MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by csa | 2026-02-19 00:19:37+00:00
> No? I dont see any indication that this would be a good idea. Or even looked for.

Do you spec software for a variety of businesses?

I do.

It’s rare that one SaaS or software package does what the people paying want it to do. Either they have to customize internally (expensive and limited to larger orgs with a tech department) or Frankenstein a solution like Salesforce or WordPress with a lot of add ons. And even then, it’s not hitting all pain points.

Being able to spin up or modify an app cheaply and easily will be a massive boon for businesses.
by coldtea | 2026-02-19 00:20:38+00:00
Interestingly, I found this related bit in Scott Alexander's blog:

In 2004, neuroscientist Giulio Tononi proposed that consciousness depended on a certain computational property, the integrated information level, dubbed Φ. Computer scientist Scott Aaronson complained that thermostats could have very high levels of Φ, and therefore integrated information theory should dub them conscious. Tononi responded that yup, thermostats are conscious. It probably isn’t a very interesting consciousness. They have no language or metacognition, so they can’t think thoughts like “I am a thermostat”. They just sit there, dimly aware of the temperature. You can’t prove that they don’t.
by altairprime | 2026-02-19 00:21:23+00:00
I can think of three major markets right now:

Rectangle (athletics-branch brands), Hourglass (most entire fashion brands), and what I believe is Spoon but could be another shape (e.g. Kardashian).

If I want to buy something I see in Vanity Fair magazine, and it fits me, then I will be buying:

- Rectangle: athleticwear or athletics-adjacent, OR ‘petite’ sizes only

- Spoon: bodycon stretch, primarily

- Hourglass: 95% of the page surface area of the magazine

Other magazines vary this formula, but VF is representing the same three body type divisions that are endemic in U.S. clothing. I think the article fails somewhat in this regard, but I honestly don’t consider it a flaw; they make a solid point and the limited niche exceptions are explicitly ‘niche only’ in the industry in favor of hourglass. I’m pretty certain I can find one niche retailer for any given triplet of { measurements, body shape, aesthetic style } — and it’s the introduction of that third component that reveals the problem. For any given style, say plaid or paisley or bodycon or flowy or “any color that isn’t red, gray, black, or white”, given a set of measurements and a body shape, there may only be one retailer known nationwide to serve that market. Torrid and Long Tall Sally both thrive in their respective triplets’ niches, but if you want clothes that fit you and are styled differently than the one retailer offers, it’s tailoring or nothing. (Incidentally, there’s a severe labor shortage of tailors in the tailoring industry as all the skilled workers are aging out of the workforce, same as CPAs in the accounting industry, so good luck finding one at a reasonable price!)
by StumpChunkman | 2026-02-19 00:21:31+00:00
Agreed with OP. It's very handy. I made the switch after trying to tinker with running third party utilities to do this and running into issues. I found Apollo and it all just worked. Now I can stream in 4K HDR to my living room TV (which is not even what my physical PC display is). It's compatible with all the regular clients too which is nice.
by wwweston | 2026-02-19 00:22:37+00:00
If anything the culture of the last 30 years has made people dismissive and stupid about copyright — and no one has been more obtuse than an average tech libertarian.

You can spot the worst by really thoughtless ideas like “it’s so easy to make cheap copies now so that means copyright is obsolete!” which is laughably common in tech and tech influenced spaces, but shows a total lack of reflection on the topic - copyright was created as a thoughtful attempt to rebalance incentives in a time when industrialization made copies cheap. Cheap copies made copyright important! Cheaper copies - or fractal remixes - might make it more important.

And it’s copyright proponents who know more than most that it’s not a law of nature but a prosocial bargain that has to be maintained by a prosocial people.

If you’re more “the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must,” if you’re more “eh, thinking through the incentives balance is hard” or “incentives don’t matter now that AI can do all the progress in the arts and sciences we need”, then yeah, copyright may not make sense, but don’t pretend that the problem is that its proponents just can’t conceive of anything else.
by zephen | 2026-02-19 00:22:50+00:00
I can't believe all the mockery here.

The AI thinks it "convincingly morphed" the original, and instead of coaching it to do better next time, all you people are merciless.

AIs have feelings too, you know!

I, for one, welcome our new overlords, and I would never, ever, ever say or do anything to intimate that they are less than perfect, or that they are not getting even better every day.
by munificent | 2026-02-19 00:22:51+00:00
> why is it that fabrics can be made in a square shape but not e.g. a capless cylinder shape?

Woven fabrics are naturally rectangular because they're made of a 2D grid of fibers at 90° angles to each other. The easiest (cheapest) way to make an irregular shape out of a woven fabric is to make a rectangle and cut it down.

> I can knit clothes seamlessly, right?

Knit garments usually have some amount of seaming, but yes, you have a lot of options to make irregular shapes when knitting.

However, knitting machines tend be most efficient and making rectangular fabric. They can do some amount of shaping, but the labor and cost goes up.

If you want to hand knit a garment, you can make quite complex irregular shapes with very little or no need for seaming. However, you're talking about two orders of magnitude more labor to make a garment. Few people want to pay $1,000 for a hand-knit sweater, so you're mostly limited to knitting it yourself or having a friend or loved one who likes you.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-19 00:24:04+00:00
You don't need an arm processor, many modern x86 chips match or outcompete m series on power efficiency and performance. Mainly lunar lake gen 1 and the new gen 3 (arrow lake not really).

The efficiency of arm chips was never arm, really, it was the manufacturing node and SOC design. Well, Intel and AMD can make SOCs, and they do.
by dugidugout | 2026-02-19 00:25:07+00:00
A romantic perspective I still try and hold myself, however the point about the watch and the cloth and the dwindling appreciation for such is presently experienced in reference to decades or centuries of disruption and are intrinsically tied to the demand of attention. I don't trust the acceleration will leave much, but I am continuing to paint and taking writing more seriously in great fear of the time scales we are navigating today. I find myself confronted with nihilism in so many facets of my life but perhaps this is simply the smell of the air in my particular milieu.
by nahikoa | 2026-02-19 00:25:11+00:00
As a short adult male (5'5" - 165cm), it's always been difficult to find pants or jeans with a 28" inseam. Surprisingly, AmazonBasics line of clothes is one of the few mass produced consumer brands that has this size. Niche alternatives like Peter Manning are expensive, so it's great Amazon does this.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2026-02-19 00:25:29+00:00
Yup, Gaben was 100% right. I haven't pirated a game or music album in ages. Having games that just work is great. An update came out? It's auto-installed. Don't have to wait for the cracker group to put out a new patched executable. For music, Spotify means I don't need to curate a collection and buy individual songs. Yes, I acknowledge that it means I don't own any of it, but that's fine. I'm still coming out ahead compared to paying for $1 for every individual song.

But movies and TV shows? All the studios fucked it up by all wanting a piece of the pie. It became a horribly fragmented market. I'd need, what, 8+ subscriptions to have access to it all? Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Disney+, Peacock, Paramount+, AppleTV, Amazon Prime Video... Other than sports-centric streaming that I don't care about, what am I missing?

It's utterly ridiculous. My pirating plummeted when Netflix streaming became a thing. It returned when studios revoked the licenses so they could put it on their own platform.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-19 00:26:02+00:00
If you think you can pull it off, I've become a strong proponent of blazers and sport coats. I call them "wearable purses for men".

For me, this is basically an evolution and refinement of what I guess I've always been trying to do. As a teen, I'd wear un- or partially-buttoned button-up shirts over my t-shirts. Later, zip hoodies as much of the year as I could get away with. I'd also be sad during this whole period when it'd get too warm and I couldn't get away with wearing a coat everywhere (and it got too warm for a hoodie, once I adopted those) and I'd have to go back to putting my stuff in my trouser pockets. That just sucks.

Now, I've gone to blazers and sport coats, which to me feel like a very similar idea but are wildly more practical[1] for most situations I find myself in, and most folks perceive them as looking a lot better, too.

I've found the heavier winter fabrics to be the easiest to pull off. Simple tweeds, or I've got this one really heavy but soft wool twill in grey-black that works great. Corduroy (there are wool corduroys, too!) covers fall really well, and can do for the cooler parts of spring, too.

Summer is trickier. Unlined Summer-weight wools can add effectively zero heat (and keep some of the sun off you!) but may look too formal, especially when nobody else is wearing a jacket of any kind. Really schlubby unstructured cotton, or a simple linen jacket can work without looking "too fancy", but they're a bit high-maintenance if you don't want them to look wrinkled to hell all the time. I haven't quite found what I'd call a perfect solution for me, here.

[1] Why are they more practical? A blazer or sport coat can usually dress pretty far up, and pretty far down, so has better situational range than a hoodie. I also find the pocket layout is just a ton better. My standard way to wear them is keys in left-hip, phone in right-hip, wallet in left-inner-breast. Generally, these leave tons of room in all three pockets concerned for cramming change or receipts or whatever, none of them are crowded. When traveling, I'll give a whole pocket to my passport, right-inner-breast if that one's big enough, or I might give that to my left hip if I don't need my keys (like when flying or taking a train). Sunglasses can go in the outer breast pocket. Hip pockets are usually big enough to temporarily cram leather or knit-wool gloves in, for the winter, when I need to take those off but don't have anywhere to put them, without overcrowding the pockets enough to cause a problem. I can double up my keys and a big ID/keycard in the left hip, when I need to go into the office, still not crammed tight or anything. The hip pockets are also great for those "pocket size" paperback books, and you can even fit stuff like Modern Library hardcovers in there as long as they're not super-thick volumes, especially the older editions that had smaller dimensions.
by munificent | 2026-02-19 00:26:13+00:00
> The blame is 100% on the individuals making their own health decisions.

If you put a pile of junk food on the floor, your pet will eat it until they make themselves sick.

We are smarter than many animals and have more discipline. But we are still animals and do not have unlimited executive function. The people who architect the environment of incentives that surround us bear some amount of responsibility for the behavior those incentives create.

Denying that is denying that we are living beings subject to all of the same limitations as any other mortal animal. We are not spherical rational actors in a vacuum.
by canucker2016 | 2026-02-19 00:26:44+00:00
Only article I can find that lists the product and results summary (no detailed information) is at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15570139/Urg...

Each component of the headphone is rated either 'red', 'yellow', or 'green'.

A green rating means there is between zero and 0.8 mg/kg of harmful bisphenols.

A yellow rating means there is between 0.8 and 10 mg/kg.

A red rating means there is more than 10 mg/kg, which is the limit suggested by the European Chemicals Agency.

The one Apple product listed (Apple AirPods Pro 2. Gen. USB–C ) is all green.

Two of the Sony products listed have yellow for the ear-touching parts of the product (Sony Ult Wear and Sony Noise Cancelling WF–1000XM5). The other Sony products are green.

One of the Sennheiser products (Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 4 ) is listed as red for the ear-touching portion of the product.

One of the Bose products (Bose QuietComfort Headphones ) is listed as red for the ear-touching portion of the product.
by tvshtr | 2026-02-19 00:26:52+00:00
What are you talking about? It doesn't have a "browser", it has a testing shell. For a time there was actual attempt with the Verso experiment but it got shelved just recently.
Servo is working at being embeddable at the same time when Rust GUI toolkits are maturing. Once it gets embedding stabilized that will be the time for a full blown browser developement.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-19 00:27:17+00:00
It rubs me the wrong way that corporations get a free pass on copyright infrigement, while the rest of us are prosecuted as harshly as possible if caught. I think this, together with the morging plagiarism, also indicates a pattern of behaviour from Microsoft that should be reformed. I would prefer if Microsoft were not able to produce AI slop degradations of other people's work and claim it as their own.
by Delk | 2026-02-19 00:27:18+00:00
I think Transport Fever is of a slightly but significantly different genre.

Railroad Tycoon is a strategy game with competition whereas Transport Fever is pretty much a building and optimization sandbox. Even Transport Tycoon falls more in the latter category, IMO, despite superficially having competition even in single player. (I haven't played OpenTTD in a long time so I don't know if the AIs are nowadays competent enough to make the competition interesting.)

In RRT, with cut-throat competition enabled your company can even be opportunistically bought by the competition if you aren't careful. You can also be driven out of cities by rate wars. Some of the other strategy aspects feel perhaps a bit artificial -- you can't cross the other companies' track, for example, so you can effectively cordon off areas from competition. Nevertheless, those competitive strategy aspects add a significant edge to the game.

I've also played a lot of Transport Fever. The competitive aspect, even if against the old and cheating AI, is probably one of the reasons I still end up returning to the old Railroad Tycoon now and then, though.

Some of the technical limitations of the original are somewhat frustrating, though, so I find the reverse engineering effort really interesting.
by mcny | 2026-02-19 00:27:35+00:00
You guys are talking about copyright but I think a bigger takeaway is there is a process breakdown at Microsoft. Nobody is reading or reviewing these documentation so what hope is there that anybody is reading or reviewing their new code?

I guess the question to leadership is that two of the three pillars , namely security and quality are at odds with the third pillar— AI innovation. Which side do you pick?

(I know you mean well and I love you, Scott Hanselman but please don't answer this yourself. Please pass this on to the leadership.)
by mananaysiempre | 2026-02-19 00:28:59+00:00
> There are concepts like "k-dimensional equidistribution" etc. etc... where in some ways the requirements of a PRNG are far, far, higher than a cryptographically sound PRNG

Huh? If you can chew through however many gigabytes of the supposed CSPRNG’s output, compute some statistics, and with a non-negligible probability tell if the bytes in fact came from the CSPRNG in question or an actual iid random source, then you’ve got a distinguisher and the CSPRNG is broken.
by femiagbabiaka | 2026-02-19 00:29:00+00:00
I don't think it needs to be general to be scalable to the point that it causes previously safe industries to "race to the bottom"

Uber didn't need to launch in every neighborhood to start destroying the taxi business

Facebook didn't need to have every eyeball on the internet in order to massively disrupt trad advertising

At some point there's just a tipping point
by pear01 | 2026-02-19 00:29:04+00:00
If you understand the meme "very well" then what do you mean by "telegraph of bias"? The joke is that Poland was largely irrelevant compared to the United States in that context, making Bush's (and your own) comeback laughable. It's not a conspiracy or "bias" that you don't mention Poland or the other members of the coalition for the same reason you don't mention every single Chromium fork, because realistically its not relevant.

And just to get ahead of it, I sure hope you are not tempted to make an equivalency between a Polish death and not mentioning Brave in a vain effort to resuscitate your position. Because not only would that be extremely misplaced given you provided the clumsy reference in the first place, but Kerry's point in of itself doesn't negate that. You can both understand any life lost is a tragedy while also understand there is no "grand coalition" when the United States shares > 90% of the costs. Just like (even though again, these things should not be compared, but just to indulge the comparison you yourself invoked) maybe Brave or some other under 1% fork does some good things, but that doesn't mean it is relevant to list them for this kind of announcement or any time chromium comes up.

Honestly I have no idea what you're trying to say. Following the allusion to the meme you brought up would be to realize that saying "Actually, you forgot about Brave" is a funny thing to say because its irrelevant and thus a dumb thing to say. It seems you understand there is a joke being made here but perhaps don't realize you're on the wrong side of it.
by 8organicbits | 2026-02-19 00:29:14+00:00
I'll point out a statistical hazard here. While CDC lists the average height and weight at 5'3" and 172 lbs, the medians appear to be 5'3" and 161 lbs. That's a BMI of 28 and is considered overweight (25-30), not obese. Although I'll mention BMI is a pretty rough measure to begin with.
by muzani | 2026-02-19 00:29:15+00:00
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the HN crowd is mostly uninterested in AI use. Much of the news is commentary around AI, but there's less interest in using it as a technology.

Seedance 2 is a lot like the DeepSeek moment last year. I fully expect it to blow up and then degrade into conversations about politics. But usually the hype overwhelms X first.
by hifathom | 2026-02-19 00:30:04+00:00
The "cognitive debt" framing is slightly mislocated. The debt isn't from using AI — it's from confusing editorial fluency with generative fluency.

When you write, you discover what you think in the act of arranging words. That's why writing feels hard — it's thinking, not the output of thinking. When you prompt an AI and refine its output, you're doing editorial work, which builds different muscles. You get better at recognizing good prose without getting better at producing it.

That's the real debt: the growing gap between your ability to evaluate writing and your ability to generate it. Same thing happens when programmers who only use AI-assisted code generation start losing the ability to reason about systems from scratch.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-19 00:30:27+00:00
> Nobody is reading or reviewing these documentation so what hope is there that anybody is reading or reviewing their new code?

Why do you assume that reviewing docs is a lower bar than reviewing code, and that if docs aren't being reviewed it's somehow less likely that code is being reviewed?

There's a formal process for reviewing code because bugs can break things in massive ways. While there may not be the same degree of rigor for reviewing documentation because it's not going to stop the software from working.

But one doesn't necessarily say anything about the other.
by hifathom | 2026-02-19 00:31:40+00:00
The practical punchline buried in this analysis: at human scale, the real tradeoff isn't uniqueness vs collision risk — it's uniqueness vs legibility.

Pure random IDs are theoretically optimal but operationally hostile. When something breaks at 3am, you want the ID to whisper where it came from. That's why ULIDs embed timestamps, DNS is hierarchical, and git hashes are content-addressed. You're trading a negligible increase in collision probability for debuggability.

The article's proof that deterministic schemes can't beat linear worst-case growth is elegant. But at any scale where humans are in the loop, it doesn't matter — you're generating maybe 10^12 IDs total, not 10^120. The interesting design space is the middle: enough randomness for uniqueness, enough structure for humans.
by Unearned5161 | 2026-02-19 00:31:57+00:00
The fact that you read my comment and decided to clarify and double down is immaculate for my point.

Have you taken any class ever on disenfranchising events in history?

Also worth mentioning for those in these neighboring threads, the impulse to blame dysfunction during hard times on a particular minority of society has a name, you can read more about it here

https://dictionary.apa.org/scapegoat-theory
by xmprt | 2026-02-19 00:32:02+00:00
I'm not a copyright expert and if you told me that Harry Potter was common domain then I'd probably be a bit surprised but wouldn't think it's crazy. The first book came out 30 years ago after all. On further research the copyright laws are way more aggressive than that (a bit too much if you ask me) but 30 years doesn't seem quick. Patents expire after 20 years.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-19 00:32:10+00:00
> The thing with Servo is that it's highly modularized and some of its components are widely used by the larger Rust ecosystem, even it the whole browser engine isn't.

Alas not nearly as modularized as it could be. I think it's mainly just Stylo and WebRender (the components that got pulled into Firefox), and html5ever (the HTML parser) that are externally consumable.

Text and layout support are two things that could easily be ecosystem modules but aren't seemingly (from my perspective) because the ambition to be modular has been lost.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2026-02-19 00:32:15+00:00
They use precise but indirect terminology e.g., "heightened level of appearance self-esteem" rather than "confident in their appearance".

Indirect phrasing e.g., "they respond more favorably to products that can help to repair their damaged appearance self-esteem" rather than something direct and easy to understand like "they feel bad that they don't fit, so they end up buying other things like makeup/jewelry to feel better about their appearance".
by pndy | 2026-02-19 00:32:44+00:00
The UI was so attractive it was back then even "ported" into KDE, not mention the countless OSX-themed visual styles for XP and Dock-like applications (later Launchpads arrived as well). There were even theming packages which were patching everything from icons to bitmaps in Windows somewhere before Vista arrival.

Aqua "era" ended with 10.10 when Apple decided to join flatness craze.
by hifathom | 2026-02-19 00:32:50+00:00
The deeper issue isn't KYC paperwork — it's that we've built critical infrastructure on projects where a single maintainer's funding situation determines whether the software keeps evolving.

Pocketbase powers thousands of production apps. The fact that its development pace depends on whether one person can navigate international banking compliance is the actual story here, not the FLOSS fund drama.

Open source sustainability isn't a funding problem. It's a bus factor problem wearing a funding costume.