MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blackcatsec | 2026-02-19 06:10:53+00:00
I think the depths of the answers here, particularly with China, are far beyond the scope of technical discussion and to be honest likely beyond the scope of European-specific tech needs. Just because the US did one thing a certain way, and China did it another way; doesn't mean Europe must follow either of those to be successful.

However, it is going to require public funds to achieve. A public/private partnership scenario is very likely at least the near to mid term future for European tech development. And the world can only stand to benefit.

Politically, nationalism is absolutely very bad and it's a shame the world is headed in this direction. This global distrust only serves chaos agents and accelerates us into another World War (if we aren't already in the early stages of one). I had hope that people would prefer to come together but it's unfortunately too risky with US politics.
by simianwords | 2026-02-19 06:11:30+00:00
I don’t see the point of agent frameworks. Other than durability and checkpoints how does it help me?

Claude code already works as an agent that calls tools when necessary so it’s not clear how an abstraction helps here.

I have been really confused by langchain and related tech because they seem so bloated without offering me any advantages?

I genuinely would like to know what I’m missing.
by barrell | 2026-02-19 06:11:39+00:00
Two counters:

1. I'm not sure China caught up so quickly due to any lack of nationalism.

2. There's an allure to working with an EU business because it's in the EU because they're less likely to jerk you around. You have no idea how many times I get told their in nothing they can do, then have to drop the 'I live in the EU and this is illegal' card, and magically the problem is resolved by the next email.
by senthilnayagam | 2026-02-19 06:13:15+00:00
I have a ipad second generation, it cant be used anymore because the activation server endpoint is gone. wish there was a way to use it as a secondary monitor if not for anything else.

all older intel macs which could not be updated to macos 26 have been installed with ubuntu. I have one more old m1 macbook air, which has a broken screen, and mac security does not allow me to login with a external monitor. that would become ubuntu when I get more time to install
by phaser | 2026-02-19 06:13:27+00:00
Every time I see an idea like this (or a politician talking about tech 'sovereignty') I feel sad for the 20-year-old me who really believed in the declaration of the independence of cyberspace.

> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

edit: formatting
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-19 06:14:04+00:00
It's really sad seeing governments flailing about, not doing much, other than mucking about with totalitarian control systems. Governments are full bore ahead on trying to put the genie back in the bottle, to undo our ability to go about unmolested.

And alas they are having way too much success. Either restricting rights, or obstinately just bringing up the same awful policies again and again and again, to try to shift the Overton window against what is accepted, or to try to get a lucky break & get some of their creeping state surveillance in by luck.

No one seems to be playing the numbers game, taking 2% chance of working shot after 2% chance to actually give us rights, protect our rights. Governments just take take taking, each nation thinking it should be allowed to say how the internet needs to work.
by ArekDymalski | 2026-02-19 06:14:22+00:00
>Building a market reserved for mediocre tech solutions sounds like the wrong way to make Europe more independent.

The traction which is proverbial "wind in the sails" for further development must come from somewhere. A new promotional channel might help with it.

Also I don't think it's any kind on nationalism. Just pragmatism for the very unstable times.
by budududuroiu | 2026-02-19 06:14:39+00:00
Realistically, what you're asking for won't happen unless there's a strong push for Federalisation.

Unfortunately, most Eastern Bloc countries are led into the false belief that the EU is encroaching on their ways of life and "making them eat ze bugs", and the Brussels elite is more concerned with using their slim remaining political capital to push restrictions on internet freedoms rather than federalisation.
by qingcharles | 2026-02-19 06:15:01+00:00
Anna's Archive has done a lot of work with ISBNs, e.g.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/all-isbns-winners.html

AA makes use of a WorldCat scrape they performed:

https://annas-archive.li/blog/worldcat-scrape.html

I'm currently working on an ISSN database, which is periodicals, and is grossly underrepresented compared to books.
by jsnsll | 2026-02-19 06:15:09+00:00
Yes I am very tired of it as well. I thought the crypto craze was as bad as it would get but boy was I wrong.

I’m going to live a simpler life where I work on making video games as a creative endeavor. I’ll try to find a part time job to earn some money, but mainly just adjust my expectations to be happier with what I have as opposed to what I could have.

I’ve wedged myself into the correct shape to fit into what companies classified as a productive tech worker for 10+ years mainly out of fear of being poor, so now I must repay that debt to myself by doing things just for the sake of enjoyment or fulfillment and not to build a skill that makes me better at making more money.
by zdragnar | 2026-02-19 06:15:37+00:00
New atoms form all the time, either through fusion or fission. The latter is happening right now all around you- either from potassium in plants breaking down, to radon gas that sept up from the ground, to carbon itself. All of these have unstable isotopes with half lives short enough to have at least a little activity near you.

Given that constant change to the available combinations of sets, it would seem that a truly capable system would need to be practically infinite, no?
by ogurechny | 2026-02-19 06:15:41+00:00
Anyone who decided to make a catalogue for any decent enough library found that out on the first day.

(By “decent enough” I mean breadth. If you are strictly collecting some genre products from a small number of commercial publishers, you might be in the walled garden where everything just works.)

SBNs were introduced when, in addition to existing mass production, mass accounting and storage management for each item became possible (with computers). Outside of the centrally controlled environments they don't work well, or mean much. Sure, national authorities make enough rules about having proper ISBNs, but they do get ignored.

There are small university/gallery/collective publications that have bigger print runs than “official” books on some specific topic. There are books that are uniquely made or uniquely altered, and therefore can't share the identifier with another item. Most common example is getting an autograph — you probably want to know precisely where you've put the copy of Bible signed by the author, not just any other Bible that looks the same. Some people oppose ISBNs for political reasons, and either ignore them, or invent bogus numbers.

Then there's International aspect. Soviet Union, for example, did not use ISBNs until the very last of its years. There are still many books printed there — including complete works every scholar needs to reference — that never had any ISBNs.

Some works have been published for that last time a century ago. Some of them might had been immensely popular back in the days, but now they are forgotten. Others have been re-printed, but you've managed to get the first printed edition, a small book of then-unknown author. Those also won't have ISBNs.

So the idea itself that any book must be an interchangeable product from the batch in which each item has the same effect, and therefore can have the same identifier, is a bit narrow.

Obviously, professional librarians could instantly tell you that ISBN is merely one of the search markers, and is not the way the inventory is kept.
by cyberax | 2026-02-19 06:16:08+00:00
How about European ASML?

> Europe needs a single market for capital and the removal of legal barriers to extend across the continent, foremost for the little guy.

?!?

You can trivially sell your software inside the EU. As for software that I use almost daily: OsmAnd. LanguageTool, which is spell-checking this message, is made in Germany. IntelliJ products are made in Czechia, and I'm using them right now.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-19 06:16:59+00:00
This is such a gold mine project! thanks for sharing it.

I suppose, if someone in future might want to create their own godot-alternative. Why not just use bgfx with the language bindings instead.

I Love Godot from my time tinkering with it but one of the reasons why Godot is so hopeful in future compared to other engines is imo the fact that they support many many platforms.

I have seen some blogposts on HN where someone used godot to prototype an android GUI application (and not a game) and how the whole process actually makes sense when you think about where they talked about it in the blog post.

Actually there were discussions about even integrating bgfx into raylib (the goat) but looks like that its not getting integrated but it was interesting to read the discussion and maybe anyone more experienced than me could even contribute to the discussion below

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/discussions/1699
by karambahh | 2026-02-19 06:17:33+00:00
Feels like you're addressing two different topics in one comment.

Legally speaking, a one person company can address the whole EEA market. From a marketing/sales standpoint yeah, sure, it's probably hard to address culturally different markets like Portugal, Poland and Sweden.

But it does not have much to do with regulations, especially not ones decided at the EU level.

I'm all for better integration but diverse cultures are here to stay....

Sample size of one, but done business in Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Germany: main issues were not regulation related...
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-19 06:18:03+00:00
> Good news all around, then

I dare you to find an era of history when the dominant military power losing wars it started worked out well for anyone. Its citizens. Its neighbours. Even its enemies, who may profit in the long run from the instability but still bear its costs in the short.

The best is peace. Second best is fewer folks feeling they have to blow shit up to soothe a wounded pride.
by jimnotgym | 2026-02-19 06:18:23+00:00
> Using a European solution just because it’s European sounds wrong to me.

That depends who you are, and what you are doing. If you have information stored such that having it in US infrastructure is a national security risk, then you might think differently.

>but governments should copy some of the reasons the breeding grounds in the US and China exist.

Which reasons should they copy? Massive government subsidies? Large grants masquerading as defence contracts? Threatening foreign governments to force market access with taxation lower than the native businesses? Are you saying European governments should favour European companies just because they are European?
by dudeinhawaii | 2026-02-19 06:19:12+00:00
I think you've stated this in reverse.

API limits are infinite but you'd blow through $20 of usage in a maybe 1 hours or less of intense Opus use.

The subscription at $20/mo (or $200) allows for vastly more queries than $20 would buy you via API but you are constrained by hourly/weekly limits.

The $20/mo sub user will take a lot longer to complete a high token count task (due to start/stop) BUT they will cap their costs.
by streetfighter64 | 2026-02-19 06:19:42+00:00
> I think the least useful is the one that views property as whatever government says property is.

That's not what I'm saying by a long shot either. And "intellectual property does not exist at all" is a far less useful view.

> We note that animals defend scarce territory, that toddlers are upset when something they have is taken from them, that we distinguish jealousy regarding something we have and want to keep versus covetousness of something another has and we want to obtain.

Well, do you not think this holds for ideas as well? Do you think nobody ever said "That guy stole my joke" before 1970?
by moring | 2026-02-19 06:20:48+00:00
> HN, and firefox users, can never decide where the money should go or what the goals should be.

Without ever having dealt with this problem, it sounds like an embarrassingly solved problem, in the sense of: He who gives the money, decides where it goes.

The other half is to provide features that are actually detrimental if you don't want them as plug-ins / extensions / whatever. Pocket is an example for this. Firefox OS is not because it's not force-bundled with Firefox to begin with.

> They're switching to Chrome because they just don't care about being fucked up the ass, or worse, they secretly want to be.

The point where you stop trying to understand your users is the point where you start losing them.
by fingerlocks | 2026-02-19 06:21:00+00:00
Nowhere does it say structs provide “one source of truth”. It says the opposite actually- that classes are to be used when unique instances are required. All classes have a unique ID, which is simply it’s virtual memory address. Structs by contrast get memcpy’d left and right and have no uniqueness.

You can also look at the source code for the language if any it’s confusing. It’s very readable.
by roenxi | 2026-02-19 06:21:07+00:00
> if some women absolutely can't find something in their size from a specific brand, that makes the brand even more exclusive, like it being "for fit people only"

The elephants in the room from the raw data is it is very clear some brands do not want average middle aged women wearing their products. Anthropology seems to be the most clear about this in that they have a literal gap between their standard and plus-sized ranges that excludes the adult median woman.

Now some brands might do that out of snobishness, but I expect there is a feedback loop here:

1) Young, attractive women want to make fashion choices that signal they are young, attractive women.

2) They buy from fashion lines that don't fit average adult women.

3) Average adult women detect that the fashionable choice is these brands and feel left out, because a fair number of them would also like to be young and attractive again. And a small but significant fraction feel really left out if some clothing brand calls them a size 20 waist / fat / shaped like a rectangle. Clothing brands detect this in their customer studies and respond appropriately.

4) People who just want clothes buy from H&M or wherever and don't write articles about how hard it is to fit clothes.

"Women" isn't really a homogeneous category when it comes to clothing, there is ongoing fierce competition between lots of different sub-groups of the female population to signal lots of different things. Men have it a bit easier because there is basically a 4-quadrant choice between upper & lower class, formal & casual with a lot of intricacy for people who care a lot about what brand of black leather shoe they own. Young girls are closer to men in that they aren't really trying to signal anything at that age, so clothing fits are a lot easier to manage.
by chickensong | 2026-02-19 06:21:10+00:00
Your core customers are clearly having a blast building their own custom interfaces, so obviously the thing to do is update TOS and put a stop to it! Good job lol.

I know, I know, customer experience, ecosystem, gardens, moats, CC isn't fat, just big boned, I get it. Still a dick move. This policy is souring the relationship, and basically saying that Claude isn't a keeper.

I'll keep my eye-watering sub for now because it's still working out, but this ensures I won't feel bad about leaving when the time comes.
by hopfog | 2026-02-19 06:21:32+00:00
Actually even higher level than that: it's all JavaScript, but it relies heavily on multithreading (see the linked Noita talk, which uses the same model). But basically:

The world is divided into chunks and the threads are processing them simultaneously in an even-odd checker pattern to avoid race conditions. When all pixels settle in a chunk it falls asleep and can be skipped altogether until an active pixel enters and wakes it up again.
by dh2022 | 2026-02-19 06:21:36+00:00
Even if they have FSD ready tomorrow the financials would not support this valuation.

Summing the sales figures in [0] we get 9M to 10M Teslas on the road. Let's say 10M and and let's say Tesla will keep selling 1.6M / year for the next 5 years [1]. This is 18M Teslas and let's assume all of them are converted into paying customers at $100 / month [2]. This works out to $21 B / year in income. $22 B / year in income cannot justify $1.5 T in market value.

Good thing they are switching to robots :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Timelin...
[1] - this is a huge assumption. Teslas sales are declining because of Musk's image, lack of innovation and competition from China.

[2] this is another huge assumption - I know 5 Teslas owners. They tried the $100 / month assisted driving (or whatever Tesla calls it these days). All said it was cool, but not worth it and did not sign up after the trial period. These are professionals who value their time (tech engineers and 1 banker)
by stackghost | 2026-02-19 06:22:21+00:00
>Show me a European iPhone, European Microsoft, European Nvidia, etc.

The "avoid dependence on the US" movement only really started picking up steam with Trump's accelerating dementia in his second term.

The iPhone, Microsoft, and nVidia all took multiple decades to develop into the behemoths they are today. Famously, the first iPhone was actually expensive trash: no apps, no 3G, couldn't even cut and paste text. It wasn't until the 3G model and the App Store that it became a true success.
by cuttothechase | 2026-02-19 06:22:33+00:00
One could take anything like a cell and split it into genes, molecules, atoms, sub-atomic wave functions (with infinite value range) and take time which can be split into another infinite entity say even within a finite interval. How does this analysis account for that?

I could split this object into 10^500 or 10^50^500^5000 etc., with imagination being the limit.

These values Id'd at whatever imaginable resolution are far from practically useful but at a cosmic scale, there is no telling what is a useful value?

So this framework seems to be more limiting because we define a resolution ?
by foxglacier | 2026-02-19 06:22:53+00:00
There are certainly problems with advertising, some industries, misleading people, etc. But none of that is an ethical problem of failing to credit the originators of ideas. We don't have any ethical obligation to do that. For example, if you learn some knowledge at school, nobody will be hurt if you just use it for free forever without tracking down who first discovered it and crediting them. Same goes for all knowledge. Doing that would cripple any productive work.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-19 06:23:42+00:00
There is a ton of work going into a Tauri based on CEF.
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/tree/feat/cef

My hope is this still acts like a library that multiple Tauri instances share. That would still have the upside of Tauri's shared library architecture (boo statically compiled programs, what a waste of precious ram!) while still letting us have a viable runtime. First app load might not be lightning fast but second app load is hopefully faster!! The OS webviews range from mediocre to absolute garbage; this to me would be a great improvement, that makes me happy!
by brothrock | 2026-02-19 06:24:05+00:00
This article is somewhat reassuring to me, someone experimenting with openclaw on a Max subscription. But idk anything about the blog so would love to hear thoughts.

https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-agent-sdk-confusion/

In my opinion (which means nothing). If you are using your own hardware and not profiting directly from Claude’s use (as in building a service powered by your subscription). I don’t see how this is a problem. I am by no means blowing through my usage (usually <50% weekly with max x5).
by AstroBen | 2026-02-19 06:24:15+00:00
You're right, a lot of the style can be changed from its default. I don't think you can get rid of the soulless aspect though - the lack of underlying relatable consistency.

Especially once you go past a page or two.

When you get to the actual content so much of it just doesn't make sense past a superficial glance

Soulless drivel is very accurate
by nickzier | 2026-02-19 06:24:20+00:00
I built Chukkl to turn YouTube into a safe streaming experience for families. No distractions. No comments. No algorithm rabbit holes.

YouTube has incredible channels, but ads, comments, and unwanted recommendations make it difficult to create a structured experience. Parents often have to monitor constantly.

Chukkl lets families choose the channels they trust and turns them into a live TV-style guide. Videos play automatically from only those selected sources.

It’s designed for those who want structure and predictability in how video content is consumed.

The product is live on web and iOS. I would really value feedback from the HN community, especially around distribution strategy and whether this is best positioned as a family tool or an education infrastructure layer.

Happy to answer any technical or product questions.
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by digi_wares | 2026-02-19 06:24:24+00:00
I built Sornic for people who have more to read than time to read it:- students drowning in papers, commuters with a backlog of saved articles, anyone who'd rather listen while doing something else. Paste a URL, drop a PDF, or snap a photo of a book page- get natural-sounding audio in seconds.

How it works:

1. Input: URL / PDF upload / photo of printed text (OCR)
2. AI cleanup: strips ads, fixes formatting artifacts, optimizes for speech
3. TTS: Google Cloud Chirp HD voices (6 voices, adjustable speed)

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Tech stack: Next.js 14, Google Cloud TTS (Chirp 3 HD + Standard), Google Cloud Vision (OCR), Claude Haiku (content cleanup), Upstash Redis (rate limiting), Vercel.

Some decisions I'm happy with:

- Google TTS primary, OpenAI TTS fallback. Switched after Google TTS cut my costs from $77/4 days to ~$2/day.

- Mozilla Readability for extraction, Firecrawl as fallback, Claude Haiku to strip "Subscribe to read more" junk before TTS.

- Purchase codes instead of accounts- buy a credit pack, get a portable code that works across devices. No auth needed.

- PDF extraction uses pdf-parse → Claude cleanup. Photo uses Cloud Vision documentTextDetection → Claude cleanup. Both feed into the same TTS pipeline.

- $50/day spending cap in code so I don't wake up to a surprise bill.

What I'm still figuring out:

(1) Chrome extension (the real distribution play- it's how Speechify grew)
(2) Whether to move from credit packs to subscriptions- users don't really like subs unless it a very famous website
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by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-19 06:28:53+00:00
And knives apparently.

I recently encountered this randomly -- knives are apparently one of the few products that nearly every household has needed since antiquity, and they have changed fairly little since the bronze age, so they are used by economists as a benchmark that can span centuries.

Source: it was an aside in a random economics conversation with charGPT (grain of salt?).

There is no practical upshot here, but I thought it was cool.