MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kjshsh123 | 2026-02-11 15:39:15+00:00
Market housing will be expensive until you allow developers to build as much housing as the market demands.

Non-market housing will have extremely long wait times if there is not as much of it as the market demands.

And the NIMBYs and left-NIMBYs are still winning.

Relevant substack article (Towers Don't Cause the Housing Crisis):

https://open.substack.com/pub/shonczinner/p/towers-dont-caus...
by ericmay | 2026-02-11 15:39:18+00:00
> Its an American company.

Thankfully though a lot of times these ATMs and such are avoided by American tourists because....we just use a credit card.

By the way, those fees are split with other folks. For example you might find that American Euronext ATM in a shopping plaza or outside of a storefront. Those European businesses are getting a cut of that exchange rate.
by visarga | 2026-02-11 15:39:42+00:00
I solved that problem by using the post tool use hook to print the first open checkbox in the task file. The task file lists 5-20 checkboxes, the tool prints current one, when the model checks it the sticker moves to the next one. Like an instruction pointer or a small memory of "what am I doing now".

But this is trivially solved by Plan Mode, or TodoWriter tool. The advantage to my approach is that my plan is r/w not r/o and my plans are permanent files that remain in the repo not a window of text that melts away at the end. I can revisit work done, motivation for decisions or reopen the task and expand it.
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-11 15:39:57+00:00
Generally NDI is not widely used in professional AV. There's a fair bit in prosumer, and a _little_ bit in the low end of pro. But the fact that it's a proprietary protocol (they can claim it's “open” all they want, but the SDK is closed source, there is no spec and they sue people who make open reimplementations), has poor image quality (it's roughly MPEG-2 intraframe, i.e., not very good), has poor latency and isn't very reliable makes it a no-go for most larger installations.
by cduzz | 2026-02-11 15:40:16+00:00
Feynman did physics and told stories.

He was very serious about his physics and wrote that stuff down.

Someone else wrote down his stories. His stories were probably often not entirely accurate, and whomever wrote down his stories also probably had an agenda. So books "by feynman" should be treated with some caution since they're written not by feynman.

His physics and science are obviously not "a sham". It is in fact possible for someone to be great and awful at the same time.
by ecshafer | 2026-02-11 15:40:41+00:00
So someone took recordings of his stories and compiled them into a text....? What does that matter I have seen that entire video in the past, its unsubstantiated garbage that fails mild skepticism. Every point can be explained away trivially. They have an axe to grind against Fenyman / Men generally, and since this goes against the established narrative its therefore heralded as being correct and people blindly follow it.
by lsy | 2026-02-11 15:40:49+00:00
It’s notable that just the English “implementation” of FizzBuzz here is longer and more ambiguous than the naive Python implementation, never mind the boilerplate (which itself is also longer than the Python).

The explosion of frameworks and YAML tools the author describes can be attributed to the fact that English is an extremely poor language for program specification, and requires all kinds of guardrails and annotation to accomplish the same specificity as a typical computer program.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-11 15:41:27+00:00
> The problem with extremely smart people is not many people understand them.

I know this is a common trope in many media portrayals, but it's really not my experience. The "insufferable genius" stereotype tracks most not for the extremely smart people but the kinda-smart people who are absolute jerks but try to defend their jerkassery on the basis of their intelligence.
by edwcross | 2026-02-11 15:41:55+00:00
I assume this will allow carmine red (cochineal) to be considered as "natural", since it's just "crushing thousands of bugs".

Unfortunately, a few cases of negative reactions to cochineal have been documented, and if the coloring is not even indicated in the ingredients, it might make it much harder for people to find out if that turns out to be the cause.
by tristor | 2026-02-11 15:41:57+00:00
> At this point, what am I supposed to do other than uninstall Windows completely?

Uninstall Windows completely 4 years ago when Windows 11 was released heralding in a new era of absolutely insane, self-destructive, unnecessary and unwanted shit?

There is no valid excuse for this vulnerability. It's existence is a category error that's only possible because Microsoft has completely jumped the shark. Continuing to use /any/ of their products is a choice to accept pure insanity as a default.
by segmenta | 2026-02-11 15:42:03+00:00
Thanks!

1. We chose Markdown deliberately so each node is human-readable and editable. The idea is that a project or person note represents the current state of that entity, so you can just open it and understand what’s going on. That also lets users add updates manually, for example from offline conversations that aren’t captured in email or meetings.

In terms of performance, the graph mainly acts as an index over structured notes, and retrieval happens at the note level rather than through complex graph queries. So for our use case, plain files have been sufficient and keep the system simple and transparent.

2. It’s actually Obsidian-compatible. The notes use Obsidian-style backlinks, and you can open the folder directly as an Obsidian vault if you’d like.
by rramadass | 2026-02-11 15:42:05+00:00
> Sommerfeld Landau Schwinger

I am the OP who posted this with an idea of eliciting other notable works on Physics and comparing them to Feynman Lectures. I do not want this to be derailed into talking about the man.

While i know of Landau & Lifshitz, i have not read Arnold Sommerfeld's nor Julian Schwinger's works.

I sincerely suggest that you post a top-level comment in this thread with your takes on Feynman vs. Other authors works that you mention. This would be of great help to everybody interested in Physics and Science.
by bevelwork | 2026-02-11 15:42:09+00:00
We had a house growing up in Alaska with a steep pitch, and our Dad would get us in trouble for parking the car "too close" to the threshold of the house where the the accumulated snow on the roof could slide of and pound anything in its path.

One day sitting at the dinner table, we heard a giant slide and heard it smash onto the car, and fortunately we found the car keys in my Dad's jacket that night.
by boringg | 2026-02-11 15:42:11+00:00
Headline- > "Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer" ...... "who is credited with helping create the technology behind GIFs, will be charged with improving New Yorkers’ digital access to essential"

"Ms. Gelobter, an entrepreneur, was also on the launch team for the streaming service Hulu and founded tEQuitable, a company that uses technology to make workplaces more equitable."

Im sure shes fine -- to be fair its a chief technologist for a city mayor. They don't really need to have heavy hitting credentials....
by mortos | 2026-02-11 15:42:32+00:00
SCE will screw you nearly as hard. We are on a tiered usage which is the cheapest they offer and it's $0.32/kWh and even at that rate the EV isn't much cheaper than the non-hybrid I replaced. I'd need to switch to a ToU plan which would increase my other electricity costs.

Also for depreciation:

2020 Mazda 3 - sold $18k at dealer, originally $28k, 64% retained

2022 Kia EV6 - bought $25k, originally $55k-$7.5k federal, 53% retained
by tshaddox | 2026-02-11 15:43:00+00:00
The exercises are fun (and easy for now, but I'm only on stage 3)!

I must say I was briefly surprised at how disorienting it is to see a graphic of a keyboard from A3 to A4. When you don't see the set of 3 black keys consecutively and instead see what looks like 2 sets of 2 black keys, it really takes a second to orient yourself!
by nucatus | 2026-02-11 15:43:19+00:00
I can’t stand all this hype anymore. They’re pushing it so hard that I’m starting to develop an AI phobia. If it were really that good, they’d already be making big money off it. But it’s not — it just needs your data (codebase?), supposedly to make it better. The fact is, at least they’ve gotten halfway there, which from their perspective, is sweet. All the AI labs are actually losing a ton of $$$ to this AI race, but the data, ohh yeah! Let's go, baby!

I am strictly talking about the coding capabilities of the LLM, and not their core LLM capabilities, which they genuinely excel at.
by Rohansi | 2026-02-11 15:43:21+00:00
I think there are more text editors around that render clickable links than there are that don't. Even your terminal probably renders clickable links.

Despite the scary words and score this wouldn't even be a vulnerability if people weren't so hard wired to click every link they see. It's not some URL parsing gone wrong triggering an RCE. Most likely they allowed something like file:// links which of course opens that file. Totally valid link, but the feature must be neutered to only http(s):// because people.
Show HN: Bitcoin, GEB, and Bach's fugues share the same structural move
by falsework | 2026-02-11 15:43:34+00:00
I built FalseWork to identify transferable structural mechanisms across creative domains—not metaphors, but functional patterns that operate identically across mediums.

The claim: Bitcoin's proof chains, Hofstadter's GEB, and Bach's Art of Fugue all do the same thing—they make infrastructure into content. The mechanism that should be invisible becomes the primary subject.

See the analyses:

Bitcoin: https://falsework.dev/structural-profile/54cdc4d6-4a22-4cfb-...
GEB: https://falsework.dev/structural-profile/87f95a2d-d01b-474a-...
Bach: https://falsework.dev/structural-profile/39f92a7e-92fb-4140-...

237 works analyzed across 28 domains. Recurring patterns: Infrastructure Foregrounding, Temporal-Spatial Conversion, Systematic Constraint Exposure.

I used LLMs as a high-throughput parser to identify structural candidates, which I then manually vetted and mapped into this taxonomy. I'm interested in whether these mappings feel "true" to people who work in these specific stacks.

https://falsework.dev

Discuss the epistemology: https://reddit.com/r/AIEpistemology
by pants2 | 2026-02-11 15:43:44+00:00
This is an interesting way to frame it, but then the obvious question is, for areas where it almost never gets above freezing, why doesn't the snow get infinitely thick?

The other main ways you lose snow are: sublimation, wind blowing it elsewhere, compaction, and getting dirty (darker color helps it melt in the sun). All of these are relevant for other cities in the snow.
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-02-11 15:43:44+00:00
You are missing the point - it's an economic point. Very little R&D was put into said processors. The scale wasn't there. The software stack wasn't there (because the scale wasn't there).

No one is suggesting gaming chips were the first time someone thought of such an architecture or built a chip with such an architecture. They are suggesting the gaming industry produced the required scale to actually do all the work which lead to that hardware and software being useful for other purposes. In chip world, scale matters a lot.
by uv-depression | 2026-02-11 15:43:45+00:00
> With frontier LLM agents, the digital loop is happening now to an extent

I see no evidence of this, just a lot of people claiming it (very loudly, for the most part).

> that extent probably grows larger (research automation) soon

The word probably is doing a lot of work here.

> The usual constraints of physical law still apply

There are knowledge constraints, too. I can't build a quark matter processor without understanding quark matter to a vastly higher level than we do now. I can't do that without experiments on quark matter, I can't do experiments without access to a lot of energy, material, land, &c, that need to be assembled. There are a huge number of very difficult and time-consuming instrumental goals on the path to fundamentally better compute.

> A separate point: there's also deductive exploration (pure math) as distinct from empirical exploration (physics), which is not bounded by any physical constraints except for those that bound computation itself.

Sure, but physics requires math that is definitionally applied, not pure, and engineering requires physics.
by senordevnyc | 2026-02-11 15:43:45+00:00
A good nanny for four kids is definitely more than $6k / month in lots of parts of America, you're ignoring the downsides of nannies (like when they get sick, or need time off, etc), you're ignoring a lot of the upsides of daycare (like socialization), and the research does not support your claim that kids do better being raised by a nanny than daycare.

It's totally fine that you've chosen a nanny over daycare. I did for my first, and I think we'll go with a nanny for my second, but you're presenting a wildly misleading perspective here.
by superactro | 2026-02-11 15:43:45+00:00
Fair point on the light bulb comparison - you're right that most household bulbs are well under 15W now with LEDs. I've updated the marketing to be more specific: 15W is comparable to a phone charger, which is more accurate.

On the Mac Mini comparison: the M4 Mini is great hardware, but it idles at 2-4W because it's not doing anything. Once you're running Chrome + Whisper STT + an LLM simultaneously (which is what ClawBox does 24/7), you're looking at 30-60W on a Mini. The Jetson's GPU handles all three workloads concurrently at 15W because it was designed for exactly this kind of edge AI inference.

Re: OpenClaw being "AI slop" - it's open source (https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw), MIT licensed, 78K+ Discord members. Been around for a while and actively maintained. But I get the skepticism - the AI hardware space is noisy. Happy to answer specific technical questions if you're curious about the actual architecture.
Show HN: cbt (C++ Build Tool)
by swar-mukh | 2026-02-11 15:43:47+00:00
It's been a while since I have been developing this. But today I want to make an official announcement here (and my first in HackerNews).

`cbt` is a command-oriented and command-only build tool that allows one to develop applications and libraries in C++ without resorting to make-files or any heavyweight build-tools.

It comes with its own dependency resolution management system, plus it is completely decentralised. As long as an URL refers to a `tar.gz` file and the library follows strict `cbt` directory structure format, it can be built and linked easily.

Every other historical tools till date are beautiful and have their own respective places, but I felt that I can do much better for the community.

I have made the eighth release here: https://github.com/swar-mukh/cbt/releases/tag/cbt-2026.02.06

Do share your thoughts and feedbacks. Yes, there's a long way to go and fix various bugs, but I shall be there.
by acdha | 2026-02-11 15:43:54+00:00
Here are two daily occurrences contradicting that:

1. The driver realizes out of their peripheral vision that the light has changed but wants to finish the urgent TikTok they’re watching so they accelerate, often rapidly, without looking around and fails to notice other road users. I’ve seen people hit other cars because they didn’t notice the car ahead of them had stopped accelerating due to congestion, and countless times where they almost or did hit someone (fortunately never fatally) in the crosswalk because they were in “green means go mode” before they were fully back to looking outside their vehicle.

2. The driver continues to look at their phone and fails to notice when the light changes. Someone behind them gets mad and does something dangerous to pass such as driving in the opposite traffic lane, a bike lane, or in a pedestrian space.

Yes, many people do look at phones without hitting anyone but that’s like saying it’s okay to celebrate by firing a gun in the air because only a few people get hit. It’s a statistical certainty that the more times someone engages in unsafe activity, the more people will be on the unlucky side of those odds. If you have a couple million daily car trips in London, even 99.9999% safety means someone getting hurt every day.
by Schmerika | 2026-02-11 15:43:54+00:00
> The "all the entities are wildly rotten and corrupt" meme is hyperstitious. I wish people would think before spreading it.

Out of the 27 authors of Daszak's Lancet paper, used worldwide to claim that Coronavirus couldn't have come from a lab, how many had a conflict of interest?

How many news outlets repeated their claims verbatim, rather than reading it themselves to find the obvious 'errors'?

And how many academic institutions pointed out its flaws?

...

Too old an example? Ok - how many institutions sat on the Epstein files, lied about them, kept them sealed, etc, for decades? How many political leaders and business owners worldwide had direct links themselves?

How many media companies are giving adequate attention to climate change, and refusing to run ads from fossil fuel companies?

How many institutions/countries dared to tell Biden that arming genocide and vetoing ceasefires isn't actually okay? How many countries have sanctioned the perpetrators?

Read anything about EPA corruption lately? How about what ICE have been doing? Anyone in DOGE face any accountability for permanently compromising key government databases yet?

Because again, if you're relying on media and institutions to get your news on these things you might think everything is fine. It really, really isn't though. You gotta do your own research, I'm afraid.

... And no, none of that was because people believed the "all the entities are wildly rotten and corrupt" "meme". It wasn't ever that they just didn't trust the system enough.

Quite the opposite.
by MosoPlant | 2026-02-11 15:44:07+00:00
A few questions:
_ Do you have a price range you are targeting that you can specify?
_ Regarding the device not needing a phone, I'm curious regarding the rationale behind that specification?_______
_ Would your sense be that compared to the general population, is the "spacial sense" of sight impaired individuals?_______

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#Grabbb (3d desk you access w your phone)
#15minus1
#ProspectingForGood
#VoTeTe
Etc... 2026.02.11_08.43.26 ~ 11m ]
by SPICLK2 | 2026-02-11 15:44:21+00:00
Tumeric is a chemical that has been extracted from plants!

Your scenario holds for any part of any food processing, not just food colours. The issue is that the definition of "natural" when applied to food is impossible to pin down. Can we process using solvents? What if those solvents were brewed? At what point does heat and pressure treatment become "unnatural"? Can I use an acid for processing? Can I use vinegar?

The various vegetable, seed and nut oils that form the basis for so many food products are very problematic if you want "natural" food.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-11 15:44:21+00:00
The answer to your question is that chemistry is a science and we know what we are doing.

Also, that arsenic is naturally occurring and our body can handle it.

If you have ever drank apple juice or eaten rice, you have consumed arsenic. If you grow rice in the dirt with zero pesticides, it will have arsenic in it. The FDA sets the limits at the parts per billion level.

The biological half life of inorganic arsenic in a human is about 4 days, which is why people generally don't die from eating a few apple seeds over their lifetime.

If you learn chemistry, you can learn how <Chemical whatever> can be part of your extraction process yet not be part of the final product. It's a standard part of chemistry. It's fallible though, which is why the processes used for chemicals that go into food often use different processes than versions of that chemical not meant for consumption, and they have stricter regulations on purity and contaminants.
by abeppu | 2026-02-11 15:44:41+00:00
So this is obviously dumb and short-sighted. But also ... why do they need it?

- withdrawing the legal scaffolding that allowed the EPA to regulate emissions seems unnecessary if your EPA is already willing to just not actively regulate emissions?

- and the Trump administration has been surprisingly/concerningly successful when just ignoring the law regardless, so why does this corner of regulatory law matter?
by coder543 | 2026-02-11 15:44:45+00:00
If you want OCR with the big LLM providers, you should probably be passing one page per request. Having the model focus on OCR for only a single page at a time seems to help a lot in my anecdotal testing a few months ago. You can even pass all the pages in parallel in separate requests, and get the better quality response much faster too.

But, as others said, if you can't afford mistakes, then you're going to need a human in the loop to take responsibility.
by Wonderman2332 | 2026-02-11 15:44:52+00:00
I guess the real question is how to prepare for it?
Do you buy real assets like that car you wanted?
Do you travel more?
Do you spend your life in the gym like bryan johnson?
Do you smoke weed everyday?
If true societial upheaval is up on us and america falls into the abyss of mass unemployment and starvation, what are you all doing with your last four years? Before the real chaos begins
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-11 15:45:36+00:00
Canal boats had no engines, they were pulled by horses and very slow and dependent on a lot of horse care and feeding. Some of the early static steam engines were used to pump water up the canals to re-use it in locks, and there were lock keepers to employ and dredging to do, so it's not even as if the canals were a sunk cost and had almost no running costs.

I'd not be surprised that industrialists would do such a thing as buy up the competition and shut it down, but I'd be a bit surprised if canals were much competition after railways really came in?
Lessons learned building a Node.js malware scanner to 400 stars (Open Source)
by alrjoe | 2026-02-11 15:46:43+00:00
Hi Hacker News — I’m the maintainer of pompelmi, a Node.js malware-scanner library/CLI for protecting file uploads.
One thing I learned the hard way: stars come from consistency, not a 3-day promotion sprint. It took me ~2 months to reach the first 100 stars, with daily outreach and steady shipping. Crossing 400+ happened after repeating the same loop over and over.
What worked for me
Daily, honest promotion (but not spam): sharing progress on communities like Reddit, Dev.to, etc. Not “look at my repo”, but “here’s a real problem + what I built + what I learned”.
Newsletter outreach after the first traction (100–200 stars): I started emailing code newsletters asking for feedback and whether it was a fit. Law of big numbers: send 50, maybe 5 reply, maybe 2 feature you — but those 2 can change everything (I had noticeable star spikes).
Ship constantly: I tried to release at least a small update weekly (or every ~2 weeks). Even micro-releases keep momentum and help credibility.
Website + docs + demo: I built a small blog site explaining the approach and implementation details, and a demo site so people can try the product quickly without setup friction.
README polish matters: badges (coverage, downloads, etc.), clear snippets, diagrams/flowcharts, and translations. It’s basically your landing page.
Ask for contributors (clearly): once the project was stable enough, I added contributor guidance so people could help without needing a lot of hand-holding.
Biggest lesson
Patience beats hacks. If you keep improving the product and making it easy to understand/try, the distribution channels start working for you instead of you pushing forever.
Repo: https://github.com/pompelmi/pompelmi�
Happy to answer questions about outreach, docs, what I’d do differently, or what I’m building next.