MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nikhilpareek13 | 2026-02-10 20:12:47+00:00
When working with image generation or vision pipelines, a common issue is that model outputs aren’t visible where the prompt is defined. Reviewing quality and comparing runs often requires exporting outputs and switching tools.

We’ve added native image rendering inside Datasets and Prompt Workbench so generated images appear inline, next to the prompts that produced them.

This allows:

Faster output review

Easier comparison across runs

Tighter iteration loops without context switching

Curious how others are handling evaluation and iteration for multimodal pipelines today.
by GlitchRider47 | 2026-02-10 20:12:56+00:00
Self-hosting sucks, yes. But I'll be damned if it isn't fun. It's definitely not for everyone. Not only is it not for everyone, but it is not for everyone's families. I'm so grateful that my wife is willing to put up with me experimenting on our home network, trying out different apps, waiting for me to resolve a DNS issue because I forgot to assign a static IP to my pihole.
by zem | 2026-02-10 20:13:00+00:00
wow. I never cease to marvel at the companies that make you jump through hoops in order to give them your money. chesterton had a good passage on that in his father brown mysteries (highly recommended to any fan of the genre):

The Vernon Hotel at which The Twelve True Fishermen held their annual dinners was an institution such as can only exist in an oligarchical society which has almost gone mad on good manners. It was that topsy-turvy product—an “exclusive” commercial enterprise. That is, it was a thing which paid not by attracting people, but actually by turning people away. In the heart of a plutocracy tradesmen become cunning enough to be more fastidious than their customers. They positively create difficulties so that their wealthy and weary clients may spend money and diplomacy in overcoming them. If there were a fashionable hotel in London which no man could enter who was under six foot, society would meekly make up parties of six-foot men to dine in it. If there were an expensive restaurant which by a mere caprice of its proprietor was only open on Thursday afternoon, it would be crowded on Thursday afternoon.
by Johanx64 | 2026-02-10 20:13:04+00:00
I stand corrected, it doesn't have "insane fertility rate".

That's still a high fertility rate for a country with stats like this:
https://www.globalhungerindex.org/bangladesh.html

> 25.1% of children under five are stunted, 10.7%
of children under five are wasted

And the country had even higher fertility rates when it had higher frequency of famines, and much higher rates of hunger and malnourishment.

The point i was making however, is that parents don't truly - at a deeper level - consider the quality of life they are subjecting their child to.

Natural selection doesn't maximize for quality of life (it doesn't care for it), it selects for procreation and survival.
by agosz | 2026-02-10 20:13:49+00:00
That's so cool! I didn't know they open sourced it. Is your work also open? And how do you check that the frames don't change?

I love seeing people try to revive old games and improve them for players. I've made a couple of contributions to VCMI, an open source implementation of heroes of might and magic 3 that I used to play as a kid and it's so rewarding seeing people use those.
by exceptione | 2026-02-10 20:14:03+00:00
> Taxes don't usually work as efficiently because the state is usually a much more sloppy investor. But it's far from hopeless, see DARPA.

Be careful. The data does not confirm that narrative. You mentioned the 1950s, which is a poignant example of reality conflicting with sponsored narrative. Pre WOII, the wealthy class orbiting the monopolists, and by extension their installed politicians, had no other ideas than to keep lowering taxes for the rich on and on, even if it only deepened the endless economic crisis. Many of them had fallen in the trap of believing their own narratives, something we know as the Cult of Wealth.

Meanwhile, average Americans lived on food stamps. Politically deadlocked in quasi-religious ideas of "bad governments versus wise business men", America kept falling deeper. Meanwhile, with just 175,000 serving on active duty, the U.S. Army was the 18th biggest in the world[1], poorly equipped, poorly trained. Right wing isolationism had brought the country in a precarious position. Then two things happened. Roosevelt and WOII.

In a unique moment, the state took matters in their own hands. The sheer excellence in planning, efficiency, speed and execution of the state baffled the republicans, putting the oligarchic model of the economy to shame. The economy grew tremendously as well, something the oligarchy could not pull of. It is not well-known that WOII depended largely on state-operated industries, because the former class quickly understood how much the state's performance threatened their narratives. So they invested in disinformation campaigns, claiming the efforts and achievements of the government as their own.

1. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/06/06/how-world...
by gethly | 2026-02-10 20:14:08+00:00
As I had zero plans on moving to Windows 11, I was looking into which distros are popular nowadays over the past few weeks. Today, I tried Cachy OS and Aurora(non-gaming version of Bazzite) in VirtualBox and after 5 minutes I knew that after 30 years of using a computer with windows(dos, then w95 and onward) Linux is still not there yet on the desktop. I just can't believe how they still can't get the utmost basic things right. Yet here we are.

And yes, you can game on linux nowadays, finally! Even get better performance due to Windows bloat. Office, OBS, internet, video...everything is working...yet it still is not there in usability.

To be specific what irked me today when I tested them was installing new programs. On Cachy, I wanted to test jetbrains IDE. Last time i tested it was on suse and fedora in virtualbox last year and it worked but neither distribution was there just yet in UX. This time, I downloaded the tar version from jetbrains website. I could not open it(maybe due to it being run in live cd mode in virtualbox) or extract(no option in dir manager or decompression program) the content in Cachy. So I wanted to get 7zip but there was no linux version. Cachy has its own packages that can be opened(website) via its welcome screen(otherwise there is no program manager - no snaps, flatpacks...) and after downloading it with some arch file extension i could not install it. I could open it and see usr and bin directories but that helped me fuckall and i was not willing to tinker with this bs in 2026. Then in Aurora, it has bazaar for flatpacks, before i wasted bandwidth to download the IDE in vain again i preemptively wanted zip manager, there was pea..something. So i clicked install, it did and .. nothing. Nowhere to be found. Tried multiple times and no result. Could not find it anywhere. So I said F that and am sticking with the indian windows spyware. The devil you know and whatnot.
by SirHumphrey | 2026-02-10 20:14:25+00:00
Maybe it was, maybe he just writes that way. At some point somebody will read so much LLM text that they will start emulating AI unknowingly.

I just don’t care anymore. If the article is good I will continue reading it, if it’s bad I will stop. I don’t care if a machine or a human produced unpleasant reading material.
by waldopat | 2026-02-10 20:14:31+00:00
Here's a founder/product perspective. This maps well to the skateboard => scooter => bicycle => motorcycle => rocket ship product metaphor that's often used. Each phase teaches different design patterns, constraints, and failure (and success) modes for different inflection points of a startup's journey.

But here's the reality. What got you technically to PMF may hold you back from your Series A and next steps. Technical debt is just the natural cost of growth, but (here's the kicker) optimizing tech stacks too early can lead to slower execution time. Most startups never reach exponential scale anyways. Put another way, starting with "rocket ship" does not immune the startup from rewrites, refactoring or throw away code.

The real systems and management challenge is building architectures that are intentionally temporary or modular. Simple enough that throwing them away later isn’t traumatic and rebuilds aren’t a sign of failure but success.
by jaygood | 2026-02-10 20:14:41+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! Since the Favorites feature is already live in your settings, here is a punchy, brief reply without any dashes:

The Reply
Thanks! The browser side approach is a great counterpart to this. Here is the technical breakdown:

Multi-Monitor Logic Since I target the Window ID via the Windows API, the cloak follows the window anywhere. It remains invisible to the capture buffer whether it is on Screen 1, Screen 2, or spanning both.

The Forgot to Toggle Problem I actually already solved this. There is a feature in the Settings now where you can favorite apps to be hidden by default. Once tagged, they cloak automatically the moment you launch them so there is no manual toggle needed.

Performance I built this natively in Rust using a specific flag at the compositor level to exclude windows from the capture stream. It is much lighter than real-time blurring and avoids the black box flickering issues common in other tools.

Appreciate the congrats. The pain point is definitely real!
by jacobowens75 | 2026-02-10 20:14:41+00:00
Building an open source alternative to Discord after yesterday's announcement that all users will need to submit face scans or government ID.

Townhall is free, self-hostable, no ads, no AI, no tracking. Just chat.

I'm solo and this is early days, the code is on GitHub but before I go all in I want to see if this is something people actually want. If this sounds like something youd use, signing up for the waitlist at townhall.chat would mean a lot and help me decide if this is worth pursuing.

Happy to answer any questions
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-10 20:14:42+00:00
> It is also a very robust vehicle capable of withstanding elemental and physical extremities, as shown on the British TV show “Top Gear.”[6]

If you haven't ever watched Top Gear, this is definitely one of the standout bits they did - putting that truck through absolute hell, and watching it continue to start up.

I highly recommend it, even if you don't think of yourself as a Car Guy. It's basically a comedy show that just happens to use cars.
by Traster | 2026-02-10 20:14:46+00:00
In future, if you think he's on the right side, link to the video of him doing it, not an 8 minute video talking around the fact he did it. There was no reason for the bicycle to enter the carriage way other than to come directly into the path of the vehicle. People think there's some sort of "Oh well if what you're doing isn't following the highway code then I can do ANYTHING and you're at fault" attitude, and it just isn't true. The driver shouldn't have gone that direction and Mikey shouldn't have caused the crash.

People shouldn't break the law while driving. What Cycling Mikey is doing is ill-advised and dangerous.
by sfink | 2026-02-10 20:14:51+00:00
Speaking of politics, I've always thought it would be fun to see the different assumptions made by two "sides". My expectation is that both sides gradually accumulate more and more extreme, and often more and more ridiculous, assumptions to distinguish their side from the other.

Eventually, everyone's downstream beliefs are resting on extreme assumptions that nobody actually believes! Which makes moderate well-reasoned arguments from "the other side" much more threatening than extreme positions that can be passed off as lunacy, naivete, or evil.
by themafia | 2026-02-10 20:14:53+00:00
> I’ve had that experience. And losing it — even acknowledging that it was lost

What are you talking about? You don't know how 99% of the systems in your own body work yet they don't confront you similarly. As if this "knowledge" is a switch that can be on or off.

> I gave 42 years to this thing, and the thing changed into something I’m not sure I recognise anymore.

Stop doing it for a paycheck. You'll get your brain back.
by softfalcon | 2026-02-10 20:14:53+00:00
I also want what you're describing. It seems like the ideal "data-in-out" pipeline for purely compute based shaders.

I've brought it up several times when talking with folks who work down in the chip level for optimizing these operations and all I can say is, there are a lot of unforeseen complications to what we're suggesting.

It's not that we can't have a GPU that does these things, it's apparently more of a combination of previous and current architectural decisions that don't want that. For instance, an nVidia GPU is focused on providing the hardware optimizations necessary to do either LLM compute or graphics acceleration, both essentially proprietary technologies.

The proprietariness isn't why it's obtuse though, you can make a chip go super-duper fast for specific tasks, or more general for all kinds of tasks. Somewhere, folks are making a tradeoff of backwards compatibility and supporting new hardware accelerated tasks.

Neither of these are "general purpose compute and data flow" focuses. As such, you get the GPU that only sorta is configurable for what you want to do. Which in my opinion explains your "GPU programming seems to be both super low level, but also high level" comment.

That's been my experience. I still think what you're suggesting is a great idea and would make GPU's a more open compute platform for a wider variety of tasks, while also simplifying things a lot.
by lproven | 2026-02-10 20:15:30+00:00
I did not mean any accusation. :-(

I have said this to you before, though. I do generally find your writings hard to follow, and I am not used to that TBH.

I would suggest a version simplified for lesser minds such as mine -- but don't say that in them, obviously, or people will take offense.

I am profoundly impressed by Arcan. I think it's no exaggeration to call it the single most important project happening in computer graphics in the world today. I wish I understood it better.

I am tempted to ask my boss for expenses to cover a flight to Sweden, so you could explain it in person. I mean, were you so inclined.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2026-02-10 20:15:38+00:00
LOL you think you own the means of production?

People who own the means of production own the company, which hires the board which hires the CEO who hires the executives who hire the manager who hires you. You think the people who own the means of production code? If you code you're closer to a bricklayer than to owning anything.
by phendrenad2 | 2026-02-10 20:15:54+00:00
For people who don't click the X on principles:

> We're hiring professional "vibe coders."

> Non-technical people who are top 1% at using Lovable/Replit/Bolt/v0/Cursor/Kling.

> *Need you in marketing, social, podcasts & advisory. Drop the coolest project you've built.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-10 20:16:05+00:00
The question is meaningless because isomorphic structures should be considered identical. A=A. Unless you happen to be studying the isomorphisms themselves in some broader context, in which case how the structures are identical matters. (For example, the fact that in any expression you can freely switch i with -i is a meaningful claim about how you might work with the complex numbers.)
by kgwxd | 2026-02-10 20:16:07+00:00
One thing I'm hoping will come out of this is the retiring of coders that always turn what should be a basic CRUD app (just about everything) into some novelty project trying to pre-solve every possible concern that could ever come up, and/or a no-code solution that will never actually get used by a non-developer and frustrate every developer that is forced to use it.
by linkregister | 2026-02-10 20:16:07+00:00
The specificity of handgun versus firearms in general belies the weakness of the argument. Would it matter in the thought experiment if it were a long gun?

The status of open carry legality in a US state is not correlated with firearms violence rates. Firearm prevalence in general is.

I support Vision Zero. It has a sound logical and statistical basis.

Vision Zero is orthogonal to a law against using a mobile telephone while operating a vehicle that is stopped.
by grouchy | 2026-02-10 20:16:12+00:00
Hi HN — cofounder Michael here.

We've been building Tambo for about a year, and just released our 1.0.

We make are making it easier to register React components with Zod schemas, a build an agent picks the right one and renders the right props.

We handle many of the complications with building generative user interfaces like: managing state between the user, the agent, and react component, rendering partial props, and we handle auth between your user, and MCP. We also support adding MCP servers and most of the spec.

We are 100% open-source and currently have 8k+ GitHub stars, thousands of developers, and over half-millions messages processed by our hosted service.

If you're building AI agents with generative UI, we'd like to hear from you.
by boricj | 2026-02-10 20:16:30+00:00
Half-assing self-hosting sucks, regardless of the underlying platform. You tie things together with shoestrings and gum, leaving ticking timebombs and riddles to your future self.

This is the point where I'm supposed to describe my self-hosting solution on my so-called homelab, where my blog lives. I won't, because it's both stupid in smart ways and smart in stupid ways, therefore it sucks all the way.

Self-hosting is like any hobby. Half-ass it and you'll half-like it.
by testing22321 | 2026-02-10 20:16:50+00:00
Because the chicken tax keeps out great vehicles so the US automakers don’t have to compete.

The hilux and 79 landcruiser are run of the mill workhorses in virtually every country in the world except the US and Canada. They run rings around the Tacoma and tundra.

Tariffs and old world protectionism like the chicken tax are keeping the US automakers on life support, but they’re all doomed - they’re not even trying to compete.
by autoexec | 2026-02-10 20:16:53+00:00
It's not so much a massive conspiracy as it is the known reality of how these companies operate. There is very little risk as oversight and real accountability are basically non-existent

Novo Nordisk has even demonstrated their willingness to ignore disclosure requirements (https://www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/7950-wegovy-maker-novo-no...) multiple times even (https://news.sky.com/story/ozempic-maker-novo-nordisk-failed...) but the problem is everywhere including research

Here are just some examples:

> Cross-sectional studies across a heterogeneous set of conditions suggest that between 29 and 69 % of published clinical trial reports include disclosures of conflicts of interest. Studies measuring undisclosed conflicts of interest suggest that between 43 and 69 % of study reports and other articles fail to include disclosures of conflicts of interest (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4854425/)

> chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, failed to disclose relevant industry ties in dozens of research articles since 2013. (https://ashpublications.org/ashclinicalnews/news/4092/Leadin...)

> one in four Australian authors in 120 trials had at least one undeclared conflict, with an average value of undisclosed payment at almost AU $9000. (https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/03/14/many-...)
by antiarin | 2026-02-10 20:17:02+00:00
Congrats on the launch! I'm Aaryann Chandola (Antiarin on github), been contributing to Hive for the past couple of weeks.
Most of my work has been on the integration side. I built the Google Calendar integration, its an MCP tool suite that lets agents create, update, delete and search calendar events, including Meet links. The idea is you can have an agent that actually manages your schedule for you. I also put together the email integration for Gmail and Outlook along similar lines.
One thing that bugged me early on was that the LLM agents had zero awareness of what day or time it was, so they'd just make up dates. I added runtime Datetime injection into the system prompts which was a small fix but made a noticeable difference.
I've also been involved in some of the design discussions with the core team. Proposed centralising the hardcoded prompts scattered across the framework into a proper registry, wrote an RFC for closed-loop agent evolution (basically agents learning from their own runs), and contributed to the conversation around cron-style scheduled execution. Working on Codex integration as a coding agent right now.

Honestly what got me interested in Hive in the first place is the goal-driven architecture. Agents aren't just chains of LLM calls, they have explicit goals with success criteria that get evaluated. The graph-based execution with pause/resume and checkpointing makes it feel like a real runtime managing concurrent execution streams, not just a script runner.
by arjie | 2026-02-10 20:17:03+00:00
No, your expectations are not wrong. I'm a small business. A fully stacked AI/GPU cabinet is multiples of this. A single GH200 based server will have 2x2.7 kW power supplies in a 1U form factor. As you can imagine, I am not running a cabinet full of such servers. But you don't need AI power requirements to do normal software. And there's lots of normal software to do!
by dmix | 2026-02-10 20:17:15+00:00
For more context see the Cornell article from last year

> The first email, sent on May 8 from Cornell International Services, stated that his immigration status had been terminated by the federal government. The second email, sent from Google on the same day, notified him that his personal email account had been subject to a subpoena by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on March 31.

https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/11/immigration-autho...

Basically he was a British national with a student visa who was going to be deported for pro-palestian activism (under Trumps executive order mandating immigration authorities to do so), so he self-deported. Other's mention in the thread it's not clear if Google handed over any information.
Ask HN: What's the hardest part of validating a new idea?
by dmitryivanovdev | 2026-02-10 20:17:21+00:00
I'm mapping out the universal pain points indie founders and technical creators face when trying to validate a business or feature idea before writing code.

The hypothesis is that "finding qualified, willing respondents" is the single biggest bottleneck, eating more time and morale than crafting the idea itself.

To move beyond anecdotes, I've put together a short, anonymous survey focused on past behaviors (not future promises):

https://validatey.vercel.app/s/coy8ikw

Why this might be interesting for HN:

The discussion here often focuses on building and scaling, but the very first step — zero-to-one validation — is still largely a dark art of hustle and luck.

If the data shows a clear pattern, it could inform better tools or methodologies for the community.

I will publish a full analysis of the aggregated data (anonymized, with charts and key takeaways) in a follow-up post.

So, two ways to contribute:

Comment below with your war story or most effective hack.

Spend 5 minutes on the survey for a more structured data point

The goal is to turn anecdotal frustration into something actionable. All insights will be shared back with the community.