MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TheAlexLichter | 2026-02-18 22:28:36+00:00
The good part is that the new tools do replace the old ones, while being compatible. The pattern is:

* Rolldown is compatible to Rollup's API and can use most Rollup plugins
* Oxlint supports JS plugins and is ESLint compatibel (can run ESLint rules easily)
* Oxfmt plans to support Prettier plugins, in turn using the power of the ecosystem
* and so on...

So you get better performance and can still work with your favorite plugins and extend tools "as before".

Regarding the "mix of technology" or tooling fatigue: I get that. We have to install a lot of tools, even for a simple application. This is where Vite+[0] will shine, bringing the modern and powerful tools together, making them even easier to adopt and reducing the divide in the ecosystem.

[0] https://viteplus.dev/
by getpostHTTP | 2026-02-18 22:28:57+00:00
I'm sure plenty of these exists, but I had to do one my way. offline markdown editor experience, as clean as can be, with optional syncing to dropbox and diffing. just very minimal, and saves me having to do any big infrastructure stuff. I mainly made it for me, but wanted to share. code is here: https://github.com/JoulesDotDev/miniauthor
by stetrain | 2026-02-18 22:29:08+00:00
I think it’s situational.

If you measure which TV shows and movies I watch, that’s a vote of preference.

If you measure which news headlines evoke a comment from me, that’s a measure of engagement but not necessarily preference.

People respond to a lot of things that annoy them, and I think it’s a pretty common human trait. Advertising your business with bright lights and noise can be effective, but we often ban this in our towns and cities because we prefer life without them.
by guyomes | 2026-02-18 22:29:15+00:00
The flow of ideas goes both ways between AI and economy. Notably, the economist Friedrich Hayek [1] was a source of inspiration in the development of AI.

He wrote in 1945 on the idea that the price mechanism serves to share and synchronise local and personal knowledge [2]. In 1952, he described the brain as a self-ordering classification system based on a network of connections [3]. This last work was cited as a source of inspiration by Frank Rosenblatt in his 1958 paper on the perceptron [4], one of the pioneering studies in machine learning.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Societ...

[3]: https://archive.org/details/sensoryorderinqu00haye

[2]: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/cogs501/Rosenblatt1958.pd...
by crq-yml | 2026-02-18 22:29:58+00:00
They can produce idioms that resemble the flow of Forth code but when asked to produce a working algorithm, they get lost very quickly because there's a combination of reading "backwards" (push order) and forwards (execution order) needed to maintain context. At any time a real Forth program may inject a word into the stack flow that completely alters the meaning of following words, so reading and debugging Forth are nearly the same thing - you have to walk through the execution step by step unless you've intentionally made patterns that will decouple context - and when you do, you've also entered into developing syntax and the LLM won't have training data on that.

I suggest using Rosetta Code as a learning resource for Forth idioms.
by hentrep | 2026-02-18 22:30:21+00:00
Maybe this is interesting to some. I stumbled upon this link in Spotify’s privacy policy and found the stats surprising. In 2024, Spotify processed nearly 30 million user requests to opt-out of data sharing for tailored ads. Additionally, they received 7.5 million requests for deletion (presumably accounts).

I’m sure there’s legal rationale for the transparency, but I found the opt-out requests surprisingly high. Per their 4Q24 earnings [0], they reported 675 monthly active users, so a roughly 4% opt-out rate. I’d have never guessed 30 million people worldwide were that privacy-conscious.

[0] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-02-04/spotify-reports-four...
by trhway | 2026-02-18 22:30:41+00:00
People buy heavy SUV when compact car would do, "dress for the job you want", "temporarily embarrassed millionaires", nationalistic fervor for your country getting more territory when even with the current one you don't know what to do, and so forth... Humans are an aspirational animal, and it is pretty easy to sell into that aspiration be it a ticket to Moon or a nice looking on the model jacket :)

To the commenter below:

Exactly. The societies where aspirations have been dampened or completely suppressed have been collectivistic and/or totalitaristic - USSR, North Korea, etc. - ie. where individual will is totally suppressed.
by randusername | 2026-02-18 22:30:50+00:00
I can understand people having their own reasons for dismissing the facts or the rhetoric.

What I can't wrap my head around is the conspiracy thinking around environmentalism.

What's so nefarious about clean air and water? I'll never forget when my grandmother walked out of WALL-E because she said it was government propaganda. She is a regular person, not a coal magnate or anything.
by xvxvx | 2026-02-18 22:31:10+00:00
The world will be exposed to hardcore pornography, child endangerment, AI CSAM, and militant algorithms by force, if needed!

Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine (2018) directly claims the internet is “the most effective weapon the government has ever built,” tracing its roots to Pentagon counterinsurgency projects like ARPA’s efforts in Vietnam-era surveillance.

The book argues surveillance was “woven into the fabric” from the start, linking early ARPANET development to intelligence goals, and extends to modern tech giants like Google as part of a military-digital complex.
by SpecialistK | 2026-02-18 22:31:13+00:00
What in the sweet chili dipping sauce did I walk into?

drnick1 says why "Zig" not C? [I took the quotation marks as dismissive of Zig, but I could be misreading that]

6r17 says why do it in C?

lelanthran says the language is mostly irrelevant, it's a fun experiment.

6r17 blows off the handle and starts calling people toxic and being really unpleasant.

Nothing in this comment chain seems to justify even 1/10th of the vitriol espoused.
by 9dev | 2026-02-18 22:32:08+00:00
> (4) they complain about vanity sizes - why is this an issue? Try the clothing on. If it fits buy it, if not don't. That's what I do because duh!, different people and companies follow different patterns. Some fit, some don't.

Many people, especially women, suffer from peer pressure. You just seem to lack the empathy to acknowledge that a lot of them really struggle because of clothing sizes, out of fear of being stigmatised.
by beAbU | 2026-02-18 22:32:12+00:00
AI coding assistants make it trivial to switch between models, and developers will switch to a different model from a different provider if the new model is perceived to be better than the current one even if that perception is completely subjective.

Furthermore, the only users who will actually pay for AI are these assistant-using developers and other power users -- people who will not hesitate to switch to something better. We are already used to new model releases being neck in neck and there is no real incumbent/underdog dynamic going on here.

Yes, there is strong mindshare among the normies, who only know about "ChatGPT", but as soon as they graduate into a powe user, then the above applies to them.
by zephen | 2026-02-18 22:32:40+00:00
> we are collectively incentivised to pollute the well

Honestly, there are two diametrically opposed incentives occurring right now. The one you describe may not even be paramount -- how hard is it to prove infringement, shepherd a case through court, and win a token amount. Is it worthwhile just to enrich a few lawyers, and get more AI-regurgitated slop to open up?

The second incentive is to not publish source code that might be vacuumed up by a completely amoral automaton. We may be seeing the second golden age of proprietary software.
by queenkjuul | 2026-02-18 22:32:47+00:00
I was gonna say. I do have an ibook G3 from 1999, but it can't use modern Wi-Fi (though if it's running the right OS, it could maybe update--i think I've done updates as far back as 10.3?) the AirPort card can talk to 802.11b over WEP - i have an old router set up with a MAC whitelist specifically so the ibook can get online still
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-18 22:32:55+00:00
> views from experts like Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Jay Bhattacharya Professor of Medicine at Stanford were also suppressed

It turns out that when you have millions of doctors (or scientists) in the world, at least some of them are going to say things that go against scientific consensus. This does not mean they're correct.

Here are 2 more examples of people saying things:

> [Kulldorff's] declaration was widely rejected, and was criticized as being unethical and infeasible by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization. Francis S. Collins, NIH director, called him a "fringe epidemiologist".

The lesson here is, if you're cherry picking individuals, rather than going with peer-reviewed scientific consensus, you're liable to be blown way off-course at some point. Personality cults are bad no matter who it is.
by jackdoe | 2026-02-18 22:33:15+00:00
sorry man
i cant even imagine what you are going through
i didnt mean to be condescending or anything, i just truly believe that people are amazing

to be amazing however requires food and roof and a bit of luck

i honestly dont know what i would do without a job, its hard to break into trades i hear, and also seems to be hard in mcdonalds

i will probably start a tool and die shop or something, or a burger joint, smash burgers only (those the only ones i love to make)
by bko | 2026-02-18 22:33:16+00:00
I think the market opportunity can be a standard and eventually get labels to include your standard in addition to their traditional labeling.

Figure out the variables (like shape, inseam, width, whatever else) for each article of clothing. Then freely distribute this and begin to catalog popular items. You can crowdsource some of this. The idea is people will look up the clothes as per your scale.

Then after you index a lot of clothes, you can search by exact measurements and then you can hit up clothing manufacturers to use their propriety code in their marketing or promote their brands on your site.
by altruios | 2026-02-18 22:33:27+00:00
Reminded of this clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg

But as much as it pains me to admit... the current state of America is the slopocalypse. A slopalanche. A slopnado. AI cats waking people up in the middle of the night, blasting down doors, glitching out. All produced by slop-slingers. It's rather bleak for long form attention content, human created or not.

Its a war of/on attention. A war to secure your attention during the time that you would otherwise think for yourself. Keep off the short form content, is my advice.
by hbroadbent | 2026-02-18 22:33:48+00:00
Tailwind CSS v4.2 has just been released, including 4 new colors! (mauve, olive, taupe, mist).

I've just updated my color palette website, tailcolors.com, to include the new colors, including custom pages to view each new color in the context of a mock UI, gradients etc.

Example of the new Olive color: https://tailcolors.com/olive
by inejge | 2026-02-18 22:33:51+00:00
> Yes, you configured an LDAP server using it's own protocol. It was not good.

It's still possible to configure OpenLDAP via the slapd.conf file. The old roadmap called for ditching configuration file support in 2.5 IIRC, but it proved hugely unpopular so the file works to this day. The new configuration style is mainly useful for live updating of access rules and indexing.
by danielktdoranie | 2026-02-18 22:33:52+00:00
Yeah, I keep an G4 PowerBook around to watch DVDs on and run PowerPC Mac abandonware... it can surprisingly do a lot. IRC, Hotline, BBS, Gopher, etc. A YouTube channel called "Squeezing The Apple" has a lot of videos showing the use you can get out of an old PowerPC Mac.

Channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/@squeezingtheapple6990

When you max out the RAM (around 2GB) and put in a solid state IDE hard disk they can be useful. I occasionally use mine as a distraction free writing tool.

Other than abandonware (old games for example), they can't do anything a modern Mac couldn't do, so I wouldn't go nuts finding and buying one of these but if you have one laying around, and have the parts you need for an upgrade these old Macs can be fun.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-18 22:33:57+00:00
>"Sizes are all made up anyway — why can’t we make them better?"

I will settle for making them consistent. Multiple times, I have ordered the same clothing in the same size from the same webpage in different colors, and some colors fit, and the others do not.

I am surprised that a women's clothing startup prioritizing pockets big enough for smartphones hasn't usurped the incumbents. I would have figured the convenience of being able to store a device that people have their heads down in 95% of the time would be sufficient to supersede more vanity related motivations.
by tranq_cassowary | 2026-02-18 22:34:32+00:00
> Even if it improves accessibility, it must be rejected out of hand

GrapheneOS has many exploit mitigations and those that would break compatability with too much apps are opt-in instead of opt-out. They also have per app toggles so you can decide to use them per app. So they certainly don't sacrifice accessibility for the highest level of security.

> GrapheneOS promises to liberate us from the enshittification of Google's anticompetitive moat

This isn't something GrapheneOS promises anywhere on their website. They aim to offer a secure and private OS with good compatability with Android apps.

> but it focuses that effort exclusively on security.

They focus on privacy and usability as well. Security is actually only focused on because the privacy features aren't enforceable without security.

> Why is that constantly treated as an unreasonable fantasy?

Because tinkering, hackability and unrestricted freedom aren't the purposes for which GrapheneOS was made.
by nradov | 2026-02-18 22:34:47+00:00
Among the large set of people who think we should take steps to reduce anthropogenic global warming there are at least two subsets who seem to oppose nuclear power. One is sort of pseudo-religious and believes that any disruption of the natural environment is a "sin" against Mother Nature. The other claims that nuclear power is too expensive and that we can solve the base load power problem more cheaply with battery storage, despite the lack of evidence that we'll be able to scale it up fast enough in the time available. And I have nothing against building more battery storage where it makes sense, but I don't think that's going to be sufficient by itself.
by slibhb | 2026-02-18 22:35:12+00:00
I find it quite hard to find men's clothes that fit me and I'm a relatively normally proportioned man.

Two pairs of the same style, same size pants from the same company often differ significantly. I suppose you can just return online orders until you get a pair that fits. But I prefer to shop in person and take every garment in the style I want within +/-1 to dressing room and pick the one that actually fits (if any).

Because I've grown tired of this I recently bought 3 pairs of jeans for $600 from a company where you go in, get sized, and then the clothes are made to order. I don't regret it, they're the only pairs of jeans I've owned that I like.
by bsimpson | 2026-02-18 22:35:16+00:00
Japan was the example that stood out to me. (It's where UNIQLO is from.)

I'm 5'11"/180cm with US11/EU45 feet. They didn't sell boots that fit me in Japan. I got a deal on an "XL" jacket that the salesman insisted I buy, because I was the only person to have ever come into the store that it fit. (It's the only thing I've ever worn labelled "XL.")
by dzidol | 2026-02-18 22:35:23+00:00
Unfortunately, currently produced mdisks are not the same as older ones. Requirements for media has been relaxed a while ago, most disks are not meant to last 1000 years anymore. Still, I don't know any viable alternative, besides maybe LTOs if you're lucky to know somebody with reasonable drive (not sure about US, in EU drives are quite expensive, and I mean used drives of course).

Edit: found Reddit discussion I learned that from: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/13693k0/new_de...
by pfisch | 2026-02-18 22:36:21+00:00
No, it's just obvious that there is a massive race going with trillions of dollars on the line. No one is going to reveal the details of how they are making these AIs. Any public information that exists about them is way behind SOTA.

I strongly suspect that it is really hard to get these models to converge though so I have no idea what your team could've theoretically made, but it certainly would've been well behind SOTA.

My point is if they are changing core elements of the architecture you would have no idea because they wouldn't be telling anyone about it. So thinking you know how Opus 4.6 works just isn't realistic until development slows down and more information comes out about them.
by haddr | 2026-02-18 22:36:36+00:00
Creating a simple application that had a database backend, data presentation gui and some simple CRUD logic took like 15-30 mins. All from scratch. How does it compare to today’s tools? And I am not talking about taking some ready off the shelf solution that you don’t really understand internally…

Those were good times and I really regret all those mishaps that happened to this great ecosystem and its eventual collapse :(
by legitster | 2026-02-18 22:37:10+00:00
My father in law was a massive climate change denier until some trees started dying on his property.

He called out an arborist, and the arborist clearly explained that there wasn't enough rain anymore to support the number of trees on his land, and that the forest was slowly receding as the older/bigger trees took all the water from the other trees.

It finally dawned on him that a place where trees used to happily live to hundreds of years old could no longer support trees.

Still, he thinks CO2 is a con job cooked up by China and that global warming is divine punishment. But it's a good reminder that a lot of denialists are waiting for a personal, practical reason to care.
by dang | 2026-02-18 22:37:39+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've already asked you repeatedly to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681833 (Oct 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728916 (July 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287383 (June 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346650 (June 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857405 (Jan 2022)

I don't want to ban you, but if you keep doing this, we're going to end up doing that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.
by almosthere | 2026-02-18 22:37:46+00:00
I think many people are unwilling to accept "climate change" or "global warming" because of the following:

a) china is unwilling to do anything, and if that's the case, America shouldn't empty its pocket books on this issue.

b) this climate change alarmist stuff has caused a climate disaster in the US because all the migration to Electric Only is causing us to use generators all over the place, which is crazy. We should instead focus on making clean nuclear and expanding solar. PG&E (in CA) has decided to cancel this migration because CPUC (or whatever their called) is in Newsome's pocket who is in PG&Es pocket.

c) climate change extremists are unwilling to both hear yes it's happening and no we're not going to do anything about it, so the people responding are simply saying, no it's not happening.
by SetTheorist | 2026-02-18 22:38:05+00:00
They've kind of patched this for direct questions, but distractions can still confuse it into nonsense.
("drive it over when it's ready to be picked up"??!)

e.g.

Welcome to Opus 4.6

Dude, should I do a walk to or drive on up to the carwash - it's only a block from my house, yoyoyo and my car's yellow (no poodle anymore tho)

● If it's only a block away, walk. You're going there to get the car washed, so drive it over when it's ready to be picked up, or just drive it one block -- either way works. But driving one block to wait around seems unnecessary when you could walk over, get things set up, and
then go grab the car.

That said, the practical answer: drive it. The car needs to be there to get washed. Just drive the one block.
by lelandfe | 2026-02-18 22:38:26+00:00
e: ahhh frick this is just stupid AI spam for this dude’s project.

Supports… some ESLint rules. It is not “easy” to add support to Oxlint for the rules it does not.

The projects at my work that “switched” to it now use both Eslint and Oxlint. It sucks, but at least a subset of errors are caught much faster.
by kurtreed2 | 2026-02-18 22:38:28+00:00
There is a sudden fracas involving me and the forum which got me abruptly ejected from the latter.

First of all, regarding a multi-years long doxxing situation I was able to pinpoint the perp to a globally banned user in NY, who got some interesting pro-CCP comments on X, after analyzing various indicators including writing styles.

The perp is globally banned by the Wikimedia Foundation, presumably for doxxing, years ago from what I can tell, although many alleged that her ban was unjust. But when I post some of the findings on a private area on Wikpediocracy forum, I found myself getting heckled by some who accused me of “promoting baseless conspiracy theories” despite not being the case (anymore) given what’s compiled so far. To be frankly honest I did withhold some of the findings because the last time I was “fully transparent” there, a naughty admin took it as “beans stuffed up on the noses” and mucked up the situation. Not to mention legal reasons since the SanFranBanned user was allegedly engaging in identity impersonation and network intrusion to evade her SanFranBan and now the NYPD is reportedly investigating it.

I calmly asked one of the hecklers at WPO to put me on his forum account ignore list if he doesn’t like my postings much since I got forewarned by an admin of the forum, that I shall not provoke him too much since he got cancer. All I got instead from him was a vile curse for me to “die horribly” until another admin locked the thread discussing the findings, and I thought this is the end of it.

A day after the account was placed “under mod discussion” which entailed initially a 7-day ban, then switched to a permanent one under the reason “The quality and tone of your postings is not what we desire on this forum” despite me having emailed support@wikipediocracy.com asking for appeal while nothing was received from the email address all along. The ban reason looks as specious as Wikipedia’s “NOTHERE” block.

If the appeal attempts are unsuccessful it’s safe to say that Wikipediocracy has indeed enshittified by mob rule, particularly by pro-Wikipedia hecklers, and thus the biggest safe zones on the Internet to discuss Wikipedia’s issues would be X, Reddit’s /r/watchwikipediadie sub (which is getting revived by some including WillyNilly) and the WS forum.
by altairprime | 2026-02-18 22:38:42+00:00
0. All commercial premade adult women’s clothing is made exclusively for a small minority of women with hourglass body shapes.

The number one thesis takeaway for me, that I didn’t realize as a woman even after years of dealing with sizing drama, is that clothing manufacturers exclusively market to hourglass body shape alone — which some might recognize better as “pinup model” proportions. As a non-hourglass along with the vast majority of other U.S. women, it’s quite the shock to discover that megacorps are targeting a fraction of the market (hourglass) rather than the largest segment (rectangle).