MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-25 01:35:56+00:00
> Gaza began the war with a more powerful army than many European countries

What? You mean countries like Monaco and Liechtenstein?

> more soldiers, more rockets

Simply counting the # of soldiers or rockets is disingenuous when this is obviously an asymmetric war.

It's clear that the method of combatant recognition employed by the IDF is flawed, given they're killing aid workers and people from the UN.

Eg, here is Hamas' bread and butter rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket

There is more technology in a modern rifle round than in those rockets + launch systems (if you even dare call them that).

> more war-fighting infrastructure

Please explain what you mean by "war-fighting infrastructure ".

> Gaza wasn't a particularly poor place before the war, certainly not by the standards of the middle east

Depends on what you mean by "standards of the Middle East", but just compare Israel($52k) and Gaza ($3455) for 2023:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

> It had mansions and average salaries that, for some professions, were higher than average salaries in Israel.

"The wealthiest in a poor country have more money than the average in a developed country", means what exactly?

How did you develop your understanding of this situation? And what are you trying to communicate here?
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-25 01:36:05+00:00
Yes there is. Why deny it? It's pretty public. In this french documentary, which was later aired on the parliamentary tv channel, the author films his daily life with his chinese wife, who has a social credit account, and interviews officials speaking openly about it. It's 4 years old.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6txLM_LLs
by rounce | 2026-02-25 01:36:20+00:00
Falstad CircuitJS[0] is excellent and far better than the mess of a breadboard IMHO. It also allows easily instrumenting the circuits at multiple points so you can get a sense of the changes in ‘realtime’ without having to get (and learn to use) an oscilloscope (yet).

0: https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html
by tonymet | 2026-02-25 01:37:37+00:00
> "AI tools lead to worse productivity"

> The subjects are using ChatGPT 2.5 and copy-pasting code.

The reason AI hype seems to be so bipolar is that "AI" isn't one thing. Hundreds of models, dozens of tools. And to get something done well, a seasoned engineer needs to master half a dozen at a time.
by shimman | 2026-02-25 01:37:43+00:00
Dude come on, the US already has a social credit system. Where do you think China got the idea of credit scores from? Try getting a good loan in the US if your credit score is under 400. You're barred from having certain jobs if you don't have a good credit score.

Get some new talking points, you're like 40 years out of date.
by samaltmanfried | 2026-02-25 01:39:11+00:00
My employer isn't particularly bad for society, but let's pretend they are.
My company is a large employer of foreign workers. I already live in fear of being priced out by foreign bodyshop firms. If I decided what we were doing was immoral, and dug my heels in. I'd just be replaced by a H-1B worker. If everyone else in my company decided they wouldn't build the torment nexus, we'd all just be replaced by H-1B workers. It'd be a minor inconvenience to the company, but they'd weather it just fine. Under this system, any kind of collective bargaining becomes impossible, moral, financial, or otherwise.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-25 01:39:26+00:00
Eh. Maybe. But I do see people who are pretty consistent when they have power. It may be somewhat unpredictable before they get power, but somewhat more predictable once you’ve seen how they act with it.

This principle of relative consistency is baked into how I test employees for management and friends for trust, and in the past, roommates as well. Though I do acknowledge potential for growth as well, but in my older age I generally also need to see evidence of motivation to give strong benefit of the doubt wrt possible trajectory.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-25 01:39:28+00:00
> We also want to acknowledge the Next.js team. They've spent years building a framework that raised the bar for what React development could look like. The fact that their API surface is so well-documented and their test suite so comprehensive is a big part of what made this project possible.

Hi next.js devs, we like to acknowledge the effort you put for writing good tests so we were able to rip it off. You know claude already has next's entire source code in it's training data?
by YZF | 2026-02-25 01:39:32+00:00
In 2000 Israel offered the Palestinians what is essentially the two state solution everyone keeps talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit

At some point it becomes obvious the Palestinians (under their current government and political climate) doesn't want peace.

Wikipedia is not a good source here. There was never a sincere offer accepted by all Palestinians that acknowledged Israel's right to exist. Specifically the sticky point here is the right of return which means that Israel ceases to exist. A peace proposal that includes the destruction of Israel is not one made on good faith. Either way it's not up to the Arab states to make peace here, it's up to the Palestinians.
by rtkwe | 2026-02-25 01:39:56+00:00
Take a look at when this was invented, it's a critical detail in evaluating all this, it was 1913! They were working with the very limited technology they had, they couldn't detect the letters and map them to a particular new tone or chord that might be easier to understand, that tech just wasn't possible [0]. They had to directly translate the image of the letters on simple photo receptors into a corresponding frequency value.

[0] As I was writing this I did have the wild thought that in theory if you had the weights already you could, in theory, implement a very basic character recognition neural net with analog circuitry using vacuum tubes that could recognize letters for direct mapping to sound but it's entirely impractical to create from scratch in reasonable time frames. Maybe over the span of decades you could manually tune one?
by francislavoie | 2026-02-25 01:40:17+00:00
I've helped many Twitch streamers set up https://github.com/royshil/obs-localvocal to plug transcription & translation into their streams, mainly for German audio to English subtitles.

I'd love a faster and more accurate option than Whisper, but streamers need something off-the-shelf they can install in their pipeline, like an OBS plugin which can just grab the audio from their OBS audio sources.

I see a couple obvious problems: this doesn't seem to support translation which is unfortunate, that's pretty key for this usecase. Also it only supports one language at a time, which is problematic with how streamers will frequently code-switch while talking to their chat in different languages or on Discord with their gameplay partners. Maybe such a plugin would be able to detect which language is spoken and route to one or the other model as needed?
by Animats | 2026-02-25 01:40:18+00:00
The concept of measuring how much ink appears as the text passes a vertical slot came back again in the 1950s. MICR codes, the numbers that appear on checks, are read that way.
[1] Or at least were in the original implementation. The ink was magnetized and the paper went past a one-track magnetic tape head. The waveform for each symbol is unique. The recognizer is more like a bar code reader than an OCR system.

There are only 14 characters in that font - the digits 0-9 and four special field identification symbols. The 1970s "futuristic" text fonts which look like MICR symbols are purely decorative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recogni...
by Braxton1980 | 2026-02-25 01:40:41+00:00
> Acompany like Apple has very little incentive to care about geopolitics, other than by current or future government laws and regulations (a government mandate, tariffs, etc).

Isn't that massive? You make it seem like it's not important but look at Trump's tariffs that are connected to geopolitics. The US's relation with China could worsen to a point where certain imports are banned.
by shimman | 2026-02-25 01:40:46+00:00
These people are just trying to find an alternative narrative because the vast majority of the population have been rejecting neoliberalism for a good 30 years now. So they spin up the foreign enemy is better than us, so we need to deregulate more and not hold monopolies accountable.

If we broke up Google or Amazon, suddenly we're just as bad as China!
Persistent Prompts and Built in Search
by lazybusy | 2026-02-25 01:41:22+00:00
Building the editor I always wanted to use.

Just launched a major update to my custom fork of the Zed editor, focusing on giving the AI agent genuine, long-term capabilities.

What's new:
- Persistent Memory: The agent now uses SQLite to remember and recall your project's architecture, patterns, and issues across sessions. No more repeating yourself every morning.
- Headless Web Browsing: Integrated a headless Chrome engine. Type /search and the agent will browse the web (even React sites!) to find and synthesize answers directly in your chat panel.
- LSP Symbol Search: Upgraded from regex indexing to true, type-aware Language Server integration.
- Azure Anthropic & Caching: Natively supports Azure endpoints and enables token-caching UI by default., saves a lot $, prompts are customized to increase prompt caching.
- Importantly, complete control the agents system prompts and tool calls.

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#Zed #Rust #AI #DeveloperProductivity
by pear01 | 2026-02-25 01:42:24+00:00
What point do you think you're making? That's not the question. You're just repeating the same obvious geopolitical comparison everyone regurgitates these days.

The question is about whether any of that can be meaningfully attributed to some lawyer vs engineer divide. Your question doesn't answer that in the slightest and thus I have no idea why you are asking it.
by mhitza | 2026-02-25 01:42:26+00:00
The elites are the rich fucks at the top literally dumping waste in everything. Let's get this straight first!

If we like to exaggerate, let's not allow people to leave their homes anymore. Should reduce crime by a bigger percent than the random numbers you throw out :))

Your argument feels like an excuse. Following stuff from KitBoga and Scammer Payback install random app on mobile doesn't seem the most prolific approach. Heck, in my country its still fake calls/sms/whatsapp messages that guide you to insert your credit card willy nilly. And it works.

Colission should be what happens between the pavement and the enlighted heads at Google that want to go ahead with this decision. Fucking Google where I, and other people in my country, repeatly reported phising ads (invest now 1000% return, with deepfakes) on youtube and they did nothing. That fucking Google that now pretends it does shit for the interest of the user.
by jmknoll | 2026-02-25 01:42:28+00:00
I think what the person you're replying to is referring to is the fact that, in contrast to the US, many senior politicians in China literally have engineering backgrounds, or at least engineering degrees. Although this has actually been less true in the past 10-15 years. This article gives a bit of an overview - https://www.chinausfocus.com/2022-CPC-congress/chinese-techn...
Show HN: NeoShift BI – Build AI-analyzed data dashboards in minutes
by DonWono | 2026-02-25 01:42:50+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Donald.

I’m a solo developer building NeoShift BI (and its backend companion, NeoShift ETL).

Enterprise BI tools like PowerBI or Looker are incredibly powerful, but they usually require dedicated data engineering teams to manage. On the other end of the spectrum, dumping a CSV into ChatGPT is great for a quick question but terrible for building reproducible, interactive, and shareable dashboards.

I wanted something in the middle: a lightweight BI tool tailored for indie devs and SMEs that lets you drop in a dataset and get a full dashboard with AI-generated insights in just a few minutes.

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If you want to break my app or just visualize some cool data, grab a weird dataset from Kaggle, drop it into NeoShift, and share the link. I'm giving a Free Lifetime Enterprise Account (100GB storage, 5 seats) to the dashboard with the best combined score (unique views + feature usage).

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I’d love your brutal, unfiltered feedback on the UI, the depth of the Claude integration, and how the system handles whatever weird CSVs you throw at it. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture!
by thrdbndndn | 2026-02-25 01:43:14+00:00
I'm not comparing it to US anything, I'm comparing it to other cost components like raw materials and parts, whose prices are often global.

The point is that transportation within China isn't a dominant factor in industrial cost or efficiency. So the idea that major manufacturing cities are laid out like giant assembly lines isn't nearly as important as OP suggests.

China still has many advantages over the US in manufacturing. I just don't think this is a major one, even if there's a grain of truth to it.
by YZF | 2026-02-25 01:43:28+00:00
"As of 9 February, 246 health service points were functioning across the Gaza Strip, 234 of them only partially, including 19 hospitals, 12 field hospitals, 102 primary health centres, and 113 medical points. On 5 February, one hospital resumed operations in Gaza city, bringing the total number of hospitals in the Gaza governorate to 13, while no hospitals are operational in North Gaza."

- https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ocha-gaza-humanitarian-r...

So "all hospitals are now rubble" is a incorrect, aka a lie.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-25 01:45:20+00:00
> Surprised this didn't get a higher placement on the HN front page, only 34 points?

Vercel may be bad, but they have been a net positive to the web landscape, so many projects are alive because of them. And I truly respect the hard work the next devs put into their code and test suites. I'm surprised any self respecting dev even votes this up.
by quotemstr | 2026-02-25 01:45:48+00:00
Once you make a model fast and small enough, it starts to become practical to use LLMs for things as mundane as spell checking, touchscreen-keyboard tap disambiguation, and database query planning. If the fast, small model is multimodal, use it in a microwave to make a better DWIM auto-cook.

Hell, want to do syntax highlighting? Just throw buffer text into an ultra-fast LLM.

It's easy to overlook how many small day-to-day heuristic schemes can be replaced with AI. It's almost embarrassing to think about all the totally mundane uses to which we can put fast, modest intelligence.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-25 01:46:15+00:00
The real question is: why is this on hacker news with 4 digits upvotes and why has Gaza been on Hacker News non-stop while there's been hardly any coverage of the islamist republic of Iran slaughtering tens of thousands of unarmed civilians in a matter of days.

And I already know that although there's been very little coverage so far of what's happened in Iran, where islamists have been executing people inside hospitals, there's going to be non-stop coverage of Iran if the US decides to strike Iran to topple the islamist regime / prevent them from getting the atomic bomb. Then we'll have detective work to find innocents killed and upvoting of stories about how the evil west is committing war crimes on innocent islamists.

But tens of thousands of unarmed civilians --who want sharia law to stop and who are protesting for a regime change-- being executed by an islamist regime?

Very little coverage on HN.

There's an ongoing inquiry led by several members or parliament in the UK about mass rapes that happened on UK soil, complete with a cover-up attempt by the government, involvement of police officers, as much, in some cities, as 30% of all men from one particular community involved, descriptions of killings (according to the testimony of some victims), of victims having their tongue nailed to the table and being ass-raped by several men, etc.

And no coverage on HN.

But the IDF firing for four minutes on the Toyota Hilux'es from Gaza aid workers: more than 1000 upvotes.

The double standards here are just insane.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-25 01:46:23+00:00
No? A firewall at the edge of the network performs a MitM attack against all TLS connections, substituting in your own (ie self signed) root certificate for the connection on the local side. It also performs protocol filtering because the only realistic way to prevent leaks is a whitelist approach.

The end user is faced with a choice. Either add the local root certificate or else all TLS connections will be rejected. Booting off a USB won't get around it.

At this point this is a bog standard approach taken by any corporate IT department that takes network security even half seriously.

Granted, certain types of proxy will still work since automated approaches to filtering page content itself are not particularly robust. You could always write a custom heuristic to detect the YouTube frontend though. Would probably be quite easy since the elements have predictable names.

That said it doesn't really seem like blocking is what you're actually after. It's unfortunate the cat and mouse game being used as a learning activity concluded so quickly but maybe just have a chat with him about the psychological issues posed by algorithmic feeds and user generated content in general?

I'll mention again, a self hosted alternative frontend for YouTube might address most of the objections you have to it in the first place.
by chrsw | 2026-02-25 01:46:31+00:00
Well put. I tried to explain this to someone years ago after they asked a question like "why don't they just build a factory here?". I was like "you need more than _a_ factory, you need a whole ecosystem of manufacturing". I guess I didn't make my argument clear enough based on their response.

I think the USA has been very clear based on our actions over the past 4 or so decades: we don't want this kind of labor in this country. I don't see any material changes despite the recent puff pieces and political grandstanding.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-25 01:46:44+00:00
Good observation.

Think about how it was in a state like North Carolina in the 1850's where they were building textile mills which could add great value to the cotton before it was shipped.

This was enough of a threat to Northern manufacturing without their factories having to compete with unpaid labor. They were not happy campers, they had always been making way more money per ton of cotton in the well-established Northern textile mills than the plantations had ever been. And banking it just in case.

In the factory it would be a lot higher-skilled labor than down on the farm, it was still unpaid but never without cost. A dollar would go a long way back then but everything was still relative. Imagine that $10000 was the annual cost of having the labor in a factory without any wages. Accommodations, family support, infrastructure and things like that are what makes this total.

1859 rolls around and the guy in the green visor adds it up and shakes his head, "sheesh it's $11000 this year, when is it going to end?"

War comes & goes eventually, slaves are freed like they should/could have been the whole time, the dust settles and after a year of actually paying wages for the first time to laborers, the guy in the green visor about drops out of his seat because his total labor cost is now $15000. All he can say is "when is it going to end?" Where have we heard that before?

Same thing with the guy in the bank in New York whose employer had been raking it in from all their investments in Southern companies. It just wasn't the same and never was going to be that way again.

At least not exactly.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-02-25 01:47:16+00:00
What government policies are you referring to? Businesses moved manufacturing to China because their goal is to make as much money as possible. The only potential barrier is if US citizens would care that it wasn't made in America. Products are labeled and most people don't care.

This is an American quality where a person who works in a factory that makes extension cords and needs their job to survive would buy the cheaper lamp even though it's made in China.

Most people aren't willing to make financial sacrifices to help people they don't know EVEN if they might be affected by another person having the same belief.
by Ms-J | 2026-02-25 01:47:27+00:00
Someone doesn't need to work for Palantir or the military to understand that cellular security is fundamentally broken and completely insecure.

That is a lot of highly polished for the camera media you dropped into that post. The way that you word things, such as "Cape is not a honeypot." but don't delve any deeper, to start, gives someone less than zero confidence or trust in your words.

I have seen enough in the industry to say that your words are meaningless.
by samaltmanfried | 2026-02-25 01:47:33+00:00
> perogies

Do you mean "pierogi," the Polish dumplings?

> halupschi

I have no idea what this is. Are you talking about галушка? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halu%C5%A1ky)

> Didn't speak any language other than English and his parents were 2nd generation Canadians, who also spoke nothing but English.

> Never spoke Ukrainian or heard any word of Ukrainian except for the names of the food & of some of my older relatives.

This insanely non-self-aware post perfectly illustrates my point.