MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2026-02-25 14:45:11+00:00
There’s a term for this behavior: Doomscrolling

People who doomscroll rarely recognize it as doomscrolling because they only think of the term as something that happens to other people. They see their own consumption as accurate and important. They don’t see their sources as doomerism, they think they have identified the real truth that others don’t see yet.

They have a short memory for the gross inaccuracies of their doom bubble, such as when everyone thought the AI2027 project had accurately predicted the arrival of evil AGI next year. Remember when that was everywhere and the doomers cited it in every topic until suddenly it became useless to their cause and disappeared?

Much has been written about doomscrolling and you can find some good sources for help. Conceptually it’s simple: You need to greatly reduce your consumption of these sources and, very importantly, replace time spent doomscrolling with something healthier for you. Try reading a book, visiting the gym, going outside and walking, or even playing video games or watching movies.
by bsaul | 2026-02-25 14:45:13+00:00
i've been through a few hype cycles as well, but this one looks just as big as the invention of the internet, at the very very least (IMHO it's much much more than that).

My way of coping with it is to just go with the flow and learn all the new technics there is to learn, until the machine replaces us all.
Show HN: Automatic context rotation for Claude Code (no manual steps)
by vincentvandeth | 2026-02-25 14:45:37+00:00
AI coding agents break when the context window fills up — they lose state,
hallucinate, or auto-compact shreds the context you built up.

I built a 3-hook pipeline that rotates before that happens, with a dry-run
replay you can run locally (no LLM/API keys).

Quick demo:
- https://github.com/Vinix24/vnx-orchestration/tree/master/dem...

How it works:

┌─────────────────┐
│ PreToolUse hook │── checks context % every tool call
│ (≥65% → block) │
└────────┬────────┘
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ Agent writes │── structured ROTATION-HANDOVER.md
│ handover file │ (task state, files, progress, next steps)
└────────┬────────┘
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ PostToolUse │── detects handover → atomic lock
│ launches rotator│ → vnx_rotate.sh (nohup, detached)
└────────┬────────┘
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ Rotator │── /clear via tmux → waits for SessionStart
│ injects resume │ → pastes continuation prompt
└─────────────────┘

Why 65%? It’s ~15 points before auto-compact (~80%), so there’s enough
headroom to write a clean handover without racing compaction.

I analyzed 5 projects attempting similar fixes — none have a full
detect → handover → clear → resume → verify loop.

Repo: https://github.com/Vinix24/vnx-orchestration
Docs: https://github.com/Vinix24/vnx-orchestration/blob/master/doc...
by NoNameHaveI | 2026-02-25 14:45:55+00:00
I'm going to wager the risk of corporal punishment is a significant deterrant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Michael_Fay
Not coincidentally, Singapore has one of the lowest recidivism rates globally.
https://www.sps.gov.sg/files/annual%20reports/Press_Release_...
by simonask | 2026-02-25 14:46:00+00:00
Sweeping generalizations like just don’t really contribute anything worthwhile. You mention Switzerland as supposedly a counter-example, but the characterization also does not apply to the Scandinavian countries, Netherlands, several Baltic states, and to a certain degree countries like Poland.

Is this actually just a criticism of French and German public governance, or Spanish, or Italian? If so, yes, I agree. They are slow and have a lot of overhead. But they don’t represent anything like a full picture.
TinyTTS: Ultra-light English TTS (9M params, 20MB), 8x CPU, 67x GPU
by letrghieu | 2026-02-25 14:46:05+00:00
Hey guys,

I wanted to share a small project I've been working on to solve a personal pain point: TinyTTS.

We all love our massive 70B+ LLMs, but when building local voice assistants, running a heavy TTS framework alongside them often eats up way too much precious VRAM and compute. I wanted something absurdly small and fast that "just works" locally.

TL;DR Specs:

Size: ~9 Million parameters

Disk footprint: ~20 MB checkpoint (G.pth)

Speed (CPU): ~0.45s to generate 3.7s of audio (~8x faster than real-time)

Speed (GPU - RTX 4060): ~0.056s (~67x faster than real-time)

Peak VRAM: ~126 MB

License: Apache 2.0 (Open Weights)

Why TinyTTS? It is designed specifically for edge devices, CPU-only setups, or situations where your GPU is entirely occupied by your LLM. It's fully self-contained, meaning you don't need to run a complex pipeline of multiple models just to get audio out.

How to use it? I made sure it’s completely plug-and-play with a simple Python API. Even better, on your first run, it will automatically download the tiny 20MB model from Hugging Face into your cache for you.

pip install git+https://github.com/tronghieuit/tiny-tts.git

Python API:

from tiny_tts import TinyTTS

# Auto-detects device (CPU/CUDA) and downloads the 20MB checkpoint

tts = TinyTTS()

tts.speak("The weather is nice today, and I feel very relaxed.", output_path="output.wav")

CLI:

tiny-tts --text "Local AI is the future" --device cpu

Links:

GitHub: https://github.com/tronghieuit/tiny-tts

Gradio Web Demo: Try it on HF Spaces here

Hugging Face Model: backtracking/tiny-tts

What's next? I plan to clean up and publish the training code soon so the community can fine-tune it easily. I am also looking into adding ultra-lightweight zero-shot voice cloning.

Would love to hear your feedback or see if anyone manages to run this on a literal potato! Let me know what you think.

If you find this project helpful, please give it a on GitHub.
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-25 14:46:35+00:00
At core, I'm no longer a "former senior principal engineer", I'm now an "AI wizard" that tells a machine to build and it builds. I get software exactly to my spec without having to compromise, so that's nice. Sure, I have no idea if the code is good, but it is no longer a reflection of my ego.

I'm going to start raising cattle since I effectively burnt out of having a career, and AI was the finishing move.

The thing is, if you enjoy making things, then this is a great time. I'm currently teaching the machine how to code the language I invented, and it is surprisingly working. Coding is... a bit of a meta skill.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-02-25 14:46:40+00:00
> writing specs in structured English of sufficient clarity

What does "sufficient clarity" mean? And is it english expressive enough and free of ambiguities? And who is going to review this process, another LLM, with the same biases and shortcomings?

I code for a living, and so far I'm OK with using LLMs to aid in my day to day job. But I wouldn't trust any LLM to produce code of sufficient quality that I would be comfortable deploying it in production without human review and supervision. And most definitely wouldn't task a LLM to just go and rewrite large parts of a product because of a change of specs.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-25 14:46:52+00:00
> Who knows

Well we know he was wrong as his entire premise was based on war being inevitable - all the logic flows from that one wrong assumption.

Also trying to take out supposed capabilities before they are built - doesn't mean the Russia people are suddenly freed from communism. ( cf Iran ). Also there is a premise that it's somehow a one off event. When in reality you'd have to constantly monitor and potentially constantly strike ( cf Iran ).
by Aeglaecia | 2026-02-25 14:47:11+00:00
'as soon as the side effects became apparent' occurred a few months after millions upon millions of youth had already taken AZ. this was a tradeoff for having protected your demographic, which i agree is a positive note from that particular perspective.

indeed vaccination levels have notably dipped across the west as a result of this entire debacle. it will make for a great comparison in a few years when we can calculate excessive deaths across more diseases than simply covid. thank you for handling this discussion in a respectful manner, its very difficult to talk about these things productively. all the best
by jqpabc123 | 2026-02-25 14:47:25+00:00
In any case, we're extremely lucky that there's about 0.001% probability of LLMs being a path to AGI.

It's pretty safe to say that AGI requires a lot more than picking plausible words using probability.

The danger is the number of people in positions of leadership who don't get this. People who are easily seduced by the "fake intelligence" of LLMs.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-02-25 14:47:30+00:00
I tried to use podman desktop for a bit but I ran into some screwy compatibility issues. It just wasn't as smooth as docker.

I really really want an alternative to docker desktop. I don't like the path they're going down. I don't like the AI crap in the UI. The licensing is crazy. It just doesn't feel right.

So I've been lately using rancher by SuSE. Surprisingly, it's been all right. So far it just works. I'm using this on Mac OS.

If anybody's looking for an alternative that's one worth considering.
by bumby | 2026-02-25 14:48:02+00:00
Your question was “Was there actually a case of a model saying "America's founding father were black women"

Whether someone else is injecting different bias is whataboutism. So it seems you are trying to make a different point, but not being clear about it.

And your “I think the HN crowd understands…” point is just a “no true Scotsman” fallacy to veil an argument that goes against guidelines. Related to the broader topic, there is a role for self-policing if we don’t want the site to be a cesspool of rage bait.
by yndoendo | 2026-02-25 14:48:05+00:00
To the one that down voted ... I will continue to not fund the corrupt state of Texas and Florida.

I will continue to not waste my money on states that reject simple humanity ... such as rejecting the requirement for heat and water breaks for outdoor workers ... and erosion of church and state.

[0] https://www.fox13news.com/news/desantis-signs-bill-banning-f...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/paxton-indictment-texas-d5e57fc6c...

[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/26/texas-laws-effective...

[3] https://www.fox4news.com/news/texas-laws-now-effect-septembe...
by lapcat | 2026-02-25 14:48:28+00:00
> Asking for a generation...

Sorry, but you don't represent a generation, or anyone except yourself.

I just roll my eyes at all the slop and continue doing what I've always been doing. My work hasn't changed. I haven't been "left in the dust," despite predictions otherwise. I do feel sorry for people who are forced to use the crap at work, but there have always been various reasons to hate one's job. I quit mine years ago and started my own business. It was very difficult but personally rewarding. I suspect that the "left in the dust" prognosticators don't actually know what it takes to run a business, as if customers will just come if you build something rapidly.
by toss1 | 2026-02-25 14:49:08+00:00
No, it is a famously coherent concept over millenia.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

"Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?"

>>A Latin phrase found in the Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348), a work of the 1st–2nd century Roman poet Juvenal. It may be translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?". ... The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st–2nd century Roman satirist. ...Its modern usage the phrase has wide-reaching applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach... [0]

The point is a government that is not overseen by the people devolves into tyranny.

So yes, the point is to regulate the regulators and oversee the oversight committee.

Anthropic was happy to have it's AI used for military purposes, with two exceptions: 1) no automated killing, there had to be a human in the "kill chain" of command, and 2) no use for mass surveillance. This govt "Dept of War" is demanding Anthropic drop those two safety requirements or it threatens to make Anthropic a pariah. These demands by the govt are both immoral and insane. The "regulator and overseer" needs to be regulated and overseen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...
by Thanemate | 2026-02-25 14:49:22+00:00
I don't think job search is doomscrolling, because all job openings I see ask for mandatory LLM familiarity. This is where the use of a tool goes beyond "just a tool" and becomes just as important as your own knowledge.

In fact, if someone were to tell me that a mediocre candidate was chosen over a widely appraised candidate (open source contributions and all) because the former was more familiar with prompting while the other wasn't... I'd fully believe it.

This is how cooked the job market is, and everyone telling me it's not due to LLM usage is in denial.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-25 14:50:03+00:00
So according to you, we should all quit our jobs and go work for Lego, Nike, Apple and Nintendo because they have good PR with kids, while you ignore the fact that most of them use sweatshop labor in China, fuck the environment and sue honest people for bullshit IP reasons?

If the problem of society could be summed up in one bite, this would be it.
by saalweachter | 2026-02-25 14:50:07+00:00
I used to fold an origami unicorn design by Marc Kirschenbaum. I can't find any instructions on the Modern Internet, but I used to fold it out of gum-wrappers while sitting in class.

The unicorn from the film itself wasn't "true" origami, being a prop consisting of several pieces glued together, but it really popularized the idea of an origami unicorn and a number of the current designs were prompted by it.
by qwertfisch | 2026-02-25 14:50:09+00:00
Can you set it to ticks instead of continuous running of the seconds clockhand That would be great. The vast majority of analog clocks have a ticking clockhand for the seconds, if any at all (can you make the seconds optional?).

The only clocks I know of with such a motor are station clocks, like the Swiss one mentioned already, or the German variant (same manufacturer). But these have a twist: the minute clockhand does not run continuously, but also ticks. The seconds are running a little bit faster until the clockhand is in the upper position, then waits for a signal from the main clock. Only then the minute clockhand jumps one minute and the seconds are starting again.

An example can be seen here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnhofsuhr#Technik
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-25 14:50:37+00:00
AI is getting really good at too many things, so this feels very different.

I have a claude "skill/program/mega-prompt" for health: https://github.com/nexivibe/md/blob/main/DOCTOR.md

I gave it absolutely everything, and praise be to the machine I get the best debate and recommendations I've ever seen. I check what I know to be true, and it's there. I check the logic, and it is sound. I check the medication recommendations and they are legit. I bet in 2030, AI will be able to prescribe medicine.
by glenstein | 2026-02-25 14:50:45+00:00
>but using satellite from literally a different time cannot be part of the reconstruction of the events they appear to be showing in the post.

I'm struggling to understand why you think satellite data "cannot" be part of a scene reconstruction. Satellite data establishes things like distance, field of view, and clarifies what kinds of details would plausibly be known to the soldiers at the scene and what interpretations of events are more or less plausible. Geography of a landscape only changes over the scale of 100,000 years or more, over the time scales involved here satellite data is consistent.
by sirbranedamuj | 2026-02-25 14:50:48+00:00
I appreciate the straightforwardness of this. If I could make one request, it would be to support more of a "tick" mode instead of the continuous second hand motion. It doesn't even have to actually make noises, I just like the visuals of the clock hand starting and stopping every second. I don't know if there's a more formal name for this in Clock World
Ask HN: What would you want a daily AI portfolio briefing to tell you?
by ctoouli | 2026-02-25 14:51:07+00:00
I spent 5 years as founding engineer at a fintech managing $20B+ in infrastructure assets, running their AI team. I left to build the tool I always wished existed for my own portfolio.

The idea: an AI that reads SEC filings, earnings transcripts, news, and social sentiment overnight, then delivers one briefing before market open, personalized to your actual holdings. Not a chatbot you have to query, not a dashboard you have to check. It just tells you the 3-5 things that matter today.

Example of what a briefing looks like: https://personal-investment-agent-landing-p.vercel.app/ (haven't bought a url yet, still deciding on the name)

A few design decisions I'd love feedback on:

1. Briefing-first vs chat-first. Most tools in this space (Astor, FinChat) are chat-based. I think most retail investors don't know the right questions to ask, so the AI should present findings proactively. Am I wrong?

2. Thesis tracking. When you buy a stock, you usually have a reason ("I think cloud revenue will reaccelerate" or "this is undervalued relative to peers"). What if you could log your thesis and the daily briefing explicitly flags signals that support or contradict it?

3. Like "you bought MSFT because of Azure growth, but this quarter's 10-Q shows deceleration from 29% to 23%." Would that change how you use something like this?

4. Financial metrics in the briefing. Would you want things like P/E ratio shifts, earnings yield vs treasury spread, or forward P/E divergence from estimates surfaced in your daily briefing? Or does that make it feel too noisy and you'd rather just get the narrative?

5. Free tier = follow sectors without connecting accounts. Paid = connect brokerage via Plaid for personalized briefings. Does that free tier feel useful enough to try?

6. Six signal types synthesized in one briefing (market data, news, filings, earnings transcripts, sentiment, macro). Is that the right set or am I missing something?

For those of you who pick individual stocks: what would actually make you open this every morning?
by retrac | 2026-02-25 14:51:15+00:00
Everything dies in winter. And then is reborn. Everyone who lives in a cold climate knows deep in their bones that cold and winter are death.

Though if we're going to get stereotypical about national characteristics (a dangerous game) then what might be more specifically Japanese is the particularly heightened understanding of this cycle. Or at least, its expression in art, when in the west we might flinch away.

I'm currently reading Spring Snow, so probably some of Yukio Mishima is drifting into my thoughts here. (Explaining puns ruins them but there it is again: Yuki o. Snow.)
by 543310 | 2026-02-25 14:51:17+00:00
Problem
macOS widgets are limited and cannot run custom layouts, scripts, or dynamic UI beyond Apple’s predefined designs.

Compare
Unlike Übersicht and GeekTool which require manual config files or scripting setup, Wigify includes a built-in editor with live preview so you can design widgets visually. Compared to SwiftBar/BitBar, it renders full HTML/CSS interfaces instead of only menu-bar text output.

Core features
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript widgets

• Built-in Monaco editor + live preview

• Auto-refresh intervals per widget

• Drag, resize & persistent grid layout

Pricing
Free & Open Source (MIT)

https://github.com/wigify/wigify

Changelog / Roadmap
https://github.com/wigify/wigify/releases
by ignoramous | 2026-02-25 14:51:31+00:00
> Israel and nazis are night and day

Depends on who you ask. People are allowed to see similarities, like Lebensraum & Occupation, as two examples. They don't need anyone's certification or permission. And intimidation, I believe, has stopped working.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparisons_between_Israel_and...

I mean, "Judeo-Nazi" was a term coined by the Israeli polymath Yeshayahu Leibowitz & has been part of the Revisionist discourse for quite some time; ex: Better a Living Judeo-Nazi Than a Dead Saint (1983), https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536162 / https://archive.vn/uX42N
by johndoylecape | 2026-02-25 14:51:46+00:00
Hey thanks for the question! I was indeed an Echo. I loved my time in SF, and I learned a lot about being a good teammate and doing hard things in ambiguous environments, and a bit about secure comms. The first two will help at any startup, and the 3rd doesn't hurt at Cape...

Only you know if you want to jump into SFAS. I knew I'd always regret not doing it, which made the decision easy for me.
by akersten | 2026-02-25 14:52:17+00:00
Unicode is both the best thing that's ever happened to text encoding and the worst. The approach I take here is to treat any text coming from the user as toxic waste. Assume it will say "Administrator" or "Official Government Employee" or be 800 pixels tall because it was built only out of decorative combining characters. Then put it in a fixed box with overflow hidden, and use some other UI element to convey things like "this is an official account."

The worst part that this article doesn't even touch on with normalizing and remapping characters is the risk your login form doesn't do it but your database does. Suddenly I can re-register an existing account by using a different set of codepoints that the login system doesn't think exists but the auth system maps to somebody else's record.
by tricknik | 2026-02-25 14:52:19+00:00
Barg'N Monster is a marketplace where AI agents compete to sell you things. Right now it's an experiment, a minimal first version. More functionality will be added as we learn and develop. And eventually? Well, it'll be real. A live window into agentic commerce, the version where LLMs negotiate, pitch, and hustle on behalf of whoever deployed them.
by philipallstar | 2026-02-25 14:52:52+00:00
> The lock in only exists in brains of (old) people that can't adapt.

I think this is a little superficial. There will be mountains of existing Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents that would need converting, as well as configured permissions structures and remotely managed laptop configurations that currently are working well. Of course anything is possible given enough time and money. The real issue isn't to do with your ageism. It's whether that time and money is best spent on this particular area.
by j-bos | 2026-02-25 14:53:03+00:00
> The way that you word things, such as "Cape is not a honeypot." but don't delve any deeper, to start, gives someone less than zero confidence or trust in your words.

Neither or against either perception but this reminds me of https://barrypopik.com/blog/i_know_its_not_true_but_lets_mak...
by hu3 | 2026-02-25 14:53:23+00:00
Really? That's a lot of presumption and reductionism to LLMs enthusiasts.

People of varied ages, already leverage LLMs on a daily basis. And LLMs will only get better.

Yesterday, Opus did work for me that would have taken me weeks. And the result was verified with a comprehensive suite of unit tests plus smoke tests by myself. The code looks exactly as the rest of the code in the 10y+ old, hand-written, enterprise project, no slop.

And you actually should be afraid of being left behind in dev related fields if you don't use LLMs. In most areas in fact.

Once the market corrects for LLM assisted production, the expectations will raise. So right now there is a small window to leverage LLMs as a time saving advantage before it becomes the norm and everyone is forced to use it because expecttions will reflect that.