MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thankyoufriend | 2026-02-11 04:24:33+00:00
You have given an example of a group which affected change on a $10+ billion estimated valuation company, in a ~$43 billion PC gaming market.

You then insinuated that it was connected to age verification in the UK because it happened in the same week - not very convincing evidence. Isn't it more likely that age verification is another attempt by tech oligarchs to stockpile more of our personal data?

I think you may need to take a few steps back and widen your perspective beyond the gaming world. US GDP was $31+ trillion which puts the PC gaming market at .0014% of US GDP. So some small company used their collective power to force some larger company to do something they didn't want to do. Form your own company and do the same thing then. It's quite weird that you blame all women and DEI for this, and not the bean counters and wealthy/powerful people.

I challenge you to question WHY so many women hate men - they weren't born hating them. Maybe numerous men did something vile enough to them and earned their hatred? Generalizing that hate onto all men would merely be a survival tactic if that were true, don't you think? Sort of similar to how you seem to hate women because perhaps you were physically or emotionally hurt by them in the past.
by jascha_eng | 2026-02-11 04:24:52+00:00
This is a great take. It applies the SaaS is dead theory at a lower level (libraries are dead) but has it a much more nuanced view.

Yeh even if LLMs are 10x better than today you probably still don't want to implement cryptography from scratch, but use a library.

I also like the 3d printing analogy. We will see how good LLMs get, but I will say that a lot of AI coded tools today have the same feeling as 3d printed hardware.
If no engineer was involved the software is cheap and breaks under pressure because no one considered the edge cases. It looks good on the surface but if you use it for something serious it does break.

The engineer might still use an LLM/3d printer but where necessary he'll use a metal connection (write code by hand or at least tightly guide the LLM) to make the product sturdy.
by _kb | 2026-02-11 04:25:25+00:00
ST 2110-22 is codec agnostic. It just standardises CBR compression, for which JPEG-XS is a good fit today.

For plug-and-play IPMX (https://ipmx.io/about/) is looking to be a pretty promising approach that combines ST 2110 with NMOS, auth, encryption and other useful features. It's targetted at the ProAV market but IMO should be mostly suitable for consumer use.
by kmaitreys | 2026-02-11 04:25:33+00:00
That's right. Historically, nebula was anything that looked cloudy, so a lot of astrophysical objects that we now understand are distinct, were simply labelled as nebulous. M31, as you said, being a great example.

Modern astrophysics still carries the baggage of obsolete terminology to this day, from names of objects to names of units.
by FloorEgg | 2026-02-11 04:25:44+00:00
I've been building startups for 15 years now and through a lot of pain, reflection and study have learned:

- markets are patterns in what people are trying to get done (importance / satisfaction)

- having an objective to validate a market is foolish for startup founders, maybe it makes sense as DD for vcs but they never do it, which is also foolish (founders should be trying to discover and understand markets, not validate them)

- getting good at quickly discovering and seeing truth in markets is a skill that can be developed, and is extremely valuable for engineers to learn

- opportunities are all about timing, and requires knowing about lots of markets and lots of tech and seeing how they can come together

- the timing is all about knowing how good tech needs to be to be better at getting customer job done, which requires understanding tech and empathy for customers (or luck)

- pmfit failure rate is so high because most founders don't even know what a market is
by tptacek | 2026-02-11 04:26:04+00:00
I've lived in both places and I think the narrative is a lot more fair, in terms of day-to-day quality of life for, like, the median resident, about San Francisco than it is about Chicago. The narrative about Chicago basically doesn't connect with anybody's experience here unless they live in places like Lawndale or Englewood. San Francisco's problems are broadly shared by every neighborhood.
by anoojb | 2026-02-11 04:27:39+00:00
I would argue the largest developer tools/services acquisition in recent history was GitHub (assuming you don't count RedHat in that category). GitHub was primarily an acquisition focused on acquiring the network of developers, based on the trust and cachet GitHub had earned, with the intent to upsell (land and expand) the developers at large Enterprise companies on downstream workflows and tools.

If I were an employee looking to join Entire, or a developer evaluating the durability of Entire for my needs over the long-term, I'd ask things like —

- What's the terminal value of a DevTool in the AI era? Is it closer to a standard 10x ARR? or maybe 100x...perhaps 1000x?

- Is there value in the asset attributable to the network? If so, is it defensible? What is the likelihood protocols emerge that simply disintermediate the network moat of a AI agent memory company like Entire?

- What kind of AI data are developers willing to silo with a single vendor? What kind of controls do Enterprises expect of an AI agent memory system? Can Entire reasonably provide them to grow in the next 12-24 months?

- As a potential employee...if you join a company with a $60M seed funding and 19 employees, what is the ARR they need to achieve based on the first product in market in roughly ~12 months? $6M...$12M...20M? Is there a DevTools company that's ever done that!? What is the thesis for "this time is different"? Getting developers to pay for things is tough 'doncha know?

Only then can you ask basic technical diligence questions —

- Is Git a system that can scale to be the memory system and handle the kind of tasks that AI agents are expected handle?

- Are the infrastructure costs for these early platform decisions here reasonable over the long-term? Or do they just run out of money?

I wish them the best, and I hope employees get liquidity, and people take money off the table in a responsible way.
by aaravchen | 2026-02-11 04:28:46+00:00
You could have a second actuve eSIM if you have a phone that supports more than one (no phones support more than 2 active simultaneously). Though technically the phone number only needs to be accessible for the initial account setup so I guess you could have a burner phone you switch out eSIMs on.
Each Signal application only supports a single account though. So you can have one, and if you have a work profile you're not otherwise using you could have a second account in that instance.With the new Private Spaces you could potentially have a third as well.

So you _may_ be able to have up to 3 simultaneous Signal accounts on the same device.

I'm using my work profile and Private Space for things I can't share a Signal install with though. And I dont want to buy and maintain an extra phone number from a telco just to have another Signal profile.
by acossta | 2026-02-11 04:30:05+00:00
We dogfood our own product to build itself. The post walks through the actual workflow: a one-liner becomes a structured spec with acceptance criteria, the spec becomes implementation tasks scoped to specific files, and an AI agent executes them sequentially with validation after each step.

The interesting part is the review layer — AI traces each acceptance criterion to specific lines in the PR diff, catching semantic gaps that lint and type-check miss.

We also run browser tests against the live deployment with database-level verification. Happy to answer questions about the tooling or where it breaks down.
by cchance | 2026-02-11 04:30:34+00:00
ya same, i can't see spending as much as i did on my first tesla 5+ years ago, the depreciations just too steep, hopefully that holds for rivian too and i'll pick one up in a couple years the R2 is really nice.

That said, china BEV's are 1/2 the cost even accounting for import costs to the USA lol so sort of points toward a issue with US companies at the moment
by WoodenChair | 2026-02-11 04:30:42+00:00
> (based on the table of contents)

So your opinion is based on just reading the table of contents? I always find it disconcerting when someone writes a multi-paragraph commentary on a work they didn't actually read or see.

I understand that you're commenting on the approach more than the contents, but you're pretty dismissive of it without actually reading the details of how they went about things.

You're not quite judging a book by its cover, but you're not that far beyond that.
by opello | 2026-02-11 04:30:53+00:00
> I do not think Feynman was celebrating his activity in the book.

The argument presented in the video about this is that these are the stories Feynman edited and reworked over time, and shared with his friend Ralph Leighton, who then recorded them in the "Surely You're Joking" book.

The video also describes a change in his behavior later in life. In 1974, responding to a letter asking to reprint "What is Science?"[1] from 1966, he comments that "some of the remarks about the female mind might not be taken in the light spirit they were meant"[2]. This is cited in the video as Feynman becoming more progressive between 1966 and 1974. The "Surely" book is published in 1985, and yet still includes the misogynistic stories. The video's complaint is that there should be some contextualization about views changing, like was given in Feynman's reply in 1974, but there being none it comes across as an implicit endorsement. I don't recall from the video if Feynman reviewed or edited the "Surely" book, which leaves it as Ralph Leighton's perspective more than Feynman's.

It seems a legitimate criticism that this book held up as an example of a good role model in physics doesn't try to avoid perpetuating bad stereotypes. It's probably egregious to say the mere inclusion of the stories celebrates their actions. But it's equally egregious to fail to even try to address the bad behavior, especially when it's held out as a positive example.

[1] https://feynman.com/science/what-is-science/

[2] https://archive.org/details/perfectly-reasonable-deviations-...
by giardini | 2026-02-11 04:31:10+00:00
No, the real answer is that "It's war, famine and disease!'

If you eliminated the birth control pill tomorrow, we'd have plenty of fertility: that's what war, famine and disease do.

All the complaints we hear here about how hard it is to raise kids. etc. would evaporate b/c no one would have a choice! And if you thought women have control in these situations then you would quickly learn that women unwilling to try to produce children will not have long lifespans.
by langarus | 2026-02-11 04:31:19+00:00
> He said YouTube Premium - its service letting users pay to remove ads between videos, or songs on its music service - had helped boost paid subscriptions across Google consumer services to more than 325 million in 2025 overall.

Out of the 60bn they made only 325 ml from paid subscribers. The title made it like it was an important figure. There's also no YOY numbers or profit so it's difficult to draw a conclusion.
by int_19h | 2026-02-11 04:31:30+00:00
> That capitalism logically implies that the rich become richer? I don't think this is necessarily the case,

It is necessarily the case. Capitalism is characterized by private ownership of capital, which among other things means that it's possible to accrue it without limit. So the loop whereby the rich accumulate capital, which then allows them to extract even more value produced by workers (i.e. people who actually do useful things with said capital), is an inherent part of capitalism.

You can make it more mellow by heavily taxing the capitalists and using that money to raise the standard of living for everyone else, which is basically what Western social democracy is. But it doesn't eliminate the loop, and thus rich continue getting richer. And more powerful, too, which they use to dial said taxation back eventually.
Show HN: Fyno – Automate repetitive bookkeeping tasks
by alicele27 | 2026-02-11 04:31:41+00:00
Hey HN,

We spend a lot of time mapping cryptic bank transaction descriptions (AMZN MKTP US*2X4Y9Z) to a Chart of Accounts. It’s a repetitive task that currently relies heavily on manual data entry or fragile, rules-based automation.

We built Fyno to automate this using LLMs to understand the context behind financial documents, not just the text.

The Engineering Challenge: The main hurdle in automated bookkeeping isn't just OCR; it's contextual reconciliation. A bank statement provides a amount and a cryptic vendor string. A receipt provides a detailed breakdown of line items, tax, and a potentially handwritten tip.

Fyno solves this by bridging the gap between bank feeds and documents:

Multimodal Document Parsing: We use vision models to interpret handwriting, messy scans, and skew. We don't just extract text; we understand that a handwritten note on a restaurant slip is a tip, not a second transaction.

Contextual Mapping: We take raw receipt data (line items) and mapped it to the cryptic bank transaction string using contextual similarity.

Adaptive Learning: Fyno learns from your corrections. When a user re-categorizes a transaction or teaches the AI to handle a unique invoice format, that learning is applied to future transactions within their workspace.

Tech Stack: We are utilizing a multimodal pipeline (incorporating OCR and LLM vision capabilities) to categorize expenses with 99%+ accuracy.

Accountant Workspace: Built with total data isolation for managing multiple entities.

We’re looking for feedback from developers on our approach to transactional AI. What’s the weirdest bank statement format you’ve had to deal with?
by chalyi | 2026-02-11 04:31:50+00:00
I needed something in-process that would allow AI agents to perform complex orchestration-something that could run in multitenant environments.

I started with a custom language, but that didn’t work well, the more features I added, the more custom instructions I had to include in the system prompt. I then experimented with hosting Lua, which was quite fun. After that, I considered Python, but it felt too heavy (though I might be wrong—especially considering Monty). Then Vercel Labs released just-bash, which led me to build a virtual Bash environment called Bashkit.

My current goal is to provide an in-memory, in-process Bash that can handle common agentic scenarios without requiring a full, flagged sandbox.

It is implemented in Rust and currently available for Rust and Python.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-11 04:33:35+00:00
> misogynistic behaviors were cultural at the time, I agree they're abhorrent but people are embedded in their culture.

Moral relativism is a thing, but I think a more useful way to think of it rather than just saying "misogyny was a thing back then, should we care he was a misogynist then?" is to ask "if he were to have lived and worked in the 2000s, would he associate with Epstein?" And to be honest… Feynman does strike me as the kind of person to have the intellect to attract Epstein's attention and also the, for lack of a better term, party attitude to go to a couple of Epstein's parties that would result in him having awkward press releases trying to explain that he just had no possible idea that Epstein was doing anything sexual with children and conveniently forgetting all the times he was on the private island for some party or another...

That's the real strong vibe I get from Surely You're Joking. He's the kind of person who wants to be seen as someone who gets up to wacky hijinks, to be seen as "cool," and he specifically interprets "cool" in a way that's misogynistic even at a time (when he was dictating the stories that led to Surely You're Joking) when misogyny was starting to become a professional hindrance.

(And one of the things that really worries me about Surely You're Joking is that it's often recommended as a sort of "look at the wacky hijinks you can get up to as a physicist," so recommending the book is a valorization of his wacky hijinks and... well, that's ultimately what Angela's video is about, that's a thing we need to stop doing.)
by freetime2 | 2026-02-11 04:33:40+00:00
Toyota is claiming "up to 52 miles on a full charge" on the recently announced 2026 RAV4 PHEV [1]. For me that would be enough to cover the majority of my trips.

Looks like I was mistaken though and you can't actually buy the 2026 model yet (and the Toyota website still shows the older 2025 model). And as another commenter pointed out, it may not actually be possible to buy the older model either due to insufficient production.

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a69059379/2026-toyota-r...
by stevenjgarner | 2026-02-11 04:36:15+00:00
While Walmart has historically denied using "individualized" pricing (charging two people different prices for the exact same item based on their income), they do use behavioral targeting [1]

Members of Walmart+ often see different "final" prices due to exclusive discounts, rewards (Walmart Rewards), or waived shipping/delivery fees that aren't available to guest users. Walmart uses AI to offer personalized promotions. You might see a "Rollback" or a "Just for You" offer on an item you’ve viewed multiple times or purchased previously, effectively changing the price for you specifically via a targeted discount. Like many e-commerce giants, Walmart may also offer "first-time app user" discounts or "win-back" coupons to specific customer segments.

[1] https://goaura.com/blog/walmart-pricing-strategies
by adammfrank | 2026-02-11 04:36:52+00:00
I built Tasty A.F. [0] an app that turns any online recipe into a printable 3x5 index card.
If you cook from the internet, you know the pain: scrolling past a 2,000-word story about someone's grandmother just to find the ingredient list. Then trying to read it off your phone with wet hands.

So I built Tasty A.F. — paste a recipe URL, and it uses AI to extract the essentials and format them onto a clean, printable notecard.

How it works:

1. Paste any recipe URL

2. AI scrapes the recipe and generates a concise 3x5 card

3. Print it, stick it on the fridge or a notecard, and cook

Built with Python/Flask and the Anthropic Claude API, hosted on Railway.

[0] https://tastyaf.recipes
by annjose | 2026-02-11 04:37:30+00:00
Let's look at an example post in HN Companion. This is the post on singularity in the home page right now:

https://app.hncompanion.com/item?id=46962996

This post has 500+ comments with various viewpoints and you see the summary on the right side.

You are right that most of the time threads are organized into local groups. But in the above example, there are many comments that relate to the same topic, but are not under the same parent comment. HN Companion's summary surfaces this into a topic "Limitations of Current AI Models" which shows comments from up and down the post.

You can click on the author name in that topic in the summary panel, it will take you directly to the comment. This is what we meant by "continue the conversation there", i.e you are now in the main HN experience, so you can navigate to child/parent/sibling comments (through the link buttons or keyboard navigation).

We definitely don't want AI to write comments. Happy to elaborate if you need.
by hirako2000 | 2026-02-11 04:39:03+00:00
The rates I posted are the full range. Because it varies yes.

You suspect average percentage is low but try to get a payment processor agreement and see within two years what you actually pay overall. It may get even above the rates I mentioned with fix costs the jeopardy to your business when a fraud does occur and the issuer blocks you from accepting any payment, or worse, accuses you of being the fraudster.

We are well educated by the financial system and VISA/Mastercard to believe this technology is for our own good. Many in the financial industry denounces their predatory practice, that of a cartel of 2 or 3 that imposed a dictate for decades. Things are finally changing, resistance will continue but you will see QR or some alternative will settle in.
by alex_metacraft | 2026-02-11 04:39:37+00:00
Good catch on the numbers. 29/33 vs 33/33 is the kind of gap that could easily be noise with that sample size. You'd need hundreds of runs to draw any meaningful conclusion about a 4-point difference, especially given how non-deterministic these models are.

This is a recurring problem with LLM benchmarking — small sample sizes presented with high confidence. The underlying finding (always-in-context > lazy-loaded) is probably directionally correct, but the specific numbers don't really support the strength of the claims in the article.
by krick | 2026-02-11 04:39:42+00:00
So, what's up with these bots, why am I hearing about that so often lately? I mean, DDoS atacks aren't a new thing, and, honestly, this is pretty much the reason why Cloudflare even exists, but I'd expect OpenAI bots (or whatever this is now) to be a little bit easier to deal with, no? Like, simply having resonable aggressive fail2ban policy? Or do they really behave like a botnet, where each request comes from different IP from a different network? How? Why? What is this thing?
by int_19h | 2026-02-11 04:40:08+00:00
There's no reason why UBI wouldn't work.

The reason why it doesn't exist is because, for all that those in positions of power love to talk about it, they very consistently shoot down any actual attempt to implement them. I mean, for starters, it'd mean much higher taxes, and especially higher taxes on those very people (who currently pay lower rates on capital gains than people who actually produce value pay on their wages). When was the last time you've seen one of the Big Tech luminaries advocate for higher capital gains taxes?
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-11 04:40:27+00:00
I wonder if this will unfortunately just become the new norm.

I don't want it to be because I believe music means much more than what a computer can generate on its own. I appreciate that over my time music has been more and more computer aided, where we're moving away from new bands having incredible drummers, guitarists and vocalists.

Music is popular because it has meaning, its words have been shaped by the bands and their vocalists based on real thoughts and creativity. AI music takes it to an extreme commodity, more so than it is today.

For example, its trending on social media "Killing in the name of" by Rage against the machine for its lyrics against Government overstep and policy brutality. Those lyrics meant something during that time, would it feel the same if a computer made those lyrics?

Or is it a case where new generations will grow up with AI making its own music that it becomes the new norm with a lack of appreciation to creating music yourself
by aamar | 2026-02-11 04:40:48+00:00
Post-acquisition, Google employees made a number of smart moves with good execution, including a viable comp model for the creators and music rights deals. Several moves I consider bad as well, but the good moves outweigh them.

Looking back, I’m still pretty amazed they got so much of it right. Which is to say, a good chunk of the value wasn’t in the value of YouTube itself but in what Google brought to the table _or_ a synergy between the two.
by olalonde | 2026-02-11 04:40:52+00:00
You can have instant settlement while still maintaining fraud safeguards (e.g. daily payment limits) and remediation mechanisms (e.g. reversing fraudulent transactions). With modern 2FA and device-based security, this risk is extremely low. Not a risk that justifies a 2.5% tax on every transaction plus all the other disadvantages of the credit-based system.