MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gkirira | 2026-02-12 07:48:06+00:00
Here’s a minimal HTTP server built in about 80 lines of C++ using coroutines.

It uses:

- a single event loop (io_context)
- coroutine-based async tasks
- a TCP listener + accept loop
- one coroutine per connection
- direct socket control
- no external runtime
- no framework layer

The example listens on 0.0.0.0:8080, reads until \r\n\r\n, sends a 200 OK response, and shuts down cleanly on SIGINT/SIGTERM.

It compiles to a single native binary and relies only on the async module of Vix.

The goal isn’t to compete with production frameworks.
It’s to show how far modern C++20 coroutines can go with a minimal async core.

Code and explanation:
https://vixcpp.com/docs/modules/async/example.html

Happy to answer technical questions.
by starkparker | 2026-02-12 07:49:15+00:00
https://apnews.com/article/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-close...

> The Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser earlier this week, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details.
by Lio | 2026-02-12 07:49:16+00:00
It seems to me that people have been saying that Apple will be left behind since the Apple II. That they keep doing non-obvious things that somehow succeed is what makes them an interesting company.

I don't know that Apple will dominate AI, personally I dislike Siri and iOS, but I think Apple have a very good shot at delivering workable local AI for professionals.

If Apple can lift the inference performance of their forthcoming M5 Ultra chip I think they may become an off the shelf standard for those that want to run large models locally.

That in itself is probably enough to keep them relevant until actual useful uses of Apple Intelligence come to light.
by ed | 2026-02-12 07:49:22+00:00
I moved off Heroku to Neon + Hetzner today.

I asked Claude to build /provision-server and /deploy skills. It was way easier than it should’ve been.

My infra costs on this one project have gone from $1200 to <$200/mo.

Neon is awesome, with lightweight branching and instant restores.

Heroku is most definitely dead.
by eszed | 2026-02-12 07:49:36+00:00
> Art is absolutely an expression of yourself. But your art is not you. Try not to entangle your ego with your art.

This is something I wish I could impress upon 23-year-old me. I had all the drive in the world to create, and made some things I knew would (to the right market) sell - and I was, in fact, proved right, a few times - but I felt nothing but embarrassment about the actual selling. It wasn't even that I feared rejection - quite the opposite! I was an actor; rejection is, like, 90% of the job - and I had no problem selling other things, or others' work, just my own. Saying "I've got something great, you should buy it" about my own stuff felt unbearably egoistic. To be honest, it still makes me cringe. I'm not completely sure where that comes from - maybe an upbringing in a religious culture that emphasized humility? Anyway, I certainly don't have a "hustle" mentality, and can't quite bear those who do. Nevertheless, I'd have got a lot further in that career if I could have let go of that particular inhibition.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-12 07:49:52+00:00
You don't have to preserve a community definitely, because you can't snapshot a state of a community.

Yes, a community is always evolving, but there's a lower level culture, the textile as Westenberg puts it. Even though some people leave, their mark on the textile remains, and newcomers are got affected by that.

This is the same substance which makes "company culture", but applied in a different context. The people coming in are partly shaped by that while bringing in their own. This is what triggers that evolution. Same is true for leaving people. They'll mix what they bring to the new community they join. Oftentimes is has an effect, rarely it doesn't. As you said there are also other variables that the community can't control.

The beauty arises from that mix. The connections maybe temporary, but the effects are small, yet permanent and profound. That's the sediment which collects at the bottom, builds the history and shared values step by step.

It's not the change we shall be trying to snapshot and keep alive, but the meta-organism which happens to be and evolves over time. Nobody is trying to stop that change, but prevent the killing of these meta-organisms which forms the basic building block of a society. Because these structures becomes stronger and resilient as they evolve, regardless of who comes and goes.

Seeing the same people on your neighborhood even though you don't even talk to them creates an invisible mortar and layer of trust and safety. This is one of the most important things in a community.

You need to preserve that fabric. Not the people, connections and "state" of that community. As an extreme example, you can find this fabric between people even in the most "dangerous" neighborhoods. Because they are dangerous for outsiders. Not for the people who're living in that. There's always an equilibrium and a layer of authenticity even under all that violence and nastiness.
by that_guy_iain | 2026-02-12 07:49:56+00:00
All seriousness, do you honestly think this site has 10,000 new users a day? How many people do you think are on here that aren't very well informed? Honestly, I'm just wondering?

Also, do you know it only gets to front page if the hardcore that go to new upvote it? How many hardcore people don't know what D is?
by pjmlp | 2026-02-12 07:49:58+00:00
It worked alright for Rust, and yes Rust does support OOP, there are many meanings to what is OOP from CS point of view.

I have ported Ray Tracing in One Weekend into Rust, while keeping the same OOP design from the tutorial, and affine types were not an impediment to interfaces, polymorphism and dynamic dispatch.
by pastage | 2026-02-12 07:50:23+00:00
Interesting concept, seems like it is a way to pay less taxes as an artist, not really a pay but it will make it easier to live. Not sure about the selection process though..

> Self-employed in culture can be given the right to pay social security contributions from the state budget.

https://e-uprava.gov.si/si/podrocja/izobrazevanje-kultura/za...
by tern | 2026-02-12 07:50:34+00:00
Music, unfortunately, has a very different business model not just because of the difference in medium, but because it's copyable.

You can share a photograph of a painting, but it's, just, not the painting. A rip of a CD is nearly identical experientially.

There are many who, however, sell tapes, MiniDiscs, SD cards and other obscure formats with a small but serious following.
by dust42 | 2026-02-12 07:50:58+00:00
> I can only conclude that you're not using these things in any kind of practical way.

I burn about 100M tokens per month. LLMs are like knives, the outcome of cooking depends on the cook and for 99% of purposes not on the knife. There is not that much difference between a $2000 handmade damascus steel knife and a $20 knife.

You can do agentic cooking (aka factory) and you will get ready made meals without human intervention. But it wont make a Michelin star menu.

Same with LLMs and coding, LLMs are an amazing new tool in the toolbox but not a silver bullet. However, that's what they are hyped as being.

Now OpenAI & Co are in the token selling business, which is all fine and dandy but if they manage to become monopolies, then things are seriously in trouble.

Thus if people are fanboi-ing any closed AI I can only conclude that they have already outsourced their critical thinking to an LLM and are happy to go into slavery - or maybe they are hoping to cash in big time on the hype train.
by seanhunter | 2026-02-12 07:51:07+00:00
> This is reinforced my popular interpretations from, say, Wikipedia, but refuted by others, like say, IMDB.

Not "refuted", "disputed". If you "dispute" something you disagree with it. If you "refute" something you not only disagree with it but you conclusively prove you are correct.

They certainly haven't done the latter.

This word is very frequently used incorrectly. Sometimes on purpose by people (such as politicians) who would love to be able to actually refute some allegation, but instead just disagree with it and say that they refute it.
by trwired | 2026-02-12 07:51:10+00:00
I agree with the person you're replying to. Python was definitely already a thing before ML. The way I remember it is it started taking off as a nice scripting language that was more user friendly than Perl, the king of scripting languages at the time. The popularity gain accelerated with the proliferation of web frameworks, with Django tailgating immensely popular at the time Ruby on Rails and Flask capturing the micro-framework enthusiast crowd. At the same time the perceived ease of use and availability of numeric libraries established Python in scientific circles. By the time ML started breaking into mainstream, Python was already one of the most popular programming languages.
by jakkos | 2026-02-12 07:51:58+00:00
I often see people lament the lack of popularity for D in comparison to Rust. I've always been curios about D as I like a lot of what Rust does, but never found the time to deep dive and would appreciate someone whetting my appetite.

Are there technical reasons that Rust took off and D didn't?

What are some advantages of D over Rust (and vice versa)?
by torginus | 2026-02-12 07:53:00+00:00
That is true, but on the flip-flip side, while procedural or FP programs are usually easy to run piecewise, with OOP, you have to run the entire app, and navigate to the statement in question to be even able to debug it.

Imho, most FP languages have very serious human-interface issues.

It's no accident that C likes statements (and not too complex ones at that). You can read and parse a statement atomically, which makes the code much easier to read.

In contrast, FP tends to be very, very dense, or even worse, have a density that's super inconsistent.
by myky22 | 2026-02-12 07:53:14+00:00
I like to force myself to restart my computer and work desk every day.

I do this reset for my business side work, my programming project repo and my clinical work (I'm a kid physician).

I feel It both liberates me and at the exact time forces to understand my workflow and think of logical folders and separation of responsabilities. If something doesnt belong anywhere, maybe It is ephimeral and deserves to be erased... Though, but practical and I LOVE It.
Show HN: Memio, a knowledge hub for your notes, RSS, and web articles on Android
by cpacm | 2026-02-12 07:53:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the creator of Memio (https://www.memio.site). I'm excited to share my project with you all.

The Problem:
I've always struggled with information overload. My knowledge is scattered across different platforms: articles I want to read later, notes, RSS feeds, and even AI chat logs. I wanted a central hub to connect and manage all this content, turning it into a personal, readable knowledge base.

The Solution:
That's why I built Memio. It's an Android app designed to capture and organize information from various sources and sync it to your private knowledge library. The core idea is to convert everything into clean, readable notes.

Key Features:
- Versatile Inputs: You can create notes from almost anywhere, including web articles, OCR, AI chats, and RSS feeds.
- Custom Extensions: This is a feature I'm particularly proud of. You can write simple JavaScript files to parse content from almost any website. We have an open-source repository for extensions (github.com/memio-app/memio-extensions) and documentation (www.memio.site/docs) to get you started.
- Organization & Export: Organize notes with tags, group them into "books," and sync your data to local files, WebDAV, and Notion. You can export notes to Markdown, HTML, or PDF.

Tech Stack:
- Android App: Native Kotlin
- Extension System: TypeScript compiled to JS
- Sync: WebDAV, Notion, Local Files

The app is currently in open testing on Google Play. I would love to get your feedback, especially on the extension system and the overall concept.

You can download it here: Memio on Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cpacm.memi...)

Official Website: https://www.memio.site

I'm here to answer any questions you have. Thanks for checking it out!
by T-A | 2026-02-12 07:53:34+00:00
Poor Lord Kelvin gets maligned a lot:

https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/89/11/1037/85...

That aside, a distinction should be made between

1) claiming that physics is pretty much done (what he's often accused of) and

2) pointing out factual errors in claims about the current state of knowledge (what I am doing).

If you absolutely must make flattering comparisons, may I suggest Feynman instead, especially on lying to laymen?

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

I should add that I am not in complete agreement with what he said in that speech: calling it not essential to the science" strikes me as naive. Once you start juggling two standards of communication, you are on a slippery slope. If it's OK to lie to the funding public at large, what about politicians, funding bodies, colleagues in other disciplines competing for the same funding, journal editors asking you to review a rival's work in your own field? Where do you draw the line? Do you draw a line, or do you descend into a state of generalized charlatanry?
Show HN: Running your own AI assistant for €19/month
by yixn_io | 2026-02-12 07:53:45+00:00
I run ClawHosters, managed OpenClaw hosting. Wrote up a cost breakdown because the "AI APIs are expensive" fear keeps people from trying personal assistants.

TL;DR: €19/month hosting + Google Gemini free tier (20-50 requests/day) = fully functional AI assistant on Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord.

The math that surprised me:
- VentureBeat calculated you'd need 74,000 pages/day to hit $180 in API costs
- DeepSeek costs $0.27/million tokens (95% cheaper than GPT-4)
- ChatGPT Plus is actually €24.50/month in Germany after VAT

DIY on a €6 VPS sounds cheaper until you factor in 15+ hours of setup and ongoing maintenance. I watched someone lose all their conversation history on day 3 because backups weren't configured.

Full breakdown with API comparisons: https://clawhosters.com/blog/posts/own-ai-assistant-costs-cl...
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-12 07:53:57+00:00
Agreed.

Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.

We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.
by shinycode | 2026-02-12 07:54:08+00:00
That’s the main problem isn’t it ? Because it does matter and there is consequences to that like, should you « unplug » from the grid an AI ? Should we erase the memories of AI ? We eat animals and forbid eating humans, why ? Could we let AI « eat » some of us like in the matrix ?

Should we consider it our equal or superior to us ? Should we give it the reigns of politics if it’s superior in decision making ?
Or maybe the premise is « given all the knowledge that exists coupled with a good algorithm, you look/are/have intelligence » ? In which case intelligence is worthless in a way. It’s just a characteristic, not a quality. Which makes AI fantastic tools and never our equal ?
by seec | 2026-02-12 07:54:17+00:00
Those Macs you are talking about are still very niche and mostly used by loyal customers that do basic/common things or very vocal fanboys who always find a way to shill for whatever Apple comes up with, no matter how flawed and lackluster the product is.

Even if you want to run local AI, Macs are not really a good deal when you account for the price of soldered RAM and the limitations of AI tools on macOS.
But as always, the minority is very vocal, so it looks like it's all the rage but for the most part, people doing work are still using PCs and they don't have that much time to argue about it on the internet.
by grey-area | 2026-02-12 07:56:19+00:00
And yet LLMs still fail on simple questions of logic like ‘should I take the car to the car wash or walk?’

Generative AI is not making judgements or reasoning here, it is reproducing the most likely conclusions from its training data. I guess that might be useful for something but it is not judgement or reasoning.

What consideration was given to the original experiment and others like it being in the training set data?
by alex43578 | 2026-02-12 07:56:31+00:00
I don’t think Apple or Microsoft (via Windows) will dominate AI. There’s just too much value in the AI being in the cloud (big powerful models vs local) and across your devices (more context on you, running on low powered edge devices like watches, glasses, smart home devices), and the idea of an OS being a decisive factor is already fading with how much work people do in a browser or cloud app.
by nottorp | 2026-02-12 07:56:53+00:00
Do you know the joke with "I'll repeat the joke to you until you understand it?".

That's why some things get reposted and upvoted. In hope of getting someone else to understand them.

By the way, do you complain about sock accounts when yet another "Here is this problem, and by the way we sell a product that claims to solve it" gets upvoted?
by SXX | 2026-02-12 07:57:27+00:00
> "You know, wealthy generally do not really do bad in dictatorial regimes either."

Until they found dead with unexpected heart attack, their car blow up or they fall out of the window.

In dictatorship vast majority of wealthy people no more than managers of dictators property. Usually with literal golden cages that impossible to sell and transfer.

Once person fall out of favor or stop being useful all their "wealth" just going to be redistributed because it was never theirs.
by JBheemeswar | 2026-02-12 07:58:17+00:00
I’ve been exploring Hive recently and what stands out is the move from prompt orchestration to persistent, stateful execution. For real ERP-style workflows, that shift makes sense.

Treating exceptions as observations instead of terminal failures is a strong architectural reframing. It turns brittleness into a feedback signal rather than a crash condition.

A few production questions come to mind:

1) In the k-of-n inference model, how do you prevent correlated failure? If runs share similar prompts and priors, independence may be weaker than expected.

2) How is memory managed over long-lived tasks? Is it append-only, periodically compacted, or pruned strategically? State entropy can grow quickly in ERP contexts.

3) How do you bound reflection loops to prevent runaway cost? Are there hard ceilings or confidence-based stopping criteria?

I strongly agree with the rejection of UI-bound GCU approaches. Headless, API-first automation feels structurally more reliable.

The real test, in my view, is whether stochastic autonomy can be wrapped in deterministic guardrails — especially under strict cost and latency constraints.

Curious to see how Hive evolves as these trade-offs become more formalized.
by vidarh | 2026-02-12 07:58:53+00:00
RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback) is to a large extent about resolving that ambiguity by simply polling people for their subjective judgement.

I've worked one an RLHF project for one of the larger model providers, and the instructions provided to the reviewers were very clear that if there was no objective correct answer, they were still required to choose the best answer, and while there were of course disagreements in the margins, groups of people do tend to converge on the big lines.
by simondotau | 2026-02-12 07:59:39+00:00
I think "judge AI" would be better if it also had access to a complete legislative record of debate surrounding the establishment of said laws, so that it could perform a "sanity check" whether its determinations are also consistent with the stated intent of lawmakers.

One might imagine a distant future where laws could be dramatically simplified into plain-spoken declarations, to be interpreted by a very advanced (and ideally true open source) future LLM. So instead of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251–2260 the law could be as straightforward as:

A child must never be used, displayed, or represented as an object of sexual gratification. Responsibility extends to those who assist, enable, profit from, or intentionally access such material. The aim of this prohibition is to protect children from sexual exploitation and to eliminate any market or incentive for it.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-12 07:59:46+00:00
More like the companies that jumped into D versus Rust, D only had Facebook and Remedy Games toy a bit with it.

Many of us believe on automatic memory management for systems programming, having used quite a few in such scenarios, so that is already one thing that D does better than Rust.

There is the GC phobia, mostly by folks that don't get not all GCs were born alike, and just like you need to pick and chose your malloc()/free() implementation depending on the scenario, there are many ways to implement a GC, and having a GC doesn't preclude having value types, stack and global memory segment allocation.

D has compile time reflection, and compile time metaprogramming is much easier to use than Rust macros, and it does compile time execution as well.

And the compile times! It is like using Turbo Pascal, Delphi,... even thought the language is like C++ in capabilities. Yet another proof complexity doesn't imply slow compile natives in a native systems language.

For me, C# and Swift replace the tasks at work were I in the past could have reached for D instead, mostly due to who is behind those languages, and I don't want to be that guy that leaves and is the one that knew the stack.
by watwut | 2026-02-12 08:01:35+00:00
> it is also one of the reasons why wealthy people are convicted less often.

A teenager posting own photo and getting away with it is massively different then a rich guy raping a girl and getting away with it. Or, rich guy getting away with outright frauds with thousands of victims.

> While it often delivered as a narrative of wealth corrupting the system, the reality is that usually what they are buying is the justice that we all should have.

This is not true. Epstein did not got "justice we all should have". Trump did not got "justice we all should have". People pardoned by Trump did not got "justice we all should have". Wall Street and billionaires are not getting justice we all should have either. All these people are getting impunity and that is not what we all should have.
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-12 08:03:12+00:00
Sounds interesting. Are you not going to use the .ai domain? I also like asco.1 and asc.oo

Anyhow, is the scope centered around intra-firm supply chains? What happens if you have one firm suggesting to one of their partners to use the service... can you provide additional features if they work on the same platform? Perhaps they could agree on information to share with each other? Maybe you could have crypto payments tied in somewhere for inter-trade and eventually working toward a Logimodel marketplace - but I presume that's not really in the vision.

Anyway, best of luck with it.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-12 08:04:04+00:00
Not really, back in 2003 when I joined CERN it was already the offical scripting language on ATLAS, our build pipeline at the time (CMT) used Python, there were Python trainings available for the staff, and it was a required skill for anyone working in Grid Computing.

I started using Python in version 1.6, there were already several O'Reilly books, and Dr.Dobbs issues dedicated to Python.