MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jama211 | 2026-02-20 18:14:59+00:00
Most useful apps refuse to run? I have an iPad Pro from 2016 and it runs everything I throw at it. Perhaps the air’s weaker hardware was always destined to struggle as time moves on. That being said I also have an iPad from 2011 which I can still use as a Spotify machine.

But true, they don’t have the flexibility of a laptop. They are however the longest lasting tablets I’m aware of.
by cael450 | 2026-02-20 18:15:00+00:00
We've let criminal administrations get away with too much for too long. Nixon, Reagan, Bush Jr., and Trump 1 were all allowed to disregard the law and it got worse every time. We cannot move forward without purging crime and corruption from our system. Everyone from the top down to Billy-Bod ICE agent.

No more Merrick Garlands. No hand-wringing over appearances of weaponizing the DoJ. The next president needs to appoint an AG who enforces the law, and if they don't do it, they need be fired and replaced by someone who will.
by zahlman | 2026-02-20 18:15:37+00:00
> It would be amazing if there were some kind of universal system to make it easy to look up a specific option in a man page (“what does -a do?”). The best trick I know is use the man pager to search for something like ^ *-a but I never remember to do it and instead just end up going through every instance of -a in the man page until I find what I’m looking for.

Maybe what we need is a better man page reader?
by exceptione | 2026-02-20 18:16:01+00:00
I wish everyone a nice party, but the problem isn't Trump. Its what behind him: the ideologues, the power brokers and their networks, the 0.001%. Plus the masses having been bathing in culture wars for years.

Trump is just good for circus, I would say the GOP can call themselves really lucky with him. His job is to successfully capture media attention, keeping what enables him out of the spotlight. He lacks all qualities, except that one ability to grab the mass media by their pussy. New craziness every day makes good headlines.

Problem is that his enablers are not aligned on all core issues. Yes, you have got the Heritage Foundation which mainly wants to go back to the gilded age with a vast christian lower class. But you also have a circle of people who believe that crashing the US, including the dollar, enables them to build a US like they want. Its a weird coalition of billionaires predating on the millionaires, grifters, christian nationalists, Neo-nazi's like Miller, tech-accelerationists etc.

You should fear the day when Trump isn't needed anymore. MAGA is Trump. GOP will have to shift up ideological gear after him, and it won't be as nice as Trump. Even if internal war breaks out in the GOP, it is too early for a party.
by notorandit | 2026-02-20 18:16:24+00:00
We ("you") have no power to keep android open. Unfortunately it is in the hands of a company that is building it for profit, in a way or the other.

It's been our choice to drink this glass of wishful thinking while giving that company a solid dominant position in the market.

We ("you") can only make choices that will overturn that trend.

Fully opensource hardware with fully opensource software? Maybe, but also this is wishful thinking.
by benlivengood | 2026-02-20 18:16:28+00:00
Hey, I had to read On The Road once for college, and I am currently sitting in SF.

To be fair to Jack Kerouac, I was young when I read it but even at my advanced age I don't think I want to reread it.

Also, the old hippie culture sort of moved out of SF and into the surrounding bay, I think especially toward East Bay.
by lhopki01 | 2026-02-20 18:16:35+00:00
Yes I understand it was designed that way 250 years ago. What I don't understand is why so many Americans think that it was perfect. Why aren't Americans open to the idea that their system of "separation of powers" is fundamentally flawed. I went to an American school and separation of powers is talked about is as if it's the only possible right answer.

The US quickly realized that the loose federation wasn't going to work and centralized a lot of power. It should continue to evolve it's system.

It's worth noting that even the US doesn't think it's system is a good idea. When it imposes a new government on countries (like Iraq) it chooses a parliamentary system.
by marcianx | 2026-02-20 18:17:27+00:00
I do type Z with little finger, etc, because that's how the typing software I used long, long time ago taught it. But I don't accommodate by messing up my wrists, which are still in a natural position. My fingers just adapted to the needed flexibility. My left pinky hitting the Z is trivial and less effort, IMO, than my right index finger hitting Y.
And yes, I use a conventional straight keyboard, not an ergonomic one.
by barrkel | 2026-02-20 18:17:41+00:00
The hard thing about coding isn't really the code. It's the data. Both data at rest and data flowing in and out of your system.

Vibe coding creates the illusion that code has become far more malleable. And it has, for greenfield, for a game, for a one-off stateless utility.

But most applications of significance work with a lot of data. Data resists the malleability you have with code. At scale, data is expensive to migrate and it's easy to make a mistake that loses data. With distribution, you may have to act at a distance, and write code you hope will work with the data where it is, and follow careful migration patterns like dual writing, fallback read, ongoing rewriting and so on, at a distance.

Distributed or privacy gated data generates constraints that AI can't easily see, can't easily react to. AI thrives on quick feedback loops. Test-first works great. Testing in production only works when it's your hobby project.

In many ways, software businesses are gardeners of data. Data creates stickiness; when customers decide to take their data elsewhere, or create a new stock of data somewhere else, that's when they churn.

I'm not sure the unleashed masses would be happy to be such gardeners.

And there's a deeper point here, about sovereignty. Even if we have the magical data systems of the future, that the AI can do as you say, even though it's hard to execute, and the AI will still do it reliably: what if you tell it to do something irreversible? To drop a column, to combine separated data into one blob. The AI might advise you not to do it, but the AI can't actually fix the problem of bad judgement without removing your sovereignty. And that would be a very dangerous place to go; I would hope, and expect, that we don't go there.
by gf000 | 2026-02-20 18:18:05+00:00
> "Temu iOS"

Come on, that's absolutely laughable.

There are several topics where Android is significantly ahead to the point that iOS is just a toy, and there are areas where the reverse is true.

And I say that as a recent convert, so it's not like I have a decade out of date view of any of the OSs. In my experience I had more visual bugs in case of iOS than android (volume slider not displaying correctly in certain cases when the content was rotated as a very annoying example).
by cael450 | 2026-02-20 18:18:13+00:00
He didn't pardon anyone involved with January 6th until he was re-elected. There is a documentary where Roger Stone acts psychotic with anger because Trump refused to issue a pardon for him or anyone else after Jan. 6. Trump is a selfish person, and if he thinks he is going to be vulnerable, he isn't going to protect anyone else for no other than reason than he thinks they should go down with him.
by carbynelab | 2026-02-20 18:18:18+00:00
Hi all, would love to have your input on how this app is for personal trainers and trainees. Tried to include as many features as I could:

1) Ability for trainers to manage multiple trainees (group trainings)
2) In-app video and chat, with app notifications
3) 300 possible programs can be generated based on a user's schedule (to hit the gym) and preferences
4) Numerous built-in calculators
5) Motion analysis and AI nutrition camera (in development)

Just sign up for any account, it's currently on beta so is free for all plans!

Hope to hear everyone's thoughts:)
by mecsred | 2026-02-20 18:18:47+00:00
That would honestly be an incredible performance art piece, like a distilled waste of a human life just to prove a point. Then even after all that you could ask the question "Is the art inferior, did it prove the point effectively.". I think there's a real argument to be made that it didn't, becuase just having the argument surfaces some very interesting points about worth.
by PhunkyPhil | 2026-02-20 18:19:17+00:00
I think it's really useful for agent to agent communication, as long as context loading doesn't become a bottleneck. Right now there can be noticeable delays under the hood, but at these speeds we'll never have to worry about latency when chain calling hundreds or thousands of agents in a network (I'm presuming this is going to take off in the future). Correct me if I'm wrong though.
by 0x1ch | 2026-02-20 18:19:48+00:00
You underestimate my friend and true keyboard nerds. We're talking 40% splits and less, two or more additional programmed layers in combination with tap key combos, vim-binds everything he can.

I don't think losing a few letters or context switching is a big concern to him anymore lol. He doesn't even type QWERTY in English, he's a colemak guy haha.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-20 18:19:50+00:00
The west had been fighting this since it's founding.

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
― Ulysses S. Grant
by flipgimble | 2026-02-20 18:20:14+00:00
the "global damage" is largely because these tariffs were arbitrary, lacking strategic planning, and highly inflationary creating a turbulence tax. The frequent reversals and selective granting of exemptions showed that its another tool to enrich the Trump family, cabinet and their business associates. In other worlds the rest of the world stopped trusting the US and started making trade deals on their own.
by 8organicbits | 2026-02-20 18:20:20+00:00
Seems like a bad faith question, unfortunate that it was asked multiple times. Blacklist is derived from a definition where black means "evil, bad, or undesirable". When you say that ink is black, you're using a different definition, which relates to color. I don't know if I see the objection to blackbox, which uses a definition of "unknown". Personally, I think the harm is small but I look to people of color for guidance and prefer the more descriptive deny-list where I can. Cuts down on possible confusion for non-native English speakers too.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-20 18:20:33+00:00
I’ll go ahead and say they’re wrong (source: building and maintaining llm client with llama.cpp integrated & 40+ 3p models via http)

I desperately want there to be differentiation. Reality has shown over and over again it doesn’t matter. Even if you do same query across X models and then some form of consensus, the improvements on benchmarks are marginal and UX is worse (more time, more expensive, final answer is muddied and bound by the quality of the best model)
by lelanthran | 2026-02-20 18:21:19+00:00
> EMV terminals are not under daily cybersecurity attack - you need to have physical access unless you designed your system weirdly.

They are under daily attack - in public, at tills, operated by minimum-wage earners.

> You probably had loads of vulnerabilities.

Sure. Hundreds of thousands of terminals sitting in the field, networked, under the control of minimum wage employees, each holding credit card details for hundreds of cards at a time...

Yeah, you're right, not a target at all!

> But also depending on when you did it, all you had to process was a bar code which is also isn’t some super complicated task.

You are hopelessly naive. Even in the magstripe era, certification was not easy.

> It’s just wild for me to encounter someone who believes C is a safe language

When did you meet this person?

Look, the bottom line is, the errors due to memory safety in programs written in C is so small it's a rounding error. It's not even statistical noise. You spent your life surrounded by these programs that, if they went wrong, would kill you, and yet here you are, not only arguing from a place of ignorance, you are reveling in it.

Just out of interest, have you ever used an LLM to write code for you?
by stackghost | 2026-02-20 18:21:33+00:00
>Come on, that's absolutely laughable.

It's not, though. Google phones are not going to suddenly become luxury devices.

It's going to remain at the same level of polish (i.e. mediocre), except now without the major selling point of being able to run your own apps and have alternative app stores, etc. Back around Ice Cream Sandwich or thereabouts they got rid of "phone calls only mode" and forced us to rely on their half-baked "priority mode" that's an opaque shitshow.

When my wife is on call she gets random whatsapp notifications dinging all night, whereas when I had an iphone I could set Focus mode and achieve proper "phone calls only".

Android is not good. I use it despite its flaws, because of the trade-offs, not because it's better.
by snug | 2026-02-20 18:21:34+00:00
I've also dove into all of those, and have mostly stuck to OpenSCAD now. I'm not amazing at it, but I've been able to get a few things done that I needed for 3D printing. What has really made much better at OpenSCAD is ClaudeCode or Antigravity in VSCode, with BSOL2 library. The documentation is just bad enough that it takes me forever to figure out on my own, but just good enough with lots of examples out there that an LLM can get mostly what I want with little fuss.
by robrenaud | 2026-02-20 18:22:07+00:00
Cite a source. Your concrete claim is that, on average, for every $1 of subscription revenue on a monthly subscription, OpenAI and Anthropic were losing $11.50?

It seems completely implausible.

I could believe that if a $20 sub used every possible token granted, it would cost $250. But certainly almost no one was completely milking their subscription. In the same way that no one is streaming netflix literally 24/7.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-20 18:22:27+00:00
I think posts like

https://spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cleaning-up-merged-git-branch...

https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2026/02/beginners-guide-sp...

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2026/02/17/web-components-th...

https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/overclocking-the-pico-2

are about reproducible results and are written by people who know what they are talking about and are situated in a frame which doesn't distort their value.

A report on AI coding is usually like a report on what happened when you spent an evening playing the slots -- it's not at all reproducible, half of it is that raw luck (you win some you lose some) and the other half is that "dark matter" of skill and taste which of course is captured in your prompts, particularly as you feed back to that randomness. I can scan those other articles and quickly pick up something cool, "vibe coding" reports just exhaust me.

Past that are all the posts where people who don't know what they are talking about make big pronouncements about what it all means or how it will go and even if they are the likes of Ezra Klein or Scott Alexander it noise and not signal. You could throw a high-signal article into this arena and people wouldn't recognize it for all the noise.

So yeah, I go to the /new page quite often and find there are 22 articles about AI (probably 20 are noise) and 8 articles that aren't about AI and I will upvote the 8 even if some of them are noise, at least they are noise about something that's not AI.
by lproven | 2026-02-20 18:22:38+00:00
Sorry for the slow reply. I've looked and there doesn't seem to be any way to tell.

I've used them regularly for about 5 or 6 years now and the paint is wearing off. The only readable markings are the [L] and [R] indications for which goes in which year.

Something akin to these:

https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/in-ear-headphones/mdr-ex6...

Nickel/neodynium bass drivers, quite large and chunky compared to cheaper Sony 'phones. The cables go into a separate fat little cylinder to which the earbud itself is permanently attached at a fixed angle.

However, they're not noticeable in the ear at all and they're very comfy to wear.

These are listed at £40 now but before the recent burst of inflation I think about half that is plausible.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-20 18:22:55+00:00
This comes across as a shallow understanding of git, with the author very eager bash it instead of understanding it.

> On top of that, git is not syntax-aware, so false conflicts are pretty common.

If you have a syntax-aware merge tool, you can tell git to use it. Git does not bundle such for all the languages in the world, or force the user into a specific language (as the author seems to intend to do).

> Fundamentally, git merges are an act of will, they are not deterministic.

They are deterministic, though? It seems author is confused about the fact that humans can add edits on top to resolve conflicts.

> [Part II] With remote branches different from local branches

They're both just refs.

> staging and stash different from commits, plus the worktree

Jj unifies all these while being "just git" underneath (for most users).

> GET //branch2 switching the branch;

GET with side effects?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-20 18:23:09+00:00
> We heard from developers who were concerned about the barrier to entry when building apps intended only for a small group, like family or friends. We are using your input to shape a dedicated account type for students and hobbyists. This will allow you to distribute your creations to a limited number of devices without going through the full verification requirements.

In classic Google fashion, they hear the complaint, pretend that it's about something else, and give a half baked solution to that different problem that was not the actual issue. Any solution that disadvantages F-Droid compared to the less trustworthy Google Play is a problem.
by menaerus | 2026-02-20 18:23:10+00:00
I mean if the model can reason about making the changes on the large-scale repository then this implies it can also reason about the change somebody else did, no? I kinda agree and disagree with you at the same time, which is why I said most of the engineers but I believe we are heading towards the model being able to completely autonomously write and review its own changes.
by tehjoker | 2026-02-20 18:23:11+00:00
Those people weren't ideologically against you on housing, healthcare, or poor salaries etc. If they were, you wouldn't be able to convince them. The reason they were easier to move is because of their class position. If you talked to a business owner, they would be against improving many of those things, particularly poor salaries and retirement. Healthcare keeps employees tied to work too.

With workers, there isn't an economic interest against changing those positions. With a business owner there is. I'm sure you understand this since you are talking about unions. In the taxonomy I described, I would categorize the people you're talking to as "soft" or "uninformed" because you are encouraging them to take action in their own interest.
by catapart | 2026-02-20 18:23:28+00:00
Your visualizer looks great! I really like that it queues up tasks to run instead of only operating on the code during runtime attachment. I haven't seen that kind of thing before.

I built my own node graph utility to do this for my code, after using Unreal's blueprints for the first time. Once it clicked for me that the two are different views of the same codebase, I was in love. It's so much easier for me to reason about node graphs, and so much easier for me to write code as plain text (with an IDE/language server). I share your wish that there were a more general utility for it, so I could use it for languages other than js/ts.

Anyway, great job on this!
by iFire | 2026-02-20 18:23:32+00:00
As part of my donated work in Godot Engine, my approach is to improve manifold https://github.com/elalish/manifold to get a "geometric kernel"

I think I've succeeded and many CAD tools use manifold for geometric kernels on 3d boundary meshes.

I was able to get Godot Engine and Blender to adopt elalish/manifold.

List of CAD tools that adopted elalish/manifold.

OpenSCAD Blender IFCjs
Nomad Sculpt Grid.Space badcad
Godot Engine OCADml Flitter
BRL-CAD PolygonJS Spherene
Babylon.js trimesh Gypsum
Valence 3D bitbybit.dev PythonOpenSCAD
Conversation AnchorSCAD Dactyl Web Configurator
Arcol Bento3D SKÅPA
Cadova BREP.io Otterplans
Bracket Engineer
by dizzant | 2026-02-20 18:24:21+00:00
In his dissent [1], Justice Kavanaugh states:

> Given that the phrase “adjust the imports”—again, in a statutory
provision that did not use specific words such as “tariff ” or
“duty”—was unanimously held by this Court in 1976 to
include tariffs, and given that President Nixon had
similarly relied on his statutory authority to “regulate . . .
importation” to impose 10 percent tariffs on virtually all
imports from all countries, could a rational citizen or
Member of Congress in 1977 have understood “regulate . . .
importation” in IEEPA not to encompass tariffs? I think
not. Any citizens or Members of Congress in 1977 who
somehow thought that the “regulate . . . importation”
language in IEEPA excluded tariffs would have had their
heads in the sand.

The roll-call vote for HB7738 (IEEPA) was not recorded [2], so we seemly can't confirm today how any sitting members voted at the time. But there are two members of Congress remaining today who were present for the original vote: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ed Markey (D-Mass). They clearly both agree with the Court, while having different opinions on the tariffs themselves.

Statement by Grassley [3]:

> I’m one of the only sitting members of Congress who was in office during IEEPA’s passage. Since then, I’ve made clear Congress needs to reassert its constitutional role over commerce, which is why I introduced prospective legislation that would give Congress a say when tariffs are levied in the future. ... I appreciate the work [President Trump] and his administration are doing to restore fair, reciprocal trade agreements. I urge the Trump administration to keep negotiating, while also working with Congress to secure longer-term enforcement measures.

Statement by Markey after previous decision in August [4]:

> Today’s ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit makes it clear that President Trump’s chaotic tariff policy is illegal. ... Today’s ruling is an important step in ending the economic whiplash caused by Trump’s abusive tariff authority.

N=2 is scant evidence, but it seems like both sides of the aisle "had their head in the sand", or Justice Kavanaugh's historical interpretation is a bit off.

[1] p.127: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf

[2] g. 22478: https://www.congress.gov/95/crecb/1977/07/12/GPO-CRECB-1977-...

[3] https://www.ketv.com/article/lawmakers-from-nebraska-iowa-re...

[4] https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2025/8/ranking-m...
by jppope | 2026-02-20 18:24:59+00:00
there was a thing on hacker news a couple of months ago by a group that measures that... the TLDR is that hot liquids or hot materials against plastic during production does increase micro plastics in food, which makes sense. Obv, we still don't have a full understanding of the health implications.

also, I think the company here is being generous to themselves... mocha pots, and pretty much all pour overs are all plastic-free... they really aren't the first to do plastic-free