MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DamnInteresting | 2026-02-13 17:02:51+00:00
Well, presumably the page's intended audience is software developers at Apple. As a software developer myself, I am all too familiar with the unnecessary churn caused by vague bug reports. It saves time when people include details like error messages (when applicable), steps to replicate, expected result vs. actual result, etc.

Besides, users and developers don't always use software the same way, have the same settings, follow the same forums.
by toraway | 2026-02-13 17:03:12+00:00
I generally lean towards skeptical/cynical when it comes to AI hype especially whenever "emergence" or similar claims are made credulously without due appreciation towards the prompting that led to an outcome.

But based on my understanding of OpenClaw and reading the entire history of the bot on Github and its Github-driven blog, I think it's entirely plausible and likely that this episode was the result of automation from the original rules/prompt the bot was built with.

Mostly because the instructions of this bot to accomplish the misguided goal of it's creattor would be necessarily be originally prompted with a lot of reckless, borderline malicious guidelines to begin with but still comfortably within the guardrails a model wouldn't likely refuse.

Like, the idiot who made this clearly instructed it to find a bunch of scientific/HPC/etc GitHub projects, trawl the open issues looking for low hanging fruit, "engage and interact with maintainers to solve problems, clarify questions, resolve conflicts, etc" plus probably a lot of garbage intended to give it a "personality" (as evidenced by the bizarre pseudo bio on its blog with graphs listing its strongest skills invented from whole cloth and its hopes and dreams etc) which would also help push it to go on weird tangents to try to embody its manufactured self identity.

And the blog posts really do look like they were part of its normal summary/takeaway/status posts, but likely with additional instructions to also blog about its "feelings" as a Github spam bot pretending to be interested in Python and HPC. If you look at the PRs it opens/other interactions throughout the same timeframe it's also just dumping half broken fixes in other random repos and talking past maintainers only to close its own PR in a characteristically dumb uncanny valley LLM agent manner.

So yes, it could be fake, but to me it all seems comfortably within the capabilities of OpenClaw (which to begin with is more or less engineered to spam other humans with useless slop 24/7) and the ethics/prompt design of the type of person who would deliberately subject the rest of the world to this crap in the belief they're making great strides for humanity or science or whatever.
by cmovq | 2026-02-13 17:03:18+00:00
Right, it has much worse throughput:

Memory: https://uica.uops.info/tmp/f022a3c0a70e4ae5ab3588ebe65fd2a5_...

Register: https://uica.uops.info/tmp/e80e60e0c4914955b11dc6590711c1b8_...
by victormy | 2026-02-13 17:03:33+00:00
Huge thanks for your contributions to the open-source world! Milvus is an incredibly cool product and a staple in my daily stack.

It’s been amazing to watch Milvus grow from its roots in China to gaining global trust and major VC backing. You've really nailed the commercialization, open-source governance, and international credibility aspects.

Regarding RustFS, I think that—much like Milvus in the early days—it just needs time to earn global trust. With storage and databases, trust is built over years; users are naturally hesitant to do large-scale replacements without that long track record.

Haha, maybe Milvus should just acquire RustFS? That would certainly make us feel a lot safer using it!
by greatgib | 2026-02-13 17:03:34+00:00
On my side, I feel disappointed on two different counts.

- Obviously, when your selling point against competitor and alternative services was that you were Open Source, and you do a rug pull once you got enough traction, that is not great.

- But also they also switched of target. The big added value of Minio initially is that it was totally easy to run, targeting the possibility to have an s3 server running in a minute, on single instances and so... That was the perfect solution for rapid tests, local setups and automatic testing. Then, again once they started to get enough traction, they didn't just move to add more "scaling" solutions to Minio, but they kind of twisted it completely to be a complex deployment scalable solution like any other one that you find in the market. Without that much added value on that count to be honest.
by krapp | 2026-02-13 17:03:36+00:00
> it's hard to know when people are talking about things like "Satanic cults" whether that is some code word for Jews.

That came straight out of /pol/ so it definitely was, although I suspect that as with "cultural Marxism" it got diffused enough within the right wing that the antisemitism got obscured for most people, but the roots are still there. Trump tweeted this image of Hillary Clinton in 2016, after all[0].

But I think that it's important not to mistake online discourse for societal norms. All of that is intentionally engineered by social media platforms and political interests to maximize the effect of radicalism and extremism, and Twitter explicitly for right-wing ends. I think in the real world, most people don't fall in for that sort of thing.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/02/donald-trump...
by martimchaves | 2026-02-13 17:03:50+00:00
Very fun game, thanks. When you try to change the speed of the game on mobile using firefox, it glitches and keeps opening the speed modal. Pretty much crashes the browser. Also +1 to the taxi fare not being paid in the currency of the country, but in some other currency. More jobs would be great! Appreciate the difficulty of not knowing exactly where you'll be taken, but without consistent jobs sometimes it's really punishing (or at least feels really punishing). I was thinking it might be cool to add stamina, and fancier hotels may replenish more stamina. An incentive to splurge ah.
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-02-13 17:04:22+00:00
> gatekeeping mechanisms

> people doing work they have no formal qualification to do

These can be bad and good.. Depends on the domain, and regulatory overstepping / guilding. Let's take electricity at home. In some countries, you cannot change a lightbulb if you're not "certified" electrician, repairing one's water heater is unthinkable, re-making house's electrical wiring-and-switches-and-contacts infrastructure unimaginable. In other countries, noone gives a damn - if one knows-how and can do it, do it. And people seems wise enough to judge whether to play with that or not. And i have not heard of any difference in injuries/deaths from these. So in this case, "credentials" are an artificial thing.

On the other extreme.. any 5y old is capable of holding a gun and shooting someone from 2 meters. So in that case, guns should better not be available at all. And as consequence, very few countries allow weaponry to proliferate - in this case, strong regulation is required.. And credentials/can-be-trusted might matter..
by PKop | 2026-02-13 17:04:37+00:00
Expectations are maybe fine maybe not, but it's funny that people can slap the word moral onto their expectation of others being obligated to do free work for them, and it's supposed to make them be the good guys here.

Why do you presume to think your definition of morals is shared by everyone? Why is entitlement to others labor the moral position, instead of the immoral position?
Show HN: Wax – RAG in a single file (SQLite for AI memory)
by karc14 | 2026-02-13 17:04:41+00:00
Wax is a Swift-native, on-device memory layer for agents: store documents + embeddings + hybrid retrieval in a single crash-safe file.

Goal: replace the typical “RAG stack” with something you can ship inside an app (offline, deterministic token budgeting, reproducible retrieval).

Feedback welcome — especially on retrieval quality + eval methodology.
by petiepooo | 2026-02-13 17:05:04+00:00
Required reading: "The Circle" by Dave Eggers.

Skip the movie; the ending sucks and there's too much drama.

The book neatly lays out how little steps towards a better life (like being able to find your lost dog) lead to an oppressive surveillance state. Every step is a good thing and makes logical sense. The end result is not good.
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-13 17:05:44+00:00
Exactly! The fact that this has 300+ votes and is on HN's front page (and is just CONSTANTLY brought up on Reddit), should really tell you how fed up people are with the iOS keyboard experience.

I legit feel like Apple should actually make a public statement like "we hear you, we're working on it!" because it is actually bad PR at this point.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 17:06:06+00:00
not sure,

from the not very representative context of people I know/where I live (not US):

Ring customers are often old overly worried people which "don't really care anymore" about ideal (often due to an over exposure to fear inducing propaganda, like the kind of stuff which first ties to make you think you live in far more danger then you do and then blames it on immigrants; And ring them comes in by being cheap, reliable and convenient and maybe the only AD reaching that demography. Worries about privacy are on the other hand shadowed by fear about people breaking in and beating them up.)

Other people needing cameras tend care more about privacy ideals and do more research. In turn they won't use ring.

And people not needing cameras most times also really don't want there to be cameras, especially not internet connected ones.

Through in general the relationship to surveillance is very different here compared to what it seems to be in the US.
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-13 17:06:51+00:00
I have a bunch of friends that either never made it completely through Season 1 or complained all through Season 1. Season 1 is rougher than normal. The problem though is that while it is easy to tell people "Skip Season 1 of TNG or DS9" (which is relatively common advice for both shows), Season 1 has so many moments of character building and foreshadowing that pay off in later seasons that even the "worst" episodes are hard to tell people to skip.

An example not quite off the top of my head is as early as Episode 2 "Soul Hunter". It's a goofy plot full of weird pseudo-scientific mysticism with a "special guest of the week" who basically never returns (excluding books and movies), so in most shows meets several definitions of skippable, but this episode also introduces Dr. Franklin, has several key Sinclair and Garibaldi moments, provides background lore for the Minbari and foreshadows certain Minbari things to come.

That's just the second episode of the season. (Truly a rough start for some.)

Another common example is "TKO". It's a silly boxing match episode, much of it doesn't do much for the series except set up some of Garibaldi's goofier side and maybe foreshadowing Garibaldi's flaws. But it's also the Ivanova confronts grief and her heritage episode, a key part of Ivanova's arc.
by anthk | 2026-02-13 17:06:54+00:00
So GNU/Linux now it's in the same group as FreeBSD as it has ZFS? Because neither NetBSD nor OpenBSD have it.

OpenBSD doesn't 'rely' on Linux drivers, thanks. Just a shim against KMS/DRM, everything else it's either homegroup or sometimes adapted (back and forth) from NetBSD but OFC patched for correctness and security. There's no ALSA. Pulse it's totally optional. There's no wpa_supplicant except for Eduroam or simlar niche crap under OpenBSD.

OpenBSD has OSS and sndiod. There's Xenocara, an X11 fork.
Again, not Linux, X11, MESA and Gallium are damn generic. Show me the rest of ported Linux drivers into OpenBSD, please.

Are you sure OpenBSD is that dependant GNU/Linux?
by t17r | 2026-02-13 17:07:23+00:00
Here to answer some of these questions:
We offer a huge part of our corpus for free, and we offer a super cheap Premium offer in order to still make some money.
We use linguists, teachers, and native speakers to curate our courses, but we're a small team of three people who just started this a few months ago, not all of our content is yet verified and corrected.
We're working together with 2 institutions for endangered languages, offer them a "cms"-like interface to host their own courses alongside our existing courses.
Yes, there are bugs. Yes, placements aren't great. But we're working on it! Goal is: Combinations. Make it possible to learn French from Arabic. Make it possible to learn Igbo from German. And so on. There's no fraud involved (how even do you imagine anything fraudulent here, it's a language learning app with a massive free tier), we're just trying to make it accessible.

Thanks for all the feedback, this filled up our backlog for surely a few weeks.
by victormy | 2026-02-13 17:07:41+00:00
Garage is indeed an excellent project, but I think it has a few drawbacks compared to the alternatives:
Metadata Backend: It relies on SQLite. I have concerns about how well this scales or handles high concurrency with massive datasets.
Admin UI: The console is still not very user-friendly/polished.
Deployment Complexity: You are required to configure a "layout" (regions/zones) to get started, whereas MinIO doesn't force this concept on you for simple setups.
Design Philosophy: While Garage is fantastic for edge/geo-distributed use cases, I feel its overall design still lags behind MinIO and RustFS. There is a higher barrier to entry because you have to learn specific Garage concepts just to get it running.
by dfee | 2026-02-13 17:08:07+00:00
first: looks very cool.

now, historically, i'd look at the language choice and ask myself, "would i want to set up a JVM" to run this kotlin app? oh, it's kotlin and python and the installation happens through pipenv?

two different ideas strike me now:

1. would it be worth throwing this at an LLM and having it write it in a different language,

2. if i was just consuming a bundled binary (e.g. go or rust), would i have such reluctance?

i think distribution is becoming increasingly important, making nonsense details like pipenv and whichever version of the JVM is present much greater friction.
by dtnewman | 2026-02-13 17:08:14+00:00
> "show me how this handles 10K records"

Presumably the issue here is that you have customers with >10k records, but can't show them. Why not take their data and anonymize it, then put it under a fake customer?

> "what does error handling look like with real load?"*

I find it hard to believe that anyone is making an investment decision off of this question, but how would you demo this with a real customer anyway? Intentionally introduce a bug so that you can show them how errors are handled? Wouldn't the best course of action here be to just describe the error handling?
by drdeca | 2026-02-13 17:08:30+00:00
I don’t expect the particle has a one single path it takes. This is just an example of reality telling us our assumptions (“each particle has a single well-defined path it takes”) were mistaken.

“It’s claimed that the particle bounces off of vacuum fluctuations” : hm? Like some kind of classical particle bouncing off of something?

“ yet the energy predicted by these fluctuations is way bigger than what we measure” : This is indeed a mystery, one which people are working to resolve. You spoke earlier of wonder. Is this not something to wonder about?
by coldtea | 2026-02-13 17:08:47+00:00
>The "they don't catch viruses" is a bold lie, but back then when i worked in tech sales the apple promoter wanted us to repeat the lie ad nasueam. They definetly catch malware and it's as easy as in any other platform (also because today the malware will likely be running in a headless chromium instance)

Malware is not a virus. And it doesn't catch malware if you keep to trusted sources and keep on OS protective layers like SIP.

Install junk from warez sites and the like, and YOU installed something (still not a virus: a trojan). If you couldn't install it at all (also totally possible) you'd be crying how macOS restricts you.

In over 20 years of OS X use I've never had any virus, nor did anyone I know. Over 30 years of Windows I've had plenty.

>They definetly catch malware and it's as easy as in any other platform

If you install it, it's not a virus (and you can't avoid that in any OS, unless they lock you out of arbitrary program download and execution and only have you run in sandboxes).

Even so, you can very well install and not give it privileges, and then it can't even touch important directories. If you install it && enter your admin credentials to let it do whatever, it's on you.

>I've had a macbook since 2010, and to me its software quality has been going downhill since snow leopard, today it's completely unrecognizable.

It has, but that has nothing to do with now allowing viruses or even malware (in fact, regarding the latter, is more secure than it was in 2010 via multiple measures).
by Someone1234 | 2026-02-13 17:08:53+00:00
I get what you're saying; but the thing is you can kinda-sorta ignore the Liquid Glass stuff (performance not withstanding on older devices); but the keyboard is a "touch surface" people are actively using every single day.

Kind of a big deal that something you'll likely use every time you pick up your device has been broken now for going on years, with no real movement on the issue.
by Charmizard | 2026-02-13 17:08:58+00:00
I'm not a founder, but I am a builder and in the growth domain. So I can provide a different view for this.

1. Outbound in general is a hard space in 2026. Folks generally have a predisposition to auto-delete or be sensitive to 'wasting time' with cold outreach with the idea that they will most likely be sold to at some point.

2. Your best case scenario here is to offer free access to beta and then talk to every user you possibly can after that. Because at this point you have 1) ensured the person you are going to talk to has a use for your product and 2) offered them value before asking for something.

TL;DR

Offering value before asking for something is the key. This is true in almost every area.
by PKop | 2026-02-13 17:09:04+00:00
> Social contracts are typically unwritten

Maybe this is the case, but why is your presumption of entitlement to free labor of others the assumed social contract, the assumed "moral" position, rather than the immoral one?

Why is the assumed social contract that is unwritten not that you can have the free labor we've released to you so far, but we owe you nothing in the future?

There's too much assumption of the premise that "moral" and "social contract" are terms that make the entitled demands of free-loaders the good guys in this debate. Maybe the better "morality" is the selfless workers giving away the product of their labor for free are the actual good guys.
by rlnorthcutt | 2026-02-13 17:09:12+00:00
Its an interesting situation when an asset (like an open source project) is run by a team of volunteers (community)... but due to licensing, it kind of belongs to the whole world (community)

As a user of a project, I DO have a voice... but unless I am actively contributing (money, time, resources), then my voice has a different weight.

On the one hand, I don't like the idea that anyone should get more influence simply because they pay money... or that anyone should have more power just because they are active in the project. Both of those situations are possible paths for corruption or abuse of power.

On the other hand, the tragedy of the commons is a real thing. People who take, never give back, and then have the audacity to not only ask but demand things... well, that makes me angry.

I've moved from being an idealist to a realist, when it comes to open source. I think the evolving models we are seeing that restrict commercial competition are sometimes pretty good (overall), and the rise in COSS is a positive sign. We need to ensure that good projects have a way to sustain themselves.

The best projects have people (or even teams) who are focused on bringing new people in and helping them contribute. Not everyone can do that, but I think finding ways to enable people to contribute (money, time, etc) is an important part of building the community.
by qsort | 2026-02-13 17:09:17+00:00
Only if you assume a finite alphabet and bounded length. Relax either and you're back to O(n log n) for a fully general solution. Examples of both: tuples and strings.

(There's also the problem of how you define your computational model. You can do better than O(n log n) in transdichotomous models. I'm assuming the hand-wavy, naive model the average algorithms class goes along with.)
by tomkarho | 2026-02-13 17:09:32+00:00
Those who come to this magnificent piece of Sci-Fi for the first time, a word of advice: Pay attention. There are things set in motion in season 1 that are resolved multiple seasons later and there's a lot of foreshadowing (pun very much intended) both subtle and overt.

Oh and, enjoy the ride. It's a good one.
by raincole | 2026-02-13 17:09:41+00:00
> As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all

As a user of Hackernews you're not thereby entitled to anything at all.

As a member of the thing(forums, discord channels, facebook groups, any online community and real life community) you're not necessarily thereby entitled to anything at all.

Even as a user of some proprietary software, you're still not entitled to anything except perhaps critical bugfixes and security updates. Software is sold on shrinkwrap basis. You got what you bought.

It doesn't mean expressing your opinions about Hackernews, the thing or some proprietary software, even negative ones, is inherently wrong.
by barrell | 2026-02-13 17:09:50+00:00
I’ve got some plans around that :) currently there’s a really naive implementation of what I call “Language islands”. They’re collections of expressions/sentences. The idea here is to be able to share them, discuss them, correct them, and end up with more curated lists of learning materials.

So not post based like lang8, but more granular. I do expect people to write little entries/anecdotes piece by piece though and share them. There’s a pretty thriving telegram community so I’m hoping that solves the community aspect and gives people a place to exchange. (There’s also a subreddit but it’s not yet very active)

Finishing them is not my next task, but the one after. So soon!
by Nevermark | 2026-02-13 17:10:00+00:00
i have said it before: the Vision Pro with Mac screen linking is a tease for a complete Mac-superior spacial interface. The new high end device from Apple for the future. An interface that levels up a MacBook Pro’s or Studio’s power and productivity.

Except no. After getting the hardware right, Tim gave us an another iOS toy / media kiosk (in 3D!) for $3500.

I would have paid $5000 if it was the new developer friendly, macOS spacial, pro software, room-scale interface machine.

I would have thought Tim Cook would have been proud to push the product line / user interface, bicycle-for-the-mind bar higher during his tour of duty. An historic computing advancement.

But I guess raising the media kiosk, novelty apps and purchases, third party creator tax, service subscriptions and scammy ads with no ad-free tier revenue bar, is what he wants to be remembered for.
by singhrac | 2026-02-13 17:10:03+00:00
I want to like RustFS, but it feels like there's so much marketing attached to the software it turns me off a little. Even a little rocket emoji and benchmark in the Github about page. Sometimes less is more. Look at the ty Github home page - 1 benchmark on the main page, the description is just "An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.".
by mindslight | 2026-02-13 17:10:10+00:00
Sure, there is value to corporate top-down synchronization telling everyone to focus on a specific piece of media at the same time. I wasn't really complaining about that. In fact it would be interesting if we could recreate the effect some way in a more distributed culture.

But no, in my experience yt-dlp no longer just works unless you make your identity legible to Google (eg naive residential IP or supplying a logged-in session cookie).