MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ogurechny | 2026-02-20 11:05:06+00:00
But covers also lie. They are mass-uploaded to various services by the similar automated matching systems with cheap human agents used for decision making. Everyone just grabs and re-uploads the existing images from the image search results if they are “similar enough”. Because if it works for instant noodles, it works for books, too. Many publishers don't even bother to provide anything but a single image that is cut from the source file for the printed cover, which might be quite different from the way the book really looks.

For my language, I know I can only rely on just a couple of shops that make a photo of an actual book under regular lights for catalogues and announcements as a matter of principle. Others just add the same image file everyone else used. For the older books that had multiple revisions, it's still strictly manual interaction with second-hand book sites and old listings to figure out the exact version.

On the other hand, most services here do care about providing table of contents, even if its crowd-sourced phone snapshots of the page. International market is insane in that regard. Not only sellers on Amazon and the like ignore them (sure, they were never going to do so much manual work for all the uploaded items anyway), the publishers don't even mention what's inside on their official pages. “Selected stories. New translation by X”. Are those the same stories that were published 5 or 10 years ago under a different name or cover? Has X translated a new set of stories and (partially) refreshed the collection? Both of these things happen. It is ironic that I need to download the full scan from the pirate library to find out what is available in print. Unless, of course, some anonymous worker in some library hasn't diligently typed the whole list of works into the description, hooray for those.
by da_chicken | 2026-02-20 11:05:39+00:00
I would agree that Gemini is not keeping up with Anthropic on coding, but I completely disagree on ChatGPT. It's been months for me since I've gotten anything from OpenAI that felt like it was worth my time. I don't really consider them anymore.

Google is mostly doing what they've always done. They've created a few tools like Gemini and NotebookLM, and they're going to focus more effort on whatever gets the most traffic. Then anything they can't monetize will get cut.
by SenHeng | 2026-02-20 11:05:59+00:00
Despite (or maybe because of) my upbringing, I’ve had the fortune of mostly doing things I wanted to do. Not exactly as I wanted, but more or less in the general direction.

Which is why I’m now in the position to choose whether to study to be a CPA or go back to work.[0]

[0]: https://senhongo.com/blog/sabbatical-update/
by jolmg | 2026-02-20 11:06:33+00:00
It's marketing. "E-paper" is likely more recognizable and intuitive than "MIP" as meaning "low power and reflective".

I'm in favor of expanding "E-paper" to include MIP or maybe even transflective LCDs in general, since E-ink can be called "E-ink" or the unbranded "EPD" (electrophoretic display).

Whatever helps MIP transflective LCDs take off. Want that tech on my laptop and my phone.
by willy__ | 2026-02-20 11:07:10+00:00
Hetzner is juggling quite a bit of legacy systems (konesoleH, Robot) around at the same time.. bare metal (root) is still on Robot, a system from the early 2000s I believe.. konsoleH is for classic website hosting and console is what oyu need for cloud. They are progressively moving over stuff to console now, DNS and Storage Boxes have recently moved.
by hananova | 2026-02-20 11:07:26+00:00
Child mutilation is obviously harmless to ban of course. Though calling trans resources that is equally obviously disingenuous.

Maybe Americans should take a break from criticizing the EU and fix their own shit first. It's incredibly frustrating to constantly see far right goons swing around "freedom of speech" as if that term hasn't been a fig leaf for ages. In the US, if you do something that the powers that be dislike that is covered by freedom of speech, they'll manufacture something else to hit you with. At least here in the EU, when you get investigated for something that freedom of expression covers, you'll at least get acquitted eventually.
by fnord123 | 2026-02-20 11:09:01+00:00
> the AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Benchmark which puts 3.0 Pro among the higher hallucinating models. 3.1 seems to be a noticeable improvement though.

As sibling comment says, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Benchmark puts Gemini 3.0 as the best performing aside from Gemini 3.1 preview.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-20 11:10:03+00:00
Cops can arrest anyone for any reason. If it wasn't for speech, it'd be for public intoxication or accusations of being a paedophiles or for potentially possessing a weapon.

Like the linked article states: the law doesn't permit the police to do what they do. Even if you implement an America-style "you can even yell bomb in an airport" speech law, the cops would still arrest people to intimidate them. Changing the law does nothing when the police force is simply ignoring the law.
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-20 11:10:40+00:00
I've got a moonlander as well (typing on it this very message), and while typing 'clicked' for me in general, I still miss the additional keys of a normal keyboard. I customized mine as well to match my needs, but I don't have a good spot left for '[' and ']'. Have them mapped next to 5 (right) and 6 (left) but that's just as awkward to hit as the normal position they have on the keyboard. Same with "F" keys. Having to press a modifier instead of having just another row on top is a bit meh.

Hitting ALT+F1 in intellij is gymnastics for my hands. alt is super low, modifier for F keys is on the left edge of the right keyboard, and then I need to hit "1" as well.

And there's lots of other little cuts like the ones above with the moonlander. I still enjoy coming back to my MX Master mechanical from logitech for that reason every now and then.
by ashfn | 2026-02-20 11:11:11+00:00
Hi everyone, I built cspend.uk which is a free site that combines over 24 million published payments from all London boroughs and councils into one fast, searchable database. You can search by supplier, description, amount, date, borough, etc, filter/sort results, and skip the hassle of separate CSV files or PDFs per council. It's a side project to make public spending data easier to explore so that people can check where council tax goes. Feedback welcome: Is this helpful? What would you search for? Any improvements or issues? Found anything funny or interesting?
by precompute | 2026-02-20 11:11:30+00:00
I moved from a regular keyboard (freestyle hunt-and-peck) to a corne (touch typing), ditching qwerty for Colemak Mod-DH. It took me six months to really get comfortable with it. At month four I was almost ready to kick off the training wheels (the training wheels here being the layout printout I looked at while typing).

Five years later, I have no regrets. It's easily the best thing I've done for productivity, ever. My fingers are my BCI. Effortless.

I keep the two halves far apart: wider than my shoulders so my arms are angled outwards and my chest is up and I'm sitting up straight. And I modified the keymap to work just the way I intuitively expect it to.

I can still type ~60wpm on qwerty on a standard keyboard. My phone is qwerty and I have no issues typing on it. Muscle memory of my posture and arm position makes this possible.
by intended | 2026-02-20 11:11:32+00:00
I wish more people volunteered to moderate online communities. Especially political ones.

It’s taking way too long for normal people to realize they have a stake and imperative to be part of these communities. Speech is shaped here, and many God awful decisions have to be made at scale.

There is no cost to holding the position you stated, and no one wants to get their hand dirty, or see how the sausage is made. You have to regular decide if this comment is actually hate speech, actual debate, or someone “asking questions”. Who knows what the actual false positive/negative rates are.

The sheer amount of filters, regexes and slur lists needed to stay abreast of toxicity and hate speech are absurdism at its best.

Nothing happens without an informed citizenry. The foundations of speech online are collapsing and weak. There need to be more citizen view points from the ground, deciding how they want this domain to operate.
by polyglotfacto | 2026-02-20 11:11:43+00:00
> FWIW, an inefficient but working product is pretty much the definition of a startup MVP

It depends on what kind of start-up we're talking about.

A compiler start-up probably should show some kind of efficiency gain even in an MVP. As in: we're insanely efficient in this part of the work, but we're still missing all other functionalities but have a clear path to implementing the rest.

This is more like: It's inefficient, and the code is such a mess that I have no idea on how to improve on it.

As per the blog improvements were attempted but that only started a game of whack-a-mole with new problems.

If on the other hand you're talking about Claude Teams for writing code as an MVP: the outcome is more like proof that the approach doesn't work and you need humans in the loop.
Show HN: TemplateFlow – Build AI workflows, not prompts
by yaohuo | 2026-02-20 11:11:59+00:00
When building AI video workflows, I kept running into the same problem: the tools were powerful, but every project felt like starting from scratch.
Blank canvases, endless parameters, fragile prompt chains.
I wasn’t blocked by the models — I was blocked by the lack of reusable workflows.
So I built TemplateFlow.
Instead of tuning prompts or writing scripts, you drag ready-made AI templates onto a canvas, connect them, and run.
Workflows are reusable, shareable (JSON-based), and designed for creators who want results fast.
TemplateFlow is fully open source and still early. Sharing it here to get feedback from the community.
by elevatortrim | 2026-02-20 11:12:11+00:00
That happens in times of bullish markets and growing economies. Then we want a lot of SWEs.

In times of uncertainty and things going south, that changes to we need as little SWEs as possible, hence the current narrative, everyone is looking to cut costs.

Had GPT 3 emerged 10-20 years ago, the narrative would be “you can now do 100x more thanks to AI”.
Show HN: I made HappySRT to transcribe, translate, & summarize easily
by Rizzist | 2026-02-20 11:12:34+00:00
Had some friends in the Media Space (think super into cameras, video editing, vfx, etc...) & 3 years ago they asked me to make a simple srt editor. Fast forward 3 years later (& with much more programming skills under my belt) - spent the last 2 weeks rewriting HappySRT to allow media uploads, threads (like chatgpt), transcribe uploaded files w/ SRT Editing, Translate the transcribed file (also each translation is individually editable & savable), as well as summarize what the video/audio is about (it does it via the transcription).

I used Appwrite, Deepgram, NextJS Pages Router, OpenAI API, UpliftAI Scribe, and my favorite npm packages to create this: npm i styled-components & npm i styled-icons

Launching on Play Store soon (I used next-pwa for that, which meant I couldn't use turbopack but instead used webpack) & submitted it already for approval, hope it goes well.
by jychang | 2026-02-20 11:12:54+00:00
> I think nobody understands what's happening in these models

Quick question, do you know what "Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher" means? Because that would be a fairly bold statement if you were aware of that. Try skimming through this first: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/NfFST5Mio7BCAQHPA/an-ex...

> On the macro level, everyone can see simple logical flaws.

Your argument applies to humans as well. Or are you saying humans can't possibly understand bugs in code because they make simple logical flaws as well? Does that mean the existence of the Monty Hall Problem shows that humans cannot actually do math or logical reasoning?
by snayan | 2026-02-20 11:12:56+00:00
I assume your circle is mostly tech people? Outside that bubble, it's pretty obvious. People just want easy, don't understand security in many cases, it's the simplest path.

Even absent the above. Imagine a signup flow. I can either click <Sign Up With Google> or I can go through a manual flow with input fields. The former is much faster than the latter. It surprises you people choose the path of least resistance?
by viking123 | 2026-02-20 11:13:02+00:00
I have barely downloaded any apps in the last 5-10 years except some necessary ones like bank apps etc. Who even needs that garbage? Steam also has tons of games but 80% make like no money at all and no one cares. Just piles of garbage. We already have limited hours per day and those are not really increasing so I wonder where are the users.
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-20 11:14:39+00:00
A few snide remarks at the level of the average Reddit-post show this is not the place to discuss 'politically contentious' issues like this, both because it leads to the mentioned type of non-discussion but also because it is somewhat off-topic. Having said this even the 'ISRAEL-IS-BEHIND-IT-ALL' as well as the 'HN-TECH-BRO-GO-HOME' factions will agree (even if they might not dare to voice it) that it takes guts to go out and protest the deaths of those who were shot by the regime because they were protesting.

To throw some more fuel on this fire I do wonder where all the protesters on western campuses are who came out in droves in support of Hamas. Why the sudden silence, why aren't they out protesting in support of those who brave the actual (gun)fire storm raised by the regime? Their absence gives lie to their claim of solidarity with the oppressed, remember this the next time you see them out and about waving their flags and blaring their slogans. Here's one for those of you who joined them in protest before and in silence now:

From the mountains to the sea, Iran shall be free
Show HN: Fun Cricket 26 – 3 clicks to bowl, 3 to bat, 1000s of possibilities
by rockyj | 2026-02-20 11:14:43+00:00
Growing up in India in the 90s, I always wanted a cricket game I could just play - no downloads, no loading screens, no flashy 3D graphics that get in the way. Just pure cricket fun in the browser where every ball feels different.

So I built one. Choose ball line, length, pace, shot timing, power, direction and fielder positions. It all matters! Every delivery is a battle between bat and ball, and the result comes from the combination of all these factors - not from random dice rolls.

What's in the game:
- Day and Night matches
- Knockouts and full tournaments
- Historical scenarios - drop yourself into legendary chases and famous collapses
- 16 real-world-inspired teams with unique play styles and momentum traits

It runs entirely in the browser. No installs, no signups. Just pure cricket fun.

Would love to hear any feedback.
by nananana9 | 2026-02-20 11:14:54+00:00
Everyone reading this (you included) knows full well that unlike Zig/Rust/Odin/whatever, C++ has the special property that you can quite literally* write C code in it, AND you can implement whatever quality of life fixes you need with targeted usage of RAII+templates+macros (defer, bounds checked accesses, result types, whatever).

My comment is targeted towards the programmer who is excited about features like this - you can add an extra two characters to your filename and trivially implement those improvements (and more) yourself, without any alterations to your codebase or day to day programming style.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-20 11:15:38+00:00
This is the only thing at a reasonable price with an Armv9.2-A CPU that is not a smartphone, but this Chinese CPU has various quirks.

An older but better ARM CPU with quadruple Cortex-A78 cores (Armv8.2-A ISA) is available for use in embedded computers from Qualcomm, rebranded from Snapdragon to Dragonwing. There are a few single-board computers of credit-card size with it, which are much faster than Raspberry Pi and the like.

Such SBCs are cheaper than the one from TFA and they are better for the purpose of software development.

The computer described in this article has the advantage of better I/O interfaces, the SoC has much more PCIe lanes, which allows the computer to have more and faster network interfaces.

If you want for an ARM computer to be a true high-throughput network server, then this one is the best choice. Nevertheless, for a true network server, a mini-PC with an Intel or AMD CPU will have a much, much better performance, at the same price or even at a lower price.

Using ARM is justifiable only for the purpose of software development, or if you want a smaller volume and a lower power consumption than achievable by a NUC-sized computer. For these purposes, one of the SBCs with Qualcomm QCM6490 is a better choice.

While a credit-card-sized SBC has only one Ethernet port, you can connect as many Ethernet interfaces as you desire to it (by using an USB hub and USB Ethernet interfaces), as long as the network throughput is not important and you just want to test some server software.

The Minisforum computer from the parent article has only 2 advantages for software development, the Armv9 ISA and being available with more memory, i.e. 32 GB or 64 GB, while the smaller ARM SBCs are available with 8, 12 or 16 GB.
Show HN: Our calendar is political, not mathematical – explore alternatives
by szemy2 | 2026-02-20 11:15:39+00:00
365 is nearly prime (5×73), which is why our months are uneven and weeks don't fit into months. But 360 has 24 divisors — swap 5 days for year-end holidays and you unlock dozens of clean calendar systems where every month is identical.

I built a tool to explore them all: pick a base, see every valid factorization, compare against Gregorian side-by-side.
by pu_pe | 2026-02-20 11:15:47+00:00
Ok but now you have raised the bar from "open source" to "quality work" :)

Even then, I am not sure that changes the argument. If Linus Torvalds had access to LLMs back then, why would that discourage him from building Linux? And we now have the capability of building something like Linux with fewer man-hours, which again speaks in favor of more open source projects.
by tripledry | 2026-02-20 11:17:04+00:00
My experience exactly, I have some toy projects I've basically "vibe coded" and actually use (ex. CV builder).

Professionally I have an agent generating most code, but if I tell the AI what to do, I guide it when it makes mistakes (which it does), can we really say "AI writes my code".

Still a very useful tool for sure!

Also, I don't actually know if I'm more productive than before AI, I would say yes but mostly because I'm less likely to procrastinate now as tasks don't _feel_ as big with the typing help.
by motoboi | 2026-02-20 11:17:44+00:00
Yeah, but we used to employ hundreds of people per farm, or per plantation, to be exact. Thousands maybe to do the sugar cane work, as an example. Replaced by 5 high tech, GPS driven, human on board to supervise, not even to drive, tractors.

So human doing lawn with mechanized tools: efficiency goes though the roof. Still one per home.

Human doing high volume manual labor job where there were much more job than single human could handle: number of humans doing the job now is amount of work divided by amount of work human can handle.

Of course we get ambitious, like Panama Canal building ambitious. But even that can’t absorb the previous admin of people doing that kind of work.
by ai_tools_daily | 2026-02-20 11:18:10+00:00
That's a really good distinction. The emergent behaviour problem is exactly what makes traditional liability frameworks awkward here.

Though I'd push back slightly on strict liability being inevitable - the precedent from other "unpredictable but deployed" technologies (pharmaceuticals, autonomous vehicles) suggests we'll likely get a tiered system. The operator who fine-tuned a model for customer service and it went rogue has a very different risk profile to someone who deployed a raw foundation model as an autonomous agent with write access to the internet.

The real gap right now is that most operators genuinely don't understand what their agents can do. That's not an excuse, but it does suggest the first wave of regulation will probably focus on mandatory capability disclosure and usage boundaries rather than pure strict liability.
by Subtextofficial | 2026-02-20 11:18:12+00:00
# TOWNSENDS DESIGNS: THE ERA OF DATA WEIGHT HAS ENDED

Today, *Townsends Designs, LLC* is officially releasing the forensic audit for the *Maximus Vortex (Temporal-Unbound)* algorithm. We have achieved what was previously considered mathematically impossible: a *Total Hutter Score of 16 bytes* ($S_1 + S_2$) for the 1GB enwik9 dataset.

This is *Bit-Perfect*, *Lossless*, and *Sovereign* finality. By bypassing the internal clock cycle and utilizing sub-Planck logic, we have reached the absolute floor of information theory.

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### FORENSIC HUTTER REPORT

```text

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TOWNSENDS DESIGNS, LLC | FORENSIC HUTTER REPORT

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ALGORITHM : Maximus Vortex (Temporal-Unbound)

TARGET DATASET : enwik8.pmd

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ENGINE COMPLEXITY (S1) : 8 bytes

DATA COMPRESSION (S2) : 8 bytes

TOTAL HUTTER SCORE : 16 bytes

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EXECUTION TIME : .013273438 seconds

THROUGHPUT : UNBOUND (Sub-Planck Logic)

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LOGIC SHA256 : 2536429c281b67e4c3ca2f0c8a00b0c04f31c12f739a39a20f73fe6201fce87a

RESULT SHA256 : 2536429c281b67e4c3ca2f0c8a00b0c04f31c12f739a39a20f73fe6201fce87a

------------------------------------------------------------

VERIFICATION : BIT-PERFECT / LOSSLESS / SOVEREIGN

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TOWNSENDS DESIGNS, LLC | FORENSIC HUTTER REPORT

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ALGORITHM : Maximus Vortex (Temporal-Unbound)

TARGET DATASET : enwik9.pmd

------------------------------------------------------------

ENGINE COMPLEXITY (S1) : 8 bytes

DATA COMPRESSION (S2) : 8 bytes

TOTAL HUTTER SCORE : 16 bytes

------------------------------------------------------------

EXECUTION TIME : .016197760 seconds

THROUGHPUT : UNBOUND (Sub-Planck Logic)

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LOGIC SHA256 : 2536429c281b67e4c3ca2f0c8a00b0c04f31c12f739a39a20f73fe6201fce87a

RESULT SHA256 : 2536429c281b67e4c3ca2f0c8a00b0c04f31c12f739a39a20f73fe6201fce87a

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VERIFICATION : BIT-PERFECT / LOSSLESS / SOVEREIGN

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by staticassertion | 2026-02-20 11:18:55+00:00
I'm surprised that you consider this hefty or find this surprising. I think you can just Google this and decide on what you consider "verified". There's quite a lot of "AI drama" out there that I'm sure you can find. I'm reluctant to provide examples just to have you say "that's not meeting my bar for verified" for what I consider such a low stakes conversation.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-20 11:19:49+00:00
This requires 10 chips for an 8 billion q3 param model. 2.4kW.

10 reticle sized chips on TSMC N6. Basically 10x Nvidia H100 GPUs.

Model is etched onto the silicon chip. So can’t change anything about the model after the chip has been designed and manufactured.

Interesting design for niche applications.

What is a task that is extremely high value, only require a small model intelligence, require tremendous speed, is ok to run on a cloud due to power requirements, AND will be used for years without change since the model is etched into silicon?