human on the other end.) Or the worse people who intentionally say something awful and… just maybe can learn a bit about what they’re saying.

I get your fear. I think I’ve seen AI used for bad quite a bit. I hope, given the tech isn’t going away, we can use it to make things a bit better. That’s the goal.
by iamcalledrob | 2026-02-25 21:39:41+00:00
The farebox recovery ratio in the US is awful. Most cities are somewhere between 5-25% of operating expenses coming from fares.

Perhaps the tiny subsidies (in absolute terms) are because the bus systems are just so small?

SFMTA's farebox recovery is around 25%. London Underground is about 130%. Osaka Subway is 209%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
by ben_w | 2026-02-25 21:39:44+00:00
As a Brit living in Germany, I neither know nor care about such minutiae.

I really only care about the question "is Trump going to directly or indirectly harm someone I know even though I live on a different continent?", with a few specific variants such as "will he cause the US to violate treaty obligations?" and "will the trans passport issue harm my trans Canadian friend?" and "will his hatred of green energy damage the global environment?" and "will his preference for Russia over Ukraine allow Russia to become a threat to all the EU?" and so on.
Show HN: Cosmos-Reason2-2B on Nano Super
by vottivott | 2026-02-25 21:40:15+00:00
Hi! Today, me and my team is releasing a version of Cosmos-Reason2-2B that is quantized so that it fits even on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super.

We managed to find a mixed precision configuration such that it maintains virtually the same accuracy as the unquantized model while being able to run really efficiently on the Nano Super and other edge devices :)
by triceratops | 2026-02-25 21:40:26+00:00
Is there a big overlap in experience building a 5MW project and a 10-20kw project? The former would involve, I imagine, more of a project manager, fund-raiser, and general contractor role for GP. The latter can be a DIY effort if they are handy and licensed. There's no way anyone is single-handedly installing the panels and inverters for a 5MW project in a reasonable timeframe.

Even the hardware, land acquisition, and permitting stories would be different, right?
by array_key_first | 2026-02-25 21:40:40+00:00
Well they do both, and as I said I imagine most phishing is traditional, through the phone or email. Casting a wide net is just good business, but simply eradicating malware won't make phishing no longer possible.

And I'm being extremely generous here, because this won't erradicate malware. It will make a specific subset of malware harder to distribute. I imagine most malware is distributed through the play store, and naturally that will be unaffected.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-02-25 21:40:55+00:00
I use JMP.chat[0] for my primary phone number. Being able to text from my PC with a real keyboard is very convenient. If I ever bite the bullet and use Discord I want to set up Slidcord[1] so that I don't have to use a separate app. I'm still figuring out how to migrate people to XMPP natively.

[0]: https://jmp.chat
[1]: https://slidge.im/docs/slidcord/main
by pdntspa | 2026-02-25 21:40:58+00:00
> There is an unsolvable disconnect between what the performer's actions and their audience

Is that really true though? If I watch a cellist play I can pretty clearly see all the things they are doing and it will correlate neatly to the timbre of the sound.

Secondly I think it's important to note the tube amp and the guitar are seperable, and I don't think that their connection is particularly magical. I can reamp a sound from my synthesizer (or maybe a keytar?) into a guitar chain, and if I manipulate the mic and other controls in the same way I might manipulate the pickup, I can also get all manner of interesting feedback effects. My inputs will have different harmonic characteristics of course, and the tube amp's effects are mostly transformations of harmonics; you'll still get some cool tones and they will be subject to a lot of the same rules as if a guitar was being played.
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2026-02-25 21:41:24+00:00
That's fair, if your domain is erroneously put on the block list, Google should be liable for the consequences.

But my point is that any knock on effects like domain suspension, email deliver-ability, etc. stem from 3rd parties misusing the safe browsing list outside the scope of safe browsing.

I don't see how Google can be blamed for other companies erroneously treating the safe browsing list as a source of truth for generally malicious domains
by Bender | 2026-02-25 21:41:32+00:00
Very interesting. That would suggest to me that all traffic is passing through a stateful device vs. direct connectivity from a router. Routers can give simple bandwidth metrics. A stateful device or mirrored ports to a netflow analyzer would be required to create detailed connection logs though mirrored ports wont break state such as UDP virtual tables being full. Are they doing detailed logging of traffic?