MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joering2 | 2026-02-18 16:19:42+00:00
He/FB was very against Trump/MAGA during his first tenure with the "fact check teams" verifying majority of popular opinions on FB, until before second election Trump posted that Zuckerberg should be in prison for meddling and giving Democrats their positive push. Nothing happened until Trump won second term, then the fact check teams were gone and Zuckerberg donated 1 million to Trump. Here Google AI will say it better than I can:

Donation: Meta's $1 million donation to the inauguration fund was a departure from previous years, aimed at fostering goodwill with the new administration.

Relationship Repair: Following years of tension and accusations of anti-conservative bias, Zuckerberg has taken steps to align with the MAGA movement, including dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Policy & Structural Changes: Meta has made several changes, including reducing professional fact-checking, appointing UFC CEO Dana White (a Trump ally) to its board, and hiring high-profile Republican policy staff.

Motivations: The moves are seen as an attempt to avoid further regulation or antitrust action from the Trump administration, especially regarding artificial intelligence and business operations.

Edit: in this instance, stay out of jail card costed $1 million.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-18 16:19:49+00:00
No, Joe wants to have substance and vision. The tragedy of his character is his slow realization that he just doesn't have it. Indeed it's the tragedy of all the main cast that each has some of what it takes to make something truly revolutionary, but they lack some key aspect. They each know that another has the missing piece they need, but they can't sustainably maintain a relationship with them.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-18 16:20:05+00:00
This is a good quick example, almost like an eye test where the characters are harder to interpret when you go down the page because they are smaller.

Only for this the font stays the same size, and it gets harder to interpret as is deviates further from modern English.

For me, I can easily go back to about when the printing press got popular.

No coincidence I think.
by dns_snek | 2026-02-18 16:20:50+00:00
> That is what COMECON was supposed to solve, but if you aggregate a heap of losers, you won't create a winning team.

What kind of disingenuous argument is that? Existence of COMECON doesn't neutralize the enormous disadvantage and economic pressure of having sanctioned imposed on you.

> Of that infinite number

I'm glad we agree that Soviet communism is not synonymous with "socialism".

> Aside from that one, worker cooperatives of more than 1000 people are rare birds.

You're applying pointless capitalist metrics to non-capitalist organizations and moralizing about how they don't live up to them.

> No one in the former socialist bloc will experiment with that quagmire again.

You're experimenting with socialist policies and values right now, you just don't want to call it by that name because of your weird fixation. Do public healthcare, transport, education, social security benefits ring any bells?

If you talked to people from ex-Yugoslavia, you'd know that many would be happy to return to that time.

> We should stop trying to ride dead horses.

We should stop declaring horses extinct when it's just your own horse that has died.
by solaire_oa | 2026-02-18 16:20:55+00:00
Music? Can we even call it that? Sounds created by LLMs are one big If By Whiskey Speech.

If by music you mean sounds that fill the silence, pad videos with unearned pathos, fill elevators to prevent strangers from feeling awkward or talking, or create the only relatable aspect of cell phone and insurance commercials....

But if by music you mean the desire to communicate emotions, to share experiences, to feel, and to impress artistry impressively, to cathart together....

I guess it's not exactly the same as the original Speech, since my disposition is pretty clear here, but still.
by subscribed | 2026-02-18 16:20:56+00:00
Sadly it only seem to send a single, quickly expiring validation email, and if it expires (life gets in the way!) there's no way to get a resend, so the account can't get confirmed :)

(what's the name purpose of mandating the use of emails BTW? There's nearly infinite supply of email addresses, so it's not stopping anyone from getting a second one)
by taeric | 2026-02-18 16:21:05+00:00
I had assumed the ridiculous pivot to protein was more a capitulation to the current admin. If it really is a reaction to Ozempic and peers, that feels far better?

I also confess I think the larger drinks and growing size of meals is the main culprit that makes fast food bad. Especially if eaten while driving. Take an extra 5 minutes to eat the same food and I find I'm likely as not to leave some.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-18 16:21:05+00:00
Since you're emphasizing the ALL, I am obligated to nitpick that it is not all. The source article says that, but it's wrong; the underlying link clarifies that it's 79% of sex trafficking which occurs on social media. As has been discussed downthread, a social media platform with large marketshare is always going to have a large percentage of every bad thing that can happen on social media.
by benterix | 2026-02-18 16:21:09+00:00
> All the vendors paraphrase user data, then use the paraphrased data for training. This is what their terms of service say.

It depends. E.g. OpenAI says: "By default, we do not train on any inputs or outputs from our products for business users, including ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, and the API."[0]

[0] https://openai.com/policies/how-your-data-is-used-to-improve...
Show HN: Polyoracle – Polymarket signal monitor with KL-divergence scoring
by y_rewired | 2026-02-18 16:21:42+00:00
I built a lightweight Go service that watches Polymarket prediction markets and pushes Telegram alerts when probability shifts are worth paying attention to.
The core is a four-factor composite score: KL(p_new ∥ p_old) × log_volume_weight × historical_SNR × trajectory_consistency. KL divergence captures asymmetric probability moves well (a shift from 5%→10% is much louder than 50%→55% at the same absolute delta), but it blows up near the tails, so markets below a configurable min_base_prob are filtered out before scoring. The detection window is rolling across multiple polling intervals to reduce false positives from transient noise.
Per-cycle flow: fetch events from Polymarket’s Gamma + CLOB APIs → snapshot probabilities to disk → score changes → deduplicate against recent notifications → deliver top-K groups to Telegram.
Configurable sensitivity, categories, volume thresholds, and cooldown deduplication. Docker + systemd deployment included.
GitHub: https://github.com/rewired-gh/polyoracle
I ported Luanti (Minetest) to WASM for a browser-based, FOSS P2P game night
by kaesual | 2026-02-18 16:21:51+00:00
I compiled the Luanti voxel engine to WebAssembly using Emscripten. It supports peer-to-peer gaming through a proxy and runs fully in the browser (except Safari). Tonight at 8pm german time, I'm stress-testing it with a "Game Night" event using VoxeLibre.

No installs required. Fully open-source stack.

Try it here: https://kaesual.com
Event context: https://app.cg/c/commongames/event/~vj63PMuXiafF7f175URuX2/ (event), and https://www.youtube.com/@CommonGroundGamingAlliance (stream at 8:15pm)
by generic92034 | 2026-02-18 16:22:08+00:00
> So yes - in a reasonably functioning capitalist market (which the U.S still is in my eyes) I expect gross inefficiencies to not be prevalent.

I am not sure that is true, though. Assume for a moment that Google would waste 50% of their profits. Truly, a huge inefficiency. However, would that make it likely some other corp could take their search/ad market share from them? I doubt it, given the abyss of a moat.
Show HN: Axon – Agentic AI with mandatory user approval and audit logging
by NeuroVexon | 2026-02-18 16:22:16+00:00
Hey HN,

I built AXON because I wanted AI agents that can actually do things — but with real security controls.

Every tool call (file ops, web search, shell commands, email, code execution) requires explicit user approval before execution. Parameters and risk level are shown, you approve or deny. Everything is logged.

Key features:
- Multi-agent system (different roles, models, permissions per agent)
- Multi-LLM: Ollama (fully local), Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter
- 100% on-premise, no cloud needed, GDPR-compliant
- Docker-based code sandbox with network isolation
- MCP server (works as tool provider for Claude Desktop, Cursor)
- Encrypted API key storage (Fernet)

Stack: Python 3.11+, FastAPI, React 18, TypeScript, Docker

Apache 2.0 license. Made in Germany.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or security model.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-18 16:23:27+00:00
> The big question then is, why are ARM desktop (and server?) cores so far behind on wider SIMD support?

Very wide SIMD instructions require a lot of die space and a lot of power.

The AVX-512 implementation in Intel's Knight's Landing took up 40% of the die area (Source https://chipsandcheese.com/p/knights-landing-atom-with-avx-5... which is an excellent site for architectural analysis)

Most ARM desktop/mobile parts are designed to be low power and low cost. Spending valuable die space on large logic blocks for instructions that are rarely used isn't a good tradeoff for consumer apps.

Most ARM server parts are designed to have very high core counts, which requires small individual die sizes. Adding very wide SIMD support would grow die space of individual cores a lot and reduce the number that could go into a single package.

Supporting 256-bit or 512-bit instructions would be hard to do without interfering with the other design goals for those parts.

Even Intel has started dropping support for the wider AVX instructions in their smaller efficiency cores as a tradeoff to fit more of them into the same chip. For many workloads this is actually a good tradeoff. As this article mentions, many common use cases of high throughput SIMD code are just moving to GPUs anyway.
by EdNutting | 2026-02-18 16:23:29+00:00
It varies a lot by company and by role.

Most jobs in the architecture/modelling/design/verification roles are basically like software roles (in terms of working patterns / work environment). So, fully remote, hybrid and fully on-site are all possibilities. Hybrid (1-3 days per week in-office) is probably the most common arrangement I've come across in the UK.

If you're moving into stuff like physical design then you start to get involved in chip bring-up, in which case you need to be in a lab which you're unlikely to be able to build at home. That's when on-site starts to become a requirement.
WhatsApp Invoice Bot
by ayoolafelix | 2026-02-18 16:23:40+00:00
1. Overview
InChat Invoice is a WhatsApp bot that enables two users to create, send, confirm, and track invoices directly inside a WhatsApp chat.
The bot reduces friction in informal commerce (freelancers, small vendors, service providers, peer-to-peer transactions) by eliminating the need to switch to separate invoicing apps.
Users can generate structured invoices through natural language or command-based prompts, and the bot formats and delivers them instantly within the chat.

2. Problem Statement
Millions of transactions happen over WhatsApp daily, especially in markets like Nigeria, India, Brazil, and Southeast Asia.
Current pain points:
Invoices are sent as screenshots or PDFs from external apps.
No structured format.
No automated payment tracking.
No simple way to confirm payment inside chat.
No lightweight solution for informal businesses.
There is no native WhatsApp invoicing feature for peer-to-peer use.

3. Goals & Objectives
Primary Goals
Enable invoice creation inside WhatsApp
Deliver structured, professional invoice messages
Track invoice status (Sent, Viewed, Paid, Overdue)
Minimize friction (≤ 60 seconds to generate invoice)
Secondary Goals
Enable payment confirmation
Export invoice as PDF
Provide payment link support (Paystack, Flutterwave, Stripe)
Non-Goals (v1)
Full accounting system
Tax filing automation
Inventory management
Multi-user ERP features
by bubblewand | 2026-02-18 16:24:48+00:00
I think you’ve misunderstood what I’ve written here. Graeber’s book might make it clearer for you, he probably did a better job of explaining it than I do. It’s about spendy Red Queen’s races, not just trying to make something better or trying to compete in general. The application of the idea to military spending is pretty much standard and uncontroversial stuff (hell, it was 100-plus years ago) while his observation of a similar effect in some notable component of ad spending is novel (at least, I’d not seen that connection made before).
by abc123abc123 | 2026-02-18 16:24:49+00:00
I'm older than the trees, but, younger than the mountains! Email all day, all the way. Young people are very fascinated and impressed by how much more I can achieve, faster, with email, compared with their chats, web 3.0 web interfaces, and other crap.

Yes, it takes time to learn, but that is true for anything worthwhile.
by taeric | 2026-02-18 16:25:03+00:00
The difference here will almost certainly come down to how you release your work? For product based teams that have a very specific place to plant the tag of what was released, development branches reflect their ability to know exactly what has been shipped to customers.

And this is more than just knowing the exact commit. Which, fair, that that is all that you truly need.

Having it on a branch, though, reflects that hot fixes and similar can still be applied, and though the tag will remain at what was released, the branch will be what it currently looks like.
by kiriakosv | 2026-02-18 16:25:35+00:00
This worldview has, IMO, one omission. It implicitly assumes that everything will stay the same except for LLMs getting better and better, but in reality there are many interconnected factors in play.

Will it fundamentally change or eliminate some jobs? I think yes.

But at the same time, no one knows how this will play out in the long run. We certainly shouldn't extrapolate what will happen in the job market or society by treating AI performance as an independent variable.
by seabrookmx | 2026-02-18 16:25:37+00:00
You can "chain" them and there's some native support for this in Gitlab, but I can't say I've ever tried using it. If I really need a feature branch, I just create a separate branch and target my MR's to that until the whole thing is ready to land in main. Again, it seems less natural to me than how Gerrit does it.
by lonelyasacloud | 2026-02-18 16:25:59+00:00
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google et. al. have EULAs and the best lawyers money can buy ready to argue that any damage done by publicly releasing bad or malicious code produced or reviewed with their systems is the developers responsibility for not checking properly.

> I trust their ability to catch edge cases and typos more than me.

Given the vendors EULAs etc, if poop really hits the fan with released code, then how is that likely to sound if the lawyers get involved?

> Are people still reading PRs in detail manually?

Ultimately it all depends on circumstance and appetite for risk, but yes many/most places still manually checking releases.
by wredcoll | 2026-02-18 16:26:46+00:00
I don't want "a terminal", I want a command based interface combined with being able to use the same set of tools/commands on all the files I interact with.

Like, it gets taken for granted, but being able to literally grep my html file, my program source and my readme file, instead of having to open a separate gui program and using its bespoke seach menu feature, is really, really nice.

There are downsides of course, like the way we keep jamming everything into the square hole that is 1980s terminal emulators and character based displays, but frequently this is worth it.
by DiggyJohnson | 2026-02-18 16:26:54+00:00
Are you being serious? Because it’s cost prohibitive to the university and undermines the ability for educators to evaluate student performance.

Imagine being the TA that has to proctor an examination that takes an indefinite amount of time.

I understand your sentiment but it seems like you’re avoiding the harsh reality of things. And these things are not that “harsh” in the grand scheme of things.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-18 16:27:09+00:00
> I recommend you actually go out in the real world and embrace your community.

My neighborhood has a civic association which I am a part of. Additionally, I know dozens of my neighbors across the entire neighborhood on a first-name basis. I know all of my neighbors on my street, and have their contact information. I reach out to them on holidays. I discuss politics openly and loudly. Many of my neighbors are conservative, but we at least often agree on things that benefit the community.

I have attempted political community organization over small issues as a start, but I currently am learning how to engage in larger-scale unification and mobilization tactics, while continuing to ingratiate myself in the neighborhood; which by the way, is increasingly owned by a small group of conservative landlords who snipe any open house on the market worth a damn and rent it back out to young people who pay off their mortgages for them.

I do not belong to a political party, there is no local chapter. There is also no unified countercultural scene here. There are a few third spaces spread across a very sprawling city, a city architecturally designed to create class division and minimize inter-class and intra-class unification.

You have to come here to see it. It is bad. Anyone who can, leaves. And it's not a backwater town, I live in the capital city. I myself left nearly a decade ago, but returned in order to help my sister get back on her feet. I plan to leave again, because this city is dying and the local government holds it hostage.

We are currently in the midst of organizing a recall against our current mayor, who is trying once again to sneak past legislation that our city came together to vote against merely months ago. And don't get me started on our governor, Trump's wannabe lapdog. This is the most corrupt state in the US by a long shot. It has the highest prisoner per capita of any state or country in the world. We are talking about generations and generations of corruption, brainwashing and power division. Extremely powerful corporate interests, much like Texas.

Your advice is sound but I think it unintentionally came with some unvalidated assumptions about what kind of person I am and what environment I'm currently beset against.
by yoavm | 2026-02-18 16:27:33+00:00
I'm sorry if it sounded like I was being dismissive. FWIW, people suggested that I'll add some information to the README and even implement some kind of a "country-check" to warn the user, and I think these are all great ideas. I still don't think that auditing AA torrent files make much sense however.

As my first comment mentioned, the project is WIP. I posted it here because it seemed relevant, but if you're looking for bugs, I'm sure you'll find them both in the code and in the README. I assumed that people realise that a combination of torrenting + AA requires some precautions, but if your point is that I can make it clearer - I don't disagree.
by reddalo | 2026-02-18 16:27:40+00:00
I'm in Italy. Most people I know have been pirating movies, series and games [1] for 20+ years, via torrents and eMule (yes, eMule is still big in Italy), and nobody ever received any letters.

But there's a big exception: as soon as you start pirating soccer, they're going to come after you.

[1] I've personally stopped pirating games a long time ago, because it's just easier and safer to buy them on Steam or GOG. Gaben was 100% right when he said "Piracy is almost always a service problem".
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-18 16:27:43+00:00
People are allowed to make niche websites. We can disaggregate. It's probably better for the web if we did disaggregate given how many of the aggregators such as Wikia and Reddit and more have shown the tragedy of the commons that an aggregator over-specialize in being ad companies (or other questionable business models) over the long term rather than directly continuing to benefit the communities that trusted them as hosts in the first place, and often to the detriment and diaspora of those vary communities as they lose trust piecemeal and have fewer chances to "lift and shift" the entire community as a whole out of the aggregator in the same semi-easy manner they were aggregated in the first place.

The "social clout" advantage the giant aggregators have gained they are often working to lose a few communities at a time. Building a niche community site outside of the aggregators isn't competing with them in the same way any longer.

Maybe it is a time for building smaller niche sites again?
by bglazer | 2026-02-18 16:27:47+00:00
> a certain age range your eyes determine they've grown to the correct size based on how well they focus

A certain age -> which one? Why?

your eyes determine -> How? What molecular growth signaling pathways are involved? How do they integrate with your brain's visual processing centers and how does that relate to "how well [your eyes] focus". Is there a biomechanical signal from muscle stress or eye curvature?

How would you test this? You'd have to change this process somehow to show that the effect is real, but you obviously can't do that with humans, so you'd probably have to use mice, but their eyes are different, but how so?

Without any of this information, it's a nice "just-so" story about cavemen looking at the horizon, but not much more than that.
by dostick | 2026-02-18 16:28:09+00:00
Okay but what about scammers, they don’t drive engagement. Why leave them be untouched. I report scammer who pretends to be e.musk with name e.musk and sent me fake musk’s passport in chat, asking to invest- what more of impersonation scam could that be. Meta’s response - we reviewed and took appropriate steps. Yet scammer guy still untouched chatting with me weeks later.
by NeuroVexon | 2026-02-18 16:28:23+00:00
Hey HN,

I built AXON because I wanted AI agents that can actually do things — but with real security controls.

Every tool call (file ops, web search, shell commands, email, code execution) requires explicit user approval before execution. Parameters and risk level are shown, you approve or deny. Everything is logged.

Key features:
- Multi-agent system (different roles, models, permissions per agent)
- Multi-LLM: Ollama (fully local), Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter
- 100% on-premise, no cloud needed, GDPR-compliant
- Docker-based code sandbox with network isolation
- MCP server (works as tool provider for Claude Desktop, Cursor)
- Encrypted API key storage (Fernet)

Stack: Python 3.11+, FastAPI, React 18, TypeScript, Docker

Apache 2.0 license. Made in Germany.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or security model.
by sagebird | 2026-02-18 16:28:26+00:00
I built a browser-native Unix environment - shell, filesystem, git, npm, node, vi, 200+ commands. Everything is JavaScript running client-side with IndexedDB for persistence. The whole thing builds to a single static HTML file (~420 KB gzipped).

Try it: https://shiro.computer

For interactive demos showing npm install, node execution, and git workflows -- running live in Shiro, not recordings -- see https://shiro.computer/show

Source: https://github.com/williamsharkey/shiro

P.S. `curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash` works. You can run real Claude Code and it can use Shiro's tools like a normal Linux system.