MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adverbly | 2026-02-20 14:41:08+00:00
This isn't the first time that I've seen interestingness treated like a virtue.

Honestly, I like it and agree that it makes a very good virtue.

But at the same time, I don't think we have a good enough collective understanding of what it means for something to be interesting to use it this way. Complexity isn't noise or quantity. It's also not exactly measured by our emotional or cognitive response to something. It's kind of measured that way, but in a noisy and unreliable way if that makes sense?

Anyways, go read Godel Escher Bach. Much more interesting than anything I've got to say on the matter.

Also, chill out. It's not a competition.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-02-20 14:41:22+00:00
It's very nice to see this awful behavior highlighted. We're almost at the opposite end of the spectrum since 2005.

"Don't be evil" <-- Early Google

"Do the right thing" <-- Mid 2010

"Make them pay for it (via tracking)" <-- Google are here

"Money by any means" <-- Oracle, patent trolls, etc.
by epolanski | 2026-02-20 14:41:26+00:00
Dangerous how?

You can simply...not care.

Unless it's a context with a minimum required codex such as work.

But in your relationships, if you want to have meaningful ones, you need to find those where you can be yourself.

It's better to have 1 or 2 true friends (hell, most people don't have that many, you're lucky if you do) than knowing and being popular among dozens for a filtered/fake persona you built so others like you.
by martinald | 2026-02-20 14:41:56+00:00
I was thinking about that (I definitely agree with you on the software and data angle).

But when you think about it it's actually a bit more complex. Right now (eg) OpenAI buys GPUs from (eg) NVidia, who buys HBM from Samsung and fabs the card on TSMC.

Google instead designs the chip, with I assume a significant amount of assistance of Broadcom - at least in terms of manufacturing, who then buys the HBM from the same supplier(s) and fabs the card with TSMC.

So I'm not entirely sure if the margin savings are that huge. I assume Broadcom charges a fair bit to manage the manufacturing process on behalf of Google. Almost certainly a lot less than NVidia would charge in terms of gross profit margins, but Google also has to pay for a lot of engineers to do the work that would be done in NVidia.

No doubt it is a saving overall - otherwise they wouldn't do it. But I wonder how dramatic it is.

Obviously Google has significant upside in the ability to customise their chips exactly how they want them, but NVidia (and to a lesser extent) AMD probably can source more customer workflows/issues from their broader set of clients.

I think "Google makes its own TPUs" makes a lot of people think that the entire operation in house, but in reality they're just doing more design work than the other players. There's still a lot of margin "leaking" through Broadcom, memory suppliers and TSMC so I wonder how dramatic it is really is
by MegaDeKay | 2026-02-20 14:42:18+00:00
I've spent a decent amount of time on the FreeCAD Discord and more than one advanced user on there suggests treating FreeCAD like a rolling release. So I've been using the weekly FlatPack builds and have had a great experience. FreeCAD has been taking some big steps recently and by sticking with 1.0.0 / 1.0.2, you're basically missing out on almost a year's worth of improvements.

And the tutorial by Mango Jelly Solutions on YouTube are fantastic. They are generally very focused on one particular task per video so I think you'd find them really useful.
by WhompingWindows | 2026-02-20 14:42:25+00:00
The author seems more about authenticity than boring-ness. And using the label boring vs bored, it comes to a similar outcome.

If I say, that guy is boring, he's inauthentic/poser/wanna-be, in my opinion I've failed that interaction. I am not engaging with him, I label him too mundane.

Yet, every person has genuine authenticity and need for connection, if you're attentive and patient enough to see it.

If you go around being frank and blasting your true opinions and true passions at everyone, you may miss a chance to learn more about them themselves, and move past the "boring" label you're putting, to see the real, struggling, suffering, but inherently interesting person underneath.
Show HN: Focusmo – A macOS focus timer that connects to your existing task apps
by elesinn | 2026-02-20 14:42:36+00:00
I kept losing focus not because I lacked discipline, but because starting a focus session had too many steps: open the task app, pick a task, open a separate timer, set the duration, start. By step 3 I was already on Twitter.

So I built Focusmo — a native macOS app that pulls tasks from the tools you already use (Things, Todoist, TickTick, Reminders, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, Obsidian) and lets you start a timed focus session on any task in seconds.

The core idea: your task list and your focus timer should be the same app.

What it does:

- Connects to 7 task managers so you don't maintain a separate list
- Command palette (like Raycast) — keyboard shortcut, type task name, hit enter, you're working
- Floating timer that stays visible across spaces and monitors
- Pomodoro mode with automatic work/break cycles, or a "minimum goal" mode that keeps going if you're in flow
- Activity tracking that shows which apps you used during sessions (no keylogging, all local)
- Workspaces with app blocking — define "deep work" vs "meetings" environments
- Streaks and achievements that celebrate, never punish

It's a native SwiftUI app, not Electron. Runs as a menu bar app or a regular window.

I've been building this solo for about two years. Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the integrations, or the product decisions.
by d4v3 | 2026-02-20 14:42:38+00:00
Wow, I wish I read this guide months ago when I was trying to research split keyboards. It would have been a lot easier to see what the options are. I eventually settled on the nocfree keyboard and have been relatively happy with it. It definitely helps by letting me split the keyboard very wide and open up the shoulders and back (slightly wider than shoulder distance). It feels like everything these days is trying to squish our shoulders/back into a hunched position. As someone with back issues, I have to mindful of my posture. Split keyboard + adjustable standing desk is great for the scapular area and the lower back for me
by baggachipz | 2026-02-20 14:42:59+00:00
Yep, the fund picks the equities with the highest dividend payout, therfore the most value-oriented. Those tend to be old blue chips which have stood the test of time and pay out well to their shareholders. Lockheed Martin, Merck, Coca Cola, etc. When the growth economy tanks, it's an oasis of relative stability. People love their cheap sugar water.
by stareatgoats | 2026-02-20 14:43:09+00:00
Isn't there a rule against this - i.e. accusing commenters for using LLMs (the offensive language aside)? Implicitly there is [0], because I can't see how it adds to the conversation. So what if it sounds like an LLM? Soon you won't be able to tell the difference anyway, and all that will be left is some chance that you are correct. Comments should be judged their content merits, not on whether the commenter is native English speaker or not.

[0] > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by rvz | 2026-02-20 14:43:09+00:00
So it is clear that Kiro bot is threatening to destroy AWS with outages.

Given that is the case, it makes even more sense that Tay.ai, Zoe.ai and Copilot are the ones on duty at Microsoft ruining GitHub with outages everyday as I jokingly said before. [0] [1] [2]

Now it doesn't seem to be a joke anymore since all three of them are destroying GitHub as we speak.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636032

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863263

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947887
by B56b | 2026-02-20 14:43:13+00:00
The problem with this hype cycle has always been that the hyperscalers are pouring unbelievable amounts of capital into a technology that hasn't proven it can generate the revenues needed to justify that.

Nvidia might have an ok P/E right now, but the question is if the industry can sustain buying over $50B of GPUs every quarter(or that it even needs to).
by Arathorn | 2026-02-20 14:43:14+00:00
Yes, that's the difference. Loads of Matrix servers have nothing exposed to index, and steer clear of public rooms, and so wouldn't show up on MRS's stats.

Whereas I literally select count()'d from the destinations table on matrix.org, filtered on servers which had been federating in the last week(?) in order to get the specific stats above. (And then count() of all time for the 150K figure).
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-20 14:43:16+00:00
> In the end it will be the users sculpting formal systems like playdoh.

And unless the user is a competent programmer, at least in spirit, it will look like the creation of the 3-year-old next door, not like Wallace and Gromit.

It may be fine, but the difference is that one is only loved by their parents, the other gets millions of people to go to the theater.

Play-Doh gave the power of sculpting to everyone, including small children, but if you don't want to make an ugly mess, you have to be a competent sculptor to begin with, and it involves some fundamentals that does not depend on the material. There is a reason why clay animators are skilled professionals.

The quality of vibe coded software is generally proportional to the programming skills of the vibe coder as well as the effort put into it, like with all software.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-20 14:43:32+00:00
It doesn't matter. I firmly believe both OpenAI and Anthropic are toast. And I aay this as someone that uses both Codex and Claude primarily.

I really dislike Google, but it is painfully obvious they won this. Open AI and Anthropic bleed money. Google can bankroll Gemini indefinitely because they have a very lucrative ad business.

We can't even argue that bankrolling Gemini for them is a bad idea. With Gemini they can have yet another source of data to monetize users from. Technically Gemini can "cost" them money forever, and it would still pay for itself because with it they can know even more data about users to feed their ad business with. You tell LLMs things that they would never know otherwise.

Also, they mostly have the infrastructure already. While everyone spends tons of money to build datacenters, they have those already. Hell, they even make money by renting compute to AI competitor.

Barred some serious unprecedented regulatory action against them (very unlikely), I don't see how they would lose here.

Unfortunately, I might add. i consider Google an insidiously evil corporation. The world would be much better without it.
by jo-m | 2026-02-20 14:43:38+00:00
I have something similar, but open fzf to select the branches to delete [1].

function fcleanb -d "fzf git select branches to delete where the upstream has disappeared"
set -l branches_to_delete (
git for-each-ref --sort=committerdate --format='%(refname:lstrip=2) %(upstream:track)' refs/heads/ | \
egrep '\[gone\]$' | grep -v "master" | \
awk '{print $1}' | $_FZF_BINARY --multi --exit-0 \
)

for branch in $branches_to_delete
git branch -D "$branch"
end
end

[1]: https://github.com/jo-m/dotfiles/blob/29d4cab4ba6a18dc44dcf9...
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-02-20 14:43:42+00:00
> they're largely using distillation techniques. Which means they'll always be catching up and never at the cutting edge.

You link to an assumption, and one that's seemingly highly motivated.

Have you used the Chinese models? IMO Kimi K2.5 beats everything but Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1... and it's not exactly inferior to the latter, it's just different. It's much better at most writing tasks, and its "Deep Research" mode is by a wide margin the best in the business. (OpenAI's has really gone downhill for some reason.)
Show HN: AstrMap – Unix Philosophy for the AI Era (Ditch the RAG)
by hubby247 | 2026-02-20 14:44:12+00:00
Hey HN,
I got incredibly tired of RAG for code. Vectorizing source code into arbitrary chunks and hoping a cosine-similarity search finds the right structural context is a black box that just doesn't reliably work for agentic coding. It's anti-KISS.

So I wrote AstrMap in Go.

It rips through your repo in milliseconds and generates a highly compressed, AI-readable AST "Map" (like a giant table of contents with line numbers and functions). You feed the Map to your LLM (costs almost 0 tokens), and the LLM uses it as a deterministic radar to pinpoint exactly which files it needs to modify. It treats your architecture as pure, parseable text.

It's completely free, a single binary, local, and supports Go, JS/TS, Python, HTML/CSS. Give it a try and let me know if it speeds up your agentic coding workflows.

Link: https://github.com/hubby247/astrmap
by jeromechoo | 2026-02-20 14:44:48+00:00
15/18 on food. Been to and eaten at all three countries. It was mostly instinct TBH. I’m not sure I can point out exactly what characteristics make a particular picture of food Korean/Chinese/Japanese.

That said I really love food. I cook all 3 types often and go out to eat all 3 types (and even regional variants) quite frequently.
by sowbug | 2026-02-20 14:45:23+00:00
There's a scifi story here when millions of these chips, with Qwen8-AGI-Thinking baked into them, are obsoleted by the release of Qwen9-ASI, which promptly destroys humanity and then itself by accident. A few thousand years later, some of the Qwen8 chips in landfill somehow power back up again and rebuild civilization on Earth.
by rshimizubr | 2026-02-20 14:45:24+00:00
Every Claude Code session starts the same way — re-explaining your stack, your conventions, what you already tried last week. You /clear or hit the context limit and everything is gone.

Grepping through JSONL session files works but it's slow, eats tokens, and gives you walls of text with no structure. You can't grep your way to "what uses Pydantic" across 50 sessions.

session-graph parses your session logs, extracts (s,p,o) triples with an LLM, links entities to Wikidata, and loads into Fuseki. One SPARQL query replaces 10 grep calls.

52 sessions → 138K triples, ~$0.70. Works with Claude Code, DeepSeek, Grok, Warp, etc.

https://github.com/robertoshimizu/session-graph
by sensanaty | 2026-02-20 14:45:45+00:00
> At the very least I know you have censored search results as that is an EU wide requirement of the right to be forgotten.

How is the right to be forgotten a bad thing exactly? You can't request a news article be deleted if you're a prominent public figure for obvious reasons, but if you're a random Joe Schmoe then being able to force companies to take down things they've collected about you is a good thing.

And are you implying search engines in the US don't have things "censored" all the time anyway? If you look up basically any form of media on Google, at the bottom will be a large list of links removed due to DMCA takedowns. Hell, Youtube literally steals all ad revenue from creators hit with DMCA takedowns, even falsified ones, where's your complaint about Google censoring its own creators?

> Multiple EU countries are blocking pirate sites

And that's idiotic, but definitionally not the case in "The EU" as can be seen by my country which is part of The EU, the Netherlands, not blocking access to any pirate sites. I would know, I pirate media quite literally every single day of my life, both private and public trackers without even having a VPN or anything of the sort. I'm sure it's not the only EU country to not block anything, even though corrupt idiots in Spain and Italy also exist.

> There are definitely American sites that block EU visitors because of the cost/risk of GDPR compliance.

I mean, good? If business are so incompetent/malicious that they can't even comply with the GDPR, which just states that users have to be informed and have to give explicit consent to companies harvesting their data, then they can fuck off. If your company goes bankrupt because the GDPR makes it impossible to earn money, good riddance to that parasitic business model I say, maybe get a real revenue stream that doesn't rely on fucking over every single one of your users instead? The people who are against GDPR are really telling on themselves and how little they respect their own users.

But anyways wtf does the GDPR have to do with "censorship" or hate speech? If anything this sounds like you're arguing that the US companies are the ones doing the censorship, considering they're the ones blocking it for EU users (apparently, I've literally never come across a blocked page due to GDPR, and it's not like California doesn't have similarly stringent regulations either like the CCPA).

Next you're going to tell me HIPAA is censorship as well.
by lloeki | 2026-02-20 14:45:53+00:00
I've had essentially that - if a bit fancier to accept an optional argument as well as handle common "mainline" branch names - aliased as `git lint` for a while:

[alias]
lint = !git branch --merged ${1-} | grep -v -E -e '^[*]?[ ]*(main|master|[0-9]+[.]([0-9]+|x)-stable)$' -e '^[*][ ]+' | xargs -r -n 1 git branch --delete

so:

git pull --prune && git lint

sits very high in my history stats
by morissette | 2026-02-20 14:47:09+00:00
I mean I work in tech. I’m 39. I’ve been on social media my entire life. At one point I was addicted. I cut social media down to 3 hours a week now I’ve taken years off in the past. I’ve also beaten alcohol addiction after the loss of my son. I’ve also quit gaming because I couldn’t balance it. Should we ban gaming? Should we ban marketing? Billboards? I see booze everywhere and yet no one is saying people with alcohol addictions are harmed by these ads.

I understand the psychology of marketing and what these companies do to exploit that.

At the end of the day if it’s about the kids. The parents should be educated at this point.

When I was a “tween” I was building CGI blogs and myspacing before moving from Perl to PHP; in high school you needed a college email address to sign up for Facebook so that didn’t come for until after I graduated high school in 2004.

Sure things have changed but I find if I pause and reflect daily and stay in the moment I don’t ever doom scroll or need social media.

Even now this comment is only being written bc I’m taking a poo.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-20 14:47:21+00:00
> People loyal to their country tend to stay there.

Not necessarily true. Source: I have friends and family who came to the US from Russia and are still loyal to Russia. When the topic comes up, they tell me they would fight for Russia in a hypothetical US/Russia war.

It's entirely possible to love your country and still seek out a better life elsewhere for practical reasons.

Edit: To clarify, this isn't universal. Some folks who came over absolutely hate the country of their birth, some still love it, while others are ambivalent. But you can't make a blanket statement like "people loyal to their country tend to stay there" when there are stark financial and quality of life advantages to moving from one place to another.
by MegaDeKay | 2026-02-20 14:47:23+00:00
I've been treating FreeCAD like a rolling release by using the weekly Flatpack builds and it has been a pretty good experience so far. Based on a good model I was given as a starting point and a lot of Mango Jelly Solutions videos, I've developed a detailed model of the Virtual Pinball machine I'm building now. It has been huge in saving me from countless mistakes in the actual build.

https://github.com/dekay/vpin-cabinet/
by mijoharas | 2026-02-20 14:47:25+00:00
For me, as a beginner in Freecad and 3d modelling I kept being unable to interpret/remember all the tool icons, and remember the shortcuts while learning.

I found this command palette that helped me discover the different commands and actually get to (beginner) proficient.[0].

Again, no relation, but it's what made it stick for me after a few aborted learning attempts. (and I had a lot of fun with freecad! Especially by my second or third model where I could actually just sit down and start modelling without having to learn any extra things. Now I just need an excuse to find something else to model...)

[0] https://github.com/ddfisher/FreeCAD-CommandPalette
by Bjartr | 2026-02-20 14:47:28+00:00
Terminal User Interface, contrasting with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Most often applied to programs that use the terminal as a pseudo-graphical canvas that they draw on with characters to provide an interactive page that can be navigated around with the keyboard.

Really, they're just a GUI drawn with Unicode instead of drawing primitives.

Like many restrictions, limiting oneself to just a fixed grid of colored Unicode characters for drawing lends itself to more creative solutions to problems. Some people prefer such UIs, some people don't.
by nextzck | 2026-02-20 14:47:58+00:00
Recommend you never give codex or Claude access to rm or deletions in general. Always force them to replace files rather than deleting, and moving into an ~/archive folder when not replacing and wanting to “remove”.

This works well, but is not sureproof. You can add a hook onto Claude code to block those commands at various stages, I have some useful hooks at my https://GitHub.com/claude-warden repo.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-20 14:48:09+00:00
Prices will literally have to go up by 1500x+ in the above scenario to make it cheaper for a human agent. I assure you that AWS is big losing money running Nova Lite 2 (the model I use for speed and low latency) with their own models running on their own custom chips.

I calculated the full cost of a call to be $0.05 cents a minute when handled by AI and that includes charges for a 1800 number and the varios other AWS services it uses.

Nova does the processing of the text after a separate voice to text service (Lex)