MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 12:22:38+00:00
The post seems to indicate this is just for VPSs, which doesn't seem true, the email I just received from Hetzner mentions price increases for dedicated servers too.

The ones I'm affected by seemingly:

Product -> previous price -> New price as of 1 April 2026
EX42-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.65 -> € 51.13
AX41 (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.22
AX41-NVMe (FSN1) -> € 49.73 -> € 51.18
Server Auction -> € 65.22 -> € 67.18

Still cheap compared to the performance + unmetered bandwidth, so I'm personally not super upset about it, my monthly bill in total goes up maybe 40-50 EUR in total, not that outrageous.

Here is the full list of the updated prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...

Seems it's because of increased cost of hardware, and they seemingly tried to avoid increasing the prices but they couldn't. From the email:

> The underlying causes of the increased costs are, among others, the exploding demand for AI-related computing power and for cloud services. In addition, raw material prices and production costs have also generally risen for manufacturers. The costs for RAM and SSDs especially have risen by a large amount. For example, the cost for DRAM memory has increased up to 500% since September 2025. And according to market researchers like TrendForce, this price trend will continue throughout the year.

> We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.
Show HN: TuFT – Open-source multi-tenant, Tinker-compatible fine-tuning platform
by ekzhu | 2026-02-23 12:22:40+00:00
We've been building TuFT (Tenant-unified FineTuning), an open-source platform that lets multiple users fine-tune LLMs on shared GPU infrastructure through a unified API. It's MIT licensed.

*The problem we're solving:* If you have a team or org where multiple people need to fine-tune models, the typical setup is everyone gets their own GPU allocation and manages their own training stack. That's expensive and wasteful — GPUs sit idle between runs, and everyone is reinventing the same wheel.

TuFT provides a single server that manages base models, LoRA adapters, and checkpoint storage, so multiple users can share the same GPU(s) and run training and sampling jobs through a clean API.

*Why Tinker compatibility matters:* We expose a native Tinker-compatible API, so if you're already using the Tinker SDK for fine-tuning, you can point it at a TuFT server and it just works — no code changes needed. This was a deliberate choice to lower the adoption barrier.

*What works today:*

- Single-machine setup with multi-GPU support
- LoRA fine-tuning (SFT and RL with GRPO-style training)
- Sampling/inference from fine-tuned models
- Checkpoint management (save/restore training state and sampler weights)
- Redis-based persistence for crash recovery
- OpenTelemetry integration for observability
- One-line install script, Docker image, or pip install

You can get it running with:

```
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentscope-ai/tuft/main/sc...)"
```

*Where we want to go (and where we'd love feedback):*

Our roadmap focuses on post-training for agentic models — the RL training loop where rollouts involve reasoning, multi-turn conversations, and tool use. Near-term priorities:

- Multi-machine distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed, etc.)
- Cloud-native deployment on AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes
- Serverless GPU runtime with better multi-tenant resource sharing
- Longer term: standardized interfaces with agent training environments (WebShop, BrowserEnv, etc.) and automated training pipelines

*What we'd like to hear from you:*

- Does the multi-tenant framing match a real pain point you've experienced?
- If you've done RL-based fine-tuning for agents, what were the biggest infrastructure headaches?
- Are there integration points or features that would make this useful for your workflow?

We're early and actively iterating, so honest feedback — including "this doesn't solve my problem because X" — is exactly what we need.

Docs: https://agentscope-ai.github.io/TuFT
Discord: https://discord.gg/BCNCaQGxBH
by christophilus | 2026-02-23 12:22:45+00:00
I’ve been part of at least 2 successful rewrites. I think that Joel’s post is too often taken as gospel. Sometimes a rewrite is the best way forward.

Moving Ladybird from C++ to a safer more modern language is a real differentiator vs other browsers, and will probably pay dividends. Doing it now is better than doing it once ladybird is fully established.

One last point about rewrites: you can look at any industry disruptor as essentially a team that did a from-scratch rewrite of their competitors and won because the rewrite was better.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 12:22:51+00:00
The vast majority of microwaving is in the 1 to 5 minute range only for those who use a microwave oven only for reheating.

For cooking, times from 10 to 15 minutes are more frequent, though things like potatoes or sweet potatoes need only 7 to 8 minutes. Only a few delicate vegetables or fruits may be cooked in the 1 to 5 minute range, e.g. onion, garlic, leek, parsley and dill, etc. Meat needs to be cooked at low power, which in turn requires long times, typically over 20 minutes. There is also a very small number of vegetables that need cooking times over 15 minutes, e.g. the common beans, for which even times of 30 minutes may be needed.

That said, all the microwave ovens that I have used (in Europe) had rotary knobs with variable resolution, fine for short times and coarse for long times.
by small_model | 2026-02-23 12:23:16+00:00
Very recent issue with Waymo https://dmnews.co.uk/waymo-robotaxi-spotted-unable-to-cross-.... This is 17 years after they bet the farm on LIDAR, with no signs its ever going to be cost effective or that it's better than multiple cameras, with millisecond reaction 360 degrees, that never gets tired, drunk, distracted, and also has other cheaper sensors and NN trained on Billions or real world data.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-02-23 12:23:28+00:00
I disagree. You would leave, because why would you watch bunch of morons circle jerking on AI-images? I left already long time ago. The way these platforms make money is selling adds. Next their advertisers leave, since they don’t want to hurt their brand and besides, the clientele left is not the demographic wanted by anyone except porn and gambling industry. Essentially you are left with Kick, which is just a scam and a front to a casino to rid losers of their money.

It is basically why girls get in free in some (seedy) clubs. And when the companies have to choose between women and rest of the population that showers every day or some really sad bunch of incels, they will choose the former.

I think it would be worth a try.
by vidarh | 2026-02-23 12:24:14+00:00
> "Þ"

The way to remember thorn: "Ye Oldee Shoppe". The "Ye" there is "þe" (the), written with "Y" standing in for þ - historically for typographic reasons, and in modern times just repeating that change.

> "ſ" is also easy to guess and I'd seen it before.

It's in use as a long s[1] in other languages too when using Fraktur style fonts in particular. One of Norways largest papers [2] still insists on using it in their header, which led someone I went to school with to insist the name was "Aftenpoften" instead of "Aftenposten" ("Evening Post").

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

[2] https://www.aftenposten.no/
by intended | 2026-02-23 12:24:31+00:00
In the American historical example shared, education got lucky because of economic downturns.

If education is not valued by a nation, then this is not a surprising outcome. Do note, Americans as a whole tend to be extremely sensitive about critical discussions on the “way things are” in America. It’s a trait that results in a sort of “nothing can change” point of view, and hostility when it’s pointed out that other countries do better.

America has so far been able to attract that talent to their economy, but given the instability in place currently, that engine is reversing.

This means that investments in education are going to be needed. Right now teachers make their own print outs, teaching material, and the education system is generally underfunded.

Stating that it’s not a resource allocation problem, when resource allocation is what is required to attract talent, is inaccurate. Many people would prefer to work for meaning and to teach, even if they have talent and can be paid better. Given a livable wage, the super ambitious types will do the risky entrepreneurial things they should be doing. Others will be happy to teach.

Some of the smartest people I met in America chose to teach. America can change things, and it can enjoy the benefits.
Show HN: Ainb.dev a Jupyter inspired AI notebook that runs in the browser
by growt | 2026-02-23 12:25:29+00:00
Hey everyone,

a work a lot with different LLMs (local and remote) and have to test a lot of different prompts and approaches.

So to scratch my own itch, I build a small AI notebook that can run prompts, javascript and markdown in cells of different types (inspired by jupyter).
It can connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Openrouter and Custom (including local) APIs and endpoints.

The Data never leaves your Browser (except for the LLM calls of course), as there is no backend and no accounts and everything is stored locally.

The whole thing is Open Source: https://github.com/grothkopp/ainb
You can also host it yourself if you don't trust me (or github) with the instance on ainb.dev
by qsi | 2026-02-23 12:25:38+00:00
Well, I was in a rush writing that. I omitted the fact that not only did he publish his own papers bypassing peer review, he also set up a citation mill with a number of other Elsevier journals and was apparently involved in other shady business. It's detailed in the article... There is a personal component to it, but that's a very minor part of the article which documents the various misdeeds.
by nlitened | 2026-02-23 12:26:27+00:00
As I understand, lidars don't work well in rain/snow/fog. So in the real world, where you have limited resources (research and production investment, people talent, AI training time and dataset breadth, power consumption) that you could redistribute between two systems (vision and lidar), but one of the systems would contradict the other in dangerous driving conditions — it's smarter to just max out vision and ignore lidar altogether.
by rapnie | 2026-02-23 12:26:47+00:00
Nah, you generalize things too much. A chatroom is whatever you make of it. Generally speaking all the social communication patterns we have in the offline world, have equivalents in online communication. A chatroom is but a channel to convey these patterns. A chatroom doesn't have behavioral norms attached to it. The assumption that this is the case, may be a large contributor to many social media problem areas.

Another example. A project chatroom, and the agreement is that comms are async. But there are moments where multiple members are real-time in the chat. It may well happen that you say "Since we chatting now @JohnDoe, we have a decision to make on this and that". John Doe answers "For sure, let's do that", so you give a follow-up with elaboration. Only to suddenly find John unresponsive for 5 days.

That is a ridiculous situation if you depicted that to happen to you offline in a face to face setting.
by ozgune | 2026-02-23 12:27:06+00:00
These changes are effective April 1st for existing and new customers. The price increase ratios are also different across product lines.

* Cloud (VMs): 38%

* Bare metal: 15%

* Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately)

It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set very high to discourage customers from adding more memory.

AX102 (128 GB RAM) costs €124, AX162 (256 GB RAM) costs €244, but the 128 GB memory add-on alone costs €264. If we ignore the setup fee, it’s clearly more cost-effective to provision additional servers instead of adding RAM to bare metal instances.

Here's the link to cloud and bare metal pricing changes: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi...
by RobotToaster | 2026-02-23 12:27:07+00:00
One highlight from the video, he says most cameras are fine, it's just iphones that don't have a very good IR filter. Which sounds correct, in my experience most cameras have pretty substantial IR filters that have to be removed if you want to photograph IR.

I also wonder if the smaller sensor size on phones contributes, since the energy is being focused onto a smaller spot.

Either way, for that to happen he was filming the LIDAR while active, for a decent amount of time, from right next to the car. I assume under normal conditions it wouldn't be running constantly while the vehicle is stationary?
Amazon's Project Starfish caught scraping despite GDPR opt-out [evidence]
by ElRatDesigns | 2026-02-23 12:27:16+00:00
I officially opted out of Amazon’s AI “Project Starfish” and received written confirmation, since then I have caught their bots 50+ times bypassing my security (cloudflare) to hit my Shopify origin directly. This is intentional circumvention of security measures implemented to uphold my legal GDPR ‘right to object’

Image 1

[2026_02_22_1308_timestamp_1771765731_El_Rat_Designs_Canary_JS_Clone_REDACTED.png](https://postimg.cc/yDLnHtyM)

shows an internal server path: file:///data/analysis/xtract. This shows that they are not just visiting, they are cloning code into a private forensic sandbox to reverse engineer and catalogue its contents.

Image 2

[2026_02_23_0016_Amazon_Virginia_probe_image_size_KH_artwork_REDACTED.png](https://postimg.cc/75KXkdnR)

is using a targeted image theft tool. Probe-image-size/7.2.3. this is a specific developer library used to scan my product library. In this hit at 00:16 today they were targeting exclusive Kristin Hersh handwritten lyric artwork, proving a calculated commercial harvest of unique IP.

I filed an ICO complaint against Amazon yesterday for continuing abuses. I will be making more filings this week.

I will be publishing my code for free asap, so that any merchant on shopify will be able to track Amazon abuses, so that you can file complaints too.

Amazon are a trillion dollar company stealing from independent artists and merchants. They think they have the right to take everything, and they are hiding what they are doing… They are running an automated extraction triggered on opt-out, this is full scale espionage… And we can see them.
by zxspectrum1982 | 2026-02-23 12:27:17+00:00
Perfect for POCs, development environments, demos, and simple deployments where a full-scale object storage solution is overkill. It combines Ceph RADOS Gateway (RGW) backed by a standard filesystem and a modern UI into a single, easy-to-deploy container.

S4 provides full S3 API compatibility while requiring minimal resources and configuration.
Show HN: Visual Tailwind CSS Style Guide – Single HTML file, no build step
by tomdeleria | 2026-02-23 12:27:43+00:00
We needed a quick visual reference for Tailwind utility classes without jumping between doc pages. Built it as a single HTML file using the
Tailwind CDN — no build step, no dependencies. Covers typography, colors, spacing, layout, shadows, and common component patterns with live
rendered examples and code snippets.
by Maximilian_Bet | 2026-02-23 12:28:06+00:00
This website serves as the platform for publishing validation results and technical documentation related to the Donut Solid State Battery. Donut Lab has commissioned the internationally renowned VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland to conduct independent measurements of the battery’s performance and key characteristics. Unless otherwise stated, all tests presented here have been conducted by VTT. Full reports will be published alongside detailed video documentation that walks through the procedures, showcases the test setups, and explains the results.
by tarnith | 2026-02-23 12:28:07+00:00
This works for simple apps, utilities, and demos/mvps. Not great for actual applications.

What about when you're embedding your GUI into an existing application? or for use on an already taxed system? (Audio plugins come to mind)

What if something is costly, that you need to compute dynamically, but not often, makes it into the frame? Do you separately now create a state flag for that one render object?
by krisoft | 2026-02-23 12:28:08+00:00
> If trucks were designed for aerodynamics, shouldn't one of the designs have "won" by now,

Because aerodynamics is not the only concern the manufacturers are thinking about.

The difference is in the regulation. The maximum allowed length for a semi-truck is shorter in the EU than in the USA. And since they both want to transport the same length of container the European truck had to be designed shorter.

My dad used to drive concrete delivery trucks in europe. Most were the european arrangement with the cab over the engine, but one of them he drove had the American style long-nose. It was so unusual that they nicknamed the truck after this feature. They called it "csőrike" which is hungarian for "the one with the beak".

He also said it was a lot easier to maintain the long-nosed vehicle. With the european cab-over design you have to first secure everything in the cab and then tip the cab forward to have access to the engine and transmission. While with the long-nosed concrete truck you could just open the hood and get to work.
by talking_penguin | 2026-02-23 12:29:00+00:00
Toshiharu Oseko’s Basho’s Haiku: Literal Translations for Those Who Wish to Read the Original Japanese Text is an unusual and invaluable book. It is not a Basho anthology in the usual sense, but a pedagogical work that brings together Japanese texts, literal English translations, grammatical analysis, cultural context, and philosophical background. First published in 1990, it reflects Oseko’s dual expertise as a long-time haiku student and as an interpreter of Japanese literature for international readers.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-23 12:29:31+00:00
I have a suspicion here on HN. When criticizing big tech, especially Google and FB, at a certain time of the day a specific cohort comes online and downvotes. Suspiciously, that is a time when one could conclude, that now people in the US start working or come online. Either fanboys, employees or an organized group of users trying to silence big tech criticism.

I have no proof of course and it might be coincidence, or just difference of mindset between US citizens and Europe citizens. It happened a few times already and to me looks sus.

But if they actually read and not just ctrl+f <company name>, then of course not writing the company name, but hinting at it in an obvious way is no more helpful either.
by Brendinooo | 2026-02-23 12:29:32+00:00
No, "faith" is actually an integral component of "the Christian faith".

Go read the first part of Acts 4, where a section closes with: "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus." So...yes! We do believe in a God that can empower average people to speak in above-average ways.
by antonyh | 2026-02-23 12:30:18+00:00
Imgur self-blocking is nothing to do with propaganda, but it does make the internet worse for it with all many image now not showing. In any case, why should I go to bat for Imgur if they are mishandling the PII of children? The fact that so many images are centralised in a single (now unreliable) service is a prime example of the enshittification of the common web. Services should be hosting their own media files not relying on a third party.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-23 12:30:36+00:00
I do not know why you were voted down, I have seen a few articles stating the same. It showed violent crime has decreased and the main correlation was the reduction of lead in the air.

In 1975 lead was eliminated from auto fuels in the US. As lead in the atmosphere decreased so did violent crime. Crime stats were from the FBI. They noticed also the IQ increased as time went on too.

So like you, I think they need a better control group. Maybe based upon year born and lead levels as the child grows to adulthood ?
by patates | 2026-02-23 12:33:23+00:00
> Coding assistants are also really great at porting from one language to the other

I had a broken, one-off Perl script, a relic from the days when everyone thought Drupal was the future (long time ago). It was originally designed to migrate a site from an unmaintained internal CMS to Drupal. The CMS was ancient and it only ran in a VM for "look what we built a million years ago" purposes (I even had written permission from my ex-employer to keep that thing).

Just for a laugh, I fed this mess of undeclared dependencies and missing logic into Claude and told it to port the whole thing to Rust. It spent 80 minutes researching Drupal and "one-shotted" a functional import tool. Not only did it mirror the original design and module structure, but it also implemented several custom plugins based on hints it found in my old code comments.

It burned through a mountain of tokens, but 10/10 - would generate tens of thousands of lines of useless code again.

The Epilogue: That site has since been ported to WordPress, then ProcessWire, then rebuilt as a Node.js app. Word on the street is that some poor souls are currently trying to port it to Next.js.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-23 12:33:31+00:00
Sounds like a great product, but a tough name in a business messaging context. The Customer Acquisition Cost for people that missed business culture fit rules can be extraordinarily high.

Maybe some sort of additional corporate alias name with "Biocomposite" or "Sustainable" packaging related messaging. Also, one may want to contact Uline with a set of product sku that already fit generic shipping boxes for high-value items like wine bottles and laptop screens.

Have a great day =3
Show HN: Sarvita – AI coach that tracks and reverses your biological age
by fodoj | 2026-02-23 12:33:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Sarvita because I wanted to answer one question: am I getting biologically younger?

Apple Health already collects VO2 Max estimates, HRV, body composition, workout logs, and sleep data. But it doesn't synthesize this into anything actionable. Sarvita pulls this data and calculates three component ages — VO2 Max Age, HRV Age, and Body Composition Age — using age-percentile reference tables from population studies.

The AI coach then delivers weekly training plans based on the 4 exercise modalities with the strongest mortality-reduction evidence: Zone 2 cardio (mitochondrial biogenesis), strength training (sarcopenia prevention), VO2 Max intervals (the single strongest predictor of all-cause mortality per JAMA 2018), and stability work (fall prevention).

Technical notes:
- iOS native, Swift/SwiftUI
- Health data stays on-device. The AI coaching queries are processed via API and immediately discarded — no persistence of health data on my servers
- Sync through the user's own iCloud account
- Meal tracking uses vision AI — photo → macro estimation in seconds
- Biological age calculation weights VO2 Max most heavily (~40%), reflecting the research on mortality prediction

The longevity science framework comes primarily from Attia's synthesis in Outlive, but the underlying research (Mandsager 2018, PURE study, Cochrane fall-prevention reviews) is independently solid.

Free to try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/longevity-tracker-dont-die/id6...

I'm a solo dev. Feedback on the approach, the science, or the product is very welcome.
by OisinMoran | 2026-02-23 12:33:41+00:00
No mention of the Miele Dialog which gets as close as I've seen (though not quite there) to my dream of crispy fried eggs with runny yolk in the microwave. Their big example is being able to cook a fish while it remains in a block of ice. Pretty damn cool!

https://www.reviewed.com/ovens/features/we-tried-an-oven-tha...