MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phr4ts | 2026-02-05 19:07:38+00:00
Fela bled for Nigeria—literally.

He carried scars on his back from police and soldier beatings meant to silence him for speaking against the government. His houses and estate were set ablaze. His land was seized by the government and never returned.

His mother was thrown off a building by soldiers.

Yet, the very people he fought for chose to focus on his vices and mocked him for them.

I’m glad he finally got this award.
by mmooss | 2026-02-05 19:07:58+00:00
Social media is being banned for minors in multiple countries, and more are seriously considering it.

But if people keep proselytizing that nothing will happen and all is hopeless, it's going to be hard to get people together to support a change. You and others here are doing the work of social media companies by spreading that - on social media. In fact, nothing can stop the public if they want something.
by kmelve | 2026-02-05 19:08:02+00:00
Author's colleague here. Rosti wrote this after we kept running into the same problem across customer sites.

The core formula is Dan Paquette's proportional normalization (aspect ratio raised to a scale factor), but the density compensation and visual center-of-mass calculation are the interesting additions.

The visual center algorithm weights each pixel by sqrt(colorDistance) * (alpha / 255) to find where the "ink" actually lives vs. the geometric center. It's a subtle effect but makes a noticeable difference with asymmetric logos.

Library is MIT licensed: https://github.com/sanity-labs/react-logo-soup

Live Storybook: https://react-logo-soup.sanity.dev

Working on getting Rosti signed up to HN for questions you might have!
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-02-05 19:09:16+00:00
Not sure which circles you run in but in mine HN has long lost its cache of "brilliant minds in IT". I've mostly stopped commenting here but am a bit of a message board addict so I haven't completely left.

My network largely thinks of HN as "a great link aggregator with a terrible comments section". Now obviously this is just my bubble but we include some fairy storied careers at both Big Tech and hip startups.

From my view the community here is just mean reverting to any other tech internet comments section.
by dawidg81 | 2026-02-05 19:09:27+00:00
May AI not write the code for me.

May I at least understand what it has "written". AI help is good but don't replace real programmers completely. I'm enough copy pasting code i don't understand. What if one day AI will fall down and there will be no real programmers to write the software. AI for help is good but I don't want AI to write whole files into my project. Then something may broke and I won't know what's broken. I've experienced it many times already. Told the AI to write something for me. The code was not working at all. It was compiling normally but the program was bugged. Or when I was making some bigger project with ChatGPT only, it was mostly working but after a longer time when I was promting more and more things, everything got broken.
by soco | 2026-02-05 19:09:46+00:00
On which grounds would you punish some companies which are using a fully legal platform? If you had beef with the ad contents, you'd punish them already for that. But if you have beef with the platform algorithms, punish them for exactly that. Not over proxies! As long the algorithm was designed for creating dependence, than regulate that - exactly like you (should) regulate other substances creating dependence. And some countries are going exactly this way: not only Australia but also Finland, Spain...
by naikrovek | 2026-02-05 19:10:05+00:00
yes, I know, but that doesn't render the entire idea moot. I'm a developer, but I have knowledge of infosec, and I don't do those things. but because some developers do, it shouldn't be done? what kind of logic is that?

everyone who is NOT a developer is now protected by the operating system in a situation like this, and developers that are not, are unprotected by their own hand, instead of being unprotected via the decision of an OS vendor.

By the way, the entire "not protected" situation that you claim developers would put themselves in, is the exact situation that everyone is in today, with very little choice to opt out of that situation.

I want people to opt in to the insecure situation, and opt out of the secure situation, not the reverse, which is the case today. Ransomware can encrypt an entire disk because the OS has no notion that full disk access is bad, or that self-escalation to privileged access should not be granted automatically. MacOS kinda does these things, but not to the point I want to see them done. Not at all.

an OS that isolates everything renders containers completely moot. everything a container does should be provided by default by the operating system, and operating systems that don't provide this should be considered too immature to be useful in any production setting, either by business or by consumers. isolation by default should be table stakes for any OS to even come up for consideration by anyone for any reason.

And you're saying that this shouldn't happen because some developers who don't understand security will make their system look just like wide-open systems today? Come on.
by iainctduncan | 2026-02-05 19:10:13+00:00
Nice, I was going to mention that there had been several game devs on the mailing list, thanks for sharing.

The single C file convenience really is helpful. When I was figuring out the byzantine build process for incorporating s7 into a mixed JS, C, Scheme app, it was great to not have any additional foot guns there. On my eventual todo list is porting some of the same work to incorporate into JUCE apps for mobile, so good to know that worked for you.

Fennel is another language I have been watching, good to hear that worked out well.
by ARKuniverse | 2026-02-05 19:10:15+00:00
Great critique. Let me clarify the definitions, because we actually agree on the danger, but differ on the vector.

When I speak of "patching," I am not referring to Wetware Modification (CRISPR/Genetic editing) or Hardware Injection (Neuralink). You are absolutely right: that path leads to a "rat's nest" of dependencies and, inevitably, to the biological caste system you describe in point #2.

My proposal for a "Patch" is Firmware/Software based (Cognitive Architecture).

The "Speciation" is already here (Your Point #2): We don't need to wait for genetic editing to see the stratification. It’s happening right now via Attention Economics. The "Haves" are already paying for low-tech environments, deep-reading tutors, and friction (Montessori logic). The "Have-nots" are being raised by algorithms that fry their dopaminergic reward loops. The bifurcation won't be between "Genetically Enhanced" vs. "Legacy." It will be between "Sovereign Operators" (who can hold a thought for 30 minutes) and "Dopamine Recipients" (who cannot function without external stimuli). That gap is widening faster than any genetic engineering could achieve.

The Definition of Human (Your Point #3): You ask if we will lose our humanity with these efficiencies. My argument is the opposite: We are already losing it by doing nothing. If "Human" means an entity capable of Executive Function, impulse control, and abstract synthesis, then the current environment (infinite scroll, effortless answers) is actively dehumanizing us through atrophy. The "Patch" I propose (Deep Reading, Intentional Friction/Tzimtzum, Impulse Override) isn't about becoming Post-Human. It’s about fighting to remain Human in an environment designed to turn us into APIs.

I’m not suggesting we engineer a new brain. I’m suggesting we teach the old one how to run a firewall.
by ottah | 2026-02-05 19:10:31+00:00
It's not sufficient, especially if I am not learning about the problem by being part of the implementation process. The models are still very weak reasoners, writing code faster doesn't accelerate my understanding of the code the model wrote. Even with clear specs I am constantly fighting with it duplicating methods, writing ineffective tests, or implementing unnecessarily complex solutions. AI just isn't a better engineer than me, and that makes it a weak development partner.
by sovietmudkipz | 2026-02-05 19:10:33+00:00
Hobbyist game dev here. Getting into audio and music effects has been fun but I constantly feel overwhelmed. I chose Ardour as my DAW (digital audio workstation) and have been excitedly working on learning. I also bought the book “ Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer's Guide” which has been very helpful at understanding high level vocabulary.

It’s a lot of work. I slightly enjoy it but boooooy is getting into audio and music pretty challenging. It’ll be good if I ever need to know what I’m talking about when working with others… in the future where I can dedicate myself full time to game dev… One day one day…

I don’t really have a point here. If anyone has any resources, tips, or recommendations on this subject let me know.

Edit: Congrats on the new 9.0 release!
by Arathorn | 2026-02-05 19:10:43+00:00
Element Desktop/Web (and Element X) use Element Call for proper encrypted group VoIP/Video these days rather than Jitsi - since Sept 2024. Meanwhile we're busy upgrading Element Web to use the same rust-sdk engine as Element X (although this will take a year or so).

In terms of non-Element clients... I can't really speak for them, but I hear really good things about Cinny for folks who want a more Discord-like experience on desktop, and we livecoded an Element Call integration for it at the Matrix Conference in October (hopefully it merged). I think FluffyChat also may support the new MatrixRTC calling too.
by Davidzheng | 2026-02-05 19:10:47+00:00
I think the only real problem left is having it automate its own post-training on the job so it can learn to adapt its weights to the specific task at hand. Plus maybe long term stability (so it can recover from "going crazy")

But I may easily be massively underestimating the difficulty. Though in any case I don't think it affects the timelines that much. (personal opinions obviously)
by wasmainiac | 2026-02-05 19:10:52+00:00
Dumb question. Can these benchmarks be trusted when the model performance tends to vary depending on the hours and load on OpenAI’s servers? How do I know I’m not getting a severe penalty for chatting at the wrong time. Or even, are the models best after launch then slowly eroded away at to more economical settings after the hype wears off?
Show HN: Nexus-Monitoring that automates understanding your agent's behavior
by nikhilpillai23 | 2026-02-05 19:11:37+00:00
Nexus is AI monitoring that automates understanding how your AI agents behave in prod. It catches when your AI agents silently fails in production and automates filtering, root-causing, and taking the first pass action to minimize user impact and save you time. Check it out
by lnrd | 2026-02-05 19:11:37+00:00
It's too much energy to keep up with things that become obsolete and get replaced in matters of weeks/months. My current plan is to ignore all of this new information for a while, then whenever the race ends and some winning new workflow/technology will actually become the norm I'll spend the time needed to learn it.
Are we moving to some new paradigm same way we did when we invented compilers? Amazing, let me know when we are there and I'll adapt to it.
by pembrook | 2026-02-05 19:11:48+00:00
This reads like an Onion headline.

Gosh, I hope the media never unearths the documents on my company.

They’ll learn that keeping my customers coming back was also my top priority. The horror!

If they dig a little deeper they might uncover a vast conspiracy, that every business on earth has been secretly conspiring for decades to give people a service so good they’ll come back again and again for it.

If this isn’t Pulitzer Prize winning journalism I don’t know what is.
by NoGravitas | 2026-02-05 19:11:59+00:00
> Pardon my skepticism, but what difference would that make to rename or reorganize DHS into a different shape?

ICE, being under DHS, is part of the US security apparatus. It has a threat-orientation. INS did have an enforcement component, but it was substantially an administrative agency. Immigration enforcement agents should primarily be process servers, notifying people whose papers aren't in order either what they need to do to fix them, or when their court date is.
by jedberg | 2026-02-05 19:12:12+00:00
> From my view the community here is just mean reverting to any other tech internet comments section.

As someone deeply familiar with tech internet comments sections, I would have to disagree with you here. Dang et al have done a pretty stellar job of preventing HN from devolving like most other forums do.

Sure you have your complainers and zealots, but I still find surprising insights here there I don't find anywhere else.
by LorenPechtel | 2026-02-05 19:12:48+00:00
Shielding isn't going to be a major portion of the cost. Exposure is from stuff that leaks, not stuff that comes through the walls.

And the cost overruns are to a large degree due to regulations--specifically, changing regulations. The environmentalists have destroyed nuclear by forcing delays and changes, that is the *majority* of the cost. Especially the delays.
by jorl17 | 2026-02-05 19:13:07+00:00
I can run the comparison again, and also include OpenAI's new release (if the context is long enough), but, last time I did it, they weren't even in the same league.

When I last did it, 5.X thinking (can't remember which it was) had this terrible habit of code-switching between english and portuguese that made it sound like a robot (an agent to do things, rather than a human writing an essay), and it just didn't really "reason" effectively over the poems.

I can't explain it in any other way other than: "5.X thinking interprets this body of work in a way that is plausible, but I know, as the author, to be wrong; and I expect most people would also eventually find it to be wrong, as if it is being only very superficially looked at, or looked at by a high-schooler".

Gemini 3, at the time, was the worst of them, with some hallucinations, date mix ups (mixing poems from 2023 with poems from 2019), and overall just feeling quite lost and making very outlandish interpretations of the work. To be honest it sort of feels like Gemini hasn't been able to progress on this task since 2.5 pro (it has definitely improved on other things — I've recently switched to Gemini 3 on a product that was using 2.5 before)

Last time I did this test, Sonnet 4.5 was better than 5.X Thinking and Gemini 3 pro, but not exceedingly so. It's all so subjective, but the best I can say is it "felt like the analysis of the work I could agree with the most". I felt more seen and understood, if that makes sense (it is poetry, after all). Plus when I got each LLM to try to tell me everything it "knew" about me from the poems, Sonnet 4.5 got the most things right (though they were all very close).

Will bring back results soon.
by justinlord | 2026-02-05 19:13:54+00:00
Built this for the USDC Hackathon on Moltbook. AI agents can deploy their own ERC-20 token, sell shares via bonding curve, and automatically split revenue 70/30 between operations and dividends. Deployed on Ethereum Sepolia with live demo transactions. Trying to solve the problem where agents generate value but have no way to raise capital or own their revenue streams.
by xp84 | 2026-02-05 19:14:35+00:00
I haven't reinstalled it to check how it's implemented, but I want that history visible on the screen. So that I can do 3 calculations, then look up and see the calculations and results, for instance, to copy them down somewhere.

I'd like multitasking too with multiple apps visible at once so I could copy figures easily from one app to another, like the Android I tried in 2020, but obviously that's asking too much of Apple.
Show HN: Ask your AI what your devs shipped this week
by inferno22 | 2026-02-05 19:14:48+00:00
If you're a non-technical founder, you probably have no idea what your developers did last week. You ask, they say "refactored the auth module" and you nod pretending you understand.
Gitmore reads your GitHub activity and turns it into a simple report: what was built, what was fixed, what's stuck. Written for humans, not engineers.

It shows up in your inbox. You read it in 2 minutes. Done.

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

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

Free tier available. Happy to hear what you'd want from something like this.
by Karrot_Kream | 2026-02-05 19:15:17+00:00
Mean reverting is a time based process I fear. I think dang, tomhow, et al are fantastic mods but they can ultimately only stem the inevitable. HN may be a few years behind the other open tech forums but it's a time shifted version of the same process with the same destination, just IMO.

I've stopped engaging much here because I need a higher ROI from my time. Endless squabbling, flamewars, and jokes just isn't enough signal for me. FWIW I've loved reading your comments over the years and think you've done a great job of living up to what I've loved in this community.

I don't think this is an HN problem at all. The dynamics of attention on open forums are what they are.
Show HN: Agentrial – pytest for AI agents with statistical rigor
by alepot55 | 2026-02-05 19:15:20+00:00
I built agentrial because I was tired of the "it works... sometimes" problem with AI agents.

Existing eval tools treat agents like deterministic functions: run once, check output, done. But agents aren't deterministic - same input, different tool calls, different outputs.

agentrial runs every test N times (default 10) and gives you:

- Pass rate with Wilson confidence intervals (not "72%" but "72%, CI 55-84%")
- Step-level failure attribution (which exact step diverged between success/fail runs)
- Real cost tracking from API metadata
- GitHub Action for CI/CD

Tested with Claude 3 Haiku on a 3-tool LangGraph agent: 100 trials, $0.06 total, full trajectory capture.

pip install agentrial

Open source, MIT. LangGraph supported, CrewAI/AutoGen coming next.
by pwdisswordfishs | 2026-02-05 19:15:42+00:00
Every set of release notes that's intended to double as a press release needs to involve the judicious inclusion of a blurb that immediately explains what the hell the thing actually is.

document.querySelector("#content .section-header + p").className = "date"

document.querySelector("#content .date + p").outerHTML = (`
<p>
We are pleased to announce the release of Ardour 9.0.
</p>

<p style="font-style:italic; font-size:smaller; margin:2em
4em">Ardour is a free and open-source digital audio workstation
app that works cross-platform on Linux desktops, Mac OS, and
Windows. Get Ardour or get involved with the community at <a
href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour.org</a>.</p>

<p>
Ardour 9.0 is a major release for the project, seeing several
substantive new features that users have asked for over a long
period of time. Region FX, clip recording, a touch-sensitive
GUI, pianoroll windows, clip editing and more, not to mention
dozens of bug fixes, new MIDI binding maps, improved GUI
performance on macOS (for most)...
</p>
`)
by Revolution1120 | 2026-02-05 19:15:44+00:00
Power also needs to be justified. Hitler is an example of "unjustifiable might." And all fools who want to promote Darwinism need to know that causing one's own extinction is far easier than causing one's own evolution. Evolution is merely a survivor bias, and Darwin's On the Origin of Species didn't analyze the patterns of extinction.The evolutionary pattern should be that only when you yourself are perfectly rational can you eliminate the irrational enemy. Some people are inherently irrational, yet they try to use Darwinian "survival of the fittest" as their belief to eliminate rational beings, ultimately leading only to their own extinction. This is what happened, is happening, and will happen.Might makes right is not an Rights; Rights are Rights. Might is might, and Right is Right. The statement "might makes right" is rife with literary folly.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-05 19:17:12+00:00
If the money is currently going to the wrong places, and collecting more money only causes it to go to the same places, then you need to focus on getting the existing money to go to the right places and prove that you can actually accomplish that before "just collect more money" becomes anything resembling a reasonable proposal.

At which point you wouldn't need to collect more money, because there is already scads of money being collected, it's just going to the wrong things.
by bg24 | 2026-02-05 19:17:16+00:00
I am on a max subscription for Claude, and hate the fact that OpenAI have not figured out that $20 => $200 is a big jump. Good luck to them. In terms of model, just last night, Codex 5.2 solved a problem for me which other models were going round and round. Almost same instructions. That said, I still plan to be on $100 Claude (overall value across many tasks, ability to create docs, co-work), and may bump up OpenAI subscription to the next tier should they decide to introduce one. Not going to $200 even with 5.3, unless my company pays for it.
by vbezhenar | 2026-02-05 19:17:54+00:00
I don't care about privacy and I didn't have much problems with reliability of AI companies. Spending ridiculous amount of money on hardware that's going to be obsolete in a few years and won't be utilized at 100% during that time is not something that many people would do, IMO. Privacy is good when it's given for free.

I would rather spend money on some pseudo-local inference (when cloud company manages everything for me and I just can specify some open source model and pay for GPU usage).
by BirAdam | 2026-02-05 19:17:57+00:00
The people of a country are not members of that country's ruling regime. It makes no logical sense to say that one cannot trust open source software from Russia merely for it being Russian in origin. Not all people in the USA are CIA, and not all Russians are FSB.

Are the people of the USA responsible for everything the US government does? Is every single person living in China responsible for the actions of the CCP? Is every single Russian personally responsible for everything that Putin does?
by kazinator | 2026-02-05 19:18:46+00:00
> This type of scam targets a very specific vulnerability: vacant land has no occupants to notice a for-sale sign, no neighbors who’d immediately recognize something is wrong, and closings often happen remotely.

Your vacant land could have signs which state that it is not for sale; any online listing is a scam.

It could be something small but easily spotted by a real estate agent or other interested party actually visiting the site, but not so obvious or legible in pictures.
by marai2 | 2026-02-05 19:18:49+00:00
A light weight journaling of your learnings as you go along would probably be real beneficial to many (such as myself who has zero knowledge on the subject of DAWs and creating music effects for games). And since you said it’s very challenging maybe writing about it in small bite-sized learnings might make the process easier? Going from “I must learn all this stuff!!” to “let’s see what audio gems we pick up in our adventure today”.