MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by appreciatorBus | 2026-02-21 01:44:39+00:00
Of course, pointing a 10,000 lumen light source at your neighbor's bedroom 24x7 would be objectively anti-social behaviour.

But all we have as evidence is the complainant's word.

Were there lights at all? Were they 10 lumen or 100,000 lumen? Were they really "aimed at his bedroom" all night?

Neither you nor I have any idea if he is telling the truth.

My own judgement, solely from the snippets of the complainant words in the judgement, is that he sounds like a crank, so I'd guess he is exaggerating and just doesn't like his neighbours. At one point he refers to them as spot lights, at another point the same lights are described as flood lights. That alone hints (to me) that he's either not all there or is just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

Regardless, nothing in my comment implied that that I thought this was normal. I was solely responding to the idea that the analysis was weak. I think you were trying to argue that since at extreme's light could resemble crimes like assault, that ignoring light's impact was shortsighted. I agree, however I am also aware that at the other extreme, people differ vastly in what they see as excessive light. Because of this variance, I suspect that a legal regime which interpreted photons as objects hitting another's property would lead to similarly absurd places.
Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?
by givemeethekeys | 2026-02-21 01:45:00+00:00
It seems like there will be a lot of hardware that gets discarded every couple of years as new, more powerful systems are made available.

AWS put out a video and article on how it recycles a large amount of its hardware, since it is built for maintainability and repairability.

How true is that? Does it apply to other datacenter operators as well?

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?
Ask HN: Can RAG be used for recommendation system?
by pinner | 2026-02-21 01:45:16+00:00
I have already worked on this for a week, but it's very hard to define the needs.
The idea was to create a fully customized feed (with privacy! nothing is sent to the server), across different platform. Here are some questions that I have encountered:

1. I'm using sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 for speed (people will never wait seconds for a single page), and every "clusters" are scored based on historical likes/watch/dislike with my custom layout. The thing that I'm not sure here is whether people will accept my layout(for now I was transforming the HN into tiktok-like scrolling experience).
2. Without any data, it's very hard to calibrate the scoring system for the baseline. One thing that I am uncomfortable with current algo-based platforms is that they are rather ignorance on personnal taste. They recommend based on what "others" similars to my taste instead. Anothing is that we can not select the "exploring" level. I think only 10~20% of the feeds on X are "new" to the user, and this proportion is not adjustable at all by the users themselves. However, I am thus not able to get more exploring contents from these websites.

It's quite massy with these two questions, but I really don't know how to continue since there are no existing apps/tools for this at all. If you have any needs, please share it :)

Really need your interaction to see if I should continue on this project or not!!!
by decimalenough | 2026-02-21 01:45:17+00:00
> The shit gets dumped on people who are lonely, have a grudge, feel left out.

No, it gets dumped on pretty much everybody.

My Insta consists of travel and food pictures, and the people I follow are friends IRL and a very few travel/food influencers. So my feed consists of friends, travel/food content, dirty jokes thanks to my buddy who keeps sending them, and an ever increasing proportion of ads.

But both my "suggested reels" and the search view are exactly what the OP was complaining about: a non-stop parade of thirst traps by "content creators" pitching their OnlyFans accounts.
by al_borland | 2026-02-21 01:45:50+00:00
You say it's growing, but Google Trends tells a different story.

https://trends.google.com/explore?q=facebook%2C%2Fm%2F02y1vz...

One could argue that Facebook users just go to Facebook, so they don't need Google, so it cuts out the middle man... especially in an age of apps. However, the drop is pretty massive. It is also a steady down trend, where it doesn't look like a change in how data is reported.

That said, they are still the #3 most visited site, and I'm having trouble adding anything to that chart that doesn't just look like a flat line in comparison to Facebook's peak. Looking at just the last 5 years lets us better see ChatGPT overtaking it and YouTube sitting on top of it.

https://trends.google.com/explore?q=facebook%2C%2Fg%2F11khcf...

I do hear of a lot of people using Facebook Marketplace, though I've never used it myself. The couple people I know who still frequent Facebook are rather difficult to talk to, as all they do is browse Facebook and hold up their phone to show things that made them laugh. It's pretty off-putting.
by btrettel | 2026-02-21 01:46:19+00:00
I'm reminded of something I read recently about disclosure of AI use in scientific papers [1]:

> Authors should be asked to indicate categories of AI use (e.g., literature discovery, data analysis, code generation, language editing), not narrate workflows or share prompts. This standardization reduces ambiguity, minimizes burden, and creates consistent signals for editors without inviting overinterpretation. Crucially, such declarations should be routine and neutral, not framed as exceptional or suspicious.

I think that sharing at least some of the prompts is a reasonable thing to do/require. I log every prompt to a LLM that I make. Still, I think this is a discussion worth having.

[1] https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/03/why-authors-a...
by Arrowmaster | 2026-02-21 01:46:23+00:00
The author makes a very common mistake of not reading the very first line of the documentation for .gitignore.

A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the NOTES below for details.

You should never be putting "!.gitignore" in .gitignore. Just do `echo "*" > .gitignore; git add -f .gitignore`. Once a file is tracked any changes to it will be tracked without needing to use --force with git add.
by kccqzy | 2026-02-21 01:46:29+00:00
This brings back lots of memories. When I was in high school, there was a project to build a paper bridge that can hold weight. The class was split into teams of four. Our team was the team that had the most reproducible results, because I was very much hung up on documenting the various folds we had experimented with. I probably spent more time using a computer to draw the lines that would aid the fold than actually thinking about the folds. In hindsight I think that event actually told me I was more interested in being an engineer than a scientist.
by chupchap | 2026-02-21 01:46:33+00:00
I was able to tame it on Instagram by actively blocking 3-4 accounts every day and then engaging with accounts of just one topic; I picked Cricket. That said, I don't use the discovery section much so when I revisit after a few weeks it resets to filth. So the way it works is if I go to the discovery tab and like a couple of random cricket videos. It keeps it sane to an extent. Facebook is a different story though
by tombert | 2026-02-21 01:46:41+00:00
> Also, I'd advise against betting on the Jesus market. You can't actually read the price as a probability here due to time value of money, opportunity cost, etc. So you'd lose money (or at best, gain nothing) by betting against it. It's priced correctly.

Yeah, and assuming Jesus doesn't come back that's only about a 3.6% return rate, which is what Treasury Bills are getting right now [1]. At that point I might as well do that and avoid paying state tax on my interest.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...
by _3u10 | 2026-02-21 01:46:56+00:00
If you think it's problematic, why not tell us why, I have no idea why it would be problematic.

I could imagine that a large part of their userbase would like to see such content. I would actually bet that it generates a lot of clicks and ad rev.

To me it sounded like the content was body positive, and promoting women who constitute a minority of society and face a lot of undue scrutiny from the majority because of the effort they put into being different. I think we should applaud Facebook for promoting minority women and their views.
by lucb1e | 2026-02-21 01:46:57+00:00
> they follow a pattern of looking tough, and increasingly threatening posture. But often, the laws they cite aren't applicable, and wouldn't hold up in court

And it takes years to prove that and be judged as not guilty, or if guilty (as OP would likely be for dumping the database), that the punishment should be nil due to the demonstrated good faith even if it technically violated a law

Wouldn't you say the threats are to be taken seriously in cases like OP's?
by amokinsgov | 2026-02-21 01:47:16+00:00
I have a workflow that based on iterative rounds or runs that includes a self pov assessment to avoid tunnel vision. It had several checkpoints to see if it’s still on task and hasn’t gone off task. I rely heavily on chrome dev tool mcp and inbuilt diagnostics so ai can “see” how the page is laid out without actually seeing it.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-21 01:47:31+00:00
It was barbaric. The transition to 100% digital was a slow walk. In the 90s, I was an assistant editor at a film/video post house. Avid's Film Composer quality wasn't very good and only considered offline quality. The film was transferred to video which was then captured into the Avid. Once the edit was final, it was dumped to a 3/4" and the EDL exported to green bar on a dot matrix printer. The tape and print out was sent back to the film lab where they would load up the film negative based on the print out and then compared to the tape frame by frame to ensure it was correct before actually cutting the negative. The print out indicated if a shot was reused in the edit as that would require creating a dupe neg, as you obviously can't use the same strip of film in more than one place.

When the film was transferred to tape, the tapes only recorded at 29.97 which meant 2:3 pulldown. Capturing tape in Film Composer required starting on an A-frame so it could properly remove the pulldown. This was only for editing video for film. If it was only a video edit, the pulldown was left in. The CMX would attempt to keep the sequence across the edit, but not all editors would keep the pulldown sequence intact. That's been a pain ever since now that we have progressive every where.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-21 01:48:04+00:00
Facebook was this to me. Because I lived in many countries. Just seeing what my friends in other countries were experiencing <3

But they blocked the old timeline where I could just see the updates from everyone I follow and nothing else. And replaced it with this feed with stupid influencer crap. Now I had to weed through all the shit to see what the people I care about were doing. It wasn't worth it for me so I left soon after, like a decade ago.

Maybe they've rolled some of the crap back but it's too little too late for me.
Show HN: TypstMe – Build ATS-proof resumes using Typst and WASM
by yoangilliand | 2026-02-21 01:49:16+00:00
Hi HN,

I built TypstMe because I was frustrated with the current state of resume builders. Most of them are either overpriced monthly subscriptions or tools like Canva that produce absolute-positioned PDFs which ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) often fail to parse correctly.

The Tech:
I wanted the precision of Typst but with a GUI accessible to everyone. The core engine uses Typst compiled to WebAssembly (WASM), allowing for instant, pixel-perfect previews directly in the browser.

Key Features:

1. ATS-First Architecture: Unlike SVG or image-based exports, TypstMe generates clean text nodes that ensure 95%+ parsing accuracy in major ATS platforms.

2. AI Assistance: Integrated an LLM-powered assistant (via Cloudflare Workers) to help with "Executive Tone" and metrics optimization.

3. No Subscriptions: I hate the "pay monthly to search for a job" model. TypstMe is free to try, with a one-time lifetime payment for the Pro features.

Technical Stack:

- Next.js, Supabase, Prisma.

- Typst-ts (WASM).

- AI proxied through Cloudflare Workers for rate-limiting and cost control.

I’m looking for feedback on the editor's UX and the technical rendering performance. I'll be around to answer any questions!

Try it here: https://typstme.ch

Thanks!
by gerdesj | 2026-02-21 01:49:27+00:00
In 1992ish I worked at RNEC Manadon (UK, Devon). I was asked by my boss to investigate this new www thing.

I telnetted to the nearest VAX from my Win 3.1 PC. I then telnetted to the X.25 PAD and used that to go via the US to Switzerland and CERN. It looked just like gopher and WAIS to me and that's how I reported back - "it looks the same as gopher".

When Tim BL invented www, html and that, browsers were telnet and graphics was a nonsense.
by amokinsgov | 2026-02-21 01:50:06+00:00
I have a workflow thats based on iterative rounds or runs that includes a self pov assessment to avoid tunnel vision. It had several checkpoints to see if it’s still on task and hasn’t gone off task. I rely heavily on chrome dev tool mcp and inbuilt diagnostics so ai can “see” how the page is laid out without actually seeing it.

Rounds will focus on a particular task like integration, ui, verification. Multiple rounds can be tasked one after the other Eg

2 integration rounds, 2 improvement round and 2 verification rounds.

This allows to pick up issues it would normally glaze over or not mention.

Styling is okay, but layout seems to be a sore point for llms.
by drLuca | 2026-02-21 01:50:46+00:00
yaml-language-server is great, but outside VS Code schema association is mostly glob-based, which quickly becomes ambiguous (multiple schemas match) or pushes you into modelines.

yaml-schema-router is a lightweight stdio proxy that sits between any LSP client and yaml-language-server and injects the correct schema per file by inspecting YAML content and caching schemas locally.

Current detectors focus on Kubernetes:
- apiVersion/kind-based routing for standard resources
- CRD support with ObjectMeta wrapper validation
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-21 01:50:57+00:00
When USSR fell there was a lot of talk about how it was meant to be since the US system is the best of all the terrible systems. It deserved to win and the USSR system deserved to die.

>America needs a lot more strategic government control of the economy, to kick businesses out of their short-term shareholder-focused thinking. If it can't manage that, it will decline into irrelevance.

If it is meant to be then its meant to be. If the US decides to cling to its old system and it fails well then we would know that it wasn't the best system after all. Humankind will keep moving forward even if it means that another continent controls the show.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-21 01:51:16+00:00
There's no point. Remote attestation means your device needs to be corporate owned to be trusted. Even if you had your own linux phone, it wouldn't be able to interface with institutions such as banks and governments. They trust Google's keys, not yours. This doesn't quite end free computing, it just kills it for normal people and ostracizes us hackers who insist on owning our systems.
by lucb1e | 2026-02-21 01:52:57+00:00
> which the programmer did (offering a different document to sign). \n\n IIUC, at that point, the lawyer went away

The article says that the organization refused the counter-offer and doubled down instead

> he should have talked to his own lawyer for advice

Costing how much? Next I'll need a lawyer for telling the supermarket that their alarm system code was being overlooked by someone from the bushes

It's not bad legal advice and I won't discourage anyone from talking to a lawyer, but it makes things way more costly than they need be. There's a thousand cases like this already online to be found if you want to know how to handle this type of response

Sounds very usa-esque (or perhaps unusually wealthy) to retain a lawyer as "sounding board"
by defrost | 2026-02-21 01:53:22+00:00
The US, like many countries and regions, has poor coverage of abandoned, closed, and shuttered mine sites despite such sites still posing an ongoing danger in terms of imminent physical danger (collapse, decay, etc) and untreated waste piles and ponds leaching toxins into ground waters, etc.

To answer the question posed, "how many (US?) mine sites pose a danger of type {X}" requires crawling the US BLM datasets, the OSHA datasets, the archived (from when active) MSHA datasets, and having a some luck onside for various specific sites due to large gaps and periods of not caring at all.

See:

* https://www.epa.gov/epcra/does-msha-have-jurisdiction-over-i...

* https://www.blm.gov/programs/aml-environmental-cleanup/aml

Various transnational global mining companies (Rio Tinto, et al) have extensive datasets on global resources and minesites, both operational, and past and potential future sites.
by lazyasciiart | 2026-02-21 01:53:29+00:00
No, actually, zero people 'must admit' that it was a stupid, user hostile and needlessly complexifying change.

I would say any reasonable person would have to agree that a company which didn't bother to set a standard for new repos once there are multiple common options is stupid, user hostile and needlessly complexifying. And if the company does have a standard for new repos, but for some reason you don't explain that to new engineers....
by peterjliu | 2026-02-21 01:54:31+00:00
Even the Fed finds prediction markets useful to inform policy (Kalshi is a much smaller prediction market than Polymarket):

"Prediction markets offer a new market-based approach to measuring macroeconomic expectations in real-time. We evaluate the accuracy of prediction market-implied forecasts from Kalshi, the largest federally regulated prediction market overseen by the CFTC. We compare Kalshi with more traditional survey and market-implied forecasts, examine how expectations respond to macroeconomic and financial news, and how policy signals are interpreted by market participants. Our results suggest that Kalshi markets provide a high-frequency, continuously updated, distributionally rich benchmark that is valuable to both researchers and policymakers."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/kalshi-and-the-r...
by bawolff | 2026-02-21 01:55:51+00:00
I am kind of sympathetic to that view. In practise i do find most DoS vulns to be noise or at least fundamentally different from other security bugs because worst case you get attacked, have some downtime, and fix it. You dont have to worry about persistence or data leaks.

But at the same time i don't know. Pre-cloudflare bringing cheap ddos mitigation to the masses, i suspect most website operators would have preferred to be subject to an xss attack over a DoS. At least xss has a viable fix path (of course volumetric dos is a different beast than cve type dos vulns)
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-21 01:55:57+00:00
If you listen to the oral arguments, this issue was discussed at length.

There are two reasons for this distinction:

1. That's what congress decided. They get to determine tariffs, not the president. If the president doesn't like the law congress passed, he doesn't get to just ignore it.

2. Congress is very jealous of the right to tax and spend. They do not want to hand over this power to the president. Tariffs are taxes. If the president can just impose whatever tariffs he wants, he can raise revenue without asking congress for permission. That would grant the president enormous power to go around congress. Banning imports from a country does not bring in revenue for the president, so it doesn't pose the same risk to congress' power.

Trump has been trying to create a situation in which he can both raise revenue (through tariffs) and spend it however he wants (e.g., through DOGE's arbitrary changes to government spending) without ever asking congress. If he succeeds, the balance of power will be completely destroyed. The president will rule alone.
by jychang | 2026-02-21 01:55:57+00:00
This is more of an article describing their methodology than a full paper. But yes, there's plenty of peer reviewed papers on this topic, scaling sparse autoencoders to produce interpretable features for large models.

There's a ton of peer reviewed papers on SAEs in the past 2 years; some of them are presented at conferences.

For example: "Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Features in Language Models"
https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/file/1fa1...

"Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders"
https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/28040

"Identifying Functionally Important Features with End-to-End Sparse Dictionary Learning"
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/c...

"Gemma Scope: Open Sparse Autoencoders Everywhere All At Once on
Gemma 2"
https://aclanthology.org/2024.blackboxnlp-1.19.pdf
by idiotsecant | 2026-02-21 01:56:53+00:00
If anything the algorithmic dopamine drip is just getting started. We haven't even entered the era of intensely personalized ai-driven individual influence campaigns. The billboard is just a billboard right now, but it won't be long before the billboard knows the most effective way to emotionally influence you and executes it perfectly. The algorithm is mostly still in your phone.

That's not where it stops.
by yndoendo | 2026-02-21 01:57:19+00:00
A good example of this is what one of my family member's partner said. "Isn't creep that you just talked about something and now you are seeing ads for it. Guess we just have to accept it."

My response was no I don't get any of that because I disable that technology since it is always listening and can never be trusted. There is no privacy in those services.

They did not like that response.
by themanmaran | 2026-02-21 01:58:18+00:00
> If it were me, I would have avoided involving third party regulators in the initial contact at least.

I'm surprised to see this take only mentioned once in this thread. I think people here are not aware of the sheer amount of fraud in the "bug bounty" space. As soon as you have a public product you get at least 1 of these attempts per week of someone trying to shake you down for a disclosure that they'll disclose after you pay them something. Typically you just report them as spam and move on.

But if I got one that had some credible evidence of them reporting me to a government agency already, I'd immediately get a lawyer to send a cease and desist.

It seems like OP was trying to be a by the book law abiding citizen, but the sheer amount of fraud in this space makes it really hard to tell the difference from a cold email.
by theturtletalks | 2026-02-21 01:58:32+00:00
All these articles seem to think people will vibe code by prompting:

make me my own Stripe

make me my own Salesforce

make me my own Shopify

It will be more like:

Look at how Lago, an open-source Stripe layer, works and make it work with Authorized.net directly

Look at Twenty, an open-source CRM, and make it work in our tech stack for our sales needs

Look at how Medusa, an open-source e-commerce platform, works and what features we would need and bring into our website

When doing the latter, getting a good enough alternative will reduce the need for commercial SaaS.