MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-13 12:48:18+00:00
The joke in the refrigeration industry is that "it's not bad for the environment until DuPont's patent expires".

Now obviously they were bad for the environment all along, but I don't think it's a coincidence that nothing was done about CFCs until the 3rd world got good at making them cheap.

The joke is getting a little out of date though since the new stuff is hydrocarbons and C02.
by parkersweb | 2026-02-13 12:49:27+00:00
One of the best constraints of the TV show is the limited budget (along with the lack of mobile phone). It's frequently the case that teams panic spend in order stay ahead, but are hurt by those decisions later in the race.

Over the series people have also developed strategies within those constraints - so it's quite frequent to see teams earning money in the penultimate leg and taking the time hit in order to splash out in the final leg.

It's a great show if you're able to get hold of it.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-13 12:49:29+00:00
It's clear from this comment that you do not understand the complexities of US politics. If you don't have something useful to contribute, I'd recommend spending your time understanding the political system here, the generational propaganda machine, and why it isn't simply a matter of every politically conscious individual going outside and protesting. People are already protesting all over the country and he's not out of office. There have even been assassination attempts.

Maybe you weren't paying attention for the last month. The president's secret police have killed several civilians in broad daylight, in some cases specifically because these people were trying to help others who were being attacked. You have no idea what the fuck is going on here, honestly, and your comment is as ignorant as it is unwarranted.
by ichverstehe | 2026-02-13 12:50:04+00:00
Consider a notebook with a cell with two lines of code:

[1, 2, 3]
"foo bar"

The default in notebooks is to just render/show the value of the last expression (`"foo bar"`). In pdit, the value of all top-level expressions are rendered/shown:

[1, 2, 3] #=> [1, 2, 3]
"foo bar" #=> "foo bar"

In that way it is more like a REPL than a notebook, you could say.
by mncharity | 2026-02-13 12:51:00+00:00
s/systemic/systematic/g - oops.

> Systematic reviews are rigorous, transparent, and reproducible research studies that synthesize all existing evidence on a specific topic to answer a focused question and minimize bias. Unlike narrative reviews, they use predefined eligibility criteria, comprehensive searching, and critical appraisal to evaluate primary literature, often employing meta-analysis for quantitative results. [goog ai overview, edited]
by brazzy | 2026-02-13 12:51:16+00:00
> The copy was brought into existence without its consent. This isn't the same as normal reproduction because babies are not born with human sapience, and as a society we collectively agree that children do not have full human rights.

That is a reasonable argument for why it's not the same. But it is no argument at all for why being brought into existence without one's consent is a violation of bodily autonomy, let alone a particularly bad one - especially given that the copy would, at the moment its existence begin, identical to the original, who just gave consent.

If anything, it is very, very obviously a much smaller violation of consent then conceiving a child.
by patcon | 2026-02-13 12:51:59+00:00
Haha oof, the one day I wasn't checking hackernews, my obsession project comes up :)

I'm working on a Google Maps for human perspectives, that extends polislike vote data: https://patcon.github.io/polislike-human-cartography-prototy...

A presentation on my old prototype, describing my philosophy behind extending the tool: (the first 15 min gives the gist) https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSqo_m4cL2Q&list=PLMgSnvCsIgoFrV...

And a shorter video talking about plotting routes through "perspective space": every route is a chain of people with the most continuous chain of values (for e.g., from progressive left to alt right)... what might it be to host an event or conversation with the members of such a trajectory through perspective space? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3v-SMbs1reE&list=PLMgSnvCsIgoF...
Show HN: Dreamvibe – AI dream journal that maps dreams to 17 brain regions
by jdiamond_ | 2026-02-13 12:52:04+00:00
I built a dream journaling app that uses AI to analyze dreams through Jungian psychology and neuroscience frameworks, then maps activation levels across 17 brain regions.

The analysis extracts archetypes, symbols, shadow elements, and emotional themes from freeform text, then scores each brain region (amygdala, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, etc.) based on dream content. The hardest part was getting structured data out of stream-of-consciousness writing without the AI hallucinating meaning that isn't there.

Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Expo/React Native. The iOS app just shipped v1.1 with voice recording (Whisper transcription), home screen widgets (WidgetKit), and 7-language localization.

Web app is free to try. iOS is on the App Store ($9.99/month for AI analysis).

Would love feedback on the analysis quality - especially from anyone into dream psychology or neuroscience.
by EdiX | 2026-02-13 12:52:29+00:00
It used to be that annoying noobs were aggressively told to RTFM, their feelings got hurt and they would go away. That probably was too harsh. But then came corporate OSS and with it corporate HR in OSS. Being the BOFH was now bad, gatekeeping was bad. Now everyone feels entitled to the maintainer time and maintainers burn out.

It's a trade off, we made it collectively.
by btreecat | 2026-02-13 12:52:30+00:00
Depends on the thing they intend to do.

Is it chop down a tree that shouldn't be chopped down? I probably would need more people and equipment to effectively stop them because I'm probably not going to convince them with pretty words if they are already doing something that shouldn't be done.

Is it try to kill a member of my family? Yeah I'd probably try to intervene sans weapons in order to prevent the loss of life of another family member.

Context matters.
by Hard_Space | 2026-02-13 12:52:33+00:00
It's three and a half years since my last cigarette, after decades of smoking. Sometimes I cannot tell if I 'backslid' during that time, because I have had SO MANY dreams about smoking, and feeling regret, in the dream, that I weakened.

But as far as I can tell they are just dreams. But this demonstrates how deeply nicotine addiction was burned into my psyche and my life - that it can even blur the distinction between fantasy and reality.
by Intermernet | 2026-02-13 12:52:49+00:00
The problem is that there isn't really a middle ground. The damage is done and no actions taken now will have a quick, politically measurable effect. The people arguing against action are relying on the delay between action and effect. If you can't see it now (despite actual measurable data being available for at least the last 2 decades) then it must be a lie.

I'm still not sure what the climate change denialists see as the goal of "big climate". All of the money and profit is on the side of continuing to fuck the climate. All of the projects to alleviate the problem are expensive and have very little profit to be gained, but apparently it's a conspiracy of academics on minimum wage in various university research centers who are determined to take the money from our wonderful oil and mining benefactors (who have nothing but our best interests at heart). What's worse is they want to push technology that gives us energy for free! Must be a bunch of communists or something!
by teekert | 2026-02-13 12:53:27+00:00
"Once I began to create the metadata I already knew what I wanted to do: create my own streaming platform for our family’s memories."

It's funny, Immich has become a bit of this for me, my father digitized everything he has, he gave it to me and I dumped it in Immich and spend some time dating stuff. So now I can, with the slide of the finger, drop myself in 1982 and see my first steps, no audio, video8 quality, still quite magical.

Perhaps normal for all you iCloud and Google Photos fans, but I never wanted that, for me everything was just in folders on harddrives, have been waiting for Immich my whole life I guess ;)
Show HN: Built it to flex my Medium stats, came out to be a writing habit tool
by nishujain | 2026-02-13 12:53:33+00:00
I wanted to flaunt my growth on Medium to my friends, so I built this self-updating portfolio page in a weekend. Now, top writers (also my friends) are using it daily to stay disciplined.

It pulls your stats daily and converts them into an organized dashboard that you can share with the world.

What it does:

- aggregates your Medium stats (followers, views, engagement)

- Lets you search your last 1000 articles by tags and keywords.

- ranks your top articles.

- plots your progress on charts and graphs.

- updates daily automatically.

- one shareable link, SEO-optimized.

What I learned:
Writers don't just want stats to show clients... they want a daily reminder of their progress. it keeps them accountable and motivated to write consistently.

Gave them exactly what they needed ... a simple dashboard they check every morning.

Happy to answer questions!
Show HN: AgenQA – Turn natural language into E2E web app tests using AI
by aldovincenti | 2026-02-13 12:53:54+00:00
Hi HN! As a Product Manager, I kept watching teams spend hours on repetitive manual testing instead of shipping. So I built a tool that uses AI to turn natural language into end-to-end web app tests.

What’s live today:

- Natural language to end-to-end web app tests
- Usability-focused reporting
- Desktop app + cloud sync
- CLI support for CI/CD
- Free plan to get started

Looking forward to your feedback.
by anechouapechou | 2026-02-13 12:54:13+00:00
Second comment from you trying to "explain" that what Jeffrey did was "legal" in some countries. Only problem is that there's plenty of evidence that there are multiple victims that are in the "children" territory, not teenager.

By the way, if you're trying to truly combat antisemitism, it would be wise of you to avoid mentioning that you are jewish and defend old farts fucking teenagers in the same comment.
by nindalf | 2026-02-13 12:54:29+00:00
This news article boils down to "a few people on reddit did something", which is interesting. But we know reddit and HN are definitely not mainstream.

Is this hurting Amazon? No, it is not. As long as they're honouring return requests freely, you know that the number of returns is within their accepted levels of distressed inventory. If it's getting into uncomfortable territory, they'll start rate limiting people by saying they're past the return window, or they should try again after a week.

If Amazon's return policy changes, that'll be much more interesting to see. But chances are, people forget about this in a month and their sales are unaffected. This may go the way of #deleteUber, #deleteFacebook and similar boycott campaigns - minor blips at best.
by patcon | 2026-02-13 12:54:51+00:00
And I'm also building a research tool for more easily mining such data for democratic insight: https://patcon.github.io/valency-anndata/

I believe we can make maps of reactions [to information] on topics of societal impact, and we can literally make a new "National Weather Service" for helping as many people as possible understand the storms we live within, in a near instantaneous and fully enfranchised way.
by Ray20 | 2026-02-13 12:55:18+00:00
> The rest of the world is also pretty much on board with this clean air and climate change stuff as it turns out people generally like clean air

Are you sure about that? Or you mistaking the world's opinion for that of the out-of-touch elites living in their lofty ivory towers? Because in the world, outside the media controlled by these elites, I see the exact opposite: it turns out THE WORLD generally like electricity at 2 cents per kwh (not 50 cents how elites like it), no matter how much carbon dioxide it emits.
by lucideer | 2026-02-13 12:55:21+00:00
> Object storage has zero advantages over regular block storage if you run it on yourself

Worth adding, this depends on what's using your block storage / object storage. For Loki specifically, there are known edge-cases with large object counts on block storage (this isn't related to object size or disk space) - this obviously isn't something I've encountered & I probably never will, but they are documented.

For an application I had written myself, I can see clearly that block storage is going to trump object storage for all self-hosted usecases, but for 3P software I'm merely administering, I have less control over its quirks & those pros -vs- cons are much less clear cut.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-13 12:56:03+00:00
yeah that's a good point about biome files - I hadn't thought about how much attack surface that creates. honestly Apple's forensics story feels pretty half-baked compared to their security theater around app store review and sandboxing. like they're great at preventing obvious malware installs but once something gets through (or comes in via MDM/enterprise provisioning) the visibility just isn't there. idk if it's a philosophical thing or just not prioritized, but the gap between 'we detected something' and 'here's what it actually did' is way too big for a company that claims to care about security
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-13 12:56:17+00:00
> It's not a partisan issue.

I'm sorry I'm having a hard time remembering the role leftists are playing in the US right now what with the Executive, Congressional and Judicial branches all being stacked to the tits with Republicans, right up to the top with our dementia-addled conman of a president, sleepily signing into law the policies that will see us excised as the center of world economics.
by sheikhnbake | 2026-02-13 12:56:19+00:00
It's also worth remembering that our economic system has intentionally or not, pacified and domesticated the working class through threat of poverty and state sanctioned violence. Resistance always requires great personal sacrifice, which is why those who do so are heroes. For the rest of the working class, they have to weigh the risks of resisting which includes, death, losing their families, their homes, jobs, etc.
by friendzis | 2026-02-13 12:57:03+00:00
> Instead you tap a small puck and you hope the price charged is the one asked only to find a transaction fee on top when later check your balance.

I'm sorry, but it's a mandatory knee-jerk response here: "Is this something I'm too European to undestand?" Even the the smallest, crappiest devices are required to have a line LCD to show the final price. Goes to show that consumer protection minimums do really set the bar for eventual exploitation.
by nijave | 2026-02-13 12:59:18+00:00
Empire Tech cameras are a bit better bang for your buck. The 4k models are great--be sure to read each model's strengths (low light, backlight, IR, near, far)

Frigate no longer recommends the Coral accelerator. I think Hailo is recommended now

Otherwise Frigate is great and integrates well with Home Assistant. I have a light on my office desk that comes on when a person is detected near the house, for instance
by j1elo | 2026-02-13 12:59:26+00:00
The only meaningful informed decision, but sadly much less known (and I think we should talk and insist more on it), is to be wary if you see a CLA. Not all do, but most perform Copyright Assignment, and that's detrimental to the long-term robustness of Open Source.

Having a FOSS license is NOT enough. Idealy the copyright should be distributed across all contributors. That's the only way to make overall consensus a required step before relicensing (except for reimplementation).

Pick FOSS projects without CLAs that perform Copyright Assignment to an untrusted entity (few exceptions apply, e.g. the FSF in the past)
by tjmcdonough | 2026-02-13 12:59:59+00:00
Your pricing instinct is right to question. $149 for ~33 listings is about $4.50/listing. Ecomtent charges enterprise sellers $2,500+/mo for similar AI-generated product imagery. You're solving a $3K problem and charging $149 — that's not "too cheap to be taken seriously", it's leaving money on the table.

The commenter's point about value-based pricing is spot on. A per-listing model ($15-25/listing) or tiered plans based on catalog size would let you capture more value from the 50-200 product sellers without scaring off smaller ones.

On defensibility — "just prompts" undersells what you've built. The hard part isn't the prompts, it's the constraint system that makes outputs production-ready and brand-consistent in one shot. Jasper hit $80M ARR on "just prompts" because workflow reliability is the moat. If your outputs are genuinely 95%+ usable without editing, that's your differentiator — lean into it.

Re: focus vs expand — stay on e-commerce imagery. You have 9 paying customers and a clear wedge. Expanding to other use cases before you've maxed out Amazon/Etsy sellers would be premature. The pivot to e-commerce focus was clearly the right call given your traction.

I actually ran a structured growth analysis on GreenOnion through a system I'm building — competitive landscape, channel recs, pricing breakdown, 90-day roadmap. Let us know what you think - https://growthmind.ai/growth-diagnosis-reports/greenonion/gr...
by bambax | 2026-02-13 13:00:23+00:00
Yeah that's not possible. When you're presented with the terminal the food is already in your system.

Or maybe you can be like our former Ministry of Culture, Jack Lang, who just resigned from a prestigious, if useless, post in the wake of the Epstein scandal. It was revealed that he never paid for anything in his 60+ years of public "service", always leaving restaurants, hotels, etc. without footing the bill.

For you and me, this would be called stealing and would eventually land us in jail. But if you're a minister in France it's called "living like a prince" and being "a little stingy".
by ramraj07 | 2026-02-13 13:00:33+00:00
Great post indeed but let me ask you, put yourself in the LLM shoes. Now instead of reading through coherent lines of code that is exclusively about solving problems, you now have random characters before every line that mean something (because the presence of the edit tool implies it) but not about your actual problem. Do you reckon the LLM will be distracted a little bit? The benchmark deliberately sidestep the actual intelligence of the model on the task at hand, so while the author feels successful at their subtask its very possible they've failed at the war. This seems to be the beauty of AI engineering. The smarter you think you are about something the bigger the fall.
by gosub100 | 2026-02-13 13:00:52+00:00
Several years ago, there was the controversy about the guy who made Reddit Enhancement Suite getting his API access cut off. Everyone was on his side and I remember thinking "this guy could create his own reddit, he could literally steal all the users, similarly to how slashdot mass migration to reddit".

Maybe he realized it and wasn't interested, but man that would have been an epic move, by using their teen angst and have a hundred million active users overnight.
by athrowaway3z | 2026-02-13 13:01:02+00:00
It's why I added read({ change_file: bool = false }) and change_file(...) ; so it doesn't get confused by default if its just investigating.

I suspect doing it only ever 5th line would make it less clear for the llm.

I'm just experimenting, I wouldn't suggest you use this by default unless you're looking to experiment.
by ItsMonkk | 2026-02-13 13:01:26+00:00
Landlords should be pushing for an LVT so that in a downturn that can sync up all at once it is the local government that needs to take that hit. It makes no sense that they currently are the ones to take on society level risks. The LVT is a de-risk to their business.

For those that don't know, an LVT causes land prices to drop, where a tax on 100% of the rental value of the land would cause land prices to fall to zero. This would allow landlords who were able to own many more properties, and could use their funds building out extensive retail spaces, and have many tenants pay them rents.
by usefulposter | 2026-02-13 13:02:22+00:00
I wish I had a super-upvote.

"OP here" or "Author here" in posts is an obvious one when you see it. (In both cases, it's completely redundant!)

As for comments, regurgitating the input too closely and overusing abbreviations are highly indicative, yet many commenters don't notice.

See for instance (slop warning) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986273 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965103.
by T-A | 2026-02-13 13:02:39+00:00
> giving neutrinos a bare mass term would violate electroweak gauge invariance?

Giving any standard model fermion a bare mass term would violate electroweak gauge invariance. That was one of the problems with Glashow's electroweak model from 1961 [1]: he had the right symmetry group, but all particles had to be massless in order not to break it. Weinberg's contribution was to combine Glashow's proposal with Higgs' mass generation mechanism. It is done exactly the same way for any electroweak fermion doublet (as long as you are happy with the default choice of Dirac mass terms for all of them), be it up quark and down quark or neutrino and electron.

[1] https://www2.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lehre/vorlesungen/sose_2...
Show HN: OmniQL – One Query Language for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
by canu21 | 2026-02-13 13:02:42+00:00
Hey HN, I built OmniQL — an open-source Go library that compiles
a universal query syntax into native database commands.

You write:
:GET User WHERE id = 42

It becomes:
PostgreSQL → SELECT * FROM "users" WHERE "id" = 42;
MongoDB → db.users.find({ id: 42 });
Redis → HGETALL users:42

It's a compiler, not a wrapper. Your query becomes an AST, then
translates to native commands. No runtime overhead — it generates
the same query you'd write by hand.

Works for DDL too:
:CREATE TABLE User WITH id:AUTO, name:STRING:NOTNULL

Becomes native CREATE TABLE for Postgres/MySQL or
db.createCollection for MongoDB.

Why I built this: I run a multi-database platform and got tired of
maintaining four different query syntaxes. OmniQL started as an
internal tool and we're open-sourcing it.

GitHub: https://github.com/omniql-engine/omniql
Docs: https://docs.omniql.com

Happy to answer questions about the compiler architecture, AST
design, or how we handle the semantic gaps between SQL and NoSQL.
by Intermernet | 2026-02-13 13:03:39+00:00
This is a bad take. CO2 will not harm your personal health in the short term, in the amounts measured in current atmospheric readings. You personally have a higher percentage of CO2 in your body every time you breathe. You currently breathe about 430 ppm of CO2. Toxic levels are above 5000 ppm (40000 is regarded as immediately dangerous).

You're arguing the right side but you're using the wrong arguments. This is actually counter productive.
by alexellisuk | 2026-02-13 13:03:49+00:00
They used to charge a fair admin fee like 30-70 EUR for most bare-metal hosts.. now it's 99 EUR for the most basic/cheapest option.. up to 350 EUR for something modest like a 16 Core Ryzen.. monthly fees haven't changed much.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex/
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax/
by mrob | 2026-02-13 13:05:06+00:00
The original only consents for itself. It doesn't matter if the copy is coerced into sharing the experience of giving that consent, it didn't actually consent. Unlike a baby, all its memories are known to a third party with the maximum fidelity possible. Unlike a baby, everything it believes it accomplished was really done by another person. When the copy understands what happened it will realize it's a victim of horrifying psychological torture. Copying a consciousness is obviously evil and aw124 is correct.