MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2026-02-06 20:07:58+00:00
> You're beating it around the bush going offtopic and ignoring my question:

No I'm not, you just don't like the answer. But at least you've edited to remove the "3 guys yelling at you" portion as I think even you can see how that might be a reasonable thing to do to a creep going around you business filming everything.

> daycare having a misspelled sign and boarded up windows?

The answer to this question is simple, a poor one. And I suspect that a daycare that primarily gets it's funds from people using government welfare likely isn't rolling in the dough. Broken windows are expensive to fix, boards are cheap. A misspelled sign is embarrassing but again could easily be something that the owner of the facilities just wasn't assed to pay to replace and properly fix.

My spouse worked for years in that sort of daycare which is why it's unsurprising to me that a daycare in that state exists. She, for example, did a full summer in Utah without AC while the kids were fed baloney sandwiches every day. Her's wasn't a daycare committing fraud, it was just an owner that was cutting costs at every corner to make sure their own personal wealth wasn't impacted.

A shitty daycare isn't an indicator of fraud. It's an indicator that the state has low regulation standards for daycares. Lots of states have that, and a lot of these places end up staying in operation because states decide that keeping open an F grade daycare is cheap and better for the community vs closing it because it's crap quality. They certainly don't often want to take control of such a business and they know a competently ran one isn't likely to replace it if it is shutdown.
Show HN: RemoveTheBG – Free AI background remover for ecommerce photos
by imchealthstudio | 2026-02-06 20:07:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I built RemoveTheBG, a simple AI tool that removes image backgrounds in one click.

I noticed small ecommerce sellers and creators struggle with Photoshop and complicated tools, so I wanted something fast and free.

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Still improving it and would really appreciate feedback on:
• quality
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• features you want

Happy to answer any questions and ship improvements quickly.
by denuoweb | 2026-02-06 20:08:06+00:00
The only thing you need to land a software engineering job is to be a pro at Data Structures and Algorithms. You don't even need to code any projects, as long as you can distill an obscure two-page word problem from the top of your head into code within 45 minutes, you are good to go. In my experience, nothing else matters to employers.
by mrlongroots | 2026-02-06 20:08:50+00:00
Yes, GPT5-series thinking models are extremely pedantic and tedious. Any conversation with them is derailed because they start nitpicking something random.

But Codex/5.2 was substantially more effective than Claude at debugging complex C++ bugs until around Fall, when I was writing a lot more code.

I find Gemini 3 useless. It has regressed on hallucinations from Gemini 2.5, to the point where its output is no better than a random token stream despite all its benchmark outperformance. I would use Gemini 2.5 to help write papers and all, can't see to use Gemini 3 for anything. Gemini CLI also is very non-compliant and crazy.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-06 20:09:15+00:00
That's a very interesting way of looking at it. Yes, you start with simulating something simpler than the real world. Then you use the real world. Then you need to go back to simulations for real-world things that are too rare in the real world to train with.

Seems like there ought to be a name for this, like so-and-so's law.
by TyrunDemeg101 | 2026-02-06 20:09:36+00:00
Alex Rome has really really amazing easy to follow videos about some patterns in music development: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1MtJ4rx4n4PQGYNYK_UXA

I've been making music now for 8 months and have absolutely fallen in love with it. I'd love to write music for a game, what kind of game are you creating?

Here's my stuff if you're interested: https://aaronholbrookmusic.com

Feel free to reach out!
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-06 20:09:45+00:00
Citing Lenin for a critique of capitalism's trajectory is a little bit like asking a prosecutor to write the defense's closing argument. He was a smart guy, but he wasn't some disinterested analyst writing a symposium on capitalism versus socialism; he was a revolutionary leader trying to build up support and justification for overthrowing the system.

But even if we overlook his inherent bias, he was just plain wrong. He wrote that capitalism had reached its final stage through imperialism, and that, as you said, state capture via financial oligarchy was inevitable. That was over 100 years ago, and history has produced welfare states, labor protections, financial regulation, the SEC, Germany's codetermination laws, even the Nordic social democracies. None of those should be possible under Lenin's framework for capitalism.

(Disclaimer: I'm all for common sense regulation of capitalism.)
by kbr2000 | 2026-02-06 20:09:59+00:00
The article sums up quite well which principles are at play here. The fun part it's suggesting (without words), is either to pick it apart and see what each part does, play around with the constants in there, or start from scratch and roll your own... (all with the Shadertoy linked below the article maybe?)

I would say most interesting texts (articles, books, school, ...) should leave stuff up to the reader's mind to figure out. That's how someone really learns. Versus pre-baked stuff like television etc.

If something does not resonate at first that's pretty normal. You could still take it apart and start investigating words or concepts that ring no bell, for example: waves, interference, demoscene, owls, Feynman.

Enjoy! ;)
by vazma | 2026-02-06 20:10:11+00:00
I respect Hashimoto for his contributions in the field, but to be honest, I am fed up with posts talking about using AI in ways that are impossible for most people due to high costs. I want to see more posts on cost-effective techniques, rather than just another guy showing off how he turned a creative 'burning-time' hobby into a 'burning-money' one.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-06 20:10:20+00:00
Maybe just refuse to try to help them? Why can't we let people win darwin awards anymore instead of criminalizing it? The people doing this are adrenaline junkies who often would LOVE to die this way if they had to. That's why they are doing it.

For similar reasons, suicide should not be criminalized. Yes I am serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_die
by saint_fiasco | 2026-02-06 20:10:33+00:00
Sounds very hard actually. If you asked me to spend a significant fraction of Bill Gates' money I wouldn't even know how to begin.

How would you do it? Do you have a way to earn his trust, a service to offer him that he values a lot, a way to steal from him, or anything like that?

Melania apparently managed to do it with true love and kindness. Are you capable of sincerely loving Bill Gates for a period of several years, or fake it in a perfectly convincing way for several years?
by munk-a | 2026-02-06 20:11:09+00:00
I don't think it does but I do see the counter arguments. There have been prominent publicly open political dissidents and they do often suffer from assassination attempts. I think if you're considering political dissent the potential cost is a major factor in that decision. I have not had to make that decision personally so I am not an expert here - but it might be important to consider the value to those people of knowing your evidence can be proven true no matter what the authorities say.
Show HN: PopAir, a system-wide AI copilot for macOS
by hasanaydins | 2026-02-06 20:11:10+00:00
I built PopAir because macOS still lacks a system-level AI assistant.
Writing, image editing, meeting notes, OCR, and quick AI actions all require different apps, which breaks focus.

PopAir runs on top of macOS and works with whatever is on your screen.
It handles text, images, meetings, and on-screen content without copy-paste or app switching.

Happy to answer questions and get feedback.
by iLemming | 2026-02-06 20:11:16+00:00
It's not even the fact that digital evidence is being used in courts these days, the disturbing thought is, all in all, that it's not that implausible for malicious actors to fake anyone's activity. How would you prove that you weren't at the crime scene when there's a digital footprint of your phone's GPS data, corroborated by (albeit not crystal clear) images and video?
by stanguc | 2026-02-06 20:11:17+00:00
I scanned all 58 official AWS Terraform modules. Here's what I found.

terraform-aws-modules is the gold standard. 30k+ GitHub stars on the VPC module alone. Used by thousands of teams in production.

I pointed MonPhare at the entire org:

monphare scan --github terraform-aws-modules

45 seconds later: 58 repos scanned, 2,315 files parsed, 3 errors, 692 warnings.

Even the best-maintained modules in the ecosystem have constraint hygiene gaps -- missing pins, no upper bounds, unbounded providers that welcome breaking changes on any terraform init.

Now imagine your own infrastructure. Dozens of repos, hundreds of modules, multiple teams pushing changes. Who's checking that a provider upgrade won't break prod on Monday morning?

That's what MonPhare does.

One command to audit version constraints across your entire Terraform/OpenTofu state:

- Scan a local directory, a remote repo, or an entire GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps/Bitbucket org
- Detect missing constraints, unbounded versions, wildcard pins, deprecated modules, and cross-repo conflicts
- Generate dependency graphs in DOT, Mermaid, or JSON -- see exactly what depends on what
- Output as formatted CLI tables, machine-readable JSON, or self-contained HTML reports
- Drop --strict into your CI pipeline -- warnings become blocking errors, nothing slips through
- Define policies in monphare.yaml -- deprecation lists, required upper bounds, exclusion patterns -- and enforce them across every
repo

Written in Rust. Parallel scanning. Shallow clones with local caching. An entire GitHub org in under a minute.

Open source: https://github.com/tanguc/monphare
by dvt | 2026-02-06 20:11:38+00:00
This is the best way to build products imo. I'm like this, and I've been accused of being very "vibes-based." However, that's a way more tractable way of shipping stuff instead of "well Jim said he wants X, but Amy said she wants Y" so you end up just kind of half-assing features because you think they might get you users, instead of just being passionately all-in into a very defined product vision (which is a very Jobsian way of doing things).

It's also easier to run a feedback loop. If you implement Y, but Amy doesn't give you $5 a month, what are you going to do? Knock on her door? Users have no idea what they want half the time, anyway.

If you build a product and no one cares, it bruises the ego a bit more, sure, but if you self reflect, you can eek out your own bad assumptions, or bad implementation, or maybe a way to pivot that keeps your product ethos.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-06 20:12:03+00:00
There's also always the "analog loophole". Display the AI-generated video on a sufficiently high-resolution / color gamut display and record it on whatever device has convenient specs for making the recording, then do some light post-processing to fix moire/color/geometry. This would likely be detectable, but could shift the burden of (dis-)proof to the defendant, who might not have the money for the expert witnesses required to properly argue the technical merits of their case.

More likely, the signing would have to use compression-resistant steganography, otherwise it's pretty easy to just remux/re-encode the video to strip the metadata.
by zahlman | 2026-02-06 20:12:21+00:00
> The fraud is in fact being investigated, people are being charged and convicted.

And as explained in TFA, this is inefficient and ineffective even in theory:

> So-called “pay-and-chase”, where we put the burden on the government to disallow payments for violations retrospectively, has been enormously expensive and ineffective. Civil liability bounces off of exists-only-to-defraud LLC. Criminal prosecutions, among the most expensive kinds of intervention the government is capable of doing short of kinetic war, result in only a ~20% reduction in fraudulent behavior. Rearchitecting the process to require prior authorization resulted in an “immediate and permanent” 68% reduction.

> Despite this, rightwing media institutions are acting as if fraud is being ignored and maybe even covered up and encouraged because

Which is a reasonable characterization of the situation given the scale of the fraud and the fact that it's still going on, in such a blatant manner.

We're talking about total fraud on the order of $10b, and some significant fraction of that money has presumably been sent back to Somalia. We're talking here about amounts that would represent a significant percentage of Somalia's entire GDP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia#Economy).

> This is just another example of the decades long project by those who have lots of money and don't want to see it go to takes to paint social programs as a money-pipe from good hardworking people to fraud and waste.

"The left" clearly has a vested interest in that not happening; therefore, it is also in their interest to take appropriate actions against fraud as they might learn about from the financial industry.
by OptionOfT | 2026-02-06 20:12:54+00:00
I wonder at the end of this if it's the still worth the risk?

A lot of how I form my thoughts is driven by writing code, and seeing it on screen, running into its limitations.

Maybe it's the kind of work I'm doing, or maybe I just suck, but the code to me is a forcing mechanism into ironing out the details, and I don't get that when I'm writing a specification.
by cheeze | 2026-02-06 20:13:25+00:00
> There would also be a requirement for all playback to actually properly check the private keys

I don't think that's true. Only for someone who wanted to prove authenticity to grab the signature. No private keys would be exposed (except those which were hacked.)

If Netflix and Amazon can't keep their 4k HDR webrips from being leaked (supposedly via extracted licenses from Nvidia Shields), I have no idea how we'd expect all camera manufacturers to do it. Maybe iPhones and flagship Apple devices, but even then we'd find vulns in older devices over time.
by belter | 2026-02-06 20:13:50+00:00
If you want to see the story of creepy, and what monster Epstein was and Ghislaine Maxwell is, watch this interview from today: https://youtu.be/xSkzN7R5VAM?t=57

It is from an extremely articulate and intelligent Epstein victim, that is only speaking out after the DOJ, either trough incompetence or most likely via malicious compliance, had her personal information in the released files.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-06 20:14:37+00:00
Ideally, the keys would be per-manufacturer, like HDCP or (DVD-)CSS. Personally I don't think I'd love the idea of any kind of attestation like this, but if TPTB did implement it, I'd prefer a key per-manufacturer rather than each unit having its own unique signing key. We do have precedent, in the form of printer tracking dots, which were kept 'secret' from the public for 20 years. [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-06 20:14:49+00:00
Early Facebook's behavior was what they wanted to do/be. But upon exposure to what others were doing Facebook chose to adopt patterns/techniques that repulsed them originally because Facebook didn't want to be out competed (so Capitalism). Capitalism/competition is what led their behavioral change.

Go back to the recent removal of lead article discussed here. In Capitalism government regulation has to level the playing field or else all players will stoop to poisoning society/the world because if they don't then someone else will gain and advantage. Even hyper rightwing Rayliner agreed Government intervention is the ONLY way to prevent Capitalists from injecting poison into their products if that poison gives a competitive advantage.

What leaded gas was to the boomers brains social media is to current youths' brains.
by DrinkingRedStar | 2026-02-06 20:14:49+00:00
I do believe this is an unfair comparison. With tobacco the warnings are always true, but with prop 65 the product might not contain any cancer causing ingredients, but the warning is there just in case.

It's much easier to tell yourself prop 65 doesn't have to be avoided because "it's probably just there to cover their asses" wile tobacco products have real warnings that definitely mean danger (though there are people who convince themselves otherwise_
by programjames | 2026-02-06 20:15:36+00:00
> Making your media as engaging as possible is the basic imperative of any media company.

Not so. I think your logic is that engagement often leads to dollars, and the "basic imperative of any company" is to make dollars. There are pro- and anti-social ways to do this. You can create better art for your video games, or you can insert gambling mechanisms. You can spend more time designing your cinematic universe, or you can put a cliffhanger after every episode. You can make a funny skit, or you can say, "wait for it... wait for it... you can't believe what's about to happen!" Optimizing for engagement, for the sake of engagement, is necessarily anti-social. It's trying to redirect attention towards your media without actually making the user experience better in any way.

Legally, the basic imperative of any company is to make dollars, as long as it is prosocial. You should not expect the government to turn a blind eye to scam centers or disfunctional products. The same applies to the media landscape.
by Avamander | 2026-02-06 20:15:42+00:00
There's a massive difference. The entire HTTP stack comes into play before whatever blob is processed. GPG is notoriously shitty at verifying signatures correctly. Only with the latest Apt there's some hope that Sequoia isn't as vulnerable.

In comparison, even OpenSSL is a really difficult target, it'd be massive news if you succeed. Not so much for GPG. There are even verified TLS implementations if you want to go that far. PGP implementations barely compare.

Fundamentally TLS is also tremendously more trustworthy (formally!) than anything PGP. There is no good reason to keep exposing it all to potential middlemen except just TLS. There have been real bugs with captive portals unintentionally causing issues for Apt. It's such an _unnecessary_ risk.

TLS leaves any MITM very little to play with in comparison.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-06 20:16:08+00:00
>Windows 11 is running on my ThinkPad T530. Its CPU is very nearly 14 years old.

Yes, you can bypass HW checks to install it on a pentium 4 if you want, nothing new here.

>What is missing here that was present when this same computer was running Windows 10?

All the security features I listed in the comment above.
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 20:16:20+00:00
Hey, did you hear about the Volkswagen Monkeys?

Volkswagen (the same megacorp that did the infamous Dieselgate/Emissionsgate scams) forced monkeys to inhale exhaust from its automobiles, to try to show that fumes from current models (the cars, not the monkeys) were less noxious than previous models.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/sociology/20-of-the-most-u...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

I guess this cannot be termed as "torturing animals" in the "name of science".

We humans also inhale vehicular exhaust fumes, don't we?

Oh wait, I forgot. Monkeys don't drive cars.

Or do they?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XW5NLeGEo94
by zahlman | 2026-02-06 20:16:25+00:00
Please speak plainly, and show your work. In your own words, who do you believe "this person" is, and why is that significant? Why do you suppose he wrote "this article", "now", and what is your reason for believing thus? What other articles by the same author are you aware of, and how does that square with the bias you are trying to allege?
by decidertm | 2026-02-06 20:16:42+00:00
hey!

northflank supports the same buildpacks that you run on Heroku, so it should be fairly straightforward.

we have these docs for a more detailed walkthrough:

1/ https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/migrate-from-hero...

2/ https://northflank.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-heroku-a-ste...
by lubujackson | 2026-02-06 20:16:54+00:00
Bit by bit, we need to figure out how to rebuild human contextual understanding in a way that LLMs can understand. One thing that gets overlooked is the problem if incorrect data. You can provide all of the context in the world but LLMs tend to choke on contradictions or, at the minimum, work a whole lot harder to determine how to ignore or work around incorrect facts.

"Forgetting" and "ignoring" are hugely valuable skills when building context.
by johng | 2026-02-06 20:16:58+00:00
I've been a car guy since I was a kid. I've been doing car forums since 2001... many of them Dodge/Chrysler/RAM. Very very few people that were fans of those brands were happy with the Electric offerings. The news of internal combustion engines coming back has been well received in the 'enthusiast' market at least.

My first site was a Neon SRT4 forum.. so we aren't just talking big V8's here either. Turbo 4's, N/A V6's, etc.. just the electric stuff didn't hit their particular fan base well.

I of course only do forums for enthusiast stuff... it's hard to build a forum around minivans, though they are out there.
by zahlman | 2026-02-06 20:18:02+00:00
Here is where I would normally ask you:

> Can you name one such individual and give examples of each phenomenon?

But it seems that you conflate "Republicans" who are actually members of government with people who simply support the party; and anyway the concept of "free speech absolutism" is inherently not partisan. The existence of 1A defenders on either side of the aisle (or representing any niche interest) doesn't say anything about the existence of principled, consistent 1A defenders.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-06 20:18:34+00:00
>My spouse worked for years in that sort of daycare

Was your spouse also one of the all-male crews that those totally-not-a-scam MN daycares typically have?

How many legit daycares have you ever seen where the staff is all men? And aggressive men at that. Just think about it for 3 seconds.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-06 20:18:54+00:00
I'm not asking you to change your belief. By all means, think we're just around the corner of a plateau, but like I said, your statement is nothing meaningful or profound. It's your guess that things are about to slow down, that's all. It's better to just say that rather than talking about S curves and bends like you have any more insight than OP.
by Obscuritician | 2026-02-06 20:18:54+00:00
Mirror of Erised and not Yog-Sothoth. The whole thing seems like an interesting experiment from that particular angle, there is still the aspect that such polls will reveal other aspects of AI not generally considered by the public as people start using avatars (AI agents) more and more in this sense. Having worked with AI since early 80's when things were mostly just forward chaining, there is that sense that no matter what you poll, there will always be a bias. So there is that sense that such a poll may reveal the deeper desires over a persistent period of time, a sort of Harry Potter style Mirror of Erised would ultimately reveal a deeper reality. Ultimately this sounds like through polling it should be an interesting experiment of revalational proportions.