MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2026-02-25 14:37:21+00:00
I suggest leaning into the joy a little.

I know a lot of people - serious, thoughtful people with impressive careers behind them - who are having the time of their lives right now.

I've spoken to multiple people who have come out of retirement because the challenges and opportunities of this new space are irresistible to them.

All those side project ideas from the past few decades have suddenly become much more feasible. There's so much new to explore and build.

We get to reinvent how software is written. The field is wide open - anyone can be the first to find a new pattern that works, or figure out a new way to apply this tech to real world problems.

There are a thousand reasons to be negative about the implications of this technology, and many of them are legitimate. Don't let that distract you entirely from the parts of this that are genuinely inspiring, enabling and fun.
by koalacongregate | 2026-02-25 14:37:37+00:00
I've had this thought too - of the 13 root servers, 10 are US or US-based companies. The only exceptions are Netnod (Sweden), RIPE NCC (Netherlands), WIDE Project (Japan). Even ICANN and Internet Systems Consortium are US-based non-profits... How do you even mitigate risk in this case?
by ivannovazzi | 2026-02-25 14:37:44+00:00
Smart ergonomics — the pain of keeping .env files in sync across worktrees is real. Every worktree ends up with slightly different secret values and nobody knows which is current.

The deeper fix I'd love to see is integration with a secrets manager that owns the canonical values, so worktrees pull from a shared encrypted store rather than each maintaining their own .env copy. We built KeyEnv (https://keyenv.dev) for exactly that: `keyenv run -- npm start` and the process gets injected secrets from the team store. No file duplication, no drift.

Does Workz support custom commands on worktree creation? Could imagine a hook that runs `keyenv pull` or similar to bootstrap without a .env at all.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-02-25 14:37:45+00:00
A pretty sensationalist quote to pick out without additional context after reading the statement in full. This is exactly the kind of thing we call the press out for doing.

From the article: "And importantly, our underlying business processes are deterministic by nature. There is a start and end to a business process. Its goal is to deliver consistent, auditable outcomes.

AI, for all of its incredible capabilities, is probabilistic by nature. It reasons, predicts, and recommends based on patterns and likelihoods. Maybe it will eventually become a state machine—a system that follows the same steps and gets the same result, every time—but it is not there today.

You can’t have probabilistic outcomes in running a payroll, it needs to be 100% accurate and completed, 100% of the time."

I agree with all of this. They're not naive as to say that AI will never be capable to build a system like this, they're saying that it's not possible to correctly vibe code an entire system of their size with accuracy today, that seems like a pretty reasonable take me.
by ferfumarma | 2026-02-25 14:37:57+00:00
Why mit license?

If gpl is a blocker for users then offer them a paid license with the exceptions they want. But MIT allows a commercial entity to ingest your code, close source it, and commercialize it .

GPL-3 (with the option of custom commercial licenses) seems strictly superior to MIT in this respect. Can you help me understand why this choice is so popular?
by simon_void | 2026-02-25 14:38:20+00:00
true, but you'd be wrong to assume that Germans only compound words if both parts are nouns, e.g. "Gehweg" (walk way) and "Springseil" (jump rope) use the base of a verb.
We do actually have "Kochwasser" ("kochen" means "to cook", "kochend" means "boiling") but that's not boiling water ("kochendes Wasser") but for water used for cooking.
by MASTER_shivam | 2026-02-25 14:38:22+00:00
This year brought a series of high-level recognitions that many only dream of—I received my NASA Guest ID (SY1174304), became a member of the NVIDIA Developer Program, and secured credentials from IEEE and ORCID. I was even invited by the government for the AI Invention Program India , I received many more awards But behind these global IDs and prestigious invitations, there was a harsh, silent reality: I received absolutely no financial assistance. Despite being a part of these elite programs, I remained exactly where I started, with no monetary support to sustain my research or my life.

Then, everything collapsed. My laptop to my digital lab—broke down.
My financial reserves vanished to the point where I couldn't even afford the next month's ration or household expenses. I was forced to take a helper's job at a salary of just ₹9,000.

People around me started saying it was over; they advised me to give up on science and work in a hotel or take any menial job. It felt like the world was against me everything .
Faced pressure to abandon science for menial labor (hotel jobs) as the world saw the struggle but ignored the potential.

But I have not given up. My laptop is broken, but I am not. My resources are depleted, but my dreams are immortal.

I am standing up again to announce to the world that we are restarting our work on the AI Operating System (AI OS) and Chip technology. I will fix my hardware, and I will move ahead of the world. I have only seen the dream so far; now, I am going to live it and surpass everyone.

If I chose to, I could arrange the funds myself through other means, but if I were to take a wrong path, the world's security and law enforcement would face an unprecedented threat. I refuse to cross that line; I want to build the future legally and ethically

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by co_king_5 | 2026-02-25 14:38:22+00:00
> while schools teach about the years where people talented were allowed to study and make a living out of their talent.

Schools won't teach about something they don't want you to do. They'd just invent an alternate history.

The Wright brothers constructed an elaborate prompt in order to get BC-GPT-3.5 to generate the plans for the first working airplane.
by rickdeckard | 2026-02-25 14:38:31+00:00
This is not too different from ~2012, when Apple decided to offer eBooks with the launch of the iPad, but found that they couldn't have 30% margin AND match the price of Amazon.

So Apple coordinated the major book publishers to raise their prices in order to secure their margin expectations.

They settled the lawsuit in the end.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/us-sues-apple-publishers...
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-25 14:38:33+00:00
Walk into a staffing agency, ask for a job. They'll give you a list, pick the one that sounds the least disagreeable. Show up on time, every day, for at least two or three months and you'll convert the temp position into a full time job.

It's literally that easy, showing up reliably is a super power that puts you in the 90th percentile of workers these days. The job probably won't be as comfortable as sitting on a comfortable chair in an air-conditioning office wiggling your fingers at a computer, but so what? Other people make it work, so can you. Man up.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-25 14:38:40+00:00
Battle of Fallujah? The war against ISIS in Iraq in the 2010s?

Before the most recent invasion of Gaza started, there was an interview with an Israeli general about the imminent invasion. And when the question came up about what lessons Israel was drawing from other urban conflicts like the Battle of Fallujah, the response was a very indignant we-don't-need-to-learn-anything. Small wonder that the IDF claims to have achieved unprecedentedly low civilian casualty ratios in their invasion of Gaza when in reality, they're commensurate with WW2 ratios and well above the urban assaults of the US's Iraq War.
by account42 | 2026-02-25 14:38:40+00:00
> Update: Within 40 minutes of posting this on HN, the site has been removed from Google's Safe Search blacklist. Thank you, unknown Google hero! I've emailed Radix to remove the darn serverHold.

I wouldn't party too soon - from my experience getting something removed from Google's libel machine doesn't mean the same process that put it there in the first place is fixed and it you will most likely go through the same thing again and again.

> Not adding the domain to Google Search Console immediately. I don't need their analytics and wasn't really planning on having any content on the domain, so I thought, why bother? Big, big mistake.

This is just another way how Google has inserted themselves as the gatekeeper of the web.
by floatrock | 2026-02-25 14:38:53+00:00
Sorry, let me give a specific citation of Elon injecting his personal bias into the output of his tools: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/elon-musk...

As for the "Elon fingering your amygdala with a ridiculous hypothetical" snark, well, I think the HN crowd in particular understands how the culture wars are just theater to push through billionaires' personal self-centered interests at the expense of everyone else. If that level of pull-aside-the-curtains pragmatism is really "snark against HN guidelines", well, I think 3/4 of the comments on the site would be flagged and deleted.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-25 14:39:00+00:00
I understand your point, but at some point someone needs to think about morality.

If you or I copied and reimplemented nextjs in a better way, it doesn't feel as wrong. But when a large company does that and then brag about it, it's in poor taste.

Especially pointing out one developer and 1000 usd of tokens replacing the efforts of hundreds of talented developers. There's people on the other side of the screen.
by pajuhaan | 2026-02-25 14:39:07+00:00
Mass hierarchy is a big puzzle in physics: what determines the masses of electrons, protons, and other particles!?

We can accept 10^500 possible predictions by string theory, or just not. Here, this paper shows one inch formula that predicts and shows masses of particles as a balance between boundry of two spaces. one space is 1D complex space, and another is our normal 3D space.

When I got the mass of the electron, I wasn't too sure, but when we get to new values for the particle by increasing just the N=1,2,3.4,... parameters, i'm almost certain that something important has been discovered.
Show HN: StudentOS – Track the $14,200 in student benefits you're leaving behind
by praveen_bv | 2026-02-25 14:39:15+00:00
I built StudentOS — a free workspace for students to discover, track, and claim software benefits tied to their student identity.

The core insight: students qualify for 51+ benefits (GitHub Pack, AWS Educate, JetBrains, Notion, Azure, etc.) but have no single place to track what they've claimed, what's expiring, or what their total ROI is.

I built a benefits index, a personal savings ledger, and an expiry tracker. It took 3 weeks solo.

Live: https://studentos.tech
by elteto | 2026-02-25 14:40:35+00:00
Very clean and polished! I love how smooth the seconds hand move.

I work in an environment where we look at the time across many different timezones around the world. A couple of feature requests if you are ever in the mood:

1. Make it possible to specify the timezone.
2. Make it possible to create a grid of clocks, each with different timezones.
3. Persist the grid/timezone state in the URL so links can be easily shared.
by Desafinado | 2026-02-25 14:40:37+00:00
Good article. What I've found disappointing as I age is the extent that people I know treat friendship as a zero sum game. I feel like I'm always being looked at in the context of the value I provide, rather than basic camaraderie between two people. This is basically the norm.

I read a book on the Anthropology of friendship in the past year, and it said that some people have the ability to be 'true' friends. That is they extend goodwill regardless of circumstances or who you are. Most people don't have the ability to do this, which is why I think everyone always feels disappointed by their relationships.
by ivannovazzi | 2026-02-25 14:41:07+00:00
If the main use case is shared team secrets (API keys, tokens, .env equivalents), there are team-secrets-specific tools worth considering as alternatives:

- KeyEnv (keyenv.dev) — CLI-first secrets manager, syncs across team via CLI. Works like .env but centralized and access-controlled. No per-seat pricing.
- Doppler — More full-featured, team-friendly
- Infisical — Open source option with self-host

1Password is great for passwords/logins. For dev team secrets specifically (API keys, CI tokens), a purpose-built tool often fits better since you get CLI integration, per-project scoping, and environment-level access control.

Depends on your ratio of "password manager" vs "secrets manager" usage.
by joshmarinacci | 2026-02-25 14:41:27+00:00
This too shall pass.

Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things:

* Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated

* A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen

* after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.
by vidarh | 2026-02-25 14:41:33+00:00
The issue with German as well as Norwegian is that a space creates a semantically distinct structure, so it's not that they remove the space, but that one wasn't there in the first place, and some of those compounds then become important enough for the dictionary.

Absolutely not all - there's a near unbounded set of possible compounds.

In Norwegian, we in fact have a compound for the incorrect separation of compounds: "orddelingsfeil" (word separation error). Actually, we have two - technically it's "særskrivingsfeil" (separate writing error), but "orddelingsfeil" is more common... We take this seriously.

The problem is that while some are definitely wrong, others change meaning.

E.g. "en norsk lærer" means "a Norwegian teacher" but "en norsklærer" means "a teacher of the subject Norwegian". There's an infinite set of possible -lærer compounds: If you create a new subject then a teacher of that subject is a <subject>lærer. Obviously they can't all go in the dictionary.

Some other examples:

"Røyk fritt" means "smoke freely" while "røykfritt" means "smokefree". "Steke ovn", means "to fry an oven", while "stekeovn" means "oven". These two belong in the dictionary because they are so common and that though technically you can use "ovn" and "fri"/"fritt" to form a near infinite number of other common forms as well, in practice the number of common forms that use them is quite limited.

The key part is that most compounds in languages like German or Norwegian will only have one valid way of writing them. Add spaces, and you usually end up with something ungrammatical or with an entirely different meaning.

Whereas in English whether or not a word can be written with a space, with a hyphen, or combined much more often changes over time, and can differ in different places at different times, as the <separate words> -> <hyphenated> -> <compound> pipeline in English is slow and arbitrary and not necessarily reflecting a change in meaning.
by jqpabc123 | 2026-02-25 14:41:45+00:00
What's being revealed is "Nuke 'em" is an optimal strategy for the goal.

You're giving AI way too much credit.

Most likely, AI really didn't optimize anything.

It most likely engaged in a probability driven selection process that inevitably lead to the most powerful weapon available.

Change the goal, change the result.

Yes. The tricky part is recognizing the need to change the goal.

Achieving this implies you already have an answer in mind that you want to lead AI toward. And AI is often happy to accommodate --- because it is oblivious to any consequences.
Show HN: Base N Clock - The current time in various number bases
by ckmar | 2026-02-25 14:42:45+00:00
A clock that displays the current time in various number bases to help build intuition for base numeral systems through the familiar interface of a clock.

Created it to help my kids understand non-base 10. Also available as a Roku screensaver.

Source: https://github.com/craigmichaelmartin/base-n-clock
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-25 14:42:58+00:00
Again, the trust is for the human/self. it's auto-complete, it hallucinates and commits errors, that's the nature of the tool. It's for the tools users to put approprite safeguards around it. Fire burns you, but if you contain it, it can do amazing things. It isn't the fire being untrustworthy for failing to contain itself and start burning your cloth when you expose your arm to it. You're expecting a dumb tool to be smart and know better. I suspect that is because of the "AI" marketing term and the whole supposition that it is some sort of pseudo-intelligence. it's just auto-complete. When you have it run code in an environment, it could auto-complete 'rm -rf /'.
by cs702 | 2026-02-25 14:43:18+00:00
In the past, a small number of European cities or municipalities have tried to move away from proprietary software, but those have been isolated cases, lacking broader support.

This time, things look different. Anecdotally, more people in Europe now suddenly actually care about this. They no longer want their governments to rely on software controlled by US companies, because they no longer trust it. Many are shocked and upset about recent US actions that they view as "detestable," including "irrational efforts against NATO," "nonsensical tariffs against allies," "ICE raids that trample over human rights," and "missiles targeting boat survivors." I'm paraphrasing what others have mentioned to me here. Whether you agree or disagree with these concerns, they are valid for many Europeans. They don't particularly care for the open-source movement on its own, but they now view open-source software as a more desirable alternative.

In an ironic twist of fate, the US government's actions could end up causing long-term damage to US software companies.

This is all based on anecdotal evidence, so I could be wrong, but I have to call it like I see it.
by fbz17 | 2026-02-25 14:43:26+00:00
Agents are proliferating everywhere. But the world is missing something critical, we dont have the required infrastructure in place for the agent economy to expand and be stable.

With my team, we are building the global Registry, discovery and trust layer for AI Agents, which will allow our personal agents to search for service provider agents and contact them directly, without the need of a custom integration or human communication.

Learn more at www.honova.ai and be prepared for Launch on March 2026.
by al_borland | 2026-02-25 14:43:43+00:00
I haven’t received this update yet, but it sounds like they no longer understand what business they’re in.

I wish in addition to WatchTower they had a way to identify sites that no longer exist. I want to clean things up before I migrate—delete logins for dead companies, delete accounts on sites I no longer use, etc. Some tools to help with that would be much more useful than the new features they actually added. These are tools I’ve wanted/needed for a long time now. I have over 300 logins in 1Password, and that’s after I’ve already done a few manual efforts to cleanup in the past (277 items already archived).

This might be where they could actually add AI in a useful way, instead of item naming. Ping the URLs periodically to see if they are still alive. If they’re dead, have the AI do a little research to see if the site is just down or the company went under… and maybe try to find out if there is any information on how the data was handled upon company closure. For dead sites, consolidate all that information into a section of the app for vault pruning and maintenance. Make it easy to archive all this old stuff and feel good about it. In addition to this, surface how to delete account data on each site I have a login for. There are websites for this, why doesn’t 1Password pull that type of information in to make cleanup easy. Deleting an account that is no longer needed is safer than rotating the password periodically or when I had been breached and shows in WatchTower. These sites store more than just password data that gets taken, deletion is always better.

Maybe they don’t care, because few accounts are as old as mine, but these are the types of things I’d expect from a tool for power users vs all the free options out there. There is a lot of competition in this space now, and if they don’t want to be old-reliable, they could at least be useful.
by lpcvoid | 2026-02-25 14:43:43+00:00
>Intune

Fleet

>Entra? (User management and policy)

LDAP

>Office 365 Exchange?

Dovecot, Postfix

>Excel? (Finance runs on custom Excel macros and sheets)

Libreoffice calc, R and Python were needed. And if that doesn't work, finance needs to work around the vendor lockin

>Teams?

Matrix, Jitsi, Bigbluebutton, Mattermost

>Office 365 in general, security, DLP, MFA?

Authentik, Keycloak for MFA/security, OpenZFS with Nextcloud/Opencloud for DLP

It's possible, though of course less integrated and more work involved than just selling your soul to MS. But I am sure that time will also solve that, now that people are more interested in open source.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-25 14:43:49+00:00
> But that's letting them set the goalposts.

This is missed in so, so very many discussions out there.

You can reproduce about 50-75% of what MS offers with FOSS and work on writing the rest in-house/in-EU.

Would a bunch of workflows suffer initially? Sure, but not even trying is just preseving the status quo.
by dathinab | 2026-02-25 14:44:22+00:00
they didn't "just" take down the site, they took down the whole domain

Even google safe search isn't blocking you site per-se, it just adds a very annoying "this site is not safe" dialog you can "somehow" bypass (but most people wont and don't know how).

Like if this where the main site of a company (which it very much could be) this would also have taken down mail, all APIs, all Apps relying on such APIs.

so no this is absurdly unreasonable actions

that they seem to neither know nor care that this makes it impossible to "fix" false positives with google isn't helpful put this in the area of high levels of negligence which can get you into a lot of trouble in the EU
by krisoft | 2026-02-25 14:44:42+00:00
> the term is still more commonly referring to the assembly of a wiener or frankfurter wrapped in a bread of some sort

I had that disagreement in an alpine resort once. A seller was vending some sort of sausage stuffed in a bread, i was hungry so I walked up to them with money in hand and said "A hot dog please" while pointing at the only thing they were selling. The lady was mortified by my utterance, and was not willing to accept the money until I agreed with her that it is a bratwurst and not a hot dog. :D The disagreement felt a bit academical, but given that she was holding the hot dogs hostage and money does not taste that good she won the argument.