MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DannyBee | 2026-02-11 13:24:15+00:00
It's also rarely worth being optimal in scalar code anymore, particularly at compilation speed cost. The exception here is memory accesses and branches that will miss. So the writing of useless zeros is egregious but other stuff just isn't usually worth caring about these days. It's "good enough" in an age where even in embedded land I can run a 48mhz cortex m0 for 10 years on a battery and not worry about a few extra ANDS. I'm much more likely to hit size than speed limitations.

Not to mention for anything not super battery limited you can get a m55 running at 800mhz with a separate 1ghz npu, hardware video encoders, etc.

This is before you move into the rockchip/etc space.

We really just aren't scalar compute limited in tons of places these days. There are certainly places but 10-15 years ago missing little scalar optimizations could make very noticeable differences in the performance of lots of apps and now it just doesn't anymore
by nottorp | 2026-02-11 13:24:30+00:00
> I think the lack of "global" identities has dramatically hampered community migration and evolution.

Do you know what that sounds like? The "feature" that lets some credit card subscriptions follow you across credit cards although you'd like to get rid of them thank you very much.

I don't want a global identity for all communities I'm part of. Joe from the bait and tackle group (i don't fish, is that a plausible fishing group name?) has no business knowing what games I play unless I personally tell him.

Moreover, that nice store that gave the bait and tackle group a 10% discount has ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS chasing me in MMO #245768.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-11 13:24:52+00:00
In principle I agree with you, there is just so much crap online that it's tempting to just add this one more extension to fix something.

Looking at my own installed extensions, I have a password manager, Privacy Badger and Firefox Multi-Account Containers, which I suppose is the three I really need. Then I have one that puts the RSS icon back in the address bar, because Mozilla feels that RSS is less important than having the address bar show me special dates, and two that removes very specific things: One for cookie popups and one for removing sign in with Google.

The only one of these I feel should actually be a plugin is my password manager. Privacy management (including cookies), RSS and containers could just be baked into Firefox. All of those seems more relevant to me than AI.

Maybe adding a GreaseMonkey lite could fix the rest of my problem, using code I write and control.
by trashb | 2026-02-11 13:25:21+00:00
> censorship, the suppression or removal of writing, artistic work, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security

It is not the responsibility of the Tier 1 or the ISP to configure your server securely, it is their responsibility to deliver the message. Therefore it is an overreach to block it because you might be insecure. What is next. They block the traffic to your website because you run PHP?

Similar to how the mailman is obligated to deliver your letter at address 13 even though he personally might be very superstitious and believe by delivering the mail to that address bad things will happen.
by afandian | 2026-02-11 13:26:24+00:00
It was ASUS GeForce GT710-SL-2GD5 . I see some sources putting at at 2014. That's not _recent_ recent, but it's within the service life I'd expect.

(Finger in the air, I'd expect an editor to work on 20 year old hardware.)

Sold it ages ago. New one (Intel) works fine.

I was running Ubuntu. I forget which version.
Show HN: AccountabiliBuddy – I need someone to take my money when I skip the gym
by rukd | 2026-02-11 13:26:32+00:00
Quick background: Long time lurker, first time poster. I've never coded a mobile app before. I saw Replit came out with this feature that lets you submit straight to the App Store and figured I'd give it a shot. Built the whole thing over a couple of days in Replit and Expo.

The idea sprung up because I only actually go to the gym consistently when there's a real person who will judge me if I don't show up. Alone I'm basically a motivational poster that never moves.

So I made an app that forces me to have that person and makes skipping expensive.

It's basically loss aversion plus social pressure (which works way better than reminders for me) and I kept it super private: no tracking, no storing your selfies or videos, everything stays between you and your friend.

How it works:

- You and a friend agree on a weekly workout goal (3–6 sessions) and a stake amount ($25–$100)

- Share a unique code to connect the pact

- During the week, either of you can snap a gym selfie and send it through the app to the other person

- The other person confirms (simple yes/no) that the workout happened

- At the end of the week, if you didn't hit the agreed target you owe the stake (paid directly to your friend via Venmo/Cash App/whatever)

- Optional punishment: instead of paying, post an embarrassing video you both agreed on (stays local, never uploaded)

The app tracks the streak and weekly progress. It never touches money, never stores photos or videos, and has no logins or accounts.

Live on the App Store (iOS only): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/accountabilibuddy-no-excuses/i...

I realize making it was probably a waste of time but definitely was fun so no regrets. Also biggest bonus is I finally have something half-decent to share on HN!

On that note, if anyone actually tries it I'd love to hear what you think! Feedback, roast, improvements, all is welcomed!
by kingstnap | 2026-02-11 13:26:54+00:00
A chatbot is exactly and only a short term recombination of existing ideas is exactly my point.

Even if an LLM came up with a theory of quantum gravity in some random chain of thought via chance, once the context is wiped everything is gone.

Expanding the frontier of knowledge (true extrapolation) requires iteration and layering of sinpler ideas. If you loose the layers and have to start from scratch every time then you fundamently will never move further out then what you already know (the interpolation).
by exfalso | 2026-02-11 13:27:03+00:00
Interesting. I've had it fail on much simpler tasks.

Example: was writing a flatbuffers routine which translated a simple type schema to fbs reflection schema. I was thinking well this is quite simple, surely Opus would have no trouble with it.

Output looked reasonable, compiled.. and was completely wrong. It seemed to just output random but reasonable looking indices and offsets. It also inserted in one part of the code a literal TODO saying "someone who understands fbs reflection should write this". Had to write it from scratch.

Another example: was writing a fuzzer for testing a certain computation. In this case, there was existing code to look at (working fuzzers for slighly different use cases), but the main logic had to be somewhat different. Opus managed to do the copy paste and then messed up the only part where it had to be a bit more creative. Again, showing the limitation of where it starts breaking. Overall I actually considered this a success, because I didn't have to deal with the "boring" bit.

Another example: colleague was using Claude to write a feature that output some error information from an otherwise completely encrypted computation. Claude proceeded to insert a global backdoor into the encryption, only caught in review. The inserted comments even explained the backdoor.

I would describe a success story if there was one. But aside from throwing together simple react frontends and SQL queries (highly copy-pasteable recurring patterns in the training set) I had literally zero success. There is an invisible ceiling.
by lurking_swe | 2026-02-11 13:27:31+00:00
i don’t have kids (yet) but this sounds like a social problem, not a technology problem. You literally need to have parents in a community work together to COLLECTIVELY decide what’s best for their children.

A simple technical “ban” is dumb because it’s trivial to bypass, and doesn’t actually solve the problem. Kids are not stupid, they will happily find workarounds.

For example schools could facilitate this. Don’t allow smartphones on school property until children are in high school - only dumb phones allowed. Schools can educate parents early and heavily encourage a no social media policy at home. The only reason kids want to use social media because all the other kids are using it.
by omgJustTest | 2026-02-11 13:28:51+00:00
Knowing the restriction goes to 18k certainly says that either S-A or A-S reach must be limited but the as your post points out no buffer between MANPAD actual range and the limit imposed. I think unlikely to say MANPAD, specifically.

There's a small private airfield to the west with only a single victor airway connecting to el-paso. the victors end at 17999 ft, effectively cutting traffic for non-commercial or non-business jet operators.

Closure of the victor airway there seems, again limiting airborne craft due to airborne hazards.

Hazards in the air, near the surface that are, seemingly, unplanned with a cone pointing at mexico.

That's kind of the most anyone will get until more info, could be some urgent testing of some capability or response to small craft (drones) coming over the boarder. Emergency timing could be to garner interest or emphasize importance, which works well politically.

Las Cruces International Airport and Dana Jetport are unaffected.
by mtlynch | 2026-02-11 13:28:55+00:00
Thanks for reading!

> Q for OP: looking back at your 8 posts, I don't see you ever reflecting on loneliness (or lack thereof) as part of your founder journey. Yet both founder friends and anecdotes always emphasize this as a big weight.

Honestly, it hasn't been a problem for me.

I'm atypical in that I enjoy solitude more than the average person. I had a mild illness once when I was living in NYC so I stayed home from work and had groceries delivered, and when I went outside again, I realized it had been a week since I'd seen another person, and I hadn't noticed until then.

I do like working with a dev team, but I don't necessarily need to be in person to do that. I enjoyed working with other remote devs for TinyPilot and getting to teach and learn from them.

I host an indie founders meetup in my area every other month. That's been a fun way to meet other founders and swap ideas.
by TheAlchemist | 2026-02-11 13:29:24+00:00
Is that surprising ? The merger doesn't make any sense at all. Everybody knows it's a bailout and Musk's empire is running out of money - it's almost the last attempt to save it. He still has 2 more jokers left - SpaceX IPO or merge SpaceX with Tesla. But the writing is already on the wall.
by FpUser | 2026-02-11 13:29:31+00:00
The software calculates a whole bunch of parameters based again on whole bunch of input variables, The logic looks like if A is 1 and B is 2 then make X = Z + 0.5xB - Y but if B is from 3 to 6 then here comes some other formula. So if we we call bunch of these a Package then there are literally hundreds of such packages and some people are doing nothing but adjusting those for some specific cases and customers. So my backend is busy constantly executing those requests and no I can not cache the values for whatever reason. Currently the formulas are encoded as arrays of in memory structures and backend goes through those and executes. The performance is ok but can be increased more than 10 fold if replaced with the native code. More than that people who write the initial riles can easily comprehend what they write but have mental problems with the visual editor that creates rules as the intermediate representation.
by Maken | 2026-02-11 13:29:46+00:00
The transition will be probably smooth and transparent for business and consumers. Banks are already deploying payment terminal able to handle both Bizum and VISA/Mastercard [1]. Since banks own these terminals, they can decide how fast they want Bizum adoption to spread. Business don't even need to opt-in into it. At some point they can simply start charging for credit/debit cards and people will naturally switch to Bizum.

[1] https://www.bbva.com/es/es/empresas/bbva-primer-banco-en-esp...
by aero9188 | 2026-02-11 13:30:17+00:00
That's because the "independent thinker" route (Steve Jobs' route) is going to look different for everyone by definition. Whereas you can look out onto the "yellow brick road" anytime and see who is on it.

Ambition and independent thinking are pretty much orthogonal. Cultivating boatloads of both is rare, but can allow for great moonshots.
by ben_w | 2026-02-11 13:30:53+00:00
Yes, as per Wikipedia that happens much closer to us, at redshift 1.5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter_distance

(Note: the reason to measure in red shift rather than light years is that when this comes up it suddenly gets very important to be very careful about what exactly you even mean by "how far away is that thing?")
by cess11 | 2026-02-11 13:31:11+00:00
Regarding 5, the colder it is, the quicker the snow will settle and become hard to shovel by hand. Not like when it thaws and refreezes, but if it is -25 C you'll want to move most of it while it is falling or shortly after. It is likely the snow particles are very small and it will become very dense if allowed to sit for a while.

Regarding 6, you can't shovel snow fast. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Don't use a regular shovel, there are sled-like contraptions that allow you to push the snow around on the ground and that will allow you to bring it further with less effort. Dress appropriately, you don't want to become too sweaty and you are going to figure out an equilibrium where your heat and sweat production stabilises your temperature, or you're going to have to take breaks and on average get less done per unit time.

Regarding 9, if you don't have an axe, get one. In harsh conditions tools are what keep you alive and things like axes and knives are part of the basic equipment you need to have and take good care of. You do not split the wood indoors, do not bring it indoors unless it is split in small enough parts that lighting it will be easy.

Also, you should really avoid using wood that hasn't had good shelter up until time of use. Moist wood will add a lot of soot to your chimney and you are likely not able to clear it yourself, meaning that you run the risk of a chimney fire.
by lapcat | 2026-02-11 13:31:37+00:00
I didn't claim that it's implausible. I asked a question.

On the other hand, it's not that implausible either that someone might be running Google Chrome, Windows, Mac, etc. We know that many HN commenters do. Thus, while the OP may be 100% consistent, "I only run open source extensions that I can actually audit" would not be a consistent principle for those who also use closed source software.
by akdev1l | 2026-02-11 13:31:50+00:00
Before there was some understanding that at least they wrote and understood their own garbage code

Now it is not true. Someone can spend a few minutes generating a non-sense change and push for review. I will have to spend a non-trivial amount of time to even know it’s non-sense.

This problem is already impacting projects like curl who just recently closed their bug bounty because of low-effort AI generated PRs
by patrick4urcloud | 2026-02-11 13:33:10+00:00
I use Claude Code all day and got tired of watching it eat tokens on noisy CLI output. git status on a big repo, find across a project, cargo test with 200 lines of compilation — none of that noise is useful to the model.

So I built RTK. It wraps commands and strips the junk before it reaches your context:
rtk git status # instead of git status
rtk find "*.rs" . # compact results
rtk ls . # token-optimized tree
rtk cargo test # just the test results

My rtk gain -q after 15 days of real usage:
Total commands: 7,061
Input tokens: 29.3M
Output tokens: 4.8M
Tokens saved: 24.6M (83.7%)

Biggest surprise was rtk find — directory listings are insanely wasteful. Run rtk discover on your Claude Code session history to see how many tokens you've been wasting — that's what convinced me to actually build this.
Rust, MIT licensed. Happy to hear what commands are the worst token offenders for you.

https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
by throw_a_grenade | 2026-02-11 13:33:25+00:00
> [...] it has critical economic impact on many countries, it should be regulated by them?

This was exactly the point of recent (2024) eIDAS update, which introduced EU Trusted Lists. The original draft was that the browsers were mandated to accept X.509 certs from CAs („TSP”s) accredited in EU by national bodies. Browsers were supposed not to be free to just eject CAs from their root programs for any reason or no reason at all, but in case of infractions they were supposed to report to CAB or NAB that would make the final decision.

Browesers responded by lobbying, because the proposal also contained some questionable stuff like mandatory EV UI, which the browsers rightfully deprecated, and also it wasn't clear if they can use OneCRL and similar alternative revocation schemes for mitigations of ongoing attacks. The language was diluted.
by acjohnson55 | 2026-02-11 13:33:39+00:00
If a company lets faulty code get to production, that's an issue no matter how it is produced. Agentic coding can produce code at much higher volumes, but I think we're still in the early days of figuring out how to scale quality and the other nonfunctional requirements. (I do believe that we're literally talking about days, though, when it comes to some facets of some of these problems.)

But there's nothing inherent about agentic coding to lead to slop outcomes. If you're steering it as a human, you can tweak the output, by hand or agentically, until it matches your expectations. It's not currently a silver bullet.

That said, my experience is that the compressing of the research, initial draft process, and revision--all which used to be the bulk of my job--is radical.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-11 13:34:07+00:00
Of course, the US elected the only celebrity of the 80s and 90s who hates blow.

On the other hand a careful analysis of the plumbing system of Trump's Tower and Trump's Hotels in general would reveal possibly the highest concentration of coke than any other building in the world considering the intersection of wealth and istrionic personalities who called those apartments home at one time or the other.

Fate sure loves irony

Besides I would go to my grave claiming that racism is particularly strong in the war on drugs, if coca grew plentiful and naturally in the US and Europe it would not be illegal at all.

But it's scary because uh ohh inssulfation of an extract of a plant coming from the global south we are all gonna die, somebody will please think of the children.

But hey you can gulp 60 oz of super strong energy drinks which equate to about 5-6 fat lines
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 13:34:46+00:00
Exactly the same thing? Are you taunting me with some kind of ignorance? Again, you've introduced ambiguity and we can't tell if you are referring to a protocol, or a port.

https has the special property of working on any port and didn't need to switch to 443. You could run https servers on port 80. Both of them are considered "privileged".

Plenty of http and https servers alike on unprivileged ports too. Ports 80 and 443 were more about exclusivity and well-known assignments, than trust.

The unique thing about HTTP the protocol is that it came to be implemented by practically everything, as in REST and web apps. It's an Internet lingua franca.

TELNET protocol was severely neglected, which is why I was surprised that MUDs kept it alive!

To sibling: A MUD character is not a user. A user is a user who logs into user accounts, e.g. shells. You could read it as "a host providing a service" to someone, I suppose, but again, in longstanding practice, 23/tcp was reserved to telnetd and other management/shell logins, not some kind of generic "interactive NVT anything goes" service. "Remote terminal access" was understood universally as like a console, or tty, that would invariably present a shell login, not Zork or Colossal Cave!
by Kshamiyah | 2026-02-11 13:34:46+00:00
Yeah, I think Fabraix is doing something really important here.

Anthropic just showed us that the problem isn't what people think it is. They found that attackers don't try to hack the safety features head-on. Instead they just... ask the AI to do a bunch of separate things that sound totally normal. "Run a security scan." "Check the credentials." "Extract some data." Each request by itself is fine. But put them together and boom, you've hacked the system.

The issue is safety systems only look at one request at a time. They miss what's actually happening because they're not watching the pattern. You can block 95% of obvious jailbreaks and still get totally compromised.

So yeah, publishing the exploits every week is actually smart. It forces companies to stop pretending their guardrails are good enough and actually do something about it.
by alt227 | 2026-02-11 13:34:59+00:00
If you have a bespoke busines that needs some very custom software to run it, you will want a team to build it for you and provide extensive support for it.

I work in manufacturing industries where software for a single factory is completely custom written to their workflow and custom built machines, and they have dedicated teams of engineers on site 24 hours a day to monitor and maintain it. When it comes to large manufacturing factories, minutes of downtime equals millions in lost sales.

I guarantee you these types of companies will not be running software created by ai anytime soon, if ever at all.
by ramses0 | 2026-02-11 13:35:00+00:00
148 Home Assistant (bridged) accessories checking in... sign me up for the beta!

On the accessory count, call it a 2-story house, ~5 rooms per floor, plus an outdoor zone:

2x thermostat, 2x speakers (HomePod), 2x door, garage door, 2 lamps per room, pool "accessories" (filter, cleaner, heater, lights), 2x outdoor lights... that's 27 just off the bat!

Now adding Home Assistant and you start getting 2x Zigbee interior door sensors (privacy locks/detection for when we have a babysitter), 2x interior motion sensors (upstairs/downstairs stairwell), patio string lights, front throw/spot lights, 3x decorator bulbs for the hanging entrance lamp (bridges three bulbs as one since they're individually controllable bulbs instead of a smart fixture or switch), an AirPlay compatible TV, fridge and freezer temp/humidity sensors, the outdoor AirPlay speaker, outdoor gate open/close sensors (front and back), outdoor motion sensor...

...and then the random other "every HomePod technically has an in-built temp and humidity sensor", the Home Assistant integration for the router that reads the packets in/out, the printer thing that reads the ink status for all the ink cartridges, etc.

It's a lot, but start with a single reading lamp and night light per room. Make a "lights" and "mood" scene per room/floor. A few key motion/door sensors (turn on a downstairs mood light when opening the door after sunset, turn on the hallway mood light when motion is detected after 9pm, etc).
by vrn21 | 2026-02-11 13:35:27+00:00
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