MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-14 18:08:59+00:00
> government corruption
> mismanagement
> populist politics
> interventions blamed for keeping Haiti oppressed were precisely what helped the Dominican Republic flourish

The rhetoric transitioned into exactly this, instead of believing they were subhuman uncivilized people we needed to save from themselves (the white mans burden), it seamlessly transitioned into neoliberal ideas of sound economic theory seeking a "scientific" rationalization of why those neoliberal policies forced onto them fail them consistently and how it's actually all their fault. Any sovereignty is reframed into dangerous intolerable "populism" that needs to be crushed by any means necessary, including crushing sanctions and blockades (stop hitting yourself), covert actions, coups and military interventions.
by hinkley | 2026-02-14 18:09:39+00:00
You can do a lot of pointer tagging in 64 bit pointers. Do we have CPUs with true 64 bit pointers yet? Looks like the Zen 4 is up to 57 bits. IIRC the original x86_64 CPUs were 48 bit addressing and the first Intel CPUs to dabble with larger pointers were actually only 40 bit addressing.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-14 18:10:15+00:00
I have always said and will always say the same thing:

Up to a point, there's an easily distinguishable sound and detail difference between cheaper and more expensive gear, given that you don't cheat (i.e. put cheaper gear in expensive enclosure), but that difference indistinguishable well before these "true audiophile" level stuff.

For example: I run a pair of Heco Celan GT302s. They are not something exotic. 100W per channel, adequately detailed speakers with great soundstage. The manual gives you a table: Wattage -> Recommended wire gauge. I got a high quality, 100% copper cable (from Acoustic Research, so nothing fancy) at the recommended gauge, and connected them. You can't convince me to get a better cable. It's pointless.

Do I enjoy the sound I get, hell yeah. Do I need to listen to my system instead of listening to the music, hell no. I feed the amplifier with a good turntable (which is 40 years old, shocker!) and a good CD player (which is pretty entry level for what's out there), and that's it.

That set will nail any person who likes to listen to the music to its chair. That's the aim of a good system. Same for personal DAPs and DACs. If you enjoy what you have, who cares!
by jonahx | 2026-02-14 18:10:17+00:00
> To think that whatever the AI is capable of solving is (and forever will be) the frontier of all problems is deeply delusional. AI got good at generating code, but it still can't even do a fraction of what the human brain can do.

AGI means fully general, meaning everything the human brain can do and more. I agree that currently it still feels far (at least it may be far), but there is no reason to think there's some magic human ingredient that will keep us perpetually in the loop. I would say that is delusional.

We used to think there was human-specific magic in chess, in poker, in code, in Go, and in writing. All those have fallen, the latter two albeit only in part but even that part was once thought to be the exclusive domain of humans.
by gorgoiler | 2026-02-14 18:11:00+00:00
The classic fable round these parts is Quad (and/or Cambridge Audio?) demo-ing their latest and greatest at a 1970s Heathrow Expo using mains cables as speaker wire.

It’s the least important part of any system and indeed my Quad amp and CA R50s are wired with twisted, braided, brown lamp cable as a nice aesthetic homage.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2026-02-14 18:11:04+00:00
As someone that has seen all/most Trek in full (same with the B5 universe), I agree with this strategy, it's a great suggestion. They can always come back and watch the remaining ones later. I would reduce the IMDB rating threshold to about 7.7 though and they can apply that to season 2 and 3 of DS9 as well (don't skip s3x22 "Explorers" though, it's a good one despite lower rating).
by soco | 2026-02-14 18:11:09+00:00
No it cannot. SwiftKey has exactly two "languages": one is French, the other is German/English/Italian/Romanian. Yes it's a mash of all four, which makes the default swiped word and the suggestions exactly useless. Who the hell thought that was a good idea... only Samsung keyboard offers separate languages as well, but it's kinda worse in suggestions than GBoard.
by yieldcrv | 2026-02-14 18:11:42+00:00
sort of... the 1000 investor limit was actually doubling the prior limit

the friction that the whole industry and the SEC pushes and pulls on is that nobody wants to go public because it's needlessly expensive to be a public company, companies would otherwise go public

basically, one publicly traded company does something egregiously bad, the SEC mandates a new expensive disclosure that requires a completely new operating style, less companies go public

the SEC's mission statement is a dual mandate: provide for fairer securities markets (via transparency mandates), and the second one is facilitate capital formation

so when the goal of providing for fairer markets is hampering people raising and accessing capital at all, then they help on that front

in this case, as people avoided going public, they would run into the number of investor limits and do suboptimal things because they couldn't raise more capital. so the limit went up to what it is

now, with that foundation in mind, your main point isn't close to what's happening "if a company is big enough it is important to reel it in a bit or else shenanigans happen", the SEC doesn't "reel in big companies". it mandates transparency in public companies, number of investors in private companies, and regulates details of certain transactions, that's it. you can be any size. they don't judge the merit of an investment (outside of some ETFs), only that there's enough information for an investor to judge the merit of a publicly traded investment
by intended | 2026-02-14 18:12:02+00:00
Heck no. Given the choice most people would want to do remote work. COVID showed that we can actually achieve remote work, and suddenly many people realized they had a life they loved, without having to lose chunks of it to an unpaid commute that was baked into the cost of work.

Given actual alternatives, workers have made their preferences clear.

Culture also plays a part - America is uniquely mercantile and business first. Workers and citizens in other countries have made different choices.
by KenSF | 2026-02-14 18:12:10+00:00
The EV1 predated the Roadster by a decade. Had GM been improving the EV1 for those 10 years, including Lithium Ion batteries, GM would have been far ahead of everyone . . . had they just kept going with a technology that was inevitable. Where would Cruse be today had they continued with this new technology that is inevitable?
by LexiMax | 2026-02-14 18:12:30+00:00
For reference, here's where Zig's documentation lives:

https://ziglang.org/learn/

I remember when learning Zig, the documentation for the language itself was extensive, complete, and easily greppable due to being all on one page.

The standard library was a lot less intuitive, but I suspect that has more to do with the amount of churn it's still going through.

The build system also needs more extensive documentation in the same way that the stdlib does, but it has a guide that got me reasonably far with what came out of the box.
by philgyford | 2026-02-14 18:13:09+00:00
Give it a rest. The scope is in the FAQ. Blogs get added when I have time.

As you can tell from the site, there are many, many suggestions and I’m not finding time to add many new blogs https://ooh.directory/about/charts/

There is no guarantee any blog you suggest, even if it’s in “scope”, will get added before either of us die. If that’s a problem save yourself all this angst and don’t suggest anything.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-14 18:13:53+00:00
I enjoyed Ars Technica and their forums in the early days, until one of their staff members, Peter Bright aka Dr. Pizza was one of the nastiest forum people I’ve encountered. He got away with behavior that would get anyone else banned because he was staff. There was one point when they gave him a temporary ban, which seemed strange to me that they were banning their own employee from their own forums for a while instead of kicking an obvious problem person off of the staff.

They seemed overly protective of their own even in the face of obvious bad behavior.

That same person was later arrested for enticing minors in a very disgusting case https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-journalist-convi...

It’s a site I want to like, but they have a history of protecting their own above all else. If they try to wash this story away as a mistake or error and let the writer stay then I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
by fauigerzigerk | 2026-02-14 18:14:01+00:00
- Games.

- Gambling while rarely subscription based is usually paid for directly rather than ad funded.

- Newspaper subscriptions are no less addictive for news junkies than purely ad funded newspapers.

- I watch a lot of Youtube, far more than I used to before I started paying for the subscription.

- Netflix and in the olden days TV.

I'm not entirely sure what "insidiously addictive" actually means. I do sometimes scroll through some TikTok vids. I don't find it particularly addictive compared to, say, Hacker News.
by p_j_w | 2026-02-14 18:14:40+00:00
>"I thought Democrats were for bodily autonomy" (with regards to vaccine mandates/passports)

The liberal position on bodily autonomy (and indeed most things) has never been absolute. If an action is likely to cause harm to others (and forgoing a vaccine in the midst of a deadly pandemic is indeed likely to cause harm to others), then reasonable action to curtail the harm is justified. As recently as the 2010s, both parties supported vaccine mandates. I remember conservatives making fun of the antivax movement as liberal lunacy as recently as 2019.

>"I thought liberals were for free speech" (with regards to cancel culture).

Cancel culture is itself a form of free expression and association.
by Snow_Falls | 2026-02-14 18:14:48+00:00
"I don't know if you've lived in an Islamic country but I have. In fact I was born there and spent more than half my life under Islamic law"
are you aware that not all islamic countries are the same, just as all christian countries are not the same. Perhaps you've let your view of your bubble in your home country colour your view of all others. I've been to muslim countries, most people don't care all that much about the west - certainly not enough to make a conspiracy to destroy it with immigration or whatever.

"Islam's objective is to grow and convert as many people as possible"
is it? says who? Why do you think there is one unified islam with one goal? As far as I'm aware, islam is not a prosetylising religion, who's out to convert who?

"building mosques all over the world"
yes when a bunch of religious people are in a place, they build a place of worship. From your comment history, you're apparently iranian - what exactly is sinister about building mosques?

"increasing population"
yes people like to do that, it's a rather enjoyable process, not exactly mindblowing thing to accuse people of.

"weaponizing immigration"
how? who is doing that? are these governments deliberately sending people over? Who are they sending? Why has no leak of this conspirary ever happened? Are multiple governments independantly doing this?

"There is a reason Muslim countries don't allow Christians, Jews and other faiths to flourish in their homes."
flourish in what sense? many muslim countries have other faiths there. These are the people of the book afterall. Some countries have sharia law that applies only to muslims - harsher laws only for the majority religion.

"No one is advocating for an immigration ban here, or is attempting to bar Muslims"
Yes people are, don't be naive, this is absolutely about muslims.

"promoting family values"
Or maybe the real reason people aren't having kids are climate anxiety and economic factors. It's not that people just suddenly hate families now. What do you even mean by "family values", send woman back to the kitchen and that'll make people have kids? I doubt that's what you mean so what is your solution?
by portly | 2026-02-14 18:15:45+00:00
As always with Zig posts, here come the haters. I really wonder why you even care about it. Can't we all be happy that Andrew and his team are doing their damnest to create something they believe in? Myself I am deeply inspired by their engineering spirit. In other posts I see people "worry" that Zig might not become mainstream. Why do people worry about these things? Just use the language if it helps you solve your problems. You don't need to treat it like an identity.
by jxdxbx | 2026-02-14 18:15:58+00:00
No. Good TUI apps are predictable and fast, like good native GUI apps. They follow set patterns. Familiarity and following standard conventions is not just "nostalgia" -- maybe a little is in there -- but it makes apps more usable. And, for cross-platform apps, it's a cross-platform standard. I'd rather have a TUI app following TUI conventions than a cross-platform app that is just a freeform mish-mash. Like, this week I've been making a TUI replacement for Plexamp which has great features but its Mac app is just like a scrolling webpage. If I am going to have a GUI app that is more than a tiny toy or utility I want it to follow each platform's native conventions and use its native GUI components or to not even bother. I will grant that Electron has made strides in terms of properly integrating into each host OS (using the full Mac menu bar, the correct keyboard shortcuts, accessibility features and so on) so the situation is not as bad as it once was. And also, plenty of people use and have used terminal editors and other tools by choice, for years, and not just because they are connecting to remote servers. A keyboard-first interface can be quite fast and they are more natural in TUIs.
by maheshvaikri99 | 2026-02-14 18:16:34+00:00
Hey everyone,

I've been working on SnapLLM for a while now and wanted to share it with the community.
The problem: If you run local models, you know the pain. You load Llama 3, chat with it, then want to try Gemma or Qwen. That means unloading the current model, waiting 30-60 seconds for the new one to load, and repeating this cycle every single time. It breaks your flow and wastes a ton of time.

What SnapLLM does: It keeps multiple models hot in memory and switches between them in under 1 millisecond (benchmarked at ~0.02ms). Load your models once, then snap between them instantly. No more waiting.
How it works:
Built on top of llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp
Uses a vPID (Virtual Processing-In-Disk) architecture for instant context switching
Three-tier memory management: GPU VRAM (hot), CPU RAM (warm), SSD (cold)
KV cache persistence so you don't lose context

What it supports:
Text LLMs: Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek, Phi, Unsloth AI models, and anything in GGUF format
Vision models: Gemma 3 + mmproj, Qwen-VL + mmproj, LLaVA
Image generation: Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, SD3, FLUX via stable-diffusion.cpp
OpenAI/Anthropic compatible API so you can plug it into your existing tools
Desktop UI, CLI, and REST API

Model switch time between any of these: 0.02ms
Getting started is simple:
Clone the repo and build from source
Download GGUF models from Hugging Face (e.g., gemma-3-4b Q5_K_M)
Start the server locally
Load models through the Desktop UI or API and point to your model folder
Start chatting and switching

NVIDIA CUDA is fully supported for GPU acceleration. CPU-only mode works too.

With SLMs getting better every month, being able to quickly switch between specialized small models for different tasks is becoming more practical than running one large model for everything. Load a coding model, a medical model, and a general chat model side by side and switch based on what you need.

Ideal Use Cases:
Multi-domain applications (medical + legal + general)
Interactive chat with context switching
Document QA with repeated queries
On-Premise Edge deployment
Edge devices like drones, self-driving vehicles, autonomous vehicles, etc
Multi-agent workflow

Demo Videos:
SnapLLM Desktop App Demo (Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/1157629276
SnapLLM Server and API Demo (Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/1157624031

The server demo walks through starting the server locally after cloning the repo, downloading models from Hugging Face, and loading them through the UI.

Links:
GitHub: https://github.com/snapllm/snapllm
Arxiv Paper: https://arxiv.org/submit/7238142/view

Star this repository - It helps others discover SnapLLM

MIT licensed. PRs and feedback welcome. If you have questions about the architecture or run into issues, drop them here or open a GitHub issue.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-14 18:17:03+00:00
Only because Rust is a source only language for distribution.

One business domain that Rust currently doesn't have an answer for, is selling commercial SDKs with binary libraries, which is exactly the kind of customers that get pissed off when C and C++ compilers break ABIs.

Microsoft mentions this in the adoption issues they are having with Rust, see talks from Victor Ciura, and while they can work around this with DLLs and COM/WinRT, it isn't optimal, after all Rust's safety gets reduced to the OS ABI for DLLs and COM.
by k2enemy | 2026-02-14 18:17:15+00:00
> Up to a point, there's an easily distinguishable sound and detail difference between cheaper and more expensive gear, given that you don't cheat (i.e. put cheaper gear in expensive enclosure), but that difference indistinguishable well before these "true audiophile" level stuff.

I don't understand how that is cheating. Isn't it a better controlled experiment if the equipment looks the same?
by mfcmatheus | 2026-02-14 18:17:16+00:00
Hi HN — I built @wrkspace‑co/interceptor, an on‑demand i18n translation compiler.

It scans your code for translation calls, detects missing keys, and auto‑translates them into your locale files using an LLM — without overwriting existing translations. It works with react‑intl, i18next, vue‑i18n, and custom t() calls. There’s watch mode + batching, and it’s TypeScript‑first.

Why I made it: i18n gaps during development were slowing teams down, and we kept shipping partial locales. This tool keeps message files complete as you code.

MIT‑licensed. Feedback welcome — especially around edge cases or other i18n libs.
by MichaelRo | 2026-02-14 18:17:20+00:00
Yeah well, the first time I tried to use a sling to trow a rock, I managed to knock said rock right on my head. Fortunately it wasn't too bad but it also market the last time I tried to use a sling.

And also explains why the bow was much more popular. Gotta try much harder to shoot yourself.
by unsnap_biceps | 2026-02-14 18:18:16+00:00
Perhaps a better avenue is to focus inward and promoting family values instead of outwards to resolve the issue?

Inwards is the right answer, but it's not about lack of family values. It's the lack of stability and belief that people can give a good life to their offspring. We need to retreat from this capitalistic consume everything social structure and kids will naturally flow.
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-14 18:18:19+00:00
This platform is 90% just comfortable shitlibs living in the imperial core, so can't expect much. I think BRICS is the best thing that ever happened to the global south, if only to provide a counterbalance to the western 'empire of chaos'. As a Kenyan official put it: "Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture."
by subho007 | 2026-02-14 18:18:26+00:00
Hi HN, we built Clawsec as a security layer for OpenClaw.ai (openclaw.ai).

The problem: AI agents are getting good enough to run shell commands, query databases, and manage infrastructure autonomously. But one hallucinated rm -rf / or a prompt injection that exfiltrates your .env can do real damage.

Clawsec intercepts agent actions before execution and blocks anything matching its rule engine. It covers destructive filesystem ops, database drops, credential access, network exfiltration, and privilege escalation. No sandbox, no VM. It runs inline as a plugin.

Install: openclaw plugins install clawsec

It's fully open source (MIT). We'd love feedback on the rule coverage and what threat categories we're missing.

GitHub: github.com/clawdsec/clawsec
Demo: clawsec.bot

Happy to answer questions.
by pibaker | 2026-02-14 18:18:34+00:00
I feel I need to clarify my earlier comment. I was asking how can a user tell, in general, what is the legitimate website of a software, not just how to know what 7zip.com is malicious.

Are the search removals and phishing warnings reactive or proactive? Because if it is the former then we don't really know how many users are already affected before security researchers got notified and took action.

Also, 7zip is not the only software to be affected by similar domain squatting "attacks." If you search for PuTTY, the unofficial putty.org website will be very high on the list (top place when I googled "download putty.") While it is not serving malware, yet, the fact that the more legitimate sounding domain is not controlled by the original author does leave the door open for future attacks.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-14 18:18:36+00:00
The Mayan discovering platinum and maybe working it a bit had no perceptible effect on their civilization, if only because a few bits of it did not provide an opportunity to use it.

Iron and steel, on the other hand, are transformative to civilization and the Romans made extensive use of it.

(Gold and silver are also rather useless for pre-industrial civilizations, as they are not strong enough. Their usage was confined to decoration and currency.)
by viking123 | 2026-02-14 18:18:42+00:00
I am quite black pilled on this but this shit probably won't go anywhere because a certain country is heavily implicated in the operation and the media is very very hard trying not to say that name.

Trump is now preparing to fight Iran on their behalf lmao.

I have no respect for any of these goons anymore. Those people asking him for advice in emails AFTER his conviction. Frankly they all should be fired but probably won't and it shows the justice system is mostly for the plebs.
by electrondood | 2026-02-14 18:19:11+00:00
> Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action.

You'd need to say something which directs others to violate the law or commit acts of violence, at a specific time ("imminent"), and your statement must be likely to be effective at causing them to do so.

Protesting, encouraging others to protest, expressing your political beliefs, organizing a protest, etc. are not incitement to violence. Nor is "doxxing" (filming, identifying) a public employee. None of these activities satisfy those criteria.

Remember the "Twitter files" nonsense? I recall they were upset at the government influencing the expression of political views on social media. Not hearing much backlash about this from the same people, because this is what they were claiming, but 100x worse.
by cursuve | 2026-02-14 18:19:39+00:00
Genuinely curious: What would such an alternative provide to the market? Would it be cheaper, last longer, be some medium that offered different performance/longevity characteristics? There is flash storage which provides some tradeoffs with price (especially now!) and performance. Spinning disks seem to be in a sweet spot of relatively cheap adequately performant with an acceptable lifetime/failure rate for a lot of needs... What market need is missing? (Again - not trying to debate, I am genuinely curious as I am not in the storage industry at all.)