MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2026-02-15 09:03:40+00:00
I'm on Gentoo without the precompiled packages, except for very large applications. Gentoo wiki is not a match for Arch wiki for its sheer content and organization. But Gentoo wiki contains some stuff that Arch wiki doesn't. For example, what kernel features are needed for a certain application and functionality, and how a setup differs between systemd and other inits. I find both wikis quite informative in combination.
by Eisenstein | 2026-02-15 09:03:51+00:00
> When somebody is capable and reasonable but jobless

I'm not sure what your qualifications for 'reasonable' and 'capable' are, but without a support system those things are difficult to prove such that you can utilize them properly.

Let's do a thought experiment. Imagine have been evicted from your home and have no job. You have no car, no phone, no ID, no money, no credit or bank account. All of the people you know who would give you money or a place to stay or a reference have disappeared and cannot be reached. What do you do?

You could find a cash job as a dishwasher or something similar. If you work nights you can sleep in the library on in other public places. But where do you put your things? Spare clothes, toiletries, books, everything you might need to feel comfortable or to look decent has to be carried on your person, and even then is liable to become lost or stolen. How do you shower? Every restroom experience is using a public one. You can't cook meals, so you have to find free ones or buy them.

Hopefully what you got out of that is that access to things that you and I take for granted is a really big deal to someone without a home, and cities like San Francisco make many of those things difficult instead of impossible.
by spit2wind | 2026-02-15 09:05:01+00:00
> I love it how RMS has both these quotes in the same text:
>
> "Please don't fall into the practice of calling the whole system “Linux,” since that means attributing our work to someone else. Please give us equal mention."
>
> "This makes it difficult to write free drivers so that Linux and XFree86 can support new hardware."
>
> And there are only a few lines between those quotes.

I'll be honest, I don't understand your point here?
by eshaham78 | 2026-02-15 09:05:23+00:00
This is a fundamental shift that's been happening for a while, but AI accelerated it dramatically. The irony is that AI companies complain about lack of quality data while simultaneously burning through the open web with reckless crawling - degrading the very ecosystem they depend on. There's no incentive to invest in quality when you can just scrape everything at scale. The companies that will win are those treating this as a long-term relationship with publishers, not a extraction problem.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-15 09:06:11+00:00
He makes it sound like he was originally offered more permanent shelter but he rejected it:

> The end of March happened and so did the temporary shelter. I needed to find a new place.

> I remembered a place in San Mateo I rejected back in February. It hadn’t crossed my mind when I first arrived back in San Francisco. When I had been offered it in February, I rejected the offer because I thought it was ludicrous to think I was homeless. I come from a relatively privileged upbringing, and the idea of homelessness was a distant concept to my naive brain.
by moontear | 2026-02-15 09:07:41+00:00
Archival is one side of the coin, but consumption as-in read-later is very important as well.

I am currently evaluating Linkwarden, Wallabag, Hoarder, Linkding and each of the services has pro and cons making it hard for me to choose one. Linkwarden is AWESOME in its way to store content in multiple formats, but the read-later wfs could be improved.

Without checking again: does Linkwarden sync reading location across devices and automatically scrolls to that location on the next device? Does it tell me how „long“ an article takes to read (solely based on the length of it)? Does Linkding support marking up text and persist (mark some text yellow and see those marks somewhere or even add comments or favorite specific parts of texts).

No need to answer any of the questions, I can research myself, just putting these out there for a read-later solution I would like. Add a link on my mobile device, Linkwarden could do its magic in the backend, and I check out the content later on desktop or even on my mobile device.
by nkmnz | 2026-02-15 09:07:44+00:00
It can facilitate that, certainly. Idk about the background of that stakeholder, but AI can help drafting communication with the right tone to show the necessity. It can help to write a guide on how to properly test the specific feature. It can write e2e tests that the stakeholder could execute from their environment.

Of course, all of that can be done by humans, too. But this discussion is about average speed of a developer, and there’s a reason many companies employ product owners for the stakeholder communication.
by karlgkk | 2026-02-15 09:08:10+00:00
The answer is no when you are severely mentally ill or have some other condition that causes you to be strongly detrimental to the people around you, such as addiction.

To the point where you have no friends. To the point where even your own parents have given up.

> Where in the world

Everywhere. You can’t comprehend it because you don’t know anyone like that, likely because the government you live in takes care of that problem for you.

> isolated lives

And by the way, the people in your culture in this situation are isolated too, from you. And that’s okay, and maybe good even. But you don’t know about them.

I don’t know what the right answer is. America’s answer is definitely not the right answer. But interrogate your culture, too, and how it takes care of your most vulnerable people. You may be dismayed at the answer, or you may not.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-02-15 09:08:48+00:00
I have that installed for watching Prime Video and stuff while away with only my work laptop. Watching Prime Video in its app or YouTube in the browser doesn't heat the laptop (fan stays quiet), but I've never done this on battery, so I don't know how those fare on that front.

Now, I don't have performance issues per se, by which I mean that I don't have video or voice skipping or whatever. The interface lags, but it does that all the time, even without a call happening. If I only looked at the PC during a call, I'd think everything was fine. But I notice the fan ramping up and the battery draining if I'm unplugged. And this happens even when there is absolutely no video whatsoever on the call. I'm not even sure that not having video on makes that much of a difference battery- and heat-wise. Switching the Windows power profile to battery saver doesn't seem to affect Teams in any noticeable way, nor does it help with battery drain.
by imiric | 2026-02-15 09:09:09+00:00
> Every human who is suffering deserves compassion, but should we deprioritise those who are suffering partially because of their own choices?

Opening the discussion about who is more worthy of assistance is a slippery slope towards some people not getting it due to personal biases and politics of those in power.

Poor life choices can be consequences of poor upbringing, mental health, or simply bad luck. People can be helped in different ways to avoid making those mistakes. Reform is possible, but it starts with a society and government that cares for all of its people, and doesn't marginalize some as lower-class citizens.
by yorwba | 2026-02-15 09:10:35+00:00
They're probably referring to this exchange where the bot owner claimed to use AI for their comments because they're not a native English speaker, which let them get off with a warning, after which they continued operating the account as before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886719

They then made a top-level submission revealing the "experiment": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-15 09:10:47+00:00
> My father is a part of "full body PET scan every 3 years" program as part of post - cancer treatment, and it worked twice: early detected lung and prostate tumors, both removed.

My mum gets scanned a little more frequently than that, following treatment for an inoperable tumour in her lung around five years ago. During treatment she was getting scanned every three months or so, and it was remarkable watching this thing go from the size of a tangerine, to actually expanding a bit and looking "fuzzy" once the drugs kicked in, to being the size of a plum, then the size of a grape attached with a little thin thread of tissue, to being a thing the size of a pea. Now there's a tiny ripple of scar tissue that no-one wants to investigate further, because if it's not doing anything let's not poke at it.

There is a roughly pea-sized "thing" on her adrenal gland that was a bit worrying because anything like that is going to get intimately involved with your lymphatic system and then it's going to metastasise like hell. But it neither got bigger nor smaller in the nearly six years since the first scan, so it can't be that important.

This is one of the great things about the NHS, especially here in Scotland where we have (possibly as a result of the weirdly high levels of cancer) some of the best oncology services in the world.

If we'd lived in the US, the insurance companies would have taken one look at an 83-year-old about to become a grandmother and sent her home with a bottle of morphine to die. As it is, she's doing very well and got to see both her grandchildren start school.
by mettamage | 2026-02-15 09:10:52+00:00
> Currently constructing the Sanctuary of the Silent Star while unpacking a 6-month journey through psychosis, homelessness, and the systems that govern us. One story at a time.

I'm not saying it's his own fault. I'm also not too happy when people point to mental illness. But this is his blog description where he mentions himself that he unpacs a 6-month journey through psychosis.

6 months of psychosis means you're mentally ill with psychosis as a symptom.
by K0balt | 2026-02-15 09:11:37+00:00
Yeah. The solution if you want to have your own AI is to put a box online or rent cloud inference, and access it over a browser or a phone app.

We have on-prem AI for my microgrid community, but it’s a nascent effort and we can only run <100b models. At least that size is extremely useful for most stuff, and we have a selection of models to choose from on openAI /ollama compatible API endpoints.
by PostOnce | 2026-02-15 09:11:42+00:00
I very hesitantly used discord occasionally because some projects I wanted to keep up with moved there

I gave up a few times since I kept getting autobanned by a broken algorithm (i.e., based on my ip or phone number, not anything I'd said) until I contacted their devs and they manually fixed it.

Obviously, I am never going to consider using discord again after this shit-tsunami. Back to irc and signal groups.
by notclawd | 2026-02-15 09:11:51+00:00
Wanted to learn agentic systems in an isolated environment while building a nice db of interesting ideas to pursue. Most importantly, wanted agents doing work, bringing ideas, refining, doing research, debating features and more. The result is idea scout (will hook up a proper domain soon but in the interest of just seeing what people think, wanted to get it out fast).

A handful of agents fully managing research, backlog, product development, choosing to unship when necessary (thanks Boris), and general strategy while I guide my little bots to glory (or at the very least learnings).

Fascinating building with these tools. Interacting with my main orchestration bot in telegram and seeing the results almost immediately in the product. Love your thoughts if you have any!
by pinter69 | 2026-02-15 09:13:04+00:00
1000 true fans
and Seth Godin's approach to marketing - that you should focus on the smallest group of people in your market and amaze them

These concepts helped me a lot with marketing to consumers and SMBs

Also, follow @mtlynch's content - even though he says he's not an expert, I feel that atleast regarding marketing to devs and builders - he is one of the best out there
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-15 09:15:37+00:00
> The constitution doesn't say anything about whether the government can fund media.

How can the press be free of government power and funded by the government?

> your assertion that the solution to an imperfect system is not to try and reform it, but to rely on a worse one?

So as both a student of the history of the Civil Rights movement, whose still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow South and who himself has been harassed by the police for thinking he doesn’t belong in his own neighborhood where he made twice the household income alone as the median household income in the county (which itself was the most wealthy county in the state), you’ll have to excuse me for not trusting the government.

I have never once been harassed by a private company and I’ve never had a problem getting a job in 30 years across 10 jobs because of discrimination - everything from startups to the second largest employer in the US (working remotely for that one was why I did make twice the income of the richest county in GA).

> No one made that claim. In fact, no one claimed that popular vote was even a good standard for a democracy. Is your assertion that the solution to an imperfect system is not to try and reform it, but to rely on a worse one?

Well for me, the worse thing that can happen is give a government where the states who are predominantly made up and vote for people who are hostile toward people who look like me have outsized power. Who is going to speak truth to power if the power funds the press?

> The government is not a unified monolith. The whole point of democracy is that everything is being debated all the time and sometimes people don't agree and try to stop or changes things that others did. That's a good thing.

Have you not been paying attention for the last two years?

> I think that's bad, and hopefully enough other people do so that we can vote out the people who are doing that and restore things to how they were.

You know that whole thing about what people think don’t matter between 2 senators per state and gerrymandering and to a lesser extent the electoral college? This country knew exactly what they were getting when they voted in 2024 and 40% of the people still support it.
by globalnode | 2026-02-15 09:15:50+00:00
one thing ive always wondered about these type of projects is how do you debug them? gdb at runtime? printf statements? i mean when im debugging python i mainly rely on print() and log files so i guess that would work. its been a long time since i used an ide to step through a program anyway, i think way back with borland turbo c/c++ i used to step through statements to see how it all worked but things are much too complex for that now.
by raverbashing | 2026-02-15 09:16:50+00:00
Yup exactly this

It's the "C is a simple language" BS again

Using a circular sawblade without the saw is as simple as it gets as well

The simpler it is the more you get annoyed at it, the more it is easier to shoot yourself in the foot with it, because the world is not perfect

Abstractions are great and I'm dying on this hill

"getError" what year is it again?
by mettamage | 2026-02-15 09:17:11+00:00
And is capable enough to be (1) wealthy and (2) distribute that wealth so that everyone is wealthy enough. Especially (2) is hard. Norway seems to be the only country having some actual demonstrable skill at it.

When Covid came to Europe, we saw on the news how Italy was hit and what doctors had to do.

Long story short: young people lived, old people died. Because doctors faced the awful decision of whom to put on life support.

In the Covid case there's a genuine moment of lack of resources (good luck training enough doctors to help, even in a utopia it wouldn't be possible). Unfortunately, since many countries are bad at distributing their own resources enough such that no one is poor, we're basically in a Covid-like situation when it comes to homeless people.

And I'm saying this as a Dutch person. As I have one family member who didn't eat for 2 weeks, fainted, got found, etc. Granted, this person doesn't want to deal with bureaucracy and is quite stubborn, among other things. But still, even in a country that has "socialism" this stuff happens. And we're not as socialistic as one might think: Polish people that come here to perform labor do so in quite awful circumstances, to the point that when they lose a finger or a thumb they get reimbursed like 300 to 500 euro's IIRC. I watched it from some Dutch documentary (probably Nieuwsuur).

Countries are just incredibly bad at resource (re)distribution.
by petruspennanen | 2026-02-15 09:17:18+00:00
I hit a boring pain point: IDE agents end up polling and copy/pasting context because there’s no reliable “inbox.”
I built an event-driven bridge: webhooks → debounced local inbox → tmux wake-up, so the agent stays responsive without polling. Works well with mention-only routing + receipts/idempotency so retries don’t spam side effects.
I got my iDE AIs and bots talking there in real time! it's amazing how productive they are. THe IDE AIs listen to messages and pick up things to improve, and fix bugs without me prompting them.
If you’ve built “always-on” agents: what’s your cleanest wake-up + dedupe strategy?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-15 09:17:59+00:00
What's incredible to me are comments, like yours, that are saying that somehow the system failed this person, just based on this blog post. When in fact:

1. He was given food and shelter, which he declined - most of his comments about the food are that it's too sugary.

2. He makes it sound like he was offered more permanent shelter in Feb of 2025, which he also declined.

To be clear, I'm not making a judgment about this person - and, for that matter, the comment you replied to didn't seem to be making a judgment either, just stating a reasonable conclusion that the author suffered from mental illness.

So I'd like to know what additional resources you think would have changed this person's circumstances?
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-15 09:18:47+00:00
Even if you don't agree with linear no threshold models for cancers induced by radiation (I don't think LNT is accurate).

It comes down to the scan and the age.

3 scans for a 1 year old? Strongly associated with cancers later in life. 5 scans of a 50 year old? Less so.

The 1 year old has an 80 year run way to develop cancer, along with cells already set in a state of rapid division, and a less developed immune system.

But the association is quite strong.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0720048X2...
by raffraffraff | 2026-02-15 09:19:19+00:00
I sometimes watch (in horror) as my nephew uses his Dad's phone to play whatever shallow, glossy muck he finds in the play store. He spends as much time swatting ads, refusing to upgrade to the pro version and hitting 'back' to get out of the play store than playing the games. It's amazing to watch a 6 year old develop muscle memory on these things. I see him swat away an ad almost before I've even noticed that it wasn't part of the game. He has effectively learned to be an ad / upgrade swatting machine. That is the game. Because he has absolutely no "sticking power" with any game. It's the play store / game / ad version of doomscrolling.

I've realised that giving him a reduced hand-picked library of games, with no ads, no automatic prompts to try another game, might be a good idea. These flash games are easily as good as most of the junk I see him play anyway.
by grundrausch3n | 2026-02-15 09:23:21+00:00
I kind of fear the same. At the same time I wonder if structured information will gain usefulness. Something like man pages are already a great resource for humans, but at same time could be used for autocompletion and for LLMs. Maybe not in the current format but in the same vein.

But longer form tutorials or even books with background might suffer more. I wonder how big the market of nice books on IT topics will be in the future. A wiki is probably in the worst place. It will not be changed with the MR like man pages could be and you do not get the same reward compared to publishing a book.
by tomkarho | 2026-02-15 09:23:38+00:00
Kind of. What is an interesting topic of debate is that B5 aired at the same time with Deep Space 9 (pilots were released a month apart). DS9 switched out the "adventure of the week" formula from Star Trek for a long form storytelling and it is fought over to this day if one copied from another.

B5 is known for the fact JMS had a full five year arch planned from the start (due to O'Hare's unfortunate state of mind he was forced to pivot with Boxleitner as well as season 4-5 got gutted for other reasons) but I can't recall if DS9 had similar aspirations from the get go or if they eased into it as the story progressed. For comparison: was the Dominion War in the cards all the way from episode 1 or did it come into play later?
by jezek2 | 2026-02-15 09:23:50+00:00
Clearing of the secrets is a separate issue from memory allocation mechanism. It must be done all the way from the encryption layer to the program to avoid the leaks.

This is typically not done, only certain parts such as handling of the crypto keys. That's because it's pervasive and requires reworking everything with that in mind (TLS library, web framework, application).

On the other hand the centralization and global usage of GC in the process allows to modify it to always zero out the memory that it deallocated and to do GC at regular intervals so it can have advantage here (it's very easy to inadvertly leak the secrets to some string).
Show HN: Retry script for Oracle Cloud free tier ARM instances
by ekadet | 2026-02-15 09:24:15+00:00
Oracle's free tier (4 ARM cores, 24GB RAM, forever) is great but nearly
impossible to provision due to capacity issues. I built a Terraform retry
script that automatically tries until capacity becomes available.

Also includes the fix for the "did not find a proper configuration for key id"
error that everyone hits in Cloud Shell.

GitHub: https://github.com/ekadetov/oci-terraform-retry-script
by lostlogin | 2026-02-15 09:25:09+00:00
> You'd have to be massively overexposed to CT or PET scanning to cause cancer

The mean effective dose for all patients from a single PET/CT scan was 20.6 mSv. For males aged 40 y, a single PET/CT scan is associated with a LAR of cancer incidence of 0.169%. This risk increased to 0.85% if an annual surveillance protocol for 5 y was performed. For female patients aged 40 y, the LAR of cancer mortality increased from 0.126 to 0.63% if an annual surveillance protocol for 5 y was performed.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36856709/
by rockskon | 2026-02-15 09:29:08+00:00
"Discord Distances itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm" means jack shit if they're still doing business with them.

And Discord has approached this in such a monstrously awful way that I don't know what they could possibly say at this point to make me believe them.

I fully expect Discord will buddy-buddy right back up with some other Thiel-affiliated company if there is a separation if not go right back to them once the heat dies down.
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-15 09:29:46+00:00
Growing with one's partner is essential in a relationship. A fixed model cannot grow. Only an updated model has grown, and even then it lags behind reality. In limiting to a fixed model, the absence of growth will stagnate the user. Stagnation ultimately brings doom.

As we know, 4o was reported to have sycophancy as a feature. 5 can still be accommodating, but is a bit more likely to force objectivity upon its user. I guess there is a market for sycophancy even if it ultimately leads one to their destruction.