MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ifwinterco | 2026-02-22 17:37:00+00:00
That's what I'm saying though, it's not out of nothing, people have legitimate grievances and at the same time there is probably at least some foreign influence. It's not either/or, it's (probably) a bit of both.

But like I said, I'm not there, so I don't know the truth and there's no way for me to find it out.

My basic point is just that you can't trust what you read in the papers because the Soviet Union is not the only state to engage in propaganda
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-22 17:37:08+00:00
> The top companies (and the wealthiest for that matter) already pay the majority in taxes.

When you hoard far more than just a slim majority, paying a majority isn’t unexpected and it can still be unfair. But I think you are talking about federal personal income tax not corporate tax.

> We should be allowing businesses to write off research and development.

They already do in various ways.

> More tax money just gets wasted at the top. California is a good example of this.

I agree California is wasteful. But we can tax and just give the money directly to people.

> The main issue is that those companies should be require to hire US citizens and not outsourcing, for these jobs.

Not even close to the main issue. Why not just redistribute the gains instead of playing games with these other schemes?
by Rover222 | 2026-02-22 17:37:35+00:00
Equating Trump to the systems in China/Russia is absurd. You have no concept of what losing free speech really means if you think that's an accurate comparison.

Not saying that what's happening with ICE is okay. But it's a very sheltered view to think that is at all equivalent to what happens in those countries if you actively protest against the govt.
by fortzi | 2026-02-22 17:37:42+00:00
Maybe you should ask a few Palestinians before making such statements.
Polls made by respected Palestinian surveyors show immense support for Hamas by Palestinians [1]. If you dig inti the polls, you’ll find great support in continuing the armed conflict. I’ll add: to the last man standing.

While I agree with you that Hamas and the Palestinians are not one thing, Hamas would not be able to operate the way it did (and still does to an extent), without broad support from the population.

[1] https://www.pcpsr.org/
by reliabilityguy | 2026-02-22 17:37:54+00:00
US intelligence flip flopped on this issue every Friday. Given the high stakes situation, I personally believe that Iran did work on nuclear weapons.

There is no reason whatsoever to enrich uranium beyond like 20% if its not for military purposes in such quantities.

Saying that others are NPCs is interesting. How do you know that you are not an NPC?
by akiselev | 2026-02-22 17:38:02+00:00
When I was developing my ghidra-cli tool for LLMs to use, I was using crackmes as tests and it had no problem getting through obfuscation as long as it was prompted about it. In practice when reverse engineering real software it can sometimes spin in circles for a while until it finally notices that it's dealing with obfuscated code, but as long as you update your CLAUDE.md/whatever with its findings, it generally moves smoothly from then on.
Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?
by YuukiJyoudai | 2026-02-22 17:38:19+00:00
Markdown started as a shorthand for HTML. Now it's the default format for
documentation, note-taking, knowledge bases, and AI context.

What's interesting is how it keeps absorbing new capabilities without changing
the format itself:

- Mermaid: diagrams from fenced code blocks
- KaTeX/MathJax: math rendering from `$...$` syntax
- Frontmatter: structured metadata via YAML blocks
- MDX: React components embedded in markdown
- Obsidian/Logseq: backlinks, canvas views, graph visualization — all from plain .md files

The pattern seems to be: the .md file stays human-readable plain text, but
renderers get increasingly powerful. Same file, richer output.

This makes me wonder where this goes:

1. Does markdown keep evolving through renderer conventions until it becomes
a de facto interactive document format? (The "HTML path" — HTML barely
changed, but CSS/JS/browsers made it capable of anything.)

2. Does a new format emerge that can natively express interactivity,
collapsible sections, embedded computations? Something between markdown
and Jupyter notebooks?

3. Or does the answer involve a protocol/middleware layer — where .md files
are the source, but some intermediate system (like a language server for
documents) adds structure, validation, and interactivity on top?

I'm especially curious because of the AI angle. Plain .md files are
the most AI-friendly knowledge format — any LLM can read, write, and search
them with zero setup. A more complex format might gain expressiveness but
lose this property.

What's your take? Is .md "good enough forever" with better renderers, or are
we heading toward something new?
by wredcoll | 2026-02-22 17:38:21+00:00
This comic definitely speaks to me on a deep emotional level, but at the same time one of the things I like so much about computers is they're essentially unbreakable.

Not that you can't get one into a non-working state, that is, of course, trivial but with the lone exception of deleting data, you can always restore a computer, the only tool being needed is some kind of boot disk.

(Compare that to breaking a literal hammer, you'd need a pretty specialized set of tools handy if you wanted to actually restore it)
by wangzhongwang | 2026-02-22 17:38:31+00:00
This is a really cool experiment. What strikes me is how the results mirror what we see in software supply chain attacks too - the backdoor doesn't have to be clever, it just has to be buried deep enough that nobody bothers to look. 40MB is already past the threshold where most people would manually audit anything.

I wonder if a hybrid approach would work better: use AI to flag suspicious sections, then have a human reverser focus only on those. Kind of like how SAST tools work for source code - nobody expects them to catch everything, but they narrow down where to look.
by wangzhongwang | 2026-02-22 17:38:43+00:00
The 6.5 transistors per coefficient ratio is fascinating. At 3-bit quantization you're already losing a lot of model quality, so the real question is whether the latency gains from running directly on silicon make up for the accuracy loss.

For inference-heavy edge deployments (think always-on voice assistants or real-time video processing), this could be huge even with degraded accuracy. You don't need GPT-4 quality for most embedded use cases. But for anything that needs to be updated or fine-tuned, you're stuck with a new chip fab cycle, which kind of defeats the purpose of using neural nets in the first place.
by roryirvine | 2026-02-22 17:38:55+00:00
Yeah, both VServer and Virtuozzo were roughly contemporaneous with the initial Xen release (2001-ish?), and only a few months behind jails.

But Virtuozzo was hampered by being non-free - OpenVZ wasn't open sourced until 2-3 years later, by which time the damage had been done (but, of course, Xen headed in the opposite direction at roughly the same time!)

And Linux-VServer was held back by being focussed so directly at virtual hosting providers - it positioned itself against fcgi-suexec, fcgid, and php-fpm (and was much more unwieldy than any of them) rather than jails or VZ.

Both were more or less ignored until the late 2000s, by which time LXC had taken a lot of mindshare - allowing the "FreeBSD was years ahead with jails" meme to take root.
by wangzhongwang | 2026-02-22 17:38:55+00:00
Totally agree with this. I spent way too long fighting my dev environment last month before I finally sat down and properly configured everything. The ROI on fixing your tools is insane - what took me 2 hours of yak-shaving per week now takes zero.

The hard part is convincing yourself it's worth the upfront time. There's always "real work" that feels more urgent than fixing your build script or editor config.
Ask HN: How will distribution work when AI makes creation nearly free?
by YuukiJyoudai | 2026-02-22 17:39:15+00:00
I've been thinking about what happens to economic distribution when AI
collapses the cost of creation.

A few observations that seem contradictory:

*Creation is being democratized.* A solo developer with an AI assistant can
now ship in a weekend what used to take a team months. Writing, design, code,
music — the marginal cost of producing "good enough" output is approaching
zero across every creative domain.

*But the means of creation are concentrating.* The models, the compute, the
training data — controlled by a handful of companies. We're all building on
rented land. The most democratizing technology in history has the most
centralized infrastructure.

This creates a distribution question that doesn't fit old frameworks:

1. *If production cost → 0, what becomes scarce?* Classical economics says
value comes from scarcity. When anyone can build an app, write an article,
or compose a song, the scarce resource shifts. To what — taste? judgment?
distribution? trust? attention?

2. *The 1-person company at scale.* If one person + AI can do the work of
ten, do nine people lose their jobs, or do 10x more things get built?
History suggests new abundance creates new demand we can't predict. But
the transition speed is unprecedented.

3. *Who captures the surplus?* When AI cuts a $500K project to a $5K
weekend, where does the $495K go? To the creator (who keeps the savings)?
To the consumer (through lower prices)? To the AI provider (through
API fees)? To no one (it just evaporates as deflation)?

4. *The taste arbitrage.* If execution becomes commoditized, the remaining
edge is knowing what to build and for whom. This has always been true in
theory, but when execution cost was high, bad taste was protected by
barriers to entry. Now it isn't.

I don't have a thesis. I'm genuinely uncertain whether AI leads to a more
equal distribution (everyone can create → broader participation in value
creation) or a more concentrated one (infrastructure monopoly → rent
extraction at the platform layer).

What's your mental model for how this plays out?
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-22 17:39:47+00:00
Indeed, it's always presented that way.¹ It's very unsatisfying because it doesn't establish a 1:1 correspondence; it depends on the idea that if set A has the same cardinality as a superset of set B, then set B's cardinality cannot exceed set A's. Add the assumption that the natural numbers have the lowest possible infinite cardinality and the proof is technically complete.

I've read about an actual bijection between naturals and rationals, but I don't remember how it was done.

¹ Possibly in the more general form of showing the bijection between ℕ and ℤ².
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-22 17:39:54+00:00
Rare earths aren’t really that rare though. China has been the only country to invest in refining, sure, but any other country, including Japan or USA could have made similar investments and simply didn’t, because Chinese refiners were cheap and they couldn’t compete. Yes, the market failed to solve the REE problem at us, but it is not because we don’t have access to the inputs and we don’t know how to refine them.

Japan could have simply started their own refining business if they were really worried about REEs in 2010. Yes, it would take them until 2015 or so to ramp up, but that was still 11 years ago.
by fabifabulous | 2026-02-22 17:40:16+00:00
It‘s quite hard to believe that a person is a parent who at the same time states that parenthood doesn‘t make up a huge part of a parent‘s life and personality for a very long time (if not forever). Sure, children are not the only thing to define one‘s personality, but it‘s a tremendous change.

Also, decreasing fertility rates have more reasons than just female empowerment. Look it today‘s societies … many people can‘t even stay together with their partner for more than a couple of years.
by jMyles | 2026-02-22 17:40:17+00:00
Well sure, maybe in this case the driveway owner hasn't been slighted, as they consented to the use, but that doesn't mean that suddenly some other person critiquing Mickey D's for factory farming and using prison-slave labor to make uniforms is misguided. You can't just say, "Well, I'm struggling to see why it's off-putting for McDonald's to use that driveway for their slavery-poison-food operation".
by federicobuilds | 2026-02-22 17:40:22+00:00
Hi HN,

I built an AI-powered tweet/thread generator and scheduler called PostWizard (https://postwizard.ai).

It’s designed for founders and social media managers to maintain an organic presence on X without the manual overhead that usually makes managing multiple accounts a full-time job.

I originally built it for myself because I was struggling to manage multiple X accounts manually. After seeing my own reach increase by 195% and engagement by 288%, I decided to polish it and open it up.

The Tech Stack & Engineering Challenges:

I built this as a full-stack React 18 app (Vite + TS) with Supabase (Postgres, Auth, and Edge Functions). Some specific hurdles I solved:

- Prompt Engineering for Virality: I prompt engineered the LLM specifically to produce high-performing tweets and threads. I gave the model several proven frameworks for viral Twitter posts and several hook formats as few-shot examples, essentially teaching the AI how to write content that stops the scroll.

- Reliable Thread Publishing: The system tracks published_tweet_count and last_thread_tweet_id. If a thread is interrupted, the cron-triggered Edge Function resumes from where it left off.

- Concurrency Control: I implemented optimistic locking (SELECT + UPDATE with status guards) to ensure a post is never published twice.

- Security: Twitter credentials (OAuth 1.0a) are encrypted at rest and only decrypted server-side during the publishing flow.

- The Workflow: It uses Twitter API v2 for posts and v1.1 for media uploads, with custom retry/timeout logic for reliability.

Current features include AI generation (text and images), multi-account support, and a scheduling engine that ensures 100% compliance with X's official terms.

I’m constantly improving PostWizard and would love to hear your feedback. I’ll be here to answer any questions!
by alephnerd | 2026-02-22 17:40:34+00:00
Haha yep, that documentary was wild - very old school Vice before they all got poached.

But anyhow, the entire thing has become a quagmire after CPEC was announced in 2015, because that forced India to confront the very real possibility of being enricled by China during a war.

This is what lead to India's quiet and now overt diplomacy with the Taliban, continued investment in Iran despite the sanctions, and building Saudi and UAE cofinanced megaprojects on the Indo-Pak border in GJ and RJ as well as in JK.
by c22 | 2026-02-22 17:40:48+00:00
Some tools are definitely better than others. Also some tools are not "the right tool" for the job.

Fundamentally though I'm not sure I agree with you. Violence is often an emotional reaction. When violence is used as a tool it is usually (always?) used by bad people.

If it helps you reconcile my worldview, I absolutely oppose the existence of states.
by xoxxala | 2026-02-22 17:40:56+00:00
Like humanity in general, there is a lot of variety. My dad has been a pescetarian for 30+ years, so I'm aware of the term and use it at least two or three times a year. Personally, I'm a flexitarian and eat a reduced animal flesh diet. I know quite a few vegetarians, and they don't all eat the same diet (one does eat eggs on a weekly basis and still calls himself a vegetarian, which is somewhat controversial according to the other vegetarians that I talk to). Most vegetarians I know don't consume fish or dairy.
by whateveracct | 2026-02-22 17:41:27+00:00
Riichi is a good candidate for a video game due to all the specific rules. It has a lot of room for QoL. I have an app on my phone [1] that has made it fun to play and learn thanks to the guidance it has with the rules

[1] https://kemono.games/game/Kemono-Mahjong hunky furries regardless, it's a really good single player Riichi app lol
by ben_w | 2026-02-22 17:41:42+00:00
He may well be as you say, but nothing in this video is evidence of that. To the extent he's a slimy sociopath, he's not openly twirling his metaphorical moustache here, and he's a lot better at hiding villainy than most of the better-known slimy sociopaths in the world today (for comparison, Musk actually tweeted "If this works, I’m treating myself to a volcano lair. It’s time.", this isn't even at that level.

He's responding to all the people very upset about how much energy AI takes to train.

That said, a quick over-estimate of human "training" cost is 2500 kcal/day * 20 years = 21.21 MWh[0], which is on the low end of the estimates I've seen for even one single 8 billion parameter model.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2500+kcal%2Fday+*+20+ye...
by kevinsync | 2026-02-22 17:41:49+00:00
The very first time I ever flew was very shortly after 9/11. TSA hadn't been created yet, but the airports were still nervous energy and chaos from what had happened. I remember my carry-on was like a thick plastic grocery bag with a couple dozen vinyl records and I may have had a very small backpack with god knows what banging around inside (loose items, a crappy cell phone, likely some booze LOL). Got to the airport at the last minute and had to run full speed to get to the gate looking like a crazy person. Surprisingly nobody really batted an eye, and man oh man how things would change in just a couple of months!
by shikon7 | 2026-02-22 17:42:22+00:00
It's not new in the sense that any of its components are new, and it's not new in the sense that similar things had not been done before, it's new in the sense that putting the right components together in the right way suddenly created something capable of starting a viral hype.

Essentially, as I understand it, it is a personal AI assistant running on your computer, integrated with different systems (like email, chat).
by bluGill | 2026-02-22 17:42:47+00:00
I'm not convinced. At times it can be valueable, but at times you can go around in circles, changing checking variables/break points all the time, but never finding the problem. Often thinking about the problem and what is important is what you need. Playing in the debugger is fun and feels like progress, but it can just be a distraction from understanding the real problem.

I'm not completely against debuggers, but in my experience they only are useful either to get the trace of the problem when it first occurs and then use static analysis until you have a theory the debugger can prove/disprove - but only prove/disprove that theory don't keep looking: you will feel productive but in fact be spinning circles
by EvanAnderson | 2026-02-22 17:42:51+00:00
If it's not immediately clear toyou what this thing (ASF) (like it wasn't to me) this quote from the Github README is useful:

> JavaScript-like scripting language implemented entirely in VBA. Zero COM dependencies. Native Office object model integration with runtime monkey patching capabilities.

That's bananas!

The specific feature being referred-to by the current title ("Monkey Patching in VBA") is functionality to allow you to override or add additional methods to the stock Office COM objects in this ASF scripting language. That's wild.

The extensibility of the Office object model using VBA is powerful and horrifying.
by OJFord | 2026-02-22 17:43:23+00:00
I have mixed feelings about it really, I am aware of it, and use it in my dot files, but I think it's quite a gotcha - just recently actually I've been thinking to remove it.

It catches me out when something's ignored I don't expect, and it's not clear why in the working directory/repo, only for me to remember about the global one.

It catches others out (or catches me out by their doing) in collaboration when say I've not committed something, not even really been aware of the potential hazard, and that's been desired; but then someone else comes along and `git commit -a`s it.

But then where it is particularly useful is myriad tools that fall back on git ignore in lieu of (or in addition to) their own ignore files...
by foobiekr | 2026-02-22 17:43:56+00:00
How would releasing the prisoners stop the settlers and other issues?

What Israel has been doing for decades at this point is completely unacceptable. Hamas is a bunch of terrorists, but in context they are the inevitable outcome of Israel's continuous mistreatment and ongoing antagonism against all of their neighbors stretching on for fifty years.

You really have to wonder what the hell is wrong with the Israelis that they can't stop being aggressive towards literally everyone around them.
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-22 17:43:57+00:00
The US is evil because it meddles in the affairs of other countries? Uh huh. Tell me about Iran.

The US is evil because of who it supports? Tell me about Iran.

And at least the US didn't murder thousands of anti-government demonstrators so far this year.

You're right in this: The US is not the shining example of goodness and purity that we wish it to be. But when you condemn the US compared to Iran, using those metrics, it looks suspiciously like motivated reasoning.
by pessimizer | 2026-02-22 17:44:08+00:00
> Islamists and communists. Guess which one was helped by USA? :-)

Neither was helped by the USA. The Shah was helped by the USA.

What the USA did is the same thing it does in all of the Islamic dictatorships that it props up - it used its intelligence and its cash to help its dictator exterminate all of his secular opposition. Actually kill. What was left was religious fundamentalist opposition that it couldn't touch, and that the Shah himself partially relied on to stay in power. That meant that when the general population was finally at the point of exasperation, the only institutions that were 1) prepared to be the vehicle of that exasperation and 2) had an government in waiting that could take charge after the government had fallen were the religious ones.

Same thing that happened in Egypt after decades of helping Mubarak kill members of the secular opposition and destroy their organizations. When the government was overthrown spontaneously by a public driven to their limit, the only people prepared to take over, and supported by the public, were fundamentalists. The US saw another Iran coming and quickly stepped in to destroy the popular will and install another dictator that they could control.
Show HN: Voted.dev – Vote on New Startups
by dommm | 2026-02-22 17:44:20+00:00
I built this because HN has become a general discussion board and Product Hunt turned into a launch marketing game.

I wanted something dead simple for discovering new products.

Submit a domain (each one can only be posted once), add a one-liner, and people vote. No hunters, no badges, no collections, no blog posts.

What would you add (or deliberately leave out)?
by vidarh | 2026-02-22 17:44:25+00:00
Eddie Izzard speaking old English to a Frisian farmer:

https://youtu.be/OeC1yAaWG34?si=lkoQ--uZNN8Ntpqy

As a Norwegian who speaks English and school-German, Dutch is fairly easy to read but sounds like you're speaking a mix of English, Norse and German with a mouthful of gravel (similar to the Danish, who Norwegians like to say speaks Norwegian with a potato in their mouth)