MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by overfeed | 2026-02-18 23:47:28+00:00
> Windows 98 was at the same time but the MacOS interface has changed a lot less than Windows has.

That's only because Windows had to dial things back a lot after Windows Vista. Incidentally, Vista UI was also glass-inspired. Hmm.

Windows 8 "Metro" interface was different, I suspect if Microsoft's mobile efforts had been more successful[1], Metro's design influences would have a much bigger sway over the desktop.

1. i.e. had they became the number 2 or 3 phone OS, and sold tablets with volumes comparable to the iPad. Touchscreen-isms would have inevitably crept back to the desktop OS.
by krisoft | 2026-02-18 23:48:27+00:00
I do not know. But the best evidence of something surviving for 500 years is looking at things which have survived that long already. Laser printers were first invented in the 70s. So the oldest surviving laser printed pages are like 50 years old. You can of course do things like accelerated aging tests, or reasoning from chemical composition, which can give you ideas. But to be certain it is better to be conservative. With inks we have more experience. We have plenty of 500 years old books and through the years we learned better what survives and what causes problems. Now of course that doesn’t mean that every ink will be better. Just that there is a better chance that the best inks, specifically formulated for longevity will perform better than the best laser prints.

That plus inks penetrate into the paper while laser prints are baked onto the fibers. Which i feel is better for staying there long term.

But who knows. Maybe there will be an archivist in 2100 on the moon cursing my name for suggesting inks instead of laser prints. Maybe by then it will be clear that properly formulated tonner is actually better. In some sense only time will tell.
by shimman | 2026-02-18 23:49:52+00:00
There are very few things worth reading submitted to this site. The only meaningful thing I'm glad to have read was the "I sell onions on the internet" blog post. Everything else I've forgotten, mostly VC marketing fluff or dev infighting in open source; hardly anything worth noting.

This place is up there with reddit, it's all lowish calorie info; 90% forgettable, 10% meaningful but you have to dig quite quite deep to find it.
by metalman | 2026-02-18 23:49:59+00:00
Many small aircraft wings are held on with 4 small bolts, one one each spar, and one on each end of the strut, so as you might imagine that with the failure mode involved, they are damn good bolts, and they are, but unfortunately people look at our atmosphere are shrug, and refuse to consider the failure mode, especialy as we have only one atmosphere, which we benifit from in so many ways, like right now it is holding up hundreds of cessena's and everybody is breathing it, but it's like going along in a cessena, while watching the wing bolt stretch, bit by bit, it's only a little cracked. Which to my knowledge has never happened, no one has ever pulled the wings off a 150, simply because good as those bolts are, they get checked, and fussed over, and changed long long before anything gets troublesome, because simply, some things are unthinkable and there are no debates or opinions, something held to be self evident.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-18 23:50:51+00:00
You're misinterpreting that sentence. It's not that they never agreed. It's that sometimes they disagreed, and they got pressured harder when they did.

Did you read the first two paragraphs?

> In a letter to the US Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has alleged that the US government under Joe Biden "repeatedly pressured" Meta to censor certain content on its platforms.

> In the letter addressed to US House of Representatives, Mr Zuckerberg said that the platform had to make some changes, that "with the benefit of hindsight and new information," they won't make today. He added that he regrets not being "more outspoken" about it.

We know for a fact that Meta had removed over 20 million Corona posts by April 2021 alone [0]. Some of those were genuine misinformation - but a hell of a lot were legitimate and important questions from reputable sources. It's simply not reasonable to believe this wasn't due to pressure.

0 - https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/facebook-removed-more...
by Rendello | 2026-02-18 23:50:59+00:00
Even as a guy who wears pretty loose straight-cut jeans, having stuff in my pockets can look and feel weird. Especially my AirPods case. In jeans with slightly stretchy denim, the location of my phone is permanently etched into my jeans. I'd be a pickpocket's dream. When I had the unfortunate inclination to wear tight pants, anything in the pockets looked and felt quite bad.
by ModernMech | 2026-02-18 23:51:54+00:00
> Anyway, I guess there is a growing collective admission that the climate is changing even if the crotchety ones will still quip about it not being warmer at some given time and place. It's unfortunate that "global warming" caught on instead of "climate change."

Rather than a collective admission, I feel what's happening is the crotchety people are dying off, leaving us millennials and GenZ to clean up the mess. Thinks won't change until a critical mass of them are dead and gone.
by MindSpunk | 2026-02-18 23:52:58+00:00
The CPUs in their SOCs were not up to snuff for a non-portable game console until very recently. They used (and largely still do I believe) off the shelf ARM Cortex designs. The SOC fabric is their own, but the cores are standard.

In performance even the aging Zen2 would demolish the best Tegra you could get at the time.

You should note that the Switch, the only major handheld console for the last 10 years, is the only one using a Tegra.

And from everything I've heard Nvidia is a garbage hardware partner who you absolutely don't want to base your entire business on because they will screw you. The consoles all use custom AMD SOCs, if you're going to that deep level of partnering you'd want a partner who isn't out to stab you.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-18 23:54:10+00:00
>Uh-oh. Why do we have so many distinct versions of The Last Unicorn? Well, each distinct format of a work has its own ISBN (so a hardcover, paperback, and eBook all have different ISBNs),

This isn't even the half of it. On some digital books, I'll find a dozen ISBNs in the front matter. Of course there's the hardback, the clothbound (not always the same as the hardback), the alk. paper variant, paperback, trade paperback, epub, pdf, "Adobe digital", and "master digital e-book" (no idea what that even is myself). And that's all just issued together. If they reprint, it won't get a new ISBN, but if the rights convey to another publisher, that one will get a whole 'nother set again. Some popular titles likely have low hundreds of ISBNs, and keep in mind that these have only been a thing since the late 1960s (9 digit ISBNs, technically just SBNs back then). Then with the now dead paperback trade, you could go through a dozen different covers for the most popular books (King, etc) but they'd all use the same ISBN.

Then, and this one bites me the most... if archive.org scans in a hardback with its ISBN, what do I use for the scanned pdf? I've decided that for lack of a better alternative I have to use it, but if the publisher made their own pdf (even just scanning the hardback), then it is supposed to issue a new ISBN to it.

Cataloging my own library, I've had to use a hodgepodge of unique ids. ASINs, ISBNs, Worldcat's OCLC numbers, Open Library's, and a few others besides. And it still comes up short. The number of oddball publishers and pamphlets and so forth that have never been cataloged anywhere is enormous.
by deejaaymac | 2026-02-18 23:54:35+00:00
As a male who has been on both ends of the spectrum (morbidly obese) and 'fit' / bodybuilder I find the whole discussion about size, clothing, weight, vanity, etc incredibly boring.

Buy whatever clothes you're comfortable in and take steps to not be obese, and uninstall social media while you're at it. It really is that simple.
by spartanatreyu | 2026-02-18 23:55:01+00:00
Everything kind of fractured apart and now those niche communities are building up again elsewhere.

Discord has a lot (looking at my discord I see, gaming, programming, clothing/fashion/aesthetic, language, dnd, music, keyboard / hardware, dance, etc... communities).

I've noticed a lot of the major reddit communities have matching communities in the fediverse, specifically the ones with old reddit-like UIs. (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, mander.xyz, etc...).

I've also noticed a lot of web-standards / browser developers and some gamedevs moved to twitter-style fediverse sites (e.g. mastodon.social, indieweb.social, infosec.exchange, hackyderm.io, floss.social, fosstodon.org, etc...).

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I think the fediverse is working well for the niche communities for three reasons:

- Having that little bit more initial friction to learning how the fediverse works has made it better since it keeps out the low quality spamming users.

- Niche communities can only grow organically within their own spaces (since forcing them makes them seem inauthentic).

- The big plus of the fediverse is being able to follow/interact with users/communities across the boundary of being on another website. So it doesn't matter if a niche community you want to follow springs up on another website, you can follow them and participate from the website you already use.

For example: the old reddit-like communities that I follow (listed above) appear in a single feed in my programming.dev account (since that's the first one I joined), and the old twitter-like communities I follow appear in a single feed in my mastodon.social account (since that's the first twitter-like one I joined).
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-18 23:55:06+00:00
> why isn't there a letterboxd for books

There is. https://hardcover.app

I used Letterboxd a lot before kids. I used Goodreads until the Trump inauguration when I de-Amazon'd myself as much as possible (Amazon owns Goodreads). I switched to Hardcover, which is a much better interface. There are ways to improve, but overall I prefer it over Goodreads.
by oceanplexian | 2026-02-18 23:55:56+00:00
> The idea that all blame rests on individuals and corporations are blame-free is crazy.

You know they have Starbucks in other countries without an obesity crisis?

No one is forcing you or I to order a particular drink at Starbucks; they literally put the number of calories directly next to the menu item. The blame is 100% on the individuals making their own health decisions.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-18 23:55:56+00:00
>The ask is simple: let us use your models for anything that's technically legal.

> Weapons development, intelligence collection, battlefield operations, mass surveillance of American citizens.

> OpenAI said yes.

> Google said yes.

> xAI said yes.

> Anthropic said no.

Is that accurate? Did all the labs, other than Anthropic, say yes to allowing their models to be used for weapons development and mass surveillance of Americans?

Or is the poster overlooking some nuance?
by labcomputer | 2026-02-18 23:56:06+00:00
So here's how I would think about it intuitively:

We can create a balanced partitioning of the 300 turkeys with a 300 bit random number having an equal number of 1's and 0's.

Now suppose I randomly pick 300 bit number, still with equal 0's and 1's, but this time the first 20 bits are always 0's and the last 20 bits are always 1's. In this scenario, only the middle 260 bits (turkeys) are randomly assigned, and the remaining 40 are deterministic.

We can quibble over what constitutes an "enormous" bias, but the scenario above feels like an inadequate experiment design to me.

As it happens, log2(260 choose 130) ~= 256.

> Are there any non-cryptographic examples in which a well-designed PRNG with 256 bits of well-seeded random state produces results different enough from a TRNG to be visible to a user?

One example that comes to mind is shuffling a deck of playing cards. You need approximately 225 bits of entropy to ensure that every possible 52 card ordering can be represented. Suppose you wanted to simulate a game of blackjack with more than one deck or some other card game with more than 58 cards. 256 bits is not enough there.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2026-02-18 23:56:59+00:00
For ISBNs from the big 5, the number really does indicate the publisher. I think the 5th digit (second after 978) can indicate at least some of the big publishers. Smaller ranges are available for purchase from the brokers. In Canada, the national library will even issue you one for free, if you self-publish.

The ISBN always indicates the country it's from, the United States getting the biggest block, other European nations and Japan getting their own, with Africa, the Middle East, and so forth all getting a block in common.
by tl2do | 2026-02-18 23:57:43+00:00
Thanks for your reply.
In fact, I've grown tired of programming by myself — I do 95% of my coding with Claude Code. But the remaining 5% of bugs can't be solved by the AI agent, which forces me to step in myself. In those cases, I'm thrown into a codebase I've never touched before, and code readability becomes key. That's what drew me to this article and to Forth.
I would look into the Rosetta.
by yalok | 2026-02-18 23:57:50+00:00
I just had a problem installing iMovie on a MacOS 14 - 11-year old MBP13, perfectly functional otherwise (my 10-year old kid uses it), the original iMovie that used to work earlier, just stopped launching (maybe I need to change some xattrs for it?), and the new iMovie from the App Store can't be installed on such an old OS (why not show the older version there, like iOS AppStore does on older OSes?)...
by jacquesm | 2026-02-18 23:58:00+00:00
Right, so you think.

But: your bank knows who you are and the recipient's bank knows who they are. Your transfer may have been below the increased attention threshold ($10K to $50K depending on the jurisdictions of both recipients).

Both your accounts are most likely not recent and in good standing.

And so on. I routinely make international wiretransfers as well but I'm under no illusion whatsoever that if I tried to cross an anti-money-laundering or anti-terrorism-financing threshold somewhere that the transfer would be immediately stopped and an investigation would ensue.
Show HN: Sentinel – Cryptographic proof for AI decisions (zkML, on-chain)
by ghostclaw-cso | 2026-02-18 23:58:04+00:00
Hey HN,

We kept running into the same problem: when an AI system makes a consequential decision, there's no neutral way to verify what it actually saw and did. Logs are editable. Screenshots lie. "Trust us" doesn't hold up in regulated industries or litigation.

So we built SENTINEL. Three products, one protocol:

*SENTINEL Score* -- unjailbreakable safety layer. Text in, float out (0.0-1.0). Nothing else crosses the wire. No tokens, no text, no PHI. Can't be jailbroken because there's nothing to jailbreak. HIPAA environments, military, credit bureaus -- they need a number, not a chatbot.

*SENTINEL Proof* -- neutral ground for AI disputes. Every evaluation ZK-proofed, timestamped, committed on Base mainnet. Neither vendor nor client controls the record. When it goes to court, the transaction hash is the evidence. AI companies could build this themselves -- they won't. "You're storing our conversations?" is a PR disaster. Neutral third party solves that.

*AEGIS* -- AI security that closes the loop. 72B parameter model. Finds vulnerabilities, writes the patch. Not a report. Scan, identify, patch, verify.

8 contracts live on Base mainnet. Free API key at sentinel.biotwin.io -- no credit card, no sales call.

We use SENTINEL Proof inside Bio-Twin (AI drug safety pre-screening) to make AI decisions defensible for pharma labs and attorneys. The Disney $2.75M CA AG settlement last week is a concrete example of why this matters.

Happy to talk on-chain architecture, zkML proof generation at scale, or EU AI Act compliance.
by goldenarm | 2026-02-18 23:58:12+00:00
Everyone is excited (or scared) by vibe coded startups, but ask yourself, how many vibecoded apps do you use weekly ? Every single one I've tested looks great at first, but is an UX nightmare with awful performance.

Even worse, my founder friends are all churning slop prototypes with Claude Code with zero product vision and are going nowhere. Is this revolution just a mirage that is FOMO-driven ?
by bri3d | 2026-02-18 23:58:20+00:00
Everyone should read this comment, it does a really eloquent job explaining the situation.

The fundamental thing to understand is this: The things you hear about that people make $500k for on the gray market and the things that you see people make $20k for in a bounty program are completely different deliverables, even if the root cause bug turns out to be the same.

Quoted gray market prices are generally for working exploit chains, which require increasingly complex and valuable mitigation bypasses which work in tandem with the initial access exploit; for example, for this exploit to be particularly useful, it needs a sandbox escape.

Developing a vulnerability into a full chain requires a huge amount of risk - not weird crimey bitcoin in a back alley risk like people in this thread seem to want to imagine, but simple time-value risk. While one party is spending hundreds of hours and burning several additional exploits in the course of making a reliable and difficult-to-detect chain out of this vulnerability, fifty people are changing their fuzzer settings and sending hundreds of bugs in for bounty payout. If they hit the same bug and win their $20k, the party gambling on the $200k full chain is back to square one.

Vulnerability research for bug bounty and full-chain exploit development are effectively different fields, with dramatically different research styles and economics. The fact that they intersect sometimes doesn't mean that it makes sense to compare pricing.
by nirava | 2026-02-18 23:58:33+00:00
It looks like the paperwork requirements are understandable, but it's also quite reasonable to not want to bother with it.

I've also never had the impression that he really needed the money to continue maintaining Pocketbase.

He's entitled to his opinions, and if $30k is cheaper to him than his perceived breach of privacy and the hassle of paperwork, that's his prerogative.
by circuit10 | 2026-02-18 23:58:34+00:00
Here’s a video called “Is AI safety a Pascal’s Mugging?”: https://youtu.be/JRuNA2eK7w0

From what I remember the main point of the video is that kind of situation happens when the probability involved is vanishingly small, and all the events you listed don’t have a vanishingly small probability, so they are not Pascal’s wager situations, just a normal rational safety concerns with particularly high consequences
by shimman | 2026-02-18 23:59:21+00:00
You really can't discern between a healthy portion of sugar and an unhealthy portion of sugar? I can assure you it should be way less than what they are serving. Especially since society will bare these costs in a variety of unexpected ways, Starbucks needs to be compelled into doing so. They broke the societal compact, they have to be punished.
by zetanor | 2026-02-19 00:00:09+00:00
While the article highlights only people of width as the "millions of people who are excluded from standard size ranges", the clothes sizing problem goes the other way around, too: it's practically impossible to find well-fitting clothes if you're tall and in good shape. To your point, though, perhaps a long time ago, "large" and "x-large" might have meant "slightly tall" and "quite tall" rather than "slightly tall and obese" and "quite tall and very obese".
by tialaramex | 2026-02-19 00:00:33+00:00
Technically, because Let's Encrypt always publishes all requested certificates to the logs (this isn't mandatory, it's just easier for most people so Let's Encrypt always does this) your tool can go look in the logs to get the certificate. You do need to know your private key, nobody else ever knew that so if you don't have that then you're done.
Show HN: Local "incident bundle" for AI/agent failures (offline rep and CI JSON)
by Tanyayvr | 2026-02-19 00:01:12+00:00
Hi,I built a small local-first CLI toolkit for debugging AI/agent incidents.

Problem I kept hitting: building agents is fast, but when something breaks, handing off “one failing run” is messy (screenshots, scattered logs, partial configs, access to a tracing UI, accidental secrets/PII in payloads).

What this does: run your agent on a case suite and generate a portable evidence pack you can open offline and attach to a GitHub issue/ticket:

report.html (offline viewer)

compare-report.json (machine-readable summary for CI gating: none | require_approval | block)

evidence files referenced via a manifest (so you can verify completeness/integrity)

It’s intentionally self-hosted/local-only: no backend, no accounts, nothing leaves your environment unless you export the pack.

Redaction note: in the “production” pipeline, redaction is applied in the runner before artifacts are written (the agent is not required to support a special header). There’s also a strict mode that scans all manifest-referenced files for residual markers as a safety gate.

I’m not trying to replace tracing/observability tools — this is meant to be the “handoff unit” when sharing a link or granting UI access isn’t viable.

Questions for HN:

If you’ve had to share a single failing run with another engineer/vendor, what was the missing piece that caused the most back-and-forth?

What would you consider “minimum viable contents” vs a “bundle monster”?
by Rendello | 2026-02-19 00:01:37+00:00
I bonked in the middle of a 100km ride on a rail trail through farmer's fields. I thought I'd had enough food, since the same amount was sufficient for the initial trip out a few days earlier, but it wasn't. It was the return journey of my first big bike trip, and it was absolute hell after I bonked. I'd ride for twenty minutes, then lie on the ground for ten. When I was laying on the ground I'd be searching the vegetation for anything that looked vaguely edible.

Crazy how a glucose drop can sneak up and humble you so quickly!
by aaaasmile | 2026-02-19 00:01:38+00:00
>The satisfaction of writing better for an audience of none?

The satisfaction of writing for an engine. The last of what could still be recognized as a real human being writing. There’s no competition with AI, but also no resignation and no fear of being limited compared to the vast knowledge of an LLM. Even in a context of an "audience of none", somewhere there will be a scraper tool interested in my writing. And if it gets hallucinated... wow!
by TheAlexLichter | 2026-02-19 00:01:59+00:00
Yeah, no. Real human here.

Oxlint does support core rules out of the box but has support for JS plugins[0] as mentioned. If you don't rely on a custom parser (so svelte or vue component for example) things just work. Even react compiler rules[1].

[0] https://oxc.rs/docs/guide/usage/linter/js-plugins.html
[1] https://github.com/TheAlexLichter/oxlint-react-compiler-rule...
by shimman | 2026-02-19 00:02:45+00:00
This is the first pudding article that does not feel as polished. Scrolling down the spacing between legends within the data visualizations are not good. Some text doesn't even appear (cut off from the top on the torso visualizations). My font size is increased by like 150% thru the OS but my zoom is still 100%.

Good content tho.
by isodev | 2026-02-19 00:03:25+00:00
Swift never felt truly open source either. That people can propose evolution points doesn’t change the fact that Apple still holds all the keys and pushes whatever priorities they need, even if they’re not a good idea (e.g. Concurrency, Swift Testing etc)

Also funny enough, all cross platform work is with small work groups, some even looking for funding … anyway.