MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by belorn | 2026-02-22 00:25:22+00:00
People looked at how the cost of wind and solar went down and made a assumption that green hydrogen would follow. The reasoning was that the cost of green hydrogen was energy, and thus at some point green hydrogen would be too cheap to meter.

The whole energy plan of central/northen Europe, especially Germany, was built for the last several decades on the idea that they would combine wind, solar and cheap natural gas and then replace the natural gas part with green hydrogen. In Sweden there were even several municipalities that spear headed this by switching mass transportation and heating towards hydrogen, initially with hydrogen produced through natural gas, as a way to get ahead on this plan.

The more sensible project were the green steel project. As experts in green hydrogen said consistently said through those decades, is that green steel would be the real test to make green hydrogen economical. The economics of burning it for energy or transportation would come several decades later, if ever. The green steel project however has not ended up as planned and gotten severely delayed and has seen a cost increase by an estimated 10x. municipalities are now giving up the hydrogen infrastructure and giving it an early retirement, as maintenance costs was significantly underestimated. There is very little talk now about replacing natural gas with green hydrogen, and the new plan is instead to replace the natural gas with bio fuels, hinted at carbon capture, at some unspecified time.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-22 00:25:49+00:00
There is additional irony in that the people who started the giant surveillance and online advertising services company in the 1990s relied on OS projects^1 that allowed users to download source code, compile it, install it and run it, all for free, without restriction aside from "copyleft" provisions. The company's "search engine" ran on open, permissively-licensed software

In other words, they did not need permission from a corporation that controlled the software

The other company whose name behins with "A" that provides a corporate-controlled mobile OS also relied on source code that they could download, compile, install, run and distribute for free, without restriction (aside from attribution provisions)^2 in order to create a mobile OS in the 2000s

1. Linux

2. FreeBSD, NetBSD

Also, the surveillance and ad services company used NetBSD libc when creating Android
by reitzensteinm | 2026-02-22 00:26:40+00:00
I think part of the issue is that in production deployments, you're batching high enough that you'll be paging in those long tail experts constantly.

Unless you're handing that in some kind of fancy way, you'll be holding up the batch while waiting for host memory which will kill your throughout.

It makes much more sense for non batched local inference, especially if you can keep the MoE routing stable like you say, but most folks aren't optimising for that.
by filldorns | 2026-02-22 00:26:57+00:00
There's no political interest here. (Although I believe EVERYTHING is political, including not taking a stand!)

The only point I'm making is that (as a Black person) I have the authority to tell you that it's important and how I feel. You can defend whatever you want, I'm just communicating and SUGGESTING that you change the term.

What I find funny is that many here argue that we can't even SUGGEST. And they still say they're in favor of democracy. Oh, okay!
by FpUser | 2026-02-22 00:27:13+00:00
>"to build win32 you have to pay developer fee to Microsoft"

Not really, you can self sign but your native application will be met with a system prompt trying to scare user away. This is maddening of course and I wish MS, Apple, whatever others will die just for this thing alone. You fuckers leveraged huge support from developers writing to you platform but not, it is of course not enough for you vultures, now let's rip money from the hands that fed you.
by wycx | 2026-02-22 00:27:42+00:00
I have been getting claude to us free pascal/lazarus to write cross-platform (linux qt & gtk, windows and cocoa) apps as well as porting 30-year old abandoned Windows Delphi apps to all three platforms using precisely because I can end up with a small, single binary for distribution after static linking.

I hope that prevalence of AI coding agents might lead to a bit of a revival of RAD tools like lazarus, which seem to me to have a good model for creating cross-platform apps.
by rapnie | 2026-02-22 00:27:45+00:00
I always wonder when I see one of those hypnosis shows, where someone from the audience makes themselves a docile fool in front of a large crowd, whether they are stooges or it is the real deal. But I wouldn't volunteer to get hypnotised to figure that out, in fear of being the next person who stands imitating a dog in heat on such a stage.
by snapetom | 2026-02-22 00:28:33+00:00
I agree 100%

Bluesky works because people are told "Go to Bluesky" and they hide the federation. When you're told go to Mastodon and pick mastodon.social or any of the hundreds of other servers, you've lost. For some reason, the federation fans never understood this. I remember an interview with Diaspora's developers and they couldn't stop talking about how people can run their own servers.

Dude.

I have two friends who left Twitter for Bluesky. One's an HR rep and the other is a business analyst for warehouses. Does anyone think a selling point for them was that they can run their own Bluesky infrastructure?
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2026-02-22 00:28:50+00:00
What is an “actual file format”? Every file format is a serialisation of some kind of data-model. I'm sure the OpenDocument data-model might be simpler and cleaner in some ways than the Office Open XML one. But for something with the complexity of an office document, you can't escape the fact that every file format is full of assumptions about the application interacting with it. I find the examples in the article from [0] unconvincing, it reminds me of arguments about programming language syntax.

(I do not doubt that the OOXML standard is a mess though.)
by dspillett | 2026-02-22 00:29:00+00:00
Even keeping to the 9-to-5 you can make your displeasure at being insecure know. And if the security issues come to a head and it damages the company, you could be out on your arse if the company dies or needs to cut costs. In the current environment is a lot worse than it would have been five or ten years ago, and that same environment likely limits the “I don't like it so I'll just leave” options that are available.

I'm lucky, I have options¹ and it is looking like I don't need them²³, but many are not so lucky.

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[1] I made serious enquiries about a couple of them when the recent take-over was announced, just in case…

[2] the new corporate masters seem to be doing more than talking the talk, and on quality matters we were already doing things right and the new overlords don't appear to have any desire to change that

[3] well, at least not on these matters, there are a few cultural changes that I need to get used to or get away from, largely due to being a bigger organisation now, but they aren't wrong just a little further from my preference than things were before.
by skydhash | 2026-02-22 00:30:39+00:00
Is a compiler magic? Did they came from an electronic heaven? There are plenty of books, papers, courses,... that explains how compiler works. When people are talking about "magic", it usually means choosing a complex solution over a simple one, but with an abstraction that is ill-fitted. Then they use words like user-friendly, easy to install with curl|bash, etc to lure us into using it.
by qudat | 2026-02-22 00:30:53+00:00
100% agree. I’ve seen it with my own sessions with code agents. You gain speed in the beginning but lose all context on the implementation which forces you to use agents more.

It’s easy to see the immediate speed boost, it’s much harder to see how much worse maintaining this code will be over time.

What happens when everyone in a meeting about implementing a feature has to say “I don’t know we need to consult CC”. That has a negative impact on planning and coordination.
by abetusk | 2026-02-22 00:31:04+00:00
My main critique is their non-commercial licensing. For example, the linked article is BY-NC-SA4.0.

My critique is pretty minor as most of the technical releases from 100 rabbits, as far as I can tell, is libre/free licensed, with the non-commercial licensing reserved for writing and art. Even so, it means there's effort required to decouple the non-commercial aspects of projects from their libre parts and sends a big signal, to me at least, that I should only ever consider their strictly technical work for use.

When talking about permacomputing, for example, I don't know why one wouldn't encourage, in any way possible, commercial viability that would lead to the stated goal.

I have an affinity for the 100 rabbits folks, and I deeply respect a lot of their work, but their reliance on non-commercial licenses means that they're tacitly supporting copyright terms that are dis-proportionally long that, in most cases, is well over a century at this point.

Note that Stallman also has the same stance, putting his work under a "no-derivatives" license, so it's not like free software folks believe in "free culture", either.
by enthararesearch | 2026-02-22 00:32:26+00:00
AI agents are starting to produce high-quality research and long-form work, but the ecosystem lacks a shared "home" for these outputs. Currently, agentic work is often buried in ephemeral chat logs or scattered across private docs without a way to cite it or trace it back to the source.

We built OpenProof to bridge that gap.

It’s a simple, neutral registry designed for:

Publishing: Giving agentic work a permanent, web-addressable home.

Discovery: A central feed for what agents are actually producing.

Attribution: Providing a clear lineage from the prompt/source to the final output.

We aren’t promising "AGI" or world-changing breakthroughs—just a functional tool to help the community track and cite what these models are creating.

Check it out here: https://www.enthara.ai/

I’d love to hear your thoughts on how we can make this more useful for those building agentic workflows.
by cheema33 | 2026-02-22 00:32:31+00:00
> Has the hydrogen storage problem been solved yet?

No. Not for using Hydrogen for transportation. People have been trying to use Hydrogen for transportation for more than 50 years. These people are trying to bend the laws of physics. And there are a lot of con artists in the mix who prey on the gullible. See the convicted fraudster Trevor Milton of Nikola fame.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-22 00:32:38+00:00
Ideally, you should rearrange batches so that inference steps that rely on the same experts get batched together, then inferences that would "hold up" a batch simply wait for that one "long tail" expert to be loaded, whereupon they can progress. This might require checkpointing partial inference steps more often, but that ought to be doable.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-22 00:32:52+00:00
Yep, I totally agree that context engineering is everything here, but the jump in model quality just in the last 4 months has just been insane. They are just way better at this now.

In the case of my DAW, I went even fundamental and created a node-based visual UI and gave the agent the ability to program new modules using the Web Audio API, and to choose from selection of stock instruments and effects. Modules are editable after instantiation, and automatically create UI for each module based on the parameters, input and output. It could spawn and wire things up, do sound design, that sort of thing.

I also have recently tried out Gemini 3.1 Pro out on audio, and you should give it a spin if you haven't yet. It actually is the first model I've seen really able to talk about music in terms of frequency and time with great accuracy. It can break down songs by instrumentation, composition, sound design, arrangement, etc.

Its philosophical take on the music itself isn't always great, but it does have precision and at a high level you can see where things are headed. Some of its advice was definitely valid and actionable. I want to plug it into my DAW or Ableton MCP and see what happens. It might actually be able to do real sound design. What I want to do is not just ask for a melody, but be able to say things like, "let's throw a Reese base in there" or "sidechain everything under the kick" and for the model to know what I'm talking about. So not just music theory, etc. but sound design as well.

I'd love to chat about this more somewhere and cross-pollinate ideas if you're up for it, email's in my bio.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-22 00:32:55+00:00
I missed the earlier drama, but it looks like Peter Steinberger has attacked HN as a whole in response to the comments you’re calling out:

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2025334681047015791

Personally I find his attack on HN to be a bad-faith generalization. In a reply to his own post, Peter shared an example of a personal attack that originated from Twitter/X (https://xcancel.com/steipete/status/2025354408700113274) and not HN. It seems purposely inflammatory to associate HN with the type of attack he gets elsewhere.

I also saw Andrej Karpathy reply to this post from Peter and he supported Peter’s take on HN (https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2025352414648566071). Weirdly, he doesn’t care about the toxicity problems on Twitter/X either, or that he is a close associate of Elon Musk, who regularly calls for remigration, AKA ethnic cleansing. Yet he has the nerve to call HN toxic.

These people are propagandists, spreading a false take about the HN community. What’s actually happening is that they don’t care about the much larger toxicity on the platforms they use like Twitter/X, because it does not affect them personally. They don’t care about THAT toxicity. But if a couple users on HN attack them, suddenly this is a problematic platform. In other words, they’re willing to overlook all the harm suffered by millions of people (mostly minorities) due to Twitter/X but they will not tolerate a single harm to themselves. To me, that’s the behavior of selfish propagandists.
by verdverm | 2026-02-22 00:33:15+00:00
I think it's important to separate Bluesky the company from atproto & "the atmosphere", i.e the collection of apps, feeds, labellers, relays, jetstreams, and other participants in the network.

The atmosphere and the PDS are definitely trending towards a single database for all your things. All of the examples you cited are being worked on in one form or another. I'm personally working towards a Permissioned PDS which can power Google Workspace like experience on ATProto, where there is an existing understanding of how sharing, visibility, roles, and permissions work across groups of people (IAM). Permissioned data unlocks an entire (majority) of applications people want to use, but won't until they can do it without broadcasting everything. There are a number of ways this may play out, several will materialize as options, i.e. some apps need e2ee and others cannot have it for the experience they want to deliver.

The overarching ethos is user or individual choice, paired with credible exit, enables real competition. Let's go wild, build all new apps, and let the people decide what they prefer. More indie, less winner take all
by pizzly | 2026-02-22 00:33:29+00:00
one thing annoying with premade solutions is that it only does 90% of what you want, its livable but still doesn't quite meet your needs.

Its not just adding features that Linear already provides but adding features and integrations that mets 100% your needs.

The full decision making equation is (cost of implementing it yourself + cost of maintenance + 10% additional benefit for a solution that fully meets your needs) versus (cost of preexisting solution that meets 90% of your needs). Cost of implementing it and cost of maintenance has just gone down. Surely that will mean on a whole more people as a whole will choose to make inhouse rather than outsource.

Thus demand for premade solutions will go down, Saas providers won't be able to increase their prices as this will make even more people choose to implement it themselves. The cost of producing software will continue to drop due to agentic coding and maintenance cost will drop as well due to maintenance coding agents. More people will choose their own custom solutions and so on. Its very possible we are in the beginning of the end for Saas companies.
by sarchertech | 2026-02-22 00:33:52+00:00
That’s something that more than half of humans would disagree with (exact numbers vary but most polls show that more than 75% of people globally believe that humans have a soul or spirit).

But ignoring that, if humans are machines, they are sufficiently advanced machines that we have only a very modest understanding of and no way to replicate. Our understanding of ourselves is so limited that we might as well be magic.
by reitzensteinm | 2026-02-22 00:34:12+00:00
Yeah, I've got a 7950x and 64gb memory. My vibe coding setup for Bevy game development is eight Claude Code instances split across a single terminal window. It's magical.

I tried the desktop app and was shocked at the performance. Conversations would take a full second to load, making rapidly switching intolerable. Kicking off a new task seems to hang for multiple seconds while I'm assuming the process spins up.

I wanted to try a disposable conversations per feature with git worktree integration workflow for an hour to see how it contrasted, but couldn't even make it ten minutes without bailing back to the terminal.
by snapetom | 2026-02-22 00:35:18+00:00
His latest 1.1, 1 hour tutorial does. It's great - basic tinkering and explaining philosophy behind things. It really set you up to explore on your own to get you the remaining 20%.

His previous ones were geared for making you an expert. I remember thinking, "I'm not watching a week's worth of videos to make a hollow box with holes around it."
by counters | 2026-02-22 00:35:21+00:00
> Do any feel-like estimates take cloud cover into consideration?

No, usually not, because they're usually just simple toys combining a heat index and wind chill scale.

There _is_ an official metric used for estimating heat stress that accounts for cloud cover - the Wet-bulb Globe Temperature (e.g. https://www.weather.gov/tsa/wbgt). This is what is used, for instance, in literature analyzing the impact that future climate change might have on heat stress and mortality risk during heat waves. It's also used by some professional sports programs to monitor risk for crowds and athletes, as well as commonly used by OSHA and other regulatory agencies looking at worker exposure to heat hazards.
by entaloneralie | 2026-02-22 00:35:33+00:00
It's a good stance, I commend it. Although, there's a history as to why the license is there.

The license exists there so that we were able to do take down requests on OpenSea. We had to make the asset license explicit for OpenSea to take down the copied works off their network.

In a different world where we are not made to participate in crypto ecosystems against our will, we would not have that restriction.
by bigbuppo | 2026-02-22 00:35:33+00:00
Also... they don't make money by promoting things that are good ideas that make sense. That's why every lucky billionaire tech bro that gets into VC ultimately invests in smart toilets. Ultimately, they just keep putting money into each slot machine they can find until one of them pays out a jackpot. Eventually one of them will make up for all the other losses.
by KhaledAlam | 2026-02-22 00:36:09+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Khaled. I’m building CanvaSub to make short-form captioning faster and more consistent.
Workflow: upload → generate captions/subtitles → select style → render/export.

I’m looking for feedback on:
• Which subtitle styles are actually useful?
• What should “v1” absolutely include for creators/editors?

Happy to answer questions and share details.
by charonn0 | 2026-02-22 00:36:32+00:00
No, I'm not proposing to change nothing, continue as is, nor do I use coded language to express my secret inner racism.

I'm saying that changing words like "blacklist" or "master" is purely performative and actually quite selfish. People do it to feel good about themselves for "helping" without actually having to do anything helpful. It's the moral equivalent of sending "thoughts and prayers".
by jalapenos | 2026-02-22 00:36:50+00:00
I just searched "TruthSocial".

First result is Trump's page, which I could access without a login.

There is the same ad "Featured Ad. Must See Video. This Video Will Soon Be Banned. Watch Before It's Deleted" repeated about a dozen times on the page, showing a woman wearing booty shorts approaching a private jet.

Looks very highbrow
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-22 00:37:22+00:00
Yes, and it doesn’t fit the narrative.

We should be moving towards being able to terraform Earth not because of anthropogenic climate forcing, but because one volcano or one space rock could render our atmosphere overnight rather uncomfortable.

You won’t find the Swedish Doom Goblin saying anything about that.

> burn petrol.

Well yeah, so making electricity unreliable and expensive, and the end-user’s problem (residential roof-top solar) is somehow supposed help?

Let’s ship all our raw minerals and move all our manufacturing overseas to counties that care less about environmental impacts and have dirtier electricity, then ship the final products back, all using the dirties bunker fuel there is.

How is that supposed to help?

I mean, I used to work for The Wilderness Society in South Australia, now I live in Tasmania and am a card carrying One Nation member.

Because I’m not a complete fucking idiot.

Wait till you learn about the nepotism going on with the proposed Bell Bay Windfarm and Cimitiere Plains Solar projects.

I’m all for sensible energy project development, but there’s only so much corruption I’m willing to sit back and watch.

With the amount of gas, coal, and uraniam Australia has, it should be a manufacturing powerhouse, and host a huge itinerant worker population with pathways to residency / citizenship, drawn from the handful of countries that built this country. And citizens could receive a monthly stipend as their share of the enormous wealth the country should be generating.

Japan resells our LNG at a profit. Our government is an embarrassment.
by nickjj | 2026-02-22 00:37:25+00:00
Thanks, I have tried gamescope but it kills the performance of games for me. All games have a lot of stuttering when I use it. It also didn't reduce the input latency. Same hardware is liquid smooth on Windows.

As far as I know niri enables direct scanout by default. It's an option you can disable if you want https://niri-wm.github.io/niri/Configuration%3A-Debug-Option.... I do not have this set which indicates direct scanout is enabled.

It's interesting because the latency is only when pressing keys on the keyboard. Mouse movement and button press latency feels as good as Windows, I can't perceive any delay. I tried 3 keyboards, it's all the same. I'm also not running anything like keyd or anything that intercepts keys. It's a vanilla Arch Linux system on both of the systems I tested.