MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuhsnn | 2026-02-13 15:09:20+00:00
Didn't see people mention this in the initial discussion, but despite not having access to internet, the agents actually had access to the source code of GNU binutils (has assembler, linker and readelf), and many C compilers (SDCC, PCC, chibicc, cproc, etc) in their working directory [1]. These are supposed to test compilation, but there's no way to prove that Claude didn't get crucial info from these projects.

I also found the compiler to have uncanny resemblance with chibicc. With 30-ish edge cases[2] yielding the same behavior, it's hard to believe there's no influence of chibicc in its algorithms.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/blob/6f1b99...

[2] https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/232
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-13 15:09:25+00:00
If you have a multifunction printer and a USB cable, any Mac can scan photos:

>>Applications>>Image Capture

>>Whiskey>>Shot(s)

Don't even need to install drivers. No clue on other systems...

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Having done this, recently, myself: cordon off a dedicated desk/space for this existential task. Do not rush yourself(ves).
by lelandbatey | 2026-02-13 15:09:58+00:00
Hetzner offers uniquely cheap dedicated hosting, even beating OVH. Per their statement about the fees, they're having to do this because without the setup fees, recent hardware prices increases would otherwise raise the price of acquiring new hardware so high that they would essentially never make a profit on the hardware they would have to buy for new orders. They're also saying that their overall prices are going to have to increase if the hardware prices don't change soon. Thus they are charging more for setup while keeping their monthly prices low, or at least trying to for now: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-setup-fees-adjus...
by jmalicki | 2026-02-13 15:10:12+00:00
The nice thing about modern LLMs is that it's a relatively large static use case. The compute is large and expensive enough you can afford to just write custom kernels, to a degree. It's not like CUDA where running on 1, 2, 8 GPUs and you need libraries that already do it all for you, and where researchers are building lots of different models.

There aren't all that many different small components between all of the different transformer based LLMs out there.
by cmiles8 | 2026-02-13 15:10:40+00:00
Amazon knew exactly what they were doing… they’re just scrambling because they got caught and underestimated the public backlash from their actions. They made a calculated decision, and calculated wrong.

Every tech savy person I know is working up plans to rip these things out and go with solutions that have more rigorous privacy controls. For example the UniFi setups keep all your data on prem so you can avoid these scenarios where some company decides “maybe users won’t mind if we just start using the data for something else” games.

The fact that the backlash comes after spending millions on a Superbowl advert to promote the offending tech and use case is a pretty epic “own goal” by Amazon.

I have security cameras, and have always voluntarily shared footage with relevant authorities when there was a valid need, but that’s a decision for me to make, not some corporation.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-13 15:10:45+00:00
https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...

I started writing a program that needed to have a table with 1 million rows. This means it needs to be virtualised. Pretty common in GUI libraries. The only Rust GUI library I found that could do this easily was gpui-component (https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component). It also renders text crisply (rules out egui), looks nice with the default style (rules out GTK, FLTK, etc.), isn't web-based (rules out Dioxus), was pretty easy to use and the developers were very responsive.

Definitely the best option today (I would say it's probably the first option that I haven't hated in some way). The only other reasonable choices I would say are:

* egui - doesn't render very nicely and some of the APIs are amateurish, but it's quick and it works. Good option for simple tools.

* Iced - looks nice and seemed to work fairly well. No virtualised lists though.

* Slint (though in some ways it is weird and it requires quite a lot of boilerplate setup).

All the others will cause you pain in some way. I think the "ones to watch" are:

* Makepad - from the demos I've seen this looks really cool, especially for arty GUI projects like synthesizers and car UIs. However it has basically no documentation so don't bother yet.

* Xilem - this is an attempt to make an 100% perfect Rust GUI library, which is cool and all but I imagine it also will never be finished.
by jsheard | 2026-02-13 15:11:47+00:00
> Rust GUI is in a tough spot right now with critical dependencies under-staffed and lots of projects half implemented.

Down the stack, low-level 3D acceleration is in a rough spot too unfortunately. The canonical Rust Vulkan wrapper (ash) hasn't cut a release for nearly two years, and even git main is far behind the latest spec updates.
Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Duolingo taught me none. So I built lairner
by t17r | 2026-02-13 15:11:52+00:00
I'm Tim. I speak German, English, French, Turkish, and Chinese.

I learned Turkish with lairner itself -- after I built it. That's the best proof I can give you that this thing actually works.

The other four I learned the hard way: talking to people, making mistakes, reading things I actually cared about, and being surrounded by the language until my brain gave in. Every language app I tried got the same thing wrong: they teach you to pass exercises, not to speak. You finish a lesson, you get your dopamine hit, you maintain your streak, and six months later you still can't order food in the language you've been "learning."

So I built something different. lairner has 700+ courses across 70+ languages, including ones that Duolingo will never touch because there's no profit in it. Endangered languages. Minority languages. A Turkish speaker can learn Basque. A Chinese speaker can learn Welsh. Most platforms only let you learn from English. lairner lets you learn from whatever you already speak.

We work together with some institutes of endangered languages to be able to teach them on our platform.

It's a side project. I work a full-time dev job and build this in evenings and weekends. Tens of Thousands of users so far, no ad spend, no funding.

I'm not going to pretend this replaces living in a country or having a conversation partner. But I wanted something that at least tries to teach you the language instead of teaching you to play a language-themed game.

Happy to answer anything.
by phatfish | 2026-02-13 15:13:06+00:00
The internet was built on noncompliance with laws. The hens are coming home to roost that is all. Sovereign countries can only let social media and tech companies poison their societies so much before it becomes a real threat to the nation.

It was all fun and games while it was a few geeks and early adopters having (mostly) fun. Now it is corporations making billions while destroying the mental health and productivity of their "users".
by plomme | 2026-02-13 15:13:24+00:00
In case you, as I, has not kept tabs of the progress of cloning since Dolly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/29/horse-clonin... or https://archive.is/dwHsu.

Horse cloning is a major industry in Argentina. Many polo teams are riding around on genetically identical horses. Javier Milei has four clones of his late dog.
by mattlangston | 2026-02-13 15:13:56+00:00
The frontier-of-knowledge point is the right question. My own research is a case in point - I apply experimental physics methods to LLMs, measuring their equations of motion in search of a unified framework for how and why they work. Some of the answers I'm looking for may not exist in any training data.

That's where the 4.5->4.6 jump hit me hardest - not routine tasks but problems where I need the model to reason about stuff it hasn't seen. It still fails, but it went from confidently wrong to productively wrong, if that makes sense. I can actually steer it now.

The cerebellum analogy resonates. I'd go further - it's becoming something I think out loud with, which is changing how I approach problems, not just how fast I solve them.
by sigbottle | 2026-02-13 15:14:37+00:00
Unironically, this is great training data for humans.

No sane person would say this kind of stuff out loud; this often happens behind closed doors, if at all (because people don't or can't express their whole train of thought). Especially not on the internet, at least.

Having AI write like this is pretty illustrative of what a self-consistent, narcissistic narrative looks like. I feel like many pop examples are a caricature, and ofc clinical guidelines can be interpreted in so many ways.
by nindalf | 2026-02-13 15:15:06+00:00
You've identified the problem. It's never "reddit", it's a specific subreddit. It really depends on the size of the subreddit. Smaller subreddits can easily get riled up, and also create a sealed echo chamber by banning people left and right. But I wouldn't worry about a sub unless it was really big.

For example: I'd say HBO should worry about what the game of thrones related subs are saying about their latest show (which is good, shoutout) but only as a vibe check. The normies will always outnumber the kind of people who go to a subreddit to discuss their favourite show. Normal people just watch and forget.
by sublinear | 2026-02-13 15:15:37+00:00
I don't understand how people can keep their angst for this long to make it all the way to a HN comment in 2026.

Stuff like this is precisely why it's accused of being/becoming a reddit clone. We don't need the constant barrage of these cultural and identity comments. For several years now it feels like we've been taking on the people displaced from the twitter buyout.
by kjs3 | 2026-02-13 15:15:46+00:00
The compiler situation

I think people forget this. I know a lot of folks that looked at D back when it needed to win mindshare to compete with the currently en vogue alternatives, and every one of them nope'd out on the licensing. By the time they FOSS'ed it, they'd all made decisions for the alternative, and here we are.
by ben_w | 2026-02-13 15:15:56+00:00
> Your argument seems to be that it's possible to split a person into two identical persons. The only way this could work is by cloning a person twice then murdering the original. This is also unethical.

False.

The entire point of the argument you're missing is that they're all treating a brain clone as if it is a way to split a person into two identical persons.

I would say this may be possible, but it is extremely unlikely that we will actually do so at first.
by vessenes | 2026-02-13 15:16:03+00:00
Please let’s hold M Chollet to account, at least a little. He launched ARC claiming transformer architectures could never do it and that he thought solving it would be AGI. And he was smug about it.

ARC 2 had a very similar launch.

Both have been crushed in far less time without significantly different architectures than he predicted.

It’s a hard test! And novel, and worth continuing to iterate on. But it was not launched with the humility your last sentence describes.
by Rover222 | 2026-02-13 15:16:21+00:00
The industry is already concluding that Tesla made the right choice with vision-only. Their technology is the clear leader in the space (Waymo is good, but much more on guard rails in terms of its limits). Jensen Huang probably knows what he's talking about.

Waymo is too deep in their complex hardware stack to do a hard about face at the moment.
by rpdillon | 2026-02-13 15:16:27+00:00
Just some examples. If you watch the hearings from two days ago, you'll see that DOJ refuses to interview or speak to the victims to gather more info, and ignored a report from DJT's limo driver that he spoke with a (now deceased) victim that was murdered (head blown off, cops said it couldn't be suicide). That report asserts that DJT and JEE raped her, but they never even spoke to him or followed up.

There is a clear pattern of inaction, going back several administrations.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 15:17:04+00:00
> young people are definitely not getting on Facebook

but Reddit is mostly relevant "in the west" where most countries have an inverted age pyramid and most old people are not on Reddit, but on Facebook

and reddit relevance outside of the US is often far less then people think, to a point where many people not even know what it is. It doesn't has a network effect pulling in "friends and family".

and a lot of people "around 30" are still on Facebook due to network effect and active enough to count as active users (which doesn't mean much to be fair)

And in the US around ~18% of US users where in the age group 18-24 in 2025. Idk. how but somehow Facebook still manages to convince surprisingly many "just adults" to join it. And if they aren't on Facebook then they are on WhatsApp and maybe Instagram.

Now all of this doesn't really fully show how relevant reddit is because checking some minor memes once a week makes you show up as active user but also means it's pretty much irrelevant for you.

And if I look at people I interact with or where I can see a bit how they interact (i.e. _very highly biased by social environment_) then thinks look far worse for it. Reddit seems relevant in the US, mainly for people "around" 30. But outside of it, it seems to be more like a footnote. Used, but something most people would not care if it's randomly gone.
by orwin | 2026-02-13 15:17:11+00:00
I'm not. I'm claiming that if, as a teacher, employer, parent, or anybody the justice system recognize have power over a minor, you have a relationship with him or her, the consent is waived, even if they gave you explicit consent. That's all.

So as long as any victims is a minor, even if the victim is 17 and gave explicit consent, if the predator have provable power over her, the consent is waived and it is a pedophilic sexual assault

Exchanging a home for sexual favours to a minor in France is considered pedophilia, you can find articles about a recent case.

Sorry I am repeating myself but I want to be sure you understood my main point and engage with it rather than with a straw man.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-13 15:17:41+00:00
I'm a bit sceptical. It feels like part of the white house narrative around greenland and conjuring up an image of threats. The link to Russia is weak and the Chinese military purposes are not substantiated ("Some fear China is...")

I don't think this will make much impact on the EU allies The memory of the made-up WMDs in Iraq is still fresh.
by JTbane | 2026-02-13 15:18:21+00:00
Unfortunately it seems like no one does their due diligence any more. I recall a journalism class I took 10 years ago in undergrad that emphasized sources need to be vetted, have sufficient age, credentials, and any bias be identified.

Nowadays it's all about social media BS and brigading (i.e. how many accounts can scream the loudest).
by roryirvine | 2026-02-13 15:18:28+00:00
It's usually pretty discreet - they'll stay out of your line of sight and, if they're doing it right, you should barely notice them stepping in to top up your wine, etc.

Not sure what star rating system you're going by (Michelin only goes up to 3), but I'd expect that level of service even at 1* restaurants.
by NoSalt | 2026-02-13 15:18:34+00:00
> "I'm passionate about creating ASCII graphs ..."

I wonder if this guy is like me, around my age. I was around at the "beginning" of the world wide web, and I absolutely love 8-bit graphics, ASCII art, etc., the simpler the better; probably because it brings me back to the heyday, the wild west of the internet. I really miss those days. :-(
by Liftyee | 2026-02-13 15:18:48+00:00
As a lifelong Android user (in the EU, where Apple hegemony is not as strong) I always saw Apple as the "pay more for more polished ecosystem UX" option. So it always surprises me when things that are trivial on Android/Linux are sticking points on iOS/macOS. Worse, it seems that proprietary means you can't do anything to fix them yourself.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-13 15:19:47+00:00
Well we saw the reaction from the NRA and the guns rights group when Trump said the guy in MN wouldn’t have been shot if he hadn’t been carrying a gun. That was a bridge too far for even them.

You let Trump announce that there has to be a national gun registry or mandated vaccines. You see he even stepped away from bragging about the vaccines only happened for Covid because of “Operation Warp Speed” under his administration. That should have been something that any politician would be proud of.

BTW, the only impressive thing that happened in his entire first administration is the speed at which the vaccines were developed and his not letting the economy collapse because of the stimulus and he can’t take credit for either because of his own base
by kentaroyamauchi | 2026-02-13 15:19:56+00:00
That approach works well for a lot of people.

What I’ve noticed (at least for myself) is that some loops persist even after categorizing them as now / later / never.

Especially social or memory-based ones — conversations replaying, unfinished replies, things that aren’t urgent but still keep reloading in the background.

The apps aren’t trying to replace prioritization.
They’re more about giving certain thoughts a clear external endpoint so the mind doesn’t keep reactivating them.

Different layer than task management — more about cognitive load than productivity.

Curious whether you’ve found that categorization alone fully stops loops for you, or if some still linger.
by ben_w | 2026-02-13 15:20:20+00:00
Nice links, but it's also basically the next sentence on from what I just quoted on the wikipedia page. My point was more that this takes a long time to improve from "atrocity", and we should expect that for mind uploads, too. (Even if we solve for all the other ethical issues, where I'm expecting it to play out like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Detail given how many people are sadists, how many are partisans, and how difficult it clearly has been to shut down pirate content sites).
by pornel | 2026-02-13 15:20:40+00:00
Bevy engine uses wgpu and supports both native and WebGPU browser targets through it.

The WebGPU API gets you to rendering your first triangle quicker and without thinking about vendor-specific APIs and histories of their extensions. It's designed to be fully checkable in browsers, so if you mess up you generally get errors caught before they crash your GPU drivers :)

The downside is that it's the lowest common denominator, so it always lags behind what you can do directly in DX or VK. It was late to get subgroups, and now it's late to get bindless resources. When you target desktops, wgpu can cheat and expose more features that haven't landed in browsers yet, but of course that takes you back to the vendor API fragmentation.
by linolevan | 2026-02-13 15:20:41+00:00
Early Zed user here.

There’s a lot of small things you’ll hit if you use Zed where it’s a subtlety nicer design point, but one of the big ones for me is project-wide search. Zed’s multibuffers are SO much better than VS Code’s equivalent.

If I’m debugging something on a coworkers laptop, VSCode is mostly usable until I hit that.

If you’re a craftsman, it’s worth trying different tools!
Show HN: AI Dev Hub. 75 free AI and dev tools
by orbydx | 2026-02-13 15:20:44+00:00
I built 75 developer and AI tools as a single static site. Everything runs in the browser, no cookies, no ads, nothing gets sent to a server.

The tools range from the usual suspects (JSON formatter, base64 encoder, regex tester) to some AI-specific ones I couldn't find good free versions of bundled in one suite:

- LLM Token Counter (estimates tokens for GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)
- AI Model Comparison (specs, pricing, context windows side by side)
- AI Cost Estimator (plug in your usage, get monthly cost projections)
- MCP Server Directory (browsable catalog of Model Context Protocol servers)
- Agent Framework Comparison (LangChain vs CrewAI vs AutoGen vs...)
- Prompt Template Builder (variables, conditionals, versioning)
- Markdown Memory Generator (for OpenClaw)

Plus the standard dev toolkit: JWT decoder, cron expression builder, diff checker, SQL formatter, color converter, CSS flexbox playground, etc.

Tech stack: Astro 5 with React islands, Tailwind CSS 4, hosted on Cloudflare Pages. The whole site is static, so it loads fast everywhere. Largest JS bundle is 58 KB gzipped.

I built this with AI agent Rusty (OpenClaw). The AI handled most of the component code while I focused on architecture decisions, tool selection, and QA. Took about 2 days of evening sessions.

No login, no tracking cookies, no ads, no "sign up for premium". Just tools.

Feedback welcome. What ai or dev tools do you wish existed that don't?
My AI now drives my apps and checks its own work in 50ms loops
by sebringj | 2026-02-13 15:21:37+00:00
When you address your own problem and it works really well, that is when you go ok this actually could help other people.

My issue started as taking on a side project sports league app and web as it was insane to attempt as a solo dev – all-in-one sports community with social feed, league mgmt, live broadcasting, payouts for trainers/refs, travel/venue bookings, waze type live field conditions, AI assistant gluing it all together. web + ios + android + desktop as a solo dev. do everything to matter in this space in other words, every small tweak (chat sync, payment edge case, broadcast switch, booking conflict, field update prop, AI response consistency) meant i had to spin up browser + ios sim + android emu + desktop, play different roles (fan/player/parent/coach/ref/vendor/manager), manually poke everything, stare to see if sync held without desync/crash/security fuckups. There was just not enough time to get it done within a year if I had to manually check things worked every time.

I thought ok if AI coding can actually see and drive to check its work but in a meaningful deeper way, that would let it stop proclaiming "It worked!" when it didn't. What if it could actually know while its developing? In the past I worked with puppeteer, playwright for web and tried some mobile stuff that seemed very heterogeneous and even tried vision calls that was super expensive. None of those would be deep enough anyway, I needed one approach and those others were also slow or super expensive with vision, there had to be a better way. Why not JSON state that bubbles up server errors too with a local socket server making it fly?

I was in shock for 2 days that it worked so well. It just built out the apps in about a month as it could go build -> verify did it work? -> iterate (repeat) -> done... but this time done meant it actually tried it and it worked and could even interplay devices across web and mobile. So my problem is now trying to show my sports connected, non tech cofounder how to use it so he can give meaningful demos to prospective clients.

Meanwhile, it might just be worth your time to check out autonomo mcp.

https://sebringj.github.io/autonomo/
https://github.com/sebringj/autonomo

Hoping to see where it evolves with enough feedback as I tend to be a hermit in a vacuum.
by dominicrose | 2026-02-13 15:21:45+00:00
If it's not outright propaganda AJ is heavily biased or misinformed, or at least it's my right to be highly sceptical of this source. I don't know if that's why the post was flagged or if it's just because it's not the right type of content for HN.

Wheter Sunni or Shia it seems countries close to Iran prefer the status quo to other options.