MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chii | 2026-02-11 04:41:07+00:00
> which is effectively its cost of content.

only if that video generated sufficient revenue to pay out - which is quite a high bar. But the long tail of content is what draws people onto youtube as a platform - so youtube derive a benefit from this long tail content that they do not pay for.

However, the long tail for netflix won't have this advantage at all (because even niche shows with low audience will cost money to produce).

Not to mention that netflix has to pay upfront for their content. Where as youtube only pays _after_ the content has had ads displayed that generated revenue.
by ryanackley | 2026-02-11 04:41:43+00:00
How far can Claude can take this beyond a cool demo.

Does it become exponentially harder to add the missing features or can you add everything else you need in another two days? I'm guessing the former but would be interested to see what happens.

Are you going to continue trying? I ask because it's only been two days and you're already on Show HN. It seems like if you waited for it to be more complete, it would have been more impressive.
by cosmicgadget | 2026-02-11 04:41:47+00:00
> In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine. Instead, it said the FDA took issue with the “comparator” in its clinical trial — the vaccine the company used as a benchmark to evaluate its own shot.

> The FDA said the use of the standard flu shot as a comparator “does not reflect the best-available standard of care.”

Are they implying that a placebo should be the comparator?
by roskelld | 2026-02-11 04:42:27+00:00
I would have loved seeing this as a kid. I was obsessed with wanting to build a pinball machine when I was young. At the time my skills only stretched as far as cardboard builds with elastic band bumpers and pencils for flippers, but I got a huge kick out of making different layouts for the balls to travel around.

It would be great to see some home made efforts now with so many amazing off the shelf bits of tech and 3D printers.

The site is also a nice compliment to the Technology Connections series on old pinball machines [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg
by Quarrel | 2026-02-11 04:42:45+00:00
For a lot of the early years, it lost a lot of money. Providing the bandwidth, getting distribution closer to the ISPs etc was a major investment. Lots of dark fiber.

A bit like Google Maps though, a great visionary early investment that they then poured a lot of $ into to make them what they are today. No one else was just providing free satellite imagery for the entire world back then, not even Google Maps.

The investments to support these two products at least, have been really important in helping Google maintain its hold in other places too.

Lots of people still whinge about youtube, but standing up a solid competitor would take too many $ for anyone but other big tech now.
by aaravchen | 2026-02-11 04:43:48+00:00
One statement is not related to the other here.

Getting and maintaining an active phone number privately is indeed quite hard, partially by governmental design.

Signal only requires occasional/rare proof of control of the registered phone number. It also has very little visible data the provider can access on your account, even if they had a reason to assist in breaking your privacy by look it up from the phone number. Without Signal foundation direct support, the phone number linkage to your Signal account is completely opt in by you only.

So in terms of privacy, Signal is actually very good about the phone number and leaves it mostly to you how public you want to be about it.
They're primarily using it as a finite controlled resource to limit how easy it is for people to spin up arbitrary new accounts. Other projects might use some cryptocurrency junk that effectively equates to paying for accounts, but Signal uses what you probably already have.
by Hazematman | 2026-02-11 04:43:50+00:00
I agree that they are a poor fit for a random user especially for debian install being not as intuitive but for supporting hardware I disagree.

I decided to try debian stable on my brand new gaming PC and it worked fine out of the box. Combine with steam flatpak for gaming and I have less issues than my friends who game on Arch.

I agree though that Fedora is probably a good general recommendation.
by jopsen | 2026-02-11 04:44:01+00:00
> what is the best 'huge AI bust' trade?

There probably isn't one. Sure you can be bold and try to short something, but the market can be irrationel longer than you can stay solvent.

Also the big tech stocks are inflated. But they have been for years and unlike dotcom there is some tangible value behind them.

I think maybe the sane thing to do is reduce tech stocks exposure and go into index funds. But that's always the answer, so that's cheating :)
by mrtksn | 2026-02-11 04:46:35+00:00
Just like with FB’s purchase of Instagram. I remember people making fun of Zuckerberg for paying $1B for a “filter app than can be made in few hours”.

I think the magic wasn’t in those apps or websites but the traction they got and how that was preserved. Both FB and Google were very careful to preserve the origins when evolving.

I remember Google videos, it was very bad. If this wasn’t Google but Microsoft, they may have tried to integrate Youtube into their Video platform and destroy everything.

Being good custodian is just as important.
by sillyconwalle | 2026-02-11 04:47:01+00:00
Some Tom Dick and Harry to VCs: I have a proposal for you.

VCs: what is it

Tom Dick & Harry: AI

VCs: get the ** out of here, we already burnt enough money and will never see it back

Tom Dick & Harry: hear me out this is different

VCs: ok you have 5 minutes to explain me your product

Tom Dick & Harry: I dont have one

VCs: get the ** out of here

Tom Dick & Harry: hear me out

VCs: ok, you have 30 seconds to impress us.

Tom Dick & Harry: I just quit Microslop and still have high level contacts there

VCs: Hot damn!!! you are our lottery ticket to recoup all the money we have lost in other ventures. This is going to be a race against time, before your contacts go stale. Here's 60M for you, wine and dine your friends with it. On your way out you will find some AI generated product names and some vague product descriptions. Pick one and slap it on some website and announce our deal. Now get the ** out of here.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 04:47:40+00:00
Okay, it is really weird. This was not an exploit difficult to pull off, or discover. It is such an elementary error that any script kiddie could have leveraged it anywhere, once it was understood.

Is there proof or evidence that it was never exploited in all of 10 years and remained as a latent zero-day?

The only saving grace I would propose, is that since telnetd has been aggressively deprecated once ssh became popular, and encryption became ubiquitous, and remote exploits became commonplace, and Starbucks WiFi was routinely surveilled, that telnetd simply wasn't running anywhere, anymore.

We have commenters saying that embedded systems and IoT used telnet servers. But were they running an actual GNU telnetd or just a management interface that answered on port 23/tcp? Commenters are citing statistics of "open port 23", but that means nothing in terms of this CVE, if it ain't GNU telnetd. Cisco has literally always used port 23 for management. Other routers and network devices use port 23 without telnetd.

How popular was GNU telnetd to be running on a system and exposed to the Internet? This article pertains to all the port-scanners running everywhere, so surely someone with a Shodan account can make a survey and tell us: who was still exposing GNU telnetd in 2026?
by hirako2000 | 2026-02-11 04:48:14+00:00
I concede that's a drawback pushing us more dependent to owning and carrying a smart phone at all times. But I would say payments just piggy backs on a societal change that already makes it very challenging to opt for a brick phone or nothing.

Also to say, cash remains. That's more radical and effective as a fall back than a card which one can lose. When abroad I remember the anxiety of losing my wallet when abroad.
With a phone, it's actually less problematic to walk into a shop, get the cheapest android in there and set up all my banking on it. Half a day of a holiday wasted, that's an acceptable inconvenience given the risk. Losing a card, not really.
by colordrops | 2026-02-11 04:48:21+00:00
YouTube is close to losing that preservation. It's so slow and clunky to load in the desktop browser that I'm finding myself using it a lot less. It's absurd how heavy it is now.

UX is getting worse too, e.g. the save to list dialog closing after adding to a single list instead of allowing multiple to be selected. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take forever to open.
by maxglute | 2026-02-11 04:48:50+00:00
I've read the white papers, that's why I have figures of company headcounts during EUV development off top of head. No, it's not magic. Magic fun simile, but thinking it cannot be recreated on accelerated second mover timeline because EUV "magic" vs science is bluntly, popsci cringe. EUV / semi wasn't recognized as critical industry at the time / there wasn't current geostrategic consideration over leading edge chips / hyperscaling. Hence market settled on single vendor.

PRC barely focused on EUV until trade war. Entire PRC semi push was unserious until like 2018 when they elevated semi to first class discipline, and already there's got prototype out, again years head of estimates.

For difficulty - M/HREE. World also settled on PRC as functionally sole supplier for 5/6 signma purity minerals that PRC process has functionally 100% dominance in. Competitors at PRC EUV lab tech scale. That's just how market forces equalized sometimes before geopolitical disruption creates opening for new entrants.

Ultimately west see priority on REE, they're are allocating funds, they are also finding out one can't buy capability, and wanting something bad doesn't translate to getting it done. Political dysfunction is precisely relevant to the topic at hand, because political will determine what's possible at what speeds even when nation has the expertise and money.
by digitalPhonix | 2026-02-11 04:49:19+00:00
The CVE referenced is caused by this commit:

https://codeberg.org/inetutils/inetutils/commit/fa3245ac8c28...

One of the changes is:

- getterminaltype (char *user_name, size_t len)
+ getterminaltype (char *uname, size_t len)

What is the reason for a rename these days? If I saw that in a code review I’d immediately get annoyed (and probably pay more attention)
by majormajor | 2026-02-11 04:49:49+00:00
This seems like today's version of "I could write Facebook in a weekend."

What are the incentives for doing that? What are the incentives for everyone else to move?

So if proven things exist for basics, what's the incentive to not use them? If everyone decides they're too heavy, they could make and publish new libraries and tools would pick those up. And since they're old, the feature-set is probably more nuanced than you expect. YAGNI is a motto for doing less to avoid creating code debt, but writing more net new code to avoid using a stable and proven library doesn't fit that.
by energy123 | 2026-02-11 04:50:06+00:00
The "singularity" can be decomposed into 2 mutually-supportive feedback loops - the digital and the physical.

With frontier LLM agents, the digital loop is happening now to an extent (on inference code, harnesses, etc), and that extent probably grows larger (research automation) soon.

Pertinent to your point, however, is the physical feedback loop of robots making better robots/factories/compute/energy. This is an aspect of singularity scenarios like ai-2027.

In these scenarios, these robots will be the control mechanism that the digital uses to bootstrap itself faster, through experimentation and exploration. The usual constraints of physical law still apply, but it feels "unbounded" relative to normal human constraints and timescales.

A separate point: there's also deductive exploration (pure math) as distinct from empirical exploration (physics), which is not bounded by any physical constraints except for those that bound computation itself.
by jampa | 2026-02-11 04:50:40+00:00
Not sure if WhatsApp paid off, though. There are reports of up to $1 billion in annual revenue with the Business API, so this is far less than what they paid. I think Meta's strategy was to create a Western version of WeChat, which has a very high ARPU, but for some reason, they never invested in it properly... They added Stories, a "Venmo" feature, and then gave up.
by desireco42 | 2026-02-11 04:51:40+00:00
As to why would someone pay for youtube when you can block ads etc. I have been paying for probably close to 10yrs it not more.

Well, first you can use youtube on your phone, tablets etc, without seeing ads ever, I didn't realize youtube has ads.

Initially, my kids would ask for toys and fast food that I knew they didn't know anything about. So I realized family subscription is way cheaper then me buying even a single $25 toy, and most of them were more expensive.

Over the years, my kids have grown healthier both in mind and body thanks in part of that subscription.
by Rudra2637 | 2026-02-11 04:52:04+00:00
"Huge congrats on the launch! I recently had the opportunity to contribute to Hive by identifying and resolving a critical issue. It was a fantastic experience working with the codebase and the community."
The issue was: Make success-criterion evaluation assumptions explicit in Outcome Aggregator.
I fixed it by: Previously, all success criteria were implicitly treated as success-rate based, which could lead to misleading progress and met values for unsupported or future criterion types. This change ensures that only success rate criteria are evaluated, while others return a neutral, un-met status until proper evaluators are implemented.
This improves clarity, correctness, and observability of the evaluation system without introducing breaking changes.
by emtel | 2026-02-11 04:52:28+00:00
I pay for YouTube premium and it’s one of my happiest expenditures. YouTube is a miraculous, unbelievable treasure trove. Learn any language, any musical instrument, any academic subject. TV clips from the 80s that someone taped in VHS for some reason. Isaac Arthur, Veritaseum, numberphile. I’ve gotten more value from YouTube than any other single site on the internet, and it’s not close!

So yeah, take my $13.99/month
by majormajor | 2026-02-11 04:53:31+00:00
>If truly productivity enhancing investment is effectively dead (or, equivalently, there is so much paper wealth chasing a withering set of profitable opportunities for investment), then capital's only game is to chase high valuations backed by future profits, which means playing the Keynesian beauty contest for keeps.

What if profit is dead because wealth is all concentrating in people who don't need it from a marginal consumption standpoint, which means asset prices blow up because everyone rich believes that they need to "invest" that money somewhere... but demand shrivels outside of interestingly-subsidized areas like healthcare because nobody else is making enough to even keep up with the asset price rises?

And without demand, where would innovation come from?
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-02-11 04:55:24+00:00
Whatsapp claims to be E2E encryption, but it can still submit anonymous("") metadata("") At least they can identify you and your contacts by real phone number, real name and nicknames, and more often than not real pictures; the information can be crosschecked across all your contacts who in good faith provide good information.

There are also bussiness accounts which are really important depending on the location.

It is very hard to put a price to that, but its value is undisputable.
by tomhow | 2026-02-11 04:55:46+00:00
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by drnick1 | 2026-02-11 04:55:57+00:00
NewPipe and IronFox (hardened Firefox) for Android, although I suspect these need to be "sideloaded" as Google won't allow them on the Play Store. (I run Graphene so this does not apply to me.)

For the TV, I would suggest VacuumTube (a frontend to the Leanback interface) on a free/libre box running Linux.
by aaravchen | 2026-02-11 04:56:15+00:00
I have and it works great.

The developer is very active in updating and maintaining the software (both client and server), and it already supports most of the XEPs.

It's open source and fully supports self-hosted as first class, but if you want to support the developer he offers a cloud hosting paid offering as well. There's a crossover offer with JMP.chat too. If you pay $5 upfront for your first month of JMP.chat, you can get a free cloud hosted Snikket server for it to be setup on. As long as you maintain at least one number with JMP.chat, you keep the server maintained. If you don't, you get a chance to migrate your data. The Snikket cloud server gives you an XMPP server admin account, and you can setup as many accounts as you want. The caveat is that Snikket implementation is optimized for <1000s of user accounts per server.
by majormajor | 2026-02-11 04:56:16+00:00
ORMs have largely been fading away for a while because there are real wins of not using them.

Hyper-optimized HTTP request/response parsing? Yawn. Far less interesting.

AFAICT, the advantages of keeping context tight and focused have not gone away. So there would neeed to be pretty interesting advantages to not just doing the easy thing.

Build times too. I kinda doubt you're setting up strictly-modularized and tightly-controlled bazel builds for all your stuff to avoid extra recompilation... so why are we overcomplicating the easy stuff? Just because "it will probably function just as well"?

"leftpad"-level library inanity? Sure, even less need than before (there was never much). Substantial libraries? What's the point?

Hell, some of the most-used heavily-AI-coded software is going the opposite direction and jumping through hoops to keep using web libraries for UI even though they're terminal apps.
by _the_inflator | 2026-02-11 04:56:27+00:00
I don't buy that.

AI is taking over Senior Devs' Work is the the same as IKEA is taking over carpenter's moat - no, no, and again no way.

AI let's you do some impressive stuff, I really enjoy using it. No doubt about that.

But app development, the full Software Delivery Life Cycle - boy, is AI bad. And I mean in a very extreme way.

I talked to a carpenter yesterday about IKEA. He said, people call him to integrate their IKEA stuff, especially the expensive stuff.

And AI is the same.

Configuration Handling: Works on my machine, impressive SaaS app, fast, cool, PostgreSQL etc.

And then there is the final moment: Docker, Live Server - and BOOM! deployment failed.

If you ever happen to debug and fix certain infrastructure and therefore deployment fails - you wish you were doing COBOL or x86/M68000 assembly code like it is 1987 all over again - if you happen to be a very seasoned Senior Dev with a lot of war stories to share.

If you are some vibe coder or consulting MBA - good luck.

AI fails so bad at doing certain things consistently well - and it costs company dearly.

Firing up a Landing Page in React using some Tailwind + ShadCN UI - oh well...

Software Design, Solution Architecture - the hard things are getting harder, not cheaper.

IKEA is great - for certain use cases. It made carpenter's work only more valuable. They thrived because of IKEA, they didn't suffer. In fact, there is more work for them to do. Is their business still hard, of course, but difficult in a different way (talent).

And all doomer's talking about the dev apocalypse - if AI takes over software development, who is in trouble then? Computer Science, software development? Or any and every job market out there?

Think twice. Develop and deploy ten considerably complex SaaS apps using AI and tell me how it went.

Access to information got cheaper. A fool with a tool is still a fool.
by ars | 2026-02-11 04:56:49+00:00
> My feed is disastrous.

I've tested this many times. Your feed has what you watch. If it's disastrous, that's because that what you actually like to watch.

Stop watching a topic and it will go away. About 2 months later YouTube will offer it again to see if you want it, if you don't it goes away again.
by russfink | 2026-02-11 04:57:08+00:00
I must be the only one who thinks this, but this is the age of getting things done. I don’t have to worry about syntax or off by one errors, I tell it what to do and it generally does it, instantly!

Oh, and I’m 57 and was programming the Commodore Pet when I was 11. I’m relieved to be (mostly) free of syntactic shackles.

Vote me down, but also prove me wrong.
by saidinesh5 | 2026-02-11 04:57:49+00:00
That's the weird thing about WhatsApp though.. back when they bought WhatsApp it was still a paid service and a lot of people actually paid for it and it was on its way to get to a billion active users.

After that acquisition, they made it free for all and started chasing the $$$ with WhatsApp for business. And ads. No idea which is more profitable anymore. I think they'd still be able to monetize it more with WhatsApp payments and those ads in status updates. I'd definitely like to know what the numbers are looking like these days..
by johnfn | 2026-02-11 04:58:54+00:00
Showboat does look neat -- though I feel like I don't fully grasp the use case yet! Maybe I just need to use more AI :)

As for rodney, I was thinking that although Playwright is good, there are a lot of cases where AI can't really understand things that a human would grasp instantly. For instance, often a broken e2e test will get stuck at some point. AI never seems to grasp this - it always thinks it's a timeout and goes down latency rabbitholes. If there was some way to give AI a log of "this line was reached at this point", you could really improve the state of the world :)
by cosmicgadget | 2026-02-11 04:59:16+00:00
> Benioff thanked international employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them.

I mean he's more or less saying ICE is like the Stasi which isn't normally a flattering comparison.

There are a few reasons it could be considered distasteful but it doesn't sound like he was cheering ICE on.