MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by weird_tentacles | 2026-02-15 23:38:58+00:00
Ha! The "general strike".

The general strike is a sad, obvious myth solely to delude us tax-cattle that we will have power, one day, for a day. Something something workers something bosses something something struggle. Bullshit for peasant workers.

"general strike" needs to be thrown in the same box as "communism" and "democracy" and "representation".
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-15 23:39:00+00:00
After dealing with lists like this for far too long, Google will find ways to block it.
The best solution up to date is Brave Browser.

They do provide their own "lists", you do not have access to it :)
That is the beauty of it, you cannot, neither can big techs so it lasts longer.
So far, Brave filter is the only one able to block Shorts and a lot of crappy from YT. No filter will do that, or will get blocked very soon until a new one is released.

Everything is public, won't last!
by nxobject | 2026-02-15 23:39:11+00:00
I’m not too nostalgic for an OS that only had cooperative scheduling. I don’t miss the days of Conflict Catcher, or having to order my extensions correctly.
Illegal instruction? Program accessed a dangling pointer? Bomb message held up your own computer and you had to restart (unless you had a non-stock debugger attached and can run ExitToShell, but no promises there.)
by prinny_ | 2026-02-15 23:40:20+00:00
I believe we are having this discussion from a purely technical perspective and not from a business one. Let's take slack for example. Assuming a company can perfectly clone it, why would they? Yes they would skip paying for it, but they would have to maintain it, starting from its infrastructure all they way up to its UI. Will they think of new features? Will they follow industry developments in sound / streaming technology? Will they keep integrating other tools into it? I am sure they would rather pay to have somebody else do it for them, someone like slack itself.

Also, assuming a company has the capital to burn through enough tokens to create something so big and complex, why spend it on an internal tool? Shouldn't they be spinning slack-sized apps to expand their existing market share or try to disrupt new markets?
by hunter-gatherer | 2026-02-15 23:40:33+00:00
I might add, I've had some pretty long lasting clothes with Gildan heavy weight 100% cotton, and a few wool shirts I rotate. I think there are a few tricks that I accidently stumbled on to making my clothes last a long time: Firstly, I use mild detergents, and usually set the machine to "tap cold". I haven't noticed that my clothes are less clean. Secondly, I usually air dry on a rack instead of a dryer. I was forced to do this when I lived in an apartment, and suspect that this is a big factor. Thirdly, and maybe the most important, I spent some time learning what colors I look best in. Turns out there is quite a rabbit hole you can go down in terms of styling your clothes to match not what you "like" but what compliments your skin tone, body shape, and so on.

I actually think the last point has been profound, because I rarely _feel_ like buying clothes, because I look good in whatever Is in my closet.

For reference, I cycle through about 7 t-shirts. I wear the same one in the gym. I have a pair of rotten clothes for when I'm farming or hunting, but my daily clothes endure more daily wear and tear than urban living for sure.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-15 23:41:20+00:00
> the Sora "TikTok but AI" app

This product should never have seen the light of day, at least not for the general public. The amount of slop that is now floating across Tiktok, YT Shorts and Instagram is insane. Whenever you see a "cute animals" video, 99% of it is AI generated - and you can report and report and report these channels over and over, and the platforms don't care at all, but instead reward the slop creators from all the comments shouting that this is AI garbage and people responding they don't care because "it's cute".

OpenAI completely lacks any sort of ethical review board, and now we're all suffering from it.
by cactus2093 | 2026-02-15 23:41:40+00:00
I agree, it's an interesting distortion to the traditional technology feedback loop.

I would expect someone who "strikes gold" like this in a solo endeaver to raise money, start a company, hire a team. Then they have to solve the always challenging problem of how to monetize an open-source tool. Look at a company like Docker, they've been successful but they didn't capture more than a small fraction of the commercial revenue that the entire industry has paid to host the product they developed and maintain. Their peak valuation was over a billion dollars, but who knows by the time all is said and done what they'll be worth when they sell or IPO.

So if you invent something that is transformative to the industry you might work really hard for a decade and if you're lucky the company is worth $500M, if you can hang onto 20% of the company maybe it's worth $100M.

Or, you skip the decade in the trenches and get acqui-hired by a frontier lab who allegedly give out $100M signing bonuses to top talent. No idea if he got a comparable offer to a top researcher, but it wouldn't be unreasonable. Even a $10M package to skip a decade of risky & grueling work if all you really want to do is see the product succeed is a great trade.
by solarkraft | 2026-02-15 23:42:39+00:00
I disagree. At least in my brief test drive, when used with Claude, the performance was on par with Cursor except that the Agent could actually interact with the terminal properly (Cursor is comically bad at this for some reason).

When the (generous!) Claude credits dry up functionality stops however. Gemini is as useless in Antigravity as everywhere else.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-15 23:43:17+00:00
Australia currently bans the sale of "recycling" plastic and e-waste to certain countries in South East Asia because of this problem (dumping to companies that have no qualms about throwing the waste into waterways etc)

The waste is still making its way to those countries, and the way that we know is that NGOs are tracking it[0]

I suspect that clothing will get similar treatment - initial illegal dumping as you predict, followed by determined NGOs holding the supply chain to account.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-30/gps-in-e-waste-from-a...
by gildas | 2026-02-15 23:43:44+00:00
I just ran a test on a 10GB HTML page and called window.call() via a 100ms setTimeout, which, in my opinion, simulates what would happen in a better-implemented case in SingleFile if the call to window.call() were made as soon as the HTTP headers are received (i.e. easy fix). And it actually works. It interrupts the loading at approx. 15MB of data, the rendering of the page, and it's partially and smoothly displayed. So it's not totally useless, but it deserves to be optimized at a minimum in SingleFile, as I indicated. In the end, the MDN documentation is not very clear...

Edit: I've just implemented the "good enough of my machine fix" aka the "easy fix", see https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-core/commit/41...
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-15 23:45:07+00:00
Skype 3.0 is here folks.

After Reddit API drama, a lot of people left it to avoid using its app and terrible position from the CEO. I am happy to be out of it to be honest, it is an utterly toxic place.
Reddit is there but no longer what it used to be, I will call it Skype 2.0

Discord has been having a rough time, data breach recently and now this.
After this massive backlash and how bad the company is involved into wrong doing, Skype 3.0 is strong on this.
by madcaptenor | 2026-02-15 23:45:17+00:00
I remember coming across this when I was studying for similar exams in a math PhD program at another university. It helped me realize that I didn't have to know everything in order to pass. (And I didn't! And I passed.)

We also tried to have a web page like this but I didn't bother writing up my exam - after it was over I just didn't want to think about it.
Show HN: Fastest(?) SIMD CSV Parser in Rust
by juliusgeo | 2026-02-15 23:45:19+00:00
There are already a quite a few [0][1] CSV parsers that use SIMD, some in Rust, with a variety of approaches. I found simd-csv[1] to have a very interesting approach that leverages memchr to essentially "seek" for the next delimiter, reducing a lot of the overhead that a byte-by-byte CSV parser would have. However, as noted in the README, the creators of simd-csv explicitly chose not to use the classic pclmulqdq trick[2] that other libraries like simdjson use due to portability concerns. I set out to beat to simd-csv's implementation by building a parser more similar to Geoff Langdale's, using the pclmulqdq trick as well as optimized intrinsic usage for aarch64 platforms[3]. If anyone has feedback on the Rust code, or my usage of intrinsics, I would greatly appreciate it.

[0] https://github.com/geofflangdale/simdcsv
[1] https://github.com/medialab/simd-csv
[2] https://branchfree.org/2019/03/06/code-fragment-finding-quot...
[3] https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/se...
by krackers | 2026-02-15 23:45:26+00:00
There used to be this page that showed the activations/residual stream from gpt-2 visualized as a black-white image. I remember it being neat how you could slowly see order forming from seemingly random activations as it progressed through the layers.

Can't find it now though (maybe the link rotted?), anyone happen to know what that was?
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:45:30+00:00
I’m not an OpenClaw user but it’s obvious that OpenClaw was very different than that.

OpenClaw was about having the agent operate autonomously, including initiating its own actions and deciding what to do. Claude Code was about waiting for instructions and presenting results.

“Just SSH into Claude Code” is like the famous HN comment that didn’t understand why anyone was interested in DropBox because you could do backups with shell scripts.
by ineedasername | 2026-02-15 23:45:37+00:00
The term violence, when applied in any context, is applied in context. With a scope and meaning determined as much by tacitly accepted scope as it is by lexicon.

So, to all of your questions— “no”. You are wrong, on all counts, because you are using language itself to set a scene where it has no right, attempting to have a meaning context-free applied to one contextual—- but only when it suits you. That isn’t conversation or discussion— it’s performative, and so you cannot be correct where there is no correctness to be had, only performance.
by netsharc | 2026-02-15 23:46:25+00:00
Even on a random port (well I picked port ___22) I get random SSH attempts.

My solution is convoluted: On my NAS I have a PHP form that accepts a password, when it's correct, set a flag (in the form of touching a file), and every minute a cronjob runs a bash script to check for the existence of the file: if it exists, then run a python script to talk UPnP to my home router to tell it to forward port ___22 to my NAS' port 22.

Hmm, probably running a VPN server, like WireGuard, makes more sense..
by spartanatreyu | 2026-02-15 23:46:27+00:00
The "C" (Cascade) in CSS doesn't suck, the education about it sucks.

People don't know how it works, then things go wrong so they learn to work around it.

That's what led to things like div + class soup that you get with the BEM naming convention or Tailwind.

The cascade is actually awesome, super powerful and if you know how to use it, it can greatly simplify your code.

Education is the problem and the solution.

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To anyone outside the CSS space, this is the closest analogy I can find:

In the American education system, there was a recent-ish change where children are "taught" to read using a method of just learning the shape of every word (e.g. "thermally" has a th at the start and ly at the end, so it must be the word "thermally", despite other similar looking words like thematically).

The method was disproven but the American education system still uses it.

Now illiteracy rates are climbing where almost 1/4 Americans (USA) can't read.

It's basically the same thing with CSS, where developers don't know what the code they're reading/writing is actually going to do.
by csallen | 2026-02-15 23:46:34+00:00
It's not theft, it's copying. Two different words, with two different meanings, and different legality, for very good reason. You can only steal things that can be taken away, which is why theft is bad, because it deprives the original owner of something they once had.

Copying does not directly deprive anyone of anything. In fact it just adds more value to the world, and makes it more available to more people.

Nobody can "copy" stuff and put it behind a paywall, because the original is still free. It's the prevention of copying that leads to expression, art, information, stories, music, and creativity being locked behind paywalls.

It's said that copying disincentivizes creativity and creation, but in practice it does the opposite. See: the incredible amount of music, fiction, software, etc. that have proliferated since the birth of the web.

What copying does do is it indirectly deprives people and companies of the ability monopolize profits on particular expressions without competition. But I'm not so sure that's a bad thing.

For example, look at the software industry. I'm extremely grateful that patents and copyright are so rarely enforced in software and UI design, and that we've all been copying the good ideas that came before us for decades with no consequence. I'm grateful the same is true of food recipes, too. I think the world would likely be a richer one if this was true for most fields and art.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-15 23:47:39+00:00
One issue that bothers me in this video is that, from the point of view of the traveler, the galaxy on the background would evolve at increasing speeds as the traveler descends into the gravity well and time dilates. By the time they are about to cross the event horizon, the universe outside must be much older (almost infinitely older) than when we started the fall.
by neilellis | 2026-02-15 23:47:52+00:00
When I hear people talking about how insecure OpenClaw is, I remember how insecure the internet was in the early days. Sometimes it's about doing the right thing badly and fix the bad things after.

Big Tech can't release software this dangerous and then figure out how to make it secure. For them it would be an absolute disaster and could ruin them.

What OpenClaw did was show us the future, give us a taste of what it would be like and had the balls to do it badly.

Technology is often pushed forwards by ostensively bad ideas (like telnet) that carve a path through the jungle and let other people create roads after.

I don't get the hate towards OpenClaw, if it was a consumer product I would, but for hackers to play around to see what is possible it's an amazing (and ridiculously simple) idea. Much like http was.

If you connected to your bank account via telnet in the 1980s or plain http in the 90s or stored your secrets in 'crypt' well, you deserved what you got ;-) But that's how many great things get started, badly, we see the flaws fix them and we get the safe version.

And that I guess is what he'll get to do now.

* OpenClaw is a straw man for AGI *
by dasil003 | 2026-02-15 23:47:57+00:00
This is absolute nonsense. The app stores are already saturated with tons of free apps that no one uses. Sure the numbers are up—10x of infinity is still infinity—and the reason Apple doesn't care is because this is just the natural end game of their strategy to commoditize their complement.

When it comes to software subscriptions, the bar is just that much higher. Not only do you have to pass the threshold for someone to even adopt another app/website/brand, but now you have to provide enough utility to pay for it. Claude spitting out code for a good-enough clone of an app doesn't come anywhere near the threshold. An agent that can write the code, buy a domain, provision and maintain the database, and submit the app to the app store gets closer, but now it's not looking so cheap anymore, moreso in terms of your time commitment as defacto product manager than actual tokens and hosting costs.

The actual disruption of SaaS apps will come from agents that are capable of solving problems autonomously in a different way such that you don't even need the SaaS. I'm sure we'll get there in time, but not without a lot of data integrity and security issues, and rogue agent fuckups along the way.
by komali2 | 2026-02-15 23:48:18+00:00
We're no mondragon but I founded a co-op in IT space a few years back and it surprised me how open to the vision the members and customers have been.

I had assumed I'd have to lean more on the capitalistic values of being a co-op, like better rates for our clients, higher quality work, larger likelihood of our long term existence to support our work, more project ownership, so as to make the pitch palatable to clients. Turns out clients like the soft pitch too, of just workers owning the company they work within - I've had several clients make contact initially because they bought the vision over the sales pitch.

I'm trying to think about if I'd trust us more to set up or host openclaw than a VC funded startup or an establishment like Capital One. I think both alternatives would have way more resources at hand, but I'm not sure how that would help outside of hiring pentesters or security researchers. Our model would probably be something FOSS that is keyed per-user, so if we were popular, imo that would be more secure in the end.

The incentives leading to trust is definitely in a co-op's favor, since profit motive isn't our primary incentive - the growth of our members is, which isn't accomplished only through increasing the valuation of the co-op. Members also have total say in how we operate, including veto power, at every level of seniority, so if we started doing something naughty with customer data, someone else in the org could make us stop.

This is our co-op: 508.dev, but I've met a lot of others in the software space since founding it. I think co-ops in general have legs, the only problem is that it's basically impossible to fund them in a way a VC is happy with, so our only capitalization option is loans. So far that hasn't mattered, and that aligns with the goal of sustainable growth anyway.
by apparent | 2026-02-15 23:48:29+00:00
> “If I was David Greene I would be upset, not just because they stole my voice,” Pesca said, but because they used it to make the podcasting equivalent of AI “slop,” a term for spammy, commodified content. “They have banter, but it’s very surface-level, un-insightful banter, and they’re always saying, ‘Yeah, that’s so interesting.’ It’s really bad, because what do we as show hosts have except our taste in commentary and pointing our audience to that which is interesting?”

Totally disagree. NotebookLM isn't always right, but it can go deep on complex scientific and other academic content. It is absolutely not "surface-level" unless you're feeding it shallow content.

I have never heard this Greene fellow, but I can say that all of the summaries generated by NotebookLM for me have been more nuanced and higher quality than the content created by NPR in recent years.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:48:36+00:00
I’m not disputing that people who follow Peter are getting information from Peter. It’s the “single handedly” part of the claim that was strange.

I’m questioning how some people in that bubble came to believe he was at the center of that universe. He wasn’t the only person talking about the differences between Codex or Claude. Most of the LLM people I follow had their own thoughts and preferences that they advertised too.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-15 23:50:07+00:00
Bias has nothing to do with which "side" is discussed more. Bias has everything to do with whether the discussion reflects the truth. Was the weather analogy not clear enough?

Alice says it's raining. Bob says it's sunny. It's raining. The news says that it's raining. Is it bias? Should the news say that it might be raining or sunny?
by yencabulator | 2026-02-15 23:50:09+00:00
The minio people did a lot of questionable things even before the rugpull. They tried to claim AGPL infects software over the network, on a previous version of https://min.io/compliance

> Combining MinIO software as part of a larger software stack triggers your GNU AGPL v3 obligations. The method of combining does not matter. When MinIO is linked to a larger software stack in any form, including statically, dynamically, pipes, or containerized and invoked remotely, the AGPL v3 applies to your use. What triggers the AGPL v3 obligations is the exchanging data between the larger stack and MinIO.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-15 23:50:29+00:00
I'm going to speculate that it won't "add" ships at all

As you say, ships are moving in and out of the EU each year - the question is, how many have "back loads" - if some percentage of the ships leave Europe empty to return to Asia for more manufactured goods, then it seems very likely that they can have the containers of unwanted clothes as part of the trip.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-15 23:50:35+00:00
Based on Amazon reviews, good luck!!

I am building a NAS and went to check its reviews on Amazon before buying 5 disks.

Bruuu, the USA is known for selling used stuff as new on Amazon, the amount of reviews with "new" disks having thousands of spin-time, hundreds of hours powered on, disks dead on arrival or dying within less than half year, WD is not the HDD you want.

idk what their USA store is doing to destroy these disks, and for what I can tell, it is the only option we have on Amazon, there is no Amazon UK or Amazon DE which the quality are far superior than Amazon US.

Keep in mint that a WD 4TB NAS cost now $200 so yeah.
by furyofantares | 2026-02-15 23:51:08+00:00
No it's not?

Stuff like "divide the work up" is something you do when doing it yourself. Making a GUI prototype isn't really much work at all in the age of LLMs, akin to drawing up a few ideas on a notepad. Using git for small steps is something lots of people do for their own work and rebase later. Using extensive logging is mostly just something you have in your AGENTS.md for all your projects and forget about, similarly getting it setup to make and look at screenshots.

What part of this is more work than doing it yourself?
by fny | 2026-02-15 23:51:12+00:00
I really hope Mario who wrote the engine that powers OpenClaw[0] gets spoils as well.

OpenClaw is mostly a shell around this (ha!), and I've always been annoyed OpenClaw never credited those repos openly.

The pi agent repos are a joy to read, are 1/100th the size of OpenClaw, and have 95% of the functionality.

[0]: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono
by maxaw | 2026-02-15 23:51:32+00:00
While following OpenClaw, I noticed an unexpected resentment in myself. After some introspection, I realized it’s tied to seeing a project achieve huge success while ignoring security norms many of us struggled to learn the hard way. On one level, it’s selfish discomfort at the feeling of being left behind (“I still can’t bring myself to vibe code. I have to at least skim every diff. Meanwhile this guy is joining OpenAI”). On another level, it feels genuinely sad that the culture of enforcing security norms - work that has no direct personal reward and that end users will never consciously appreciate, but that only builders can uphold - seems to be on it’s way out
by nxobject | 2026-02-15 23:52:00+00:00
Lots of good practices! I remember how aggressively iPhoneOS would kill your application when you got close to being out of physical memory, or how you had to quickly serialize state when the user switched apps (no background execution, after all!) And, or better or for worse, it was native code because you couldn’t and still can’t get a “good enough” JITing language.