MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-21 04:28:40+00:00
Lots of people take for granted that their government exists and doesn't suck as bad as those in other places. Say what you want about it, but every successful country cultivates a national culture and identity. This is especially important for countries where the people are very heterogeneous in other identity facets. If people feel no particular affinity for the country because they are rarely encouraged to stop and think about it, how exactly would anyone be found who is willing to defend the country itself and thus their own existence which they take for granted?
by chii | 2026-02-21 04:29:19+00:00
> Similar story for lower levels of confidence

therefore, the polymarket betting odds will reflect the truth - even if that info is a secret that nobody else but the insider knows. And if this is the case, then even an outsider could make use of the odds as a source of info which would ensure that market efficiency (which is about the flow of information) is high.

So what's wrong with insider trading again?
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-21 04:29:26+00:00
I did this for OAuth and OAuth2 in Unison. It was a headache to be sure I did everything procedurally correct. The hash token is based off using certain KVPs from a dictionary of various bits of data, and you sort it in a certain order before hashing, and certain steps require certain bits of data, and sometimes it's URL encoded and sometimes it's not, and all of this dramatically changes the hash.

I remember how stoked I was to finally get it working. It was a massive pain, but luckily there were websites that would walk through the process procedurally, showing how everything worked, one step at a time.
by PredictionEdge | 2026-02-21 04:29:48+00:00
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by phil21 | 2026-02-21 04:30:21+00:00
What I think is interesting is if there is going to be a legal distinction between a seller raising their prices 10% for the item itself vs. a seller charging a separate line item for tariffs/customs/duties.

I can see a situation where the courts find that a general price increase is simply they - an offer to sell at a price the buyer accepted regardless of the seller's motivation to increase pricing. However a line item that very clearly states that a charge is for duties paid might be treated differently?

Very curious to see what the legal minds have to say in this scenario. In a way it may punish companies for doing what many to most consumers feel was the "right" thing to do - add a surcharge that can easily be removed if the situation changed in the future vs. using a general increase as a new price anchor.
by AndyCappDev | 2026-02-21 04:31:20+00:00
Yea... the first two interpreters I wrote in C used no third party libraries either. But I admit that I did not write a rasterizer for those as all they needed to do whas convert to other formats.

I did write rasterization code for a Win95 driver for HP that was very fast. I used Michael Abrash's Zen of Graphics Programming as a starting point and extended/expanded on his algorithms.

This time around I wanted to focus on the PostScript language itself and cairo saved me a lot of time on the hind end. Though it does have some bugs... Like it's strokepath implementation for dashed lines. I worked around them though by writing my own strokepath and feed them to cario as raw paths.

The LaserWriter angle is certainly interesting though. Why specific to the LaserWriter may I ask?
by keepamovin | 2026-02-21 04:31:26+00:00
I love what the CERN team did here visually with the NeXT UI. Rebuilding a historical browser inside a modern one is a fun rabbit hole, but man, it is the same technical wall to hit every time: iframes.

You build this beautiful retro UI, you wire up the address bar, and then you try to load a modern site and just hit a wall of CORS, X-Frame-Options, and CSP blocks. Which, tho is probably precisely things should work. Otherwise people arbitrarily iframe the open web opening up a massive clickjacking-pocalypse. It makes total sense for security....sigh.

But I sitll wanted a way to get around it to capture that 90s nostalgia (tho NeXT and this browser were actually from the late 80s), the real open web inside a retro recreation not just a crippled, iframe-blocked imitation. Or "everything links to archive org" stuff.

To make that work, I had to make a custom embedder API. It basically pipes a fully isolated remote Chromium instance right into the retro shell through an iframe in a custom element. The engine is real, and it respects the native security boundaries because the browser is physically isolated, but it wears that heavy 90s UI so you get the 90s feel.

If you want to mess around with a different flavor of 90s nostalgia that can actually surf the modern web, I put up a live version here: https://win9-5.com/demo. Sound on for the retro modem dial-up elevator music. The non-graybeards may never have experienced the modem's mating call in the wild.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-21 04:32:00+00:00
It reminds kids that they live in the United States, and that the country has values, and that they will be expected to defend the country as part of the social contract. I don't know if other countries have pledges like this but on the surface it seems OK to me. I think it also inspires worthwhile conversations about what we owe to the country (or not).
by hdtx54 | 2026-02-21 04:33:04+00:00
You dont have to wait for corporate wonderland or others to take positions or provide you guidance on Morality. That comes from within you.
If you see something going on and you see corporate hierarchy acting morally detached (which is how they are trained) report it via whatever anonymous method available to law enforcement. Dont fool yourself that these kind of situations have neat resolutions whatever you do. Media attention wont do shit.
Think of it like working at a cancer hospital. Some times what you do makes a diff. Some times whatever you doesnt. All you have are your values. Once you let them go or allow others to coopt them you are the one who has to deal with it.
by zerocrates | 2026-02-21 04:33:17+00:00
The IEEPA one works where it can last as long as the "emergency," which Congress can vote to end. The "days don't count as days" game just lets the House have an easier time of not bringing it up for a vote.

This other authority is different: it's limited within the law to 150 days and then has to be extended by Congress. So the same kind of strategy of just avoiding a vote doesn't work here. They could monkey with the deadline, but can't do so any more easily than just actually extending the tariff for real. Of course just like today you can have Trump jump to some new authority on day 151 instead.
by dakolli | 2026-02-21 04:34:08+00:00
The FBI called out archive.today a couple months ago, there's clearly a campaign against them by the USA (4th Reich), which stands principally against any information repository they don't control or have influence over (its Russian owned). This is simply donors of the Trump regime who own media companies requesting this because its the primary way around paywalls for most people who know about it.
by nl | 2026-02-21 04:34:58+00:00
> Our second model, still based on Taalas’ first-generation silicon platform (HC1), will be a mid-sized reasoning LLM. It is expected in our labs this spring and will be integrated into our inference service shortly thereafter.

> Following this, a frontier LLM will be fabricated using our second-generation silicon platform (HC2). HC2 offers considerably higher density and even faster execution. Deployment is planned for winter.

From https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/

Personally I think anything around the level of Sonnet 4.5 is worth burning to silicon because agentic workflows work. There are plenty of places where spending $50,000 for that makes sense (I have no idea of the pricing though)
by jimmaswell | 2026-02-21 04:35:48+00:00
The medium feels wholly immaterial in this case. The words reach your brain, and then it's up to you to think about them, imagine the scene, process ideas. Audiobooks let the narrator add inflection, which maybe takes a slight load off you, but I don't see the big deal. I've read lots of fiction, and listened to a lot on road trips, and I don't feel like my comprehension suffered in either case compared to the other. The important thing is you can have the same level of conversation about the material - I don't believe all this woo about reading being the only pure and intellectual way to process information.
by chii | 2026-02-21 04:36:02+00:00
> will continue to distort the market.

they can only do so as long as they have enough capital to lose. Because every time they try to move the betting markets against the truth, they will simply lose that money when the event happens (and turns out they were wrong).

So any distortion will merely be temporary. Unless they have access to unlimited capital of course - which is not true yet for anyone (but the US gov't).
by trueno | 2026-02-21 04:36:27+00:00
yea im surprised i see so many times that people on _hackernews_ are convinced profile activity is real.

theres entire marketing companies that provide what is effectively a botnet of social media activity to generate buzz, promising packages with "social media engagement". disney uses these to try and hype movie trailers, when the recent tron trailer came out it took 1 minute for a bunch of comments that looked like seemingly real enough accounts to be in there posting "im not ready for this" "omg" etc. and yes, these networks of fake accounts on all social media platforms do have non-vacant profiles meaning theyve got comments and stuff all over each others pages. there was a recent smaller production that is suing their marketing agency which promised this deceptive engagement and their implementation shit the bed and all the bots just interacted amongst themselves on the movies instagram page. the movie completely tanked at the box office because they never got their fake accounts to start engaging outside of the movies instagram account.

everyone focuses on the actual content itself as the subject of AI platform abuse, but are we really so naive to think that the companies pouring millions of dollars into these efforts are too stupid to understand that controlling the narrative involves requires simulating human feedback?

its in our nature to want to "go to the comments" to "get the real tea" and. im just going to say right now that yeah, the entities deploying these types of accounts are well aware that that is how many of us look for perspective. they're not stupid, and it's easier than it's ever been to game commentary in 2026.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-21 04:36:58+00:00
For the longest time, that was my feed, well after most Millennials had moved on. It was spectacular.

But I finally decided I didn't want to doom scroll so much, and when I changed phones, I declined to install the app on my new one, and I logged out on my laptop.

So I almost never am on anymore, and it's always complete trash. Zuck's Trump turn helped the inertia, and now with the revelations that he was trying to party with Epstein how can I even log in anymore?

I think I'm going to reach out to the people who matter and get their email addresses, then hang my FB shoes up for good, twenty-one years after I joined.
by tompark | 2026-02-21 04:37:27+00:00
sigh American car culture.

I have the same problem and I'm only 5'11" (177 cm). Size "Small" might fit at the neck/shoulders but with lots of extra fabric around my midsection, but most retailers don't carry much inventory for Small, and almost never have Extra Small. In the SF Bay Area, the small items are always out of stock.

At one point I found that clothing boutiques in the Castro tended to stock clothes for skinny guys, but those stores disappeared during the pandemic.

Now I have to go shopping in Seoul or Tokyo or NYC, but if the pants fit in the waist, they're usually too short.
by Antaris | 2026-02-21 04:37:58+00:00
antaris-suite is six Python packages for the infrastructure layer of an agent turn. The core premise: memory, safety, and routing should run in-process with no external dependencies — no API keys, no Docker, no vector database.

*The packages:*
- antaris-memory: BM25 search over sharded JSONL, WAL, decay-weighted recall
- antaris-guard: stateful policy engine (rate limits, PII, cost caps, escalation)
- antaris-router: outcome-quality-aware model routing with SLA tracking
- antaris-context: token budget management and sliding window
- antaris-pipeline: pre/post turn coordinator for the above
- antaris-contracts: shared contracts and migration schemas

*Why we built it:*
mem0 requires an OpenAI key to store memories locally. Zep discontinued self-hosted. Letta needs Docker and a running LLM. LangChain's buffer memory is retrieval-by-recency, not by query relevance. We wanted something that ran in the same process as the agent with no external calls.

*Benchmarks:* antaris vs mem0, same machine, live OpenAI API key. 50 entries, 10 runs averaged. antaris ingest: 0.6ms vs mem0's 15,609ms (25,800×). Search p50: 0.09ms vs 193ms (2,201×). The difference is architectural — mem0 calls the OpenAI embeddings API on every ingest and every search query; antaris uses BM25 over local JSONL. Reproduce it yourself:

Full benchmarks here - https://antarisanalytics.ai/

```bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... python3 benchmarks/quick_compare.py --runs 10 --entries 50
```

Full pipeline turn (guard + recall + context + routing + ingest) runs at 0.32ms p50 with a 1,000-memory corpus.

*3.0 changes:* compaction-aware session recovery for long-running agents, BLAKE2b-128 replacing MD5, cross-platform locking via os.mkdir, fail-closed guard mode, ThreadPoolExecutor moved off the hot path (spotted in pre-release code review).

GitHub: https://github.com/Antaris-Analytics/antaris-suite
Docs: https://docs.antarisanalytics.ai
Website:https://antarisanalytics.ai/
by Terretta | 2026-02-21 04:39:13+00:00
Compare 1996's "FITALY":

"For the FITALY layout, we have obtained an average travel of 1.8, to be compared to an average travel of 3.2 for the QWERTY layout. (For prose, involving few numbers and symbols, the results are even better.)"

https://www.textware.com/fitaly/fitaly.htm

https://the-gadgeteer.com/1998/08/22/fitaly_review/

And closer to OP, "HexInput":

"Please use this idea! If you are a software developer, I urge you to consider adding this functionality to your product. My hope is that ten years from now, we won't have to laboriously tap out messages letter by letter, but instead will be able to zip them out quickly and efficiently with something like HexInput." -Sept2006

https://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html

1996, 2006, 2026... Your turn?
by magicalhippo | 2026-02-21 04:39:18+00:00
For me, it really helped to read the Microsoft pages[1] on OAuth 2.0 which has some nice illustrative flow charts, and then go back to the RFCs.

That said, there's a lot of details that are non-trivial, especially since in many cases you actually have to deal with OIDC[2] which builds on OAuth 2.0, and so then you're suddenly dealing with JWKs and whatnot in addition.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/v2...

[2]: https://openid.net/developers/how-connect-works/
Show HN: Script Snap – Extract code from videos
by liumw1203 | 2026-02-21 04:39:20+00:00
Hi HN, I'm lmw-lab, the builder behind Script Snap.

The Backstory:
I built this out of pure frustration. A while ago, I was trying to figure out a specific configuration for a project, and the only good resource I could find was a 25-minute YouTube video. I had to scrub through endless "smash the like button" intros and sponsor reads just to find a single 5-line JSON payload.

I realized I didn't want an "AI summary" of the video; I just wanted the raw code hidden inside it.

What's different:
There are dozens of "YouTube to Text" summarizers out there. Script Snap is different because it is explicitly designed as a technical extraction engine.

It doesn't give you bullet points about how the YouTuber feels. It scans the transcript and on-screen visuals to extract specifically:

Code snippets

Terminal commands

API payloads (JSON/YAML)

Security warnings (like flagging sketchy npm installs)

It strips out the "vibe" and outputs raw, formatted Markdown that you can copy straight into your IDE.

Full disclosure on the launch: Our payment processor (Stripe) flagged us on day one (banks seem to hate AI tools), so I've pivoted to a manual "Concierge Alpha" for onboarding. The extraction engine is fully operational, just doing things the hard way for now.

I'd love to hear your thoughts or harsh feedback on the extraction quality!
by anon291 | 2026-02-21 04:39:57+00:00
Go to Silicon Valley VC backed firms. That's my general advice for any sort of tech work that you want to be paid well. Tech is -- overall -- not paid well. In general, most work is not. VCs are rich and the trickle down effect is large in those places where they operate. Many people are resistant to moving to California because 'cost of living' or some stupid explanation like that. This is genuinely retarded. There is no better place in the world to start a tech career (or really any corporate career), just due to how much money there is.

People confuse the 'webshit' engineers (your words, not mine) with being interested in technology. They're not. They're interested in money. I am too. I just happen to be interested in deep tech stuff as well. A lot of people in tech don't seek compensation and then complain about it. Always go for compensation, startups, and high risk ventures (i.e., go into a good business). That's my advice.

> Maybe I just wasn't looking in the right places.

Did those places have the potential to IPO / exit for multi-billions of dollars? If not, yes, you were looking in the wrong place.
by 0x38B | 2026-02-21 04:41:04+00:00
Some of the ads I was seeing on Facebook and Instagram were why I left them both for good. Losing Messenger and Marketplace hurt, but posts like these remind that I left for good reasons.

Why tolerate a network full of junk? Worse, it's junk that's calculated to draw me in whether I want it or no. Social media's biggest appeal, judging by Nathan's post, is to my lizard brain. My antidote to an internet gone mad is reading good, maybe old, books that reward the intellectual effort I put in to understand them.
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-21 04:41:35+00:00
What next? The intellectual dark web?
I think we can have a free market of ideas or whatever you’re fetishising without it meaning that I can’t sit on the couch and open an app to see some family photos without it being intermingled with some loser saying that trans people should be hanged on the street.

And you know for a fact that I am not exaggerating. This is where the current political discourse is at.

Can I please have the freedom to do that without the lecture?
by phil21 | 2026-02-21 04:41:38+00:00
While not allowing an entire industry and supply chain to die. One of the last heavily industrial and manufacturing industries left in the US at any decent sized scale.

You need such things for national security, so it's very likely "worth it" even all the way down to the American consumer level.

Look at the shipbuilding industry if you want to see what happens to that capacity without it. Due to the lack of commercial shipbuilding in the US, we can't even keep up with building for our Navy during peacetime. If a war ever were to attrit naval forces to any meaningful degree there would be zero hope of scaling up that supply chain in a relevant timeframe.

Arguments could of course be made if the auto manufacturing industry (and it's suppliers) are useful in an actual hot war, but I think without them we'd be in even heavier dire straights in that regard.
by androiddrew | 2026-02-21 04:42:02+00:00
The initial benchmarks I saw didn’t really have the DGX spark (GB10) doing much better in generation throughput than the AMD Strix Halo. Prefill, the GB10 does pretty well, much better than the Strix.

Memory bandwidth is 273 Gb/s. Which is nowhere near a GPU’s. It’s a 4K machine. Personally, I’d rather have two GPUs and run a quantize model. I have two 32GB AMD r9700 cards, cost $2600. Quantized models get me 120K ish of context window and TPS is about 60% of what I see with the same model on my 4090 (which only has enough vram to load weights and about 6K context).

Sure I can’t run a 100B+ model but neither can a single GB10 unless no context window is what you are going for. So you buy a second 4K machine?
by defrost | 2026-02-21 04:42:10+00:00
> Of course just like today you can have Trump jump to some new authority on day 151 instead.

Of the many articles on this matter written in the last 24 hours, a few that I read sketched out other sections of old never used law that Trump might land on after the current "new" 10% tariff expires its 150 day life.

While I'm not a fan .. credit to the Project 2025 people behind Trump that really put the effort into gaming out the overthrow of the established post war US order .. seemingly no loophole left unexplored.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-21 04:42:12+00:00
> When these tariffs hit, I also expected broad price increases as well as a recession, when this didn't happen, I began to reassess some things.

"this didn't happen" except for the over $1,300/household in tariffs paid for by us, directly attributable to tariffs in A SINGL YEAR, that is.
by jesterson | 2026-02-21 04:42:17+00:00
Country dependent of course, but recently i observe steady push from banks to adopt mobile app. Some have webui neglected and glitchy, some openly announce sunsetting, some already killed web access only allowing app.

And this tendency will prevail as bank can collect way more data this way. Just a month ago one of banks that is often praised here sent me a letter saying “your IP activity doesn’t match your residence” (and i am not even installed their app, they pulled data from web ui usage. Imagine what happens when they get access to data mobile app can supply
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-21 04:42:42+00:00
Calling stuff you disagree with "fascist ideology" does not make it so. Freedom of speech is also meaningless if it does not protect even unpopular, offensive, inaccurate, "hateful", etc. speech. We have way more freedom of speech in the US than basically any other country. Many of the clowns who throw shade on us from across the pond live in dystopian hellscapes where grandmas are arrested for tweets and rapists are given more lenient sentences than their victims who utter insulting words toward them. I'm not exaggerating at all, by the way.
by wmf | 2026-02-21 04:43:49+00:00
What will happen to all the parallel compute cards that will get upgraded soon? They can't be reused as GPU's for gamers, can they?

You're right; V100/A100/H100 "GPUs" do not have the hardware to display graphics and they generally require custom SXM motherboards. Most of them will sit on eBay for a while and then be scrapped when no one buys them.