MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitwize | 2026-02-14 07:50:17+00:00
Hackernews isn't really for that kind of hacker. Ever since Paul Graham became a startup wonk and VC, it's really more for "growth hackers". It was originally called "Startup News". For growth hackers, productivity, profitability, and scalability, in metrizable form especially, are far more important than romanticism about the lone hacker or small team of geniuses building something with just a laptop and their wits, or even moral concerns about the environment. (And LLMs burn less energy, and deliver more value, than crypto did. The energy consumption of AI has been way overblown.) And Lisp was created specifically to bring about this world. It was an early initial experiment in intelligence by symbolic computation—one which ultimately failed as we found that we found we can get a lot closer to intelligence by matmuling probability weights with good old-fashioned numeric code written in C++, Fortran, or maybe even Rust. So the long-term AI initiative which gave rise to Lisp ultimately spelt its end as well.

But the force-multiplier effects of LLMs are not to be denied, even if you are that kind of hacker. Eric S. Raymond doesn't even write code by hand anymore—he has ChatGPT do everything. And he's produced more correct code faster with LLMs than he ever did by hand so now he's one of those saying "you're not a real software engineer if you don't use these tools". With the latest frontier models, he's probably right. You're not going to be able to keep pace with your puny human brain with other developers using LLMs, which is going to make contributing to open source projects more difficult unless you too are using LLMs. And open source projects which forbid LLM use are going to get lapped by those which allow it. This will probably be the next Linux development after Rust. The remaining C code base may well be lifted into Rust by ChatGPT, after which contributing kernel code in C will be forbidden throughout the entire project. Won't that be a better world!
by necovek | 2026-02-14 07:50:37+00:00
It's wonderful to see someone dive into this as deep. A simpler way to understand the complexity might be to try designing your own font.

Pick up a book on type and start up Fontforge, and off you go.

Be careful though, make an early choice if you are going with 3rd order curves or 2nd order (Bezier) curves.

Going through TeXbook and MetaFont books by DEK is also a brilliant way to learn about all this, with note that they do have an explicit
bitmap step in.

One correction though:

Without it, you wouldn't be reading this right now.

Computers started with bitmap fonts of different pixel sizes. Your console terminal in Linux is still using that, and nothing stops you from using them ("Fixed" has large Unicode coverage and is usually preinstalled) elsewhere too.

So no, none of this tech is necessary for us to read text on computer screens.
by throwawaypath | 2026-02-14 07:50:57+00:00
>I did read the article.

Anyone who read your inane comment knows you didn't prior to commenting.

>I didn't even try to discredit the findings

You didn't know what the findings were because you didn't RTFA.

Take the L and move on. If you don't read the article, don't comment. This isn't reddit.
by jakkos | 2026-02-14 07:51:52+00:00
> It sounds like Blade is a cross-API graphics engine, by one of the original gfx-HAL (former QGPU name) creators?

My understanding is that wgpu has a lot of constraints and complexity imposed on it by all the backends it has to support (especially WebGPU) and that Blade is meant to be a much simpler closer-to-metal api for people who want more control (and know how to not shoot themselves in the foot)

> I would be using eframe instead of WGPU as the backend.

Do you mean using egui-wgpu directly rather than through eframe? The default backend of eframe is wgpu (it used to be glow/opengl), and you can still use callbacks to directly render whatever you want with wgpu in an eframe app

> EGUI and WGPU have great integration

Can confirm, it was stupid simple to integrate egui into my wgpu gamedev project

> Am I missing something about Zed? I have tried and failed to get into it.

I also tried Zed after getting annoyed at Helix a few times, and thought "oh cool, this is like vscode but fast and even has a helix mode!" but then didn't find any killer features worth abandoning the synergies of having an all-in-terminal-workflow over
by ggm | 2026-02-14 07:52:09+00:00
What defines "equity" in these situations? How far beyond US borders would this extend, and to what extent can users indicate their preferences to sources? What does the FTC think user choices mean here?

I'm avowedly left wing, I graze right wing media lightly. I like to see other sides of my world view. That said, I depreference breitbart because it's frankly badly written. Fox I don't see, but Sky Australia and News Ltd I see a lot of.

I would be fine with Apple doing something here but not if it's heavy handed and I cannot alter the weights.

Google lets me alter weights.

I'm not sure this is the central problem I expect the FTC to regulate tbh. This feels like make-work.
by fyredge | 2026-02-14 07:52:36+00:00
Reading this article reminds me of all the advice in university on the importance of soft skills. The OP sounds like a competent technical worker but lacked the soft skills to secure his position.

All organizations have a consensus that guides it's decision. While heavily skewed towards leadership, even the consensus of the lowest hierarchy worker is important.

From what I saw in TFA, OP correctly identified that there was a need for FinOps but did not do the work to get buy in from the organisation. Even though I find it absolutely tedious and sickening. Some amount of politicking is inevitable for survival.
by geoelectric | 2026-02-14 07:54:04+00:00
Turn off swipe typing in the keyboard settings, and tap typing works a bazillion times better. It's like toggling a completely different codebase behind the keyboard and resetting it back to when blind-tap and autocorrect actually functioned as expected.

I assume the code that checks for tap vs start-of-swipe is to blame. I have no idea why that would cause word recognition and/or autocorrect to work so differently, but it seemingly does.
Show HN: Multispace -save,organize,and launch workspaces–tools,apps,games,anyURL
by DanielSystem | 2026-02-14 07:55:02+00:00
Free for All Users. browser-based operating system or installed app that lets you save, organize, and launch your digital workspaces in one click. Instead of juggling 30+ tabs, apps, and logins, users create spaces that hold everything they need for a specific goal: work, study, gaming, content creation, research, or entertainment. A Multispace can include: Productivity tools (Notion, Docs, Figma, GitHub, etc.) AI tools (ChatGPT, image generators, copilots) Games, media, dashboards, and Any public or private web app
Show HN: ChoiceBook – Stories Are Mirrors
by owoamier | 2026-02-14 07:55:38+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ChoiceBook , an AI-driven interactive storytelling experience designed for self-reflection.

Instead of answering direct questions, you step into short, high-pressure narrative scenarios—Fantasy, Apocalypse, and more. As the story unfolds, you make choices that feel instinctive rather than calculated. ChoiceBook adapts the narrative in real time, then reflects back the decision patterns behind what you did: how you handle uncertainty, tradeoffs, moral tension, risk, authority, scarcity, and social dynamics.

The idea is simple: questionnaires measure what you say about yourself; stories can capture how you move when the world changes around you. ChoiceBook is meant to be a mirror—an engaging way to notice the themes you repeat, the values you protect, and the strategies you default to, especially when you don’t have time to overthink.

What you can do:

* Pick a world (e.g., Fantasy or Apocalypse)
* Play through an interactive story by making choices at key moments
* Receive a reflection that summarizes your behavioral signals and recurring tendencies
* Replay across different worlds to see what stays consistent and what shifts with context

I’d love feedback from HN on a few things:

* What makes a reflection feel grounded and useful, rather than vague?
* How should the product communicate its limits (self-reflection, not diagnosis) while still feeling valuable?
* Which scenarios would you actually want to explore, and what would keep you coming back?

Thanks for reading.
by shadowalker97 | 2026-02-14 07:55:50+00:00
They were, for me at least, too different to compare like that.

TNG was the hopeful future - something an idealist would like to imagine society could achieve.

Babylon 5 was the realistic future - where fascism and racism are issues still prevalent in society, but largely left unaddressed.

If you ask me to pick between them I'd have to go with Babylon 5 but only because of the writing. There were so many times that JMS foreshadowed events literal years in the future on the show and it was such a huge payoff as a fan.

Star Trek just wasn't structured as a show in a way that can compete with that level of world building that was all interwoven in the same kind of way.
by makelr | 2026-02-14 07:57:22+00:00
I've been working on a project called Maker, which is an attempt to rethink personal automation in the AI era.
Most automation tools (Zapier, n8n, Make) focus on connecting APIs.
Most AI tools focus on generating responses.
Maker focuses on something slightly different: operating your own automation workflows.
Key ideas:
1. Local-first desktop app (SQLite, no required cloud)
2. Fast-first reporting (no 60-second LLM blocking)
3. Granular permission model (per-bot, per-capability)
4. BYO LLM — you control cost and data egress
5. AGPL-licensed core (network use requires source disclosure)
The goal is to build a personal automation operating system — not a bot marketplace.
I'm particularly interested in feedback on:
- Local-first architecture choices
- AGPL vs BSL tradeoffs
- Whether "personal automation OS" is a useful framing
by Animats | 2026-02-14 07:57:44+00:00
There are M-Disks. These are CD/DVD/BluRay disks which use a drive with a higher power laser and work by ablating a metal layer, rather than a photosensitive dye as in the lower-powered disks. Regular drives will read both kinds.

For a small amount of data (crypto keys?), consider deep laser engraving on stainless steel. That's very durable. Or even engrave text into stainless steel with a small CNC mill.

You can engrave QR codes, bar codes, etc. But there's a lot to be said for engraving plain text.
by brabel | 2026-02-14 07:58:03+00:00
What are you trying to say, that it's impossible to define anything legally without edge cases?? That's bullocks.

> If I pay someone to print flyers is that advertising?

What the hell, we're talking about internet... you can't put printed flyers on the internet.

> If I pay squarespace for my site, is that advertising?

No. It's your site, not a third-party site promoting your site!

> What if I need a Google maps subscription to place pins? Is placing a pin then advertising?

If you promote it somehow, yes... if you just say there's a business there, no, since you're not actively promoting it. Information that something exists by itself cannot be included in "promotion".

> And all existing videos with sponsorship need yo be removed?

Yes, or re-uploaded without the sponsor segment.

> And I guess no online watching of sports (lots of people paid to wear a logo there...)

There could be exceptions for ads placed on the real world which are not paid for by the site/creator. There's always cases that must be allowed, no prohibition is absolute.

> Presumably no product placement in Netflix shows (not sure what to do with old content?)

To be honest, I wouldn't mind subtle product placements in shows. That's a lot less hostile than actual ads we see today on the Internet.

> Of course I'm not paid to advertise MiraclePill.

If you lie that you're not paid by someone while you are, like with any law, you can be prosecuted for it.

> Alas, I fear it isn't...

You didn't show what you think you did.
by aspenmayer | 2026-02-14 07:58:10+00:00
There are some characters from TNG who cross over into DS9, and one of the main characters in DS9 has a grudge against one of the characters in TNG due to events in TNG, whose effects offscreen relative to TNG are explored onscreen in DS9, for example. However, there are small flashbacks that act as explainers in DS9 for those who haven’t seen TNG, and the story focuses on the impact to DS9 characters and their motivations, so you might only have half of the story for those small details, but you’ll have the half that is relevant to the story that DS9 is trying to tell. You could easily watch the one or two TNG episodes involving Wolf 359 if you wanted to get the other side, though you could made do without, and come back to TNG after DS9 if you wanted afterward.

It’s hard for me to be entirely unbiased myself, as I grew up watching the the original series (TOS) films, without watching much of the OG series itself, and then watched TNG when it was airing, so I already had the context to watch DS9.

All of that is to say, I don’t think you necessarily need to watch TNG to appreciate DS9. The shows are mostly standalone and self contained. Also, I don’t think this is much of a spoiler, as the double episode premiere of DS9 pretty much includes all of what I’ve said above, in some form or fashion, with the exception of the introduction of some character crossovers of the TNG cast. I think it’s nice to know where those characters came from and what they went through prior to DS9, as the two shows were running concurrently, but neither show is written in such a way that you’ll feel lost if you don’t watch TNG first, though others may disagree.
by benstopics | 2026-02-14 07:59:59+00:00
Claude actually! Yeah the content editing was heavily LLM assisted as I'm a terrible writer and I wanted the read to be enjoyable. So I compiled all the research and worked with Claude to build the article. I then attempted to go through with a fine tooth comb and write it in my own words. That is one particular sentence I missed with a highly recognizable LLM pattern which I will fix. I simply also don't have time to really market the game, I care more about the quality of the software. I know if the software is great then it will be successful. But I wanted to share the story in a compelling way. Apologies if it was distracting!
by mahirsaid | 2026-02-14 08:00:10+00:00
1 The number of people using these apps.
2. The age group using the apps
3. the type of people using the apps
4. the culture that it has replaced and infiltrated
5 It is the social norm by now to be asked if your on TiXXXr or some other app

The modern interaction have eroded, it is awkward or weird to be approached in public, every middle aged woman or elderly woman has her purse on while shopping at a grocery store, locking the car 6 times and looking back while doing it as if its a James Bond movie. I live in middle class neighborhood and this is the things i see on a daily bases. it is sad.
How would you go to market for a paid WhatsApp wrapper around OpenClaw?
by coodeex | 2026-02-14 08:02:12+00:00
I’m building WhatsApp Claw for 30-50 year olds who saw the OpenClaw hype but won’t touch SSH/setup. Flow is: message on WhatsApp, pay via Stripe, start using instantly. If you were me, what’s the first channel and offer you’d test?
by akileshthuniki | 2026-02-14 08:02:37+00:00
Thank you to everyone who tried PreApply!
We saw 331 downloads yesterday, which validates that
deterministic Terraform risk analysis is something the
community needs.

For those testing it, I'd love feedback on:
- Which Terraform resources you're analyzing most
- Whether the blast radius scoring makes sense for your use case
- Any edge cases I should handle

Happy to answer technical questions about the dependency
graph algorithm or risk scoring methodology.
by bitwize | 2026-02-14 08:02:46+00:00
I'm not an AI "advocate". I'm telling y'all about how the world is. How it's going to be. I'm not happy about it, but we've crossed the threshold beyond which it's incomprehensibly silly not to factor the massive changes LLMs bring into how you work designing or implementing software. Lisp apps are cool, but as of 2026 they're fading into irrelevance. The paradigm of programming they represent is bound for the Computer History Museum and Usagi Electric's YouTube channel—not the reality of new software development. Even a legacy code base can be poured into an LLM, which will grok it instantly, answer your questions about it, and propose changes and improvements that will make it more performant, reliable, and comprehensible. I know this because I've done it.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-02-14 08:02:59+00:00
It's not entirely WolfSSL's fault. TLS 1.3 is a mass of kludges and hacks to deal with the fact that they created a new protocol that's nothing like TLS 1.0-1.2 but dressed it up to make it look like TLS 1.2. It even lies about its protocol version in the handshake, hiding the real version in one of the many extensions they had to invent to kludge it into working. And in terms of RFC compliance, one of the most widely-used implementations isn't compliant, it doesn't send any of the mandatory-to-implement cipher suites in its client hello which means unless you want to trigger a rehandshake on every single connect you have to implement their non-compliant form of TLS 1.3.

The real problem though is that they made a protocol that really, really wants to pretend it's TLS 1.2 when it really isn't anything like TLS 1.2. I wouldn't blame "middleboxes" for getting confused when they encounter that.
by throwawaypath | 2026-02-14 08:03:48+00:00
>Every interaction between two people is political.

If everything is political then nothing is.

>This is an indicator of privilege because only people who benefit from the status quo seek to prevent it from changing.

You have this backwards: the ability to politick all day is the largest indicator of priviledge. Both sides believe the "status quo" is empowering their political enemies.
by ab5tract | 2026-02-14 08:04:30+00:00
You said certainty but now you say probably. Which is it?

I never claimed that they had no impact, but it is clear that the impact tended towards neutral to positive because: a) the forest was still there; and b) it had the higher rate of biodiversity in the world.

Indigenous burns in California are recognized as being a net positive for the old growth forests and the biodiversity within. It doesn’t take a lot to extrapolate that the same was true in the Amazon.
by isodev | 2026-02-14 08:04:53+00:00
Haha this. I understand the appeal of "but I can probably roll my own" and "Oh that's a good idea, let's jump into coding" but pre-vibe bots, the effort required would make folks stop and think before jumping into it - is it really a good idea? should I do it just because I can? what problem is it really solving? Who will use this? etc.
by zarzavat | 2026-02-14 08:05:28+00:00
We are at level 2.5 for software development, IMO. There is a clear skill gap between experienced humans and LLMs when it comes to writing maintainable, robust, concise and performant code and balancing those concerns.

The LLMs are very fast but the code they generate is low quality. Their comprehension of the code is usually good but sometimes they have a weightfart and miss some obvious detail and need to be put on the right path again. This makes them good for non-experienced humans who want to write code and for experienced humans who want to save time on easy tasks.
by dmit | 2026-02-14 08:05:56+00:00
> In a similar project, a hard part was filtering penis and nazi symbols.

Check out how the precursor of this project did it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719222

> I built a basic CNN trained against penises and swastikas, and then anything that doesn't hit the 63% confidence score gets sent to a mod queue, a vibe-coded fish-tinder (https://bsky.app/profile/bigass.bsky.social/post/3luvikxn3f2...).
by MindSpunk | 2026-02-14 08:06:00+00:00
The first season is definitely the most conventional (for the time) and I think that reflects in some of JMS's statements saying the show was still getting onto its feet through the first season. Having the serialized story was very unfamiliar territory for Hollywood television back then, they were learning on their feet.

If I recall correctly JMS wrote basically every episode after season 1, where as season 1 had a few guest writers. The guest written episodes did not do well, including episode 14 which is probably the worst episode in the entire series.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-14 08:06:21+00:00
> How many levels of outsourcing thinking is occurring to where it becomes a game of telephone

How do you know quantum physics is real? Or radio waves? Or just health advice? We don't. We outsource our thinking around it to someone we trust, because thinking about everything to its root source would leave us paralyzed.

Most people seem to have never thought about the nature of truth and reality, and AI is giving them a wake-up call. Not to worry though. In 10 years everyone will take all this for granted, the way they take all the rest of the insanity of reality for granted.
by flanked-evergl | 2026-02-14 08:06:40+00:00
75% of welfare is going to immigrants, they get much easier access to government zero deposit loans even while not working, and then they pay off those loans with welfare. Sorry no fox news, just facts.

Immigrants are also overwhelming much more of a burden to society and the state, they are over represented in crime sadistically and take much more from the state that they contribute.

Suggesting that we would have no construction if we did not import criminal tax leeches seems like an evidence free statement.
by ETH_start | 2026-02-14 08:06:45+00:00
We shouldn't be balancing things we want to do for people in need against what kinds of things we will do to peaceful people that we shouldn't do. Nonmaleficence precedes beneficence.

In any case, abundance generally comes from not crossing those lines — from nonmaleficence. The US crosses those lines a plenty, but still less so than the EU, and consider how much higher its average wages are:

EU Europe average ≈ $30,500

United States ≈ $68,000
by assaddayinh | 2026-02-14 08:07:02+00:00
Because grima wormtongue the prediction engine whispers of horrors to come in the kings ears? Take the catastrophic eain flashfloods. They have ramped up hard recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/german-v...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/237420/economic-damage-c...

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/one-de...

And then there was the morroco, greek and italian floods.

Its expected to hit mountanous areas the hardest, devaluing cities in valleys like they are in a warzone. And this is the smallest, obvious event series kept on the downlow, because society already falls apart, loosing its structure.

The panopticon is a desperate attempt to controll the only thing controllable in situations to come.
by benstopics | 2026-02-14 08:07:12+00:00
I do think it is possible with the advent of Claude Agent to transpile the code. First I would refactor the trampoline system to be functional and unit test everything. Then I would use those tests to validate the transpilation. It's something that I would consider doing for a Wall Street Raider 2 to overhaul the engine and deliver massive improvements to the engine itself. I do want to do this to a certain extent to implement automated e2e testing. But I don't mind BASIC at all, prefer it actually, I just want automated testing set up. But a lot of this is beyond the scope of my goals for Early Access release.