MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randusername | 2026-02-03 14:59:54+00:00
I like these posts. Many people do not. They seem to get a lot of hate that this is some kind of privileged counter-signal hipsterism.

Agreed, there's usually a fixation on the aesthetic in these kinds of posts; maximalism presented as minimalism. That doesn't bother me, design _is_ cool! All these things look interesting partly because they announce the purpose they fulfill. OP's collection tells me a lot about how they spend their time.

Alton Brown be darned, unitaskers are great. They do one thing well and I don't have to customize them. I don't hate my smartphone, I hate that every year it gets more and more annoying to configure it to solve my specific problems without introducing new ones.
by jimle_uk | 2026-02-03 15:00:13+00:00
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by goalieca | 2026-02-03 15:00:41+00:00
> but I think it was snappy even in 1998.

It definitely was snappy. I used it on school computers that were Pentium (1?) with about as much RAM as my L2 cache (16MB). Dirty rectangles and win32 primitives. Very responsive. It also came with VB6 where you could write your own interpreted code very easily to do all kinds of stuff.
by egorfine | 2026-02-03 15:00:52+00:00
Authors of useless rewrites do:

* skip the hard part: designing, getting user feedback and designing again;

* get straight to the fun part: coding in their favorite language after a well-established and proven design;

* get to call themselves "creator of XXX-rs", where "XXX" is a well-known brand and "-rs" is often overlooked.
by tsm | 2026-02-03 15:01:14+00:00
I own a handful of TI calculators (TI-{80, 83, 83+, 86, 89T, NSpire CAS}, possibly a few others) but actually use a TI-89 Titanium emulator on my Android phone. I no longer do anything remotely interesting with it, but I prefer it to the stock calculator since I know how it does order of operations, it shows fractions, it's easy to get old return values, etc. Don't tell me if the stock calculator now does all that; the TI-89 ergonomics are burned into my brain. (I was in an advanced math class which got me using a TI-80 at the age of 9)
by whamlastxmas | 2026-02-03 15:01:18+00:00
I'm strongly against CSAM but I will say this analogy doesn't quite hold (though the values behind it does)

Libel must be as assertion that is not true. Photoshopping or AIing someone isn't an assertion of something untrue. It's more the equivalent of saying "What if this is true?" which is perfectly legal
by ericbarrett | 2026-02-03 15:01:28+00:00
It is astonishing how one's motor skills degrade when the adrenaline is flowing. I once tried to dial 911 on an iPhone in such circumstances. My hands were shaking so badly I kept dialing 922, 811, 914, and so on. Terrible in the moment but a very good lesson for preparedness. I really appreciate the "dial Emergency" methods on modern phone software that just need a button held down.
by btbuildem | 2026-02-03 15:01:29+00:00
Not phones. There are a handful of apps on these phones that are the equivalent of meth. The infrastructure powering those apps should be seized and repurposed for public good, the proprietors / owners should be charged with crimes against humanity and punished most severely.

If you think this is hyperbole or over-reacting, you're either too far gone, or part of the problem and should be included in the erasure.
by Quothling | 2026-02-03 15:02:36+00:00
Me too. I'm considering getting a camera that isn't the phone. My phone is basically all the various apps that you kind of need to function in Danish society and then I use it to take photos and listen to music and audiobooks. I'm fine with the music/audiobook part being in the phone, but I've really come to dislike taking photos with it. Partly because I have a flip-phone now, since that's what will fit in my pocket, but frankly also because of all the privacy issues with all the things that want to scan my photos.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-02-03 15:02:49+00:00
The complete web page and all resources are saved locally by the service worker. "Clear site data"/clear cookies will delete it. However, clearing the normal browser cache won't. It's overall a little more persistent than the cache for static resources. However, it needs to be installed as an app to really work offline without initial loading. Chrome will prompt you for that on Android, Linux, and Windows. Safari can also do that but makes you jump through hoops.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-03 15:02:53+00:00
Always a bit scary when an open source project changes stewardship like this, but I'm quite relieved to see all involved parties seem to be aware of the dangers and very much on the same page about not screwing this up.

Done right, commercial interests can often have a very positive symbiotic relationship with open source. Almost all the largest and best open source projects out there have substantial involvement from commercial interests.

I do think though that from a structural/governance perspective it's not a good idea for Anki to be owned by AnkiHub. Anki is a community project, not a corporate product, and while it sounds like the license will continue to reflect that, I personally think it would be best if the corporate structure did too. If Anki were spun out as an independent foundation (like Blender, Linux, etc) receiving most of its support and development work from AnkiHub, rather than owned outright, I think that would allow a much more robust governance structure than just having everything be under AnkiHub's direct control with some pinky promises about listening to the community.
by strnad | 2026-02-03 15:03:07+00:00
I built a web UI for generating music locally using HeartMuLa (3B param music model) combined with local LLMs via Ollama for lyrics generation.

Key features:
- 100% local, no cloud APIs required (Ollama for lyrics, HeartMuLa for music)
- Flexible text system: 4 independent fields (description, title, lyrics, tags) each with Generate/Enhance checkbox
- Smart lyrics preservation: text in "quotes" is never changed, rest can be extended
- One-command install: ./install.sh handles everything

The text generation is context-aware - if you write your own chorus and check "Generate" for lyrics, AI will write verses around YOUR chorus without touching it.

GitHub: https://github.com/strnad/HeartMuse
by lesostep | 2026-02-03 15:04:00+00:00
Or you can start with minivan buses, and switch to traditional one when minivans stopped being enough
In my city less common routes are still purely minivan because why not. Some seasonal routes (more relevant in summer|winter) are also partially or full minivan.

(sidenote: I'm pretty sure it started because few guys with minivans noticed that some areas were under-connected by buses and just started a business driving those routes back-and-forth on a schedule. Then some regulations were slapped on top. So it looks like public transport have tendency to spontaneously appear in denser areas)
by verdverm | 2026-02-03 15:04:17+00:00
> MCP is giving the agents a bunch of functions/tools

A directory of skills... same thing

You can use MCP the same way as skills with a different interface. There are no rules on what goes into them.

They both need descriptions and instruction around them, they both have to be is presented and index/instn to the agent dynamically, so we can tell them what they have access to without polluting the context.

See the Anthropic post on moving MCP servers to a search function. Once you have enough skills, you are going to require the same optimization.

I separate things in a different way

1. What things do I force into context (agents.md, "tools" index, files)
2. What things can the agent discorver (MCP, skills, search)
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-03 15:04:19+00:00
It is exactly that. And the method used is basically adding inconvenience for no good reason and seems more like a hobby than actual measure.

That is not to piss on single use devices, I still have calculator on my desk just because it is more convenient for me to have key per function, but most of those are outright worse experience.

Tho there is something to be said for pressing play and just getting music instead of waiting for spotify mobile app to sort its mess and still somehow forget on what state it was last time...
by sham1 | 2026-02-03 15:04:21+00:00
Of course the irony is that on the flipside, now Elon's using X to censor liberal, progressive, and leftist voices. For example the whole "cisgender" debacle. Or how he had an account banned that was tweeting out the whereabouts of his private plane -- a practice which was being conducted based on publicly available data, for the record.

And that's alright, that's his prerogative as the owner of Twitter. He can run the platform how he wishes. It's just very odd behaviour for a self-described "free speech absolutist" although that is a claim he did backpedal on, once it turned out to be bollocks.

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And now for a slightly spicier take. Is it actually bad that conservative voices were being censored? We can all see what happens with this kind of stuff running amok. Like, I'm from Northern Europe and between looking at the rising of the alt-right and pseudo-fascists -- if not even actual fascists in some cases -- all around the EU with support from Musk and the US regime members, the POTUS threatening Greenland and thus not only Denmark but also all of the US' allies here in Europe, him also invading a sovereign nation to kidnap its head of state (Maduro deserved to go, but not like this, not with a blatant violation of international law), and the murders, the disappearances, the disregard for peoples' rights (even the "illegals" have the right to due process, after all), the intimidation of the free press and courts, and similar acts happening in the US on a daily basis, we can clearly see that the current conservative ideology is a threat to peoples' liberty and freedom.

And all of us have studied history. We know where this goes, as we've seen this before. It's a clear subversion of the democratic order that has held its ground for the last 80 years, however imperfectly. And we can clearly see that even in the tech sector the so-called "politically neutral" technology gets subverted to support these ends. And one can of course deal out a bunch of whataboutism regarding the USSR, East Germany, Venezuela, China, etc. but as we can currently see, it's currently not the commies causing these problems. It's the brownshirts. And if that situation ever changes, the focused ire of the democratic majority can be redirected, but today's not that day.
by yiyus | 2026-02-03 15:04:52+00:00
I have a little collection of slide rules. I love those things.

I'm not old enough to have used them to do calculations, but I find them extremely useful to explain logarithms and how multiplication can be represented by the sum of logarithms. I actually work with grad students who should know these things, but watching it in a slide rule on their hands really helps to build intuition.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-03 15:05:15+00:00
It's a little strange to see people scramble to replace their phone with other things. Before smart phones, or mobile phones in general, I'd carry my wallet and keys, nothing else. We can still just do that, it's fine. If you replace your phone with all this stuff anyway, I don't really see the point. Sure, bring a book if you're traveling, but we don't need to listen to music or be able to watch a movie all the time. It's okay to be bored or just observe your surroundings.

The social pressure I don't get, I think that's a made up excuse. I'm never encountered anyone say anything beyond "Oh, okay" if it comes up that I left my phone at home.
by wetchicken | 2026-02-03 15:05:47+00:00
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by chasd00 | 2026-02-03 15:06:04+00:00
I don’t think you should be downvoted. Skills and history get added to the prompt, there’s no other interface to the model to do anything different. I think it’s smart to keep this in mind when working with LLMs. It’s like keeping in mind that a webserver just responds to HTTP requests when developing a web application. You need to keep perspective.

Edit: btw I’ve gone from genai value denier to skeptic to cautiously optimistic to fairly impressed in the span of a year. (I’m a user of Claude code)
by dawidg81 | 2026-02-03 15:06:11+00:00
Hello.

Version 0.2.0 is continuation of C++ Minesweeper game development. There are still some bugs which I have no clue how to fix, at least it could be minimalistically playable. The game logic is mostly completed except flags, flags can not be placed yet. Along with that there are no such things like score... for now that is far future.

From other changes, now the project building is handled by GNU Make, no longer CMake. The repository has also moved to other website, no longer GitHub. Along with the Internet location change it may be for now more complicated to git pull/push from/to yhe repository. Git cloning via http should work normally, I haven't encountered any problems.

Any help with the repository is appreciated. See you
by throw0101a | 2026-02-03 15:06:59+00:00
> It will also shift the local climate balance towards a more habitable ecosystem, enabling first vegetation and then slowly growing the rest of the food chain.

Depends on the deserts in question and knock-on effects: Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants.

* https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-sat...

Helping vegetation in one place to grow may hinder it somewhere else. How important this is still appears to be an open question:

* https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00071-w

I'm not sure if humans are wise enough yet to try 'geo-hacking' (we're already messing things up: see carbon dumping).
by mlacks | 2026-02-03 15:07:28+00:00
Reminds me of my first linux distro called damnsmall linux. I think this was used as a first attempt to port linux to the gamecube, but the main team driving the effort ended up going with Gentoo instead.

From the main page:

As with most things in the GNU/Linux community, this project continues to stand on the shoulders of giants. I am just one guy without a CS degree, so for now, this project is based on antiX 23 i386. AntiX is a fantastic distribution that I think shares much of the same spirit as the original DSL project. AntiX shares pedigree with MEPIS and also leans heavily on the geniuses at Debian. So, this project stands on the shoulders of giants. In other words, DSL 2024 is a humble little project!

Though it may seem comparably ridiculous that 700MB is small in 2024 when DSL was 50MB in 2002, I’ve done a lot of hunting to find small footprint applications, and I had to do some tricks to get a workable desktop into the 700MB limit. To get the size down the ISO currently reduced full language support for German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese (de_DE, en_AU, en_GB, en_US, es_ES, fr_FR, es_ES, pt_PT, & pt_BR ). I had to strip the source codes, many man pages, and documentation out. I do provide a download script that will restore all the missing files, and so far, it seems to be working well.

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
by chrisjj | 2026-02-03 15:07:53+00:00
> Are you implying that it's not abuse to "undress" a child using AI?

Not at all. I am saying just it is not CSAM.

> You should realize that children have committed suicide before because AI deepfakes of themselves have been spread around schools.

Its terrible. And when "AI"s are found spreading deepfakes around schools, do let us know.
by cobertos | 2026-02-03 15:07:57+00:00
Huh, how? Did you have to modify your site a lot to do switch?

I tried to test it out as a CDN replacement for Cloudflare but the workflow was a lot different. Instead of just using DNS to put it in front of another website and proxy the requests (the "orange cloud" button), I had to upload all the assets to Bunny and then rewrite the URLs in my app. Was kind of a pain
by appsoftware | 2026-02-03 15:08:02+00:00
I use a common README_AI.md file, and use CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md to direct the agent to that common file. From README_AI.md, I make specific references to skills. This works pretty well - it's become pretty rare that the agent behaves in a way contrary to my instructions. More info on my approach here: https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/a-centralised-approach-to-a... ... There was a post on here a couple of days ago referring to a paper that said that the AGENTS file alone worked better than agent skills, but a single agents file doesn't scale. For me, a combination where I use a brief reference to the skill in the main agents file seems like the best approach.
by jatora | 2026-02-03 15:08:14+00:00
Toxic = Not a progressive echo chamber. It takes serious blinders to think Twitter is dying any more than the myriad of tech companies operating at losses. And rather than liberals sucking it up and engaging in open disagreements and fire, or attempting tl correct the far right in any way, they flee to blueski (which is actually not doing well). It really is pathetic.

Obligatory disclaimer: I'm not conservative, I dont particularly care for Elon or X or this merger. I just despise intellectual dishonesty and selective outrage.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 15:08:27+00:00
With all due respect, your comment doesn't add much to the discussion. I explicitly mentioned different definitions of learning, and then proceeded to give mine.

And with all due respect, someone claiming they learn 20 words per day, in Mandarin, is an almost outrageous claim. If you think that "learning" is commonly agreed upon to mean "memorize for a couple of hours", then please show me the research into the meaning of the word, that proves your claim. While I have explicitly stated, what _my personal_ definition is, you are claiming to be knowledgeable about a "commonly agreed upon" definition. That is an impressive claim in itself. Let us all hear that definition, that is so commonly agreed upon, so that we can gain from that.

What you call learning, I call "training" or "practicing" or "revising". Now the onus is on you to prove to me, that indeed as you claim there is some commonly agreed upon definition, specifically in the area of learning Mandarin, that proves, that my definition is off.

And I will have you know, that I am learning Mandarin for some 10+ years, and have a lot of experience in that area. I know what counts and what is important.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 15:08:37+00:00
So far, I haven't yet seen any demonstration of those kind of multi-agent workflows ending up with code that won't fall down over itself in some days/weeks. Most efforts so far seems to have to been focusing on producing as much code as possible, as fast as possible, while what I'd like to see, if anything, is the opposite of that.

Anytime I ask for demonstration of what the actual code looks like, when people start talking about their own "multi-agent orchestration platforms" (or whatever), they either haven't shared anything (yet), don't care at all about how the code actually is and/or the code is a horrible vibeslopped mess that contains mostly nonsense.
by SPICLK2 | 2026-02-03 15:09:00+00:00
I did something similar, but then found I almost never needed the EDC items I'd split out from my phone (for me, camera, torch, audio player and notepad). Some of those are in my rucksac for longer trips out of the house.

Audio players really seem to be the sticking point. Speaking as someone who spent most of my teenage years plugged into an audio player, I'm not sure it was a net positive. It could be said that continuous access to pre-recorded music reduces demand and desire for new music, and that it is another distraction from free thinking time. On the other hand, I don't currently regularly take long bus/train rides, nor do I generally listen to as much music as I did.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-03 15:09:00+00:00
So "Just don't be gay/smoke weed, it's not legal, if you don't like it there's a process to get that changed" is the kind of viewpoint that's compatible with your ideology then?

Law in a democracy ALWAYS lags public sentiment because without sentiment to pander to no politician will lift a finger. Overt sentiment always lags behind closed doors sentiment because practically nobody is gonna display overt sentiment until there's some indication from their experience that support for their sentiment is there. There MUST be room for petty noncompliance to let people discover that the noncompliance in some unknown case is perhaps not bad in order to kick start the process.

People like you are actively working to prevent and delay alignment between the people and the government/laws. If everyone subscribed to your ideology nothing would ever get done. If more people subscribed to it then things would change slower than they do.

You can tell yourself whatever you need to sleep at night but this sort of compliance as a virtue ideology you subscribe to is the evil that keeps our democracies from delivering good results promptly. I'm not saying go murder your neighbor because "fuck the law" or whatever, but an ideology that does not permit for deviance when such deviance is tasteful is a bad one.
by iainmerrick | 2026-02-03 15:09:04+00:00
This stuff smells like maybe the bitter lesson isn't fully appreciated.

You might as well just write instructions in English in any old format, as long as it's comprehensible. Exactly as you'd do for human readers! Nothing has really changed about what constitutes good documentation. (Edit to add: my parochialism is showing there, it doesn't have to be English)

Is any of this standardization really needed? Who does it benefit, except the people who enjoy writing specs and establishing standards like this? If it really is a productivity win, it ought to be possible to run a comparison study and prove it. Even then, it might not be worthwhile in the longer run.
by blockmarker | 2026-02-03 15:09:26+00:00
Elon has spent months and months calling for the Epstein files to be released, even had a big spat with Trump over that and some other things. The idea that he was actually raping girls with Epstein can only be believed by people who will believe anything if it puts their enemies in a bad light. Which are also generally the same people making fake emails and sharing them to defame people they dislike, or editing family photos to pretend they were abuse.
by rayiner | 2026-02-03 15:09:59+00:00
We had research to support the EPA phase down of lead.

Also, your assertion that lead “helps fuel companies” is fundamentally mistaken. Gasoline is a mass-produced commodity. Oil companies have single digit profit margins. These companies aren’t making Big Tech profit margins where they can absorb higher costs without passing them along to consumers. Cost savings from things like gasoline additives accrue to consumers at the gas pump.