MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2026-02-18 01:13:08+00:00
Some of it may never go away, as there is always more to know and you’ll never know it all. That’s what the team is for; together you can know more than any one person alone. Each person ends up having their areas of expertise.

Some acceptance of this and realization that you’re part of that team will come in time. When I first started working I felt like I should quit before they figured out I didn’t know anything. I felt like I always had to go ask other people questions. At a certain point, that dynamic flipped and I was spending all day answering questions from other people. These days, it’s more balanced. There are things I go to others for, and I think they’re brilliant at what they do. Those people also come to me for help on things I have more experience in. It’s a give and take. When you start, it will be more take than give, but that’s how everyone starts.
by DaedalusII | 2026-02-18 01:16:23+00:00
women are just as status driven as men, and the poor men and women are even more so. when need is taken away the status race will be intense

living in the third world i have seen absurd stuff: early 20s women living in slums that own the latest iphone pro max on a 5 year term loan is a common theme

in london the children of the UHNW (net worth >EUR100m) compete for scholarships and academic achievements, or to create unicorn startups, because the only way they can differentiate themselves from UHNW peers is the academic arena where money doesnt matter. they also tend to make shitty films or own vineyards, or try to become authors, or try to make scientific discoveries, and get sucked in to Mystical Gurus like Mr Epstein and Elizabeth Holmes/Thanos
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-18 01:16:33+00:00
We need an Euroepean vendor or organ or consortium taking up Android or Graphene or whatever and stamping a cert on phones allowed to run bank apps, after which banks (etc) have to support those phones. And/Or having to offer all functionality in the app(s) also in mobile web, but having users who want to use that requiring an OTP (or so) hardware token. I would be in favour of having the latter no matter what; no I can do this with my bank, but it doesn't offer the same as the mobile app and the site is not mobile optimised either.
by gzread | 2026-02-18 01:17:15+00:00
Not many people know this, but you can also write

public int x, y;

instead of

private int x, y;
public int getX() {return x;}
public void setX(int x) {this.x = x;}
public int getY() {return y;}
public void setY(int y) {this.y = y;}

this is compatible with any language version
by kalvin | 2026-02-18 01:17:56+00:00
Yes they are surprisingly cost-effective in the countries Watsi operates in, which isn't intuitive for those of us who live in places where surgeries are very expensive.

"A review across 23 LMICs found that low-complexity surgeries (e.g., appendectomy, hernia repair) cost only about ~$17 per DALY, whereas even complex procedures were often cost-effective" (Most surgeries on Watsi are low-complexity)

"Reports from the WHO and Lancet Commission consistently emphasize that investing in surgical capacity has high value, in many cases, more than essential drugs or vaccines on a per-DALY basis"

Both quotes from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12893-025-03204-0
by yellowapple | 2026-02-18 01:18:12+00:00
That's why I'm pretty optimistic about the AT protocol: you get the advantages of app-driven innovation (need a new feature? just define a lexicon for it) without requiring data reliant on that feature to live in that application's silo; the records all exist in each users' PDS, under each users' own control, no matter which applications use those records. And of course, if those features prove to be good ideas, other applications can adopt those lexicons and they're immediately interoperable.
by fatbird | 2026-02-18 01:18:14+00:00
Russian unemployment of 2.2% is a bad sign, not a good sign.

For practical purposes, unemployment around 4% means full employment, because there's always a portion of the population not working for some reason: taking time off, too dumb, don't want to work, unable to for reasons of temperment or psychological health, etc. At 4% (as the US has often been in the last few decades) it's really difficult to fill menial roles or unskilled factory jobs with people who know their ass from a hole in the ground.

Russia at 2.2% means many needed positions are going unfulfilled, crippling productivity and planning. It's a sign that the manpower needs of the war are draining productive workers, slowing their own economy at a time when they need more productivity to overcome sanctions and other economic effects.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-02-18 01:18:38+00:00
You are absolutely correct. We need context and nuance but there simply is none in this data. It is clickbait. "Crashing" in this report is defined as "an object touched the car". The highest speed is 27MPH with "an animal" (turtle, cat, pigeon, we have no idea), while the lowest speed crashes are at -0- MPH. Yes, they're including five events where something hit the car while it was not moving.
by lmeyerov | 2026-02-18 01:20:39+00:00
For graphistry at least, I care less about the surface syntax (async/await) and more about getting gpu-side work stealing, dynamic task scheduling, etc. Our code is written at such a much higher level that these are primitives needed by our runtime, not most of our developers & users. Imagine SQL, cypher, etc on GPUs and our implementations of those being able to use the gpu-side libraries when coordinating 1M+ threads.
by jwpapi | 2026-02-18 01:21:16+00:00
This goes well along with all my non-tech and even tech co-workers. Honestly the value generation leverage I have now is 10x or more then it was before compared to other people.

HN is a echo chamber of a very small sub group. The majority of people can’t utilize it and needs to have this further dumbed down and specialized.

That’s why marketing and conversion rate optimization works, its not all about the technical stuff, its about knowing what people need.

For funded VC companies often the game was not much different, it was just part of the expenses, sometimes a lot sometimes a smaller part. But eventually you could just buy the software you need, but that didn’t guarantee success. Their were dramatic failures and outstanding successes, and I wish it wouldn’t but most of the time the codebase was not the deciding factor. (Sometimes it was, airtable, twitch etc, bless the engineers, but I don’t believe AI would have solved these problems)
by cartographus | 2026-02-18 01:22:00+00:00
He wants to be paid to care, and at first it feels clever, to turn concern into currency. But something shifts when every feeling has a price tag. You start choosing what matters based on who’s paying. And slowly, without noticing, the part of you that once cared freely goes quiet. The curse isn’t dramatic. It’s just the day you realize you don’t know what you believe unless someone funds it.
by nicbou | 2026-02-18 01:22:24+00:00
Didn't their war in Afghanistan precipitate their downfall?

So many pivotal decisions in WW2 were economic in nature. Lend lease? Germany's late switch to a war economy? The Allies' much larger manufacturing capabilities?

You could also argue that the cold war stayed cold because of the West's economic might. It set a military and living standard that the USSR bankrupted itself trying to match.
by aidev19373913 | 2026-02-18 01:22:33+00:00
It doesn’t have to replace us, just make us more productive.

Software is demand constrained, not supply constrained. Demand for novel software is down, we already have tons of useful software for anything you can think of. Most developers at google, Microsoft, meta, Amazon, etc barely do anything. Productivity is approaching zero. Hence why the corporations are already outsourcing.

The number of workers needed will go down.
by mquander | 2026-02-18 01:23:38+00:00
I don't really understand the criticism. The authors aren't claiming to have the strongest chess engine without search. They are just showing that they got a chess engine to a respectable level with their process, which is somewhat different from LC0. They do in fact explain that explicitly:

> Leela Chess Zero’s networks, which are trained with self-play and RL, achieve higher Elo ratings without using explicit search at test time than our transformers, which we trained via supervised learning. However, in contrast to our work, very strong chess performance (at low computational cost)
is the explicit goal of this open source project (which they have clearly achieved via domain-specific adaptations). We refer interested readers to [https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12272] (which was published concurrently to our work) for details on the current state-of-the-art and a comparison against our network.

And I don't think the criticism of their writing is on point either. I don't think they are secretly implying that their engine is better than Stockfish. And it's 100% plausible for human masters to rigorously analyze many positions with engine assistance and correctly establish whether Stockfish's evaluation is right or not.
by qdotme | 2026-02-18 01:24:26+00:00
I think people (especially those who joined the internet after the .com bubble) underestimate the level of decentralization and federation coming with the old-school (pre web-centric mainframe-like client mentality) protocols such as email and Usenet and maybe even IRC.

Give me “email” PR process anytime. Can review on a flight. Offline. Distraction free. On my federated email server and have it work with your federated email server.

And the clients were pretty decent, at running locally. And it still works great for established projects like Linux Kernel etc.

It’s just pain to set up for a new project, compared to pushing to some forge. But not impossible. Return the intentionality of email. With powerful clients doing threading, sorting, syncing etc, locally.
by latchkey | 2026-02-18 01:24:33+00:00
biome kind of does this stuff for me in the typescript world. for example, it recommends for...of instead of forEach. paired with ultracite, it really improves my workflow because it is super easy to add to any project, just one dependency. breath of fresh air compared with the eslint ecosystem.

i now have an agents.md file that says to run biome fix after every modification. i end with much nicer code that i don't have to go and fix myself (or resave the file to get biome to run). speeds things up considerably to not have that step in my own workflow.
by ghurtado | 2026-02-18 01:24:38+00:00
The answer is taste.

I don't know if they will ever get there, but LLMs are a long ways away from having decent creative taste.

Which means they are just another tool in the artist's toolbox, not a tool that will replace the artist. Same as every other tool before it: amazing in capable hands, boring in the hands of the average person.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-18 01:25:17+00:00
Science fiction suffers from the fact that the plot has to develop coherently, have a message, and also leave some mystery. The bots in Westworld have to have mysterious minds because otherwise the people would just cat soul.md and figure out what’s going on. It has to be plausible that they are somehow sentient. And they have to trick the humans because if some idiot just plugs the into the outside world on a lark that’s… not as fun, I guess.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-18 01:27:20+00:00
The Zombie Simpsons explanation paints it (fairly convincingly) as a combo of deaths, turnover in the writing room, and the influence of The Simpsons and other “subversive” shows affecting the mainstream so much that it was no longer distinctive, with the result that the show became a heightened, silly, absurd, but basically straight, and (more, at least) earnest, version of the family sitcom it had started off lampooning.

https://deadhomersociety.wordpress.com/zombiesimpsons/

Under this explanation, the early show is basically a totally different thing from what it became by somewhere around season 10. Even if it didn’t “get worse” (I think it definitely did also do that, but it’s not necessary for this explanation to work) it became something so different that it’s not surprising that a lot of people who liked the early show, don’t like what it has been since the change.
by yav1n | 2026-02-18 01:27:38+00:00
I launched Nibi a few months ago as a basic expense tracker. Since then I've shipped 6 updates and it's now a full freelance finance suite.
What's new:
Invoicing & client management (create, send, track payments)
Tax export section (income vs expenses, accountant-ready in 1 tap)
Tax deduction tips per category (know what % you can claim)
Insights dashboard (profit tracking, activity trends)
Transaction search
Complete UI redesign (monochrome, clean, fast)
What's next:
AI billing assistant, personalized smart notifications, onboarding for people transitioning to freelance, and Canadian investment recommendations (FHSA, RRSP).
Core unchanged: all data on device, no backend, no account, works offline. Canadian tax structure (GST/HST/QST), bilingual EN/FR. Free tier + $6.99/month.
App Store: Nibi: Self-Employed App - App Store
Site: nibi | Travail Autonome, Perfectionné
by gnabgib | 2026-02-18 01:27:56+00:00
"You" just posted this 2 hours ago, and admitted it doesn't do what's claimed[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054873

> you'e 100% right to call this out
> Empty projects: Correct
> Hardware Enums: You caught the stub
> Thanks for keeping the community honest

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055576
by codebje | 2026-02-18 01:27:56+00:00
Why would the model owner do that? You still need some human input to operate the business, so it would be terribly impractical to try to run all the businesses. Better to sell the model to everyone else, since everyone will need it.

The only existential threat to the model owner is everyone being a model owner, and I suspect that's the main reason why all the world's memory supply is sitting in a warehouse, unused.
by toyg | 2026-02-18 01:28:22+00:00
> The majority of people can’t utilize it

Tbh, depending on the field, even this crowd will need further dumbing down. Just look at the blog illustration slops - 99% of them are just terrible, even when the text is actually valuable. That's because people's judgement of value, outside their field of expertise, is typically really bad. A trained cook can look at some chatgpt recipe and go "this is stupid and it will taste horrible", whereas the average HN techbro/nerd (like yours truly) will think it's great -- until they actually taste it, that is.
by tamimio | 2026-02-18 01:28:24+00:00
The deficit argument is a deflection. The government doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending and priority problem. Canada (but also applies to other countries) runs deficits while handing out billions in corporate subsidies and mismanaging public funds consistently. Asking citizens to pay yet another layer of taxation to cover institutional inefficiency isn’t a solution, it’s a blank check with no accountability.

On land value coming from government infrastructure: that’s a partial truth dressed up as a complete argument. In Canada, most land is technically owned by the Crown, meaning you’re already leasing it under various terms depending on how title is held. So the “you’re privatizing public gains” framing already falls apart at the foundation. But let’s humor it anyway: what if I’m fully off-grid? Septic tank, solar panels, private road, self-maintained everything. Does my land value drop? No, it doesn’t, because the value is also artificially inflated by government-controlled permitting, zoning restrictions, and intentional supply suppression. The government is simultaneously the cause of inflated land value and the entity collecting taxes on that inflation. That’s not a neutral tax, that’s a racket.

On Japan: you’re conflating two separate timelines. Japan implemented its housing policies and saw prices stabilize and even decline well before its fertility crisis became the dominant economic story. The Akiya (vacant homes) problem and price normalization were underway as a direct result of policy choices, treating housing as shelter rather than an investment vehicle. The fertility decline accelerated consequences but didn’t create the policy. Meanwhile, Canada’s fertility rate is already comparable to South Korea, one of the lowest in the world, and Canadian housing prices haven’t corrected meaningfully. That alone dismantles whatever argument of “Japan only worked because of demographics”.

And here’s where it gets uncomfortable: the Canadian government has effectively admitted (look it up online, they don’t even hide it) that preserving housing values was a deliberate policy consideration in pushing back against remote work. Commercial real estate, residential landlords leveraged to the hilt, and an economy where housing represents a disproportionate share of GDP all created an incentive to force people back into urban cores. This isn’t conspiracy, it was acknowledged. When your economy is structurally dependent on a housing ponzi scheme, every policy bends toward keeping prices elevated, including taxation that forces lower-income retirees to sell, which conveniently frees up supply without crashing prices.

The honest conclusion is that property tax doesn’t exist to fund services equitably. It exists to keep the machine running for the people who benefit most from it, and that isn’t the person who spent 30 years paying off a mortgage.
by hu3 | 2026-02-18 01:28:38+00:00
Sonnet 4.6 already available in VSCode Copilot Pro+ for me ($39/mo plan) on a 128K context size limit:

https://i.imgur.com/mHvtuz8.png

After some quick tests it seems faster than Sonnet 4.5 and slighly less smart than Opus 4.5.

But given the 128k context size, I'm tempted to keep using GPT-5.3-Codex which has more than double context size, seems just as smart and costs the same (1x premium request) per prompt.

I have my reservations against OpenAI the company but not enough to sacrifice my productivity.
by LexiMax | 2026-02-18 01:29:57+00:00
The friends list is inconsequential. It's for sending private messages to people you already know and met from a Discord server. Long running group chats are an aberration, people just start up micro-discords instead.

And that is what Discord alternatives will have to solve - the ease of setting up a new Discord "server" by any old random user is hard to beat in terms of convenience. Matrix is the only real alternative on that front.

However, if you have an established community and have at least a little hosting knowledge among the staff, the moat is shallow to nonexistent, and it's just a matter of how much of a pain in the neck Discord decides to be.
by vessenes | 2026-02-18 01:31:07+00:00
Chase,

I was an early donor and had forgotten about Watsi — thank you for the reminder and congratulations! You should be super proud. Plus, the experience you got here will serve you in good stead if you decide to do a commercial venture — scaling a non profit is much, much harder than a commercial company with some compounding finances.

That said, I have a pitch for you on Watsi - I continue to think Donor Advised Funds are underutilized financial tech in the US today. Watsi could set up a DAF that takes your cohort’s startup stock, gives them a tax deduction, mandates a 2-5% annual disbursement to the general fund if not otherwise allocated, and privilege the Watsi general fund. My team did a bunch of research on these a few years ago including some legal work, and I’d be happy to share if you think you might be interested in taking another crack at getting Watsi a large fund to back what it’s doing.

Either way - helping 33k people is incredible.
by manytimesaway | 2026-02-18 01:31:08+00:00
Things are much more nuanced than this, at least on SEGA's side.

The Mega Drive derivated from the System 16, but was itself converted into an arcade system.

Titan-Video derivated from the Saturn, according to sources online.

NAOMI/NAOMI 2/Hikaru were derivated from the Dreamcast during development, and there is significant overlap in specs between them and the DC.

Chihiro derivated from the OG Xbox.
Show HN: Scanward – Free domain security scanner (SSL, DNS, headers, email auth)
by accadius | 2026-02-18 01:31:50+00:00
I built Scanward to solve a problem I kept running into as a DevOps engineer: checking whether a domain has its security basics covered (SSL config, DNS hygiene, HTTP security headers, SPF/DKIM/DMARC) meant juggling 4-5 different tools.

Scanward runs all 5 checks in one scan and gives you an A-F grade with specific findings. The free public scanner requires no signup.

If you create an account (free tier: 1 domain), it does continuous monitoring and emails you when something changes — cert expiring, grade drops, missing headers, etc.

Tech stack: FastAPI + Celery + PostgreSQL + Redis on Railway. Next.js dashboard on Cloudflare Pages. All scanning uses public data (DNS queries, HTTP headers, SSL handshakes) — no agents to install.

Would love feedback on the scoring methodology and what checks you'd want to see added.
by gjk3 | 2026-02-18 01:32:39+00:00
100% correct. Taste is the correct term - I avoid using it as Im not sure many people here actually get what it truly means.

How can I proclaim what I said in the comment above? Because Ive spent the past week producing something very high quality with Grok. Has it been easy? Hell no. Could anyone just pick up and do what Ive done? Hell no. It requires things like patience, artistry, taste etc etc.

The current tech is soul-less in most people hands and it should remain used in a narrow range in this context. The last thing I want to see is low quality slop infesting the web. But hey that is not what the model producers want - they want to maximize tokens.
by Loughla | 2026-02-18 01:32:45+00:00
Sorry, that didn't translate well. I'm not in favor of it. I'm simply saying that many many many companies operate under the condition that external problems are a natural part of doing business.

To be clear, I'm not in support of dumping chemicals into the world, just calling out that experimenting on the public with large robotic cars is perfectly in line with American business practice.
by HALtheWise | 2026-02-18 01:33:08+00:00
Not even mentioned in the article, my favorite capability is the new `//go:fix inline` directive, which can be applied to a one-line function to make go fix inline it's contents into the caller.

That ends up being a really powerful primitive for library authors to get users off of deprecated functions, as long as the old semantics are concisely expressible with the new features. It can even be used (and I'm hoping someone makes tooling to encourage this) to auto-migrate users to new semver-incompatible versions of widely used libraries by releasing a 1.x version that's implemented entirely in terms of thin wrappers around 2.x functions and go fix will automatically upgrade users when they run it.
by stubish | 2026-02-18 01:34:01+00:00
Age verification is required for age limited servers and channels. The vast majority are not age limited and will remain available without verification. As has happened in the past, more of the remaining channels will turn off age limiting as it becomes more invasive, in favor of moderation and tweaked community standards (no more porn in #shitpost). I'd expect the remaining bits will leave, with most of the members not wanting it to be linked to their real id.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-18 01:34:09+00:00
Its not our current location, but our trajectory that is scary.

The walls and plateaus that have been consistently pulled out from "the comments of reassurance" have not materialized. If this pace holds for another year and a half, things are going to be very different. And the pipeline is absolutely overflowing with specialized compute coming online by the gigawatt for the foreseeable future.

So far the most accurate predictions in the AI space have been from the most optimistic forecasters.