MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adrianwaj | 2026-02-27 05:07:18+00:00
I think what would be cool is to have a device with all of Gemini's content available for offline browsing. Every few hours changes can be downloaded to keep it current.

This is similar to Bill Joy and his unlimited music device in about 2000.

Having something local means superfast response times, even if there's a delay in freshness.

The key is moderation. I suppose it could end up like a magazine. Maybe charge micropayments to have content included with that fee changing according to a slop-scale?

It's a good idea to couple with something like the upcoming Linux handheld - Mecha. Need multi-TB SSDs - maybe AI can help navigate? Have different versions according to how much storage the user has available.

Maybe there's demand for something local that new AIs can train from. Something other than Internet Archive.

Are there any products that can minimize online-time by building a backlog of jobs to run when online, but also enabling a pause for offline-time?

Also, websites could queue requests, eliminate the AI thumping, and notify the client when their request is allowed? It's like queuing up for a niteclub and eventually getting passed the droid-hostile bouncer.
by kalkin | 2026-02-27 05:07:39+00:00
I'm curious for your understanding of why Trump won in 2024. If I'm understanding right, you think it was because American voters were rejecting Maoism ("it was called re-education"), to which you think the previous commenter likely subscribes, and which voters associated with Harris/Walz? But I suspect I'm not getting it quite right, and it would be helpful if you would spell out what you mean, rather than just relying on allusion.

(I myself don't have a clear answer to why Trump won, but I don't think it speaks well to the decision-making of the median voter on their own terms, whatever those were, that Trump's now so unpopular despite governing in pretty much the way he said he would.)
by 14 | 2026-02-27 05:08:32+00:00
My iPhone 8 just stopped working 2 months back (phone works but the microphone used in phone calls no longer works) so by chance my good friend gave me his pixel 8 that was only a couple few months old. It got a pink line down the screen that comes and goes which if you press in one spot can usually make it go away but he is a business owner and he can't risk the screen going from line to not working for a day as a missed communication could cost him thousands. So he said here take it and he got a new one. Seems like this pink line is common and a defect in some screens.

Anyways I wanted to say I also have a pixel 8 but with stock OS and my battery typically lasts a full day with average usage. My iPhone 8 previously even with a replacement battery was lucky if it lasted more then 5 hours. I had to charge that thing multiple times a day.
by hydrogen7800 | 2026-02-27 05:08:55+00:00
you know, every time i see this book cited as the worst example of what the book banners want to ban, i check it out. Skimming to the "pornographic parts", i'm reminded just how repressed we are to find this repulsive. You should be uncomfortable when learning new things. Sexuality is not pornography. It's certainly more extreme than anything I was ever exposed to in my youth, but i'm sure this could have been massively helpful to a few kids in my high school, and probably de-stigmatizing for a few others. Certainly worth pissing off a few parents.
by qsera | 2026-02-27 05:09:45+00:00
It is easy to answer this if we define sound as the sensation. If there is no sensor then there is no sensation. If we define sound as the vibration of air. Then yes, it will make a sound.

Most of these questions feels perplexing because some of the underlying terms are loosely defined. If we strictly define those terms, then the question answers itself.
by wild_egg | 2026-02-27 05:09:53+00:00
Interesting! I wrote a Smalltalk in CL last year that did the same kind of mapping: Smalltalk classes compile to CLOS classes and every message is a CLOS method. Worked great at the start and then performance dropped off as more classes compiled.

I never took the time to get that sorted out but it smells suspiciously similar to what you described here. Thanks for the write up!
by legostormtroopr | 2026-02-27 05:10:34+00:00
The author themselves disagree with you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/schools-a...

So does the National Council of Teachers of English.
https://ncte.org/teaching-maia-kobabe/

Just because can't believe that people would promote a comic with explicit texting and sexual imagery to children doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-27 05:11:02+00:00
ChatGPT got it with less prodding, but I had to set it to "Pro" thinking mode (ChatGPT's version of Deep Think, I suspect). I'm sure Deep Think could get it with even less prompting.

I think your conclusion that they aren't really thinking doesn't hold. They're already there, it just costs more and time to get good results.

https://chatgpt.com/share/69a12666-64b0-8009-8dfe-59546ac400...

EDIT - Updated the link to include the full conversation. Note that I didn't change it to pro mode until the end, and eventually got tired of waiting and just told it "answer now."
by arduanika | 2026-02-27 05:11:13+00:00
I almost downvoted you, because this is a pretty classic LMGTFY (or now, LMLLMTFY), but on second thought, you're right. The "Dario" is clear, he's the author of TFA, but for other execs, Anthropic's fans on here should spell out their full names. Dropping all these first names feel like "inside baseball" at best, mildly culty at worst, and here outside the walls of Anthropic, we're going to see those names and think of Kushner(??), Altman, and maybe Dorsey, and get confused.

FWIW, I agree strongly w/ lebovic's toplevel take above, that Anthropic's leaders are guided by their values. Many of the responses are roughly saying, "That can't be true, because Anthropic's values aren't my values!" This misses the point completely, and I'm astounded that so many commenters are making such a basic error of mentalization.

For my part, I'm skeptical of a lot of Anthropic's values as I perceive them. I find a lot of the AI mysticism silly or even harmful, and like any real-world company, Anthropic's values are adaptive enough to survive under capitalism (even permitting them to steal a boatload of IP when they scanned those books!)

But nonetheless, I can pretty clearly see that it's a company that tries to stand by what it believes, and in the case of this spat with Dep't of War, I happen to agree with them.
by aziaziazi | 2026-02-27 05:11:14+00:00
That is an interesting question, very far from my daily concern and brings dilemmas when I think about it. My response would probably be "I don’t know".

However Anthropic situation is very different: there’s no ongoing invasion of the USA, and they traditionally attack other countries once in a while (no judgment) so the weapons upgrade will be "useful" on the field.
by aquova | 2026-02-27 05:12:32+00:00
Ars did a retrospective on the Palm line-up that I occasionally go back and re-read. I never got into the ecosystem, although my dad had a Palm III(?) when I was younger. Had I been a decade older I think I would've been infatuated with them.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devi...
by alephnerd | 2026-02-27 05:12:59+00:00
> but this example is awful.

I'm not agreeing with Musk - his personal brand is toxic and destroyed X/Twitter's fairly healthy ad revenue machine. That said he was right to highlight that X/Twitter was extremely overstaffed, and it was his mass layoff that showed everyone else that it is possible to cut overhiring and still maintain business operations.

> I think I'm just screwed in that case. At least for my industry. There's "some" games scene in SF, but not much more than some other hubs like LA, Austin, nor Seattle. That's not really where gaming startups pop up these days, either.

Gaming uses software but I wouldn't call it "tech" - I treat it as Entertainment/Media (the M in TMT), especially given the overlap with VFX.

As such, being close to where much of the business of media/entertainment exists is the best for your career - LA, NYC, ATL, SeaTac, and ATX, but not the Bay.

> I'm doing portfolio projects, but it feels like that only gets you so far unless you have a very specific domain in mine you want to showcase. Especially for someone who already has professional experience to point to.

Yep. But if you are in the gaming industry, it doesn't hurt to dabble in side projects that can be monetized into indie games, especially if you have time on your hands and a decent amount of savings.
by thayne | 2026-02-27 05:13:01+00:00
Blaze and bazel may have been intentionally designed, but it was designed for Google's needs, and it shows (at least from my observations of bazel, I don't have any experience with blaze). It is better now than it was, but it obviously was designed for a system where most dependencies are vendored, and worked better for languages that google used like c++, java, and python.
by andOlga | 2026-02-27 05:13:13+00:00
Do you genuinely, truly believe that "4 digits then "-" then 2 digits then "-" then 2 digits" is more readable than "\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}"? Do you think your walls of text won't make everyone's eyes glaze over a few lines in? More importantly, do you believe it's more writable? A lot of regex operations are ad-hoc, and being able to type them out quickly and look at them in a small text field at a glance is very important. And as far as coding is concerned, well, your thing is useless outside of the JS ecosystem, is it not?

Dead? Replaced?... Your toy is cute, but it's more suited as a regex generator, or perhaps parser/"explainer" (but we already have several well-known projects there) than a standalone tool.
by rerdavies | 2026-02-27 05:14:16+00:00
Good catch. One has to wonder how many private non-profit entities there are in the world that want to build a "pilot manufacturing and testing" plant, that

- Are able to put up $5m of their own money in order to receive $25m.
- Are not associated with a university.
- Are not a public non-profit electrical utility (heaven forbid!)

One, as it turns out. Who received $28m. According to the list of grants given under the program.

Smells a bit off.
by mike_d | 2026-02-27 05:14:32+00:00
> Everyone predicted twitter would crash and burn within months of the layoffs.

It did, just not obviously. Twitter used to be the store brand social network, vanilla and reliable but not overly obnoxious. It made good money from brand advertisers like Ford, General Mills, and Sony. City governments felt ok with using it to distribute community information. The platform tried its hardest to stay middle of the road and not let things sway too far one way or the other.

Today it is a real time bidding marketplace for changing public discourse. You simply buy blue checkmark accounts in bulk and spread your message free of any content moderation or safeguards. So the Chinese, Russians, and Saudis can get into a bidding war over what rural whites believe to be fact.

With the ad revenue sharing program you don't even need to write the content anymore (one of the biggest things foreign influence campaigns struggle with). Just find someone who is saying the "right" thing already and promote them. Twitter in turn underscores the authenticity of these voices by adding "transparency" features that list where someone is from - because your average person does not know a damn thing about proxies.
by csallen | 2026-02-27 05:15:50+00:00
To me what you're upset about basically sounds like, "People who have more money/power/etc have it easier than those who don't."

Yes, yes, they do. So what?

All else being equal, greater wealth generally brings greater ease and comfort. A billionaire’s life is easier than a millionaire’s, a millionaire’s life is easier than being a middle-class Westerner, middle class living is easier than living below the poverty line, living below the poverty line in a wealthy country is easier than being poor in a developing country, and being poor in a developing country is easier than surviving as a subsistence farmer or living without shelter at all.

All else being equal, if you're a majority owner in a company, you're going to get away with a lot more than if you are a smaller owner, or a non-owner, or an employee, or a customer. All else being equal, if you're a general in the military, you're going to have more power and more leeway than if you're a lieutenant or a private.

Etc etc.

I fail to see what is wrong with this.
by omgmo | 2026-02-27 05:30:00+00:00
What about spoofing a SynthID false positive for a real image or video? Who can arbitrate what is true?

I think that AI service providers should have safeguards and encoded attribution. This solution helps when people lazily share things with friends or on social media I suppose, rather than stopping motivated bad actors.

The only way to actually implement this I think would be to ban all local models, and to have the service providers store perceptual hashes all generated images and video. It feels like the cat's out of the bag already though (for images at least).
by creatonez | 2026-02-27 05:31:05+00:00
> Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place.

It's absolutely disgusting that they would even consider working with the US government after the Gaza genocide started. These are modern day holocaust tabulation machine companies, and this time randomly they are selecting victims using a highly unpredictable black-box algorithm. The proper recourse here is to impeach the current administration, dissolve the companies that were complicit, and send their leadership to the hague for war crimes trials.
by edanm | 2026-02-27 05:32:16+00:00
> I never heard that. It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale, did it?

It absolutely was the "promise" the media spun.

I had the relatively unique experience of moving from being an outsider to this field to being an insider. While I was an outsider, my impressions, formed by the media, was exactly that—3d printing would be the next big revolution, in a few years there'd be a printer in every home, etc.

I then joined a company that allocated a lot of resources to 3d printing. It only took me a month or two to realize that the big media claims were absolutely ridiculous, and didn't make any sense as stated. They misunderstood the state of the technology, and misunderstood basic economics and how regular manufacturing works.

That's not to say there's no value in 3d printing or the maker movement. There's a ton of value that's been uncovered. But the specific media dream of "people will be printing their plates at home instead of buying them in the store" was never real.

(Btw, IMO "vibe coding" is absolutely real and revolutionary, likely the biggest revolution in the software industry since, idk, the invention of the computer itself. And AI more generally is, even beyond vibe coding aspect, a revolutionary technology that will change the world in many ways.)
by neom | 2026-02-27 05:32:22+00:00
Well I can only speak to Jack Clark. Jack was a reporter who covered my startups and then became my friend. Over the last.. I dunno, 13 year or something, we've had long deep talks about lots of things, pre-ai world: what it takes to build a big business, will QM ever become a thing, universal basic human love, kids, life, family. The business I worked on that he covered went through a lot of shit that he knew about. We talked about power in business, internal politics, how things actually get built...all that stuff. Then... attention is all you need, bunch of folks grok it, he got interested... got to talking to these folks starting some little research lab to see how NN scales, so joined that lab, first 5/10 or so iirc...to head AI policy. That little lab grew, stuff happened, the next part isn't mine to share but so much as to say: Anthropic was basically born out of the expectation that this moment would come and more...extremely human focused...voices should be at the table, that is Anthropic, that idea, they left their jobs at the aforementioned lab - and started their own startup to make sure a certain tone/voice/idea was always represented. Around the summer 2024, although at this point we didn't discuss any specifics of the work at his "startup", I said to him: what comes next is going to be super hard and I know this is going to sound really stupid, but you're all going to need to be Jesus for real. I'm a Buddhist and it wasn't a literal religious comment about Christianity as a denomination, so much as... the very basics of the stuff the dude Jesus Chris espoused. He knew, they knew, that I suppose, was always the plan? So it was never unexpected to me they would act this way, that is what Anthropic is all about. Here we are.
by selfboot | 2026-02-27 05:33:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve always loved Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection — especially Bridges, Slitherlink, and Signpost. I’ve been playing them for years on desktop and Android.

Recently I decided to port the collection to iOS with a more modern native UI and some usability improvements, while keeping the original puzzle generation logic intact.

The core puzzle engines are still Simon’s original C implementations. I built a thin Swift layer around them and focused mostly on:

Native SwiftUI interface

Better touch interactions

Dark mode

Offline support

Fast puzzle generation

Clean, minimal UI (no ads)

A few technical notes:

The puzzle logic runs as compiled C modules bridged into Swift

Puzzle state is serialized/deserialized to allow undo/redo

I implemented a custom rendering layer to support dynamic grid scaling

All puzzles are generated locally (no backend)

One thing I found interesting is how well the original C codebase is structured — it’s surprisingly modular for something that supports so many puzzle types.

I tried to stay faithful to the original mechanics while improving the mobile UX.

Would love feedback, especially from anyone familiar with the original project or who has thoughts on puzzle UI design.

App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simon-puzzles/id6756353841

Thanks Simon for building such a timeless collection.
by fulafel | 2026-02-27 05:36:10+00:00
They're more like capabilities or handles than pointers. There's a reason in Rust land many systems use handles (indices to a table of objects) in absence of pointer arithmetic.

In the C API of course there's symbolic names for these. STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, etc for the defaults and variables for the dynamically assigned ones.
by vladib80 | 2026-02-27 05:36:32+00:00
VoiceClaw turns any LLM into a voice assistant you can call from your phone — like Hey Siri, but for your own AI.

It runs a lightweight bridge on your machine that makes an outbound WebSocket to voiceclaw.io — so no port forwarding, no ngrok, no exposing localhost. Works behind any firewall.

Features:
- Talk to Ollama, Claude, OpenClaw, GPT-4, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- BYOK — your API keys never leave your machine
- Works from any phone/browser, no app install needed
- Self-hostable (MIT)
- 2-minute setup via one-liner installer

GitHub: https://github.com/Vladib80/voice-claw
Live demo: https://voiceclaw.io
by miladyincontrol | 2026-02-27 05:36:51+00:00
Another classic case of xkcd 927. The declaration of license and hope that anyone abides by it is simple, but the execution, enforcement, 'royalties' and reality of it all is anything but simple.

Similarly awkward is many of their own urls being either dead or seem to lead to the wrong documents, for example their "collective's license" just leading to their own example documentation.
by deaux | 2026-02-27 05:37:09+00:00
> But people don't actually care about the environment. They care about looking like they care about the environment, and sending industrial processes somewhere else. There is a difference.

This is about as true as saying "But people don't care about child sexual abuse". Sure, those partying with Epstein don't.

Plenty of people do care and indeed are today making sacrifices that align with this. Including lowering living standards. If you don't then that's on you, but speak for yourself.
by ishandeveloper | 2026-02-27 05:37:25+00:00
- On Remotion, yeah, not sure it's the right fit, but honestly the sheer capability of models at writing code these days has surprised me. Funnily enough, this is how I used to make small graphics for videos 2-3 years back when I knew nothing about After Effects.

We've been eager to experiment with this for a while, just have to prioritize other user requests for now. Will definitely try a few approaches and see what sticks. (Also noticed they have an experimental client-side rendering version built on mediabunny, haven't tried it yet: https://www.remotion.dev/docs/client-side-rendering/)

- On WebCodecs, there are a fair set of challenges, but we wanted to take the bet. The reason we're browser-based is the same reason I love Figma and Google Docs: no install, no waiting, just open and start. That said, for broader codec support (ProRes, RAW, etc.) we'll rely on server-side transcoding with proxies where needed.
by schaum | 2026-02-27 05:38:28+00:00
Interesting project osmand user here mainly in Germany.

In some cities osm data is far more accurate when t comes to opening hours or if a shop actually still exists compared to Google maps. However searching for them is a pain that one needs a bug improvement.

Since I can't rely on the search I usually try to find the poi category and click though the results,super markets,restaurants, pharmacy,atm etc works but so many cliks and caveats. Search needs massive improvement.
by X-Istence | 2026-02-27 05:39:35+00:00
That page (and the rest of the book) is far less pornographic than the actual porn I and many other kids I grew up with had access to, and regularly shared between ourselves, and is incredibly tame.

I also find it very telling that you'd consider what is on page 168 pornographic in the first place, sexually explicit maybe, but it is not intended to arouse or cause sexual excitement, it's meant to portray a lived experience.

The sexual repression in the United States is part of the reason why so many people grow up with the wrong ideas around sex and why teen pregnancy is such a big thing. Open discussion about these things (including gender and gender identity in that) is the best way to allow kids to grow up to be functional adults that are well informed and able to have critical thought about how and what they do and are far less likely to fall prey to predators and people who want to do them harm due to their lack of experience.
by noduerme | 2026-02-27 05:41:11+00:00
I feel like there's a lot of unexplored area in the carb-soaked-in-egg category that French Toast fits into. The major analogues being chiliqiles and matzoh brie. I recently did something like french toast bites where I cubed some sourdough bread, soaked it with egg and fried it up with small pieces of bacon mixed in. But what if you did that with a glazed donut? Or a waffle?

[edit] just also why this post touched my heart - I think form is as important as ingredients whenever you're dealing with relatively few ingredients. I have a breakfast I particularly love making that's just hash browns, egg and cheese. But the trick is, you griddle the hash browns, then flip them and smash them on griddled cheese, then crack an egg on top while the cheese fries and flip the whole thing again. The result is a crispy potato pancake where one side is fried cheese and the other is embedded fried egg. The same 3 ingredients, but it can be held in hand and it's got the perfect balance in each bite.